Banksy Identity Revealed, Meningitis Outbreak & Goldfish Breaks Driving Record

Banksy's been unmasked. Reuters did a massive investigation and traced him back to an original arrest 20-30 years ago, plus eyewitness lineups in Ukraine. 

The mystery artist might actually be Robin Gunning (later David Jones). We're diving into whether the anonymity made him more valuable than the actual art.

This week on Temporally Scripted, we're covering the meningitis outbreak in Kent (20 cases, 2 deaths, and it's giving us flashbacks to being kids), China's approved brain-computer implant that's basically Neuralink but Chinese, AI giving dangerously confident but wrong medical advice (like shoving garlic up your arse for immune health), and a woman suing Ribena for £20K after a bottle exploded in her "high spec passive house."

Then we're talking about Elon Musk's vision for Neuralink being the only way humanity survives AI, whether wine and art are massively overpriced status symbols, and a goldfish called Blurb who set a Guinness World Record by driving a motion-sensored car 12.28 meters.

Plus: our Top 5 Psychic Predictions That Allegedly Came True — from Jean Dixon predicting JFK's assassination to Nostradamus and the death of Henry II.

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro & Beard Status Update
05:00 – Banksy Identity Revealed By Reuters Investigation
13:00 – Wine & Art: Overpriced Status Symbols?
23:00 – Meningitis Outbreak In Kent (Flashbacks To Being Kids)
28:00 – China Approves Brain-Computer Implant (Chinese Neuralink)
35:00 – AI Gives Dangerously Wrong Medical Advice
40:00 – Woman Sues Ribena For £20K Kitchen Explosion
48:00 – Goldfish Breaks World Record Driving A Car
52:00 – Top 5 Psychic Predictions That Came True

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Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of Temporally Scripted. So today we are gonna reveal to you who Banke is. We are gonna be discussing the latest deadly virus that we all need to be afraid of, but only if you're a gen alpha. We've got 20 grands worth of rye bea damage. And there's also a record breaking goldfish to look forward to, assuming that my memory is long enough to remember, or at least as long as a goldfish ba boom. But as we are here, again, it's our favorite time of the week and I'm sat here once more with the clean shaven, uh, looking 10 years younger. It's Mr. Adam Garcia. Yeah. What a big improvement, I guess. Not a, not a beard in sight or not No, no. It interesting is see less than your face with a beard. It was kind of bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I have to say last week, 'cause I was making our thumbnails, I obviously we use AI for these kinds of things, and I asked it to, to highlight both of our beards. Yours was pretty accurate. The first version of mine that it made, I had like a big father Christmas style. Oh, like ZZ Top or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, when you've got a bold head, it kind of makes you look like your head's upside down, you know? Nice. It should have run with it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking about it, but you know, I, I would never be allowed a beard that long, at least if I wanted to stay married, you know? Yeah. It's, uh, pretty harsh. Really? Yeah. My wife's not a big fan of beards. When I first met her, I had a long beard and long hair, and it didn't last very long. Oh, right. But she just, while you were sleeping. Just, it was shave it all off. Yeah. Well, no, actually I, um, I was, believe it or not, I was planning on having a top knot and I pulled my hair back to do a top knot. And I noticed you could sort of see through it all. It was a bit like looking at a, you know, a, a weaving table from the pre-industrial revolution. Right, right. Holes, holes in it, you know, so it's, it's not, not ideal, just one of those middle aged things, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at least it meant that I've never been seen out with a top knot. It could have got really, really bad. I mean, do, is that the kind of image that you really want? Seems like a good idea of time, but I'm a big fan of top nuts. Yeah. Hipster tip, top nut thing. Not so good. Yeah. I always think you should put like a little hat on top of them. You know, like little sombrero or something like that. Just a little mini one. Nice. Think that's like kind of funny. Yeah. I think if you're like a samurai or something, then you can get away with a top knot. Yeah. But your average kind of slightly hipsterish kind of dude, maybe not so much. Yeah. Not with Reem pants and skinny. Or skinny jeans and a big fat belly. That's a classic look of our age. Yeah. Millennial dad looks skinny jeans, beer belly, the the tightest jeans you can get and it just somehow pushes all the fat upwards. Yeah. Just kind man with a muffin, top man with a muffin top. I would definitely have one those, to be fair, some of my jeans have become skinny jeans. But they weren't when I bought them 10 years ago, weren't intended that way. I kind of know what you mean. There's the occasional clothes put on. It's like, oh, must have shrunk in the wash or something. It's like, no, no, not at all. No, just some middle aged spread to go with middle, middle aged, uh, bad back at the moment. Had a little bit of lower back pain. Thought I'll do a load of like lower back exercises that that'll cure it. So now it, it hurt a little bit. Now it really hurts. Yeah, that sounds about right. You should go to my acupuncture guy. He's really good at taking you from, hurts a little bit to really hurts. Oh, nice. Do do you pay him for that? Yeah. Yeah. Like you go there and you're like, my foot really hurts. He's like, oh, does it let me just poke it, stamp on the other one in it for an hour? And uh, and, and yeah, it makes it more painful, but usually that's a sign that it's getting worse before it's gonna get better. So maybe, you know, you've done the same to yourself. Yeah, it could be. Well, have you tried hanging yourself? Um, by the neck or, yeah. No. You're just sort of like dead hanging. Yeah. I don't have a, I don't have a, a pullup bar at the moment, which is one thing I want to get because I was thinking about that and I've heard it's really good 'cause it can like help to decompress you back. But also it's just good for lots of, uh, muscles and grip strength and all kinds of things really. Yeah. Yeah. I've got one. You can have it 'cause I've got a frame. So anyway, but we'll go into that another time. People don't need to know about us. The intricacies of a bullet bar. Geriatric Yeah. Of us passing it over. But we have like, and, and as, all as if by magic, the way the universe works, which is interesting. Looking at what our top fives is gonna be later on today. Sure. A little sure is sneaky thing