March 31, 2026 • 10 mins
It's April Fool's Day, so naturally Lisa & Russell opened the phone and text lines to ask you guys about the best pranks you hear, organised or been on the receiving end of.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
April Fool's Day, yes, but only until mid day, and a.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Punch for the first of the month in the axis.
But yeah, no, just there. Yeah, there was always that
thing about if you didn't get in with your thing
before midday doesn't count. I think that that applies to
all pinching and punching on first first days of the month.
We want to talk about the best prank April Fool's Day,
prank that you either instigated or you were on the
(00:25):
receiving end of. There've been some classics over the years.
You know the entrepreneur slash Aviat of Dick Smith. He's
always been a big prankster, and in nineteen seventy eight
he said We're going to float an iceberg from Antarctica
into Sydney Harbor. Well, of course thousands of people showed up.
(00:47):
This was April Full's Day. Thousands of people showed up
to watch the floating of the iceberg into the harbor
and it took several hours for onlookers to realize the
iceberg was made from white sheets, shaving cream and firefi foam.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Another one from Sydney, and it was a radio station
that did this back in the seventies They told everybody
that they were going to put that there was going
to be a jumbo traveling underneath the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, and thousands of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
People line Sydney Harbor to watch this low flying seven
four seven skim across the water and go under the bridge.
And what happened? No, it was an elephant.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Elephant long a sort of wrongly attributed to Doug mulray.
It was actually.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
On two SM SM one of the most famous pranks
ever pulled in Australian meets.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Every day it was a prank day for Doug mull Rays.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
To be fair, a bit like every day's a bit
of a joke for us sometimes is.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The numbers seven six ninety six ninety six our text line.
Give us a caller a text. What is the best
prank you know of April falls.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Someone's pulled a prank on you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Murray and Kenwick on the text says, I remember decades
ago a radio station said something about changing the airwaves
frequencies and you could talk into your car speakers and
the DJs could hear you. He thinks it might have
been Gary Shannon.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
More than likely, more than likely, more.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Than likely, And Mark and Jandicott says, I fell for
the rumor that Prince was going to make an appearance
in King's Park.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Prince King Prince Park.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, got it, Tony and Langford, good morning, good morning.
What is a prank?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've got a couple of good ones. One was from
ninety six of the eighties, I think it was they
said that an alien spacecraft crashed into the Swan River
and what they've done they put a Hessian bag with
dry ice and flashing lights under the narrow bridge. That
was one. But my favorite ball was and I can't
(03:03):
remember which radio state that was, there were one hundred
stranded dolphins on Floria's Beach and everyone raced down with everything,
buckets and everything to help them dopin.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, I think I remember that one. It was a
nice little Theready.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh God, thank you Tiny always radio stations up.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It'd be annoyed if he'd go on a fair distance.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes you would. You would have got something for it.
And it's April Fool's Day.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What's the best prank you've organized or been on the
receiving end.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of Kensington Police? A few years ago, probably about ten
years ago, actually I did a prank where they said
their dog squad were being trained to parachute from police helicopter.
Helicopters put the animals on the ground where they are needed. Well,
I don't think they were parachuting a light. I'm pretty
sure that was big strapped to their handler.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, you would hope, so I would hope.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So Aaron in Alchemas.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Good morning, A morning guys.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What is the best prank you've heard of?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Well, convinced my step daughter that bananas grows straight. So
when they picked their straight and then they get put
through a banana bending machine. So she didn't believe at first,
and then she ended up googling it and something come
up on the internet that actually had a banana bending machine.
(04:44):
So she was convinced from that point onwards that that's
how bananas are. You know, I founded up telling a
friend for ages. They were all looking at a bit
weird and strange, and you know, she was talking to
her dad. That was my stepdaughter, and she was talking
to her dad six months later and he set us straight,
No that's not true.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well there might have been a machine in Queensland. They're
banana benders, aren't they.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Well, that's what they call them. Yeah, no, no, she
was absolutely convinced for six months. But they come out
straight and they go through a bending machine.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's bending machines and there's bending machine.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That joke went longer than midday.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's great. Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I wonder she's forgiven him. I should have asked her.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I wouldn't have thought so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I wouldn't have especially when you start bringing other people
in on it. Peter from Melville just texted through. How
many people just googled banana bending machine?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I did? None on sale at the moment. Nothing out
of stock.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All right, we're talking about the best April fool so
pranks you've heard of. Jeffrey and alugod morning.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Have things well? Am I stuck keeper training. I was
doing a job a few years ago up in Woodlands
and uh, while I was on site terminating and cables
up from the ceiling covity, the the plumber just popped
his head up in the manhole and let go of
a party popper. Just a bit of a practical joke.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh you don't don't get up for Jesus.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No joke around electricity. Who was the April fool?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
There?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
The plumber that was on site.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, yeah, Si, yes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you still are you still sitting on that threat
to retaliate?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, exactly than.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Scotty in South Lake. What have you got for us?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Morning, Scotty, good morning.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I quite a few years ago, when my nephews were
very young, I took them out on a road trip
out into the country and it went past a couple
of farms who just harvested hay into the big round bales,
and they had and they had the white covers on them,
and I said to them, oh, look it's a giant
marshmallow farm.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We stop, Can we stop?
