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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. In my never ending quest to keep us both up to date with this fast changing world of technology, wow. A new type of video is trending on social media. You know what it is? Take a pregnancy test with me. Once again. Yes. Take a pregnancy test with me. Women, sometimes couples, they do everything from unboxing the pregnancy test to taking a video. Yeah, on the toilet to the great reveal. I mean, that's something that I never ever thought of doing in my life. But millions and millions and millions of views on these things. I guess I should really ask, is there anything people are not showing on social media? Nope. And on that happy note, welcome everyone. I'm Kim Commando, America's beloved digital goddess, here with you. And you're about to get more tech smarts. Because every single thing now is truly a tech thing. And you can find my award winning show on over 420 top stations throughout the United States. And of course, we're streaming in your favorite radio app, just search for my last name, commando. And you can also get us as a podcast commercial free over at Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Now let me tell you something great. Sponsors help to make this show possible. And I always negotiate some type of exclusive money saving deal with them. So to see all the deals and the special links that you need. Cause I just, I know I pass out all these unique URL's. Just head to one spot in case you ever need them, it's commando.com sponsors. Commando.com sponsors. All righty. Every single day, whether it's a workday or a weekend or a national holiday. You can count on me to scan over 35 different sites and talk to industry insiders to make sure that we both know the most important tech news. And here are the top five things that are happening right now. And we're going to start with deleting a text message from your iPhone. When you do it, is it really gone? Is it really gone? Well, here's a lesson in life from a man who learned the answer the hard way. And he's actually suing Apple for more than $6 million, saying that Apple is totally lying about deleted text messages. Apparently, this guy set up meetings with prostitutes on his iPhone using text messaging. And after the encounter, he deleted the text. So of course, his wife would never find them, but she. And when you delete an iPhone text, it's actually moved to the deleted text folder. There it stays for at least 30 days. So to fully remove the text, you have to go to the deleted text folder, delete it again, and still, it's never really gone. Email, voicemail, text messages are forever recorded on a cloud server somewhere. So just remember, you never, ever want to text or email anything that you don't want to see one day in court or maybe your spouse or significant other, seeing as well. Moving on to number two. It was only a summer ago that vacations meant getting a great deal through Vrbo or Airbnb. But after all those hidden spy cam complaints and those really creepy landlords, both Airbnb and Vrbo have pretty much run their course. Well, this summer. Hotels are winning. And now the big discount air travel websites, they're getting a hit. I'm talking about Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak, and the others. They've just reshaped travel for millions with these huge discounts. But millennials, Gen Zers boomers are going back to the airlines for their tickets, where there's no worry about scammy, phony reservations upselling you for all these things that you don't need and those countless steps to change or even cancel reservations. Now, Expedia is still doing well when it comes to flying in large groups, at least for now. And discount travel sites are still doing okay. But for the first time, the skies look gloomy and very unfriendly. Moving on to number three, you need to talk to your kids about sexting, sending nudes, whatever you want to call it. It isn't as taboo as it used to be. But the problem is, once that picture leaves a phone, you lose totally all control over it. The recipient can do pretty much anything that they want with the photo and face no consequences. Now, your kids may not know this. A mother from Cobb County, Georgia, knows this firsthand, though Alberta Poole told Fox Five in Atlanta that her daughter is bright and she's smart. But when a boy in her 8th grade at Floyd middle school kept pressuring her to send a nude photo to him, she didn't. It didn't take a moment for that photo to be spread to half of her 8th grade class on Google chat. Oh, my gosh. Could you imagine? Her 13 year old daughter's devastated. The mother's looking for any repercussions. She wants charges? None have been made. No justice within the school, no real apology. It's just treated as something normal. Just happens, like, every day. So talk to your kids. Tell them the odds. If they send a nude, they need to know the risk they take that that naked pig could spread everywhere. This coming in at number four. It's only June, and we've already seen some wild weather across the US. Chicago, for example, just set a new daily heat record of 97 degrees. The air feels like 105, so you need to stay prepared and you need the right weather apps. Okay, my go to is weather underground for local forecasts. What's great is that if you live in sweltering heat, you can set up customer alerts for those rare, nice days that you want to bike or hike outside. Plus, it gives you important info on air quality and uv risks. Now, if you want to look ahead, say you're going on vacation, you're planning a family reunion. Whatever it may be, that's when you want to use the AccuWeather app. It gives you a two week forecast so you can get idea of what the temps are going to be well in advance. And finally, if you do live in an area prone to extreme weather, check out storm radar. It has advanced storm tracking data, alien hourly reports, and live national weather alerts for tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hurricanes. And finally, this coming in at number five X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. It really has been an impossible place to get any reliable information. And that, like, button made it even worse. I mean, what does a like really mean? I mean, if you like something, do you wholeheartedly embrace it, or do you find it amusing? Or was it clever or was it just kind of icky? There was this universe of nuances in that, like so, for well known ex users, I'm talking about politicians, business leaders, celebrities, wannabes, whatever it may be liking something was polarizing. So x says they no longer like likes. Okay, so why did they stop the likes? Well, they say user privacy. I don't think so. I think it has to do with x. Now allowing porn to be posted and shared on the site. A like here and a like there might show the world to person's side better hidden. All right, let me tell you what's coming up in this jam packed show. We're talking about how you can make grocery lists in no time at all and share them. Also, a letter from my listener mail. What exactly is the dark web? There's a hidden list that tells you what apps are listening. And, oh, there's a side hustle, let me tell you. It's kind of funny when you think about it. You could make extra money by washing other people's clothes. Yes, of course. And then we have all of your phone calls you don't want to miss. And me, Kim commando. We really need new phones.

