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	<title>Phone Losers of America</title>
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	<description>The Phone Losers of America and their prank calls have been on the web for more than 10 years now.  PLA has existed in many carnations, the latest being this podcast.  The show promises to entertain and inform with computer hacker and phone phreak themed tutorials, prank phone calls, songs, skits and parody commercials.  This comedy podcast has no regular schedule or format but so far has managed to put out a show at least every couple of weeks.  Be sure to visit the website for a complete archive of the PLA\'s past 10 years of content.</description>
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		<copyright>&#xA9;PLA Radio </copyright>
		<managingEditor>rbcp@phonelosers.org (PLA Radio)</managingEditor>
		<webMaster>rbcp@phonelosers.org(PLA Radio)</webMaster>
		<category>Comedy</category>
		<ttl>1440</ttl>
		<itunes:keywords>prank,phone,calls,comedy,losers,america,phreak</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:subtitle>Prank phone calls and other phoneloserish things.</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>The Phone Losers of America and their prank calls have been on the web for more than 10 years now.  PLA has existed in many carnations, the latest being this podcast.  The show promises to entertain and inform with computer hacker and phone phreak themed tutorials, prank phone calls, songs, skits and parody commercials.  This comedy podcast has no regular schedule or format but so far has managed to put out a show at least every couple of weeks.  Be sure to visit the website for a complete archive of the PLA\\\\\\\'s past 10 years of content.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
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			<itunes:name>PLA Radio</itunes:name>
			<itunes:email>rbcp@phonelosers.org</itunes:email>
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		<title>Defcon 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/defcon-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/defcon-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cons]]></category>

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If you were at Defcon this past weekend, then you may have noticed PLA paraphernalia laying around on a few tables.  We gave away lots of free PLA Media DVDs, t-shirts, buttons, stickers and business cards.  If you were the lucky recipient of any of these items, then congratulations!  Lots of thanks [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you were at <a href="http://www.defcon.org">Defcon</a> this past weekend, then you may have noticed PLA paraphernalia laying around on a few tables.  We gave away lots of free PLA Media DVDs, t-shirts, buttons, stickers and business cards.  If you were the lucky recipient of any of these items, then congratulations!  Lots of thanks to the vendors who traded me their t-shirts for PLA t-shirts.  And thanks to our sponsors in the sidebars and all of you who&#8217;ve purchased <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/store/">PLA merchandise</a> in the past.  It&#8217;s because of you that I can continue to give away so much free PLA junk.</p>
<p>(You can read my Defcon review and see pictures here: <a href="http://www.notla.com/archives/2008/08/defcon-2008-aftermath/">http://www.notla.com/archives/2008/08/defcon-2008-aftermath/</a>)</p>
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		<title>Play some Desktop Tower Defense with the PLA</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/play-some-desktop-tower-defense-with-the-pla/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/play-some-desktop-tower-defense-with-the-pla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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A couple years ago, murd0c showed me a flash game called Desktop Tower Defense.  Since then, my productivity with everything has decreased by about 75% or so.  Work, fun, PLA Radio, everything.  I&#8217;m no longer content to just waste my own life away with this game, though.  No, I want to [...]]]></description>
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<p>A couple years ago, murd0c showed me a flash game called <a href="http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp">Desktop Tower Defense</a>.  Since then, my productivity with <i>everything</i> has decreased by about 75% or so.  Work, fun, PLA Radio, everything.  I&#8217;m no longer content to just waste my own life away with this game, though.  No, I want to ruin yours as well.  Go start playing <a href="http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp">Desktop Tower Defense</a> today, and add your score to the <a href="http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/GroupScoreboard.asp?group=Phone+Losers+of+America&#038;submit=View+Group+Scoreboard+%3E%3E%3E">PLA Scoreboard</a>.  Beat my scores so I&#8217;ll have a new goal to work towards and my life will have meaning again.</p>
<p>Or you could do me a huge favor by hacking handdrawngames.com and ridding the world of that game forever.  If you do that, more PLA Radios will come out.  I promise!</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp">Click here to play the game.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/GroupScoreboard.asp?group=Phone+Losers+of+America&#038;submit=View+Group+Scoreboard+%3E%3E%3E">Click here to view the PLA DTD Scoreboard</a></center></p>
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		<title>PLA Radio Episode #19 - Hacking Answering Machines</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-19-hacking-answering-machines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-19-hacking-answering-machines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PLA Merchandise]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PLA Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This episode of PLA Radio covers a few updates, a crazy Craigslist prank, voicemails set to the love theme in Flashdance, and answering machine and voicemail hacking.
00:00 &#8220;Tits are greater than PLA&#8221; - Stankdawg, 2006
00:05 Intro by Trevelyn
01:10 Prank call contest winners
01:30 PLA Voice bridge - I was wrong about the number in the show. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/answering_machine2.gif" alt="AT&#038;T 1719 is very hackable" align="left">This episode of PLA Radio covers a few updates, a crazy Craigslist prank, voicemails set to the love theme in Flashdance, and answering machine and voicemail hacking.</p>
<p>00:00 &#8220;Tits are greater than PLA&#8221; - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StankDawg">Stankdawg</a>, 2006<br />
00:05 Intro by <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">Trevelyn</a><br />
01:10 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/vote-for-your-favorite-entry/">Prank call contest winners</a><br />
01:30 PLA Voice bridge - I was wrong about the number in the show.  The new number is actually 218-339-8070.<br />
01:58 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/the-last-hope-aftermath/">HOPE PLA Panel</a><br />
02:51 Altalp&#8217;s Craigslist prank<br />
06:15 Musical interlude<br />
06:42 Answering Machines<br />
07:18 Movie theater answering machines<br />
12:38 Picture Me portrait studio - <a href="http://www.pictureme.com">www.pictureme.com</a><br />
15:37 Voicemails - Call (505) 796-4020 to leave your own or <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/contact/">click here</a> for other options..<br />
18:50 Cell phone voicemails (<a href="http://www.linkconnector.com/traffic_affiliate.php?lc=012975008869002732">Click here for a caller ID spoofing account</a>.)<br />
21:30 More answering machine info<br />
21:04 PLA/UPL Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/phonelosers">twitter.com/phonelosers</a>)<br />
22:10 PLA Facebook (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18720141339">facebook.com/group.php?gid=18720141339</a>)<br />
22:15 PLA Radio Myspace (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/plaradio">www.myspace.com/plaradio</a> and <a href="http://groups.myspace.com/phonelosers">groups.myspace.com/phonelosers</a>)<br />
22:25 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfsb5HUFMQ0">Ben Bernanke</a> by <a href="http://www.lemondemon.com/">Lemon Demon</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npP73QIApFE">based on this</a>)</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>This episode of PLA Radio covers a few updates, a crazy Craigslist prank, voicemails set to the love theme in Flashdance, and answering machine and ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This episode of PLA Radio covers a few updates, a crazy Craigslist prank, voicemails set to the love theme in Flashdance, and answering machine and voicemail hacking.

00:00 "Tits are greater than PLA" - Stankdawg, 2006
00:05 Intro by Trevelyn
01:10 Prank call contest winners
01:30 PLA Voice bridge - I was wrong about the number in the show.  The new number is actually 218-339-8070.
01:58 HOPE PLA Panel
02:51 Altalp's Craigslist prank
06:15 Musical interlude
06:42 Answering Machines
07:18 Movie theater answering machines
12:38 Picture Me portrait studio - www.pictureme.com
15:37 Voicemails - Call (505) 796-4020 to leave your own or click here for other options..
18:50 Cell phone voicemails (Click here for a caller ID spoofing account.)
21:30 More answering machine info
21:04 PLA/UPL Twitter (twitter.com/phonelosers)
22:10 PLA Facebook (facebook.com/group.php?gid=18720141339)
22:15 PLA Radio Myspace (www.myspace.com/plaradio and groups.myspace.com/phonelosers)
22:25 Ben Bernanke by Lemon Demon (based on this)</itunes:summary>
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		<title>The Last HOPE Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-last-hope-aftermath/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-last-hope-aftermath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hacker Cons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PLA Events]]></category>

