November 6, 2025 • 9 mins
On this episode of The Jubal Show, we test your news-spotting skills with our viral segment Real News or Fake News. From hospitals accidentally “killing” hundreds of patients to startups promoting office intimacy pods, and even New Yorkers making millions just by watching parked cars can you tell what’s real and what’s made up? Tune in for laughs, jaw-dropping headlines, and your weekly sanity check on the wild world of viral news.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is just in it's a jewbel show. A man
is selling ads on his tuxedo to help pay for
his wedding. But enough about Travis Kelcey. What's Taylor swifting
it to that? See how easy it is to make
up news stories. That's why every single week at this time,
we bring you the cleverliest name segment Real News or
Fake News, where I read you a new story that's
(00:21):
gone viral this week, and you have to see if
you can tell whether it's a real one or a
fake one that people actually believe. Will test your knowledge
and test your skills at spotting fake news. Right after
this breaking news, right here on The Jewel Show, Kim
Kardashian has revealed that she uses chat GPT to study
for law. Whoa finally a collab, a collab between two
(00:45):
things that were completely built by engineers.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
See how easy it is to create a news story.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And that's why every single week we bring you the
cleverly named segment Real News or Fake News, where I
give you a new story from the week that's gone
viral and you have to tell me if it's a
real one or a fake one that people actually believed.
Here's your first headline for real news or fake news.
Hospital mistakenly apologizes for accidentally killing five hundred and thirty
one people, promises it won't happen again. Hospital apologizes for
(01:16):
accidentally killing five hundred and thirty one people, Promises it
won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's here's the news story for you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
America probably doesn't have the worst healthcare system in the world,
but close, but a large healthcare system in Maine is
apologizing after sending letters to five hundred and thirty one
patients in hospitals and healthcare clinics telling them that they
are dead. The letters expressed condolences and included information on
(01:44):
how their next of ken could.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Resolve their estates. Oh no, so you d have to.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Call your aunt and be like, hey, I'm dead. I
guess I don't know, but they sent me a thing.
You can handle the rest of it, But.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't know what they do now.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The company is a nonprofit called main Health, and a
spokesperson says that there was an error in his computer
system that led to the mistake. They said they sincerely
regret the goof and assured everybody that they are alive.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The goof, Yeah, what cool, and that they.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Were never officially listed as the season their medical records.
So if you got one of those that said you're dead,
you're not, it's all good. Just a little goofed by
the healthcare clinic. You are pronounced dead? Does that like
get you out of paying? Like I don't know any
outstanding speeding.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Tickets or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I would use it to my advantage. I'd be like,
they said I was dead, it looks like I can't
come into work, boss. I'll just be looking at it
like is this what death is?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Like? Is this real? You just always put.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Me in a weird state. I'd be like, did I
I'm actually dead? Did I just is this like a movie?
Did I open up my own death letter?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, should I reseal that because someone else is supposed
to find it?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is this what this is?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And my ghosts? Let me clear internet search history just
in case this thing is rare that could cause some
serious mental damage. Is this a real news story or
a fake news story? Well, now that we did that
role play, I'm gonna go with three A real Okay, Hey,
Nina says real it feels like a real moment, Victoria,
(03:08):
real or fake news story?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hey? How does that happen? That's like, there's not a
button that just says confirm.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, five hundred and thirty one people saying their dead.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's a new movie. That's a movie coming. That's ridiculous.
It is a real.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
News story that actually happened. They promised it wouldn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh how sweet?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Boring?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Howe I'd be walking into traffic and thing thinking I
was like a ghost or something.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Honey, I go straight to the mirror.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Here's your next news story for real news or fake news?
The segment where I give you a news story from
the week that's gone viral and you have to tell
me if it's a real news story or a.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Fake one that people actually believed. Here is a new story.
There's the headline.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Small startup in Austin, Texas adds, oh sorry, one second,
one second place.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Okay, I lost my headline. There we go, lost the headline.
