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Dick Toledo
Too much pedophile talk.
John Holmberg
Hey, never enough, I say, Especially when brazen bulls are involved. Get him out there. Too much Djibouti and Cameroon talk. That's still going on. An awful lot, a guy says John. Or this is Paula Proctor, lady that hates Toledo so much she Said, why doesn't Trip just send Toledo to Djibouti to check out what exactly is going on and do some business while he's down there on one of his fabulous vacations. That is a place you would travel. Let's send him to Djibouti. Remember yesterday when he just. Oh, please. Shouting out at the top of your.
Brady
Lungs, it's not a third world country.
Dick Toledo
No, Cameroon isn't.
John Holmberg
Okay, let's send you to Cameroon.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, maybe.
John Holmberg
And by the way, Djibouti, east coast, Cameroon, west coast. Somewhere in the middle is the South Sudan. So maybe Janney's T shirt program worked and it bled out.
Dick Toledo
Sudan's on the east coast. Djibouti's in the middle.
John Holmberg
Djibouti's up top right. Sudan's like, dead middle.
Dick Toledo
No, no, Sudan's not in the middle.
John Holmberg
Well, it's upper right. Okay. It's Ohio. And then Djibouti's Boston. And then Cameroon would be like San Francisco.
Paula Proctor
Sudan's the Midwest.
John Holmberg
Yeah, yeah. Sudan's like, yeah, the heartland. They call it the warlord heartland. So either way, let's send him over there. He loves traveling to the cruddy country, so he screams out, defending our Cameroonian status. I'm with you, Paula. The Toledo hater. Two birds. And a lot of people are saying, you know, it isn't that long ago that you said you were going to send all of your bad jerseys to Africa. Word might have gotten out and they got excited.
Dick Toledo
That's a lot of prevailing thought on the email, too.
John Holmberg
We did bring that up, like, two weeks ago.
Dick Toledo
And suddenly we're calling us out because we haven't talked about it.
John Holmberg
We got to get it back together. I kind of want to do it right before football season starts.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, there you go.
John Holmberg
Get everybody.
Dick Toledo
When preseason games are going on July.
John Holmberg
End of July, around my birthday. Usually that's when the first week of camp starts. And then you get the hall of.
Dick Toledo
Fame, hall of Fame game.
John Holmberg
And then a bunch of people talking about the lady who. The guy who emailed this morning that his wife of seven months has decided to take out her double Ds and just that's the way things are going to be. Never, according to him. Never once mentioned it before during the engagement that she was eventually going to pull these out. Kyle says, here's what the guy needs to do. Get in ridiculously good shape, eat right, let her take her double Ds out. You work out every day, get a 10 pack, and then three things will happen at once. First, she's going to wonder why you're doing all this. She thinks you're looking elsewhere. Second, she'll become insecure about her own looks because women can't help but feel that way when they aren't the best looking person in the relationship. And finally, once you wise up and leave this flat broad, you're already in shape to bag the next one. That's excellent advice, Kyle. I think that's gold for our friend Brent. You one of the very few listeners with you as a last initial. That's true. And I think, yeah, I think you get in better shape, you start making questions about him. But that's a weird one. That's a strange thing. The vasectomy was the other prevailing thought.
Dick Toledo
Oh yeah.
John Holmberg
I also wanted to get this going. I know it's late. This is a. I was at the gas station weekend, Friday, guess Friday, I don't know when I went and the guy at the pump next to me broke out his keys. I've been looking at this since and I finally found some like reasonable answers. And he unwrapped his key fob from foil.
Dick Toledo
Oh yeah.
John Holmberg
Have you seen that?
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
And then he blipped it and then he wrapped it back up with brand new foil. He. It was. I thought he was a meth head.
Dick Toledo
Did you see the dude on the news? It was like going through some neighborhood and he had like what looked like two sticks. Apparently they're antennas. And he's walking around neighborhood looking and he's waiting for a car to beep and a car beeps and he goes and gets in it steals it.
John Holmberg
Is that right?
Dick Toledo
Because apparently it's. It searches for your keys inside the house and it matches it with the car and it can so.
