March 30, 2026 • 37 mins
This episode of Hoax is no fun at all. April Fool's! For our (almost) April 1 episode, we explore the holiday's origins and some of the best pranks of the 20th and 21st centuries: Google's various exploits (Pokemon Go!), that time the BBC produced a piece on Spaghetti Trees, and the Curious Case of Sidd Finch, the Mets pitcher who could throw 168 MPH.
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https://www.rutgers.edu/news/how-did-april-fools-day-get-started
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/03/april-fools/
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ESPN: Unhittable: Sidd Finch and the Tibetan Fastball
BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/greatest-april-fools-prank-of-all-time-the-story-of-the-bbcs-spaghetti-trees/
https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/09/25/the-spaghetti-trees-of-ticino/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Folks, it's a hug sound no one, I haven't seen
what us see the last.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to Hoax, a podcast about the lies.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We wish we're true and truth that sound like lies.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm the ghost of Danish Schwartz.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And I'm the evil twin of Lizzie Logan. Welcome to
the show, Dana. This podcast episode is coming out on
March thirtieth. Okay, so I thought, you know, assuming not
every single person listens to it the very day it drops,
this might be a good time to talk about April
Fool's Day.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's an April Fool's Day episode. Almost. Have you ever
done in April fools prank in your life?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, the I've like told lies and then been like
April Fools that's not true.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And the one time that I like something was shout
out Lily, who I know listens and was my roommate
in college. I had like a bunch of old teen magazines,
just whatever saved from my youth, and they always came
with posters that you could fill out, and so I
like covered her room in the posters, and when she
(01:21):
came home she was like, that's funny. It's not like
a I guess.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's like a prank, prank, but like, it's not a fool.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's not a fool. There's no like lie to it.
There's no hooks, there's no hooks to it. It's just
a funny thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You haven't made her a fool. No, I think one
year I got very excited by the idea of like
pranking my sister with like things I read like pranks
I read from like seventeen magazine.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I don't remember if I tried to do it
or chickened out, but I maybe replaced the top of
her deodorant with cream cheese. But then like, it didn't whatever,
I even if I did it, And I'm not sure
if I actually did it or not. It didn't like
look good enough to actually work.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, there was. There was the one. The only one
I know of that I think worked because I saw
other people fall for it was scraping out the inside
of an oreo and replacing it with toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The thing which I think would look ye.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Enough to make a person take one bite.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, and I would for sure. I don't examine the
cream of an Oreo. I think the problem with April
Fool's Day is I don't really like it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Really.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't find pranks very funny.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And yet we have a podcast about hoaxes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I guess I think find them funny when they're done
to other people and I can learn about them. I
don't find engaging with pranks on a personal level funny,
and I don't like brands doing them.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
No brands. Absolutely, it became crtinge it immediately.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was like a year or two years they were
allowed to do it, and I don't know, maybe like
two thousand and five the last year they could do it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I will say that. So we're going to talk about
the history of April Fool's Day, and then we're going
to talk about a couple of my favorite It was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Such a good idea because of course, yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's the only it's the hoax holiday.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's the hoax holiday. Happy hoax Day.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But one that I ended up not including because the
ones that I picked are just so much better. But
one that I ended up not including, which I guess
I'm including because I'm just gonna spitball it now. Google.
I think really like set the tone for a lot
of brand pranks, and they used to do they used
to like make little funny websites that were sort of
(03:36):
semi functional where it was like you could google where
your socks are if you couldn't find your socks, and
like stuff like that. And they officially stopped doing pranks
in twenty twenty, Yeah, because they didn't want to be
whimsical during the pandemic. And I also think they just
didn't want to do fake news and they haven't picked
it up since. And I'm like, you know, if you're
(03:57):
if you're a brand trying to do an April Fool
Stay prank when not even Google is doing it, Like, no,
do you.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Know that Pokemon go started as an April Fools prank? No?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I thought it. I mean I thought it started as
like a joke. I didn't know that it was in
April Fools Day prank.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It began as in April Fool's Google thing. Basically Google
released a video inviting people to use Google Maps to
catch Pokemon. It was like another like interactive thing where
they're like used Google Maps to catch Pokemon, and basically
the programmers were like, oh, this is actually a pretty
good idea and then they developed it as a game.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay, well I love that. I can't believe I didn't
find that when I was researching this. Yeah, I did
find the one where they rolled out a feature where
the the you could press a button and that was
like the conversation over button where it would add an
it would add a gift to your email of like
the minion dressed as Queen Elizabeth dropping a mic, and
(04:53):
they would automatically archive the whole thing, except that they
replaced the actual send an archive button with it, and
so people like did that on their like work emails.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I mean, that's very funny, but also, yeah, you can't
interrupt the normal flow of events.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And Gmail was announced on April Fool's Day, so people
thought it was a prank. Anyway, let's get back to
Let's let's get back to the main hoax. Main hoax.
But that that Pokemon Go thing is interesting, Now, that's
super interesting. I'm like annoyed that I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm getting there's a very special episode another podcast that
I do about that. So if you want to go
a full story of that, everyone can go listen and.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Pause this listen to that. Okay, we're back Okay, we're back.
Nobody really knows when April fools Day started, but it's
sometime like in the fifteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, this is much older than I thought.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, but again because nobody knows, so, like, it's commonly
thought that in the fifteen sixties, when various European countries
started moving from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar,
the first day of the year moved from like around
Easter to January, and so if you still celebrated New
(06:18):
Year in spring, you were like, a fool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh that's that's like a fun explanation whether or not
that's true.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, so it was like, haha, you didn't get the
memo about the calendar. Yeah, there's you know, a reference
in one book from like fifteen sixty one where it's
someone in April will was sent on a fool's errand
and they're like, could this be an ancient to April fool.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And you're like, probably not, but maybe, but who knows.
They had the at least they had the concept of
fools in the fifteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, Emperor Constantine. There's a famous story about Emperor Constantine.
