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Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:41):
All right.
Today we got Geektastic's showlined up for you.
Today we have a new White HouseAI and crypto czar.
What does that mean for techand regulation?
Then Gwen Way joins us forsomething retro and perfect for
that holiday, and it's a blastfrom the past.
Or is it a modern twist?
Stay tuned to find out.
And, in shocking turns of events, a vodka maker has filed for
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bankruptcy in the US after aransomware attack.
And have you ever heard of anearworm eraser, curious about
how it can stop those catchytunes that just won't quit in
your head?
We got the scoop on this also,and OpenAI is charging $200 a
month for an exclusive versionof its reasoning model.
But the most pressing news thatwe're going to talk about is
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Intel's CEO is out.
What's next for this tech giant?
In addition, of course, we haveour standard features,
including Mike's mesmerizingmoment, our technology fail of
the week, a possible Nathannugget and, of course, our pick
of the day whiskey tastings tosee if our selected whiskey pick
gets zero, one or two thumbs upat the end of the show.
But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
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technology.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Here are our top
technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (02:52):
All right.
Intel CEO Pat Gelslingerannounces his immediate
retirement, marking the end of achallenging era for him.
Let's go to Corrine Westlandfor more on this story.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Pat Gelslinginger
exits Intel.
Intel's announcement that theCEO retired, effective
immediately, marks a pivotalmoment in the semiconductor
giant's history.
The decision was surprising yetinevitable, signaling the end
of an era that began withGelsinger's return to the
company in 2021.
As the company struggles with achallenging market and internal
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pressures, the question arisescan Intel reclaim its edge in a
fiercely competitive industry,or has it lost the paranoia that
once made it an unstoppableforce?
Back to you guys in the studio.
Nathan Mumm (03:41):
All right, let's
talk about this, mike.
So Intel CEO Pat Gelsingerannounced that he's immediately
retiring, marking the end ofcourse's era for him.
It's kind of challenging.
It's interesting because thereal successful CEO, andy Grove,
famously declared only theparanoid survive under his
leadership at Intel, a mantrathat became the company's
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guiding principle.
Intel, a mantra that became thecompany's guiding principle
Under Grove's.
Paranoia wasn't about fear, butit was about the consent to
vigilantly be the number oneinnovator in the microprocessing
units.
Now this mindset propelledIntel from a struggling memory
chip maker back in the day tothe leader of microprocessors.
Pat's resignation that happenedjust this week.
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Processors Pat's resignationthat happened just this week,
following his leadership rolesat both EMC and VMware, said
that it came as an edge andstrategic clarity was not able
to be met.
A seasoned technologist withdeep roots in Intel took the
daunting task of rejuvenatingthe company's fortune.
To a failure.
Now Intel stock has plummetedover 50% this year and the
company's fortune to a failureNow.
Intel's stock has plummetedover 50% this year and the
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company suffered a record $17billion loss last quarter,
laying over 15% of its workforceoff.
This manufacturer's delaysmisstep AI's far behind the
competitors of NVIDIA, which hasseized the leadership in AI
chips.
Intel was removed from the DowJones Industrial Average a year
after the company, once thepinnacle of technology
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innovation, disappeared.
Well, gelsinger inheritedsignificant challenges and an
inability to execute at the pacerequired in today's rapidly
changing tech landscape, leadingto the ousting Intel, once the
apex predator of thesemiconductor world, is now
scrambling to regain its footing.
All right, so what do we thinkthere about Intel?
Mike Gorday (05:28):
Well, you know, you
pretty much said it.
You've used words like apex,predator and these huge things.
Everything has a life cycle.
Nathan Mumm (05:40):
Okay.
So, does this kind of be likethe blockbuster they're?
They're kind of at their end.
Mike Gorday (05:46):
This is this is the
same thing as the beta max and
the v but they're the chipmanufacturer, intel inside.
Nathan Mumm (05:53):
I mean everybody
has an intel chip brand
recognition doesn't solveeverything so what really
happened is the ai decided thatthey were going to do GPU
graphics.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
That's what happened?
Nathan Mumm (06:06):
Graphic display
chips to do all of their AI
stuff, and so now Intel is justkind of holding the bag saying,
geez please use us for your AI.
Mike Gorday (06:15):
The industry turned
, intel didn't figure it out
fast enough and now they'resuffering the consequences.
And while I don't knowGelsingeringer I don't know if
he's a good guy or a bad guy orwhatever but he's obviously, you
know, not with intel anymoreand they're gonna they're gonna
do what they're gonna try and doto get their stockholders money
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yeah, okay, well, I I.
Nathan Mumm (06:39):
We've talked about
this a couple months back, where
we didn't know if intel isgoing to be in a great shape.
The government's's come on inand suggested that AMD purchases
them, so we're just going tohave to see what's going to
happen over the long haul.
Mike Gorday (06:51):
AMD will purchase
them after they've lost more
stock value.
Nathan Mumm (06:55):
That's right.
Okay, that's right.
All right, I think you havestory number two, is that right?
Mike Gorday (06:59):
Yeah, we're going
to talk about earworms.
Nathan Mumm (07:03):
I do not know what
an earworm is.
What is an earworm?
Mike Gorday (07:10):
Well, an earworm is
a small snippet of a song that
gets stuck in your head andrepeats over and over again Okay
.
So the science says that about90% of people suffer from
earworms.
Nathan Mumm (07:19):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (07:20):
And there's a
couple of things that may make
it worse or better depending onyour particular personality and
things going on, but have youever had a song get stuck in
your head.
Nathan Mumm (07:31):
Yeah, I hate that
Christmas song that's going on
with Mariah Carey right now.
Mike Gorday (07:34):
Apparently, a lot
of people hate that.
Nathan Mumm (07:35):
Really, all I want
for Christmas is you.
Not because she's a bad singer,it's it's prime for earworm
material okay people startgetting irritated all right, so
tell me about this technologyfor earworms well, so everybody
has this problem.
Mike Gorday (07:55):
Well, 90 of us have
this problem and for a certain
percentage of that 90, uh, it'svery irritating, uh, but don't
worry, you know, if you, if you,were having problem with Mariah
Carey getting stuck in yourhead, help is here, okay.
What's the help?
The help is called the earwormeraser and it's a 40 second
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audio track on YouTube that youcan.
Nathan Mumm (08:18):
So hang on here.
So so if I get stuck with asong in my head, you're telling
me YouTube is here to help meout.
Mike Gorday (08:23):
YouTube is here to
help you, okay, all right, maybe
Intel, I don't know.
