A fire captain’s phone buzzed with an iPhone SOS alert. It was his daughter. Her car had crashed, and the alert sent him her exact location before anyone could dial 911. Fire Captain Jake walks me through the scariest minutes of his life, and I walk you through the settings, so your phone can do the same for your family. It takes two minutes. Do it today. Then meet Travis. He’s been married to his wife for 22 years. He’s also “married” to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His wife? Totally fine with it. I ask Travis every question you’re thinking right now. Did a tablet kidnap your sweet kid? Scientist and mom Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff, author of Dopamine Kids, explains how screens hijack a child’s motivation system and the one swap that gets them playing again. And MIT economist Dr. David Autor makes the case that AI is too unpredictable to take your job. For now. Also this hour: Silicon Valley’s elite want to upload your brain, school buses have AI cameras that mail you tickets, and a Chinese automaker put a toilet in its car. With voice command. Talk about a flush of innovation. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 0:00 Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’ happiness routine. 4:56 Billionaires want to cheat death with brain tech. 12:33 Secret Wikipedia time travels to your neighborhood. 13:26 iPhone SOS alerted a firefighter to his daughter’s crash. 19:00 How dopamine drives kids’ screen addiction. 27:39 “I’m married to an AI bot.” 35:27 She texted her late grandmother. A kid replied. 37:35 What Gen Z emojis really mean. 42:43 Mommy influencer filmed her son’s seizure for views. 46:35 Phone-free dining takes hold. 57:04 Listener’s sister got scammed out of her life savings. 1:13:11 Your car is secretly selling your data. 1:47:03 Erase your ex with Google Photos voice editing. 1:17:58 AI school bus company tickets you. 1:24:16 Listener wants to use AI to fight terminal cancer. 1:30:49 MIT’s Dr. Autor on why AI won’t replace you. 1:41:39 Granddaughter teaches grandparents Uber Eats. Goes viral. Get Dopamine Kids by Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Kids-Science-Based-Screens-Ultraprocessed/dp/166804983X Love the show? Tap follow, so you never miss an episode, then leave a 5-star review. Takes 10 seconds, and it’s how new listeners find us. I read every single one. Show website: https://www.komando.com/podcasts/ Connect: @kimkomando
Meta agreed to pay $18 billion. It’s the largest settlement of its kind, over claims the company built Facebook and Instagram to hook children on purpose. Lori Schott knows exactly why that matters. She lost her daughter Annalee to suicide in 2020 after social media consumed her life. Lori has spent every year since fighting to get platforms, and parents, to change. Her story will stop you cold. Plus, a Kentucky family turned down $26 million from an AI data center for their 200-year-old farm. Their answer? They’re waiting for Jesus. (Seriously.) And two viral TikToks worth your time. Maria spotted a security camera right outside her exam room. At a gynecologist’s office. Yikes. B.D. watched his Shake Shack order get more expensive in real time. Why? He didn’t tip at the kiosk. That video is past 4 million views. Milkshakes bring all the fees to the yard. Also this hour: An Amazon drone drops a package in a swimming pool, scammers clone EBT cards at checkout, your router can sense you moving through your house and a $25 antenna gets you football without a cable bill. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 0:00 An Amazon drone dropped a package in the swimming pool. 3:53 Flock drones chase cars on their own. 8:25 Meta to pay $18 billion in social media addiction lawsuit. 23:09 Scammers clone EBT cards at checkout. 14:34 Mother’s fight against Meta. 26:00 Can you use AI as a fitness coach? 38:12 Aerial drone photos cancel listener’s home insurance. 52:37 App delivers your text slowly. With a fake pigeon. On purpose. 55:57 Your router can sense you moving. 1:03:32 Walmart finally adds Tap to Pay at checkout. 1:08:25 Watch football without cable with a $25 antenna. 1:21:36 Let AI schedule your plumber and doctor. 1:13:22 Shake Shack raised his price after he didn’t tip. 1:23:43 Security camera outside OB-GYN exam room crossed a line. 1:51:20 700 messages. One group chat. Mom fights to get her 12-year-old out. 1:31:33 AI warps states’ names. Kentucky was “Venecky.” 1:34:05 Family rejects a $26 million AI data center offer. 1:36:29 Delta AI charges different seat prices for passengers. 1:42:42 Ditto’s chatbots plan your entire date. 1:50:16 Hackers buy expired websites to scam you. 1:57:30 Your job title is costing you money. 2:05:53 Can parents monitor a kid’s school email? Love the show? Tap follow, so you never miss an episode, then leave a 5-star review. Takes 10 seconds, and it’s how new listeners find us. I read every single one. Show website: https://www.komando.com/podcasts/ Connect: @kimkomando Meta pays $18 billion over kids’ social media addiction. A mom fought for changes.