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New iPhone 15s only.

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Kim Commando
Hey, before we get this tech party started, really, I just want to let you know about our free newsletter. You can join over a half a million folks who get tech smart five minutes or less every single day. Sign up right now over at Get Kim.com. it's super easy to unsubscribe just one click if you don't love it, but you will. We have a 4.92 star rating out of five stars. Yes. Everybody who gets it just loves it. And if you already get my free newsletter called the current, make sure that you forward to someone, you know, somebody else who needs some tech smarts. And again, to sign up over at Get Kim.com. all right, let's see. Let's start with Scott in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hi there, Scott.

Scott
You know what? They may refer to you as the digital goddess, but in our house, we call you the goat of technology. How about that?

Kim Commando
I like that. That's much better. I like that. That's awesome.

Scott
So let me, let me, let me tell you about my son Sage. He's 20 years old. Something you're familiar with. He's going to school at the University of Pittsburgh for computer science.

Kim Commando
Wow, that's awesome. He's a smart kid.

Scott
So last semester of course, he had to take, it was called data structures two. The programming language that they use is Java.

Kim Commando
Okay.

Scott
Part of his curriculum is he had to do five projects. The professor had, they had certain things that they had to do. If you did everything right just for doing that, you got 32 out of 100 points.

Kim Commando
All right.

Scott
So one of his projects, he was 1 minute late, said, emails, the teacher said, you know what, I'm sorry, I was working on this code. You know, I had other finals and everything else I had to do. And he's like, you know, is there anything you can do? Comes back, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do. You would get a zero goes to the dean. Ask the dean, is there anything that you can do so I can, you know, maybe get Paso credit or something. Said, let me talk to the teacher. Talks to the teacher. The dean emails my son back. He says, I'm sorry, the zero stands because it's in the syllabus. So basically he has to retake the class. But this is where I need your expertise because I believe you went to school for computer science. Am I correct?

Kim Commando
Yes, I did.

Scott
Okay, great. So these five projects that he has to do, if you do everything that he asked for, you get a 32. So the difference is what he does is he uses a secret tester to test the rest of your, to test your code to see how vulnerable it is, to see how fast it works. And the problem is that my son doesn't know what he's testing for. So, you know, you think you do everything right on the code. He uses a secret tester and you get a 50 or a 60.

Kim Commando
So he's, so he's not telling you. He's not telling you that. He's testing it for accuracy or speed. The documentation that goes in the code, nothing.

Scott
Basically what he's telling you is, you know, do your coding. You need to complete a task a to b, but I'm going to test everything through a to b and I'm not going to tell you what I'm testing for because I'm going to use my secret tester. I'm thinking, I'm thinking he's looking at vulnerability. How fast your code runs, I don't know. You know, I don't know, what else? But I'm trying to figure out, like, what I can do to help him with his coding. I mean, the, you know, the. You go there and the teacher's assistants will help you. There's like a mile long line. You can never get in there.

