Ticketmaster hack exposes data of 560M customers

This episode delves into the major security breach at Ticketmaster, where over 560 million records were compromised and are now up for sale on the internet.

1. Ticketmaster's data breach is one of the largest in history, affecting millions globally.
2. Consumer data is increasingly vulnerable in the digital age, necessitating robust security measures.
3. The breach has significant legal and reputational implications for Ticketmaster.
4. Other tech-related issues like malware on Google Play and the use of ad blockers also highlight broader cybersecurity challenges.
5. The episode underscores the importance of consumer awareness and proactive security practices in protecting personal data.

1: Introduction

Kim and co-hosts introduce the episode with a light discussion on digital privacy and tech trends. Kim Commando: "Welcome to a new episode where we dive into the digital deep!"

2: Main Story - Ticketmaster Data Breach

Detailed discussion on the Ticketmaster data breach, its scale, and its impact on consumers and the company. Kim Commando: "Over 560 million records for sale - a stark reminder of our vulnerabilities online."

3: Related Tech News

Exploration of related tech issues like malware problems on Google Play and challenges with ad blockers. Kim Commando: "These tech snags show us just how intertwined our lives are with digital platforms."

1. Regularly update your passwords and use two-factor authentication.
2. Monitor your accounts for any unauthorized activity.
3. Be cautious of phishing attempts and suspicious links.
4. Use reputable security software to protect your devices.
5. Stay informed about the latest security breaches and protective measures.

Got concert tickets? Your personal info might be on the market. Plus, why Gen Z is ditching driving, the latest malicious apps on Google Play, and how an international burglary ring is using Wi-Fi jammers.

People

Kim Commando, Andrew Babinski

Companies

Ticketmaster, Google

Content Warnings:

None

Speaker A
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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. 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. Do you know your phone number?

Speaker C
Yeah, 602.

Kim Commando
Okay, don't give it out.

Speaker C
Oh, okay.

Kim Commando
Don't give it out. You know, one time I was doing an interview, and I think I was, like, in Chicago, some big city. And at the end of the interview, the host says, okay, so if you have any more questions, here's how you call Kim's show. He gave out my personal cell phone number, and I. And I had already hung up. Okay, that's so great. So my phone's ringing. I'm like, hello?

Speaker C
Hi.

Kim Commando
I'm just wondering, like, how I get windows ten. I'm like, oh, my God. And then it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Speaker C
One time I got in a radio fight with a host, and we were just bickering back and forth, and he's like, you know what? If you keep acting like this, I'm gonna give your phone number out. And I just gave my phone number, and I was like, now you have no power over me. What do you got next? And I just gave it out over the air.

Kim Commando
And did your phone start blowing up?

Speaker C
For years.

Kim Commando
For two years, I had to change my number.

Speaker C
I would give people a call just checking if you changed it. Still got it.

Kim Commando
All right.

Speaker C
Have a good weekend. Andrew.

Kim Commando
The reason why I bring this up is that I was at Mashable just looking at, seeing what they're writing about their lead story. Their lead story is a tip on how to find your phone number.

Speaker C
People don't know their own phone number. How do you not know your own phone number?

Kim Commando
What is going on with this world? Okay, I mean, I admit that sometimes I don't know other people's phone numbers, right?

Speaker C
But that's other people. You also don't know other people's blood types, but you know yours.

Kim Commando
So now we have to have a tip on. Here's how to find your own phone number.

Speaker C
Curious what your address is.

Kim Commando
Oh, just wondering that. What's your. Are you male or female?

Speaker C
Oh, my gosh, yes.

Kim Commando
Oh, we probably have tips like that. Male or female? Yeah, we probably do.

Speaker C
Yeah, probably. Those are good ones. Make sure you click on those.

Kim Commando
You know, and I saw a meme with phones, and it was two smartphones that were looking, like, at an old rotary phone like this. And the two smartphones said to the old rotary phone, hi, grandma.

Speaker C
That's pretty much the truth.

Kim Commando
I thought that was super funny. And on that happy note, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, to kim commando. Today, it's your fun podcast about all things digital. Because, after all, I'm fun, and I'm your digital goddess, and I have incredible jokes.

Speaker C
Oh, the best.

Kim Commando
And then joining me is, of course, Andrew Babinski. Hi, Andrew. What do you have coming up?

Speaker C
YouTube. They don't want you to use an ad blocker.

Kim Commando
No.

Speaker C
And they're serious this time.

Kim Commando
Super serious.

Speaker C
Or serial.

Kim Commando
And then you also have a story about crypto, right?

Speaker C
Yeah. Guy named Michael, not his real name, posts on the Internet. I have a crypto wallet. It's got $2 million worth of bitcoin in it. Can someone please help me open it?

Kim Commando
You know, that's got to be pretty nerve wracking.

Speaker C
He actually, in the end. I don't know if I should spoil it.

Kim Commando
No, don't spoil it.

Speaker C
All right, fine. It wasn't nerve wracking to him in the end.

Kim Commando
Okay?

Speaker C
And I'll tell you why.

Kim Commando
I have, like, $700 in my crypto wallet.

Speaker C
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Of ethereum.

Speaker C
That's it. You don't have any bitcoin?

Kim Commando
No.

Speaker C
The big boy. The real one?

Kim Commando
No. You know, because I'm still, like, I'm not really sure if I can into all this crypto.

Speaker C
Yeah, okay, but you have a couple of grand you could just throw down on crypto?

Kim Commando
Well, you know how incredibly cheap I am.

Speaker C
I know, but I converted everything to bitcoin about two years ago, and it's just sitting there.

