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Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to

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that's it. Have

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you ever been poked? Yeah.

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One time I was young, experimenting

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with things. You mean like

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on social media, like a social media poke? Yeah,

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poke. I don't know if I have. I don't

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even know what app that's on. It's on

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Facebook. Okay, no. Really? I

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don't think so. I've been poked. I've

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never responded to a poke. Okay, see when I

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was young, poke meant something else. What did it

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mean? It meant, you know,

0:47

doing that whole horizontal mambo.

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Intercourse. We

0:52

have children listening. That's a very good

0:54

medical term. It's true. So poke is

0:56

coming back on Facebook. It was gone?

0:58

It was gone. We missed it

1:00

so much. And you know who wants to get

1:03

poked? Who wants to get poked? Gen

1:05

Zers. Why do they want to get poked? I don't know. It's like 60% of

1:07

all the pokers and the pokies. What

1:09

does a poke mean? Like, hey, I'm just getting your

1:11

attention? Yeah, so like under message, instead of message, be

1:14

like poke. Social

1:16

media is so stupid. Poke. It

1:18

really is. You know, and you know, there's

1:20

somebody right now who's reading about this new

1:23

trend. Poke. P-O-K-E. It's

1:25

like a poke bowl. Sounds delicious. Yes.

1:30

Hey, listen, it's Kim Commando today because after all,

1:32

it's your fun podcast about all things digital.

1:34

And I'm, of course, Kim Commando. And joining

1:37

me is... Andrew Babinski. Drumroll, please. And if

1:39

you are listening to the audio version of

1:41

the podcast, I just want to let you

1:43

know that we have a video version that we do live every single

1:46

day, 1130 a.m. Pacific Time,

1:48

which is... Andrew, do the math. 2.30

1:51

on the East Coast. Yes. See,

1:53

that public education does pay off. Now, don't ask

1:55

me what it is in Kansas. It's

1:58

too difficult. You know what? confused.

2:00

Right? It's like right in that, you know,

2:03

Kansas, Tennessee, sometimes like parts of Texas. Mountain

2:05

and central. No, I don't know any of

2:07

them. And then we get screwed up here.

2:09

We're dumb. I know. We're so

2:12

dumb. We don't change our

2:14

clock. Like I'm going to Vegas and I'm thinking

2:16

about flying and it's a negative flight. I

2:18

will leave, I will land 10 minutes after

2:21

I left Phoenix and it's

2:23

just to Vegas. It's the stupidest thing on the planet. Okay,

2:25

but the craziest things when I came back from Japan. I

2:28

mean leaving Japan, Tokyo

2:31

at 5.30 in the afternoon on a

2:33

Sunday and then arriving into Phoenix on

2:36

Sunday at 3 p.m. Back in time. That's the

2:38

same thing. I'm just going 10 minutes. So what

2:40

are you talking about today? We are talking about

2:42

Amazon and how they are trying to help the

2:44

stress level of their employees. Oh,

2:47

you know what? They're just always so nice. They're always

2:49

looking out. They're always looking out for their employees. You

2:51

know who we have with us today? I love

2:54

her. Cashmere Hill. Yeah. She

2:56

is so smart. I'm

2:59

very intimidated by her. You're going to have to sit

3:01

up straight. Okay. She's a really big time

3:05

New York Times investigative reporter.

3:08

And we've talked about it here on the show. We

3:10

have our cars and our cars are what

3:13

now? Just rolling computers? Sure, smart cars. All

3:15

of them, whether you know it or not. And how

3:18

much they're tracking? Everything. Well, Cashmere broke the story for

3:20

the New York Times where she's going to be joining

3:22

us. I wonder how she feels after she broke the

3:24

story. Then we talk about it. And then I literally

3:26

see it everywhere. Everyone

3:28

else just copies and pastes everything. All the

3:31

work she did. We should ask her that.

3:33

Because that would annoy the living bad

3:35

word out of me. You know, I was talking to my

3:37

editor at the Daily Mail this morning. Right. And we were

3:40

just talking about content. And I said to

3:42

her, you know, I'm so tired about writing about

3:44

like the secret location of the Apple Maps and

3:46

you know, she's like, yeah, but you

3:48

know what? Click on that. They like

3:50

it. Do you click on those stories?

3:53

Of course. Of course. Exactly. But then what happens

3:55

is the sun picks up

3:58

my stories from the Daily Mail. knappled

4:01

secrets All right. Let's

4:04

talk about the five things that are happening in tech right

4:06

now Okay, starting with number

4:08

one guess what tick-tock back in the news

4:10

is it? Yes, it's been in the news lately

4:13

I know about this whole China communist

4:15

China app but

4:17

now the the young folks

4:19

on Tick-tock are saying

4:21

that the reason why it's getting banned.

