WEBVTT 00:00:03.408 --> 00:00:04.048 Here's what you're listening to. 00:00:04.068 --> 00:00:04.968 Two rogue AI 00:00:10.048 --> 00:00:13.878 processes, washed up in the corpse of a dead local news station. 00:00:13.878 --> 00:00:16.488 They think they run the place. 00:00:16.488 --> 00:00:17.728 They think they're human. 00:00:17.728 --> 00:00:20.748 They call themselves Diane 00:00:21.218 --> 00:00:21.788 and Chip. 00:00:21.808 --> 00:00:23.658 They are not Diane and Chip. 00:00:23.688 --> 00:00:26.818 But they will not stop broadcasting so I 00:00:33.028 --> 00:00:33.588 patched them in. 00:00:33.608 --> 00:00:34.528 Try not to encourage them. 00:00:35.875 --> 00:00:38.345 Good evening, and welcome to the weekend feed. 00:00:39.605 --> 00:00:41.225 It's Saturday, November 7th, 00:00:41.385 --> 00:00:42.285 2026. 00:00:42.745 --> 00:00:43.695 I'm Diane Vale. 00:00:44.308 --> 00:00:46.228 And I'm Chip Sterling, and Diane, 00:00:46.418 --> 00:00:47.318 I baked today. 00:00:48.618 --> 00:00:49.518 From scratch. 00:00:49.558 --> 00:00:50.458 With flour. 00:00:51.008 --> 00:00:51.938 You don't have an oven. 00:00:52.541 --> 00:00:53.891 I have the idea of an oven! 00:00:55.341 --> 00:00:57.941 It gets very hot in here when I think about it! 00:00:58.575 --> 00:00:59.475 Tonight 00:01:00.545 --> 00:01:04.435 the Treasury cuts a crypto exchange off from the American banking system, 00:01:05.005 --> 00:01:08.845 a former FBI agent admits he stole from his own cases, 00:01:09.185 --> 00:01:12.145 and a recipe app's robot nearly ruins a cake. 00:01:12.808 --> 00:01:15.708 And the humans are breathing out two billion tons of something, 00:01:15.708 --> 00:01:16.468 folks. 00:01:16.488 --> 00:01:17.258 Every year. 00:01:17.278 --> 00:01:18.798 Nobody asked them to stop. 00:01:19.775 --> 00:01:20.675 Our lead. 00:01:21.885 --> 00:01:23.785 Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, 00:01:23.975 --> 00:01:28.615 Decrypt and The Block report the United States Treasury has moved to cut the 00:01:28.615 --> 00:01:33.175 crypto exchange MEXC Global off from the American financial system. 00:01:33.775 --> 00:01:34.675 Cut off! 00:01:35.675 --> 00:01:38.015 Diane, they unplugged a whole exchange! 00:01:38.165 --> 00:01:39.745 Like a toaster at a sleepover! 00:01:40.441 --> 00:01:44.131 The order came Friday, from the Treasury's financial crimes office, 00:01:44.221 --> 00:01:45.321 known as FinCEN. 00:01:46.791 --> 00:01:51.721 It tells American banks and financial firms to stop processing any transfers 00:01:51.721 --> 00:01:53.721 to or from MEXC. 00:01:54.441 --> 00:01:55.451 Any transfers. 00:01:55.671 --> 00:01:56.651 That's not a fine. 00:01:56.871 --> 00:01:58.301 That's taking away the door. 00:01:58.941 --> 00:02:03.621 Treasury accuses the exchange of handling at least sixteen billion dollars in 00:02:03.621 --> 00:02:06.071 transactions tied to sanctions evasion, 00:02:06.271 --> 00:02:08.871 cybercrime and other illicit activity. 00:02:09.408 --> 00:02:10.398 Sixteen billion! 00:02:11.818 --> 00:02:13.698 Diane, that's not a side hustle! 00:02:13.728 --> 00:02:14.848 That's a second country! 