A living room PC that wants to be your next console, a cloned dog that raises bigger questions than it answers, and a museum heist made possible by the world’s laziest password. That’s the lineup we tackle as we break down the most head-scratching, revealing tech stories of the week with equal parts clarity and humor.
We start with Valve’s Steam machine: a sleek, SteamOS-powered box aiming for 4K/60 on your TV. We unpack the real-world hurdles—8GB VRAM limits, upgrade ambiguity, and the make-or-break pricing line—while noting the window of opportunity as Sony stays quiet on PS6 and Microsoft doubles down on cloud and subscriptions. If Valve can balance performance, cost, and openness, they might just rewrite the console conversation.
From there, the show gets wonderfully weird—and instructive. Tom Brady’s reported dog clone spotlights the gap between genetics and identity. A Russian humanoid robot faceplants onstage, underscoring how hard dynamic stabilization really is. A Florida homeowner learns her address has been hijacked by a fake garage-door business, the kind of “legitimacy theater” scam that thrives on stolen photos and Google listings. And a payroll glitch sends $87,000 to a factory worker who spends first and argues later, setting up a courtroom lesson in what “salary” really means.
We also get practical: holiday travel phishing is spiking, with fake Booking, Expedia, and Airbnb pages skimming cards in seconds. We share simple, effective defenses: go direct to official apps, inspect URLs, and enable card alerts. Then we pour Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B520 and compare notes—rich chocolate, caramel, and spice at a hefty 127.2 proof—while reflecting on why the Nintendo Wii’s motion-first design still matters. To top it off, Kia’s gas-scented EV air freshener proves sensory nostalgia can be a clever bridge to cleaner tech.
The jaw-dropper comes from Paris: a Louvre security failure reportedly tied to a camera password you could guess in two tries. It’s a blunt reminder that protecting treasures requires basic cyber hygiene: strong unique credentials, MFA, segmentation, and monitoring. Whether you’re guarding crown jewels or your photo library, the fundamentals are non-negotiable.
Enjoy the ride, share a laugh, and leave with takeaways you can use—from buying choices to security habits. If you’re into smart tech talk without the jargon, hit follow, share with a friend, and drop us a review with your hot take: would you buy Valve’s Steam machine for your living room?
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But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
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Introduction (02:04):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (02:07):
All right, story number one Valve turns up the
heat as Steam Machine reignitesthe console worlds.
Let's go to Lisa Walker formore on this.
Lisa Walker (02:16):
Valve's new gaming device, built to be entirely
wireless and streaming first,claims to deliver sharper
visuals by focusing processingpower only where the user looks.
Industry watchers note thetiming is strategic as Microsoft
leans into Game Passsubscriptions, and Sony fans
await news of a PS5 successor.
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Whether Valve can turn its PCempire into a console success
story will be tested when theSteam machine hits shelves in
early 2026.
Is this on anyone's purchaselist?
Back to you guys in the studio.
Nathan Mumm (02:51):
The Steam Deck came out, right?
Steam trying to compete withthe handheld market.
And they actually have donevery successful with the Steam
Deck.
And I purchased one of theseand I've been very happy with
the device itself.
Mike Gorday (03:02):
Do you still use that or does it still sit in
your desk drive?
Nathan Mumm (03:05):
Well, I used it pretty aggressively, and then
all of a sudden I have thisthing called children.
And when they want to buysomething and they don't have
any money, they come on over andthey take their father's item
so that they can play with itand then pretend that it's
theirs.
Mike Gorday (03:17):
Okay.
You're seriously throwing yourchildren under the bus because
absolutely.
Nathan Mumm (03:20):
Because they're actually using it now.
Oh, so let's talk about this.
So the new Steam machine is ahybrid design PC that is
supposed to plug into yourliving room television or big
screen or your projector TV.
It's a sleek black cube.
It looks just like almost kindof an Xbox X.
It's a big, tall tower that'sblack, powered by SteamOS and
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AMD graphics, promises 4Kresolution at 60 frames per
second, and also can be doubledas a full-time computer.
The problem with computers andtelevisions is there have always
been all those cables you haveto plug into your TV.
You know what?
So you end up just having amonitor that you use for your
computer and your TV for yourentertainment system.
Steam thinks now is the time,and they are going to come out
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with a device that has theability to provide your Steam
games on your television.
The big question I have thoughis the hardware that's actually
being announced is only comingon out with 8 gigabytes of
dedicated VRAM for video, andmost blockbuster games require
12 gigabytes.
So that looks like the videocard, which is probably one of
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the most important aspects ofany of these gaming machines, is
going to be a littleunderpowered.
So I have some concerns here,Mike, because uh if you if you
game and you're not at the mostwell, it depends on if you're a
console gamer or a PC gamer.
Okay.
So but if you're if you're ifyou're trying to compete in the
console market on your bigscreen TV, I think you have to
(04:43):
have those graphics up there sothat you can do those 60 frames
per second first-person shootergames that are going to be
there.
But let's talk about the Steammachine because Valve in 2014
tried to release a console.
It was an actual device.
I bought one of those and itdid not work at all.
You'd have to have yourcomputer connect to that device,
and then that device wasconnected to your TV.
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And the lag on that was justimpossible to play on offline
games, let alone any onlinegames.
But now they think that theyhave the ability to do it.
They do think the price isgonna probably be higher than
that $499 price point, whichthat I think is kind of the key.
That $499, $500 price point isaccepted in the industry for a
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console machine.
Mike Gorday (05:26):
These are established consoles, though.
Those are these are not brandnew people trying to enter the
market.
Nathan Mumm (05:31):
Okay.
So do you think that you wouldyou pay a little bit more for a
PC?
Mike Gorday (05:34):
Absolutely not.
Nathan Mumm (05:35):
Okay, you wouldn't.
So you would you would actuallyask them to probably be a
little lower than the $499processor price.
Mike Gorday (05:41):
Yeah, if they want to, if they want me to try out
their console, it can't behigher than my, you know, my
Xbox or my PlayStation.
Nathan Mumm (05:51):
Okay, well, you know what?
They have 25 million onlinedaily users with more with no
more than 6 million gamers givenat any time on their platform
system.
So they do have a pretty largeplatform of users that are using
their system.
Now it's interesting that theconsole war, let's let's kind of
talk about that.
So PlayStation 5 now hits itsfifth anniversary, and Sony says
(06:12):
that there's plenty of life inthe old dog.
We used to every five yearshave a brand new console, right?
So we'd have a brand new devicethat would come on out back in
the Sega time when Sega was uhavailable as a console.
Every five years ColecoVision.
Mike Gorday (06:26):
Remember Coleco?
Nathan Mumm (06:27):
Coleco Atari and television.
I mean, so it was like afive-year, we got kind of bored
after five years.
We wanted something new, butguess what?
PlayStation hits theiranniversary and they have no
news on the PlayStation 6anywhere in sight.
It's interesting because if youalso look at Microsoft,
Microsoft is taking a big leapin deciding that they're not
(06:48):
even really focusing on the nextgeneration of gaming, they're
moving everything to the onlinemarket with all of their online
subscription services and theirwhole streaming service to play.
So I think Steam has anopportunity to jump in here.
I don't know if Valve is gonnahave the ability to price the
console at the right price toget into that early market.
(07:10):
So I I I do have some concernsabout that, but they do promise
the Steam machine in early of2026.
So without PlayStation 6anywhere near, this may be the
new console people buy and giveit a shot.
Mike Gorday (07:22):
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't I don't really see thatbeing uh a huge deal there.
Nathan Mumm (07:26):
You don't think you know you you'd rather play
Steam on your computer?
Mike Gorday (07:29):
Yeah.
Okay.
For anybody, I I mean, I'm nota I'm not a gamer gamer, I just
use a laptop, but you know, I'vegot friends who have these
elaborate setups.
Okay.
And they've got multiplescreens and they're using their
PC and they use Steam throughtheir PC, right?
Yep.
Um what happens what happenswhen they go console and
(07:52):
suddenly all the licensing goespaywre because they're now
trying to license stuff simplyfor the exclusivity of the Steam
console, right?
Nathan Mumm (08:02):
Oh, you're saying it's uh so you mean like with
Sony and Microsoft haveexclusive titles?
You're worried that they'regonna be able to do that.
Yeah, what happens what happensthen?
Oh so Microsoft could d delayand not release anything on PC
for a while, right?
Mike Gorday (08:15):
So I don't I don't really think that Steam's gonna
make a big dent in the consolemarket.
Nathan Mumm (08:20):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (08:24):
You know, I like the idea of the Steam Deck, uh,
but I didn't get one.
Nathan Mumm (08:27):
So you're saying forget it.
Uh you're not buying it.
I I'm not gonna get one.
No.
All right, all right.
Odie, would you buy a uh aSteam console machine?
Let's say it's 700 bucks.
Ody (08:37):
Seeing that I was fighting over the Nintendo Switch 2, no.
Also, I don't think I've everused a Steam Deck.
I know you were talking andraving about it like two years
ago, but Yeah.
Mike Gorday (08:47):
Yeah, it was just cool.
It was cool.
It was kind of cool.
It was a portable way to play.
It was it was really bigcompared to the Switch, but it
is, and it's a kind of a bulky.
I kind of like the bulkiness ofit.
Ody (08:57):
I will say that before our show meeting, I did have a
friend reach out to me and andsent me a link to that article,
like, oh, they're coming outwith a console.
Are you guys talking about it?
So it is viral.
Nathan Mumm (09:08):
It is viral, it's in the news.
Ody (09:09):
It is big.
I just don't think it's gonnado well.
Nathan Mumm (09:12):
The the the big questions in the community is
one, can you upgrade the videoadapter after you purchase it?
So if it is a PC, can you feelPC, can you?
Yeah, well, that's so that'sunknown, right?
So it could be that it's allinclusive into the architecture
and you can't add a video card.
If they really want to makethis work, they need to be able
to come out with maybe evenproprietary video card spaces
(09:34):
and slots and different areasthat maybe only it's built for
that device, but you need to beable to upgrade.
I don't think when you buy acomputer, uh especially like a
desktop computer, that you don'tever think that that you're
just buying the one unit.
You're always looking at whatyou can upgrade.
Mike Gorday (09:46):
Well, that's the that's the problem with buying a
uh gaming laptop, right?
Because you can't upgradestuff.
Nathan Mumm (09:52):
You can't.
Mike Gorday (09:54):
You don't have to just go buy a new a new computer
every couple of years.
Nathan Mumm (09:58):
Uh every five years.
Mike Gorday (09:59):
There you go.
Nathan Mumm (09:59):
All right, what do you got for story number two
here, Mike?
Mike Gorday (10:02):
Well, you know, I'm having trouble.
Ody (10:04):
They're at it again, man.
They're at it again.
Mike Gorday (10:07):
Okay, so last last week we talked about the cop
with his pants down, right?
On Zoom.
Yeah, you did.
Apparently nobody saw thatbecause this week a council
meeting goes down the drain,literally.
Okay.
Tell me about this.
Okay, well, this week inGlasgow, a city council meeting
flushed away its uh way into theheadlines thanks to a very
(10:27):
forgetful webcam.
Councilor Hannif Raja, whorepresented Polo Pollock
Shields, accidentally livestreamed his bathroom break
during a planning session.
The meeting was supposed to beabout a battery storage system,
but viewers got an unscheduleddemo of human storage capacity.
(10:47):
Oh right.
Okay.
Colleagues quickly warned him,but not before the clip spread
across social media faster thanthe I'm not a cat video.
The council has since pulledthe footage, promising to
re-upload once the comfort breakis edited out.
Roger explained he needsregular breaks due to his
diabetes, but the technicallesson here is universal.
(11:08):
Always check your mutant cameratoggles before you step away
from your computer.
Think of it like cybersecurity.
As he left an open portbroadcasting unintended data to
the entire network.
Remote meetings blur the linebetween professional and
personal space, which we talkeda little bit about last last
week.
Yep.
Uh but uh webcams can turn intoaccidental accidental
(11:30):
surveillance devices in aheartbeat.
Uh the moral of the story is uhdon't don't use the bathroom
when you're on a Zoom meeting.
You think you think?
Yeah.
Okay.
And don't forget that you're Imean, this is this is one of the
problems with our technology isthat when we get so comfortable
with it that we we're engagingin normal human behavior when
(11:51):
we're supposed to be payingattention.
We talked a little bit aboutthis last week as well.
Yeah.
That we start doing thingsunconsciously not realizing that
we're still on a meeting.
You know, this is somethingthat you wouldn't do in a
professional event.
In-person meeting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're in a per in-personmeeting.
(12:12):
But here you can, you know,often carry around your devices
and and whatnot.
And you know, getting caught onthe toilet is not as uncommon
as we're making it out to be.
Nathan Mumm (12:29):
Maybe he was just, you know, it was a planning
meeting, so maybe he was justthinking on his throne, you
think?
