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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show, fellow Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in. We're running a little late on

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Speaker 1: this one. Edit's my fault, you know. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: our super producer, mister Max Williams the top.

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Speaker 2: When have we ever hit a tent pole topic on time?

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Speaker 2: This is in classic Ridiculous History fashion that we're two

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Speaker 2: days late for said holiday.

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Speaker 3: I am proud of myself, so I'm going to toot

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Speaker 3: my own horn and talk about myself right now. Yet,

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Speaker 3: on February twenty ninth last year, we had an episode

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Speaker 3: about the leap year we did? Did I write a

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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving grab bag esque episode? But I think that's about it.

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Speaker 3: I think one time we might have gotten lucky. But

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Speaker 3: look we did our was it Labor Day? Like either

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Speaker 3: two months before or two months after Labor Day? And

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Speaker 3: I'm like, this is marvelous.

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Speaker 4: I love us. I don't know why we're letting on that.

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Speaker 4: It's not on purpose.

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Speaker 1: It's very oh, folks. That is Noel Brown recently returned

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Speaker 1: from Philadelphia. So Noel aka Young Cheese Steak Brown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okak you sure you Young cheese steak is accurate.

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Speaker 2: I had a couple of those from what is Angelo's

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Speaker 2: and ish Caabibbeles, which are too you know, I think

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Speaker 2: Angelo's is kind of hot right now. But a lot

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Speaker 2: of people know about Ishkabibbles. And that's the funnest named

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Speaker 1: And we're accountabill of buddies, so I was. It is

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Speaker 1: a true story, Noel, I they called me, Ben what

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Speaker 1: I was bugging you the whole time you were in

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Speaker 1: Philly and I just kept texting you on multiple threads

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Speaker 1: to ask for cheese steak pictures.

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Speaker 2: It's the only reason I had the second steak, Ben,

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Speaker 2: It's the only reason I went to Isshuabibbles.

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Speaker 4: It was just for you.

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Speaker 2: I only had about three bites and then I had

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Speaker 2: to throw away the rest because man, those things are

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Speaker 2: human person. That's a heart attack waiting to happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Philly does it, man, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I guess he's got to walk a lot, which I

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Speaker 2: did do. I had a great time. Thanks for mentioning it,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, no, cheese steaks are delightful, as are nonsensical

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Speaker 2: holidays that are designed to potentially hurt people's feelings or delights.

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Speaker 1: Results vary, so we're running late on our April Fool's

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Speaker 1: Day episode. That's what this is, and you and I

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Speaker 1: have talked about it in the past on and off air.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it can be a mean and spirited holiday.

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Speaker 2: I have been the victim, not that big a deal,

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Speaker 2: but of some not so nice April Fools pranks. But

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Speaker 2: I guess it's all in how you play it. If

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Speaker 2: if it's something sort of like lighthearted and a little

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Speaker 2: bit absurdist, I'm all about that, right.

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Speaker 1: Like, if, for instance, I gave I gave my dad

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Speaker 2: If you ask me, I was punked quite successfully by

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Speaker 4: What I don't like it. It sounds like but I

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Speaker 2: And then I very quickly saw the forlornness in my

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Speaker 1: Which I was wow, So that kids are mean, dude,

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Speaker 1: kids are being dude. That's an in depth example of

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Speaker 1: Right and worth a listen. Still, both examples that you

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Speaker 1: just named there, Noel. As April first approached, we asked ourselves,

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Speaker 2: That I've used plenty in my life, and I never

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Speaker 1: So okay, okay, Noel, can you kick it for all

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Speaker 2: It is a day where it is acceptable to lie

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Speaker 1: No, we're keeping it. We're keeping it man, because that

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Speaker 1: is poetry. It's a celebration of pranks and practical jokes.

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Speaker 1: in April Fish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go to it. Ah, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is common for French kids to pin paper fish

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Speaker 2: Like a kick me sign exactly, or you know, a

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Speaker 4: A cruel and violent game. Why would you do it?

