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Episode 24 - Cheeky April Fool Bonus Quiz Episode
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Paul and Martin (co-Mayors of ADHDville) chat about some fun April Fools quiz! Enjoy!
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Canceled April Fool's Episode Plans
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Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I've shifted by the way, from the script of shifted that the long, long list and, and getting ever longer list of episodes.
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I've shifted out into its own document now. Okay. A bit of housework I did. Nice. All right. Well, okay. So it's April the 1st, right? And so we're just doing a little kind of April Fool's bonus episode. And unfortunately, I had a plan
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and someone let me down. Oh bloody hell, was it Eddie again?
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, you know MASH 4077? The series. Yeah, yeah. I love that series. Right. Well, I reached out to Loretta Switt, I think her name is, who plays Hot Lips?
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Hot lips. Yes. Right. So she was supposed to do... I had a thing for hot lips. Right. Well, she was supposed to do a little thing for me and then she canceled right at the last minute. Are you playing with me? No, no, it is the God's honest truth. So I'm saying, well, I did have something planned, so I've had to go to plan B.
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Right. So do you, does she, is she your, is she your neighbour? Are you, are you breaking this news to me that you, I would have visited way earlier mate, if you've had lips with your next door neighbour.
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No, no, she doesn't live anywhere near me. I had to go through a third party. But anyway, so so we're going to have to have to let hot lips be able. We're going to have to park her hot lips and move on.
Famous April Fool's Pranks Quiz
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Okay. And with that devastating news, welcome to the April Fool's edition of ADHDville. That is surprisingly devastating. I know. Well, there was a groundbreaker, as Americans always do, and they always, you know, groundbreakers on that genre.
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Yeah. Comedy writing. Just amazing. All right, so plan B. Plan B. Yes. Right.
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Plan B is where we didn't want to set up a proper like, you know, trying to trick you because life is difficult enough as it is without you trying to be fooled by us.
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I went into the archives a little bit online and kind of found some fun, famous April Fool's pranks. Right. So I thought what I would do is these are fairly short. So I thought I would read some of them out.
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And then I would leave a little bit of information out and we can do a little quiz based on each one, a little fun quiz quiz, right? Yeah. Our podcast, I don't know, we squeeze one in occasionally. Right. We squeeze one out. Right. Well, we've had to squeeze one out on this episode because I've had to.
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All right. So and you can play along at home. Why not? So the first one. This is a very English one, so you'll probably remember not remember it, but but you but if you if you're of a certain age and you're British, you will you may have heard of this one. OK. Yeah. So on April 1st, 1957. Right.
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I wasn't born there. Yes, a full 20 years before I popped out. Right. Before I squeezed out.
TV Evolution and Personal Anecdotes
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Right. This is in the world of black and white TV. And just, I mean, I will interject that I remember going from black and white TV to color TV. I remember I was watching Star Trek with my dad in the evening.
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And then there was a knock on the door. We were halfway through and some guy came in with a TV from like very diffusion or rent a fuse or whatever it is. And they set up the TV. And then I watched the second half of Star Trek in colour. No, it was a miracle. Yeah. I remember it very distinctly.
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I don't remember the transition. I do remember our black and white TV was really small and had like a deep red burgundy colour of the casing of it. That's all I remember. And four buttons.
00:05:55
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Right. I mean, I do remember watching Snooker on a black and white TV, which obviously if American friends, it's like it's like a billiards, but with all coloured balls and you just it was like shades of grey, 50 shades of grey. Right. As a sport. Right. And the and and the last one that comes to mind was my uncle.
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who had a bit of money. He had some cash. He bought a colour TV before we did. So when I went round there, he would really make sure
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that we knew he had a color TV because he returned he turned the color knob because there was this knob that said color you could turn it from black white to full color and it will have it full up and it'll be saturated beyond and I can remember I went around and he was watching
00:06:55
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He was watching soccer, football, and it was up so bright that it was like a neon green blast into your eyeballs. Probably because at that stage it's like, because you can. Exactly. It's like, I paid for the colour. I'm going to have it oozing out of this box. I know. It was at a time when
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The guy next door to us, he he played for Crystal Palace at one point, apparently. Right. And there's a. I don't know. I don't. Unfortunately, but he there was a ring at my front door. This was like years ago and
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and I owned it and then it was him and he never just comes around on his own so I was like what's up and he said he was going he was pointing at his new digital
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watch when they just come out. You know, the ones that have like a black screen just had that LCD red. Yeah. When you pushed a button on the side, the time came up in red and it was like, look at this. I'm like, oh, okay, that's cool. And then he went back again. He just literally just came round just to show me his new watch.
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How nice. Nice. OK, let's get back. Let's get back to I remember our first remote control. Two buttons. Oh, really? Oh, no. Oh, no. No, it wasn't that advanced. I think it was just the volume. Oh, OK. Well, no, just the channel or just the channel, I think just the channel. I'm down with the channels from one to four back again.
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One to four. Wow. You know, because, you know, as anyone of a certain age will appreciate, I was the remote control. So your dad would go, can you switch it up? Let's see what's on channel one. All right. Then you'd go up to TV, press the big clunky button.
