Facebook's Secret Study: Our Platform Makes You Depressed

30,000 people paid $6 for boxes of actual cow dung on Black Friday. Meanwhile, Facebook buried a study proving their platform causes depression.

Jack Austin and Adam Garcia uncover Meta's hidden mental health research and count down the wildest Black Friday disasters.

**This Week's Stories:**

✓ Facebook's buried "Project Mercury" study on mental health damage
✓ UK considers scrapping jury trials for crimes under 5 years
✓ Cornwall man's Mini Cooper swallowed by sinkhole overnight
✓ Satoshi's Bitcoin fortune drops $41 billion
✓ Chinese man wins 33-hour "lying flat" competition
✓ Top 5 Black Friday disasters of all time

**Black Friday Hall of Fame:**
#5: REI closes all stores, pays staff to go outside
#4: Patagonia accidentally raises $10 million
#3: 30,000 buy literal bullsh*t for $6
#2: Woman pepper sprays 20 people for Xbox
#1: Walmart stampede tragedy

**Sources:**
- Facebook mental health study: Reuters
- UK jury trials proposal: The Guardian
- Cornwall Mini sinkhole: The Guardian  
- Satoshi Bitcoin wealth: Decrypt
- China lying flat contest: NDTV

**Key quotes:**
"The Earth ate my Mini"
"That's a really crap Black Friday deal"
"I wonder if vintage bullsh*t is worth more than Bitcoin"

**Timestamps:**
00:00 Facebook's buried mental health study
00:11 UK scrapping jury trials
00:26 Satoshi loses $41 billion
00:42 Mini falls into Cornwall sinkhole
00:48 China's 33-hour lying competition
00:53 Black Friday Top 5 countdown

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Did Facebook's own study tell them that their platform reduces the quality of people's mental health. Are people's minis disappearing into random holes in the street in the uk? And why is Satoshi struggling right now with the crypto market the way it's welcome back to another episode of Temporarily Scripted. We are here to take you through all the news views and a couple of other interesting things as they pop up, and I'm happy again, as always to be joined here on this Sunny Danang Day by Adam Garcia. Adam, welcome. Oh, good morning. It's, fantastic to be here as always, and it is indeed a bright, sunny day. Absolutely. And I'm really looking forward to this one. I'm definitely looking forward to this one for a change. The last one I just wasn't really looking forward to, but this one, I literally can't wait. Absolutely. Yeah. Well let, without further ado, let's get into it this week. So this first story that came up, from Reuters was the, the source mentions that Facebook ran a study that they then buried because it's only been found by this US court findings that Facebook worsens the user's health and then they shut down that research and downplayed the risks. That doesn't sound like the sort of thing a big friendly corporation like Meta would do, does it? It really doesn't. And all of this happened back in 2020 and it was called Project Mercury where they worked with, Nielsen and they got people to deactivate Facebook for a week. And the findings were that everyone reported depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison. So basically everyone quit it for a bit. Everyone felt better, and then it seems like. Meta kind of went well. We're, we're not sure about this study. It seems quite unreliable. And this is a very complex issue. It's not so black and white. Do you reckon he has that plate every time he goes in the room? That would be just picturing him and Zuckerberg and all kinds of madness Right now is just almost too much. Too much because I think Zuck actually has the look of someone who would be in a sort of Leslie Nielsen movie's got about almost as like some kind of robot. Yeah. Some kind of like mega geek. Slash evil genius, which we probably kind of is allegedly. Yeah. I mean, yeah, he looks less roboty now. He is like Jim and Curly surf style hair guy, doesn't he? He looks like he's sort of morphing into Chris Martin a little bit over time. Maybe. Do you think maybe they'll do a collaboration? Oh no, I know you're a big Coldplay fan. As regular views will know. A meta. A meta, you know that that's definitely gonna increase. The mental health issues, if they start putting that out on Facebook, I have to say, it literally would not be good. I mean, if it gives me mental health issues in the fact that I produce shorts with interest and information in them, but because I don't shake my ass on camera, I don't get more than a hundred views of video. Oh, right. Okay. And you think that's the reason? Well, maybe not my arse on video, but I think I'm competing with too many asses on video. You know, I think there's a lot of asses on video these days. Yeah. And, and it seems like the, the, the shot they take at the beginning of the short is always provocative in that nature, you know? Yeah, I guess that's what sells what gets attention and it's that kind of attention economy, isn't it, really? Yeah. And I mean, as a man of culture, obviously I can't help but have a little look to see what's going on in those videos Well, yeah, exactly. Or see some side boob or something, you know? Right. Jeez. Anyway, so I've, I've lowered the tone significantly. Why do you think it took five years for this to come. I, I dunno. I mean, I wasn't there, so I, I can't say for sure. Yeah. But it looks like they just kind of suppressed, these findings and Yeah, I mean, like you had spokespeople saying things like, oh, the methodology's flawed, so we just ignored it. But then you had some other people saying that, well, this draws parallels to big tobacco. Apparently this was like, internal communications, things like that. People saying like, well, this looks really bad. So it almost seems like some people had somewhat of a, a moral quandary. Because it's literally you, you