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Blythe, Blithe, and April Fools' Day · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 102 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:32
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So you have our word or phrase of this episode and our topic, I believe.
• 0:38
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, the word I chose for today is blithe.
• 0:42
  I Hate Talking: Like the town in Arizona, that is exactly what I think of too, but no, I technic, I think it's actually California, right?
• 0:52
  I Hate Talking: Blythe, I think is California court site is Arizona.
• 0:57
  I Hate Talking: Yes, they are right next to each other, border towns.
• 0:59
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, you can tell we lived out that way with some and traveled that route a lot.
• 1:04
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 1:04
  I Hate Talking: But yes, so I think Blythe is California, and then you barely cross over to Arizona.
• 1:11
  I Hate Talking: But probably the spelling is different.
• 1:14
  I Hate Talking: No, I think the spelling is the same.
• 1:17
  I Hate Talking: How would you spell it?
• 1:19
  I Hate Talking: I thought the town was with a Y, B L Y T H E, and the word would be B L I T H E.
• 1:26
  I Hate Talking: But I would imagine that if it's an English noun, that it would not be spelled with a Y.
• 1:31
  I Hate Talking: According to my Google, which isn't always accurate, I like to pretend it is, they spell it B L Y T H E.
• 1:42
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, it'll be interesting to see where the etymology comes from because I feel like a Y in the middle of a word as a vowel.
• 1:52
  I Hate Talking: is non-standard, and then that would be more representative of a name rather than a normal formation of a word.
• 1:59
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I mean, I could see that, and I also do like Y's in the middle of names.
• 2:05
  I Hate Talking: I think it looks really nice.
• 2:07
  I Hate Talking: What do you think of that?
• 2:08
  I Hate Talking: No, I don't think I do.
• 2:11
  I Hate Talking: I don't think I like that.
• 2:12
  I Hate Talking: Well, none of our kids have wives and.
• 2:16
  I Hate Talking: I would guess a couple have Y's in their names, but none of them have them in the middle of a name.
• 2:21
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 2:21
  I Hate Talking: So anyways, your thought process of not having a Y in the middle and spelling it with the I.
• 2:30
  I Hate Talking: Different than the city.
• 2:33
  I Hate Talking: is probably correct.
• 2:36
  I Hate Talking: I see it both ways, but when I do deep research into it, it does seem that the original spelling was B L I T H E.
• 2:46
  I Hate Talking: But I see it both ways on that.
• 2:50
  I Hate Talking: Quick Google search.
• 2:52
  I Hate Talking: Well, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, it's B L I D H E.
• 2:58
  I Hate Talking: Well, I guess we'll have to check Oxford.
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  I Hate Talking: All right, check it out.
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  I Hate Talking: That's what the one you love, right?
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  I Hate Talking: That is our favorite Oxford Language dictionary.
• 3:06
  I Hate Talking: So, Oxford Language dictionary does not have The spelling with the Y, it references the I spelling, however, the Oxford reference.
• 3:20
  I Hate Talking: Has B L Y T H E as a modern coinage, apparently an altered spelling of the vocabulary word Blythe, B L I T H E.
• 3:31
  I Hate Talking: OK, so the Y is the more modern day spelling.
• 3:35
  I Hate Talking: An apparently altered spelling.
• 3:38
  I Hate Talking: So, I don't know if that means it's correct or not, but it appears that for whatever reason, People spell it with a Y.
• 3:45
  I Hate Talking: I think it looks prettier.
• 3:48
  I Hate Talking: But we haven't talked about what it means yet.
• 3:53
  I Hate Talking: I would wonder if it's because people are dumbing down the language and having issues pronouncing things, which is not unheard of because that is why some of the words in Previous episodes that we've looked at have perhaps changed from Certain letters that are Different than the original because that was actually closer to the pronunciation of the word, even though it was not the original or what I would consider legitimate spelling.
