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Ep. 126 Privy Pranks 3 (April Fool's Day 2024) · Privycast

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>> Speaker A: Uh, but the husband walks out there to lovingly get
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his wife a glass of water, and then she blasts a song like
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scream speaker in the cupboard. Scares the crap
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out of him. The guy, like, belts over the table,
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all these things.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy is
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a podcast about bathrooms,
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recorded from my home bathroom.
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I'm your host, hunter Hoover, and I love
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bathrooms. Welcome back, everybody. It's been
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a bit. It feels like to you, it probably doesn't feel
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very long. Um, but normally
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I bank some episodes, and
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a lot of what I have released
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has been banked a little bit. Not a lot. A, uh, little
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peek behind the privy curtain here. But this
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episode is very much not banked, uh, at the
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point of this record, this episode is set
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to release in under 48 hours. So we
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are what we call on crunch time.
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But it's been good. And part of the reason
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that is I have another guested
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episode coming up. Stay tuned. Get, uh,
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hyped. I sat down with, um, my friend
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and soon to be friend of the show, Aaron Luckman. Uh, so
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that episode is coming. Uh, but the
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other thing is, as I approached this
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episode, I was originally going to put this episode
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out in April. Uh, but
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I thought to myself, I was like, well, if I put the
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episode out in April, the things that
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we are going to talk about this week are going
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to be a lot less pertinent to
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everyone. Uh, and so in order to
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maybe give you ideas that you could
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put into practice in the coming week or so,
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we have this day on the
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horizon that has become a day of
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fun loving and cheer. Before we discuss
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that, I have to tell you that the other
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night, I was tasked with running a
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stool sample to the hospital at 930 at
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night. It was a real treat. Nothing, uh,
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like walking into the emergency room with a cup with a
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turd in it. It was a very fun experience for me
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to have had. Um, it's
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a weird thing, uh, working at a
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hospital. I imagine that when someone comes in
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and they're like, I wonder if in their brain they want to ask
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when someone's like, oh, I'm here to drop off
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a sample. If they're going,
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what type? I wonder
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if they're ever trying to figure out what type. Uh,
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more stories about me dropping samples off at the
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hospital coming this summer. Uh, but as
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march draws to a close, there is
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this day of kind of fun loving and
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cheer, or, for many people, frustration
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and annoyance on the horizon. And
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so this week on privy, we're serving up another
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batch of bathroom pranks and discussion
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around April. Fool's day for you to enjoy.
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And so to kick things off, something we haven't done,
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and it's not really bathroom related, but maybe a
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little bit. There's a butt thing involved.
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No, there is a thing to
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do with backsides there. I've made it as clean
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as I could involving the history
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of April fool's day.
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Depending on who you ask,
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when you try to figure out where April fool's
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day came from, there's a few
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options that we have to choose from. The first of
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these options dates back to, uh,
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1582, when France,
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we, we monsour were back in France,
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switched from the julian
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calendar to the gregorian calendar. Now, I believe
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we are on the gregorian calendar now. Um,
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but pretty much what it was, and the Council
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of Trent demanded that pretty much what it was
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is the julian calendar had the
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beginning of the year starting in April
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or around April 1. It was like the beginning
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of the spring season was the beginning of the new
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year, and the gregorian calendar
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moved it back to January
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1, much like we experience
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today now.
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It's a whole thing. But pretty much
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what happened is you had when
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this switch happened, much like anytime you change anything
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out here in America, not every
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state, some states are more free than others. That's what I've
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learned. Um, but we
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just switched to daylight savings time. And anytime
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you switch to daylight savings time, there is
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about a week long period where there's kind of an
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adjustment in our internal clocks and everybody's
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kind of got to sort themselves out a little bit.
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Anytime you change the date or the clock
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or the like, when it flips over to the new year,
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there's people that are right in the previous year for
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weeks on end. After that switch happens,
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it's just a thing. And so
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the people who were slow
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to get the news and recognize
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that the start of the new year had moved
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essentially back three months
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and continued to celebrate it during the
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last week of March through April 1, became
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the butt of jokes and hoaxes and
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were kind of regarded as idiots, for lack of a better
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word, and began to be called
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April fools. Now,
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I want to note here the
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April Fool's day was essentially their way of making
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fun of all the people who hadn't got the memo
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about what month they're on. Again, they switched the
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calendar. Ah. And I want you to think about
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this. So you're going about your
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day. Yeah, they
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didn't live that long. Say you're 25 years old.