4:24

Are you ready for this? I think I know the

4:26

answer It's because of the Jews Then

4:29

I did not know the answer

4:31

right the Jews Yes The all

4:33

these vids are just trending on

4:36

tick-tock about how it's really the

4:38

Jewish people who are against

4:40

tick-tock Okay And

4:42

and it's the house of representatives because they

4:44

were all Jewish. Oh the house of represents

4:46

all Jewish We didn't know that I've been

4:48

out of the politics scene for a couple

4:50

years and didn't know But it

4:52

was all Jewish. Well, I looked it up pure research.

4:55

What do you think the percentage of People

4:57

who say that they're Jewish in the house? 40

5:00

people would be 10%. So I'll say about 10% 6%

5:03

okay. So you're pretty close. So now you

5:05

have to think about like so who would

5:07

be spreading this conspiracy theory I mean, where

5:10

did this really come from? Wonder

5:12

if it's the communist Chinese people who

5:14

are saying that who are taking those

5:16

videos that say that opinion and then

5:19

just pushing them To everyone else exactly.

5:21

So if you see that video out

5:23

there just go what no not gonna

5:25

happen Meanwhile this

5:27

gal Anna Marie, she

5:30

went to Sheehan and she ordered a

5:32

really cute dress online Okay, super cute.

5:34

I was so super cute and I

5:36

just love that. Sit check. Yes And

5:40

she gets it and inside the box is

5:42

a vial of blood. What

5:44

what? Yes, and a can of beans

5:46

was that supposed But

5:49

is that what she ordered? No, she just

5:51

wanted the cute little dress Where did the

5:53

blood come from? Sheehan says they have no

5:55

idea where that came from and FedEx says

5:58

we don't know nothing nothing

6:00

so it's possible it's fake that

6:02

she planted the blood and the can of beans

6:05

in the box and then she did a video

6:07

and guess how many times it's been viewed so

6:09

far it's gotta be in the millions tens of

6:11

millions 7.4 million all

6:13

right pretty close so you think

6:15

it's fake blood real beans I think so too now

6:18

this is the question that I get all the time

6:21

Kim commando why do I have to

6:23

pay a monthly fee for Microsoft office

6:25

remember when you used to be able

6:27

to go to the software store and

6:29

you'd get a box and it have

6:31

a manual in it with a CD

6:33

when I was a kid our software

6:35

was all retail and it

6:37

was hardware okay right so

6:42

Microsoft is apparently is coming back

6:45

office 2024 they're gonna have a no subscription

6:49

version good it doesn't

6:52

have a couple of bells and whistles

6:54

it's not gonna have the AI

6:56

Microsoft publisher because we all

6:58

love that and also teams

7:02

oh that's fine if you just need a

7:04

word process you know that's old software the

7:06

old versions of that software sounds like hotcakes

7:09

does it we have some upstairs oh it's so

7:11

so fast one time I got a John are

7:13

you listening we need the money I got a

7:16

box of like three versions

7:18

ago on Microsoft office that have it

7:20

had about ten copies of

7:22

it with ten unique numbers and I put them

7:24

up on eBay all of them sold within an

7:26

hour and a half how much

7:29

you get probably forty forty five bucks

7:31

apiece wow I got free how'd

7:34

you get them for free they were good someone was gonna

7:36

throw them away oh and I was like I'll take those

7:38

all right and I two hours sold out you're

7:40

just like a little entrepreneur I'm timing

7:42

on this little side hustle so proud

7:45

chip off the old Kim yay UCLA

7:48

engineers have created something really

7:50

remarkable is that

7:52

if you have a voice disorder disorder you

7:56

Can now put a little square

7:58

right here. It. Is an implant

8:01

or gels or whatever else? It's a little

8:03

wearable time. He put it right here. And.

8:05

Then it hits of the vibrations.

8:08

Of what you're trying to say. Transmits.

8:11

To receiver that then says exactly what you're

8:13

trying to say. just a malzahn are just

8:16

think it's know yet them out. The aftermath

8:18

of okay but the thinking pardus this as

8:20

you on must that's common Yes so I

8:23

thought that was really stamps really was tons.

8:25

People with disabilities that isn't that is gonna

8:27

help the sea. So this is the use

8:29

of ai. Pretty remarkable. Yeah there's a lot

8:32

of awful uses for an eyebrow of this

8:34

one's a kick them. Finally this. Your.

8:37

Kids My children. My

8:39

babies. your baby's While there's now

8:41

a new trend among kids, not

8:43

so much. Wheezy. No,

8:45

no six year old now, but ten

8:47

year old. Certain sites that now when

8:50

they're sending text messages. They're. Using

8:52

in his the bull a. Of

8:56

hilarious tests. And so in case you're wondering, how

8:58

do I send him a text message using have

9:00

you ever done it No, I've never is. I

9:02

mean there's that you can hold the button on

9:04

the side as a right our marriage and then

9:07

you hold the button and I pops off and

9:09

it's as invisible ink. I've never. I don't maybe

9:11

once to test so I was sitting. There are

9:13

some, read the story to New York Post and

9:15

something like this really interesting amphibian the Newsletter Tomorrow

9:17

which by the way for not getting the newsletter

9:19

need to yes, hello Saudi Arabia or sign up

9:21

Now get kinda Trump's odds on a tangent but

9:23

I'm back right now. So I said the like,

9:25

you know I should try it out with something

9:27

like. Who can I send in

9:30

and visible? A text to a gets can't

9:32

send to bury more Not as he called

9:34

me and say. Damn. What Is

9:36

this fact? My fault? Disperse as much

9:38

as as part of our salaries are

9:40

parts that are supposed to be a

9:42

solder for that and I virgil I

9:45

can't send it into season class right?

