Welcome to the PLA Radio website! PLA Radio releases occasional audio episodes of hackerish and telephone-related comedy. All episodes are released as Podcasts so be sure to subscribe to the show. There are several sections to the PLA Radio website which are all accessible from the menu options on the top of this page. And once you're done with PLA Radio, be sure to take a look at the rest of our website!
Below you'll find descriptions of the previous episodes of PLA Radio.
Hey look, it’s 2 episodes of PLA Radio released in the same month! Can you say “RBCP needs a girlfriend?” This episode has audio from the PLA Forum’s latest phone mob, a few voicemails from as far back as December and a little something about pay phone stuffing.
I searched all over Google for some good pay phone stuffing (also known as pay phone jamming, apparently) stories or information and could find pretty much nothing on the topic. I’ve always seen it mentioned in passing in history books on telephone companies and in underground ezines, but it seems like there hasn’t been a really good writeup on the topic anywhere. Am I missing it somewhere? If you know of a website (or a book or video or anything else) on the topic of pay phone stuffing, post it in the comments!
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on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 at 6:58 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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Here’s another episode of PLA Radio. This episode features some new information on Bell Canada’s voice authentication and we play a few dangerous prank calls, including the Kentucky Fried Chicken prank call that’s been featured on the news a lot lately. Our guest and co-host is none other than famous author Richard Cardo!
Thanks, Veruca, for pointing us to Generation Zel!, which is where the KFC sound file was located. You can read posts on that site related to the KFC incident here, here, here and here.
Pre-order Richard Cardo’s new book or buy his old one from Amazon.com!
AND
1, 2, 3, 4,
A phreak is knocking at my door.
5, 6, 7, 8,
His lineman’s belt is on him straight.
9, 10, 11, 12,
He’s putting phone wires under my shelf
5, 6, 7, 8,
I do not wish to be harassed by the PLA.
PLA ROCKS!
On the last 2 episodes, I’ve run a little short on time (I really prefer to keep shows under 30 minutes) so I didn’t play any voicemails. I still listen to all the voicemails and will play the least suckiest of them on future shows. So call in your comments to (505) 796-4020 or leave a comment on our contact page.
PLA Radio - Episode #23 - More Voice Authentication and EXTREEEM Prank Calling [30:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3880)
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on Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 12:12 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This episode of PLA Radio features nothing but an interview with one of the 976-GIRLS prank callers, named Erika. Even if you don’t know who the 976-GIRLS are, you might find the techniques and their very businesslike approach to prank calls interesting. D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. Records is also known for bringing us The Ball Busters and Telephone Head.
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on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 10:37 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This episode covers the fine art of picking up store phones while you’re in a Wal-Mart so you can talk to customers who are calling in. The calls in this episode took place on Black Friday, when it was entirely too busy for employees to notice RBCP talking on the phones.
Something I forgot to mention in this episode is that it’s easy to locate Wal-Mart store phones by looking at the support poles up near the ceiling. Poles that have phones on them are wrapped with blue tape. Poles that have fire extinguishers on them are wrapped with red tape. And to get on the all-store page, you need to dial #96.
There’s a whole page on having fun with store phones located at www.phonelosers.com/article/storephones/. It covers fun things to do in stores and things to dial on all kinds of different store phones. And then there’s our Wal-Mart page, which has even more answered calls and other Wal-Marty funness.
I made a video version of this episode a few days after it was released. As of this writing, it’s been watched 10,000 times on YouTube and over 105,000 times on Ebaums. It’s also been linked from dozens of blogs and forums. Not bad for just a week. Thanks again, Black Friday shoppers!
If you’ve ended up here from the video, be sure to listen to the podcast too since it’s got more calls, longer calls, and explains things slightly better than on the video.
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on Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 12:58 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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You should visit podcastawards.com and nominate PLA Radio for a podcast award in the comedy section. Simply go to podcastawards.com and write “PLA Radio” in the comedy field, along with http://www.phonelosers.org/radio in the URL field. Don’t forget to include your name and email address on the bottom of the form. And thanks!
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on Sunday, September 21st, 2008 at 10:21 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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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.
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on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 11:00 am and is filed under PLA Merchandise, PLA Radio.
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In the spirit of unauthorized PLA Radio episodes, here’s a little unauthorized PLA TV made by Trevelyn, advertising the most recent episode of PLA Radio.