• 4:26
  I Hate Talking: But if you look at the word B L I T H E, some people might say bliss or I mean, I would actually want to say bliss, but then when I look at it, I'm like, oh no, there's a silent E.
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  I Hate Talking: It would say blight.
• 4:42
  I Hate Talking: Right, but With the why, maybe people are more inclined to pronounce it, pronounce it correctly.
• 4:50
  I Hate Talking: Or you could just say blithe.
• 4:52
  I Hate Talking: If you want to really mess it up.
• 4:56
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 4:58
  I Hate Talking: So, we're Blythe, or Blythe.
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  I Hate Talking: It means a carefree, a lighthearted, and joyous, or conversely showing a casual, improper lack of concern.
• 5:14
  I Hate Talking: So I don't like that last part, the lack of concern, improper lack of concern, but I do enjoy the carefree, lighthearted, joyous part.
• 5:25
  I Hate Talking: It reminds me of, I got to study abroad in Europe and.
• 5:33
  I Hate Talking: Spent some time in Saint Petersburg, and they have a phrase I cannot quote it any longer like that.
• 5:41
  I Hate Talking: But I don't speak Russian, and it's been Almost two decades, but it translated meant smiling is idiocy.
• 5:51
  I Hate Talking: And that was one thing that I was warned about.
• 5:57
  I Hate Talking: I do smile a lot.
• 5:58
  I Hate Talking: Because when you're there, They're gonna look down on you if you're just smiling all the time, like walking down the street smiling at a stranger.
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  I Hate Talking: It was not.
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  I Hate Talking: Um, appropriate.
• 6:11
  I Hate Talking: And so it kind of reminds me of that, even, maybe that's a version of Blythe, being that like, improper lack of concern, because I can see how someone's thinking like, things are really hard or it's a really bad day and the stranger is smiling at me.
• 6:26
  I Hate Talking: That's not appropriate.
• 6:28
  I Hate Talking: I just smile because it's my favorite.
• 6:32
  I Hate Talking: -- I like -- it.
• 6:32
  I Hate Talking: Well, there you go.
• 6:33
  I Hate Talking: Apparently, the Oxford Language Dictionary is behind a paywall now.
• 6:38
  I Hate Talking: That's sad I can't access it.
• 6:42
  I Hate Talking: I will have to try again later perhaps, but If you look for the Oxford Language Dictionary, which was a collection of dictionaries essentially.
• 6:50
  I Hate Talking: The main one being the Oxford English Dictionary.
• 6:53
  I Hate Talking: It now appears that You can get to the fact sheet for free, but when you go to the meaning and usage, you have to sign in.
• 7:06
  I Hate Talking: And potentially purchase a subscription.
• 7:10
  I Hate Talking: Since when?
• 7:11
  I Hate Talking: Well, apparently since the last time we did an English word, no, the last two episodes we did Latin words, so I don't think we consulted our favorite Oxford language dictionary, but apparently within the past 3 weeks or so, perhaps you may be able to sign in with a library card.
• 7:27
  I Hate Talking: So there you go.
• 7:29
  I Hate Talking: We'll have to.
• 7:30
  I Hate Talking: Do some research on that and get back to you, our listeners, perhaps next episode on what has happened to the Oxford Language Dictionary.
• 7:40
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, or hey, if you know, let us know too.
• 7:42
  I Hate Talking: But yeah, we'll have to look that up because that's really interesting.
• 7:45
  I Hate Talking: I wonder when that happened and why.
• 7:48
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, and usually Google, at least for me personally and perhaps because I went there more often, would show me the Oxford Language Dictionary definition, but it no longer does that and instead generates an AI overview, primarily generated from Merriam-Webster's, which, as we have discussed previously.
• 8:08
  I Hate Talking: In my opinion, it is no longer a true dictionary.
• 8:11
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 8:13
  I Hate Talking: So, I suppose we cannot consult our favorite Oxford language dictionary for the definition, but the research that I'm doing here that looks like it is combining the Merriam-Webster's and some other resources from.
