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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, now for the foreseeable future, every newscast is going
to lead with we have an American pope for the
first time in history.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We do.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I haven't heard anything about it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Is not DiCaprio again, is it he? I'm sick of
him playing every role man. He's just he takes everything.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Just steal all of them, doesn't he? Between him and
Ryan Seacrest, nobody else gets any work, game show or otherwise,
I guess. But yeah, yeah, well I don't so around.
When did it happen because I think I joined the
party a little late.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I think it's been about three hours ago, has it okay?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Was it noon?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay? I think it was the second vote of four
that they had scheduled today. I think so, if my
Westernville North math serves me correctly, they did one yesterday
and then one prior to today when they finally achieved
at least eighty nine of the one hundred and thirty
(01:02):
three votes that they needed. So there it is. We
have a new pope, Pope Leo the fourteenth, the first American.
And you know, I was just telling Zach attack a
second ago. They were playing a clip during the top
of the hour news Crumley was and I go, man,
what is it about all all the popes have this
(01:23):
lantel teeny like this like real thin kind of just
to if I could say it, and look, this isn't
any kind of knock, but it's it's not a very
manly type voice they ever end up having. And I
even said to him, I go, why can't they sound
like Chuck? I mean, can you imagine if one of
(01:45):
the popes stepped up to speak and he had your pipes?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I could see Chuck coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Piece be upon you, Chuck e talker on Twitter follow
me on the Power Hour at six o'clock. Acts of
Patricia at six thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I could not even I couldn't see that happening.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Give me the studio around.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You don't want to sound too pair of I mean,
you get in front of the congregation, you say the
Lord be with you, they say yes, sir. You know
you do you want the response there? You don't want to.
You don't want to have an overpowering presence.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Peace be with you and also with you? And you?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I think that I know a little bit of
that just from Jenny's side, but that was one of
the things. Man, when we were we were getting married,
they first said, you know, to have our ceremony in
their church, I had to join, and I said, no,
we won't be doing it in a Catholic church. Then,
I mean, I was like, look, I'm not trying to
(02:43):
be a jerk, but I haven't practiced Catholicism my entire life.
And I said, I'm not going to join and and
that'd be a front. I'm going to start my marriage
off with a sham forced hypocrisy.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I never understood that to draw people closer to your religion,
to draw them closer to God, I get all that,
But to force them to a particular expression of that religion,
whether it's you know, Catholicism or any Protestant, it doesn't
make sense to me because you're beginning, You're beginning the
(03:18):
relationship with a deception. And that's not hoping that you
grow into the religion. It's like hoping you grow to
love the person you're marrying. It doesn't make sense in
a world where I'm the post that I'm the pope
and you're not.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Could you imagine somebody being demon possessed that Chuck is
the priest. The power of Christ compels.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Poor demon.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's like, yes, sir, scary, He's like, who's speaking to me?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He broadcasts it and if you missed any of this,
you can hear it on my podcast later. Make sure
and check that out at WTV and dot go.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You're so you just.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Mean to me now we're taking the remote equipment to
an exorcism.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You guys, get it all set up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Let's go broke from Dante's Infernato. This is Mark Bleezer
Radio Show.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Everyone take it easy. He's a man, The Pope is
a man. But look what one and a half billion
Catholics around the world. I'd say they got the corner on,
you know, the most for that specific religion, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I me, yeah, I'd say so, say.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
A billion and a half. But anyway, congratulation. This is uh,
I guess pretty exciting with him being an American, you know.
And I was I was listening to some of the
talking heads talking about this early on and the type
of stuff. They're starting to kind of dig into his
background some. But every time they play a clip of
(05:01):
him talking, I just I couldn't help but think to myself,
I'm like, man, I've never heard one of them that
had like his booming voice like Chuck does, or you know,
you know some of the who's a Ernie Alexander didn't.
He used to do.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
ABC Yeah Tonight on the ABC Friday Night movie.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I love that guy, man, I love him.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You ever heard the outtake real? I'll play that for
you sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
From from Ernie?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
There was Mark Driscoll. I remember we used him at
my full Oldies, Like the first gig that I had,
we used to use Mark Driscoll. That guy was out
of Philadelphia. He had pipes for days. Man, that guy
was like and it was like I remember thinking, like
he did some of it and he was like, oh,
I forgot to turn on the processing and he turns
(05:48):
the processing. It almost sounds the same. It just it
richened it up a little bit. Is that a word
richend But it just made it kind of a little
more fuller. But I was like, it's not a big
stretch for that guy. He had this big booming pipes.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Listening to those guys do their thing. And I worked
for a music station that had they had an odd
choice instead of getting one of the notable voiceover station
positioning imaging guys as they call him. They got Robert Urick,
Oh yeah, which I just thought because he had a voice,
like this was Robert Urick and you're listening to a
(06:24):
better variety. I'm like, that is not inspiring at all.
