Physicists Just Proved We're NOT Living in a Simulation

Physicists at UBC claim they've mathematically ruled out the simulation hypothesis. Plus: a judge got fired for wearing an Elvis wig to court.

Jack Austin and Adam Garcia explore whether reality is real, why Carl Jung is trending on TikTok, and a raccoon that got blackout drunk in a liquor store.

**This episode:**

✓ UBC physicists say simulation theory is mathematically impossible
✓ Carl Jung's shadow work hits 2.3 billion TikTok views
✓ Missouri judge forced to resign over Elvis courtroom antics
✓ Raccoon breaks into liquor store, passes out in toilet
✓ Top 5 words of the year (spoiler: it's all AI)

**Top 5 Words of 2024:**
1. Parasocial (Cambridge) - one-sided celebrity relationships
2. Vibe-coding (Collins) - programming with feelings not code
3. AI slop (Macquarie) - mass-produced AI garbage
4. Rage bait (Oxford) - content designed to make you angry
5. 6-7 (Dictionary.com) - Gen Z's meaningless in-group marker

**Key insights:**
"If you zoom in or out infinitely, it just keeps changing forever"
"We're at the same point as the 1850s - the system needs to be destroyed and rebuilt"

**Quote of the episode:**
"Thank you very much" - Judge in Elvis wig after sentencing

**Sources:**
- Simulation study: Science Daily/UBC Physics
- Carl Jung TikTok trend: Psychology Today
- Elvis judge: Missouri court records
- Drunk raccoon: Sky News

**Timestamps:**
00:00 We're NOT in a simulation
00:11 Jack does a pull-up
00:21 Carl Jung on TikTok
00:32 Elvis judge fired
00:35 Drunk raccoon disaster
00:39 Top 5 words of 2024

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Hi folks, and welcome back. We've come today with great news. We are not living in a simulation, so things really are the way that they seem or are they welcome back to temporarily scripted. Today's view around the news is gonna have a festive theme. We'll definitely go through our top five at the end, and. Somebody's been drunk as a skunk as well, so we've got a story about that, which the animal rights guys might wanna know a little bit more about when we get to it., it's not just me here rambling things at you today. I've got my partner in crime, my buddy from across the city. Welcome to the studio, Adam. How are you doing? I'm very well, and as you can see, it's a beautiful studio that we're in today. It is, it is a whole new world there behind Adam. Look, I'm liking it. He's got pyramids there. There's a light coming through. It's beautiful. How are you, my friend? Good. I was able to afford a light, uh, a new light, which is always, uh, the most important thing. Who'd have thought that one pound 20 was? Uh. So hard to find yet so well spent. But yeah, dude, I think we're pretty good. Beautiful. So before we get into the simulation, this is great 'cause it means this is actually real and not a figment of my imagination. I've, I've hit a personal milestone, right? It's, and this is a big deal, so as the viewers might know, but Adam certainly knows we've been going to the gym now for a couple of years, maybe had a few breaks here and there, but mostly been going for a couple of years. Yesterday I did a pull up. Right. That was the first one of all nine unassisted, a full unassisted puller yesterday. I did. Wow. Congratulations man. Thank you. Yeah. It felt, I, I was, you know when you start going like this and then suddenly you're like, oh, oh wait, it's that. Oh no. It is unbelievable. Granted, it wasn't like the really wide arm one, I'm not quite there yet with that, but it was this way. So, right. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the way down and all the way up. Was this actually at the gym? No, it was on my, uh, frame that I bought, you know, one of those pull up racks. So it's got like a rack and a dip bar and um, and like a pushup where you can do really deep pushups on it at the bottom and stuff. Um, and it, and you can do like the, the leg up things that make your abs. Guys, you can tell we're personal trainers that make your abs like. Tighter, you know, ab, ab leg, crazy things. Um, yeah, so I, I bought one of those a little while ago and it was on the rooftop, so it never really got used. And then I moved it to just outside my office, so. So that with the news that we are not living in a simulation makes me feel super happy.'cause that means that was just physics and stuff. Yeah. I mean, did, did you celebrate after doing the pullup, did you run round the house sort of like, ah, in your face and I can do this? Yes. I told you it's not a simulation. If it was, this would've been easier. Definitely going up to your mom and going, look mom, you can't do this. I can. It's crazy. Yeah. So apparently because of, we did an episode on this before, right? So, you know, science Daily, and it's not them that have ruled it out. They're not doing studies. It's, uh, physicists at UBC. Claim that they've mathematically ruled out the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, and it really rests on a non algorithmic kind of understanding that no computation can reproduce. So for those of you that don't understand the questions on university challenge, basically computers ain't clever enough mate. And that's basically it. Yeah. They, yeah. So they aren't clever enough and never will be.'cause it can't be algorithmic. It has to be something else. Yes. Yeah. So it means that they're in some way living a. Yeah, I mean, I've, I've gotta tell you, I, I was reading this article and I thought, oh, this is really interesting. And then I got about halfway through and was like, Hmm, I'm kind of struggling with the concepts with this. Right? Go on, tell me more. It's just complicated. Yeah. And also it's, so they say, okay, we've, we've used this and this and Okay, cool, but. Every bit of research or every conclusion or finding that people come up with is only the latest research. You know, it, it