Boonta Vista - EPISODE 261: Steal A Kia Sorento Challenge 2022

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

Theo, Andrew and Ben bring you: A short and sweet Poll Report (not including the theme), a new kind of viral car crime, a New Hampshire-based Doofwagon, and a Nick Skitz update. *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Merchandise: shop.boontavista.com/ Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Hello and welcome to Buena Vista episode 261. I am Ben and I am here at the Papaginioli's racist pizzerie. Oh, I'm making a pizza over here. I'm making a pizza so fresh and it's so racist. You gotta take a one bite and say, mama me, I hate a Latin American so much. I want a spray paint anti-Latin American slogans all over my 2007 Fiat 500. Who with me is my son, Gino? He's making the best pizza pie and he makes it so good and so racist. You have a single slice of that racist pizza pie.

You gotta start doing open mic nights with jokes about Asian drivers. It's so good and so racist. You have a single slice of that, a racist pizza pie. You gotta start doing open micnights with jokes about Asian drivers. It's Andrew. Oh, Papa. Oh, you make it a pizza so racist, so racist. I make you so proud. I make you so proud you look and you say, that's my son, he's even more racist than me. I take a slice. It's so beautiful and racist. even more racist than me. I take us. I say, this is a racist pizza pie and I cry.

It's so beautiful and racist. It's what we all hope for that our children get an opportunity to become even more racist than us. Can my sons make a pizza pie so racist even I cannot eat it in good conscience? I hope so. I hope so. Oh, it's the proudest day of my life for Papa. I'm reporting my son to the hag for how racist his pizza pie is. Also with me, is my other son, Gino. He has a gift. He knows the pizza tie.

He knows the beautiful, perfect secrets of making a racist pizza pie. His pizza got to make your racist faster than the YouTube algorithm. It's Theo. Hey, Theo. Mamma me, I take no pride in my work. I use my hands that God gave me. And he said to me, Gino, you make it the pizza pie, you never go out near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near near the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I, he. I. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He's. He's. He's. He's. He's. t. t. together. together, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the me, Geno, you make it the pizza pie, you never go near the Greek people. You look at the pictures of what did I do?

Stick with what you know, the pizza pie. I take a one bite of my baby brother's pizza pie and I say, Hey, who's going to take care of the white farmers in South Africa? Man, this fucking podcast is so stupid. Every fucking week, two times a week, one of us has 45 seconds to put some words at the start of an episode. And every single week, two times a week, two times a week, the week, times a week, the time. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the wa? the wi. the the wi. the wi. the wi. the wi. the wa??. I the the the the the the wa?. the w. the w. the w. the the the the the the the the w the the the w the the the the w the the w the w the w the w the w. the w. the w. the wa ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. ti. times a week, one of us has 45 seconds to put some words at the start of an episode, every single week, two times a week, we make sure that anyone that's listening to this podcast for the first time is like, all right, I'm out. I'm going back to my favorite murder.

Now, how, how, you reckon we're gonna we to weasel our way over this article? Well, I don't know, but I wouldn't start from here. Oh, are we still in the racist pizzeria? No, I think we should leave the racist pizzeria before we get to where we're going next. That's a shame. Stepping outside the racist pizzer. I think it was wise to jettison the racist pizzerererererereriaeeezerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerzerizzer. We should have got there real fast from the racist pizzer. Yeah, we could have. Real big launch pad from the racist pizzer. I think we're going to leave the racist

pizzer at the start of the episode and maybe never go back there. Who knows? Terrible place. Not nice. All the pizzas are racist. Yeah. One star on menu log, because they won't let me give it a zero. I don't know why I'm down there if I'm ordering it online. This is all falling apart. Just like the US? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, that's where the information in the next thing is coming from. I guess that's true. Okay. Anyway, we have we have we we we we we we we we we we. We have we have we. We have that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's the the the the the the the that's that's the that's that's that's that's that's that's that's. that's. that's. that's that's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. the. the. theat. theat. the. theat. the. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. th. the information in the next thing is coming from. Anyway, we have some important data for you about the United States coming up in another edition of The Pole Report. As to the Sheld tree, Oshkwoven Oskarchenchen! Hush! O'clock, theen Boste! O'Connellfrey! Zoolien'en O'Connellie in Zoolchen's swore theirs'the ocean the ocean

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It is truly phenomenal. How many of those lines you could mentally fit the words Polsky or Gorky into maybe try to pass the time while that theme song is playing. That is of course the theme song for the poll report, not to be confused with the poll report. This is where we talk about statistics, data sets, hard numbers. Yeah, we're kind of big data guides here. Yeah, I mean you're kind of medium-sized. These numbers are swollen. These are some tergid numbers.

This is a very, very short installment of the poll report. So I have some polling data made available by the US Social Security Administration. This is taken from name change data from 2017 to 2022. So I have sort of cherry picked from a longer list, two sets of facts for you. I'm going to give you two lists that are two items long. The first list is the two most commonly adopted first names in the US when people change their

first name. Does that make sense? So someone's gone, hello, US Social Security Administration. I would like to change my first name and I'm going to change it two. So these are the two most popular names who choose when they do that. I want to hot swap their name. Yes. The second most popular, I'm doing this in reverse order.

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Pretty normal. Perfectly normal names. Here comes the second data set that I'd like to give you. So these two names that I'm about to give you are the names people have most commonly changed from. Right, yep. Uh-huh. Yeah.

I see the trajectory. So when someone has gone to the US Social Security Administration that said, I'd like to change my first name, these are the two most common names people have as the name they get changed. In second place, we have Cholle. The C-H-O-L-E. Come on, no. Come on, no. Come on, no.

