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Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh, and

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Speaker 1: Chuck's here too, Jerry's here too, Dave's not. That's okay

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Speaker 1: because Jerry's here covering for him. And this is stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know, short stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's right. And we're going to issue a trigger warning

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Speaker 2: on this one. You see, they're in the title the

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Speaker 2: words latrine disaster. So I don't think we need to

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Speaker 2: overexplain what's coming.

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Speaker 1: No, if you're easily grossed out, then be careful with this.

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Speaker 1: When I was researching and writing this one, I noticed

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Speaker 1: that my stomach was actually upset, so it really places. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not easily I have a fairly iron stomach

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Speaker 1: when it comes to stuff, and this one got me

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Speaker 1: a little bit. So. But let's start at the start.

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Speaker 1: We're going to go all the way back to eleven

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Speaker 1: eighty four CE, nearly a thousand years ago, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go to is it Thuringia.

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Speaker 2: I guess I'd never heard of that word, but that's

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Speaker 2: probably right.

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Speaker 1: So it's a state that's still around in Germany, almost

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Speaker 1: smack dab in the center of modern day Germany, and

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Speaker 1: in THURINGI. In eleven eighty four there was a dispute.

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Speaker 1: The reason for the dispute is lost to history, but

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Speaker 1: we know that it was between Ludwig II, who was

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Speaker 1: Landgrave aka Prince of Thuringia, so he's a very powerful

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Speaker 1: person in the region and the other guy, the other

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Speaker 1: disputant was Conrad of Vittelsbach, who was at the time

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Speaker 1: the arch Bishop of Mainz, who was also a very

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Speaker 2: That's right, And like you said, we don't know exactly why,

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Speaker 2: and frankly, it doesn't matter as far as this story goes.

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Speaker 2: What matters is during this time, this is the High

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Speaker 2: Middle Ages, that was the King of Germany, Einrich the

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Speaker 2: what is that sixth He would eventually become the Holy

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Speaker 2: Roman Emperor. He knew this was coming, so he was

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Speaker 2: on a sort of campaign to lobby different rulers in

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Speaker 2: succession for the whole Roman emperor to where bloodline is

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Speaker 2: the key instead of just being crowned by the pope

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Speaker 2: because I'm in that bloodline. And so he was trying

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Speaker 2: kind of the backdrop there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that would have taken a huge amount of

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Speaker 1: and surprisingly he was fairly successful at raising support from

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Speaker 1: it around the kingdom. But there was some holdouts still

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Speaker 1: and a lot of them were concentrated in the Thuringia area.

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Speaker 1: So when he heard about this dispute between Ludwig and Conrad,

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Speaker 1: he saw an opportunity to basically show up and act

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Speaker 1: he would be killing two birds with one stone by

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Speaker 1: showing up in the town of Erfurt, which is the

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Speaker 1: capital of Thuringia, which he did in July of eleven

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Speaker 1: eighty four, and he convened what's called a hoffpug. I'm

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Speaker 1: just killing it with the German pronunciations today. If I

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Speaker 2: May just go tab a nap. You're doing so great, thanks.

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Speaker 2: So a hoftag is just like an assembly, like an

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Speaker 2: informal assembly, not a formal meeting. And there were a

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Speaker 2: they were told to, as you know, because of this dispute.

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Speaker 2: Some were just like, hey, the King's going to be there,

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Speaker 2: he wanted, and it was held very Keighley.

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Speaker 1: Sure it works.

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Speaker 2: Here's another word, I just can't find it again morning recording. Importantly,

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Speaker 2: sure it was held at Petersburg Citadel, which was a

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Speaker 2: fortress there in Airfort, still there today. It was about

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Speaker 2: fifteen years old at that time. And even more key

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Speaker 2: to this is the latrine layout. And maybe we'll take

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Speaker 1: So, Chuck, now's the point where we talk about medieval

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Speaker 1: latrine design, which I know way more about today than

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Speaker 2: Good band name, yeah, I mean it's actually a terrible

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Speaker 1: Name, right, a band name well put yeah. So around

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Speaker 1: of the fanciest were latrines where the actual restroom where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. The toilet seats is sort of what you

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Speaker 2: moss or something like that. It must be nice, it

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Speaker 1: A big clump of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But suffice to say, these rooms were disgusting and smelly.