Kim Commando
Maybe we ought to do that. Maybe I'll do that. Take I just, like, you know, put, like, couple thousand dollars into why not? And just see what happens. Yeah. And it goes up, it goes down.

Speaker C
But remember, during the pandemic? I mean, every single billionaire was coming out. Like, this is the only currency of the future.

Kim Commando
But then they started coming out with their own currency.

Speaker C
That's true. And that's what ruined the market, you know, to the moon and all that jazz. I put everything. I had little coins. I had meme coins.

Kim Commando
You know, we have to wait till Allie's here. Cause, you know, Ally's all into crypto. I mean, people just send her crypto, which is ridiculous.

Speaker C
I don't even get sent socks and she gets cryptocurrency.

Kim Commando
I gave you socks.

Speaker C
I'm seeing from just rando strangers.

Kim Commando
Oh, I mean. I mean, what?

Speaker C
I'm wearing the sark skin. You're right. Now.

Kim Commando
Cause the other ones were great. They were ugly. Just a few weeks left to win a brand new iPhone 15. Where do you go? Winfromkim.com. winfromkim.com.

Speaker C
Sign up for the newsletter.

Kim Commando
And we are becoming a viral sensation.

Speaker C
Are we?

Kim Commando
Yes. So that's more reason than ever for people to, like, comment, share, so that this way people can say, oh, I already knew about that.

Speaker C
Yeah, I already saw that. That went viral days ago.

Kim Commando
Exactly. I mean, we have one video that Matt's put out. She's doing such a great job yesterday, and in 17 hours, we have over 400,000 views.

Speaker C
That's really good.

Kim Commando
I know. It's pretty incredible.

Speaker C
Maddie does amazing videos. The things she does with fonts is entertaining.

Kim Commando
I know. I like it.

Speaker C
Forget about the content. Her fonts are great.

Kim Commando
She's all fonted up.

Speaker C
Joke. That's not even a punchline. It doesn't even connect to anything.

Kim Commando
I'm not even looking.

Speaker C
There's no one over there. I don't know who I'm looking at.

Kim Commando
They're all laughing. That's what we need. A live studio audience.

Speaker C
Oh, yeah. That's what we need.

Kim Commando
Wouldn't that be amazing?

Speaker C
I would know.

Kim Commando
I think so. All right, here are the top five things you need to know that's happening in tech right now. We're gonna start with an item from the karma department.

Speaker C
All right.

Kim Commando
You know the US Justice Department is going after Ticketmaster and live Nation. Why?

Speaker C
They're suing them.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
And when the federal government decides to sue you, you lost that.

Kim Commando
You should just be like, okay, we give up. We give up.

Speaker C
I think they win, like, 99.8% of their cases.

Kim Commando
Because of why?

Speaker C
Because of a monopoly.

Kim Commando
Yes, of course. Have you bought tickets from Ticketmaster? Of course.

Speaker C
There's nowhere else to buy tickets.

Kim Commando
Okay. You're screwed.

Speaker C
I know.

Kim Commando
Because. Data breach. Bum, bum, bum, bum. Over 560 million records are for sale right now on the Internet.

Speaker C
Have you ever purchased a ticket through a Ticketmaster?

Kim Commando
You know what? I really don't think I have.

Speaker C
What? No. You just don't go to stuff.

Kim Commando
No. Cause what if I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go like a scalper. I'm gonna find really good seats, okay. Or if I'm gonna go to Vegas, I'm gonna go to concierge.

Speaker C
Okay?

Kim Commando
Whatever it may be, you have your ways. And if I, you know, I was in Rome, and I wanted to see the pope.

Speaker C
Mm hmm.

Kim Commando
And so I go down the concierge. So, like, you know, how do I. How do I have. How do I see the pope? How do I get close to the pope for mass?

Speaker C
Right?

Kim Commando
And he's like, do you have the blue ticket? I'm like, I don't have the blue ticket.

Speaker C
It's available on Ticketmaster with only $3.2 million in fees.

Kim Commando
You said, how much is the blue ticket worth to you? I said, how much are they? He said, well, they're free. He said, but it's gonna cost you. So I made $250 for each. For three tickets.

Speaker C
That's it.

Kim Commando
Just to go. I mean, I was sitting as probably as far away with the pope as I am right now.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
And for Mass, it was only $250 each person, so. But I thought it was funny. I had to buy him on the black market to go see the pope. It was funny.

Speaker C
Totally ethical.

Kim Commando
So the ticket master records, 1.3 terabytes, and it's a one time price, right? Now. You can buy them for $500,000.

Speaker C
Has anybody made a purchase yet?

Kim Commando
Not yet.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
That's why they're, you know, this is kind of an advertisement for it.

Speaker C
Is it a supply and demand thing? Once they sell it to somebody, they won't sell it to anybody else?

Kim Commando
I don't think so.

Speaker C
Yeah, I would think they would just sell it over and over and over and over and over again.

Kim Commando
Yes, but 560 million records, why doesn't.

Speaker C
Ticketmaster just buy it?

Kim Commando
Because it's already out there. They already have it. They already have all the records.

Speaker C
Maybe they pay 1.2 million and they only sell it to Ticketmaster.

Kim Commando
Do you buy anything at Christie's?

Speaker C
No. Christie's got hacked, too. Yes, well, I've never bought anything of Christie's.

Kim Commando
500,000, they say wealthy clients.

Speaker C
That's not good.

Kim Commando
No. And the site has been down for a while, about a week now, leaving $840 million worth of stuff that Chrissy's trying to sell just out in limbo land. We're talking about millions of monets with no money for the Gaussian.

Speaker C
Keep going. Who's to Gauss?

