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Join hosts Ryan and Ruban on The Worst of the Best Podcast as we dive into the 14 greatest hoaxes of all time, from spaghetti growing on trees to a fake rock supergroup featuring Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. We’re breaking down the most outrageous pranks, like the MIT balloon prank at a Harvard-Yale game and the 1957 BBC segment on Swiss spaghetti crops, to figure out which one’s the least convincing. Buckle up for laughs, surprises, and a look at why people fall for these tricks!
In this episode, we explore iconic hoaxes that fooled the masses, from Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic to a fake moon civilization with winged humans. You’ll hear about clever stunts like Virginia Woolf’s naval prank and a dog brothel that won an Emmy for its coverage. Whether you’re a history buff, a prank enthusiast, or just love a good story, you’ll learn how gullibility shaped these moments and why some hoaxes are too fun to debunk. Plus, we pick the “worst” hoax—tune in to see if you agree!
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Join host Ryan Rebalkin and his rotating guest hosts on The Worst of the Best Podcast, where they dive into the flaws of the best in pop culture and more. Covering genres like films, music, food, true crime, historical events, celebrity culture, and quirky societal trends, this podcast delivers a humorous, irreverent critique of the finest’s shortcomings.
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we're live we're live welcome to the worst of the best
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podcast you wanted the best well they didn't freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada Ryan and Ruben
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welcome to the worst of the best podcast I'm your co-host Ruben and this is Ryan
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our other host here thank you Ruben it's good to be here wasn't sure if you're going to say anything no I was just
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thinking uh I was just hoping I noticed that there's a little bit of lag in a live video which is fine I'm just hoping that when it's when the dust settles I
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don't know why there's a lag but I'm not too too worried about it nobody watches anyways we're getting a good audio that's all that matters all right but
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anyways go ahead on this episode we are going over hoaxes that's right the list
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that we're drawing from is the 14 greatest I I love a good hoax no nobody you give me an example that you think uh
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that might not be on the list uh uh well I'm not go ahead go ahead
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okay well for the record apparently I was supposed to read the list we weren't going to bring this up on the air but
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fine yeah ribbon but I thought I thought he was asking me to go and blind my reading comprehension is off my
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apologies if if I miscommunicate that's my bad no no I asked Ru did you read any the HX he goes no he said well I'm glad
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I did because there's a lot of re not research but there's a little bit of um things to know yeah and it's like just
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to read it would be kind of boring for The Listener and for the you know for ourselves so sure I think back before
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television there was a radio hoax about aliens landing and Invasion that was by
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Orson Wells was that who did it yeah Orson Wells that was the War of the Worlds he gave like an audio brought you
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can Google that it's on I mean it's on YouTube yeah he he talked about the aliens of land they destroyed the White
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House he gave such a a dramatic Orson Wells gave such a dramatic presentation people thought it was real there was a real Panic that's hilarious but we're
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going to talk about that and this is actually important today's and this to be fair we just had an episode about Trump and one of the things that he
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likes to say is fake news uhhuh he's not wrong what I mean by that is that the
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people the public the masses and through no fault of their own they can be tricked by false news they can be
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tricked by false claims absolutely because sound believable it can make sense and so they grab on to it and
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think until someone says no we're just joking or till maybe a conspiracy theorist comes by and says no this is
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what's happened truthers or whatever you want to call them so that kind of falls into when we get to these hoax ladies and gentlemen you'll say yourself well I
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can't believe people fell for is it so crazy to think that people fell for the Alien Invasion no I I'd love for that
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happen so that one that actually that oron Wells one wasn't part of this list which such a great example so here we go
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the 14 grest hoaxes of all time this episode actually might come out near April Fool's Day so it's only appropo
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that we speak about how April Fool's Day didn't get its name this one's going to be a little bit of me reading cuz I
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think it's just easier to read and there's no video of this we're going to be utilizing YouTube today so for those who are watching us live it's really
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advantageous to watch this episode live but if you're not we'll try to describe what we're seeing as we're playing the videos okay so Joseph boson would tell
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you the origins of April fools are murky in fact the Boston University professor and pul culture historian was trying to
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say just that in a 1983 interview with reporter Fred Bales okay so this guy
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this Boston University Professor was being interviewed for whatever reason by Fred Bales a reporter it was a 1983
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interview I couldn't find any video footage of this unfortunately but essentially the guy asked Bales hey how
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did April Fool start this is before wikkipedia sure you know before Google people could just kind of Google that
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now the average person probably even today if I asked you how did April Fool start I have no idea exactly okay this