into there, but obviously I didn't, I didn't, I, I didn't, um, wear this deliberately, but I almost have a Banksy esque top on. If you guys can see at home, it's, uh, Mona Lisa in front of a DJ deck. It's definitely inspired by him. It looks completely like his kind of artwork. She does look much happier. She, I guess if she's like dropping bangers. It could be. Yeah. Does does make her look significantly happier than in the real picture. Although I know some people say she looks happy, some people say she looks sad. But this is not about Mona Lisa. This is about Banksy. So what's the story here? Um, someone's done a major investigation into Banksys Identity and Business Network. Yeah. It was covered by writers. They did like some huge investigation into it. Uh, and yeah, I mean for, so some of it goes back to an original arrest. Uh, I can't remember when, but I think it's about 20 or 30 years ago. But there was this like, uh, advertisement on a roof and he looked up and went, I could make something cool with this. So he went up, altered it or that kind of thing, but then later got arrested. And so that was like one of the bits of evidence that was in the past that they could link to his original, original name, uh, 'cause well, which was Robin Gunning, but he later changed his name to David Jones. So it was kind of like a trail to sort of find sort of that original bit. And that's where part of the information came from. And then also some of it came from Ukraine because he went there and put, and the weather was like ruining buildings. It was like Banksy artwork that started appearing. And so yeah, Reuters was like asking locals and did some kind of like lineup as well of like photographs, I guess. So did you see this man, this man? Oh yeah, I saw that one. And that was part of where it came from? Yeah. Yeah. You wonder if he only goes to parties with like DAF punk. Maybe because they went for years, didn't they? With nobody knowing what they looked like or what their faces were. Yeah, we did, which was like a, a really, really cool thing to do in a way. Same as like Dad Mouse and of artists, like bad ias as well. Yeah. Maybe they did all go to a party and it's like no one knows who, how each ever is. It's like one of those like masked parties that, you know, like Venetian style. Oh, like a masquerade ball? A masquerade ball. Yeah. I mean, so the DAF punk thing's cool because I think they even went to EMI when they were doing their record deal with their faces covered and stuff, and the, the label were like, oh, you need to take your, your, you know, your, your for masks off so we can see who you are and sign these legal documents. And they're like, yeah, no, we'll just, we'll sign with someone else if you want us to do that. So like, oh, okay. That's really cool. I mean, that's pretty cool, man. I think they are, the people do know what they look like now and stuff, but yeah. Pretty awesome. It does add to like. Something, there's something really alluring and mysterious about like the hidden identity that I think people really, really like. And it does, like you say, run through like Daft Punk or Banksy or, uh. Anonymous back in the day when there'd be those hacks and versus anonymous whatever on YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if it work in my industry, you know, if I turn up and I just like fix your marketing and all of that stuff, and then I'm out like a ghost. They don't know who I'm phantom of a marketer. Can you imagine? Like, I come, I come into the Zoom call when they wanna pay me or whatever, and I've got a mask on. Oh no, sorry, I don't, I don't reveal my identity. Um, I like, I'm the banksy of marketing. Yeah. I guess it's just, they'd have to, I guess if it paid you in crypto or something like that, maybe it'd be all right. I dunno. Oh, mysterious marketing, I mean, but again, with crypto, the Satoshi Nakamoto story. Just this unknown, mysterious figure that nobody has a clue who it is. Oh, we have some clues, but no one, uh, certain. Um, yeah. Jeffrey Epstein, it might be, I thought we were gonna get away with an episode without it, but it seems like it's impossible. You know, you have to drop it in at some point. Well, it seems like he did have a lot to do with, uh, Bitcoin, uh, yeah. And developers and Yeah. I, I haven't looked into it. I just heard a couple of bits about it. It was like, huh, well, I haven't started vibe coding my own Bitcoin yet. I'm thinking about it, you know, that might, I wonder if I can, can I vibe code my own cryptocurrency? Um, yeah. Can you vibe code your own bank? Well, that would be nice. Yeah. Because you could have, you could have like the legal team, the financial. Experts that you need. You could have the whole infrastructure of transactions. You could have everything over the accounting vibe coded. If I code a a bank, make it a, nah, not a, not a bad idea. Not a bad idea. So, um, so back to Banksy. Do you think he would be as popular if he wasn't anonymous? Or do you think it's just that he does that? Because obviously there's the legal aspect of stuff. I mean, surely now he can pretty much get away with it without getting arrested. You would think so, or, or now are they gonna go back and say, alright? Right. You were responsible for all these acts of vandalism and arrest him. Well, I guess so. Right. I mean, it must still be. You, you, you, you're not just suddenly immune from the law because you're a celebrity. Are you? Like Yeah. I, I guess the difference is though, it's like if someone has a house or a business and banks eaters a a mural on it, they're not gonna call the police. They're gonna call Sotheby's or something and try and like, take out that bit of wall and sell it for 2 million pounds or something. Yeah. Well that was the one that was cool where he did the, the shredded picture one. That was pretty cool. Yeah. Live at auction. Yeah. For those of you that are watching and don't know, Banksy set up, uh, a shredder inside the frame of, um, one of his pieces of work and Yeah. Basically just shredded while they were bidding on it, didn't it? Yeah. Automatically shredded itself. It's just, yeah. Very cool. Yeah, and I think it was then worth more after that as well. They could sell it on again, shredded. I guess the thing is that one piece would then become. Way more notorious than all the other pieces. Um, so yeah, it would be worth more, you, you've just said one piece, which makes me realize how disappointed I've been with the new series of one piece that's came out. But um, that's the topic for another day. I dunno what one piece is. Wow, you haven't lived Adam, you haven't lived. Okay. You need to get back on Netflix or whatever it's on. You need to go and waste eight hours of your life. Yes. On, on Netflix. Um, but yeah, in answer to your previous question, I think