April 16, 2024 • 33 mins
We've set our clocks to "April Fools' Standard Time" for this special episode! Join us as we unravel the tangled web of pranks, starting with the age-old question: why do we dedicate a whole day to tom-foolery anyway? Hint: it involves more than just rubber chickens and whoopee cushions.
From the legendary spaghetti harvest hoax to the infamous "Left-Handed Whopper," prepare to have your funny bone tickled (who says that anyway). And hey, did you know that April 1st isn't just a playground for pranksters? It's also been the backdrop for some truly fascinating moments in history.
So grab your rubber chickens, buckle up, and join us for an adventure that's guaranteed to leave you wondering: who's the real April fool here? Don't miss your exit.
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the light on? Yeah, youknow why they used to call it motel
six. Six dollars a night?What six dollars a night? Eight?
Yes, super eight dollars a night. I remember we had a Super eight
in my hometown. I don't rememberit being eight dollars a night. That
was probably no, not the case, but I'm so old I remember when
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it was like twenty eight dollars andworth every freaking penny. Yeah, so
there you have it. Those werethe hotels that sometimes offered the very exclusive
and lovely vibrating bed. Oh ohyes, so your back massage for traveling
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salesmen and such. You know yeah, people who were on the road driving
all the time, needed a break, needed a little massage. I have
a question about the vibrating massages.Why vibrating? Like to me, it's
not like my sore muscles go awaywhen I'm just like shaking and stuff like,
I you know, like I wouldI wouldn't pay for something to come
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and just shake me. I wouldwhat but what how does it help your
muscles? Well, actually, likeyou know, it actually does. The
vibration can sort of just relax youand loosen your tired flesh. Okay,
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yeah, so well it does work. I mean if you think about like
the percussion guns. Yeah right,that's just a really intense pounding vibration.
Yeah that's true. It's true,but it's kind of more specific, right,
like, well, yeah, youcan target it to something. I'm
just having a bed that's like right, the noises. I don't know how
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relaxing that is. It's like it'slike, well, I don't know,
you know, I don't think Icould just put on chalk wallery and love
connection and hit that which quarters inand oh you also had to pump up
with quarters. It wasn't like anAuschwitz. Yeah yeah. So did you
know the history of April fools.I don't know the history of apri fulls.
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They say that it dates back tofifteen eighty two. Wow, I
know, right, So they werelike jokers back then. So France switched
from the Julian calendar to the Gregoriancalendar. Okay, that was kind I
know about that, right, Iknow you do, because you've talked about
it before, and that was calledfor by the Council of Trent in fifteen
sixty three. The Julian calendar asin the Hindu calendar, and the new
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year began with the spring equinox aroundApril first. So people had a hard
time recognizing this. You know,it's hard even like daylight savings time.
So this was like a major change. This is like daylight savings time on
steroids. They were slow to getthe news and they failed to recognize the
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start of the new year and movedto January first, and they continued to
celebrate it during the last week ofMarch through April first, and that became
the butt of the joke. Iknow, I know, hilarious, But
so those people were called April fools. Oh I see, So you were
like a fool to have to tohave fallen for that long joke. Yes,
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a really long janny joke, likesigning your checks, you know,
still nineteen eighty four when it isclearly twenty twenty four. If you paid
attention enough to the people celebrating itin january'd go, oh, yeah,
that's right, that's the new newyear, right, But instead they just
ignored that whole celebration and forgot aboutit and still celebrated it. And April,
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yeah, the last week of March, and they were just like whoa.
And you know, I bet youNew Year's Celebration was even a bigger
deal back then, when you mightonly have you know, thirty four of
them in your life if you're lucky, if you're an old timer. But
there also been historians that link toApril Fool's Day to festivals such as Hilaria,
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which is Latin for joyful. SoI want to just start using it,
Hilaria, You are Hilario, AreHilario? And so Hilaria was celebrated
in ancient Rome at the end ofMarch by followers of the Cult of Cybel.
It involved people dressing up in disguises, which is always fun, and
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mocking fellow citizens and even magistrates.I was said to be inspired by the
Egyptian legend of Isis Osiris. Andso see that to me would be fun,
not you know, maybe not makingfun of people, but yeah,
yeah, right, but if youcould mock all of like if we could
do this in a different month andmock our politicians, how fun would that
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be? Anyway? So the history, the history of April Fool's Day.
You know, nobody really knows,but there's plenty of historians that have researched
it, and I think they wereprobably just bored. I feel like I
remember in England they call it allfools Day or something like that, all
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fools Day and they do the samething where stuff like going on a wild
goose chase basically and playing prayings,doing hopeses, things like that, so
very similar to what we do,but they call it all fools Day.
And one of the things I rememberabout I think it was in It was
in at least part of Great Britain. I'm not sure what part. Tradition
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of hunting. The gok gok gouk, I don't know how it's pronounced g
o u k. Yeah, it'sit means like the cuckoo, like the
bird, the cuckoo bird. Isn'tthere a bird called a gowk? Yeah?
Maybe that is, like my momalways says, doc, I don't
know, let's see, let's justyeah that it means like you get sent
on like errands that are not real, or like foolish things, or you're
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getting sent on like a wild goosechase, like I mentioned, so it's
just like hunting. The gawk isthe tradition of that All Fools Day in
Great Britain or somewhere over there.It also means foolishness. Oh oh,
pronounce gok gok go like oh,I guess yeah, because ow could be
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a lot of out Oh yeah,could be that. Like bo, you
were talking about some funny April Foolspranks. Yeah, so they're you know,
April Fools. I don't know ifyou've ever played some April Fools jokes,
but are pranks, but I haveand or I have had them happen
to me in the past, andusually pretty lighthearted. I would say.