Mike Gorday (12:33):
You know, I don't I don't know anything about this
guy, so I'm not gonna I'm notgonna Did you ever sit on the
toilet and that's where you'relike your thinking spot?
Where are we talking about?
I don't know.
I I just showing.
So yeah.
So uh he should have watchedlast week's show and clearly he
didn't behaved accordingly.
Nathan Mumm (12:53):
Alrighty.
Okay, well let's go to storynumber three.
Think your hotel booking issafe?
Oh no.
Russian hackers have justturned your vacation into their
payday.
Ugh.
Russian hackers have cooked upmore than 4,300 fake travel
sites this year as we're headinginto the holidays.
It sends phishing emails thatlook like urgent booking
confirmation, tricking guestsinto handing over credit cards
(13:15):
and more with sites that mimiclike booking.com, expedia.com,
Airbnb, complete with logos andeven fake captures and logins.
Hey, I think I got one of thesein my email the other day.
I did it too, uh, as a matterof fact.
I got one and it was an Expediaknockoff.
What was yours?
I think it was Airbnb.
Okay, all right.
But you know what?
What's that?
(13:35):
I didn't click on sh you don'tclick on that link.
Don't click on those links.
So what happens is once thevictim types in their payment
information, the crook skims theinstant credit card, pretending
that it's running a secureverification and then takes
money out of your account forwhatever price point they put
in.
Researchers say the scam ismultilingual, automated, and
(13:56):
basically phishing as a servicefor the hospitality industry.
So if your inbox screams,confirm now or lose your room,
it might be a hacker trying tocheck you in.
So be careful.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, we have our mostinteresting news segment.
Say what next.
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Nathan Mumm (15:10):
Okay, all right.
Welcome back to Tech Time withNate the Mum.
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 of course,with a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, Mark Gregois, ourwhiskey connoisseurs in studio.
What do we have that we'resipping today, Mark?
Marc Grégoire (15:33):
Today we're sipping a little throwback.
Okay, is Elijah CraigBarrelproof B520 from Elijah
Craig's website.
Sip barrelproof is toexperience bourbon in its purest
form, uncut, straight from thebarrel, and without chill
filtering.
Each bottle has an agestatement, proof, and batch
number, allowing for subtlenuances from batch to batch.
But the nose, taste, and finishare pure Elijah Craig.
(15:55):
Vanilla, oak, bacon spices,caramel, and a hint of dark
chocolate.
So this bottle is from HeavenHill Distillery from their uh
Bardstown, Kentucky distillery.
It's a straight bourbon.
It's 12, it's a minimum of 12years old.
This particular bottle is 127.2proof, and their mash bill is
78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10%rye.
(16:18):
This bottle was $65 when it wasreleased back in uh roughly May
of ninth of 2020.
Okay.
Um, but right now it goes for$175.
True.
Nathan Mumm (16:30):
So did you have this on your shelf?
Marc Grégoire (16:31):
Yeah, it's my bottle.
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (16:33):
I I I didn't know if you've you've had it on there
since that time, or did youjust buy it recently?
Marc Grégoire (16:37):
Uh no, I have not had it since that time.
I picked up from a friend a fewyears back.
Okay.
All right.
He had it opened already andwas trying to clear out his
closet.
So I said, sure, I'll take it.
Is that how you get a lot ofyour whiskey?
Different ways.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (16:51):
Okay.
Marc Grégoire (16:52):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (16:52):
I need I need friends with opening bottles of
lights, man.
I I don't question it.
All right, Mark.
Well, you know that that'sfantastic.
Okay.
Well, now I I I like ElijahCraig, but I wonder if this is
the one that I didn't likepreviously.
Is it have I tasted thisbefore?
No, you have not.
Okay, all right.
That was I I was I there's Iguess maybe one bottle I didn't
like, but I like this one.
Ody (17:13):
Are you traumatized now that you're gonna miss something
that you did like previously?
Nathan Mumm (17:17):
Yeah, you know, I have well, I got Mark here, so I
gotta be, I gotta be on top ofthings just to make sure.
So I I I kind of pre- He saidhe got it from a friend, so that
could be a change.
Mike Gorday (17:26):
I think what Mark, you need to do is put them in
different glasses becauseapparently that changes his
palate.
Nathan Mumm (17:30):
Is that is that what it is?
All right, okay.
With our whiskey tastingcompleted, let's move on to our
feature segment today.
We have strange but truestories about technology.
Mark is our special guestsegment that he adds into very
exclusive insights on each oneof these articles.
So let's let's start our nextsegment.
Segment (17:52):
Say what again?
Say what again?
I dare you, I double daddy, paywhat one time.
Mike Gorday (17:59):
All right, so I just watched that movie
yesterday.
Nathan Mumm (18:02):
Did you really?
Yeah, okay.
Well, there you go.
All right.
Well, a football star clonedhis dog instead of rescuing
what?
Say what?
That's right.
So there you go, Mark.
The seven times Super Bowlchamp Tom Brady revealed that he
had his late pit bull mixcloned through Colossal
(18:24):
Bioscience.
Mike Gorday (18:25):
It started.
Nathan Mumm (18:26):
A company where rich people do stupid things.
It started.
A company he also advises afterdropping 50k for this process.
Uh, will Bradley's call it asecond chance as it's really
just a pricey genetic copy thatignores millions of sheltered
dogs waiting in homes today,with over 164,000 dogs
(18:51):
euthanized in U.S.
shelters alone this year.
Cloning feels more like abranding stunt than compassion.
So let's talk about this.
Mike Gorday (19:02):
The first thing I want to know is why is Tom Brady
advising a genetic company?
What is that about?
Ody (19:08):
He's bored.
That's really what it comesdown to.
He's not in football anymore,right?
Nathan Mumm (19:13):
Well, he doesn't announce him.
He doesn't announce.
So he's bored.
Mike Gorday (19:16):
I'm gonna claim he doesn't announce.
I want to know what what headvises on.
Does he advise on games?
Nathan Mumm (19:25):
Well, he might well he has a lot of protein shakes
and he's got like this thispower.
So maybe he goes into thiscompany.
So what that means is insteadof paying him money to do
something, they have him as anadvisor, and then he paid him
50k to clone a dog.
Now, it's interesting because Iactually read way more into
this cloning than probablyshould have been.
So they actually had the theychanged the DNA, the genetic DNA
(19:50):
after another dog was pregnant.
So they had a fetus inside adog, and then they put the
genetic markers in after theattempt to clone this dog.
So they altered the existingdog that was there so it now has
these genetic markers.
Is I i is that I mean, this isthe beginning, isn't it?
Marc Grégoire (20:11):
Isn't that what they did with your mammoth
stories?
Yeah, this is what they'retrying to do with mammoths.
Yeah, that's the crisper stuffthat James talks about.
Nathan Mumm (20:18):
So this is changed, it changed the original DNA of
the dog that was in there, so hecan now have a clone dog.
But it's not his dog, it's not,and it's gonna have different
growing up processes is hebought it.
There's nature versus nurture,which is a big difference,
right?
So the nurturing is never gonnabe the same, right?
So it's not gonna be the samedog.
Mike Gorday (20:37):
I mean, okay, we can get into all the
philosophical things about this,but I still want to know how
paying fifty thousand dollars toa company you advise is is any
good.
Nathan Mumm (20:48):
Well, it probably costs them that much to do the
work to clone the dog.
Mike Gorday (20:53):
I'm I'm I'm guessing that there's a lot of
people up the back.
Nathan Mumm (20:55):
How do you really know?
The other thing I was thinkingabout as I was doing the
research of this, how do youreally know that that genetic
cloning actually worked?
You you may not even know that,right?
The dog comes on out, you'relike, oh, it didn't work, but
hey, the dog comes on out.
It looks like your old dog.
Oh, yeah, it's just my old dog.
I mean, I don't know there,right?
Marc Grégoire (21:11):
You run a genetic test and pay another
50,000.
Nathan Mumm (21:14):
There you go.
Marc Grégoire (21:15):
All right.
We just entered a new timeline.
Nathan Mumm (21:17):
All right.
Well, we're moving on to thenext story.
Are you ready?
For this, Mark.
Oh, absolutely, Nathan.
Yeah, he heard Russia's firsthumanoid robot face planted at
its debut.
Marc Grégoire (21:31):
What?
Say what?
There you go.
All right.
Nathan Mumm (21:35):
Startup Adal unveiled the AI-powered humanoid
in Moscow, only for the machineto topple mid-demo as Rocky's
theme blared in the background.
Yeah, what's funny, dude?
Watch that.
I did watch that later.
It looked like a joke.
I did.
It looked like, and then theyhave the guy with the black with
the turn.
He's trying to get the blackcurtain up saying, you didn't
(21:57):
see this here, man.
I didn't think happened.
Marc Grégoire (21:58):
I don't think we can describe this good enough.
Our listeners have to go watchthis video.
Nathan Mumm (22:02):
They do.
Absolutely.
All you gotta do is uh take alook at uh Russian Russian robot
fall.
Uh fall.
There you go.
That would perfect.
Uh the company says the stumbleis part of the challenges of
dynamic stabilization.
Does Tom Brady advise thiscompany too?
You know, he doesn't haveproblems standing up, even when
he's totally drunk.
He still figures out how to doit.
(22:23):
A core uh hurdle in buildingrobots that can walk, balance,
and interact like humans,despite the viral flop.
Adult touts its bots' facialexpressions and offline context
aware dialogue, it'sbreakthroughs in Russian
robotic.
Ody (22:39):
I don't remember seeing any of that.
Nathan Mumm (22:40):
No, I didn't either.
There isn't any of that.
Mike Gorday (22:43):
Nope.
That's propaganda right there.
That's what that's that's likeChina saying.
Nathan Mumm (22:49):
Are you really are you really worried about Russia
in the space race of uh uh uhthe robot race when the robot
comes on out and does a faceplant and looks like something
like it literally looked like itwas 10 years old technology?
Ody (23:03):
I went I wanted to ask about that.
Why are they making it sosmall?
Nathan Mumm (23:06):
It was steampunk.
So I I I I have I have no idea,and it looks like a reject that
you would have seen at likeCES, like eight or ten years
ago, and they took the robot therobot back and then they said,
Okay, now we're gonna do some ofour own customization, and then
they demo it, and it stilldoesn't work.
I have seen better stuff fromstartup companies at the
consumer electronic show yearsago.
(23:28):
Years ago.
Well, it's definitely not thesame robot that you can buy to
do your dishes.
It's not for only 20k.
I mean, that one moves aroundall over every yeah, as long as
you have a guy wearing a suitsomewhere else offline.
All right.
Okay, well, we're moving on tothe next story.
These stories get better andbetter as we go.
A Florida woman found her homelisted as a garage repair
(23:50):
company.
Oh say what that's right, Mark.
Brookville resident LaurieGreen discovered that Level
Garage Door LLC had posted heraddress, complete with a photo
of her house on its website.
Though the state has sincedissolved the company, its
online listing still directsstrangers to her dead end
(24:10):
street, raising safety andprivacy concerns.
Investigators say that thebusiness isn't licensed, and the
better bus better businessbureau warns of a growing trend.
As many shady companies arehijacking other people's homes
address to look legit.
Marc Grégoire (24:27):
Wow.
This is this is cruel andunusual.
It is.
Just think of that.
Nathan Mumm (24:31):
I mean so I mean, what if you did like uh hey,
come and and and we're a coffeeservice or we're this type of
service, or you try to sellsomething where people actually
come on up and knock and say,hey, how about dog clones?
Mike Gorday (24:42):
Yeah, there you go.
Nathan Mumm (24:43):
Well, well, I I I could be rich people coming.
Mike Gorday (24:48):
Yeah.
What's that?
The rich people coming overover there.
Okay.
All right.
Well, here's I wonder if ParisHilton's gonna do that.
Paris Hilton's gonna put out afake address?
No, clone her dogs.
Nathan Mumm (24:59):
Well, it's interesting because I she has a
lot of purses, man.
Wait, we we do.
Um, so let's talk about theaddress thing.
So I look at a couple, so I doan event once a year, and a lot
of times the address of theevent is at a different place.
So there's actually safeguardsin place when I say, here's the
event that's going on, here'sthe address, it's not at my
(25:20):
place, it's not a businessplace, it's at a community uh
large arena type event event.
There's steps you have to gothrough.
Google will have to verify iton the streets to send a
postcard.
So I don't understand how thishappened.
Mike Gorday (25:33):
This is just an this is no normal thing.
This is like, you know, havinga post office box and a
home-based business, and youcall your post office sweet
something or other.
Okay.
Right?
This is people have been doingthis forever.
Marc Grégoire (25:46):
Yeah, but this is different.
They the this company took aninnocent person's data and
pretended to be theirs.
Mike Gorday (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
They they wanted to have somehomespun look on their website
and have a physical address forfor people to think of think of,
and they want there's this nicehome.
Marc Grégoire (26:04):
You think of people driving up to the house.
There's very very, very cheapways.
