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July 30, 2024 9 mins
Better change your airline password
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I hop bringing back.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
All you can eat pancakes for a limited time. And
I know Alec Stone is happy about this because he
heads over. Yeah, Hey, do you have I hop there
in there?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah? We have them on the like every street corner here.
I have one right down the street. I was telling
me about Del Taco the other day, down the street
from my house. Yes, right next to del Taco's house.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, all right? Uh do you have Denny's? Have you
ever had a moons over my hammy?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, we do have a lot of Denny's. We love
to stop there when we're on a road trip, but
never had moons over my hammy.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
But but I've eaten a lot of Dennis. You're missing out,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
That Grand Slam is hard to beat, too, That Grand
Slam breakfast, beef, bacon, sausage, pancakes, eggs.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
You need your own table. Your family has to sit
at a different table when they bring that.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Out of one guy, bring me my fief.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
And your family's next to you at a different table
and they're just watching you eat all of that food.
You're like, get out of you here, stop staring at Yeah,
I hop bring it back to All you Can Eat
pancakes for a limited time. And you know when you
hear this, it sounds great when you're staring at it,
but you think about what it takes them to make,
like three pancakes. I mean, you know, think about how

(01:12):
far they can stretch that batter, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
But it's nice, it's nice. You still get me wrong,
But they are to.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Only eat so many right before, like the sweetness kind
of overtaking. Yes, like you can have a fair number,
but then you're kind of like, oh, I'm done eat
as many as you think you're gonna eat.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
There's a place called the Terrace Point Cafe inside of
when Las Vegas, and this they're pancakes. Just on a
side note, they're pancakes. I'll never forget the first time
I went there. My wife and I are sitting there
and she's contemplating do I get the pancakes?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Do I get the pancakes?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
And she hadn't ordered yet, and they sat down next
to us a pile of this pancake. This girl had
to be maybe six or seven years old, probably weighed,
you know, forty five five pounds fifty pounds tops, this
little thing. And they set these pancakes. She almost couldn't
even look over top of them. There were it looked like, oh,

(02:10):
they're like the biggest the plate, and then there were
like three of them.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was thick as an actual cake.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
It was biz I And so that solidified my wife's like, oh,
we got to get these.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
And you know, two adults couldn't even finish this.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It was crazy because they're so thick and they're so
you know, just filling, you know, kind of a thing.
So to your point with the all you can eat, yeah,
you always think you're going to be able to eat more,
and then they bring them out and you're like, man,
I wasted. I'm leaving pancakes on the table, as they say.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
As you put some of that strawberry syrup on and
then some of the blueberry syrup, all the different syrups
they have right there.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So every exactly and they're so savory then and really filling.
And anyway, every short stack includes two pancakes. You can
keep them coming to at a time until you're finished
with your meal, so you only are allowed to order
them two at a time. And yeah, I guess there's
well there's a different way you can order them as well.
You can start with a full stack of five for

(03:09):
just five dollars by then you follow it with a
short stack and you know, the all the additional orders
at that point you have to eat by I think
it's the price changes.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
But still at five dollars, what a deal, right, I mean,
that's one endless hash Browns. I'm a Hash Browns guy.
Oh yeah, what do you do to them? Do you
doctor them up at all?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
I don't know. If I'm at a waffle house, which
we don't have in California, but anytime we go somewhere
with the waffle house, you add in what the cheese
and the jalapenos and onions and all that, But potatoes
O'Brien or whatever they're called, or the hash Browns, I'll
take them hitting potato.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, that's I like that. How they get that crispy
kind of seal to them, you know. Yeah, then you
got to put some chilula hot sauce on there too.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
So anyway, I think this is interesting that scammers are
now steal loyalty.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
They'll stop at nothing this camera, the bad guys will
stop at nothing to rob you of everything you have.
They try to always figure out a way they can
get one over on you.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
And this is another new one, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, So, when's the last time you changed the password
on your Southwest account? United or Marriott or Hilton or
Hurtz or aviis because most of us don't do it.
You've had the account since like nineteen ninety five and
you know, never gone in and changed it. And I
don't know about you, but I get annoyed when they
make me change it. Any website where all of a
sudden they say, hey, for whatever reason, we need you

(04:32):
to create a new account, and you're like, oh, I
am never going to remember this right, And then it
always has new rules of how many characters and you know,
how many crazy symbols you have to put in there
and everything. But so victims are finding that with all
the data leaks recently that we've heard about, that the
bad guys are getting their hands on your points now,
on your miles, and most of them don't require two