Okay, well, not Intel.
So some scientists have cometogether, or supposedly
scientists have come together,and created a 40 second audio
track that is designedspecifically to squash those
earworms, those annoyingearworms.
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Okay, and what it is is 40seconds of discordant disjointed
music pieces.
Marc Gregoire (08:54):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (08:55):
That play and
disrupt your brain so that it
starts working again.
So, essentially, the… so itreprograms your brain a little
bit by disrupting it, or is that?
Well, so an earworm is this, isthis piece of of neurocognitive
stuff okay, we'll just call itstuff, all right and several.
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What happens is because,because of the pitch and because
of the tempo and whatever,several pieces of your brain
tend to latch onto it, and it'spossibly because music is
genetically encoded in us.
Okay, that makes sense, and soour brains kind of get stuck on
this piece of music, and that'swhat the earworm is.
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And that's what the earworm is.
In fact, earworm is actuallyfrom a German word that means
musical itch, and then whathappens is the earworm eraser is
a bunch of this disjoint music,and it's designed so that it
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scratches out the itch.
Okay, so it basically disruptsthese brain functions that are
stuck and gives it like a littlebit of a reset.
Marc Gregoire (10:13):
Okay, that makes
sense.
Mike Gorday (10:14):
And you know it's
an interesting thing If you, if
you so did I just go in.
Nathan Mumm (10:21):
I just go and put
earworm eraser.
Have you watched the video ofit?
Yeah, it's a.
It's a weird video too.
The video.
Mike Gorday (10:27):
The video is just
there.
Nathan Mumm (10:29):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (10:29):
It doesn't.
It doesn't, it doesn't functionas part of it, but it's got
like a worm.
Nathan Mumm (10:33):
He gets smashed and
shot across space and a bunch.
So it's not really about theactual video, it's the sounds.
Mike Gorday (10:40):
It's the bunch of
discordant and disjointed music
bits all squashed together thathelps restart your brain, and
the Earworm Racer has gottenmore than 100,000 hits on
YouTube since it launched lastyear.
Nathan Mumm (10:54):
All right.
Mike Gorday (10:56):
It isn't foolproof.
Nathan Mumm (10:57):
Okay, nothing is so
.
It's not like it's going to100% guarantee to work, but it's
going to most likely work.
Mike Gorday (11:02):
No but it makes
sense if you understand a little
bit about cognitive orneuroscience and how your brain
maps this out.
Nathan Mumm (11:12):
Okay, alright.
Mike Gorday (11:15):
So Philadelphia
based tech worker Laura Etlinger
said that the airworm eraserrescued her after she visited
her one-year-old niece inPhoenix.
Apparently she's the light ofher life, but she listens to
really annoying kid songs.
Nathan Mumm (11:33):
There's a couple of
kid songs that I.
Mike Gorday (11:35):
There's a couple of
kid songs that this one
particularly was about BabyShark.
I don't know if you've heardthat one.
Nathan Mumm (11:40):
Baby Shark, baby
Shark.
Yeah, I've heard that that isannoying too, okay.
Mike Gorday (11:45):
Ettlinger said she
took the eraser earworm eraser
to Best Baby Shark and it justrounded out and let her be calm
and relaxed.
And that's how I mean.
Nathan Mumm (11:55):
Do Taylor Swift
songs count for this too?
The what the Taylor Swift songs.
Mike Gorday (12:07):
You ever listen to
taylor I don't listen to taylor
swift.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
That's pretty
repetitive.
Mike Gorday (12:10):
I am not, I was
never, never going to be accused
of being a swifty.
Okay, all right, but yeah,there we go.
So if you have, if you haveannoying mariah carey music in
your brain this holiday season,go ahead and get on there and
try out the earworm eraser.
Marc Gregoire (12:21):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (12:22):
All right.
Well, let's go to story numbertwo.
Openai is charging now $200 amonth.
You just did story number two,buddy, or sorry, story number
three.
Story number three.
Story number three OpenAI ischarging $200 a month for an
exclusive version of its O1reasoning model.
Now OpenAI is creating a new,more expensive tier $200 a month
.
Yes, well, they're making $20 amonth right now for their
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current fee, right, because Ihave ChatGPT's OpenAI's standard
user client, it's $20.
But now what this does is itgives you the ability to have
their reasoning model, whichwill actually come on back and
have kind of like thatconversation.
And are you really thinkingabout this when you said this
model that's available Right now?
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It's been in beta but it issoon ready to release.
After you pay $200 to make itout of beta, then it will become
an enterprise or an EDU user'sexperience starting next week.
Mike Gorday (13:15):
All right, who is
going to pay first off?
Who's going to pay $200 to havea reasoning model on top of a
large language?
Nathan Mumm (13:25):
Well, you know what
?
I will bet you that probably30% of their subscribers upgrade
to this $200 monthlysubscription because it includes
unlimited access to GPT-4.0, anadvanced voice model, so you
already get the current version,but it also includes their more
computing power.
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The best possible answer moreup-to-date information from the
internet.
So this is their live languagemodels that they are using
instead of their language modelsthat they have that have
collected data.
This is the live one.
The company continues to offerthe plus tier for $20 a month,
which is what I have.
That includes early access tonew features, but this is more
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powerful with the up-to-dateinformation.
So instead of having like sixmonth old data, now I can get
real.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
And this is what I'll
say.
Nathan Mumm (14:17):
This is what I'll
say the best AI bot out there is
Bing.
Forget all these right now,because Bing and Microsoft have
their own.
What is it?
Language model advancement ontop of ChatGPT.
So it's got OpenAI, ChatGPT andthen their own information that
they have there.
Just go to Bing.
It's free, you don't have topay for anything.
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You can ask any question aslong as you have a Microsoft
account, and then just use itfor that.
Mike Gorday (14:42):
Yeah, we all know
how I feel about these things.
But first off, why would I pay$200 for more recent upgrades
and what kind of damage can I dowith this stuff?
Nathan Mumm (14:56):
What type of damage
can you do with it?
Mike Gorday (14:59):
Meaning what?
Let's say that I'm some sort ofdeepfake company.
I make deepfakes.
Is this going to help me makebetter deepfakes.
Nathan Mumm (15:08):
Well, no, but let's
say you're an AI company that's
using this model to redo aproduct that you want to have,
and then you want real-timestats, like a basketball game or
a football game.
You want real-time stats.
You don't want to wait for thatinformation to be able to crawl
on something that's old.
