July 1, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Do you guys know if there's any secret security cameras
in the studio, is a speaker or something.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm gonna tell you no way, everyone would have been
fired already, I asked.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Because there's a weird story out of Singapore today. A
guy named mister Tan owns two mini marts there. Recently,
he put security cameras in his stores to discourage and
catch your possible shoplifters.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Makes sense.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Last week, he was doing a routine check of the footage.
Couldn't believe what he saw. It turns out someone was
stealing from the store. Oh really, not a customer, but
two of his employees who were pocketing money from transactions
and not putting them into the registration. But here's the
(00:46):
craziest part. One of the workers that was stealing actually
helped mister Tan set the cameras up and showed him.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How to use them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
She worked there for six years and was one of
the people who suggested that they put cameras in the store.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Go be cut like. She felt bad about it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't know how it works there, but maybe she
needed like she had to get fired. You know, you
can't quit.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She want to make sure he was using her. Yeah,
she's like keeping him on his toes. Are you checking? Yeah,
mister Tan.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Said quote, I'm still reeling because we celebrated birthdays and
weddings together. She was one of the three or four
people we felt were the pillars.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of the shop.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh man, So those two employees were arrested and are
now facing credical charges.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
God dang, you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Guys are sure there's no security cameras in here?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right? Yeah? What are you gonna take?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What have you stolen?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
There's nothing really to steal. I've tried, there's nothing here.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Talk about it anymore? How about that?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I will say there's some extra rolls of toilet paper
if you ever short at home in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, I'm like, wait a minute, where's my microphone.
We're going to keep our hands above the counter while
we go on to the shock question of the day
with digital Jake, who's been standing there suspiciously quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The entire is going on over there, Jake. Maybe Jake
stole the cameras.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's the one that brings him in the camera guy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, besides that, the other day I was on the
old Twitter machine came across a post from our own
Brooke Fox that's me. She said she had just learned
about a small town called Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Can you believe that's the name of a town. I
was looking it up for some show research into an
old game show called Truth or Consequences, and then all
they came up was the Wikipedia pages for this town
in New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Cool. My first thought was, you know, Brooke must have
been hitting the bathtub Moonshine pretty hard started spreading her
own lies on the Internet again.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She made that Wikipedia, You're gonna get consequences. Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I double checked her and I googled it, and it
turns out that's actually a real place, baby, And it
gave me an idea to find some of the most
unusual town names in the world and ask you if
they're real or just one of Brooks Casual liquor field fantasies.
It's a special around the world Real or Fake one
(03:08):
and done, Truth or Consequences Question of.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The Day, USS.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Go over to Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Jeffrey.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
In Turkey, there's a province called Batman whose capital city
is Batman, which means that people can say they are
from Batman. Batman.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is that a real city?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Or did I just make that up.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I've actually been to Turkey, but my family didn't book
a trip to Batman.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We did all the boring stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Your travel agent didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Book it for you.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We did the Constantinople and saw the historical and Cappadocia.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, that's boring. I want to go to Batman.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I mean I could see, like, what if it was
spelled like b A h T you know liketo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think they're really big fans of Batman in Turkey to.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
A feeling that the province name kind of an old
country is probably older than the actual.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think was named after the dark Knight. And that
is a real place in Turkey.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Jeffrey said, that's a real place, and that's a real place.
I'm certain it's probably pronounced like Botman, Like yes, but
Batman Batman real place in Turkey.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Ship in the capitol.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
For that joke. You're going next?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeay.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
One of the smallest towns in one of the smallest
states is Underwear, Delaware. The Haines Undergarment factory and Fruit
of the Loom headquarters are both based there. Is that
made up? Or is that real?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wow? I didn't know all our underwear were made in
the same place.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's kind of crazy that all of our tidy whities
are from the tightest, whitest.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It's very compact.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh man, it makes sense because like Hershey, Pennsylvania, they redid.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The whole well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think it was named after the man, right. I
think she was like a big tycoon guy.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
If you have a giant conglomerate and you know, you're
proud the city likes to rename things.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I know, but I don't think it was called mister underwear,
you know, like it seems like it'd be named Haynes
or whoever started fruit of the Loom or or loomis
you know loom?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You know what? It sounds too good to be true.