could be well possible. In, in six months, a similar team of math mathematicians and physicists go, oh no, we've, we've found this thing, which mathematically says it's definitely a simulation because what you were trying to account for in here isn't. Actually correct. Right, right. And it's, and it, I have noticed the key phrase in there, theorem. Yeah. Everything's a theorem in completeness theorem, isn't it? Everything's a theorem. At the end of the day, we can't actually prove anything, really. It's kind of, we have to put a, as I understand it, in my layman world, with a hamster that's running around in the wheel inside my bold head, we, we have to put a stake in the ground to measure anything, right? So even with mathematics and physics and everything, it's like we have to go, okay, so this, this is true. This is the stake we're gonna put in the ground, and then we're, we're gonna work everything out based on this, right? Correct. Mm-hmm. So therefore, if that's in the wrong place, it's like pin the tail on the donkey, right? If that's on its forehead or sticking out of its ear, and then we work everything out from that. It's like. Yeah, exactly. So you're measuring from, from the wrong part. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it could well be that, you know, well there is that thing where it's kind of, uh, in science generally, you have a, a hypothesis. People say all the time, oh, I've got, I've got this theory about something. And it's like, no, you don't. You have a, a hypothesis. So you have a hypothesis. Is that a Greek guy? Sounds like it is that ous it, it's high intellect, uh, content for a, a morning. Um, but yeah, so people always say like, oh, I've got this theory about that. And it's like, no, you don't really have a theory because it's like, um, in, if you think about it properly in, in science, you have a hypothesis that is tested. Numerous times. And then it becomes a theory, like the theory of general relativity and things like that. And a theory is as close to, uh, the, the truth and real. As it can be, but it's still, it's still in some ways, a, a theory. It's not, it, it could be disproven at a later date in some ways, but it's as, as close to what's real as we can possibly have. Then Ethereum is kind of something else. Um, but then also we have, uh, scientific laws as well. Uh, but evil, it's just. Going, going around in circles for no reason really. How many of your science mates have to agree that it's the same thing before it becomes a thing? That's the question that's on everybody's list. Uh, 27.2. 27.2. And they have to be your science mates. So if I come up with a theory, nobody's gonna, nobody's gonna take that seriously, are they? Because I didn't go to science school. YY probably not. No. But if you, if you have your hypothesis and then it's tested rigorously by some of your science mates or, and non-science mates, preferably, uh, that aren't your friends and want you to succeed or, or vice versa, I dunno. Um, but if they, if they do some research and go, oh yeah, it looks like it's true. Um, you could have Jack's fury. I dunno what that theory would be, but Yeah, you people don't really wanna know. Um, but yeah, it's, um, I think it, it is an interesting one. I'm not anti of science or this and that or whatever. I'm not one of those people. I, I generally believe that most of what we understand is the best of our understanding right now. But a lot of it's like, uh, there's a book by a guy called Robert Cini called Influence. And one of the things he talks about is whenever they're trying to like. Prove something or get something through the government or whatever. The researchers always like pay for the doctors to go on trips to conferences and stuff, and like, it is not even, so me and my twenties would be like, oh, that's why favors for favors and people do stuff and then they deliberately, you know, they deliberately then go and give the answer that they want. But it's not even that, it's just human nature. So we have a thing where we have to give back if somebody gives us something. They notice this with all kinds of stuff. Like if you get, if you take a free sample of a product and you don't even enjoy it, you're still more likely to buy the product because you feel like you're obligated to because of, uh, reciprocity basically. So it's the same in the whole, this whole science world, isn't it? It's like they're all inviting each other to various conferences and going, oh, it's okay. You know, you're playing. We just want you here to come and look at our theory. And, and the guy's like, oh, that's awesome. And he gets there and he looks at the, the, he's like, spit crap. But they, they did pay for me to get here. I feel a bit bad now if I tell'em that the five years of work they've just done total crap. Like, alright, I'll just give it a, I'll give it a light review. I'll say, yeah, it's, you know, I'm probably right. Yeah, probably right. Stamp with their doctor stamp or whatever they have. Yeah, probably. And I guess in science you get like a, a few different things. You'll have kind of like a, a community and oh, what are you working on right now? And then you'll have other people, but are kind of almost like enemies competing, like going, oh no, this is right. I think I have a theory of everything. Someone else go, no, no, no, you're completely wrong. And you might have like bitter kind of rivalries at the same time. Well, this is what happened. Like have you seen the Stephen Hawkin film? Uh, no I haven't. It's pretty good actually. Uh, I've obviously that's how I learned my history through Hollywood movies and That's right. Absolutely. Um, yeah, looking forward to watching this year's, you know, rendition of Die Hard for that time, that airport got. Taken over by terrorists and stuff. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, it's, it basically he, when he comes up with his theory or theorem, whatever it is, relativity, theory of relativity, when he explains it in, in front of the room full of people, loads of them walk out and they're like disgusted because those guys are all like bought into the last thing. So they're all like, he's just come in and destroyed all their lives, work basically. They've all spent 50 years solving problems that he's just come in and gone By the way, mate, you know, we thought it was like two, it's actually three. All of that stuff you've just spent your entire life on and you're still working on and you know you're old and gray now. Bit of a waste of time, mate, to be honest, I've just discovered this thing and it blows all of your things out of the water and they're all like, nah, rubbish, nonsense. Um, and they all storm out. That's one of the scenes in the movie. They all leave you. And like now, whatever he said is everyone's like, that's the thing that that people are going by now, and I'm sure there's some dude, you know, Brian Cox or whatever's in there trying to prove it wrong or maybe not, but you're just imagining course playing piano at the same time. You can imagine him being the kind of guy trying to. Prove him wrong. We're talking about the universe. Um, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was just gonna say, and for, for Hawkin, luckily he was born in the, or he was surround in the 20th century.'cause it's not like Galileo or something like that, that comes up with a, an idea and then gets placed under house arrest for it. Um, because it, it's so anti what the general society thinks of mine just is peers. Um. So it's always a bonus, I guess. Yeah, that's true. You get ostracized in a slightly less worse way. I mean it, I guess it depends what Galileo's house looks like. Whenever I say Galileo, it makes me think of Queen and Bohemian rat. Yeah. I can't help BA here. Galileo. And you said that. Yeah, we just would not let him go apparently, which is kind of a truth of it. Oh, that's too good. That's beautiful. So what are your thoughts on, um, simulation hypothesis? Do you, do you still. You beat me to it. I was gonna ask you for a one-way answer. Like right now you have to take a stand on this. You've gotta decide. Um, I, I think, I still think it probably is some, some form of simulation, but like, I think the definition of simulation could be, could be anything. You know, like, I don't know. I, I, I guess I, I've always believed because of experiences in my twenties that we live in that kind of multiverse, like. Not the metaverse, we're not going back to the metaverse like the, you know, a multiverse. Like I always, in my head, I have it where like the big bang was coming along and it stopped. It created this universe.'cause that's what happens, right? The energy kind of stops and, and then expands and then it carries on and expands. And I think it's probably just been doing that since like, like the dawn of everything. And there's just an infinite number of like. Oh, possible universes. Um, kind of like, um, it, like it, the universe is kind of like foam or it's like bubbling the whole time. Like if you get some Mentos and put'em into coal or something like that. And just, and if you, you could imagine each little bubble as being like a, a universe that's created then, then it's gone. Yeah. That's what I, I think, and that's kind of how, yeah, that's kind of how I think karma works. Like, so if you do something to somebody, at some point you are gonna experience that from their angle because you are the source of everything and everything. Everybody and everything is the source of everything and you have to experience all of it at some point in time. So therefore, you know, when you're doing stuff, you are literally doing it to yourself. Um, and that's the kind of Buddhist Taoist way of looking at things where. Literally everything is interconnected in some way. And yeah, the, the whole idea of calm is that like you do something good, something good happens to you, you do something. It's, it's much deeper than that and it's how, and it it, it leans also into that interconnectivity of how everything's linked. And so there, there is a reason why if you go. Down this road with negative thoughts, then negative things will happen to you and all, so many different layers, uh, on top of that. Really? Yeah. And which is kind of horrifying when you think about it and sit in, in detail thinking about what that actually means. But it, yeah, again, it's like the, the fractal nature. It's this way and it's this way. It's like a sphere that's just goes forever. Like I always think of it if like, if I zoomed out, I could just zoom out forever. Like this, like Mandel brought, you know when you see those videos of the mathematical graph or whatever, it's like if you keep going out, it just keeps changing and changing. And if you keep going in, it's the same, right? If I zoom in at my rug on the floor and I keep going and going and going and going with like the most powerful microscope ever, it's just gonna keep changing and evolving and turning into a new thing. Because that's the nature of infinity. W whether you zoom out or zoom in, it will go either direction forever 'cause it's infinite. Yeah. And therefore it must be the same this way and that way, and then this way and yeah. So dimensions that we don't have names for. Yeah. And I, and I genuinely feel like I've had many occasions where I feel like I, I remember like a lot of the stuff comes from inside and not outside as well. So again, that's another way of looking at this universe is like, it goes infinitely that way, but also infinitely that way. And it's like. We kind of create, and this is getting super deep now, but we kind of create like all of these versions of ourselves and these egos of ourselves, and it's like, oh, this is the Jack that's the business owner and, and