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One of the things that I didI remember doing that got a good amount
of people interested at my work wasone time I walked around squirting mayo in
my mouth, like for lunch,just like squirting it, you know,
like yeah, oh yeah, Iknow that sounds wrong right anyways, because
it's I mean, I like mayo, but I don't want to I don't
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really want to do that. Peoplewere kind of like, what the heck
is going on? You know.I was just sitting in the cafeteria doing
that in our lunch room and then, but they didn't know I had.
I had switched it out with VanillaPudding before I got to work, so
oh thank Anyways, Yeah, Idon't know how much of a prank that
on was, but everybody was prettylike, what the heck is she doing?
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That is somebody cat on I wouldbe doing that on April Fool's Day.
So I was found out. Ididn't. I'm going right now,
it was just Vanilla pudding. Iswear, well, Jessica what it just
seems not like you. Okay,this sounds wrong. I need to not
talk about scorting things in my mouthbecause this is probably highly misinterpreted. Okay,
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Yeah, so I have played AprilFool's jokes and I have them happened
to me too. But there havebeen some really large April Fools jokes that
have happened across the world. Withinthe US, definitely. I wanted to
share some of those things that havehappened in the past that people or even
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states and governments and companies have doneas an April Fool's joke. So in
nineteen fifty seven, the BBC aireda segment on its popular current affairs program
Panorama featuring a family in Switzerland harvestingspaghetti from trees yum ma. The segment
showed footage of spaghetti noodles dangling fromtrees and claimed that a mild winter had
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resulted in a bumper spaghetti crop.Many viewers were fooled by that prank and
called the BBC to inquire about growingtheir own spaghetti trees. Are you freaking
kidding me? I don't know whatwould make you think that spaghetti actually grew
on trees? And what was thepoint of it? It came of itouls
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I know, you know, Iwould be okay, So I would have
added to that, and I wouldhave shown, like my cousin tapping a
pine tree for some putinesca sauce orsomething. Yeah, that would have been
That would been good. That wouldhave been a good addition to that.
Yeah, right right. In nineteeneighty nine, the comedian and talk show
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host Jay Leno reported on his latenight show that the White House was haunted
by the ghost of former President AbrahamLincoln. Leno claimed that numerous White House
staff members had reported sightings of Lincoln'sghosts wandering the halls, and the prank
was so convincing that it prompted inquiriesfrom concerned citizens, and even made headlines
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and newspapers. In nineteen ninety eight, Burger King published a full page advertisement
in the USA Today announcing the introductionof a left handed whopper. Yeah,
Clay, have you heard of thatone? They're delicious. Yeah. The
ad claimed that the new burger wasspecially designed for left handed customers, with
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all the content, with all thecondiments rotated one hundred and eighty degrees to
better suit their dominant hand. Theprank led to numerous requests for the left
handed version of the burger, despiteit being exactly identical to the original whopper.
That's awsome, you know. Igot a left handed whopper, but
I'm not left handed, So Ihad my husband, who is left handed,
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feed it to me and it didtaste different, or, as the
kids would say it, it justhit different. Oh my god. In
two thousand and eight, The Guardiannewspaper published a tongue in cheek advertisement announcing
the launch of a new Guardian breathableedition. The ad claimed that the newspaper
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had developed a special technology allowing readersto smell the news as they read it.
Yum. While some readers were puzzled, they actually, it was like
one of the most recognized April Fool'sDay joke at that time. Talk About
had a similar ad that went outin nineteen ninety six. They took a
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full page ad and sent it toseveral newspapers, including the New York Times
in the Philadelphia Choir. They wantedto announce that they were actually purchasing the
Liberty Bell and renaming it the TacoLiberty Bell. And it actually because I
mean, obviously, we are veryproud of our heritage here in this country.
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So it caused a big uproar.It turns out it was just an
April Fool's Day joke and it wasfor publicity, you know, for their
new items on their menu. Butthere was actually quite a stir. People
just can't take a joke, canthey. In nineteen seventy four, residents
of Sika, Alaska, woke upon April Fool's Day to see plumes of
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black smoke rising from long dormant MountainEdge or Mount edgecoom. And it's actually
a volcano. It's a dormant volcano. So concerned citizens alerted the authority,
only to discover that a local prankster, Porky Bicker had flown hundreds of old
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tires to the volcano's crater and setthem on fire. Uh yeah, so
it's a legendary in Alaska. Iguess that everybody thought that volcano was gonna
rrupt. Well, if you havea porky Bicker or what a porky bicker
Bicker? No, if your nameis Porky Bicker, you better be funny.
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Yeah, you know, I wonderif he got arrested. Oh,
you know, I don't know.I have one more. I got one
more carmon. This one is uhkind of crazy, and I just still
can't believe that people will fall forthese things. But I guess if it
comes from a source that you believe, which nowadays I don't know if anybody
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would believe anything. But in nineteenseventy six, there was a British astronomer
named Patrick Moore, and he announcedand the BBC radio too, that a
rare alignment of the planets Jupiter andPluto would momentarily decrease Earth's gravity. How
scary is that? But seriously,okay more claimed that if listeners jumped in
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the air at exactly ninety seven am, I can't even get through It's that's
so ridiculous. They would be experiencinga floating sensation. Well, some listeners
did report feeling lighter. It wasdefinitely a playful April Fool's Day joke.
You know, I wonder if everybodydid just jump up at the same time.
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Yeah, what would happen? You? The heart would do? You
think the earth would tilt. Here'ssome people that you definitely wouldn't want to
be hanging out with who did orparticipated in April Fools jokes unwittingly. So
a manager at a Hooters restaurant inFlorida. So you got me at Hooters
in Florida, right there, Yeah, right there? Yep. This probably
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was one of the nicer Hooters.He decided to celebrate April Fool's Day.