• 8:27
  I Hate Talking: Online etymology dictionary that you're Definition is.
• 8:35
  I Hate Talking: I believe, correct.
• 8:37
  I Hate Talking: And What was the exact definition in terms of the Perhaps less than positive connotation.
• 8:46
  I Hate Talking: You want the negative connotation.
• 8:47
  I Hate Talking: Well, what I'm seeing here on etymology online is joyous, kind, cheerful, pleasant.
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  I Hate Talking: From the Proto-Germanic.
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  I Hate Talking: List is Which means gentle and kind, bright or happy.
• 9:02
  I Hate Talking: There's also a number of similar words in Dutch, Norse, -- and other Gothic -- languages.
• 9:09
  I Hate Talking: OK, yeah, um, the one that I would consider negative.
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  I Hate Talking: is an improper lack of concern, and in parentheses it says heedless, an example of heedless unconcern.
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  I Hate Talking: Implies a lack of care due to attention.
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  I Hate Talking: An example, he showed a blithe indifference to the consequences of his actions.
• 9:33
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 9:34
  I Hate Talking: So that does align with a little bit of the notes from etymology online with regards to the evolution of the definition, where it says, quote, the early application was to the outward expression of kindly feeling, sympathy and affection to others.
• 9:49
  I Hate Talking: But the word has now come more usually to be applied to the external manifestation of one's own pleased or happy frame of mind.
• 9:57
  I Hate Talking: End quote.
• 9:59
  I Hate Talking: So basically you're happy with your own frame of mind regardless of any particular situation, scenario, or consequences.
• 10:08
  I Hate Talking: It's interesting because the word itself, when I'm hearing you say it, makes me think light.
• 10:14
  I Hate Talking: I believe that's a different word, and that means like, if you say he's a blight on society, right?
• 10:20
  I Hate Talking: That's like a bad thing, right?
• 10:22
  I Hate Talking: Correct.
• 10:23
  I Hate Talking: This would actually be more closely related, potentially with bliss.
• 10:29
  I Hate Talking: OK, and the spelling the original BIL would be bliss.
• 10:35
  I Hate Talking: Yes, it's basically the same Proto-Germanic root word with an extra SJO on the end.
• 10:43
  I Hate Talking: So Right, I just, I feel like it often sounds, it starts to sound a little negative.
• 10:50
  I Hate Talking: Like, I feel like, you hear blight more often.
• 10:53
  I Hate Talking: Not Blythe But I wonder if I bet, and I don't know this, that the city that we referenced, Blythe, California, I wonder if they named it that to get people to move out there or anything.
• 11:08
  I Hate Talking: Because the carefree.
• 11:10
  I Hate Talking: Joyous Would be somewhere I want to live.
• 11:15
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
• 11:17
  I Hate Talking: It was named after Thomas Henry Blythe.
• 11:20
  I Hate Talking: All right.
• 11:24
  I Hate Talking: It was named by him.
• 11:27
  I Hate Talking: Well, I guess if you name something after yourself, it still counts as being named after you, even though you were the one that did it.
• 11:36
  I Hate Talking: You have to read a little bit further in the Wikipedia entry to find that.
• 11:39
  I Hate Talking: Yes, it was named after him and he was the one that named it.
• 11:44
  I Hate Talking: That wasn't even his original name.
• 11:47
  I Hate Talking: I was about to say that I feel like maybe he would just change his name to Blythe.
• 11:51
  I Hate Talking: Like you can change your last name, your first name if you want.
• 11:54
  I Hate Talking: -- How -- funny.
• 11:55
  I Hate Talking: He was originally born Thomas Williams of Wales.
• 11:59
  I Hate Talking: Williams of Wales.
• 12:02
  I Hate Talking: I like that.
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  I Hate Talking: And he changed it to Blythe, and then he changed name to City after himself.
