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  The Show Notes   Backstage Border Intro Sting 3.0  Minoishe Interroberg's To Make With the Good English      - Backward and backwards & forward and forwards The George HraBand LIVE: Our Lips Are Sealed Ask George      - Ukrainian Tunes? from Jeromy (pronounced with a long "o" sound) Religious Moron of the Week      - Emmitt Williams III Interesting Fauna      - The “Scuba Diving” Water Anole (Anolis aquaticus) Tell Me Something Good      - Double Shot: Workouts & Free College Show close .........................   Mentioned in the Show   The Ukrainians Pete Ostroushko Slau Anolis aquaticus .........................   New HraBand on Bandcamp  The George HraBand: Live at Liederplatz on Bandcamp .........................   Get Terpsichore Here   https://georgehrab.hearnow.com https://georgehrab.bandcamp.com ................................... SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page and become a Geologist or a Geographer. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! Check out Geo's wiki page, thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

Get my pronunciation course on PRE-SALE: https://www.englishwiththiago.com/course-pre-sale Join my CONVERSATION CLUB! LIMITED SPOTS: https://www.englishwiththiago.com/b24 50 Phrasal Verbs & Idioms (FREE eBook): https://www.englishwiththiago.com/spice-up-ebook Download ELSA for free and get 7 days membership for free): https://bit.ly/ENGLISHWITHTHIAGOXELSA Get 85% off of ELSA lifetime membership or 40% off of ELSA one year membership: https://www.elsaspeak.com/inf/englishwiththiago The myth that you have to be a Shakespeare-level expert to speak good English is debunked. B2 level is considered good English, as it allows for understanding complex texts, discussing a wide range of topics, and expressing oneself with good fluency. Good English speakers have clarity, use words and grammar correctly enough for their message to be understood, and have confidence and active listening skills. While B2 level is enough for most everyday situations, reaching higher levels like C1 and C2 brings benefits such as more nuanced expression, career advantages, and personal growth. It is important to keep practicing and aim for higher levels for the right reasons, out of curiosity and passion for the language. Chapters 00:00 Debunking the Myth: You Don't Need to Be a Shakespeare Expert to Speak Good English 02:24 B2 Level: The Sweet Spot of Good English 03:25 Characteristics of Good English Speakers: Clarity, Confidence, and Active Listening 06:16 The Benefits of Reaching Higher Levels: Nuanced Expression, Career Advantages, and Personal Growth 10:09 Keep Practicing and Aim Higher: The Journey of Continuous Improvement in English Follow My YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@teacher.thiagoalencar Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teacher.thiagoalencar/

Does it make your skin crawl when people use words like "like," "um," and "dude," like literally every hella second? You're not alone. But guest Valerie Fridland argues that these linguistic ticks are actually useful and important ways of communicating. Fridland is a sociolinguist at University of Nevada Reno, and the author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English. On the pod, she talks about the history and psychology behind these filler words and why they are far from the end of the world as we know it.  Sign up for my online course, The Secret Formula to Writing Nonfiction Stories that Sell @ https://bit.ly/smallmasterclass

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"Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?" Luke 14: 34

 About Dam Good™ English Muffins:Dam Good™ English Muffins is a woman-owned, family-operated, mission-driven wholesale bakery that has been in business since 2017 - we  make 4 varieties of all natural, preservative-free, vegan sourdough English muffins: “Original White,” “Multigrain,” “Cinnamon Swirl,” and “Whole Wheat.” We started with a New York State home processing license, and were baking out of our home in Croton. We have since moved our business to Peekskill, NY.Website: https://www.damgoodenglishmuffins.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/damgoodenglishmuffinsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/damgoodenglishmuffinsSupport the showAbout Us - Women Who Brunch:Women Who Brunch is a food community and event series for women who love connecting, networking, and learning from each other over the most important meal of the week...BRUNCH! We're solving the problem of making adult friendships while doing cool stuff in the Hudson Vally, NY.Visit our website for updates on events, recipes, brunch spots, product reviews, and more or say hi on Instagram!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenwhobrunchWebsite: https://womenwhobrunch.com

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Intro  Dustin Stevens is a Writing Tutor and he is the CEO of Good English Tutors with over 10 years of teaching experience in writing. Dustin wanted to ensure that his students not only thrived in their current grade but also beyond it. He wanted to help students thrive in a world where skillful communication and literacy create countless opportunities, and to connect parents with transformative, one-on-one learning from caring educators.    Top three takeaways  Dustin has provided support to homeschoolers and parents seeking other-forms of independent learning throughout most of his 10-year career in education.   Student publishing is one of the most under-utilized tools for generating greater student motivation.  You should not be intimidated by the idea of student publishing.    Call to Action  Good English Tutors Official Website    What is Next!  Thank you for supporting this show by listening and sharing with friends! If you like this podcast please rate and write a review of how this show has impacted or helped you!   Great ratings will accelerate the show's visibility to the nation so others can learn more about homeschool and find quality curriculum and the potentially join the homeschool community thus change the face of education forever!!   Who would have thought that we could change the education world with a click and a share!  Also if you would like to hear more about any specific educational topic please email me at realedtalk@gmail.com I would love to support your families educational needs in all areas!!   Bex Buzzie  The Homeschool Advantage Podcast    

This ep we will talk about is the kjv the only good English translation and we will be reading from the kjv translators themselves and see what they said.

In this English lesson I will help you learn 10 essential questions that will greatly improve your conversations. These questions are a great way to keep a conversation going, which in turn, will allow you to practice and expand your vocabulary and build confidence in speaking English.All of these questions are used as an easy way to keep the other person talking, and to show genuine interest in what they are saying. If you are looking to improve your English conversation skills, this lesson will provide you with the tools you need!I hope you enjoy this English lesson about 10 questions that will help you have great English conversations! Have a great day!Note: This is the audio portion of a Youtube English lesson which you can watch right  here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzSVPhLKsM find by searching Youtube for, "Bob the Canadian 10 Questions"Support the show

On the 23rd episode of the English 2.0 Podcast, we handle the following points:What Makes a Good English Student?5 Key Characteristics of Excellent English StudentsOn the English 2.0 Podcast, I help you express yourself more naturally and smoothly. We go beyond the words and phrases and talk about how to make your English sound more natural, proper mindset, and success principles.Submit Questions at: al AT alsensei DOT comDownload ALsensei's 25 Hot Slang Phrases (PDF) right now!

Did someone say listener questions? On this episode, Ryan, Graham, and Joe gather around their respective microphones to answer your questions! You can find the full list that we tackled down below: 1) Do European leagues release salary data like MLS? 2) Why aren't there more good English managers? 3) What nicknames can we come up with for USMNT players? 4) With the 2022 World Cup taking place in the middle of the club season instead of at the end, will we see better games featuring fresher players? 5) What are our craziest soccer predictions that will happen by 2030? 6) What's wrong with Sporting Kansas City? 7) If national teams had to pull directly from their national flags, which teams would have the best kits? Sponsors! Today's show is brought to you by... Indochino! Get $50 off any purchase of $399 or more by using promo code TSS at indochino.com! Sunday! Get %20 off at checkout when you visit getsunday.com/TSS! American Giant! Get 20% off your first order when you use promo code TSS at american-giant.com! Helix Sleep! Helix is offering up to $200 off all mattress orders AND two free pillows at helixsleep.com/TSS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 The Show Notes  The Least That You Can DoIntroApple Sore customersMinoishe Interroberg's To Make With the Good English     - Will Not into Won'tA Brief History of Why Fonts Are Called What They're CalledTell Me Something Good     - Central Park Bird Watcher UpdateSpamalotReligious Moron of the Week     - Texas Preacher Jonathan Shelley Ask George     - Brian Eno? from ErnestTaking a Lil' Break Show Close ...................................  SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

Hello language Lovers! Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This week I'm delighted to share this conversation with Marcus where we talked about one of his languages, Singlish! I've been very curious about Singaporean culture and language for a long time now and I'm so happy that Marcus had time to share a bit of his culture with me and all of us. In this episode, we talk about the languages of Singapore and how they mingle and coexist. We talk about the education system and which languages kids learn, code switching and even the various types of Singlish that can be heard in Singapore. Marcus talks about the Good English movement that started in the 2000's by discouraging Singlish but how it has evolved and changed over time. He teaches us some Singlish phrases and words and we even have a slight diversion about the meaning of annual leave, the versatility of the word “ can” and how abbreviations play a big role in Singaporean vernacular. Big thank you to Marcus for this lovely conversation and sharing your languages and culture with all of us. If you enjoy episodes of Speaking Tongues, don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the Speaking Tongues Podcast on Apple Podcasts and like and subscribe on YouTube so that other language lovers like ourselves can find the show! And, If you've been a long time listener of the show or a recent listener, you can now support the show on Buy Me a Coffee dot com. Patreon extras are coming soon! Links to all platforms are in the show notes! Ok! Let's chat! To Find Marcus Instagram: @goodsinglish Speaking Tongues Podcast: Follow on IG: @speakingtonguespod Follow on Twitter: @stpodcasthost Like our Facebook Page: @speakingtonguespod Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJFOPq3j7wGteY-PjcZaMxg Did you enjoy this episode? Support Speaking Tongues on Buy me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/speakingtongues --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/speaking-tongues/message

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We bone up on our Indian history with three biopics about revolutionaries during the Indian independence movement. Show notes: The Indian independence movement lasted from 1857 to 1947, but keep in mind we are not experts in Indian history when listening to this episode... Episode 88: Playing With The Past: Gandhi and Rang De Basanti with Torrey Dance What we learned about India in history class (basically nothing) Cycles of revolution: the 1857 Sepoy Uprising inspires HRSA in the 20s and 30s, inspires the assassination of O'Dwyer in 1940 Mangal Pandey: The Rising The “cartridge controversy”, as explained in Flashman in the Great Game (George Macdonald Fraser, 1975) BSD performances “Good” English-language villain actors The Legend of Bhagat Singh Non-cooperation movement Is Ajay Devgn too old to play Bhagat Singh? (INTERVAL “Rasiya” from Mangal Pandey) Sardar Udham Vicky Kaushal is having an amazing year Shoojit Sircar's directorial range Jallianwala Bagh massacre Koozhangal (Pebbles) and India's submission to the Oscars Next time: 2021 year-end wrap-up Bollywood is For Lovers is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network Listen to Get Checkered Check out ATB The Future Of Find us on Apple Podcasts! and Stitcher! and audioBoom! and iHeartRadio! and Spotify! and Google Podcasts! Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! #MangalPandey, #AamirKhan, #KetanMehta, #RaniMukerji, #AmeeshaPatel, #TobyStephens, #KirronKher, #OmPuri, #TheLegendofBhagatSingh, #BhagatSingh, #AjayDevgn, #RajkumarSantoshi, #SushantSingh, #SardarUdham, #VickyKaushal, #ShoojitSircar, #Bollywood, #HindiCinema

Tom and Rob are joined once again by Richard Kirkham of Kirkham: A Movie A Day and the host of the LAMBCAST as they try to decipher the coded messages within Blythe's lecture about the Masked Shrike (Lanius Nubicus).

