in the last couple of days the most followed man on Earth just started a YouTube channel and is now coming from Mr Beast Elon Musk says that they're working on a project where they're attaching parts of their Optimus robot to people's bodies and then using the neuralink chip to control them for the first time ever a federal agency said that there was a link between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in kids and if you ever felt like a little spray of water on you and you never know where that came from well it might just be sick ha a urine not even joking all of that and so much more today so subscribe to S me to North Korea like the video to avoid a Biblical whipping and let's get cracked okay the first story of the day is an interesting one because just on top of all of the controversy that Mr Beast is going through for the first time in a long time there might just be someone on YouTube now that can actually challenge him for subscribers and of course it is none other than cristianos it's yesterday Ronaldo launched his YouTube channel and he is literally smashing every growth record there is and because he has now become the fastest growing YouTube channel on the planet the question everyone is asking is is there finally someone who could actually compete with the man himself Mr Beast well here's the yes but no answer yes because Ronaldo is already the most followed man on the planet we're talking 363 million on Instagram 170 million on Facebook 112 million on Twitter or X whatever we're calling it now and over 20 million on YouTube just like that so not only is he on track to become the first person ever to hit 1 billion overall subscribers but just think about it even if roughly 30% of all of those followers came over to his YouTube channel well damn rip Mr deceased but here's the no side eventually the hype around him starting a YouTube channel will die and when that happens the real challenge begins creating consistently good content to replace just the hype and actually get people to want to come back and watch more which brings us to the ultimate question when Ronaldo retires which he will be doing in the next at least couple of years will he truly become a YouTuber that creates amazing content or will he just become another celebrity with a YouTube channel because that is a very big difference look at Messi for example he's been on YouTube for 13 years and Ronaldo got more subs than him in a couple of hours because he is a celebrity with a YouTube channel on YouTube you can't just Coast on Fame alone you actually got to create good content on Instagram yeah you're posting little pictures of yourself no problem there's a difference between a content creator and an influencer influencer instagam whatever okay right let me get back to it so which one will Ronaldo be well interestingly in 2019 he actually kind of dropped something that might have give us a hint he was asked about his post-retirement plans and he mentioned that one of his Ambitions was was to challenge himself by acting in a movie I'm sorry I don't I'm sure he can Ronaldo's you know showed us that he can do a lot of no one believed he could I'm just thinking this is what Alex believes Ronaldo would be best in what was it was it any good can you imagine watching that but I mean it's saying that uh it's been quite a few years since 2019 and uh let's be honest as of right now Hollywood kind of cooked so maybe just maybe since then YouTube has become the new Hollywood for him and this is the kind of content and videos he actually wants to be in and to be fair it kind of makes way more sense for him to be doing YouTube than movies as well from a business perspective like number one he'll have personal access to all of his fans number two he'll own everything that he makes all of the content is his and three you know this would just be one even like a marketing aspect for his billion dooll multi-billion dollar brand CR7 which includes everything from underwear to clothing to fragrances to hotels imagine getting the behind the scenes on all of that packaged as solid content that you can watch Daily and if it actually does blow up and he actually becomes a YouTuber I think it can genuinely start a massive Trend where a lot of these A-list celebrities you know the traditional ones the actors the musicians those athletes well why not start your own YouTube channel as well it's the most genest thing ever I think if rala does this it's going to go well but I mean the question is if you had a bet on who would have more subscribers by the end of 2025 who are you going for the king of football or the king of YouTube moving on okay now this one's crazy if neuralink wasn't already scary enough Elon Musk just revealed that they're now working on something even more mind-blowing um and maybe maybe not mind-blowing maybe more terrifying than that they said that they're aiming to help people that have lost limbs by attaching parts of their Optimus robot to their bodies and then implanting the neuralink chip to help troll them away nah nah you can't put that in that Wasing horrendous oh shame on you now don't let that weird little dance distract you from how crazy what I just said was literal sidewalks are being planned right now and yur Link has already implanted their second patient with that chip and then in their most recent update on how he was uh he was doing his recovery process Elon said if all goes well there will be hundreds of people with a neuralink chip within a few years maybe tens of thousands within 5 years and millions within 10 just keep in mind I in the time that I've just been creating content I've seen this fully go from just a little sci-fi fantasy to hardcore reality when I was first reporting on the neuralink chip everyone was like oh yeah it looks sounds really cool but no way that's possible yeah they just did their second human so it's probably the same thing with this oh no way you know people are going to have a robotic arm that they can just control with their minds well let's see let's see in 5 years cuz I've lived through this one but then here's where things get really interesting all right maybe a little bit unsettling too we all used to joke about you know the Ning brain chips getting hacked when it was just their brain at risk now throw in the arms and the legs too we are cooked nah I mean thinking about it come on Hollywood what the hell stop making sequels and reboots and make a movie on this someone because what a banger plot we're talking about a plot where people's limbs can get hijacked by Bad actors we're talking about people being able to hold an infinite amount of knowledge with computers in their brain a plot where we literally see the evolution of human beings into an entirely new race I don't know what you call them would these people be discriminated against with the other regular humans would they become gods among Mortals would they have to be banned from doing certain things like