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welcome one at all to puppet history00:00:07
online university today we'll be taking00:00:10
an ever winding look at yet another00:00:11
chapter00:00:12
in the heavy heavy book we call history00:00:14
while our guests ruthlessly compete for00:00:16
the coveted title of history master00:00:18
i am obviously your beloved host the00:00:20
professor a thank you00:00:22
brian bergara are you ready he puts00:00:24
beloved in front of their own name in00:00:26
their own i did not write that our00:00:27
producers wrote that you sure said it00:00:29
special guest00:00:30
matt real are you ready it's pronounced00:00:33
real or real sorry00:00:36
yeah i'm ready then let's crack in00:00:43
now before we begin have either of you00:00:45
ever been to italy00:00:46
no uh no i have not thank you for those00:00:48
verbose answers this is gonna be a great00:00:50
episode00:00:51
now in the first century ce much like00:00:54
today you could do a lot worse than living00:00:55
near the coast of southern italy the00:00:57
weather is temperate the sea00:00:59
a rich azure and the land is bountiful00:01:02
yes sir it's no great leap to say the00:01:04
area around present-day naples has00:01:06
historically been00:01:07
a true mediterranean paradise with one00:01:09
brief and extreme00:01:10
exception the 36 hours when this idyllic00:01:13
heaven00:01:14
turned into hell on earth today we're00:01:17
talking the pompeii00:01:18
circumstance oh oh i love it i don't00:01:21
love it but00:01:22
well it's exciting we don't love all the00:01:24
horrible things that happened throughout00:01:26
history but we love to talk about them00:01:28
i mean you might but i don't you just00:01:31
said you love it00:01:32
i don't remember that well in 79 ce the00:01:35
roman empire was00:01:36
thriving it was still adding to its00:01:38
territories and would continue to do so00:01:40
for another 40 years00:01:41
the colosseum was about to open hell00:01:44
yeah that's like the equivalent of like00:01:45
an arc light right it's their staples00:01:47
center nice so roman citizens were looking00:01:49
forward to lives of enjoying progress00:01:51
and dominating the mediterranean00:01:53
a mere 150 miles from the capital in00:01:55
rome pompeii00:01:56
was an important industrial hub and port00:01:59
the city's socioeconomically diverse00:02:01
population of around 1200:02:02
000 enjoyed public baths theaters00:02:05
brothels00:02:06
and no fewer than 150 bars and taverns00:02:09
pompei's farmers were famous for their00:02:11
onions and for their vineyards00:02:13
whose wine who boy resulted in00:02:15
tremendous hangovers00:02:17
[Music]00:02:19
reportedly now there was one practice00:02:21
popular in ancient pompei that today00:02:23
we'd maybe find surprising as it's00:02:25
usually against the law00:02:27
answer this question correctly for a00:02:29
history point what00:02:30
modern-day crime was surprisingly common00:02:33
practice00:02:34
in pompeii graffiti b00:02:37
identity theft or c performing00:02:40
unlicensed surgery okay i left my thing over there00:02:43
i have to get it oh00:02:44
that's i'm sorry ryan are you locked in00:02:48
no i'm making another hold on nino [ __ ]00:02:50
it whatever a graffiti sure why not you00:02:52
went for graffiti matt what did you put00:02:54
it's absolutely b00:02:55
identity theft point to ryan as the00:02:57
answer is graffiti00:02:58
pompeii was a lousy with the stuff in00:03:01
the roman world graffiti was considered00:03:03
a respected form of writing00:03:04
visitors would write their reviews of00:03:06
the city on the wall like an ancient00:03:07
trip advisor00:03:08
campaign messages and advertisements00:03:10
were also common such as one scribbling00:03:12
that proclaimed00:03:13
collatus the thracian the lady's choice00:03:15
among gladiators ancient lovebirds would00:03:18