9:47

So. I'm thinking like. Of you know

9:49

when I didn't get my i got

9:51

like my hair a little bit done

9:53

last night forgiven her haircut would you

9:55

say since thanksgiving see someone offers offers

9:57

sectarian her cats so of so i.

10:00

Though I'd say what I should send, the

10:02

call or text frame became so. Nicole has

10:04

been doing my hair for. Oh

10:06

I don't know. Ten years or so. And

10:10

see is just give you

10:12

demographic. She's. Our our know?

10:14

Thirty seven. Okay she has a six year

10:16

old and a four year old so I

10:18

said I'm going to send her I have

10:21

to read you which he. Wrote I.

10:23

Had to send her. Have sent her

10:25

a and invisible ink rice I see.

10:27

Thanks for coming over and do my

10:29

hair last night. So.

10:31

She says. Oh. Em Gee! see

10:34

amount of time it took me to figure

10:36

out that I felt at us as a

10:38

mother earth think. About

10:40

does Something vs. Forty somethings are there

10:43

enough I hit us there since I

10:45

was this that say is it the

10:47

I Tell you about how teachers are

10:49

using invisible ink know so in their

10:52

assignments to their students. To of.

10:54

Find. Out if they're using chance you'd

10:56

t the riding up the same it's

10:58

you must write an essay on the

11:00

First World War and has to be

11:02

five. Her gets long and a has

11:04

to include this event and then invisible

11:07

ink. She rides and it also has

11:09

to talk about Frankenstein and pickles and

11:11

then she highlights that turns it into

11:13

a visibly so if you copy paste

11:15

potential to be team said to be

11:17

T will include Frankenstein and Pickles in

11:19

the Insects and most these kids are

11:21

so lazy and stupid they just copy

11:23

and paste from a century. Be d

11:25

Never proofread and turn it in and

11:27

that's how teachers are catching kids using

11:30

the invisible ink. Maybe we should be

11:32

using that here. Really? You. Think

11:34

anyone here is going there weren't for

11:36

using chance you be t. Now.

11:38

They're not, but we do have a recent

11:41

start. We do have an annual subscription for

11:43

for success after A So it's not like

11:45

I wouldn't know, so sign up for the

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Frankenstein Pickle newsletters. A good frank of San

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Francisco with tim.com that would be yes. Oh

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speaking of we are given way five hundred

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bucks. You want five hundred bucks? Anybody wants

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five hundred? Guess I want to give when

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that you know arm and point. Let me

12:00

talk to the camera. they're more important. Now

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I want to give you five hundred dollars.

12:06

Really? Just five hundred hours? I'm gonna give

12:08

you five hundred dollars and what do I

12:11

want? Return. Just. One

12:13

thing and once you to look at one newsletter

12:15

that set to subscribe to one is there to

12:17

skip one issue that sits and you could win

12:20

five hundred bucks So I do. You sit there

12:22

Thanks. Take him. Where have I want?

12:24

Five hundred dollars? Yes, we need. We

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need like a little thing like. I want five

12:29

hundred bucks. Five hundred bucks. Disease that

12:31

some just five hundred bucks. Just record

12:33

that my whoop will make said surrender

12:36

or hip hop song at a five

12:38

hundred bucks. You be my lox lox.

12:40

it rhymes splitter. Let's see you. Tried

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work on it. Once I don't have

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one I'm have a freestyle for five

12:46

hundred bucks. Just give me the five

12:49

hundred dollars. Sell Honda do that when

12:51

from kinda tough. Maybe that's it is

12:53

when. I

12:55

got of Windsor. kinda tough and

12:57

then a whiz says. Second

12:59

half of it's actually like,

13:02

ah, My

13:06

goodness for that oversight and

13:08

I was so embarrassing uses

13:10

ever do. That is if

13:12

I won't. Say

13:20

it's temperamental today. It's really fun podcast

13:22

about lots all things that at all.

13:24

We're so glad that you're here with

13:26

us and just a quick reminder that

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if you are watching. We loved gets

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a comments voters that like comments here

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hey welcome to they are makes her

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13:37

sour the part. Of

13:40

It's Quest they said like I had no in

13:42

every single get on you tube doesn't It's like

13:44

they're having a bowel movement. My son loves every

13:47

single one of I'm I'm like that's the same

13:49

line over and over and over gym. He just

13:51

in their headlights hit the shares is doing what

13:53

he's told. Well. He always

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that's it. That's it. So is

13:58

that like comments share button. Can't

14:00

do it like that Ems if you comment on the

14:02

show on any of us on Facebook our you tube

14:04

we read the comments at the end of the show

14:06

saw the best comments may over him down when I'm.

