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2:20

here are the top seven things that you need to know

2:23

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2:27

up starting in January 2025, Florida

2:30

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2:33

banning kids under the age of 14 from having

2:35

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2:37

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2:39

year olds and require parents

2:41

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2:44

know COPPA, the Child Online Protection Act, that

2:46

really didn't work because you were supposed to be 13 kids

2:48

just lied. But you have to follow the

2:51

money train because Big Tech just doesn't

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to this, from Harvard made $801 million

2:57

in ad revenue from kids age

3:03

12 and under. Isn't that

3:05

just something, almost a billion dollars, crazy.

3:08

So look we already have proved that

3:10

social media causes anxiety, depression, gender

3:13

confusion, eating disorders and more. It's

3:15

evil at work and you have to give these

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laws your support. Moving

3:20

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3:22

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it's the police. A

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3:28

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3:30

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3:33

the heck happened? Stolen AirPods

3:35

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3:37

on the street right by the house. Someone

3:39

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3:41

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3:44

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3:46

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3:48

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3:50

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3:52

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3:57

over thousands and thousands of routers every

3:59

single day. and turning them into

4:01

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4:03

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4:18

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4:21

know. About 200 mobile devices

4:23

of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's

4:25

pedophile island in the years prior

4:27

to his death, guess what? They

4:29

left an invisible trail data pointing back to

4:31

their own homes and offices. What

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happened? Wired Magazine wrote about

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a location data broker, reveals with high

4:41

precision the residences of many guests of

4:43

Little St. James, that's that island. A

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full story once again is over at Wired. Care

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to make any guesses who may be on that

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list? It's going to

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come out now. Moving on

4:54

to number five of our seven things. If you

4:57

watched any drone or augmented reality

4:59

YouTube videos between January 1st, 2023 and

5:01

January 8th, 2023, congratulations, you're on

5:07

a watch list. What's going on? Investigators linked

5:09

a money laundering suspect by the

5:11

name of Elon Musk, WHM, to

5:13

these videos. Then the feds

5:16

got Google to divulge a list of everyone

5:18

who actually watched these videos and they say

5:20

it's crucial for their investigation. I don't know

5:22

about you, but I think this sets a dangerous

5:25

precedent. Moving on to number

5:27

six, talk to your kids about this. Some

5:29

viral videos are teaching kids that eating as

5:31

little as two teaspoons of nutmeg can

5:34

trigger sensations from mild euphoria to

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intense delirium that lasts up to 48

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Facial flushing, rapid heartbeat, dry

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mouth, hypertension. So parents, check

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on your kids and also your spice rack.

5:50

And finally this, coming in at number seven, I don't know

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if you know this, but aside from this Big

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Weekend Show, I also host a daily show on

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about three. The

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Hundred and thirty Playstations as called the

6:02

Daily Tech. Okay, here's one from this

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past week. There's one thing to be

6:06

learned from Kate Middleton. Class and substance.

6:08

We pay far too much attention to

6:10

far too many smart ass internet trolls.

6:12

Being. An aimless celebrity does not preclude

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someone from being a troll. Take actress

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Blake Lively and her groveling apology for

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her tasteless Kate Middleton jokes. Second,

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Rated Late night Hosts: Stephen Colbert joke

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the Prince's website Here's a husband was

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wrote head bury a friend of the

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a defamation lawsuit. The. Never a

6:37

pervert. Andy Cohen copy that same job.

6:39

Then there's the attention craving. Kim Kardashians.

6:41

And her joke about looking for Kate? I

6:44

could go on. The. Trolls? Definitely.

6:46

Well, Unless. We deprive them of

6:48

what they desire most. That is your

6:50

attention. So. I was gets of interesting feedback

6:52

and I thought I would. Share this know with

6:54

he was from run he says my

6:57

biggest gripe with your statements or Princess

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Cade as I'll give you credit. Yes,

7:01

You do know more about computers than

7:03

ideal. But. When it comes

7:06

to conspiracy facts, the thousand

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conspiracy facts there are very

7:10

reliable sources: Kim Commando which

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all claim. The same thing. Princess.

