Cybersecurity headlines might have you worried about the so-called "new" 16 billion credential leak, but don't panic! We break down why this widely-reported security breach isn't actually new at all—we covered it on Tech Time Radio six months ago. Learn why two-factor authentication is your best defense and how this compilation of previously leaked data affects your digital security.
The tech and military worlds are colliding as executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir join the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels. But there's a twist: these digital leaders are skipping traditional boot camp for "express training." We dive into the controversy and debate whether tech expertise should override traditional military integration processes or if this risks creating officers without proper understanding of military culture.
Gaming gets bizarre with "Date Everything"—a dating sim that lets you romance inanimate objects in your home that garnered a million downloads in just 24 hours. From washing machines to microwave ovens, this game raises fascinating questions about our relationship with technology and objects. We also explore Splitgate 2's unusual feature that gives players a 1-in-100 chance of emitting a fart sound when crouching, which adds a surprising tactical element to gameplay.
Don't miss our Two Truths and a Lie game, Mike's mesmerizing moment on the psychological implications of dating simulators, and our whiskey tasting featuring Old Grandad Bonded Bourbon. Plus, we unveil MidJourney's new video generation capabilities and what they mean for creators.
Join our Patreon at patreon.com/techtimeradio and subscribe to our social channels to keep up with the latest in technology news and whiskey appreciation from hosts who deliver expertise with a side of humor.
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Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:37):
All right, welcome to Tech Time Radio.
Today on the show we have ourTwo Truths and a Lie game show
segment you do not want to miss.
Will Odie Mark or Mike orNathan win lie game show segment
you do not want to miss.
Will Odie Mark or Mike orNathan win this game show, along
with full details on the $16billion or 16 billion person
security breach and why it isnot news.
In addition to these features,we have Mike's mesmerizing
(01:58):
moment, our technology fail theweek and a possible Nathan
nugget and, of course, our pickof the day whiskey tasting to
see if our selected whiskey pickat zero one or two thumbs up at
the end of the show.
But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology here are our toptechnology stories of the week
all right.
No, the 16 billion credentialleak is not a new data breach.
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The news is having a heyday onthe 16 billion login credentials
that have been compiled into adata set online, giving
criminals unprecedented accessto the accounts consumers use
each day.
Now a security company releasedtheir findings.
I just want to be very clearthat these are not new findings
and we will express theinformation on why we are going
(02:48):
to be talking about that, butbefore let's go to Lisa Walker
with more on this story,Billions of login credentials
have been leaked and compiledinto datasets online, giving
criminals unprecedented accessto accounts consumers use each
day, giving criminalsunprecedented access to accounts
consumers use each day.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
According to a report published last week,
researchers have recentlydiscovered 30 exposed datasets
that each contain a vast amountof login information, amounting
to a total of 16 billioncompromised credentials.
That includes user passwordsfor a range of popular platforms
, including Google, Facebook andApple.
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$16 billion is roughly doublethe amount of people on Earth
today, signaling that impactedconsumers may have had
credentials for more than oneaccount leaked Back to the
studio.
Nathan Mumm (03:41):
All right, so this should not be a surprise for
Tech Time listeners.
All right, so this should notbe a surprise for Tech Time
listeners, as we talked aboutthis on episode 233 on December
15th 2024.
All right, so that is almostsix months ago.
We talked about this and wetalked about the dark web that
is consolidating all theaccounts of these hack sites
(04:02):
into one global account.
You remember that conversation,mike Sure.
We've talked about it a coupletimes actually on our show.
Mike Gorday (04:10):
We talk about this stuff so much that I block
everything out with liquor.
Nathan Mumm (04:14):
Oh, okay, well, we've talked about this and so
this should not be any news orsurprise to people that listen
to Tech Time Radio.
But if you don't and you're themainstream media I guess you're
not weeks behind us.
Now you're months behind us,and now you're hearing about a
security company that went ontothe dark web and found that
there were 16 billion differentcontacts that they could search
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for if they paid for a serviceon the dark web to get these
accounts.
Now this has been going intoeffect for the last two years.
All of the cyber criminals havebeen pulling together all these
accounts into a master database, kind of like something like a
Wikipedia type of deal, whereyou would go on in and just
search and it would pull up eachof your usernames with your
passwords that are linked toyour accounts and linked to your
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email addresses.
So why is it that a securitycompany now comes out with this
and the mainstream media isrunning?
I have no idea, but let me justtell you, as we've talked about
, the most important thing toworry about this is
understanding that your passwordthat is out there is probably
anywhere between six to 10 yearsold.
So if you've changed yourpassword in the last six to 10
(05:22):
years, you're probably in goodshape, and the most important
thing that we've always talkedabout is you should adapt and
maintain good cybersecurityhabits, and this should be
having that.
Your passwords all usetwo-factor authentication.
We talk about this all the time.
Those are the six digits thatyou get from authenticator apps
like Microsoft Authenticator,google Authenticator, athi and
(05:44):
others that manage yourtwo-factor authentication codes.
Some password managers, likeBitwarden and 1Password, also
include authenticationfunctionality to use with the
application.
So everybody's, I hope,familiar with two-factor
authentication.
When you have a login for yourmain email accounts and your
main bank accounts or anyaccount that you have set up,
you should set up two-factorauthentication, which goes to
(06:06):
your phone device and you openthe app and it gives you
six-digit code that you have toput in to log in right.
This is how you are safe.
I don't care if anybody has mypasswords, because I know if
they're going to get intoanything important with my
passwords.
It's going to send a buzz to myphone and then, all of a sudden
, it'll do two-factorauthentication.
Now sometimes this happens, andguess what happens when this is
(06:31):
taken care of?
It'll send an alert and I willbe sleeping at night and all of
a sudden I'll get a whole bunchof two-factor authentication
requests coming on in, whichmeans that probably my password
has been compromised because I'mnot doing it early in the
morning.
So that's a good sign for youto go and change that account's
password so you can make surethat criminals don't have it.
(06:51):
Very simple rule Set uptwo-factor authentication.
Mike Gorday (06:56):
Can I get through the two-factor authentication?
Nathan Mumm (06:58):
Only if I would click yes.
So hopefully, if I'm notlogging into something I'm
sleeping on the side of the bedand I see all these alerts
coming on in for two factorauthentication, I hopefully
don't hit approve.
Now I have known some peoplethat all of a sudden say you
know what, I'm getting tired ofthese buzzes.
I'll hit approve, which wouldbe the wrong thing to do,
because now all of a sudden yougave people access to your
(07:19):
accounts but just don't approveit and make sure when you
actually log in you usetwo-factor authentication.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
This is not a new breach.
Nathan Mumm (07:26):
This has been out there for a long time.
Don't be scared.
Use two-factor authentication.
All right, let's go to storynumber two, Mike.
Mike Gorday (07:34):
You sure you want to talk about that?
Nathan Mumm (07:36):
What's that?
Story number two?
Mike Gorday (07:37):
Story number two, yeah, isn't this your favorite
how tech execs are joining theArmy without going to boot camp.
Nathan Mumm (07:43):
Yeah, tell me all about this.
You were really excited when webrought this up in our
production show.
Mike Gorday (07:47):
I think this is ridiculous?
Nathan Mumm (07:48):
Okay, well go through and explain it.
Mike Gorday (07:50):
Four top tech execs from OpenAI, meta and Palantir
have joined the US Army.
No obstacle courses, shoutedorders or grueling marches
required Uh-oh.
But this is the Army Reserve,okay, and it has commissioned
these senior tech leaders toserve as mid-level officers.
Lieutenant colonels Okay,skipping tradition to pursue
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transformation.
The newcomers won't attend anycurrent version of the
military's most basic andingrained rite of passage boot
camp.
Instead, they'll be ushered inthrough express training.
Army leaders are still hashingout, which is a form of officer
training school okay, they'll domarksmanship training, physical
training, they'll learn thearmy rank structure and history
(08:33):
and uniforms, but it's stilllike boot camp.
Light okay, you could think ofit as a pilot program, and I
have a problem with this myself.
Okay, well, explain that If youdon't put them through a
(08:53):
training program, then theydon't have an understanding of
what it's like to serve in themilitary Okay, understanding of
what it's like to serve in themilitary okay.
And when they don't have anunderstanding of what it is to
serve in the military, then theywill be making decisions that
aren't necessarily beneficial tothe military okay, what about
(09:16):
these special groups like haveyou watched the movie
oppenheimer?
Nathan Mumm (09:19):
right, there's like these special people that come
on in, they get different ranks,that are civilian people and
don't go through the training.
Mike Gorday (09:27):
This is not something that's not precedented
or unprecedented.
The army has allowed directcommission of civilians since
1861.
Okay, which is, you know,before the civil war.
Yeah, to bring experts in thathave critically needed skills
into the armed forces.
Nathan Mumm (09:46):
So do you think they're bringing in these
individuals to help lead sideprojects regarding, like AI?
Mike Gorday (09:54):
Well, it's obvious that they want to bring them in
because of their skills, becauseof their knowledge about
technology and things like that.
I think it's a bad idea that ifthey don't have any basic
training maybe not going throughboot camp, but at least they
(10:14):
need to understand what themilitary is and how the military
works.
Nathan Mumm (10:19):
Do you think they would understand, just coming on
as a civilian, the life of amilitary individual if they
don't go through this?
Mike Gorday (10:24):
Yeah, they need to understand that, because the
military is a social structure,okay, and it has its own ways of
being and mores and things likethat.
And when you bring somebody inthat doesn't understand those
and you put them in a positionof where they're in charge, then
they can make.
Like I said earlier, they canmake decisions that don't said
earlier.
(10:44):
They can make decisions thatdon't bring in these pieces of
that information that they wouldknow if they were military to
begin with.
Nathan Mumm (10:53):
Okay, so yeah, now I will say this the list of the
people that are there.
You got the Meta you got theChief.
Mike Gorday (11:03):
Technology Officer for Palantir uh.
The chief technology officer ofmeta, that's kevin whale kevin
or andrew bosworth uh is andrewbosworth.
Nathan Mumm (11:13):
Uh, kevin whale is.
Mike Gorday (11:14):
Kevin whale is the chief product officer at open ai
, okay.
And then bob grau, which is anadvisor at thinking machine labs
, okay, uh, and they will bejoining the.
Now, this is the Army Reserve,this isn't the regular Army.
Okay, they are going to bejoining them as lieutenant
colonels.
Nathan Mumm (11:33):
Okay, I think the Army Reserve is now all of a
sudden chose to have likeenlistments now of people in
their 40s plus, so they'vechanged some of their.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Army Reserve.
Nathan Mumm (11:44):
It's possible that allows that to happen.
So maybe this is just thebranching out of that, but but
you, you clearly were verypassionate that you think they
should go through the militarytraining and understand what's
going on yeah, I didn't actuallyread the whole article, so, uh,
it appears that they are goingto be doing something, but it's
not going to be the normal routeso that's a little bit better
(12:04):
than in your opinion.
What do you think then?
Mike Gorday (12:06):
I don't know okay okay, I don't know, I'm going to
, I'm going to reserve judgmenton that for the reserve army
lieutenant colonels that arejust going to be plugged into
the army reserve commandstructure okay, well, you know,
the military is like in the newsevery moment.
Nathan Mumm (12:22):
Now you know that it's getting more and more and
more all right story, just hurtmy knee are you okay?
all right.
Story never.
Well, there you go.
Story number three open ai bossmeta offering one million
dollars to poach the open aistaff.
The boss at open ai, sam altman, says members of his team have
been getting giant offers fromrival tech firm meta, including
(12:44):
a 100 million dollar signingbonus.
Meta, which owns facebook,instagram, whatsapp, is
attempting to boost its ai sideof business by offering to go
and poach altman's best people.
What do you think?
A hundred?
I?
Mike Gorday (12:57):
don't know the army's doing it.
Why not meta a hundred?
Nathan Mumm (13:01):
million dollar signing except where they're not
, you know you could always goand work for meta for a couple
months and then you can come onback for open ai and you'll be
ready to go all right.
Well, there you go.
Now, story number four.
This is interesting the videogame date.
Everything has been released.
Have you heard that?
This is a sensation?
Mike Gorday (13:16):
a million downloads in one day, yeah I don't, even,
I don't go ahead.
Nathan Mumm (13:20):
It's finally time to date everything as the title
of this dating sim.
You can now romance thingsaround your home.
Mike Gorday (13:27):
So there's more.
Nathan Mumm (13:28):
I don't know.
Okay, there's more than 100voice actors who can woo from
doors and walls to a mousetrapand a dust bunny behind the
couch.
So these are inanimate objectsthat you are able to date.
Ody (13:44):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (13:44):
All right things get pretty meta, as you can also
date the devs of the game Ismeta, another word for stupid.
Mike Gorday (13:53):
Well, I don't know if it's meta.
Nathan Mumm (13:56):
It's a game itself.
An overwhelming sense of dreadhappens, so you can.
Mike Gorday (14:02):
Even that word is existential dread, existential
dread, so you can even that wordis existential, existential,
existential.
Nathan Mumm (14:06):
So you can have this dating the game itself, so
you can fall in love with thegame.
Mike Gorday (14:10):
I guess this is this.
Is this?
This really just inflames allmy psychological knowledge here,
Is it?
Yeah, this is stupid, this isdumb, this is, this is not a
good thing.
Nathan Mumm (14:23):
This is not what I'm going to ask you in the
mesmerizing moment.
A little bit more about this.
You're going to need to breakthat down Now.
There are multiple endings foreach character, around 70,000
lines of dialogue, so there'splenty to explore here.
Mike Gorday (14:35):
Can I get my chair to be jealous of my microwave
oven?
Nathan Mumm (14:39):
I think you can.
That's what this game is.
