March 13, 2025 • 6 mins
It's way harder than it should be to tell whether the news is real or fake. We read the headlines, you decide if you think it's real or fake. It's almost never what you think.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is just then it's a jewbile show. Elon Musk
announces a plan to buy the moon and rename it
the Tesla Light.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I want to believe that one.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Is that a real news story or a fake news story?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Maybe a future real news story coming up, something that
would happen one second.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm sorry, now it could be official. I needed my
news music. There we go, it's a fake news story. Well,
Elon Musk is quite ambition. The moon isn't legally for
sale yet, but I guarantee he would be thinking to
do that. See how easy it is to create fake news.
That's why we do a segment called real news or
fake News. I'll give you a news headline and you
(00:42):
can see and you have to see if you can
tell whether it's a real news story or a fake
news story. And it's a lot harder than you think
it is. So here we go. Here's another headline. Is
this a news story that was fake that one viral
this week and people thought could actually be real?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Or is it a fake news headline?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Florida man legally declares himself a cryptocurrency and demands people
invest in him real.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That has got to be real. Yeah, it's from Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And also, I feel like this has happened more than
once and it wasn't a cryptocurrency. But what were those NFTs?
Isn't that kind of the same idea.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I don't know how NFTs work, but yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It was inspired.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, real Florida. Usually you think it's got to be real.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Florida man legally declares himself a cryptocurrency and demands
people invest in him.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Is that real or fake? That's real? It's Florida real,
pretty red.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Everyone knows cryptocurrency is digital, not human.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is fake.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That is a real news story in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Dang it the SEC he quickly shut this down when
it was revealed that his stock was just him accepting
Finmo payments and promising nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Florida kind of inspire you in a way because Florida,
where anything is possible.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
No who in the world would invest in that? I
know any My name is Chuck. I'm actually a cryptocurrency,
chuck coin. Don't know me and you got ten Chuck
if you like it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is Chuck? I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But is it friud? Is he hot?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You know?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's real?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is a real news story or a fake news story.
It's real news or fake news, where I give you
a news headline, you have to tell whether it's real
or fake. Man attempts to pay for a new house
with monopoly money, claims it's an n FT in physical form.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
There's a theme here. I'm gonna go with fake though. Okay,
monopoly money. Yeah, no one would actually accept it. I'm
really hoping we wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Actually do that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a lot harder than you think, because you could
see somebody actually being like, oh yeah, cool, is this
Florida too?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's not Florida. Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Everybody knows that NFTs, when made physical, are worth more money.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And so this is a true story.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
This is a fake news story, but it is a
story that went viral this week and people believed it.
I wonder how many people are thinking that we're going
to go try by a house whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not believe money.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You can try and see what happens. It's real news
or fake news. I give you a news headline. You
have to see if you can tell whether it's a
real news story or a fake news story. Thieves steal
a ten Ton bridge overnight without anybody noticing it's real.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's fake. Why why are you even guessing it? I'm
gonna go real? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
How because you said the opposite, So I want to
do what you didn't do.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thieves still a ten ton bridge overnight without anybody noticing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's real or fame.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Everybody knows that the job market is a little bit
wonky right now, and these interesting and fantastically bored engineers
totally pulled this off. This is a real story.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Just unemployed engineers.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let's see if we can figure out how to steal
a bridge every night, maybe because that's a real.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
News story that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, in Russia, criminals dismantled, dismantled, and stole an entire
thirty six foot long metal bridge piece by piece, somehow
managing to vanish without raising any suspicion that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They can hired to build it back for what Like,
why are you stealing his bridge?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Where are you putting it?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah? In your living room? What are you doing with
the bridge? Selling it for parts? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That take you piece by piece. That's a long term night.
It's a night.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It takes them five years to build it, right And
wait a second, yeah, what are our government officials doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
If these guys could steal a ten ton bridge overnight,
they dismantled it piece by piece, and it takes them
seventeen years to put in a crosswalk. Find these guys
and hire them. Here's another news headline. I give you
a news headline. I have to see if you can
tell whether it's a real news story or a fake
news story. Town bands crocs after study fines they increase
(04:52):
clumsiness by five hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Increase.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's true. Going to go with real story this week?
Is that a real news story or a fake news story?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
We else want to ban them though, that's kind of dramatic.
You're like, bad for your feet. There's a whole story
about it. Really, I think it was the clumsiness part
of it.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh uh say real.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Everybody knows that governments never intrude on your personal life
and they never get in your way.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This is a fake story.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It is fake, a fake news story.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But people did believe it this week when somebody shared
it on social media.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm sure croc owners were going crazy. I would believe it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'd be like, yeah, I'm gonna do, like, what is it?
Human arrest public.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Or citizens arrest.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's real news or fake news.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I give you a news headline up to see if
you can tell whether it's a real new story or
a fake new story. Man legally changes his name to
fire Exit to confuse people in public buildings?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Can you do that?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's like a hazard. Is that a real news story
or a fake news story?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Man legally changes his name to fire Exit to confuse
people in public building.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm gonna go with real again.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I always wanted to ask if this was in Florida,
because I can see this happening in Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This was in the UK.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, also definitely real, definitely fake? What I don't know, man,
I just feel it. I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're going faked.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
The American influence of pettiness is worldwide, and I think
that this person caught a glimpse of that beautiful thing
we do here in America where we go overboard for
something small.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And I say, this is a real story.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Man legally changes his name to fire Exit to confuse
people in public buildings?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Is yeah, actually happened?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's like a hazard.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
British prankster changed his legal name to fire Exit, so
that signs pointing toward emergency exits would also be pointing
towards him, and they let him do its.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The room, everybody is a stampede. I want to change
my name to that.