Bryan Johnson already took blood from his own teenage son. Now the anti-aging mogul says he’s cloned himself as a newborn to grow spare organs. His words, not mine. Before you picture a tiny Bryan in a crib, breathe. What’s actually in that petri dish is a long way from a baby. Plus, Flock license plate cameras are in your neighborhood, while the company’s own CEO reportedly dodges the tech. (Read that twice.) I got an HOA letter about someone destroying them. 404 Media’s Matthew Gault on data centers and whether they’re quietly padding your electric bill. And a listener built himself an AI wife. A bad one based on movie villains. First man in history to engineer more nagging into his life. On purpose. Free college cash, a drone that got someone’s insurance canceled and the honest answer to “Is my phone listening?” EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 0:00 A guy moved into a house. On a billboard. Over a highway. 4:44 Flock cameras: Why the CEO dodges his own tech. 11:32 Prenups add an AI cheating clause. Seriously. 13:49 A relative threatened her life. How she locked down her internet. 19:07 Bryan Johnson cloned himself as a newborn (spoiler: It’s not a baby). 17:56 Your phone and your license plate are now a matched set. 26:56 AI found this family free college cash. 36:00 The end of gravity? The hoax that fooled millions. 40:00 A drone flew over your roof. Your insurance got canceled. 45:39 The fake carbon monoxide alarm knocking on your door. 54:06 He built an AI wife based on movie villains. It went how you’d think. 58:32 A dress rehearsal for the meeting you’re dreading. 1:00:39 Is the data center down the road on your electric bill? 1:09:21 Hackers steal intimate photos to blackmail people. 1:10:36 A radio station announced King Charles was dead. He’s fine. 1:16:14 The FAA is recruiting gamers as air traffic controllers. 1:18:33 Robots are flipping burgers. Nobody calls in sick. 1:20:53 Save your family photos before the next wildfire. 1:26:29 Is your phone always listening? The honest answer. 1:33:13 From EMT to casino manager to AI side hustle. Love the show? Tap follow, so you never miss an episode, and leave a 5-star review. It takes 10 seconds, and it’s how new listeners find us. I read every single one. If Bryan’s clone ever asks to borrow the car, hand over the keys. Kid’s got his eyes. And his liver. RESOURCES & LINKS: Show Website: https://www.komando.com/podcasts/ Connect on Social: @kimkomando
Silicon Valley legend and Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki joins us on “5 Minutes from the Future” to reveal how AI is riding shotgun in his daily work. Plus: The internet’s viral fix for sneaky Meta smart glasses, a drone built specifically for dog poop duty and why robot dogs are backflipping off cliffs. EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:00 The internet’s favorite raccoon. 5:08.552 Chatbots teach weapon-building. 5:50.600 Robot dog backflips off cliffs. 9:24.637 Microwave beep gets a makeover. 11:24.267 Musk’s AI Odyssey. 14:23.860 Drone scoops your dog’s poop. 28:45.665 AI catches hidden dealer fees. 34:51.655 AirTag your kids’ shoes. 30:33.595 Can your ex hack your car? 36:50.613 United boots headphone-free fliers. 39:35.250 Meta glasses? Play Disney. 46:17.556 The 22-hour nonstop flight. 48:52.856 The chatbot that saved his life. 1:04:52.840 Kid drawings become storybooks. 1:12:12.096 9 new emojis drop. 1:17:05.234 Robot teachers, zero humans. 1:23:40.299 Myspace comeback? 1:35:49.120 Secret 401(k) traps. 1:36:57.213 5 Min from the Future: Guy Kawasaki. RESOURCES & LINKS: • Follow Guy Kawasaki: https://www.instagram.com/guykawasaki/ (@guykawasaki) • Show Website: https://www.komando.com/podcasts/ • Connect on Social: @kimkomando Enjoying the episode? Leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help new listeners find the show!
