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PODCAST

The Computer Exorcist Podcast

Marc-Anthony Arena

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

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109 How AI Already Controls Us, Pt. 1

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2025/06/15

Tonight on CEP!I've been saying that AI could possibly ruin the world - but at the very least, it'll make us dumber and keep us isolated in pods, feeding us data and harvesting our behavior.Network engineer turned author Monty LeBlanc joins us to explain how AI is already in control, doing just this.He explains how those algorithms, the curated "For You" recommendations, and your Facebook feed, are all DESIGNED to keep you reading, watching, and scrolling.He exposes how shadow

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108 Saving the World through Culture

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2025/06/06

Tonight on CEP!The brilliant software developer/psychologist/linguist Udochi Okeke returns with more mind-blowing projects.As if resurrecting an ancient alphabet (Nsibidi) weren't enough, she's now producing a kids' cartoon to pass on the Igbo language to them. She's also creating an Igbo character universe - think "Nigerian Cocomelon"!She then explains how culture is truly passed down - not just through the media or even museums, but through each one of us, who lives and

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107 Connection Equals Chaos

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2025/05/29

Tonight on CEP!Marc reads an article from Electrical Contractor Magazine that encourages contractors to to embrace newwww cloouuddd tecchhnollogiies for security systems, camera systems, and access control.They tout the tech as inevitable, highlight the ability to offer eternal milking subscription schemes along with it, and then they praise the Zero Trust mandate, which amounts to anti-empowerment of employees and the further consolidation of power.In reality, these are not only ultraproprietary

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106 Faith on Film

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2025/05/21

Tonight on CEP!It seems like every show out nowadays is a killing show: AND THEN WE WONDER why the world is so violent!In order to address this, we welcome the very special guest Isaac Hernandez, a director of Christian TV and movies.He and his shows buck the trend by offering "Truth in a world of distraction."As usual, I draw a parallel to my industry, which makes itself worse every week.In the computer world, we say "garbage in, garbage out", in other words the results are only as

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105 The Beehive Paradox

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2025/05/14

Tonight on CEP! Beekeeper Brian Cooley calls in to explain the global collapse in beehives, and what might be the cause.He first describes the Golden Age of BeekeepingThe benefits of honey"Cathedrals for the Bees"Do bees have GPS? Do bees go to school? and other fun facts.What's killing the bees? Is it 5G? Parasites? Neonicotinoids, the synthetic nicotine pesticide? That's only part of it.The cause is what I'll call The Beehive Paradox.How has he managed only a 25% loss when

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104 Why are you giving away all that power?

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2025/05/07

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

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103 The 7000 DL Celebration Pt 2

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2025/04/30

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

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102 The 7000 DL Celebration Pt 1

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2025/04/24

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

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101 The Rise of Karl

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2025/04/18

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

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100 Liberation Celebration

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/04/09

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 humorWe 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

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99 Is Apple scanning your photos???

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2025/04/02

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

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98 "Someone Out There Needs Me!" with Elizabeth...

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2025/03/24

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,

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97 Stop and Ask for Directions with Stacey Altomari

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2025/03/16

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 threatsYour 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

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96 Norton impostors try and sell me McAfee

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2025/03/09

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

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95 Indian Caste System and Potstickers Pt 2

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2025/02/27

Today economist Nevin Hira returns to conclude our discussion on:India's Caste System and how hints of it are present in Silicon ValleyOne employee's lawsuit against Cisco based on caste discriminationMicrosoft's and Adobe's Indian CEOs and how they handle the situation wellAutomotive engineers adding a few lines of code here and there, resulting in our cars tormenting us with warnings and reminders and loud hornsSome funny scam emails, and how to identify themJoin the good fight at

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94 Indian Caste System and Potstickers Pt 1

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2025/02/18

Friend of the show and economist Nevin Hira joins us today to give us great insight into:the Indian Caste System - what is it and how it is configuredIndia's ultra-competitive IIT tech schools, and how many people vie for admission to themHow Silicon Valley has a microcosm of India, and how they bring the caste system with themThe only true way to stop hunger in our world (it involves dumplings and potstickers)Stay tuned for Part 2!

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93 How to ACTUALLY STOP robocalls

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/02/05

Huge announcement - we've surpassed 6,000 downloads!Today we delve into the SHAKEN/STIR scandal - YET ANOTHER example of how my industry tries to solve a problem by slathering ultracomplexity and centralized control all over it. Spoiler alert: It doesn't work, it burdens the good guys with more "diiiigital certificates" and, in case you haven't noticed, the bad guys just laughed and kept robocalling us!Aside from that massive debacle, there are a few very lame call blockers out

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29:34

92 Modern Despair

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/01/22

Today on CEP!Facebook stops NYU researchers from studying their own volunteersHackers are using CAPTCHA to scam people (Are you surprised?)A Georgia school district puts cameras in classrooms (Imagine how much the contractor charged them!)"Tech workers are richer but less happy than most" (I explain why)"HP disappoints" (Are you surprised?)Modern man's progress (correlated to the increasing frequency of war)The "Modern Despair" that comes with adopting technology as your

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28:27

91 Hack the Planet

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/01/09

Tonight, on CEP!Some well-intentioned pea-brain suggests we include breathalyzers in every steering wheel of every new car. Great idea, but since 99% of all technology fails 99% of the time, most cars in the world will blow false alarms and stop working. This also contributes to the avalanche of new features that make cars too complex to fix, meaning they'll be put in the landfill sooner.Cars of the future will come with rental subscriptions for parts that are already in your car- Yes, some

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90 Is Edge Actually Malware?

The Computer Exorcist Podcast ·

2025/01/02

Tonight, on the first CEP of the new year!We expose what Microsoft Edge does to you, the consumer, and ask the question: Is it legalized malware?We discuss the helpful feature that didn't make it to Windows 11, and the terrifying anti-features that didWe discuss the only person in the computer industry with something called "self-control". Get this, he doesn't just desperately chase every trend, and doesn't change things for change's sake. Instead, he's content with

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