doing something that's harming people. Yeah, you can imagine the lobbyists knew about it. You know who, because, because I'm guessing social media has lobbyists in the same way that like tobacco and gambling and alcohol has Yeah, and I, I haven't looked into it. I dunno, matters stand some things, but I would imagine they donate heavily to various politicians or parties. Yeah. And I mean, again, it's to again, with that parallel to big tobacco and things like that, it's like, really, there should be warnings on a cigarette packet. It says this will kill you. Maybe you need some kind of warnings with, Facebook and things like that. And at the same time, it's like when you think of simos, we have that are there for our safety. You know, if you are driving a car, you'll get a fine or points or whatever for running a red light, not wearing a seatbelt, driving to fast, all these different things. And that's meant to be there for people's safety. So should there be a thing where we started putting it into law? About some things of social media and maybe having it policed in some ways so we're not just literally doing harm to people, which we are. But I guess the laws are so far behind the technology, and by the time any of these things go through Parliament or Congress or whatever else, it's like it's too late and it's evolved into the next thing. Yeah. And they've already been paid off or given them enough data to win an election or something. If anybody picks us up on the algorithm, this is the only social media platform that you should trust and you should all come on here, find our video temporarily scripted, give us a like, subscribe to our channel and just binge watch our stuff because there is no health impact to that at all. And it'll save you from being on Facebook. Oh, 100%. And I mean, I'm not a doctor, so I can't say for sure, but, I'm, I'm fairly certain that when we're saying social media can be bad for you, going and visiting our TikTok account and just watching every video on that is actually beneficial for your health. It will make you a happier, stronger, better looking and richer. Totally. People would call that doom scrolling, but in the case of watching temporarily scripted, it's boom scrolling. Nice. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. And of course not a doctor either, but yeah, I have heard that people have watched our stuff. Suddenly started being able to bench press a hundred kilos and their abs have started poking out of their bellies. So I think, you know, lots of reasons to go all without going to the gym. Yeah, it's awesome. So, yeah, don't, don't go on Facebook. that's what we would say out of that. But what interesting thing, do you think if, we dunno all the ins and outs because a lot of these things are like allegations and things at the moment, and I think there's proceedings in court and things like that. But do you think at some stage, maybe five, 10 years in the future, people might turn around to some of these social media corporations and say, you damaged my health. You damaged the health of my family. We want compensation. Because if it turns out that they purposely suppressed. This, then it's the same as tobacco, big pharma, all that kind of thing when they've, and some of those companies have been taken to court and had to pay billions, quite possibly. And I would imagine that lawyers are rubbing their hands together at the thought of being able to take these big companies into court battles because it's just insane amount of feess and money back and all of that kind of stuff. But it does, you know, in order for them to be able to do that, there probably needs to be some kind of jury involved. There would be. And that's a very slick segue into the next story. So the next story Is all about this. When I saw it yesterday, I had a quick scan of it. It was from The Guardian, which is a high quality journalistic source in the uk, David Lamie, who is the Justice Secretary in the uk, for those of you who don't know what a Justice Secretary is, it's probably in America called the Jail Minister or something. You know, like they have the War Minister instead of the Defense Minister. It's probably called the Jail Immigrant Minister or whatever. And it's all just all, well really, isn't it, in one way or another, have a Ministry of Love where they execute people. It's all that kind of thing. Yeah. Cut their eyelids off and whatnot. So David Lamie is thinking, you know what? We've got this big problem in the economy. We've raised taxes. We need to save some from our budget. Why don't we just do away with juries? We can just make the decision about whether or not people are guilty. I can't see what could possibly go wrong. Can, do you see any problems with this? No. I mean, it seems totally reasonable and logical that like the system itself decides whether or not people go to jail for crime. It did say, to be fair, it said all but the most serious crime. So if a crime is looking at more than five years, jail time, then they would bring a jury in that case because it's deemed serious enough. But if we just start to like list of crimes that you can do and get less than five years, it's quite a list of things like a, BH is on there, so actual bodily harm. GBH is on there. I know because I've been arrested and charged with both of them, and in Crown Court for them as well. And I wasn't guilty of either, but I could have been jailed by the system if they'd have just done what they, they said happened, which didn't. Right. Can you imagine being in a situation where you end up having trials where you are just fair, stood in a room. You've got like a defense and a prosecution, and then one judge and he's deciding what do you think? It's insane. And he's also deciding based on