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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
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Our co-host, Mike Gourdet, isin studio today.
He's the award-winning authorand our human behavior expert.
We have Odie behind the boardand we have Mark MIA.
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Is he right there?
Yeah, that's a good version ofhim, he looks like a little
monkey.
He misses out on today's show sohe can be at a whiskey
conference.
That sounds like Mark.

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That does sound like him.
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Now on today's show.

Now on today's show .
All right, today on the show wehave Two Truths and a Lie, our
game show that pits all of usagainst each other.
Odie and Mike will have anopportunity to listen to three
articles that I talk about andsee if they guess which one is a
fake.
We'll also, of course, havetons of information, and we have
breaking news on Windows 10.
We've talked, of course, havetons of information and we have
breaking news on Windows 10.
We've talked about this before,so you're going to want to

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absolutely make sure you staytuned for that, because it may
just save you a year or two ofupgrades.
Now, in addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan nugget and, ofcourse, our pick of the day,
whiskey tasting.
Let's see if our selectedwhiskey pick at zero one or two
thumbs up at the end of the show.
But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of

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technology here are our toptechnology stories of the week
all right.
So guess what?
These are kind of reviewstories.
Mike, this is gonna beinteresting.
We talked about this when thedoge doge, or the department of
what was it?

Mike Gorday (02:46):
the department of government efficiency.

Yeah, okay, so we talked about this it's a hustle.
That's right.
We talked about this before,but now it's officially coming
on out.
A whistleblower has said thatformer senior doge officials now
at the social securityadministration copied Social
Security numbers, names andbirthdays of over 300 million
Americans to a private sectionof the agency's cloud.

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That private cloud environmentis accessible by other former
DOGE employees by former DOGEemployees at the SSA and is
lacking adequate security.
The whistleblower claimspotentially putting a bunch of
information out on risk.
Let's go to Lisa Walker withmore on this.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
A written complaint filed through the Nonprofit
Government AccountabilityProject alleges that senior
Trump appointees at the SocialSecurity Administration, who
recently were part of theDepartment of Government
Efficiency team, made copies ofdata in a manner that
constitutes violations of law.
The complaint states thatcareer cybersecurity officials
within the SSA warned that thedecision to duplicate the data

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was very high risk and discussedthe potential need to reissue
social security numbers tomillions of Americans if the
cloud server was compromised.
Back to you guys in the studio.

What was that?
The cheek?
I think she was what was that?

I don't know.
I need to ask Lisa.

Isn't this a tech fail of the week?
What is this?

What is this so okay?
Well, this isn't a tech fail.
A tech fail gets even worse.
You're going to be even morenot happy about that.
So here's what we got amazonweb services.
You know it's a great service,but I don't know if we should
have our government socialsecurity numbers hanging out on
amazon's cloud service.
Maybe we should, maybe weshouldn't.

Um the you know.
This is the time where I youknow, thank God, that I am
almost dead.

Why is that?
Why are you happy that you'realmost dead, Mike?

Because I don't have to put up with all the
stuff that's going on intechnology for that much longer.
Is that what you did?

Yeah, so what happens if, all of a sudden, you
got an email and something inthe mail that says that you
needed to get a new socialsecurity number?
What would you do about that?
What Is that?
What's going to?

happen.

Ody (05:11):
Am I going to?

get a piece of mail in my mailbox.

Ody (05:14):
That is such a pain.

Yeah, so your social security number that you
have memorized.

Ody (05:18):
That's insane.

You're going to have to re-memorize a new one
Now.
We talked about this when thiswas happening.
We said you know what?
That we were informed bysecurity experts Some of them
maybe are Nick Espinosa andother individuals that you know
what this stuff that was goingon with the Department of
General Unaccountability orGeneral Entertainment.

Ody (05:39):
Or Doge, yeah, okay, yeah, general, what's that?

a coin Department.
It is Department of GeneralEntertainment, is what I'm going
to start calling them.
I did not use practicalsecurity.
They actually went on in andthey started copying files.
You know how?
You have Windows Explorer.
You open it up.

You know you copy stuff to like a USB drive.
Just leave me alone.
I'm going to sit here and drink.

Okay, so they started copying stuff over.
Now, according to Andre Meza,an attorney with the Government
Accountability Project, thecloud environment appeared to be
set up for DOGE-affiliatedSocial Security staffers, but it
lacks independent securitymonitoring oversight and has
serious concerns aboutvulnerability.
Now this is really importantbecause when somebody sues you

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as a company, let's say you'rean employee and you sue a
company and since I work on ITbackends, this has happened many
times before.
There's all about this chain ofcustody on how information is
obtained, retained, what it goesthrough.
Chain of custody in the UnitedStates government is a formal
process of if this data iscopied here, we put this

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information here.
We put this information here.
When the Department of GeneralEntertainment decided to come on
in and change all of this, theydidn't follow the practices.
If you have a practice that isdeveloped by your government,
you should all have to followthe process, whether it's right
or wrong.

I think you should not get rid of all the security
experts.
That's what I think.

And you shouldn't get rid of security experts.
All of this is going to pointto this being compromised.
We've talked about this.
I will guarantee you, in thenext year or two, we're going to
have this compromised socialsecurity numbers.
Just wait till we get to thetechnology fail of the week.
The technology fail of the weekis going to make you go, oh my
gosh, because we are at thepoint now where everything is

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getting compromised and you knowwhat?
It's just like all right.
Well, you know what?
No big deal.
Just hopefully you're checkingyour credit cards and your
credit and everything that youdo every day, 24 by 7, to make
sure that you're, uh, secured,because the people that have
your data online and thecompanies that have your data no
longer care yeah, I'm justgonna be really upset if, if my

(07:50):
stuff gets compromised andsomebody gets a better job with
my social security.

So is that what?
You're gonna worry that thatwill.

That will take me out, okay, all right.
Well, that's what we got goingon.
We did talk about this and nowit nationally broke as news.
So okay, well we're oh you knowwhat?
We're months ahead of themainstream media.
Let's let's uh, keep ourfingers crossed.
All right, I can't wait forthis next, this, this, this next
, this I I think we should starta new segment.