And speaking of PLA TV, YouTube’s Related Videos on Trevelyn’s video shows a bunch of EvilCal’s old videos that I haven’t seen in a few years, from when he posed as a reporter for phonelosers.org at an Iraq war protest. Watch those too!
And finally, there’s a new podcast out called Security Justice. It deals with all kinds of phone and hacker topics, including a little piece about voice authentication which was breaking news in PLA Radio Episode #17. Their show can be found at securityjustice.com.
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on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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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”
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on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 1:52 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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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
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on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 at 7:53 pm and is filed under PLA Radio, Uncategorized.
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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.
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on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 3:44 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This episode takes a look at cordless phone monitoring and shows you a little of the fun you missed out on in the 1990’s by eavesdropping on cordless phone users and interfering with their lives. Listen to Legend’s harassment of a cordless phone user in Florida, then hear the results of a few pranks in the mid-90’s. This show is nearly 24 minutes long and the full version is around 22 megs.
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on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 3:06 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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Isn’t that a nice hat up there, sitting in front of the PLA Radio mixer? Buy it!
This PLA Radio episode contains an update on the old social enginnering episode, a bit about sendmeavoicemail.com and then some sound clips from a wacky morning DJ that I prank called a long time ago. This podcast is 22 minutes long and is about 19.8 megs.
00:00 Sgt. Tackleberry shoots a pay phone - from Police Academy 3
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on Sunday, April 1st, 2007 at 12:24 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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About a year ago, on January 31st, 2006, the first episode of PLA Radio was announced. So, Happy Birthday! Or Anniversary. Or whatever. To celebrate, you are required to go listen to all of the episodes, from #1 to #13 RIGHT NOW.
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on Friday, February 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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Learn all about phone mobbing by listening to our phone mobs on Love Line, What’s Your Bid, Russian Brides, Our Prisoner and a few other radio station call-in shows. There’s also some voicemails, which is always the best part of the show. This episode premieres the sound clips from the latest NW Bell Phone Mob. This podcast is 26 minutes long and is about 24.7 megs.
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on Sunday, December 31st, 2006 at 1:15 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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Digg recently started up a podcast directory. This means that I’m going to beg the users of this site to visit the Digg page for PLA Radio and Digg the show. The more diggs it gets, the higher it rises in their list of shows. So go do it!
Also, expect a new PLA Radio episode to be out around the beginning of January. To pass the time until then, you should be listening to the new episodes of the Big Beef Bueno Show and relistening to old episodes of PLA Radio.
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on Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 10:40 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This isn’t an episode of PLA Radio! Just ask Verna, she knows. This is just a quick update to quell the voicemails yelling at me for not putting out an episode in the past two months. Rest assured, I don’t have a life or anything.
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on Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 6:08 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This is kind of a short episode, as far as content goes. The last 20 minutes is nothing but voicemails from listeners. But in this episode you’ll learn a few different ways to easily make free phone calls. Covered are red boxing, 3rd party billing and charging the phone company for your calls. Very educational! You’ll also hear some breaking news from a computer hackers convention, a way to listen to PLA Radio on your cell phone and a few miscellaneous prank phone calls. This podcast is 36 minutes long and is about 32.9 megs.
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on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 11:08 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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I talk a little about a few of the jobs I’ve held in the past and play recordings from each of them, showing just how horrible I am with customer service. This podcast is 20 minutes long and is about 18.5 megs.
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on Saturday, August 19th, 2006 at 6:14 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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What happens when you send a text message to 500 random people with the message “Fuck you motherfucker?” Listen to this show to find out! This podcast is 17 minutes long and is about 16.1 megs. Here’s a rundown of the episode:
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on Saturday, July 22nd, 2006 at 6:15 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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6/2/2006 - We have lots of fun with fast food drive-thrus in this episode. Much of this is taken from old episodes of PLA TV. Here’s a rundown of the episode:
* 00:00 Cactus Intro
* 00:30 Fast Food Song by the Fast Food Rockers. Click here to watch their video.
* 01:48 Happy Birthday signs from this episode of PLA TV
* 03:00 American Fast Food by Randy Stonehill. Click here to watch a video using that song.
* 03:48 More drive thru shenanigans from this episode of PLA TV.
* 06:00 Lera the Jack in the Box girl is nice but retarded
* 07:35 Rock and Roll McDonalds by Wesley Willis. Here is a flash video of that song.
