It's Monday, August 11th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's The Gist.

I'm Mike Pascar.

We live in an era of conspiracies.

And there is a party breaker, icebreaker type question.

What's the conspiracy you believe?

And I'm good at parties, but I'm really bad at that question. In fact, I don't really

believe any conspiracy. Then you can maybe convince me that something is a conspiracy, and I would say,

oh, yeah, I didn't know that was a conspiracy, but it's usually just a confluence of events that are

interrelated. And here's my problem with believing conspiracies.

To believe them, you can almost never sign on to the most reasonable version of the

conspiracy.

UFOs.

Are they flying sorcerers from outer space that the government knows about and is keeping

hidden from us?

Can I just say, we don't know what's out there, and it's quite conceivable,

that given the vastness of the universe, something has at some point happened or flitted across

the eyes of human beings that are in fact unidentified and flying and objects? Yeah, I'd sign on to the

ladder, but not the area 51 part.

So I'm a little too unconspiratorial because statistically speaking, one or two of these things have to exist.

What's the Epstein conspiracy? I don't know. I'm willing to believe a certain amount of the

unanswered questions of Jeffrey Epstein. They're unanswered. It is unanswered where he got

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