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Podcast: La Crosse Talk PM WIZM
Episode: BAG YOUR PHONE: Legend Brucie Bumchuckles on making all of La Crosse April fools; La Crosse County clerk Dankmeyer elections update
Description: The man known as Brucie Bumchuckles on the radio, joins to talk about the April Fools' hoax in La Crosse that went viral before viral was a thing. Marty Severson relives the 1986 bit, where he fooled everyone with a radio ad from the "phone company" to bag your phone, because they were going to blow the dust out of the phone lines. A hoarding of bags from Quillins ensued. Phone companies wanted to sue. People left work to go home and bag their phones. Here's the ad. After that (22:05), La Crosse County clerk Ginny Dankmeyer breaks down...