What happens when technology takes a step backward to move forward? This week's episode explores the strange territory where nostalgia, practicality, and innovation collide in unexpected ways.
Microsoft is killing off the iconic Blue Screen of Death after four decades, replacing the familiar blue error screen with a simplified black version. While the company claims this will provide better troubleshooting information, we question whether changing such a recognizable symbol of Windows crashes makes sense. After all, when something isn't broken, why fix it?
Meanwhile, a fascinating trend has emerged in Portland, Maine, where parents have created a "landline pod" — installing traditional home phones for their children instead of smartphones. What started with one parent's decision has grown to include 15-20 families who are witnessing remarkable improvements in their children's social skills and creative thinking. It's a powerful reminder that sometimes the most innovative solution is returning to simpler technologies.
The show takes a deep dive into consumer protection as the FTC approves $126 million in refunds for nearly one million Fortnite players who fell victim to "dark pattern" purchases. Epic Games' deceptive design practices that tricked users into making unwanted purchases remind us that ethical considerations often lag behind technological capabilities.
We couldn't help but laugh at the bizarre world of robot pets with the discovery of a $50 "attack dog" from Timu that shoots pellets and simulates urination. This strange creation somehow keeps users engaged for hours, proving there's a market for even the oddest technological innovations.
Our whiskey tasting features Wild Turkey 101 8-year bourbon, which received enthusiastic approval from our hosts. With notes of vanilla, clove, and toffee, this $45 bourbon proves that sometimes traditional craftsmanship is worth celebrating.
Join us for a journey through technology's strangest corners, where old becomes new again and the digital world continues to surprise us in the most unexpected ways. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation!
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I'm glad I'm the only one.
What's that?
The award-winning author.
I'm glad I'm the award-winningauthor.
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Are you the award-winning?
Mike Gorday (01:11):
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I'm glad I am.
I'm glad there's nobody else tobe the award-winning author.
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Okay, well, you know I haven't written a book
yet.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well, what should my book title be?
I did an AI book.
I did it back when the AI.
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You're trying to get asymmetrical with the background
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I'm trying to get symmetrical.
Never mind, it's too early forme to be talking, okay.
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including Mike's mesmerizingmoment that technology fail and
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A couple listeners that I saidthat we should on last week's
stream said that we shouldchange the show to whiskey
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So you know what?
Mike Gorday (03:05):
well, we had a little technology on the side.
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So you know what?
Who said that?
Well, we had a couple people onthe show that maybe we went a
little long, I guess, on ourwhiskey items last week.
So they were saying that on ourstream.
Ody (03:13):
I find that funny because, like, maybe not even 5% of the
show is whiskey.
Mike Gorday (03:19):
Well see, whiskey is the reason why we can do the
show, at least for me, that'sexactly, and me too, if we
didn't have the whiskey to havein between these articles.
I couldn't do the show if wedidn't have whiskey.
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All right, so there you go.
So it's our advice everybody,but thank you for letting us
know, it's not advice, it'smedication.
Mike Gorday (03:36):
Yeah, it's not advice.
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Oh, that's what we got, all right.
Well, hopefully we'll see if weget a zero, one or two thumbs
up at the end of the show.
We got a cork bottle today, soI'm good.
If you notice, we did a littleheavier pour.
Mike Gorday (03:51):
We'll explain that a little bit.
Yeah, you did a heavy pour.
I did All right.
Now I think there's somethinggoing on.
Nathan Mumm (03:56):
There is.
Let's move into the latestheadlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (04:06):
All right Story.
Number one Windows is gettingrid of the blue screen of death.
After 40 years, have you everseen the blue screen of death?
Are you kidding?
Well, I just, I'm just tryingto bring it up.
Mike Gorday (04:16):
Everybody knows what the blue screen of death.
Everybody has seen it, ok.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
All right, odie said something bad.
Ody (04:22):
Oh, what's that?
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Nathan Mumm (04:25):
You've never seen the blue screen of death.
Ody (04:26):
No, I don't think I have.
Nathan Mumm (04:31):
On any Windows boot up.
You've never had a problem withit.
So that's what happens whenyour computer hangs up or you
have to reboot.
Mike Gorday (04:40):
It comes up with a big blue screen.
Nathan Mumm (04:42):
It's you what's going on, and then it'll
normally restart your computerand it'll dump information into
a log file.
You've never seen that.
Ody (04:48):
I don't think I have Wow Okay.
Mike Gorday (04:50):
Well you know what I do know somebody.
I think maybe Odie drinks morethan we do.
Nathan Mumm (04:55):
All right.
Well, let's go to Lisa Walkerfor more on the story.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The blue screen of death, or as most people call it
, BSOD, has been present inMicrosoft's OS since 1985, in
Windows version 1.
It has served as the stableerror screen for Windows for
nearly 40 years, but that'sabout to change.
The new design drops thetraditional blue color, frowning
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face and QR code in favor of asimplified black screen.
The simplified B-S-O-Dresembles the black screen you'd
see during a Windows update.
However, it will list the stopcode and faulty system driver
that you wouldn't always seeduring a crash dump.
Are we okay with going to theblack screen instead of the
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traditional blue?
What do you?
Nathan Mumm (05:48):
think Nathan Alright.
Mike Gorday (05:49):
so this is a kind of I don't know if I like this.
You don't like this.
Nathan Mumm (05:55):
I don't like this either.
Mike Gorday (05:57):
Well, I hate seeing the blue screen of death, but
if it were just the black screen.
I might be thinking that it's avideo problem.
Nathan Mumm (06:06):
There's a lot of different things here.
The blue screen was reallysignificant in saying, oops, I
have a problem.
I mean Mac.
When it first came out, macwould have this little Mac icon
that would come on out with afrowny face, that would be in
the middle of your screen, or aquestion mark.
There's some of these itemsthat I don't know why you would
change, because we havedeveloped and understand what
happens to that now.
(06:27):
You could have kept the bluescreen of death and just done
the same features that they'retalking about, but somehow it
must take an extra one line ofcode to have that blue screen
drop on there, that they decideto remove it and it's going back
now.
What is nice in this newupgrade that's going to be
happening sooner than later isthat it will have the ability to
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have the error codes on thescreen itself, so you can take a
screenshot with your phone.
You can take a look at whatthat error code is instead of
going into the dump files.
But recent versions of the bluescreen of death have already had
those error codes on therealready, so you can still see
IRQ issue blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah or
whatever's going on.
Mike Gorday (07:06):
well, let's see what we got here they should,
they should, they should takethis opportunity to do something
funner, like, like have?
You have the google chromethings with the little dinosaur
well, yeah, or having some youknow graphics like the screen is
cracking or something like that, or explosions or something on
there
Nathan Mumm (07:24):
that that would make it much better.
Well, david Weston, the vicepresident of enterprise and OS
security at Microsoft, says it'sreally an attempt on clarity
and providing better informationand allowing us and the
customers to really get to whatthe core of the issue is, so we
can fix it faster.
Mike Gorday (07:39):
That doesn't make any sense, David.
It's just a color buddy, we allknow what blue means.
Nathan Mumm (07:46):
Blue means that there's a screen of death and I
I I don't get it.
Well, windows says guess what?
You really don't have a choiceto complain because coming on
out in windows 11 later thissummer it's going to have the
feature already imposed with theblack screen.
And then they're also adding anew quick machine recovery
feature which is designed toquickly restore machines that
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can't boot.
So what's really interestingabout this whole thing is that
microsoft has so many thingsthat they can take a look at.
They've had that wholerecording issue, which was a
record all your browser stuffand you can restore stuff.
That's been kind of a majorissue.
Windows is using this to saywhat they're saying is that it
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addresses CrowdStrike incidentlast year that left millions of
Windows machines booting intothe blue screen of death without
knowing what was going on.
This black screen now will helppeople understand what's going
on.
I don't like it.
I don't like it, keep it blue.
Mike Gorday (08:44):
I don't really understand the rationale Like oh
, we need more clarity, let'schange the color from blue to
black.
Nathan Mumm (08:50):
I guess maybe black's easier to take a picture
of.
Mike Gorday (08:52):
I don't know, maybe they just need to save that
line of code.
Nathan Mumm (08:55):
That's literally probably one digit, that's just
taking up too much space thatone digit Really have in today's
world.
Now, back in the olden daysthey actually used to optimize
Windows 3.1.1 used to come onlike four or five floppy disks
and it was optimized code.
Now they just throw the codeout there and it's huge.
There is no optimization in thecode this year, I don't know.
I think this is just All right.
(09:16):
I don't like it.
Mike Gorday (09:18):
I feel like this is just something to let people
know that they're still outthere doing stuff is that what
it is?
Nathan Mumm (09:24):
yeah, okay, all right, just a press release to
say like they're making progresson it no, like they're.
Mike Gorday (09:29):
They're.
They're like saying ah, we'restill here and your machine is
being or that, yeah, okay, thereyou go.
Nathan Mumm (09:38):
All right, make us feel much better with story
number two, mike, I'm sure youcan help us how am I gonna do
that I?
Don't know, I'm sure this is anuplifting yeah sure it is.
Mike Gorday (09:48):
Do you know what Fortnite is?
Nathan Mumm (09:49):
The video game.
I have tried to play it acouple times, you're not a
Fortnite.
Mike Gorday (09:53):
I am not good.
Nathan Mumm (09:59):
I don't think you're a Fortnite guy.
No, I lose to-plus-year-old manlosing to some little
7-year-old, I know.
Mike Gorday (10:06):
I used to play this quite a bit.
Okay, my son was really good atit.
He used to beat me up all thetime on Fortnite.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (10:13):
Well, the FTC has approved $126 million in
Fortnite refunds.
What?
Because of dark patterns, okayso, hopefully you're going to
explain.
Nathan Mumm (10:25):
It must be a black screen of death or something,
okay, well, okay, explain alittle bit more on this.
Mike Gorday (10:29):
The Federal Trade Commission has approved 126
million refunds to be sent to969,173 Fortnite players as part
of a settlement overallegations that Epic Games, the
creator of Fortnite, hastricked users into making
unwanted purchases.
At the same time, the agencyhas reopened the claims portal
(10:53):
for eligible Fortnite players tosubmit refund claims, which
will be examined for the thirdround of refunds.
This latest development marksthe second phase of the
settlement the FTC has reachedwith Epic Games in December of
2022, in which the companyagreed to pay $520 million to
settle allegations waking thegame from sleep mode during the
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loading screen or while theyattempted to preview an in-game
item.
Nathan Mumm (11:43):
So explain that charging players unintentionally
by waking the game from sleepmode.
So if the game goes into sleepmode, I have no idea what that
is, because they would turn itback on.
So if you're in sleep mode inFortnite, they're going on in
and turning it back on for youto do purchases.
I have no idea.
Mike Gorday (12:00):
Okay, that's not my bailiwick.
I have never.
I don't know what a sleep modeis in a game.
Nathan Mumm (12:06):
I don't know.
Mike Gorday (12:06):
That doesn't make any sense.
Nathan Mumm (12:08):
A sleep mode on a computer or a phone makes sense,
but I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
Mike Gorday (12:11):
Anyway, these charges occur without additional
confirmation, like you know,are you sure you want to pay
that?
And those attempting to disputeand reverse them had to go
through complex processes thatmake it likely for them to give
up permanently.
So you know, this is probablywhy Epic Games receives a lot of
(12:32):
hate.
Yeah, because that's definitelypretty slimy.
It's pretty slimy All right.
Nathan Mumm (12:42):
So you know some of these return policies.
You know I will say Amazon asmuch as we give Amazon a bunch
of crap.
And Mr Bezos just got married,whatever.
Mike Gorday (12:50):
Did he really?
Nathan Mumm (12:51):
Yeah, in Italy, didn't you hear about that?
Mike Gorday (12:53):
No I don't pay attention to that.
Nathan Mumm (12:54):
He shut down almost all of Italy just so that he
could be there with hiscelebrities and everybody.
Mike Gorday (12:59):
But Amazon at least has a nice return policy.
I hope it lasts more than aweek.
Nathan Mumm (13:03):
Okay, at least the best thing about Amazon is the
return policy is pretty easy touse, right, you go in, you say
you want to return it, you dropit off at a location and you get
refunded.
Some things are very difficultto return.
I just tried to return an itemthat I had purchased and I had
(13:23):
to go through that For Fortnite.
Not for Fortnite, but forsomething else.
It had like seven differentsteps for approvals.
There was a point where I wasgoing to give up and then I just
said, screw it, I'm going tocontinue.
Mike Gorday (13:34):
Yeah, okay, so business and ethics are mutually
exclusive.
Right, this is all set up forbusinesses to get your money and
keep your money so if theyagreed agreed to pay 520 million
dollars, they must have madeeven more than that from the
(13:56):
purchases, right, well, I'm surethey made quite a bit of money
and, hopefully, unlike some ofthe things that get slapped
against facebook, yeah, wherethey're like, ah, that's just,
that's just like us buying acoffee in regular world, okay,
um, maybe this will help.
I don't know all right, but ifyou have performed fortnight
purchases between january of2017 and september of 2022,
(14:22):
that's a pretty big yeah.
That fall into the category ofdark patterns, as those defined
by the FTC.
You are invited to submit aclaim through this portal until
July 9th of this year.
Okay, you must be 18 years oldto complete a claim.
However, parents or guardianscan do it on their children's
behalf.
So, you know, that soundsalmost like a's a loophole, but
(14:45):
there you go, there you go.
So, uh, yeah, too bad,fortnight was a.
I mean, it's a fun game ifyou've ever played it.
Nathan Mumm (14:52):
The graphics look really good.
Mike Gorday (14:53):
They keep on updating the graphics, oh yeah,
I mean it's this fortnight isbased on the systems of of uh
seasons and characters.
Nathan Mumm (15:04):
Sometimes you got superman on there, sometimes you
have a spongebob.