Kim Commando
Yeah. You know, a lot of these tas, and I know this is very general, a lot of tas are just doing it because they have to, you know, or they get a reduced, you know, reduced tuition or. All right, when Ian was having trouble in school, I found a tutor, and the tutor was expensive, I'll tell you that. But because, like I explained to him, you know, just because you aced USC doesn't mean that, you know, you can sit here and go, all right, here I am. You know, right. This is a whole different animal. And that's what. That's what your son has. Because, you know, one thing about programming is that there are, which I'm sure, you know, it's really like if a to b happens, b to c happens, and if then. Or else statements, that's really what it boils down to. And, I mean, I remember I had one professor who was really into documentation within the code, and to, is to say what the. What the next routine did. Because if you can't, if you don't have the documentation in the code, but what the routine does, then you probably stole it from somebody else. There are some things that people have done in code that, like, I was an expert witness years ago with a case against somebody had stolen some code from Apple, and I was tasked with analyzing the code. So I found a routine and looking at the code that didn't do anything, meaning it made a call, it went out to the first base, and it came right back to the same spot. Well, Apple put that in their code so that if somebody ever stole their code, that they could ask the. Whoever stole the code, what does that routine do? And they came up with this pile of B's when really the code didn't do anything.

Scott
Right.

Kim Commando
He may be looking for things like that.

Scott
That's a big secret.

Kim Commando
I know. Okay. But he's probably using AI. That's what I think he's probably using. Okay, so there are different AI's that sage can use.

Scott
Okay.

Kim Commando
You know, chat, GPT, you can upload code, and it will analyze the code and tell you whether or not it's going to work or ways that you can fine tune it, ways that you can fix it. GitHub, that's git. Hub has something called copilot that can also help with improving code. J unit. We can give you a list of these. We're gonna say, I'm gonna send you a list of these.

Scott
Okay, I appreciate that.

Kim Commando
So this way. This way, sage can look at them all and say, okay, here's one. Here's one. I could try this one. Now, John is our it genius here at the show. Everybody needs an it genius. I happen to be yours. He happens to be mine, okay? But because you came through me, I get to go through John, okay? So I asked John. I said, so, john, what do you think about this? He gave me two sites. One's called diffblue dash blue.com, and he said, it's a whole community that kind of works together on code.

Scott
Okay?

Kim Commando
And then another one's called code rabbit that does line by line reviews and gives you some fixes along the way and stuff like that.

Scott
So, I mean, I son, you know, there's no harm in, you know, somebody repeating a course. If he has to take it over and over again, so be it. He'll learn from it. He'll look back when he gets. When he gets his degree. And you said, you know what? I earned this. Now let's see what I can do in the real world.

Kim Commando
Well, I graduated from ASU, and then I got a job at IBM. When I was working at IBM, I got a letter in the mail that said I didn't graduate because I got a d on a computer class. And so I made an appointment with the teacher, and he didn't want to see me. So I went to the dean and I said, okay, I have. I think I had, like, a 92% on all the tests and an 88% on all the homework, but I never went to class. So that's why he gave me a d. I said, well, maybe he's just a crappy instructor. I told the dean that. And, you know, and this was an adulting moment because we opened up this call was an adulting moment because my parents. I couldn't go to my parents. Oh. You know, the whole graduation thing didn't happen. Okay. Couldn't go to IBM. Oh, remember when you said, I graduated and I was, like, 19 years old, and I, this is gonna be great. But I didn't graduate. I couldn't do that. So in the dean, and he said, well, there's nothing I can do about that because that was in the syllabus that you had me in class. And I said, well, yeah, but I didn't. I was working. I mean, but I still did everything. He's like, he didn't want to do anything. So I said to him, you know, and even today, I don't know how I pulled this out of my butt, but I said to him, he said, listen, I'm a statistic that you need. And he looked at me like, what? I said, I am almost 20 years old. I'm a female. There's no other women around in this class who happen to get a job out of school for IBM, okay? You need me. You don't need me. Back in the class for another six months while I retake this, right? And he looked at me and he said, I will take that into consideration. And then three days later, I was notified that I got a c. That's amazing, man.

Scott
Good. You know what? Let's say the squeaky wheel. The grease gets the squeaky wheel, whatever they say. That's fantastic.

Kim Commando
Yeah, but I mean, yeah, it does for sure. So, yeah, I'm a stat. You need, buddy. You better. You better just calm down right now. Better calm down right now. So, hey, give those all to sage. And if Sage needs my help, he wants to talk to John. We're here for him as well. Okay, Scott, thanks for your call. All right. Have you ever tried to organize a shopping list of, like, who's bringing what for a church function, a family get together? It's just a nightmare to do that in a group text or email string. So instead, I want you to be smarter and use a shared note taking app, like Google Keep, apple notes, Microsoft Onenote, or even Evernote. They let you create shared notes that can be accessed and edited by multiple people. So you just simply create a new note for your shopping list and then share it with everybody that you want to collaborate with. I mean, another way you could do it is to use a dedicated shopping list app. Some popular ones include any list in our groceries, just make a new list and then invite others to join. Now, with these apps, oh, they also have this side benefit. You can remind everybody the day before what they're supposed to bring, but remember, there's always that one person be like, oh, I forgot. Stay right where you are. We have more tips and phone calls coming up. We really need new phones.