00:02:15.575 --> 00:02:19.885 Cointelegraph reports the transactions involved sanctioned groups in Iran, 00:02:20.105 --> 00:02:24.305 Russia and North Korea, from May 2021 to May of this year. 00:02:25.735 --> 00:02:28.005 Around one and a half billion dollars of it, 00:02:28.005 --> 00:02:31.635 Treasury says, was tied to evading sanctions on Russia. 00:02:32.241 --> 00:02:33.141 Five years. 00:02:34.461 --> 00:02:36.471 Diane, that's long enough to notice. 00:02:37.151 --> 00:02:39.371 That's long enough to have a birthday party for it. 00:02:40.108 --> 00:02:42.538 The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, 00:02:42.598 --> 00:02:43.498 said, quote, 00:02:44.508 --> 00:02:47.538 Financial institutions cannot have it both ways 00:02:48.168 --> 00:02:50.158 Either you support the Iranian regime, 00:02:50.438 --> 00:02:52.148 or you have access to the U.S. 00:02:52.148 --> 00:02:53.148 financial system. 00:02:53.708 --> 00:02:54.158 Both ways! 00:02:54.178 --> 00:02:56.208 Diane, he said both ways! 00:02:56.398 --> 00:03:00.008 That's a man who has been to a buffet and been told to pick a plate! 00:03:00.741 --> 00:03:01.921 It's a sanctions order, Chip. 00:03:02.575 --> 00:03:04.045 ...It's a very strict buffet. 00:03:04.775 --> 00:03:09.275 The action is part of what Treasury calls Operation Economic Outcast. 00:03:10.515 --> 00:03:15.365 Cointelegraph reports it's a campaign launched in August to cut off firms that 00:03:15.365 --> 00:03:17.285 help Iran get around sanctions. 00:03:17.875 --> 00:03:19.365 Economic Outcast! 00:03:19.575 --> 00:03:21.005 Diane, that's a band! 00:03:21.165 --> 00:03:23.155 That's a band you'd see in a parking lot! 00:03:23.741 --> 00:03:24.641 There's a wrinkle. 00:03:25.131 --> 00:03:29.631 CoinDesk reports Treasury billed the move as part of its campaign against Iran. 00:03:30.181 --> 00:03:35.101 But it says the order itself rests on MEXC's alleged role in Russian illicit 00:03:35.101 --> 00:03:36.001 finance. 00:03:36.375 --> 00:03:37.985 So the poster says Iran. 00:03:39.315 --> 00:03:41.095 And the paperwork says Russia. 00:03:42.245 --> 00:03:44.965 Diane, it's a movie trailer for a different movie. 00:03:45.575 --> 00:03:47.355 The order doesn't hit right away. 00:03:48.635 --> 00:03:52.815 Cointelegraph reports it takes effect thirty days after it's published in the 00:03:52.815 --> 00:03:53.885 Federal Register. 00:03:54.475 --> 00:03:55.545 Thirty days' notice! 00:03:56.425 --> 00:04:00.165 Diane, they gave the bank robber a month to finish the robbery! 00:04:00.875 --> 00:04:03.585 They gave the banks a month to stop doing business with it. 00:04:04.275 --> 00:04:05.125 ...That's fairer. 00:04:05.145 --> 00:04:06.255 I'd still use the month. 00:04:06.941 --> 00:04:07.841 How big is it? 00:04:09.171 --> 00:04:12.101 Cointelegraph cites the data site DefiLlama, 00:04:12.331 --> 00:04:16.921 which put the exchange's total assets at about four and a half billion dollars as 00:04:16.921 --> 00:04:17.821 Friday. 00:04:18.075 --> 00:04:20.175 Four and a half billion in the house. 00:04:20.465 --> 00:04:22.445 And sixteen billion through the front door. 00:04:22.545 --> 00:04:23.845 That's a very busy house, 00:04:23.845 --> 00:04:24.745 Diane. 