That's what this game is aboutDate.
Everything All right.
A million downloads in one day.
Mike Gorday (14:45):
I have a bad feeling about this.
Oh, do you?
You know there's going to bevideos on the internet with
Bounce Bounce Chicka, BounceBounce in there with the washing
machine or the washing machine.
Nathan Mumm (14:56):
The washing machine is like the number one item
that gets romance.
That and the toilet, I guess,are the number one and two
things in your house.
So there you go.
Mike Gorday (15:04):
I don't know why you know that, but I'm not going
to ask.
You probably have the gamealready.
Nathan Mumm (15:09):
No, I did play it all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, that ends our top technology stories of the
week.
Nathan Mumm (15:13):
When we return, we have two truths and a lie.
Can Nathan pass off the storyas a true story that is already
made up?
Well, we'll find out.
You're listening to Tech Timewith Nathan Mumm.
We'll be back after thecommercial break.
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Nathan Mumm (16:16):
Mmm.
Welcome back to Tech Time Radio.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts, we do asense of humor in less than 60
minutes and, of course, a littlewhiskey on the side.
Today, Mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is in the
studio.
Mark, what have you chosen forus today?
Today?
Marc Gregoire (16:34):
we're drinking Old Grandad Bonded Bourbon, also
known as OGD 100.
Now from Jim Beam's distillingwebsite.
Basil Hayden Sr, known as OldGrandad to the generations that
followed, made bourbon the wayhe wanted.
He went against the traditionalgrain of the time and chose to
distill his bourbon with ahigher percentage of rye.
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First bottled in 1882, verylittle has changed about it A
spicy nose with hints of driedfruits, medium body shows some
sweet vanilla, but more evidentis the peppery spiciness
displayed by notes of clove andcinnamon.
All right Now.
This is from Jim Beam Suntory.
(17:16):
Their distillery is inClaremont, kentucky.
It's a straight bourbon, fouryears, 100 proof, 63% corn, 27%
rye, 10% malted barley, and itgoes for $25.
Mike Gorday (17:29):
Well, this is definitely Nathan's top shelf,
right here.
Nathan Mumm (17:32):
Well, no, come on, it's not my top shelf, I got
it's on a second shelf Elishaand.
Marc Gregoire (17:36):
Craig.
Nathan Mumm (17:36):
It's on a second shelf.
Oh, yeah, it's a second shelf.
Yeah, it's your second shelf.
Marc Gregoire (17:39):
Oh, and because the bottle doesn't fit on this
top shelf, which is a littleshorter.
Mike Gorday (17:42):
Yeah, I know.
Nathan Mumm (17:43):
Oh, wow, okay, Okay , all right, this is.
You know what We've had oldgranddads on before right, we
have.
Marc Gregoire (17:49):
We've had the regular 86 proof and we've had
the 114 proof.
Nathan Mumm (17:54):
And how have our ratings been?
Did you go back and take?
Marc Gregoire (17:57):
a look at our ratings.
Oh, okay, okay.
Nathan Mumm (17:59):
All right, I pretty much think I said thumbs up.
I'm just going to guess,because this is the type of
whiskey that I enjoy sitting onout in a nice summer breeze, a
little fire on the side, it'sfairly inexpensive and it's very
nutty, like you.
Marc Gregoire (18:16):
That's why.
Nathan Mumm (18:16):
Okay, all right.
Marc Gregoire (18:21):
It does have a screw cap.
That's the only downside.
Nathan Mumm (18:24):
That's all right.
Marc Gregoire (18:24):
Don't forget to like and subscribe.
Drink responsibly Heaven canwait.
Nathan Mumm (18:28):
All right, With our first whiskey tasting completed
, let's move on to our featuresegment.
Today we have the game showeveryone can play at home, but
we're going to be playing it inthe studio, and it's two truths
and a lie.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And now we have two truths and a lie.
Nathan Mumm (18:46):
All right, I'm going to read you guys three
headlines out of the news today,okay, or this week?
Well, there may be a little bitdelayed and you're going to
tell me if it's true or if it'sfalse.
Okay, all right, here we go.
Story number one you can get alifetime license of microsoft
office professional 2021 for 75.
(19:10):
It's a lifetime license for onewindows pc, ideal for those who
don't want their softwarewithout a subscription.
If your current version ofoffice is starting to feel a
little old, this might be theright time to upgrade without
committing to a subscription.
Now, microsoft OfficeProfessional 2021 for Windows is
down to $74.97, marked downfrom its regular price of $219.
(19:32):
It's a one-time purchase with alifetime license for one
Windows PC.
Now this is what happens whenyou get this you download it to
that PC.
If you format that PC, thelicense is gone.
It's only downloaded to that PC.
If you format that PC, thelicense is gone.
It's only downloaded to that PC.
So once you so, you need todownload this to your newest
machine that you have.
It's one account where you geta one-time use.
(19:53):
It's a use it or lose it.
After that, it's no longerthere.
Ody (19:57):
So it's not a lifetime license.
Nathan Mumm (19:58):
Well, it's a lifetime license you will never
have to upgrade.
So this is what they considerold school software, but now
we're calling it a lifetimelicense because you'll always
have access to officeprofessional 2021.
Ody (20:12):
you will never have to upgrade it, so I wouldn't be
able to use it on my laptop andcomputer no, you got no one pcs.
Marc Gregoire (20:20):
A windows pc, one windows pc, let me, let me
touch Mike, let me channel Mike.
This is stupid.
Ody (20:26):
I agree.
Nathan Mumm (20:27):
Well you know what?
Ody (20:29):
It's $75.
But is it a lie?
Nathan Mumm (20:32):
or is it a truth?
Is it a lie, or is it a truth?
Whatever it is, I got so muchto say.
That's true.
See, you don't know, I couldjust be making it all up.
Mike Gorday (20:39):
Right, this is a.
It could be because everybodyreplaces their PC every couple
of years at the most.
Nathan Mumm (20:52):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (20:53):
And so if they're buying this thing multiple times
, that's going to equate to asubscription.
Nathan Mumm (21:01):
Yeah, it could, but everything now on the Office
suite is pretty much asubscription basis.
Your chance, all right.
Story number two Trump confirmsfurther delay on TikTok ban or
sale deadline.
Office suite pretty much asubscription basis your chance,
all right.
Story number two trump confirmsfurther delay on tiktok ban or
sale deadline.
President donald trump hasextended the deadline for tiktok
sale in the us for another 90days.
The video sharing app has facedquestions over its future after
(21:22):
the us passed a law last yearrequiring the app to be banned
unless sold by its chineseparent company, bite ByteDance.
Lawmakers have said that itposes a risk to national
security, something TikTokdenies.
Trump, who vowed to save TikTokduring the presidential
campaign, signed an executiveorder on Thursday, which was
last week, which was delayed thedate of enforcing the law for a
(21:45):
third time.
The date of enforcing the lawfor a third time.
In a statement, tiktok said itwas grateful for President
Trump's leadership and supportin keeping the app online for
its 170 million users.
Mike Gorday (21:56):
Yeah, that sounds like a truth.
Marc Gregoire (21:58):
Yeah, this is so true.
Ody (22:01):
Yeah, I think that sounds pretty good, yeah, I have no
doubt about that.
Mike Gorday (22:05):
That sounds like basic stuff right there.
Nathan Mumm (22:07):
That sounds like basic news, alright, so this is
the third time it's beenextended I.
Mike Gorday (22:12):
I don't think it's ever gonna not be extended.
Nathan Mumm (22:15):
You think so.
You think it's just gonnacontinue forever?
Yeah, so he's never gonna sellit have you ever heard that
buddy?
Ody (22:20):
buddy with the ceo?
I can't see him.
You know his ce CEO came onover and hung out.
Yeah, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (22:29):
They hung out, same with you know he's done the
same thing with Zuckerberg, butI think, as long as you keep,
around then you can pushZuckerberg around.
If there's no tick tock, then Iguess, as president Trump, you
can't push tick tock around todo what it's or you can't meta
to do what they want to do.
Mike Gorday (22:50):
There's or you can't meta to do what they want
to do.
There's a nice phrase from Gameof Thrones.
It's called words or wind.
What does that mean?
Words or?
Nathan Mumm (22:54):
wind.
Oh, they just come in the wind.
They just don't mean anything,Okay well, alright, so you got
two stories so far.
Are you leaning towards one ofthose, the two stories being
false?
No Okay, here we got the nextstory.
Head stories being false.
No okay, here we got the nextstory headline number three a
(23:16):
500 made in america smartphonewill be released in august of
this year.
Mike Gorday (23:18):
That's wrong.
That's false hang on.
Marc Gregoire (23:19):
This is a.
This is a tricky one becauseit's in the news as being true,
okay, so I'm just, it'll befalse as hell okay.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
well, hang on.
So I to read the article firstand you got to tell me if that's
the true news article or not.
All right, the TrumpOrganization, led by President's
eldest son, said last week thatit has licensed Donald Trump's
name to a new wireless serviceand a gold-colored phone.
The T1 has a device.
It's supposed to be availablein August for $499.
(23:49):
It's proudly designed and builtin the United States, the
company said in a statement.
The T1, in contrast, wouldretail for just a fraction of
the price, raising questionsabout how such a US-made device
would be profitable.
Now the Trump organizationdidn't disclose which company
would make the T1 or where itwill be produced.
What's that?
Mike Gorday (24:08):
Where'd your win?
Where'd your?
Nathan Mumm (24:09):
win.
It only gave some technicalspecification, including that it
will run on Google Android'soperating system, come with a
fingerprint sensor and facialrecognition for unlocking, and
has a 6.8 inch screen.
Marc Gregoire (24:23):
Did you also mention two megabytes of memory?
The look and the tech specsmatch exactly to a phone made in
China.
Well, hang on.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
We're getting there, we're getting there.
Nathan Mumm (24:35):
I mean this could be false, we're getting there.
The product page for the phoneis also riddled with errors and
omissions.
It's described the device ashaving a 5,000 milliamp long
life camera which should readbattery An error that was fixed
after it first noted comes with12 gigabytes Ram storage.
Ram is generally referred to asmemory, since any data stored
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in Ram is grace, so it's notreally a 12 gigabyte storage
device, cause that would be theRam that's in there.
The Trump organization did notsay who it's partnering with on
the wireless service or device,but tucked away in the website's
terms of use is a reference tothe service being powered by
Liberty Mobile Wireless, itselfa virtual carrier that uses
(25:19):
other companies' networks.
Wireless coverage will comefrom the nation's three biggest
wireless providers, the Trumporganization said.
Ody (25:28):
So does it have the storage space on there?
It did not put the storagespace on it.
It has two megabytes of storage.
Nathan Mumm (25:34):
It didn't put how big it better be at least 32.
It should be 32.
Mike Gorday (25:40):
So there we go.
It operates on a BOD ratio A$500 Maine in America smartphone
.
Nathan Mumm (25:46):
Now I, just as you were saying, there is an
equivalent to this T1 that ismade by China and Taiwan.
It's by both companies.
That looks almost exactly likewhat they kind of modeled on
their website briefly and thentook the picture off.
And this isn't made in theUnited States.
I don't know.
Marc Gregoire (26:07):
That story was released as true.
Nathan Mumm (26:09):
It was released as true.
Marc Gregoire (26:10):
Now it's kind of like a Saturday Night Live
sketch, Okay.
Remember when they used to haveDonald Jr and Eric on there,
the two sons, yeah, so Donalddid this press release.
Nathan Mumm (26:22):
Yeah.
Marc Gregoire (26:22):
And then Eric, let it slip a little later that
eventually this is going tohappen.
Eventually it's going to happen.
Mike Gorday (26:33):
It's going to.
This is going to happen.
Eventually it's going to happen.
It's going to be made in the us.
Nathan Mumm (26:35):
So so what do you want us to determine?
Whether this is a true title ora false title?
Well, this is do you is this?
So here's what we're going okay.
Mike Gorday (26:38):
So the game is two truth and a lie, so one of these
is supposed to be patentlyfalse.
That is correct, and the othertwo are supposed to be true.
But you've given us two.
That could be either.
Nathan Mumm (26:49):
Well, how are you going with that?
Are you saying the 500 made inamerica smartphone I released in
august of this year was notreleased as a true story?
Ody (26:59):
yeah, I don't think it was made in america it was released
as a true I think I think that's.
Mike Gorday (27:03):
I think that's a.
I think that's a true release.
I don't.
I don't think that's a truerelease.
I don't think it's a true thing.
I think it's a true.
Nathan Mumm (27:13):
Article title Okay, so we're going to go with
article title.
So we're going to go witharticle title today.
Mike Gorday (27:18):
So if we're going with article titles, I'm going
to come down on the first onebeing the false one.
Okay, all right Because thatseems like the most ridiculous
one out of the three.
All right, mike cheers.
Marc Gregoire (27:29):
I'm with you, odie, are you going?
Nathan Mumm (27:30):
to go with the guys .
Yeah, I'll do that and truestory is the $500 made in
American smartphone.
Congratulations.
It has been announced that itwill come out and be released in
August.
Now I will just tell you Ihighly doubt this will ever
happen.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I think, it's false.
Nathan Mumm (27:47):
But that is a true story.
Trump did confirm the delay ofTikTok to ban the sale deadline
for 90 days.
So that is the true story.
You guys are correct.
You can actually get a lifetimelicense of Microsoft Office
Professional for $50, not $75.
Really, I'm kind of persuadedto get it then, so it's for $50.
(28:08):
So let's talk about this.
Mike Gorday (28:10):
That was cheap buddy.
That was a cheap way of tryingto win the game.
Nathan Mumm (28:14):
I also changed everything in here too, so let's
talk about this.
So you get a one time purchase.
