SHE DRANK 14 TEQUILAS & GOT $300K ...plus deepfake politicians & a 12ft support alligator

AI deepfakes are now good enough that people genuinely can't 
tell if a politician said something or not. That's where we 
start this week.

Jack and Adam break down how AI-generated videos of Starmer 
and Trump are being used to manipulate political opinion, why 
one in five UK teenagers are now too scared to share their 
views online, and whether Keir Starmer summoning tech CEOs to 
Downing Street to "stop the scroll" is theatre or policy.

Then things get weirder. A woman in California drank 14 
tequila shots on a Carnival cruise, fell over, and walked 
away with $300,000 in compensation. 

A man in New York lost a 
two-year legal battle to keep his 12-foot emotional support 
alligator called Albert. A Chinese man got jailed in Kenya 
for smuggling 2,000 ants in specialised tubes. And Lidl — yes, 
the supermarket — is opening a pub.

The Top 5 this week is greatest acts of espionage in history, 
featuring the Cambridge Five, the Zimmerman Telegram that 
dragged America into WWI, and the genius who invented an 
entire fictional spy network and got awarded medals by both 
sides.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open
01:00 AI deepfakes are fooling voters
08:00 Trump posts himself as Jesus (accidentally?)
14:00 One in five UK teens self-censoring online
20:00 Starmer summons tech CEOs to stop the scroll
27:00 Lidl opens a pub
32:00 Man jailed for smuggling 2,000 ants
34:00 14 tequilas, one cruise, $300K compensation
40:00 Man loses 12-foot emotional support alligator
44:00 TOP 5: Greatest acts of espionage in history
58:00 Wrap up

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Welcome back to Temporally Scripted, and this week we're gonna be talking about deep fakes that are taken over and not the good kind. We're also gonna be looking at the woman who drank shedloads of tequila and got a massive 220 grand payoff, which sounds like an ideal holiday. Whether or not we are gonna see jet fuel run out and there's gonna be carnage all over Liverpool because people can't go on their jet two holidays to the the coast of Spain and various other things. So stick around. There's lots to come in today's episode, but as always, the bit that we've been looking forward to and clean cut, nice haircut this week. Coming in, looking fine. Here he is, the man, the myth, the legend. The person that doesn't age. It's Adam Garcia. It's wonderful to be here as always. Um, yeah, happy days. So, uh, deep fakes, not the kind that, you know, you, you used to find where people are superimposed, like a celebrity's head on the body doing certain things as a teenager or is that just me? Maybe, who knows, maybe we're slightly different generations. Yeah, I just had slightly different browsing history. I dunno. Possible. Possible. Yeah. I'll show you yours if you show me mine. Not at all. I think it's your, anyway. Yeah, moving on. So these deep fakes, um, obviously AI getting a hell of a lot better and I heard a cool, um, an interesting story yesterday, which I'll bring back in shortly of someone's live experience of, uh, deep fakes in a slightly different way. But yeah, there's now a lot of fake politicians, um, starer Trump, not just UK ones saying things, doing things, and people are starting to believe that they're real and it's taken. Yeah. Taking, uh, or creating a, a belief system of like, oh, I saw a thingy say at Ki Stama, say it on TV or whatever, and people are believing this shed now. Yeah. Which is really scary in all kinds of different ways. So one, it means that you could like, genuinely have interference in elections 'cause um, it could come from foreign powers. So, you know, we heard about our, like the Russian collusion and Russian do and like, now they actually could do, they can have a politician do or say anything, use some bot farm and spread that on social media so everyone sees it. And you could literally interfere with election results. Um, which is worrying in, in many ways. But I think the, the deeper level here is just as. As AI gets better and this technology evolves, we're gonna get to a point where we're just not gonna know what's real and what isn't.'cause we won't be able to trust it. And like you'll say to friend, oh, I saw this on Facebook the other day, but then in the back of your head you're going, oh, did I, is that, was that actually real? And yeah, we're, we're entering this time where it's gonna be very, very hard to tell. Yeah. And I suppose it, it, people will believe the versions of speeches, comments that they wanna believe. So if you are like really anti-labor and Prolo pro Nigel Farage, you see Sama say something and as that's a deep fake version and it kind of lines up with your rhetoric and your belief system, you're like, yeah, look, that's definitely true. And then if he says something that actually would make you like the person more, or maybe explore his politics more. You're like, oh no, it must be a deep fake because humans, like, we just wanna justify our behavior basically. Like that's what we go through life doing. We try and find reasons and justifications for why we do stuff or why we don't do stuff so that we can feel like we're not responsible for the decision. It's, it's part of human psychology. Uh, so I think that's another massive danger, right, is you can go, you can basically just go and go, oh, that's ai. That's not ai.'cause I quite like it. That's ai. That bit that bit and then end up getting a whole different, uh, perspective. Yeah, just your whole cognitive bias. Um, and things like subtly being reinforced the whole time.'cause if someone's already anti a certain politician or likes a certain other politician, seeing those videos, whether they're fake or not, of them doing something good or bad, it's kind of just slightly refor reinforcing that views. Whether they know it or not, and whether it's true or not, but it's like you can go, oh yeah, I saw that. Um, you, your brain's gonna automatically log it as kind of evidence, I would think. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's not just people, it's situational. I'm sure right now we're seeing a lot of deep fake scenes from the Middle East. Absolutely certain of it that a lot of this, you know, things where we see things getting exploded or like people kicking off or whatever is a lot of that can't be trusted. And I spoke to one of my good friends yesterday and she was in Mexico, uh, towards the end of last year. Remember when that cartel leader got killed? Okay. And there was loads of riots and stuff and like setting fire to stuff and it was quite bad in some areas, but she was actually flying there at the time. And when she got off at the airport, like people, you know, she couldn't get picked up by a grab taxi to Oh, not a grab, whatever it is out there anyway. Mm-hmm. She couldn't get picked up by a taxi to go to where she was going and they were looking through like social media to try and see what was going on. And there was like a famous like convenience store in the center of that town on fire and all of these stuff. But then when she actually got there, it wasn't on fire and like it's so it wasn't actually Yeah. An accurate reflection of what was going on on the ground. And in the end she ended up just getting on a bus. With all the locals and traveling by bus to her destination and everything was fine. And it was fine, right? So it, it's, and it was bad, don't get me wrong. In some parts of the country, a bit further north