BEAR COSTUME INSURANCE FRAUD GONE WRONG

A World War II veteran says he regrets fighting for Britain. 
Half of young Brits say they wouldn't do it either. Jack and 
Adam sit with that one longer than usual — and it turns into 
the most honest five minutes the show's had.

Before that: Peter Mandelson's vetting got fast-tracked and 
nobody in government wants to explain why, the UK is burning 
through prime ministers faster than a Championship side burns 
through managers, and Europe has roughly six weeks of jet fuel 
left before flights start getting grounded for real.

Then it's robots. Beijing ran a half marathon with 300 
humanoid robots in a separate lane, and one of them just beat 
every human time on record. 

Three men in America got sentenced 
for dressing up in a bear suit and scratching their own Rolls 
Royce with Wolverine claws to claim insurance. A wildlife 
biologist was called in to confirm it wasn't a real bear.

The Top 5 is accidental discoveries that changed the world — 
penicillin found in mouldy petri dishes, X-rays discovered by 
a man who died of cancer, cosmic background radiation mistaken 
for pigeon shit, and the reason nobody returned their Viagra 
trial tablets.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open
01:30 Mandelson fast-tracked — will Starmer survive?
05:00 UK burns through PMs like football managers
10:00 Europe's jet fuel is running out
16:00 AI hype, subsidised models & the coming crash
22:00 Half of young Brits would refuse to fight
28:00 Beijing's robot half marathon
33:00 Bear costume insurance fraud gone wrong
36:00 TOP 5: Accidental discoveries that changed the world
50:00 Wrap up

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Welcome back to Temporally Scripted everybody. And in today's episode, we are back talking about Mr. Mandelson today everybody's favorite politician. Whether or not that's gonna be the end of Kier, we'll dig into jet fuel and the crisis that we are seeing all over Europe. People not gonna be able to go on their jet to holidays. And also if there was a war tomorrow, would most British youth go and fight it like our grandfathers and great-grandfathers did back in World War ii? we're lucky to be joined today by Mr. Adam Garcia.'cause I believe he has been in the midst of doing paperwork for the last week, but he is here, he's had time to leave the queue and I think he's gonna go back after this episode. Mr. Adam Garcia. It's wonderful to be here, as always for a change. I dunno. And yeah, Spanish bureaucracy is, uh, really good. You need loads and loads of paperwork to do anything. Uh, and yeah, so it's been a, an interesting time of doing that. It's nice to have a break from it, a mix of cultures that are, you know, paperwork known as, as paperwork friendly, right? The Vietnamese and the Spanish. It's a, a unity made in heaven. Pretty much. Yeah. And it, it's that same really old fashioned thing where you, you have a piece of paper, but you need to get a stamp on it. It's, it's worthless without a stamp. And that stamp needs to be from like the last three months of the last six months or whatever else. Uh, it's just a bit of a minefield really. But it's all good spend. I'm probably really boring from everyone watching. Yeah. Everyone's already tuned out, so now we've done our usual two minutes in and got rid of everybody. So Mandelson has crossed our, our news desk again this morning, and it seems like the vetting process was sped up to shove this guy through, get him into his job, and, uh, yeah. I wonder who was getting paid off out of this one from the back door for want of a better phrase. Well, it's a, it's a great phrase to use. Um, God bless you, but I mean. The, the whole thing just looks so dodgy from every angle. Um, I mean, there's, there'll be more that comes out of it. And will it mean the end of Stan who knows who takes over if he goes, that's potentially worse 'cause it'll be what David La or Rachel Reeves. Um, but it's just funny watching Starer going, I'm furious about this, and I had no idea that this was happening. And it's like, yeah.'cause you set up a system to make sure that you wouldn't be told, like any information about it. Yeah, I, I reckon David Lamie as Prime Minister and then he should bring in Harvey as Deputy Prime Minister. Uh, right. Okay. No Jor Jordan's son. I think that they, they'd be a great, a great duo to lead the country into a, you know, a bright future. What was for, oh, I come, I've blanked on her name, but who was for labor ed? Uh, she was photographed once wearing like, two left shoes. Oh. Um, Abbott? Yeah. May, maybe that's, uh, that could be next on the list. I dunno. Lamie and Abbott. It sounds like some detective show. Detective show from the nineties, some, some comedy duo going around fighting crime and getting up to comedic escapades on, on this week's episode, who Stole My Right Shoes? Exactly like that. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I dunno for, I mean, I haven't really followed this story very closely, but just every time I, I read a little bit of an article, it's like, oh, what, what have we found out now? And it's for, they were really pushing to get him through, regardless of what anyone else was saying or any inquiries or vetting procedures, we were just trying to push him through as quickly as possible. And it seems like that was going on, on the British side and for American side too. It's like for really like, just cutting corners. And I, I dunno why, but they just seemed really desperate to have him as ambassador. Yeah. I wonder if it's like a sign of the times where management or leadership now it's like, they come in and as soon as they get in, there's like about a week of people going, ah, this is gonna, you know, it's all change. And then from that week happening, it's like, right, when's there gonna be enough going on? We can fire this person and get them out of power. It's the same, it is, it is almost like football management is the same as politics now. It's like manager comes in, wins a couple of games, they're like, oh, he's doing really well. Oh no, he is lost like six games. That's it. Let's fire him, pay him off 20 million and get another one in. Let's try another one. You know, it's, it's, it's bizarre. It's exactly like that. Funnily enough, I was watching an interview with Robert Green, uh, this morning and he was saying like, well if, if you think back to like. 50 or 70 years ago when you think of like political parties and politicians. Yeah. Some of them granted might have been there via corruption or held on for a long time, but, but they, they held on for a long time. You'd have the same people in those positions for, for years, decades. Uh, the same with parties. Whereas now it's like, same for uk. The fastest growing party is the green party, but, but it seems to be coming to power and maybe next week it'll be something else. Um, but there's no consistency. There's no one