WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:10.119 Welcome to ouch. Was that a Ghost? This podcast may 2 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:15.720 contain graphic material which some listeners may find disturbing. Listener 3 00:00:15.800 --> 00:00:19.640 discretion is advised, is advice? 4 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:21.399 Yum me. 5 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:31.359 Now that we covered that, here's your host list. 6 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:43.920 Welcome back out that ghost this week, back again, twist 7 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:45.159 of her twisted tales. 8 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:46.600 How's it going? 9 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.280 But not too chabby? Not too chabby? And it's almost 10 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.280 April Fool's Day? Do you have any good plans for 11 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:55.399 April Fools working? 12 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:56.159 Probably? 13 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:57.399 No pranks planned. 14 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.000 No, I'll be too old by that. I'll be forty one. 15 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:03.359 That doesn't matter. That's the fun of April Fools. You 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.040 could be ninety. If I'm ninety, I'm still playing pranks. 17 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.319 Are you kidding me? That's better? You're unsuspecting. 18 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.200 It's like, gosh, he's ninety six. Now she'll calm down, 19 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:13.239 now she won't. 20 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:17.159 No, I'm gonna be haunted people playing pranks. Well pass 21 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.040 This plain of existence. 22 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.439 Is Lizzie Bordon. It's just list. 23 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.359 Oh, Lizzie's my idol. So today we're gonna be talking 24 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:28.480 about historical April Fool's Day pranks. 25 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:30.400 Uh? 26 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.760 So you had a theme? All right, this is good. 27 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:35.359 I like your style. 28 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:37.680 April Fools is the day when you can't trust anyone, 29 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:40.959 especially pregnancy announcements are any big news at all. A 30 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.120 day of trying to play harmless pranks on family or friends, 31 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:45.319 well hopefully harmless. 32 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.120 Yeah, I said I was pregnant last year. Nobody believed me. 33 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:51.200 Really, maybe you didn't sell it. 34 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.719 I mean I could have a little bit harder, I guess. 35 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.879 Yeah. So, although no one is one hundred percent sure 36 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.200 when April Fools pranks started, some say it was in 37 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.560 the Canterbury Tales back in thirteen ninety two, that it's referenced, 38 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.200 but some dispute and say that they're talking about it 39 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:11.240 but not being on April first. Okay, it's more commonly 40 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.039 thought to have originated in the sixteenth century. 41 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:15.319 We'll go with that. 42 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.280 In fifteen oh eight, there was a French poet, I 43 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.759 am so good at French names, so don't question how 44 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:27.159 this pronunciation comes out of my mouth. Soccerate elloy de, I'm. 45 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.840 A well perfect That's not what he was called. 46 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:36.800 In his poem he talked about April fish. April fish 47 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.080 it's a tradition of putting fish on others backs that 48 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.360 were gullible, and this was a clear instance of April 49 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.919 Fool's trickery. But how funny would that be, just running 50 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:50.039 around taping fish to other people's backs. 51 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.800 I was going to send you a video two days ago. 52 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.599 There one guy was sleeping on his belly, so they 53 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.159 taped chicken wings to his back like he had angel wings. 54 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.520 But it was just two chicken wings, and everybody was laughing, 55 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.319 but he was getting pissed off. He didn't know what 56 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:03.840 the wings. 57 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.520 It's not April chicken, it's April fish. They just sound ridiculous. 58 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:09.680 That's awesome. 59 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:13.479 They also cite a fifteen and sixty one Flemish poem 60 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.199 that tells of a man of nobility on April First 61 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.599 sending one of his servants on Fool's errands. So he'd 62 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.039 send like something to your house and it would have 63 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:25.560 like a note like hey, you know, we're just messing 64 00:03:25.599 --> 00:03:27.520 with this guy, and they'll just keep sending him around 65 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:28.639 as much as possible. 66 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:29.479 Oh nice. 67 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.599 Others have theorized its connection with the changing of the 68 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:36.319 calendars from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in fifteen 69 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:40.680 eighty two. This was introduced, not the Gregor, the Gregorian. 