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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | We've only just be young. |
0:07.0 | This is Civics 101, April Fool's trivia special. |
0:14.0 | I am Christina Phillips, the senior producer, and I am here today with, do you want to introduce yourselves? |
0:20.0 | We'll start with Hannah. Yes, I am Hannah McCarthy with, do you want to introduce yourselves? We'll start with |
0:20.9 | Hannah. Yes, I am Hannah McCarthy, co-host of Civics 101. I'm Nick Campadice, also co-host of |
0:26.9 | Civics 101. I'm Rebecca LaVoy and I work with this team at NHPR. Okay, so this is the day, April |
0:32.6 | Fools, where people come together and play pranks on each other. And by that I mean there are the people who are good |
0:38.7 | at a poker face and they thrive on this day. And then there are the rest of us like me who feel |
0:43.6 | constantly on edge. Which one are you? On edge. I love this day. I have a great many pranks that I've |
0:51.5 | played in the years. Not as many as NHPR because it's kind of like I get nervous. |
0:55.2 | I'm going to get in trouble. But I used to at my old workplace. I would do an April Fool's |
0:59.5 | prank every single year, a big one. Give us your best, your most successful. Oh, God. Well, the thing is |
1:05.1 | they're all contextual, Christine. It was always about like fake tour content for this museum I worked at. And I always say there's this massive discovery. |
1:11.9 | This huge mystery was solved. |
1:14.3 | And I would Photoshop very strange photos of people who currently worked at the museum onto old photographs and make them think I had discovered it. |
1:21.4 | Another classic is the cheddar cheese in the shower. |
1:24.0 | Never gets old. |
1:25.0 | Just carve a piece of cheddar cheese like a bar of soap and carve dial |
1:28.5 | into it it's a joy nice oh the other one my other favorite one is the um saying that the photocopier |
1:34.6 | is voice control now you write like a thing on the photocopier and it's like they copy and say the |
1:39.8 | number of copies you want completely voice control now'd hold the next and be like, copy. |
1:45.1 | Seven. |
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