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Mark Aram show on 95.5 WSB. Joining us live on the Mark Arum show, as she does every week, Wednesday, bi weekly, the most syndicated talk show host in the nation, our dear friend Kim Commando. Kim. Happy New Year, buddy.

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Happy New Year to you too, Mark.

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Very true.

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To kick off, I missed you too. Did you have a good Christmas and New Year's and all that?

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I did. Everything's fabulous. Although I'll tell you, I don't know what's happening, but I think everybody who didn't want to work in November and December is suddenly like jamming it now because I'm so busy.

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Yeah, well, I mean, gosh, the news cycle just will not stop, including this that came across my desk. And I'm really concerned about it. Is it possible, Kim, that my router at home is selling my data?

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Yeah, this is something that a lot of people don't think about, that your wifi router isn't there just twiddling its antennas. While you're connecting your phone to Netflix, it's actively scanning everything around it, collecting data on you, everyone and everything nearby. It's actually kind of creepy. But the leader of the pack is Amazon. Why? Because of the Echo and Ring devices. Amazon, they're just brilliant. I mean, they created a neighborhood networks throughout the country for free by using their something called the Amazon Sidewalk. And so the whole idea is that if your neighbor's ring loses WI fi, it hops on your Echo to upload footage. What? Yes. So you're actually running this free surveillance infrastructure for Amazon that you never agreed to it. Your neighbors. Even the guy who lets his dog poop on your lawn.

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That guy.

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Yeah. He even gets a piece of the Internet that you pay for. They say it's a really tiny, tiny slice. But you are sharing your Internet with other Amazon gadgets up to a half a mile away, again using this Amazon Sidewalk. So what you do is you have to get into your Alexa app and then find Amazon Sidewalk and then toggle that to off. And the same thing for your ring.

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You know, I actually knew about that. I had a friend that worked in Amazon and I was trying to. I was asking him, you know, behind the scenes how the Amazon prime video works. And he's like, oh, you know, it was technical jargon, but basically it's not one. You know, there's not one server that is just playing the natural for me on Amazon Prime. It's bits and pieces. I guess that sidewalk is part of it.

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Well, and it's not just sidewalk. You know, every phone, your laptop, whatever device you have, it broadcasts what's called a Mac address, and it's a digital fingerprint. And so your router picks up these signals from every single device nearby. So if you're using Eero or Google Nest, they can actually build profiles of who's near your house, who's in your house, and then send that data back to the mothership. And if you're renting a router from your isp. Okay, let me tell you, that's not good. Your ISP is probably broadcasting a second hidden signal from your equipment so that strangers can hop on your WI fi.

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So, like, I don't have. I've got a. I don't know if I should say the name of the company, but I've got amazingly fast in home Internet, the company begins with an X and ends with a Y. Are they sharing my data? Can I opt out of that at all?

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Yeah, what you want to do is look for a second hidden signal. It should be called Xfinity WiFi from your equipment so that this way strangers won't be able to hop on. Now, the ISPs claim that all this traffic is separate, but you are still subsidizing their national network with your electricity. Plus, it can slow down your speeds and it gives people a reason to linger outside your house. And so again, you want to look at your isp, account for something like public WI Fi hotspot, and then toggle that off.

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Gotcha. All right, that's brilliant. Yeah. I don't want the guy whose dog is pooping on My driveway to get the WI Fi. You mentioned Amazon, obviously. Jeff Bezos, the founder, billionaire, almost trillionaire owner of Amazon. How long does it take to tech bros like Bezos and Elon Musk to earn the average American's annual salary?

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Well, this is astounding. Well, the average American worker earns about $63,800 a year. And so let me ask you. I'll give you a couple of options. Okay, Mark? And let's see if you can guess. Okay, so how long does it take Jeff Bezos to earn that same amount? Is it 28 seconds, four minutes, one hour, or one business day?

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I'm gonna say an hour. One hour. 63,000 bucks.

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Okay.

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Eh. No, 28 seconds.

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Goodness gracious.

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Okay, 28 seconds. He brings in roughly $2,300 per second. Per second. That's insane. Elon Musk, 21 seconds. The guy who's in charge of Nvidia. It's 28 seconds. Mark Zuckerberg, 24 seconds. So in the time that we've been talking here, they probably made, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars.

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Okay, that's insane. All right, so the average. You said the average salary is $63,800. So that means Mark Arum earns the average yearly salary every 18 months. Okay, so not 27 seconds. 18 months to get the.

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That's.

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Wow.

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All right.

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I mean, listen, I'm not gonna hate. Good for them. Industry pioneers, et cetera, et cetera. I wanna be one of them. Can I make money doing AI as a side hustle?

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Kim, you know you can. And I'm not talking about selling MLM shakes on TikTok or anything like that. You can really make money. There's this guy, Andy. He came on my show five years ago. He's a janitor making $32,000 a year. Today he's a freelance software developer making $150,000 a year. And just last month, he charged 15 grand for a custom CRM system. Okay, so how did he get from being a janitor to this? Well, he spent every lunch break for the last 18 months watching free AI tutorials. So he didn't do any boot camp. He didn't take a degree. Also, Sarah was on my show. She's an English teacher. She's making 48 grand a year. She started offering AI consulting on Fiverr, teaching other teachers how to automate their lesson plans and gradings. The first month she made $800. Ten months later, she made $11,000. So how do you do this? Well, number one, you pick your skill. What are you known for? You build your proof. You have samples of your work. You set up shop, say, on upwork or fiverr. And then you have to hustle. Okay? What nobody wants to tell you is that this is not easy. Okay? You actually have to work at it. But the only difference between you and them is that they started it. And your hustle should start today. Not next week, not next month, but today. But if you need any help, I love to take these phone calls on my show. And if you go to commando.com, there's a link at the top that says ask Kim. And if you fill that out, the producers will call you, and we'll actually schedule you into the show so you don't have to sit on hold.

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That's amazing. All right. Commando.com. all right. Yeah, I want to make $11,000 extra a month giving AI advice to folks because obviously I am now an AI expert. All right, listen, Kim, I gotta hurry up and get home and change the settings on my WI fi so the neighbors can't steal it. Kim, great stuff as always. I'll listen to you this weekend. Thanks for your time, buddy.

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Thanks, Mark.

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There you go. Good stuff. That's scary. Your router, sharing your data. See, for years, Deborah, I was stealing my neighbor's WI fi. I should have got. If could. I should have stuck with that mode. That way I don't have to worry about his data. I wonder how he's doing. He was a good dude. He was a good. He. He even knew good.

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I stole from him.

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Yeah, no, he was open. It was an open WI fi and he knew I was. I was on it. He couldn't see my browser history or anything that would have. Are you sure he said he couldn't? I don't know. He was a good dude.

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