Podcasts about Geek Squad

Agent Derek Meister from the Geek Squad spoke to Bill about App stores are filled with services designed to help you cut down on your screen time and count your steps. Steppin - new app combines these 2 ideas to help users do both simultaneously to bridge the gap between physical and mental health.

Gary Gutiérrez, José Raúl Cepeda con Jaime Vázquez y Luis Raúl Sánchez Peraza conversan sobre temas culturales y de cine Segmento 1 Nos despedimos del ex presidente José “Pepé” Mujica de Uruguay Muere a los 89 años el expresidente de Uruguay José 'Pepe' Mujica. https://bit.ly/4jQLjMh Segmento 2 Compartimos nuestras reacciones al episodio sobre la historia del cine en Puerto Rico en el podcast de Plan de Contingencia. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plan-de-contingencia/id1373561170?l=es&i=1000706958409 Segmento 3 Cannes y los aranceles de Trump. Consecuencias en varios niveles, no solo económico, sino también cultural. Paralelismos con la industria automotriz. Segmento 4 Los Thunderbolts!!! Los Thunderbolts!!! En NETFLIX Vietnam War, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the fall of Saigon. https://search.app/85fGEekpPAUmREgq8

You want to skyrocket your sales? Listen up. Today I'm dropping the greatest sales hack of all time. I learned this at McDonald's when I was 15 years old working the drive-thru. The magical phrases? "Would you like fries with that?" and "Would you like to supersize it?" This is about the psychology of the upsell at the exact right moment - immediately after someone has already said yes to a purchase. The reason people don't buy from you is because you're not offering. And the reason you don't increase your sales is because you don't upsell after the transaction is already made. I tripled my sales at Geek Squad using this exact method. When a customer already says yes to one thing, they're primed to say yes again. Your job today is to figure out two things: what's your "would you like fries with that?" and what's your "would you like to supersize it?" Do this and watch your business explode.Connect:Connect with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanSubscribe & Review to ALL IN with Rick Jordan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RickJordanALLIN

Agent Derek Meister from the Geek Squad spoke to Bill about Don't Fall for This New Gmail Phishing Scheme and How to identify and avoid phishing email scams

Agent Derek Meister - Geek Squad spoke to Bill about Shopping for a Robot Vacuum? Focus on these features - Unless you've got wall-to-wall carpet, get a vacuum/mop combo - Get a robot that can reach - dock matters as much as the robot - roller design translates to how autonomous your robot will be

El Geek Squad discute el cine puertorriqueño y el Capitán América. En este episodio Gary Gutiérrez y José Raúl Cepeda conversan con el “Geek Squad” Jaime Luis Vázquez y Luis Raúl Sánchez Peraza Segmento 1 El Café Teatro Luis Raúl un espacio cultural necesario en Ponce. Festival Internacional de Cine de PR, presenta muestra de 5 películas de cine latinoamericano y caribeño. Info en Jimmy Vázquez en Facebook y en Visit Ponce Segmento 2 El crecimiento del cine puertorriqueño en las últimas décadas… “Parto” consenso de que es un excelente guion sobre el tema de la diferentes versiones de la maternidad. Segmento 3 “El Quinceañero de la Abuela” con su mayor acierto la participación de Johanna Rosaly y el mayor desacierto el guión. Segmento 4 Capitán América: “Brave New World” ¿Sobrevivirá el cine de superhéroes? El cine “Del [super] Héroe” ¿está mutando? ¿Se convierte en comentario político?

Agent Derek Meister from the Geek Squad spoke to Bill about 'Redact' App Can Delete Your Posts From 28 Different Social Networks

President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau Steve Bernas joins Bob Sirott to discuss the CPS data breach, as well as scams targeting wedding planning and grandparents. He also talks about a Geek Squad phishing scam and a water scam in Cicero.

Got any cheeeese? Jodie and Andrea watched, “Did Tai Do That?” episode five of season three of Yellowjackets, and we're here to break it all down.In 1996, Van helps Tai embrace her wild side. For Akilah, though, it's just another night, another dream, another vision of Ben, he's here to . . . be the bridge? Hey, call Weird Al if you want a perfect parody.In 2021, Mr. Matthews gets a visit from the Geek Squad, and Misty learns that Walter's calves may have been clouding her judgement. If you're reading this, that means you've probably got your podcatcher of choice open right now. It would be SO helpful if you gave our little show a follow. If you like what you hear, you could even leave us a review.Follow:The Watchers on Instagram (@WatchersPodNJ)Andrea on Instagram (@AQAndreaQ)Jodie on Instagram (@jodie_mim)Thanks to Kitzy (@heykitzy) for the use of our theme song, "No Book Club."

Join host Angel Santana on this special Ash Wednesday episode of 'Have Faith, Let It Begin,' as he shares personal experiences and profound reflections. Angel highlights the incredible service of Damali from Geek Squad, a dedicated customer service representative who made a significant impact by helping with his new laptop. He underscores the importance of recognizing everyday heroes who go above and beyond in their roles. Angel delves into the spiritual significance of Ash Wednesday, encouraging listeners to embrace the opportunity to symbolize their faith through the cross. Reflecting on personal family trials, he emphasizes gratitude and trust in God's plan, even amidst life's challenges. This episode also touches upon controversial topics within the faith community, urging open dialogues and acceptance. Concluding with a prayer, Angel invites everyone to honor Ash Wednesday by living out their faith authentically and wholeheartedly. Tune in to be inspired and reminded of the light within us all.

Cleveland finally rocks. Drew is on the executive board but Mimi's running the store. Discussion includes Geek Squad, tornado drills, and the spanking machine. Does the belly button have a smell? Episodes: “Strange Bedfellows” (S3E3) & “Misery Loves Mimi” (S3E4) http://instagram.com/clevelandrockspodcast Email us: clevelandrockspodcast@gmail.com

José Raúl Cepeda, Luis Raúl Sánchez y Jaime Vázquez, el “Geek Squad” de Temprano en la Tarde. Segmento 1 El Maestro Hermelindo Ruiz, artista residente de la PUCPR, nos presenta a la artista invitada la Dra. Aysegül Koca. Hablamos de la guitarra clásica y la música clásica. Segmento 2 Ysegül abre con unos minutos de un movimiento musical. Se une el Dr. Sánchez Peraza y habla de la importancia del rol de la universidad en el estudio y promoción de las artes. Segmento 3 Jaime Vázquez y Luis Raúl Sánchez conversan sobre la película “Companion” en cartelera. El concepto de la inteligencia artificial, las “otredades”, los robots, la “esclavitud”. Es película de comedia negra. Segmento 4 Companion continúa la tradición de películas sobre robots e inteligencia artificial. Un reparto joven con experiencia pero poco conocidos. Companion parece ser una inversión exitosa q duplicó en recaudos su presupuesto en pocas semanas.

January is always the month of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. So it's fitting before this month ends that Jim talks with a CMO who knows lots about consumer electronics trends than most. Jim's guest this week on The CMO Podcast is Jennie Weber, the Chief Marketing Officer of Best Buy, the $40 billion plus in sales consumer electronics retailer. Best Buy–with its 1000 plus stores, ecommerce platform, retail media network, and assorted services–is the world's largest consumer electronics specialty retailer. A long way from its founding in 1966 by two gentlemen in St Paul, Minnesota. Jennie has spent most of her career at Best Buy–about 16 years, with an additional two years at Best Buy subsidiary Geek Squad. She was appointed CMO roughly two years ago. Jennie grew up across the upper western United States, and graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in history. She's a skier, a hiker, a road biker, and a mother of four. Tune in for an episode with a CMO with fresh insights about this year's CES, as well as how to make marketing a profit center.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What's up and welcome back to the Something's Bruin Podcast! On today's episode, Mel and Sully open up with some news regarding the shows' future! They go into the Geek Squad's unbelievable week of hockey, along with Pastrnak being awarded the NHL's first Star of the Week. Morgan Geekie's future is heavily discussed and hypothesized. Extend or trade? As always, they dive through Mel's Mailbag, the twitter DMs and award the SB MVP of the Week! Thank you for listening and enjoy the show!

Join me as I welcome the prolific Rick Jordan, a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of ReachOut Technology, to the Sales Lead Dog podcast. Rick shares his fascinating journey of creating the "All In with Rick Jordan" podcast, which now boasts over 500 episodes. We explore the motivating factors that drove him to start, including the importance of building a strong online presence and how podcasting can sharpen communication skills. Our conversation touches on the balance of managing a podcast alongside demanding professional responsibilities and the personal growth that comes from being an adaptable speaker.  From humble beginnings at McDonald's to becoming a leading sales expert, I share insights from my early career days and how those foundational skills of upselling translated into success across various retail environments. We discuss the art of identifying customer needs and simplifying sales metrics to keep teams focused and driven. We also delve into the intricate balance of leadership, likening it to coaching a sports team where praise and constructive feedback create an environment conducive to growth and excellence.  The episode concludes with a thoughtful discussion on the glamorization of failure and the importance of learning and adaptation. Drawing sports analogies, we reflect on the adjustment process that follows setbacks and the significance of trying new strategies, akin to the lessons from "Moneyball." We wrap up with a look at the love-hate relationship with CRMs in sales, highlighting their necessity in managing complex sales processes while acknowledging the challenges they present. This episode offers valuable insights into leadership, sales, and the art of communication, making it a must-listen for anyone in the sales realm.  Rick Jordan is a nationally recognized entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert, and motivational speaker who has built an impressive career through hard work and a relentless drive to solve problems. From building his first computer at age 10 to writing Best Buy's B2B sales playbook and launching the Geek Squad rollout, Rick's journey has been defined by a passion for innovation and connecting with people on a human level. As the founder of two award-winning Managed Service Providers (MSPs), including ReachOut, he's dedicated to protecting businesses from cyber threats and driving industry excellence. A sought-after speaker at venues like NASDAQ, Harvard, and Coca-Cola, and a media guest on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX, Rick also hosts the hit podcast ALL IN With Rick Jordan. Whether acquiring MSPs or inspiring audiences, Rick embodies the spirit of resilience and leadership.    Quotes: "In sales, it's not about the failure itself, but the learning and adjustment process that follows. Always be ready to pivot and adapt." "A great leader balances praise and constructive feedback, creating an environment where team members can grow and excel." "To be successful in sales, you must be findable online. Building a strong personal brand is key in today's digital world." "A CRM is a tool, not a crutch. Use it to track activities and stay organized, but never let it replace genuine human connection."   Links: Rick's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrrickjordan/ ReachOut Technology LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/reachoutit Rick's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mrrickjordan/ Rick's Website - https://www.rickjordan.tv/   Get this episode and all other episodes of Sales Lead Dog at https://empellorcrm.com/salesleaddog 

Luís Raúl Sánchez Peraza, Jaime Váquez, Gary Gutiérrez y José Raúl Cepeda se utoconvocan en el "Geek Squad" para hablar de lo que ocurre en el mundo del cine al comienzo del 2025 Antes de hablar de cine, se sacó unos minutos para reseñar y destacar la muerte del activista José 'Cha-Cha' Jiménez https://chicago.suntimes.com/la-voz/2025/01/13/muere-jose-cha-cha-jimenez-activista-de-derechos-humanos-y-ex-lider-de-la-organizacion-young-lords Cumplida con la obligación histórica, el colectivo entro a discutir las siguientes películas: Gladiator: https://g.co/kgs/v6VuLxV Wicked: https://g.co/kgs/v6VuLxV Mufasa; The Lion King: https://g.co/kgs/HBJYZCR Cónclave: https://g.co/kgs/BC73SyD

Agent Derek Meister from the Geek Squad spoke to Bill about The Robot Vacuums of 2025 are evolving. Including Limbs and Legs. There were a slew of innovations in robot vacuums on the CES show floor this year, from arms and legs to extendable mops, movable towers, and new navigation systems.

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Momma Carson.Based on a post by FinalStand, in 13 parts. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. Since a quick 'cool down' in the pool seemed like a Great idea at that instant, I sidled down the sofa and retrieved swimming trunks from my book bag. Though not Speedos, Brandy still approved. This also allowed me to 'clean up' with my underwear then stow it away in the plastic bag the trunks had come in.‘Okay,' she rang out once we were back in shirts and shorts. Mamma Carson came into view and all the blood which had been struggling back up to my brain raced to my enraged cock. Brandy's Mom was wearing a light grey sports bra, with nipples poking out invitingly, matching boy shorts, with clearly evident camel toe, and; ah; petite workout moccasins? That's what they looked like anyway. She completed the ensemble with a baby blue hair bow holding most of her hair back and a matching linen towel over her right shoulder.Undoubtedly; I was drooling.‘Mamma!' Brandy exclaimed in faux-surprise over 'Mamma's' attire.‘I just wanted to work out in the home gym and to know if you wanted to join me; like old times,' Mrs. Carson asked all innocent-like. What Brandy said was a bit less innocent and way more indicative of Brandy's trust in me (or so I thought).‘Mamma, dressed that way; I'm afraid Vlad might rape you. I'm pretty sure his brother Mikhail will; if he sees you walking around dressed like that,' Brandy chortled. Jodi May Memphis Carson wasn't a believer so I turned to the woman whose opinion truly mattered.‘Can I? Can I? Can I?' I pleaded as I fell to my knees before Brandy. ‘Please, please, please! Can I have her?'‘What!' squawked Brandy even as her eyes shone with feverish glee.‘What?' gawked Jodi May, not wanting to comprehend the scene before her; and her powerlessness in it.‘She's, my, Mother,' Brandy put both fists on her hips and began scolding me.‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,' I rapidly nodded like a maddened Fool.‘What she said,' Mamma Carson affirmed.‘Don't you care that she's my Mamma?' Brandy's tone became teasing.‘I think it is extra-special that she's your mother,' I kept up the head-bobbing.‘But I'm; ah; older enough to be her Mother,' the older Carson protested.‘Yes,' I turned to Jodi May, ‘you are what I have to look forward to if we get married, Jodi May.' Then I added a bit of my newfound cunning by saying, ‘You are almost as good as the real Brandy to my way of thinking.'I turned back to My Girl because I wasn't sure how good my Poker Face was, or how good Jodi May was at reading the hearts of young men. In reality, I didn't want a Brandy substitute and would wait for the real Brandy to become available as opposed to 'settling'.That wasn't what both women had heard though. For Brandy, it was a cruelly landed barb; on the Mother who had slept with her previous beau; as if Darius hadn't bothered to both tell Brandy and demand she never reveal she knew; because he was that kind of twisted piece of work, poisoning Daughter against her Mother.Out of sight of Mamma, I crossed the first and fore fingers of my hands to create the '#' sign followed by a '1' as I mouthed 'girl'. She winked with her hooded, left eye to show she'd caught on to my game.‘Prince, don't get pouty,' Brandy stroked my cheek. ‘It is just that Darius used to tucker her out and you are easily twice the lover he ever was to me. I don't want you screwing her unconscious like you did me our first time either,' she added on, ‘on her first day back.'‘Brandy; what?' Jodi May mentally backpedaled. ‘Who told you such stuff?'‘Darius told me, Mamma. He even showed me a video of you, him and Rashaan in a three-way,' she undercut any further attempts at denial. ‘It's okay. I believed Darius' lies too and made even worse mistakes; like believing he cared about me as opposed to his real purpose; which was to hurt Daddy.'‘Baby, you can't; I mean; it was one mistake,' she evaded.‘He showed me two tapes,' Brandy looked saddened to catch her maternal champion in a lie.‘Brandy; I; ‘‘Mamma, I'm free of him now,' Brandy let a single tear track her cheek. ‘Vlad saved me.'I took this as my clue to rise up, stop playing the Clown and return to being her masculine Guardian and Protector. I wrapped Brandy up in both arms as she wrapped my waist up in hers. Soft kisses landed on the top of her head.‘Hey, Princess?'‘Yes Prince?'‘How about you go upstairs and get dressed for a gym workout and I'll stay down here with your mother and; ‘ I led off.‘Yes; and; ,' Brandy wiggled while she looked straight up into my gaze.‘I'll spank her until you return. Seems totally fair and unbiased to me.'‘Spanking my ass is not enough for you?' she sniffle-giggled.‘Wait? What? I get to spank both your asses?!?!?'‘No,' she protested. ‘You get to spank Mamma, but only until I get back.'‘Brandy!' Mom exclaimed.‘Mamma, I'll change real fast, I promise,' Brandy shot me another wink then sprinted off before there could be any other verbal roadblocks.More, as in more of Jodi MayA few seconds later;‘Young man, I am not going to let you spank me,' Jodi May announced.‘If you don't, can you imagine how much more disappointed in you Brandy will be when she gets back? Sleeping with Darius was a stupid thing to do, but you both know how charismatic he could be. Lying to her about what you did was dumber and overly cruel to a young woman who deserves the truth desperately,' I glared her way.‘That doesn't equate to me degrading myself before you,' she frowned.‘Oh, come on,' I attempted to placate the mother. ‘Just lay across my lap. I'll give one good smack when I hear her coming down the stairs and she'll be mollified.'Maybe I had a good Poker Face after all, or perhaps mine was yet another lie Jodi May wanted/choose to believe.‘Well, don't get slap happy,' she wagged a finger at me as she came around the sofa. She certainly walked slowly enough to hard-sell her reluctance.I languidly sat down, then beckoned her forward with my forefinger. Her eyes rolled heavenward at my theater even as she complied; by crawling across my lap. I held off my 'gulp' until she wasn't looking at me.Step 1: I held my palms upraised and clasped together in supplication and prayer while whispering, ‘Таксиарх Архангел Михаил, за то, что я собираюсь получить, я смиренно благодарен.' ‘Taksiarkh Arkhangel Mikhail, za to, chto ya sobirayus' poluchit', ya smirenno blagodaren.'‘Are you saying Grace over my Behind?' she looked over her shoulder at me, somewhat caught between cross and bemused.‘Your whole body, Ma'am. Your whole body and it is only fitting and proper that I do so. Anything less would be sacrilegious in the extreme,' I smiled. Jodi May smirked. She shouldn't have been so confident.Step 2 saw me putting my left forearm casually over her shoulder blades. Now she was tensing up and becoming physically uneasy, but too late for that.Step 3 and I began massaging her buttocks.‘Hey! What are you doing?' she hissed. Her attempts to rise were countered by me applying pressure with my forearm. My right hand rose and came down with a resounding 'Smack!' ‘Ow! What the; ‘‘It should be obvious,' I humored her. ‘I lied. You've been bad. Worse, you've been bad to Brandy in my presence and I'm not going to tolerate that, not for one second. Clear enough?'‘Let go,' she struggled valiantly. ‘I said; Ow! Ugh,' she sniffled as a second blow was followed by a third in rapid succession.‘Next time it will be three and the number keeps going on up, got it?' I stated. She hesitated so my right hand rose.‘Yes,' she yielded cautiously.‘Okay. Here are the new Ground Rules. Brandy is the Lady of this House, not you. You ran off while she stayed. Play nice and my family will work overtime to not make things even worse between you and your husband when he returns. Cross any of us, or Brandy, and you have no clue how bad it will get,' I began.‘And if I say 'no' are you going to continue to beat me?' she challenged. Down came three hard blows on her luscious posterior which vibrated deliciously with each impact.‘Ow, ow, Ow!' she teared up. ‘Stop! Please stop!' It would have been more convincing if I hadn't spotted her hands sneaking back. I foresaw ten sets of claw marks in my near future if I wasn't careful.Down came four painful blows with the accompanying highly vocal protests.‘Hands over your head,' I demanded in a harsh, unforgiving tone. ‘Five, four, three; ‘I could see her contemplate trying to scarify me then think better of it. My pain tolerance was an unknowns while she was approaching hers. Up her hands went.‘Good girl,' I leaned forward and cooed into her hair from close above. ‘Cross your wrists and keep them that way.' Again, compliance with an undertone of a mare getting ready to bolt. ‘Raise your legs up on the sofa and cross your ankles. Keep them that way.' At this point she realized she was stuck. There was going to be no quick getaway for her.‘Who is the Lady of the House?' I inquired softly.‘Brandy.'‘Not very convincing, but that will have to do for the moment,' I first caused her to coil from the expected painful spanking, then relax when she realized she'd gained a respite. ‘I know you don't believe me for no reason which truly makes sense to me, but you don't. I'm okay with your current misconceptions about me.'I moved my hand under the elastic of her shorts.‘Hey,' she tried to raise her head up, stilling me with her gaze alone. My hand worked down to the crack of her ass then alternating along the sides instead of continuing 'deeper'. Once more, this was just a false hiatus as, with a few quick twists of my right wrist, I began working her shorts down until I had exposed her bare buttocks to me.Since the verbal and non-verbal roadblocks weren't working, she went for the straight physical denial by clamping her thighs shut. Thighs are stronger than arms, but you'd have had to have been a premier female bodybuilder to keep my questing fingers from between them and stop my progress at this late date; and Jodi May's figure was way too opulent for that's sport's discipline.‘While keeping your ankles crossed, move your knees apart,' I ordered. Finally she launched her all-out rebellion. I could have out-wrestled her three years ago and won without my current hellish advantages. I had Jodi May off the sofa and pinned, face-first, on the floor in ten seconds flat. Five blows to her scrumptious rear rained down. This time the resulting tears were very real.‘Okay; okay,' she sobbed.I made a production of getting off of her, resuming my seat then having her crawl back across my lap. This time she was utterly defeated and scared. Six blows were her 'reward'. The 'reward' was the playfulness of those feather-light touches of those faux-slaps to her abused flesh. ‘Ah, ah, ah; oh; ‘‘Raise up your tush.'Her ‘Why?' was quickly followed by my frown and then her instant compliance. Kisses replaced the palm of my hand as I blew gently and placed faint signs of affection on her posterior. My hand was busy going between her cheeks until my fingertips contacted moist labia-meat.‘Ah; should you? Brandy; back soon?' Jodi May whimpered.‘Who is the Lady of the House?'‘; Brandy?'‘Yes and it is up to Brandy to call me off. I know how long it takes for her to get dressed when she has sex on her mind, so I'm already aware she can intervene whenever she wishes to. This is Brandy's game, Jodi May, not yours, not mine.'I worked two fingers up to the first digit into her labia, feeling she was becoming quite wet. My thumb was tapping her sphincter as well. Jodi May was beginning to really get into it, adding a little push back to my play, when Brandy announced her presence.‘Hey guys. Whatchya doing?'I held Jodi May firm so all my mature victim could do was stay on all fours while I methodically finger fucked her from behind.‘Quick; let me up,' Jodi May urged me quietly, yet without much conviction.‘No.'‘Mamma; Vlad?' Brandy glided down the stairs and fully into view. I had been prepared for more of a fight from Mrs. Carson than she'd put up, which was for damn sure. Jodi May gracefully slid off the sofa, dragging a throw pillow with her and then buried her face in it, more a feeble effort at hiding than any real attempt to break our coupling.I couldn't have been more baffled though I felt compelled to follow to keep my position via-a-via her body.'She's been lonely,' Brandy mouthed to me followed by, ‘Vlad, that's my Mother!''Huh?' from me.'Don't stop', then ‘get off of her right now, Mister!' Fortunately, I figured out which sets of lips to obey; Brandy's silent ones and Jodi May's lower, gooey ones. Her upper ones were beginning to make subdued little moaning noises.‘Oh Mamma, is my Prince being mean to you?' my Lady knelt by her mother's head.‘He spanked me badly,' the older lady mumbled into the pillow.‘Vlad, make it up to her,' Brandy turned to me. Her insistent tone was undermined by her wink.‘I like where I am,' I defied her then mouthed, 'what do I do?'‘None of that backtalk, Mister,' she waggled a finger at me. ‘Get those magic lips to work this instant,' the finger pointed toward her mother's hindquarters.‘And if I don't?' I scoffed. Then, 'I love you.'‘Then that cock of yours is blocked from ALL the ladies this weekend; Oh Vlad who is living Vicariously,' she shot me a sly smile. 'I love you too.'‘Ouch!' I emoted as I recoiled. ‘Princess; that's harsh,' followed by a double eyebrow pump and 'anything for you.'‘Brandy; I (sniff) don't; want (sniffle); him to; oh; ah; oh, stop that Vlad,' Jodi May protested.While Mamma Carson had been voicing her dissent, I had been shuffling down the length of the sofa. Quickly enough I maneuvered myself into a position where I could begin planting kisses on her abused heinie, all the while keeping my fingers gracefully playing in her cunny and across her anal frontiers. I began adding little flicks of my tongue as I'd had something similar done to me once, during my first time with a professional. That one could arouse with just her lips, teeth and tongue in ways I'd never imagined.‘Oh; he shouldn't be doing that,' Jodi May murmured. ‘Make him stop.'During this appeal, I was petting her along her spine until she got the hint I wanted her to bow her back to give me better access to her girly bits.‘No, Mamma. Vlad has to learn his lesson. He can't take you, or any woman; but especially not us Carson women; for granted,' Brandy insisted.'You sure; about this?' I checked.'I want Mamma to stay home, Prince,' she smiled somewhat tearfully. I sensed she'd had words with Mikhail and Taliyah before returning. My youngest triplet must have been deadly insistent about the power of 'my love', which healed her heart, being able to rejuvenate her mother of whatever emotional maledictions had aided her departure from this household, things I was still largely unaware of.Twenty seconds of oral succulence later; 'I don't have a condom'.Brandy had coaxed her mother to turn her head sideways on the pillow, facing Brandy's lap though Jodi May's eyes were closed. Brandy, for her part, was in navy blue butt shorts and a blue sports bra (I figured from Brandy's desire to color coordinate) and a white, sleeve-less t-shirt with blue stripes down the sides.'She's on birth control.''This may get more than a bit weird. (Are you) sure about this?''Come back to me, Vlad.''Always, Princess.'A stellar smile followed my promise to her, then it was 'back to work' (though I hardly thought of my sexual activities in such a manner.)Honestly, Jodi May had a way more developed sense of what she liked and how to get me to go where she wanted to me to go than any other Arkansas woman I'd been with to date. She wasn't all that bashful, or clumsy about it, either. There was a magical grace to her responses which later left me amazed how she led me to her first orgasm without me realizing she was definitely leading our carnal cavorting.Hmm; my mind was recovering; in that I could create more wordy prose while simultaneously working my neck (I was on my stomach behind her by this time, propped up on my elbows), nose, mouth, fingers and tongue. I was still the composer, creating the movement for the orchestra to play, but she was the body of music, filling the auditorium of our love-making with a tantalizing harmonic melody. I couldn't tear myself away.For her part, Jodi May made sure to rub her vaginal fluids over my face from eyebrow ridge to the stubble beneath my chin (hey! I'd hurried to get over here). All I could taste and smell was her womanly aroma; a richer, raw maple syrupy smell combined with scallops; which I quickly came to adore.I got a mouth and two cheeks full when she orgasmed and she got to howl into her pillow while Brandy, now the maestro of this little performance, appeared surprised by her ever-growing, new-found power over the people who had such an emotional impact on her life. Brandy was In Charge!I was lapping away like some overly friendly Saint Bernard the juices which had escaped my gullet as Jodi May coasted down from her post-coitus euphoria. Then Mother began crying to daughter and daughter to Mother.‘I'm so sorry, Baby Boo,' Mamma addressed her offspring. ‘I tore everything apart.'‘You did, Mamma,' Brandy petted her hair, ‘but if you hadn't run off with Mr. Jenks, Senior Deputy Samsonov wouldn't have applied for his job, gotten it and the Samsonov's wouldn't have stayed. I would have been under Darius' thumb; as would have the whole school. You hurt me and Daddy plenty, yet; in the Greater Scheme of Things; it worked out better for me and Daddy with the new friends we've made.'‘That's a beautiful way of looking at my screw-up,' Jodi May's eyes opened in more ways than one way. Brandy was acting in a more self-possessed manner at this moment than she ever had before. Jodi had left a girl subjugated by a villain and come back to a women partnered with a man whom she loved and who loved her. Our strong bond powered everything else.‘You still hurt Daddy and for that you must atone, Mamma,' Brady frowned slightly.‘Atone; ah; like punish me?' Mamma didn't seem all that distressed.‘Yes. We can go back to your present room and cut up all your racy dresses, or you can promise to never leave the house without me, or Pa; or you could let Vlad be so terribly mean to you that you never forget who really cares for you,' Brandy laid out the choices. My girl had it going on!‘Terribly mean,' Jodi May flashed me a famished look, ‘like what he is doing to me right now?'‘Oh yes; just like this plus much, much worse,' Brandy feigned innocence.‘How much worse?' Mrs. Carson hid her smile well.‘Stay right there and find out,' I joined in. I finished rolling her from leaning to one side to over on her back with my kisses falling down on her still micro-trembling thighs.‘One thing though, Mamma,' Brandy grew steely.‘Yes.'‘Daddy doesn't want you around us no more.'‘Let me deal with; ‘‘No,' Brandy put her foot (knee) down. ‘You broke Daddy's heart for the last time with your cheating ways. Hell, I became a cheater too, and I think you are somewhat to blame for that as well; me going behind his back to keep dating Darius.'‘Honey Child, those are adult things,' Mamma tried to both mollify her baby while seduce me with a host of non-verbal clues.‘No, Mamma. Not anymore. I'm 18 now and I think I know what is going on. Daddy won't take you back and back into his bed, never. If you promise me and him you will behave; ‘‘I'm your Mother,' Jodi May grew frosty up top while keeping steamy and inviting below.‘And I am your Daughter and I'm telling you if you try to romance Dad, you can't win. You will cheat again and he'll detonate in a big way. Then he will take you to Divorce Court and destroy us as a family. I don't want that.'Brandy Crystal Carson.Jodi May wasn't overly groomed in the pelvic region, but it wasn't too much to deal with either. It was natural and womanly, very fitting for the untamed, sumptuous tableau of maverick charms she presented to me.‘I'll behave, Brandy Crystal Carson,' Mamma shifted around so could place one hand over her heart. ‘I swear. This time things will be different.'‘Yes. Yes, they will. Mamma, in this instant, you can stop having sex with Vlad and have sex with no other until Daddy decides to take you back to his bed, you can keep whoring around until Daddy gets so ashamed by it, he tosses you out for good, or; ‘‘Or; ?' Jodi May was somewhat less than the authoritative persona she wanted and needed to put forth to be the master/mistress the situation at this point.‘Or, we let you have sex with Vlad; and his two, identical brothers, Mikhail and Alexander, but only them.'I struggled mighty hard to not let the 'Hey now! Don't we (my Brothers and I) get a vote in this?' push the current wolfish cravings for more Jodi May off my face and to alter my demeanor from covetous carnivore to caring boyfriend. I already knew Mikhail's vote would be a 'Hell yeah!', but Alexander? Me? I found myself gradually going serpentine up my current partner's body.‘Vladimir; Vlad, you can't be okay with this?' Jodi May's eyes riveted me. Only the truth would do so I went for the most effective bit of truth.‘Brandy Crystal Carson is my Lady on my arm and my Whore in my bedroom, Jodi May. She has entered the tiny group of people whose opinions I give a damn about, and the only one of the four who isn't blood-related. That is how much I value your daughter's council, advice and personal direction when I need it.'‘So you are just going to let her tell you who you can and can't sleep with; for real; ‘‘Abso-fucking-lutely, Mrs. Carson. That is because it isn't about the fucking; it is about the happiness. I'm happiest when my world collapses down to just Brandy and me.'‘I'm happiest when she smiles at me when I've done a good thing. I'm happiest when she is so hoarse from screaming out her orgasms she can't enunciate clearly, or even move, after one of our ferocious rounds of love-making. In essence: Brandy = my happiness; so yes, I give everything she recommends to me great weight.'‘In this case,' I ran my tongue up between her gently sagging mounds of mountainous breast tissue, ‘she is telling me what will make her happy; having sex with a 'loyal' you; and; not having sex with a disloyal you; makes her happy.' I paused for several seconds to glomb onto her right nipple and playfully suckle upon it. Her legs, already open, allowed her heels to start working over the sides of my calves and the back of my knees.‘I could wake up in the morning and have sex with your daughter, Mrs. Carson. We could chase one another around, frolic and have sex all over whichever domicile we found ourselves in; and if I did it for a hundred years, I would never get bored with Brandy, or want to anything except make her joyous inside and out,' I finished up.Jodi May had three options to believe in:~ I could still be a standard milksop White Boy despite the preponderance of evidence to the contrary,~ The entire political-racial-sexual landscape had turned topsy-turvy in her short (6 month) absence,~ Or I was actually a Big Black Cock Monster in disguise (the third one was Mikhail's spin on things, I swear).I had another issue, rug burn and my desire to avoid it for both of us.‘A Prize like you shouldn't be nailed to Kingdom Come on the floor like some common floozy,' I declared. ‘Here,' I slipped on hand under Jodi May's tailbone, lifting her up and pressing her into me. ‘Wrap your arms around my neck,' I commanded 'my prize'.‘Umm,' she gasped as her body clove to mine. ‘You certainly are; ah; strong.'‘I 'pry free' ladies who Society mistakenly believes have become 'Black-owned' on a regular basis, I wrestle said 'Black' rascals down until they cry out 'I'm an Uncle Tom' and I show those women the powerful lineage of Valhalla hasn't gone from this world quite yet; though not necessarily in that order,' I bullshitted some stuff together.‘Vlad; that's gosh-darn racist; except the last part. That didn't make too much sense, but; I think I liked it,' Mamma Carson salivated over every turn of the phrase. Me being 'racist' definitely wasn't a deal-breaker for her and the Valhalla nonsense glossed over my ancestors confused relationship with those Scandinavians who came a vikinging to the East over a millennia ago.I hefted her up abruptly, spun on one knee and deposited her on her rump on the edge of the sofa cushions.‘Aie!' she squealed in surprise. Off-guard, she posed no resistance as I made my final approach. I aimed my cockhead at her glistening vulva with my left hand while pushing her left leg away while keeping the knee locked. ‘What?'‘How do you want it?' I growled. ‘Hard and brutal, or slow and gentle?'‘How about I show you how I like it?' she purred. It was hard to argue with her kind of counter-proposal. Her right-hand's fingernails trailed down my shoulders, upper arm and the over to my waist to guide me into her designated pace of her penetration.I'll give her this much, until the tenth cycle she held it together better than her daughter. Afterwards, the newness of her vaginal walls undulating around my veined shaft caused her breath to catch and her hands to grab my ass, drawing me in ever deeper.‘Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, Yip!' she went off after I accidently pushed passed her cervix.I was certain, just like Brandy with Darius, Mr. Jenks had most likely gone before where I was going now. The 'new' was her cervix massaging my glans and the area right behind the head like a mini-handjob (for me) /pleasurable vibrator-to-the-uterus' entrance (for her). I didn't look like the biggest, or thickest piece of Man-Meat she'd ever encountered so;‘IN-tense, isn't it, Mamma?' Brandy appeared on the sofa beside us. I was still kneeling on the floor, I had mother's legs spread in a wide 'V' and was beginning to pick up our tempo as the interrogation began.‘Hush, Baby (gasp), Mamma is; oh Lord,' she mumbled, ‘I'm; oh; my; Vlad; slow down.'Innocent trust required me to slow down. My nascent woman-sense told me to do the opposite. I slowly pulled back; then hungrily drove home deep. Jodi May grunted as her eyes, once shuttered, sprang wide open. I followed that up with small, rapid repetitions interspersed with gyrating the sensation inward, my pubic bone on her clitoral region. My partner's legs flexed even wider, her head flew back, bow keeping her hair from going wild and her eyes squeezed shut.To add to the stimulation, I latched on to her right breast, suckling the whole areola and nipple into my mouth. Brandy took the left nipple between two fingers and began pinching it and rolling it between them.‘Gurr; ‘ my first thought was 'when did the Carson's get a cat?'‘Gurr; ‘; 'Holy Shit! How did a puma get in here?'And the resulting caterwauling Yowl was the scariest, female Big Cat noise I'd ever heard; and that was Jodi May Memphis Carson having a no-holds-bared Orgasm as her body flushed ruddy, sweat perspired all over, her back painfully bowed and of course, she screamed out to High Heavens like no human I'd ever heard.I lost it. I was shooting off semen deep into her uterus as her cervix was once more grappling with my glans. I had no care in that instant where, or what I was doing. I was a spectator being taken along for the ride though I wasn't hemmed-in in any physical way.‘Holy Shit, Bro!' Mikhail laughed loudly. ‘Delivering from Downtown!' I think he was referencing a long 3-point shot in basketball, but I was too sonically concussed to be sure.‘Take notes,' Taliyah repeated her refrain.Those two had come downstairs after Brandy and, it appeared, had been quietly watching us as events unfolded.‘Brandy, is everything okay?' sounded off Noémie Lucie from the far side hallway, the one which led to the stairs down to the lower level which included the space the other cheerleaders had been sleeping. Oh boy. Explaining this was going to be a peach.Who is here to chaperone whom?(11:30 poolside at the Carson Home.)It made perfect sense Sheriff 'Big Bob' Carson wouldn't trust his home solely to his 'somewhat independent-minded' daughter when she was having thirteen friends over for a Saturday Night party. While Taliyah could show up whenever she wanted since she and Brandy were lifelong Besties, the whole crowd showing up on Friday night was completely unofficial; so he'd asked an adult, or two, to chaperone tonight.No, he hadn't handed that heavy responsibility over to us equally hormonal, 18 year old triplets; as we were considered one of the hazards which needed to be chaperoned against. Nope; if we'd been able to roll all our lives back one whole day and night, we would have seen the Sheriff having dinner with someone who fit the bill of 'perfect chaperone' (a single, adult female with a strong will, of pure moral fiber and a history of legalized violence; Big Bob was fully aware of our current extracurricular circumstances) with the sole exception she wasn't a friend, or even very much of an acquaintance; so he was asking a great deal of them.Thankfully, 'business' was keeping this person in our sleepy burgh of Kingston anyway and this would give her a perfect opportunity to interrogate some of the possible 'third parties' involved with the crime which had befallen poor Darius Pope and his busted-up buddies.Yep, Brandy's Papa had asked the AHP CID (Arkansas Highway Patrol Criminal Investigation Division) Sergeant Louisa Petrakis to 'babysit' his 18 year old daughter and her friends to make sure their partying remained PG-13. That, not some desire to twist up the criminal investigation into the Darius Pope matter, had been the reason he'd 'wined and dined' her Thursday night.She'd only agreed After she'd realized what a corrupt bunch of actors the Kingston PD was and gotten the implication the Sheriff couldn't even trust the majority of his own Deputies. To her this must have smelled like some political civil war a 'brewing; which was an unspoken menace her department was also supposed to combat.When political infighting oozed out into open law enforcement corruption cases, it hurt the State of Arkansas economically by making their home ground look less attractive to external investment and the ever-important tourist dollar. Part of a weekend with access to Big Bob's and the Mayor's daughters suddenly became very attractive to this half-Creole (US Coast Guard Officer on her mother's side) / half-Greek (her father was a Merchant Marine Captain); originally from Louisiana; law officer .She'd come to Arkansas for UA (University of Arkansas) Sociology and Criminal Justice program and stayed to pursue a career in state law enforcement plus a LLM (Master of Law) from her alma mater on the road to joining the Department of Homeland Security working cases involving international law. Yep; ambitious beyond the norm.She chose an electric blue one piece; which was nothing but string from behind; very cheeky and what she claimed was the only suit in her size available on such short notice. I thought my brothers and I should pay homage to the Swimsuit Goddesses, if that was the true, because Sgt. Louisa was truly luscious.Of course, 14 to 1 odds was asking a lot of anyone so Big Bob had wrangled (rather easily) a supporting chaperone, my Mother (‘ah shit' was Mikhail's heartfelt and instantaneous reaction upon seeing her). She wasn't the primary chaperone because, as Big Bob told Ms. Louisa; ‘she's 100% loyal, brave and true, but 100% bat-shit crazy too.' Perfectly succinct and it rhymed.Mom; ugh; wore a red and white skimpy one-piece with a 'required' blue-with-one-white-star-over-each-breast bikini top. Very; umm; patriotic? Mom had a tight, lean-muscled physique. I had no doubt she was the most deceptively lethal human being present; in both age groups; and that included the people who knew she was crazy.Because the AHP Sergeant wasn't part of the Kingston/Davis County shit-storm, Mom felt safe secretly inviting two other women to this shindig. The first came so they could be seen publically feuding (by the cheerleaders) while they actually spent time building up a rapport. Mom was being asked to put aside a truckload of hate she'd been clutching to her bosom for over twenty years toward Dominique Fox Malik's husband, father and brother.For Dominique, she'd been raised on hating the Fonteneau in general and Gayle for 'lying' about the rape Mom had gone through (at the hands of 7 Black young men when she was fifteen) and Theo, her twin, for putting her brother in a coma he was still in all these years later. They'd hated one another by association longer than I'd been alive and now were trying to put their bile 'high on the back shelf' for their children's sake.Sure, Mom was tossing money and political clout Dominique's way, but the offer would never had been made and absolutely never accepted if Taliyah and Mikhail hadn't been so deeply and truly

Identity theft and fraud can pose significant risks to retirees, especially as scammers adapt their methods to exploit those aged 60 and above. This episode addresses how identity theft impacts retirees, the common scams targeting them, and actionable steps to safeguard your financial security in retirement. With insights drawn from the Federal Trade Commission's latest findings and real-life scenarios from our clients, we uncover red flags, preventative measures, and the importance of staying vigilant. https://youtu.be/vnURdPNK-sY Key Topics Covered Who Scammers Target Surprising stats reveal the two age groups most commonly targeted by fraudsters, with retirees in the 60+ demographic at high risk due to tech support scams, fake prize schemes, and impersonation fraud. Biggest Frauds for Retirees: Tech support scams posing as antivirus or Geek Squad representatives. Social Security and Medicare fraud often prompt victims to "verify" personal data via fake links or calls. High-pressure sales tactics at seemingly legitimate investor dinners. What the Statistics Show: Average financial loss increases significantly with age, reaching $1,500 per scam for those aged 80+. Scams come from various channels, including phone (24%), online (21%), and even social media (15%). Steps to Protect Yourself: Always verify legitimacy by conducting independent research on any unsolicited offers. Never reveal your Social Security number in public or carry your card unnecessarily. Monitor your benefits and secure your accounts through trusted cybersecurity measures. Be wary of offers promising high, risk-free returns, and take time to make investment decisions. Resources Mentioned Federal Trade Commission Fraud Data Learn about common scams and tips on how to avoid fraud at ftc.gov. Investor.gov Check out this trustworthy resource for avoiding retirement and investment scams. ssa.gov Security Features Protect your Social Security with tools and resources on the official website at ssa.gov. Key Takeaways Fraudsters often exploit retirees due to perceived vulnerabilities—stay skeptical, especially of unsolicited calls or emails. Scams targeting tech support, Social Security, and investment funds are common; question high-pressure sales tactics and ensure legitimacy. Always investigate the credibility of "offers" and rely on licensed professionals or verified government agencies when engaging with your financial details. Stay Connected: Subscribe for updates and new episodes every week! Got a question? Email us at info@srbadvisors.com Don't Forget to Share the Love! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review or share it with your friends. The best conversations happen around the table—yours or ours! If you're worried about keeping your retirement savings secure, or you've encountered a questionable offer, don't hesitate to reach out to us at Shotwell Rutter Baer. We're here to help you protect what you've worked hard for. Get in touch with us or visit our website to schedule a consultation at srbadvisors.com.

Hoy José Raúl Cepeda y Luis Raúl Sánchez Peraza comentan lo más reciente en el cine. ¡Geek Squad! Segmento 1 Comienza temporada de cine en EE UU. Fenómeno de las muestras de cortometrajes en el Festival Internacional de Cine la semana pasada en los cines de “Fine Arts” Segmento 2 The “Joker follie a deux”: malentendida y subvalorada dice Sánchez Peraza. Importancia de los primeros 5 minutos. ¿Qué es un musical? ¿Es Joker 2 un musical? Segmento 3 ¿Cómo se diferencia la relación entre la pareja protagonista en la película con la pareja que nos presenta DC Cómics? ¿Es un reflejo de la relación entre el pueblo estadounidense y Trump? ¿La relación “a deux” de Joker y Harley es similar a la de Venom y Eddie? Segmento 4 ¿Venom: simbiosis o codependencia? ¿Joker follie a deux: simbiosis o codependencia? Éxito de edición cinematográfica. Para el próximo “Geek Squad”: Wiked y Gladiator 2

Someone call Best Buy, because the Geek Squad is all flying together. You know the photo. The one with Trump, Don Jr., Elon Musk, and Kennedy. Oh, and there's Speaker Johnson popping his head out in the corner, too. Dude didn't even get a seat at the table of the McDonald's feast. This is going down as the last supper photograph in politics. This is clown world level level of !@#$.****You can check out Ladies Love Politics website to read a transcript/references of this episode at www.ladieslovepolitics.com. Be sure to follow the Ladies Love Politics channel on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Truth Social, Brighteon Social, Threads, and Twitter. Content also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you stream podcasts. Background Music Credit:Music: Hang for Days - Silent Partner https://youtu.be/A41A0XeU2ds

In this enlightening episode, Rick Jordan shares his inspiring journey from working at Geek Squad to becoming a part of a public company. He delves into the complexities and challenges of achieving success, emphasizing the delicate balance between generosity, loyalty, and setting boundaries.Learn More About Rick Jordan and ALL IN!Home - RICK JORDANKey Topics Discussed:Rick's Background:His transition from Geek Squad to the public tech sector and early interest in technology.Dark Side of Success:Strains on personal relationships, dealing with haters, and the importance of intentional growth.Personal Insights:Lessons on generosity, avoiding burnout, and understanding one's purpose.Support System:The pivotal role of Rick's mother in his journey.Financial Milestones:Stories of surprising income increases and the philosophy of giving.Energy and Rest Management:Importance of consistent work and rest cycles.COVID-19 Experiences:Rick's humorous recount of contracting the virus.Leadership and Responsibility:Embracing challenges and being multifaceted.Parenting Philosophy:Teaching by example, involving children in business, and ensuring emotional stability.Generosity and Faith:The interplay between financial challenges and acts of generosity.Philosophy on Kindness and Ambition:Using money as a tool for doing more good.Listeners will gain insights into Rick's multifaceted career, his approach to life's challenges, and the personal philosophies that drive his success. This episode offers a blend of professional advice, personal anecdotes, and motivational insights.⭐Get OBSESSED with changing your life. We are all on a journey to do things better, consider us your guides to living your best life. ⭐Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, our website or most major podcast platforms.⭐Visit our website and share your story! Home | Obsessedwith Life (getobsessedpodcast.com)

As we all age, the imperative is evident: How can each of us contribute to crafting a world we desire to grow old in? In this episode, Carrie Shaw, CEO and founder of Embodied Labs, and Diana Gelston, Chief Commercial Officer at Best Buy Health, discuss their partnership and how they are shaping the future of in-home care through empathy-driven technology. They delve into the transformative impact of immersive training technology on caregiving and aging at home, reflecting on their unique partnership and the values driving their work. Carrie and Diana's partnership has not only influenced the training and approach of professionals but has also touched the lives of those receiving care. From empowering Best Buy Health's Geek Squad agents to offering a lifeline for individuals in their own homes, they explain how their work is driving a culture shift towards more empathetic and personalized care. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that will challenge you to consider your role in building a world we all want to age into. Resources: Connect with and follow Carrie Shaw on LinkedIn. Follow Embodied Labs on LinkedIn and visit their website. Connect with and follow Diana Gelston on LinkedIn. Follow Best Buy on LinkedIn and visit their website.

I have used my computer for years, and Microsoft and Outlook have never failed me, at least not to any horribly scary extent. And I rely on the computer for my broadcast work, for my website, for scripts I write for galas that I am emceeing, for serving my clients. It’s a significant communication tool, right? So I’m sitting there working, and the whole system starts blinking. Then, the monitor goes black -- nothing on the screen but darkness. The monitor light is on. It’s still working, but the computer driving it dies.

Agent Meister-Geek Squad spoke to Bill about Apple's Password Manager is Free - Apple Passwords app - Hasn't Apple devices saved my logins for years? - Where does the Passwords app work? - What about existing alternative password managers?

We're talking podcasts in Season 13! It's an interesting start, with this chat with Eugene Lazos, a military veteran in CA, who co-hosts with his friend (and fellow veteran) David. I accidentally called the show "The Geek Squad" (sorry) at the end of the interview, so, luckily, he didn't shoot me with a paintball (you'll hear why). I guess it's because our tv audio is dubbing everything into Podcastian. Meaning, it sounds raspy and unfunny after several minutes. But, I'll get it fixed! Thanks for coming on the show, Eugene! Eugene's info: Website: thegeeksaga.com ; Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, & YouTube :@thegeeksagahttps://linktr.ee/distancenerding Eugene's faves: Fatman on Batman, 'SMorning!, Nerd Poker. Spooked, Radio Rental, Distance Nerding These are the shows sampled in "Sherpa Samples": • The Political Scene • Political Gabfest • Assembly Required with Stacy Abrams • D-Day • Weird Little Guys • GOT: House of the Dragon Podcast • Heed The Call • America's Girls • This Podcast Will Kill You • The Squeeze Programming Note: "Sherpa Selects" airs on Saturdays. And I will take requests and mention your name!!! More thanks: Publicist Extraordinaire: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Steven Joiner⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music Credits/Voiceovers: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bruce Goldberg⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ( aka Lord Mr. Bruce); other Voices: The Sherpa-lu Studio Players YouTube: @sherpalution5000 @sherpalution : social media for FB, IG, Twitter, & TikTok Link page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bio.link/jimthepo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email:jimthepodcastsherpa@gmail.com Support:Review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Podium is your tool for AI generated show notes, chapters, clips, transcripts, and more. Try it out today and get 3 free hours and 50% off your first month:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://hello.podium.page?via=sherpa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

You do not have the right to repair your own belongings because of intellectual property rights granted to corporations by Congress in 1998. In this episode, listen to the debate happening in Congress about if and how they should grant customers the right to repair and get a status update on the multiple efforts under way in the current Congress, including one with a good chance of becoming law. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Andy Greenberg. 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Laws Bills Sec. 828 : REQUIREMENT FOR CONTRACTORS TO PROVIDE REASONABLE ACCESS TO REPAIR MATERIALS. Fair Repair Act Audio Sources May 16, 2024 Senate Armed Services Committee Witnesses: Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy Clip Sen. Elizabeth Warren: So the Navy acquires everything from night vision goggles to aircraft carriers through contracts with big defense contractors, but the contractors often place restrictions on these deals that prevent service members from maintaining or repairing the equipment, or even let them write a training manual without going back through the contractor. Now the contractors say that since they own the intellectual property and the technical data underlying the equipment, only they have the right to repair that equipment. These right to repair restrictions usually translate into much higher costs for DOD, which has no choice but to shovel money out to big contractors whenever DOD needs to have something fixed. So take the Navy's littoral combat ship, General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin considered much of the data and equipment on the ship to be proprietary, so the Navy had to delay missions and spend millions of dollars on travel costs, just so that contractor affiliated repairmen could fly in, rather than doing this ourselves. Secretary Del Toro, when a sailor isn't allowed to repair part of their ship at sea, and a marine isn't allowed to access technical data to fix a generator on a base abroad. One solution is for the Navy to buy the intellectual property from the contractors. So can you say a little bit about what the benefits are of the Navy having technical rights for the equipment that it has purchased. Sec. Carlos Del Toro: The benefits are enormous, Senator, and we've actually had tremendous success, I'd say, in the last year and a half to two years, through the taxpayer advocacy program that we initiated when I came in. There have been three examples, one, gaining the intellectual property rights for the new ACV class of ships that will replace the AAVs. The F-35 negotiations really proved themselves out in a significant way as well, too. And lastly, the 20 F-18s that the Congress authorized in ‘22 and ‘23, we were able to make significant gains in terms of the government finally getting the intellectual property rights that were necessary for us to be able to properly sustain those moving forward. Sen. Elizabeth Warren: So I am very, very glad to hear this. I like the taxpayer advocacy project and how you're training contract officers to secure technical equipment that the Navy buys, but I think you should have the support of Congress on this. Senator Braun and I have introduced the Stop price gouging the military act to give DoD more tools to get cost and pricing data so that you will be in a better position to negotiate better deals with contractors. There's also more that we can do to ensure that the Navy and the rest of the services have the rights they need to bolster readiness. So let me ask you, Secretary Del Toro, would having a stronger focus on right to repair issues during the acquisition process, like prioritizing contract bids that give DoD fair access to repair materials, and ensuring that contract officers are looking into buying technical rights early on, would that help the Navy save costs and boost readiness at the same time? Sec. Carlos Del Toro: Very much. Senator, in fact, one of the things that we have prioritized since I came in as Secretary of the Navy, given my acquisition background, is actually those negotiations need to happen as early as possible before that we even as we develop the acquisition strategy for that contract to go out to bid, and by doing so, we will reap tremendous returns. July 18, 2023 House Judiciary Committee Witnesses: Aaron Perzanowski, Thomas W. Lacchia Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School , Legal Fellow, Hudson Institute's Forum for Intellectual Property Kyle Wiens, Co-founder and CEO, iFixit Paul Roberts, Founder, SecuRepairs.org; Founder and Editor-in-Chief, the Security Ledger Scott Benavidez, Chairman, Automotive Service Association; Owner, Mr. B's Paint & Body Shop Clips 41:25 Scott Benavidez: My name is Scott Benavidez. I'm the Chairman of the Automotive Service Association's Board of Directors. I am also a second generation shop owner from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mr. B's Paint and Body Shop. Scott Benavidez: We do have concerns when some insurers insist on repairs that are simply cheaper and quicker, without regard to quality and safety. Repairers understand better than anyone the threat of replacement crash parts or lesser quality. We can and should have a competitive marketplace that doesn't compromise quality or safety, deciding to only cover the cheapest option without understanding implications for quality leaves collision shops and their customers in a tough position. Very few consumers have the knowledge about these types of crash parts used on their vehicles as numerous crash parts in the marketplace, such as OEM (original equipment manufactured) parts, certified aftermarket parts, aftermarket parts, reconditioned crash parts, and recycled crash parts. Repairers can make recommendations, but their customers are unlikely to hear if the insurance won't cover them. 46:45 Paul Roberts: My name is Paul Roberts, and I'm the founder of Secure Repairs. We're an organization of more than 350 cyber security and information technology professionals who support the right to repair. 46:55 Paul Roberts: I'm speaking to you today on behalf of our members to make clear that the fair access to repair materials sought by right to repair laws does not increase cyber risk, and in fact, it can contribute to a healthier and more secure ecosystem of smart and connected devices. Paul Roberts: Proposed right to repair legislation considered by this Congress, such as the Repair Act, or last session, the Fair Repair Act, simply asks manufacturers that already provide repair information and tools to their authorized repair providers to also provide them at a fair and reasonable price to the owners of the devices and to third parties that they may wish to hire to do their work. 47:35 Paul Roberts: By definition, the information covered by right to repair laws is not sensitive or protected, as evidenced by the fact that the manufacturers already distribute it widely to hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of workers for their authorized repair providers. This could be everyone from mechanics working at auto dealerships to the folks staffing the Geek Squad at Best Buy. 48:00 Paul Roberts: Also, we have yet to find any evidence that the types of information covered by right to repair laws like schematic diagrams, service manuals, diagnostic software and replacement parts act as a portal to cyber attacks. The vast majority of attacks on internet connected devices - from broadband routers to home appliances to automobiles - today exploit weaknesses in the embedded software produced and distributed by the manufacturers, or alternatively, weak device configurations so they're deployed on the internet in ways that make them vulnerable to attack. These security weaknesses are an epidemic. A recent study of the security of Internet of Things devices, by the company Phosphorus Labs, or a cybersecurity company, found that 68% of Internet of Things devices contained high risk or critical software vulnerabilities. As an example, I'd like to call attention to the work of a group of independent researchers recently led by Sam Curry, who published a report, and you can Google this, "Web Hackers vs. the Auto Industry" in January 2023. That group disclosed wide ranging and exploitable flaws in vehicle telematics systems from 16 different auto manufacturers. At a leading GPS supplier to major automakers, the researchers claimed to obtain full access to a company-wide administration panel that gave them the ability to send arbitrary commands to an estimated 15.5 million vehicles, including vehicles used by first responders, police, fire and so on. Hacks like this take place without any access to repair materials, nor is there any evidence that providing access to repair software will open the doors to new attacks. 50:05 Paul Roberts: For the last 25 years, Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has given manufacturers an incentive to deploy software locks widely and to limit access to security researchers. That's kind of a model what we call in cybersecurity, security through obscurity. In other words, by keeping the workings of something secret, you're making it secure. But in fact, that doesn't work, because cyber criminals are very resourceful and they're very determined, and they don't really care what the law says. 50:35 Paul Roberts: Section 1201 has also enabled what one researcher has described as dark patterns in the design and manufacture of hardware that includes everything from locking out customers from access to administrative interfaces, administrative features of the products that they own, as well as practices like part pairing, which Kyle will talk to you more about, in which manufacturers couple replaceable components like screens and sensors and cameras to specific device hardware. Such schemes make manufacturers and their authorized repair providers gatekeepers for repairs, and effectively bar competition from the owners of the devices as well as independent repair providers. 54:45 Kyle Wiens: You think about what is local? What is American? Main Street you have a post office and a repair shop. And unfortunately, we've seen the whittling down of Main Street as the TV repair shops went away when the manufacturers cut off access to schematics, as the camera repair shops went away when Nikon and Canon decided to stop selling them parts. We've seen this systematically across the economy. In the enterprise space, you have Oracle and IBM saying that you can't get security updates to critical cyber infrastructure unless you buy a service contract with them, so they're tying long term service contracts with the security updates that are necessary to keep this infrastructure secure. 56:45 Kyle Wiens: Over the last decade plus, I've been working on Section 1201, trying to get exemptions for the ability to repair products. The challenge that we've had in the section 1201 process every triennial I go back and we ask for permission to be able to fix our own things is that the exemptions we've gotten really only apply to individual consumers. They aren't something that I could use to make a tool to provide to one of you to fix yourself. So in order for someone to take advantage of a 1201 exemption that we have, they have to be a cybersecurity researcher and able to whittle their own tools and use it themselves, and that just doesn't scale. 57:45 Devlin Hartline: My name is Devlin Hartline, and I'm a legal fellow at the Hudson Institute's forum for intellectual property. 57:50 Devlin Hartline: I'd like to start with a question posed by the title of this hearing, is there a right to repair? And the answer is clearly no. A right is a legally enforceable claim against another, but the courts have not recognized that manufacturers have the duty to help consumers make repairs. Instead, the courts have said that while we have the ability to repair our things, we also have the duty not to infringe the IP rights in the process. So it is in fact, the manufacturers who have the relevant rights, not consumers. 58:30 Devlin Hartline: Right to repair supporters want lawmakers to force manufacturers to make the tools, parts, and know-how needed to facilitate repairs available to consumers and independent repair shops. And the assumption here is that anything standing in the way of repair opportunities must necessarily harm the public good, but these tools, parts and know-how, are often protected by IP rights such as copyrights and design patents. And we protect copyrighted works and patented inventions because, as the Constitution recognizes, this promotes the public good. We reward creators and innovators as an incentive for them to bring these things to the marketplace and the public benefits from the introduction of new products and services that increase competition. Thus, the right to repair movement isn't based on a pre-existing right. It's instead asking lawmakers to create a new right at the expense of the existing rights of IP owners. 1:00:45 Devlin Hartline: IP owners are merely exercising their federally protected IP rights, and this is not actionable anti-competitive conduct. It is instead how the IP system is supposed to work. We grant IP owners exclusive rights so they can exclude others, and this, in turn, promotes the investments to create and to commercialize these creative innovations in the marketplace, and that promotes the public good. Aaron Perzanowski: My name is Aaron Perzanowski. I am a professor of law at the University of Michigan, and for the last 15 years, my academic research has focused on the intersection of personal and intellectual property rights in the digital economy. During that time, the right to repair has emerged as a central challenge to the notion that we as consumers control the devices that we buy. Instead consumers, farmers, small businesses, all find that manufacturers exert post-sale control over these devices, often in ways that frustrate repair. Aaron Perzanowski: Repair is as old as humanity. Our Paleolithic ancestors repaired hand axes and other primitive tools, and as our technologies have grown more complex, from the Bronze Age through the Renaissance, to the high tech devices that we all have in our pockets here today, repair has always kept pace. But today, manufacturers are employing a range of strategies that restrict repair, from their hardware and software design choices to clamp downs on secondary markets, and we also troublingly see attempts to leverage IP rights as tools to restrict repair. These efforts are a major departure from the historical treatment of repair under the law, the right to repair is not only consistent with nearly two centuries of IP law in the United States, it reflects half a millennium of common law property doctrine that rejects post-sale restrictions on personal property as early as the 15th century. English property law recognized that once a property owner sells an item, efforts to restrain how the new owner of that item can use it are inconsistent with the essential nature of private property and obnoxious to public policy. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized, IP laws' respect for the property interests of purchasers of copyrighted and patented goods was profoundly shaped by this common law tradition. In 1850, the Supreme Court recognized that the repair of a patented machine reflected "no more than the exercise of that right of care, which everyone may use to give duration to that which he owns." A century later, the Court held that the repair of a convertible car roof was justified as an exercise of "the lawful right of the property owner to repair his property." And just a few years ago, the court reaffirmed the rejection of post-sale restrictions under patent law in Impression Products vs. Lexmark, a case about refurbishing printer ink cartridges. Copyright law, not surprisingly, has had fewer occasions to consider repair restrictions. But as early as 1901, the Seventh Circuit recognized "a right of repair or renewal under US copyright law." When a publisher sued to prevent a used book dealer from repairing and replacing damaged components of books, the court said that "the right of ownership in the book carries with it and includes the right to maintain the book as nearly as possible in its original condition." A century after that, Congress itself acknowledged repair as a right that owners enjoy, regardless of copyright restrictions, when it enacted section 117 C of the Copyright Act. That provision was designed to undo a Ninth Circuit decision that allowed copyright holders to prevent third party repairs of computers. Section 117 C explicitly permits owners of machines to make copies of computer programs in the course of maintenance or repair. And finally, the US Copyright Office over the last decade has repeatedly concluded that diagnosis, repair, and maintenance activities are non-infringing when it comes to vehicles, consumer devices, and medical equipment. So the right to repair is firmly rooted in basic principles of US IP law. Aaron Perzanowski: Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it practically impossible for consumers to exercise their lawful right to repair a wide range of devices, from tractors to home electronics, even though the copyright office says those activities are not infringing, and the weakening of standards for design patents allow firms to choke off the supply of replacement parts needed to repair vehicles, home appliances, and other devices. Aaron Perzanowski: One way to think about a right is as an affirmative power to force someone else to engage in some behavior, and in some cases, that is what we're talking about. We're talking about imposing, especially on the state level, regulations that impose requirements on manufacturers. I think that's true of the Repair Act on the federal level as well. But, I think part of what we also need to keep in mind is that sometimes what you need to effectuate a right is to eliminate barriers that stand in the way of that right. So we can think about this, I think, helpfully in the context of tools that enable people to engage in repair. The state level solution has been to require manufacturers to give their own tools to repair shops, sometimes compensated under fair and reasonable terms. The other solution would be to change section 1201 to say, let's allow independent repair shops to make their own tools. I think both of those solutions have some value to them. I also think it's really important to keep in mind that when we're talking about IP rights, there are always multiple sets of interests at stake, and one of the key balances that IP law has always tried to strike is the balance between the limited statutory exclusive rights that the Patent and Copyright Acts create and the personal property rights of consumers who own these devices. And so I think a balancing is absolutely necessary and appropriate. 1:15:20 Aaron Perzanowski: I think the best solution for Section 1201 is embodied in a piece of legislation that Representatives Jones and Spartz introduced in the last Congress, which would create a permanent exception to Section 1201 for repair that would apply not only to the act of circumvention, but would also apply to the creation and distribution of tools that are useful for repair purposes that does not open the door to broad, unrestrained, creation of circumvention tools, but tools that are that are targeted to the repair market. 1:16:40 Devlin Hartline: He cited a case about where you can repair a cover on a book. That's very different than recreating the book, every single word in it, right? So there's a difference between repairing something and then crossing the line into violating the exclusive rights of IP owners in the patented product or the copyrighted book. And so the things that repair supporters are asking for is that, if somebody has a design patent that covers an auto body part, well, they have the right to exclude other people from making that part, but repair supporters say they shouldn't have that exclusive right, because, you know, we could increase competition if we just took away their design patent and now other people could make that part, and so that's competition. But that's not the type of competition that IP law and competition law seek to support. That's like saying, if we just let the Pirate Bay copy and distribute all of the Disney blockbuster movies, then that's competition, and prices would go down. But that's not the way that we do it, right? So competition means other people come up with new products and new services, and so that's what we should be trying to support. 1:26:45 Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY): Repair advocates argue that section 1201, prevents non-infringing circumvention of access controls for purposes. But Congress contemplated this use when it passed the DMCA in 1998, allowing for a triennial exemption process. Is the exemption process working as intended? And if not, are there actions Congress can take to expand exemptions or make them easier to acquire? Devlin Hartline: What's important about the triennial rulemaking is that the proponent of an exemption has to come forward with evidence and demonstrate that there's actually a problem and it relates to a certain class of works, and then they can get a temporary exemption for three years. And so it is true that the Librarian of Congress, the last few rulemakings, has said that because using a copyrighted work in a way for repair, maintenance, etc, is Fair Use that they grant these exemptions. But these exemptions are quite narrow. They do not allow the trafficking of the computer programs that can crack the TPMs. And so it's very narrowly done. And the concern is that if you were to create a permanent exemption that opens things all the way up with access controls, copy controls and trafficking thereof, is now you're getting to the point of why we even have these TPMs under 1201 in the first place, and that's because they guard against piracy. And so the concern is that you're opening the piracy floodgates. You make these devices less secure, and then content owners are going to be less likely to want to put their content on these devices. Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA): How does section 1201 of the DMCA impact the ability of consumers and independent repair shops to modify or repair devices that have proprietary software and data in the consumer electronics industry? Aaron Perzanowski: Thank you so much for the question. As we've been talking about the copyright office in 2015, 2018, 2021, and they're in the process for the current rulemaking, has determined that engaging in circumvention, the removal or bypassing of these digital locks for purposes of repair, is perfectly lawful behavior, but there is a major practical mismatch here between the legal rights that consumers enjoy under federal law today and their practical ability to exercise those rights. And that's because, as Devlin was just describing, the section 1201 rulemaking does not extend to the creation or distribution of tools, right? So I have the right under federal law, to remove the technological lock, say, on my video game console, if I want to swap out a broken disk drive. How do I do that? I'd like to think of myself as a pretty technologically sophisticated person. I don't have the first clue about how to do that. I need a person who can write that code, make that code available to consumers so that I can. All I'm trying to do is swap out a broken disk drive on my video game. But you would argue that code is proprietary, correct? So I'm talking here about a third party making their own code that is simply allowing me to engage in activity that the Copyright Office has repeatedly said is non-infringing. Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA): So you want to give them a map. Is that, essentially, what you're saying? Aaron Perzanowski: Absolutely, yes, I do. Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA): Do trade secrets play a role in the right to repair debate? Aaron Perzanowski: There are occasions where trade secrets are important. I don't think in the context that we're talking about here with section 1201, that we're typically running into trade secret issues. The state-level bills that have been introduced do typically address trade secrets and often have carve outs there. And I think that's something worth considering in this debate. But I think it's important to keep in mind that just because we have some hypothetical worry about some unknown bad actor taking a tool that I use to fix my video game console -- Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA): It's not unknown. The Chinese do it all the time. Aaron Perzanowski: I don't think the Chinese are particularly worried about whether or not I can fix my video game console, and in fact, I think that point is important, but the bad actors already have these tools. All we're trying to do is get very targeted tools in the hands of law abiding citizens who just want to repair the stuff they buy for their kids for Christmas, right? If the Chinese are going to hack the PlayStation, they've already done it. 1:32:25 Aaron Perzanowski: So the 1201 process is what established the legality of circumvention for repair purposes. But when Congress created that rulemaking authority, it only extends to the act of circumvention, the actual removal. Congress did not give the [Copyright] Office or the Librarian [of Congress] the authority to grant exemptions to the trafficking provisions, and that's where I think legislative intervention is really important. 1:39:00 Kyle Wiens: One of the challenges was section 1201. It doesn't just ban repair tools, it also bans the distribution of cybersecurity tools. And so we've seen security researchers....Apple sued a company that made a security research tool under 1201 and that tool has markedly made the world more secure. It's very popular amongst government security researchers. So I think that's kind of the sweet spot is, allow some third party inspection. It'll make the product better. 1:41:25 Kyle Wiens: These ice cream machines are made by Taylor, and there is an incredibly complex, baroque set of touchscreens you have to go through. And then there's a service password you have to be able to get past in order to access the settings that really allow you to do what you want. And so, in an ideal world, you'd have an entrepreneur who would come along and make a tool to make it easier for McDonald's, maybe they could have an app on their phone that they could use to configure and help them diagnose and repair the machine. Unfortunately, the company who made that tool is struggling legally because of all these challenges across the board. If we had innovation outside of the manufacturers and to be able to develop new tools for fixing ice cream machines or anything else, you have a whole flowering ecosystem of repair tools right now. It doesn't exist. The US is like this black hole where innovation is banned in software repair. There's all kinds of opportunities I could see, I had a farmer ask me for help fixing his John Deere tractor, and I had to say, I can't do that particular repair because it's illegal. I'd love to build a cool app for helping him diagnose and fix his tractor and get back back in the field faster. We don't have that marketplace right now. It's like farmers have been forced to, like, use cracked Ukrainian versions of John Deere diagnostic software, right? Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC): So it's not just ice cream machines. I led off with that, but it's farmers, it's farm equipment, it's iPhones, it's somebody's Xbox, right? I mean, these are all things.... in your experience, what are the challenges that these customers and stakeholders face when they're trying to repair their own devices? What are some things that they face? Kyle Wiens: It's absolutely infuriating. So my friend, farmer in San Luis Obispo, Dave grows all kinds of amazing products. He has a $300,000 John Deere tractor, came to me and said, Hey, there's a bad sensor. It's going to take a week to get that sensor sent out from Indiana, and I need to use the tractor in that time. Will you help me bypass the sensor? I could hypothetically modify the software in the tractor to do that. Practically, I didn't have the legal ability, and so he had to go and rent an expensive tractor for the week. This is impacting people's lives every single day. 1:43:50 Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC): So, to pivot a little bit, what role do you see from a federal side, from legislation, and what specific measures do you think might be included in such legislation? Kyle Wiens: So we've seen the solutions being approached from two angles. At the state level, you have states saying John Deere and other manufacturers, if you have a dealership that has fancy tools, sell those tools to consumers and to independent shops, allow that competition. At the federal level, what we can do is enable a competitive marketplace for those tools. So rather than compelling John Deere to sell the tool, we can say, hey, it's legal for someone, an entrepreneur, to make a competing tool. And you have this in the car market. You can take your car down the AutoZone, you can buy a scan tool, plug it into your car, and it'll decode some of the error messages. Those tools exist on the auto market because we have a standard diagnostic interface on cars that you can access without circumventing a TPM. We don't have that for any other products. So another farmer in my town, he showed me how if he has a transmission go out on a truck, he can fix that. But if he has a transmission go out on his John Deere tractor, he can't. He can physically install the transmission, but he can't program it to make it work. I'd love to be able to make a software tool to enable him to replace his transmission. Aaron Perzanowski: So I think if we see passage of the SMART Act, we can anticipate significant reductions in the expenses associated with auto collision repairs. Estimates are that design patents on collision parts are responsible for about $1.5 billion in additional expenditures. We see price premiums on OEM parts over third party parts often reaching into like the 40% range, right? So these are pretty significant cost savings associated with that. Part of this problem, I think, does relate back to the kind of unique structure of this market. Most consumers are not paying out of pocket for collision repairs. Those costs are being covered by their auto insurance provider, and so the consumer doesn't see that the - I'm pulling this from memory, so don't hold me to this figure - but the side view mirror of a Ford Fiesta costing $1,500, that's not something that the consumer is confronted with, right? So this goes back to the question of notice. Do consumers know when they buy that vehicle that the repairs are going to be that expensive? I think in most cases, they don't. And so I think the SMART Act is a very targeted solution to this problem. I do think it's important to note that the design patent issue for replacement parts is not limited to the automotive industry. I think it's the most, I think that's the area where the problem is most pressing. But home appliances, consumer electronics, we see companies getting design patents on replacement water filters for refrigerators so that they can charge three times as much when the little light comes on on your fridge to tell you that your water might not be as clean as you want it to be. So I think we have to think about that problem across a range of industries, but the automotive industry, I think, is absolutely the right place to start. Paul Roberts: I mean, one point I would just make is that with the Internet of Things, right, we are facing a crisis in the very near future as manufacturers of everything from home appliances to personal electronics to equipment, as those products age and those manufacturers walk away from their responsibility to maintain them. So we're no longer supporting the software. We're no longer issuing security updates. Who will step in to maintain those devices? Keep them secure, keep them operating right? The manufacturers walked away. Do we just get rid of them? No, because the equipment still works perfectly. We're going to need a market-based response to that. We're going to need small businesses to step up and say, hey, I'll keep that Samsung dishwasher working for another 20 years. That's a huge economic opportunity for this country, but we cannot do it in the existing system because of the types of restrictions that we're talking about. And so this is really about enabling a secure future in which, when you buy a dishwasher with a 20 year lifespan, or 25 year lifespan, it's going to last that 25 years, not the five to six years that the manufacturer has decided, you know, that's how long we want to support the software for. Paul Roberts: My understanding is the use of design patents has increased dramatically, even exponentially, in the last 10 to 15 years. If you go back to the 90s or 80s, you know, parts makers, automakers were not applying these types of patents to replaceable parts like bumpers and rear view mirrors. Somebody had a business decision that, if you can do so, then we can capture more of that aftermarket by outlawing identical aftermarket replacements that has a huge downstream impact on car owners and on insurers and on all of us. 2:10:15 Paul Roberts: Both of the things that we're really proposing or talking about here, which would be changes to Section 1201 of the DMCA as well as passage of robust right to repair laws, would empower a market-based response to keeping the internet of things working, secure and functioning. DMCA 1201 reforms by making it clear that you can circumvent software locks for the purpose of repair and maintenance and upkeep, right? So that would take the threat of the federal crime away from small business owners as well as security researchers who are interested in, you know, plumbing that software for purposes of maintenance, upkeep and repair. And on the right to repair by making the tools available to maintain and upkeep products - diagnostic software, schematic diagrams, service manuals - available. Once again, you'll be empowering small business owners to set up repair shops and say, I'm going to keep your smart appliance running for its full 25 or 30 year lifespan, and I'm going to support my family doing that locally, and not be basically choked out of business by a company that says, Well, you don't have the right to access this product. From a cybersecurity perspective, that is really important, because one thing we don't want is a population of millions or tens of millions of out of date, unsupported, unpatched, insecure internet connected home appliances, webcams, home routers out there available to nation state actors, cyber criminal groups, to compromise and use for their own purposes. And that's something we already see, particularly around broadband routers and other types of devices, and it's a real threat going forward that I think this type of these types of changes would support. Aaron Perzanowski In a lot of instances, this conversation, and we've touched on this earlier, focuses on cost savings, right? And cost savings are an important consideration, right? Farmers aren't thrilled that they have to pay a technician from the John Deere dealer to drive maybe hours to get to their farm and connect their laptop and, you know, download these payload files to enable their equipment to work. But in the agricultural space, the thing I hear most often in the conversations I have with farmers is and Kyle touched on this a bit earlier, is a real concern about the time sensitivity of their work. If your tractor is out of commission for a week or two in the wrong part of the season, that is going to have disastrous effects, right, not only on that farm's economic outlook, but collectively, it can have an impact like, not to be hyperbolic here, but on our national food supply, and so I think it's really important that farmers have flexibility in terms of where and how they execute repairs, so that they can get their equipment back up and running. If my laptop breaks and I can't get it fixed for a week or two, I'm annoyed there will be emails that go unanswered, but like the world will continue to spin. That is not the case in the agricultural space where we, I think, have to be much more concerned. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): If I remove from my BMW, at least during certain models, I remove the radio, unplug it, and then plug it back in, simply because I was fiddling around with the dash, I now have to go back to the dealer to reinstall it. Similarly, the transmission example. I've got two John Deere tractors. One's got a busted engine, the other's got a busted transmission. Currently, they will prohibit you from moving the transmission from one to the other. From a standpoint of intellectual property, where, in God's green earth or the Constitution, are any of those designed to be rights that belong to the manufacturer, rather than rights that belong to the owners of those two John Deere tractors? Devlin Hartline: So those are a bunch of different situations, and so I think there would be underlying facts that differ with each right. So we started on the iPhone, and I was going to point out that iPhone will actually give you the tool to synchronize it. In those other situations, I don't know the business justification for it. How is that an IP problem? Right? So if that's locked up with the TPM, and you have to bypass the TPM, well then that's a violation of 1201, so that's how they can that's how they can lock -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): So what you're saying is that Congress has created impediments to the right to repair. Mr. Roberts, would you say that is correct? That, in fact, the right to repair, were Congress never to have done anything since, you know, George and Thomas were our presidents, so to speak, knowing those two presidents, we'd be able to do things we're not able to do because they're now prohibited by acts of Congress. Paul Roberts: Yes, and we certainly know going back to the 50s, 60s, 70s, there was a much more you know....First of all, companies would ship products with service and repair manuals with detailed schematic diagrams with the understanding that owners would want to replace and service them. And what I would say is, yes, absolutely. I doubt very much. And I know we had members who were here in 1998 authoring the DMCA. I think if you had said to them, in 25 years time, this law will be used to prevent somebody with a broken dishwasher from getting that serviced by their local repair shop or by for fixing it themselves, this law will prevent them from doing that, I doubt very much they would have said, yeah, that's pretty much what we want. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): Well, I will tell you that the I was the chairman of what is now the Consumer Electronics Association in 1998 and we did predict a lot of these items were going to be expanded beyond the scope of the original. Paul Roberts: Right now this is not an urgent issue, because most of the cars out there are older vehicles. As we move forward, as telematic systems evolve, as automakers continue their trend of moving more and more information to telematic systems, this is going to become a bigger problem. I'll point out another problem, which is the Massachusetts law is contingent on data transfers of diagnostic and repair information via the OBD or onboard diagnostic two port under the dashboard. That's only there because of federal Clean Air law. Electronic vehicles don't have that port because they don't have emissions, and so in the very near future, as we shift to electronic vehicles, that data access port will no longer be there. It will all be telematics data, and so the utility of the Massachusetts law is going to decline over time, going forward. And again, I you know, when you start talking about right to repair, you become like this crazy person who talks about right to repair every time it comes up. But one thing I try and stress to people when I talk to them about auto repair is, if you live in Michigan or California and you have taken your vehicle to the local independent repair shop, you have only done that because the voters in Massachusetts passed a ballot measure over a decade ago and then updated it in November 2020. That is the very thin thread that our right to use independent auto repair hangs by in this country. That's not the way it's supposed to be. This is something that affects vehicle owners, hundreds of millions of them in all 50 states. And it's a type of thing that the federal government needs to address with federal legislation. It should not hang by this very thin thread. 2:30:20 Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): Are software updates new creations, and thus copyrightable? Devlin Hartline: Software updates, yeah, they're computer programs, and so Congress said explicitly in 1980, but it was understood before then, that computer programs are literary works and they're protected, just like any other copyrighted work. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): Thank you, Professor Perzanowski, do you disagree? Aaron Perzanowski: I don't disagree at all that software updates are protectable subject matter under the Copyright Act. But what I think is important to keep in mind right is the Copyright Act and copyrights exclusive rights, and all of the exceptions and limitations to copyrights exclusive rights are created by Congress, and so if you think those rights are interfering with other important issues and concerns, then I think Congress clearly has the power to make changes to the copyright law in order to best serve what you ultimately determine to be in the public interest. 2:35:30 Aaron Perzanowski: Access to firmware and other code is really essential to the functioning and repair of lots of devices. I think there's some important differences between the standard essential patent context and kind of what we're talking about here in that in the standard essential patent context, we're relying on standard setting bodies to identify technologies and to require companies to license their patents under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. We don't quite have that infrastructure in place in the copyright context, but what we do have are compulsory licenses that exist within the Copyright Act already, one of which you were alluding to earlier, the mechanical license for musical works. We also have compulsory licenses for retransmissions of satellite and broadcast content that essentially say the copyright owner is entitled to compensation of some form, but they're not entitled to prevent people from using or accessing that underlying work, and I think that could be a useful framework here for getting owners of devices access to the firmware that they need. Music by Editing Production Assistance

Agent Derek from the Geek Squad talks about the new iOS update- and then walks Bill through updating his own phone.

Starting off with a rant about a recent Geek Squad rescue and repair after a friend's desktop was deemed unfixable enough to push him to buy a brand new desktop to replace it. We also talk with a now resolved issue over outdated Xbox One consoles being blocked from updating. We cover current video games being played, and finally wrap up with a game store story!

Agent Derek Meister from the Geek Squad spoke to Bill about Portable Tire Inflators for Cars, Motorcycles, Bicycles - Most everyone knows about portable battery chargers. They feature a battery inside to top off your phone while on the go.

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Dave and Chuck the Freak talk about 3200-year-old Egyptian work attendance and absence tablet, woman surprised fiancé by singing herself down the aisle, free lube online, hurricane update, old woman gets trapped in her car during flood, woman over 800lbs can't be returned to her 8th floor home, man stole cop car with the cop inside, more details about the Boeing door plug issue, astronauts stuck in space until February, video of kid excited to see his grandpa every week, Olympics update, how much Olympic athletes actually make and how much medals are worth, Olympic athlete busted trying to buy cocaine, terrorist threat at Taylor Swift concerts, Gabriel Olds accused of luring women and assaulting them, J. Lo set up paparazzi shot of her riding bike to ice cream shop, Nelly busted with drugs, Ozzy and Tommy Lee, Jack Black says Tenacious D will be back, Journey cancels tour because band members can't get along, man filed for divorce after wife demanded he pay for sex, Applebee's has woman arrested for sharing all-you-can-eat meal, woman siphons gas while smoking and starts a fire, naked man carjacks woman, woman stalking and threatening dozens of other women, the “Apparently Kid” 10 years later, rich guy robbed and killed by his male hooker, college students get drugged at Mexico resort, Wawa super fan, life-sized Polly Pocket Airbnb, the one thing you would never say no to, skydiving teacher killed, deadliest jobs in the USA, man loses nearly $20K to Geek Squad scam, Dave got caught on the table in-studio, rice water to lose weight, McDonald's bringing back collectable cups, woman found old baseball cards in her barn, chess champion caught trying to poison opponent, and more!

Agent Derek Meister-Geek Squad spoke to Bill about You'll be able to FaceTime with your iPhone with 911 soon. - In the meantime, here's how to use SOS Emergency on your iPhone to quickly call for help and alert your emergency contacts

In Part 2 of our interview with Joy FM Geek Squad show in Ghana hosted by Adobea Biritwum, Joseph Inti, host of Sincerely Accra, and Adrian Daniels, host and producer of Sound of Accra, share their insights on growing and monetising a podcast. They emphasise the importance of community engagement, consistency, and leveraging social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Joseph highlights the value of responding to every comment and giving shout-outs to followers, while Adrian discusses traditional advertising and live shows as revenue streams. They also compare the flexibility of podcasts to traditional radio, noting that podcasts can be consumed anytime, anywhere. The episode concludes with practical advice for aspiring podcasters, including the significance of having a clear purpose, choosing the right format, and maintaining a regular release schedule.Watch the YouTube version by clicking here.Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction00:20 Focusing on Community and Social Media01:48 Engaging with Listeners and Building Community01:58 Monetising Your Podcast02:38 Advertising and Revenue Streams04:12 Differences Between Podcasts and Radio06:15 Advantages of Podcasts Over Radio07:16 Consistency and Frequency in Podcasting09:34 Importance of Consistency10:01 Determining Your Podcast's Purpose12:01 Choosing the Right Format and Concept14:34 Key Considerations for Starting a Podcast15:28 Challenges in Podcasting in Ghana17:09 Technical and Logistical Issues18:22 Transportation and Timing ChallengesWatch season 6 episode 1 with Twi Learning Center: https://youtu.be/6kuFxHScmLk?si=RjHXBeaT1eQHFzKV Catch up with Season 5 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnqpgGxTAXg&list=PLJUVirAfWnNoGiJNHHWm6aYTUUberuD5VListen to the podcast on other platformshttps://linktr.ee/thesoundofaccrapodSocial Media YouTube: https://youtube.com/thesoundofaccrapodcastWebsite: https://thesoundofaccra.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesoundofaccra/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesoundofaccraTwitter: https://twitter.com/thesoundofaccraFacebook: https://web.facebook.com/thesoundofaccraLinkedin: https://gh.linkedin.com/company/the-sound-of-accraSupport the show

Agent Derek Meister-Geek Squad spoke to Bill about It's a Good Idea to Download Google Maps Offline. Here's How to Do It. Your mobile phone and the Google Maps app have replaced standalone GPS units for many car owners. But on a long car trip, you might encounter an area with little to no cell signal. And that means your Google Maps app can stop functioning. Fortunately, the fix is to download an offline map of any big trip you're taking as a precaution.

Scammers impersonate Best Buy, Geek Squad, Amazon, and PayPal brands more than any others, a new analysis by the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, has revealed. In analyzing complaints submitted by consumers during 2023, the government consumer protection agency found that it received around 52,000 reports – or 1000 per week – of scammers impersonating the Best Buy or Geek Squad brands. Consumers lost $15 million to those scams, but took even more – $60 million – in around 7000 scams impersonating Microsoft, and $49 million in scams where they pretended to be from Publishers Clearing House. The other most frequently copied companies included NortonLifelock, Apple, ComcastXFinity, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. If you receive messages purporting to be from any of these organizations demanding cryptocurrency, transfers via PayPal, CashApp, or Zelle; gift cards from the likes of Apple and Target; or any other unexpected request; treat it as a scam until you can very independently on the company's correct website. The 60-second "Security Nudge" is brought to you by CybSafe, developers of the Human Risk Management Platform. Learn more at https://cybsafe.com

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Today, we have an exciting and enlightening conversation with Rick Jordan, a cybersecurity expert, bestselling author, and host of the "All In with Rick Jordan" podcast. In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of raising capital through Regulation A (Reg A+) and the strategic process that sets companies up for success.  Karen and Rick explore how Reg A+ can create momentum and garner investor trust even before a company goes public, serving as a fascinating alternative to traditional fundraising methods. Rick shares his own journey, from leveraging relationships built at Geek Squad to establishing his company ReachOut in 2010, and how he navigated the challenges and opportunities of Reg A+. They  discuss the importance of documentation, the shift from transactional to relational business approaches, and the critical role of audits in building credibility. Along the way, Rick recounts his personal entrepreneurial journey, the impactful lessons learned from early side hustles, and emphasizes the power of taking action, even when the path isn't perfectly clear. Listen as Karen and Rick explore the blend of passion, purpose, and strategic insight necessary for entrepreneurial success, and discover the intriguing world of Reg A+ fundraising from an insider's perspective. It's an episode filled with valuable lessons and real-world advice you won't want to miss Key takeaways in this episode Regulation A (Reg A) Process - Benefits of Reg A vs. traditional funding (angel investors, venture capitalists) - Raising momentum and awareness before going public - Importance of solid documentation for investor decisions - Establishing marketplace credibility (pink sheets or OTCB) - Credibility with investors through financial statement audits provides third-party validation 2. Strategic Market Building - Avoiding "dog and pony" shows - Genuine market interest and trading activity - Attraction of significant investment (pipe money) - Essence of sales in understanding and solving customer problems 3. Reg A+ as an Iterative Fundraising Strategy - Incrementally raising funds (rounds) to increase company value - A way for Angel Backed companies to raise capital when Angels, VCs, and PEs say NO and Banks won't loan enough - A Strategic way to avoid excessive early equity giveaways - Strategic adaptation and increased valuation through acquisition - Challenges in Reg A+ - Marketing and market creation costs - Reliance on accredited investors and institutional investors to reach capital goals 4. Original Intent of Reg A+ - Provision from the 2012 JOBS Act to make onramp to IPO easier - Democratizing investment in prio IPO companies - Accredited vs. Retail Investors - Primary targets for significant investments - Raising money from retail and institutional investors - Market Enthusiasts and Penny Stocks with Karen's personal anecdote about the allure of penny stocks - Using Reg A Plus to list on OTC market 5. Rick Jordan's Entrepreneurial Journey - Impact of focusing energy on projects - Importance of going "all in" for growth - The allure of multiple side hustles and the importance of full commitment - The journey of entrepreneurship compared to climbing Mount Everest - Importance of passion, purpose, and value creation in entrepreneurship - Positive mindset and avoiding distractions ("weeds") - Starting ReachOut in 2010 - Transitioning from direct client relationships to scalable business 6 Compassionate Capitalism - Investing in ventures aligning with personal passions - Positive societal impact -Karen Rands' Entrepreneurial Journey** - Applying for SBIR funding and facing setbacks and skepticism - Maintaining passion, purpose, and market focus Bio: Rick Jordan's journey into the world of technology began when he was just 10 years old in 1989. A family friend helped him build his very first computer, a Tandy, sparking a lifelong passion for tech. Reflecting on those early days, Rick realizes how pivotal that experience was, shaping his future in an industry that continues to fascinate him. Now, at 44, Rick acknowledges how those simple moments of assembling a Radio Shack Tandy computer paved the way for his career and love for technology. For more info and to connect with Rick Jordan:  https://reachoutit.com/about  WWW.RICKJORDAN.TV  Karen Rands is the President of Kugarand Capital Holdings where her extended team offers coaching and services to small business owners providing capital strategy and investor acquisition through the Launch Funding Network.  As a thought leader in Angel and Crowdfund Investing, Karen offers investors decision tools, education, screening, due diligence, and syndication services through the National Network of Angel Investors.   Karen wrote the best selling primer for new Angel Investors  - Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and now offers digital beginner and advanced courses covering  Angel and Crowdfunding Investing on the Compassionate Capitalist Academy financial education platform. 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This week we are joined by Maria Varmazis, host of the N2K daily space show, T-Minus. Maria shares an interesting story from Canada on a gentleman who thought he was calling Best Buy's Geek Squad, but instead ended up getting scammed out of $25,000. Dave and Joe share quite a bit of listener follow up, the first one is from Raul who shares how they saw an infamous Facebook scam. The second one is from listener Alec who shares some thoughts on episode 286's catch of the day. Lastly, Paula shares some thoughts on a recent discussion on why people are on the phone when a flight gets cancelled. Joe brings back answers to an old scam featured on an episode back in January on toll scams, as well as sharing about how the OpenSSF and OpenJS Foundations have issued an alert for social engineering takeovers of open source projects. Dave shares updates from the ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI and how he was arrested at the airport with a gun. Our catch of the day comes from listener Kenneth who shares an email from a "doctor" who has puppies for sale. Please take a moment to fill out an audience survey! Let us know how we are doing! Links to the stories: An Ontario senior thought he called Geek Squad for help with his printer. Instead, he got scammed out of $25,000 Smishing Scam Regarding Debt for Road Toll Services Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun You can hear more from the T-Minus space daily show here. Have a Catch of the Day you'd like to share? Email it to us at hackinghumans@thecyberwire.com.

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In this episode of the Business of Tech podcast, host Dave Sobel covers the state of the tech workforce in 2024, with predictions of 3% growth and 300,000 new tech positions. He discusses cloud cost overruns and IT leaders preparing for spending to exceed $1 trillion by 2026. Additionally, he highlights Best Buy's Geek Squad facing mass layoffs due to financial rebalancing and an AI focus. Dave also touches on recent data indicating fluctuations in job numbers and concerns about inflation in the tech industry Three things to know today 00:00 State of the Tech Workforce 2024: CompTIA Predicts 3% Growth and 300,000 New Tech Positions05:36 Cloud Cost Overruns: IT Leaders Brace for Spending to Surpass $1 Trillion by 2026, Forrester Finds07:20 Best Buy's Geek Squad Faces Mass Layoffs Amid Financial Rebalancing and AI Focus   Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessoftech.bsky.social

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About the Guest(s): Rick Jordan is an entrepreneur, cybersecurity expert, and public speaker who has carved a niche in various business ventures. His expertise stretches across cybersecurity solutions, with a successful track record in starting and scaling businesses. Rick is an ordained pastor and has been a significant influence behind the scenes in both tech and ministry worlds. His entrepreneurial journey includes writing a sales playbook for a Best Buy division, being the first Geek Squad agent in Chicago, and ultimately transitioning to running his own enterprise. With his candid approach and emphasis on authenticity, Rick continues to impact the industry with his ventures and insights. Episode Summary: In this empowering episode of the "Who You Know" show, host Trevor Houston warmly welcomes Rick Jordan, whose compelling story of struggle, resilience, and triumph serves as a backbone for an invigorating discussion on entrepreneurship and authenticity. From being laid off to establishing a triumphant public company, Rick's journey underscores the profound significance of mindset and adaptability. Rick regales us with his backstory, detailing his abrupt exit from Best Buy during the 2007 economic downturn and how it served as a catalyst for his entrepreneurial debut. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity and being true to oneself, both personally and professionally. As the conversation progresses, Rick expounds on the powerful dynamics of internal brand-building, the potency of relatability in public speaking, and shares invaluable insights on transitioning from a corporate environment to a thriving business owner, striking a chord with aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals alike. Resources: Rick Jordan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrrickjordan/ Career Transition Summit: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/67/04404igv  LinkedIn e-book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://online.flippingbook.com/view/714118097/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/who-ya-know-show ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Trevor Houston is a licensed financial professional offering insurance/financial products through various carriers. For more info visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://cpwstrategies.com Chapters: (0:01:11) Rick's journey and building his empire from scratch. (0:02:28) Rick talks about his role as the first Geek Squad agent in Chicago. (0:06:19) The importance of social relationships and internal politics in large corporations. (0:09:21) Trevor asks Rick if there's anything he would have done differently during his time at Best Buy. (0:10:48) The power of accountability and shifting mindset. (0:12:06) Rick shares how he took action to overcome victim mentality. (0:15:26) Rick's next steps after being let go. (0:17:15) The negative impact of having too many side hustles. (0:19:49) Rick discusses the value of niche expertise and being known for something. (0:22:27) How to handle low energy days. (0:29:59) Rick's podcast, "All In with Rick Jordan." (0:33:33) Rick reflects on his experience performing on over 5000 stages. (0:36:45) Rick discusses the topics he hesitates to talk about, such as trauma. (0:38:08) Discussing trauma and taking ownership of one's actions. (0:39:28) The importance of compassion and empathy when discussing controversial topics. (0:43:51) Lessons learned from making difficult decisions in business. (0:44:58) Advice for those considering starting a side hustle. (0:48:21) Rick's key messages as a keynote speaker. (0:51:41) The significance of personal branding and its impact on success. (0:55:37) The power of sharing transformational stories to connect with the audience. (1:00:22) Rick mentions his mastermind program and offers private coaching for those interested.

In-between a surprisingly lengthy aside on Best Buy's Geek Squad, the Remap Radio crew discusses Insomniac's abandoned multiplayer Spider-Man game, Warner Bros. coldly erasing Adult Swim games from Steam, the formation of a huge new games union, and more. Elsewhere, while Patrick remains parked in mini-game city in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, he has seen the (gaming) light with Moonlight on his PC. We also discuss the more toxic elements of the Helldivers 2 community, bemoan a lack of Balatro wins, and answer some questions.Discussed: Warner Bros. Deleting Adult Swim Games 1:52, Spider-Man Live Service Game Canceled 18:54, Super Mario Movie Getting a Sequel 32:06, QA Workers Unionize at Microsoft 35:26, MOONLIGHT 41:43, Helldivers 2 1:21:17, Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth 1:40:52, Persona 5 Royale 1:47:34, Balatro 1:50:02, The Question Bucket 1:55:51, Outro and Announcement 2:17:28See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to this week's episode where we delve into the world of tech, cybersecurity, and the profound impact of family with our esteemed guest, Rick Jordan. As a multifaceted tech CEO, podcast host, and author, Rick's journey is one of resilience, innovation, and dedication. Tune in as we explore how his early curiosity shaped his career, the lessons learned from personal challenges, and his insights on leadership and parenting in today's digital age. Exploring Childhood Curiosity and Personal Brand (0:00:02 - 0:08:34)Rick Jordan discusses his transition from 'Ricky' to 'Rick' and the significance of names within families. He shares how his childhood curiosity was fueled by his family's influence, paying a heartfelt tribute to his mother on her recent birthday. Building Trust Through Courage and Curiosity (0:08:35 - 0:15:10)A walk down memory lane reveals Rick's 'responsible rebellion' and how pushing boundaries helped shape his character. He reflects on his early career aspirations and the importance of questioning the status quo, which ultimately led him to a successful career in cybersecurity. Genetic Leukemia and Family Impact (0:15:11 - 0:21:41)Rick opens up about his father's battle with leukemia and the impact it had on his family. He shares insights into the nature of genetic conditions and how his father's positive masculinity and the support of his family helped him navigate life's uncontrollable events. Pivotal Family Moments and Role Models (0:21:42 - 0:32:21)An emotional recollection of the loss of his father at 16, Rick reveals the profound decisions and moments that shaped his life. He emphasizes the value of family meals, the support of his uncle during a vulnerable time, and the life-changing advice he received. Journey to Cyber Security Success (0:32:22 - 0:37:43)Rick's path from fast food to the forefront of cybersecurity highlights the impact of mentors and seizing opportunities. He recounts his early tech experiences, the rise through Geek Squad and Best Buy, and how asking the right questions led to his success. Leadership Strategies for Handling Chaos (0:37:44 - 0:49:47)Discussing resilience and the ability to adapt, Rick provides essential cybersecurity advice for parents, focusing on protecting the digital lives of their children. He shares strategies for handling life's unpredictable waves with the right leadership mindset. Parenting Lessons for a Strong Family (0:49:48 - 0:53:46)The episode concludes with Rick sharing valuable parenting lessons, emphasizing the importance of presence, gratitude, and the ability to apologize. He discusses the impact of being an engaged parent and the strong bonds it creates within the family. Join us for an episode that not only shares a remarkable personal story but also offers actionable strategies for leading through life's storms and raising a secure digital generation. Don't miss Rick Jordan's inspiring narrative that showcases the robust bonds formed through life's trials and triumphs. Get in touch with Rick: https://linktr.ee/mrrickjordanInstagram @mrrickjordan THE FOUNDATION - Virtual Community for Young MenBuilding Men InstagramBuilding Men WebsiteBuilding Men YouTubeBuilding Men FacebookWork with Dennis as your 1 on 1 coach If our podcast resonates with you, please consider rating, reviewing and sharing it with anyone who you believe would benefit from the message.Visit our sponsors - Finish The Race – Home of the official Building Men gear

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