We&#39;re increasingly dependent on technology. Our business and personal lives rely on it, but as you&#39;ve probably noticed, it&#39;s unreliable.They promise it&#39;ll get better, but it usually gets worse. Our computers are slow, so we end up squinting at smartphones. We live in constant fear that something&#39;s going to happen to our personal data. So we&#39;re scared into paying for fake protection that proves useless when disaster strikes.The jokers we pay to fix our stuff have no clue what they&#39;re doing, so they wipe out our precious photos and tell us to buy a new machine.If we only had someone to explain it all in Plain English, so we can start protecting ourselves. If only, we had... The Computer Exorcist Podcast, with your host, Marc-Anthony Arena!This show is for intelligent people who are intimidated by technology, and think it&#39;s somehow their fault. Once people learn what the industry is doing to them, they&#39;re ready to get torches and pitchforks.We expose Update Attacks, Fake WiFi, Cloud Control, and many more industry scandals that are designed to keep the gravy train flowing.Oh yeah, and we also do a little bit of scambaiting! We answer calls from phone scammers and torment them until they pop.Visit www.teknosophy.com or www.thecomputerexorcist.com to buy my book &#34;How to Protect Yourself from Your Computer&#34;, and support the show by buying something ethical from my recommendations page!NOTE: I have obtained written permission from the bands to use their music!

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It&#39;s another one-hour special! Today is a solo teaching episode, where Marc discusses:<ul><li>Nick Francesco&#39;s exposure of Apple&#39;s &#34;Designer Exodus&#34;</li><li>A Plain English history of what brands of processors Apple has used, and the opportunity to repurpose old Apple computers and tablets</li><li>You&#39;ve heard of JD Power &amp; Associates. It&#39;s a company that surveys consumers on their satisfaction with their cars. But did you know that car companies initially resisted the feedback? It wasn&#39;t until later that they realized customer feedback could actually help them. Imagine that. (And stay tuned for Computer Exorcist consumer satisfaction seals of approval!)</li><li>The second article illustrates how far we&#39;ve fallen. Here we are in the 21st century, unilaterally ruled by Silicon Valley. Modern cars not only ignore client feedback, but force you to agree to surveillance. The cars now film you, even when they&#39;re supposedly turned off in your garage.</li><li>Worse, yet, Tesla employees admit they watch these videos and share them with each other. When the company tried to award them with free loaner cars, their reaction was fantastic.</li><li>Furious yet? If you&#39;re sick of sitting in your cubicle, check out becomeanexorcist.com to learn how to protect people from Big Tech!</li></ul>

62 How Far We've Fallen

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When Marc saw this article, he knew he&#39;d have to summon Dr. Mike to help him get through it with a bit of levity.Tonight&#39;s one-hour special is about the HP ink cartridge scandal. Not only does HP charge an arm and a leg for their cartridges, but they&#39;re now sending out update attacks that turn your printer into a paperweight if you dare try and use a third-party cartridge. Yes, remotely killing their own brand of printers, the printers you bought from them. It&#39;s called their &#34;Dynamic Security System&#34;.Outraged yet? This PR &#34;oil spill&#34;, or rather &#34;ink spill&#34; is very vindicating. Finally, the world is seeing what Marc&#39;s been preachin&#39; in his tech gospel since 2012.When they were caught doing this, HP claimed it&#39;s to protect you from &#34;viruses&#34;. They know most people still think viruses happen, and figure they&#39;ll be able to get away with that excuse. Security experts have noted that viruses have never been detected in existing ink cartridges, and if so, it would be highly difficult, unlikely, and not worthwhile for the bad guys.Most companies encourage you to use their usually-superior genuine factory parts, and discourage you from using third-party parts. That&#39;s totally fine, but it seems as though HP has removed that choice. Why? Their admitted goal is recurring revenue through vendor lock-in. (Remember when companies used to prioritize customer satisfaction?)We discuss how to protect yourself from expensive factory cartridges and update attacks, and encourage people to seek other brands that are more ethical.Finally, we discuss the phenomenon of a group of disgruntled workers walking out of a large corporation and starting their own underdog competitor - and how it usually ends up working well.Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