running for president would schools be a thing of the past because you already know everything in your head oh what's what's one infinity times infinity whatever the it's the worst example and I mean beside the point of it being a fantastic movie it's just wild that these are the things that we are genuinely talking about in the next 5 to 10 years what we are literally and and I'm not speaking in hyperball here we are literally on the brink of something something that could fundamentally alter what it means to be a human being just think about put that quote there Alex that's that's true I mean currently what it means to be like a good human being is right here the 15,000 people that liked the last video and for the rest of you that keep on forgetting put him here Alex put him there thanks Dylan thanks for holding that buddy appreciate it I know that you uh will enjoy what's coming how dare you not like the video like the video you don't want to be part of them all right let's move on to the next story okay let's talk about it fluide hot topic for the last many many years but finally the US government has just released this this long long awaited this report I'm telling you I won't go into the details and the weeds but boy it's been in the pipes for many years well they finally released it and it concluded that drinking water containing more than 1.5 mg of fluoride per liter is consistently associated with a lower IQ in children not ideal I grew up in South Africa I'd love to know I mean Alex I'm not going to ask you to do the research to Chuck it here but I wonder if that got me cooked when I was young hm don't know now for perspective of the magnitude of this this is the first time ever a federal agency has determined with moderate confidence that there is a link between higher levels of fluoride and of exposure and lower IQ in kids but here is where things get even more interesting because since 2015 the federal health officials recommended a fluoridation level of 0.7 mg per liter of water the World Health Organization sets their safe limit as 1.5 yet when you read this report they say that about 1.9 million people in the United States alone drink water every day from systems that have naturally occurring fluoride levels of 1.5 or higher and what's even crazier is that the current enforceable maximum contaminant level is all the way up at 4.0 mg per liter that's double the wh safe limit and more than five times the federal health officials limit so that's the point where you can enforce it and actually say like okay we need to sort this out which you know for perspective is also the standard that is you know it was put there to design to prevent things like skeletal fosis which is a potentially crippling disorder that causes weaker bones stiffness and pain so that's what that enforcement level looks like as long as you don't have Painful bones you're good now on the flip side you know so we don't all freak out and go crazy the report didn't talk about the conclusions of the risk of lower levels of fluoride because remember that's also you know a thing saying that more study needed to be done it also didn't answer what high levels of fluoride might do to adults because this was primarily focused on children so if you did have high high levels of fluoride when you were young there's nothing you can do about it now I guess uh so why am I telling you this just so you know I guess no I don't know maybe it's maybe it's still bad um so you might be wondering how the hell do we get here right why is it in the drinking water for anyone that isn't aware fluorides is a mineral that naturally occurs in soil and water and about 80 years scientists discovered that people whose supplies of water had naturally occurring higher levels of fluoride they also had fewer cavities so in 1945 Michigan became the first state to start adding fluoride in the tap water for your teeth then 5 years later Federal officials jumped in and they said right we're making it a Countrywide thing and um they they supported this effort to prevent tooth decay but then they continue to promote it even after fluoride toothpaste Brands hit the market several years later and we do all ingest fluoride from a number of different sources according to research drinking water is the main source for Americans and I don't need to go into detail on how divisive controversial this topic is but that's the new report please go read it in full I'll put it in the description as always so you get the new on the detail all right moving on now oh God looking at that so if the last one made you question life well um this one is arguably worse because this one really threw me into a bit of a a loss of faith in in the system how do I start this the money game in politics is actually is actually disturbing you see today is the last day of the democratic National Convention but you want to know how much it cost corporate sponsors to just attend to just attend the event or the pen house sweet in the stadium cost them 500,000 the club level sweet 1 million and the most expensive 5 million for a freaking stadium seat 5 million and Chris Kom who actually attended the event made a very interesting point he said that one of the major themes and talking points at this event was you know they really going to go after these big corporations they're going to go after the elites and make sure you know there isn't these two set of rules for the Rich versus the poor but then all of the people at the event who actually make the legislative difference who actually go back to their constituencies and their community and fight well those are the ones on the floor the media boxes you think they're free why do you think I'm on the floor news nation is not a broke company nextar is a massive organization we are corporate media we don't have one of those boxes cuz that's the game you pay to play those boxes are filled with the same people that they say they're going to regulate they are literally looking down on the faithful and being told yeah yeah we're going to break down on them we're going to make them pay their share they paid 500 700 a million a million and a half to have those seats they get hotel suites that are probably gifted to the party and the same thing is true with the Republican side and they're going to take them down they're going to change how it is they are looking down from on high at the people who make the difference in their communities and that is the reality of Poli politics and here's an absolutely wild fact the total spending for the presidential campaign in 2000 was around 3 billion in 2020 that number is now exceeded 14 billion and that is that last one shattered all records and another record to be shattered in this year's 2024 election is that despite Federal campaign Finance laws requiring all political committees to disclose donors these concealed do money groups and shell companies are on track to contribute more money from unknown sources to this year's