TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Blaming people feels so good! Join The Alarmist, Rebecca Delgado Smith, as she figures out who is at fault for the harrowing Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. This week she is joined by two of her friends, Anastasia Kousakis and Georgia Mischak. They go step by step through the mind-boggling human errors that resulted in one of the deadliest industrial disasters in US history. They ask the tough questions like, "Why did the fire department not have tall enough ladders!?" "What is a rag dealer!?" And, "What is a shirtwaist!?" Tune in and find out who is to blame for this tragedy. Spoiler Alert: It's probably a man!
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| 0:00.0 | And Ereio's Original. |
| 0:04.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:06.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:10.0 | into the worst case scenario. |
| 0:12.0 | In my... into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:17.8 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:21.6 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters and find out who's to blame, |
| 0:32.0 | They say history repeats itself. to blame. |
| 0:35.0 | They say history repeats itself. Not on my watch. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 0:39.0 | and I am, I am, the alarmist. Hey guys, here we are another week, and as promised this week we're talking about the |
| 0:54.2 | triangle shirt waste factory fire. Now I first learned about this fire as a |
| 1:01.4 | freshman at NYU I had a theater studies class in the Brown |
| 1:06.9 | building and just outside the Brown building near Washington Square Park |
| 1:10.8 | there's a plaque that said Triangle |
| 1:13.6 | Shirt Waste Factory in 1911. |
| 1:15.9 | And you know, I must have walked down the street |
| 1:18.9 | and seen this plaque multiple times |
| 1:21.0 | before I caught my eye and I was like, okay, so you're telling me that there was this |
| 1:28.6 | enormous fire that happened a hundred years ago in this building that I take realism and |
| 1:35.2 | naturalism theater studies classes. |
| 1:37.3 | And you know I really appreciate NYU or whoever put this plaque |
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