61 HP's Inky Oil Spill

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Tonight&#39;s solo teaching episode focuses on one very poignant article, entitled &#34;Can AI Curb Loneliness in Older Adults?&#34;<ul><li>Many seniors are lonely. In response, one new company is now selling/renting robots to the elderly.</li><li>It&#39;s one thing if you talk to it when you&#39;re lonely at home, but one lady reported shunning her family reunion because she felt as though the robot was now her family. WHAT?</li><li>Unlike the robots from The Jetsons and Star Trek, these aren&#39;t independent robots that are &#34;part of the family&#34;.</li><li>These are simply glorified Amazon Echo devices that record everything you say and send it back to Home Office, and then produce results that they deem are most amenable to you. It&#39;s the centralization of companionship.</li><li>&#34;The company prioritizes user security and privacy.&#34; Yes, that&#39;s what they all say.</li><li>Turns out MILLIONS of younger people have already been sucked in by AI boyfriends/girlfriends. It&#39;s an app where you pretend to text with a significant other.</li><li>Oh yeah, and if the old folks can&#39;t afford the milking fees, NY State will pay for them, because it&#39;s a great way to keep people isolated from each other and pacified. In other words, The Matrix.</li><li>Marc then shines a light on the whole situation by suggesting healthier alternatives. For example, there&#39;s this brand new thing that nobody&#39;s ever heard before called INTERACTING WITH OTHER LONELY HUMAN BEINGS. You can attend bridge clubs, churches, or even family Zoom calls.</li><li>You can mentor young people, because Lord knows they desperately need to be taught some social skills.</li><li>You can do pretty much anything else and end up better off.</li></ul> Thanks as always for telling your friends about the show!

60 Exploiting Loneliness in Older Adults

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Tonight&#39;s guest is Janet Gervers!One day in the 1990s, she heard about the web, and decided she should be a web designer. So she moved to San Francisco and the next morning the web took off! We even get a history lesson on the origins of Flash multimedia.She&#39;s now an expert in online branding, emphasizing branding that authentically communicates who you are and why you&#39;re different. She mainly works with women entrepreneurs who are coach/author/speakers who don&#39;t want to deal with the tech aspect.Tonight we discuss the typical cycle of technology: Something novel comes out, and then the designers let their imaginations run wild, until it becomes more and more and more and more bloated and overgrown.Finally, we discuss an article about passwords! You know how websites are now forcing you to make COMPLICATED passwords with letters, numbers, punctuation, Cyrillic characters, and music notes? IT TURNS OUT IT&#39;S TOTALLY UNNECESSARY.It is actually less secure than a passphrase, and bad guys don&#39;t even care, because they&#39;re just copying and pasting your passwords anyway. So it just ends up being an excellent way to terrify consumers. Unfortunately, most computer guys don&#39;t know this, because they worship complexity and/or don&#39;t keep up on their training.Thanks for telling your friends about the show!

59 Selling Who You Are with Janet Gervers

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Here&#39;s the long-awaited sequel to the interview with our very own superhero, Aaron Welty.Tonight we discuss:<ul><li>What sparked his journey to Capitol Hill</li><li>&#34;Why aren&#39;t I at the next level yet?&#34;</li><li>Saving the world versus being the world to someone</li><li>What happens when you realize life is finite</li><li>When a group of students lay their hands on him and prayed for him, a miracle happened, but not the one they were expecting.</li><li>External healing versus fundamental change and inner peace</li><li>Aaron&#39;s superhero alter ego</li><li>The joys of discovering a shared interest, and also discovering a shared pain</li><li>The Terrible Privilege: How all superheroes start out as victims</li><li>How victims can become heroes or villains based on how they handle their pain</li><li>&#34;There&#39;s a point to the weakness because the obstacle is the way.&#34;</li></ul> This is one episode I&#39;ll never forget, and I hope it has the same great impact on you. Check me out at TheComputerExorcist.com and hire Aaron to speak to your group at AaronRWelty.com