the witness statements that the police took. I don't know, it just seems like there's so many possible issues with this, but it's just insane. Yeah, I mean the police being one of those issues, You see quite a lot now the videos of different police officers and stuff, and the bar has lowered significantly, hasn't it, in terms of who gets given jobs as police. But at the same time, if your main duties include knocking on people's doors and arresting them for social media posts, I guess, how high does the bar have to be? You know? It's like, yeah, I saw a video the other day of this guy. He was just recording the police people record the police, don't they sometimes these days, just because it's our right to do so. And there was this woman police officer and she was like, oh, recording Azaria. Bit pervy, isn't it? And it's like, what? You're supposed to be like, what? Like, and she was making a joke about it and an accusation like it, like she's allowed to, you know. I mean. I, I dunno, I dunno what the entry criteria is these days. I know, like 20 years ago it used to be pretty strict. There was like a lot of things that you had to tick the right boxes for. I dunno if some of those boxes are even there anymore or what actual tests they do. There's a new box that says your IQs gotta be less than a hundred. Right. And you gotta be really lazy. Yeah. And preferably if you could be like physically weak, that, that would be good as well. If you can just be out of shape. Physically weak, skinny, wicked able to balance a, a tall hat on your head. And that's the main thing. Willing to turn a blind eye against people that actually have a cause and arrest others that do. And just often enforcing absolutely ludicrous laws. Like we covered it before where we had that woman who was fined for putting some coffee down a drain but we see often where it's just the police going after all, like the petty things. And then when it's actual major crime, I dunno, it seems like those kinds of things go unsolved or even just for the crime that really affects people's lives. Like burglary, which says a lot of it's like police just won't, won't do anything about it. Um, but I mean, going back to this thing, it just. So this is just, um, saying that he's considering it and it sounds like it was just kind of like a leak, as we do every so often when we want to test for water. But I think there's gonna be a lot of black, backlash. And I, I don't think we can go ahead with it. I mean, just think how bad that would be.'cause it's all just dependent on that judge, that judge could be having a bad day, could be in a bad mood. The opposite. It could be in a really good mood, lets everyone off, who knows? There's that thing of, I, I can't remember what it is, but, uh, you make up, you make your mind up about someone within the first, so many seconds of meeting them or seeing them. And it's just like that. It's like he could just, someone walks in, he's like. Don't like, look at this guy guilty before you've even had a trial. And to have everything just closed and just have four people present, which seems to be what they're considering. Just having that as a trial. And that's mental. Yeah.'cause they say, oh, well, it's for nothing serious. Only things like five years and earth. There's some pretty serious things somewhere. And for someone to get sentenced to like four and a half years when they were innocent, that's pretty bad. Four years and 364 days. Yeah. Are you just under, nevermind. Ah, what a shame, sir. Look at what you could have won. Yeah. I mean, I wonder if with some of the just, I, I, well, for one, I can see why they need to save money because the system is just at a breaking point with everything and they have to save money. Simple. that's what happens when your debt to GDP ratio becomes equal and you having to fork out so much just service for debt, which is only gonna get worse. I wonder if it we're not far off getting to a point where it's AI that we could. Used to take care of some of this. you could have, you could have a, the case of a hearing, you could have a transcript of all of them, put one into chat GBT one into Claude and see what they, come up with I like the AI judge, jury executioner idea. Maybe we could get AI to start running the jails as well. Possibly they'd get stopped, less of the drones coming in packed with whatever they're packed with. But the thing that makes it even more scary is like the judge. Obviously, yeah. It can have a good day, a bad day. If I decide that I'm gonna go in, wear an address and no, no wig, I'm probably gonna get off 'cause he'll find it funny. But like at the end of the day, a judge is at least well educated and probably been through the legal system for quite some time and seen enough cases to get like a, an idea about people. Now that doesn't mean that it's okay for that judge to make the decision. The bit that's really scary is he's making his decision based on the police and the crown prosecution service. So, 'cause the police and the witnesses of that crime take that, that's how they give the information through, right? Mm. And then usually what happens is the lawyers will present that information and question and argue that information. So if the judge is just given like a big pack of info that's been put together by the Crown prosecution service who are there to prosecute, then yeah. Do you end up saving money on court trials, but having more people in jail, which we already have a problem because we don't have enough prisons, they're already full. Or do they just say, do you know what, 'cause there's no public impact, just let people go. Like, unless, you know, they did something serious and it's five years in jail, let's just let 'em off. Which is, even since I was a