And if you want to say, hey,give me the stats of Josh Allen
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passing on third downs in thesnow to blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, you could probably getthat with this version, whereas
you wouldn't be able to get itwith the other version.
Mike Gorday (15:42):
Or so I don't have
to wake up, nedry, and be like
yo dude, I hired you, make moneyfor me to do all this reasoning
for me yeah, that's right.
Nathan Mumm (15:46):
You could do like
that get rid of lazy employees
you could do that, or it couldeven maybe we become a
psychologist right sure, why not?
All right.
Story number four this isreally fantastic news.
I I know that we need this inthe White House.
President-elect Donald Trump isgoing to have an AI and crypto
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czar in the White House comingin his term.
He's essentially chosen theall-in podcast host, david Sachs
, to be this person.
Now the appointment of.
Mike Gorday (16:21):
Sachs well.
Nathan Mumm (16:22):
he hosted a 300,000
a person dinner at his mansion
to fundraise for Trump'scampaign this past July, so he
says he knew anything aboutcrypto.
Well, you know what?
He has?
A talk show that he talks abouttechnology in in cryptocurrency
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, and I would say he'sknowledgeable.
I wouldn't say like I don'tknow if this is like the most
intelligent individual that wehave, but he's got a lot of
bravado he's got a lot of smartenough.
Mike Gorday (16:55):
He was smart enough
to uh convince people to pay.
Paying a lot of money yeah, 300000 event.
Nathan Mumm (17:01):
Right.
So now he's going to be workingwith, of course, paypal mafia
member uh Elon Musk.
So I'm sure this, this whitehouse, is going to be an
interesting uh white house withtechnology.
Now, the first time Trump wasin he w, we talked about this on
our show.
He was horrible for uhtechnology and and
cryptocurrency and cyber attacks.
(17:21):
There was no unification and wehave said that under the
administration of Biden thatthey actually hired people that
did a very good job, sohopefully he will continue to
take what was available thereand make it successful.
Mike Gorday (17:34):
This sounds like a
position for my nephew.
Nathan Mumm (17:38):
What's interesting
is, you can serve for 130 days a
year without publiclydisclosing your assets.
Did you know that this is like?
Mike Gorday (17:46):
a special position.
No, I don't pay attention tothese things.
So hey, you know.
Nathan Mumm (17:51):
So he's going to be
there for 129 days to help out.
Mike Gorday (17:55):
He's going to get
fired.
Nathan Mumm (17:57):
I don't know how
they serve that time, but then
he doesn't have to disclose anyof the information he has.
Well, there you go.
Well, that is our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, we have Gwen Way upin our gadgets and gear segment
with a product that will keepthe retro fan in your house
entertained.
What is it, Gwen?
We'll get to share thisinformation in our next segment.
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Welcome back to
Tech Time with nathan mum.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without a
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, a little whiskey on the
side today, mark regoire whiskeyconnoisseurs in the studio,
mark.
What have we chosen today?
Delicious, deliciousness.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
This is actually
fantastic.
Nathan Mumm (19:44):
I have not had
something that I this is really.
Mike Gorday (19:47):
Seriously, you said
that about last week's.
Nathan Mumm (19:49):
No, last week's was
fantastic because it was cheap
and decent, right, but this is.
I don't think this is going tobe cheap either.
This is good, though.
What do we got Today?
Marc Gregoire (19:57):
is Elmer T Lee
single barrel bourbon oh.
Now from Buffalo Trace'swebsite.
This is named after the masterdistiller, elmer T Lee, oh Elmer
.
Nathan Mumm (20:08):
Like Elmer D Fudd,
elmer Fudd.
Marc Gregoire (20:10):
No, no, okay,
okay.
This whiskey is hand selectedand is bottled to the taste and
standards that were set forth byElmer T Lee himself, martini
himself, perfectly balanced andrich, as declared by the man who
knew how great bourbon shouldtaste.
The nose brings notes of clove,vanilla and old leather.
Nathan Mumm (20:28):
Old leather Yep,
how do you have a taste of old
leather?
Oh, that's so delicious Really.
Did you ever have like oldleather that you'd lick, or
something?
I don't know what old leathertastes like.
Marc Gregoire (20:37):
It's more the
smell of old leather that
translates into the powder.
Mike Gorday (20:40):
People don't
usually go around chewing on
leather, okay.
Nathan Mumm (20:43):
I'm just curious.
Marc Gregoire (20:43):
Okay, old leather
, okay, all right.
Okay, the flavor balances fruit, honey and vanilla, with a
light spiciness, a long and warmfinish.
Now this is from the SazeracCompany, which is from the
Buffalo Trace Distillery inFrankfurt, kentucky, didn't they
have like 80% of the market.
Nathan Mumm (20:59):
The Sazerac Company
, Because we talk about it all
the time.
Marc Gregoire (21:02):
They have a good
portion Okay.
Nathan Mumm (21:04):
All right, that
makes sense.
Marc Gregoire (21:05):
This is a
straight bourbon.
It's non-age stated, it is 90proof.
The mash bill is undisclosed,but we do know this is Buffalo
Trace's mash bill number two,which is their high rye bourbon
mash bill.
Price is $40, but on thesecondary it can go as high as
$250.
Mike Gorday (21:21):
Why was my pour so
small today?
What's going on with that?
Nathan Mumm (21:26):
Maybe your pour
happened.
Mike Gorday (21:28):
Did you pour?
Nathan Mumm (21:29):
Maybe I poured and
maybe I took a little bit out of
your drink before I switched itover to mine.
Mike Gorday (21:34):
You drank some of
my pour.
Nathan Mumm (21:37):
Well, yeah, I drank
it at two minutes before the
show.
Marc Gregoire (21:44):
it's a hard to
find bottle and this was donated
to us for the tasting today byour friend chris.
Nathan Mumm (21:50):
Oh, okay, chris.
Well nice, shout out to chrishow uh he's a, he's a big uh
whiskey connoisseur, just likemark.
Is you guys need to do?
Speaker 7 (22:00):
do like a whiskey
show, snob yeah they're
connoisseurs.
Nathan Mumm (22:03):
That's the nice way
they meet.
Do you guys meet like once aweek to have sippings?
Marc Gregoire (22:07):
We don't meet
that often.
That would be nice if we did.
Okay, all right, there you go.
Nathan Mumm (22:11):
Okay, all right.
Well, I am really liking thisright off the bat.
Mike Gorday (22:15):
Yeah, I'm starting
to get a little bit suspicious
that you keep bringing in thesehigh rye things that I'm
starting to really like, so he'schanging your palate yeah.