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Speaker 2: The ammonia could get so bad. Sometimes they would hang

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Speaker 2: right about this, that it could ammonia could kill mite.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just the smell.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So hang your clothes up near there. And what

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Speaker 1: Just trickle down the sides of the castle, the walls

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Speaker 1: I would guess without these tubes that later evolved to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it would go maybe just be washed away

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Speaker 2: in places like France they would actually have like plumbing

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Speaker 1: Yeah. In twelve oh three there was a siege of

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Speaker 1: Chateau Gallard and the invaders actually climbed up the sewage

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Speaker 1: climb up a medieval waste pipe through the latrine, All the.

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Speaker 2: Waist is at least the inside of the pipe.

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Speaker 1: Right, I think that you had to climb up the

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Speaker 2: Oh. I thought that. I pictured it as like a

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Speaker 1: Yes, but eventually all you're doing is hanging out on

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Speaker 1: I hadn't actually considered your your interpretation, and it's possible,

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Speaker 1: that's right. My mind just immediately went to the idea

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Speaker 1: that they had to tunnel up through the inside of

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Speaker 2: Oh, like Andy defrayin and I'll shankredption.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is probably I'm sure Stephen King was

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Speaker 1: inspired by the Chateau Gillard story.

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Speaker 2: That's right, all right, So none of that really matters,

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Speaker 2: because all that matters is that's how it worked in

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Speaker 2: some places. But in this particular Petersburg Citadel, it didn't

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Speaker 2: work like that at all. It worked like this as

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Speaker 2: there was a latrine and you did your poopoo and

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Speaker 2: into a disgusting cesspool that would maybe be cleaned out

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Speaker 2: once a year by some very unfortunate servants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Can you imagine, like you'd have to get in

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Speaker 1: And I just can't imagine doing that. Because it turns

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Speaker 1: out that in the Petersburg Citadel, the latrine was in

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Speaker 1: And even though the Petersburg Citadel was built just like

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean they say that between sixty and one

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Speaker 1: can't really blame those people for reacting like that.

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Speaker 2: No, you're trying to get out of there. You're stepping

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Speaker 1: Is Burger King Crown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. There was one source you found that said

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Speaker 2: someone may have died from stench, and that may have

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Speaker 2: been like an ammonia death. If the ammonia level was

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Speaker 2: higher than I think you found five thousand parts per million,

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Speaker 2: they could have suffered from a respiratory arrest and died.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a significant amount. I think at zero

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Speaker 1: five thousand parts per million would be. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: But my friend, what happened with the Hofftag? Did it

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Speaker 2: kill all of our major players?

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Speaker 1: No? What's astounding is that all three of the major players, Heinrich, Conrad,

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Speaker 2: That's I mean, it's just dumb luck. Basically, I think

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Speaker 2: Heinrich and Conrad had stepped into an alcove that wasn't

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Speaker 2: it's not recorded in history. But we know Ludwig survived.

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Speaker 1: thing is a world changing event because, like we said,

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Speaker 1: he went on to become Holy Roman Emperor. He also became,

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Speaker 1: and this is a hat tip to our friends at

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Speaker 1: Historic Mysteries who I got this from, he went on

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Speaker 1: to become the king of Burgundy, Italy and Sicily. He

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Speaker 1: became feudal overlord of the kings of England, Lesser Armenia

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Speaker 1: and Cyprus, and tributary lord of North African princes.

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Speaker 2: Geez, yeah, he got around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he became overlord of England because he captured

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Speaker 1: or held Richard the First hostage and that's Richard the

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Speaker 1: Lionheart from the robin Hood myths, and as ransom he said,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you go, but you have to give me

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Speaker 1: control over your kingdom in England, and Richard the First

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Speaker 1: reluctantly agreed.

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Speaker 2: Richard the First should have said, man, he almost died

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Speaker 2: in a pool of poop, that's right. From What's remarkable

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Speaker 2: to me is that if you go to the Petersburg

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Speaker 2: cit at a website, they do not say anything about

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Speaker 2: this amazing amazing they grow amazing story. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other thing that's a little hinky about it is

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Speaker 1: that I could not for the life of me find

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Speaker 1: even a reference to the name of a primary source

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Speaker 1: for this, So I have no idea where it came from.

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Speaker 1: If it's made up, it has become fat so thoroughly

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Speaker 1: that again historians write about this kind of thing like

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Speaker 1: everyone talks about it, from you know, BBC History Extra

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Speaker 1: to ninety two point three rock radio Stations website for

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Speaker 1: some reason.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Well, maybe one day we'll do a follow up

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Speaker 2: called the Latrine disaster hoax.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll find out one day.

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Speaker 2: Good story. It was written by a seven year old German.

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Speaker 1: Apparently that's right in twenty eighteen. Yeah, let's see, it's it.

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Speaker 1: We just kind of stopped talking about the disaster, which

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Speaker 1: means short stuff is out.

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