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The PLA panel happened, but I don&#8217;t have too much information at this time.  murd0c called me last night and gave me details, but I was too tired to remember anything he said.  I&#8217;m pretty sure nobody died, though.  Below is the video that was played at the beginning of the panel, [...]]]></description>
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<p>The PLA panel happened, but I don&#8217;t have too much information at this time.  murd0c called me last night and gave me details, but I was too tired to remember anything he said.  I&#8217;m pretty sure nobody died, though.  Below is the video that was played at the beginning of the panel, which murd0c claims got a few laughs&#8230;</p>
<p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PGFEyxW1MsM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PGFEyxW1MsM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center></p>
<p><b>Pictures from HOPE:</b><br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jammie718/071908HOPEPLAPanel">Jammie&#8217;s PLA Panel pics</a><br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/superherogirl/TheLastHOPE">RogueClown&#8217;s pics</a> (or you can view her favorites with descriptions <a href="http://absentelements.blogspot.com/2008/07/pictures-from-hope.html">in her blog</a>.)<br />
<a href="http://murd0c.livejournal.com/340154.html">murd0c&#8217;s pictures</a><br />
<a href="http://kfone.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=821">Whitesword&#8217;s Captain Cactus pics</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll update this post as people send me links and information.  Or if you just can&#8217;t wait for me to do it, then post your links and information in the comments.  A huge thanks to <a href="http://murd0c.livejournal.com/">murd0c</a>, <a href="http://www.robvincent.net">RTF</a>, <a href="http://leoz.livejournal.com/">I-ball</a>, <a href="http://sidepocket-pro.livejournal.com/183382.html">Sidepocket</a> and whoever else participated in it.</p>
<p>Here is a video of the panel, reduced to 10 minutes for YouTube.  Thanks, Jammie, for videotaping this!</p>
<p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BaQWzYhFjEY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BaQWzYhFjEY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center></p>
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		<title>This is your last warning&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/this-is-your-last-warning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/this-is-your-last-warning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hacker Cons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PLA Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HOPE is happening this weekend and the PLA panel is happening this Saturday at 11:00pm.  If you&#8217;re going to be a HOPE, you are not allowed to miss the PLA Panel.  murd0c, RTF, I-ball and Sidepocket are counting on you to be there for an hour of PLA silliness.  So BE THERE!#@!!@1!!#&#038;^@#%
Click [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/hope_medium-tombstone.png" align=left><a href="http://www.thelasthope.org/">HOPE</a> is happening <b>this weekend</b> and the PLA panel is happening <b>this Saturday</b> at 11:00pm.  If you&#8217;re going to be a HOPE, you are not allowed to miss the PLA Panel.  <a href="http://murd0c.livejournal.com/">murd0c</a>, <a href="http://www.robvincent.net">RTF</a>, <a href="http://leoz.livejournal.com/">I-ball</a> and <a href="http://sidepocket-pro.livejournal.com/183382.html">Sidepocket</a> are counting on you to be there for an hour of PLA silliness.  So BE THERE!#@!!@1!!#&#038;^@#%</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728Qq4_d2XQ">Click here to watch bits of 2006&#8217;s PLA panel</a></center></p>
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		<title>The prank was a prank!</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-prank-was-a-prank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-prank-was-a-prank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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Dear RBCP,
I read your article on how to modify a CB radio to broadcast on drive-thru frequencies today. It was a great article, and a good YouTube video as well. I liked it so much, I stopped by my local RadioShack after work. I asked the employee to direct me to the CB radios. He [...]]]></description>
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Dear RBCP,<br />
I read your article on how to modify a CB radio to broadcast on drive-thru frequencies today. It was a <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/how-to-hijack-fast-food-drive-thru-frequencies/">great article</a>, and a good <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLrus1yKvI">YouTube video</a> as well. I liked it so much, I stopped by my local RadioShack after work. I asked the employee to direct me to the CB radios. He showed me the TRC-241. I said to him &quot;I see the screen is digital; but is the CB radio fully digital?&quot;</p>
<p>He went off to look up the specs. Meanwhile I pulled up phonelosers.org on my cellphone. I saw the model number you wrote down was an earlier version of what I was looking at. I interrupted the guy, saying &quot;Never mind, the model you have looks fine. I&#39;ll take it.&quot; He responds &quot;Is there anything else I can get you?&quot; - &quot;No, not unless you sell toasters.&quot; Perplexed his really cute female co-worker looked over, smiled, and asked me &quot;What are you going to do with that?&quot; I replied &quot;Well see, toasters have a crystal that operates on a higher frequency, which will help me test a theory.&quot; Grining, I paid the man, gave a very flirtatious good-bye to the girl and went to Target.</p>
<p>I found their cheapest model for about 7 bucks. I was so excited to get some pranks going tonight, I couldn&#8217;t stand it. I kept fantasizing about how I was going to have a lot of fun, and maybe impress some friends.</p>
<p>I got home and set down the two items on my desk. I thought to myself &quot;Hey, I&#39;ll film this as proof it can be done!&quot; I set up my camera, hit record, and began to take apart the toaster. I was trying to be as entertaining as possible, all the while, sounding as educated about what I was doing (much like you were). I took off the knob and slider handle. Then I took off the bottom of the toaster; then the side. I saw a tiny circuit board, resting on the bottom of a support plate - mocking me. &quot;Wait a second!?&quot; I thought. &quot;There should be a crystal soldered onto this board! RB said *all* toasters have these as a safety measure!&quot;</p>
<p>I then took apart the CB radio and looked for the crystal there as well, only to find nothing. &#8220;What the fuck? 0 for 2, and I&#39;m out $100+!&#8221; Surely I bought the wrong model, or sported for a toaster that was too cheap. I thought the comment section of your post would be a good start. Anyone that has run into trouble with this would have posted a solution, or their concern.</p>
<p>I was right. Someone said that the post was made near April 1st. I checked the YouTube page of the video, and plenty of people were shouting &quot;this is so fake! you people are idiots!,&quot; etc. I knew right then, I have just been had. I started laughing to myself. I couldn&#8217;t believe that I wouldn&#39;t have second-guessed such a simple tutorial from you, the mighty trickster. I went back to the RadioShack and saw that the people I dealt with, had already gone home. I explained to the other guy that I was a victim of an elaborate joke, and how I took apart a toaster in order to get to a high-frequency crystal. The guy looked at me like I was the biggest moron on the planet, while he shook his head. &quot;No.. No. You&#8217;re not going to find a crystal like that in a toaster.&quot; He replied.</p>
<p>To say the least, he refunded me my money. *whew!*</p>
<p>Thanks, RBCP, for giving me the motivation to tear apart a toaster!</p>
<p>Zan (<a href="http://infektid.org">iNFEKTiD.org</a>)<br />
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<p>So&#8230;it&#8217;s been a few months now and I guess it&#8217;s as good of a time as any to state the semi-obvious&#8230;that <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/how-to-hijack-fast-food-drive-thru-frequencies/">article about modifying toasters</a> and the accompanying <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLrus1yKvI">YouTube video</a> on the subject were hoaxes.  There is no crystal inside a toaster to &#8220;control the frequency of the heating coils&#8221; and you can&#8217;t replace anything inside a CB radio to make it transmit on a drive-thru frequency.  Sure, there are <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;hs=TJ8&#038;q=yaesu+vx7+mod&#038;btnG=Search">ways to hijack fast food frequencies</a>, but using a CB radio and/or a toaster isn&#8217;t the way to go about it.  Our goal was to destroy as many toasters on the planet as possible.</p>
<p>This turned out to be my most widespread hoax, thanks to Gizmodo, Consumerist, Fark and Digg linking to it.  The video was watched over 100,000 times and I don&#8217;t know how many people visited the phonelosers.org article on the same subject.  It was a lot, though.  I received at least 50 emails about toasters and many threads were created on the PLA Forums by new users, begging for help on the subject.  We deleted a lot of them, but here are some of the surviving threads&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2910.0"><b>How To Hijack Fast Food Drive-Thru Frequencies</b></a> This is my original thread on the subject.  It was orginally posted in a secret area so we could laugh at everyone about the prank.  There&#8217;s some links in this thread to other sites that linked to the video.<br />
<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=3185.0"><b>Yaesu question</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2919.0"><b>Where can i find a 6.5536 crystal?</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=3139.0"><b>NEED HELP RE: YOUTUBE VIDEO</b></a> OMG, this Trevelyn guy is such a newb!<br />
<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=400.0"><b>Taco Bell Takeover</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2960.0"><b>Hijack drive thru question</b></a> </p>
<p>Even better than the forum posts were the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&#038;v=cyLrus1yKvI&#038;fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DcyLrus1yKvI<br />
">YouTube comments on this prank</a>.  You&#8217;ll notice that many of the first comments were positive reviews of the video, a lot of them claiming that they tried the mod and it worked beautifully.  These were mostly made by people from the PLA Forums, just trying to make the video more realistic by backing up the claims that it worked.  The rest of the posts fall into these three categories:</p>
<p><LI>You asshole, your prank cost me money!  You suck!<br />
<LI>Haha, your prank cost me money!  You rule!<br />
<LI>I&#8217;m so smart that I realize this is a prank and I&#8217;m desperate to prove this to everyone.</p>
<p>I have a lot of emails that are pretty funny, but I&#8217;m too lazy to search through my archived email, looking for the best ones.  Many thanks to all the people who helped with this prank by debunking the debunkers on YouTube and by stringing along the new users on the forums.  And a huge thanks to Zan, who not only had an awesome sense of humor about the whole thing, but even sent in the picture of himself with a disassembled toaster.  Go visit his <a href="infektid.org">iNFEKTiD</a> website and pay your respects!</p>
<p>And to you people who were hoping to hijack drive-thru frequencies - shame on you!  Messing with minimum wage employees is <i>wrong</i> and very un-Christian-like!  People like you cost these businesses lots of money and you shouldn&#8217;t be thinking of doing things like this!  Shame, shame shame!</p>
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		<title>You&#8217;re going to HOPE, right?  RIGHT??</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/youre-going-to-hope-right-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/youre-going-to-hope-right-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hacker Cons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PLA Events]]></category>

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HOPE is less than a month away, so it&#8217;s not too late to make arrangements and attend.  There will be a PLA panel there, just as there was in 2006, which will be on Saturday at 11:00 pm.  Location: Turing, on the 18th floor.  Join murd0c, RTF, I-ball and Sidepocket for an [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.thelasthope.org/">HOPE</a> is less than a month away, so it&#8217;s not too late to make arrangements and attend.  There will be a PLA panel there, just as there was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728Qq4_d2XQ">in 2006</a>, which will be on Saturday at 11:00 pm.  Location: Turing, on the 18th floor.  Join <a href="http://murd0c.livejournal.com/">murd0c</a>, <a href="http://www.robvincent.net">RTF</a>, <a href="http://leoz.livejournal.com/">I-ball</a> and <a href="http://sidepocket-pro.livejournal.com/183382.html">Sidepocket</a> for an hour or so of PLA fun.  And hopefully you&#8217;ll get one of the hundreds of PLA Media DVDs from the picture above.  BE THERE!#@!!@1!!#&#038;^@#%</p>
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		<title>Unauthorized PLA TV</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/unauthorized-pla-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/unauthorized-pla-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PLA Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of unauthorized PLA Radio episodes, here&#8217;s a little unauthorized PLA TV made by Trevelyn, advertising the most recent episode of PLA Radio.

