Episodes
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 20 – Secrets of the Little Blue Box
This is a story about phone phreaking in the early 1970’s, and it’s taken from the October 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. It tells the stories of a few phone phreaks of the era, including Joe Engressia (Joybubbles), Captain Crunch, Mark Bernay, and lots of other interesting weirdos. I broke up...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 19 – Illegal 900 Number Fraud
On this week’s Brad’s Cactus Shack, we’re going to phone phreak like it’s 1995 so that we can illegally dial in to some sexy 1-900 numbers for actual real-life psychics and phone sex workers. Get ready to have your minds blown by the uncanny accuracy of psychics who use mind rays to lock in on…
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 18 – Wacky Morning Show DJ Reunion
A long time ago I spent about a year harassing a radio DJ named MJ from the MJ Morning Show just to try and stir up drama on his show. I guess MJ still remembers this event too because he spent around 15 minutes talking about it on his show recently. In this episode of Brad’s Cactus Shack I will...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 17 – AT&T 1310 Answering Machine
In yet another episode of Brad Plays With Old Crap, I decide to see what messages are on an old answering machine that Devon gave to me. This is guaranteed to be at least as interesting as when I played my Dad’s old echoplex tape. Not only will you hear old messages, but I manage to contact one…
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 16 – Microwave Milkshakes
After spending the past couple of months ripping old 1990’s underground indie punk rock prank call cassette tapes into the computer to add to the biggest archive on the internet and finally finishing with that project, I decided to rip some old cassette tapes I found in my parent’s attic last…
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 15 – Calling Pay Phones In The 1980s
In the mid-to-late 1980’s I wrote a program for my TRS-80 Color Computer 2 that allowed me to easily talk to people on the phone using the computer’s speech cartridge. The program consisted of a screen full of commonly used phrases like “How Are You” and “I am doing okay” and “Malfunction, Need...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 14 – Sara and the Echoplex
Here’s another episode where I activate old man story mode and tell you a thing or two about how the 1980’s were. Part One involves a machine called an Echoplex, which I used for all kinds of fun and shenanigans as a kid. The Echoplex segment isn’t quite as exciting as I’d hoped it would be, but...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 13 – Drugs Are Bad Mkay
These BCS episodes have reached the level of boring to where I’m going through PAPERWORK for 90 minutes. In this one I peruse the notes written about me by counselors in my drug abuse classes. Apparently I stare at the floor a lot. For more information about my six month stint in the drug and...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 12 – Dial-A-Pay-Phone – The Couch Gang
Here’s another hour of listeners calling my pay phone in a contest I like to call Who Can Saying The Weirdest Shit Possible To Me. During post editing I solved the mystery of daylight savings in Indiana. It wasn’t the Mandella effect after all. “From 1970 until 2006, most of Indiana in the…
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 11 – TRS-80 Color Computer 2
After playing a few random sound clips I found on my hard drive last night, we jump into the mysterious world of 1986 where we jam out to the Neutron Dance, where I say everything I type into the computer for the listening audience just like I was taught in movies, where I torment the teenagers...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 10b – Addiction Counseling
Back in February I was surprised to find out that I was sentenced to 12 weeks of a drug and alcohol abuse class, even though I've never had an issue with drugs or alcohol. I know you guys think I pound the 4lokos 24/7, but really I might drink a couple beers per week, usually on separate nights...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 10 – Small Talk in Celina Ohio
In this show we get to know residents of Celina, Ohio on a very personal level with some hard-hitting questions. Here's a video of some destruction from Celina's tornado, then a guy filming his television like a hobo Stealth camping in Celina More tornado footage Holy crap, Dollar General was...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 9 – Dino and OCI
This episode of Brad's Cactus Shack activates my old man story mode so I can tell stories about old men. Then I play some old 90's Dino audio that can barely be heard, but it's okay because I tell you small parts of what he probably said, then drone on and on about OCI for a bit. We wrap it up…
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 8 – Skunkworks Conspiracy
Cody NoName sent me a link to a conspiracy video that I really want to watch, but I'm too afraid to watch it by myself because conspiracy videos are scary, so I'm bringing you guys along to watch it with me. This is a conspiracy theory about the Skunkworks situation and what those underground...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 7 – Take The Money And Run
Mike sent me my arrest report from 1993, which details my crimes against the 7-Eleven I worked for, so this entire episode is me reading the report. Music is Take The Monkey And Run by Steve Miller, and Dizz Knee Land by Dada.
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 6 – Dial-A-Payphone
On Wednesday night I sat in my moderately comfortable chair and took calls from viewers for about an hour, who all seemed to think it's funny to make prank calls to me. This is a serious show, people, and if the prank calls don't stop I will end it. The song in this one is called Rocking Chair by...