He made his Jester Kugel King for a day, and
King Kogle declared that going forward on that day would
which was April first, it would be like a day
of merriment and jokes. Oh, except that's not true. Oh no,
(07:08):
but you can find it like cited on the web
as like, well, there's the story of Constantine. But if
you see that, listener, you know that it's not a
very good journalist, because that is a lie. There was
a bu professor in the eighties and he got a
call from the Associated Press who were like, can you
please explain the origins of April Fool's Day And he
was like no, like I can't help you, and they
(07:31):
were like come on, come on, And he was so
insistent that the guy just made this story.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Up as a meta prank.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
He thought everyone would know it was a joke because
Google is a Jewish dessert.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah. I was like, that's a very funny name for adjuster.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, but it's not real. It's a little April Fool's
Day joke.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, good for him, that's I love his commitment
to the bit.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yep. In France, April Fool's Day it's like April Fish Day, oh,
because fish are really hungry in the spring, so they're
easy to catch. So if you're in April fish it
means you're gullible, you're the poison d' avrine. Their tradition
for April Fish Day is that the big joke is
that you tape a paper fish to someone's back.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean, that's funny, it's cute. I would like a
holiday if that was the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yes, I was supposed to do that today.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now, yeah, that's once a year. Once a year on
April Fool's Day, you can tape a paper fish to
my back and then I'm like, ah, you got me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In Scotland, it's gouk Day or hunt a gouk. It
means hunt the gouk, which is a cuckoo bird or
a fool. And the idea is that you send like
a young person to deliver a very important message and
you give them the slip of paper and they I
mean this is in the pre telephone era. Yeah, you
would give them a very important message and you would say, okay,
(08:48):
go give this message to so and so, and then
the recipient opens it up and it says, dinna laugh,
din a smile, But hunt the gouk another mile and
they're supposed to then say Okay, go no, go deliver
this to another person. You see how long you can
make them run around. But you're supposed to stop by midday,
not supposed to do it all day.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, that's nice that there's like a rural build in
to not abuse the children.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The most common old timey prank for April Fool's Day
seems to just be like sending someone somewhere to get
something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, and you know what, that's good. I also like,
if you're only doing it to children, like this should
be like a child holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, or like you're assistant or something. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
In Iceland it's jileipa, which means run April. And the
idea is that you get people to go someplace, so
you might be like, oh my god, you know best
Buy TVs are only ten dollars, and see if you
can get a bunch of people to go there. You
might say, like, we just saw Harry Styles at the
corner store, and you try to get a bunch of
people to go there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you think there's something interesting about the fact that
so many disparate cultures all have like a built in
day for like a gentle.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I mean, I think humans have a sense of humor,
and probably the Europeans mixed back in the day and
brought each other their culture.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, and I think there's something to be said for like,
you know how memes give people who aren't that funny,
like the framework to be funny. I think sometimes being
funny is like a human need, but like telling your child, like, oh,
deliver this message, like you don't have to be a
creative or funny person to do that, but you get
to have a little fun. Yeah. So it's almost like
(10:30):
a pro too meme that you get to feel like
part of something and have fun. And I don't mean
this disparagingly in the way that's like and you don't
have to think of a joke, but it's like you
get to just like have something and be part of
something without actually coming up with a joke yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Totally. I mean I think sharing a laugh with friends
like people will don't need an excuse and we'll find
any excuse.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah. Yeah, I think like the and sometimes you need
the framework to build things that are funny. If people
aren't like professionally creative people.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But some people are professionally creative.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So I am going to now get into this might
be kind of a short episode. That's great two of
my favorite professionally produced April fool Stak ranks. So for
the first one, and I won't tell you the name
of it, I'm just gonna do a little bit of
table setting, Okay. England is sort of famous for having
(11:27):
bland food, yes, and that's not I don't mean that
as like an insult.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You travel all over the world for spices and not
use them.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
So true, but like they're they're from nineteen forty through
nineteen fifty four, food was literally rationed.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, so there was a war happening, if I recall.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, and even afterward they kept rationing for like another
ten years. So food was not considered as like culturally
significant as say the arts, like you know England, and
they're gonna be like we got Shakespeare, we got you know, composers,
we got this, we got that. They're they're not thinking like, oh,
people should innovate in terms of food. There's no home
(12:10):
cooking culture. Yeah, there's just like I hope we have
meat this week, and we're gonna have eggs and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And you know what they have. Jane Austen and Shakespeare.
So like, rest on your laurels.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
They're great, they're doing great, But knowing about different cuisines
is not a big thing in England at this time.
They didn't get pizza until the seventies and eighties. The
only place that you can get all of oil is
at the chemist because people use it to loosen their earwax.
So it's just not a thing to be that into food,
(12:44):
or even into foreign food, and foreign in this case
means any place that's not England.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Although I'm going to do like a crate a hot take,
and I know food in England has gotten much much
better in the decades since rationing like a fry up
for breakfast and then like a tea and scon and
clouted cream. I genuinely love. Oh sure it's I think
it's great. I'm just saying I want to be on
the record as saying. Danah Schwartz thinks that the reputation
(13:12):
of bad British food is no longer entirely accurate and
everyone should have some clotted cream.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So but let's take it back to nineteen fifty seven
and the BBC's Panorama, which is like one of their
premier news programs broadcasts the following and I don't know
if it's possible to get the rights to the audio
of this, so I'm going to have Dana watch it
and then recap it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay, great.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So this is playing on April first, nineteen fifty seven
on the news.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It isn't only in Britain, that's spring. This year has
taken everyone by surprise. Most important of all, it's resulted
in an except only heavy spaghetti crocks the last two
weeks of March on an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I I'm so happy right now. It is an old
BBC newsreel with like a man speaking in that voice
that like Transatlantic voice.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's the actual guy who did Panorama, like it's the
real newscaster of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It's the guy, and he's walking us through the early
and spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, with specific details about the
plant and how it's grown and how it's harvested, and
showing lovely footage of like nice Swiss families fucking it
from bushes and trees. I find it actually genuinely astonishingly plausible.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
If you've never if you have like seen spaghetti in
real life once in your life. Yeah, if you don't
see pictures of it in magazines and there's no Internet,
why wouldn't you know he doesn't grow on trees.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Also, like, okay, spaghetti as a word to us is
we know what it is, but again it's a foreign word.
If you do not frequently eat spaghetti, there's no reason
that that word would mean. Well, I mean, we know
what a pasta is. I'm like, I completely watching that.
It sounds so silly, and I completely understand why people
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believe it because it's plausible and things are much weirder
than that that grow.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Really, the only way to get spaghetti at this time
in England is like canned spaghetti made by Hindes. You
don't get the dry noodles and make it it home.
So they're like, I maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's where that can and you know what else is
in cans A lot of vegetables. Yeah, I know that
we historical people. People in the future tend to look
back on historical people and be like, they're so dumb.
There's a stupid If I saw that and I had
only seen canned spaghetti and did not know what that is,
I'm like, yeah, maybe it's a thing that grows on
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trees and has to be dry a lot of things. Beans.
Beans are a carb that are kind of like mushy
and like a carb you can eat in red sauce,
and those are grown somehow who knew? Who knew?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So people mostly got that it was a prank. Yeah,
but some call the BBC and they say, where can
I get a spaghetti bush? I want to grow some
spaghetti And the BBC tells them place a sprig of
spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for
the best, which I think is a very kind way
of saying, this is a prank that you fell for.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's a charming British prank, a dry vertishprank.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yes. The piece was thought of by Panorama camerman Charles Dieger,
who is from Austria and once heard his school teacher
teasing one of his classmates being like, you're so dumb
you'd believe that spaghetti grew on trees.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So Michael Peacock, the editor of Panorama, gave him a
budget of one hundred pounds to produce the piece.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I love it. This is like a small, small, industrious,
industrious artist at work.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
The broadcast was voiced by I mean the perfect name
for this guy, Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, yeah, his name is Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's what that guy is, the very respected host of Panorama,
which made it seem more plausible to people because it
was the voice they'd heard on the BBC every night.
And yeah, his name is Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I also like that. They're like, you might be wondering
why it's grown in such even lengths, obviously breeding, and
I'm like, yes, plants are bread selective.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean we have square watermelon now. Yeah, for the stacking.
I think most adults, after like thinking about it for
a little bit, caught on that it was, uh prank.
But you know when you hear something as a kid
and you accept it as fact and you don't really
think about it, but you still remember it. Yeah, if
you go on Reddit, there's a few British adults who
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saw that as a kid, didn't know what April Fool's
Day was, never thought to say, hey, where does spaghetti
come from? And they're like, I was pretty old when
I realized that spaghetti doesn't grow much. Oh, that's so sweet,
It's so sweet. The prank also had a pretty long afterlife.