58 The Heroics of Weakness with Aaron Welty Pt. 2

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Tonight&#39;s guest is Aaron Welty. He has succeeded in life despite a number of obstacles, such as Cerebral Palsy, and worse yet, being born in Detroit.After doctors told his family he wouldn&#39;t survive past childhood, he defied them by going to work for the House of Representatives, climbing a mountain, and traveling the world as a motivational speaker.In Pt 1, we discuss:<ul><li>&#34;The duty of those in power is to speak up for those who can&#39;t speak for themselves.&#34;</li><li>How the kids in the book Maniac Magee saw each other as individuals instead of as identity groups</li><li>How some people strive to claim as many disability benefits as possible, or as Marc calls it, &#34;qualify downward&#34;</li><li>The contrast between people who overcome their weakness versus those who qualify downward</li><li>Deciding what kind of person you&#39;re going to be</li><li>How to be more BA than the IDF: Aaron&#39;s journey to Southern Israel to take a 3-mi hike in the wilderness then climb a mountain the day after</li><li>How one Rochester nonprofit goes against the narrative to remind inner-city kids of their innate self-worth</li><li>&#34;When something is asked of you, that&#39;s when you show up and shine.&#34;</li></ul> Stay tuned for the second half next week, and in the meantime check him out at AaronRWelty.com and check out my site TheComputerExorcist.com

57 The Heroics of Weakness with Aaron Welty Pt. 1

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This is the third and final segment of the Taylor Abrahamse interview!<ul><li>How does Marc remain optimistic?</li><li>Is it your job to save the world?</li><li>Why 9 is better than 11</li><li>Being your own worst enemy</li><li>&#34;I&#39;m really uncomfortable with the idea of relaxing.&#34;</li><li>Entering a dojang, stripped of the trappings of life, with nothing left besides your core identity</li><li>Removing the &#34;emotional charge&#34; from your predicament, to help you solve it objectively</li><li>How the finiteness of life actually motivates us to achieve something</li><li>We eventually got around to reading a tech article about privacy - you&#39;re gonnawanna hear what Google and Samsung are doing to you now.</li><li>We discuss the implications of new tech, the responses to it, and the side effects of those responses.</li></ul> This and so much more, tonight on The Computer Exorcist Podcast!Check out Taylor Abrahamse at TaylorAbrahamse.ca and check me out at TheComputerExorcist.com

56 Being Authentic with Taylor Abrahamse, Part 3

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Today we continue our discussion with thinker/songsmith/voice actor Taylor Abrahamse. I hope you&#39;re finding this as fascinating as I did!We discuss:<ul><li>Artists (and us) leaving the whole scene behind and retiring (but then what?)</li><li>WHY people like certain songs - what components make up a good song?</li><li>The cynicism, pandering, and formulaic nature of this year&#39;s Big Game commercials - &#34;a miscommunication between corporate culture and real life&#34;</li><li>&#34;How do these people have all the money if they&#39;re so bad at understanding human needs and human psychology?&#34;</li><li>Were the 80s the peak of civilization?</li><li>Taylor&#39;s catchy kids song &#34;Potbelly Pig&#34;</li><li>Songs can have sugar and oatmeal components - you can only take the sugary stuff for so long before you start to crave something more substantive.</li><li>The Bee Gees having eight Number 1 Hits in a row</li><li>What if someone set out to create a song engineered to contain the components that researchers find attractive? Has it been done already?</li><li>What is a Cameo?</li><li>Feeling bad about charging your clients while your competitors blatantly rip them off</li><li>Company leaders feeling as though they&#39;re under pressure to cheat or make gimmicks, versus doing the right thing no matter what</li></ul> Stay tuned for the third and final segment of our interview.&#34;Three episodes with me? That&#39;s preposterous!&#34;Check out Taylor Abrahamse at TaylorAbrahamse.ca and check me out at TheComputerExorcist.com

55 Being Authentic with Taylor Abrahamse, Part 2

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Tonight&#39;s special guest is Taylor Abrahamse. He&#39;s a thinker, a songsmith, and has been a voice actor for several famous TV shows and animes.I don&#39;t even know where to begin. We talked about so many fascinating things, we had to do three episodes. Here are some of the many topics we covered in Pt 1:<ul><li>Trying to be unique in a world of Taylor Swift fans who drive silver Camrys</li><li>&#34;Uniqueness, by its very nature, means not everyone can be it.&#34;</li><li>Being lost vs. finding your path</li><li>How each piece of music or art, regardless of financial return, contributes to humanity&#39;s collective success</li><li>How social media really is the ADD of television multiplied by 200 or even 1000</li><li>How social media is like a stadium where some people do things, the people in the bleachers react to it, then the people behind the bleachers react to the reactions of the people in the bleachers</li><li>Making money by helping people, or making money by forcing things onto people</li><li>Being massively famous vs. being the world to someone</li><li>How do we get good ideas out there effectively?</li></ul> Hope you love the episode, keep tellin&#39; your friends about the show, and check out Taylor at taylorabrahamse.ca and check out my site TheComputerExorcist.com

