Episode 47 - The Worst Year to be Alive: 536 AD
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Chris Wood
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🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 47 worst year ever 536 a. We are going to be |
| 0:30.9 | looking at the worst year and science decided this |
| 0:36.0 | I've been seeing a lot of things online about how like 20-20 is the worst year of all time and stuff and it's definitely I mean there's a global pandemic for sure |
| 0:45.7 | That that helps the case for worst year ever but I was looking around and |
| 0:51.4 | Scientists in 2018 figured out that 536 AD was, I mean, technically what they call the worst year to ever be alive as a human being. |
| 1:02.0 | So that's what we're going to be covering, you know, a little bit of, you know, and it's not so great now, but it could always be worse type thing. |
| 1:08.0 | We're going to be looking over, recover the fall of Rome a little bit. By the end of this you'll know sort of |
| 1:15.8 | what the Byzantine Empire is I hope. And then there's a just a catastrophe that |
| 1:20.9 | happens. We'll have a little science going in there and |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, I mean it's not like after 536 a.D. things got dramatically better in 5.37 or |
| 1:32.0 | 538 like 37 or 538. |
| 1:33.0 | Like this is, this is the start of the Dark Ages. |
| 1:36.0 | Like technically the Dark Ages runs from 500 AD to 1000 AD. |
| 1:41.0 | So this is just at the beginning, right the Dark Age is really kick off and get pretty |
| 1:45.5 | Pretty terrible just a shitty time and it's the worst year ever science calls it the worst year ever |
| 1:51.8 | So I was like all right, let's do this. |
| 1:55.0 | Why not? So let's take a look at it. |
| 1:57.0 | Oh, also I did the Dad Meat podcast with Mike Raney and Tim Butterley |
| 2:02.0 | earlier tonight. |
| 2:03.7 | That was pretty fun when we were talking about, |
| 2:06.1 | because normally on this I have a topic that I just talk about, |
| 2:08.4 | so I don't really, I try to talk about myself too much, |
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