April Fools' Day

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day (rarely called All Fools' Day[1]) is an annual custom in many Western countries on the 1st of April consisting of practical jokes, hoaxes, and pranks. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fool[s]!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one's neighbor has been relatively common in the world historically.[2]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:22.6	The citation needed podcast where we choose a subject,
0:25.3	read a single article about it on Wikipedia, and pretend we're experts.
0:29.0	This is the internet, and that's how it works now.
0:31.7	I'm Heath, and I'll be the Ken G.Z.
0:34.5	hosting this April Fool's Day journey, and I'm joined by the Merry Pranksters.
0:39.7	Noah, aka Prank Aaron, Tom, aka Cadillac Escapade.
0:45.7	Escapade.
0:46.4	Eli, aka Ruse Control.
0:49.1	And C-Saintle, something Italian rap, Scali.
0:53.6	Nice.
0:53.8	I hope we do a lot of shit alphabetically. I think I got the Cadillac because I'm massive and unreliable. Yeah. And then you're fancy. Yeah. And the fact that I didn't use Ruse Control as my magician name means the joke will always be on me. Always. I'd be a multi-millionaire.
1:11.6	I think we should all acknowledge it right now.
1:13.8	As a millionaire magician.
1:16.2	All right.
1:17.2	Let's get into it.
1:17.8	Cecil.
1:18.5	What person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event?
1:22.1	Are we going to be talking about today?
1:23.7	Today, we're going to talk about April Fool's Day.
1:25.7	Okay.
1:26.3	Tell us about April Fool's Day. For several years on April Fool's Day. Okay. Tell us about April Fool's Day.
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