What is this going to be called?
I told you so.
I told you yeah, we should.
You know what this is going tobe.
This is going to be.
I told you so all three ofthese stories today are I told
you.

So yeah, it's going to be interesting.
Wait till you okay there you go.
So what do we have next on?

I told you so okay, remember not too long ago we
talked about taco bell replacingall their people with computers
.

We did talk about that yeah, and how I think
wendy's has done that a littlebit with some of their uh
marketing and their uh uhpricing right, they did pricing
the surge pricing yeah, okay,what happened?

so, after two million ai orders, guess what?
What?
Taco bell has admitted thathumans still belong in the
drive-thru what yep say?

that's not so it.

It apparently is so okay.
Fast food companies have beenexperimenting with integrating
artificial intelligence intotheir restaurants, from Flippy
the Burger Flipping Robot atWhite Castle to Dynamic Pricing
at Wendy's.
One arena where AI seems to bereally struggling, though, is at
the drive-thru, and Taco Bellis the latest to experience AI
mishaps at the order box.

(09:21):
After taking two million orderswith AI, taco Bell has reached
one conclusion it's a dumb idea.

Okay, alright, now you could have told them that on
day one, right.

I did.
I think I said that on thisshow that this was a bad idea.

Ody (09:38):
It's funny because we're not even account executives and
we know better.

You know, account executives are like tv
executives they have no ideawhat what's going on, but I
don't, they don't, they want tosave money and then in the long
run they're just wasting money.
Yes, yeah, well, yeah, but whatthey did here they're gonna get
they're gonna get sacked andthen they're gonna go do the
same thing at some other company.

Here's the secret, though.
What you always say is it's alearning experience.

And that's what they said.
We're learning a lot.
I'm going to be honest with you.

Ody (10:11):
How long was that?
Do you know how long that was?
In a time period or anything.
Two months.
It was only two months.

No, it's been longer than that it's about two
and a half months, two and ahalf months.

Okay.
Well, dane Matthews, tacoBell's chief digital and
technology officer, told theWall Street Journal I think,
like everybody, sometimes itlets me down, but sometimes it
really surprises me.
Way to go, dane.
That's real smart, all right.
Revelation comes after TacoBell's new AI drive-thru

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ordering system was a subject ofmemes online, primarily on
TikTok, where people had a greattime showing off flaws in the
new technology.
In one video, a customer caughtthe AI in a loop, continually
asking what they wanted to drink, until they became so
frustrated they drove away.
In another video, a customerstarted ordering McDonald's food
at Taco bell and the ai letthem do it and even suggested

(11:05):
mcdonald's dipping sauces,before the drive-thru worker cut
in to complete the orderproperly.
Oh wow, in a coup de gras, yeah, one customer ordered 18 000
cups of water and the ai wasperfectly fine with that,
causing the drive-thru worker toonce again step in and save the
day.

All right, so so these workers, I guess, are
listening when these people comeup to the ai well, yeah, they
have, they have.

They have to have somebody sitting there.

So so you have an employee listening to the ai to
make.

This is this is like this is like that, uh,
instead of talking emotionalrobot thing where the person was
standing outside the room andsending the little robot.

Ody (11:46):
Yeah, they were listening to the whole conversation and
they were listening to theconversation Same thing, okay,
all right Okay.
Or like the Amazon Go.
Thing.

Yep, yep, where they're just somebody.
Some real person is sittingthere In.

India.
In India, the Amazon Go was allannounced.
So come on and walk into ourstores, grab our stuff and go.
And it was people in India 100people in India that would zoom
in on cameras to then charge youon the item that you grabbed.
All right, all right.

Well, here's a.
Here's a firsthand witness.
So David Katzmeyer witnessedthese issues firsthand.
He says my daughter and I arerecently a Taco Bell with an AI
drive through attendant, got alot of the order wrong and when
she raised her voice to repeatherself and correct the mistake,
the human drive-thru personcame on and told us he was
listening all along.
Makes me wonder why they usedAI at all.

(12:37):
Some Taco Bell employees havealso posted content gently
reminding folks that when theyyell at the AI system, the
employees can hear them.
So does that give?

you kind of a little bit of a of a lead way
Cause if you're thinking you'retalking to AI and you just start
berating, listen to your mother, I'm going to.

I'm going to put something out there and say that
that's probably better for theTaco Bell employees.
What's that?
To listen to the that they'relistening to somebody yell at
the AI Instead of them.

Okay, I guess that's okay.
What were you going to say,Odie?

Ody (13:12):
I was going to say are you guys part of the online meme
where people are calling robotsand AI stuff slurs?

No.

What kind of slurs?
Like clanker yeah, oh, that's,that's that's the that's an old
term that's being reused.
Yes, well, yeah, that's fromstar wars yes, yeah, I, I have
actually seen that one.
I didn't know it was like thatprevalent.

But yeah, it is a city robot you don't like yeah
well, it's just funny.

Ody (13:43):
It just just goes to prove that, as much as we try to be on
the breaking edge of technology, we can never change human what
Behavior.

Yeah, human behavior, you can't change
humans.

Ody (13:55):
Because people are going to go off on a robot that
literally cannot do anything.

So remember the whole idea of groceries being
delivered to your house.

Well, they do that to people, so why?

Ody (14:06):
wouldn't, they do that.

So groceries being delivered to people's houses.
This actually came on out in1997, 98, 99.
There were companies that builttheir whole thing, thinking
that people didn't want to go toa grocery store and have items
delivered to you.
Amazon did this, othercompanies did this and companies
did this and it only took whenCOVID hit that people were

(14:29):
starting to get more comfortablewith either A picking up food
that somebody else did.

That's because we didn't have a choice.

We didn't have a choice and now food service,
delivery and groceries isstarting to pick up, but that's
actually almost over 20 years.
People did not accept.
The technology has always beenthere, but people didn't accept
the idea.
That's why car dealerships stillexist yeah, you as much as you
think it's easy to go the yeah,there's just some things that

(14:54):
just can't become like fullyautomated yep carvan is not the
same experience as that salesguy trying to make sure that I
really want that mustang when Idon't have any idea of buying it
because it's on sale all right,yep, so I told you, so it's a
way to go taco bell.
I told you so well, you knowwhat, though, it says?

they're going to shelve the technology, and
they'll come back with that at alater time yeah, they're gonna,
yeah, they're gonna try itagain when, when they do a
little tweaks, or we're gonnaprobably, to probably, wait for
chat GPT what eight?
To come out.
We're on five now, so there yougo.

