BONUS - Are You Smarter Than Fake News? The Penny Panic & Wingstop Scandal You Won’t Believe

This week on Real News or Fake News from The Jubal Show, a couple of viral headlines have everyone questioning their sanity, including a nationwide “penny panic” after TikTok convinced millions they might be millionaires, and a jaw‑dropping Wingstop smuggling scandal rocking a Texas jail. But which stories are real, and which ones fooled the internet? Test your BS‑detecting skills, laugh at the wild details, and see if you can spot the truth before the crew reveals it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Breaking news here at the Jewel Show, a US woman
that was born with out of brain to fight all
odds this week to celebrate her twentieth birthday. Yeah, which
is crazy, think about it. I thought Kim Kardashian was
older than that.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
See how easy it is to create fake news stories,
and that's why every single week at this time we
bring you the cleverly named segment Ronna Yet you can
pass the bar real news or fake news, where I
read a news story from the week that's gone viral
and you have to tell me if it's a real one.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Or a fake one that people actually believed.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's always fun and it's always good to test your
skills at spot in fake News, and we'll do real
news or fake news next.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's the Juble Show. It's just in. It's the Jewbil Show.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
The executive who led Tesla's cyber truck business is leaving
the company after eight years. Apparently he is going to
go back to his previous career of designing children's toys.
See how it is easy it is to create fake news,
and that's why every single week at this time we
bring you the really named segment Real news or Fake News.
Where I read you a news story that's gone viral

(01:05):
from the week, and you have to see if you
can tell whether it's a real one or a fake
news story that people actually believed. Here is your first
headline for real news or fake news. The last US
penny has minted and you could be a millionaire.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Because of it.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, the last US penny has been minted, and you
could be a millionaire because of it.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Minted means that it was produced. Oh, it was created.
It's meant there's a very, very last one has been.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Here's the story. The final US penny was minted in
Philadelphia this week, marking the end of two hundred and
thirty one years of small change disappoint Each penny costs
three point seven cents to produce, which means that the
US Mint has essentially been running a botique art project
that slowly drained the government's budget. And since they minted

(01:53):
the last penny, panic has ensued because financial experts are
saying that any penny minted before lunch before the last
one was printed, could now be worth anywhere from five
dollars to five million dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Coin collectors are already calling it the Great copper rush
of twenty twenty five. Pawn shops are reportedly flooded with
people bringing in pennies, and some are walking away with
literally millions of dollars. One woman it was actually able
to trade two rare pennies for a brand new cyber truck. Ah.
See how expensive some of these pennies are now that

(02:27):
the US government has completely halted minting the penny. This
is a real new story or a fake news story
that people actually believe. Nina, I'm gonna go with real
because I also kind of hope.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
So because I have this.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Jar phone pennies that I've been collecting like high school.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Are you serious?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
You're just like lucky pennies, pick them up all day long.
You have good luck, so make me a millionaire with
that good luck. Let's go make it real.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Victoria, do you think this is real or fake? The
last US penny has been minted and you could be
a millionaire because of it.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Bake, we still have things out here costin.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I have twenty six, which means it asked to be fake,
because how are you going to get to that price?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
You don't have a penny, but nobody.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Pays with cash, so you kind of got me there,
but like, what if you want.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
To pay with cash?

Speaker 1 (03:11):
It is a fake news story, yet it's based on
a real news story because one TikTok economist that pennies
would be worth millions after the last one was made,
and their video went viral with over eight million shares,
and banks and pawn shops have reportedly reported people bringing

(03:32):
in pennies like crazy because of it, and nobody has
actually gotten rich yet. Okay, so everybody believed this TikTok
economist and that's why they were thinking that they were millionaires.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think it may be fake now, but Nino, this
could very easily be true.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We're getting away with like we're leaving pennies in the
past because they cost three cents to make.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, then they become more rare, and then you collect
them and they're worth more.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
What are you gonna do with it? It makes sense.
It's gonna sit on a shelf, save your pennies.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's real news or fake news segment where I give
you a news story from the week that's gone viral.
You have to tell me if it's a real one
or a fake one that people actually believed. Here's your
next headline for real news or fake news. Wingstop scandal
rocks Texas, Texas jail. OH guard busted for fifty dollars
chicken smuggling operation. Officials call it cartel level CRISPINESSOA is

(04:20):
this a real new story of fake news story?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Here are the details.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
A Texas corrections officer is behind bars himself after being
accused of running what investigators are now calling an underground
poultry pipeline, Oh my god, smuggling hobbinniuro mango chicken wings
into the Travis County Correctional Complex for a mere fifty
dollars venmo or cash app payment. This apparently had been

(04:44):
going on for two years until other guards noticed sticky
fingerprints all over the facility and one administrator recognized it
as the hobby euro mango chicken sauce. Which how many
wing stops is that you've been to? Forges automatically goes,
that's the hobby, I know that one. That's hoburomengo. They
found that over twelve hundred pounds of wings had been

(05:04):
smuggled into the facility by the guard and you guessed
how he smuggled it in there? No twelve hundred pounds.
Nor how in his boot, his wallet, his body, wallet.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
His body like he ate them and.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Put them up other directions put him in the wallet.
Oh my gosh, why would you eat this? You're in jail.
You just really wanted that chicken dial poultry pipeline.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
They eventually arrested the guard after putting together the fact
that he also worked part time at a wingstop down
the street, and put him in handcuffs as he was
waddling into work one day.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Is this a real news story or a fake news story.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm just gonna go with real, just because I feel
like it should be real.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Victoria, is a real news story or a fake news story?

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Over twelve hundred pounds of chicken wings smuggled into a jail.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
My prison guard, he was putting.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
His wings up, his wings real.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I think wings stop.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I think it's real.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I think it's real. Yes, is absolutely real. He's been
for five years now because of that. That's disgusting. A
chicken to put in his pocket. It is a lot
of chicken.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I'm finding a lot of fun ways to poultry pipeline
is legit