• 12:08
  I Hate Talking: He really likes the name.
• 12:09
  I Hate Talking: He doubled down on it.
• 12:11
  I Hate Talking: I'm not finding why he changed his name.
• 12:15
  I Hate Talking: Maybe because he wants to be joyous and carefree.
• 12:19
  I Hate Talking: So according to this entry in Grokopedia, which is what it sounds like, it is apparently a Wikipedia-style website that is composed by Elon Musk's Grok generative chatbot.
• 12:34
  I Hate Talking: OK, so take this with a grain of salt, but According to Gracopedia.
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  I Hate Talking: This gentleman Thomas Henry Blythe changed his name when he was in Wales because of some issues with some legal proceedings and money issues, so apparently he went bankrupt and there was potentially even an arrest warrant out for him.
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  I Hate Talking: So he changed his name and went to America in the middle of the gold rush, and then According to his early ventures in San Francisco, he Sold goods and vegetables.
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  I Hate Talking: On the street Made enough money to loan someone to buy some land.
• 13:23
  I Hate Talking: That person defaulted on their loan.
• 13:26
  I Hate Talking: He acquired the land.
• 13:28
  I Hate Talking: And then that land skyrocketed in value during the gold rush, and apparently he rented and Acquired more land and eventually.
• 13:42
  I Hate Talking: Went to Blat and Had that land as part of the swamp deal.
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  I Hate Talking: And the rest is history, I suppose, named it after himself.
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  I Hate Talking: And Then had lots of money.
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  I Hate Talking: Apparently it is one of the longest and most complex.
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  I Hate Talking: Estate proceedings with over 129 claimants.
• 14:09
  I Hate Talking: Trying to get his inheritance.
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  I Hate Talking: To, oh wow, like right now?
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  I Hate Talking: On history?
• 14:17
  I Hate Talking: No, in history, I think it's maybe been settled down.
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  I Hate Talking: Lots of people claim that their ancestors.
• 14:24
  I Hate Talking: He died in 1883 and legal proceedings continued for nearly two decades.
• 14:30
  I Hate Talking: Wow.
• 14:31
  I Hate Talking: So perhaps he did name himself after.
• 14:36
  I Hate Talking: The word Blythe, but I think that's unlikely because in the 1800s, I would imagine that there was no quote unquote modern spelling with the Y.
• 14:47
  I Hate Talking: Right, OK.
• 14:49
  I Hate Talking: Excellent.
• 14:50
  I Hate Talking: So some interesting concepts on the word Blythe and the city Blythe, and the man Blythe.
• 14:57
  I Hate Talking: Would you recommend people visit Blythe?
• 15:01
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps I think.
• 15:03
  I Hate Talking: In my memory, it was always court site.
• 15:06
  I Hate Talking: Maybe that's even why I was thinking it was in Arizona because If you're gonna stop at one or the other, usually to refuel, maybe buy some food, that it's much cheaper to do so in Arizona.
• 15:19
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, push further, half hour farther, and then.
• 15:22
  I Hate Talking: You get the cheaper gas and such.
• 15:25
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I think perhaps the one time.
• 15:28
  I Hate Talking: That we stopped in Blythe.
• 15:29
  I Hate Talking: It was by accident and we were trying to go to quartzite.
• 15:32
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 15:32
  I Hate Talking: Have you ever been there?
• 15:34
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, OK.
• 15:36
  I Hate Talking: I've been lots of times, but yes, I would, uh.
• 15:40
  I Hate Talking: Fifty-fifty probably between Courtsa and Blythe.
• 15:44
  I Hate Talking: I know of people that live there, not like personal friends, but like friends aunts live in Blythe.
• 15:53
  I Hate Talking: So, but yeah, um, there's a McDonald's.
• 15:59
  I Hate Talking: It's about as much as I know about it.
• 16:02
  I Hate Talking: I feel like Again, yeah, like you said, I get them confused cause I'm like, is that the one that has the swamp meat one has like a really big.
