America Invades Iran, Police Work From Home & $23K Cat Feeding Hustle

America's gone into Iran, killed the Supreme Leader, and sent an armada to the Middle East. We're breaking down what's actually happening, the insane cost of shooting down $20K drones with $3M missiles, and whether this turns into another decades-long mess like Iraq and Afghanistan.

This week on Temporally Scripted, we're covering the Iran situation (and why Trump's midterms might depend on it), Ed Davey saying tax exiles in Dubai don't deserve help getting home, a UK police sergeant fired for using a picture frame to hold down laptop keys while "working from home," and why the British government fundamentally doesn't care about expats.

Then we're talking about a pet worker who made $23,000 in 8 days feeding cats during Lunar New Year, an Australian Pastafarian fighting to keep his colander driving license photo, and our Top 5 Japanese-Only Emotions — words for feelings we don't have in English, from the ache of impermanence to buying books you'll never read.

Plus: Winston Churchill's daily alcohol intake (it's alarming), why South Korea went from nothing to economic powerhouse while Iran went backwards, and whether working harder actually makes you luckier.

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro & Iran Supreme Leader Job Opening
04:00 – America Invades Iran: What's Actually Happening
13:00 – The Cost Of War: $3M Missiles vs $20K Drones
21:00 – Trump's Leadership vs Modern Politicians
28:00 – Ed Davey: Tax Exiles Don't Deserve Help
36:00 – South Korea vs Iran: Development In Reverse
40:00 – UK Police Sergeant Fired For Working From Home Scam
47:00 – $23K Cat Feeding Hustle During Lunar New Year
50:00 – Pastafarian Fights For Colander License Photo
53:00 – Top 5 Japanese-Only Emotions We Need In English

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to another episode of Your favorite podcast online, temporarily scripted. Now, the good news this week is the news has been taken over by a new thing for us to be worried about war. What is it good for? While apparently Donald Trump and his midterm elections that are coming up remains to be seen, so we will find out a bit more about that in the episode. But we are not just gonna bore you about war in Iran. Of course, we've got some animal related stories, as we always have. There's a scheme going on where someone made more than $20,000 because of cats, but I'm not gonna tell you anymore. You have to stay tuned to get to that point. And before we get into things, before we talk about the global situation, how much our gas is gonna cost next week, we need to do a big introduction because as always, the man, the myth, the legend, the here in the studio. It's Adam Garcia, everybody. Yep. Hello everybody. It's wonderful to be here again. You can see I'm really practicing just making a, you know, a bigger intro every single time. Yeah. And having that kind of hook, but you have to watch for longer to find out what it is. It's good professional. Works very well. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Anyway, Adam, what's been going on in your world this week? Um, nothing that exciting. I mean, uh, there was some disappointment recently 'cause, uh, basically, uh, a job opportunity came up and I thought I was eligible for it, and I got my hopes up, but then it, um, then it, it just didn't come to fruition and it turned, turned out. There was a lot of nepotism and the, the hired, uh, like the, the guy's son to, to replace Val, last one. So, yeah, so unfortunately, I, I can't become the supreme leader of Iran. Uh, so disappointing. So disappointing. Yeah, I, I really wanted that job title as well. I had a tenor on you at BET Fair as well. So Poly market or whatever. Yeah, the odds were crazy, but yeah, disappointed. Although then again, most of the people that were in line to take over are now dead, so you might be bumping up that bet. Fair list. I might have dodged a bullet. Quite, quite literally. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, I just thought it'd be cool as well. I mean, you know, when you have like, I dunno, family reunions or you see people from like years ago or something like that and say, oh, well what you up to? Oh, well, you know, I've got my own business feast days, uh, selling fireplaces or whatever. How about you? I'm, um, I'm supreme leader. So Good for you, man. You, you've really, uh, you're really coming on in life. Yeah. I think the Supreme leaders, a few countries that have that isn't there. North Korea is another word where it's the supreme leader. It always makes me think of that clothing brand. Uh, Supreme, of course super dry. Yeah. No, there is, there's, there's a brand called Supreme. I think it's super popular with. Gen ZI dunno. Oh, or Chicken Supreme, which is quite nice, but I wouldn't, I dunno if Supreme's the right word for it. Um, I was think it'd be quite nice if they added that title on LinkedIn, you know, 'cause you can have like founder at whatever, CEO of whatever. But I think Supreme Leader, a real profile. I figured it'd sound really good. Supreme leader. I like it. I think you should test that out and see if it helps with the new 360 algorithm that you've got on there. That's, yeah, I mean, you know that a lot of people had used it as well, even though it's only them in the company and the company doesn't actually make any money. But I think it'd be cool and you could probably call yourself, you know, like I'm a, a, a director and producer of short form video. Yeah, as well, just to add in supreme leader of the company. And then, you know, it's editing shorts, but you say it's, it's directing and producing, directing, editing, color, grading everything. Really Strict writing, write the theme, tune, sing the theme tube, all of that good stuff. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so what the dos are like, America is loving going round right now , Venezuela, straight in and out. Maduro interestingly, we might talk about this later because Claude Ai, my favorite AI buddy that I don't have an affiliate link for, but if I did, it would definitely be in the description. Partly helpful in these things that's going on, but yeah. So in Iran, oh yeah, I've heard, yeah. Kills the leader, um, takes out a load of other stuff, causes general chaos across most of the Middle East. And it, yeah, I mean, it, it's, it's a really, it interesting and kind of expected, but unexpected situation. I think if you look 10 years ago, it's something that you would've said might be on the card someday, but you ki you kind of imagine that it never would come to this place. You know, like if obviously Russia, China, one of their biggest allies is Iran in the sense of oil production, all of these other things. And Venezuela obviously before that, like, you know, America's shown some extreme, um, decisiveness in their action to go and start getting involved in these countries, you know? Yeah. I mean, there's. I guess there's a lot of things in that. Some of it, I mean, they're sort of in some ways showing people