I just you want somebody that comes out of the
gate and grabs the listener by their ears and pulls
them to the speaker. And Robert Urick. I loved him
as Dantana. He was great in the Rocky Buyer story.
But as a station voice, nah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Did he have so he had decent pipes, but maybe
the excuse me, the delivery.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was like it just sounded like he was just just just.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Him in between records man on especially, and that was what.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Several years ago, that was nineteen ninety one, so.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
There you go in between the records, you're still it
was still boss, you know, in between, so you're gonna
need an element of that. But then the delivery was.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It was this attitude. Yeah, Like it was just this attitude.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean they could read the most mundane of a
definition of a daisy, you know, from the dictionary, and
it would come out and you'd be like, man, that
was with authority.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And the beauty of that era is we had a
really cool copy because the scripts for the guys who
did that stuff. When's the last time you heard a
really cool script from you know, a station imaging boys.
Remember if it's too loud, you're too old. Yeah, you know,
turn it up or involved the uh yeah, that kind
of stuff. I missed that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I worked at XEROQ back in the day and we
used to have some incredible imaging. They wrote some really
good stuff that would have you cracking up. The problem is,
I don't feel like there was enough of it so
it would It was in rotation for a long time. Yeah,
and after a week you're like, man, this needs freshened
up because you're just getting hit over the head. You're
like almost kind of saying it with them, like and
(07:58):
you want an element of that, but to the point
where you're like, Okay, if I hear this again, I'm
There were changes station a guy out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of Cleveland that used to do commercials and they ran
on this station. They ran all over the place for
and there's still I think the ownership may be different now,
but it was Bob Bobb, Bob chevrolein Oh yeah, yeah,
I brought himself the Old jay Bird, and he did
Saturday morning, and they were fake spots. They were made
to sound like he was there broadcasting. He wasn't. But
(08:25):
I was the guy at the radio station who had
to take the stuff off of reel and put it
on the individual tapes to run. He didn't pause anything,
he didn't edit anything.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He's all right, day, it's just skid Saturday the fifth,
coming up to what hey, folks, the old jay Birder,
Bob bobb oh man.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I did hang on a second, and.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I had to listen to all of this burping and
like spinning up. Yeah, it was nasty, and he never
You would think you'd be courteous and rewind, be kind,
rewind and do a blockbuster on that tape, will you please?
But he would just yeah, he would grunt and everything else,
and he might start four or five times before he
finally got to time number six where he actually got
(09:11):
the commercial done without burping in the middle or something.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And that's the one you had. But you had to
listen to the whole thing to get to whatever it
was you were gonna put on the air. That's it there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Legendary, legendary legendary for sure. I do want to also
give a shout out to Chase and you know, yea
as I'm talking about the bank, not what Chase. He
used to be here he was he played for the Buckeye,
not that Chase Chase Bank. But and here's why. How
(09:41):
often has this happened for you? You receive something that
looks like it could be legitimate from your financial institution
and then you go, okay, I don't I don't know
if this is real or if it's not. But I
(10:02):
received and I didn't see it till this morning because
it came in a little bit after midnight, and it
said we declined a six dollars and eleven cent charge
with the card ending nine five four to six at
eneba order oh yakegsa.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well I'd decline that too.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, it was like, was this you or an authorized user?
Reply yes or no? If yes, you'll not be charged
unless the purchase is but blah blah blah blah. Well
I replied no when I woke up, and then it
immediately responded, thank you, We'll close the card and send
you a new one, and that thing was locked up immediately.
I went on there. That was the first attempt at
(10:43):
a fraudulent charge. And what they do is they put
little charges on there and they start with that to
see if it gets through. And once it does, Katie
barred the door. Baby, I mean it's going to be.
It's on like a donkey car.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Have you ever had a fraud on your credit card?
