Going shopping? AI is watching you

This episode explores how AI technology is integrated into retail environments, specifically focusing on how AI cameras and systems monitor consumer behavior in stores like Sam's Club and Costco.

1. AI technology is increasingly being used in retail to enhance security and streamline customer checkouts.
2. Big tech companies' algorithms, like those of Yahoo and AOL, can sometimes mistakenly block legitimate emails, affecting communication.
3. Personal anecdotes and humor are effectively used to discuss serious topics like internet privacy and security breaches.
4. The episode provides insights into the challenges of keeping up with evolving technology in personal and professional contexts.
5. Discussions about technology are interspersed with personal stories and jokes, making the content relatable and engaging.

1: AI in Retail

AI technology monitors customers in stores to prevent theft and streamline checkout processes. This is highlighted by discussions on new practices at Sam's Club and Costco. Kim Komando: "AI cameras are going to count and look at everything that you put in your cart when you pay and then cross reference that with AI cameras as you are leaving the door."

2: Email and Internet Privacy

The hosts discuss issues with email service providers and big tech's control over email communications, using personal experiences to highlight broader privacy concerns. Kim Komando: "AOL and Yahoo just decided unilaterally that I was a spammer and then wouldn't let any of our mail in."

3: Tech Updates

This section covers various tech news items, including security breaches and quirky tech-related stories, providing listeners with a roundup of important updates. Andrew Babinski: "Dropbox says that a hacker gained access to email usernames, phone numbers, open authentication tokens and multifactor authentication data."

1. Regularly update your internet security to protect against new threats.
2. Consider switching to more secure and modern email providers if you're still using outdated services.
3. Stay informed about the latest technology to understand how it impacts your privacy and security.
4. Utilize AI and digital tools to enhance personal and professional efficiency.
5. Be cautious of email and phone scams, especially those that sound too good to be true.

Sam's Club is using AI to check what's in your shopping cart — it's supposed to make your trip to the store 23% faster. When will humans go extinct? Scientists claim to know when. Plus, precise friend-tracking with the iPhone 15, and a Dropbox data breach.

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Kim Komando, Andrew Babinski

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Sam's Club, Costco, Yahoo, AOL

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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. All right, let's start with a little quiz.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
What is the most dreaded word at work right now?

Andrew Babinski
Excuse me? You want me to utter the most dreaded word at work in my workplace?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
You're gonna fire me immediately?

Kim Commando
No. Just think what it is. Is it deadline? No.

Andrew Babinski
It's AI. Artificial intelligence.

Kim Commando
It's not.

Andrew Babinski
It's not?

Kim Commando
No. Is it meeting?

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
Deadline?

Andrew Babinski
Circle back.

Kim Commando
Circle back.

Andrew Babinski
I hate that.

Kim Commando
You know what I mean? The one is paradigm. The hell is a paradigm?

Andrew Babinski
I don't know. $0.20.

Kim Commando
Okay. Survey says that the most dreaded word by workers right now is when they say, hey, hey. Because it's normally followed by something that you need them to do. Okay.

Andrew Babinski
So that when they hear a. They're bracing themselves.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Yes. So, like, hey, Andrew.

Andrew Babinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
Where were you on Wednesday on national call in sick day?

Andrew Babinski
Was it really national call in sick day? That's hilarious. I had no voice on Wednesday.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh, you were here. As a matter of fact.

Andrew Babinski
Don't make me laugh.

Kim Commando
So, like, you know, like, the one that I don't like is like, hey, can you share that deck with me?

Andrew Babinski
So what would you rather. How would you rather. First of all, I hate the term deck. They use it all the time in the corporate world I live in. Can't stand it. I don't know when it's.

Kim Commando
Would you rather have, like, hey. Share the PowerPoint presentation? Yes.

Andrew Babinski
The file.

Kim Commando
The media deck.

Andrew Babinski
Correct. It's the deck. You got the deck? Oh, I checked the deck. Did you check the deck? That's my book. So how would you want.

Kim Commando
I. Well, when somebody says that to me, you know what I like to say, bro. Sure.

Andrew Babinski
Hey, bro.

Kim Commando
Get it, bro. Sure.

Andrew Babinski
I got it.

Kim Commando
Like, deck brochure.

Andrew Babinski
Oh. See, I told Wayne before the show that I can't laugh because I have an infection in my lungs, and if I laugh, it hurts so hard, and that's really the only thing I can't do. And Wayne said, well, you're in trouble because Kim's got some doozy of some jokes today. Heard the first one. We're in the clear. I'm gonna be good. I'll be fine.

Kim Commando
On that half, you know. Welcome to Kim Commando today. It's your three times a week fun podcast about all things digital. And just a reminder, this is not the Kim Commando show. Kim Commando today is where we, I don't know, we have like a, I guess you'd say an irrelevant look at technology, you know, don't you think? And we have some really great guests and Andrew Babinski is here joining me.

Andrew Babinski
Hi, Kim.

Kim Commando
Hi. And what are you going to talk about?

Andrew Babinski
The end of the world.