the anonymity mate him way more popular. Than any other because it just, it just made it so much cooler that no one knows who it is. And every so often just these artworks would pop up in different places and it kind of gives like a story to the artwork and almost it, it gives it like a kind of robin hood kind of vibe or, I dunno, it's a, it's along those kind of lines. Yeah. And I mean, he is a, he's a thinking artist, isn't he, really? It's not like the art that he creates is anything that's that difficult to create. Right. It's mostly stencils and stuff. It's the, the mix of the styles and like what it's trying to, to show you, you know, like example you've got like the flower in the gun or whatever. It's like Yeah, there's a name for it, which I don't know 'cause I'm an uncultured slob, but there's like a, a name for where you mix this thing and this thing and create something. I, I can't remember. In cooking it would be a fusion. And I like that 'cause I'm a fat bastard, right. When it comes to art and culture, I mean, I, I do like an art gallery. Like I, I've been to some of the ones in the uk like tape modern and all of these things. I do like it, but I don't really get it. You know, when people go in and I'm like, oh yeah, that kind of looks cool when you got like, you know, a a like a pencil sticking out of like a cow's ear or you know, like half a Yeah. Do in formaldehyde or whatever. Like, oh, I mean, I, I, I see it and I'm like, oh, that's kind of cool, but I don't really get it. I know what you mean with some of a kind of modern or contemporary art or those kinds of museums. I've been to ones in the past where I've been walking round not really knowing what everything is to the point that you get to the corner of a room and thereor a fire extinguisher and you start to think is fat. A fire extinguisher or, or is that a piece of artwork? I, I dunno, because like with everything else in here, I can't tell. Yeah. I'm so confused right now. Is this part of it? Is this something extra? Yeah, I, and I dunno if that, that, that again is because I just don't understand things. Like, I can look at a really nice statue or a, a picture or like a painting and I can understand it. But yeah, some of this of a, like there's an artist called Tracy Emin isn't there? And she has this thing called the unmade bed. Yeah. And it's literally just like her bed and her bedroom of like bottles. And it looks like my bedroom when I was a student. Basically. There's like fagg ends around and all this other stuff everywhere. I, I think it's the same kind of bollocks as like fine wine, you know, where they go, oh, this wine is like vintage. It's like, is it, is it vintage? Like, can you really tell the difference between this vintage wine and the. Four pound bottle of wine from bargain booze. I'm doubting it. I mean you, you probably could, but I think it's, as the price goes up, probably the difference in, so if a price goes up like this in a huge way, the actual difference in taste probably goes up on a much smaller gradient. As in, yeah, I'm sure when those bottles of wine where it's like 2000 pounds, 10,000 pounds, I'm sure it tastes really nice. Did how many times better does it taste than the bottle that I bought for three euros from some random little place in Spain that makes wine? The, the difference won't be huge, you know? Yeah. And I mean, does any wine actually taste nice? I kind of like it. There's something about, about flavor that's not just alcoholism. I mean, I definitely like after free bottles, it's because, you know, when you're like a, a 12-year-old and you have your first class of wine, which is usually when you start in Europe or the uk, like you're not, you're not like, you don't have that first glass of wine and go, Hmm, that's, that's really good. I can't, I'd much rather drink this than rib. Like, it's, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it is, it is an acquired taste, isn't it? Um, it, it really is. I find sometimes as well, if I open a bottle of wine, let it breathe for a little bit, whatever, pour a glass that first sip, I then go, Hmm, that's delicious. It's usually the first sips kind of like. Yeah. Okay. It's usually like the, the second or third way you go. Oh, actually that's, that's quite nice. Which is called inebriation. Right. And by sip of course I'm in glass. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So I don't know. It is an interesting one. I am in that snobby period of like five weeks no alcohol there, where I'm like, ah, it's poison in a glass. It doesn't taste great. It's terrible. I can't believe you all still drink that losers. Look at how much better I am than you. You like when you're a week into a detox and you're like. I can't believe you eat that. Unbelievable disgraceful, doing that to your body. My body is a temple good there. And with the, the alcohol thing, it's like a couple of weeks of like, hmm, I, I might just have a, a, a beer and then pretty soon you like nine deep, you're posting crap on Facebook, arguing with people. Yeah. Uh, people that you think are people. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, I, I think that is it for me is like, I can't be a one drink sort of guy. Um, I, I'm a 20 drink guy. I don't see the point in it. I'm, and I, and I guess that is related to not really liking or understanding the taste of alcohol. It's like if I drink, like I don't think, oh, I'll just have two beers. What, what's the point in that? I don't, I just don't get it. Go out, just have two beers, enjoy it. Go home. Like why? I don't know if I'm not having Yeah. 20 fags and 12 beers, what's the point? I might as well not bother. I think especially with, I mean, uh, I wholeheartedly agree with that point, but also I was just thinking with the, the whole wine thing, it's, I think it's massively inflated in price and yeah, there is like a scarcity with certain bottles and whatever.'cause only so many were made and there's only so many left. And so it becomes valuable, but it, it's just way overpriced for what it is. And I think it's, it's almost just like a, like a fashion thing for, for certain members or people at certain levels of society to go, oh, I've got the chateau from this cost me 10,000 bottle. And it's like, yeah, it might've done, but it's like, it's just stuff. Drink that's gonna get you a bit drunk and tastes okay. The, the whole market seems really inflated and it's kind of the same, you know, when you have like really, really prestigious brands and for some reason this bag of these shoes cost some ungodly amount of money. And it's like, why? Hmm. It's just, it's just material stitched together of like a reasonable quality. It probably costs like, I don't know, $20 to make, but you are selling it for two grand and it's not, I, I dunno, there, there's always these