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But if you did follow me on Instagram, Kim, at Mark Arum, you would see it's a majority of food and puppy pics. But apparently my love of food could make me some money. Is it a possible side gig to eat? You know, we've all heard about mystery shoppers, right? They've been around for decades. Mystery dining has had a resurgence, especially since COVID. There are companies like iSpy, Market Force, and Secret Shopper. and basically what happens is that they give you some gift cards and you go out to eat and then afterwards you take some photos and you talk about the service and how the food was and then you report back. You can get a dinner budget up to $150, lunch gigs maybe up to $75. Of course, you're not going to start there. You're going to start like with Chipotle or Krispy Kreme or maybe Xfinity or something like that. But once you start giving in some good feedback and doing some good gigs then you specialize in like fine dining you go to cocktail lounges also even includes hotel stays and it does include maybe even tips and travel budgets too Wow So is it in this in this side gig is it the benefit just free meals and cocktails and tips and maybe a hotel, or do you get paid in addition to that? Oh no, you know, you're just getting free meals. Okay. Well, I mean, Hey, that for, you know, a lot of us are still are food insecure. You know, food sometimes is better than money. It certainly is for me. So how do I sign up? I mean, I've got the bona fides, Kim. I have got the bona fides. How do I sign up for this? You know, one guy said that he eats out about $13,000 a year worth at one of these sites. I mean, that's a lot of food. iSpy, MarketForce, Secret Shopper, links at commando.com with a K, of course. Now, if you just Google this, you're going to find every scam under the sun. Okay. And so these are really the three drivers that are legit. And again, that's iSpy, E-Y-E Spy, MarketForce and Secret Shopper. And I would imagine they tell you where to go. You don't just go, hey, I'm going to go to... Oh, no, no. You have to fill out an application, answer a whole bunch of questions. You may or may not be selected. And then if you are selected, it's just like a job. And by the way, the more expensive the meal, the more detailed the feedback. This gentleman that I spoke to, that he did get a $275 meal at a fine restaurant that included two bottles of wine, okay, but he said the report took about three hours to do afterwards. So, you know, there's pros and cons to everything. There's no such thing as a free lunch. So who's funding all of this? Why is this service exist? What's the end game? Sometimes you have like just market research. The corporations are behind it. So like if you're going to go into Chipotle or Krispy Kreme, as I mentioned, that's going to be funded by Chipotle or Krispy Kreme because maybe they want to see how a particular store is being, you know, how the service is in a store rather. I was hesitating because it reminded me of there's a supermarket chain called Albertsons and the CEO of that supermarket chain would routinely fly in from city to city to check out the stores. But as it turned out, the employees would look at FlightAware and start seeing when his plane was coming in. And so what he had to do he actually have to like blank black out the tail number because everybody knew when he was arriving So it wasn really like just a spot on like oh how everybody doing Well God forbid he flies commercial I mean that would have been I want to end with this, Kim. I told you last week I regifted my Meta glasses, but these smart glasses are becoming more and more prevalent. And apparently Ray-Bans with tiny cameras now are checking folks out. Well, it's actually a little bit more than that. You have Meta's Ray-Ban glasses. They pack a 12-megapixel camera, and they have five mics. And so you can say, hey, Meta, take a video. A small white LED light blinks when recording, but it's invisible in sunlight. But the big thing about this is that Meta is now putting facial recognition called name tag into these glasses. And it's going to match your face against three billion folks across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And then imagine this. Somebody's walking up to you, Mark, with these Meta Ray-Ban glasses. And it says, oh, Mark Arum, he is a morning show guy at WSB. And these are his last three social media posts. And so that's what's happening is that it's going to be able to identify just about anybody who you see as you are walking down the street or in a coffee shop or wherever. I'm not worried about that because most facial recognition software identifies me as Adam Sandler. so people are gonna be like oh what's Adam Sandler doing walking down Peachtree Street in Atlanta uh that's kind of that's kind of scary well there's actually this guy his name's David Williams he met a woman on a dating app they went back to a hotel they he secretly recorded the entire encounter using his smart glasses and the next day she texted him said hey thanks for a good time and he said well here maybe you want the video uh yeah the guy wore the smart glasses to bed That should have been a red flag. He had to plead guilty to voyeurism. If you're watching the live feed, you see my shocked face right now on the video. OMG. All right. Vinny. Vinny's out on the prowl. If you meet a lady out and she won't take off her glasses, require the glasses come off. That's crazy. All right. Win for Kim.com. Win from Kim.com. Win from Kim.com. $250 a day. Almost over. Kim, great stuff as always, my friend. You betcha. Thanks, Mark. Hey, if you love staying tech ahead, then you're going to love, love, love. I'm talking about my free newsletter called The Current. Join almost a million folks who get it every single day. It's quick, smart, and only takes five minutes a day. Yes, sign up right now at GetKim.com. That's GetKim.com.
