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Three Headlines: Skibidi Toilet, Star Trek Plates, and Springsteen Shenanigans
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In this episode of Episodes Unscripted, we’re back with Three Headlines and a Lie! From a Star Trek-themed license plate causing speeding ticket chaos, to Skibidi Toilet flash drives dominating Christmas lists, and a New Jersey governor’s Bruce Springsteen obsession, it’s all on the table. Oh, and million-dollar corner shops? Yep, we’re sorting out what’s real and what’s fake. Can you guess the lie before we do? Tune in for laughs, debates, and a Lonely Island suprise?
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Unclear Agreement with JD
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Speaker
They're so good by the way JD came in here and talked to me. I have no idea what he said, but I just said okay, okay JD you think it was important. That's his son. Oh just Yeah, you just said yes, to yeah i could know okay, okay
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Speaker
Okay.
Unscripted Hot Takes Introduction
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Speaker
Welcome to episodes unscripted hot takes. No, not really hot takes unless somebody has a hot take. She's kind of the lukewarm room temperature, room temperature. Yeah. Aggressively average. Um, some, some of them are aggressive. He is remarkably average. That is incredible.
Game Segment Introduction: Three Headlines and a Lie
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Speaker
Uh, we're going to start with the three headlines in a lie as we do shout outs to the morning brew. Love them.
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Speaker
Every Thursday they do three headlines in a lie. Outrageous headlines. Three of them are true and one is made up and it is surprisingly hard to figure out which one is real and which one isn't. So if you're not subscribed to The Morning Brew, it's a great morning newsletter. They also have a podcast and a bunch of other fun stuff. So check them out.
Star Trek License Plates Anecdote
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Speaker
We're gonna start with number one elderly woman says Star Trek license plates stuck her with thousands of dollars worth of speeding tickets read that again for everybody. i think you Yeah elderly woman says Star Trek license plates stuck her with thousands of dollars worth of speeding tickets This is interesting Maybe her license plate is similar to like, there's a, there's a mix up. She has a Star Trek related license plate that is the license plate stuck her with it. I think she's saying like, it's so it's a Star Trek thing that I don't even know about, but apparently everyone has this license its plate. and Now all of a sudden I got a bunch of speeding tickets.
00:02:16
Speaker
Oh, I have a theory, I have a thought. Are we expound or we want to hear all? I'm thinking about think about like the license plate readers, the automated cameras and maybe oh it's like making it look like she's going fast because Star Trek goes into hyperspace or something and the license plate. That was a great thought until you said that last part and then it was completely stupid. Maybe something about the license plate makes the reader. Is making it.
00:02:47
Speaker
But when you said Star Trek goes into hype, like, you know, light speed. Is that not the a right term? Light speed. Well, it might be the right term, but it's the fact that that's not why. It's not because Star Trek does this thing where and the reader's like, this Star Trek, oh, they're going light speed.
00:03:07
Speaker
Speed and dang it immediately. I know Star Trek. That ain't slow. This headline is trash, though. If that's a really headline, needs to go. Yeah, they need to. And why do we need to know who's elderly? Does that have something to do with it? Right. That just makes it more interesting. Yeah. Or more fake. Well, they need to work on some smart brevity. This is the long. Grammatically. I think you just threw a bunch of words together. Number two is not any shorter.
New Jersey Governor Candidate's Spotify Deception
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New Jersey governor candidate admits to faking Spotify wrapped stats to show only Bruce Springsteen. why I wrapped. Oh, W-R-A-P-P-E-D. The Spotify wrapped, yeah, which I'm so glad that was mentioned because I want to talk about yours later, but not yet. Oh, I can't say it. All right. New Jersey governor candidate admits to faking Spotify wrapped stats to show only Bruce spring Springsteen. That sounds like something dumb that a politician would do to be like, hey, hey, I'm related. Well, I like the Springsteen. Not that, like, who cares? Sabrina Carpenter never even heard of her.
00:04:13
Speaker
Well, it's Bruce, the ring thing. I don't know. Is there like a demand for him? I don't know where he's at. So he's trying to. That's yeah. Appeal to his audience. Or he's like. You said he rocking in the USA. Oh, no woman's doing that. No woman's doing that. No. Oh, I hope it's a woman. No, it's not. I promise you it's not. um I'll buy you a pretzel later.
