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<p>Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink recent storms that Matt and Pete have experienced. They are all over the place, but the nut is that there is a great difference between the various symbolic uses to which we put water and the reality of encountering its destructive force.</p>
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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52314/during-wind-and-rain">&#8220;During Wind and Rain&#8221;</a> by Tho(mas) Hardy</li>
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Episode 791: What is Plinko but a Novel Pachinko?

Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.