Cheap clothes online could make you sick

This episode discusses the risks associated with purchasing cheap, fast fashion clothing online, highlighting health hazards due to toxic chemicals.

1. Health Risks: Cheap online clothes often contain harmful chemicals that can cause serious health issues, including cancer and infertility.
2. Regulatory Gaps: The lack of strict regulations allows such dangerous products to enter and thrive in the market.
3. Consumer Awareness: Shoppers need to be more vigilant about where their clothes come from and what they are made of.
4. Industry Standards: There is a pressing need for stricter industry standards and better regulatory oversight in the fashion industry.
5. Preventive Measures: Simple tests, like the water bead test, can help identify clothes with excessive chemical treatments.

1: Introduction

Kim and co-hosts discuss recent nightmares which segue into social media nightmares, setting a lighthearted tone before diving into serious topics. Kim Komando: "We're talking serious health issues from cheap clothes!"

2: The Hidden Dangers of Fast Fashion

Discussion on how fast fashion leads to exposure to toxic chemicals. Kim Komando: "These clothes may look good, but they're laced with toxins that can harm you."

3: Consumer Tips for Safer Purchases

Tips on identifying safer garments and understanding product labels. Allie Seligman: "Check your clothes with a water bead test to spot harmful treatments."

4: Regulatory Needs and Industry Change

Talk about the need for changes in the industry and better consumer protection. Andrew Babinski: "There's a massive gap in regulations that needs addressing."

1. Perform a Water Bead Test: Drop a bead of water on the fabric. If it doesn’t absorb, consider it a red flag.
2. Research Brands: Prioritize purchasing from brands that are transparent about their manufacturing processes.
3. Check Labels for Chemicals: Learn to identify harmful chemicals often used in textile production.
4. Support Sustainable Fashion: Invest in clothes from companies that adhere to sustainable practices.
5. Educate Yourself on Textile Safety: Knowing more about textile safety can help you make better buying decisions.
6. Advocate for Better Regulations: Support initiatives aimed at enforcing stricter safety standards in the fashion industry.

Major fashion retailer Shein was caught selling millions of clothes containing toxic chemicals, some of which are linked to cancer. Plus, an Amazon driver ignores a house fire, Samsung washing machine drama, and police drones are here.

People

Kim Komando, Andrew Babinski, Allie Seligman

Companies

Shein

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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, did you ever have a nightmare?

Andrew Babinski
Sure.

Allie Seligman
Oh, yeah, of course.

Kim Commando
Okay, so what's the recent nightmare?

Allie Seligman
A classic for me is I can't find anyone I care about. They're all missing. Everyone's gone.

Andrew Babinski
This one's bad. My daughter was kidnapped.

Kim Commando
No. Oh, really?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Oh, well, I don't really have nightmares. Cause everything's okay.

Allie Seligman
We just really opened up.

Andrew Babinski
Just start with that instead of asking us to say, I'm not someone who has nightmares, and then continue with whatever's next.

Kim Commando
Well, the reason why I bring it up is that now it turns out that people are having social media nightmares.

Andrew Babinski
What is that?

Kim Commando
A social media nightmare? Like, they're having, like, feelings of helplessness, and, like, they. Like. A nightmare is that they try to log in to TikTok and they can't.

Allie Seligman
Oh, my gosh.

Andrew Babinski
That's a real problem.

Kim Commando
And they. And they. Their Facebook account gets hacked and deleted.

Andrew Babinski
But you don't have those because you don't have any nightmares.

Kim Commando
I don't have any nightmares. Well, I do have a nightmare. I did have one.

Andrew Babinski
Which was it? Here comes a joke.

Kim Commando
I was on my boat, and the boat was sinking.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, no, that's horrible.

Allie Seligman
That's bad.

Kim Commando
And it just kept going down and down, down and down. And the water was orange and orange, orange. It kept getting, like, more orange and more orange and more orange. And then I realized it was just a fanta sig told you.

Andrew Babinski
Totally called it. I could see it in her eyes.

Kim Commando
Hey, that was a good one.

Andrew Babinski
If I wouldn't have ruined it, it would have been much better.

Kim Commando
Yes. You know, why do you need to do that?

Andrew Babinski
We can edit it out in post.

Kim Commando
You know, you always have to do that. It's like, you know, I mean, when we were growing up, I mean, it was like. It was always like, whoa. You know, Kim doesn't do this. Kim doesn't do that. I mean, you know, same thing.

Andrew Babinski
Same thing. I'm.

Kim Commando
Stop.

Andrew Babinski
I apologize.

Kim Commando
Stop.

Andrew Babinski
I'll never do it again in the next ten minutes.

Kim Commando
Exactly. So what do you sleep in?

Andrew Babinski
What do I sleep in? Boxers.

Kim Commando
What do you sleep in?

Allie Seligman
T shirt. Underwear.

Kim Commando
T shirt and underwear.

Andrew Babinski
Is it a special bedtime t shirt.

Allie Seligman
Big t shirts. So, Betty, you have a jam.

Andrew Babinski
A set of them?

Allie Seligman
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
You.

Kim Commando
Well, I've decided that I wanted to see if Kim Kardashian skims were really everything that they're all cracked up to.

Andrew Babinski
You gotta fill me in here. I don't know what a skim is.

Kim Commando
Skim is. That's Kim Kardashian's brand.

Andrew Babinski
Okay?

Kim Commando
Like, her, like, underwear bra.

Allie Seligman
It started with a lot of, like, makes her waist look tiny, makes her belt look big. Kind of stuff that you wear underclothes.