70 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.000 This was introduced by Pope Gregory the eighth, and this 71 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.000 shift in the calendar shifted the New Year's Day from 72 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.360 April first to January first, So people that didn't acknowledge 73 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:57.080 or remember that change, Like if you were celebrating New 74 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.960 Year's Day in April, you were ridiculed as April. Really yeah, 75 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.280 and so you'd get a fish stuck on your back. 76 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:05.560 You know, you don't want that to happen. 77 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:07.560 Oh, what kind of fish? 78 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:11.400 I'm not sure. It couldn't be too big, probably. 79 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:11.879 Just whatever they caught. 80 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:16.279 Yeah, that's just a few theories. Other think Roman festivals, 81 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.199 for example, Hilaria, we're in late March, you know, right 82 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:24.319 before April. They had a lot of celebrations with mocking 83 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.000 and costumes that would be used, or some say Hindu, Jewish, 84 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:32.399 Persian traditions as the possibility of the origin. Some historians 85 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:34.199 say that maybe it was the weather changing in the 86 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.000 vernal equinox that fooled people. 87 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:39.800 You don't want to think people see equinox. 88 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.800 In sixteen eighty six, an English author John Aubrey referred 89 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.000 to April first as Fool's holy day. There was also 90 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.839 a mention of Scotland's hunting the Gawk, where you would 91 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:55.959 try to send others on foolish errands. But I like 92 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:57.720 that it kind of has a mystery. It adds to 93 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.360 its charm. You know, you don't really know when it's started. 94 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:04.000 No, I mean that's kind of cool, like it probably 95 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:07.040 went a little bit before everybody's saying, you know what 96 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.160 I mean, because people always play pranks looking like alloeen 97 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:11.800 and shit, I got I gave to be it stuff. 98 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:13.800 At some point, it made its way to the US 99 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:16.639 in the eighteen hundreds, and now it's a normal thing 100 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.000 for everyone to try to pull a prank on April First. 101 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.480 You know, you trying to convince everyone you're pregnant. 102 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:23.800 That's twins, and. 103 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.439 Just about everyone has a story, you know, something that 104 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.360 happened to them or that they did. We're going to 105 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.240 talk about some notable April Fool's Day pranks today. 106 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:32.319 Sounds good. 107 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.000 Sorry, my cat, it looks like she's going to jump 108 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.800 on my head. Okay. So one of the earliest recorded 109 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.040 pranks for April Fool's Day was back in sixteen ninety 110 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:45.519 eight in London and residents were invited invited. Why did 111 00:05:45.519 --> 00:05:49.160 I say it like that? Residents were invited to the 112 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:50.000 Tower of London. 113 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:55.000 Did they push them off, they did not April. 114 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:59.759 They're in the moat. The residents could come and see 115 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:03.399 this ceremony of the washing of the lions, which of 116 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:06.120 course didn't exist. They didn't have all the lions in 117 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.800 the moats washing them. After this, they just kept this 118 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:12.519 tradition up. Like one year they'd be like, come here 119 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.120 and go to the White Gate, and there's no white 120 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.360 gate at the Tower of London. You know, they just 121 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.360 mess with people, Okay. So in nineteen sixty one, the 122 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:25.600 BBC advertised a concert that was by a distinguished continental pianist. 123 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.600 Did you ask who was this distinguished continental pianist? 124 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:30.480 Yes? 125 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.879 Hey, so who is this continental pianist? 126 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.360 It was lurp aloof? 127 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:38.720 Is that? So? 128 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.279 Everyone was pumped. They could not wait to hear this 129 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:47.959 lurp aloof tickle in those ivory Jesus Christ. But then 130 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:52.000 it was canceled. They freaking canceled lurt aloof. 131 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:53.240 People were pissed. 132 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:59.279 Lurp aloof aka April fools spelled backwards. Oh really, lurp aloof. 