All right, story number three Now we talked about
this.
So the big push is that Windows10 is shutting down.
But when Windows 10 came on out, the president of the company
and senior officials said thatthis would be the last operating
system you ever needed.
Your favorite company said this.
Well, they're not my favoritecompany, but they said that you
would never need to get anotheroperating system If you bought

(15:53):
Windows 10, we will alwaysupgrade it.
This is the last operatingsystem you need.
Microsoft's in a little bit ofa dilemma here because they want
people to go to Windows 11, butthey have made some big
promises to companies and thecompanies are holding them
accountable, and so are theconsumers.
So if you're running windows 10, you need to do this before

(16:14):
october 14th to be secure.
But windows is not going awayanytime soon.
Window 10 users who haven'tupgraded to windows 11 need to
enroll in the microsoft extendedsecurity updates program to
receive critical securityupdates.

Okay, so this is their thing.
Huh, this is the deal.
Well, we're not going to keepWindows 10 forever.
Oh, wait a minute.
We got Windows 11 here, oh now.
Well, they're not going to getany new features in Windows 10.

So Windows 10 that you have right now will stay
with the features that it has.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
The new features.

And it works really good, so maybe that would be a
great thing.
Yeah, Windows 10 works fine, soall these people are sticking
with Windows 10.
And Microsoft's response tothat is okay, we'll keep
supporting the security featuresas long as you pay us.

Well, hang on here.
Well, guess what?
You can enroll in the extendedsecurity update programs for
free.
So let me tell you about this.
Okay, all right, microsoft'sabout to pull the plug on
windows 10.
Support for the decade-oldoperating system is scheduled to
end on october 14th and usersare encouraged to upgrade to
windows 11.
However, with less than twomonths from the out of end

(17:25):
support, nearly 43 percent of pcowners in the world are still
running windows 10.
That's because it works.
So you got 40.
You can't just shut down asystem when half almost half of
the world or so are stillrunning this as their primary
system.

Because that's because they probably believe
Microsoft when they said theyweren't going to make another
one.

Well, yeah.
So these users now must eitherupgrade their device or continue
to use the outdated software.
Let's see how Microsoftreleases the outdated software
if their devices doesn't supportWindows 11.

Well, people are still running Windows 95, so I
don't know about 95.

I think it's Windows XP.
All right To give us users moretime to upgrade their software
and hardware to Windows 11.
To give more time, microsofthas promised to continue
supporting Windows 10 with onemore year of security updates.
Anyone with Windows 10 canenroll for the extended security
updates program and continuereceiving updates through
October 13th 2026.

(18:24):
Now Microsoft says the EOSprogram is not intended as a
long-term solution, but rather atemporary bridge to stay secure
while one migrates to a newersupported platform.

Yeah, you know what Microsoft.

Yeah.

This is the same thing as Taco Bell.

Well, let me.
Let me just tell you this Ifyou're a business, you can opt
in to have these Microsoftextended security updates now
for three years.
So an individual user gets aone-year extension.
If you're a business now, youget three years with this
program.
Now, to make sure you're runningthe latest version of Windows
10, which is version 22H2, youcan check out your Windows

(19:02):
version and settings.
You can click Windows Update.
After that, you can view yourupdate history.
Once you're sure you're up todate, visit Settings again in
Windows Update and look for thelinks in the top right-hand
corner of the interface.
It should read Windows 10Support Ends in October 2025.
And then it should say Enrollin Extended Security Updates to

(19:23):
Keep your Device Secure.
Below the message is a link to,and then it should say enroll in
extended security updates tokeep your device secure.
Below the message is a link toenroll, which will pop up the
extended security updatesenrollment wizard.
Now you're going to need todecide whether you want to sync
your settings with OneDrive,which is what they're trying to
push you to do, which only givesyou a limited amount of space,
which means you're going to runout of space, and then you're
going to just pay more forOneDrive, or you can pay $30.

(19:44):
Or you know what?
We've talked about these thingsbefore.
These are called the BingPoints.
If you redeem 1,000 Microsoftreward points for the ESU
program, you can get it for free.

Ody (19:56):
Do you know what that's equal to in USB?

He does, yes, he does Bing Points no.

Ody (20:01):
I know.
That's why I'm asking.

So microsoft, a thousand points is probably.
Well, it's probably a month'sworth of time of searching
online.
So if you go and search online,every time you search you
receive a microsoft point forfree with the bing enrollment.
Okay, so you?
don't know what that converts tous dollars doesn't necessarily
convert uh, exactly, but I wouldsay it converts to shrewd books

(20:24):
.
It's good, it's it's good it'sgoing to be less than the $30
they're asking you for.
Alright, now you can enroll inthis program anytime, from now
until the program ends October13th 2026, so you have any time,
so it's not a huge rush see, Ialready got a story for next
year's.

I told you so that we're going to extend it one
more year.
After that, microsoft just hasto realize they made a bad error
and just be like okay, we'rejust gonna.
We're just gonna keepsupporting windows 10 for half
of all you people who won'tupgrade to our awesome windows
11.
Yeah, which isn't quite thatawesome it's's not horrible?

(21:04):
No, it's not horrible.
It's not so much better thanWindows 10.
No, it's not.

Again, if you're a business, you're able to
purchase up to three additionalyears of updates.
They're going to allow that foreverybody.
Because you're going to say,well, I use it at home and it's
my personal computer, but I useit for home business.
And then Microsoft will be likeah, and it's my personal
computer, but I use it for homebusiness.
And then Microsoft would belike ah, how do you get the
Windows 2 security updates forfree?
There's two ways to enroll theWindows Extended Program.
You can set up your syncingautomatically with OneDrive and

(21:33):
you can get it for free orredeem those 1,000 Microsoft
reward points.
So if you want to sync yourstuff to OneDrive, you kind of
already do that, mike, so youmay be able to do it for free.
What?
Syncing my one drive?
Yeah, sync to your one drive.
The ESU enrollment wizard willallow you the three choices when
you sign up for free or backupyour PC or pay 30 bucks.
Now, windows 10 has beenimpressive.

