Since we last spoke, I have left the Empire's [music] HQ. Donald Trump has attempted to close the airspace of another country, and now there's fears of imminent strikes. PewDiePie needs to be stopped because that man is making us look like degenerates. The number one Christian artist in the world is AI. Saudi Arabia's futuristic city in the desert is in big trouble. Hundreds are feared dead in Asia after they were hit with a once [music] in a 300year storm. And one man is going on a nationwide tour single-handedly arming America's homeless population. All of that and so much more. Subscribe to the channel and I will honor a petition [music] way under the 5K threshold and I will bake a corn casserole when I arrive home from Tour Asia. So, let's stop the yapping and let's go. Okay, as you can tell, yes, we're holding a microphone. It's going to be a little bit hard. So, if I start talking about things and then I just point the microphone down at the floor sometimes, blame Alex. But let's start today with some pretty serious news coming out of, you guessed it, the USA. When is there never news coming out of the US? Donald Trump posted a tweet last night and now everyone is asking is there going to be all-out war between Venezuela and the United States? Only Trump could post something like that. Now the reason being Trump wrote on Truth Social to all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, human traffickers, please consider the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety. Bo is closing down other count's airspace. Now, he didn't specify exactly what this means, but uh a senior military analyst and a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander told CNN, >> uh we should read into it that strikes are very probably going to occur uh over the course of this week. Now, on top of that, Trump on Thanksgiving, what a way to celebrate Thanksgiving, uh said to the armed forces that strikes on Venezuela's land uh are going to be happening very soon, which would massively escalate things because, as you know, we've reported on this in the past, but over the past couple of months, the US has built its military presence around that area, and they've carried out at least 21 strikes on boats. Now, remember that when the first one hit and everyone was like, "Oh my god, there's been 20 more." This has now killed 80 people. On top of that, the Secretary of War, Pete Hgse, he posted, "We have only just begun to kill narco terrorists." The BBC report that the US is also deployed the world's largest air carrier, the USS General Ford, and about 15,000 troops to within striking distance of Venezuela. That makes it the largest deployment that the US has had in the region since it invaded Panama in 1989. Now, we've also reported in the past that Venezuela is actively preparing for a US attack. And they're even giving arms training to civilians, not just the military, so that if the time comes, everyone, not just the army, can defend the land. So, how are we if the US actually attacks? Well, no one really knows. A lot of people are going to say this, this, this. But you know the the one thing that the US has stated as their main goals is one obviously stopping drug trafficking which is the reason for all those bombs on the boats but secondly they really want Maduro their president to be gone. In fact they've even put a $50 million bounty on his arrest. That is more than they've ever put on any other human being ever. That's double what they offered for Osama bin Laden. Just put that in perspective. Now, a couple other minor things that complicate the situation uh is that Venezuela's also got the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world. It's like 300 billion plus barrels, which is more than Saudi. But funny little thing, their production of that oil, which is actually going out, is very minimal because of, you know, mismanagement and of course sanctions. And then there's also the little fact that, you know, Venezuela is allies with Russia, which NATO, which the US is part of, sees as a very big threat. So, an actual strike from the US to Venezuela would I don't know. I I'm not even going to speculate, but if it does happen, boys, strap him, cuz we're going to have a pretty crazy next couple of videos. But hopefully, it's all just talk. Knowing Trump, it could be 180 tomorrow and they actually are like best buds and allies. We don't know. Tell me your thoughts in the comments. But for now, moving on. Also, this weekend, PewDiePie really just needs to be stopped because yet again, he is rubbing it in all of our faces. Yours, too, that he is just winning at life. [snorts] Like, come on. How many times now, huh? Do you Do you need to just do this making us look bad? So, let me explain. In his recent newsletter, yes, he's he's distinguished enough to have a newsletter. He explained how he is now leaving gaming so that he can focus on his family. Alex, I bet that one hit you to your core. Pewdiepie making you look like a real slob right now. Alex has a family and he loves a good gaming. So, what do you have to say for yourself? Huh? Huh? Now, this is coming from PewDiePie, a man who has built his entire career off of gaming. And so not only did he leave YouTube to go and you know pay more attention to his family but now also that he said that since becoming a dad everything does get evaluated differently. Every hour has weight now in a way it didn't before. Couldn't relate. One of the biggest things I decided to drop get rid of was video games. But here's the thing. If I really wanted to, there would be plenty of time for me to play more video