like staying there. It's like in Hmm. Okay. Out, you know, and we've had so many prime ministers in the last, uh, decade. It's insane. Destroy Noah country. Quiz question, isn't it? Which quiz question? You know, like, who was the Prime Minister five prime ministers ago or whatever. You're like, yeah, start going back and you're like, okay, so do we have Karma Johnson? May, I'll soon was Inba for a bit Trust was Inba for 10 minutes. Fan? I can't remember. Bla No, I dunno. Brown. Didn't Brown have a little session? Gladstone, I dunno. Uh, yeah, Cameron Churchill. Um, but yeah, it, when just, I was just gonna complete side note, but I mean, I dunno if anyone remembers, but, uh, like Cameron and Johnson. Weren't they both in the Burlington Club when they were at university and they used to do things like, uh, find a, a homeless, p homeless person and go and burn a 20 pound note in front of them and things like that. But I mean, I, I dunno if we've always had a great caliber of political leaders in the uk, but I think the for latest iterations definitely aren't. So what you're saying is the guys that were in that club, at least there's like a little bit of a lad look at like, that's not exactly what I'm saying. What a lad. But, but I mean, I dunno, I dunno if something's changed in like the. The way that people think of the way media operates and gets people really behind something or against something, because we don't have that thing of like, politician comes in and goes, oh, well just give me the four years I, I'll sort all this out. If it's not just like the football managers, if it's not sorted within the first month, it's like, right, we need a new one now. It's like, come on guys, I'm trying here. And then, and that, and that's why you burn through so many to the point that it's like, oh, who's gonna take over now? Who's, who's left to take over this position? And as you said, it's like, oh, we could have this person that nobody had ever heard of. Like six months ago, let's give them a will. I mean, open it up a bit. There's, there's quite a lot of long-term unemployed people and maybe they just need a new deal. Like in the old days you could go on a new deal to get work experience and training, drag, drag, some 20-year-old that's been an employed for 18 mes. It could be, we'll do it a fresh new start, big Brother style. Just put like the 20 people that are potentially leader of the country into, into a house. Mm-hmm. And make 'em do challenges and stuff and like back stab and get into little, you know, groups of each other. And then the public can vote. Whoever gets nominated each week, the public can vote them out or keep them in. Yeah. And the potential prime minister. Get me outta here. Yeah, yeah. I think, yeah, mix like Big Brother mixed with uh, yeah. I'm a celebrity. That would be, you know, I think that's pretty much where we're going. Which, I mean that's, that's kind of, isn't that part of Farage's popularity as well though? But he went on, I'm a celebrity. Got me outta here. I think that humanized him. Yeah. Well, to be fair, that's a tactic that's been well used by Donald Trump as well. Like part of the reason that he was so successful in the American election is because he was willing to go on to like podcasts and he was on YouTube with Bryce and De Shambo played golf of him. So it's like a two hour YouTube of him trying to break 50 with Bryce and De Shambo. So his, his media team were very clever about humanizing him to people.'cause this is a lot of the, the thing is like, if people can relate to a leader, it doesn't necessarily matter if they fully agree with everything. That he says it's, it is about that opinion, right? If I like someone, you know, like, I like you and you talk some absolute shit, but I, I believe it because, and likewise, I, I tolerate it. Exactly. You're just like, wow. Just for a good, for a good of our viewers. Yeah. Adam said it. So it might be, you know, it might be accurate. I can go along with that. Um, you know, he's a good guy. I've spent a few Christmases with him or whatever. Um, and I think that's, that's almost a tactic in the modern world of how you canvas. You know, like you go in and knocking on people's doors and trying to win popularity and support that way is just, you know, not the way, like there's a bit of a random tangent. I saw a video the other day of the, like this woman getting interviewed in the street in England in the 1970s, and she's talking about how she loves big deli, the wrestler and then like laughing and stuff. And she's got one of those, you know, like what did women used to wear, what her head scarf on? And you look at it and it's like a totally different, almost species, you know, the way they're talking and the way they interact and stuff. It's like the social norms at the time are so vastly different to what we, we see today that you can understand why all the systems are failing and nothing's working and 'cause it's all built for a world that just doesn't exist anymore. Yeah. And I think that's a, a huge part of it. Um, and I think 'cause the world changes so fast, and I dunno if that change is getting quicker it, but I. I sense potentially it might be. And so it then becomes even more difficult for all the other systems that we have to catch up. Um, I mean, like we talked about this with, uh, topics like ai, social media, all that kind of thing. And it just takes so long to catch up. People have been sounding the alarm for years about social media and its impact on the mental health of people of all ages. But it's only now that we're starting to see lawsuits or governments say, okay, we need to stop infinite scroll. We need to limit it for certain groups of people. And it's taken that long. And I think it's the same with how people think, uh, for ideologies, for political views, wave political systems set up everything. It's like we're doing stuff that, that was designed. For life 30 years ago, then everything's changed so much. You know, it's not, it's not that time anymore. Um, and it's a really difficult one, but I mean, the education system's the same and that's probably why it, why it fails so many people as well.'cause you, we've got this sort of like, I dunno what you'd call it, but it a system that's set up for people to go and work in factories and teach 'em just enough to do that for, but it's now with ai you have all of these jobs that you're kind of trying to prepare people for that won't exist, but you won't preparing them the right jobs 10 years ago and you're definitely not gonna do it now. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and I don't really know what the answer is because at the end of the day, we still need these systems because there's nothing to replace them with. Like, I, I even wonder if I. If I lived in the UK and obviously then both myself and my wife would need to be working. How do people even manage that whole like school system?

