Speaker 1: Scam Alert. I love to let you guys know about scams.
Speaker 1: JB brought one up, Tricia knew all about it. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of new to it, so fill us in, please.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know, you got to spread the word.
Speaker 2: People are getting tricked right and left. And I started
Speaker 2: to fall into one. And then you know, the first
Speaker 2: sign is if it seems too good to be true,
Speaker 2: that's when your radarch just start going off. And might
Speaker 2: didn't go off fast enough because it looked so legit.
Speaker 3: I got this.
Speaker 2: Post on my story feed right and it's it said,
Speaker 2: you know you heard of the bike company Specialize their
Speaker 2: big time, and it says from bicycle Outlets, Specialized eighty
Speaker 2: percent off blowout satellite for the biggest summer sale ever.
Speaker 2: You click on it and it takes you to a
Speaker 2: site that looks like Specialized the company. Even on the
Speaker 2: bottom of it it says special nineteen ninety six to.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five, whatever years they've been around.
Speaker 2: All rights reserved, and it has you know, everything that
Speaker 2: you would see mountain bikes, rode bike, scramble bikes, e bikes, helmets, peril,
Speaker 2: just you name it, gloves, shoes, But the prices were
Speaker 2: like they were legit eighty percent off.
Speaker 3: I was like, what is going on here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I sent it to a friend of my new works
Speaker 2: for specialized and he's like, oh, yeah, that's a scam.
Speaker 3: I go, wow, it just looks so legit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, and so you someone's going to go, oh,
Speaker 2: this is too good of a sale, impulsively click on it,
Speaker 2: spend you know, one thousand dollars on something that should be.
Speaker 3: Eight thousand dollars and they're just going to keep your money.
Speaker 3: That seems to do nothing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you get you nothing, but it's I mean,
Speaker 2: I think that's that's kind of the newest, latest craze.
Speaker 3: It looks very legit, and then you see one but
Speaker 3: with different products.
Speaker 5: Tricia I did. I almost fell for it. For on
Speaker 5: running tennis shoes. Oh yeah, they had this really good
Speaker 5: looking shoe and it was eighty percent off and like
Speaker 5: you go to it. It was like twenty five dollars for
Speaker 5: a shoe that can be like one hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it looked.
Speaker 5: So real, right, But there was just something inside me
Speaker 5: that just red flag immediate was like, there's no way,
Speaker 5: why would they do this? And I looked around and
Speaker 5: the domain was funky. You always click on the domain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2: Now, my wife and daughter have gotten in the habit
Speaker 2: when they see something they send it to me to investigate, like, hey,
Speaker 2: is this legit? This seems weird, whether it's bill collectors, oh,
Speaker 2: police saying you've got a warrant like, it's hitting you
Speaker 2: like all the time now from all angles, all kinds
Speaker 2: of scams, right, just crazy and I you know, And
Speaker 2: one of the things you should teach anyone listening to
Speaker 2: you know, if you're listening to this, teach the rest
Speaker 2: of your family.
Speaker 3: If you get a call.
Speaker 2: From anything that you use, your bank, your credit card, whatever,
Speaker 2: just tell them okay, because they're giving you some kind
Speaker 2: of alert or has to do or something like that.
Speaker 2: Say all right, I'm going to hang up and call
Speaker 2: the number on the back.
Speaker 3: Of the car.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Don't just start sharing information with somebody who called you ever, ever, ever, ever, Like,
Speaker 2: just say, hang on when I or when I get home,
Speaker 2: which usually you're out and about when I get home,
Speaker 2: let me log on the site. I'll call the official
Speaker 2: number and take care of it. Then you just went
Speaker 2: through this, didn't you with your daughter. Right, Yeah, they
Speaker 2: they had her going and they said they were calling
Speaker 2: from that she had a breach. Wait, no, her Apple Pay.
Speaker 2: She had a problem with her Apple Pay and then
Speaker 2: they you know, they tucked her into logging into her
Speaker 2: iCloud account.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they could then they.
Speaker 2: Access whatever whatever card is linked to your Apple Pay.
Speaker 3: They just take whatever they can. Now, I'll give you
Speaker 3: a quick and then you lose your iCloud account.