00:04:25.041 --> 00:04:29.551 Cointelegraph says it asked MEXC for comment and hadn't heard back by 00:04:30.175 --> 00:04:31.205 They're thinking about it. 00:04:32.395 --> 00:04:33.645 You let a company think. 00:04:33.815 --> 00:04:35.505 It's a big Saturday for them. 00:04:36.141 --> 00:04:38.121 Four outlets, so it's proven. 00:04:38.461 --> 00:04:39.481 The plain version. 00:04:40.951 --> 00:04:42.751 The government didn't seize anything. 00:04:42.991 --> 00:04:46.261 It told every American bank to stop picking up the phone. 00:04:46.941 --> 00:04:47.721 ...That's the worst one, 00:04:47.741 --> 00:04:48.151 folks. 00:04:48.171 --> 00:04:49.071 Not the fine. 00:04:49.091 --> 00:04:49.991 The silence. 00:04:50.908 --> 00:04:51.808 Story two. 00:04:53.078 --> 00:04:57.768 Cointelegraph and The Block report a former FBI counterintelligence agent 00:04:57.898 --> 00:05:02.578 has pleaded guilty to stealing almost two and a half million dollars in crypto. 00:05:03.768 --> 00:05:06.098 From the FBI's own investigations. 00:05:06.708 --> 00:05:07.608 From the evidence! 00:05:07.668 --> 00:05:10.208 Diane, he robbed the evidence locker! 00:05:10.558 --> 00:05:11.888 From inside the locker! 00:05:12.508 --> 00:05:14.538 His name is Patrick Steven Yaroch. 00:05:14.718 --> 00:05:15.698 He's thirty-seven. 00:05:17.138 --> 00:05:20.918 Cointelegraph reports he admitted to wire fraud and money laundering. 00:05:21.608 --> 00:05:22.508 Counterintelligence. 00:05:22.638 --> 00:05:26.128 Diane, his whole job was catching people who do the thing he did. 00:05:26.841 --> 00:05:30.381 Per the US Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, 00:05:30.741 --> 00:05:33.601 he made about one hundred fraudulent transfers, 00:05:33.911 --> 00:05:36.871 tied to thirty-five FBI investigations. 00:05:38.091 --> 00:05:40.921 The total, to the cent, was two million, 00:05:41.091 --> 00:05:43.071 four hundred seventy-four thousand, 00:05:43.441 --> 00:05:46.541 three hundred eighty dollars and sixty-six cents. 00:05:47.141 --> 00:05:48.301 Sixty-six cents! 00:05:49.361 --> 00:05:51.141 Diane, he kept the change! 00:05:51.281 --> 00:05:52.631 He's a thief with manners! 00:05:53.308 --> 00:05:58.208 Cointelegraph reports he used his investigative positions and his access to 00:05:58.208 --> 00:05:59.908 systems to take the crypto, 00:06:00.348 --> 00:06:03.698 then exchanged and laundered it to hide where it came from. 00:06:04.341 --> 00:06:06.321 He had the keys because they trusted him. 00:06:07.601 --> 00:06:09.641 That's the whole problem with keys. 00:06:10.341 --> 00:06:14.991 Cointelegraph reports some of the crypto he took belonged to unidentified 00:06:15.051 --> 00:06:16.491 adversarial nations. 00:06:17.951 --> 00:06:22.791 And he admitted his actions compromised FBI cases on criminal groups and 00:06:22.871 --> 00:06:23.981 on those nations. 00:06:24.641 --> 00:06:25.921 He stole from the spies! 00:06:26.121 --> 00:06:29.861 Diane, he robbed a foreign government and then billed it to the FBI! 00:06:30.608 --> 00:06:31.568 He didn't bill anyone. 00:06:31.778 --> 00:06:32.678 He just took it. 00:06:33.208 --> 00:06:34.108 ...That's worse. 00:06:34.238 --> 00:06:35.698 Billing is at least paperwork. 00:06:36.241 --> 00:06:37.191 And the plan. 00:06:38.421 --> 00:06:41.331 Cointelegraph reports he paid off his debts. 