The concept of ownership is rapidly changing in our digital world, raising alarming questions about whether we truly own the technology we purchase. This episode dives deep into Nintendo's controversial Switch 2 terms of service, which grant them the power to render your console "permanently unusable" if you modify it in ways they don't approve. We explore the troubling implications of this shift toward a "rental society" where corporations maintain ultimate control over devices in your home.
Amazon's latest venture into humanoid delivery robots highlights another technological frontier with far-reaching implications. After failed experiments with drones and sidewalk rovers, the e-commerce giant is developing human-like robots capable of carrying heavier loads and working longer hours than their human counterparts. We discuss whether this represents progress or a concerning step toward replacing human workers with AI-powered alternatives.
The perils of AI misuse come into sharp focus as we examine how two major newspapers published completely fabricated book recommendations generated by artificial intelligence. This publishing blunder underscores the growing challenges of distinguishing between human and machine-created content in our increasingly AI-saturated media landscape.
Our Gadgets and Gear segment showcases an innovative AI-powered cooking thermometer that promises to revolutionize your grilling experience, though not everyone on our panel is convinced of its advantages over existing technology. We also explore the fascinating history of educational technology with a look back at Texas Instruments' groundbreaking Speak and Spell from 1978.
Between sips of bourbon and American single malt in our monthly whiskey tasting, we contemplate which fictional robot companion would make the ideal household assistant. Would you prefer R2-D2's sass or C-3PO's protocol expertise? Join us for this technology journey that will make you question who truly controls your digital future.
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Today's episode is packed withstories that challenge your
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Now Gwynn Way returns forgadgets and gear, showcasing
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is able to be used with the helpof AI.
Now, in addition, we have ourstandard features, including
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whiskey tasting, to see if ourselected whiskey picks get a
zero, one or two thumbs up bythe end of the show.
Now we have our four whiskeysto test, so we'll have Mark Mark
here to show us all the stuffthat we have available to drink.
We then pick one of these thatwe've got to make sure that we
pick one of these whiskeys,otherwise he says he gets to
choose them.
So let's make sure, mike, meand you are on the same page so
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and we don't like.
Top technology stories of theweek.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (02:26):
All right, story number one.
Nintendo Switch 2 releasehappened last week and, oh boy,
do we have some stories to sharetoday.
One of them is on our fail, butlet's lead off with an update
from Lisa Walker.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Nintendo has officially launched the Nintendo
Switch 2, the long-awaitedsuccessor to its best-selling
gaming console.
Featuring a larger display, 4kdocking capabilities and
advanced magnetic Joy-Con 2controllers, the Switch 2
promises a next-level gamingexperience for players of all
ages.
Nintendo has incorporatedbackward compatibility, ensuring
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continued access to belovedtitles from the original Switch.
The built-in camera andinteractive chat features
introduce fresh ways for playersto connect, while the expanded
256GB storage supports evenlarger digital libraries.
The Switch 2 launched alongsideblockbuster titles such as
Mario Kart World and the Legendof Zelda.
Tears of the Kingdom Now backto the studio.
Mike Gorday (03:25):
Okay, how does that have anything to do with the
problem?
Nathan Mumm (03:27):
Oh well, so that's just kind of an update of what
we got going on for the Switch 2.
This is a recap, right, andwe're going to start off here
with a major story.
We got two things to talk aboutNow.
Buried in the legalese is aclause that says if you try to
bypass system protection, modifysoftware or mess with the
console in any way that's notapproved by nintendo, they can
take action.
In other words, when you buy aswitch 2, you do not own the
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device so what?
Mike Gorday (03:51):
what you're saying is that if you try to modify the
console so you can say cheat,nintendo can brick your well,
not necessarily just that, butthat is one of the things that
are available there.
Nathan Mumm (04:02):
So I have a steam deck right.
That's my last big consolepurchase I've gotten.
I can do whatever I want on thesteam deck.
I can load whatever os I wantto do on that.
I can do whatever needs to betaken care of, not a problem.
But if you get a new nintendo,switch to the exact word he
makes it clear as it saysnintendo may render the nintendo
account, services and or theapplicable nintendo device
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permanently unusable, in wholeor in part, if they deem
necessary.
So they can brick your console.
They can brick your console.
So if I wanted to load, like,some mods on it to play some old
games, which I've done on manyof the nintendo devices now,
this oh, I see, I see whereyou're coming at it from, for
modifying or anything that needsto be taken care of.
I open and I crack that case.
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Guess what?
I don't own it anymore and theycan shut it down.
If I even wanted to replace anyof the screen hardware, do any
additional speaker replacementsanything that they deem not
acceptable?
They can brick my device andguess what?
There's no legal recourse forme okay, well I.
Mike Gorday (04:59):
I'm thinking that that's mostly because of the
rampant cheating that people dowith these things.
Okay, well I get that.
Nathan Mumm (05:05):
But if you're purchasing a unit to own as a
video game unit that sits inyour house, it should be A
private and B it should be yours.
Mike Gorday (05:12):
Well, yeah, it should be yours, but there is a
problem with the gamingcommunity, in which cheaters run
rampant and destroy the gamefor other people, so I'm not
really sure that I'm on boardwith what your stance is on this
one.
Nathan Mumm (05:29):
I dislike it.
Okay, because you're a cheater?
Mike Gorday (05:31):
No, I don't cheat but I like the mod.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You like the mod stuff right.
Mike Gorday (05:35):
Yeah, I do, all right.
So yeah, I mean, there'sdefinitely a community of
modders out there that might beupset by this.
I mean, we're not real gamers,we don't.
But I don't know if you have aproblem when there is obviously
somebody who's cheating in thegame that you're playing.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
We've had this discussion before when it comes
to using AI for college work.
Nathan Mumm (05:58):
Yeah, ok, we have.
Yeah, but this is the firsthardware purchase mainstream
that included wording like this.
So now my question is is Applegoing to do the next with
iPhones?
Are we soon going to start bepurchasing iPhones?
Mike Gorday (06:08):
You know, it's all going to move towards this,
because our society is movingtowards a feudal society.
We're a rental society.
Now we don't own anythinganymore, and I think that's
where everybody wants to take it, because if you own everything,
what do you get to do Whatever?
Nathan Mumm (06:25):
you want, with it, you get to make the rules.
So are you saying that we'rechanging now into like a feudal
system where we just renteverything?
Mike Gorday (06:31):
Yeah, so it's a quiet change back to a
feudal-like system, because ifyou don't own your house, if all
you have available for housingis rental units, that means
somebody else controls how youspend your money.
Nathan Mumm (06:42):
All right, let me ask you about this next item
here Game chat.
So this is the brand new thingadded to the Switch you can now
do game chat.
With the launch of the Switch 2and its game chat communication
features, nintendo updatedtheir privacy policy to note.
The company may also monitorand record your video and audio
interactions with other users.
Now that the Switch 2 isofficially launched, we clearly
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understand on how the consolehandles audio and video During
the game chat sessions.
As well as footage, it can besent to Nintendo or shared with
partners, including lawenforcement.
So before using game chat onSwitch 2 for the first time, you
must consent to a set of gamechat terms displayed on the
system itself.
These terms warn you that chatcontent is recorded and stored
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temporarily both on your systemand the system of those you chat
with.
But those stored recordings areonly shared with Nintendo.
If a user reports a violationof Nintendo's community
guidelines, the company writesthe terms lay out that these
recordings are available only ifsubmitted within 24 hours,
suggesting the recordings aredeleted from local storage after
a full day.
But we've actually done studieson this that the recording
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still sits there Now.
They do delete the name file,but it's not removed from the
memory itself.
Like you can delete a file fromyour computer and there's easy
tools to recover it, so itdoesn't really delete it itself.
Mike Gorday (07:57):
So is this something you don't like?
Nathan Mumm (07:59):
No no.
So essentially, authorities,courts, lawyers, subcontractors
and legal communities areallowed to view this information
.
Mike Gorday (08:07):
Only by first a violation has to occur, right?
Nathan Mumm (08:11):
Sure, okay, okay, great, yes, now, okay, so it's
going to get hacked.
Mike Gorday (08:16):
I'm having trouble defending this one because it's
a little 1984 me for my taste.
But we also know there is a lotof bullying that goes on in
chats qualifies as cyberbullying.
So to me this sounds likesomething that already exists.
It's just popping out morequickly.
Nathan Mumm (08:37):
So I, so I buy a brand new switch too.
Okay, I don't know, you can'tplay it you can't open it up and
modify it.
I don't own it and anytime I'mchatting with anybody anytime
I'm chatting with somebody, it'srecording that and sending it
to Nintendo and you can'tthreaten people, and I'm okay
with that.
Mike Gorday (08:53):
How?
Nathan Mumm (08:53):
the hell.
Can we be okay with that?
How can these?
Mike Gorday (08:57):
units be selling.
Like I said, I'm not what youwould consider to be a gamer.
I don't sit down and do gamechats where I'm yelling at
people and calling them names.
You don't own anything.
Nathan Mumm (09:07):
You don't own anything anymore.
Maybe story number two willrelax me a bit.
Mike Gorday (09:11):
I'm just very, very frustrated.
I don't think so.
Nathan Mumm (09:13):
Because I don't think you should be paying for
something, and then they get torecord you.
Ugh, never mind.
Let's move on to story numbertwo.
I could be on this for anotherhour and a half, so let's not go
there, okay, all right, youknow that amazon has tried
delivery services with drones Ihave.
Mike Gorday (09:27):
Yes, it didn't work really well it what it didn't
work no, it didn't work reallywell it was a big, so they
disappeared right before thepandemic.
Do you remember when they triedusing those little rover bots?
I do on the streets yep, yeah todeliver like packages and
different stuff yep, they, infact they uh little Yep In fact,
they started testing it rightin the county that we live in,
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yep, and then it went thereseveral places around the
country.
That didn't work out either.
No, so apparently these twofailures have really driven
Amazon to come up with a newidea For robots Okay.
They're trying to buildhumanoid robots to speed up
deliveries for you okay, howdoes that work?
they want human-like autonomousdelivery methods.
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Right, so they.
They want robots that can walkright up to your door and
deliver your packages.
The company is reportedlyfinishing work on a san
francisco-based obstacle park towork on the technology.
It's unclear how soon it willbe developed or used for
real-world deliveries.
Nathan Mumm (10:29):
Is this going to be like an American Ninja obstacle
course you?
Mike Gorday (10:33):
got stuff going on here.
I don't know what it's like.
Okay all right Maybe you shouldask them through your Nintendo
Switch.
Amazon has been touting itswork in robotics for the home
and for warehouse use, but thisis the first time the company
has made an explicit push intousing human-like robotics for
package delivery, which couldreplace human workers.
The robots would use some ofthe same AI technology that the
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company is rolling out acrossother areas of this business.
Humanoid robots can carryheavier loads and work in human
environments and performmonotonous, physically demanding
tasks that fewer and fewerpeople are willing to do.
That makes sense.
A big, large package.
Nathan Mumm (11:10):
I mean our poor FedEx guy.
Mike Gorday (11:12):
This is still problematic.
This is still problematicbecause, you know, elon wants to
do this too.
Elon has this big idea we'recreating, essentially, a slave
labor force.
So the reason why the littletrash cans that we're driving
around didn't work out allegedlyis because of regulations
limiting autonomous things.
Nathan Mumm (11:33):
So I'm not sure how they're going to push past all
this legal stuff they're justgoing to put artificial skin on
it and you just won't know anydifference between this and
every person.
Mike Gorday (11:42):
Let's pull back.
Let's pull back from the it'slike data.
Nathan Mumm (11:45):
This is like data from star trek.
Yeah right, so he's gonna justbe lifting stuff up.
Mike Gorday (11:50):
We have just jumped into oh sorry.
Nathan Mumm (11:53):
Yeah, sci-fi, that's what I thought of.
I think of data.
I just saw an episode on nextgeneration that I'm watching.
He lived all these like 500pound stuff and then no human
could do it, but he saved theworld.
Mike Gorday (12:02):
That's yeah, okay, yeah, there's no point talking
to you about this stuff.
Keep on going, keep on goingthe idea is that, in addition to
what they're doing already, uh,robots can do work that humans
can't right.
Uh, they can work for longerperiods of time.
Nathan Mumm (12:19):
Uh, they can significantly reduce labor costs
that makes sense, because Iguess you don't have any l and I
claims from a robot.
Right, that's true.
Mike Gorday (12:26):
So if your back is not going to have to be, dealing
with people calling in sick orcalling in late, or you know if
they are sufficiently reliable,of course, and versatile and
economically efficient.
The economics are the key Wellthe problem is is that right now
, costs are really high to getthem integrated and maintained
into a workforce and theyrequire AI that's powerful
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enough to ensure they're safearound human beings.
Nathan Mumm (12:50):
I could just see one of these walking and you
just pull up in your truck andyou hijack it and throw it in
the back of your truck.
Mike Gorday (12:55):
Well, that was one of the problems.
I don't know if you could dothat, because I imagine these
weigh 400 pounds.
Nathan Mumm (13:00):
Well then, what if it comes up my stairs to my
house and my my stairs can onlytake 200 pounds.
