this week Apple launched the iPhone 16 one of the most powerful storms in a decade is ripping through Asia right now nikocado avocado pulled off one of the most insane social experiments and people still don't get it something massive is happening in New York right now and I as you can tell I'm in Vegas and honestly this place is one of the most messed up places I've ever been all of that and more in this week's Las Vegas Special so we better and don't you think I forgot about it get cracken okay let's go now let's kick today off with one of the craziest stories honestly the internet has seen in a while now by now you've probably seen that the YouTuber named nikocado avocado lost about 250 even though he was quite literally famous for being fat and even though yes the weight loss was impressive that's not even the point you see before he dropped that video I pretty much knew nothing about him like I the clips that I've seen of him was just doing ridiculous on like Tik Tok and YouTube like this and you know I saw that kind of stuff and I thought fine you know that content is definitely not for me and for anyone like me who doesn't really understand or didn't know his backstory essentially he was a violinist a person that plays the violin and you he started this YouTube channel where he began mukbangs I think that's what you call it and you're just eating on camera essentially and at some point I think he realized you know the fatter he got the fatter the views became and the fatter the checks started coming through and here's the thing you know from what we can tell he's not just some guy guy that was accidentally getting fat not only did it seem that he was deliberately getting fat but he was also showing it off and purposefully acting in ways as you can see by all the wild that I'm playing you right now would generate a lot of hate online probably in person too that you can't sit there and tell me that something like this was real and is really him Papa John's Pizza Papa John's Pizza Papa Giant's [Applause] pizza and you see that's what's so crazy because like at the time you know why would someone purposefully make themselves one of the most hated people online well for most of the time people you know just Shrugged their shoulders and continued hating because people couldn't resist honestly I don't think I really blame them like how could you not with some of the sh that he posted but here's where things get really interesting because at one point and I'm sorry I don't really know the exact date of this video but it's clearly not recent he says this and listen carefully because is pretty important two steps ahead I am always two steps ahead this has been the greatest social experiment I've come to know certainly the greatest social experiment my entire life be witness to observe all these unwell unbalanced disoriented beings roam the internet in search of stories in search of ideas of conflict of rivalries where people develop a distinctive desire for direct engagement where people feel involved with the stories and therefore become product of influence I woke up this morning to money deposited into my account for simply not doing something for simply not going through with something people are the most creatures on this planet and you will continue to consume and I'll continue to be two steps and then years later he follows that up by posting the video of him obviously skinny almost saying the exact same thing two steps ahead I am always two steps ahead to observe all these unwell disoriented beings roam the internet and search a story he basically said that he has a backlog of content about 2 years worth that he continually posted while he was in the background losing all of this weight and that he's been two steps ahead of everyone the entire time and this whole thing was a social experiment and judging off of those two clips years apart saying the exact same thing two steps ahead I am always two steps ahead this has been the greatest social experiment it suggests that this social experiment he was running was not just a weight loss it was the weight gain too and that is the part right there love him or hate him it's a really goddamn good wakeup call for anyone that negatively engaged in his content or negatively engages in anyone's content that is like this you see since social media really started paying money we kind of transitioned into this attention economy and what's unique about this attention economy is that you don't really have to sell a good product that customers are satisfied with to still make money you can still make money by selling a product in fact you can create something that's free and it makes someone's life just worse but it is faster and it is effective as hell pretty much everyone out there right now whether that's a business a content creator anyone that needs influence or needs your your attention your likes your money well they're doing this and sometimes you know it's not all negative sometimes it could be positive like learning something or you know watching something funny but when people started realizing the consumer doesn't even really need to like it they just have to watch it that's when the introduction of all you know these words like rage baiting came along or or brain rot people started making content that appeals to all of your negative emotions like hate and disgust because nothing gets your attention quite like those two things and it doesn't seem to matter you know for these people whether it makes your life better or worse as long as they make their money they don't care and when Nado have a photto has just done I believe is probably one of the most grand scale examples of this we've ever seen it seems that over the years he has purposefully played into the hate that people were giving him made millions of dollars off of it disappeared for 2 years while still getting paid let's not forget that and then comes back loses all the weight that people were hating him for and it's not