I'm gonna say this is false.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Jose said, that's not a real place. And that's not
a real place. Sadly, Brook, Let's go over to you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
There was a town called Mailbox, Nevada. The reason why
no one lives there, there's just a single mailbox has
its own ZIP code. Is that real or is that?
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I thought the town I grew up in was small,
like it was like seven hundred people growing up. Still
no stoplight until I went to school at University of Montana,
where I had friends who would legitimately have county proms
because there wasn't enough kids that they weren't related to
in their school. I mean literally, like people would come
from three to four hours away to all meet.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Up for prom good old town crack pipe items.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think that this is true.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I totally believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Brooks said, that's a real place, and that's I think.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You have to have a post office to be a town.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Someone has to get the mail. But they have mailboxes
that are like underwater too. Really have you ever seen those?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, sure you're not talking about like one of the
resorts stated.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Alexis in the province of Manitoba, there's a town far
away from any others. It was originally named Gardner, but
in two thousand and six, the townspeople voted to change
it to Patty p A t Y.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's short for.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Please and thank You, since their goal was to be
known as the most polite city in North America? Is
that made up or real?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's a cool goal.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's cute.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I mean it's cute, probably too nice to be true.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, this all started with truth or consequences New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know, so why wouldn't they please and thank you?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Why would they shorten?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Who's gonna know what the acronym stands.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
For is well, you're Canadian, so you know you're nice.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know. I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think it's false.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Jake Alexa says, that's made up.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And that's made up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Let's make the name of town Patty j.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So Brooke only one getting shock today.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Brooke, we're gonna take a shock while singing.
Since you've been gone by Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But since you've been gone, I can't breathe all the
first time.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm so moving on. So question of the day, Someta's
coming up in just a few minutes.
Do you guys know if there's any secret security cameras
in the studio, is a speaker or something.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm gonna tell you no way, everyone would have been
fired already, I asked.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Because there's a weird story out of Singapore today. A
guy named mister Tan owns two mini marts there. Recently,
he put security cameras in his stores to discourage and
catch your possible shoplifters.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Makes sense.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Last week, he was doing a routine check of the footage.
Couldn't believe what he saw. It turns out someone was
stealing from the store. Oh really, not a customer, but
two of his employees who were pocketing money from transactions
and not putting them into the registration. But here's the
(00:46):
craziest part. One of the workers that was stealing actually
helped mister Tan set the cameras up and showed him.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How to use them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
She worked there for six years and was one of
the people who suggested that they put cameras in the store.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Go be cut like. She felt bad about it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I don't know how it works there, but maybe she
needed like she had to get fired. You know, you
can't quit.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
She want to make sure he was using her. Yeah,
she's like keeping him on his toes. Are you checking? Yeah,
mister Tan.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Said quote, I'm still reeling because we celebrated birthdays and
weddings together. She was one of the three or four
people we felt were the pillars.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Of the shop.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh man, So those two employees were arrested and are
now facing credical charges.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
God dang, you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Guys are sure there's no security cameras in here?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Right? Yeah? What are you gonna take?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What have you stolen?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
There's nothing really to steal. I've tried, there's nothing here.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Talk about it anymore? How about that?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I will say there's some extra rolls of toilet paper
if you ever short at home in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, I'm like, wait a minute, where's my microphone.
We're going to keep our hands above the counter while
we go on to the shock question of the day
with digital Jake, who's been standing there suspiciously quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The entire is going on over there, Jake. Maybe Jake
stole the cameras.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
He's the one that brings him in the camera guy.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, besides that, the other day I was on the
old Twitter machine came across a post from our own
Brooke Fox that's me. She said she had just learned
about a small town called Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Can you believe that's the name of a town. I
was looking it up for some show research into an
old game show called Truth or Consequences, and then all
they came up was the Wikipedia pages for this town
in New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Cool. My first thought was, you know, Brooke must have
been hitting the bathtub Moonshine pretty hard started spreading her
own lies on the Internet again.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
She made that Wikipedia, You're gonna get consequences. Okay.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I double checked her and I googled it, and it
turns out that's actually a real place, baby, And it
gave me an idea to find some of the most
unusual town names in the world and ask you if
they're real or just one of Brooks Casual liquor field fantasies.