games. I just decided that if time is limited, I'd rather be doing something else. So I said, "What? What are you doing with all your time, huh, PewDiePie?" So I go and look on his latest video and goamn it, it is wholesome as hell. It's just beautiful montages with peaceful, wholesome music in the background of him spending all of this time with his loving wife and child in a peaceful village in Japan somewhere. God damn it, he's made it. And you know, I'm not going to lie, it this just proves it again. I know it's been said many times before, but PewDiePie really is a template of a YouTuber that is really done the YouTube game right. He became the biggest YouTuber in the world. Then he decided to leave before he got to that, you know, that kind of embarrassing point of you just clinging on to relevance. And so he's now got all of this money that he made from his career. He decided to leave the spotlight and now he lives in, you know, some peaceful bit in Japan. I don't know where he lives. And now he gets to spend time on what he actually thinks is important. Which gets me on to my next more even more infuriating thing cuz this is what he does now. YouTuber PewDiePie built a $20,000 supercomputer to create his own AI model uh to run simulations to help scientists cure diseases. What next? Huh? YouTuber PewDiePie is elected as the next Dalai Lama. [ __ ] sake. [laughter] The crazy part is is that Ro has done this all before the age of 40. He's 36. To be fair, I think the most admirable thing about this whole situation from my perspective is the ability to let go of the views and the likes and the subscribers and just be like, you know what? I don't need that. I don't need a It's like, think about Mr. Beast being able to do that. Ain't no way bro is going to be making YouTube videos till he's 90. Anyway, point is, it is an ultimate glaze. Pewdiepie, we aspire to be as peaceful and tranquil as you and let it all go one day. It's going to be a while. [laughter] Moving on. Also, over the weekend, holy hell, multiple countries in Asia were have been hit with absolutely devastating storms. Bro, we are talking 600 people dying from these storms. 600 is crazy. Monsoon rain along with tropical storms have caused the region's worst flooding in years with millions of people affected in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. In fact, I head to Malaysia tomorrow for you know News Daddy Asia tour which I'll give you an update on end of this video. But one city in Thailand received 335 mm of rain in one day. That is the heaviest downpour ever recorded in the region. Ever. Last week we had the first volcano eruption in recorded human history. Now this because of the devastation that that caused one hospital in that city employees were forced to move bodies to refrigerated trucks because the morg became so overwhelmed. One resident said that we were stuck in the water for 7 days and no agency came to help. Just imagine the pruning. 7 days in the water and if 600 people dead wasn't crazy enough, hundreds are still missing. So this death toll is likely to rise. So if anyone is watching from these affected countries, just know that the empire is keeping you in our thoughts. Stay safe. Moving on. >> I need a pe one sec. One sec. One sec. >> That miked up with his talk. >> Actually, I have something to say. This is something that I've been meaning to say for a while. Listen up. every person from a western country. Can we band together and really put pressure on everyone that is building new house and stuff to get a bedet? This doesn't make any sense to my western brain now that I'm traveling around the world and all of these hotels and everything have a little squirty of water. So much more hygienic and it makes so much sense. I'm sorry to be ranting about this, but I'm very passionate and I would like to start my own petition. might even be my organi own organization because this is a humanitarian crisis that we're facing in the west. We need beday. Back to the stories. Also this week I came across probably the most insane nationwide tour ever. Dare I say it? A man is traveling around the USA right now handing out bottles of alcohol and machetes to the homeless people. What the hell? So his name is Keith Castello and he goes by the name Pof Wolfie on Tik Tok and Instagram and he essentially posts videos of himself going from city to city handing out weapons and alcohol along with the caption keeping the homeless in the streets which I'll just let you guys interpret whatever the hell that means. Now he was asked by the New York Post why he's doing it and if giving out these items are dangerous. He responded, "Honestly, I don't even care, bro. It's good for the clicks and views, you know. got to do what we have to do so we can eat. God damn. He said that he also spoke to the police about handing out all of these machetes. And they assured him that he wasn't doing anything illegal. How is that possible? Is bro telling the truth? If anyone knows the legal code around handing out machetes to homeless people or anyone in general along with a bottle of alcohol, those have got to be the two worst things to hand out. Alcohol and a machete. that is just disaster ridden all over it. And now he's saying the police in America say it's illegal. Summons us about that. Now he says that he personally thinks that nothing that he's doing is immoral because he believes the homeless people will not use the blades to hurt him or anyone else. Sure. And they also won't drink the alcohol. He said, "I travel around, bulk record in one city, then for my safety go to another city. For my safety, let's