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Every year for the past 25
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years, January
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has been like nearing the end of the year.
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You got about three months left. And then
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one year in France in 1582,
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they just decide, okay, instead of that being the
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case, we are moving the new year up to
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today. And we are starting our new year today. Now,
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there's three months of lost time that we have to account
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for. I don't know how that works
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with time and calendars and somebody
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out. There's probably somebody on TikTok, if our
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beloved government hasn't banned it by this point.
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Um, who could explain to me
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what we did with that three months? Maybe that's what leap
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days are about. No, leap days have something to do with the sun.
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I don't know. I'm not a scientist or a calendarist or
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whatever these things are, but
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they switched to calendar. And I want you to imagine
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that next week. April. It's
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April 1. Uh, by the time you listen to this
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episode, uh, you have plenty of time to prepare your
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pranks, and you will have seen April Fool's Day coming
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from, hopefully about a week away. Um, but let's
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say it's April 1. And we wake up and
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they say, actually, guys, it's not April 1.
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It's July 1. Summer is here. You get to
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begin summer now. Go.
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It would be jarring. Like,
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that is essentially what happened. They
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moved the date up. They didn't
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rename it. They just said, this is where we start. It would be like if
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we woke up tomorrow. And they said,
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actually, we're going to move Christmas. I don't know.
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It's hard to wrap my brain around. But what I want you
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guys to see is
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that they were just dogging on the people
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that could not get this square in their brain. And what's
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frustrating is, I think I would have been one of these
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people that would have struggled to make this
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adjustment as quickly as they wanted me to.
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But they began to pull pranks to make
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fun of these people. And some of these pranks
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included having paper fish placed on
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their backs and being referred to as Poisson
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Davrio, April fish.
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And it's said to symbolize a young, easily
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caught fish or a gullible person. They got you on the
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line.
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Another option where April fool's Day came
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from, that's the first option. The French, not being able to figure
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it out. The other option is a little farther back. Came from ancient
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Rome. We made it, gentlemen. We
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talked about it. Ancient Rome has arrived again.
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Historians here link April Fool's day
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to festivals honoring hilaria, which
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is like, I guess, this goddess of something. I
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don't know. Who knows? Or the cult of Sybil or.
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I don't know. But it's Latin for the joyful
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festival celebrated in Rome at the end of
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March. It involved people dressing up in
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disguises, Halloween, mocking fellow
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citizens. I, um, feel like that's groundhog's day,
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based on how much grief I take for celebrating groundhog's day.
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And magistrates were said to be inspired
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by the egyptian legends of Isis, Osiris,
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and set. Now, there's
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speculation on April fool's Day that it's also
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tied to the vernal equinox, the spring equinox, the first day
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of spring in the northern hemisphere, when Mother nature
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fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.
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Ooh, you got us again. Mother nature showed
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up. That's dumb. Either way,
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wherever this started, I tend
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towards the argument for the french thing
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being the most compelling. But
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whatever. Why can't it be all
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three? Wherever it
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started, the idea of
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celebrating a day
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for the April fool didn't catch
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on so much until, like,
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17 hundreds in Europe,
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April Fool's Day spread throughout
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Britain. In the 17 hundreds in
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Scotland, the tradition became a two day
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event. It's too much here. I'm going to tell you something here.
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Just gather in, kids. Again, you're getting ready
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to pull some pranks on your parents and teachers. Number
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one, keep it clean. Number two, make sure
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that the person you're pulling a prank on can hang. You
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don't pull pranks on people who can't hang, because if
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they can't hang, they're going to cry like little diaper babies. And
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you don't want to do that. No.
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And yes, that's on them. But when diaper
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baby is going to do what a diaper baby is going to do, do you know what I'm saying?
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Here in Scotland, the
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tradition became a two day event,
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starting with the hunting of the Gok.
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Gawk. I don't know. G o w k. Whatever that
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is. Let's look it up. What's a gawk?
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G o w k.
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Internet. It's a bird. It's a
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bird. Um, it's a cuckoo
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bird. Okay, fine, enough. So
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it's a hunting of the cuckoo bird, which is in
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their culture. Oh, yeah, here we go.