Mike Gorday (13:05):
Well then, your, your robot's not going to make
it up and I wonder if they'regoing to, you know, sue you for
damages because you have unsafestairwells, okay, so who knows,
who knows, but you know, I feellike.
I feel like this is going tocome out the same way that the
little trash can.
Nathan Mumm (13:23):
Oh you think it's the thumb downs, and then well,
yeah, with the yeah, I mean.
Mike Gorday (13:27):
Some of the problems with the little trash
can thing was that wasn't one ofthem vandalized?
Nathan Mumm (13:32):
they had to have amazon people follow them around
because of those regulationsand they and they didn't go very
fast it's kind of like theamazon stores trundled around
like as fast as somebody couldwalk so you remember the Amazon
stores that you used to be ableto go in and buy your food, and
then you just walk out and thenit charges you yeah Amazon Go.
Yeah, and then, all of a sudden, we found out that it was
really people in India that werewatching cameras that were then
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making the evaluation of whatyou bought on the way out, and
it really wasn't the technologythat was taking care of that.
Yeah, so is this just Amazon?
Mike Gorday (14:01):
trying to say that I don't even know, but that's
what they want to do is makehumanoid robots.
Or they don't want to makehumanoid, they want to use
humanoid robots.
I'm sure Elon wants to stickhis little fingers in that
little pie.
All right, let me ask you thisDo you have a summer reading
list?
Nathan Mumm (14:15):
No, you don't have a summer reading list.
I have a reading list Idon'tTimes summer reading list
that had all of the top 15 booksto read.
Would you be excited about thatinsert?
Sure, all right.
And then it was so good thatyou also ran it in the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
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I mean, that would just soundlike fantastic.
You have it in two inserts forthis great thing.
Mike Gorday (14:40):
I think it's funny that you're talking about
reading books.
Nathan Mumm (14:44):
Well, you don't read books well that's true, I
wait for the movies.
But let me just say this whatif you had an ai generated
summer reading list with faketitles appeared in a print
insert in two major newspapers?
I think that would be a fail.
It's indicate well, it would bea fail.
But I have even a better fail,for the technology fail.
So this moved to a main story.
It's indicative of the largeharms of book publishing and
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journalism.
Too many books and too littletime was the quote on their
advertisement.
It says that we have taken thetime and weeks of reading and
months of preparation toconfidently bring you these 15
titles.
Now that must be too good to betrue, because last week the
Chicago Times and thePhiladelphia Inquirer ran this
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print insert with an AIgenerated summer reading list
from a third party contributor.
Several titles were made up.
You can't find.
The last algorithm by Andy Weirdoesn't even exist.
Or the collector's piece byTaylor Jenkins reads in
bookstores or libraries thissummer because they plainly just
don't exist.
But if you subscribe to thesenewspapers, guess what they're
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going to recommend with alltheir time and effort that they
had?
That you should be readingthese Now.
Ai is more and more being usedas commonplace, but many argue
that you can only train it to docertain stuff, both in books
and in the real world ofjournalism industry.
This kind of AI-generatedcontent threatens and undermines
the creativity that makesreaders in the first place.
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How can you trust createdtitles when they don't even
exist?
Mike Gorday (16:14):
I don't know why you would want to trust an AI.
How would?
Nathan Mumm (16:17):
you release this?
How could you release thisinsert?
Because people are stupid?
Okay, all right.
So those people are stupid, sohave I got this?
Okay, all right.
So those people are stupid, sowhat?
So I got this and tried to.
Okay, so that just tells youlike people complain about the
newspaper companies.
You know it's fake news.
Mike Gorday (16:32):
I mean, clearly, this is fake news, it's funny
that you're doing this story,because we all know how much I
hate AI.
Nathan Mumm (16:37):
Okay Well you do and for these reasons Okay.
Mike Gorday (16:40):
Because it makes up stuff and it writes books that
are really bad and it doesn'thave any sense of.
There is no sense of controland people are legitimately
losing their jobs because ofthis.
Nathan Mumm (16:54):
Well, do you know who needs to lose their job?
The editors at the ChicagoSun-Times and Philadelphia
Inquirer that ran this printpiece.
Mike Gorday (17:00):
Those people, I don't know that they need to
lose their jobs.
I think that they need to stopusing AI to do their job.
They need to go down and be atype editor.
Nathan Mumm (17:09):
Remove being the editor or whatever in charge of
the column, go back down andhave to actually read this
information.
Mike Gorday (17:14):
Maybe you should give them Nintendo Switches so
they can get them bricked.
Nathan Mumm (17:18):
Okay, all right, all right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories.
Mike Gorday (17:22):
Well that was really just a big bitch session,
was it?
Nathan Mumm (17:27):
Well these are the articles that are shaping our
technology landscape.
Mike Gorday (17:32):
Yeah, I'm surprised .
Nathan Mumm (17:33):
All right, that ends our top technology stories
of the week.
Moving on, Gwen will bebringing us a gadget and gear
segment that I can be excitedabout, I hope.
All right, buckle up as wedrive 88 miles per hour into the
next segment.
See you after the commercialbreak.
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Welcome back to Tech Time withNathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, with a little whiskey on
the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is in the
studio.
Mark, welcome back from yourvacation time.
Marc Gregoire (18:50):
Thank you so much .
We're glad to be back.
I do have one comment aboutyour last AI story.
What was that?
I'm wondering why, after theyreleased that, instead of
admitting everything was fake,they should have just put those
titles in ChatGPT and createdbooks from them.
That's what Nathan would havedone.
Nathan Mumm (19:05):
That's exactly you know what I didn't even think
about, that I should have goneon Amazon.
If I would have only known aweek ahead of time, I would be a
billionaire right now.
You would have the best-sellingbooks, that's right.
Ten of them.
That's right, ten of the 15.
All right, well what?
Marc Gregoire (19:19):
do.
We are back doing our monthly2024 Flavor Advent Calendar.
This is round six and this isthe last of the whiskeys that we
need to go through.
Uh-oh, and then we start goingto the semifinals.
Just for those new listenersout there, we're using the 2024
Flavor Whiskey Advent Calendar24 remarkable whiskeys to use
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for our year-long blind whiskeycompetition to see which one
Nathan and Mike like best.
Come along for the ride once amonth while they uncover new
tastes and train their senses tobecome true connoisseurs.
Today is round six, where theywill choose their winner to move
on to the semifinals and I'mhoping you guys disagree.
No collusion, because I want tobe the deciding vote today.
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Wow, wow, wow, wow.
I have some strong opinions Now.
Today we are putting two iconicAmerican spirits to the test.
It's bourbon versus Americansingle malt whiskey In this
head-to-head taste-off to seewhich style wins the day.
While both are proudly American, the difference are in the
details.
Bourbon must be made from atleast 50% corn and age a new
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charred oak containers giving ita sweeter, fuller, fuller body
profile.
American single malt, bycontrast, is made from 100
malted barley distilled at asingle distillery and offers
more nuanced roasted and grainforward notes.
So let's stay tuned to seewhich one advances from this
round.
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Okay.
Mike Gorday (20:47):
I haven't tasted any of that.
Yeah, Nathan should probably dothe tasting before we talk
about it.
Nathan Mumm (20:51):
Why is that?
Mike Gorday (20:52):
Why is that?
Marc Gregoire (20:53):
Well, while he tastes those, let's remind our
viewers, Mike, to like andsubscribe.
Put comments down there.
Tell us what you think good orbad.
We love to hear from ourviewers.
Hey, all right, and Nathan,please drink responsibly.
Heaven can wait.
Nathan Mumm (21:09):
Thank you very much .
Well, with our first whiskeytasting completed, now it's time
to move on to our featuresegment.
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 the producer
of Tech Time Radio and ourGadgets and Gear gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What's new in our gadgets and gear.
Nathan Mumm (21:32):
All right, welcome back to the show.
Gwen, tell a little bit aboutyourself for any of our new
listeners today.
Gwen Way (21:38):
Hello, hello everybody.
I am Gwen and I have about 25years worth of technology
experience.
Nathan Mumm (21:52):
More importantly, though, I have a lifetime of
gadget love.
You know what.
You have saved me money, butnot really I'd say that you save
me money, but the last three orfour gadgets I kept on buying,
and I bought two of the hackingdevice about two.
I'm just doubling down nowbefore I do one and now since I
do that, that's all right.
Mike Gorday (22:07):
That's why that offended him so much.
Marc Gregoire (22:11):
I heard about the gadget.
I'm actually going to stay onfor this segment.
I heard about the gadget andI'm very curious and skeptical.
Oh, skeptic.
Nathan Mumm (22:20):
All right, so now, before we start that, one of the
stories did not make it on tothe main type of deal, and it's
the US offers $10 million fortips on state hackers tied to
redline malware.
Since you work in this industryand we kind of talked about
this with Coinbase what is yourtake on having, like, the State
Department announcing a rewardfor $10 million regarding
(22:41):
cybercrime?
Gwen Way (22:43):
Well, it's an interesting thing to do.
We've seen it work successfullyat this point in business
circles, so it's not surprisingthat the government is giving it
a try.
I think it's actually a betterway to go about things, simply
because we're not rewarding thehackers by paying them the
ransom okay, okay, I, I that was.
Nathan Mumm (23:05):
I think that was kind of mike's idea too yeah,
yeah it, yeah.
Mike Gorday (23:08):
It's the same as 80s self-defense for women.
You know it used to be likejust let them do what they need
to do, and it worked badly.
So now we teach people to fightback.
So I think this is you likethis idea.
Nathan Mumm (23:24):
This is a good idea .
It's working.
Mike Gorday (23:26):
It doesn't come without its problems, but I
think this is a better idea thanjust saying, oh well, we got
hacked, let's pay them off so wecan get our stuff back.
I agree.
Gwen Way (23:35):
Exactly At this point , we're almost pitting the
hackers against each other's.
Nathan Mumm (23:39):
That's what we're doing Absolutely Now, Gwen.
You know it's summertime andnothing's better than making a
little sizzle, Of course, in thebarbecue area.
Gwen Way (23:50):
What do you have to share with us?
Today I have what I think isone of the best gifts for
Father's Day.
Obviously, it won't beavailable by this year's
Father's Day, but next year itshould be around.
Today's gadget is an AI-poweredsmart thermometer for cooking.
Nathan Mumm (24:12):
Okay, so it's an AI smart thermometer for cooking.
Now I like to grill.
I got a big green egg.
I got blackstone.
Mike Gorday (24:20):
You got a freaking kitchen out on your back porch.
Nathan Mumm (24:23):
I do, and so I love grilling and I have these
wireless devices that areBluetooth that I put in there
and it kind of keeps thetemperature of what needs to be
going and and.
But you know, I, I I don't usethem very often.
I use them for Thanksgiving andI don't use them very often
because I like being out thereflipping it over, taking a look
at what's going on.
(24:43):
Now, I make mistakes, clearly.
I sometimes overcook something.
Sometimes the hamburgers got alittle bit of runny stuff in
there.
I didn't cook it all the way,so I probably need this more
than most people.
But tell me, what is the AIgoing to do differently than
other devices that are out thereon the market?
Gwen Way (25:01):
Well, it does a couple of different things
differently.
The first thing that it does isit does have an application you
can have on your phone ortablet, where it will not only
help you figure out the best wayto cook a dish, but you can
actually type in what you haveand it will give you recipes.
Nathan Mumm (25:22):
So if I have a steak, it'll give me a recipe on
how to cook a steak.
If I have some chicken, it'llgive me a recipe.
Mike Gorday (25:26):
I don't want to be the buzzkill here, but I can do
that with my phone.
Gwen Way (25:30):
Absolutely, you can do that with your phone.
But in this case not only doyou get the recipe with your
phone on the application, butyou press a button and the
thermometer automatically is setto look for the right
temperature based on the cookingmethod for the food.
Mike Gorday (25:50):
You know, that's cool.
All I have to do is wait forall this stuff to go, and then I
can have Amazon send over arobot and I can give them the
meter and then they can cook myburger for me Exactly.
That's my whole goal.
Nathan Mumm (25:59):
That's your whole goal.
Okay, so explain a little bitmore about this device.
Tell us how many units arewhere they're coming from.
Gwen Way (26:20):
Tell us a little bit about this backer and give us
the sales pitch here, sure?
Mike Gorday (26:26):
thanks, so this is on kickstarter.
Gwen Way (26:27):
You can find it by searching chef lab c-h-e-f-l-a-b
.
Nathan Mumm (26:28):
It's interesting because it can be used for any
cooking method oven, grill,smoker, etc.
Microwave, etc.
Microwave, I wouldn'tnecessarily.
I don't know about microwave.
No, except for Mike's cookingway I'm single Using the hacking
tools for hacking.
Gwen Way (26:37):
We don't condone microwaving these.
But it does have three sensorareas, so it's going to sense
the air outside the food andthen two different places within
the food to help determine theeven cooking.
It can be used either from thephone application or from the
(26:58):
base, which is magnetic, so youcan actually set it and connect
it to your grill or smoker oroven, whatever.
Nathan Mumm (27:09):
Okay, how many backers does it have?
How much is it?
Let's get into some of thosedetails all the good details.
Gwen Way (27:14):
So this is out of denver, colorado.
Uh, it's sitting at 640 backersat this point, fully funded,
but if people are quick you canstill get early bird special for
69 each okay, so early birdspecial is still available for
$69.