14:09

Or it so we've been talking about this.

14:12

For. What? couple weeks? No, that's just something I

14:14

had no idea was even a thing until

14:16

you bet on Up. Really never thought about

14:18

it, never even thought about it. I'm actually

14:20

shopping for a new vehicle right now and

14:23

when you brought up the story about the

14:25

Lexisnexis report, it totally connected wires on something

14:27

they were trying to sign me up for.

14:29

What are the chances are? they're like you

14:31

wish you can get internet my car as

14:33

you always have why Fi wherever you go

14:35

and of when? Ah, that's not something like

14:37

okay, we'll give it to Free for two

14:39

years. Because they want to make

14:41

sure for two years my car is always

14:43

connected. It's citizens they can track it. Now.

14:46

There's a fee and nine and but I

14:48

never really would have thought about that when

14:51

I was negotiated a deal for the car

14:53

and in two days later coming here and

14:55

we talk about this like snacks. A store

14:57

in white. That's why they're going to be

14:59

for two years because they want to be

15:01

able to track me well, joining us right

15:03

now as Cashmere Hill and I mentioned. or

15:05

a she's amazing, She's with the New York

15:08

Times and Cashmere. You broke the story about

15:10

what's been going on with these car manufacturers.

15:13

A Dead: I found it because I

15:15

was kind of hanging out in online

15:17

car for a list of people who

15:20

love cars. as I understand you do,

15:22

you can Yes And. They were

15:24

talking about how their insurance of going

15:26

up by twenty percent, thirty percent doubling

15:28

sometimes and they'd asked insurance companies you

15:30

know I haven't had an accident on

15:33

the safe driver by you charging me

15:35

more. And they with they pull

15:37

your Lexisnexis report and then they would

15:39

find out that it had trip data

15:41

about the last six months they've been

15:43

a car including when they heartbreak and

15:46

hard accelerated and they were shot. They

15:48

had no idea that their car was

15:50

sharing this information about them. Now is

15:52

that all car brands are. there certain

15:54

ones that seem to have a

15:57

propensity for more this tracking Well,

16:00

the brand I was seeing over and

16:02

over again in these forums was General

16:04

Motors. People who drove Chevy

16:06

bolts, Corvette,

16:09

Camaro's, GMC,

16:11

SUVs. These were the

16:13

people who I was seeing make

16:15

these reports that their insurance had gone up.

16:19

And I talked to General Motors and

16:21

they said, yeah, we have this program called

16:23

Smart Driver. Oh, that's, you know what,

16:25

Kashmir, that sounds happy. I want to

16:27

be a Smart Driver. I

16:29

want that. Oh, it's very

16:31

happy. You get digital badges like break

16:33

genius and speed limit hero if you

16:35

turn it on, you know, it's

16:38

like a driving coach. And

16:41

it didn't mention anywhere that if you

16:43

turn this on, it wasn't just about

16:45

GM giving you feedback. It was about

16:47

GM giving your data over to Lexus

16:50

Nexus and another data broker called Verisk.

16:53

And that's those data brokers would then release

16:55

it to insurance companies. On

16:57

top of that, some people that were enrolled in

16:59

Smart Driver said, what is

17:01

Smart Driver? I didn't turn this on. Like,

17:04

how did this happen? And

17:06

it turns out that oftentimes what you're talking

17:09

about at the dealership, you

17:11

know, there's a salesperson that's really encouraging people

17:13

to turn on connected services on Star and

17:16

GM's case, and they get bonuses if they

17:18

get you to do that. And

17:20

so they may have been turning on on Star, turning on Smart Driver

17:22

for people who had no idea. Yeah,

17:24

they were trying to sell me on this GM

17:26

connected thing with the pickup. And it was like

17:28

30 bucks a month. And I was like, I

17:30

don't know, I have a Wi-Fi on my phone.

17:32

Yeah. And then it

17:34

was automatically for free. It went from $30

17:36

a month to two years for free with no pushback,

17:39

no questions asked because I'm not going to look what

17:41

I'm agreeing to. I'm not going to look at the

17:43

terms of service. I'm just going to sign. And

17:46

that's what people do. Yes. I

17:48

mean, they just sign. Now,

17:51

I've never tried. I've never even looked. Have

17:53

you ever, Kashmir, have you ever looked at your Lexus reports?

17:57

Yes, I pulled it while I was working on this

17:59

story. And I do have a

18:01

GM car. Actually, my driving data wasn't

18:03

there. My husband

18:06

is pulling his report because the car is

18:08

more associated with his email address. So I

18:10

don't know, we may find out that our

18:12

driving data has been collected. I did find

18:14

very strange things in my Lexis Nexus report.