This is just then it's a jewbile show. Elon Musk
announces a plan to buy the moon and rename it
the Tesla Light.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I want to believe that one.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Is that a real news story or a fake news story?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Maybe a future real news story coming up, something that
would happen one second.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm sorry, now it could be official. I needed my
news music. There we go, it's a fake news story. Well,
Elon Musk is quite ambition. The moon isn't legally for
sale yet, but I guarantee he would be thinking to
do that. See how easy it is to create fake news.
That's why we do a segment called real news or
fake News. I'll give you a news headline and you
(00:42):
can see and you have to see if you can
tell whether it's a real news story or a fake
news story. And it's a lot harder than you think
it is. So here we go. Here's another headline. Is
this a news story that was fake that one viral
this week and people thought could actually be real?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Or is it a fake news headline?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Florida man legally declares himself a cryptocurrency and demands people
invest in him real.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
That has got to be real. Yeah, it's from Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And also, I feel like this has happened more than
once and it wasn't a cryptocurrency. But what were those NFTs?
Isn't that kind of the same idea.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I don't know how NFTs work, but yeah, maybe.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It was inspired.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Okay, real Florida. Usually you think it's got to be real.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Florida man legally declares himself a cryptocurrency and demands
people invest in him.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Is that real or fake? That's real? It's Florida real,
pretty red.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Everyone knows cryptocurrency is digital, not human.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
This is fake.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
That is a real news story in Florida.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Dang it the SEC he quickly shut this down when
it was revealed that his stock was just him accepting
Finmo payments and promising nothing in return.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Florida kind of inspire you in a way because Florida,
where anything is possible.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
No who in the world would invest in that? I
know any My name is Chuck. I'm actually a cryptocurrency,
chuck coin. Don't know me and you got ten Chuck
if you like it?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is Chuck? I have no idea?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But is it friud? Is he hot?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
You know?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's real?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Is a real news story or a fake news story.
It's real news or fake news, where I give you
a news headline, you have to tell whether it's real
or fake. Man attempts to pay for a new house
with monopoly money, claims it's an n FT in physical form.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
There's a theme here. I'm gonna go with fake though. Okay,
monopoly money. Yeah, no one would actually accept it. I'm
really hoping we wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Actually do that.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's a lot harder than you think, because you could
see somebody actually being like, oh yeah, cool, is this
Florida too?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's not Florida. Okay, okay.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Everybody knows that NFTs, when made physical, are worth more money.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And so this is a true story.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
This is a fake news story, but it is a
story that went viral this week and people believed it.
I wonder how many people are thinking that we're going
to go try by a house whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Not believe money.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You can try and see what happens. It's real news
or fake news. I give you a news headline. You
have to see if you can tell whether it's a
real news story or a fake news story. Thieves steal
a ten Ton bridge overnight without anybody noticing it's real.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That's fake. Why why are you even guessing it? I'm
gonna go real? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
How because you said the opposite, So I want to
do what you didn't do.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Thieves still a ten ton bridge overnight without anybody noticing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That's real or fame.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Everybody knows that the job market is a little bit
wonky right now, and these interesting and fantastically bored engineers
totally pulled this off. This is a real story.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Just unemployed engineers.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let's see if we can figure out how to steal
a bridge every night, maybe because that's a real.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
News story that actually happened.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, in Russia, criminals dismantled, dismantled, and stole an entire
thirty six foot long metal bridge piece by piece, somehow
managing to vanish without raising any suspicion that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
They can hired to build it back for what Like,
why are you stealing his bridge?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Where are you putting it?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah? In your living room? What are you doing with
the bridge? Selling it for parts? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That take you piece by piece. That's a long term night.
It's a night.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
It takes them five years to build it, right And
wait a second, yeah, what are our government officials doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
If these guys could steal a ten ton bridge overnight,
they dismantled it piece by piece, and it takes them
seventeen years to put in a crosswalk. Find these guys
and hire them. Here's another news headline. I give you
a news headline. I have to see if you can
tell whether it's a real news story or a fake
news story. Town bands crocs after study fines they increase
(04:52):
clumsiness by five hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Increase.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's true. Going to go with real story this week?
Is that a real news story or a fake news story?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
We else want to ban them though, that's kind of dramatic.
You're like, bad for your feet. There's a whole story
about it. Really, I think it was the clumsiness part
of it.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh uh say real.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Everybody knows that governments never intrude on your personal life
and they never get in your way.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This is a fake story.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It is fake, a fake news story.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
But people did believe it this week when somebody shared
it on social media.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm sure croc owners were going crazy. I would believe it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'd be like, yeah, I'm gonna do, like, what is it?
Human arrest public.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Or citizens arrest.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It's real news or fake news.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I give you a news headline up to see if
you can tell whether it's a real new story or
a fake new story. Man legally changes his name to
fire Exit to confuse people in public buildings?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Can you do that?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
That's like a hazard. Is that a real news story
or a fake news story?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Man legally changes his name to fire Exit to confuse
people in public building.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I'm gonna go with real again.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I always wanted to ask if this was in Florida,
because I can see this happening in Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
This was in the UK.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, also definitely real, definitely fake? What I don't know, man,
I just feel it. I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're going faked.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
The American influence of pettiness is worldwide, and I think
that this person caught a glimpse of that beautiful thing
we do here in America where we go overboard for
something small.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And I say, this is a real story.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Man legally changes his name to fire Exit to confuse
people in public buildings?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Is yeah, actually happened?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's like a hazard.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
British prankster changed his legal name to fire Exit, so
that signs pointing toward emergency exits would also be pointing
towards him, and they let him do its.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The room, everybody is a stampede. I want to change
my name to that.
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