Andrew Babinski
But now it's a full line of stuff.

Kim Commando
So I decided, like, you know, I want to see what all the hype was about. So I went over to skims, and I bought some pajamas. Okay. And they are super cute.

Allie Seligman
I have a pair of very cute skins.

Kim Commando
They are. They're very cute. So I go to bed in skims, right? And when I wake up, I'm naked.

Andrew Babinski
What happened?

Kim Commando
Cause it's like, you know, it's like, I'm cold, I'm hot. You know, you literally wake up.

Allie Seligman
Most people use the blanket for the cold and the hot.

Andrew Babinski
That's why you don't have nightmares. You never reach rem. You're too busy getting dressed.

Kim Commando
Well, that's because my husband likes to have a sheet, a blanket, and a comforter.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, my gosh. That sounds like a nightmare.

Allie Seligman
That's horrendous. I don't even use a top sheet.

Kim Commando
Okay. And weight. He puts a weighted blanket on himself.

Andrew Babinski
On top of those three things.

Kim Commando
Uh huh. Okay. And then between us is a 95 pound golden retriever.

Andrew Babinski
That's a lot of body heat and blanket heat.

Kim Commando
So it's like, I'm like, oh. So it's like the air conditioning is really down. You tried.

Andrew Babinski
You have to get rid of it.

Kim Commando
It did. It is. So at some point, I'm like, you know, whatever. This is just the way it is. And then, you know, we live in a glass house. So then I get up.

Andrew Babinski
Don't throw stones.

Kim Commando
I get up, and I'm like, oh, hi. How are you? Nice to see you.

Andrew Babinski
Good morning to you.

Kim Commando
It happened to me this morning. Cause, like, they were all on the scaffolding, like, fixing some of these, and.

Andrew Babinski
They'Re standing there naked.

Kim Commando
And I got up, I'm like, oh, hi, how are you? Okay. And then when I'm leaving, okay. So I take a shower, get ready, go to work, and the construction guys are at the driveway, and they're, like, four guys in a row staring at me.

Allie Seligman
Bye, Kim. We love you so much.

Kim Commando
And one of the guys looks at me and goes, drive safe.

Andrew Babinski
We don't want to miss the show tomorrow, if you know what I mean.

Kim Commando
And on that happy note, welcome. I'm Kim Commando, your beloved digital goddess, here with you once again. This is called Kim Commando today. Funny how that works. It's your podcast Monday, Wednesday, Friday, where we talk about all things digital. Now, this is not the show. A lot of people ask me that three today. And the show is more like caller driven, newsy driven, and Kim commander, today is just this fun podcast where it's not just me, it's. Well, he's here, too. Andrew Babinski.

Andrew Babinski
Hi.

Kim Commando
You could say something better than just hi.

Andrew Babinski
I have an announcement.

Kim Commando
What is it?

Allie Seligman
Whoa.

Andrew Babinski
This show is making history. This podcast, kim commando today is. It really is the number three tech podcast in Rwanda. Number three.

Kim Commando
Wow, that's amazing. I'm so glad to be number three in Rwanda. We don't need to say number 24.

Allie Seligman
I think legally we have to.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
We're the number 24 podcast overall in Rwanda. Can you believe that?

Kim Commando
Okay. Why are we so big in Rwanda?

Andrew Babinski
I have no idea.

Allie Seligman
I love this.

Andrew Babinski
It's great.

Allie Seligman
Let's try to find some of our rwandan listeners and friends.

Andrew Babinski
We're not doing great on this continent. Let's find another one to talk about.

Kim Commando
We need to go. We just need to go.

Allie Seligman
All right.

Kim Commando
And of course, we have our amazing content queen. And you are amazing. Thank you, Allie Seligman. Allie, what do you have for us today?

Allie Seligman
We're talking about reading. My favorite way to get free books. I'm on a big reading tear. Summer is like my reading season.

Andrew Babinski
It's too hot to do anything else.

Allie Seligman
Exactly.

Kim Commando
So how many books will you read this summer?

Allie Seligman
Oh, I usually go through about one a week or more.

Andrew Babinski
Wow.

Kim Commando
Are they big books? Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I read a book.

Allie Seligman
They're chapter books camp.

Kim Commando
I mean, I just. Every time I see a book, I think of, like, harry Potter. I'm like, oh, no.

Andrew Babinski
That is intimidating.

Kim Commando
That is just not happening in my world.

Andrew Babinski
Carrie's gonna be dead before I finish reading that thing.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Ian bring home these books, and when he was a kid, and I'd be like, he's like, you wanna read? I'm like, no, not for me, thanks.

Andrew Babinski
No, I'll do green eggs and ham.

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Andrew Babinski
You tackle those big ones on ham.

Kim Commando
Actually, you know what? It was cute, is that he would read in bed with Barry chew.

Andrew Babinski
Barry.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
That is cute.

Kim Commando
It was cute. All right. Don't forget to like, comment share. Especially if you're in Rwanda.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Appreciate it.

Andrew Babinski
They're already doing it. Good job, Rwanda.

Kim Commando
And just weeks left to win the iPhone 15, a $799 value.

Andrew Babinski
Would you ship it to Rwanda if someone won from there?

Kim Commando
I think you have to be in the United States.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, darn.

Kim Commando
Something like that. But I'm sure there's something we could do with Rwanda.

Andrew Babinski
Absolutely.

Kim Commando
You know, can you find Rwanda on a map?

Andrew Babinski
Like now? Just dead? Like, guess where it is.

Kim Commando
No. I mean, you know. You know, it's in Africa.