in that province, it was, there was a lot more going on, more centralized to where the cartel actually operate. But the point is still the same people were creating and sharing, um, artificial intelligence, uh, scenes of things going on, people rioting, protesting, whatever else. Yeah. And. I know with places like Gro, uh, like X, that happens a lot. Um, but the good thing is 'cause you have like the Ask Grok thing that does help in some regards. So there'll be a video and I've seen a few from World, oh, a harrowing scene from Iran from yesterday, uh, gr is this real? Uh, actually this video is from 2017 and it shows and it's like, oh, okay. But also it seems to be able to pull out some of the actual fake stuff as well. But then it, it's good with some of it, but obviously there's going to come a time where it's not gonna be able to tell the difference. Yeah. Particularly if it's the powers that be, that are using it, like big media and all of that stuff. Like the, you know, a lot of these people are in cahoots anyway as far as I'm concerned. So yes, they might be able to detect it if like Joe Dick from down the road creates. But something with unfortunate name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well I was gonna say Joe, see you next Tuesday. But I think that that's probably a little bit too choice for the YouTube algorithm right now. So, uh, moving on from using that word. But yeah, um, it's, it, I think that is seriously an, an issue. Uh, and I'm, I'm sure we see a lot of it already, but also in the other side, like to suppress information. I dunno if you heard the story last week in the uk, but in, I think it was one of the countryside places, this woman was like, seriously sexually assaulted outside of church by a big group of men. And it was just like suppressed. There was like no news about it, no information about it, nothing coming out. Oh, right. Do, do we know anything about this group of men? Uh, well there's, there's some demographics about this group of men that Yes. Strange. How strange, how it seems to do that quite often. Yeah, it is. Yeah. I, I, yeah. Yeah. I, and I dunno the exact reason for it. There's clearly some kind of agenda. Um, is it, 'cause they're, they're trying to avoid protests and riots and that kind of, I dunno, that kind of thing. Yeah.'cause I, I know there's a lot of people in the UK but have certain views and certain things are happening quite often. And unfortunately it does seem to be a, a certain demographic that's, uh, often connected to it. Yeah. And I think part of it is obviously coming from countries where women are generally covered and you don't see any of them. And then coming to somewhere where they're not, and I'm not saying it's everybody, but there's like this, this. Uh, uncontrollable angle to the way these things work. Um, I mean, it's, it's an issue. Yeah. It was in Epsom, so, and there's been, there was a protest about this already since it came out, but, um, the police hid the description of the suspects. They do it, they didn't tell anybody all the time and, well, and usually that's how, you know, it's like a, a certain ethnicity or not, unfortunately.'cause usually if it's someone who's like white British, they kind of tell you, um, yeah. And yeah, and apparently they're still not so much, they're still withholding it. So again, it is, you know, both sides. Which, and the point I, the reason I brought that up is because it just shows you how untrustworthy the information sources that we have are already, and to mix more untrustworthiness into it is. It's even more of a, of an issue. I mean, like last week, I, I thought that Jesus had risen because I saw this image of this guy and he was like, stood above people healing them and stuff. And there was like an America flag behind him. And, and then I looked again and I was like, oh, wait, that's not Jesus. That's Donald Trump. Are you sure it's not Jesus? Wow. I mean, this is the problem. This is the problem with these deep fakes. It's very difficult to tell. So, you know, I rushed downstairs. I got my wife out of like bed, got the kids ready. I was like, he has risen. He has risen. And, and we all rushed to the car to get to the nearest church. And then it hit me that, oh no, that, that, you know, Jesus doesn't have. Red hair, like of course we dunno what the second coming would look like, but, and I was like, wait, I recognize this fellow. And it turns out it was just an innocent mistake. And that actually it was Donald Trump healing the sick as a doctor. Yeah. And not in any way pretending to be Jesus. No. Because we're all light beings, so we all emit light anyway. Right. Because humans are really slightly luminous. And I think the AI had just accidentally put this light kind of beaming out of his hands. Yeah. And there's no evidence to say Jesus did that either. Really? You know, because we don't have any, there's no footage. From the time he was around. That is very true. Um, it's hard to know what's real or not, especially in books written like thousands of years ago. Um, yeah, yeah. But yeah, the thing with Trump, when I saw her, I was just like, that's hilarious. The guy's just outta control. And I, I don't know. Yes, there's always something, something in the news about him doing something terrible or whatever, but then he always brings this level of humor for I, I've never seen before. And he's been having rous with like the Pope and things like that. So you can tell he's kind of going, Hmm, well what should I do? I know I'll post on truth social me as, as Jesus healing the sick. And then afterwards it's, oh no, it was a mistake. I, the AI got it wrong. It was meant to show me as a doctor, not Jesus. So that's why I took it down. And it's like, yeah, maybe. I've noticed he's not shared the prompt. Yeah, he, he, he didn't, uh, 'cause we crossed because there was a, yeah.'cause there was a big scandal with a marketer that I know where he posted this image of a, of a good looking woman for one of his ad campaigns, and then another marketer who happened to look like the AI generated model. Okay. Complained and, and tried that, created this whole shed storm of like, ah, he's sexualizing this person that's another marketer to make his own sales and blah, blah, blah. And what he did was he shared the prompt from the chat so you could see where he said, I want this. And it was still sexualized, but not copy this image or copy this person. It was, it was just what AI generated, which is another interesting angle for it. Um, but Trump obviously didn't share his prompt. He doesn't, and yeah, I guess because it, I was just gonna say, I guess AI would be like that. It's gonna make. Sometimes it's gonna make people like images of people that resemble actual people quite heavily. Sure, yeah, of course. Because it's trained, it's the same way the writing's gonna do. Right. Um, but yeah, I mean, I guess the reason he won't share that is because it's like cross me being Jesus with Apocalypse Now and I'm healing people instead of like throwing napalm on them while listening to classic rock, which wasn't called classic rock at the time, of course, because it wasn't classic. But yeah, it's, it, it's bizarre. Like, I, I, and you know, as much as I will admit when Trump first came to power, I, I thought that it was probably the best choice because. Like, I think everyone was sick of politicians in general, and I was very much, yeah. What, what was the behind the dude? What was the alternative? Kamala Harris, which wasn't too great. Um, she's