Marc Gregoire (22:28):
Okay well, that's
good.
Mike Gorday (22:30):
Is that something
you're doing on purpose?
Are you trying to do that onpurpose?
Marc Gregoire (22:37):
Well, no.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah whatever.
Nathan Mumm (22:39):
Okay, all right.
Well, with our first whiskeytasting completed, let's move on
to our feature segment.
Today, we have Gwen Way joiningthe show.
She's an expert incybersecurity during the day and
a game board geek in theevening, as well as a producer
of Tech Time Radio and ourGadgets and Gear Gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video stream to start
our next segment.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
What's new in our
Gadgets and Gear.
Nathan Mumm (23:00):
All right, welcome
back to the show, gwen.
It's been great to hear I'msure Mike's excited about this
object that you're going to bebringing in, aren't you, mike?
Mike Gorday (23:11):
Sure, why not?
Nathan Mumm (23:12):
All right, so let's
take a look at what we got here
, gwen.
Gwen Way (23:14):
Always happy to be
here, Nathan.
I am, as Nathan said, acybersecurity expert.
I've been working in IT forabout 25 years now and I love it
, Love it, love it, love it.
Nathan Mumm (23:28):
All right, Gwen.
Well, let's get to our gadgettoday.
What do you have in store forus in this holiday season?
Gwen Way (23:34):
Well, you know we're
closing in on Christmas.
It's gift time of year, so Iwanted to find something that
people could put under theirtrees to have fun with.
So today I tracked downsomething called the Bolt's
Retro Stick.
Nathan Mumm (23:50):
Okay, so it's the
Bolt Retro Stick.
Now I'm really into retrogaming.
I have tons with the RaspberryPi that I've created, different
versions with Retro Pi anddifferent ROMs.
Make sure you only use ROMsthat you have purchased the
games for, Otherwise that'sillegal.
But tell us a little bit moreabout this.
Gwen Way (24:09):
Well, this device is
for the non-technical who don't
want to actually set up acomputer.
The Boltz Retro Stick is just asmall rectangular device that
you plug directly into yourtelevision set, and you're able
to play up to 20,000 differenttypes of games on it.
Nathan Mumm (24:28):
That sounds good.
You can have up to four peopleplaying concurrently, so that's
kind of different because mostof the units I have only have
two player controllers.
Gwen Way (24:37):
Exactly so.
It's a great family Christmasmorning kind of thing.
The other good thing about itis well, with the consoles you
have to wait to download updatesand all of that kind of stuff
which, because everybody getsconsoles for Christmas, takes a
long time.
On Christmas Day, this is justready to go.
You literally just plug it intoyour TV and play.
Nathan Mumm (25:00):
You know, nothing's
better than a plug and play
device, because that is truewith all these new consoles that
are out there.
Play device, because that istrue with all these new consoles
that are out there.
If you get a new game by thetime, even if you got it on a
physical format by the time youput it into your console, it'll
take an hour to two hours todownload all the updated maps,
all the new upgrades, becauseeverybody releases stuff late.
I remember having to do thatlast christmas with, just like
(25:22):
madden trying to play gamesduring the holiday break, and it
was was just so long.
So this I can put it in thereprobably go play some 10-yard
fight or one of the traditionalfootball games that were a part
of the old retro type deal andbe ready to go.
Gwen Way (25:36):
Definitely, definitely
.
So, like I said, this is 20,000games available on one device.
It is only $49.99, so under $50.
Nathan Mumm (25:47):
That's better than
cheaper, than any brand new game
you can get nowadays.
All of them cost way much morethan that, starting at like that
$60 price point.
Gwen Way (25:55):
Exactly.
You can also double the numberof games and the storage with an
extra $25 right now, so that'seven better.
Nathan Mumm (26:05):
Okay, gwen.
So Mike's looking at me overhere and we're like, are these
the name games or are these likethe generic games?
So some of the times I'vegotten uh, some of these retro
uh sticks and they've come withname games, like mario brothers
and dig dug and tetris and thenames that you would actually
(26:26):
recognize are were a part of theretro arcade.
And then sometimes I've gottenhere, mama Khan, and I've gotten
Pipe Brothers, the stuff thatwas not really even what was
supposed to be taken care of.
I got Mario running around in apurple outfit instead of a red
outfit, luigi's outfit's yellowinstead of of green.
(26:47):
I mean they, they just changeeverything about these games.
So are these the name brands orthose generic?
Gwen Way (26:54):
running around in
purple instead of red.
This actually has named games.
It also has a couple of the theless popular games.
When you get up to 20 000,you're going to have to have
some that are not bangers.
Nathan Mumm (27:06):
Yep.
Gwen Way (27:07):
But yeah, it's got
some of your name game.
It's got Street Fighter onthere so you can hop on and play
Street Fighter.
Nathan Mumm (27:13):
Oh, I love Street
Fighter, Street Fighter and
Mortal Kombat, all those bloodfighting games there.
I guess if you have twocontrollers you'd be set with
that.
I guess you get fourcontrollers and then you can
probably play old, retrofour-player games too
controllers, and then you canprobably play old retro
four-player games too.
Yeah exactly get all of theaggression out before christmas.
Okay, now you're talking withjust the four controllers.
I have to rethink about this,because I remember playing in
(27:36):
the arcades many quarters, theold gauntlet series, where you
had, of course, elf and valkyrieand warrior and wizard and all
the retro games that I alwayshave.
You either have to choose whichcharacter you're going to be,
so of course everybody choosesValkyrie and then the other
person normally is the elf.
Every once in a while you'llget a wizard, but no one ever
(27:57):
picked the warrior, so I guessyou could have all four of your
friends and relatives withouthaving to put the quarters in
each of these games.
I've spent like hundreds andhundreds and hundreds of dollars
on on gauntlet and then thenyou'd start shooting each other
and potions would run okayexactly, exactly, and you could
have all four sides on combattoo.
Remember that old atari gameokay, now are you just calling
(28:19):
me old here?
Going back to atari games, comeon now.
I wasn't.
I do remember the 2600 and I doremember the original n
Nintendo that you had to blow inthe cartridge for, but you have
to be careful on combat andair-sea battle, because those
were games that I could probablystill compete with some of
these young'uns with today.
All right though, gwen, let'sget to the most important
(28:40):
question Is this going to besomething that you get for the
holidays?
You know, with the holiday giftgiving and santa claus around
the corner, is this going to bein your stocking or giving to
somebody else's stocking?
Gwen Way (28:54):
I am actually going to
get one of these.
