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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.

You would have been sneezed on with that big snozz.

All right.

So we promised talk of geomythology.

Here's the idea.

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

This is a story about our cultural values.

There's a lot of religious metaphor involved.

Or this was an actual historical event.

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

Like there could have been a real flood and it also –

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.