ICYMI: How April Fool’s Day Keeps the Internet Conspiracy Machine Alive

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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April Fool’s Day is every brand’s favorite holiday. Social media and PR teams get to make all the jokes their marketing department can come up with and face few repercussions. But it’s not all fun and games. On the show today, Rachelle and Madison talk about what nonsense the brands are up to this year, why we’re so easily taken in by internet hoaxes, and how skepticism can harden into something darker. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best thing I got on Depa.
0:01.5	That's a good question.
0:02.4	This really nice 80s Adidas jumper.
0:05.3	The quarter rates which I'm wearing.
0:06.5	This pink mini skirt.
0:08.2	This Jessica Torheri.
0:09.4	Probably my unif choke boots.
0:11.0	This pair of jeans I wear them all the time.
0:12.6	The main one I'm quite into the moment is extreme layering.
0:15.6	Ranch.
0:16.6	White's okay.
0:17.7	Relaxed grandpa.
0:19.0	Part time punk, part time polypocket.
0:20.8	I think co-cat is the word.
0:22.3	Baggy relaxed and a bit out there.
0:24.4	Necher short, I barely short short.
0:26.5	That's like my favorite outfit at the moment.
0:28.8	I got it on Depa.
0:31.2	What I do have are a very particular set of skills.
0:35.7	Skills I've acquired over a very long career.
0:38.7	Skills that make me a might man for people like you.
0:43.3	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
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