I mean, it seems to be veryseasonal and it's set up.
Mike Gorday (15:11):
It is uh one of these games that is.
It's kind of like uhmicrotransactions uh it's based
on microtransactions oh,microtransactions.
Nathan Mumm (15:21):
You know I may ask you about that in your uh
Mesmerizing moment.
Mike Gorday (15:24):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you all will.
I will be.
Nathan Mumm (15:28):
Okay, all right.
All right.
Are you ready for story numberthree?
No.
Story number three Technologyexperts, along with parents,
have found a way to reduce theirkids' screen time while
improving their social skillsand creative thinking.
You mean taking away theirphone.
Hang on, here we go their phonehang on, here we go.
Let me do the story.
There's a whole lead.
Oh, there's a whole story.
Yeah, when carson morris'snine-year-old daughter asked for
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a smartphone last year, herreaction was hell, no.
Morris is a mental healthprovider in portland, maine
public school system and she wasfirmly against smartphones,
having seen how social media andabundant screen time could
shorten students attention spansand give them anxiety.
But she wanted her child tohave some independence.
So she called friends, arrangedto arrange playdates and
(16:11):
reached out to her grandparentson her own.
So when her daughter turned 10,morris got her a special phone
For that gift.
It provided all the benefitsshe wanted.
Morris had the way to lay somegroundwork, though it would be
annoying if her daughter, whowas also eight years old, were
to start calling their friendssmartphones all the time.
(16:32):
So she told her neighbors abouther plan and suggested they
consider getting these specialphones also.
Silvo bought in immediatelyexcited for the opportunity.
This is a party line.
Hang on just a second, don'ttell me.
You should tell them.
Hang on.
Excited for the party line?
Hang on just a second, don'tdon't hang on.
Excited for the opportunity toplacate their own eager kids
with this technology and overthe next couple of months,
morris kept nudging people.
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The peer pressure paid off.
Now about 15 to 20 families inthe south portland neighborhood
have installed you guessed it atraditional land line this is
dope.
They've created a retro bubblein which their children can
easily call their friendswithout bugging a parent to
borrow their cell phone, inwhich parents can now live
blissfully free of anxiety aboutthe downside of smartphones.
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In the past few years, interestin old school technology has
been on the rise, driving partlyby desperate adults seeking
smartphone alternatives fortheir kids.
Now what we have and the newtechnology is called a dumb
phone.
On Reddit, parents shared thisinformation about going full 90s
, with a desktop computerinstalled in a living room,
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nintendo 64, and, of course, atelephone connected to a
landline.
Now, in March, after themillennial mom posted on
Instagram about getting her homephone for her kids, she
received scores of complimentsfrom parents saying they've done
the same or planned too soon.
Now, jonathan Hite, the authorof Ang's the Anxious Generation,
(17:57):
said that many parents arehaving problems with their
children trying to usesmartphones, so everybody should
do what South Portland did andform a landline pod.
That is exactly where parentssee.
The idea of this is that youpick up a phone, you have to
dial a number and then you cantalk to people.
Now, parents are loving this.
They are getting on their pods.
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They got corded phones thateverybody can talk to on these
devices.
It's a party line With a largecord.
They can then have theirchildren listen in and have
communication.
Now, only after a few months,more and more people are getting
comfortable with this program,having their children go on over
and pick up a phone to talk topeople on the other side.
(18:40):
So let's talk about it.
What have we got to talk about?
here, so this is the idea.
So here's what parents aredoing.
Mike Gorday (18:47):
This is this is this is this is this is I like
how you're freaking out about itand I just overjoyed here.
Ody (18:55):
I do see this is my one critique was would be instead of
the landline phone, I'd get a,a small flip phone a flip.
Mike Gorday (19:03):
Yeah, that way they could take it anywhere.
Here's the thing.
Here's what I'm.
I'm not flipping out over thisidea, I am flipping out the.
This is just ridiculous.
Nathan Mumm (19:16):
It's been a proven fact that a generation has
already tested this method outbefore I know.
Mike Gorday (19:24):
This is an indication.
Ody (19:25):
There have been several generations that have tested
that out.
Mike Gorday (19:27):
This is an indication.
Ody (19:28):
That we're regressing.
Mike Gorday (19:30):
No, it's not about regressing.
It's about that we are startingto figure out that our
technological life is far beyondour, our control and our
healthy ability to do thingsright, and so every time we get
on the, we talk about this allthe time.
With other stuff, we're goingbackwards technologically in
(19:51):
order to save ourselves from allkinds of stuff right, we got,
we got, we were it.
Nathan Mumm (19:56):
I think the 80s were it.
Mike Gorday (20:00):
You write your passwords on paper.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Now you go back to that.
Mike Gorday (20:05):
What else?
There's other ones that we'vetalked about.
Nathan Mumm (20:08):
So now we're going back to a landline that you can
call people.
Ody (20:12):
Cds, polaroid cameras, whatever Digital media is coming
back.
I think what I find so funnyabout Polaroid cameras Whatever
Digital media is coming back,we've got Physical media.
Mike Gorday (20:21):
I think what I find so funny about this Is this is
like some sort of revolutionary.
Nathan Mumm (20:26):
This is a huge article.
This is the dumbest thing I'veever heard of.
A million people have up likethis.
Mike Gorday (20:32):
First off, your 10 year old child does not need A
whole lot of independence.
Okay, the whole idea about thisis you don't have independence
Because now they're in a sharedroom.
Nathan Mumm (20:40):
First off, your 10-year-old child does not need
a whole lot of independence.
Okay, okay, well, see, thewhole idea about this is you
don't have independence becausenow they're in a shared room.
Mike Gorday (20:45):
They have to take their cord there so everybody
can hear their conversations.
Yeah, it's basically Ludditephilosophy.
Nathan Mumm (20:49):
This is how I dated .
This is how I was a teenager.
This is what I did.
I don't know.
Mixtapes are next.
I guess they probably will.
Mixtapes have already come back, have comebacks, so here's what
parents are saying.
Mike Gorday (21:00):
I'm talking about having a recorder next to a
radio thing and then pressingrecord when the song comes on
and waiting.
Nathan Mumm (21:09):
Mixtapes in the 80s were like you had to talk over.
You had to talk.
Nobody talks over because thesestations don't have DJs anymore
.
Mike Gorday (21:16):
You are completely not following here.
Nathan Mumm (21:18):
They don't Most of these DJs don't exist.
Mike Gorday (21:22):
I'm talking about the actual effort you had to put
in an 80s mixtape today,because you had to sit by the
radio.
Nathan Mumm (21:30):
Unpause it record.
Mike Gorday (21:32):
Okay, whatever, just go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, no, no, Keep on going.
You're just too busy trying tobe the expert one.
No, no, no, keep on going.
Mike Gorday (21:37):
You're just too busy, you're too busy trying to
be the expert here.
Nathan Mumm (21:39):
No, no, keep on going, keep on going.
So you're talking about thepause button that you used to do
on the radio.
Mike Gorday (21:44):
No, I'm talking about you had to sit next to the
radio until the song of choicecame on, then press record and
then wait for the next one.
So doing an 80s mixtape waslike this huge process.
Yeah, and now you know, if youdo a mixtape today, it's like
(22:04):
going on Spotify and being likethis, this, this and this.
Oh, here I love you.
Nathan Mumm (22:08):
They have the playlist, see what you can do.
Well, here's what the peoplesaid on this.
Mike Gorday (22:13):
This is just.
I just find this ridiculous,based because it's.
Nathan Mumm (22:19):
Her daughter can now engage people in a
conversation.
She says it's mind blowing.
Yeah, she can talk on the phone.
I'm sure it is mind blowing.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, I'm sure it is mind blowing.
Mike Gorday (22:27):
We grew, I grew up with this stuff and it's just
funny that Well, I'll just go toOdie here.
Nathan Mumm (22:34):
A little bit of a younger generation, right?
Do you love calling and talkingto customer service people on
the phone?
Ody (22:40):
Is it an actual customer person?
Nathan Mumm (22:42):
Yeah, Maybe, maybe, I don't mind it, you don't mind
it, okay.
Ody (22:47):
I grew up with a house phone.
Nathan Mumm (22:49):
Yeah.
Ody (22:49):
You know it wasn't connected to a landline or
anything, it was cordless.
Nathan Mumm (22:53):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (23:00):
But I did have phone etiquette okay and I'm
okay with that.
Nathan Mumm (23:01):
That's good.
I didn't have a corded phone,well, that's okay.
Ody (23:03):
Remember, at the very end of the life cycle of the
landlines, they had the big butI do think I'm glad that this is
making a comeback in theweirdest kind of way yeah
because a lot of thing that mysister and I talk about is that,
or people my age talk about,about the younger generation,
like my brother's age, is thatthe awkward tween phase is not
(23:23):
much of a thing anymore.
They go from kids straight towanting to be a teenager.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
Yep, yep.
Ody (23:28):
So, with this coming back, it kind of instills that you
still need a parent, you don'tneed that independence of a
10-year-old, you can talk toyour friends on there, the
parents.
Mike Gorday (23:40):
I just find this funny because this this is
presented in some revelatory wayit's like oh well, that's just,
that's a miracle from heaven,that's just millennial parenting
.
Nathan Mumm (23:50):
This is just a rotary phone system.
Okay, it is a rotary phonesystem but I'm excited for it,
you know have you, have you seenkids try to use rotary phones?
Ody (23:59):
Oh my god.
Nathan Mumm (24:00):
Have you seen those on videos?
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the mostcraziest thing in the world.
They have no idea how to puttheir hand in it and then
actually move it on over.
Mike Gorday (24:07):
They did the same thing with, like the Nintendo
Original Nintendo.
Ody (24:12):
Yeah have you seen?
Oh, my god, I think it was withmy brother, who is 15, by the
way.
If I gave him an iPod like theclassic, I think it would blow
his mind.
Nathan Mumm (24:23):
He'd have to see the little screen and use up and
down arrows to hit, play Notthe up and down arrows, but the
little scroll.
Ody (24:27):
Oh, the scroll bar, yeah, and then the fact that you have
to plug in your headphones it'snot just a Bluetooth thing and
you have to recharge it.
Nathan Mumm (24:38):
You to recharge it.
Ody (24:39):
You have to the action of loading content onto that thing,
what it's not justautomatically there's just not
automatically there what theseare revolutionary ideas that's
coming back, by the way, I knowI think you should be telling
this while you're on yourcordless phone the 80s and the
90s, if you want to do abusiness right now.
Mike Gorday (24:51):
You just go and buy all the 80s, 90s.
I mean to me this is justmaddening.
I mean we maddening.
Ody (24:56):
Maddening yeah.
Maddening in what way?
Mike Gorday (25:00):
Because we already know this exists.
We already should be thinkingalong these lines, but we are
jeopardizing all the futuregenerations because our
technology system is pushing sofast, so quickly.
(25:21):
We can't keep up.
We're already into an arenawhere we are far beyond the
ability to adapt to ourtechnology and it's creating all
these problems social problems,psychological problems
individually.
Nathan Mumm (25:38):
What are you saying ?
I don't know if you couldactually get a landline anymore.
It seems like all these arevoice over IP.
I don't know if you can, canyou?
Ody (25:46):
Maybe in some rural.
Nathan Mumm (25:47):
I don't know.
Mike Gorday (25:48):
I have a friend who still has a landline.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Okay, well, there you go.
Mike Gorday (25:51):
I don't, because why would you pay for two
different phone systems?
Nathan Mumm (25:57):
Because of that landline you can run a bulletin
board service on it.
Mike Gorday (26:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to get a 50 or 500 baud
modem and set up a bulletinboard.
Nathan Mumm (26:07):
You know what.
You should probably do thatright now and that would
probably be a huge trend senderin the next six to eight months,
I don't know and it can make afortune.
Ody (26:14):
What's nice about all this technology coming back is that
it kind of opens up Right now.
If you have a smartphone,you're okay, but if you don't
like the smartphone, you're kindof limiting yourself from the
everyday thing, yeah, from a lotof stuff.
If you just have cash on you,like there's no pay phones
anymore.
Imagine if you're stranded andyou don't have your phone wallet
(26:36):
.
What are you gonna do?
Yep, yep, we can this is let'sbring back payphone.
Nathan Mumm (26:41):
These are all societal, societal growing pains
and at least I pay phones ineurope.
Mike Gorday (26:48):
Yeah, they and they use and people use them there's
, there should be but uh, youknow our infrastructure is,
everything is based on money.
So, yeah, you know, if thephones are getting used, why
should we have them?
That's right.
And then you know ourinfrastructure is everything is
based on money.
So you know, if the phones aregetting used, why should we have
them?
Ody (27:01):
That's right.
Nathan Mumm (27:01):
And then you know all right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on up next, we have oursay what segments that we're
going to be talking about, someeven more unique stories and
mumbles.
Mike Gorday (27:13):
And that's right Buckle up as we drive 88 miles
per hour in our next segment.
You're listening to Tech Timewith Nathan Mumm, Seattle
Commercial Break.
Maybe you should try saying weneed to use a rotary phone to
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Okay, here we go.
Nathan Mumm (27:26):
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Nathan Mumm (28:17):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is not in
the studio, obviously, so wehave our producer filling in
Odie.
What has Mark chosen for ustoday?
Ody (28:40):
Well, today we are drinking the Wild turkey 101
eight-year-old bourbon directlyfrom their website.
It's crafted by jimmy russelland rooted in a time-tested
recipe.
This is whoa this exquisitebourbon is the result of
utilizing hand-picked, smallbatch bourbons that have been
aged for a minimum of eightyears, with notes of vanilla,
clove, toffee, chored oak, lemonzest and black cherry on
(29:03):
palette with long and lingeringbrown sugar, dried fruit,
vanilla and allspice.
Okay, you guys getting any ofthat?