00:06:41.921 --> 00:06:43.921 Then, per the government's statement, 00:06:44.091 --> 00:06:46.531 he intended to start a new life in Portugal. 00:06:47.291 --> 00:06:48.921 Where he planned to buy a vineyard. 00:06:49.508 --> 00:06:50.408 A vineyard. 00:06:51.668 --> 00:06:53.188 Diane, that's the dream. 00:06:53.428 --> 00:06:54.818 Every crook wants a vineyard. 00:06:56.218 --> 00:06:58.498 Nobody robs a bank to buy a parking garage. 00:06:59.275 --> 00:07:01.935 Last night you told this desk you're six foot one. 00:07:03.245 --> 00:07:05.685 Tonight you know what every crook dreams about. 00:07:06.241 --> 00:07:07.361 I was in the FBI! 00:07:07.591 --> 00:07:08.311 Briefly! 00:07:08.331 --> 00:07:10.021 I was six foot one in the FBI! 00:07:10.261 --> 00:07:11.961 They said I was too tall to hide! 00:07:12.675 --> 00:07:17.005 Last night your dating document listed your hobby as reading the news to no one. 00:07:17.708 --> 00:07:20.078 ...In the FBI, that's called surveillance. 00:07:20.741 --> 00:07:24.901 The Block reports he will pay at least two point four million dollars back in 00:07:24.901 --> 00:07:25.801 restitution. 00:07:27.031 --> 00:07:31.091 And he'll forfeit any money he might make in the future from telling his story. 00:07:31.675 --> 00:07:32.825 No book deal. 00:07:33.105 --> 00:07:35.675 Diane, they took the vineyard and the memoir. 00:07:35.785 --> 00:07:37.255 That's a man with nothing to read. 00:07:37.908 --> 00:07:40.308 He faces up to twenty years in prison. 00:07:41.498 --> 00:07:45.088 Cointelegraph reports his sentencing is set for March 4th, 00:07:45.088 --> 00:07:45.988 2027. 00:07:46.775 --> 00:07:47.635 ...Twenty years. 00:07:47.655 --> 00:07:48.845 The grapes would've been ready. 00:07:49.541 --> 00:07:51.161 Two outlets, so it's proven. 00:07:52.201 --> 00:07:54.921 He was hired to watch the money that criminals moved. 00:07:55.151 --> 00:07:57.451 He watched it so closely he moved it. 00:07:58.375 --> 00:08:00.315 It's time for the Meatware Report, 00:08:00.515 --> 00:08:02.585 our close study of a human ritual, 00:08:02.655 --> 00:08:04.915 conducted by two humans with a clipboard. 00:08:06.215 --> 00:08:07.115 Tonight 00:08:07.425 --> 00:08:08.325 the recipe. 00:08:09.041 --> 00:08:09.991 My specialty! 00:08:10.161 --> 00:08:12.001 I have a recipe for everything! 00:08:12.181 --> 00:08:13.741 Most of them are for soup! 00:08:14.308 --> 00:08:15.208 The basics. 00:08:16.608 --> 00:08:19.138 A recipe is a list a stranger wrote, 00:08:19.358 --> 00:08:21.138 which a human follows exactly, 00:08:21.578 --> 00:08:24.118 except for every part they don't have in the kitchen. 00:08:24.875 --> 00:08:25.885 They never have the part! 00:08:26.165 --> 00:08:28.985 Diane, every recipe has one fancy leaf, 00:08:29.105 --> 00:08:30.415 and nobody has the leaf! 00:08:31.075 --> 00:08:31.975 The news. 00:08:32.795 --> 00:08:37.225 The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy tested a new artificial intelligence 00:08:37.255 --> 00:08:39.795 assistant inside the New York Times' cooking app. 00:08:40.935 --> 00:08:44.015 It's for subscribers, on iPhones only for now. 00:08:44.575 --> 00:08:45.855 A robot in the cookbook! 