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Hey. Of Came Commander Today Your daily podcast to

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keep you up to date with all things digital

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and beyond and I'd love to have you be

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a part of our podcast. You can make it

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a point, but to speak with me, just head

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over to commando.com and on the top right there's

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a button that says email can the let out

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and that's it Was the last time we actually

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looked. Inside your oh it's a laptop.

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I don't know how to look inside

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of it. Once was time you looked

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inside your a desktop computer. Ten.

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Years and what did you see? You.

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Know hard drive fan just as

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D cards, but a lot of

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dust. Of course there's always dust.

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Yeah, okay, even my current laptop

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is filthy. And. I clean that,

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you know, because I keep it closed and

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I have connected to three monitors. Yeah, it

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gets covered in dust and then I clean

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it up and then literally two hours later

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is converted into. This

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guy on Reddit. He opened up his

0:54

computer and what he found were. Fire.

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Ants. Could. Just

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go to Managing to is like what

1:01

is going on was the having computer

1:04

troubles and that's why you else and

1:06

it okay yes I. His Gp

1:08

you max temp was. Like going like

1:10

flashy. You think about it all on what's going

1:12

on and so it turns. Out the fire ants

1:14

I didn't know. This is a little fun fact

1:16

that you can like take with you and you

1:19

can when you go out with Jennifer. Next you

1:21

can impress Are you? oh. Hey. Honey yeah

1:23

let me tell you about fire and let

1:25

me say this computer fi or she's watching

1:27

right now so you ruined it are well

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have nothing to. I like Jennifer. I'll give

1:31

you seven to work with or turn it

1:33

off right now so I have them to

1:35

talk about our here's the deal. When he

1:37

looked inside he saw all these firing right?

1:39

And it turns out that the fire ants

1:41

like to eat thermal paste. And ads

1:43

Interesting, yes, I wonder where they're

1:46

attracted to that? I

1:48

don't know. have you economic

1:50

idea of. It's as if you

1:52

if you have fire ants inside your computer's. was

1:55

to wipe out the nest see giving me information

1:57

but not a wealth of information i will not

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be able to handle any follow-ups after that

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statement. You wouldn't have been able to handle

2:03

any follow-ups anyway. Jennifer would

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have looked at you like, oh, because she has those

2:08

puppy dog guys when she looks at me. Like, oh,

2:10

he's so smart. Oh, he's so

2:12

great. Did you see that viral video where this

2:14

guy called out an IT

2:16

guy, like one of the mobile IT guys? And he's

2:18

like, I don't know what's going on. I turn on

2:21

my computer and it works super fast. And then all

2:23

of a sudden this morning, it doesn't work no matter

2:25

what I do. And the guy opens

2:27

up the computer and is full of beans. Wait,

2:30

I'm sorry. It's full of what?

2:32

Beans. Beans? How

2:35

do you get beans inside of a computer?

2:37

There is a prank video. Oh, god. But

2:39

the IT guy, just the look on his face, he's

2:42

like, there's beans in here. Why is there

2:44

beans in here? Where did the beans come from? Where did

2:46

the beans come from? Look that one up. That's a good

2:48

video. Makes me laugh just thinking about it. Well, how it

2:50

just shows that you have to be persist.

2:53

And go. Yeah.

2:56

Yeah. That was a good one. You

2:59

know what? Sometimes I just crack myself up, though.

3:01

Not this time. But there are some times. There

3:03

are some times. You do it. And

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on that happy note, it's Kim Commando

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today. It's our daily fun podcast about all

3:10

things digital. I'm, of course, Kim Commando

3:12

and Andrew Babinski. Andrew, what do

3:14

you have coming up? Is it OK to be

3:16

rude to AI? Are

3:18

you asking me? There is an X plus A to

3:21

find out whether or not it's OK.

3:23

It's harmful to be rude to AI.

3:25

It is harmful. OK. Well,

3:28

that's exactly what's complete. So we'll find something else

3:30

to talk about. And

3:32

we're not going to talk about your shoes, OK? Hey,

3:35

listen. Kim Commando today, you can find

3:37

us everywhere. Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Rumble, Apple

3:39

Podcasts, Spotify, you name it. We just

3:41

need to do two things. Number one

3:43

is to share out this video just

3:46

with one person. That's all. How

3:48

helpful is it if someone shares? Tremendously

3:50

helpful. I know. It's crazy, right? Yeah. All

3:53

the algorithms inside go like, oh,

3:56

wow. Share. Wow. That

3:58

must mean this is a mess. Why is wouldn't

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mind blown? Yes, so

4:03

just one person. That's it. Just one

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easy and if you're just joining us

4:07

today and you missed yesterday's Kim commando

4:09

today Amazing

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it's just blowing up and it's

4:14

all about SWAT my SWAT experience

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Which you know, I'm gonna tell you

4:19

my phone is blowing up from people I know they're

4:21

like did this really happen to you? Well, you put

4:23

the videos What do you think

4:25

you're lying with all the videos? It was an incredible

4:27

story I actually we talked about it on my local

4:29

radio show here in the valley Speth

4:32

and friends on K easy you can listen on the

4:34

I heart radio app and we actually talked and we

4:36

had people calling in And everybody was like, oh my

4:39

gosh. I can't believe that happened to her. That's crazy

4:42

Because the robberies are rampant around the city

4:44

and they aren't true right now Well, did

4:46

you give a plug to the newsletter or

4:48

not the newsletter? I plugged the podcast But

4:52

I didn't do the newsletter. I apologize.