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You were basically the first cordless technology. I was. I was mobile. I was way before Bluetooth.
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Yeah, I was like AI, you know, you just like, yeah, that was that thing. Yeah. So an adult could sit on the couch and issue instructions out into the air. And then some little kid would just scurry off and make that thing happen. Of course, havoc in my house, because my sister and I would always fight on Saturday mornings, but she always wanted to watch the old Elvis films in the morning.
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And I wanted to watch, what was it called? Banana, what was it called? With the banana splits. And the cartoons. What was it called though? It wasn't called banana splits, or was it? Anyway, yeah, we still argue about it. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
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Yeah, well I've done a two banana, three banana, four. It was insane. I don't know if you've ever looked back at it, but it's just bonkers. It's proper bonkers. I saw, last week I saw like a two second snippet and I thought, oh, I must kind of like try and have a look at something like that when I'm back, back home and I was out somewhere.
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Yeah. Generally, you know, it even even itself out, you know, she'd win sometimes enough to go, God, Elvis again. Dad. Kissing cousins. I want to watch banana splits. Yeah. I'm with you, Paul. I don't need Elvis first thing on a Saturday morning. No schools finished. And you're like, great, I've got the weekend.
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I don't want Elvis coming in. Yeah. And then I'll start looking at my watch. We got to 12 o
Memories of Live Wrestling Events
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'clock. I start looking at my watch. The sport starts in five minutes. What's going to happen is going to kick. Yeah.
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Yeah. And those fights would ensue, but then my dad would get back from golf at about one o'clock with sandwiches. And, uh, that was easy after that. It just, it was, it was a given. It's not right. Sports and wrestling.
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Oh, yeah. What? Like giant haystacks versus a big daddy. Yeah. The ultimate showdown. Yeah. I went to see them live once. Lucky bastard. Epsom swimming pool.
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OK. They cuffed the pool, obviously. Oh, that would be great. Aqua, wrestling would have been, I would have been up for that. And we watched them fight. And then the word got round that all giant haystacks was in the car park and he was about to like come through through like exit the car park. And if one knew to exit the car park, you actually basically go past the front of the main entrance of the of the swimming pool.
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So it was this huge rush to like see the spectacle of giant haystacks in his Mercedes. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So were you in, in that, in that rush? I was in that throng, throng. You were in the throng of it. And did you catch the sight of your idol?
Iconic TV Shows and Characters
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I did. Okay. Nice. And how, and how was he in the flesh?
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was it was it was he a big big guy he's huge enormous yeah hence the name okay but give it to just think about it now uh you know gonna start up my wrestling career what shall i call myself giant something because i'm big right i'm big giant giant giant haystacks right because we must have been smoking the haystack when he'd come up with that
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Right, because Andre had already been taken. Andre. Yeah, because if you Americans, they don't know what the hell we're talking about. Joint Haystacks was the version of Andre. Yeah, except they had a big beard. Like a cheap version, a crap version of Andre. Andre is way more interesting.
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oh okay but before we move on i think we should a little tribute to um to hutch who died this week oh yes 80 he was yeah do you remember that wow this the star of star skin hutch
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Yeah, they were such idols. I used to love Huggy Bear. He was my favourite. Yeah, he was cool. He was as cool as.
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Cool. I was just thinking like informant truck dealer or something. Yeah. He was like, it was like shady, shady character. Yeah. I kind of, I was just thinking because when, whether that was the first time the car was kind of like a hero of the show. Yeah. Well, there was a kojak though. There was also kojak. He had the blood brown coupe.
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Yeah, but it was just a brown coupe. I know that there's things like James Bond, you know, with his Aston Martins and whatever, but they did something special to it. It was like that iconic, it was like a red with this kind of... And it makes no sense. With this white
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Yeah, I think I was seven or eight years old at the time just think what really the police will have that like Nike swoosh to the side What the hell and what do you do if you want to go in cooking eat? Oh, it's a bit, you know, it's not a subtle car, is it? No, it's like oh becomes dusky lunch. Jesus. Exactly. I'm a mile away
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they can't exactly do any any surprise busts or anything because just staring at like a neon sign. Exactly yeah and it is always wearing the same knitted cardigan as well. Stents out of aisle. Me and my girlfriend had an argue about this two weeks ago she was insisting that it was just because it was okay it was knitted but in her mind it was a jacket
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And I said, no, no, it's a cardigan. In the end, we had a straw poll amongst our friends of a certain age. And I won hands down, hands down to seven votes to one. It was got voted as a cardigan. And you were dancing in front of a face and just jacket. Blimey blimey anyway.
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Any who, uh, let's get back. Uh, cause I think I only got like, yeah. Yeah. I think, uh, I think we will, we will probably just do one. I suspect. Um, Oh, my dog wants to come in. Uh, let him in. Hang on. My dog's already here. Entertain the crowds. Okay.
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She shines like a bird in the sky. She shines like a bird. There we go. I'm just singing the theme tune to the nimble bread advert. OK.
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She shines like a bird in the sky. Oh, no, she flies. She flies like a bird in the sky. She shines. What the hell?