And speaking of PLA TV, YouTube&#8217;s Related Videos on Trevelyn&#8217;s video shows a bunch of EvilCal&#8217;s old videos that I haven&#8217;t seen in a few years, from when he posed as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the spirit of unauthorized PLA Radio episodes, here&#8217;s a little unauthorized PLA TV made by <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">Trevelyn</a>, advertising the most recent episode of PLA Radio.</p>
<p><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4PEddcBWuec&#038;hl=en&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4PEddcBWuec&#038;hl=en&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center></p>
<p>And speaking of <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/tv/">PLA TV</a>, YouTube&#8217;s Related Videos on Trevelyn&#8217;s video shows a bunch of <a href="http://cal.phonelosers.org">EvilCal</a>&#8217;s old videos that I haven&#8217;t seen in a few years, from when he posed as a reporter for phonelosers.org at an Iraq war protest.  Watch those too!  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD__ne0_3hU">Part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWFiiiLJpg4">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlVSG2wmM70">Part 3</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOMHVve13Zw">Part 4</a></p>
<p>And finally, there&#8217;s a new podcast out called <a href="http://securityjustice.com/">Security Justice</a>.  It deals with all kinds of phone and hacker topics, including a little piece about voice authentication which was breaking news in <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-17-voice-authentication/">PLA Radio Episode #17</a>.  Their show can be found at <a href="http://securityjustice.com/">securityjustice.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>PLA Poetry</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-poetry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-poetry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cactus?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few days, members of the PLA Forums have been showing their sensitive side by writing beautiful bits of poetry on the Poetry Critical website.  These inspiring words about cacti, telephones, motels, and hacking have been some of the highest rated poetry on Poetry Critical this week.
Of course, some people are jealous [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/poetry.gif" align=right>For the past few days, members of the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/">PLA Forums</a> have been showing their sensitive side by writing beautiful bits of poetry on the <a href="http://www.poetrycritical.net">Poetry Critical website</a>.  These inspiring words about cacti, telephones, motels, and hacking have been some of the highest rated poetry on Poetry Critical this week.</p>
<p>Of course, <em>some</em> people are jealous of the PLA&#8217;s amazing talent.  People like the regulars at Poetry Critical, who hate that their own emoness is being overshadowed by our sheer brilliance.  But we can&#8217;t let a little jealousy keep us down.  We&#8217;ll keep writing from the heart and try to ignore their unending hatred for cacti and telephones.   Be sure to visit <a href="http://www.poetrycritical.net">Poetry Critical</a> and look at some of the insightful works of art that are currently featured in both the newest poetry and the highest rated poetry.  Be sure to rate our poetry with whatever you feel is fair.  And it&#8217;s easy to set up your own account and begin writing your own poetry immediately if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing.</p>
<p>Also if you like to like to talk about cactus and poetry, <a href="http://www.poetrycritical.net/forum/">their forums</a> are full of interesting conversation.  I&#8217;d like to say thanks to the Poetry Critical regulars who brought my newfound love for poetry to life by spamming <a href="http://www.notla.com">my homepage</a> this morning.</p>
<p><b>June 22nd, 2008 update:</b> The hilarity which once ensued on that site has nearly been extinguished at this point.  They have banned all poetry with references to cactus in it and they&#8217;ve been deleting our accounts.  The forums still have a small bit of hilarity left in them, but threads are quickly locked or deleted now.  They really brought the hammer down on the cactus.</p>
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		<title>PLA Radio Episode #18 - linear&#8217;s Unauthorized Episode</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-18-linears-unauthorized-episode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-18-linears-unauthorized-episode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PLA Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[GREETINGS FROM WITHIN THE PLA STUDIO.
linear here. you were expecting someone else? The United Phone Losers have hacked into the PLA mainframe gibson, and taken control of the beloved PLA Radio. Listen in as we give a brief UPL history lesson, hack rbcp&#8217;s voicemail, and mess with people on Craigslist.
OMG HAX.
Show Notes:
00:00 Mitch Hedberg
00:20 Intro
00:47 [...]]]></description>
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<p>linear here. you were expecting someone else? The United Phone Losers have hacked into the PLA mainframe gibson, and taken control of the beloved PLA Radio. Listen in as we give a brief UPL history lesson, hack rbcp&#8217;s voicemail, and mess with people on Craigslist.</p>
<p>OMG HAX.</p>
<p>Show Notes:</p>
<p>00:00 Mitch Hedberg<br />
00:20 Intro<br />
00:47 Brief UPL History<br />
02:35 Call to Renita<br />
03:10 Call to Bertha<br />
04:25 Call to linear&#8217;s Mom<br />
05:25 Call to American Airlines<br />
06:58 Hacking Brad&#8217;s Voicemail Box (Music: Los Gatos Negros &#8220;We Shall Bring A Darkness&#8221;)<br />
07:15 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020 or phonelosers.org on Skype<br />
11:15 Free Kittens<br />
12:35 Black Changing Table<br />
13:33 Wild Animal Park Sting Operation<br />
15:40 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 1<br />
16:51 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 2<br />
17:36 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 3<br />
19:10 Confidential Carpet Cleaning<br />
20:57 visit <a href="http://www.phonelosers.net">http://www.phonelosers.net</a><br />
21:02 Wham! &#8220;Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go&#8221;</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>GREETINGS FROM WITHIN THE PLA STUDIO.

linear here. you were expecting someone else? The United Phone Losers have hacked into the PLA mainframe gibson, and taken ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>GREETINGS FROM WITHIN THE PLA STUDIO.

linear here. you were expecting someone else? The United Phone Losers have hacked into the PLA mainframe gibson, and taken control of the beloved PLA Radio. Listen in as we give a brief UPL history lesson, hack rbcp's voicemail, and mess with people on Craigslist.

OMG HAX.

Show Notes:

00:00 Mitch Hedberg
00:20 Intro
00:47 Brief UPL History
02:35 Call to Renita
03:10 Call to Bertha
04:25 Call to linear's Mom
05:25 Call to American Airlines
06:58 Hacking Brad's Voicemail Box (Music: Los Gatos Negros "We Shall Bring A Darkness")
07:15 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020 or phonelosers.org on Skype
11:15 Free Kittens
12:35 Black Changing Table
13:33 Wild Animal Park Sting Operation
15:40 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 1
16:51 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 2
17:36 Sell Me That Fucking Ford part 3
19:10 Confidential Carpet Cleaning
20:57 visit http://www.phonelosers.net
21:02 Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>PLA,Radio</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
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		<title>A few announcements&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/a-few-announcements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/a-few-announcements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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PLA will be at HOPE! Rob T. Firefly, murd0c, sidepocket, I-ball and others will be representing the PLA at this year&#8217;s Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York.   This will happen during the weekend of July 18th - 20th, so start making your plans to attend!  They&#8217;ll be talking about the [...]]]></description>
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<td><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/hope_medium-tombstone.png" align=left><font face=arial size=3><b>PLA will be at HOPE!</b> <a href="http://www.robvincent.net">Rob T. Firefly</a>, <a href="http://www.murd0c.net/">murd0c</a>, sidepocket, I-ball and others will be representing the PLA at this year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.thelasthope.org/">Hackers on Planet Earth</a> conference in New York.   This will happen during the weekend of July 18th - 20th, so start making your plans to attend!  They&#8217;ll be talking about the PLA&#8217;s major book deal, the new prime time PLA series premiering on FOX this fall, and the major motion picture about PLA that&#8217;s scheduled for release in 2010.  They&#8217;ll also be talking about PLA history, giving away a few t-shirts and answering your questions.  For a condensed version of how the PLA panel was at 2006&#8217;s HOPE conference, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728Qq4_d2XQ">click here</a> for a YouTube video.</p>
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<td><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/upllady.gif" align=left><font face=arial size=3><b>UNITED PHONELOSERS are BACK!!</b> Remember the time the UPL went missing for a few years, came back, then went missing again?  Well, the UPL is back once again!  What will happen next?  I have my bets on the UPL going missing again, but I could be wrong.  But for now, all the old <a href="http://www.phonelosers.net/read.php">UPL archives</a> are back and so are <a href="http://www.phonelosers.net/forums">the forums</a>, which are actually pretty active already.  So go sign up on them before linear loses them again at <a href="http://www.phonelosers.net">www.phonelosers.net</a>.</p>
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<td><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/twitter.png" align=left><font face=arial size=3><b>WE&#8217;RE on TWITTER!</b> If you&#8217;d like to receive updates from the PLA and the UPL, you can <a href="http://twitter.com/phonelosers">follow them both on Twitter</a>.  You&#8217;ll find out important things, like when a <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/phonemob/">phone mob</a> happens, when a <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/radio/">PLA Radio</a> comes out, when RBCP gets arrested and needs PayPal donations for bail, and when UPL comes back once it disappears again.  You might also want to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/thelinear">linear</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/rbcp">RBCP</a> on Twitter, so you can find out what they&#8217;re having for lunch, what kind of pants they choose to wear each day, who they&#8217;re going steady with, etc.</p>
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<td><center><img src="http://www.signhacker.com/images/top_signhacker01.jpg" width=200 align=left></center><font face=arial size=3><b>ONE MORE THING&#8230;</b> This isn&#8217;t exactly related to the PLA, but a few months ago RBCP set up a new website called Sign Hacker, which features signs in public that have been manipulated in some way.  The first entry there featured the <a href="/mcdonalds/">PLA&#8217;s McDonald&#8217;s sign hack</a>, and there&#8217;s some pretty good entries since then too.  You can take a look at Sign Hacker by visiting <a href="http://www.signhacker.com">www.signhacker.com</a>.<br />
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		<title>Spread a little PLA love with our flyers</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/spread-a-little-pla-love-with-our-flyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/spread-a-little-pla-love-with-our-flyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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If you&#8217;re into wasting your valuable printer ink and your valuable time to promote the Phone Losers of America, then you should love the new page of PLA Flyers.  Print them out and stick them on bulletin boards, telephone poles, in newspapers, books, or just walk around and hand them to strangers like CK [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you&#8217;re into wasting your valuable printer ink and your valuable time to promote the Phone Losers of America, then you should love the new page of <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/flyers/">PLA Flyers</a>.  Print them out and stick them on bulletin boards, telephone poles, in newspapers, books, or just walk around and hand them to strangers like <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=286.msg2504">CK &#038; RBCP did a couple of years ago</a>.  There&#8217;s also a page of PLA <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/promotepla/">signs</a> that people have sent in.  If you think you can do better at designing some flyers or signs, <a href="/contact/">email them to us</a> and maybe they&#8217;ll end up on one of these pages.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/free_cactus02_small.jpg" alt="Free Cactus?"></center></p>
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		<title>Buy Lots of PLA Coffee Mugs From Us</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/buy-lots-of-pla-coffee-mugs-from-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/buy-lots-of-pla-coffee-mugs-from-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 23:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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Your coffee will taste 170% better when it&#8217;s sipped from our new official PLA coffee mugs!  You need to buy one of these for every member of your immediate family!  Use them as a water bowl for your dog.  Plant flowers in them.  Keep your pens and pencils in them.  [...]]]></description>
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<p>Your coffee will taste 170% better when it&#8217;s sipped from our new official PLA coffee mugs!  You need to buy one of these for every member of your immediate family!  Use them as a water bowl for your dog.  Plant flowers in them.  Keep your pens and pencils in them.  Use them as a chamber pot.  Do anything you want with them, just buy them from us!  There is an imprint on each side of the mug - the PLA logo on one side and &#8220;Phone Losers of America&#8221; on the other. All cups are white with black print.  Assuming you have PayPal, you can click on the button below to order several dozen of them.  They are $5.00 each, plus $5.00 shipping no matter how many you buy.</p>
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<p>If coffee mugs aren&#8217;t your thing, you could always visit the <a href="/store/">PLA Store</a> and buy some PLA t-shirts or caps.</p>
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		<title>PLA Radio Episode #17 - Voice Authentication</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-17-voice-authentication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-17-voice-authentication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 02:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.phonelosers.org/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OMG, it&#8217;s a new episode of PLA Radio!  In this episode I make a mockery of Bell Canada&#8217;s new voice authentication system.  Boy, won&#8217;t they be pissed!  There&#8217;s also a few voicemails and miscellaneous updates thrown in and best of all&#8230;DEBBIE GIBSON MUSIC!
00:00 Gilligan&#8217;s Island
01:12 Intro by Trevelyn
02:08 April Fools!
03:35 Richard Cardo
04:30 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/pooh_telephone.gif" align="right" alt="Pooh Phone">OMG, it&#8217;s a new episode of PLA Radio!  In this episode I make a mockery of Bell Canada&#8217;s new voice authentication system.  Boy, won&#8217;t they be pissed!  There&#8217;s also a few voicemails and miscellaneous updates thrown in and best of all&#8230;DEBBIE GIBSON MUSIC!</p>
<p>00:00 Gilligan&#8217;s Island<br />
01:12 Intro by <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">Trevelyn</a><br />
02:08 <a href="http://www.notla.com/archives/2008/03/sacrificial-toasters/">April Fools!</a><br />
03:35 <a href="http://youtube.com/user/RichardCardo">Richard Cardo</a><br />
04:30 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/dont-panic/">Website issues</a><br />
04:55 Voice Authentication<br />
07:33 Call to Leslie<br />
11:50 The Test<br />
13:29 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020 or phonelosers.org on Skype</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>OMG, it's a new episode of PLA Radio!  In this episode I make a mockery of Bell Canada's new voice authentication system.  Boy, ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>OMG, it's a new episode of PLA Radio!  In this episode I make a mockery of Bell Canada's new voice authentication system.  Boy, won't they be pissed!  There's also a few voicemails and miscellaneous updates thrown in and best of all...DEBBIE GIBSON MUSIC!

