Extended Cut Hoax Spectacular! with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Added 2024-04-01 20:40:28 +0000 UTCHere is a longer version (Carolyn's Cut, if you will) of today's episode, featuring even more hoax goodness--plus a Nessie theory I personally find very persuasive.
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Watching Dr. Fatima’s video about the Sokal Hoax rn and I would love to see/hear her as a guest cohost on an episode of YWA!! It’s got Hoax in the name!
Andrew Thompson
2024-08-12 23:55:02 +0000 UTCI think a hoax requires a level of obviousness that, if a reasonable person genuinely considered it for five or ten minutes, would conclude that it *probably* isn't true. It's like the opposite of a "sounds fake but okay" response. It also needs to have a planned point of clarification where everyone gets to be in on the joke and also being invited into the joke feels good. The NPR callers who agreed to play along were joining in on the hoax, and they thought it was fun and funny. Ideally nobody who gets taken in by the hoax feels *bad* about it; they are able to laugh at themselves because in hindsight, of COURSE it was a hoax. Fooling people into believing something that isn't true without the intent to come clean is deception; doing it in order to get money is fraud.
Anna Perry
2024-04-18 18:11:59 +0000 UTCI had to google the loofah thing because I couldn’t tell if it was also a sneaky April fools joke!
Nicole Grande
2024-04-05 22:08:41 +0000 UTC100% would travel to whatever venue you book to see that drag show!!!
Heather Woodford
2024-04-04 07:18:35 +0000 UTCRENESME 😂😂😂😂
Genevieve Cato
2024-04-04 04:59:26 +0000 UTCYou would do "don't stop" by Fleetwood Mac for your bill clinton drag performance duh 😘
Kiki
2024-04-03 23:22:29 +0000 UTCSo great to hear Wales being mentioned 👏
Dave Hyde
2024-04-03 20:16:02 +0000 UTCI already listened on the main feed, is the extra stuff in the beginning or end?
Morgan Ruoss
2024-04-03 18:49:50 +0000 UTCI want Sarah’s drag king Bill Clinton show!
Leah Dooley
2024-04-03 05:48:02 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry someone did this to you. That's messed up. I hope every time they wash their hands their sleeves get wet. And that their legs fall asleep the second they sit on the toilet, forever.
Erica Boisvert
2024-04-03 01:55:42 +0000 UTCOh my god Sarah stop talking about my life with the not deserving love self hoax
Laura Patterson
2024-04-02 22:01:21 +0000 UTCI agree that Sarah Bill Clinton sounds a bit sexy ❤️🎷
Sarah Mercutio
2024-04-02 21:09:02 +0000 UTCYess I was hoping you'd mention the spaghetti tree!
Lowri Jones
2024-04-02 20:11:40 +0000 UTCThe spaghetti tree reminded me of this marshmallow farmer: https://youtu.be/yflTu150QZw?si=j7TQzk3xbqqIbaLe
Hannah Andrasi
2024-04-02 14:15:20 +0000 UTCI knew what the last hoax you featured was as soon as I heard the first words. One of my favorites too
Keanu
2024-04-02 14:01:33 +0000 UTCI want Sarah’s Bill Clinton drag show!!!
Rebekah Hinton
2024-04-02 12:08:04 +0000 UTCI was thinking why does that sound familiar and I think that’s why 😅
michelle pendergrass
2024-04-02 09:05:50 +0000 UTCI’m so here for Sarah doing Bill Clinton in drag 😅
michelle pendergrass
2024-04-02 09:04:38 +0000 UTCI second the motion
Chloe
2024-04-02 05:52:48 +0000 UTCLet’s hear it for the C-PTSD beebs 👏👏👏
Chloe
2024-04-02 05:51:47 +0000 UTCThis was so fun! It crystalized some thoughts I had about pranks. I have 2 young kids and was actually just thinking about how fascinating it is to watch someone develop what Sarah referred to as "general knowledge" about the world. I was driving on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway with my 3-year-old the other day, and he kept exclaiming that "It's like we're driving through a forest!" My initial impulse was to correct him, but then I realized it really was like we were driving through a forest and I didn't need to explain that we were on one of many gridlocked highways in the DC Metro area, even though that's also true. Then today, my 6-year-old totally "got" me with a little April Fools prank, by very seriously insisting she hadn't brushed her teeth in the morning, even though she had. It was really fun to be tricked by her! Anyway, in both of these situations, there was some unexpected delight in being vulnerable and not insisting on the cool cynicism that I generally go through life putting up. I also showed them a NPS prank on social media, which said that the Washington Monument has two distinct colors because it used to be lowered down so planes wouldn't hit it. They both knew right away that it was a joke because we live in DC and they've been in and around it so much. It gave them a chance to feel wise and savvy.
Anjali
2024-04-02 05:43:58 +0000 UTCMelbourne has a restaurant called The Spaghetti Tree.
Mileta Rien
2024-04-02 02:54:50 +0000 UTCI was sent a mean-spirited prank today and listening to the two of you discuss, laugh, unpick, empathise, and theorise about pranks has been just what I needed to settle me again. Thank you ❤️
Rhiannon Hart
2024-04-02 02:43:37 +0000 UTCSarah "Slick Willy" Marshall-Clinton would lip-sync to Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by Fleetwood Mac. OBVIOUSLY.
Mileta Rien
2024-04-02 02:08:18 +0000 UTCI would pay good money to see Sarah as Bill Clinton.
Erica Boisvert
2024-04-02 01:26:07 +0000 UTCI think they meant river otters. They are terrifying.
Erica Boisvert
2024-04-02 01:25:34 +0000 UTCIf you put "Pranks are for people who do not have complex PTSD" on literally anything, I would buy it
cass
2024-04-02 01:02:05 +0000 UTCSarah Marshall Drag King special when
Doyle Just Doyle
2024-04-01 23:30:50 +0000 UTCSarah! It’s my cptsd and growing luffa era too 😂 💖
Julia Fiore
2024-04-01 23:22:07 +0000 UTCSarah! If you lip sync as bill clinton you have to do “it wasn’t me” by Shaggy
Lauren LOSOYA
2024-04-01 22:38:50 +0000 UTCWe went to Loch Ness when I was little, and I was SO SCARED of the monster, but my parents told me Nessie wasn't a scary monster--and to this day I still remember feeling brave and dipping my hand in the water.
MHW
2024-04-01 22:03:19 +0000 UTCAhh. My podcast parents are back at it again😌
Lauren Witte
2024-04-01 21:33:16 +0000 UTCThank you for getting me through my dentist appointment today 🖤🖤🖤 I have huge phobia of doctors and being touched and it was so much easier hearing the two of you talk while doing it
Zoey Charlemagne
2024-04-01 21:30:17 +0000 UTCI’m dying over the Bill Clinton impression 😂😂
Jen Leedom
2024-04-01 21:15:14 +0000 UTC