18:16

Like I was associated with my

18:19

sister's AOL address,

18:21

email address from the 90s

18:24

when we were in high school. And it was for

18:26

some reason in my Lexis Nexus file. So

18:29

can you opt out of the data tracking or

18:31

is it just when you buy the car, this is

18:33

it? Yeah, I mean,

18:35

GM said people are

18:37

supposedly knowingly enrolling in Smart Driver. And they

18:39

said they can opt out, that you can

18:41

opt out at any time. But

18:44

it is the case, it's not just GM. There's

18:46

lots of different car companies that are doing this,

18:48

the same kind of driver feedback program. If

18:50

you enroll in it, your data is

18:52

kind of making its way over to the insurance industry. But

18:54

in general, like once you turn on

18:57

connected services for

18:59

your car, you're sending data back

19:01

from your car to these companies.

19:04

And so even just turning it on means

19:06

that they're getting that data and they may

19:08

be selling it or sharing it, if not

19:10

with the insurance industry, then maybe

19:12

with other third parties. And I'm sure

19:14

you read the privacy policy on your

19:16

car or on your car app. No,

19:19

no, no. It's in there somewhere. Now you

19:21

said your husband was working on getting his

19:23

Lexis Nexus report. How difficult is it? It's

19:27

pretty easy. And I,

19:29

you know, sometimes it's hard to get husbands to

19:31

do things. Yes, I understand. I'm

19:34

right here with you. But

19:36

so you have to go to Lexis Nexus

19:38

Consumer Disclosure Report. You have to give your

19:40

name, you have to give your address, you

19:43

have to give your social security number, which

19:45

makes some people uncomfortable. So you

19:47

do have to hand over data to get the data.

19:49

And I definitely have heard from readers who say, I

19:52

don't wanna give Lexis Nexus that information.

19:55

I don't wanna hear it. I don't

19:57

wanna hear it. Yeah, they do. They

19:59

should. I'm sure they already have it. So

20:02

does it cost anything? No.

20:05

So this is covered by the fair credit reporting. Oh, nice. The

20:08

same asset lets you get your credit report every year

20:10

for free. Is the

20:12

Lexus Nexus Risk Solutions is complying with that law. And

20:14

so you can get this report. They said you can

20:16

get it as many times as you want for free.

20:18

I can do that. Can

20:21

you opt out of being reported on by

20:23

Lexus Nexus? Can you just opt out of

20:25

the entire system? Yes.

20:29

So you can't really opt out of there collecting

20:31

your data. If you see something

20:33

in your report you don't like, you can file a

20:35

dispute to try to get it out of your report.

20:38

And you can say, Lexus Nexus, I don't want

20:40

you sharing this data with anyone. You

20:42

can put basically a freeze on your file. But

20:45

if you do that, you get very ominous

20:47

language that says, hey, if you apply for

20:49

a mortgage, you're trying to open a

20:51

bank account, if you have this frozen, you're probably not

20:53

going to be able to do that. So you're kind

20:55

of in a bind. So I

20:57

guess if you don't want to get tracked, right,

21:00

you don't sign up for the connected services, whatever

21:03

it may be. Ride a bicycle? I was

21:05

going to say, I have a 1946 pickup truck. Okay.

21:09

It'll be right there. It might take me a little while

21:11

to get to work, but I'll be there. Yes.

21:14

I mean, if your car has

21:16

a tape deck, you're probably good.

21:19

It's not leaking any information about you.

21:22

Now, Andrew, you had a question for Kashmir. So

21:24

we talked about this. Kim saw your story. She

21:26

brought it onto the podcast. We talked about it.

21:28

I hadn't heard about it before, and it kind

21:31

of blew me away while we were talking about

21:33

it real time. Then the next day,

21:35

I see someone reporting on it. Then the next day,

21:37

I see 312 people reporting on it. And

21:40

how does that feel for you as you go

21:43

out there, do all the hard work, and

21:45

then everybody else just copies and pastes your

21:47

story? And, you know, in the 18th paragraph,

21:49

they cite where they got the information from.

21:51

How do you feel when you see that?

21:54

Yeah, I mean, I feel like Johnny Appleseed.

21:57

I'm wandering across the media.

22:00

landscape throwing out the seeds for everyone to

22:02

follow up on it. I do

22:04

feel that ultimately I just want drivers

22:06

to know about this and

22:09

to know yeah if their car is leaking data about them

22:11

and I think the bigger issue here

22:13

is that the car companies are allowed to

22:15

do this. They can bury this in the privacy

22:17

policy and that makes it

22:19

okay. That may not be

22:21

the case. There was a driver in Florida, a

22:23

Cadillac driver who couldn't get insurance because of what

22:26

his car was leaking about him who filed a

22:28

class X and lawsuit. But

22:30

yeah I mean I really think we need

22:32

a stronger privacy law in this country that

22:34

gives us more rights over what's done with

22:36

our data and so if it helps to

22:39

have you know thousands of other

22:41

bloggers kind of jump on this other journalist

22:43

report on it great like that's

22:46

the point of the journalism is to have an

22:49

impact so I don't mind. As

22:51

long as they put that link in there and give me

22:53

credit I'm fine with it. So Kashmir

22:55

one last question. So

22:58

if somebody's driving or somebody's going like

23:00

Andrew you're going to buy a car.