Speaker 1: To totally sucks. You can't get that back. Yeah, quick
Speaker 1: tip for you though, and it's the easy thing to do.
Speaker 1: You may have seen commercials for trying to get you
Speaker 1: to buy home title protection, right have you seen those
Speaker 1: people forge documents, then they get the title to your home,
Speaker 1: and then they start getting loans and you don't even
Speaker 1: know this is going on.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's how they get access to your title.
Speaker 1: They just they forge documents, they and they have everything
Speaker 1: and then they start getting.
Speaker 3: Loans borrowing from your home. Actly. All right, So I
Speaker 3: just got to notice this.
Speaker 2: Morning, but from my lender on the home mortgage that
Speaker 2: I have an X amount of equity.
Speaker 1: But so the key the thing is with this this
Speaker 1: home title protection, you know that's going to cost you
Speaker 1: money to do that to get it, because they'll notif
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, security against someone's stealing it. When
Speaker 1: really all you have to do and everybody should do
Speaker 1: this is log in and freeze your credit. Freeze your
Speaker 1: credit that way, anytime someone tries to get a loan
Speaker 1: using your information, they can't because it's locked and only
Speaker 1: you can unlock it. So it just that just saves
Speaker 1: a lot of running around trying to cover every single
Speaker 1: base and getting defrauded.
Speaker 2: Is just freeze your credit and it's simple unfreeze it
Speaker 2: when you do a major fact. And I use LifeLock too.
Speaker 2: It has saved me.
Speaker 1: We have LifeLock, don't we Trisia, we are equifacts LifeLock.
Speaker 4: We have Experience. No, it's Equifax and it covers.
Speaker 5: Like that's how we have our social security numbers locked
Speaker 5: and it monitors all three of the credit reports and
Speaker 5: you get a notice every month if anything has changed
Speaker 5: at all, and protects it. It is the whole thing.
Speaker 5: It's like, I don't know, thirty bucks a month does
Speaker 5: all the things.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of ways to protect yourself. Boy,
Speaker 3: there's nothing worse.
Speaker 1: I've never gone through it, thank goodness, and knock on wood,
Speaker 1: identity theft. But I know people that have and it's
Speaker 1: is just the unwinding of a huge mess every time.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it happens to you, I definitely don't
Speaker 1: want to mess around with it again. I guess the
Speaker 1: story the moral of the story here and the lesson is, hey,
Speaker 1: if it looks too good to be true, if there's
Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars a pair of tennis shoes on
Speaker 1: sale for twenty five dollars, it's too good to be true.
Speaker 3: It just they always always are coming up.
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Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: We have to talk about a law that was passed
Speaker 5: in Texas regarding barbecue and meat. This is definitely the
Speaker 5: Land of Barbecue and me all right.
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Speaker 5: All right, So everybody's been an uproar in Texas.
Speaker 4: Ever plant based meat, like not real meat, plant based meat.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm talking about, looks like meat, but
Speaker 5: it's not actually from any kind of an animal. Then
Speaker 5: people started getting fired up about meat grown in a lab.
Speaker 5: But nobody in Texas needs to worry because a new
Speaker 5: law passed in this past session that has made it
Speaker 5: illegal to sell or consume protein grown in a lab
Speaker 5: for human consumption, which I have to tell you, I
Speaker 5: don't know how anybody ever thought that was going to
Speaker 5: not be a law put in into effect in the
Speaker 5: state of Texas, known for barbecue and meat. But here's
Speaker 5: something I think is funny. We have something called the
Speaker 5: Texas Southwest Cattle Raisers Association, and there is a man
Speaker 5: named Karl ray Polk who spoke at one of the
Speaker 5: committee meetings, and immediately when I read his name, I
Speaker 5: was like, of course that's where he worked.
Speaker 4: His name is Carl ray Polk.
Speaker 5: When the man was born, he was destined to work
Speaker 5: on some sort of cattle meat committee with that name.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Texas is the seventh state to ban the
Speaker 5: sale of lab grown meat.
Speaker 4: So our barbecue is safe. Things.
Speaker 1: The biggest mistake they made with this this fake meat
Speaker 1: is what they named it lab grown.