No, man. Oh, dear. And in first place, we have I-sac. I-D-S-A-C. Just a bummer for everyone involved, isn't it? That's just a little bit of harmless fun. You know, you're in a stressful situation. You've just, you know, you've just had a child, and you're thinking, how many S's and A's-a's are there in Isaac? And you've made a tiny little

flub there. When I first saw the two lists of names they gave, I didn't actually see the typos in Chloe or in Isaac, so I thought that both lists were the same, that the most common names to adopt were also the most common names people were changing away from, which I thought was baffling, but no it's just's just a beautiful, beautiful equilibrium. Yeah, the where, the natural balance of things. There must be a set number of clothes in Isaacs. Apparently, I think what this data is telling us is that those are the two names people misspell on birth certificates the most. Yeah, like they're rocking up in the, look. Um, this is weird, my name, the name, the name, the name, the name, the name, the name, the name, the name, the name, their they look, um, this is weird, my name is, uh, troll. I know thell. Which kind of sounds like a nothing name, but you have to have to understand there was a typo. My name should actually be Isaac. So they got every letter wrong. Yeah, except for the C obviously.

They got that correct. I think Chole would be a beautiful name for a good. They got one yellow on the game that everyone's playing. Hey, is everyone playing that wordle game? You guys seeing this wordle game? Every now and then you'll see celebs post their wordle scores, like mire. They're like four tries to get my wordled. I'm like oh everyone stopped playing that

like three months ago and also don't you have a robot that sucks you off? Well that concludes the poll report I think that might actually be about the same run title as the theme song was. Beautiful. That's just fun. Yeah I was certainly monitoring the time on was. Beautiful. That's just fun. Everything in balance. I was certainly monitoring the time on that one. It's something that you might do on a clock. And one of the noises that clocks make, Tick Tock. It's time for Tick Tock Watch. This is grim, man. Choppy seas today folks. Thousand yards away, lining up my sights, adjusting for wind speed, wind direction, the drop

of the bullet, perfectly nailing it. Coming into land with the front landing gear snapped clean off This is from WVIT News in Connecticut A teenager who was arrested sounds normal so far. Yeah, lock them all up. I say Yeah, I guess peering out my window dialing zero, as I see teens walking past. Finger hovering. Arrested, very normal, for stealing a car, makes sense. So far, so good. What else are you going to do?

On Tuesday, told officers that he did it because he was following a trend on tick-talk, according to police. Yeah, dog. Just before we get into the rest of this article, do, do, do, do, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, the, tod, tod, tod, today, tod, te, te, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, te, te, te, te, te, thea, thea, thea, thea, thea, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thes. thea, thea. thea. te. tea. tea.ea. te.ea. te.e. te.e.e. te.e. te. te. te. te., according to police. Just before we get into the rest of this article, do you two want to have a stab at guessing what the Tick Tock trend is? Yeah, it's stealing cars. It's the Steeler Carra try, 22. Officers were called to the intersection of Karam Avenue and Hill Street, just after midnight after getting a report of young males attempting to break into vehicles. Authority said the males were in a Hyundai or

if you're an American a Hyundai? What do they call? Freak place. What do they call them? Fucking around out there? Uh, authorities said the males were in a hiaunday that was reported stolen out of another town. Police later learned that a vehicle was stolen from Shelton. Dunn, da. Investigators said officers found the suspected stolen vehicle out of Shelton driving on the Derby Shelton Bridge. When police conducted a motor vehicle stop, they said they arrested a 16 year old from Ansonia 16.

I don't reckon I could have stolen the car at 16. No. What an industrious teen. Also Ansonia sounds like a symptom that your depression medication gives you. Yeah. I can't, sorry, I have Ansonia. But you go ahead if you want to. Or depression is one of the side effects of my medication, Ansonia. Yeah. Yeah. The teen is facing charges including larceny, burglary, criminal Trova? That can't be anything. Hey? What? Excuse me? Huh? Criminal Trover. It's a form of lawsuit in common law countries for recovery of damages for wrongful taking of personal property. Huh. Do you want to keep reading that paragraph because the end of it has a... I am having a stroke word in it.

Trova belongs to a series of remedies for such wrongful taking. It's distinctive feature being recovery only for the value of whatever was taken not for the recovery of the property itself. C. Replevan. of whatever was taken, not for the recovery of the property itself. C, repleven. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh, this this replevin has really got me constipated. I tell you. My doctor took me off Ansoni and put me on replven and it's not working out for me. The trove was sort of meant to help with some of the symptoms were a plevavid,

but the cocktail the two of them is done treating me well. Oh dear. This is like what was the, what was the crime that we were talking about? The other way it was the guy, it was the guy who sold somebody else's house. Yes. And they were like, we're doing you for for fraud you for the th you for the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the guy. It the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy th. It was the guy th. It was th. It was the. It was th. It was the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy. It was the guy the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy. It was the guy the guy the guy the guy th. It was th. It was th. It was th. It was th. It was th. It was th. It was th. It was th. th. It was th. th. th. th. tho. th. tho. th. th. th. th. th. th And they were like, we're doing you for fraud, identity theft, stealing. Money laundering. Money laundering, selling something over the phone and the internet and stealing also twice. And I was like, just stick up with one crime. Yeah.

Yeah. So this is like, team is facing charges including larceny, criminal Trova grow up and operating a motor vehicle without a license. Quote, tick-tock does not condone. It would be very funny if the spokesperson said, tick-tac-to'-tose not this behavior. If they had the AI voice, wouldn't that be funny? Yeah. Yeah. Not only.