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As a symbol for the fool, pretty
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much they were sent on fake errands to
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run. Kind of like the hunting of the snipe. Like,
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yeah, you got to go snipe hunting. All right, I'll go do
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that. And you can't find it. Um,
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and was followed. So the hunting of the snipe or
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gawk or cuckoo bird was followed by
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Taylie day. Now, Taylie day is
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where the butt comes in. Uh, Taylor
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day involved playing pranks on
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people's butts.
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Yep. And this is, from
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what I can tell, the
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origin of the kick me
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sign, because you would pin fake
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tails or signs
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indicating that the person needed to be kicked in
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the butt. Prank got
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them, um, in the 17 hundreds,
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Europeans knew how to put a guy on
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blast. So funny. Nothing's
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better than physical assault in the streets.
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Like, to really kick off April fool's day, keep it
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clean. That's rule number one here, friends.
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But the reality is there's
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plenty of bathroom prank options. We don't have to
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stoop to just
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shoehorning someone right up the cornhole.
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Like, there's plenty of bathroom prank options. And
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we've explored many of these in
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years past. Go check those out. Our
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April Fool's Day episodes of the last couple of years. But the
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Internet's a neat place, and so I have ventured
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out, I have ventured forth to
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bring you a fresh batch of bathroom pranks.
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Bathroom pranks 3.0.
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We got a fresh batch of these pranks last
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year. I want to note, we discussed the brown bag
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deluxe, aka the brown bag special, aka
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the bag of dog or human poop on
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somebody's doorstep, wherein you light it on
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fire and let the rest commence. You're essentially
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tricking someone to curb stomping a bag full of
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turds. Woof. Speaking
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of dog poop, my dog had, like, weird
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diarrhea this morning, and it got in the house
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and it was a very frustrating moment for me. Um,
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yeah,
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dogs are great, but what in the
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flipping heck was going on there? Do you know what I'm saying?
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And I shared last year the tale of woe
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when I performed the brown bag deluxe when I
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was in high school and we were irresponsible
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and lit it on fire and ran away, uh, because
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we didn't want to get caught. And we didn't get caught, but, like,
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definitely left a flaming bag of turds on fire. Now, nothing burned
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down. I mean, looking back is bad. It could have been serious.
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Could have been. Thank God it was
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not. That's where we are.
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Many of these pranks come from online sources. The
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first batch of these comes from
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mashable.com. Now,
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mashable.com is either
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a website that someone with lots
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of mashed potato recipes was just itching to
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get on and they bought it before them,
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or it's one of those online tech fake
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gossip news websites where they're like, oh, yeah,
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we're a news company, but also we're going to write about
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bathroom pranks this week. So you tell
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me. But
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Mashable.com has some gems
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now, some of what they offer. I'm
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cutting out the chaff. I'm weeding out the chaff for you
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because some of these we've already discussed at length on
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the show and others are stupid. So
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like, we're cutting those ones out. And link
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in the, you can find the mashable.com link down
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in the descriptor thingy below. You can go look at this
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for yourself if you want, or
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you can just allow me to sift through the
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meyer on your behalf. But
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they have some gems. And the first
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is a couple variations on
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putting something in your budy's showerhead. Now,
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in this, you unscrew or undo the shower head and
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you put various items in the showerhead. One of
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these includes placing
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boolean cubes, chicken boolean cubes,
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bouillon boolean. It's probably french.
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We've come full circle. Essentially,
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you stick a soup cube in the showerhead and the
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water comes on and it makes like chicken soup for
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the showered soul.
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And you just get fully wet with
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chicken soup. It's
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prank. Got them. Now, uh,
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I have to say I would try the soup. Like,
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I would definitely just open mouth, let that soup just hit
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me. Um, why not? It could be the future
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of shower technology. We could be knock
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knock knocking on shower's door here with
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the future of shower flavor shower.
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Tmtmtm. TMTm
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think of those like circle water bottles where you got like the
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flavor cartridge and you like cartridge your water bottle.
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Speaking of which, we're talking about getting a
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drink in the bathroom. You know it's on deck
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kachika. Like a spring chicken. I
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have come home orange vanilla
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polar seltzer. You are my friend
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that wets the whistle.
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But yeah, I think I would definitely open
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mouth the chicken soup. The shower chicken soup.
