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Speaker 1: It is the first of April, and of course, as

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Speaker 1: we know, technically until midday it is April Fool's Day.

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Speaker 1: What exactly is a fool? What is a fool?

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Speaker 2: A stupid person, A bone head, our black head, a simpleton,

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Speaker 2: a chump, a net web, a nincompoop, a dullard, an oak,

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Speaker 2: a goose, a sap a sap head, silly willy, and

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Speaker 2: the list goes on.

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Speaker 3: A dull it.

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Speaker 1: I think I tick a few of them.

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Speaker 3: I love that word dullard.

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Speaker 1: I like silly Willie, silly Willy.

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Speaker 3: Nitwe no, dull it is my favorite ninompoop.

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Speaker 2: April.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the moon this morning? Beautiful big full moon?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? No, I didn't see it. You're

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Speaker 1: not fooling me.

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Speaker 3: It was leon At the same time, it was right

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Speaker 3: behind us. April Fool's Day in most countries is the

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Speaker 3: first day of April, and it received its name from

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Speaker 3: the customer playing practical jokes on this day. Although the

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Speaker 3: day has been observed for centuries, its true origins are unknown.

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Speaker 3: Some have proposed that the modern custom originated in France.

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Speaker 3: There are variations between countries and the celebration of April

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Speaker 3: fools Day, but all have in common and excuse to

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Speaker 3: make someone play the fall some of the Big East

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Speaker 3: Over the years. In what may have been the first

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Speaker 3: televised April Fools Day hoax, the BBC had a very

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Speaker 3: favorite famous segment in nineteen fifty seven featuring spaghetti growing

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Speaker 3: trees in Switzerland.

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Speaker 4: You might mean this one here in the Ticino, on

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Speaker 4: the borders of Switzerland and Italy, the slopes overlooking Lake

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Speaker 4: Logano have already burst into flower. But what you may ask,

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Speaker 4: has the early and welcome arrival of bees and blossomed

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Speaker 4: to do with food. It's resulted in an exceptionally heavy

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Speaker 4: spaghetti crop. Spaghetti cultivation here in Switzerland is not, of course,

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Speaker 4: carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the

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Speaker 4: Italian industry. Many of you, I'm sure will have seen

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Speaker 4: pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the Pool Valley.

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Speaker 1: No until then, that is that is famous.

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Speaker 3: One, because when you mix it with that beautiful BBC,

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 1: They just had of spaghetti grapevines.

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Speaker 3: And people fell for it because no one ever thought

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Speaker 3: glories make spaghetti glorious, black and white.

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Speaker 1: The Italian's got a gag, but everyone in Britain went, well,

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Speaker 1: just comes out of a packet, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: BBC was back at it in nineteen sixty five when

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Speaker 3: at an interviewed professor who had invented smellovision. We're still

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Speaker 3: waiting for smellovision. We're talking before about how the TV

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Speaker 3: news used to get involved, and I think it was

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Speaker 3: one of the stations here one year when I was

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Speaker 3: a kid that said the telecom as it was at

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Speaker 3: the time, was going to do a special thing where

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Speaker 3: it cleaned out all our you know telephone did Do

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Speaker 3: you remember this? It was going to clean out all

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Speaker 3: the telephone wise, so everyone was required to take their

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Speaker 3: telephone off the hook and just lay it by the

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Speaker 3: you know, the receiver at a certain time so that

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Speaker 3: telecom could blow all the dust out of the out

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Speaker 3: of all the communication wiring and blah blah blah. People

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Speaker 3: everywhere chop their phones off the hook and then they've

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Speaker 3: come on and said April ape back on the receiver.

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Speaker 1: But at least officers went quiet around town for a while.

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Speaker 1: Everyone just got to slow down. No balls came through anyway. However, look, trusters,

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Speaker 1: trust us, we won't do anything foolish on this April

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Speaker 1: Fool's Day. It's just not how we are.

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Speaker 2: Fools despise wisdom