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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How Pompeii Worked

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What must be one of the most famous natural disasters in history took place when Mt Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE. But when the town was resurrected 1700 years later, a new chapter in its history was written. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:30.9

Hey everybody, it's Josh and Chuck is here in Spirit 2 and we just wanted to drop a casual

0:36.1

reminder that we are going to have a swinging Pacific Northwest swing this coming February

0:43.0

and tickets are now on sale.

0:45.2

February 1st will be at the Moore Theatre in Seattle.

0:47.8

February 2nd will be at Revolution Hall in Portland.

0:52.2

On February 3rd for SF Sketchfest will be at the Sydney Goldstein Theatre.

0:57.8

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1:02.6

we'll see you in February.

1:06.8

Hey everybody, have you ever been buried under ash from a volcano?

1:10.4

Well, I haven't either but the people of Pompeii were.

1:14.4

So this episode how Pompeii worked was back to February 13th, 2018 and it was a good

1:18.9

one.

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It's our real cracker.

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Check it out now.

1:25.5

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

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