January 15, 2026 • 7 mins
It’s another round of Real News or Fake News on The Jubal Show, and this one pushes the limits of what sounds believable. From a headline that makes everyone uncomfortable, to a viral space story that had millions convinced the end might be near, and a city dealing with a very unexpected animal problem—each story is wilder than the last.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is just in right here on The Jewel Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This year marks the twenty year anniversary of Hannah Montana
Oh Yeah, and the two year anniversary of Prince Andrew
losing interest in her time for the cleverly named second
Real News or Fake News.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Where we read you No, Prince Andrew's a purple Yeah.
That was kind of like a politic.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It give you a news story that's gone viral for
the week, and you have to tell me if it's
a fake one or a real news story. Here's your
first headline for real news or fake news. Chinese man
claims his body randomly grew a sweet potato in an
unsweet place. Chinese man claims his body randomly grew sweet
(00:50):
potato in an unsweet place.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here's the story, and.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You have to tell me if it's a made up
one that people actually believed or a real story. A
man in Chindu, China, arrived in an emergency room after
this covering that a seven inch long sweet potato had
taken up an unexpected residency.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
In his dark neather regions.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
One of the attending physicians later joked in a statement,
I've removed many curious things from people's rare baggage, but
this particular root companion definitely wins the gold medal. The
man did have to have surgery to have it removed
and is doing okay. He claims he had no idea
how it got there, and it grew naturally. It was
(01:32):
retrieved successfully, and he was sent home with a stern
sweet potatoes goat in the mouth only.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Morning, Nina. Is that a true story or a fake
news story that people believe?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm gonna go with real, just because not that long ago,
we did a story about all the things people put
in their caves. Yeah, so this feels like it's in
that real cat.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Is this a theme like people are doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Victoria Chinese man, he grows a sweet potato in an
unsweet place?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Is that a real headline or a fake one? I'm
gonna go to the real.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's so that's the best part.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm gonna go with the real real. Yeah. The best
part is the excuse saying that it naturally. That's why
I thought it was real. That sounds like somebody would say.
And of course that is a real.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
New Songs pretty much guarantee anytime you see one of
those that's humans.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Man, we're like putting things where things shouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You guys, we never grow up leg on their nose
at three there places.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Here's another headline for real news or fake news. A
segment where I read a new story that's gone viral
this week, and you have to tell me if it's
a real new story or a fake one that people
actually believed. NASA confirms alarming broadcast signal from interstellar object
three i at lists as it turns around and heads
toward Earth.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Awesome if you don't know much about three iatlists.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's the some people are calling a comet, some people
saying it might not be a comet, It might be
an actual spaceship. But it passed by its closest position
to Earth back in December, and it has Yeah, it's
been heading toward Jupiter. But NASA now confirms that an
alarming broadcast signal has come from interstellar Object three i
at lists and it is turning around. Astronomers tracking the
(03:22):
interstellar object known as three iatlists have confirmed a surprising development.
The object appears to have subtly altered its trajectory and
is now moving back toward the Inner Solar System, including
Earth's orbital neighborhood. They say it's not a sudden turn.
It's more like a sustained adjustment, which is kind of creepy.
(03:42):
And NASA went on to say that a narrow bron
bad broad narrowed sorry, a narrow band radio emission was
detected from three iatlists last week and has now been
partially decoded following analysis by an international team of linguists
and signal processing experts. According to the agency, the transmission
was not a random noise, but a structured signal encoded
(04:04):
using symbolic patterns closely matching ancient Mesopotamian kudaa form, a
writing system dating back over five thousand years, and researchers
caution that the translation remains provisional, but the most stable
interpretation of the coded sequence reads, we observed you before
you learned. We observed you before you learned to write.