(21:56):
It's had a 10-year run, but theoperating system isn't likely
to receive updates beyond 2026is what microsoft said.

Yeah, I told you okay.

Still, for many users not yet ready to dive into
windows 11, microsoft's freeesu program is a welcome stop
how many of those people who arerunning windows 10 can't
upgrade to windows 11?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
a lot I have laptops.

Yeah, that cannot upgrade to windows 11 yeah, so
now you can get extended forwindows 10 for a year.

So yeah, microsoft microsoft was probably thinking
yeah, we'll do this andeverybody will buy new computers
and yeah, they didn't youremember back in the, the old
days?

the olden days, the olden days, remember.
You have 286 and 386s and 486sand penny mpcs.

Yeah, man, you'd update about every three or four
years because the technologyadvancement and graphics and
really it was graphics and videogames, to be honest well, yeah,
yeah, I think the video gameindustry drives all that stuff
because everybody wants that newgame, but they can't run it on
the stupid old machine, oldmachines.

But then they came out with these things, all these
entertainment systems like theXbox S and all these other
things that people are like okay, well, I guess I don't need a
PC, and so your PC then justbecomes a work productivity
machine.
And guess what?
You don't need those high endgraphics anymore, so updates are
limited.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week,
or the segment we should justcall.
I Told you so, with all threestories.

No, no, no.
That has to be a separatesegment.
That has to be a separatesegment.
We have to do a separatesegment that says I Told you so
because, then we can just haveour normal stuff, and then we
can do?
I Told you so, and then we cango.
I told you so.

All right.
Well, that ends our top tellystories of the week.
Next we dive into our game show.
Two truths and a lie.
Can Odie and Mike pick out thefalse article?
We'll see after this commercialbreak.

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I'm clearing my throat.
That's right.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts, we do itwith a sense of humor, in less
than 60 minutes and, of course,a little whiskey on the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, whiskeyConnoisseur, is away.
He's in California at a whiskeyconvention.
I'm not bitter about this atall.

(24:55):
This is only the second timenow.
Bitter like the whiskey, that'sright so is it really a whiskey
convention?
Really it is a whiskeyconvention.

Ody (25:03):
Yeah, it is Homies together , so they sit there, they're
just getting around.

They're just partying.
Yes, so they just sit there.
No, no, no, no.

Have you seen these ?

conventions and stuff Anyway, that go around and
go.
Oh, I don't think I like thatlittle whiskey, it's not as good
as it needs to be.

Ody (25:19):
They're not like those whiskey.

How is it?
Yes, they are.
No no, no.

Ody (25:23):
Not like the wine people.
They're like ooh.

I don't know about that, so the wine and the
whiskey snobs.
Maybe they're the same, but Iwant to know why your accents
change in the middle of thesentence.
I go wow.

I'm really excited.

Ody (25:38):
Maybe it has to do with the whiskey of today.

Okay, Odie.
What did he pick for us whilehe was out?

Ody (25:43):
Today we're drinking the 1792 Bottled and Bond, the
Ballard Cut Pick From thewhiskey bottle label.
In 1897, the Bottled and BondAct revolutionized the quality
of American whiskey.
Carrying on that tradition,this well-aged bourbon comes
from only barrels filled duringthe same distilling season and
is bottled at exactly 100 prooffor a bold taste and lingering

(26:08):
finish, a testament to theBottled and Bond Act established
over a century ago.
True to its heritage, theunmistakable spice of 1792
bourbon is met with notes ofcharred oak and fresh mint.
Subtle caramel apple tones aredelicately balanced with the
lingering essence of coffee andblack pepper.

I taste the coffee.

Ody (26:30):
I don't taste the coffee.

I have coffee so I taste it anyway.

Ody (26:33):
But I can attest to the lingering finish because that
stayed with me for a really longtime.

It does, I did not time, it does, I did not like
that, you did not like that ohbut you know, here are the stats
.

Ody (26:43):
It's from the sazerac company, the distillation is a
barton 1792 distillery inbardstown, kentucky, classified
as a straight bourbon aged forat least four years.
Uh, 50 abv or 100 proof.
The mash bill is undisclosedbut it's believed to be a high
rye, between 15% to 25% rye,going for $45.

That's going to be on Nathan's shelf.

Ody (27:11):
Now that I know that it's $45.

I kind of like it, I really like it.

Ody (27:15):
I wouldn't go that far, but I'm not as hating on it.

So if it was a $100 bottle'd be like and be like
but now that it's 45 well, howis it?

how is it?
The cheaper it is, the betterit tastes for you folks chill
out hold on.

Ody (27:31):
Last week's was 56 bucks the remus straight bourbon
whiskey from.

Single Barrel.

Ody (27:38):
Yeah, from Ross and Squibb Distillation that was 56 bucks.

I like that a lot more than this week's, and I
were even price quoting thedifference of them.
I like that I like that.
There you go.

Ody (27:50):
Anyway.

Okay.

Do you know what the best whiskey is for the
price?

Oh, my God, canadian Mist?
No, not even Canadian.
No, not even Canadian.
That was so bad, that is theworst.

Ody (27:59):
That is the worst whiskey.

We need to bring that back as a salute.

Ody (28:03):
Yeah, as an end of year, cheer.

End of year cheer Every year we should bring back.

Ody (28:07):
Remember our roots.
Yes, yeah.

What was the one that we thought was worse than
Canadian Mist?

It was a Trader Joe's something.
It was a mash bill from TraderJoe's Trader Joe's something.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
It was a mash bill from Trader Joe's.

Okay, and it was horrible too.

Ody (28:20):
Anyway, you guys, please do not forget to like and
subscribe.
Drink responsibly.
Heaven can wait.

All right, thank you, odie.
With our whiskey tastingcompleted, let's move on to our
feature segment.
Today, we bring the threestories ripped from the
headlines.
Two are true and one's a lie.
Can you spot the fake as westart this next segment?