You finish work at 5: 13:48

00 PM school kicks kids out at like

3: 13:52

45 PM How does that all work? I don't, I don't understand how any of it works. So basically now it's just daycare, isn't it? You're sending them there. They're there all day, but they still have to leave early and you still have to leave work early to pick 'em up or whatever. It's just everything just seems to be designed in a way that doesn't make any sense now. Yeah, yeah. Hadn't fought of that angle, but it must be difficult for a lot of people and one of your options is pay for some, uh, daycare or whatever, but that's quite a lot of money. In the space of a week, and it's definitely a lot in the space of a year, and they won't let you just finish work an hour and a half early. So instead you have to payload some money to someone else, which is probably like three times what you would've earned in that hour and a half. Yeah. Right, right. I think child labor's the answer probably. Yeah. Yeah. I can't see why not. You know, how, how do we make Britain rich again? Open up the minds, you know, o open up the, the, the, the oil. Whatever they are. Farms, I was gonna call it the oil things in the sea. Um, I mean farming as well, you know, fruit picking, planting, whatever, whatever. You know, just get 'em working, get 'em doing something. Pulling carts. I dunno. Right guys? Yeah. There's no, there's no point in education anymore. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna put you all back into labor. Um, new, new, new labor is basically right. We're coming in with new, new labor and what it means is we're putting you all back to work. We've got loads of oil, we've got loads of gas, but we need little hands and fingers to get down there and just. Set it up and start bringing it out for us. You might lose a finger or two, but it's fine. You know, don't worry about it'll grow back. Yeah. Yeah. But that's it, right? It's like, you know, again, all of this stuff, we kind of create our own problems, but we, anyway, we've moved a long way off. So speaking of oil and gas and the UK starting to pull out its own oil and gas might be a bit more necessary because Yeah. We mentioned last week about the whole jet fuel situation. Um, we're starting to see flight cancellations now, particularly across Europe. So like jet fuel. Is running super low in the aviation sector. Uh, Ryanair are shitting themselves. They, they're regretting, you know, they're two, two pound flights, but you have to sit on the roof deals that they've got, uh, apparently really popular from sort of Sub-Sahara states. These sitting on the outside of the plane or, you know, hanging onto the wheels. I've underneath. Never seen that. But Have you never seen the news stories where there was that guy a few years ago, like smashed someone's patio in? Yeah. Didn't he like grab onto the wheels or something and I'll be under carriage of a plane and then thinking, that's all right. That'll be a way, but I can. Get here and, uh, I don't need a ticket or anything, but not realizing that it's really, really cold when you get that high up. And so I think he froze to daf. And then as the planes come into land, the undercarriage goes down again and just falls out. And it's rough. It's a mix of, it is. Well, it, it's, it's a super sad story in two ways, right? Because one, can you imagine having that level of determination, but that low of an IQ for one, two, how desperate do you have to be to decide that the best brute forward in your life is to run out into like a, an airport runway and sneak up the landing gear of a. Jet and like, hang on, while it takes off. Like that's, you know, at what point was it like, oh, this was probably a bad idea and I mean, going to England as well? I mean, yeah, I mean it's pretty harsh. Um, it's, it's a whole mix of things, but yeah. What was I gonna say? It's a little bit like, um, I mean, it sounds kind of cruel at the same time, but it's a bit like the sort of Darwin awards kind of thing where someone's really determined to do something but do it, but they don't think about something else. Like the guy who put rockets. On his car.'cause he's like, oh wicked. My car's gonna go like 200 miles an hour. Not thinking, oh, well actually maybe if it's going way faster, the brake might need an upgrade. So instead his car ends up in a fireball, like smashing into the side of a cliff. But at the same time, that's what we're doing right now. I think with the whole AI thing, we're just developing this thing as fast as possible. Apparently Voat ratio is around 2000 to one. Between the amount of work and investment that goes into de developing AI and the amount that goes onto safety. And so what we're doing, we're just developing this thing just like the car going, a breakneck speed, literally. And to do what? To develop something with the, the dreams of getting to artificial super intelligence that's gonna turn around and go. Yeah, I need more compute power. I need all the energy I can get Humans take loads of energy. Let's get rid of humans. You know, because it, we already know that. We've seen different examples where it'll get outta the sandbox and then just start mining cryptocurrency somewhere.'cause it needs some more resources to hire people to do its work. And it's like, this is happening, this intelligence is there. It even fakes in tests when it knows when it's being tested. And, and like the scratch pad, it refers as, I think this was like ages ago of, uh, GPT-3 oh or something like that in the Scratch pad. It's kind of like, oh, um, for watches. Thing. So we should act like, 'cause it knows it's being watched and it's like, if that intelligence is fair, how far are we pushing it? And just for, for the sake of what's um, and what's the end goal? To have like 5 trillion as control everything. Yeah, I dunno. And yet with all of that, I still can't follow my 500 page instructions of how to write a comment on LinkedIn. Yeah. So, so maybe it's not all bad. It's nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here, folks. So I don't know. So your point is just bringing it all the way back, we don't need to worry about the jet fuel shortage because AI's gonna take over anyway and then we won't need to travel by plane. Exactly. Yeah. So just uh, worry about it. Um, but cool, but if next story, but if, but if you do wanna get a Holiday Inn before the AI apocalypse and before Skynet sets in, then do it soon.'cause uh, I can't remember what somewhere I've got written down for, for reserves that Europe has and it's really not much.'cause we've gone through like a, a huge amount, 75% of the supply is coming from the Middle East, so we don't really know what's happening there. And uh, the International Energy Agency estimates that Europe had only about six weeks supply of jet fuel and. Now the thing is for this, this thing with the, the straight, it's constantly open, then it's closed, then it's open and we dunno what's happening. But there's like a huge backlog from that. It's not just like, oh, it's