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Morning Somewhere

2024.04.01: Fool Me Can't Get Fooled Again

Morning Somewhere

Burnie Burns and Ashley Burns

Society & Culture

4.9615 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Burnie and Ashley discuss the fooliest of days, the biggest foolings, and the shockingly bizarre method by which Easter's date is determined each year. Support the show

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0:00.0

Gotcha.

0:04.6

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

0:07.7

Shut up.

0:08.9

Good morning to you wherever you are because it is Burnett somewhere for April 1st, 2020.

0:19.1

My name is Bertie Burns sitting right over there. She didn't recognize the drop.

0:28.2

Allegedly, Ashley Burns, how you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good. Happy 1st of April. We survived Easter. Can I say something?

0:36.5

You can. I feel like I got April 1st back. I have it back now. Right. I was going to say, so with rooster teeth, because you incorporated or started the company on the first of April, you would never do April Fool's jokes. And now, Bernie, you're free. I'm free. Not that we will do a lot of April Fool's jokes. Couldn't resist this morning with the opening. Honestly, sometimes. For those of you who don't get it, good for you. April Fool's jokes just seem like they take too much effort. Uh, you know, actually, starting the company on April 1st, starting the, honestly, starting the series on April 1, was, A, it was a comedy series,

1:11.2

eh, first, you know.

1:12.8

The other thing was,

1:14.1

especially it seems like in the video game world,

1:16.8

it was always these like ham-fisted attempts

1:20.7

at like corporate humor to do things.

1:24.0

Occasionally there's some gems,

1:25.6

but if you look back across the history of April

1:27.6

fools and all the releases that people do i don't like personally i don't like exercises

1:34.0

in disappointment you know what i mean it's like even if you announced something that's

1:38.3

kind of titillating or controversial and then people find out it's just oh some

1:43.2

joke that they came up with in the social

1:45.6

media department. It's always like, oh. There's always that moment of just like, oh. But sometimes they don't stay that way. But sometimes they don't. Those are the gems. The World of Warcraft with the Pandarans were an April Fool's joke. Originally, weren't they? I think they were. I think they were. That's the race of panda people,

2:01.9

if you're a person with a enviable life.

2:05.5

You don't know what that is.

2:07.4

The trouble with the trouble with like a global population though and time zones is that you just,

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