Tonight on CEP! Women's health coach Emily Marino shows up to shed light on some things.

• She explains WHY perimenopausal women experience the symptoms they do.
• She also says something I wish I'd known years ago: When you're under a huge amount of stress, it doesn't matter how much broccoli you eat. Your body isn't digesting anything properly! You digest junk food better when you're sitting with a friend, than it does good food with a foe.
• What are you feeding yourself? Food is information, food is programming.
• The same goes for entertainment: What are you feeding your soul? Most new shows are killing shows or political battles. Interestingly, your brain actually believes you're in that situation, so it adds to your stress.
• "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Dr. Wayne Dyer
• Finally, today's article is about how "connected cars" are vulnerable to a bad guy to hijack the controls of your car - all with zero benefit. The industry is scrambling to keep all of this under control with ultracomplex cybersecurity.
• Nobody realizes we could simply make the decision to avoid all of that garbage technology, and simply never have a problem. Leaving your car, and yourself, open to attacks is a choice. Why would you give that much power away?

Visit Emily at rediscoverhealthroc.com and visit thecomputerexorcist.com to buy my book!

Tonight on CEP!

• Programmer and YouTuber K0 returns to finish our 7000 Download Celebration!
• He explains how Support Scammers and their mules operate and what his group is doing to protect seniors who encounter them.
• Apple's attempt to detect "depression and cognitive impairment"
• What they record about you to make that detection, and why the whole thing is sad.
• The difference between Opt-In versus force-attacks when a new feature comes out.
• Imagine a product that does what you want!
• Once we put out all the fires in the industry, we discuss creating GOOD products that actually respect the user. Someday!
• "Yellow Dots of Mystery" - yet another way printers are spying on you.
• "It's not a bunch of men smoking cigars in a room..." how the cogs in the industry are just doing what they think is right.
• Software tethered to the factory using crazy DRM schemes, vs Donationware, that simply works forever.

Check out his YouTube page "TotallyNotK0", or join the good fight and start protecting seniors for a living at BecomeAnExorcist.com

Tonight on CEP!

• We're celebrating hitting 7000 downloads by interviewing a really brilliant programmer called K0.
• We concur on things like the hazards of fake cleaners and futility of consumer VPNs, and how both of us find our 10 year old laptops to be perfectly sufficient even for our advanced work.
• We discuss how you have the familiar Windows on one side, and the "for developers by developers" Linux on the other. He emphasizes that there is NO NEED for that tradeoff. You CAN have both simplicity and reliability.
• His volunteer group Raven are creating tools to simplify Windows and remove any treacherous anti-features: Even Windows 11's "New Notepad" has anti-features!
• They're also making a new desktop environment, or "dashboard" for Windows that brings back the simplicity.
• We discuss how naggy software should just be simple and blunt about asking for money one time.
• Finally, we discuss WHY the industry is ruled by a small pile of monopolies.
• Check out his YouTube channel "TotallyNotK0" to learn about the bloat and how to put a stop to it!

Join the good fight and help protect seniors for a living at BecomeAnExorcist.com

Tonight on CEP: A very special Torment a Scammer episode!

• Marc announces his new Webinar Waiting Lists - one for consumers and one for aspiring technicians!
• Foghorn calls those Norton impostors back, and asks them why they keep urging him to cancel. (Once you request a refund, they can ask for your credit card or bank account numbers.)
• I then hear another guy in the background scamming someone else, so I ask my scammer about him.
• Once I finally let him into my test computer, he claims there's "AI Software scanning your computer", when in reality he's snooping around looking for passwords.
• The next call was done by a buddy of mine who goes by Karl Millechamp. I pass him the number for an Apple impostor and he makes quick work of them. When they ask for his name, he takes them on a journey through wild spellings ("K A J R X L...") and they fall for it. It's a comedic masterpiece unlike anything you've heard here so far.

So if you're ready to learn more about tech or want join the good fight, sign up for my webinar waiting list at thecomputerexorcist.com !

Tonight we have a very special 100th episode for you!

• We broadcast from Dr. Mike's hot sauce cellar in Ohio, where Marc breathes clean air and displays a sense of humor
• We revisit the Right to Repair Movement- exposing how Apple designs their products to be so difficult to repair you end up throwing them in the garbage.
• When Apple removed all the ports from its laptops a few years ago, luckily there was a backlash. They eventually relented and for the next model ended up restoring a few real ports like HDMI.
• Mike then breaks out his Microsoft Surface 3 - a full PC laptop crammed into the size of a tablet. Great idea if it weren't so brittle.
• Like almost all Windows laptops, it was collecting dust under his bed after being bombarded with update attacks. So we wiped it and liberated it with Mint, right there on the show! It'll be good for at least another 5 years of virtually bulletproof computing. No more Copilot attacks, no more nonsense.
• Finally, we touch on the latest overkill feature of the iPhone - LEO Satellite Phone communication, and explain that there are a few different technologies available to accomplish this.

