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There's certainly a pushpull going on right now. There's those of us who are feeling

the increased warmth and sense of freedom and, and yes, momentum to getting back our

lives. And then there are bureaucrats and naysayers and people who have gotten either addicted

to this new lifestyle in some way of remote work from home or addicted to the control that

they've had over so much of the population. This is going to continue to play out. This

is a major challenge that we have in our society. And I want us to be very clear about what

we're facing. We're going to get into that today. I also want you to be clear about the

challenge of privacy online and making sure that you aren't being tracked constantly. Everything

you do every click, you know that you can't trust big tech anymore. That's for sure.

Remember when Google used to say don't be evil, we've seen what they actually intend

to do with your data, with shutting you down, with interfering in a presidential election.

I mean, the stuff that big tech has been up to really has broken whatever faith we had

in them in the past. And that's why I don't want you getting tracked all the time. You

need to think of a VPN, a virtual private network as a necessary tool in your cyber defense.

You have to have it. It's not a sort of maybe thing. Otherwise, everything you do is being

tracked. And who knows what they're going to do with that data. When I switch on express

VPN on my computer or phone, my address is masked by a VPN server. That's right. My IP address

isn't something that they can just track the same way. This is so straightforward. You

can do it on up to five devices simultaneously. Multiple users on your network can stay safe

with a single subscription. You need to have this. Remember back in the day, we're all

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