1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,040 Hello. I dressed up in a Halloween costume. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,160 But stuff still happens. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,040 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,760 I'm about to break your heart and I'm sorry, 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,120 but I need to talk about a marooned sheep in Scotland. 6 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:17,440 Two years ago, Jillian Turner was kayaking around Scotland with a group 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,400 when she saw a sheep at the foot of a cliff. 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,200 The sheep was by itself and looked kind of lonely, 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,840 but she was like, oh dang, look at that land sheep. 10 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:27,360 I hope it gets back home. 11 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:32,080 A full business year later, Turner found herself kayaking around the same area 12 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:37,040 where she then saw the same sheep again, this time a lot more ragged looking. 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,400 Please make sure you're sitting down before I tell you that according to Turner, 14 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,360 the sheep was following the group of kayakers along the coast 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,200 and calling out to them for help. 16 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,080 It was like, please, I know I'm a land sheep, 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,040 but let me into that kayak or send more sheep. 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:51,840 I'm bored. 19 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,600 Now, obviously the sheep is able to eat. 20 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:54,720 It's been there for two years. 21 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,720 It has ample grazing room so it can eat, but it's a sheep. 22 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,280 It's not supposed to be alone on a foot of a cliff. 23 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,840 Turner has reported this to multiple agencies who are like, 24 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,760 yeah, we're aware of the stranded sheep. 25 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,160 We just haven't done anything about it. 26 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,680 No one has claimed it and they haven't really done any rescue efforts yet. 27 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,240 So we don't really know about the state of the sheep right now. 28 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,040 But if you are a stranded land sheep watching this video, 29 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,120 please let me know if I can help. 30 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,760 So Panera Bread may have killed someone. 31 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,920 I, that's a hell of a headline there. 32 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,040 So Panera Bread has this drink called Charged Lemonade, 33 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,280 which they claim is an energizing lemonade 34 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,840 that has about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. 35 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,600 Sarah Katz, a 21-year-old who recently purchased Panera's 36 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,560 like all you can drink subscription or something, 37 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,000 died after drinking the Charged Lemonade drink. 38 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,680 Katz had a heart condition that made it so she wasn't supposed to drink energy drinks. 39 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,040 A little bit of caffeine was OK, 40 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,040 but extraordinarily high caffeinated beverages could cause significant issues. 41 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,080 So she went into Panera and got herself a large of the Charged Lemonade and then died. 42 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,240 It turns out the Charged Lemonade drink has a whole lot more caffeine than they were leading on. 43 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,520 It's got 390 milligrams in a large serving. 44 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:11,600 For context, the FDA says that the average human adult can manage 400 milligrams in a day. 45 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,720 So this lemonade at Panera, just out there with the rest of their drinks, 46 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,160 has more caffeine than multiple energy drinks combined. 47 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,720 It also has a bunch of ingredients that are secondary stimulants 48 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,600 and more than a half a cup of sugar in a large serving. 49 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,120 Katz's family is suing Panera, 50 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,160 citing that they didn't accurately explain just how much of an energizing drink this really is. 51 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,640 They portrayed it as basically a coffee. 52 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:34,000 That is not even close. 53 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,840 And so there's now this lawsuit and the FDA is actively investigating Panera. 54 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,360 And in the meantime, Panera has been like, 55 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,120 oh, we put out a sign that says, hey, this is like extraordinarily caffeinated now. 56 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,400 But I guess we could have done that sooner, but we just didn't think about it. 57 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,480 Side note, and this is just a little bonus story. 58 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,800 I used to work at a Panera bread and the amount of people who would order the you pick two combo 59 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,880 and then tried to pick three, it still bugs me to this day. 60 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:58,080 It's called the pick two. 61 00:02:58,720 --> 00:02:59,440 You pick two. 62 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,640 Hey, cancer sucks. 63 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:03,680 That's my view. 64 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:04,160 Vote for me. 65 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:05,920 I'll punch cancer. 66 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:07,200 Don't actually vote for me though. 67 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:12,720 Vote for 14 year old Hemin Bakela, who recently made a bar of soap that can fight cancer. 68 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,320 Bakela is a U.S. ninth grade student who grew up in Ethiopia where he saw a lot of people working out in the sun. 69 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,560 When he learned about the extreme difference in recovery rates from melanoma between the U.S. 70 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,680 and Ethiopia, he set out to find some sort of affordable way to distribute something to help. 71 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,960 And so he made a soap that does some cool chemical stuff on your skin that helps you fight cancer. 72 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,440 I don't understand it, but it's rad as hell. 73 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:41,040 He submitted his creation to a science competition where he won the title of America's top young scientist. 74 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,840 More importantly, he also got 25 grand. 75 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,320 It is reportedly his plan to continue to refine the product and ultimately found a non-profit 76 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:50,880 to help distribute this product to places in need. 77 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,520 Now look, I think I'm a relatively smart guy. 78 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,560 I know a thing. 