Andrew Babinski
I learned that about eight minutes ago.

Kim Commando
Another product of our public high school.

Andrew Babinski
Geography is my worst.

Kim Commando
It is. All right, let's get started with the top five things you need to know about tech. It's happening right now. And Tiffany Banks is a nurse living in Kentucky, and she was super excited because she booked the presidential suite for her husband and her four kids on her carnival cruise line.

Andrew Babinski
Nice.

Kim Commando
Beautiful. $15,000, okay. Plus airfare to and from Miami.

Allie Seligman
Oh, my gosh.

Kim Commando
So she's getting ready just two days away from her trip this past week, and she gets a notice from Carnival cruise that says your cancellation has been accepted. She's like, what cancellation? I mean, I didn't cancel the trip. And they're like, you canceled? We have it right here that you canceled. She said, I didn't cancel. And then she said, you know what? I want that presidential suite. And they said, we're sorry. Somebody already booked it, so we can't give it to you. And she said, can I get on a standby list? And they said, well, you can. And she's like, but still, I did not cancel this, so you owe me. They said, well, we can give you a couple of suites on the bottom level of the cruise. I mean, underneath the water line. Okay. Bad rooms. Okay, okay. She's like, no, I want the presidential suite. I said, yeah, but you canceled. She's like, no, I didn't cancel. Here's what happened. She was on Facebook, and she took a picture of herself holding the tickets to the carnival cruise, holding the book showing the booking number. Somebody created an account, used her booking number, canceled her reservation.

Andrew Babinski
Just to be mean. Just to be a troll.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
So she didn't lose any money. They refunded her her money.

Kim Commando
I'm giving her a credit.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, jeez.

Kim Commando
Yeah. So she's got 15 grand and her.

Allie Seligman
Whole vacation that they had probably taken off time for.

Kim Commando
Well, she. The family ended up going to Miami.

Allie Seligman
Oh.

Kim Commando
Today just to see if they could get on this boat somehow.

Andrew Babinski
Right?

Kim Commando
Did they. No, they found an Airbnb. Airbnb close by.

Andrew Babinski
So it was just an Internet troll.

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Andrew Babinski
No one who has anything personal to gain.

Allie Seligman
It could have been her friend who didn't like her.

Kim Commando
Yeah, she says. She says that she doesn't know. So now carnival says, well, we're going to try to track it by the ip number. Maybe we can do that.

Allie Seligman
They're never going to.

Kim Commando
No, you know what? But. So bottom line here, PSA, do not take those photos.

Andrew Babinski
Or at least take those photos after you're on the boat.

Allie Seligman
Yes.

Kim Commando
Yeah, exactly.

Allie Seligman
Although you should probably wait until you get home, because otherwise it's like, hey, come rob me.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, that's true, too.

Kim Commando
Then. Tiffany's a nurse. I wonder how she's doing with Hipaa. Just saying.

Allie Seligman
Fun one today.

Kim Commando
Yes. The NSA, national security Agency, big dogs, they have a major alert out this past week. About zero click exploits. Basically what that means is that you could get something on your phone you don't need to do anything. And then it takes over your phone. You get malware, everything just.

Allie Seligman
These are so scary.

Andrew Babinski
How do you avoid it?

Kim Commando
You turn your phone on and off once a week.

Allie Seligman
No kidding.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that's easy.

Kim Commando
You could do that once a week.

Andrew Babinski
I'll do it right now. We're not doing anything right.

Kim Commando
Don't do it now. We're busy.

Allie Seligman
You might need that to text.

Kim Commando
I have never bought anything from Shein. Have you?

Andrew Babinski
I don't even know what that is.

Allie Seligman
No.

Kim Commando
I would explain she into.

Allie Seligman
It's one of those cheapy. It's kind of like Teemo. It's like a fast fashion.

Andrew Babinski
So it's Teemu for only clothes?

Kim Commando
Yes. They are the world's largest online fashion retailer.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Shein is not quality.

Allie Seligman
Things are so cheap. You can get, like, you know, a t shirt for a couple bucks.

Kim Commando
Yeah. $2 shirts.

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Kim Commando
I sell, like, a pair of jeans for $3.50.

Allie Seligman
Oh, my gosh.

Andrew Babinski
How did you not scoop them up?

Kim Commando
I saw a wedding dress for $20.

Andrew Babinski
Budget wedding.

Kim Commando
Nothing says quality. And this marriage is gonna last with a 25.

Andrew Babinski
Let's be fair, though. You only need it for one night. I mean, you're never gonna wear it again.

Allie Seligman
That's true. If it doesn't hold up, it doesn't matter, right? Yeah.

Kim Commando
I mean, I didn't have a wedding dress.

Andrew Babinski
You didn't have a wedding dress?

Kim Commando
No. And a girlfriend of mine, Lisa, she's like. I mean, we went a couple of places to find a wedding dress, and, like, I'm like, a week before I'm getting married. She's like, you know, she's like, you don't have a dress. I'm like, I just don't have time.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. What'd you wear to the wedding?

Kim Commando
Well, Lisa was marrying somebody who's very wealthy, and she had a private fitting with Vera Wang. She flew to Dallas. Vera Wang made her this beautiful dress. And so Lisa says, you know what? I'll be right back. I mean, literally, like, this is, like, a Saturday, Sunday, and I'm leaving for Hawaii, like, on Wednesday.

Allie Seligman
Okay.

Kim Commando
Okay. So she goes over, and she comes back in my house with, like, this box, and it's her wedding dress, all, like, hermetically sealed. She's like, you know what? Try it on. So I put it on. This thing just fits me. Like, wow. I mean, just.

