Apple's next big idea: Robot butlers

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Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. You can make an appointment to speak with me. Just head over to commando.com. and on the top right, there's a button that says email, Kim, fill that out, and that's it. So when's the last time you went to Walmart?

Andrew Babinski
Oh, I don't know. Last week.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Do you do a lot of shopping there?

Andrew Babinski
I like Walmart. I mean, if you ever need, like, socks and a kid's toy and a pineapple, you can get it all in one stop.

Kim Commando
Okay, well, Walmart got hit with a $45 million class action lawsuit, okay. Because they. Apparently the scales were not weighing things properly. So if you bought meat or vegetables. Right, it didn't. It wasn't underweighting things.

Andrew Babinski
No. It didn't work out in our bank error in our favor?

Kim Commando
No, it was not. No, it was not. So it was like, basically, if you bought anything within the last two years, you're Walmart.

Andrew Babinski
Why does it even go into a lawsuit? Just pay it.

Kim Commando
Okay, so, yeah, so you can now file a claim, and if you have all your receipts for, like, the last three years, right, that you can submit your receipts and you can get up to $500 back.

Andrew Babinski
What if I spent a lot? What if I bought a lot of pineapples?

Kim Commando
$500. That's okay. Now, if you don't have a receipt, you can still get some money.

Andrew Babinski
What do you got to do?

Kim Commando
Just go and you fill out the.

Andrew Babinski
Form, take a picture with a pineapple I bought.

Kim Commando
Okay, but you're only gonna get between, like, ten and $25.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that's not enough.

Kim Commando
So, you know, so you're better off, like, making sure that you go hunt down all your receipts.

Andrew Babinski
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Kim Commando
Oh, my God. What a professional transition.

Andrew Babinski
You're welcome.

Kim Commando
Enter to win@winfromkim.com. dot once again, that's winfromkim.com dot. And we're gonna be giving away that gift card, like, very soon.

Andrew Babinski
You've been trying to end this thing for weeks.

Kim Commando
I know. Just come on, please. Just enter just once or twice so I can, like, forget about the $500 gift card to Amazon.com dot. I mean, it would be good for somebody to win it.

Andrew Babinski
So much easier than suing Walmart.

Kim Commando
Win from kim.com, winfromkim.com. and then, because I'm going to be like, giving it away, giving away, giving away now yeah. Giving it away giving away, giving away.

Andrew Babinski
Now do you even know that song?

Kim Commando
That's all the other part. I know. Thank you.

Andrew Babinski
You don't seem like a red hot chili papers big old fan.

Kim Commando
You know, I don't listen to a.

Andrew Babinski
Lot of music, which is weird to me. I listen to so much music.

Kim Commando
Well, the only thing I listen to is, like, if I'm running, okay, you know, but you're.

Andrew Babinski
You're not listening for the music or the lyrics or the melody. You just want bpms.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. So that this way I can go, go, go, go. Because after all, I'm Tim Commando, and.

Andrew Babinski
You are Andrew Babinski.

Kim Commando
And this is Kim Commando today. And this is a multimedia event. What is this whole podcast?

Andrew Babinski
This podcast right here?

Kim Commando
Yes. Because you can get an audio version that's one media, or you can get it video version that's multiple.

Andrew Babinski
It is multimedia.

Kim Commando
It is. It's crazy. So if you're listening, you want to watch, you can just go to. Just go to YouTube.com gamecommando. That's the easiest place. And if you're watching and you want the audio version, just go to wherever you get your podcast and you search for Kim Commando.

Andrew Babinski
Today, people I talk to, friends and acquaintances that watch the podcast, they say the easiest experience is through YouTube.

Kim Commando
It is, yeah. Otherwise you gotta hunt it down. Right.

Andrew Babinski
Facebook sometimes stinks.

Kim Commando
It does stink.

Andrew Babinski
So just go to YouTube.

Kim Commando
It does stink. What do you have coming up?

Andrew Babinski
Well, we have another theranos. We have a company faking technology, and it's a big company, one you've heard of.

Kim Commando
Really.

Andrew Babinski
Rhymes with Blamazon.

Kim Commando
Blamazon rhymes with Blamazon. I wonder who that could be. Is that Microsoft?

Andrew Babinski
No, it's meta.

Kim Commando
It's meta. What else you got? Something else you got?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, we got gambling.

Kim Commando
Yeah, we're going to be.

Andrew Babinski
You can gamble on anything on the Internet. Now, gambling is so popular that they have put it in places you would not even imagine.

Kim Commando
Now, this is part of the pod where we talk about, like, comment. Share.

Andrew Babinski
Yes. Smash that, like, button. Drop your comments. Share it with everyone.

Kim Commando
Yeah. We don't even care if you don't like them. No, doesn't matter.