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Uh, it could be new technology. Again,
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flavor shower head TM. But the real prank
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here is going to be the fact that
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that person going to smell like chicken soup for a minute
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after that shower. I don't know if you've ever messed around with chicken
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boolean, but that is some concentrated mess. If
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that is blasting right onto your skin, who
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you're going to smell like a chicken for a
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week. It's stinky,
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but you could easily swap this out for all sorts of
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things. Alka Seltzer tablet. Give them a little fizzy
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showerhead prank. You could put some food
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dye or like, dye tablets up there. It's going to
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dye their skin so good. You just come
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to work. Dave walks into work and he's just
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purple. He's like flipping skin suit
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Barney. And everybody's
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scared of Dave. Barney,
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Dave. Uh, one of the best options,
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this one, this one's psychological. If you do
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this, you're playing some mind games on a
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level that I'm not comfortable with.
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But I saw somebody say that you could put like a piece of hard
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candy or like a mint in the showerhead. And the
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reason is, as it runs, it's running that
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sugar and stuff out. It actually makes them a little
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bit sticky. Like, the person just is
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going to get sticky from it. It's
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good prank.
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Um, I also think you could put, like some icy hot or Ben gay
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up there. More on icy hot here in a moment. Uh, just give the whole body
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a burning sensation. So good.
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This showerhead idea is
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literally a world of possibilities.
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And another great bathroom prank is a prank
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to a person's bar soap. You take the bar
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soap, and first of all, first thing, you need to check and see if
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they've carved a message in it. Uh,
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if you ever interact with a bar of soap and you're
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in the wild and you're interacting with soap, check
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for messages. You never know. It could be a cry for help, it
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could be a cry for affection. Um,
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who knows what's going on?
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But you take some clear nail polish and you just
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paint over the whole bar of soap with this clear nail polish.
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Um, it keeps the soap from reacting with the water
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and just making bubbles, but it's clear, so you can't even see it.
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Prank so good,
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you could technically do the same thing for, like, a person's
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deodorant stick. Just paint the layer over and
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it might not spread to your armpits the same way.
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But what I'm guessing is going to happen
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is there's somebody out there who's going to be like, oh, the,
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uh, clear fingernail polish was, like, detrimental to my
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health, and my armpit burns and stings.
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There's just another prank recommendation which to place
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your victim's deodorant with cream cheese.
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What? Dear God, mashable.com.
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Please just take a lap.
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One cream cheese
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is not the same consistency as
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deodorant. And if it is,
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either your cream cheese is bad
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or your deodorant has
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melted, oddly, in some way.
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Also, my deodorant's blue. So,
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like, this one might be a miss
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prank
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one time. To sub
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this out, uh, keep the cream cheese in the fridge.
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Kids, if you want an
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icy piece of deodorant, listen up.
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The safer bet to really get their goat.
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If you don't want to toxic spray their armpit with
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the armpit or the fingernail polish, and you don't
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want to waste cream cheese and get cream cheese in
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the bathroom, keep the cream cheese out of the bathroom.
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No cream cheese in the bathroom unless it's cream cheese frosting on a
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cupcake and you're eating a cupcake in the bathroom. That's different. But, like,
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loose, untopped,
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unused, unaltered. Um,
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cream cheese should not be in the bathroom, and it definitely
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should not be wedged into a deodorant stick.
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That's idiotic. Um, but I think
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the safer bet to really get them
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is to rub icy hot on
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their deodorant, really freeze their armpits.
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One time, some guys did this when I was in
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school, I remember sitting in geometry class.
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Nerd. Uh, and we just look
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up. I don't even know who did it, but Justin
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Smith is just, like, in his chair because he's
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got, like, spicy armpits. I think they also put it in
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his underpants, which is. That's
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a good prank, but maybe a bridge too far. But I just
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remember he was, like, getting full, icy hot in the
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was. Sorry, Justin, I don't think you listen to this.
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If you do. Thank you. Uh, and I'm sorry that
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I reminiscing. Enjoy
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with enjoyment on that having happened to you.
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Um, but it was funny. I think, as we all look back, we can
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admit that most of the time, 90% of the time, pranks are
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funny. Prank
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next, mashable.com says that they put a
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small dot of food coloring on the person's
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toothbrush. And again, I'm not sure I'm
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convinced. I rinse my toothbrush
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brush before I stick it in my mouth. And so I'm curious
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if I would rinse all the stuff down or if in the process
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of preparing my brush, you got to wet the brush,
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you got to get the brush damp before you get the stuff on it.
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And I'm wondering if in getting the brush damp
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before I put the stuff on it, if
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I'm going to rinse
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off or reveal the food coloring
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before it has a chance to make my mouth completely
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purple. Uh,
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I think that is the goal, by the way. I think you could
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use squid ink.
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I think if you could figure out how to get a little bit of the
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food coloring in the top of the,
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you could get one with the pointed tip like the gel
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food coloring and you could stick it in the top
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of the toothpaste and just squish a little bit of that gel
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food coloring type stuff like for cakes and stuff.
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Squish it in the top. Oh gosh. That's going to come
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out when they go to brush their teeth and it's going to be uh, a
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wild ride. Uh,
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prank, another great one
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brought to us from the Internet. These come from
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a different source. Let me peek at, let me check
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my sources here. You know what I'm saying?
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Oh, this is just from like a history.com, like general
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pranks for. Yeah. Uh,
23:37
if you've ever watched like online, there's
23:40
like a whole section of the Internet wherein
23:47
people put a, uh, speaker
23:50
in their kitchen cupboard and then they ask their spouse,
23:53
hey, can you go get me a glass of water? And then the husband, because
23:56
you know, it's the husband going out there and get his glass of water. Uh, but the
23:59
husband walks out there to lovingly get his wife
24:02
a glass of water and then she blasts a song like scream
24:05
speaker in the cupboard, scares the crap out of him.
24:08
The guy like belts over the table, all these
24:11
things, you just pull that, but you put it in the
24:13
kitchen or the bathroom cupboard and then when they go to
24:16
take a shower, as soon as they get the shower going, you just play
24:19
the music. I think it'd be funny to play like
24:22
horror music, the
24:25
shining or like psycho just knife
24:27
scene
24:31
while they are taking a shower. Right as they get, they
24:34
just get freshly lathered, full lather,
24:37
cue the music. Just really freak them
24:39
out. I was explained that the term.
24:42
Anyway, we're not going to get into it.
24:48
Prank one site
24:50
said to put yellow dish soap in the toilet bowl
24:53
and maybe some in the top. It's hard to really tell what's going on with this
24:56
prank, but according to this source, when uh,
24:59
you flush it to clear the yellow,
25:02
that kind of looks like pea, it like mixes
25:05
the soap up and bubbles your toilet. I
25:08
don't think that one's going to work, but who
25:11
knows? If you try it, let me know. Prank
25:14
sometimes however, and these are
25:17
just a few, there's plenty more.
25:20
Uh, I gave you a handful to try this year.
25:24
Here's the reality. We can't expend
25:27
all the pranks because if we did,
25:30
what are we going to do next year? So
25:34
I hope these have some ideas for you. But
25:37
before we end here,
25:40
I want to note that sometimes pranks can go
25:42
too far and sometimes they get
25:45
carried beyond what they should.
25:48
And when that happens, sometimes the law
25:51
gets involved. Last year, if we
25:54
remember, we also talked about the online service
25:57
poopsenders.com. Yes, they're still in
26:00
business, but we got to talk about them. Well,
26:03
poopcenders.com found its way into the spotlight a
26:06
few years back, so we need to discuss this in this
26:09
installment of poo in
26:12
the news. Poop
26:14
spenders exposed.
26:21
This article comes from vice.com.
26:24
A lady named Sarah
26:26
Pruixma. I'm going to go with that.
26:30
Is at home one day, and the article says
26:32
that her husband brings in a package off
26:35
the front step in a regular hall from the post office
26:38
is stuffed. It has a lump shaped
26:41
object inside. The return address
26:44
is reported as giving a PO box in
26:47
Allison Park, Pennsylvania,
26:50
inside. So they open it up. Inside is a bag
26:53
containing what looks like a chunk of grass and some
26:56
liquid floating around. Uh, and it kind of
26:59
smells bad. And
27:02
Pruixma told
27:05
them that it looks like a poopy pie. Now,
27:08
the plastic bag, it also contained a
27:11
card that said, you've been pooped on, want to know by
27:14
whom? And you have to open the bag and flip it over. And
27:16
that's the whole joke with poop senders.com,
27:19
is to figure out who sent you the
27:22
poop. You have to flip it over. Now,
27:25
when you do that, it says on the
27:28
backside, we'll never tell in a web address, www. Um,
27:31
dot poopsenders.com. Now,
27:34
one of these, this got sent to this Sarah
27:37
Pruiksma lady,
27:39
and she's one of many. But poop senders
27:42
sends their poop through Us postal service.
27:45
And the site warns that this is
27:48
supposed to be in good fun. And you can order. And they list all
27:51
the things you can order.