Kim Commando
He's another artist.

Speaker C
What type of art does he do?

Kim Commando
French impressionism. You're making that up to make the Van Gogh. Okay, that was a good one.

Speaker C
No, it was.

Kim Commando
It was. You're gonna repeat that?

Speaker C
I'm not smart enough to understand that joke.

Kim Commando
That's probably true. Moving on to Google Play. 90 malicious apps have been downloaded 5.5 million times.

Speaker C
What do you mean?

Kim Commando
That's when people go to Google Play and they say, oh, I need a PDF editor. And they download the PDF editor and they wonder why. Like, their phone's crashing. Yeah, and their phone's heating up. And all this other stuff doesn't make you angry?

Speaker C
Why does Google Play allow this in their stores?

Kim Commando
Because they don't care.

Speaker C
They should have to approve every single app that they sell. They are taking a percentage of any sort of financial transaction that happens on that app. They should be responsible.

Kim Commando
They should be. They should be.

Speaker C
Absolutely.

Kim Commando
They're not the. Let's see, there's also Joker, face stealer, copier, QR reader, file manager number one. You don't need an app to read a QR code.

Speaker C
You.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Speaker C
You also should not download any app with the word stealer in the title.

Kim Commando
Okay, that's bad.

Speaker C
Unless it's the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Kim Commando
So if you've downloaded anything that sounds remotely like this, make sure that you remove it.

Speaker C
You hacked.

Kim Commando
You are screwed. Meanwhile, in the Google department, they just announced six new Chromebooks. Okay, I know you're pretty excited about that.

Speaker C
So excited.

Kim Commando
All AI enabled. You get AI?

Speaker C
Google's AI?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
Can't wait.

Kim Commando
You get AI wallpapers?

Speaker C
Wow.

Kim Commando
Okay, wait, there's more. An AI text editor.

Speaker C
What is an AI wallpaper? You just tell it. I want a wallpaper that's like starry.

Kim Commando
Night, but you want, like, Kim Commando.

Speaker C
David Hasselhoff in the middle of it.

Kim Commando
Yes. AI photo editor and Google's. You asked? Gemini. AI assistant is baked right in. Super excited about this. What about AI overview dollar 429.

Speaker C
That's not bad.

Kim Commando
Okay, don't buy it.

Speaker C
I won't.

Kim Commando
It's just the first version. Now, this next story is something that you're going to want to tell your family members in front. It comes to us from Michigan. Washtie now.

Speaker C
Sure.

Kim Commando
I mispronounced that.

Speaker C
No, you nailed it.

Kim Commando
Michigan. This guy, Corey Harris was.

Speaker C
You got Washtie now, right? We got Harris. Completely wrong.

Kim Commando
Let's just start over. Okay, so there's this guy in Washtenawa.

Speaker C
Uh huh.

Kim Commando
You say it w a s h t e n a w. Washtenawa.

Speaker C
Of course.

Kim Commando
We all know Washtenawa.

Speaker C
I'm a huge fan of Washtenawa.

Kim Commando
It's probably some, like, indian county. It definitely is, you know, some county.

Speaker C
Kansas. If there is a word on there you can't read, just say Kansas.

Kim Commando
There's this guy in Kansas County, Michigan. His name is Corey Harris.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
And he was called in to appear in court via a Zoom call because he was caught driving with a suspended license.

Speaker C
That's no good.

Kim Commando
And he was also holding his cell phone while driving.

Speaker C
These are why he's appearing in court. That's correct. For these charges. Okay.

Kim Commando
Yes. So he's, he has to appear via a Zoom call. Here. Let's just take a listen.

Speaker C
Oh, okay. Mister Hill, are you driving? No, actually, I'm pulling into my doctor's office, actually. Corey. So just give me 1 second. I'm parking right now. Please. Corey, you're. I can see the buildings moving behind you. I'm pulling in right now. Yes, I am. All right, what are we doing?

Kim Commando
Your Honor, we are sexually requesting an.

Speaker C
Adjournment in this matter up possibly three to four weeks that the court would allow. Okay.

Kim Commando
It goes on and on, but the judge is like dumbfounded.

Speaker C
Right?

Kim Commando
WTF, mate? You're in court because you're driving with a suspended license and you're still driving and you're on your phone.

Speaker C
Right. Your license wasn't unsuspended. What a. I'm sure he lost.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
The guy had to have lost.

Kim Commando
Do stupid things. Yeah, you win stupid prizes.

Speaker C
Absolutely. Love that expression.

Kim Commando
Okay. And finally this story. Were you pretty excited when you were like 15 years old at the thought of getting a driver's license?

Speaker C
Of course. It's all I cared about.

Kim Commando
Okay. Did you do like a countdown?

Speaker C
Absolutely. I mean, the minute I got a learner's permit, I literally asked my father, not my mother, my father, every single weekend to take me out driving. So I knew I could pass the driver's test and I knew I would be able to get my license.

Kim Commando
I was so excited to drive. I mean, it was like this was just that rite of passage.

Speaker C
I got my license, got home literally 2 seconds after having it. I was gone. And I didn't come back until like ten that night. You know, that's all I wanted to do was drive around.

Kim Commando
And, you know, Ian, when he got his driver's license, it was the same thing. We couldn't wait to drive. And then of course he got in the car, you know, sped away and I sat there and went.

Speaker C
Do you remember the first place you drove when you got your license?

Kim Commando
I think I drove to, like, a target or something.

Speaker C
Okay. I went to the AMC iwatuki 24.

Kim Commando
Did you really?

Speaker C
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Okay. So it's a memorable.

Speaker C
Absolutely.

