the 10 greatest April Fools pranks of all time let’s talk about that I’m Josh hey and we’re from Indianapolis Indiana good mythical morning good mythical morning unfortunately is that as good as it could be because links not here today you know I threw my back out he actually threw his front out how did something to do with his pectoral muscles and the stomach muscles it was it’s ugly he’s walking funny nothing wrong with my front my back my up my down here’s the sad thing we did the same exact joke last April Fool’s that’s the best that we can come up with happy for Fool’s Day do make sure you check out the new video on our main channel that I just went out really excited about that one go over there but yeah watch this first and then then click over there to youtube.com slash rhett and Link you know what’s up people okay listen yeah no more April Fool’s we’re not good at that but what we are good at is telling you about the 10 greatest April Fool’s prank Acosta’s of all time I’m getting these even because people point out things like oh you’re the whole time your strings are uneven which it would have been even alright you see here’s what we’re gonna do instead of just telling you because I do have a list of the ten greatest April Fool’s Day pranks of all time let’s make it a game let’s make it more interesting I’m good again make it true/false is it a true/false yep I’m gonna tell you an April Fool’s Day prank and no no tell me it’s true it really happened or false it was never really a prank but it could be in the future okay this is weird being I guess they’re all pranks they were all false but some of them were truly false and some of them are just false and false so some are more technically true things I just say true false or false false I really if you think about this and from an existential standpoint I cannot be wrong I don’t think of things from an existential standpoint because I can’t spell it here we go true five of these are wrong five of these are false true true or false false true thoughts true or false or false laws the Danish Parliament you can play along at home people I mean do I even have to tell you that come on get out your paper and pencil keep score the Danish Parliament announced that all dogs in the city would have to be painted white by law thoughts vaults nope false true really 1965 the politican a Copenhagen newspaper reported that the Danish Parliament had passed a new law requiring all dogs to be painted white the purpose of this it explained was to increase Road Safety by allowing dogs to be more easily seen at night people believe this they started painting their dogs white there was an outrage oh I didn’t know lungs were harmed I didn’t know it was a parliament I thought it was a dictatorship over there that’s why I got that one wrong the BBC reported that Big Ben in order to stay up to date was going to turn digital it has hands it’s it’s analog Big Ben true false that’s correct in 1980 the BBC reported the Big Ben enough to keep up with the times hahahaha was going to be given a digital readout the announcement received a huge response from listeners shocked and angered by the proposed change what do I get for this by the way what am I playing for bragging rights he’s kidding April Fool’s you get nothing ok true false or false false in 1996 an email message from Time Warner specified that all email in the continental US would be shut down for one day due to server maintenance this in 1996 so you might have fallen for this you were false false that’s right never happened just totally false and followed that one you sniffed something fishy on that that’s right in 2001 USA Today as the publication the newspaper we were in that yeah we had an article about us heard about it it published a story that life had been discovered on Neptune and that it had four hands in squid eyes citing the Hubble telescope for the discovery people will believe anything false false well it’s obviously false but you really think it was false false you don’t think USA Today would do that there are journalism there journal they’re journalists so is that Danish journalism too and they did it nope it’s false false never happened sorry to get your hopes up lovers of April Fool pranks that’s not one of the greatest of all times is this next one probably BBC BBC film crews released a video revealing the discovery of flying penguins who would journey south to South America during the winter I didn’t ever listen true faults well you should listen dude I’m just you know because a chance this isn’t you would have done three false waltzes in a row given that they’re still I’m just you know yeah I this is where my mathematical brain faults fault you can’t change it on the fly that’s true false yeah alright so I April food you it is true fault yeah no I’m April fooling you on that is false false just kidding yeah the BBC I mean is one of the greatest pranks of all time right they convinced their listeners that penguins could fly they had video to support the evidence really video with the evidence Donna gifts it supported it okay the city of Pennsylvania shut down all roads that