When you think about reconsidering your normal, do you think about language? And not just specific word choices, but about how our language is perceived? Erica and India are getting into it with E.K. Powell, creator of the What's Good English TikTok account and YouTube channel. They dig into African American Vernacular English (AAVE), the perceptions of it, appropriation of it, and an unpopular opinion or two. In this discussion: The origins of African American Vernacular English The concise, expressive grammar of AAVE Who gets a pass when they say words “wrong” Why recognizing, celebrating and crediting AAVE is important To learn more about E.K. Powell: TikTok: @WhatsGoodEnglish What's Good English on YouTube Instagram: @nodoz88 To learn more about code-switching, check out Episode 115: Challenge the Politics in Your Workplace Keep the dialogue going: Concepts are better explored in community. Actions are more lasting when taken alongside other imperfect allies. Connect with a cohort of entrepreneurs and changemakers at the intersection of values and visibility. Join us at: pauseontheplay.com/community

As we prepare for the next Beyond Borders interview, featuring a guest you are going to be very excited to learn with, we've put together this lesson with bits from some of our previous guests. Have you ever asked, I want to speak English with natives, where do I find them? Have you avoided speaking with other learners because you believe it will make your English worse? You'll be surprised to hear about Vanessa, Hadar, Emma and Shannon's experiences learning with other non-native learners. Show notes here. .......... We're super excited to announce that we have publicly launched much anticipated RealLife English Podcast and Speaking App, which will give dedicated learners, just like you, the opportunity to listen to podcasts, not only with audio and transcripts, but also to speak English with other learners from around the world, at the touch of a button, for free. Download the App Here .......... Sign up for the RealLife Native Immersion Course here .......... Listen to the whole podcast with each guest: BB #1: Speak English with Vanessa — How to Find Time to Learn and More… BB #9: Find the Courage you Need to LIVE your English | Emma from Mmm English BB #2: “Do I Need to Sound Like a Native?” | Hadar and Ethan's Advice on Fluency Beyond Borders with Ethan #7 - She speaks 15 languages! How did she do it | Shannon KennedyFacebook Follow us: RealLife English (YouTube) Learn English with TV Series (YouTube) Instagram: reallife.english Facebook: RealLife English

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for English teaching that's not right for them because it's comfortable and they don't believe they can find something better. They keep taking English lessons with the wrong teacher for them because it's either close to home, it's familiar, it's cheap, they feel bad leaving the teacher, it doesn't require them to do any research, or it simply allows them to stay in their comfort zone. Have YOU ever taken English classes with a private teacher or in a group, but still felt STUCK? Are you learning English and wondering how you can improve your training? Are you teaching English and looking to take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is a must-watch for you! Join our Facebook community to connect with non-native English learners from all over the world: https://theaccentsway.com/influency-community/ If you want to improve your accent and understand spoken English better, download my free American Accent audio crash course: https://theaccentsway.com/audio-accent-course/ You can also download an interactive list of 50 of the most mispronounced words in English and master the pronunciation of those tricky words: https://theaccentsway.com/mispro-signup/

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for English teaching that's not right for them because it's comfortable and they don't believe they can find something better. They keep taking English lessons with the wrong teacher for them because it's either close to home, it's familiar, it's cheap, they feel bad leaving the teacher, it doesn’t require them to do any research, or it simply allows them to stay in their comfort zone. Have YOU ever taken English classes with a private teacher or in a group, but still felt STUCK? Are you learning English and wondering how you can improve your training? Are you teaching English and looking to take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is a must-watch for you! Join our Facebook community to connect with non-native English learners from all over the world: https://theaccentsway.com/influency-community/ If you want to improve your accent and understand spoken English better, download my free American Accent audio crash course: https://theaccentsway.com/audio-accent-course/ You can also download an interactive list of 50 of the most mispronounced words in English and master the pronunciation of those tricky words: https://theaccentsway.com/mispro-signup/

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for English teaching that's not right for them because it's comfortable and they don't believe they can find something better. They keep taking English lessons with the wrong teacher for them because it's either close to home, it's familiar, it's cheap, they feel bad leaving the teacher, it doesn’t require them to do any research, or it simply allows them to stay in their comfort zone. Have YOU ever taken English classes with a private teacher or in a group, but still felt STUCK? Are you learning English and wondering how you can improve your training? Are you teaching English and looking to take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is a must-watch for you! Join our Facebook community to connect with non-native English learners from all over the world: https://theaccentsway.com/influency-community/ If you want to improve your accent and understand spoken English better, download my free American Accent audio crash course: https://theaccentsway.com/audio-accent-course/ You can also download an interactive list of 50 of the most mispronounced words in English and master the pronunciation of those tricky words: https://theaccentsway.com/mispro-signup/

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Let’s Master English with Coach Shane   What’s coming up: Vaccine news for COVID-19, the USA’s new Global Warming Leader and Cocaine! Country Shane joins us, then How to pick a GOOD English name, we have the weather and a VIP ROUNDUP and a Q&A session! All of that intermixed with some GREAT music if you’re with us ON AIR—of course NO music if you’re ONLINE! A final BONUS section with Coach Paul and an AMAZING offer. It’s so shocking and amazing, I will not repeat it. You’ll have to listen for it.     This is a podcast—an internet RADIO show! Lots of great content made specifically for ESL (English as a Second Language) learners. This content is NOT intended for BEGINNERS! Enjoy the show and please considering helping us via one or more of the links below:   Support the Let’s Master English team! JOIN our classes: Coffee for me and diapers for Mikey!: Become a patron:   PLEASE support my sponsors: (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) Get the best NOOTROPICS for your mind and body. (USA-only☹)   Study English, FREE ENGLISH LESSONS: http://letsmasterenglish.com/radio This PODCAST/VIDEO is for

In a spiritual sequel to our Singlish episode, we look at The Speak Good English Movement, the national campaign to get people in Singapore to speak "standard English". But the campaign has not been without controversy - it was initially seen as a campaign against a core part of the Singapore identity, Singlish. We talk to Melissa Low, Committee Member on the Movement, who shares candidly how the Movement has evolved to embrace Singapore's multi-faceted identity while still continuing to encourage those in the country to strive to be understood and connect with one another. In this episode, we look at the beginning of the movement, some of the themes and programs it has explored as well as the controversies it has ridden to get to today. Will the movement still have relevance with the rise of Gen-Z speak and internet English - we talk about that too, all in this episode! Sources: NLB Infopedia Embarrassing Singlish — An Ugly Mixture of Classism, Orientalism, and Self-Hatred - The Octant Wikipedia A friendlier, more relatable Speak Good English Movement - The Straits Times At 47, I still struggle with spoken English. Yet I’m the Speak Good English Chairman. Why ah. - Mothership --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sg-explained/support

