4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Kim talks to Craig Jackson, Chairman and CEO of Barrett-Jackson and a pioneer in online bidding. This year’s Scottsdale, Ariz. auction is the biggest in history. Learn about the technology that powers the world’s greatest collector car auctions. Plus, Kim helps a caller who was scammed trying to fix his computer, and meet a lost hiker who used her iPhone flashlight — and a dose of luck — to get out of a scary situation.
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0:00.0 | Now I'm confronted with what do I do here. I'm in trouble because I am not where I thought I would be. |
0:05.7 | I know I can trace my steps back, but the problem is that if I go back, it was about an hour of |
0:11.4 | walking that I had done by now. It's going to be completely dark in the midst of the wood. |
0:16.5 | Welcome to Commando on Demand Insider, your fast-paced weekly update straight from Kim's desk to your ears. |
0:22.4 | I'm Mike James, and today Kim talks with the chairman and CEO of Barrett Jackson Auction Company. |
0:28.5 | This year is the 49th anniversary of the huge Barrett Jackson Auto Auction, |
0:33.7 | millions of dollars worth of cars, and we'll explore the tech behind the auction as well in just a bit. |
0:39.5 | And we're going to try to find you some free money today. |
0:43.1 | That's right. Old tech that's laying around your house could be worth, well actually there's one piece of technology that many had sitting in their living rooms back in the day. |
0:53.1 | That's now worth $25,000. |
0:56.9 | How about another life-saving iPhone story? |
1:00.1 | We love these life-saving iPhone stories, |
1:03.2 | and we've got a woman who was saved in Tampa, Florida. |
1:06.5 | Plus, if you've ever felt guilty because you had to leave your best friend at home, your dog, |
1:12.2 | we've got news for you that might just help. |
1:14.7 | We're also going to hear from a guy who couldn't get his computer to connect to Wi-Fi, |
1:18.0 | so we tried to reboot and then Google HP Help Desk. |
1:23.0 | Why, that's a very bad idea. |
1:25.4 | What happened and how can he fix it? |
1:27.7 | And every week we give you a trivia question to kind of test your knowledge of technology. |
1:32.8 | We ask that you don't Google the answer. |
1:35.3 | Just try to figure it out from a process of elimination. |
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