I mean yes, massive one to.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
A little over two hundred most recently, and this was
said it would have been in the fall of last year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Mine was two three hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Boy, they just went for it. They didn't even try
to dip their toe in the pool.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was our men and women in uniform. Unfortunately, I
got a call in the middle of the night from
back when Ameritch the phone company. There was an Ameritech
MasterCard that was both a calling card when we had
payphones and a credit card. And I got a call
in the middle of the night, mister Douglas is a
Meritech security Sorry to bother you, but is there any
reason your card would be being used in Germany right now?
(11:36):
I said absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, I'm in Spain. I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
So they said, thank you very much, show we'll take
care of this. That was shut it down and it
turned out my somehow, and I think I know how.
I think I used a non bill system payphone and
the touchtones were captured, oh in front of the old
Taco Bell which is now a Gebro place over on
West broad Street, and they were using the calling card
for eachure and calling home from a military base in Germany.
(12:03):
And I got the bill at the end of the
month and Meritech took care of it, but it was
twenty three hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So that the only time basically this has happened.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's the only time that's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I've had Chase catch this a couple of times, and
then I also had a thing with AT and T
when I bought a new iPhone. One time something goofy
happened and I had to end up closing down. But
I'm telling you, Chase is right on it. And look,
I'm not being paid an endorsement fee or anything like that.
I'm just telling you. They have stopped several different attempts
(12:33):
over time, and this is going back at least eight years,
ten years, and they have stopped in it's and I
told my wife I go and it was through Amazon.
That was the attempt was through it. It's an Amazon
Chase visa that I have connected to my Amazon account,
and I told her, I said, don't use the debit
card anymore on Amazon. Don't do it. I'm gonna get
(12:57):
when we get the new card. I'm gonna because I
don't know. And this is the And look, if you
work for Chase or whatever and you're like, you're completely wrong, Blazer,
don't yell at me. But this is my guess based
on everything that I know. They're going to have an
elevated element of security. I feel like with their credit
cards that have a high limit, that one has a
pretty high limit on it, and they're going to be
(13:18):
a little more scrupulous. Scrupulous, Yeah, they're going to be
with someone trying to get fraudulent charges through as opposed
to a debit card, because if they empty my bank account,
chances are it might not be there might not be
as much in that. And it's also they're not out
(13:39):
the money immediately. And certainly I think if they empty
out your bank account and you can prove that it
was fraudulent, you'll get it back eventually. But man, you
get a logjam of stuff that starts bouncing that you're
trying to put through or what I mean, it turns
into a mess.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've got one debit card that I use specifically for
online stuff, and I mean, if somebody hacks it, okay,
there's you know, four dollars in there, so that's good.
If I lose, I'm good. But if I want to
buy something that's two hundred dollars, I can just and
transfer the money in there and then make the purchase
and I'm good. Right. The problem is, and I had
(14:12):
this happen this past week. I tried two different cards.
I was doing Facebook ads for real estate stuff and
my debit card got declined. That ain't right, and I
really need to do this ad right now, So I
did another debit card, got declined. I'm like, what's going
on here? Then I get the little text messages from
both the bank and the credit union going we intercepted
(14:35):
a charge which could be fraudulent, and I'm like, look.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Man, no, no I like that, because they go is
this good to go? Reply yes, if you do, and
then they let.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It about five minutes after. But that's way better. No,
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying,
you know, I love that. That that is like, Okay,
now I wish you would inconvenience the guy in Nigeria
living no down, there's basement as much as I was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Just convenience, no doubt. Man. Here's the other thing with
I have different cards connected to different type of stuff
because they earn rewards, and what you're talking about is
way better to you just connect some you know, card
with one thousand or two thousand limit, and you know
if they if they take you for that, you're like, Okay,
well the joke's on you because there's not very much
room on it or whatever. But I do that because
(15:21):
I get five percent back with Amazon, and yearly, I'm
I mean last year I had over seven hundred dollars
in free stuff that I got on Amazon from the
stuff that I yeah, I get I get that five
percent back, So I mean that makes sense for me
to do that. But unfortunately, there's a and you can
call the bank and say, hey, can you lower the limit?
I think you can ask them to do that and
(15:42):
they'll bring it down for you if you want or whatever.
So but that's that's but yeah, what you're doing is
really the best way to do it is just use
one card for all of that different stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's online, it goes through that card. It keeps me safe.
