“Well, just when you think you’ve seen it all, the Internet delivers another surprise. Jared Michael, the viral video star I suspected of pranking us, appeared on the syndicated news show Right This Minute last night and promised that the video was “100-percent real.” (Although, in skeptics’ defense, Michael also said “It certainly looks fake. I totally understand why people think it is.”)

Michael was, as many a kind, globe-trotting reader emailed me last night, near the tracks of Peru Rail, which runs from Cusco and a few smaller destinations to Macchu Picchu. That goes a long way toward explaining why he mysteriously wasn’t hurt. A lot of tourists walk the route instead of taking the train, which means the tracks are often crowded with people.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/16/why-is-no-one-skeptical-of-this-train-selfie-video/?dfgh