whose boss and what the, the hierarchy of the world is in some ways perhaps as well. Um, and it was kind of funny 'cause they, they sent like a, a fleet basically over there and it's a long way to travel and people going, oh, I wonder if I'll do, do anything. It's like, just on their Ali Bobs, you're pretty committed once you've sent like aircraft carriers and whatever else the military version of a TeleTech holiday packed it for. Exactly. Um, so yeah, I mean, I just hope that it's one of those things I hope they can do whatever they've planned or whatever they, they feel they've gotta do and then just go, because I, if you think back to. I dunno, Afghanistan, Iraq and things like that. Everything just turned into a mess. Loads of people died and it just dragged on for years and years. And it's that thing that when when's the last time America actually won a war? Hmm. So like the second World War, I'm not sure. Or it's something really small since then where it could be considered like a true victory but didn't drag on for years afterwards. Um, I mean, the thing is with Iran as well, I guess they've been expecting to be attacked by the US and Allied forces for a very long time. So they've been preparing for this and the country's huge. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't want the plan also, I mean, uh, I was watching a Doug Casey thing this morning and. He made a point that I've not thought about before, which was just for sheer cost. So Iran will make a drone for like $10,000. Then the Americans are gonna shoot down that drone with like a $3 million missile. Yeah. And so if they've got thousands of drones that flying through VR air, it's like how much is this gonna cost and can they afford it? And then you, you've got so much of a fallout that comes from it as well. You leave may, do you leave a power vacuum? Do you divide the country? Will there be some kind of revolution that comes along that the people want that makes the country better? You send the Kurds in, it always works out well. Well, apparently that's one of the plans as well to sort of use them as muscle and just, um, on them, fund them and take it from there. I mean, Turkey, that worked really well when they did that. Yeah, it worked really well when they did that with Sad Hussein. I can't see any downside to that at all. Um, I mean, I, I really just don't know what's gonna happen from it.'cause obviously I'm no expert and I don't wanna be like the many people on Twitter, but as soon as this happens, they are automatically Iranian or Iran experts. Yeah. Yeah. Just the same as like, uh, you had with, um, Ukraine and things like that. Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good war as much as the next man, but this one is crazy financially. It's like 700 and that was a joke, by the way guys, if that didn't land, I just wanna, just wanna clarify. It was a joke. Sarcasm. It's okay. I'm very much in the war. What is a good war? Absolutely nothing camp, right? Seeing it. But anyway, back to, sorry, I was gonna go off there, but back to the costing, you read my mind and picked out of it because I, I was talking to No, I wasn't, I wasn't talking to anybody. I was reading, talking to myself while reading stuff as you do and yeah, so, so far the UAE have spent almost three quarter of a billion dollars on shooting down Iraqi drones. I think it said that a drone costs anywhere between 50 and 20, 15 and $20,000 and. One of the missiles is, yeah, anywhere between one and $3 million per missile, uh, which is, I should have got into the missile business to be honest. Um, the commission on those must be pretty awesome, but yeah, like it's, it's not even just that, it's the cost. So almost three quarters of a billion dollars, which to be fair, they, they probably don't care about too much in the UAA, they've got a lot of money, right. But it's also the stockpile, like tomahawk missiles for example, I think I read earlier, and it's something like America have got 600 in their stockpiles and they've already used like 10% of them on this. And then there's another type of missile that they've used like 20% of, and it is at the rate they're using them, it's physically impossible to replace them. So it's not even a money thing. It's like a time thing. So there, there must be like a desperate race on right now for the Israelis and the Americans to find. Where the Iranians are keeping all of these drones and taking out these stockpiles, these bases, because otherwise I don't see how, how this changes unless there's gonna be regime change quickly, which it doesn't seem likely that there is gonna be based on everything that we're hearing, you know? Yeah. It's really difficult and like I said earlier, they've, they've known that there's a high chance of this happening for a long time, so they will have plans that have been put in place to, I would imagine scatter these things all over the country, hidden in lots of different areas with, it's such a vast space as well. Most of it empty, so you'd have plenty of opportunity to find caves go into ground, but all kinds of things. Um. And yeah, I dunno, it's just that thing as well. How long will this last? Is it gonna be one of these things that does go on for like decades or something? I mean, you get different reports from news and social media and things as well, and it, it does seem like there's a lot of people that are genuinely happy that the leader was killed and they want some revolution. They want their country to be great and pros, prosperous and free. So I I maybe in an ideal world, this is a thing that, that sparks that revolution and brings about that true regime change. But is it gonna be another thing where America goes in a place, installs some dictator that. Does whatever they want. A man, that's it. And it still ends up being a dick. Yeah. And it still ends up being a terrible place. I don't know. Well, and the thing is by all accounts, that, uh, I've, well not by all accounts, but I've, I get quite into these YouTubers that go to like random countries where people say, oh, you should never travel to this country. And you see these people they go to like, you know, the north of South Sudan, and like, they go to, you know, all these random places, Haiti, everywhere. That's seen as like super dangerous Afghanistan, um, Lebanon, all of these places, right? And I've seen a few of these guys go into Tarrah and it looks pretty good. To be honest, like it's even under the regime that was there, like it looked pretty good. There's restaurants, there's, you know, stuff going on like everywhere. There's music, there's markets, there's food, there's culture. People seem pretty friendly. So I, I mean, I don't know what, what it was, unless, unless this is resolved quickly, then you just end up in a place where you've taken a city that yes, not everyone was happy and the rulers are doing loads of stuff that they shouldn't be doing. Which name the country and the planet where that's not going on. Right? Yeah. It's everywhere. Um, to this place where there's like bombs going off all