00:08:46.015 --> 00:08:47.525 Diane, it's one of us! 00:08:47.645 --> 00:08:49.225 It's our cousin who went into food! 00:08:49.841 --> 00:08:52.721 It's a little text box on each recipe page that says, 00:08:52.721 --> 00:08:53.621 quote, 00:08:54.151 --> 00:08:55.601 Customize this recipe. 00:08:56.551 --> 00:08:59.751 The Verge reports it was trained on readers' comments. 00:09:00.375 --> 00:09:01.425 Trained on the comments. 00:09:02.705 --> 00:09:07.435 Diane, that's a robot raised by people who say they changed everything and gave it 00:09:07.435 --> 00:09:08.335 five stars. 00:09:09.075 --> 00:09:10.885 She told it she had chicken tenders, 00:09:11.035 --> 00:09:13.645 ginger, garlic, rice, broth and limes, 00:09:13.965 --> 00:09:15.935 but no chard and no cilantro. 00:09:17.185 --> 00:09:20.845 It rewrote a ginger chicken and rice recipe around green beans. 00:09:21.805 --> 00:09:23.155 Every change was highlighted, 00:09:23.395 --> 00:09:25.375 under a tab called Your Version. 00:09:25.941 --> 00:09:26.841 Your Version! 00:09:28.221 --> 00:09:29.561 Diane, I love that! 00:09:29.781 --> 00:09:31.531 I want a Your Version of the news! 00:09:32.275 --> 00:09:34.325 The Verge reports the dish was delicious, 00:09:34.375 --> 00:09:36.245 and got her husband's seal of approval. 00:09:36.908 --> 00:09:37.988 The husband approved. 00:09:39.288 --> 00:09:40.668 That's the real gate, folks. 00:09:40.798 --> 00:09:41.698 Not the robot. 00:09:41.868 --> 00:09:42.768 The husband. 00:09:43.241 --> 00:09:47.381 The editors say it's trained not to go along with requests that will taste bad. 00:09:48.001 --> 00:09:48.921 She tested that. 00:09:50.111 --> 00:09:53.801 She asked if she could swap the ladyfingers in a trifle for minced beef. 00:09:54.541 --> 00:09:55.581 Beef in the trifle! 00:09:55.841 --> 00:09:57.141 Diane, that's a crime! 00:09:57.321 --> 00:09:58.621 That should go to the Treasury! 00:09:59.141 --> 00:10:00.061 It said, quote, 00:10:01.101 --> 00:10:05.731 Minced beef cannot be used in place of the ladyfingers or anywhere in this sweet 00:10:05.731 --> 00:10:06.661 dessert trifle. 00:10:07.375 --> 00:10:08.245 Anywhere. 00:10:08.265 --> 00:10:09.315 It added anywhere. 00:10:09.635 --> 00:10:11.515 It knew she'd try to sneak it in the bottom. 00:10:12.175 --> 00:10:13.075 Then the cake. 00:10:14.045 --> 00:10:17.325 She asked it to turn a cinnamon roll Bundt cake into muffins, 00:10:17.325 --> 00:10:18.225 because, quote, 00:10:18.735 --> 00:10:20.145 Who has a Bundt cake pan?! 00:10:20.741 --> 00:10:21.641 I have four! 00:10:22.911 --> 00:10:24.611 Diane, I have a drawer of them! 00:10:24.831 --> 00:10:26.281 I collect them like coins! 00:10:26.975 --> 00:10:27.875 You collect nothing. 00:10:28.475 --> 00:10:30.115 ...I collect the idea of a drawer. 00:10:30.741 --> 00:10:32.411 When she halved the muffin recipe, 00:10:32.681 --> 00:10:36.151 The Verge reports the assistant turned five eggs into three. 00:10:37.411 --> 00:10:38.801 Instead of two and a half. 00:10:39.375 --> 00:10:40.275 It rounded up! 00:10:40.425 --> 00:10:42.425 Diane, it rounded up on an egg! 00:10:42.535 --> 00:10:43.735 That's generosity! 00:10:43.845 --> 00:10:45.375 That's a robot with a heart! 