The license is only for aWindows PC, but you can move it
from machine to machine Becauseyou own the actual license, like
old fashioned software so youcould have it.
Marc Gregoire (28:28):
It's different than any other license in the
old days before subscription.
Mike Gorday (28:31):
That's like Windows 95.
That's why.
Nathan Mumm (28:33):
I made it up.
That's why I made it up.
Marc Gregoire (28:34):
And lifetime is silly because they discontinue
it, they don't put patches andit actually doesn't run on new
operating systems.
Nathan Mumm (28:40):
So that's kind of a lie too, but that's not at
least how they're selling it.
They are selling it for $49.97,you can get a lifetime upgrade
of Office Professional 2021.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Now, just to let you know, this is 2025.
Nathan Mumm (28:59):
There has been seven different.
Yeah, are you sure?
I'm sure.
Okay, there's been sevendifferent upgrades to this
Office Professional 2021.
Mike Gorday (29:06):
This is the pandemic plus version of the.
Nathan Mumm (29:08):
So if you really wanted to go with something that
is newer than this that isabsolutely free, I would just
suggest don't purchase themicrosoft office and go online
to use this product called openoffice.
Open office is a great tool.
Have you used open officebefore?
Od you're looking at me likethat?
Why You're looking at me likethat?
Ody (29:27):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because Google's right there.
I'm a Google girlie.
You got everything right there.
She's on Tech Time.
Mike Gorday (29:34):
Radio, where we always hear about how everything
gets hacked and destroyed andmessed up.
Ody (29:39):
So why would I use an open office?
Nothing is safe.
Nathan Mumm (29:43):
Okay.
Well, there is free productsthat are available that do come
with patches, that are actuallygood for word processing.
If you need something for wordprocessing, if you need
something for your Excelspreadsheets, you can find that
with OpenOffice for absolutelyfree updates every month.
Good system.
It actually converts PDFsbetter than, in my opinion, than
the PDF converter that you getfrom Adobe, and you don't have
(30:03):
to worry about the licensing andthe trials or anything.
So I would say, go and look atOpenOffice as an alternative for
your PDF editors.
Marc Gregoire (30:11):
What does Nathan Mumm use for his word processor?
Nathan Mumm (30:14):
I use, of course, Office 365.
So I use the updated version.
Ody (30:18):
Yeah, he's a Microsoft girl .
He's sticking through.
Nathan Mumm (30:21):
I am, so I do use that, but I do not do the
one-time purchase so there yougo, why would you?
Well, that ends our segment.
Two truths and a lie up.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
(30:42):
All right, mike, here's yourmesmerizing moment.
Our video game's getting toomuch like reality.
Let's talk about this videogame that I opened up and talked
about All right?
Mike Gorday (30:51):
Is this about the day and everything?
This isn't about reality.
This is about fantasy.
Nathan Mumm (30:55):
Okay, is it about fantasy?
Well, explain to me why are wegetting so into?
I was just looking at videogames online.
There is a lawnmower simulator.
So if I want to do my yard, Ican go out and do it, but wait,
you can't hate on those.
Those are fine.
What are you?
Mike Gorday (31:12):
talking about.
Ody (31:13):
Those are some of the very first ones yeah, well, no, no,
no, this is a brand new release.
Mike Gorday (31:16):
I just was playing the the lawnmower I, I played
the lawnmower video game okay,back in 1980 okay.
Nathan Mumm (31:26):
Well, I guess I must have had an updated version
of this.
I'm sure they just recycled it.
Mike Gorday (31:31):
That was one of the very first video games.
It was like a math school.
Nathan Mumm (31:35):
It was a pressure washer gaming game.
I love that game.
Mike Gorday (31:40):
It's like Zen you just go and you just clean stuff
.
Ody (31:44):
It's out getting dirty without any of the hard labor.
Nathan Mumm (31:49):
It's a very strange , very zen-like thing to do, so
you want to go and you want togo for your enjoyment.
You want to go and you want toclean windows in cement with
your power washing.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Have you tried it.
Nathan Mumm (32:02):
Yes, I have tried it.
Marc Gregoire (32:03):
I don't understand why you guys are both
Nathan Mike and Odie areinvited over to my house to
pressure wash in real life.
Mike Gorday (32:10):
That's exactly right.
That's not the point.
The point is Be all Zen youwant in my house, clean it up.
It's like Minecraft.
You just zone out and do ityeah, okay, exactly.
Nathan Mumm (32:20):
Okay, so are these good then for society?
So I mean, let me ask you, youthat's such a big jump.
Yeah, that's a hang on.
I said our video games, notnathan's awesomeness.
No, our video game is gettingtoo much like reality.
Mike Gorday (32:34):
That's this, this is the concept.
This is a no.
I I don't.
I don't when we're talkingabout a game that allows you to
date your microwave.
I think that's problematicbecause, first off, we don't
need to be blurring the lines offantasy in the real world.
Okay, you know, this is likethe AI bots that I talk about
with the dating apps.
(32:54):
Yeah, the dating bots.
Yeah, they're harmfulpsychologically and it
encourages unhealthyrelationships with things that
we want to anthropomorphize okaywhich means we want to make it
human.
So if, if I have a game that isencouraging me to treat my
(33:18):
washing machine like a romanticpartner, I don't think you need
any 70s music to see the problemthere.
Okay okay that's problematic,okay, but if you have a game now
, what type of 70s music?
I see the problem there.
Okay, okay, that's problematic,okay, but if you have a game
now, what type of 70s music?
Nathan Mumm (33:32):
I just want to make sure I already bound, bound
chicken okay, okay, okay.
That's what I was thinking.
I just want to make sure we'retalking about romance, right?
Mike Gorday (33:39):
yeah, okay, you don't need to be running around
doing romantic things with yourmicrowave, okay because you
could get hurt okay, yeah, okay.
But if you have a game that youknow, all these simulator games
there's.
There's simulator games forpressure washing, their
simulator games for farming,their simulator games for
(34:00):
everything.
Um, those are different in thatit doesn't encourage you to
blur the lines of reality inyour own house okay, okay, okay
and so like is it like thepressure washing thing?
like I said it, it can help youtake your mind off of the
(34:22):
stresses of the day becauseyou're simply it's, it's almost
a meditation, it's almost rightyou're, you're just doing
repetitive behaviors and ithelps.
(34:42):
It helps you with stress.
But when you're encouragingthings like, uh, dating your
microwave, that that I I don'tthink any any reasonable person
would would look at that and go,oh yeah, that's awesome okay
and we're reasonable people Ididn't say that I said any
(35:02):
reasonable person all right.
I mean, are you gonna?
What are you not about turningoff?
Ody (35:07):
your brain nathan.
What did you?
What did?
Mike Gorday (35:09):
you date.
What is that?
You said you date?
Nathan Mumm (35:12):
you played the game , so I played it I played it for
a little bit to see what it wasactually about, so I can make
sure when people ask me about it.
And so I dated the washingmachine.
And what did it do?
It popped up this littleanimated character and it says
hi, I'm the washing machine.
So it actually put a character.
Marc Gregoire (35:28):
Did you choose the washing?
Ody (35:29):
machine because of when are the eyes?
Marc Gregoire (35:32):
You know, a lot of people get pleasure from the
washing machine.
Nathan Mumm (35:35):
Oh, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa.
Mike Gorday (35:38):
Okay, no, that's funny.
Why are you bringing that?
Nathan Mumm (35:42):
up?
Not at all.
Just because that was the thingin the house, I would have
dated the fridge the fridge okay.
Mike Gorday (35:47):
Yeah, I think most men would probably date the
fridge.
Nathan Mumm (35:49):
Okay, well, you know what?
Mike Gorday (35:50):
Or the grill the grill.
Nathan Mumm (35:53):
Well, you can have a grill.
That's my lover.
You could not get out of thehouse, so at least the game.
Oh what, it only has it in thehouse.
Mike Gorday (35:59):
You're stuck in the house, and you should never
grill in the house.
See, even this discussiondoesn't make any sense, right?
It doesn't have to.
I mean, this is just incredibly, this rising moments, it's
mindless badness.
Nathan Mumm (36:11):
Okay, up next we have this Week in Technology, so
now would be a great time toenjoy a little whiskey on the
side, as we're going to be doinga show during the break.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumsey in a
few minutes.
Hey, mike.
Mike Gorday (36:22):
Yo, what's up.
Nathan Mumm (36:23):
Hey, so you know what.
Mike Gorday (36:24):
We need people to start liking our social media
page If you like our show, ifyou really like us we could use
your support on Patreoncom.
Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, Patreon, If you reallylike us you can like us in.
Patreoncom.
I butcher the English language.
Nathan Mumm (36:42):
You know, you butcher the English language all
the time.
It's Patreoncom, patreoncom.
Mike Gorday (36:48):
If you really like our show, you can subscribe to
Patreoncom and help us out andyou can visit us on that
Facebook platform.
Nathan Mumm (36:55):
You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one
that we always bag on.
Yeah, you can.
We're on Facebook too.
Yeah, like us on Facebook.
You know what our Facebook pageis Tech time radio.
At tech time radio.
Mike Gorday (37:05):
And you know what.
There's a there's a trend here.
Nathan Mumm (37:10):
It you can even Instagram with us, and that's at
Tech Time Radio.
That's at Tech Time Radio.
Or you can find us on TikTok,and it's Tech Time Radio.
It's at Tech Time Radio.
Mike Gorday (37:19):
Like and subscribe to our social media Like us
today we need you to like us.
Like us and subscribe.
Nathan Mumm (37:25):
That's it.
That's it, it's that simple.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (37:34):
All right, in our way back machine, we're going to
June 28th 1965.
The first commercialcommunication satellite is
activated, the Intel sat one.
The first commercialcommunication satellite is
activated for service and hisnickname is early bird, after
the famous proverb, and becomesfamous for carrying the first
(37:54):
commercial telephone callbetween America and Europe, as
well as helping provide TVcoverage of the Gemini six
splashdown.
So this was the idea.
Intel sat has helped make ElonMusk and his idea of satellite
communication a reality becauseof the Intel sat one back in
1965.
Mike Gorday (38:15):
Are you sure that's why?
Nathan Mumm (38:15):
Oh yeah, satellite communication a reality because
of the.
Mike Gorday (38:17):
Intel sat one back in 1965.
Are you sure?
Nathan Mumm (38:19):
that's why, well, yeah, are you sure that has
nothing to do with billions ofdollars?
Mike Gorday (38:22):
No, I mean the idea of bouncing off a telephone
call and making Wally become areal thing.
Nathan Mumm (38:26):
There you go, all right.
Well, that was this week intechnology.
If you ever wanted to watchsome Tech Time history, with
over 250 plus weekly broadcastsspanning our four plus years of
video, podcast and bloginformation, you can visit
TechTimeRadiocom to watch ourolder shows.
We're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we have theMark Mumbo Whiskey Review.
See you after the break.
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Speaker 1 (39:49):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Nathan Mumm (40:00):
All right.
Marc Gregoire (40:01):
What do we got here?
Today is a very special day forme.
Today you probably won't guesstoday- Okay, I'm not even going
to make you guess.
Nathan Mumm (40:08):
Oh, all right.
Mike Gorday (40:08):
It's not national date.
Your toaster day, Is it?
Nathan Mumm (40:11):
national flip a coin day.
It is not Okay.
He just said he wasn't gonnamake his guess, it's you know.
So we both guessed anyways, allright okay, that's part of the
show.
Mike Gorday (40:22):
We have to try and guess we're actually so.
Marc Gregoire (40:24):
I am celebrating two things today saint jean
baptiste day and farmer's day.
Oh, jean-baptiste is celebratedby French Canadians, which
honor the traditional feast ofthe Nativity or the birth of St
John the Baptist, and Farmer'sDay is celebrated in Peru every
year as a tribute to thehardworking local farmers that
(40:45):
provide food to the table toevery Peruvian.
Farmer Day is also celebratedin tandem with the feast of St
John the Baptist Day.
Mike Gorday (40:53):
You're really starting to reach for these,
aren't you?
Well, thank you, Mike.
Marc Gregoire (40:58):
That leads to why am I celebrating these two
today?
Nathan Mumm (41:02):
Okay, why are you celebrating?
Marc Gregoire (41:03):
So we're sipping Old Grandad bonded today, which
feels especially meaningful thisyear for me, knowing my
grandfather was born, raised andowned a farm in St
Jean-Baptiste, manitoba.
Mike Gorday (41:18):
Canada oh looky there.
Marc Gregoire (41:19):
Where the day not only honors the patron of his
hometown, it also celebrates thehardworking farmers who shape
families and communities.
Like his, my dad grew up on hisfarm.
Really Thank you Odie.
Ody (41:34):
Let's give it for his grandpa.
Nathan Mumm (41:35):
That's right.
Have you ever thought aboutmoving back to Canada?
I have, I have.
Marc Gregoire (41:44):
Let's talk about Old Grandad Bonded Now.
This is one of the few widelyavailable bourbons still made
under the strict standards ofthe Bottle and Bond Act of 1897.
Meaning it's distilled by onedistiller at one distillery in
one distillation season, aged atleast four years, bottled in
exactly 100 proof under USgovernment supervision.
(42:07):
It's a throwback to when Bondedwas a mark of quality in
American whiskey.
All right, now Old Grandad is asolid bourbon.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
It's nutty as we see today, very approachable.
Marc Gregoire (42:18):
A great pick for someone just getting into
whiskey.
That said, I tend to lean toOld GDD 114, which is on your
shelf.
Nathan Mumm (42:27):
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (42:28):
Which is the same mashable, just a little bit
higher proof for a few bucksmore.
It brings more punch and depthof flavor, and it's a higher
proof is too much.
You add a little ice to bringit down to 100 without watering
it down or losing the body.
Mike Gorday (42:41):
All right, and with .