You haven't got one of those Tick Tock wives. No, you need a... No, certainly not. The rest of us have Tick Tock wives, except for Lucy, who is the Tick-Tock wife? Looked at your left. Look to your right. Tick to their right. Tick does not condone this behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior behavior removed if found on our platform," a Tick Tock spokesperson said in a statement.

According to police, the teen said he stole the vehicle because he was following a trend on Tick Tock where Yondays are targeted. Sounds racist. Sounds like something someone at a racist pizza store came up with. Where are Kia's from Korea? Are they from Korea? I don't know. And aren't Hyundai Hyundai is also from Korea? Ah, yeah. He's good. This man knows about Korean cars. There thin go. Sounds like anti-Korean bias from the teens of America. Since Saturday police said there have been six vehicles reported stolen in Shelton. Of those six vehicles, five of Hyundai's and one is a Kia.

Now, do we dig into why? Yes, we did. Here we go. But I feel like they really did it a disservice in this article, which we'll get into with the next one. But it's very funny to be like, oh, it's the trend where you steal a Kia O'Hiondaya, then you leave it at that with like no further. Like, because you're really setting it up for people to be like, the trend is that you make a viral video of yourself stealing a Kia Sorento, which would be hilarious, and I hope people are doing that. I'm going to get on TikTok. Hmm. Videos are yourself doing a crime? It's the do-a-crime challenge.

I mean, that's exactly I think what like older people than us think is happening on the internet. Yeah. If they just log on to a video app that says, I dare you to kill your stepdad. So from the Dayton Daily News, Kia Hyundai try to to to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight to fight thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. It thi. It thi. It their their their their their their their their their their their their their thi. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It is thi. It is thi. It's thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I just just just just doa. I just doa''uui. Ia'uiooome. Doe. Doe. Doe. Doe. Doe. I their their their thdad. So, from the Dayton Daily News, Kia Hyundai try to fight back against Tick-Tock YouTube theft trend. Two auto manufacturers say they are taking steps to try to curb the rise in thefts of their vehicles including providing steering wheel locks to police in impacted areas and affected car owners. Car thieves in Dayton and other cities across the Midwest and the Nation. Feels like you could make that sentence shorter.

The Nation's the whole thing, yeah? Yeah. People from Twomba, Queensland and all Australia. Have been targeting certain Kia and Hyundai vehicles because police say they have a security flaw that makes them easy to steal That has been shared all over social media maybe not Racist, no, no, they're just doing a car. Yeah, they're just doing a car haqa. Yeah, I wonder what the security floor is. Why do the Hyundai care they already sold the car. Yeah. Hey, we can sell you another Hyundai. Yeah.

That's your accent, pal. Your problem. We fixed it. Wink. Quote, Kear America remains concerned about the increase in auto thefts of a subset of Kia vehicles, the company said in a statement. It is unfortunate that criminals are using social media to target vehicles without engine immobilizers in a coordinated effort. Maybe I should have bought a car with an immobilizer, you know?

Yeah, or just call the insurance, get a new car. Do secure is owned by Hyundai. Oh, I didn't know that. Can I ask a. Can I ask a dumb guy question real quick, Theo? Do immobilizers essentially make like trying to steal the car redundant? I don't know. I don't know if it's like find your car for... I don't know anything about engine immobilizers. It's none of my business.

If you've stolen my car, have a great time. I'm leaving that engine running. Because people used to get like aftermarket immobilizers put on their cars, right? And it was like, you know, you'd get your like aftermarket car alarm put on your car. And you could also get an aftermarket immobilizer put on, so when you, with your little key fob, your immobilizer would come on. And it's my understanding that now it's just a completely default part of cars. Because I always find myself thinking, can you steal a new car without just having the keys to the car? Yeah, like it's a it's definitely a

vanishing thing. I assume nobody is trying to like gone in 60 seconds my car is what I'm saying. No like the only time that they that they're really stealing newer cars that have you know the electronic fobs etc is if that if there's a flaw in the programming which certainly sounds like that's what's happening here. Otherwise, you're forced to just do the knockout game on the driver and take the key. Absolutely, that's the through line. Make sure you film it though. That's two Tick-Tox in point.

The knockout game Ke Kia Theft Challenge. While it's unclear how many vehicles have this design vulnerability, data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles shows that there are more than 475,000 Kiaes in Hianda is registered in the state, including more than 61,000 in the local Miami Valley region. And Miami Valley is in Ohio? No idea. We've got car thieves in Dayton. Dayton's in Ohio, isn't it? That's right, yeah. The birthplace of Funk, Dayton, Ohio. Dayton police say thieves have been exploiting a security design floor in Key is made since 2011 and Hyundai is made since 2015. The security vulnerability means

thieves can break open the steering columns on these vehicles and use a common USB charging cord to turn the ignition and start the engines. Awesome. Now we're talking. Yeah. All right I'm pro this now. I'm turning around on this vehicle challenge. I mean you're gonna get into the carthe car, you gotta smash a window I guess. Yeah, you probably still gotta do that part. Although I mean, how hard is it to do the fucking coat hanger into the door to lift up a thing these days? That's, that part's still the same. I reckon it's pretty hard.

