Our hospitals are under attack

This episode delves into the concerning rise of cybersecurity threats against healthcare facilities, particularly hospitals, which are grappling with severe data breaches and system hacks.

1. Hospitals are facing increasing cybersecurity threats that jeopardize patient data and operational capabilities.
2. Personal and medical data breaches have directly impacted patient care, illustrating the critical nature of cybersecurity in healthcare.
3. It's advised to keep physical copies of crucial medical documents as a precaution against digital data breaches.
4. Cybersecurity experts recommend specific steps to protect personal data online and in medical settings.
5. The episode underscores the broader implications of data security in the healthcare sector and its impact on individual patients.

1: Introduction

Kim Komando opens the episode with casual banter before transitioning to the significant topic of hospital cyber-attacks. Quotes include:

• Kim Komando: "Today we're diving into something a lot less fun but incredibly important—cybersecurity in our hospitals."
• Andrew Rubinski: "It’s shocking how these breaches are happening."

2: Main Discussion

A detailed discussion on the data breaches at hospitals, featuring expert insights and patient stories. Quotes include:

• Kim Komando: "Imagine being in pain and not getting help because the hospital's systems are down."
• Ian: "It’s about keeping a backup, always have a physical copy of your medical records."

1. Maintain updated physical copies of your medical and personal records.
2. Use strong, unique passwords for different accounts, especially those related to healthcare.
3. Regularly update software and systems to protect against vulnerabilities.
4. Be wary of phishing attempts and suspicious links, particularly in emails.
5. Educate yourself about the signs of compromised data to act quickly in case of a breach.
6. Discuss security protocols with your healthcare provider to understand how they protect your data.

This week's cyberattack on one of the largest health systems in the U.S., Ascension, was bad — really bad. Plus, a controversial Apple iPad ad, more Cybertruck problems, and Roblox adds virtual billboards to the game.

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Kim Komando, Andrew Rubinski, Ian

Content Warnings:

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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 I was going through the listener mail this morning, and I pulled out some really good ones. Ooh. Okay. This is from Diana.

Andrew Rubinski
Are dirty Diana?

Kim Commando
I don't think so.

Andrew Rubinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
Recently, I was thrilled to find a message on Facebook from Keanu Reeves.

Andrew Rubinski
Another one.

Kim Commando
I was very excited for just a moment. Then I wondered why Keanu Reeves would be contacting me. Then I noticed he had only a few followers. That was also very odd to me. So I checked it out, and I learned that Kiana does not do anything on social media. It was super nice while it lasted.

Andrew Rubinski
Aw, he's already taken, though. We talked about the woman earlier this week in a relationship with them.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. Exactly. This one doesn't have a name. I love the rim. Night lights on my toilet. It saves me a lot from running into things at night. Thank you for that. Great. Awesome. This is from Michael. Always good information. I have been a longtime listener and a longtime reader of the Kim Komatsu emails.

Andrew Rubinski
Konichiwa.

Kim Commando
You take one trip to Japan.

Andrew Rubinski
Right?

Kim Commando
There it is. And on that happy note, welcome. It's Kim Commando. Today it's your fun podcast about all things digital. I'm, of course, your beloved digital goddess. I think I should introduce myself. I'm in a political fundraiser tonight at our house.

Ian
Oh, yes, beloved digital goddess.

Kim Commando
Should I just, like, stand there and say, hi, nice to meet you. I am the beloved digital goddess.

Andrew Rubinski
You should be lowered in on ropes.

Ian
Do you have a rig in the house? You have one built in, right?

Kim Commando
Yes. Yeah. Can you guys come over and help?

Andrew Rubinski
Yes, of course.

Ian
Yeah, we'll lower you down. We'll bring a pulley system.

Kim Commando
Could you imagine it?

Andrew Rubinski
That would be hilarious.

Kim Commando
It would be so.

Ian
I can't imagine it. They'd love to see it.

Kim Commando
They'd all look at me and go, I'm like, ooh, she's really lost it.

Andrew Rubinski
This is the day Ken commando jumped the shark.

Kim Commando
Exactly. And then, of course, we have Andrew Rubinski. You're here with us and what are you talking about, Andrew?

Andrew Rubinski
We're talking about pornography.

Kim Commando
Excellent. That's gonna bring them in. There go the ratings. And what do you have? Alright.

Ian
Scammers. Yeah. Those people on Facebook or YouTube or anywhere else who say, I'm going to help you make $10,000 this month.

Kim Commando
Really? I'm just going to fall for that?