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Welcome!   This week I am spending a bit of time discussing why you should not use VPNs and why Google removed an Android VPN from the PlayStore. Then some tech predictions for the coming year and Ransomware and More so be sure to Listen in. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com. --- Tech Articles Craig Thinks You Should Read: Google Removed Shady Android VPN App That Allowed MiTM Attacks Don't use VPN services. Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic; browser-makers fight back Twitter repeals retweet roadblocks, Facebook follows suit 2021 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Intergalactic Battle Begins Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay Intel falls on report Microsoft plans to design own chips for PCs and servers Facebook Repays News Industry It Destroyed With Print Ads Begging You to Hate Apple --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] I mentioned on the air earlier this week, a friend of mine who got hacked, he's trying to make some money. He's retired doing a little grub hub type delivery service, and all of his money was going to a bad guy. So we're going to get into that. Hi everybody. This of course is Craig Peterson. Oh, I hope you guys are having a great week weekend. Hopefully a few have the week off next week. And we'll get back to it after the first of the year. The hacking frenzy is just not, I talked about it last weekend, where we've got now the bad guys, assuming it's the Russians. There seems to be a lot of speculation that it really is. However, I want to explain why you never really know who does a hack. There are. Tools out there that are used by hackers. And most of these tools are just shared within their little community out on the dark web. And you can go right now if you know how to get onto the dark web and which site to go to you can go right now and grab almost any of those tools that the hackers are using to break into your computer, Mike and beater. Everybody's computer out there. That is a problem. And it's a problem with trying to identify who's doing the hack because if you are using the tool that is usually used by China, for instance, there's a whole bunch of tools that are named after pandas because that's China. And it's just, the name is the name. It's doesn't necessarily have a whole lot of significance. Okay. But the tools China uses the techniques they use are used potentially by other countries as well. So Russia could be using tools that are usually used by the North Koreans. And, so how do you know by the tool you don't and then on top of it, you have the problem. Of people hopping around. You've seen that before. Remember war games, Matthew Broderick, man, when was at 80 sometimes sometime, and it was showing how it was hopping through different machines. And different modem banks in order to get where it wanted to go. And you've certainly seen that in bond movies and everything else where they're hopping from server to server. And so they're trying to trace who is this? Where are they coming from? Because we're going to go catch them. And they'll show a little graphic up on the screen and it shows, okay. Boom. Okay. Argentina, and then it's Brazil. And then it went over to Moscow and then over to Beijing and then over to Montreal. And then you can't do that, that, that technology does not exist. There's no way for you to know. Because if you don't have control or access to all of these servers that are all over the world, how can you know, you just can't and then to make matters, even worse, the bad guys have compromised, small business computers and home computers as well. That really creates some problems because now what we're talking about is the bad guys getting on to your home computer and using that as a base of operations. We've had many times where someone's home computer was used to attack the Pentagon and it had nothing to do with that poor person whose computer was being used. We've talked before on the show about how some of these terrorists have been taking over. Business servers, just regular web servers. Hey, it's my server. And I use it for whatever might be e-commerce nowadays. And didn't realize that Al-Qaeda was using my server to share a video of Americans being beheaded. That has happened. So if China wanted to attack the US would they necessarily want the US to know it was China, might they want the US to think it's Russia? All of these bigger countries have that ability and now even smaller company countries. We're seeing Vietnam now. One of these nation-state hackers. And we're seeing, of course, as you already know, North Korea and China and Russia have been hacking for a long time and it seriously looks like they interfered potentially even directly in our elections because this big hack, these solar winds hack that happened solar winds software that was used to penetrate. All kinds of federal agencies, businesses, infrastructure, et cetera. Also penetrated the election systems in some States. It also penetrated the company that makes the election software for most of our elections here in the United States, it is really that bad. So we can't say for sure that this was Russia. It might be, it might not be the full assessment of what even happened from that hack is still probably months or frankly years away. We know the department of Homeland security. Commerce treasury state, all founded their systems had been breached and they're saying it was Russian hackers and it may well be Russian hackers. I don't have access to any of the hard data to be able to tell you for sure that's who it was, but. These hackers, Russia or whomever, it might be we're in our government systems for months, including some of our election systems. Now, is that a big deal or what now? We're thinking that this is Russia's cozy bear. And they are basically turning business software into a Trojan. And that's what the solar winds thing hack was all about. They had software that is used in networks to monitor and control networks, and it had been turned into a Trojan. Now a Trojan is like a Trojan horse. It's a piece of software that looks like it's something other than what it is. That technique has been used for many years, but what did they do while they were in these networks? It's absolutely crazy to look at FireEye, which is the company that discovered this was using solar wind software. They discovered the hack on their own networks and the networks as some of them. Clients as well, FireEye is a three and a half billion dollar security company. They are huge. And they said that they had been hacked by a nation-state, and it goes through what the software was. It's a Ryan, which is one of the SolarWinds products. We have used their products before we stopped using them because of some security problems that we had found in their software. So we stopped using solar winds 18 months or so ago, and now it has come out that one of the people inside solar wind warned the company about the way they built the software and distributed it and that their software could be used for hacks, which is. In fact, it absolutely was, but this is really bad news because since March they've been in some of these systems, government, and otherwise they've been in our election systems. I saw this study. I don't know if you've seen it. That was reported out of, I think it was Michigan, where they had been looking at what's happened with the voting systems. One of the systems was given to a security team who looked into it and found, yeah. There are some serious problems here. It was misattributing votes and it was rejecting. What was it like 35% or more of the ballots that should not have been rejected and just open to everything up to total hacking? It's very bad. So are we at war with Russia? Because they have gotten into things like our water systems as part of this hack, our critical infrastructure, our government agencies. What's going on? There is a system in place that the federal government's been using is called Einstein patrols. Yeah. Just that Einstein. And what it does is it looks on the networks to see if they're being hacked, but just our software that so many of us use that we should not be using anymore. That is the antivirus. That's looking for signatures. Einstein only is effective at identifying known threats. So it's like a bouncer. If you go to a nightclub that has a list of people not to let in, and yet he, he lets him all of these people with knives and guns who are swearing. They're going to kill everyone inside because they're not on the list. All right. So this is very inadequate. This Einstein system that the federal government's using in the face of these types of sophisticated hack attacks, and they use these hackers that solar winds or Orion backdoor to gain access to these networks, they wanted access to one of the things that we are trying to get really moving here for smaller businesses is. Logging, because if you're not logging, what's going on, you don't know what the bad guys got access to. And you got to keep those logs. Those logs have to be searchable. And if your security company is doing their job, they should be keeping all of the logs from all of these machines for at least two weeks, if not months. And you might want to ask them that. Because what happens, frankly, with these things is there's a lot of retrospective work that goes on. Just like with my buddy who got hacked, just trying to make a few bucks over at grub hub. We'll talk more about his specific case in a few minutes, but. I had to spend hours going through forensic information. I can get my hands on him to figure out exactly what happened and what do we need to do to mitigate this problem for him. We're going to talk about that exactly. On one guy, trying to make some bucks gets hacked. What can you do to stop it? So how did my buddy get fooled or what happened here? That his accounts got hacked. He was locked out and the money that he was trying to make from driving for GrubHub just disappeared. We're going to get right into that. So let's get into this problem and it is a problem. It's a very big problem with hackers. We've been talking a lot about the nation-state stuff that's been going on, and frankly, the way this latest hack. Hit us all frankly, is very hard to address. This is like the attacker beams themselves into the business's network. But what about my friend? What happened to him? How did this all work? He has, and I understand this man. He has not been following all of my advice and I'm sure this is true for most people out there because much of this is confusing. And I'm thinking I should probably do a little bit of training on this one as well for you guys. And if you're interested, I need to know. And the only way I'll know is if you email me ME@craigpeterson.com and let me know, you're interested in protecting your online account. I'd be glad to put something together, believe me, and we can have a little bit of free training available for you guys. So again, me@craigpeterson.com, but this was a wake-up moment for so many people. In the case of my friend, here's what happened. He was expecting a payment from GrubHub and it could be anybody, it doesn't have to be GrubHub and it was going to go straight into his bank account. How does the configure where he's paid his password, his username, his email address? All of those are configured either in the app or on the website for GrubHub. All well and good. Isn't it. It should be pretty easy to do. And in fact, it was, and that's exactly what he did now. Let's talk about the mistake he made. He got an email with a link in it to GrubHub, and he clicked on that. You are you getting what's going on here now? So he clicked on the link for supposedly GrubHub and it wasn't GrubHub. But that's all he had to do. Cause now what he did is he confirmed that people are in fact, or that he in fact had a grubHub interest or GrubHub account. Now sometimes what'll happen is you click on it. It'll take you to a website of a bank or GrubHub in this case, and it's not the real website. It'll ask you to verify your username and your password, and you'll type it in. Between you and me, I think he probably did that, but he wouldn't admit to it. So what'll happen is that point is they now have your username and password. Cause you just typed it in and they'll will oftentimes say invalid password, please try again. They'll just. Automatically redirect you to the real website, assuming that you gave them your proper username and password, but they can still get you in many cases, even if you don't give your username and password. Rule number one. Remember when you are on your email account and you're looking at the emails and somebody says Hey, you've got to click here in order to verify something, or someone's trying to break into your account. So click here so that we can get, get things straightened out and taken care of and blah, blah, blah, rule number one, don't click on that. Rule number two is in. And if you do click on it, don't give any information about yourself, like your username and password, but by clicking on it, you gave a little bit of information. So here's what happens. The bad guys send out these. These are like Nigerian scam emails. They have a list of over right now. I think it's about three or 4 billion email addresses. So they'll send out emails to this list of addresses and people will randomly respond, even though they know they should not be responding. So they randomly respond to the email by clicking on it. Now they know that my buddy's email address is a valid email address and he was clicking through to do something like it. Might've said, Hey GrubHub, you got to verify your account information or your delivery route or something. Something that's compelling to people who deliver for GrubHub to click on. And frankly, even if you don't deliver, if you have a GrubHub account and you have a credit card, a credit card tied into it it might be worthwhile for them to steal that credit card information. Okay. So you collect and that's all you did was you clicked on that email. What happens next is then our friends will have the bad guys we'll say, Oh, okay. So that was email account xyz@hotmail.com and that's where his account email account was xyz@hotmail.com. Okay, great.  Let's have a look online. So I took my body to a website that I recommended you guys use many times and it's called, have I been poned.com? So I want you right now, whether you're on your phone or in front of a computer, go to have I been poned.com and that's spelled like you'd expect it to be it's. Have I been B E N P w N E d.com. Have I been polling.com and then type in your email address, I'm going to type in his right now. So this is the email address he was using. I'm not going to tell you exactly what it is. His email address don't embarrass him, but yeah. It says that he was postponed in eight data breaches and found no pastes. So here's what that means. Data breaches are where his data was Nolan from a third party. In his case, I'm looking@thelistandyoucangetthislisttojustgotohaveibeenponed.com and it says for him, Adobe and October 23rd, Teen 153 million Adobe accounts were breached. Okay. Funny. And so the compromised data from Adobe in 2013 was email addresses, password, hands, passwords, and usernames. Now they were, the passwords are encrypted, but it was done very poorly and easy to resolve back to plain text. Okay. So Adobe had his username and his password. And again, between you and me. He has not changed his password in at least 10 years. Okay. So that means they had his email address and his password from the theft from Adobe. Oh. But there's more, they also got his email address and password along the way with the email addresses and passwords of 164 million other people from LinkedIn in May, 2016. Oh, and by the way, LinkedIn was hacked also in 2012. So data's out there. It's you can just buy it. Let's see. Aluminum PDF. I don't use that, but apparently he does. It was hacked last year, 15 and a half million records of user data appeared for download. Included authentication tokens, which means they don't even have to log in. They can just hack it using a special web browser code, email addresses, genders names, passwords spoken languages and usernames river city media spam list 1.4 billion. Records that was in January, 2017 and share this 2018 41 million sTraffic it's a Israeli Mark marketing company at a database, 140 gigabytes of personal data, all kinds of stuff. And it goes on and on. So we'll tell you why clicking on that email is bad when we get back and how they use that. Along with this data that's available out there on the dark web. We were talking about our hack, a friend of mine whose account got hacked. His paycheck got stolen and he could not get anything back. So we're going through what happened, why and what I did about it. Don't forget, you can also go online. Craig peterson.com. Subscribe to my newsletter, get all of my show notes and warnings and information about trainings, all of that stuff. Craig peterson.com. We established that my friend had his information stolen multiple times within in fact, the last year online. Now that's a bad thing, frankly, especially when they've got your email address and your passwords. So they sent an email to him and he admits that they did, and that email had a link in it to click on and he admits that he clicked on it. And as I mentioned before, just clicking on that email becomes a problem. Because now all they have to do is they track who it is that collect. So they know it was xyz@hotmail.com because it's tracked. If you look at most links and emails, including the emails I send out, it actually doesn't take you to the ultimate destination. It takes you to another site that is tracking. What you're doing is tracking the. Number of clicks and what people are interested in. And that makes sense for people like me, where I'm trying to find out what are you guys interested in so that I can help you out and give you more of that type of information? In the case of the bad guys, they now know that X, Y, z@hotmail.com clicked on this email about the drivers for grub hub. All they have to do is look into one of these online databases of stolen identities and find the email address the email for in this case, right? X, Y, z@hotmail.com is that email in there. And the answer is going to be, yes, the email is in there and then they say, okay, X, Y, z@hotmail.com. What's the password and they've got the password right in there. So now all they had to do is use his email address and his password over at grub hub. So now they're in there in his account or grub hub, and these people were smart enough to know. All they have to do now is go to the account information pages and change the deposit to account. And that's exactly what they did. So they changed the deposit to account. So his payment for delivering all of these different things that GrubHub delivers from local restaurants, et cetera, that payment is now. In their bank account and they have what are known as money mules. I don't know if you saw that mule movie with Clinton sword. It was absolutely fantastic. But these money mules are people in the us that fall for the scam of hay. We have a few accounts and we can't have a us bank account. So what we're going to do is we're going to wire you the money in, let's say PayPal, and then I want you to split it up and wired into these other accounts. So now you are mule. You are money laundering for them. And a lot of people have fallen for that scam and the FBI and the secret service have arrested a lot of these ringleaders over this type of nastiness that they've been really perpetrating against all of us. So it's a bad thing. So what happens now is he goes to log in to his account. It still works. They didn't change his password. Life was still good for him. And he's able to do his work still. However, he notices that his money didn't show up and GrubHub says, yeah, we deposited the money in your account. No problem. So he goes in, he looks at a double-check see, count, just being thorough. And he finds, Whoa, wait a minute. This is not my account number. So now we start to get a little bit worried and that's when he calls me up and he comes over and we spend about four hours tracking this down and fixing it. What the bad guys ended up doing is he had changed his password. So now what can they do? They're out of luck, right? No, they're not because remember they still have access to who is X, Y, z@hotmail.com. Email. All they do is go to grub hub and say, forgot password and grub hub dutifully sends a password reset to his Hotmail account who has access to his Hotmail account. They do. And so he then says, Oh my gosh, I can't get into my GrubHub account anymore. So we go back and forth on this. Ultimately the bad guys. Turned on two factor authentication on his Hotmail account, which is Pinedale by Microsoft outlook.com nowadays. And with two factor authentication, you have to have an authentication app in order to. Change passwords, or even in sometimes now in his case, he was lucky because he was still logged in to outlook to his Hotmail account. And we were able to use that to get around some problems. I'm not going to get into all of the gory little details of it, but we managed to reset everything. Thank goodness. So he's now getting his money from grub hub, but ultimately what I ended up having to do is set him up with a one password account. Now I have done this for him before, and he has never used it because it is confusing. You gotta really pay attention when you're doing this stuff, because I had to do two or three times with some of these online services that he uses and his banks. But one password is what I recommend. He bought the family version, which is $5 a month. There's a one week free trial.  I don't get any money from this. One password doesn't pay me anything. Give me anything, nothing. They don't even acknowledge. I exist. All right.  We do use it for some of our clients as well, and we do use it for some of our internal stuff too, but what happened is, I got one password set up. We set it up to use two factor authentication. One password will act as an authenticator now. I like one password. It just spelled literally one, the digit one password.com. You'll find them online. With the two factor authentication, what happens is when you go to log in, you're going to give you a password. And then it's going to ask you for six digit number and that six digit number changes every 30 seconds, which is really a good thing, frankly.  We obviously changed his passwords. Now he was very concerned because he doesn't want to have to remember a different password for every website. That's what one password is there for. And we use one password to generate fairly memorable passwords, at least easy enough to type in for all of his websites who went through them. One by one, we changed the passwords. On those website, we using one password, had one password. Remember them, those websites that could use nothing indicator for verification, we set up the two factor authentication and now he's cruising along. Everything is reset. He has good passwords, different ones on each one of his accounts. And he only has to remember one password, which is that. The password, which is really a passphrase that he uses to get into one password. It makes life much, much easier. And an automatic automatically synchronizes between his iPhone and his desktop computer. It also runs on Android and windows and stuff too. So it's very good software. Check it out. If he had done this a few months ago. He would be in pretty good shape as it turns out he didn't, but thank goodness we were able to recover. And by the way, if he didn't have the two factor authentication, because remember the bad guys set it up, he'd have to wait 30 days. Another warning and a deletion from the Google play store this week for a VPN service. We're going to tell you about that as well as explain why you should not be using VPN services in most, but not all cases. Craig, Peterson here. You can visit me online@craigpeterson.com.  Hey, thanks for joining me today. VPNs, I think are one of the least understood technologies that many of us use almost every day. VPNs are used for us to connect to the office. Many people use VPNs to try and keep their information private. It's not as though there's anything to hide in most of these cases, it's just that it's nobody else's business. It's not something that people want to share. So they do use VPN. So how do they work? How do they not work? What are the issues involved? That's a little bit about what we're going to cover right now, but let's start with Google. There's a VPN called super VPN free. Now this is a VPN client and the way VPNs work is you have a server, which you can think of as the end point, and you have your client. So the client resides on your computer or your mobile device, and it connects to the server. If you're a business and you are trying to use a VPN in order to allow your no, usually not customers, but suppliers or employees to connect into the office. I hope that you're using a model called a zero trust model because what it is really is an Excel. to your network. So you're extending that employee's home network or that provider's network office network, you're extending it into yours and you're joining them together, which is obviously a very scary thing to do and can be a very bad thing to do and allow. Some of the malicious software to spread onto the networks. Okay. So we've talked about that a lot over time. In this case, the super VPN free VPN client. Has something that is called man in the middle. Now, the way this works is just think of broken telephone. If you've ever tried to play that before we used to do it with a cans, tin cans and strings. Between the cans. And so you'd have three people and one person would talk into the can and the person in the middle would hear the message and then would relay it through another can to another buddy who's down that piece of string. And that allowed us to go greater distances. It wasn't, it was a lot of fun. And then of course the old broken telephone game. That we used to play the, you might have 10 or 20 people and you try and pass a message from one person to the next and not mess it up. Now, some people of course would mess it up on purpose, but you really can have some fun with those games. In this case, the man in the middle was the VPN server. Cause you remember the data's going from your device over an encrypted, hopefully secure connection over the internet. And then it arrives at the VPN server and what this server was doing. And unfortunately, what far too many VPN servers was we're still doing is known as a man in the middle attack. Yeah, the data is going from your device to their server. It is encrypted and hopefully using good encryption. And then the next stage is it's decrypted at their server. So you're trying to go to the bank, you're entering account information. And, but that VPN server in the middle of this whole conversation is monitoring everything you're doing. So it gets onto their server. They can see your usernames, they can see your passwords, they can see your account numbers, and then it opens a connection from their server to your bank. Yeah. Dangerous. So if you had. This shady VPN app from the Google play store called super VPN free. You might want to remove it, but this is a more generic problem than just one single VPN app. This problem is in fact very common. So I want to run through some other reasons why you probably don't want to use VPN services. Remember number one. There might be a man in the middle attack going on and we've even got countries doing that. Now China does that, so they can monitor everything. Even when it's encrypted, we've got cows Exton right now, spying on citizens, HTTPS encrypted traffic. And it's a, it's a bad thing. Bottom line VPNs that we're normally using. Now, this does not mean a VPN. That's a private network. That's used internally inside of businesses, but the types of VPNs that consumers are buying, and unfortunately, far too many businesses are buying unknowingly. Number one logging, many of these VPN say that the services, Hey, we don't log, which somehow is supposed to make you feel better about it. Some of them say we only logged for 30 minutes. Remember that it's rare for the VPN servers themselves to be in a data center. That's owned by that VPN provider. So we have other servers on that same network and that provider that's giving or leasing or renting of that VPN server. Space in that data center is going to be logging all that. So remember, it's in the VPN providers best interest to log their users. It lets them deflect blame to the country. If the customer's doing something that's illegal, if they get a DMCA, take down notice, et cetera, et cetera. So if the VPN provider is logging, now, they. If they got into legal trouble would have a little bit of a leg stand on. Even if you're paying $10 a month for the vPN service, it doesn't even pay for their expenses. Most of these VPNs are making money off of you. Okay. Bottom line. And there's a number of ways they're doing it. I have a whole webinar on VPNs. And if you want, I'll send you a link. To the copy of my last VPN webinar. Be glad to let you know a little bit more about that. Now there are some VPNs that servers and services that have gone out of business. Recently, one of them is called hide my ass. They went out of business and they gave up all of the information about their users years ago. And this was w. We talked about, in fact, on my radio show, this was a G almost 10 years ago. And they handed over evidence that resulted in the arrest of some some of their clients, frankly, who were doing some things that were pretty nasty. Guess what? That provides us with another reason not to use VPN services because we are being lumped in with. Every type of evil person you can think of, right? There are the majority of these VPN users. They might be like you and me, and just trying to keep prying eyes from our ISP, from Comcast, from whomever, keep those prying eyes away from our. Our systems, our data is none of their business, and I don't want to share it with them. However, the criminals that are out there, the arch criminals that are out there, they are using these VPN services. So the IP addresses of most of these VPN services are actually blacklisted. By some of these providers that are out there and blacklisting is bad because have been using the VPN services or services like tore, for instance, in the onion network are you're going to be blocked at, in quite a number of different banks and other websites. We block them routinely for our. Clients as well, because we can't really tell, are you a bad guy? Are you a nation state like China or Russia trying to hack in or are you just using a VPN to try and stay safe? Okay. So there's another reason not to use VPNs. And you might say, Hey, listen, I'm paying anonymously. I'm using Bitcoin, whatever might be in order to pay for it. You remember, you're still connecting to the VPN service using your own internet address, and they can log that and it can be traced. VPNs. Don't provide security. Frankly, they are what we call in the business of proxy. And that means that you connect to a server that connects to another server and there might be cashing proxies, et cetera, in order to cut down on their bandwidth. But that's what they are. They just are not providing more security. If you think you want more privacy, remember VPNs, don't provide privacy with a few exceptions. They are, again, just a proxy. They're effectively a middleman. Sometimes you're even using this man in the middle attack. We talked about early, earlier. If somebody wants to tap your connection, they can still do it. They just have to do it at a different point. Now, remember that the VPN service you're using does not take you to that bank website that you want to go to. That VPN service takes you to some point in the U S or Italy or Sweden, wherever it might be. And at that point, now it's out on the open internet. If they want to tap your connection, they can still do it. They just do it a different point. And these major nation States that are trying to spy on people, they also rent. Server time and data from the exact same places that these VPN