about as inspiring as Liz Cabbage Trust. Doug Casey had this thing where he'd called a Kamala. So Kamala in Spanish is like, how bad, or like, how bad is that? Kamala M Yeah. Yeah. Nice. But yeah, I, um, you know, it is now at the point where even with him, because he keeps bashing the UK every opportunity, and granted we do deserve a bit of a bashing, but he's like eight out of 10 Britains just despise the guy now. Yeah. Apparently. Which is quite high. Um, and yeah, I guess he has gone after the UK quite a lot. Um, also, I mean. When, when he was running for office, everything was gonna be, oh, there's gonna be no wars. Gonna end all Wars Ukraine. I'll end that in 24 hours and we're not going to be one of these like wartime presidencies. And next thing you know, you have all this stuff going on. The Ukraine war is still raging. And now we have all this problem with Iran that could, that could send the world potentially into like a recession or could have like a global depression because we can't get oil and different supplies, uh, from this place to where it needs to go. And it's just, it's, yeah, I mean, politicians always promise a lot, but. Yeah, it's close to sending like Merseyside and uh, Yorkshire into a depression.'cause the Jet two holidays are definitely not gonna be on this cement. Yeah. Well this is there. That's good. You know, there's, there'll be less like drunken fights inside airplane cabins, but a lot less violence at 35,000 fees. But maybe more violence at home as a result, you know, because people can't go on their lib barbs Yes. Off to Wetherspoons instead. Um, yeah. Although I did see the chancellor of the exec has said we've still got quite a backup of jet fuel, but knowing as we'll probably sell it all to Europe. Uh, probably, yeah. Uh, like, like with gold. Yeah. Apart from it's a high price now, but, you know, rather than, rather than waiting for the dip and then selling it all like some kind of deranged crypto investor. You sell the dip. Sell the dip. Yeah. Just going back to the Trump thing, I saw a couple of funny things recently where one was you've got all this stuff going on politically and he's running ads on tv, selling Trump watches, like actual drone. Get your watch by your favorite president. It's like, yeah. So he is actually flogging watches on tv and he's been, I don't know, he's like been lobbying or trying to push it through to get a Trump gold commemorative coin. Uh, made.'cause usually commemorative kinds are made like after a president leaves office or dies or whatever. But Trump's like, no, no, this needs to happen now.'cause I'm the greatest president in history. It's gotta be gold. Uh, you've gotta love it. You've gotta love it. Uh, and, and I think, you know, it's, it's a crazy old world and they're all basically. Charlatans anyway. Right. The whole lot of them. So, you know, part of me does still like him. Part of me doesn't like, he's just one of these characters that just seems like he's just doing whatever the foot he wants and you kind of, that you got, that's a bit endearing, you know? But he's definitely an, like a, the classic boomer, I think all boomers favorite use of AI is making weird pictures, like the amount of stuff where you see like boomers sharing pictures of them as like some princess or something. And like it, it's, my feed is full of like. Random pensioners, like making photos of themselves. Again, we have a very different search history, so May maybe, maybe I see different things. Well, we're old now, man, so it's not about mils anymore. It's all about Gil, you know? Uh, yeah. Good times. The, the games change. Nobody's safe. Um, but yeah, it, it, it just goes on to this light and it segues nicely into this next story, which is UK focus, but one in five teens now are self-censoring politically. So we've got a chunk of teenagers that have views. As you should have when you're a teenager. It's a time for exploration. Your brain is firing off more neurons than it will ever fire off in its life. Mm-hmm. Um, and they're holding them back'cause they feel like they're gonna be canceled, criticized, or shut down. And I think. It is because they're, they're scared of like the government coming and taking their Facebook down and they're so footing sick of like the immigration situation in the UK or the lack of proper immigration situation and the lack of funding and the terrible leadership in politics and all of this stuff is just like making them think I can't say anything and even if I could, what's the footing point? Well, yeah, I think was it around, it seemed to be around 2020, something like that, I think, where everything just started getting really polarized. So it was no one that seemed to be like in the middle. It had to be one extreme or another. And I think when you have that kind of polarization, it can cause a lot of issues. And so if, if you go online and say what you really think about someone or something, someone from the other side will come along and tear it down in some hostile way. It could be something to do with that. I think also everything on, like the internet is kind of there forever these days. And so you can, you can say something and, 'cause it's happened to various celebrities. They posted something that, I dunno, maybe it was plenty of the time or something like that, but they posted something in 2014 and then years later they get torn down to it and ripped to shreds. And it's like the, they're making a joke about something that was acceptable then, but then isn't further forward. And I, I think there's a bit of that to it as well, maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. It is, it is like, if I say this now, is it gonna come back up and bite me on the ass, you know, that many years later. But the thing is, I I, I, I think it is what Ricky Javet says, nails it, right? Getting offended about stuff that people say. It is a choice. It's your choice to get offended about something. It's like you don't need to, you're like your, it is an opinion. Your opinion isn't fact. It's like some people get offended by equality is what he says. Hmm. It's like some people find that offensive, they get offended by equality. Doesn't mean they're right. Does it? Like some people get offended by the, the idea that we feed everybody in the world and give everybody water, they're like, oh, that's not fair. Like they don't work as hard or their country's not whatever. Right. But that doesn't mean they're right. You know? Yeah, exactly. I. Adolf Hitler got offended by, well, we won't go there, but like, it's not like, oh, well, got respect, his rights to be offended. It's just not how it works, does it? But there's some good logic in there. I like it. Logic your way out of that one, ladies and gentlemen. And if you enjoyed that, don't forget, give us a like or subscribe. Tell your friends, tell your nan get her to send in her AI generated photos to me at my private email address. Um, just one thing I find I might steal your inheritance. We've got a new business venture. Um, what I found kind of interesting about this report is it said that 22% of 15 to 17 year olds have said they've stopped themselves sharing political opinions because they feared criticism. But I mean, the thing is. What, what kind of political views do you have at that age? What do you even know about politics at that age? And I, I don't know about you, but when I was in school, we didn't have like politics class. All you understood from politics was what maybe your parents said there wasn't a lot of