• 16:11
  I Hate Talking: Um, Swap me, but I feel like it's blithe and it might be court site.
• 16:18
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I'm not sure.
• 16:21
  I Hate Talking: I don't think I have any memory of doing anything other than.
• 16:24
  I Hate Talking: A rest stop.
• 16:26
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, so I-10 though, it's right off I-10, right in between.
• 16:29
  I Hate Talking: California and Arizona.
• 16:32
  I Hate Talking: All right, so this is a little bit later coming out.
• 16:37
  I Hate Talking: But I want your opinions on April Fool's Day.
• 16:41
  I Hate Talking: April Fool's Day, 2026 had a lot of strange things happen.
• 16:46
  I Hate Talking: OK, tell me about it.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: Well, there was.
• 16:51
  I Hate Talking: Artemis 2 Launching.
• 16:54
  I Hate Talking: Right, that was launch day of Artemis 2.
• 16:57
  I Hate Talking: So Perhaps a dig at the conspiracy theorists that Thinks that there are no astronauts aboard -- or -- a nod to it or a nod to it, a hoax.
• 17:11
  I Hate Talking: It's all a hoax.
• 17:12
  I Hate Talking: There are no astronauts aboard.
• 17:13
  I Hate Talking: It's all made in a Hollywood basement.
• 17:16
  I Hate Talking: There was Elon Musk, uh, basically.
• 17:22
  I Hate Talking: Submitting SpaceX for IPO.
• 17:26
  I Hate Talking: And that was a joke.
• 17:28
  I Hate Talking: I didn't hear that one.
• 17:29
  I Hate Talking: From all appearances, it appears real, but it's also just very strange that he would do something on April 1st of such.
• 17:36
  I Hate Talking: Levity that It almost seems Like a joke.
• 17:42
  I Hate Talking: OK And then Trump is going on about Iran, like he had his crazy speech at 9 p.m. at night or something like that on April 1st, which I personally did not listen to, so only headlines that I've seen from that, but basically, Going off the rails in terms of all the things that he's going to do with Iran, which has gotten even worse as of lately.
• 18:08
  I Hate Talking: I think some of his tweets or.
• 18:10
  I Hate Talking: Truth Social or whatever it's called, has some pretty crazy stuff from him.
• 18:15
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I haven't really followed any of that.
• 18:18
  I Hate Talking: Maybe that's it, so.
• 18:21
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps there's three things on April Fools 2026.
• 18:25
  I Hate Talking: So do you enjoy April Fools or did you even know it was April Fools?
• 18:30
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it almost seemed like an April Fool's fool because all these very strange things were happening, almost as jokes or Nods, as you said to.
• 18:42
  I Hate Talking: All the people that believe in odd things.
• 18:45
  I Hate Talking: So there's a strange April Fools in 2026.
• 18:49
  I Hate Talking: Do you enjoy when I do April Fool's jokes on you?
• 18:53
  I Hate Talking: No, -- I don't -- particularly like pranks and jokes, so.
• 18:58
  I Hate Talking: I do not.
• 19:00
  I Hate Talking: I didn't this year.
• 19:02
  I Hate Talking: I almost did, but it's been a hard year and a lot of wonkiness, and I didn't, I didn't want to put you over the edge, so I didn't.
• 19:11
  I Hate Talking: I almost text something like, hey, hon, don't be mad, but we have something I need to tell you.
• 19:20
  I Hate Talking: And just like, I feel like you would like panic then, like, oh crud, what broke in the house or something.
• 19:26
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 19:26
  I Hate Talking: -- Is that what -- you -- would -- have thought?
• 19:28
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I've had enough of that in the last year or two, I think.
• 19:31
  I Hate Talking: So I didn't want to do that, but I do them on the kids.
• 19:36
  I Hate Talking: I only do nice ones.