Oh here we go? This is the headline, it says.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
After after bold move by one startup, other tech giants
may add intimacy pods to their office spaces. After bold
move by one startup, other tech giants might add intimacy
pods to their office spaces.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Here's the story.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
A small startup in Austin, Texas has added intimacy pods
to their office campus and encourage employees to go enjoy
themselves whenever they're feeling a little unmotivated. They decided to
do this after a new study that says that full
time workers who engage in intimate activity before work in
the morning reported significantly higher productive productivity seventy one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So this is by themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It just says intimacy, So it can be whatever, So
it can be with another person, by yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Just as long as you're like in the pod, getting
going early in the morning, it means you're going to
be going all through the day. I guess, see what
they say, I.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Guess task completion rates for people who engage in into
see before work in the morning, they were up seventy
percent in focus levels, oh more than half. Fifty one
percent of those workers reported receiving a raise in the
past year as well. Nineteen percent of promotion participants cited
mental health benefits higher overall happiness, greater emotional stabilities, stronger confidence,
(05:17):
and forty nine better stress management compared to those who
did not have intimacy in the morning or decided to
do it later in the day. Apparently, Mark Zuckerberry and
Elon Musk have also chimed in saying that they are
considering bringing intimacy intimacy pods to their office spaces.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So Elonk and I'm more baby.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Can you imagine walking into work and that's the first
thing you hear.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right, you walk by an intimacy pod and it says occupied,
I'm not fan. And then you're the guy that has
the cubicle next to you or the one you share
with comes out. You're just like, uhh, I love dude.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
But is it though, because if you start to normalize that,
it might not be that weird, because you know it's
happening anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We do know I in my office when I walk in,
you don't know where they're doing. At At least this way,
there would be.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Options, a clean thing, and like, you know, you wouldn't
have to wonder did somebody just do that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Here? I don't wonder that now becaworker comes whishling down
the hall. There's a little two peppy in the morning,
you know exactly what just happened.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, So I don't know and I can see. I'm
gonna go with real because I could see this being
a not bad thing. Okay, Victoria, really it or fake? Fake?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Companies like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are considering adding
intimacy pods to their office spaces because of this startup
in Austin.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That has to be fake. That's that has to be fake.
Why does it have to be fake?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Because you can't that's the workplace, Like there's a recipe
for disaster.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I feel like having those in the office.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you're asking less it makes it less like, you
know bad, You're asking for more HR complaints.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You're gonna have one person who is just in that
thing all the time. You're like, what is wrong with them?
Like there should be a limit, max, do it before
you come into work if you need to do it
that bad.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It is a fake news story.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It makes sense to.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Me, though over a million people shared it on thinking
that this is actually a thing that is happening somewhere outraged, somewhere,
pretty pumped up about it. But apparently the research in
this story was actually real. They did do a study
on that and found that people are more productive. But
there is not a new there's not a lot of
companies that are considering having intimacy pods in their office.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Okay, so hear me out, no pods. We come in
an hour later, and you're encouraged. You're encouraged to and
you have to show proof of it. I mean work.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I do your job from a letter from your partner
or not, or some sort of facial recognition to let us.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Know that everything was cool. It's really good for your home.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Here's another headline for real news or fake news. A
segment where I give you a news headline from the
week and you have to tell me if it's a
real news story or a fake news story that people
actually believed.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Here is your headline.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Thousands of people becoming millionaires by watching parked cars in
New York City. Oh, thousands of people becoming millionaires by
watching parked cars in New York.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
City, New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
A new program allows citizens to report idling vehicles, truck
idling more than three minutes, school buses more than one
minutes idling and receive a portion of the resulting fines.
Finds for idling range from three hundred and fifty dollars
to two thousand and Reporters canive can receive up to
fifty percent of the sustained fine if they file directly
with the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. The number
(08:18):
of complaints since this has gone into effect has surged.
Some individuals have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
the top earners approaching are nearing one million dollars each
through this program. So many of these people who are
just sitting on the street watching idling vehicles and reporting
them are making millions.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Of dollars in New York City. They're rats, yeah, pretty
much snitching. Yeah, they're snitching're switching. They're snitching, and they're
making millions of dollars doing it. Wow. Is this a
real new story or a fake news time? I'm going
to go with fake.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It can't be that easy. It can't be that easy. Man,
New Yorker finds out that you just did that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's a joke. No, are you mean this is real?