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reporter didn't know either so he asked the professor hey how did it start so off the top of his head bosin began
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regaling Bales with a tale from the days when Constantine ruled Rome Jesters he said petitioned the emperor to allow one
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of their own the chance to rule for just one day I've heard this before okay so on April 1st Constantine relented a
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Jester King cougal and boson named him for the Jewish pudding dish took over
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and and proclaimed that April 1st would always serve as 24 hours of silliness so
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this professor just rattled this off at the top of his head and he purposely made the story so absurd that he figured
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the reporter would have to catch on but no dice the reporter treated it like it was real and reported such AP Associated
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Press once the truth was out the ap of course was predictably embarrassed but the story has a happy ending Bales no
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longer an eager reporter is now a professor of Journalism himself at bu where he can speak from personal
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experience about the media's gullibility so lesson learned yeah so even the media
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gets tricked by lies and so sometimes it's not the media telling the lies the media is reporting the lies they've been
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told so sometimes it's not just fake news or Fox News or faux news or CNN
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they're only able to tell what they're being told sure you know this one's kind of fun this is called the birth of the bathtub see it's kind of the same idea
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as April 1st did you know Ruben that the bathtub was born on December 20th I did
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not know that so it's on this calendar it's just another window day but it's actually that's best known for not being Christmas but in 1917 writer HL menkin
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uh set out to change that so when the readers of the New York evening mail a very uptd paper when they opened the
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paper in late December they found an 1800w essay by Menin it's called the
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neglected anniversary okay and what this anniversary about is it was detailing
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the arrival of the bathtub in the United States wow and men can meticulously
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catalog the tub Rocky debut in 1842 explaining how the bathroom fat had caught on only after mil Filmore
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installed one into the White House and by the 20th century Menin explained the
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momentous anniversary had fallen Into Obscurity quote not a plumber filed the salute he lamented not a governor
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proclaimed a prayer readers had good reason to believe that this was not made up
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because it was in the evening mail because it was printed in this mail but learned journalist and people who you
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know spot these things said W this is not right this is not true and he eventually admitted that that he did set
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the record straight but his efforts even though he said this is this is a joke his efforts were futile people were more
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interested in hearing about President filmore's tub than hearing the truth I believe that think about what that means
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for a second I.E flat earthers even it doesn't matter what kind of evidence you have it's more fun to believe in Santa
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Claus sometimes and that's fine there's no harm in this Ruben you mentioned at the beginning of the show that hoax is in this way there's no no one no one got
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hurt yeah yeah sure maybe your pride maybe that you were gullible got tricked but no real person got injured
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or hurt okay now that's kind of fun that's a fun one he wrote an 1800w essay
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detailing how the bathtub became popular there's nothing I have said or done written they'll ever catch on they'll
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ever catch on yeah I know so have you Ruben have you ever heard of the uh pilton man I have not okay s the pil the
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pilt downman oh him yes no I haven't what this was is in 1912 an amateur
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geologist and archaeologist named Charles Dawson found a skull and a skull he pulled from a gravel pit in pilton
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England seemed seemed at the time conclusively fit the part of the missing link of Neanderthal the man whatever
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that link was so there was that Missing Link in The evolutionary chart that was missing okay this skull was that missing that Missing Link
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okay now we're just going to listen to a little video about this cuz I think it EXP it just as well if not better than what I just did it is right in England
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in 1911 there was a hugely effective hoax involving a school called the poop down man for a hot minute or actually 40
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years it was the most famous School in the world because people thought it was the missing fossil Wing between humans
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and apes it wasn't until 1953 that things got real embarrassing for all the
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scientists involved a paleontologist thought that the John School seemed a little strange so he performed a
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flooring test on the different parts of the fossil and learned that whoops that is the job in orangutan and that is the
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skull of a human turns out the pieces were purposefully put together presumably by Charles Dawson
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archaeologist who found it reputations were tarnished outrage throughout the land that sneaky bastard wow that's
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hilarious so this guy took different parts of Bones to create like a man a
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jawline in face wow that's pretty uh gutsy that's The hoax he filled people
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for a long time until people were able to run test that was it a hoax done for the purpose of gotcha or the hoax to