does this stuff for LinkedIn. This is like the gym jack that can do a pull up, right? And this, you've got all of these different things, but the real thing is the, the, the, the, the feeling of that's observing those. Things, and it's almost like, I suppose this really interesting guy the other day, and it's almost like you should treat all of them as toolkits. It's like you, you wear them when you need them, but that, you know that that's not you, if that makes sense. It's just you are observing that version, that creation that you've made of Adam, you know, the world class podcaster. Um, it's an easy role to, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, so I think that, you know, that's a long answer, but that's my. Theory on it. I, I think a lot of, when we're trying to explain. Uh, things like, uh, is it a, a simulation and all, all kinds of other things that you're essentially going into life for, for meaning of life. And like we were just saying about the universe, it's when, when primitive sort of primates as we are with finite capacity for logic and reasoning and everything else, try to comprehend something that's infinite. We just can't do it. And you can end up in the loop of, well, if it's a simulation who created the simulation and who created them and all that, you can get into this whole minefield of it. But it's just that a, a brain isn't infinite, so it can't think to get its head wrapped around what is infinite. I don't really have a, a strong belief one way or the other as to whether it's a simulation, but I choose. Definitely to act as if it's not, because if you, if you believe it is, there's a few different things that can happen depending on what you think the meaning of the simulation is. But you inevitably come to the question of like, not, uh, do we live in a simul simulation? Why would there be a we in that question? Why wouldn't the simulation just be you? And if it's just you, why wouldn't you do some immoral stuff to have a, an easier life? Because there's no repercussions if a simulation is just you. You could do anything to anyone and it doesn't matter. Yeah. You know, and it's like, whereas if you look at it more as like maybe. Maybe if it's a simulation, it's a computer game and the, to get to the next level, you have to use compassion and love and understanding and do the right thing, and that's how you, I guess, in a Buddhist sense, maybe that's how you reach Nirvana or that's how you move to the next level. There's all kinds of different things you can think with it. But I just kind of choose not to, not to believe in it too heavily, but think that it's an interesting concept. Totally agree with that. Yeah. And I mean, I've been down the rabbit hole of like thinking that you are, that it's all you. And that's, that's a, an interesting place to be, especially after, you know, certain experiences. If you get yourself into the head of it, it's like it all comes from you. That, that can be a, a mind bending place to be for sure. Um, and, and it's, it's also like complete narcissism as well. Yeah. And it gets you into that sort of nihilist state as well, isn't it really? Of like Yeah. Thinking about things. It's, uh, it's definitely interesting. So. So, yeah. So ladies and gentlemen, that you know, we, we live in a simulation. That's what we've come up with and proven today between the two of us. It's 100% guaranteed it's a guaranteed simulation. And if it's not a simulation, when your life is over, you can send us an email at podcast@temporarilyscripted.com and we will give you some kind of refund. Or a free t-shirt. Free or, yeah. Yeah. Or you can, you know, or shout out. Yeah. We'll give you a shout out. Say sorry we were wrong. It is actually, uh, it isn't actually a simulation. Our bad. Um, yeah. Hope we didn't mess with you too much, so good times. So as, as we've gone quite deep, I think this segues nicely into the next story about. Carl Young, so, and I've not noticed this, maybe because I don't spend much time on TikTok. This sounds bad. I am on TikTok, so I upload videos to TikTok of me talking about business, but I never watch TikTok because it just gives me like random stuff. I, I, I don't, don't really get any educational stuff on there. It is like, I think I've mentioned before, it's like girls dancing. I don't think you have stuff. Yeah. And I can't think of a reason why algorithm would show you. Such videos? No. Well, I think it's because my brother-in-law uses, uses my PC on a Saturday, so, you know, I think, I think that's why it's, it's messing with my settings. It's nothing to do with me, ladies and gentlemen, and you can't prove otherwise, so, yeah. There's, uh, there's a lot of hashtag shadow work going on, and it's got 2.3 billion views according to Psychology today, who will have no vested interest in this whatsoever. But also the Shadow Work Journal has sold more than a million copies and became Amazon's bestseller for a very short period of time. So that's interesting. People are hungry for psychological depth. I wonder why. Um, I, I would imagine, I mean, there's probably a few reasons. There's a lot of kind of, sort of self-help kind of things out there that become more and more popular and I guess people like Jordan Peterson and things like that. A lot of here's lectures and talks are quite youngian and quite heavy on some of what young said. Um, and I think people are just. Maybe it's in some ways kind of a fashion thing, uh, which is a, I think a, a good fashion to have. I, but I think also it's, um, we're living in a world that's becoming increasingly meaningless. Uh. And so I think people are actually trying to, to find some meaning to it. Um, it could be through a number of different things, but I think just thinking more deeply about things or being interested in someone like young and having some aha kind of moments, I dunno, I think. I think that's