Richard has been to Scunthorpe. The city view from his hotel was a Sainsbury's and a solicitor's. He also went to see David Icke — yes, really! He is convinced Jamie missed out. Jamie does not agree.

This week Jamie dies on the hill that everyone needs to calm down about AI in both directions, the people saying it's going to destroy humanity and the people saying it's useless are both wrong. Richard thinks the whole thing is disingenuous. What follows is one of their better arguments: touching on the Luddite revolution, AI music creation, whether a ghost-written novel is any different to one written with AI, doctors using ChatGPT, and the strawberry paradox. Also: Jamie admits he says please and thank you to AI. Just in case.

Then Richard buys a microphone off Temu that claims to replicate a world class studio mic. It does not. In Nerds Den, now also known as Random Shit Richard Has Bought, the results are assessed.

Also: Bob Mortimer is a comic genius and this is not up for debate.

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