• 19:38
  I Hate Talking: OK, first, my grandmother.
• 19:39
  I Hate Talking: was queen of April Fools, it was like one of her favorite holidays.
• 19:44
  I Hate Talking: She absolutely loved it.
• 19:46
  I Hate Talking: You couldn't even believe her days leading up to or after it, cause like that whole window was open to her.
• 19:55
  I Hate Talking: So I think because she knew like, oh, if I say it on April 1st, they know it's a prank.
• 20:00
  I Hate Talking: But March twenty-ninth is OK.
• 20:04
  I Hate Talking: Kind of thing.
• 20:05
  I Hate Talking: So she was definitely the queen.
• 20:07
  I Hate Talking: That's how my mom grew up with that sense of humor and life experience, and it definitely trickled down to the rest of us.
• 20:15
  I Hate Talking: So I don't go all out like she did.
• 20:19
  I Hate Talking: But I do a little bit, and I always wanted to be lighthearted, cause even this last week when I was telling the kids about it, I was like, it's only a fun, it's only fun if the other person laughs.
• 20:31
  I Hate Talking: If the person you're playing the prank on is hurt.
• 20:35
  I Hate Talking: Or sad Or some or embarrassed, like that's not a good prank, that's not funny.
• 20:42
  I Hate Talking: So that's just kind of what I keep reiterating, it's just like, the same thing with the joke, right?
• 20:47
  I Hate Talking: A joke's not funny if it hurts someone's feelings.
• 20:50
  I Hate Talking: So you, y'all can't see that Adam disagrees with that.
• 20:56
  I Hate Talking: I did my little head wobble.
• 20:58
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 20:58
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, sometimes it might be funny.
• 21:01
  I Hate Talking: No, it's, you don't want to hurt people's feelings.
• 21:04
  I Hate Talking: Well, it might not be funny to them, but yes, it still could be funny.
• 21:08
  I Hate Talking: OK, we're not gonna teach our kids to mock people and hurt their feelings.
• 21:12
  I Hate Talking: I'm just saying categorically it still could be funny even if it's hurtful, but you don't want to hurt people.
• 21:19
  I Hate Talking: That's correct.
• 21:19
  I Hate Talking: That would be overstepping the bounds of being funny -- because -- don't laugh at other people's expenses, right?
• 21:25
  I Hate Talking: My point was just categorically it could be funny and hurtful at the same time, but that does not mean it's OK to do, right.
• 21:31
  I Hate Talking: There you go.
• 21:32
  I Hate Talking: OK, fair enough.
• 21:33
  I Hate Talking: So we did work on that a lot, um, and we had a lot of fun.
• 21:38
  I Hate Talking: Again, sometimes I see what moms do with their kids, and it's mean, like they'll say they're going to Disney World, or things like that, and it's like, oh, April Fools, ha ha, that's mean.
• 21:51
  I Hate Talking: I don't like that.
• 21:53
  I Hate Talking: If y'all do that, that's fine, if that's how your family interacts and everyone's OK with it, but I don't want to do that.
• 21:59
  I Hate Talking: But we did pranks like I this year I took the Cheerios.
• 22:07
  I Hate Talking: And remove the bag of Cheerios from the box.
• 22:10
  I Hate Talking: Put a bag of goldfish inside.
• 22:14
  I Hate Talking: And then sealed it up with hot glue, so it looked like a brand new box.
• 22:20
  I Hate Talking: And then I was like, oh, we're having Cheerios for breakfast, and they opened the box, and then they pulled out the goldfish, and they were like, what?
• 22:28
  I Hate Talking: Like so confused.
• 22:29
  I Hate Talking: So those are the kind of pranks I like, where they're just like, what?
• 22:32
  I Hate Talking: I'm April Fools.
• 22:33
  I Hate Talking: So, cause they thought that General Mills or whatever did a big mistake, mixing the cereal.