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further his career good question but this is for close to 40 years like he
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would have gone down to the Grave with this oh we don't know we actually Dawson was the Prime Suspect cuz he found the
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skull oh yeah that's problema but there are some who think it might have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who did it the
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author of Sherlock Holmes because not only was and Doyle a member of Dawson's archaeological society and a frequent
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visitor to pilton site he hinted in his novel The Lost World that faking bones is no tougher than forging to photograph
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the ultimate Smoking Gun interesting so they could have collaborated too and so there it was in plain sight that there
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was a joke the whole time hilarious again no one got hurt except for people's pride and believe in it all
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right so the next one this one's great Italy secret pass the guard heard of this yeah so where does spaghetti come
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from Ruben well in April 1st 1957 the BBC news program Panorama tackled the
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question with a segment about a Swiss Town's robust spaghetti cro brought on by warm spring and The Disappearance of
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the spaghetti Weevil oh now I found some footage of that BBC coverage SE the
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footage of screen okay but what you may ask has the earlier and welcome arrival
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of bees and Blossom to do with food well it's simply that the past winter one of
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the mildest in living memory has had its effect in other ways as well most important of all it's resulted in an
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exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop the last two weeks of March are an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer there's
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always the chance of a late Frost which while not entirely ruining the crop generally impairs the flavor and makes
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it difficult for him to obtain top prices in World Markets but now these dangers are over and the spaghetti
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Harvest goes forward I love it spaghetti cultivation here is what I what I love
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is you got people actually playing the role just pick it like you would pick apples off a tree and they're not
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they're keeping straight faces like this is 1950s I kind of like seeing I know it sounds TR but I like seeing the sense of
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humor sure absolutely in the 1950s like this is like almost like a set a life skit it just shows you that humans have
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been funny and silly for a long time yeah ever since like Constantine ever since Constantine king king kral oh kral
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the Jewish pudding in Switzerland is not of course carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian
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industry many of you I'm sure will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the po valley for the
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Swiss however I like that laying it out at the basket yeah yeah all right so for those who are listening to this on
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iTunes are not seeing the first come to our come to Facebook and our YouTube channel where these videos can be found
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so you can see Ruben and I on our beautiful podcast faces see the videos that we're talking about for those who
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just can't handle live shows which I understand you actually see noodles hanging from a tree it's perfect and
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these noodles are being picked like you would an apple off a tree and they're laying them in the they're laying the noodles flat in the basket ready to
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beook how else would you do it it's the only way to when you're picking noodles lay them flat in the basket as shown in this video the next one so this one here
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is kind of interesting I don't think I've got a do I have a video on this stand by I don't have a video on this
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let me just get into it everyone knows you can't judge a book by its cover but the aphorism got an extra dose of
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validity in 1969 when penel Ash a bored Long Island housewife wrote the Trashy
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sensation naked came the stranger wow so and she did a book tour a real person
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did this book tour I was trying to find video or any kind of radio interviews but this did happen this female named
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penel as went on tour with this book in hand promoting the book so this is not a hoax this did happen Okay but this is
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very Andy Kaufman okay so she's doing this uh so she appeared on talk shows I
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couldn't find any video and made the bookstore rounds but Ash wasn't what her book jacket claimed the author herself
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was a fictional as fictional as the novel she supposedly wrote okay and both were the work of Mike McGrady a Newsday
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columnist disgusted with the lured state of the modern bestseller at the time so instead of complaining he decided to
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expose the problem by writing a book of zero redeeming social value and even less literary merit so he had listed 24
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of his news day colleagues and they BAS basically they all chipped in and wrote short stories and chapters for this book
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when he got their edits he actually chopped them down and made them sound even worse than they were cuz they were
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too good by these news day writers okay but he told them make it trashy make it make it terrible make it he instructed
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them that there should be an unremitting emphasis on sex and he also warned that the true excellence in writing will be
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quickly blue penciled into bivion so he's saying if you write too good I'm going to erase it so I want a tody