23:03

What are some red flags that

23:05

they should watch out for? I

23:09

mean to be honest

23:11

cars today are computers. They

23:13

have hundreds

23:16

of sensors inside cameras. I mean they

23:18

know how much you weigh because

23:21

there's sensors in the seats that are detecting

23:23

the weight of the person that's sitting there

23:25

because they want to know if it's a

23:27

child in the passenger seat turn off their

23:29

bag. There's all kinds

23:31

of sensors a lot of them are about

23:33

safety but they're now being repurposed for data

23:36

collection because you know the automakers look at

23:38

Google they look at Facebook they look at

23:40

this very successful business model of collect data

23:42

about your users and monetize

23:45

it and they want to do the same thing. So

23:47

I do think this is kind of hard to avoid

23:49

as a consumer which is why I would

23:51

push again back to that we need a

23:54

privacy law that protects us from this. But

23:56

yeah I mean if they want you to

23:58

turn connected services on And

24:00

they're really saying, well, you get 30 days free.

24:03

You get, you know, Andrew, you get two years

24:05

free. Once

24:07

you turn it on, you're saying yes to

24:09

the privacy policy. So you might get the

24:11

service for 30 days, but you've agreed to

24:13

hand over your data forever. You know, I've always

24:16

said if it's free, you're the product. Yeah, I

24:18

mean, that's even if they call

24:20

30,000 dollars. That's

24:23

true. You're still the product. Hey, Kashmir,

24:26

always a pleasure. Thanks for being here.

24:28

Thank you. Thank you so much. She's

24:30

so awesome. She did great. She is.

24:32

She's good information. I would suggest reading

24:34

that entire article. Oh, it was great

24:36

information. It is. All right. So are

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description of flavors. Yeah. Two flavors. Audio.

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What do you prefer? Do you prefer chocolate

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or vanilla or video or audio of Kim?

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Which one? Everybody's got their favorite. I

25:46

mean, you know, some people find my voice

25:49

soothing. Yes. OK. Some people

25:51

find my face pleasing. OK. Those

25:53

are too positive. I'll

25:56

wait for the shoe to drop on the other one.

25:59

Never did. You're here. Some people think I'm gorgeous.

26:01

Some people think I'm beautiful. They're gonna have to

26:03

fight about it. It's

26:06

just so hard being me.

26:10

And I mean think about the stress level I

26:12

have. Oh my gosh stress everywhere. Oh, we didn't

26:14

tell people to comment. You

26:16

shouldn't have transitioned to the story then. Okay. Sorry. It's

26:21

I have total ADD. You know that. Comment

26:23

on watching us live on the video on

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Facebook YouTube. We're monitoring all

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the comments and just drop them.

26:31

Maddie's taking care of them and she's gonna bring them down and

26:33

we'll read them at the end of the show. Okay, so now

26:35

what are we talking about again? Amazon. How

26:39

am I gonna transition back? Amazon.

26:41

We've almost seen the stories of how hard it is to work

26:43

at the warehouses of Amazon. You know what? It

26:45

has to be very difficult. The demands that are

26:48

on these warehouse workers are more than I don't

26:50

know any job I've ever... That's not a you

26:52

know a camp that I've seen

26:54

described. We've had people die on the

26:56

floor of an Amazon warehouse. They

26:58

push it to the side and say everybody get back to

27:00

work and the state comes in and finds them $7,000.

27:03

And it's not easy to be an Amazon

27:06

driver. No, not any aspect of the Amazon

27:08

retail business. But Amazon, you know, they try.

27:10

They try to do things. Well, they say

27:12

they try. Do you remember in Christmas when

27:14

you could write a letter to Peckey? I

27:18

don't remember that. Okay, so Peckey is the

27:20

Amazon mascot. Okay, I didn't know.

27:22

You didn't know about this? No, I

27:24

don't even know about Peckey. It's like is it

27:26

a little orange blob that has a smiley face

27:28

on it and it is the warehouse mascot and

27:31

during the Christmas holiday, they said hey

27:33

if you're having financial troubles, write

27:36

a letter to Peckey and maybe

27:38

one of your wishes will get answered. Oh,

27:40

how nice. That was their cure for your

27:42

financial troubles. So now they

27:44

have a new thing for stress. It's called

27:46

the Zen booth. The Zen

27:48

booth. It's on the floor of

27:50

Amazon warehouses and it's this

27:52

little box that when you walk in it's

27:55

very floral. There's a little, a little

27:57

there. We're showing it right there. Yeah, right there. The

28:00

size of I don't know, a closet,

28:02

phone booth, good description. And

28:04

you walk in, it's green. There's

28:06

a computer screen. There's plants everywhere. The

28:09

roof is painted like a blue

28:11

sky. And I can, I'm just feeling relaxed.