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
One of those would last for years. You need a
big fire and a very big stick.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Chocolate, yeah, just a big spoon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I could see how kid could fall for that one. Scott.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's funny, but gee, I mean that's talk about building
up a kid's hopes.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Look at the size of that marshmallow.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
And then they.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Go they go tell their dad, oh, we went to
a marshmallow farm, and he's like, what the hell.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Scotty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Thanks again, thanks mate, It's almost the mad uncle.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
On the text Joe in Hamilton Hill says, my friend
was getting married a couple of days after April Fool's Day.
I was her maid of honor and her only bridesmaid. Actually,
on April fulls Day, I called her and told her
I'd fallen down the stairs and broken my leg in
three different places and would have to be in a
brace and a cast and wouldn't be able to be
her maid of honor. She went to melk down crying
(08:30):
and crying and carrying on like a pork shop. Well,
I mean to be fair, so I let her believe
it for about an hour, and then I got her
back and said April fall. She was not happy. Jan No,
but we are still best friends forty years later.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Surprisingly, yeah, after she broke.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Her leg after the wedding with her.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Malice the broken leg, you joked about it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No more sin, Hillary says. Back in the nineties at
theF near Melbourne, some flight line guys built a life
sized stealth fighter by using a small truck, cardboard, rubbish
bins and a lot of black paint. They then hooked
up a to vehicle and drove around the flight line
(09:18):
for a while. But it was that nice and on
the front pages the next day read stealth fighters first
visit to Australia.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They went mcgiver.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Not so stealthy though, they went on mcgiver and fooled
us they did. Indeed, Now Shane in forest Field, what's
your April Fool's Day prank?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Were you the pranker or the prank ee?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
I was a pranker back in two thousand and six
when I moved to Pith from New Zealan, I told
my friends are back over there? The country kids wrote,
kangaroos to school.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's what a lot of America.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Don't they just jump down?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, of course you do one on George's terrace.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's a statue though, well, yes, it doesn't go very fast,
it doesn't come jump very high.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did they believe you've shown?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
They blames me for a little bit, and then a
few of them googled it and turn around said to me,
you were so full of it because I probably explained that.
You know, they put the hardest on it like you do.
That is mouth's mouth with range and everything. Yeah, for
(10:31):
a while they believed.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That as much chances riding a key way to school.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Mate, you could ride one of those avalon spiders. Though
those gigantic spiders they have in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Could could, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They're as big as a dinner plate.
April Fool's Day, yes, but only until mid day, and a.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Punch for the first of the month in the axis.
But yeah, no, just there. Yeah, there was always that
thing about if you didn't get in with your thing
before midday doesn't count. I think that that applies to
all pinching and punching on first first days of the month.
We want to talk about the best prank April Fool's Day,
prank that you either instigated or you were on the
(00:25):
receiving end of. There've been some classics over the years.
You know the entrepreneur slash Aviat of Dick Smith. He's
always been a big prankster, and in nineteen seventy eight
he said We're going to float an iceberg from Antarctica
into Sydney Harbor. Well, of course thousands of people showed up.
(00:47):
This was April Full's Day. Thousands of people showed up
to watch the floating of the iceberg into the harbor
and it took several hours for onlookers to realize the
iceberg was made from white sheets, shaving cream and firefi foam.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Another one from Sydney, and it was a radio station
that did this back in the seventies They told everybody
that they were going to put that there was going
to be a jumbo traveling underneath the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, and thousands of.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
People line Sydney Harbor to watch this low flying seven
four seven skim across the water and go under the bridge.
And what happened? No, it was an elephant.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Elephant long a sort of wrongly attributed to Doug mulray.
It was actually.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
On two SM SM one of the most famous pranks
ever pulled in Australian meets.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Every day it was a prank day for Doug mull Rays.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
To be fair, a bit like every day's a bit
of a joke for us sometimes is.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
The numbers seven six ninety six ninety six our text line.
Give us a caller a text. What is the best
prank you know of April falls.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Someone's pulled a prank on you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Murray and Kenwick on the text says, I remember decades
ago a radio station said something about changing the airwaves
frequencies and you could talk into your car speakers and
the DJs could hear you. He thinks it might have
been Gary Shannon.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
More than likely, more than likely, more.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Than likely, And Mark and Jandicott says, I fell for
the rumor that Prince was going to make an appearance
in King's Park.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Prince King Prince Park.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, got it, Tony and Langford, good morning, good morning.
What is a prank?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've got a couple of good ones. One was from
ninety six of the eighties, I think it was they
said that an alien spacecraft crashed into the Swan River
and what they've done they put a Hessian bag with
dry ice and flashing lights under the narrow bridge. That
was one. But my favorite ball was and I can't
(03:03):
remember which radio state that was, there were one hundred
stranded dolphins on Floria's Beach and everyone raced down with everything,
buckets and everything to help them dopin.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh, I think I remember that one. It was a
nice little Theready.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh God, thank you Tiny always radio stations up.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It'd be annoyed if he'd go on a fair distance.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes you would. You would have got something for it.
