BONUS - Real Vs Fake: Would You Take a Selfie With a Snow Leopard?

Another round of Real News or Fake News puts viral headlines to the test — and this week, the internet somehow outdoes itself. From influencers getting way too close to wild animals, to bizarre health claims that sound just believable enough to fool people, this segment dives into the stories everyone’s arguing about online. Which ones actually happened… and which ones only feel real because people wanted to believe them?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Breaking news you will show. Nike claims that its new
shoes can now activate the brain, heightened sensory awareness, and
improve concentration. Oh meanwhile, the makers of Crocs say their
shoes stimulates your need to sit on a lawn chair
in your driveway and drink ninety light all day. Nice.
See how easy it is to create fake news. That's

(00:22):
why every single week at this time would bring you
the cleverly named segment real news or Fake News, 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 fake one that people
actually believed. Here's your first headline for real news or
fake news. Authorities at Wildlife Park in China warn influencers
that snow leopards aren't props for your selfies. Ah here's

(00:46):
the story. An influencer at a popular ski destination in
China is recovering after a snow leopard who just didn't
want to be a part of her get Ready with
Me to Ski video did well, exactly what's new leopards do?
And attacked her. Oh that hurt like a bud. Honest.

(01:09):
The influencer was able to get to within five feet
of a wild snow leopard and tried to take a
selfie with it. Eventually, a ski instructor was able to
scare the snow leopard off by waving his ski poles around,
and emergency services was called and took her to the hospital.
But don't worry, she was still able to post a
picture of herself laying there with her leopard wounds as

(01:33):
she waited for help. Officials at the park are issuing
yet another warning to people who visit that snow leopards
don't care about your likes and they will eat you,
So don't take selfies with snow leopards. Is that a
real news story or a fake news story? And Nina, oh,
this is real, This just has to be real, yeah, Victoria, Unfortunately,
I do think this is real as well. Producer Freeze.

(01:54):
Authorities at a wildlife park in China warn influencers that
snow leopards aren't props for your selfies. I have no
confidence in people who's real. Definitely real, very obviously that
is a real one. Don't take pictures with wild animals
that will eat you. No, that makes me so sad.
What goes through your mind? You're not an exception. You're
just as young as anybody else. It's cute and they

(02:15):
look comfy and cozy and adorable. I'm in my cute
snow bunny outfit, and how cute would it be if
there's a snow leopard right next to me? How can
my picture look? And then I get a lot of light? Okay,
So Victoria is gonna be the next one we report on.
It's real news or Fake News? A segment where I
give you a new story that's gone viral this week.
You have to tell me if it's a real news
story or a fake one that people actually believed. Here's

(02:37):
your next headline for real news or fake news. After
numerous hospitalizations, the FDA warns Americans that you cannot get
nutrients from just looking at pictures of food created by AI.
Here's the story you sure. A popular influencer had a
video go viral where they insisted that AI food is

(02:59):
actual real food, and they cite that it has digital
macronutrient absorption. They say, your body doesn't know the difference
between a steak and a very convincing photo of a steak,
she explained, and now she's pushing back against the claims
by the FDA that say, don't just look at food
and think that you're getting nutrients. The popular wellness influencer

(03:19):
is now pushing back and insisting that humans can in
fact receive nutrition from looking at food, provided the image
is rendered at a high enough resolution. What. In a
twelve minute long video filmed in front of a ring
light and an unlit stove, the influencer assured her followers
that critics don't understand how modern biology works anymore. Nutrition

(03:42):
isn't physical, she said, it's informational. Here's the science behind it.
According to the influencer, the human body is fully capable
of absorbing nutrients through what she calls visual gastro transference,
a process that she claims occurs when the digestive ours
with the image of macro density. She went on to

(04:03):
explain that hunger is a legacy sensation from pre wi
fi times. Is she high nutrition absorption depends heavily on
the image quality, She says. If you're still using seven
to twenty P you're literally starving. She said that you
need to visually eat your meals in four K, sometimes
eight K if you're bulking. She then promoted her new
course on losing weight and feeling better by viewing your

(04:25):
calories instead of eating them available for three hundred and
ninety nine dollars. Is that a real new story or
a fake news story? Okay? So which part am I
saying is real and fake? The whole thing? She was
real or the people believed it? What answer? The whole
thing is complicated, But I'm gonna go with fake just
because people. Please don't be that dumb Victoria. It's a
real new story or a fake new story. After numerous hospitalizations,

(04:47):
the FDA warrens Americans that you cannot get nutrients just
from looking at pictures of food created by AI. I
don't want to say fake, but I really think this
is real. Unfortunately, you producer Freeze. This is a real
new story or a fake news story? What do you think?
I wish I could get jack just by watching other
people go to the gym. But I'm gonna say it's fake.
This is a fake news story. Thing. But the shocking

(05:10):
part of this news story is that it did go
viral and people actually started googling. Apparently, there was reports
of over twelve million Americans googling trying to buy the
made up influencer's diet books, so it's a fake story.
The people that were googling the book were like, oh
my god, that's such a great idea how to lose weight.
You could just literally have AI make my dinner every

(05:32):
night and just stare at it for a while and fine, eyeball, Yeah,
here's your next headline for real news or fake news.
The Washington d C poo guyser is back and going strong.
The Washington d C pooh guyser is back and going strong.
Here's the story. So much for draining the swamp. The

(05:53):
Potomac River in Washington, d C. Is one of the
country's most prestigious bodies of water. George Washington grew up
next to it and called it the River of our Nation.
The Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and Arlington Cemetery all sat
alongside it, and just like our politicians, it's always been
full of crap. Swimming in Washington d C's water has

(06:14):
been illegal since nineteen seventy one due to the high
levels of bacteria from human fecal matter. But over the
past few years it looked like things were improving and
they actually thought people would be able to swim in
it soon. But now there is currently a huge geyser
of Pooh flooding into the Potomac Ye thanks to a

(06:35):
collapse last week in a sewer line carrying wastewater from
Virginia to Maryland. Drinking water isn't affected, but the Potomac River, Washington,
d C's beautiful river where all those things sit, is
now even more full of Pooh. It's bubbling up three
to five feet into the air. Is that a real

(06:57):
new story or a fake news story? Nina, I'm going real.
I am going to stay real. Victoria, the Washington d
C Pooh guyser is back and going stronger. Fake I'm
gonna sit by, Okay, Yeah, Producer Freeze, the Washington d
C poo guyser. I'm saying it's real. You're saying it's real. Yes,
this is one hundred percent real? Yes? Real? Yeah? Is

(07:21):
that it? Or is that just the universe trying to
give us a clue? Like, hey, you guys, who how
high do I have to make the Pooh go here
in Washington, d C? For you guys to realize what's
going on? Yeah? Right,