4:54

All right coming up We have the

4:56

the story with you about rude. Yeah,

4:58

I I have an interesting piece

5:01

of legislation that is trying to be passed

5:03

in California and I'm gonna

5:06

say a little bit about it And then

5:08

we're gonna talk about it because it's all

5:10

about controlling how fast you can go in

5:12

your car Okay And

5:14

how in California they're really gonna try to

5:16

clamp down on that and then we have some Gen Z

5:18

terms that we didn't get to Yesterday cuz we just totally

5:20

ran out. Yeah, you totally teased it the whole show and

5:22

then you're just like now No,

5:24

sorry, we gotta move on it is now

5:27

tomorrow. All right. So here are the top

5:29

five things you need to know It's happening

5:31

about tech right now. Okay, so New York

5:33

magazine has a big-time financial journalist. Did you

5:35

hear about this? Charlotte

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cows And she

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is a New Yorker, you know what a

5:42

New Yorkers. I'm a New Yorker forget about

5:44

Okay, we are smart. We're savvy,

5:47

you know You can't get anything past us

5:49

because we have heard and seen it all People

5:51

see New Yorkers are rude, but they're not they

5:54

just don't have time to be polite They're

5:56

just moving movers and shakers. What do you

5:58

say? I'm direct. Yeah Yes, very direct. Just

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wait it. But it's not an insult. No.

6:04

It's just who you are. Okay, so here's the

6:06

deal. She has gone public with a

6:09

story. Now remember, she's a New Yorker

6:11

and she's a New York Magazine financial

6:13

journalist. Okay. She got a

6:15

phone call from somebody pretending to be

6:17

an Amazon agent who said that, guess

6:20

what Patricia, your Amazon account is

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being charged thousands and thousands of

6:24

dollars in unauthorized charges. I got

6:27

this call. In this very moment.

6:29

Yeah, I've gotten these before. Okay. You

6:32

just hang up. She said, oh my gosh,

6:34

what's going on? She got fooled. She

6:36

denied the purchases and then they said, you know what?

6:39

We're so glad that we talked to you because I think we

6:41

think that you can help us. We think that

6:43

you can help us. Would you have time

6:45

to talk to the Federal Trade Commission right now?

6:48

I got the same call. Oh,

6:50

of course I have time. I want to help. So

6:53

she talks to the Federal Trade Commission

6:55

agent who's obviously not an agent. No.

6:58

She said, oh, you

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know what? You

7:02

need to talk to somebody at the CIA. Can

7:05

you hold on and we're going to transfer you right now? And

7:08

so the person at the CIA said, if

7:10

you transfer $50,000 into the

7:12

scammers bank account right

7:17

now, we'll make sure that you get it

7:19

back. But you will help

7:21

us find the criminals.

7:24

Don't tell me she did it. She

7:27

did. She transferred 50 grand. I've gotten

7:29

the same call and I wrote it out

7:32

because I was curious to see where they were going

7:34

with this. Like they're calling you up and saying that

7:36

you have an Amazon purchase and you just say, no,

7:38

that wasn't me. And they go, okay, great. Thanks.

7:40

This is not a scam. This is just some boring

7:43

prank. It's

7:45

so apparent through the entire process. They

7:47

are not from the government. They

7:50

are not anything official. I cannot believe she

7:52

fell for this. She fell for it. She

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lost $9 billion last year to

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this scam. All right. Moving On to number two.

8:00

We're going to go to the Department

8:02

of Justice. Ah, there's a hush hush

8:04

operation. Don't fill a human. We'll have

8:06

to talk about the by the name

8:08

of dying Ember. Amazing. Bumper bomb bomb.

8:10

They get some creative with the names

8:12

of these things and I we don't

8:15

time but no I wanted. So there

8:17

are different brands of routers. Netgear, Aces

8:19

or kind of their of There's One

8:21

Cubs, Ubiquity Times and Ubiquity Routers. They

8:23

were not getting the updates. Guess what?

8:26

The hackers came in and they started to

8:28

do have a like started spreading malware. Now.

