Episode 457: The Black Death Part II - Passport to Hell
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The Great Famine and the Black Plague
After the great famine and especially after the black plague peasants began to move from town to town for work because there were so few people Left. People therefore began taking surnames based on their hometown like say now your Ralph Kent because your Ralph from Kent Oh, and once you had too many Ralphs in Kent surnames became Professions. I love fat Superman Ralph Kent. He's great. He works for the National Inquirer He could fly three feet above the ground and he went just slower than a slow bullet I can jump half as big as the normal man Wow, Ralph Kent Now the last piece of the puzzle that enabled the plague to run rampant was one simple yet widespread problem Phil Phil
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