Have you seen TikTok?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
People are finding so many ways of how not to
do work and make money easy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
One, this is real. You're saying it's real, Victorian, I'm
saying it's fake. It's fake. This is one a real
news story.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You can go make a million dollars a year just
by sitting on the street and watching cars idol in New.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
York and that's you better watch your back. But it
is New York City.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So a million dollars a year, you still have to
split an apartment with seventeen people.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Fact
This is just in it's a jewbel show. A man
is selling ads on his tuxedo to help pay for
his wedding. But enough about Travis Kelcey. What's Taylor swifting
it to that? See how easy it is to make
up news stories. That's why every single week at this time,
we bring you the cleverliest name segment Real News or
Fake News, where I read you a new story that's
(00:21):
gone viral this week, and you have to see if
you can tell whether it's a real one or a
fake one that people actually believe. Will test your knowledge
and test your skills at spotting fake news. Right after
this breaking news, right here on The Jewel Show, Kim
Kardashian has revealed that she uses chat GPT to study
for law. Whoa finally a collab, a collab between two
(00:45):
things that were completely built by engineers.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
See how easy it is to create a news story.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And that's why every single week we bring you the
cleverly named segment Real News or Fake News, where I
give you a new story from the week that's gone
viral and you have to tell me if it's a
real one or a fake one that people actually believed.
Here's your first headline for real news or fake news.
Hospital mistakenly apologizes for accidentally killing five hundred and thirty
one people, promises it won't happen again. Hospital apologizes for
(01:16):
accidentally killing five hundred and thirty one people, Promises it
won't happen again.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's here's the news story for you.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
America probably doesn't have the worst healthcare system in the world,
but close, but a large healthcare system in Maine is
apologizing after sending letters to five hundred and thirty one
patients in hospitals and healthcare clinics telling them that they
are dead. The letters expressed condolences and included information on
(01:44):
how their next of ken could.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Resolve their estates. Oh no, so you d have to.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Call your aunt and be like, hey, I'm dead. I
guess I don't know, but they sent me a thing.
You can handle the rest of it, But.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't know what they do now.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The company is a nonprofit called main Health, and a
spokesperson says that there was an error in his computer
system that led to the mistake. They said they sincerely
regret the goof and assured everybody that they are alive.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
The goof, Yeah, what cool, and that they.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Were never officially listed as the season their medical records.
So if you got one of those that said you're dead,
you're not, it's all good. Just a little goofed by
the healthcare clinic. You are pronounced dead? Does that like
get you out of paying? Like I don't know any
outstanding speeding.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Tickets or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I would use it to my advantage. I'd be like,
they said I was dead, it looks like I can't
come into work, boss. I'll just be looking at it
like is this what death is?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Like? Is this real? You just always put.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Me in a weird state. I'd be like, did I
I'm actually dead? Did I just is this like a movie?
Did I open up my own death letter?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, should I reseal that because someone else is supposed
to find it?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Is this what this is?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And my ghosts? Let me clear internet search history just
in case this thing is rare that could cause some
serious mental damage. Is this a real news story or
a fake news story? Well, now that we did that
role play, I'm gonna go with three A real Okay, Hey,
Nina says real it feels like a real moment, Victoria,
(03:08):
real or fake news story?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Hey? How does that happen? That's like, there's not a
button that just says confirm.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, five hundred and thirty one people saying their dead.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's a new movie. That's a movie coming. That's ridiculous.
It is a real.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
News story that actually happened. They promised it wouldn't happen again.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh how sweet?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Boring?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Howe I'd be walking into traffic and thing thinking I
was like a ghost or something.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Honey, I go straight to the mirror.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Here's your next news story for real news or fake news?
The segment where I give you a news story from
the week that's gone viral and you have to tell
me if it's a real news story or a.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Fake one that people actually believed. Here is a new story.
There's the headline.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Small startup in Austin, Texas adds, oh sorry, one second,
one second place.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Okay, I lost my headline. There we go, lost the headline.