kinds of markets. Just rich people have got money, so let's pretend that this is high quality. We'll take that money. Yeah. Yeah. And it links back down to one of those sort of click run things in humans where they. The, the, they see the value of things they don't understand the value of based on the price. It's like the first thing that you look at, and there's a story about this in the book called Influence by Robert Cialdini. And he is basically, this woman has got these pots in a seaside town that she can't sell and she keeps reducing the price. Reducing the price, and no one buys 'em, right? So she gets super annoyed and just leaves a note for her assistant while she goes away one weekend, uh, to say, just cut 'em by half, that's the cost price, get 'em sold. Um, and then she comes back and they've all been sold and she says to assistant, oh great, you know, we sold all of that brown pottery or whatever. Like, um, have you got the receipts for it? The assistant's like, yeah, they went yesterday, here's the receipts. And she looks at 'em and the assistant has accidentally doubled them in price. Right. That's reason. And because the people come into that, yeah, they come into the seaside town, they don't have a fucking clue what these things are worth, but they see it's a high price and they're like, oh, it's a high price, so they must be good. I'm gonna buy 'em. Right. And, and that's like, I think when people get richer and stuff, and there's an interesting line and a divide isn't there, between like certain things, and I know we are meandering into all kinds of stuff, but it's temporarily scripted. So if you don't like it, you can fuck off If you do like it, subscribe, but it's the bottom. Um, but like the same, yeah, the same with things like, you know, Louis Vuitton and all of these brands, like richer people, rich, rich people don't really bother with that shit. Like Mark Zuckerberg wears like $500 t-shirts, but they don't have a brand on.'cause he doesn't need to go, oh look, I'm rich. It's like, yeah, he, he doesn't care about that. So there's like levels within this as well, isn't there? Yes. You have that like, people trying to get status by showing, oh, I've got this, it's Dolce Gano, whatever. And it's like, yeah, but you just spent like half of a month's wages. And now you're gonna be skin at the end of the month, but at least you look better in front of your friends. But yeah, there's elements of that as well. And, and it's always, that's probably a great marketing trick that they've played on people. Yeah. Yeah. This is it. So anyway, Banksy, we, we, uh, got, got a little bit lost, but it does make sense though because it's like, again, it's like the, you know, is Banksy stuff worth millions of dollars? Well, not really. Do you know what I mean? Not really. Like, and again, a lot of these things, it is, it's just interesting a, a a view of how the human mind works and how value works and all of these things. Um, yeah. And would it, would some of his pieces be worth that much money if he wasn't anonymous all these years? Yeah. I mean, it's kind of partner is. No. Exactly, exactly. So moving on to something a bit more serious, um, but also an interesting one. It's something I actually remember from being a kid. So there's a big meningitis outbreak in Kent and it's a national incident where a lot of students, uh, getting sick with this really serious, uh, meningitis disease cluster. I think two dads so far, uh, 15 cases, and it's something I remember which up to 20 now. Wow. And, and something I remember, I think this first became a thing when we were at school. I remember meningitis being a big thing when we were young. Um, have memories of it. Yeah. Uh, remember someone in my class getting meningitis and being off for like a week or something, and I know there's B and C or something. Meningitis A, meningitis B, meningitis C like one of them's worse than the other. Yeah. There's like the viral form and the bacterial form. Uh, yeah. And like, I think they eventually lead to like sepsis or something like that. And from what I remember, meningitis, it's like, uh, it's like an inflammation of something that goes around the brain for meninges or something. I'm guessing that's not scientific men, but I'm guessing meningoccal B uh, so it's meningitis B um, an invasive bacteria disease. Yeah, the bacterial one. And I mean, it is also I, so I also remember things like closing your mouth like this and like being able to move your, move your chin to your chest was like the way you would test. Because I remember being a kid and being super paranoid about if you get slightly I Ill or something and going, no, no, I can, I can still, still do that, I think. And the other one was it not you get a rash and if you put like a glass on the rash. And push it. And if the rash disappears, then it's okay. And I've still done that in recent years. It's like, it's weird how these things get so ingrained in you, um, when you're They do. Yeah.'cause it's, you're kind of conditioned with it. And I, I suppose as a kid what you're doing is you are learning how to survive and how to interpret your environment. And so probably it's like an evolutionary thing that when you get told certain things as a kid, that stays with you forever. And so yeah, you'll still like check with a glass. Is that rash? Go in? Um, 'cause it would be, 'cause that's how animals would have to, uh, evolve and learn during childhood, which is probably still why every so often we mention, uh, something and we think it's knowledge, but it was something that we heard in the playground at school. When we were seven years old, but we still think it's true for some reason. Alright. I feel called out. There's no need to call me out directly. That is No, Adam. Thanks. You know, like crazy. Why is it cold Friday again? Oh yeah. Friday. Yeah, exactly. Because that's when we fry is the day we fry. I wonder if this would be such a big deal if we hadn't have had, obviously everything that went on with COVID is my first question. Um, my second question is like, how, what's the difference between, you know, the COVID pandemic and this spreading and this meningitis thing? Like is this something that could go far and wide or is it more difficult to pass between things? I mean, I know you have. Deep medical experience and expertise. So if you could tell me, you know, what to expect, should I be worried? Well, for, for one, I think the, the media loves a good virus story. Uh, just as they learned during COVID, that that was a good way to sell papers. And so every so often you get it rattled out and it, the next thing's gonna be the next big pandemic or whatever, get people scared. And I think that's definitely happening here. I mean, with meningitis, it's like, yeah, you can, you can catch this from other people, but