(28:49):
And now we have two truths anda lie.
All right, here's how we playthe game.
Od and mike, I'm going to readyou three articles.
You're going to choose whichone of the two are.
Well, actually, you really justneed to pick out the fake the
first one is is All right.
The first one is Wow, hang on,you got to listen to these first
.
Here's what we got.
Scientists create incrediblematerials that could and put
your phones down.
No searching, no Googling.
They were trying to keep thisall all taken care of.

(29:10):
Scientists create incrediblematerials that could boost
performance of solar panels, andthis can be a significant
enhancement.
By 2030, solar technologyexpected to count for 80 of the
renewable energy growth.
As the cost of solar energygenerations have dropped,
installations have boomed aroundthe world.
However, there is work to bedone to optimize the efficiency

(29:31):
and reduce the use of toxicmaterials.
Silicon has long been the go-tomaterial for solar panels, but
switching home.
Silicon what's?

Ody (29:38):
that Okay, sorry.

Don't listen to him .

Ody (29:41):
Okay, my bad, my bad, my bad Continue sir.

Okay, but watching periscite could boost efficiency
and allow for the creation ofultralight solar cells.
The most efficient proskitesolar cells have been
incorporated into the designs ofsome new panels.
Toxic metal is particularlydangerous to children.
It's being removed, thealternative is lead.

Are you reading the article to us?

Ody (30:03):
Yes, that's the whole thing , yeah.

I thought we were just supposed to go off the
titles.
No, no.

As an alternative to lead-based periscopes.
The research has found thatusing phrenosone uh is a self
monolayer molecule abbreviatedas a th2 ept, they can achieve a
higher power consumptionefficiency with lex toxicity
good lord nascent.

Okay, that's why I was asking why he's reading the
whole article, because there'swords he can't pronounce and I
can't understand.

What Toxicity.

Toxicity.

Alright, there you go.
Silicon Silicon.
You know what silicon is?

Ody (30:47):
Silicone.

Silicon, whatever.
Okay, so the idea.
Here scientists are creatingincredible material to boost
performance of solar panels.

Ody (30:55):
Okay, thanks for that Story number two.

Finland is on the verge of an incredible
human-made alteration for deepbeneath the earth that can hold
a total of 5,500 tons of waste.
In a bold step forward,sustainable nuclear waste
management, finland is poised tobecome the first nation to bury
spent nuclear fuel rods deepunderground for long-term

(31:19):
storage.
Nuclear energy is a type oflow-carbon energy source that is
harnessed from the power withinatoms.
However, managing nuclear wasteis important because it remains
radioactive and can pose safetyand environmental risks for
many years.
Finland's Onkei projectrepresents a monumental leap
forward curbing waste andsafeguarding the environment.
Onkei meaning cave or hollowand finished has been built over

(31:43):
the past two decades by anexpansive underground repository
that serves as the world'sfirst permanent storage site for
nuclear waste.

Nuclear.

Nuclear, waste Nuclear, and story number three.
So you got story one.

We got story one one and then we got story two.

Now we're on three amazon announced the new
breakthrough and data transfercalled photo net.
Amazon announced this week thegroundbreaking new technology
called photo net, designed totransfer data at the speed of
light.
The company says the systemuses a proprietary form of
phototonic transmission that isbypassed traditional fiber optic
satellites and Wi-Fiinterference.

(32:22):
According to Amazon, photonetworks by encoding digital
information directly intocontrolled light pulses,
allowing data to move instantlybetween compatible devices.
Early demonstrates show filetransfers completing in
fractions of milliseconds,regardless of the distance.
The future of connectivity, saidAmazon CEO Andy Jassy during
the launch event.
Photonet is faster than fiber,more stable than 5G and more

(32:45):
secure than any wirelessprotocol on the market today.
We believe it'll redefineglobal communication.
Amazon claims the benefitincludes instant downloads, a 4K
movie transfer in under asecond, zero latency
communication, video calls feelsif the other person's in the
same room, and ultra securechannels.
Light speeds signals are so farharder to intercept than
conventional radio frequenciesbecause they move so fast.

(33:07):
Company plans to roll this outinto its data centers later this
year, with consumer devicesexpected in 2026 okay, so we've
got three stories.

The first one is solar panels being upgraded to
be more efficient.

Ody (33:23):
Yeah, yeah.

We've got Finland that's going to bury nuclear
material in caves.

Yep.

And Amazon has created the transporter.

No Well, no, it's just a photo net.
No Well, no, it's just a photonet.

Amazon is claiming that they can encode photons
with information that can bebeamed directly to you in a
second In a millisecond.

In a millisecond.

So are you leaning towards two and three.
You know, the Amazon one soundsthe most true out of all,
really no.

Ody (33:58):
Okay.

I don't think Amazon has figured out how to
encode photons with energy.

Ody (34:06):
They haven't even figured out.
Alexa, yeah, or Amazon, goSidewalk or Sidewalk.

Well, they figure it out, they just use your
internet and you just don't knowit.

Okay, all right.
So if they've figured out howto use light to transfer
information, that's a lie.
That means that I have to havesomething that can receive light
to get that information.
Yes, it won't be transmittedover my ethernet, that's correct
.
So new device, so I'm gonnahave to upgrade my my crap to

(34:35):
photon receptors, I think so isthat?

Is that what I have to do?
I think so, all right.
Which of these stories do youthink is fake?

Ody (34:43):
I think story three.
I think Either story two orstory three.

I think Amazon is the wrong one.
You think Amazon's the wrongone, Mike?
Okay.

All right.

That's a little bit too much outside of my rational
grumpy brain brain all right.

So mike says story number three are you gonna go
with mike?

Ody (35:02):
yeah, you're gonna go with mike well, don't give me that
like little glint in your eyeabout it you know it's gonna
turn out he's gonna like.

He's gonna like tell us that the finland one is
not finland, it's something elseit's scotland see what I told
you no, no, no, no no, no, no,no.

You said okay.
So you got the amazon one.
All right and od, I need you, Ineed your decision five she
gave you her decision.

She went with the one that sounded ridiculous
amazon okay yeah, all rightstory.

