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Welcome to Episode 239 of the This is True Really News Mailbag!

Are you ready to plotz? This week, we're bringing you a brand new batch of unbelievable real-life stories. From the absolute dumbest tourist complaints we've ever heard (can a king-sized bed get you pregnant?) to criminals who clearly lack a "particular set of skills"—including a guy who tried to rob a jewelry store dressed as Batman.

Plus, we share some personal updates about catastrophic stage falls, bionic ears, the magic of new eye lenses, and the childhood disappointment of Sea Monkeys.

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• 0:00 – Plotzing, knickers, and the mechanics of 3D-printed knee braces.

• 2:40 – The epic stage wipeout at Champs in Eden Prairie.

• 3:40 – The "Bionic Ear" (Baha implant) and cataract surgery surprises.

• 8:30 – Nostalgia trip: Sea Monkeys, X-Ray specs, and hairy chest wigs.

• 10:00 – Hilarious Tourist Complaints: Blaming the hotel for an unexpected pregnancy.

• 12:50 – Cruise ship disasters, spring breakers, and ending up in the brig.

• 14:10 – Dumb Criminals: The pest control worker who immediately confessed.

• 15:50 – A creepy discovery in Pennsylvania involving fake IDs and a 55-gallon drum.

• 18:00 – "I'm Batman" – The absolute worst disguise for a jewelry heist.

• 18:35 – Listener Shoutouts & Mailbag reactions (Suitcase poisoning logistics).

This is True Really News brings you the strangest, funniest, and most mind-boggling true news stories from around the globe, complete with our signature banter and "consulting" advice for amateur criminals.

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Can a shark get a stingray pregnant? Is a 95-year-old grandma a hardened architectural outlaw?

Join Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes on Episode 1078 of This Is True Really News as they break down the world's most bizarre, baffling, and downright hilarious true stories. This week, the guys dive into a "virgin" stingray pregnancy in North Carolina, a local government zoning commission that completely forgot its own records, an engineering student going way too fast in a toy car, and a wild stalking case where the digital footprints point the exact opposite way.

Remember, all the news you're about to hear is true... really... as far as you know!

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• 0:00 – Coming Up: The Left Hand vs. The Right Hand

• 0:56 – Charlotte the Stingray's Impossible Pregnancy 🦈

• 3:38 – Macon-Bibb County vs. A 95-Year-Old Grandma’s Windows 🪟

• 8:07 – Going 92 MPH in a Modified Toy Porsche 🏎️

• 11:24 – The Sacramento Clinic Stalking Plot Twist 🕵️‍♂️

• 16:58 – How to Contact Scot & Tony

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Can a high-protein cabinet diet cause a domestic crisis in Washington? 💨

In Episode 1077 of This is True Really News, hosts Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes dive into the bizarre, the absurd, and the strictly factual (as far as you know) news stories of the week. From the pungent realities of the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative to true crime's most infamous wives, this episode covers it all.

First, the guys break down the unexpected side effects of the ancestral, heavy-ferment diet supposedly taking over high-ranking Washington officials like JD Vance and RFK Jr. Let’s just say political spouses and White House aides are scrambling for fresh air.

Then, Scot and Tony look into the dark history of "Crazy Wives" who took "until death do us part" a little too literally—including the infamous Sarah Boone suitcase case and the cheerful arsenic expert Nanny Doss.

Finally, things get legally absurd in Indiana with a "persecuted" asylum seeker turned jailer whose sudden lifestyle twist caught up with ICE, followed by three South Carolina sheriff deputies who learned the hard way that you shouldn't prank call other cops.

• 0:00 – The Snail Mail Era & Scot’s 50th Reunion

• 2:35 – The White House "Cabinet Diet" & Its Pungent Side Effects

• 5:58 – True Crime: 14 Infamous Wives Who Eliminated Their Husbands

• 13:20 – The Jay County Jailer Plot Twist You Won't Believe

• 17:34 – Dumb Criminals: South Carolina Deputies Face Prank Call Charges

• 20:36 – Outro: How to Send Us Your Conundrums & Snark

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Can tourists go to Spain and not expect Spanish people? Apparently not! In this episode of the This Is True Really News Mailbag (Ep. 238), Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes dive into a hilarious trove of internet tourist complaints, breakdown the wildest price-gouging at the World Cup, and explain why a duck in a soccer jersey is winning the internet.

Plus, we talk about Detroit-style pizza, the right way to eat a Tim Tam, and a pun so bad it might actually be a crime.

