SYMHC Classics: Three Legendary Pranks
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This 2021 episode covers three prank stories, including a joke that became a living legend, a large-scale prank that created havoc, and a televised hoax that reminds us all of the importance of critical thinking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.0 | Happy Saturday, everybody. |
| 0:09.1 | January 24th, 1929 was the first appearance of a prank on the campus of Brown University, |
| 0:15.3 | one that has continued on and on since then into the 21st century. |
| 0:19.5 | So, happy birthday to that prank, |
| 0:21.6 | which is one of the three that we talk about |
| 0:23.8 | in today's Saturday classic. |
| 0:25.7 | This originally came out on December 1st, 2021. Enjoy. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, |
| 0:35.4 | a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:43.7 | Music Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:46.6 | And I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 0:48.5 | So, not too long ago, Tracy, I was looking up another possible episode, which will go nameless in case it |
| 0:54.8 | comes up, because I still might do it. And I stumbled across a list of historical pranks and hoaxes. |
| 1:02.6 | And we've covered some of those before, but some of these were new to me, and it got me thinking |
| 1:06.3 | about such things, and whether any one of them might make another good episode. But really, the ones I |
| 1:11.8 | was most interested in are a little bit shy of having enough information to be an episode all their |
| 1:17.0 | own. So today, I grouped a few together. If you are listening, you may be wondering, |
| 1:22.1 | why not hold this until April Fool's Day? That seems like a perfect match, and it is. But here's the answer. That's twofold. One, I just didn't want to. I just didn't feel like it. If I'm interested in something, I tend to want to do it usually right then. And if I wait, my interest may wane. And then where will we be? And two, I will confess to everyone now, I'm not the biggest fan of April Fool's Day. |
| 1:45.3 | Here is why it's a little bit of a snooty thing. |
| 1:47.5 | It always feels a little bit like an amateur hour of irritation pranks. |
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