Andrew Rubinski
Oh, Ken, I just got a bunch of Google Play gift cards that I was going to send them.

Kim Commando
No, not Google Play. Amazon. Ding dong. Son of a biscuit, man. Man. Okay, what do we, what do we need people to do?

Andrew Rubinski
We need them to, like, comment, share, subscribe, follow. It's very easy. What's that? Five clicks when you're working in a day? You do about 26,000 clicks. We're just asking for five. We do the podcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Best place to watch. I've heard this. Best place to watch this show is on YouTube. YouTube.com kimcommando.

Kim Commando
Yes. That is, although we are on Rumble. Do you know we have, I don't know, 20,000 followers on Rumble?

Andrew Rubinski
It's really weird because I go to rumble and I see all the followers and I see all the gains, but then the views are like 412.

Kim Commando
It's really weird.

Ian
Something is suspicious.

Andrew Rubinski
Yes.

Ian
I'm gonna call the folks at Rumble.

Andrew Rubinski
Please.

Kim Commando
Maybe I should. I could reach out to Dan Bongini. I don't know. We're friends on Facebook.

Andrew Rubinski
What a humble brag, right?

Kim Commando
I'm friends with Keanu. I had Keanu Reeves. All right, here are the top five things that are happening in the tech verse that you need to know about right now. We actually wrote about this in the current newsletter that you can sign up for@winfromkim.com. Dot. When you do, you're entered to win a brand new iPhone. Is that the ascension? Big data leak with 140 hospitals, 40 senior centers. This is bad.

Andrew Rubinski
Didn't you say at one point this was like half the population?

Kim Commando
No, that was the other one. Oh, they just keep.

Ian
The hits keep on coming.

Kim Commando
No, that was change and United healthcare. This is another. But the reason why this one is so bad is that people are going to the hospital. Like this one guy, Zach Lopez, he was in Southfield, Michigan, and he went to the ER room because he wasn't feeling right. And he was thinking like, oh, gosh, I'm in a lot of pain and I think that my cancer is coming back. And so he goes to the ER. He sat in the ER for 7 hours before a nurse got to him in horrible pain. Yes. But he couldn't get medicine because of the hack. They brought down all the computer systems. Wow. I mean, it's awful. So what you need to do. And again, we wrote all this it's all on the website as well. Because Allie and I put this together, is that you need to have, like, a physical copy of all the medications that you take.

Andrew Rubinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And you know what? That was a good idea. What you talked about with your dad.

Ian
Yeah, my dad does that. He has had some health problems recently, and every time I go to the hospital with him, he pulls this little piece of paper out of his wallet, and it's got all his meds on it, which saves so much time. The nurses are always so thankful, and.

Andrew Rubinski
It'S always so embarrassing, too. Cause they're like. Your doctor's like, well, are you taking any medications? I'm like, yeah. Which one? It's a pee, I think it's yellow. I take. It's in a bottle. It's really hard to open.

Kim Commando
Walgreens.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah, it's that one.

Kim Commando
And then if you look on your iPhone under the health app, is that. There are a lot of things in there that. I mean, until Allie and I were actually going through it, I never really looked at it. And so I have it hooked up with Mayo Clinic and then also with the UCLA as far as their computer systems. And then if you scroll all the way to the bottom, it says, do you want to export your health data as a PDF? And I'm like, yeah, I'll do that. But it's a good idea if you have that. If you're. If you have any type of conditions, health ailments or things that you actually have a physical copy of your health records that you could take in. And so this way they. You have it. So anyway, I clicked the button and it's like, oh, it's 66 pages.

Andrew Rubinski
Is that good or bad?

Kim Commando
It went back to, like, 2012.

Ian
It's thorough.

Andrew Rubinski
Wow.

Kim Commando
Yeah. And I guess what I didn't know, like, how to translate kilograms to pounds. So did you panic? Well, I did. I was like, okay, 2012. Okay. I wonder if I'm still weigh the same amount as I do right now. I'm such a freak. I know. I'm such a freak. And you will. I'm actually two pounds lighter right now. Good. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm such a freak.

Ian
At least she's self aware.

Andrew Rubinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
Meanwhile, Dell, 49 million customers.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah, they said it wasn't that bad, though. Cause it was not any transactional information.

Kim Commando
No, it's just.

Andrew Rubinski
It was just your name, your phone number, your address.

Kim Commando
So if a dude from Dell shows up at your front door.

Andrew Rubinski
Right. You know how he got that information?