services are renting from. So they then launch attacks against the VPN servers so they can get it, all that information. They can decode. They can do the man in the middle attacks, whatever they want to do. So you're not getting more privacy because all they have to do is monitor at a different point. And although your internet service provider might be tracking where you're going online and selling some of that information, most of these VPN services are doing that exact same as well. Now, if you think that you want more encryption and that's why you're going to do it well, you know what? Just using HTTPS on your web browser, that is enough security for almost anything you might be doing. So make sure you using HTTPS colon slash. The websites you want to go to because that website is now connected to you via a VPN provided by that server, like your bank or wherever it is, you may be going online. I'm going to do more about VPNs after the first of the year, drop me an email me@craigpeterson.com, if you'd like to find out more. You are probably fairly familiar with all of the normal tips about shopping online. We're going to get into little more detail here and what you should do while you're shopping and after your view have been shopping. You can find almost all of this stuff up on my website@craigpeterson.com. And if you are not subscribed to my newsletter or my podcast, please take a minute to do that on your favorite podcasting application. There are a lot of tricks they're going on right now when it comes to online shopping things that we have to be very aware of. And you've probably heard about many of them before. There are, of course, all kinds of nasty people out there that are trying to trick us into maybe given a credit card where we shouldn't and I want to. Play it a little bit of audio as well from my daughter. And this is really sad, but she got this phone call and it came through on regarding some fallbacks activities in the state of Washington. Do we need to talk to you as soon as possible? This call is from social security administration. I'm literally trying to apartment (509) 524-9631. I think it's (509) 524-9631. Thank you. Now I usually don't play the phone number when someone leaves a message. But in this case, I don't know. I, if I was you, I probably would not call it. Cause now they know that you are a person who is potentially going to be open for fraud. So don't call those numbers. I think that's an important thing for us all to remember. But in case you couldn't quite make it, how it was the social security administration calling and they were calling because they saw some fraudulent activity in Washington. And so they wanted to follow up with you and you, they wanted you to call back. So obviously. Don't do that. My daughter got this phone call just this Thursday and it was in her voicemail. Don't call these people back. I have a friend who he will see a phone number coming in, right call come in. Oh, I don't recognize that call. And so he'll just let it go to voicemail and he doesn't listen to the voicemail. He just calls the number back. Hi, you called. Don't do that. And there's a couple of reasons. One is in the, in most of these cases, they are trying to get information about you so they know you'll call them. So they might be able to trick you. But in most cases, that caller ID is fake. So they're sending you a caller ID and it says some phone numbers. Sometimes they even use phone numbers of police departments, which is really funny. There's a video online of a police captain getting one of these fraud calls and she keeps this fraudster on the phone and who's telling her that he's going to report her to the local police. They're going to come by and arrest her unless she pays him right now. And she's just doing everything she can to not laugh because she's the chief of police. Are you kidding me? And she knew it was a fraudster. So we have to be very careful with these people. And so many of us, particularly the older generations are trusting, and that can be a bad thing, but it's not just them. It's the young people too. I am shocked at what they will do, what they'll get away with and how they just don't. Care about cybersecurity. Really don't care. I had a discussion with one of my, one of my sons and he didn't care. He was just, he was pushing back as hard as he possibly could. So maybe it's a dad thing. Cause I'm his dad and I'm into cybersecurity. It's what I've done for a living for decades. And he is just rebelling. And he's how old is he now? He's probably 24 or something like that, but I know a lot of us rebel and push back against this stuff. Just like I talked about earlier with the printers, we know we should be keeping our firmware up to date, but we just don't. So watch out for those scammers. One time I was. On the floor of a trade show. And I was actually exhibiting there at the trade show and talking with people and everything back and forth. And I thought it was going pretty well. And then I got a phone call and I answered it and it was a lady from the IRS or at least that's what she said she was. And I knew it was just totally fake because the IRS doesn't just call you out of the blue, the social security administration. Doesn't just call you out of the blue. They will send you a letter. It's really that simple. So I hung up on her and she called back like six times and I told her, listen, this is a scam. I know it's a scam she was asking for. I think it was Apple gift cards were really Apple gift cards. I can see Amazon gift cards, but Apple's a little more limited, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they'd just buy. Apple phones with those gift cards and then sell them on the gray market or the black market once they got the hands on. I just don't know. So it is happening and it is going to happen even more this year. And many people ask why would someone do that? Right there? In many cases, they don't really know what they're doing. They're just calling from a call center and they've got a script to read and they are told that it's legitimate, right? In another cases. And of course the people who are running this scam know it's not legitimate. And then other cases, they're an active participant, but they're making money. And it's the only way they know how to make money is rip people off, which is just a shame. And. Between you and I see this all the time in the it world, where there are a lot of businesses out there that are scam artists, they put up a shingle saying I'm a managed services provider, or I'm an it professional because there's money in it. And they're not, we have a client. This was absolutely fantastic on Thursday this week. One of our texts. One of our senior texts, one, one of my sons in fact, was out there. And he said that we were the best, it support people he has ever seen. And he's been in business for about 40 years and he was just ever so grateful. I was at to everything that we're doing for him and his. Team his company, helping him to grow and solving all of these it problems. He doesn't even have to think about them. He doesn't even hear about them because many times we solve them before they even know about it. But we're right on top of it. And we're helping them, we get the right equipment. So he doesn't have to. Buy it again, when it breaks and he doesn't have to do with the downtime that you always have to deal with when something breaks or something fails. So he is very grateful. And so am I frankly, for what he's done for us, which is pay his bill it's right. So yeah. They're very good people and made me feel very good about that. But anyhow okay. So I am going on and on here, but let's talk about the online shopping and the safety for online shopping. There is a great article that I picked up from Cece. Which is a federal government agencies called the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. C I S a.gov is where you'll find a lot of this online, but let's go through some of the tips. The first one is the best defense there is, frankly, which is be aware. Before you do anything, stop and look. And I do that all of the time. I get an email from someone. It might be a legitimate email. It might be legit from Amazon or from Walmart or whatever online store. So I always stop and look at it. And number one thing to look for is the grammar. Good English grammar, at least good enough. English grammar that you think that they're probably a native English speaker. Okay. Now you say, great. And there's all kinds are wonderful people who aren't here, English speakers in. That's true. Okay. There are multiple things to look at. We're just talking about one of them here right now, which is, are they native English speaker or is this very poor or grammar? Because most businesses are not going to send out an email. They're just full of grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes. Does that make sense to you? They're not going to do that because frankly it just reflects very badly on them. And that's not something that you want to have happen. So that's the first thing to do next. Double check all of the URLs. So that email from address should be absolutely correct. Is it absolutely amazon.com or is it AMA dash Z O n.com or is it a M Z O n.com? Any of these. Misspellings common misspellings, things that you might just overlook normally, does that email contain any of those types of things? That's all a part of awareness. And what we're trying to prevent here are what are called phishing attacks, or even spear phishing attacks, where they are sending us something that looks legitimate on its surface, but obviously. Is not when you get right into it. So in most cases, when I get an email from somebody, what whomever they might be, I look at it and say, is this a legitimate communication? Am I expecting it? And if it's from a bank of mine or some other vendor, I rarely ever click on the link in there. I usually go to their website directly. There's usually most banks have the. Messages thing and you can right there in that messages say, yeah, okay, no problem. Here it is this the same message that they sent me via email. And if you do that, then, it's legit. It's just You don't call back a phone number. If they say they're calling from the local police department, you look them up in the book and yet, and you look them up online, right? Who has books anymore? You call that number, not the number that they gave him. All right. Now that we know the basics, let's get into the details of what are some of the things you can do. In addition, we're going to get into multi-factor authentication and much more. So here we go. Let's talk about these devices that we're going to be buying this year and in next year. 2020 is going to come to an end. I'm really hoping some of this stuff's going to spill over into next year. There's a few things you really should be doing, especially with your bank or Amazon, anywhere where you have financial data. And one of those things is called multifactor authentication. A lot of these businesses have this called also two factor authentication. You might see it abbreviated as. To FFA or MFA, but what that allows you to do is have something, and combine that with something you have. That's always been the best practice when it comes to security. Now, obviously there's even more stringent stuff that you could potentially do, but that's your basics of the best stuff. So what is this two factor authentication? In many cases, businesses are using a text to message that they'll send you when you log in. So you go into your account. Normally it's where you would set your password and you'll see something there about multi-factor authentication or two factor authentication. You'll go to that. And in most cases, they'll ask for your. Phone number and they'll send you a text message to verify it. And. You're off and running. So now the next time you go to log into that site, it's going to want your username or email address, and it's going to want also your password. And hopefully you're using a different password on every website out there. And then it's going to send you a text message and that text message will have a number that you can then type in on the website. And then this is okay. This is really you. Now you gotta be careful with this because there are a number of people who have been bamboozled by this. One of the ways they got bamboozled was where yes, indeed. People stole their phone number. So an attacker knows that you have something valuable, they want to get into your bank account, or maybe it's get into your Bitcoin account, whatever it might be. And they find out what your cell phone number is. And then they call up your cell phone provider and they say, Hey, I've got a new phone. And then they give the, all of the information for the new phone and they can bamboozle them. To get them to switch. And before you know it, cause you're not getting to notice, Hey, I just didn't get any phone calls. Not a big deal. In fact, it's wonderful that people haven't been bothering me on the phone, but what has actually ended up happening is they now have your email address. They have assumed. I assume that they have your password because most people use the same password on multiple sites, or it's an easy to guess password, easy enough to find the breached passwords on the dark web. I do it all of the time when I'm looking for dark web stuff for my clients, but now they have your phone number. So when they go to log into that bank account, They've got the email address. They got your password. Cause you, you have used that same password elsewhere. And when the bank sends a text message to your phone, it doesn't go to your phone and you don't even know it went to your phone. So here's an important tip. Contact your cell provider and have them use a pin or a password with you so that when you call up, they're going to ask you what's the password for the account. Now this is going to be a different password than you'd use on the website. But it's going to be a password. In some cases, it's a pin. So come up with something that you don't use anywhere else and set it up with your cell phone provider. All right. So that way, if they are going to hijack your SMS or text messages, it doesn't matter because even then they can't get through, but there's a better way. Okay. There's a better way to do all of this. There are some paid and some free two factor authentication apps. What I use personally, and what we use with our customers is called duo D U O. We've been using them for years. Cisco of course bought them because they were the best in the business. That's what Cisco does. So duo allows you to have a different type of two factor authentication. You can also use Google authenticator, which is free. You can use last pass. In fact, I got an email this week from one of the subscribers to my email list, thanking me for the recommendation for last pass. And by the way, if you want a copy. I have my special report. I'd be glad to send it to you. That talks about passwords talks about one PA password and last pass and what you should do a little bit about two factor authentication. So I use duo. I also have Google authenticator, although I don't really use that at all. I tend to use Google or do I should say. What happens with that is they'll display a QR code when you're setting up the two factor authentication. That's one of those square things that has all of the little squares inside of it that you can use to go to a website is typically what you'd use it for in this case, it then syncs up a special Countdown a few old 30 seconds, and it'll give you a six digit code that you can use. And that code is only good for 30 seconds. So now when you go to login, you're going to give you username or email. You're going to give your password. And then it's going to ask you for that. Code so you can use again with duo, I have adjust automatically. It comes up, it's integrated with my one password as well. So I can now log in and I know it's extra safe because even if someone steals my phone number, It's not going to do them any good because I do not use my phone for verification for two factor authentication. Now there's one more trick that you could play if you wanted to. And I have done this more than once. Some websites do not allow you to use an authenticator app. Yeah, I know behind the times, aren't they? So you have to use SMS. If you want to use two factor authentication, other words, you have to have a text message sent to you. So what I do with those sites is I have a phone number that isn't a real phone. So I have a phone number that I got years ago from a company that Google bought nowadays, Google calls it Google voice. So I have a Google voice number and I will give them that number. Now, why would I give him that number? First of all, I can filter calls that are coming in and text messages and everything out. And then Google will forward the text message to my phone. And remember it's Google. So it's not terribly private, but that's okay because those numbers are usually only good for a number of minutes. Okay. So it's not a very big deal, but the reason I use. Something like Google voice is it's not a real phone number, so they can't call up T-Mobile or Verizon or whoever you have your phone through pretending to be you and get them to transfer that phone number. Because they can't and they won't. Okay. It's very important. The, the SIM card that you have in your phone nowadays, some of these devices have virtual SIM cards. That SIM card that's in your phone can not be stolen or duplicated or anything else either if you're using one of these Google voice numbers. So some really important tips there. I hope you took some notes. If you didn't, you can find this online. I post these as podcasts that you'll find right on my website @craigpeterson.com. You can listen to them, take notes. My wife even provides a transcription of these things most of the time. Bless her heart she spends a lot of time doing that and she'd appreciate it. Check it out online craig peterson.com. We're talking about how to keep your devices safe that you're buying this year things you're getting for family, for friends, maybe for yourself as well. And we're going to get into it more. Now we've got some real surprising things for you guys. One of the things that we have to do, and this is again, over and over again, but better than 60% computers have windows, computers are not up to date. Remember we're buying nine devices that are basically computers. Do you remember that whole Barbie thing from not too long ago? I, in fact, was on TV with this thing and it was sending audio up to the internet and we were able to intercept it. We did a whole thing on television about this. Obviously it's a very big problem because it's your kid's information. Voices being sent up in the Barbie was interacting. Dope now Mattel cleaned some of that stuff up and that's always a good thing. But the point behind this whole computer in a toy or other device thing is that their computers we're talking about mobile phones. And Android phones, just not getting security updates. If you're going to insist on using an Android phone, make sure you get the latest model every two years, because even Samsung only supports their phones. They're top of the line phones for two years. Okay. Versus your iPhone, which is good for five or more years. So keep those phones up to date. In fact, when you first get the phone, probably the first thing you should do is check for a software update. Computers are the same thing. Whether you're getting one of these Chromebooks, which are very good in generally speaking, I'll remember it's Google. Okay. But the Chromebooks tend to be kept up-to-date because it's pretty much automatic. And I know a lot of security researchers. Use Chromebooks and use them exclusively because they don't have the same security problems as windows. What's one of the reasons apples don't get attacked as much as windows computers. Don't because the Macs frankly, are not as common. They're only about 8% of the market out there, depending on whose numbers you're listening to. So why would they go after it? Plus it's a little more hardened than windows is. In fact, it's a lot more hardened than windows is. And Microsoft is starting to FY fall in behind Apple's lead, which I think is a good thing. So those computers update them immediately. If you're still running windows seven, make sure you get 10 cause seven. Isn't getting the updates anymore. If you're running windows eight, 8.1, make sure again, you upgrade to windows 10, but brand new computers. Shouldn't come with those. Another quick word of warning about computers that you're buying the home edition of windows does not have the same features as the business additions or enterprise additions of windows. So you might want to, when you're buying something, look for windows professional, it has more options. And one of the options that could save your bacon is the ability to put off update. Now, you're I hear you saying Craig, you're always telling us to update. Early and update often. Yeah, that's very true because many times when you get that patch, it's because there is something going on in the wild, bad guys are actively using it to exploit you to exploit your fault. Okay. So there's some very good reasons to stay up to date, but. Hey, here's a problem. I had a law office call me up because right in the middle of them, putting together some documents for the court that were due in less than two hours windows and they were running home edition, decided it was going to force them to do an update. You can imagine the trouble that ensued because they weren't going to be able to get the paperwork filed with the court in time. Very big problem. But even if you're not an attorney, you're not dealing with the court. When the windows professional does give you the option to schedule the. Dates, you can push them off for a week and then you can get into the more advanced stuff too, with the device management, MDM type stuff where you can now manage that device and make that device secure most, if not all of the time. Okay. So let's move on to the next tablets again. You look at something like the Amazon Kindle, the firearms and the here's my watch talking hit the Siri button accidentally. So the Amazon Kindle fire that is an Android tablet. Now, one of the advantages is it is updated by Amazon automatically. It gets all of these security updates and other things. Yeah. That's a very good thing, and it gets them for a fair length of time and they are cheap. You can get them for 50 bucks, 70 bucks brand new from Amazon. And I got one a year or two ago, probably a couple of years ago. And it wasn't well packaged and it's shipping and the. The front screen was just cracked all the way down. So I returned it, they shipped me another one and that one wasn't cracked. So that's good, but I've kept an eye on it and it has been very good. And I also got with the Amazon fire tablet, one of these stands that you can put it in, it's a charging stand, but when you place it in the charging, stand it then becomes an Amazon Alexa. So a little kids come over grandkids, and they want me to play baby shark, which is an annoying song that the grandkids, every generation has this. I remember a slightly older grandchild. A granddaughter who used to love ah, jeepers. What was a gummy bear? That's what it was. Gummy bear. Remember that song was incredibly annoying too. And he, in fact, I ended up getting the guy who wrote the sock on radio show with me to talk a little bit about it. It was fun actually. Those of us who needed to be kept up to date all of those tablets, because they are real computers, but nowadays we're buying appliances. Like I remember five years ago, I think it was out of the consumer electronics show. I saw a, another one. Before, your home that you put into your home and it had an Android operating system in it, it connected to wifi and it allowed you remotely to say, Oh, you know that steak or Rosa told you to cook in the oven at 5:00 PM, I'm going to be late. Okay. So you just go online and I type it into my phone and ta-da, I am now all set. There we go. And it's not going to start cooking it until six 30. That's all well and good, but that appliance has a computer in it and it's sent into wifi. I have you updated it. And does it self update and for how long are they going to be providing updates for that oven? Or, I'm sure my now five years later, there's no more updates for it. So you now have a, an appliance, a device that is frankly dangerous on your network, because if somebody, again, they come over to your house, they've got a laptop, they connect to your wifi and it now infects your appliance. Okay. Whether it's your washer or your dryer. Those are the two most common, I think right now that are internet connected or your oven or your microwave or your garage doors or your security system or your lights, those can all get infected. And now they are used as launching points to infect everything else. You network. Check the update, make sure everything's up to date. And in some cases it's pretty hard to update, but it's worth it. You have to do it even your children's toys. One of the things I do is I put them on a network segment that has no access to anything else. I have an IOT wifi network, internet of things. All right. You're listening to Craig Peterson. Make sure you visit me online at craig peterson.com and sign up for my newsletter. We've talked about, multi-factor authentication, we've talked about, of course, protecting your devices by keeping your software up to date and that's everything nowadays, really, and how to do that. What's up for that. Now we're going to go into a couple more good points. So we did talk about multifactor or two factor software update. Now, once you've purchased an internet connected device, no matter what it is, if it's a router or firewall, if it's a Barbie doll, change the default password. Now, in most cases you can connect to the device, just using a web browser that makes it very simple. So you use the web browser, you connect to the device. Most of them have web servers on them. If you can imagine that, a little doll with a web server on it, but yeah, that's what happens. Your refrigerator probably has one of his internet connected and your washer dryer, a almost every even light bulbs have little web servers built into them and you want to connect to them and change the default password. So look up the manual. It's probably not going to tell you how to do it with. The information that's in the packing, but if you go online and search for that device, you can find out how to change it and use this is just normal recommendations, right? Use different passwords for every device and always use complex passwords. Now complex doesn't mean that it has to have special symbols in this upper case, that lowercase, et cetera, it can just be. Three or four words strung together. That's all it needs to be. You might want to throw a digit or two in there, maybe a special character too, but a phrase is the best. And in order to do that, you're probably best off. Using a password manager to help out. So that means using something like one password or last pass. And once you've got that in place, it'll generate these passwords for you automatically it'll remember them. It keeps them encrypted. So you only have to remember one password and that's the password you have set for. The password manager now, in my case, I've got it set up with duo again. So I'll go into one password and one password is going to ask me for my password and it's also going to authenticate me via duo on my smartphone. So there's a multifactor three factor authentication. Okay. So important for all of these devices that connect to the internet. Also check the devices, privacy, and security settings. And a lot of times the manufacturer will. Let you set up an account on their website. And from there, you can tell it what information you want to share and don't want to share. Now, remember what I was talking about in the last hour with Apple, they are being very good about this and they are now demanding that all of the app developers disclose to you. That you have in deed, given consent for this information or that information to be used by that app developer and sold. But you can go to the Mattel website, set up an account for your device or the Samsung or whatever it might be. And right there, you can examine. Your privacy settings and what do I want to allow the vendor to gain access to? Okay. Make sure you're not sharing more information. Yeah. Then you absolutely need to provide, they're not going to ask you for social security numbers or other things. There's no reason to write that stuff that the bank or the IRS is going to want. Not these guys, at least, hopefully. Make sure you're enabling automatic software updates, wherever you can. The latest version of the software. Usually tells you that it has the latest security fixes. Hopefully it does, but it also helps to ensure the manufacturer still support it. Because if you've got automatic updates and they're sending updates to you and a hundred thousand of your closest friends who also have the same device, they're going to continue to support it. And that way, the latest patches are going to be out there, but if you're not getting the updates and nobody else is the manufacturer is not going to have a lot of incentive to give you security updates, then there's the normal stuff about, don't use public wifi. Yeah. That's generally a good idea. But if you're using a secure server connection, That's that little lock up in the URL bar. Then you are effectively creating a VPN between your web browser and that remote server, and that's going to be quite safe. So purpose personally, I don't worry so much about that. I do worry about my machine being attacked, but I also have a very good firewall turned on and I have all of the services that I don't need to have shared. Turned off and I am going to do. Class on this, a little course on hardening windows. In fact, we've got it all written. We've got slides together. We'll probably be doing that after the first of the year. So keep an eye on your email for that. Cause anybody who gets my newsletter, I'll tell you about that. How to harden windows, so that even if you are on a public wifi somewhere, you're going to be relatively safe and the same. Thing's true. If you're. Using your phone for instance, and you're sharing your phone's network connection with your computer. It could still be used by bad guys to try and get into your phone. These ISP internet service providers are not completely on top of all the security. Okay. All of the basic stuff don't provide personal information, financial information. I tend to use. These one time, if you will use credit card numbers. So every time I, if I go to a site and I want to buy something let's say I'm on GoDaddy buying a domain or I'm on Walmart side or Amazon site. Each one of those, I use a different credit card number with, so check out your credit card provider, all of the major ones, visa and MasterCard. They have the ability to create virtual credit card numbers. And that way that credit card number can only be used on that website. So you give this, you create this credit card number. It's very easy to do. It's usually a plugin in your browser. You create a credit card number and it's for amazon.com. And now if somebody were to get that credit card number from Amazon and try and use it somewhere else, it will not work. It will only work on amazon.com. Isn't that cool. And then the other advantage is if someone starts to miss using it, then you can just turn off that virtual credit card number. It's really that simple. So have a look at that. Then one time use credit card numbers or these virtual credit card numbers, which is what I like. Where you can use it multiple times on that site, you don't have to create a new one every time, a available from most banks and all major credit card companies. Okay. Also be careful with the websites. You're going to make sure you type that URL correctly. As I said before, I always spend a few extra seconds. Whenever I'm on a website, I'm going to a website. I'm reading email, just making sure that it is correct. I spelled Amazon Houghton, or the email address that sent it to me. Is legitimate. I can't believe how many ti