Kim Commando
Okay. The reason why I bring that up is that right now, Gen Zers don't feel a need to drive. Okay. About 25% of 16 year olds in the last couple of years had their driver's license.

Speaker C
Only 25%?

Kim Commando
Yeah. Okay. In 1997, that was 43% at 1660, 2% at 17 years old. But right now, it's. It's about a quarter of all 16 year olds that they're shocked that they're not. And they may not even get their driver's license until they're getting out of college now.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
This story that I read is out this Los Angeles area. Mom said, I have a 21 year old nephew who has no plans on driving.

Speaker C
21.

Kim Commando
No plans to get a driver's license.

Speaker C
Does he live in a big city? Like, I mean, I can understand that if you access the city and bus and train. Yeah, okay, I get that one. Okay.

Kim Commando
But LA, you need a car and la.

Speaker C
Oh, absolutely.

Kim Commando
And then she says, my 13 year old son, I have actually a truck out in front on the driveway for him when he's old enough. And he said, mom, I'm not going to need that car. Either you're going to drive me, or I'm just going to take an Uber.

Speaker C
Different world.

Kim Commando
Another mother in this article that I read on the New York Post, I have a 16 year old boy, has no desire to drive. We even bought him a brand new mustang.

Speaker C
You couldn't even bribe him with a muscle car.

Kim Commando
So we have self driving cars coming, electric cars coming.

Speaker C
So you're saying this is the generation that will never learn how to drive?

Kim Commando
Maybe Gen a. Gen a. That's underneath Gen Z.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
Yeah. Now, we're not talking about Farscope Gen a.

Speaker C
Like, am I missing one of your bad jokes?

Kim Commando
Is that a farscup joke? What's that? So what do you think? What's going on?

Speaker C
Mind boggling. I mean, I understand they have more options than I did when I was 16.

Kim Commando
Scooters.

Speaker C
But it was the want. I mean, that is the equivalent to independence. The second my parents handed me keys, I was no longer their child because I was never going to be home. I was gone.

Kim Commando
Not anymore.

Speaker C
I mean, we would just drive to a park and just drive our circles around the park. That is crazy to me.

Kim Commando
Yeah. I don't understand. See, now. Cause Ian is such a car guy, and he's a gen zer.

Speaker C
Well, but 75%. You said 75% aren't. There still is 25% that are like me, you, Ian. There's still 25% of 16 year olds that want it. That's bad for the car market.

Kim Commando
Okay, so Barry has a grandson. Okay. Who is now, I think he's 26 or 28. I'm not really sure.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
But when he was 21 or 22, I asked him, I said, how come you don't have a driver's license? And he said something like, well. Cause my mom and dad drive me wherever I need to be.

Speaker C
How come you don't have an apartment? Well, mom and dad let me stay here. How come you don't have a full time job? Well, mom and dad give me my food and pay for my cell phone. That's all I need.

Kim Commando
Mom and dad just take care of everything.

Speaker C
I was just talking about this yesterday. 17 and a half. That's how old I was the last time my parents gave me money.

Kim Commando
Really?

Speaker C
17 and a half. Then I found out they were paying my sister's rent for, like, five years after she moved out. 17.

Kim Commando
They left for more.

Speaker C
They did. 17 and a half is the last time. I just. I didn't see it as even a possibility to lean on my parents. I was 18. I was my own man. I need to take care of myself.

Kim Commando
You know, my dad told me, I said, because I was, like, I was 18, and I'm like, you know, I'm not doing it that way. I'm gonna do it my own way. And he said, you know what? Then you need to leave. You need to be on your own. You need to take care of yourself. And I said, well, that's what I'm doing. I'm leaving right now, and I'm gonna be a self sufficient adult woman. And then I started packing a bag. He looked, came to my room.

Speaker C
He said, uh uh, that's my stuff.

Kim Commando
You go with what you came with.

Speaker C
Oh, wow. That's even deeper than most parents.

Kim Commando
I was like, okay, I'll stay.

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Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim Commando. Today. It's your fun podcast about everything digital. And you know what? We need two things from each and every one of you.

Speaker C
Really?

Kim Commando
Just two things. Number one is that we want you to tell one person about the podcast. Just one person. And then if you see one of our videos, make sure that you share it out. Just, you know, we need to get more people behind the commando news train. We need to do that. Yes, on the commando tech rocket. I mean, we're just going to take you into cyberspace. You're going to be so smart. You're going to be able to get that next promotion, and people are going to look at you and say, how? How did you get so intelligent overnight? And you don't need to give us credit.

Speaker C
No, you say, you know what?

Kim Commando
You've just been underestimating me.

Speaker C
Cyberspace. Did you really use cyberspace?

Kim Commando
I don't know.

Speaker C
It's like the Clinton administration.

Kim Commando
But you know what? I also invented the Internet. You did?

Speaker C
Al Gore.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
It's funny what you're saying, because my story, I have kind of ties into this. If you like the show, if you tune in and watch it and you like the reels we put out, if you share them, all you're doing is helping create more of this. Because the monitors behind me, they cost money. I get paid to be here. I cost money. This table costs money. But when it comes to YouTube, for some reason, people are fighting so hard to not watch advertisements that YouTube is putting their foot down. Now, last July, people were complaining, I get onto YouTube and the videos are loading too slow, or the audio is not there.

Kim Commando
Correct.

Speaker C
Or I'm just not even getting the video at all. And what Google was doing, Google owns YouTube. Behind the scenes is they were trying to work against these ad blockers because these ad blockers that people put on their browsers were preventing ads from videos.

Kim Commando
Being shown, which means that their revenues go down.

Speaker C
Correct.

Kim Commando
Content creators are not making money.

