Short Stuff: Nero and His Fiddle
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Short Stuff: Nero and His Fiddle

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 12, 202612 min

Did Nero play his fiddle while Rome burned during the Great Fire of 64 CE? Absolutely not. Find out how we know when Chuck and Josh bust a two thousand year-old myth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is an iHeart Podcast, guaranteed human. Hey, and welcome to short stuff. Josh, Chuck, Jerry sitting in for Dave, and that makes this an official short stuff. We have the quorum.

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Let's go. That's right. Do you recognize this article? No.

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Who wrote it? Did I write? Did you write? Yeah, you wrote it.

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