Recently I began listen to The Naked Kitchen Podcast, and after listening to every single episode I’m finally ready to recommend it to everyone else. Besides interviewing famous people like Junkyard Willie from the Touchtone Terrorists, prank callers like Sandy Chapin and Jim Florentine (from Crank Yankers), YouTube stars like Cory Williams (aka Mr. Safety) and Zach from The Whitest Kids U’ Know, they also chat, play good music (or hilariously bad music), take calls and play prank calls.
There’s really not many podcasts featuring so much prank call humor, so it’s great to finally find something like this. And best of all, they occasionally talk about how much PLA rules. You have to love a podcast that does that. You can visit their Myspace at myspace.com/nakedkitchen, go to their blog or subscribe to their RSS feed in Itunes.
The PLA Prank Call Contest is officially over and you can now vote on your favorite entry below. Click on the button of your favorite prank call, then click on the “Submit Your Vote” button at the bottom. You’ll be taken to a page of the current voting results. You can also click here to see the current voting results.
Please don’t cheat. I know it can be done and it’s been done before. It’s not that hard or impressive and it will be sort of obvious if you are. So please…don’t cheat. The voting will end whenever I feel like ending it. Maybe in a week or two, I guess? If you’d like to see the current voting results, here they are.
I’m going to give out 3 prize packages for the top 3 winners. It’ll go something like this - the first place winner gets to pick the 10 tapes/CDs he wants, the 2nd place winner gets to pick 10 of the remaining 10 tapes/CDs, and 3rd place gets the rest of the crap that’s left. Everyone who entered will receive a PLA Media DVD and a DVD full of my entire prank call collection. Once again, lots of thanks to everyone who entered the contest!
Before we get into the prank call contest entries, here’s a quick site update…you can now receive emails whenever new content and updates are posted to phonelosers.org. We were using Feedblitz to accomplish this before, but it was slow and they probably sold your email address to Nigerians. The new system emails you immediately after entries are posted and you’re not giving up your email address to a 3rd party company. You can use the form below to sign up. Or you can just keep using the RSS feed like a normal person.
Now on to the contest entries! There have been quite a few entries that don’t follow the rules of this contest. People are sending in just regular prank calls that have nothing to do with the PLA. And one person send in a deaf relay call transcript. Sorry people, but I’m only accepting PLA-themed prank calls for this contest. Here’s are the current entries.
z3wb’s 2nd Entry: And some more of the same. Harry’s Entry (part 1, part 2, part 3): Harry’s pranks a hotel and tells the front desk that someone peed in his room.
Sam’s Entry: Sam calls a Wal-Mart and claims to have scammed a computer from them, just like our old modem scam prank on the PLA’s Wal-Mart Page.
That’s it for now. Thanks to everyone who’s submitted calls so far. Keep the PLA-themed calls coming because you still have until January 15th to win some prank call CDs and tapes!
As mentioned in PLA Radio #15, I’m starting up a new contest. The Win RBCP’s Old Prank Call Tapes and CDs Contest! I recently converted my remaining cassette tapes and CDs to mp3s, most of which happened to be prank calls. So now I’m left with several dozen prank call tapes and CDs that I have no use for. So I’m using this contest as a guise for offloading my old crap onto some unsuspecting prank caller who thinks they’re actually winning something cool. I’m a genius!
If you would like to win this excellent collection of prank call history (aka crappy old prank tapes, lots with terrible sound quality) then all you have to do is submit a prank call that you’ve made. Not just any prank call, though. It must be a PLA-themed prank call. Your prank call must include something done in the spirit of the PLA, such as cactusing someone, calling someone from the PLA’s past, reenacting an prank call or an event from our site, or just doing something generally PLA-ey. Get it?
How many of these prank call cassetes/CDs I give out to each winner will depend on how many entries there are and how much effort you put into it. If there’s a lot of entries, I’ll probably let the first place winner have first choice, the second place winner have second choice, etc. If you need some help on how to record your telephone calls, click here for a tutorial. Here’s a semi-complete list of the tapes and CDs you could win:
The CranKings - Sushi and Friends Act I (copied cassette)
The Teleprankers Volume 1 and 2 (copied cassette)
Frank Da Prank (copied cassette)
Screamers (copied cassette)
Benny Calls Volume 3 (copied cassette)
Jerky Boys bootleg (copied cassette)
Jerky Boys Bud Light commercials (copied cassette)
The Ball Busters (copied cassette)
The Musacha Tapes (cassette)
John Lancaster SPEAKS (copied cassette)
Phone Losers of America Give Me Liberty or Give Me Steak (copied cassette)
Jenn Redmond (copied cassette)
Mark Knofler (copied cassette)
Phone Pride World Wide (all 4 of his CDs)
Bubba Johnson & Company (copied cassette)
The Phone Heads (copied cassette)
Dumbass (CD-R)
Garson Landfil (CD-R)
Go With The Flow (CD-R)
Tube Bar (cassette)
John Trubee - Great Phone Calls (CD-R)
Telephone Head (CD-R)
PLA Raw Material - Volumes 1 - 5) (CD-R)
976-GIRLS (CD-R)
Phone Losers of America Give Me Liberty or Give Me Steak (real CD from mp3.com)
There’s a little more of it, but some of it is commercially available stuff and I probably shouldn’t mention that I’m giving away CD-Rs of their work. There’s some great prank callers in the mix and some crappy ones. But it’s all fun stuff to listen to. The contest officially starts today and it officially ends on January 15th, 2007. You can submit your pranks by email to rbcp AT phonelosers.org or post them in the forums. Get to work!