political stuff at school and all you know is maybe some bits and pieces from the news, but you just don't really have enough life experience. Or anything else or education to, to really comment on it. We talk about politics all the time and we, we dunno what we're talking about exactly, but at, at age like 16, we, we definitely didn't, no, the only politics I knew about at 16 was spliff politics. Yeah. Right. That's it basically. So I don't know about the rest of it, but Yeah, even now, I, I, I, and I don't particularly like to talk about it. I do, I do. Well, I do like to talk about it actually. I like to say that. I don't like to talk about it. Because that's a good position to take. You know, I hate talking about politics, however, I, I, I'll talk about it for the next hour on a podcast format. I hate talking about, I hate talking about Epstein and politics and all of these things. Anyway, if you've seen what's happened in the Epstein past, you know, I like to create the fence and then just, just, yeah, go, go from there. But yeah, I mean, I can understand the disillusionment as well. It's like, you know, I think there'll be part of that, that worrying about talking about it, but also partly not giving a shed. But then the world's changed so much. Like when we were 16, 17. Have you ever come across any of these videos that people took of like people leaving high school at the same time? We were like leaving high school. So people would take a video camera into school and they started sharing them like online. And it's, it is just such a different world of people laughing, joking, sitting in circles, chatting Oh yeah. Playing pranks, throwing balls around, like doing all their stuff. And like now, I think if you go in on the last day of high school, everyone, everyone's just looking at the phone. Yeah. Messaging each other. Do you know what I mean? And, and I think, so I think that, you know, we've created a generation of like absolute hmongs maybe, um, we're radically changing society with, with this technology that we've brought in. And again, all the technology with social media came in. The governments didn't understand it or just let everything happen anyway 'cause it's big business. And they just said, oh, okay. We dunno what happened. But like we covered before, like meta, Facebook, whatever you wanna call it, they knew that this was harmful. Yeah, basically to people of all ages and we just kind of went, oh no, that's fine. Go continue. But I mean, they, they hid it could government see anyone? Probably could if you looked into it deeply enough.'cause when these companies are basically, you are gonna go on your phone and on the other end of that phone is like, uh, this sort of algorithmic supercomputer that's trained on your brain to keep you bare. It's like, that's, that's not gonna be good. And it's crazy. Right? It absolutely is. Um. And I guess that was one of the next things we were gonna talk about, but apparently Kia Starer wants to stop the endless scroll. Does he wanna stop it or is this ki superman? Starer tried his best to keep his weakening grasp on. He has, he has left. Like, what can I, what can I do to make it look like I care? Uh, it's like some cartoon where like widely coyote or some things like slammed into a cliff and he is like holding like this, trying to stay and it's like just slowly slipping down. Yeah. Apparently he summoned, he, he demanded that all the leaders of social media in the UK came to Tent Downing Street. Um, I think he even posted about it on X. Well, and when are they arriving? So he is gonna get what sent them an urgent dm I'm sure like Musk and Zuckerberg are going. Oh, right. Yeah. Well, I better get on my chat. Uh, yeah, I'm sure. Sure. They sent whoever their low grade like person in the UK running the UK side of things along instead in their, in their place. But yeah, I mean, presumably Starer sent the message by carrier pigeon or, or something That doesn't involve any scrolling such in social media, but of course I am being silly. But yeah, so they've played around with bands, haven't they, for under sixteens, but as he is rightly said, and as you rightly said, in, in a more eloquent way than he probably could, it's the mechanisms behind this machine that's the problem. And Stama says like they need to go. I mean, how, how do you get rid of the scrolling mechanism? Is it gonna be a clicking mechanism? Like what whatcha gonna do? Gonna go back to print? It's a book, an actual Facebook. The new one gets printed every day. Yeah. Like what I, I don't really see how that's gonna, I think the only way you could do it is like the, oh, but again, because there's so many users now, I dunno how it would work, but I remember in the old days of Facebook back in probably like 2007 or 2008, you'd don't, you'd go on it, you'd scroll down. Then you're like, oh, I've seen this bit already.'cause it was just like one feed. But I guess now, 'cause you have so many more users, maybe that, that wouldn't work so well. Uh, I think it's 'cause you only had six friends on there. Well, you've got six friends now and a load of adverts. The adverts fill out your feed. Um, which actually most of it is because if I go on Facebook and start scrolling through, I'd say it must be like 60, 70% is just adverts or recommended for you and all that like nonsense. And usually for, recommended for you leads to some kind of advert or sign up or it, it's just really doy, even on people's profiles, if you scroll one person's profile, they put adverts on their profile. Huh. So when you scroll down, yeah, if you re try and read three or more of someone's post, you'll get to an advert. Um, yeah. I mean it's the same. Like when you, when you scroll. Um, yeah, you're right. It's a ton of adverts for me. There's a lot of like gym and fitness stuff on there, but for some reason the gym and fitness stuff, it's always girls in the gym stuff. Right. Know why I almost think you've been like hovering around those videos for some time. I've no idea why that is. I mean, I have been working out a lot and you know, doing a lot of looking at gym tips and stuff, but I would've thought there'd be some more blokes on there. But yeah, no, it's just women doing squats and stuff and I don't even do leg day. Yeah. Yeah, I mean usually the algorithm's really good at knowing the user and they kind of know them inside out and usually they know exactly what to, uh, suggest or recommend. It's really strange. Maybe, uh, mental isn't it? Maybe complain to Facebook a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. And I, I mean the other thing is, I dunno about you, but I, I guess obviously they can use ID and all of this other stuff, but for me, if I was a teenager and they tried to ban me from something I enjoyed doing, I'd, I'd find a way to do it anyway. You always do. And at the same time, like young people today is so much more tech savvy from than we were and so much more tech savvy than like any older generation.'cause they grew up with it. They're digital natives and yeah. So if you try and band them, they're just gonna do it somewhere else. Um, I mean I think it, some of it as well, it's part of like a bigger plan from Star Room for Labor government to bring in digital id.'cause it's like, oh, well we, we, we know the answer. We just need a digital id. You can, you can get on these sites when you're old enough and we need to prove that it's you. And it'll just be like another, another layer of control basically. And I, I think that's kind of. What they