John Holmberg
And that's what.
Dick Toledo
I don't know if that's exactly it, but it's something like that.
John Holmberg
Some dude walking down the street with a dowling rod of electricity and nobody's shooting him or calling the police in.
Dick Toledo
The middle of night. It was like on night vision camera.
John Holmberg
Even worse. Yeah, that dude's got some balls. Yeah. But yeah, so they say that wrapping your keys in foil keeps anybody. Keeps anybody from blipping and stealing your fobs frequency.
Dick Toledo
That's what happened here. Did you hear that?
John Holmberg
What happened right out there. This guy's car that got stolen here.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, the guy that was down at the a.m. he does one of the a.m. i don't know, one of their shows.
John Holmberg
Fob Steel.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, they Fob stole his truck because they went through. They have it on security camera Mike looked at the security camera. He's going through slowly. Went through all the cars in the parking lot. Went through slowly. And then you see the headlights beep on his truck.
John Holmberg
But how's that stealing from your fob? That's stealing from a car.
Dick Toledo
I don't know.
Paula Proctor
Picking up the.
John Holmberg
Yes. That's different. Because this is a guy who's like. And reading about it. Says that when you hit the button, somebody can pick that up and intercept it and then put theirs. Like they can have a computer or their own fob. Do it. Then later and they follow you home. And then their key works.
Dick Toledo
Listeners have sent those. It's a little. It's a little box that looks like a fob and it's got different frequencies on it.
John Holmberg
Little. And it steals your lips.
Dick Toledo
And steal your. Your garage opener as well.
John Holmberg
So I'm supposed to wrap everything in foil.
Dick Toledo
I. I don't know. I'm not doing it supposed to work.
John Holmberg
By the way, if there's a dude.
Dick Toledo
Foil just be a conductor.
John Holmberg
No, there's a dude following me around aiming something at me every time I unlock my car doors. He's going to get my car eventually anyway. He's. He's industrious. He's a hard worker. I gotta. I'm gonna actually give him credit for stealing my car that way rather than just knocking the windows out and tapping wires together.
Dick Toledo
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Because if you are sitting there following me around and blipping every time I. And you try to time it to when I'm hitting a button and sending.
Dick Toledo
A frequency out so you don't know like their thing is in their pocket.
John Holmberg
According to this. It says a relay attack is keyless. Entry systems on cars are convenient, quick and practical. And while the fob remains in your pocket, in some cars, the key fob opens the trunk, which is great when you're carrying groceries. That opens up the vulnerabilities. Thieves are developing skills to stay a step ahead of the technology. Relay amplifiers do transmitters that extend the signal of your key fob from inside your home to park cars outside. Yeah, that was always going. Yeah. So when you wrap your fob in foil, it doesn't. The. The signal doesn't. So it's just. So my key fob is constantly gushing out.
Dick Toledo
Yes. Yeah.
John Holmberg
It's information.
Dick Toledo
It's like the RFID or whatever.
John Holmberg
So just always pushing out crap.
Dick Toledo
Yep. That's why when I get close to my car, my car lights up.
John Holmberg
Yeah. Interesting.
Paula Proctor
Yeah.
John Holmberg
Foil stops.
Jeremy
Gotta go.
Paula Proctor
Sometimes you have to raise your.
John Holmberg
No, that's just You, Brady, us six.
Paula Proctor
Footers can do it without from a distance.
John Holmberg
No, no, that's just for sure.
Dick Toledo
I just know where I park.
John Holmberg
That's Brady's midget of the day.
Dick Toledo
I've never seen that.
John Holmberg
If you're six feet tall, you know. If your car knows you're coming?
Paula Proctor
No, if there's a bunch of cars in the parking lot.
Dick Toledo
Yeah, you don't know where you parked.
John Holmberg
Six footers.
Paula Proctor
No part starting it. The auto start.
John Holmberg
Oh, it's not a thing.
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Brady
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Dick Toledo
So you save 30 seconds of coolness.
John Holmberg
You read you Raise your little arm up to six feet and then you hit the button. And that's where we all live. It's okay. I know there's a few other people, John.