just the weight it's the way he was acting too and now we'll probably make millions more off of that too I mean just at the time of recording his weight loss reveal alone that one video alone 32 million views with an RPM of roughly $3 to $4 that's pretty normal per thousand views he will make between 100,000 and $130,000 on that video alone in about 2 days that is crazy point being of all of this is that Nick is not the only one doing this there is just too many to count nowadays and if you genuinely dislike or hate what they're doing just don't engage just don't watch because you know commenting hate or something like that it is no good for you and it isn't any good for anyone else because rage baiting and brain rot content just thrives off of that hate like nikocado avocado literally just said himself so yeah anyway that's that and let's move on okay next story Apple just announced all of them brand spanking new features that are coming to the iPhone 16 and hot take I'm actually going to buyas because um let me tell you why not an ad that kind of sound I can add okay firstly let me talk about a feature right that I know is going to get overlooked by everyone live streaming emergency calls right how is that not a game changer you're chilling there you're about to get attacked by some person 911 here's the attacker and it's live streamed right here's the attacker that's about to attack me right how is that saved facial ID cop anyway aside from that as you can see by the iPhone 16's design pretty much unchanged on both models uh but as usual they've got new colorways so yay they took the action button from last year's Pro Models That was supposed to be this big amazing thing and then generously passed it on down to this year's peasant models for free how nice of them they've also added a new camera control button which is actually not a button it something like that which you can whip out your pocket if you click it once it opens the camera click it one more time takes the pictures hold it you get video and then a little cheeky half a press which is why I was saying it's not an actual button it's like a sensor and allow you to open controls like Zoom exposure and then a finger slide will allow you to adjust those controls the Pro Models have the largest display ever and the thinnest borders of any Apple product humble Flex as expected they made the general improvements to the battery life into the camera but most notably out of all of those things you'll be able to shoot 4K slow-mo on the pros for the first time ever so that's pretty cool but if all of that just isn't that impressive to you well that's because Apple's main selling point for all of these iphon 16s is Apple intelligence that's the game changer and that's why they've hired 50,000 new employees and ramped up production because they believe everyone wants to buy this they' literally built all of these phones from the groundup specifically for Apple intelligence which is why they included a brand new a18 chip which is specifically designed to handle all of these new AI capabilities and because that chip is only on the 16s that means some of those brand spanking new AI features will be exclusive to the 16 because of that for example take a picture of your homework and ask Chachi PT to help me out bro take a picture of a product and it'll tell you exactly what it is and where to buy it that feature is called uh consumerism final boss it can write emails for you make it sound a bit more professional you find information from old texts search through your oh my Lord 4.8 billion you know pictures for one specific thing that you're looking for and even if you're want if you're looking for a specific thing in a specific video at a specific point you could do all of that just through describing it that feature if you want to know is called thank God AI doesn't judge you I mean the summary of all of this Yap basically anything that you want to do on your phone you could now with the capabilities of AI ask Siri to do it for you that is pretty alone pretty damn impressive and that's why personally I'm copy because I use my phone every single day for work and a built-in assistant boy but that may save me a bit of time I'll name it Alex no I'll keep why am I naming everything Alex I'll name it Siri okay that's that but if you are not trying to become a freaking you LinkedIn Warrior it'll probably just end up being more of a like fun feature for you and the question is how much would you spend on just a fun feature because these are the prices for both models and they will be available on Friday for pre-order so in a couple days time for you when you're watching this so the question is hearing about all of this did Tim Cook with the iPhone 16 or is Tim cooked moving on on okay I want you guys to watch this Eerie Eerie footage when I first saw it I was like oh my God is that some freaking you know scene from 50 years after an apocalypse but no I found out it wasn't because that's actually Drone footage from Mulan Bay not to be confused with Mulan from Disney anyway it's a place in China right and um these are their giant turbines that have been blown over by typhoon yagi AKA one of the strongest typhoons to batter Asia in the last decade right serious yagi is not a fun name it's a serious name anyway early last week China had to evacuate over 400,000 people after naughty old yagi um came along with the Thunder and if you're not familiar with typhoons basically this super typhoon is the equivalent to a category 5 hurricane yagi a playing no games all schools in the area were shut W um when it made landfall trains boats and flights were all suspended L and all tourist attractions were shut depending on where you live that's a w or an L the Winds near It Center reached a staggering 145 M hour that's incomprehensible those numbers are so large it doesn't even mean anything to you right now and when that typhoon hit China it was double as strong is when it killed 16 people in the Philippines