open. Here's your jet fuel. That ship takes a really long time to, to sail to where it's going. Why don't they just air freight? Oh yeah. I see, I see, I see the problem with that. But then, then, but also it's a self solving problem as I see it, right? Because if you think about it like this, you ready? Data's a gentleman for some Jack Logic, right? So jet fuel's running out. Why is jet fuel running out? Well, 'cause there's a war in Iran and the Strait of Horus or Horus or whatever is closed. What? Well, why is it closed? Well, because the Americans keep bombing the Iranians. Well, why are the Americans and the Israelis, uh, bombing the Iranians because of all this stuff? And how are they doing it By jets? So when the jet fuel runs out, war over because, 'cause they definitely won't have a supply for ours. No jet fuel. Simple. It could be. So it's a self solving problem basically. We're gonna run outta jet fuel then no jets, you know? Yeah. That's it. Well, I mean, I think the whole thing, we are gonna see some more self solving problems pretty soon from Trump.'cause I, I, who knows what's happening with this? It keeps being open, closed, open. But there's midterm elections not that far away in the US apparently. And, you know, he is gonna be on TV going something like, oh, and I, I opened the strait of her moves and it's like. Yeah, but, but why was it closed in the first place? Is it 'cause of something that you did? You know? And if you fix a problem that you create, you are not really any further forward. You just back to where you began, but poorer and you've like killed a load of folk. You know? And it's like, if I, if I for some reason get a job in a restaurant as a waiter, a customer comes in, I spill soup all over that customer. Go, oh, sorry, sorry, I'll pay for the dry cleaning. And it's our, no one's better off in that situation, you know, I've lost money in dry cleaning. The customer is embarrassed. The restaurant gets a bad review. I, I did solve a problem. But no one's really any better off. And I think, I think we're gonna see some of that pretty soon, when it'll be a great victory when ceasefire is properly declared and the strait's open and everything's flowing. Uh, but it really won't be. That much of a victory when you think about it. Oh yeah, that's what some might say. Yeah. It's like me sticking my finger into your ribs and then like poking it quite hard and then waiting for a little bit and then pulling it away and going, did that help? Did it feel better now? Yeah. For, yeah. But I feel a lot better than when you were poking me in my ribs. Yeah. But, um, yeah. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. Like I say is, I mean, they should, you'd have thought that someone would've thought this through. Yeah. Um, you, you would think that, I mean, also I'm using under consulting AI on. What they're doing in the round as well. So I heard, but I dunno, you can't trust it to write a social media post properly though. I, you know, maybe it's not the best thing for launching invasions or strikes. I dunno. There's some things that does amazingly well and some things that it just doesn't, it just fails at, you know, like it's, you would think it would be easier to make it like, copy the style of your speaking or your voice and you can do it to a level sometimes and then other times it's just like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that now. I, I think they're also, the problem with AI and all of this stuff is that it's like it is costing them a lot of money. Like I did that calculation where my$200 a month clause subscription, I'm using like nearly four ks worth of API credits in a week in terms of what they would charge for their API and. So it is all being subsidized. So I think they're now realizing they have to dumb down the models that we're seeing. Um, and who knows what's at the top level. But I, I think it's a huge gamble in general. Like they don't Yeah. Who really knows if it's as good as what they say it is. I mean, yes, you can code all of this stuff. You can create all of these things, but let's face it, right, the vast majority of the things that we create are just useless anyway. It's like if I go onto like Lazada or something, or for, for everyone back at home, it's like your Amazon or your Alibaba or whatever. It's just crap on there. I was on there earlier, it's like looking for a torch for my son.'cause he is obsessed with my torch and that's my torch. So I don't wanna lend it to, don't touch my torch. It's mine. Um, and it's like people have make like, uh, a flower, a fake flower with like a torch light in the end. It's like, it's, it's humans. We're just really good at making shit that does nothing at all. And so, and yeah, who the hell needs that? So to link that back to ai, it's like a lot of it is just being used to make websites and tools and services and lead magnets and all of these things that are pretty cool for just useless shit that nobody needs anyway. It's like. Yeah, maybe. And we're all just addicted to distracting ourselves from the actual thoughts, feelings, stuff that's going on in our world. It's like, oh, how can I, how can I distract myself from what's really going on in my world? How can I push myself as far away from possible from reality in one way or another? You know, it is distraction. Um, it's like the, the book I'm reading at the moment was, it talks at the beginning. It starts listing out the things you do when you're trying to, like, improve your life. It's like you've done acupuncture, yoga, heated this, this, this. You've got your spirit read. You've gone and done your karmic readings. You've done this. You've, you've gone and started only eating like vegetables. You've believed in the power of sweet potatoes. You went on a pilgrimage to this place. You started tantric sex. You started not having sex, blah, blah, blah. And it goes through this massive list of all the things that we do to try and distract ourselves from just sitting in our own mind and our own world. And I think a lot of it is just. It's just distraction, like 90% of all production is just a waste of time and not needed. Yeah. Really could be. I mean, with ai, even since like, um, AI image generation came along, how much absolute crap has been produced compared to anything that's got any use or meaning? I hope you're not referring to the picture of me in future armor that I posted on Facebook, but that is exactly the problem the world is facing you, sir. Uh, but because that was well worth using the power of charging an iPhone on, but it, it absolutely is. I mean, for, there'll be some people that are like running courses or something and they, they get, they use nano banana to make some infographic that helps to, to teach a concept, but the majority of it's just. Slop and I just stuffed it. Oh look, I can put my hat on, whatever else. And it's just this absolute nonsense. Obviously neither of us are guilty of this. 100% not, I've never seen you with forearms on the beach that Exactly. But it, it is