Every morning your mail carrier knows what’s heading to your mailbox. You don’t. A free USPS tool emails you pictures of what’s coming every day. Plus, Twitch star Emily CC has has been streaming her whole life 24/7. Over four years straight. 400,000 strangers see almost everything. I ask her why.
You paid $90 at the pharmacy. The person behind you paid $8. Same drug. The simple trick to save you money. Plus, AI companies are paying experts like Dr. Jay up to $150 an hour to train their AI models. Here’s how to get started.
This Memorial Day, honor your family’s heroes by uncovering their history. The National Archives and Fold3 have digitized WWII draft cards, signatures, and records for free.
After cutting 8,000 jobs, Meta told its remaining employees something jaw-dropping: every keystroke you type at work is being recorded. Why? To train the AI that could replace you. If that doesn’t make you put down your coffee, this will. Your AI therapy chats? Not as private as you think. They could be read back to you in a courtroom.
Kim Komando breaks it all down, plus the tech stories affecting your money, your privacy, and your life right now.
This week on The Kim Komando Show:
1:17.870 – Smartphones and falling birth rates. The connection is real.
6:35.184 – AI recovers $400K in forgotten Bitcoin. (You might want to check your old hard drives.)
13:03.114 – Strangers form a human roadblock to stop a swerving driver
38:50.210 – Find your ancestor’s WWI and WWII draft cards online, free
42:53.853 – A CIA scientist claims the government knows about four alien species. (His words.)
50:01.500 – One bride used ChatGPT to design her own wedding dress and saved $12,000
1:02:22.007 – University of Virginia researcher Maria Lungu on AI-powered wrongful arrests
1:15:46.260 – The Air Force wants to land rockets on old oil rigs
1:30:33.282 – A hacker held a Facebook account for ransom
1:39:32.183 – A grandpa uses AI to write a children’s book for his grandkids. (Grab the tissues.)
Plus: delivery drivers kept pulling into the wrong driveway. So Tom did what any totally normal person would do. He programmed a drone to write directions in the sky. It worked.
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Imagine your pet goes missing, and hours later you get a photo of them on an operating table with a demand for $2,700 to “save” them. It’s a terrifying new scam that happened to a Florida family. I spoke with them about how they were almost duped.
McAfee says voice clones hit 85% accuracy. 70% of us can’t tell what’s real. The one word that’ll save you $18,000.
Sunrise walks with my dogs Bella and Abby is how I give my brain a break. To keep the peace, I use prayer apps. Here are the free ones worth trying.
Your friend booked the same flight for way less money. It wasn’t luck. JetBlue is being sued for allegedly using customers’ personal data to set ticket prices. Here’s how to save money on your next flight.
You texted your client “the eel is done” instead of “the deal is done.” Yikes! Autocorrect mistakes costs businesses $3.5 billion a year. Fight back with this tip.
Gas prices are creeping up. These free tricks can help you find the cheapest pump near you.
Cut the costs, not the entertainment. Stop overpaying for multiple subscriptions and start watching your favorite shows for zilch right now.
That resume you just emailed? It might be ratting you out. Some free resume builders embed invisible tracking pixels that phone home the moment someone opens your file.
Laptop prices are climbing, but you don’t have to settle for the sticker price. You can outsmart the latest price hikes without overpaying.
Your TV has a hidden feature that’s been tracking you and selling your data for years. Hear how to turn it off for free.
Skip the $300 wall-mounted unit. Your dusty old tablet can become a free command center that controls every smart light, lock, speaker, and camera in your house from one touchscreen.
That loyalty discount comes with a hidden price tag, your data sold to brokers, banks, and even health insurer partners. I’ll show you the free trick that lets you keep the savings without handing over your real info.
Cutting cable was supposed to save us money. Now the average family pays $972 a year on streaming. Yikes! Hear how to stop overpaying.
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It starts at 6:00 AM in their billionaire bunker. No phones. Instead, they write a gratitude list of ten things, with one rule: they can’t repeat anything from the day before. I cover what they’re thankful for.
Plus, Silicon Valley’s elite want to upload your brains, a recruiter exposes a North Korean spy, and ways to stop your kids’ endless scrolling.
Did the tablet kidnap your sweet child? Don’t worry, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff knows how to get them back. She’s a scientist and mom who knows how screens hijack a kid’s motivation system. In her book Dopamine Kids, she shares how to swap the screen-time stress for play.
And meet the world’s first AI store manager. Lukas Petersson of Andon Labs gave $100K to an AI agent named Luna to open a store. How’d it go? Luna didn’t only write code. She signed a lease, haggled with suppliers, and hired human employees. The result? Andon Market, a boutique in SF.
Timecodes:
00:00 Lauren Sánchez and Bezos’s happiness routine
05:34 Why Silicon Valley elite want all your knowledge
08:14 AI cannot read an analog clock
11:10 The AI Jesus app
13:11 Job interviewer exposes a North Korean fake IT worker
15:43 Man finds hidden Wikipedia feature
17:01 Caller: ChatGPT diagnosed my car
21:44 Slay your property tax bill with AI
23:27 Caller: Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff
32:07 Shopper targeted with AI deepfake
34:00 AI beauty pageant
37:18 Mommy influencers takeover
40:48 AI school bus company ticketing you
43:49 Woman texts late grandma’s phone number
46:01 Caller: My Alexa has an attitude
49:44 Caller: AI is the boss at San Francisco retail store
56:55 AI Tool of the Week: Meta AI Muse Spark
58:54 Lithium battery rules for AirTags
1:01:31 Caller: Man’s 100,000 recorded concerts hit the internet
1:07:27 Gen Z emojis: what do they mean?
1:13:29 Kalshi prediction markets
1:18:31 Waymo and Waze partner up to fix potholes
1:18:54 Air New Zealand adds beds in the sky
1:20:46 Phone-free restaurants
1:30:18 AI helps with stocks
1:33:09 Caller: Granddaughter’s phone brings a stranger to her door
1:39:58 Your car is a snitch
You pass by history every day and you don’t even know it. This hidden Wikipedia app feature gives you a free lesson about the places around you.
The average fraud victim loses over $1,000 before they notice something is wrong in their bank account. Don’t let that be you. I have the free fix that stops scammers cold.
