SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 3 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Black Death was gruesome: Symptoms included tumors, purple splotches, fevers and vomiting. But how did this disease manage to spread from the Gobi desert and kill approximately one-third of the population of 14th-century Europe? Find out in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hey there everyone, it's your old pal Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K. Selects,
0:36.6	I chose how the black death worked.
0:39.1	It's a look at a fascinating few years when a mystery disease, we still don't know what it was,
0:44.9	swept across Europe and Asia and killed a significant portion of the world.
0:50.0	Check it out and enjoy.
0:53.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:03.6	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:05.1	I'm Josh Clark with me as always as Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that makes this stuff
1:10.2	you should know.
1:11.8	The podcast, the audio podcast, nothing more.
1:15.0	Got it?
1:16.0	Not a lot less.
1:19.6	And comparably sized podcasts.
1:21.6	No, no, this is a chuckful of good stuff.
1:23.4	This one's got a few, man.
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