No, they don't have the thing anymore. Yeah,? Yeah, yeah, mine's just got a little red dot on it. Don't have the thing that the they used to be like the little motioning up and down in our It's like you try to explain this to a child. It's sort of because they used to have the push down lock that was like a sort of golf tea shaped thing. You know, and you could get loop something around it and pull it up. But now a lot of them... I'm talking about getting it inside the door to get the actual lever that's attached to the, the inside of the handle inside the door, which is how you would normally do it. Who's doing the golf toyst-style one? like 80s car crimes. I am because that's when people used to steal cars like that. Yeah, no that's that's 100% how I'd break into my Hyundai Excel,

998. I was breaking into my 1987 Fial Commodore which I would just lock my car keys in repeatedly by doing the getting through the little rubber apron on the outside of the door and getting in there and getting the thing. Oh damn, you can head down to super cheap auto. That store we all know and love. You can head down to super cheap auto and buy yourself a Toledo Universal Lockout Tool kit for 7199. And that comes with a whole bunch of shit for breaking into cars. It's got, you know, you know sometimes when you've seen a movie, someone has like the

thin flat strip of metal and they shove it down the thing and it's got like two different ones of those in it. It's like a bar blade but for stealing a key a Serrento. Yeah, it's like a car blade. Yeah, it's like a car blade. Yeah, I guess that's true. That sounds like the sort of car that the protagonist of Final Fantasy 7 or 8 would drive. The ultimate get out of trouble lockout toolkit featuring all the items needed to access a wide range of vehicles. But you only have one car. I've lost so many keys. Features a comprehensive professional toolkit of specialty automotive lockout tools. I've lost so many keys. Features a comprehensive professional toolkit of specialty automotive lockout tools.

Consult vehicle service workshop repair instructions prior to use. When I locked my keys in my 2000 Ford-Connor line that I bought in the US and immediately locked the keys in within 10 minutes of picking up the car to start my road trip. Pro move. The guy that came out inflated the window apart so he could get a little... Yeah, making it nice and round, yeah. He put some little...

Air sacs in the door sill and then pumped them up, which made a gap in the window wide enough that he could get one of those little grabby arms for like getting dropped bolts and stuff in there to pull up the, uh, the lock thing, which was I thought an interesting technique. Oh, see, I'm looking on Amazon now at a car door unlock kits and such, and one of them, several of them come with the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thate. I th. I thi. I've thi. I thi. I've the. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've thi. I've to get to get to get to get to get to get thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. t t t t t t toge. t toge. t t t toge. t toge. t t toge. t t t the. And one of them, several of them come with little flat pads for you to slip in and it's got a little pump to inflate. Yeah, there we go. It seems like crime is legal.

That's what I'm... Yeah, this one comes with gloves and an LED light on a headband. Are you serious? Awesome that you can just order a crime kit from Amazon for 30 bucks. That rocks. It's so good. It's very funny. What do the gloves have to do with anything?

What's glove got to do with it? You know? That's true. That's very true. Who needs a car? It just says two times gloves. It doesn't say like, oh, the gloves are really important to like sliding the window a little. Or anything like that.

Maybe they're an anti-static measure of some kind. I think they're more of an anti-fingerprin kind of. Don't know. Anyway, 2985 from the villainous Amazon. That's the real crime. He's purchasing things from Jeff Bozo's. You're so goddamn right. Viral videos on Tick Soxo and YouTube give step-by-step instructions on how to steal these vehicles.

Some videos of people stealing cars and joyriding in them have millions of views, and law enforcement believes social media is partly to blame for the rise in thefts of these cars and SUVs. I think that law enforcement should be complaining less about people filming themselves committing crimes and publishing them under their names. Yeah, that's true. I feel like they're helping. Yeah. Key of vehicles that have been going missing usually have insert and turn steel keys. Remember those guys? I really hate how they have phrased that as in like, whoa, what a crazy concept? What are you fucking talking about?

Hey, Theo, does your, uh, Shkoda, Octavia have an insert and turn steel key? Absolutely not. It's got one, so, okay, so you've got the key pop right, it's got the three buttons for front, back, and mid-unlocks and it's got the little button that flicks the key out and I have no idea where that goes because there is no discernible hole on my entire vehicle. That's so that I'm, that's so that's because there is no discernible hole on my entire vehicle. That's so that I'm... Cold-free, completely smooth. Oh, on the outside of the vehicle? Or like, from the steering column?

Yeah. This is insane. When you guys talk about your recent-ish, but not that recent cars, I feel like I'm being visited by Pleadians who are describing their... Oh, my car's very recent. by Pleiadians who are describing their advanced society. Yeah, check this out, vis-a-vis the 2016 Schroeder Octavia. So it took Finn to swimming the other day. And getting him out, getting everyone dressed and stuff is just not a task that I'm good at. I'm a huge fumble tits. You got the, you got the fabric bag that's like slowly sucking up chlorinated water from the ground

that it contains all of the dry clothes. He's screaming because I suck at this and mom's better, etc. Anyway, long and the short of it is, my jumper was in the bag somewhere and my keys were in the jumper pocket. And I also had Finn on my arm, and I kind of slam him into the car seat and strap him down so he can't go anywhere. I put the bag in front of him and then I close that I go to the driver's door and I hit the button that starts my car and the car starts. Drive away. I just don't.