Abandoned Shops Turned Homes
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The number three, the abandoned corner shops getting transformed into a million dollar homes. Believable. Is that it? That's the title? That is the abandoned corner shops getting transformed into million dollar homes. Gentrification. I don't even understand. I mean, that's 100% true.
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Speaker
I mean, that definitely happens. It's very believable. Wow. Okay. That's the, time that's the headline. That's it. That's where it stops. No location. No. It happens all the time. Smart gravity. We want you to click on it. We're not going to give you all that. I'm not even going to write a note about that one. Okay. Number four.
Skippity Toilet Flash Drives: A Hoax
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Speaker
I hate this. Skippity toilet flash drives dominate Amazon's most popular stocking stuff for lists.
00:05:32
Speaker
Believable. Skippity toilet. Skippity toilet. Hard drive? Flash drives dominate Amazon's most popular stocking stuffer list. I don't know what a skippity toilet is. Don't play. i don't i'm not I haven't picked up on the, I know it's a term. I looked it up once maybe. It's a toilet and there's a weird head in it and it just went from there. I don't know that you can explain it. It's a very visual thing.
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Speaker
Oh, I thought skippity was like Riz. I thought it was a term. No, but skippity toilet is visually, it's a toilet. A specific thing. It's a very pixelated toilet and there's a weird head that spins around in it. And that is specifically skippity toilet. Okay. You've done your research. No, that's the age my kids are. This is their stuff. Is that in the stocking stuff for this year?
00:06:31
Speaker
so Because that would validate this story for us real quick. The flash drive. You're missing out. The flash drive. Do I need to get on Amazon after this? Wow. OK. That'll buy then. i you I mean, it totally could be a thing. OK. Right. There's no reason for that to be fake. i I don't know about the New Jersey governor thing. I mean, that just feels believable, but stupid.
00:07:01
Speaker
It's a lot of work to, I mean, you're Photoshopping some stuff and doing some... You're not just doing it randomly. There's some very specific reason. But then you didn't do it well enough because now you're admitting to faking it. I think if you're going through the work to make that fake, you're not going to...
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Speaker
Can you see each other's? Like if you're, do you have friends on Spotify? Yeah, you can share it. You can share it though, but you can't, like if I wanted to go look yours up. I don't think I could do it. No, I don't think you could. That just sounds like such an okay boomer thing to do. You know what I mean? Like how would somebody find out then? Why would they feel the need to admit it? They'd be like, ah, who's listening to this much Bruce Springsteen? You obviously doctored it and then shared it on social platforms.
00:07:42
Speaker
Maybe somebody subpoenaed Spotify. I was like, no, tell us. Right. We want to see their 2024 wrapped. ah There's more to the story there if it's true. Obviously this is just the headline. I know. I'm just saying, you know, just randomly. So we're saying there you go. If we're landing on the elderly woman being I don't know how to feel about it because it doesn't make any sense. I always forget. Are we finding the fake one or the real one? We're finding the male one. I know this is a bad sound. Three of them are real. Three are real. Okay, so if the real one is the elderly woman, how is that happening?
00:08:23
Speaker
I think there's something about the look of her license. Well, but if that was it, then there would be other people there again because she's not speeding. What does it have to do with her being elderly? Yes, maybe they're saying it's an elderly woman. Guys, she's definitely not speeding. I mean, or it is more unfortunate because it's happening to an elderly person. I've been recognized by traffic tickets. I am just as much a victim if I'm getting all these speeding tickets. and read it Read it one more time.
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don't reallyly Do you want to read it again one more time? You don't mean to read it? Okay. you You better read it. Yeah, okay. Elderly Woman says Star Trek license plates stuck her with thousands of dollars worth of speeding tickets. I think there's something about her license plate that is similar to other people's.
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But now I say that loud, that would feel like a huge problem. Right. What is a Star Trek license plate? It's either, I don't know, like one of the little border things you can put on your license plate. Right. Or does it say Star Trek? Right. And it's a lot like somebody else and they're not. I mean, there's someone with a Star Trek like zooming around and hers just happens to look similar and it accidentally went to her. Yeah, I don't know. Right. It feels like a bizarre I'm pretty mind blown right now. i I have no thoughts. And I don't know how you come up with that.