Why did I say he? Ijust assume. In two thousand and one,
he offered a free Toyota to employto the employee sold the most beer
that day. At the end ofthe day, the manager blindfolded the winning
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employee and led her outside to theparking lot, where he presented her with
a prize, a toy Yoda Yoda oh my, a plastic doll of
the popular character from Star wars.The waitress was so upset she sued for
breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation,and was ultimately awarded enough money to pick
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out any real toyotas she wanted.I was gonna say, I that is
totally wrong, Like you should not, like you cannot do that to an
employee. There is no way.Oh my god, that's bad. I
don't think it's that bad. Ithink I think it would be funny.
I think you'd probably be disappointed andyeah whatever, But I mean, come
on, you don't deserve a carfor doing your freaking job. Los Angeles
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firefighter Tenny Pierce was awarded one pointfour million dollars when a coworker snuck in
dog food into the dinner as ajoke on April Fools. Oh my.
Firefighters sued for racial harassment, emotionaldistress, retaliation, and failure to investigate.
So okay, that's a totally differentthing. If they didn't even investigate.
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I don't think. I don't thinkApril Fools jokes should go into your
body like nothing eople medicine or foodor anything like that. It's only supposed
to mess with your head, notyour India. You don't. Yes,
Oh yeah, that's how some peopleare gross. Some people are gross about
that stuff. I mean, andthen my question is that if dog food
is really that gross, why arewe feeding it to our dogs? But
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whatever, that's other, that's awhole other episode. I think it's dog
food. You could probably blend thatin with just about anything. I mean,
people eat food at certain restaurants,and if you look at the contents
inside a crunchy tortilla at a verypopular restaurant, a very popular fast food
restaurant, it looks and smells verysimilar to a nice pet patche. I
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mean, seriously, we put somuch junk in our and our system now
as people. And then to thinkthat dog food, I mean, like,
why would you give that something grosslike that too? It's just the
concept. I get it, Butand it is. And I mean,
I'll get my dog. I makemy dogs own food, and yeah,
I uh, it's good enough toeat. So here's the last one.
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In two thousand and five, inCalifornia, Shannon Castillo was on the receiving
end in April Fools Break when shethought that she had won a new Hummer
from a local radio station. Whenshe arrived to collect her prize, she
was handed a toy replica. Again. Castillo sued the radio station for fraud
and sought damages for sixty thousand dollarsNew Humber Wow like because she because they
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felt like it was misrepresentation of whateverthey were doing. Right. Yeah,
but I don't know if she won, because I'm sure that a radio station
would take into consideration all of thesuing Sarah's out there, and then Nancis,
and then Karen's, and the mudget, Kevin's, what else, the
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the shitty Shawn's, the snatty Stevens. They would They probably have a legal
department that with sure that the wordingon their their thing was completely up and
up on the up and each sothey didn't get sued to protect them from
such people, you know, andof course you know that would be really
devastating if you thought you want anew vehicle. And I'm just imagining that
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people who are listening to the radiostation that long to win a hummer probably
don't have a lot of other thingsgoing on in their life. It's different
than listening to podcasts, yes,right, of course, so much different.
It is so much different. I'msure she was devastated. And I'm
sure the employee of the Hooters.I mean, I don't know if that's
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the height of a person's life workingat Hooters. Maybe it is, and
maybe it is. Yeah, butI'm sure anybody who's working in the service
industry, including us, somebody toldus, man, if you hit your
numbers, you're getting a new car. I don't know that I would sue
them. I would be disappointed,and I might drop the F bomb at
least seventy times, you know,And I would definitely not if I was
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that person's boss, I definitely wouldpark my car anywhere work I had access
to it, saying what about theold you know, just the old the
old tricks that people used to pulllighting a bag of dog poop on fire.
Yeah, they went away from that. I guess, you know,
well, because somebody probably started aforest fire. I almost had farted a
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store as fire. I read somebodydid some One of the ones I recently
heard about was somebody changed like youknow, there's actually an autocorrect setting so
like on people's phones, so youcan change a certain word to another word,
and then if they don't know what'shappening, then every time they say
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hello, like it might come offas like banana or something instead of Hello,
whatever. You know, something embarrassing, and they're really trying before they
hit send. It's just sending everytime and they're trying to switch it.
But yeah, I've seen that onea couple of times when they freeze a
cockroach in an ice cube. Ohyeah, yeah, that's good. That
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would sit me and do hysterics.Oh yeah, like, I know,
you don't mess with that because cockroachesto me are like the scariest creature.
They're grossed. They're just too fastfor what they are. I I really
don't get scared too much of bugs. I don't want to touch them.
Yeah, that would gross me out. It would really gross me out.
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There's a rubber chicken drop in LaPlaza, New Mexico, every April Fool's
Day that small town of La Plaza. Residents and visitors gather in the small
town square and watch as rubber chickensare dropped from rooftops and balconies onto the
street below. The event, whichstarted as a lighthearted prank decades ago,
has become a tradition in the town, and a lot of people come just
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to see the rubber chickens. Rubberchickens drop. I would go for that.
Yeah. You know, you don'tsee a lot of rubber chickens these
days, you know, And youknow you look back at comedy and rubber
chickens were hilarious. Well, howfunny do you think? This is an
eighteen year old? I say thatI want to put some emphasis on the
age, because, okay, aneighteen year old thought it was funny to
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prank her boyfriend on April Fools witha pregnancy test that said oh positive.
Oh man, yeah eighteen right,yeah, So I'm assuming her boyfriend was
close in age. He didn't reactthe way she wanted him to, so
she put a knife on him.What she pulled a knife on him?
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He had to call the police.Yes, wow, yeah, how terrible
is that? That's terrible. That'sthat's definitely a frank. God's wrong.