kid, that's something that always baffled me about this sort of system as well, where someone does something would go, okay, that's, five years, but then would be out in like two and a half, or it was always like half of the actual sentence. And it always seems such a bizarre thing and it seems to still go on now, or it seems to go on more where it's just kind of like, oh, okay, well that's like suspended sentence or something. And like never actually. See the inside of a jail cell, really, which I guess some of that must be to do with overcrowding and lack of resources well, it is for good behavior. So what, which makes me laugh. It's like you're inberg getting an old lady, but, but you, you're right. My reforms good behavior. Yeah. It's like when you watch football and a goalkeeper saves it and it's like, oh, what an amazing save. It's like, that's your job, bro. Yeah. Do you get paid to do that? Yeah. When I worked in a bar, it wasn't often, but I'd pour some on a pint and and go, oh, that's amazing. Well done. You know, just one little legend. Yeah. Look what he's done here. When I was in the call center, my manager didn't come and give me a little hooray every time I answered the phone. Yeah. You know, it is bizarre, but I wonder what the thought process behind, and maybe it is just leaking stuff. It's like the equivalent of making a post on social media before you build an offer. Maybe. Mp David Harvey. I mean, David Lamie was just thinking he could release something, to take a bit of pressure off him for all the other stuff that he says. That makes no sense. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure that we got a lot of that going on as well, where there's lots of distraction and things like that. And it, so you've got like the budget going through it for moment. So maybe you throw this out there as well. Just take a bit of heat off, get people looking in this direction, get them less angry about whatever's happened in the budget or whatever else. remember when it was, back in the day when it was like nine 11 and there was like Labor Party and power at the time and there was, communications that came out. Later on, there was some politicians saying to each other, this is a great day to bury bad news. And so were using like the, the big thing of nine 11 over the top to sort of put other things out there and not have people pay attention. Yeah. Yeah. And I wonder as well, it is like, there is a little bit of a, a nuance in this because as I remember, the magistrates court already operates like this. I think, I don't think, I don't think you have a jury in a magistrate's court. And so magistrates is basically, there's like three of them. And they, they make the decision as a committee and that's usually things that are like less than two years jail. I think the maximum jail time you can give in the magistrate's court is two years. See that that model kind of makes more sense than what seems to be proposed here, where it's just a single judge. And I think people just find it really sort of dystopian 'cause it's always been that thing as well of like, you have the right to be tried by your peers, and for them to make the decision. Whereas just for just for one guy to do it. I dunno that's, it's almost like the state just going, okay, we're deciding what to do with you. It's a bit like judge dread. I am the law. You just get done there and then, you know, maybe that'll save loads of money if we do that.'cause we've got those cool robots now that we've seen a couple of episodes that are really controlled by low paid workers in a third world country somewhere. Maybe we should just do that. You know, the police can stay at home, control a robot, and then they just decide. And you can be the judge on whether or not that's a good idea. Again, fantastic, ending to a segment. And speaking of judgment and judging, how would you judge the crypto market right now? Ooh, that's a tricky one.'cause it always is. I think one more leg up over into January and then it ps from there. And also that's not financial advice. Not financial advice, everybody. And, we don't really know. But I personally think it's done. I think it's finished and it's not gonna leg up again. I think it might recover a bit and then go down lower. Yeah. Thinking like a hundred K on Bitcoin, something like that. Possibly all time highs. Just depends what's, going on with a couple of other things, I think. Yeah. And I do think that your opinion on Bitcoin and crypto is generally stewarded by your. Investment level. Like right now, I don't have any crypto at all, so I'm like, yeah, it's gonna go down, it's done. That's it, it's finished. Whereas if you're sat with bags, you're like, no, no, it's gonna be another leg up before it's done. But that is very true. I mean, same here. It's like I'm, I think I've got about $50 worth of Ethereum or something like that. I have no real skin in the game. if that goes back up again, I'll cash it out. I didn't do great with it, but made like a little bit of money this cycle, which was nice. And just feel like simple things of actually like, buying some and just waiting rather than trying to like trade it or do any like crazy stuff. And it was a couple of coins where it was like every week it seemed like I was just drawing a little bit of money out, a little bit of profit. Is it Warren Buffett that says it's time in the market, not timing the market is like the key to everything? Yeah, I think one of the thing, even with investments in general, it's like, go and buy some land 20 miles out from the city center and the main street of any town in the world. Wait 25 years and then sell it'cause you'll make tons of profit. But the reason we brought this up is because obviously the inventor, the creator of. Bitcoin