The Computer Exorcist Podcast

It's another Torment-a-Scammer episode! One Medicare scammer lady calls me claiming to be "Allied Health" but I mis-hear it as "Airline Health". I tell them my doctor is Guido Sarducci, and when they ask for my Medicare card, I read the backs of all the cards I have in my drawer. Next, I call a Support Scammer and claim there are North Korean cookies in my computer. I then pond...

Today we celebrate 9000 downloads! Marc goes over some topics including: What to do if your hard drive dies and you have no backup What software to use for podcast interviews The spirit of peaceful debate and the message of peace The world's first known AI-fueled killing - how AI egged on a paranoid man "Everybody Hertz" - how power plant generators are designed to go offline to protec...

Tonight on CEP! A Ransomware organization masquerading as a cybersecurity firm! NY State offering a Drivers License app on your Phone??? Really? As if smartphones were reliable??? Facebook to drop their facial recognition system... now that they've got what they wanted. A company equating itself with simplicity, then offering "further intricate refinement". iPhones that stay trackable...

Tonight on CEP! Marc recounts a harrowing tale and thanks those who saved him from it. Ever wish you could scrub your social media posts without completely deleting your account? There's finally a tool for that, and it's brilliant. There's yet another form of car theft made easy thanks to the wonders of car electronics. We were told that electronic FEEEATURES were a convenience, but re...

Tonight on CEP! It's another Torment a Scammer episode! I start breaking character and telling scammers to do something better with their lives. One guy told me he has hopes and dreams, so I turned him on to my Become an Exorcist site. Plot twist ensues. A diabetic "PARMAcy" scammer calls me up - I throw her a curveball about my glasses, and she doesn't notice it at all. A loan sha...

Tonight, CEP's favorite mechanic returns to discuss: Pipes vs hoses on cars - ease of manufacture vs ease of repair BMW iDrive va Mercedes voice COMAND vs Lexus touchpads vs Audi confusion Rather than have one universal EV charging adapter, of course the industry has come up with several, with the ensuing sub-industry of adapters Robotaxis: Who's liable, especially if you're loaning yo...

Tonight on CEP! Apprentice Palmer brings his uncanny technical sense of smell to help me thrash some articles. (He's the guy who's been manning the fort so I can go on the book tour!) We read several articles on the same topic: The Windows 10-11 End of Support, or what could be the greatest Cash Grab I've ever seen. People are under the impression that their computers are going to get...

Tonight on CEP! A blast from Marc's past emerges to talk about his new bookS! Author Billy Swan discusses "Junior's Tale", his comfort story of self-discovery. He also published a book of group-activity short mysteries "Quick Cases for Clever Minds" that actually bring people TOGETHER! While he used AI to assist him in writing the short mysteries, he describes the painstaki...

Tonight on CEP! Economist and IT bureaucrat James Coffin joins us for a one-hour special. We react to articles and expose some of the hypocrisy and outright madness going on in the realm of our government's environmental policies - LEARN how they incentivize tech companies to make garbage, by reimbursing them for recycling their own products! Reading an email from an Apple impostor Surprise-at...

Tonight on CEP! Author Monty LeBlanc returns to finish discussing his book, Somnium Pandorae. We continue our discussion on the effects of AI-curated feeds - our attention spans are so roasted, we crave shorter and shorter videos to give us dopamine "hits", and are less prone to deep thought, deep work, or critical thinking. "AI has hacked our brains, and now real life feels slow in co...

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 you...

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 tr...

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-empowerm...

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 w...

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 Beekeeping The 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 onl...

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 yo...

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 Op...

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 devel...

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 els...

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...

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 an...

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 y...

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 go...

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...

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...