00:00 Gilligan's Island
01:12 Intro by Trevelyn
02:08 April Fools!
03:35 Richard Cardo
04:30 Website issues
04:55 Voice Authentication
07:33 Call to Leslie
11:50 The Test
13:29 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020 or phonelosers.org on Skype</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
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		<title>The Naked Kitchen Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-naked-kitchen-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/the-naked-kitchen-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 06:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Prank Calls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I began listen to The Naked Kitchen Podcast, and after listening to every single episode I&#8217;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. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently I began listen to The Naked Kitchen Podcast, and after listening to every single episode I&#8217;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&#8217; Know, they also chat, play good music (or hilariously bad music), take calls and play prank calls.  </p>
<p>There&#8217;s really not many podcasts featuring so much prank call humor, so it&#8217;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 <a href="http://www.myspace.com/nakedkitchen">myspace.com/nakedkitchen</a>, go to <a href="http://nakedkitchenpodcast.blogspot.com/">their blog</a> or subscribe to their <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/NakedKitchenPodcast">RSS feed</a> in Itunes.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/nakedkitchenbanner1myspace.gif"><br />Chris Hanson approves of this podcast.</center></p>
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		<title>DON&#8217;T PANIC</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/dont-panic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/dont-panic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Website Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
phonelosers.org will be undergoing some upgrades over the next few days.  Things are likely going to be a little messed up during our transition.  The forums will probably be down for awhile, as well as other things like the photo albums, the store and our mp3s.  It&#8217;ll be complete pandemonium!  But [...]]]></description>
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<p>phonelosers.org will be undergoing some upgrades over the next few days.  Things are likely going to be a little messed up during our transition.  The forums will probably be down for awhile, as well as other things like the photo albums, the store and our mp3s.  It&#8217;ll be complete pandemonium!  But hang in there for the next few days and it&#8217;ll all be back to normal soon.  Hopefully.</p>
<p>EDIT @ 7:28PM PST on Wednesday - The new server is working.  Obviously I&#8217;ve got Wordpress working on it.  I can&#8217;t make the regular PLA Theme work until I finish getting the forums up.  I&#8217;m uploading them now and restoring the MySQL database.  All is going well so far&#8230;</p>
<p>EDIT @ 10:31PM PST on Wednesday - Forums are working, but with the default theme.  Most of the phonelosers.org site theme is working again.  I&#8217;m FTPing a couple gigs of the remaining files as I sleep.  Hopefully things will be mostly back to normal at some point tomorrow.</p>
<p>EDIT on Sunday - <a href="/photos/">Photos albums</a> are back and so is the <a href="/store/">store</a>.  I think everything is sort of back to normal now.  Please let me know if you spot anything wrong.</p>
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		<title>Hotel Soundboard Pranks</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/hotel-soundboard-pranks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/hotel-soundboard-pranks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Pranks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I noticed some hits coming to phonelosers.org from an unfamiliar YouTube page, so I clicked on the link and heard a prank call by Mr. Spessa where he was calling up hotel guests and pissing them off with his impromptu policies.  Only these were brand new calls that I&#8217;d never heard before.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I noticed some hits coming to phonelosers.org from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8uwTXLbcI">an unfamiliar YouTube page</a>, so I clicked on the link and heard a prank call by Mr. Spessa where he was calling up hotel guests and pissing them off with his impromptu policies.  Only these were brand new calls that I&#8217;d never heard before.  This YouTube guy, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/w3baholicX">w3baholicX</a>, took one of Mr. Spessa&#8217;s hotel pranks, turned it into a soundboard and started pranking new hotels with it.  Take a listen&#8230;</p>
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<p>w3baholicX was nice enough to send me the soundboard, so I&#8217;m putting it up here so that <i>everyone</i> can use it to make prank calls to hotels without using their real voice.  <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/flash/DavidSoundboard.swf">Click here to use the soundboard</a>. (WARNING: It&#8217;s HUGE.  About 11 megs.)  If you do anything particularly hilarious with this soundboard, post a link to it in the comments section.  </p>
<p>You might also enjoy the one other soundboard on this site - the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/flash/rbcp_soundboard.swf">RBCP Soundboard</a>.  It was made by <a href="http://www.messedup.net">Heywood</a> from the old <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/curtis_lee_jones">Curtis Lee Jones</a> pranks.  (I used to have a Curtis soundboard, but I can&#8217;t seem to find it anywhere.)  </p>
<p>To hear the original hotel pranks, visit <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/hotel/">our hotel page</a>.  And if you enjoy soundboard pranks, you&#8217;ll really like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/w3baholicX">w3baholicX&#8217;s YouTube page</a>, which is filled with them.</p>
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		<title>PLA&#8217;s Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/plas-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/plas-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PLA Stuff]]></category>