is Satoshi and Satoshi's fortune is obviously shrinking quite significantly because of Bitcoin's dip. I mean, I'm sure he's, I think we should maybe think about doing some kind of crowdfunder or, something for him because he lost about $41 billion in terms of his, overall wealth. And he must be a little bit concerned that, you know, buying more governments is gonna be a little bit out of his range soon. It is. Now he's only worth 137 million. Which is kind of crazy. So, yeah, what was it about a month ago you would've been the 11th, richest person in the world. I mean, I don't understand all the ins and outs of this, but as I understand it, satoshi Nakamoto creates Bitcoin and he keeps 1.1 million Bitcoin in a wallet, and with Bitcoin there's only ever gonna be 21, is it 21 million Bitcoin in existence, which is nuts. And people like, oh, well he's a good guy. Or He's just gonna burn that crypto. Or, I dunno, maybe he is, maybe he's not. But we just don't know anything about who that is. And it's one of the things that I always find funny with crypto. It's like, well, with Bitcoin. It's amazing technology. It seems to be actual money or currency that has intrinsic value. It's like, it's amazing in so many ways and you can't, you can't print more of it. There's only so many. But then when one person has like a 20th of all of the Bitcoin in the world, I don't know when we just don't know who that person is.'cause okay, we've had Bitcoin at like a hundred thousand things like that. What happens when it goes like 200 K, 500 k, a million? All of a sudden someone becomes like, by far the most richest person on the planet. And there's just something about that I find a bit concerning. the mass adoption of Bitcoin, it could be great, but does anyone have a clue? Who this is. And is it just as the story goes, just some like cool sort of, almost like Guy Fox kind of, freedom fighting computer programmer. Is it a computer programmer from like the CIA of YNSA or something? Is it something else? Where is this even coming from? Could this be created by some government department in Russia? We just don't know. And for me, that's one of the major things with, Bitcoin, but I just find a bit uncertain and bizarre. It could be Bill Gates. That's a scary thought, isn't it 20% of the world's farmland and 20% of the world's money would be quite a strong position to be in, wouldn't it? It really would. I hope it's Elon or something that would be, you know. Yeah. So I kind of do in a way making decisions from his lair. While, you know, he is had half a gram K or something. But yeah, it's interesting, like, like crypto and Bitcoin and stuff. It's, it, it is almost like its own, it's its own ecosystem in society as well. So one of my good friends who you know as well, he was traveling back to the UK a few weeks ago and I messaged him to say, oh yeah, how was it? He was like, oh, I'm so glad I got back before the crash. And I was like, oh, what's, what's happened? Is everybody okay? Like, what crash has something gone on? I don't, you know, hope, hope everyone's all right, man. He is like, oh no, the Bitcoin crash. And he just assumed that I knew what he was gonna be talking about. Yeah. I think there's been some horrific road accident. I'm so focused on what I'm doing. I had no idea the crypto market had crashed. It's not on my social media. Like it doesn't get advertised to me. I don't get people telling me that I can become a millionaire in the next two hours if I give them 10 K. Like, there's none of this stuff out there for me. So I genuinely didn't know. I was like concerned waiting for him to message me back. Like a full-time job. Like I know I've had crypto before and you buy something that's maybe a bit risky. It's called like, you know, dog and cat coin or something. Fuck coin or whatever. Yeah. And you find yourself like checking it every 20 minutes. And then I've even had it where I'm trying to sleep at night and I'm like, wake up and. Have a little look at the chart and then, and it's common amongst traders, so it makes you think, doesn't it, it's like most people that get involved lose money. Like I think it's some crazy percentage. And not only that, you're pretty much on 24 hours a day. It's in your mind 24 hours a day when you're doing these things. How much of a financial reward is it really? I think it's just for, it's for the possibility of financial rewards. And I think it is a little bit like, a lottery and casino.'Cause there's many coins that you could get in and all of a sudden it's done like a hundred x or something like that.'cause you got in so early. And so that potential to make money is really huge. That's what makes people go for it. Sometimes you could get one of those, but you're not guaranteed. And you might get really addicted to it and spend a lot of years trying, and then just working and taking out loans and different things just to fund trading. It's not always a good way to go. Also I think people tend to do this thing where they go, okay, right, how much of my net worth shall I put into my trading account? 