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An Eriio's Original. 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 blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, and am The Alarmist.

Hey guys, thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where a guest and I decide who's to blame for history's greatest tragedies.

Reminder, we're not historians, we're comedians.

Okay, so today we're talking about the Great Smog of London of 1952.

My interest was peaked when I was watching the fourth episode of The Crown.

In this episode, the and Church Hill are really concerned

about something that has nothing to do with Smog but there's this Smog that's

come over the city of London and it's a really dark episode literally barely any lights and

Church Hill's secretary actually spoiler gets his Secretary actually. spoiler alert gets hit by a bus and dies.

It's a really sad episode and also a really interesting one that has led me here. Let's get started.

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