becoming, I can see why that would become addictive or something like that, because I, it's not very often I go on like Facebook or some other social media and see something go, oh wow. No way. You know, unless it's a temporally scripted on TikTok or something like that. Of course. But yeah, I have the same, it's only our podcast clip. Of, you know, watching me or you talking about some of the really deep and interesting things that we discuss here on the podcast. Don't forget to subscribe if you are watching this particular clip, but yeah, I, I agree with you and I, and I think, you know, we, we live in a world now where there's so much more access to this information. Like if you imagine when young was writing his books and stuff, like there would nowhere near as many people would've even heard of him. Let alone have had access to his ideas and what's going on, and, and I think it's, I think there's a, there's a deeper thing going on here. I I, I, I see this as why the world is in the state that it's in. Because if you go back to like the 1850s, 1840s or whatever, we had lots of countries that don't exist anymore. You know, there was Prussia and all these other countries, and they were all led mostly by monarchies and a. Kind of an old way of operating. And, and as those countries collapsed, we obviously had two major world wars. Um, and then after that, the whole system was rebuilt. So by all of our universities and our governments and our like systems, our transport, everything is all built on this 1950s way of living and this 1950s population. And I think what's happening now, because we have the internet and people have access to all of this different information, and they can see that the media is mostly just full of lies and nonsense and whatnot, and people are really, really waking up to this. The system just can't cope with what the, with the population that it is designed to, to, to systemize effectively. So I feel like we're at that point again now, where what happened in the 18 hundreds is. It was just crises after crises, after crises as they tried to use the same tools that they developed to solve the problem. And it just deepened the problem time and time again. And that's why we see what we see now with like the budget and with, you know, the law that we talked about last week in the uk changing about the justice system and, and all of this because none of the systems are fit for purpose anymore. And I think that may well be why people feel lost. Therefore are trying to figure stuff out because I, I was listening to the unconscious mind on, uh, audible pretty recently, and it's just, it is all, it's magical. The semantics, the words, the way it's written, it's just fantastic. Even without the message itself. It's like listening to poetry. So I can see why people are starting to awaken to that. The bit that's scary is how we move from this to what's next is usually destruction. You know, there's, there's a, the system can't evolve. It needs to be destroyed and rebuilt, and that is quite scary for someone who's, you know, in me and you were in our late thirties, early forties, we could really do without 20 years of decline and destruction. Now it would, that would be, it would be really nice. Just our look, wouldn't it, Adam? You know, peak years of our existence. All right. Everything's done. Great. Although, I mean, coming back to the simulation thing, some people would say that's evidence that we live in a simulation because this could be the most interesting time in history with, uh, the advent of AI and things like that. So that's why. We're alive in this version of it, but, or, or not alive? I, I guess I, I dunno. But, um, go, going, going back a little. Yeah. It does seem like, uh, all the systems that we have in place in terms of the vast majority of things, like you say, just aren't. Fit for purpose. And I think change is happening so rapidly, uh, both in society, the way we work, and, and also with technology that all the things that were true and worked in the 1960s, seventies, whatever, they don't really work and fit the same now. And maybe that's why we do have so many problems with things. Um, and I think also we as. As life has changed both in terms of our work, social media, society, and everything, people are having more and more difficulties. We've done episodes before where we've highlighted the increase in problems with mental health. Uh, pretty much across the board. Um, and a lot of that happened with social media becoming so popular. But, but that is a thing, and I think it's about combined with a, a number of other factors. And it's, it seems in some ways, some people are, are now looking at people like young. And trying to find some meaning and try to do maybe some shadow work or try to get some understanding and help themselves out of part of the whole that they're in. Um, I think the thing is unfortunately though, it's like if we went back to sort of, I dunno, anytime before the internet was so. Uh, widespread. You might be talking to someone and we go, oh yeah, just, uh, I read this book by Carl Young, uh, last month. It's really interesting. Would you like to land it? Yeah, sure. That'd be great. So go read this book, get this really good understanding. What I worry about when people are learning it from TikTok is like, oh, have you heard of Carl Young? No. He is like, oh, he is this clever guy. I watched this like seven second quilt by him on TikTok last week. It was amazing and changed my life. Yeah. The danger of taking things out of context and whatever else is, is real. Yeah, exactly. There's no context. To any of it. It's like, oh, Carl Young, this really smart guy says I should do this. And it's like, but how? How many of his books did you study? It's like, I'll watch some guy talk about it for like, I dunno, 12 minutes on YouTube. It's not really, and I think there is also like