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it's a Weezer Wednesday here on the downbeat. But right now, let's do
the scuttle. But I've got a lot of stuff want to get to here.
So the thing I've been seeing on TV behind Mike's head the most is
this story. I must spend a little bit of time on this thing.
A bunch of other crab here. But there's a search for a missing Corpus
Christi College student and he was last seen more than a week ago. His
name's Caleb Harris's twenty one, and they're looking for at an area behind the
North Padre Island apartment that he was at. Okay, and this sounds like
they've been looking for a long time. Hundreds of people have volunteered to scour
the area, and the coast Guards even in on this now. He vanished
in the early morning of March fourth, and nine days ago. His roommates
failed to find him that day, and his phone had been off. He
left behind his vehicle, his keys, and his wallet and last scene walking
his dog two forty five am that day. Much always a weird hour,
I said, watch his dog return and went back outside to meet a food
delivery driver. Boy, that sounds like, get home from the bar,
get the food delivered, walk the dog real quick. College hours are really
non existent. You can be up at any hour of the day in college.
So yeah, there he is, kil Parris. They've been showing this
on TV behind Mike on NBC five about once every twenty minutes. Story I
did not know about until today. But uh yeah, missing persons reporting a
lot of stuff looking for him, anything like, you know, good details.
Not a happy story, not the most fun scuttle bit, but scory
story has some fun stuff in a minute. But but it's the news of
the day. Kevin the news, and we want to keep you up to
date on stuff we always do. That's our pledge, always is our pledge,
hand over heart, I pledged to make sure that anyone listening to us
has been being kept up on everything important thing's going on today. This is
my pledge under God, in the visions, oh in heaven. Okay,
under God in heaven, heaven with liberty and justice, our pledge for Steve.
Okay. So Aaron Rodgers is on the short list to be a vice
president candidate. Yes please chaos theory. This drops hours after he does an
interview saying or a podcast clip of him surface saying, any bs that's not
about football needs to get out of that locker room except for my candidacy.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior has made his short list for he's going to be
in a running here. Biden and Trump were the official Republican and Democratic nominees
as of last night, but Robert F. Kennedy Junior has a short list.
One of those people in there is Jesse Ventura as well. Okay,
but he says he's been talking to Rogers pretty continuously over the last month.
Now, there's not even like a reality based thing that we could even discuss.
When it comes to Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the guy's a nut,
hey, he is, buddy. The Washington Post did an article how
possible would it be for Aaron Rodgers to do that? If you look at
it. Mike Pence he attended sixty three in person events his first year twenty
twenty. I'm sorry in twenty eighty sixteen, No, just when they were
running. So Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. So, Mike Pence made sixty
three in person events. Kamala Harris had thirty six in person events and fifty
online events. Here in twenty twenty all zoom during COVID could he make sixty
in person events? Aaron Rodgers while also being the quarterback of the Jets?
He absolutely could leading up to November kidding me, absolutely can. There is
no way, dude, he'd have to retire if he really wanted to pursue
this. This is ridiculous. Yeah, but he ain't gonna run for Veep.
No with RFK Junees, does it tell you a little about Aaron Rodgers
though he's going for hikes with RFK Junior. RFK is a dude, They
guys have certified wacko. I'm not surprised that they have some sort of connection.
That doesn't come as a shock at all. But I mean, this
is I mean, it's RFK just throwing something out there, right. He's
trying to get in the mix. Man, Aaron Rodgers cannot be seriously considering
this. Yeah, but no matter who you are, if someone says,
hey, do you want to be the candidate to be vice president of the
United States in an election that you have zero chance of even getting four percent
of the vote, Kevin will vote for Aaron Rodgers. You're gonna walk into
the booth, pull the curtain shut and see the f and packers legend Aaron
Rodgers right there, and then choose someone else. Best quarterback I've ever seen
him on the Time Life. Some of the throws he made ridiculous. There's
a vote right there, and there's only four of us, so there's twenty
five percent vote done. You know what, I'm on board? Okay,
this is nuts right here, you guys. I don't know if y'all know
about this. Cars are tracking us big time, and this has been a
big story over the past couple of days. And I finally did a little
deep dive on it. Really, so the story starts, We're gonna be
a surprise. Example. There's a sixty five year old Seattle man named Ken,
and he was very surprised when the cost of his car insurance jumped twenty
one percent. Why did that happen? Sixty five? You know he's monitoring
his his finances very well. Quotes from other insurance companies were also high.
One insurance agent told him, hey, man, your Lexus Nexus report is
a factor. Now, not Lexus like the car company, like Lexus l
Exis. So the Lexus Texas Nexus report was a factor. Lexis Nexus is
a New York based data broker and they have this like risk solutions division that
prints out reports on you. You okay, there's Alexis NeXT's report for us?
