See, normally when Ben mentioned something along these lines people tended to zone out and move right past onto another topic to avoid having him launch into one of his explanations. Honestly, at this point he didn't even know if he remembered what to do next.
Also it had been a few years since he'd done all this research so he was a little rusty, but. Well. She'd asked a question and he was bound (at least by politeness) to answer it. "It's been a while," he said taking a sip of his soda, "I mean, I kind of like all of it, which I guess is a cop out, but I mean the reason I started researching in the first place was because the fact that so much of fantasy stories like Lord of the Rings and games like Dungeons and Dragons take their cues from the old stories. I guess that's kind of a cop out too." He shrugged. "Plus the gods are way less messed up than the Greek ones. I mean, so much less in-fighting, you know? It's more about valor and pursuit of knowledge and glory in battle with the Norse, but the Greeks are basically the Kardashians."