Nathan Mumm (29:11):
I got, I got the allspice no, lemon zest I did
not get a lemon zest.
Did you get a lemon zest?
I did vanilla's in there, sure,why not yeah?
Ody (29:19):
okay, okay, it's from the campari group.
Uh, wild turkey distillery inlawrenceburg, kentucky,
classified as a straight bourbonaged eight years.
Mike Gorday (29:28):
A hundred proof 75 corn, 13 rye and 12 malted
barley yeah, I'm starting to beable to tell that this is a
mostly corn-ripe, corn-basedthing, because it's sweet.
Nathan Mumm (29:43):
What are you thinking so far, Mike?
Mike Gorday (29:45):
It's okay.
It's not a bad taste.
It's very mild so far.
Nathan Mumm (29:52):
I like mine.
Ody (29:53):
Do you guys want to know the price now or later?
Nathan Mumm (29:55):
Tell us now.
Ody (29:58):
How much do you think it goes?
Nathan Mumm (29:59):
for $39.
Ody (30:02):
Oh, okay, you were saying it was expensive earlier.
Nathan Mumm (30:04):
Well, I bet you it's $39.
Is that about right?
Ody (30:07):
Michael.
Mike Gorday (30:09):
I'll up the ante and say this is about $50.
Ody (30:11):
Okay, it's $45.
I give it to Mike then, okay.
But yeah, please do not forgetto like and subscribe.
Nathan Mumm (30:19):
Drink.
Give it to mike, then okay.
But yeah, please do not forgetto like and subscribe drink
responsibly.
How do you give it to mike?
The price is right, that's over.
Ody (30:23):
That doesn't work, you said 50 yeah, I thought it was about
50 you.
Mike Gorday (30:26):
You said it was 39 you're six away.
Ody (30:29):
Okay, he's five, okay, okay , okay, we're not going by the
price is right if you're over it.
Nathan Mumm (30:35):
No, no no no.
Mike Gorday (30:38):
For those of you joining us right now, the Price
is Right is something thathappens on that old weird thing
called the TV.
You know what I think that isgoing to come back too.
Which we used to get on partylines and talk about, and you
know what it used to be free.
Nathan Mumm (30:51):
You know what that.
Ody (30:59):
You didn't have to pay for you used to just have it on.
You said, yeah, it was, oh yeah, a long, long time ago, in a
society far, far away.
You're saying you didn't haveto pay cable for it you didn't
have to pay any money for it.
So it's just like on, what doyou call that?
Nathan Mumm (31:06):
there were four channels yeah, yeah rabbit ears.
It was on rabbit ears and theywere the air okay, they were.
Mike Gorday (31:11):
Yeah, they were transmitted by uhf okay, wasn't
it?
Uhf yeah uh, and you just hadto get the right signal and you
could get NBC, abc, cbs and PBS.
Ody (31:24):
I know about that.
I just didn't know that it wason one of those public channels,
I guess.
Nathan Mumm (31:29):
No, just regular channels.
Ody (31:30):
It wasn't public.
Mike Gorday (31:32):
This is back in the day, man.
Nathan Mumm (31:35):
This is going to come back in style.
Mike Gorday (31:38):
You get on your rotary phone and talk about the
price is right that cable ischeaper than streaming right now
.
Nathan Mumm (31:44):
Yes, but you didn't even have to have cable.
Ody (31:45):
This was free over the air Right, right, right, right, so
you didn't pay for it.
Nathan Mumm (31:49):
With an antenna, you still got commercials.
Mike Gorday (31:51):
Yes, so I didn't have to pay $20 month to watch
commercials.
I got them for free.
Yeah, okay, like all right.
Okay, that's what happens whenyou apply consumerist
philosophies and policies to asociety all right.
Nathan Mumm (32:05):
Well, let's move on from our whiskey tasting.
Do I get to say drinkresponsibly you already did, I
did all right.
Ody (32:11):
Okay, there you go.
Nathan Mumm (32:12):
All right, too much I, I did have a big pour.
There we go.
So moving on.
Uh, let's move into our featuresegment.
Today we have our favoritesegment called this is not our
favorite segment.
Mike Gorday (32:23):
Well, it's my favorite segment, called Say
what, when have we ever donethis?
Ody (32:26):
You know what Many times Say what he wasn't here the time
that we did this, we've done itlike twice.
So here we go.
Well, this is my favorite intro.
Nathan Mumm (32:33):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Say what again, say what again.
Nathan Mumm (32:40):
I dare you, I double dare you Say what one
time.
All right, here we go.
Mike Gorday (32:46):
Say what Okay, where's that from?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Pulp Fiction.
Okay, everybody knew that.
Okay, yes, I just wanted tomake sure you knew where the
references were from All right.
Nathan Mumm (32:54):
So these are segments and before I start,
mike, you have to go say what.
I'm not going to say what, saywhat.
Ody (33:01):
I'll say what for you.
Nathan Mumm (33:02):
Okay, you'll say what, say what.
Okay, here we go Ready.
Thank you, odie.
Start Odie.
Ody (33:06):
Say what.
Nathan Mumm (33:06):
All right.
Download festival warning, aspolice urge attendees not to
wear smart watches.
After issues last year now thelanchester police said on a
routine weekend the forcehandles around 600 emergency
calls, but during the downloadfestival weekend they have 700
more than usual.
Body worn devices such as smartwatches automatically call the
(33:28):
emergency services if it sensesthe wearer the wearer of the
device has been in a crash orsuffered a fatal fall.
Now the problem with this isthat this hang-banging big
concert that has a mosh pit thatfans jump into listening to
heavy metal music and they puttheir smart watches up and down
(33:48):
and with that music intensityand the falling down it seems to
set off the alert that theyhave had either a seizure or a
serious crash.
That has fallen.
Police are urging people thisyear that attend the download
festival please put your devicesin airplane mode, otherwise
they do not understand what theyneed to do with all of the
(34:10):
people that are coming in withseizure type uh alerts to the
local emergency system.
Mike Gorday (34:17):
You know what's funny about that?
What's that?
Is that now that that PSA hasgone out, everybody's going to
make sure they go to the moshpit without turning on their
thing.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
So they're going to do it reverse.
It's going to be a reverseeffect.
Nathan Mumm (34:29):
Okay, all right, disabling your emergency alerts
if you're going to go to a metalconcert with loud music.
Mike Gorday (34:34):
I wonder if my smart watch does this.
Nathan Mumm (34:38):
It.
You're going to go to a metalconcert with loud music.
I wonder if my smartwatch doesthis.
It'll send out signals andwe'll just say don't come to the
studio.
All right, here we go.
Next story Ready.
Say what All right Cursed newdating app matches you based on
the most deranged things you canimagine.
Ody (34:52):
You say it every time.
That's right, I'm going tobreak the energy bike.
Nathan Mumm (35:00):
It's something you can't do.
You should say it judging bysay what.
Okay, here we go.
That was a perfect say what.
Let's talk about this.
There's a new dating app thatmatches you based on the most
deranged things you can imagine.
Here's what this app is calleda fetish app, no, well, no, it's
a.
It's a dating app where it willshow every side of you.
Now in this, it's called newlydeveloped dating app.
It's potential lovers based onthe entire internet browsing
(35:22):
histories of your machine thenew service is straightforward
named browser dating, and it'sthe brainchild of a Belgian
artiste, dyers Deporte.
After years of creating theone-off projects like shirt,
he's now created the most, uh,unique pursuit of love.
Now, instead of choosing thebest pictures or the best things
(35:45):
about yourself that will showyou on the positive side, the
artist says of the site that heis going to actually upload all
of your internet search historyfrom that.
He will then decide on whatneeds to be done, and then your
browser dating experience willexpose all of your internet
search history.
Mike Gorday (36:05):
This is where you should be saying say what.
Nathan Mumm (36:07):
That's right, okay, say what?
There you go.
So not only does this exposeall of your information on the
internet, it also probablyviolates three or four different
privacy items, as you're goingto be updating everything you
have searched on, including, andcould be, uh key phrases, uh,
password link sites and otherthings that you don't want
(36:29):
people to know you have so thisis a dumb idea uh, so if you
have your bank account right, sothey're going to know
everything about your bankaccount.
They're going to know everythingthat you searched on.
They're going to knoweverything about your bank
account.
They're going to knoweverything that you searched on.
They're going to have hugeinformation on there.
Would you upload your searchhistory?
Ody (36:43):
Absolutely not Immediately.
No, no, I don't feel like mysearch history gives me a good
depiction of what I want in mylove life.
Nathan Mumm (36:50):
Well then you can find somebody else online
through this app and you can saywell we have the same things.
We both searched for animemovies, and now we have a common
.
Mike Gorday (36:58):
That's still a dumb idea, because what if?
Ody (37:01):
I'm searching for somebody else and I'm using my device to
do so.
Nathan Mumm (37:06):
I don't know, I don't want my, like my brain.
Mike Gorday (37:09):
Here's the here's the deal.
Here's the deal.
Right, so you're not a writer.
No, you're not a writer.
I'm a writer, ok, you're not awriter.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
I'm a writer, okay.
Mike Gorday (37:19):
You never want to.
You never.
Yeah, I'm the award winningauthor.
You never want to see my searchbar?
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (37:25):
Exactly.
Mike Gorday (37:25):
Thank you.
You never want to see that,because there's stuff like
there's like how do you commit amurder with this?
Yeah.
Ody (37:31):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (37:32):
I didn't want to go that route.
What's the, what's the, what'sthe the best way of destroying a
whole city block, you know,because you're trying to write
stuff and if that is put intothat, uh, you might be having
the fbi knocking on your doorinstead of getting a date with
somebody okay, that's justthat's a ridiculous, dumb idea.
Nathan Mumm (37:52):
Let's say what.
All right, here we go.
Are we ready for our last storyhere?
Mike Gorday (37:57):
we go.
I think you should say say whatafter he reads the title,
because it doesn't make sense.
All right, okay, I'll do that.
Okay, here we go.
I'm here for you.
Nathan Mumm (38:05):
The peeing robot attack dog from Timu was even
more surprisingly than wethought when we bought it, for
some unusual reasons.
Ody (38:13):
Say what All right, say what all right, there we go see
let's see we're developing thissegment on the show.
Nathan Mumm (38:19):
All right, arriving in a slightly battered box
following a series ofquestionable decisions on timu
is the robot attack dog.
Now the lab notes that this iscalled clippy from the box, so
immediately you're met with theclippy.
Yeah, clippy is the name ofyour dog, so clippy.
Mike Gorday (38:36):
clippy is a thing on my desktop from the 90s it is
so the 90s are kind of a.
While I still had a rotaryphone.
Okay, and watch Price is Righton free channels.
Nathan Mumm (38:46):
Now it's immediately opening in the box,
you see the cheapest, glossiestplastic that could ever be
produced.
But you know what?
That's okay because all of asudden, it comes with an
official app which lets youcontrol your robot via Bluetooth
, or it comes with a remote.
Now, the best part about theBluetooth app is, once you load
it, all of your data will besent to China at the same time
(39:06):
that you're using the Bluetoothapp.
Mike Gorday (39:08):
That's okay, you can get a date from China.
Nathan Mumm (39:11):
Okay, there you go.
Now let's talk about this robotattack.
It shoots pellets, it tellsstories and pretends to urinate
is by far the most bizarredevice that I have ever seen in
my 15 plus years of reviewingdifferent items I know that's
because you know in my whole, inmy whole dream of technology is
to make something that worksexactly like a real thing okay.
(39:33):
Well, it's very interesting onon the box that you get your
choice.
It has fire bullets.
Pet printed with a catchyphrase that definitely got my
attention right away.
The plastic destroyer of worlds, uh, is allowed to load these
plastic items into it and it'llshoot it out of its mouth or the
front area where it's supposedto have its mouth.
(39:54):
So he's gonna like throw up onyou and he's gonna to shoot
plastic pellets.
Now, these pellets are not foranybody under the age of 18,
because they're too small andcan be swallowed by young
children.
Mike Gorday (40:05):
Under the age of 18 , huh.
Nathan Mumm (40:06):
Yeah, so you have to be the age of 18.
So I?
Mike Gorday (40:07):
mean 16-year-olds are choking to death on these
pellet dogs.
Nathan Mumm (40:20):
Well, it says 18 on the side, 18 plus plus.
That's now.
What's also interesting I fearfor our future is that it has a
button that says urinate.
When it does this, it lifts itsback leg and it has an audio
speaker underneath its belly.
That actually sounds likesomething urinating into a
toilet bowl with a flush nothingbetter that's.
Mike Gorday (40:35):
That's even stupider, youider.
Why are?
Ody (40:38):
you hating on it, I'm just.
Mike Gorday (40:40):
It's so cute.
I'm grumpy, all right.
Nathan Mumm (40:43):
Now guess what the best part is?
Timu can get this to you inthree to four days.
Forget the Boston Dynamicshigh-end robot dog that costs
$10,000 plus in memberships.
You can get this for $50.
And if you're lucky enough andget a Timu special, you can get
it all the way down for $29.99.
I think I'd rather just havethe liquor.
(41:04):
Well, you know what.
You may think that this soundsbad, but people continuously
play with the Clippy Dog.
It's shown that it averagesmore than four to six hours for
a toy device, which is one ofthe highest engaged team toys
online.
So that means people actuallyplay it.
That makes sense.
If you got pellets that shootout of its mouth and you're
(41:26):
peeing on a bunch of stuff, yougive it to your five or six year
old kid.
Mike Gorday (41:29):
Yeah, I'm sure he's Nathan or Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (41:32):
Now it also has the ability to do some rather
unique gestures, depending on ifyou want it to be happy or
shake your hand.
When you do the handshake one,they'll be careful because it
does not have any balancinggyros, so the robot will
automatically tip over.