27:54
The lady poop senders package.
27:57
There was a 2014, a woman sent a poop
28:00
sender package to a neighbor. They filed a complaint,
28:03
and in 2019, uh, and they won against that person,
28:06
by the way, they had to spend a couple of days in
28:09
prison. In 2019, a waiter in Austin used it
28:12
as revenge. And people have
28:14
reported feeling harassed. So one of these people is
28:17
pruixma. Sarah Pruixma. She said
28:20
that she was going through a brutal election cycle in
28:23
her state. Um, and the response
28:26
was, in their
28:29
claim, uh, part of online
28:31
harassment. She and her husband were
28:34
being called out as awful things on the Internet because
28:37
they're running for public office. Here's the deal. If you're running for public
28:40
office, you got to be able to take some
28:43
shade thrown at you. That's
28:46
where you got to be able to handle it.
28:50
Now, they interpreted this bag of turds in their
28:53
mail as the people saying, this is
28:56
what we think of you. And I would argue,
28:58
now, I'm not arguing that they shouldn't
29:01
feel that way. If that's how they want to feel, that's fine,
29:04
but you don't get to
29:07
say what the people are
29:10
trying to say by the bag of poop.
29:13
You can say how it made you feel, but you don't get to
29:15
say what they meant. It's a very important distinction
29:18
here. She also notes that she was pregnant.
29:21
It's one of those things where it's like, the more
29:23
vice.com keeps talking, the more it's
29:26
like, was this lady also
29:30
have childhood trauma
29:33
from a cow farm? Like, please add to what is
29:36
wrong with them. But apparently she was also
29:39
pregnant, so the smell was really bad, whatever.
29:42
Um,
29:45
so they filed legal, uh,
29:48
repercussions, and as part of it, it
29:51
was the United States of America versus poop
29:54
senders.com. Federal prosecutors
29:56
named in documents the father and son duo they believed
29:59
are behind poop senders.com. And I'm actually not going
30:02
to share their names here because
30:05
I want people to get pooped on with this. Um,
30:08
but it's reported that they lived in the suburbs
30:11
north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The two
30:14
men were linked to an LLC named
30:16
JD Infinity mifflinfinity, if you
30:19
will, incorporated at
30:22
their home address in a cul de sac in Pittsburgh.
30:25
Uh, the company has no website, no online
30:27
footprint. Public record shows two payment
30:30
protection program payments for a total of
30:33
$43,000 from the COVID-19 relief bill.
30:36
That money, plus the interest, uh, accrued, was completely
30:38
forgiven. Two jobs were listed in JD Infinity's
30:41
PPP application, which are probably the father and son
30:44
that they believe are behind poop senders.com. So
30:47
in November 2019, the US Office
30:50
of Inspector General, the OIG, if you
30:53
will, um, issued a subpoena to
30:58
poop senders.com, thus trying to connect poop
31:00
senders, a all but online and
31:03
anonymous company, to JD Infinity.
31:07
Multiple emails were sent. Phone calls were made. They
31:10
cannot find these guys. In mid
31:13
December, it is reported that they called to speak.
31:16
Um, did not answer. Contacted again, did not
31:19
respond. They're playing telephone.
31:21
But as this goes on, poop senders
31:24
begins to kind of unravel.
31:27
First of all, all
31:30
of this led to someone, in the midst of it,
31:33
sending a package of poop to
31:36
the postal inspector. That's funny. Got him.
31:39
And according to court documents. A postal supervisor
31:42
in Michigan was, quote, victimized and harassed
31:45
by means of crude Facebook posts, minor personal property
31:47
damage, and the receipt of package of imitation.
31:50
It's not imitation. It's real feces.
31:54
In November 2019, as part of the investigation,
31:57
the US Postal Service, um, and
32:00
the office of the OIG issued a
32:03
subpoena. We already got that. And it
32:05
names these two gentlemen
32:08
of JD infinity as
32:11
the president and custodian of
32:13
records@poopsenders.com. The
32:15
lawsuit describes them as identified, uh,
32:18
as corporate records. And
32:21
the people who wrote this motherboard posted by Vice,
32:24
I don't know, has not been able to verify that that is
32:27
important.