Marc Gregoire (42:41):
that said, this is still a solid bottle.
If you're not into the higherproofs, I would definitely go
the bonded over.
The 86 proof Okay Makes a bigdifference.
Nathan Mumm (42:51):
All right, and this is on your shelf, your second
shelf, third shelf, or where doyou, where do you keep this at
your?
Marc Gregoire (42:57):
I kind of bought this for the show.
It's very inexpensive, as wesaw $25.
Uh, when it goes back it'sgoing to go in my cocktail
cabinet, okay.
Nathan Mumm (43:05):
All right, that makes sense.
Marc Gregoire (43:06):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (43:08):
Well, our information regarding our
whiskey.
Whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, similar to cell
phones and protective cases.
One item compliments the other.
Let me just ask you All right,I'm going to go down the line
here how many of you guys have acell phone?
Everybody raises their hand.
Now, how many of you guys, whenyou got your cell phone, bought
(43:28):
a protective case?
You mean like the one on whyare you asking?
that question Because it's justinteresting that you can't have
a cell phone without aprotective case.
So you should just actually getyour cell phone with a
protective case, and then you'dbe good to go.
Ody (43:44):
You're not those kind of people that just like deal with
it for the week no, I don't.
Nathan Mumm (43:49):
That's what I do.
Do you actually get it withouta case?
I'm looking at yours as a caseright now.
Ody (43:53):
Yeah, after the fact.
Okay, but I never have the casein hand when I go into the
store.
Mike Gorday (43:59):
When I bought my new cell phone, about what?
A month and a half, two monthsago, they didn't have cases.
Nathan Mumm (44:07):
What it was so new.
You couldn't find a knockoffcase anywhere.
Mike Gorday (44:13):
I had to order it online.
They didn't have it at thestore.
Marc Gregoire (44:17):
I don't know how you guys do that.
I order my case first.
I know during that week it's soslippery.
I'm going to drop it.
Ody (44:25):
I feel so nice when I don't have a case on.
Nathan Mumm (44:28):
Are you kidding me?
I can't touch my phone.
If I put it in a pocket and Iput my keys in there, it'll get
scratched forever.
Ody (44:35):
No, I feel so, bougie, because rich people don't care
about if they drop their phoneor anything.
Marc Gregoire (44:41):
I only do that.
Is that how you?
Mike Gorday (44:43):
manage your life.
I want to feel rich, so I don'thave a case of remodeling.
Ody (44:49):
I can't have a case.
Mike Gorday (44:53):
I get it, odie, or you did.
I got like this one that'swaterproof and everything.
I use mine without a case everynight, but it's only in bed.
Do you have a?
Marc Gregoire (45:05):
dating app to go with it.
Wow, he dates his phone.
Mike Gorday (45:10):
I do the charger, the wireless charger.
You take off the protectivecase every night.
Is that like his lingerie?
Marc Gregoire (45:17):
You take off the protective case Is that, like
it's lingerie, you take off thecase.
Nathan Mumm (45:21):
Wow, you can just buy a case with a charger.
Marc Gregoire (45:24):
Those are more expensive.
Mike Gorday (45:27):
You are not following the joke.
I got it.
You're not following the joke.
Ody (45:31):
I actually think.
Mike Gorday (45:33):
Thank you.
Oh my God, this is getting alittle creepy, let's prepare for
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All right.
This week's technology failcomes to us from a game called
Splitgate 2.
Now Splitgate 2 confirms thatyou have a 1 in 100 chance that
when you go into the crouchingmode in this new Halo meets
Portal first person shooter, youmay just let off a fart.
What Now?
Players are discovering morethan just Portal based tricks.
(46:13):
In Splitgate's to new beta,they found you can randomly let
rip a loud, unmistakable fartwhen you crouch.
Now split gate is afirst-person shooter, often
described as halo meets portalon an account of its old school
competitive arenas.
It's a sci-fi arsenal ofweapons and portals you can
place almost anywhere on the mapand you go there and you take
(46:33):
trick shots.
You shoot out people, kind oflike the original Quake version.
But the free-to-play sequelbeta is out now and developers
are managing to squeeze offthose butt-clenching important
changes at farty butts.
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (46:49):
I totally agree.
This is a fail.
This is a fail Only one in ahundred.
It needs to be a higher number.
Mike Gorday (46:59):
That's a fail.
This is a fail, only one in ahundred.
Marc Gregoire (47:00):
It needs to be a higher number.
That's a fail.
Okay, I'm.
I'm just gonna ask the questionabout why do you want, why do
you want your dude to fart?
Yeah, why do you want it?
So what guy doesn't want that?
Mike Gorday (47:04):
come on, come on.
Well, it I mean in actualgameplay does it alert everybody
?
Nathan Mumm (47:09):
to your position.
Yes, it does.
Okay, all right.
So when you go down there, yougo.
What it does is it actuallyputs it out, oh there, james is
over there.
He's around the corner he'scamping.
Ody (47:21):
That's right.
Is it a continuous fart or isit just when you go down?
It's just?
Nathan Mumm (47:25):
the one time little fart.
So if you're camping and if youhit the crouch button, people
are repeatedly hitting thecrouch button to test this out.
Right, so they're going on inNow.
Marc Gregoire (47:37):
we all know there's an array of different
sounds related to fart.
I'm not really sure that theyrotate them, the different
sounds or the different styles,or is it just one Do?
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
you need to have a fart in a video game, though.
This should have been atwo-shooter lie.
Mike Gorday (47:49):
I don't know that this is a fail.
How is this a fail?
Nathan Mumm (47:51):
Yeah, do you really want a video game where you're
farting?
Ody (47:54):
Yes, you said yes, okay, I say yes, oh, my gosh, because
when you're playing somethinglike Fortnite, where people can
just hide in the bush, the wholegame.
Nathan Mumm (48:01):
Yeah.
Ody (48:02):
Like it'll be nice.
That way you know there'speople actually finding it out,
instead of this guy that's justout in the.
Okay, yeah, that would be kindof fun.
Nathan Mumm (48:10):
Why is the bush farting?
Mike Gorday (48:17):
Can you light it on fire?
Nathan Mumm (48:20):
No, you can't light it on fire and you have to
continuously hit the crouchbutton down.
Yeah, so Mark wants differentfart, different fart versions.
Ody (48:29):
There should be like seven different Options, that every
time you fart there's a newsound.
Nathan Mumm (48:34):
So you got like the long fart.
Mike Gorday (48:38):
You got like the wet fart.
Ody (48:40):
I wasn't even going to go there Nathan.
Mike Gorday (48:42):
We don't need you to catalog those?
Nathan Mumm (48:43):
I'm just curious because I do not know why
anytime I'd be playing a Halogame or any first person shooter
.
Why, if I'm crouching down andI'm walking, that?
Marc Gregoire (48:52):
I want to, because it's a form of cheating.
I know we take, takecounterpoint, nathan, but tell
me the truth.
Aren't you a little excitedabout this?
Nathan Mumm (48:57):
No, I wouldn't be no.
Ody (49:00):
You're excited to play the game where you can fall in love
with the machine, but not farton a game, no, I was not excited
to play the game.
Nathan Mumm (49:05):
I just played the game so I could know what I was
actually talking.
So you're running around inHalo and I'm over here in Blood
Gulch and I'm going to squatdown to take a shot from a deal
and all of a sudden it's goingto do this big loud rip, so
everybody's going to know I'm inthe corner type of deal.
Come on now.
Come on now.
You're not even going to hear afart in most.
Mike Gorday (49:26):
This is like why did you ask me the question
about games becoming more real?
Because that's a reality thing.
Nathan Mumm (49:32):
Do you like the crouch?
Mike Gorday (49:33):
button.
Do I like the crouch button?
Do you like the?
Nathan Mumm (49:38):
idea of having a crouch button for folks.
Mike Gorday (49:39):
I just know that when you crouch in real life,
sometimes you just cut one.
Nathan Mumm (49:44):
Wow Okay.
Marc Gregoire (49:45):
It's very zen, isn't?
Nathan Mumm (49:46):
it.
It's very zen yeah.
We're going to head out to acommercial break this wasn't a
fail, what would be turning thisabout?
Mike Gorday (49:55):
I'm on with Mark.
It should be more often thanone in a hundred oh my word.
Nathan Mumm (49:58):
How could it not be a fail?
All right, we're going to headout to a commercial break.
When we return, we have theNathan Nugget and, of course,
our pick of the day.
Sit back, raise a glass tofigure out what's going on with
the farts.
See ya.
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This is your nugget of the week All right, here we
go.
Nathan Mumm (50:37):
On June 18th 2025, mid Journey crew added something
we've been waiting for Now.
Mid Journey is the AI tool thatI talked about almost two years
ago on the show.
It's how you can createpictures and AI.
It's just discord.
You have to have an account ondiscord, you go to their discord
area and you would type increate an image on X and it
created the AI images.
(50:58):
Midjourney has now removed therequirement that you have to
actually go to Discord to usetheir app.
They actually now have anapplication on their site, just
midjourneycom, and what it doesis it does AI generation of
graphics and on June 18th it nowreleased video generations to
create videos.
(51:18):
Now, we actually did this duringour production meeting at Tech
Time Radio on the radio and itis really competitive to the
OpenAI Sora, which is availableonline, to also create video
items that are available.
Did you get it to fart?
I did not get it to fart.
No, I did not, but just realquick 20 seconds layouts of how
(51:38):
you use this.
If you have a MidJourneyaccount it's about 19 bucks a
month you can go on in andchoose MidJourney.
On their new V1 application,there's a little button on the
top left-hand side.
That allows you to ask aquestion first for a graphic and
then from there you can clickon build a video of the graphic
(51:59):
you have.
Now.
It comes in four secondincrements and it tops out at a
total of 21 seconds total.
Right now that's available inthe version that is released.
It will continue to adddifferent items.
Now it didn't do very goodbecause we we we had some very
nice AI generated pictures andwe asked it to have a kid on a
(52:19):
bicycle jump over a mud puddleand we actually had the problem
where the bike was jumpingwithout a mud puddle.
There is a mud puddle that thenwould show up after it jumped,
so that it did have some uhproblems still on his generation
of what to do.
But as far as the motion styleand the actual way that it did
it, I thought it was fairly welladaptive to creating kind of an
animated version.
(52:40):
What did you think of it, mike,when we were doing this on the
demo?
Mike Gorday (52:42):
I wasn't really all that impressed with it, you
didn't think it was that great.
Nathan Mumm (52:45):
No, okay, alright.
Mike Gorday (52:47):
Well, just to let you know it's something I'm not
going to pay 20 bucks a month tohave you don't want to do that.
Nathan Mumm (52:52):
Well, the output right now is only 720p on an MP4
file, so it's only 24 framesper second.
They do say higher resolutionswill become available at a later
time, but this is now gettinginto the features where you can
actually go and requestsomething from AI and create
actual live videos.
Mike Gorday (53:11):
Okay, tell me what I would want to do that with.
What would I want thatapplication for?
Nathan Mumm (53:16):
Well, what if you had a picture of yourself that
you uploaded and you wanted tohave yourself animate and maybe
say a funny saying?
Marc Gregoire (53:23):
Could he just film himself doing that I?
Nathan Mumm (53:26):
guess he could film himself doing it.
Mike Gorday (53:27):
But if you wanted to have an AI, do that I'm going
to pay $20 a month so that Ican do that.
Nathan Mumm (53:33):
It'll be my christmas card well, you do, you
ever do you like watchingcartoons.
But you can take a funnysegment of something you like
and you can ask it.
You know when we were playingwith this.
Mike Gorday (53:43):
We were.
We were messing around with apaper boy on a bicycle video and
you were telling him to jumpand, and you know what I left.
Yeah, what do?
Marc Gregoire (53:53):
you mean you left ?
Mike Gorday (53:54):
I stopped watching.
I went and started reading abook.
What Are you serious?
Yeah, you didn't like the AIgeneration.
It makes no sense to me.
But then again, I'm an old guyand you know these wonderful
things that I'm going to pay 20bucks a month for just so I can
play around with video.
Ai is just just.
(54:17):
You know my, not my dreamawesome.
Nathan Mumm (54:17):
I know that you're on our production meetings and
sometimes you're leaving andreading a book oh, absolutely
wow, wow, wow, wow we arelooking for.
Okay, all right, let's move onnow to our pick of the day
whiskey tasting and now our pickof the day for our whiskey
tastings.
Marc Gregoire (54:38):
Let's see what bubbles to the top old granddad
bottled bourbon, also known asogd 100, from jim bean
distillery straight bourbon,four years under proof 25 on the
shelf.
Nathan Mumm (54:52):
All right, this is nathan's gonna give it a thumbs
up, absolutely Thumbs up.
I like this.
I think I've liked this before.
Have I liked it before?
What was my previous?
You've always given oldgranddad thumbs up.
This is a whiskey I like.
Mike Gorday (55:03):
This has got the palate for me.
Marc Gregoire (55:04):
Thumbs up, thumbs down.
Mike Gorday (55:09):
You know, I'm going to give it really all that
standout-ish, yeah Okay.
Marc Gregoire (55:16):
Yeah, it's fine for me.
Like I said, I prefer the 114with more punch.
Mike Gorday (55:20):
What was my previous Thumbs up?
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (55:23):
But it's a great entry whiskey for people.
Nathan Mumm (55:26):
Does whiskey crisp like this?
You think A lot of people loveBasil.
Marc Gregoire (55:28):
Hayden out there for those entering and this is
the cheap version same mash bill.
So if you love Basil Hayden,you can save a lot of money.
Nathan Mumm (55:35):
Yeah, it's good, that makes sense.
It's tasty.
Does Whiskey, chris, like this?
We need to ask for his comment.
