Trying out a new show format to augment the normal Milk Box Show which will continue Mondays at 7. This show will feature an unscripted AI bot named Fraink Katz, Sr, a grumpy WW2 veteran, looking for love in all the wrong places. On tonight's episode, Fraink looked to get tattoos, but only if it was done by a "nice skirt" (his words).

At the end of the episode, I also do some traditional calls as well, so Fraink can get to sleep.

I'm still working out the show details and Fraink's kinks, so expect the first few to have some rough edges while I work out the best possible format and tools to use.

Thanks to @iregretjumping for the show title and @ionlysmile for the patreon donation!

I have a friend's wedding tonight. I'd write some kind of humorous excuse, but there's nothing funny about marriage.

Makeup show on Tuesday!

This clip show celebrating 3 years of Prankcast was a ton of fun!

Note: This features calls from many different hosts, so includes graphic/explicit material on some of the calls.

Thanks to:

• the following hosts for submitting musical numbers and intros for the show: @bassbot, @andyanderson
• the following prankcasters for submitting clips: @andyanderson, @bassbot, @drtomservo, @dialtrolls, @despicabledogs, @criefaux, @icecat, @phonelosers, @devonanustart, @mbots, @milkbox, @iregretjumping, @greatbigpete, @gretagarbage, @molinwolf, @delinquenst, @bray90210, @kingpoisson
• to @criefaux, @icecat and @despicabledogs for being amazing admins of the Prankcast community this year; and to @phonelosers, @iregretjumping, @chrispy808 and @bassbot for maintaining a great community on WOPC.
• All the @Prankcast hosts (past and current) for keeping me belly laughing for the last 3 years.
• all the supporters on Pateon who help keep Prankcast going.

Y'all rock!

Very special clip show tonight after the Callective ends (assume not before 9pm EST) from Prankcast hosts who submitted clips.

Thanks for 3 great years!

We call up random front desks and have them participate in a trivia show where dying Take-a-Wish kids get a pizza and ice cream party if they can just answer 3 simple questions with help from our panel.

AI Frank Katz gets sassy with the front desk in this clip from MBS 183

On this show we:

• reprimand people for stealing our phone charger
• try to get our seeing eye dog a room for him and his lady friend
• call bowling alleys to come and set up our basketbowl and dodgebowl league games. Thanks @iregretjumping for this silly idea and show title!

Oh and FrAInk Katz cohosts for a bit too. Thanks to all the hilarious ideas posted in chat and thanks to bigchungus for joining as a Patreon!

This is a little technically confusing, but worth the effort.

1. Create a free account at Character.ai

2. Click create new or visit this URL: https://character.ai/character/new

3. Fill out your description of the character (vague is better) and choose a voice that matches the character from the list they present.

4. The sound setup is the hardest part. You'll need an audio mixer that can route and exclude certain sounds. This is standard on shows where you include chat participants anyways, and you'll treat the character.ai character like a chat participant in terms of how you route your audio. I recommend using Voicemeeter for this.
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   a. Download or open a browser you never typically use and will dedicate to Character.ai. For example, Microsoft Edge.
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   b. In your volume settings, make it so the dialing software can hear you and the browser; and the browser you are using can only hear you and the dialer, but not itself.
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   c. Test out a conversation with the character by clicking the phone icon and talking to it. Then try calling a number and making sure that the dialer and character can hear each other. Almost done!

5. Finally, disable any notification / UI noises from character.ai.
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   a. Right click anywhere on the character.ai page and choose Inspect from the right-click menu.
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   b. In the developer settings that open up, navigate to the Network tab.
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   c. In the list of filters choose Media
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   d. Talk to the character and you'll notice that every time there's a ding, mp3 files called "connected.mp3", "turn.mp3" and "turn_alt.mp3" will appear in the network list of media. Right click on those that appear and choose block url. It should now stop making noise when character.ai responds.
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   e. Now click the mute and unmute button in the character.ai interface. Block those mp3s as well ("mute.mp3" and "unmute.mp3").

You're all set! Make more characters and share them here and in Discord.

This is my favorite Milkbox show ever.

Using inspiration from @dialer, we used the following custom character.ai persona named Sgt Frank Katz Sr. to engage in conversations with random folks. He's just a WW2 vet looking for some dame companionship is all.

It's CRAZY how advanced AI is. Only one recipient realized it was AI I think.
https://character.ai/chat/x81SH_1IpCfkM-scfHiT-C8y9gHXvtHZpbbgIDV4INA

The final call of the show is the funniest call ever on my show, and of course, I wasn't really a participant. Go figure!

Thanks to:

• Lloyd and @theresagasleak for joining as Patreons!
• @iregretjumping for the show title
• @Ayutux, @mbots and everyone else who sent in phone numbers.

Just a quick experiment connecting AI to real people and seeing what happens.

In this one I made a WW2 drill sergeant AI try to book a room and gave it no other prompts at all.

Kudos to @dialer for the inspiration for using AI for this kind of prank.

Bunch of bangers tonight, based on an AI theme!

• Called people accusing them of being AI and asking them to prove they weren't. I got some people as far as identifying animal sounds, doing self-sobriety tests and belting out WE WILL ROCK YOU at the top of their lungs.
• Called people as an AI to get them to follow my explict directions.
• Asked the guy at the front desk to find me a left-handed tampon, but all he could find was one marked R for Righties.
• And more!

Thanks to:

• @JoeFather for joining as the newest Patreon!
• @omnom for the AI show theme suggestion
• @mbots for sharing a number

Fun lineup tonight as the Callective was hosted on the Milkbox show. Follow some of the other hosts if you haven't yet.

Tonights pranks included participation from:
@despicabledogs, @milkbox, @anteatertpose, @kingpoisson, @icecat, @jesuspenus, @iregretjumping, @greenimp, @nickyt, @drtomservo, and @andyanderson. Thanks to everyone who joined!
Thanks to @icecat for the amazing new show theme and @iregretjumping for herding the cats!