Speaker 1: Thursdays, it's time for tech Talk.
Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.
Speaker 3: This is tech Talk, brought to you by Sky Nett.
Speaker 1: And Mark Saltzman.
Speaker 2: It joins us on Thursday as we talk about the
Speaker 2: world of technology. First of all, Mark, I want to
Speaker 2: congratulate you on your four hundredth episode of the Tech
Speaker 2: It Out radio show and podcast.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I started in July twenty seventeen, so yeah, fifty a
Speaker 4: year checks. So yeah, we're going to give away a
Speaker 4: laptop courtesy of a SEUs to a lucky listener this week.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the new podcast episode will drop tomorrow on
Speaker 4: iHeart and yeah, it's simply called tech it Out. If
Speaker 4: you want to know how to be eligible to win,
Speaker 4: it's all at the front of the show. But essentially,
Speaker 4: if you're on social media, just use the hashtag tack
Speaker 4: it out and tag me and we're going to be
Speaker 4: having a random draw on the third of July. And yeah,
Speaker 4: it's going to be sent by a SUS to you directly.
Speaker 4: You just have to be in the continental US eighteen
Speaker 4: or older. So yeah, thanks for that, Cary, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You've been so nice to you and Shannon plug it
Speaker 4: every week and certainly that helps. The radio show version
Speaker 4: is also on your sister station on the Patriot.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had your car stolen?
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 4: There have been an attempt on my wife's truck, and yeah,
Speaker 4: we had a really loud alarm, which is a good deterrent,
Speaker 4: and the lights flashed and they took off and we
Speaker 4: watched it on the ring camera after the fact.
Speaker 3: But no, A lot of my friends have had their
Speaker 3: vehicles lifted over the last couple of years. It's become
Speaker 3: a bit of an epidemic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, many years ago, but I had two different cars
Speaker 2: stolen within about three or four years of each other.
Speaker 4: It's the worst, so violated, right, whether your car is
Speaker 4: broken into or outright stolen, it's still you feel just
Speaker 4: so violated and it's aggravating. And then even if your
Speaker 4: car hasn't been stolen, you're paying through your insurance for
Speaker 4: all the other car thefts in your neighborhood. Believe you meet,
Speaker 4: your rates are going up, your premium are going up,
Speaker 4: even if you take these safeguards, which I'm happy to
Speaker 4: share because I wrote this piece on how to use
Speaker 4: tech and some other non techy, sort of common sense
Speaker 4: ways to reduce the odds of your car being stolen.
Speaker 4: But you're still a victim even when you're not. That's
Speaker 4: the really frustrating part here. Yeah, I noticed some of
Speaker 4: them are very low tech, which is one of them.
Speaker 4: Iss park in your garage, right, if you're fortunate to
Speaker 4: have a garage parking it. Yeah, and try not to
Speaker 4: have any windows on your garage or at least have
Speaker 4: them tinted or you know where you can't see what's inside,
Speaker 4: so out of sight, out of mine is the easy
Speaker 4: sort of solution. And if you do have to park
Speaker 4: on your driveway, then at least have the you know,
Speaker 4: bright lights and security cameras that can both act as
Speaker 4: a detern and prove as video evidence should you need it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, a lot of people have those floodlights that.
Speaker 4: When you pull onto your driveway they detect motion and
Speaker 4: they automatically turn on.
Speaker 3: So that's good. Thieves do not like that, so that's
Speaker 3: a good idea.
Speaker 4: Or if you park it in your garage and you're
Speaker 4: lucky enough to have a second, less expensive car, a
Speaker 4: low tech tip is to just park that cheaper car
Speaker 4: behind your priceier one. Some other suggestions by an inexpensive
Speaker 4: Faraday pouch or box which prevents the electronic signal from
Speaker 4: being hacked wirelessly. You know, just put it as low
Speaker 4: as ten bucks on Amazon and keep your fob away
Speaker 4: from the front door if you can put it more
Speaker 4: in the center of your home in that Faraday pouch.
Speaker 4: Consider an anti theft steering wheel lock or the actual
Speaker 4: wheel locks for those who want it. There's also that
Speaker 4: OBD port onboard diagnostic support which is usually below into
Speaker 4: the left of your steering wheel. Some people lock that
Speaker 4: as well, so that can't be tampered with easily. I mean,
Speaker 4: anything is possible when there's a will, there's a way.
Speaker 4: You want to add as much time as possible because
Speaker 4: the thieves do not have that time, or at least
Speaker 4: install an aftermarket car a mobilizer, so if you don't
Speaker 4: use a key or a pin code to officially start
Speaker 4: your car, it will stop running or not start at all.
Speaker 3: So there's lots of different things.
Speaker 4: If your car is stolen and you have a GPS
Speaker 4: tracker in there, like a lowjack or even an air
Speaker 4: tag which is just twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: Not a bad idea, but never try to retrieve your
Speaker 3: car on your own. Don't don't anymore?
Speaker 4: Yes, right, bring it to the authorities, hopefully they'll help you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've heard mixed stories about that. But never try to
Speaker 4: go into a sketchy neighborhood and look for your car
Speaker 4: on your own with a baseball bat.
Speaker 1: Not a good idea. It's not going to end well.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's it. I guess.
Speaker 4: One more is that if you have a dash cam,
Speaker 4: which a lot of people like a dashboard camera, the
Speaker 4: newer ones have what's called a parking mode, and so
Speaker 4: when you hop into the mall or you're having dinner
Speaker 4: at a restaurant and you valley your vehicle, the camera
Speaker 4: lies sort of idle until it senses motion or sound
Speaker 4: directly around the car and then starts recording. And that
Speaker 4: way you can even get a pushed notification to your
Speaker 4: phone and even.
Speaker 3: Have two way talk.
Speaker 4: You could say the guys, the cops are coming, get out,
Speaker 4: and that may help as well. But a parking mode
Speaker 4: is a nice feature to look forward at dash cam.
Speaker 4: So if you want to learn about these ten.
Speaker 2: Tips, I point out how Canadian it is for you
Speaker 2: to warn the guys, just so you know, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Then we say sorry, sorry, sorry about you.
Speaker 4: Please go about your business, all right, I deserve that Gary,
Speaker 4: fair enough, fair enough in my Canadian accent.
Speaker 3: Sorry guys, that's gree but no, all.
Speaker 4: Kidding aside, If you want to try to reduce the
Speaker 4: odds of your car being stolen or being busted into
Speaker 4: to steal the contents like that you've got and that's
Speaker 4: another tip, don't leave valuables along around to tempt would
Speaker 4: be thieves. Just google my name, Mark Saltzman, Mark with
Speaker 4: a C and car thefts and you'll you'll see the
Speaker 4: article that I wrote. That's very a little bit more
Speaker 4: detail than what we just shared. Yeah, very very nice.
Speaker 2: And again you said people can just use the hashtag
Speaker 2: tech it out for the option and the opportunity to
Speaker 2: to win that Asis X fifteen Chromebook laptop.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, a week from today, the third
Speaker 3: of July.
Speaker 4: It'll be randomly chosen, but they have to meet the
Speaker 4: requirements of being in the continental US and eighteen or older.
Speaker 4: And yeah, it'll be I'm going to use that random
Speaker 4: can't remember the website. I'll look it up where it's
Speaker 4: a full random drop, So good luck. Yeah, appreciate the plug,
Speaker 4: Gary
Speaker 2: Of course, Mark, thank you again you too, hope follow
Speaker 2: Mark on X of course m arc underscore Saltzman with
Speaker 2: a Z and you'll find out more information about the
Speaker 2: potential opportunity for you to win that Chromebook