Speaker C
They go away.

Kim Commando
Right.

Speaker C
So what YouTube has done now is if you go on YouTube with an ad blocker, you will get a screen that says, you get three. You get three videos today, and after you watch three videos because of your ad blocker, we will cut you off.

Kim Commando
They should.

Speaker C
They absolutely should. And I don't understand how people, I watch two things on YouTube all the time. My favorite television show is called Taskmaster.

Kim Commando
And of course, me.

Speaker C
It's a comedy show out of the UK. It's hilarious. Then I watch a live streaming podcast. It's called Kim Commando today. It's on every single Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It's really informative.

Kim Commando
Thank you.

Speaker C
So funny. And no, I watch this live streaming podcast called the Yak from Bostro sports. During each one of those, there's about seven ads. They're 15 to 30 seconds long.

Kim Commando
It's not bad.

Speaker C
I don't skip them. Why? Because I want to make sure that next week the act is still going to be there. I want to make sure next season that Taskmaster posts it on YouTube because I don't have access to it. They're in England. I want to support the creators that are creating the content that I enjoy. And I can watch four ads and do that.

Kim Commando
You know what? That whole thing that you just did right now, you ought to save that.

Speaker C
What do you mean?

Kim Commando
This whole thing that you just did?

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
You know, because if something ever happened to Kez or here, right. You could go work for PBS. You know, you could sit there and say, you know, quality programming costs time and money to come into your home, you know, you know, order, you know, support your local PBS station and get this Lawrence, well, tote bag.

Speaker C
But am I wrong?

Kim Commando
No, you're right.

Speaker C
Anything I'm saying is wrong. You're fighting so hard not to watch the same nasal spray ad for the 33rd time in the day, in the same day by putting on these ad blockers. But I understand YouTube premium is expensive. 1399 a month is expensive.

Kim Commando
Well, plus, you know, a lot of people are freaky Friday because they have all these different expenses.

Speaker C
Correct. You have 15 different services you're already paying for. I get it. So then just watch 515 second ads and get all of the programming and the video and the content where however you want to describe it that you want to.

Kim Commando
But it's also the same thing. So sometimes I'll recommend an app and let's say the weather app is $4.99, right? Okay. I am going to get just a crapload of people that will send me notes. Oh, well, you know, that's expensive, Kim Commando. I mean, you know, I would look, I'm on a fixed income. I need to have that free.

Speaker C
We all are on fixed incomes.

Kim Commando
And I'm like, you know what? It's $5, buddy.

Speaker C
But good is good. If it's good, if it's going to help you, if it's going to make your life more efficient, you're going to pay you the 499. If it's bad, then you're going to stop watching it and it's not going to generate any rad ad revenue on YouTube anyway, and it's going to go away.

Kim Commando
Now, what about ad blockers on websites?

Speaker C
I don't use them. I really don't. I have one installed on one of my browsers. I don't even know why. I think my brother in law recommended it, so I did it. But it's just a picture. All I got to do is scroll past a picture and I, the second I scroll past it, someone's making one 10th of a penny. It's all these things that we want. We want everything. And because we once had it for free, I think that's the reason why we fight it so hard.

Kim Commando
Yeah, I mean, you know, like, you know, in our free newsletter, we put ads in.

Speaker C
Why? How dare you?

Kim Commando
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's a free newsletter will say, like, oh, well, you know, it's, you know, you just, you have too many ads. Like, there's one ad, there's one ad. Okay. You know how long it takes to put together a free newsletter? You know how it costs money to put together a free newsletter?

Speaker C
You have writers, you have technical people on the backside.

Kim Commando
It costs us every, every newsletter cost us money to send out services.

Speaker C
To send them out. Exactly. And you get it for free by just scrolling past that ad. But that's not good enough for some people and I just can't connect to it.

Kim Commando
I don't understand it either. And then somebody else will say, like, oh, you know, you have an Amazon section in the newsletter. Because we put five products a day that you buy on Amazon. We get a commission off of that. Sure. Okay. So how much marketing we make? Like, I don't know .001 cents compared to what?

Speaker C
Yeah, but it's still going to be, it's a small chunk that is going to help keep that newsletter for free.

Kim Commando
But people like, they like, I don't get that. They like free stuff, but yet they'll go to Starbucks or Arby's or Chick fil A and blow $25 and go, oh, well, that was really good.

Speaker C
But guess what's going to happen with. If you keep stealing from Chick fil a? Chick fil A is going to close their doors. It's just how it works.

Kim Commando
That's it. Nothing's free.

Speaker C
Stop blocking the ads. Just watch them. This video right now is on YouTube.

Kim Commando
Watch the ad or become an advertiser. We'll take your money.

Speaker C
Yeah, sure.

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Kim Commando
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Speaker C
Yeah. And at KZ, I work for full time, my full time gig. I have a morning show co host on 99.9 KEZ, which is I heart radio station.

Kim Commando
I'm proud of you for getting that.

Speaker C
Thank you.

Kim Commando
That is really something. I mean, I'm sure it's all the experience and, yeah, that's why I was.

Speaker C
Talking to someone today. They actually came up and congratulate me. I haven't seen me in week, and I was like 25 years in the making. So all it took overnight. Overnight success.

Kim Commando
I still like what your little daughter said when, when you left our house. What did she say about.

Speaker C
She said, well, we got in the house, Kim's new house, which would took six years to build.

Kim Commando
Yeah, it's, it's. And I will say it's probably, and I have been told it is the most beautiful home in Phoenix.

Speaker C
It's ridiculous. It's not even a house. It's like four seasons. And, I mean, there's an elevator in it. Not many houses have elevators.