Dick Toledo
They get the security token. It's got your key. They copy it. And then your car thinks your fob is close to your car and unlocks and can start. It's a keyless only for keyless only.
John Holmberg
But that's what I'm. So foil stops this whole thing. So we got to start wrapping our crap in foil.
Paula Proctor
Or that guy's repackaging each time.
John Holmberg
Yeah, that's what. And the dude that I saw at the gas station had those meth foils. And so I watch a lot of On Patrol live. And the cops are always like, oh, there's foil in the car. They're smoking meth, they're smoking crack. That's like the key to. But this dude had little.
Dick Toledo
Like, what kind of car was it?
John Holmberg
It was like a Hyundai or something. It was like a middle that. Yeah, yeah. It was like was the most stolen ones, but it was like one of those basic. It's the easiest sedan cars. And he had a little like, they look like a bunch of little Velveeta cheeses about that size of the squares. And he took the foil off and bit and beeped his car and went inside and then started to rewrap it as he walked into the. What is that a QT up there? Started to rewrap it up there.
Dick Toledo
Guy says, come on now.
John Holmberg
That's weird.
Dick Toledo
Come on now, John. The guy who pimps for Tactical Black and the guy sitting next to you pimps for MMP guns. You're not supposed to wrap anything in foil. You take out the asshole stealing your car and leave them in the street for the other assholes to get the idea you're not effing around.
John Holmberg
Yeah. You stand on top of your car.
Brady
And go, I am King Kong mother.
John Holmberg
And then people like, geez, don't mess with this fobs. Well, that's what they're trying to avoid from so far.
Paula Proctor
They come back later at night.
John Holmberg
Yeah. One of them understanding is they're not present in front of you.
Dick Toledo
Yes.
John Holmberg
They're somewhere out there grabbing information that just leaks. And then later, when you're not around with your gun from MMP guns or your training from Tactical Black, they steal your car while it sits at work.
Dick Toledo
John. It's called the Flipper Zero. The device can duplicate anything with a wireless signal, key cards, car fobs, Wi Fi routers, credit cards. Garage doors, etc.
John Holmberg
Winston says he's a, he's a computer whiz. He says your fob is always connected to your car. Doesn't require you to hit a button. I keep my keys away from front of the house.
Dick Toledo
Oh, yeah, you do? Yeah, well, I've heard that too. I, I, I just leave mine on the counter.
John Holmberg
I leave mine in the car.
Dick Toledo
Well, there you go.
John Holmberg
Just make it easy for them. If they've got that kind of technology. This is easy.
Dick Toledo
Just have it. I'll file the insurance claim.
Paula Proctor
But aren't they picking up the frequency from the car rather than the fob?
John Holmberg
No, it's from your fob. Your fob is the thing that gushes out the electronics. Yeah, well, I think the signals.
Dick Toledo
The car must have to have the same kind of signal because it's got.
John Holmberg
A receiver on it for sure. But I don't think it's, I don't know.
Paula Proctor
This guy did down here. And this, it was picking up the truck's frequency in order to.
Dick Toledo
John, it was like a year ago. You went on a rant that they should have never gotten rid of. Physical keys for your cars.
John Holmberg
Totally.
Dick Toledo
What the hell happened with that?
John Holmberg
I completely agree with that. It's the laziest move ever to go, I'll push a button rather than put my key in so much. Easy. It's because we don't want to reach in our pockets. And yet we have a keychain covered in keys. Now, it's not like it eliminated keys. Now we've just got this big clunky thing tied to our keychain that made our keychains even worse.
Dick Toledo
Go to Amazon, John. Get a Faraday box. My keys and everything sits in that on my nightstand.
John Holmberg
So you put it inside another cubby.
Dick Toledo
And it's like the Superman box of lead or something.
Byron
Well, it's like they have those walls so they can't scan your cards.
John Holmberg
Wow. All right. I didn't know we were there, but I saw a dude wrapped up in foil at the station, and I had to look. And I've been looking online, and it. There's a ton of different things on there that say, hey, do this, do that, do this. And I'm like, I didn't even realize we were in that kind of peril. And again, the days of the Slim Jim look to the criminals. Excellent work.