Oh here we go? This is the headline, it says.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
After after bold move by one startup, other tech giants
may add intimacy pods to their office spaces. After bold
move by one startup, other tech giants might add intimacy
pods to their office spaces.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Here's the story.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
A small startup in Austin, Texas has added intimacy pods
to their office campus and encourage employees to go enjoy
themselves whenever they're feeling a little unmotivated. They decided to
do this after a new study that says that full
time workers who engage in intimate activity before work in
the morning reported significantly higher productive productivity seventy one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So this is by themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It just says intimacy, So it can be whatever, So
it can be with another person, by yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Just as long as you're like in the pod, getting
going early in the morning, it means you're going to
be going all through the day. I guess, see what
they say, I.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Guess task completion rates for people who engage in into
see before work in the morning, they were up seventy
percent in focus levels, oh more than half. Fifty one
percent of those workers reported receiving a raise in the
past year as well. Nineteen percent of promotion participants cited
mental health benefits higher overall happiness, greater emotional stabilities, stronger confidence,
(05:17):
and forty nine better stress management compared to those who
did not have intimacy in the morning or decided to
do it later in the day. Apparently, Mark Zuckerberry and
Elon Musk have also chimed in saying that they are
considering bringing intimacy intimacy pods to their office spaces.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So Elonk and I'm more baby.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Can you imagine walking into work and that's the first
thing you hear.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Right, you walk by an intimacy pod and it says occupied,
I'm not fan. And then you're the guy that has
the cubicle next to you or the one you share
with comes out. You're just like, uhh, I love dude.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
But is it though, because if you start to normalize that,
it might not be that weird, because you know it's
happening anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We do know I in my office when I walk in,
you don't know where they're doing. At At least this way,
there would be.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Options, a clean thing, and like, you know, you wouldn't
have to wonder did somebody just do that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Here? I don't wonder that now becaworker comes whishling down
the hall. There's a little two peppy in the morning,
you know exactly what just happened.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Yeah, So I don't know and I can see. I'm
gonna go with real because I could see this being
a not bad thing. Okay, Victoria, really it or fake? Fake?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Companies like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are considering adding
intimacy pods to their office spaces because of this startup
in Austin.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That has to be fake. That's that has to be fake.
Why does it have to be fake?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Because you can't that's the workplace, Like there's a recipe
for disaster.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I feel like having those in the office.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
And you're asking less it makes it less like, you
know bad, You're asking for more HR complaints.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You're gonna have one person who is just in that
thing all the time. You're like, what is wrong with them?
Like there should be a limit, max, do it before
you come into work if you need to do it
that bad.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It is a fake news story.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It makes sense to.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Me, though over a million people shared it on thinking
that this is actually a thing that is happening somewhere outraged, somewhere,
pretty pumped up about it. But apparently the research in
this story was actually real. They did do a study
on that and found that people are more productive. But
there is not a new there's not a lot of
companies that are considering having intimacy pods in their office.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Okay, so hear me out, no pods. We come in
an hour later, and you're encouraged. You're encouraged to and
you have to show proof of it. I mean work.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I do your job from a letter from your partner
or not, or some sort of facial recognition to let us.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Know that everything was cool. It's really good for your home.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Here's another headline for real news or fake news. A
segment where I give you a news headline from the
week and you have to tell me if it's a
real news story or a fake news story that people
actually believed.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Here is your headline.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Thousands of people becoming millionaires by watching parked cars in
New York City. Oh, thousands of people becoming millionaires by
watching parked cars in New York.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
City, New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
A new program allows citizens to report idling vehicles, truck
idling more than three minutes, school buses more than one
minutes idling and receive a portion of the resulting fines.
Finds for idling range from three hundred and fifty dollars
to two thousand and Reporters canive can receive up to
fifty percent of the sustained fine if they file directly
with the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings. The number
(08:18):
of complaints since this has gone into effect has surged.
Some individuals have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
the top earners approaching are nearing one million dollars each
through this program. So many of these people who are
just sitting on the street watching idling vehicles and reporting
them are making millions.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Of dollars in New York City. They're rats, yeah, pretty
much snitching. Yeah, they're snitching're switching. They're snitching, and they're
making millions of dollars doing it. Wow. Is this a
real new story or a fake news time? I'm going
to go with fake.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
It can't be that easy. It can't be that easy. Man,
New Yorker finds out that you just did that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That's a joke. No, are you mean this is real?
Have you seen TikTok?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
People are finding so many ways of how not to
do work and make money easy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
One, this is real. You're saying it's real, Victorian, I'm
saying it's fake. It's fake. This is one a real
news story.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
You can go make a million dollars a year just
by sitting on the street and watching cars idol in New.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
York and that's you better watch your back. But it
is New York City.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So a million dollars a year, you still have to
split an apartment with seventeen people.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Fact
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