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Ridiculous History

We're Late for the April Fools' Episode

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever fallen for an April Fools' Day gag? Across the world, millions of people pull (hopefully wholesome) pranks on each other every April 1st in a celebration of practical jokes and trickery. But where did this holiday actually come from? In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into this surprisingly murky history of April Fools' Day.

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0:00.0

Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show, fellow ridiculous historians.

0:29.9

Thank you, as always, so much for tuning in.

0:34.3

We're running a little late on this one, and it's my fault.

0:40.5

You know, shout out to our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

0:45.2

That's the top.

0:46.6

When have we ever hit a tent pole topic on time?

0:50.3

This is in classic ridiculous history fashion that we're two days late for said holiday.

0:55.4

I am proud of myself, so I'm going to shoot my own horn and talk about myself right now.

0:58.9

On February 29th last year, we had an episode about the leap year.

1:05.8

We did.

1:06.7

I write a Thanksgiving grab bag-esque episode, but I think that's about it.

1:12.4

I think one time we might have gotten lucky, but like we did our, I was it Labor Day?

1:16.3

We did like either two months before or two months after Labor Day.

1:19.5

And I'm like, this is marvelous.

1:20.5

I don't know why we're letting on that it's not on purpose.

1:25.1

It's very, oh, folks, that is Noel Brown recently returned from Philadelphia, so

1:31.5

Noel, aka Young Cheesesteak Brown.

1:34.6

If I'm, yeah, okay, yeah, sure.

1:36.6

You know about young.

1:38.2

Cheese steak is accurate.

1:39.4

I had a couple of those from, what is it, Angelo's and Ishka Bibles, which are two, you

1:44.0

know, I think Angelo's is kind of hot right

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