Dick Toledo
Got a whole thing. Look at this. All these pouches for your, for your key fobs. Faraday key fob.
John Holmberg
I gotta say, it's 10 bucks.
Byron
What's that cheapskate run around with foil for.
Dick Toledo
Exactly.
John Holmberg
Come on. Cheaper than that. Who cares?
Dick Toledo
More fashionable. The box is only 12.
John Holmberg
Bottom line. Hey, I think you're missing the headline here, boys. We're burying that. We lose.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. Yeah.
John Holmberg
The bad guys are kicking our ass. If this. If I have to wrap stuff in foil or go buy another thing rather than just have my goddamn key. We lose. That's terrible. Convenience has made it like this is more convenient to have a little coffin for your key fob that you gotta carry around all the time.
Dick Toledo
Yeah. I don't know if I'd carry the box with me, but I'll do the pouch. Maybe.
John Holmberg
Just wrap your whole body.
Paula Proctor
I had a cell phone.
John Holmberg
You know who was right? And we always made fun of them tinfoil hat people. Turned out they were on to something.
Dick Toledo
This is our version of contract.
John Holmberg
Yeah, we always actually happen. We always made fun of them.
Paula Proctor
But there they apologize to 5G neighbor.
John Holmberg
Your 5G neighbor is the guy, the tinfoil guy that yells at you.
Paula Proctor
He's. Now, I think he's living in the. He's got a stainless steel, like an Airstream trailer next to the house because it can't get. And I've noticed there's. Like it now. It's a. It's an older one and he's renting, done it, refinished it. Isn't things out there.
Dick Toledo
Isn't the aluminum trailer just a giant conductor? That's my thing with the. With the loom.
Paula Proctor
It's got a white top on it can't get in.
John Holmberg
Maybe. I don't know.
Paula Proctor
Yeah.
Dick Toledo
All right.
John Holmberg
I like. You know, color me crazy, but I like my criminals the old fashioned way. And they break stuff to get in.
Dick Toledo
John, you watch the boys. The tinfoil trick works. Don't you remember when they had the guy hidden in the room lined with tinfoil and the bomb in his ass?
John Holmberg
I just remember the bomb. I wasn't paying attention to the Reynolds rap anyway. Well, that's the thing. So I saw it in action for the very first time in my life. I always thought that was just Internet craziness. There's a dude up there doing it.
Dick Toledo
John, you got to remember, you say that. You always say they're the most resourceful people. Bad guys have nothing but time.
John Holmberg
It's true. Stuff out. If they ever put their. Their brains on good stuff, we'd have better inventions than you could ever imagine. That's. I don't know. All right, well, there you go. It's out there, so keep an eye.
Paula Proctor
On that so long, car.
John Holmberg
And now you don't have to worry about that dude laying under your car to cut your Achilles tendon to get you to rob you. Now he can actually just lay in the back seat and wait for you. Ladies, enjoy your day. Wrap your person. You know what you should do is get one of those Hermes tin foil purses. You start making purses out of that stuff. Because if I was a bad guy, that's what I'd do. I'd find like a Kylie Jenner type and I'd follow her to work and I'd just intercept the fob and lay in her backseat till she got off work. I don't give ideas to bad guys, but trust me, they've already got them. I don't do that. And now I'm hearing you can't even keep it close to your the front door. I don't know where my house blocks.
Dick Toledo
What's the distance? What? Where's my range?
John Holmberg
I got nothing anyway. Well, there you go. We live in that world. We got the hot releases coming up in just moments. Foil heads. It's 98, Arizona's most powerful rock radio station. He said fully erect. 98. It's John Holmberg here from the morning sickness. And it's time once again for this week's pick of the litter, brought to you by our friends at Turf monsters. Go to turfmonstersaz.com they help us out at lost our home pet rescue. We appreciate them greatly. This week's pick of the litter is a project. It's Jep. He's a special project for that special someone. Jep is one of my projects. Let's get him a forever home. They'll waive the fees right now. This week, pick of the litter. It's Jep. Check it out. Lost our home.org 98kupd.com From Monument Valley.