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Over the past few years, a lot of music has been created in the name of the PLA.  So today, I created this page to showcase these songs.  My hope is that listening to this music will inspire even more people to write songs about the PLA, so our &#8220;Original Motion Picture Soundtrack&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p>Over the past few years, a lot of music has been created in the name of the PLA.  So today, I created <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/songs/">this page</a> to showcase these songs.  My hope is that listening to this music will inspire even more people to write songs about the PLA, so our &#8220;Original Motion Picture Soundtrack&#8221; will be more than just 7 tracks long.  Because really, who&#8217;s going to purchase our CD for $17.99 plus tax when there&#8217;s only 7 tracks on it??  </p>
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/Rob_T_Firefly_-_Guilty_Deter.mp3"><b>Track 01: Guilty Deter</b></a> This is the first official song ever recorded for the PLA, if you don&#8217;t include our old 90&#8217;s dance mixes.  RBCP wrote the lyrics to this song in January 2005 and included them in UPL issue #29.  Shortly after the issue of UPL was released, <a href="http://www.robvincent.net/<br />
">Rob T. Firefly</a> released this version of the song.  </p>
<p>The song is about a 17-year-old character named Deter who wants to be a phone phreak but his conscience keeps interfering with his ideas.  (You might remember a guy named Deter from a few of <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/issue/">the old PLA issues</a>.)  This song is a parody of Guilty Conscience by Eminem and Dr. Dre.</p>
<p>Listen to more from Rob T. Firefly at his <a href="http://www.robvincent.net/">home page</a>, his <a href="http://spacemutiny.com/">music page</a> and his <a href="http://www.myspace.com/djluciernaga  ">Myspace</a>.</p>
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/whats_the_difference.mp3"><b>Track02: What&#8217;s The Difference?</b></a> This song was included in <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-3-released/">PLA Radio Episode #3</a>, which was released on February 25th, 2006.  The episode revolved around all the fun you could have with Deaf Relay Operators.  The lyrics were written by <a href="http://www.notla.com">RBCP</a> and the song was performed by a deaf relay operator.  It&#8217;s a parody of the song called What&#8217;s The Difference by Dr. Dre.
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/RBCP_on_PLA_Radio_by_Trevelyn.mp3"><b>Track 03: RBCP on PLA Radio</b></a> Trevelyn, also known as DJ Boo, wrote this song for <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/radio/">PLA Radio</a> where it&#8217;s occasionally used as an introduction for the show.  Trevelyn has written a lot of phone-related songs and has been featured on <a href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/">Hacker Public Radio</a>.  Visit Trevelyn&#8217;s <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">page of music</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deejboo">his Myspace</a>.
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/linear.mp3"><b>Track 04: linear</b></a> This song was written by both linear and RBCP, each writing most of their own parts of the song.  It was written in the early 2000&#8217;s, then finished up by RBCP and published in UPL issue #29 in January 2005.  RBCP recorded the song in July 2006, playing both the part of linear and RBCP.  It was featured in <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-10-fuck-you-motherfucker/">PLA Radio Episode #10</a> on July 22nd, 2006.
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/intro_cactus.mp3"><b>Track 05: PLA Radio Cactus Intro</b></a> This song is usually played at the beginning of episodes of <a href="/radio">PLA Radio</a> and was originally played in the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-8-released/">May 14th, 2006 episode</a>.  The original song is called Squeeze 1st Jay-Z.  The various people saying &#8220;Cactus&#8221; are professional voice artists that RBCP tricked into sending sample work to him.
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/Mildred_Monday.mp3"><b>Track 06: Mildred Monday</b></a> This song was written by <a href="http://www.notla.com">RBCP</a> in 1997 and performed by RBCP on <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-16/">episode #16 of PLA Radio</a> on March 15th, 2008.  It features some classic old-school PLA characters, such as Dino Allsman, Jim Bayless and Mildred Monday.  It&#8217;s a parody of a 1980&#8217;s song called Manic Monday by The Bangles.
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<td><font face=arial size=2 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/Blackhat_Life_by_Trevelyn.mp3"><b>Track 07: Blackhat Life</b></a> This song isn&#8217;t exactly a PLA song, but a mention of PLA Radio is included in it so I&#8217;m listing it here.  It&#8217;s written by Trevelyn and was first played on <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-16/">episode #16 of PLA Radio</a>.  Visit Trevelyn&#8217;s <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">page of phone music</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deejboo">his Myspace</a>.
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<p>There are a few more, such as the 2 dance mixes that were done in the 1990&#8217;s by Calimar and some other guy.  I&#8217;ll have to add those to our <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/songs/">new song page</a> soon too.  Maybe there&#8217;s some songs that I&#8217;m forgetting about too.  You can remind me of anything I&#8217;ve forgotten by <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/contact/">contacting me</a>.</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;d like your own PLA song to appear on the song page, follow these simple steps&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<LI>Write a song.<br />
<LI>Make sure this song is awesome.<br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/contact/">Send the song</a> to RBCP.
</ul>
<p>In return, you&#8217;ll feel really cool for being on our song page.  If the song goes beyond awesome, RBCP will probably send you a PLA stickers or <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/storecart/category.php?id_category=2">some buttons</a> or maybe even a <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/storecart/category.php?id_category=1">PLA t-shirt</a>.  Your song might even be featured on PLA Radio, which is listened to by thousands of people.  And having a song on our song page will constantly expose new people to your music.  And that&#8217;s what really matters, right?</p>
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		<title>How To Hijack Fast Food Drive-Thru Frequencies</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/how-to-hijack-fast-food-drive-thru-frequencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, some friends and I were messing around with a Taco Bell&#8217;s drive-thru frequencies.  RijilV and isotek showed me how easy it was to hijack the frequencies of just about any fast food restaurant with a very simple mod to a ham radio.  The radios they used were Yaesu VX-5 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few years back, some friends and I were messing around with a Taco Bell&#8217;s drive-thru frequencies.  RijilV and isotek showed me how easy it was to hijack the frequencies of just about any fast food restaurant with a very simple mod to a ham radio.  The radios they used were Yaesu VX-5 and VX-7 models.  We had a few weeks of occasional fun, sitting a few parking lots away and saying all kinds of horrible things to potential fast food customers.  For the most part, I didn&#8217;t record any of it.  But you can find a few clips of our fast food hijinks if you scroll down on the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/sound/">PLA Sound Clips Archive page</a>.</p>
<p>Finally we decided to capture a bit of our FCC violations on video.  But instead of capturing actual customers being harassed by us as they placed an order, I drove through the Taco Bell drive-thru myself with a video camera sitting on the dashboard.  As I attempted to place my order, RijilV informed me of some crazy new Taco Bell policies and a manager immediately rushed out to explain to me that I wasn&#8217;t actually talking to an employee.  Here is that video:</p>
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<p>After spending several years on Google Video and YouTube, it&#8217;s been watched approximately 20,000 times.  And of those 20,000 people who have viewed it, approximately all of them have emailed me and asked me what kind of radio we used and how can <i>they</i> use a radio to do the same thing.  So in the spirit of April 1st and in order to quell the number of emails sent to me and posts on the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/">PLA Forums</a> asking the same thing, I&#8217;ve decided to write this tutorial to help those people out.  </p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not going to explain how to modify a Yaesu VX5 or a Yaesu VX7.  A simple <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=yaesu+vx-7+mod">Google</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=yaesu+vx-5+mod">search</a> will show you how to modify these ham radios.  The problem with these mods is that, even though they&#8217;re fairly simple, you have to buy the radios which could cost you anywhere from $200 - $400.  Then, after removing a couple solder points, you have to learn how to use it, you have to look up <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=fast+food+frequencies">fast food frequency lists</a>, you have to understand the difference between the transmit frequencies and the receive frequencies and you have to scroll through PL tones using trial and error to find the correct one.  </p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_cb_radio.gif"></center></p>
<p>Or how about we do this a different way.  A way that uses a couple items that you might already have in your home.  You can easily modify most old CB radios in a way that will allow them to transmit directly to drive-thru frequencies.  You won&#8217;t have to scroll through hundreds of possible drive-thru frequencies, because a CB radio&#8217;s channels line up in exactly the same way as most drive-thru&#8217;s channels, only at a higher frequency.  How do you get your CB radio to run at a higher frequency?  A simple replacement of the crystal inside, with a 6.5536 MHz crystal.  This triples the megahertz that are broadcast on and there is no learning required.  You just take the modified CB radio to a fast food restaurant and start broadcasting to the customers.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_toaster2.gif" align=left>&#8220;But RBCP, I don&#8217;t have a 6.5536 MHz crystal lying around my house,&#8221; you might be whining at this point.  But this isn&#8217;t true.  Just about any house has several 6.5536 MHz crystals in them if you know where to look.  This just happens to be the exact same crystal that you can find in electric heaters, hair dryers, electric stoves, curling irons, electric hot water heaters, irons, and toasters.  These crystals are in just about any item that has heated coils and are used to control the frequency of the heating elements so that they don&#8217;t burn your house down.</p>
<p>So for this modification you need&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<LI>1 CB radio.  It has to be a 40 channel CB radio with a digital display, which includes just about any CB radio manufactured after the mid 1980&#8217;s.  The old 23 channel CBs from the 1970&#8217;s will not work.  It can even be a walkie talkie CB radio.  If you don&#8217;t have one, you can find one at Goodwill or a yard sale for probably less than $10.<br />
<LI>1 toaster.  (Or other item with heating elements inside.)  A toaster is the most ideal to use, because it&#8217;s almost guaranteed to have the crystal inside of it.  It&#8217;s more common to find curling irons and hair dryers that don&#8217;t.  Again, it should be a toaster manufactured within the past 20 years or so.  Before that they didn&#8217;t have crystal requirements for toaster manufacturers.  (And incidentally, there were a lot more electrical house fires back then.)  Goodwill will probably have a toaster for less than $10.<br />
<LI>1 soldering iron and solder.  Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t have soldering experience.  It&#8217;s actually pretty easy.  <a href="http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html">Click here for a soldering tutorial</a>.  You can purchase a soldering iron at Radio Shack or Sears for about $10.<br />
<LI>A few screwdrivers
</ul>
<p>Even if you have to buy all these materials, you&#8217;re only out $30.  That&#8217;s a lot better than the $300 you might end up spending on a Yaesu radio.  And some of you might already have all these items so you don&#8217;t have to pay anything.  Ask a friend or a relative if they&#8217;ve got an old toaster or CB radio lying around that they don&#8217;t need.</p>
<p>First you&#8217;ll want to take apart your toaster.  This isn&#8217;t too hard.  Just flip it upside down and start removing the screws.  You&#8217;ll probably need to pull off the plastic lever and knobs before you remove the top of the toaster.  Once you have the top off, you&#8217;ll see a green or brown circuit board inside.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_toaster_circuit_board01.gif"></center></p>
<p>Flip the circuit board down and you&#8217;ll see all the components on the other side, including the 6.5536 MHz crystal.  The crystal is silver and will have 6.5 stamped on the side of it.  In the picture below, I&#8217;ve used an arrow to show you where it&#8217;s located.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_toaster_circuit_board02.gif"></center></p>
<p>The crystal is likely in a different spot in other toasters, but it&#8217;s hard to mistake for any other electronic component.  The crystal will have some form of 6.5 stamped on the side of it.  In my toaster, it showed 6.55-12.  While the official frequency needed is 6.5536 MHz, anything within 1.6 megahertz will work.  So don&#8217;t worry if your crystal just says 6.5 or 6.50 - it&#8217;s all the same for our purposes.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_removing_the_crystal.gif"></center></p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of hard to see what I&#8217;m doing in the picture above, but I&#8217;m heating up the leads on the crystal from underneath with my soldering iron to melt the solder, and I&#8217;m pulling on the crystal from above with a pair of needle nose pliers.  It only takes a few seconds to get the crystal out of the toaster.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_the_crystal_is_out.gif"></center></p>
<p>Now that the crystal is out of your toaster, throw your toaster away!  Do not attempt to use it once the crystal is removed.  Remember, the crystal is in there for safety and using your toaster without the crystal could burn your toast and/or start a kitchen fire.  It&#8217;s likely your toaster won&#8217;t even turn on with the missing crystal, but please don&#8217;t even try.  Just throw it away.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_my_walkie_talkie.gif"></center></p>
<p>As I mentioned before, just about any brand and model of CB radio will work, as long as it has the digital display on it.  Which means, just about any CB radio manufactured after the mid 1980&#8217;s.  These are the kinds of CB radios whose frequencies are controlled by a single crystal inside of them.  For my mod, I used a Radio Shack TRC-207 walkie talkie CB radio, which is pictured above.  I prefer using a walkie talkie CB radio because it doesn&#8217;t requiring sticking a huge CB antenna on the roof of my car which might be noticed if a fast food employee starts looking around the parking lot for the culprits.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_my_walkie_talkie_open.gif"></center></p>
<p>Taking apart your CB radio is just as easy as taking apart the toaster.  Remove the screws and pop it open.  You may or may not have to lift up the circuit board inside to find the crystal inside.  In my particular model, the crystal actually plugged into a socket so I didn&#8217;t need to even desolder the old crystal.  I just pulled it out with my fingers and then plugged in the new 6.55 MHz crystal.  I don&#8217;t know how common this is, because in other CB radios that I&#8217;ve modified the crystal was soldered to the circuit board, just like in the toaster.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/2008_drive_thru_mod_my_walkie_talkie_crystal.gif"></center></p>
<p>Put your CB back together and test it to make sure it&#8217;s working.  You&#8217;re finished!  Obviously, you won&#8217;t be able to talk on normal CB channels anymore since your CB is transmitting and receiving at a much higher frequency now.  But who cares, CB channels are lame anyway.  Let&#8217;s hop in the car and drive to our nearest fast food establishment to test it out.  </p>
<p>Sit near the drive-thru and wait for a customer to pull up.  While the customer is talking to the drive-thru speaker, start flipping through your channels until you hear them talking.  I&#8217;ve found that most drive thrus end up being somewhere in the 16 - 25 channel range.  I&#8217;ve never found one above channel 30 and only a few on channels 1 through 15.  It all depends on how their drive-thru is set up and what frequencies they&#8217;re using.  Anyway, push down your talk button and start talking to the customer.</p>
<p>The cool thing about using a CB radio to transmit on drive-thru frequencies is that a CB is designed to work for several miles.  The headsets that those fast food people wear are only designed to work for about 100 feet.  So you can easily overpower the employees, even if you&#8217;re several parking lots away.  In fact, you may be inadvertently screwing with several other drive-thrus in town without even knowing it.  This is more likely when you&#8217;re using the kind of CB radio that&#8217;s supposed to be installed in a car.  Those usually run on 5 watts and can cover an entire city.  This is another reason I like to use my walkie talkie.  It&#8217;s lucky if it will work for even a mile, so I&#8217;m only harassing one restaurant at a time.</p>
<p>If you found this tutorial useful, you might also enjoy the video I&#8217;ve made on the same subject.  It includes much of the same information in this tutorial, but also includes actual footage of us messing with a drive-thru with this CB mod.  Enjoy!</p>
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<p>You might also enjoy our original <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-QJaFriMe8">Taco Bell Takeover video</a>, our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2LHvO8PTdg">Happy Birthday drive-thru video</a> and our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsMhVyGSqEA">Drive-Thru Shenanigans video</a>.</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>A few years back, some friends and I were messing around with a Taco Bell's drive-thru frequencies.  RijilV and isotek showed me how easy ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>A few years back, some friends and I were messing around with a Taco Bell's drive-thru frequencies.  RijilV and isotek showed me how easy it was to hijack the frequencies of just about any fast food restaurant with a very simple mod to a ham radio.  The radios they used were Yaesu VX-5 and VX-7 models.  We had a few weeks of occasional fun, sitting a few parking lots away and saying all kinds of horrible things to potential fast food customers.  For the most part, I didn't record any of it.  But you can find a few clips of our fast food hijinks if you scroll down on the PLA Sound Clips Archive page.

