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THE FIRST ALARMIST EPISODE: WHO IS TO BLAME?

The Alarmist

The Alarmist

Comedy, History, Society & Culture

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) reflects on the evolution of The Alarmist from it’s very first episode on The Titanic! Forty-nine episodes later, will Rebecca change her verdict? Stay tuned after the episode because Rebecca is joined by Fact Checker Chris Smith, Producer Amanda Lund and Special Guest Adam Lustick to discuss. 


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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's important to reflect and learn from our past.

0:30.1

Otherwise, we might be doomed to repeat it. That's why we're taking this week to re-release our very first episode.

0:36.2

The Sinking of the Titanic. Stay tuned after because Chris, Amanda, and Adam Lustick,

0:41.9

this episode's guest, will be chatting about the alarmist

0:45.6

and how it's evolved or maybe devolved over the past year.

0:48.8

Enjoy.

0:49.8

An Eriios Original.

0:56.5

I was born with a special gift. The ability to mentally transform any situation

1:00.2

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

1:07.3

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

1:11.1

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

1:16.3

disasters and find out who's to blame. They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. My name is Rebecca

1:27.8

Delgado Smith and I am. The alarmist. Whoo!

1:35.0

Hey!

1:40.0

While that intro is very dramatic, I think it's a really good representation of the kind of stuff that we're going to be talking about on this podcast.

1:49.0

I'm Rebecca, I'm an actor, a comedian, and a history enthusiast, and you know every episode I'm

1:55.8

gonna have a friend on we're going to really dissect one of history's greatest disasters. We're going to really dig deep and we're going to try and

2:06.1

get to the bottom of who's to blame in all of these catastrophes because that's really

2:10.6

important you know we should all be pointing fingers and figuring out whose fault things are.

2:16.0

For today's episode, we're going to start with a maritime disaster.

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