Kim Commando
This has three floors.

Speaker C
We get in the car and my daughter goes, that's Kim and Barry's house. And I was like, yeah, well, actually, first, before we got there, I said, listen, some people are just uncomfortable about money. Just don't make a big deal. If you walk in and their house is really cool and amazing and beautiful and nothing like you've ever seen before, just say, oh, your house is really pretty. Don't be like, all gawking. And then we walk in, and the first thing, I'm like, oh, my God. Didn't even take my own advice. But we get in the car and my daughter goes, that's Kim and Berry's house. And I'm like, yeah. And she's like, they own it. I'm like, yeah, they built it, actually. And she's like, and they work in radio. And I was like, yeah. You work in radio. Dad, we only got 3000 sqft. Our house is as big as their garage.

Kim Commando
Okay. So now with this big job.

Speaker C
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Now you got more money.

Speaker C
Yeah.

Kim Commando
Okay. So you can go to wheezy and say, we're getting closer and here are some other ways that you can make money.

Speaker C
Please.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Speaker C
I gotta pay for two colleges.

Kim Commando
Yeah, that's gonna be a lot. Sniff spot. Sniff.

Speaker C
Come again?

Kim Commando
Sniff spot is if you've got a big backyard.

Speaker C
Right?

Kim Commando
And. Or even a little backyard. And then you go into sniff spot, and you take pictures of your backyard.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
And then you can rent it out for people who have dogs that live close by, maybe in apartments or something, or maybe they're traveling. And then you can rent out your backyard for the dog to go play and go pooping.

Speaker C
This is not a thing.

Kim Commando
It is. You didn't know. This is true.

Speaker C
People are opening up their backyards for other dogs to use as toilets.

Kim Commando
Yes. $3,000 a month, they say people are making just to have poop in their backyard. Yes. Swimpley is another way that you can make money.

Speaker C
Swimpley?

Kim Commando
Yes. You rent your pool out.

Speaker C
Oh, okay. I've heard of this one.

Kim Commando
Okay, so you have big old pool parties.

Speaker C
Now, how much would I make if I let my neighbor's dog pee in my pool? Is that double?

Kim Commando
Well, dogs don't pee in pools.

Speaker C
No, no, dogs don't pee in pools.

Kim Commando
No, I can tell you my dog doesn't.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
Okay. But she's sophisticated. She must be, because, I mean, I throw the ball. Throw the ball, then she'll look at me and go, like, whoa. I'll be right back. And she runs. She goes pee and then comes back.

Speaker C
That's actually a great question. Would a dog pee in a pool?

Kim Commando
I don't know how to ask. I'm pretty sure. Ask Gemini. AI. What do you think the answer would be?

Speaker C
I don't know. We can answer.

Kim Commando
It's gonna be something like, ask the rock.

Speaker C
Dogs are delicious.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly. Of course, we know you can rent your car out with Turo and get around. Have you ever used any of those services?

Speaker C
No, but I may have to, because I'm right now, I got in a car accident a couple weeks ago, and I'm still using the station vehicle. And my car is gonna take, I don't know, 3.7 years to repair. So I may have to use Turo.

Kim Commando
Well, Turo. I used Turo in Miami. It was actually a pretty good deal.

Speaker C
Yeah, it was.

Kim Commando
Even the guy delivered the car it was all clean.

Speaker C
Was it a fancy car?

Kim Commando
It was a mercedes.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
And I think it was, like, $35 a day. It wasn't expensive at all.

Speaker C
That's exactly what most insurance companies allow, so that's perfect.

Kim Commando
Yeah, it was good. You can rent your driveway out.

Speaker C
Someone can park their car in my driveway?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
Now in my hoa.

Kim Commando
Vanley or neighbor.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
And they say you can make about $1,000 a month doing that.

Speaker C
So we looked into one where you could rent out your garage, because I had a three car garage, and one of them we just don't even use. And I was like, maybe I could rent it out as storage. It was only, like, $115 a month. Like, it wasn't even worth it to have some stranger's weird, strange stuff in my garage.

Kim Commando
I rented my neighbor's garage.

Speaker C
You did?

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Speaker C
For how much?

Kim Commando
I paid him $1,500 a year.

Speaker C
Okay. So. Okay.

Kim Commando
Because he had about the same rate.

Speaker C
I was talking about.

Kim Commando
He had a two car garage that he wasn't using, and this is why we were building the house. And so I would just go over his house, and I mean, just like, hi, here I am, moving up the car. Right. Back then I got just a couple more loanables. And then also friend with a.

Speaker C
Okay. Never heard of either of those.

Kim Commando
They say that's where you can rent out anything. You could rent out your cameras, your bikes, your pressure washer.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
Camping gear is really big, because if you think about a camping gear, I mean, I'm not a camper.

Speaker C
No, you're not even a clamper.

Kim Commando
I have glamped.

Speaker C
But you're not that. You've done a lot of things that you're not.

Kim Commando
What do you mean?

Speaker C
I'm saying if you were given the opportunity to go glamping this weekend, you would kindly decline.

Kim Commando
I have glamped.

Speaker C
Oh, you have glamped?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
And you will continue to glamp.

Kim Commando
I'm thinking about it. I went glamping. I thought I told you this. Okay. At the four Seasons in Beverly Hills on the rodeo drive.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
Right there. It's just beautiful. Beautiful hotel is that you can rent a room, and so you go, like, to the. Like, the fourth floor. You get off, and there's a roof.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
And on the roof is a beautiful tent that overlooks rodeo drive. And it has, like, a four seasons bed on the inside. And then also, well, it's attached to a king suite. So if you have to go potty or you don't want to really be in the tent.