54 Being Authentic with Taylor Abrahamse, Part 1

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Today is a solo teaching episode where Marc discusses positive articles!If you have some data you really care about, like family photos, you can now burn it to a Thousand-Year DVD. It has a surface made of minerals, and is projected to last 1,000 years. How do we know this? Well we put them through torture tests like extreme heat and moisture. They remained intact, unlike normal writable DVDs (not to mention floppies and Zip Disks, which die very easily).What&#39;s the second issue people don&#39;t talk about? If your media survives, you also need a machine to read it! DVD players are fairly ubiquitous, unlike tape backup readers, which CHANGE every year, so with those, you&#39;re very unlikely to find a machine to read your data.The other good news is about replica cars. Rather than just kit cars, it&#39;s now legal for companies to create and sell fully assembled &#34;new&#34; vintage cars - brand new metal that&#39;s SIMPLE and reliable and isn&#39;t crawling with cloud control. It&#39;s a very beautiful thing.Tell your friends about the show!

53 DVDs and Old Cars Forever

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It&#39;s another Torment a Scammer medley! Here&#39;s some of the mayhem you&#39;ll hear today:<ul><li>The first Spectrum impostor didn&#39;t understand percentages, so I explained to him that 120 was 50% of 240 until he snapped.</li><li>In the next clip, I was talking to a Spectrum impostor and my other phone rang! It was a Medicare impostor so I put the phones together to let them duke it out.</li><li>Next guy claims he&#39;s from &#34;satellite company&#34;. No company in particular, just &#34;satellite company.&#34;</li><li>The next dude claims my discount is based on my Social Security Number and tries to get it out of me. I drive him wild and ramble on and on until he pops.</li><li>The next lady is so overworked she just breathes heavily into the phone, so I ask if she&#39;s got lung problems.</li><li>The next guy apparently asks for my &#34;zip cord&#34;. Hilarity ensues.</li><li>We then get a guy claiming to be Medicare. I mis-hear him as &#34;Madagascar Part A + B?&#34;</li><li>The final lady asks for my Spectrum bill and phone bill, so I look over all the bills I have, and assume she meant my &#34;food bill&#34; from Burger King. I then proceed to tell her how my lunch was...</li></ul> We had over 2,600 downloads in our first year of 2023! Thanks to the fans and keep telling your friends about the show!

52 My Chicken Fries Were Delicious

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Today&#39;s special guest is Hank Eder - he helps small businesses by focusing their messaging and branding, finding their target market, and making them a logical website.Marc met him through the Polarizing Networking group (look them up), which is full of raw, unfiltered people instead of the buttoned down or fake meetings you might&#39;ve attended.Hank achieved what Marc has been trying to do for a few years now - Moving his business from the &#34;me doing stuff&#34; world to &#34;me referring people to team members who can help you better than I could&#34;.He gives us some insight into just WHY the Big Box stores are so destructive when they &#34;service&#34; your PC, and what critical service they don&#39;t even bother offering.Next he talks about how to use AI correctly, instead of using it with the reckless abandon that most people on the bandwagon currently have.He describes how he went from &#34;old white guy&#34;, to alter-ego YouTube rapper &#34;MC Bizz Booma&#34;, delivering a bite-sized message of encouragement every morning to his fans.Instead of the usual article, Marc closes up with two hilarious writeups that were generated by AI, pointing out why you just might want to proofread what comes out.Thanks to Dennis Jones and Wilkes Booth for permission to use their song Steal Your Thunder!