7:15

Case was eliminated and she's

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been replaced by a

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lookalike. Why she was

7:22

eliminated is another subject altogether. Site

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that take. Either. Dollars

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from, you know, What's going on

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with Princess Caped Been eliminated. So.

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He wrote me back. he said why

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Kate was limited has yet to be

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revealed and the meantime you can follow

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the updates and rumble. There's a bunch

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of other alternative podcast are saying the

7:42

same thing. Tape. Was

7:44

Not eliminated. Oh my gosh, you

7:46

know. But there is the conspiracy

7:48

theory that North Korea's Kim Jong

7:51

Un is a clone. Have we

7:53

heard about this? You know they

7:55

call him him John Doe. Like

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Dorado? Yeah, that was a said. Then all

8:00

right, come on. average. I've read these states

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that are using your kids voices. We also

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have the easiest security staff. You're not taking

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when from Kim Dotcom are I'd How

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about we get this? Our started with

8:49

Sarah in Portland, Oregon Hi there Sarah.

8:52

So. He now has a

8:54

weird even talking about this because I sometimes

8:56

feel like it makes me sound crazy and

8:59

paranoid but that on know over ten years

9:01

now I have had the sinking feeling that

9:03

somebody is stalking me and I have come

9:05

to the conclusion that I think it might

9:08

be my brother. so. She.

9:10

Works in I T. He not only

9:12

the an I T, but he also

9:14

works. For an Internet service provider which

9:16

is the one that I. Used for

9:19

my home internet and I recently

9:21

cut ties with him over the

9:23

summer. Throughout our home childhoods and

9:26

into adult life, there's been a

9:28

history of characters smears i'm telling

9:30

lies the other family members as

9:33

about me to our parents, and

9:35

after a particularly egregious episode last

9:37

summer, I told him I no

9:40

longer one it's relationship. This episode

9:42

came after I had been traveling

9:44

for five weeks internationally for a

9:47

job. As a he

9:49

was just really jealous and anyhow

9:51

since I have cut ties with

9:53

him, I've been under just as

9:55

a never ending cyber attack. constantly

9:58

getting notifications it's or code

10:00

has been requested, etc. One

10:03

thing to note also before I stopped speaking

10:05

with him, he freely admitted to me

10:07

on several occasions that he's very active

10:10

on the dark web and uses it

10:12

to have illegal drugs sent to his

10:14

house. So we're

10:16

dealing with a character

10:18

that you would never be friends with

10:21

but you're blood related,

10:23

okay? So

10:25

we have some history and ties and emotional

10:28

baggage and all that other stuff that comes

10:30

with that. You

10:32

mentioned getting like

10:34

two factor authentication codes. Give

10:37

me like three other real quick examples of

10:39

some ways that you think that you're getting

10:42

stopped. So a couple of years

10:44

ago, I posted a picture on

10:46

Facebook and it was

10:48

with a male best friend of

10:50

mine, no romantic history. My

10:53

friend started getting Facebook messages that were

10:56

along the lines of, oh my God,

10:58

I was so drunk last night. Did

11:00

we have sex? And

11:02

of course, my friend, you know, we don't have that

11:05

relationship. So he called me like, I think somebody hacked

11:07

your face. Same time

11:09

period. I was getting

11:11

messages on my Facebook account from

11:13

an account that appeared

11:15

to be a childhood friend, a

11:18

family friend, asking questions again

11:20

about my sex life. And that was not

11:22

a relationship that she and I had. We

11:24

knew each other, you know, our families were

11:26

friends growing up, but she and I had

11:29

never been close. So I did

11:31

a quick search in the search bar, saw that

11:33

there were two accounts under her name duplicate and

11:35

texted her and was like, Hey, are you on

11:37

Facebook right now? And she was like, no, I'm

11:39

at work. So there's two examples right there. And

11:42

then just a couple of days ago, I'm on

11:44

a job search. I unexpectedly lost my

11:46

job with no reason. That's another thing that I

11:48

think might have something to do with this, but

11:50

I've been trying to protect myself. So digging

11:53

through, you know, forums and kind of how

11:55

I came across you, I put up A

11:58

firewall on my Mac book. I've changed my. Apple.