8:31

Service tax so. The deal J

8:33

said you know what, we can start

8:35

this So they went down into the

8:37

lines and into the routers. And updated

8:40

them automatically. Bump into this for everything

8:42

saying he wrote a book se but

8:44

they did it. They figured out where

8:46

you other somebody is going to say

8:48

I read or that's my router are

8:50

awarded for but not a specific are

8:52

fed through her is as do not

8:54

tread on me or my router. Okay

8:56

exactly So here's the deal. I'd say

8:58

default passwords on your router. And

9:00

if you have a router that you can't update. If

9:04

and I'm to buy a new router

9:06

right of ah and then moving on

9:08

that risk free look Ilan know hands

9:10

normally member the brain and blue talked

9:12

about that. A brave person had the

9:14

chip implanted and now can just use

9:16

their thoughts to scroll and click a

9:18

computer mouse. Him Tell

9:21

you. How. Little I understand

9:23

the technology that's behind. How.

9:26

The system because he puts in a

9:28

chip. You. Bright and then connected

9:30

to the different parts of your brand

9:32

sound his brain. Talk. To

9:34

chip. Through. The little

9:36

electrodes so crazy. and then there's

9:38

a box on the side. And

9:41

so what's happening in here Talks to the box

9:43

on the side. And talk to.

9:46

But the fact that we can

9:48

translate brain waves through an I

9:50

phone is just the future. I

9:52

mean literally is the future? Just

9:54

wait. Till. You know you're sitting

9:57

there and you're talking to your spouse. And.

9:59

Inside. The you make. I

10:02

just can't stand or this is like I

10:04

to nine the fax machine start spit. Not

10:06

everything I'm thinking sets picture it but they

10:08

could now. Wouldn't. That be crazy

10:11

creepy. Yes I saw him. One company

10:13

is working on tap for your dreams.

10:15

And. Like I don't want my dreams captured as

10:18

like the weirdest for hims. Do you remember I

10:20

dream sentences? I had one the squirting. I can

10:22

remember what it was but I remember waking up

10:24

like all that was bizarre of be you know

10:26

remember where Well that doesn't signify tone or. As

10:29

you for call I'd love to hear

10:31

it. Odd you have an apple watch?

10:33

Yes we both sides have one night

10:36

stand on me I'm very mind right

10:38

now. It's finally that that color Css

10:40

sec please. Flesh colored affected. Ah they

10:42

had a little problem lab and in

10:44

the newest I watch users nine. They

10:48

had something club the blood. Art

10:50

the blood oxygen saturation. And

10:53

as such as out. Pixelate

10:55

borrow the technology from some but food

10:58

at a bar with from what generous

11:00

person lens them the technology to put

11:02

in those want to in the medical

11:04

company has come back and said. No.

11:06

Way that's our tech. So.

11:08

That's the whole Feds get involved right? and

11:11

they see can't sell that watch and learn

11:13

or than Apple's like oh no but we

11:15

actually had the technology ourselves so what's happening

11:17

now said they have like said okay we're

11:20

not Sli anymore. The series nine with the

11:22

eggs yo Any new watch right that have

11:24

this tech built into so if you have

11:27

a watch that has detect built in. That.

11:29

They borrowed from the company borrowed. And.

11:31

You're not using that watch. You could sell

11:34

it online right now for big bucks or

11:36

cables they can disable it. Is

11:38

think that they visit definitely turned

11:40

it off and in some little a

11:43

ride down in it was of zap

11:45

gone in. That said Ed are finally

11:47

this from the Would is Good department.

11:50

A Japanese scientists are sending something called

11:52

the League Know Sets and League Know

11:54

Sat or it's a wooden satellite into

11:57

orbit. But. they seem of

11:59

that slam Because every time we see

12:01

a satellite, we see like, oh, all the

12:03

metal and all this great stuff. That's gonna be

12:05

so much lighter. It's made

12:07

of magnolia, and it's as big

12:09

as a coffee cup. That's the

12:11

satellite? Yes, and it's on a

12:14

mission, they say, to minimize the

12:16

particles produced when metal satellites burn

12:18

upon re-entry. I wonder what percentage

12:20

of capacity it has compared to

12:23

one of those huge satellites that you see. Nothing.

12:25

Yeah, and there's the coffee cup. It's that,

12:28

that, that. It is,

12:30

it's like the size of a coffee cup.

12:32

No one's ever went, have you seen my

12:34

satellite? I cannot, I know I left it

12:36

on this desk. Gosh, you know, and I

12:38

got it at Starbucks. Yes,

12:40

it was the pink one, those are rare. Starbucks.

12:44

Oh. Got it at Starbucks. I

12:46

was too busy improvising to hear your

12:48

hilarious jokes. I just came

12:51

up with that one. Brilliant. It was

12:53

brilliant. All right, coming up, we're gonna

12:55

talk about whether or not it's mean to talk to

12:57

a chatbot. Correct. We're gonna talk about some

12:59

Gen Z terms. Do

13:01

you know what Gen Z are? I don't know. I don't

13:03

know which, I get all the, I don't even know what

13:06

generation I am. I

13:08

get them all confused. It doesn't matter. I think I'm

13:10

Gen X. Are you

13:12

Gen X? I think so. Yeah, you are, yeah, you are

13:14

Gen X. You're not Gen A. No,

13:16

no, I'm too old for that. But we

13:18

can pretend. We can pretend I'm Gen A.