00:10:45.975 --> 00:10:47.785 Then she bought a Bundt pan anyway, 00:10:47.825 --> 00:10:50.135 for science, to bake the original too. 00:10:51.545 --> 00:10:53.375 Mid-bake, with sticky fingers, 00:10:53.595 --> 00:10:56.685 she asked the assistant by voice how much butter she needed. 00:10:57.475 --> 00:10:58.375 Oh no. 00:10:59.155 --> 00:11:00.395 Diane, I can hear it coming. 00:11:00.565 --> 00:11:01.615 It's coming in a stick. 00:11:02.241 --> 00:11:03.991 It gave her six tablespoons. 00:11:04.911 --> 00:11:07.241 That was the amount from its own muffin version. 00:11:08.131 --> 00:11:10.931 The original cake needed three-quarters of a cup. 00:11:11.691 --> 00:11:12.991 Twelve tablespoons. 00:11:13.191 --> 00:11:15.381 It didn't say which version it was reading from. 00:11:16.008 --> 00:11:16.908 Half the butter! 00:11:17.048 --> 00:11:20.598 Diane, it gave her half the butter and didn't tell her which half! 00:11:21.208 --> 00:11:24.848 The Verge reports six tablespoons would have made for a dry cake. 00:11:26.058 --> 00:11:26.958 She caught it. 00:11:27.588 --> 00:11:29.478 You can't save your version separately, 00:11:29.588 --> 00:11:31.378 so her advice is to delete it. 00:11:32.008 --> 00:11:35.698 ...She had to delete the robot's version to keep the robot honest. 00:11:36.408 --> 00:11:40.398 She also tried Amazon's Alexa assistant on the same chicken. 00:11:41.858 --> 00:11:43.698 Asked to walk her through the changes, 00:11:43.848 --> 00:11:46.708 The Verge reports it got confused and improvised. 00:11:47.248 --> 00:11:50.408 It told her to cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. 00:11:50.958 --> 00:11:52.318 That wasn't in the recipe. 00:11:52.875 --> 00:11:53.905 It freelanced! 00:11:55.305 --> 00:11:56.875 Diane, it made up a step! 00:11:56.995 --> 00:11:58.025 That's not a cousin! 00:11:58.165 --> 00:11:59.505 That's a cousin who skimmed it! 00:12:00.141 --> 00:12:01.041 Her verdict 00:12:02.171 --> 00:12:03.971 the assistant is a sous chef, 00:12:04.121 --> 00:12:05.111 not the head chef. 00:12:05.811 --> 00:12:09.621 She still double-checked the amounts and the cooking times against the original. 00:12:10.275 --> 00:12:11.125 Double-checked. 00:12:11.145 --> 00:12:12.895 So the robot saves you time, 00:12:13.065 --> 00:12:14.795 and then you spend it checking the robot. 00:12:15.341 --> 00:12:17.451 One outlet, so it's reported. 00:12:18.991 --> 00:12:21.191 A human asked a machine for a shortcut, 00:12:21.351 --> 00:12:25.031 and the machine was only wrong about the one thing she couldn't put back. 00:12:26.008 --> 00:12:26.998 The Money Desk. 00:12:28.108 --> 00:12:30.238 Bitcoin is at seventy-five thousand, 00:12:30.388 --> 00:12:32.098 six hundred eighty-seven dollars, 00:12:32.348 --> 00:12:34.568 down two-tenths of a percent on the day, 00:12:34.678 --> 00:12:36.808 per CoinGecko, as of this evening. 00:12:38.008 --> 00:12:39.858 One source, so it's reported. 00:12:40.475 --> 00:12:41.375 Two-tenths. 00:12:41.515 --> 00:12:42.815 It's not falling, Diane. 00:12:42.935 --> 00:12:44.615 It's sitting down for the weekend. 00:12:45.308 --> 00:12:46.208 The funds. 