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well as our aftermath post-interview discussion and final verdict. We'll also be putting out

additional bonus episodes and other fun stuff. Here's a preview of Guest Alarmist, where

I step aside and let a guest walk us through a personal tragedy and together the alarmist

crew figures out who's to blame. This month, Alarmie favorite and writer Anastasia Kusakis

discusses the great grounding of the mid 90s. Because I was such a good kid and followed

most of the rules, they like didn't get a real, I didn't break them in or anything like

they just, I just did what they wanted me to do. Right. I was very honest and, you know,

but yeah, I was, I think like did your siblings get away with more than you, your younger

siblings, like, but they do the stuff. Oh my God, Clayton, for sure, right? Four years

later, my youngest brother was like, not four, I don't know, four or five years later,

my youngest brother was caught by a beer and everybody just laughed. Ah, it's so real.

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episode. I was born with a special gift. 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 uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

disasters and find out who's to play. They say history repeats itself, not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and I am the alarmist.

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