So back when I was independentcontractor, I I there's a third
party people you that you hirethat you can put you put in
their address of that law firm,and that's what gets published
as public.
Yep.
So I can go to UPS store.
Crazy people can't find you andUPS store.
Nathan Mumm (26:24):
I can go to the UPS store and I can have a uh P.O.
box through them.
Yeah, that's an actual streetaddress.
Marc Grégoire (26:29):
That's a street address.
Well, the street.
These people, these people justgrab some random person's
information, even took a pictureof her house.
Yeah, I'm not her house.
Mike Gorday (26:37):
I'm not condoning this behavior.
I'm just saying that this isjust normal stuff.
I'm sure I how many times havewe looked at some of these uh
things on the letters?
Yeah.
Where we've looked up theaddress and they're like empty
lots.
Yeah, or a four-lease building.
Four-lease buildings all thetime.
All the time.
Nathan Mumm (26:54):
All right.
Here we go.
Continuing on.
A glitch in the payrollsoftware allowed a factory
worker to get everyone'spaycheck by mistake.
And now he won't give it back.
Marc Grégoire (27:06):
Say, say, say, say, say, si, si, say what
that's right.
Nathan Mumm (27:09):
Vladimir Rycher, buddy.
Opened his banking app to finduh $87,000 instead of his usual
$580, thanks to a payroll glitchthat sent him the salaries of
34 co-workers.
Now he's refused to return themoney, arguing that the deposit
looked like his salary, and evenbought a car, moved away, and
(27:33):
bought a new house before hisaccounts were frozen.
Mike Gorday (27:36):
This is some this is somebody who who you know
think thinks ahead of the curve.
Nathan Mumm (27:42):
So I mean, he's like, oh, look, I got him
through a thousand dollars.
He pieced out.
He's like, I respect him forthat.
Mike Gorday (27:49):
You do?
Do you?
Ody (27:50):
Yeah.
I'm thinking that they're gonnado the opportunity.
Marc Grégoire (27:54):
Yeah, I'm thinking they're 34 co-workers
that got their torches andpitchforks.
It ruins his court case becausehe claimed he just thought it
was his salary, like a bonus.
Mike Gorday (28:03):
But when you get a bonus, you don't just eighty
seven thousand dollars.
Marc Grégoire (28:08):
I guess he for a week.
He retired.
He retired.
Nathan Mumm (28:11):
We yeah.
Well I think that's anotherterm for the company's coming
after him and asked him for hismoney back, and he denied to
pay.
Like no.
So now they've had to go tocourts.
Marc Grégoire (28:20):
Well, what does the internet say to do?
What does the internet say todo?
Chat GPT.
Well, you know what?
Nathan Mumm (28:26):
There's a couple there's a couple different
things.
Marc Grégoire (28:29):
I'm not sure the internet has a we don't go to a
lawyer, we go to the internet.
We go to the internet, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (28:34):
That's right, that's right.
Well yeah, what's the subredditsay, buddy?
A lot of people are f in favorof him because it was listed as
salary and figured, you know,that it's well worth it.
Now the company ended up havingto pay the other 34 uh
co-workers because they gotpaid.
So this is a weekly payment ofyou know, it makes about five
hundred and eighty bucks a week.
Mike Gorday (28:53):
He may you know, there is something to be said
for for arguing that he shouldget to keep that money, you
know, because if the companymade a mistake, why shouldn't
he?
Okay.
Right?
Yeah, you know, but thenthere's the other thing where,
like, well, you know, youweren't supposed to earn that
money, so you need to be a goodguy and give it back instead of
(29:13):
being like, nope, I'm gonna gobuy it.
Nathan Mumm (29:14):
Well, guess where this guess where this uh
happened at?
The same country that justtried that failed robot.
Mike Gorday (29:19):
Yeah, arrest the Supreme Court.
This guy was probably a robot.
Yes, that was the robot, right?
The robot that took the money.
Marc Grégoire (29:27):
Well, that that would have been a good thing.
He must have been one of thelower paid at this because if
it's 87,000, there's 34co-workers.
If you do the math, they're makeverybody else is on average is
making almost four times whathe was making.
Nathan Mumm (29:40):
Oh, so he's like he's like the janitor and all
these things.
These are all middle level linegames.
Marc Grégoire (29:45):
Yeah, what you okay.
So if they yeah, it's I couldsee why they he would be like,
yep, this is or most of theworkers are making the low
salary, and there's a couple ofhigh end people.
Nathan Mumm (29:54):
Well, Russia's Supreme Court now has this on
their docket to take a look andsee what happens in this high
stakes.
Legal battle.
Ody (30:00):
How does that even happen?
That's such a big like screw upfor somebody.
Nathan Mumm (30:04):
So it's like a whole department.
So a whole department didn'tget their paychecks and they got
sent to him.
So the other question I'm at inold Russia, the Russia that I
grew up with, he would still notbe walking around on this
earth.
Oh no.
So he's still walking around.
Yeah, he would have been afrozen tundra.
And now he's still walkingaround taking care of his.
Mike Gorday (30:24):
But this is what happens in the in the states.
If the government, if thegovernment overpays you, they
just take it back.
They don't give a crap how itaffects your lifestyle.
That is correct.
They just they're just like,eh, we've overpaid you for like
eight years.
Yep.
So we're taking it all backlike yesterday.
All right.
Marc Grégoire (30:40):
We'll have to come back to the story after the
Supreme Court rules.
Nathan Mumm (30:43):
You want to take a look at it again?
Oh, yeah.
All right, okay.
Well, here's our next story.
We have more.
Kia is giving EV drivers aspecial new smelling air
freshener.
Nice.
Marc Grégoire (30:55):
See, I told you.
I told you.
No, no, that's I told you.
That's no say what on that.
Mike Gorday (31:01):
He should be.
Hey, Mark, do you likegasoline?
Well, hang on now.
What?
For the what?
Marc Grégoire (31:10):
That's how that works, man.
That's how that works.
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
Nathan Mumm (31:16):
All right.
Okay, that that takes us.
Just getting into the creepyzone.
All right, to ease nostalgiafor EV buyers.
Specifically, Kia in Finlandcreated a limited edition
fragrance.
Now, this fragrance comes fromMax Pirtula.
Pirtulo.
The scent blends gasoline,motor uh oil, and burning rubber
(31:40):
packages in a tiny red gas canthat you can hang from your rear
view mirror.
I got an EV, but I need tosmell gas.
The quirky campaign highlightshow scent marketing can bridge
the emotional gap betweentraditional cars and modern EVs.
By tapping into the nostalgia,Kia, this is Kia Car Company.
Yeah, I got it.
This is the same thing.
Mike Gorday (32:12):
This is the same thing.
Who does this?
This is the same thing asvegetarian, you know, chicken
nuggets.
Vegetarian chicken nuggets?
Yeah.
What about vegetarian chickennuggets?
No, it's the same thing.
Ody (32:24):
I was gonna say, this is the same company that made the
viral hamster commercials.
Nathan Mumm (32:29):
They did.
Ody (32:30):
So maybe now it's gonna be laughed at?
What are you talking about?
They were all over the house.
Marc Grégoire (32:36):
Weren't they gerbles?
Ody (32:37):
No.
No, they're hamsters.
They were hamsters.
Like life-size hamsters thatwere wearing jumpsuits and
dancing the hip-hop in the caras they're driving.
The Kia Soul.
Like when it was a cube.
Marc Grégoire (32:47):
Yep.
No.
Nathan Mumm (32:48):
Oh my wife loved those.
Ody (32:51):
Oh my god.
Anyway, that was laughed atback in the day.
Nathan Mumm (32:53):
Yep.
And now we still remember itfor marketing.
Yeah.
Ody (32:57):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (32:57):
Yeah.
So these things are hot marketitems.
I looked at it on eBay.
Yeah, this is a good idea.
Somebody had this for sale oneBay for a hundred American
bucks.
Mike Gorday (33:05):
This psychologically, this makes
sense.
I'm not going to argue aboutthis psychologically.
No.
But I th I just think it'sfunny because it's like I said,
it's it's like the wide range ofvegetarian meat products.
Ody (33:19):
Right.
Marc Grégoire (33:19):
That the stuff that's Yeah, but vegetarians
don't eat meat, but they cravethey crave it because meat is
delicious.
We'll throw that out there.
Mike Gorday (33:27):
Okay.
That's that yeah, there we go.
Marc Grégoire (33:29):
So so they want it, but uh who likes a smell of
stinky gasoline from filling upyour car?
Mike Gorday (33:35):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I grew up I grew up I grew upin the 70s, so the smell of gas
is is is like flowers to me.
Oh, okay.
So you so you like so you getit.
Marc Grégoire (33:45):
All right, all right.
Mike Gorday (33:45):
Okay, I I I I wouldn't buy an uh an electric
vehicle.
Sure.
But I wouldn't buy an electricvehicle and then put a gas
smelling air freshener on it.
The benefit of that you I justgo hang out at a gas station.
I go to the ass for free.
Yeah, I just go over to the gasstation and smell my neighbors.
Nathan Mumm (34:05):
To end the segment, who knew the smell of gas can
calm the purchase of a newelectric vehicle?
It's funny.
That is his funny.
Mike Gorday (34:15):
That is tough.
Nathan Mumm (34:16):
All right.
Well, that ends our segment.
Say what?
We're done?
Yeah.
Come on.
Yes.
We're done with the screen, thecrazy stories.
Uh now we're gonna move on toMike's mesmerizing moment.
Marc Grégoire (34:29):
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
Nathan Mumm (34:36):
All right, Mike, explain to me.
From Russia.
Don't be Tom Brady.
All right, Mike, explain to mehow culturally this has become
an an issue.
I I I have some uh Generation Zemployees.
And do you realize that intheir life cycle they expect to
go home and spend anywherebetween one hour to two hours of
(34:59):
gaming per night as a standardprocess of just unplugging?
Marc Grégoire (35:05):
Mike, before you answer, Nathan, you say it's an
issue.
Is it an issue for them or isit an issue for you?
Yeah, I want I want to cover anissue before Mike answers.
Nathan Mumm (35:14):
Well, I I just I I I find that when people now are
making gaming like a part of theroutine, it's not something to
relax about, to have fun in.
They literally it's literallylike a scheduled event to uh do
each and every day.
It's just killing me.
I I just I just don'tunderstand it.
(35:35):
I am completely Alright, Mike.
Mike Gorday (35:37):
You got the clarification.
You take it from here.
Nathan, it's just weird.
Why is that?
Ody (35:42):
Agreed.
Mike Gorday (35:44):
Explain this to me.
This is this is not somethingthat is abnormal.
W Gen Z grew up in thetechnological age.
Gaming is their way of dealingwith stresses and unplugging.
This is so when we were kids,when I was a kid, I would come
home from school and then Iwould go out and play in the
(36:06):
actual real world.
Because we didn't have all thisstuff.
Then when Atari came out, I wascoming home from school and
playing Atari for a couple hoursa day.
Okay.
Okay, so this there's nothingnew about this.
Ody (36:19):
I don't know why it would be a concern to you because you
know you bring up a really goodthing because or good point,
because in the show meeting, mysister who's not a gamer at all,
has uh been asking, Oh, how doI get my hands on a week?
And she's also Gen Z.
We just want to go back anddecompress a little bit, feel a
bit nostalgic.
Mike Gorday (36:39):
Okay, these are these yeah, these are just these
are just all hobbies and copingmechanisms.
Marc Grégoire (36:44):
So Nathan, in your youth, when you're this age
and finished either school orwork and came home, what did you
do?
Read Aristotle?
You you wrote plays?
What did you do?
Well, yeah, that's what that'swhat Ratha.
He sits around, he's gonna be.
What is your issue?
Nathan Mumm (37:16):
What's that?
You're seeing that.
That's right.
Isn't that nice?
Isn't that fantastic?
And look at what above, what doyou have above Pac-Man there?
You got a collectible Barbieand Ken.
Ody (37:26):
Yeah, you're somebody to be talking about that now.
I don't know.
Nathan Mumm (37:33):
You're right.
I watch television.
Ody (37:34):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (37:35):
So I'd watch about an hour.
You rush home from school towatch cartoons.
Ody (37:38):
Oh, so it's the time that they're spending?
Because you're what, an hour?
That's it?
Nathan Mumm (37:43):
Well, I just I just can't believe that video games
is now a process.
Are you joking right now?
Okay, so you're joking when Isay this.
Mike Gorday (37:51):
No, there is an issue.
Okay, there can be an issue.
The issue is if they areplaying video games when they're
supposed to be doing somethingelse.
Okay.
So, like if they're on, like,for instance, a Zoom meeting and
you're playing video games onyour phone instead of being on
the Zoom meeting.
Ody (38:08):
I would prefer they play video games during a Zoom
meeting than going to thebathroom and we can all hear it
and see it.
Mike Gorday (38:13):
So that's true.
No, no, that's that's that'sgold, right?
The lesser of two easy.
That is gold.
If you have somebody, you know,flushing the toilet on your
Zoom meeting, that's gold.