Kim Commando
Really? Yeah. Is it coming soon?

Andrew Babinski
Well, supercomputer is predicting, and I watched a video on it after I read the story and the video led with, you're not going to like what you're about to hear. A supercomputer has predicted the end of the world.

Kim Commando
Oh, no.

Andrew Babinski
So brace yourselves.

Kim Commando
Oh, no. So, Kim Commander, today you can get the audio podcast. That's what most people are doing right now. But we are also doing the video podcast. The video podcast. So over@YouTube.com kimkommando. You can see I'm having like a really good hair day.

Andrew Babinski
You are. And your outfit, your fit.

Kim Commando
My fit.

Andrew Babinski
So full of Riz it is. You're so stylish today.

Kim Commando
Except for the sneakers there.

Andrew Babinski
What's wrong with the sneakers?

Kim Commando
I don't know. I'm not, I normally like to wear heels.

Andrew Babinski
You're not feeling them? Aren't those heels?

Kim Commando
Yeah, they are. These are sneakers with heels.

Andrew Babinski
I love the pants.

Kim Commando
Do you?

Andrew Babinski
I do. And I just learned, like this week that that is the trend for the summer of 2024 is pants that you can sneak, steal groceries in.

Kim Commando
They're so wide, but they're tight on your waist.

Andrew Babinski
Right. It's just really loose on the bottom.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Exactly. It's, you know, this was the style when.

Andrew Babinski
Seventies.

Kim Commando
Yeah, something like that.

Andrew Babinski
It's like a bell bottom that starts at your thigh. It just goes down all the way down. It's just a bell bell.

Kim Commando
So if you want to, if you want to be in hip and groovy.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Then you have to like, watch the.

Andrew Babinski
Video and you just copy what Kim's doing. Cause she's with the trends.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Just a quick update is that Yahoo and AOL are now letting our newsletters in. And so we had, we had a few people who are having trouble getting our newsletter. 125,000.

Andrew Babinski
Are you serious?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Of the 500,120, 5000 were having issues with Yahoo. Hold on. People still use Yahoo and AOL emails.

Kim Commando
Yeah, we talked about on Wednesday that like, only old farts have an AOL address.

Andrew Babinski
That's what I was gonna say. No offense, maggiesmithol.com, but, wow, I didn't know people were still using that.

Kim Commando
Yeah. So we, we got the tide turned. Amber Barnett here at the studios, you know, she can be tough. So I told her, I said, you know, you tell them that if they don't reverse this, because they said I was a spammer, which you're not. No, people have to opt in. Okay. But AOL and Yahoo just decided unilaterally that I was a spammer and then wouldn't let any of our mail in. If you tried to reply to the newsletter and said, sorry, that's a spam address. You're not allowed to reply.

Andrew Babinski
Wow.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Andrew Babinski
And there's a lot of accounts.

Kim Commando
It's a lot of accounts. A lot of people. And, I mean, and it was really sad because I know we're going to talk about the news in just a second, but it was really sad because people were sending me notes saying, like, you know, I, you know, where's my newsletter? I look forward to getting it every day. I had people sending me notes that I heard that you were going to get some more stitches taken out of your eye and did things not pan out. So you're not working. And I know we're praying for you. That's heartbreaking. It was heartbreaking. It was. So I told Amber, you know, you tell those people over at AOL and Yahoo that they better, like, turn that switch off or else I'm going to go public and say, what other mail are you not getting?

Andrew Babinski
Right? I mean, it worked. Yeah, but still in the gate.

Kim Commando
But still makes you wonder, what other mail aren't you not getting?

Andrew Babinski
That's true. What are they, gatekeeping?

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. I mean, this is big tech's algorithms at their finest juncture.

Andrew Babinski
And an algorithm that was completely wrong.

Kim Commando
Completely wrong.

Andrew Babinski
You monitor so much so that you monitor if someone's inactive, you get them off the roster. You're the exact opposite of spam.

Kim Commando
Exactly. You know, and then, you know, at the bottom of our newsletter, you know, most people, I don't know if you notice this, most people have, like, two or three clicks if you want to unsubscribe. You hit unsubscribe, the bottom newsletter. Then they send you to a screen, and the screen says, do you really want to unsubscribe? And you're like, yeah, I do. And then they send you to another screen, like, well, maybe you just really.

Andrew Babinski
Really, really want to unsubscribe.

Kim Commando
Maybe you just want to get the newsletter or this email, like once a week instead of every day. Are you sure? Okay, one click. Unsubscribe. I mean, we are like, so anti.

Andrew Babinski
Wow.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Were they reluctant to do it or they're like, oh, we messed up and they just undid it.

Kim Commando
They, they undid it.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Pretty quickly. But it. But then that required. It's like a whole nightmare. Then that required us to manually put everybody back in one by one. Oh, by one.

Andrew Babinski
Every single one?

Kim Commando
Yes. 125,000.

Andrew Babinski
How long did that take you? Cause I'm sure you're the one who had to do it.

Kim Commando
Oh, yes. Hours and hours and hours. What a nightmare.