Speaker C
Or if you're, you know, 50ft away from a local bar. I'm gonna stand by my statement. You're not a glamper.

Kim Commando
I was looking at maybe going glamping in Africa. Have you seen that?

Speaker C
No.

Kim Commando
It's like where you can go, like, onto the Serengeti and they put up these beautiful tents. I thought that might be something.

Speaker C
Well, that's cool. But that's like a safari. You're not going to Flagstaff and be in a fancy rv.

Kim Commando
No, because I know. You know what? I'm not that person.

Speaker C
That's what I spent this whole last 45 seconds saying.

Kim Commando
Well, I could try it. I mean, but I'll, you know what?

Speaker C
Don't bring it up. Because if you bring it up, Barry's gonna spend $60,000 on everything you need for camping. You guys are gonna go one weekend, and that's gonna sit in your neighbor's garage for the next decade.

Kim Commando
Yeah, see, that's the problem. Okay. I mean. Cause, you know, we had a boat. We had a great boat. It was a nice boat. It was a carver boat.

Speaker C
Okay?

Kim Commando
Carver. A carver boat is kind of like a. Kind of like a minivan.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
Are you on the water?

Speaker C
Nothing wrong with a minivan.

Kim Commando
No, it's nice.

Speaker C
Gets you from point a for point b.

Kim Commando
Yes, exactly.

Speaker C
People can fit in it, so.

Kim Commando
But, you know, I'm like. I'm not really sure I'm liking the minivan on the water.

Speaker C
Right.

Kim Commando
So that's when we bought a bigger boat.

Speaker C
What'd you get? What's the equivalent car equivalent to your current boat? If the carver is the minivan, your current boat is a Porsche.

Kim Commando
You should come over and say it.

Speaker C
Yes. The answer is yes.

Kim Commando
It's called the westar. So if anybody. If you're ever out in Santa Barbara and you see the westar now, I'm dissecting the sentence.

Speaker C
You should come over and see it. You didn't say, you should come over.

Kim Commando
Take a ride.

Speaker C
You should go for a trip. You just said, come see it.

Kim Commando
You can come sit on it.

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Kim Commando
Hey, it's Kim commando today, we have been getting so many great comments from all of you about how you think that I'm funny and Andrew is, too sometimes. And, you know, and we love to get your comments. And really, I do read every single comment that you send to me. Like this one from Jerry. It doesn't have anything to do with the show.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
But I just thought this. I have a couple of really interesting ones. Thank you for the link to the VA dot Gov in our newsletter. The other day for Memorial Day, I linked about how you can find your missing money.

Speaker C
Okay.

Kim Commando
Have you ever looked for missing money?

Speaker C
I have. I have the forms filled out, sitting in envelopes and have not mailed them in.

Kim Commando
Why not?

Speaker C
I'm dumb.

Kim Commando
Oh, missingmoney.com. you should check it out. I don't know if you remember. I think you were with us.

Speaker C
Yeah. As a caller.

Kim Commando
Yeah. He got like $30,000 and I'm like, what's my cut? He's like, nothing. I'm like, oh, my God. I'm the one who told you about it. But I also linked for Memorial Day on how you can get medals, replacement medals for anybody who's really cool. Yes. And so I thought this was just a nice note, Kim. I've been wanting to get information on my father, who served in world war two at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, on June 4, 1944. Yes. He was part of the first wave. Survived throughout the war, went all the way to the Rhine river through VE day, plus six months. He served 24 years in the National Guard. The records he had burnt up in a fire in 1976. So you totally made my day. Now I don't need to search on how to get my dad's records of service.

Speaker C
That's awesome.

Kim Commando
That's great. I thought that was nice.

Speaker C
And he had to watch one ad.

Kim Commando
No one had that song.

Speaker C
One ad to get out of that.

Kim Commando
Here's another one. This person didn't leave their name. Great. Trip. To search for money that you may be entitled to. He said trip, but I mean, tip. I found over $4,000.

Speaker C
That's legit.

Kim Commando
That was stock for my late mother had. And then I directed a friend to the site, and he found $13,000 in a retirement fund from his employer prior to his retirement.

Speaker C
Great.

Kim Commando
I just found these people, $17,000 just sitting there. Okay, listen to this one. He was the CEO of Kodak in Mexico. So we shouldn't assume we know everything just because we're smart.

Speaker C
That's true.

Kim Commando
Guys.

Speaker C
Was CEO and he left $13,000 sitting Sally. I know.

Kim Commando
That's what I thought about. I'm like, okay, wait a minute. You were the CEO.

Speaker C
No wonder Kodak went out of business.

Kim Commando
I mean, you know, if anybody should have owned the digital camera marketplace alone.

Speaker C
They had a pretty big, big brand there.

Kim Commando
Okay. At and t who should have owned the Internet? They had a phone at every home.

Speaker C
Nope, sorry. It was merry go online.

Kim Commando
Not. And so. And who should own crypto?

Speaker C
Who should own crypto? Everyone. Especially a guy named Michael. He posted on the Internet that back in 2013, he had $5,000 worth of crypto sitting in a wallet and he lost the password. He did not want to put the password in his password manager because he's worried someone break in, steal his password, and steal his $5,000. Fast forward. His $5,000 is now worth over $2 million.

Kim Commando
Wow.

Speaker C
So he went out on the Internet and said, I need help. And he got contacted by everyone, everyone wanting a piece of that $2 million because he's going to pay them. If they get the password, he's going to give them a percentage.

Kim Commando
What percentage they can give him.

Speaker C
I didn't say. They didn't disclose it.