* 07:55 Checking the voicemail
* 08:38 Call to Orvil and Verna
* 09:40 More voicemails
* 12:07 Nate and Di podcast promo
* 13:18 Wendy’s frequency hijacking
* 18:01 Really old McDonald’s commercial and some talk about the Great McDonalds Sign Prank
* 18:59 Taco Bell Canon by Michigan Amazin’ Blue. Buy their CD.
* 19:50 Taco Bell frequency hijacking - playing the victims
* 22:05 Goodbyes
* 22:40 McDonalds girl by The Blenders. Originally written by Dean Friedman
Bonus Extras! Listen to Jammie leave some voicemails for Adam Curry and some voicemails that I left off the regular show since I didn’t want the show to get too large. After that, hear RBCP beat the geeks on a game show. Click here to listen to it.
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on Sunday, June 4th, 2006 at 6:21 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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A listener emails a question about social engineering Blockbuster Videos, claiming that it’s now nearly impossible. I spend a couple evenings calling every Blockbuster Video in Orange County to prove him wrong. This show is a collection of some of the more informative and entertaining of those calls, plus some voicemails, promos and the best cactus mix you’ve ever heard. This podcast is 29 minutes long and is about 27.2 megs.
The piano music played throughout this episode is the theme from The O.C., also known as California by Phantom Planet. The Cactus Mix background track is by Jay-Z and is called Squeeze 1st. The song on the end is California Love by Tupac and Dr. Dre.
Bonus Outtake! There were a ton of calls made to the various Blockbusters around Orange County but I couldn’t play them all or the show would have been really long and boring. One of the more amusing clips was my girlfriend Jammie attempting to social engineer a Blockbuster out of their password. It was her first attempt ever at social engineering anything and you get to hear her whine a bunch and shake and get cold sweats as I give her a pep talk. Click here to listen to it.
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on Sunday, May 14th, 2006 at 6:36 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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4/30/2006 - In this episode, Adam Curry cohosts as RBCP attempts to screw with various Podcast shows, including Mugglecast, JamesPod and Nobody Likes Onions. This podcast is 29 minutes long and is about 27.4 megs.
The background music on this show is the theme from Knight Rider. And the song on the end is called Re: Your Brains and is by Jonathan Coulton. Visit his website to download lots of great music.
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on Sunday, April 30th, 2006 at 6:40 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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In this episode RBCP attempts to prank call a few celebrities, including Corey Feldman, Eminem, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Reba McIntyre, David Coverdale and Brett Ratner. I said attempted, not succeeded. This podcast is 12 minutes and 43 seconds long and a whopping 12 megabytes in size. It’s co-hosted by a couple of random elderly people who can’t hear anything. Here are some show notes for you…
00:00 Verna
00:05 Intro
01:20 Celebrity answering machines
02:20 Calling Corey Feldman
03:30 Calling Reba McIntyre
05:00 Technical Difficulties in the Orvil Household
06:50 Calling Jennifer Love Hewitt
08:04 Calling Eminem
09:43 Wrapping up with Orvil
10:15 oldpeoplarefunny.com
10:28 phonelosers.org
10:35 Leave a voicemail at (505) 796-4020
10:45 Welcome to my World by Nerf Herder
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, March 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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on Sunday, March 12th, 2006 at 6:43 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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RBCP & Murd0c broadcast this episode from inside of a dumpster outside a Missouri movie theater, hoping to answer phone calls via the theater’s phone box that they’ve tapped into. They succeed, but are thrown into jail for a few months, pending trial. The involuntary manslaughter charges are dropped, but the phone calls are still hilarious. This podcast is approximately 19 minutes long. Click here to listen to it.
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on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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I just took a look through the phonelosers.org access logs for the past month to see how the show was doing. From February 1st, 2006 to March 3rd, 2006, here’s a breakdown of the numbers:
Episode #1 (Brady Bunch, released on Feb 4th) - 2,319 show downloads made by 1467 unique IP addresses
Episode #2 (Social Engineering, released on Feb 25th) - 1,614 show downloads made by 824 unique IP addresses
Episode #3 (Deaf Relay Operators, released on Jan 31st) - 1,663 show downloads made by 872 unique IP addresses
I was surprised at the numbers - I kind of thought it would be much less. So, you know…thanks for listening! I’m not sure if those numbers are necessarily good, as far as podcasts go. Episode #1 is definitely the most downloaded mp3 file on phonelosers.org this past month, though. I have no plans for future shows. But I didn’t exactly plan these first three either. So we’ll see what the future of PLA Radio brings. Really, though, thanks for listening!
