Since you guys sent my tik tok video on 536AD viral this week, I decided it was the first topic I'd podcast about. In this episode we got through the weather events in each place and what we actually have records about. We also touch on what scientific evidence we have to back this all up. We talk a little about why we don't have many indigenous sources and you get to listen to me stammer my way through my first real podcast episode...   Links to Historical sources cited in video so that you can read more: - https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/timing-and-climate-forcing-of-volcanic-eruptions-for-the-past-250 - https://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html - https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gvmFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false - https://www.axios.com/the-coronavirus-pandemic-doesnt-make-2020-the-worst-year-ever-97a3557c-1dcd-459f-81d8-53ef1ed4fd2f.html