Andrew Babinski
Just spam people.

Kim Commando
I mean, although, you know, be so great is if we could get somebody, like, to spit a sign in every community, wouldn't that be great across America?

Andrew Babinski
Really, though, have you ever seen someone on the corner flipping a sign, and you're like, oh, I'm gonna go to Quiznos. It's never worked.

Kim Commando
There is that. It's like, I have to turn around right now.

Andrew Babinski
Right?

Kim Commando
I'm not gonna do that.

Andrew Babinski
I get 10% off my taxes being filed. No, I have never fallen for a side spinner, ever.

Kim Commando
Do you remember years ago, I sent you a picture of somebody who was, like, begging for money on the corner of 44th street in camelback, and you actually thought it was your cousin or somebody?

Andrew Babinski
I don't remember this. Yeah, it was like, yeah, well, it's 44th in camel. Yes, I do remember the picture. I don't remember the context now, but I do. Maybe it was my cousin.

Kim Commando
Yeah, it was like, I think that's my cousin. I'm like, I thought you were a kid, and you're like, no. OMG, I think it's my cousin.

Andrew Babinski
They're totally homeless now.

Kim Commando
Are they?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. You didn't give any money. They're totally homeless.

Kim Commando
That's bad. All right, here are five things you need to know. Happy butt tech. Right now, we're start with Facebook and fakes. Because guess what's happening?

Andrew Babinski
What's happening?

Kim Commando
There is a new scam.

Andrew Babinski
No. On the Internet.

Kim Commando
Oh, on Facebook. And Facebook, with all their trillions of dollars, say there's nothing we can do about it.

Andrew Babinski
No, sorry. Can't cut into their profits.

Kim Commando
So here's the deal is if you're on Facebook and you see, like, you can generate AI art in a split second with these hidden, cutting edge features that nobody else knows about for everybody.

Andrew Babinski
Else who clicks on the ad, and.

Kim Commando
If you click here, that you'll be able to experience, like, AI art as never before. Like, mid journey and Sora and Dali.

Andrew Babinski
I'm still waiting for the scam part.

Kim Commando
You click the link right and then it wants you to download something. Bum bum bum bum.

Andrew Babinski
Why did they even allow these ads on Facebook?

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Andrew Babinski
They should have like a dummy computer that tests all the links to see if they're legitimate or not before they.

Kim Commando
Start taking these people's money, one would think.

Andrew Babinski
But they don't. They just take anything.

Kim Commando
So you have to throw a nickel at them.

Andrew Babinski
They go run to catch it.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Here I am. I got it. All right. Do you still have a MySpace account?

Andrew Babinski
No. I mean, I'm. I don't know. Are they still active?

Kim Commando
Yeah, they are.

Andrew Babinski
I think the last time I checked it was like, remember when it switched from regular MySpace to like, independent bands?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
And there was MySpace is back. I think I still had it then, but I don't know if I still have it now.

Kim Commando
Then MySpace went through like that awkward teenage stage where it was all like full of hookers and prostitutes.

Andrew Babinski
I missed that stage.

Kim Commando
Well, see, what's happening now is that if you have pictures, like on photo bucket, Friendster, MySpace, you know, these are accounts that we haven't looked at for 20 years, okay? That suddenly like photo bucket, they have 2 million users, which sounds like a lot, but it's really not.

Andrew Babinski
It does sound like a lot.

Kim Commando
Okay, well, here's the deal. But they have 13 billion photos. What do you do with them? They're going to sell them to AI and they're going to make a dollar apiece. So they're going to like land $13 billion a dollar apiece. Yes, AI is paying a dollar apiece. So bottom line. So if you have pictures out there like in the interverse, and you're like, oh, I wonder what those pictures are, and that they could start being used to train AI.

Andrew Babinski
Well, obviously when we uploaded the pictures, we agreed that they owned them, of course, forever. They have the legal right to do this.

Kim Commando
Yeah, and then there's always that clause like you own them for like, whatever medium it might be. No, now in the future. So if you have old accounts, you might want to start deleting them.

Andrew Babinski
I'm not trying to call you out here, but you said they're going to sell them to AI. Who in particular?

Kim Commando
Anybody wants to buy it? Like, you know, meta, Google perplexity. Anybody who wants to buy the pictures, they're going to sell the pictures so that this way they can train AI. Now what's interesting is OpenAI just came out the other day, which I thought this was super fascinating, okay. Is that they downloaded a bunch of YouTube videos like million, like a million YouTube videos, right? And they didn't pay Google anything for it because you can download. Anybody can download a YouTube video, right?

Andrew Babinski
And it's not like they're going to use them in marketing or anything like that.

Kim Commando
They used it to train their video.

Andrew Babinski
Right. Just training it. Okay. I think.

