Topic: Garage Door Opener

The hosts share anecdotes about the practical inconveniences of power outages, including neighbors trapped in garages due to electric openers. A story is recounted involving a woman named Mimi and her 150-pound Fila dog trapped in a motel room in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The incident highlights the danger of modern motels using exclusively electronic key systems that fail during blackouts.

A Der Spiegel article co-authored by Jacob Applebaum claims the NSA's antennas in San Antonio interfered with local garage door openers. The hosts debunk the framing of this story, explaining that the interference was caused by the Department of Defense's Land Mobile Radio system operating on a frequency that garage door manufacturers were previously warned to vacate. They cite this as an example of sensationalized journalism.