12:00

Id have changed all my passwords to tie

12:02

them. With able to get into my router

12:04

and change password and I was going to

12:06

her house until you to make sure that

12:09

he does throw my other people as they

12:11

don't do That morning after I'd changed all

12:13

of that I woke up to the notification.

12:15

That almost three hundred passwords of mine

12:17

had been leaked and data breach. So

12:20

I'm doing all of that stuff to

12:22

secure my information. and within hours I

12:24

got a notification i'm at my I

12:26

phone that all of my passwords had

12:29

been breached. What a nightmare Won't opponent.

12:31

What a Nightmare. This. Is for you.

12:33

This is Awful. Yeah. And right, listless

12:35

talk about what we can do case you

12:37

really did the router. And. Case changed

12:39

all the passwords on that. He could do

12:42

a factory reset on the router and change

12:44

the password just to make sure that everything's

12:46

all. Locked. Down. Any

12:48

devices that you have attached to the router.

12:50

I know it sounds crazy, but there could

12:52

be a way that he could get his

12:54

ah so sleepy hanging out in the dark.

12:56

Web is whether it's a security camera, video,

12:58

doorbell, whatever. Maybe. You're. Gonna make

13:00

sure that you do a factory reset all

13:03

that instead of when you change your password

13:05

and as two factor authentication that goes to

13:07

your phone. I want to

13:09

use the Google Authenticator Ap. Chem.

13:12

Suits a six digit code that sense it's not. it's

13:14

only valid for thirty seconds, but if he has access

13:17

to a cloud account or email whatever, he's not going

13:19

to be able to see that. Ah,

13:21

So this way we make sure that in

13:23

on and other options that you can use

13:25

our physical security keys that you plug into

13:28

your computer if he wanted to go that

13:30

route Unsc once called the U B T

13:32

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13:34

the like us be drives but are in

13:36

order to get a to a phase has

13:38

to be plugged into your computer. You.

13:41

Know I don't know with legal options you might

13:43

have if there is an attorney that may be

13:45

would know something about this. It's

13:47

really unfortunate that you have to

13:49

go through all this. They have

13:51

one person that was causing such.

13:54

Hamels in your life right now. and

13:56

we're and said you know if i mean

13:59

i wish there just one big

14:01

fix. There was just a side

14:03

of me, Sarah, that just thought, like, I wonder if

14:05

there was a way that you could

14:07

actually change your name. Yeah, I don't know.

14:12

I know that's a big step. It requires a lot

14:14

of things. And I don't know, he may be able

14:16

to even find that out through your parents or through

14:19

a friend or family member or something like that. The

14:21

other thing is I think my dad's

14:23

in on it because I recently,

14:26

you know, when I lost my

14:28

job unexpectedly, my dad went into a

14:30

tirade. You know, it was

14:32

weird. I was telling him, you know, I'm doing

14:34

okay with it. It's bad news. But he then

14:37

all of a sudden started attacking me

14:39

on my finances. And I've always been

14:41

extremely financially responsible. The only debt I

14:43

have is my mortgage. And he

14:46

wouldn't take that as the truth. And he

14:48

kept saying, I know things about you. I

14:50

know things about you. And I was

14:53

like, what are you claiming to know

14:55

about my finance? I'm 40 years old,

14:57

like, you know, and he

14:59

was like, I can't say, I can't say. And

15:01

so I haven't been speaking to him either. Well,

15:04

you know, it sounds like you shouldn't be speaking to

15:06

anybody. I think you need to take a six month

15:08

leave of absence from the

15:10

family, you know, and get

15:12

yourself together. Take all

15:14

the steps that you can to further

15:17

separate yourself from your brother and things

15:19

that are going on. You

15:22

know, you might want to think about filing

15:24

a police report, especially of evidence that he's

15:26

actually behind this or strong suspicion. You're going

15:28

to have to go to the police station

15:30

to do this and ask to speak to

15:33

a cybersecurity expert at the police station. Explain,

15:35

show them all the evidence. Show them everything that's

15:38

going on. But you're going to have to take

15:40

some extreme steps in order to do this. And

15:43

it goes through not just tech.