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Speaker 2: A pinata that he was talking about, But pin the

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Speaker 1: With the fact, I do wonder whether there has ever

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Speaker 1: They would they would say that January first was the

438
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Speaker 1: date that Jesus Christ was circumcised.

439
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Speaker 4: You know, I've never really given much thought to whether

440
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 4: or not Jesus was circumcised, but he was a Jew

441
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Speaker 4: and that is a custom, and I guess I didn't

442
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 4: realize that that was a thing. Wow, Okay, it's just.

443
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: Like it's a long walk as far as justifications go.

444
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right now I'm speculating as to the size

445
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Speaker 2: of Jesus's circumcised.

446
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: Uh you're thinking about Defoe?

447
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 5: Yeah?

448
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,120
Speaker 2: Oh god, no, when am I not Jesus massive?

449
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Speaker 1: So look what we're telling you, folks, is by the

450
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred CE, the European calendar was a real messy

451
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,959
Speaker 1: bullis spaghetti. The errors in the Julian calendar, like simple

452
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: mathematical errors, had caused what we call the solar year

453
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: to increasingly divide from the calendar year. And add to this,

454
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Speaker 1: different countries are beginning the year on different dates. Uh.

455
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Speaker 1: This is really confusing, especially because in France people are

456
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Speaker 1: using Easter as the beginning of the year, primarily for

457
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Speaker 1: bureaucratic purposes, but people on the ground are using January

458
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Speaker 1: first as the traditional start of the year. This is

459
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Speaker 1: when you celebrate, This is when you give each other gifts.

460
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Speaker 1: You know, visit your relatives, have a hug. Starting the

461
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Speaker 1: new year on Easter is stupid and convenient.

462
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Speaker 2: So in the early sixteenth century, in French books, you'll

463
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Speaker 2: find both forms of the dating system listed side by side.

464
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Speaker 2: For titles published in January February or March, and then

465
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Speaker 2: moving into the mid sixteenth century, you started to see

466
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Speaker 2: a system of calendaring where everything started on January first,

467
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 2: and that began to be widely adopted in France. So

468
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 2: they finally either got the memo or decided to pull

469
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Speaker 2: it out of the trash and you know, kind of

470
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Speaker 2: the join the party.

471
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was our buddy Charlie King Charles ninth of

472
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:09,399
Speaker 1: his name. He created this thing on December twenty second,

473
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Speaker 1: fifteen sixty four, or that's when French Parliament approved of

474
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Speaker 1: the move to make January first the official actual fact.

475
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Speaker 1: Shout out, Lauren, first day of the year. This was

476
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Speaker 1: in my mind, this is like the calindrical version of

477
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Speaker 1: legalizing cannabis. He looked at it, he said, everybody's already

478
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: doing it, so why are we going to make it illegal?

479
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 2: Wait, isn't that that's the name of an album. Everybody

480
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 2: else is doing it, so what shouldn't we It's.

481
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 4: Like the Cranberries, I want to say.

482
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Speaker 2: Ayway, eighteen years later, in fifteen eighty two, we've got

483
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Speaker 2: Pope Gregory issuing a papal powl, which sounds so intense,

484
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 2: which is basically just a decree from the Pope that

485
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Speaker 2: declared sweeping calendar reform across all of Christendom or Catholicism

486
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Speaker 2: in them. The Gregorian reform included moving the start of

487
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Speaker 2: the year to January first, and creating a Leapyer system

488
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 2: that Max very definitely stuck to with our publishing schedule

489
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: and whatever Leapier that was, which at the time eliminated

490
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: ten days from the month of October of eighteen fifty

491
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Speaker 2: two in order to correct that calendar drift, which is

492
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Speaker 2: something that I still have a hard time wracking my

493
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: head around. I think that was a big theme of

494
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: the Leapier episode, was me banging my head against the

495
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: wall about why what is this calendar drift?

496
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Speaker 1: So the Pope has no real power to make the

497
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: governments of the time comply, right, but he does say, hey,

498
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: you know, guys, if you're a Christian nation, I'm the

499
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 1: pope and this is the time of really brutal monarchies.