I bet okay. So what ship or what component is attached to our
car that is sending the information of how hard we're breaking, how fast we're
going in certain speed zones? I mean? And is there a way to
disengage that? That's what I want to know. They sent him a two
hundred and fifty eight page report and he went, huh. He was shocked.
One hundred and thirty pages detailing each time he or his wife had driven
the car that he was leasing. He didn't own the car, he was
leasing it. It included the dates of the six hundred and forty trips they
had taken Okay to the store and whatever they're starting in times, the distance
driven to the store, and any accounting of speeding, as Danny said,
hard breaking or sharp accelerations. The only thing it didn't have is where specifically
they had driven the car, but we know where they were going the Still
store on a Thursday morning in June, for example, the car had been
driven seven miles in eighteen minutes. There have been two rapid accelerations and two
incidents of heartbreaking. That's what it would show you on the report. Wow.
Okay. So according to this report, the trip details had been provided
by General Motors and they manufactured the Chevy Bolt that he was leasing. Okay.
Lexus Nexus analyzed that driving data because it gives you a risk score,
and it's so insurance companies can use as a factor to personalize your insurance coverage.
Personalize he said, quote it felt like a betrayal. They're taking information
that I didn't realize was going to be shared and screwing with our insurance.
And it turns out this is happening to pretty much everyone, and I had
no idea. Okay, so we've seen some of I can't remember the insurance
company, but for years they've been kind of putting out there the product that
if you stick that little component into to whatever that deal is underneath your dashboard.
Yeah, yeah, it's gone dongles. Seriously, it monitors you're driving,
and you can get safe driver discounts by the way that you drive.
I mean, that's been very common, but I thought it was the choice
of the owner of the car whether or not to opt in for that.
I didn't realize that this was being tracked on knowing yeah, the general public,
they're jamming it in on page thirty five and fine print of privacy policy
that you'll never reach. Okay, then everybody should take their car somewhere and
have that thing disengaged. Take it to us, bring it here, we'll
disengage it. Danny knows how to use Bondo. Yeah, Danny's coat that
thing. Yeah, then the signals can't get out. H huh if you
seal it in with enough. So it says in recent years like Danny said,
insurance companies have offered incentives like you download the smartphone app the tracks you're
driving and all that stuff. But what they're doing basically, all these cars
are now Internet connected at some point, and car companies are using that.
Modern cars are allowing access to services like navigation, roadside assistance. Well we
have all that. You also have how you're driving, and that's getting sent
off to all these insurance companies and they're going, well, you're a terrible
driver. I can tell by how much you speed. Well what if they're
also sending it to like NASCAR teams or F one teams and they're like,
dude, this guy's got legit potential. This after you two look into this,
Well, so this I'm glad you said that. This is my favorite
part of this whole story because it's screwed a guy with the Corvette. Ken
Doll the lead character of this story here. His name is Ken Doll.
Yes Dahl, that's so good. Imagine making best to god, sixty five
year old and we just played to tell everyone the truth. He owns a
software company. I'll get him on this week. His name is Kendall Dahl.
Yeah, yeast, what a year for this guy. So just imagine
older Ryan Gosling, when do you see him? Right? So he goes
he's like, well, I'm pissed about this insurance, gets out of his
laptop, goes to a Chevy Bolt online forum for enthusiast of the car members.
Sounds weird, but active users. But it sounds weird, but you
know who uses forums. Sixty year olds, fifty year olds, so a
bunch of people, and they were like, oh my god, I can't
believe this. They didn't know. So he brought this to light to all
these people on this internet for him, including one Corvette driver who lamented having
data collected during a track day because he was testing out the Corvette's limits on
a professional racetrack. Ah, these are people who are all into cars and
stuff. But he's gone out there on a professional track going one to ten
in his Corvette. Meanwhile, the insurance company is like, guy sucks as
a driver. Charge him double because he went to He's Dragon Brag. He
just went to Dragon Brag with Rich Phillips. Wack whack whack uh. Numerous
people on the forums are like, oh, yeah, my premiums have spiked.
A Cadillac driver in Palm Beach, Florida. Mic He has not to
be named because he's considering a lawsuit against GM. He said he was denied
auto insurance by seven companies in December. He asked the agent why, and
she said, pull your report from Lexus Nexus. He discovered that six months
of his driving activity, including many instances of heartbreaking and heart accelerating, as
well as some speeding. He said, I don't know what the definition of
hard break is. My passenger's head it and hit in the dash. Tell
them Steve Dave, get them theater. How long until this is admissible in
court for murders, you know that kind of thing. So we're already pinging
cell phones off towers with a subpoena or with a warrant. Yeah, all
of it will be. But then I guess you just say I wasn't me
driving. But you know, if we can add, I know where your
car was, and your car went to the location of this crime. I
think about the Coburger story a lot. The guy who killed those people in
the Idaho college house. You know, they had cell phone data from him
that they had pinged, and that really helped. I mean, it didn't
help get the clear evidence, but they got that from the sheath of his
knife. But they were they were pinging him driving there that night, came
back the next day say we can track your car. Yeah, nuts,
nuts, nuts, Well they just put you in the car because your phone's
with you. Then they I agree, But I don't know if that's you
know, how you need to tie the whole thing together. I don't know.