Nathan Mumm (27:31):
That's pretty exciting about that.
Mike Gorday (27:33):
Yeah, you sound totally excited.
Nathan Mumm (27:35):
Mr Gregoire's got some questions here.
Marc Gregoire (27:36):
I don't know if I have any questions.
I can't understand anybodybacking this.
Mike Gorday (27:40):
You can't understand anybody Well only 640
people did so that tells yousomething.
We're talking about a countrythat just loves to barbecue.
Nathan Mumm (27:49):
I don't know if Colorado is where I consider the
barbecue capital of the worldto create this device but they
are probably intelligent enoughto figure out how to do this.
Mike Gorday (27:58):
They have American males that have their eggs out
in the back.
Marc Gregoire (28:02):
I'll go through it quickly, gwen, because I
haven't seen any advantages thatyou've given me for this over
the current ones out there.
Okay, so the AI, where it tellsyou what temperature to do it.
Well, every recipe has atemperature in it anyway, so AI
is just pulling from that.
Most recipes have the wrong one, according to new food science
anyway, so you need to adjust it.
So AI is going to cook itincorrectly.
(28:23):
And then the three sensors mostof the new sensors all have
that.
They have the one on the tip.
They sensors most of the newsensors all have that.
They have the one on the tip,they have one at the top and
they have the one that sticksoutside for the outside
temperature.
My meter has all that.
Nathan Mumm (28:34):
How much did your meter cost?
Was it $69?
Marc Gregoire (28:36):
It was $69 off their website right now.
I checked it just before comingon the show.
Wow.
Mike Gorday (28:41):
And that's one of the top technology ones.
That's why you have to have amicrowave, and then theirs also
has other options.
Marc Gregoire (28:46):
If you upgrade you can actually get two, three,
four.
So if you're doing four steaks,you can buy four in one kit.
Nathan Mumm (28:52):
That all goes right back to the end.
Hang on, let's go, let's comeback to it.
You can't buy multiple packs.
You can't buy multiple packs.
Marc Gregoire (28:58):
Do they all connect?
Nathan Mumm (28:59):
together.
I don't know if they allconnect together, but you do get
two sensors, so you could havetwo sensors in one and two
sensors in another for a familyand they could have like two
magnetic uh strips to hang on tothis.
I, I do.
Mike Gorday (29:14):
We know what ai is pulling from, quinn that I'm not
entirely sure I so that so thatis, that was my biggest pulling
from the chicago.
Nathan Mumm (29:23):
Sometimes I mean if it's pulling from grok, I
already be like can I get asteak?
It's gonna cook it at like 900degrees, because that's what
elon musk thinks is normal someuh stuff you don't want on the
top, like mucus or something andthen, and then, if you're
pulling from gemini, you'regonna have to repeat it at least
three times before itunderstands what you're saying.
And then, if it's open, and ifit's a deep seek it's not even
(29:45):
running anymore, that wholething with deep seekek is all
gone, Okay, so I mean.
I guess my biggest concern wouldbe what?
Ai?
This is the first device Ithink I would really care about
where they're pulling the AIfrom.
Marc Gregoire (29:58):
It's probably a cheap thermometer that they say
they wrap AI around and try tomake some money on.
You think so.
Gwen Way (30:03):
Which is entirely possible.
Nathan Mumm (30:06):
Okay, so Mark is not investing into this.
I feel like this might not havebeen the best choice.
Mike Gorday (30:08):
Okay, so Mark is not invested into this.
I feel like this might not havebeen the best choice.
Marc Gregoire (30:10):
Bah, humbug.
It's a say Mark from a mentorof mine.
Mike Gorday (30:13):
That's what happens when you don't come to a
production meeting.
Nathan Mumm (30:17):
Well, there was some other things.
Mike Gorday (30:19):
Well, the other ones we reviewed were really
weird too.
These are fun to discuss.
No, it's fine.
Marc Gregoire (30:24):
This is the first time I've stayed on really for
a whole segment in a while Well,okay time I stayed on really
for a whole segment in a while.
Gwen Way (30:33):
Well, okay, so it has this, has this company done a
kickstarter before.
Mike Gorday (30:37):
This is their first kickstarter, uh-huh, so as
always, you kind of want to takeit with a grain of salt, or,
however, for the people who areinvite are interested.
Gwen Way (30:43):
yes, go to kickstartercom search for chef
lab and do it before jth.
Nathan Mumm (30:49):
Okay, so let me ask you the question Did you invest
in it?
Yes, next question Are youlooking to get a unit?
Gwen Way (30:56):
I am not at this time .
I have wireless meatthermometers that we use already
.
Marc Gregoire (31:01):
They do a great job already, right?
Yes See, oh, look at that.
I want to hear from ourlisteners If we're wrong, if
we're too skeptical.
Let I want to hear from ourlisteners If we're wrong, if
we're too skeptical let us knowFight back.
Nathan Mumm (31:11):
Yeah, put it in the chat comment there.
Just like whenever I do mathwrong, I get pinged about that
all the time.
Marc Gregoire (31:17):
So definitely make sure.
Or you reference a Star Trekepisode from a season that
doesn't even exist.
Nathan Mumm (31:22):
When I say Star Trek, I always mean Next
Generation.
So, I always go the originalseries.
Mike Gorday (31:28):
All right, gwen, so this is a great gadget.
How are you going to say youalways reference Next Generation
and then go all original series?
How is that?
Nathan Mumm (31:36):
So when I normally say I reference Star Trek, then
it's normally Next Generation,because that's what I grew up in
.
And then when I say if it's theoriginal series I normally do
the original series or Voyager,I say the series that I do, I
just consider that's right.
Alright.
Well, this is a great gadget,though I appreciate you having
an AI gadget on.
(31:56):
I don't know if I would investin this.
I'm not probably, but you knowfor people that if somebody does
and this is like the trendstarter I will just tell you I
have missed the boat on a couplethings.
Redbox came on out, had achance to invest in them for
like 10k you can go pick up oneof the boxes now they're trying
to give them away.
I was going to say it went upand it was climbing high and my
(32:19):
wife said it would never takeoff.
And it took off, but then Iprobably would have hung on too
long, and now they don't existand you can find them at your
local Blockbuster.
Alright, well, gwen, thank youso much for talking about our
gadgets.
We appreciate you so much forjoining our show.
I can't wait to see what we getnext month.
Thank you, thanks, gwen, had agood time.
All right, we want to thankGwen for being a part of the
(32:40):
show.
She does a great job of findingthe most unique items each
month for our show, and then wego through them on the pre-show
and kind of pick out which onewe want to talk about, and this
is our winner for this month.
All right, now, though, let'smove on to mike's mesmerizing
moment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
(33:02):
All right, here's my questionfor you robot man, yeah, I can't
wait.
Would you rather have r2d2,c-3po as your robot at home?
Why are you asking thisquestion?
So I'm asking this questionbecause, for the psychology of
you explaining and breaking downboth R2-D2 or C-3PO, if you
were going to have a robot, wetalked about.
(33:22):
Amazon having a robot.
We talked about tons of robots.
We talked about differentrobots.
I was going to say maybe Rosiefrom the Jetsons at home if you
wanted that, or Tweak.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Tweaky, tweaky from Buck Rogers.
Nathan Mumm (33:34):
Yes, but we went with R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Okay, at your home, which robotwould you rather have?
Mike Gorday (33:40):
All right, I would definitely go R2-D2.
Why is that, though?
Because C-3PO is a whiny bitch.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Okay, I wanted to interject.
Would you go with Chopper orRTD2?
Mike Gorday (33:56):
That's a good one too, because.
Chopper is more sassy, but RTD2is also sassy.
I mean, I don't know if youknow this, but a lot of times
when he's talking in his beepsand whistles, he's actually
cussing stuff out.
So to me that's awesome.
Nathan Mumm (34:11):
So you like that?
Yeah, okay, thank you, mike forthat mesmerizing moment.
Next we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side.
There wasn't really anypsychology in that.
Marc Gregoire (34:21):
Well, you know what Sometimes people just like
to understand you.
Mike Gorday, who would go with?
I think most people do CP3Obecause of what it brings.
Cp3o.
Thank you Most people don't gofor the cussing little robot
that's our psychology of Mike?
Mike Gorday (34:35):
Yeah, but if you watch the movies, if you watch
the Star Wars stuff you would do.
Nathan Mumm (34:40):
Rosie From the Jetsons R2-D2 is the smarter of
the two?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Isn't she sassy as well?
Nathan Mumm (34:44):
She's very sassy, but she cleans up the house very
sassy, but she cleans up thehouse and then she yells at
George all the time.
So I'd take Rosie.
Rosie would be my winner.
But you have robots at home.
You have a little Aruba.
Mike Gorday (34:55):
I have an Aruba, he basically wants a fancy Aruba.
That's what R2-D2 is A morefancy Aruba.
He also can store a lightsabertoo.
Nathan Mumm (35:04):
And fly a jet or whatever.
Mike Gorday (35:11):
I'm just going to have him fly around my apartment
.
Pick up your Amazon packages.
Pick up my Amazon packages fromthe C-3PO, that freaking
delivers it.
Nathan Mumm (35:16):
Okay, there you go.
All right, mike, thank you forthat mesmerizing moment.
We're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we will haveour this Week in Technology.
See you after this, hey, mike.
Mike Gorday (35:25):
Yo, what's up hey.
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Or is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, Patreon.
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You know you butcher the English language all
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And now let's look back at thisweek in technology.
Nathan Mumm (36:37):
All right, we're going back to June 11th 1978
with the introduction of thespeak and spell.
You remember the speak andspell, Mike Yep.
I remember the speak and spelland it would say the word you
would have all these littlenoises it made.
Spell mike, yep.
I remember the speaking spelland I would say the word you
would play.
You could have all these littlenoises it made.
Mike Gorday (36:54):
I I didn't have a sound effect yeah, maybe you
should have ran with the soundeffects, because your sound
effects are as bad as your youraccents.
Nathan Mumm (37:03):
All right, texas instruments introduces the speak
and spell, a talkingeducational toy for children.
The device features the firstelectronic duplication of the
human voice on a single chip ofsilicon.
It transformed digitalinformation process through a
filter into synthetic speech andcould store more than 100
seconds of sound.
(37:24):
Now the speak and spell wascreated by a small team of
engineers led by pauledlove,himself as an engineer with
Texas Instrument TI, during thelate 1970s.
Between his release in 1983,the Speak and Spell was
redesigned twice under the nameSpeak and Spell, with a later
expansion including cartridgesof different languages that
could be plugged into the device.
(37:45):
Now that was this week intechnology.
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We're going to take acommercial break when we return.
We have our Mark Mumble WhiskeyReview and we have a technology
fail that's going to make youcry.
(38:06):
All right, see you after this.
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Speaker 1 (39:12):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Gregoire (39:22):
I'm giving Odie a break.
Everybody's going to be veryupset about this.
Oh, what do we have here for us?
I'm excited.
June 10th.
Nathan Mumm (39:29):
Let's talk about June 10th today.
What is June 10th?
Oh, I like today.
Marc Gregoire (39:33):
I like today.
Nathan Mumm (39:34):
Is today a national whiskey day?
Marc Gregoire (39:36):
No, no but kind of close.
In that realm.
Okay.
A national alcohol day?
It's a national black cow day.
Oh how?
Nathan Mumm (39:45):
is black cow anywhere.
Okay, black cow anywhere, Okay.
Marc Gregoire (39:47):
Black Cow Day.
Now let me tell you Okay,you're going to get excited in a
minute, all right.
Many people also know the blackcow as the humble root beer
float.
Mike Gorday (39:56):
Oh, Well, they just call it root beer float day.
Marc Gregoire (39:58):
I like that.
Well, let me tell you aboutthat, Mike.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Frank you know you are walking into all of these.
Mike Gorday (40:05):
I'm just I'm looking at Mark's profile and
I'm thinking he looks likeRichard Nixon.
So I'm just really distractedright now oh boy, that's good.
Marc Gregoire (40:17):
Richard Nixon was considered a.
Let's get back to the black cow.
Okay, frank J Wisner, hailingfrom Cripple Creek, colorado,
invented the black cow.
Nathan Mumm (40:25):
Colorado's the same place.
We just had that Kickstarter.
Colorado is the same place.
Marc Gregoire (40:27):
We just had that Kickstarter.
Yeah, While staring out of hiswindow, he saw the full moon
shining on the snow-capped CowMountain, which made him think
of a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
That encouraged him to add aspoonful of vanilla ice cream to
the children's soda MyersAvenue Red Root Beer.
When he took his first sip ofthe drink, he knew he was onto
something great.
He named his creation Black CowMountain, which was later
(40:50):
shortened to Black Cow by LokenChildren, and then the rest of
the world just calls it a rootbeer float.
Hmm.
Nathan Mumm (40:57):
So in Colorado they still have like a black cow
event type of like a festival ora fair or something like that I
would think they do Okay, Idon't know so why,
Speaker 5 (41:06):
didn't you bring any ice cream for us today, Mark?
Mike Gorday (41:09):
Yeah, Mark.
Marc Gregoire (41:09):
Yeah, what's that about?
I figured we had enoughwhiskeys today, I mean.