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Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 5 – I Think I Broke A Nail
This episode gets back to the business of clearing out my hard drive and playing a few of the interesting things I find along the way. You'll hear some transfer files I made to more effectively trick phone company employees, some stuff I'm pretty sure came from my good pal Legend, a weird method…
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Episode 4 – An Intimate Evening On The Pay Phone
Today's Cactus Shack episode is an hour-long call in show where I sit in my comfy recliner and take calls on the pay phone and we basically just scream at each other a lot. Enjoy! Listen to Neon every single Sunday night because she never misses a week Here's a Jack Nicolson soundboard prank to…
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Episode 3 – Crossroads Chaos
I found more phone company recordings scattered around various drives, buried several sub-directories deep. Hopefully these aren't calls that I played on the first episode. We also listen to some so-called chaos that I caused at a mall in the mid-2000's, and we revisit my old neighbor Warren and...
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Episode 2 – What’s Your Bid?
In this milestone episode of Brad's Cactus Shack, I grace you all with radio auction pranks I did in the 1980's that contain comedic on-the-air gold like "Duuuhhhh, bid on football..." and just yelling garbled crap until the hosts hang up on me. You don't want to miss this episode. Here's the...
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Episode 1 – Telephone Company Assholery
This past weekend I've been reorganizing my hard drive IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN and trying to make more sense of the kajillions of files I've collected over the years, and I've decided that the best thing to do is permanently delete them all. But not before playing them for you guys to hear in...
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Heritage Mall Blues Episode 5 – December 21st, 2016
In our special Christmas edition of HMB, we discuss The Buzz In Lebanon, time traveling Jesus, we depress our listeners with the sounds of a miserable dog, Alex gets pulled over for walking, and we talk about the haunted houses we visited.
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Heritage Mall Blues Episode 4 – August 25th, 2016
Here’s an episode where we talk a little about the bizarre marijuana ban in Linn County. This episode includes interviews with city councilman Ray Kopczynski, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary, Brock Binder. In this episode, we completely solve our local marijuana issues. You’re welcome…
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Heritage Mall Blues Episode 3 – February 28th, 2016
In episode #3, we insult our listeners by telling them to learn how to drive, we complain about businesses closing early, and we discuss recent helicopter hijackings in Lebanon.
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Heritage Mall Blues Episode 2 – February 7th, 2016
In the second episode of Heritage Mall Blues, Roxanne and Alex talk about Lebanon’s new “good deed” tickets and there is approximately 83% less talk about the Albany carousel project.
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Heritage Mall Blues Episode 1 – December 21st, 2015
The premiere episode of The Heritage Mall Blues Podcast, where Roxanne and Alex discuss important issues such as why Albany needs a carousel and which part of a basketball is the side.
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 007 – Rappy McRapperson Interview
I discovered a lot of awesome new music last year, but one artist has really stood out among my favorites and the more I listen to his music the more I like him. That artist is Rappy McRapperson. I think my love for Rappy has gone far beyond just a passing phase at this point. I originally found...
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 6 – Some Calls
Mrs. Swastika, April The Slut, Brad Pitt and April Fools. The show runs about 13 minutes and 45 seconds.
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 5 – Tribute
Some tribute type stuff to The Bastardcast, Nate and Di, and The RBPC Show. A call to an auto repair shop about urine, some voicemails and Beat The Geeks in Detroit. Music in this episode is mostly by Nerf Herder. The show runs about 14 minutes and 48 seconds. BastardCast Nate & Di Nerf Herder on...
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 4 – Bill Collectors
This show contains a few miscellaneous calls that have happened in the past few months, including bill collectors, calling Dad on Father's Day, tricking an Applebees guy, Internet, and the Sick Whispering Doctor Lady. And a voicemail. There's lots of Lemon Demon music too. The show runs about 16...
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 3 – 2006 Podcast Exposure
This show contains lots of sound clips from various podcasts that I've appeared on this year. Total running time is 20 minutes, 15 seconds.
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 2 – Interpretive LiveJournal
A few interpretive LiveJournal entry readings, performed by me, Murd0c, Jammie and CountyKid. To subscribe to Interpretive LJ, click here. The song at the end of this show is Hit Em Up by 2Pac. Total running time is 13 minutes, 28 seconds.
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The Big Beef Bueno Podcast Episode 1 – Jammie
A collection of Jammie-related material, including calls to Jammie's ex boyfriends, forcing Jammie to social engineer information out of Blockbuster Video (this is something that I didn't end up using for PLA Radio Episode #8), Jammie's voicemail messages to Adam Curry and a phone call to a hair...
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A podcast about Brad. And his cactus shack, I guess. This show has it all, from hard drive cleaning, to call-in talk shows, not to mention the conspiracy theories and arrest reports.
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