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terrible book so how did this book do well by the time that Grady revealed his hoax a few months later the novel had
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already moved 20,000 copies far from the syncing the books Prospect the Press pushed sales even higher so once it got
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exposed this was just a we're trying to write a terrible novel here sales went up to 100,000 wow and
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spent 13 weeks on the time's bestseller list and as of 2012 the tomb had sold
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nearly half a million copies wow and now after people listen to Marshal you know that yes he can also be in on the joke
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that's right all right the next one this one's pretty interesting long story short there was a astronomer he wrote
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six articles in a rag tag magazine called the sun it was six articles
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published 1835 about the discovery of civilization on the moon so in this six piece article which I have not read it
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was written by John hsel and he had a new powerful telescope to spot plants unicorns bipedal beavers and winged
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humans there hilarious and the Articles even went a step further claiming that our Angelic Moon Brethren collected fruit built
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temples from Sapphire and lived in total Harmony total Harmony I love that yeah so this was 1835 but the hoax was
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debunked immediately you think I hope so yeah but the American public preferred a
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universe with dotted angels and unicorns of a dazzled architecture the story created such a buzz that papers around
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the world rushed to reprint it while a Theater Company New York worked out a dramatic staging so again it just shows
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the humans our need this kind of speaks into our political climate maybe the need not for the truth but just for what
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we want to hear or what the government or people thinks we need to hear and how quickly we are say yeah that's the
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ticket that's the ticket all right crazy number seven is a hoax still a hoax if
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the perpetrator doesn't know it so basically this guy will him Von Austin
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had a horse and the horse was able to do math oh yeah I don't just this and so the horse would look at the guy and he'd
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be able to stop and you know 4 plus 4 the horse was you know eight or whatever the answer was with the simple math
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problems that that the man gave the horse well how this was exposed was is that they had the horse turn around the
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guy was giving hand signals that he trained the horse to make certain movements so like with his face so if he
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like rubbed his nose that was a movement to stop your foot eight times the T you know to scratch his ear was to make the
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the horse stomp three times so he'd give the question but he stomp his ear whatever it was and and so once he had somebody else ask the questions or turn
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the horse around of course the horse can't perform The Stomping of the feet with the correct answers to the math questions so that's the harmless he's
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just horsing around he hey nay go there now Ruben have you ever
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heard of the super group you must have heard of these guys the mass Marauders I have not are you kidding me Ruben the
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mass Marauders was the super group featuring Bob Dylan know him Mick Jagger John lenon and Paul McCartney now how
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awesome would it be to have that super group pretty great well they existed almost as good as the travel willber
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almost here's the thing they didn't form a band but this hoax that they were
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going to form a band became so popular as you can imagine the B like Bob Dylan
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Rolling Stone be join up every was like we got to have this people again wanted this so the record company said we got
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to do something about this the the people need this so the fans were so desperate to get their hands on a mass
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Marauders album so rather than fess up Marcus who started the hoax dug in his heels and took the prank to the next
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level he recruited an obscure San Francisco Band rock and roll band to
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record a spoof album then scored a distribution deal with Warner Brothers and after a little radio promotion the
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master marer self-titled debut sold 100,000 copies it's real the M rers have
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an album that's hilarious under the guys of Mick Jagger Bob Dylan and John lenon
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and Paul McCartney and and here we go here is a sample of the master Marauders album This song is called I can't get no
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Nookie exactly what you think Nookie is I have no idea what it is lip biscuit I did it all for the nookie what I think
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it's just sex but here go M take
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[Music] two said I'm sorry you
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[Applause]
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[Music] can't there should be a cover band there
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should be a cover band for the master Marauders that's awesome yeah so in a weird way it's a real band but it's
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performing under the guise of Mick Jagger Bob Dylan and John lenon and Paul McCartney and they got a singer that
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sounded like MC Jagger all right here we go the Virginia wolf ships out so on
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this one here it was uh in 1910 the HMS dreadn was the fiercest strongest drud
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notot sorry was the fiercest strongest ship in the Royal Navy to the poet William Horus de ver Cole it seemed like
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the perfect place for the bloomsberry group kind of like what do you call that uh the Harvard group or second City yeah