Nathan Mumm (41:13):
I have to say, because you know what Odie.
Marc Gregoire (41:16):
That brings a good point Now.
While many out there areenjoying the root beer float on
this beautiful day, we aresipping on four whiskeys here in
the studio.
Okay.
Now here they are.
Yes, these are the fourwhiskeys.
We have Stranahan's Blue PeakSingle Malt in one of the
glasses.
That's from Proximo Spiritsfrom Colorado.
(41:37):
Also it's American single maltbelieved to be four years 86
proof, 100% malted barley, andthat bottle is about $45 on the
market.
Nathan Mumm (41:47):
You know what I'm starting to realize when they
kind of put the estimated years.
I don't like very manyestimated year whiskeys.
Now I went back and startedlooking at them, the estimated
years.
When they say it's seven year,10 year, they have the date
stamp and then it's a little bitstronger.
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (42:03):
All right.
And then in another glass wehave Fray Ranch Farm Strength
Uncut Bourbon from Fray RanchDistillery in California.
That is a straight bourbon.
It's believed to be 4 years old, 123.88 proof.
Wow, that's our highest onetoday.
And it is a blend of fourgrains it's 66.6 dent corn, 10
(42:26):
winter wheat, 11.4 winter rye,12 two row malted barley.
They are very farm to glasstype of distillery, okay, and
that is 85, that's our mostexpensive one today.
Then we also have WhistlepigPiggyback Bourbon.
Nathan Mumm (42:42):
Not a chance, I hate.
Marc Gregoire (42:43):
Whistlepig stuff.
Those are usually ryes.
This is their bourbon offering,which we haven't tried yet.
It's from Vermont, it's sixyears old, stated, it's 100
proof, mash bill's, undisclosed,and it is $57.
And then the last one we aresipping on today is a local from
Seattle.
It is Westland Distillery'sflagship single malt.
(43:06):
It is three years old, 92 proof, 100% malted barley and that is
$62.
Whoa, that went down the wronghole for Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (43:16):
I tried that one twice and it's okay, All right,
and we did have our localwhiskey last week.
Mike Gorday (43:24):
That was actually really good.
Nathan Mumm (43:25):
Regroup, that was really good.
Oh boy, that was bad.
Okay, I think I know myselection.
Mike Gorday (43:29):
You guys got them in order.
I almost do.
I have an order so far.
I'm still this one's tough.
Marc Gregoire (43:35):
Do you want me to reveal now or on the thumbs up?
No, do the thumbs up.
No, do the thumbs up, we'll doit.
Nathan Mumm (43:39):
All right, you know Whiskey and Technology are a
great pairing, just like Speakand Spell.
Do you realize that it had apairing also?
It had two siblings the Speakand Read and the Speak and Math
were all a part of the family ofSpeak and Spell.
Marc Gregoire (43:52):
Oh, you never had one of those, did you?
Nathan Mumm (44:02):
No, I had all three .
I had all three, maybe thereading, and I had the wizard.
He took them apart and got thembricked and I had the little
wizard, the little owl wizardfor additional.
Marc Gregoire (44:08):
Let's say you had them, but did you ever take
them out of the box?
Nathan Mumm (44:10):
Yes, I took them out of the box.
Yes, I used them.
I love the speak and spell.
The speak and spell wasfantastic.
I would try to mimic the wordsthat they would pronounce.
The weirds, the words that theywould pronounce.
Mike Gorday (44:21):
I was a young kid, I would mimic the weirds too.
Nathan Mumm (44:23):
No, I was a young kid and I was growing up
overseas in Africa, and they hadthe French module that actually
helped me learn to speak French.
Can you speak French?
Je ne comprends pas.
Oui, monsieur.
Marc Gregoire (44:36):
Oh, that's what I've been.
Nathan Mumm (44:38):
Okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (44:40):
There you go.
Now I'm done with my doscervezos.
Oh no, that's the other one.
Nathan Mumm (44:46):
All right okay, Now you know what.
After that, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 6 (44:55):
Oh, I failed.
Did I, yes, did I.
Nathan Mumm (44:59):
Yes, all right, our technology fail comes to us
from GameStop.
Has anybody heard of GameStop?
We're going to be talking aboutthe Nintendo Switch 2.
Now GameStop had people liningup for early hours to get in and
to get that Switch 2.
Lining outside people werereported to come all the way
(45:19):
three to four days before theactual release of the switch to
wait in line and to stake theirclaim to open the store and get
their switch itself if they didnot pre-order.
Now let's just say that youbought from gamestop.
Some people reportedly havebeen unwelcomed with the
surprise after picking up theirnintendo switch pre-orders at
gamestop.
Staples used to attach thereceipts to switch to boxes
ended up damaging the screens onthe console.
(45:42):
So think of having the packagehere, you have your receipt.
There they go, and they get aregular stapler and go chink,
chink, chink to put the stapleson top so you can pick it up.
Well, guess what happened?
Those little etched stapleswent on in and pierced the
screens, damaging them.
So all the people on these gamestop stores that were going to
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take care of it open the box tofind pieces and parts already
floating around in their brandnew switch.
Two boxes now, the tablet'sproximity to the top of the box
explains how the staples couldget through the poked holes in
the screen, especially if theperson uses a stapler and gives
it a solid push down.
I don't know anybody that woulduses a stapler and gives it a
solid push down.
I don't know anybody that woulduse a stapler and not push down
on the stapler.
So when I was reading thisreport, I was like yeah, that's
(46:27):
probably everybody.
Now a GameStop spokespersonsaid that it was investigating
the matter and promised to makethe customers whole.
Now the problem with this is,if you got a Switch 2, the next
release of Switch 2s that willcome on out isn't for another
three to four months of the nextbatch that will come on out for
production.
So if you have a brand newSwitch 2, you have a chip screen
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and you want to get it replaced, what do you end up doing?
You end up then packaging backyour Switch 2 that you just got
waiting in lines for and put itin a box so you can then get a
pristine.
Mike Gorday (46:59):
Switch.
Nathan Mumm (47:00):
Bad omens, bad omens To be taken care of Now,
gamestop says that it addressedthe unique case of staples
damaging to the Switch 2 screens.
Replacements have been orderedand staplers have been quote
unquote compensated.
Mike Gorday (47:15):
Confiscated Compensated.
Nathan Mumm (47:17):
Confiscated.
Mike Gorday (47:18):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (47:18):
Confiscated.
Now we're going to head out forour last commercial break.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget and, of course,
our pick of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
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Speaker 1 (47:49):
This is your Nugget of the Week.
Nathan Mumm (47:53):
All right, let's get into our nugget.
Can ChatGPT take over yourGoogle Drive and Dropbox?
Yes, it can.
Chatgpt will take over yourGoogle Drive and Dropbox.
Yes, it can.
Chatgpt users can now use therecord mode to take notes on
meetings, brainstorming sessionsand thinking out loud.
Chatgpt can now connect toGoogle Drive, dropbox Box,
sharepoint and OneDrive andusers can query it for answers
(48:17):
about the stored spreadsheetsand documents alike.
So let's say, for your companyyou decide to say tell me what
the company's revenue in Q1 lastyear was.
Chatgpt will then go throughand sort all the data on your
repositories and it'll come onback out with information that
it has.
You can also ask it how manytimes did I take the ferry on my
(48:37):
Italy trip from last year?
Now ChatGPT will structure andclearly present the data and
respect your organization'sexisting permissions on the user
level from these documents withcitations.
The recording feature iscurrently only available for
ChatGPT team users, asubscription plan that sets you
back about $25 per person permonth for their annual
subscription of two plus users.
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The notes and transcriptsinclude timestamp citations and
action items Now open.
Ai now has 3 million payingbusiness users up to from the 2
million in February.
So we went from 2 millionpeople in February to 3 million
people Now.
It doesn't say and I looked,and I looked and I looked is
this information stays withinthe organization or if it gets
put into the large languagemodel of chat GPT three.
(49:19):
So I looked and I looked isthis information stays within
the organization or if it getsput into the large language
model of ChatGPT3?
So I looked and I looked.
I couldn't find it either way.
So, my assumption is that, aseverything with ChatGPT, it
probably goes to an open AIlarge language model.
So anything that you have ofyour company in that area
probably is being sourced, but Ihaven't confirmed either way
(49:42):
and I haven't queried and lookedto see what the information is.
When we find that out, I willlet you know.
Now let's move on to our pickof the day whiskey tasting and
now our pick of the day for ourwhiskey tastings.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Let's see what bubbles to the top.
Marc Gregoire (50:00):
All right, all right, we're in round six, which
is the final round of the AVENcalendar overall of tasting all
the whiskeys, uh-oh, all right.
So I'm going to go in thecorrect order for our listeners
so they know what they shouldhave picked what we should have
picked what they should orshould not have picked.
And then you can tell me whatnumber it fell in yours.
(50:21):
So the worst by far, not evenclose from my palate, was in the
rocks glass.
That was the Stranahan's BluePeak Single Malt.
Mike Gorday (50:33):
That one.
Marc Gregoire (50:33):
No.
Nathan Mumm (50:34):
The rocks glass.
This one right here.
Marc Gregoire (50:35):
That one right there, your number one.
This is the worst.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
Undrinkable it's, for me it's.
It's weak what it's it's, buthow?
Mike Gorday (50:45):
much it's got.
It's got a nice taste, but it'sweak.
It is 86 proof.
Marc Gregoire (50:50):
Okay, now I will say I'm not a single malt person
, but in general that one Icouldn't.
Mike Gorday (50:54):
I couldn't even say I like single malts okay, I
liked it, but it wasn'tultimately, wasn't all right.
All right, what's the next oneup?
Marc Gregoire (51:00):
Mark the next one was I did not care for it, but
if you poured me one and Iwanted to be polite, I could get
it down.
The whistle pick, I'm sure.
Oh, no, you know, what I was.
So the first yeah, 19 was thefirst.
No, wait a minute.
Nathan Mumm (51:22):
Uh-oh, the worst, that's the water glass.
Speaker 5 (51:23):
Oh, that's the water glass, so that's this one.
That's this one right here.
That was mike's last one.
Okay, that's the second to last.
Marc Gregoire (51:25):
That makes more sense.
Sorry, gentlemen, jeez okay I'mjust getting back into this
thing, I think wow, mia on theone that was single malt, that
you know because I'm not asingle malt the one that was so.
So that was the rocks glass,the strand hand one.
So the one I did not, uh, yeah,so the strand hand blue malt
was okay.
Okay, general week, like mikesaid, the one I did not care for
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at all was in the water glass.
That was the westlanddistillery flagship single malt
rc.
Mike Gorday (51:52):
I got it okay, I got it yeah now, the other two
were pretty close.
Marc Gregoire (51:58):
They're both bourbons winners, of course,
over the single malts, but theone that I would put in second
place was the one in theGlencairn.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Okay, so that was your last, so you stand true.
Marc Gregoire (52:11):
That is Whistle Pig piggyback bourbon.
I put it last.
Nathan Mumm (52:15):
I thought it was fine.
I could smell the Whistle Pigin it.
It was single note.
Marc Gregoire (52:19):
It tastes like caramel and that's it.
Nathan Mumm (52:21):
Yeah, whoever Whistlepig uses to do their
filtration system should be shot.
Marc Gregoire (52:26):
And Mike, that was your number one.
Mike Gorday (52:27):
Yeah, that turned out to be the number one one.
Nathan Mumm (52:29):
You're a Whistlepig fan.
Marc Gregoire (52:31):
It had a really so if you're just getting into
bourbons or whiskey, go with theWhistlepig one.
That one was fine with thewhistle pig one.
That one was fine.
Caramel, nothing complex if youwant.
If you're more of a connoisseur, want something more complex,
something with a little bit morespice on it.
That one in the beer glass wasfray ranch farm strength uncut
(52:53):
bourbon at 123.88 proof that hada lot going on with it yeah, I
had a lot of trouble.
Mike Gorday (53:00):
How was your number two?
Marc Gregoire (53:02):
My number two was this.
So your number one was my lastand your number two was my first
.
Yes, Very interesting.
Nathan Mumm (53:10):
So we didn't choose the same one.
No, that's not your last,that's his.
This is my last.
This is my last right here.
This is the whistle.
No, that's his last, his lastis that one.
Isn't this Whistlepig?
I got the right one for my lastyeah okay, that's what he did,
all right, so we did not.
Okay, so let's wrap up.
Marc Gregoire (53:29):
The longest session ever.
Maybe we should have revealedthis differently.
Mike Gorday (53:31):
That's the Blue Moon, this is the Blue Moon, or
whatever it is.
Marc Gregoire (53:34):
Okay, so Nathan's number one was in the Rocks
class, that was Stranahan's BluePeak single malt, okay, and
Mike's number one was in theGlencairn Whistlepig piggyback
bourbon, which was, of course,nathan's last.
Yes, unfortunately, betweenthose two, the Whistlepig has to
move forward.
Nathan Mumm (53:50):
What You're putting the Whistlepig into the
playoffs.
Marc Gregoire (53:53):
Yes, oh, my word, it should have been you guys
both messed up.
You guys still aren'tconnoisseurs.
It should have been the frayranch that reminds me of the LA.
Lakers in the NBA playoffs Alot of hope, a lot of dreams,
not a lot of talent.