Kim Commando
Probably at least 20%, I would think.

Speaker C
Ten to 20, that's a pretty fair number. Attacker named grand reached out to him and said, I would like to be able to do this. And they finally came to terms and agreed. And he told them the whole story of back in 2013, he bought the cryptocurrency and he got the wallet. Then around the same time, he used a piece of software that would automatically generate you a random password. Generated the password, used it, wrote it down, you know, not digitally saved it, wrote it down, lost it. It's gone forever. So they found out that this software wasn't so random.

Kim Commando
Ooh.

Speaker C
It would basically keep track of everybody, put out the passwords in order and keep track of them, the date and the time that they were created.

Kim Commando
Oh, wow.

Speaker C
So Grant had this idea, if I can get that version of the software from his computer, send it back in time, it will automatically generate the same exact password.

Kim Commando
That's pretty brilliant.

Speaker C
It's genius.

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
So they asked Michael, when did you create the password? He said, I don't know when I created the password, but I know that I created the wallet on this day. So they kind of opened a window, used the software, sent it back in time. No passwords were generated. So they call him back and they were like, we need to know, when did you create it? Because we're searching all around April 13, the day that you said you opened the bitcoin, bought the bitcoin, but we need to know when you generated the password. He's like, maybe it was this time he gave him a time. They bring the software back in time again. No passwords are generated. So then they open.

Kim Commando
How would you even remember that?

Speaker C
No, it's true. It's absolutely impossible to remember that. So they open the window up really wide from April 12 all the way to July 1. They call Michael up again, and he's like. He's now kind of getting annoyed because he wants his money, but he wants these guys to leave him alone.

Kim Commando
I wouldn't help him.

Speaker C
We need to talk. And they said, we need to talk to you. He's like, oh, God. They want to meet in person now, and they want to go over a calendar. And so he goes and he meets him in person. He sits down, and they're like, May 15, 410. 40 seconds in the afternoon. Greenwich mean time is when you created the password.

Kim Commando
Here it is. Wow.

Speaker C
They figured it out. They found when he generated the password, put it in the bitcoin account, the wallet opened up. And not $2 million, almost $3 million in bitcoin. And he says that it was actually a blessing in disguise, because once it hit $40,000, he would have sold it immediately. It would have been so much money. But because he lost the password, he held onto it longer, and he sold it at its peak, $62,000 of bitcoin, of course, giving grand. And his partner, his name was Bruno, a share of the bitcoin. But now he's got all his bitcoin.

Kim Commando
You know, I wonder how many people are like that. I mean, because I've been getting some notes from people, like, you know, how do I remember my bitcoin wallet and all this other stuff? But, I mean, I wonder how many people are sitting there with bitcoin, what the percentage is.

Speaker C
It's got to be a lot, right?

Kim Commando
That they are. That they're.

Speaker C
I have a wallet I can't get into.

Kim Commando
Really?

Speaker C
Yeah, but it's not bitcoin. It's one of the meme coins. Like quirky coin or something like that. And I printed it. I printed it out on one of those. What are they? It's not a laser printer. It's a heat printer. Right? You know what I'm talking about? A label printer?

Kim Commando
Yes.

Speaker C
Well, it's faded.

Kim Commando
Well, that was dumb.

Speaker C
I'm not bright. Half of the password is faded, so I have no idea what it is.

Kim Commando
You actually printed it out on a label printer. Oh, my God.

Speaker C
I wanted to make sure I had it printed out.

Kim Commando
What are you gonna, like, label it? You're gonna put it on a label somewhere?

Speaker C
Actually, I stuck it to a sports card, and then I put a sports card. You don't look at me like that.

Kim Commando
And then I put a. I dumbfounded that somebody who I thought was fairly intelligent is telling me this story.

Speaker C
I didn't think it would start to fade away.

Kim Commando
What? Thermal printing. You didn't know that it goes away?

Speaker C
I didn't. I know now. Cause I researched it when I looked at the password, and it was half gone. It's like that scene from back to the future where Marty McFly is playing guitar in his hand, slowly disappearing. That's what my password looks like. It's going away.

Kim Commando
Well, then I would suggest that you work on it sooner than later.

Speaker C
Yeah.

Kim Commando
That this is probably something that we need to get involved with.

Speaker C
It's probably $25. It's a mean coin that crashed after I bought it. I'm not too worried about it.

Kim Commando
Okay, but what if it's 100,000? What if it's 2 million?

Speaker C
It's not.

Kim Commando
What if it's not?

Speaker C
It's not.

Kim Commando
Well, I was thinking about coming out with commando coin.

Speaker C
Yeah?

Kim Commando
What do you think?

Speaker C
I think you'll be in prison three to four years from now.

Kim Commando
Why?

Speaker C
Because all those guys, the sell these meme coins, they're ending up getting busted for something. Left or right?

Kim Commando
No, but ours would be trustworthy.

Speaker C
Oh, that's the difference.

Kim Commando
Yes. Our coin could be something that.

Speaker C
What would be the technology that backs your coin?

Kim Commando
Ooh. I'm not really sure.

Speaker C
I'll give you time. Maybe by Friday. You can figure it out.

Kim Commando
I'm not really sure, but I'm sure it'd be really good. It would be a great thing. It would be a beautiful technology.

Speaker C
Oh, beautiful grate. Yeah.

Kim Commando
These are definitely buying would be a paradigm in the blockchain that definitely sounds.

Speaker C
Like investment worthy paradigm.

Kim Commando
Paradigm? Yeah, in the blockchain and in the cloud infrastructure through encryption.

Speaker C
Do you take checks?

Kim Commando
I'll take anything.

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Kim Commando
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