Andrew Babinski
Sounds like it.

Kim Commando
Just get a Gmail address. Really? I mean, you know, you don't need AOL, you know, and we actually looked it up. You know how many people pay for AOL advantage?

Andrew Babinski
It's gonna be a number that's gonna frustrate me.

Kim Commando
I know that 2.5 million people pay for two and a half million people.

Andrew Babinski
I guess if it's what you're comfortable with.

Kim Commando
Okay. Anybody who has a yahoo. Dress. Yahoo. Okay, you're yahoo.

Andrew Babinski
That's where all my junk goes to. My yahoo address.

Kim Commando
Just get a Gmail address.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
All right. Five things you need to know happening in tech world right now. Number one, Dropbox. Do you have a Dropbox account? I have one. I hardly ever check it, so I had one.

Andrew Babinski
I had a pro one, and then I started using Google Drive, which is a lot easier, a lot more user friendly, and I dumped it.

Kim Commando
Dropbox says that a hacker gained access to email usernames, phone numbers, open authentication tokens and multifactor authentication data. Yay. Okay, but don't worry. No, they didn't really get anything.

Andrew Babinski
Why not?

Kim Commando
That's what Dropbox says. But they sent everybody a password change notification.

Andrew Babinski
Well, why? Why? They didn't get anything. Why do I have to change my password?

Kim Commando
Don't worry about it. Okay, Kate? Just don't worry about it. Okay.

Andrew Babinski
And then what did they first say? Only like 5000 people were affected. Then we find out it's like 250.

Kim Commando
Million, you know, about two months from now.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
We'll find out what the true story is.

Andrew Babinski
We'll track that number.

Kim Commando
Sad story. Out of Troy, Michigan, a 77 year old woman thought that she had won publishers clearinghouse. She was contacted and said that millions and millions of dollars and three cars could be hers if she would pay all the taxes up front. Sure. And then you have to, you have to send the publisher's clearinghouse your tax.

Andrew Babinski
Money and you have to pay your taxes in target gift cards.

Kim Commando
Yes. She went to the bank and she said, I need to transfer $80,000 because I won the publishers clearinghouse. She's super excited. And the people in the bank were like, no, no, no, no. Don't send the $80,000. This is. You're going to get scammed. And she's like, no, you don't understand. I won the publishers clearinghouse. I did, and I'm paying my taxes. And they said, no, you can't do it. She's like, it's my money and if I want to transfer it, then I should be able to transfer it. She transfers the money even after they told her multiple times, yes, it was her money.

Andrew Babinski
She says, greed.

Kim Commando
Sam's club. You know how, like when you leave Costco or Sam's club, you had to show your receipt?

Andrew Babinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
Because this way they make sure that you didn't steal anything from the cash register to the door. I've never understood how that's possible.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I'm going to steal those brochures selling me water purifiers. There's nothing there.

Kim Commando
No, you can't even steal a hot dog.

Andrew Babinski
Here's the funniest part, though, is that Saturday, I actually went to Costco last Saturday. I was with the kids. It was Saturday prime time. I mean, we're talking 60 people deep to get out of Costco. And that's when they don't care if you steal, because it just goes from receipt marker. Go. Receipt marker, go. They just want you out of there.

Kim Commando
Of course.

Andrew Babinski
So if you're going to steal, steal on a Saturday afternoon?

Kim Commando
Well, at Sam's club, they're going to be doing something different.

Andrew Babinski
What's that?

Kim Commando
Is that. Which means Costco's going to be rolling it out, of course. Okay, no more do you have to show your receipt at the door. AI cameras are going to count and look at everything that you put in your cart when you pay and then cross reference that with AI cameras as you are leaving the door.

Andrew Babinski
Are these Amazon's AI cameras, which are just people in India counting things in your cart?

Kim Commando
You never know. You never know. So that begs the question, what is the person going to do who's been doing the highlighter for the last 15 years?

Andrew Babinski
Those skills really do not apply to any other job in the industry. There's not many jobs where you have to smile and then highlight a receipt.

Kim Commando
They don't even count.

Andrew Babinski
No, I never do.

Kim Commando
It's just like they look at it.

Andrew Babinski
And go, you know, have I ever told you my Costco theft story? No.

Kim Commando
Did you steal?

Andrew Babinski
Can I do it real quick?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
So I went to Costco, got my normal Costco stuff, and I'm going to grab a hot dog before I leave. Get a hot dog and a soda. $1.50. Best deal on the history of the planet.

Kim Commando
Correct.

Andrew Babinski
When it comes to food, I'm filling out my drink, and as I turn around to grab my hot dog and put some mustard on it, a woman grabs it and walks out the store.

Kim Commando
No. Yes.

Andrew Babinski
She steals my hot dog. Now I'm standing there in disbelief for an entire 45 seconds. Like, this just actually happened to me. And so I go to the guy, and I was like, my hot dog just got stolen by someone who. And he's like, really? And as he's about to fix me another one, I see these two guys run by the food court, heading outside, and I'm like, this is way more important than a hot dog. I have to follow them. So I follow them into the parking lot, and they are following her. She's got a huge bag over her shoulder and my hot dog in her hand. So as I'm walking behind him, one guy turns around and goes, can you please. Can you please just go to your car? Cause he knew I was following him. And I was like, what?