Well, now for the foreseeable future, every newscast is going
to lead with we have an American pope for the
first time in history.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We do.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I haven't heard anything about it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Pope Leo the fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Is not DiCaprio again, is it he? I'm sick of
him playing every role man. He's just he takes everything.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Just steal all of them, doesn't he? Between him and
Ryan Seacrest, nobody else gets any work, game show or otherwise,
I guess. But yeah, yeah, well I don't so around.
When did it happen because I think I joined the
party a little late.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I think it's been about three hours ago, has it okay?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Was it noon?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Ish?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Okay? I think it was the second vote of four
that they had scheduled today. I think so, if my
Westernville North math serves me correctly, they did one yesterday
and then one prior to today when they finally achieved
at least eighty nine of the one hundred and thirty
(01:02):
three votes that they needed. So there it is. We
have a new pope, Pope Leo the fourteenth, the first American.
And you know, I was just telling Zach attack a
second ago. They were playing a clip during the top
of the hour news Crumley was and I go, man,
what is it about all all the popes have this
(01:23):
lantel teeny like this like real thin kind of just
to if I could say it, and look, this isn't
any kind of knock, but it's it's not a very
manly type voice they ever end up having. And I
even said to him, I go, why can't they sound
like Chuck? I mean, can you imagine if one of
(01:45):
the popes stepped up to speak and he had your pipes?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I could see Chuck coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Piece be upon you, Chuck e talker on Twitter follow
me on the Power Hour at six o'clock. Acts of
Patricia at six thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I could not even I couldn't see that happening.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Give me the studio around.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You don't want to sound too pair of I mean,
you get in front of the congregation, you say the
Lord be with you, they say yes, sir. You know
you do you want the response there? You don't want to.
You don't want to have an overpowering presence.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Peace be with you and also with you? And you?
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I think that I know a little bit of
that just from Jenny's side, but that was one of
the things. Man, when we were we were getting married,
they first said, you know, to have our ceremony in
their church, I had to join, and I said, no,
we won't be doing it in a Catholic church. Then,
I mean, I was like, look, I'm not trying to
(02:43):
be a jerk, but I haven't practiced Catholicism my entire life.
And I said, I'm not going to join and and
that'd be a front. I'm going to start my marriage
off with a sham forced hypocrisy.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I never understood that to draw people closer to your religion,
to draw them closer to God, I get all that,
But to force them to a particular expression of that religion,
whether it's you know, Catholicism or any Protestant, it doesn't
make sense to me because you're beginning, You're beginning the
(03:18):
relationship with a deception. And that's not hoping that you
grow into the religion. It's like hoping you grow to
love the person you're marrying. It doesn't make sense in
a world where I'm the post that I'm the pope
and you're not.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Could you imagine somebody being demon possessed that Chuck is
the priest. The power of Christ compels.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Poor demon.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's like, yes, sir, scary, He's like, who's speaking to me?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He broadcasts it and if you missed any of this,
you can hear it on my podcast later. Make sure
and check that out at WTV and dot go.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You're so you just.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Mean to me now we're taking the remote equipment to
an exorcism.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
You guys, get it all set up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Let's go broke from Dante's Infernato. This is Mark Bleezer
Radio Show.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Everyone take it easy. He's a man, The Pope is
a man. But look what one and a half billion
Catholics around the world. I'd say they got the corner on,
you know, the most for that specific religion, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I me, yeah, I'd say so, say.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
A billion and a half. But anyway, congratulation. This is uh,
I guess pretty exciting with him being an American, you know.
And I was I was listening to some of the
talking heads talking about this early on and the type
of stuff. They're starting to kind of dig into his
background some. But every time they play a clip of
(05:01):
him talking, I just I couldn't help but think to myself,
I'm like, man, I've never heard one of them that
had like his booming voice like Chuck does, or you know,
you know some of the who's a Ernie Alexander didn't.
He used to do.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
ABC Yeah Tonight on the ABC Friday Night movie.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I love that guy, man, I love him.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
You ever heard the outtake real? I'll play that for
you sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
From from Ernie?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
There was Mark Driscoll. I remember we used him at
my full Oldies, Like the first gig that I had,
we used to use Mark Driscoll. That guy was out
of Philadelphia. He had pipes for days. Man, that guy
was like and it was like I remember thinking, like
he did some of it and he was like, oh,
I forgot to turn on the processing and he turns
(05:48):
the processing. It almost sounds the same. It just it
richened it up a little bit. Is that a word
richend But it just made it kind of a little
more fuller. But I was like, it's not a big
stretch for that guy. He had this big booming pipes.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Listening to those guys do their thing. And I worked
for a music station that had they had an odd
choice instead of getting one of the notable voiceover station
positioning imaging guys as they call him. They got Robert Urick,
Oh yeah, which I just thought because he had a voice,
like this was Robert Urick and you're listening to a
(06:24):
better variety. I'm like, that is not inspiring at all.