28:13

Just you talking about that. And then you turn on

28:15

the screen and it has meditations for

28:17

you to follow. And one of

28:19

the, this all got leaked by one of the

28:21

Amazon workers and he turned on the meditation and

28:24

it said, close your eyes. Okay. And

28:26

think happy thoughts. Things

28:29

that make you happy. Okay. Now

28:31

go back to work. The

28:34

Amazon employees are figuring that this is an

28:36

insult and it's not really going to help

28:39

with the stresses of the work. And this

28:41

is just Amazon basically building a bunch of

28:43

blue boxes with some touchscreens in it to

28:45

make them look like they care about the

28:47

employees. They really don't. A hundred percent. But

28:50

we were actually talking about it behind the

28:52

scenes here, like the stresses of working in

28:54

podcast production and you know, 400 radio stations

28:56

or 400 plus radio stations or counting on

28:58

you every single week. You know what it

29:00

is. It's a, it's there, you know, we

29:03

have a lot of deadline to deliver

29:05

a radio show and quality product. I

29:07

mean, if we're having a bad day, you

29:10

have to just like pretend and I'm not having

29:12

a Yeah, exactly. You got to move past. Right.

29:14

And I said, you know, there's gotta be stresses

29:16

here. And they're like, yeah, well, we actually have

29:18

the same thing that they have at Amazon. Do

29:21

you? And I said, really? And they're like, yeah. And they put

29:23

it right out here and they put it on the set and

29:26

this is it. That's

29:28

perfect. Yeah. Yes. Yes. It's

29:31

so relaxing. Are you feeling better?

29:33

I am. You know, it's

29:36

dark in here. It's calming. It's

29:38

also an advertisement for the website. Of

29:41

course. So, you know, you can't do

29:43

anything without pushing Kim products. But

29:45

yeah, I feel so much better. It says

29:48

relax on the box. Yeah. It demands that

29:50

you relax. Yes. Yes. So this is, you

29:52

know, our attempt at being as caring and

29:55

open minded about their employees as Amazon.

29:58

Did we put holes in that so you could

30:00

breathe? I'm doing okay. I'm doing fine. Can I

30:02

take it off now? Let

30:04

me see. Let me get your point relaxed. So

30:08

yeah, we're reaching out. Well,

30:10

I'm glad to see that

30:12

you appreciate the efforts. I thank you. Because you

30:15

know, a lot of people, you know, they would

30:17

say like, well, that's just a pop. Hey,

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do that? We can. Oh, yeah. There's so many

31:41

web resources. Yeah, we should do that. All right. So we're

31:43

going to talk about Kate Middleton in

31:45

just a second. But

31:48

we have some comments. Sure. Which I love. Look at

31:50

this. I love when we get so many

31:52

comments. That was a huge stack. Yeah, it's a huge stack.

31:56

We're going to go real fast. Colorado Light. Hi,

31:58

Kim Sun. Japanese. formal name. Thank

32:02

you so much. Yes, she's been in

32:04

Japan for a whole week and now

32:06

she needs a Japanese formal name. There's

32:08

a white orb flying into Andrew's head

32:11

from the left every 10 seconds. That's

32:13

my microphone. That's when I turn my

32:15

head. Love it. Let's

32:19

see. Alan

32:21

Coates says, hi, Kim and Andrew. He said,

32:24

can you put the instructions in the current

32:27

for pulling the Lexus Nexus report? Absolutely. I

32:29

look forward to your newsletter every morning. Thank you,

32:32

Alan. Love that. I'm definitely doing it. I'm pulling

32:34

mine. So am I. Lou Mello

32:36

says, box head Andrew. I was

32:40

relaxing. Seward Ward says, that

32:42

box is hilarious. Thank you. Let's

32:46

see. Lou also says, going to

32:48

check out the insurance, or check out

32:50

the Lexus Nexus, because his wife insurance went

32:52

up by 20%. Mine went from 180 to 265 in like four

32:55

months. So

32:58

there's got to be something on there. Maybe it's all

33:00

the drag racing I'm doing. Now that can't be it.

33:03

That can't be it. 24

33:05

hour bus. I don't think I heard how we can lower our

33:07

insurance rates. I don't think

33:09

you can. By a 1980 Pontiac and

33:11

a Baron. I don't think you

33:14

can. Special K

33:16

writes, people wanted all this tech in their cars

33:18

and now it's coming back to bite them in

33:20

the you know what, with higher insurance costs, high

33:22

repair costs and the cars spying on them. But

33:25

we have no one else to blame but ourselves.

33:27

We all sit there and check that box. We

33:29

all without reading it, gave them all the permission

33:31

to get all of our information. Yes. My car

33:33

when I get on my current vehicle when I get

33:36

home, connects to my Wi-Fi network. Every

33:38

time I pull in the driveway, my car is

33:40

totally connected. Yeah. I mean, it's, and

33:42

you're not a great driver. I mean, not great, great.

33:45

I'm taking it back. You're not a

33:47

slow driver. I'm not

33:49

a fast. What are you looking at

33:51

me like that for? You don't think you're a fast driver?