133 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:07.959 So on April first, nineteen sixty two, Sweden's I can't 134 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:11.839 believe this their only television channel. They had one TV 135 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.720 channel one, so they announced to viewers that there was 136 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:18.839 a hack that they could try at home. This one channel, 137 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:21.639 which was broadcast and black and white, had an expert 138 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:28.360 while the station's technical expert, Kjell Stenson. He came on 139 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.319 and told viewers how they could watch the channel in color. 140 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.120 That's no switching to color well from black and white. 141 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:37.759 Even though it was broadcast in black and white, he 142 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:39.480 was going to tell them how they could watch it 143 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:41.839 in color. He used a lot of jargon about light 144 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.439 spectrum interference, and he found sure that using a mesh 145 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.120 screen would make the black and white appear in color 146 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:52.000 by bending the image. And they at home could do this. 147 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.600 All they had to do was take a nylon stocking, 148 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.279 stretch it over the screen, and you just had to 149 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.800 move your head back and forth while it and then 150 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:01.920 you could see it in color. 151 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:03.680 I bet you a lot of people did this. 152 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.079 Thousands tried, and they found out they had been duped, 153 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.000 and they were out a pair of nylon stockings to boot. 154 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:11.480 See how he did boot. 155 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.399 To boot to boot, that's pretty funny. 156 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:18.680 In nineteen seventy four, April, first, obviously in Sitka, Alaska, 157 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.560 residents saw Mount Edgecomb. This was a four hundred year 158 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.199 old dormant volcano. It began to smoke, so residents just 159 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:31.040 poured onto the streets. Police, military were called. Military helicopter 160 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.039 was sent out to see what was going on, and 161 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.320 as it approached the mountain they saw a big pile 162 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:40.320 of burning tires in the volcano, and written in snow 163 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:43.120 on the side of the volcano said April fool. 164 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.519 Nothing like a good fire to bring people together. 165 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.679 Well, they all thought the volcano was going to burst. 166 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:49.679 I'd be freaking out, but. 167 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.480 They just threw shit inside of it and made it burn. 168 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:52.159 That's cool. 169 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.399 Yeah, the pile of the tires, and this being the 170 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:00.600 prank of a logger named Oliver. His nickname's Porky Bicker 171 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.720 him and his crew, and the crew was called the 172 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:08.480 Dirty Dozen. The thing with this prank is he did 173 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:10.399 tell the FAA that he was going to do it 174 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.039 and the police, but he forgot to tell the coastguard. 175 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:15.320 But the Coastguard was a really good sport about it, 176 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.000 and he thought it was hilarious. So I guess it 177 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:19.840 all turned out okay. 178 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:20.919 And it worked out in the end. 179 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:25.600 No charges laid, No charges laid. In nineteen seventy six, 180 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:31.039 on BBC radio, April first British astronomer, Patrick Moore, told 181 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.120 listeners that the Jovian plutonium gravitational effect was going to 182 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:40.840 happen that very day. This meant that Jupiter and Pluto 183 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:44.159 were going to align temporarily that very day at nine 184 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.840 forty seven am, and by this happening and aligning with Earth, 185 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.799 it would create a gravitational pull that would affect the 186 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:51.679 Earth's gravity. 187 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.039 So messing was up on Earth. 188 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.799 Most likely this meant anyone wanted to feel weightless, they 189 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:02.559 could jump at exactly nine seven. So nine seven a 190 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.600 m came and on the radio station, Patrick Moore instructed stella. 191 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:11.879 Oh my gosh, not stella. I just jumped on my head. 192 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:13.759 Hold on, I'm just gonna open the door for her. 193 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.200 Oh she opened it herself. My cat can jump up 194 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.919 and open the door. Now she's a psycho. Sorry, Now 195 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:23.080 that she's gone, I can concentrate. So on the radio station, 196 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:28.879 Patrick Moore instructed jump now, and then the phone lines 197 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.519 at the BBC started lighting up. People wanted to share 198 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:34.720 how they had all floated. One caller said, I was 199 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.759 in a room with eleven friends and we all begin 200 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:40.440 to orbit around the room. Wow, that's not funny to you. 201 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:42.559 I think it's pretty crazy that people are actually jumping 202 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:43.679 and thinking that they were floating. 