even use graffiti to flirt with one00:03:19
instance reading quote00:03:20
health to you victoria and wherever you00:03:23
are00:03:24
may you sneeze sweetly huh more to the00:03:26
point00:03:27
one wall of a brothel has etched in it00:03:29
paul's per is [ __ ] here00:03:31
what now paws purists [ __ ] here well i00:03:34
mean it's informative00:03:35
i now know where posters was [ __ ] most00:03:38
creative among the tags though were the00:03:40
insults00:03:41
examples include sonny as to cornelius00:03:44
go hang yourself corydon is a country00:03:48
bumpkin00:03:49
oh a papress no art bald and00:03:52
oh a papress thou art no ball player00:03:55
i don't know who a papris was but00:03:57
roasted two times it's just twitter yeah00:04:00
basically00:04:01
it's it's social media i'm gonna start00:04:03
tweeting at every uh los angeles00:04:05
clippers basketball player thou art no00:04:07
ball player i think that's amazing00:04:08
for a history point each of you is to00:04:11
write an insult directed at the other in00:04:13
the style of pompeii graffiti the insult00:04:15
that cuts closest to the quick will earn00:04:17
a history point00:04:18
i feel like i know ryan better than he00:04:20
knows me he might yeah oh hang on00:04:22
i gotta write it like they wrote it yeah00:04:24
i mean you know certainly uh00:04:26
points for style and for effort ryan00:04:30
let's see i'm actually struggling here00:04:32
to think i don't want to insult man00:04:33
bring it you coward00:04:35
jesus christ ryan why don't we start00:04:37
with you yes not my best work00:04:39
uh matthias mustache is as large as he00:04:41
is stupid00:04:44
oh yeah it's better than mine bergara00:04:46
thou00:04:47
have poor taste in things in general00:04:51
you know what ryan i'm gonna give that00:04:53
one to you not only did you insult his00:04:55
character00:04:56
but also his appearance which is frankly00:04:59
very rude well you made me do it so00:05:01
you know you're you're a rotten man or00:05:03
thing or whatever you are00:05:05
damn don't call me rotten as interesting00:05:08
as ancient00:05:09
is pompeii isn't world famous for its00:05:11
street art but for its neighbor00:05:13
mount vesuvius the morning of august00:05:15
24th 79 ce might have seemed like a00:05:17
normal one for the folks living in the00:05:19
shadow of vesuvius00:05:20
perhaps the papres was losing a ball00:05:22
game and kaleidos the thracian was00:05:24
getting juiced at the gym00:05:25
what did anyone have to worry about oh00:05:27
that demo volcano why that lazy thing00:05:29
hadn't erupted in about 700 years00:05:31
as one then 18 year old would one day00:05:34
recall quote00:05:35
there had been noticed for many days00:05:37
before the trembling of the earth which00:05:39
did not alarm us much as this is quite00:05:41
an ordinary occurrence now was vesuvius was00:05:43
that's like situated on top of any kind00:05:45
of like00:05:46
fault line of some sorts like what00:05:47
actually caused it to erupt uh it's a00:05:49
volcano it's a volcano yeah volcanoes00:05:51
aren't necessarily00:05:52
on fault lines well i guess i don't know00:05:53
much about why do volcanoes erupt over00:05:55
time is it a buildup of gas00:05:56
yeah it's like pressure uh you know00:05:58
stuff aren't you a professor00:06:00
some taco bell yeah yeah yeah maybe a00:06:03
little too much fire sauce00:06:06
20 miles across the bay of naples from00:06:08
pompeii that 18 year old00:06:09
gaius plinius kaikilius secundus better00:06:12
known as pliny the younger00:06:13
was chilling in a villa he was staying00:06:15
in the town of mycenum with his mom00:06:17
plynia and his uncle plenty of the elder00:06:19
that's right00:06:20
three folks sharing a villa all00:06:21
basically named pliny wait00:06:23
is it i thought it was pliny yeah but00:06:25
that's wrong00:06:26
oh lenny the younger would go on to00:06:28
