From a man named Porky Bicker stockpiling 70 tires for three years to fake a volcanic eruption in Alaska, to a pair of pranksters who stomped around Clearwater, Florida in giant lead penguin feet for a decade, to Saskatoon radio hosts who convinced an entire province (and a sitting member of Parliament) that Canada was switching to "metric time" — this is a masterclass in long-form mischief. The hosts close with a naturally occurring iceberg off the coast of Dildo, Newfoundland that defies all earthly explanation, before pivoting — somehow — to a serious reflection on Easter weekend, public accountability, and the fragility of moral character under the spotlight.

Dr. Tim Hindmarsh & Dr. May Hindmarsh – Husband-and-wife physician duo, hosts of DocTales with Cocktails, broadcasting from their newly Florida-tized studio.

• The DocTales episode 13 lunar prank — how the hosts convinced longtime friends they'd been chosen for a NASA mission, complete with the now-infamous "Personal, Reproductive and Intimacy Capsule" (PRIC) — and why people were still asking about the moon launch a year later
• Why the Artemis launch on April 1st may itself be the greatest prank of the modern era
• Porky Bicker, Sitka, Alaska, 1974 — the three-year tire-hoarding operation that faked an eruption of Mount Edgecumbe and won the Ingenuity & Patience Award
• Clearwater, Florida, 1948–1958 — the giant penguin feet hoax, a 10-year prank involving lead footprints, a fooled cryptozoologist, and a confession that didn't come until 1988
• Saskatoon, 1975 — the Wally and Den Show's "metric time" prank: 10-hour days, 100-second hours, the fictional Dutch physicist Larmen Kohler, panicked watch owners, and a member of Parliament who stood up and confronted Pierre Trudeau on the floor of the House of Commons
• A long detour into UFOs, alien donations vs. crashes, the Trinity Site theory, and whether the real cover-up is alien tech or human tech we never released
• Kate McKinnon's SNL alien abduction sketch (a public service mention)
• Dildo, Newfoundland and the Phallic Iceberg — Ken Perry's drone footage of a 30-foot anatomically suggestive iceberg, and yes, the town really is called Dildo
• The "thread of truth" theory of pranks — and why the same principle explains how psyops, social media campaigns, and accusation-without-evidence work
• A serious turn: Erika Kirk, public grief, and how visibility creates targets even when the criticism is despicable
• The Billy Graham coalition meeting of the late 1940s — pastors sitting down to identify their failure modes (money, marriages, message drift) and building guardrails that held for 70+ years
• Spiritual humility, brokenness, and why "I come as I am" matters — especially during Easter weekend

• Tim's instant categorization: Porky Bicker wins Ingenuity & Patience, the Clearwater penguin guys win Longevity, and the Saskatoon radio guys win Cultural Damage
• May trying to imagine how anyone in 1974 stored 70 tires (answer: "It's Alaska, it's probably in his front yard")
• The metric time bit — a real MP standing up in Parliament and pointing at Pierre Trudeau: "Mr. Trudeau, you've gone too far. We're not doing metric time."
• "In Dildo, there's no D batteries available. Those would be triple As."
• Tim's running thesis that the Roswell crashes weren't crashes at all — they were donations
• The market moving a trillion dollars on a single Trump statement: "I had a big turd this morning and Trump's colon's feeling much better — market's up like 3%"
• May's reaction to the seamless segue from giant ice schlong to scripture: "We are geniuses. We can take a giant ice schlong and weave it into scripture."

• DocTales with Cocktails — past episodes, including the legendary Episode 13 (April 1, 2021): the moon mission prank
• Mount Edgecumbe / Porky Bicker prank — search "Porky Bickar Mount Edgecumbe 1974"
• Clearwater Giant Penguin tracks (1948–1958) — Tony Signorini & Al Williams
• The Wally and Den Show metric time prank — CFQC Saskatoon, April 1, 1975
• Ken Perry's "Chilly Willy" iceberg photo — The Guardian coverage of the Dildo, Newfoundland phenomenon

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The episode opens with a caffeine-fueled kickoff and a memorable trivia night story before pivoting into "Judges Gone Wild." Tim breaks down the Olympus Spa case in Washington, where a traditional Korean women-only nude spa was sued for refusing entry to a biological male identifying as a trans woman — and the now-famous Judge Van Dyke dissent that called out the court's selective outrage. From there, they unpack a Massachusetts ruling against HHS and ACIP's revised childhood vaccine schedule, the 1986 Childhood Vaccine Safety Act implications, and why liability — not science — is driving the legal pushback.

The second half shifts gears into a conversation every couple needs to hear. Inspired by a viral clip outlining four habits of strong marriages — have more fun together, pray together, make eye contact, and always be touching — Tim and May reflect on grievance culture in therapy, right-hemisphere bonding, the power of 20-second hugs, and why meeting each other's core needs matters more than chasing Hollywood-style romance. They close with a plug for their Substack series on fixing healthcare, including this week's piece, "Exorcism."

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