00:09:45
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if you're sitting in an office and they're like, hey, guys, somebody give me a fake headline. I want to know where Bruce Springsteen is from. Is he if he's from New Jersey? You can't look it up. I know. But if he's from he's from New Jersey, but that's such a stupid, like, politician attempt. Hey, guys, trick this out. My whole i love that's what I'm saying that is your boy, Bruce Springsteen. I get you guys like me now or whatever. i You're going to vote for me because look at me loving this.
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ah I think I liked it. I think that's mine. I'm going true on that. ah Well, you got to find the fake one. Oh, crap. So what other two ones are true? I think the abandoned corner shop could be true and the skibbity toilet. I can I can buy that. I'm actually going to say the Spotify wrapped one might be fake. I think I'm with you because the first one again. Yeah, that's so obscure. How can it be fake? How could it?
00:10:45
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But the Bruce Springsteen one of all of them to me sounds like. Yeah, I. I'm going to Spotify wrapped. Chuck, you're bouncing between one and two. I am.
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um
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ah I'll be different and say the Star Trek one is fake. OK, you're believing in that? that it's fake. Right.
Revisiting Star Trek License Plate Issues
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What are you like, though? 51, 49? No, I'm going to New Jersey, Governor. The first one, if it's fake, they like, it's just written to sound. Somebody at the Morning Moon needs a raise because I don't know how you come up with something like that. Right. but I just want to say, there's let's say if there's like an old woman. Yeah. Who's getting like a lot of speeding tickets because of her license plate.
00:11:42
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What kind of license plate is it? Uh, Star Trek? I don't know. What does that mean, guys? You can't even visualize this kind of thing. Yeah. I think so. There's got to be some kind of cool versus the answer on that. And somebody's like, you know, what if we tell them that the New Jersey governor faked this whole Spotify wrapped to be Bruce Springsteen? That sounds like something I could come up with that. Yes. Somebody's really creative. It's the old woman. We're not even considering three and four, by the way.
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These could both be true. They have to be. We're going to scroll down here and the made up one. You'll never believe it. It's not, if it's one of the second two, we're never doing this again. Cause I guarantee you there's an abandoned million that easily, that a hundred percent is true somewhere. what about the And the flash drive, anybody can put flash drive and put something on a flash drive. Sure. But did they? Yes.
00:12:43
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But did they? Apparently they did not. Oh, it is the skimmy toilet flash drive. Oh, wow. Good. That's not to say that they're not. They don't exist. It's just that they're not Amazon's most popular stocking stuffer. That's such an odd.
00:13:03
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That's how they get you. Best simplicity. Dude, I love the morning brew. Those guys are awesome. That's incredible. So that means there's an elderly woman in there and the New Jersey governor's Spotify raft was. you Will you please tell me about the New Jersey governor? And if we need a woman gender gender reveal. It was a man. I needed is Bruce Springsteen from New Jersey Democrat Josh.
00:13:33
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Gottenheimer gothheimer was questioned over the legitimacy of his most listened to songs on spotify route Which solely featured spring scene tracks, which I once mentioned is very possible You could have one artist as all of your top five songs But uh, why wouldn't you?
00:13:53
Speaker
Um, New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen. yeah so they were trying He wants to be known as a big fan of music legend in New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen. That's terrible. Oh, that's just... He posted it on Twitter. This was his post on Twitter. Um, no surprises here. Fun fact, my first ever concert was at Meadowlands to see the boss.
00:14:20
Speaker
I can't agree. Dude, oh well that's terrible. That's so cringy. Maybe that was like the last gasp effort. um Wait, is this an active thing? He said, however, the post the post appeared to have been doctored with some followers pointing out that the font was different than the Spotify wrapped. Should hire a professional for this Photoshop.
00:14:46
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Yeah, Spotify wrapped. Yeah, honestly, I mean, what are you doing, dude? You don't have a team that's and they can't even get the phone, right? Yeah, but how many people are you telling that you did that? You don't want that getting leaked. That's embarrassing. You'll end up in the morning. I would have never admitted it. But does that, does he thinking, oh, this will make me seem honest. No, it won't. He lied. All right. The lies, if I explain it.
00:15:12
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Please. Also, there's there are no skippity toilet flash drives on Amazon. I looked. They're on the black market. I'll find one. They're on eBay. Okay. The elderly woman. Let's get an explanation here. Her license plate had the same alpha numeric ID as the Starship Enterprise. Now she gets tickets from across the country.