April Fool's Pranks Origins
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Like a bird. I've often been outside and looked up and gone, hey, look at that shiny bird. It's a bloody plane, you idiot. Oh, OK. All right. Got it. Right.
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Well, it's good that you've come back from the UK on a shiny bird. Yes. Back to Italy this week. Yeah. And none of the doors blew off either, which is a bonus, apparently, these days. It's a birdie bonus. Well done. It's a bonus, none of them. Sounds like a Michael K thing. They're supposed to blow off their bloody doors.
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Yeah. Oh, joke. Only supposed to blow off the bloody doors. That's it. We just weren't on the same song sheet on that one. Apparently.
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Let's get into the April Fool, right? On April 1, 1957, the BBC TV show Panorama ran a segment about a spaghetti harvest enjoying a bumper year.
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Thanks to mild, mild weather and the elimination of the spaghetti with evil. And I remember there was, I've seen the footage, there's like a, there's a tree and they've like, they hung spaghetti. Yeah.
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on the tree. That was a famous April fall that was fun. Now then, the question part is now, so what country was this in? Was it an English spaghetti harvest?
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Was it an Italian spaghetti harvest? Or was it a Swiss spaghetti harvest? Oh, come on. Just throwing that into like... Where did they say this... This has got to be Italy, surely. The spaghetti harvest come from... I'm going for Italy. It was the Swiss. It was the Swiss spaghetti harvest. Of course it was.
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Right, okay. This is even more ridiculous. It's like having an edam harvest in Vietnam. Right. Now here's a second one, which is another British one, Big Ben.
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So Big Ben, you and I will know as that as that big clock that's kind of sits by the bell, isn't it? Yes. Yes. It is the bell. The bell. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And sits in a tower next to the houses of Parliament. Very famous. Big Ben goes, goes, goes, goes digital. So
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In 1980. Oh, wow. So we were alive then. Back, back, back. The BBC's overseas service said the iconic clock tower was getting an update. Right. And it was going to go digital. Nice. And apparently the joke did not go over well.
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We can imagine, can't you? Oh man. That's when the UK still had a freaking sense of humor. Well, it's still do, but not, you know, not on the BBC. They don't, it's not so scared. It's like there's a, the running joke is that the radio four can never, ever, ever change this schedule.
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because the older generation of Brits, the BBC are just inundated with complaints when it's ever a sniff that they're thinking of changing the schedule. If you think about it, it's never changed. I can't remember it being any different.
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Right. So the question is, did they try and pull the same prank again in 2018 or not?
00:22:36
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Oh, OK. So did they try and do the same thing? You're sneaky, aren't you? You're sneaky, Mr West. It's like you're very specific with the year 2018. Yeah. Digital clock. Oh, I'm going to say yes, because it was covered in scaffolding. Ooh, it was.
00:23:01
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Really? But no, it was covered in scuffling, but they did not pull the prank again. Okay. Because the joke did not go well. The BBC had to apologise. It was a whole thing. Man. I know. I know. I think we just got time because we want to keep this one short.
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and I just want to find a third one. Okay, here we go. This is fun. This is quite apt. This is a good one to end up because it's about color TV. Oh, nice.
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And like your professional segwaya. I know. This is amazing. So in 1962. We're getting way too professional at this, Martin. We started out just like, we're getting too slick. We're getting slick almost. Almost slick. I don't think anyone listening to this is going to go. We're getting too slick. We've just had two April Fool's stories and it's like when we're 24 minutes in.
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Oh, it's a fucking nightmare. It's what it is. We aren't slick. We are we are slack. That's slack. Yeah, slack not slick. Right. Right. In OK, in 1962. The national TV network put on a technical expert.
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who told the public that its black and white broadcasts could be made colour by viewing them through nylon stockings. Many people fell for the hoax. Right.
00:25:13
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So they're all rushing out to get... Come on, get your vinyl stockies out, Mildred. All right. It sounds like something Trump would do. Do you remember when there was Eclipse of the Sun? Oh, yeah. Addy went out. Trump would do that. Except he would get his bleach out as well, of course. Right. OK, so the question being, is it true?
00:25:39
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No, no, no. The question is what country did this tokes take part in? Nylon, 62. Right, 62. Black or white? Expert comes on.
00:25:58
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How long has nylon been around since the 40s, isn't it? Well, yeah. It was rationed. It's like women tried to get nylon stockings, didn't they? During the Second World War, they couldn't get them. They used to draw a line up the back of their legs. Silk stockings, but yeah, certainly. Yeah, nylon 62. So is it?
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I've got choice. Okay. Okay. That was my first choice, Franz. France. Right. Britain. Right. Or Sweden. I'll go for Sweden. And you'd be correct. Oh. You got one right. And you end on a high. Can you hear the crowd roaring?
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No. Have you got, those are the special effects. No, no, I should do though. That should be cool. Yeah. I know. So what did I win? Uh, you won a little special dance from me that I will perform now. So shifting.
00:27:18
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Yeah, boomers and shapeshifting. What could you want out of a podcast? Make it rain. Make it rain. I don't want to spare. I don't want to spare. That's that. I'll sell myself.