Marc Gregoire (55:43):
We'll see what he says on YouTube.
Nathan Mumm (55:45):
It wouldn't be on a show.
Marc Gregoire (55:46):
It's almost out of time, I did want to do a
shout out my love, myrefrigerator, my refrigerator.
Mike Gorday (55:52):
You want to say your refrigerator.
Are you sure it's not yourphone?
Speaker 8 (55:55):
I mean you disrobe your phone every night.
Mike Gorday (55:57):
Oh, okay everybody.
Nathan Mumm (55:58):
Thank you for joining our show today.
Hopefully you enjoyed thetechnology and comedy.
Remember the science oftomorrow starts with the
technology of today.
See you next week Later.
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Today on the show we have ourTwo Truths and a Lie game show
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Will Odie Mark or Mike orNathan win this game show, along
with full details on the $16billion or 16 billion person
security breach and why it isnot news.
In addition to these features,we have Mike's mesmerizing
(01:58):
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nugget and, of course, our pickof the day whiskey tasting to
see if our selected whiskey pickat zero one or two thumbs up at
the end of the show.
But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology here are our toptechnology stories of the week
all right.
No, the 16 billion credentialleak is not a new data breach.
(02:23):
The news is having a heyday onthe 16 billion login credentials
that have been compiled into adata set online, giving
criminals unprecedented accessto the accounts consumers use
each day.
Now a security company releasedtheir findings.
I just want to be very clearthat these are not new findings
and we will express theinformation on why we are going
(02:48):
to be talking about that, butbefore let's go to Lisa Walker
with more on this story,Billions of login credentials
have been leaked and compiledinto datasets online, giving
criminals unprecedented accessto accounts consumers use each
day, giving criminalsunprecedented access to accounts
consumers use each day.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
According to a report published last week,
researchers have recentlydiscovered 30 exposed datasets
that each contain a vast amountof login information, amounting
to a total of 16 billioncompromised credentials.
That includes user passwordsfor a range of popular platforms
, including Google, Facebook andApple.
(03:27):
$16 billion is roughly doublethe amount of people on Earth
today, signaling that impactedconsumers may have had
credentials for more than oneaccount leaked Back to the
studio.
Nathan Mumm (03:41):
All right, so this should not be a surprise for
Tech Time listeners.
All right, so this should notbe a surprise for Tech Time
listeners, as we talked aboutthis on episode 233 on December
15th 2024.
All right, so that is almostsix months ago.
We talked about this and wetalked about the dark web that
is consolidating all theaccounts of these hack sites
(04:02):
into one global account.
You remember that conversation,mike Sure.
We've talked about it a coupletimes actually on our show.
Mike Gorday (04:10):
We talk about this stuff so much that I block
everything out with liquor.
Nathan Mumm (04:14):
Oh, okay, well, we've talked about this and so
this should not be any news orsurprise to people that listen
to Tech Time Radio.
But if you don't and you're themainstream media I guess you're
not weeks behind us.
Now you're months behind us,and now you're hearing about a
security company that went ontothe dark web and found that
there were 16 billion differentcontacts that they could search
(04:37):
for if they paid for a serviceon the dark web to get these
accounts.
Now this has been going intoeffect for the last two years.
All of the cyber criminals havebeen pulling together all these
accounts into a master database, kind of like something like a
Wikipedia type of deal, whereyou would go on in and just
search and it would pull up eachof your usernames with your
passwords that are linked toyour accounts and linked to your
(05:01):
email addresses.
So why is it that a securitycompany now comes out with this
and the mainstream media isrunning?
I have no idea, but let me justtell you, as we've talked about
, the most important thing toworry about this is
understanding that your passwordthat is out there is probably
anywhere between six to 10 yearsold.
So if you've changed yourpassword in the last six to 10
(05:22):
years, you're probably in goodshape, and the most important
thing that we've always talkedabout is you should adapt and
maintain good cybersecurityhabits, and this should be
having that.
Your passwords all usetwo-factor authentication.
We talk about this all the time.
Those are the six digits thatyou get from authenticator apps
like Microsoft Authenticator,google Authenticator, athi and
(05:44):
others that manage yourtwo-factor authentication codes.
Some password managers, likeBitwarden and 1Password, also
include authenticationfunctionality to use with the
application.
So everybody's, I hope,familiar with two-factor
authentication.
When you have a login for yourmain email accounts and your
main bank accounts or anyaccount that you have set up,
you should set up two-factorauthentication, which goes to
(06:06):
your phone device and you openthe app and it gives you
six-digit code that you have toput in to log in right.
This is how you are safe.
I don't care if anybody has mypasswords, because I know if
they're going to get intoanything important with my
passwords.
It's going to send a buzz to myphone and then, all of a sudden
, it'll do two-factorauthentication.
Now sometimes this happens, andguess what happens when this is
(06:31):
taken care of?
It'll send an alert and I willbe sleeping at night and all of
a sudden I'll get a whole bunchof two-factor authentication
requests coming on in, whichmeans that probably my password
has been compromised because I'mnot doing it early in the
morning.
So that's a good sign for youto go and change that account's
password so you can make surethat criminals don't have it.
(06:51):
Very simple rule Set uptwo-factor authentication.
Mike Gorday (06:56):
Can I get through the two-factor authentication?
Nathan Mumm (06:58):
Only if I would click yes.
So hopefully, if I'm notlogging into something I'm
sleeping on the side of the bedand I see all these alerts
coming on in for two factorauthentication, I hopefully
don't hit approve.
Now I have known some peoplethat all of a sudden say you
know what, I'm getting tired ofthese buzzes.
I'll hit approve, which wouldbe the wrong thing to do,
because now all of a sudden yougave people access to your
(07:19):
accounts but just don't approveit and make sure when you
actually log in you usetwo-factor authentication.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
This is not a new breach.
Nathan Mumm (07:26):
This has been out there for a long time.
Don't be scared.
Use two-factor authentication.
All right, let's go to storynumber two, Mike.
Mike Gorday (07:34):
You sure you want to talk about that?
Nathan Mumm (07:36):
What's that?
Story number two?
Mike Gorday (07:37):
Story number two, yeah, isn't this your favorite
how tech execs are joining theArmy without going to boot camp.
Nathan Mumm (07:43):
Yeah, tell me all about this.
You were really excited when webrought this up in our
production show.
Mike Gorday (07:47):
I think this is ridiculous?
Nathan Mumm (07:48):
Okay, well go through and explain it.
Mike Gorday (07:50):
Four top tech execs from OpenAI, meta and Palantir
have joined the US Army.
No obstacle courses, shoutedorders or grueling marches
required Uh-oh.
But this is the Army Reserve,okay, and it has commissioned
these senior tech leaders toserve as mid-level officers.
Lieutenant colonels Okay,skipping tradition to pursue
(08:12):
transformation.
The newcomers won't attend anycurrent version of the
military's most basic andingrained rite of passage boot
camp.
Instead, they'll be ushered inthrough express training.
Army leaders are still hashingout, which is a form of officer
training school okay, they'll domarksmanship training, physical
training, they'll learn thearmy rank structure and history
(08:33):
and uniforms, but it's stilllike boot camp.
Light okay, you could think ofit as a pilot program, and I
have a problem with this myself.
Okay, well, explain that If youdon't put them through a
(08:53):
training program, then theydon't have an understanding of
what it's like to serve in themilitary Okay, understanding of
what it's like to serve in themilitary okay.
And when they don't have anunderstanding of what it is to
serve in the military, then theywill be making decisions that
aren't necessarily beneficial tothe military okay, what about
(09:16):
these special groups like haveyou watched the movie
oppenheimer?
Nathan Mumm (09:19):
right, there's like these special people that come
on in, they get different ranks,that are civilian people and
don't go through the training.
Mike Gorday (09:27):
This is not something that's not precedented
or unprecedented.
The army has allowed directcommission of civilians since
1861.
Okay, which is, you know,before the civil war.
Yeah, to bring experts in thathave critically needed skills
into the armed forces.
Nathan Mumm (09:46):
So do you think they're bringing in these
individuals to help lead sideprojects regarding, like AI?
Mike Gorday (09:54):
Well, it's obvious that they want to bring them in
because of their skills, becauseof their knowledge about
technology and things like that.
I think it's a bad idea that ifthey don't have any basic
training maybe not going throughboot camp, but at least they
(10:14):
need to understand what themilitary is and how the military
works.
Nathan Mumm (10:19):
Do you think they would understand, just coming on
as a civilian, the life of amilitary individual if they
don't go through this?
Mike Gorday (10:24):
Yeah, they need to understand that, because the
military is a social structure,okay, and it has its own ways of
being and mores and things likethat.
And when you bring somebody inthat doesn't understand those
and you put them in a positionof where they're in charge, then
they can make.
Like I said earlier, they canmake decisions that don't said
earlier.
(10:44):
They can make decisions thatdon't bring in these pieces of
that information that they wouldknow if they were military to
begin with.
Nathan Mumm (10:53):
Okay, so yeah, now I will say this the list of the
people that are there.
You got the Meta you got theChief.
Mike Gorday (11:03):
Technology Officer for Palantir uh.
The chief technology officer ofmeta, that's kevin whale kevin
or andrew bosworth uh is andrewbosworth.
Nathan Mumm (11:13):
Uh, kevin whale is.
Mike Gorday (11:14):
Kevin whale is the chief product officer at open ai
, okay.
And then bob grau, which is anadvisor at thinking machine labs
, okay, uh, and they will bejoining the.
Now, this is the Army Reserve,this isn't the regular Army.
Okay, they are going to bejoining them as lieutenant
colonels.
Nathan Mumm (11:33):
Okay, I think the Army Reserve is now all of a
sudden chose to have likeenlistments now of people in
their 40s plus, so they'vechanged some of their.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Army Reserve.
Nathan Mumm (11:44):
It's possible that allows that to happen.
So maybe this is just thebranching out of that, but but
you, you clearly were verypassionate that you think they
should go through the militarytraining and understand what's
going on yeah, I didn't actuallyread the whole article, so, uh,
it appears that they are goingto be doing something, but it's
not going to be the normal routeso that's a little bit better
(12:04):
than in your opinion.
What do you think then?
Mike Gorday (12:06):
I don't know okay okay, I don't know, I'm going to
, I'm going to reserve judgmenton that for the reserve army
lieutenant colonels that arejust going to be plugged into
the army reserve commandstructure okay, well, you know,
the military is like in the newsevery moment.
Nathan Mumm (12:22):
Now you know that it's getting more and more and
more all right story, just hurtmy knee are you okay?
all right.
Story never.
Well, there you go.
Story number three open ai bossmeta offering one million
dollars to poach the open aistaff.
The boss at open ai, sam altman, says members of his team have
been getting giant offers fromrival tech firm meta, including
(12:44):
a 100 million dollar signingbonus.
Meta, which owns facebook,instagram, whatsapp, is
attempting to boost its ai sideof business by offering to go
and poach altman's best people.
What do you think?
A hundred?
I?
Mike Gorday (12:57):
don't know the army's doing it.
Why not meta a hundred?
Nathan Mumm (13:01):
million dollar signing except where they're not
, you know you could always goand work for meta for a couple
months and then you can come onback for open ai and you'll be
ready to go all right.
Well, there you go.
Now, story number four.
This is interesting the videogame date.
Everything has been released.
Have you heard that?
This is a sensation?
Mike Gorday (13:16):
a million downloads in one day, yeah I don't, even,
I don't go ahead.
Nathan Mumm (13:20):
It's finally time to date everything as the title
of this dating sim.
You can now romance thingsaround your home.
Mike Gorday (13:27):
So there's more.
Nathan Mumm (13:28):
I don't know.
Okay, there's more than 100voice actors who can woo from
doors and walls to a mousetrapand a dust bunny behind the
couch.
So these are inanimate objectsthat you are able to date.
Ody (13:44):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (13:44):
All right things get pretty meta, as you can also
date the devs of the game Ismeta, another word for stupid.
Mike Gorday (13:53):
Well, I don't know if it's meta.
Nathan Mumm (13:56):
It's a game itself.
An overwhelming sense of dreadhappens, so you can.
Mike Gorday (14:02):
Even that word is existential dread, existential
dread, so you can even that wordis existential, existential,
existential.
Nathan Mumm (14:06):
So you can have this dating the game itself, so
you can fall in love with thegame.
Mike Gorday (14:10):
I guess this is this.
Is this?
This really just inflames allmy psychological knowledge here,
Is it?
Yeah, this is stupid, this isdumb, this is, this is not a
good thing.
Nathan Mumm (14:23):
This is not what I'm going to ask you in the
mesmerizing moment.
A little bit more about this.
You're going to need to breakthat down Now.
There are multiple endings foreach character, around 70,000
lines of dialogue, so there'splenty to explore here.
Mike Gorday (14:35):
Can I get my chair to be jealous of my microwave
oven?
Nathan Mumm (14:39):
I think you can.
That's what this game is.
That's what this game is aboutDate.
Everything All right.
A million downloads in one day.
Mike Gorday (14:45):
I have a bad feeling about this.
Oh, do you?
You know there's going to bevideos on the internet with
Bounce Bounce Chicka, BounceBounce in there with the washing
machine or the washing machine.
Nathan Mumm (14:56):
The washing machine is like the number one item
that gets romance.
That and the toilet, I guess,are the number one and two
things in your house.
So there you go.
Mike Gorday (15:04):
I don't know why you know that, but I'm not going
to ask.
You probably have the gamealready.
Nathan Mumm (15:09):
No, I did play it all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, that ends our top technology stories of the
week.
Nathan Mumm (15:13):
When we return, we have two truths and a lie.
Can Nathan pass off the storyas a true story that is already
made up?
Well, we'll find out.
You're listening to Tech Timewith Nathan Mumm.