203 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.039 Yeah. I love how like the power of influence can 204 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:52.919 just make you see or what you want to feel exactly. Helloa. 205 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:57.519 In April Fools Day nineteen eighty the BBC announced that 206 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.279 to keep up with the times, they were going to 207 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.840 replace Big Ben's clock face with a digital rido, and 208 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:05.440 the hands would be given away as a prize to 209 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:10.679 the first listeners who contacted the show. But okay, which 210 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.679 obviously was a prank, but people were losing their mind. 211 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.080 They were like angry calls. They were pissed off, like 212 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.600 you can't do that to Big Ben, Like, dude, it's 213 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.360 a joke and s April Fools Stop. In nineteen eighty five, 214 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.240 Sports Illustrated publish an article about this up and come 215 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:30.480 and rookie pitcher Sid Finch. Sid was an orphan, a 216 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:35.279 Harvard dropout, had ahvid yad and then he went on 217 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:39.320 to a Tibetan monastery. There he studied and mastered yoga, 218 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:43.000 and he had this supernatural mind and body control. He 219 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.879 was also a gifted French horn player. He was he 220 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.639 could throw a fastball at one hundred and sixty eight 221 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.679 miles per hour without even warming up. 222 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:52.639 Insane. 223 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.919 He would pitch with one boot on and one bare foot, 224 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:58.960 and he always had his French horn with him because 225 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.360 he didn't know if he wanted to actually play baseball. 226 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.759 Or not just practice in between innings on the front 227 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:06.679 horn might get discovered by somebody in the bleachers. 228 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:09.600 People were like all crazy about him. People try to 229 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:12.399 recruit them. It's just funny. That's why you don't believe 230 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:14.480 anything on April first. If you have a big announcement, 231 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:17.840 you got to re announce it on April second. So 232 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.480 back in nineteen ninety six, April first, Taco Bell took 233 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.840 out a full page ad in like five or six newspapers. 234 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.919 They declared they were going to help reduce the country's 235 00:12:27.919 --> 00:12:31.240 debt by purchasing the Liberty Bell and they were going 236 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.399 to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. And again, people 237 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.399 not being able to take a joke, flooded the National 238 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:42.639 Park Service and newspapers with angry calls, and by noon 239 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:45.159 that day, Taco Bell did a press release saying like 240 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.360 it was just a joke, chill out. People were all 241 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.279 upset even after they found out it was a joke, like. 242 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.039 Come on, well, it's a joke, now, is it. 243 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:57.240 You can't joke about the Liberty Bell. But Taco Bell 244 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:01.200 being a really good sport. They also donated dollar towards preservation, 245 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:02.519 which was really nice. 246 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.200 Probably felt they had to come. 247 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.720 On, take a freaking joke, like that's harmless fun. 248 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:09.600 Well, I mean. 249 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.120 People are probably going to be spiteful about this, the 250 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:14.639 Toco Liberty Bell, are you anyway? 251 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.519 I'm like afraid of it. It's just such good trash food. 252 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:22.840 But oh my gosh, ri supreb it destroys everything in me. 253 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:24.600 Oh yeah, I know. 254 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.320 My Boddy wants to Taco Bell the other day because 255 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:27.799 his kid wanted it for his birthday. 256 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.360 I was like, how was it? And he's like, dude, 257 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.320 that shit instantly. 258 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:34.960 It's like your body repels it after a certain age. 259 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:37.759 It scares me to even go there. 