had bridges on April 1st 1982 citing safety laws and fear of trolls that hid underneath them as the cause the city of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s estate fall sports Jason wrote our I just read that’s right good job Jason Pittsburgh let’s say the city of Pittsburgh shut down all roads fall sports okay the Madison Capitol Times solemnly announced that the Wisconsin State Capitol building lay in ruins following a series of mysterious explosions whoa true false kind of violent you think that you think the Madison capitols would talk about ability to Capitol building exploding yes it’s too it was weird and weird and violent true thoughts you can never have and now that my mean that was I don’t know when that was 1985 I think who knows it’s not written here ah the explosives were attributed to large quantities of gas blob up everybody how many false bosses have there been so far now you shouldn’t know that three or four the April 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue contained a story about a new rookie pitcher who could throw 168 mile-per-hour fastball true true faults what why you say truth because I read that up that issue I remember that I was like oh this is amazing Sid Finch could could throw a 168-mile per hour fastball with pinpoint accuracy this was 65 actually fast that actually is what’s true true now it’s um I don’t know how they got on your list I heard about that guy it’s impossible but if I demonstrated 65 miles faster than the previous record a dishes it just can ludicrous a great rapper by the way wordplay no Ludacris so a Florida man once presided over his own funeral after he faked his death two days previously he dressed up as a minister and gave the service that’s totally true false no thoughts thoughts but you should do that I can totally do it okay it’s both of us there’s only one there’s no more false false or there it is there one more Fossum don’t just just just took over the flow dude the Taco Bell corporation you know they make tacos and bells yeah they took out a full-page ad that appeared in six major newspapers on April 1st 1996 announcing it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the taco Liberty Bell true false likes to say that I remember it now you don’t I was a junior in high school hundreds of outreach citizens called the National Historic Park in Philadelphia where the Bell was housed to express their anger yep totally true false prank yep way to go Taco Bell or Taco Bell depending on where you’re from you say Taco Bell you say Taco Bell you mean Taco Bell or Taco Bell yeah that’s what I’m going for yeah Taco Bell 1992 broadcast of NPR’s talk of the nation revealed that Richard Nixon in a surprise move was running for president again his new campaign slogan was I didn’t do anything wrong and I won’t do it again how many more other is it true false or false false false false nope true thoughts NPR totally did that they’re such pranksters and NPR 1978 newspapers in Washington DC published an article that the secret laboratory of Abraham Lincoln had been discovered inside it were plans for a helicopter a computer and a machine that made your bed for you all that Abraham Lincoln he was in him he was not an inventor what that’s the joke dude but did the joke really would have been a good joke because he wasn’t an inventor he was a man of truth he wasn’t a man he was a wrestler it was it was the did the prank really happen it was false that’s right false false all right Burger King another true false published a full-page advertisement and in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to the menu the left-handed whopper especially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans true/false sounds like a great thing to do Burger King false false nope is a right-handed whopper April Fool’s true false you were right it really was a prank there was no left-handed whopper though I’m just wanna I just want to clarify and finally Rhett for the win well I win bragging rights April Fool’s you win nothing I’ve already told you that on March 31st 1989 thousands of motorists driving on the highway outside of London looked up to see a flying saucer land in a local field who reported this motorists driving on the highway outside of London no no but this is not even a prank this is just like motorist saw aliens the aliens weren’t real if the prank was real true thoughts that’s right many didn’t pull to the side of the road blah blah the stunts combined the saucer turned out to be a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson the 36 year old chairman of Virgin Records oh he’s a prankster a prankster there you go what are we gonna do for for April Fool’s link this year besides besides that little thing we did at the beginning I don’t know we can like pull like minor pranks all day long we can be like April Fool Rock Paper Scissors to the death dumb dumb dumb okay no to the death man come on that’s a tie Oh beat you that was easy I thought I was gonna have to take the rock and like hit you in the face and I would have done that not that I’ve ever punched you in the face or maybe I have