Kim Commando
My hot dog.

Andrew Babinski
I'm like, I'm following you cause I wanna know what's going on. And she jumps in her car, backs up and takes off. So I'm like, no. So I grab my car back up, and I follow her. And I get to the entrance of the freeway at the 202 on Chandler. And I look over, and there she is. And she's already eating my hot dog and pulling bottles of alcohol out of the bag that she had around her arm. So they saw her. They know she stole, but they didn't get her in time. She got in her car and got away.

Kim Commando
Did you get her license plate for a hot dog? Could you imagine? Hi. I need to file a police report. My hot dog. It was $1.50. 991.

Andrew Babinski
What's your emergency? Yes, we have a sausage problem.

Kim Commando
Ooh, this is a bad problem. This is really bad.

Andrew Babinski
Why?

Kim Commando
So, in Issaquah, Washington, they had the prom. 10th grade prom, you know. And, you know, like, the guys all get dressed up, the girls get beautiful dresses, and they start snapping pics of each other. And then the boys use a notification app, and they make the girls naked.

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
And then they start swapping all those.

Andrew Babinski
Pictures around, but they're all fake.

Kim Commando
They're all fake. You know, it's done with AI. Okay. But it's really a trend that's happening throughout the country now. I mean, where people are just taking regular photos of people and then, like, making them naked.

Andrew Babinski
Why?

Kim Commando
And then swapping it out there. I don't really know. I'm not really sure why people do that.

Andrew Babinski
Should we maybe disable this notification software?

Kim Commando
I don't think you can.

Andrew Babinski
Why can't you?

Kim Commando
Because it's like it's all over, out of the bag.

Andrew Babinski
You can block it. I mean, I'm sure they're using them all on smartphones, through apps.

Kim Commando
Yeah, but you know what? It's. I'm sure there are different websites you can go to.

Andrew Babinski
They just copy and paste and build another site that is able to do it. So this comes down to the parents. The parents need to tell these kids to get in their act together and parent better.

Kim Commando
And adults are using them, too.

Andrew Babinski
It's awful.

Kim Commando
I mean, but I'll just tell you. If you're gonna do me, I want to be hot.

Andrew Babinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
I mean, you know. Yes, go ahead.

Andrew Babinski
I'd love to hear the description. If you're gonna do me, I want to be hot. I'm gonna need that clip, please.

Kim Commando
You know?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I know.

Kim Commando
You know what I'm saying? Mm hmm. Just.

Andrew Babinski
I saw where your hands were when you said I wanted to be hot.

Kim Commando
I just wanna be, you know. I wanna be hot.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Keep.

Andrew Babinski
Your hands are not moving. I know what you're saying.

Kim Commando
Cause I don't wanna pay for that.

Andrew Babinski
No, you just want the pictures of it now.

Kim Commando
Actually, I'm okay. I'm okay being like, you know, a little. A cup, you know?

Andrew Babinski
I want that clip, too.

Kim Commando
All right, so Tesla, Cybertruck, recall, what?

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. All of them.

Kim Commando
The accelerator, right? Falls off, you know, and. But now it comes out on why and how it falls off. Did you hear about that?

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
Okay, now think about this cybertruck, evie. I saw one today. I think they're ugly.

Andrew Babinski
I think they're unique.

Kim Commando
They're cool.

Andrew Babinski
They're different.

Kim Commando
I think they're ugly.

Andrew Babinski
Every other car on the planet looks the same.

Kim Commando
It's like a tank.

Andrew Babinski
It looks something different. But go ahead. I digress.

Kim Commando
And I was next to it, and in my car, I was like, this little bug compared to that thing. I'm, like, looking up, going, ooh, hi. How are you up there? I mean, it could just roll right over me in just a second. Anyway, back to the accelerator. So I thought, like, that was going to be some major like software issue, you know, some. Something that happened with the power train or, you know, something that was really in this car. As it turns out, the accelerator has a rubber cover over it.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
The rubber cover is too big for the accelerator, so it falls off.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
And then it gets stuck between the accelerator and the carpet. So that makes it stay full force all the time.

Andrew Babinski
They didn't glue it?

Kim Commando
No.

Andrew Babinski
Screw it?

Kim Commando
No nail it?

Andrew Babinski
No jacket?

Kim Commando
Nope. Nope.

Andrew Babinski
Those strips you can put on the wall, you know that?

Kim Commando
No velcro, no nothing. They just kind of placed it on it and it falls off.

Andrew Babinski
The design flaw. Definitely a design flaw.

Kim Commando
It's another black eye.

Andrew Babinski
Hey, but the stock's back up, so that's exciting for me.

Kim Commando
Yes. I still thought, like, today when I was looking, I still think, like, you know, you slap a mini gun on the back of that thing, it looks like Halo in real life.