Ten years later, Australian reporter Dan Webb basically remade it
(18:20):
but for Australia. Yeah, and he talked about Australia's spaghetti
growing region and how the farmers were facing financial ruin
because of the spagworm which was eating their cross.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah. It was then used as a commercial in nineteen
seventy eight. You can watch like it's just an ad
for spaghetti and they just grow it on trees. And
Martha Stewart did it as like a little funny bit
on her show in two thousand and nine. She brought
out her spaghetti bush and showed how she prepares her
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fresh cut spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's like a funny little thing on April she did
on April Fools Day.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I imagine, yes, And it's like, I mean, I don't know
how many inside jokes there are for the food community,
but that's one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I like it too. I think you're gonna like this
one even more.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what you're converting me. I like April Fool's
Day now when they're good.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, all right, so I want to give a shout out.
I don't remember this person's name, but this was submitted
by a listener.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The April first edition of Sports Illustrated nineteen eighty five
runs an article by George Plimpton titled The Curious Case
of Sid Finch, and it is I've read it. It's
a wonderful piece of reporting about the Mets. They're currently
at spring training in Florida, and they're hiding their new
(19:43):
secret weapon, which is a pitcher who's very quirky. He
wears one hiking boot on his right foot and his
left foot is bare. He showed up out of the
blue one day. He wasn't recruited. He just found a
scout and said, I've learned the art of the pitch.
His name is Sid Finch, and he can throw a
ball one hundred and sixty eight miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, okay, great, great, great great.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
If you don't know baseball, that's not possible.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah. No, it's like nineties are like really really fast.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can break a hundred, like a top top pitcher
can break a hundred, but not by that much.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah that sounds insane.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah. Sid is a Harvard dropout whose foster parent died
in a plane crash in the Himalayan Mountains. He knows
a dozen languages and plays the French horn. He lives
like a monk with very few possessions and sleeps on
a rug on the floor. He's a devout Buddhist. Sid
is actually short for his chosen name, which is sid Artha.
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He wears his hat backward, he doesn't like to dress
in uniform, and he doesn't even want money. He doesn't
have a contract with the Mets because he's just in
it for the love of the pitch. Yeah, he says,
I don't want to do practice. I don't want to
be with the team. I'm going to come when I want.
I just pitch. It's all very then, and they have been.
(21:01):
There's a tent erected in the Mets training area for
him to practice in, sort of away from everybody else.
He is unfortunately injuring the catcher every time.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This guy has to catch. But you know the one
hundred and sixty miles an hour, that's.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The price of greatness.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The article is pretty long, and it ends on this
note of like, well, hopefully he's at the season opener.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Can't wait to see him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, and Mets fans are very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well yeah. I mean also, you're like, Sports Illustrated is
not a fun notably to my knowledge, I don't read
Sports Illustrated. To be fair, I wouldn't think of it
as a funny magazine.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
No, people don't.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And I mean George Plimpton is like a famous writer.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh and he's written for the magazine before. He's written
things that turned out to be true. So Mets fans
are very excited. Mets have been like slowly on the
up on the on the past few seasons. They're like,
oh my god, this is gonna do it. This is gonna,
you know, get us all the way. As far as
the other Mets players know, most of them, this could
be real because there has been like a gangly guy
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at spring training. He's in a real Mets uniform. He's
number twenty one. He's been sitting in the bullpen and
then going behind ten. When fans ask the pitching coach
about it about like, hey, who's that guy, he just goes, oh,
you'll hear about it later.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And there are other reporters around and they keep overhearing
the pitching coach saying like hey, like how's Sid doing.
So there's you know, talk of a new Mets player
named Sid Yeah, at a press conference, the pitch the
pitching coach just says, oh, we haven't, we haven't slotted
him into the lineup yet.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh, that's the Mets are in on it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
If you were to call into Sports Illustrated or write
a letter, you'll reach the staff, who, as far as
they know, nothing is a miss. So they just say,
Sports Illustrated hold his reporters to the highest standards.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Wow. That's I mean, this is taking a prank very far.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's taking it far by simply not telling people what
you're doing, Yeah, and letting them continue to believe that
you run a vagazine the prints only fact.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The Mets beat reporter gets really mad and is like,
why did you give this exclusive to Sports Illustrated. I'm
here every day And they're like, I guess he's a
better reporter than some general managers of other teams. Call
the Commissioner of Baseball and they're like, you can't let
this guy pitch. He's gonna hurt our batters.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, you can't let someone pitch at one hundred and
sixty eight miles an hour. It ruins the game. If
iron Man is playing, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
The subhead of the article, like, so, the the headline
is the Curious Case of Sidfinch. The subhead is He's
a pitcher, part Yogi and part recluse, impressively liberated from
our opulent lifestyle. Sid's deciding about yoga and his future
in baseball. And I'm going to give listeners a chance
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to think about that, and I'm going to repeat it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh no, is there some like clever pund I'm just to.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He's a pitcher, part Yogi and part recluse, impressively liberated
from our opulent lifestyle. Sid's deciding about yoga and his
future in baseball.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Is it? What does it spell out? What did the
letters spell out?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Happy April fools the okay?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Great? I was like, I know it's spelling out something, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Then says ah fib yeah. Yeah. So they didn't really
try to hide that it was fake. George Blinton was like,
I thought it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, he wears one hiking boot. But also it's a
context thing where if you're not looking for a prank.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This was the managing editor's idea. He realized that much
like this podcast, Sports Illustrated came out on and he
was like, oh my god, April first is a Monday
this year. We should do something with that. Nelson doubled
a junior at this point, owns the publishing house that
prints George Plimpton's books, and he's also chairman of the
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board of the Mets. So going through Plympton, going through
Nelson Doubleday is how they were able to set all
of this up. Flynch guys, yeah, connected guys. Plimpton writes
the article and then the photographer Lane Stewart recruits his
friend Joe Burton to go to Florida to take some pictures.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh so they actually have a lanky guy hanging around
in a Mets uniform. Oh yeah, fakes it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Burton is a teacher in Illinois. He's six'. Four he
needs a really beat up, mit so he borrows one
from one of his seventh grade, students and the seventh
grade boy is, like, yeah you can borrow my. Mitt in,
EXCHANGE i want a copy of The Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue and he got. It, fair, fair, fair you know what.
(25:58):
Fair stuart And burton know each other because they both
really like. Miniatures oh.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Everything's a.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Minuture that's so. True but that's like how they know each.
Other And burton's a big baseball, fan so he's.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Like, great, great that's so. Fun he gets to go
to spring training with The. Mets.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah the pictures that run with this are like very.
Involved burton had been To, egypt so they have pictures
of you, know quote Unquote sidfinch traveling the, world and
then they need pictures Of sid's dorm room At. Harvard
but one of the staffers in The Sports Illustrated art
department has a son who goes To, harvard so they
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get some pictures. There this was going to be five,
pages but it keeps getting more. Involved so.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
FUN i love a group. Project you're, like whose son
goes To?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Harvard it becomes fourteen. Pages The mets are in on,
it the pitching coaches in on. It he Coached burton
through like how to do a pitch for the pictures
that they took on the. Beach, yeah because that's he. Practices, Obviously,
well he's not in the. Tent he's on the beach
for yoga.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
REASONS i imagine there was.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
At least one newspaper who sent someone to go Find
finch and then they had to call him and, say
oh come. Back oh. NO abc does a piece on
it and it's three minutes. Long but and then right
at the end they Say april. Fools but you, know
if you only caught the first two, minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So they knew it was An April, fools it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Take a lot to figure. Out it basically takes, like you,
know it takes a few days for sort of everyone to.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Be, like oh, god this came out On April. Fools
this is. Ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah. Yeah The yankees have no sense of humor about,
it of.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Course because they don't like the.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Mess so they're just, like we think this sucks and
is an insult of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Baseball, honestly it's the it's a celebration of. Baseball total
limsay a team project.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Fun the publisher Of Sports illustrated is a little bit.