you have to be very, very close to them or exchanging some sort of, uh, fluids of various things. Ah, so that's why it's, its big in the student world. Think it was, I'm sure it was known as like the kissing disease, uh right. Many years ago. Right. And so it's, it's really close contact, but. It gets spread. So it could be like you're sort of talking to someone close to them, some bit of spigot and lands on, you've got a lisp stay. So, so the advice list is stay away from people that have lisps, no orgies, uh, no bomb sharing. That was another one that they mentioned. Actually. They mentioned people what bong sharing, but close people sharing, uh, vapes. Oh yeah, yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. And there would be other things that students are sharing that Yeah. All that kind of thing. It's just a transfer of like saliva from one to the other. So it's bus stop twos. Yeah, exactly. So don't ask for bus stop. Twos off random people at the bus stop and you should be all right. But yeah, it's nothing, it's nothing like ever viruses that we've had where they're actually quite contagious and can be airborn. It's seems to be nothing. Like that. Right. Okay. So no more lds, did you call it LDS as well? Last drags sa, save as LDS on that date. Ah, those are the days. Good memories. No, no more salvaging the buts from ashtrays for days where you can't afford any more backer before the gyro binging in the ashtray. Yeah, I've run out of backer. You gonna after to salvage some of these tab ends. Good times. Good memories. Yeah. Anyway, moving on. So. This, this kind of makes me think about Neurolink, but China has approved a commercial brain computer implant. Is this the new way for us to keep up with AI as we move closer to a GI and then a SI Or is this some mad hype situation? Um, what's the story? Morning gory. Well, I think it, it could well be some mad hype situation 'cause things often are also, I think you said it reminds me of neural link. I wonder how much it, it reminds Elon Musk of neural link and how close neural link it might actually be because I, I know that you're pretty close. Uh, quite often Chinese researchers seem to be very good at researching existing ideas and known technology and copying it really well. So I dunno how much of like neural links. Actual patents or ideas went into this or, or what it actually is in full. But would, would you get one? Uh, how about you get one first? We'll see what happens. I'll give it six months. How about I get the new one worm and you test the Chinese worm? Yeah. Good deal. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. So if you go to, uh, talk in Neurolink and Elon Musk, he said that the reason that he invented it is because he, he perceives it as the only way humanity can can sustain in an AI future. Like the only way that humanity can continue to be useful in an AI future. And his thought process behind it, as I understand it, I might be misquoting or bastardizing. What he said a little bit is that human brain is very, very good and. Brilliant at lots of things, but it's processing speed is, is slower. So by giving it like a neuro link, it's, it gives it an ability to access information and process quicker, which means that we have a place in a AI driven world that we're, that we're moving towards. Interesting. Yeah, I, I guess it would just be, Hmm. I think part of it would be that our senses are only so good and there's only so much information we could take in at one time, and maybe this would increase the amount of information that we can take in, like increase the sort of broadband, which is interesting. And maybe also for the output as well, because. Think about it now, when we're using ai, we're not really using it to its full potential and say, imagine like how long it is. Say if you go on Claude and decide to make a project to make something or design a website or something like that, you've got to think, you've got to think about it yourself. You've got to type it. Then Claude gives you the output. You've got to read all that. Then you've gotta put in, oh, change this, this, and this. Can we do? And you're having this really long back and forth, whereas if the connection was a lot quicker, you could do that so much faster and still, yet still be conscious of it. Yeah. Almost like every thought you have can then go and become a fully processed thing. Yeah, but I can be sat here now thinking, oh, oh, after this podcast, I've got to. Remind this person about this thing. And just that very thought in my head, if I've attached a neurolink and go, oh p, and it goes off and does it for me, I'm like, oh crap, I've got a clash tomorrow. Like that pops into my head a minute ago. I've got a clash. I agreed to meet someone for lunch and I've got someone coming to my house, right? And I'm like, oh crap. That literally that split second thought while we're doing this podcast could go P, and it runs off and executes and sends the messages, does all this stuff, and then comes back and goes, Hey, that's sorted. So it's like, yeah, like that kind of stuff. I mean, when it gets back kind of stage, I dunno how much we'll actually be able to process, however it all like literally overloads our systems. And what would the point of processing it even be? I dunno.'cause you could just get an AI to do it for you. Yeah. Like, oh, let's have a lunch. We need to catch up. We we're caught up. I know everything that's going on in the world in your mind, you know, everything that's on mind. Catch up. We got, okay, cool. Like, what's next? You know, it's, it's, there's no, instead of subscribing to a podcast, you, you could just subscribe to someone's like, train of thought. Yeah. You, you literally could. And I think that's when you hit the point of singularity, you know, well, if, if we're not in it already. But I think the thing is as well, it's another example of that idea of hyper novelty where we're growing up in a, a world that we weren't evolved to, and then that world is changing around us continually. And I think, uh, having computers linked to our brains could be so well, we definitely not evolved for it. And I would just, in the same way that we see so many different problems with, uh, like mental health or depression and all kinds of problems that seem to stem from our current interaction with technology and social media and everything else, this would just be the next stage. And we, they could have a lot of unintended consequences. Yeah. It's, and the way that this kind of worded, I mean, I get that these kind of things are really, really good for medical Right. And that's what they're being brought in as now, is that they can help you if you've lost your, you know, ability to walk or you've got brain disease or all of these other potential things, um, that it can solve quadriplegia