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Not so much when I tried to say it, uh, but, um, Valerie and her team, uh, they bring 32 years of experience in broadcasting, social media, stakeholder engagement, community, building, public speaking, and negotiation to both the private not-for-profit and public sector. So serve a wide range of clients. And, um, I was why I was excited to have Valerie and she's taken time out of her, uh, late evening. She is in the UK. So we appreciate you taking time, Valerie. First off, before we go too much further, can you give us a pronunciation of your last name please? Valerie (01:14): Um, it's for French. Not expected. Roy (01:19): Okay. Yeah. Yeah. My French is terrible. I can barely speak English. Good English. So anyway, um, you know, what I want to do is, um, I just want to start at the beginning and this, uh, that what we're talking about today is going to be more geared toward corporations, big corporations, not necessarily, um, individuals are solo preneurs. There is a little bit of difference there. So just so everybody is kind of on board with that. We're going to talk to corporations. So let's just start at the beginning where you can tell the audience kind of what is branding. We, uh, typically some of us that are not knowledgeable, we think it's a logo, or we think it's a web page, but I know it's so much more encompassing, so let's just take it from the start. I, I have a corporation. I want to either develop my brand or, um, maybe rebrand in some manner. So I come to you and your team, uh, where do we start first? And secondly, welcome to the show. Thanks so much, but where do we start? Valerie (02:26): Uh, thanks for having me here. Um, so first I'd like to say that, uh, branding sounds like a complicated word, but we run every day right now. You're branding you to me and I'm granting yourself to you. And we're not even aware of it because branding is the representation of the brands. So it's the image that the brand represents and how people will talk about it. Um, the only difference with, uh, which is a big difference with the corporations is that in a corporations then could be 50,000 or a hundred thousand of different worries. Um, which means that, uh, it's a lot of people to represent the brand. So, so yes, a brand that has a logo has a website, uh, does its marketing companies do the marketing to, to impress the clients to gain more clients. Um, but it is also around, uh, the personality of the brand, but also around the people who represent the brands, uh, which is why, sorry, she wants to say something. Um, we, which is why, uh, the classic branding doesn't really work anymore because, uh, everyone nowadays has the perfect design has the same classic marketing. So if everyone does the same thing, uh, branding is not edge. Branding is not really unique. Uh, it's, it's just another flashy, perfect design Speaker 3 (04:09): And then another Valerie (04:10): Shouting on social media. And so, so how can you make a difference with your branding where first it comes? So if you come to me, I will ask you what is the story? So if you're a corporation, I presume that it's very likely that your design is already sorted out. You hire professionals to do it. Uh, your marketing is already up and running. So, so that that's not really the RA. Um, but I would ask you, what's the story, the history of your branding, how did it start? Why was the story behind your brand? Uh, usually there's always fantastic stories that come out. Sometimes I spoke with people who were not even aware that for example, Vagrant parents were already attached Speaker 3 (05:04): The company, um, in term of Valerie (05:08): How they influence. Um, but also it's, it's also about the leaders of the organization or the corporations. Uh, many times we don't think of the leaders, but the leaders, uh, some of the leaders may have some really good stories attached to the brand, um, to, to the story of the corporation. Um, there could be also, well, what is the interest for the next step? Uh, so some, some corporations now adopt, uh, corporate social responsibility, uh, to make a, an impression to make more impact and to get their brand, uh, and the great thing with social responsibilities because, um, it's like a marriage with a big NGO, for example. So, so both gain, uh, the NGO can raise awareness to the clients of the brand or the, of the corporation. The corporation can also raise the awareness about their brand, um, to the NGO supporters. Um, so, so that's a big, uh, thing that is being done now. Um, so, so, so these will be the questions first, uh, I would ask is, is after the story is about, uh, which impact, uh, do you want to make, um, apart from just, uh, showing how successful you are, and we would look at these different areas. Yeah. Roy (06:42): I'm not being rude, I'm actually taking, actually taking notes. This is very interesting. So, uh, yeah, I want to talk about the story for just a minute, because a, a lot of time in business, we, we try not to be personal or we try not to tell those stories. We try to be very sterile, but you know, one thing I talk a lot about is not only telling the company story, but the individual story, that's how we, uh, I think that's how we connect with other individuals is when we could connect on a personal level and not be a sterile, non, um, you know, non feeling company. Valerie (07:23): Yes. Um, well, I think to, to tell a story, a physical story has to be a really aligned with the brand, but it also has to be aligned with you. Um, I agree with the fact that if you don't feel comfortable of telling a personal story and not everyone is ready for that, um, it doesn't have to be, I mean, some companies use, uh, other people's stories that connect to them, um, to create an emotion, uh, because beyond the physical branding, uh, what really matters is the emotion. So it doesn't have to be your story, but it can be someone else's story. Uh, so for example, corporations who are associating themselves with, um, um, um, and then you, uh, could have, for example, a guest, uh, so for example, let's say it's an NGO that helps refugees could have a refugee coming and talk at the event and show that, uh, the corporation is supporting these schools. So, so that can be an example, for example, so that, that would touch, uh, the clients, uh, providing that it's, but usually a corporation will choose, uh, an area where it's safe. Um, and also, um, the corporation the same time does something good. So it's good karma. Roy (08:54): Yeah, I think, uh, you know, the story goes a long way in conveying our brand, um, unless you're very lucky and have a very unique product or service, there's somebody else that sells the same product or service out in the market. So the other thing that I've, uh, talk about a lot and feel that we have to do is we have to create the value. Why do you want to deal with me either for my service or my product? Again, I think that's where stories can go a long way in helping us show where that value is to the people that we're trying to reach. Valerie (09:31): Yeah. I mean, these days for corporations, uh, it's very data driven, so they will know what their customers, uh, what kind of topics that customers are interested in there will be surveys, but would be so, so it's not like, um, there, there would suddenly dive in supporting another organization and it doesn't have to be an organization. I mean, some, some, some corporations use emotion in very complex companies, for example, cook at the company in about happiness, um, to, to uncle, to encourage people, to, to figure about happiness when they did this look and choose happiness, or you have also, uh, for example, children of the world, which is a non-profit organizations. I like to give the example of nonprofit organizations because they're fantastic when it comes to creating emotions, um, because uh, corporations tells a product usually, which people want, um, otherwise they con crew, but a non-profit organization says something that people don't especially want and lesbian raised awareness, right. So the emotion has to be created, uh, strongly. Um, Roy (10:53): Yeah, and I think that's important even for products I, you know, in sales, that's one thing they always try to tell you is that you have to tell a story that creates that emotion in order to, you know, interest people. So I, I did notice that, uh, you know, when some of your collateral, that's something that you talk a lot about is creating that emotion. It's some kind of an emotional response. Valerie (11:17): Yeah. Yeah. Now there is, there can be downsides about this, uh, which is why some people are when you consent to tell your story, um, which is connected with brand damage. So sometimes the story or, or values are being promoted, but within the company it's not being respected. And then you will have, you will hear about an employee. You will start to Sue the corporation, but harassment, that people will say, well, you've been promoting this and your values and, and, and that, and so, so would say, um, well, when we speak about pushing further the branding, we also have to look at the downside, right? The potential risks. That's a con that the company might run, uh, by, by branding, by running new campaigns or associating themselves with, with specific organizations. Roy (12:19): So I kind of have a question that's basically back at the beginning. Um, I guess it's branding one Oh one. So it's a two-fold question. First off is how important is our name? And I love the name of your company, stunning brand, because you say exactly what you do in there is some thoughts around the concept that you really don't have to be a service product specific in your name. And, you know, the fine example of that is Google. I mean, nobody knew what a Google was, you know, 20 years ago. And now all of a sudden, it's not only a noun, but it's a verb. So can you kind of elaborate on, um, how important is naming and trying to focus on our product or service, or is it really not that important anymore? Valerie (13:14): It's a debate there and I haven't chosen my, my say that that's fair, that's fair. It's a difficult Roy (13:25): Question. And, you know, looking at naming and things and you always want to be in that space, but sometimes it's like, well, all the good ones are already taken. So you kind of have to look outside of that. So I won't press you on that then. And that, because it is a debate, there's a lot of, uh, argument. There's a lot of, um, data, you know, that kind of goes both ways on that. So the other question about naming is, um, how hard is it? If you're a corporation that's been in business in the same space for, I don't know, 25, 30 years, and now you decide that you want to change your name to something, uh, you know, maybe you've grown and evolved in something more representative. How hard is that to, uh, have a name change with a well-established company? Valerie (14:19): Uh, you're, you're talking about for branding. Um, yeah, it's, uh, it's very hard that I don't really search this area. And then we find you have, uh, clients who are interested in this. I kind of recommend people who have the top companies will do branding. Um, but from what they told me, uh, it's often a struggle because they, they want to rebrand, but then when they get to the stage of rebranding, they kind of attach it's like your children go. Right. Roy (14:53): Exactly. Exactly. So a lot of times that change, um, somebody wants to make a change because of a brand damage. Maybe I've got a brand, something went wrong with my product, my service, bad publicity, bad press. And so if you can't get out from under it, sometimes people think the best thing to do is make a change. So do you ever do any brand damage work? Valerie (15:23): Yeah, um, it would be more like refreshing the brand. Okay. Um, so some, my advice would be take, take positive action that will make good publicity. Um, I S I see a grand, like a person in a way. And, you know, when someone made a mistake, uh, the person has the choice to either keep justifying and try to make things better, according to the first mistake, or they can ignore it and keep doing, um, good, try to keep doing good things, uh, to actually help, um, the reputation to, to, to do better. So I would say, I would say don't get stuck with the bad reputation, uh, but think of what is the next thing you can do. And, and very often what I would advice is either to go with, um, some social responsibility, corporate responsibility to, to, well, firstly it will help the brand to do better. Valerie (16:26): Uh, and also it will ensure the clients that, um, Verizon improvement, very something. Now, if it's to do with, uh, employees who have to been, for example, badly treated and clients found out and it looks, it looks really bad. Uh, I would advise to take action, um, and make it public. We have changed our modified our policy. And, um, if it's to do with the projects, uh that's what about produce then? Uh, when I don't sell them anymore maybe, or show the improvements that has been done and should the process of, uh, of the improvement. I mean, the thing is there's no corporation who was perfect. It's, it's, uh, it's, it's hard work to run already a small company, but when you're running a huge corporation, um, mistakes are going to happen all the time. Uh, the wrong projects are going to come out every now and then. Valerie (17:30): Um, but how to deal with it, I would say is the same way we deal with our personal life, our personal life. We can choose to get, to stay stuck with what's not working, uh, or we can find a way forward and how to, to refresh, uh, the image, uh, by, by being completely honest. And sometimes it's to admit, um, that yes, this, I mean, this was wrong and people are not blind. And, uh, and this is the thing there's, there's a lot of leaders who have, um, a lot of pride and we don't want to, to, to tell, uh, there's been an issue, but there's a way, I mean, you don't have to be on your knees and apologize. There's, there's ways of saying things and there's ways of, um, making things look better. I mean, if, if it's, if it's a really big scandal or if it's a very big area, then, um, I would give it to that, for example, with, uh, someone who has worked fighting here and has been working with people who have a very big international reputations. So, so that would get into the area of reputation management. So it's really, I would assess what the damage is and, and see, um, who is the best person to take it off. Roy (18:56): Okay. Yeah. And I think, um, you know, transparency is the best way out of trouble is, you know, sometimes we have to admit it and then we lay out our course of action of, you know, how we're trying to fix it, how we won't repeat that, because like you said, nobody's perfect. We're all gonna make mistakes. Uh, especially when you have large corporations with a lot of people, uh, we can't be with them at every minute of every day, so things happen. And so that kind of leads into another, um, kind of area with social media, with each employee, having their social media account. There is, I guess there's a lot of room for that to be damaging, but there's also a lot of room for your employees to be advocates of your brand. Valerie (19:49): It's a, it's a big opportunity to, to spread the word as well. I mean, if I example a corporation or has, uh, 50,000, um, employees, uh, could run, uh, for example, Earl was I do it with my nonprofit, uh, where it's not a nonprofit community. Um, uh, they could give, uh, was for example, for the employees who promoted best, uh, the corporation and they could give them training is where, because the, the fear very often of cooperation to, to bring brand advocacy among the staff, uh, they're worried that someone is going to mess up or say the wrong thing or misrepresented the Brown, but there are trainings for this that can be given, uh, it's possible to educate, uh, the employees educate them also about their personal brand, because sometimes the person or the brand of the employee quits, uh, damage a little bit, the reputation of the corporation, the way they post on social media, for example, and, and it's to raise awareness more about how, uh, the social media world works. Um, and, and also there are, I mean, lots of the corporation now integrating diversity is very big word these days. Um, and also internet integrating like mindfulness, we're trying to get, uh, the employees welfare for their wellbeing, but we saw it is branding was so the corporation, because, uh, I see all the time on LinkedIn employees speaking about the corporation where they work and say, Oh, I've been to this great mindfulness training. So it's great publicity for exactly the operation. Roy (21:48): Yeah. And kind of the flip side of that is, uh, with the big brands, they need to be mindful of monitoring, uh, traffic negative, w let's talk in the negative for a minute, but, uh, you know, disgruntled customers, maybe even, uh, competition, trying to pull a fast one and posting bad, uh, experiences about your product or service. So in order to keep your brand reputation, it's important to monitor, uh, you know, what's going on out there on social media platforms with your brand. Valerie (22:24): Well, it's lucky in life very often. Uh, the issue will come from the inner second. And what many times corporations are, are not aware and nonprofits organizations as well. I mean, once, uh, in a big nonprofit international organization, uh, which is promoting, uh, all the good to do in the world, um, th the, the, the main line manager was, uh, introducing himself as a tumble of cider. I mean, what, but, you know, if someone photographed him, uh, not photographed him, but made the video these days, it's very easy to record, uh, people, uh, that that could have been a huge scandal because, uh, you you're talking about a humanitarian and social issues. Uh, so, you know, bringing, uh, like heavy alcohol in, in, in conversations when you're supposed to work, um, it's not really the place. Um, personal life is one thing, but, um, what, what many people are not aware is when we're within the company, their branding, the corporation, uh, for their eight or nine hours a day. Valerie (23:46): Yeah. They're spending their, everything. They say everything they do is, is part of the branding. And tomorrow someone might just pass or work there for one day and recalled, and then it was in the press. And, and you've got this big scandal about, uh, uh, you know, like sexual harassment and all the things we're hearing. Um, but the thing is when you have 50,000, a hundred thousand employees, you can count one that you can train them. You can educate them about the values and why it is important to have a certain code of behavior. So, so I know most corporations and organizations have their, their big flats. And, but very often nobody reads it. It's, I mean, people who start a job, they're just eager to start the job. They're not reading every document that the receiver sign it, they're not reading every, every single thing. So, so training is very important and the future will be more and more about this because the millennials are paying lots of attention. Right. And if a brand is not ethical that we know. Roy (25:00): Yeah. And I think you make a good point there that when, uh, when you come onto a company, you're onboarded, you sign the documents, you go through it. That really shouldn't be the end. There should always be a refreshers. Uh, again, it goes back to employee engagement. We need to keep employees engaged enough where we can reach out and talk to them about how we expect them to act and represent us. Because like you said, even in their personal life, if things could go really bad for them, it can, uh, uh, it can make the brand look bad and be very damaging as well. Valerie (25:35): Yeah. No super supporting, uh, employees wellbeing and, and supporting, you know, the education about the values, I think is very important. And many incorporation don't think it's important until we have to. Roy (25:52): Exactly. Exactly. So one more thing, um, the consistency of branding, because again, there's so many platforms out there that, uh, we need to be, even though we may message different on different platforms, the branding, um, how do we keep that consistent? Valerie (26:16): What do you mean? For example, because it was lots of consistency area, Roy (26:20): Well, like, uh, you know, across Instagram, Twitter, uh, Facebook, you know, they all reach a little bit different audience, and I know we can tweak our, uh, tweak our messaging, but our branding still needs to be very consistent, no matter what channels that we put that out on. Valerie (26:40): Yeah. Um, well usually it's the communications departments job. Uh, what I've seen in, I mean, cop, uh, PRI in the private sector, usually it tends to be more, more consistent. Uh, the big non-profits organizations tend to be consistent. Um, but I have seen in some large organizations I should be, which are international, um, where it's not consistent. People who don't really see it because, uh, the bigger news are stay consistent and it's stronger. Um, but I think as, um, people, as AI is coming in, people are gonna pay attention also on more and more details. Uh, so eventually I think consistency, the lack of consistency in some places, wouldn't be it. I mean, because I've got the background in fashion uh it's it was in my own career or represented like, um, uh NVMH and, uh, so as, as you said, as negotiator, but what I've learned there is perfect perfection is in, and I can tell you a consistency, even when you sleep, you Roy (27:57): Dream about. Right. Valerie (27:59): Um, so I, I tend to spot details that a lot of people don't spot. Um, but the thing is like everything, you know, when you start to go outside the line, that you can cross it more and more, and then mistakes can be done very easily. Um, but if there's a lack of consistency, I mean, many times it doesn't damage too much to brand, but it, it just, uh, reduce the strength of the branding, right. Because people just don't recognize that that is, that was picking about the same thing. Um, and, and, and Brown's also, um, uh, corporations also have Brandon Sue Brown. So for example, if a certain product that we brand a little bit differently, um, that's again, when it comes to, um, on per years, for example, promoting it. Yes. I think education is important. Someone majors say something that has nothing to do with what they're trying to promote. Roy (29:01): Right. Right. Well, Valerie, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to talk to us about corporate branding. Um, before I let you go, uh, first off, is there a tool or a habit or, um, that you use in your daily life, either your business or your personal life that you just couldn't do without Your phone? Right. Okay. Valerie (29:30): Do you mean, uh, like, yeah, Roy (29:32): Yeah. If it's, uh, if it's the phone, an app, um, could be, uh, I hear a lot of, uh, practicing gratefulness, you know, people go out for take walks when they get stressed. So just anything that you do, you know, in your life that you just couldn't do without, Valerie (29:52): Uh, I meditate actually every morning and every evening, uh, that helps concentrating for, for the rest of the day and in the evening helps me sleep well. Roy (30:04): Okay. No, that's good. That's good to know. Valerie (30:06): And I find it very helpful in some of, for cues, um, term of a physical tool then yes, I couldn't live with also my computer because they work on lane that's would be dramatic. Right. Roy (30:20): All right. Well, Valerie, thanks again. Uh, tell everybody, uh, number one, who is your customer, uh, what you do for them and how they can reach out and get ahold of you? Valerie (30:32): Yes. So, um, I, I can advise from corporations to personal branding or sometimes personal branding in corporations as well. Um, at the moment amongst a ring on a sentence, uh, woman is program. Um, but I've also worked with, uh, tech companies, um, um, very open. I mean, for me, branding is branding. Doesn't really matter in which sector, uh, what matters is, is what you want to achieve. And, and if, if you're open to speak about, um, the history of your brand, it's like with lawyers, if you don't tell everything that's important, something may be missed out. So, so, so I would say with unsure clients, just be aware that, um, I will not come in, uh, as a tourist and pick up the money because clients or so represent my brands. So I don't want to work with clients where I know something might go wrong and I will do a full assessment before making sure that a bit before confirming that we can work together so that the assessment is free. Valerie (31:44): Um, so you, you can reach me at hello, uh, outstanding brand.com and one group would reply. And, um, and we do a free assessment of one hour to see what is needed and, and what has been done before. And what is the step forward? You have a questionnaire to fill. It's not long, it's very short span, 10 questions. Um, and, uh, and then, uh, we can assess, um, how we, how we proceed and if we proceed, if you're happy. So with, with what I'm suggesting. Okay. So there's no, um, obligation that I always think if the client is happy and then it's great for my brands. So, so I, I prefer to do an assessment first. Uh, some people will take the service streets aware, but I have some friends for whom it's went wrong and then reputation goes with it. So that's all right, you're your Roy (32:40): Brand. So you can protect, you got to protect your brand. Exactly. Exactly. Now I understand that. All right, well, shout out to Valerie and, um, let her, you know, give you the assessment, see what she can do to help you either strengthen or change your brand, whatever you need done. She'll be glad to help you out. Um, again, thanks for taking time out of your day. My name is Roy. Uh, this is the senior living sales and marketing podcast. You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google, play, and Spotify. Please be sure and share with your friends. You can also find us@wwwdotseniorlivingsalesandmarketing.com. And, um, if you have any questions, please reach out to me or reach out to Valerie until next time. Thank you very much.  