a massive danger of, ah. I mean, I think it's amazing that people are like researching young and things like that. Great thing to do, but also being your own psychologist, which I think some people might be doing to them, to theirselves it might not be the best idea. That's why we have psychologists and people that are highly trained in some of these things to, to help people do some of the kind of work. That they'll read if they start to study young. Yeah, and there's two things there that like, I wanna unpack. It's one when you read his books, they are, they are not difficult reads, but the way he uses language is quite complex. You have to follow it and read it and understand it. And it's, and, and it teaches you in a way because of that as well. It's like not the easiest thing to read. So short clips don't work necessarily. The other terrifying thing about what you've just said is there will be some people that just go and upload the clips that they get. Into chat GT and make a young bot, and then try and like, you know. Analyze themselves like that. I mean, I, I do, I as you were saying that, I was thinking, I wonder if I put all of Carl Young's work into a Claude project. Uh, what it, what it would do, you know, because there's all of that stuff that's quite interesting. And I mean, yeah, I thought about doing a similar thing 'cause I thought about making like a dream analysis. Kind of app and having it from different perspectives. And so just be able to upload the knowledge from different books into a thing and have AI do it. And I thought it was like really cool. I could make this app and make loads of money, but it turned out quite a lot of people. That had that idea already. It was a lot of, uh, good. Like, yeah. Yeah. This is it. Like I already built one in Claude the other week, so I got like my, um, my human design chart, my disc, my um, Myers Briggs and I, um, and a couple of others like Enneagram and like five or six different personality tests mixed with like my, my natal chart and stuff. And I put all of this like 70 pages of information into a, into a claw project. And then when I'm having stuff on a day, I'm like, okay, how should. What, what, what's this situation and, and how is this based on my personality and all of this stuff? And it's, it gives you, it's like, oh, well, according to this, it's like, this is why this might happen, and this is, and it's like, Ooh, this is powerful. So I can see, I can see why, you know? Yeah. But at the, at the same time, it's like you have to be careful with, with such things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I get it. So, yeah. Well, talking of systems and systems not being, uh. Not being fit for purpose. It's a shame 'cause one of the great pioneers from Missouri America, he had a, a way to kind of lighten up one of the systems. And it's the same as that justice system we talked about last week, where they, they were gonna get rid of juries and they now have in the uk so if you, if it's something for less than a three year sentence, there's no jury. This judge in Missouri sadly has had to step down because he liked to come to court in an Elvis wig. Occasionally he'd just break out a bit of Elvis on his phone, you know, like some jailhouse rock or whatever, while, while sentencing and, and dealing with criminals. And for some reason he looks like quite a happy chap. Yeah. He's been asked to step down. Yeah. What a shame. I mean, I, when I, from what I read, some of it was. As he was entering the courts, sometimes he'd play Elvis music and things like that. You know, kind of like, um, you know, kind of like with, I dunno, like wrestlers or something like that, walking towards ring. I love that. That's, it's amazing. He should, even if it's not Elvis, they should be able to do that anyway. Why can't we be friends just walking in up to their thing? Like, I love that. That's awesome. Yeah. Wow. But I mean. You know, it, it, it helps. He thinks that it, he, he said Matthew Thornhill, judge Matthew Thornhill, um, he said that he thought it would lighten up litigants a little bit and help them relax. I mean, I guess it, it would in some ways, but it, I, I, I guess it depends exactly what, what kind of court it is or what kind of. Trials. I mean, I, I wouldn't wanna think I was in there for like, murder and some guy in an Elvis wig is going to send me to the electric chair. Um, I, I dunno how much mood would be lightened. This is true. Yeah. You, you do kind of feel like it's like. You know when he gives the sentence and he is finished, he's like, right, okay. So yeah. Mr. Garcia, it is 10 years, you know, hard time. You're gonna go into the county jail for 10 years. And then when he is finished, you're like, stand up. He's like, okay, take him away. And then he goes, thank you very much. Uh, it's brilliant. I mean, if it was one of those kind of courts where it's mainly just like small claims and things like that, just about, oh, just like silly little infringements here and there. Or like two people angry 'cause one neighbor's done this to someone's pro or whatever. It could be kind of. Amusing to have Elvis and it could help people to just see the funny side of a ridiculousness of a situation. But I can also see it going the other way and making people way more angry.'cause no one's taking them seriously in any way. You know, you'd at least expect the judge to be serious and not be dressed like Elvis. Yeah, I would think that, you know, re retrial numbers are probably going up quite significantly when you've got this guy coming in. Yeah. Why? Why? Why do you think the judge made a bad decision? It's like, well, have you seen it? Yeah. May maybe he starts to think, you know, you've got jailhouse rock on. You think, oh, it's pretty cool in there. Just loads of guys singing blues. You know, like having a dance s sing along won't be that bad. Yeah. Why not? Five