Kim Commando
And then Google's like, how come we didn't get paid?

Andrew Babinski
Well, how come you didn't use your own videos? Google.

Kim Commando
All right, so from time to time, I get this call to show Kim. I went to a flea market or a swap meet. It's always like that. And there was a guy standing there with a box, and he said that I could get all the cable channels absolutely free. Wouldn't have to pay anybody anything. It's the greatest quality. I saw it. I could get, like, all the sports. I could get Netflix, Hulu, you name it, and I don't have to pay a dime. Well, I had to buy the box for $250. So is that a good deal?

Andrew Babinski
I was your Carl screener on your national radio show on over 400 stations for 14 years. And literally every month we got this call.

Kim Commando
Yes. And now you can buy these boxes on Amazon and eBay.

Andrew Babinski
And then you think it's on Amazon. Well, of course. It's got to be legal. Amazon can't sell legal products.

Kim Commando
Right?

Andrew Babinski
They can't sell endangered animals. Cause it's illegal.

Kim Commando
Well, there's a guy by the name of William Fremont, okay, who is no longer a Fremont.

Andrew Babinski
No. Going to jail.

Kim Commando
Because guess what William was selling when he was a Fremont? Those boxes, Amazon fire sticks, okay?

Andrew Babinski
Which he's obviously jailbroken. Put illegal software on.

Kim Commando
So if you're listening right now and you're thinking like, what's the big deal? Okay? Is that they can now track your ip address. It's kind of like those old Napster days. Remember? Like, when Napster was like, people were like, getting like, fined for like, $3 million.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, yeah. They sent the FBI to arrest a six year old kid for downloading three m and m songs.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. The parents are like, what do you mean? We owe $85,000?

Andrew Babinski
We're setting an example with this six year old.

Kim Commando
All right, this next one's so goofy.

Andrew Babinski
I didn't miss the joke. Why is it so goofy?

Kim Commando
I crack myself up sometimes.

Andrew Babinski
Internal monologue. Must be hilarious.

Kim Commando
It's actually very annoying sometimes. You have no idea what it's like to have this brain. I mean, it's like this side is going like this part talking about this part, and this part's talking about this part.

Andrew Babinski
And the back is telling both of them to shut up.

Kim Commando
Yes. And then this guy in the back saying, yeah, but what about this?

Andrew Babinski
Did you guys think about this? Have you considered the consequences?

Kim Commando
Disney, starting in June, is going to say, no more password sharing.

Andrew Babinski
That's why it was goofy.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Should have reversed it.

Kim Commando
Oh.

Andrew Babinski
Disney says, no more password sharing. This story is goofy. We didn't understand the reference because you hadn't made the point to reference two yet.

Kim Commando
In my head, it happened.

Andrew Babinski
Well, we were allowed to password share on Disney this whole time.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
I didn't know that.

Kim Commando
Okay, well, now you can't do it anymore, so. And the reason why is because of Netflix.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Okay. Netflix. When they immediately cracked down on password sharing. I mean, think about this. They got an immediate uptick of 9 million subscribers.

Andrew Babinski
Guilty.

Kim Commando
Were you?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. Cause I shared my sister's password for years, and then finally, you know, that box shows up, says, it looks like you're not at home, Amanda. Well, no, it's Andrew trying to use Amanda's account at Andrew's house. So I had to sign up for Netflix.

Kim Commando
Well, and then their revenues went up by 8%.

Andrew Babinski
That's huge.

Kim Commando
So Mickey Mouse needs some money, honey.

Andrew Babinski
Always. That's. The mouse is about the money.

Kim Commando
Oh, my gosh. Isn't that something? It truly is.

Andrew Babinski
Do you share passwords with anything? With anyone?

Kim Commando
No.

Andrew Babinski
Not even Ian?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
But you're. How do I want to say. Do I want to say cheap? No. Frugal. You're frugal. So I would think you would definitely share those passwords.

Kim Commando
Well, you know what's. And here's the bad news, okay, about sharing passwords. Is that. So I was. I was online looking up something that was about. Between me and Ian, okay. And something like, it was like, you know, I was looking up things because it's just like a mom thing. I was looking. And so all of a sudden, Ian calls me up and goes, chill out, mom.

Andrew Babinski
So you were like a parenting advice or something like that?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
And then he could see your searches.

Kim Commando
Because he has a shared account on chat GPT. I'm, like, totally busted by my kid.

Andrew Babinski
Totally busted. Can you delete your search history on chat GPT?

Kim Commando
I sure did. Right after that.

Andrew Babinski
That's hilarious.

Kim Commando
Finally, this coming in. Apple has gotten out of the electric car business. They said they're not going to do that anymore, so they're coming out with what they're calling the next big thing.

Andrew Babinski
Okay, wait a minute. If the electric car is not that, it was like, they spent like a billion dollars to go where you can't do this. Yeah.