I can't. It's beyond my experience. Yeah. This is an accession in my world. It's beyond my understanding of technology and physics so much that I just, I just start my car by turning the key in the lock, which we've been doing for thousands of years. Yeah. the key in the lock which we've been doing for thousands of years. I walk up to my car with my keys in my pocket and I push a little button on the outside of the door and it goes boop and the mirrors fold themselves out and then the

car is unlocked or if I've got my if I've got my hands full of shopping bags you know how you do. I can walk up I can walk up to the back of my car and I can just swing one foot like under the tailgate and then my tailgate just opens itself up. Fuck off, what are you fucking talking about? You walk up to your car, you go, hey baby, and then a sensuous lady robot voice says, hello, fuck master 69. I've pre-warmed your seat and I've cracked open a beer for you. the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. That's is is is, t. And, t. And, t. And, t. And, t. And, t. t. t. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. ta. And, ta. And, ta. And, t 69. I've pre-warmed your seat and I've cracked open a beer for you. The seat warmers are too effective. Oh my god, what are you talking about? I do not, I do not have a seat-

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And then I go, oh, sorry car, and I open it, I'm gonna get the keys out. Oh my god. Can I say something about the, so the seat warmer stitch. Yeah. We borrowed Caitlin's parents car to drive up to Mackay one year because they needed to. This is the thing, I do not understand a single thing about no-vaded leases that whole sitch. They needed to like rock up some kilometers to drive the price of the car down or something. Yeah, very strange. I tried to understand it recently and it was not working out for me. Scam going on there. And we had to get the battery the battery the battery the battery the battery to get to get to get to get to to the battery to to to to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive to drive to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive up to drive to drive to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the to to the the to to the to to the to the to the the to the to the to to to the to to to the to to to to to to recently and it was not working out for me. Scam going on there.

And we had to get the battery replacement were up there. And I was talking to the guy about the, about the, like, seat warmers. And he said, well, when you're on a long drive, you turn on the seat warmers. And they reduced like leg cramp free, but also just sloppy just just went from waste to foot You don't need them all there is you Your but my legs weren't cramping. So do they normally when you're driving a lot? Oh, no, I don't know. Well, they didn't cramp up while I was sweating buckets, so I guess I guess I just, I guess I just, I guess I just, I? I'm, the the the the the the the the the the the the th, I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. the th. th. thum. the thom. the the the the thom. their their their their their their their their th. their th. their th. th. their th. th. th. th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their th. thin. th. the the the the the the the the the the the their their thee the their the driving along? I don't know. Well they didn't cramp up while I was sweating buckets so I guess I just got to leave them on. Perfect system. It's good for like if you go out to your car in the morning in Cambron in winter and yeah. I don't have much call for that. No. Car's fucking freezing and you pop it on and then your whole body's warm. This is fucking psycho. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. th, th, I I I I I I I I I I th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, they's they's they's they're, I, they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they's they're, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're th. Well, they're they're th. th. thi, thi, thi, thin, theeeat-I's thea' thea' thean. I thean. I don't thean, theean, they it on and then your whole body's warm. This is fucking psycho.

Hey Ben, you know what, if I get a text message from my wife while I'm driving, it comes up on a little screen and then Siri says to me, would you like to reply to the message? And I say, yeah. And she goes, what would you like to say? And then I dictate th you that that that that th you that th you that to to to to to th you th. to th. to th. th. th. to th. th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. tho, tho, tho, tho, that, thi. thoom. tho, tho. tho. tho. tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. th. I th. th. I th. I the. the. the. I the. I the. I the. I the. I to. to. toe. I toean. toean. I toean. thean. I thean. thean. I thean. I the. I the. And, goes, what would you like to say? And then I dictate my little message and it comes up on the screen and she goes, is that where you want to send? And I go, yes, and she sends it. This is insane. This is what your Patreon money is funding, you the listener. Except for me. Yeah.

We don't know what Ben's doing with his. I don't really know either. I'm paying it to get my fucking car fixed. That's where most of the money is going. I'm fucking cracked windshield now. Life is hell. Oh God. No, it's not hell. Life is delightful. In a statement, Kia America said most of its vehicles in the United States are equipped with a key fob and a quote push button to start system, which makes them more difficult to steal and more appropriate for a grown man.

Okay. Hyundai Motor America said criminals are targeting its vehicles without engine immobilizers. Well that makes sense, you know. If you target the ones with immobilizers, you're not going to be able to move them at all. Yeah, there'll be a motorist. the devices became standard on all Hyundai vehicles produced after November 2nd 2021? It's pretty recent, eh? Like I said, my sort of understanding of this was that like, their mobilizers were

pretty standard kit on like new cars, but maybe I'm just wrong. If you know more about cars than us and you do... You know more about cars than us please run into mailbag at Buntavista dot com and just tell me Andrew when you understand the mobilizers to have become sort of a standardized thing. For the record I don't want to know any more about cars. So wait so hang on so one step back this the trend the trend is stealing the to be to be the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. I the tha the tha the the the the tha the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the te the their tm. I their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. I their their their their t. t. t. t. I t. I t. I t. I t. I t. I te. I te. I te. I te. I te. I te. I'm. I'm. I'm. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. thing. For the record, I don't want to know. I don't want to know any more about cars. So wait, so hang on, so one step back. The trend is stealing Hyundai's and Kears? That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. The trend is telling people how to steal Hyundai and Kiers. That's what the trend is. Yeah, the internet is actually way c-I I that's that's that's that's that's that's that's tha tha thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi thi. thi. thi. thioling is thioling is thi thi thi thi. thi thi thi. thi. thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the is a ti. ti. thaee thae is toeeee is toeeeee an thaeean. thaeean. thaean. thaea thae is thae. That's awesome. Yeah, the internet is actually way cooler than it used to be, I just got to say. It's a powerful marketplace of ideas. Those ideas are, steal a Kia Serrento or a Hyundai accent. I feel like in our day, it was like, oh, you gotta get this, you gotta get this book from Kaza, it's called the Anacus Cook Book, and half the shit in it's