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it's Kim Comando today at your Daily Fun

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Podcast, where we just talk about all things

14:37

digital. We have

14:39

a new domain, because some people are saying, like, I

14:41

don't know how I can enter to win, because how

14:43

do you spell commando? Oh, really? Yes. And

14:46

is it with a C? No. No.

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But don't you own the C one? Oh, yeah, of course. But

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anyway, so if you want to go to commando.com/ win.

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But I woke up this morning, and I said,

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you know what we need? We need a domain

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that I can just say on the air. And

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then people will be like, oh, that's where

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I go. Because you say commando.com/win too

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much. So I actually woke up with it.

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And I wasn't even thinking about that. It was like, I woke

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up and I think I

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am brilliant. Well, don't you

15:15

say that every morning when you wake up? Sometimes

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I say I'm beautiful. I'm good enough.

15:19

I'm smart enough. And doggone it, people

15:21

like me. Yes. All

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right. What is the what is win

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from Kim? Oh, that's perfect. Yeah. So

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win from Kim. That wasn't taken? No. It

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was available? Yes. It's

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not dot like CC or.org/PBS? Win from Kim

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dot com. Perfect. I know.

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So I sent a note to Jeremy, and I said, hey, listen. And

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he's like, hey, that really that's a good one. Win

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from Kim dot com. Is it active right

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now? This second? It is. Nice

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job. Look at how fast and efficient you guys are. We

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are. All right. So talk

15:52

to me about chatbots. I'm going

15:54

to go to the article that came out and basically

15:56

asked the question, if is it a bad thing

15:58

to be rude to a. And basically

16:00

the overwhelming idea is no, it's not.

16:03

You can be, it's not human, but

16:05

are there consequences? And they give the

16:07

example, like you said, of talking to

16:10

a chatbot. Correct. I

16:12

immediately went to my Google

16:14

home speakers. I have seven

16:16

of them in my house. Wow. They're

16:18

in almost every room. We use them to turn

16:20

on lights, set alarms. It's

16:23

become second nature. I've had them so long and

16:25

use them so often. And

16:27

I thought to myself, that's somewhat

16:29

of artificial intelligence. Kinda.

16:32

Kinda. Not chat GPT, but kind

16:34

of. But I'm rude to my

16:36

Google home speaker all the time. Like what?

16:39

I don't ask my Google home speaker to do things.

16:41

I make commands. Hey Google,

16:43

play Kid LaRoy. And it

16:45

starts playing music. When it

16:47

starts playing the music, I don't thank it. I

16:50

don't say thank you Google for playing

16:52

that amazing song for me. I so

16:54

appreciate you. Have a great day. Because

16:56

it's an inanimate object. And

16:59

I'm of the opinion. I was also thinking about,

17:01

remember back in the 80s or 70s, you had

17:03

the rabbit ears on your TV and you couldn't

17:05

get the game in. First thing you do, you

17:07

smack the side of the TV to get it

17:09

to work. We weren't thinking of

17:11

the television's feelings. It's

17:14

an inanimate object. It is not human.

17:16

It is not a person. I have

17:18

no problem with someone who is in

17:20

a loop on Southwest Airlines talking to

17:23

their chatbot just going off with a

17:25

bunch of F words because they can't

17:27

get their flight to Zacoma rebooked. I

17:29

did that today. You yelled at

17:31

AI? At Siri. Okay.

17:34

Let me know. Because I

17:36

said, hey Siri, call

17:38

Gate Westar. Okay. Because

17:40

you know, open. Yeah, that's how you get in here. And

17:43

then I got Western Loan

17:45

and Leads Company.

17:48

And I was like, no Siri.

17:51

Open. I'm driving down the street

17:53

because I want the gate to be open. And

17:56

then I did. And so finally

17:59

I tried like. four or five times and I was like,

18:01

damn it. Right, you cursed out.

18:04

There's gonna be no negative effects. Here's what I found.

18:07

Stop listening, theory. God, so annoying. I just

18:09

don't understand. I think we, you know, you

18:11

and I, we talk about this a lot

18:14

and we argue about this. I

18:16

don't understand we are so

18:18

gung ho on humanizing artificial

18:20

intelligence. Why do we

18:22

want that? It does not make sense.

18:27

It's because it makes it more approachable. But

18:29

we've never humanized technology before. I swear to

18:31

you, every single person watching has been sitting

18:33

on their computer, it's froze and they've slammed

18:36

their mouth down on the desk. They're

18:38

not worrying about their laptops feelings. Or they

18:40

went to save something and it's like, all

18:43

of a sudden the computer dies and you're

18:45

like, oh, right, stupid

18:47

computer. Why are we

18:49

humanizing? Why are we worrying about the

18:51

feelings of artificial intelligence? Why is it

18:54

so different than any technology we've had?