But the best part is, afterit's been tipped over, it does
seem to get back up on its hindlegs, so it can walk again.
Mike Gorday (41:54):
Okay so we watched several videos.
Is this the one with the dogthat was humping stuff?
Nathan Mumm (41:57):
Well, they call that the dance mode.
So, I wouldn't call thathumping or anything into that,
but it does gyrate it gyrates?
Its back Exactly what it's notlooking like.
Yeah, it gyrates its back legsin unison for 20 seconds, but
this isn't this one.
Mike Gorday (42:13):
This one is the one , no, is the one.
This is the one.
It has the same thing, has thesame thing.
No, no, no.
The one that shoots pellets isnot the same one.
That was, I know, that was thesmaller love it loving on the,
loving on the the phone no, no,okay so.
Nathan Mumm (42:25):
So that was not the same guy that threw it out.
Now it does come with a bigdesigned xbox controller, which
is kind of imaginative, becausethe controller itself probably
costs 20 to 30 bucks just tomake the controller to have it
work.
But don't worry, if yourcontroller breaks, you can
always use the Bluetoothtechnology app.
That is not in English but inChina only, and so it makes it
(42:48):
even more fun when you decide topress buttons, not knowing what
your robot may do now, yeah,that see, there you go say what
say what now?
the best part is how itviolently has face plants.
It falls down automaticallyonto its face itself.
Nothing's more exciting thanwhen you're trying to do basic
commands, moving left and rightwith your robot dog, to have it
(43:10):
just automatically miss a stepand fall face down.
But again, as we said, the bestpart of it is that you also get
to have it pick itself up andcontinue.
Now don't blame me, but I'lltell you.
Right now there's limited runson Teemu for this pet robot.
All you have to do is go toTeemucom and type in pissing
robot dog or pee robot dog andit comes on up as your first hit
(43:35):
.
Mike Gorday (43:35):
Okay, I'm going to do that when I get home.
Okay, there you go.
Can I call him on my rotary?
Nathan Mumm (43:41):
I'm sure you can do that.
Well, you know what that ends.
Our Say what segments.
All right we're going to take abreak when we return.
I think we're going to have ourthis Week in Technology, so now
would be a great time to havesome whiskey on the side.
We'll see you after thiscommercial break.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Hey, mike, yeah, what's up?
Hey, so you know what.
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Like us in Patreoncom, Ibutcher the English language,
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And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (45:09):
All right, we're going to July 1st 1952.
The trademark of Silly Puttywas officially registered.
In addition to its success as atoy, other uses for putty have
officially registered.
In addition to its success as atoy, other uses for putty have
been found in the home.
You can use it to removesubstances such as dirt, lint
and pet hair or ink from varioussurfaces.
The material's uniqueproperties have found niche
applications in the medical andscientific fields.
(45:30):
Do you know that in the spaceshuttle, they actually use this
to hold equipment and items tothe wall as it transfers up into
space?
What's interesting about thisday is that two other major
trademarks happened also,including the roar of the MGM
lion in the shape of theCoca-Cola bottle boxes that were
(45:51):
also trademarked.
That was this Week in Technology.
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We're going to take acommercial break.
No, we're not.
We are going to go right nowinto Mike's mesmerizing moments.
Mike Gorday (46:12):
Yep.
Nathan Mumm (46:15):
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
Apparently a lot all right,here we go.
What mike?
What are impulse purchases invideo games or even other major
purchases?
All about the fear of missingout.
So we talked about that in yourearlier segment.
(46:35):
Fomo is it fomo?
Why do we have all theseimpulse purchase and video games
?
Mike Gorday (46:41):
Yeah, fomo is one reason.
Okay, and, interestingly enough, we had FOMO when we were
little.
You know what it was called.
What was that?
Keep up with the Joneses?
Okay, remember that.
I do remember that saying so,this is social pressure in which
we try to compete with eachother for status, or you know
(47:01):
other other.
So pro, pro-social activities.
So, uh, yeah, fomo is a big one, with impulse buying also.
Uh, the after effect is thedopamine hits that you're
getting for these buys, whichsets up the behavior to keep
going.
So it might start.
It might.
Maybe it starts off with FOMOand then it can become an
(47:23):
addictive thing, uh, which isnot FOMO.
Nathan Mumm (47:28):
Okay, all right, so you know do you ever play a
game where you you do an instantpurchase online?
Mike Gorday (47:34):
Yeah, I've done it.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
I've done it.
Mike Gorday (47:35):
I've done it.
I do it on occasion um do youget?
Nathan Mumm (47:38):
that dopamine hit after you purchase?
Okay?
Mike Gorday (47:41):
we, we get what we don't understand.
One of the reasons why we don'tunderstand all this stuff, and
one of the reasons why thingslike facebook have been so
successful, is that we don'trealize that this is happening
to us.
Okay, so every time you get alike on your post, that's, that
translates into your brain'spleasure pain system going oh
(48:03):
look, we love this, we have, wehave attention, we're getting
status, and so your brain gets adopamine hit.
Uh, when we do it in a videogame, we are doing the same
thing, because now we're saying,oh, oh, I got this cool skin
and you know it's too bad.
Mark is not here because wecould talk about how Mark is
like, but we, you know, yeah,because he really poops on this
(48:27):
stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:27):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (48:29):
But Mark doesn't play video games.
Mark is not a gamer.
Nathan Mumm (48:31):
No, remember when he played Sea of Thieves.
Did you ever play with him?
Mike Gorday (48:34):
Yeah, he was always complaining about he Did you
ever play with him?
Nathan Mumm (48:37):
Yeah, he was always complaining about he was
running around.
Mike Gorday (48:39):
Well, he was always complaining about, you know,
all these other little sidepurchases and things you could
do.
But that does create when we dothis and we start showing other
people that we have like withFortnite when we talked about
Fortnite.
So Fortnite has all thesecharacters and skins and things
that you can get, dances andlittle emotes and whatnot.
(49:00):
Uh, and collectively, the moreyou get the you, there's more
status that's in okay, involvedin that.
So you do, you do start to gain, uh, these sort of dopamine
behavioral modifications.
Nathan Mumm (49:19):
All right.
Well, we're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we have theMark Mumble Whiskey Review.
See you after the break.
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Speaker 1 (50:28):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Mike Gorday (50:36):
All right, tell us your wisdom, Mark.
Ody (50:40):
Today is July 1st.
Nathan Mumm (50:42):
Okay.
Ody (50:43):
It's early bird day.
Mike Gorday (50:45):
Oh, what does that mean?
Is that a prime thing?
A?
Ody (50:48):
prime.
Mike Gorday (50:48):
No, amazon Prime, is it early bird?
Isn't that the 9th and?
Ody (50:52):
11th this year.
Nathan Mumm (50:54):
It is yes, okay, that's the summer event.
Mike Gorday (50:56):
That's not Prime Day, that's the summer event
it's.
Nathan's favorite summer event.
That's not prime day, that'sthe summer it's.
Ody (50:59):
It's nathan's favorite amazon it's prime day summer
event because I now have a fallevent this wild day, early bird
day, is all about being first inline to snatch up the best of
what is to offer so it is primeday shops, restaurants and
supermarkets are filled withearly risers eager to claim the
top deals, meals and goodsbefore anyone else.
(51:20):
Become a morning person, Mike.
Mike Gorday (51:22):
Okay, so shouldn't this be Black Friday?
Ody (51:25):
No, Become a morning person , Michael.
Channel your inner Nathan ifyou really want to seize the day
, says Mark, who is stilllounging in bed with absolutely
no justification.
Mike Gorday (51:37):
Yeah, I tried channeling my inner Nathan once
and I had to go to therapy.
Ody (51:42):
Wow.
And since we're on the topic ofearly bird day, it only feels
right to give a nod to thefinest bird of them all wild
turkey.
No need to set your alarm forthis one wild turkey 101.
Mike Gorday (51:53):
Yeah, I was going to say big bird.
Ody (51:55):
Eight-year-old bourbon marks the return of the 101's
brand's age statement, which hadbeen absent since 1992.
This expression is now apermanent line extension offered
alongside the standard WildTurkey 101, which carries no age
statement but is said toinclude barrels aged between six
and eight years.
A true reward for those whoknow that sometimes the best
(52:18):
bird is found in a glass.
I will admit it, I am biasedwhen it comes to wild turkey.
It is one of my top favoritedistilleries and the 101 lineup
has a permanent place on myshelf.
The 12-year export exotic andrefined.
The 70th anniversary,absolutely divine.
Even the standard 101 puncheswell above its price point and
(52:38):
pairs beautifully with somethinglike fried chicken, it is true,
daily workhorse.
Now enter the Wild Turkey 1018-year, and it does not
disappoint.
It takes everything I loveabout the standard and dials it
in just a little bit more Richer, deeper, more composed.
For me, me, the extra fewdollars are worth it and if you
(52:59):
already enjoy the core 101, thisis an easy upgrade that rewards
every sip well, now I know whatI need to complete my fried
chicken dinner.
Mike Gorday (53:08):
There you go all right, odie.
Nathan Mumm (53:10):
Thank you so much, you know thank you mark yes,
whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, just like cheese
and wine or cheese and meat allspread over a charcuterie board.
All right, now what's that?
Ody (53:23):
I'm surprised you were able to say that.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Charcuterie board.
Yeah, you couldn't even sayniche Wow.
Mike Gorday (53:29):
Wow, wow, wow.
You said niche.
You know what's on yourcharcuterie board Cheese whiz.
Nathan Mumm (53:33):
Wow, no, we have some good race.
No, I have some good race.
All right, you know what?
Now we're gonna forego thetechnology fail of the week
which is tesla, and we're justgonna make fun of tesla for all
their new driving cars thatdon't work.
But we'll talk about thatbecause there's still some
pending stuff.
But I want to go right now toour nathan nugget this is your
nugget of the week all right,let's talk about this as we
(53:55):
talked about it last week in ourTwo Truths and a Lie.
The Trump phone is no longerpromised that it's made in
America.
Now the T1 phone is quoteunquote, designed with American
values in mind, which is notmade in America.
The Trump organization launchedthe Trump mobile wireless
carrier, its flagship phone, tobe called the T1 phone carrier,
(54:20):
it's flagship phone to be calledthe t1 phone.
Uh, the 8002 gold version.
One of the phone's main sellingpoints was that it was made in
america under 500.
Now we figured this wasunlikely to be true.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
We called it out last was it a lie.
Could it have been a?
Nathan Mumm (54:29):
lie it was a lie and we're right.
Sometime in the last severaldays, the trump mobile site
appears to have scrubbed all thelanguage indicating the phone
was made in the usa, like, forinstance, the huge banner on the
home page that says t1 is madein the usa, just for one example
.
Instead, the trump mobilewebsite now has the t1 tagline
(54:52):
premium performance, proudlyamerican.
None of it's built in America,but it's designed with American
proud individuals and it willhave the hands of Americans
touch it as it comes apart oftheir standard phone itself.
All right the 6.7 inch screen isgone.
(55:12):
That's your.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
Amazon delivery driver.
Nathan Mumm (55:14):
It's 6.25 is now going to be the screen 12
gigabytes of RAM, smaller itdoesn't have the 12 gigabytes of
RAM Inappropriately.
Now.
The badly photoshopped image ofthe phone hasn't changed though
, so that's still there.
If you want to have one ofthese phones, the best part is
(55:34):
that an American will deliver itto you at your doorstep.
Ody (55:39):
Yeah, in America.
Nathan Mumm (55:41):
So there's what you get for the phone.
We talked about it last week.
There's no way you can do a$500 mobile phone and we were
proven right.
There you go.
That is our Nathan Nugget.
Be careful what you read.
Be careful if someone promisesyou technology in America for a
certain price point because itmay not be able to be there.
Mike Gorday (55:58):
Now, let's move on.
Now Be careful of Nathan'scharcuterie boards.
Nathan Mumm (56:01):
All right, let's move on to our pick of the day
whiskey tasting.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles.
To the top Rapid.
Ody (56:12):
Fire.
Distillery is Campari Group,the Wild Turkey Distillery in
Lawrenceburg, kentucky.
Distillery is Campari Group,the Wild Turkey Distillery in
Lawrenceburg Kentucky.
100 proof 75% corn, 13% rye,12% malted barley leaf for $45.
Mike Gorday (56:25):
Yeah thumbs up.
Yeah, I'm going to give it athumbs up, yay.
Ody (56:29):
You guys are becoming connoisseurs.
Mike Gorday (56:32):
Maybe I have more of a mad feeling for this.
It's really tasty, but itYou're going to start dating it.
Nathan Mumm (56:39):
Be careful, there's a dating app out there.
You're going to start dating itso much, meta, that you're
going to date the bottle.
Mike Gorday (56:44):
I don't know where you came up with that.
Is that considered meta?
It's not.
Definitely on my search bar.
Nathan Mumm (56:49):
Okay, all right.
Well, you know what guys?
We're out of time.
We want to thank everyonelistening to our program today.
You know what?
You can't get this type ofcomedy anywhere else except for
tech time radio what are youactually plugging yourself as a
comedian again?
Well, you know, we still havethat uh yeah, that's never gonna
happen oh, it was gonna happen.
One of these days I'll havesomebody else ai write all my uh
(57:10):
taglines all right, here we go.
Mike Gorday (57:12):
Yeah, I that would be something you would do, and
you you know what in In today'ssociety, you might be successful
at it because people are stupid.
Nathan Mumm (57:19):
Oh wow, that's what we're getting at.
People out there just want tolet you know Mike thinks you're
stupid, not our listeners.
Speaker 4 (57:27):
I'm talking about other people, anybody that?
Nathan Mumm (57:29):
doesn't listen to us.
He's saying it's stupid.
There you go.
Say that to your cohort next toyou when you're listening to
our podcast.
Remember the science oftomorrow starts with the
technology of today.
