Billie Joe getting prank called

[XBlade1X]

sorry, like i said i didnt know if it was posted or not :/ cut me some slack. D:

Its okay, I was actually thinking about it the other day and wanted to watch it again.

So im glad you posted it.

[**nobodylikesyou**]

LMFAO shit that was hilarious , well what do you think? I cant stop laughing at this.

it was funny but i dont think that was really billie joe.

[Moxy Crimefighter]

personally I think it's real. People always sound high-pitched on the phone and he was tired.

dude, thanks for making my night even more great. First the thunderstorm, now this.

[Guest x-Green Day-x]

Haha.. I love this..

But I think it's kind of slack to wake him up....

After all, they did wake him up when September ended. haha

[JHyena86]

Hahah, nice

Sounds pretty real to me...and the reaction was very Billie. Wonder how often this sort of stuff happens to him/GD

[Bailey.]

So mean but so funny. Thanks for the link! ♥

[Poo Flinger]

personally I think it's real. People always sound high-pitched on the phone and he was tired.

dude, thanks for making my night even more great. First the thunderstorm, now this.

Aww I hope the thunderstorm is over by now.

I agree with the person on the phone.. they are jerks for prank calling and teaching other people to prank call by doing it on the radio like that. I would totally turn the phone off on the night before Oct 1st and use my cell...

[windstruck]

LOL.

So funny.

And so sad at the same time.

I think it sounds like him. Plus like _Whatsherface_ said, anyone would sound different sleepy and over the phone.

[Greenday_Aussie]

That was Billie. He sounded like that at the concert I went to, I think he has a higher pitched voice normally. That was fucking hilarious!

[Sarahnade.]

I'm not sure if it's him or not. It is funny, though.

[Elizabeth_]

Haha I remember reading an interview with him in FHM (Australian Mag) and it's something like

Billie Joe: Hold on a sec

[billie puts down phone]

FHM: Heelllooooo?

[20 minutes later picks up phone]

Billie Joe: Holy shit sorry I totally forgot you were there I just had to take this massive shit!!!

Hahahaha that so made my week

[check]

Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.

How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.

Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)

So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.

Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:

These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0

The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:

another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,

so the number is:

001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)

001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html

And what does it say on his bio?

"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."

Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.

There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.

So there you go. Fake.

[Valkin]

Lmao that's hillarious but i kinda feel for him

[Moxy Crimefighter]

Aww I hope the thunderstorm is over by now.

don't hope I love storms, especially in hot and humid weather like these

Haha I remember reading an interview with him in FHM (Australian Mag) and it's something like

Billie Joe: Hold on a sec

[billie puts down phone]

FHM: Heelllooooo?

[20 minutes later picks up phone]

Billie Joe: Holy shit sorry I totally forgot you were there I just had to take this massive shit!!!

Hahahaha that so made my week

linkity link

Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.

How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.

Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)

So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.

Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:

These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0

The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:

another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,

so the number is:

001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)

001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html

And what does it say on his bio?

"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."

Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.

There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.

So there you go. Fake.

-_- Do yourself a favor and get a hobby.

[check]

-_- Do yourself a favor and get a hobby.

-_- Do the world a favour and eat a few razorblades.

[Foxboro Hot Tubs]

-_- Do yourself a favor and get a hobby.

wow, that's really mean ...

I think he did a great job!!

Thanks a lot for finding all that stuff out!!

[Radioactive1]

Eh, I didn't find that funny at all!

And check, omg, that's amazing how you worked that out

[Foxboro Hot Tubs]

Eh, I didn't find that funny at all!

me neither ...

I thought I'm the only one ..

[Micky]

Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.

How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.

Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9975/tones.jpg

So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8353/portion.jpg

Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8589/peaks.jpg

These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0

The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:

another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,

so the number is:

001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)

001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html

And what does it say on his bio?

"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."

Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.

There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.

So there you go. Fake.

oh wow

thank you, aha!

still hilarious though

[Kryssi.]

That doesn't sound too much like him... I don't know if that's just me.

[Tre_Gina]

i really don't think it sounds like him.

[E!!i]

funny^^ at what time did he call him?

[Sister of Grace]

Oh I've seen this before it is hilarious!

[Princess Consuela]

I really thought it was Billie!

And, wow check, I'm impressed

[Bohemian+Scandal]

Well an easy way to tell where this call was going would be to listen to the touch tones and see what numbers those tones correspond with, reconstructing the phone number.

How to do that? You could either do it by ear, if you trust your sense of hearing, or you can analyze the frequency spectrum of the tones and see which numbers they correspond to.

Touch tones are composed of two overlapping frequencies. The frequencies that correspond to the number can be found by looking at the bottom row and far right column and matching them up with the number or * or #. (A,B,C,D are for military use only)

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9975/tones.jpg

So I ripped the audio, popped it into my audio program, selected the portion of the audio that plays a tone.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8353/portion.jpg

Then ran a frequency spectrum analysys. What I was looking for were two narrow peaks which would correspond to the tone. For the first number, this is what I got:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/8589/peaks.jpg

These were at 947Hz and 1330Hz which are close to the values of 941Hz and 1336Hz on the table and correspond to a 0

The rest of the numbers turned out as follows:

another 0, 1, 5, 0, 8, 4, 9, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6,

so the number is:

001-508-496-6096 (I double checked)

001 is the calling code from the UK to the US so that checks out, but 508 is an area code in Massachusetts. Further, the whole number, 508-496-6096 when googled leads to a number of results for someone named 'Hal Rood'. Now if you do a google of 'Hal Rood' you get this page: http://www.strategicradiosolutions.com/hr.html

And what does it say on his bio?

"Over the past 14 years, Hal has worked with some of the world’s most successful radio brands, including 104.6 RTL/Berlin, DC-101/Washington, Europa Plus and Retro FM/Russia, Virgin Radio and RFM/France, Sky Radio / Holland, Key 103/Manchester, 98FM/Dublin, Globo Radio / Brasil, and Europa FM and Radio 21/Romania."

Bingo, someone in radio. Now unless Hal acquired Billie Joe's cellphone number sometime after 2005, or if Billie Joe happened to be using Hal's cell phone that night, then I think it's safe to say that this is fake.

There is one other possibility though, which might be a bit of a stretch--- The DJs may have been working with Hal and Hal had his cell phone calls automatically forward to Billie Joe's... but that seems way too convoluted.

So there you go. Fake.

Wow. Nice job.

But yeah, you definitely further confirmed it's bullshit, but still an amusing idea.