Kim Commando
And they laid off and they got really, like, 650 people.

Andrew Babinski
What is going to be their next big thing?

Kim Commando
What do you think it is? Because you don't know Apple.

Andrew Babinski
I don't know. Let me think. What could apple. Not a credit card. They already do that. They already do headphones and everything in music and tech. Got a wearable with the vision pro. I can't even think what it could possibly be.

Kim Commando
And I'm going to say it just for Jennifer. A robot.

Andrew Babinski
A robot they're going to. So this is the thing they'll abandon in eight years after spending $3 billion. The Apple robot.

Kim Commando
Well, they say it's going to be this. I hope they do have it. I mean, because there are things that I absolutely abhor doing.

Andrew Babinski
Sure.

Kim Commando
Right. I mean, I don't mind, like, doing the dishes and things like that, but I. But I hate folding laundry. I think that is just, like, the worst ever.

Andrew Babinski
I actually threw an adult tantrum in the middle of folding laundry this weekend.

Kim Commando
Did you watch?

Andrew Babinski
I was on the floor. I sit on the floor, and I had all the laundry from the week. It was washing and drying.

Kim Commando
Fine. I'm okay with that, too.

Andrew Babinski
All day?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Folding. And I just laid down on top of the laundry. I just went, I don't want to do this.

Kim Commando
Were your kids around?

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
Oh, good.

Andrew Babinski
It was a full adult. That's even more embarrassing. There was no one there to see me. I was just doing it for myself because it was true. It's the worst.

Kim Commando
Okay. I. It was. So I had some clothes that I took out, and I didn't wear them over the weekend. Okay. Rather than me folding them and putting them back, I put them in the dirty clothes hamper. Okay. So that, this way the housekeeper would watch him. Okay.

Andrew Babinski
If I did that, I would just create more work for myself.

Kim Commando
Oh, see, then I did it. After I did it, I'm like, well, that's dumb.

Andrew Babinski
I'm like, so now does your. You have someone that folds your laundry, you don't use the service. Oh, you do? So you don't have to even worry about it.

Kim Commando
Sometimes I have to do it myself.

Andrew Babinski
Cause my sister uses some service where on Mondays, she puts all her dirty laundry in the front yard, and someone just drives by, picks it up and brings it back on Wednesday.

Kim Commando
And you can make money. It's like, that's a side hustle.

Andrew Babinski
That's a crazy thing.

Kim Commando
So anyway, so this little apple guy or gal is going to fold laundry, do dishes, bring you drinks, and also, if you're not home, you can have, like, you could call it up and you could say, hey, you know, video with the kids. Go find the kids and video with the kids, stuff like that.

Andrew Babinski
Do we have a expected time of release?

Kim Commando
No.

Andrew Babinski
And to fold laundry, this robot has to have opposable thumbs. Gonna have to have hands.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
If it's gonna have hands, it's gonna have a face.

Kim Commando
So in our house, we now have Astro. What's Astro do? Astro is Amazon's robot.

Andrew Babinski
What does it do?

Kim Commando
I'm not quite sure yet.

Andrew Babinski
Okay. I knew this was coming. I knew it was gonna be nothing.

Kim Commando
Well, I'm hoping that it will do some things, but so far, bear is really excited because he'll say, astro, follow me. And he's like, Kim, watch. Astro will follow me. Okay. So Astro follows him all around. And then it was like, here, Astro, burp. And then Astro goes.

Andrew Babinski
You paid thousands of dollars, $2500 thousands of dollars for it to follow around and burp at you?

Kim Commando
Okay, well, but the whole idea is. And this is like, because of the whole chilean gang thing.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, security.

T Mobile
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Kim Commando
Is that what he does? Is he. And I say, like, he. Like, he pops up and then he will, like, patrol the whole house.

Andrew Babinski
What pops up? His whole body?

Kim Commando
No, it's like this. Like, it's like. It looks like an iPad. Okay, so it's, like, on this. And so then it goes, that's kind of cool. And so. And Abby does not know. I have to get a video. Abby's, like, looking at her like, what are you doing in here? You don't smell like a dog.

Andrew Babinski
You should have it bark and see how the dog reacts. If Astro can burp, Astro can bark. That would be a good one.

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Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim commando today. Just a quick reminder that if you have not already entered to win the dollar 500 Amazon gift card, all you.

Andrew Babinski
Gotta do is sign up for one newsletter.

Kim Commando
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Andrew Babinski
One.

Kim Commando
It's up. And you wanna go to winfromkim.com once again, that's winfromkim.com dot. And don't forget to, like, comment share. We're going to be reading the best, just the best comments or all the.

Andrew Babinski
Ones that come in if then nobody else comments.