Yes, it should have been thisone.
Mike's number three, nathan'snumber two.
Nathan Mumm (54:08):
Okay, all right, all right.
Well, you know what?
Speaker 4 (54:18):
That was the longest segment we've ever done.
Nathan Mumm (54:19):
Sorry listeners, that's right.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (54:21):
Okay, now you know what.
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Welcome everyone.
Let's start today's show.
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Now on today's show .
All right, welcome to Tech TimeRadio, where the digital
frontier collides with two guysdrinking whiskey.
Today's episode is packed withstories that challenge your
everyday technology world.
Now Gwynn Way returns forgadgets and gear, showcasing
innovations that can reshape theworld or reveal something that
is able to be used with the helpof AI.
Now Gwynway returns for gadgetsand gear, showcasing
innovations that can reshape theworld or reveal something that
is able to be used with the helpof AI.
Now, in addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week and
(01:54):
impossible Nathan nugget and, ofcourse, our pick of the day,
whiskey tasting, to see if ourselected whiskey picks get a
zero, one or two thumbs up bythe end of the show.
Now we have our four whiskeysto test, so we'll have Mark Mark
here to show us all the stuffthat we have available to drink.
We then pick one of these thatwe've got to make sure that we
pick one of these whiskeys,otherwise he says he gets to
choose them.
So let's make sure, mike, meand you are on the same page so
(02:15):
we don't get stuck withsomething that the Mark likes
and we don't like.
Top technology stories of theweek.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (02:26):
All right, story number one.
Nintendo Switch 2 releasehappened last week and, oh boy,
do we have some stories to sharetoday.
One of them is on our fail, butlet's lead off with an update
from Lisa Walker.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Nintendo has officially launched the Nintendo
Switch 2, the long-awaitedsuccessor to its best-selling
gaming console.
Featuring a larger display, 4kdocking capabilities and
advanced magnetic Joy-Con 2controllers, the Switch 2
promises a next-level gamingexperience for players of all
ages.
Nintendo has incorporatedbackward compatibility, ensuring
(03:00):
continued access to belovedtitles from the original Switch.
The built-in camera andinteractive chat features
introduce fresh ways for playersto connect, while the expanded
256GB storage supports evenlarger digital libraries.
The Switch 2 launched alongsideblockbuster titles such as
Mario Kart World and the Legendof Zelda.
Tears of the Kingdom Now backto the studio.
Mike Gorday (03:25):
Okay, how does that have anything to do with the
problem?
Nathan Mumm (03:27):
Oh well, so that's just kind of an update of what
we got going on for the Switch 2.
This is a recap, right, andwe're going to start off here
with a major story.
We got two things to talk aboutNow.
Buried in the legalese is aclause that says if you try to
bypass system protection, modifysoftware or mess with the
console in any way that's notapproved by nintendo, they can
take action.
In other words, when you buy aswitch 2, you do not own the
(03:49):
device so what?
Mike Gorday (03:51):
what you're saying is that if you try to modify the
console so you can say cheat,nintendo can brick your well,
not necessarily just that, butthat is one of the things that
are available there.
Nathan Mumm (04:02):
So I have a steam deck right.
That's my last big consolepurchase I've gotten.
I can do whatever I want on thesteam deck.
I can load whatever os I wantto do on that.
I can do whatever needs to betaken care of, not a problem.
But if you get a new nintendo,switch to the exact word he
makes it clear as it saysnintendo may render the nintendo
account, services and or theapplicable nintendo device
(04:23):
permanently unusable, in wholeor in part, if they deem
necessary.
So they can brick your console.
They can brick your console.
So if I wanted to load, like,some mods on it to play some old
games, which I've done on manyof the nintendo devices now,
this oh, I see, I see whereyou're coming at it from, for
modifying or anything that needsto be taken care of.
I open and I crack that case.
(04:45):
Guess what?
I don't own it anymore and theycan shut it down.
If I even wanted to replace anyof the screen hardware, do any
additional speaker replacementsanything that they deem not
acceptable?
They can brick my device andguess what?
There's no legal recourse forme okay, well I.
Mike Gorday (04:59):
I'm thinking that that's mostly because of the
rampant cheating that people dowith these things.
Okay, well I get that.
Nathan Mumm (05:05):
But if you're purchasing a unit to own as a
video game unit that sits inyour house, it should be A
private and B it should be yours.
Mike Gorday (05:12):
Well, yeah, it should be yours, but there is a
problem with the gamingcommunity, in which cheaters run
rampant and destroy the gamefor other people, so I'm not
really sure that I'm on boardwith what your stance is on this
one.
Nathan Mumm (05:29):
I dislike it.
Okay, because you're a cheater?
Mike Gorday (05:31):
No, I don't cheat but I like the mod.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
You like the mod stuff right.
Mike Gorday (05:35):
Yeah, I do, all right.
So yeah, I mean, there'sdefinitely a community of
modders out there that might beupset by this.
I mean, we're not real gamers,we don't.
But I don't know if you have aproblem when there is obviously
somebody who's cheating in thegame that you're playing.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
We've had this discussion before when it comes
to using AI for college work.
Nathan Mumm (05:58):
Yeah, ok, we have.
Yeah, but this is the firsthardware purchase mainstream
that included wording like this.
So now my question is is Applegoing to do the next with
iPhones?
Are we soon going to start bepurchasing iPhones?
Mike Gorday (06:08):
You know, it's all going to move towards this,
because our society is movingtowards a feudal society.
We're a rental society.
Now we don't own anythinganymore, and I think that's
where everybody wants to take it, because if you own everything,
what do you get to do Whatever?
Nathan Mumm (06:25):
you want, with it, you get to make the rules.
So are you saying that we'rechanging now into like a feudal
system where we just renteverything?
Mike Gorday (06:31):
Yeah, so it's a quiet change back to a
feudal-like system, because ifyou don't own your house, if all
you have available for housingis rental units, that means
somebody else controls how youspend your money.
Nathan Mumm (06:42):
All right, let me ask you about this next item
here Game chat.
So this is the brand new thingadded to the Switch you can now
do game chat.
With the launch of the Switch 2and its game chat communication
features, nintendo updatedtheir privacy policy to note.
The company may also monitorand record your video and audio
interactions with other users.
Now that the Switch 2 isofficially launched, we clearly
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understand on how the consolehandles audio and video During
the game chat sessions.
As well as footage, it can besent to Nintendo or shared with
partners, including lawenforcement.
So before using game chat onSwitch 2 for the first time, you
must consent to a set of gamechat terms displayed on the
system itself.
These terms warn you that chatcontent is recorded and stored
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temporarily both on your systemand the system of those you chat
with.
But those stored recordings areonly shared with Nintendo.
If a user reports a violationof Nintendo's community
guidelines, the company writesthe terms lay out that these
recordings are available only ifsubmitted within 24 hours,
suggesting the recordings aredeleted from local storage after
a full day.
But we've actually done studieson this that the recording
(07:45):
still sits there Now.
They do delete the name file,but it's not removed from the
memory itself.
Like you can delete a file fromyour computer and there's easy
tools to recover it, so itdoesn't really delete it itself.
Mike Gorday (07:57):
So is this something you don't like?
Nathan Mumm (07:59):
No no.
So essentially, authorities,courts, lawyers, subcontractors
and legal communities areallowed to view this information
.
Mike Gorday (08:07):
Only by first a violation has to occur, right?
Nathan Mumm (08:11):
Sure, okay, okay, great, yes, now, okay, so it's
going to get hacked.
Mike Gorday (08:16):
I'm having trouble defending this one because it's
a little 1984 me for my taste.
But we also know there is a lotof bullying that goes on in
chats qualifies as cyberbullying.
So to me this sounds likesomething that already exists.
It's just popping out morequickly.
Nathan Mumm (08:37):
So I, so I buy a brand new switch too.
Okay, I don't know, you can'tplay it you can't open it up and
modify it.
I don't own it and anytime I'mchatting with anybody anytime
I'm chatting with somebody, it'srecording that and sending it
to Nintendo and you can'tthreaten people, and I'm okay
with that.
Mike Gorday (08:53):
How?
Nathan Mumm (08:53):
the hell.
Can we be okay with that?
How can these?
Mike Gorday (08:57):
units be selling.
Like I said, I'm not what youwould consider to be a gamer.
I don't sit down and do gamechats where I'm yelling at
people and calling them names.
You don't own anything.
Nathan Mumm (09:07):
You don't own anything anymore.
Maybe story number two willrelax me a bit.
Mike Gorday (09:11):
I'm just very, very frustrated.
I don't think so.
Nathan Mumm (09:13):
Because I don't think you should be paying for
something, and then they get torecord you.
Ugh, never mind.
Let's move on to story numbertwo.
I could be on this for anotherhour and a half, so let's not go
there, okay, all right, youknow that amazon has tried
delivery services with drones Ihave.
Mike Gorday (09:27):
Yes, it didn't work really well it what it didn't
work no, it didn't work reallywell it was a big, so they
disappeared right before thepandemic.
Do you remember when they triedusing those little rover bots?
I do on the streets yep, yeah todeliver like packages and
different stuff yep, they, infact they uh little Yep In fact,
they started testing it rightin the county that we live in,
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yep, and then it went thereseveral places around the
country.
That didn't work out either.
No, so apparently these twofailures have really driven
Amazon to come up with a newidea For robots Okay.
They're trying to buildhumanoid robots to speed up
deliveries for you okay, howdoes that work?
they want human-like autonomousdelivery methods.
(10:11):
Right, so they.
They want robots that can walkright up to your door and
deliver your packages.
The company is reportedlyfinishing work on a san
francisco-based obstacle park towork on the technology.
It's unclear how soon it willbe developed or used for
real-world deliveries.
Nathan Mumm (10:29):
Is this going to be like an American Ninja obstacle
course you?
Mike Gorday (10:33):
got stuff going on here.
I don't know what it's like.
Okay all right Maybe you shouldask them through your Nintendo
Switch.
Amazon has been touting itswork in robotics for the home
and for warehouse use, but thisis the first time the company
has made an explicit push intousing human-like robotics for
package delivery, which couldreplace human workers.
The robots would use some ofthe same AI technology that the
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company is rolling out acrossother areas of this business.
Humanoid robots can carryheavier loads and work in human
environments and performmonotonous, physically demanding
tasks that fewer and fewerpeople are willing to do.
That makes sense.
A big, large package.
Nathan Mumm (11:10):
I mean our poor FedEx guy.
Mike Gorday (11:12):
This is still problematic.
This is still problematicbecause, you know, elon wants to
do this too.
Elon has this big idea we'recreating, essentially, a slave
labor force.
So the reason why the littletrash cans that we're driving
around didn't work out allegedlyis because of regulations
limiting autonomous things.
Nathan Mumm (11:33):
So I'm not sure how they're going to push past all
this legal stuff they're justgoing to put artificial skin on
it and you just won't know anydifference between this and
every person.
Mike Gorday (11:42):
Let's pull back.
Let's pull back from the it'slike data.
Nathan Mumm (11:45):
This is like data from star trek.
Yeah right, so he's gonna justbe lifting stuff up.
Mike Gorday (11:50):
We have just jumped into oh sorry.
Nathan Mumm (11:53):
Yeah, sci-fi, that's what I thought of.
I think of data.
I just saw an episode on nextgeneration that I'm watching.
He lived all these like 500pound stuff and then no human
could do it, but he saved theworld.
Mike Gorday (12:02):
That's yeah, okay, yeah, there's no point talking
to you about this stuff.
Keep on going, keep on goingthe idea is that, in addition to
what they're doing already, uh,robots can do work that humans
can't right.
Uh, they can work for longerperiods of time.
Nathan Mumm (12:19):
Uh, they can significantly reduce labor costs
that makes sense, because Iguess you don't have any l and I
claims from a robot.
Right, that's true.
Mike Gorday (12:26):
So if your back is not going to have to be, dealing
with people calling in sick orcalling in late, or you know if
they are sufficiently reliable,of course, and versatile and
economically efficient.
The economics are the key Wellthe problem is is that right now
, costs are really high to getthem integrated and maintained
into a workforce and theyrequire AI that's powerful
(12:47):
enough to ensure they're safearound human beings.
Nathan Mumm (12:50):
I could just see one of these walking and you
just pull up in your truck andyou hijack it and throw it in
the back of your truck.
Mike Gorday (12:55):
Well, that was one of the problems.
I don't know if you could dothat, because I imagine these
weigh 400 pounds.
Nathan Mumm (13:00):
Well then, what if it comes up my stairs to my
house and my my stairs can onlytake 200 pounds.
Mike Gorday (13:05):
Well then, your, your robot's not going to make
it up and I wonder if they'regoing to, you know, sue you for
damages because you have unsafestairwells, okay, so who knows,
who knows, but you know, I feellike.
I feel like this is going tocome out the same way that the
little trash can.
Nathan Mumm (13:23):
Oh you think it's the thumb downs, and then well,
yeah, with the yeah, I mean.
Mike Gorday (13:27):
Some of the problems with the little trash
can thing was that wasn't one ofthem vandalized?