just not real. Yeah, if you mix orange juice with a telephone, you don't get anything. Your telephone doesn't work anymore. Oh boy. So yes, Theo, that is the trend. The trend is to tell other people how to do it and for them to then do it. Ah, that rocks. Dayton police have recorded more than 90 thefts and attempted thefts of Kiers and Hyundaires

this year. Quote, people who are bent on taking other people's property tend to find new and innovative ways to get that done, said Dayton police than, than, to than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, the, the, the, commander of the patrol operations division. That's right, he's the chief of POD. He said thieves do not need quote advanced technical knowledge to steal Kears and Hyundai's with a USB charger. That sounds right to me. As a policeman, absolutely I wish people didn't put videos online about how to steal cars, but I don't see that stopping, he said during a news conference. Such a...oh, come on guys.

Good energy. Stop it! Stop telling people how to steal keys and hang on those, please. Uh, so if you feel really bad for this cop, stop stealing them, I guess. Yeah, if you want to make him happy? Yeah. Uh, Kear America says it has provided steering wheeled-locked devices at no cost to law enforcement in effective areas to help deter theft and vandalism. Quote, that effort will continue in close coordination with local police departments for distribution to concerned owners of Kia vehicles not originally equipped

with an immobilizer, the company's head. Heonde says it has and will continue to work with local police departments to offer steering wheel locks to affected Hyundai owners. They're talking about like the club, right? Yeah, I think so. Unless steering wheel lock technology has dramatically changed in the last 20 years. I wouldn't know, I guess. I missed out on the last 20 years of car development. How about you just fix my fucking car up, guys? I'm still not understanding any of the fucking theft stuff, any of the doosits and what's it's because, I don't know, they're just gonna like smash your shit up

and then move on. Yeah like someone's gonna steal your car and they're gonna drive up Mount Nibo and they're gonna either go off a cliff in it or they're gonna set it on fire at the end and then it's no longer your problem you know? if someone's gonna steal your car they're gonna steal your car just resign yourself to the awkwardness of life, which is that sometimes your car gets stolen. Stop putting engine immobilizers, stop locking your doors. Leave your keys in the ignition.

Yeah, 100%. Well, now do everything that's required of you up to the kind of like letter of your insurance contract. Because you're going to want that money back to buy a second car, because you're gonna need a new car after that. Right, and you can get your car insured against that sort of thing, is what you're telling me. Absolutely. Ah, well, probably not worth it in my case.

So for your benefit, Theo, an immobilizer, thrtransponder or smart key, is present. Fuck and that's not what I thought in a mobili- I thought an immobilizer was a thing that you... He fucking snaps your deck and they steal the car. So they've they've stolen your car and I open my laptop and I go, someone's stolen my car and you hit the big red immobilizer button and the engine goes, boom! And the thieves look at each other and they're like, what? You think it's like a find my Mac situation? Yeah, they turn around. And the immobilizers, and he's running at full speed.

Punching his fist into his open hand. He pulls their dick straight off their bodies. So you were picturing like when that person's Jeep or whatever got hacked on the highway and that person just like slammed their brakes on. This has been my understanding of an engine immobilizer for the last 10 years. That would be unbelievably unsafe on just about. If everywhere can possibly be. Car slamming to a stop on a highway. Good Lord, I'm so stupid. Isn't it just...

This is... You can't immobilize something that's already stopped. Something it's a nerd. You're thinking of a pre-not mobilizer. I just assumed it wouldn't start if you didn't have the fucking chip in it. Like... That's what they're describing. Yeah. And they only put this in Hyundai's in 2021.

It sounds like Americans once again are getting the short end of the stick here. The electric immobilizer slash alarm system was invented by St. George Evans and Edward Birkenbuel and patented in 1919. They developed a three-by-three grid of double-contact switches on a panel mounted inside the car so so when the ignition switch was activated current from the battery went to the spark plugs allowing the engine to start or immobilizing the vehicle and sounding the horn I bet it was a funny sounding horn back then yeah but how did it tell whether it was the right key or not well because back then it was it was like a manual

little panel that you said alright okay. The system settings could be changed each time the car was driven. Modern immobilizer systems are automatic, meaning the owner does not have to remember to activate it. Immobilizers have been mandatory in all new cars sold in Germany since the first of January 1998. In the UK, October, 1998, Finland, 198, Australia, 2001 and Canada since 2007. So basically we've all just had immobilizers in our cars that work automatically this whole

time and Americans are getting sold ones in 2021 that don't have. You're saying those rules for Australian cars were cars manufactured in Australia or just sold in Australia? All new cars sold in Australia? Yeah, right. Wild. That's nuts. What is it with Americans and somehow having like... Well, I mean, it's uneven wealth distribution. Obviously it's the reason, but it is crazy that they are like so ahead in burger technology, but so behind an engine immobilize the technology. That's what freedom is all about.

Yeah. Early models used a static code in the ignition key or key fob which was recognized by an RFID loop around the lock barrel and checked against the vehicle's engine control unit for a match. If the code is unrecognized, the ECU will not allow fuel to flow to flow to flow to flow the to flow the the the the to flow the the the to flow the the the to flow the the the the unit for a match. If the code is unrecognized, the ECU will not allow fuel to flow and ignition to take place. Later models use rolling codes or advanced cryptography to defeat copying of the code from the key or the engine control unit. There you go. There. I mean if you're using like cryptography to steal my 2003 Subaru Forrester, the base model,

congrats. Go for it. How tough? Take it. Take the car. Just take my camping stuff out of it before you go and leave it by the side of the road with a not-for-free sign on top of the stuff. I'll buy you some new camping gear, but if that's a lovely time. Statistics in Australia show the three out of four vehicle thefts are older cars stolen for joyriding, transport, or to commit another crime. We're chaining crimes. We're chain-crimeing.

