Yes, let's go back to the glory days of 2006 when you couldn't buy good jeans to save your life.

Welcome to your wrong about.

I'm Sarah Marshall, and today we have a very special April Fool's Day episode with our pal Chelsea Webbersmith.

Chelsea is the host of the wonderful podcast, American Hysteria. You can hear me on there talking about chicken suit for the soul.

And in keeping with the theme of books that seem a little bit unbelievable, we're

talking today about hoax memoirs, just like last year, this time on April Fool's Day,

2024, we were talking about some of our favorite hoaxes, including the Loch Ness Monster

and my personal favorite, the spaghetti tree.

We are talking today about a bouquet of hoax memoirs, including the first hoax memoir that

rocked my world, James Fry's A Million Little Pieces. We're going to start with that and bring in

our frequent guest star, Oprah, and then move on to the fake Holocaust memoir, the fake gang member memoir, and to close with the fake child prodigy memoir.

This was such a fun episode for me to do because we got to get into really some of the bigger questions

about what it means to create, what it means to be creative, what truth really means in art

and where we really need it, and what deeper truths we can maybe on earth from ourselves

by just saying how it feels rather than trying to create a documentary record of what

happened. And also how the truth is a shy little creature worth winning over and that you probably

can't do it if millions of dollars are on the line. We recently put out an episode on what's

bringing you joy in this strange year of 2025.

And I just wanted to thank again, everybody who sent in a story, everybody whose story we used or didn't use, everybody who thought about sending one in, but then didn't.

You're important too.

They were all wonderful and we're all trying to reach out and find each other.

And it helps. I think all of the reaching counts for something. So thank you for reaching with us. And thanks for

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