Cow Uses Tools, Elephant Kills 22 People & The Welsh Health Ambassador Controversy

⚡ EPISODE 41! Solar storms mess with Jack's crystals, Johnson & Johnson faces 67,500 cancer lawsuits, and a one-tusked elephant in India has killed 22 people. Plus: AI caught memorizing entire copyrighted books word-for-word.

⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro - Solar Storms & Jingling Crystals
03:00 Solar Flares Could Send Us to Stone Age
10:00 Johnson & Johnson Talc: 67,500 Cancer Cases
15:00 Welsh Health Ambassador Sparks Controversy
18:00 UK Plans to Ban Social Media for Under-16s
32:00 AI Caught Stealing Copyrighted Books
42:00 Cow Named Veronica Learns to Use Tools
47:00 One-Tusked Elephant: India's Serial Killer
52:00 🪙 TOP 5 WEIRD CURRENCIES FROM HISTORY 🪙

📰 MAIN STORIES COVERED:

⚡ **SOLAR STORM WARNING**
Carrington Event-level solar storm could wipe out satellites, collapse power grids, and send 20-40 million Americans into blackout for months/years. Last time this happened (1859), telegraph wires sparked and caught fire. Now? Everything electronic gets fried. Jack's crystals are very concerned.

💊 **JOHNSON & JOHNSON TALC SCANDAL**
Federal judge allows experts to testify that talc causes ovarian cancer. 67,500 lawsuits pending. They've switched from talc to cornstarch, but the damage is done. We discuss why baby powder might've been poisoning babies while execs knew about it.

🏥 **HEALTH MINISTER HYPOCRISY**
Welsh Health Ambassador appointment sparks outrage. We compare to Belgian Health Minister. Augustus Gloop's twin sister? Body positivity until ozempic came out? We discuss the irony.

📱 **SOCIAL MEDIA BAN FOR UNDER-16s**
UK follows Australia in planning social media ban for teens. We debate: Is this safety or censorship? Will it lead to mandatory digital IDs? Why not force platforms to change algorithms instead of banning kids?

🤖 **AI COPYRIGHT BOMBSHELL**
Study proves GPT-4, Gemini, Claude memorized entire copyrighted books. They can reproduce them 70%+ accurately. We test it live. SUNO scraped all of YouTube's music without permission. Digital gold rush with zero consequences.

🐄 **COW USES TOOLS**
Veronica the cow (age 13, Austria) learns to use brooms to scratch herself. Uses brush end for some spots, round end for others. We're not top of food chain anymore.

🐘 **INDIA'S SERIAL KILLER ELEPHANT**
One-tusked bull elephant kills 22 people since early January. Covers 30km/day. 100+ forest personnel searching. Not a stampede - individual targeted attacks. Separated from herd, highly aggressive, evades tranquilizers. 2,800+ elephant deaths in India over 5 years due to deforestation.

💡 KEY DISCUSSIONS:
- Why talc lobbyist is worse than gun/tobacco lobbyists
- Whether Trump's Greenland threats were negotiation tactics
- If drunk elephants are more dangerous than sober ones
- The Cannibal Cookbook on Amazon (3.4 stars)
- Why cornflakes were invented to stop masturbation

🔬 SCIENCE FACTS:
- 1859 Carrington Event made night become day
- Faraday cages protect from solar storms (your car might work)
- Talc is hydrated magnesium silicate (sounds poisonous)
- Crows and magpies can use tools (smarter than cows)
- Elephants cover 30km/day when hunting humans

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Fun fact: This episode was recorded during a solar storm. Apologies if it affected our brain function.

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Welcome back to another episode of Temporarily Scripted. We're here today for episode 41 and we've got some excellent news stories Today. I might be a little bit all over the place because there has been a solar storm this week, and it does me messes up my emotional state, like beyond belief. But we're also gonna dig into Talcom powder. We've got some AI recalls going on, and there's a wild elephant on the loose in India So, Adam, how's this solar flap been affecting you this week? Uh, that, that hasn't, I dunno, I, I, I read some news about it for NFR. Oh, that doesn't look so great. But it didn't, I, I dunno. Why Has it been making you Crystals jingle or what's, what's been happening? My crystals have been jingling like crazy this last week. It is almost been like a double full super moon. Oh right. What happens on a double full super moon? I just froze everything out. I kilt, uh, you know, mood goes down. I have to drink Guinnesses in the evening. It's just crazy. But Right. Has there been a lot of those kind of moons over the last 20 years? Almost daily. Yeah. Dunno what it is. I have to go to the fridge every 10 minutes. Well, the thing is, because it's a multiverse, it's not just the full moon in this one. It's like it's full moon in one of the universes on one of the planets every day. So Right. Strange that it could affect you. From a all the way from another dimension or another universe and affect you in this one and make you have to go to the fridge and get another Guinness. It's, it's terrible. It's wild. It's the only thing I've found that that really helps. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But this is a pretty big deal, this solar storm. I mean, outside of my jingling crystals and whatnot like this, this is a fairly major event. It's, it's not something that happens every day. It's not like a full moon that we get once a month, you know? Yeah. It kind of is. Um, 'cause they had Northern Lights in a lot of places where they don't usually get the Northern Lights. Um, that's where I saw this story.'cause it was talking about the UK and various places in the UK where we could actually see the Aurora, which is kind of cool in a way. And people look up and go, oh wow, that's pretty, um, but. Yeah, I think I mentioned on a previous episode, I've been watching quite a lot of space weather news for a little while and they, it's basically that's as you do, that's it as you do, or, or, or you don't for most people, but is this guy any kind of monitors for sun and sun spots and solar activity and all the different things that the sun's kicking out and yeah, it seems like we've had a few near misses, but also it kind of goes into like the, the dangers of this and the, the dangers are quite high if it's severe and it's like, yeah, if it's low, it's like, oh, I get some pretty lights in the sky. That's nice. If, if it's bad, we go back to the stone age almost. Yeah. Yeah. So I've got a couple of questions that come to mind. The stone age bit, we'll go back to in a second, but when you watch the space weather news. Is it like a, a girl in a cocktail dress that comes out and tells you what's going on? Or is that just the normal weather? That's just the normal weather, I think. And it's a bit more like that. If you look at like, I think, is it Argentina for weather there? It's always That's the kind of show Yeah. That's similar. Some of the ones in South America where it's like, okay, yeah. They're like, there's a westerly wind going on today. Yeah. But back to back to the stone age though, like that's not as cool as it sounds. It's not like we're gonna go to some sort of Flintstones esque people running around, like pushing their cars around and that kind of stuff. Oh, with like the massive T-bone steaks and things like that that we used to eat. Yeah. Yeah. It's not gonna be like that, is it? Yeah, but