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Hello Hellions, I'm Annie in Massachusetts. And I'm Johanna from Austria and you are

listening to the last episode of Fresh Hell, your favorite international

podcast. That's right, this is the last episode in 2020. No worries, we're coming back in 2021.

But today we have to wrap up this absolute abomination of a year and we thought we would be doing this by giving you a review of well maybe not all but a lot of the things that happened this year the good the bad the. It's mostly bad and ugly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Not so much good. Not there's not a lot that's good. Yeah. We're going to be reading you some of the biggest headlines.

Most of these are courtesy of the website on this day.com.

And you might remember some of these things, others might be new to you. And with some headlines you might be like oh I completely forgot about that

which happens to me a lot. Fun fact in 2018 the year 536 was nominated as the worst year in history to be alive.

You want to know why?

Yeah, we're going to tell you why. I'm so glad you asked.

According to science mag. org and their article quote

why I just love the title of the article they're not fucking around they're just gonna let you

know quote why 536 was the worst year to be alive?

And the article goes as follows.

Quote, ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive?

And he's got an answer.

536.

Not 1349 when the black death wiped out half of Europe.

Not 1918 when the flu killed 50 to 100 million people, mostly young adults, but 536.

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