I'm with a 12-crime combo right now. Immobilizers are fitted to around 45% of all cars in Australia, but account for only 7% of those cars that are stolen. In many instances where a vehicle fitted with an immobilizer has been stolen, the thief had access to the original key. Yeah, absolutely. That's the, that's the sort of lean in through your front door and pick the key up from your, from the swingers ball that you've got set out while you guys are fucking and sucking each other's wives. Yep. They've taken... I'm out there. 2018 VW per set. Now I've taken 20 sets of keys they're just trying every car on the street. Now this this sentence, not sure I agree with the tone here, right?

Only around one in four stolen vehicles are stolen by professional thieves. That still sounds to me like a lot of professional thieves getting about. Yeah, that's a... I assumed that car theft... Basically the domain of joyriders, right? Teens. Teens. Mostly teens. Yeah.

Teen entrepreneurs. Wait, is that for Australia, that one in four statistic? It is unclear. I don't wonder. It's because it's kind of hard to like fencing a stolen car in Australia. Difficult. Like you can't really, you know how they'll be like problems in the UK where people will steal cars and then just ship them over to Europe and then sort of sell them over there and vice versa. Can't really do that here.

No here your engine's got a VIN number, it's all registered with the government. You're pretty much, you're not registering a car again. So I'm just going to be like, oh, there it is, that one's stolen. You're nicked, the cops will say. So basically, yeah, they're just going to go around and hand out the club and say, hey, remember to just lug this heavy bit of metal around and stick it in your steering wheel and lock it in before you go anywhere. Yeah, I'm not going to remember to do that.

So don't buy a Kia manufactured between 2015 and 202, 2011 and 2021. Or do? Or do? Embrace the Ordinance of life. They got good wine he's on them now. Buy one, but don't move to Dayton, Ohio after purchasing it. I was reading some other articles about this as well where they're talking about how like, yeah, it's all well and good that if you have added extra obstacles to your car

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It's time of course for car watch. Car Watch. This story comes to us from the newspaper The Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts. Photos show car with six speakers mounted on roof that Wilmington police said caused noise complaints in three towns. I'd like to imagine it's at once. Yeah. That is the implication in three towns. I like to imagine it's at once. Yeah, yeah. That is the implication in the story. Like the story we did on the bird cannon. Yeah, 100%. Birds dying across four counties. The bright yellow car pulled into a Wilmington parking lot after 1 a.m. The half dozen speakers mounted to its roof blaring, according to town police,

the car's license plate from New Hampshire read Static with a K. In three separate towns, residents phoned the police with noise complaints. It was roughly 1.30 a.m. Monday when Wilmington Police responded to the lot in the area of Woburn Street and Eames Street after multiple calls from local residents. Officers found a 22-year-old New Hampshire man, his son-yellow vehicle and six, quote, full-sized speakers affixed to his roof, they said. Now I have an image for you to look at, but I want you to tell me before you gaze at the image, what sort of configuration are you imagining when I say there are six speakers on the roof of this car?

When you say six speakers, I'm picturing six speakers, right? You know, you know what I mean? It's the... Maybe, maybe they're sort of arranged all pointing outwards, maybe like the Blues Brothers kind of deal, you know? Mm-hmm. However, when I look at the picture, yeah. I'm going to dispute the characterization of this car as having six speakers on the roof. Yeah, I would say maybe it has six speaker cabinets on the roof. Oh shit, are we talking to like a Duff Warrior kind of setup?

It is a hundred fucking percent the Duff wagon. There are like six sort of upright speaker cabinets, each with two like 10 or 12 inch subs. There are 42 speakers in that array on top of the car. Yeah, there's also some smaller tweeters and some in-between-sized, I Don't Know What They're Calls. This is, it's Duff Wagon territory. This person is driving the Dufwagon except it's like a yellow... You're think that's a civic, Andrew?

I believe that's probably a Honda Accord or a Civic. Oh, I think it isn't a cord. I think you're right. I'll back that. Yeah, yeah, I was definitely, no, I was definitely kind of... Aesthetically, I was not ready for this to be a Honda record, right? Because I was expecting wood grain on these speakers. Sort of like a martial amp kind of feel to it. Or like your dad's like 120-wattower speakers that would be plugged into a full-size pioneer amp. Sort of like what Andrew's home audio setup is like actually. Sure, yeah.

But no, this is more digital, I feel more organized. It's linear. It's all on one big horizontal, like mounting point. Yeah, they're in series. No, they're in series. No, they're in parallel, sorry I should say. And they're all pointing directly forwards. This is not like a cool, aesthetically pleasing thing that this person has done to the car. This is a practical concern where they've said, hey, we need to do the cyber-goth underpass rave, but we need it to be heard

from like 15 kilometers away. Yeah. This is fucking insane. This is a crazy thing for a 22-year-old to have done. It's got to be rearranging all your organs when you're inside the car, you know. Oh my god, I can't even imagine. I assume that you experience ego-death the moment this this tha-this the-a-a-a-a-a-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s, tho-s, tho-s, tho-s, tho my god, I can't even imagine. Like, I assume that you experience ego death the moment this thing starts playing. Maybe, but it is pointed away from the user as well. There's a real weaponized aspect to this. I say it's sort of like a claymore in that regard. I feel like this is like a, he's, he's home-brewed a Havana headache device.

