Porch Pirates & Glitter Bombs with YouTuber Mark Rober 11/29/22

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

With about 3 billion views on his channel, YouTuber Mark Rober is onto something with his science and engineering videos for kids. He explains the geek hidden in the goofy, and why subscribers–kids and adults–keep on clicking. Rober shares how he brings his NASA engineering background to kids' education, and one superfan hosts a Q&A with the STEM influencer in a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod. Becky’s son Kyle asks questions like only a dedicated fan can. Plus, after a week of unrest across China, CNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports from Beijing that the CCP might consider an exit from its ‘zero-covid’ policy. FTX’s crumble has yet another casualty: digital lender BlockFi, the latest crypto company to file for bankruptcy. Carson Block, founder of due diligence investment firm Muddy Waters Research, comments on the unstable foundation of leverage in the industry. In this episode: Mark Rober, @MarkRober Carson Block, @muddywatersre Eunice Yoon @onlyyoontv Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick @BeckyQuick Zach Vallese, @zachvallese

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	I'm C. NBC producer Zach Valise, today on Squawk Pod.
0:08.0	The tweets that captured Wall Street,
0:11.0	surprise, they're from Elon Musk.
0:14.0	Elon is looking for more free speech on Twitter, but that doesn't necessarily mean advertisers
0:18.2	are going to want to pay the way for that.
0:20.4	The latest fallout from FTX's collapse, another bankruptcy.
0:24.8	One shortseller says he saw it coming.
0:27.4	Muddy Waters, Carson Block.
0:29.6	This is a whole edifice that's built on a lot of leverage and there are probably just
0:35.4	so many cockroaches hidden within the walls. And rumors of a messaging shift in
0:41.0	China following these stunning protests
0:43.2	CNBC's Eunice Eun. The leadership might be a drafting a narrative to try to
0:50.5	redirect the propaganda eventually to lead to an exit to zero COVID.
0:55.0	Plus, YouTubeer Mark Rover has 3 billion views and counting for his videos, foiling
1:00.9	porch pirates and educating kids.
1:03.0	I try and hide the vegetables with, you know, getting the science and the engineering message out there.
1:08.0	And exclusive to Squack-POD, the influencer takes questions from a very important guest interviewer.
1:15.2	Becky Quick's son, Kyle.
1:17.0	I wasn't letting this one slip by the dinner table.
1:20.1	All that and more.
1:21.4	It's Tuesday, November 29, 2022.
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