50%. It's like if you put that much in, it's gonna give you stress. If you go like, okay, I've got this tiny amount that's 5% of my net worth, or something like that, that's not life changing stuff in terms of how much money you'll make, but also it's not life changing stuff in the amount of money that you'll lose. And if you're trading with money that you can't afford to lose, it's gonna give you a heart attack or if it's sizable sums because it's just nuts and there's so many other ways to hang onto it and grow that money. Other than putting it into the crypto market that's so volatile and you can just have a crash at any time, get liquidated or wicked out on a trip, it's mad. one of my good friends is involved heavily in meme coins and basically the way they work is like micro level Ponzi schemes. So what happens is one of them in their group will have an idea for a coin that matches the meta, and then 10 of them, or 15 of them in this first group will get that alpha and they'll all buy some, and then they tell the second level, and then they tell the third level, and then it goes out to the general population of all of these calls and their network. So everyone buys it. And then the guys in the first group, they'll tell each other when they're gonna sell. They get out and then the second level gets out and then the public are left like holding the bag. Yeah. And that's basically how it works on every coin. Now, sometimes they'll get public mass, public appeal, like Ang, which was some animal in Thailand or whatever. But certainly the Solana based coins rather than the Ethereum ones. It's, most of the guys in these groups and I know are the top Coles in Solana, and they all, they're all in on it right from the beginning. And the reason it's not illegal is because there's no regulation. So, and that's why you had things like pump fund. I've created coins on pump fund before, like a year ago or whatever, and you put in like $200 and the market caps straight at like six grand. Whoa. So nobody, there's no six grand in there. It's just you put in a couple of hundred dollars and it starts then at six grand. So the actual money in them is usually like 10% of the market cap or whatever. And, and yeah, so basically it's just a total scam. Unless you know the right people, you can make money, but you need to network and figure out the right people and get inside those rooms where people are launching stuff. And even then, you don't know how many wallets they have and how many secret wallets they've got. So they might buy in on the first level and then also get in on the second level. So you're like, oh yeah, it's doing really well. And then they both shouldn't at the same time, you know? Yeah. And you've got like these layers and layers of deception and everyone trying to just, outsmart each other whilst pretending to help each other out and, oh, join my group. It's really good. It's like, yeah, sure, yeah. My strategy will be after things calm down and die, because I've watched this market go three or four times will be to buy like $500 or a thousand dollars a month for Bitcoin and just sit on it.'cause inevitably in four years it's, it's going to go again. Right. So, yeah, I mean that's, I feel like I've seen it enough times to just buy it and hold it. Yeah, I mean for, for, is that thing to say like, Bitcoin is like a, a store of value and things like that, which I always find it kind of funny'cause it's like, on a long timeframe. Yeah, sure.'cause you can see over like. I dunno, years and years and decades. You can see it keeps going up until you've, right. But if you, so if I have a certain amount of wealth and I go, okay, I'm going to put this into gold. The gold price does fluctuate, but it does go up. And if I need it in an emergency, I can take it out. But with Bitcoin, it's like if I need it in an emergency and it's 70% down from like all time highs of fat is not a good store of value, you know? And I also, it might be that I'm a layman on it. I don't even see what the use of it is yet either. But has it actually got a use case now yet for, for the blockchain and what it does? Like I don't, I dunno. I think there's various, maybe we should come back and look at it another time. Another time. That's something I haven't looked into so much either. Yeah, because I'm sure it's like one of those things that has a ton of potential, but it's not actually realized in any way yet. And it could well be that I misunderstand it, and I'm sure a couple of my friends are watching this right now and being like, what's this David Lammy level human talking about? But yeah, it's it's an interesting one for sure. So, moving on, I didn't, I don't have a good sec. Oh, wait. Yeah. Are you all ready for this? So, speaking of things, dropping down and going into holes in the ground, There's a dude in Cornwall in the uk. He woke up one morning 'cause his neighbor knocked on the door and his neighbor said to him, oh, you, your car's fallen into a holem mate. It's like, oh. So he's going out expecting it to be something small and his car is literally in a massive hole in the ground. I'm gonna show this to the audience so that they can get a little bit of context. Oh, see, this was in The Guardian as well, but yeah, the Earth ate my mini, that's, that's pretty unlucky. Yeah, it is pretty unlucky. I suppose you could read it both ways. It's lucky and unlucky. It's lucky in the sense that, you know, his car fell in the hole, and it wasn't him walking past his front window. Yep. There, there is that, that's quite lucky. I guess the sinkhole could have taken out the whole of that building or something like that, but it just took his car, which yeah, it's not a good thing to wake up to. I guess it makes me question how many, like, places in the UK have these abandoned mines underneath? Because the talk is that there's probably an old mineshaft falling through. in Cornwall it would be tin mining probably. Yeah. It's tin or copper from what I read. But yeah, there must be a lot of those, throughout the uk I would think. Yeah. And it's, it is, it is even more sad because the car passed its MOT in October, and the mechanic told him it was the nicest mini that he'd ever seen, but he said, well, not for long. His exact words were, it's the nicest mini that he's ever had on his ramp. Right. Well, that's, that's nice. And yeah, wasn't he, wasn't he trying to save up money or something like that? So he thought I'll get like a