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the other one um the the national leoon Harvard laoon no uh the the one that
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people call me comedians go to for Second City no you you'll know when you hear I know Second City is one as well
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Conan went to it Lisa cud went to it they all went to this I just listen to some interviews with them okay we'll say
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Second City for now but it's going to drive me c improv troop yeah an improv troop I know Sega City probably is one
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but there's another one I swear okay this uh group called the blooms group they were kind of like socialites
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comedians authors so they thought it'd be funny if they dressed up like some Royal Guard or some Royal country people
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from our country and they were the royalty from this country but not only were they not that the country isn't
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real the Groundlings the Groundlings I knew once I heard it okay the old version of the Groundlings called the
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bloomsberry group The Three Pals decided to sneak aboard the dreadnut disguised as the Emperor of ABIA and his Entourage
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mhm why risked the Wrath of the royal Navy because it was funny yeah sure they
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thought it would be funny so the group sent a fonny telegram like almost like an email right sent a fonny telegram to
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the ship's Commander letting him know that a delegation was on Route at that moment and then they simply showed up on
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the ship they arrived so we're on our way for the road delegation for bnia we are here and so amazingly worked dressed
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in Captains turbin and gold chains and with faces painted black uh hey now hey
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now the absans were welcome aboard the dreadnut with an honor guard a red carpet and a naval band hilarious
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hilarious despite the intentionally amateurs costumes including at least one mustache that began falling off in the
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rain the abans stayed in character for the entire tour and when they spoke was either to exclaim bunga bunga in
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excitement or ramble in an invented language of Latin SW healing goig at one
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point they were forced to decline the meal relaying through Steven who was acting as a translator that the food had not been prepared to their
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specifications in reality they just didn't want to eat because they were afraid their makeup would come off hilarious so the tour ended without the
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crew suspecting a thing but then reps got wind of it and of course investigation happened there is no
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country of ABIA yeah the British papers had a field day with the story Sailors
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were heckled with cries of bunga bunga in the streets and King Edward himself made his displeasure with the incident
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known in the face of such humiliation the Navy was forced to take action according to contemporary accounts the
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Navy got its revenge by caning two of the male hoaxers caning they got caned
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brutal they got beaten wow caned but wolf Virginia wolf uh the female was
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spared last because she was a woman hey what about equal rights uh even though a lady's mere presence on the ship was one
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of the greatest sources of the Navy's embarrassment cuz this was the time that women did not come on board a ship so it
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was in combination of the HKS they were tricked and they had a woman on board it sounds like they're probably pretty
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upset about the blackf facing they were more upset about the blackface yes they weren't eventually though the Royal Navy
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has developed a sense of humor about the event I'm glad they done especially after caning after getting can so when
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the dreadnut rammed and sank a German submarine during World War I its crew received a congratulated telegram from
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their Superior saying bunga bunga hilarious I that's a great that was great that's a huge one yeah uh this one
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we kind of just Breeze over a little bit it's just not not that it's not funny but this guy named Joey Skaggs you can Google he was a well-known prankster in
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the 70s he basically uh started a prank where he ran an ad in the village of voice offering dog owners a chance to
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buy their pets at night with alluring companions including the French poodle again to skag surprised but should we be
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surprised in today's internet and how it's exposed Humanity let's just be honest cuz the internet hasn't created
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the issues the internet has only exposed that which has always been yeah do you know what I mean by that Absolut he got
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$50 offers bring uh my dog spot over I'll bring my dog spot over for 50 bucks
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which back then was probably $200 and to make love the Fifi cuz my you know spots had a rough spell crazy so he created a
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dog Bordello it didn't take much for the media to bite and when reporter showed up with question skag reeled them in by
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staging a night at his cat house for dogs the stunt work TV stations issued breathless reports of the wanting acts
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of carine carnality the SPCA of course launched an investigation and a veterinarian publicly condemned the
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brothel and the New York Health Department raised concerns about skags licensing he didn't have a license there
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was no belloo that's hilarious but all this Manpower and work was brought in by
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this ho I feel inspired a hoax yes WABC New York argues that the