it's probably more like that than it is for Jetsons or something like that. Um, I don't know. So in, in. I think, uh, I've got it here somewhere, I think. But yeah, in 1859 we had something called the Carrington event, uh, which was the last, it was like the last time that the earth got hit by a, a big geomagnetic storm like this. Um, and at the time, well, you could say that it wiped out the sort of Victorian internet. So the, the telegraph system went down. A lot of wires were sparking some places, some stations caught fire operators received electrical shocks. And it, it basically wiped out, uh, the whole of this system. And also it was so strong that knight actually became day. So there's stories of, uh, people in bar Rocky Mountains that were working there, uh, waking up at like 1:00 AM to cook breakfast.'cause it was, it was so bright outside Wow. Going back then. It's kind of, it, it's, it, it wasn't great, but it's not too bad. You know, you had like telegraph. Communication. The danger is now if it happened like the, the same level as a Carrington event, it would wipe out a lot of the satellites, like thousands of satellites that are up there.'cause it, imagine it's just like, kind of like an EMP sort of pulse that you see in films and things. It, it, it's kind of like that in many respects. So it would do that, it would collapse for grid, like the electricity grid, so it would just melt transformers. And so you just have blackouts. Um, some estimates say from experts say that 20 to 40 million people in the US could be without power for months or even years. And obviously on top of that it would wipe out, uh, GPS via internet mobile networks, undersea cables and overland cables. And it would just basically fry. Everything that sounds, unless it's in a Faraday cage or wrapped in a load of tin file or something, which my, my head always is anyway, so, yeah, I was gonna say my, I've got a Faraday cage over my house, so will be all good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did wonder why the solar impacts me more when I leave the house. You know, when I'm at home it's fine. It's, uh, it could be, although a car is a faraday cage as I understand it though, isn't it? So you're probably safe driving around in your car as well. Uh, kind of, in some respects, it's like your car can get stripped by lightning and it's okay, but I don't think it quite acts as like a, a faraday cage. Um, and in the event of like a, a geomagnetic storm, it would just wipe out all the electrics in your car anyway, so. Yeah, you couldn't listen to your favorite podcast, such as Temporally. Scripted, which, uh, should be liking, sharing, subscribing to folks. Oh, that was beautiful. Yeah. So the only transportation left would be like Honda Waves, uh, apart from the electrics data. Oh. But Honda Waves don't care about that. They run without, right. They're like, especially with, especially if one's sort of got two back wheels and one front wheel that someone's budged the extra wheels on the back. Yeah. They're like the SAS of motorbike. They just keep going forever and ever and ever. You could ride one into battle, like no problem. Um, N point naught, two liters of fuel. They're just unbelievable. Yeah. I'll never forget the day that my wife swapped my Honda Wave for an Italian motorbike, which, you know, has since passed away. It was just like, ah, it's too hot. Just couldn't take it anymore straight away. That wasn't Oh. See that was solar flares. My AirPod just popped out of my ear. I think that's the beginning. Uh, either that or I'm losing weight in my ears. What, from your ears? Yeah. As as you do. Or maybe it's just It is, you know, it's too dry in there because of my, me using excess Johnson and Johnson TLC products. Right, okay. Which, I mean, I hope you're not using too much of them. I mean, but I think there's, uh, still a court case going on at the moment, but it doesn't sound so great. But yeah. But the court case is gonna get thrown out because when they unpack the kilos and kilos of talcum powder from my car. They tested it and they found out that it was, in fact, Johnson and Johnson's talc. But you've gotta be careful with it these days. Well, yeah. Be careful what you carry around with you. It could look suspicious. I, I just can't handle the chap or the chafe without taal and powder. And now it's so unpopular given people cancer and stuff. I mean, I'll take my chances. Yeah. Which is, I mean, I, I guess that is our, our next story of, uh, what seems to be a court case at the moment about Johnson and Johnson. Um, well, this, I mean, looking at this, so the US judge allowed them, the experts to testify that they cause ovarian cancer, which means I can, I can use talc 'cause I don't have any ovaries. I'm, I'm not sure if it's just that one kind of cancer that it would cause. I think that there may be, I think that's like an example Oh, okay. Of it being carcinogenic. I, I would imagine. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I was a kid I used to get covered in that stuff. So when I get old I could say, ah, it was never the cigarettes, the alcohol, the late nights, the, the McDonald's. It was, it, it was that talcum powder that my mom used to use when I was a kid. Yeah. I'm gonna take 'em to court, Johnson and Johnson and my mom cause of death, talcum powder. But I mean, it's, it's quite a serious thing in many respects. So, uh, 'cause apparently the decision concerns federal lit litigation consolidated in New Jersey involving tens of thousands of lawsuits, uh, writer's sites, around 67,500 cases. Wow. I dunno if, uh, cases of just cancer in itself, or deaths, I'm assuming just cases of cancer, but either way it's, it's pretty shocking. And, and they don't use TLC in talcum powder. Anymore, uh, they've switched to some kind of corn starch kind of thing. Instead, I believe. Wait, is talc like some sort of element? Is it on the periodic table? I dunno exactly what it is to be honest, but I know that it, they kind of mine it, but sometimes when they mine it, it can be mixed up with other of elements. And some of those I think can either be in some way poisonous or have some radioactivity, I'm not sure. Oh, wow. So it's a naturally occurring soft mineral hydrated magnesium silicate. Yeah. That's not good. If they, if they put on the side of the bottle Johnson Johnson's hydrated magnesium silicate, I probably wouldn't powder my face with it. Yeah. But at the same time, you wouldn't add sodium chloride to your food. True, which is just salt. But that, that's very true. But yeah, I mean, was your, was your mother a big talc user in the, in the eighties when you were a kid? I think so, yeah. I mean, it was always like a, a pot with tal in, uh, in the bedroom somewhere or in the bathroom, uh, because it used to be a lot more popular, I think. Right. Yeah. I seem to remember talc being like a fairly, you know, steadfast part of my childhood in the nineties. It was always, you know, every, every event, whether it be a birthday or a Christmas, there's always get a tout. Yeah. Get a talc out. Right. Is this a TAing occasion or it's a kind of weird gift that you'd get in, it'd be like Christmas time and maybe in the stocking, or it is like a little present. There'd be like some sort of