We'll be back after thecommercial break.
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Nathan Mumm (16:16):
Mmm.
Welcome back to Tech Time Radio.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts, we do asense of humor in less than 60
minutes and, of course, a littlewhiskey on the side.
Today, Mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is in the
studio.
Mark, what have you chosen forus today?
Today?
Marc Gregoire (16:34):
we're drinking Old Grandad Bonded Bourbon, also
known as OGD 100.
Now from Jim Beam's distillingwebsite.
Basil Hayden Sr, known as OldGrandad to the generations that
followed, made bourbon the wayhe wanted.
He went against the traditionalgrain of the time and chose to
distill his bourbon with ahigher percentage of rye.
(16:55):
First bottled in 1882, verylittle has changed about it A
spicy nose with hints of driedfruits, medium body shows some
sweet vanilla, but more evidentis the peppery spiciness
displayed by notes of clove andcinnamon.
All right Now.
This is from Jim Beam Suntory.
(17:16):
Their distillery is inClaremont, kentucky.
It's a straight bourbon, fouryears, 100 proof, 63% corn, 27%
rye, 10% malted barley, and itgoes for $25.
Mike Gorday (17:29):
Well, this is definitely Nathan's top shelf,
right here.
Nathan Mumm (17:32):
Well, no, come on, it's not my top shelf, I got
it's on a second shelf Elishaand.
Marc Gregoire (17:36):
Craig.
Nathan Mumm (17:36):
It's on a second shelf.
Oh, yeah, it's a second shelf.
Yeah, it's your second shelf.
Marc Gregoire (17:39):
Oh, and because the bottle doesn't fit on this
top shelf, which is a littleshorter.
Mike Gorday (17:42):
Yeah, I know.
Nathan Mumm (17:43):
Oh, wow, okay, Okay , all right, this is.
You know what We've had oldgranddads on before right, we
have.
Marc Gregoire (17:49):
We've had the regular 86 proof and we've had
the 114 proof.
Nathan Mumm (17:54):
And how have our ratings been?
Did you go back and take?
Marc Gregoire (17:57):
a look at our ratings.
Oh, okay, okay.
Nathan Mumm (17:59):
All right, I pretty much think I said thumbs up.
I'm just going to guess,because this is the type of
whiskey that I enjoy sitting onout in a nice summer breeze, a
little fire on the side, it'sfairly inexpensive and it's very
nutty, like you.
Marc Gregoire (18:16):
That's why.
Nathan Mumm (18:16):
Okay, all right.
Marc Gregoire (18:21):
It does have a screw cap.
That's the only downside.
Nathan Mumm (18:24):
That's all right.
Marc Gregoire (18:24):
Don't forget to like and subscribe.
Drink responsibly Heaven canwait.
Nathan Mumm (18:28):
All right, With our first whiskey tasting completed
, let's move on to our featuresegment.
Today we have the game showeveryone can play at home, but
we're going to be playing it inthe studio, and it's two truths
and a lie.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
And now we have two truths and a lie.
Nathan Mumm (18:46):
All right, I'm going to read you guys three
headlines out of the news today,okay, or this week?
Well, there may be a little bitdelayed and you're going to
tell me if it's true or if it'sfalse.
Okay, all right, here we go.
Story number one you can get alifetime license of microsoft
office professional 2021 for 75.
(19:10):
It's a lifetime license for onewindows pc, ideal for those who
don't want their softwarewithout a subscription.
If your current version ofoffice is starting to feel a
little old, this might be theright time to upgrade without
committing to a subscription.
Now, microsoft OfficeProfessional 2021 for Windows is
down to $74.97, marked downfrom its regular price of $219.
(19:32):
It's a one-time purchase with alifetime license for one
Windows PC.
Now this is what happens whenyou get this you download it to
that PC.
If you format that PC, thelicense is gone.
It's only downloaded to that PC.
If you format that PC, thelicense is gone.
It's only downloaded to that PC.
So once you so, you need todownload this to your newest
machine that you have.
It's one account where you geta one-time use.
(19:53):
It's a use it or lose it.
After that, it's no longerthere.
Ody (19:57):
So it's not a lifetime license.
Nathan Mumm (19:58):
Well, it's a lifetime license you will never
have to upgrade.
So this is what they considerold school software, but now
we're calling it a lifetimelicense because you'll always
have access to officeprofessional 2021.
Ody (20:12):
you will never have to upgrade it, so I wouldn't be
able to use it on my laptop andcomputer no, you got no one pcs.
Marc Gregoire (20:20):
A windows pc, one windows pc, let me, let me
touch Mike, let me channel Mike.
This is stupid.
Ody (20:26):
I agree.
Nathan Mumm (20:27):
Well you know what?
Ody (20:29):
It's $75.
But is it a lie?
Nathan Mumm (20:32):
or is it a truth?
Is it a lie, or is it a truth?
Whatever it is, I got so muchto say.
That's true.
See, you don't know, I couldjust be making it all up.
Mike Gorday (20:39):
Right, this is a.
It could be because everybodyreplaces their PC every couple
of years at the most.
Nathan Mumm (20:52):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (20:53):
And so if they're buying this thing multiple times
, that's going to equate to asubscription.
Nathan Mumm (21:01):
Yeah, it could, but everything now on the Office
suite is pretty much asubscription basis.
Your chance, all right.
Story number two Trump confirmsfurther delay on TikTok ban or
sale deadline.
Office suite pretty much asubscription basis your chance,
all right.
Story number two trump confirmsfurther delay on tiktok ban or
sale deadline.
President donald trump hasextended the deadline for tiktok
sale in the us for another 90days.
The video sharing app has facedquestions over its future after
(21:22):
the us passed a law last yearrequiring the app to be banned
unless sold by its chineseparent company, bite ByteDance.
Lawmakers have said that itposes a risk to national
security, something TikTokdenies.
Trump, who vowed to save TikTokduring the presidential
campaign, signed an executiveorder on Thursday, which was
last week, which was delayed thedate of enforcing the law for a
(21:45):
third time.
The date of enforcing the lawfor a third time.
In a statement, tiktok said itwas grateful for President
Trump's leadership and supportin keeping the app online for
its 170 million users.
Mike Gorday (21:56):
Yeah, that sounds like a truth.
Marc Gregoire (21:58):
Yeah, this is so true.
Ody (22:01):
Yeah, I think that sounds pretty good, yeah, I have no
doubt about that.
Mike Gorday (22:05):
That sounds like basic stuff right there.
Nathan Mumm (22:07):
That sounds like basic news, alright, so this is
the third time it's beenextended I.
Mike Gorday (22:12):
I don't think it's ever gonna not be extended.
Nathan Mumm (22:15):
You think so.
You think it's just gonnacontinue forever?
Yeah, so he's never gonna sellit have you ever heard that
buddy?
Ody (22:20):
buddy with the ceo?
I can't see him.
You know his ce CEO came onover and hung out.
Yeah, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (22:29):
They hung out, same with you know he's done the
same thing with Zuckerberg, butI think, as long as you keep,
around then you can pushZuckerberg around.
If there's no tick tock, then Iguess, as president Trump, you
can't push tick tock around todo what it's or you can't meta
to do what they want to do.
Mike Gorday (22:50):
There's or you can't meta to do what they want
to do.
There's a nice phrase from Gameof Thrones.
It's called words or wind.
What does that mean?
Words or?
Nathan Mumm (22:54):
wind.
Oh, they just come in the wind.
They just don't mean anything,Okay well, alright, so you got
two stories so far.
Are you leaning towards one ofthose, the two stories being
false?
No Okay, here we got the nextstory.
Head stories being false.
No okay, here we got the nextstory headline number three a
(23:16):
500 made in america smartphonewill be released in august of
this year.
Mike Gorday (23:18):
That's wrong.
That's false hang on.
Marc Gregoire (23:19):
This is a.
This is a tricky one becauseit's in the news as being true,
okay, so I'm just, it'll befalse as hell okay.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
well, hang on.
So I to read the article firstand you got to tell me if that's
the true news article or not.
All right, the TrumpOrganization, led by President's
eldest son, said last week thatit has licensed Donald Trump's
name to a new wireless serviceand a gold-colored phone.
The T1 has a device.
It's supposed to be availablein August for $499.
(23:49):
It's proudly designed and builtin the United States, the
company said in a statement.
The T1, in contrast, wouldretail for just a fraction of
the price, raising questionsabout how such a US-made device
would be profitable.
Now the Trump organizationdidn't disclose which company
would make the T1 or where itwill be produced.
What's that?
Mike Gorday (24:08):
Where'd your win?
Where'd your?
Nathan Mumm (24:09):
win.
It only gave some technicalspecification, including that it
will run on Google Android'soperating system, come with a
fingerprint sensor and facialrecognition for unlocking, and
has a 6.8 inch screen.
Marc Gregoire (24:23):
Did you also mention two megabytes of memory?
The look and the tech specsmatch exactly to a phone made in
China.
Well, hang on.
Speaker 8 (24:33):
We're getting there, we're getting there.
Nathan Mumm (24:35):
I mean this could be false, we're getting there.
The product page for the phoneis also riddled with errors and
omissions.
It's described the device ashaving a 5,000 milliamp long
life camera which should readbattery An error that was fixed
after it first noted comes with12 gigabytes Ram storage.
Ram is generally referred to asmemory, since any data stored
(24:56):
in Ram is grace, so it's notreally a 12 gigabyte storage
device, cause that would be theRam that's in there.
The Trump organization did notsay who it's partnering with on
the wireless service or device,but tucked away in the website's
terms of use is a reference tothe service being powered by
Liberty Mobile Wireless, itselfa virtual carrier that uses
(25:19):
other companies' networks.
Wireless coverage will comefrom the nation's three biggest
wireless providers, the Trumporganization said.
Ody (25:28):
So does it have the storage space on there?
It did not put the storagespace on it.
It has two megabytes of storage.
Nathan Mumm (25:34):
It didn't put how big it better be at least 32.
It should be 32.
Mike Gorday (25:40):
So there we go.
It operates on a BOD ratio A$500 Maine in America smartphone
.
Nathan Mumm (25:46):
Now I, just as you were saying, there is an
equivalent to this T1 that ismade by China and Taiwan.
It's by both companies.
That looks almost exactly likewhat they kind of modeled on
their website briefly and thentook the picture off.
And this isn't made in theUnited States.
I don't know.
Marc Gregoire (26:07):
That story was released as true.
Nathan Mumm (26:09):
It was released as true.
Marc Gregoire (26:10):
Now it's kind of like a Saturday Night Live
sketch, Okay.
Remember when they used to haveDonald Jr and Eric on there,
the two sons, yeah, so Donalddid this press release.
Nathan Mumm (26:22):
Yeah.
Marc Gregoire (26:22):
And then Eric, let it slip a little later that
eventually this is going tohappen.
Eventually it's going to happen.
Mike Gorday (26:33):
It's going to.
This is going to happen.
Eventually it's going to happen.
It's going to be made in the us.
Nathan Mumm (26:35):
So so what do you want us to determine?
Whether this is a true title ora false title?
Well, this is do you is this?
So here's what we're going okay.
Mike Gorday (26:38):
So the game is two truth and a lie, so one of these
is supposed to be patentlyfalse.
That is correct, and the othertwo are supposed to be true.
But you've given us two.
That could be either.
Nathan Mumm (26:49):
Well, how are you going with that?
Are you saying the 500 made inamerica smartphone I released in
august of this year was notreleased as a true story?
Ody (26:59):
yeah, I don't think it was made in america it was released
as a true I think I think that's.
Mike Gorday (27:03):
I think that's a.
I think that's a true release.
I don't.
I don't think that's a truerelease.
I don't think it's a true thing.
I think it's a true.
Nathan Mumm (27:13):
Article title Okay, so we're going to go with
article title.
So we're going to go witharticle title today.
Mike Gorday (27:18):
So if we're going with article titles, I'm going
to come down on the first onebeing the false one.
Okay, all right Because thatseems like the most ridiculous
one out of the three.
All right, mike cheers.
Marc Gregoire (27:29):
I'm with you, odie, are you going?
Nathan Mumm (27:30):
to go with the guys .
Yeah, I'll do that and truestory is the $500 made in
American smartphone.
Congratulations.
It has been announced that itwill come out and be released in
August.
Now I will just tell you Ihighly doubt this will ever
happen.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I think, it's false.
Nathan Mumm (27:47):
But that is a true story.
Trump did confirm the delay ofTikTok to ban the sale deadline
for 90 days.
So that is the true story.
You guys are correct.
You can actually get a lifetimelicense of Microsoft Office
Professional for $50, not $75.
Really, I'm kind of persuadedto get it then, so it's for $50.
(28:08):
So let's talk about this.
Mike Gorday (28:10):
That was cheap buddy.
That was a cheap way of tryingto win the game.
Nathan Mumm (28:14):
I also changed everything in here too, so let's
talk about this.
So you get a one time purchase.
The license is only for aWindows PC, but you can move it
from machine to machine Becauseyou own the actual license, like
old fashioned software so youcould have it.
Marc Gregoire (28:28):
It's different than any other license in the
old days before subscription.
Mike Gorday (28:31):
That's like Windows 95.
That's why.
Nathan Mumm (28:33):
I made it up.
That's why I made it up.
Marc Gregoire (28:34):
And lifetime is silly because they discontinue
it, they don't put patches andit actually doesn't run on new
operating systems.
Nathan Mumm (28:40):
So that's kind of a lie too, but that's not at
least how they're selling it.
They are selling it for $49.97,you can get a lifetime upgrade
of Office Professional 2021.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Now, just to let you know, this is 2025.
Nathan Mumm (28:59):
There has been seven different.
Yeah, are you sure?
I'm sure.