Andrew Babinski
It really does. I think that's why people like it.

Kim Commando
Boom. Hey, it's Kim Commando. Today it's your three times a week fun podcast about all things digital. If you haven't already, make sure that you enter to win that $799, brand new iPhone 15. You're going to love it. Especially, like, if you are that person that has the. The blue bubbles, and then you got to talk to somebody who's got a green bubble.

Andrew Babinski
You don't know this, but you are on the outs. You are so uncool.

Kim Commando
Exactly. You know, Gen Z, they won't even talk to you if you have a green bubble.

Andrew Babinski
They won't. There's like a whole dating thing where if you get a green bubble from someone, you're immediately it's a red flag.

Kim Commando
And you're out because maybe you're, like, on a cheapo Android phone.

Andrew Babinski
Ew.

Kim Commando
Why would we want to talk to you? Oh, my God. How was that?

Andrew Babinski
Was that really good? That was believable.

Kim Commando
Go to winfromkim.com. Once again, win from kim.com.

Andrew Babinski
We're back to that.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
I missed one show and you're going back to it?

Kim Commando
Well, you know what? Cause people, I think they can figure it out. Okay.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, I need to know these things, though.

Kim Commando
You know, a long time ago, we had a sponsor, and we had a sponsor. No. Okay. This is like. This is like, many, many moons ago. We have, like, all kinds of great sponsors, but. And it was mortgage.com. And they. They did their own commercial. They were an Internet startup at that time, and they sent over their commercial, and I played it for Barry. I want you to hear this. Spot. And he's like, you are not putting that on the air. You are not putting. I'm like, like. I'm like, yeah, I don't really think it's very good either. Okay. It was 30 seconds of everybody on the team saying, mortgage.com. Mortgage.com. Mortgage.

Andrew Babinski
That's it for the whole.

Kim Commando
Mortgage.com worked. And so. And so it was just like, mortgage.com. And then the next person go, mortgage.com. And there'd be another one. Mortgage.com. Mortgage.com. So maybe we need to have a spotlight. Say, win from Kim. Win from Kim. You can win from Kim.

Andrew Babinski
It would work. It would burn it into my brain.

Kim Commando
Win from Kim.

Andrew Babinski
Win from kim.com. Is that one good? Can you mix for that one to mix?

Kim Commando
No, that was bad.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, dang it.

Kim Commando
That's what we should do. We should ask people to send us just little files of them saying, winfromkim.com.

Andrew Babinski
And then you could just put them all together.

Kim Commando
Oh, you can mix them all together.

Andrew Babinski
It would be beautiful.

Kim Commando
We can have, like, our torotoras.

Andrew Babinski
I can't do.

Kim Commando
Come on.

Andrew Babinski
I want to win from keem.com. Dot win from keem.com.

Kim Commando
That would be it. Yes.

Andrew Babinski
Calm.

Kim Commando
You know, it's. I'm gonna be so upset whenever I personally meet Arturo and he talks like us.

Andrew Babinski
He shouldn't. He should try the voice and keep it, because the. The allure would just grow.

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Andrew Babinski
You ready for the world to end, Kim?

Kim Commando
Uh, yeah.

Andrew Babinski
You are?

Kim Commando
No, I'm not kidding. I'm just thinking, like, maybe I shouldn't buy that new house.

Andrew Babinski
Why not?

Kim Commando
You don't even.

Andrew Babinski
You buy it and don't even pay the mortgage on it, because the world's gonna end, right? No. A supercomputer, for the first time ever, one of the most advanced supercomputers in the world is taking in everything that it sees in the world, combining it with AI, learning, and technology to find out when planet Earth is going to end. Now, there was, back in the 1910s, a supercomputer that predicted 2060 would be the end of the earth. Another supercomputer in the seventies used that same information and added to it and said, no, no, no, 2040 is going to be the end.

Kim Commando
That's, like, pretty close.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's our lifetime. Well, this new supercomputer took all that information, took out everything. Everything it knows about the climate and humanity and every single thing on the planet. And they now know not only when the world will end, but what will cause the end of the world.

Kim Commando
What do you think it will be?

Andrew Babinski
Do you think it's gonna be famine or world war?

Kim Commando
Robots.

Andrew Babinski
Robots. Robots definitely was part of the equation that the supercomputer used. No, it's going to be tectonic planks.

Kim Commando
Tectonic planks, correct. So, like, the Earth's crust is going to start moving all different ways.

Andrew Babinski
Everything's going to move back together. Oh, so, like, remember when we had Pangaea?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
It's going to go back to super Pangaea.

Kim Commando
So, you know, that's great, because I wanted to. I want to go see Africa. Flights too long.

Andrew Babinski
You'll be fine. Just take a quick uber drive down there and you'll be in Africa. Also, when this happens, the Earth's going to warm about 50 degrees celsius. Nothing will be able to survive. The tectonic planks will be clashing and causing tons of volcanoes to erupt 250 million years from now. Oh, you have time.

Kim Commando
Oh, okay.