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New iPhone 15s only at T Mobile.

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Kim Commando
Hey, coming up, it's something that you've wondered for, I don't know how long. I mean, you say something to a family member or friend, I want to go hiking in Patagonia. And then all of a sudden you hop online, and then what do you see? Ads for hiking in. Yes, Patagonia. I'm going to tell you how you can find a hidden list that tells you exactly what apps are listening. And then later on, there's a great side hustle you might want to do this summer. I'm talking about you can make some serious money washing other people's clothes and folding it. I don't know about you, I hate laundry. I hate laundry. But if you love laundry, I'm going to tell you more about that. And we have your phone calls. But before we get to all that letter from our listening mail about, you know, what exactly is the dark web? Okay. The dark web has this reputation for shady dealings, illegal drugs, money laundering, and just general crimes. It's where stolen credit card details and ids, they just end up for sale. It's hard to believe, but scammers have been buying and selling on a platform there for so many years, it kind of looks like an underground online shopping site. You can purchase ransomware kits, phishing campaigns, along with lists of email addresses, and even customer service reps to deal with your victims. Now, the dark web is not indexed by Google, which means that its websites throw another term at you called onion. Sites are hidden and encrypted, so you need specific tools to get into the dark web that offer anonymity. So the question is, why don't we just shut this crime ridden dark web down? You can't. It's too decentralized. Plus, the dark web has some legitimate uses for privacy, free speech, and also circumventing censorship. All right, let's see. Lori in providence, Massachusetts. Hi there, Lori.

Lori
I'm calling because, let's see, over the last few years, you know, my eyesight has kind of been getting worse in different ways. I do picture framing for a living. And, you know, as a hobby, I play music in a few different bands. And, you know, I'm looking to kind of make it easier to read music because, you know, I'm having some trouble right now. Sometimes it looks foggy, and, you know, you got to really be able to see, you know, the sharps and flats.

Kim Commando
Of course. Of course. Yes.

Lori
So I know that there's someone in one of the bands who has, like, a laptop that he, you know, and he has the music on digital files, and, you know, he's able to. He feels it's easier to read, and he can scroll through it and, you know, so I'm thinking, too, when I look at, like, my. I have Apple devices, but I have, like, an iPhone and my laptop. And particularly, I mean, on some occasions, it's nice to have the white on black, but then sometimes the other way is good, too. But I'm just wondering if you have any recommendations for, you know, some type of something I could get that I could do that with.

Kim Commando
Well, you know, it's interesting. I was getting my nails done yesterday, and I looked at the manicurist next to me, and I said, what's wrong with your eyes? And she looked at me, she goes, what do you mean? I said, no. I said, what's wrong with your eyes? And she's like, I've done nails for 30 years, and nobody has ever said or asked me what's wrong with my eyes.

Lori
Huh?

Kim Commando
And I said, you know, I said. I just. I just have. I said, I can see it. I said, I can see it. And she said. She said, yeah. She goes, I'm blind in my right eye. And I said, really? I said, I used to be, too. And I said, what happened to you? And she said, I was struck in the eye as a kid with a pencil. And I said, I said, I was struck in the eye with a stick when I was a kid.

Lori
Oh, boy.

Kim Commando
And so, anyway, we just struck up this conversation, and I convinced her she hadn't had her eyes checked, would you believe, for over 20 years.

Lori
Oh, my God.

Kim Commando
Wow. And I, you know, there are so many new advances. And then I showed her my Instagram account, and I said, look, I had a cornea transplant in May, and in May, my eyesight and my right eye was over 2400. We just stopped at 2400. And as of last week, after the transplant, is that I can see 2060 right now, but I still have ten stitches in my eye. And the doctor said, you know, my vision potential is 2025.

Lori
Wow.

Kim Commando
Isn't that crazy? Isn't it?

Lori
You know, that is interesting you say that, because one of the things going on with me is that I have Fuchs disease, and what is in the future, it seems, is to have, as you say, it's a corneal. Yeah. Transplant some of the tissue. So, yeah, I guess I've got that coming. But, you know. Well, so that's good to hear. You know, the good result you're having with it.

