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And basically, you know, it's either โ€“

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returns us to a state of water or an island above an ocean.

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Yeah, then there's just angry gods, and it might not have anything to do with you doing anything wrong as a culture or getting your act together.

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It's just that the gods were angry, so they kicked open the top of that mountain, and it became a volcano.

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And sorry, TS for you guys.

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It's good stuff.

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And then people have gotten a little weird over the years with trying to explain these away.

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There was a Hungarian psychoanalyst named Giza Roheim in the 1930s that said, no, the reason why we have all these flood myths

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is because they're just from people's dreams, and people in ancient times drank a lot of water and peed a lot at night, and so they dreamt about floods and told stories about floods.

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Or maybe it is the gods urinating on people, like literally, and there are myths that literally talk about that, that floods are a result of gods peeing on earth.

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but I don't know about expanding that to like all the cultural flood myths all over the world for all time.

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This is a shout out to one of the winners of the Stuff You Should Know 5K.

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This is something that the Stuff You Should Know Army puts together every year now in a virtual way right now.

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But our buddy Aaron Mazel is one of the people who works on this.

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They're looking to do this again next year because here's the deal is they sent me this stuff afterward.

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And I was like, oh, we need to get this before.

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So I'm going to go ahead and say it now, and then we'll see if we can remind people.

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But people voted to have this happen in late September, early October.

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So 2022 is when it's hopefully going to happen.

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