Ian
Yeah, that's the thing with these that I think people don't really think about. It's not okay. Nobody's gonna, like, hack you from this information, but they could if you fall from one of their scams, right? Somebody calls you and says, hey, call in about your dell. They know you have it.

Andrew Rubinski
Also, this is available for sale right now on the dark web. And it's just going to be bought by all the telemarketers. And you're just going to get 10,000 calls.

Kim Commando
Exactly. Adele, rolling in the deep.

Andrew Rubinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
I just crack myself up all the time.

Andrew Rubinski
You're the one.

Kim Commando
What do you mean?

Andrew Rubinski
Nothing containing you.

Kim Commando
Number three, Roblox, is adding paid ads to the games.

Andrew Rubinski
There's already ads, isn't there?

Kim Commando
No. Virtual billboard's gonna be all over.

Andrew Rubinski
Oh, okay.

Kim Commando
Walmart's already lining up. Do you know they have 72 million daily players?

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah, Roblox is huge.

Kim Commando
43% are under the age of 13.

Andrew Rubinski
So my daughter plays Roblox.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Rubinski
And because the words are close and she's like, dad, I need some robux to play Roblox. And I'm like, absolutely. You play that game for an entire year, I'll get you some robux every, every month. Have I been playing it long enough? Can I get some robux? Can I get some robux?

Ian
You've never given her robux.

Andrew Rubinski
Never given her robux.

Kim Commando
Wow.

Andrew Rubinski
She's the personality type of love them and leave them, though. She'll be like, this is my favorite thing on the planet. 2 hours later I hate this thing. This new thing is my favorite thing on the planet.

Ian
That's when I bought the nicest colored pencils and a lot of adult coloring books. And I think I did one page.

Andrew Rubinski
One page. Yeah.

Kim Commando
I never understood that, but I think.

Andrew Rubinski
Everyone'S went through every woman. I'm gonna go ahead and gender right now. I think I'm gonna color. It will be awesome. I'll relax. It will calm me. Ah, this is boring. I am done coloring.

Kim Commando
Okay. I didn't even try.

Andrew Rubinski
You didn't even get to that point?

Kim Commando
No.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, you did it with knitting, though, right?

Kim Commando
I did. I did. That's so embarrassing. And you know what's bad is that, you know. Cause, you know, Ian and Barry will look at me like when I tried something like this, they're looking like, okay. You know, and they actually take bets off to the side how long it will last. Yes. It was like when I tried to, like, juice.

Andrew Rubinski
Okay, how long did you juice for?

Kim Commando
Like, an hour. An hour? And I still have, like, the super expensive juicers sitting in the pantry, like, mocking me.

Andrew Rubinski
I'll buy it off ya.

Ian
I also have a juicer.

Andrew Rubinski
Do you use it?

Ian
I did juice for a while. No, I don't use it longer than an hour.

Kim Commando
Yeah, it doesn't really work. Okay. Scammers are all over social media and YouTube doing grabbing voices.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
And cybersecurity experts are saying that you need to do one thing. I can't say it. Can't say it here on the podcast.

Ian
Why?

Kim Commando
I shouldn't even be talking about it right now. What do you think that one thing is?

Andrew Rubinski
I don't know.

Ian
Remove your voice from the Internet.

Andrew Rubinski
Pretend you have a different voice when you go on the Internet.

Kim Commando
Never say anything on the Internet. Never, ever, ever.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, that's impossible.

Kim Commando
Yes, I know.

Ian
You're screwed.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Thank you.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, then, fine. I'm gonna start right now.

Kim Commando
Missy content Queen. Hello? No, that doesn't work. We have to talk.

Ian
Okay.

Kim Commando
Jason Jones has a Cybertruck. Finally, this. And he picks it up from the dealer, drives 35 miles, and plugs it into a charging station. And then he looks underneath the cybertruck. He's like, what is all that coming out from underneath the cybertruck?

Andrew Rubinski
Was it cyber goo?

Kim Commando
All the coolant.

Ian
Oops. So, yes, yeah, yeah.

Kim Commando
So he calls up Tesla, and he says, I drove my new Cybertruck 35 miles, and I put into the charging station, and all the coolant just, like, came out of the car. And the dash is, like, going like, no, no, no, no. Okay.

Andrew Rubinski
And they said, I really wish that's how it reacted. You got in your car. No, no, no, no. Don't drive no coolant. No, we got none.

Kim Commando
Listen, man, it would be really funny.

Ian
I want that mode for my car.

