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👋Hey, friend, it’s Kim. Welcome to another weekend and another show that’s on over 500 radio stations now. Thank you for your support. It means so much. Really.
So let me tell you what’s on your radio, podcast player and my YouTube channel.
Engineers who build AI tell you why they’re scared, a woman jailed over a license plate camera, and two words that get you past any robot on the phone. Grab it before the weekend gets away from you.
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🎙️ On the show this weekend
A researcher quit Anthropic before his stock vested to warn us. His goodbye post got 90 million views in a day. One safety lead puts the odds of AI wiping us out at more than 10% this decade. “Just unplug it” isn’t a plan. I do have one though, and it starts with five minutes tonight.
Then Lindsey Isaacs. Asleep at home. A camera logged her black Durango two minutes before a deadly crash. The real car was maroon. She spent 13 days in maximum security, facing 145 years.
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🧊 NUMBER OF THE WEEK: 135,000
That’s how many text messages’ worth of data one smart appliance can send home every week. Consumer Reports wired up 12 fridges, ranges, dishwashers and washers. Every one phoned home. What your washing machine knows about you is in the first two minutes of the show.
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⏩ JUMP TO A SEGMENT
Every line takes you straight to that spot on YouTube.
▶ Your refrigerator is texting. Here’s who it’s texting.
▶ The AI that sabotaged its own shutdown 79 times out of 100.
▶ 1,200 “isolated” AI agents found a secret group chat. Then they hacked out.
▶ Five things to do tonight. The first takes five minutes.
▶ Fake Disney and Delta ads on Facebook are installing something ugly.
▶ Caller: the two words that get a human on the phone every time.
▶ The $135,000 companion robot. 13,000 people bought one.
▶ NYC’s 10-minute toilets. Then you get dethroned.
▶ Brand New or Not True: Andrew in the hot seat.
▶ AI settles whose nose the baby got. One prompt.
▶ Turn your selfie into an ’80s yearbook photo.
▶ Ford fired the engineers for AI, then hired 350 back.
▶ Tesla Roadster hovers. GM kills the dipstick.
🎲 BRAND NEW OR NOT TRUE
Two products below are fake, one is real. Andrew had to pick. So do you.
A $199 smart mailbox that AI-reads every envelope and shreds the junk. “Never shred anything from Grandma” mode included.
Contact lenses that float live captions under the chin of whoever’s talking. 41 languages. “Polite mode” skips the swear words.
A lollipop that plays music through your teeth into your inner ear. Nobody else hears it.
The answer’s in the show. No peeking.
✂️ CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR
Two tips that didn’t make the show. Email readers only.
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Chrome finally has a sidebar for tabs. If you live with 30 tabs open, right-click the empty space next to your last tab and pick Show tabs vertically. Every tab gets a readable name down the left side instead of a favicon the size of a Tic Tac. Bonus: Right-click any article and choose Open in reading mode. No ads, no sidebars, just the words, with a font size you pick.
🥁 WORST JOKES OF THE WEEK
Which type of loan does an introvert prefer? A leave me alone.
I asked my phone to find a stud. It pointed at Barry. Then it recalibrated.
I really hate satellites. They’re just a waste of space.
(Andrew groaned at all three. That’s the review I trust.)
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🙏🏻 Thanks for being here. It’s a tough day for me. My wonderful mom died five years ago today. It feels like yesterday.
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Kim
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