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broth was real they couldn't let it go they thought it was real even the news they got lied to but they were so had
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such egg on their face they claimed that Skaggs hoax claims are just a clumsy attempt to cover his Trail oh so they
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were saying that he was lying about it being a hoax because he was going to get in trouble with these other agencies but
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of course WABC was good reason to insist that skags was running a genuine poodle prostitution ring because the station
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won an Emmy for its coverage of the story sure so is that interesting they're like oh no it was a real story
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we we want an Emmy they didn't want to have egg on their face after yeah hilarious okay here we got some video
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this is where having video comes into play do you want to go over our uh I think we're live right we are live but somebody actually commented our good
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friend Jason gaty commented so I just want to make sure we say hey thank you he said oh you already laughed at or
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somebody did said would the plant be considered a tree or just a tall shrub do you have information on growth zones
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for this crop so Jason are this regarding the pasta growth I have to look into that U I'll have to use Google
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uh to figure out how we can how to how we can research man you got to use Bing
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use Bing so we'll use Bing to figure out how we can grow more pasta let just Bing that right now okay so here we go uh MIT
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blows up Harvard so MIT students derived a great pleasure from tormenting the rivals at Harvard our favorite prank of
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theirs according to this article occurred during the 1982 Harvard Yale football game when a weather balloon emblazoned with letters MIT began
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emerging from the ground near the 50 yard line it came out of the ground wow wow yeah so here's the video so again
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this is where it benefits you people to watch us live here's the video for our viewers let's give a play by play yeah
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I'll describe it really quick I don't want to describe it just yet because it'll spoil those you're about to watch it
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okay suddenly it happened a balloon with M written all over it popped out of the
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turf at the 46 yd line and grew and grew
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and R the questions of why who
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and how well why cuz it's funny who and my T Tex and how well they
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explain it later in this video so if you want to go on YouTube and search great MIT balloon hack of 82 they explain how
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they got onto the field from an opposing school put the contraption under the ground had it open up into the field the
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game was being played on at this time amazing and somebody said what happen if that balloon blew up next to somebody
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there's nothing there was all everything in there was harmless it was just a big that popped hilarious to make some powder go off now if that happened today
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oh my gosh all yeah you're going to jail this is 82 like this is in our lifetime sure yeah CU we've gone from 1982 to
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2019 then now you have been charged with the terrorist act yeah it's too bad I know cuz nobody got hurt the terrorists
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won again the terrorists won again Trump take care of those terrorists see this one here is called Grease in the wheels
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MH so back in the late 19th century college teams took trains to get to Road games obviously so this is late 1800s
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and Auburn team took full advantage of the situation so for a few seasons the students ran Greece along the train
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tracks before Georgia Tech games making it impossible for the train to stop
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anywhere near the station so the train put on its brakes it just kept sliding so year after year
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the poor football team ended up lugging its gear a number of miles back to the station giving the players more of a
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warmup than they bargain for and tilting the games in Auburn's favor
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that's funny this is 1800s that's funny again nobody got arrested is this Tom Foolery if they did it year after year
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then I'm sure somebody figured out eventually but uh okay here we go another video one
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here we go tricking opposing fans another football game into holding up placards that spell out a hidden message
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is a prank older than time but it was perfected with the great Rose Bowl hoax of 1961 during which students altered the
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placards given to the University of Washington fans so that the giant Banner that they formed read celac instead of
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anything regarding the Washington University on live television hilarious so here's a video footage of that the
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great rosebell hoax January 2nd 1961 the University of Washington was playing the
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University of Minnesota for the national championship and at halime one of the great traditions of college football
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card stunts I don't know how it could have work much better re Clemens was a student in ctech at the time he and a
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few classmates orchestrated a subtle change during the University of Washington's card show we were all a
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little bit panic-stricken until it finally hit the air you you figured somebody's going to find out somebody's
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going to figure it out at a time when Washington was supposed to be spelled out in the stands the cards instead read
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Caltech it was a feat that took hours of work and near perfect execution Clemens