Kim Commando
Oh, yeah, absolutely. 100%. 100%. But it's my point being that, you know, a lot of things you take for granted and then you're like, whoa. You know, like, what happened? What happened?

Lori
Yeah.

Kim Commando
So, you know, so you can certainly use a laptop like your friend, especially if you prefer a larger screen, but it's not as convenient to hold it as it is to say, if you could get an iPad 12.9 inch and then put that on a stand. And what's nice is with the iPad is that you're going to use, or you're going to have a sheet music digitally, and you can use apps like Fourscore, mobile sheets, or music is another really popular one. But then you can have a foot pedal that works by Bluetooth with the tablet, and then you can go to the next page just by tapping your foot.

Lori
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard there was something like that.

Kim Commando
Yeah. It's so cool. It's so great, you know, then you have adjustable fonts and zooms and, you know, battery life. So you, depending upon how long your guys are going to be playing, is that you may need an external battery pack or just make sure you can keep it plugged in. But, you know, you mentioned that high contrast mode. Basically it's going to be white notes on a black background or vice versa, depending upon the lighting conditions. But I'm telling you, this is, this is a solution made for you 100%, because this way you can make that size and that contrast exactly to your specification. And by being able to just use your foot to move to the next page on that sheet music, how great is that going to be? Because you're not going to be like, oh, hold on, hold on. What instrument do you play?

Lori
Well, my main instrument is the alto saxophone.

Kim Commando
Okay. Yeah. So you can't just put the sax down. Go, wait a minute, before we go to this next note. Okay, I just need to get to the next page now. So you're going to look at. You're going to. I would, you know, depending upon how big you need that screen, you know, but I think a tablet would actually give you a whole bunch more flexibility as far as being able to find the right stand at the right height. Then you have the adjustable font size zoom and again, that bluetooth pedal. And again, the apps, they have names like Fourscore mobile sheets is only on Android and newsic. But ask this guy what he's using and then maybe you can actually try it out. Before you go buy anything, just say, hey, you know what? Can I just try out your whole setup for like ten minutes? That's all you need. Probably even less than that. I mean, you're a musician. You will know in just a few minutes whether or not this is going to be the right solution for you. Because let me tell you, there's nothing like actually sitting down and trying something before you commit yourself and you go full board into it. Hey, Lori, thank you for your call today, and best of luck with your eye surgery. I have a feeling it's going to go fantastic. All right, are your apps listening to everything you say? There's a hidden list in your smartphone that will tell you. And there's a way to stop the listening. You see, when you install an app, do you actually ever read the app's terms and conditions? Nope. No one does. But in all that legal mumbo jumbo, you may have given apps your permission to listen using your phone's microphone and collect data and sell that data to who knows who. So if you want to find out which apps are really doing this, if you're on an iPhone, just open settings and then go into privacy and security and then microphone. This will pull up a list of all the apps that uses the phone's microphone that could be listening in. So just toggle off the apps. You don't want picking up any conversations. Now, if you're on Android, in your settings menu, I want you to find the apps permission manager and disable the microphone for any apps that should not be using it. Again, it's on your iPhone, it's under settings privacy and security, and on Android, the app's permission manager. All right, still to come, we have more of your phone calls and how you can make some bank washing other people's clothes. I know, sounds like a crazy side hustle, doesn't it?

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Kim Commando
All right, I need two things from each and every one of you. Number one, the best way for me to continue to grow the show is for you to just tell one person. That's it. Just tell one person about the Kim commando show. And also, I want to hear more about what you want to know about. So go to commando.com. comma, which, by the way, it's a brand new website. Going to love it. Go to commando.com. and then just hit the link that says ask Kim. All right, let's see. Louis in Lubbock, Texas. Hi there, Lewis.

Louis
I used to travel quite a lot by highway and always took you along for the ride. And I have recommended your site to many people who are having some sort of problem. Not necessarily all digital, but just some sort of problem.

Kim Commando
Well, thank you. You're awfully sweet. And let me tell you, Louis, you're a good driver. You are. You're a good driver. You scared me. That scared me that one time on the ice. Just want to let you scare me that one time.

Louis
Well, that once is okay. I mean, that just keeps you awake.

Kim Commando
Yeah, there is that. 100% on that. So what's going on? How can I help you out?