Okay, there's been sevendifferent upgrades to this
Office Professional 2021.
Mike Gorday (29:06):
This is the pandemic plus version of the.
Nathan Mumm (29:08):
So if you really wanted to go with something that
is newer than this that isabsolutely free, I would just
suggest don't purchase themicrosoft office and go online
to use this product called openoffice.
Open office is a great tool.
Have you used open officebefore?
Od you're looking at me likethat?
Why You're looking at me likethat?
Ody (29:27):
Why are you looking at me like that?
Because Google's right there.
I'm a Google girlie.
You got everything right there.
She's on Tech Time.
Mike Gorday (29:34):
Radio, where we always hear about how everything
gets hacked and destroyed andmessed up.
Ody (29:39):
So why would I use an open office?
Nothing is safe.
Nathan Mumm (29:43):
Okay.
Well, there is free productsthat are available that do come
with patches, that are actuallygood for word processing.
If you need something for wordprocessing, if you need
something for your Excelspreadsheets, you can find that
with OpenOffice for absolutelyfree updates every month.
Good system.
It actually converts PDFsbetter than, in my opinion, than
the PDF converter that you getfrom Adobe, and you don't have
(30:03):
to worry about the licensing andthe trials or anything.
So I would say, go and look atOpenOffice as an alternative for
your PDF editors.
Marc Gregoire (30:11):
What does Nathan Mumm use for his word processor?
Nathan Mumm (30:14):
I use, of course, Office 365.
So I use the updated version.
Ody (30:18):
Yeah, he's a Microsoft girl .
He's sticking through.
Nathan Mumm (30:21):
I am, so I do use that, but I do not do the
one-time purchase so there yougo, why would you?
Well, that ends our segment.
Two truths and a lie up.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
(30:42):
All right, mike, here's yourmesmerizing moment.
Our video game's getting toomuch like reality.
Let's talk about this videogame that I opened up and talked
about All right?
Mike Gorday (30:51):
Is this about the day and everything?
This isn't about reality.
This is about fantasy.
Nathan Mumm (30:55):
Okay, is it about fantasy?
Well, explain to me why are wegetting so into?
I was just looking at videogames online.
There is a lawnmower simulator.
So if I want to do my yard, Ican go out and do it, but wait,
you can't hate on those.
Those are fine.
What are you?
Mike Gorday (31:12):
talking about.
Ody (31:13):
Those are some of the very first ones yeah, well, no, no,
no, this is a brand new release.
Mike Gorday (31:16):
I just was playing the the lawnmower I, I played
the lawnmower video game okay,back in 1980 okay.
Nathan Mumm (31:26):
Well, I guess I must have had an updated version
of this.
I'm sure they just recycled it.
Mike Gorday (31:31):
That was one of the very first video games.
It was like a math school.
Nathan Mumm (31:35):
It was a pressure washer gaming game.
I love that game.
Mike Gorday (31:40):
It's like Zen you just go and you just clean stuff
.
Ody (31:44):
It's out getting dirty without any of the hard labor.
Nathan Mumm (31:49):
It's a very strange , very zen-like thing to do, so
you want to go and you want togo for your enjoyment.
You want to go and you want toclean windows in cement with
your power washing.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Have you tried it.
Nathan Mumm (32:02):
Yes, I have tried it.
Marc Gregoire (32:03):
I don't understand why you guys are both
Nathan Mike and Odie areinvited over to my house to
pressure wash in real life.
Mike Gorday (32:10):
That's exactly right.
That's not the point.
The point is Be all Zen youwant in my house, clean it up.
It's like Minecraft.
You just zone out and do ityeah, okay, exactly.
Nathan Mumm (32:20):
Okay, so are these good then for society?
So I mean, let me ask you, youthat's such a big jump.
Yeah, that's a hang on.
I said our video games, notnathan's awesomeness.
No, our video game is gettingtoo much like reality.
Mike Gorday (32:34):
That's this, this is the concept.
This is a no.
I I don't.
I don't when we're talkingabout a game that allows you to
date your microwave.
I think that's problematicbecause, first off, we don't
need to be blurring the lines offantasy in the real world.
Okay, you know, this is likethe AI bots that I talk about
with the dating apps.
(32:54):
Yeah, the dating bots.
Yeah, they're harmfulpsychologically and it
encourages unhealthyrelationships with things that
we want to anthropomorphize okaywhich means we want to make it
human.
So if, if I have a game that isencouraging me to treat my
(33:18):
washing machine like a romanticpartner, I don't think you need
any 70s music to see the problemthere.
Okay okay that's problematic,okay, but if you have a game now
, what type of 70s music?
I see the problem there.
Okay, okay, that's problematic,okay, but if you have a game
now, what type of 70s music?
Nathan Mumm (33:32):
I just want to make sure I already bound, bound
chicken okay, okay, okay.
That's what I was thinking.
I just want to make sure we'retalking about romance, right?
Mike Gorday (33:39):
yeah, okay, you don't need to be running around
doing romantic things with yourmicrowave, okay because you
could get hurt okay, yeah, okay.
But if you have a game that youknow, all these simulator games
there's.
There's simulator games forpressure washing, their
simulator games for farming,their simulator games for
(34:00):
everything.
Um, those are different in thatit doesn't encourage you to
blur the lines of reality inyour own house okay, okay, okay
and so like is it like thepressure washing thing?
like I said it, it can help youtake your mind off of the
(34:22):
stresses of the day becauseyou're simply it's, it's almost
a meditation, it's almost rightyou're, you're just doing
repetitive behaviors and ithelps.
(34:42):
It helps you with stress.
But when you're encouragingthings like, uh, dating your
microwave, that that I I don'tthink any any reasonable person
would would look at that and go,oh yeah, that's awesome okay
and we're reasonable people Ididn't say that I said any
(35:02):
reasonable person all right.
I mean, are you gonna?
What are you not about turningoff?
Ody (35:07):
your brain nathan.
What did you?
What did?
Mike Gorday (35:09):
you date.
What is that?
You said you date?
Nathan Mumm (35:12):
you played the game , so I played it I played it for
a little bit to see what it wasactually about, so I can make
sure when people ask me about it.
And so I dated the washingmachine.
And what did it do?
It popped up this littleanimated character and it says
hi, I'm the washing machine.
So it actually put a character.
Marc Gregoire (35:28):
Did you choose the washing?
Ody (35:29):
machine because of when are the eyes?
Marc Gregoire (35:32):
You know, a lot of people get pleasure from the
washing machine.
Nathan Mumm (35:35):
Oh, whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa.
Mike Gorday (35:38):
Okay, no, that's funny.
Why are you bringing that?
Nathan Mumm (35:42):
up?
Not at all.
Just because that was the thingin the house, I would have
dated the fridge the fridge okay.
Mike Gorday (35:47):
Yeah, I think most men would probably date the
fridge.
Nathan Mumm (35:49):
Okay, well, you know what?
Mike Gorday (35:50):
Or the grill the grill.
Nathan Mumm (35:53):
Well, you can have a grill.
That's my lover.
You could not get out of thehouse, so at least the game.
Oh what, it only has it in thehouse.
Mike Gorday (35:59):
You're stuck in the house, and you should never
grill in the house.
See, even this discussiondoesn't make any sense, right?
It doesn't have to.
I mean, this is just incredibly, this rising moments, it's
mindless badness.
Nathan Mumm (36:11):
Okay, up next we have this Week in Technology, so
now would be a great time toenjoy a little whiskey on the
side, as we're going to be doinga show during the break.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumsey in a
few minutes.
Hey, mike.
Mike Gorday (36:22):
Yo, what's up.
Nathan Mumm (36:23):
Hey, so you know what.
Mike Gorday (36:24):
We need people to start liking our social media
page If you like our show, ifyou really like us we could use
your support on Patreoncom.
Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, Patreon, If you reallylike us you can like us in.
Patreoncom.
I butcher the English language.
Nathan Mumm (36:42):
You know, you butcher the English language all
the time.
It's Patreoncom, patreoncom.
Mike Gorday (36:48):
If you really like our show, you can subscribe to
Patreoncom and help us out andyou can visit us on that
Facebook platform.
Nathan Mumm (36:55):
You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one
that we always bag on.
Yeah, you can.
We're on Facebook too.
Yeah, like us on Facebook.
You know what our Facebook pageis Tech time radio.
At tech time radio.
Mike Gorday (37:05):
And you know what.
There's a there's a trend here.
Nathan Mumm (37:10):
It you can even Instagram with us, and that's at
Tech Time Radio.
That's at Tech Time Radio.
Or you can find us on TikTok,and it's Tech Time Radio.
It's at Tech Time Radio.
Mike Gorday (37:19):
Like and subscribe to our social media Like us
today we need you to like us.
Like us and subscribe.
Nathan Mumm (37:25):
That's it.
That's it, it's that simple.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (37:34):
All right, in our way back machine, we're going to
June 28th 1965.
The first commercialcommunication satellite is
activated, the Intel sat one.
The first commercialcommunication satellite is
activated for service and hisnickname is early bird, after
the famous proverb, and becomesfamous for carrying the first
(37:54):
commercial telephone callbetween America and Europe, as
well as helping provide TVcoverage of the Gemini six
splashdown.
So this was the idea.
Intel sat has helped make ElonMusk and his idea of satellite
communication a reality becauseof the Intel sat one back in
1965.
Mike Gorday (38:15):
Are you sure that's why?
Nathan Mumm (38:15):
Oh yeah, satellite communication a reality because
of the.
Mike Gorday (38:17):
Intel sat one back in 1965.
Are you sure?
Nathan Mumm (38:19):
that's why, well, yeah, are you sure that has
nothing to do with billions ofdollars?
Mike Gorday (38:22):
No, I mean the idea of bouncing off a telephone
call and making Wally become areal thing.
Nathan Mumm (38:26):
There you go, all right.
Well, that was this week intechnology.
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We're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we have theMark Mumbo Whiskey Review.
See you after the break.
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Speaker 1 (39:49):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Nathan Mumm (40:00):
All right.
Marc Gregoire (40:01):
What do we got here?
Today is a very special day forme.
Today you probably won't guesstoday- Okay, I'm not even going
to make you guess.
Nathan Mumm (40:08):
Oh, all right.
Mike Gorday (40:08):
It's not national date.
Your toaster day, Is it?
Nathan Mumm (40:11):
national flip a coin day.
It is not Okay.
He just said he wasn't gonnamake his guess, it's you know.
So we both guessed anyways, allright okay, that's part of the
show.
Mike Gorday (40:22):
We have to try and guess we're actually so.
Marc Gregoire (40:24):
I am celebrating two things today saint jean
baptiste day and farmer's day.
Oh, jean-baptiste is celebratedby French Canadians, which
honor the traditional feast ofthe Nativity or the birth of St
John the Baptist, and Farmer'sDay is celebrated in Peru every
year as a tribute to thehardworking local farmers that
(40:45):
provide food to the table toevery Peruvian.
Farmer Day is also celebratedin tandem with the feast of St
John the Baptist Day.
Mike Gorday (40:53):
You're really starting to reach for these,
aren't you?
Well, thank you, Mike.
Marc Gregoire (40:58):
That leads to why am I celebrating these two
today?
Nathan Mumm (41:02):
Okay, why are you celebrating?
Marc Gregoire (41:03):
So we're sipping Old Grandad bonded today, which
feels especially meaningful thisyear for me, knowing my
grandfather was born, raised andowned a farm in St
Jean-Baptiste, manitoba.
Mike Gorday (41:18):
Canada oh looky there.
Marc Gregoire (41:19):
Where the day not only honors the patron of his
hometown, it also celebrates thehardworking farmers who shape
families and communities.
Like his, my dad grew up on hisfarm.
Really Thank you Odie.
Ody (41:34):
Let's give it for his grandpa.
Nathan Mumm (41:35):
That's right.
Have you ever thought aboutmoving back to Canada?
I have, I have.
Marc Gregoire (41:44):
Let's talk about Old Grandad Bonded Now.
This is one of the few widelyavailable bourbons still made
under the strict standards ofthe Bottle and Bond Act of 1897.
Meaning it's distilled by onedistiller at one distillery in
one distillation season, aged atleast four years, bottled in
exactly 100 proof under USgovernment supervision.
(42:07):
It's a throwback to when Bondedwas a mark of quality in
American whiskey.
All right, now Old Grandad is asolid bourbon.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
It's nutty as we see today, very approachable.
Marc Gregoire (42:18):
A great pick for someone just getting into
whiskey.
That said, I tend to lean toOld GDD 114, which is on your
shelf.
Nathan Mumm (42:27):
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (42:28):
Which is the same mashable, just a little bit
higher proof for a few bucksmore.
It brings more punch and depthof flavor, and it's a higher
proof is too much.
You add a little ice to bringit down to 100 without watering
it down or losing the body.
Mike Gorday (42:41):
All right, and with .
Marc Gregoire (42:41):
that said, this is still a solid bottle.
If you're not into the higherproofs, I would definitely go
the bonded over.
The 86 proof Okay Makes a bigdifference.
Nathan Mumm (42:51):
All right, and this is on your shelf, your second
shelf, third shelf, or where doyou, where do you keep this at
your?
Marc Gregoire (42:57):
I kind of bought this for the show.
It's very inexpensive, as wesaw $25.
Uh, when it goes back it'sgoing to go in my cocktail
cabinet, okay.
Nathan Mumm (43:05):
All right, that makes sense.
Marc Gregoire (43:06):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (43:08):
Well, our information regarding our
whiskey.
Whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, similar to cell
phones and protective cases.
One item compliments the other.
Let me just ask you All right,I'm going to go down the line
here how many of you guys have acell phone?
Everybody raises their hand.
Now, how many of you guys, whenyou got your cell phone, bought
(43:28):
a protective case?