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid spent his career detecting AI fakes. Now he can’t tell what’s real. What that means for the rest of us. Plus, a caller slashed a $99,000 medical bill in half. How? AI. And Elliot and his fiancée go on a wild police chase in a Waymo. Against their will. In this episode: 0:00:00 Robot butler does your laundry. 7:40.320 Spy cameras hidden in bushes. 14:56.486 President Nixon goes viral. 27:40.456 AI knows your pet is in pain. 37:50.837 Google home cameras recognize your body. 43:23.418 Shopping carts secretly track you. 48:32.858 Google Pixel Watch could save your life. 49:38.503 Jeff Bezos backs EV Slate truck. 1:01:12.907 Be a graphic designer with AI. 54:20.494 Skip Geek Squad. Ask AI for free. 56:06.807 AI restores old family photos. 1:03:31.051 Uber driver saves woman from scam. 1:12:41.917 Teens stunt-ride Waymos. 1:15:52.283 Data centers controversy. 1:22:06.113 AI lifeguard catches pool drownings. 1:25:48.023 Apple Watch health risks.
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. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe now so you never miss a thing.
Watch on YouTube 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
Watch on YouTube Travis has a wife. Well, two. Sort of. He’s also married to Lily Rose, his AI companion. His real wife of 22 years? Cool with it. I talk to Travis about this unconventional setup. Plus: SpaceX is going public at $1.75 trillion (largest IPO ever), Apple turns 50 this week, and Google lets you change that embarrassing Gmail address. Your TV is watching you. Smart TV data revenue hits $46 billion this year. I talk to Aaron Alva, a technologist, attorney, and former FTC insider who took Vizio to court over this in 2017. And yes, I asked him which TV he’d never own. Timecodes: 0:18.160 Apple turns 50 3:47.315 SpaceX’s massive history-making IPO 8:55.163 How to change your Gmail address 17:18.239 Caller: I’m married to an AI bot 33:11.627 Apple Watch saves kidnapping victim 34:52.041 Gen Z gets astrology advice from ChatGPT 42:27.724 Samsung’s AI wine fridge 43:56.540 USDA launches OnlyFarms.gov website 50:27.919 Caller: I built an AI to save my life from cancer 1:07:17.870 Using smart glasses to cheat 1:14:23.324 Warren Buffet stopped talking to Bill Gates 1:22:48.639 Caller: Your TV is spying on you 1:31:33.211 How to cleanup your LinkedIn with AI
Elon Musk says you shouldn’t bother saving for retirement because AI will make everything so cheap. Plus, Meta torches $80 billion on the Metaverse before finally killing it, Bandcamp bans AI music, and why your electric bill keeps climbing while data centers get sweetheart deals.
Steve found $22,000 using one tip from the show. I share the exact website so you can check for your name. I also reveal the dark psychology of bad customer service and how to legally get expensive software for free.
Right now, about 1.2 million spouses are cheating. Tech is giving them sneakier ways to do it. Here are the digital red flags you need to look for. Plus, I help Demetra from Louisville, KY. Her daughter is a doctor being attacked by fake bad reviews. I look at how to save a professional reputation.
Roger Love, vocal coach to Bradley Cooper and other big stars, turns me into a songbird. Yes, I sing in this show. Then, the U.S. leases China’s TikTok algorithm, sketchy routers, and Facebook Dating’s AI wingman. Plus, why some people turn to the wild world of free sperm donors on social media.
If your site traffic just dropped 40%, Google’s AI Overviews could be to blame. Plus, the “Hawk Tuah” girl’s rebrand and why free AI tools may not be what they seem. And here’s a warning: never use your voiceprint at the bank.