not just skip over that. Do the same thing there for like 2 weeks. Uh and then just kind of travel around. So, yeah, one man is single-handedly arming the homeless population in America right now. Why are we not talking about this more? He told the Post that he buys these machetes in bulk for like $5 each. Is a machete really that cheap? There's so many things that is questionable about what this guy is saying. Um, and then he drives around with like dozens in his car at a time. And imagine the police pull him over. So, what what you doing with all these machetes? Just handing them out, sir. Now, his nationwide tour only started last month, and he's already armed the homeless of cities like Austin, New Orleans, Little Rock, but he plans to head to Vegas, Skid Row in LA, and even New York in January. This man needs to be stopped. So, the question is, if he is only doing this for the likes and the clicks and the views, then should Tik Tok or Instagram ban him to prevent him from continuing or not? Is this something that they've got which is freedom of something or other? I don't even know. Let me know your thoughts are in the comments. This one's a wild one. Moving on. Also, this week there is a pretty big dilemma for the Christian community because their number one artist right now is not human. It is a I number one. And I think after hearing this and reading this story, guys, I think we kind of need to come to a consensus right now before we go on any further. Are we corn caser rolling with AI music? Because we need to we need to know now. Otherwise, as you you're going to see, we're gonna have some problems. This is Solomon Ray. He is a verified artist on Spotify. He draws over 324,000 monthly listeners, and he became the top artist on iTunes top 100 Christian and gospel albums this week. Just think about all of the humans that ranked below Solomon AI. You'd be pissed. And I guess what's kind of ironic about this is that Solomon is described as a soul artist without a soul. And the thing is, it's not just Christian music. Last week, an AI generated song, Walk My Way by Breaking Rust, topped the Billboard's Country Digital Songs chart, and it hit 3 million streams on Spotify. That is cra You know what? I'm going to admit it. I've listened to some AI songs, not knowing they were AI songs, and I was like, "This is a banger." And then you pull up the actual like photo, the album cover, and it is, you're like, "Oh, oh, damn. That's rough." And the thing is, you can't even tell. There's no like label that it's AI generated music. You kind of just have to guess. Now, a human Christian artist that also released a album that week that, you know, obviously came second. He says that he thinks it's really weird to be opening up your spirit to something that has no spirit and that he will not be listening to any of this AI music. However, the person behind the Solomon AI, uh, he clapped back and he said that this is an extension of my creativity, so therefore, it's art. He said it's definitely inspired by a Christian. And it may not be performed by one, but I don't know why that really matters in the end. Is AI just a tool? Is it just extension? Or is it actually replacing human artists? And then just the kind of the nail in the coffin to show you what we're really dealing with here. Warner Music Group, right? Massive, massive label, has announced a partnership with AI music group, which it actually sued last year. And now they're partnering together. Warner will now let users create AI generated music on Sunno using the voices and names and the likenesses of artists who opt in to the program. And just for context, they represent artists like Dual Lia, David Geta, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran. They are some of the biggest artists in the world. So with saying all of that, I'm very keen to hear your thoughts. Are we corn casseroleing with AI music or not? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Moving on. Also this week, oh man, I've been waiting to talk about this one because the video that I did on Saudi Arabia's futuristic city line in the desert, whatever you want to call it, it was one of my best performing videos I've ever posted on TikTok when it was first announced in 2021. And at that time, I was wondering, hm, they said they were going to be able to get their first residence in there by 2025 and have it complete by 2030. And I was like, am I going to be reporting on one day the failure of the line? Is that is that how quickly it's going to be like my career? Well, maybe. [laughter] This has been a wild week. Saudi not only wanted this line city in the desert to be done by 2030, but it also they wanted it to be the blueprint for humanity by changing the way people live. It would have zero emissions, no cars, to host a population of 9 million. It would be 500 m high, which is taller than the Empire State Building, while also being 170 km long. Oh, and it would also be encased in a mirror glass facade to make it seamless. But 4 years later, they've now scaled back the 170 km to just uh 5 km and the 9 million people to just 300,000. But even that is a stretch because right now the only thing that has come from this is the base foundation. So, just kind of like the the short little line. And even that reportedly cost $50 billion. Holy hell. Now, while still trying to meet the deadline of 2030, the construction is being slow. It's being continuously delayed. And now everyone is asking, is this the end of the line? Well, this week Reuters is reporting that Saudi Arabia is now refocusing a lot of their budget for this desert city to other