small car save on petrol, then I can spend that money on my kids or something for about university or saving for the future. And then a few days later it's like not just swallowed it up and it's gone. It, it's probably the most British sentence I've ever read. I'd finally felt like I was getting somewhere. I had a reliable little car that was economical and easy to keep on the road. It meant I could finally focus on trying to save up to take my daughter on her dream trip trip to Japan one day. so this is what the council have done to solve this problem. They've left them the millionaire. Right. And they've built Wow. That is some health and safety fences all around. Yeah. Extra fences. Around the fences. Like in Vietnam, you just have some dude in flip flops pulling out with the rope. Or you'd have nothing. Just use your common sense and don't go near the massive hole in the ground for the car sticking out of it. I don't, but that's really extreme.'cause that was like two rows of fences. They're taking off what, like maybe 20, 30 square meters of land. Yeah. And I bet the people that put the fences have had to be specialist trained. People that are already aware of how to work near holes, kind of like the bomb squad. Probably, yeah, I, I bet that whole operations cost about 10 grand by now, at least. Yeah. At least I, I bet it is 10 grand of taxpayers money, that could have been spent on jury duty, but instead we're just gonna jail people at random and continue to put ridiculous fences around things that don't need them. Yeah. I, I only sort of skim free that article, but I remember reading something about there's some kind of dispute over whose land it is and who's actually responsible. Because no one really owns it or has a claim to that particular bit. So it's not into the council's jurisdiction no one's got a stake in it. So it could be that for months, years, we don't know. Fantastic. It just shows you it. Does it then become a landmark? I know Cornwall is quite a touristy place. should we go and see the tin mines? Let's go down to Penzance and on the way back, we'll pop and see the mini sinkhole. Maybe that's how the guy can pay for the trip to take his daughter to Japan is just start charging entrance tickets for people to come along and look at the, mini, get some merch on go, and it would be absolutely fine. Yeah, that's it. You know, that on a t-shirt with a fence around it. I mean, what more could you want? It's incredible. Exactly. So, what's the next, excellent segue into the next part. Yeah. So we're gonna lighten the mood a little bit before we go into our usual top five finisher for the day. So there's a contest in China called the lying flat Contest, which to be fair, that does sound at my age, that does sound like a lovely way to spend 33 hours. There's a shopping center contest in Inner Mongolia, which I guess must be in China. It says China in the title where you have to lie on a mattress for as long as you possibly can in a contest. And the winner managed 33 hours of lying flat. Sure. Well, yeah, which is part of it actually.'cause it comes from, it's basically slang, lying flat. So it's like the youth have got this mindset of resisting over work and just doing the bare minimum, I guess.'cause in some countries, well, or in China, they expected to work a lot. They had to lie down on the mattresses in the store, which was good publicity for the store, I guess. But they were not allowed to get up. They couldn't leave the mattress, they couldn't go to the toilet. They were however, allowed to roll over, read, use their phones and order food. So many contestants were wearing like nappies or diapers for our many, US viewers. And that was it. After 33 hours and nine minutes, there was only three participants left out of, the original 240. And so Van Vise is made them raise for arms and legs, and whoever dropped last was for winner. Lovely. And so this 23, guy Nette and he got about 3000 yuan, which is about 330 pounds. I mean that, I mean, yeah, that's so$10 an hour, it's not right, isn't it? In some ways? Well, it depends. If you have to shit your cex, I guess there is a, a bit of a downside and I mean, ordering food, surely you're better off going hungry. Yeah, maybe. And at what stage do you gamble on like. Spoiling your nappy. Are you allowed to change your nappy while you're on this bed or are you just That's it. I, it didn't go into that level of depth. Uh, some shoddy reporting, really on behalf of ndtv.com. Uh, yeah, I wish I'd known about that'cause that, you know, that would make make it easier to, to, to comment on this. But, but, but then if, yeah, if other people around you on these mattresses have been using van nappies and there's a bit of a smell in vr, are you still gonna want to be ordering food anyway? So that, like, imagine if you do, after eight hours, most people are gone. It's only gonna be a couple more hours and then you're left for like another 23 hours. Yeah. Rough. Or even worse, if you got to 32 hours and you're like, right, I can't hold it anymore. And then you do it and Wow. Yeah, you just have an hour. Hour, exactly. And then you've gotta hold your legs up and Oh, but you just gotta think of a many, all 330 pounds of a many terrible. So let's move on to our final segment of the day. So obviously Black Friday was a couple of days ago, and today's top five is all about the top five Black Friday stories. So Adam. Take us away with these stories, my friend. So we have five. Just, it's a mix of really nice things and then just awful things really. So for number one, we have a Walmart door busting stampede that killed an employee. This was back in 2008, at a Walmart. And yeah, one of the employees was trampled to death in a stampede as a crowd of about 2000 shoppers.