and whatever else. Right. Is, is crazy cool. Um, and yeah, huge in terms of what it can do. But then when it says things like this, it, uh, so Reuters said that it uses a. Minimally invasive extradural implantation. That, that sounds a lot easier than I believe that it is. The, the minimally invasive extra implement implantation method. So they're, they're definitely gonna just call out the M mi i, aren't they the, the My method. Yeah. Come in tomorrow, get you Mave done. Yeah. Yeah. It's minimally invasive. You can see it on the other, that minimally invasive brain implant. I mean, well, it's better than it being maximum maximally invasive. Yeah. Are we just, it's gonna be like a, a Robocop terminator style future. Really. I don't, I don't know. Um, may, maybe the best possibility for the future of humanity is some kind of huge EMP. Yeah, I've thought about that, but actually, and it does kind of happen. Uh, every so often, uh, you just get a, a huge wave of like electromagnetic radiation from the sun. And maybe in some ways if it just went, just fried everything shut down, AI shut down various weapons systems, everything else, and we all just have to kind of start again. It might, in a funny way, it could actually delay via AI apocalypse. Yeah. But then that being said, if that happens, what do all the nuclear do? Power stations just like meltdown. Like what happens? No, I think most power stations, there's like a kind of safety mechanisms. So if, if a power is cut, I, I believe, anyway, I. Initially, right, but surely over time, concrete will degrade everything. Like they, they, there's, they're ticking time bombs. Unless something is done, now, this is gonna be my rabbit hole for the afternoon. Now, folks, I'm gonna be in AI saying if there was like an EMP that wiped out all power and all communication across the planet, would the nuclear power stations like meltdown eventually? Like what the, you know, anyway, I mean, this is a thing about these neural implants. If you had one, you could have just asked it. Got the question already. Answer. Yeah. How much better would this podcast be? Yeah, we'd actually know what the fuck we were talking about. Um, it'd be amazing. This stuff's making my brain hurt. So like let's do one and one more AI story and then we can start talking about Ribena and goldfish Breaking world records.'cause that is much more in our lane. Really good. Um, then, you know, some of this stuff it's, it's, it's crazy. But yeah. So this is, uh, an, an article that was highlighted in a fine piece of British journalism. Uh, it used to be my morning literature in the office at Boots, uh, which is the metro. Fantastic. Free daily newspaper, but they've highlighted this study about AI sounding confident but being dangerously wrong. Can you tell us a little bit more about the example that we've got?'cause uh, this is right up your street, right up your alley or up Uranus. Yeah, well this is it. So they cited a study, um, where researchers had looked into various lms and it is what we just mentioned, that they sound incredibly confident, but can be dangerously wrong, some in slightly more humorous ways for others. So, so one large language model literally recommended to someone, but if a, um, shoved some garlic where, where the sun doesn't shine, then that would boost their immune health. Makes sense. I mean, they say that things up there. They act quicker than things down here. And I know when I've had bad colds before, I've like crunched garlic up with honey and other stuff and, and it does seem to speed the recovery from such things if you ingest it so you can understand why people might think if you deposit that up, the tailpipe, um, that you might end up, you know, with a, a faster benefit I guess. Yeah. I guess the thing is for, for Lancet did describe this as potentially harmful. Yeah, I, I mean, I guess it probably would be, at least for your family, that have to smell your, it's not gonna be great. Is it really? Not really. No. You know, I mean, I'm on a high protein diet as it is, so it's already bad. But if I started like stuffing garlic at my rectal orifice, I think it would probably make my farts, uh, even more dangerous than they already are, you know? Yeah. Um, but I guess the whole thing, it is one of those problems with ai and it, it always does sound confident and speaks like it's correct. But the thing is, it, there's a lot of cases where it's not. And some of the things that, uh, they cited in here was times when it advised that getting a mammogram was bad because that could actually give, uh, and cause breast cancer, which it. It doesn't. And so it's, some of the advice is kind of dangerous in many ways. Um, I I'm sure there's been worse examples than that as well, but I, I guess the thing to do is just kind of anything like that, take it with a pinch of salt and a bulb of garlic. Of the garlic of the bone. Yeah. Uh, at least to disinfect it a bit with a bit of oil. Yeah. Not good. Not fun. I was, I mean, just thinking, uh, I know, uh, from stories I've heard in the UK sometimes it's quite a long wait to get to see a doctor, and I wonder how many more people are now self diagnosing with ai. I mean, the thing is when you could argue as well, well, even if it's not right, if it's right, most of the time maybe that's better than waiting an extra two weeks to see the doctor or something. Yeah. As long as you don't start asking how to do surgery and instead Yeah. Uh, um, but how do I extract this myself? Yeah. Crazy. I, I wonder if this was what happened with Carolyn Jensen when she decided to sue Ena for 20,000 pounds.'cause a bottle of it exploded in her kitchen. And Cha GPT said, yeah, sure. That's a great idea. Lemme go into the legalities behind this. Yeah, well, which is actually a, a very, very interesting story. So, yeah. So she's claiming 20,000 pounds worth of damage was caused when a ribbin, a bottle exploded in a kitchen. There's, there's, there's something not quite right about this. Surely. I mean, you'd have to be very rich for, for it to cause that much damage. And I, let's just have a look. So she said she woke in the night to a loud pop like bang and found with a bottle of RIBA had exploded in the kitchen. Mm-hmm. Um, so apparently she opened a bottle the previous week drunk, about a quarter of it. I dunno if that was meat or mixed with something. And she, she left it outside of her fridge lying down. It seems like there's a buildup of pressure because like the, the bottle itself, it actually rounded, which could be a sign of fermentation caused by yeast, but, uh, manufacturer not gonna speculate where the yeast came from. Carolyn then, well, the, the manufacturers saying that it wasn't their problem and it was not caused by manufacturing progress and the, and it did say once open store in the fridge