write two letters of great historical00:06:30
importance detailing the events that00:06:31
we're about to unfold00:06:32
when his uncle was actually a pretty big00:06:34
deal too at the time pliny the elder was00:06:36
55 years old00:06:38
heavyset and the unfortunate operator of00:06:40
a weak windpipe00:06:41
not sure why we know that but cool he00:06:43
was also the commander of the roman00:06:45
fleet at mycenum and00:06:46
in addition to his military accolades00:06:48
possibly the best damn00:06:50
naturalist in all the ancient world00:06:52
having written a00:06:53
37 volume work called simply00:06:56
natural history if you're wondering why00:06:58
he never wrote a 38th volume00:07:00
stay tuned was it easier to be a00:07:02
naturalist i would guess because back00:07:04
then it was like hey here's a bird that00:07:06
no one has ever written about00:07:08
you know hey it's red and everyone's00:07:10
like he's right that bird is red00:07:13
around midday plinya noticed an unusual00:07:15
cloud forming to the east00:07:17
across the bay and asked her naturalist00:07:19
brother what he made of it00:07:21
lenny the elder put down his plenty the00:07:22
book put on his pliny the shoes and00:07:24
climbed to a higher vantage point to see00:07:26
what all the fuss was about00:07:28
as his nephew would write quote a cloud00:07:30
was ascending00:07:31
the appearance of which i cannot give00:07:33
you a more exact description of than by00:07:35
likening it to that of a pine tree00:07:38
it shot up to a great height in the form00:07:40
of a very tall trunk00:07:41
which spread itself out at the top into00:07:44
a sort of branches00:07:45
for context when young pliny says very00:07:48
tall he means it at its maximum height00:07:50
the cloud of ash reached 18 and a half00:07:53
miles into the sky that's one third of00:07:55
the way to space00:07:57
something the plinies didn't even know00:07:58
existed yet yeah that would be uh00:08:00
probably00:08:01
look like there's a crack in the earth00:08:02
also i don't really know00:08:04
like i know he's sort of blazing the00:08:06
trails with his naturalist writing but i00:08:08
don't know how much experience they have00:08:10
with volcanoes yeah00:08:11
had anybody like climbed to the top and00:08:13
looked inside and been like well it00:08:14
looks hot in there is that what's inside00:08:16
a volcano is it just like a00:08:17
toilet bowl i mean i don't think they're00:08:19
all cartoon toilet bowl volcanoes i00:08:22
don't think they would know right00:08:23
because it's 800 years since it had ever erupted yeah00:08:25
they don't have the context and i guess00:08:26
the sheer fact that he was like00:08:28
it looked like a big tree probably00:08:31
suggests that yeah they don't know what00:08:32
a volcano is00:08:33
clearly something was going on near00:08:35
vesuvius but it wasn't until pliny the00:08:37
elder00:08:38
received some mail that he decided to go00:08:40
check it out00:08:41
for a history point what no no hang on00:08:45
i'm sorry go ahead the cloud is in the00:08:47
air yeah for a while00:08:48
a couple days no no this is one day and00:08:50
he received the mail the same day00:08:52
we actually looked into this to try and00:08:53
figure out how this male00:08:55
arrived on his doorstep and there's not00:08:57
a lot of details about it primary00:08:58
sources yeah you know we try our best00:09:00
but uh some00:09:01
history is just a mystery00:09:04
for a history point what was in the00:09:07
letter that spurred00:09:08
pliny the elder to act a a tavern owner00:09:10
worried that his elderly patrons00:09:12
wouldn't be able to flee the city00:09:14
b a soldier stationed in pompeii nervous00:09:17
about abandoning his post to help00:09:19
citizens evacuate00:09:20
or see a rich lady worrying about her00:09:23
house00:09:24
why would they talk to him just because00:09:25
he's a smart well you know he was a00:09:27