500
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Speaker 1: France accepts this reform, they had already changed it. A

501
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: lot of people get this part wrong. Anyway, it becomes

502
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: clear like the more you look into it, the calendar

503
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: change hypothesis has a really convenient to it, right. It

504
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: sounds like a light switch going on and off. This

505
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: is not quite the truth, you know. You can say that. Look,

506
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: you can say that the calendar change hypothesis is plausible

507
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: if it's applied to Britain, maybe because they did New

508
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: Year's Day of March twenty fifth, because of the Feast

509
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Speaker 1: of Annunciation, again trying to align the solar calendar, the

510
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: passage of the actual planets with religious ideology. The earliest

511
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: version of the calendar change hypothesis that we can find

512
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: in print goes back to seventeen sixty six, and it's

513
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Speaker 1: a response to a discourse that only started in seventeen

514
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: Oh wait, people weren't really asking about April Fools until

515
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: centuries after it was happening. We want to go to

516
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: a quote from a correspondence to something called The Gentleman's Magazine.

517
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a long quote. I think

518
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity to do a pretty cool voice. So Noel,

519
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: if you can do the first part, I'll come in

520
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: at the end.

521
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, this strange custom prevalent throughout this kingdom of people

522
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Speaker 5: making fuels of one another upon the first of April.

523
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 2: I'm just sorry, I'm doing it like Kenna very talestu

524
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Speaker 2: a ruse from the year, formally a beginning as to

525
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: some purpose and in some respects on the twenty fifth

526
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Speaker 2: of March, which was supposed to be the incarnation of

527
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Speaker 2: our Lord.

528
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: It's been customary with the Romans as well as fit

529
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: us Hole Day festival. It ended by an octave that

530
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: the commencement of a new year, which festival lasted for

531
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Speaker 1: it is where after first of the last was the principal.

532
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: Therefore the first of April is the octave of the

533
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: twenty fifth of March, and consequently the clothes or ending

534
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: of the feast, which was both the festival of the

535
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Speaker 1: annunciation and the beginning of the new year.

536
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: Broo and Telly ho good sir, h Yeah, we're gonna

537
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: to unpack all that. I kind of got lost in

538
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 2: the sauce of the voices.

539
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: There can I jump in real quick to talk about

540
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 3: the voices, because believe it, this is gonna go full circle.

541
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: But you guys, you both used your Canterbury Tales voices.

542
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 3: I used remember from that episode. I used an accent

543
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: that came up off the top of my head.

544
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 4: At least I thought, so, oh yeah, we forced you

545
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 4: to play I.

546
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: Figured out later on I was editing it. The accent

547
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 3: I was doing was the one of my friend named Jeff.

548
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 3: He talks like this all the time, like this. The

549
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 3: reason to bring this up is Jeff, who is a character.

550
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 3: I love him to death, but he's a character. His

551
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: birthday is April fools Day, and he's the type of

552
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 3: guy who lie in day's birthday today.

553
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: So Jeff, Jeff, text him, text him now. So all

554
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: right there there there's another part here. We had writers

555
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: back then, we would have historical precedent. There's a whole thing,

556
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: a whole discourse with chaucer scholars arguing about whether or

557
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: not he actually references April Fools and when March happens

558
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: versus May, versus April. We know that Chaucer wrote some

559
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,479
Speaker 1: pretty saucy stuff. He's a pretty smart guy. We're actually

560
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: big fans of his work. Can't wait for him to

561
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: conclude the Canterbury Tales. When do you think it's coming out?

562
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: When do you think he'll finish in I.

563
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 2: Think it's been in turnaround at Tony for a while.

564
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's a production. Lebo, Oh my god, I love

565
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 2: you for that one.