Kim Commando
No. Like, a little Elon pops up. And before he got his hair too. Yeah, that would be it. So we call it Tesla. And Tesla says, we're sorry, it's not covered under warranty.

Andrew Rubinski
Warranty is only 30 miles.

Kim Commando
Yes, it's not covered under warranty.

Andrew Rubinski
How is coolant? The entire coolant system, it's not covered under the warranty.

Kim Commando
There's no bumper to bumper warranty. Gosh, you know, he went online, got a lot of traction with it, and then Tesla said, oh, we'll be right there with a tow truck.

Andrew Rubinski
Thank goodness.

Kim Commando
Right there with a tow truck.

Ian
But how sad that you have to go raise a stink on the Internet to get your car fixed.

Andrew Rubinski
Pretty much everything now.

Kim Commando
Exactly. But it's also 35 miles. That's a lot ridiculous.

Andrew Rubinski
A lot for those cars it is.

Kim Commando
You still want to buy one?

Andrew Rubinski
No, I've never wanted to buy one. I just think they look cool. Do I want a Tesla car? Yes, but I don't want the truck.

Kim Commando
Really?

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
No, you don't want a Tesla car.

Andrew Rubinski
Self driving is amazing. It's so cool.

Kim Commando
Go tell the people at the FTC that. Tell the people that died. Okay.

Ian
They've got a list of the deaths, and then they have Andrew saying, like, it's cool.

Andrew Rubinski
I survived. It's good. Let it go through.

Kim Commando
I hope there's a warranty on the air conditioning, though.

Andrew Rubinski
Why is that punchline coming?

Kim Commando
It'd be super cool. Hey, it's Kim Cabado today, and if you haven't already, make sure that you enter to win that brand new iPhone 15, $799, which, you know, we were talking about this at dinner last night. I gotta ask your opinion. Okay. Brand new iPhone 15. Go to winfromkim.com. Winfromkim.com. And Ian says, I need a new iPhone. And I said, oh, yeah, you should, because his battery is, like, you know, into, like, 60%. I think he has, like, an iPhone X. And I said, yeah. I said, you know, why don't you get one? They're like, $800. And I'm sure I got credit card rewards. You know me, I got it, you know, always saving a buck. And he's like, I'm not getting that cheapo iPhone like, you're giving one away.

Ian
He wants the pro max.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, that's just a size difference. It's not that the iPhone is smaller. It's not a cheapo iPhone.

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Ian
I think Ian's being a little bratty.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, I would be the same way. I would say, no, I don't want the $800.01 because I need the size.

Kim Commando
Yeah, he wants a big one. Yeah. I want the screen.

Andrew Rubinski
I'm not being bratty.

Ian
All right, fine.

Kim Commando
I mean, you know, you have a pixel.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah. You're not even cool. Like us with iPhone.

Kim Commando
Exactly. All right. Open AI. Yeah, I read this horrible internal.

Andrew Rubinski
Is it horrible?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Rubinski
Okay. There's an internal debate whether or not they're going to let OpenAI, which is chat GPT, do pornography. Oh, they.

Kim Commando
They put it's erotica.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, yeah, I can read you the things they want to allow.

Kim Commando
Yeah, you need to. It's because it's not just like, oh, hi, here's a booby.

Andrew Rubinski
Right? Which they don't do now. They do not allow even, here's a booby.

Kim Commando
What happens if you go in and you say, I want a picture.

Andrew Rubinski
It just says no. It says no. It tells you that the opening is not allowed. No, I don't have the image service.

Ian
You should try it with your paid account and see what happens.

Kim Commando
I'm sure that in your history. Yeah, exactly. In 2024, Kim commando looked up how to. Duh. It would.

Andrew Rubinski
It would like to know if it's trying to figure out whether it should include erotica. Extreme gore, ew. Slurs, an unsolicited profanity.

Kim Commando
And they're calling this responsible porn.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, that's the thing, is that with OpenAI, their pledge is to have responsible artificial intelligence. But they also like, maybe we can make a buck with some pornography.

Kim Commando
Exactly.

Andrew Rubinski
And so they said, first of all, this is not about deepfakes. Deepfakes are out. We're never going to allow deepfakes. OpenAI will not do that.

Kim Commando
Oh, yeah, whatever.

Andrew Rubinski
Well, until it becomes profitable, they're having a conundrum if they should allow this stuff, because right now OpenAI doesn't. I just want to know what unsolicited profanity is.

Ian
I'm with you.

Kim Commando
I've been confused. What is it about that?

Andrew Rubinski
Since you said, if you're like, hey, write me up a resume, and OpenAI is like, go screw yourself. I don't know.