a military man and i think they figured00:09:30
in times of emergency00:09:32
maybe we should turn to this guy who is00:09:34
uh good under pressure00:09:36
all right ryan what'd you put i put c00:09:38
rich lady likes her digs rich lady likes00:09:41
her digs and matt00:09:42
see oh we got a couple of sea dogs out00:09:45
there00:09:47
that's a call back to the other episode00:09:49
didn't work in that one either yeah00:09:51
i think we're about to find out in the00:09:53
form of an incredible00:09:55
uh reenactment completely historically00:09:58
accurate00:10:00
of him reading a letter00:10:03
some mail for you uncle plenty nephew00:10:05
plenty read this correspondence aloud to00:10:08
me now it's from rectina wife of basis00:10:11
sounds like a villa at the foot of00:10:13
vesuvius is in trouble00:10:14
she can only escape by sea and wants you00:10:17
to come pick her00:10:18
up retina who wife of bassist vs who00:10:21
husband of wreck t listen they're rich00:10:23
in their trouble okay00:10:25
in that case i shall launch the roman00:10:27
fleet also how did she send that letter00:10:29
nobody knows weird that nephew pliny00:10:32
sounds exactly like a john mullaney00:10:34
character00:10:35
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh [ __ ]00:10:39
it's bonnie congrats00:10:42
so throughout history the only surefire00:10:44
way to get someone in government to00:10:46
act is to have a rich lady complain00:10:49
apparently the karen that's true exactly yeah so uh00:10:52
an ancient character00:10:53
ancient karen now to plenty of elders00:10:55
credit he set sail not only to save00:10:57
rectina but also to rescue all the00:11:00
towns along the coast when he asked his00:11:01
nephew if he wanted to tag along00:11:03
clinton younger replied uh no00:11:06
dead men tell no tales pliny the elder00:11:08
captaining the roman fleet00:11:09
set sail across the bay of naples00:11:11
straight towards vesuvius00:11:13
as he got closer however the going got a00:11:15
little dicey the sea was rapidly00:11:18
retreating risking the ships running aground the00:11:20
mountain was shedding giant pieces of00:11:23
itself which were rolling down and00:11:24
blocking the shore00:11:26
and all the wild cinders pumice and00:11:28
burning rock rained00:11:29
down upon the ships lenny the elder had00:11:32
a decision to make00:11:33
turn back or press on as debris00:11:36
crashed down upon his ships what did00:11:38
pliny the elder famously say to his00:11:40
ship's pilot a00:11:42
fortune favors the bold b if you are00:11:45
weak in crisis00:11:46
you are weak indeed or c if you want the00:11:50
rainbow you gotta put up with the rain oh damn00:11:53
those are all good i've heard the first00:11:55
one but i don't think it was him00:11:57
you guys are locked in yeah all right00:11:58
ryan what'd you put i'm gonna go b00:12:00
for bravery b for private rica that00:12:02
sounds the most old english it sounds00:12:04
most of the times00:12:05
all right and map b when the [ __ ] gets00:12:07
going you00:12:08
also get going um points to no one00:12:11
what it was a fortune favors the bold00:12:14
that was him wow in this moment why00:12:17
would he be getting any00:12:18
fortune from this yeah that's that00:12:19
doesn't even make sense no the00:12:21
quote is saying fortune favors the bold00:12:23
so if you make00:12:24
bold choices fortune will favor you00:12:27
do you get that oh i see he's talking00:12:30
about just in general as a way to live00:12:31
life not that there's going to be00:12:33
fortune waiting at the end of the00:12:34
proverbial rainbow00:12:35
yeah he's not planning to go toward the00:12:37
volcano and find a pot of gold i hope00:12:40
that's the last thing he ever said on00:12:41
earth because that's a very funny last00:12:43
question uh fortune favors the bold then he just00:12:46
gets hit00:12:47