Jennifer M. Cunningham (@jenmcunningham) reads her chapter "African American Language is Not Good English." (Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.) It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) produces the show and will be back as narrator next week. Chapter keywords: African American Language, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Ebonics, grammar, linguistics, Standard American English, Standard English, Standard Written English Here's Cunningham's 2017 bio from the book: Jennifer M. Cunningham is an associate professor of English at Kent State University at Stark. Her teaching and research center on the themes and connections among digital literacies, African American Language, and online pedagogies. Jennifer has a background in composition, linguistics, and education, earning her B.A. in integrated language arts, her M.A. in composition and linguistics, and her Ph.D. in literacy, rhetoric, and social practice. Among other scholarly activities, she has developed and taught online versions of research writing and first-year composition and is currently researching social presence in online writing classes as well as digital African American Language and Nigerian Pidgin English within digital messages. Her Twitter handle is @jenmcunningham, and her website is https://jencunningham.weebly.com/. Here's a 2020 update: Since publishing her chapter in Bad Ideas, Jennifer is currently the Writing Program Coordinator for Kent State University. She continues to research African American Language and recently submitted an NSF grant with a faculty member in computer science at another university with the hope of continuing her work by applying her methodological experience to a forensics linguistics project. As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas. All ad revenue will be split between the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the Computers and Writing Graduate Research Network.