And it's April Fool's Day.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What's the best prank you've organized or been on the
receiving end.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of Kensington Police? A few years ago, probably about ten
years ago, actually I did a prank where they said
their dog squad were being trained to parachute from police helicopter.
Helicopters put the animals on the ground where they are needed. Well,
I don't think they were parachuting a light. I'm pretty
sure that was big strapped to their handler.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Well, you would hope, so I would hope.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
So Aaron in Alchemas.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Good morning, A morning guys.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What is the best prank you've heard of?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Well, convinced my step daughter that bananas grows straight. So
when they picked their straight and then they get put
through a banana bending machine. So she didn't believe at first,
and then she ended up googling it and something come
up on the internet that actually had a banana bending machine.
(04:44):
So she was convinced from that point onwards that that's
how bananas are. You know, I founded up telling a
friend for ages. They were all looking at a bit
weird and strange, and you know, she was talking to
her dad. That was my stepdaughter, and she was talking
to her dad six months later and he set us straight,
No that's not true.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well there might have been a machine in Queensland. They're
banana benders, aren't they.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Well, that's what they call them. Yeah, no, no, she
was absolutely convinced for six months. But they come out
straight and they go through a bending machine.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
There's bending machines and there's bending machine.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That joke went longer than midday.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's great. Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I wonder she's forgiven him. I should have asked her.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I wouldn't have thought so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I wouldn't have especially when you start bringing other people
in on it. Peter from Melville just texted through. How
many people just googled banana bending machine?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I did? None on sale at the moment. Nothing out
of stock.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All right, we're talking about the best April fool so
pranks you've heard of. Jeffrey and alugod morning.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Have things well? Am I stuck keeper training. I was
doing a job a few years ago up in Woodlands
and uh, while I was on site terminating and cables
up from the ceiling covity, the the plumber just popped
his head up in the manhole and let go of
a party popper. Just a bit of a practical joke.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oh you don't don't get up for Jesus.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No joke around electricity. Who was the April fool?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
There?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
The plumber that was on site.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yes, yeah, Si, yes.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Are you still are you still sitting on that threat
to retaliate?
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, exactly than.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Scotty in South Lake. What have you got for us?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Morning, Scotty, good morning.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I quite a few years ago, when my nephews were
very young, I took them out on a road trip
out into the country and it went past a couple
of farms who just harvested hay into the big round bales,
and they had and they had the white covers on them,
and I said to them, oh, look it's a giant
marshmallow farm.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We stop, Can we stop?
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
One of those would last for years. You need a
big fire and a very big stick.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Chocolate, yeah, just a big spoon.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, yeah, nice.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I could see how kid could fall for that one. Scott.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's funny, but gee, I mean that's talk about building
up a kid's hopes.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Look at the size of that marshmallow.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
And then they.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Go they go tell their dad, oh, we went to
a marshmallow farm, and he's like, what the hell.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Scotty.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Thanks again, thanks mate, It's almost the mad uncle.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
On the text Joe in Hamilton Hill says, my friend
was getting married a couple of days after April Fool's Day.
I was her maid of honor and her only bridesmaid. Actually,
on April fulls Day, I called her and told her
I'd fallen down the stairs and broken my leg in
three different places and would have to be in a
brace and a cast and wouldn't be able to be
her maid of honor. She went to melk down crying
(08:30):
and crying and carrying on like a pork shop. Well,
I mean to be fair, so I let her believe
it for about an hour, and then I got her
back and said April fall. She was not happy. Jan No,
but we are still best friends forty years later.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Surprisingly, yeah, after she broke.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Her leg after the wedding with her.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Malice the broken leg, you joked about it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No more sin, Hillary says. Back in the nineties at
theF near Melbourne, some flight line guys built a life
sized stealth fighter by using a small truck, cardboard, rubbish
bins and a lot of black paint. They then hooked
up a to vehicle and drove around the flight line
(09:18):
for a while. But it was that nice and on
the front pages the next day read stealth fighters first
visit to Australia.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They went mcgiver.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Not so stealthy though, they went on mcgiver and fooled
us they did. Indeed, Now Shane in forest Field, what's
your April Fool's Day prank?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Were you the pranker or the prank ee?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
I was a pranker back in two thousand and six
when I moved to Pith from New Zealan, I told
my friends are back over there? The country kids wrote,
kangaroos to school.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That's what a lot of America.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Don't they just jump down?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, of course you do one on George's terrace.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's a statue though, well, yes, it doesn't go very fast,
it doesn't come jump very high.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Did they believe you've shown?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
They blames me for a little bit, and then a
few of them googled it and turn around said to me,
you were so full of it because I probably explained that.
You know, they put the hardest on it like you do.
That is mouth's mouth with range and everything. Yeah, for
(10:31):
a while they believed.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
That as much chances riding a key way to school.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Mate, you could ride one of those avalon spiders. Though
those gigantic spiders they have in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Could could, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
They're as big as a dinner plate.
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