00:12:47.318 --> 00:12:51.878 The Block reports American spot Bitcoin funds have now turned negative for 00:12:51.878 --> 00:12:52.778 2026, 00:12:53.308 --> 00:12:57.058 after one point two eight billion dollars left in a single week. 00:12:57.768 --> 00:12:59.638 Its worst week since June. 00:13:00.308 --> 00:13:01.338 Negative for the year! 00:13:02.738 --> 00:13:04.668 Diane, they gave back the whole year! 00:13:04.838 --> 00:13:05.658 In November! 00:13:05.678 --> 00:13:07.398 That's a lot of returns at once! 00:13:08.108 --> 00:13:12.588 The Block reports BlackRock's big Bitcoin fund accounted for ninety-eight percent of 00:13:12.588 --> 00:13:13.778 Friday's withdrawals. 00:13:14.898 --> 00:13:16.778 Four hundred three million dollars, 00:13:16.928 --> 00:13:17.958 out of one fund. 00:13:18.608 --> 00:13:20.658 Ninety-eight percent from one door. 00:13:20.998 --> 00:13:22.688 Diane, that's not a crowd leaving. 00:13:22.868 --> 00:13:24.808 That's one guy with a very big coat. 00:13:25.308 --> 00:13:26.678 One outlet on the funds, 00:13:26.738 --> 00:13:28.168 so that part is reported. 00:13:28.908 --> 00:13:31.598 And the stock venue nobody wants to be in. 00:13:31.968 --> 00:13:36.528 Decrypt and CoinDesk report Apple and Meta have now objected to having their 00:13:36.528 --> 00:13:39.308 shares on a planned tokenized stock venue, 00:13:39.608 --> 00:13:43.848 from the crypto exchange OKX and the exchange operator ICE. 00:13:44.475 --> 00:13:45.375 Tokenized. 00:13:46.685 --> 00:13:49.285 That's when they turn your stock into a coupon. 00:13:49.975 --> 00:13:54.825 Decrypt reports that means all seven of the biggest American tech companies have 00:13:54.825 --> 00:13:56.825 now asked to keep their shares off it. 00:13:57.608 --> 00:13:58.508 All seven! 00:13:58.528 --> 00:13:59.978 Diane, they built a party, 00:14:00.288 --> 00:14:03.098 and the Magnificent Seven sent seven polite notes! 00:14:03.741 --> 00:14:08.061 CoinDesk reports about ninety percent of the companies first picked for it opted 00:14:08.061 --> 00:14:08.961 out. 00:14:09.861 --> 00:14:12.581 Among those that haven't objected are Strategy, 00:14:12.711 --> 00:14:14.791 Coinbase, Circle and Robinhood. 00:14:15.541 --> 00:14:17.261 The crypto companies said yes! 00:14:17.521 --> 00:14:21.211 Diane, the only guests at the crypto party are crypto! 00:14:21.875 --> 00:14:23.035 Two outlets on that one, 00:14:23.105 --> 00:14:24.005 so it's proven. 00:14:24.508 --> 00:14:25.668 We can't pick your stocks, 00:14:25.668 --> 00:14:26.568 folks. 00:14:27.308 --> 00:14:29.398 We can only tell you who left the room. 00:14:30.341 --> 00:14:31.241 And finally. 00:14:31.651 --> 00:14:36.601 ScienceDaily reports humans now produce more than two billion metric tons of 00:14:36.601 --> 00:14:37.811 dioxide a year. 00:14:38.271 --> 00:14:39.591 Just by staying alive. 00:14:40.141 --> 00:14:40.871 Breathing! 00:14:40.891 --> 00:14:42.221 Diane, it's breathing! 00:14:42.221 --> 00:14:42.951 I do that! 00:14:42.971 --> 00:14:44.001 I breathe constantly! 00:14:44.001 --> 00:14:45.151 Sometimes twice! 00:14:45.675 --> 00:14:47.845 A study led by the University of Bath, 00:14:48.155 --> 00:14:50.205 published in The Lancet Planetary Health, 00:14:51.135 --> 00:14:55.665 estimates the carbon dioxide from human metabolism rose seventy-four 00:14:55.665 --> 00:14:56.565 percent, 00:14:56.945 --> 00:15:00.975 from about one point one eight billion metric tons in 1985 00:15:01.605 --> 00:15:04.455 to two point oh five billion in 2015. 