Chuck

Just a head cold.

But I'm a little stuffy, so I'm sorry if it's coming across as untoward.

Remember back in the day you had like a three-month cold that one year?

No.

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah, and I guess if we're talking about this particular, because we found after digging around and getting Ed to help us with this research that there are flood myths in not every culture, but a lot of cultures over the years.

And we'll get into that in lots of detail.

But as far as Noah's actual flood from the Old Testament, there was a gentleman in 1872 named George Smith who was a hobbyist

of all things Assyrian, and an amateur sort of historical sleuth, but a well-educated one nonetheless, because he could do things like read cuneiform tablets.

And he was doing that one day on, I don't know if it was an actual lunch break,

or if that's just apocryphal.

But supposedly on a lunch break, went to a museum, was reading cuneiform, and came across a story of the Epic of Gilgamesh and read this, quote, "'Build a boat.'"

Abandon wealth and seek survival.

Spurn poverty, save life.

Take on board all living things, seed, animals.

The boat you will build, her dimension shall be equal.

Her length and breadth shall be the same.

It doesn't say anything about cubits, but it's inferred.

Cover her with a roof like the ocean below, and he will send you a rain of plenty.