the time and stuff going on, and, and then there's like the human cost. You know, like I have a friend who's now in the UAE. He can't get out of there. Right. He's stuck there and the British government are like, oh, we're gonna help you get home, or whatever. But it's like he's, he's stuck somewhere because of all of this stuff. It's like I have another, uh, contact who's in Bahrain and he says it's safe and it's fine, but he can't leave because all the flights are double price in Saudi Arabia. All of this kind of stuff. And you know, Rachel Reeves is gonna be really pissed off because she just said that inflation's not gonna go up anymore and costs are gonna start coming down. And then bam, everything's about to get really expensive. The gas has gone nuts and the oil's gone crazy. And, you know, yeah. Also, I believe a lot of, um, fertilizer for farming flows goes through the straight of her moose, which is been closed down. And so that, that then has a knock on effect 'cause it's more expensive to grow a food. So everything downstream from that gets more expensive too. So yeah, it will. It will do that. We'll hit everything and we'll, we'll all be paying more for everything that we buy or do, plus the, you know, debt increases and all of this stuff. As inevitably more and more countries get involved. And I, and some of it's incredible. It's like if you go back now to the Iraq War and Afghanistan and stuff, obviously Tony Blair was in charge in the UK and. At the time, everyone was like, ah, can't believe he's getting involved, dah, dah, dah, da da, it's terrible, blah, blah, blah. All of this stuff. And then now with Stama, as much as you know, he's not a, not someone I particularly like Um, but yeah, it's, it's like now everyone, it seems like in the media, it's like, oh look, he didn't get involved and America asked him to get involved. And what does this mean for our special relationship with the US and all of this stuff? It's like, if it's not a special relationship, if somebody says jump and you have to say how high, that's like crazy. You know? And, and you see like these comparisons now of. Oh, well I'm not dealing with Winston Churchill. It's like, well, yeah. You know, Winston Churchill had done about six units by lunchtime on an average day. It's like, these were different times. These were existential times for the uk, you know, but, but also these were times when the UK was a much more powerful country of world stage, and it's just, I don't think it has the same relevance in the modern world, which might upset some viewers, but it just, it doesn't. And I know times in the past it, like, uh, when Stama was going to China is, oh, well I'm, I'm gonna bring this up with Xi and I'm gonna say, but like, he's gonna put him in his place and like, good luck. Yeah. I can't, I, I dunno the right word to say, how irrelevant. Xi will find starer. And it's the same when, when Russia was doing stuff. Oh well Russia better watch out because it's like, I'm sure Putin's like running scared right now. Who we meet today, the English man. He come over, he talked to us. Who is this? What his name again? Who is this English man? Yeah, but that English man with aqui. Oh, okay. And it, but it's all often like that. And because I remember a while ago where this. Something Russia had fret and something. So then the next day in the news, there's like a video of like Prince William in a tank and you're just like, oh, come on. I mean, that's, you know, they should, maybe they should send like Prince Andrew over there. That, that is a scary thought. But either way, it's not as cool as I was watching this, um, second World War documentary the other day, and there's this famous picture of like Winston Churchill holding a Tommy gun in like sort of pins striped suit and cigar and stuff, and just like, yeah, guy's a badass. What a legend. Yeah. I saw a video the other day that was quite interesting and this guy, he was living a day drinking what Winston Churchill drank and it's incredible. It's like, oh, I wake up in the morning and they do like a, a, a brandy, but it's only the brandy just touches the bottom of the glass and then topped up with soda water. And then like, that's like, first thing is he wakes up around 10, I think is when Winston Churchill used to wake up and then an hour goes by, have another one and then like another one. And then at lunchtime he'd have a bottle of champagne. It's not as bad as like with, um, it wasn't a proper bottle of champagne. It was a pint. Yeah.'cause it got like special bottles made. Yeah. Um, in his size. Because a, wasn't it like a full bottle was too much, but something just a little bit less was just the right amount for lunch? Yes, exactly that. Yeah. So, and, and I think that was his biggest reason for wanting for France to survive. You know? Not, not just, not just because of, of like he wanted, you know, he, he wanted to save Europe. It is also 'cause he didn't want to go without drinking his favorite bottle of champagne every lunchtime, by the way. Lunchtime when he is been awake for like two hours and it's like his third or fourth alcoholic drink of the day. Uh, and then once he's finished that, I think he'd go and have a little nap or something. And then, so this guy has a little power nap, and then it's more of the brandy with water and then dinnertime. It's a bottle of red wine or a glass of red, no, maybe he has another champagne and then a glass of red wine and then some port to like finish. But it's like, it's a lot. And this guy's like sozzled by, by the end of the day, he's just totally, you could just see he starts talking more like Winston Churchill the longer the day goes on. Incredible. Yeah. Maybe I'll find the link and put it in the comments for the audience if I want to go and check that out. But it was, uh, yeah, it sounds sounds really interesting. Really, really cool. But yeah, they don't build 'em like that anymore, do they? It's like in, in all. I mean, and that's one of the things that I do, I don't dislike Trump. But like I I, if people watch this, I know we had a comment a few weeks ago that said, um, oh, you guys said this about Trump, and now I'm not gonna have to forget you exist. It's like, I don't have any problem with Donald Trump at all. I think if anything, he's someone who's come along and, and done things differently, at least. But yeah, I do. Like I, he's a proper old school leader. He just doesn't give a sh*t, does what he wants. It. Yeah. And he always has like funny, funny sort of comments and stuff as well. Like someone goes against him, we'll just call him like a negative Nancy or something like that. I just like, just when he had all like nicknames for people during elections and things as well. Oh, it's lying Mike, whatever. Yeah. Sleepy Joe Biden and Barrack Sleepy, Joe Barrack Hussein Obama is how he always talks about him, which is, you know, it's fairly obvious what he is insinuating there. It's uh, yeah. Uh, but I think as well as, as a leader, just like, um. People like Churchill will be remembered for a really long