260 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:40.759 It's going to be some drive home made. 261 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.360 If I make it. All right. So, in nineteen ninety eight, 262 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:47.840 another fast food restaurant may be inspired by Taco Bell. 263 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:53.720 Who knows. They announced a specially designed menu item. They 264 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.919 designed it for the almost one point five million left 265 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:04.000 handed Americans. I guess they didn't include sorry, Chris, so 266 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.480 their design featured. Oh I didn't even say who it was. 267 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:12.039 It's burg King. Their design featured the condiments being rotated 268 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.360 one hundred and eighty degrees to finally cater to those 269 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.200 left handed whopper lovers. 270 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:18.519 That's amazing. 271 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.799 Thousands flooded to try the new left handed whopper, and 272 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.399 some of the right handed people came hoping to still 273 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.360 be able to purchase a right handed whopper. You know, 274 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.799 you don't want to get them mixed up. 275 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:29.200 No, you don't. 276 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.559 They never really thought I could just turn the burger 277 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:36.799 around and that's the same thing. No, yeah, yeah, that's 278 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.720 so hilarious. There's a bunch of other notable ones, like 279 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.320 when Elon Muss tried to file for bankruptcy as like 280 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.879 an April Fools thing for Tesla but at backfire and 281 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:47.799 messing with stock prices. There's tons of video game ones 282 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:51.480 like Neopets, Fortnite, the Grenades. I don't know what other 283 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:52.639 video game ones do you know? 284 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.279 Uh, not too really, Actually, well. 285 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:57.639 They do a bunch on video games. 286 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.759 Oh I wasn't too keen on the video game to 287 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:01.519 do it April Fools. 288 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.759 Well that they usually put it right back the next day. 289 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:04.679 It's just to be funny. 290 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:06.480 Yeah, quick little thing or something. 291 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:07.320 Yeah, but it's fun. 292 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:09.200 Is always fun. 293 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.519 And the BBC also did one about flying penguins. Everyone 294 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.600 knows Rick rolled you know what I mean. How YouTube 295 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.480 used to put Rick Astley's song never Gonna what is it? 296 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.679 Never Gonna give You Up? 297 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:22.639 Yeah? 298 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:25.000 And that was one in nineteen eighty nine where Rick 299 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.720 could Richard Branson faked a UFO landing by London using 300 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:30.720 a hot air balloon that was shaped like a saucer 301 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:32.399 and same thing. People lost their mind. 302 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.000 Such some good stuff. 303 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.360 This is my favorite, this is the last one. On 304 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:41.080 April first, nineteen fifty seven, the BBC ran a three 305 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:47.600 minute segment featuring a family in Tinsino, Switzerland. This Swiss 306 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:52.440 family was shown on video harvesting their crops, their crops 307 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.559 being spaghetti which grew on trees, so obviously it had 308 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:56.360 to be harvested. 309 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:58.559 I remember this one, yeah, oh you do. 310 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.919 Yeah, So they went into the Swiss spaghetti harvest and 311 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.480 thankfully the spaghetti weavil had disappeared by then, and viewers 312 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.240 flooded the BBC with calls and how they could get 313 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:13.879 seeds to grow their own spaghetti tree, and the BBC 314 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.120 shared how they could just place a sprig of spaghetti 315 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.960 in a tomato sauce and hope for the best. 316 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:20.879 That was it. 317 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.000 How else are you going to grow spaghetti? You just 318 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:25.039 sound crazy right now. 319 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.159 No, you're right. I'm totally sorry. 320 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.559 They're so fun, but I just hate when people aren't 321 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.399 good sports about it, Like you know what I mean, 322 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:33.679 it's a joke, take a joke. 323 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:35.840 Yeah, I mean there must have been some good sports 324 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:39.159 about it, you know, but like people snap or everything. 325 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.399 Even these days, like it's way worse than it used 326 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:41.639 to be. 327 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:44.679 It's terrible. You can't even joke. 328 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:47.080 If you fall for spaghetti's growing on trees because I 329 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:48.879 get they didn't have like the Internet back then, and 330 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.679 that was new to that area, like spaghetti was a 331 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.919 new thing, making it it's over to London, Britain, the UK, whatever. 