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Okay.

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And then we'll come back and talk about geomythology right after this.

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It was thick.

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You know what's funny?

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I was listening to โ€“ I don't know why I just thought of this, but I was listening to Paul F. Tompkins โ€“

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stay of homekins podcast he does with his wife janie the other day and he was talking about sneezing on stage and that that had happened to him once in his career and paul is someone who spent lots and lots and lots of time on stages and i wonder if there's something to that of the body withholding things like sneezes because i've never seen anyone sneeze on stage i've never sneezed on stage yeah

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That's what I was thinking.

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I mean, there's got to be something to that.

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We got to put on a great show.

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It would be really weird to think about it if like, I don't know, Barry Manilow in Vegas was talking about setting up Mandy before he sings it and just lets out a big sneeze.

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You would have been sneezed on with that big snozz.

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All right.

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So we promised talk of geomythology.

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Here's the idea.

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Since science really got its act together, there have been a couple of different ways to look at things like flood myths as either โ€“

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This is a story about our cultural values.

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There's a lot of religious metaphor involved.

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Or this was an actual historical event.

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And geomythology came along to kind of say, hey, man, it can kind of be both.

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Like there could have been a real flood and it also โ€“