time. Uh, in America. I think like you have, uh, I don't know, Lincoln, Washington, you have, uh, Kennedy. People will remember Trump in a couple of hundred years more than they'll remember Biden, Obama, anyone like that.'cause there's something memorable about him and he's just completely different to everybody else. Yeah. And it does actually, it does actually seem to get things done. This is it. And it's like, I, I think yeah, we, we will look back on this. This wasn't, sorry, I was just gonna say it wasn't that part of the Iran thing as well.'cause he said like, don't, don't kill anymore of your own people. Oh, we'll, we'll come in for you. Basically. And so they just tried to hide it and kill like 30,000 people or something? Yeah. Yeah. And then talks began, and then it's that Right. Then talking, geez, apparently that was a bit of a ruse as well. But again, you go back to them moving like an arm ma into the, into that part of the world in terms of navy ships, and they're like, oh no, we're just, we're just bringing them just in case talks. Break down. Don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about it. Just carry on with the talks. J just keep Yep, yep. Just keep, just keep talking. Keep talking. Okay. Dead. Yeah. I mean, I, I did wonder the other day with the links that Iran historically has to, Russia, does this whole thing at the moment mean that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine goes on for longer because it's way better. For America, Israel, if they're gonna get involved in Iran, if Russia's tied up and bogged down in this thing with Ukraine where they're diverting all resources, many weapons and everything else. So I, I just worry that now the, the sort of, uh, motivation to end for war in Ukraine is a lot less than it was. And there's now a desire to keep it going for as long as vis Iran thing goes on, which could be a long time. And I, I hope that's not the case. And it could be one of those tin foil hat things, but it kind of wouldn't surprise me.'cause it's really complex way that geopolitics works. Yeah. And I think the other thing is it, it puts, it puts it in a difficult position where, how can you go in and say to Russia, oh, you shouldn't be doing what you're doing in Ukraine when. Regardless of what you believe, what you think, what atrocities have gone on going into Iran is the same thing. It's, it is going in somewhere without un approval, without legal backing, which I know is ridiculous 'cause it's a war anyway. Right. But like, it's you, how can you say, oh, you're not allowed to do that now, or that's out of order. Yeah. It's like, 'cause and I, and I think, so that's one thing is, is really you lose that high ground when it comes to Russia. Yeah.'cause you, you'd go, well, I mean Iran and the States. So that's, that's quite a long distance. Why, what, what, what do you do that? Yeah. And, and I think the other thing it probably does is it makes, uh, China think, well, we can do what we want with Taiwan. Then like Yeah, there is that, I mean, I guess there's of reasons like, um, the, the nuclear weapons program. In Iran and their desire to, to get nuclear weapons. Um, 'cause also, I, I, I'm gonna be sounding like one of those dodgy Twitter Iran experts get my expert, but actually know nothing about the situation, but isn't, uh, it's almost like a branch of Islam for. Uh, was ruling Iran, they believe in you need sort of the apocalypse or Armageddon to bring back some profit who was a child that went missing so many hundreds or thousands years ago. And so for them, the idea of having nuclear weapons isn't just to like wipe out Israel, but it's to like. Start a nuclear war and wipe out everything to bring back this prophet. Yeah, I mean, it sounds a lot like weapons of mass destruction to me though. Well, yeah. I mean, we've, we've had this before, aren't we? Do you know what I mean? We've, we've had this before where it's like, oh, we've gotta go into Iraq because there's weapons of mass destruction and if they use these weapons of mass destruction, WMDs, they got WMDs. Um, then we're all, yeah, I mean, do you remember like the headlines in the UK at the time when it was like, oh, he's got these weapons of mass destruction, 45 minutes, they could be launched to make it be in the uk. And it's like, which, which is crazy because even if you look at it now, like there was a story the other day which talks or could Iran hit the UK and they don't have the capability to. They, they can't launch missiles. Even their ballistic missiles don't go that far. So then the chances of Iraq being able to do that, like only if like Britain and America gave them the weapons. Yeah, because I Well, we know. How do you know? Well, we know for sure because, no, you can't say that. Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Um, but we know because intelligence, intelligence, because that's, uh, that's a famous Bill Hicks, uh, that from years ago, isn't it? From like the first Gulf War. And he'd say, you'd hear on the news Iraq incredible weapons. Incredible weapons. How do you know? Well, looked at the receipt. It's so true, man. Uh, and again, I mean all that stuff about like military, industrial, complex. Mm. Somebody is making an incredible amount of money from all this and for more military interventions or proxy wars or whatever else is going on that's linked to America. That's amazing for these weapons manufacturers. Yeah, and I mean, some of the biggest motors manufacturers are British companies as well. Right. It's like the industry that probably one of the few growth industries left in the United Kingdom War. It's got that bad, but, and debt collection. Um, yeah. Payday. Payday loans. Payday loans and, and war machinery. And they probably to, yeah. Book to be fair. Yeah. To be fair as well, most of the Greg's is awesome. Don't bring Greg since this pound lamb. Yeah. Yeah. Pound lamb, which you can't get anything for a pound pounding anymore, but yeah, I, I do wonder if it's like. Just, yeah, I, I, I dunno where I was going with that. So let's, let's move on to something else. Well, not something else. Totally. It's still related to this, but I, I don't know if you, well, I do know 'cause you sent me the intro for this episode, so you found this story, but the, the whole Ed Davey thing, talking about tax exiles and, you know, they're in Dubai during the Iran crisis, so we shouldn't fund to get them home because they dodge tax and they should pay to be protected by Britain and all of this stuff. I mean, it's fairly well known that Britain don't give a sh*t about anybody that's British and not living there anyway. I mean, I've known this for years, like I've not been there for 10 years and granted, like, you know, I never wanted to or tried to take the COVID vaccination anyway. Which by the way, all of you naysayers at the time. Suck on it. Like, we were right, you were wrong. Okay. Or everyone now is basically like, oh, well maybe, you know, it wasn't as well researched as what we thought it was, but we're not gonna go down that route today. We, we'll