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The "Cloud" has a bigger carbon footprint than the entire airline industry. It's also not secure. So if someone wants to mess with you, or worse, blackmail you after accessing your iCloud, GDrive, or Dropbox data? They absolutely can. Instead, we want you to go old school. So this week, Rosie explains why you want to get a nice external hard drive, encrypt a folder or the entire drive, and save your stuff there.

Resources M...

Writer and Co-Producer of Star Trek: Prodigy, Aaron Waltke joins BJ on the show to talk about the hit animated series and ... The Brave Little Toaster? What?

Yes. The Brave Little Toaster. But you'll have to listen to this week's episode to find out what's going on there.

In addition to "Prodigy", BJ and Aaron also talk about how Aaron bonded with his Dad over Star Trek, working hard to make "Prodigy" stand on its own feet, ...

This week on the show, Comics artist and writer Lucy Sullivan joins BJ Mendelson to talk about her excellent graphic novel, "Barking."

They also talk about what Lucy learned growing up in and around pubs, her collaborations with Jeff Lemire, and why you should be outside planting seeds to protect your mental health.

Make sure you check out Lucy's terrific work here.

And as always, if you enjoyed this week's show, leave us a ...

This week, the women of our show kick BJ to the curb and go deep on tips, tricks, and apps you can use to keep safe while going out on a date.

There's A LOT covered in this episode, but some of the highlights of what's covered by Rosie and Amanda King (co-author of "How to Protect Yourself From Fascists and Weirdos) include: How to avoid getting blackmailed, why you should use all new photos for your dating profile and remo...

This week, BJ is joined in the George Carlin Podcast Studio by Mr. Gregg Spiridellis. Gregg is the co-creator of JibJab (Yes. That JibJab for our fellow Millenials and Gen X'ers), and Storybots. 

In this episode, Gregg tells the story of how Storybots went from YouTube Channel to a multimillion-dollar Netflix acquisition and the influence Sesame Street has on the show.

Gregg also shares some terrific advice about how he uses...

This week we introduce the Stranger Danger Phone! This is a backup, pre-paid Smartphone we recommend you use when dating online. The Stranger Danger Phone is also great for content creators who maintain some kind of public-facing presence online and need to be accessible to their audience.

These are easy to set up, and not expensive. Never give out your real phone number again! Rosie will explain why, and give you the steps...

(Note: This interview was recorded earlier in the year. So we don't get into X-Men '97, other than mentioning Eric and Julia were invited to work on the sequel series, coming soon to Disney Plus.)

This episode is a wonderful trip down memory lane with Eric and Julia Lewald, the showrunner and a staff writer on X-Men: The Animated Series.

If you're a fan of the old cartoon, this episode is for you.

Eric and Julia also share s...

Hello Friends,

This week, BJ is joined by Kim LaChance Shandrow, who writes an email every morning seen by thousands of employees at a company you're *possibly* listening to this podcast on. We also dive into her poetry writing, teaching yoga, what it's like to be a marketer and a journalist (a struggle BJ knows all too well), and some terrific advice. You definitely want to listen for this terrific conversation.

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You need Proton Mail. Get on that immediately.

Unless you use Gmail and you followed our previous advice about pairing your Gmail account with a Yubikey. In which case, you can do nothing.

Unless ...

This week, Rosie is going to show you how to send an encrypted email, using Proton Mail's free plan, to anyone who doesn't have an encrypted email account.

This is especially useful if you ever need to send financial or health inf...

We're big fans of Tina Turner; what can we say? This week, we're talking about how to secure your email account. First, by using a hardware authentication device like a Yubikey (or Google's Titan Key if you prefer.)

We also discuss utilizing Google's Advance Threat Protection Program for Gmail users who want additional security.

A pretty straightforward episode this week, but no less an important one, so don't miss it!

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Adam Martin's career in film and television covers a lot of the shows you love, including "Dave", "Barry", and "Future Man". Now he's the co-founder of Macroverse, a Web3 start-up focused on comics and other community-driven entertainment properties, using the Ethereum platform in a novel way: To demonstrate incontrovertible proof that the characters and stories you create belong to you.

BJ and Adam also talk about the que...

It's time for the second part of our two-part Digital Detox spiel. Rosie returns with a simple exercise you can do every time you find yourself holding your smartphone, and explains why you need to make your bedroom a phone free bone zone.

Bonus: BJ interviews werables reviewer at The Verge, Victoria Song, to talk about privacy and ghosts. (Look, it can't all be serious privacy stuff all the time, you know?)

Photo by Mahrael...

Today on the show, BJ is joined by Michelle Singletary. Michelle is an author and personal finance columnist at The Washington Post. BJ and Michelle talk about their Depression-era grandparents and what financial wisdom they learned from them, why you should ALWAYS save a portion of your paycheck, and index funds. We know. We know Index funds may not be the most exciting thing in the world, but as Michelle points out in th...

Episode Summary

It's Part 1 of our two-part Digital Detox! 

In this week's episode, we give you a two-step exercise to help you get rid of unused apps and think critically about how you use the ones you keep.

Once a month, make sure you grab some time to remove any of the unused apps on your phone. Each one represents a potential opportunity for fascists or weirdos to access your information and maybe even your microphon...

Happy Holidays from the WAYWO team! Today on the show, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath stops in to talk about how he got the moniker, "The Love Rabbi" (which he does not like!), and his work in spreading love and happiness via animations, podcasts, and coaching.

The rabbi tells his origin story, explains how people should look for ONE thing instead of MANY things when looking for love, and stresses why it's important to live in purs...

Episode Summary

This week is super simple. There are four programs everyone should have.  3 of which you can use on both your laptop and phone, and one that's desktop only (ClamAV).

So, when you're done listening to today's episode, you're going to want to download and use these.

Pro-Tip: Always activate your VPN if you're out and about. You can't trust every public Wi-FI spot that's out there. And while many are legit, it's ...

Today we've got author Randee Dawn in the studio to talk about her latest book, Tune in Tomorrow: The Curious, Calamitous, Cockamamie Story Of Starr Weatherby And The Greatest Mythic Reality Show. Bj and Randee talk world-building, writing modern sci-fi, and how a background in soap-opera journalism led to a career in storytelling.

You can follow Randee on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/randeedawn
And you can...