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Canadian man Casper Lincoln gets arrested for DUI while cruising in his kid's pink Barbie Jeep on a busy highway! Plus, meet Ned the lonely left-coiled snail searching for love, and engineers who think giant airbags can make planes crash-proof. Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes deliver the most bizarre real news stories you won't believe actually happened. Episode Highlights: Drunk driving in...

A slug with a Napoleon complex brings chaos to a Bavarian apartment complex, terrorizing residents with late-night doorbell pranks that had police stumped! Meanwhile, Emil the moose becomes Austria's newest celebrity immigrant with 10,000 Facebook followers after shutting down a major railway line. Plus, a million-dollar yacht's 15-minute maiden voyage ends in disaster off the Turkish coas...

Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes dive into your mailbag comments in episode 197! From Vikings-Bears football analysis and WNBA MVP predictions to the legendary ice cream cone guy who climbed a 14,000-foot peak just to hand out ice cream sandwiches to fellow hikers. Plus updates on that influencer stuck in Antarctica for two months, Denzel Washington's name pronunciation revelation, and why the UK...

Woman tries to steal $700 worth of merchandise at Walmart during a "Shop with a Cop" event with 75 officers present! Plus a massive 6-foot lion's mane jellyfish with 100-foot tentacles washes up in UK, and we cover bizarre prison stories including an inmate who quit his transport job mid-delivery and a romantic New Year's Eve prison break attempt. Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes de...

The Zimmer Frame Bandit has been caught! This elderly airport thief used his walking frame to steal £1,700 from tourists at Mallorca airport before his crime spree came to an end. Plus, a couple's argument about getting off a plane takes a dangerous turn when the B-word gets mentioned, forcing an emergency landing in Jacksonville. Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes bring you the wildest true news s...

Heartwarming special needs couple on their first date, John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls-Royce that'll blow your mind, and Vancouver's bizarre swimming lesson ban for parents! Hosts Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes dive into listener mail with hockey fun facts, Gretzky trivia, and the weirdest medical story involving a tooth-in-eye surgery. Plus college pet policies, family updates, and pol...

🎙️ This Is True Really News Episode 992 - The wildest true stories you won't believe actually happened! What's in this episode: Billy the Tire-Slashing Dog - How one Italian village's mystery vandal turned out to be a four-legged menace with gingivitis Austrian Army's Epic Fail - The 1788 friendly fire disaster where drunk soldiers fought themselves thinking they were Turks Chipotl...

Keith Moon's legendary Rolls-Royce pool story gets REAL as the company recreates the myth! Plus meet Roy Sullivan - the man struck by lightning 7 times and survived. Hosts Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes dive into bizarre competitions including wife carrying championships, chess boxing, worm charming contests, and Finland's obsession with weird sports like mobile phone throwing and hobby hor...

Buckle up for another wild ride! We dive into the most bizarre news story ever - ranchers launching an actual ELK RIDING SCHOOL in Yellowstone to teach tourists how to mount wild elk (yes, really). Plus, we break down the Minnesota Vikings' latest moves with Adam Thielen's return and whether they can actually compete this season. What's in this episode: Yellowstone's insane Elk Eti...

Welcome to another wild episode of This is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! 🎙️ In Episode 990, we dive into some absolutely bizarre but TRUE stories that'll make you question reality: 🤖 AI Legal Disaster : A prestigious Australian lawyer accidentally submits fake AI-generated case citations and quotes in a MURDER case, causing chaos in the Supreme Court of Victoria 🪱 Eye...

🦷👁️ INCREDIBLE medical breakthrough! A 75-year-old Canadian woman sees her partner's face for the FIRST time after revolutionary "tooth in eye" surgery restored her sight after 10 years of blindness! In this episode of This Is True Really News: ✅ AMAZING MEDICAL MIRACLE - Gayle Lane undergoes rare osteodontic keratoprosthesis surgery, having her own tooth implanted in her eye socke...

Welcome back to another hilarious mailbag episode! Tony's feeling under the weather, but we're powering through with some absolutely wild stories that'll leave you speechless. 🏈 NFL Nostalgia & Vikings Pain Why getting older than a million years old is NOT recommended Vikings championship memories and Super Bowl heartbreak The eternal struggle of dual NFL loyalties Classic footbal...