If you've got a Windows machine collecting dust, contact your local Computer Exorcist to liberate it with Mint! thecomputerexorcist.com

Spoiler alert - the answer is yes. They're sucking every photo you take into iCloud, and analyzing it to make sure you're not up to no good. Control always helps the situation, right?

While they refuse to assist the government get into iPhones in exceptional cases such as the San Bernardino attack, they'll gladly spy on you themselves all day long.

As always, the bad guys just laugh and move on to other platforms. This creates another perfect storm of injustice, where they get away with things but YOU the consumer are micro-controlled.

Next, we "dissect" an article about Pig Butchering Scams, pun intended. WSJ sat down with two experts who explain the new scam where scammers earn your trust and then go in for the kill. They try and get you to fall in love with them and then give them your money or divulge details about your life that could be used to steal your identity.

As usual, people think that somehow playing Whac-a-Mole will stop this threat, but ten seconds later they'll just start another scam factory. As usual, the IT industry thinks that having validation schemes, the equivalent to putting gold star stickers on people's foreheads, will somehow solve it. The bad guys just shrug and sign up for the validation schemes and keep on scamming.

In reality, the ONLY THING that can EVER stop social scams is AWARENESS. Thanks for telling your friends about the show, and be sure to buy the preview edition of my forthcoming book, available at thecomputerexorcist.com

So! Now that we hit the brakes last week on lives that were headed in the wrong direction, how do we create the lives we actually want?

Today, a Quantum Growth Practitioner named Elizabeth Gifford Maffei joins us to answer that question.

• Many people stay home and just "exist", because they were told they are useless and can do nothing else. In reality, you were put here for a reason, and you can do many things for the world. Someone out there needs you.
• It's not our natural state to worry, hate, fear, or sit idle.
• Many people now spend their days judging or fearing others, but if we remember to "Worry about yourself!", we'd have the time to achieve our dreams.
• You have the power to create your life any way you choose. Even if you don't believe in Quantum theory, you can still shift your mentality from complaining about shortcomings to focusing on what you can do to get to your goal.
• It starts by raising your hand and declaring that you want to drop those old neural pathways, those old habits, and carve a new path in life.
• "Your thoughts and words become things."
• We must also remember to open ourselves up to receiving what God/Universe is trying to give us. If you give and give, it's like exhaling all the time without inhaling!

I hope you felt the healing that I felt during today's discussion. To learn more, visit www.elizabethgiffordmaffei.com

Do you ever feel like your life is going off course in the wrong direction? Do you worry that you've wasted time? Well have we got a show for you! Today we'll talk about how to put your foot down and stop the car, and reorient yourself toward where you want to be. Stacey Altomari joins us to talk about:

• WHY we tend to obsess over threats
• Your body actually resets itself once a threat is gone - but modern life has another one around the corner!
• Do you ever notice how the news always manages to cook up some catastrophic situation, yet we always manage to survive?
• Our "inner child" is in control, and how to "re-parent" yourself
• That time wasn't wasted - you spent it accumulating lessons
• We actually have a built-in pause button!
• You have a choice - you have the power to change your life whenever you're ready - and it's never too late.
• Being yourself instead of conforming to what you think you're supposed to be
• Not surrendering to a cold, dark, random universe, but rather, choosing to be open to what the benevolent universe is trying to give you
• SIMPLICITY vs ultracomplex solutions

Work with her to change your life at eft4wellness.com

Tonight on CEP: Your favorite scam-baiter returns with more antics!

• A Visa fraudster calls me regarding charges on my Amex. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? I call them back on several phones at once, so they can talk to themselves. Things get zany. When they ask for my credit card number, I tell them a few terrible words in Hindi. That throws them for a loop, but they catch on and hang up on me.
• Foghorn then receives a call from a student loan scammer, so I play with them a bit.
• I then get a fake email from "Norton" claiming my "McAfee" is out of date! Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? So I call them out on it, and they play along. I keep asking them if Norton/McAfee will protect me from scam callers, and they assure me it will. I then tell them I have popups on my computer and ask if they did it. They claim they cannot do that, so I corner them on it because, well, that's precisely what they do. The scammer asks if I'm trying to waste his time, and eventually I get him to pop, and then tell him he's on the air.

Thanks for telling your friends about the show, and buy my book for everyone for every holiday!

Today economist Nevin Hira returns to conclude our discussion on:

• India's Caste System and how hints of it are present in Silicon Valley
• One employee's lawsuit against Cisco based on caste discrimination
• Microsoft's and Adobe's Indian CEOs and how they handle the situation well
• Automotive engineers adding a few lines of code here and there, resulting in our cars tormenting us with warnings and reminders and loud horns
• Some funny scam emails, and how to identify them

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