I just you want somebody that comes out of the
gate and grabs the listener by their ears and pulls
them to the speaker. And Robert Urick. I loved him
as Dantana. He was great in the Rocky Buyer story.
But as a station voice, nah.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Did he have so he had decent pipes, but maybe
the excuse me, the delivery.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Was like it just sounded like he was just just just.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Him in between records man on especially, and that was what.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Several years ago, that was nineteen ninety one, so.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
There you go in between the records, you're still it
was still boss, you know, in between, so you're gonna
need an element of that. But then the delivery was.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
It was this attitude. Yeah, Like it was just this attitude.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean they could read the most mundane of a
definition of a daisy, you know, from the dictionary, and
it would come out and you'd be like, man, that
was with authority.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And the beauty of that era is we had a
really cool copy because the scripts for the guys who
did that stuff. When's the last time you heard a
really cool script from you know, a station imaging boys.
Remember if it's too loud, you're too old. Yeah, you know,
turn it up or involved the uh yeah, that kind
of stuff. I missed that.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I worked at XEROQ back in the day and we
used to have some incredible imaging. They wrote some really
good stuff that would have you cracking up. The problem is,
I don't feel like there was enough of it so
it would It was in rotation for a long time. Yeah,
and after a week you're like, man, this needs freshened
up because you're just getting hit over the head. You're
like almost kind of saying it with them, like and
(07:58):
you want an element of that, but to the point
where you're like, Okay, if I hear this again, I'm
There were changes station a guy out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of Cleveland that used to do commercials and they ran
on this station. They ran all over the place for
and there's still I think the ownership may be different now,
but it was Bob Bobb, Bob chevrolein Oh yeah, yeah,
I brought himself the Old jay Bird, and he did
Saturday morning, and they were fake spots. They were made
to sound like he was there broadcasting. He wasn't. But
(08:25):
I was the guy at the radio station who had
to take the stuff off of reel and put it
on the individual tapes to run. He didn't pause anything,
he didn't edit anything.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He's all right, day, it's just skid Saturday the fifth,
coming up to what hey, folks, the old jay Birder,
Bob bobb oh man.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I did hang on a second, and.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I had to listen to all of this burping and
like spinning up. Yeah, it was nasty, and he never
You would think you'd be courteous and rewind, be kind,
rewind and do a blockbuster on that tape, will you please?
But he would just yeah, he would grunt and everything else,
and he might start four or five times before he
finally got to time number six where he actually got
(09:11):
the commercial done without burping in the middle or something.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And that's the one you had. But you had to
listen to the whole thing to get to whatever it
was you were gonna put on the air. That's it there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Legendary, legendary legendary for sure. I do want to also
give a shout out to Chase and you know, yea
as I'm talking about the bank, not what Chase. He
used to be here he was he played for the Buckeye,
not that Chase Chase Bank. But and here's why. How
(09:41):
often has this happened for you? You receive something that
looks like it could be legitimate from your financial institution
and then you go, okay, I don't I don't know
if this is real or if it's not. But I
(10:02):
received and I didn't see it till this morning because
it came in a little bit after midnight, and it
said we declined a six dollars and eleven cent charge
with the card ending nine five four to six at
eneba order oh yakegsa.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well I'd decline that too.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, it was like, was this you or an authorized user?
Reply yes or no? If yes, you'll not be charged
unless the purchase is but blah blah blah blah. Well
I replied no when I woke up, and then it
immediately responded, thank you, We'll close the card and send
you a new one, and that thing was locked up immediately.
I went on there. That was the first attempt at
(10:43):
a fraudulent charge. And what they do is they put
little charges on there and they start with that to
see if it gets through. And once it does, Katie
barred the door. Baby, I mean it's going to be.
It's on like a donkey car.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Have you ever had a fraud on your credit card?
