Tonight on CEP! My special guest is Rochester's own Warren Buff-It! No, he's not the Oracle of Omaha, but he details cars for the stars. We discuss:

• Some of us aren't cut out for corporate, and that's okay!
• Starting a small business, being free to be who you were meant to be, planting seeds, and leaving a legacy.
• Chasing dollars versus being your passion
• Preserving your reputation
• Tons of menus but nobody can figure out the heated seats or radios
• Squeezing the balloon
• CarBravo, GM's surprisingly good answer to Carvana
• New car screens as the latest way to over-stimulate and control
• The thankful demise of in-dash app stores that bring you to Dunkin Donuts
• Captive audience vs Taking care of people
• Country songs about self-driving trucks
• How Bluetooth car locks can be easily hacked - and how one journalist took a potshot at Tesla
• Cloud-controlled cars, and the unsurprising news that GM user accounts were hacked
• The gorgeous Mercedes EQXX goes 626 miles on a single charge, with juice to spare! Where did they go wrong with the production model?
• BMW's IDrive 8 - how it took everything from version 7 and threw it out the window, proving yet again that most software gets worse with each new version.
• And finally, some of the coolest cars Warren has detailed over the years.

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Tonight on CEP! Another Torment-a-Scammer Medley!

• One scammer noticed my number and hung up immediately. Another hung up when she heard Foghorn. I have a feeling they're on to me and have me flagged in the Secret Scammer Database.
• Apple impostor calls me up and says I have a problem with Apple Pay... It was a CLASSIC support scam where they told me to download "security softwares", which is actually a fully legal remote support tool that allows them to take over a victim's PC. I took them for a wild ride. "You want me to search for some tigers? I found some beautiful tigers!"
• One scammer made the mistake of asking me how I control my diabetes...
• The next guy asks me flat out for my social security number, and we have a little circular argument about it.
• A Medicare back pain guy calls and we bond over Walker Texas Ranger.
• The last guy wants my Medicare card number, and my doctor's name. It turned out to be one of the funniest ones yet.
• Finally, Karl Mailchimp returns to torment a Norton impostor! With Karl, you're always in for a good time.

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Dr. Mike joins us for the ten thousand download celebration!

• The industry is realizing what Marc's been saying for years: Storing your passwords in your browser is an excellent way to hand them to bad guys.
• Microsoft was apparently nostalgic for Y2K: This week's Outlook flaw was a Y2K22 bug that couldn't handle emails dated 2022!
• MS Word spellchecker now attempts to make your writing more woke. Politics aside, why would we let the most incompetent organization ever dictate how we speak?
• Culture peaked somewhere around 2008. Everything else since then has been worse.
• Insecurity and peer pressure lead people to buy iPhones so their text messages show up in green. People are only buying it for this petty reason.
• Apple, Verizon, Microsoft, and others have grown not by merit but by growth schemes.
• Bad guys can hijack people's computers and harness their computing power. Norton saw this and said, "Hey, why don't we do this too!" The inside scoop on the Norton Crypto-mining Scandal.
• How Middletown, OH fell to a ransomware scheme, which implies their IT staff doesn't have Computer Exorcist training.

If you know of any organization that would like to actually be protected from ransomware, send them to TheComputerExorcist.com !