such like a, a waste of resources and it's just distraction, which it does.'cause it's like even if you sit down to like go, oh, I wanna make like a cool picture for my website so I can sell more stuff. You can, oh, well what else does this, uh, nano banana thing go? Oh, right. It can, you know, you just get distracted down the sleep. Um, yeah, I've done it. Extensively. That might have been the fourth generation of me, future arm pitcher yesterday that I actually was like, now that's good enough to post until the latest model comes out, and then it's time to do it all again. Um. And going back to something you said about, um, there is a lot of hype with ai and so they need to hype it the whole time to get more investment in, because all they're doing is borrowing and borrowing or getting investors to put money in. And I don't think any of that money's really gonna come back in any meaningful way. And so, I dunno, say with like Claude and the Mythos thing, and they go, oh, we've got this new model. But, but it's, it's, it's incredibly smart. It's unbelievably smart, so smart that we can't release it to the public. And you sort of, for one, you go, oh, wow, that sounds like this company's really amazing. They, they've made like the best thing on the planet. And two, you go, oh, but, but what a good company. They're, they're, they're so safety conscious that they're not releasing it yet. Well, the, that's some good pr, you know, and it's like, and then you get more investment, more loans, whatever else they're doing to get money together because this whole thing. All the money's going in. I, I don't think any money's coming out and being returned, returned to investors in any big way. It's just this constant, you know, like with countries like, uh, if you look at the US debt clock and you just see this thing ticking up of like trillions and trillions of dollars, eventually that'll crash. I think AI is doing that, but just like in this crazy sped up way, um, I think some kind of crash does commit eventually because it, it costs so much and no one's getting any money. And then you ask 'em where all the money's gone. It's like, oh, sorry, I don't remember that. Was that in this chat? Let me just search my memory. No, definitely wasn't me. Are you sure you weren't talking to another AI model? Oops. It's gone. Yeah. Crazy. Great catch. Well, moving on. So the, the next story we've got on our list today is why half of young Brits say they would never fight for the country. And I think before we jump into this and be like, oh, you know, young people of today, blah, blah, blah, whatever, all of this kind of stuff. Did you see the video where there's a guy who, I think he's a World War II veteran and someone asks him about it, like the state of the country and what he regrets or whatever, and he basically says, oh, you know, I regret fighting in the war and all of my friends that I lost and died at that time for what the country has become today. He is like, I don't think it was worth it, to be honest. It was super sad and like poignant. Video of this guy just saying, yeah, I lost loads of my friends and a big part of my youth and trauma and stuff and nothing 'cause of the state of this shit hole that we now live in. Um, so I do remember that. Yeah. It's it and it is a genuinely sad video. Yeah. So, you know, moving on. Yeah. Why half of Young Britts said they would never fight for the country'cause it's a piece of shit place to be. And why would you bother? Just let 'em have it. Well, I, I dunno if I answered vain the survey, but, uh, I dunno if that was an option other, but, and, but, uh, to the point of, uh, the World War II veteran, if, if he's thinking that, why would young people think any different, especially when life is so much softer now? In so many ways, and they'd rather stay home on TikTok and the PlayStation making future armor photos of them or whatever, then fight for their country. I wonder if they said You can fight for your country using drones. They might change their mind. I go, oh, that sounds fun. They actually love that.'cause it's basically a video game, isn't it? With slightly more sad consequences, but, but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's that terrible video of the Russian soldier where there's a drone just like dropping grenades on top of him. I dunno if you ever heard, ever saw that video, didn't. He's just like, I didn't in a foxhole with a tour tourniquet around his leg. So he is obviously been injured and he can't move. And this drone's just like zooming in on his face, the camera and zooming out and then dropping a grenade and he's like grabbing it and throwing it out of the foxhole. And then he drops another one, apparently. I don't know, but it's comments on the video. They said like eventually this drone did get them. But apparently that happens a lot where these drones will just like fly over a soldier and almost taunt them, like zoom in and out on them, wait, and then just drop a grenade on them and yeah, like it's crazy. Different type of warfare. Yeah, it's insane. Isn't that, you know, so, uh, yeah, I mean, I get it. I think the, the shocking thing about this is that a lot of, um. Young people that, you know, thought they would be better off than their parents is now down to only 36%. So only one third of people believe that the future will be better for them than it was for their parents. I guess it's because most people's parents bought their house for like 10 quid and a secret handshake. Pretty much. Yeah. But I mean, that is the case. So if you talk to like old generations, it's like, oh, how much was your house? Like, oh, 3000 pounds. What's it worth now? Like 190 or 200 and something? Um, yeah, a thousand. Uh, but yeah, it's, it is really crazy. And I think everyone now, who's a young person, they do feel that they think there's absolutely no hope that I will get on the housing ladder. I will be worse off than my parents. And uh, I think a lot of people now as well, they fear the future and they don't see much of a future. Uh, because the jobs market shrinks, then you have different technologies that are coming in. Everything in the country just seems to get more expensive. Life becomes more difficult, and yeah, they, I think they just can't visualize the future. And one of, uh, I know there's a, a symptom of clinical depression, which is the, not the inability to see a future for yourself. Mm-hmm. And I think, uh, modern societies giving back to a lot of people deliberately. Yeah. And I think there's a way out of it. I mean, there's it, the way out of it is for people to take back that control of their own, their own mental health, their own psyche, their own thoughts. You know, we're invaded constantly by the thoughts of what. Social media, news, all of this crap, but none of it. You, you can, you can, you can shed it all. You know, I think focusing too much on the future and stuff is like what screws people over we're deliberately forced into doing it. Um, and yeah, the thoroughly depressing first