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ah what a guy all right where were we ah00:15:27
yes00:15:28
now finding the direct route to vesuvius00:15:30
impossible to navigate00:15:31
pliny the elder pointed his ships nine00:15:33
miles south of the mountain to the00:15:34
estate of his friend pomponianis00:15:37
back-to-back questions oh when pliny the00:15:40
elder arrived at his friend00:15:41
pomponionises his first course of action00:15:43
was00:15:44
a saddle up all the horses and make for00:15:47
pompeii00:15:48
b evacuate pomponiunis family to the00:15:50
relative safety of the coast00:15:52
or c ask for dinner in a bath i really00:15:55
want it to be c00:15:56
because that would be very funny but i00:15:57
do believe it's b let's hit the serve00:15:59
all right ryan's going b00:16:01
and matt grub a dub dub he's going scrub00:16:03
a dub dub00:16:05
alright well let's find out00:16:11
oh holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] ah00:16:14
pomponi in us my dear friend00:16:16
troubling times oh thank god you're here00:16:18
jesus christ oh no oh that guy who died00:16:20
a couple years ago00:16:21
what about him oh no plenty the mountain00:16:24
is exploding what should we do00:16:26
this is gonna blow over any minute try00:16:28
to rule out meanwhile00:16:30
i am beat uh i'm gonna take a nap00:16:33
uh it would be great if you could have00:16:35
someone wrestle up some dinner and draw00:16:37
me a bat00:16:38
no thank you are you kidding me00:16:42
that's crazy i know i buy it what do00:16:44
they say why worry till there's00:16:45
something to worry about right well not00:16:46
really though the mountain was falling00:16:48
apart i feel like that constitutes work00:16:51
i'll point to matt plinning the younger00:16:52
speculates his uncle's actions may have00:16:54
been an attempt to calm everyone down00:16:57
but still that's that is a bold choice i00:16:59
was just about to say do you think this00:17:01
is performative bravado or something00:17:03
like that to maybe even convince himself that he's a00:17:05
big man when they drain the tub it's00:17:07
just bricks of [ __ ] while plenty slept00:17:11
things uh well they didn't get better00:17:13
courtyard leading to pomponiuses was00:17:15
rapidly filling with stones and ashes00:17:17
and if they didn't want to be trapped00:17:19
they needed to get a move on somebody00:17:21
woke plenty the elder and as00:17:23
plenty of the younger would later write00:17:24
quote they consulted together whether it00:17:26
would be most prudent00:17:27
to trust to the houses which now rocked00:17:29
from side to side with00:17:30
frequent and violent concussions or fly00:17:33
to the open fields00:17:34
where the cal signed stones and cinders00:17:37
fell in large00:17:38
showers and threatened destruction00:17:42
what did pliny the elders group decide00:17:44
to do hey00:17:45
stay inside and hope another nap would00:17:47
do the trick b00:17:48
type pillows to their heads and run to00:17:50
the shore or c00:17:52
it's the end of the world orgy time baby00:17:54
oh00:17:55
no oh boy much to think about oh boy00:17:58
much to think about oh no i dropped my00:18:00
pen00:18:03
let's go with c bone town baby00:18:06
ryan's going with bone town okay love to00:18:09
hear it and matt c orgy time i mean that's right you're00:18:11
reading the room i also feel like i've i00:18:13
know that people were00:18:15
frozen in ash doing the nasty just a00:18:17
second00:18:18
i don't think i'd be able to zone out00:18:20
you know like disassociate from the00:18:21
moment00:18:22
and actually like partake in sex if i00:18:25
knew there was00:18:26
like the world was on fire although00:18:28
maybe it's just00:18:29
insane oh like the best sex ever00:18:32
oh no points to neither of you are you00:18:35
kidding me that's right00:18:36
little pillows wow that's cute it's00:18:38
adorable00:18:39
it's kind of dumb that's somewhat00:18:42