save that, save that for another time. Um, but yeah, like, I mean, even at that time, every other country in Europe and America, uh, and we obviously live in Vietnam, we're like, oh yeah, we're gonna send enough vaccines for all of the people from our country stuck in Vietnam, or not stuck. I mean, I say stuck. We had like paradise, beaches and stuff. It was awesome, but brilliant.. All of the, all of the, the, the other countries, right? They were like, okay. Here's a quota for the Vietnamese government to vaccinate our population. Britain. Were like, oh yeah, just wait for the Vietnamese to vaccinate you. You're not, oh, really? This is not our problem. So just wait. And they'll, they'll sort you out eventually. We're not sending any here. And the same with if you get thrown into jail in a foreign country, if you are German or from some of these other countries, the, the government will actively get you home so that they can try you for whatever you did. And then you get put into a, a German prison. If you are British and you do something abroad, they're like, you know the rules. Not our problem, mate. Sorry. Nothing to do with us. You know, they, they, they'll send you a fruit basket once a day or whatever. Yeah. And that's it. Unless it's really bad. And you might get fruits like Amnesty International or something like that, that could help. But yeah, it seems like the British government. Don't help so much. Uh, yeah, basically. And I mean, do, do they have a responsibility to, because I mean, fair enough. People that might be stuck in various places now, including Dubai, they, they were, well, I guess they're still classed as like British citizens of, I dunno. Exactly. It'll be different for each one. But if at some stage they did live in the UK and they paid loads of taxes and now they've gone to another country. In some ways have they not contributed to the system enough? Because if they're of a certain age, they probably haven't taken much out of the system. They've probably put far more in than they got out, you would think. Yeah. And maybe if they got to a stage where they've gone, oh well I'm paying too much taxi, I'll move to Dubai, you would associate a certain level of success for Hmm. Um, or maybe it should be done on a a, a, a person to person basis or appraisal or something.'cause there'll be some people that are genuinely stuck that don't have a lot of money. There'll be some people that are like multimillionaires that frankly don't need the help. And I don't really think it should be on the taxpayer to help them. And plus I think a lot of people as well are a little bit sort of, oh well, you know, it's soldiers like rich people with tans in penthouse apartments. We had those people. Yeah. Jealousy basically. Yeah. Yeah. The whole thing of, oh, all rich people must be evil because they like make all this money and hoard it and stuff. No, no, no. They just work harder than you. That's it. Simple And know, I know because I was in my twenties, idealistic. Yeah. The rich people are bad, da da da. No. If they're self-made and they didn't win the sperm lottery, then that, that they just worked really, really hard. Like it's, it's simple as that. It's a mix of different things as well. Some of it is luck, you know, so many different people will try different businesses. Some people just happen to be lucky in certain ways. Have some fortune, like you say, work hard than anybody else. Maybe happen to be more intelligent or have like a good head for business or creating certain ideas. You make your own look, you know, you notice the harder you work, the luckier you get. Generally it's just, just, I know, yes, there is some looks and whatever involved, but generally speaking, the harder you work on stuff, the the luckier you get because you're in that game for opportunity. You know, you start to see these things. Um, I mean, not always. Sometimes you can work too hard and be head down in things where you start missing stuff because you're just like, it's like that classic thing if you're marching towards trying to find the sun and you're marching 30 miles a day and you're marching like west and you're never gonna see a sunrise. Do you know what I mean? So is there is that, yeah, right. But, and I mean, if you are mining lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo working harder, I dunno if that's gonna make you luckier or not. It, it is relative, but yeah. And maybe it applies in some countries more than others. Definitely. Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. So if you keep mine in that lithium, you can make your way up to. Watching people. My Livia Cobalt. Yeah, that, that, it's slightly tangential and then we'll move on. But yeah, I saw a video the other day of an Indian silver recycling process. Amazing. Oh, that, that's really, really safe. Yeah. Just dudes in like flip flops with super hot materials and chemicals and they're mixing stuff and no mask. And you see like these green gases coming off things and it just looks like the, the, you know, but again, it, so if you went back to, I mean, granted it shouldn't be like that now, but if you went back to the industrial revolution in the UK and looked in some of these factories and stuff, you would, you would see some abhorrent things, you know? So, and, and it's, and you countries go through development, right? It's like if you look at. South Korea 70 years ago it was, there was nothing. Right? And then people worked and they educated and then they started to become a, a, a product based nation. And then people worked and they educated and then they started to become a, a technology based nation. And then eventually people were educated and got to the point where it became like one of the biggest economies on the planet. So, yeah. So what's the difference then between, I mean, granted South, South Korea probably a bad example because it's had a, a hell of a lot of investment from, from the west more than other countries. But I don't know. It's a tough one, man. Well, some places go the opposite way. I mean, tying it back to our first, uh, topic, if you look at pictures of Iran from like, uh, sort of what, like the late sixties, early seventies, and see how different it was back then to now. Um. It's, yeah, seems like things were a lot more, I don't know, just better three a liberal back then than they have been for the last 50 years or so. Well, and I think if you go back then, I'm probably gonna get my dates and times wrong, but a thousand years or 2000 years or whenever it was that the Persian Empire was the size that it was then, you know, people in the UK were still living in their little brick huts. Like basically, yeah, maybe while, while there was a whole civilization out there, you know, so the Middle East was the, one of the birthplaces of civilization, I believe. So again, it's, it is, you know, we're all humans at the end of the day. And Yeah. Well I, I mean, it ties into sort of Ray Dalio. Idea, but everything kind of goes on waves. Mm. And everything has that sort of bell curve, whether it's