Finland on the verge of incredible human
alteration is correct.
All right, so that is correct.
You guys are correct.
So now it comes down toscientists create material.
Or Amazon announces abreakthrough in the data
transfer photo net, in photonictransfer information transfer
and guess what?
Mike and Odie, you are correct.
No way, Amazon has not brokenout in the photo net.

That is correct, See even booze this late in the
day can't keep me from thinkingthat Amazon has figured out how
to create photonic information.
So this is how the story wascreated.

Let me tell you I will put in the chat GPT-5.

I bet you did.
Are you joking?

Create a fake story about a technology that Amazon
is going to create.

You kind of need to not do that in the next game
because that was just way, wayover.

It was way out there.
But the CEO comments was prettygood though, right, no?

Ody (36:25):
You didn't like the comments.
No, I don't care for thecomments.

He should have said Taco Bell needs drive-thru
people Alright.

well, guess what?
Hopefully you listening at homealso picked out the segment.

I'm pretty sure they did.

We do not have transporters created by Amazon
yet.
If we did have the ability todo that, we're not going to get
anywhere near that.

Ody (36:45):
Oh, from Amazon.

Well, that's true.

Yeah, from Amazon.
You're correct, that's right.

That would be cool, because then I could get my
stuff a lot faster, can you?
Yeah, if they created lighttransport or teleportation, you
know that would be cool.

Okay, so Amazon used to have two-day delivery
and it used to have next-daydelivery.

Oh my God, I ordered something from Amazon
last night at 7 o'clock or so.
I got it at 4.30 this morning.
Oh, my word, that is amazing.
But I will say some things.
But it didn't come by light.

It did not come by light.

It did not come by light, it came by somebody.
It could have been His name,could have been light.
It freaked out my neighborsbecause somebody was tromping up
and down the stairs.

I like that, I order the 2 am, the 4 am,
services all the time, just sothat my wife can get the alarm
on our doorbell system thatsomebody's walking outside.

That's really, you know.
There's this old story calledthe Boy who Cried Wolf.

Yeah.

You know, you know what that story.

I do know that story.
Okay, all right.
And then the wolf actuallycomes and no one listens.

Amazon, amazon's coming, amazon's coming.

All right, that is our segment, and with that,
let's move on to Mike'smesmerizing moment.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, here's myquestions for you.
Okay, when humans get excitedabout stuff let's say a new
technology, a new thing, a newtoy does it make us, as humans,

(38:12):
happier?

no what no well are you?
What, what?

wait, ask the question again when humans get
excited about new technologies,new things or new toys, does it
make us as humans happier?

Ody (38:27):
no, how can you say that?

because there is tons and tons of information out
there right now that ourtechnology age is creating
people with more depression thanever.
Okay, what you're talking aboutis two different things.
Okay, excitement is a feelingand it's very similar to fear.
Okay, it, it releases almostthe exact same uh, not

(38:54):
pheromones, endorphins andthings like that pheromones,
endorphins and things like thatit releases.
But there's one thing thatexcitement releases that, uh,
fear does not.
So they're very similar andthey're these are emotional
states.
Okay, so if we get excited aboutsomething, we have a heightened
emotional state.
A heightened emotional statedoes not translate into

(39:17):
something like happiness, whichis a kind of considered to be
this long-term state of beingAll right, all right, and the
interesting thing about ourmodern society is that we have
created this idea that we allhave to be happy and there's

(39:38):
like this cult of happiness outthere that you can't reach.
Nobody can reach it.
Okay, and so you know, we'reout there running around, but
what you're talking about is ais an emotional state versus a
state of, uh, I guess we couldsay prolonged contentment or

(39:59):
something, something like that.
You can't really even definewhat happy is Okay In in many
different terms, but so when Iget a new toy, I'm happy.
When you get a new toy, you'rehappy for a while, yeah, and
then do you get bored with thatnew toy.

Yeah, yeah.

That means you're not happy anymore.
Oh, okay, I see what you'resaying and, like I said earlier,
we, we have this idea that we,we, we deserve happiness.
We uh chase happiness and theuh information is different than
we're getting.

(40:35):
We got everybody's ondepressants, antidepressants and
depressants.
I'm drinking alcohol.
That's a depressant.
Is it a depressant?

Okay, all right.
Well, mike, see, that was goodCause I think Odie and I were
kind of questioning that.
I would have said yeah but Isee your point.
Thank you for that mesmerizingmoment.
Up next we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side, as we're
going to be doing so during thebreak.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumm.
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Speaker 1 (42:10):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.

Let's look back at this week in technology.
All right, we're going back toSeptember 1st, 1977.
Pioneer 11 becomes the firstman-made object to fly by Saturn
.
Now Pioneer 11 is the sisterspacecraft to Pioneer 10, and it
was the first human-made objectto fly past Saturn and also
returned the first pictures ofthe polar regions of Jupiter.

(42:36):
After boost by the TEM 364-4engine, the spacecraft sped away
from Earth at a velocity ofabout 32,000 miles per hour,
thus equaling the speed of itspredecessor, the Pioneer 10.
During the outbound journey,there were a number of
malfunctions on the spacecraft,including the momentary failure

(42:57):
of one of the RTG booms todeploy a problem with an
altitude control thruster.

Attitude.

Attitude, attitude, yep, attitude.

It was happy.

And partial failure of the asteroid dust detector,
but none of these jeopardizedthe asteroid Asteroidal
Asteroidal that's what it'scalled.
You know what I got it from theinformation.

No, no, no.
It has nothing to do with whatyou're reading, it's how you're
reading it.

Okay, but none of these jeopardize the mission.
So that was this week intechnology.
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The segment we've been waitingall week for Mark's Whiskey
Mumble.

Ody (44:21):
All right, you guys.

Yep, mumble for us, mark, okay.

Ody (44:29):
Okay, does anyone know what we're celebrating today?

National Mumble Day .
Imagine day, national mumbleday, imagine um we are
celebrating the um first uh everanyway, it's september 2nd,
it's, I told you so day it'scalendar adjustment day.

Ody (44:54):
Oh oh, it's Adjustment Day, oh oh it's.

California.
Are you going to sing a song?
It's California Adjustment Day.
It's California Adjustment DayCalendar.
Adjustment Day Calendar.