the previous week oh and yagi wasn't done there over the weekend it officially arrived in Vietnam and boy it caused extreme damage yet again this busy bridge in Northern Vietnam for example collapsed plunging 10 cars and two scooters in the river three people of which you know H have been rescued and found luckily but 13 are still missing in other areas 44 people were killed by landslides and flash floods a bunch of fishermen were swept out to sea and are still missing roofs have being torn off trees uprooted 240 people were injured and around 1.5 million people as of recording are still without power now this storm is weakening uh but it is moving Westward and the flooding and the landslides are being warned to have continued and we're not out the woods yet well we Asia anyway we need to move on very swiftly because there's a lot of news we need to catch up on all right let's get to the New York news what the hell is happening something big is the answer but what exactly no one really knows we don't it just listen to this so this week Federal authorities and the FBI raided the homes of the NYPD commissioner as well as several other high ranking officers and it's not police other top New York officials had their homes rated to the first Deputy Mayor and the deputy mayor for Public Safety what are you up to now they didn't give a reason for these searches so sorry about that but Reports say that electronics and cell phones were seized that's never good New York's mayor himself Eric Adams wasn't raid right but he was issued with a subpoena meaning that he's either being ordered to testify against someone or provide evidence for some H how crazy is that just think about these are not just some random people getting their homes raided these are top officials that are running [ __ ] now there is speculation that these raids has something to do with corruption but nothing's been confirmed yet so don't take that as gospel anyway no matter what you want to think something big is about to happen of course when it does drop I'll keep you guys updated moving on oh here's something that's wild and no one seems to know that it also happened this week China just hosted 50 world leaders from Africa and keep in mind there's only 54 countries in the continent so it's fair to say that China pretty much invited the entire of Africa just for a quick chat in China let's let's gather a how what should we do this this weekend Xi Jinping ah I don't know maybe let's let's let's speak with the entire continent of Africa about some crazy you want to know what it's about let's get into it you see Africa is a continent that is very rich in resources right and the rest of the world is looking at Africa and they're like we need need your resources and for a while China has been the main country like fron tiering this and trying to become best friends with China because of this sorry with Africa hear that in the comments he he what they're trying to become best friends with China what is China trying I get it okay I fixed it I see one comment about that be furious anyway China have been investing staggering amounts of money in Africa's development but recently because of China's slowing economy that funding that never ending tap kind of trickling a little bit now staggering so classic cheeky Little America sees that and they're like well maybe this is our time to jump in and become best friends with China now now that you know China did I say China again I meant Africa USA wants to become best friends with Africa right so America starts whacking out their checkbook you know to counteract China's influence in the continent because America also needs Africa's resources both of them need these resources to power this green energy transition but when China sees America trying to swoop in and become friends with their best friend they say hell no so they decide to have this massive Summit invite everyone and make one message very clear don't look at the USA choose China damn that's a good slogan actually choose China and at this Summit they made some pretty big promises they said that we're going to give you 50 billion in financial support not forever over the next 3 years alone they want to create 1 million jobs there tens of millions in food and military aid and that's that's just like very very tip of the iceberg of things that they promised Africa so yeah America and China Two World leading superpowers both vying for Africa's resources and you know they're hot property right now let's just hope that all of these deals that are being made are fair Right Moving On Now another story that broke literally the day that I arrived here was the Georgia school now it's been quite a bit of time since that all kicked off so I'm not going to rehash all of the detail and all that you probably heard it by now and if you want to see all of that it's on my Tik Tok but essentially if you haven't heard a 14-year-old boy named cult gray 14 let me stress that went into his own school with a gun that his father gave him for Christmas and open fire four people died two of them were students two of them were teachers both he and his father were quickly arrested the boy is facing life imprisonment for first-degree murder and his dead is facing 180 years in prison for second degree murder amongst other things including child neglect something like that now as for a motive officially we don't know but based on an interview that police had with his dad over a year ago that's a crazy story it's on my Tik Tok Colt was apparently bullied relentlessly at school other kids called him gay um I don't know if he's actually gay or people just called him gay because that's one of the things that people call other kids but he got so bad that he wanted to move his parents were also pretty horrendous as well his mother was a drug addict and you know is probably still a drug addict and spent a bunch of time in jail and um she wasn't even allowed to see him because of how messed up she was and his father