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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too.

And we're on fire with yet another fire episode of stuff you should know about fire.

Yeah, so Jerry asked me when you left the room, she was surprised we hadn't done one on fire.

And I said, well, we did years ago on just sort of more the nuts and bolts and the science of the actual thing that is fire.

Right.

But I commissioned this one from Dave, I believe, that's a little more along the lines of like,

what did it mean for people and like kind of when, you know, I wondered, like, did we learn how to make fire?

Was there like a day that that happened?

And do we know that day and that person?

And the answer is no.

Unfortunately, we don't know.

We not only don't know that also our technology

will almost certainly never be so advanced

that we will ever find out.

No.

And one of the reasons why is because there, there probably was multiple people

at different times around the world who learned how to manipulate fire. And also, there wasn't

just like a one day where fire didn't exist and then all of a sudden somebody like strikes a flint and some

shirt or something like that and now there's fire it happened in stages humans interactions with fire

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