Ody (45:03):
Marks the moment history skipped ahead In 19,.
No, sorry, in 1752, afterBritain adopted their Gregorian
calendar, the residents ofBritain and the American
colonies went to bed onSeptember 2nd and woke up on
September 14th, losing 11 daysforever.

Man.

Ody (45:24):
The change also reset New Year's Day to January 1st, where
it still stands today.

Wow, talk about daylight savings time.

Ody (45:34):
But back in 1752, britain skipped 11 days just to fix its
calendar.
Fast forward a few decades to1792, when Kentucky became a
state, a milestone that nowlives on in the 1792 bottled and
bogged bourbon.
Two big shifts in the 1700s,one in time, one in whiskey.

(45:56):
That's a scratch buddy hey, andhere is a twist you probably
did not expect.
Barton 1792 distillery runs itsown coal-fired power plant
right on site in bardstown,kentucky wow, yeah, I knew that
that's something everybodyshould know that old school grit

(46:18):
fuels one of the boldestbourbons out there 1792 bottled
and bond.
1792 bottled and bond is a greatcouch pour or something
delicious to set your palate atthe start of the night, sitting
right at a solid 100 proof it.
It comes across spicy and sweet.
It is not as robust as the 1792full proof, which is Mark's

(46:41):
personal choice, though itcarries more potency and spice
than 1792's small batch and isworth the step up.
This is the fifth time we havefeatured a 1792 product.
The real question is the realquestion now is will Mike make
it a sweep with five out of fivethumbs up?
Look at him with the statistics.

(47:03):
Way to go.

Mark, that's a question I'm wavering on this
one.

Ody (47:08):
You're wavering on it, I am .

I mean it's good, but I don't know if it's good
good.

Ody (47:13):
You don't think it's a thumbs up?

I haven't made my decision yet.
Oh, all right.
Well, thank you.

Ody (47:18):
How are you feeling about it?
I actually like it.

I'm going to give it a thumbs up.

Ody (47:22):
You haven't seen him with it.
I don't know he hasn't had anepileptic fit.

You haven't finished your Wait how much did
you pour, is that?
Your, I just poured it a lot.
Okay, now Odie's complainingabout alcohol.

That's right, I just poured it a lot.
You want more?
She does.
She keeps picking up the glassand looking During our
commercial break.

we'll get you more Odie so that you can have.

Hey no, all right, I'm good.
Well, guess what?

We just got a salute.
Whiskey and technology are sucha great pairing, like Sonics
and Tails Shut up.

Is it Sonic?

and Knuckles, or Sonic and.

Tails.

Let's not.
I mean, there's a pairing,that's a good pairing.

You know what a good pairing is Mario and Luigi
Click and drag.
That's a good pairing.

How about Eli and Jacob in the Last of Us?
Or is it Ellie?
Whatever it's Ellie, I've neverseen the Last of Us, do you?

Ody (48:24):
know how to read.
It's not spelled as Eli.

I just looked at it real quick on there.
Okay, how about Gordon and Alex?

You should try doing it in one of your accents.
That turns into some weirdsounding.
How about?

banjoing.
No, no, no.

I was just kidding.

Hello Mike.
We'll continue on into our nextarea.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Okay, Clark.

Ody (48:47):
Thank you so much Mark.

I got many voices.

Ody (48:51):
We're like Conrad and Belly Conrad and.
Belly, you guys are too old toget that reference, but anybody
that's out there that'scurrently Gen Z.

How about Leo and Stitch?

Ody (49:01):
Shut up.

Anyway, that's Lilo and.

Stitch.

Ody (49:03):
God, what is up with you?
You are missing like fullsyllables, man.

He's been drinking lots of alcohol.

He's trying to do his voices.
That's right, all right.

You know what?
Coffee that's right.
All right, you know what copyand paste?

Ody (49:20):
buddy, how about that?

one.
That was a good one.
How about clippy and resumes?
Uh, what's what?

Speaker 5 (49:23):
would clippy be windows 95 no, clippy was a part
.

Well, yeah, it was windows 95.
Do you ever remember the nevermind continuing?
On let's prepare for ourtechnology fail of the week,
brought to us by elite executiveservices technology experts to
help you out of a technologyfail.
Congratulations, you're afailure.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Oh, I failed.
Did I yes, did I yes.

Alright, this week our technology fail comes to us
from the consumer creditreporting giant called
TransUnion.
Have you ever heard of them?

Oh yes.

Alright, well, guess what TransUnion wants to
let everybody know that theysuffered a data breach exposing
personal information of 4.4million people in the United
States 4.4 million people in theUnited States Essentially, 97%
of the United States individualslearning that data was stolen
from its Salesforce account.

So it doesn't really matter that it doesn't
really matter that DOGE isputting all of our information
in a cloud-based thing that canget hacked really well easily,
does it?

Ody (50:21):
Well, Salesforce is also a cloud-based thing, aren't they
not?
So Equifax?

and Experian have both experienced security
breaches and there's only threemajor credit bureaus in the
United States, so Equifaxbreached, Experian breached and
now, of course, we have.
Transunion breached, so all ofour data for any financial
information at any time.

So it doesn't matter what the government's
doing, they're just like makingit easy.

Well TransUnion operates in 30 countries,
employing over 13,000 staff Idon't know why, because they
surely don't back up their dataand it has an annual revenue of
$3 billion.
Now it collects and maintainscredit information over 1
billion consumers worldwide,with approximately 200 million
of those based in the US.
According to the filingsubmitted, the breach occurred
on July 28, 2025 and wasdiscovered two days later.

(51:07):
Great security we recentlyexperienced, they said.
We recently experienced a cyberincident involving a
third-party application servingour US consumer operations
released the data.
What are you doing.
You asked me to do voice.

I didn't ask you to do that I consistently tell you
not to do them.

Access includes some limited personal
information belonging to you.
Now, the data exposed in thisincident was limited, according
to the company, although whatexactly it might entail hasn't
been specified in the samplenotification.
Instead, the letter underlinesthat no credit reports or core
credit information was exposedin this incident you know.