apparently uh wasn't any better Colt's grandfather blamed the dad for all of this and he said that he was evil and he deserves not just life in prison but the death penalty so yeah obviously none of this information comes even close to justifying any of his actions but it's just to give you a tiny perspective on how messed up a human can become anyway moving on cuz we need to get to some rapid fire news I can't really scream in the Hotel because someone will come to the door and probably think that I'm abusing Maddie news Elon Musk announced that an uncrewed Starship Mission to Mars will be within the next 2 years and a crude mission is planned to follow in four years time he said that we're going to go to the Moon we're going to have a base on the moon and then we're going to send people to Mars and uh make life multiplanetary so I mean he also said that the Tesla Roadster would be out by now and that hasn't even been seen yet said full self-driving would be here like 4 years ago nah so 4 years on Mars will probably be about 20 years next ah remember the owner of the universe and the appointed Son of God that the FBI was searching for in the kingdom of God yeah well they found him and arrested him I mean they they did a lot of searching in that big old hunka chunk place as you'll probably remember but they found him and you next remember that chase money glitch that actually turned out to just be boring old Financial check for fraud Well turns out I made the joke back then the internet trolling people into going to jail what turns out they actually are because uh Chase has decided we're not just going to charge people the money back they've actually decided to report what they called thousands of incidents to law enforcement I didn't think it was thousands I thought oh maybe a few hundred people would fall for this no thousands now the punishment for this type of crime will depend on its severity of how much people decided to withdraw and depending on what state they live in but in California you know that that's about a year year in prison and fines in New York uh you're looking at 3 months in prison and fines oh remember that Boeing spaceship that you had mechanical problems and Stranded those two poor astronauts up in space well they decided this week to just give up right we're going to give up and let's not even try and fix it and it arrived back down to earth without the astronauts in it this week the astronauts themselves are still up in space and they'll come back on Elon Musk spaceship in February 2025 happy Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to them next also this week There's an International manh Hunt going on for some nut job that decided to throw hot scolding coffee onto a baby and then fled the country the unprovoked attack happened in Australia at a park and that there's even video footage of the suspect fleeing the scene the 9mon year-old baby suffered Burns to his face and arms and police are asking everyone internationally if you see this man tell us report and then lastly as you can tell a bit of me news I'm in Las Vegas and this place H is genuinely wild now you probably don't know this about me because why would you I guess um but I don't party I don't drink um and I don't gamble so why am I even here well uh it's kind of a Bucket Place list right and and boy is it interesting like everyone should experience Vegas at one point in their life even if you don't want to potty and Gamble and all of that because just see how this city was made up is is fascinating it is literally designed from even the way that they designed the streets to make you gamble and spend money for example they have all of these Bridges you know to cross the road you know I just have our like regular cross the road kind of Street most of them Bridges right but to get on this bridge you have to go inside a building which has shops which has which has nice air conditioning CU it's hot as sh outside and most importantly slot machines so every time you want to cross the road uh you're tempted to go back inside they lure you inside you're also allowed to smoke inside the casinos which is something I thought was banned like decades ago but no they allow that because they don't want you to have to leave the place to have a smoke break no stay inside do it right here while you're clicking the spin button oh me even if you want to go up to you know get drink from the bar right you leave your slot machine you go up to the bar there's a slot machine in the table of the bar that you can continue playing on you literally cannot have a single break I mean and that's just like a couple things that come to my mind there there was so many more when I was thinking about it but I'm not going to jump into it here you know in fear of making this video too long for Alex uh and then you guys flooding in and be like late late late I get it okay don't you think I forgot for anyone that does like the video otherwise my temporary whipping fear tool like the video or this will happen put one of them on the bed this is getting weird put them on the bed okay I think that's it for the video I love you guys uh I am getting on the flight tomorrow so wish me a safe flight and I will see you when I'm back at home as soon as possible probably in a couple of days time who knows love you [Music] bye 41 minutes not too bad back to the old days so Alex play the intro that we got from then so 21 rapid fire news don't play that don't play the rapid I just feel like I know Alex you're going to play the little boring rapid fire news there's a little mini bar thing here look over here you see that you see that devil thing right there talking about how crazy Las Vegas is it has a feature in there I've never seen this in my life before if you pick it up for longer than than 60 Seconds it automatically charges it to your room and you want to know how much a freaking bottle of water is $8 you want to know how much a Red Bull is $10 don't touch that thing with your life