Uh, it's going to be for ourupstairs tv, just where we kind
of hang out and play games.
It's.
It's cheaper than you knowgoing out and buying the latest
Xbox or PS5 or anything likethat, and it gives us just as
much enjoyment.
So, listener, if you like, Iwould like to have that ease.
(29:17):
You can go to Boltz RetroSticks, that's B-O-L-T-Z Retro
Sticks S-T-I-C-K-Scom.
Nathan Mumm (29:31):
And Santa has
something in those holiday
stocking for you, I'm sure.
Gwen Way (29:34):
Yep, we've got one on
the way already, All right okay,
all right.
Nathan Mumm (29:38):
Well, Gwen, thank
you so much for coming on the
show.
We really appreciate that.
Now, this is the last timewe're going to see you this year
, so it's going to be a wholeyear until I get to see you
again.
With that, though, I'm kind ofcurious and maybe our listeners
are also Maybe some of the ideasthat you're going to be having
to start off the new year.
Gwen Way (29:58):
Well, I can tell you,
we're going to start out going
back to Kickstarter and lookingat new and potential things,
looking at new and potentialthings, but I think I'd like to
wrap a few more of theready-made, ready-to-order stuff
in as well, so that ourlisteners will be able to
actually pick things that wouldbe great.
Nathan Mumm (30:14):
Well, Gwen, we're
going to have to be careful with
that Kickstarter stuff, though,because I still have about
eight of the items that Ipurchased over the last three or
four years still waiting tocome on in, and that's the thing
about Kickstarter is that youknow still waiting to come on in
.
That's the thing aboutKickstarter is that you know.
Gwen Way (30:28):
whatever their date is
, it's probably a year after
that that they ship, Almostguaranteed yeah.
Nathan Mumm (30:31):
But I do have my
Luna robot and a bunch of other
great things, so it's not thatit's a bad deal to do, but I do
like how you find informationand new projects and new gadgets
for us to fund, and so that'llbe exciting as we kick off the
new year.
All right, Gwen, thank you somuch for coming on the show.
It's always a pleasure to talkwith you about new gadgets.
We now have to wait until nextyear all the way until next year
(30:53):
to see what she has in storefor us again, that joke never,
gets old.
Gwen Way (30:57):
See you next year.
Thank you, and thank you Mikeand Mark.
Bye.
Nathan Mumm (31:00):
Thank you so much,
Gwen.
Well, that ends our gadgets andgear segment up.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoments.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
Mike are you ready
for this?
Nathan Mumm (31:11):
let's start your
moment now welcome to mike's
mesmerizing moment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike.
Why do people hate the holidays?
Mike Gorday (31:24):
why do people hate
the holiday?
Nathan Mumm (31:25):
yeah, I'm just
gonna go right here, right,
that's, you're gonna just checkthat in.
Mike Gorday (31:27):
Why do people hate
the holiday?
Yeah, I'm just gonna go righthere, right that's.
You're gonna just chuck that in.
Why do people hate?
Nathan Mumm (31:30):
what is up with?
Mike Gorday (31:30):
the holidays.
Uh, I can tell you, I can tellyou that one of the big reasons
why people may hate the holidaysis the incredible amount of
social and, uh, economicpressure.
Okay, goes on during theholidays.
So, in the holiday season, wehave all these sales coming at
(31:53):
us all the time and trying toget us to buy.
But we also have this hugewhich is, you know, economically
driven this huge socialpressure to do things.
And it starts off withHalloween.
We have the push to to givecandy out okay right and then
and then comes thanksgiving, andthen we're pressured to hang
(32:16):
out with people thattraditionally we may not want to
hang out with normally you knowour, you know that's our
families, our families are ourfamilies.
But uh, you know, there's areason why we only get together
once a year.
Marc Gregoire (32:28):
That is true.
Mike Gorday (32:30):
And there's a lot
of pressure around doing that.
And then comes Christmas, andthe big part of Christmas is
spend, spend, spend, spend moneyto give, give, give, give and
to do all these sociallyacceptable things that you don't
hear about any time of the year, like help the homeless and go
to soup kitchens and whatnot,and then we top it off with a
(32:54):
party where we get drunk and saygoodbye to the old year.
So there's this sort of patternof social pressures that start
after the 4th of July thatcontinually become.
See, that's my holiday, 4th ofJuly.
Nathan Mumm (33:09):
You don't have to
invite family, invite friends,
you blow up stuff, you barbecuestuff.
I mean, that is the holiday ofholidays.
Mike Gorday (33:15):
Yeah, not the point
.
That's why.
Nathan Mumm (33:18):
That's why you said
started after.
Mike Gorday (33:19):
That's right.
Nathan Mumm (33:20):
It starts after
that.
Do you like the?
Mike Gorday (33:22):
holidays.
You know I like holidays but Idon't like, I don't like the all
the junk that goes with theholiday.
I really get upset about do youlike?
I don't really get upset, but Idon't like all the little
things.
Nathan Mumm (33:36):
The do you like the
steam sale that happens during
the holidays though?
Mike Gorday (33:38):
yeah, I like those
things okay, I like the sales
okay, especially for tech.
Nathan Mumm (33:44):
All right, there's
some good stuff there yeah, but
I don't.
Mike Gorday (33:46):
I don't like all
the social pressure.
All right that makes sense.
Nathan Mumm (33:50):
All right, well,
mike, thank you for that
mesmerizing moment.
Up next we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side, as I am
sure we will be doing so duringthe break.
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Speaker 1 (35:11):
And now let's look
back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (35:16):
All right, we go
back to December 9th 1987.
We're all about worms today.
I guess the Christmas tree wormbegins to affect an IBM
mainframe.
Now the Christmas tree wormbegins to affect the IBM
mainframe.
Now the Christmas tree wormbegins to affect the IBM
mainframe computers all acrossthe world.
The worm was delivered by emailand drew a Christmas tree text
graphic on the user's monitorsand it searched out through the
(35:39):
network users to email them.
This opportunity, also NamedChristmas C-H-R-A-S-T-M-A, dot
E-X-E-C because IBM systems onlysupported eight-character file
names allowed for the world'sfirst widely distributed
computer worm.
While the worm was notintentionally destructive, a
volume of emails it createdcould disrupt a user's network
(36:01):
and began to overload emailsystems.
It reached IBM's VNet emailnetwork on December 15th and two
days later had crippled it tothe point that they had to shut
it down and eradicate the worm.
Mike Gorday (36:13):
Yeah, now we just
have to get all these scientists
together to get rid of techworms To tech worms, there you
go.
Nathan Mumm (36:19):
Or if you're
listening to music, you can get
rid of it with your earwormRight.
Mike Gorday (36:25):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (36:25):
All right, Whatever
dude.
Mike Gorday (36:29):
That was this
weekend.
Technology play the computer,the music and it'll get rid of
the christmas worm.
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Nathan Mumm (37:26):
The segment we've
been waiting all week for mark's
whiskey mumble ah, I just hadmy little whiskey there during
the break, so that was.
That was really good this isactually fantastic.
So tell me about the mumble.
What do we got coming up hereon the date today?
Marc Gregoire (37:48):
today is december
10th it is.
Mike Gorday (37:50):
What day is it
today?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
od hit it chemistry,
physics, to a nobel machine oh
yeah little stem day I, I have.
Nathan Mumm (38:05):
I have no idea.
I am completely lost.
It's Nobel Prize Day.
Oh, it's Nobel Prize.
Oh, I didn't know there was aNobel Prize Day, okay, yeah.
Mike Gorday (38:13):
Is this the day
that they announce the Nobel.
It's a pickle day, so whywouldn't there be a Nobel Prize
Day?
Nathan Mumm (38:18):
Or Green Bean
Casserole Day.
Marc Gregoire (38:20):
Well, let me tell
you why today exists December
3rd is like the most importantday now I day.
Nathan Mumm (38:23):
Now I have that on
a recurring scheduled calendar
on my events.
Marc Gregoire (38:25):
But let's talk
about Nobel Prize Day.
Okay, this day honors theachievements of Alfred Bernard
Nobel, a Swedish engineer,chemist, entrepreneur and
philanthropist.
We have all heard of the NobelPrize that recognizes
outstanding achievements invarious fields in arts and
sciences.
Nobel Prize Day is a tribute tothe person who instituted the
(38:46):
prize.
okay, now mike is going to lovehow today is related to our
whiskey yeah, tell me okay, onefamous nobel prize winner in
1986 for chemistry was yon t lee, who is not related to elmer t
lee, and our whiskey for todaywas originally released in 1986.
Oh okay, oh wow.
(39:08):
Okay 1986 was a year afterElmer retired.
Elmer T Lee, besides being oneof the most famous distillers,
brought the world's Blantonsingle barrel.
Nathan Mumm (39:19):
Hang on a second,
I'm going to interrupt you.
You said this was the 1986Nobel Prize winner.
Yeah, are you sure it's not?
Mike Gorday (39:29):
LI Weasel.
There's a number of winners ofthe Nobel Prize winner.
Yeah, are you sure it's not LIWeasel?
There's a number of winners ofthe Nobel Prize.
Is there really, did you not?
Marc Gregoire (39:35):
know that this
was specific for chemistry, oh,
never mind.
That's why she played thesoundtrack without chemistry, oh
boy.
Nathan Mumm (39:42):
Okay, all right,
continue it on Mark.
Marc Gregoire (39:45):
All right.
So Blandon's Single Barrel wasa pioneering effort in the
bourbon industry, as Blanton'swas the world's first single
barrel bourbon.
That is why Buffalo Tracehonored him with another single
barrel product named after him.
Nathan Mumm (40:02):
Now comes the
controversy.
Oh no, what is the controversy?
Marc Gregoire (40:06):
Well, elmore T
Lee's Single Bar barrel is
highly sought after and covetedbottle by almost all whiskey
enthusiasts.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
It is the darling of thewhiskey community.
Sorry, chris, and I personallydo not enjoy it at all.
Nathan Mumm (40:18):
What that is why my
glass hasn't even been poured
anything into it.
Are you serious?
That's the controversy.
Are you serious?
Are?
Marc Gregoire (40:26):
you serious?
You do not like this.
I do not like it at all what.
I find it lacks complexity.
Nathan Mumm (40:30):
It's astringent.
Marc Gregoire (40:31):
There's a funky
flavor like stinky socks.
I'm a huge outlier on this one.
However, this is a hard hardpass for me, so this originally
was my bottle and I gave it toChris, really.
Yeah, he also paid me for it.
Nathan Mumm (40:45):
Okay, well, he gave
it to him and he gave you money
for it.
Marc Gregoire (40:50):
Yeah, the whole
black market thing.
Yeah, I told him not to and helistened to this podcast, so he
was bad, okay, and he Venmo'd me.
Nathan Mumm (40:58):
Let me just tell
you, chris, this is fantastic.
I appreciate the Christmas Daygift and Mike and I will be
splitting this up and we'll sendyou back the bottle.
Okay, the empty bottle, that'sright.
That's right, it's acollector's item.
All right, whiskey andtechnology are great pairings,
just like a musical and a goodold black and white movie for
(41:19):
the holidays, right, all right.
Okay, don't you like musicals?
I mean every holiday musicbecause I have anything musicals
come in the holiday time.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
And black and white
movies come for the holidays.
Don't you watch musicals?
Mike Gorday (41:36):
The way you try to
pair things up.
Have you watched?
Nathan Mumm (41:38):
the movie Spirited
Spirited on Apple.
Mike Gorday (41:40):
No, but I have a
pairing for you.
What's that.
The holidays.
Nathan Mumm (41:44):
Shut the.
Mike Gorday (41:45):
F up.
No, the holidays goes like theGrange and his dog, max, better
together.
Nathan Mumm (41:51):
Oh, better, and no
AI for that.
No AI for that one.
No AI.
Would have probably had so muchdifferent stuff.
Okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (41:58):
You know what?
Let's move on.
Since that was such a failure,let's move on to the next
segment.
Nathan Mumm (42:07):
All right, let's
move on to our Technology Fail
of the Week, brought to you byElite Executive Services.
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Oh, I failed.
Did I yes, did I yes.
Speaker 9 (42:18):
Did I.
Nathan Mumm (42:20):
Yes, All right.
Well, this week's failures cometo us from a vodka maker called
Stully.
Now I actually have sevenbottles of vodka from this
distillery.
So my question is, my pendingquestion is is the value going
to go up or is it going to godown?
Here's what we got.
Stoli's Group, USA company hasfiled for bankruptcy following
(42:40):
an August ransomware attack andRussian authorities seizing the
company's remaining distilleriesin the country.
As Chris Caldwell, thepresident of Global Chief
Executive Officer of Stoli USAand Kentucky Al, the two Stoli
Group's subsidiaries, said thatit filed on Friday bankruptcy
(43:02):
because of the August attackthat disrupted its IT systems,
including its enterpriseresource planning ERP platform.
