From commander.com, welcome to the Tech Refresh podcast where we scour the internet to feature just the right digital news, gadgets and stories to keep you up to date.

Our promise is you give us about 30 minutes and we'll make sure you're in the know and the go-to digital source for your friends and family.

After an exhaustive nationwide search to find just the right digitally savvy host, they finally gave up and you got me.

I'm Mike James, along with our distinguished panel of experts.

We start with Commando Content Queen Ali Seligman. Welcome, Allie.

Hello, Mike.

And our news director at commander.com is Ben Bradley.

Hey, Mike.

The wise one.

We're calling you the wise one now because you're going to help me today on brand new or not true.

But we're going to start with the news.

And, Allie, go ahead.

Okay.

At this point, we have been talking about holiday shopping for months.

December is finally here and Black Friday,

Cyber Monday have come and gone. Now, we expected big numbers, but the totals for this shopping

weekend are going to blow your mind. So keep in mind, too, we're in the middle of a pandemic,

so many people out of work and still the records have

been shattered so online sales for just cyber monday 10.8 billion dollars black friday was another

nine billion so far for the shopping season a hundred billion dollars so let's let's put a little bit of this in perspective.

Cyber Monday, okay, about $10 billion.

What does that mean?

...