And I’m not sure why the numbers of IP addresses are half of what the downloads are. I can only assume that everyone liked the shows so much that they just had to download them each twice.
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on Friday, March 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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I have been a listener of the RBPC Show podcast for months now. No, not just because their show looks like a dyslexic version of my name. It’s a good show! My favorite podcast, in fact. I mentioned their show in my journal awhile back and the guy who runs the show even signed my guestbook to say thanks for listening. So the other day I join their forums and introduce myself. But instead of a nice, normal “hello” I threatened them with defamation of character lawsuits instead. All in good fun, of course. But then the accusations started flying and suddenly I’m the one on trial. There’s too much to explain but go visit the RBPC Show forums and try to sort it out for yourself. I think I’ve decided to give up on proclaiming my innocence. No matter how much I explain, they refuse to believe anything I say.
What really pisses these forum users off is the fact that PLA Radio happens to have more votes than them right now. So even if you hate PLA Radio, click on the button below just for spite. It’ll give Halo something more to freak out about.
3/13/2006 UPDATE: Their forums crashed and they lost all the original posts with the PLA bashing in them. It’s too bad because it was good stuff. But at least I can pretend that I haxed their forums to scare them into being nice to me.
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The 3rd official episode of PLA Radio features a brand new co-host, Mary, who is a deaf relay operator. It also features songs, skits, messages, commentary. commercials and raps all unwittingly performed by deaf relay operators. It’s approximately 17 minutes long and the download is 15,597 kb. Click here to listen to it and click here for our PLA Radio page.
While you’re here, do us a favor. Vote for us on Podcast Alley by clicking on the button below. If we get enough votes, we’ll end up on the Top 10 list. And then all kinds of innocent people will be exposed to PLA Radio. So vote! And thanks!
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on Saturday, February 25th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under PLA Radio.
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This episode of PLA Radio will introduce you to the fine art of lying, also known as social engineering. Learn how to infiltrate various businesses and trick them out of information, all with a simple phone call. This program is approximately 17.5 minutes long and the full version is about 17 megs. Many thanks to this webpage which we downloaded the Dateline NBC theme song from. And I didn’t really threaten to kill that one phone company lady - I dropped in that bit of audio later. I swear, okay??
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on Saturday, February 4th, 2006 at 6:45 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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PLA Radio is back! This time in the form of semi-regular podcasts. The first official podcast is approximately 9.5 minutes long and contains several prank calls to The Brady Bunch house and their neighbors. Yes, The Brady Bunch house from the 1970’s sitcom.
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on Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 at 2:00 pm and is filed under PLA Radio.
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PLA Radio - Episode #24 - Yet Even More Phone Mobbing [24:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3441)
This episode covers the fine art of picking up store phones while you’re in a Wal-Mart so you can talk to customers who are calling in. The calls in this episode took place on Black Friday, when it was entirely too busy for employees to notice RBCP talking on the phones.
In this episode of PLA Radio we change things up a bit by doing something positive for the people. Praise Jesus!
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.
GREETINGS FROM WITHIN THE PLA STUDIO.
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!
This episode takes a look at cordless phone monitoring and shows you a little of the fun you missed out on in the 1990’s by eavesdropping on cordless phone users and interfering with their lives. Listen to Legend’s harassment of a cordless phone user in Florida, then hear the results of a few pranks in the mid-90’s. This show is nearly 24 minutes long and the full version is around 22 megs.
This is kind of a short episode, as far as content goes. The last 20 minutes is nothing but voicemails from listeners. But in this episode you’ll learn a few different ways to easily make free phone calls. Covered are red boxing, 3rd party billing and charging the phone company for your calls. Very educational! You’ll also hear some breaking news from a computer hackers convention, a way to listen to PLA Radio on your cell phone and a few miscellaneous prank phone calls. This podcast is 36 minutes long and is about 32.9 megs.
A listener emails a question about social engineering Blockbuster Videos, claiming that it’s now nearly impossible. I spend a couple evenings calling every Blockbuster Video in Orange County to prove him wrong. This show is a collection of some of the more informative and entertaining of those calls, plus some voicemails, promos and the best cactus mix you’ve ever heard. This podcast is 29 minutes long and is about 27.2 megs.
