Episodes

  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 19 – Illegal 900 Number Fraud

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 19 – Illegal 900 Number Fraud
    May 23 2025
    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 your brain frequencies over the
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 18 – Wacky Morning Show DJ Reunion

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 18 – Wacky Morning Show DJ Reunion
    Mar 14 2023
    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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    48 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 17 – AT&T 1310 Answering Machine

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 17 – AT&T 1310 Answering Machine
    Feb 18 2021
    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 of the
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    22 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 16 – Microwave Milkshakes

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 16 – Microwave Milkshakes
    Jan 25 2020
    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 year to see exactly what’s on them. Between church
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    18 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 15 – Calling Pay Phones In The 1980s

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 15 – Calling Pay Phones In The 1980s
    Oct 14 2019
    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 Input.” I used the computer to call
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    29 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 14 – Sara and the Echoplex

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 14 – Sara and the Echoplex
    Apr 5 2019
    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 it’s still fun
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 13 – Drugs Are Bad Mkay

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 13 – Drugs Are Bad Mkay
    Oct 1 2018
    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 alcohol classes, listen to episode
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 12 – Dial-A-Pay-Phone – The Couch Gang

    Brad’s Cactus Shack Episode 12 – Dial-A-Pay-Phone – The Couch Gang
    Mar 13 2018
    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 Eastern Time Zone did not observe daylight
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    1 hr and 15 mins