Nathan Mumm (38:23):
So you're saying so you're just saying that I I I
just am struggling with if Iguess you know what, you know,
you're right.
Marc Grégoire (38:28):
You're struggling with their particular
choice because it's not yourparticular choice, but we all
have choices of what how we dode-stress.
Ody (38:35):
When do you play Madden then?
Mike Gorday (38:37):
Or chess.
Ody (38:38):
When do you play chess?
Mike Gorday (38:39):
He plays all the time.
He is always on a video gamewhen he's not working.
Nathan Mumm (38:45):
I guess um continuing on.
So all those that Nathan'sworried about you are Vindicans,
they play games, and I watchtelevision.
Marc Grégoire (38:54):
Nathan Nathan's just trying to get free therapy
here.
Oh, yeah.
He's trying to bash on hisemployees, and they just I was
just they're gonna bash on who'sgonna be.
Ody (39:08):
That's insane! Imagine how much football you watch in a
week.
That's more than what peopleare gaming.
Mike Gorday (39:13):
So, in in in answer, in ads.
Nathan Mumm (39:17):
Let me take this knife out of my back.
Mike Gorday (39:19):
No, no, it's right in the chest.
Right there.
Right there.
In answer to your question,Nathan, this is a you problem,
not a they problem.
Nathan Mumm (39:26):
All right.
Thank you, Mike, for thatmesmerizing moment.
Up next, we have this weekendtechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side as we're
gonna be doing so during thebreak.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, Mike.
Yeah, what's up?
Hey, so you know what?
We need people to start likingour uh social media pages.
Mike Gorday (39:41):
If you like our show, if you really like us, we
could use your support onpatreon.com.
Or is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, Patreon.
If you really like us, you cansay I think English guy's
Patreon.com.
I I butcher the Englishlanguage?
Nathan Mumm (39:55):
You know you butcher the English language.
So it's political.
It's patreon.com.
Mike Gorday (39:59):
Patreon.com.
If you really like if youreally like our show, you can
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Oh, and you can visit us onthat Facebook platform.
You know the one thatZuckerberg owns?
The one that we always bag on?
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Yeah, you can we're on Facebook too.
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It seems to be that there's atrend, and that's Tech Time
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Like and subscribe to our social media.
Nathan Mumm (40:35):
Like us today.
We need you to like us.
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Like us and subscribe.
That's it.
Nathan Mumm (40:39):
That's it.
That's that simple.
Segment (40:42):
And now, let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (40:48):
Alright.
We're going on the WaybackMachine to November 19th, 2006.
Odie's gonna like this.
The Nintendo releases the Wii.
There you go.
See, there you go.
Nintendo releases the Wii ingame console.
Was this on a Zoom call?
No.
To compete with the SonyPlayStation 3 and the Microsoft
Xbox 360 and the Ring, the RedRing of Death.
(41:10):
Man, those things died all thetime.
By forging raw computing power.
Foregoing.
Oh, but foregoing raw, sorry,raw computing power.
And instead having playerinteraction as the primary
reason for the console,utilizing the innovative
motion-sensitive Wii Remotecontroller.
Uh the Wii defined theexpectation and became the
(41:30):
best-selling seventh generationgaming console ever.
Now, you know what?
I I I enjoy the Wii.
I enjoyed Wii sports, Wiibowling.
There was an aspect when theWii came on out, the graphics
were kind of shoddy, but thewhole interaction was amazing.
There was a Toy Story game.
Mike Gorday (41:48):
One of my favorite things was the Wii.
The Wii?
Yeah.
And this is the only consoleI've gone through like many,
many times.
And you still enjoy it?
I s yeah, I still I just don'thave the console anymore.
I just can't keep a hold ofthem or some for some reason.
My kids take them or myapartment burns down or
something.
The apartment burned downthing.
It's only a once I chase it.
(42:11):
I got I got I I had a okay.
I got a Wii when it came out.
Yeah.
Okay, and then my kids got itin in the divorce.
I bought a new Wii when my kidscame over to play.
And then theirs broke, so Igave them that one.
I got another one and it broke.
And I got another one, and myapartment burned down with the
Wii in it.
I'm not getting any more Wii's.
(42:31):
You're not getting any moreWii's?
No, I'm I'm upset about thatbecause I have all these games.
Do you still have the Wiigames?
I still have uh I I managed torescue, I think, four games.
Nathan Mumm (42:42):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (42:42):
All right.
So I didn't lose everything.
Nathan Mumm (42:45):
All right.
Well, that was this week intechnology.
If you ever wanted to watchsome Tech Time history with over
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We're gonna take a commercialbreak.
When we return, we have theMark Mumble whiskey review.
See you after this break.
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Segment (43:28):
The segment we've been waiting all week for.
Mark's Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Grégoire (43:36):
Say what?
Alright.
Yes, Mike.
Say what?
What is today?
November 18th.
I know Odie's been celebrating,and I know you guys are gonna
want to celebrate this.
Here we go.
What are we celebrating today?
Is it Princess Day?
Bingo! Are you serious?
It is National Princess Day.
(43:57):
Are you serious?
Mike Gorday (43:59):
I have no words.
Well, I have words to tell you.
Marc Grégoire (44:04):
Yeah, with your little tiara.
Okay.
Thank you, Odie, for bringingit in for me.
Ody (44:09):
You shine extra bright right now.
Marc Grégoire (44:11):
I had one at home, but my daughter took it
away.
Nathan Mumm (44:13):
Oh, your daughter.
Kind of like Mike's wheeze.
Did you keep on going throughall your different uh princess
outfits?
I know.
I love them.
Marc Grégoire (44:22):
So everyone has a favorite princess.
Mark, real or fictional.
And today is the day to channelthat royal energy.
Okay.
Nathan dreams of being treatedlike one and has been secretly
practicing his royal way sinceepisode 42.
Oh, okay.
And Mike, remember, a dream is awish your heart makes.
So go ahead and wish for thetiara, the glass slippers, and
(44:43):
maybe a foot massage whileyou're at it.
Mike Gorday (44:44):
Where's your where's your show?
Marc Grégoire (44:46):
And make that wish come true.
Mike Gorday (44:47):
Okay.
Mark has a show somewhere thatwe don't know about.
He does.
He does.
Where is it?
OnlyFans?
Nathan Mumm (44:57):
Oh my god.
And you can subscribe for adaily stream and updates.
Like just silent.
Marc Grégoire (45:04):
I gotta make money somehow.
I don't get paid on this show.
Nathan Mumm (45:07):
Yeah.
Nobody gets paid on this show.
You know what?
We do this for the love of theshow.
Yeah.
It's really silent there.
Okay, continuing on.
Marc Grégoire (45:16):
I do this for the love of you, Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (45:17):
Oh, well, thank you so much.
Marc Grégoire (45:19):
All right.
Well, let's let's let's talkhow this day ties into the
whiskey.
Okay.
Can't wait for this one.
She-Ra in the Princess of Powerdropped its fifth and final
season on Netflix in May 2020,the very same month Elijah Craig
barrel-proof B520 hit theshelves.
Mike Gorday (45:36):
Wasn't She-Ra an 80 Saturday morning cartoon?
Did they really come back andShe-Ra did another one?
Ody (45:44):
Are you not paying attention?
Mike Gorday (45:46):
I'm not.
Did they do He-Man?
He-Man Power Up! Isn't thattrue?
Ody (45:51):
Are you guys not listening?
It's Princess Peach.
Isn't this?
Marc Grégoire (45:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Keep on going.
I forgot Mark is a princess.
Princess Peach.
Thank you.
The TR that doesn't sayanything to you.
So this whiskey hit the shelvesright in the middle of global
lockdown.
While most distillers werepausing or cutting releases,
Heaven Hill stuck to theschedule and quietly delivered
what many consider one of thestandout batches of Elijah Craig
barrel proof.
Collectors even nicknamed thisthe dessert bourbon for its rich
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notes of chocolate, caramel,and brown sugar, all perfectly
balanced by a solid oakbackbone.
Backbone.
Now for me, this B520 is adecent pour.
It leans heavily intosweetness, sweetness, and misses
a bit on the overall balance.
The finish is slightlyastringent, leaving it just
short of the depth I usuallyexpect from the series and
(46:38):
keeping it from being one of myfavorites.
Okay.
How's this princesses?
Still a thumb up.
Well, this is just my opinionnow.
Do you put peas in it?
Nathan Mumm (46:45):
Alright, continuing on.
Mike Gorday (46:50):
You didn't understand that reference.
Alright.
Princess and the pea?
Uh I do not.
Oh, the the famous story that'sthe thing.
Nathan Mumm (46:58):
Is that the pea underneath the bed and she can
sleep?
Marc Grégoire (47:00):
But 12 mattresses.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she still felt the peas inthe bed.
Mike, I actually knew about it.
Mike Gorday (47:07):
Okay.
All right.
I can tell you.
Marc Grégoire (47:09):
That was a good reference, Mike.
Mike Gorday (47:10):
I can tell you.
Alright, so did you haveanything else, Mark here?
Catch a seal.
Marc Grégoire (47:14):
I've got nothing more for you, gentlemen.
Hang on.
All right.
Nathan Mumm (47:17):
Well, let's stay right here because we're going
to move right now into thetechnology.
Marc Grégoire (47:20):
Oh, don't we get a pairing?
Nathan Mumm (47:21):
Oh, we do.
Sorry.
Oh, wait.
Technology and whiskey are sucha great pairing.
Like Black Friday deals andoverspending for the holidays.
Is that a good pairing?
No.
Yeah.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Alright, let's prepare for ourtechnology fail of the week.
Congratulations.
Ad (47:39):
You're a failure.
Oh, I failed.
Did I?
Yes.
Did I?
Yes.
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
Alright, this week our technology fail comes to us
from a password mishap at thehome of Mona Lisa.
That's right.
The Louvre, her.
It's got a little R at the endof that.
The Louvre.
The Louvre, but you're supposedto roll that.
Well, you're supposed torenounce it's not an R like
Spanish, but it's an R like theFrench.
That was me trying to do the Rlike the French, according to.
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I spent a bunch of time lookingup how to pronounce this.
All right.
Okay.
The Louvre Museum of Technologyfail in Paris was hit by a
hundred million dollar jewelheist.
Thieves dressed as constructionworkers used a lift to break
into the Apollo gallery andsteal eight pieces of the French
crown jewels in minutes.
Investigators later found themuseum's security cameras were
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protected by the passwordL-O-U-V-R-E, which is the
Louvre.
That was all of their securitycameras.
Everything that ran theirsecurity information from any of
these movies that you would seewith a security camera
break-in.
It doesn't take too much timeto break in when your password
is the name of the buildingitself.
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Experts say the museums havebeen warned about this museum
specifically, and many have beenwarned about weak securities
from years prior.
Now French leaders call thetheft an attack on national
heritage and promise strongerprotections.
In response, Swiss privacycompany Proton is offering
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museums and libraries two yearsof free password protection.
The lesson is simple, though.
In today's world, protectingtreasures means guarding both
security doors and digitalsystems.
You know what?
You can't have your password beI mean, that that that's not
okay.
Mike Gorday (49:31):
This is this is this is the epitome of human
human technology.
Nathan Mumm (49:36):
So they shut down all the cameras in the matter of
seconds.
Mike Gorday (49:40):
Okay, so all right, so that's why it's still a
mystery.
And we want something to beable to move quickly back and
forth between people, like newemployees and stuff.
So using the Louvre as thepassword is makes sense to us
simplistically because we don'tunderstand in an IT forum.
(50:04):
Yeah, in the IT forum.
In IT world had dual factorauthentication.
Marc Grégoire (50:09):
So let me add to that, that does make sense to
the common person.
But as Nathan said in the ITworld.
So I'm gonna do a shout out tothe Louvre.
My wife and I would love tomove to Paris.
You have sh oh, you gotta bleedthat one out.
You have terrible IT.
Um you want to hire your if youneed a new CIO or CTO, uh, my
resume's online.
Do you have their passwordprotection?
Nathan Mumm (50:31):
Well, Proton has just said they just decided to
add onto the marketing sayingwe'll help protect your systems.
Yeah, yeah.
So that is horrible.
So the reason that they'rehaving problems recovering this
is all their security cameraswent down.
They have no footage of thisbecause someone came in to it,
didn't have to hack in like yousee in the movies where they're
gonna be like, it sounds like aninside job.
They had one arrest, right?
Ody (50:51):
Oh, I think I thought it was two, but they arrested two
people, but those people werenot at all attached with it,
from what I've heard.
Nathan Mumm (50:57):
Okay, so they were released.
Ody (50:58):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (50:59):
So you know what?
That just goes to tell you justhave your cameras work.
Let's move on now to ourpassword.
I think that I think the Ithink the password should work.
Password should work.
The password should work.
And write it down on the books.
Ready to do our secret soundlistening.
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Marc Grégoire (51:29):
It's the same sound.