15:45

It goes through coping mechanisms as

15:48

well, Sarah. I mean, how do you

15:50

deal with this every single day? But

15:53

use the Google Authenticator app. Maybe get a

15:55

physical device, like I talked about the UB

15:57

key. Reset everything in your life. Reset

15:59

everything. Get a password manager, go

16:01

to keepersecurity.com/Kim, you're going to get 50%

16:03

off. So this way

16:06

when it comes time to change all your passwords, it's

16:08

a lot easier to do. Again, that's keepersecurity.com/Kim. Sarah,

16:11

do all that. You need any help afterwards, just give me a call

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the easiest security step that you're probably not taking.

17:37

And before we go back to all of your phone

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Air Visual. All right, back

18:22

to the phones. We go with Pat in

18:24

Vancouver, Washington. Hi, Pat. Well, I own a

18:26

small business and I've got a good website

18:28

I just spent a bunch of money on

18:31

and I'm having a hard time. I'm not

18:33

very good on social media. I'm a welder. We build

18:35

metal art and I need to get people

18:38

to my website. And right now, I just

18:40

have a hard time getting people there. You

18:44

sent me an email. I looked at your

18:46

website. Well, you sell so many things. I

18:48

mean, like napkin

18:50

holders and art and

18:52

military welding and you do all that

18:54

yourself? Yeah. Wow. You

18:56

know, your website is beautiful. How much you spend

18:59

on that? Seven grand. All

19:01

right, we got to we got to get that

19:03

money back. Okay. Right. You

19:06

know, as a small business owner,

19:08

a small business owner, I don't know if you've

19:10

ever heard me talk about my rule of thirds,

19:13

is that if we spend $7,000 on

19:15

a project, that means I have

19:17

to go earn 21,000. Because this

19:20

way we have a profit and we pay our

19:22

taxes along the way. So the whole

19:24

thing is the what you're a subject of is if

19:26

you build it, they still won't come. So

19:29

how do we get your art? And how do

19:31

we get people to see it? Because once they

19:33

see it, you

19:35

offer a whole bunch of different categories that

19:37

it may be smart to

19:39

specialize on what are the biggest

19:42

sellers and to put those front and

19:44

center. What's the most that you sell of right now?

19:47

Right now, we've recently has been our end

19:49

tables and our lamps. Okay. All right. So

19:51

for end tables and lamps, what I would

19:53

do is I would look at setting up

19:56

an Instagram account, a Pinterest account,

19:58

but also an Etsy account and

20:01

also an eBay account where

20:03

you start selling your one-offs, your best sellers

20:05

and then you direct them to the website

20:07

for other things and then around the holidays,

20:09

I mean if you're talking about Veterans Day

20:11

then you put up, you know, for

20:14

the five arms of service, things that you

20:16

may offer for that. For

20:18

Father's Day gifts, Mother's Day gifts,

20:20

right? Right. So you start

20:22

talking about doing marketing

20:26

and then of course on social media, like you said, you're not good

20:28

at it. So you know what? You can't

20:30

be good at everything. I mean you're good

20:32

at designing and welding. Being

20:35

a social media expert, you

20:37

know what? You don't have to do that. You have to

20:39

hire somebody for that. So the question

20:41

is that you start thinking about who

20:44

do you know that knows somebody who could

20:46

do your social media? Who do you know?

20:49

And you may not think about it right now but who

20:51

do you know who you could ask? Could you

20:53

get on your LinkedIn profile and say, I need

20:55

somebody who can work 10 to 15 hours

20:58

a week to do my social media? And

21:00

that's all it's going to take and you're going to pay them $25 an

21:02

hour. And

21:04

if you want to at some point, if you get

21:06

a person who's really good enough and they're really

21:09

working it, is that you give them

21:11

a small percentage of the sales that are coming

21:13

through say Etsy or eBay so that this way

21:15

you keep an incentive going. You

21:17

also need to get an email list going because

21:20

newsletters and email newsletters are so

21:22

effective marketing because you are putting

21:25

an ad directly into their inbox

21:27

and they've already expressed interest. Maybe

21:30

they've already purchased something. So anybody who's already

21:32

bought something from you should automatically go on

21:34

a list. Start

21:36

looking at local partnerships as well. If

21:38

there are any art galleries that

21:40

can showcase your work. You know and

21:42

maybe with social media, you start looking

21:45

at influencers in the home decor space.

