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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 I am the alarmist.

Hey, everyone.

Thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk about history's

greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing The Voyage of the Endurance.

Here's what you need to know. In the early 20th century,

as the age of polar exploration reached its height, Sir Ernest Shackleton, a charismatic and

tenacious British explorer, set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic. In an effort to find a crew, he put an advertisement in the Times that read,

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