want and the more things that, even though we've got mm-hmm. Even though we've got chips in the passports now, that that's, that's not enough to prove that it's you. You know, you might have a, a driving, you don't have a driving license when you're that age, but you've got a passport with a chip in it. But it's just not quite enough for us to prove that it's you. We need another ID card just to really prove that it's you. And then you might be someone else. You could be, someone could have stolen your passport. Whereas if you use this, uh, digital id, and it'll start off with like a few things, but eventually I could see it getting to a stage where you need to digital ID for basically everything. For any, any sort of activity that you are doing, anywhere that's online or through an app, you need to be authenticated and then all of that information is somewhere. So that's a huge amount of information, but. Uh, say the, the UK government or some other organization could have on you. Yeah. It's mad. And then if, if you do something that's out of line, it's like, oh, well we can just, uh, we can just switch that off. And then what do you do? You can't use your banks, you can't use Facebook, you can't use whatever else. That's crazy. That's the only really bad downside, and I'm sure a lot of this is to try and bring in this digital ID thing because they've been wanting to do it since like the late nineties. And Tony Blair who wanted it most is still involved in for labor government and he's still pulling a few strings here and there. Hmm. Yeah, I think at least, you know, at least of all of this, what what they could do is if, if they, you know, kids are under, under like 16 or sick of sick of voting and, uh, or they, sorry, kids of 16 don't, that they're sick of the government, eight out of 10 of them not interested. The best way to deal with 'em and get them interested is to ban social media. Maybe what they should also do is like reduce the leg legal drinking age down and these kids can now go and drink in little pubs, which are gonna start opening up soon. Yeah. Which is another brilliant segue. Do you know what constructed that? Like an absolute master? Um, but yeah, little have started constructing their first pub presumably so that when you see the price of your groceries and you want to cry, you can go and drink yourself so that you forget about it. A four can of like 60 pence a can lager. Which little used to be kind, I dunno how expensive it is now, but I remember in the old days I go and do like my food shopping in little and it's like, oh my, it's a beer or whatever else. I'm like, oh, that's, that's cheap. That's, yeah, I'd, I'd love a four pack of Colds Berg or some Hackings Gruff Wilder or something like that. I think it was. That was a good beer. Yeah, I mean, it's a German supermarket, right? So the beers are gonna be decent, but like you normally get sort of semi knockoff brands, don't you, with a slightly weird name or something. Yeah. And you have that weird like middle section. In little as well, where it's just like loads of random stuff. It's like, oh, well what could I get a, oh, I could get like a, a pump for, for my, uh, car tires. I could get like a, a weird hat or some and just like, oh, we've got some power tools as well. That's not a brand I heard of. I, I've, I've been the proud owner of a little chainsaw. Nice. In the past. Um, I also got a, a fruit picker from there. You know, like a big long telescopic pole with a, with a net on a thing on the end. Right. From little what? For scrumping. Oh, right, okay. I thought it was just 'cause it was cheap and you thought, oh, that will come in handy one day. No, I actually, I had a, an apple and, and a pear tree in my back garden in when I lived in nothing. So I used to use it to, uh, to extract pears. From the higher branches. That's pretty classy. No one else ran that. Would've had one of those. This is it. This is it. So unfortunately, little was gonna open 50 new UK stores, but the pub's just a one-off. Uh, and the reason for it is just the licensing circumstances. Um, so it's not quite as cool as it seems. Yeah.'cause it's not an island's got really strict, uh, licensing reels, hasn't it? So, so what they've kind of done is, 'cause they wouldn't be able to sell it in store, they've kind of like put a kind of pub next door and so they can sell it there. So I dunno exactly what this pub's gonna be like, but I, in, in Spain, when you go to like a, a supermarket. Often they're in like a, a big sort of shopping center or something like that. Not necessarily massive, but you'd have like a few stores and you've got like the supermarket, but then you have like a load of like cafes and bars and all that kind of stuff. And it's actually, it makes shopping so much better.'cause I find supermarket shopping unbelievably stressful, but it's so much nicer if you just go have like a beer and a little bit of tap asm and you're like, yeah, I feel okay now Mango do shopping. It's great. See, this is why European have so much, but so much of it, but figured out more than, you know, UK and other places, like the French for example, they just in August, they just all foot off on holiday for a month. Yeah, they have a pretty good life. We're done for a month and we only work 35 hours a week the rest of the year anyway. Don't, don't try and contact me in August. I'm day. Alright. Sound. I think a lot of those European countries though, sort of like France, Spain, Italy, we're a lot more geared towards like taking your time in life and not being too stressed out. And that's why they have so much that kind of cafe culture and things like, uh, that going on weights just sort of, uh, okay, well I've gotta go, I've gotta go to a bank and I've gotta go here. All right, well I'll, I'll just stop for like a, a coffee somewhere first relax, I a smoke. And it's like, everything's like everything's done in this sort of more chilled way and Spain's massively like that. People live it. And I mean, not so much now, but even. Even, yeah. Before work and the slightly more olden days, only going back like 20 years or something, people would often like go to a bar just before work and like then going to do whatever job you're doing. Ah, encouraged and relaxed alcoholism. You've gotta love that. Yeah. It's a footing mystery to me why the migrants go through Spain and Paris and, and France and want to go to the uk. Like, why would you want to tonight stay there so much better? Like, what the foot are you doing? Oh yeah, let's go where they work harder and it's colder and it's like the system's even more shed, and the food's not as good, but let's go there. That'll be great. But they pay way more in benefits. True. That is true. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's the only reason. Um, and I think also some of those countries like France were kind of in a way kind of. Push people through instead of encourage'em to go free France to a shop. Yeah. Get over there. Yeah, it is, it's, it's mad. Like, back back to that though, I remember when I was, um, in my teens we went, we used to go and visit one of my mom's really good friends, pretty much like family to us in Bordeaux, in the south of France. Oh, nice. And one day one of their friends came around, I think his name was like Jean Filippo or something, and he was, uh, a John. So like a police. Dude. Mm-hmm. So he comes in, sits down at the table, he is got, brings in some homemade sangria. He is made, which I know Spanish, but is south a France. So he made a big batch of sangria, gets his gun off his side, puts it on the table and sits down drinking sangria. I'm having a glass of it as well. I'm like 14 or whatever. I thought you were gonna say starts playing Russian roulette. Yeah, yeah. He is just like, yeah. So he drops it on the table, drinks like a few, um, sangrias sits for about an hour and a half, and then his radio's like, he's like, oh yeah, alright, cool. Ah, Ali, he's like, puts his gun back on, goes back, gets in the car, goes back to work. He's like, mid shift. Good thumbs. What a legend. What an absolute. Uh, so you know, it's a good, I think that's, uh, exactly. Yeah. But, um, anyway, moving on. So. These Chinese people will take anything through airports, won't they? Have you ever seen, um, that show about Australian, um, immigration where people are coming up and they're like, they're usually Chinese or Vietnamese, and they go, oh, have you got anything in your bag? You're not supposed to have anything on this list? And they're like, no, nothing in there, mate. It's like, you sure? Yeah. No, nothing in there. Nothing in there. It's like, really?'cause if you tell me now, I'll just take 'em off you. If you don't tell me you're gonna get deported and we're not gonna let you in. No, there's nothing in there at all. Okay, cool. Open the bag and there's like 50 duck beaks or something, or, or open the bag. And what's in the bag? Everything from that list that it said not to bring in. Yeah. Yeah. Two dead baby tigers or something. Oh. Oh, I'm not allowed those. Oh, I didn't realize. It's like they're on the list anyway. So, um, some dude, uh, Chinese dude has just been, uh, jailed for a year and fined. Seven, uh, a million Kenyan shillings, which is about eight grand for smuggling ants, which, uh, I, it's something I'd never heard of before. I've, I've never heard of people actually smuggling ants, but yeah, apparently he was found with like nearly 2000 garden ants stored in specialized tubes plus another 300 ants in tissue roll. Yeah. And it, it, and apparently it's not just then, so in, in 2025, there was another case where a couple of Belgian teenagers were caught with 5,000 ants, which is suggesting a wider trafficking trend. I mean, you can't snort ants. Can you, like what's the, you can make, I think with do it here as well, there's certain kinds of ants you, they make like ant salt. Ah, I've seen that. I've tried it, yeah. Here in Vietnam. Yeah. But. What, why? I mean, the ants I had, they were a little bit spicy, the things, um, but it, it seems like a bit merch, you know? I mean, living here, you can eat ants all the time if you want. Anyway. They're in everything. Like there's no, there's no avoid in eating ants. It's like part of the culture. But anyway, you move into, you've got like 12 million housemates. Yeah. Weird. I guess it was a really weird story for people to be doing it. There must be, there must be some reason for it. They must get paid for it, and there must be, I guess, certain kinds of ants that have a really high value. Wild. Yeah, really strange. Um, so, I mean, who knows? I, I get, I, I bet he was getting a bit antsy while he was waiting for the video. Hey. Oh yes. I didn't even write that one before the show. I can tell I was off the, off the, anyway, onto this next one, which could have been a Darwin award. Um, and I really like this one. So there's a, there's a woman in the US who was on a cruise with a company called Carnival, and basically she was served. 14 shots of tequila. She drank them, of course, but she was served 14 shots of tequila and drank them all. And as a result, she had a serious fall, like proper footed herself up. Uh, Deanna Sanders, her name is 45-year-old nurse from California, lightweight, and yeah, proper lightweight. I mean, 14 tequilas is nothing. So she had these shots as well between 3:00 PM and nearly 12:00 PM So that's not really that much. Yeah. Now that doesn't seem anywhere near as bad. I thought it was like 14 shots in 14 minutes or something. Which, you know, I, it might have, I, I, I, yeah, that, that would probably finish me up if I'd had five or six beers already. Um, it could have been along with other drinks. We don't, we don't actually have the full details, but yeah. So apparently this is hilarious, by the way. footing hilarious. So she suffered a concussion. Possible traumatic brain injury and headaches. I mean, do you think the headaches were because of the fall or because of the 14 tequilas? I had a footing, it's, I drank 14 te it's a footing outrage. I had drank 14 tequilas, like I had a concussion fare. I fell over. But the worst thing, I had a headache. I don't, I just had a splitting headache the next day. I, I, I dunno why you are taking the footing piss anyway. Um, so she, she, she complained. She, she went to court as they do for everything in America. And she was awarded $300,000, uh, for carnival's negligence in serving her the 14 tequilas. I mean, uh, there's, you have to be kind of responsible for yourself in some ways, you know, it's like. I don't think the, I don't think the cruise ship like forced her to drink all these tequilas, like you said. And sometimes you can get drunk. Your, your brain and, and balance and everything else isn't working. We're saying you could have accidents and it just seems like she's gone, okay, well what can I get out of this? And just like, if someone has a car crash, the first thing we do is go, oh, I think I got whiplash. You know, so it's just like we've added like, uh, the concussion, but genuine headaches. Uh, only she would know that we, we can't tell possible traumatic brain injury. Anytime you get hit in the head, it's gonna be possible. And it just seems like a big, sort of, they've ramped everything up and then said. Give me some money. Yeah. It's, it's mad I think like if, obviously if you drink 14 te kilos, you're gonna have a headache anyway. Right? It's like, it sort of comes with the territory, but I think it, yeah, I, I just don't see that as the barman's responsibility. I mean, I guess there is obviously once started drinking, you lose some of your inhibitions and stuff. Um, but yeah. Is it the barman's responsibility to say something? I dunno. I think to an extent, yeah. And I mean, I worked in bars for quite a while and if, if someone was just like, way too over that line, you are like, yeah, sorry mate, I just, I, I, I'm not allowed to serve you anymore. Oh, you're one of those where, yeah, only in like, sort of extreme cases because you kind of, you, you have to be, you have to have be like a little bit responsible at times. Um, but yeah, so maybe there's some responsibility, but, uh, I would, I would imagine that she would've needed to be in like a, a pretty bad state and then, um, not a really bad state, but you can tell when someone's had way too much and you go like, yeah, sorry, I, I can't serve you anymore. So I'm guessing for, for her to keep being served. She must have still been clear, normal, not like, massively. Oh, mom, clear please. It's like gonna be like, kind of more, okay. And that was, it was over like nine hours or something like that. So you're averaging about two shots an hour. It's not, it's not like a huge, huge amount. What a lightweight. Yeah. Maybe weight. She just needs to get more practice in. Uh, that's not medical advice. Can definitely tell. She is not from the uk. Uh, anyway, moving on. Definitely not a skyer. She's not, yeah, she's not Scottish either, for sure. So we've got a really sad story to finish on, um, which broke my