We're going to see you nextweek, mike.
Oh bye.
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I'm glad I'm the only one.
What's that?
The award-winning author.
I'm glad I'm the award-winningauthor.
Nathan Mumm (01:10):
Are you the award-winning?
Mike Gorday (01:11):
author.
I'm glad I am.
I'm glad there's nobody else tobe the award-winning author.
Nathan Mumm (01:15):
Okay, well, you know I haven't written a book
yet.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Well, what should my book title be?
I did an AI book.
I did it back when the AI.
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I did.
I didn't get out there earlyenough to make the money, like
that other guy did with his AIbook.
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We're glad to have od, ourproducer, at the control panel
today.
Welcome everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Let's start today's show now on today's show all
right, right.
Nathan Mumm (02:04):
Welcome to Tech Time Radio.
Are you doing a jig?
Mike Gorday (02:06):
there.
No, I'm trying to getasymmetrical with the background
.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
You're trying to get asymmetrical with the background
.
Mike Gorday (02:14):
I'm trying to get symmetrical.
Never mind, it's too early forme to be talking, okay.
Nathan Mumm (02:18):
Welcome to Tech Time Radio.
Today on the show we have ourSay what segment on crazy
stories and technology and ofcourse, we also have our Should
we say why we're saying what?
We say what that's right.
Say what we got some craziness.
We have a couple updates onstories that we had last week on
the show.
I can't wait for the NathanNugget and our technology fail
(02:39):
and those to come on up.
And of course, we have ourstandard features, features
including Mike's mesmerizingmoment that technology fail and
the Nathan nugget and, of course, our pick of the day, whiskey
tastings, to see if our selectedwhiskey pick at zero, one or
two thumbs up at the end of theshow that we have.
A couple listeners that I saidthat we should on last week's
stream said that we shouldchange the show to whiskey
(03:01):
tasting and a little technologyon the side.
So you know what?
Mike Gorday (03:05):
well, we had a little technology on the side.
Nathan Mumm (03:06):
So you know what?
Who said that?
Well, we had a couple people onthe show that maybe we went a
little long, I guess, on ourwhiskey items last week.
So they were saying that on ourstream.
Ody (03:13):
I find that funny because, like, maybe not even 5% of the
show is whiskey.
Mike Gorday (03:19):
Well see, whiskey is the reason why we can do the
show, at least for me, that'sexactly, and me too, if we
didn't have the whiskey to havein between these articles.
I couldn't do the show if wedidn't have whiskey.
Nathan Mumm (03:29):
Okay, there you go.
All right, so there you go.
So it's our advice everybody,but thank you for letting us
know, it's not advice, it'smedication.
Mike Gorday (03:36):
Yeah, it's not advice.
Nathan Mumm (03:39):
Oh, that's what we got, all right.
Well, hopefully we'll see if weget a zero, one or two thumbs
up at the end of the show.
We got a cork bottle today, soI'm good.
If you notice, we did a littleheavier pour.
Mike Gorday (03:51):
We'll explain that a little bit.
Yeah, you did a heavy pour.
I did All right.
Now I think there's somethinggoing on.
Nathan Mumm (03:56):
There is.
Let's move into the latestheadlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (04:06):
All right Story.
Number one Windows is gettingrid of the blue screen of death.
After 40 years, have you everseen the blue screen of death?
Are you kidding?
Well, I just, I'm just tryingto bring it up.
Mike Gorday (04:16):
Everybody knows what the blue screen of death.
Everybody has seen it, ok.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
All right, odie said something bad.
Ody (04:22):
Oh, what's that?
I don't think I've ever seen it.
Nathan Mumm (04:25):
You've never seen the blue screen of death.
Ody (04:26):
No, I don't think I have.
Nathan Mumm (04:31):
On any Windows boot up.
You've never had a problem withit.
So that's what happens whenyour computer hangs up or you
have to reboot.
Mike Gorday (04:40):
It comes up with a big blue screen.
Nathan Mumm (04:42):
It's you what's going on, and then it'll
normally restart your computerand it'll dump information into
a log file.
You've never seen that.
Ody (04:48):
I don't think I have Wow Okay.
Mike Gorday (04:50):
Well you know what I do know somebody.
I think maybe Odie drinks morethan we do.
Nathan Mumm (04:55):
All right.
Well, let's go to Lisa Walkerfor more on the story.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The blue screen of death, or as most people call it
, BSOD, has been present inMicrosoft's OS since 1985, in
Windows version 1.
It has served as the stableerror screen for Windows for
nearly 40 years, but that'sabout to change.
The new design drops thetraditional blue color, frowning
(05:23):
face and QR code in favor of asimplified black screen.
The simplified B-S-O-Dresembles the black screen you'd
see during a Windows update.
However, it will list the stopcode and faulty system driver
that you wouldn't always seeduring a crash dump.
Are we okay with going to theblack screen instead of the
(05:44):
traditional blue?
What do you?
Nathan Mumm (05:48):
think Nathan Alright.
Mike Gorday (05:49):
so this is a kind of I don't know if I like this.
You don't like this.
Nathan Mumm (05:55):
I don't like this either.
Mike Gorday (05:57):
Well, I hate seeing the blue screen of death, but
if it were just the black screen.
I might be thinking that it's avideo problem.
Nathan Mumm (06:06):
There's a lot of different things here.
The blue screen was reallysignificant in saying, oops, I
have a problem.
I mean Mac.
When it first came out, macwould have this little Mac icon
that would come on out with afrowny face, that would be in
the middle of your screen, or aquestion mark.
There's some of these itemsthat I don't know why you would
change, because we havedeveloped and understand what
happens to that now.
(06:27):
You could have kept the bluescreen of death and just done
the same features that they'retalking about, but somehow it
must take an extra one line ofcode to have that blue screen
drop on there, that they decideto remove it and it's going back
now.
What is nice in this newupgrade that's going to be
happening sooner than later isthat it will have the ability to
(06:48):
have the error codes on thescreen itself, so you can take a
screenshot with your phone.
You can take a look at whatthat error code is instead of
going into the dump files.
But recent versions of the bluescreen of death have already had
those error codes on therealready, so you can still see
IRQ issue blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah or
whatever's going on.
Mike Gorday (07:06):
well, let's see what we got here they should,
they should, they should takethis opportunity to do something
funner, like, like have?
You have the google chromethings with the little dinosaur
well, yeah, or having some youknow graphics like the screen is
cracking or something like that, or explosions or something on
there
Nathan Mumm (07:24):
that that would make it much better.
Well, david Weston, the vicepresident of enterprise and OS
security at Microsoft, says it'sreally an attempt on clarity
and providing better informationand allowing us and the
customers to really get to whatthe core of the issue is, so we
can fix it faster.
Mike Gorday (07:39):
That doesn't make any sense, David.
It's just a color buddy, we allknow what blue means.
Nathan Mumm (07:46):
Blue means that there's a screen of death and I
I I don't get it.
Well, windows says guess what?
You really don't have a choiceto complain because coming on
out in windows 11 later thissummer it's going to have the
feature already imposed with theblack screen.
And then they're also adding anew quick machine recovery
feature which is designed toquickly restore machines that
(08:08):
can't boot.
So what's really interestingabout this whole thing is that
microsoft has so many thingsthat they can take a look at.
They've had that wholerecording issue, which was a
record all your browser stuffand you can restore stuff.
That's been kind of a majorissue.
Windows is using this to saywhat they're saying is that it
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addresses CrowdStrike incidentlast year that left millions of
Windows machines booting intothe blue screen of death without
knowing what was going on.
This black screen now will helppeople understand what's going
on.
I don't like it.
I don't like it, keep it blue.
Mike Gorday (08:44):
I don't really understand the rationale Like oh
, we need more clarity, let'schange the color from blue to
black.
Nathan Mumm (08:50):
I guess maybe black's easier to take a picture
of.
Mike Gorday (08:52):
I don't know, maybe they just need to save that
line of code.
Nathan Mumm (08:55):
That's literally probably one digit, that's just
taking up too much space thatone digit Really have in today's
world.
Now, back in the olden daysthey actually used to optimize
Windows 3.1.1 used to come onlike four or five floppy disks
and it was optimized code.
Now they just throw the codeout there and it's huge.
There is no optimization in thecode this year, I don't know.
I think this is just All right.
(09:16):
I don't like it.
Mike Gorday (09:18):
I feel like this is just something to let people
know that they're still outthere doing stuff is that what
it is?
Nathan Mumm (09:24):
yeah, okay, all right, just a press release to
say like they're making progresson it no, like they're.
Mike Gorday (09:29):
They're.
They're like saying ah, we'restill here and your machine is
being or that, yeah, okay, thereyou go.
Nathan Mumm (09:38):
All right, make us feel much better with story
number two, mike, I'm sure youcan help us how am I gonna do
that I?
Don't know, I'm sure this is anuplifting yeah sure it is.
Mike Gorday (09:48):
Do you know what Fortnite is?
Nathan Mumm (09:49):
The video game.
I have tried to play it acouple times, you're not a
Fortnite.
Mike Gorday (09:53):
I am not good.
Nathan Mumm (09:59):
I don't think you're a Fortnite guy.
No, I lose to-plus-year-old manlosing to some little
7-year-old, I know.
Mike Gorday (10:06):
I used to play this quite a bit.
Okay, my son was really good atit.
He used to beat me up all thetime on Fortnite.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (10:13):
Well, the FTC has approved $126 million in
Fortnite refunds.
What?
Because of dark patterns, okayso, hopefully you're going to
explain.
Nathan Mumm (10:25):
It must be a black screen of death or something,
okay, well, okay, explain alittle bit more on this.
Mike Gorday (10:29):
The Federal Trade Commission has approved 126
million refunds to be sent to969,173 Fortnite players as part
of a settlement overallegations that Epic Games, the
creator of Fortnite, hastricked users into making
unwanted purchases.
At the same time, the agencyhas reopened the claims portal
(10:53):
for eligible Fortnite players tosubmit refund claims, which
will be examined for the thirdround of refunds.
This latest development marksthe second phase of the
settlement the FTC has reachedwith Epic Games in December of
2022, in which the companyagreed to pay $520 million to
settle allegations waking thegame from sleep mode during the
(11:16):
loading screen or while theyattempted to preview an in-game
item.
Nathan Mumm (11:43):
So explain that charging players unintentionally
by waking the game from sleepmode.
So if the game goes into sleepmode, I have no idea what that
is, because they would turn itback on.
So if you're in sleep mode inFortnite, they're going on in
and turning it back on for youto do purchases.
I have no idea.
Mike Gorday (12:00):
Okay, that's not my bailiwick.
I have never.
I don't know what a sleep modeis in a game.
Nathan Mumm (12:06):
I don't know.
Mike Gorday (12:06):
That doesn't make any sense.
Nathan Mumm (12:08):
A sleep mode on a computer or a phone makes sense,
but I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
Mike Gorday (12:11):
Anyway, these charges occur without additional
confirmation, like you know,are you sure you want to pay
that?
And those attempting to disputeand reverse them had to go
through complex processes thatmake it likely for them to give
up permanently.
So you know, this is probablywhy Epic Games receives a lot of
(12:32):
hate.
Yeah, because that's definitelypretty slimy.
It's pretty slimy All right.
Nathan Mumm (12:42):
So you know some of these return policies.
You know I will say Amazon asmuch as we give Amazon a bunch
of crap.
And Mr Bezos just got married,whatever.
Mike Gorday (12:50):
Did he really?
Nathan Mumm (12:51):
Yeah, in Italy, didn't you hear about that?
Mike Gorday (12:53):
No I don't pay attention to that.
Nathan Mumm (12:54):
He shut down almost all of Italy just so that he
could be there with hiscelebrities and everybody.
Mike Gorday (12:59):
But Amazon at least has a nice return policy.
I hope it lasts more than aweek.
Nathan Mumm (13:03):
Okay, at least the best thing about Amazon is the
return policy is pretty easy touse, right, you go in, you say
you want to return it, you dropit off at a location and you get
refunded.
Some things are very difficultto return.
I just tried to return an itemthat I had purchased and I had
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to go through that For Fortnite.
Not for Fortnite, but forsomething else.
It had like seven differentsteps for approvals.
There was a point where I wasgoing to give up and then I just
said, screw it, I'm going tocontinue.
Mike Gorday (13:34):
Yeah, okay, so business and ethics are mutually
exclusive.
Right, this is all set up forbusinesses to get your money and
keep your money so if theyagreed agreed to pay 520 million
dollars, they must have madeeven more than that from the
(13:56):
purchases, right, well, I'm surethey made quite a bit of money
and, hopefully, unlike some ofthe things that get slapped
against facebook, yeah, wherethey're like, ah, that's just,
that's just like us buying acoffee in regular world, okay,
um, maybe this will help.
I don't know all right, but ifyou have performed fortnight
purchases between january of2017 and september of 2022,
(14:22):
that's a pretty big yeah.
That fall into the category ofdark patterns, as those defined
by the FTC.
You are invited to submit aclaim through this portal until
July 9th of this year.
Okay, you must be 18 years oldto complete a claim.
However, parents or guardianscan do it on their children's
behalf.
So, you know, that soundsalmost like a's a loophole, but
(14:45):
there you go, there you go.
So, uh, yeah, too bad,fortnight was a.
I mean, it's a fun game ifyou've ever played it.
Nathan Mumm (14:52):
The graphics look really good.
Mike Gorday (14:53):
They keep on updating the graphics, oh yeah,
I mean it's this fortnight isbased on the systems of of uh
seasons and characters.
Nathan Mumm (15:04):
Sometimes you got superman on there, sometimes you
have a spongebob.
I mean, it seems to be veryseasonal and it's set up.
Mike Gorday (15:11):
It is uh one of these games that is.
It's kind of like uhmicrotransactions uh it's based
on microtransactions oh,microtransactions.
