THE PLAGUE: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith, sits down with fellow germophobe, James Bladon (Superego Forgotten Classic), to find out who is to blame for The Black Death that wiped out nearly 60% of the European population. Rats and fleas are in the hot seat, of course, and they're joined by wild card, global warming and belief in religion. What did oily T-Zones and Rosacea have to do with the Great Plague? Tune in to find out who is going to The Alarmist Jail this week!
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| 0:36.6 | mental health. Find your little big thing at every mind matters. |
| 0:50.0 | An ereios Original. I was born with a special gift, the ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 1:09.7 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 1:13.0 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters. |
| 1:20.0 | And find out who's to blame. |
| 1:25.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 1:27.4 | Not on my watch. |
| 1:29.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith |
| 1:31.5 | and I am the alarmist. |
| 1:35.0 | Hey guys, another week and here we are getting to spend time together talking about horrible things. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, today's episode is about the black death, one of the craziest and deadliest things to have |
| 1:59.3 | happen in human history, honestly. |
| 2:01.8 | And you know, it's a joke now, right? |
| 2:04.9 | Many years have passed. |
| 2:06.2 | And so whenever we get a little sick, a little sniffle, |
| 2:10.0 | we think it's cool to be like, you know, |
| 2:12.4 | what, I'm sorry, I coug, I probably have the plague, don't worry. |
| 2:17.6 | What if that was real guys? |
| 2:19.5 | We should stop kidding. |
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