JinCAST - No Donkeys (Prank Call Podcast)

JinCAST - No Donkeys (Prank Call Podcast) is a collection of prank calls placed by Jin Stewart, who gives his name to most targets as 'Mr. Stewart'. Restaurants turn up again and again on the receiving end. Several episodes carry the name of the place being called, and the calls in 'Baba Palace' and 'Blue Indian' return to the same business more than once. Many calls start almost politely. He asks for the menu, repeats each dish back, and sounds ready to order. Then the premise shifts. In 'Baba Palace' he rings back days after an earlier call to have the new menu read out, fixes on a chicken pulao that is only available on Thursday, and asks a worker whether they are a 'noob' before trying to order some. In 'Blue Indian' he asks staff how stupid they are on a scale of one to ten, tangles up the names of the two men on the line, and tries to buy curry for a medical experiment on mice. Other calls lean on an invented grievance or an invented authority. In 'Radooni' he complains that a man at the counter swore at him while he was collecting pilau rice and tikka masala. 'Lights Out' has him posing as a caller from Southern Electric, warning of a power surge and talking staff through which numbered lights must stay off. A call in 'No Donkeys - 03-10-13 (Final Show)' has him pressing someone to plead guilty or not guilty to stealing a man's shoes, insisting he has it on CCTV. The method barely changes from call to call. He holds to the premise, asks the same question again, and talks past attempts to end the conversation. The people on the other end do not stay patient for long. Their side of the recording is swearing, threats of violence, claims that the police are monitoring the number, and promises that officers are already on the way. In 'Kushumbuk' one worker tells him to stay on the line because the police are supposedly watching the call. That collision between a caller who will not drop the bit and a temper rising on the other end is what the show runs on. The same final-show episode also has the host explaining that other commitments are ending his live show, while he keeps the No Donkeys name and asks for feedback and good numbers to call by email. Coarse language runs through many of the calls, and the recordings include ethnic jokes and slurs. 'Baba Palace', with its menu readings and callbacks, is the gentlest way in.