drink within 21 days. So I think she might have left it in Beth for quite a long time. But she's, she's sort of saying that the costs were like 4,500 pounds for plastering, 1,500 for floor polishing and chairs costing around 3,600 pounds each. Wow. I'm gonna get into the floor polishing business. We'll start. That's it. I'm done with marketing. I'm gonna become an anonymous floor polisher. Yeah, why not? I think it's a good way to go. It seems pretty lucrative. Um, the marketing campaign can be like secretly polishing people's floor at night and then leaving, so they don't know who polished it. I think what you need is like a, a partner in crime who's like a er insider. It can secretly put a little bit of yeast in each bottle and have more explosions around the country. Yeah. Is there the bit missing from this story that her son or daughter is a, like a YouTuber maybe? Yeah. And this is kind this reaction, you know, like the Coke bottle prank people do, where they get a Coke bottle and put some Mentos in it and then like put it in the fridge and then hide, waiting for their family member who obviously knows about it already, but looks like they don't know about it and they come in and open the fridge and get, you know. Yeah. Could be something kind of like that. What is a high spec passive house, by the way, because it says in the article, the house is described as a high spec passive house. What does that mean? I have absolutely no idea. What's a passive house and what, what's an active house? It sounds like a music genre. Oh yeah. What do you play, mate? I, uh, active house. Yeah. If it gets late, it's some passive house and people are on a more chill, I'll play some passive house, but mostly I'm an active house dj. Um, I mean, what, what is that? I have no idea. Is it some kind of like eco-friendly thing? Passive house. I dunno. It sounds like some pretentious bullshit to me. It really does. Uh, 'cause that's one thing I've definitely never, ever heard of. Uh, let's have a look. What is, let's see if Google has any answers. A building designed to an ultra low energy standard that provides exceptional thermal comfort and indoor air quality with almost no reliance on traditional heating or cooling systems. Oh, okay. Yeah. Pretty fancy. I'm just laughing again at the, uh, the talking points.'cause I know we do our preparation and one of the talking points says. People think of familiar consumer brands as basically risk free. So when something bizarre happens, it feels like a betrayal, not just an inconvenience. How dare you ride? Be in a bottle, betray me and destroy my kitchen. Oh, the horror. Brilliant. Okay. The part that everybody's been waiting for today, me included. Right? We love a good, good record here at Ted Port scripted Guinness Records. They should come and get involved. Maybe we are the longest running podcast with the lowest number of subscribers. I dunno. I believe so. Possibly. Possibly we could get a Guinness World record for that. But a goldfish called blb has helped set a Guinness World record by driving a motion sensored vehicle. Yeah. Which is pretty wild. Yeah. So it's essentially for, for the listeners, I dunno if we can show a picture, but it's basically like a, a radio controlled car with a, a gold, a small goldfish tank on the top, and then what looks like a foam on top of that. And there's a motion sensor inside. And every time a fish moves, the, the car moves the same direction. I have got the image. So if I could just, uh, share my screen very quickly for the viewage, um, assuming that it will load for me. Um. Yeah, so I've got actual footage of this goldfish driving the car here, um, as you can see. So I'm, I'm not sure that's exactly Acura. Oh no, sorry, it's this one. Yeah, must be. Uh, but actually it's this one guys, so just so you, you it is, it would be more fun blurb himself that is b blurb over here. It would be more fun if it was this guy or even this guy. Uh, actually except one too many. Yeah. This actually gives me a bit of PTSD. Um, I was doing, I've, I've started going through the David Goggins book recently and Okay. Because I feel like I need someone to kick me at my rectal orifice. Second time we drop that in today. Um, and yeah, he talks about writing down all of the things in your life that you remember that are potential trauma. And one of the things I remember when I was a kid, I used to have a recurring dream that my dad was, um, his head was a goldfish. Right. Did he just have like the so in the, the front part, or was his whole head No, a whole goldfish. Yeah. So, and I can still remember this to my day, to, to the day I'm 38 years old. Right. Um, yeah, I, I remember this vivid dream that I had repeatedly of like being in bed and looking over at my dad and his head being a whole goldfish. Oh, wow. Sir. I dunno what to say. Really? Seek help, seek help, and never call me again. Yeah. So yeah. So this goldfish drove 12.28 meters. I dunno if he was the first one setting the record or if it's a record. That is the previous record. The previous record was five meters. Uh, so more than doubled record, which is quite impressive. See, and people wonder what humans will do when AI takes over all the stuff. I mean, do, do you think Guinness World Records is getting a, a little bit outta control because this, right.'cause if you read it, it's like Blb set for record for the greatest distance covered in a motion sensing vehicle by a goldfish in one minute. And that's an actual record. This is what, but, but what else will humans do once AI takes over all the important stuff? This is that. Maybe setting Guinness World Records is gonna be the thing. There might be a whole Olympics of this goldfish that drove the longest for one minute. Goldfish for two minutes. Endurance. Goldfish. Goldfish. Swimming inside a tank. Inside a swimming pool that has a mechanical robot on the outside swimming that's controlled by the goldfish. Right? Like a tank in a tank in a all kinds of things. Really? The sky's the limit really, isn't it? You know, you just, just, you know, a goldfish riding a horse that's riding. We have, we have the, the singularity with ai, but this could be the singularity of goldfish doing stuff and yeah, breaking records. Just think about this. A goldfish that's controlling a horse that's gotta run a race while the horse that's running the race is controlling the goldfish. That's gotta swim a distance. I mean, that is. The cinema. You, you could have some kind of loop as well where the goldfish is controlling the horse. The ho horse is controlling the goldfish and who knows? And they're roll on wheels somehow. I, I would subscribe to that for $9 99 a month. So something rocket powered in that would be good as well. Just, uh, add a bit of fun. I'm sure. Read the sheds on it already. Exactly. You know, and