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We\u2019re celebrating April Fools\u2019 Day with some of our favorite pranks and hoaxes.

Brandi starts us off by talking about Balloon Boy. This is the story of the six year old boy who floated off in his dad\u2019s flying saucer. Or did he? This story captivated the nation, but if you\u2019re anything like us, you\u2019ll have forgotten like 95% of it.

Then Kristin talks about three pranks that ended in lawsuits. There\u2019s the waitress who was promised a Toyota, but given a toy Yoda. Then there\u2019s the civil servant whose co-workers duped him into thinking he had a looming deadline. The poor guy cut his vacation short. He even developed heart palpitations.

We end with a woman who spent five days thinking a criminal was stalking her. You\u2019ll never guess who was behind the prank. Seriously. You\u2019ll absolutely never guess. It\u2019s insane.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cOffice joke backfires, city bans more pranks,\u201d The Globe and Mail
\n\u201cCity hall boss on stress leave after prank\u201d London Free Press
\n\u201cThree top city managers named in Howlett prank\u201d London Free Press
\n\u201cCourt Approves Lawsuit Against Toyota Over Cyberstalking Ad Stunt,\u201d Wired.com
\n\u201cToyota Loses a Marketing Lawsuit in Ruling That May Chill Advertiser Pranks,\u201d CBS News
\n\u201cWoman Sues Toyota Over \u2018Terrifying\u2019 Prank,\u201d ABC News
\n\u201cSaatchi Sued Over \u201cTerror Marketing Campaign\u201d for Toyota,\u201d CBS News
\n\u201cFormer Hooters waitress settles toy Yoda suit,\u201d USA Today

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Ballad of Balloon Boy\u201d by Justin Peters, Slate.com
\n\u201cDoubts Came Early in Balloon Incident\u201d by Brian Stelter and Dan Frosch
\n\u201cHeene family says \u2018balloon boy\u2019 headlines \u2018wasn\u2019t a hoax\u2019\u201d by Elizabeth Murray, Today.com