(04:55):
factor authentication. You just need your email or a screen
name and a password and you're in. Lenee Anderson of Texas,
she had that problem.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
When I went into a book, I realized that one
hundred and sixty five thousand points have been stolen from
my account.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
About three months.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Earlier, she planned to use her Southwest points to book
a trip for their twentieth wedding anniversary, logged in and
they were gone, and she says, I was extremely angry.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
I had been saving these points for over ten years.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
So what they're doing is that the points are transferred
by the bad actor out of your account or sold
directly from your account on websites where people can pay
to buy points. Set are up for sale for pennies
on the dollar. But they think they're getting a deal,
and the bad actor isn't paying anything for them, so
any amount that they're making on them is money in

(05:43):
their pocket. And then people can use those points to
buy anything from airline travel to car rentals, to computers
to iPads. With a lot of the airlines and hotels,
you can use the points for physical things as well,
and then they're taken off with it. Peter Nicoletti, is
a chief security officer, says, not a huge amount of
work the hackers have to do in this.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
This is an easy one for them.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
The way the hackers are getting into these accounts is
pretty straightforward. With a simple name and a password, you're
typically gaining access to these sites.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
And he says, with so many points being racked up
now because of credit cards, it's not like the old
days where it's only what you flew or only what
you stayed on that now with credit cards that a
lot of us are, we have hundreds of thousands or
millions of miles waiting to use them for some dream vacation.
And so he said, when they hack into it, they're
essentially accessing thousands of dollars and maybe more than that

(06:36):
in some cases in money that can be turned around
in you. Now, with these credit card and other loyalty
program extensions, what we're seeing is points values go up,
so he's saying, and the other experts, change your passwords
on your loyalty accounts. If you haven't done it in
thirty years, go in and change them right now. If
you think, well, yeah, I've got the same United password

(06:59):
that I've had all this time, going and do it
right now. Clint Henderson more than four hundred thousand American
Airlines miles taken out of his account.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Someone had happed into my account and had spent almost
all my miles on luxury car rentals from a few
different airports.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
And he says he kind of blames himself.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
I've had the same password at American Airlines since the
nineteen nineties, and so part of its own fault because
I probably wasn't changing my password as often as they
should have.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
But they say pay attention to emails that you get
saying that your miles have been used. You may think, well,
I didn't log in, that's a spam email that don't
click on anything in that email. But go to your
account and log in and make sure that everything's still there,
because the problem unlike your credit card being used, where
then you contact the bank and they say, don't worry
about it. You won't have to pay those charges. Once

(07:45):
the hackers steal your points, in many cases, you don't
get them back. These companies aren't like, you know what,
we're sorry about that, here is a million points back.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
They're just gone.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
So once you lose them, they're gone.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Man, this hurts. This hurts a lot of people. This
is affecting a lot lot of people too, I would imagine.
So yeah, yeah, this sucks, no question about that. Alex Stone,
ABC News, Alex, thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And we'll talk to you later.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
You got it, so you guys see him.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Man. So we were just talking about the the all
you can Eat pancakes and Nate, welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You got a comment on this, So it's not about
the pancakes.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
But there's an old bag of nails. They do all
you can eat shrimp and it's on Wednesdays, and I
was so excited because I can eat a million shrimp scampy.
Don't get me wrong. But they start you out with
like fifteen fried shrimp. You can't avoid it. That's what
you start out with. And the fried shrimp just fills

(08:43):
you up like crazy.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
So that's their ploy. They start you with those. You
can't get around. Then you try to switch the scampy,
which you can, but you're going now you got the
fried shrimp in the way.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah, I mean you're so fool by the fried I
mean it's hard to get you know, ten shrimp scampy down. Man,
there always is.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I can shrimp. I'm I'm addicted to shrimp.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh yeah, oh yes, I love I.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Love shrimp scampy. As a matter of fact, that's like bait.
If that's my number one pasta dish. Of all time
is shrimp scampy over angel hair pasta.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then the shrimp contail, those big huge ones that
the Proms tigers that are and they're and they're they're
not fishy, they're they're tender, like you get. I could
literally just have those for dinner, like ten or fifteen.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Of those, and I'm good.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
You know what I meant to have the right sauce,
Oh yeah, yeah, you need a little bit of that
where the Horsey sauce, the horse Radish is.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
You're going it like kind of hitch you in the nose,
a little bit like horse radish and ketchup. Isn't that
what cocktail Sah? Yeah, you get the right blend there,
and it is so good, magical
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