heart when I read it. And then we're gonna go into our weekly top fives, which I am more excited than I have ever been. I'm bouncing around over here like a box of frogs about this one. Oh, a box of ants. But yeah, you are a box of ants. Exactly. But yeah, there's a, a really sad story that this guy called Tony Cavalero, um, in New York, it was cruelly taken away from his emotional support animal, which is his words when, um, and he is now given up on ever getting it back as well after a long legal battle. Uh. Going right back to 2024. So two years of trying to get back his emotional support animal. But unfortunately, uh, Albert the alligator is, is not going back to his house, which is devastating because I'm sure it was such a good emotional support animal. Um, at 12 feet long and only 750 pounds. Definitely not a danger to anyone, but went near Albert. No. And he was in an indoor swimming pool. So he was living life and apparently gave really good cuddles. Uh, yeah. I mean, I, I don't know, like that we said in the last thing with like, if someone's really drunk and it's like, oh, no, no, you, you just can't have anymore. It's a, it's a bad idea. Maybe something like this is also a time when someone needs to step in and say. Yeah, really the, the 12 foot alligator, but is that a good idea? Are you sure? Yeah. I wonder if he's related to the woman who had the 14 tequilas and they'd gone on the cruise to try and get about anguish they were under from losing their emotional support alligator. And we just had this double whammy of, uh, bad news. Um, but yeah, I mean, a, apparently the state said that Caballero's license had expired in 2021, so he didn't have a license anymore. Why would he need to, why would he get a license for that? I'm not sure. But then license. But at the same time, you'd been letting people apparently pet the alligator and even go in the pool. With the alligator, which violated rules for dangerous animals. But I mean, at the same time, Albert apparently is blind in both eyes, uh, had spinal complications, uh, amongst other health issues, right? So he was an unhealthy alligator as well. Yeah, maybe the eyes were from the chlorine and the pool. I, I dunno what kind of pool it was amazing. How could you ever rest at night knowing there's an alligator in your swimming pool downstairs? It's like you forget and you just go down. Oh. Hoping the fridge there's, look behind you. There's a footing 12 foot alligator over though. Good morning, Albert know, mate. How's it going? Yeah. Want some meat cup tea? Mental. Anyway, let's move on. People. I was gonna say, there's loads of like, I can't remember for numbers, but there's an insane amount of people in America that have like pet lions and tigers and like real dangerous animals. It's crazy. And I, I always just wonder what happens if, like, someone breaks into one of our houses, like, oh, it looks like a rich person's house gonna be in here and get loads of money. All right, we're in. Uh, but at least then you can probably sue the homeowner for getting mauled by like their lion or whatever. You probably could. Yeah. Didn't, didn't Mike Tyson have like a pet lion? And so I can't remember if it was, I'm sure it was Lion Tiger. I think it might have been a tiger. Yeah. But there's that photo where it's just sitting next to his swimming pool in, in his pants, just with his pet tiger just chilling out. I mean, to be fair, Mike Tyson could knock out a tiger, couldn't he? So he's like rugby uniquely positioned. Oh, and of course Pablo Escobar's like populated Columbia with hippos because of the sort of animals that he had. Yeah. There's now like a, a, a, a massive population of hippos native to Columbia because of his work. Yeah. Apparently we're gonna start culling them. Uh, yeah. Some point soon.'cause hippos are dangerous, like. Yeah. Yeah. But who'd have thought that, you know, he would become a conservationist. Yeah. Would've, uh, many things, but he did. But, uh, a lot of fertilization of the ground as well, you know, with the people that he put in it anyway. Oh, Jesus Christ. Moving, don't take the Lord's name in vain, moving on, but Tre Ball. Oh, right, okay. Okay. Well, we've, we've descended to the point of chaos, so it must mean that it's time for this week. Temporarily scripted, top fives, Adam, what we got this week? Yeah, so this week I thought it'd be interesting just to, uh, some top five acts of espionage in history.'cause there's always some like interesting facts and things that happened in the shadowy world of spies, double agents, and forged identities. I like it. So the first one today was the Cambridge five. Um, and this was between the 1930s to 1950s. And it was basically a group of five people that were really well connected in the UK and that were known as Cambridge Five and may pass secrets to the Soviet Union, um, including things from World War II and Oli Cold War. But it was, it was really unbelievable for people because of how, how high up. Some of these people were, so they were in like, uh, MI five, MI six B, BC. One of them, one of them did something where he, he was like an advisor, uh, to the queen over art, what art she should buy or sell and uh, that kind of thing. And she didn't even find out about it until 10 years later.'cause they, they kept it secret. But yeah, this was like a, a huge thing. And eventually, I think the third one of them, uh, went to Russia and like left the uk and then everyone was like, oh, so it's real.'cause it was almost like a sort of actually happened. Yeah, it was almost like a conspiracy thing that no one could really, uh, believe. Um. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. And it just shows you at the time of like the, the, the things that the public knew were mostly through the newspapers and a few news stories here and there. Like, it, it's, it was a different world, you know? So if something like that comes out, it's like, really, I couldn't believe that people go to that level, you know? Whereas now we know that everybody's an untrustworthy and, and scrupulous. Yeah. And when we get found out, you go like, oh yeah, of course. Yeah. Nothing shocks me anymore. Yeah. It's like one of those, isn't it? So, yeah. Uh, well we got up at number two. Number two is the Zimmerman Telegram. Uh, and it was an intercept that, that basically the British intercepted, uh, a German diplomatic message. Um, but in that message, the Germans have proposed that, uh, Mexico should be allies with Germany. If the US enters for war. And so the British took this to the Americans and this helped to, this was then in the news, and it helped to massively sway America's point of view and feelings toward war for war, and helped to get America into the first world war. Um, I mean, the timing there is beautiful, isn't it? Yeah.'cause a time when the British were much sneakier and more clever with how they operated, how can we get these Yanks in the war? Hmm. Yeah. But I mean, it was like completely, uh, like real, this, uh, intercept and it was like a, a sort of office, or like a group that was known as room 40. Um, they, they got really good at intercepting and deciphering. Uh, German messages because they found a, a code book, which was recovered after the SMS Magdeburg, I think I'm saying that right. Was, uh, sunk and or recovered. And so, yeah, from that they were able to decipher these messages, but they wouldn't let on how they knew this. So they had to find different angles to sort of say, oh yeah, no, we just know this. We can't really say