Finally we decided to capture a bit of our FCC violations on video.  But instead of capturing actual customers being harassed by us as they placed an order, I drove through the Taco Bell drive-thru myself with a video camera sitting on the dashboard.  As I attempted to place my order, RijilV informed me of some crazy new Taco Bell policies and a manager immediately rushed out to explain to me that I wasn't actually talking to an employee.  Here is that video:



After spending several years on Google Video and YouTube, it's been watched approximately 20,000 times.  And of those 20,000 people who have viewed it, approximately all of them have emailed me and asked me what kind of radio we used and how can they use a radio to do the same thing.  So in the spirit of April 1st and in order to quell the number of emails sent to me and posts on the PLA Forums asking the same thing, I've decided to write this tutorial to help those people out.  

But I'm not going to explain how to modify a Yaesu VX5 or a Yaesu VX7.  A simple Google search will show you how to modify these ham radios.  The problem with these mods is that, even though they're fairly simple, you have to buy the radios which could cost you anywhere from $200 - $400.  Then, after removing a couple solder points, you have to learn how to use it, you have to look up fast food frequency lists, you have to understand the difference between the transmit frequencies and the receive frequencies and you have to scroll through PL tones using trial and error to find the correct one.  



Or how about we do this a different way.  A way that uses a couple items that you might already have in your home.  You can easily modify most old CB radios in a way that will allow them to transmit directly to drive-thru frequencies.  You won't have to scroll through hundreds of possible drive-thru frequencies, because a CB radio's channels line up in exactly the same way as most drive-thru's channels, only at a higher frequency.  How do you get your CB radio to run at a higher frequency?  A simple replacement of the crystal inside, with a 6.5536 MHz crystal.  This triples the megahertz that are broadcast on and there is no learning required.  You just take the modified CB radio to a fast food restaurant and start broadcasting to the customers.

"But RBCP, I don't have a 6.5536 MHz crystal lying around my house," you might be whining at this point.  But this isn't true.  Just about any house has several 6.5536 MHz crystals in them if you know where to look.  This just happens to be the exact same crystal that you can find in electric heaters, hair dryers, electric stoves, curling irons, electric hot water heaters, irons, and toasters.  These crystals are in just about any item that has heated coils and are used to control the frequency of the heating elements so that they don't burn your house down.

So for this modification you need...


1 CB radio.  It has to be a 40 channel CB radio with a digital display, which includes just about any CB radio manufactured after the mid 1980's.  The old 23 channel CBs from the 1970's will not work.  It can even be a walkie talkie CB radio.  If you don't have one, you can find one at Goodwill or a yard sale for probably less than $10.
1 toaster.  (Or other item with heating elements inside.)  A toaster is the most ideal to use, because it's almo</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>Pranks</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
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		<title>PLA TV: Those Wacky Missionaries!</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-tv-those-wacky-missionaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-tv-those-wacky-missionaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PLA TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
This short video is barely enough to even be considered a PLA TV, but since when have I ever had standards.  Watch as I attempt to mess with some missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via some security cameras and a two-way intercom.   This happened in 2003 and [...]]]></description>
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<p>This short video is barely enough to even be considered a PLA TV, but since when have I ever had standards.  Watch as I attempt to mess with some missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via some security cameras and a two-way intercom.   This happened in 2003 and 2004, but I don&#8217;t think I ever posted it on phonelosers.org.  So here it is.</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle>This short video is barely enough to even be considered a PLA TV, but since when have I ever had standards.  Watch as I ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>This short video is barely enough to even be considered a PLA TV, but since when have I ever had standards.  Watch as I attempt to mess with some missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via some security cameras and a two-way intercom.   This happened in 2003 and 2004, but I don't think I ever posted it on phonelosers.org.  So here it is.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>prank,phone,calls,comedy,losers,america,phreak</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
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		<title>PLA Radio Episode #16</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-episode-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[PLA Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new PLA Radio is here and it&#8217;s about nothing really.  It includes updates on the latest phone mobs, PLA on CNBC, Mass Calling, some voicemails, and Mildred Monday.  Pretty much everything you&#8217;ve already heard if you&#8217;re a regular forum member.

Click here to listen (high quality)
Click here to listen (medium quality)
Click here to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new PLA Radio is here and it&#8217;s about nothing really.  It includes updates on the latest phone mobs, PLA on CNBC, Mass Calling, some voicemails, and Mildred Monday.  Pretty much everything you&#8217;ve already heard if you&#8217;re a regular forum member.<br />
<img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/giant_phone.jpg" align=right alt="Giant Phone"><br />
<center><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/plaradio16.mp3">Click here to listen (high quality)</a></center></p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/plaradio16_64kbps.mp3">Click here to listen (medium quality)</a></center></p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/plaradio16_32kbps.mp3">Click here to listen (sucky quality)</a></center></p>
<p><b>Show Notes:</b><br />
00:00 Bitch<br />
00:43 Intro<br />
01:45 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/2008-phone-mobs/">New Phone Mobs</a><br />
04:40 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=2807.0">S1acker&#8217;s Mass Calling</a><br />
07:23 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1xPh_NIy1Q">Corporate Terrorism</a><br />
09:16 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020<br />
10:15 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/article/recording_telephone_calls/">How to record phone calls</a><br />
11:24 Ride Home?<br />
14:14 Mildred Monday<br />
18:50 <a href="http://zombie.el.cx/music/">Blackhat Life</a></p>
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		<itunes:summary>The new PLA Radio is here and it's about nothing really.  It includes updates on the latest phone mobs, PLA on CNBC, Mass Calling, some voicemails, and Mildred Monday.  Pretty much everything you've already heard if you're a regular forum member.