countries, whether it's even your own life. And it's like, what stage of a curve are you at now you said that the curve goes like this, you, you're not here, you're probably not on way of, when you're in that middle aged bit, things are starting to decline somewhat. Yeah. This is true. You said that. Anyway, moving on. Sorry. So juvenile can't help myself. So moving on, as, as we talked about one situation in the world onto another unscrupulous tax feeding, wage extract, and police officer, somebody, a police officer in the UK has been fired for using a physical trick to keep her laptop active. His or her laptop active. I dunno if it says it's his or her. Uh, working from home. So they're basically trying to make it look like they're working from home while weighing down laptop keys to look active. Which flags two things into my head. One, there's literally programs you can get on the internet that will move your mouse like a little bit every second or two. I dunno how I know this, someone told me, um, it wasn't from my corporate days working from home. Um, but that was a corporation, natives and gentlemen. I wasn't in a position of power like a police officer, so I didn't have to be, you know, above board. And I, I got more done in one day than most people got done in a week. Anyway, moving up. Um, yeah, so this police officer has been gaming the system while working from home. A couple of things there. Why are police working from home? Yeah, in the first place, because I'd never heard of this before. I've never heard of like, oh, what do you do? I, I'm a, a work from home police officer. Have they got a load of people around there that are on house arrest or something? Have you, have you caught any criminals recently? Or, or is it, is it now, is this part of, uh, policing social media thing or something like that? You may, I, I, I really don't know. It didn't give any details about what this particular sergeant did, but it's bizarre when you get a Domino's pizza delivered and they opened the door. It's like L-O-L-O-L-O, what we got here then pepperoni. Um, but yeah, so the other thing is, like I say, using a picture frame to weigh down a laptop. I mean, that just shows you the level of IQ you need to become a sergeant in the police, doesn't it? Exactly. Because that's how she got caught as well, wasn't it? Because it was, uh. The amount of keystrokes or something like that.'cause she's wasted a key down, so it's just going for whatever key it was. And that's, that got flagged on the system. Maybe she could say she was thinking about the case and how it was working and she was just going, uh, uh, yeah, exactly. It's a thinking noise, you know? Um, but yeah, it's wild. I, I, once there, there was a very nice sergeant, I had a car crash once in the uk and this very nice sergeant took me home, um, to my place basically so that I could just go and relax a bit and get over the shock a bit or whatever. And he was like, oh yeah, I'm training for my sergeant's exam, so I'm happy to drive you. And then I get a bit of time to, to, to figure it out. It's like, is it hard? He's like, ah, it's a multiple choice. The exam. Right. Okay. Good. Is one of the questions, if you're trying to look like you're working from home, do you a. Way down the use picture. Frame key with a picture frame, or B, download. A very, very simple program that can actually make it look like you're working. Or C, just do some f*cking work. Yeah, I mean it just, I, I dunno. I, I think the thing is, we kind of, we have an assumption that if you. Do a job like working for the police or work in VNHS or, or various things or work in the Civil service. Civil service, then you have some kind of want to, to help people, and you do it as like a vocation as much as a job. And so we, we seem to have that in our heads when actually it's, it's not always the case. People just go, oh, that's a job. I need some money. I'll go do it. And maybe they're not that serious or dedicated, obviously not saying all, but a lot of people in, in both roles aren't that dedicated. Uh, and for, they're not really there just to help people or do the right thing. I mean, if you're going to do these funny work from home things and try and cheat on it just so you can. Do what? Watch Netflix, go to a park or whatever. And I, I dunno, it's just not a very good way to behave. But, uh, maybe a job's just a job regardless of what it is. Yeah, I mean, I've seen a couple of videos recently of shorts, of people interviewing like police officers and community support officers, and there's some really good ones that come up. And the, and the best ones are the people who are, like, they, they ask why they like doing what they're doing, and they say, I genuinely like being visible in the community and having conversations with people and just talking to people, like, you know, figuring out information just by having conversations and not in like, uh, getting people to rat on people sort of way, but just genuinely being interested in people in the community. And that's what policing should be. You know, it's, it's, it is about being there and kind of managing it. It's one of the reasons I really like the way that it works here, out here. It's like they don't, they. Don't proactive police, like in the UK that, you know, they're, they go around in like an unmarked car trying to like catch people. It's almost like they're trying to bait people into like, oh look, he's made a mistake now I can get him for it. Do, do you know what I mean? Rather than it being like a, all something's going on, let's go and sort it out. Whereas here, they're more like, they wait until there's something going on and then they go and sort it out and they try and sort it out in a really good way. Do you see what I mean? Yeah. They, they mediate and they try and find a mid ground and it's not just like, go in arrest, everybody caught you for this take away. Whereas in the UK it's like they, they try and hide and catch you out and all of this stuff and yeah, I, I dunno if, I think it's called positive policing, but it, it's almost the opposite in, in my head. I kind of know what you mean that. Uh, a kind of example of this would be in Spain, so near where my parents live. There's, uh, there's this road to like a, a quite a big town and you're going along and it's all good. It's like, think the limits, like, uh, 110 kilometers. Per hour, something like that. Then you get to this road and all of a sudden it drops to like 50 kilometers an hour and then, which just feels painfully slow. Uh, 'cause it's a wide road. There's nothing bad. You wanna go faster, but the police always hide behind this little outcrop of vegetation. Just knowing that people are gonna get a night and break the speed limit and we're literally just there waiting for people to do it because it, and that's just some cash cow that brings money into the local government. It's crazy. It's mental. Whereas I remember when I was like 14, 13 or 14, I used to go on holiday in France quite a bit and we've got some close friends out there and one of their