566
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: Also, if the holiday was always around. Why doesn't Shakespeare

567
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: mention it? Look, the United Kingdom only changed their calendar

568
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: year to start on January first. They only did that

569
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: in seventeen fifty two, just like a few decades before

570
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,800
Speaker 1: the United States became a country. By that time, April

571
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: Fools is already well established, So confusion about a changing

572
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,240
Speaker 1: calendar could not have been logically responsible for the origin

573
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: of the celebration in Britain. Oh, also, we should mention

574
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: it is possible, like our earlier guy noted that the

575
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: festival held on April first in that correspondence with the

576
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: with the Gentleman's magazine, it's posstering it for the art.

577
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: I love it. Oh, I forgot to tell you, guys.

578
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: One of my favorite you know, I'm into weird food.

579
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: One of my favorite weird things that I found recently.

580
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: It's an actual thing. Have you ever heard of gentleman's relish?

581
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't sound good. It sounds really gross.

582
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: It's British. It's obviously British.

583
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 4: Oh jeez, I just immediately got it.

584
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably my own fault for having a

585
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 2: mine in the gutter, but gentleman's relish does not sound good.

586
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: To me, it does sound like a euphemism. It is

587
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: not a euphemism. I'm I've got to buy some. We

588
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: gotta try it out.

589
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,760
Speaker 2: My mom used to make a thing called gentleman's salad

590
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: that was like a gelatin salad, usually green of color,

591
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: and with like shit in it that didn't belong, like

592
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 2: horse radish and stuff and like lime jello bass and

593
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 2: gentleman salad is what she always called it.

594
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 4: Never like it, No, I wouldn't even need it.

595
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 2: It was like she'd put it at everyone's place for

596
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 2: like a holiday meals, and I was a hell.

597
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 1: No, Oh, it was a holiday thing, So everybody gets

598
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: a pass. Gentleman's relish is a real thing. It's also

599
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 1: called patum paperium. It has nothing to do with April

600
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: Fool's Day. But if you have tried it, please let

601
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: us know. On ridiculous his story.

602
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 4: Well, surely it could.

603
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 2: There's a place for it in our History of condiments

604
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 2: ongoing series.

605
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: Oh yes, okay, another theory. Oh man, if I get it,

606
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: are you guys gonna try it with me? No? You

607
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 1: don't even read about it.

608
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't like it.

609
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,439
Speaker 2: I don't like the way it sounds I want nothing

610
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 2: to do with it. I resent its very existence.

611
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 3: I'm just say someone right here, and it's the only

612
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,959
Speaker 3: time in my entire life I've been able to say

613
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 3: this for a good thing. Sorry, Ben, I can't try it.

614
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: Condition okay, alright, alright, Max. We respect the condition. So

615
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: other people will tell you. Maybe the timing of April

616
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: Fool's Day is related to what we call the vernal

617
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: equinox March twenty first, because the weather would shift, and

618
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: for previous civilizations that was a real plot twist. But

619
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: the thing is, none of the theories about the origin

620
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: of April Fool's Day have been proven to be correct.

621
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: It was almost certainly a continuation of this ancient prankish tendency.

622
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: It spread throughout other countries. People genuinely did not ask

623
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: about its providence until well after it was already established.

624
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: The actual answer is that no one knows why it's

625
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: a thing. It's ridiculous. It's not like a bank holiday.

626
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: It's just this need to prank.

627
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 2: People, which I mean, to be fair, you know, you

628
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 2: don't need a particular day to do that. A good

629
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 2: natured prank is welcome or not unwelcome on any day

630
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,240
Speaker 2: of the calendar year. There are even TV shows devoted

631
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 2: to this stuff. Remember punked Ashton Kutcher's seminal early two thousands,

632
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: Reality where and he would yeah gentleman's relish indeed wherein

633
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 2: he would punk folks celebs usually And now I think

634
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 2: there's a show on TV called Practical Jokers. It's very

635
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 2: very popular and the kids I love Nathan for You.

636
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: Nathan for You is Yeah, I guess you could call

637
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 2: it a prank. I mean, it's like an earnest prank

638
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 2: show where he's like pranking people by trying to help

639
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 2: them in the most ridiculous ways possible.

640
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 4: But I think you're you're spot on.