But like grandmas in Woburn District. This man is driving around giving people New Hampshire Syndrome. Oh. He's so dope if he was driving around blasting like Karen Carpenter. I'm just imagining the New York Times doing their like investigative piece where the people like, I just felt feeling very sick and I couldn't, nothing weird was happening. Oh, I was deafened to the same time. My whole building was falling apart.

It was very, uh, very sound based weapon. I've turned my sound bath up to lethal and I'm driving it around town. Did they mention, they, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the the, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the sound bath up to lethal and I'm driving it around town. Did they mention, so this is frustrating to me as well, like, because what are they, what do you reckon they're running on these speakers? Because they don't mention, they do say it's music. They have narrowed it of all possible sounds, they have narrowed it to music, that it's extremely loud. Are they popping some moderate on there? I. They????. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I they? I they. I they. I they. I they. I they. I they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they. I they. I they they they're they're they're they're th. I the. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi try thi thi thi thi thi thi thi they're they're they're they're they're they're they're to music that it's extremely loud. Are they popping some moderate on there?

I don't think they're going to be playing moderate. Okay. I have a feeling that this is probably going to be... Or like the apparat solo project stuff. It's probably apparat, I think for sure. I think this is going to be closer to like Skitsmix, volume 35. Which, and I'm sure I've mentioned this on the podcast before, Skitsmix is still being made. Yeah. It comes out like several times a year.

We're up to like Skitsmix like 60 at this point. What is the target audience of Skitsmix? Is it? It's just it... Nick Skits? Is it... It's just him? Nick Skits. Nick Skits, if you are not from Australia or not of a certain age, check out Skits mix. And understand that for a while, it was the only product advertised on Australian television for Samaritza. on Australian television for some reason.

It's hard to describe the absolute cultural ubiquity of skits mix in Australia, circa 1999, 2001 sort of thing. Like, you go into a gas station and at the, or a petrol station if you, in Australia, and like at the door, there'd be skits mix CDs. In your Myers, you're David Jones, your HMV. Nick Skits was an Australian icon, but we never really knew him. Nick Skits is now 54 years old. So at this rate, he's making more than one skits mix a year, so eventually his age and the skits mix edition will converge. Oh, wait, no, it's already happened. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, now I've just failed to understand how. He's very active on his Facebook. He'll just reply to your posts. Oh, fuck, this is all getting me here. Began working for the dance label Pro DJ International in the early 1990s. Uh, then got involved with the dance label's central station records and began remixing tracks for the labels Australian and international artists. Remixes of the X-Files theme and Excalibur to reach the top 10 on the Aria singles charts in Australia. Major charting success of Skitsmix came in late 2001 with Skitsmix 10 reaching number nine on the mainstream Aria Albums chart

alongside our artists like Creed, Shaggy, and the Bridget Jones's Diary soundtrack. Oh, come on. Ha ha! That's rough. That's rough. That's rough. In 2004, he collaborated with Mark Gable, lead singer of the band The Choir Boys to rework

their 1987 Australian hit Run to Paradise as a dance track. Build as Nick Skits versus the Choir Boys. it debuted the top 20 of the Australian Pop Jarts. Oh man. I think when Olivia Newton John died, I was like, we got like 12 people. They're all in the mix all the time, you know? Yeah, it's the guys from the Chaser and it's Nick Skits. This is the only celebrity in Australia. Deltz Goodrum does the music since Olivia Newton-John retired, you know?

All right, so Skits Mix number. Oh, sorry, no, this wasn't a numbered one, but release between Skits-Mix 22 and Skits-Mix 23 was Skits Metal, which I guess must have been Nick Skits remixes of the following songs. Hell yes. Rock and Roll all night by Kiss. Come on feel the noise by Quiet Riot. The Power by H Block X. This is...

Figured You Out by Nickelback. Cats in the Cradle by Ugly Kid Joe. Cult of Personality by Living Color. Ice, Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. Cherry Pie by Warrant. We're not going to take it by Twisted Sister. Cryptonite by Three Doors Down. Smooth criminal by Alien Farm.

You really got me by Van Halen. Better by Screaming Jets, Wind of Change by the Scorpions, Final Countdown by Europe, Unskinny Bop by Poison, Run to Paradise, Nick's Kids First the Choir Boys, Got a fight for your right to party by Beast Boys and Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden, Christ Alive. Even the songs on those albums which were like a relatively contemporary were still 5 to 10 years older than the album itself, you know? That's grim.

But you know, you gotta stay busy. I idle hands of the devil's play thing, you know? Well you gotta do something to fill at the time, so you may as well release 60 plus skits mixes. Well I think that that was probably an episode of the podcast Montevista I think. I think ideally Ben if you could play this one out with a more recent Nick Skits song. You know I've never really been worried about copyright strikes, and I don't know why that one strikes fear to me, but I'll see what I can do.

The man is active online. Yeah, clear it with him on Facebook. Oh, fuck, I wonder if I, no, but then he'd listen to it. And then we'd be being mean to him. And I couldn't have that we all remember from when we were younger and then went, my goodness, this man has been very productive and is successful. We did call his Skitsmix medal thing lame. Yeah, I bet Skits metal was really cool. I'm sorry, Nick Skits. Also, it's so funny that Nick Skits is very much not that man's name. He's quite Greek and we shan't be returning

to the start of this episode. Well no no we won't we won't come back to us to the racist piece of stuff. Hi everyone. Bye.