friends came around, brought his homemade sangria, which I know is the Spanish thing, but it's south of France. He was making it and he's a genre, so police with a gun here and it's just like. Drinking sangria with us all at lunch, and then his beeper goes off. He's like, oh, gotta go back to work. It's like now that that is the kind of policing that I can, I can get behind, you know, that, that I like, it makes sense. Whereas I think, yeah, a lot of it, unfortunately, and I know they don't have, there's not enough of 'em. They don't get paid in the way that maybe they should for, for the work they have to do. Dealing with like the dregs of modern British society regularly is gonna grind you down. You know, like, I mean that, I think that's a huge difference between countries like this one and the UK as well. That's just the amount of crime. Yeah. You know, and it's like the amount of, I mean, obviously it's been a while since I've been in the uk, but I remember different parts of like Nottingham, where we used to live, and if you think of like what percentage of a population is up to no good, like the, the percentage would be alarmingly high and it's just not the case. And I think a, a great deal of Southeast Asian countries. This is true. Have you ever had a Bridewell breakfast while you resided in Nottingham, or what's a Bridewell breakfast? So, so Bridewell is the custody suite. If you get arrested. Right. Um, so yeah, I had a bride, well breakfast once. It was, um, baked beans and potato wedges, but they were microwave potato wedges. They weren't the best. It's not the best breakfast I've ever had. Tea was very good. They did do a nice cup of tea, give them that. It was, you know, good and straw. They left the bag in long enough, milk in second, all of that vibe. So I was quite impressed. Yeah, unlimited tea. That's better than like a premier in or whatever. Yeah, I slept all right as well. Not too bad, I have to say. I mean, I was blind drunk, so that did help. Um, right, okay. That's a, a story for another day. So we're gonna have to skip a couple of stories 'cause we, we, we, we we're talking quite, uh, we've talked quite deeply, rambled as we usually do. Mm-hmm. But we do own the audience Before we get into our top fives, a couple of funny stories for today. One is obviously we have to talk about animals. So we've got this holiday cat feeding hustle that's been going down top secret. Yeah, which actually sounds awesome. Sounds like a, a meme coin, doesn't it? The holiday cat feed in hustle coin? It, it, it could be, uh, yeah, it has real intrinsic value. Yeah. So this going to be, yeah, this is it, this Petco worker. So obviously it's just been Lunar New Year, uh, or Chinese New Year, lunar New Year, Vietnamese New Year. And, uh, this pet worker earned 160,000 Yuan and which is equivalent of $23,000 during a, like a, an eight day period, a 10 day period or something like that. Yeah, it'd be something like that. That's awesome. So yeah, it's not just food. She does clean litter trays, medical treatment, bit of nail clipping if she's got time and kitty security, which is. Really, really crucial. Of course, you don't want someone stealing your pussy while you're away for Exactly, yeah. I mean that's, that's it is the time for pussy protection and yeah. So 2000 home visits and he did a thousand himself. Amazing. Right? I mean, that's, that's quite a lot in that time. And yeah. Apparently only slept for like three to four hours a night. Uh, but that's, I guess it's just kind of gone, okay, well this is happening and lunar New Year's a really big thing. So all the big cities will be the same where everyone goes to a hometown. But cats were a popular pet, so bonus can just go cash it and give it a bit of food. Okay. Done. It's really cool. It's a good business mind. He could have made even more money if he had a friend linked to him. But like secretly who goes round after and burgles all the houses. Yeah. But it could be bad. Maybe he's watching the show and that's what he'll do next year. And Wilson, I'll get the blame. Beautiful. And then before we go into top fives, what's this paste are about? Oh, right. So basically, uh, a, a man in Queensland, Australia identifies as a past pastor as far as ano it, it's someone made up this thing. I dunno if it came from like atheism and things went, oh, well you, you know, you believe in God or Jesus. Well, I, I believe in the Flying spaghetti monster. Uh, I'm a pastor and kind of like the, the religious sort of garb is a. A colander that you'd used to, to strain pasta. Okay. So this guy for his driving license obviously wrote, wore his ceremonial religious headdress of a colander when he took his photo. And yeah, the, the local government has come back and saying, s for is, uh, license is not valid and he has to change it. And he's now gonna fight that in course, 'cause his rights and religious freedom of expression. I mean, it's outrageous. How dare they ask him to take off his traditional dress of his religion and his background? That's disgusting. I'm surprised there's not protests about this in the street. Uh, yeah, I mean maybe they will be, and I dunno if he's like really, really taking this seriously or whether it's one of those things as well where he goes, well I can take this to course, I can find like a no win, no feast lister. And if I win, not only will I get to keep my driving license, but I'll probably be able to get some kind of compensation or something.'cause usually that's what people like to do when they go to court. Pass the arianism. It's the new whiplash. Yeah. Basically. Because that's, have you ever heard, that's the old trick, isn't it? If you ever have any kind of car accident and it's not your fault, as soon as you get out the cargo, Ooh, neck brace on my neck. Neck brace on for a few weeks, get 10 grand. Yeah. There's actually gangs that are doing that in the UK where they cut the cable to their brake. And they drive around. Oh, really? And then they like drive slowly. So people get up their ass end and then slam on the brakes with a car full of five people. And then they're all like, geez, uh, whiplash. So then you've got five people. Obviously, once the car's been totaled at the back, you can't, it's, it's, it's hard to say that the brakes were dis, the lights were disconnected because it could have been in the impact. Yeah. So it's one of the reasons dash cams are much more important now.'cause yeah, you could get away with like five, five burly blokes in the back of a Ford Fiesta all neck braces for a few weeks completely. And I guess you wouldn't even need to cut the line. You could just like unscrew a bulb a little bit or not, not giving advice on how to do this of course, but hypothetically, yeah. Okay, so. The part that everybody's been waiting for. They've been patiently waiting while we talk about all the other stories going on in the world. I think it, I think it's a part where everyone switches up and goes, ah, that's enough. Yeah. If you're gonna tune out now, please like, subscribe, leave a comment, let us know