THE NEW YORK CITY BLACKOUT OF 1977
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for the NYC Blackout of 1977?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) welcomes comedian Janet Varney, host of The JV Club podcast, to discuss the epic NYC Blackout of 1977. If you’re in the dark about this one, allow us to shine a much needed light on all the events that occurred during this prolonged power outage. Did a freak lightning strike put a strain on the NYC power grid or was the strain already brewing due to economic, institutional and government failures. Fact Checker Chris Smith and Producer Clayton Early join the conversation.
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| 0:04.1 | Here's a preview of guest alarmist where I step aside and let a guest walk us through a personal tragedy and together we figure out who's to blame. |
| 0:14.0 | And how is your dance career today? |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, I don't dance. |
| 0:19.0 | I continue to dance. |
| 0:23.0 | I love combo. |
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| 0:27.0 | You don't do |
| 0:30.0 | do combos. |
| 0:31.0 | No, you eat combos. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, yeah, do combos. No you eat combos. No five, six, seven, eight, just cheddar and treads. |
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| 0:43.2 | Now on to our episode. |
| 0:45.6 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:48.2 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:51.9 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:59.0 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 1:02.0 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize |
| 1:06.1 | 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 |
| 1:19.1 | Rebecca Dalgato Smith and I am The Alarmist. |
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