Andrew Babinski
So the next time you go on the Internet and you see on a headline that says, the end of the world is near, will the world make it to 2080? Will there be a world war three?

Kim Commando
That.

Andrew Babinski
Don't be scared.

Kim Commando
We don't worry about that.

Andrew Babinski
Don't worry about it. You've got 250 million years. When you see your neighbor's front yard creeping over on top of yours, that's when you can start to worry. Otherwise, everything else is just fearbased. Even this story. Someone was doing a video on TikTok for this story, and they tried to start it out with, you're not going to believe what's coming from this supercomputer. 250 million years, you know, but that's.

Kim Commando
How they get you. The cold clickbait. And, you know, sometimes, you know, I'm a little guilty of that, too.

Andrew Babinski
Sure I am, too. I get. I have a reaction to it, but when I saw this video, I was like, oh, my gosh, what is it gonna say? I obviously thought it was gonna be something that's hot in the news right now because you know what's on tick tock and it's going viral. No, we're fine for the next 250 million.

Kim Commando
Okay. So I don't have to worry about it.

Andrew Babinski
No.

Kim Commando
So it's good that I just bought a new car.

Andrew Babinski
Yes, you're fine. You're gonna be able to get that entire higher warranty, the whole use, out of it.

Kim Commando
I didn't buy the extended warranty.

Andrew Babinski
Well, you might want to if you want that thing to last for 250 million years.

Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim Commando today. We are so glad that you're with us. Just a quick reminder, this is not the Kim commando show. If you want to get the show commercial free, you can get that on Apple podcasts as well as Spotify or go ahead and join the commando community. It's a lot of fun, and you get a 30 day free trial. And we give discounts for everybody. Like you said, we should just lower the price. Doesn't matter. People say, like, can I get a discount? Because. Yes.

Andrew Babinski
You can't even finish the sentence, can.

Kim Commando
I get a discount? Somebody asked me if they could, if they got the senior discount, and they were 42. I wrote them back. I said yes.

Andrew Babinski
But they also could find the local affiliate, of course, and listen to the Kim commando show when it airs weekends nationwide.

Kim Commando
Yes. And that's really incredible. You know, when you start thinking about, you know, how many stations that run? I mean, 420 stations.

Andrew Babinski
Is that a lot?

Kim Commando
Gosh, it sure is. It's just like, you know, and I. And I feel guilty sometimes because I used to remember, like, every market. I mean, every day, every time.

Andrew Babinski
What number did you hit where you couldn't remember anymore?

Kim Commando
Like 150.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah. I mean, even that's important of winning 150 affiliates and.

Kim Commando
Yes, and then. But when you add up all the stations, it's 510 stations.

Andrew Babinski
Huge.

Kim Commando
It is huge. All right. What are you talking about now?

Andrew Babinski
So, I know you're not, but if you're a white, 40 year old male that uses social media, you're guaranteed to get two types of videos that come across your algorithm.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Andrew Babinski
Number one, first amendment auditors. I don't know why, but they are always on there. Don't watch them. I skip by them. I say, I'm not interested. If you don't know what a first amendment auditor is, it's someone who, like, goes and films at the post office, and they hope that they call the police so they can yell at them and tell the cops they're wrong because they're legally allowed to film there because it's the first. So that's one of the types. And then the other type is magnet fishing.

Kim Commando
What is magnet fishing?

Andrew Babinski
I don't know if it's a new phenomenon, but I know it's new on the Internet, where all ages, men, women, children of all ages, they go on a bridge, and they get this magnet. It's about this big, but it's super strong, and they throw it into a body of water, and they're fishing for metal things, obviously, magnets. And they pull up old, most 99.9% of the time, it's an old bike. I mean, I don't know why people are just chucking their bikes into the rivers and lakes, but they are magnet fishing. Magnet fishing.

Kim Commando
Never tried it. Never heard of. Although I tried fly fishing once, and, you know, I looked adorable. Okay. Cause I had on, you know, the. All the garb, you know, the overalls.

Andrew Babinski
Rubber all the way up to your waist.

Kim Commando
Yeah. And I had, you know, the boots on, and I was all color coordinated, and I had my hair just right with a hat on.

Andrew Babinski
And I haven't heard anything to do with fishing yet.

Kim Commando
You have to look good.

Andrew Babinski
Sure.

Kim Commando
Okay. You have to look good when you're doing these things. And it was. I was on the snake river, just beautiful outside, and I had an instructor, and so we were sitting there, like, you know, doing the dance with the fishing pole.

Andrew Babinski
Don't you do it sideways when you're doing the flight fishing?

Kim Commando
Yeah, you do that, too. But I was doing really well until I caught my earring and almost tore my earlobe off.

Andrew Babinski
And that's when you retired?

Kim Commando
That's when I said, you know what? I've had enough. Okay. Starting to perspire.

Andrew Babinski
Well, what happened is that a magnet fisherman in Georgia was out, and he was fishing, and he pulled up a gun.

Kim Commando
Pulled up a gun? Yes.

