Selects: Why Do Great Flood Myths Seem To Be Universal?
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If look into the mythology of just about any culture in the world, you will find a myth about a great flood that destroyed humanity and submerged the Earth in the distant past. Does this mean that a great flood actually happened? Listen to this classic episode to explore the possibilities with Josh and Chuck.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:05.9 | It's Josh, and I have one word to describe this week's select from 2021 on why there are so |
| 0:12.0 | many myths about a great flood found in cultures around the world. |
| 0:17.4 | That word is fascinating. |
| 0:20.8 | But I'll add a few more words, I guess. This is one of those good old-fashioned stories. and that word is fascinating. |
| 0:22.6 | But I'll add a few more words, I guess. |
| 0:26.1 | This is one of those good old-fashioned stuff you should know episodes where we find out that a thing that everyone just kind of takes for granted |
| 0:29.5 | actually has a lot more to it than it seems. |
| 0:32.5 | And I love those episodes. |
| 0:34.2 | And I love this episode, which is why I picked it. |
| 0:36.8 | I hope you love it too. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:53.0 | Ahoy and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're the captains of this |
| 0:58.3 | here ship called Stuff You Should Know and that's all there is to it. Although I do think we need to |
| 1:05.8 | allow for the fact that Jerry is rear admirable. And by that of course I mean rear admirable. And by that, of course, I mean rear admiral. |
| 1:14.0 | And by that, of course, I mean it's going to be a long episode. |
| 1:18.5 | Has there ever been a cutesy TV show called The Admiral Admiral? |
| 1:23.9 | No, that sounds great. |
| 1:25.4 | I think there was one, the Simpsons did one called admiral baby oh all right |
| 1:30.7 | well that counts yeah i don't know if the baby was particularly admirable though could have been |
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