Kim Commando
I mean, if they all suck.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, we got to fill time. I mean, yeah, so you remember the just walk out technology from Amazon?

Kim Commando
Yeah. You know what? I always thought that was super exciting that. That you could be able to just. Especially because, like, even yesterday I went to Safeway and I was using the self checkout because I hate standing in line. I mean, you know me.

Andrew Babinski
But you'd rather do all the work than stand in line.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
I'd rather do that. And of course, Barry comes over and he's like, those damn things never work right for me.

Andrew Babinski
Well, what I don't like about the self checkout is if you're doing like a week big grocery, oh, no, you.

Kim Commando
Can'T do it that way.

Andrew Babinski
There's not enough room on that scale to do that.

Kim Commando
Okay, well, I had to go to Safeway, okay, because I sent, he said, what are we having for dinner? I said, I'd really like to use my pizza oven and make pizza.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
So he said, well, make me a list. So I said, can I text you? No. So I gotta have a piece of paper. So I'm like, do like pizza dough. Pizza sauce. Right. Okay. Mozzarella cheese.

Andrew Babinski
Why don't you have astro do all of this?

Kim Commando
I should have. And basil.

Andrew Babinski
Got it.

Kim Commando
So about an hour and a half later, he comes home.

Andrew Babinski
What was the last ingredient?

Kim Commando
Basil. How do you say it?

Andrew Babinski
Basil.

Kim Commando
Basil.

Andrew Babinski
Not basil. Basil.

Kim Commando
Basil.

Andrew Babinski
All right, I'll let it go.

Kim Commando
Basil. Basil doesn't matter. Okay. So, I mean, I love my husband. He comes home and, well, they didn't have some things.

Andrew Babinski
What didn't?

Kim Commando
Of those ingredients, we didn't have any pizza dough, flour, nothing like that. So in the frozen food section, he found gluten free pizza crusts.

Andrew Babinski
Sounds delicious.

Kim Commando
Mozzarella cheese. We had one bag of mozzarella, and then we had mexican cheese and sharp cheddar cheese and some other thing they didn't have. Pizza sauce.

Andrew Babinski
What store did he go to? Circle K, a convenience store.

Kim Commando
711 went to AJ's.

Andrew Babinski
They have.

Kim Commando
How did they get pizza sauce. No pizza sauce. So he brought marinara sauce and I tried to swim. You know, it's not the same thing.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. I mean, you could have gotten by, but it truly isn't the same thing.

Kim Commando
They didn't have basil. Either. Okay, so for four. But he did come home with a big bottle of gin.

Andrew Babinski
They have this.

Kim Commando
Okay. So he comes in that astro, order.

Andrew Babinski
A pizza, we're getting drunk.

Kim Commando
So that's why we had to go to Safeway and. Cause I wanted to show him that where things are located at the grocery store.

Andrew Babinski
So if it was a just walk out Amazon store.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
You'd walk in, you'd grab for wrong things that aren't on your list and walk out and you would automatically be charged.

Kim Commando
See, I thought that would be, that was just genius.

Andrew Babinski
It's brilliant technology. If it were technology.

Kim Commando
Yeah, this is bad. This is bad.

Andrew Babinski
Business Insider had a whistleblower that said when the just walk out technology started, Amazon's plan was, you know, for this to work. But they went out and they trained and hired 1000 people in India to just monitor, make sure that when someone picks up the basil and puts it in their cart, they're actually being charged for the basil. They were hoping maybe three to 4% of orders would be double checked. 70%. Almost all 70% of all orders were hand checked, hand checked out, and hand done by humans. The technology didn't work and they lied to us.

Kim Commando
They sure did. A thousand people just sat there and said, oh, what did he pick up? Let's put it on his list. What did he pick up? Oh, she put that back.

Andrew Babinski
Check that off.

Kim Commando
Okay. So here we thought, I mean, we were sold a bill of goods. Absolutely. That, you know, we'd go to the store and this was the future, folks. You just pick out the pizza sauce and the pizza dough and then just put it in your little bag and out you go.

Andrew Babinski
This is just like Theranos. Theranos, you know, said they were checking your blood in a minute, but they were actually using the old technology to check your blood because they didn't know what they were doing. And it was a fake product. This was a fake product from Amazon. And nobody's talking about it.

Kim Commando
They're not. It's really remarkable that nobody is talking about it. I mean, because you would think like, you know, we have the palm technology, we have all this stuff, and it's a big company, Amazon. And for them to do this pilot project or whatever they're calling it, with a thousand eyeballs, just humans in another.

Andrew Babinski
Country, at least you could have created some jobs here in the United States. It was a thousand people watching you shop in another country. Now they're trying to replace the just walk act technology with the dash cart. But it's not going to be exactly what they promised. Because obviously they can't do it. They've been talking.