years instead, you know, you'll enjoy it. It'll be fine. Let us know how you get on. If you record any records, let us know. Amazing. So this next story, uh, before we jump into our weekly top fives, I, I need to actually share my screen on this one because the picture it, you know, the picture says is a thousand words. So right here we have. A raccoon that broke into this liquor store in the United States got super smashed drunk in the aisle, and then passed out in the toilet. What's going on here? I mean, I, I love the headline as well from Sky Spirit Animal Raccoon Gets drunk as a skunk in a boo store and sleeps over hangover in the toilet. It sounds like Friday nights when I was in my twenties. Yeah, I was gonna say, it's kind of, um, it's taken a leaf outta my book and copied my tactics for every party that I go to. Yeah. Pretty much like sleeping in the toilet is the spirits pass out by the toilet. It's, it's great. Yeah. I mean, how did it get in, in the first place and then once it was in, what made it decide to go to the booze aisle? You would think, you know, with their experience of stealing from bins and stuff, I, I know they look like bandits and that's kind of the joke with raccoons, right. I, I don't get, I don't know what's happened here. I feel like there might be a setup going on. I don't know. Uh, although we did, I think we covered a story about a drunk raccoon in the past. It was like outside a brewery or something like that, and it ate a lot of fermented peaches, man. It had to be revived, temporarily scripted. The podcast that covers raccoon related news, raccoon news. If you want, if you want all the latest on raccoons, don't forget, hit that like and subscribe and the bell while you're there. I guess. Um, I guess the thing is it's like, um, alcohol is like really, uh, high calorie. There's a lot of calories and. Alcohol. And so I think it, it got in like through a roof or some gap in, in something. Um. Maybe it knocked something over went, Hmm, that's pretty good. Uh, and then did it again to some other bottles or something like that and just found it this like really high calorie thing. Probably for the same reason a lot of humans enjoy alcohol and we also enjoy other high calorie things like anything that's got a lot of sugar or fat or anything like that. It's like a natural thing. And, and I guess maybe there was so much of it, it just couldn't control itself. Kind of like humans in many ways with one vice or another or, or generally like that kind of food thing as well. And calorific in intake. Yeah. And then like you said, once it's had a couple, that's it. There's no stopping it. It is party until the end. Yeah. That that does. It does. I mean, Christmas is coming, man. You know, that's gonna happen to us pretty soon. Exactly. So, um, I just hope for, for raccoon's. All right.'cause it must have like, uh, taken in some glass and different things like that while it was like drinking of liquor, I dunno. Yeah, well, I mean, we'll send our thoughts and wishes from the Temporarily Scripted podcast to the raccoon and its family. And that brings us to the, the last segment of our episode. So our top five this week is all about the top five words of the year. And as we come to the end of the year, I'm sure we'll have more reviews like this. So, Adam. Take it away with this, this year's top five. Okay, so this year's Top five words of the year. So this is from five different dictionaries around the world actually. Uh, number one, we'll start with, uh, Cambridge Dictionary, and their word was parasocial. The definition of this is a one-sided emotional relationship where one person feels connected to someone who does not know them personally, such as a celebrity influencer, fictional character, or even an ai. Hmm. Interesting. Which, I mean, I dunno about you, but when I watch a few podcasts and it does feel like I almost know. Vo, those podcast hosts. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure our 22 subscribers feel like that too. But they do. The thing is they get really upset when you go to their house and start looking through their windows and like knocking on the door trying to have a conversation with them. It's, yeah, it's, parasocial is definitely true. It is only one way. It's almost like they don't know that I've spent all this time watching them and tracking them down. Yeah. I wonder if it's why people like, you know, the outdoor boys, he sort of retired. Because he was getting too big and too famous and, you know, making a few hundred thousand dollars a month was just, he's like, I'm not into this anymore. Um, yeah, and he, he stopped doing it. But you do you feel like you know their family and you know what they're doing and it could be quite dangerous. I wonder if it's, um, like we were saying before about mental health issues and people now looking to people like Carl Young for, to find answers. I wonder if it is part of the, the loneliness, which is a sign of our modern times, that people, instead of having like the circle of friends that they once would have, now it's more kind of, oh, I watch this podcast, this podcast, and this TV show. And those people are kind of like filling the void that's left in the loneliness. Yeah. Sad times, eh? She sad times. She wait to look at it. Lovely, lovely thought. Yeah. Yeah. So what we got up next, right? So number two was vibe coding, and that's from Colin's English dictionary. Um, and that's a practice of using natural language prompts and feel rather than formal programming rules to generate software code using AI tools more shit apps. Fantastic. Yeah. Wicked. Now people, now people can fund their terrible ideas and not have to bother going to someone that knows what they're doing to build them. Fantastic. I guess there's two sides to it, isn't it?'cause it's like, it's amazing, but now anyone can. Build own app, which is cool and they