Louis
I'm calling in reference to my daughter. She's an adult. She's been having an awful time finding some employment that she can do from home. She's a summa cum laude, bachelor of arts, business administration major. She's a self starter. She's dedicated, and she has this weakened immune system, which took her out of the job market for a while, but now she's trying very hard to get in. And she's contacted a lot of these job shops on the. On the web. I won't mention them by name, but you probably know who they are. And so far, they have been unsuccessful because each client requires, literally, days of unpaid training. And sometimes the training overlaps, but it's still required to do. And then once she gets a job, adherence is. Adherence is defined as being available. And if unavailability is due to a network, her problem, or a server problem, that doesn't count.

Kim Commando
Yeah.

Louis
And you can only work for one of these people, one of these clients at a time through most of these job shops.

Kim Commando
Well, so what you want to do at that point is you want to go direct to an employer. Okay. And so you can, for example, pick some big companies like Amazon. Right. Okay. Amazon has a whole section of remote career opportunities that instead of going to a particular service or agency, is that you go to a big company so if there are companies that I would ask her, companies that she respects, large corporations that she might want to work for, and then to go to their career section and then to look for remote opportunities, remote jobs, and to see which ones that she would like to apply for. Because even though a lot of the workforce is going back, I mean, you know, let's face it, the pandemic's over. And I know people are still getting Covid and I know people are sick. You know, I have a friend of mine who's been sick for two weeks with COVID but for the most part, you know, people are back in the office and, and we are here at the, here at the show and inside the studios. But if you're looking for opportunities, there are still work at home opportunities, but I think you're going to probably find them within the bigger organizations. Now, you can go to sites like LinkedIn and indeed and Ziprecruiter and flex jobs and look for work at home opportunities. And you may find those, too, tied with the bigger corporations. But I just want you to be careful that there's a lot of scams on sometimes on these sites, too, where you're going to have to pay money in order to make money. So that's why I like to recommend going to the bigger companies if she wants to just work for one company and again, look at their career section and then see what type of gigs might be available there also@commando.com. comma. We've got a lot of links to work at home opportunities that are legitimate. It anything from being an online juror to a tutor to being a virtual assistant, call center representative, whatever it may be, and just hit work at home inside the search box. And I'm certain that a whole bunch of things will pop up for you. Louis, thank you so much for being such a longtime listener and first time caller. What took you so long, huh? You're my buddy. We traveled the far and wide together. If I can lend a hand afterwards, Louis, just reach out. I'm here for you. Hey, a couple of things I want to talk about before we talk about washing clothes and making money. Number one is podcasts. I do a podcast Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You can watch me do it live on YouTube.com kimcommando. And Andrew Wabinski's with me. He's a call screener friend of mine forever, Allie Seligman. She's our amazing content queen. She joins us, too, a couple of days a week. And so that's Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 11:30 a.m. pacific time, 02:30 p.m. on the east coast. And it's about 30 to 45 minutes, where we talk about what's going on in the tech world that day. Now, of course, you can also get Kim commando today as a audio podcast. So wherever you get your podcast, just search for commando with a k. Once again, that's k o m a n d o. I know so many people are like, is that commando with a c? No, no, no. They spelled it the wrong way. It's commando with a k. K o m a n d o. All right, let's talk about washing clothes. Here's a little fun fact. You and your family wash about 300 loads of clothes a year, so that makes you pretty much a pro at it, right? So why not use that skill to maybe get some cash on the side? I mean, think about how much time it takes to wash, dry, and fold your own clothes. Now, Whirlpool says the average wash cycle takes about an hour to complete. So for people on the go, that's a lot of time. So if you're on the hunt for a few extra bucks, you can take advantage of this. There's an app called Sudshare. That's Sud. Sudshare. It's a platform for people to wash and fold other people's clothes to earn money. Now, to get started, you just download the app sudshare. You sign up and you accept jobs in your area. Let me tell you something. This is something I would never, ever thought that I would ever talk about on the Kim commando show is making money by washing people's clothes. Anyway, from there, you go to pick up your client's dirty clothes. You wash, dry, and fold them. You return them the next day. So how much money can you make? You can make about $20 an hour. And the app says the minimum per order is $15 and promises you'll make at least that. Hey, just a quick reminder, make sure that you get my free newsletter. Sign up now at get kim.com dot. This program is a copyrighted production of Westar multimedia entertainment and protected by the copyright laws. Any rebroadcast or use of this program for commercial, business, economic, or financial purposes without the written permission of what Westar multimedia entertainment is strictly prohibited.

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