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Show r as r fc- 1. ''rmmma ji mi n - V I; PIctI JiitLAy ii.nii.uinf .jwiiuJrSiM- if- '" IN THE Local News & Classified Ads I IflfiTRR QlFVT Iff LOOP News at even hours 2,4,6,8,10,12 SECTION SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2007 EDITOR I Elyssa Andrus eandrusheraldextra.com 344-255- 3 ! If 5 '. J .'.. ?m& Exploding fcff tmmm I maple trees? Aw, what saps we are Radio has a long history of AprilFooW Day pranks W v. . - . .: j V C W rJr ""'an k. k ft 4 ' a. Jr at Jj"1 ' If i Vi ft. , X Vv jr ' V. i v A V. I A 3I . . ' t i . V' ! i S t. jf ft y p ' y .' i r w t 0 k ; v -m V V I 1 1 5 Marc Fisher THE WASHINGTON POST In 1940, in Philadelphia, a PR man at the Franklin Institute put out a press release that the world would end the next day, April 1. When radio station KYW reported the news, helpfully including the exact time at 3 p.m. which all life would cease the authorities were besieged with calls from panicked : "Hiip gjstifl cBriB ospe listeners. The panic didn't ease until the institute announced that its press agent had put out the release in a misguided effort to publicize a lecture titled "How Will the World End?" The institute sacked its PR man, but the tradition of April Fools' Day pranks on the radio was just starting. Newspapers and television tend to steer clear of April Fools' Day stories, fearful of undermining their credibility or creating mass alarm. But radio stations have long charged ahead with pranks delightful and dangerous. Radio pranks, many of which are catalogued ), at the online Museum of Hoaxes fall into a handful of catego- (m sb disa? aoanm)(inn)MIhJil'" (www.museu-mofhoaxes.com- ries. Impending disaster In 1949, in New Zealand, a deejay for station 1ZB announced that a mile-wiswarm of wasps was headed toward Auckland, but said listeners could protect themselves by putting their socks over their pants and de See C5 RADIO, mm Vi Cody Clark DAILY Orem resident ' STEVEN SENNEAttoctated PiM 6 the plastic circular board of the game Monopoly Express. Busy lives prompt speedier games performs dangerous duties on new Discovery Channel series Michelle R. Smith TMt ASSOC lAttO PRESS I Michelle Hastings admits she's sometimes cheated to get through game of Candy Land old daughter, Campbett. The with her board game can take just too long, she said Disney Monopoly is another big offender. "A game like that, It could literally take you days," said Hastings, of Holliston, Mass. A lot of times, you don't play games because they take so long.' Board game makers are heeding pleas of parents like Hastings and introducing games tailored to busy lives and shorter attention spans that take only about 20 minutes to play. ; Hasbro Inc. the nation's largest game company, is releasing a streamlined version of The See GAMES, C5 Hazard Pay I What job Is tough? What if you had to eradicate infestations of killer bees, or do underwater welding? Curt Think your Doussett gets a crash course in jobs that realty bring the pain as host of this new Dlscove7 Channel show. I Whan: Wednesday, 9 p.m., Discovery Channel (71 on Provo Comcast Cable) I On tha Wab: dsc.discovery.com HERALD veryone's had a brutal day at the office, the kind that makes you f 5 J Want to down a couple f i of aspirin and collapse on the sofa How many people do you know, however, who would say that going to work each day is a matter of life and death, or at least a matter of life and serious physical impairment? Jobs that require you to put your personal safety on the line are the topic of "Hazard Pay," a new Discovery Channel reality series hosted by Orem resident Curt Doussett that premieres Wednesday. Doussett's not your ordinary reality TV host, however, holding a mike and grilling contestants, or providing narration and while other people handle the crazy stuff. In each hour-lonepisode of "Hazard Pay," the host rolls up his sleeves and experiences the most dangerous jobs in America firsthand. Some of the jobs featured on window ' the show are high-riswasher, coal miner, prison guard and big rig truck driver your more everyday risky occupa I Diet irtd houses are displayed on the surface . t j i,.Z3 one-line- rs g tions. The producers didn't stop there, however: viewers will also see Doussett, 39, try his hand at underwater welding, rodeo clowning, professional hockey goaft ending and killer bee eradi-catio- a We're talking about actual physical participation, too. "The goal was to get Curt as close to the action as possible without getting him killed," said Mark Kadin, producer of "Hazard Pay." In one episode, Doussett scales a radio tower taller than the Em-State Building. In another, Eire a cage match with a professional ultimate fighter. In the premiere, he goes to Compton in Los Angeles to repossess a Hummer. For Doussett, none of that compared to being a rodeo clown at a event. "Being In the ring with the bulls Is the most terrified I was, period," he said, "I hated it. You cant say to a bull "Hey, timeout, that hurts. Stop it.' Not only that, but you actually have to get the bull's attention. As Doussett put It, "You're supposed to be the one to distract them, to get them to chase you. You're the person saying to the bull-ridin- g See HAZARD, C6 |