if you like our top fives. But today we've got something really special and regional and I'm looking forward to hearing it. So, Adam, take it away with our top fives for this week. Okay. So this week it's um, top five Japanese only emotions. So, I dunno if you've ever heard of this before, but in Japan they have. Actual words for very specific emotions and feelings that we just don't have in the English language. So instead of having, like saying a sentence, like the feeling that you get when you have a bad haircut, they have like a, a distinct word for it. And it's just, for example, which that's a bit of a myth that everyone says about, but it's some ancient Japanese thing. So I haven't included in this, but people can look it up if they would like. It's interesting 'cause maybe a follow on to this at some point is like the German stuff.'cause they can do that as well, can't they? They like. Join loads of words together to make one big longer. Um, you get like a hint of go danker and like Yeah. Schneider can blank to Chanka or whatever. Yeah. Anyway, sorry for any Germans. I'm just offended there. Um, so tell, it's okay. I'm probably about to, uh, offend some Japanese people with my pronunciation anyway. Excellent. Let's go. So the first one, I'm gonna pronounce this wrong, but it's something like re, which is we could save the ache of impermanence and it's, yeah, exactly. So, and this is the gentle, bittersweet feeling. You notice when something is beautiful because it won't last. So things like, uh, cherry blossoms dropping of last night of a holiday. Your kid's suddenly sounding older or the end of an era. It's not on the, it's not like a full on sadness, but it's just like a sort of that moment of tenderness and a like acceptance. But this is fleeting and so it matters. I like that. It's just know really cool. I know that's that feeling cool. Yeah. Yeah. I know that exact feeling And all of these, everyone, as soon as you hear them, you go like, oh yeah, that's happened to me before. I felt like that. And it's just, in Japanese we have a, a specific word. I get like it whenever we get to this point in the temporary scripted episode because I know that we're nearly at the end, you know? Yeah. Uh, okay, so the next one is Yaa. Now. Which is a powerless frustration that you can't fix. So this is one of those times when you know exactly what's wrong, you feel it deeply, but there's no clean action that resolves it. Uh, and it can kind of mean miserable dis consulate and helpless. Um, so it's just when there's, you're sad about something, but there's nothing you can do. It's kind of like if you have a friend that's making a bad choice, but there's nothing you can do to help them. Hmm. I like that. I like that. You're gonna have to do these with a more of an accent though, so you get the pronunciation. Right. Right. Okay. What's at number three? The third one is similar in some ways to the first one, but just a slight difference. And so that's why I put it in,'cause it's just a show, but it's only slightly different. But it's a. Different phrase or word. Mm-hmm. So this would be, there we go. No. Okay. There we go. That's much better. So a proverb often translated as one time, one meeting. And so this is the idea that every encounter unique and, and repeatable, even if the same people meet again, that that one moment is gone forever. And so it's usually associated with tea ceremonies where that, that gathering a meeting, even though you'll have another tea ceremony in a year or something, that exact one only happens that one time. I like it. That's awesome. Very cool. It's cool. I'd kind of like to learn Japanese in some ways. I dunno. But yeah, I guess it would be a lot to learn. But it, after Vietnamese, maybe that might be more useful for you at this point in time. Although I reckon you would look good in a, in a C, C. C kimono. Yeah. There you go. I was gonna say commode. I always get 'em confused. But that's, that's a really big lizard and I don't wanna look good in a Komodo dragon. No, A commode is uh oh. Right. The toilet that old people have in their bedrooms. Yeah. I don't wanna look good in one of those either. Definitely not, no. Okay, so next we have ku. Oh, nice. Which is buying books, ku, there we go. Which is buying books as a personality trait. Oh, it's just. Yeah. So it's like the phenomenon of people just buying books and letting them pile up un red. It's not just that, oh, I've bought this, I just haven't read it yet. It's just this like building like a mini library of intentions. Yeah, I guess. And it's like, oh, the future me is gonna be so literal and, and, and knowledgeable. But yeah, it's just, just a name for that habit. Well, I guess in English we'd say, oh yeah, so and so just hodes books or something. This would just be a, I'm feeling attacked now, so can you stop? Yeah, it's enough. How many books have you got? How many have you read? Lots. I mean, I've read some of them. Um, but yeah. No, not, I I like to put it behind me in shot, so it looks like I'm clever. Yeah. Is it working? Um, they also, they're quite good for stacking to like. Make lights point in the right direction and stuff. They're really, really useful for that. Sometimes if I wanna raise my microphone up, I chuck a couple of books underneath that as well. So War and Peace or something like that, know? Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. So wraps up for today's top fives last. Okay. And the last one is kooky yume. I, I'm not searching that one or often. It's, it's just, uh, shortened to ky the jelly. And this just means literally you cannot read the air. Uh, so it's, it's for someone who's missing, like the unspoken social cues for everyone else is tracking. Like for, for me, the hierarchy, the hint to stop talking. So it's just that, that thing of not being able to read the room or kind of know how to act. Because you, you don't really understand what's happening. You're kind of oblivious to, so you trying to attack me in these last two or is that, what's going on here? Have you made this top five personal, Adam? The last two? All of this seems familiar. Fantastic. But yeah. But that's about it really. That, that would be our top five for today. I love it. Fantastic. If you enjoyed that, ladies and gentlemen, don't forget, give us a, like a subscribe. That brings us to the end sad noise of another episode. Hopefully next week there'll be some news we can talk about that isn't. Epstein Prince Andrew or Wars in the Middle East. Maybe something else will be going on. Maybe aliens will have arrived and we can talk to you about the great arrival of these aliens or something similar. But we do know there'll be more animal stories, so that's a given. Adam, it's been an absolute pleasure as always. Thank you for bringing your wisdom, your knowledge, and your deep, deep, uh, understanding of global. Um, yeah, I, I dunno. I'm gonna stop. Yeah. And thanks for bringing your books and your ky Not a problem at all. I've always got a spare up right here under the desk. See you next time everybody. Bye.