Nathan Mumm (13:32):
they had to have amazon people follow them around
because of those regulationsand they and they didn't go very
fast it's kind of like theamazon stores trundled around
like as fast as somebody couldwalk so you remember the Amazon
stores that you used to be ableto go in and buy your food, and
then you just walk out and thenit charges you yeah Amazon Go.
Yeah, and then, all of a sudden, we found out that it was
really people in India that werewatching cameras that were then
(13:54):
making the evaluation of whatyou bought on the way out, and
it really wasn't the technologythat was taking care of that.
Yeah, so is this just Amazon?
Mike Gorday (14:01):
trying to say that I don't even know, but that's
what they want to do is makehumanoid robots.
Or they don't want to makehumanoid, they want to use
humanoid robots.
I'm sure Elon wants to stickhis little fingers in that
little pie.
All right, let me ask you thisDo you have a summer reading
list?
Nathan Mumm (14:15):
No, you don't have a summer reading list.
I have a reading list Idon'tTimes summer reading list
that had all of the top 15 booksto read.
Would you be excited about thatinsert?
Sure, all right.
And then it was so good thatyou also ran it in the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
(14:35):
I mean, that would just soundlike fantastic.
You have it in two inserts forthis great thing.
Mike Gorday (14:40):
I think it's funny that you're talking about
reading books.
Nathan Mumm (14:44):
Well, you don't read books well that's true, I
wait for the movies.
But let me just say this whatif you had an ai generated
summer reading list with faketitles appeared in a print
insert in two major newspapers?
I think that would be a fail.
It's indicate well, it would bea fail.
But I have even a better fail,for the technology fail.
So this moved to a main story.
It's indicative of the largeharms of book publishing and
(15:05):
journalism.
Too many books and too littletime was the quote on their
advertisement.
It says that we have taken thetime and weeks of reading and
months of preparation toconfidently bring you these 15
titles.
Now that must be too good to betrue, because last week the
Chicago Times and thePhiladelphia Inquirer ran this
(15:26):
print insert with an AIgenerated summer reading list
from a third party contributor.
Several titles were made up.
You can't find.
The last algorithm by Andy Weirdoesn't even exist.
Or the collector's piece byTaylor Jenkins reads in
bookstores or libraries thissummer because they plainly just
don't exist.
But if you subscribe to thesenewspapers, guess what they're
(15:47):
going to recommend with alltheir time and effort that they
had?
That you should be readingthese Now.
Ai is more and more being usedas commonplace, but many argue
that you can only train it to docertain stuff, both in books
and in the real world ofjournalism industry.
This kind of AI-generatedcontent threatens and undermines
the creativity that makesreaders in the first place.
(16:10):
How can you trust createdtitles when they don't even
exist?
Mike Gorday (16:14):
I don't know why you would want to trust an AI.
How would?
Nathan Mumm (16:17):
you release this?
How could you release thisinsert?
Because people are stupid?
Okay, all right.
So those people are stupid, sohave I got this?
Okay, all right.
So those people are stupid, sowhat?
So I got this and tried to.
Okay, so that just tells youlike people complain about the
newspaper companies.
You know it's fake news.
Mike Gorday (16:32):
I mean, clearly, this is fake news, it's funny
that you're doing this story,because we all know how much I
hate AI.
Nathan Mumm (16:37):
Okay Well you do and for these reasons Okay.
Mike Gorday (16:40):
Because it makes up stuff and it writes books that
are really bad and it doesn'thave any sense of.
There is no sense of controland people are legitimately
losing their jobs because ofthis.
Nathan Mumm (16:54):
Well, do you know who needs to lose their job?
The editors at the ChicagoSun-Times and Philadelphia
Inquirer that ran this printpiece.
Mike Gorday (17:00):
Those people, I don't know that they need to
lose their jobs.
I think that they need to stopusing AI to do their job.
They need to go down and be atype editor.
Nathan Mumm (17:09):
Remove being the editor or whatever in charge of
the column, go back down andhave to actually read this
information.
Mike Gorday (17:14):
Maybe you should give them Nintendo Switches so
they can get them bricked.
Nathan Mumm (17:18):
Okay, all right, all right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories.
Mike Gorday (17:22):
Well that was really just a big bitch session,
was it?
Nathan Mumm (17:27):
Well these are the articles that are shaping our
technology landscape.
Mike Gorday (17:32):
Yeah, I'm surprised .
Nathan Mumm (17:33):
All right, that ends our top technology stories
of the week.
Moving on, Gwen will bebringing us a gadget and gear
segment that I can be excitedabout, I hope.
All right, buckle up as wedrive 88 miles per hour into the
next segment.
See you after the commercialbreak.
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Welcome back to Tech Time withNathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, with a little whiskey on
the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is in the
studio.
Mark, welcome back from yourvacation time.
Marc Gregoire (18:50):
Thank you so much .
We're glad to be back.
I do have one comment aboutyour last AI story.
What was that?
I'm wondering why, after theyreleased that, instead of
admitting everything was fake,they should have just put those
titles in ChatGPT and createdbooks from them.
That's what Nathan would havedone.
Nathan Mumm (19:05):
That's exactly you know what I didn't even think
about, that I should have goneon Amazon.
If I would have only known aweek ahead of time, I would be a
billionaire right now.
You would have the best-sellingbooks, that's right.
Ten of them.
That's right, ten of the 15.
All right, well what?
Marc Gregoire (19:19):
do.
We are back doing our monthly2024 Flavor Advent Calendar.
This is round six and this isthe last of the whiskeys that we
need to go through.
Uh-oh, and then we start goingto the semifinals.
Just for those new listenersout there, we're using the 2024
Flavor Whiskey Advent Calendar24 remarkable whiskeys to use
(19:41):
for our year-long blind whiskeycompetition to see which one
Nathan and Mike like best.
Come along for the ride once amonth while they uncover new
tastes and train their senses tobecome true connoisseurs.
Today is round six, where theywill choose their winner to move
on to the semifinals and I'mhoping you guys disagree.
No collusion, because I want tobe the deciding vote today.
(20:03):
Wow, wow, wow, wow.
I have some strong opinions Now.
Today we are putting two iconicAmerican spirits to the test.
It's bourbon versus Americansingle malt whiskey In this
head-to-head taste-off to seewhich style wins the day.
While both are proudly American, the difference are in the
details.
Bourbon must be made from atleast 50% corn and age a new
(20:24):
charred oak containers giving ita sweeter, fuller, fuller body
profile.
American single malt, bycontrast, is made from 100
malted barley distilled at asingle distillery and offers
more nuanced roasted and grainforward notes.
So let's stay tuned to seewhich one advances from this
round.
(20:44):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (20:47):
I haven't tasted any of that.
Yeah, Nathan should probably dothe tasting before we talk
about it.
Nathan Mumm (20:51):
Why is that?
Mike Gorday (20:52):
Why is that?
Marc Gregoire (20:53):
Well, while he tastes those, let's remind our
viewers, Mike, to like andsubscribe.
Put comments down there.
Tell us what you think good orbad.
We love to hear from ourviewers.
Hey, all right, and Nathan,please drink responsibly.
Heaven can wait.
Nathan Mumm (21:09):
Thank you very much .
Well, with our first whiskeytasting completed, now it's time
to move on to our featuresegment.
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 the producer
of Tech Time Radio and ourGadgets and Gear gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What's new in our gadgets and gear.
Nathan Mumm (21:32):
All right, welcome back to the show.
Gwen, tell a little bit aboutyourself for any of our new
listeners today.
Gwen Way (21:38):
Hello, hello everybody.
I am Gwen and I have about 25years worth of technology
experience.
Nathan Mumm (21:52):
More importantly, though, I have a lifetime of
gadget love.
You know what.
You have saved me money, butnot really I'd say that you save
me money, but the last three orfour gadgets I kept on buying,
and I bought two of the hackingdevice about two.
I'm just doubling down nowbefore I do one and now since I
do that, that's all right.
Mike Gorday (22:07):
That's why that offended him so much.
Marc Gregoire (22:11):
I heard about the gadget.
I'm actually going to stay onfor this segment.
I heard about the gadget andI'm very curious and skeptical.
Oh, skeptic.
Nathan Mumm (22:20):
All right, so now, before we start that, one of the
stories did not make it on tothe main type of deal, and it's
the US offers $10 million fortips on state hackers tied to
redline malware.
Since you work in this industryand we kind of talked about
this with Coinbase what is yourtake on having, like, the State
Department announcing a rewardfor $10 million regarding
(22:41):
cybercrime?
Gwen Way (22:43):
Well, it's an interesting thing to do.
We've seen it work successfullyat this point in business
circles, so it's not surprisingthat the government is giving it
a try.
I think it's actually a betterway to go about things, simply
because we're not rewarding thehackers by paying them the
ransom okay, okay, I, I that was.
Nathan Mumm (23:05):
I think that was kind of mike's idea too yeah,
yeah it, yeah.
Mike Gorday (23:08):
It's the same as 80s self-defense for women.
You know it used to be likejust let them do what they need
to do, and it worked badly.
So now we teach people to fightback.
So I think this is you likethis idea.
Nathan Mumm (23:24):
This is a good idea .
It's working.
Mike Gorday (23:26):
It doesn't come without its problems, but I
think this is a better idea thanjust saying, oh well, we got
hacked, let's pay them off so wecan get our stuff back.
I agree.
Gwen Way (23:35):
Exactly At this point , we're almost pitting the
hackers against each other's.
Nathan Mumm (23:39):
That's what we're doing Absolutely Now, Gwen.
You know it's summertime andnothing's better than making a
little sizzle, Of course, in thebarbecue area.
Gwen Way (23:50):
What do you have to share with us?
Today I have what I think isone of the best gifts for
Father's Day.
Obviously, it won't beavailable by this year's
Father's Day, but next year itshould be around.
Today's gadget is an AI-poweredsmart thermometer for cooking.
Nathan Mumm (24:12):
Okay, so it's an AI smart thermometer for cooking.
Now I like to grill.
I got a big green egg.
I got blackstone.
Mike Gorday (24:20):
You got a freaking kitchen out on your back porch.
Nathan Mumm (24:23):
I do, and so I love grilling and I have these
wireless devices that areBluetooth that I put in there
and it kind of keeps thetemperature of what needs to be
going and and.
But you know, I, I I don't usethem very often.
I use them for Thanksgiving andI don't use them very often
because I like being out thereflipping it over, taking a look
at what's going on.
(24:43):
Now, I make mistakes, clearly.
I sometimes overcook something.
Sometimes the hamburgers got alittle bit of runny stuff in
there.
I didn't cook it all the way,so I probably need this more
than most people.
But tell me, what is the AIgoing to do differently than
other devices that are out thereon the market?
Gwen Way (25:01):
Well, it does a couple of different things
differently.
The first thing that it does isit does have an application you
can have on your phone ortablet, where it will not only
help you figure out the best wayto cook a dish, but you can
actually type in what you haveand it will give you recipes.
Nathan Mumm (25:22):
So if I have a steak, it'll give me a recipe on
how to cook a steak.
If I have some chicken, it'llgive me a recipe.
Mike Gorday (25:26):
I don't want to be the buzzkill here, but I can do
that with my phone.
Gwen Way (25:30):
Absolutely, you can do that with your phone.
But in this case not only doyou get the recipe with your
phone on the application, butyou press a button and the
thermometer automatically is setto look for the right
temperature based on the cookingmethod for the food.
Mike Gorday (25:50):
You know, that's cool.
All I have to do is wait forall this stuff to go, and then I
can have Amazon send over arobot and I can give them the
meter and then they can cook myburger for me Exactly.
That's my whole goal.
Nathan Mumm (25:59):
That's your whole goal.
Okay, so explain a little bitmore about this device.
Tell us how many units arewhere they're coming from.
Gwen Way (26:20):
Tell us a little bit about this backer and give us
the sales pitch here, sure?
Mike Gorday (26:26):
thanks, so this is on kickstarter.
Gwen Way (26:27):
You can find it by searching chef lab c-h-e-f-l-a-b
.
Nathan Mumm (26:28):
It's interesting because it can be used for any
cooking method oven, grill,smoker, etc.
Microwave, etc.
Microwave, I wouldn'tnecessarily.
I don't know about microwave.
No, except for Mike's cookingway I'm single Using the hacking
tools for hacking.
Gwen Way (26:37):
We don't condone microwaving these.
But it does have three sensorareas, so it's going to sense
the air outside the food andthen two different places within
the food to help determine theeven cooking.
It can be used either from thephone application or from the
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base, which is magnetic, so youcan actually set it and connect
it to your grill or smoker oroven, whatever.
Nathan Mumm (27:09):
Okay, how many backers does it have?
How much is it?
Let's get into some of thosedetails all the good details.
Gwen Way (27:14):
So this is out of denver, colorado.
Uh, it's sitting at 640 backersat this point, fully funded,
but if people are quick you canstill get early bird special for
69 each okay, so early birdspecial is still available for
$69.
Nathan Mumm (27:31):
That's pretty exciting about that.
Mike Gorday (27:33):
Yeah, you sound totally excited.
Nathan Mumm (27:35):
Mr Gregoire's got some questions here.
Marc Gregoire (27:36):
I don't know if I have any questions.
I can't understand anybodybacking this.
Mike Gorday (27:40):
You can't understand anybody Well only 640
people did so that tells yousomething.
We're talking about a countrythat just loves to barbecue.
