Chuck

took on metaphor and took on cultural values and was used as a story of – I can't think of the word I'm trying to think of – to teach you a lesson.

What's that called?

A fable?

Yeah, like a fable.

Who play D&D?

Yeah, like, hey, you see that story that seems completely crazy about a demon god who lives in a mountain and gets angry and spouts fire from its top.

Like, that's a volcano, bros.

And like, just because it sounds crazy doesn't mean we shouldn't look at the fact that an actual volcano eruption might have happened then.

And let's kind of marry these two things and let's just all get along.

It makes perfect sense.

Yeah, I love this stuff.

Before science came along—

All humans did from the moment they could sort of form thoughts was try and explain what was going on around them from rain and thunder to volcanoes and floods.

And I don't know.

I think it's super interesting.

It's almost like these proto-early warning systems.

Right.

They just didn't really know how to explain the science of it.

Yeah, and it's like you said earlier, it's a tough road to hoe, though, for scientists these days if they take this on because, you know, you have mixed results when you go back and you look at these tales.

Some of them may just be folk tales and legends, and some may have kernels of truth.