Andrew Babinski
And he immediately called the police. And if you see these videos online, you see that these magnet fishermen, they don't want to get in trouble. They don't want to be tied to any of these things, so they immediately call the police. I once was watching a guy who could see it works because I watched the video.

Kim Commando
I was going to say, you're really into this.

Andrew Babinski
It was a box full of grenades that he had found, and they immediately called the police. So they called the police, and the police are like, okay, this is interesting. Thank you very much. We'll look into it. So he wasn't satisfied. The magnet Fisherman went out the next day with some more and different equipment and started searching through the same spot in the same body of water, and.

Kim Commando
He found a bag and a cell phone.

Andrew Babinski
Inside the bag was identification, credit cards of a couple that had been murdered in 2015.

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh, really? Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
It was a Craigslist scam. Well, at least that's what authorities believe. They haven't been able to even get to trial the person that they believe that committed the murder. But someone put up a Ford Mustang on Craigslist. It was this couple, an older couple. It was their dream car. They had always wanted it. They packed up, drove across the state of Georgia to meet them, to buy the car. And no one ever heard from them again. Their family was. They were supposed to babysit their daughter's children. The next day, she brought them over. Mom and dad are not there. They found a missing person report. And they found them. They found them in their own vehicle in a different part of the state. And the last person that had contact with him was the guy who was selling a car that did not exist on Craigslist. It was complete scam. Whole intention was for him to steal their money. Correct. But because of COVID and jury selections and misfunctions in the government, this guy still hasn't stunned trial. But now they believe this is the weapon and this is the evidence connected to the 2015 murder of this couple. And the police have it. And they were able to use this new evidence to get three search warrants, which found more evidence, and now they're going to be able to take him to trial.

Kim Commando
Okay. I love magnet fishing. I mean, that's fabulous.

Andrew Babinski
Isn't it amazing, right? And it's cool. And he found the gun and the magnet fisherman's like, this is. This has got to be more. Cause you know, the police, I'm sure people turn in guns all the time. And he went back and he did used his magnet and was more due diligent and found the evidence. And we now could probably get a murder conviction because of a magnet fisherman.

Kim Commando
How big is the magnet?

Andrew Babinski
It's not really big. It's probably the size of a small pancake. But they're super powerful. Like, you've seen. You see the videos, too, where they go to throw it out and they hit the metal of the bridge before they can throw it out. And they, they need three people to get it.

Kim Commando
Oh, do they really?

Andrew Babinski
Disconnected. That's how powerful these magnets are.

Kim Commando
How much is a magnet?

Andrew Babinski
They're not expensive. I think they're like $30 on Amazon.

Kim Commando
So on the videos that you see is like, do people find like, like good stuff?

Andrew Babinski
Well, if you watch the teaser, then they're going to find treasures. And then by the end of the video, they find a bike. Pretty much 99% of the time.

Kim Commando
Stolen bike.

Andrew Babinski
It's a bike, though. They got a lot of bikes, these magnets.

Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim commando today. Just a quick reminder, winfromkim.com. Once again, winfromkim.com dot just, you know, enter to win that $799 iPhone. Now, I know that some of you were saying like, well, you know, I know that I have to get a subscription to the newsletter. But I already have a subscription. Does that mean I'm not eligible to enter to win? No.

Andrew Babinski
Really?

Kim Commando
Yes. You can still enter to win.

Andrew Babinski
I didn't know that.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
I thought you had to sign up for the newsletter and at least get one copy of the newsletter to be.

Kim Commando
But if you are already a subscriber, you're just not going to. We just won't sign you up because we have really clean databases. Uh, Yahoo and AOL, which, by the way, if you have a Yahoo and AOL address, I don't know why you still do.

Andrew Babinski
I don't know either. I mean, I have like six Yahoo accounts, but it's just what I use for garbage. You know, all the junk that I never want to read, I just send it through Yahoo's way. Yeah, they're really good at collecting all that stuff.

Kim Commando
I have an AOL address.

Andrew Babinski
Do you still?

Kim Commando
I don't check it. I don't even know if it's still active.

Andrew Babinski
When do you think the last time you checked your AOL account was?

Kim Commando
Oh, gosh, probably years ago. A decade probably. Maybe.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that would be a great video. Kim logs into AOL after a decade.

Kim Commando
Going, what, what is that?

Andrew Babinski
Is this an email from mortgage.com?

Kim Commando
You know, AOL used to be something, of course, long, long time ago. I mean, they were really responsible for getting a lot of people on the Internet. I mean, I started the whole computer section at AOL. I used to make a lot of money off of AOL.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, I stole a lot of CDs from blockbuster video so I could get a free month of AOL.

Kim Commando
Yes. And then every time I gave out a CD, I made like $5.

Andrew Babinski
Nice.

Kim Commando
Yeah. I mean, that's why you saw those discs everywhere. But, you know, everything has its time, right? It's time to move on. Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
Go get a Gmail account.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. All right, so the Internet is all excited about time travel. Okay, time travel. And this guy says he has proof that time travel exists. And he even has police involved in order to prove that what really happened. And he's got videos and he's got surveillance cameras. And so when you start putting all this together, it becomes a compelling story that, you know, it's not just some guy saying, you know, oh, I think I'm here from another time, which are.