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and a friend had to break into the dorm housing Washington's cheerleaders and change thousands of index cards with
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directions on them just getting by with the whole thing is just amazing this is a picture re Clemens was able to take
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from his TV screen the Caltech prank made national news I have a suit box in
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the other room full of clippings that relative sent from all over the
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country the calac prank and though he doesn't watch the Rose bow Much Anymore reg Clemens says what he did at that
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game is something he'll never forget we all definitely proud of it that's great
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that's great isn't that great is really I love how he took a picture of his prank on his cameras he had 1961 camera
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Came live he got I got it yeah cuz he wouldn't know until that moment if it worked no it's hilarious was absolutely
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hilarious so they replaced all the cards in the proper order nobody checked that they had been tampered with and they came out as Kelch instead of Washington
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State University that's fantastic hats off hats off so the fans of Washington did
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that that is the original best prank ever caught on TV okay last hes Reuben
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have you ever heard Reuben of the absolutely have you really okay so this is the elusive Northwest tree dwelling
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octopus I know all so according to the species official website the Pacific Northwest tree octopus is native to the
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rainforce of Washington State's Olympic pensula po poor Washington State it spends most of its time froling on
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Treetops and snacking on frogs and rodents but today the air Boreal
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seod faces Extinction thanks to rampant predation by the Sasquatch freaking
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Sasquatch so if you guys don't believe me again I can't say enough how you got to come to our Channel if you don't believe me here we go here's video proof
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of the tree octopus caught on tape now there's no there's no audio
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really we get some granny image here it's an older video I'd say it's probably 1975 1980 video footage ribbon
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what do you think they probably just got a an octopus from the No No ribbon so I mean yes sorry yes so the footage come
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on now the footage here is about you know 19 6972 it it was filmed with the same
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camera with Sasquatch yes yeah yeah he probably got the same footage of the Sasquatch coming to eat the octopus in
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the tree now that would be quite a horrific sight don't you think you see that yeah if that jumped at you yeah
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well the guy's chuckling well he thinks this funny it's not funny some people when they're nervous they'll they'll
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laugh so there's an octopus in a tree that's something you don't see every day all right Ruben which one's the worst
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the least funniest or the least wow or how would you argue the worst for this uh yeah least like the calch that's
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great yeah the training the wheel very funny the balloon great fantastic the
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dog one's funny cuz it's so simple and it really got people the station one so yeah the results were good on that one
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absolutely and the the Virginia wolf who she her and her group went from AIA
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bunga bunga yeah bunga bunga like this prank cannot be pulled in today's clim no no
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no just make that clear we're not condoning blackface we're just saying can you imagine that happened on your ship oh oh yeah we would be the laughing
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stock if if we got if we got yeah I'm on a ship so we got tricked by a fake nation and we did the same thing people
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would never let it down absolutely oh yeah we would be in the in the seal be so much
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trouble uh can the Marauders love the mask Marauders that's great the horse
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life on the Moon the Luder you know what I'm going to go with boy they're all good I I got mine I think I got mine too
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mine is I'm taking mine with how many people were affected and how hard did
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take to be pulled off so I think I'm just going to go with the horse kind of
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a tie between the life on the moon but people again created a theater for this
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but I think mine is the horse just because um yeah you know he taught a horse how to Clum his feet around and just told people who's doing math a good
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little magic drink little parl trick really at the end of the day okay mine's the tri octopus really yes
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that's fair that's fair I guess I guess cuz it's so crazy but for the horse like they want to tour yeah you know what
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you're right you know what I mean like people were in stands watching this right you're right if I use my own
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fooled a lot of people and he made money and he went on tour the octopus is so outrageous could anyone believe this
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you're right I'm going to go with the fact that the the octopus is so outrageous that it can't it could even
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possibly be true yeah it's just a fun thing that lives on the internet right all right everyone thanks for watching
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thanks everyone thanks for watching hey by the way I think one of our best episodes and I did no work thank you Ryan oh yeah you did all the reading I
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was just a listener I'm sorry rub I should have been more clear no no no no no you probably were clear there's
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nothing to apologize for I thought it went great I really enjoyed it I'm glad you enjoyed I really really enjoyed it thank you
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