Allie Seligman
She hadn't worn it yet.

Kim Commando
Oh, no, she did. She wore it.

Allie Seligman
Okay.

Kim Commando
Okay. And then she pulls out her shoes, and I'm like. I'm like, Lisa, your shoes. She's like, just put the shoes on. So I put the shoes on. She's. I just want to see how the dress works. Okay. I, at that time, was wearing, like, a size eight, because when you get pregnant, your feet grow. It's like, a whole bad thing. And so these shoes were seven. So she's like, oh, just. You'll break them, but that's okay. So then she gives me, like, her little purse. Oh, my God, that's so cool. So I put on this, like, probably $70,000 wedding dress.

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Kim Commando
So I get home, and she had, like, a special cleaner, like a french cleaners, that she wanted me to take this dress to. So I take it over there. It was, like, to dry clean this dress. It was like, I don't know. It was like, five, $600. Wow. I mean. Yeah. And then she wanted it, like, back into that box, and that was, like, another $200.

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Kim Commando
But I figured, you know what? I rented the dress.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
So my mother and I are sitting around, like, probably, like, six months after this, and mom says to me, you know, that was such a beautiful dress on you. She said, you could have that dress. You could dye that black, and you could wear it to an evening, you know, gala or something like that. She said, or, you know, keep it white. And, you know, maybe Danielle, my niece, she said maybe she might want to wear it. So you should call Lisa. I call Lisa up, and I say, Lisa, you know what? I'll buy that dress from you. How much do you think? How much do you want for that dress? She goes, holy crap. She said, do you want to buy the dress?

Andrew Babinski
But it was her wedding dress, too.

Allie Seligman
Yeah, but Kim liked it more.

Kim Commando
Yeah, but I figured.

Andrew Babinski
And she's the one who's hermetically stealing it.

Kim Commando
Yes. Right. So I see. Well, she said. She said, you know, I just dropped it off at the consignment store. I said, you did? And she said, yes. She said, it's. She told me where it was on camel back in 20th street.

Allie Seligman
Did you go by?

Kim Commando
So I'm like, holy crap. So I go. I go jump in my car, and I go to the consignment store. And I said, okay. So Lisa gave her last name. Just dropped off her wedding dress, like, three days ago. And. And I want to buy it. Just buy it from you. And I was like, just sold it.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, man.

Kim Commando
I said, how much did you get? I said, $125.

Andrew Babinski
And Lisa only got half of that.

Kim Commando
So if there was some woman in Phoenix who got married in a $70,000 custom.

Andrew Babinski
No, she wears that thing everywhere. She wears the Denny's.

Allie Seligman
She dyed it black, and now she wears the two events. I kind of love how many people. People got married in this beautiful dress.

Andrew Babinski
That is cool.

Kim Commando
That is true. That is true. And it didn't. All it had on the inside was a tag that just said, custom designed Vera Wang.

Andrew Babinski
Well, that's all you need.

Kim Commando
Okay, but you don't know that it was actually, like Vera Wang designed this dress.

Andrew Babinski
Right? It could have been someone who wore fur or fake. Yeah, that's true.

Kim Commando
All right, moving on. Oh, the reason why. Shein? Okay. I'm sorry about that. Had a blonde moment there.

Andrew Babinski
We're getting back on the freeway, everybody. We took a little egg.

Kim Commando
Here's the thing about a blonde moment, okay? If you're a blonde, you can say that. If you're not a blonde, you can't tell. It's awful. All right. She, and apparently is loaded with toxic chemicals.

Andrew Babinski
The clothing.

Kim Commando
Yes. Links to cancer, autism, infertility. It's being sold on Amazon under different names, too. Some of this gear and clothing has 400 times the safe levels.

Allie Seligman
Oh, my gosh.

Kim Commando
Of toxins and chemicals.

Andrew Babinski
How are we letting it being sold in America?

Kim Commando
All right, so here's how you check. Here's how you check your clothes. I thought this was interesting. You drop a bead of water on the fabric. If it stays beaded up, rolls around, leaves no residue, you have a problem.

Andrew Babinski
Okay. Because it should soak right in.

Kim Commando
It should soak right in. So return it or trash it. Drones. Next time you call what do you try in your shein clothes?

Andrew Babinski
Checking my pants for safe. Hold on.

Kim Commando
Okay, you know what?

Andrew Babinski
Good to go.

Allie Seligman
He's good.

Andrew Babinski
You know what?

Kim Commando
That was totally bogus. You peed yourself and you didn't want anybody to know.

Andrew Babinski
Nice cover up.

Kim Commando
Right? Okay, so drones. You call 911 instead of having a cop show up your front door. Drones coming. And then the drone will say to you, hi. Hi. What's going on? And so that's happening now in New York and in Denver.

Andrew Babinski
Are they just talking them through a micro microphone and speaker system?

Allie Seligman
In what kind of situations? I imagine it can't be for everything.

Kim Commando
Right. Well, I mean, you know, think about this. Maybe it's. You know, maybe it's even. Somebody just got robbed.

Allie Seligman
Yeah. They take the report?

Kim Commando
Cat in a tree.

Allie Seligman
Sure. Okay.

Kim Commando
I don't know. Why do people go to your house, Andrew?

Andrew Babinski
You mean the police?

Kim Commando
Yeah, usually.

Andrew Babinski
Theft, mass drug sales, human trafficking. You know, the normal stuff.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
And finally, this. It's a scam. It's been around for a long time. And we just got a note from somebody that said, hey, you know, I was about ready to fall for this. Did you know that? Yeah, I thought that was so cool.