(04:25):
We observed you before you learned to write. We returned
to measure what remains yikes. NASA stressed that the original
intent of the signal are still under review and people
shouldn't freak out. Basically, is that any real fake news
story that people actually believed.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You don't want me to freak out I'm believing it
right now. I want to go with real. They're coming
for us. They just want to see what we've learned
so far.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not much. So you look at that first story, Yeah,
I think Victoria. Is that a real news story or
a fake news story? NASA confirms alarm broadcasting from Illerstender
Interstellar Object three. I at Lists as it turns around
and heads toward Ears.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I'm gonna go fake fake.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, that that ship seems way too big a turn
around that quick producer freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm gonna go fake just to soothe myself. It is
a fake news story. I was really hoping it was real.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Over it's cool ten million shares though, over ten million
people clearly believed it and think that three Eye out
Lists is coming here and that they sent a message
in old Mesopotamian writing form.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But does that feel very far fetched? No?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Not really, No, No it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, we have robots. No, it's not far fetched. Here's
another headline for real news or fake news. A segment
where I read a news story from the week after.
Tell me if it's a fake one or a real
news story. Here's the headline. The rats are on crack
in Houston. That's the headline, The Rats are on crack
in Houston. Houston Police Department confirmed this week that an
(05:59):
evidence storage wasility containing roughly one hundred and eighty tons
of confiscated narcotics has been compromised not by cartel members, hackers,
or corrupt insiders, but by what officials are now calling
highly motivated population of drug addicted mice. According to police,
the rodents gained access into the evidence locker through ventilation
(06:21):
gaps and utility conduits, quickly identifying and targeting specific narcotics
with what investigators describe as disturbing accuracy. Early reports indicate
the mice show a strong preference for powdered substances, chewing
through packaging to access cocaine, met them that I mean,
and heroin, while largely ignoring the bulk of your items
(06:42):
like bricks of marijuana.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
They can't, they can't use disposable thumbs. Is that a
real story or a fake news story?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
People actually believe the rats are on crackety hue stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Nina, I'm gonna have to go with realist because that's
what I'm saying for every story today.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
By Victoria The Rats are on cracking Houston. One a faker,
that's real, real producer Freeze. You think the Rats are
on cracking Houston?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Nina's lived in New York. I gotta believe it. Yeah,
it's real.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That is one hundred percent confirmed. Inter Just in case
you didn't know, the Rats are on cracking Houston
This is just in right here on The Jewel Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
This year marks the twenty year anniversary of Hannah Montana
Oh Yeah, and the two year anniversary of Prince Andrew
losing interest in her time for the cleverly named second
Real News or Fake News.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Where we read you No, Prince Andrew's a purple Yeah.
That was kind of like a politic.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It give you a news story that's gone viral for
the week, and you have to tell me if it's
a fake one or a real news story. Here's your
first headline for real news or fake news. Chinese man
claims his body randomly grew a sweet potato in an
unsweet place. Chinese man claims his body randomly grew sweet
(00:50):
potato in an unsweet place.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Here's the story, and.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You have to tell me if it's a made up
one that people actually believed or a real story. A
man in Chindu, China, arrived in an emergency room after
this covering that a seven inch long sweet potato had
taken up an unexpected residency.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
In his dark neather regions.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
One of the attending physicians later joked in a statement,
I've removed many curious things from people's rare baggage, but
this particular root companion definitely wins the gold medal. The
man did have to have surgery to have it removed
and is doing okay. He claims he had no idea
how it got there, and it grew naturally. It was
(01:32):
retrieved successfully, and he was sent home with a stern
sweet potatoes goat in the mouth only.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Morning, Nina. Is that a true story or a fake
news story that people believe?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm gonna go with real, just because not that long ago,
we did a story about all the things people put
in their caves. Yeah, so this feels like it's in
that real cat.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Is this a theme like people are doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Victoria Chinese man, he grows a sweet potato in an
unsweet place?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Is that a real headline or a fake one? I'm
gonna go to the real.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's so that's the best part.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm gonna go with the real real. Yeah. The best
part is the excuse saying that it naturally. That's why
I thought it was real. That sounds like somebody would say.