Nathan Mumm (27:49):
I don't know if Colorado is where I consider the
barbecue capital of the worldto create this device but they
are probably intelligent enoughto figure out how to do this.
Mike Gorday (27:58):
They have American males that have their eggs out
in the back.
Marc Gregoire (28:02):
I'll go through it quickly, gwen, because I
haven't seen any advantages thatyou've given me for this over
the current ones out there.
Okay, so the AI, where it tellsyou what temperature to do it.
Well, every recipe has atemperature in it anyway, so AI
is just pulling from that.
Most recipes have the wrong one, according to new food science
anyway, so you need to adjust it.
So AI is going to cook itincorrectly.
(28:23):
And then the three sensors mostof the new sensors all have
that.
They have the one on the tip.
They sensors most of the newsensors all have that.
They have the one on the tip,they have one at the top and
they have the one that sticksoutside for the outside
temperature.
My meter has all that.
Nathan Mumm (28:34):
How much did your meter cost?
Was it $69?
Marc Gregoire (28:36):
It was $69 off their website right now.
I checked it just before comingon the show.
Wow.
Mike Gorday (28:41):
And that's one of the top technology ones.
That's why you have to have amicrowave, and then theirs also
has other options.
Marc Gregoire (28:46):
If you upgrade you can actually get two, three,
four.
So if you're doing four steaks,you can buy four in one kit.
Nathan Mumm (28:52):
That all goes right back to the end.
Hang on, let's go, let's comeback to it.
You can't buy multiple packs.
You can't buy multiple packs.
Marc Gregoire (28:58):
Do they all connect?
Nathan Mumm (28:59):
together.
I don't know if they allconnect together, but you do get
two sensors, so you could havetwo sensors in one and two
sensors in another for a familyand they could have like two
magnetic uh strips to hang on tothis.
I, I do.
Mike Gorday (29:14):
We know what ai is pulling from, quinn that I'm not
entirely sure I so that so thatis, that was my biggest pulling
from the chicago.
Nathan Mumm (29:23):
Sometimes I mean if it's pulling from grok, I
already be like can I get asteak?
It's gonna cook it at like 900degrees, because that's what
elon musk thinks is normal someuh stuff you don't want on the
top, like mucus or something andthen, and then, if you're
pulling from gemini, you'regonna have to repeat it at least
three times before itunderstands what you're saying.
And then, if it's open, and ifit's a deep seek it's not even
(29:45):
running anymore, that wholething with deep seekek is all
gone, Okay, so I mean.
I guess my biggest concern wouldbe what?
Ai?
This is the first device Ithink I would really care about
where they're pulling the AIfrom.
Marc Gregoire (29:58):
It's probably a cheap thermometer that they say
they wrap AI around and try tomake some money on.
You think so.
Gwen Way (30:03):
Which is entirely possible.
Nathan Mumm (30:06):
Okay, so Mark is not investing into this.
I feel like this might not havebeen the best choice.
Mike Gorday (30:08):
Okay, so Mark is not invested into this.
I feel like this might not havebeen the best choice.
Marc Gregoire (30:10):
Bah, humbug.
It's a say Mark from a mentorof mine.
Mike Gorday (30:13):
That's what happens when you don't come to a
production meeting.
Nathan Mumm (30:17):
Well, there was some other things.
Mike Gorday (30:19):
Well, the other ones we reviewed were really
weird too.
These are fun to discuss.
No, it's fine.
Marc Gregoire (30:24):
This is the first time I've stayed on really for
a whole segment in a while Well,okay time I stayed on really
for a whole segment in a while.
Gwen Way (30:33):
Well, okay, so it has this, has this company done a
kickstarter before.
Mike Gorday (30:37):
This is their first kickstarter, uh-huh, so as
always, you kind of want to takeit with a grain of salt, or,
however, for the people who areinvite are interested.
Gwen Way (30:43):
yes, go to kickstartercom search for chef
lab and do it before jth.
Nathan Mumm (30:49):
Okay, so let me ask you the question Did you invest
in it?
Yes, next question Are youlooking to get a unit?
Gwen Way (30:56):
I am not at this time .
I have wireless meatthermometers that we use already
.
Marc Gregoire (31:01):
They do a great job already, right?
Yes See, oh, look at that.
I want to hear from ourlisteners If we're wrong, if
we're too skeptical.
Let I want to hear from ourlisteners If we're wrong, if
we're too skeptical let us knowFight back.
Nathan Mumm (31:11):
Yeah, put it in the chat comment there.
Just like whenever I do mathwrong, I get pinged about that
all the time.
Marc Gregoire (31:17):
So definitely make sure.
Or you reference a Star Trekepisode from a season that
doesn't even exist.
Nathan Mumm (31:22):
When I say Star Trek, I always mean Next
Generation.
So, I always go the originalseries.
Mike Gorday (31:28):
All right, gwen, so this is a great gadget.
How are you going to say youalways reference Next Generation
and then go all original series?
How is that?
Nathan Mumm (31:36):
So when I normally say I reference Star Trek, then
it's normally Next Generation,because that's what I grew up in
.
And then when I say if it's theoriginal series I normally do
the original series or Voyager,I say the series that I do, I
just consider that's right.
Alright.
Well, this is a great gadget,though I appreciate you having
an AI gadget on.
(31:56):
I don't know if I would investin this.
I'm not probably, but you knowfor people that if somebody does
and this is like the trendstarter I will just tell you I
have missed the boat on a couplethings.
Redbox came on out, had achance to invest in them for
like 10k you can go pick up oneof the boxes now they're trying
to give them away.
I was going to say it went upand it was climbing high and my
(32:19):
wife said it would never takeoff.
And it took off, but then Iprobably would have hung on too
long, and now they don't existand you can find them at your
local Blockbuster.
Alright, well, gwen, thank youso much for talking about our
gadgets.
We appreciate you so much forjoining our show.
I can't wait to see what we getnext month.
Thank you, thanks, gwen, had agood time.
All right, we want to thankGwen for being a part of the
(32:40):
show.
She does a great job of findingthe most unique items each
month for our show, and then wego through them on the pre-show
and kind of pick out which onewe want to talk about, and this
is our winner for this month.
All right, now, though, let'smove on to mike's mesmerizing
moment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
(33:02):
All right, here's my questionfor you robot man, yeah, I can't
wait.
Would you rather have r2d2,c-3po as your robot at home?
Why are you asking thisquestion?
So I'm asking this questionbecause, for the psychology of
you explaining and breaking downboth R2-D2 or C-3PO, if you
were going to have a robot, wetalked about.
(33:22):
Amazon having a robot.
We talked about tons of robots.
We talked about differentrobots.
I was going to say maybe Rosiefrom the Jetsons at home if you
wanted that, or Tweak.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Tweaky, tweaky from Buck Rogers.
Nathan Mumm (33:34):
Yes, but we went with R2-D2 and C-3PO.
Okay, at your home, which robotwould you rather have?
Mike Gorday (33:40):
All right, I would definitely go R2-D2.
Why is that, though?
Because C-3PO is a whiny bitch.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Okay, I wanted to interject.
Would you go with Chopper orRTD2?
Mike Gorday (33:56):
That's a good one too, because.
Chopper is more sassy, but RTD2is also sassy.
I mean, I don't know if youknow this, but a lot of times
when he's talking in his beepsand whistles, he's actually
cussing stuff out.
So to me that's awesome.
Nathan Mumm (34:11):
So you like that?
Yeah, okay, thank you, mike forthat mesmerizing moment.
Next we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side.
There wasn't really anypsychology in that.
Marc Gregoire (34:21):
Well, you know what Sometimes people just like
to understand you.
Mike Gorday, who would go with?
I think most people do CP3Obecause of what it brings.
Cp3o.
Thank you Most people don't gofor the cussing little robot
that's our psychology of Mike?
Mike Gorday (34:35):
Yeah, but if you watch the movies, if you watch
the Star Wars stuff you would do.
Nathan Mumm (34:40):
Rosie From the Jetsons R2-D2 is the smarter of
the two?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Isn't she sassy as well?
Nathan Mumm (34:44):
She's very sassy, but she cleans up the house very
sassy, but she cleans up thehouse and then she yells at
George all the time.
So I'd take Rosie.
Rosie would be my winner.
But you have robots at home.
You have a little Aruba.
Mike Gorday (34:55):
I have an Aruba, he basically wants a fancy Aruba.
That's what R2-D2 is A morefancy Aruba.
He also can store a lightsabertoo.
Nathan Mumm (35:04):
And fly a jet or whatever.
Mike Gorday (35:11):
I'm just going to have him fly around my apartment
.
Pick up your Amazon packages.
Pick up my Amazon packages fromthe C-3PO, that freaking
delivers it.
Nathan Mumm (35:16):
Okay, there you go.
All right, mike, thank you forthat mesmerizing moment.
We're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we will haveour this Week in Technology.
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Mike Gorday (35:25):
Yo, what's up hey.
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Nathan Mumm (36:37):
All right, we're going back to June 11th 1978
with the introduction of thespeak and spell.
You remember the speak andspell, Mike Yep.
I remember the speak and spelland it would say the word you
would have all these littlenoises it made.
Spell mike, yep.
I remember the speaking spelland I would say the word you
would play.
You could have all these littlenoises it made.
Mike Gorday (36:54):
I I didn't have a sound effect yeah, maybe you
should have ran with the soundeffects, because your sound
effects are as bad as your youraccents.
Nathan Mumm (37:03):
All right, texas instruments introduces the speak
and spell, a talkingeducational toy for children.
The device features the firstelectronic duplication of the
human voice on a single chip ofsilicon.
It transformed digitalinformation process through a
filter into synthetic speech andcould store more than 100
seconds of sound.
(37:24):
Now the speak and spell wascreated by a small team of
engineers led by pauledlove,himself as an engineer with
Texas Instrument TI, during thelate 1970s.
Between his release in 1983,the Speak and Spell was
redesigned twice under the nameSpeak and Spell, with a later
expansion including cartridgesof different languages that
could be plugged into the device.
(37:45):
Now that was this week intechnology.
If you ever wanted to want towatch some Tech Time history,
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We're going to take acommercial break when we return.
We have our Mark Mumble WhiskeyReview and we have a technology
fail that's going to make youcry.
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All right, see you after this.
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Speaker 1 (39:12):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Gregoire (39:22):
I'm giving Odie a break.
Everybody's going to be veryupset about this.
Oh, what do we have here for us?
I'm excited.
June 10th.
Nathan Mumm (39:29):
Let's talk about June 10th today.
What is June 10th?
Oh, I like today.
Marc Gregoire (39:33):
I like today.
Nathan Mumm (39:34):
Is today a national whiskey day?
Marc Gregoire (39:36):
No, no but kind of close.
In that realm.
Okay.
A national alcohol day?
It's a national black cow day.
Oh how?
Nathan Mumm (39:45):
is black cow anywhere.
Okay, black cow anywhere, Okay.
Marc Gregoire (39:47):
Black Cow Day.
Now let me tell you Okay,you're going to get excited in a
minute, all right.
Many people also know the blackcow as the humble root beer
float.
Mike Gorday (39:56):
Oh, Well, they just call it root beer float day.
Marc Gregoire (39:58):
I like that.
Well, let me tell you aboutthat, Mike.
Okay.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
Frank you know you are walking into all of these.
Mike Gorday (40:05):
I'm just I'm looking at Mark's profile and
I'm thinking he looks likeRichard Nixon.
So I'm just really distractedright now oh boy, that's good.
Marc Gregoire (40:17):
Richard Nixon was considered a.
Let's get back to the black cow.
Okay, frank J Wisner, hailingfrom Cripple Creek, colorado,
invented the black cow.
Nathan Mumm (40:25):
Colorado's the same place.
We just had that Kickstarter.
Colorado is the same place.
Marc Gregoire (40:27):
We just had that Kickstarter.
Yeah, While staring out of hiswindow, he saw the full moon
shining on the snow-capped CowMountain, which made him think
of a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
That encouraged him to add aspoonful of vanilla ice cream to
the children's soda MyersAvenue Red Root Beer.
When he took his first sip ofthe drink, he knew he was onto
something great.
He named his creation Black CowMountain, which was later
(40:50):
shortened to Black Cow by LokenChildren, and then the rest of
the world just calls it a rootbeer float.
Hmm.
Nathan Mumm (40:57):
So in Colorado they still have like a black cow
event type of like a festival ora fair or something like that I
would think they do Okay, Idon't know so why,
Speaker 5 (41:06):
didn't you bring any ice cream for us today, Mark?
Mike Gorday (41:09):
Yeah, Mark.
Marc Gregoire (41:09):
Yeah, what's that about?
I figured we had enoughwhiskeys today, I mean.
Nathan Mumm (41:13):
I have to say, because you know what Odie.
Marc Gregoire (41:16):
That brings a good point Now.
While many out there areenjoying the root beer float on
this beautiful day, we aresipping on four whiskeys here in
the studio.
Okay.
Now here they are.
Yes, these are the fourwhiskeys.
We have Stranahan's Blue PeakSingle Malt in one of the
glasses.
That's from Proximo Spiritsfrom Colorado.
(41:37):
Also it's American single maltbelieved to be four years 86
proof, 100% malted barley, andthat bottle is about $45 on the
market.
