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18th century hoax:



Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits


April 1, 1924: The American Radio Association, which advocates on behalf of amateur broadcasters and listeners, opens a campaign against advertising on the airwaves. Radio fans are complaining increasingly about ads, and "the result will be disastrous" to the industry.




April 1, 1945: U.S. Fifth Fleet belted out the Easter Sunday "Hymn of Hate" by bombarding Okinawa in support of the invasion. The fleet included 40 carriers and 18 battleships. This is USS Tennessee firing her 14/50 main battery guns as troops approach the beach in LVT-4 Amtracs.







April 1st - Jimmy Bond's birthday. Jimmy Bond (aka Dr. Noah) is the nephew of Sir James Bond.




April Fools Day prank that occurred in January 1980, by legendary hoaxer Alan Abel fooled the NY Times Obits section into running his obituary. The tiny retraction ran a couple of days later.




Alan Abel's 1980 death hoax made the first paragraph of his very real 2018 obituary, but was not mentioned in the 2016 Times-fluffing documentary, OBIT. Go figure...




April 1, 1984: The nascent Internet's first April Fools Day prank. Konstantin Chernenko joins the Usenet.




Some have speculated that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has disrupted the flow of the space-time continuum. Remembering Salvador Dali and "The Broken Bridge," it may help by pointing out that Dali's most famous work is "The Persistence of Memory," depicting melting clocks, symbolizing - you guessed it - the disruption of the space-time continuum. Note CERN's giant Watcher eye there.




The Bob Lazar episode is at 56 million views. Unreal.


JRE Library

So, yes, Rogan is huge. But now we can compare his podcast following to that of his other platforms. His Spotify following is still smaller than his subscribers on YouTube, which come in at 16.4 million, and his personal Instagram followers, which are at 18.9 million. But it’s worth noting that Rogan accumulated these Spotify followers over just four years – his show wasn’t on the platform until he signed an exclusive deal in 2020.

Now, there are caveats to this figure. Podcasters’ audiences span platforms. These days, Rogan is back on YouTube and Apple Podcasts, as is Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy , and video clips from podcasts like New Heights travel far and wide on the internet. Plus, not all followers listen to every episode. Some might never tune in.

But that said, following a podcast is a specific action taken by listeners to show just how much interest they have in hearing content from these creators.

“This number represents the number of users who have decided to ‘follow’ a show on Spotify — it doesn't represent a show’s total audience or the performance of an episode,” Spotify said in a comment. “The early feedback from both creators and users has been encouraging. We have no further details to share at this time.”

Spotify Reveals Joe Rogan’s Podcast Numbers

Also, Spotify was founded on this day in 2006. And Gmail was launched today in 2004...and Apple was founded this day in 1976.

We all have Reptilians brains according to Maersk.