 The Show Notes  Find your intoxicantIntroQuibi & David ByrneReligious Moron of the Week     - Texas-based “Apostle” Thomas Schlueter         from Jody BoeseDamian Handzy’s (Spooky) Facts That’ll Fuck Y’up     - Special Post-Halloween SPOOKY FactsTell Me Something Good     - Bridger Walker saves his sisterMinoishe Interroberg’s To Make With the Good English     - Detention, Detainment, and DataAsk George     - Christmas Songs? from BW13 Songs, Episode 14 next week Show close ...................................  SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

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 The Show Notes  Evolution and HomogenizationIntroDukes of HazzardMinoishe Interroberg’s To Make with the Good English     - Immigration vs Emigration and Rather vs WhetherPPP Loans and hypocrisyReligious Moron of the Week     - Katt Kerr from Larry MillerTell Me Something Good     - Carbon Craft Design13 Songs Episode 8: Talking Heads July 16thDamian Handzy’s Facts That’ll Fuck Y’Up     - Krakatoa, Strawberries, Space Station,         Potato Chips, more…Show close..................................  Mentioned in the Show Brent Carter’s “Work To Do” Something good: Carbon Craft Design ........ Also, don't forget: NECSS Online July 31st and August 1st .................................. SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for mediocre English teaching because it's comfortable and they don't believe they can find something better ? They keep taking English lessons with the wrong teacher because it's either close to home, it's familiar, it's cheap, they feel bad leaving the teacher, they don't need to do any research, or it simply allows them to stay in their comfort zone. In this episode, I'll share with you some tips on how to know if your teacher is the right teacher for you. ? Have YOU ever taken English classes with a private teacher or in a group, but still felt STUCK? ? Are you learning English and wondering how you can improve your training? ? Are you teaching English and looking to take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is a must for you! Interested to know about the 13 Things I've Learned as a Teacher? https://hadarshemesh.com/podcast/07/ Join our Facebook community to connect with non-native English learners from all over the world: https://theaccentsway.com/influency-community/ If you want to improve your accent and understand spoken English better, download my free American Accent audio crash course: https://theaccentsway.com/audio-accent-course/