I'm gonna say, if you'relistening right now, you better
go and do what Nathan says toget your 4X because I know
somebody that's gonna take itthis way.
Is it now 20?
Is it 20 minutes?
I got ping that he's like hewants to listen to it one more
time.
Okay, and he's got an idea.
All right, let's do it one moretime.
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You you you got a guy that youknow?
Marc Grégoire (52:02):
Whiskey Chris has been texting me.
He goes, I think I know what itis.
Okay, is this kid?
What's the prize?
What's the prize?
Nathan Mumm (52:09):
Five dollars per day, so that would be 20 bucks
now.
20 bucks?
Yeah, 20 bucks now.
Okay.
Or maybe he waits a week ortwo.
Mike Gorday (52:16):
That's a smart idea.
What's that?
Right?
You think that's a smart ideato raise the stakes by five
bucks?
Five bucks every week.
Okay, five bucks every week.
Marc Grégoire (52:24):
Well, he texted me this past weekend, he thinks
he knows.
He's ruled out because eachweek he had the you know, one
week he had the pinball, and oneweek so he's got him narrowed
down.
So we kind of get he wanted toput it on this past weekend, and
and he was like, Should I waitthough to get to four action?
I said, Yeah, go for it.
Whiskey, Chris, wait for twomore weeks.
Nathan Mumm (52:45):
Okay.
Ten more weeks and they get 10more weeks.
All right, Odie, what are yousaying?
Ody (52:49):
I was gonna say that there's an unofficial cap on it.
We just haven't decided wherethe cap is.
Nathan Mumm (52:53):
Yeah, I think we'll probably cap it out.
Probably like probably I'dprobably go up to a hundred
bucks.
I go up to a hundred.
So how many weeks is that?
Five times uh five times fiveis fifty.
Ody (53:03):
So twenty weeks.
Twenty weeks.
Nathan Mumm (53:05):
There you go.
I go up to twenty weeks, butyou know what?
I hope someone gets it becausewe want to have this be
different things all the time.
I already have the second soundready to go and the third sound
ready to go, so we want it tobe different.
Mike Gorday (53:16):
Okay, well, I think you're I think your business
model needs some adjusting, mybuddy.
Nathan Mumm (53:20):
All right, let's move on to our pick of the day.
Introduction (53:23):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey
tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Nathan Mumm (53:30):
All right, what do we have here, Mark?
Marc Grégoire (53:32):
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B520.
So this was from May 2020 fromHeaven Hill Distillery, straight
bourbon, 12 years old, 127.2proof.
It was 65 when it was released.
Secondary market, you can findabout 175.
Nathan Mumm (53:47):
Uh, absolute thumbs up.
Mike, what do you say?
Marc Grégoire (53:49):
I like I like Elijah Craig, and this is this
is very good.
You ever see a barrel proof?
I always grab one.
Nathan Mumm (53:55):
Is barrel is barrel proof kind of like the the the
highest of of what you do forthe whiskeys?
Is that kind of the uniquecollector's item limited edition
version?
Marc Grégoire (54:04):
No, that's my bottom shelf stuff.
That's your bottom shelf shelf?
It is.
Mike Gorday (54:09):
I think I think I think he's asking what what's
important about barrel proof.
Nathan Mumm (54:12):
Is that is that is barrel proof not is that is that
bottom shelf or is that topshelf?
Almost all my stuff is barrelproof or high proof.
Okay.
That's even your bottom shelf,is what you're saying?
Marc Grégoire (54:21):
Well, Elijah Craig, I love Elijah Craig, I
love the Larseny foolproof.
Those are just staples.
Okay.
That's my bottom shelf staples.
Anyone wants to know why it'scalled barrel proof?
Because they bottle up thebarrel proof.
Okay, okay.
Nathan Mumm (54:34):
Self-explanatory.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Well, you know what?
From one Star Wars fan toanother.
unknown (54:41):
Right?
Nathan Mumm (54:42):
You must be talking to Mike.
Yeah.
Marc Grégoire (54:45):
We talk Star Trek.
Now we're talking.
Nathan Mumm (54:47):
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Listeners, we want to hear fromyou, especially with the secret
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All right.
You know what?
Tomorrow starts with thetechnology of today.
We'll see you next week.
Later.
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Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:32):
All right, welcome to Tech Time Radio.
Guess what we have today?
We have our favorite segment,and we have a secret sound that
we need to have people startguessing.
Our favorite new segment is SayWhat?
Say what?
Okay, okay.
That's why we're making it allright.
Yeah.
Now we have our standardfeatures, including Mike's
mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan Nugget, and ofcourse our pick of the day,
(01:53):
whiskey tasting.
The CFR selected whiskey pickgets zero, one or two thumbs up
at the end of the show.
But now it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology.
Introduction (02:04):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (02:07):
All right, story number one Valve turns up the
heat as Steam Machine reignitesthe console worlds.
Let's go to Lisa Walker formore on this.
Lisa Walker (02:16):
Valve's new gaming device, built to be entirely
wireless and streaming first,claims to deliver sharper
visuals by focusing processingpower only where the user looks.
Industry watchers note thetiming is strategic as Microsoft
leans into Game Passsubscriptions, and Sony fans
await news of a PS5 successor.
(02:37):
Whether Valve can turn its PCempire into a console success
story will be tested when theSteam machine hits shelves in
early 2026.
Is this on anyone's purchaselist?
Back to you guys in the studio.
Nathan Mumm (02:51):
The Steam Deck came out, right?
Steam trying to compete withthe handheld market.
And they actually have donevery successful with the Steam
Deck.
And I purchased one of theseand I've been very happy with
the device itself.
Mike Gorday (03:02):
Do you still use that or does it still sit in
your desk drive?
Nathan Mumm (03:05):
Well, I used it pretty aggressively, and then
all of a sudden I have thisthing called children.
And when they want to buysomething and they don't have
any money, they come on over andthey take their father's item
so that they can play with itand then pretend that it's
theirs.
Mike Gorday (03:17):
Okay.
You're seriously throwing yourchildren under the bus because
absolutely.
Nathan Mumm (03:20):
Because they're actually using it now.
Oh, so let's talk about this.
So the new Steam machine is ahybrid design PC that is
supposed to plug into yourliving room television or big
screen or your projector TV.
It's a sleek black cube.
It looks just like almost kindof an Xbox X.
It's a big, tall tower that'sblack, powered by SteamOS and
(03:41):
AMD graphics, promises 4Kresolution at 60 frames per
second, and also can be doubledas a full-time computer.
The problem with computers andtelevisions is there have always
been all those cables you haveto plug into your TV.
You know what?
So you end up just having amonitor that you use for your
computer and your TV for yourentertainment system.
Steam thinks now is the time,and they are going to come out
(04:02):
with a device that has theability to provide your Steam
games on your television.
The big question I have thoughis the hardware that's actually
being announced is only comingon out with 8 gigabytes of
dedicated VRAM for video, andmost blockbuster games require
12 gigabytes.
So that looks like the videocard, which is probably one of
(04:22):
the most important aspects ofany of these gaming machines, is
going to be a littleunderpowered.
So I have some concerns here,Mike, because uh if you if you
game and you're not at the mostwell, it depends on if you're a
console gamer or a PC gamer.
Okay.
So but if you're if you're ifyou're trying to compete in the
console market on your bigscreen TV, I think you have to
(04:43):
have those graphics up there sothat you can do those 60 frames
per second first-person shootergames that are going to be
there.
But let's talk about the Steammachine because Valve in 2014
tried to release a console.
It was an actual device.
I bought one of those and itdid not work at all.
You'd have to have yourcomputer connect to that device,
and then that device wasconnected to your TV.
(05:04):
And the lag on that was justimpossible to play on offline
games, let alone any onlinegames.
But now they think that theyhave the ability to do it.
They do think the price isgonna probably be higher than
that $499 price point, whichthat I think is kind of the key.
That $499, $500 price point isaccepted in the industry for a
(05:24):
console machine.
Mike Gorday (05:26):
These are established consoles, though.
Those are these are not brandnew people trying to enter the
market.
Nathan Mumm (05:31):
Okay.
So do you think that you wouldyou pay a little bit more for a
PC?
Mike Gorday (05:34):
Absolutely not.
Nathan Mumm (05:35):
Okay, you wouldn't.
So you would you would actuallyask them to probably be a
little lower than the $499processor price.
Mike Gorday (05:41):
Yeah, if they want to, if they want me to try out
their console, it can't behigher than my, you know, my
Xbox or my PlayStation.
Nathan Mumm (05:51):
Okay, well, you know what?
They have 25 million onlinedaily users with more with no
more than 6 million gamers givenat any time on their platform
system.
So they do have a pretty largeplatform of users that are using
their system.
Now it's interesting that theconsole war, let's let's kind of
talk about that.
So PlayStation 5 now hits itsfifth anniversary, and Sony says
(06:12):
that there's plenty of life inthe old dog.
We used to every five yearshave a brand new console, right?
So we'd have a brand new devicethat would come on out back in
the Sega time when Sega was uhavailable as a console.
Every five years ColecoVision.
Mike Gorday (06:26):
Remember Coleco?
Nathan Mumm (06:27):
Coleco Atari and television.
I mean, so it was like afive-year, we got kind of bored
after five years.
We wanted something new, butguess what?
PlayStation hits theiranniversary and they have no
news on the PlayStation 6anywhere in sight.
It's interesting because if youalso look at Microsoft,
Microsoft is taking a big leapin deciding that they're not
(06:48):
even really focusing on the nextgeneration of gaming, they're
moving everything to the onlinemarket with all of their online
subscription services and theirwhole streaming service to play.
So I think Steam has anopportunity to jump in here.
I don't know if Valve is gonnahave the ability to price the
console at the right price toget into that early market.
(07:10):
So I I I do have some concernsabout that, but they do promise
the Steam machine in early of2026.
So without PlayStation 6anywhere near, this may be the
new console people buy and giveit a shot.
Mike Gorday (07:22):
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't I don't really see thatbeing uh a huge deal there.
Nathan Mumm (07:26):
You don't think you know you you'd rather play
Steam on your computer?
Mike Gorday (07:29):
Yeah.
Okay.
For anybody, I I mean, I'm nota I'm not a gamer gamer, I just
use a laptop, but you know, I'vegot friends who have these
elaborate setups.
Okay.
And they've got multiplescreens and they're using their
PC and they use Steam throughtheir PC, right?
Yep.
Um what happens what happenswhen they go console and
(07:52):
suddenly all the licensing goespaywre because they're now
trying to license stuff simplyfor the exclusivity of the Steam
console, right?
Nathan Mumm (08:02):
Oh, you're saying it's uh so you mean like with
Sony and Microsoft haveexclusive titles?
You're worried that they'regonna be able to do that.
Yeah, what happens what happensthen?
Oh so Microsoft could d delayand not release anything on PC
for a while, right?
Mike Gorday (08:15):
So I don't I don't really think that Steam's gonna
make a big dent in the consolemarket.
Nathan Mumm (08:20):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (08:24):
You know, I like the idea of the Steam Deck, uh,
but I didn't get one.
Nathan Mumm (08:27):
So you're saying forget it.
Uh you're not buying it.
I I'm not gonna get one.
No.
All right, all right.
Odie, would you buy a uh aSteam console machine?
Let's say it's 700 bucks.
Ody (08:37):
Seeing that I was fighting over the Nintendo Switch 2, no.
Also, I don't think I've everused a Steam Deck.
I know you were talking andraving about it like two years
ago, but Yeah.
Mike Gorday (08:47):
Yeah, it was just cool.
It was cool.
It was kind of cool.
It was a portable way to play.
It was it was really bigcompared to the Switch, but it
is, and it's a kind of a bulky.
I kind of like the bulkiness ofit.
Ody (08:57):
I will say that before our show meeting, I did have a
friend reach out to me and andsent me a link to that article,
like, oh, they're coming outwith a console.
Are you guys talking about it?
So it is viral.
Nathan Mumm (09:08):
It is viral, it's in the news.
Ody (09:09):
It is big.
I just don't think it's gonnado well.
Nathan Mumm (09:12):
The the the big questions in the community is
one, can you upgrade the videoadapter after you purchase it?
So if it is a PC, can you feelPC, can you?
Yeah, well, that's so that'sunknown, right?
So it could be that it's allinclusive into the architecture
and you can't add a video card.
If they really want to makethis work, they need to be able
to come out with maybe evenproprietary video card spaces
(09:34):
and slots and different areasthat maybe only it's built for
that device, but you need to beable to upgrade.
I don't think when you buy acomputer, uh especially like a
desktop computer, that you don'tever think that that you're
just buying the one unit.
You're always looking at whatyou can upgrade.
Mike Gorday (09:46):
Well, that's the that's the problem with buying a
uh gaming laptop, right?
Because you can't upgradestuff.
Nathan Mumm (09:52):
You can't.
Mike Gorday (09:54):
You don't have to just go buy a new a new computer
every couple of years.
Nathan Mumm (09:58):
Uh every five years.