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• 0:00 – Finding the "Un-record" button & Old Testament combobulation

• 1:08 – The perfect coffee cup & Detroit-style pizza debates

• 1:40 – Dumb Tourist Complaints: "Too many Spanish people in Spain!"

• 2:40 – Why do the Brits love curry so much?

• 5:08 – Siesta bans and missing custard creams

• 6:10 – How to use an Australian Tim Tam as a straw

• 9:30 – World Cup Madness: USA vs. Australia & knockout rounds

• 11:26 – World Cup MVPs: Merlin the Duck & Osito the Dog

• 12:15 – Please stop dressing up the Rocky statue!

• 13:53 – Insane World Cup Price Gouging: $75 caviar tater tots & $20 beers

• 17:03 – Waiting in line at St. Andrews golf course

• 22:31 – Mailbag Comment: "It's all ogre now"

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Welcome to Episode 1076 of This is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! All the news you're about to hear is true... really. As far as you know.

In today's episode, we cover everything from a literal human time capsule to a Roman marketing campaign that will make you very glad you live in the 21st century.

• The Ultimate Florida Romance: A Winter Haven man with 39 priors decides to win back his ex-girlfriend for Valentine's Day by hopping on his motorcycle and stealing sentimental crane lawn statues from a grieving widow.

• Frozen in Time for 42 Years: The chilling discovery of Hedviga Golik in Zagreb, Croatia. She disappeared from public life in 1966 and was finally found decades later, naturally mummified in her favorite armchair, still facing her black-and-white TV.

• The Subscription-Style Robbery: A Washington, D.C. Walgreens gets hit like clockwork once a month, leading police straight to an unexpected inside job involving the store manager and his nephew.

• Ancient Rome's Dirtiest Secret: Archaeologists in Pompeii uncover a 2,000-year-old piece of promotional graffiti advertising the "Tersorium"—the Roman Empire's peak luxury communal sponge-on-a-stick.

• 0:00 – Would Bruce Lee laugh at Kung Fu Panda?

• 1:43 – Florida Man's unique lawn ornament heist

• 5:04 – The 42-year mummified apartment time capsule

• 8:08 – The Walgreens monthly inside job

• 11:05 – Lost Pompeii text: The premium "Sponge-on-a-Stick" ad

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When public officials can’t handle the internet, things get weird. Welcome to Episode 1075 of This is True, Really Newswith Scott Combs and Tony Verkanis! Today, we dive into a bizarre First Amendment showdown involving an animated ogre, a legendary snack food heist in Florida, and a media outlet caught red-handed fighting its own data.

Plus, we celebrate a birthday and check in on a troublemaking horse. Remember, all the news you're about to hear is true... really. As far as you know.

📢 Have a question, comment, or some top-tier snark for the guys? Drop a comment below or send an email to: [email protected]

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• 0:00 – Intro: It’s Our Birthday & The Great Liturgy Debate

• 2:38 – Shrek-Sting: Ohio Blogger Jailed Over an Ogre Meme

• 6:58 – The Florida Banana Chip Bandit Strikes Again

• 11:34 – Media Math: Broadcaster Busted Hiding Their Own Data

• 16:02 – Jax the Horse Triggers a False Alarm

• 17:27 – Banned for Life: Don't Mess with China's Pandas

• 19:19 – Outro & How to Contact the Show

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Welcome to another old-fashioned canvas sack edition of the Really News Mailbag! In Episode 237, we dive into one of the most prolific con artists in US history, read some of the mind-bogglingly stupid complaints real tourists have made, and follow up on the infamous AI fart-tracking app.

If you think your week was weird, wait until you hear these stories.

• 0:00 — The Missing Button & Old School Intros

• 1:00 — Giovanni Vigliato: The Man Who Married 100+ Women

• 4:43 — The Dumbest Tourist Complaints in Human History

• 8:13 — Mailbag: From Digital Fingerprints to AI Fart Trackers

• 10:30 — ShotSpotter vs. "FartSpotter" & Outro

• The 100-Wife Hustle: Meet Giovanni Vigliato (aka Giovanni O'Vigliato), a serial bigamist who used dozens of aliases to marry over 100 women between the 1940s and 1980s. His motive? Pure cash and valuables.

• "No One Told Us There'd Be Fish": We read real, hilarious reviews from tourists complaining that the beach was "too sandy," that the brochure failed to mention mosquitoes, and why it's "unfair" that a flight to England takes longer than a flight to America.

• Digital Dung: A follow-up on our previous episode tracking the latest in AI technology—specifically, an app designed to meticulously count and log flatulence.