You know what I.
You know what they should do.
What's that?
Since everybody's been breached, my credit score should be
better now should be better,they should be like it.
We lost all your information,but your credit score is awesome
, so so they said, unauthorizedaccess happened, no relevant
information or no informationwas released.

(52:04):
Yeah, that's what they alwayssay.

You know what?
Let's go and take a look Now.
Threat Actor claims that thestolen data consists of over 13
million records, with 4.4million records related to
people in the United States.
So this is the Threat Actor,with 4.4 million records related
to people in the United States.
So this is the threat actor.
Now, a sample of the stolendata shared on dark web, which
I've looked at myself, containsquite a lot of sensitive
personal information, includingyour name, billing address,

(52:27):
phone number, email address,dates of birth, unredacted
social security number and more.
So I guess TransUnion is sayingthat all of this stuff is not
important your phone number,your email address, your birth
date or your unredacted socialsecurity number, which means
they can see your socialsecurity number.
But I guess if the socialsecurity numbers are on Amazon
cloud services, they're going toget breached.
I guess all the social securitynumbers are just free for all.

Yeah, it seems like none of this.
All this just comes out in thewash anyway, so we just need to
go back to pen and paper.

South African and Canadian breaches suffered
through.
Cybersecurity breaches exposedcustomer information also from
them.
So none of these credit datastuff.
And so they can pull yourcredit.
They can change your credit.
On their stupid littlealgorithms they can do whatever
they want, but when you actuallyask them to secure your data,
it's not really a priority tothem.

(53:20):
Too much money, so we're justgoing to let it all be exposed
out there.
I always love that thecompanies lie about what data
was stolen and then the poorpeople that breach them just
post it out there in clean.

This is why who was a company that issued a wanted?
Oh a bounty, yeah a bounty.
I think, we should juststandardize bounties now.
So anybody that does this, theyhunt them down and murder their
computers.
Oh, murder their computers.

Yeah, oh, okay.
Well, I don't know if we reallyI mean now we're getting into a
whole bunch of differentphilosophies, so you're going to
have to tell me how that works,because I don't know if we're
going to start gettingaggressive or we don't get
aggressive, but all right, thatwas the story.
I'm sure that was uplifting foreverybody else.

Right, yeah, that was uplifting.
I feel uplifted by that.
See, that's what happiness is.
Right there, there's happiness,happiness.

Happiness is knowing that all your
information is going to getbreached, no matter who does it
or where they put it or that'swhy I asked you last week in the
show would you pay for aservice that would guarantee
your security being safe?

oh no, no, because nobody can guarantee that.
Do you know?

why?
Because people that are incharge of the data are some of
the lowest paid people, and it'snot that somebody broke in.
It's that somebody shared thedata.

No, it's because they skimp on security.
Yep.

They skimp on IT staff.

This is the security paradox.
I worked in physical securityfor a while, okay, and there's a
paradox.
I worked in physical securityfor a while, okay, and there's a
paradox yeah.
Where, if nothing's happening?
What does that mean?

Then we don't need security.
We don't need security Becausewe would never get breached,
even though the security groupis working really hard to make
sure.

That's why nothing's happening, because
security's doing its job.
So when they think, okay,nothing's going on, need to, we
need to cut some areas and forour finances stuff, they cut
security.
Yep, because there's noincidents happening.
Yep, there's no reason so asmart security company would let
an incident come by every oncein a while and be like, oh yeah,
we need security, remember allright here, all right, here we

(55:32):
go.

We're gonna go right now to the nathan nugget
this is your nugget of the weekall right, here's the nugget.
We're gonna talk about windows10.
Going back to one of our why wewant to do that because windows
10 is a great operating system.
If you have not gone, though,and set up bing to get your
thousand points, you can do itright now by just visiting

(55:54):
bingcom and setting up that asyour default user account to
search the web.
It may take a little bit tofigure out.

You know that's a low-key form of blackmail.

Well, I'm just saying that if you want your
free upgrade with 1,000 points Ijust looked on it this morning
to see what we needed to do it'sgoing to be a week of time and
within a week of searching theweb through Bing, which may be a
little bit of a of an issue,you will receive Microsoft
reward points.
So so, mike, here's how many,how many, microsoft report
reward points.

(56:24):
Does it say that I have rightthere?

You have an excessive amount 11,000 is 76.

Guess what?
These have only been redeemedfrom last month.
That was last month, I believethat because you are a Bing
disciple.
Okay, so if you decide to go ona daily streak to search for
Bing, you will automaticallyreceive 1,000 Bing points, which
will give you the free upgrade.
Go to Bingcom.

(56:53):
Look at Microsoft Rewards.
Sign up for the dashboard soyou can get your upgrade for
security.

Just pay attention to how Microsoft is manipulating
you into using their products.
Just take that into accountwhile you're playing with your
Bing.

Okay there you go.
Well, you know what Now?

Speaker 1 (57:15):
we need to move to our pick of the day Whiskey
Tasting.
And now our pick of the day forour Whiskey T.

Let's see what bubbles to the top.
All right, so now we're movingto our whiskey tasting odia.
What do we have here?

Ody (57:26):
uh, today we're drinking the 1792 bottle and bond uh the
ballard cut pick uh from thesazerac company distillate.
Distillation is barton 1792distillery in Bardstown
classified as a straight bourbonaged for at least four years,
100 proof, undisclosed, 45 buckson the market.
What are we saying, y'all?

What are you saying , Mike?
Are you giving a thumbs up?

Ody (57:50):
Yeah, I'll give it a thumbs up.
He's five for five y'all, it'sgood.

It's not as good as some of the other ones that
we've had on the show.

I actually like this a lot.
I did not like last week's yeah, because it was 56 bucks.

No, I did not like the taste Sure.

That's absolutely great.

All right.
Well, mike, we're about out oftime.
We want to thank our listenersfor joining the program.
Listeners, we want to hear fromyou.
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Please respond to it.
We do not know why we get noresponses for that.

(58:31):
So just say hi if you don'thave a question.

Ody (58:33):
So now we're groveling.

Yeah, we are.

Nathan's into that stuff.

Didn't you hear?

that ad where he was groveling about going to
Patreon Patreoncom.

You butcher the English language.

I did that on purpose.
I don't do that on accident.

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