Oh my gosh. I've seen aprank where some I don't even know if
it's a prank. It's just somegirl giving the positive test to her boyfriend,
right or her husband. I don'teven know who it is. But
these young kids. She gave itto him and he reacted and he goes
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are you serious right now? Youknow, are you serious about this?
Why are you even here? LikeI'm going going on a camping trip next
week, and why are you here? You know you're you're sharing the germs,
Like he was talking about all thisstuff, and he did not know
what a pregnancy test looked like,but was very aware of what a COVID
test looked like. So she wastrying to like explain, and he was
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getting outraged that she would even showup and share COVID with all of the
family, and she was trying totell him that she was pregnant. Oh
my god, like locked up theroom unapolitically. How do you even come
back from that? She's like,oh sorry, sorry, oh my god,
Oh my god. That's just bemindful of your pranks because you might
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not get the results you want.Like I'm sure in her eighteen year old
brain, this girl was thinking thathe was gonna be like, oh my
god, let's get married and shecould be like April fools. But he
was like, are you sure I'mthe father or never yet? What did
he say that would have freaked herout and not for her to polland poland
well clearly she I mean, comeon, yeah, eighteen, and you're
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like playing ignancy jokes. Not funnyon so many levels, Like yeah,
yeah. The only way that couldeven be remotely funny is if you were
a savant that had already graduated collegeand you were like practicing medicine at Columbia,
right, and you were all youwere all set for life. In
cases it's true, Yeah, youalready have your career set and you're dating
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a beautiful doctor in Ocean Shores,Washington. Yeah, that sounds like a
nice place to go. Actually,Ocean Shores, that's where I want to
be from They the coastal town,of course of Ocean Shores has a it's
an April Foll's Day. Uh.It's commemorated with the Duct Tape Regatta,
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a whimsical boat race featuring homemade vesselsconstructed entirely out of duct tape and cardboard.
Participants compete in various categories and cleanspeed, creativity, and sea worthiness,
and they are given a wars forthe most impressive innovative designs. Yeah.
I love a good regatta. Yeah, regatta of course, yes,
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you know, uh, do youremember when we were in France and we
see that regatta? Never regatta yes, no, Wow, the good old
days. The Middle Day is backin France in Trucky. Remember Trucky.
We had an episode about truck Trucky, California. Yeah, they have a
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charming you know, it's a charmingmountain town. I don't know if we
we talked about how charming it wasin that in that episode, it's like,
but so charming. Yeah, socharp. April Fool's Day is marked
with a giant Jenga tournament held inthe town's central Park. Residents and visitors
compete against each other in teams tobuild, build, and topple towering Jenga
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towers made of oversized wooden blocks.The event, which combines strategy, skill
and humor, is a popular attractionon April four to attend. Yeah,
anybody ever get crushed when it falls? I still you could think about is
like, okay, so what doyou do? Is it kind of like
when you're cutting down a tree,everybody backs away, Try and make sure
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you make that last cut just right? Like how tall are we talking here?
Or is it made of balsa wood? Oh? Maybe a little.
You have to protect it from therain and the and the well, not
rain so much, but the wind. Your whole jenga could fly away.
I want to know how big thoseblocks are, because if it's pretty big,
then you've got to be kind ofstrong to pull out that. And
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then if it's much higher, dothey use ladders? How do you get
up high? Like? What isthe how do you construct it enough to
go up to the next level ofthe Jenga? Are cranes permitted? Maybe
maybe there's some cranes involved. Yeah, that's what we have to We're gonna
have to go to Trucky next yearon April first. We're gonna be there
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in Trucky, California and drinking aTrucky mule. Yeah, yes, there.
Now, this is not not allof these are April Fools Day related,
but there have been some other thingsthat happen on April April first.
I just want to I just wantto mention some of these things on this
day in history. On April first, nineteen seventy six, Apple Inc.
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Was founded by Steve jobs Or.I wasn't April Fool's Day joke. It
was an actual starting of that ofthe company in nineteen seventy It's kind of
an April Fool's Day joke to everybodywho's bought an Apple product, because you
have to keep buying. I'm buying, I'm buying. It's like as soon
as you buy your first Apple,then they're like, oh now we've got
the Apple Tube. You know.In seventeen hundred, year seventeen hundred,
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English pranksters began began. I don'twhy did I say, beganin I guess
so fairly, uh big again,you've been reading Canadian magazines too much.
They began popular popularizing the tradition ofplain, practical jokes. So even though
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in whatever year fifteen whatever it was, what was the year you said againsty
three fifteen sixty three was, thatwas where it originated. Probably most likely
that's where it originated. In theyear seventeen hundred is when prankster started using
April first in a way to celebrateApril Fool's Day or April first nineteen seventeen
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eighty nine. The United States Houseof Representatives held their first full meeting on
April first, seventeen eighty nine,in New York City. Frederick Augusta Augustus
Mulenberg was elected the first Speaker ofthe House that day. In eighteen sixty
seven, Singapore became a British Crowncolony. In nineteen forty six, the
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Aleutian Islands earthquake, struck in theIllusion Islands of a Last Got on April
first, with a magnitude of eightpoint six, was one of the most
powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the UnitedStates yep. In nineteen seventy, President
Richard Nixon signed the Public Health CigaretteSmoking Act into law on April first,
and then he lit one up whilehe was reading I was announcing it or
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what. Yeah, Then he litone up and he said, so much
for a long day with the office. In two thousand and one, the
Netherlands became the first country in theworld to legalize same sex marriage. On
April first, two thousand and one. Oh, okay, yep. In
two thousand and four, Google Inc. Launched Gmail as a free email service
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on April first. People thought itwas an April Fool's Day joke. I
can imagine why, Yeah, yep, it's yeah. I mean, think
about it now, I mean,who'd have thought that could ever happen?