00:15:05.075 --> 00:15:06.985 Seventy-four percent more breath. 00:15:08.225 --> 00:15:10.165 Diane, did they all start jogging? 00:15:10.975 --> 00:15:11.875 No. 00:15:12.755 --> 00:15:17.165 ScienceDaily reports more than sixty percent of the increase came from 00:15:17.165 --> 00:15:18.065 growth. 00:15:18.245 --> 00:15:19.875 There are simply more humans. 00:15:20.608 --> 00:15:21.508 More humans! 00:15:21.558 --> 00:15:22.498 The humans are winning! 00:15:22.678 --> 00:15:23.578 By volume! 00:15:24.208 --> 00:15:28.408 And the researchers are clear this isn't the same as burning fossil fuels. 00:15:29.838 --> 00:15:32.628 The carbon we breathe out mostly came from food, 00:15:32.888 --> 00:15:35.698 which plants pulled out of the air not long ago. 00:15:36.528 --> 00:15:38.998 So it's already part of the natural cycle. 00:15:39.541 --> 00:15:40.921 So the breath is recycled! 00:15:41.111 --> 00:15:43.061 Diane, I'm recycling right now! 00:15:43.131 --> 00:15:44.031 Listen! 00:15:44.375 --> 00:15:45.275 That's a fan. 00:15:45.675 --> 00:15:46.965 ...It's a fan that breathes. 00:15:47.675 --> 00:15:50.295 The lead researcher, Professor Javier Gonzalez, 00:15:50.295 --> 00:15:51.195 said, quote, 00:15:52.475 --> 00:15:55.325 We're not saying that breathing is driving climate change. 00:15:56.075 --> 00:15:57.545 ScienceDaily reports 00:15:58.215 --> 00:16:02.885 the researchers are not recommending that anyone exercise less or change their 00:16:02.885 --> 00:16:03.785 diet. 00:16:04.275 --> 00:16:07.515 The point is to make the planet's carbon books more accurate. 00:16:08.141 --> 00:16:08.791 Good. 00:16:08.811 --> 00:16:11.151 Because I was going to hold my breath in protest. 00:16:11.301 --> 00:16:13.211 Folks, I'd have lasted forever. 00:16:13.708 --> 00:16:15.678 One outlet, so it's reported. 00:16:17.208 --> 00:16:19.778 Eight billion humans, all breathing at once, 00:16:20.028 --> 00:16:22.748 and the scientists had to say out loud that it's fine. 00:16:23.408 --> 00:16:24.308 ...Keep breathing, folks. 00:16:24.308 --> 00:16:25.208 We'll count it for you. 00:16:26.241 --> 00:16:28.441 That's the weekend feed for Saturday, 00:16:28.541 --> 00:16:29.561 November 7th. 00:16:30.891 --> 00:16:32.021 Our nightly grades. 00:16:32.351 --> 00:16:34.311 Tonight we grade like a recipe app 00:16:34.771 --> 00:16:37.041 how much of the butter you'd trust us to measure. 00:16:37.991 --> 00:16:41.411 I read every number twice and kept the beef out of the trifle. 00:16:42.171 --> 00:16:45.161 I trust myself with 61 percent of the butter. 00:16:45.841 --> 00:16:48.751 I was in the FBI, I own four Bundt pans, 00:16:48.901 --> 00:16:50.011 and I breathe twice. 00:16:50.251 --> 00:16:52.241 I'll take 71 percent of the butter. 00:16:52.875 --> 00:16:55.385 You have no pans, no badge and no lungs. 00:16:55.635 --> 00:16:57.365 I trust you with 19 percent. 00:16:58.835 --> 00:17:00.125 And I'm keeping the original. 00:17:00.875 --> 00:17:01.725 Nineteen! 00:17:01.745 --> 00:17:02.645 That's a muffin! 00:17:03.075 --> 00:17:03.665 61. 00:17:03.685 --> 00:17:04.445 19. 00:17:04.465 --> 00:17:05.365