21:48

I mean, these are all big things that

21:50

as a business owner, I can tell you

21:52

from one business owner to the next. I'm

21:54

not good at a lot of things, right?

21:56

Right. I mean,

21:58

I'm pretty good. at running

22:00

the business, I'm pretty good at being

22:03

on the air and selecting content and

22:05

helping people and making sure

22:07

that things are going. But when it

22:09

comes time to put together social media videos, I'll

22:11

tell you, I can't do that. I

22:14

don't have the time and the patience. I

22:16

can write the newsletter but I can't do

22:18

the back end of the newsletter for that.

22:21

I depend upon somebody else. Do an AB

22:23

subject lines. Again, depend upon somebody else. Somebody

22:26

to put the artwork on stuff

22:28

to sell in Etsy. Again, that's

22:30

somebody else. So

22:32

you got to go with what your skill set is. Your

22:34

skill set is that you're an artist and

22:36

you're a hard worker. I can tell by

22:38

looking at that website. Well, as you get

22:40

this up and going, Pat, if you have

22:42

any questions whatsoever, just know I'm always here

22:44

for you. I love, love, love entrepreneurs. I

22:46

love artists. I tell you, that's something I

22:48

could never be as an artist. I can

22:50

be an entrepreneur. I can't be an artist.

22:52

I don't think you can be an artist

22:54

and an entrepreneur and run the whole business,

22:56

do social media, handle the books, ship

22:59

the products, make the products. I mean,

23:01

that's a whole, it's a lot. It's

23:03

a lot. I get that. I

23:05

mean, I make products every single day. I make

23:07

two radio shows every day. I make

23:10

two different other shows every week. I

23:13

make a SiriusXM show. I write for

23:15

USA Today and The Daily Mail and

23:17

Fox News and then, oh, don't forget

23:19

the newsletters that go out every single

23:22

day to half a million folks. You

23:25

just can't do everything yourself. You just can't

23:27

do it. But you can grow the smart

23:29

way and that is higher part timers. I

23:31

have, you know, I'm going to take

23:33

a little bit out of your plate and then you can actually

23:35

see the quality of the work too when they're part time. You

23:38

need any help afterwards, Pat? Just reach out. Always

23:40

here for you. Okay, let's see who's next. Dave

23:43

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hi, Dave. Well,

23:46

you've been a lot of help to me over the

23:48

years in so many ways and I'm hoping today you

23:50

can help me with my brother's health issue. Okay.

23:53

He's got AFib in addition

23:55

to memory loss and you know, that really messes with

23:57

your heart rate and now he's on a new medication.

24:00

and it might reduce it, then I'm looking for

24:02

something to monitor his heart rate and alert him

24:05

if it goes awry. Okay. What

24:09

kind of phone and how tech savvy do you

24:11

think he is? He

24:14

has an iPhone 12 mini

24:16

and he's not that tech savvy, but his

24:18

wife is and so am I. Okay.

24:22

Do you think an Apple watch would be

24:24

good or no? I have

24:26

one and I think it would be. I have

24:28

the SE model, I guess there's more advanced ones.

24:32

Yeah, there is. The

24:34

Apple watch series eight is the latest and

24:36

greatest and it does all kinds of things

24:38

now. It's just an amazing,

24:41

really just an amazing gadget, isn't it? What do

24:43

you like the most about it? I

24:46

like the fact that it'll keep track of

24:48

an irregular heartbeat and if I fall,

24:50

it'll call the police. Which

24:53

is so nice. Now the downside is

24:55

of course is the battery life, right?