could even launch it and things like that. But maybe in the past it was good that there was that like barrier of either like money or knowhow. So if I come up with some like Ludicrous app, then I, if I want to like develop it, I. Have to either learn how to program it and build it myself or ask a, a team of developers or someone and pay them to do it. And so that would be like a, a barrier. And so you'd have to make sure that your idea was really good, whereas now it, it'll just, you'll have this like avalanche of like ludicrous apps coming through that basically do absolutely nothing. And it'll be a bit like when we're talking about crypto and things like that. With things like pump them, just release a coin and see if you can make some money from it. It'll be like that. But with apps all the time, I imagine. Yeah. But then that being said, if there was a barrier to entry, we wouldn't have amazing apps like Cat, GPT, where you type in a question and it just goes, Meow, meow, meow. I mean, so. Pluses and minuses. Do you know what I mean? Pluses and minuses. I'm, I'm glad we're using resources of a planet to do this kind of thing. It's, it is brilliant. Really. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder how many iPhones I could have charged with my conversation with catch EPT earlier this week. I'm sure it was quite a few. Yeah, well, you were on there for like six and a half hours nonstop, so, yeah. But it's good for, you know, it makes me feel happy. So next up, what have we got? What's the next one on the list? We have, well, keeping with ai, we have AI slop. Oh yeah. From the McCarry dictionary. I think that's how it's pronounced. And that means low quality, mass produced content created by AI that adds little value and floods digital spaces. Yeah, and we can see it everywhere. It's all over. You know, if you delve into LinkedIn, you'll see so many people you'll, uh, yeah, talking about their game, changing ideas and all of it sounds familiar. It truly does. And here's the thing with that is like people understand patterns and once they understand patterns. It's not that they don't, won't read it. It's not that they won't like it, it's just that they won't take action on it. There you go. There's another one. It's not a but B missing. Exactly. And he is the kicker. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, no scripts, no this, no that. But yeah, I think it does, it, it makes, it makes the feed difficult because unfortunately some people still get a lot of following and a lot of likes and comments from their AI slop. And I, and I, as you know, I did a workshop on anti AI slop a couple of weeks ago, and I think it really does destroy. The internet and it It is, yeah. Unfortunately, I think it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I would agree. I remember you mentioning a while ago as well, but with ai it's running out of training data, so it's now. Training on all the stuff that's being released at the moment. And so it's training on itself. Yeah, so it's, it's like all that AI slot that was semi kind of liked by people, it's now training itself on bad and then fell, recycle and regurgitate the next sort of. Level. Yeah. Or worse, the, the horrible, you know, neo Wikipedia trolls at Reddit and the crap that they spout. Yeah. So let's move on. It's making me too angry. What's next? Okay, well, but lucky you should. Say, because in that, number four is rage bait. Um, that's from Oxford University Press. And that means content deliberately designed to provoke anger or outrage in order to drive clicks, shares, and engagement. Yeah. And some of the best marketers out there are using this on the daily. Um, and people just don't realize it. And I think maybe even people do and they still wanna kick off and get involved. You know, I, I, I think if you've, if you've, if you've got time to just say things on people's posts to make yourself look clever, then you, you really need to get a life. Go outside. Just do do anything other than that. You're definitely a, like a non-player character if that's what you spend your time doing. I mean, I, I have noticed for the occasional times that I go on like something like, um, X or Facebook, there will be odd time when I'll scroll for like 15 minutes and I just, I, I can feel myself feeling angry afterwards. And I dunno if it's a rage bait thing'cause it's there, or if I'm just like, I can just feel my brain just kind of gradually shutting down and I get angry at myself for wasting time. It's called being a miserable middle-aged man, Adam. It happens to all of us. Okay, well, let's see what the, what kids are saying in number five. We have six, seven to old people like us. We'd pronounce it 67, but no, this is six, seven, and this is from dictionary.com, and it's a viral slang term from online youth culture with shifting our intentionally ambiguous meanings, mostly used as an in-group marker. I still dunno what that means. I don't really get it. It's just like something, from what I can tell, that kids just sort of say in schools and have the well sort of teacher will try and get them to do something. It's like, oh yeah, six, seven. Okay. And it doesn't, I don't think it really means anything. Well, on that note, 9 8 9 8 5 4 7 6. Thank you, Adam. What a, what an episode it's been today. Thank you. I've thoroughly enjoyed it. And I think that the, the, the top five, just to wrap that up, all of it's AI and algorithms and technology, and it just shows you how much the world is changing at a speed we've never seen before. And I just wanna remind the guys, if you've enjoyed it today, don't forget, give us a, like, give us a subscribe, comment, tell your friends, your grandma. Listen to us when you're out walking a dog. Mixes in with Carl Young'cause that's our level. And until next time, Adam, thank you. Yeah, take it easy everybody. See you next time. Goodbye.