how. But it's definitely true. And that's, that's cool. Is is room 40 61 doors down from room 1 0 1? Uh, probably. Yeah. Amazing. And some, some fast math on the fly. Only took me about 90 seconds. My friend, though took me 90 seconds. I wonder if what you've been doing writing things down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was, it looked like an episode of, it looked like I was on an episode of footing Countdown or something. Um, okay, cool. What's the number three? Uh, number three was a farewell dossier. Um, this was a cold wall leak, but exposed a tech theft machine. So this was around 1981 to 1982, uh, from the USSR to France or, or the west. So a KGB officer of Vladimir Ovv, who was codenamed farewell by the French, uh, secretly provided, provided thousands of documents to French intelligence. I think there was around 4,000. Of these documents and pictures. And it was all about how the USSR was systematically collecting western science and technology via a program, often referred to as Line X. And so what happened was they found out where, how, and who was involved in all of this. And at one stage, I think 47, uh, Russian diplomats got ejected from France. And it was like a really big thing.'cause you, you had at this time, the Cold War, you had all these agents. Involved in like, infiltrating society, universities, like everything, uh, and just stealing technology and secrets. And they'd be in like government and like, like we said earlier, like they could even be high up in like MI six, we could even have access to royals and all this kind of, it's crazy. Um, but yeah, this actually went on mental stuff, man. Yeah, and it's in a way, it's like, it seems cooler, I think because at the time the world was just not in the place it is now with technology and information and stuff, you know, like it's, it is, it is almost like, uh, it, I dunno, I, I'm trying, I can't find the right word for it, but there's like, uh. It's like a mystique about it. About this whole thing, right? There you go. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Alright. What's it Number four. Next one. I've done my sounding clever for that one. Go. Awesome. What's next? The next one is Agent Garbo. So the man who invented a spy network out of Finnair. So Garbo was a guy called Juan Ol Garcia, no relation that I know of, but he became a nice, he became a legend. Is it Juan or Jowan? Uh, Juan. Alright then. But he became a legend. Is that one, he became a legendary double agent. So basically the Germans, he had the Germans thought he was working for them and it's like, okay, cool. And so they think they've got this. This guy who's in the uk and he, he's working for the Germans. And so he said, yeah, yeah, sure. Um, but Yvan made up this huge, like, network of fictional subagents with, and they had like complete personalities, motives, like backstories, everything. But he just invented this huge network and said to the Germans, oh yeah, I've got this huge network of like, spies working for you and they doing this, this, and this. But all of it was just fictitious. None of these people existed. And he'd take like, um, inspiration from like books, travel brochures, all kinds of things to like make up these like wild people. Um. But it became like deeper because obviously all this information was coming through and it was all trusted. So he could just push this trusted information to the Germans about, oh, they, they're gonna do this, this is happening. But it was all nonsense. And some of this actually helped in like the, the planning of D-Day. Um, and it was really funny as well 'cause so in, in Germany. They thought, oh, he is like one of the best buys we've ever had. So in Germany, he was awarded an Iron Cross, and then later in Britain he was awarded an MBE. What an absolute legend of a man. That's amazing. I love it. Yeah, I've, I've thought so too, but yeah, just had this huge imaginary payroll of, yeah, it just, it was so clever. But again, it's that, it's that thing back in World War II for, for British especially, just came up with most diabolically, clever plans. Uh, I think of anyone involved. That's wild, isn't it? Crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. What we got next? What's the last one? Well, yeah, which, uh, continuing with, uh, Britain I guess was, we've talked about this one time before, but I thought it included anyway. Operation Mince meat. Uh, so what, what happened was Faye, they created a, a fake British intelligence officer. So, but there was a corpse that they used that they kept on ice for ages, uh, that, that fitted for description of a person they wanted to create. And so what they did, they dressed him up in like, um, I can't remember, like a, a naval officer's uniform. And they put lots of different things in his pockets. Uh, one of them was a plan, uh, that looked genuine and it was a plan saying that, um, the allied forces would strike Greece and Sardinia. And not Sicily. Right? And so then they put this body out in the water and time it perfectly so it washes up on the right place of shore to be found by German, uh, offices, whatever else. They look through the body, they, they see all this stuff. Oh, right. Copy all the plan star and they put everything back together and then send the body back to the uk because it's like an officer or whatever. So, and pretend that they don't know anything. And so, yeah, obviously the Germans then think, right, they're gonna come, they're gonna strike Greece and Sardinia. Let's move a load of troops there. Uh, where should we take them from? Oh, here. Here. Yeah. Take 'em off Sicily, uh, and move them over here. Of course, what happens next? The allies go in and strike Sicily. So what's even more genius about that is that when the body gets sent back, they know that it's worked. As well. Also, they, they had, they had like a little, I think it was like a hair or something like that, something, but would say that it, it had been opened the actual documents, so they knew that the documents had been opened and read. But this, this guy was like made up, but they'd done like a whole backstory. Like to this person and they had someone else be, like, prior to them doing this, they had an basically an actor pretending to be this guy. So he'd been seen in public and he, he'd made spoken to different people and there was just so many clever things with it. And they even, uh, for V Inc they knew that it, we were gonna drop it in water and it, it'd be suspicious if it was written in waterproofing. So we went on this huge testing thing, trying to find the best ink that would survive for the right amount of hours to be in the water and then found by the Germans. It's just every single detail. And we even had like, loads of just litter in his pockets, like a, a stub from a, a theater ticket, you know, a picture of his wife and all that to make it completely genuine and amazing. It is truly amazing. It's just so, so smart. So. Diabolically clever. And now look at the state of us as a country. No terrible. Anyway, yeah, come a long way. Well, thank you very much as, as always, for the top fives this week. Guys, if you've enjoyed today's episode, don't forget, like, subscribe, comment, tell us what you think, argue with us, give us some stuff that we can use as ammunition, and we can make fun of you next week in our episode. Adam, thank you for joining us. As always, it's a pleasure as always. It's always fun. Uh, absolutely. We'll see you next time guys. Goodbye. See you next time folks.