Ian
Or maybe it puts like, she's the effin best, right?

Kim Commando
If it just adds it in its work, it's profanity. Yeah.

Andrew Rubinski
So we don't need porn. We don't need more porn. We have porn. We've got porn everywhere.

Ian
There are already AI tools to do this. Do we really need to make like the mass market one? Do that. Shouldn't you go find the.

Kim Commando
Okay, what about like workspace? Like, we have chat GPT for workspace. Everybody in the building can use it.

Ian
Oh, surely that would be. Yeah, there'd have to be controls in place.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah, you'd have to have a toggle that you could turn porn on and off the HR. But that's interesting there. It's gotta be for profit though, right? There's no way they're sitting around a boardroom going, we need to have extreme Gore because money, that's the only reason.

Kim Commando
Why they're announcing on Monday, we are recording this on a Friday. So on Monday they're going to be announcing their open AI search that's going directly, directly against Google.

Andrew Rubinski
Where is it going to be available?

Kim Commando
As part of chat GPT. Okay, so it's AI based, but, you know, but speaking of porn, I have a friend of mine.

Andrew Rubinski
Hold on.

Kim Commando
No, no. This is a true story. And her name's Deborah, and she has, like, kind of a warped sense of humor.

Andrew Rubinski
Okay.

Kim Commando
And so we were at a restaurant and just waiting to come in, and somebody looked at her and said, you know, you look really familiar. Where do I know you from? And she said. She actually looked at her straight face like, I do porn.

Andrew Rubinski
Does she really?

Kim Commando
No, she does.

Ian
That's a good one. I like that Deborah.

Kim Commando
And I sat there. I was like, oh, my God, that's hilarious. And then there's one that I do. This is really a good one. Is that, like. So you're sitting down, like, at a bench in a park or something like that, and somebody will come in, they'll sit, like, right next to you and so. Or at the airport, whatever. And what you do is just. You lean forward and you say. You whisper, did you bring the money?

Ian
You've done that.

Andrew Rubinski
At one point, you're gonna get someone who goes, yes, I have it. Let's go.

Kim Commando
It's like they, like, I had one guy just, like, grab and scrap it right away. You should try that.

Ian
I'm gonna try it. All right.

Kim Commando
It's Kim Commando today. And just a reminder, this is not. This is not the Kim commando show.

Andrew Rubinski
No.

Kim Commando
The Kim commando show is a different format because people have asked, like, what's the difference between the Kim commando show and Kim Commando today? Well, about 6 million listeners.

Ian
Whoa.

Kim Commando
Aside from that, who asks you that.

Andrew Rubinski
When you say people are asking?

Ian
It was me. I asked this morning just to make sure. She did.

Kim Commando
She came right in. She goes, you know what? I'm not sure. She worked here for, like, five years. I feel confused today.

Andrew Rubinski
There's little people.

Kim Commando
She's a little slow.

Andrew Rubinski
She's just trying to brag about a radio show. This is how she does it.

Kim Commando
There's so. You're so mean to me. I can't believe how mean you are.

Andrew Rubinski
Oh, I'm sorry.

Ian
He's not a nice man.

Kim Commando
Oh, God. I don't know what I know. I'm having trouble.

Ian
You got her hulk kerfuffled.

Kim Commando
So the Kim commando.

Andrew Rubinski
What's the difference? I wanted to ask you, what is the difference between Kim Commando today and the Kim commando show?

Kim Commando
But how would you answer it, big guy?

Andrew Rubinski
One's on the radio. The other one's a podcast on the Internet. One's on 500 radio stations, and one is on just streaming. One is just Kim commando. The other is Kim Commando. And these two people that she's gonna fire. Cause they were mean to her on this episode. That's the difference.

Kim Commando
And also, where you get them.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah, you'll get one all over the.

Kim Commando
Radio or through Apple podcasts.

Andrew Rubinski
Podcast or Spotify. Or you can join the Kim commando community.

Kim Commando
And how much is that?

Andrew Rubinski
Whatever you want. Just name your price. She'll just discount the membership. It doesn't matter.

Ian
See, that's actually true. We don't check for discounts. Anybody can get the discount.

Kim Commando
I know. It's like, somebody did send me an email, I don't know, a month or so ago, and they're like, you know, I'm 40. Do I qualify for the scene? Sure, whatever. I don't care.

Ian
We don't care.

Kim Commando
Doesn't matter to me. Fine, take it. But you get 30 days free.