Mad he's, like we can't print things that aren't.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
True, yeah oh.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah other than, that big big Hit mets fans are
writing in with all these jokey, letters being, like, MAN
i was so, excited LIKE i want this to be
real and haven't The mets suffered. Enough someone sends a
reporter To burton's school to see how fast he can
pitch and he pitches sixty eight miles an, hour which
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is pretty. Respectable and then he's, like, no the one
on your spinnometer is. Broken it's one sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Sixty that's.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Fun On april, first The mets have a press conference
to Announce sid's.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Retirement all, RIGHT i mean a rep to his. Career.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yep burton goes and he says, Like i'm just not
ready for a baseball. Career and then in nineteen eighty,
six The mets do win The World. Series, yay Without Sid, finch.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But with his. Spirit but with his.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Spirit so it IS i think like a, fun happy
ending for all of The mets fans who got their hopes.
Up they did get Their World.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Series it's like the buoyant spirit Of sidfinch carried them
on with a sense of community and camaraderie in the world.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Too and maybe the impossible is. Possible maybe a person
could pitch crazier faster than anyone can.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
PITCH i like people being sweet and.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Nice in nineteen eighty, Seven plimpton turns it into a. Novel,
Yes burton goes with him on the book. Tour great
if you see him Around chicago a lot of people recognize,
him and he's happy to sign an autograph As Sid.
FINCH i am From.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
CHICAGO i might have seen him IF i ever see
a tall man wandering.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Around he's pretty striking. Looking and whenever The mets are
in town playing The cubs or The White, sox they
always set aside some tickets for, him which he loves
because he's a big baseball. Fan in twenty, fifteen for
the thirtieth anniversary of the, PRANK espn makes a thirty
for thirty about, it and this revives a lot of
(29:57):
interest In, sidfinch and The Brooklyn cyclones decide to do
A Sid Finch night where they hand Out sidfinch bobble
heads and they do yoga on the field and they
raise money for relief efforts In.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Nepal i'm looking at the. Picture it looks like he
also got a baseball.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Card, Oh i'm sure that's so. CUTE i really like the.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Photograph the photograph of his photography is really. Striking one,
barefoot he has giant Feat.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
The cyclones play the national anthem on The french horn
because that's What Sid finch, played and they Let burton
throw out the first. Pitch aw in twenty twenty, five
he finally goes To queens for the fortieth anniversary of the,
prank and he goes To City field and hangs out
with the nets and he talks at a press. CONFERENCE
i don't know if he did the press conference in
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character or, not but adore up, charming, adorable and he's
so happy to Be. SIDFINCH i think he's retired, now
but his wife gave some quote where he was, like
this is the dream come true because he loves. Baseball
he was never good enough to play, baseball but he
is a baseball. Celebrity, yeah and that Is, sidfinch and
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that is Our April Fool's day.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Episode see this makes me so. Happy and honestly news
you can use because this is news that makes you
feel good in a world that can be very challenging and,
difficult and these are stories about people coming together just
to have a little bit of, fun having a, laugh
having a. LAUGH a lot of our hoaxes have a
dark side and our manipulations and there's like human cruelty,
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involved and these ones are just just to have some,
fun just to.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Have some fun and like believe in a sillier world
for a moment where spaghetti grows on trees and you
can pitch two hundred miles an hour and you, know
you can google where your socks are and just have.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Fun you know what else is great is it gives
people a sense of like an inside joke that everyone
can be a part. Of, yeah WHICH i think everyone
likes to feel a part of. Something and that's the
service something Like Sid finch does is it's a it's a.
Meme it's like an inside joke for. Strangers.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah it also not to like take it to the depressing.
Place but like so Often i'll see a video that
brings me such delight UNTIL i realized that It's. Ai,
yeah and that is such a bummer BECAUSE i wanted
it to be real and it wasn't LIKE i wanted,
to you, know tother and a penguin to be best
friends and they're. Not and it was also, like no
one made this as a. Sketch they just asked the
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they just asked the computer to do. It but the
idea that THE bbc went through the trouble of pretending
that spaghetti grows on, Trees i'm, like that's delightful because
even though it's the same letdown Of oh that's not.
Real it's, like but someone did, that someone like put
all that effort into, it and that's.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
DELIGHTFUL i FIND ai misinformation, Odious, yes because ALSO i
don't think it's a joke for. Everyone it is to
trick you the, viewer where something like, this like The
sidfinch thing or the spaghetti on, trees it's supposed to
be like a moment of, like oh, haha and then
you know it's a, prank and then you're in on
it and you can like appreciate the humor and the
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ingenuity and like the community spirit and work that went into.
It where like AN ai video of like a baby
and a penguin being, friend it's some one guy at
his computer doing this being like those stupid idiots will
fall for, this OR i.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Would find this cute AND i want it to, exist
But i'm not willing to put in the effort to
like find a baby in a penguin or animated or
animated write a little short story about.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It, yeah there's no there's no. ARTISTRY i think. IT
i will be on the record as SAYING i am ANTI.
AI i think it degrades creativity in human. Culture it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Sucks it sucks a. Lot but, YEAH i mean both
of THESE i also think like speak to their moment really,
Well like you, know it's a. Prank the spaghetti trees
could only happen in a moment where there was like
curiosity about how food is made in other countries but
no knowledge about very little. Information and The Sid finch,
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THING i, mean there are so many quirky athletes who
have weird. Rituals Dennis rodman so you, know maybe he,
would if he were a baseball, player have only one.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Shoe, Yeah i've watched heated. Rivalry those guys are doing
all sorts of. Things one guys were in special socks
before he plays. Hockey can they do? That you haven't
gotten there. Yet but that's.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But there's so Many so it's like that's that's part
of the. Joke is like a love of baseball and
a love of strange quirky athletes just taken to the inn.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Degree you know what Else i'm sort of nostalgic for
is both of these stories are people liking. Journalists, oh
it's like journalism both being in important but also like
whimsical and fun enough that everyone could be in on
the joke.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
And that they were given a.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Budget, yeah they were given a. Budget there's like an
element of like delight and They in order to have
done either of these, pranks it needs to be established
enough in a culture that people care about. It And
i'm nostalgic for people caring about the news and also print.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Media, Yeah i'm very nostalgic for the. BUDGETS i am
a freelance writer by, day and you can't get a
dollar to do anything no man, alone like take your
friend To florida to stage pictures to pretend that you're
a baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
PLAYER i, mean that does sound like a good story though.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It would be so, fun it great.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Great oh, NO i made myself.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Sad, SORRY i feel LIKE i took us down that.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Road but Happy April Fool's day. Listen Happy April.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Fools day, listeners And, dana even though we're recording this
not anywhere near your. Performance you know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
WHAT i would love on The instagram and the dms
please or, Email please share any like good fun pranks
that you were involved in On April. Fools, YES i
would love.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That but led to laughter and. Happiness if they're.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Good, enough we can do like a little mailbag. Episode
sure if we get enough fun fun, ones.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Or i'll just repost them that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Too, Yeah, lizzie thank you so. Much where can the
good people find?
