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Then, Jean and Alan contacted radio stations so Jean could give interviews as Yetta.

She tried to stay away from TV.

When the Democratic National Convention happened in New Jersey that year, Allen and Jean got 20 people to march around the convention center holding signs that said, vote for Yedda.

And also at least one sign with just the question, why not?

In November 1964, the New York Times ran an article called The Third Party, Mostly Extreme.

The article read, there appears to be no national consensus for bingo, and Mrs. Bronstein may fail to carry a single precinct.

That turned out to be true, since Yetta Bronstein wasn't even on the ballot.

In 1972, Jean and Alan had a daughter, Jenny.

By then, they'd spent about 13 years trying to pull off different pranks together, and Alan was still coming up with new ideas.

Here's Jenny.

Alan, with his entire face covered in bandages and claiming to be Howard Hughes, announced at a press conference at the St.

Regis Hotel in New York City that he planned to freeze himself.

Through cryogenics until the stock market was higher.

And because the billionaire Howard Hughes was usually very private, 36 reporters actually showed up.

Jenny remembers that even as a toddler, Alan would sometimes bring her in on his pranks.

This was when Alan pretended to be a doctor, investigating the, quote, food properties of human hair.

He said it had good protein.

Jenny says even though they'd practiced together, when the cameras were rolling, she refused to eat the fake sandwich.

A little bit later, though, Jenny and Alan got away with something bigger.

The Ables lived in Connecticut, and the local planning and zoning commission wasn't so sure about the caboose.