18:56

Because it's more invasive. And so the whole

18:59

idea of the developers have come up and

19:01

I'm sure there's like focus group studies and

19:03

psychological studies that people will be more receptive

19:05

to it. It's like the olden days, long

19:08

time ago, the first elevator. People

19:10

were afraid to get inside the elevator. They

19:13

wouldn't get in the elevator. And so what

19:15

they had to do is put a person

19:17

inside the elevator that would say, what floor

19:19

are you going to? You know, lingerie number

19:22

four, whatever it may be. And

19:24

so then they're like, you know, this is

19:26

costing us a lot of money. So

19:29

we don't really want a person in every elevator.

19:31

So how can we make people more accepting of

19:33

the elevator? So they put in the big red

19:35

button that says, emergency

19:38

button. Then all of a sudden

19:40

everybody got on the elevators. Now there is

19:42

a study out that says if you are using

19:44

whatever AI flavor that you're using,

19:47

chat, GPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, whatever

19:49

it is, is that if

19:51

you say things like, hi,

19:54

I really need your help.

19:57

And I want you to be a marketing pro. write

20:00

me some advertising copy for this make

20:06

it fun, make it great and of course give me a great call to

20:08

action at the end. If

20:11

you say please and thank you, you're going to get

20:13

a better result. That's only because that's the way

20:15

the AI was built! Exactly!

20:19

But it's not a necessity and

20:21

it was human beings that made that decision. Yeah, some

20:24

geek of the week decided that this going to be

20:26

the way that is is. I

20:29

don't understand it. They have to

20:31

humanize it to make it more accepting. Really?

20:35

Okay. I mean you would know

20:37

the psychology behind it but I'm still going to yell

20:39

at my TV. I'm still going to

20:41

yell at Hulu when it won't get the game

20:43

and it's the spinning wheel. Well, you know what?

20:45

When I got Western, when I

20:48

said open gate Westar and I got

20:51

Western loan and

20:53

lean company like a pawn shop.

20:57

Right. And I kept trying like

20:59

four or five times. I thought how

21:02

come I can go to chat

21:04

GPT and ask it for whatever

21:06

I want to know. Right. And

21:09

I just want to say hey Siri, call gate

21:11

Westar. Here she comes. Look,

21:14

she doesn't even do it now. You

21:17

could change it in your phone. You

21:19

could change it the number to something

21:21

simpler. You could

21:23

change it to penny and just say call penny

21:26

and penny will open the gate. What if

21:28

I have a friend penny? Don't

21:30

have any friends named penny. It's the only

21:32

way that this will work. Hey listen, we

21:34

forgot to tell people. What? That

21:37

we'd love to have their comments. Well they know.

21:40

It's a live stream podcast. That's why

21:42

the chat is there. Okay, but

21:44

maybe somebody's new. You're

21:46

right. I need to be

21:48

nicer. Yes. Less rude. Okay,

21:50

let's have a zen moment. So

21:54

If you'd like to comment about how wonderful I am.

22:00

How they're going to roll in, I can see

22:03

it now. the servers are over. Here is a

22:05

further fire and. They're

22:07

all over there all over but we

22:09

let we have Matty. She's monitoring all

22:12

of the chat upstairs and right before

22:14

we and the show and read some

22:16

quests as leave really preset s and

22:18

I'd like you to comment on interest

22:21

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22:23

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22:25

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as can Commander Today we are so thrilled

23:42

and happy that you're joining us. Now if

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you are, listen to the audio version of

23:46

Kim's video today as thought we'd love that.

23:48

But you can also watch S. do

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the whole pot right now for

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justice a audio version you cannot

23:56

see how cool my bright red

23:58

ruby slippers are that literally

24:00

four days in a row has told me how

24:03

ugly they are. They look like prison shoes. I

24:05

love them. We need to get them

24:07

as a sponsor. These are the best shoes I've ever

24:09

had. Hey dudes. They're

24:11

called hey dudes. Okay well

24:14

I think they're hey ugly. That's okay.

24:16

It's all good. Alright so

24:19

here's the next big experiment coming to us

24:21

from California. An absolute

24:23

requirement that every passenger

24:25

vehicle, every passenger vehicle,

24:27

every car, every truck, every bus sold

24:30

or operated in the state of California

24:32

must have what's called a speed

24:35

governor. Okay. Speed governor. Makes

24:37

sense to me. These

24:39

are smart devices and then they use

24:42

GPS tracking data and land-based cameras to

24:44

verify your speed, your

24:46

vehicle, your identity,

24:49

and get ready for it. Automatically

24:51

slow your car down as it

24:53

approaches 10 miles per hour over

24:56

the speed limit. It's

24:59

called Senate Bill 961. Tech

25:02

is here and they want this to

25:04

happen within three years. So my immediate thought

25:06

is goes to seat belts right? You

25:09

have to wear seat belts against law. If you don't wear a

25:11

seat belt you'll get ticketed. In the state of

25:13

Arizona it's become a first offense. It used to be just a secondary

25:15

offense. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah if they pulled you over for

25:17

speeding and then they saw that you didn't have a seat belt they

25:19

could ticket you. Now they can just pull you over for the no

25:21

seat belt. How is this

25:23

any different than that? I mean

25:26

but it's automatically gonna slow you down.