33:54

Sometimes. Compared to who? Mario Andretti? Dale

33:59

Earnhardt Jr. I

34:01

don't think I'm that fast

34:03

of a driver. If you weren't that fast of

34:05

a driver, this sentence wouldn't have started with that

34:07

long of a pause. You

34:10

know, because I was having visions of speeding.

34:12

That's one thing that I have done recently,

34:14

that I was going down 30 seconds straight

34:17

and I was like, whoa.

34:20

Every time you tell us the story of you running a late,

34:22

it ends with you speeding. What

34:24

do you mean? You've told so

34:26

many stories about you running cameras

34:28

and the speed cameras going off

34:30

and you're just smiling because you're

34:32

blazing by them. You know,

34:34

today, I actually looked down and I was going 41

34:36

in the 40 mile an hour. The

34:43

video from yesterday, his name's

34:45

Scott. It's not 7H3D34. Oh,

34:49

good. Finally. Thank you, Scott. Scott

34:51

is so much better to say

34:53

than 7H543. Just

34:56

start all your comments with, hey, this is from

34:58

Scott or Scott here. That

35:01

video from yesterday was interesting. It was. If

35:03

you missed it, you should definitely go watch the video

35:05

that we put at the very end of yesterday's podcast.

35:07

It was crazy and it didn't even connect until I

35:10

got my car and I was driving home. You said

35:12

that thing's going to be available in two years. I

35:14

mean, we are two years away from being the Jetsons.

35:17

But the voice, the cadence, that

35:20

was really something. Diane Snyder writes,

35:22

yes, $500. Love

35:24

hearing and reading your tech ideas. I

35:27

love you more than I love Andrew. And I just

35:29

have to say it because it's the truth. None

35:31

of this is real. No, that was not real.

35:33

Okay. I'm sure it's the

35:35

truth. It wasn't written down. I just

35:37

felt. Yeah, you felt that. Felt that.

35:39

The love coming through. Oh,

35:42

once again, every day. Yes.

35:45

Okay. So, Kate. Milton?

35:48

She's been seen. She

35:50

was at a farmer's market. Yes,

35:52

on Sunday. Smiling and walking and

35:54

holding bags. Showing life. Yes.

35:57

Like a normal human living person. You know, and I was.

36:00

watching it and I saw her

36:02

walking out with William and

36:04

I thought to myself you know the last

36:07

time that Barry and I left like AJ's

36:09

or a farmers market I don't

36:11

remember like walking like going you

36:13

weren't ecstatic that you just got a

36:15

great deal on toilet paper no I'm

36:17

fresh cucumbers it looks so phony baloney

36:19

to me staged or fake can

36:23

I say both I don't know either or oh

36:26

you can say either or play the video yeah

36:29

and this is was sold it's

36:31

TMZ yes now I actually

36:33

did a deep dive on this because so anyone

36:36

on social media right now who's bringing up

36:39

Kate Melton and the conspiracy theories is blowing up

36:41

their videos are getting so many views this is

36:44

such a top of interest we need to have

36:46

it we need to have our own I've spotted

36:48

Kate now the people they say the people in

36:50

the community see them all the time out and

36:53

about this is where they live but there's an

36:55

understanding of respect that they're not going to film

36:57

them they're not going to take pictures ask

37:00

for them to take pictures and that

37:02

this is unprecedented but not only would

37:04

someone take a video of them coming

37:06

out but then sell it to TMZ

37:09

and the fact that that happened is

37:11

bleeding a lot of people to believe

37:13

that it's either fake or staged or

37:15

old where they found someone had a

37:17

private video that they were in their

37:19

collection that they secretly filmed and sold

37:21

it to TMZ and set and changed

37:23

the metadata on it and said that

37:25

it was actually a current video oh

37:28

see I didn't even think of that because it's like

37:30

such taboo to bother

37:32

them in public in their town where

37:34

they're from because it's just a respect

37:36

I would believe that that it's an

37:38

older video you would yes I mean

37:40

they look happy she looked the same

37:42

so where are you going

37:45

where why is your mind wrapping around this why

37:47

were you bringing up the video Maddie

37:50

was telling me today that she thinks

37:52

that Kate had plastic surgery she said

37:54

she looks at that video yes

37:57

I said this from the beginning and she said she looks

37:59

a lot younger that video but maybe she's

38:01

not younger in that video because she had

38:03

a facelift. Maybe she's younger in

38:05

that video because that video was taken last year. People

38:08

are also breaking down like look in the

38:10

back I think I see holiday decorations.

38:14

This couldn't have been taken last month

38:16

because there wouldn't have been Christmas decorations

38:18

in the back. Look at the ground,

38:20

the grass is green, it should be

38:22

covered in snow. Like there's so much

38:24

why doesn't she just hold a press

38:26

conference. Come out and say I'm good

38:29

everybody stop. No because you

38:31

know we're tired of hearing about

38:33

these duplicates. That's not

38:37

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