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Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode Summary: May 20, 2025 Episode Title: Should We Be Wrapping Our Car Key Fobs In Foil To Thwart Car Thieves
In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg, along with co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, dives into a pressing modern-day concern: the security of keyless car entry systems. The central question posed is whether wrapping car key fobs in aluminum foil is an effective method to prevent relay attacks by car thieves.
The discussion kicks off when John Holmberg shares an anecdote about witnessing a suspicious individual at a gas station manipulating his key fob with foil:
John Holmberg [04:53]: "I was at the gas station weekend, and this guy next to me wrapped his key fob in foil, blipped it, and then rewrapped it with new foil. I thought he was a meth head."
This incident serves as a catalyst for exploring how modern keyless entry systems work and their susceptibility to theft. The hosts explain that relay attacks involve thieves using devices to amplify the signal from a key fob inside a home to unlock and start a car remotely.
Dick Toledo [07:00]: "It's called the Flipper Zero. The device can duplicate anything with a wireless signal—key cards, car fobs, Wi-Fi routers, credit cards, garage doors, etc."
The group delves into whether aluminum foil can genuinely block these unwanted signals:
John Holmberg [06:02]: "Wrapping your fob in foil prevents anyone from blipping and stealing your fob's frequency."
Dick Toledo [07:46]: "Faraday pouches are an alternative. They're designed to block all signals."
However, the consensus leans towards skepticism about the practicality and reliability of using household aluminum foil consistently:
Dick Toledo [14:23]: "They have those pouches for your key fobs. The Faraday box is only $12."
John Holmberg [14:36]: "Convenience has made it like this is more convenient to have a little coffin for your key fob that you gotta carry around all the time."
The hosts suggest more effective and user-friendly alternatives to aluminum foil:
Faraday Pouches: Specialized pouches that block electromagnetic fields, ensuring key fobs do not emit signals that can be intercepted.
Dick Toledo [13:42]: "Go to Amazon, John. Get a Faraday box. My keys and everything sit in that on my nightstand."
Disabling Key Fob Functions: Strategies such as turning off the key fob's signal when not in use or using physical keys to minimize reliance on electronic signals.
John Holmberg [13:19]: "I completely agree with never getting rid of physical keys for your cars. It's the laziest move ever to push a button rather than put my key in."
The conversation includes real-life examples of thefts and highlights the persistence of criminals in exploiting technological vulnerabilities:
John Holmberg [07:18]: "If you’re sitting there following me around and blipping every time I hit a button to send a frequency out, they’re going to get my car eventually anyway."
Dick Toledo [16:05]: "I saw it in action for the very first time in my life. There's a dude up there doing it."
These anecdotes emphasize the need for proactive measures to safeguard vehicles in an increasingly connected world.
Despite the potential benefits, the hosts express doubts about the widespread adoption of foil-wrapping due to its inconvenience and questionable effectiveness:
John Holmberg [14:36]: "We're burying that. We lose. If I have to wrap stuff in foil or go buy another thing rather than just have my goddamn key, we lose."
Dick Toledo [14:29]: "More fashionable. The box is only $12."
Concluding the discussion, John Holmberg underscores the importance of awareness and adopting practical solutions to mitigate the risk of car theft:
John Holmberg [16:32]: "We live in that world. We got the hot releases coming up in just moments. Keep an eye out and protect your key fobs."
The episode wraps up with a call to action for listeners to consider more effective protective measures beyond makeshift solutions like aluminum foil.
Relay attacks pose a significant threat to vehicles with keyless entry systems by capturing and amplifying key fob signals.
Aluminum foil can potentially block key fob signals, but its practicality and effectiveness are questionable.
Faraday pouches offer a more reliable and user-friendly solution for preventing unauthorized signal interception.
Physical keys remain a steadfast defense against electronic theft methods, emphasizing a hybrid approach to vehicle security.
Awareness and proactive measures are crucial in staying ahead of technologically adept thieves.
This comprehensive discussion on Holmberg's Morning Sickness provides listeners with valuable insights into modern car security challenges and practical steps to enhance their protection against sophisticated theft attempts.