that's it. We're gonna have more time for these things in the future, but yeah. Wild. What a, a crazy record. It does make me wonder what else there could possibly be, you know, I wonder if I can get like the world record for the fastest time pushing a pen across a six foot standing desk. Um, it's probably already take been taken Pinky. I dunno. Madness. Madness. Anyway, so that brings us to the final part of our episode here today on temporally Scripted, uh, as always, we bring you our top fives and today's top fives. Adam, take it away. Yeah. So today's top fives are top psychic predictions that allegedly came true. So, as we know, there's been a lot of, uh, psychics throughout history and on occasion some of them are right. Yeah. Uh, so the, the first one was someone called Jean Dixon. And this is widely sort of stated in history as a good example of a psychic being Tre, correct? Tre. So, uh, yeah. So in 1956 she was in an issue of Parade Magazine and she predicted that the Democrat would win the present presidency, but then, uh, not make it out of office and be bumped off. And later. JFKA Democrat was elected in 1960 and then on 22nd of November, 1963, it all ended in Deley Plaza. And then on the 22nd of December, 1963, Dixon was arrested for the assassination. Assassination might be a good word to block out. Actually I was trying not to use it 'cause it seems to get flagged. Oh, or definitely does on social media. I dunno if it does on YouTube. I guess we'll find out. Hard to tell though, when you only get some views. Yeah, yeah. Subscribe folks. Please. Please subscribe. Uh, okay. So the next one was, um, by a famous psychic called Edgar Casey, uh, who's really well known. A lot of people really believe him and so much so you now have like the Edgar Casey Foundation and various other things. But he had a warning in 1929 that Wall Street would crash late that year. Mm-hmm. Um, which, yeah, so. Apparently it was about six months before the Wall Street crash of 1929, and he wanted a great disturbance in financial circles. And then six months later in October, but the great crash came. Um, wow. So, yeah, which is kind of good, but I would imagine it was such a huge crush. And I would imagine in certain circles there was people talking about it already. Uh, just like now, if it's that, I can't remember the exact quote, but it's something like, um, someone talking about economists and it's like economists who've predicted 11 of the last two recessions. There's, there's always people like making Yeah. The guy who did wrote Rich Dad, poor Dad, what's his name? Richard K something. Kiyosaki, I think I was close. Um, I was real close and yeah, he's always saying it's gonna crash or whatever, every three months until and has been for at least a decade. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Uh, yeah. So number three is also Edgar Casey.'cause this is quite a good one. It was called the, the sleeping Prophet, because apparently you'd go into these like translate sleep states and would come back with predictions to see the original Jeffrey Epstein. Probably, I, who knows, let's not make those kinds of allegations. Oh, no, no, yeah. Just, just, just, uh, you know, being facetious. Yeah. But yeah, back in 1935, he described Austrian Germans and later the Japanese as joining in their influence. In the future and people kind of went, wow, that's interesting. But then of course, world War II comes and you had Austrian, Germans and Japanese joining in their influence, which is kind of interesting. Yeah, I think with a lot of these things. So it's like psychics, we get a lot of things right, but that's'cause we say a lot of things. And the percentage is always kind of low. And it's like when you have the, the people doing psychic readings in front of an audience and it'll, it'll be on stage and goes, I'm, and I can see an elderly gentleman at the back and I, his name's got like a ju just sounds, is it John or James? Someone goes, oh, maybe it's my uncle Jeff. Good enough. Okay. Yeah, he was in the Army. He was in the Army, wasn't he? No. Oh, no, no. But, but he did like the color green. Do you remember that green jumper that he had? Oh, yeah, yeah, I do actually. Yeah. Has he got a message from me? Has he got a message for me from the other side? It's like, oh, well, he, he says, uh, he's proud of you, but the number nine will be important to you in the future. And he says that he doesn't like the picture in your living room. Which picture? He says, you'll know for one. And it's like, and, and all the hits are go. Wow. Yeah. Okay. And for Mrs. People just forget. Um, that's how psychics work. Crazy stuff, eh, unfortunately. Right. Anyway, I'm with it. So, uh, number four is Nostradamus and the death of Henry ii. Nostrid Dam is probably the most famous psychic in history, I would say. Uh, but yeah, he, he published, uh, his prediction in, uh, 1555 and Henry II died in 1559 from a, I believe it was a jousting injury. Terrible way to go. Uh, it sounds pretty bad, but again, balanced. But I was just gonna say a, again, with like Nostradamus, you had these, what we called quatrains, but for all really vague. So some people think he did something and predicted nine 11 'cause he said something like, two brothers will fall in the west and it on a certain day. Oh, well, it could, could mean literally anything. And for more vague, you make it, the easier it is to link back. Exactly, especially after the fact. Um, yeah. And the last one was someone called Ro, who predicted his own death. Uh, he was like a, a famous Irish palmist and a cult celebrity, uh, in the late 1990s. Ah, chiro. So it was exactly, um, so yeah, apparently he predicted his own DAF in 1936, some say down to the hour, but that's, that's kind of contested. But he did get the day right and it, it seems like he died of an illness, so it wasn't like self-inflicted just to make sure that his prediction came true. Yeah. But, but anyway, that's his commitment knew he was on the way out and he thought, you know what? Let's get this right and either way, on that day, chiro said Cheerio and that was it. Oh dear. I'm sorry if any of his family are subscribers, we don't mean that. I know it was a very long time ago. It was indeed, but uh, I guess he was right about something. Fantastic. And that wraps us up for this week's top five, and it does wrap us up for this week's episode. So temporarily scripted is done for another week. Sad times. I might add in a little, ah, in, you know, sound effect in, in the edit. I think you should. I probably won't. So yeah, thank you very much everybody for tuning in. Don't forget, give us a like, subscribe, share it, tell your friends, tell your nan and we will see you next week. Thank you very much, Adam, for joining us once again. As always. See you next time folks. Goodbye.