125 - The Black Death

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 121 minutes

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The Black Death killed between 25 and 75 million people in Europe alone in just over five years! This terrifying outbreak of the plague killed roughly 1/3 of the entire world’s population, dropping it from an estimated 450 million down to around 350 million. It's been labeled by various historians as The Greatest Catastrophe Ever. And we explore it's spread, how it killed you, who it killed, how it was treated (so crazy), and much more on a wild medieval ride today on Timesuck! We're donating $1600 this month to the Cancer Research Institute. www.cancerresearch.org to donate! February 7-9 Madison, Wisconsin - Comedy Club on State CLICK HERE for tix! February 9 Madison, Wisconsin LIVE ANTHILL KIDS TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! February 15-17 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Punchline Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! February 22-23 Salt Lake City, Utah - Wiseguys's Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! February 23 Salt Lake City, Utah - Wiseguy's LIVE ANTHILL KIDS TIMESUCK CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: The Broaum podcast is hosted by Timesuckers and Space Lizards Joe Dimeo and Ben Ferguson, enlightening you with important dude-centric knowledge every week! Go to www.broaum.com Best Light Collection Photography. Timesuckers who travel America taking INCREDIBLE photos. Go to www.bestlightcollection.com to buy their work or see them in person. The Great Courses Plus! So much knowledge! Start your free trial now only at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK The new Parcast Network podcast, Extraterrestrial. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/e29LkxCabGY Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits!

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0:00.0	The Black Death began in the spring of 346 CE, near the Caspian Sea.
0:06.3	By 348 it was ravaging all of Europe, estimates regarding how many people died from this massive,
0:11.5	apocalyptic outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1346 and 1352 when the overwhelming majority
0:18.4	of the deaths occurred very wildly. The most accepted conservative death toll seems to be around 25
0:23.9	million people. Other sources claim that around 75 million people died in Western Europe alone.
0:30.1	In just over five years, or did the outbreak kill roughly a third of the entire world's population
0:35.7	dropping it from an estimated 450 million down to around 350 million or that within two years of
0:42.5	the disease making it to Europe and it already wiped out 30 to 60 percent of the continent's population.
0:50.5	Regardless of the true body count, which we will never conclusively know due to lack of historical
0:55.2	accounts, a lot of people couldn't read or write in the mid-14th century, those who could were
0:59.8	generally more worried about staying alive than they were about chronicling the constant death.
1:04.8	We do know for sure that the Black Death was and still is the world's most disastrous disease
1:09.8	outbreak. It's known as the greatest catastrophe ever, having taken more lives than any other
1:15.8	natural disaster or disease pandemic. Henry Knighton, the abbey of the Catholic Church of Saint Mary
1:22.0	of the Meadows and Lester England, wrote about the devastation he saw firsthand in 1348.
1:27.9	Here's a few excerpts of what he witnessed. We are died in Leicester in the small parish of
1:33.4	Saint Leonard, more than 380 persons, in the parish of Holy Cross, 400, in the parish of Saint
1:39.2	Morgat's Leicester, 700, and so in every parish a great multitude. The pub granted full remission
1:45.7	of all sins to anyone receiving absolution when in danger of death, and granted that this power
1:50.7	should last until Easter next following, and that everyone might choose whatever confessor he
1:55.2	pleased. In the same year there was a great meron of sheep everywhere in Kingdom, so that in one
2:00.4	place in a single pasture more than 5,000 sheep died, and they putrified so that neither bird nor beast
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