Allie Seligman
I did, too.

Kim Commando
And then he read it in the newsletter and said, hey, I knew better.

Andrew Babinski
What happened?

Kim Commando
You get a notification that says, I want to give you a free piano.

Andrew Babinski
Thanks.

Kim Commando
And you're like, I would love a piano. I mean, I have two kids. They should learn how to play the piano.

Andrew Babinski
And they're expensive, right? Free.

Kim Commando
And the reason why it's free is because they're moving. They can't take the piano with them to Rwanda.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
Okay, so the. So they say, you know, you just have to pay shipping, and then you want to pay, and then you're talking to the movers anyway, so bottom line, somebody's offering you a free piano. Just don't call for it.

Andrew Babinski
I've actually heard of this scam for years now.

Kim Commando
I don't.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, they haven't given up on this. It must be working. Yeah.

Kim Commando
Yeah, it's a definite treble maker.

Andrew Babinski
See, I didn't point that one out. Was it a winner?

Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim Commando today. We are so glad that you're with us, everybody. Give a little heart. Oh, we love you. We do. Make sure that you tell at least one person about Kim commando today, because after all, we need to have more viewers. We need to have more listeners. And so if you notice, I said viewers. So if you're listening to the podcast version, that's amazing. But to get the full multimedia experience, I mean, you know, you can see how, you know, I fixed my hair today.

Andrew Babinski
Yep, you looked great today.

Kim Commando
Thank you. Having a good hair day? It's because I washed it looks good. I washed it yesterday.

Andrew Babinski
You don't wash your hair every day?

Kim Commando
No.

Allie Seligman
Every day.

Kim Commando
Are you kidding?

Allie Seligman
This idiot. Oh, okay.

Kim Commando
Oh, you know, probably Heather washes her hair.

Andrew Babinski
Do you ever use glazing? Right over that?

Allie Seligman
Jennifer, good to see you.

Andrew Babinski
The dry shampoo, you ever use that? I learned about that recently.

Allie Seligman
You ever use that?

Andrew Babinski
I didn't know that was the thing.

Kim Commando
Why would you even know that? You're bald.

Andrew Babinski
But I have women in my life.

Allie Seligman
He powders his head when it comes to him.

Andrew Babinski
They were like, oh, I gotta stop and get some dry shampoo. And I'm like, oh, that's a good one. They're like, no, it's a real thing. And they explained it to me. I never heard of it.

Kim Commando
It just sucks up the oil.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I learned about it. Do you use that in your non wash days?

Kim Commando
No, I wash my hair probably every two or three days. How about you?

Allie Seligman
Alright, three, maybe four if I'm really pushing it.

Kim Commando
Yeah. Wow.

Andrew Babinski
I thought it was more often than that.

Allie Seligman
No, it's not good for your hair. Also, I washed everything. I paid money for this color and.

Andrew Babinski
You don't want it to drip out.

Kim Commando
I'm a natural.

Andrew Babinski
Now that's a good joke.

Kim Commando
All right, what's going on, Andrew?

Andrew Babinski
So there's this story about content id with YouTube. Do you know what that is? Yes, if you don't. Basically YouTube came up with this system bots that if it hears music or something from a television show, annoying, something that someone's copywritten, they will market. And then if your video is creating revenue, they will share that revenue with the person that owns the copyright.

Kim Commando
It's actually pretty ingenious.

Andrew Babinski
Well, wait.

Kim Commando
Okay. When it works.

Andrew Babinski
Concept in concept. Yes, yes.

Allie Seligman
Great concept.

Andrew Babinski
So there was a streamer. His name's Albino. And he goes and opens. He's very popular.

Allie Seligman
Is that two words? Like Albino or.

Andrew Babinski
It's one word.

Kim Commando
I'm sitting there, I'm saying like capital a L B I L. Yes.

Andrew Babinski
He streams video games and he goes on to his YouTube studio, opens it up and he sees that he's got a violation. And then his last stream, which was like six and a half hours of streaming some rainbow six Vegas video game that at the 50 1 minute mark he played a piece of copywritten material. And that part of his revenue from the stream will be given to the creator. So he's like, what is this? I've never. I didn't play any music. It was the whole time. It was just background noise. So he clicks on the 50 1 minute mark. He's listening for music, trying to find it, and the only thing he hears is his Samsung washing machine playing the little jingle at the end of the cycle when his underwear.

Kim Commando
Yeah, when it goes like, ding, ding, ding.

Andrew Babinski
We can't do it. We don't want to get hydrated. So he's like, oh, my gosh. Samsung is actually collecting money from the copyright of their washing machine. This is ridiculous. Wasn't Samsung. No, couldn't be Samsung. The song they used was composed in 1813 and is in the public domain.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh.

Andrew Babinski
Nobody can own the copyright to that song and yet. Exactly. Except for a guy named Aduego.

Kim Commando
Yes. Wait, we're talking about. I mean, think about this. I never thought I would have. Like Albino and Aldwego dueling on the Internet. Yes, exactly.

Andrew Babinski
So Al Dwego released an album called Galaxies, the Abominable Galaxies. And on that album is a song called done, which is what he got hit for with the copyright. You go and look up done by Al Dwego on abominable galaxies, and it is just a 32nd loop of the Samsung washing machine song.

Kim Commando
No way.

Andrew Babinski
Playing on YouTube that he put content id on and owns the copyright to.

Allie Seligman
Oh, what a troll. Some copyright trolling right there.