And of course that is a real.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
New Songs pretty much guarantee anytime you see one of
those that's humans.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Man, we're like putting things where things shouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You guys, we never grow up leg on their nose
at three there places.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Here's another headline for real news or fake news. A
segment where I read a new story that's gone viral
this week, and you have to tell me if it's
a real new story or a fake one that people
actually believed. NASA confirms alarming broadcast signal from interstellar object
three i at lists as it turns around and heads
toward Earth.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Awesome if you don't know much about three iatlists.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's the some people are calling a comet, some people
saying it might not be a comet, It might be
an actual spaceship. But it passed by its closest position
to Earth back in December, and it has Yeah, it's
been heading toward Jupiter. But NASA now confirms that an
alarming broadcast signal has come from interstellar Object three i
at lists and it is turning around. Astronomers tracking the
(03:22):
interstellar object known as three iatlists have confirmed a surprising development.
The object appears to have subtly altered its trajectory and
is now moving back toward the Inner Solar System, including
Earth's orbital neighborhood. They say it's not a sudden turn.
It's more like a sustained adjustment, which is kind of creepy.
(03:42):
And NASA went on to say that a narrow bron
bad broad narrowed sorry, a narrow band radio emission was
detected from three iatlists last week and has now been
partially decoded following analysis by an international team of linguists
and signal processing experts. According to the agency, the transmission
was not a random noise, but a structured signal encoded
(04:04):
using symbolic patterns closely matching ancient Mesopotamian kudaa form, a
writing system dating back over five thousand years, and researchers
caution that the translation remains provisional, but the most stable
interpretation of the coded sequence reads, we observed you before
you learned. We observed you before you learned to write.
(04:25):
We observed you before you learned to write. We returned
to measure what remains yikes. NASA stressed that the original
intent of the signal are still under review and people
shouldn't freak out. Basically, is that any real fake news
story that people actually believed.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You don't want me to freak out I'm believing it
right now. I want to go with real. They're coming
for us. They just want to see what we've learned
so far.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It's not much. So you look at that first story, Yeah,
I think Victoria. Is that a real news story or
a fake news story? NASA confirms alarm broadcasting from Illerstender
Interstellar Object three. I at Lists as it turns around
and heads toward Ears.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I'm gonna go fake fake.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, that that ship seems way too big a turn
around that quick producer freeze.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm gonna go fake just to soothe myself. It is
a fake news story. I was really hoping it was real.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Over it's cool ten million shares though, over ten million
people clearly believed it and think that three Eye out
Lists is coming here and that they sent a message
in old Mesopotamian writing form.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But does that feel very far fetched? No?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Not really, No, No it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, we have robots. No, it's not far fetched. Here's
another headline for real news or fake news. A segment
where I read a news story from the week after.
Tell me if it's a fake one or a real
news story. Here's the headline. The rats are on crack
in Houston. That's the headline, The Rats are on crack
in Houston. Houston Police Department confirmed this week that an
(05:59):
evidence storage wasility containing roughly one hundred and eighty tons
of confiscated narcotics has been compromised not by cartel members, hackers,
or corrupt insiders, but by what officials are now calling
highly motivated population of drug addicted mice. According to police,
the rodents gained access into the evidence locker through ventilation
(06:21):
gaps and utility conduits, quickly identifying and targeting specific narcotics
with what investigators describe as disturbing accuracy. Early reports indicate
the mice show a strong preference for powdered substances, chewing
through packaging to access cocaine, met them that I mean,
and heroin, while largely ignoring the bulk of your items
(06:42):
like bricks of marijuana.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
They can't, they can't use disposable thumbs. Is that a
real story or a fake news story?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
People actually believe the rats are on crackety hue stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Nina, I'm gonna have to go with realist because that's
what I'm saying for every story today.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
By Victoria The Rats are on cracking Houston. One a faker,
that's real, real producer Freeze. You think the Rats are
on cracking Houston?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Nina's lived in New York. I gotta believe it. Yeah,
it's real.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That is one hundred percent confirmed. Inter Just in case
you didn't know, the Rats are on cracking Houston
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