00:15:42
Speaker
What? Looked up the license plate. A 76 year old Long Island resident. You think that she is both the most well traveled and worst driver in the country. She has thousands of dollars worth of traffic tickets. She hasn't driven in four years. She doesn't even own a car.
00:15:59
Speaker
OK, OK. She on our license plate, though. Um. Back when she's on the road, she had a custom license plate that paid tribute to her favorite show, Star Trek. She secured the plate number NCC-1701. The registry identifier for the Starship Enterprise and the original Star Trek.
00:16:20
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to get that ID. that a I'm trying to get to the point. Here's what appears to be happening. People buy these novelty plates in most cases because they think it's a fun reference and drive around with them on their vehicle. When they commit some sort of traffic infraction, the plates get pinged and ultimately lead back to her. So she actually owns the license plate number, but other people are buying them as novelties and putting them on the car and then getting spaced. So I was right. Oh!
00:16:50
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But I don't understand across the country. How can you do that? I mean, I didn't think you could have. a Well, so North Carolina, you don't have to have like a back plate. Or a front plate, one or the other. Right. You don't have to. So you can stick something up there. Right. And they're going, oh, that's. But it's a novelty thing because it's like, oh, Star Trek. And that was the light display from the show. But that's actually her life's play. I don't know how it happens outside of New York.
00:17:19
Speaker
What do you mean? Like, if I'm in Virginia, I have a novelty plate. Well, they just think she's over there driving around. But it doesn't have a state written on it. Well, it doesn't matter. If I'm driving around in Georgia with a Virginia plate, whoever owns the car is getting the speeding ticket. Right, but the novelty plate doesn't have a state on it. That's the part I don't understand.
00:17:42
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Well, what does that matter? It's the numbers, the thing, the reader's just reading the numbers and going. Yeah, but that's i know it searches the entire database. No, you can have the same, but you can have one that's registered. I can have one similar to what you have in Virginia. Yeah, they duplicate as long as they're different states. ah See, I didn't realize you could duplicate. Excuse me, I didn't think you could duplicate. That's why I was like, that is maybe I'm wrong. I thought you could duplicate in other states.
00:18:11
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I don't know. Surely all licensed are not unique across the country. Maybe they are. You said she got a call from the Ohio Police Department about a robbery tied to that license plate. And some 76-year-old woman watching Family Feud. Oh, I didn't. I never thought. OK. I thought it was making a camera reading wrong. I would have thought Star Trek people were kind of dorky and low key, but it sounds like they're all a bunch of vigilantes out here in the streets. No, they're dorky and low key.
00:18:42
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and what is Shout out to the folks watching that like Star Trek. Okay. Star Trek is the dorky Star Wars fans.
Spotify Wrapped Artists Discussion
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Now, before we get too far out of this, I want to jump into the Spotify wrapped. You know, I'd like to go around the room, if we will, not that the listeners care that much, but they will soon. Oh, they will. And share who our top listeners were. Shauna, who is your top artist on Spotify? You don't even remember. Wow. I have to go back and like, I'm sorry. I'll share mine shamelessly.
00:19:12
Speaker
It was Lana Del Rey, huge Lana Del Rey fan here, LDR. um Most specifically the new album. Pretty quick, what is, ah I'm not, I am up on my Spanish, but not completely. Sure.
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ah Is that like of the race or line of rays, something like that? Lana Del Rey? What does that really
Lana Del Rey as a Top Artist
00:19:40
Speaker
mean? You know, I really don't know. It's not a real name, though. It's definitely not a real name. Elizabeth Grant is a real name. Why not just use your real name? You know what I was going to say about her earlier? Can't stand her. Can't stand you. You don't like Lana Del Rey? He's doing a bit. Oh, I see. I was going to say when we were talking earlier. He does.
00:20:03
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as already as somebody who's had a lot of work done, too. I don't know. All right. She's had a ton anyway. yeah um She looks great. Who's your top artist? It's an artist called Clams Casino. Wow.
00:20:17
Speaker
Sorry. Sorry. Do you? Sounds fake. Sounds fake. Yeah, you made that up. Look them up. No. Yeah, I did. That's what I'm saying. No surprises here. It's a really good song. If you guys care to know. Is that your top song or your top? Well, no, it's artists, but there's one particular song that also landed in my top songs. Okay. Um.