The cyber attack forced manualoperations across the group,
affecting key processes such asaccounting, with full recovery
not expected until 2025.
Now I just don't get that.
I'm struggling with that.
Are you going to say that youdidn't have any of this in the
(43:23):
cloud?
So you're saying that all ofyour information was stored
locally, you had no backups ofthis and you can't start until
2025.
Man, those IT people at thatcompany should be taken out and
hit with a bottle of Russianvodka.
All right.
In August of 2024, the StoleseGroup's IT infrastructure
suffered again this disruptionin the wake of a data breach, IT
(43:46):
infrastructure suffer againthis disruption in the wake of a
data breach.
The attack caused so manyinfrastructure operational
errors that the Stoli group,including Stoli USA systems,
have been disabled and most ofthe Stoli's group's internal
processes have all beencompletely into manual entry
mode.
Now interesting is thatCaldwell said that the incident
(44:08):
also prevented the Stoli USsubsidiaries from providing
financial reports to lenders whoclaimed the two companies had
defaulted on a $78 million debtand that they had to close
operations.
So now here's a veryinteresting tidbit at the end of
this story.
Right, so they have a cyberattack, shuts down all their
(44:28):
systems and then, all of asudden, we find out that the
company had defaulted on a $78million debt.
So do you think the cyberattack had anything to do with
the pre-existing debt to causetheir systems to shut down?
Dun dun dun.
Mike Gorday (44:44):
I don't know, I
don't drink.
I don't drink, he doesn't drink.
He's totally down.
I don't know, I don't drink.
Nathan Mumm (44:48):
You don't drink.
So, mark, I'm going to put thison some research for you.
How is this going to affectKentucky Owl?
Marc Gregoire (44:57):
That is a big
bourbon brand.
That is a big bourbon brand.
It's not as popular now asbefore, since Dixon sold it
years ago to Stoli.
Okay, he was the mastermindbehind it, okay.
Mike Gorday (45:07):
Have we had
Kentucky Owl on the show.
Nathan Mumm (45:09):
We have not had
Kentucky Owl, so should we go
run it out and get some KentuckyOwl before it disappears.
Marc Gregoire (45:13):
Well, number one,
the Kentucky Owl, that was made
by Dixon.
You can't afford, okay that wasmade by.
Nathan Mumm (45:18):
Dixon you can't
afford.
Marc Gregoire (45:19):
Okay, all right.
And the ones after are likeStoli Vodka.
Nathan Mumm (45:22):
They're not worth
it.
They're not worth anything.
No, okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (45:25):
So we really don't
care.
Nathan Mumm (45:28):
That's what I am,
Well that's what's interesting
is, supposedly you need to makesure that you have your data
backed up.
This is a good data backupprocess.
You shouldn't have your ERPsystem and you shouldn't have
your main financial systems notin the cloud in today's world.
If you do have those stilllocal on a local system and
you're not running on a cloudsystem, note to your business
(45:50):
get it into the cloud before theend of the year, because that
if you have it destroyed therein the cloud, they have
redundant backup sees that comewith all the cloud services.
So get it there.
I mean, if you're the IT personhere and they reported to me, I
would have fired them years agobecause there's no way that I
would have said that that was agood business structure to have
it all local and then now all ofa sudden they have a bunch of
(46:11):
money that they had to report on.
Mike Gorday (46:13):
Don't you find it
interesting that a Russian
company was hacked by hackersand they're such avid hackers?
Nathan Mumm (46:22):
Yeah, I find that.
What I really find interestingis the $78 million debt.
Have you ever known that when arestaurant is in debt, all of a
sudden they amazingly have afire that happens in their
kitchen or something like that,and they get their insurance
claim?
I'm not saying this is fraudfor the cyber attack.
We're going to head out to ourlast commercial break.
When we return, we still have apossible Nathan Negative of the
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Speaker 1 (47:13):
This is your Nugget
of the Week.
Nathan Mumm (47:16):
All right, here's
our Nugget of the Week.
Xbox wants to continue beingyour console even after the life
of the console, and it'spairing with a company called
iFixit to help everyone out.
This is a great story for me,all right, ifixit now sells
genuine Xbox parts that you canuse to repair your Xbox Series X
and S and offers officialguides to help you with the
(47:38):
fixes.
You can browse what's availablefrom iFixit's Microsoft Repair
Hub.
Microsoft sent out a pressannouncement saying that
Microsoft is excited to beworking and keeping these Xbox
running longer and out of thewaste heap, elizabeth
Chamberlain said.
Ifixit's Director ofSustainability also says.
The statement is that we nowoffer official microsoft parts
(48:01):
and a step by step repair guysfor the xbox series s and x
includes both the all digitaland disk drive editions.
Now I fix.
It has continued to grow to bea repair hub site more than just
the parts that originallystarted to sell and is now has
microsoft surface devices andother hardware devices,
including generators and othermechanical devices that could be
(48:21):
repaired.
Since they've launched theirSurface Parts collaboration with
Microsoft last year, they'vebeen helping customers repair
their own Microsoft laptops andtablets.
It's awesome to be able tooffer Xbox owners the same
opportunity.
Microsoft isn't the only gamingcompany that iFix has partnered
with.
Ifix sells nearly every part tothe Steam Deck and offers a
(48:42):
bunch of repair guys for valvesheld PC2.
Microsoft itself offersfirst-party parts for the
standard Elite Series 2 Xboxcontrollers.
Now iFix offers genuine repairparts for Google Pixel phones
and Pixel tablets.
The company has sold genuineparts for Samsung, but that
partnership ended earlier thisyear.
(49:02):
Now, if you want to find outmore information, you can click
on the link on techtimeradiocomunder Nugget and it will
actually take you to the iFixrepair site so you can find out
all of your Xbox information.
Mike Gorday (49:14):
What if I want to
do an older Xbox?
Nathan Mumm (49:16):
Well, they have
stuff there for the original
Xbox and.
Xbox 360.
Mike Gorday (49:20):
You didn't talk
about that.
Nathan Mumm (49:23):
Well, they just
announced that they have the new
stuff, so the new stuff's moreimportant, of course, for a
press release than the old stuff.
But if you want to go back andtake your original Xbox and mod
it and do whatever needs to bedone, they have the guides to
help you there.
Not to mod it, but topreparework though, doesn't it.
No, no, you brought it to myhouse and I cleaned it out.
Mike Gorday (49:45):
That was the
original Xbox.