Andrew Babinski
He did get paid. He got paid by YouTube.

Kim Commando
How much do you think he got?

Andrew Babinski
A couple bucks. It's not a lot. And. Cause the stream didn't make that much. It was a smaller stream for him, for Albino. And then when he looked into. Sorry, that's their name, if you want.

Kim Commando
No, it's just bizarre.

Andrew Babinski
Exactly. So you look into it. He's been doing this for nine years. Adego has been taking money for a copyright of a song that he doesn't own. Cause you can't copyright it because it's from a washing machine that was composed in 1813.

Allie Seligman
I wonder if this guy makes enough money. Okay, if he does this one scheme, he might be a schemer. Right? Like, he's got other.

Andrew Babinski
He might be a schemer.

Allie Seligman
Well, no, he's the full album of these.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
He's got multiple things that he puts up on YouTube.

Kim Commando
We never think of any of these. Yeah, that's true.

Allie Seligman
It's gross.

Andrew Babinski
Because YouTube, all it is is a bot listens for something that it recognizes, registered with the content id, finds it, takes the revenue shoots a portion over. They brag of the billions of dollars that they are getting from this content id that is going to scammers.

Allie Seligman
We should try to get Adweg on the show.

Kim Commando
Yeah, we should.

Allie Seligman
I'd love to give him a talking to.

Andrew Babinski
He's not alone, though. Albino went to one of his other feeds, found another infraction that he had missed before. This guy named Fabrino.

Allie Seligman
What was he saying?

Andrew Babinski
Cause he was playing a Nintendo video game, Metroid two, on one of his live streams and he was letting the theme of the video game play in the background. Obviously that's owned by Nintendo for sure, but obviously Nintendo allows that to be shared because they want their video games to be streamed. It's all part of the gaming community. Well, Fabrigo copywrote that song that he stole from Nintendo years ago and has been doing the same. Exactly thing. So of this $9 billion that YouTube says they're handing to the original content creators, how much of this is actually going to scammers? It's got to be a huge chunk.

Allie Seligman
You know what?

Kim Commando
It has to be. Don't you think?

Andrew Babinski
They wouldn't do the effort? They wouldn't put through the effort if it wasn't proper.

Kim Commando
Yeah. They weren't making money at it.

Andrew Babinski
Yes. And got albums, multiple albums of just noises that he's copywriting that hopefully are going to pay in the background of a video and that he gets money from.

Kim Commando
Okay, so, okay. Who do you think he really is? I mean, what does he look like?

Andrew Babinski
Aduego?

Kim Commando
Yes. A dwego.

Andrew Babinski
I would think he's, I don't know, German.

Allie Seligman
I was gonna say he's kind of like an Italian.

Andrew Babinski
It's not his real name.

Allie Seligman
I know it's not, but we have to.

Kim Commando
When you said that, you looked at her like you're such an idiot.

Andrew Babinski
Well, you're basing his looks on Auduego. Yeah, he's probably italian. He's in one of those boats and he's going up and drinking cappuccino.

Allie Seligman
He has a mustache.

Andrew Babinski
Nerd. In a basement in the middle of nowhere just stealing money from people.

Kim Commando
I think it's. Yeah, it's some like, it's some 20.

Andrew Babinski
Something that we're probably in his thirties now because he's been doing it for a decade and he's just finding sounds, ambient sounds that he can trick the YouTube algorithm into thinking it's his copyright.

Allie Seligman
So after we're done with the podcast, should we record some sounds?

Kim Commando
And we should. What kind of sounds could we do?

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Where could we steal from? Oh, there it is.

Allie Seligman
There it is.

Andrew Babinski
Anytime there's a hot. We need to name that. We need to name that on our commando Komoeguo album, Kamwego.

Kim Commando
Oh, I don't know. There's gotta be better ways to make money.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, but if it's gonna make money, you'll do it.

Kim Commando
God, he's just so vicious today. He really is vicious. Here I am. Just. Nice dress. Nice again.

Andrew Babinski
She's not denying the allegation. She's just calling me names.

Allie Seligman
Yeah, you're just me.

Kim Commando
Yeah. Hey, it's Kim. Kimando today. We are so glad that you're here, and I really appreciate your support because, you know, with Andrew being so mean to me, it's really nice to have, like, a whole family of people that are here.

Allie Seligman
Self confidence would be in the toilet for just you.

Andrew Babinski
Oh. It wasn't for the community lifting her up. I would just be holding her down.

Kim Commando
You know, I have a sensitive ego.

Andrew Babinski
Really? That laugh ego? A sensitive ego?

Kim Commando
Sure. Probably not. I don't know. I mean, it's like, right before I came on the podcast, I had a call, Barry, and I said, you know that tech update script that you wrote for Monday is just not gonna work.

Andrew Babinski
No, no. Was he mad?

Kim Commando
He was mad. He was mad.

Allie Seligman
He thought he was done.

Kim Commando
And I said, no. I said, you know what? After I get to his podcast, I'll just write something new. I'll do it.

Andrew Babinski
No, you can't. I'll do it. You're busy.

Kim Commando
You're very busy. Very busy. Very busy. All right, so what do you have for us out?

Allie Seligman
Oh, reading. I've been reading up a storm. Seriously, I put down at least a book a week, maybe more.

Andrew Babinski
So do I. Do you pick it up? Put it right down. Don't read a word in it.

