A TikTok trend convinced teens to microwave cutlery to “unlock hidden powers”… and yes, it really happened. This week’s Real News or Fake News is packed with stories so wild, it’s hard to believe they aren’t all made up. From a broccoli snake adoption in Australia to a viral fake dating app based on shared hatred, the team tries to separate truth from fiction—and ends up creating a few headlines of their own.
Featured Headlines:
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Teens microwave metal to gain powers (real)
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Netflix launches "Napflix" for boring background shows (fake)
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Woman finds deadly snake in broccoli, keeps it as pet (real – Australia, of course)
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New dating app matches people based on shared hates (fake... for now)
Turns out, the internet will believe anything—including a Bezos pet delivery service.
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Episode Transcript
This just in.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jeff Bezos has has announced that Amazon will now be
offering Prime pets, dogs, cats, and a few lizard species
to your house in two hours or less. Wait what
that shouldn't be a problem. Oh see how easy it
is to create fake news? And that's why every single
week we bring you real news or fake News segment
where I read a news headline from the week that's
(00:24):
gone viral and you have to see if you can
tell whether it was a real news story or a
fake one that people believed.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a lot harder than you think.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Here's your first headline for real news or fake news.
TikTok trend leads teens to microwave cutlery to quote unlock
hidden powers. Oh man, is that a real thing that happened?
Or is that a fake headline? TikTok trend leads teens
to microwave cutlery to unlock hidden powers.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm gonna go with real, just because I can see
people aspiring to be like Harry Potter and that might
be their quickest way of getting there. Same I was
seeing more of the Avengers, but like, yeah, that's definitely real.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, I would try.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Brad, do you think that this is a real head
or headline from the week or a fake one. TikTok
trend leads teens to microwave cutlery to quote unlock hidden powers.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Everybody knows that when you microwave cutlery, it's for time travel,
not hidden powers. This is a fake news story.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Bro, This is a real news story, not microwave your cutlery.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I mean they're not cheing for that part. People will
believe anything on TikTok. Absolutely, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But if it's a trend, are they getting superpowers because
run home. Definitely, they're not exploding their microwave. Oh, starts
to spark.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Wait, Victoria, you don't know what happens when you put
metal in a microwave.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Not putting metal, they're putting cutlery.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh, I would.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Think you.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Think you're living in a poultry like a chicken, is what?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I so that whole time in your head they were
throwing chicken cutlets in.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Like what's wrong? But then you eat it and then
you just get power. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Try
that on TikTok. It's even works today.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You okay, Yeah, they're similar words.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Here's another headline for real news or fake news? Is
this a real news story or a fake news story
from this week that people believed Netflix launches Netflix a
platform featuring only boring shows so you can get.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
A nap in. What I'm gonna go with fake? I'm
gonna go with fake to that he's gonna want to
watch that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now, stay awake and watch that well so that people
will go to sleep, like they put the boring shows
on there. So you just put it on the background
so you don't miss your good shows by falling asleep.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, we got it a point.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, I'm gonna say it with fake. That has to
be fake. I know people that actually hate watch shows
for fun? Really? Yeah, I bet Brad's one of them.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Oh no, wow, here is the headline, predducer, Brad, what
do you think? Netflix launches Netflix a new platform featuring
only boring shows so you can get a nap in.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Netflix sells advertising based on watch time. This is absolutely real.
They just want it on in the background, no matter what.
They don't care if you care. They just want it on.
It's a real story.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
This is a fake news story. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
People actually were excited about it and it went viral
because it was Yeah, they're like, that's awesome, though I
want to put on something in the background that I
don't want to watch.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
They'll probably now make that one of their little columns
how they have TVs movies Netflix. I was like picturing
music or like some type of like visual that would
put you to sleep, not.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Like a show.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I do think it'll be funny all the shows they
end up getting put on Netflix, like, come on.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Man, yeah, if your show gets put on Natflix. Ys.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Here's another headline that went viral this week. Is it
a real one or a fake one? That people believed
woman finds snake in bag of broccoli from the grocery store,
keeps it as pet.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Oh, I'm gonna go with real. What they had a connection?
Oh didn't keep it. I bet she found it, but
she didn't keep it you' sake, Okay, produce a brad.
This is real.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
For those of you who struggle to know what foods
are organic or not, the ones with snakes are organic.
It's a real news story.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I should have given you guys the location of this
and you'll be able to tough it was real or fake.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It is real and it's from Australia. Something you can
definitely see in Australia.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
For some reason, they're like, welcome to the family.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
There's four other ones over there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
A woman in Australia discovered a live baby Eastern brown snake,
one of the world's deadliest, inside a bag of prepackaged broccoli,
and then she brought it home from the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
As a pet. Oh, it's a bonus and protection. You know,
you get it when it's a baby, You train it,
it'll protect you. That needs to be a button. Oh,
it's a bonus. A headline that went viral this week.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Is it a real news story or a fake news
story that people actually believed? New dating app launches matching
people based on things they hate?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh? Out of tech talk trends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
New dating app launches where it matches people based on
things that they hate.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is that a real new story or a fake news story.
I'm gonna go with real.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It just sounds like that would be a very quick
way for people to bond.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm gonna go with the real.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
That sounds like an accurate Like, if you also hate this,
we're gonna bond over something. Yeah, yeah, producer Brad. New
dating app launches matching people based on the things that
they hate. Is that a real new story or a
fake news story.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
While it is genius, I think it sounds too good
to be true, so it is fake.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It is a fake news story, although it's another news
story that people shared like crazy because they were excited
about it, So somebody's going to create that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Definitely, that's a great
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