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for mediocre English teaching because it's comfortable and they don't believe they can find something better ? They keep taking English lessons with the wrong teacher because it's either close to home, it's familiar, it's cheap, they feel bad leaving the teacher, they don't need to do any research, or it simply allows them to stay in their comfort zone. In this episode, I'll share with you some tips on how to know if your teacher is the right teacher for you. ? Have YOU ever taken English classes with a private teacher or in a group, but still felt STUCK? ? Are you learning English and wondering how you can improve your training? ? Are you teaching English and looking to take your work to the next level? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this episode is a must for you! Interested to know about the 13 Things I've Learned as a Teacher? https://a73023-tmp.s431.upress.link/podcast/07/ Join our Facebook community to connect with non-native English learners from all over the world: https://theaccentsway.com/influency-community/ If you want to improve your accent and understand spoken English better, download my free American Accent audio crash course: https://theaccentsway.com/audio-accent-course/

What makes a good English teacher? So many people settle for mediocre English teaching because it’s comfortable and they don’t believe they can find something better

Do not hesitate to use the same word repeatedly if it is the right word.

Features of good English.

The kinds of English we use for different purposes

The very simple and clear language of the Bible is a model of good English.

 The Show Notes  Silver LiningsIntroNo futureThanks for tuning in last Thursday (13 Songs with…)      and the show is archived…Damian Handzy’s Facts That’ll Fuck Y’up     - Soccer, penguin pee, tiger sharks, bubble wrap, more…Danish Anti-GougingMinoishe Interroberg’s to Make with the Good English     - HyphensBroadchurch Religious Moron of The Week     - Perry Stone from Larry MillerCanadian Horoscope (thanks Patrick Johnstone)Interesting Fauna     - Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine HipposFancast this weekShow close .................................. SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

 The Show Notes  Level 42 is a great bandIntroDon’t ever go “ba-dump bump.”Minoishe Interroberg’s To Make With the Good English     - able-ibleAsk George     - 45? 78? 331/3? from MikeReligious Moron of the Week     - Barry Cole Poyner from Ed MarcusWatchmen ending was incredibly satisfyingInteresting Fauna     - “Leaf Sheep” sea slug Costasiella kuroshimaeDave’s Night Out Dec. 26th at Godfrey DanielsShow close ...................................  Mentioned in the Show  Leaf Sheep ....................... Upcoming Gigs of Significance  The Skeptics Guide To The Universe and George Hrab: A Skeptical Extravaganza of Special Significance TOUR Friday, January 31, 2020Pittsburgh, PA // Rex Theater Saturday, February 1, 2020Philadelphia, PA // Perelman Theater Sunday, February 2, 2020New York, NY // The Bell House .................................. SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

On E44 I want to present a question and answer which was published on Quora. I try to use Quora to learn about languages and to better my English in general. You can read along the answer I was reading out loud on www.Quora.com https://www.quora.com/At-age-32-how-do-I-develop-the-habit-of-reading-and-speaking-good-English If you have suggestions for future episodes or if you want to be interviewed on my fluent podcast, contact me over myfluentpodcast@gmail.com  

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From the earliest days of medical research into autism, both psychologists and the general public have characterised those on the autism spectrum as literal-minded, unimaginative and lacking in empathy. While in recent years a fresh emphasis on neurodiversity has served to sweep aside this kind of reductive thinking, many people still view autistic readers as limited in their capacity to engage with literary texts. In his new book See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor (Duke University Press, 2018), educator and author Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds. Instead, Savarese, himself the father of a young autistic man, explores the many diverse and illuminating ways in which neurodivergent readers can engage with literature. From a young reader who identifies with the cetacean “antagonist” of Moby Dick to a woman who provides stunning new insights into Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, See It Feelingly foregrounds the unique perspectives of autistic readers and highlights their inventive approaches to literary analysis. In this podcast, Professor Savarese speaks to Miranda Corcoran about the impetus for this project and his experience working with neurodivergent readers. Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature in University College Cork. Her research focuses on Cold-War fiction, science fiction, horror and the gothic. She is currently writing a monograph on witchcraft and adolescence in popular culture. She is a regular contributor to Diabolique and blogs about popular culture here. You can follow her on Twitter @middleagedwitch

From the earliest days of medical research into autism, both psychologists and the general public have characterised those on the autism spectrum as literal-minded, unimaginative and lacking in empathy. While in recent years a fresh emphasis on neurodiversity has served to sweep aside this kind of reductive thinking, many people still view autistic readers as limited in their capacity to engage with literary texts. In his new book See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor (Duke University Press, 2018), educator and author Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds. Instead, Savarese, himself the father of a young autistic man, explores the many diverse and illuminating ways in which neurodivergent readers can engage with literature. From a young reader who identifies with the cetacean “antagonist” of Moby Dick to a woman who provides stunning new insights into Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, See It Feelingly foregrounds the unique perspectives of autistic readers and highlights their inventive approaches to literary analysis. In this podcast, Professor Savarese speaks to Miranda Corcoran about the impetus for this project and his experience working with neurodivergent readers. Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in twenty-first-century literature in University College Cork. Her research focuses on Cold-War fiction, science fiction, horror and the gothic. She is currently writing a monograph on witchcraft and adolescence in popular culture. She is a regular contributor to Diabolique and blogs about popular culture here. You can follow her on Twitter @middleagedwitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices