The Photo Backup Strategy You're Probably Not Using
You've been meaning to back up your photos for months. Maybe years. The dongle you bought for Christmas is still in the box.
Carmi Levy explains why physical backup solutions never work—humans aren't disciplined enough to plug things in regularly, and those devices get lost or run over in driveways anyway. The conversation moves through automatic cloud backup options that sync without thinking, privacy nightmares when families share accounts, and the Amazon Photos feature most Prime members don't realize they have. Shane shares how his parents accidentally broadcast their gift shopping on Apple TV, and Carmi breaks down which services actually deliver on storage promises for multiple users.
Learn why your data needs to exist in three places, how to clean up your phone without deleting memories, and which backup method works best for managing older family members' photos.
Why Your Email Account Is a Ticking Time Bomb
You're still hanging onto that internet provider email address from 1999. The second you switch providers, two decades of messages vanish forever.
Carmi Levy breaks down why treating your inbox like a filing cabinet is a disaster waiting to happen—from people storing social insurance numbers in Gmail to losing everything when accounts get hacked. Shane and Carmi contrast old-school POP accounts that trap emails on one device with cloud-based systems that sync everywhere, explore why 15 gigs of Gmail storage makes people never delete anything, and explain what happens when cyber criminals find your authentication data sitting in your inbox. Hear about the security risks most people ignore, why two-factor authentication actually matters, and how to export an entire mailbox if you absolutely need to.
Discover which kind of email account you actually have, how to separate important messages from clutter, and why that Bob's the best 1999 address needs to go.
GUEST: Carmi Levy
Originally aired on 2026-01-05