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Speaker 3 (36:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Folks, it's a hug sound no one, I haven't seen
what us see the last.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to Hoax, a podcast about the lies.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We wish we're true and truth that sound like lies.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm the ghost of Danish Schwartz.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
And I'm the evil twin of Lizzie Logan. Welcome to
the show, Dana. This podcast episode is coming out on
March thirtieth. Okay, so I thought, you know, assuming not
every single person listens to it the very day it drops,
this might be a good time to talk about April
Fool's Day.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's an April Fool's Day episode. Almost. Have you ever
done in April fools prank in your life?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yes, the I've like told lies and then been like
April Fools that's not true.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And the one time that I like something was shout
out Lily, who I know listens and was my roommate
in college. I had like a bunch of old teen magazines,
just whatever saved from my youth, and they always came
with posters that you could fill out, and so I
like covered her room in the posters, and when she
(01:21):
came home she was like, that's funny. It's not like
a I guess.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's like a prank, prank, but like, it's not a fool.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's not a fool. There's no like lie to it.
There's no hooks, there's no hooks to it. It's just
a funny thing to do.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You haven't made her a fool. No, I think one
year I got very excited by the idea of like
pranking my sister with like things I read like pranks
I read from like seventeen magazine.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I don't remember if I tried to do it
or chickened out, but I maybe replaced the top of
her deodorant with cream cheese. But then like, it didn't whatever,
I even if I did it, And I'm not sure
if I actually did it or not. It didn't like
look good enough to actually work.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, there was. There was the one. The only one
I know of that I think worked because I saw
other people fall for it was scraping out the inside
of an oreo and replacing it with toothpaste.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The thing which I think would look ye.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Enough to make a person take one bite.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, and I would for sure. I don't examine the
cream of an Oreo. I think the problem with April
Fool's Day is I don't really like it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Really.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I don't find pranks very funny.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And yet we have a podcast about hoaxes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I guess I think find them funny when they're done
to other people and I can learn about them. I
don't find engaging with pranks on a personal level funny,
and I don't like brands doing them.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
No brands. Absolutely, it became crtinge it immediately.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was like a year or two years they were
allowed to do it, and I don't know, maybe like
two thousand and five the last year they could do it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I will say that. So we're going to talk about
the history of April Fool's Day, and then we're going
to talk about a couple of my favorite It was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Such a good idea because of course, yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
It's the only it's the hoax holiday.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's the hoax holiday. Happy hoax Day.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But one that I ended up not including because the
ones that I picked are just so much better. But
one that I ended up not including, which I guess
I'm including because I'm just gonna spitball it now. Google.
I think really like set the tone for a lot
of brand pranks, and they used to do they used
to like make little funny websites that were sort of
(03:36):
semi functional where it was like you could google where
your socks are if you couldn't find your socks, and
like stuff like that. And they officially stopped doing pranks
in twenty twenty, Yeah, because they didn't want to be
whimsical during the pandemic. And I also think they just
didn't want to do fake news and they haven't picked
it up since. And I'm like, you know, if you're
(03:57):
if you're a brand trying to do an April Fool
Stay prank when not even Google is doing it, Like, no,
do you.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Know that Pokemon go started as an April Fools prank? No?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I thought it. I mean I thought it started as
like a joke. I didn't know that it was in
April Fools Day prank.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It began as in April Fool's Google thing. Basically Google
released a video inviting people to use Google Maps to
catch Pokemon. It was like another like interactive thing where
they're like used Google Maps to catch Pokemon, and basically
the programmers were like, oh, this is actually a pretty
good idea and then they developed it as a game.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay, well I love that. I can't believe I didn't
find that when I was researching this. Yeah, I did
find the one where they rolled out a feature where
the the you could press a button and that was
like the conversation over button where it would add an
it would add a gift to your email of like
the minion dressed as Queen Elizabeth dropping a mic, and
(04:53):
they would automatically archive the whole thing, except that they
replaced the actual send an archive button with it, and
so people like did that on their like work emails.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I mean, that's very funny, but also, yeah, you can't
interrupt the normal flow of events.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
And Gmail was announced on April Fool's Day, so people
thought it was a prank. Anyway, let's get back to
Let's let's get back to the main hoax. Main hoax.
But that that Pokemon Go thing is interesting, Now, that's
super interesting. I'm like annoyed that I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'm getting there's a very special episode another podcast that
I do about that. So if you want to go
a full story of that, everyone can go listen and.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Pause this listen to that. Okay, we're back Okay, we're back.
Nobody really knows when April fools Day started, but it's
sometime like in the fifteen sixties.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, this is much older than I thought.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, but again because nobody knows, so, like, it's commonly
thought that in the fifteen sixties, when various European countries
started moving from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar,
the first day of the year moved from like around
Easter to January, and so if you still celebrated New
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Year in spring, you were like, a fool.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh that's that's like a fun explanation whether or not
that's true.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, so it was like, haha, you didn't get the
memo about the calendar. Yeah, there's you know, a reference
in one book from like fifteen sixty one where it's
someone in April will was sent on a fool's errand
and they're like, could this be an ancient to April fool.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And you're like, probably not, but maybe, but who knows.
They had the at least they had the concept of
fools in the fifteen hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Well, Emperor Constantine. There's a famous story about Emperor Constantine.
He made his Jester Kugel King for a day, and
King Kogle declared that going forward on that day would
which was April first, it would be like a day
of merriment and jokes. Oh, except that's not true. Oh no,
(07:08):
but you can find it like cited on the web
as like, well, there's the story of Constantine. But if
you see that, listener, you know that it's not a
very good journalist, because that is a lie. There was
a bu professor in the eighties and he got a
call from the Associated Press who were like, can you
please explain the origins of April Fool's Day And he
was like no, like I can't help you, and they
(07:31):
were like come on, come on, And he was so
insistent that the guy just made this story.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Up as a meta prank.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
He thought everyone would know it was a joke because
Google is a Jewish dessert.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah. I was like, that's a very funny name for adjuster.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, but it's not real. It's a little April Fool's
Day joke.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, good for him, that's I love his commitment
to the bit.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yep. In France, April Fool's Day it's like April Fish Day, oh,
because fish are really hungry in the spring, so they're
easy to catch. So if you're in April fish it
means you're gullible, you're the poison d' avrine. Their tradition
for April Fish Day is that the big joke is
that you tape a paper fish to someone's back.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I mean, that's funny, it's cute. I would like a
holiday if that was the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Yes, I was supposed to do that today.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now, yeah, that's once a year. Once a year on
April Fool's Day, you can tape a paper fish to
my back and then I'm like, ah, you got me.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In Scotland, it's gouk Day or hunt a gouk. It
means hunt the gouk, which is a cuckoo bird or
a fool. And the idea is that you send like
a young person to deliver a very important message and
you give them the slip of paper and they I
mean this is in the pre telephone era. Yeah, you
would give them a very important message and you would say, okay,
(08:48):
go give this message to so and so, and then
the recipient opens it up and it says, dinna laugh,
din a smile, But hunt the gouk another mile and
they're supposed to then say Okay, go no, go deliver
this to another person. You see how long you can
make them run around. But you're supposed to stop by midday,
not supposed to do it all day.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, that's nice that there's like a rural build in
to not abuse the children.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The most common old timey prank for April Fool's Day
seems to just be like sending someone somewhere to get
something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, and you know what, that's good. I also like,
if you're only doing it to children, like this should
be like a child holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, or like you're assistant or something. You know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
In Iceland it's jileipa, which means run April. And the
idea is that you get people to go someplace, so
you might be like, oh my god, you know best
Buy TVs are only ten dollars, and see if you
can get a bunch of people to go there. You
might say, like, we just saw Harry Styles at the
corner store, and you try to get a bunch of
people to go there.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Do you think there's something interesting about the fact that
so many disparate cultures all have like a built in
day for like a gentle.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I mean, I think humans have a sense of humor,
and probably the Europeans mixed back in the day and
brought each other their culture.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, and I think there's something to be said for like,
you know how memes give people who aren't that funny,
like the framework to be funny. I think sometimes being
funny is like a human need, but like telling your child, like, oh,
deliver this message, like you don't have to be a
creative or funny person to do that, but you get
to have a little fun. Yeah. So it's almost like
(10:30):
a pro too meme that you get to feel like
part of something and have fun. And I don't mean
this disparagingly in the way that's like and you don't
have to think of a joke, but it's like you
get to just like have something and be part of
something without actually coming up with a joke yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Totally. I mean I think sharing a laugh with friends
like people will don't need an excuse and we'll find
any excuse.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah. Yeah, I think like the and sometimes you need
the framework to build things that are funny. If people
aren't like professionally creative people.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
But some people are professionally creative.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So I am going to now get into this might
be kind of a short episode. That's great two of
my favorite professionally produced April fool Stak ranks. So for
the first one, and I won't tell you the name
of it, I'm just gonna do a little bit of
table setting, Okay. England is sort of famous for having
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bland food, yes, and that's not I don't mean that
as like an insult.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You travel all over the world for spices and not
use them.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
So true, but like they're they're from nineteen forty through
nineteen fifty four, food was literally rationed.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, so there was a war happening, if I recall.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, and even afterward they kept rationing for like another
ten years. So food was not considered as like culturally
significant as say the arts, like you know England, and
they're gonna be like we got Shakespeare, we got you know, composers,
we got this, we got that. They're they're not thinking like, oh,
people should innovate in terms of food. There's no home
(12:10):
cooking culture. Yeah, there's just like I hope we have
meat this week, and we're gonna have eggs and potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And you know what they have. Jane Austen and Shakespeare.