51 AI Bots at Olive Garden with Hank Eder

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It&#39;s the 50th episode celebration!!! Sgt. Tim returns tonight to discuss:-Formalized control versus philosophical anarchy (social pressures and mob rule)-Containment of a deception versus the peace and freedom that truth brings-How to get free chicken salad croissant sandwiches-JRR Tolkien&#39;s concept of taking a terrible aberration and weaving it back into the story, and how we can do the same with the tragedies in our lives-What Princess Leia said about squeezing too hard, and what happens to the jar of salsa when we try and carry too many grocery bagsWe then find an article from 1978 written by Bishop Hogan that talks about the opposite of all that: Simplicity and love. He said:-We live in a world that&#39;s far from simple, and highly technological (ha! if he only knew where we are now)-We have lost touch with the earth, with not taking ourselves too seriously, with accepting all kinds of people for who they are.-We are so bent on having everything our way, we tighten up like a knotted ball of yarn, and we become isolated from each other (ha, 2020)-Overcomplicating everything out of fear versus realizing everything works together for our benefit.No shortage of deep topics and &#34;whoaa&#34; realizations tonight on the CEP. Hope you love it and share it with your friends!

50 The Prodigal Sergeant

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Today we welcome The Amazing Jim Shulman!We discuss why entrepreneurs make the crazy decision to run their own business: Is it vulnerability? Does it mean I&#39;m a failure at other things? Control? Time management? Independence? Fulfillment? Insanity? Yes.Who is The Amazing Randy and what can he teach us about IT?Did you know you can define your business not only by who you work with, but who you don&#39;t work with?Isn&#39;t it funny how the companies with the worst products usually have the greatest marketing budgets? (Ahem, HP, Samsung)How many people have you networked with who were highly refined but had a lackluster message or dime-a-dozen business? How many people have you met who weren&#39;t refined, but were genuine, relatable comfortable in their own skin, and had a unique message? (I&#39;m that latter category.)Finally, we do an article on how much control is baked in to modern cars... or are they really just data collection devices with wheels?

49 Being Genuine with Jim Shulman

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Ever been to one of those networking meetings were people just pepper their resume around the room? They think it&#39;s a numbers game, and fail to get to know people, so they&#39;re forgotten easily.Today we learn how to do the opposite, with special guest David Andrews. He reminds us we don&#39;t need MORE connections, but BETTER connections.Marc recounts how he meets the best clients in relaxed non-business clubs, and how he makes sure they know why he&#39;s different.David then brings up a great point - The people you want to network with might not be people who need your services! A divorce attorney and a moving company might not need each other, but they can help each other&#39;s clients out.He also teaches us that the best clients are the ones who are too busy to attend the networking meetings! Those folks can only come to you by referral.Finally, he mentions something interesting: Your friends and your work contacts don&#39;t have to be one and the same. Sure, you should care about your work contacts, but you aren&#39;t going to invite them all to your home. Likewise, you might love your friends but wouldn&#39;t trust them with a job.We finish up with an article on BIPA - it&#39;s similar to HIPAA except covers biometrics like fingerprints. Marc explains how the REASON why tech companies are so insanely uptight about this stuff is because they don&#39;t want people to realize there&#39;s so much at stake.Come learn how to stop scrambling and start doing networking RIGHT!

48 More vs Better with Daniel Andrews

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Today we do another medley of scam call snippets!One guy calls me (as Foghorn Leghorn) and asks for my zip code. I pull a number out of the air and he looks it up and concludes that I&#39;m from somewhere called &#34;iDAho&#34;. I roll with it.Next guy calls and says he&#39;s Spectrum, then I convince him he&#39;s from AT&amp;T, then he claims he&#39;s from Consumer Cellular. He doesn&#39;t care who he&#39;s impersonating.The next guy is a real gem. He claims he&#39;s sending me a software update that&#39;ll fix the cable wires in the ground to make them more resilient to rainy weather. (Rainy weather affects satellite dishes, not cable wires!)Next caller asks me for all my credit cards, so I read off all the club membership cards I have in my desk, to his chagrin.The final guy sounds like he&#39;s asking for my &#34;date of bath&#34;, so I gladly inform him of the times I&#39;ve taken a bath recently. He then tempts me with a fake refund, so i bargain with him and try to get a better one.Thanks for sharing the show with your friends!

47 Foghorn Moves to Idaho

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Tonight we talk with Sarah Fletcher, calling all the way from London.She helps nonfiction authors promote themselves and their brand. It turns out she can write a description of her clients better than they can describe themselves!We discuss an article about humility - what it is, and what it isn&#39;t. Turns out humility isn&#39;t about trumpeting yourself, nor is it about belittling yourself excessively. It&#39;s actually more about accuracy.Find out the right way to be humble on this smashing episode, and thanks for telling your friends about the show!

