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DAVID AULICINO: We're
headed up to Boston

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checking out the stadium for the prank.

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A few years ago, I was
at a math conference,

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and I was sitting around in the table at
dinner with a few other mathematicians.

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And one of them went
to Harvard and started

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telling the story of this amazing
prank that was against Harvard.

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And, at that point, I
felt I had to interrupt,

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and said, well, actually I can
tell you a lot more about that.

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OK?

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MIKE KAI: OK.

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SPEAKER 1: The idea was
perfected in a dorm room.

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MIKE KAI: I came up
with the idea actually

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to prank them with signs
at the football game.

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We threw some ideas out there as
far as what the signs would say.

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We eventually settled on, "we suck."

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DAVID AULICINO: And my immediate
reaction was, no, this will never work.

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However, the problem solver and me
started thinking, well, maybe we

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can make this work.

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SPEAKER 1: The problem--

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they had to infiltrate Harvard
stadium without getting caught,

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sneak in 1,800 placards, distribute
them to unsuspecting Harvard fans,

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and then convince those
fans to prank themselves.

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DAVID AULICINO: That's great.

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MIKE KAI: We thought about
basically every possible thing that

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could go wrong and tried to
come up with a solution for it.

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DAVID AULICINO: And then you
put two reds on top of it.

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SPEAKER 1: They made fake
Harvard IDs and fake back

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stories, fake placard designs,
and a 28 member fake pep squad.

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SPEAKER 2: I can see the shirt.

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SPEAKER 1: On November 20,
2004, the fake Harvard students

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smuggled the placards into the game.

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SPEAKER 3: What do you
think of Yale, sir?

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SPEAKER 4: They suck.

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SPEAKER 5: It's not going to say
something like Yale sucks, is it?

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SPEAKER 6: It says go Harvard.

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SPEAKER 1: But then trouble.

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SPEAKER 7: What houses are you guys in?

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That's not a real house.

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SPEAKER 8: How many extra are there?

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SPEAKER 9: Sometimes.

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SPEAKER 10: Ho-fo.

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SPEAKER 7: Yeah.

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You guys aren't from Harvard, are you?

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SPEAKER 11: Yo-fo!

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DAVID AULICINO: I just showed
in the front with this ID,

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and, all of a sudden, he just ran
away, and he felt so embarrassed.

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SPEAKER 1: Having escaped
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they couldn't risk another.

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It was time.

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MIKE KAI: This just
looks like a total mess.

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We have absolutely no idea
if this is going to work.

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DAVID AULICINO: Look at them!

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They have the paper!

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It's going to happen!

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It's actually going to happen!

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I can't [BLEEP] believe this!

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SPEAKER 1: What was once
a prank became a legend.

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[CHEERING]

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MIKE KAI: We [BLEEP] did it!

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[BLEEP] did it!

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[BLEEP] did it!

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And immediately we started hearing
chants from the other side.

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You suck.

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[CHANTING "YOU SUCK"]

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And I think it was at that point in
time that we knew we had pulled it off.

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SPEAKER 11: One more time!

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Come on, Harvard!

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There it goes again!

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[CHEERING]

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MIKE KAI: I really
think it didn't matter

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that Harvard won because of the prank.

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For a lot of Yale students and
alumni, we definitely won that year.

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