So like, rest on your laurels.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
They're great, they're doing great, But knowing about different cuisines
is not a big thing in England at this time.
They didn't get pizza until the seventies and eighties. The
only place that you can get all of oil is
at the chemist because people use it to loosen their earwax.
So it's just not a thing to be that into food,
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or even into foreign food, and foreign in this case
means any place that's not England.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Although I'm going to do like a crate a hot take,
and I know food in England has gotten much much
better in the decades since rationing like a fry up
for breakfast and then like a tea and scon and
clouted cream. I genuinely love. Oh sure it's I think
it's great. I'm just saying I want to be on
the record as saying. Danah Schwartz thinks that the reputation
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of bad British food is no longer entirely accurate and
everyone should have some clotted cream.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So but let's take it back to nineteen fifty seven
and the BBC's Panorama, which is like one of their
premier news programs broadcasts the following and I don't know
if it's possible to get the rights to the audio
of this, so I'm going to have Dana watch it
and then recap it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Okay, great.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So this is playing on April first, nineteen fifty seven
on the news.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
It isn't only in Britain, that's spring. This year has
taken everyone by surprise. Most important of all, it's resulted
in an except only heavy spaghetti crocks the last two
weeks of March on an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I I'm so happy right now. It is an old
BBC newsreel with like a man speaking in that voice
that like Transatlantic voice.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's the actual guy who did Panorama, like it's the
real newscaster of the time.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
It's the guy, and he's walking us through the early
and spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, with specific details about the
plant and how it's grown and how it's harvested, and
showing lovely footage of like nice Swiss families fucking it
from bushes and trees. I find it actually genuinely astonishingly plausible.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
If you've never if you have like seen spaghetti in
real life once in your life. Yeah, if you don't
see pictures of it in magazines and there's no Internet,
why wouldn't you know he doesn't grow on trees.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Also, like, okay, spaghetti as a word to us is
we know what it is, but again it's a foreign word.
If you do not frequently eat spaghetti, there's no reason
that that word would mean. Well, I mean, we know
what a pasta is. I'm like, I completely watching that.
It sounds so silly, and I completely understand why people
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believe it because it's plausible and things are much weirder
than that that grow.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Really, the only way to get spaghetti at this time
in England is like canned spaghetti made by Hindes. You
don't get the dry noodles and make it it home.
So they're like, I maybe.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
That's where that can and you know what else is
in cans A lot of vegetables. Yeah, I know that
we historical people. People in the future tend to look
back on historical people and be like, they're so dumb.
There's a stupid If I saw that and I had
only seen canned spaghetti and did not know what that is,
I'm like, yeah, maybe it's a thing that grows on
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trees and has to be dry a lot of things. Beans.
Beans are a carb that are kind of like mushy
and like a carb you can eat in red sauce,
and those are grown somehow who knew? Who knew?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So people mostly got that it was a prank. Yeah,
but some call the BBC and they say, where can
I get a spaghetti bush? I want to grow some
spaghetti And the BBC tells them place a sprig of
spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for
the best, which I think is a very kind way
of saying, this is a prank that you fell for.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
It's a charming British prank, a dry vertishprank.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yes. The piece was thought of by Panorama camerman Charles Dieger,
who is from Austria and once heard his school teacher
teasing one of his classmates being like, you're so dumb
you'd believe that spaghetti grew on trees.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Oh yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
So Michael Peacock, the editor of Panorama, gave him a
budget of one hundred pounds to produce the piece.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I love it. This is like a small, small, industrious,
industrious artist at work.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
The broadcast was voiced by I mean the perfect name
for this guy, Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, yeah, his name is Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's what that guy is, the very respected host of Panorama,
which made it seem more plausible to people because it
was the voice they'd heard on the BBC every night.
And yeah, his name is Richard Dimbleby.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I also like that. They're like, you might be wondering
why it's grown in such even lengths, obviously breeding, and
I'm like, yes, plants are bread selective.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I mean we have square watermelon now. Yeah, for the stacking.
I think most adults, after like thinking about it for
a little bit, caught on that it was, uh prank.
But you know when you hear something as a kid
and you accept it as fact and you don't really
think about it, but you still remember it. Yeah, if
you go on Reddit, there's a few British adults who
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saw that as a kid, didn't know what April Fool's
Day was, never thought to say, hey, where does spaghetti
come from? And they're like, I was pretty old when
I realized that spaghetti doesn't grow much. Oh, that's so sweet,
It's so sweet. The prank also had a pretty long afterlife.
Ten years later, Australian reporter Dan Webb basically remade it
(18:20):
but for Australia. Yeah, and he talked about Australia's spaghetti
growing region and how the farmers were facing financial ruin
because of the spagworm which was eating their cross.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah. It was then used as a commercial in nineteen
seventy eight. You can watch like it's just an ad
for spaghetti and they just grow it on trees. And
Martha Stewart did it as like a little funny bit
on her show in two thousand and nine. She brought
out her spaghetti bush and showed how she prepares her
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fresh cut spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
It's like a funny little thing on April she did
on April Fools Day.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I imagine, yes, And it's like, I mean, I don't know
how many inside jokes there are for the food community,
but that's one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I like it too. I think you're gonna like this
one even more.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what you're converting me. I like April Fool's
Day now when they're good.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, all right, so I want to give a shout out.