10:51 EDIT: Legend is just now on and he’s talking about his PLA origins. Turns out that the stream above doesn’t seem to work. But if you go to prankcallradio.com you’ll see a live video stream of the show via Stickam. Go watch/listen.
In 1996 I was looking in the Comedy section at Sam Goody (heh, remember those places?) and happened across a cassette tape by a prank call artist known as Telephone Head. I’d never heard of Telephone Head before (Not to be confused with The Phone Heads prank call tapes!) so I immediately plopped down ten bucks for it. The label on it was D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. Records, the same label that gave us The 976-Girls and The Ball Busters.
I’m not gonna say it’s the most hilarious collection of prank calls I ever heard, but they were mildly amusing. A few calls were kind of pointless, such as the one were he just calls up a guy and asks “How’s it going?” about a dozen times. But the best calls were definitely the Stewart Winslow calls. Stewart was a computer geek who got thrown in the garbage can at school a lot and was always in search of the best computer data processing center around. He also loved to tell everyone about his big penis. Take a listen to these Stewart Winslow clips:
Stewart Buys A Computer In this first clip, Stewart asks an old man questions about a computer he wants to buy.
Teen Crisis Hotline In this next one, Stewart calls up the crisis hotline to try and get help with his problems, such as all the other kids calling him keyboard teeth.
Stewart Buys A Car Finally, Stewart needs to buy a car that includes a computer data processing center in it.
A did a little searching around Google tonight, seeing if there might be a tribute page to Telephone Head, and I found a Telephone Head Myspace! It’s located at http://www.myspace.com/telephonehead. On their Myspace you can learn a little about the history behind the guy that made these prank calls and you can listen to the rest of the calls from his CD, which is good since I’m too lazy to create a torrent for them. And if you really love the calls, you can even buy the CD or tape from Amazon.com.
Thanks for creating the Stewart Winslow character, Telephone Head guy! He’s brought me moderate chuckles for over a decade now. Hopefully you visitors will think he’s as mediocre as I do.
In my last post I whined about there not being enough prank calls torrents in the world and I promised to do something about it. Well here’s my attempt to do something. The following torrents are now available for your downloading pleasure.
Mark Knopfler: Mark Knopfler is a classic prankster from the late 80’s. A few years ago I set up a tribute page where you can post and read comments from other Mark Knopfler fans.
Neil Hamburger - Great Phone Calls: Neil Hamburger’s in town! I love this CD. You may remember Neil from a very small scene on stage in the Tenacious D movie. Neil loves to audition for comedy clubs over the phone and he’s so lonely that he drives his local pizza joints nuts.
Captain Janks - The King Of The Cranks: Captain Janks loves Howard Stern just a little too much. But you gotta be impressed with how many live news broadcasts he’s pranked.
Howard Stern Pranks: A bunch of Howard Stern pranks. I found these on some other torrent. I haven’t actually listened to them yet though.
The Ball Busters - No Hang Ups: This is the sequel to a great album by the Ball Busters. Unfortunately I can’t find the original right now so the sequel will have to do. It’s still got some pretty good stuff in it.
Phone Losers of America Media Pack: Remember the PLA Media CD? Well here it is without the 700 megabyte limitation! It’s 2.64 gigabytes of all the PLA Radio episodes, PLA TV, hundreds of prank calls, all of the original PLA text files and more.
Bubba The Love Sponge - Ned Only: Bubba is another radio DJ that does prank phone calls. Legend813 sent these to me after I made this post and he tells me these are good.
That’s it for now. One of these days I’ll get around to putting some more torrents up. Download these and seed them for other people to enjoy! And if you’ve got your own prank calls that you’d like to share with the world, create a torrent and post it in the comments section of this post. If you’re too lazy to make your own torrent, mail your prank call tape or CD to RBCP and maybe he’ll do it for you.
If you don’t know how to download a torrent, visit utorrent.com and download their bittorrent client. Once you do that, you’ll be able to click on the prank call torrents listed above and they’ll download for you. You’ll also be able to search for pirated movies, music, software and porn at The Pirate Bay but we don’t condone illegal things like that.
Years ago, when I was really into trading prank call cassettes and CDs with people on the internet, I was given a tape labeled “The Pittsburgh Fightsters - A Little Man’s Love.” The title of the cassette was taken from one of the prank calls that I didn’t care too much for. About half of the pranks were really great and the rest weren’t too bad either. Well okay, a couple were awful.
But throughout the tape, they prank called one lady continuously. She was hilarious because she injected the phrase, “In the name of Jesus” into conversation when she got upset. And it was really easy to upset her. The mere mention of Satan was enough to make her flip out. And…well, just listen to these calls.