Click here to listen (high quality)

Click here to listen (medium quality)

Click here to listen (sucky quality)

Show Notes:
00:00 Bitch
00:43 Intro
01:45 New Phone Mobs
04:40 S1acker's Mass Calling
07:23 Corporate Terrorism
09:16 Voicemails - (505) 796-4020
10:15 How to record phone calls
11:24 Ride Home?
14:14 Mildred Monday
18:50 Blackhat Life

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		<itunes:keywords>PLA,Radio</itunes:keywords>
		<itunes:author>PLA Radio</itunes:author>
		<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
		<itunes:block>No</itunes:block>
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		<title>RBCP&#8217;s New Tell-All Expose Coming Soon!</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/rbcps-new-tell-all-expose-coming-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.phonelosers.org/rbcps-new-tell-all-expose-coming-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of negotiations, Brad Carter has finally acquired the exclusive rights to a book detailing his take on the sordid details surrounding the Jonbenet Ramsey kidnapping and murder.  Find out&#8230;

Was this all really just a Cuervocon gone horribly wrong?
What was El Jefe wearing that night!
Why did LogicBox drop out of school just weeks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/stuff/if_i_did_it_smallest.jpg" align=right><font size=4>After months of negotiations, Brad Carter has finally acquired the exclusive rights to a book detailing his take on the sordid details surrounding the Jonbenet Ramsey kidnapping and murder.  Find out&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<LI><i>Was this all really just a Cuervocon gone horribly wrong?</i><br />
<LI><i>What was El Jefe wearing that night!</i><br />
<LI><i>Why did LogicBox drop out of school just weeks after the murder??</i><br />
<LI><i>Were Brad Carter and Patsy Ramsey secret lovers??</i><br />
<LI><i>How did Apok0lyps&#8217; bologna sandwich end up being collected as evidence?</i><br />
<LI><i>Did a malfunctioning police scanner botch the whole thing?</i><br />
<LI><i>Exactly how saggy were Tannest&#8217;s boobs?</i>
</ul>
<p>The book includes a thought-provoking foreward by <a href="http://youtube.com/user/RichardCardo">Richard Cardo</a> and is illustrated by mr_doc.  It&#8217;s scheduled to be released in time for this year&#8217;s Christmas.</font></p>
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		<title>2008 Phone Mobs</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/2008-phone-mobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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March sure has been a big month for Phone Mobbing so far.  RogueClown organized one last week, which apparently inspired NWBell to set up one this morning.  Here are the edited clips from each of the mobs.




RogueClown&#8217;s Phone Mob This is yet another mob to the infamous What&#8217;s Your Bid station.  Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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<p>March sure has been a big month for <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/phonemob/">Phone Mobbing</a> so far.  <a href="http://absentelements.blogspot.com/">RogueClown</a> organized one last week, which apparently inspired NWBell to set up one this morning.  Here are the edited clips from each of the mobs.</p>
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<td><font face=arial size=3 color=000000><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/2008_march_whats_your_bid_cleaned.mp3"><font color=000000>RogueClown&#8217;s Phone Mob</font></a> This is yet another mob to the infamous What&#8217;s Your Bid station.  Unfortunately, the hosts refused to react to our calls this time, which is what made the first one such a classic.  But there&#8217;s still some good stuff on it.
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<p>If you missed out on these mobs, then you should sign up on the <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/">PLA Forums</a> and become a regular poster.  When a new mob happens, you&#8217;ll hopefully notice a post about it.  If you enjoyed the Phone Mobbing projects above, be sure to take a look at <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/phonemobbing/">our past Phone Mobs</a>.  And listen to <a href="http://www.oldpeoplearefunny.com/sound/plaradio13.mp3">PLA Radio Episode 13</a>, which features some of the best mobs ever.</p>
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		<title>Put Yourself on the Map</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/put-yourself-on-the-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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For about 2.5 years now, Frappr.com has been pinpointing the location of PLAers all over the world.  Are you on the map yet?  Add yourself immediately so that you can feel that your miserable existence means something, just like the other 2,013 people who have put their pin on the map.
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<p>For about 2.5 years now, <a href=http://www.frappr.com/phonelosersofamerica><font color=#000000>Frappr.com</font></a> has been pinpointing the location of PLAers all over the world.  Are <i>you</i> on the map yet?  Add yourself immediately so that you can feel that your miserable existence <i>means</i> something, just like the other 2,013 people who have put their pin on the map.</p>
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		<title>PLA Named as Suspects in the Jonbenet Ramsey Murder!</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-named-as-suspects-in-the-jonbenet-ramsey-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ More than 10 years have passed since the heyday of all our nonsense at the Boulder News Forums, which you can read all about on our Boulder News Frenzy page.  And now an &#8220;investigator&#8221; has put together a rock solid case, implicating RBCP and other members of the PLA as the Jonbenet Ramsey [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.phonelosers.org/images/jbr.gif" alt="Jonbenet Ramsey" align=right> More than 10 years have passed since the heyday of all our nonsense at the Boulder News Forums, which you can read all about on our <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/bnf/">Boulder News Frenzy page</a>.  And now an <a href="http://youtube.com/user/RichardCardo">&#8220;investigator&#8221;</a> has put together a rock solid case, implicating RBCP and other members of the PLA as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey">Jonbenet Ramsey kidnappers</a>.</p>
<p><center><b><i>&#8220;RBCP is my lead.  I&#8217;m hot on this guy.&#8221;</i></b></center></p>
<p>The &#8220;investigation&#8221; is put together by a man named <a href="http://youtube.com/user/RichardCardo">Richard Cardo on YouTube</a> with a series of 17 YouTube videos, featuring horrid sound quality, lots of stuttering, and lots of screen captures that are impossible to read.  The first 9 episodes in the series examines the subtle meanings of the JBR ransom note.  Richard notices that the writer of the note is obviously into phone hacking, listening to authorities on scanners and spoofing caller ID.  All of this is clearly encoded in the ransom note.  But the real clincher is the signature on the note - S.B.T.C, which obviously stands for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.  </p>
<p>But <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4bhyETET7_U"><b>Part 10</b></a> and <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3_923-pZo"><b>Part 11</b></a> are where it really gets exciting!  Richard&#8217;s first search leads him to an 1997-era e-zine called <a href="http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/TFP/">Telephone Free Planet</a>.  He quickly discovers that the author of this e-zine, KungFuFox, is actually RedBoxChiliPepper!  RBCP has been writing Telephone Free Planet simply to promote the PLA e-zine.  RBCP will stop at nothing to promote the PLA.  Not even&#8230;murder&#8230;  (Imagine that last line stated in a deep, dramatic, movie guy-type voice.)</p>
<p>And the similarities between the JBR case and the writings in Telephone Free Planet are uncanny!  Such as KungFuFox (aka RedBoxChiliPepper) suggesting that beige boxers bring crayons with them to color Bell cans red, because linemen use special infrared glasses to find telco cans and they only show up if they&#8217;re colored green or grey.  You can really fuck the linemen up if you color them red!  And Jonbenet&#8217;s dead body was found red writing on her hand!  KungFuFox also suggests smashing telco cans with baseball bats&#8230;just as JBR was bludgeoned in the head with what was probably a baseball bat!  </p>
<p><center><b><i>&#8220;RBCP seemed to be the straw that stirred the drink.&#8221;</i></b></center></p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=nxqGhuZP1kc"><b>Part 12</b></a> talks about Jameson the Boulder News Forums that the PLA attacked in 1997.  Jonbenet&#8217;s mother, Patsy, apparently said that the PLA was a threat and she didn&#8217;t want to be harassed by them.  Robert is sure that <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/tannest/">Tannest</a> and RBCP had something going on and he mentions LogicBox&#8217;s article in <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/issue/045/">PLA Issue 45</a> which encourages readers to harass the Boulder News Forums.  </p>
<p>He also notices that PLA Issue 45 shows people how to break into a house!  RBCP, writing about ways to create more cordless phone users in his neighborhood, suggests the following: <i>&#8220;Break into their house and take note of where all of their phones are located. Rearrange the location of all the phones so that their cordless phone will be in the spot where it will get the most use.  Or just steal all of their other non-cordless phones so that they would have no choice but to use the cordless one. If you feel bad about stealing their phones, bring a supply of cordless phones with you and replace all of their old phones with cordless phones.</i>  Yes, it&#8217;s quite obvious that RBCP is the mastermind behind the Christmas break in at the Ramsey home.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hvu_-dqEeXU"><b>Part 13</b></a> It&#8217;s time to put Brad Carter under a microscope.  Richard finds some PLA fan art of Chris Tomkinson getting shot with a cactus gun on phonelosers.org and decides that RBCP&#8217;s son (who was an infant at the time those drawings were mailed to RBCP, by the way) is responsible for the drawings but RBCP must have written the captions under them.  He shows the drawings and compares the lettering to that found in the ransom note.  Richard also shows a picture of RBCP in front of a Southwestern building, flipping off the Bell symbol!  The ransom note writer signed S.B.T.C!  OMG, another connection!  Richard surely came in his pants when he first spotted this picture.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7296RqvkqM"><b>Part 14</b></a> is a quick analysis of Colleen Card&#8217;s homepage in the 90&#8217;s and the menacing poetry on it.  And then a look at RBCP&#8217;s homepage, his travels (which has him passing through Denver on the way to Ohio, just a year before the murder, probably to &#8220;case the joint&#8221;), and some information on the hacker party called CuervoCon.  CuervoCon never happened, you know.  Instead, RBCP and the rest of PLA&#8217;s active members met in Denver and had a party there.  Things got a little out of control and the next thing you know&#8230;MURDER IN BOULDER!  The PLA really knows how to throw a party.  The next thing you know, the PLA e-zine has ended and the core members of the group are suddenly not on speaking terms.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=eZEzEppw26o"><b>Part 15</b></a> shows more in-depth analysis of the comparison between the JBR ransom note and the Chris Tomkinson cactus art.  You know, little things like comparing characters, stylistic decisions on character formation, whole words and punctuation.  Richard also finds pictures of RBCP&#8217;s <a href="http://www.notla.com/ebay/postcards">postcards from his Ebay page</a> which prove, without a doubt, that RBCP is the one who wrote the ransom note.</p>
<p><center><b><i>&#8220;He gives himself away by trying to disguise the way he writes his A&#8217;s.&#8221;</i></b></center></p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ozninfzqV4"><b>Part 16</b></a> shows that Steve Eller is Brad Carter.  Obviously, since they both live in Ohio.  Anyone who lives in Ohio is Brad Carter.  This one is boring.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=RKiNSKQgSsM"><b>Part 17</b></a> wraps up everything we&#8217;ve learned about Brad Carter&#8217;s involvement in the Jonbenet Ramsey kidnapping and murder, and gives us a few more surprises such as the &#8220;bueno&#8221; connection between the murder and RBCP&#8217;s frequent use of it.  But the real bombshell drops when Richard shows us a picture of a PLA contest entry of a girl holding a sign about the PLA.  The sign has a smiley face on it&#8230;just like the one written in red ink on Jonbenet&#8217;s hand!  And the smiley face&#8217;s eyes are drawn as vertical lines.  NOBODY draws smiley faces with vertical lines.  Nobody, that is, except for Brad Carter.</p>
<p>By the time you finish watching all these videos, there will be no doubt in anyone&#8217;s mind that Brad Carter is the man behind the ransom note.  Be sure to stay tuned to <a href="http://youtube.com/user/RichardCardo">Richard Cardo&#8217;s YouTube page</a> where he will soon begin to investigate other key members of the PLA and he will uncover their involvement as well.  Also, take a look at our <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/bnf/">Boulder News Frenzy page</a>, where the PLA once tried to cover up a murder by silencing the diligent investigators of the internet.  Your time is soon, Brad Carter.  Your time is soon.</p>
<p><a href="http://boards.320sycamore.com/showthread.php?p=18838">320Sycamore.com Forums</a> Here&#8217;s a discussion about the video series.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webbsleuths.org/dcforum/DCForumID79/295.html">WebbSleuths forums</a> Our old friend Jameson apparently is having a discussion with herself about this video series.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/prank-call-contest/">PLA Prank Call Contest</a> 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 &#8220;Submit Your Vote&#8221; button at the bottom.  You&#8217;ll be taken to a page of the current voting results.  You can also <A HREF="http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/1067411">click here</A> to see the current voting results.</p>
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<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="0"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/cactus_711.mp3"><b>Tachyon&#8217;s 1st Entry:</b></a> Cactusing a 7-Eleven</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="1"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/oopcactus.mp3"><b>Tachyon&#8217;s 2nd Entry:</b></a> Cactusing some other business</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="2"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/WHATSYOURBID1.mp3"><b>z3wb&#8217;s 1st Entry:</b></a> z3wb violates some FCC laws in this homage to our <a href="/phonemob/">What&#8217;s Yer Bid phone mob</a>.</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="3"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/AnnoyingWBGZ.mp3"><b>z3wb&#8217;s 2nd Entry:</b></a> And some more of the same.</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="4"><b>Harry&#8217;s Entry (<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-1.mp3">part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-2.mp3">part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-3.mp3">part 3</a>):</b></a> Harry&#8217;s pranks a hotel (in homeage to <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/hotel">our hotel calls</a>) and tells the front desk that someone peed in his room.</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="5"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/roflsauce.mp3"><b>Sam&#8217;s Entry:</b></a> Sam calls a Wal-Mart and claims to have scammed a computer from them, just like our old modem scam prank on the <a href="/wal-mart/">PLA&#8217;s Wal-Mart Page</a>.</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="6"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/nova_calls_white_house.mp3"><b>Nova&#8217;s 1st Entry:</b></a> Dino Allsman calls the pharmacy to refill his Xanax, which he uses to deal with the kids calling his phone and playing games. (<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/issue/014">read about Dino Allsman here</a>.)</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="7"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/Nova_threatens_white _house.mp3"><b>Nova&#8217;s 2nd Entry:</b></a> Roy Gerbil calls to refill his prescription and there&#8217;s some confusion over his name.</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="8"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/walmartengineering.mp3"><b>Jprime&#8217;s Entry:</b></a> Jprime tries to social engineer the phone company, but accidentally calls Wal-Mart instead.  (Based on <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=9.0">PLA Radio Episode #2</a>)</p>
<input name="ballot" type="radio" value="9"><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/Curtis_Wallet.mp3"><b>Harry Latest Entry:</b></a> Curtis Lee Jones wallet is found by a guest at the hotel and the front desk clerk isn&#8217;t happy with the man who found it. (<a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/curtis_lee_jones">read about Curtis Lee Jones</a>)
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<p>Please don&#8217;t cheat.  I know it can be done and it&#8217;s been done before.  It&#8217;s not that hard or impressive and it will be sort of obvious if you are.  So please&#8230;don&#8217;t cheat.  The voting will end whenever I feel like ending it.  Maybe in a week or two, I guess?  If you&#8217;d like to see the current voting results, <A HREF="http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/1067411">here they are</A>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to give out 3 prize packages for the top 3 winners.  It&#8217;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&#8217;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!</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.brad-carter.com">RedBoxChiliPepper</a></center></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Now on to the contest entries!  There have been quite a few entries that don&#8217;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&#8217;m only accepting PLA-themed prank calls for this contest.  Here&#8217;s are the current entries.</p>
<p><UL><br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/cactus_711.mp3"><b>Tachyon&#8217;s 1st Entry:</b></a> Cactusing a 7-Eleven<br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/oopcactus.mp3"><b>Tachyon&#8217;s 2nd Entry:</b></a> Cactusing some other business<br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/WHATSYOURBID1.mp3"><b>z3wb&#8217;s 1st Entry:</b></a> z3wb violates some FCC laws in this homage to our <a href="/phonemob/">What&#8217;s Yer Bid phone mob</a>.<br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/AnnoyingWBGZ.mp3"><b>z3wb&#8217;s 2nd Entry:</b></a> And some more of the same.<br />
<b>Harry&#8217;s Entry (<a href="/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-1.mp3">part 1</a>, <a href="/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-2.mp3">part 2</a>, <a href="/media/contestentries/harry-motel6-3.mp3">part 3</a>):</b></a> Harry&#8217;s pranks a hotel and tells the front desk that someone peed in his room.<br />
<LI><a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/media/contestentries/roflsauce.mp3"><b>Sam&#8217;s Entry:</b></a> Sam calls a Wal-Mart and claims to have scammed a computer from them, just like our old modem scam prank on the <a href="/wal-mart/">PLA&#8217;s Wal-Mart Page</a>.
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<p>That&#8217;s it for now.  Thanks to everyone who&#8217;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!</p>
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		<title>Prank Call Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/prank-call-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Prank Calls]]></category>