Allie Seligman
Okay, I have a couple tricks. First. If you're spending a bunch of money, if you. If summer's the time, you like to read, too, and you look at audiobook prices, and it's like, okay, these are, what, $15, $20? So are ebooks. They're so expensive. Please stop. You need to be using the Libby app. This is what I use. So if you have a library card, it connects with your library. You can get any books. Sometimes the waiting lists are long for good books or, like, really popular books, but it's fine.

Kim Commando
See, people don't realize that even though it's a digital version of the book. Yeah.

Allie Seligman
It's a copy that they get.

Kim Commando
It's not like unlimited, right.

Andrew Babinski
You're checking it out, and once it's checked out, it's out.

Allie Seligman
A new thing in Libby with. At least with the Phoenix library, and I'm sure a lot of libraries are doing this, they are doing with really popular titles, they will do unlimited downloads. So it's like maybe a month or a couple weeks where anybody can download it. So they do that with books where it's like everyone wants to read this.

Kim Commando
Have you really? Have you ever been inside the Phoenix library?

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Have you? That's nice.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. The one on Thomas.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Allie Seligman
Yeah, yeah, it's nice.

Andrew Babinski
It's a beautiful building.

Kim Commando
Oh, it's a beautiful building, but there's a lot of weirdos walking around in there.

Allie Seligman
Well, Kim, it's the public library. Of course. This is why we use four seasons.

Kim Commando
No, but I mean, like, like, you know, there are people, like, looking at the dvd's and you're like, ooh, that's disgusting.

Allie Seligman
What you looking for, bud? Speaking of dvd's. Yes, library is a good place. If you want some dvd's, some cds, some app.

Andrew Babinski
Do you use the same Libby app to access those?

Allie Seligman
I don't. Those you got to do through your library's website.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Allie Seligman
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Libby is power tools.

Allie Seligman
They even have. Yes, you can rent tools at a lot of libraries. They have a bunch of free services. A lot of them do like ancestry.com or Zettastone software. That costs a lot of money. You have to go to library to use it.

Kim Commando
But they have 3d printers there.

Allie Seligman
They do.

Kim Commando
So you can use that. Yeah, I mean, you know, so the library, it was like, I took Ian on a field trip. I'm like, you need a library card. He's like, why? I'm like, you need a library card.

Allie Seligman
When was this? He was little.

Kim Commando
Yeah, probably around, you know. And then subsequently I went to the Phoenix library, I don't know, probably like four years ago, five years ago. Because I just wanted to see what it looked like on the inside. I was driving down central. Oh, my gosh. I mean, every time you drive down central and Phoenix, it's different. It is.

Allie Seligman
I know, it's crazy.

Kim Commando
It's so crazy. It is. So anyway, so that's why I was in the library.

Allie Seligman
It's a beautiful library. Yeah, it's very nice. My other trick for reading a lot, I always have either an audiobook or I always have an audiobook. Listen, book. And then either an ebook or a physical book. I always am reading two at a time.

Andrew Babinski
Really?

Allie Seligman
Yeah. Because the physical book or the ebook is the one that's like, okay, I'm gonna read this before bed. I'm gonna sit down and have some reading time. The audiobook is for chores. It's for your commute. It's for whenever you have that extra time.

Kim Commando
I've never. Have you. Have you tried audiobooks?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I've tried.

Kim Commando
I never really got into.

Andrew Babinski
No.

Allie Seligman
What's the problem?

Andrew Babinski
I just. The focus isn't there. Like, if I'm listening to a podcast or a radio show, I can tune out, tune back in. I can skip a little bit. I can put my earbud down, talk to the kids. Put it back in. What am I missing? Fart joke. With a book, you could be missing a lot of the plot.

Allie Seligman
That's true.

Andrew Babinski
Context, things you need to pay attention.

Allie Seligman
So more specific things. Right. So in the car, I'm not doing a bunch of other stuff.

Kim Commando
Right.

Allie Seligman
You're just driving the car. Good for my least favorite tour, laundry.

Kim Commando
I hate laundry.

Allie Seligman
I hate laundry so much. But if I have on a really good book, it's not that bad.

Andrew Babinski
I watch soccer during laundry.

Allie Seligman
Oh, that's nice.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. I can do an entire. The entire week's worth of laundry and one game of soccer.

Kim Commando
Perfect.

Andrew Babinski
I've been timed out.

Kim Commando
You know, the audiobooks. I know I told you a story, but I'll tell it again, going. Because it's so funny is that, you know, when I was taking Ian to Boy Scout camp, there was that woman. Do you remember this?

Andrew Babinski
I don't remember this.

Kim Commando
So I'm taking Ian to Boy scout camp, and she says, you know, so are you going to be driving Ian and the boys up to scout camp? And I said, oh, no. I said, my husband's going to drive him up because I got to do some stuff, but he's going to drive him up. And she's like, oh, well, is there a room in your car for my son? I said, I'm sure there is. I said, we got a big old suv. And I said, are you not going? And she said, well, I really don't want anybody in the car with me when I'm driving up.

Andrew Babinski
So she's gonna place her child in another car, but yet still go?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And I said, oh, okay. And I'm like. Cause I really don't. I'm trying not to engage her in the conversation.

Allie Seligman
Cool plan.

Kim Commando
Yeah, exactly. Like, okay.

Andrew Babinski
Still, I'm curious at all.

Kim Commando
No. And she said to me. She said. She actually said she.

Andrew Babinski
Don't you remember that sensitive ego she talked about before?

Kim Commando
She said, don't you want to know why? And I said, you know, actually, no, I really don't need to know why. And she said, well, I'll tell you.

Andrew Babinski
Cause I want perceptions to know.