Nathan Mumm (15:21):
You know I may ask you about that in your uh
Mesmerizing moment.
Mike Gorday (15:24):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you all will.
I will be.
Nathan Mumm (15:28):
Okay, all right.
All right.
Are you ready for story numberthree?
No.
Story number three Technologyexperts, along with parents,
have found a way to reduce theirkids' screen time while
improving their social skillsand creative thinking.
You mean taking away theirphone.
Hang on, here we go their phonehang on, here we go.
Let me do the story.
There's a whole lead.
Oh, there's a whole story.
Yeah, when carson morris'snine-year-old daughter asked for
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a smartphone last year, herreaction was hell, no.
Morris is a mental healthprovider in portland, maine
public school system and she wasfirmly against smartphones,
having seen how social media andabundant screen time could
shorten students attention spansand give them anxiety.
But she wanted her child tohave some independence.
So she called friends, arrangedto arrange playdates and
(16:11):
reached out to her grandparentson her own.
So when her daughter turned 10,morris got her a special phone
For that gift.
It provided all the benefitsshe wanted.
Morris had the way to lay somegroundwork, though it would be
annoying if her daughter, whowas also eight years old, were
to start calling their friendssmartphones all the time.
(16:32):
So she told her neighbors abouther plan and suggested they
consider getting these specialphones also.
Silvo bought in immediatelyexcited for the opportunity.
This is a party line.
Hang on just a second, don'ttell me.
You should tell them.
Hang on.
Excited for the party line?
Hang on just a second, don'tdon't hang on.
Excited for the opportunity toplacate their own eager kids
with this technology and overthe next couple of months,
morris kept nudging people.
(16:52):
The peer pressure paid off.
Now about 15 to 20 families inthe south portland neighborhood
have installed you guessed it atraditional land line this is
dope.
They've created a retro bubblein which their children can
easily call their friendswithout bugging a parent to
borrow their cell phone, inwhich parents can now live
blissfully free of anxiety aboutthe downside of smartphones.
(17:14):
In the past few years, interestin old school technology has
been on the rise, driving partlyby desperate adults seeking
smartphone alternatives fortheir kids.
Now what we have and the newtechnology is called a dumb
phone.
On Reddit, parents shared thisinformation about going full 90s
, with a desktop computerinstalled in a living room,
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nintendo 64, and, of course, atelephone connected to a
landline.
Now, in March, after themillennial mom posted on
Instagram about getting her homephone for her kids, she
received scores of complimentsfrom parents saying they've done
the same or planned too soon.
Now, jonathan Hite, the authorof Ang's the Anxious Generation,
(17:57):
said that many parents arehaving problems with their
children trying to usesmartphones, so everybody should
do what South Portland did andform a landline pod.
That is exactly where parentssee.
The idea of this is that youpick up a phone, you have to
dial a number and then you cantalk to people.
Now, parents are loving this.
They are getting on their pods.
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They got corded phones thateverybody can talk to on these
devices.
It's a party line With a largecord.
They can then have theirchildren listen in and have
communication.
Now, only after a few months,more and more people are getting
comfortable with this program,having their children go on over
and pick up a phone to talk topeople on the other side.
(18:40):
So let's talk about it.
What have we got to talk about?
here, so this is the idea.
So here's what parents aredoing.
Mike Gorday (18:47):
This is this is this is this is this is I like
how you're freaking out about itand I just overjoyed here.
Ody (18:55):
I do see this is my one critique was would be instead of
the landline phone, I'd get a,a small flip phone a flip.
Mike Gorday (19:03):
Yeah, that way they could take it anywhere.
Here's the thing.
Here's what I'm.
I'm not flipping out over thisidea, I am flipping out the.
This is just ridiculous.
Nathan Mumm (19:16):
It's been a proven fact that a generation has
already tested this method outbefore I know.
Mike Gorday (19:24):
This is an indication.
Ody (19:25):
There have been several generations that have tested
that out.
Mike Gorday (19:27):
This is an indication.
Ody (19:28):
That we're regressing.
Mike Gorday (19:30):
No, it's not about regressing.
It's about that we are startingto figure out that our
technological life is far beyondour, our control and our
healthy ability to do thingsright, and so every time we get
on the, we talk about this allthe time.
With other stuff, we're goingbackwards technologically in
(19:51):
order to save ourselves from allkinds of stuff right, we got,
we got, we were it.
Nathan Mumm (19:56):
I think the 80s were it.
Mike Gorday (20:00):
You write your passwords on paper.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Now you go back to that.
Mike Gorday (20:05):
What else?
There's other ones that we'vetalked about.
Nathan Mumm (20:08):
So now we're going back to a landline that you can
call people.
Ody (20:12):
Cds, polaroid cameras, whatever Digital media is coming
back.
I think what I find so funnyabout Polaroid cameras Whatever
Digital media is coming back,we've got Physical media.
Mike Gorday (20:21):
I think what I find so funny about this Is this is
like some sort of revolutionary.
Nathan Mumm (20:26):
This is a huge article.
This is the dumbest thing I'veever heard of.
A million people have up likethis.
Mike Gorday (20:32):
First off, your 10 year old child does not need A
whole lot of independence.
Okay, the whole idea about thisis you don't have independence
Because now they're in a sharedroom.
Nathan Mumm (20:40):
First off, your 10-year-old child does not need
a whole lot of independence.
Okay, okay, well, see, thewhole idea about this is you
don't have independence becausenow they're in a shared room.
Mike Gorday (20:45):
They have to take their cord there so everybody
can hear their conversations.
Yeah, it's basically Ludditephilosophy.
Nathan Mumm (20:49):
This is how I dated .
This is how I was a teenager.
This is what I did.
I don't know.
Mixtapes are next.
I guess they probably will.
Mixtapes have already come back, have comebacks, so here's what
parents are saying.
Mike Gorday (21:00):
I'm talking about having a recorder next to a
radio thing and then pressingrecord when the song comes on
and waiting.
Nathan Mumm (21:09):
Mixtapes in the 80s were like you had to talk over.
You had to talk.
Nobody talks over because thesestations don't have DJs anymore
.
Mike Gorday (21:16):
You are completely not following here.
Nathan Mumm (21:18):
They don't Most of these DJs don't exist.
Mike Gorday (21:22):
I'm talking about the actual effort you had to put
in an 80s mixtape today,because you had to sit by the
radio.
Nathan Mumm (21:30):
Unpause it record.
Mike Gorday (21:32):
Okay, whatever, just go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, no, no, Keep on going.
You're just too busy trying tobe the expert one.
No, no, no, keep on going.
Mike Gorday (21:37):
You're just too busy, you're too busy trying to
be the expert here.
Nathan Mumm (21:39):
No, no, keep on going, keep on going.
So you're talking about thepause button that you used to do
on the radio.
Mike Gorday (21:44):
No, I'm talking about you had to sit next to the
radio until the song of choicecame on, then press record and
then wait for the next one.
So doing an 80s mixtape waslike this huge process.
Yeah, and now you know, if youdo a mixtape today, it's like
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going on Spotify and being likethis, this, this and this.
Oh, here I love you.
Nathan Mumm (22:08):
They have the playlist, see what you can do.
Well, here's what the peoplesaid on this.
Mike Gorday (22:13):
This is just.
I just find this ridiculous,based because it's.
Nathan Mumm (22:19):
Her daughter can now engage people in a
conversation.
She says it's mind blowing.
Yeah, she can talk on the phone.
I'm sure it is mind blowing.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, I'm sure it is mind blowing.
Mike Gorday (22:27):
We grew, I grew up with this stuff and it's just
funny that Well, I'll just go toOdie here.
Nathan Mumm (22:34):
A little bit of a younger generation, right?
Do you love calling and talkingto customer service people on
the phone?
Ody (22:40):
Is it an actual customer person?
Nathan Mumm (22:42):
Yeah, Maybe, maybe, I don't mind it, you don't mind
it, okay.
Ody (22:47):
I grew up with a house phone.
Nathan Mumm (22:49):
Yeah.
Ody (22:49):
You know it wasn't connected to a landline or
anything, it was cordless.
Nathan Mumm (22:53):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (23:00):
But I did have phone etiquette okay and I'm
okay with that.
Nathan Mumm (23:01):
That's good.
I didn't have a corded phone,well, that's okay.
Ody (23:03):
Remember, at the very end of the life cycle of the
landlines, they had the big butI do think I'm glad that this is
making a comeback in theweirdest kind of way yeah
because a lot of thing that mysister and I talk about is that,
or people my age talk about,about the younger generation,
like my brother's age, is thatthe awkward tween phase is not
(23:23):
much of a thing anymore.
They go from kids straight towanting to be a teenager.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
Yep, yep.
Ody (23:28):
So, with this coming back, it kind of instills that you
still need a parent, you don'tneed that independence of a
10-year-old, you can talk toyour friends on there, the
parents.
Mike Gorday (23:40):
I just find this funny because this this is
presented in some revelatory wayit's like oh well, that's just,
that's a miracle from heaven,that's just millennial parenting
.
Nathan Mumm (23:50):
This is just a rotary phone system.
Okay, it is a rotary phonesystem but I'm excited for it,
you know have you, have you seenkids try to use rotary phones?
Ody (23:59):
Oh my god.
Nathan Mumm (24:00):
Have you seen those on videos?
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the mostcraziest thing in the world.
They have no idea how to puttheir hand in it and then
actually move it on over.
Mike Gorday (24:07):
They did the same thing with, like the Nintendo
Original Nintendo.
Ody (24:12):
Yeah have you seen?
Oh, my god, I think it was withmy brother, who is 15, by the
way.
If I gave him an iPod like theclassic, I think it would blow
his mind.
Nathan Mumm (24:23):
He'd have to see the little screen and use up and
down arrows to hit, play Notthe up and down arrows, but the
little scroll.
Ody (24:27):
Oh, the scroll bar, yeah, and then the fact that you have
to plug in your headphones it'snot just a Bluetooth thing and
you have to recharge it.
Nathan Mumm (24:38):
You to recharge it.
Ody (24:39):
You have to the action of loading content onto that thing,
what it's not justautomatically there's just not
automatically there what theseare revolutionary ideas that's
coming back, by the way, I knowI think you should be telling
this while you're on yourcordless phone the 80s and the
90s, if you want to do abusiness right now.
Mike Gorday (24:51):
You just go and buy all the 80s, 90s.
I mean to me this is justmaddening.
I mean we maddening.
Ody (24:56):
Maddening yeah.
Maddening in what way?
Mike Gorday (25:00):
Because we already know this exists.
We already should be thinkingalong these lines, but we are
jeopardizing all the futuregenerations because our
technology system is pushing sofast, so quickly.
(25:21):
We can't keep up.
We're already into an arenawhere we are far beyond the
ability to adapt to ourtechnology and it's creating all
these problems social problems,psychological problems
individually.
Nathan Mumm (25:38):
What are you saying ?
I don't know if you couldactually get a landline anymore.
It seems like all these arevoice over IP.
I don't know if you can, canyou?
Ody (25:46):
Maybe in some rural.
Nathan Mumm (25:47):
I don't know.
Mike Gorday (25:48):
I have a friend who still has a landline.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Okay, well, there you go.
Mike Gorday (25:51):
I don't, because why would you pay for two
different phone systems?
Nathan Mumm (25:57):
Because of that landline you can run a bulletin
board service on it.
Mike Gorday (26:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to get a 50 or 500 baud
modem and set up a bulletinboard.
Nathan Mumm (26:07):
You know what.
You should probably do thatright now and that would
probably be a huge trend senderin the next six to eight months,
I don't know and it can make afortune.
Ody (26:14):
What's nice about all this technology coming back is that
it kind of opens up Right now.
If you have a smartphone,you're okay, but if you don't
like the smartphone, you're kindof limiting yourself from the
everyday thing, yeah, from a lotof stuff.
If you just have cash on you,like there's no pay phones
anymore.
Imagine if you're stranded andyou don't have your phone wallet
(26:36):
.
What are you gonna do?
Yep, yep, we can this is let'sbring back payphone.
Nathan Mumm (26:41):
These are all societal, societal growing pains
and at least I pay phones ineurope.
Mike Gorday (26:48):
Yeah, they and they use and people use them there's
, there should be but uh, youknow our infrastructure is,
everything is based on money.
So, yeah, you know, if thephones are getting used, why
should we have them?
That's right.
And then you know ourinfrastructure is everything is
based on money.
So you know, if the phones aregetting used, why should we have
them?
Ody (27:01):
That's right.
Nathan Mumm (27:01):
And then you know all right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on up next, we have oursay what segments that we're
going to be talking about, someeven more unique stories and
mumbles.
Mike Gorday (27:13):
And that's right Buckle up as we drive 88 miles
per hour in our next segment.
You're listening to Tech Timewith Nathan Mumm, Seattle
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Nathan Mumm (28:17):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is not in
the studio, obviously, so wehave our producer filling in
Odie.
What has Mark chosen for ustoday?
Ody (28:40):
Well, today we are drinking the Wild turkey 101
eight-year-old bourbon directlyfrom their website.
It's crafted by jimmy russelland rooted in a time-tested
recipe.
This is whoa this exquisitebourbon is the result of
utilizing hand-picked, smallbatch bourbons that have been
aged for a minimum of eightyears, with notes of vanilla,
clove, toffee, chored oak, lemonzest and black cherry on
(29:03):
palette with long and lingeringbrown sugar, dried fruit,
vanilla and allspice.
Okay, you guys getting any ofthat?
Nathan Mumm (29:11):
I got, I got the allspice no, lemon zest I did
not get a lemon zest.
Did you get a lemon zest?
I did vanilla's in there, sure,why not yeah?
Ody (29:19):
okay, okay, it's from the campari group.
Uh, wild turkey distillery inlawrenceburg, kentucky,
classified as a straight bourbonaged eight years.
