THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes author and journalist Jess McHugh to discuss one of America’s most epic historical tragedies, the attack on Pearl Harbor. They’re joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early. What led up to this calculated and massively devastating attack and why didn’t American forces see it coming? Did an American oil embargo have something to do with it? Could the second Sino Japanese War be to blame? Or will Hitler go to THe Alarmist Jail…again?! Time to find out Alarmy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Alarmi, |
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| 0:11.0 | It just feels like there's enough trauma around the Titanic that to recreate it and try and do it again. You're asking for trouble. |
| 0:21.0 | So I certainly, I guess let let me put it this way Rebecca, don't go on the maiden |
| 0:25.8 | voyage. Let it, let it go. Go on and let it like, do it a couple times successfully |
| 0:31.3 | before you jump on. |
| 0:33.0 | Go to Patreon.com slash The Alarmist and subscribe today. |
| 0:37.0 | Now on to our episode. |
| 0:39.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:42.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. And that's why I'm |
| 0:58.2 | uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 1:08.9 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:11.5 | Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am The Alarmist. Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning into the alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:29.5 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're discussing |
| 1:35.0 | the attack on Pearl Harbor. Here's what you need to know. We interrupt this |
| 1:40.8 | program to bring you a special news bulletin. |
| 1:42.8 | The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by air. |
| 1:45.7 | President Brozdell has just announced. |
| 1:47.4 | The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a turning point not just for World War II, |
| 1:52.4 | but American history and world history. |
| 1:55.3 | The causes and rationale that led to this audacious and fateful strike on American soil |
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