Well, Jessica, I wanted totell you something. I'm yeah, I'm
pregnant. What I'm kidding? AndI don't even have a knife with this
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baby. I don't want to sayI don't want to say. Oh,
Jessica, It's always nice to seeyou. Yeah, always nice to see
you too, paper fools, No, just kidding. Thanks everyone for joining
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Yes, for sure, I wouldn'tstay at thet I wouldn't stay at Motel
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the light on? Yeah, youknow why they used to call it motel
six. Six dollars a night?What six dollars a night? Eight?
Yes, super eight dollars a night. I remember we had a Super eight
in my hometown. I don't rememberit being eight dollars a night. That
was probably no, not the case, but I'm so old I remember when
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it was like twenty eight dollars andworth every freaking penny. Yeah, so
there you have it. Those werethe hotels that sometimes offered the very exclusive
and lovely vibrating bed. Oh ohyes, so your back massage for traveling
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salesmen and such. You know yeah, people who were on the road driving
all the time, needed a break, needed a little massage. I have
a question about the vibrating massages.Why vibrating? Like to me, it's
not like my sore muscles go awaywhen I'm just like shaking and stuff like,
I you know, like I wouldI wouldn't pay for something to come
(04:09):
and just shake me. I wouldwhat but what how does it help your
muscles? Well, actually, likeyou know, it actually does. The
vibration can sort of just relax youand loosen your tired flesh. Okay,
(04:29):
yeah, so well it does work. I mean if you think about like
the percussion guns. Yeah right,that's just a really intense pounding vibration.
Yeah that's true. It's true,but it's kind of more specific, right,
like, well, yeah, youcan target it to something. I'm
just having a bed that's like right, the noises. I don't know how
(04:50):
relaxing that is. It's like it'slike, well, I don't know,
you know, I don't think Icould just put on chalk wallery and love
connection and hit that which quarters inand oh you also had to pump up
with quarters. It wasn't like anAuschwitz. Yeah yeah. So did you
know the history of April fools.I don't know the history of apri fulls.
(05:10):
They say that it dates back tofifteen eighty two. Wow, I
know, right, So they werelike jokers back then. So France switched
from the Julian calendar to the Gregoriancalendar. Okay, that was kind I
know about that, right, Iknow you do, because you've talked about
it before, and that was calledfor by the Council of Trent in fifteen
sixty three. The Julian calendar asin the Hindu calendar, and the new
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year began with the spring equinox aroundApril first. So people had a hard
time recognizing this. You know,it's hard even like daylight savings time.
So this was like a major change. This is like daylight savings time on
steroids. They were slow to getthe news and they failed to recognize the
(05:57):
start of the new year and movedto January first, and they continued to
celebrate it during the last week ofMarch through April first, and that became
the butt of the joke. Iknow, I know, hilarious, But
so those people were called April fools. Oh I see, So you were
like a fool to have to tohave fallen for that long joke. Yes,
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a really long janny joke, likesigning your checks, you know,
still nineteen eighty four when it isclearly twenty twenty four. If you paid
attention enough to the people celebrating itin january'd go, oh, yeah,
that's right, that's the new newyear, right, But instead they just
ignored that whole celebration and forgot aboutit and still celebrated it. And April,
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yeah, the last week of March, and they were just like whoa.
And you know, I bet youNew Year's Celebration was even a bigger
deal back then, when you mightonly have you know, thirty four of
them in your life if you're lucky, if you're an old timer. But
there also been historians that link toApril Fool's Day to festivals such as Hilaria,
(07:10):
which is Latin for joyful. SoI want to just start using it,
Hilaria, You are Hilario, AreHilario? And so Hilaria was celebrated
in ancient Rome at the end ofMarch by followers of the Cult of Cybel.
It involved people dressing up in disguises, which is always fun, and
(07:32):
mocking fellow citizens and even magistrates.I was said to be inspired by the
Egyptian legend of Isis Osiris. Andso see that to me would be fun,
not you know, maybe not makingfun of people, but yeah,
yeah, right, but if youcould mock all of like if we could
do this in a different month andmock our politicians, how fun would that
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be? Anyway? So the history, the history of April Fool's Day.
You know, nobody really knows,but there's plenty of historians that have researched
it, and I think they wereprobably just bored. I feel like I
remember in England they call it allfools Day or something like that, all
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fools Day and they do the samething where stuff like going on a wild
goose chase basically and playing prayings,doing hopeses, things like that, so
very similar to what we do,but they call it all fools Day.
And one of the things I rememberabout I think it was in It was
in at least part of Great Britain. I'm not sure what part. Tradition
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of hunting. The gok gok gouk, I don't know how it's pronounced g
o u k. Yeah, it'sit means like the cuckoo, like the
bird, the cuckoo bird. Isn'tthere a bird called a gowk? Yeah?
Maybe that is, like my momalways says, doc, I don't
know, let's see, let's justyeah that it means like you get sent
on like errands that are not real, or like foolish things, or you're
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getting sent on like a wild goosechase, like I mentioned, so it's
just like hunting. The gawk isthe tradition of that All Fools Day in
Great Britain or somewhere over there.It also means foolishness. Oh oh,
pronounce gok gok go like oh,I guess yeah, because ow could be
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a lot of out Oh yeah,could be that. Like bo, you
were talking about some funny April Foolspranks. Yeah, so they're you know,
April Fools. I don't know ifyou've ever played some April Fools jokes,
but are pranks, but I haveand or I have had them happen
to me in the past, andusually pretty lighthearted. I would say.
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One of the things that I didI remember doing that got a good amount
of people interested at my work wasone time I walked around squirting mayo in
my mouth, like for lunch,just like squirting it, you know,
like yeah, oh yeah, Iknow that sounds wrong right anyways, because
it's I mean, I like mayo, but I don't want to I don't
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really want to do that. Peoplewere kind of like, what the heck
is going on? You know.I was just sitting in the cafeteria doing
that in our lunch room and then, but they didn't know I had.