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As mentioned in PLA Radio #15, I&#8217;m starting up a new contest.  The Win RBCP&#8217;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&#8217;m left with several dozen prank call tapes and [...]]]></description>
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<p>As mentioned in PLA Radio #15, I&#8217;m starting up a new contest.  The <b>Win RBCP&#8217;s Old Prank Call Tapes and CDs Contest!</b>  I recently converted my remaining <a href="http://www.brad-carter.com/archives/2007/11/doctor/">cassette tapes</a> and <a href="http://www.brad-carter.com/archives/2007/11/things-ive-found-on-cassettes/">CDs</a> to mp3s, most of which happened to be prank calls.  So now I&#8217;m left with several dozen prank call tapes and CDs that I have no use for.  So I&#8217;m using this contest as a guise for offloading my old crap onto some unsuspecting prank caller who thinks they&#8217;re actually winning something cool.  I&#8217;m a genius!</p>
<p>If <i>you</i> 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&#8217;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&#8217;s past, reenacting an prank call or an event from our site, or just doing something generally PLA-ey.  Get it?</p>
<p>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&#8217;s a lot of entries, I&#8217;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, <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/article/recording_telephone_calls/">click here for a tutorial</a>.  Here&#8217;s a semi-complete list of the tapes and CDs you could win:</p>
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<LI>The CranKings - Sushi and Friends Act I (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>The Teleprankers Volume 1 and 2 (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Frank Da Prank (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Screamers (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Benny Calls Volume 3 (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Jerky Boys bootleg (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Jerky Boys Bud Light commercials (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>The Ball Busters (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>The Musacha Tapes (cassette)<br />
<LI>John Lancaster SPEAKS  (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Phone Losers of America Give Me Liberty or Give Me Steak (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Jenn Redmond  (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Mark Knofler  (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Phone Pride World Wide (all 4 of his CDs)<br />
<LI>Bubba Johnson &#038; Company  (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>The Phone Heads  (copied cassette)<br />
<LI>Dumbass (CD-R)<br />
<LI>Garson Landfil (CD-R)<br />
<LI>Go With The Flow (CD-R)<br />
<LI>Tube Bar (cassette)<br />
<LI>John Trubee - Great Phone Calls (CD-R)<br />
<LI>Telephone Head (CD-R)<br />
<LI>PLA Raw Material - Volumes 1 - 5) (CD-R)<br />
<LI>976-GIRLS (CD-R)<br />
<LI>Phone Losers of America Give Me Liberty or Give Me Steak (real CD from mp3.com)
</ul>
<p>There&#8217;s a little more of it, but some of it is commercially available stuff and I probably shouldn&#8217;t mention that I&#8217;m giving away CD-Rs of their work.  There&#8217;s some great prank callers in the mix and some crappy ones.  But it&#8217;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 <a href="http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?board=5.0">the forums</a>.  Get to work!</p>
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		<title>PLA Radio #15 - Cordless Phones</title>
		<link>http://www.phonelosers.org/pla-radio-15-cordless-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rbcp</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This episode takes a look at cordless phone monitoring and shows you a little of the fun you missed out on in the 1990&#8217;s by eavesdropping on cordless phone users and interfering with their lives.  Listen to Legend&#8217;s harassment of a cordless phone user in Florida, then hear the results of a few pranks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="/images/old_cordless_phone.jpg" align=left>This episode takes a look at cordless phone monitoring and shows you a little of the fun you missed out on in the 1990&#8217;s by eavesdropping on cordless phone users and interfering with their lives.  Listen to Legend&#8217;s harassment of a cordless phone user in Florida, then hear the results of a few pranks in the mid-90&#8217;s.  This show is nearly 24 minutes long and the full version is around 22 megs.</p>
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<a href="/media/plaradio15.mp3">Listen to the show  (128 kbps / 22 megs)</a></p>
<p><a href="/media/plaradio15_64kbps.mp3">Listen to the show in mono (64 kbps / 11 megs)</a></p>
<p><a href="/media/plaradio15_32kbps.mp3">Listen to the show  (32 kbps / 6 megs)</a></p>
<p><a href="/radio/">Visit the PLA Radio archives</a><br />
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<p><b>Show Notes:</b><br />
00:00: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySR3hpieiQc">My BFF Rose</a><br />
00:23: Intro song by Trevelyn (visit <a href="http://www.zombie.el.cx/">his website</a> or <a href="http://www.myspace.com/deejboo">his Myspace</a> for more music)<br />
01:09: Hi PLAers<br />
03:11: Legend&#8217;s 1999 cordless phone pranks with Missy and Dena