• 22:39
  I Hate Talking: Another one is like drying, sad, I mean, I live with elementary school kids, so please apply to them, but drawing like an angry face on the milk, and then telling them to be careful cause the milk went bad.
• 22:54
  I Hate Talking: And they open up the fridge and then our 8 year old thinks that's the funniest joke still, he talks about it, and that was last year.
• 23:01
  I Hate Talking: And like, remember when the milk went bad?
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  I Hate Talking: And it's just cause I drew a bad mean face on the milk.
• 23:06
  I Hate Talking: So those are the pranks I like.
• 23:09
  I Hate Talking: And uh I do like being pranked.
• 23:13
  I Hate Talking: But again, in that sphere.
• 23:15
  I Hate Talking: I don't like being pranked in a mean way.
• 23:20
  I Hate Talking: Like, I don't mind you laughing at me and joking with me, but if you're mocking me, I don't like that.
• 23:26
  I Hate Talking: Not that you do, but I wouldn't want you to mock me, but you can laugh if I make a mistake.
• 23:31
  I Hate Talking: What?
• 23:32
  I Hate Talking: No, I'm not allowed to laugh if you make a mistake.
• 23:34
  I Hate Talking: We just did a get in trouble for that.
• 23:38
  I Hate Talking: We did a podcast the other day about the word because of my mistake.
• 23:43
  I Hate Talking: Oh, you dissing me.
• 23:44
  I Hate Talking: That was the word the other day.
• 23:46
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 23:46
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I laughed at your mistake and then you got mad at me and then you said I wasn't allowed to diss you, so I wasn't mad.
• 23:53
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 23:55
  I Hate Talking: So I suppose that I enjoy those more satirical or wordplay.
• 24:03
  I Hate Talking: Quote unquote pranks for April fools.
• 24:06
  I Hate Talking: So the idea in in fact find the Milk has gone bad, joke, humorous.
• 24:13
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think that's funny, but that's more of a play on words, I think.
• 24:17
  I Hate Talking: Like, you know, if somebody calls you up and says, is your refrigerator running?
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  I Hate Talking: And then you say, you better go catch it.
• 24:26
  I Hate Talking: You better go catch it.
• 24:27
  I Hate Talking: That's it.
• 24:28
  I Hate Talking: So that's more of a play on words than I think a quote unquote prank.
• 24:33
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, our, um, one of our kids was doing his chores that day when he figured out it was April Fools was instantly like, oh, Mom, come and look at my, I did my chores, come check it out.
• 24:44
  I Hate Talking: And he had rearranged the entire silverware drawer.
• 24:48
  I Hate Talking: He thought that was so funny.
• 24:49
  I Hate Talking: And so that was cute that he tried, you know, I get that's that.
• 24:55
  I Hate Talking: He's also the kid that years ago, and this was not April Fools, but I was so impressed.
• 25:02
  I Hate Talking: We had just bought a new couch.
• 25:05
  I Hate Talking: And so I had the role like no food on the couch, no drinks on the couch, and all that trying to keep it nice as long as possible.
• 25:13
  I Hate Talking: And at that time we had backyard chickens.
• 25:16
  I Hate Talking: And one of his jobs was to go get the eggs.
• 25:20
  I Hate Talking: So he comes to me and he's like, Mom, bad news.
• 25:25
  I Hate Talking: I broke all the eggs on the couch.
• 25:28
  I Hate Talking: And I thought that he went and got the chicken eggs, brought them inside and then broke them on our brand new couch, and I was so defeated.
• 25:37
  I Hate Talking: And I would walk over and they're all the Easter eggs, little plastic eggs are splattered everywhere.
• 25:43
  I Hate Talking: It was pretty funny.
• 25:45
  I Hate Talking: And uh I appreciated that joke a lot.
• 25:48
  I Hate Talking: There you go, that sounds like my side of the family's humor.
• 25:51
  I Hate Talking: So, yes, indeed.