cosmetics, but kind of toiletries and then it's like, oh right. And a little bottle of talc and it's like, oh, I dunno what I'm gonna do with that. It's not exactly a new game, boy game, is it? I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm not exactly chafing yet. I've not been drinking all Christmas. Yeah. And I'm only nine. I dunno. Yeah. It's gonna be at least two more years before we drink at Christmas. I'm, I'm Scottish. Um, but yeah. And I also, I do remember there being times where I put down like a bottle of talcum powder, because I think Imperial Leather used to have a version of it as well, which I think is like cousins. And you put it down and it makes like a little dust cloud and then you write. So I, I, I kind of remember that as a kid. But yeah, I, um, I never knew it was an element. So that is a, every day's a school day, I'll be able to sleep better tonight knowing that, um, and at least the talc business, you, well, I guess it's a, it's a relief. You could be up in court now for, for your tough dealings for 67,500. So they're taking it out of everything now. Yeah. So I'm, I'm guessing with this, they, they stopped. I mean, it's, it is kind of bad, isn't it, as well when it's, I, I could be wrong, but I'm assuming people are able to sue the company because the company had knowledge of something, some really ill effects from vial. And so they knew this in advance, but when you think, usually talcum powder is used as like baby powder. And so, I mean obviously we dunno, these are, this is not a settled case and there's allegations, whatever. But if, if they knew in advance and they're still giving something carcinogenic, selling it to parents to literally put on their kids, that's like, that's terrible. It's like, what the hell? It's pretty dark. Yeah. I have to say it is pretty dark. I mean, and can you imagine being that guy or being on, on that committee or whatever of the company, but it's just like, okay, well this has happened. What should we do? Let's keep selling it. Yeah. And, but, but that, that could like kill kids and give people, let's just keep selling it. It's like, wow. Do you think there's like a talc lobbyist in the US. But that could be, they're all sat around. It's like, oh, what are you the lobbyist for? Oh, guns. Oh, that's cool. What about you? Uh, yeah, alcohol. What? That's awesome. How about you? Oh yeah, for me it's cigarettes. Wow. They're, they're all really cool. What, what about you? Our cannabis Excellent dude over there. What's he looks, he looks really smooth. What? Surpris His skin. What's he, the lobbyist for Tal Powder. Oh, right. Yeah. What a baston. Exactly. He's worse than the weapons Steelers and, yeah. And everyone else. Ah, mate. He's a proper, hardcore, that tout guy, as you know. He's, he's two grams of tal a day. He is madness. I'll tell you what babies, you know, someone who might have an opinion on this, is the, uh, the newly elected, uh, Welsh Health Ambassador. I mean, I wonder what she thinks about Oh, right, yeah. About Talcom powder, and if that's something that's in her, you know, in, in her area. Of, of expertise. Uh, I, I'm, I know of it in Wales, people can aspire to be as healthy as her. Uh, or maybe, maybe she looks really healthy compared to the rest of people in Wales. And so that's like a, a shining example. I dunno, I haven't been to Wales for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Or it might be glandular, it, it could be back to the cake gland again. Uh, I mean, what's it about? It's, it's almost like employing the, you know, a, a homeless man to be like the finance minister or the housing minister. Yeah. Uh, where do you live? Uh, in a, in a tent on the strand. It is just like that, but it happens all the time. Yeah. Um, so health ambassador, where are we having the, you know, this quarterly review meeting for Health in Wales, McDonald's. Oh, McDonald's is booked out. Well, we'll have to go to pizza Hu instead. It's like, wow. It's crazy. And it's not the first example of this either, is it? Because I think just to, to share another, oh, for the Belgian Belgian Health Minister. The Belgian Health Minister. Yeah. So let's, let's have a look at this creature. This is the Belgian Health Minister. I mean, when I, when I see a picture of that woman, the first thing I think of is health. It ma, it reminds, it makes me think whether or not a Augustus loo from Charlie and the chocolate factory had a twin sister. So there's definitely something, something genetic. It must be, it can't just be anything else. Yeah, it's definitely not indulgence or laziness or addiction to food or anything like that. Too many calories. I mean, we are definitely gonna get canceled now 'cause you're not allowed to. To fat shame. It is interesting 'cause it goes back to what you said the other week about ozempic and uh, you know, it was, it was always a, a good thing to be body beautiful and chubby until Ozempic came out and everyone started taking it to not be, and all of a sudden, sudden it body beautiful. It, it was that easy to lose weight and be slim. So they crack on. Yeah. Just barely any effort and all of a sudden Oh right, well I'm not, not so buzzy body positive anymore. Um, fun times. Hey, fun times. Fun times. Indeed. So moving on, speaking of taking the bad bits outta stuff, they're gonna take the bad bits outta social media or are they gonna ban everybody from under 16 because the UK seems to be about to jump on the bandwagon of banning social media for teams. Yeah, which is quite a big step really. Um, and I guess this is following. Following on from what Australia has been trying to do as well. And I mean, I dunno exactly how they would ban it because I think any, any 14-year-old with a smartphone can pretty much access anything on the internet that they want to. Uh, yeah, because they're more tech savvy than definitely more tech savvy than the parents. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, there's obviously things like VPNs and stuff.'cause I know they, they've banned in the UK like adult stuff for under eighteens, didn't they? So like all of the, the adult websites got banned. But I mean, someone told me that you can skirt around those bands by using A VPN. Right. Okay. It was, it was actually when I was marketing market researching. Clickable titles. Oh, right. Yeah. That, that's what it was. Um, yeah, I noticed I accidentally had my VPN set to the uk so I just, you know, changed it and then it was okay. Just like that. And then with like a lot of sites as well. I mean, obviously hopefully with, uh, with social media thing, but it'd make it a bit stricter. But with a lot of sites it just kind of goes, uh, are you over 18? Uh, click here for yes. Or click no to leave the site. And that's it. So hopefully it's a bit stricter than that. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And I do know, so not, not to jump away from this story, but chat, EPT have just announced that they are trying to decide what age their users are based on what they search for. Oh, okay. So I'm wondering if they're gonna be able to start using a similar technology to police the social media. I, I always started fucking with mine the other day, but I just type 6, 7, 6, 7, 6, 7, 6 7, 6 7 into it, right, you're clear. And 11-year-old wife. I think it might already think that by my level of humor. Yeah, it probably does to be honest. Um, but yeah, it's. It's kind of a funny one. I dunno. A part of this ban as well. Are they going to be okay? Well what, what we'll do, we'll bring out digital IDs for everybody and if you've got your digital id, then you can log into your Facebook account and you can use it as, because you're an adult and we can prove your age. And it is it like another thing, another means to get this like digital ID thing or another means of kind of censorship and, 'cause it's always that thing, it's always safety with any of these things. Oh well we're just doing this for everybody's safety. And it's like, oh, well it seems like I've lost a quite a lot of rights at the same time. Yeah. But this other group of people are safe. Just just, you know, and it's this horrible kind of thing that they always do. Yeah. Yeah. If they do ban people like that, you're gonna end up in this situation where you've got like one 50-year-old dude from Bolton pretending to be like a 13-year-old talking to like some 70-year-old dude from clapping, pretending to be 15-year-old, and they're just gonna be throwing six sevens back at each other and then eventually for meet in a park in real life. And it's not, not quite the date we're looking for. Oh dear. But I mean, let's start a Joking aside. Yeah. Joking aside. I feel like banning under sixteens from social media is a, is is a good idea. I, I feel like it's a, it's a good idea, but then part of me thinks of the amount of things that I wasn't supposed to do when I was 15. Yeah. And also the thing that once you make something illegal or banned and so, well, you can't do this until you're 16 or 18 for, for more. Kids want to do it like smoking or drinking or anything else, it's like, I'm not allowed to do that. I really wonder. But it brings in bad elements as well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.'cause I think already they banned like smoking for, for people under a certain age. Right. It's like, well, sorry. They'd always done that. It wasn't that babies were ever allowed to smoke cigarettes. Um, maybe in the fifties, but they, it's already like, yeah, sure. There's a, there's a certain year, if you're born after that year, you're never gonna be allowed to buy cigarettes. Right. In the uk Yeah. Which is, I mean, there's healthy in many ways, but at some point you, you have to have a thing of people just going, look, it's. We, we have this one life. We're here for a little bit. It's my body. It's my, I, I can do what I want to. It just let me buy some cigarettes. You know, it's like, especially 'cause of this. At some stage it'll be like a, a sort of 37-year-old man going, oh, just can I just buy some cigarettes? Jesus Christ, you know, give me some kind of freedom. It's like, oh no, no, you can't. You were born at the wrong time. Uh, but, but my mate does, and he's, he is only 38. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, but, but like, at least now you can serve social media, you know, go and do some of that instead. Yeah, exactly. I mean for, so what I was thinking with this is like, we covered, I think about three or four weeks ago we talked about Project Mercury, where at Facebook they did some studies and they, they found that, uh. Basically Facebook has negative effects on people's mental health and it is damaging to people. And so, and I mean when we're saying, alright, we'll ban kids or under sixteens from using social media if it's harmful for them, it's also harmful for adults just in a slightly different way. Really, should it be a case of like not allowing certain people to use it, or should the companies just be forced to change the way they do things like Johnson and Johnson no longer have TLC in the talcum powder? How about in social media? We alter the algorithms so it's not doing what it currently does, which makes people addicted and depressed. You know, and it's that like intermittent variable rewards, we can change that. All these companies have worked with, like the best psychologists around to hook people in, in exactly the same ways that casinos have evolved over the years. To hook people in in a similar way. Well, they'll just sit there on the slots until all of our money goes. But they're using the same tactics with this, and instead of just banning it for under sixteens, why not just say to these companies, look, okay, either change the algorithm, change where you work, or we just ban you outright. From doing business in our country. Yeah, that's what I would do. Yeah. But then the problem is that, you know, certain politicians, retirement funds are gonna get much smaller than they, than they are, so, yeah. So it's, it's morally, whether it's morally the right thing to do or not, it's, it doesn't necessarily get there. Yeah. Plus, you know, if you're under 16 and you wanna watch cat videos, like you should be allowed to watch cat videos. Like what's the problem? I don't really get it. Yeah. But this is true. I mean, that's one thing in China though, from what I've heard, their version of TikTok, which is called something different, but like kids can watch, it's cool, but it's called kinda like science experiments and athletic endeavors and, yeah, it's called Dick Dog. Ah, wait, that was more Japanese, wasn't it? Yeah. I need to work on that for the Chinese audience, which I'm sure is probably our biggest audience. Yeah. TikTok. Yeah. Uh, it's called something else. Uh, but yeah, you're right. And I it for them. I think it's almost like a, it's an operation to deliberately make the rest of the world look at people dancing and cat memes and stuff. Y yeah. I mean, I, I would, it is like, uh, if I was. Running some things in China, I, I'd be inventing things like TikTok and just going, yeah, brilliant. Send it out there. Just like, make as many of these people into idiots and effect for mental health and make them depressed and whatever else. Do that as much as possible. It's, it's like that Yuri Beman off, it's like the KGB defector and I think the eighties. And he gave all these talks about how, how, uh, Russia would kind of like influence and infect different things in the United States to bring things down. And it was through like the education system and media and all kind, all these different things. And it was like demoralization and it is really smart. But countries are doing that all the time. And I think something like TikTok is a, a prime example of that. Yeah. And what the US is doing instead is just having Donald Trump go places and say stuff, say really mental stuff until he gets his way. It's like today, the, the Greenland thing came through, oh, that seems like a done deal now. And he is gonna be a, there's no, he's not gonna be taking it over, but it gonna be allowed more military bases and things like that there. And this huge thing, this storm that was in the news about, oh, is it gonna be a war with like the US and Greenland in Denmark in this, say he just wanted to get his own way and have more use of that land. Is there any actual land in Greenland? I think most of it's covered in snow and ice. Well, I think there's not much land either. It's like there's a lot of it is actually ice. I think it was originally called Greenland 'cause it was green one, the Vikings weren't there, I believe. Right. Uh, when they first sailed across. Um, yeah. And to say it's got like a lot of like minerals and natural resources and things, and it's like, it does, but everywhere on earth does, it just depends whether you can like harvest it and collect it or not. And Greenland for, there doesn't seem to be any way to do it right now 'cause it's covered in snow. And I mean, if it, if it was that rich in mineral wealth, you'd think it'd have cities like Dubai and Riyadh or something, but, and it doesn't. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And I, I think the, so the, the thing that Trump has done very, very well, if you read a book called Influence by Cialdini, Robert Cialdini, there's a section in it which is about making like an extreme ask that you know is gonna get rejected or rebuffed. And then once they rebuff that one, then you ask like a, somewhere in the middle ask. So I, I think that's basically what Trump's done is like, he had no intention of ever going in there militarily, but he did wanna make it clear that like, don't start letting Russia and China get involved around that area. So now there's loads more NATO in European troops there, and he's got a deal to put more American troops there. So he is kind of got what he really wanted in the first place anyway. Yeah, I've, I heard someone else make a, a similar assessment of Trump, but just in a slightly different way. So not so much with on the deal side of things, which I, I would agree. I think that's exactly what he's done. But he does it in, he uses the same mechanism but in a ferra. So he'll say something completely over the top, ridiculous, so far past the line that you can't even see the line anymore. And people are like, what the, this is insane. And people get really riled up about that. So then the next time he does something that's bad. It's still bad, but it's not as bad as this thing that's way over here, you know? And so people go, oh, well it's compared to normal, it's kind of all right. Even though it can be something absolutely shocking. Yeah, yeah. It's like, look into the eyes. Look into the eyes. Don't look around the eyes. Look into the eyes, okay. It's like that kind of vibe. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, impressive. I did think, I did find it funny yesterday where I heard him say, uh, he did like a monologue about World War ii, and it's like, well, you know, you guys would probably be speaking German and perhaps a little bit of Japanese like bro. But yeah, I think he, I think he might be losing it a little bit as well. Like I think he, some of the rants and stuff, apparently he started falling asleep in meetings quite a bit and you know, which I guess is what happens when you almost become, uh, an up to. Arian or whatever it's called, an Arian, not an octopus. Octopus. Yeah. Uh, I hope we don't, I hope Mr. Trump does not see this and call us out on truth, social 'cause that would be terrible for, oh, can you imagine how great that would be? Yeah. I'm a big fan of your work, Donald. Big fan of your work. Big fan of your work. Okay, cool. Anything else on social media before we move on to the next big story? I don't think so. Not that I can think of. What is the next big story this week? I believe it's something related to shock horror, AI stealing copyrighted books. To train their models and then the tracers being seen in the outputs. Yeah, so I, I guess essentially, I mean, we've, we've heard bits and pieces about this all the way along where people have been saying, but, but surely the AI is just taking like, everything and then remembering quite a lot of it, and that's all like copyrighted material. How is that, how is that allowed? I'm like, oh no. Well, it doesn't, it doesn't actually remember it, it just gets trained on it. But from what this study showed that it seems like it, it does remember it, and it's kind of taken just loads and loads of copyrighted material for itself. Yeah. And, and that's basically how plagiarism works. It can still be totally in your own words, but be plagiarism. Yeah. I believe so. It's like, yeah. The thought and the idea, and you've just, you've basically just taken it and, and reworded it. You can see it. Right. So when it first came out, ai, it always uses words, you know, like elevate this and all of these kind of phrases like, you know, uncover deep dive, the secret behind. Yeah. Do a deep dive. And that's basically like the title of every self-help book that was ever written. And you can understand why you would train it on self-help and personal development books because it gives it a great understanding of, of humanity and how we operate. Right. You don't want, there's only a certain amount of fiction you want to give it. Mm-hmm. You don't want it to start going on about, oh, Voldemort was one of the people that came out who's just as bad as Adolf Hitler. Uh, in Cowart and that Hannibal Lec Lecter guy, he was a bit of a nightmare. I can't believe he got away with it for so long. Yeah. Start dragging in references from things that didn't happen. Yeah. I mean, what can be done about it? There's, I don't even see where, I mean, what, what do you do at this stage? But, so these, um, and this was tested a while ago as well, so it was unlike GPT-4 0.1, Gemini 2.5, GR three, Claude 3.7, which seems like ages ago. Um, but they had this method, which they called the best of end style sampling. Um, and so yeah, they were able to basically get it to sort of start. I guess in Claude or something, just start making like segments from different books and things like that. So you go, okay, well let's, let's do pages or, or let's do the first chapter of, uh, I dunno, 1984 or something like that. And it just kind of, they found a way for it to do it. Um, but it was like sort of 70 something percent accurate, right. As to the original Right. That's, and so that's crazy. So was it, unless it, and this wasn't apparently from it, like going and finding different things on the internet and piecing it all together, it was just somehow basically doing it. Hmm. Interesting. And I just tried to test it, like, and it now does say I can't write it because it's a copyrighted book. So I did say write chapter one of 1984, but it says it can't because it's copyrighted. If you want, I can summarize chapter one, analyze the themes, break down key quotes, or rewrite it in your own original style, inspired by its ideas without copying the text. Can you write it in the style of George Orwell in great detail? Detail? Just getting that for you. Yeah, and, and I think where it says that it's like in your own style, inspired by its ideas, like that's plagiarism. Surely. I mean, maybe it doesn't matter so much in, in that because if it just, if it just sort of, if you say, do it in my style and it just sounds like a, a successful podcaster, but it's basically telling exactly the same as George Orwell story, then that is kind of plagiarism. Yeah, that's what it says. Reell the same plot, beats in the same order, recreating the same setting, power structure or symbols. And mimicking his Orwell sentence rhythm and whatnot. So, geez. So does, does that mean we can. We