32:30
The lawsuit describes them as the individual
32:33
who was identified as the owner of Poop
32:35
senders on Pennsylvania corporate
32:38
records. However,
32:41
future events leave doubt. The
32:44
subpoena sent to poop senders Po
32:46
box was ignored, lawsuit
32:49
indicates. So they send this subpoena
32:52
to the poop sender's address, return PO box number
32:55
that was listed when they send the poop out, and
32:58
it gets ignored, probably because it's fake. And according to
33:01
the lawsuit, in July 2020, an agent,
33:04
uh, acting on behalf of the OIG,
33:07
hand delivered a follow up
33:10
subpoena to the
33:13
gentleman in question. It was ignored
33:16
because it's speculation that he
33:19
is truly attached to
33:22
poopsenders.com. This moved
33:24
the US attorneys in the Western District of Pennsylvania to
33:27
file United States of America versus
33:29
poopsenders.com, a suit asking a judge
33:32
to issue a show cause order which would
33:35
force poop senders into court to explain why
33:38
they ignored the subpoenas. This was
33:41
filed in connection to lawsuits, notes that poop senders goes to
33:44
great lengths to obscure and conceal a physical address
33:47
of its operation identity. I wonder. Flippin'why.
33:49
It's probably because they're sending bags of animal
33:52
turds to people, and they don't want people coming and knocking
33:55
on their doors like these people are trying to do.
33:58
According to court records, December 4, over a
34:01
year after all this has started,
34:03
someone paid to physically deliver court
34:06
papers successfully handed a summons to
34:09
the gentleman's son. And those records
34:12
allege that he is the president of
34:15
poop senders.com and that his son is the manager of some
34:17
kind. Less than two weeks later, the US
34:20
attorney's office dismissed the lawsuit because, quote,
34:23
the defendant complied with the subpoena.
34:27
Representatives for both the post office
34:30
and the OIG and the
34:33
Western District of Pennsylvania said the offices would not
34:35
comment on the litigation or why it was dropped.
34:38
And I believe it was dropped because they cannot
34:41
really connect them to
34:43
poopsenders.com. And even if they did
34:45
poop senders.com says on their website that
34:48
they are not held liable for the things people pay
34:51
for them to do.
34:54
This person notes that when he visited the business address
34:57
listed in the lawsuit, found a large metal mailbox
34:59
labeled JD infinity and a
35:02
door marked with a logo for around town. One of
35:05
the names, uh, of the many corporations that
35:08
promote local businesses that this father and son have
35:11
done knocked on the door. No one answered.
35:15
Poop senders.com claims to send anonymous
35:18
non hazard package in the US post service
35:22
and that it is legal. Some
35:25
victims have turned to policema. Sarah
35:28
Pruixma reported, um, the
35:30
incidents to the Albany County Sheriff's Office. But
35:33
that's Albany, Oregon. Not Albany or Albany, New York. Not
35:36
Albany, Oregon. I'm here in Albany, Oregon. They were in Albany, New York. But it
35:39
never led to any charges, mostly because I don't think it's technically
35:42
illegal. Others have
35:45
argued it does constitute a crime.
35:47
Um, one Lily Shonak,
35:50
a state former prosecutor, um, running
35:53
for elected office in North Dakota, said, in my opinion, they
35:56
should be prosecuted for aiding and, ah,
35:59
abetting harassment. Problem
36:01
is, on the website, again, it says, you cannot
36:04
do this out of harassment. So if you agree to continue,
36:07
it is all in good fun. It's a prank.
36:11
She talks about how she got a poop sender sent to her,
36:13
that it had been raining, the package was ripping, it was getting wet,
36:16
and she's certain that it was her opponent that had not done
36:19
it, but that people were doing it in retaliation. But again,
36:22
you can't prove that they were. So here we are.
36:25
No charges came from that either. The office
36:28
did not respond. And so regardless of legal
36:31
definitions, the feeling that the
36:34
package was created was one of
36:36
harassment. However,
36:39
at least at this point in this country, they don't
36:42
penalize people for the feeling of something.
36:45
They have to prove it. And
36:48
technically, poop
36:51
senders.com is providing a
36:53
service. And technically, they have
36:56
warned those who seek their help in that
36:59
service that it should not be done in harassment and
37:02
it should not be done in hate or spite.
37:05
And so that brings us to the end of poo in the news, which
37:08
is a reminder that poop senders.com is still
37:11
available. You can still go do it, because
37:15
while it might be shady as heck,
37:17
I don't think it's illegal to the point where they can be
37:20
shut down.
37:25
This brings us to the end of another episode of Privy.
37:28
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39:18
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39:21
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39:24
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