Clams Casino as a Top Artist
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Charlie, who's your top artist? I don't really remember, actually. How do I get to it? Oh, that's funny. Wrapped. I wish I could have an organic reaction to learning this because my reaction. I know. I wish I could learn this again. Right. For a live audience. ah Your top songs.
Lonely Island's Songs Top the Charts
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Is that what I'm looking for? Yeah. Go through the top songs. Just read the top five top songs.
00:21:03
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um and That can't be right. Well, no, you can't all be the same artist but or we'll think it's fake ah number one is It's a weird name more like a fashion a Decision called turtleneck and chain By the Lonely Island? The Lonely Island. That one's actually featuring ah Snoop Dogg. So you can see, you know, from the... Okay, sure. Who's the second favorite song? ah Number two. Oh, this one featured Adam Levine. It's called I'm So Humble by the Lonely Island. The Lonely Island. Interesting. Okay. Number three. Got a little Justin Timberlake action going here. Mother Lover. Oh, can I ask? Clapping Lover. Who's the artist on that one? Let me see.
00:21:54
Speaker
Oh, the lonely island. The lonely island again. OK, wow. I like this. I like this. OK, here we go. Here we go. You'll appreciate this. Got a little Rihanna going, huh? Oh, ah it's actually number two and two, you know, kind of combine two two songs that kind of relate had and building each other. Shy Ronnie. Shy Ronnie. Shy Ronnie. Shy Ronnie 2. That song. Oh, my. Shy Ronnie 2. Ronnie and Clyde.
00:22:24
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I can't believe that. See what they did there. Okay. Lonely Island, I guess. The Lonely Island. Lonely Island. Okay, number five. That's a big hit on SNL. Number five, this had, I don't know her name, but the girl, one of the previous girls from like the mid 2000s that was on Saturday Night Live, she didn't really sing, but she just acts it out. Finest Girl, it's the Bin Laden song.
00:22:54
Speaker
I don't even know that. I don't know that one either. Oh, but that I don't want to say what they talk about. I will give you a general idea. I would say we can deduce. And by they ah the Lonely Island. That's who the Lonely Island. Wow. So basically he meets a girl that's like. I want you to take care of me like we did Bin Laden. Wow, ma'am. So can I go on a limb and say your favorite artist was? Oh, wait, let me look it up.
00:23:25
Speaker
I think we know. I think we can- The Lonely Island. The Lonely Island. Top artist. Okay. Wow. You know what I'm familiar with? Where were they on y'all's list? Oh, it's so weird. I don't know if they- It's a great question. Probably in their sub here. Definitely, definitely top three. Yeah, I'm not sure I listened to any of them this year.
00:23:45
Speaker
Did they just come out with a new album? Is that why? Maybe? you Well, it feels like it. I mean, it's so so relevant. And when you listen to Turtle, Mac and Chain for the if I if I have this right, it was 52 times.
00:24:01
Speaker
52 times. What's the number? It felt like more it how like on the 50th. Listen, are you still giggling? Like it's so they got me a again giggle. Oh, I relate with it. I mean, there's no giggling going on in that year. It's very okay. I actually took off my turtleneck and chain before we got up here. And Chironi is a very interesting one.
00:24:28
Speaker
you're Are you listening to that? Classic Ronnie. I can't even understand him. That dude's got it in him, but when people are around, he's like, I can't soon so you yeah tell him Ronnie. You know what it actually makes me think about? I won't use names here, but I had a friend in high school. Went over to his house one day, pretty good fairly low key guy.
00:24:53
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He didn't know I had gotten to his house sometimes. I walked in and walked back to his room. He was standing. He had like a mirror closet doors. He was standing in front of the closet door, the mirrors, with a mechanical pencil holding up like a mic. And he was rapping like Snoop or Tupac or something. And when I walked in and he saw me, he goes,
00:25:18
Speaker
He's Shah Rani. Wow. When people aren't around, he's hardcore. But when people are around, it's like... He's just a guy with a pencil. Man, that's crazy. Mechanical pencil, too. I don't know why I remember that. I just... That's incredible. Hey, it's something I'm proud of. I don't know if you should be, but okay. You do you. I mean, I'm so humble, you know?