Mike Gorday (29:28):
A hundred proof 75 corn, 13 rye and 12 malted
barley yeah, I'm starting to beable to tell that this is a
mostly corn-ripe, corn-basedthing, because it's sweet.
Nathan Mumm (29:43):
What are you thinking so far, Mike?
Mike Gorday (29:45):
It's okay.
It's not a bad taste.
It's very mild so far.
Nathan Mumm (29:52):
I like mine.
Ody (29:53):
Do you guys want to know the price now or later?
Nathan Mumm (29:55):
Tell us now.
Ody (29:58):
How much do you think it goes?
Nathan Mumm (29:59):
for $39.
Ody (30:02):
Oh, okay, you were saying it was expensive earlier.
Nathan Mumm (30:04):
Well, I bet you it's $39.
Is that about right?
Ody (30:07):
Michael.
Mike Gorday (30:09):
I'll up the ante and say this is about $50.
Ody (30:11):
Okay, it's $45.
I give it to Mike then, okay.
But yeah, please do not forgetto like and subscribe.
Nathan Mumm (30:19):
Drink.
Give it to mike, then okay.
But yeah, please do not forgetto like and subscribe drink
responsibly.
How do you give it to mike?
The price is right, that's over.
Ody (30:23):
That doesn't work, you said 50 yeah, I thought it was about
50 you.
Mike Gorday (30:26):
You said it was 39 you're six away.
Ody (30:29):
Okay, he's five, okay, okay , okay, we're not going by the
price is right if you're over it.
Nathan Mumm (30:35):
No, no no no.
Mike Gorday (30:38):
For those of you joining us right now, the Price
is Right is something thathappens on that old weird thing
called the TV.
You know what I think that isgoing to come back too.
Which we used to get on partylines and talk about, and you
know what it used to be free.
Nathan Mumm (30:51):
You know what that.
Ody (30:59):
You didn't have to pay for you used to just have it on.
You said, yeah, it was, oh yeah, a long, long time ago, in a
society far, far away.
You're saying you didn't haveto pay cable for it you didn't
have to pay any money for it.
So it's just like on, what doyou call that?
Nathan Mumm (31:06):
there were four channels yeah, yeah rabbit ears.
It was on rabbit ears and theywere the air okay, they were.
Mike Gorday (31:11):
Yeah, they were transmitted by uhf okay, wasn't
it?
Uhf yeah uh, and you just hadto get the right signal and you
could get NBC, abc, cbs and PBS.
Ody (31:24):
I know about that.
I just didn't know that it wason one of those public channels,
I guess.
Nathan Mumm (31:29):
No, just regular channels.
Ody (31:30):
It wasn't public.
Mike Gorday (31:32):
This is back in the day, man.
Nathan Mumm (31:35):
This is going to come back in style.
Mike Gorday (31:38):
You get on your rotary phone and talk about the
price is right that cable ischeaper than streaming right now
.
Nathan Mumm (31:44):
Yes, but you didn't even have to have cable.
Ody (31:45):
This was free over the air Right, right, right, right, so
you didn't pay for it.
Nathan Mumm (31:49):
With an antenna, you still got commercials.
Mike Gorday (31:51):
Yes, so I didn't have to pay $20 month to watch
commercials.
I got them for free.
Yeah, okay, like all right.
Okay, that's what happens whenyou apply consumerist
philosophies and policies to asociety all right.
Nathan Mumm (32:05):
Well, let's move on from our whiskey tasting.
Do I get to say drinkresponsibly you already did, I
did all right.
Ody (32:11):
Okay, there you go.
Nathan Mumm (32:12):
All right, too much I, I did have a big pour.
There we go.
So moving on.
Uh, let's move into our featuresegment.
Today we have our favoritesegment called this is not our
favorite segment.
Mike Gorday (32:23):
Well, it's my favorite segment, called Say
what, when have we ever donethis?
Ody (32:26):
You know what Many times Say what he wasn't here the time
that we did this, we've done itlike twice.
So here we go.
Well, this is my favorite intro.
Nathan Mumm (32:33):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Say what again, say what again.
Nathan Mumm (32:40):
I dare you, I double dare you Say what one
time.
All right, here we go.
Mike Gorday (32:46):
Say what Okay, where's that from?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Pulp Fiction.
Okay, everybody knew that.
Okay, yes, I just wanted tomake sure you knew where the
references were from All right.
Nathan Mumm (32:54):
So these are segments and before I start,
mike, you have to go say what.
I'm not going to say what, saywhat.
Ody (33:01):
I'll say what for you.
Nathan Mumm (33:02):
Okay, you'll say what, say what.
Okay, here we go Ready.
Thank you, odie.
Start Odie.
Ody (33:06):
Say what.
Nathan Mumm (33:06):
All right.
Download festival warning, aspolice urge attendees not to
wear smart watches.
After issues last year now thelanchester police said on a
routine weekend the forcehandles around 600 emergency
calls, but during the downloadfestival weekend they have 700
more than usual.
Body worn devices such as smartwatches automatically call the
(33:28):
emergency services if it sensesthe wearer the wearer of the
device has been in a crash orsuffered a fatal fall.
Now the problem with this isthat this hang-banging big
concert that has a mosh pit thatfans jump into listening to
heavy metal music and they puttheir smart watches up and down
(33:48):
and with that music intensityand the falling down it seems to
set off the alert that theyhave had either a seizure or a
serious crash.
That has fallen.
Police are urging people thisyear that attend the download
festival please put your devicesin airplane mode, otherwise
they do not understand what theyneed to do with all of the
(34:10):
people that are coming in withseizure type uh alerts to the
local emergency system.
Mike Gorday (34:17):
You know what's funny about that?
What's that?
Is that now that that PSA hasgone out, everybody's going to
make sure they go to the moshpit without turning on their
thing.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
So they're going to do it reverse.
It's going to be a reverseeffect.
Nathan Mumm (34:29):
Okay, all right, disabling your emergency alerts
if you're going to go to a metalconcert with loud music.
Mike Gorday (34:34):
I wonder if my smart watch does this.
Nathan Mumm (34:38):
It.
You're going to go to a metalconcert with loud music.
I wonder if my smartwatch doesthis.
It'll send out signals andwe'll just say don't come to the
studio.
All right, here we go.
Next story Ready.
Say what All right Cursed newdating app matches you based on
the most deranged things you canimagine.
Ody (34:52):
You say it every time.
That's right, I'm going tobreak the energy bike.
Nathan Mumm (35:00):
It's something you can't do.
You should say it judging bysay what.
Okay, here we go.
That was a perfect say what.
Let's talk about this.
There's a new dating app thatmatches you based on the most
deranged things you can imagine.
Here's what this app is calleda fetish app, no, well, no, it's
a.
It's a dating app where it willshow every side of you.
Now in this, it's called newlydeveloped dating app.
It's potential lovers based onthe entire internet browsing
(35:22):
histories of your machine thenew service is straightforward
named browser dating, and it'sthe brainchild of a Belgian
artiste, dyers Deporte.
After years of creating theone-off projects like shirt,
he's now created the most, uh,unique pursuit of love.
Now, instead of choosing thebest pictures or the best things
(35:45):
about yourself that will showyou on the positive side, the
artist says of the site that heis going to actually upload all
of your internet search historyfrom that.
He will then decide on whatneeds to be done, and then your
browser dating experience willexpose all of your internet
search history.
Mike Gorday (36:05):
This is where you should be saying say what.
Nathan Mumm (36:07):
That's right, okay, say what?
There you go.
So not only does this exposeall of your information on the
internet, it also probablyviolates three or four different
privacy items, as you're goingto be updating everything you
have searched on, including, andcould be, uh key phrases, uh,
password link sites and otherthings that you don't want
(36:29):
people to know you have so thisis a dumb idea uh, so if you
have your bank account right, sothey're going to know
everything about your bankaccount.
They're going to know everythingthat you searched on.
They're going to knoweverything about your bank
account.
They're going to knoweverything that you searched on.
They're going to have hugeinformation on there.
Would you upload your searchhistory?
Ody (36:43):
Absolutely not Immediately.
No, no, I don't feel like mysearch history gives me a good
depiction of what I want in mylove life.
Nathan Mumm (36:50):
Well then you can find somebody else online
through this app and you can saywell we have the same things.
We both searched for animemovies, and now we have a common
.
Mike Gorday (36:58):
That's still a dumb idea, because what if?
Ody (37:01):
I'm searching for somebody else and I'm using my device to
do so.
Nathan Mumm (37:06):
I don't know, I don't want my, like my brain.
Mike Gorday (37:09):
Here's the here's the deal.
Here's the deal.
Right, so you're not a writer.
No, you're not a writer.
I'm a writer, ok, you're not awriter.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
I'm a writer, okay.
Mike Gorday (37:19):
You never want to.
You never.
Yeah, I'm the award winningauthor.
You never want to see my searchbar?
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (37:25):
Exactly.
Mike Gorday (37:25):
Thank you.
You never want to see that,because there's stuff like
there's like how do you commit amurder with this?
Yeah.
Ody (37:31):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (37:32):
I didn't want to go that route.
What's the, what's the, what'sthe the best way of destroying a
whole city block, you know,because you're trying to write
stuff and if that is put intothat, uh, you might be having
the fbi knocking on your doorinstead of getting a date with
somebody okay, that's justthat's a ridiculous, dumb idea.
Nathan Mumm (37:52):
Let's say what.
All right, here we go.
Are we ready for our last storyhere?
Mike Gorday (37:57):
we go.
I think you should say say whatafter he reads the title,
because it doesn't make sense.
All right, okay, I'll do that.
Okay, here we go.
I'm here for you.
Nathan Mumm (38:05):
The peeing robot attack dog from Timu was even
more surprisingly than wethought when we bought it, for
some unusual reasons.
Ody (38:13):
Say what All right, say what all right, there we go see
let's see we're developing thissegment on the show.
Nathan Mumm (38:19):
All right, arriving in a slightly battered box
following a series ofquestionable decisions on timu
is the robot attack dog.
Now the lab notes that this iscalled clippy from the box, so
immediately you're met with theclippy.
Yeah, clippy is the name ofyour dog, so clippy.
Mike Gorday (38:36):
clippy is a thing on my desktop from the 90s it is
so the 90s are kind of a.
While I still had a rotaryphone.
Okay, and watch Price is Righton free channels.
Nathan Mumm (38:46):
Now it's immediately opening in the box,
you see the cheapest, glossiestplastic that could ever be
produced.
But you know what?
That's okay because all of asudden, it comes with an
official app which lets youcontrol your robot via Bluetooth
, or it comes with a remote.
Now, the best part about theBluetooth app is, once you load
it, all of your data will besent to China at the same time
(39:06):
that you're using the Bluetoothapp.
Mike Gorday (39:08):
That's okay, you can get a date from China.
Nathan Mumm (39:11):
Okay, there you go.
Now let's talk about this robotattack.
It shoots pellets, it tellsstories and pretends to urinate
is by far the most bizarredevice that I have ever seen in
my 15 plus years of reviewingdifferent items I know that's
because you know in my whole, inmy whole dream of technology is
to make something that worksexactly like a real thing okay.
(39:33):
Well, it's very interesting onon the box that you get your
choice.
It has fire bullets.
Pet printed with a catchyphrase that definitely got my
attention right away.
The plastic destroyer of worlds, uh, is allowed to load these
plastic items into it and it'llshoot it out of its mouth or the
front area where it's supposedto have its mouth.
(39:54):
So he's gonna like throw up onyou and he's gonna to shoot
plastic pellets.
Now, these pellets are not foranybody under the age of 18,
because they're too small andcan be swallowed by young
children.
Mike Gorday (40:05):
Under the age of 18 , huh.
Nathan Mumm (40:06):
Yeah, so you have to be the age of 18.
So I?
Mike Gorday (40:07):
mean 16-year-olds are choking to death on these
pellet dogs.
Nathan Mumm (40:20):
Well, it says 18 on the side, 18 plus plus.
That's now.
What's also interesting I fearfor our future is that it has a
button that says urinate.
When it does this, it lifts itsback leg and it has an audio
speaker underneath its belly.
That actually sounds likesomething urinating into a
toilet bowl with a flush nothingbetter that's.
Mike Gorday (40:35):
That's even stupider, youider.
Why are?
Ody (40:38):
you hating on it, I'm just.
Mike Gorday (40:40):
It's so cute.
I'm grumpy, all right.
Nathan Mumm (40:43):
Now guess what the best part is?
Timu can get this to you inthree to four days.
Forget the Boston Dynamicshigh-end robot dog that costs
$10,000 plus in memberships.
You can get this for $50.
And if you're lucky enough andget a Timu special, you can get
it all the way down for $29.99.
I think I'd rather just havethe liquor.
(41:04):
Well, you know what.
You may think that this soundsbad, but people continuously
play with the Clippy Dog.
It's shown that it averagesmore than four to six hours for
a toy device, which is one ofthe highest engaged team toys
online.
So that means people actuallyplay it.
That makes sense.
If you got pellets that shootout of its mouth and you're
(41:26):
peeing on a bunch of stuff, yougive it to your five or six year
old kid.
Mike Gorday (41:29):
Yeah, I'm sure he's Nathan or Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (41:32):
Now it also has the ability to do some rather
unique gestures, depending on ifyou want it to be happy or
shake your hand.
When you do the handshake one,they'll be careful because it
does not have any balancinggyros, so the robot will
automatically tip over.
But the best part is, afterit's been tipped over, it does
seem to get back up on its hindlegs, so it can walk again.
Mike Gorday (41:54):
Okay so we watched several videos.
Is this the one with the dogthat was humping stuff?
Nathan Mumm (41:57):
Well, they call that the dance mode.
So, I wouldn't call thathumping or anything into that,
but it does gyrate it gyrates?
Its back Exactly what it's notlooking like.