logical i suppose if you got hit by a00:18:44
smaller rock00:18:45
this dude is zigging and zagging he's00:18:48
taking a bath and then after that's like00:18:50
oh let's tie pillows to our heads like00:18:52
that's crazy to me00:18:54
plenty of the elder with his pillow00:18:55
crown made it back to the shore but00:18:56
found the sea too rough to flee that way00:18:59
now perhaps realizing fortune had00:19:00
abandoned the bold pliny laid down on an00:19:03
unfurled sail and asked for some cold00:19:05
water00:19:06
suddenly flames and sulfur gas dispersed00:19:08
his party00:19:09
as plenty of the younger writes quote00:19:11
lenny the elder raised himself up with00:19:13
the assistance of two of his servants00:19:14
and00:19:15
instantly fell down dead suffocated as i00:19:18
conjecture by some gross and noxious00:19:20
vapor having always had a weak throat00:19:29
r.i.p to a real one meanwhile across the00:19:32
bay of naples for plenty of younger and00:19:34
plenia things were only marginally00:19:36
better by the morning after the first eruptions00:19:38
the buildings in mycenum were teetering00:19:40
on the brink of collapse from all the00:19:41
seismic activity00:19:42
plenty of the younger his mother and a00:19:44
panic-stricken crowd decided to flee00:19:46
with their chariots unable to travel00:19:48
over the shaking ground everyone set off00:19:50
on foot00:19:51
ash fell all around them and they had to00:19:53
brush it off to keep00:19:54
ah you know what i'm just gonna have00:19:56
plenty of younger speak for himself00:19:57
plenty00:19:59
night came upon us not such as we have00:20:01
when the sky is cloudy oh and there is00:20:03
no moon00:20:04
but that of a room when it is shut up00:20:06
and all the lights put out you might00:20:08
hear the shrieks of women00:20:09
the screams of children and the shouts00:20:11
of men some lifting their hands to the00:20:13
gods00:20:14
but the greater part convinced that00:20:16
there were now no gods00:20:18
at all in the final endless night of00:20:20
which we have heard had come upon the00:20:23
world00:20:24
damn wow i mean i guess if i knew the00:20:27
end was coming i thought about it a00:20:28
little bit more00:20:29
there will be a part of me that's like00:20:30
stoked to see you know like the after00:20:32
credit scene yeah i know what's00:20:33
happening first is shooting fire and that's not a00:20:36
thing you knew it could do00:20:37
i guess you'd assume this was it yeah00:20:39
you'd be like all right well we'll see00:20:40
what happens in the sequel00:20:41
by the next morning light began to00:20:43
return to the world but as pliny writes00:20:45
quote00:20:46
every object that presented itself to00:20:47
our eyes which were extremely weakened00:20:50
seemed changed being covered deep with00:20:52
ashes as if with snow00:20:54
plinier and her son had survived while00:20:56
the experiences of the plenties sound00:20:59
downright hellacious their accounts were00:21:01
from the fringes00:21:02
of vesuvius's devastation in pompeii00:21:04
circumstances were worse than my puppet00:21:06
brain could ever imagine00:21:08
by the time plinia asked pliny the elder00:21:10
about that strange cloud to the east00:21:11
that same cloud had already blocked out00:21:13
the sun for the residents of pompeii00:21:15
evacuating at this time would turn out00:21:17
to be your only chance of survival00:21:19
seven hours later the eruptions had00:21:21
become more violent and pompeo was00:21:23
buried in about nine feet of ash and00:21:25
pumice00:21:26
at this point those who hadn't fled were00:21:28
either already dead00:21:29
or trapped by blocked doors or collapsed00:21:31
roofs00:21:32
this is when things started getting bad00:21:35
started getting bad yeah starting00:21:37
undercell you just said their house was00:21:39
crashed by nine feet of ash00:21:41
i couldn't help but like think what i00:21:42