I mean, it makes logical sense, of course, but well it's
not gonna make I don't think it's gonna make me change the way I drive,
although maybe it's. Should I have the Triple A app? Yeah,
And I had to, for a significant discount enable something location tracking, and
I'm like, screw it. Fine, and I remember because then my price
went up, and it's like kept asking me, Hey, if you enable
this, your price goes down, and it's essentially just for that. Did
it work via yourself? Well, it works in my price going down,
Like I literally pay less monthly because I authorize the app to essentially do what
Kevin's saying. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I have a segment
for next week. Maybe we have a police officer on cool because apparently I
sort of unrelated but car theft in DFW is loco. Yeah, it jumped
up from twenty two to twenty three. Twenty three forty what sane? Yeah,
there's a huge number. Yes, right, anything goes up forty percent,
it's it's huge. And a couple of cars got stolen from my Cash
and Mary's building and there's video of it and it took like three minutes.
Where certain models vehicles they clone the key with some device like instantly start your
car out of there. You wouldn't even really know it. It doesn't look
much different than someone walking up to their own car, getting in and leaving
and they had a cop come talk to their hoa or something and explain this
all. And I guess it was just fascinating the procedures in which these are
being stolen, because I just read an article yesterday about DFW auto thefts being
through the roof as well. But I couldn't believe forty percent. It has
gone up in a year and projected I think go up even further this year.
Dude. I've seen little mini documentaries and features on this stuff where if
you have the right equipment, it's it's nothing to these people to sit and
wait in parking garages and if they are in proximity to you. When you
hit your little beat beat thing it try it picks up that infrared signal and
deciphers it, and it can and it can clone that exact same infrared signal
onto a blank key fob. That's just what clones. What what you have
in your pocket? They walk right up, hit chirp, Well off the
drive. It's very similar. But I think the cops said, these guys
or cows can drive by a parking lot hitting a button and know that if
they've almost already unlocked a car, like they get the signal first and then
you pull it in and like, okay, this one, Well the number
one cop next week then maybe yeah, the top cop tomorrow at eight downbeat
singing pot of gold. Don't miss that, God leave, don't make tomorrow
a downbeat singing tomorrow. Here is some audio to end the scuttle butt on
a high note. Uh, we got a Chubbs Peterson story here in California,
I'm sorry. In Florida, man lose his hand dude to alligator.
Alligator attack that's sent one man to the hospital. That gator bit off a
fisherman's hand near a golf course in Leesburg, and Fox thirty five's Kelsey Karens
joins us live from the hospital in downtown Orlando where that man was airlifted.
Kelsey, you spoke exclusively with the man who called for help. That witness
is still shaken up over this nasty attack. That witness telling me just hours
ago he saw the guy screaming in pain right in his backyard and minus one
hand. A nine foot gator bit his arm. Is this regarding a dator
attack? Yes, he took his hand off. Oh no, okay,
the hand is gone. The guy had caught this fish. Her hand is
gone? Is gone? An incredible Oh no again all jeez and the nine
one one, Oh okay, very calm there. This is an amazing And
I say later in the slip too, there's another n run call with another
very bored and I want to take but gator bit his arm. Is this
regarding a dator attack? Yes, he took his hand off. Oh no,
okay, hand is gone. The guy had caught this fish. Ron's
wife called nine one one Bernie's and I saw fingers. Guy had caught this
fish. Ron's wife called nine one one. The gaiteror got the guy in
the hand and the two rolled. There's a gator attacking man in my backyard.
The people now have stopped under golf part. The gator was after this
fish, and what we don't know is if the guy was trying to unhook
the fish, he says. The gater then ran back into the water,
ditching the fish and the fisherman. As for the man's dismembered hand, it's
my understanding that the fish and wildlife people can't dispose of a human part.
It has to be sent to a medical facility. And so in the odd
chance that it could have been reattached, they drove it to Orlando. What
a wild story to start your week. Now, As for a protocol,
FWC actually shot what they call a nuisance skater and shot the alley ass fish
will do. And if we had universal health care, he would have gotten
the treatment that he needed. Fifty four percent of people with an alligat attack
lose that hand. I never get wild call. That was a wild call
and a wild story to start your week. Thank you, Kevin. Hand
is gone. Hand is gone? Oh no, no, all right,
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