Kim Commando
They've been talking about the smart shopping cart forever.

Andrew Babinski
Sure. Absolutely.

Kim Commando
And Instacart just rolled one out this past week in some stores where, like, you're just going to put whatever you want in there and then you get charged.

Andrew Babinski
Right. Just build in a scanner. Just have a little scanner right there. Beep, boop, boop, boop, boop. I put everything in bags before I leave. And then 25 people in Turkey can watch me and make sure that I didn't steal anything. What a joke. Amazon.

Kim Commando
So next, imagine this. You remember, like, if you go into like, that produce section and they have sometimes, like, the little candies that you can put in a bag.

Andrew Babinski
Right?

Kim Commando
Okay. You meant.

Andrew Babinski
No, the Brock's candy.

Kim Commando
Have you ever taken one not paid for it?

Andrew Babinski
No, but I know people who have.

Kim Commando
Okay. Now all of a sudden, you're gonna take it out.

Andrew Babinski
Uh huh.

Kim Commando
It's gonna say, twenty five cents.

Andrew Babinski
I only wanted that sucky candy barrel because it was free.

Kim Commando
That's it. We don't want anything else.

Andrew Babinski
No stinking amp. It's better over here.

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Kim Commando
All right, it's Kim Commando. Today it's your fun podcast about everything digital. We were just talking about shopping, which reminded me I have a really great joke. Now, this is a joke that you're gonna wanna tell all your family members and friends.

Andrew Babinski
All right, I'm ready.

Kim Commando
Okay, you ready? Where do t Rexes shop?

Andrew Babinski
Where do t Rexes shop? I don't know. Where do they shop?

Kim Commando
At the Dino stores.

Andrew Babinski
What's a dino store? Oh, I guess you're taking. Okay. Yeah, we do a segment on my radio show every Friday.

Kim Commando
Oh, here we go.

Andrew Babinski
Friday.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
You got a call in every single week. I'll give you the hotline. We'll get you on in and out, two minutes.

Kim Commando
You know what? Tell me. Tell me when to call and I will.

Andrew Babinski
I absolutely. I'll give you the hotline and we'll just do the Kim commando bad joke. Bad joke of the week. Because you're following them.

Kim Commando
I do. I have a lot of them. It is.

Andrew Babinski
And you love them. I do love them so much.

Kim Commando
I know. Sometimes when I'm writing the newsletter, I just crack up. I think I am so. I am so funny.

Andrew Babinski
My half million subscribers are just gonna.

Kim Commando
Die at this one. It's like I was writing a story yesterday about Viagra.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And that as a side benefit for Viagra. In other uplifting news, boner jokes always work. Is that it will help decrease your chances of Alzheimer's.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that is cool.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
I'm just gonna take it now so I don't get Alzheimer's.

Kim Commando
It's not a hard sell.

Andrew Babinski
See, that's good. I like that one.

Kim Commando
All right, let's talk about gambling.

Andrew Babinski
All right. The Internet is full of it. I mean, we just had the NCAA women's tournament, and it was the most bet on women's sports game, UConn versus Iowa in the history.

Kim Commando
Uconn. Is that y u c o n. That's so funny.

Andrew Babinski
I went to the Final Four this weekend, and UConn was playing in the game, and Jennifer was sitting there like, I can't believe that they're from Alaska.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh, no.

Andrew Babinski
University.

Kim Commando
Even I knew that. Jennifer, come on.

Andrew Babinski
He honestly thought they were from the Yukon. No, it was the Yukon Huskies against Iowa. Because the access to gambling is right in your pocket. You turn on my phone right now. There's six different apps on there that you can go ahead and gamble on. So they're gambling on everything.

Kim Commando
Do you have a problem? Do we need to help you?

Andrew Babinski
No, I don't. First of all, my bets are, like, five. $6. I'm betting $6 to win 225. It's just fun. Okay, but you can bet on. Now, let me ask you a question.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
And be honest. How fast do you think it would take Barry to carry you? 100 yards.

Kim Commando
How slow would it be for Barry to carry me?

Andrew Babinski
Keep in mind the world record is 17.6 seconds, half an hour.

Kim Commando
Can I get on his back?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, he can. You can carry him as any way possible. How far into the hundred meters? Excuse me? Would he order an uber? How far in? 1015 5ft. Because you can now bet on wife carrying on the Internet. Not only is it a sport, it's something you can bet on.

Kim Commando
Wow, really?

Andrew Babinski
Ferret Bingo? Are you interested in ferret bingo?

Kim Commando
I'm sorry? Ferret.

Andrew Babinski
Ferret bingo.

Kim Commando
So, like, ferrets are playing bingo?

Andrew Babinski
No, ferrets are the bingo balls. Oh, there's this huge cage, they put a ferret in it, and it's got all these tunnels. And wherever he comes out, that's the winning number.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh.