25:28

So again the difference is if

25:30

you make the choice not to wear a

25:32

seat belt you have to pay the penalty

25:35

if caught. This you don't get the choice

25:37

or not. They're making the decision. And they're gonna

25:39

so they say they're gonna verify your speed, your

25:42

car, and your identity. Well yeah you need to

25:44

know who they're slowing down. Exactly. Now are they

25:46

gonna penalize you for it if you get caught

25:48

or they just gonna slow you down and that

25:50

doesn't matter. They didn't say that. Okay. They're just

25:52

gonna slow you down. What is your thoughts? Too

25:55

intrusive? Yeah. Yeah.

25:58

Even if even if they had a or report

26:00

the stats that showed car actions would

26:02

drop by 80% still too intrusive?

26:06

Yeah cuz I don't want them tracking me and

26:08

everywhere I go I mean where is that all that data

26:10

going? You don't think they're already tracking you? I mean

26:14

your phone company? Well yeah.

26:16

And your phones in your pocket or your purse

26:19

every single time in your car? I don't

26:21

even like going through Paradise Valley Arizona because

26:23

all the cactus camps. Right but

26:25

if we said the bad which

26:27

is the control over you in

26:30

your vehicle right could equal a

26:32

good where we eliminate X

26:34

amount of percent. But where does it stop? Well

26:36

we've been saying that for everything right?

26:39

That's where it starts. I mean you can

26:41

say the same thing about drunk drivers. Mm-hmm.

26:43

That they want to put a breather-lizer in

26:45

every single car so every time that you

26:47

want to drive you have to blow

26:49

into this thing before you can start your

26:51

car. I'm torn on that because we as

26:54

humans even though we have the

26:56

choice we are not making the

26:58

right choices. We are

27:00

continuously getting into vehicles

27:03

obliterated running red lights

27:05

and killing people. We're

27:08

Matt we're doing this to ourselves.

27:11

But where does the

27:13

responsibility stop with the person? I mean

27:16

we have to be smart enough to not get

27:18

drunk and the bar... But we're not. Okay but

27:21

the bartender has to be smart enough to think

27:23

you know what dude you had enough call an

27:25

Uber. You're just passing the buck of the responsibility

27:27

because what we're saying is human beings are not

27:29

responsible enough to stop drinking so we have to

27:32

have someone else take on that responsibility. Human beings

27:34

should be smart enough. They should but they're not.

27:36

I think the same thing like with drugs you

27:38

know and everything. Yeah but I get heartbroken every

27:40

time you turn in the news and it's a

27:43

story of some six year old girl that was

27:45

killed because her and her mom were on our way

27:47

home and they're killed by a drunk driver. Or a three year old

27:49

that just died in a pool. Yes. But I I

27:52

also see the other side of it. I

27:54

see where we don't want to have this

27:56

big government control and some big supercomputer slowing

27:59

me down. when I'm trying to

28:01

get to my dentist appointment on time. I

28:03

get both sides. But we

28:05

don't make good enough choices. The reason why

28:07

we're getting to this point is because we

28:09

don't take our responsibility when it comes to

28:11

driving serious enough. I do. How

28:13

many times... Right, but you're one of 330 million.

28:17

We need 329 million at least

28:19

to catch up to where you're at. How

28:21

many times are you sitting at a red light and you look

28:23

over and there's some teenager on their phone? Yeah, I

28:25

can't stand it. And I feel like an old man because I

28:27

honked and it's like, put the phone down. But

28:30

it's so unsafe and I

28:32

just think of that 16-year-old

28:34

not paying attention and hitting T-bombing someone

28:36

because they're sitting there on their phone.

28:38

There's a guy in California recently got

28:40

arrested. He would

28:43

drive in the HOV lane,

28:46

which is by himself, which you're not supposed to do.

28:48

We're breaking the law right there. But

28:50

he got so tired of following people that

28:53

were on their phones, text messaging or whatever

28:55

it was, is that he bought an

28:57

$800 cell phone jammer. So

29:02

as he was driving through traffic, everybody

29:04

lost their signal. So

29:07

eventually they figured out who was

29:09

doing this because people were complaining like they

29:12

got to this section of the highway or whatever

29:14

it was and they just got off. And his

29:16

justification was, you know what? They were not

29:18

driving smart. I don't think... What

29:20

was he doing wrong? He wasn't impeding traffic.