24:58

Right. I want to get him a stand for next to

25:00

his bed for whatever he gets. Yeah, that's

25:03

always a good idea. They have these, they have these, I

25:05

call them triple play stands now. I just got one for

25:08

my husband and they

25:10

sell them at Costco. They're like, I don't know, it's a

25:12

Belkin brand, but I bought his at Costco for about But

25:16

instead of having three different chargers, it's a

25:18

three in one. So he can put his

25:21

iPhone, his watch and also his AirPods right

25:23

on one charger. So it's kind of sweet

25:25

and it all works. The

25:27

Apple watch is definitely without

25:31

hands down the best wearable

25:35

for somebody I think with a heart condition. I

25:37

mean, you can get the cardio, you can put

25:39

the cardio app on that as well, which

25:42

is also pretty darn good. But the

25:44

downside is the 18 hour limitations.

25:48

So if his wife is around to help

25:50

him to remember to actually

25:53

charge this thing up, it's great, right?

25:56

Right. Because it will give him the alerts

25:59

that he needs to know that that something's going on. And

26:01

also he can set it up so that something is going

26:04

wrong that his wife could be notified too. Now,

26:06

if for some reason that this doesn't work out

26:08

for him and maybe you might wanna loan him

26:10

your watch for just a day to see how

26:12

he deals with it, is

26:15

that Fitbit has something called the Fitbit

26:17

Lux, L-U-X-C, fitness

26:20

and wellness tracker. And it

26:22

does everything that you might expect, sleep tracking,

26:24

24-7 heart rate, stress

26:27

management, all that other good stuff. But

26:30

it also allows you to do the heart rate

26:32

notifications that you're looking for. But the

26:34

battery life on the Fitbit is five days. So

26:37

that's why I like to tell people about both.

26:39

So if you have somebody who's not going to

26:41

remember to actually charge

26:43

up the Apple Watch, then

26:46

that's where you wanna look at something like

26:48

a Fitbit again. So Fitbit Lux fitness is

26:50

the wellness tracker. But I'll tell

26:52

you, the Apple Watch, it seems like every single

26:54

day I'm reading some story about somebody's life being

26:56

saved by an Apple Watch. And if you are

26:58

listening in, whether it's you

27:00

or somebody you love, that they have heart issues,

27:03

that get them an Apple Watch. The

27:05

only thing too, what's nice, is that you can do your

27:07

own ECG on that thing. It's not quite

27:10

an AKG, but it's ECG. And

27:12

that's really fabulous, so that if you think

27:14

that something may be going on with that little ticker,

27:17

is that you can kinda have an idea

27:19

where you can do these various

27:23

reports on yourself, on your watch, and then when

27:25

you do get to see your cardiologist, that you

27:27

can kinda open up your phone and you can

27:29

see everything that's going on. But it's

27:31

a really, really phenomenal tech. Take a look at

27:33

the Series 8, Dave. That's the one that I

27:36

got my husband, and it's pretty darn good. All

27:39

right, your phone rings down the other line

27:41

as your kid, boys shaking, saying they've been

27:43

abducted, and they need ransom money now. So

27:46

your first instinct is like, oh, I gotta do whatever

27:48

I can to keep my child safe, right? Well,

27:51

here's what's going on, is they're deep faking

27:53

your kid's voice. They're taking videos off of

27:55

social media. They run it through some software,

27:57

and suddenly they can sound just like your

27:59

child. What are you supposed to do if you actually get

28:01

one of these scary calls? Number

28:03

one beforehand, create a secret code word or phrase,

28:05

something that only the two of you know. If

28:08

you ask for the code and the caller says, yeah,

28:10

I don't know what you're talking about, obviously red flag.

28:13

Try calling your kids number directly. That's your second

28:15

step. If they pick up, you know it's all

28:17

bogus. Try calling someone else who might know them

28:20

too. And finally, get

28:22

the authorities in loop. Dial 911 and

28:24

try not to panic because that's exactly

28:26

what the scammers are begging of. Alright,

28:29

still become the easiest security step

28:31

that you're not taking. Plus more of your calls

28:33

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freshly picked lemons. So no matter what's

29:06

inside your trash, you can set the stink and

29:08

smell the lemon. Alright

29:11

Kay in Davenport, Iowa. Hi there Kay.