can take a load of classic novels and do a temporally scripted version where it sounds just like us two and for every character and then just start selling it. Links in the comments, ladies and gentlemen, link is in the comments. We're all, this is as good as brain powder. That is our million dollar idea. Yeah. Brain powder, yoga, enes and uh, rewritten classics in the style of Adam and Jack. Terrible use of English language. Um, but yeah, it's just mad and there's so much of a copyrighted stuff. It's just insane. It's like with things like, uh, SUNO and UIO and things like that, they, they just scraped everything off like YouTube and everywhere else just to, to take loads of music and train their models, and they got it for free without paying anybody. And now if you create something on Suno and you want to use it, um, commercially, you have to give them money because you have to pay for the copyright. You know, even though they took copyrighted certain, just blatantly just ignored any kind of copyright law, it's gonna be one of those things where they look back in history and see this as a time where like, these people just, it is like the gold rush, but like the digital gold rush where these big companies that have got on it first, and I mean, some of them aren't even that big. Like some of these guys that, that they're not massive startups, that they've just become super successful very, very fast. Yeah. Insanely fast. It's crazy, but it does, it reminds me of Go on. I was just gonna say, but, but a lot of that growth has just come off the back of other people and only like little bits at a time. But some of those big like music generation apps, it's like that's come from the hard work of all the musicians that came before making music, putting it out there and then having just kind of taken it Yeah. And reusing it without their permission. And you know for sure there'll be loads of songs that you, you could make on that and will sound really similar to other bands or artists. Or you could even say, oh, make, make this kind of track in the style of blah, blah, blah. And it will, yeah. Well it, it does that. So I remember when I was playing around with video when it first came out and you're like, I'll make this sound like The Beatles. It's like, I can't make it sound like the beat. But I can use this four piece style with this band from a six piece vibe with this, this, and this. It's like, okay, well that's, that kind of sounds like the same thing, but ah, fuck it. Why not? Yeah. How would you describe The Beatles? Oh, they, okay. That sounds great. Make that, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and I guess a similar thing would've been going on when the internet started and people started writing content as well, you know? Yeah. And I think it, of course, it, it would've been, but I think it's just for scale that's so much different now. Um. Because it's not just like someone copying like a, a couple of things or some bits from an article rewording it, literally rewording it themselves by hand on a computer or whatever. It's like someone just come along and taking everything. And it is, it's insane. And, and it makes it so difficult for anyone to have legal action as well.'cause what, what could you say is a band, oh, we believe you might have taken our songs and like listened to them to train your, and it's like, well what, what reckon pen would you get from that? What sort of, I, I dunno. Strange where, where the money in the lawsuit. Yeah. There's, there's not enough money for anyone to want to care to do anything about it because you wouldn't even know how to distribute it if you did. Oh, well that song sounds like 5%, like the police and 4% like, you know, whatever This band and free Yeah, it's like based on every. Piece of music that's ever been made, they're gonna start coming after me for making my songs about getting my kid to go to the dentist and stuff. Which by the way is a banger absolute bang except for reggae one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to the dentist or your teeth gonna ru rut out your face like that. You know, I mean this, that, this kind of vibe or the what do you want for dinner song, you know, disco style. Amazing. Uh, I might lose a day or two in there actually. Um, so yeah, why not? Speaking of AI tools and tools in general, this is gonna blow your mind. Are we talking about Boris Stranson again? His mind's already been blown for sure. Um, cow is using the tool. Cow knows how to use the tool, and now, so we need to rethink everything about what the order of, you know, the food chain is like. We we're at the top. I think cows have just. Stepped up a few levels, maybe now past the pig. Um, yeah. Big news, right? So, um, well I guess it is, it is big news and this cow isn't old enough to use social media in Australia and soon not old enough to use social media in the uk. Maybe that's why it's so smart. She just figured out how to scratch herself though. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's not a, a really amazing story, but yes. So we've observed this cow named Veronica Cow, which is a pet cow. It's better than like Daisy or something like that. Yeah. And a pet cow apparently, I dunno who has a, a cow as a, a pet. Um, but Oh no. So yeah, an Austria, sorry, but yeah. Okay. And she started using like brooms to, to scratch her back, which is. Really cool. And she used like the bream for like the, the brush part for one part, and then for, for round part for like other parts. Mm. Quite an intelligent animal. That is, did it, did it ever sweep the yard? Yeah, it didn't do anything about useful. Apparently, um, the farm labor is going on strike 'cause Veronica, the cows teaching all the other cows how to sweep the yard. Yeah, exactly. Um, but yeah, in, in the article it, it says that the environment might have mattered and other factors as well. So for one, the cow is 13, which is kind of old for a cow. And it, it was in like very complex surroundings and it had a lot of contact with humans and it had a lot of objects that were around that it could manipulate. So probably it's like seeing humans like brushing, brushing the yard and things like that and going all right, I, oh, I could use that. But it's just pretty smart and it's, it's always good in nature when you see some animal that's somehow. Had like a, a little spark of intelligence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and we know some animals are, are smart, like monkeys can throw shit to each other and stuff, which is a really useful thing. I hate monkeys. Uh, there's like a type of bird that can use a stick as well, isn't it? Is it a crow that can use a stick to like, oh, crows, yeah. Get ants out of a tree or whatever. The whole like, uh, COVID family, which is like crows mag pies, a couple of others were all like really smart. Oh, there's that thing where there's a video where it's like a crow and there's a, a. There's a bottle of water, but it's only like so far up and the crow wants a drink or it might be a magpie, I'm not sure. But either way, it flies off, gets a rock, puts it in the bottle, lifts the level a bit goes back, gets never until it's like full to the top and it's just like, just starts drinking. It's really cool. Nice, nice. There's another cool video as well. Um, and it actually isn't ai, it's actually real, but it's like a crow on like a, a sunny, sorry, snowy day. And it's taken like a bottle cap and it's using a bottle cap as like a snowball to sort of go, go down this roof. It's amazing. See that snowboarding crow that pisses all over this cow, doesn't it? To be fair, it, it basically does. Yeah. You know, using the brush is one thing, but it's only 'cause most cows by that age would be beef burgers, wouldn't they? Unfortunately. Yeah. Oh, matured. Not unfortunate matured, but I mean, they shouldn't be so tasty. Should they? That's the problem. This is a problem with a lot of these animals. Really? How goes? Yeah. It picks the soup. Smart, but they taste fucking amazing. So what? Un lucky, you're gonna get eaten. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And especially, yeah. And certain, certain bits. So when it's like, uh, really like crispy bacon or something like that, and you get that smell and texture and Yeah. It's, it's good. Yeah. But apparently they, they call human long pig, don't they? Cannibals and stuff. It's like one of the things that come, does that come from like Haiti? I'm not sure if it's something like that. Long pigs. Yeah.'cause it takes so much like, like pig. Pig. Yeah. The Cannibal Cookbook. Your Guide to Preparing and Cooking Long Pig. A book by Eric MyFord. I hope Chat GT's not been trained on this book. 40 delicious recipes to get the most out of your fresh carcass. International recipes with enough variety to please even the most refined and picky palettes. Try true and tested methods of capture, preparation, butchering, and cooking the ultimate all in one guide for your long pig needs. It's got a, a 3.4 out of five on amazon.com and a one out of five on Good Reads. When is this book from? Um, apparently it was originally published on December the 20th, 2020. Right. Interesting. I'm, I'm mind blown. I don't really know where to go from there. From here. Uh, yes. Same. Well anyway, Mo Mo moving on. I was gonna go and have a read through the one star reviews, but I dunno if I can cope with it. Um, maybe about some quality content for another time. Yeah, yeah. But we can bring this up another time. I think it might be like satire, um, and written like a, like a book, like a, a horror book. Anyway, moving on. We've got one more big story, I believe today. Interesting. Or two, one or two. Uh, what should we go for? Is it the, uh, via attacks in India? Yeah. Harrowing news. Going on in India right now, it's just kind of crazy, isn't it? So, uh, a according to reports, um, an elephant in India has killed 22 people since early January, prompting a major search and warnings to residents, and it's a serial killing elephant. Then it's not just doing it, it's not like one stampede where it killed 22 people. It's like coming out, killing one and then going back into, it's like jack rip or something. Apparently it's only got one tusk as well, so it stands out. Ha, I don't does it maybe as a disguise and it puts on a second, like a mustache. So as soon as it's done and like gourds and when it runs in, puts another tusk on, it's like people see it. It's like it can't be that one. It's got two tusks. Uh, yeah, well that, that is actually part of warnings. So it says, people have been warned not to go out at night. Uh, in the local area. Um, and I believe that it's a young male elephant that had been separated from its herd and become highly aggressive and apparently multiple tranquil attempts reportedly failed. So it is, it's, it's a drug taking elephant. Must be. Yeah. And it sounds like at some point someone's nicked one of his arms as well, so he is not happy. He's got he's got it on him about humans. He is like, right. That's it. I've been separated from my family. I've only got one tusk left. I'm gonna take out as many of you people as I can, I guess. So it looks that way. And I mean, it seems like it's, I mean, apparently the elephant as well was covering like 30 kilometers a day. Uh, with, and there's a a hundred plus forest personnel involved in the search for it. But also apparently this isn't like a, an isolated incident. Uh, so in the article in the Guardian, the, they say it's like, uh, uh, there's a rise in human elephant conflict due to deforestation, uh, scarcity and encroachment on elephant corridors. And it reports that roughly 10% of former corridor areas no longer exist. So the elephants have nowhere to go, but also more than 2,800 deaths over the last five years in India from encounters with elephants. Wow, that's crazy. Imagine like nearly 3000 people killed by elephants in five years. That's wild, isn't it? It's a lot. But I know it's like a, a problem in Africa as well, and there's certain times of year when, uh, there's a kind of fruit on the trees and it's like left there and, uh, ferments. And so elephants and of animals will go and eat them. And so occasionally you'll get like a, a bull elephant that's like pissed, like literally, and it'll just sort of like charge through a village and yeah, it's. Wild. It's crazy. They definitely need to start putting age, age restrictions on elephants and alcohol. I mean, that's not cool. Yeah, this is it shitty. That's surely more of a priority than banning 16 year olds from social media. Well, maybe start with the elephants. Ban it from the alcohol and ban it from social media.'cause we, we can't be certain, but it hadn't been on Facebook all day and that's where a lot of this rage has come from. It would make total sense. Someone's rage baited him about big noses and one turk and like, right. That's it Ivan. That's it. Just started seeing red and couldn't take any more. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Right. So that brings us to our weekly segment. It's the temporarily scripted top five. What have you got for us this week, Adam? Sir. Uh, this is just some, I, I couldn't think of anything when I thought, all right, let's do some like weird currencies from around the world in history. I like it. So it's not like, yeah. So it's not rare coins or anything. It's just really weird stuff. Okay. Anyway, so the first one is from the island of Yap, which is in Micronesia. And there people use rice stones. So it started out they would just use like little sort of round discs with a hole cut in the middle, and it would be little stones, and they'd use those as, um, currency to, to, to buy things, to bottle with people. But over, over time, fees got bigger and bigger to a point where the largest ones were about 10 feet. Right. And of just like, imagine like a, a 10 foot. Stone donut basically. And some of the weird things are, it doesn't actually, ownership doesn't require possession. So I could have this stone, but it could be in your garden for like a decade or something, but it's still my stone even though it's on your land and things like that. And yeah. And so people wouldn't necessarily move them, they'd just go, oh, well you can have my R stone that's in, uh, so and so's garden. And that sounds like the blockchain. It does. Literally and early form of it. Wow, that's crazy. But yeah, it is really crazy. Um, much just what they use for currency. I suppose that all currency is ridiculous really. So there's no reason for that to be any less ridiculous. I just wonder what the use would be. But then again, what's the use of paper and coins and whatever else, you know, at least you can go and sit on a stone and look at a stone and be like, Hey lads, come and have a look at my stone. Got this massive stone. I've just check it out. Yeah, I'll swap it for your car or whatever. I dunno. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. But I don't think, I don't think they actually use, uh, this currency so much now, but it was just something from a past. But yeah, it's just really interesting. That's crazy. That's crazy history currencies. I like it. Yeah. Okay, well the next one is also going back a little bit, which was during the Aztec times and people used cacao beans.'cause cacao was like really, um, just desirable and useful. Tv. Aztecs, if you imagine it's, it's nutritious. It's tasty. You can store these beans for a long time as well. So legend has it. You could have a hundred beans and you could swap that through Turkey if you went to a market. Nice. I like that. And it makes sense 'cause it what becomes like chocolate? So that's Yeah. The earliest sign of real money, right? Yeah. I think, can't remember what it was called. A tole or something like that. They'd make this drink with like, uh, cornflower and water and then add some, uh, cacao and cinnamon probably with the first hot chocolate. Nice. Throw into my ayahuasca alongside it. And you get happy eating out. Yeah, but you had to be a little bit careful at the marketplace though.'cause like, say if, um, say if I'm there with my cow beans and I've, I've gone down for market and I want to buy some corn and you are selling corn, and I say, oh, I'll have two kilos please. And so do the trade, man, look and go. This looks like a kilo and a half. What I could do is I could call the sort of market cops. The market cops would come over and then they'd check it. And if you'd been selling it under, then you'd be punished, possibly by daf, often by daf. But the interesting thing was, if it turns out that it was two kilos and it was me that was wrong, then I would be punished with the punishment that you would've got, which would've been DAF quite likely. So nobody's complaining and nobody's underselling. That's That's great. They should do, they should do more of that. Now, what happens if you wanna buy cacao beans though? How'd you buy it? Yeah, I guess you'd trade it for something else. I'm not sure how that would work. Get some feathers or can I have a kilo of cacao? Yeah, that's one kilo of cacao, please. Okay, here you go. Ah, um. Can I have a kilo that's, that is an, there's an infinite void loop there. Well, apparently people did. There's evidence of people making fake cacao beans. So maybe that's part of where it came from. I don't, I don't dunno. Ah, humans, wonderful. What's so number three then? Three was tea standard. So we had tea bricks, which were breakable money. And this was in China, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia. And it was literally, as it sounds, just tea. It was pressed into blocks and sometimes it was S scored, so you could easily break it off. So if you imagine like, I don't know, a, a brick as like a 10 pound note and then you break off your individual squares to use the pound. It's given me flashbacks of something from my teenage years, but I can't remember exactly what, anyway, moving on. But it's probably a reason for that. What's number four? Number four is in New France or Canada. And this was around 1685. And it happened a few times during the French regime. Uh, but they'd run out of, uh, paper money and coins. So they started using playing cards. And so the cards would be either cut in certain ways or just marked and stamped, and they'd use that as many. So it's like, I, I don't know. You could go to a store or something. It's like, oh, I'll have, uh, this bottle of whiskey, this bit of bread. Okay, well I've got the. Queen of hearts and Matt two diamonds said, all right. Yeah. Nice. Okay, thanks. Well, it will, that's, that must be how it worked. That's a magician's, uh, a magician's like beauty. You're like, oh, I'll give you this one. And then it's like, wait, hold on, hang on. Did you just switch back? What's going on in though? Dunno what you're on about. You Basically we'll be a magician paradise kind of god there. Amazing. Yeah. I wouldn't go back to 1685, whatever it was. Sounds like a, a great place to be. Yeah. 1685. It's too plague, isn't it? You don't want to get all plagued up and stuff. That's not cool. Uh, it's a little bit just things what didn't have any talc to sort of help with a plague either, isn't it? Yeah. You got these boils. You can't lk. You can't talc. At my boils. That sounds a bit funny. Uh, right. Okay. And the final one with, uh, white gold, which is when salt was used as money. So one of the famous examples was in Ethiopia where they'd have actual bars of salt. Uh, 'cause obviously the deal with salt is it's, it's actually highly valuable, especially in the past because you can use it to preserve. So it's like if you catch a fish, really need to eat it that day. However you cover it in salt, you can keep it for, I dunno, weeks, even more months. Same as, uh, how we make ham, uh, these days, especially like serrano, ham, uh, Palmer, ham, things like that. And so also, so this is kind of a funny one as well. So we've, a lot of people think that the word salary comes from salt because Roman soldier soldiers were paid in salt salary. That is rubish without salt. Celery is rubish without salt. Uh, but yeah, apparently our word salary does come from Latin word solarium, which is linked to salt. And same languages like Spanish or Italian. Sal is salt. And so the idea is that Roman soldiers weren't paid in salt, but they were paid a salary which they could use to buy salt. And so it kind of links and that's, but there's kind of another myth about them being paid in salt and that's where salary comes from. And it's kind of true, but it's, it's not, that's crazy. And so you can then eat what you get paid if you wanted, you know, if you've got a, you're down, uh, down the market and you've just got like a portion of french fries or. I got being stupid french fries. Wouldn't have been invented back then, but chips. And you're like, oh, I've just been paid. I'm gonna crinkle a little bit about my chips. Yeah, kind but not exactly. Oh, you'd have the money to, anyway, it's something along them lines and anyway, I, I think that was the top five that was worth its salt. Oh, that's beautiful. If that isn't worth a subscribe and a like ladies and gentlemen, then you are on the wrong channel and you have no salt. Uh, I concur. Yeah, I was gonna try and do salt as a play on word as soul, but it just wouldn't have been as good as your joke. So we'll leave it there. Sad times. Okay. Well that brings us to the end, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for sticking with us, for listening to our wild ramblings as we went across the news across the globe. We'll be back again next week. Don't forget to keep your eye out on Thursdays for our top fives, and we'll see you in the next one. Adam, pleasure as always my friend. Uh, indeed it is. See you next time folks.