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About this Episode
There's a few rules you should follow on April Fool's Day!
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Transcript
It is April Fool's Day.
So every April Fool's Day, much like Santa Claus comes every Christmas.
On April Fool's Day, we often get an email from our boss that says,
if thinking about playing to prank on the radio, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Don't even think about it.
I might be on vacation right now, but I will still know what you're up to.
I could be sailing the equator without sail signal, satellite phone,
or even two cans of a string, but I'll know if you did it.
It's so funny.
Somebody must have really done it long before I worked here.
Someone must have really pulled something to get that annual email.
People do some stupid stuff.
Radio DJs do stupid stuff.
We just always do that.
So on Samaritan's April 1st, we're going to be out of the gas station handing out $100
bills.
$100 bills to everybody.
Because it was, you know, we gave you a bill that said you owe us $100, and people
will get all ticked off, but it only takes one to sue.
We did a couple I remember, and this one did upset people.
We ran spots all through the day, like you hear commercials for all of our clients, and
we ran a spot for a plastic surgery company that did plastic surgery on your ugly children.
Oh my God.
And it was formally voiced.
It sounded legit.
It ran all day.
People were losing their mind.
I can't believe that you guys got away with that.
Yeah, we got some angry, and then there was one where there was a cat lost, and you just
would hear faint meowing throughout the radio.
Right.
Like it was lost in the transmitter.
Oh my God.
Can you just kind of hear it and that one on?
I'm going to posthumously tell you that to do that.
The official rules of April Fools, the noon deadline.
This has been a guideline for a while, but it doesn't always get mentioned.
The fooling needs to stop by noon, but you don't prank somebody at three in the afternoon.
I don't know.
I feel like you waited out.
Well, I'm just saying.
You know, harm April Fools pranks are meant to make people look foolish or inconvenienced,
but they're not meant to cause anxiety or stress or health issues or all that right.
Prom, emails from listeners.
Reveal the prank.
A successful prank should be followed by the reveal.
This marks the end and then clarifies the situation.
Again, traditionally, this is supposed to happen by noon.
It's bad to force someone to deal with the prank until they realize they've been fooled.
Sometimes still two or three in the afternoon.
It's weird that there's a cutoff that noons the cutoff.
No illegal activities.
This should go without saying, but certain people need to be reminded that April Fools
is not an excuse to break the law, like stealing someone's stuff.
Yeah.
And target wisely is the last one.
It's smart to get to play pranks on people.
You know, well, like friends, family or close co-workers and people who appreciate the
humor.
It isn't worth riling up people that are thin skinned and can't take a joke.
No, I'm sorry.
No, actually, you should bribe those people up.
Chelsea, this is what I want you to do.
I want you to do this.
I thought you were going to say, me, no, no, when you go home today and you see your mom
tell her you need to sit down and tell her something.
Oh, yeah.
And then what?
My stomach has dropped.
What am I going to tell her?
That soon there will be another mouth to feed.
No, you can't do a pregnancy.
Why?
She doesn't know what day it is.
No, you can't do a pregnancy it out.
Just in general.
Do that to her mother.
If I wanted to say another mouth to feed, it would have to be like another animal is coming
to live with us.
Oh, no.
You can't do pregnancy jokes.
She's just going to get excited about that.
I'm just trying to.
I don't know about that.
I'm trying to bump.
Actually, maybe she'd get excited about another mouth to feed.
Oh, we knew that someday you'd find someone.
Wait, shut up.
Desperately wants me to find someone.
Okay.
Why don't we prank our boss, Tony, that we've already done an April Fool's joke and forgot
to ask permission.
That would be the prank.
The phones are blowing up.
We're real.
Sorry.
Tony, is there a number for legal that you like the DJs to call them, but not manage that?
Was that legal, lady?
What is the lady?
The legal lady?
Who's the one that you like the best?
Tony?
Is it Gracie?
If there are people outside the station and they have like those big bats.
That would be funny.
They're lighting things on fire because they're angry.
Oh, we've done it.
704.
What do we call?
This is crazy.
Here I am on the equator with no sales signal.
And I'm dealing with your BS.
I'm on with legal.
We don't even like you.
All right.
And with AI, now you can make up a picture of anything.
Right.
We have people outside the eye heart building with their torches.
Even this conversation makes me feel like I'm in trouble.