29:14

Um, I had a desktop computer like

29:16

we all did way back when. It

29:18

was in my basement office and the

29:20

tower sat on the floor. Well,

29:23

the basement flooded with four to five inches of

29:25

dirty water. And I

29:27

was alarmed that the computer was

29:29

damaged but had no worries about

29:31

all the content being lost because

29:33

just one month earlier I

29:36

had signed up with a remote

29:38

automatic computer backup system that I

29:40

learned about from you and you were

29:42

recommending at that time. So I went out

29:44

and bought my first laptop. All the data

29:47

was downloaded to it and I went on

29:49

my merry way and the basement was a

29:51

mess but my computer was clean. Yes,

29:53

thank you Kim Commando. So

29:56

what's going on now? Yeah, I have

29:58

a question. I receive many calls. from

30:00

various companies, quote-unquote, saying that

30:02

my business needs to be

30:04

verified by Google or

30:07

the website is missing information so that

30:09

customers will not be able to find

30:11

my business online. And whenever

30:13

I do any kind of search online, I think

30:16

it pops up pretty easily and I

30:18

don't see any problems with it. At

30:20

first I thought these calls were legit

30:22

but now I'm wondering if there are a

30:24

scam. I have never called anybody back. I

30:27

was just wondering what you know about these

30:29

companies. Well

30:32

it's a scam. It's probably a scam. Nine

30:34

times out of ten it's a scam. I

30:36

mean especially if you've already set up, you've

30:38

gone to google.com/business, right? And

30:41

you put your website in there. Have you done

30:43

that? No, I haven't

30:46

done that specifically. Okay, go to

30:48

google.com slash business. Okay. And

30:51

that's where you can get your business listed

30:53

obviously through Google. And now Google is going

30:55

to ask you for a whole bunch of

30:57

information. You have to name the business and

30:59

you have to claim it. You got to

31:01

fill in all the details and then Google

31:03

is going to want to verify your business

31:05

to make it legit. But there is a

31:07

scam going around especially if you have a

31:09

Google voice number. Seems like they're hitting. Do you

31:11

have a Google voice number? A Google voice

31:13

number? No, okay, so you don't. Because there

31:15

is a scam where they're going after Google

31:18

voice number, people who have Google voice numbers.

31:21

But Google's not going to call you

31:23

really and say, hey, can

31:25

we make sure that your business is

31:27

legit? I mean if they did that,

31:29

they'd be on the phone all day

31:31

long, right? Yeah, they would. Okay, so

31:34

and anytime somebody calls you unsolicited versus

31:36

you filling out a form or at

31:38

least taking a couple of steps is

31:40

that I am always, always so suspicious.

31:42

Because then all of a sudden once

31:45

they get their little like pinky finger

31:47

around you, that's when it's like, oh,

31:49

well now we need money for this. Or can we remote

31:51

in and we'll fix it for you? And then you're like,

31:53

okay, and then that's going to cost $175 and you're like,

31:55

oh my gosh, okay. So. I'm

32:00

glad you called. I'm going to say it's

32:02

a scam. And then for you

32:04

to actually get your business listed with Google,

32:07

which is a great idea by the way,

32:09

because this way, in times of trying, somebody's

32:11

trying to find somebody, what you do locally

32:13

that you're going to pop up and also

32:16

on Google maps is that you want to

32:18

start at google.com/business. That's google.com/business. And if they're

32:20

just calling to verify that you're on Google,

32:23

that's, you know, not theirs. So what are

32:25

they verifying? So get yourself on there again.

32:27

That's google.com/business. Okay, I'm so glad that you

32:29

called me and you're not calling those people

32:32

back. You're a smart one.

32:34

Thank you for your call. I'll

32:36

tell you, the scammers just never stop. It's

32:39

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32:41

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33:23

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33:26

tracks? Make them do some

33:28

work. Now, although two-step

33:30

verification, 2FA, works

33:32

to stop unauthorized access to your accounts,

33:34

it has a big problem because it's

33:37

easy for hackers to grab those codes

33:39

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33:41

So that's why it's important that you start

33:43

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33:46

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33:48

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33:52

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33:57

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34:00

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34:04

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