641
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: Them, which is what we're doing, right, Noel, I would

642
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: like to think. So we're probably one thing, folks. We

643
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: are foolish all year round. As Noel said, it doesn't

644
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: have to be a day in April. You can be

645
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: silly any any old time. We have a notable examples.

646
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: That's the best way to end this in this episode

647
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: that we are running late on, Noel, what are some

648
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: notable examples of your favorite April fools Day's April Fool's

649
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: Day breaks.

650
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 2: Well, it's also something that like you know, corporations get

651
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 2: in on and get in on the phone, you know,

652
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 2: especially in the age of social media. One that I

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Speaker 2: saw that made me think of you, Ben was this

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Speaker 2: article that seemed very you know, very well photoshopped. I

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Speaker 2: guess that waffle House was removing waffles from its media. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I think that I hop did a thing in

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Speaker 2: April fools Day's Past where they said they were changing

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Speaker 2: their name to the International House of Burgers.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, I remember that one. That was a

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Speaker 1: not too long ago, right, I hob.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You got another one that you found, Ben about another

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Speaker 2: what is it a Young Brands products Taco Bell.

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Speaker 1: Yes, in nineteen ninety six, Taco Bell said, hey, we've

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Speaker 1: purchased the Liberty Bell. We've renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell.

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Speaker 1: Where doing this to help with the crushing debt of

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Speaker 1: the United States.

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Speaker 4: Good on you, Taco Bell. Thanks for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah this, Yeah, it upset a lot of people in

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Speaker 1: PR reported it and then they had to have a

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Speaker 1: press conference to just clear the air and let everybody

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Speaker 1: know that the city of Philadelphia still owns the Liberty Bell.

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Speaker 4: Thank god for that. Another one that you found, Ben

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Speaker 4: was nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 2: And pr It did a fun little prank declaring that

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Speaker 2: Richard Nixon, of course, the shamed or disgraced presidents who

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Speaker 2: resigned in nineteen seventy four after the Watergate scander where

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Speaker 2: he was doing all kinds of naughty, underhanded things, was

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Speaker 2: entering that year's presidential race. And then he had a

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Speaker 2: fun new slogan it he was rocking, you know not

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Speaker 2: I mean no the voice. Well, of course I am

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Speaker 2: not a crook, remember was some of that right? I

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Speaker 2: had never heard of anything wrong? Then I won't do

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Speaker 2: it again.

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Speaker 1: Love it. Thank you for doing that. We've got the

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Speaker 1: uh so, we've got the skinny on this. There's an

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Speaker 1: active mystery regarding the origins of April Fool's Day. We

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Speaker 1: can't thank you enough for tuning in, fellow ridiculous historians,

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Speaker 1: but we will endeavor to do so. This way, Max

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Speaker 1: if I could get some fanfare thanks for tuning in. Uzzah,

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Speaker 1: thanks to our super producer, mister Max Williams. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: oh gosh, let's see aj Bahamas Jacobs, who else?

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Speaker 4: Who are yeah? Abja?

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Strickland, the quizz and also you know, pretty stand

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Speaker 2: up guy when he's not in character. Uh and Chris

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Speaker 2: Frosciota is an even Jeff Coates here in spirit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the rude dudes a ridiculous crime. Rachel Big Spinach Lance.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to do a thing in the credits where

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Speaker 1: we thank random people were people who have passed recently,

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Speaker 1: So thanks to Val Kilmer Man.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks to Val Kilmer indeed.

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Speaker 2: And I think I posted this before he passed, or

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Speaker 2: maybe it was a portentous in some way, but I

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Speaker 2: saw a post of a old tweet from Val Kilmer

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Speaker 2: wherein he said I once tickled Lou Reid and at

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Speaker 2: the time I really regretted it because he never spoke

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Speaker 2: to me again.

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Speaker 4: But now I'm glad I did it because I think

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Speaker 4: he needed it. Well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to you Lou for your service, and thanks Ip

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Speaker 1: Lou as well, Rip Lou as well. Thanks to you

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Speaker 1: Neil and you as well.

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Speaker 2: Then we'll see you next time, folks. For more podcasts

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