332 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:57.519 Come on, take a fricking joke. 333 00:16:57.840 --> 00:16:59.480 That's too bad that they wouldn't just take a joke. 334 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.320 Cost all that extra grief for people to even come 335 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:04.680 out and have like press conferences and stuff like that. 336 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.759 Good grief. Charlie Brown, Ah. 337 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.880 Good greed. Oh well, I enjoyed these stories. 338 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:14.599 April Fool still rocks. I mean, it's a day where 339 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.480 it's socially acceptable to be playful and childish, breaking the 340 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:21.279 monotony of the nine to five or whatever work hours 341 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:21.599 you do. 342 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.000 Yeah, he said April stools. 343 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:28.039 April did I. I was trying to say fool still 344 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:30.400 and it didn't work, So I guess it's April stools, 345 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:35.000 April fish stools, April Taco Bell fish stools. I'm just 346 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:39.079 going to keep adding unless you stop me. Oh no, great, Stella, 347 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:40.279 I thought you left me. 348 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:42.440 She's back. 349 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.519 She's like the creature you want to the podcast swear. 350 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:48.319 She's a cryptid. 351 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:49.519 She's your co host. 352 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:53.000 Now she tries to sit on the computer right on 353 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:53.559 the keyboard. 354 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:59.279 Oh yeah, no, you gotta do something like that. Oh also, 355 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:00.960 you're gonna get punt casts. 356 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.880 Done bullied by my cat the same right. 357 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.400 Well, Aple fools, everybody? Ouch? Was that a stella? 358 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:09.720 That's all I got. You don't have any good ideas 359 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:11.559 for April fools pranks. 360 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:13.559 I never have any good ideas for anything. 361 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.599 They have these really cute ones you can do, like 362 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:17.799 but the sandwiches you can make like you can like 363 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.440 angel food cake, and they slice it and then they 364 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:23.240 take frosting and put like you know, make it look 365 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.880 like cheese like yellow and orange, whatever you have to 366 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:27.799 do to get to the right color. And then they 367 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.000 like grill the outside of the breadge so it looks 368 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:32.319 like a grilled cheese, but it's actually an angel food 369 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:33.079 cake with frosting. 370 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:34.319 You know that sounds pretty good. 371 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:36.240 They just have like fun little things like that, so 372 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:38.559 when you bite into it, it's nothing like what you expect. 373 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:41.880 Just fooling everybody with the big cakes and stuff. 374 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:46.160 I was so mad when my youngest son before was 375 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:49.279 into pranks and all that, and I always have I 376 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.000 know it's not good for the environment. I've gotten better 377 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.359 at bottled water, but I used to always have my 378 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.440 fridge stock with bottled water. And he had this idea 379 00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.440 to take vinegar and shoot it in some of the 380 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:02.480 water bottle and I was so mad because I would 381 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:04.160 just throw them all away because I'm like, I'm not 382 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.839 gonna take the chance that I'm drinking vinegar like that 383 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:08.599 was not funny. 384 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:10.079 That's pretty fun. 385 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:11.680 At the time, I was like, oh, I just want 386 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:13.359 water and I don't want to have vinegar. 387 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.319 That's amazing. 388 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:16.279 And then my two boys have done the one where 389 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:19.319 they put the bowl they put water in it and 390 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.359 stick it on the ceiling and you know, stick a 391 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:24.039 broom under it and have his brother hold it so 392 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.160 then he's stuck. And if he moves, you know, the 393 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.359 water's coming pouring down. Or he can just stand there 394 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:30.799 all day holding it against the ceiling. 395 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:31.960 That's even. 396 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:33.680 That's pretty fun too. 397 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.400 Oh the so yeah, I got this the saran wrap 398 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:40.559 on the toilet, which is like terrible because then I'm 399 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:42.039 the one that cleans up these jokes. 400 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:45.160 It still pretty funny. 401 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:46.960