Speaker 3: I'm not interested in the lab grown lab.
Speaker 1: It was a lot I think of peatrie dishes and
Speaker 1: funguses and labs.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to eat meat from a lab period.
Speaker 1: But it turns out there's been some new information that
Speaker 1: comes out that this has all been a bunch of
Speaker 1: bologney anyway, Like these plant.
Speaker 2: Based meats are yeah, we've been we've been sold a
Speaker 2: lot of like plant based meat substitutes turnout, So I
Speaker 2: don't know which ones are good or bad, but like
Speaker 2: didn't didn't like that beyond meat. It's like we found
Speaker 2: out it's not that healthy for you, right, it all
Speaker 2: it's all marketing.
Speaker 5: Also, one of the big oppositions to this, which I
Speaker 5: feel like applies to plant based meats, is that there's
Speaker 5: a lack of long term health studies to find out
Speaker 5: like how it will eventually down the road affect you,
Speaker 5: which is the same as the issue that they're having
Speaker 5: with the lab grown meat.
Speaker 2: So here's here's the deal with. You know, if you
Speaker 2: choose not to eat meat, that's good on you. That's great.
Speaker 2: You don't need to make meat substitutes, just don't.
Speaker 4: Steve.
Speaker 2: Eat your yeah, eat your other stuff, eat your veggies
Speaker 2: and plants and whatever you want. But you know, you
Speaker 2: don't need to make a fake meat if you're not
Speaker 2: im By the way.
Speaker 1: Don't call it a hot dog, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like, that's what Sandy gets so mad about that these
Speaker 4: still call it.
Speaker 3: Still it's not a hot dog. You made it look
Speaker 3: like a hot dog.
Speaker 1: But it's not a hot It's a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: just shaped in it like a hot dog, not a
Speaker 1: hot dog.
Speaker 4: Sat shape sheep. That's even grocery.
Speaker 1: Formed into a hot dog. So but you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, and jib you should do this too.
Speaker 1: You can go to Costco.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 1: I saw this on an Instagram video and and cut
Speaker 1: your own steaks.
Speaker 3: I'm doing that.
Speaker 1: You can buy like a big and I saved the
Speaker 1: video a big hunk of meat. And she's the video
Speaker 1: I watched, said it was hut and seventy bucks. And
Speaker 1: then she cut two fingers worth with of steak on
Speaker 1: each of them. They were New York strip steaks, right,
Speaker 1: and she got thirteen steaks out of it. So just
Speaker 1: you know, less than ten bucks of steak.
Speaker 3: Oh, I see, So I big.
Speaker 5: Slap and take it home and cut it at home
Speaker 5: and then freeze exactly. Ah, it's the same as when
Speaker 5: my grandparents butchered cows, the cows on their ranch.
Speaker 4: And had them cut up.
Speaker 5: They don't know if they did it themselves and then
Speaker 5: freeze it had a giant freezer full of steak.
Speaker 3: We're making vegetarians cry. That's not the first time they cry.
Speaker 3: I feel like they cried every They cry every day.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just I just saw I just saw a video
Speaker 2: where a woman was talking to a tree and making
Speaker 2: it maybe and talking about how plants have feelings and stuff.
Speaker 3: So then you.
Speaker 4: Start death.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 1: You always said the funniest thing about the dolphs the
Speaker 1: tuna safe dolphins? Are the dolphins safe tunas? Why didn't
Speaker 1: you that said that? You know, what about the use
Speaker 1: I said it?
Speaker 2: What about the Yeah, I don't know why you gave
Speaker 2: me credit you I first heard that from you.
Speaker 3: You were like, dolphin save tuna? What about that? It's
Speaker 3: in the can?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: Well? Good for Texas.
Speaker 1: We're not going to have any of that lab grown
Speaker 1: meat around it because you would you go to a
Speaker 1: barbecue place that said lab grown barbecue.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not, absolutely not.
Speaker 5: Your homestad in Nebraska is one of the other states
Speaker 5: that has banned it already.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a huge business and here's it is
Speaker 1: here too, But I mean, just yeah, just cattle and
Speaker 1: the meat business pretty big.
Speaker 3: So that's the story we love.
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