• 25:54
  I Hate Talking: So there you go.
• 25:56
  I Hate Talking: Don't do pranks if they're hurtful.
• 25:59
  I Hate Talking: Don't tell jokes if they're hurtful to other people.
• 26:01
  I Hate Talking: But if that is not an issue, then April Fools can be fun.
• 26:06
  I Hate Talking: Do you feel like you have to ask people before you do a prank?
• 26:10
  I Hate Talking: Or at work, would you appreciate if someone did a prank on you?
• 26:14
  I Hate Talking: Or do you want them to Ask your permission first.
• 26:18
  I Hate Talking: Well, the fact of permission sort of ruins, I think, a bit of.
• 26:23
  I Hate Talking: Jokester Intent.
• 26:27
  I Hate Talking: If I lived my life and was never pranked, I would be perfectly satisfied.
• 26:31
  I Hate Talking: I like humor and jokes.
• 26:33
  I Hate Talking: I like the quote unquote like prank of like toilet paper or putting your stapler in Jell-O or something like that.
• 26:40
  I Hate Talking: I probably would not appreciate that and I would live my life much more happily if that never transpired.
• 26:48
  I Hate Talking: Those jokes I could live with or without, that doesn't matter too much to me.
• 26:53
  I Hate Talking: Um, I do not like, again, like I said, mean jokes, and I do not like being scared.
• 27:00
  I Hate Talking: Like when someone jumps out from behind a wall or something to spook you.
• 27:06
  I Hate Talking: I don't like that.
• 27:08
  I Hate Talking: There can be concerns with jump scares.
• 27:11
  I Hate Talking: There is even that PSA a few years ago, maybe some of our listeners have seen it, that is basically a PSA against jump scares.
• 27:19
  I Hate Talking: OK, I haven't seen the PSA about it, but I like discouraging jump scares.
• 27:26
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 27:27
  I Hate Talking: The one I wanted to do that I didn't get around to this year with the kids was they use a mouse now for their schoolwork and all, and I saw that you can cover the bottom of the mouse like the sensor.
• 27:39
  I Hate Talking: And then they think that the mouse is broken when they're trying to use it.
• 27:44
  I Hate Talking: And I was planning on doing that and didn't get to it.
• 27:47
  I Hate Talking: See, I think I would not appreciate that.
• 27:50
  I Hate Talking: Anything that is like a prank to Fulfill the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I would not appreciate.
• 27:58
  I Hate Talking: Like if you intentionally create disorder that has to then be reordered, I do not like that.
• 28:06
  I Hate Talking: So you didn't appreciate that silverware being reordered.
• 28:10
  I Hate Talking: I didn't have to fix that, but if it had been the prank done to me and then The other person did not like voluntarily fix it after the fact.
• 28:18
  I Hate Talking: And I would not like that.
• 28:22
  I Hate Talking: So say I went in your work bag.
• 28:24
  I Hate Talking: And reorganized your files like.
• 28:27
  I Hate Talking: To turn them Backwards, every file was backwards from what it is right now.
• 28:34
  I Hate Talking: That would make you mad.
• 28:36
  I Hate Talking: Extremely Yes, so perhaps that's a good rule of thumb is that if any pranks tend toward disorder, then maybe they should be avoided.
• 28:46
  I Hate Talking: So you'd rather hurt feelings as long as there's order.
• 28:50
  I Hate Talking: If the decision is between those two things, yes, I'd actually say yes.
• 28:56
  I Hate Talking: I'd rather have things orderly.
• 28:58
  I Hate Talking: And have hurt feelings, -- and -- that's why we're opposite.
• 29:01
  I Hate Talking: That is why we're opposite.
• 29:02
  I Hate Talking: So, you are a listener can perhaps share in the comments or send us an email or text of any particular quote unquote pranks or jokes that perhaps you did this past April Fool's Day.
• 29:16
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• 29:30
  I Hate Talking: So, from your friends at I Hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.