Nathan Mumm (41:47):
You know what I'm starting to realize when they
kind of put the estimated years.
I don't like very manyestimated year whiskeys.
Now I went back and startedlooking at them, the estimated
years.
When they say it's seven year,10 year, they have the date
stamp and then it's a little bitstronger.
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (42:03):
All right.
And then in another glass wehave Fray Ranch Farm Strength
Uncut Bourbon from Fray RanchDistillery in California.
That is a straight bourbon.
It's believed to be 4 years old, 123.88 proof.
Wow, that's our highest onetoday.
And it is a blend of fourgrains it's 66.6 dent corn, 10
(42:26):
winter wheat, 11.4 winter rye,12 two row malted barley.
They are very farm to glasstype of distillery, okay, and
that is 85, that's our mostexpensive one today.
Then we also have WhistlepigPiggyback Bourbon.
Nathan Mumm (42:42):
Not a chance, I hate.
Marc Gregoire (42:43):
Whistlepig stuff.
Those are usually ryes.
This is their bourbon offering,which we haven't tried yet.
It's from Vermont, it's sixyears old, stated, it's 100
proof, mash bill's, undisclosed,and it is $57.
And then the last one we aresipping on today is a local from
Seattle.
It is Westland Distillery'sflagship single malt.
(43:06):
It is three years old, 92 proof, 100% malted barley and that is
$62.
Whoa, that went down the wronghole for Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (43:16):
I tried that one twice and it's okay, All right,
and we did have our localwhiskey last week.
Mike Gorday (43:24):
That was actually really good.
Nathan Mumm (43:25):
Regroup, that was really good.
Oh boy, that was bad.
Okay, I think I know myselection.
Mike Gorday (43:29):
You guys got them in order.
I almost do.
I have an order so far.
I'm still this one's tough.
Marc Gregoire (43:35):
Do you want me to reveal now or on the thumbs up?
No, do the thumbs up.
No, do the thumbs up, we'll doit.
Nathan Mumm (43:39):
All right, you know Whiskey and Technology are a
great pairing, just like Speakand Spell.
Do you realize that it had apairing also?
It had two siblings the Speakand Read and the Speak and Math
were all a part of the family ofSpeak and Spell.
Marc Gregoire (43:52):
Oh, you never had one of those, did you?
Nathan Mumm (44:02):
No, I had all three .
I had all three, maybe thereading, and I had the wizard.
He took them apart and got thembricked and I had the little
wizard, the little owl wizardfor additional.
Marc Gregoire (44:08):
Let's say you had them, but did you ever take
them out of the box?
Nathan Mumm (44:10):
Yes, I took them out of the box.
Yes, I used them.
I love the speak and spell.
The speak and spell wasfantastic.
I would try to mimic the wordsthat they would pronounce.
The weirds, the words that theywould pronounce.
Mike Gorday (44:21):
I was a young kid, I would mimic the weirds too.
Nathan Mumm (44:23):
No, I was a young kid and I was growing up
overseas in Africa, and they hadthe French module that actually
helped me learn to speak French.
Can you speak French?
Je ne comprends pas.
Oui, monsieur.
Marc Gregoire (44:36):
Oh, that's what I've been.
Nathan Mumm (44:38):
Okay, all right.
Mike Gorday (44:40):
There you go.
Now I'm done with my doscervezos.
Oh no, that's the other one.
Nathan Mumm (44:46):
All right okay, Now you know what.
After that, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 6 (44:55):
Oh, I failed.
Did I, yes, did I.
Nathan Mumm (44:59):
Yes, all right, our technology fail comes to us
from GameStop.
Has anybody heard of GameStop?
We're going to be talking aboutthe Nintendo Switch 2.
Now GameStop had people liningup for early hours to get in and
to get that Switch 2.
Lining outside people werereported to come all the way
(45:19):
three to four days before theactual release of the switch to
wait in line and to stake theirclaim to open the store and get
their switch itself if they didnot pre-order.
Now let's just say that youbought from gamestop.
Some people reportedly havebeen unwelcomed with the
surprise after picking up theirnintendo switch pre-orders at
gamestop.
Staples used to attach thereceipts to switch to boxes
ended up damaging the screens onthe console.
(45:42):
So think of having the packagehere, you have your receipt.
There they go, and they get aregular stapler and go chink,
chink, chink to put the stapleson top so you can pick it up.
Well, guess what happened?
Those little etched stapleswent on in and pierced the
screens, damaging them.
So all the people on these gamestop stores that were going to
(46:04):
take care of it open the box tofind pieces and parts already
floating around in their brandnew switch.
Two boxes now, the tablet'sproximity to the top of the box
explains how the staples couldget through the poked holes in
the screen, especially if theperson uses a stapler and gives
it a solid push down.
I don't know anybody that woulduses a stapler and gives it a
solid push down.
I don't know anybody that woulduse a stapler and not push down
on the stapler.
So when I was reading thisreport, I was like yeah, that's
(46:27):
probably everybody.
Now a GameStop spokespersonsaid that it was investigating
the matter and promised to makethe customers whole.
Now the problem with this is,if you got a Switch 2, the next
release of Switch 2s that willcome on out isn't for another
three to four months of the nextbatch that will come on out for
production.
So if you have a brand newSwitch 2, you have a chip screen
(46:48):
and you want to get it replaced, what do you end up doing?
You end up then packaging backyour Switch 2 that you just got
waiting in lines for and put itin a box so you can then get a
pristine.
Mike Gorday (46:59):
Switch.
Nathan Mumm (47:00):
Bad omens, bad omens To be taken care of Now,
gamestop says that it addressedthe unique case of staples
damaging to the Switch 2 screens.
Replacements have been orderedand staplers have been quote
unquote compensated.
Mike Gorday (47:15):
Confiscated Compensated.
Nathan Mumm (47:17):
Confiscated.
Mike Gorday (47:18):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (47:18):
Confiscated.
Now we're going to head out forour last commercial break.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget and, of course,
our pick of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumm.
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Speaker 1 (47:49):
This is your Nugget of the Week.
Nathan Mumm (47:53):
All right, let's get into our nugget.
Can ChatGPT take over yourGoogle Drive and Dropbox?
Yes, it can.
Chatgpt will take over yourGoogle Drive and Dropbox.
Yes, it can.
Chatgpt users can now use therecord mode to take notes on
meetings, brainstorming sessionsand thinking out loud.
Chatgpt can now connect toGoogle Drive, dropbox Box,
sharepoint and OneDrive andusers can query it for answers
(48:17):
about the stored spreadsheetsand documents alike.
So let's say, for your companyyou decide to say tell me what
the company's revenue in Q1 lastyear was.
Chatgpt will then go throughand sort all the data on your
repositories and it'll come onback out with information that
it has.
You can also ask it how manytimes did I take the ferry on my
(48:37):
Italy trip from last year?
Now ChatGPT will structure andclearly present the data and
respect your organization'sexisting permissions on the user
level from these documents withcitations.
The recording feature iscurrently only available for
ChatGPT team users, asubscription plan that sets you
back about $25 per person permonth for their annual
subscription of two plus users.
(48:58):
The notes and transcriptsinclude timestamp citations and
action items Now open.
Ai now has 3 million payingbusiness users up to from the 2
million in February.
So we went from 2 millionpeople in February to 3 million
people Now.
It doesn't say and I looked,and I looked and I looked is
this information stays withinthe organization or if it gets
put into the large languagemodel of chat GPT three.
(49:19):
So I looked and I looked isthis information stays within
the organization or if it getsput into the large language
model of ChatGPT3?
So I looked and I looked.
I couldn't find it either way.
So, my assumption is that, aseverything with ChatGPT, it
probably goes to an open AIlarge language model.
So anything that you have ofyour company in that area
probably is being sourced, but Ihaven't confirmed either way
(49:42):
and I haven't queried and lookedto see what the information is.
When we find that out, I willlet you know.
Now let's move on to our pickof the day whiskey tasting and
now our pick of the day for ourwhiskey tastings.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Let's see what bubbles to the top.
Marc Gregoire (50:00):
All right, all right, we're in round six, which
is the final round of the AVENcalendar overall of tasting all
the whiskeys, uh-oh, all right.
So I'm going to go in thecorrect order for our listeners
so they know what they shouldhave picked what we should have
picked what they should orshould not have picked.
And then you can tell me whatnumber it fell in yours.
(50:21):
So the worst by far, not evenclose from my palate, was in the
rocks glass.
That was the Stranahan's BluePeak Single Malt.
Mike Gorday (50:33):
That one.
Marc Gregoire (50:33):
No.
Nathan Mumm (50:34):
The rocks glass.
This one right here.
Marc Gregoire (50:35):
That one right there, your number one.
This is the worst.
Speaker 4 (50:43):
Undrinkable it's, for me it's.
It's weak what it's it's, buthow?
Mike Gorday (50:45):
much it's got.
It's got a nice taste, but it'sweak.
It is 86 proof.
Marc Gregoire (50:50):
Okay, now I will say I'm not a single malt person
, but in general that one Icouldn't.
Mike Gorday (50:54):
I couldn't even say I like single malts okay, I
liked it, but it wasn'tultimately, wasn't all right.
All right, what's the next oneup?
Marc Gregoire (51:00):
Mark the next one was I did not care for it, but
if you poured me one and Iwanted to be polite, I could get
it down.
The whistle pick, I'm sure.
Oh, no, you know, what I was.
So the first yeah, 19 was thefirst.
No, wait a minute.
Nathan Mumm (51:22):
Uh-oh, the worst, that's the water glass.
Speaker 5 (51:23):
Oh, that's the water glass, so that's this one.
That's this one right here.
That was mike's last one.
Okay, that's the second to last.
Marc Gregoire (51:25):
That makes more sense.
Sorry, gentlemen, jeez okay I'mjust getting back into this
thing, I think wow, mia on theone that was single malt, that
you know because I'm not asingle malt the one that was so.
So that was the rocks glass,the strand hand one.
So the one I did not, uh, yeah,so the strand hand blue malt
was okay.
Okay, general week, like mikesaid, the one I did not care for
(51:47):
at all was in the water glass.
That was the westlanddistillery flagship single malt
rc.
Mike Gorday (51:52):
I got it okay, I got it yeah now, the other two
were pretty close.
Marc Gregoire (51:58):
They're both bourbons winners, of course,
over the single malts, but theone that I would put in second
place was the one in theGlencairn.
Speaker 4 (52:06):
Okay, so that was your last, so you stand true.
Marc Gregoire (52:11):
That is Whistle Pig piggyback bourbon.
I put it last.
Nathan Mumm (52:15):
I thought it was fine.
I could smell the Whistle Pigin it.
It was single note.
Marc Gregoire (52:19):
It tastes like caramel and that's it.
Nathan Mumm (52:21):
Yeah, whoever Whistlepig uses to do their
filtration system should be shot.
Marc Gregoire (52:26):
And Mike, that was your number one.
Mike Gorday (52:27):
Yeah, that turned out to be the number one one.
Nathan Mumm (52:29):
You're a Whistlepig fan.
Marc Gregoire (52:31):
It had a really so if you're just getting into
bourbons or whiskey, go with theWhistlepig one.
That one was fine with thewhistle pig one.
That one was fine.
Caramel, nothing complex if youwant.
If you're more of a connoisseur, want something more complex,
something with a little bit morespice on it.
That one in the beer glass wasfray ranch farm strength uncut
(52:53):
bourbon at 123.88 proof that hada lot going on with it yeah, I
had a lot of trouble.
Mike Gorday (53:00):
How was your number two?
Marc Gregoire (53:02):
My number two was this.
So your number one was my lastand your number two was my first
.
Yes, Very interesting.
Nathan Mumm (53:10):
So we didn't choose the same one.
No, that's not your last,that's his.
This is my last.
This is my last right here.
This is the whistle.
No, that's his last, his lastis that one.
Isn't this Whistlepig?
I got the right one for my lastyeah okay, that's what he did,
all right, so we did not.
Okay, so let's wrap up.
Marc Gregoire (53:29):
The longest session ever.
Maybe we should have revealedthis differently.
Mike Gorday (53:31):
That's the Blue Moon, this is the Blue Moon, or
whatever it is.
Marc Gregoire (53:34):
Okay, so Nathan's number one was in the Rocks
class, that was Stranahan's BluePeak single malt, okay, and
Mike's number one was in theGlencairn Whistlepig piggyback
bourbon, which was, of course,nathan's last.
Yes, unfortunately, betweenthose two, the Whistlepig has to
move forward.
Nathan Mumm (53:50):
What You're putting the Whistlepig into the
playoffs.
Marc Gregoire (53:53):
Yes, oh, my word, it should have been you guys
both messed up.
You guys still aren'tconnoisseurs.
It should have been the frayranch that reminds me of the LA.
Lakers in the NBA playoffs Alot of hope, a lot of dreams,
not a lot of talent.
Yes, it should have been thisone.
Mike's number three, nathan'snumber two.
Nathan Mumm (54:08):
Okay, all right, all right.
Well, you know what?
Speaker 4 (54:18):
That was the longest segment we've ever done.
Nathan Mumm (54:19):
Sorry listeners, that's right.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (54:21):
Okay, now you know what.
All right, we're about out oftime.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.