election than ever before and that's according to the FEC data itself it really does become a game of whoever can raise more money has the better chance of controlling the country but then again I think we've known that for a while now so let's move on okay this is kind of a wild story to kind of segue from that last one and it's also turned into a pretty massive conspiracy online and honestly I'm not going to lie when I looked into it it's either one or two things it's either an incredibly freaky coincidence or something sus is going on I want you guys to meet billionaire Mike Lynch yes back with the rich people this is the man once dubbed the British Bill Gates and he and six other people died yesterday after their luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily here's where things get sus right because you know Mike he's had a really tough last 13 years okay he founded a software company in 1996 called autonomy and it was a huge success so much so that the American company HP I think we all know them they come came along and they said said uh let me buy autonomy off of you and they bought it for $1.7 billion instantly making him one of the richest men in all of the UK but just 5 weeks after that sale went through the CEO of HB the company that's just bought it uh he was actually sacked new management for HP came along relooked to the deal and they just said we got ripped off they claimed that it wasn't 11.7 billion dollar the company was only worth 2.9 billion they got ripped off by apparently uh 8.8 billion I don't think we can fathom that amount of money I mean like you would get pissed if you go to the till and you know something's on sale and it says $15 you charge they charge you 20 you pay it and you only realize when you get home imagine $5 difference but 8.8 billion they accused Mike of serious frud and using a series of illegal tactics to make autonomy appear far more valuable than it actually was of course Mike denied all wrongdoing and it became a federal case you know the United States government versus Mike Lynch he was even extradited from the UK to the US to face trial and as I said this case dragged out for over a decade but then only two months ago in July they actually found Mike innocent and he was acquitted of all charges that's a Twist that you didn't expect oh but it gets twistier so to celebrate his innocence he invites a bunch of these people like the lawyers people who worked on the case the family onto his yacht to sail the coast of Sicily but not long into the trip uh a pretty rare storm known as water spouts which is basically a water version of a tornado it hits it sinks the boat which has also sparked a bunch of conspiracies online due to the unsinkable nature of this yacht but we won't go into that and then by the time a nearby ship gets them only 15 of the 22 on board managed to get on a lifeboard what's the what's the thing Lifeboat and survived okay the six that died include Mike his 18-year-old daughter Chris morvillo who is actually a very high-profile lawyer who not only worked on on Mike's fraud case but also the criminal investigation into the 9/11 Terror attacks Jonathan Bloomer died who is the chairman of both Morgan Stanley bank and his Cox's Insurance Jordan's wife and the boat's Chef how's this for just an insanely wild coincidence just two days before that yacht sank Mike's codefendant in that trial which remember dragged on the 13 years was hit by a car in the United Kingdom and he was announced to have died on the same day that Mike and the others went missing that's an insanely freaky coincidence wild wild stuff I don't know what do you think coincidence something sus with that out the way let's get some rapid fire let's let's let's CH through some of these stories okay if you live in the UK like me uh we are all being advised to keep our Windows shut at all times because for the next 4 weeks from mid August now to early October well this is the time where spiders start coming in your house and I mean that literally because that's they they go there to make babies and mate yeah now once inside your house the females usually stay where they are and they have to wait for the males to find them meaning if you see a spider charging across your house somewhere it's almost certainly a brother so shut your down Windows moving on so Starbucks just appointed a new boss of the company but when his job offer went public people went crazy about one part you see Starbucks HQ is in Seattle but he lives in Newport Beach which is about 1,000 miles separation but instead of him commuting or anything like that brother was given access to the company's aircraft to commute each week that's a two and a half hour flight to get to work now obviously the reason people are getting pretty angry is you know kind of what we touched on earlier those two sets of rules for the rich versus the poor you know we're being told to do our part for the environment and you know drink through paper straws Etc and even Starbucks as you know their company policy is very Pro sustainability yet their CEO is commuting via private jet two two rules eh what do you guys think about that and then for the final story of the day and I wanted to save this one to L just because it is incredibly incredibly random but you ever have that time where you know you feel a little Spritz of like water hit you and you you look around and you never know where it came from well do I have news for you it might have been SI urine um because boy they pee uh that I just found out and they pee a lot in fact horrific fact um they are one of the only insects on the planet to be able to pee in a solid stream now you know that really useless information they consume around 300 times their body weight in treap but because only a tiny percentage of that is actually protein which they want to keep they got to get rid of the rest of this liquid because they got so much liquid and only a tiny little whole orifice let's use that one uh to get it out of the cicada holds the world record for the strongest urine jet stream of any animal relative to its size and that's it for today's video remember guys at 1 million subscribers you send me to North Korea so let's do it and liking the video tells YouTube they need to push it out so I love you guys forever for doing that have a great weekend and I will see you on Monday w one of my favorite things watching this is watching the post credit scenes but I feel like there hasn't really been any post-credit scenes and that kind of makes me sad and now I feel like I want to do a post credit scene but there's nothing really to say I don't think there was I kind of you know just stuck on Toss today pretty proud of myself so to celebrate he so to celebrate so so celebrate so to celebrate his innocence so to celebrate his innocence so to celebrate his [Music] incident your brain is you hear me you may be taller but you're Fu guess guess we'll just have no post credit scene today fine