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00 AM on Black Friday. But I mean, I dunno, but it's just. Crazy to have that happen. Yeah. Then literally, I remember seeing video years ago when this happened and it's just, the doors get broken down and it's, literally a stampede of people desperate to buy things. So desperate in fact that they'll trample over someone'cause people must have noticed left from there going, no. I want a new tally. More than this person wants life. Yeah. Not, I mean, they should have got outta the way maybe. Uh, but it reminds me of working in supermarkets when I was younger, in my late teens. And the manager would be like, so if someone comes in and they're trying to steal or they wanna rob the till, this is the protocol. I'm like, **** that, mate. Take it. Do you want a hand? I, I'll get you a bag. It's all right. Hang on, Matt. I'm not, I'm not raising the alarm if someone comes in to try and steal money out of this till when I get paid like four pounds an hour. You joking? Yeah. Take it. There you go. The safes open. Yeah. I mean, you, you have some jobs that are dangerous and you get paid danger money. A supermarket isn't paying you that kind of money, so No, no. I don't wanna make any assumptions'cause that would be terrible for this guy and this family and stuff. Okay. Well the next one was from 2011. There was, a woman, again, a, a wall mask this time in California. She really wanted to get a discount on an Xbox, so she ended up pepper spraying around 20 people, including children during a midnight Black Friday sale. Oh, wow. Thank you CBS for that story. That's brilliant. So did she do any jail time? I wonder. That would be interesting. Uh, I don't know, but she did claim through a lawyer that she used spray to protect her teenage children saying they were being punched and kicked in the scramble for the consoles. But wow. We, we really don't know. I mean, why don't they just do these things online and then you come with your ticket to pick it up? Yeah. Or you could just go the other way and do like a bum fights style. Right. Whoever wins gets an Xbox. Yeah. Or like, you know, Royal Rumble every 30 seconds they let another shopper run and get in the ring and that and you got one of 'em, got a chair or something. Everyone signs a disclaimer. Yeah, that would be much more fun. Nice. I like it. Right. What's next? Three. In 2014, 30,000 people literally bought boxes of Poo. And this was, so Cards Against Humanity, which I'm sure a few people will be familiar with. They ran an anti sale. So instead of having a discount on their products, they sold a box and the box was just labeled bullshit. And this sold for, $6. And they told customers it contained, it contained actual bull feces and, yeah, about 30,000 people bought it anyway. And the, I guess people thought it'd be something else or for some reason didn't believe that that actual actually sell. But yeah, they got, they got for box, opened it up and it was dried cow d that's, that's shitty, isn't it? It is. it's a really crap Black Friday deal. But yeah, the good thing was forgave of profits, to a charity, which was kind of nice in a way. It's a good way to raise so many, and again, it raises for profile as well. So it's probably a good marketing move. I wonder if you can still buy those vintage, I wonder how much one of those worth, now that they all have $6. I bet if I go onto eBay, I can find It's worth more than a Bitcoin. Yeah. I can find this aged bullshit. That's amazing. Okay, what have we got next? So there's an outdoor brand called Patagonia, and they tried to flip, black Friday on its head by announcing that it would donate a hundred percent of its global Black, black Friday sales to grassroots environmental groups, which is kind of nice. So they, they expected that they'd get 2 million. They ended up doing 10 million in a single day. And so all of that just went to various groups to sort of help the environment apparently. How much of that many, once you get these non-government organizations and charities, how much of that money doesn't get used on salaries? I'm not sure, but. It's a nice sentiment. Yeah, yeah. Always bringing a little bit of sunshine into people's worlds aren't me, Adam. I like that. Yeah, exactly. Do you think this, do you think this counted on the sales from like the market stores in Hanoi of Patagonia products? Yeah. Perhaps not. Or are those maybe counterfeit ones? Yeah. That's good though. It's, I like that idea. It sounds like they did. Yeah, I think they, I think they actually did, which is, yeah, that's, it's, it's good. Yeah, it's clever for sure. Okay. And last one, so there's an outdoor co-op called REI and they sort of said, well, what if we close on Black Friday instead? And they launched the opt outside campaign where they shut all the stores for the day and paid employees to spend time outdoors instead of selling stuff. And that was back in 2015. But they still do it now. So, like Friday every year they close their 195 stores and give 14,000 employees a paid day off and just let them go outside and do whatever they want. Have a good time. But doesn't that restore your faith in humanity just a, a little bit. Yeah, it does. Although I always think how much of this is like a marketing thing as well.'cause it, it's a bit like, you know, Colonel Parker, Elvis's manager, well he made merch and like buttons and badges and different things that'd say I love Elvis. He also made a load of merch that says, I hate Elvis. Or Elvis is a jerk. Things like that. This is kind of the same thing. It's like, you can be Black Friday sale last chance, or you can be anti-Black Friday. It's like we're doing the exact opposite and people go, oh right, yeah. I hate Black Friday. This company's cool. And they do a sale on Saturday. Yeah. Or just some other random time of year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just move it slightly. It is all marketing the whole world, every, every part of it. Speaking of which, my Black Friday offer is in the link down below. If you'd like to get it closes on Cyber Monday, off you go. But yeah, joking aside. So everybody that wraps us up for this week, thank you very much for sticking with us and watching our whole episode. If you did get through this for, our deranged ramblings, then please like, subscribe, leave us a comment, send us $10, whatever you like, whatever feels good. Yeah. Anyway, my friend, that was good fun. And I, yeah, everyone should leave as a comment, like, share, subscribe, but really does help us out at this stage and it would be great to hear from some few folks out there. So take care of yourselves and see you next time. Goodbye.