Kim Commando
She said, I am listening to an adult only audiobook. And she said, I don't want the boys to hear. And now I'm looking at her, like, going, like, okay, was it 50 shades of green? Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Allie Seligman
She desperately needed to tell anyone.

Kim Commando
And she told me that that was even why she was late for. For the scout meeting because she got, as she said, a little hot and bothered. She had to cool down. Like, these people are so weird. People are weird. People are weirdos. So now. So the next day, I don't tell Barry any of this. Nothing.

Allie Seligman
Cause she didn't care, right?

Andrew Babinski
She forgot about it 2 seconds after she walked away from the lady.

Kim Commando
Yeah, whatever. So Barry's loading up the kids, and the woman comes up, can I put my son in your suv? And he's like, fine. And then he says to her, like, so are you not going?

Allie Seligman
Oh, no.

Kim Commando
Well, actually, she actually proceeds to tell him this whole thing about the 50 shades of gray audiobook and then, like, winked at him, like, you know, when we get there, mister Gray. And Barry called, this woman's a nutcase. I'm like, yeah, I would engage with her.

Andrew Babinski
If you're gonna have an affair, don't pick that one off.

Kim Commando
Not at all. All right, it's Kim commando today. Just a quick reminder, a few things. Number one is that if you haven't already entered to win that iPhone, win from kim.com. win from kim.com. we're gonna be giving away the iPhone in just a few weeks. And let me tell you, there have been a lot of entries, but the odds are still in your favor that you could win.

Andrew Babinski
And all you have to do is sign up for the newsletter.

Kim Commando
That's it? That's all.

Allie Seligman
Nothing to listen.

Andrew Babinski
Sign up for the newsletter, read a.

Allie Seligman
Couple win for him to Andrew does it every week.

Kim Commando
And then don't forget is that if you're listening to the audio version, you can actually watch us do the live video feed on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That's 11:30 a.m. pacific time, which is 02:30 p.m. on the east coast. And if you are that person that wants to ask me, like, so what time does it air in Oklahoma City? You know what? That's up to you to figure out. I think you can do that. All right, so, Andrew, what do you got?

Andrew Babinski
There was a house in Massachusetts, that unfortunately caught on fire. And there's a lot of damage. According to one of the witnesses, they think it was burning for. Or according to the fire department, they believe it was burning for three and a half hours.

Kim Commando
Wow.

Andrew Babinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
Three and a half hours. Dang.

Andrew Babinski
Started in the garage, then moved throughout the house. Thousands of dollars in damages. And when the fire department was there after they put out the fire, they asked, do you have any cameras? Is there any way we can look at the camera so we can figure out what the source of the fire was? And they're like, yeah, we got a couple in the garage. We've got a couple in the front, a couple in the back. And so when they were reviewing the footage, this is what they saw.

Allie Seligman
20 minutes after the first wisps of smoke, an Amazon driver opens the garage door to drop off a package. The driver walks through this, sets down the box, backs up again, pauses, then eventually shuts the garage door and just leaves.

Kim Commando
No, my gosh.

Andrew Babinski
Didn't call 911, didn't call the police, did not contact a neighbor or a homeowner. Delivered the package. Walking through the smoke, that's the most.

Allie Seligman
Egregious, like, not my problem I've ever seen.

Andrew Babinski
Took a picture. Hey, package is delivered. It'll be barbecued in about a half an hour.

Allie Seligman
Was there any smoke in the picture?

Andrew Babinski
Yes. My gosh.

Kim Commando
I can't believe that.

Andrew Babinski
With the smoke to deliver the package.

Allie Seligman
Okay, when does fire training start? At Amazon delivery service?

Andrew Babinski
Just call the police.

Kim Commando
The guy actually walked through the smoke and dropped off the package.

Andrew Babinski
Would have saved the entire house. This was 20 minutes in because, remember, all of this is on video. Yeah, they've got everything recorded. This was 20 minutes into the fire and it burned for three and a half hours. Could have saved that house just by calling 911. You don't even have to hang around. Just get in your trunk. 911. There's a fire at this house. I was just at. Have a good one.

Kim Commando
Maybe he was listening to 50 shades of gray.

Andrew Babinski
That's true.

Allie Seligman
He was too distracted. He thought it was from him.

Andrew Babinski
I don't have time for police.

Kim Commando
This is just so spicy. Do you know why h two o is on the outside of a fire hydrant?

Andrew Babinski
I don't.

Kim Commando
You know why?

Andrew Babinski
Why?

Kim Commando
Because of the k nine. Punch two on the fire hydrant. Because there's also canine.

Andrew Babinski
Understand. They're all words. And I know those words are all being put into sentences.

Allie Seligman
It's not great, Andrew.

Kim Commando
Okay, okay. Well, maybe I said the joke wrong.

Allie Seligman
No, I don't think you did.

Kim Commando
Let me try again.

Andrew Babinski
All right, take two.

Kim Commando
All right, if h two o.

Allie Seligman
There it is.

Kim Commando
All right, if h two o is on the inside.

Andrew Babinski
There it is. We got it.

Kim Commando
Okay, let's do it again.

Andrew Babinski
All right, everybody calm down. We can do a second take.

Kim Commando
Okay, if h two o is on the inside of the fire hydrant.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
What's on the outside of the fire hydrant?

Andrew Babinski
No idea.

Kim Commando
Canine p. My goodness.

Allie Seligman
Can we edit that note?

Andrew Babinski
Knee slapper.

Kim Commando
Okay, I messed up the joke.

Andrew Babinski
You royally did it.

Kim Commando
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