I had switched it out with VanillaPudding before I got to work, so
oh thank Anyways, Yeah, Idon't know how much of a prank that
on was, but everybody was prettylike, what the heck is she doing?
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That is somebody cat on I wouldbe doing that on April Fool's Day.
So I was found out. Ididn't. I'm going right now,
it was just Vanilla pudding. Iswear, well, Jessica what it just
seems not like you. Okay,this sounds wrong. I need to not
talk about scorting things in my mouthbecause this is probably highly misinterpreted. Okay,
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Yeah, so I have played AprilFool's jokes and I have them happened
to me too. But there havebeen some really large April Fools jokes that
have happened across the world. Withinthe US, definitely. I wanted to
share some of those things that havehappened in the past that people or even
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states and governments and companies have doneas an April Fool's joke. So in
nineteen fifty seven, the BBC aireda segment on its popular current affairs program
Panorama featuring a family in Switzerland harvestingspaghetti from trees yum ma. The segment
showed footage of spaghetti noodles dangling fromtrees and claimed that a mild winter had
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resulted in a bumper spaghetti crop.Many viewers were fooled by that prank and
called the BBC to inquire about growingtheir own spaghetti trees. Are you freaking
kidding me? I don't know whatwould make you think that spaghetti actually grew
on trees? And what was thepoint of it? It came of itouls
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I know, you know, Iwould be okay, So I would have
added to that, and I wouldhave shown, like my cousin tapping a
pine tree for some putinesca sauce orsomething. Yeah, that would have been
That would been good. That wouldhave been a good addition to that.
Yeah, right right. In nineteeneighty nine, the comedian and talk show
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host Jay Leno reported on his latenight show that the White House was haunted
by the ghost of former President AbrahamLincoln. Leno claimed that numerous White House
staff members had reported sightings of Lincoln'sghosts wandering the halls, and the prank
was so convincing that it prompted inquiriesfrom concerned citizens, and even made headlines
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and newspapers. In nineteen ninety eight, Burger King published a full page advertisement
in the USA Today announcing the introductionof a left handed whopper. Yeah,
Clay, have you heard of thatone? They're delicious. Yeah. The
ad claimed that the new burger wasspecially designed for left handed customers, with
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all the content, with all thecondiments rotated one hundred and eighty degrees to
better suit their dominant hand. Theprank led to numerous requests for the left
handed version of the burger, despiteit being exactly identical to the original whopper.
That's awsome, you know. Igot a left handed whopper, but
I'm not left handed, So Ihad my husband, who is left handed,
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feed it to me and it didtaste different, or, as the
kids would say it, it justhit different. Oh my god. In
two thousand and eight, The Guardiannewspaper published a tongue in cheek advertisement announcing
the launch of a new Guardian breathableedition. The ad claimed that the newspaper
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had developed a special technology allowing readersto smell the news as they read it.
Yum. While some readers were puzzled, they actually, it was like
one of the most recognized April Fool'sDay joke at that time. Talk About
had a similar ad that went outin nineteen ninety six. They took a
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full page ad and sent it toseveral newspapers, including the New York Times
in the Philadelphia Choir. They wantedto announce that they were actually purchasing the
Liberty Bell and renaming it the TacoLiberty Bell. And it actually because I
mean, obviously, we are veryproud of our heritage here in this country.
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So it caused a big uproar.It turns out it was just an
April Fool's Day joke and it wasfor publicity, you know, for their
new items on their menu. Butthere was actually quite a stir. People
just can't take a joke, canthey. In nineteen seventy four, residents
of Sika, Alaska, woke upon April Fool's Day to see plumes of
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black smoke rising from long dormant MountainEdge or Mount edgecoom. And it's actually
a volcano. It's a dormant volcano. So concerned citizens alerted the authority,
only to discover that a local prankster, Porky Bicker had flown hundreds of old
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tires to the volcano's crater and setthem on fire. Uh yeah, so
it's a legendary in Alaska. Iguess that everybody thought that volcano was gonna
rrupt. Well, if you havea porky Bicker or what a porky bicker
Bicker? No, if your nameis Porky Bicker, you better be funny.
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Yeah, you know, I wonderif he got arrested. Oh,
you know, I don't know.I have one more. I got one
more carmon. This one is uhkind of crazy, and I just still
can't believe that people will fall forthese things. But I guess if it
comes from a source that you believe, which nowadays I don't know if anybody
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would believe anything. But in nineteenseventy six, there was a British astronomer
named Patrick Moore, and he announcedand the BBC radio too, that a
rare alignment of the planets Jupiter andPluto would momentarily decrease Earth's gravity. How
scary is that? But seriously,okay more claimed that if listeners jumped in
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the air at exactly ninety seven am, I can't even get through It's that's
so ridiculous. They would be experiencinga floating sensation. Well, some listeners
did report feeling lighter. It wasdefinitely a playful April Fool's Day joke.
You know, I wonder if everybodydid just jump up at the same time.
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Yeah, what would happen? You? The heart would do? You
think the earth would tilt. Here'ssome people that you definitely wouldn't want to
be hanging out with who did orparticipated in April Fools jokes unwittingly. So
a manager at a Hooters restaurant inFlorida. So you got me at Hooters
in Florida, right there, Yeah, right there? Yep. This probably
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was one of the nicer Hooters.He decided to celebrate April Fool's Day.
Why did I say he? Ijust assume. In two thousand and one,
he offered a free Toyota to employto the employee sold the most beer
that day. At the end ofthe day, the manager blindfolded the winning
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employee and led her outside to theparking lot, where he presented her with
a prize, a toy Yoda Yoda oh my, a plastic doll of
the popular character from Star wars.The waitress was so upset she sued for
breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation,and was ultimately awarded enough money to pick
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out any real toyotas she wanted.I was gonna say, I that is
totally wrong, Like you should not, like you cannot do that to an
employee. There is no way.Oh my god, that's bad. I
don't think it's that bad. Ithink I think it would be funny.