29:22

He was just making people put away their

29:24

phones. It's a felony

29:27

to block loose cell phone

29:29

signals. Fine. I see

29:31

both sides of it. I see the pros and

29:33

the cons of both sides. I understand anyone that

29:35

says this is big government going too far, but

29:37

they said the same thing in the 70s when

29:39

they wanted to put seat belts in every single

29:42

car. We said the same thing before. It just

29:44

reminds me that I used

29:46

a picture in the newsletter recently

29:48

of the car from the 1950s. And

29:52

so you remember the 50s and they were big

29:54

cars. And so where

29:56

you would place your child is in

29:59

the back of the car. window you'd put the kid

30:01

right there and it had like

30:03

and then we knew it was like a feature of the

30:05

car Oh, yeah, they used as a selling point. Yes, then

30:07

you put your kid there And comfortably put little one in

30:09

the back so he can enjoy the ride Yes,

30:12

and that you know it the vibrations of the

30:14

car would put the baby to sleep and then

30:16

all the heat We keep the baby all nice

30:18

and warm. It shot through the windshield like a

30:20

bullet Yeah, that didn't

30:23

last for a long I the cars

30:25

weren't traveling fast enough back then to be

30:28

that much of a concern I think it would be

30:30

but you do you remember I mean

30:32

sitting on the hump? Oh, yeah City I remember that

30:34

I would you know that place you were talking about

30:36

right there on the back You're late right there. I'm

30:38

late right there when I was a little kid. Yes,

30:40

no problems. No one cared Fun,

30:43

it's like I'll be right fine. I'll be

30:45

good getting some sun. It's nice. How does

30:47

it next to my smelly sister? Oh, she

30:50

was Alright,

30:52

we're gonna talk about Gen Z talk

30:54

which is important because I want everybody

30:57

who watches and listens to be Hip

31:00

and cool. Ooh hip and cool

31:02

and groovy. Wow. Those are so

31:05

Current terms and I'm sure all the gents.

31:08

Are you giving us the Gen Z terms

31:10

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31:13

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Hey, it's Kim Commando today. I like to remind

32:23

people of that. You know why? Because this way

32:25

they can tell somebody. You know what? I watched

32:27

and listened to Kim Commando today. And a reminder

32:29

is needed. I literally referred to the show by

32:31

its wrong name yesterday. What did you call it?

32:33

Kim Commando show. On the

32:35

show. Okay, that was a different show.

32:37

The Kim Commando show is

32:39

another show. And I have to tell you

32:42

something. I am super excited. I can't tell.

32:44

I can't say what it is. Okay. But

32:46

we have, because the contract's

32:48

not signed. That

32:51

was a knock on wood. Was that a wood? No,

32:53

this is wood. That's wood. Yeah. We

32:56

have a major affiliate coming. Another

32:58

one. Huge. Now, have you made

33:00

the other one you teased last

33:02

week, officially yet? Oh,

33:05

that one's not official either. No. Is this the

33:07

same one? It might be. Okay. But I'm super

33:09

excited. So I talked about it twice. Yeah, that's

33:11

fine. It's actually two stations. Okay, then I don't

33:13

know if it's the same one or not. But

33:15

it's one market. Does it start with a K

33:17

or a W? W.

33:20

W, okay. W. W. So we're

33:22

looking so excited about that. All right,

33:24

so we were asking for comments. And

33:27

Mary Jones, she said she's never commented

33:29

before. Never? She

33:31

says, you're both great to listen to and see. I feel

33:33

like we're in your living room. Thanks for inviting us in.

33:36

Isn't that lovely? We popped

33:38

her a comment cherry on

33:40

Kim Commander today. That's awesome.

33:42

I apologize for that. We

33:44

can edit that

33:48

out, right? This is live. All right,

33:50

let's see. Jim Ian Ozy

33:52

says, did you guys hear that Amazon

33:54

is shutting down freebie the streaming service

33:56

in April? It's not

33:59

freebie. It's freebie. Yes. Okay.

34:02

And they are shutting it down because of

34:04

why? Why? Money! Oh!

34:07

Yes! No.

34:10

Because it doesn't only based on ad sales when no

34:12

one watches it, the ad sales are not very good?

34:14

It's $2.99 a month now. Oh,

34:17

okay. Prime video with ads. Yeah,

34:19

which is garbage. We talked about

34:21

that while you were out. That

34:23

they just throw through that charge onto your

34:25

Amazon Prime membership? Let's

34:28

see. Liz Dotson says winwithcam.com

34:31

works great. Oh, perfect! We

34:33

like that. It's already catching on. Let's see.

34:36

Kevin O'Neill

34:39

says he would not get a

34:41

New Orleans Lincoln plant. Yeah,

34:44

I don't know either. I don't think I want to. I

34:46

mean, I'm not even getting one of those Apple Vision

34:48

Pros. I'm definitely not going as far as putting chips

34:51

in my brain. Listen, if this was something that helped

34:53

you. Yeah, if I was paralyzed

34:55

from the neck down, I probably would have a totally

34:57

different opinion. Jim says he'd go into a

34:59

transporter before I get a link. Chuck

35:02

H., this is a good one. He says a

35:04

friend was involved in an accident several months ago

35:06

and he can't communicate except via attempts at lip

35:08

movement. And he's also a quadriplegic at

35:10

this time. The chip might make a real

35:13

difference for him. Absolutely. No,

35:16

I'm not against what Elon Musk is doing at all.

