Pan, Pan, Psygast.

Part two, The Solutions.

I just want to clarify something I said in last week's installment.

I was saying that breadcrumbs leave to a gingerbread house,

and it's gingerbread crumbs to a gingerbread house.

Don't want to be accused of spreading false information.

Don't want to start any unnecessary conspiracy theories because they're bloody dangerous. So let's talk about the dangers

of conspiracy theories. Some people think that conspiracy theories take on an important task.

They serve as the skeptics of society. The status quo, the obvious official view, we can

challenge it. It's good to be skeptical, right? You're going to go buy a new car.

Be skeptical. Kick the wheels. Steal the guy's wallet and check he's got identification and that

he's worth buying a car off. Maybe it's not great in all scenarios. You're trying to convince

a room for the people that a horrific event like a genocide occurred, maybe skepticism isn't as appropriate there.

So in this first section, I want to carve out the line of when skepticism is appropriate and not,

and the dangers of when it isn't appropriate. Great. So should we use a case study to help us understand this?

So I can give you guys a case study, a conspiracy theory. Okay, and you can maybe add some skepticism or see where you stand on it. So during my research, I was trying to find the first conspiracy theory. Now, I'm sure that the first conspiracy theory was probably produced by some kind of cave people, right? It was probably Ugg-Ug-Rock moved on its own or something like that.

So we don't have any record of that, I'm afraid, dear listeners. So I'm sorry about that. But the first written account of conspiracy threes that I could find anyway, unless you guys found a different one, was the Great Fire of Rome, which happened on the 19th of July in our year 64 C.E. Have you guys heard of this before? I mean, I've heard of the event, but not the conspiracy.

Yeah, I think you mentioned it off microphone until the same. But I'll pretend for the sake of the recording. Yeah, it's new to me. Thanks for playing along, Jack. So, let's go for the Great Fire of Roman Men. So annual Roman games, guys, quarter of a million people packed into the circus maximus in the center of Rome. Many stands outside this arena

would be like fast food joints we'd have today, right? So you'd have like your subway, your other

brand here, all of the shops with their little fires going ready for all the people coming out of

the stadium. On the 19th of July, it was an exceptionally hot day, very, very hot, obviously in the

middle of summer, and it was a very windy day.

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