79 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,320 I might even know two things. 80 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,720 But I'm not making cancer fighting soap. 81 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,880 Rock on, you righteous scientist. 82 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,480 What's the best way to make regulations for a budding industry? 83 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:05,360 That's right. 84 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,520 Ask the people who stand to profit the most. 85 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,920 The White House has released a document outlining quote unquote voluntary commitments 86 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,000 from seven major AI companies, including Google and OpenAI. 87 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,040 Where originally I was seeing a bunch of reporting about how the Biden administration 88 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,960 was about to drop an AI regulation bomb with an executive order that was going to reel all this stuff in. 89 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,360 It's really not that. 90 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,920 They basically got together with all the AI companies and they were like, 91 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,440 hey, what's like the minimum viable amount of regulation that we can give you 92 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,640 so that we all look good here but we don't impede your profits? 93 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,640 Rather than, hey, you are talking about how dangerous your own technology is. 94 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,920 Maybe stop that. 95 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,000 Some of these voluntary commitments include security testing. 96 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,280 They're also supposed to share information about the risks of AI. 97 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:52,960 Wow. 98 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,680 There's some discussion about requiring AI watermarking. 99 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,440 But again, these are voluntary commitments made by only a handful of companies. 100 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:00,960 They're not requirements. 101 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,320 And there's also a stipulation about how they need to quote develop and deploy advanced AI systems 102 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,280 to help address society's greatest challenges. 103 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:12,560 Which to me leaves a lot of room for interpretation. 104 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,200 And as we already know, letting tech bros do the interpretation is kind of dangerous 105 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:23,040 as one of the CEOs from these companies refers to average people as, quote, median humans. 106 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,720 I don't know if I want a guy who refers to people as median humans 107 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,760 to be in charge of determining what society's greatest problems are, let alone their solutions. 108 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:38,480 On this day in 1995, Quebec very nearly declared sovereignty from the rest of Canada. 109 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,920 They had a second referendum about whether or not to declare sovereignty, 110 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,840 and it had the highest turnout for voting in the history of the region. 111 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,320 93% voter turnout. 112 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,800 And it was so very close. 113 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:58,720 50.58% voted to not declare sovereignty versus 49.42% voting yes. 114 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,960 That's close. 115 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,760 Lightning round. 116 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,240 A US Democrat congressman has declared that he's going to be running for president in 2024, 117 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,680 directly challenging Biden. 118 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,280 It's not going to go anywhere, but cool. 119 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaking of which, the new US House speaker, 120 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,880 who is essentially an extremely far-right fundamentalist Christian 121 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,520 who thinks that America is a fundamentally Christian nation, 122 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,720 apparently has a plan to try to keep the government open in the face of another looming shutdown. 123 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,120 But it's okay, because Motorola is making a slap bracelet phone. 124 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,160 Like it's a phone that can like wrap around your wrist like a slap bracelet. 125 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,800 We're really living in the future, y'all. 126 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,920 This past weekend saw a spike of mass shootings around the US, 127 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,320 of course in addition to the shootings in Maine. 128 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,480 Over the past weekend, at least 40 people were injured and six were killed from shooting. 129 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,160 We are into the 500th for mass shootings this year. 130 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,400 Disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman Fried is currently on trial, 131 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,640 and he's being cross-examined and kind of talking himself quickly into jail. 132 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,080 Not going well for you, boy. 133 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaking of crypto morons, Elon Musk says that in the next year, 134 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,480 Twitter is going to replace the need for you to have a bank. 135 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,320 And then he announced that if you're in the like Twitter creator payout program 136 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,000 and your tweet gets a community note on it, like somebody corrects it, 137 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,080 then you're disqualified from making money. 138 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,120 So let Elon Musk control all of your cash flow. 139 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:18,720 That makes sense. 140 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,920 In case you forgot, they're making a Metal Gear Solid 3 remake. 141 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:23,440 And it's looking pretty rad. 142 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,000 Friends actor Matthew Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his home in LA. 143 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,080 Investigations into his death are still ongoing and are currently inconclusive. 144 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,960 And finally for today, Mike Pence has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, 145 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,640 changing absolutely nothing about the 2024 presidential race. 146 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,680 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 147 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and 148 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,360 the video of me wearing my current Halloween costume. 149 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:52,800 You're going to want to see it. 150 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,160 My name is Endeavorance. 151 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,920 I'll be back on Wednesday. 152 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,240 Take care and be well.