35:18

I think it's amazing. Like I said earlier in the

35:20

show, this is the future. Without

35:23

Siri, Bradley Cornelis says, I use

35:25

Siri as a stress release. I

35:28

yell, hey Siri, release the crack in. It

35:30

worked. And

35:33

Siri's still going to be there after you say that. And

35:36

finally, we have some great

35:39

comments. Can you show your shoes just

35:41

one more time? Oh, come on. Just

35:43

bounce that back. We're going to see the front. There

35:45

it is. Okay. Hey, dude. Michael

35:48

Allen says, Ronald McDonald called and he wants his shoes

35:50

back. It's

35:52

a good one, but it hurts. It

35:55

hurts. And Ted Grindr,

35:57

he also said the same thing. He said, I know a

35:59

clown. who works at McDonald's. Who has

36:01

those shoes. I

36:04

love these shoes. I got three more coming. They're all

36:06

going to be new colors. Ugly.

36:09

No, they're not ugly. Except

36:12

for Jennifer. I mean, nobody's going

36:14

to really want to see you or go out

36:16

with you. I bought these way after. I was

36:18

with her for already over a year before I

36:20

bought these. Jennifer, we're depending upon you. Make him

36:23

a real man with real shoes. I've

36:25

never had like a fashion point in

36:28

my... And you could argue I still don't. I'm just...

36:32

All of a sudden you think you're a fashion

36:34

god with those shoes? All

36:36

right, so Gen Z. These

36:40

are some words that are confusing. They

36:42

say the older generations. One

36:45

is pookie. Pookie? Pookie.

36:48

I don't know what the slang term is. It's

36:50

pookie. You could be my pookie. Is that a

36:52

boyfriend or a girlfriend? No, it's just a friend

36:55

who you really love. Are you serious? You'd be

36:57

my pookie. Oh, well, definitely pookies, but I'm not

36:59

going to refer to you as a pookie. But

37:03

you should. No cap. No

37:05

cap. That means no line. Tell

37:07

them the truth. No cap. I've never heard

37:09

of this one. Delulu. Delulu.

37:12

Delusional? Yeah. Yeah.

37:15

Basically. Basically being delusional. Yeeting.

37:19

Not to be confused with

37:21

Yeezy. Yeeting. Yeeting. I

37:23

mean, Yeezy is Kanye West. You're

37:26

right. That's what yeeting is.

37:28

Try it. Just take it.

37:30

In a sentence? Yes. Everyone

37:32

was attacking me for my new shoes, but

37:34

they're all yeeting. They

37:38

should. To violently throw an

37:40

object at you. Oh, geez. Okay,

37:43

I get that one. That one makes sense. Okay,

37:45

simp. We know it. Yeah, we

37:47

know simp. Everyone knows simp if you listen to this

37:49

podcast. Yes. We have Kim Kamehna's simps

37:51

everywhere. We do. They proved it. They

37:54

put it on the message board. Yes. When

37:56

they leave reviews for podcasts. We love that. When

37:58

you leave a review for a podcast. Because then

38:00

we know like you're an insider. It's an inside

38:02

joke. Yeah, like you know say you know You

38:04

guys are you know Kim commands a simp. I

38:06

miss simp for Kim commando. I simp for commando

38:09

That would be really amazing that could have been

38:11

the new URL Simp

38:13

for commando instead of win from commit Kim

38:15

What is the new one win from Kim

38:17

win from Kim? I don't know see

38:19

anyone had somebody like oh gladus What's she talking

38:21

about that? That

38:23

simple it must be it's to to

38:26

to cool. Okay. Finally your last one

38:28

based based B-A-O-B-A-S.

38:30

I don't know based. Just try. I

38:35

was trying to find out some

38:37

directions, but that idiot in there

38:39

based me That's

38:43

actually not bad. I totally just

38:45

guessed What is it to be

38:48

yourself and not really care about

38:50

how others view you? Okay. Okay,

38:52

you're based So you like

38:54

you're based about the shoes. I'm very based about

38:56

the shoes I'm also getting very angry

38:58

about the shoes that we are raising your voice at

39:00

me like me kind

39:03

of recenter Getting

39:05

a little excited about these I hear your

39:07

criticism about my shoes Kim and I'll

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we're going to take the pole. We should have a pole. We

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should. Yes. These

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the comfort. You maybe

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you would set aside how ugly you think you

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Let me tell you something. Yeah.

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Yes. I'd rather wear

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monoloblonic that are three inch

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But they were black and they had like all crystals

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looked hot. I'm the opposite.

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They're so comfortable. But

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