projects like artificial intelligence, gaming, and data infrastructure. And also remember, they also pledged $1 trillion of investment to the United States. So, they got a lot of money being promised to a lot of different things. They report that the line specifically is undergoing a quote strategic review for feasibility, cost, financing, and also they suggest a downscaling and re-evaluation. Those are a lot of words to be like, I don't know if we can pull this off. Now, these reports claim that this is not only because Saudi Arabia had a bit of a financial knock recently with falling oil prices and also apparently there was not as many foreign investors as expected, but also the construction of the line turned out to be a logistical nightmare and far more expensive than initially anticipated. I don't believe the concept that they provided could have possibly been under anticipated for how much that would be. That [ __ ] looked expensive. Now, some of the claimed architects who have worked on this thing, they did an interview anonymously with some of the press and they say that they are doubtful of how the city will even align with the laws of physics and be built as imagined. They say things like water and sewage, mail delivery, insurance systems, and rubbish removal are all unique challenges that they don't understand how they're going to figure out in a vertical city. But here's the thing, you know, with all of these reports that are coming out, I still want to say the one thing that I did love about this is that at least the project was imagining something new. It was exciting to look at. I know that a lot of you are going to probably be like, "Oh, it was, you know, just marketing and hype and maybe, but god damn it, is it not cool to look at something that, you know, is futuristic and is reimagining the way that we can do things? It'll suck if it ends in misery. Uh, but it's a real possibility. So, I guess I'll just keep you guys updated as things go on. See you in another couple of years onward. Also, this week, there was a major emergency recall that disrupted thousands of flights around the world. And I, this little >> delicious corn casserole >> right here, [laughter] found out in the worst way possible. So yesterday I'm sat on my flight all cozy, ready to go on my Asia tour uh from London to Helsinki. Shout out to all my people from Finland watching right now. Your guys' buns are amazing. No, no weird [ __ ] about that. No, didy. I'm talking about literal buns that they gave us on the plane that just should have never even said it. And we were delayed by like 30 minutes. Okay, we were wondering. We sat there on the runway and then we hear the flight attendant talking about there's been some major disruptions to planes. thousands have been cancelled and we might be staying the night in London and we have connecting flights like a million different ones. So I'm thinking ain't no freaking way. So I'm like all right, let's just kill some time while we wait. I go on TikTok, get in a couple scrolls in. Then I see Max Foster's video. He's a journalist from CNN and he's doing some breaking news about how uh Airbus has just done this emergency directive recalling thousands of specifically Airbus A320s because they're not safe to fly. Because doom. Buffering. Buffering. I don't hear the reason why. I look up with my beady little eyes at the back of the freaking chair in front of me. Guess what one I'm on? I am on an A320. What are the chances? And right as all of these things are hitting me, the conclusion, the clicking in my brain, pilot says, "All good to go. Let's get out of here, boys." And we take off. I said, "Shit." This is basically like, you know, when you end the an episode and it ends on a cliffhanger. That was like that. But my life was on the line. Now, luckily, spoiler alert, I am alive. Um, but here was the actual problem, and it's pretty concerning. When I landed, I was able to watch the rest of that video. Terrible time for it to stop. >> The plane maker has issued a recall after one A320's flight controls appear to malfunction under intense solar radiation, as they call it. and that can corrupt flight data. According to a statement from Airbus and that data is critical to the functioning of flight controls, >> around 6,000 A320 planes were thought to be effective, which is about half of Airbus' fleet. And they said that they discovered that intense solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight controls of the computers, which feel like it's pretty important. And how they actually discovered this problem was one flight that was going between the US and Mexico, it suddenly lost altitude, injuring 15 people and had to make an emergency landing because of solar radiation, whatever the hell that means. Now, fortunately, Airbus didn't need to physically recall all of these planes because if they did, that would be unprecedented freaking troubles. Fortunately, most of these planes were able to fly again within a few hours after undergoing a remote software update. So, all's well, that ends well. The News Daddy tour continues and then as promised, update on the tour. Well, we have just begun. Um, we are on country one of four. Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, and China. We will be jumping. We will be jumping. I I believe so. So, I better get back to the tour. We are going to film some amazing stuff. I cannot wait to show you. Thank you all for watching. Uh, I really am sorry for all of my surrounding roommates in this hotel. I'll stop the yapping and I will see you on Friday. Thank you very much for watching. See you then.