I don't remember this person's name, but this was submitted
by a listener.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
The April first edition of Sports Illustrated nineteen eighty five
runs an article by George Plimpton titled The Curious Case
of Sid Finch, and it is I've read it. It's
a wonderful piece of reporting about the Mets. They're currently
at spring training in Florida, and they're hiding their new
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secret weapon, which is a pitcher who's very quirky. He
wears one hiking boot on his right foot and his
left foot is bare. He showed up out of the
blue one day. He wasn't recruited. He just found a
scout and said, I've learned the art of the pitch.
His name is Sid Finch, and he can throw a
ball one hundred and sixty eight miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Well, okay, great, great, great great.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
If you don't know baseball, that's not possible.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah. No, it's like nineties are like really really fast.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can break a hundred, like a top top pitcher
can break a hundred, but not by that much.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah that sounds insane.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah. Sid is a Harvard dropout whose foster parent died
in a plane crash in the Himalayan Mountains. He knows
a dozen languages and plays the French horn. He lives
like a monk with very few possessions and sleeps on
a rug on the floor. He's a devout Buddhist. Sid
is actually short for his chosen name, which is sid Artha.
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He wears his hat backward, he doesn't like to dress
in uniform, and he doesn't even want money. He doesn't
have a contract with the Mets because he's just in
it for the love of the pitch. Yeah, he says,
I don't want to do practice. I don't want to
be with the team. I'm going to come when I want.
I just pitch. It's all very then, and they have been.
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There's a tent erected in the Mets training area for
him to practice in, sort of away from everybody else.
He is unfortunately injuring the catcher every time.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
This guy has to catch. But you know the one
hundred and sixty miles an hour, that's.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
The price of greatness.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
The article is pretty long, and it ends on this
note of like, well, hopefully he's at the season opener.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Can't wait to see him.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, and Mets fans are very excited.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Well yeah. I mean also, you're like, Sports Illustrated is
not a fun notably to my knowledge, I don't read
Sports Illustrated. To be fair, I wouldn't think of it
as a funny magazine.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
No, people don't.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And I mean George Plimpton is like a famous writer.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Oh and he's written for the magazine before. He's written
things that turned out to be true. So Mets fans
are very excited. Mets have been like slowly on the
up on the on the past few seasons. They're like,
oh my god, this is gonna do it. This is gonna,
you know, get us all the way. As far as
the other Mets players know, most of them, this could
be real because there has been like a gangly guy
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at spring training. He's in a real Mets uniform. He's
number twenty one. He's been sitting in the bullpen and
then going behind ten. When fans ask the pitching coach
about it about like, hey, who's that guy, he just goes, oh,
you'll hear about it later.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
And there are other reporters around and they keep overhearing
the pitching coach saying like hey, like how's Sid doing.
So there's you know, talk of a new Mets player
named Sid Yeah, at a press conference, the pitch the
pitching coach just says, oh, we haven't, we haven't slotted
him into the lineup yet.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh, that's the Mets are in on it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
If you were to call into Sports Illustrated or write
a letter, you'll reach the staff, who, as far as
they know, nothing is a miss. So they just say,
Sports Illustrated hold his reporters to the highest standards.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Wow. That's I mean, this is taking a prank very far.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's taking it far by simply not telling people what
you're doing, Yeah, and letting them continue to believe that
you run a vagazine the prints only fact.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
The Mets beat reporter gets really mad and is like,
why did you give this exclusive to Sports Illustrated. I'm
here every day And they're like, I guess he's a
better reporter than some general managers of other teams. Call
the Commissioner of Baseball and they're like, you can't let
this guy pitch. He's gonna hurt our batters.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah, you can't let someone pitch at one hundred and
sixty eight miles an hour. It ruins the game. If
iron Man is playing, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
The subhead of the article, like, so, the the headline
is the Curious Case of Sidfinch. The subhead is He's
a pitcher, part Yogi and part recluse, impressively liberated from
our opulent lifestyle. Sid's deciding about yoga and his future
in baseball. And I'm going to give listeners a chance
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to think about that, and I'm going to repeat it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh no, is there some like clever pund I'm just to.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He's a pitcher, part Yogi and part recluse, impressively liberated
from our opulent lifestyle. Sid's deciding about yoga and his
future in baseball.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Is it? What does it spell out? What did the
letters spell out?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Happy April fools the okay?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Great? I was like, I know it's spelling out something, yeah, and.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Then says ah fib yeah. Yeah. So they didn't really
try to hide that it was fake. George Blinton was like,
I thought it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, he wears one hiking boot. But also it's a
context thing where if you're not looking for a prank.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This was the managing editor's idea. He realized that much
like this podcast, Sports Illustrated came out on and he
was like, oh my god, April first is a Monday
this year. We should do something with that. Nelson doubled
a junior at this point, owns the publishing house that
prints George Plimpton's books, and he's also chairman of the
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board of the Mets. So going through Plympton, going through
Nelson Doubleday is how they were able to set all
of this up. Flynch guys, yeah, connected guys. Plimpton writes
the article and then the photographer Lane Stewart recruits his
friend Joe Burton to go to Florida to take some pictures.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Oh so they actually have a lanky guy hanging around
in a Mets uniform. Oh yeah, fakes it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Burton is a teacher in Illinois. He's six'. Four he
needs a really beat up, mit so he borrows one
from one of his seventh grade, students and the seventh
grade boy is, like, yeah you can borrow my. Mitt in,
EXCHANGE i want a copy of The Sports Illustrated swimsuit
issue and he got. It, fair, fair, fair you know what.
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Fair stuart And burton know each other because they both
really like. Miniatures oh.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Everything's a.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Minuture that's so. True but that's like how they know each.
Other And burton's a big baseball, fan so he's.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Like, great, great that's so. Fun he gets to go
to spring training with The. Mets.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Yeah the pictures that run with this are like very.
Involved burton had been To, egypt so they have pictures
of you, know quote Unquote sidfinch traveling the, world and
then they need pictures Of sid's dorm room At. Harvard
but one of the staffers in The Sports Illustrated art
department has a son who goes To, harvard so they
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get some pictures. There this was going to be five,
pages but it keeps getting more. Involved so.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
FUN i love a group. Project you're, like whose son
goes To?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Harvard it becomes fourteen. Pages The mets are in on,
it the pitching coaches in on. It he Coached burton
through like how to do a pitch for the pictures
that they took on the. Beach, yeah because that's he. Practices, Obviously,
well he's not in the. Tent he's on the beach
for yoga.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
REASONS i imagine there was.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
At least one newspaper who sent someone to go Find
finch and then they had to call him and, say
oh come. Back oh. NO abc does a piece on
it and it's three minutes. Long but and then right
at the end they Say april. Fools but you, know
if you only caught the first two, minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
So they knew it was An April, fools it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Take a lot to figure. Out it basically takes, like you,
know it takes a few days for sort of everyone to.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Be, like oh, god this came out On April. Fools
this is. Ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Yeah. Yeah The yankees have no sense of humor about,
it of.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Course because they don't like the.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Mess so they're just, like we think this sucks and
is an insult of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Baseball, honestly it's the it's a celebration of. Baseball total
limsay a team project.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Fun the publisher Of Sports illustrated is a little bit.