Andrew Babinski
There'S so many accounts on social media that do that.

Kim Commando
Like, you know, like, you know me. I am sure that I was a queen once.

Andrew Babinski
You think so?

Kim Commando
Yes. I mean, look at the way I carry myself.

Andrew Babinski
I guess I can't rebut that. What's the video?

Kim Commando
Well, but before I show the video is that if you're listening to the audio version of the podcast, this is very video intensive. He does a great job of talking you through the video. And so I think that you'll, as you're walking around doing your chores, listening to the podcast, you know, whatever you may be doing, driving, then I think you'll probably get the gist of the story. But if you really want to see the video, head over to YouTube.com kimcommando, and then you could just fast forward to the end of this particular podcast, and then you'll be able to see the video. So let's go ahead and roll it.

C
I have an update regarding the time traveler that went into my shed and disappeared. And this is going to blow a lot of people's minds. And if you're still denying that this is real at this point, this is going to change your mind. So just a quick recap. This guy walks around my backyard, goes to my shed, opens the door, goes inside and disappears. All the cops. The cops came. They went in the shed twice. He wasn't in there. They looked. I looked like an insane guy. The cops are like, what is this guy smoking? And you can see he never came back until the next day. Right here, notification on my camera that there's somebody in my backyard. And this guy leaves my shed. And he looks right at the camera, too. That guy left my shed. But here's the craziest part. This looks like the same guy, maybe glasses, whatever. Let's look at the other guy. This was the other guy. He noticeably aged. Looks like the same guy, but aged. So him again, and now him. Same facial features, whiter hair. So I don't even know what to think at this point.

Kim Commando
Okay, so the guy went in the shed. Mm hmm. Like a 20 year old guy.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
Came out of the shed one day later. One day later, looking like a 75 year old guy.

Andrew Babinski
Right.

Kim Commando
So now if you read the comments, there's like 60,000 comments and 500,000 likes. People believe this?

Andrew Babinski
Of course they do.

Kim Commando
Internet that he went in the shed and he aged sometimes. You know? You know that. I mean, like, think about how fast you age.

Andrew Babinski
Yeah, time flies.

Kim Commando
It just does fly.

Andrew Babinski
So what I'm supposed to believe is that the portal between dimensions and the folds of time.

Kim Commando
Correct.

Andrew Babinski
Is in that dude's shed. Conveniently, it's in that dude's shed.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Exactly. I mean, you know, how lucky is he.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, and he also had cameras right on the shed so that he could capture all of this. I mean, there is, he says if you can see 24 hours, no one ever left. And then he cuts to the time where someone leaves.

Kim Commando
Yeah, I mean, I have firewood in my shed.

Andrew Babinski
I mean, you don't have a time, a space time containment. So what happened was the guy goes in, travels somewhere in time, is there for 40 years, and then comes back to this moment in time in homeboy shed.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
That's what I'm supposed to believe.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Babinski
And because he called the cops and the cops were like, well, there's nobody here.

Kim Commando
Yes. Right.

Andrew Babinski
I'm supposed to believe all of this.

Kim Commando
This totally happened. Totally happened.

Andrew Babinski
I think we need to take a trip to that shed.

Kim Commando
Ooh, you know what? Bad things happen in sheds. They do. I mean, what? No, it's like, you know, people get killed in sheds.

Andrew Babinski
Is this a statistic you can back up?

Kim Commando
No, it's just stuff I read on the Internet.

Andrew Babinski
Okay, well, yeah, you travel through time and murder. Those are the two things that can possibly happen in a shed.

Kim Commando
I think we should go on a.

Andrew Babinski
Field trip to this guy's shed.

Kim Commando
Yes. Yes.

Andrew Babinski
I want to time travel.

Kim Commando
I do too. Where would you go?

Andrew Babinski
Oh, I made the Wild west.

Kim Commando
The Wild west.

Andrew Babinski
I'm a white guy, so I'd be pretty safe in the wild west of America.

Kim Commando
I'd like to go back to the 1940s.

Andrew Babinski
Why?

Kim Commando
Because I would want to be like that person in New York City doing radio.

Andrew Babinski
Oh, that's interesting.

Kim Commando
You know, I just think that is like, you know, like, but you're a.

Andrew Babinski
Woman, so I don't know if they would allow you on the air.

Kim Commando
No, they had women on the air.

Andrew Babinski
Well, like, playing in, like, plays and stuff. But you wouldn't be able to be a broadcaster.

Kim Commando
I could. I could pretend to be like a, I mean, look at me. I could be a great, like, 1940s housewife there.

Andrew Babinski
That's a role in the forties. They think they would allow you to have.

Kim Commando
Yes, I could do that and say, you know, I take care of my man. Yeah.

Andrew Babinski
That would last all about 30 seconds.

Kim Commando
Yeah, that's true.

Andrew Babinski
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Kim Commando
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