I think you'd probably be disappointed andyeah whatever, But I mean, come
on, you don't deserve a carfor doing your freaking job. Los Angeles
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firefighter Tenny Pierce was awarded one pointfour million dollars when a coworker snuck in
dog food into the dinner as ajoke on April Fools. Oh my.
Firefighters sued for racial harassment, emotionaldistress, retaliation, and failure to investigate.
So okay, that's a totally differentthing. If they didn't even investigate.
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I don't think. I don't thinkApril Fools jokes should go into your
body like nothing eople medicine or foodor anything like that. It's only supposed
to mess with your head, notyour India. You don't. Yes,
Oh yeah, that's how some peopleare gross. Some people are gross about
that stuff. I mean, andthen my question is that if dog food
is really that gross, why arewe feeding it to our dogs? But
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whatever, that's other, that's awhole other episode. I think it's dog
food. You could probably blend thatin with just about anything. I mean,
people eat food at certain restaurants,and if you look at the contents
inside a crunchy tortilla at a verypopular restaurant, a very popular fast food
restaurant, it looks and smells verysimilar to a nice pet patche. I
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mean, seriously, we put somuch junk in our and our system now
as people. And then to thinkthat dog food, I mean, like,
why would you give that something grosslike that too? It's just the
concept. I get it, Butand it is. And I mean,
I'll get my dog. I makemy dogs own food, and yeah,
I uh, it's good enough toeat. So here's the last one.
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In two thousand and five, inCalifornia, Shannon Castillo was on the receiving
end in April Fools Break when shethought that she had won a new Hummer
from a local radio station. Whenshe arrived to collect her prize, she
was handed a toy replica. Again. Castillo sued the radio station for fraud
and sought damages for sixty thousand dollarsNew Humber Wow like because she because they
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felt like it was misrepresentation of whateverthey were doing. Right. Yeah,
but I don't know if she won, because I'm sure that a radio station
would take into consideration all of thesuing Sarah's out there, and then Nancis,
and then Karen's, and the mudget, Kevin's, what else, the
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the shitty Shawn's, the snatty Stevens. They would They probably have a legal
department that with sure that the wordingon their their thing was completely up and
up on the up and each sothey didn't get sued to protect them from
such people, you know, andof course you know that would be really
devastating if you thought you want anew vehicle. And I'm just imagining that
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people who are listening to the radiostation that long to win a hummer probably
don't have a lot of other thingsgoing on in their life. It's different
than listening to podcasts, yes,right, of course, so much different.
It is so much different. I'msure she was devastated. And I'm
sure the employee of the Hooters.I mean, I don't know if that's
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the height of a person's life workingat Hooters. Maybe it is, and
maybe it is. Yeah, butI'm sure anybody who's working in the service
industry, including us, somebody toldus, man, if you hit your
numbers, you're getting a new car. I don't know that I would sue
them. I would be disappointed,and I might drop the F bomb at
least seventy times, you know,And I would definitely not if I was
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that person's boss, I definitely wouldpark my car anywhere work I had access
to it, saying what about theold you know, just the old the
old tricks that people used to pulllighting a bag of dog poop on fire.
Yeah, they went away from that. I guess, you know,
well, because somebody probably started aforest fire. I almost had farted a
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store as fire. I read somebodydid some One of the ones I recently
heard about was somebody changed like youknow, there's actually an autocorrect setting so
like on people's phones, so youcan change a certain word to another word,
and then if they don't know what'shappening, then every time they say
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hello, like it might come offas like banana or something instead of Hello,
whatever. You know, something embarrassing, and they're really trying before they
hit send. It's just sending everytime and they're trying to switch it.
But yeah, I've seen that onea couple of times when they freeze a
cockroach in an ice cube. Ohyeah, yeah, that's good. That
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would sit me and do hysterics.Oh yeah, like, I know,
you don't mess with that because cockroachesto me are like the scariest creature.
They're grossed. They're just too fastfor what they are. I I really
don't get scared too much of bugs. I don't want to touch them.
Yeah, that would gross me out. It would really gross me out.
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There's a rubber chicken drop in LaPlaza, New Mexico, every April Fool's
Day that small town of La Plaza. Residents and visitors gather in the small
town square and watch as rubber chickensare dropped from rooftops and balconies onto the
street below. The event, whichstarted as a lighthearted prank decades ago,
has become a tradition in the town, and a lot of people come just
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to see the rubber chickens. Rubberchickens drop. I would go for that.
Yeah. You know, you don'tsee a lot of rubber chickens these
days, you know, And youknow you look back at comedy and rubber
chickens were hilarious. Well, howfunny do you think? This is an
eighteen year old? I say thatI want to put some emphasis on the
age, because, okay, aneighteen year old thought it was funny to
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prank her boyfriend on April Fools witha pregnancy test that said oh positive.
Oh man, yeah eighteen right,yeah, So I'm assuming her boyfriend was
close in age. He didn't reactthe way she wanted him to, so
she put a knife on him.What she pulled a knife on him?
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He had to call the police.Yes, wow, yeah, how terrible
is that? That's terrible. That'sthat's definitely a frank. God's wrong.
Oh my gosh. I've seen aprank where some I don't even know if
it's a prank. It's just somegirl giving the positive test to her boyfriend,
right or her husband. I don'teven know who it is. But
these young kids. She gave itto him and he reacted and he goes
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are you serious right now? Youknow, are you serious about this?
