Andy Stumpf
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Well, the reason why people entertain this idea of giants at all is all a lot of it's biblical.
It's like stories from the Bible and then also stories from ancient civilizations that talked about red haired giants, which is the weird thing about this thing had red hair.
Like the Native Americans had tales of red-haired giants that they fought off.
There's a lot of people that believe that all these stories from antiquity about giants are all referring to an actual different race of humans.
You know, like we are one race of humans, the Homo sapiens survived.
But then there's also races of humans that didn't survive, like the Hobbit people from the island of Flores.
that they found out there was a branch of the human species that was like three feet tall, covered in hair, little tiny heads.
Weird, but had tools and had weapons.
I think some of that stuff's real.
I think sometimes, though, the stories, they're intentionally nesting a greater message through the vehicle of that story.
Um, so whether it's like accurate or not, it's more about the story that they are telling.
And I'm not saying like the Kandahar giant has some story associated with it, but some of the, the older, like the symbolizations and the stories that they tell, I think it's just a vehicle that they can nest something in there to create deeper thought.
It's what I see you guys doing is comedians, right?
I've talked about this recently.
It is interesting to me, and I never paid attention to it, but I know he's a good friend of yours, Dave Chappelle.
I watched his last special.
The ability for comedians to nest inside of your set pretty impactful and powerful societal conversations and ideas and get people to laugh about it.