Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Spaghetti Grows On Trees And Other April Fool's Shenanigans

Episode Date: April 2, 2016

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The founder of this company 10 years ago was trying to sell his house and went through real estate agent after real estate agent. And they were all talking a great game. And this guy who is selling his house, the founder of this company, he's kind of an important guy and should get the best treatment. And he said to his wife, if this is what it's like for us, how do people who have no clout ever get around this? So he started a company and it went into business, I think, three years ago. Their deal is, their word is their bond. And they are just like you.

Now, how can I say that? Because I'm the founder of the company. We have 1,000 agents across the country and they are people that listen to the show. And so when you go through real estate agents I trust, it's sent to somebody who already, you already know their sensibilities. They already are cut from exactly the same cloth. There's got to be a better way. There is.

Real estate agents, I trust.com. Talking a little bit about April Fool's and some of the best April Fool's jokes ever, kind of a top 10 list. CNN put one of these out. Back in 1994, PC Magazine ran a column about a bill making its way through Congress that would prohibit the use of the Internet while drunk. and the contact person was Lirpa Sloof, which of course backwards is April Fool's. You know, it really should be illegal to use the Internet while drunk.

Think of the careers that would be – think of the relationships that would be saved if you couldn't use the Internet while intoxicated. The Google Gulp was another April Fool's joke. This was 2005. that Google said it was branching out with the Google Gulp. It went along with Google Romance, Gmail paper, and Google Voice for Pets. I kind of sort of remember that one. In 1989, Seattle Comedy Show went on the air and said the city's space needle had fallen down.

It even had pictures, it says. I don't remember that. That was the year I moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee. No, before that, I didn't even know where Nashville was. Hard to believe. So, yeah, the space needle falling over was number eight. Number seven, in 1962, Swedish National Network put on a technical expert who told the public

that its black and white broadcasts could be made color by simply viewing them through nylon stockings. And they believed it. It wasn't true. You really, I mean, you could stretch panty hose across the television, but it was still in black and white. Big Ben goes digital. You know, it's funny because you don't generally, I mean, aside from Monty Python and Benny Hill, you don't think of the British as being all that into senses of humor. But in 1980, BBC overseas services said the legendary clock, Big Ben was getting an update that it would, that it would go digital and not be the analog clock that it was anymore,

and people took that very seriously and were not very happy about it. I remember this one. Back in 1996, Taco Bell ran newspaper ads saying that it had bought the Liberty Bell in an effort to help the national debt. Even some senators were taken in, it says. National Park Service held a press conference to deny the news. left-handed toilet paper. In 2015, Continental tweeted that it was introducing left-handed toilet paper for all those Southpaws out there.

Johnny Carson back, what, 73, talked about a toilet paper shortage, and people bought into that. Fastest pitcher of all time. The number one, April Fool's joke, the best one, 1957 BBC on its TV show called Panorama, ran a segment about the Swiss spaghetti harvest, saying that, pasta did in fact grow on trees. Even better, April Fool's joke. Yeah, Donald Trump running for president. Who knew?

Wait, that's not... It's no joke. It is no joke.