Welcome back to This Is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! In Episode 988, we're diving into the wildest news stories that prove reality is stranger than fiction. 🚜💩 FRENCH FARMERS vs SQUATTERS : Discover how frustrated farmers in France's Haute-Vosges region unleashed the ultimate weapon against illegal campers - tractors full of manure slurry! When law enforcement won...

Welcome to another wild episode of This Is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! 🎙️ In this episode, we dive into some truly bizarre and romantic baseball stories that'll make you fall in love with America's pastime all over again. We cover: 🏊‍♂️ Florida Pool Incident : A British lighting technician's family vacation at a Disney World resort takes a dark turn when an ar...

Welcome back to another wild Mailbag episode! This week we're diving into the most bizarre news stories and listener mail that'll leave you scratching your head. What we're covering: A church sign that says "No clothing this Wednesday" - did they know what they were doing? Masked villains steal $7,000 worth of Labubu dolls (the new Furbies apparently!) Hilarious street signs...

Welcome to This Is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! In this episode, we bring you the weird, wild, and amazing stories that make you question reality. 🎭 FEATURED STORIES: Chuck E. Cheese Crime Spree - From credit card fraud in Tallahassee to massive brawls in Mobile, Alabama - why is Chuck E. Cheese becoming a hotbed of criminal activity? Radioactive Wasp Nest Discovery - Work...

Welcome back to This Is True Really News! Scot and Tony are back with another wild episode covering the strangest stories from around the world. In This Episode: 🐀 MONSTER RATS TAKE OVER UK TOWN - A 22-inch supersized rat (the size of a desktop monitor!) discovered in Norman-by-Teaside has locals calling for help as these street-walking rodents get bigger and bolder 🎪 AMERICA'S WEIRDEST FEST...

Welcome back to another hilarious Mailbag episode! In this episode, we're diving into some of the absolutely WILDEST stories. From spontaneous mountain climbing adventures in Scotland to highway racing in dad's van, these tales will leave you questioning people's decision-making skills! What's covered in this episode:Crazy stories including impromptu mountain climbing with zero exp...

Welcome back to This is True Really News with Scot Combs and Tony Verkinnes! In this wild episode, we cover the strangest true stories making headlines: 🦜 TOUCAN SMUGGLING GONE WRONG - A 35-year-old man from San Ysidro, California couldn't explain how 14 keel-billed toucans ended up sedated in his Volkswagen Passat dashboard. His excuse? He just went to get McDonald's! Border patrol dogs...

Welcome to another episode 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.) 🍕 THIS WEEK'S WILD STORIES: Pizza Gone Wrong : A Wisconsin pizza restaurant accidentally got 85 customers high (ages 1-91!) after using THC-infused cooking oil by mistake Stubborn Moose : A 900-pound bull moose has shut down...

🏀 What We Cover: Little League Drama : A 12-year-old gets EJECTED for a harmless bat flip and it goes all the way to COURT! Judge had to issue an emergency restraining order so the kid could play in the state championship WNBA Enforcer Talk : Sophie Cunningham's hilarious fit walk moments and why she's the league's most entertaining "enforcer" UK Swearing Fines : England wan...

Welcome back to This Is True Really News with Scot and Tony! In this episode, we dive into some absolutely bizarre real news stories that sound too strange to be true... but they are! Story Highlights: 🐱 The Great Cat Hoax Crisis - A Canadian couple gets bombarded with calls about their "missing" cat Torbo... except their cat isn't missing, isn't white, and isn't even named...

Join Scot and Tony for another wild ride through bizarre but true news stories! In this episode, we dive into: 🌙 The Great Moon Hoax of 1835 - How the New York Sun convinced readers that life existed on the moon, complete with bat-winged humanoids and miniature zebras! This infamous six-part series fooled thousands and became one of journalism's most notorious fake news scandals. 🪲 Ancient B...

🚨 EPIC FAIL ALERT! 🚨 You won't believe what happened when a 61-year-old man walked into an MRI room wearing a MASSIVE chain! Plus we dive into the bizarre world of tennis star food preferences, international strawberry diplomacy, and the ongoing chaos in Britain. 🔥 HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS EPISODE: INSANE MRI accident involving a giant magnet and heavy chain Tennis champion's controversial me...

🐧 From Scotland's NHS telling people to "walk like penguins" on icy streets to epic fails involving coins, trees, and Lamborghinis - this episode of This Is True Really News is packed with jaw-dropping stories that'll make you laugh and learn! In this episode: Scotland's bizarre winter safety advice that sounds like a joke but isn't A guy who nearly died shooting coins o...