Andrew Babinski
You can bet on it on the Internet. Who would win in a war? Humans or aliens? You can bet on it on the Internet. All of these things are accessible and literally is real money.

Kim Commando
I was gonna say, is this real money?

Andrew Babinski
Now, a lot of them are run by digital coins, like bitcoin, ethereum, stuff like that.

Kim Commando
Are they, like, really headquartered in the caribbean?

Andrew Babinski
They are not us based companies because, you know, the US has strict rules, but there's tons of countries that doesn't care. And these literally are things you can bet on on the Internet every single day.

Kim Commando
Can you win big money?

Andrew Babinski
You can. I mean, the odds are pretty crazy because, you know, where's the first alien landing going to be? Could be anywhere. So you're going to have pretty good odds. A $10 bet might pay $1,200 if you pick Boston, Massachusetts, to be the first sighting of aliens where we meet. So who's going to win, humans or aliens? Well, you're going to bet for the home team or the visitors.

Kim Commando
That's a good one.

Andrew Babinski
Thanks.

Kim Commando
What's the craziest thing that you've bet.

Andrew Babinski
On in my entire life? Wow, that's interesting. I bet on a guy to score 50 points in a night, and it actually hit.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Babinski
Yes, which is very rare in basketball. I hit a nine team parlay, which means you have to pick nine different things to happen, and they all have to happen. And $5 paid, like, $1,100, and I hit all nine, but I lose a lot more than I win.

Kim Commando
Do you?

Andrew Babinski
It's for entertainment purposes only.

Kim Commando
One time I won Keno.

Andrew Babinski
Really?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Were you sitting there live, or was it, like, digital?

Kim Commando
No, I was live. So Barry and I are there, and, you know, she's like, you know, you're just eating lunch or whatever, and you're drinking, and it's like, oh, yeah, let's play keynote. So I just go, like, it's like.

Andrew Babinski
A buck a game.

Kim Commando
Yeah, or whatever. So I just, like, I pick, like, ten numbers, right? Okay. All ten numbers went.

Andrew Babinski
So that would have been, like, 10,000, $15,000.

Kim Commando
It was a lot of money. It was a lot of money. And so. But I didn't have my wallet with.

Andrew Babinski
Me, so no id.

Kim Commando
I had no id, nothing.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
So I said to Barry, and we were dating them, I said, here, you just put it under yours. And just what I said, I don't have any id and I don't want to go up to the room to go get it, so just put it under your goes. I'm not paying the taxes. I'm not paying taxes. I'm like, God, I should have left. Then I was like.

Andrew Babinski
Worst thing about Keno is you're always gonna sit next to the old guy that wants to tell you every single time. He won at Keno. It's not a thing where back in 84 and $500 was a lot then.

Kim Commando
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Kim Commando
Ctmobile.com so it's Ken Commando today. We're so glad that you're here. Just a quick reminder to like and share and comment. And you can do it live or you can do it afterwards because, you know, I think what we were going to start doing is actually looking at some of the comments afterwards so that, because not everybody can, you know, watch us do the show live.

Andrew Babinski
That's true. Yeah. I mean, most, like today we had to delay the start.

Kim Commando
It was the big eclipse.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, big eclipse.

Kim Commando
Yeah. I actually thought it was going to be something here in Phoenix. I know, I know. You know, and I'm very smart and I live with doctor science.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
And I, so I said to embarrass, you know, maybe we should let, like everybody stay at home in the morning case they want to see the eclipse. And then as I'm getting ready, this morning's like, well, that was dumb. You know, I don't know why you have people do that. I'm like, you could have said something.

Andrew Babinski
Can I make fun of that email for a second?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
So you sent out the company wide email saying if you're, you want to watch the eclipse with your family that. Didn't you say that in there with your family?

Kim Commando
I think so, yeah.

Andrew Babinski
That you can work from home, but you have to come in and the office.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
At twelve, right. Eclipse was at 1123 minutes. The plan was to go outside, looks at it real quick, get in the car and hurry and get to work.

Kim Commando
It's only three minutes.

Andrew Babinski
Could have given a little bit more of a buffer. No, we got, it was only three minutes. It was so disappointing.

Kim Commando
I know.

Andrew Babinski
I went outside and the office building next to us is the mini mobile. You've heard of mini mobile?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
It's like their headquarters and everybody's outside. No one's got eclipse glasses. So they're just standing outside. How? In their smoke break. And I'm handing my glasses to everybody else to try. So it was a nice little communal moment, but otherwise they just put the glasses on, went, oh. And that was it.

Kim Commando
But we were like 64% of.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Say a word. Come on.

Andrew Babinski
The full eclipse, it starts with a.