Mike Gorday (09:59):
There you go.
Nathan Mumm (09:59):
All right, what do you got for story number two
here, Mike?
Mike Gorday (10:02):
Well, you know, I'm having trouble.
Ody (10:04):
They're at it again, man.
They're at it again.
Mike Gorday (10:07):
Okay, so last last week we talked about the cop
with his pants down, right?
On Zoom.
Yeah, you did.
Apparently nobody saw thatbecause this week a council
meeting goes down the drain,literally.
Okay.
Tell me about this.
Okay, well, this week inGlasgow, a city council meeting
flushed away its uh way into theheadlines thanks to a very
(10:27):
forgetful webcam.
Councilor Hannif Raja, whorepresented Polo Pollock
Shields, accidentally livestreamed his bathroom break
during a planning session.
The meeting was supposed to beabout a battery storage system,
but viewers got an unscheduleddemo of human storage capacity.
(10:47):
Oh right.
Okay.
Colleagues quickly warned him,but not before the clip spread
across social media faster thanthe I'm not a cat video.
The council has since pulledthe footage, promising to
re-upload once the comfort breakis edited out.
Roger explained he needsregular breaks due to his
diabetes, but the technicallesson here is universal.
(11:08):
Always check your mutant cameratoggles before you step away
from your computer.
Think of it like cybersecurity.
As he left an open portbroadcasting unintended data to
the entire network.
Remote meetings blur the linebetween professional and
personal space, which we talkeda little bit about last last
week.
Yep.
Uh but uh webcams can turn intoaccidental accidental
(11:30):
surveillance devices in aheartbeat.
Uh the moral of the story is uhdon't don't use the bathroom
when you're on a Zoom meeting.
You think you think?
Yeah.
Okay.
And don't forget that you're Imean, this is this is one of the
problems with our technology isthat when we get so comfortable
with it that we we're engagingin normal human behavior when
(11:51):
we're supposed to be payingattention.
We talked a little bit aboutthis last week as well.
Yeah.
That we start doing thingsunconsciously not realizing that
we're still on a meeting.
You know, this is somethingthat you wouldn't do in a
professional event.
In-person meeting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're in a per in-personmeeting.
(12:12):
But here you can, you know,often carry around your devices
and and whatnot.
And you know, getting caught onthe toilet is not as uncommon
as we're making it out to be.
Nathan Mumm (12:29):
Maybe he was just, you know, it was a planning
meeting, so maybe he was justthinking on his throne, you
think?
Mike Gorday (12:33):
You know, I don't I don't know anything about this
guy, so I'm not gonna I'm notgonna Did you ever sit on the
toilet and that's where you'relike your thinking spot?
Where are we talking about?
I don't know.
I I just showing.
So yeah.
So uh he should have watchedlast week's show and clearly he
didn't behaved accordingly.
Nathan Mumm (12:53):
Alrighty.
Okay, well let's go to storynumber three.
Think your hotel booking issafe?
Oh no.
Russian hackers have justturned your vacation into their
payday.
Ugh.
Russian hackers have cooked upmore than 4,300 fake travel
sites this year as we're headinginto the holidays.
It sends phishing emails thatlook like urgent booking
confirmation, tricking guestsinto handing over credit cards
(13:15):
and more with sites that mimiclike booking.com, expedia.com,
Airbnb, complete with logos andeven fake captures and logins.
Hey, I think I got one of thesein my email the other day.
I did it too, uh, as a matterof fact.
I got one and it was an Expediaknockoff.
What was yours?
I think it was Airbnb.
Okay, all right.
But you know what?
What's that?
(13:35):
I didn't click on sh you don'tclick on that link.
Don't click on those links.
So what happens is once thevictim types in their payment
information, the crook skims theinstant credit card, pretending
that it's running a secureverification and then takes
money out of your account forwhatever price point they put
in.
Researchers say the scam ismultilingual, automated, and
(13:56):
basically phishing as a servicefor the hospitality industry.
So if your inbox screams,confirm now or lose your room,
it might be a hacker trying tocheck you in.
So be careful.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, we have our mostinteresting news segment.
Say what next.
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Okay, all right.
Welcome back to Tech Time withNate the Mum.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
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We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor in less
than 60 minutes, and of course,with a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, Mark Gregois, ourwhiskey connoisseurs in studio.
What do we have that we'resipping today, Mark?
Marc Grégoire (15:33):
Today we're sipping a little throwback.
Okay, is Elijah CraigBarrelproof B520 from Elijah
Craig's website.
Sip barrelproof is toexperience bourbon in its purest
form, uncut, straight from thebarrel, and without chill
filtering.
Each bottle has an agestatement, proof, and batch
number, allowing for subtlenuances from batch to batch.
But the nose, taste, and finishare pure Elijah Craig.
(15:55):
Vanilla, oak, bacon spices,caramel, and a hint of dark
chocolate.
So this bottle is from HeavenHill Distillery from their uh
Bardstown, Kentucky distillery.
It's a straight bourbon.
It's 12, it's a minimum of 12years old.
This particular bottle is 127.2proof, and their mash bill is
78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10%rye.
(16:18):
This bottle was $65 when it wasreleased back in uh roughly May
of ninth of 2020.
Okay.
Um, but right now it goes for$175.
True.
Nathan Mumm (16:30):
So did you have this on your shelf?
Marc Grégoire (16:31):
Yeah, it's my bottle.
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (16:33):
I I I didn't know if you've you've had it on there
since that time, or did youjust buy it recently?
Marc Grégoire (16:37):
Uh no, I have not had it since that time.
I picked up from a friend a fewyears back.
Okay.
All right.
He had it opened already andwas trying to clear out his
closet.
So I said, sure, I'll take it.
Is that how you get a lot ofyour whiskey?
Different ways.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (16:51):
Okay.
Marc Grégoire (16:52):
All right.
Nathan Mumm (16:52):
I need I need friends with opening bottles of
lights, man.
I I don't question it.
All right, Mark.
Well, you know that that'sfantastic.
Okay.
Well, now I I I like ElijahCraig, but I wonder if this is
the one that I didn't likepreviously.
Is it have I tasted thisbefore?
No, you have not.
Okay, all right.
That was I I was I there's Iguess maybe one bottle I didn't
like, but I like this one.
Ody (17:13):
Are you traumatized now that you're gonna miss something
that you did like previously?
Nathan Mumm (17:17):
Yeah, you know, I have well, I got Mark here, so I
gotta be, I gotta be on top ofthings just to make sure.
So I I I kind of pre- He saidhe got it from a friend, so that
could be a change.
Mike Gorday (17:26):
I think what Mark, you need to do is put them in
different glasses becauseapparently that changes his
palate.
Nathan Mumm (17:30):
Is that is that what it is?
All right, okay.
With our whiskey tastingcompleted, let's move on to our
feature segment today.
We have strange but truestories about technology.
Mark is our special guestsegment that he adds into very
exclusive insights on each oneof these articles.
So let's let's start our nextsegment.
Segment (17:52):
Say what again?
Say what again?
I dare you, I double daddy, paywhat one time.
Mike Gorday (17:59):
All right, so I just watched that movie
yesterday.
Nathan Mumm (18:02):
Did you really?
Yeah, okay.
Well, there you go.
All right.
Well, a football star clonedhis dog instead of rescuing
what?
Say what?
That's right.
So there you go, Mark.
The seven times Super Bowlchamp Tom Brady revealed that he
had his late pit bull mixcloned through Colossal
(18:24):
Bioscience.
Mike Gorday (18:25):
It started.
Nathan Mumm (18:26):
A company where rich people do stupid things.
It started.
A company he also advises afterdropping 50k for this process.
Uh, will Bradley's call it asecond chance as it's really
just a pricey genetic copy thatignores millions of sheltered
dogs waiting in homes today,with over 164,000 dogs
(18:51):
euthanized in U.S.
shelters alone this year.
Cloning feels more like abranding stunt than compassion.
So let's talk about this.
Mike Gorday (19:02):
The first thing I want to know is why is Tom Brady
advising a genetic company?
What is that about?
Ody (19:08):
He's bored.
That's really what it comesdown to.
He's not in football anymore,right?
Nathan Mumm (19:13):
Well, he doesn't announce him.
He doesn't announce.
So he's bored.
Mike Gorday (19:16):
I'm gonna claim he doesn't announce.
I want to know what what headvises on.
Does he advise on games?
Nathan Mumm (19:25):
Well, he might well he has a lot of protein shakes
and he's got like this thispower.
So maybe he goes into thiscompany.
So what that means is insteadof paying him money to do
something, they have him as anadvisor, and then he paid him
50k to clone a dog.
Now, it's interesting because Iactually read way more into
this cloning than probablyshould have been.
So they actually had the theychanged the DNA, the genetic DNA
(19:50):
after another dog was pregnant.
So they had a fetus inside adog, and then they put the
genetic markers in after theattempt to clone this dog.
So they altered the existingdog that was there so it now has
these genetic markers.
Is I i is that I mean, this isthe beginning, isn't it?
Marc Grégoire (20:11):
Isn't that what they did with your mammoth
stories?
Yeah, this is what they'retrying to do with mammoths.
Yeah, that's the crisper stuffthat James talks about.
Nathan Mumm (20:18):
So this is changed, it changed the original DNA of
the dog that was in there, so hecan now have a clone dog.
But it's not his dog, it's not,and it's gonna have different
growing up processes is hebought it.
There's nature versus nurture,which is a big difference,
right?
So the nurturing is never gonnabe the same, right?
So it's not gonna be the samedog.
Mike Gorday (20:37):
I mean, okay, we can get into all the
philosophical things about this,but I still want to know how
paying fifty thousand dollars toa company you advise is is any
good.
Nathan Mumm (20:48):
Well, it probably costs them that much to do the
work to clone the dog.
Mike Gorday (20:53):
I'm I'm I'm guessing that there's a lot of
people up the back.
Nathan Mumm (20:55):
How do you really know?
The other thing I was thinkingabout as I was doing the
research of this, how do youreally know that that genetic
cloning actually worked?
You you may not even know that,right?
The dog comes on out, you'relike, oh, it didn't work, but
hey, the dog comes on out.
It looks like your old dog.
Oh, yeah, it's just my old dog.
I mean, I don't know there,right?
Marc Grégoire (21:11):
You run a genetic test and pay another
50,000.
Nathan Mumm (21:14):
There you go.
Marc Grégoire (21:15):
All right.
We just entered a new timeline.
Nathan Mumm (21:17):
All right.
Well, we're moving on to thenext story.
Are you ready?
For this, Mark.
Oh, absolutely, Nathan.
Yeah, he heard Russia's firsthumanoid robot face planted at
its debut.
Marc Grégoire (21:31):
What?
Say what?
There you go.
All right.
Nathan Mumm (21:35):
Startup Adal unveiled the AI-powered humanoid
in Moscow, only for the machineto topple mid-demo as Rocky's
theme blared in the background.
Yeah, what's funny, dude?
Watch that.
I did watch that later.
It looked like a joke.
I did.
It looked like, and then theyhave the guy with the black with
the turn.
He's trying to get the blackcurtain up saying, you didn't
(21:57):
see this here, man.
I didn't think happened.
Marc Grégoire (21:58):
I don't think we can describe this good enough.
Our listeners have to go watchthis video.
Nathan Mumm (22:02):
They do.
Absolutely.
All you gotta do is uh take alook at uh Russian Russian robot
fall.
Uh fall.
There you go.
That would perfect.
Uh the company says the stumbleis part of the challenges of
dynamic stabilization.
Does Tom Brady advise thiscompany too?
You know, he doesn't haveproblems standing up, even when
he's totally drunk.
He still figures out how to doit.
(22:23):
A core uh hurdle in buildingrobots that can walk, balance,
and interact like humans,despite the viral flop.
Adult touts its bots' facialexpressions and offline context
aware dialogue, it'sbreakthroughs in Russian
robotic.
Ody (22:39):
I don't remember seeing any of that.
Nathan Mumm (22:40):
No, I didn't either.
There isn't any of that.
Mike Gorday (22:43):
Nope.
That's propaganda right there.
That's what that's that's likeChina saying.
Nathan Mumm (22:49):
Are you really are you really worried about Russia
in the space race of uh uh uhthe robot race when the robot
comes on out and does a faceplant and looks like something
like it literally looked like itwas 10 years old technology?
Ody (23:03):
I went I wanted to ask about that.
Why are they making it sosmall?
Nathan Mumm (23:06):
It was steampunk.
So I I I I have I have no idea,and it looks like a reject that
you would have seen at likeCES, like eight or ten years
ago, and they took the robot therobot back and then they said,
Okay, now we're gonna do some ofour own customization, and then
they demo it, and it stilldoesn't work.
I have seen better stuff fromstartup companies at the
consumer electronic show yearsago.
(23:28):
Years ago.
Well, it's definitely not thesame robot that you can buy to
do your dishes.
It's not for only 20k.
