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CRANK YANKERS JUNKYARD WILLIE SERIES* Customer Service Disasters: This was the third CD in the series originally released in 2000 with 16 calls on the CD. This CD had a total of 21 calls which 5 of them were inbound calls. Released in 1999 it was the first CD in the series to feature the inbound prank calls. * A Permanent Lapse of Reason: This was the second CD in the series. Released in 1998 it featured 18 outbound prank calls. * Appetite for Disruption: This was the first CD in the series. * Clarence Washington: An Ebonics talking African-American man talks a whole lot of mumbo jumbo! ![]() * Tic-Tac: A Mexican-American who annoys customers by interrupting them in Spanglish. ![]() Known for attempting to get booze delivered to his hospital room, or calling in search of his lost colostomy bag. * Old Man Louie Pellagrini: A senile 90 something year ("I love booze and broads"). CRANK YANKERS JUNKYARD WILLIE SKIN* Vladimir: A rude Russian who gets under people's skin ("You sound like stupid American"). Irate customers will often complain to him because he has sympathetic ear, after which he'll "transfer" the call to Jim Bob or Junkyard Willie, sometimes cyclically until the caller becomes sufficiently exasperated and hangs up. He is unsympathetic to disgruntled customers, frequently telling callers that they are "a drop in the bucket" to his company. * Stu Jaimison: The arrogant, corporate big shot. He often vomits while customers are on the phone ("Sorry, I just had a little too much to drink"), and calls prospective employers looking for a job. * Blade Jones: A homeless drunk, he readily admits to customers that he regularly uses drugs and alcohol at work. * Jim Bob: A stuttering retarded hillbilly in a wheelchair with poor customer service skills and a low IQ. Willie is from Compton California, and used to be an operator of a junkyard where he would shine hubcaps. Also often uses variations of phrases that include "jive turkey," "talkin' trash" and "old bag." Junkyard Willie, also known as Willie Robinson, is a former drill sergeant. Frequently threatens to "pee in yo gas tank". He is known for launching off into litanies of curse words and Ebonics, then filibustering during the arguments that ensue. * Junkyard Willie: A gravelly-voiced African-American man with a bad attitude. ] TTT also fare well on the rating system, with the tapes receiving between 4 to 5 stars each out of a total of 5 stars. Xtreme Prank Radio, the web's prank call radio station appears to hold a similar view: Xtreme Prank Radio's logo is a photograph of a billboard advertising the Touchtone Terrorists. The webmasters of Prank Call Central have dedicated their site to RePete, and call RePete the " reatest prank caller of all time" ]. ![]() CRANK YANKERS JUNKYARD WILLIE MOVIEA movie which is based loosely around his characters (called "Lost In Transit") is in post production. RePete was also a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, usually crank calling " Howard Stern" staff and Wack Pack members, such as Crazy Alice, High Pitch Eric, and Joe the Godfather ] Two phone calls were also featured in the first season of " Crank Yankers". For legal reasons, all subjects give their permission to have their voices on the CDs the subjects were "paid well.". Infestation Records refused to comply on the basis that the CDs are a protectable parody. He created a series of characters, all of which were voiced by him.Īt one point UPS tried to stop the sale of the Touch Tone Terrorists CDs through a series of letters demanding, among other things, that all inventory of Infestation Records' CDs be "delivered" to UPS lawyers "for destruction", because UPS believed that many of the TTT calls involved customers who thought they were speaking to UPS customer service representatives. ] Using a Gentner SPH-3A phone hybrid and a Yamaha SPX-90 electronic pitch transposer to alter his voice over the phone, he would take incoming calls from people who had misdialed the number and were under the assumption that they had dialed the right number. He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers including ones that were one digit different than actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, Jiffy Lube, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic line, a pen manufacturer, and others. The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi ] who also goes by the name of "RePete". The Touch-Tone Terrorists is the name of a series of prank phone calls comedy CDs. ![]()
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