Andrew Rubinski
Yes.

Kim Commando
So you're gonna love it. Absolutely. All right, so, Al, talk to us about scams.

Ian
Okay. There's a guy named Kevin David on YouTube. He's got 1.4 million followers. Videos with names like $500 plus watching YouTube. Make $100 a day. Earn $500 a day just typing names, $30 an hour watching videos. Let's hear the intro to one of his videos.

Kim Commando
How to make money online today, this year. Something that actually works, that you can do from anywhere in the world. That is what we're gonna be covering in this video, and we're gonna show you how to get started in literally ten minutes or less. So take your phone, throw it out the window so you can pay attention, and let's get into it.

Ian
Literally ten minutes.

Kim Commando
That's it.

Ian
So these days, things are not going great. He hasn't posted a video since 2022 because the FTC said, kevin, you simply must stop scamming people.

Kim Commando
Hey, Kevin.

Ian
The thing is, they kept sending to him and his partner, David, who run this whole thing. So they do. One of their big things is Amazon. So they had this whole program where they would say, send us some money. We'll send you our whole business course to start your own Amazon store. You don't have to do anything. This just generates money while you're sleeping. It's basically, you know, it's free money. Why wouldn't you? Some people paid up to $100,000.

Kim Commando
No.

Ian
Oh, yeah.

Kim Commando
Today from a YouTube video.

Ian
From a YouTube video? Yes.

Kim Commando
Oh, I got an idea.

Andrew Rubinski
Kim, hold on. You have too many people that are asking you questions to deal with. You don't have time for this right now.

Kim Commando
I don't have how not to fall for the scams.

Andrew Rubinski
Right.

Kim Commando
I won't charge 100%.

Andrew Rubinski
You should do that. Video. Yes.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Ian
So they also do. They were doing crypto. Easy way to make money. So the FTC got involved because people kept reporting. I gave them a bunch of money. Nothing's happening. I didn't. You know what happened? They had to pay $2.8 million in refunds, restitutions to these people. So there's no. No more videos. All the old ones are still up, which I think is really interesting.

Andrew Rubinski
Right?

Ian
Yeah, they're still there and probably still making ad money.

Kim Commando
Yeah. Why are they still there?

Andrew Rubinski
But they're not allowed to take any new customers on.

Ian
Yes. Yeah. But they're allowed to leave these videos.

Kim Commando
Up, so that seems wrong to me.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah. YouTube takes down a lot of stuff. I mean, they take this one, they.

Kim Commando
Go like, we have this. We subscribe to this music service. We put music on anything. It goes up, it goes right down. Yeah. Okay. Meanwhile, we got. And we are subscribed. I mean, we're allowed to use this music.

Andrew Rubinski
You pay for the rights.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly.

Ian
Very annoying.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Ian
Basically every video. So clearly a ton of people fell for this. Right. And I like to think that not everyone who did is just some idiot. Like, these are people who. This guy's good at this. Right. Kevin knows the words to use. He knows what to say to convince you that, yeah, I'm the person to teach you to do this. Because, of course, people make a ton of money on Amazon. Why not you?

Andrew Rubinski
Right.

Ian
How can you avoid this stuff? Because eventually got to the point where the FTC stepped in, but it took a long time. So what if you find somebody who's saying, yeah, I can help you out.

Andrew Rubinski
Or TikTok is covered with, these people are selling courses. I mean, they are everywhere.

Ian
This actually reminds me, we got a new report recently about how online creators make money. One of the biggest ways is courses. So it's the old, if you want to get rich, I'll teach you how they're getting rich by teaching you how to get rich.

Kim Commando
We need courses.

Andrew Rubinski
Yeah. This is where my brain goes. Instead of. That's tragic. It's. How can I do this?

Kim Commando
No, no, no. Of courses. I mean, we've been talking about this behind the scenes and. Drew.

Andrew Rubinski
Yes, ma'am.

Kim Commando
Okay, ma'am. All of a sudden, he gets respect. The hell's going on here? Sorry.

Andrew Rubinski
Although you're doing courses on.

Kim Commando
I think we're going to start doing courses.

Andrew Rubinski
But this was your roots. This is where you started.

Kim Commando
Exactly. And you know what? Speaking of that, as I was cleaning out my office the last weekend, I found the first book that I really wrote, 1001 computer answers. Okay. And tucked inside there was a review from the New York Times.

Ian
No kidding.

