One of these days, Alice, bang, soon, straight to the moon.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere for April 1st, 2006. My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there. She's jealous she didn't get through the shout. It's Ashley Burns. Hi, Ash, everybody. Do you want to do it? It's always just a treat for me when you, like, really get into it. Well, it's April 1st, right? So it's a special day. April Fool's Day? The worst day ever. It's also

historically the birth date of rooster teeth. So people always want to celebrate April 1st.

I'm trying to get away from that. Probably going to like recenter sometime in May or something like

that. Right. Well, you know, let's tell you. We'll pick a birthday. But 23 years and counting, 23 asteris years in counting now. Right. Had some anti-aging work done, right? A little bit of Botox freeze time for a bit. Maybe we should put some bowtops. That's a funny idea, actually. Put some lip filler on the teeth or something like that. I like that idea. A lot, actually. I like it. So today's day when you can't really pay attention to any news, but there is a lot of news happening today, which is kind of weird because everyone wants to have their April Fool's Day joke. Well, you have to be really careful what news you pay attention to. And not just for today. That's the problem. If it was just for today, you could like tune out and be like, all right, nothing is happening today, obviously. I'll be back tomorrow and

things will resume as normal. The problem is people don't like take the April Fool's jokes down,

right? So a lot of times they will continue to circulate for several weeks after April 1st. So you can't believe anything in the...

I mean, you already can't believe half this stuff

because you never know if it's a hallucination.

But now it's like you might be getting something in two weeks

that's actually not real either.

And it's less prevalent today,

but we talked about something yesterday

right towards the end of the podcast. I was talking

about that there was a, quote, lawsuit is what I said, where someone sued the show entertainment

tonight because the voice of the host, Mary Hart, was causing her to have seizures. It wasn't a lawsuit.

And in fact, when I read about it afterwards. But it did happen. It did happen. It was a medical study they did about this person and it got a lot of coverage in the news at the time. And it said it was often misreported as a lawsuit. And it's funny how when something, I feel like things that had were misinformation back in the day. As weird as we're like knee deep in misinformation or waist deep this point or neck-deep at all times, I feel like that stuff gets debunked, whereas back in the day, if they said something on TV and you heard it one time, you were like, okay, and I've got this wrong piece of information in my head for decades. Right, like they didn't just have a Snopes that you could go and be like, is this a real thing?

Nope.

Whereas now, at least you can be like, oh, yeah, that wasn't a real thing, which is probably why smear campaigns like the McDonald's coffee lawsuit worked really well.

They managed to, like, paint this lady as this frivolous person. I thought for decades, I was like, can you believe this person sued McDonald's because their coffee was hot? Oh yeah, you'd bring it up and like make fun of this lady and everything. It was terrible. Yeah. And then, you know, but now in this wonderful modern age that comes up again and you can read details about it and be like, what do you mean third degree burns? Shout out to the um actually crowd. Yeah, right. Like, you know what? Occasionally, we need a little um actually in our lives. I was funny because I had that recently because there was a couple things I've been talking about price-wise. And it was like, yeah, 300 bucks seems about right for RAM. And then I went and looked up like what I paid for- The historical prices. No, I looked up mine. Like, why I just went to my own cart and said, what did I pay for this in email receipts? What I paid for the last time I built a computer, which was in 2021. Did one of the lockdown. It was a project. Yeah. And I paid for like two by 16 RAM. I don't know if it's the same specs and all that stuff because who has time for that, Ashley?

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