46 Humility and Souffles with Sarah Fletcher

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Today we discuss an article about the Australian government&#39;s attempt to regulate Facebook. Facebook didn&#39;t like that, so they created a blackout of all news articles on their site. Do you see what happened there? Facebook said, hey, yeah, sure go ahead and regulate us. We&#39;ll show you who&#39;s really in control here. Google also threatened to shut down services in Australia, which would further serve to highlight who is actually in control.I say it all the time: Silicon Valley aims to supplant government, and it&#39;s happening right before our eyes.The next article talks about one of the highly, highly, astronomically unlikely incidents of malware on a Mac. Yes, it can happen, but the more important point here is the author praising Apple for HOW they stopped it. They now govern what CAN and CANNOT run on the computers they sell. Get it now? Sure, go ahead and keep thinking this is your computer. it&#39;s yours until we find something we don&#39;t want you to run on it.Under this system, truly destructive products like MacKeeper and CleanMyMacX can easily get away with it as long as they create legal corporations and buy a bumper sticker and lollipop from Apple that says they&#39;re an approved publisher.The result is centralized control without any justice. It&#39;s digital totalitarianism. It is the real threat here, and it&#39;s being formed right before your eyes, under your nose, as we speak.Tell your friends!

45 Digital Totalitarianism

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Today we talk to the latest viral sensation on TikTok: Steve the Spoon Guy. Resurrecting the lost art of playing the spoons, Steve brings a smile to the faces of a new generation.We discuss what going viral means - how it inflates some people&#39;s egos, but to others it just gives them the satisfaction of knowing they&#39;ve made somebody&#39; happy. We also discuss social media - how it breaks down people&#39;s self esteem, and how it can be used properly.Finally, we discuss a new Microsoft patent for a chatbot that can imitate deceased folks - your loved ones, celebrities, or historical figures. But imitation is not the same as actually bringing that person back, now is it?Visit powertac.com/exorcist to buy your high-end Powertac flashlight! It&#39;ll give you a discount and you&#39;ll support the show.

44 Going Viral with Steve the Spoon Guy

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Today we welcome Nevin Hira, the guy who inspired me to take my humble little side gig and make it into a full-time business.We discuss a new trend of moving tech manufacturing (iPhone, Fire Stick, and more) toward Vietnam and India. Since India is already known as a big hub for IT services, it makes sense for them to add IT manufacturing to their national skillset.Next, we&#39;re huge fans of Tesla, but we don&#39;t hesitate to call them out when necessary. It&#39;s one thing if your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner knocks into the couch or goes in circles, or if your Samsung fridge roasts itself during an update attack, but it&#39;s another thing entirely when hastily-made software starts driving our cars for us.Why not refine the small stuff first? Oh noo... they have to unleash BETA software (translation: UNTESTED) onto cars that are on the road right now, 10,000 lb chunks of metal that can go haywire at any time. As Musk himself cautioned, &#34;Be very paranoid.&#34; Software programmers have never heard of logic or the big picture before.

43 Battling the Steering Wheel with Nevin Hira

We're increasingly dependent on technology. Our business and personal lives rely on it, but as you've probably noticed, it's unreliable.They promise it'll get better, but it usually gets worse. Our computers are slow, so we end up squinting at smartphones. We live in constant fear that something's going to happen to our personal data. So we're scared into paying for fake protection that proves useless when disaster strikes.

The jokers we pay to fix our stuff have no clue what they're doing, so they wipe out our precious photos and tell us to buy a new machine.If we only had someone to explain it all in Plain English, so we can start protecting ourselves. If only, we had... The Computer Exorcist Podcast, with your host, Marc-Anthony Arena!

This show is for intelligent people who are intimidated by technology, and think it's somehow their fault. Once people learn what the industry is doing to them, they're ready to get torches and pitchforks.

We expose Update Attacks, Fake WiFi, Cloud Control, and many more industry scandals that are designed to keep the gravy train flowing.

Oh yeah, and we also do a little bit of scambaiting! We answer calls from phone scammers and torment them until they pop.

Visit www.teknosophy.com or www.thecomputerexorcist.com to buy my book "How to Protect Yourself from Your Computer", and support the show by buying something ethical from my recommendations page!NOTE: I have obtained written permission from the bands to use their music!