would do if i was in this situation and00:21:43
you were like really [ __ ] you couldn't00:21:45
run away i feel like i'd probably ride it out and00:21:47
just die i'd be like you know what i'm00:21:49
just gonna hunker down here yeah and00:21:51
then i'd be done for i'm a big00:21:52
let's stay in place and see what's up i00:21:54
mean i'm not gonna go outside00:21:56
so we'd all die is what we agree i guess00:21:58
so i'm soft yeah me too00:22:00
literally now falling debris is one00:22:03
thing ceaseless earthquakes are another but00:22:05
the real problem to watch out for in a00:22:07
volcano00:22:08
are the pyroclastic flows pyroclastic00:22:11
flows are clouds of ash00:22:12
toxic gas and burning rock that surge00:22:15
along the ground at 60 to 100 miles per00:22:18
hour increasing temperatures to around 75000:22:21
degrees fahrenheit00:22:22
early the next morning came the largest00:22:24
of several pyroclastic flows that dealt00:22:26
the final blow to pompeii00:22:28
in two minutes the city streets were00:22:29
covered in an additional eight feet of00:22:31
hot ash and anyone who hadn't already00:22:33
escaped00:22:34
would have asphyxiated yikes so just a00:22:36
big wave of death basically you know i00:22:39
reflected on my00:22:40
position in fact i think i actually00:22:41
might do the thumbs up oh yeah actually00:22:43
t2 judgment day00:22:44
that's very funny because as i was00:22:46
talking about that i was imagining that00:22:47
scene where she's looking at the00:22:48
chain-link fence and she's like00:22:51
in total mount vesuvius rained hell upon00:22:54
pompeii for00:22:55
36 hours when it was all over the00:22:58
average depth of the debris on top of00:23:00
the town was 20 feet what percent of pompeii's00:23:04
residents00:23:05
perished due to vesuvius a approximately00:23:08
nine percent b approximately 1700:23:12
or c approximately 33 percent00:23:17
all right going c 33 percent and maddie00:23:20
c 33 no points for either okay what00:23:23
approximately 17 is the number we're00:23:26
looking for the only nugget of optimism to come out00:23:28
of this story is that most of the00:23:30
residents were able to evacuate before00:23:32
the pyroclastic flows devastated the00:23:34
town still of pompei's approximately 12 00000:23:37
residents 2 000 sadly perished still a fair amount00:23:40
of people yeah but it's like we've been00:23:42
talking about this for00:23:44
what eons now i mean i don't want to be00:23:46
like oh it's a couple thousand people00:23:47
but i thought it was worse what was that00:23:49
percentage of people doing when everyone00:23:50
was evacuating were they just like00:23:52
i don't believe it yeah i'm not buying00:23:54
it volcano i'll believe it when i see00:23:56
you they were on facebook talking about00:23:57
how it was a00:23:58
democratic hoax yeah yeah the lame00:24:01
stream media pushing00:24:02
this volcano narrative cut to 12 hours00:24:05
later and they're like00:24:08
the first attempted excavations of00:24:10
pompeii besides survivors trying to00:24:11
recover buried belongings in the00:24:13
aftermath began00:24:14
in the 3rd century ce but the thick00:24:16
layers of ash and pumice proved too00:24:18
tough00:24:19
pompeii then sat buried and forgotten00:24:21
for more than 1200 years00:24:23
until modern excavations began in the00:24:25
18th century00:24:26
vesuvius is still an active volcano last00:24:29
experiencing a medium-sized eruption in00:24:31
1631 which resulted in at least 4 00000:24:34
casualties and triggered a tsunami00:24:36
but that was almost 400 years ago what00:24:39
about today00:24:40
we've arrived at our final question and00:24:43
thus the final opportunity for history00:24:44
points00:24:45
how many people today live in the region00:24:47
around vesuvius00:24:49
and this is a free right all right ooh00:24:51
prices right rules or what all right00:24:53