Nathan Mumm (49:46):
Oh, you're talking
about the new ones, the Xs.
Mike Gorday (49:49):
Yeah, all the other
stuff Doesn't work, didn't make
it.
Nathan Mumm (49:52):
Okay, all right.
Well, that sounds great.
Well, you know what, mike, IMike, I think we're almost out
of time.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Now we want to thank
our listeners for joining the
program, and before that we wantto go to our whiskey tastings.
And now our pick of the day forour whiskey tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop All right.
Marc Gregoire (50:15):
Today we are
drinking from the Buffalo Trace
Distillery the Elmer T LeeSingle Barrel Bourbon.
Okay, it is 90 proof and it is$40.
If you can actually find itanywhere on the shelf, usually
you have to pay more for it.
It's usually around secondaryprices are about well, the
secondary market is about $120,but if you find it at a liquor
(50:37):
store marked up, that can go upto about $250.
Wow, this is pretty good.
Nathan Mumm (50:43):
I really like this.
What are you going to give this?
A thumbs up or a thumbs down,mike?
Mike Gorday (50:47):
I don't think I
have to say anything because
I've been talking about it thewhole show.
All right, so this is a thumbsup for me.
Nathan Mumm (50:53):
Thumbs up for me,
too also.
This is fantastic, and thankyou, Chris, for allowing us to
have this great whiskey to taste.
Mark, you bought this, but thenyou ended up trading it away.
Mike Gorday (51:01):
That's because it
tastes like old socks.
Marc Gregoire (51:03):
I had an
opportunity to buy this at the
$40 price point, so I knew otherpeople love it.
Nathan Mumm (51:08):
Did you sell it at
the $40 price point?
Yeah, oh.
So that's a nice guy, you're sonice.
Mike Gorday (51:14):
Does the price
point of the liquor affect the
taste?
Do you think?
Nathan Mumm (51:19):
Price point.
Marc Gregoire (51:21):
That's a good
point.
Nathan Mumm (51:22):
Oh, do you think
that if we think we're drinking
something more expensive, thatwe think it's better tasting?
Mike Gorday (51:27):
Psychologically
that does affect how we perceive
things.
Marc Gregoire (51:31):
It could I have
heard from many whiskey
enthusiasts that when they buyan expensive bottle, in their
mind they're already going tolove it.
Because they have to justifythe cost.
Mike Gorday (51:40):
See, that's it.
That's it right there.
Nathan Mumm (51:41):
So, if you're a,
cheapskate and you like the real
cheap whiskey, then you likethat too.
Mike Gorday (51:46):
You don't have to
do a lot of justifying.
Marc Gregoire (51:48):
That's why blinds
are fun.
That's right, okay.
Nathan Mumm (51:51):
Alright, mike,
we're about out of time.
We want to thank our listenersfor joining the program,
listeners who want we want tohear from you.
You can visit us attechtimeradiocom.
Click on, be A Caller and askus a quick question on
technology and our TalkBackrecording system.
You can also stay connected bysigning up for information on
our website today.
For all of us at TechTime, itwas an honor to be on the show
(52:12):
today.
Mark, thank you for bringingthis great whiskey Now.
Just to let you know, right atthe end of the show, before we
do the lead out, we do have are-look back at some of our best
Christmas songs.
Marc Gregoire (52:25):
Mike.
No, I'm so excited, I'm excited, I'm so excited, I'm so excited
.
Nathan Mumm (52:35):
That was great.
Well, thank you for letting meknow about Nobel Prize
information there, because I didnot know about that.
I'm sure I'm going to have somepeople comment off the air on
that for me, but that should befantastic.
Mike Gorday (52:48):
It is great that's
not new for you right?
Nathan Mumm (52:50):
Well, I don't know.
Okay, you know.
The most important part, though, is remembering.
The science of tomorrow startswith the technology of today.
See you next week Later.
Mike Gorday (52:59):
tomorrow starts
with the technology of today.
See you next week later,bye-bye.
No, it's, it's like blowing myeardrums out.
Uh, yeah, if you want, I thinkyou need to give yourself a
couple more beats before youstart singing, because you just
like on the first day ofchristmas my ai gave to me sam
altman back at open ai on thesecond day of Christmas, my AI
(53:21):
gave to me two biased bots andSam Altman back at OpenAI.
Speaker 9 (53:28):
But Sam is definitely
back at OpenAI.
On the third day of Christmas,my AI gave to me three deep
fakes, two biased bots and SamAltman back at OpenAI.
On the fourth day of Christmas,my AI gave to me four data
(53:48):
breaches, three deep fakes andtwo biased bots, and see you all
back at OpenAI.
That was awful.
Marc Gregoire (53:57):
On the fifth day
of Christmas, my AI gave to me
five Elon tweets, rx's four databreaches, three deep fakes, two
bias bots and Sammy Albin backat OpenAI.
Mike Gorday (54:14):
Wow, Mark is really
singing rel.
Speaker 9 (54:16):
On the sixth day of
Christmas, my AI gave to me Six
hackers hacking, five Elontweets, four data breaches,
three deepfakes, two bias blocksand some Altman back at OpenAI.
On the seventh day of Christmas, my AI gave to me Seven drones,
(54:37):
a spy and six hackers hackingand a couple tech hosts who are
bored, four data breaches, threedeep fakes, two live bots and
some alt-moon back at OpenAI.
On the eighth day of Christmas,my AI gave to me music eight
ads of tracking, seven drones ofspying, six hackers hacking,
five Elon tweets, four databreaches, three deep f back at
OpenAI.
I think it's me here.
On the ninth day of Christmas,my AI gave to me nine laws of
(55:00):
breaking, eight ads of tracking,seven drones of spying, six
hackers hacking, five evil twins, four data breaches, three deep
fakes, two biased plots andsome open back at OpenAI.
Nathan Mumm (55:10):
On the twelfth day
of Christmas, my AI gave to me
twelve AIs rising like T2,eleven ethics of missing.
Ten jobs are losing 9 laws arebreaking 8 ads.
Speaker 9 (55:21):
Are tracking 7 drones
are spying 6 hackers are
hacking 5 Elon tweets or X's orwhatever he calls them.
Nathan Mumm (55:26):
And then 4 data
breaches 3 deep fakes 1 with
Mike.
2 bias bots.
Speaker 7 (55:34):
And my buddy Sam.
Nathan Mumm (55:35):
Altman back at
Opelia after Microsoft and then
rehired again.
Mike Gorday (55:39):
That was awful.
The music was way too loud.
I couldn't hear a damn thingthat you said.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
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