In The Name of Jesus Part 1: The prankster calls up this foreign lady and asks for a guy name Angelo. It seems that the prankster has been calling and asking for Angelo for quite some time by this point, judging by the lady’s response. She continuously uses the phrase, “in the name of Jesus” and the prankster finally responds with, “In the name of no Jesus” and then later, “In the name of Satan” which really sets the lady off. And so it begins…
In The Name of Jesus Part 2: A new prankster is calling the lady this time, but you hear the original prankster chanting “Praise Satan” in the background. Eventually the new prankster joins in the chant, as the lady tries to outdo them with screams of, “In the name of JESUS!”
In The Name of Jesus Part 3: This one is mediocre - they simply yell, “In the name of Jesus/Satan” at each other a few times and it ends.
In The Name of Jesus Part 4: This one begins with the standard Jesus/Satan battle, then progresses into meowing by the prankster, and then whispering that Satan is coming. She fights back with some unconvincing laughter to show that it doesn’t bother her.
What a lovable old religious nut! According to Prank Call Central, the Fightsters have put out at least 20 CDs. But this is the only one I’ve ever heard and I love it mainly for the Jesus Lady. The CDs don’t appear to be available in stores (not on Amazon.com anyway) but you can buy a lot of them from Prank Call Central.
Trading prank call tapes and CDs used to be fun, but it kind of died out in the early 2000’s. I still have a pretty huge collection of 20th century prank call tapes and CDs, though. I would say, “Let’s all trade prank call CDs again, just like we used to!” but that’d be pointless since everyone has broadband these days. So instead…let’s all make a lot of prank call CDs available on bittorrent!
A bittorrent search for prank calls returns pitiful results. It’s mostly Jerky Boys, Howard Stern, and other wacky morning DJs. None of the old, independent prank call mp3s are up there and that needs to change. I want to see classics on bittorrent, like Mark Knofler, Neil Hamburger, 967-GIRLS, John Trubee, and the Ball Busters. I’m taking it back! The prank call revolution begins now! Or maybe I’ll just go watch some TV instead. Here’s another Fightsters call, completely unrelated to the name of Jesus.
Hang Up The Phone This one is great and it’s such a simple concept - the prankster calls up a guy and demands that he hangs up the phone. The man is so pissed off by this that he decides to show the prankster at thing or two by refusing to hang up the phone, yelling “I ain’t hangin’ up nothing!”
Go discover some prank calls groups today. Our Ultimate Prank Call Page isn’t very ultimate but it’s got some good links to prank call sites on it. Prank Call Central has even more links. And our prank call reviews page has got…reviews. I’m going to set up some prank call torrents later. Check this post in a day or two for some prank call torrent links.
4/21/2006 - Countykid IMed me yesterday asking if I would screw with some Berkeley Quiznos employees while he was in there ordering food and eating. And of course I obliged. For most of Countykid’s visit, he was entertained by Mike the Employee throwing up his arms in exasperation each time the phone rang and all the other employees eagerly crowding around him to try and listen to the bizarre phone calls.
Keep in mind, I edited out the parts where the phone rang for several minutes at a time with nobody picking up because they were sick of the calls. I finally got him to answer again by unblocking my Caller ID. This is in the call where he tries to scare me by saying he’s got my cell phone number. Countykid was nice enough to snap a few pictures for me while I made the phone calls. Click here for the pictures.
Once there was a conversation on Cal’s forum about unsecured cameras on the internet. The opentopia.com site was mentioned and we used it to find this live webcam at a bar in North Carolina called Jackalope Jacks. It showed this picture:
This seemed like the perfect opportunity for some live interactive prank calling. So I called up the bar, talked to the bartender and asked him to go get the guy that was sitting at the bar and put him on the phone. A few seconds later I got to witness the bartender walk up to this guy and tell him he’s got a phone call…
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In 1996 I was looking in the Comedy section at Sam Goody (heh, remember those places?) and happened across a cassette tape by a prank call artist known as Telephone Head. I’d never heard of Telephone Head before (Not to be confused with The Phone Heads prank call tapes!) so I immediately plopped down ten bucks for it. The label on it was D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. Records, the same label that gave us The 976-Girls and The Ball Busters.
In my last post I whined about there not being enough prank calls torrents in the world and I promised to do something about it. Well here’s my attempt to do something. The following torrents are now available for your downloading pleasure.
Years ago, when I was really into trading prank call cassettes and CDs with people on the internet, I was given a tape labeled “The Pittsburgh Fightsters - A Little Man’s Love.” The title of the cassette was taken from one of the prank calls that I didn’t care too much for. About half of the pranks were really great and the rest weren’t too bad either. Well okay, a couple were awful.
4/21/2006 - Countykid IMed me yesterday asking if I would screw with some Berkeley Quiznos employees while he was in there ordering food and eating. And of course I obliged. For most of Countykid’s visit, he was entertained by Mike the Employee throwing up his arms in exasperation each time the phone rang and all the other employees eagerly crowding around him to try and listen to the bizarre phone calls.