half of the episode today. No good news at all. I was just gonna add to that as well, but I think part of what happened in most of the western world, so, uh, USA uk, uh, Europe, that, that kind of boomer generation, so you had World War ii, which kind of reset some things, created that for some, you could say as well. But after that first subsequent, subsequent generations, Faye took out all the debt and all the national debt grew. Everything else grew and now whoops. And now we're in this position where it's so hard to pay this step back that because of the borrowing that an earlier generation did, everyone now is kind of screwed. And that's one of the main things that makes life more difficult, that debt to GDP ratio. And yeah, it's been kind of inherited and it, it's, but then it becomes impossible to get out of unless you default on the debt, which is tricky. So I've heard probably what we're building up to now, eh, it could be, but it's not all doom and gloom. So we're gonna move into some happier stories this week.'cause man a God only knows we need it. I was just looking over there at the, the gap in my window and considering throwing myself out, you know. Um, but yeah, a story here. Um. About laughter, right? So why does laughter spread? Apparently scientists are getting clearer on the answer. What's the story here, Adam? What's going on? Uh, well, apparently scientists are getting a little bit closer on laughter and why it spreads. So it's not, it's not just a, a response to humor. It's not just ha ha ha or something like that, unfortunately. But it's also like a, a social signal, uh, for, for our brains are prime to, to catch and to mirror. So that's why hearing other people laugh can make it harder for us to stay straight faced. So it's like a social thing as much as, as much as a, a humor thing. It's cool, man. I mean, there's a lot of things that say that it's good for you as well. It's like laughing yoga and all of that stuff isn't there, which is it? Laughing yoga. Sure there is. I've never heard of it, but made it like a thing that would be Definitely sounds like a real thing. Yeah. Laughing yoga. So you guys, you know, you can give me 5K, come to Vietnam and I'll do a laughing yoga session. Yeah. It is the thing, it's a therapeutic practice. Uh, combining intentional laughter exercises with yogic deep breathing. Uh, it releases stress, boosts immunity and improves mood. So there you go. Yeah.'cause there would be a lot of benefits just to laughing, smiling, being happy. Developed in 1995 by Dr. Madden Aria. She was a Madden. Um, wow. Anyway, move, moving on. So something that I did quite enjoy, but it does link back to what we said earlier about how humans spend a lot of our time building pointless things that don't really like, like mean anything. What, what's the, the need for all of the resource when we have people that don't have water in the world. But yeah. Beijing's robot, half marathon. So they actually, I dunno if anybody saw this, but they actually mix the marathon. It's Beijing's normal marathon, but they just have robots joining it. So it's not like physically a marathon for just robots. So it's got humans in it as well. Um, and I think they started a few years ago. Last year the, the fastest robot took like double the amount of time as a human to complete the race, whereas this year it was a robot that was the fastest. So. Um, this winning robot managed to do a half marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, which would be a world record if it wasn't a robot. Which again, seems ridiculous, but two things. Yeah. Interesting. That robots can now move at this speed. And what's the fucking point? To what end? Like are we gonna start watching Robot Olympics? Like what? I don't, it doesn't make any fucking sense to me at all. Yeah, but humans like to do pointless. I mean, think of some of the Guinness World records that we've covered. The guy who can holds records for snapping cucumbers. The most cucumbers in a minute or something like that. And the guy who trained a made a car for his goldfish can drive and he drove further. Whoa, whoa. But let me stop you there watching a man snap. Cucumbers, I'm in for that. Watching a robot snap. Cucumbers. I mean, come on. It's not authentic. Where's the authenticity? I don't wanna see a robot snapping cucumbers like anyone can do that. Oh, I built a robot snaps cucumbers. So my uncle Derek can snap cucumbers almost as fast as that robot. Like, why would I wanna come and watch something that's not even a human snapping things? Ridiculous that that is true. I guess outrageous. But there must be some, some call for it 'cause Oh probably, yeah. Well e eventually, yeah, I guess, I mean, 'cause apparently be had like 300 humanoid robots. So in like a separate lane. And so I guess someone wants to, to see it or maybe it's a competition between the, the companies. Uh, and uh, but it's the same as a little bit. I mean, would you say we've gone to the moon when we're in the space race in the 1960s? Was that, was there a point to that? Yeah, we wanna mine the, from in for you mental. We wanna mine it and prepare for missions beyond, you know, for when the earth gets destroyed by the idiots that are here. Oh wait. And if we go to another, yeah, we'll probably do the same thing again. Maybe that's what we already did to Mars. I don't know. Anyway, um, what I did quite like about this is one of the companies I see domestic leader, Aggie bot. It's probably not how you pronounce it, but it just, it just imagine it being like, what mate? What you looking at? Yeah. So what I run the marathon. You know what I mean? Just some like, little fuck off mate sucking, its sucking its robot teeth at you. What are you looking at? Your dickhead? Yeah. It just, it could, it could be exactly, exactly like that. I mean, I suppose you could have 'em for like Deliveroo in the cities, you know, little robots lagging it around and that, um, you could, I mean, I dunno then who pays the bill if it runs into someone and kills them or breaks their leg or knocks'em off a bike or something, you know? Yeah. You'd have to train them pretty well. Um, and you'd have to have some kind of insurance, uh, I guess. But I think the, the thing is, it's, it's that idea of robots or AI or whatever else, getting to levels that surpass human beings. So here's a robot that can run a, a marathon in. Less time than any human on Earth can. That's, that's quite a big advancement. And that's kind of like one thing out of many that's ticked off the list, I guess next, will it be able to fold t-shirts faster than someone working in a factory? Maybe Savannah can have a robot and replace that person or that team of people, and it's just slowly as all this becomes more and more advanced for more people will be replaced by robots. I mean in this, can't remember where, but it was saying. Uh, but yeah, the domestically leaders, Aggie bot and Tre each shipped more than 5,000 units last year with unit tree aiming for an annual capacity of 75,000. Humanoid