You mean like the one on whyare you asking?
that question Because it's justinteresting that you can't have
a cell phone without aprotective case.
So you should just actually getyour cell phone with a
protective case, and then you'dbe good to go.
Ody (43:44):
You're not those kind of people that just like deal with
it for the week no, I don't.
Nathan Mumm (43:49):
That's what I do.
Do you actually get it withouta case?
I'm looking at yours as a caseright now.
Ody (43:53):
Yeah, after the fact.
Okay, but I never have the casein hand when I go into the
store.
Mike Gorday (43:59):
When I bought my new cell phone, about what?
A month and a half, two monthsago, they didn't have cases.
Nathan Mumm (44:07):
What it was so new.
You couldn't find a knockoffcase anywhere.
Mike Gorday (44:13):
I had to order it online.
They didn't have it at thestore.
Marc Gregoire (44:17):
I don't know how you guys do that.
I order my case first.
I know during that week it's soslippery.
I'm going to drop it.
Ody (44:25):
I feel so nice when I don't have a case on.
Nathan Mumm (44:28):
Are you kidding me?
I can't touch my phone.
If I put it in a pocket and Iput my keys in there, it'll get
scratched forever.
Ody (44:35):
No, I feel so, bougie, because rich people don't care
about if they drop their phoneor anything.
Marc Gregoire (44:41):
I only do that.
Is that how you?
Mike Gorday (44:43):
manage your life.
I want to feel rich, so I don'thave a case of remodeling.
Ody (44:49):
I can't have a case.
Mike Gorday (44:53):
I get it, odie, or you did.
I got like this one that'swaterproof and everything.
I use mine without a case everynight, but it's only in bed.
Do you have a?
Marc Gregoire (45:05):
dating app to go with it.
Wow, he dates his phone.
Mike Gorday (45:10):
I do the charger, the wireless charger.
You take off the protectivecase every night.
Is that like his lingerie?
Marc Gregoire (45:17):
You take off the protective case Is that, like
it's lingerie, you take off thecase.
Nathan Mumm (45:21):
Wow, you can just buy a case with a charger.
Marc Gregoire (45:24):
Those are more expensive.
Mike Gorday (45:27):
You are not following the joke.
I got it.
You're not following the joke.
Ody (45:31):
I actually think.
Mike Gorday (45:33):
Thank you.
Oh my God, this is getting alittle creepy, let's prepare for
our technology.
Nathan Mumm (45:39):
fail of the week brought to us by Elite Executive
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Speaker 8 (45:46):
Oh, I failed.
Did I yes, did I yes.
Nathan Mumm (45:50):
All right.
This week's technology failcomes to us from a game called
Splitgate 2.
Now Splitgate 2 confirms thatyou have a 1 in 100 chance that
when you go into the crouchingmode in this new Halo meets
Portal first person shooter, youmay just let off a fart.
What Now?
Players are discovering morethan just Portal based tricks.
(46:13):
In Splitgate's to new beta,they found you can randomly let
rip a loud, unmistakable fartwhen you crouch.
Now split gate is afirst-person shooter, often
described as halo meets portalon an account of its old school
competitive arenas.
It's a sci-fi arsenal ofweapons and portals you can
place almost anywhere on the mapand you go there and you take
(46:33):
trick shots.
You shoot out people, kind oflike the original Quake version.
But the free-to-play sequelbeta is out now and developers
are managing to squeeze offthose butt-clenching important
changes at farty butts.
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (46:49):
I totally agree.
This is a fail.
This is a fail Only one in ahundred.
It needs to be a higher number.
Mike Gorday (46:59):
That's a fail.
This is a fail, only one in ahundred.
Marc Gregoire (47:00):
It needs to be a higher number.
That's a fail.
Okay, I'm.
I'm just gonna ask the questionabout why do you want, why do
you want your dude to fart?
Yeah, why do you want it?
So what guy doesn't want that?
Mike Gorday (47:04):
come on, come on.
Well, it I mean in actualgameplay does it alert everybody
?
Nathan Mumm (47:09):
to your position.
Yes, it does.
Okay, all right.
So when you go down there, yougo.
What it does is it actuallyputs it out, oh there, james is
over there.
He's around the corner he'scamping.
Ody (47:21):
That's right.
Is it a continuous fart or isit just when you go down?
It's just?
Nathan Mumm (47:25):
the one time little fart.
So if you're camping and if youhit the crouch button, people
are repeatedly hitting thecrouch button to test this out.
Right, so they're going on inNow.
Marc Gregoire (47:37):
we all know there's an array of different
sounds related to fart.
I'm not really sure that theyrotate them, the different
sounds or the different styles,or is it just one Do?
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
you need to have a fart in a video game, though.
This should have been atwo-shooter lie.
Mike Gorday (47:49):
I don't know that this is a fail.
How is this a fail?
Nathan Mumm (47:51):
Yeah, do you really want a video game where you're
farting?
Ody (47:54):
Yes, you said yes, okay, I say yes, oh, my gosh, because
when you're playing somethinglike Fortnite, where people can
just hide in the bush, the wholegame.
Nathan Mumm (48:01):
Yeah.
Ody (48:02):
Like it'll be nice.
That way you know there'speople actually finding it out,
instead of this guy that's justout in the.
Okay, yeah, that would be kindof fun.
Nathan Mumm (48:10):
Why is the bush farting?
Mike Gorday (48:17):
Can you light it on fire?
Nathan Mumm (48:20):
No, you can't light it on fire and you have to
continuously hit the crouchbutton down.
Yeah, so Mark wants differentfart, different fart versions.
Ody (48:29):
There should be like seven different Options, that every
time you fart there's a newsound.
Nathan Mumm (48:34):
So you got like the long fart.
Mike Gorday (48:38):
You got like the wet fart.
Ody (48:40):
I wasn't even going to go there Nathan.
Mike Gorday (48:42):
We don't need you to catalog those?
Nathan Mumm (48:43):
I'm just curious because I do not know why
anytime I'd be playing a Halogame or any first person shooter
.
Why, if I'm crouching down andI'm walking, that?
Marc Gregoire (48:52):
I want to, because it's a form of cheating.
I know we take, takecounterpoint, nathan, but tell
me the truth.
Aren't you a little excitedabout this?
Nathan Mumm (48:57):
No, I wouldn't be no.
Ody (49:00):
You're excited to play the game where you can fall in love
with the machine, but not farton a game, no, I was not excited
to play the game.
Nathan Mumm (49:05):
I just played the game so I could know what I was
actually talking.
So you're running around inHalo and I'm over here in Blood
Gulch and I'm going to squatdown to take a shot from a deal
and all of a sudden it's goingto do this big loud rip, so
everybody's going to know I'm inthe corner type of deal.
Come on now.
Come on now.
You're not even going to hear afart in most.
Mike Gorday (49:26):
This is like why did you ask me the question
about games becoming more real?
Because that's a reality thing.
Nathan Mumm (49:32):
Do you like the crouch?
Mike Gorday (49:33):
button.
Do I like the crouch button?
Do you like the?
Nathan Mumm (49:38):
idea of having a crouch button for folks.
Mike Gorday (49:39):
I just know that when you crouch in real life,
sometimes you just cut one.
Nathan Mumm (49:44):
Wow Okay.
Marc Gregoire (49:45):
It's very zen, isn't?
Nathan Mumm (49:46):
it.
It's very zen yeah.
We're going to head out to acommercial break this wasn't a
fail, what would be turning thisabout?
Mike Gorday (49:55):
I'm on with Mark.
It should be more often thanone in a hundred oh my word.
Nathan Mumm (49:58):
How could it not be a fail?
All right, we're going to headout to a commercial break.
When we return, we have theNathan Nugget and, of course,
our pick of the day.
Sit back, raise a glass tofigure out what's going on with
the farts.
See ya.
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Speaker 1 (50:33):
This is your nugget of the week All right, here we
go.
Nathan Mumm (50:37):
On June 18th 2025, mid Journey crew added something
we've been waiting for Now.
Mid Journey is the AI tool thatI talked about almost two years
ago on the show.
It's how you can createpictures and AI.
It's just discord.
You have to have an account ondiscord, you go to their discord
area and you would type increate an image on X and it
created the AI images.
(50:58):
Midjourney has now removed therequirement that you have to
actually go to Discord to usetheir app.
They actually now have anapplication on their site, just
midjourneycom, and what it doesis it does AI generation of
graphics and on June 18th it nowreleased video generations to
create videos.
(51:18):
Now, we actually did this duringour production meeting at Tech
Time Radio on the radio and itis really competitive to the
OpenAI Sora, which is availableonline, to also create video
items that are available.
Did you get it to fart?
I did not get it to fart.
No, I did not, but just realquick 20 seconds layouts of how
(51:38):
you use this.
If you have a MidJourneyaccount it's about 19 bucks a
month you can go on in andchoose MidJourney.
On their new V1 application,there's a little button on the
top left-hand side.
That allows you to ask aquestion first for a graphic and
then from there you can clickon build a video of the graphic
(51:59):
you have.
Now.
It comes in four secondincrements and it tops out at a
total of 21 seconds total.
Right now that's available inthe version that is released.
It will continue to adddifferent items.
Now it didn't do very goodbecause we we we had some very
nice AI generated pictures andwe asked it to have a kid on a
(52:19):
bicycle jump over a mud puddleand we actually had the problem
where the bike was jumpingwithout a mud puddle.
There is a mud puddle that thenwould show up after it jumped,
so that it did have some uhproblems still on his generation
of what to do.
But as far as the motion styleand the actual way that it did
it, I thought it was fairly welladaptive to creating kind of an
animated version.
(52:40):
What did you think of it, mike,when we were doing this on the
demo?
Mike Gorday (52:42):
I wasn't really all that impressed with it, you
didn't think it was that great.
Nathan Mumm (52:45):
No, okay, alright.
Mike Gorday (52:47):
Well, just to let you know it's something I'm not
going to pay 20 bucks a month tohave you don't want to do that.
Nathan Mumm (52:52):
Well, the output right now is only 720p on an MP4
file, so it's only 24 framesper second.
They do say higher resolutionswill become available at a later
time, but this is now gettinginto the features where you can
actually go and requestsomething from AI and create
actual live videos.
Mike Gorday (53:11):
Okay, tell me what I would want to do that with.
What would I want thatapplication for?
Nathan Mumm (53:16):
Well, what if you had a picture of yourself that
you uploaded and you wanted tohave yourself animate and maybe
say a funny saying?
Marc Gregoire (53:23):
Could he just film himself doing that I?
Nathan Mumm (53:26):
guess he could film himself doing it.
Mike Gorday (53:27):
But if you wanted to have an AI, do that I'm going
to pay $20 a month so that Ican do that.
Nathan Mumm (53:33):
It'll be my christmas card well, you do, you
ever do you like watchingcartoons.
But you can take a funnysegment of something you like
and you can ask it.
You know when we were playingwith this.
Mike Gorday (53:43):
We were.
We were messing around with apaper boy on a bicycle video and
you were telling him to jumpand, and you know what I left.
Yeah, what do?
Marc Gregoire (53:53):
you mean you left ?
Mike Gorday (53:54):
I stopped watching.
I went and started reading abook.
What Are you serious?
Yeah, you didn't like the AIgeneration.
It makes no sense to me.
But then again, I'm an old guyand you know these wonderful
things that I'm going to pay 20bucks a month for just so I can
play around with video.
Ai is just just.
(54:17):
You know my, not my dreamawesome.
Nathan Mumm (54:17):
I know that you're on our production meetings and
sometimes you're leaving andreading a book oh, absolutely
wow, wow, wow, wow we arelooking for.
Okay, all right, let's move onnow to our pick of the day
whiskey tasting and now our pickof the day for our whiskey
tastings.
Marc Gregoire (54:38):
Let's see what bubbles to the top old granddad
bottled bourbon, also known asogd 100, from jim bean
distillery straight bourbon,four years under proof 25 on the
shelf.
Nathan Mumm (54:52):
All right, this is nathan's gonna give it a thumbs
up, absolutely Thumbs up.
I like this.
I think I've liked this before.
Have I liked it before?
What was my previous?
You've always given oldgranddad thumbs up.
This is a whiskey I like.
Mike Gorday (55:03):
This has got the palate for me.
Marc Gregoire (55:04):
Thumbs up, thumbs down.
Mike Gorday (55:09):
You know, I'm going to give it really all that
standout-ish, yeah Okay.
Marc Gregoire (55:16):
Yeah, it's fine for me.
Like I said, I prefer the 114with more punch.
Mike Gorday (55:20):
What was my previous Thumbs up?
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (55:23):
But it's a great entry whiskey for people.
Nathan Mumm (55:26):
Does whiskey crisp like this?
You think A lot of people loveBasil.
Marc Gregoire (55:28):
Hayden out there for those entering and this is
the cheap version same mash bill.
So if you love Basil Hayden,you can save a lot of money.
Nathan Mumm (55:35):
Yeah, it's good, that makes sense.
It's tasty.
Does Whiskey, chris, like this?
We need to ask for his comment.
Marc Gregoire (55:43):
We'll see what he says on YouTube.
Nathan Mumm (55:45):
It wouldn't be on a show.
Marc Gregoire (55:46):
It's almost out of time, I did want to do a
shout out my love, myrefrigerator, my refrigerator.
Mike Gorday (55:52):
You want to say your refrigerator.
Are you sure it's not yourphone?
Speaker 8 (55:55):
I mean you disrobe your phone every night.
Mike Gorday (55:57):
Oh, okay everybody.
Nathan Mumm (55:58):
Thank you for joining our show today.
Hopefully you enjoyed thetechnology and comedy.
Remember the science oftomorrow starts with the
technology of today.
See you next week Later.
Bye-bye.
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