I mean, that one moves aroundall over every yeah, as long as
you have a guy wearing a suitsomewhere else offline.
All right.
Okay, well, we're moving on tothe next story.
These stories get better andbetter as we go.
A Florida woman found her homelisted as a garage repair
(23:50):
company.
Oh say what that's right, Mark.
Brookville resident LaurieGreen discovered that Level
Garage Door LLC had posted heraddress, complete with a photo
of her house on its website.
Though the state has sincedissolved the company, its
online listing still directsstrangers to her dead end
(24:10):
street, raising safety andprivacy concerns.
Investigators say that thebusiness isn't licensed, and the
better bus better businessbureau warns of a growing trend.
As many shady companies arehijacking other people's homes
address to look legit.
Marc Grégoire (24:27):
Wow.
This is this is cruel andunusual.
It is.
Just think of that.
Nathan Mumm (24:31):
I mean so I mean, what if you did like uh hey,
come and and and we're a coffeeservice or we're this type of
service, or you try to sellsomething where people actually
come on up and knock and say,hey, how about dog clones?
Mike Gorday (24:42):
Yeah, there you go.
Nathan Mumm (24:43):
Well, well, I I I could be rich people coming.
Mike Gorday (24:48):
Yeah.
What's that?
The rich people coming overover there.
Okay.
All right.
Well, here's I wonder if ParisHilton's gonna do that.
Paris Hilton's gonna put out afake address?
No, clone her dogs.
Nathan Mumm (24:59):
Well, it's interesting because I she has a
lot of purses, man.
Wait, we we do.
Um, so let's talk about theaddress thing.
So I look at a couple, so I doan event once a year, and a lot
of times the address of theevent is at a different place.
So there's actually safeguardsin place when I say, here's the
event that's going on, here'sthe address, it's not at my
(25:20):
place, it's not a businessplace, it's at a community uh
large arena type event event.
There's steps you have to gothrough.
Google will have to verify iton the streets to send a
postcard.
So I don't understand how thishappened.
Mike Gorday (25:33):
This is just an this is no normal thing.
This is like, you know, havinga post office box and a
home-based business, and youcall your post office sweet
something or other.
Okay.
Right?
This is people have been doingthis forever.
Marc Grégoire (25:46):
Yeah, but this is different.
They the this company took aninnocent person's data and
pretended to be theirs.
Mike Gorday (25:53):
Yeah, yeah, I get it.
They they wanted to have somehomespun look on their website
and have a physical address forfor people to think of think of,
and they want there's this nicehome.
Marc Grégoire (26:04):
You think of people driving up to the house.
There's very very, very cheapways.
So back when I was independentcontractor, I I there's a third
party people you that you hirethat you can put you put in
their address of that law firm,and that's what gets published
as public.
Yep.
So I can go to UPS store.
Crazy people can't find you andUPS store.
Nathan Mumm (26:24):
I can go to the UPS store and I can have a uh P.O.
box through them.
Yeah, that's an actual streetaddress.
Marc Grégoire (26:29):
That's a street address.
Well, the street.
These people, these people justgrab some random person's
information, even took a pictureof her house.
Yeah, I'm not her house.
Mike Gorday (26:37):
I'm not condoning this behavior.
I'm just saying that this isjust normal stuff.
I'm sure I how many times havewe looked at some of these uh
things on the letters?
Yeah.
Where we've looked up theaddress and they're like empty
lots.
Yeah, or a four-lease building.
Four-lease buildings all thetime.
All the time.
Nathan Mumm (26:54):
All right.
Here we go.
Continuing on.
A glitch in the payrollsoftware allowed a factory
worker to get everyone'spaycheck by mistake.
And now he won't give it back.
Marc Grégoire (27:06):
Say, say, say, say, say, si, si, say what
that's right.
Nathan Mumm (27:09):
Vladimir Rycher, buddy.
Opened his banking app to finduh $87,000 instead of his usual
$580, thanks to a payroll glitchthat sent him the salaries of
34 co-workers.
Now he's refused to return themoney, arguing that the deposit
looked like his salary, and evenbought a car, moved away, and
(27:33):
bought a new house before hisaccounts were frozen.
Mike Gorday (27:36):
This is some this is somebody who who you know
think thinks ahead of the curve.
Nathan Mumm (27:42):
So I mean, he's like, oh, look, I got him
through a thousand dollars.
He pieced out.
He's like, I respect him forthat.
Mike Gorday (27:49):
You do?
Do you?
Ody (27:50):
Yeah.
I'm thinking that they're gonnado the opportunity.
Marc Grégoire (27:54):
Yeah, I'm thinking they're 34 co-workers
that got their torches andpitchforks.
It ruins his court case becausehe claimed he just thought it
was his salary, like a bonus.
Mike Gorday (28:03):
But when you get a bonus, you don't just eighty
seven thousand dollars.
Marc Grégoire (28:08):
I guess he for a week.
He retired.
He retired.
Nathan Mumm (28:11):
We yeah.
Well I think that's anotherterm for the company's coming
after him and asked him for hismoney back, and he denied to
pay.
Like no.
So now they've had to go tocourts.
Marc Grégoire (28:20):
Well, what does the internet say to do?
What does the internet say todo?
Chat GPT.
Well, you know what?
Nathan Mumm (28:26):
There's a couple there's a couple different
things.
Marc Grégoire (28:29):
I'm not sure the internet has a we don't go to a
lawyer, we go to the internet.
We go to the internet, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (28:34):
That's right, that's right.
Well yeah, what's the subredditsay, buddy?
A lot of people are f in favorof him because it was listed as
salary and figured, you know,that it's well worth it.
Now the company ended up havingto pay the other 34 uh
co-workers because they gotpaid.
So this is a weekly payment ofyou know, it makes about five
hundred and eighty bucks a week.
Mike Gorday (28:53):
He may you know, there is something to be said
for for arguing that he shouldget to keep that money, you
know, because if the companymade a mistake, why shouldn't
he?
Okay.
Right?
Yeah, you know, but thenthere's the other thing where,
like, well, you know, youweren't supposed to earn that
money, so you need to be a goodguy and give it back instead of
(29:13):
being like, nope, I'm gonna gobuy it.
Nathan Mumm (29:14):
Well, guess where this guess where this uh
happened at?
The same country that justtried that failed robot.
Mike Gorday (29:19):
Yeah, arrest the Supreme Court.
This guy was probably a robot.
Yes, that was the robot, right?
The robot that took the money.
Marc Grégoire (29:27):
Well, that that would have been a good thing.
He must have been one of thelower paid at this because if
it's 87,000, there's 34co-workers.
If you do the math, they're makeverybody else is on average is
making almost four times whathe was making.
Nathan Mumm (29:40):
Oh, so he's like he's like the janitor and all
these things.
These are all middle level linegames.
Marc Grégoire (29:45):
Yeah, what you okay.
So if they yeah, it's I couldsee why they he would be like,
yep, this is or most of theworkers are making the low
salary, and there's a couple ofhigh end people.
Nathan Mumm (29:54):
Well, Russia's Supreme Court now has this on
their docket to take a look andsee what happens in this high
stakes.
Legal battle.
Ody (30:00):
How does that even happen?
That's such a big like screw upfor somebody.
Nathan Mumm (30:04):
So it's like a whole department.
So a whole department didn'tget their paychecks and they got
sent to him.
So the other question I'm at inold Russia, the Russia that I
grew up with, he would still notbe walking around on this
earth.
Oh no.
So he's still walking around.
Yeah, he would have been afrozen tundra.
And now he's still walkingaround taking care of his.
Mike Gorday (30:24):
But this is what happens in the in the states.
If the government, if thegovernment overpays you, they
just take it back.
They don't give a crap how itaffects your lifestyle.
That is correct.
They just they're just like,eh, we've overpaid you for like
eight years.
Yep.
So we're taking it all backlike yesterday.
All right.
Marc Grégoire (30:40):
We'll have to come back to the story after the
Supreme Court rules.
Nathan Mumm (30:43):
You want to take a look at it again?
Oh, yeah.
All right, okay.
Well, here's our next story.
We have more.
Kia is giving EV drivers aspecial new smelling air
freshener.
Nice.
Marc Grégoire (30:55):
See, I told you.
I told you.
No, no, that's I told you.
That's no say what on that.
Mike Gorday (31:01):
He should be.
Hey, Mark, do you likegasoline?
Well, hang on now.
What?
For the what?
Marc Grégoire (31:10):
That's how that works, man.
That's how that works.
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
Nathan Mumm (31:16):
All right.
Okay, that that takes us.
Just getting into the creepyzone.
All right, to ease nostalgiafor EV buyers.
Specifically, Kia in Finlandcreated a limited edition
fragrance.
Now, this fragrance comes fromMax Pirtula.
Pirtulo.
The scent blends gasoline,motor uh oil, and burning rubber
(31:40):
packages in a tiny red gas canthat you can hang from your rear
view mirror.
I got an EV, but I need tosmell gas.
The quirky campaign highlightshow scent marketing can bridge
the emotional gap betweentraditional cars and modern EVs.
By tapping into the nostalgia,Kia, this is Kia Car Company.
Yeah, I got it.
This is the same thing.
Mike Gorday (32:12):
This is the same thing.
Who does this?
This is the same thing asvegetarian, you know, chicken
nuggets.
Vegetarian chicken nuggets?
Yeah.
What about vegetarian chickennuggets?
No, it's the same thing.
Ody (32:24):
I was gonna say, this is the same company that made the
viral hamster commercials.
Nathan Mumm (32:29):
They did.
Ody (32:30):
So maybe now it's gonna be laughed at?
What are you talking about?
They were all over the house.
Marc Grégoire (32:36):
Weren't they gerbles?
Ody (32:37):
No.
No, they're hamsters.
They were hamsters.
Like life-size hamsters thatwere wearing jumpsuits and
dancing the hip-hop in the caras they're driving.
The Kia Soul.
Like when it was a cube.
Marc Grégoire (32:47):
Yep.
No.
Nathan Mumm (32:48):
Oh my wife loved those.
Ody (32:51):
Oh my god.
Anyway, that was laughed atback in the day.
Nathan Mumm (32:53):
Yep.
And now we still remember itfor marketing.
Yeah.
Ody (32:57):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (32:57):
Yeah.
So these things are hot marketitems.
I looked at it on eBay.
Yeah, this is a good idea.
Somebody had this for sale oneBay for a hundred American
bucks.
Mike Gorday (33:05):
This psychologically, this makes
sense.
I'm not going to argue aboutthis psychologically.
No.
But I th I just think it'sfunny because it's like I said,
it's it's like the wide range ofvegetarian meat products.
Ody (33:19):
Right.
Marc Grégoire (33:19):
That the stuff that's Yeah, but vegetarians
don't eat meat, but they cravethey crave it because meat is
delicious.
We'll throw that out there.
Mike Gorday (33:27):
Okay.
That's that yeah, there we go.
Marc Grégoire (33:29):
So so they want it, but uh who likes a smell of
stinky gasoline from filling upyour car?
Mike Gorday (33:35):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I grew up I grew up I grew upin the 70s, so the smell of gas
is is is like flowers to me.
Oh, okay.
So you so you like so you getit.
Marc Grégoire (33:45):
All right, all right.
Mike Gorday (33:45):
Okay, I I I I wouldn't buy an uh an electric
vehicle.
Sure.
But I wouldn't buy an electricvehicle and then put a gas
smelling air freshener on it.
The benefit of that you I justgo hang out at a gas station.
I go to the ass for free.
Yeah, I just go over to the gasstation and smell my neighbors.
Nathan Mumm (34:05):
To end the segment, who knew the smell of gas can
calm the purchase of a newelectric vehicle?
It's funny.
That is his funny.
Mike Gorday (34:15):
That is tough.
Nathan Mumm (34:16):
All right.
Well, that ends our segment.
Say what?
We're done?
Yeah.
Come on.
Yes.
We're done with the screen, thecrazy stories.
Uh now we're gonna move on toMike's mesmerizing moment.
Marc Grégoire (34:29):
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
Nathan Mumm (34:36):
All right, Mike, explain to me.
From Russia.
Don't be Tom Brady.
All right, Mike, explain to mehow culturally this has become
an an issue.
I I I have some uh Generation Zemployees.
And do you realize that intheir life cycle they expect to
go home and spend anywherebetween one hour to two hours of
(34:59):
gaming per night as a standardprocess of just unplugging?
Marc Grégoire (35:05):
Mike, before you answer, Nathan, you say it's an
issue.
Is it an issue for them or isit an issue for you?
Yeah, I want I want to cover anissue before Mike answers.
Nathan Mumm (35:14):
Well, I I just I I I find that when people now are
making gaming like a part of theroutine, it's not something to
relax about, to have fun in.
They literally it's literallylike a scheduled event to uh do
each and every day.
It's just killing me.
I I just I just don'tunderstand it.
(35:35):
I am completely Alright, Mike.
Mike Gorday (35:37):
You got the clarification.
You take it from here.
