With the Simply Youth Ministry Conference filling up and the conference dates nearing closer and closer, I figured it would be fun to prank call Matty McCage at Simply and ask him a few questions about the conference and other Simply stuff.

Simply Pranked: Matty

After setting up Skype to change my voice, I called Matt and, unfortunately, failed pretty epically. You’ll have to watch the video of my prank call to see what I mean.

Stuff we talked about:
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00:00 – Intro to the prank
01:05 – The prank falls flat on it’s face
02:27 – Recap of YM360 prank
04:12 – How Matty got my phone number
05:08 – Matty’s favorite Simply Youth Ministry Conference memory
07:50 – Birds and “early bird?”
08:44 – Greg Stier and the movie, “Divided”
09:26 – Darth Vader vs Girly Chipmunk
09:55 – Books with 99 thoughts (10 books for $35!)
10:40 – Matty’s potty advice for small-church youth workers
14:10 – Joshua Griffin writes up the Trinity
15:26 – Leave the bathroom and next victim

Simply Pranked: Jake

In an effort to redeem myself, I also gave Jake a call. This one went much better, although Jake didn’t seem to bite too much on my conversations about his mom, speaking with my zipper down, nor my presumed name. Watch the video of my prank call with Jake.

Stuff we talked about:
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00:00 – Intro to the prank
00:47 – Jake tries to pass me off to Matty
01:52 – Jake slowly eases into the Simply Youth Ministry Conference and then unleashes!
03:18 – “Oh, I think I’ve heard of Greg Stier!” And the movie, Divided?
04:44 – Birds and “early birds?”
05:40 – Jake’s mom. Oh yeah! lol
06:12 – $0.03 per thought? “Potty reading, I’m all for that!” LOL Winning soundbyte!
08:50 – Speaking with your zipper down. “Story of my life.”
09:42 – Joshua Griffin breaks down the Trinity
10:54 – “My name is Mr. Vader, first name, Darth.”

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Posted on November 10, 2011