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Infants on Thrones

Ep 61 – The Intentional Literalist – Noah’s Ark

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Mike Tannehill joins us once again for this unofficial follow-up to The Unintentional Racist to discuss the recent LDS.com essay on Noah’s Ark with Randy, Scott, Jake, Erica, and Glenn. Here is the link to the Meridian article in defense of Noah’s Ark. And here is the LDS.org essay Noah.

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There's a fellow by the name of Noah built an ark. Everybody knows he built an ark.

0:06.0

He said, what Noah do? He said, well, he built an ark, but very few people know about the

0:10.3

conversation that went on between the Lord and Noah.

0:13.0

You see, Noah was in his rec room sawing away.

0:16.0

He's making a few things for the home there.

0:18.0

He's a good carpenter.

0:20.0

These are the sounds of my youth.

0:22.0

Noah.

0:25.0

Somebody recall?

0:28.0

I was probably seven or eight years old and I would build myself a little box fort and bring in the record

0:36.8

player and boom. It was me and Bill Cosby just having a blast.

0:43.0

Who is that?

0:45.0

It's the Lord, Noah.

0:48.0

Right.

0:55.0

And I loved that he was having this fun conversation between Noah and God, characters I knew from primary and Sunday school.

1:07.1

And look, this really funny guy who isn't Mormon, mom, is Bill Cosby Mormon? Because I'm sure I checked but this really funny guy was

1:17.1

talking about them and people were laughing and I just loved it I didn't totally understand it but just loved it. And I didn't totally understand it, but I loved it.

1:25.0

Where I am.

1:30.0

What do you want? I've been good.

1:37.0

You know that was my favorite line. What do you want? I've been good. It just really resonated with me.

1:41.0

And on some level, I think I understood the slightly less than

1:45.4

reverent approach to God here you know the subtle and not so subtle

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