Why are you even here? LikeI'm going going on a camping trip next
week, and why are you here? You know you're you're sharing the germs,
Like he was talking about all thisstuff, and he did not know
what a pregnancy test looked like,but was very aware of what a COVID
test looked like. So she wastrying to like explain, and he was
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getting outraged that she would even showup and share COVID with all of the
family, and she was trying totell him that she was pregnant. Oh
my god, like locked up theroom unapolitically. How do you even come
back from that? She's like,oh sorry, sorry, oh my god,
Oh my god. That's just bemindful of your pranks because you might
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not get the results you want.Like I'm sure in her eighteen year old
brain, this girl was thinking thathe was gonna be like, oh my
god, let's get married and shecould be like April fools. But he
was like, are you sure I'mthe father or never yet? What did
he say that would have freaked herout and not for her to polland poland
well clearly she I mean, comeon, yeah, eighteen, and you're
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like playing ignancy jokes. Not funnyon so many levels, Like yeah,
yeah. The only way that couldeven be remotely funny is if you were
a savant that had already graduated collegeand you were like practicing medicine at Columbia,
right, and you were all youwere all set for life. In
cases it's true, Yeah, youalready have your career set and you're dating
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a beautiful doctor in Ocean Shores,Washington. Yeah, that sounds like a
nice place to go. Actually,Ocean Shores, that's where I want to
be from They the coastal town,of course of Ocean Shores has a it's
an April Foll's Day. Uh.It's commemorated with the Duct Tape Regatta,
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a whimsical boat race featuring homemade vesselsconstructed entirely out of duct tape and cardboard.
Participants compete in various categories and cleanspeed, creativity, and sea worthiness,
and they are given a wars forthe most impressive innovative designs. Yeah.
I love a good regatta. Yeah, regatta of course, yes,
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you know, uh, do youremember when we were in France and we
see that regatta? Never regatta yes, no, Wow, the good old
days. The Middle Day is backin France in Trucky. Remember Trucky.
We had an episode about truck Trucky, California. Yeah, they have a
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charming you know, it's a charmingmountain town. I don't know if we
we talked about how charming it wasin that in that episode, it's like,
but so charming. Yeah, socharp. April Fool's Day is marked
with a giant Jenga tournament held inthe town's central Park. Residents and visitors
compete against each other in teams tobuild, build, and topple towering Jenga
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towers made of oversized wooden blocks.The event, which combines strategy, skill
and humor, is a popular attractionon April four to attend. Yeah,
anybody ever get crushed when it falls? I still you could think about is
like, okay, so what doyou do? Is it kind of like
when you're cutting down a tree,everybody backs away, Try and make sure
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you make that last cut just right? Like how tall are we talking here?
Or is it made of balsa wood? Oh? Maybe a little.
You have to protect it from therain and the and the well, not
rain so much, but the wind. Your whole jenga could fly away.
I want to know how big thoseblocks are, because if it's pretty big,
then you've got to be kind ofstrong to pull out that. And
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then if it's much higher, dothey use ladders? How do you get
up high? Like? What isthe how do you construct it enough to
go up to the next level ofthe Jenga? Are cranes permitted? Maybe
maybe there's some cranes involved. Yeah, that's what we have to We're gonna
have to go to Trucky next yearon April first. We're gonna be there
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in Trucky, California and drinking aTrucky mule. Yeah, yes, there.
Now, this is not not allof these are April Fools Day related,
but there have been some other thingsthat happen on April April first.
I just want to I just wantto mention some of these things on this
day in history. On April first, nineteen seventy six, Apple Inc.
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Was founded by Steve jobs Or.I wasn't April Fool's Day joke. It
was an actual starting of that ofthe company in nineteen seventy It's kind of
an April Fool's Day joke to everybodywho's bought an Apple product, because you
have to keep buying. I'm buying, I'm buying. It's like as soon
as you buy your first Apple,then they're like, oh now we've got
the Apple Tube. You know.In seventeen hundred, year seventeen hundred,
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English pranksters began began. I don'twhy did I say, beganin I guess
so fairly, uh big again,you've been reading Canadian magazines too much.
They began popular popularizing the tradition ofplain, practical jokes. So even though
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in whatever year fifteen whatever it was, what was the year you said againsty
three fifteen sixty three was, thatwas where it originated. Probably most likely
that's where it originated. In theyear seventeen hundred is when prankster started using
April first in a way to celebrateApril Fool's Day or April first nineteen seventeen
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eighty nine. The United States Houseof Representatives held their first full meeting on
April first, seventeen eighty nine,in New York City. Frederick Augusta Augustus
Mulenberg was elected the first Speaker ofthe House that day. In eighteen sixty
seven, Singapore became a British Crowncolony. In nineteen forty six, the
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Aleutian Islands earthquake, struck in theIllusion Islands of a Last Got on April
first, with a magnitude of eightpoint six, was one of the most
powerful earthquakes ever recorded in the UnitedStates yep. In nineteen seventy, President
Richard Nixon signed the Public Health CigaretteSmoking Act into law on April first,
and then he lit one up whilehe was reading I was announcing it or
(31:21):
what. Yeah, Then he litone up and he said, so much
for a long day with the office. In two thousand and one, the
Netherlands became the first country in theworld to legalize same sex marriage. On
April first, two thousand and one. Oh, okay, yep. In
two thousand and four, Google Inc. Launched Gmail as a free email service
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on April first. People thought itwas an April Fool's Day joke. I
can imagine why, Yeah, yep, it's yeah. I mean, think
about it now, I mean,who'd have thought that could ever happen?
Well, Jessica, I wanted totell you something. I'm yeah, I'm
pregnant. What I'm kidding? AndI don't even have a knife with this
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baby. I don't want to sayI don't want to say. Oh,
Jessica, It's always nice to seeyou. Yeah, always nice to see
you too, paper fools, No, just kidding. Thanks everyone for joining
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