Kim Commando
And the gal who did the review said, and I. Because it was computer answers. I mean, this was like when we talked about drivers files and all those. And so I, so the question from, and I took, like, questions from people, and some guy sent me a question and said, like, you know, how can I tell what this file really is? And it was like, number one ass. And then my answer was, do you think that the file name is talking about you? So. But this whole review was about how she injects humor into computers. Into computers. And it's so unexpected. I thought to myself, I'm still doing the same darn thing.

Andrew Rubinski
What a cool throwback.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Ian
Will you bring that in? I want to see it.

Kim Commando
Yeah. And then the COVID of the book is that they used, they used, they used, like, you know how like they, if at that time there was a negative and if they used the wrong side of the negative, your face looked weird. The COVID of the book is the wrong side of the book. Oh, no.

Andrew Rubinski
Intentionally?

Kim Commando
No, they didn't. It just, it's the wrong. And then, and I kept telling the publisher, Idg, I'm like, you know, you guys are like, flipped my face around. I don't even look like that.

Andrew Rubinski
You know, I want to see it, too. We should join on the podcast next week.

Kim Commando
And then there's a japanese version I found of this book.

Andrew Rubinski
Did you translate it yourself?

Kim Commando
No, this publisher did all that. I should have.

Ian
She didn't learn japanese until like, two months ago.

Kim Commando
That's where the guy came from, Kim Komatsui.

Ian
Okay, let me finish this.

Kim Commando
There's allie.

Ian
So there are also a ton of apps, right, that say, play this app, you'll earn a bunch of money. Go on this website, fill out these surveys. Almost all of these sites and apps and whatever else are junk. You're not going to actually make any money. And I have found the best way because, of course, all the marketing copy and all the blog posts you find are going to be people saying, do it, do it, do it. Just add Reddit to your search, do the name and then Reddit and find the most recent threads and find out.

Kim Commando
That's super smart.

Ian
Are actual people making money on these things? And if people are wasting their time, they're going to post about it on Reddit. There's one. Should I call out the name? No, we don't need to. That, of course, says, yeah, make passive money. You just fill out surveys, blah, blah, blah. Every thread I found were people saying, this used to be good years ago, and now. Hmm. $15 for hours and hours and hours of work a month, maybe.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Ian
Is that worth it?

Andrew Rubinski
No, no.

Kim Commando
We get. You know, we get this question a lot, though, because people are always looking like, you know, ways to make money sitting at home taking surveys.

Ian
Yeah.

Kim Commando
And because you see all these ads. Yeah. You know, if I. If I play this solitaire game, am I gonna make.

Ian
No, no, no.

Kim Commando
You know what? If you're going to make money sitting there and doing nothing, the answer is no.

Andrew Rubinski
Right?

Kim Commando
Okay.

Andrew Rubinski
How do they get away with that? I see this ad for this game where the woman's playing it in the corner. It shows her PayPal account going up $25, $50, $200, $250. Obviously, I know it's not real, but how do they get away with that? Marketing?

Ian
They do get. Yes, exactly. I don't think that they have to really, like, there aren't standards for these things. And maybe eventually the FTC will step in and say, you're lying to a lot of people. They might, but it takes time. That would be nice.

Andrew Rubinski
You would be nice.

Kim Commando
Yeah. Hey, it's Kim Commando today. Just a reminder, this is not the Kim commando show. Everybody's been asking, hey, Kim, I was wondering. I mean.

Ian
They'Re actually lined up outside the yard.

Andrew Rubinski
I remember you were telling me yesterday that you got pulled over by a cop, and you're like, what did I do wrong? He said, nothing. I have a question, though.

Kim Commando
Okay, that didn't happen. I did not even say that. Crying. Oh, my gosh. Oh, hilarious. What am I gonna do? I don't know. Maybe I should just keep doing the Kim commando show. You know, I don't need this stress in my life a couple of times a week dealing with you people. All right. Talk about Apple.

Andrew Rubinski
So the new ad came out. It's called the apple crush ad. It's horrible, it's bad, and the Internet and YouTube are not happy with it. Now, when I first saw it, I had no context. I literally had no context. I was going through TikTok, and someone just put up the new apple ad, and I watched it. And afterwards, they started ranting and raving about it. If you haven't seen it, there's, like, every instrument imaginable anyway. Any tool that someone would use to be creative, whether it's sculpture or a video game, paint, paintbrushes, a huge hydraulic press smushes everything down. It destroys everything. And then when it's all over, the press lifts up, and there's the new iPad there.

Kim Commando
I saw it. I thought it was horrible.