Notable Quote from the Episode:

"I would call it ignorance, but that's impossible. Nobody's that ignorant. That would be offensive to the ignorant."

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Welcome back to another wild episode of This is True Really News with your hosts Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! If you enjoy our specific brand of silliness, please like, subscribe, and let us know what you think in the comments.

In Episode 1074, we dive into some of the most bizarre and hilarious true news stories from around the globe:

• The Diaper Spa: We explore a highly controversial adult baby roleplay haven in Atkinson, New Hampshire, where "adulting" is traded in for adult-sized cribs.

• A Mid-Air Disaster: A Virgin Atlantic passenger sues the airline after a lidless cup of hot coffee scorchifies his "twig and berries" during a flight from Las Vegas to London.

• Joey the Donkey's Sweet Solution: Discover how veterinarians in England used six liters of full-sugar cola a day to clear a grieving donkey's gastric impaction.

• Math vs. The Bureaucrats: The incredible true story of Mats Jarlström, a Swedish electrical engineer who proved Oregon's yellow light cameras were mathematically rigged, fought a fine for "practicing engineering without a license," and ultimately changed international traffic laws!

• 0:00 - Intro, Banter, & Blenders

• 1:31 - New Hampshire's Controversial Adult Diaper Spa

• 7:09 - The Virgin Atlantic Hot Coffee Lawsuit

• 12:01 - Joey the Donkey’s Coca-Cola Cure

• 15:36 - The Engineer Who Defeated Traffic Cameras with Math

• 19:44 - Outro

Got a story you think we ought to cover? Want to write us something longer? Email us at [email protected] or comment right where you find us. We might even mention your name on the air!

Join Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes for another episode where all the news you're about to hear is true... really! (As far as you know). This week, we're diving into the hard-hitting journalism of flatulence science, urban beaver tracking, highly creative government accounting, and the hazards of Minnesota "crow hunting."

• The Science of Breaking Wind: Australia's CSIRO drops the "Chart Your Fart" app to track daily emissions. Who knew the average human toots 5 times a day?

• Toronto's Beaver Quest: 51 fiberglass beavers invade the city for the FIFA World Cup. It's a scavenger hunt... but make it intensely Canadian.

• Ireland's UBI Math: The government gave artists a basic income, lost £80 million in cold hard cash, but claimed a massive ROI due to "social value" and tax loop illusions. We break down the ridiculous numbers.

• Minnesota Man vs. Airplane: A local man is charged after shooting a firefighting plane in the rudder. His defense? He was just "crow hunting" and the pilot endangered his life.

• 0:00 - Intro: The legacy of our email address & internet radio history

• 2:49 - Sydney Science: The "Chart Your Fart" App

• 6:24 - Toronto's World Cup Beaver Scavenger Hunt

• 10:35 - Ireland's Basic Income "Success" Story (A Masterclass in Red Ink)

• 17:32 - Minnesota Man Shoots at Firefighting Plane

• 21:02 - Outro & Contact Info

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Welcome back to the mailbag that is all turned down for you!

In Episode 236 of the This is True Really News Mailbag, we are diving headfirst into the week's weirdest headlines, worst translation fails, and completely chaotic pop culture tangents. From warning signs that prohibit "smoking barefoot pets" to a deeply concerning pastry display at a gas station, we’ve got it all.

Plus, we welcome a new subscriber (and accidental superhero), debate our woeful ignorance of Pop Culture Jeopardy, and discuss why Sean Bean dies in literally everything. Stick around for illegal Australian cockroach farms, bizarre hitchhiking fish, and a deep dive into the cinematic universe of Fievel the Mouse.

Grab your coffee (or your dog's BARF food) and hit play!

• 0:00 - Intro: The "Sweet Baboo" Rhyme

• 0:36 - New Subscriber or New Superhero? (Meet Jamie Leeman)

• 1:35 - Female Reboots, Natalie Portman, & Pop Culture Jeopardy

• 2:49 - Horrible Translations & "Smoking Barefoot Pets"

• 4:33 - The Suggestive Gas Station Pastry Sign

• 5:38 - The 11th Dimension & The 24/7 Toilet Time Paradox

• 6:58 - Jehovah's Witnesses in Online Multiplayer Games?

• 9:35 - Game of Thrones & Why Sean Bean Always Dies

• 11:06 - Movie Tangents: Jupiter Ascending & Passengers

• 13:40 - Strange News: 100k Illegal Cockroaches & Hitchhiking Fish

• 15:02 - Mailbag Comments: BARF Dog Food & The WQPM Mouse

• 17:35 - The Extended Fievel the Mouse Cinematic Universe

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