ryan i put a 4 000 candle wicks oh that's00:24:56
[ __ ] oh bit00:24:57
tactless but uh matt what'd you put i00:24:59
put 6000:25:00
000 people because that's what they are00:25:02
that's right people00:25:04
double points for you for recognizing00:25:06
some humanity and being uh closest to00:25:08
the answer00:25:09
three million people what in the [ __ ]00:25:12
the city of naples00:25:13
sits a mere eight miles away oh [ __ ] all00:25:16
of the surrounding areas have evacuation00:25:18
plans in case mount vesuvius erupts but00:25:20
still00:25:21
it's the most populated volcanic area in00:25:23
the world00:25:24
that is crazy it's nutty well that00:25:26
concludes our history00:25:28
lesson i'm going to go tally the scores00:25:29
to see who receives the coveted cup00:25:31
and the title of history master while i00:25:34
do that please enjoy this special00:25:35
performance from00:25:37
mount vesuvius i can't wait to get00:25:40
okay didn't you say pompeii was 12 00000:25:43
people back in the day yeah so you00:25:44
thought that they didn't even replace00:25:46
that much yeah i figured they'd go way00:25:48
down not go00:25:49
three million people get on with it00:25:51
people get on with it i mean we're00:25:53
what are we doing we're on a barren00:25:54
wasteland waiting to get our [ __ ] rocked00:25:57
big time that is00:25:58
true we're as dumb as they are00:26:02
dang son i find this very rich that my00:26:05
candlewick joke was called tactless and00:26:07
here he is singing a song00:26:08
as the volcano people change00:26:14
what a beautiful morning oh my god he's00:26:17
a little grumbly though00:26:20
pompeii a beautiful day00:26:23
check me chill and in a geological way00:26:28
i am vesuvius some say the grooviest00:26:31
okay now they know in the west coast bay00:26:35
excuse me huh how about you see ya00:26:39
i got a little case of planetary00:26:42
diarrhea00:26:43
so uh oh i'm gonna blow00:26:47
ashes up the asses of the masses below00:26:53
[Music]00:27:04
gonna bury00:27:12
[Music]00:27:21
[Music]00:27:27
please i beg of you come on everybody00:27:31
pompeii if00:27:44
i don't know that they're singing so00:27:46
much as screaming00:27:48
i'll take it let's do the chorus one00:27:50
more time00:28:02
[Music]00:28:16
[Music]00:28:27
i liked that the song contained both the00:28:29
phrase i hate to do this00:28:30
while also containing the phrase blow00:28:33
ashes up the asses00:28:35
well i think he's just so you know he's00:28:36
working through some stuff all right00:28:38
let's see how we did00:28:39
ryan bergara who thinks bears are00:28:41
scarier than volcanoes that is not true00:28:44
has come00:28:45
in second place congratulations ryan00:28:48
wait wait wait wait wait a second00:28:49
that means the history master is not00:28:52
really thank you man wonderful work wait00:28:56
a second let's00:28:58
hush uh matt if you'll go to your front00:29:00
door right now00:29:01
uh there is a prize waiting for that00:29:04
real yes go get your trophy so we could00:29:06
talk about the bear comment i've never stated that00:29:08
i think bears are the scariest animal in00:29:10
the world you're on record is always talking about00:29:13
oh bears00:29:14
oh [ __ ] that oh there's the scariest00:29:16
thing in the world00:29:17
bears are the scariest predator in the00:29:20
world they are the apex00:29:21
predator you're a little baby aren't you00:29:23
a bear would make light work out of you00:29:24
can i eat these00:29:25
yes as you can see they are sealed and00:29:27
safe for these times00:29:29
that is the coveted cup and you so00:29:31
rightly deserve it you are the history00:29:32
master00:29:33
and i am very proud of you thank you uh00:29:36
ryan all thank you also for00:29:37
participating uh thank you for watching00:29:39
puppet history we'll see you next week00:29:54
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