Yeah, it gyrates its back legsin unison for 20 seconds, but
this isn't this one.
Mike Gorday (42:13):
This one is the one , no, is the one.
This is the one.
It has the same thing, has thesame thing.
No, no, no.
The one that shoots pellets isnot the same one.
That was, I know, that was thesmaller love it loving on the,
loving on the the phone no, no,okay so.
Nathan Mumm (42:25):
So that was not the same guy that threw it out.
Now it does come with a bigdesigned xbox controller, which
is kind of imaginative, becausethe controller itself probably
costs 20 to 30 bucks just tomake the controller to have it
work.
But don't worry, if yourcontroller breaks, you can
always use the Bluetoothtechnology app.
That is not in English but inChina only, and so it makes it
(42:48):
even more fun when you decide topress buttons, not knowing what
your robot may do now, yeah,that see, there you go say what
say what now?
the best part is how itviolently has face plants.
It falls down automaticallyonto its face itself.
Nothing's more exciting thanwhen you're trying to do basic
commands, moving left and rightwith your robot dog, to have it
(43:10):
just automatically miss a stepand fall face down.
But again, as we said, the bestpart of it is that you also get
to have it pick itself up andcontinue.
Now don't blame me, but I'lltell you.
Right now there's limited runson Teemu for this pet robot.
All you have to do is go toTeemucom and type in pissing
robot dog or pee robot dog andit comes on up as your first hit
(43:35):
.
Mike Gorday (43:35):
Okay, I'm going to do that when I get home.
Okay, there you go.
Can I call him on my rotary?
Nathan Mumm (43:41):
I'm sure you can do that.
Well, you know what that ends.
Our Say what segments.
All right we're going to take abreak when we return.
I think we're going to have ourthis Week in Technology, so now
would be a great time to havesome whiskey on the side.
We'll see you after thiscommercial break.
Speaker 4 (43:57):
Hey, mike, yeah, what's up?
Hey, so you know what.
We need people to start likingour social media page, if you
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Mike Gorday (44:05):
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Mike Gorday (44:13):
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Like us in Patreoncom, Ibutcher the English language,
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Nathan Mumm (44:19):
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Speaker 1 (45:04):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (45:09):
All right, we're going to July 1st 1952.
The trademark of Silly Puttywas officially registered.
In addition to its success as atoy, other uses for putty have
officially registered.
In addition to its success as atoy, other uses for putty have
been found in the home.
You can use it to removesubstances such as dirt, lint
and pet hair or ink from varioussurfaces.
The material's uniqueproperties have found niche
applications in the medical andscientific fields.
(45:30):
Do you know that in the spaceshuttle, they actually use this
to hold equipment and items tothe wall as it transfers up into
space?
What's interesting about thisday is that two other major
trademarks happened also,including the roar of the MGM
lion in the shape of theCoca-Cola bottle boxes that were
(45:51):
also trademarked.
That was this Week in Technology.
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We're going to take acommercial break.
No, we're not.
We are going to go right nowinto Mike's mesmerizing moments.
Mike Gorday (46:12):
Yep.
Nathan Mumm (46:15):
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
Apparently a lot all right,here we go.
What mike?
What are impulse purchases invideo games or even other major
purchases?
All about the fear of missingout.
So we talked about that in yourearlier segment.
(46:35):
Fomo is it fomo?
Why do we have all theseimpulse purchase and video games
?
Mike Gorday (46:41):
Yeah, fomo is one reason.
Okay, and, interestingly enough, we had FOMO when we were
little.
You know what it was called.
What was that?
Keep up with the Joneses?
Okay, remember that.
I do remember that saying so,this is social pressure in which
we try to compete with eachother for status, or you know
(47:01):
other other.
So pro, pro-social activities.
So, uh, yeah, fomo is a big one, with impulse buying also.
Uh, the after effect is thedopamine hits that you're
getting for these buys, whichsets up the behavior to keep
going.
So it might start.
It might.
Maybe it starts off with FOMOand then it can become an
(47:23):
addictive thing, uh, which isnot FOMO.
Nathan Mumm (47:28):
Okay, all right, so you know do you ever play a
game where you you do an instantpurchase online?
Mike Gorday (47:34):
Yeah, I've done it.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
I've done it.
Mike Gorday (47:35):
I've done it.
I do it on occasion um do youget?
Nathan Mumm (47:38):
that dopamine hit after you purchase?
Okay?
Mike Gorday (47:41):
we, we get what we don't understand.
One of the reasons why we don'tunderstand all this stuff, and
one of the reasons why thingslike facebook have been so
successful, is that we don'trealize that this is happening
to us.
Okay, so every time you get alike on your post, that's, that
translates into your brain'spleasure pain system going oh
(48:03):
look, we love this, we have, wehave attention, we're getting
status, and so your brain gets adopamine hit.
Uh, when we do it in a videogame, we are doing the same
thing, because now we're saying,oh, oh, I got this cool skin
and you know it's too bad.
Mark is not here because wecould talk about how Mark is
like, but we, you know, yeah,because he really poops on this
(48:27):
stuff.
Speaker 4 (48:27):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (48:29):
But Mark doesn't play video games.
Mark is not a gamer.
Nathan Mumm (48:31):
No, remember when he played Sea of Thieves.
Did you ever play with him?
Mike Gorday (48:34):
Yeah, he was always complaining about he Did you
ever play with him?
Nathan Mumm (48:37):
Yeah, he was always complaining about he was
running around.
Mike Gorday (48:39):
Well, he was always complaining about, you know,
all these other little sidepurchases and things you could
do.
But that does create when we dothis and we start showing other
people that we have like withFortnite when we talked about
Fortnite.
So Fortnite has all thesecharacters and skins and things
that you can get, dances andlittle emotes and whatnot.
(49:00):
Uh, and collectively, the moreyou get the you, there's more
status that's in okay, involvedin that.
So you do, you do start to gain, uh, these sort of dopamine
behavioral modifications.
Nathan Mumm (49:19):
All right.
Well, we're going to take acommercial break.
When we return, we have theMark Mumble Whiskey Review.
See you after the break.
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Speaker 1 (50:28):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Mike Gorday (50:36):
All right, tell us your wisdom, Mark.
Ody (50:40):
Today is July 1st.
Nathan Mumm (50:42):
Okay.
Ody (50:43):
It's early bird day.
Mike Gorday (50:45):
Oh, what does that mean?
Is that a prime thing?
A?
Ody (50:48):
prime.
Mike Gorday (50:48):
No, amazon Prime, is it early bird?
Isn't that the 9th and?
Ody (50:52):
11th this year.
Nathan Mumm (50:54):
It is yes, okay, that's the summer event.
Mike Gorday (50:56):
That's not Prime Day, that's the summer event
it's.
Nathan's favorite summer event.
That's not prime day, that'sthe summer it's.
Ody (50:59):
It's nathan's favorite amazon it's prime day summer
event because I now have a fallevent this wild day, early bird
day, is all about being first inline to snatch up the best of
what is to offer so it is primeday shops, restaurants and
supermarkets are filled withearly risers eager to claim the
top deals, meals and goodsbefore anyone else.
(51:20):
Become a morning person, Mike.
Mike Gorday (51:22):
Okay, so shouldn't this be Black Friday?
Ody (51:25):
No, Become a morning person , Michael.
Channel your inner Nathan ifyou really want to seize the day
, says Mark, who is stilllounging in bed with absolutely
no justification.
Mike Gorday (51:37):
Yeah, I tried channeling my inner Nathan once
and I had to go to therapy.
Ody (51:42):
Wow.
And since we're on the topic ofearly bird day, it only feels
right to give a nod to thefinest bird of them all wild
turkey.
No need to set your alarm forthis one wild turkey 101.
Mike Gorday (51:53):
Yeah, I was going to say big bird.
Ody (51:55):
Eight-year-old bourbon marks the return of the 101's
brand's age statement, which hadbeen absent since 1992.
This expression is now apermanent line extension offered
alongside the standard WildTurkey 101, which carries no age
statement but is said toinclude barrels aged between six
and eight years.
A true reward for those whoknow that sometimes the best
(52:18):
bird is found in a glass.
I will admit it, I am biasedwhen it comes to wild turkey.
It is one of my top favoritedistilleries and the 101 lineup
has a permanent place on myshelf.
The 12-year export exotic andrefined.
The 70th anniversary,absolutely divine.
Even the standard 101 puncheswell above its price point and
(52:38):
pairs beautifully with somethinglike fried chicken, it is true,
daily workhorse.
Now enter the Wild Turkey 1018-year, and it does not
disappoint.
It takes everything I loveabout the standard and dials it
in just a little bit more Richer, deeper, more composed.
For me, me, the extra fewdollars are worth it and if you
(52:59):
already enjoy the core 101, thisis an easy upgrade that rewards
every sip well, now I know whatI need to complete my fried
chicken dinner.
Mike Gorday (53:08):
There you go all right, odie.
Nathan Mumm (53:10):
Thank you so much, you know thank you mark yes,
whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, just like cheese
and wine or cheese and meat allspread over a charcuterie board.
All right, now what's that?
Ody (53:23):
I'm surprised you were able to say that.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
Charcuterie board.
Yeah, you couldn't even sayniche Wow.
Mike Gorday (53:29):
Wow, wow, wow.
You said niche.
You know what's on yourcharcuterie board Cheese whiz.
Nathan Mumm (53:33):
Wow, no, we have some good race.
No, I have some good race.
All right, you know what?
Now we're gonna forego thetechnology fail of the week
which is tesla, and we're justgonna make fun of tesla for all
their new driving cars thatdon't work.
But we'll talk about thatbecause there's still some
pending stuff.
But I want to go right now toour nathan nugget this is your
nugget of the week all right,let's talk about this as we
(53:55):
talked about it last week in ourTwo Truths and a Lie.
The Trump phone is no longerpromised that it's made in
America.
Now the T1 phone is quoteunquote, designed with American
values in mind, which is notmade in America.
The Trump organization launchedthe Trump mobile wireless
carrier, its flagship phone, tobe called the T1 phone carrier,
(54:20):
it's flagship phone to be calledthe t1 phone.
Uh, the 8002 gold version.
One of the phone's main sellingpoints was that it was made in
america under 500.
Now we figured this wasunlikely to be true.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
We called it out last was it a lie.
Could it have been a?
Nathan Mumm (54:29):
lie it was a lie and we're right.
Sometime in the last severaldays, the trump mobile site
appears to have scrubbed all thelanguage indicating the phone
was made in the usa, like, forinstance, the huge banner on the
home page that says t1 is madein the usa, just for one example
.
Instead, the trump mobilewebsite now has the t1 tagline
(54:52):
premium performance, proudlyamerican.
None of it's built in America,but it's designed with American
proud individuals and it willhave the hands of Americans
touch it as it comes apart oftheir standard phone itself.
All right the 6.7 inch screen isgone.
(55:12):
That's your.
Speaker 4 (55:13):
Amazon delivery driver.
Nathan Mumm (55:14):
It's 6.25 is now going to be the screen 12
gigabytes of RAM, smaller itdoesn't have the 12 gigabytes of
RAM Inappropriately.
Now.
The badly photoshopped image ofthe phone hasn't changed though
, so that's still there.
If you want to have one ofthese phones, the best part is
(55:34):
that an American will deliver itto you at your doorstep.
Ody (55:39):
Yeah, in America.
Nathan Mumm (55:41):
So there's what you get for the phone.
We talked about it last week.
There's no way you can do a$500 mobile phone and we were
proven right.
There you go.
That is our Nathan Nugget.
Be careful what you read.
Be careful if someone promisesyou technology in America for a
certain price point because itmay not be able to be there.
Mike Gorday (55:58):
Now, let's move on.
Now Be careful of Nathan'scharcuterie boards.
Nathan Mumm (56:01):
All right, let's move on to our pick of the day
whiskey tasting.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles.
To the top Rapid.
Ody (56:12):
Fire.
Distillery is Campari Group,the Wild Turkey Distillery in
Lawrenceburg, kentucky.
Distillery is Campari Group,the Wild Turkey Distillery in
Lawrenceburg Kentucky.
100 proof 75% corn, 13% rye,12% malted barley leaf for $45.
Mike Gorday (56:25):
Yeah thumbs up.
Yeah, I'm going to give it athumbs up, yay.
Ody (56:29):
You guys are becoming connoisseurs.
Mike Gorday (56:32):
Maybe I have more of a mad feeling for this.
It's really tasty, but itYou're going to start dating it.
Nathan Mumm (56:39):
Be careful, there's a dating app out there.
You're going to start dating itso much, meta, that you're
going to date the bottle.
Mike Gorday (56:44):
I don't know where you came up with that.
Is that considered meta?
It's not.
Definitely on my search bar.
Nathan Mumm (56:49):
Okay, all right.
Well, you know what guys?
We're out of time.
We want to thank everyonelistening to our program today.
You know what?
You can't get this type ofcomedy anywhere else except for
tech time radio what are youactually plugging yourself as a
comedian again?
Well, you know, we still havethat uh yeah, that's never gonna
happen oh, it was gonna happen.
One of these days I'll havesomebody else ai write all my uh
(57:10):
taglines all right, here we go.
Mike Gorday (57:12):
Yeah, I that would be something you would do, and
you you know what in In today'ssociety, you might be successful
at it because people are stupid.
Nathan Mumm (57:19):
Oh wow, that's what we're getting at.
People out there just want tolet you know Mike thinks you're
stupid, not our listeners.
Speaker 4 (57:27):
I'm talking about other people, anybody that?
Nathan Mumm (57:29):
doesn't listen to us.
He's saying it's stupid.
There you go.
Say that to your cohort next toyou when you're listening to
our podcast.
Remember the science oftomorrow starts with the
technology of today.
We're going to see you nextweek, mike.
Oh bye.
Speaker 1 (57:43):
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