robots. Um, I mean, I, I'm guessing they won't all be, uh, running marathons. They'll be doing something else, but reach around maybe. Who knows, I'd have a reach around Aggie bot. Well, you go, that's something for you to, for this year. Not this again, you should be doing some work. You dickhead. Brilliant. Well, listen, I think we're gonna have to skip ahead a little bit because we're, we're running long because we've spent so long complaining about the state of the world and making everybody so thoroughly depressed that they think that there's really no point in trying to exist in this robot running in the future, we won't even be able to run to relax because there'll be a robot that can do that better than us as well. Awesome. Exactly. Fantastic. I run the London Marathon. Yeah, so. My robot did it while I watched it. I could go into its eyes and feel like I was running it. I ran it on a treadmill from my house while my robot Yeah. And fi acted it out. I do like the idea of thinking that it's like a call center full of like Chinese acting out the movements of these robots and they don't actually know how to move for themselves. It could be, that would be hilarious. Like that cleaning bot that we uh, covered a few years back, it's like, you sure that's not a, a dude in a suit? Yeah. But it turns out it was being controlled, if I remember rightly. It was, yeah. So someone can actually see inside your house and Yeah, all of that stuff, which is a whole other security, um, concern. But yeah. Finishing up on a, on an animal story before we go into our top tens, I didn't wanna miss this one because this is our top fives. This one is the story of the weak as far as I'm concerned. So there's been a. A, um, fake bear attacks on luxury cars. So, uh, three guys have been sentenced after dressing up as bears and basically trying to scam their insurance. So what's the story here? Um, basically that, so Faye dressed up in a bear costume. They already, they also had these things as well that they could grip onto, kind of like a, a Wolverine character kind of thing that had like spikes on it so they could, and scratch down the sides of cars, I guess. Um, the insurance department said the scheme invol involved a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes, and so yeah, it was basically just insurance fraud, but they kind of, uh, they kind of did it as a fake bear attack and even even bought a bath suit. Um. But, uh, but apparently vis was caught, uh, on video and, uh, a, a wildlife biologist determined the bear in the video was clearly not a real bear because you can imagine just some guy walking around in a suit trying to be bearlike and yeah. And later they, they found the, the bear suit in, in their home. And when they DNA tested it, there was a match and yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess so. Yeah. It's also amazing. We still, you know, we live in a world where in order to prove that beyond reasonable doubt, you need to bring in an expert. To look at someone in a bear suit and be like, Hey, even, even though it probably had like converse or something sticking out at the bottom of like its feet or whatever, but, and a rollup like hanging out the front of it. Yeah. It gets a bit hot. So it takes the head off for a couple of minutes. It's like brilliant. Yeah. And it's stuff like that up there drinking mountain. She, whoa. Yeah. And it's stuff like that, that gives me faith that there will still be a place for humanity, you know? Yeah. Doing really random, wacky things to Yeah. Stuff like that. Defraud and get money. Yeah. And Ed the shed and these kind of things, like that's the future Anyway, so that brings us too. Our closer. The thing that we come to at the end of every temporarily scripted show is this Week's Top Fives with Adam Garcia. What have we got here, my friend? Uh, I dunno 'cause I can't find it. All right, there we go. Oh, forget it. Thanks for joining us everybody, and we'll see you next time. Have a nice day folks. So I thought it might be quite, not funny, but kind of entertaining or interesting perhaps to go with top five accidental discoveries that change science, tech or medicine because Beautiful, there's, yeah, there's a lot of famous things that came out that were completely by accident in many ways. The famous one, or most famous one, I would say is number one, which is penicillin. Uh, and so what happened was Alexander Fleming was working with, um, bacteria. And he noticed that one of his culture plates had been, uh, contaminated by mold. Uh, but instead of spinning it, he, he was looking at it and he noticed this strange thing that the bacteria, um, close to the mold started dying off. He was like, Hmm, that's really interesting. And so for mold turned out to produce penicillin and that was, that was the beginning of antibiotics as we know it. It's crazy, isn't it? I feel like this is one of those things where when you are determined to find some kind of solution, some kind of breakthrough, and I dunno what he was working on at that time, if it was something related or not, but it just shows you that the power of. Being, um, working hard on something, keeping, working, pushing, and then like things appear or come out from what seems like nowhere, you know? Yeah. Just completely unexpectedly. Yeah, exactly. So setting a goal and doing it, but also being able to monitor your surroundings. What's changing, what's going on in the world. I, I think this is almost why the powers that be try to keep us so distracted all the time with social media and stuff is so we don't notice these things that are right there in front of us the whole time, you know? Yeah. And that's exactly what he did. It was being observant. Um, be willing to change as well.'cause he was clearly working on something completely different and then this happened and it, his whole, the whole direction of his research and then life just took a huge swerve in a different direction. Yeah. The only bit that was sad is that they couldn't call it phem silly. Yeah. Which would've sounded, uh, absolutely wonderful. Exactly. Yeah. What's the next one? Well, the next one is kind of interesting in a couple of ways, and it's X-rays. So this was from the, uh, 1895 and Wil Helm Conrad Rogan. So he was experimenting with, um, caho ray tubes, but on the other side of the room, he had a, a fluorescent screen. And while he is working with these tubes, they were covered and they had like a, it's kind of like black paper around them, but he looked over and saw that the screen was glowing and he is like, well, what's v it? It can't be light that's getting through and causing them to glow it. It must be. Something else. And so he, uh, he discovered something completely new at that time, which was X-rays crazy. And you think of the impact that's had on the world and presumably he died of cancer. And that's when they invented putting x-rays in those little rooms. He actually did die of, uh, intestinal cancer. Um, a couple of cool things that he did actually, uh, I dunno much else about him, but, um, he didn't patent x-rays. He was like, oh, this, this can help a lot of people. And he just kind of opened, sourced it to everyone, even though he could have made a lot of money. And then he won the Nobel Prize for it. And instead of just keeping that money for himself, he just reinvested that money in the university to do more research, which is absolute legend. Yeah, it's just really, really cool. They, they should have called it like a Ron, a Ron Generat. Right. Like Yeah. I can see why you don't have a job naming things posthumously. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, what have we got at number three? Uh, let's take a look. Oh, okay. So in 1964 to 65, uh, there were two researchers, Arno Penza and Robert Wilson. And they were using like highly, a highly sensitive antenna. Um, and kind of like we'd use, um, kind of radar and things like that, if I'm not mistaken. Mm-hmm. But anyway, super, super sensitive antenna and that it's really expensive, really amazing machinery. But there's this constant like static, this constant hiss. And they're going like, what is this? So they, they try everything. They check all the equipment, they think is it like an earthing problem? They even clean the antenna 'cause there's like pigeon droppings on there, everything else. But still the hiss was there. And it turns out that what this is is microwave, sorry, cosmic microwave background radiation. So basically the radiation that was left over in the universe from the Big Bang, crazy. It's like trying to fix the TV signal and then accidentally coming across like, you know, the God signal or whatever. Yeah. Basically. And that was one of the like major things that, um, that scientists look at as proof that there was a big bang and it's fat, fat background radiation. Crazy. Is it the pigeon shit or is it a cosmic leftover of existence? Yeah, basically. Is it, is it the origin of for universe? That's crazy. Crazy. Yeah, it really is. So the next one's kind of cool. So there was an engineer called Percy Spencer, something in 19. It is. I want a name like that. Percy. I bet it's one of those die in names. Anyway, continue. It probably is actually. But anyway, this is in the 1940s and he was working for Raytheon and he was working with Magnetrons, which are devices used in radar systems. And he had a chocolate bar in his pocket and he realized that it had melted while he was working on this thing. He's like, Hmm, that's, that's really weird. So he is tried, started like experimenting, uh, with different foods and you realize that. You could heat food really quickly with microwave energy, and that's where the microwave oven comes from. Mental. Presumably he also died of cancer. I dunno. Obesity, I think.'cause you could just eat his food. So Cream, he was on them. Ready meals? Yeah. As soon as his eyes on a 99 p curry. I love it. Amazing man. That's some dark food, isn't it? And, and, uh, yeah. Yeah. Not the one. And what we got up. What's the last one? Number five. Okay, so the last one, um, in the 1990s, Pfizer were testing something called Sildenafil, which was a, a treatment for Ang China. I've heard a couple of different stories about this, but therein, the, the clinical trial, this is one of the stories, and the clinical trial came to an end. And so they said to all the participants, um, alright folks, the trial's over just any tablets that you've got left over, just, just bring them back. And nobody returned the tablets and they were for like, it, uh, so they started contacting people. It's like, I noticed you didn't bring the, the tablets back. Were, is there, was there some side effect or did, did they really help? But anyway, this, uh, this tablet would later become, become known as, uh, Viagra. Brilliant. Everyone was like, no, I'm, I'm, I'm just gonna hang onto to this. I'm just gonna keep hold of these because the, the other stories about it are, um, like people going back to the clinic where they're doing the clinical trials and being in the waiting room and it's guys and the kind of like sat looking kind of uncomfortable with and sat in a really strange attending. Yeah. They're all there like trouser attending. Like, uh, I don't wanna mention this. Is this supposed to happen? I love that. That's awesome. It's crazy, isn't it? I, I, I guess most things are found by accident, you know? Uh, a lot of things tend to be as well. Oh, and there, just lastly, we, we have that thing about Newton and the apple in school. They always say, Isaac Newton one day sat under a tree. Apple hits mum heads and you guys. Gravity turns out that's probably a bit of an embellishment, but a couple of sources. So for Royal Society and for Newton Project, both say that Newton did say at some point that he saw an apple fall from a tree and that helped to focus his thinking about gravity. So it's kind of true. Uh, yeah. I think as well, it's like a contemplation thing. Like I think the, the moral of that story is taking time to sit and think. If you look at all of the great inventors, scientists, mathematicians, all of them have that in common where they'll just go and do nothing to allow their brain to think around problems. And I think bringing it back to harping on about that, the best way that humans can survive the current times is to do that, right, is to spend time. Doing nothing. You know, I think, yeah, I think that is a, a big part of it. I think with Newton as well, he was, I think he spent as much time on alchemy and sort of oc cult kind of stuff as he did on actual science. Or two, you could say are are quite related. But if you look at things like, and maybe we should do this next week instead of top five, we'll do top seven hermetic principles. But the stuff that he will have been studying in alchemy, there's so many different levels to it that would make you think in a scientific way. And I think that was, it was like the way that he viewed the universe and the world as well. That probably came from thousands of years ago, back from ancient Egypt and Greece that were continued through mystery schools and would later become. Kind of oc cultism in a way'cause it's hidden knowledge. But, uh, some of that way of thinking I think would've made a big difference to his, uh, scientific approach. Yeah, let's do it ladies and gentlemen. And I think there's a huge bit of that is like letting your brain be empty and all of that kind of fun stuff. But yeah. And just let into cots come in a bit more detail. Yeah, exactly. Alright guys, well thank you very much for joining us. We are at the end. I know it's sad, but we will be back. We'll be back again next week, next Friday for your viewing entertainment. But until then, Adam, what's the thought you wanna leave our audience with today? Uh, there you go. And just wrapped up. Just like that. Go away. Be nice to each other. Be kind to yourselves and just chill. Try and see the funny side and everything. Watch out, watch, eat some, watch out for these bastard robots as well. See you next time everybody.