I mean yes, massive one to.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
A little over two hundred most recently, and this was
said it would have been in the fall of last year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Mine was two three hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Boy, they just went for it. They didn't even try
to dip their toe in the pool.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
It was our men and women in uniform. Unfortunately, I
got a call in the middle of the night from
back when Ameritch the phone company. There was an Ameritech
MasterCard that was both a calling card when we had
payphones and a credit card. And I got a call
in the middle of the night, mister Douglas is a
Meritech security Sorry to bother you, but is there any
reason your card would be being used in Germany right now?
(11:36):
I said absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, I'm in Spain. I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
So they said, thank you very much, show we'll take
care of this. That was shut it down and it
turned out my somehow, and I think I know how.
I think I used a non bill system payphone and
the touchtones were captured, oh in front of the old
Taco Bell which is now a Gebro place over on
West broad Street, and they were using the calling card
for eachure and calling home from a military base in Germany.
(12:03):
And I got the bill at the end of the
month and Meritech took care of it, but it was
twenty three hundred and sixty one dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So that the only time basically this has happened.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
That's the only time that's happened to me.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I've had Chase catch this a couple of times, and
then I also had a thing with AT and T
when I bought a new iPhone. One time something goofy
happened and I had to end up closing down. But
I'm telling you, Chase is right on it. And look,
I'm not being paid an endorsement fee or anything like that.
I'm just telling you. They have stopped several different attempts
(12:33):
over time, and this is going back at least eight years,
ten years, and they have stopped in it's and I
told my wife I go and it was through Amazon.
That was the attempt was through it. It's an Amazon
Chase visa that I have connected to my Amazon account,
and I told her, I said, don't use the debit
card anymore on Amazon. Don't do it. I'm gonna get
(12:57):
when we get the new card. I'm gonna because I
don't know. And this is the And look, if you
work for Chase or whatever and you're like, you're completely wrong, Blazer,
don't yell at me. But this is my guess based
on everything that I know. They're going to have an
elevated element of security. I feel like with their credit
cards that have a high limit, that one has a
pretty high limit on it, and they're going to be
(13:18):
a little more scrupulous. Scrupulous, Yeah, they're going to be
with someone trying to get fraudulent charges through as opposed
to a debit card, because if they empty my bank account,
chances are it might not be there might not be
as much in that. And it's also they're not out
(13:39):
the money immediately. And certainly I think if they empty
out your bank account and you can prove that it
was fraudulent, you'll get it back eventually. But man, you
get a logjam of stuff that starts bouncing that you're
trying to put through or what I mean, it turns
into a mess.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've got one debit card that I use specifically for
online stuff, and I mean, if somebody hacks it, okay,
there's you know, four dollars in there, so that's good.
If I lose, I'm good. But if I want to
buy something that's two hundred dollars, I can just and
transfer the money in there and then make the purchase
and I'm good. Right. The problem is, and I had
(14:12):
this happen this past week. I tried two different cards.
I was doing Facebook ads for real estate stuff and
my debit card got declined. That ain't right, and I
really need to do this ad right now, So I
did another debit card, got declined. I'm like, what's going
on here? Then I get the little text messages from
both the bank and the credit union going we intercepted
(14:35):
a charge which could be fraudulent, and I'm like, look.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Man, no, no I like that, because they go is
this good to go? Reply yes, if you do, and
then they let.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
It about five minutes after. But that's way better. No,
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just saying,
you know, I love that. That that is like, Okay,
now I wish you would inconvenience the guy in Nigeria
living no down, there's basement as much as I was.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Just convenience, no doubt. Man. Here's the other thing with
I have different cards connected to different type of stuff
because they earn rewards, and what you're talking about is
way better to you just connect some you know, card
with one thousand or two thousand limit, and you know
if they if they take you for that, you're like, Okay,
well the joke's on you because there's not very much
room on it or whatever. But I do that because
(15:21):
I get five percent back with Amazon, and yearly, I'm
I mean last year I had over seven hundred dollars
in free stuff that I got on Amazon from the
stuff that I yeah, I get I get that five
percent back, So I mean that makes sense for me
to do that. But unfortunately, there's a and you can
call the bank and say, hey, can you lower the limit?
I think you can ask them to do that and
(15:42):
they'll bring it down for you if you want or whatever.
So but that's that's but yeah, what you're doing is
really the best way to do it is just use
one card for all of that different stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
It's online, it goes through that card. It keeps me safe.
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