Andrew Rubinski
But here's the thing. You said it exactly. It's thin. That's why they use the press, because the symbolism is you can take all these things and we'll press them down into the thinnest iPad ever.

Ian
But for the people who haven't seen it, it's actually pretty unsettling. Like, they zoom in on things in this way that's just like.

Andrew Rubinski
And that's how the Internet's reacting. I mean, literally, Hollywood stars, artists.

Kim Commando
Well, it's like, you know, it's like you're putting all that. You're getting rid of all of that.

Andrew Rubinski
Creativity or the symbolism is you're putting all that into one thing.

Kim Commando
It's not the same thing.

Andrew Rubinski
It's all how you interpret it, because I originally didn't see it as a negative, but I understand everybody's point. Who does that? Basically, all that makes us human. They are saying we are going to crush and put it in the eye.

Kim Commando
To put it into here.

Andrew Rubinski
Right. But their theme is. But Apple to their. To their case. They came out and they said, yeah, we missed the mark. We get it. We understand your complaints. That wasn't what we were trying to say. But, you know, we're not even gonna tell you what we're trying to say. We're just gonna say we're sorry and we're never gonna air the commercial.

Kim Commando
No, it was. It's bad. Yeah, it's very bad.

Ian
Yeah.

Kim Commando
But, you know, but I think the iPad right now, that iPad is a product without a home.

Andrew Rubinski
What do you mean?

Kim Commando
It's a whiz bang iPad, you know, has AI built in and, you know, we were making fun of it that, you know, now you can put the pen next to it. You know, it's got no headphone jackals, but, you know, for $2,000, that's a lot of dollars.

Andrew Rubinski
So buying out a home is. There's not going to be a consumer group that's going to go out and need to get it. Is that what I mean?

Kim Commando
Yeah. Am I going to sit here with a $2,000? No.

Ian
Or not. It's funny because I think the. The people that really will want it are artists who do digital art, graphic art. My husband is an artist, and he has not this one. He has the last whiz bang iPad, uses it every single day. And a lot of his friends do, too. And they have the pencil and the whole thing.

Kim Commando
Well, you know, and then if it's a tool to make money.

Ian
Yeah, there you go.

Kim Commando
Then maybe it is. But it's poor for you to buy an iPad and then put the magic keyboard next to it so you can now have a MacBook.

Andrew Rubinski
Right?

Ian
Buy a $1000 MacBook instead. Yeah.

Andrew Rubinski
I'm curious how they're going to market it now that there's been all this backlash, because they have to. I mean, they have to get out there and get people to sell it. Is it just going to be an iPad sitting by itself saying, we're sorry, please buy this?

Ian
No, I'm sure they have creative.

Andrew Rubinski
I'm sure they do.

Kim Commando
I'm sure they do. All right, so now if you're listening to the audio version of the podcast, we are so thankful that you did make sure that you hit that big old like button and leave us a good five star review. And now if you are watching the podcast, we're going to show a quick video. So if you're listening, if you want to see the video, just head over to YouTube.com Kevin commando. And now this is a video that I found, and it's of a humanoid robot factory in China. Now look at the, look at the. They're saying that these humanoids are going to be in airports and restaurants, elder care facilities.

Andrew Rubinski
I gotta be honest, when I saw it, I was like, this is like equivalent to the wall of presidents at Disney World.

Kim Commando
Their faces and the way that their hands are moving.

Andrew Rubinski
Why does one of them got eight arms?

Ian
Okay, well, that's just for testing purposes.

Kim Commando
That's the octopus version.

Andrew Rubinski
Is it gonna be at the airport? Your exits are here, here, here, and here.

Kim Commando
That's a good idea.

Ian
No, that's a server, a restaurant.

Andrew Rubinski
Oh, yeah.

Kim Commando
Did you notice that the women were.

Andrew Rubinski
Beautiful and the men were all, well, of course.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Andrew Rubinski
That's who we trust. We trust beautiful women and old dudes.

Kim Commando
Hot chicks and grandpas.

Andrew Rubinski
Absolutely.

Ian
That's the thing here.

Andrew Rubinski
Not that old.

Kim Commando
Aw, sorry.

Ian
I was just trying to dish it back. I know.

Kim Commando
People are asking me about that.

Andrew Rubinski
They're asking you what?

Kim Commando
How old you are.

Andrew Rubinski
Oh, yeah. Everybody's asking. Kim.

Ian
Kim, I have two questions for you.

Kim Commando
So me, to me.

Andrew Rubinski
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Kim Commando
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Andrew Rubinski
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Kim Commando
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