Kim Commando
T. I can't remember how to say it. Tortality.

Andrew Babinski
It wasn't totality. You're just messing with me. Totality. Is it totality? The path of totality?

Kim Commando
It's tortality.

Andrew Babinski
It's not totality. It was lame. Next time I'm going to a place where it's going to be, it's San Francisco in 2045. We can go to San Francisco. It's going to be the path of totality.

Kim Commando
So Lou Mello says, I really enjoy watching my wife fold laundry. I even offered tips which seemed to go unnoticed.

Andrew Babinski
That's a tip on how to get divorced.

Kim Commando
That's bad. Wouldn't that be, wouldn't that be awful? Oh, honey, you're not folding it right.

Andrew Babinski
You know what? If you put the socks together instead of balling them up, they'll last longer. Did you know that? Did you sip your beer and turn the gain em up?

Kim Commando
Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. Hi, Kim and Andrew. I mean, Adam. Let's see. Robot.

Andrew Babinski
She's been saying it for years like that, folks.

Kim Commando
It's like a row. But robot, robot, robot.

Andrew Babinski
My robot makes the best bassle.

Kim Commando
You're just bad. You're just bad. Um, a lot of people said, like, how come we were late today? Because we were watching the eclipse. Yeah, we were. You know, hopefully you were too.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, no matter where you are, you had a little bit, you had some coverage. 65%, though, not enough.

Kim Commando
You know, and I don't know how to say this, is that I was, I'm in a chat, and I'm not going to say what chat I'm in.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
But somebody in the chat said that they would not let their children watch the eclipse, even with glasses. Why because that it would impair their future brain development.

Andrew Babinski
No, they're fine.

Kim Commando
So I said to Barry, because he always follows all these conspiracy. I'm like, have you heard about this one? And he's like, oh, yes. So apparently there's some conspiracy theory that if you let your kids watch the eclipse that they're going to be something wrong with them.

Andrew Babinski
I saw tons of eclipses while I was a kid, and I turned out fine.

Kim Commando
We didn't have the glasses.

Andrew Babinski
No, we just squinted.

Kim Commando
Yeah, we did.

Andrew Babinski
It was like, remember when you would cut the hole in the piece of paper and then, you know, the new thing was you take a saltine cracker. And I know this is a little too late now, but if you hold up a saltine cracker, it has exactly got 13 holes in it, and you put cast the shadow down on a white piece of paper, you will see 13 little crests of the shape of the eclipse right through the little holes.

Kim Commando
I love peanut butter on a saltine cracker.

Andrew Babinski
It's really good.

Kim Commando
So that would not be, you snack.

Andrew Babinski
On it right afterwards, lick the eclipse. 32 seconds later, you have yourself a snack.

Kim Commando
All right. So a lot of people are concerned about flying.

Andrew Babinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
Because we're starting to see problems with airplanes. Now. Do you think that we're having more problems with airplanes or that we have more people with cameras to detect the problems with the airplanes?

Andrew Babinski
It's probably a little bit of both. But, you know, when the door falls off, it doesn't matter how many cameras are in the plane. That's a problem.

Kim Commando
Well, now this video's going viral.

Andrew Babinski
That doesn't look good. I don't know what airline that is at.

Kim Commando
Southwest. I was joking. Oh. I said, I'm wondering. I thought maybe you needed glasses or.

Andrew Babinski
Something because their logo is being ripped off of the airplane.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Did that plane take off?

Kim Commando
No, that was an emergency landing.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, yeah. That's an emergency.

Kim Commando
Could you imagine looking out the window? Oh, look, there's the grand.

Andrew Babinski
I'm not religious, but I'm praying in that moment right there. Just in case. Just in case.

Kim Commando
You know, many years ago when I used to fly commercial, I said, just for you. Just for you. I couldn't even, you know what? I couldn't even get the line out because I knew it was so ridiculous.

Andrew Babinski
What happened when you did, when you were with us plebes and steerage.

Kim Commando
I was kidding. I'm just kidding. I fly commercial so sometimes. So I was on Southwest Airlines. I will never forget this. And, like, you know, when you land into Phoenix and it's summer, you know, the thermals, I mean, it's like you go like boom, boom, boom, boom. You do that. I mean, it's just, and then you're.

Andrew Babinski
Going because there's no grip.

Kim Commando
Right. And so, so I remember this. We landed into Phoenix, and I'll never forget what the, you know, they always have like the best flight attendants on Southwest Airlines. I mean, they always do. They always have like this great fun attitude. And this guy came on and said, you know, welcome to Phoenix. And he said, welcome to Phoenix. We made it. And then he said, and I just want to let you know that that landing was not my fault. It wasn't the pilot's fault. It was the asphalt.

Andrew Babinski
Now that's a good bad joke.

Kim Commando
Yes.

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