It's a special around the world Real or Fake one
(03:08):
and done, Truth or Consequences Question of.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The Day, USS.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Go over to Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Jeffrey.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
In Turkey, there's a province called Batman whose capital city
is Batman, which means that people can say they are
from Batman. Batman.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is that a real city?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Or did I just make that up.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I've actually been to Turkey, but my family didn't book
a trip to Batman.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We did all the boring stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Your travel agent didn't.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Book it for you.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
We did the Constantinople and saw the historical and Cappadocia.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, that's boring. I want to go to Batman.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I mean I could see, like, what if it was
spelled like b A h T you know liketo. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think they're really big fans of Batman in Turkey to.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
A feeling that the province name kind of an old
country is probably older than the actual.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think was named after the dark Knight. And that
is a real place in Turkey.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Jeffrey said, that's a real place, and that's a real place.
I'm certain it's probably pronounced like Botman, Like yes, but
Batman Batman real place in Turkey.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Ship in the capitol.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
For that joke. You're going next?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeay.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
One of the smallest towns in one of the smallest
states is Underwear, Delaware. The Haines Undergarment factory and Fruit
of the Loom headquarters are both based there. Is that
made up? Or is that real?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wow? I didn't know all our underwear were made in
the same place.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
It's kind of crazy that all of our tidy whities
are from the tightest, whitest.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It's very compact.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Oh man, it makes sense because like Hershey, Pennsylvania, they redid.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
The whole well.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I think it was named after the man, right. I
think she was like a big tycoon guy.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
If you have a giant conglomerate and you know, you're
proud the city likes to rename things.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I know, but I don't think it was called mister underwear,
you know, like it seems like it'd be named Haynes
or whoever started fruit of the Loom or or loomis
you know loom?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You know what? It sounds too good to be true.
I'm gonna say this is false.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Jose said, that's not a real place. And that's not
a real place. Sadly, Brook, Let's go over to you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
There was a town called Mailbox, Nevada. The reason why
no one lives there, there's just a single mailbox has
its own ZIP code. Is that real or is that?
You know?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I thought the town I grew up in was small,
like it was like seven hundred people growing up. Still
no stoplight until I went to school at University of Montana,
where I had friends who would legitimately have county proms
because there wasn't enough kids that they weren't related to
in their school. I mean literally, like people would come
from three to four hours away to all meet.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Up for prom good old town crack pipe items.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I think that this is true.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I totally believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Brooks said, that's a real place, and that's I think.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You have to have a post office to be a town.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Someone has to get the mail. But they have mailboxes
that are like underwater too. Really have you ever seen those?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, sure you're not talking about like one of the
resorts stated.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Alexis in the province of Manitoba, there's a town far
away from any others. It was originally named Gardner, but
in two thousand and six, the townspeople voted to change
it to Patty p A t Y.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
It's short for.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Please and thank You, since their goal was to be
known as the most polite city in North America? Is
that made up or real?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's a cool goal.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That's cute.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
I mean it's cute, probably too nice to be true.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well, this all started with truth or consequences New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know, so why wouldn't they please and thank you?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Why would they shorten?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Who's gonna know what the acronym stands.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
For is well, you're Canadian, so you know you're nice.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I don't know. I don't believe it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think it's false.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Jake Alexa says, that's made up.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And that's made up.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Let's make the name of town Patty j.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So Brooke only one getting shock today.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
All right, Brooke, we're gonna take a shock while singing.
Since you've been gone by Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
But since you've been gone, I can't breathe all the
first time.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm so moving on. So question of the day, Someta's
coming up in just a few minutes.
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