Mad he's, like we can't print things that aren't.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
True, yeah oh.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah other than, that big big Hit mets fans are
writing in with all these jokey, letters being, like, MAN
i was so, excited LIKE i want this to be
real and haven't The mets suffered. Enough someone sends a
reporter To burton's school to see how fast he can
pitch and he pitches sixty eight miles an, hour which
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is pretty. Respectable and then he's, like, no the one
on your spinnometer is. Broken it's one sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Sixty that's.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Fun On april, first The mets have a press conference
to Announce sid's.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Retirement all, RIGHT i mean a rep to his. Career.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yep burton goes and he says, Like i'm just not
ready for a baseball. Career and then in nineteen eighty,
six The mets do win The World. Series, yay Without Sid, finch.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
But with his. Spirit but with his.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Spirit so it IS i think like a, fun happy
ending for all of The mets fans who got their hopes.
Up they did get Their World.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Series it's like the buoyant spirit Of sidfinch carried them
on with a sense of community and camaraderie in the world.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Too and maybe the impossible is. Possible maybe a person
could pitch crazier faster than anyone can.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
PITCH i like people being sweet and.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Nice in nineteen eighty, Seven plimpton turns it into a. Novel,
Yes burton goes with him on the book. Tour great
if you see him Around chicago a lot of people recognize,
him and he's happy to sign an autograph As Sid.
FINCH i am From.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
CHICAGO i might have seen him IF i ever see
a tall man wandering.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Around he's pretty striking. Looking and whenever The mets are
in town playing The cubs or The White, sox they
always set aside some tickets for, him which he loves
because he's a big baseball. Fan in twenty, fifteen for
the thirtieth anniversary of the, PRANK espn makes a thirty
for thirty about, it and this revives a lot of
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interest In, sidfinch and The Brooklyn cyclones decide to do
A Sid Finch night where they hand Out sidfinch bobble
heads and they do yoga on the field and they
raise money for relief efforts In.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Nepal i'm looking at the. Picture it looks like he
also got a baseball.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Card, Oh i'm sure that's so. CUTE i really like the.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Photograph the photograph of his photography is really. Striking one,
barefoot he has giant Feat.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
The cyclones play the national anthem on The french horn
because that's What Sid finch, played and they Let burton
throw out the first. Pitch aw in twenty twenty, five
he finally goes To queens for the fortieth anniversary of the,
prank and he goes To City field and hangs out
with the nets and he talks at a press. CONFERENCE
i don't know if he did the press conference in
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character or, not but adore up, charming, adorable and he's
so happy to Be. SIDFINCH i think he's retired, now
but his wife gave some quote where he was, like
this is the dream come true because he loves. Baseball
he was never good enough to play, baseball but he
is a baseball. Celebrity, yeah and that Is, sidfinch and
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that is Our April Fool's day.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Episode see this makes me so. Happy and honestly news
you can use because this is news that makes you
feel good in a world that can be very challenging and,
difficult and these are stories about people coming together just
to have a little bit of, fun having a, laugh
having a. LAUGH a lot of our hoaxes have a
dark side and our manipulations and there's like human cruelty,
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involved and these ones are just just to have some,
fun just to.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Have some fun and like believe in a sillier world
for a moment where spaghetti grows on trees and you
can pitch two hundred miles an hour and you, know
you can google where your socks are and just have.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Fun you know what else is great is it gives
people a sense of like an inside joke that everyone
can be a part. Of, yeah WHICH i think everyone
likes to feel a part of. Something and that's the
service something Like Sid finch does is it's a it's a.
Meme it's like an inside joke for. Strangers.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah it also not to like take it to the depressing.
Place but like so Often i'll see a video that
brings me such delight UNTIL i realized that It's. Ai,
yeah and that is such a bummer BECAUSE i wanted
it to be real and it wasn't LIKE i wanted,
to you, know tother and a penguin to be best
friends and they're. Not and it was also, like no
one made this as a. Sketch they just asked the
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they just asked the computer to do. It but the
idea that THE bbc went through the trouble of pretending
that spaghetti grows on, Trees i'm, like that's delightful because
even though it's the same letdown Of oh that's not.
Real it's, like but someone did, that someone like put
all that effort into, it and that's.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
DELIGHTFUL i FIND ai misinformation, Odious, yes because ALSO i
don't think it's a joke for. Everyone it is to
trick you the, viewer where something like, this like The
sidfinch thing or the spaghetti on, trees it's supposed to
be like a moment of, like oh, haha and then
you know it's a, prank and then you're in on
it and you can like appreciate the humor and the
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ingenuity and like the community spirit and work that went into.
It where like AN ai video of like a baby
and a penguin being, friend it's some one guy at
his computer doing this being like those stupid idiots will
fall for, this OR i.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Would find this cute AND i want it to, exist
But i'm not willing to put in the effort to
like find a baby in a penguin or animated or
animated write a little short story about.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It, yeah there's no there's no. ARTISTRY i think. IT
i will be on the record as SAYING i am ANTI.
AI i think it degrades creativity in human. Culture it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Sucks it sucks a. Lot but, YEAH i mean both
of THESE i also think like speak to their moment really,
Well like you, know it's a. Prank the spaghetti trees
could only happen in a moment where there was like
curiosity about how food is made in other countries but
no knowledge about very little. Information and The Sid finch,
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THING i, mean there are so many quirky athletes who
have weird. Rituals Dennis rodman so you, know maybe he,
would if he were a baseball, player have only one.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Shoe, Yeah i've watched heated. Rivalry those guys are doing
all sorts of. Things one guys were in special socks
before he plays. Hockey can they do? That you haven't
gotten there. Yet but that's.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
But there's so Many so it's like that's that's part
of the. Joke is like a love of baseball and
a love of strange quirky athletes just taken to the inn.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Degree you know what Else i'm sort of nostalgic for
is both of these stories are people liking. Journalists, oh
it's like journalism both being in important but also like
whimsical and fun enough that everyone could be in on
the joke.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
And that they were given a.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Budget, yeah they were given a. Budget there's like an
element of like delight and They in order to have
done either of these, pranks it needs to be established
enough in a culture that people care about. It And
i'm nostalgic for people caring about the news and also print.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Media, Yeah i'm very nostalgic for the. BUDGETS i am
a freelance writer by, day and you can't get a
dollar to do anything no man, alone like take your
friend To florida to stage pictures to pretend that you're
a baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
PLAYER i, mean that does sound like a good story though.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It would be so, fun it great.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Great oh, NO i made myself.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Sad, SORRY i feel LIKE i took us down that.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Road but Happy April Fool's day. Listen Happy April.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Fools day, listeners And, dana even though we're recording this
not anywhere near your. Performance you know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
WHAT i would love on The instagram and the dms
please or, Email please share any like good fun pranks
that you were involved in On April. Fools, YES i
would love.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
That but led to laughter and. Happiness if they're.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Good, enough we can do like a little mailbag. Episode
sure if we get enough fun fun, ones.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Or i'll just repost them that.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Too, Yeah, lizzie thank you so. Much where can the
good people find?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
You the good people can ALWAYS dm me At hoax
the podcast on the Old instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
What about, You. Dana they can find me On instagram
At danish sworts with three z's and also on TikTok
or email at hoaxthpodcast at youmail dot.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Com it's in Our instagram.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Bio thank you so much for. Listening please hoax.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
Responsibly Hi hoax is a production Of iHeart.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Podcasts our hosts Are Danish sports And Lizzie. Logan our
executive producers Are Matt frederick And Trevor, young supervising Producer rima.
L kali and Producers Nomes griffin And Jesse. Funk our
theme music was composed By Laine. Montgomery for more podcasts From,
iHeartRadio visit The iHeartRadio, App Apple, podcasts or wherever you
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