Nathan, it's just weird.
Why is that?
Ody (35:42):
Agreed.
Mike Gorday (35:44):
Explain this to me.
This is this is not somethingthat is abnormal.
W Gen Z grew up in thetechnological age.
Gaming is their way of dealingwith stresses and unplugging.
This is so when we were kids,when I was a kid, I would come
home from school and then Iwould go out and play in the
(36:06):
actual real world.
Because we didn't have all thisstuff.
Then when Atari came out, I wascoming home from school and
playing Atari for a couple hoursa day.
Okay.
Okay, so this there's nothingnew about this.
Ody (36:19):
I don't know why it would be a concern to you because you
know you bring up a really goodthing because or good point,
because in the show meeting, mysister who's not a gamer at all,
has uh been asking, Oh, how doI get my hands on a week?
And she's also Gen Z.
We just want to go back anddecompress a little bit, feel a
bit nostalgic.
Mike Gorday (36:39):
Okay, these are these yeah, these are just these
are just all hobbies and copingmechanisms.
Marc Grégoire (36:44):
So Nathan, in your youth, when you're this age
and finished either school orwork and came home, what did you
do?
Read Aristotle?
You you wrote plays?
What did you do?
Well, yeah, that's what that'swhat Ratha.
He sits around, he's gonna be.
What is your issue?
Nathan Mumm (37:16):
What's that?
You're seeing that.
That's right.
Isn't that nice?
Isn't that fantastic?
And look at what above, what doyou have above Pac-Man there?
You got a collectible Barbieand Ken.
Ody (37:26):
Yeah, you're somebody to be talking about that now.
I don't know.
Nathan Mumm (37:33):
You're right.
I watch television.
Ody (37:34):
Okay.
Nathan Mumm (37:35):
So I'd watch about an hour.
You rush home from school towatch cartoons.
Ody (37:38):
Oh, so it's the time that they're spending?
Because you're what, an hour?
That's it?
Nathan Mumm (37:43):
Well, I just I just can't believe that video games
is now a process.
Are you joking right now?
Okay, so you're joking when Isay this.
Mike Gorday (37:51):
No, there is an issue.
Okay, there can be an issue.
The issue is if they areplaying video games when they're
supposed to be doing somethingelse.
Okay.
So, like if they're on, like,for instance, a Zoom meeting and
you're playing video games onyour phone instead of being on
the Zoom meeting.
Ody (38:08):
I would prefer they play video games during a Zoom
meeting than going to thebathroom and we can all hear it
and see it.
Mike Gorday (38:13):
So that's true.
No, no, that's that's that'sgold, right?
The lesser of two easy.
That is gold.
If you have somebody, you know,flushing the toilet on your
Zoom meeting, that's gold.
Nathan Mumm (38:23):
So you're saying so you're just saying that I I I
just am struggling with if Iguess you know what, you know,
you're right.
Marc Grégoire (38:28):
You're struggling with their particular
choice because it's not yourparticular choice, but we all
have choices of what how we dode-stress.
Ody (38:35):
When do you play Madden then?
Mike Gorday (38:37):
Or chess.
Ody (38:38):
When do you play chess?
Mike Gorday (38:39):
He plays all the time.
He is always on a video gamewhen he's not working.
Nathan Mumm (38:45):
I guess um continuing on.
So all those that Nathan'sworried about you are Vindicans,
they play games, and I watchtelevision.
Marc Grégoire (38:54):
Nathan Nathan's just trying to get free therapy
here.
Oh, yeah.
He's trying to bash on hisemployees, and they just I was
just they're gonna bash on who'sgonna be.
Ody (39:08):
That's insane! Imagine how much football you watch in a
week.
That's more than what peopleare gaming.
Mike Gorday (39:13):
So, in in in answer, in ads.
Nathan Mumm (39:17):
Let me take this knife out of my back.
Mike Gorday (39:19):
No, no, it's right in the chest.
Right there.
Right there.
In answer to your question,Nathan, this is a you problem,
not a they problem.
Nathan Mumm (39:26):
All right.
Thank you, Mike, for thatmesmerizing moment.
Up next, we have this weekendtechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side as we're
gonna be doing so during thebreak.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, Mike.
Yeah, what's up?
Hey, so you know what?
We need people to start likingour uh social media pages.
Mike Gorday (39:41):
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Or is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, Patreon.
If you really like us, you cansay I think English guy's
Patreon.com.
I I butcher the Englishlanguage?
Nathan Mumm (39:55):
You know you butcher the English language.
So it's political.
It's patreon.com.
Mike Gorday (39:59):
Patreon.com.
If you really like if youreally like our show, you can
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The one that we always bag on?
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Mike Gorday (40:33):
Like and subscribe to our social media.
Nathan Mumm (40:35):
Like us today.
We need you to like us.
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Like us and subscribe.
That's it.
Nathan Mumm (40:39):
That's it.
That's that simple.
Segment (40:42):
And now, let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm (40:48):
Alright.
We're going on the WaybackMachine to November 19th, 2006.
Odie's gonna like this.
The Nintendo releases the Wii.
There you go.
See, there you go.
Nintendo releases the Wii ingame console.
Was this on a Zoom call?
No.
To compete with the SonyPlayStation 3 and the Microsoft
Xbox 360 and the Ring, the RedRing of Death.
(41:10):
Man, those things died all thetime.
By forging raw computing power.
Foregoing.
Oh, but foregoing raw, sorry,raw computing power.
And instead having playerinteraction as the primary
reason for the console,utilizing the innovative
motion-sensitive Wii Remotecontroller.
Uh the Wii defined theexpectation and became the
(41:30):
best-selling seventh generationgaming console ever.
Now, you know what?
I I I enjoy the Wii.
I enjoyed Wii sports, Wiibowling.
There was an aspect when theWii came on out, the graphics
were kind of shoddy, but thewhole interaction was amazing.
There was a Toy Story game.
Mike Gorday (41:48):
One of my favorite things was the Wii.
The Wii?
Yeah.
And this is the only consoleI've gone through like many,
many times.
And you still enjoy it?
I s yeah, I still I just don'thave the console anymore.
I just can't keep a hold ofthem or some for some reason.
My kids take them or myapartment burns down or
something.
The apartment burned downthing.
It's only a once I chase it.
(42:11):
I got I got I I had a okay.
I got a Wii when it came out.
Yeah.
Okay, and then my kids got itin in the divorce.
I bought a new Wii when my kidscame over to play.
And then theirs broke, so Igave them that one.
I got another one and it broke.
And I got another one, and myapartment burned down with the
Wii in it.
I'm not getting any more Wii's.
(42:31):
You're not getting any moreWii's?
No, I'm I'm upset about thatbecause I have all these games.
Do you still have the Wiigames?
I still have uh I I managed torescue, I think, four games.
Nathan Mumm (42:42):
Okay.
Mike Gorday (42:42):
All right.
So I didn't lose everything.
Nathan Mumm (42:45):
All right.
Well, that was this week intechnology.
If you ever wanted to watchsome Tech Time history with over
260 plus weekly broadcastsspanning our four plus years, uh
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When we return, we have theMark Mumble whiskey review.
See you after this break.
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The segment we've been waiting all week for.
Mark's Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Grégoire (43:36):
Say what?
Alright.
Yes, Mike.
Say what?
What is today?
November 18th.
I know Odie's been celebrating,and I know you guys are gonna
want to celebrate this.
Here we go.
What are we celebrating today?
Is it Princess Day?
Bingo! Are you serious?
It is National Princess Day.
(43:57):
Are you serious?
Mike Gorday (43:59):
I have no words.
Well, I have words to tell you.
Marc Grégoire (44:04):
Yeah, with your little tiara.
Okay.
Thank you, Odie, for bringingit in for me.
Ody (44:09):
You shine extra bright right now.
Marc Grégoire (44:11):
I had one at home, but my daughter took it
away.
Nathan Mumm (44:13):
Oh, your daughter.
Kind of like Mike's wheeze.
Did you keep on going throughall your different uh princess
outfits?
I know.
I love them.
Marc Grégoire (44:22):
So everyone has a favorite princess.
Mark, real or fictional.
And today is the day to channelthat royal energy.
Okay.
Nathan dreams of being treatedlike one and has been secretly
practicing his royal way sinceepisode 42.
Oh, okay.
And Mike, remember, a dream is awish your heart makes.
So go ahead and wish for thetiara, the glass slippers, and
(44:43):
maybe a foot massage whileyou're at it.
Mike Gorday (44:44):
Where's your where's your show?
Marc Grégoire (44:46):
And make that wish come true.
Mike Gorday (44:47):
Okay.
Mark has a show somewhere thatwe don't know about.
He does.
He does.
Where is it?
OnlyFans?
Nathan Mumm (44:57):
Oh my god.
And you can subscribe for adaily stream and updates.
Like just silent.
Marc Grégoire (45:04):
I gotta make money somehow.
I don't get paid on this show.
Nathan Mumm (45:07):
Yeah.
Nobody gets paid on this show.
You know what?
We do this for the love of theshow.
Yeah.
It's really silent there.
Okay, continuing on.
Marc Grégoire (45:16):
I do this for the love of you, Nathan.
Nathan Mumm (45:17):
Oh, well, thank you so much.
Marc Grégoire (45:19):
All right.
Well, let's let's let's talkhow this day ties into the
whiskey.
Okay.
Can't wait for this one.
She-Ra in the Princess of Powerdropped its fifth and final
season on Netflix in May 2020,the very same month Elijah Craig
barrel-proof B520 hit theshelves.
Mike Gorday (45:36):
Wasn't She-Ra an 80 Saturday morning cartoon?
Did they really come back andShe-Ra did another one?
Ody (45:44):
Are you not paying attention?
Mike Gorday (45:46):
I'm not.
Did they do He-Man?
He-Man Power Up! Isn't thattrue?
Ody (45:51):
Are you guys not listening?
It's Princess Peach.
Isn't this?
Marc Grégoire (45:53):
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Keep on going.
I forgot Mark is a princess.
Princess Peach.
Thank you.
The TR that doesn't sayanything to you.
So this whiskey hit the shelvesright in the middle of global
lockdown.
While most distillers werepausing or cutting releases,
Heaven Hill stuck to theschedule and quietly delivered
what many consider one of thestandout batches of Elijah Craig
barrel proof.
Collectors even nicknamed thisthe dessert bourbon for its rich
(46:17):
notes of chocolate, caramel,and brown sugar, all perfectly
balanced by a solid oakbackbone.
Backbone.
Now for me, this B520 is adecent pour.
It leans heavily intosweetness, sweetness, and misses
a bit on the overall balance.
The finish is slightlyastringent, leaving it just
short of the depth I usuallyexpect from the series and
(46:38):
keeping it from being one of myfavorites.
Okay.
How's this princesses?
Still a thumb up.
Well, this is just my opinionnow.
Do you put peas in it?
Nathan Mumm (46:45):
Alright, continuing on.
Mike Gorday (46:50):
You didn't understand that reference.
Alright.
Princess and the pea?
Uh I do not.
Oh, the the famous story that'sthe thing.
Nathan Mumm (46:58):
Is that the pea underneath the bed and she can
sleep?
Marc Grégoire (47:00):
But 12 mattresses.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she still felt the peas inthe bed.
Mike, I actually knew about it.
Mike Gorday (47:07):
Okay.
All right.
I can tell you.
Marc Grégoire (47:09):
That was a good reference, Mike.
Mike Gorday (47:10):
I can tell you.
Alright, so did you haveanything else, Mark here?
Catch a seal.
Marc Grégoire (47:14):
I've got nothing more for you, gentlemen.
Hang on.
All right.
Nathan Mumm (47:17):
Well, let's stay right here because we're going
to move right now into thetechnology.
Marc Grégoire (47:20):
Oh, don't we get a pairing?
Nathan Mumm (47:21):
Oh, we do.
Sorry.
Oh, wait.
Technology and whiskey are sucha great pairing.
Like Black Friday deals andoverspending for the holidays.
Is that a good pairing?
No.
Yeah.
No, it's not.
It's not.
Alright, let's prepare for ourtechnology fail of the week.
Congratulations.
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Oh, I failed.
Did I?
Yes.
Did I?
Yes.
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
Alright, this week our technology fail comes to us
from a password mishap at thehome of Mona Lisa.
That's right.
The Louvre, her.
It's got a little R at the endof that.
The Louvre.
The Louvre, but you're supposedto roll that.
Well, you're supposed torenounce it's not an R like
Spanish, but it's an R like theFrench.
That was me trying to do the Rlike the French, according to.
(48:07):
I spent a bunch of time lookingup how to pronounce this.
All right.
Okay.
The Louvre Museum of Technologyfail in Paris was hit by a
hundred million dollar jewelheist.
Thieves dressed as constructionworkers used a lift to break
into the Apollo gallery andsteal eight pieces of the French
crown jewels in minutes.
Investigators later found themuseum's security cameras were
(48:31):
protected by the passwordL-O-U-V-R-E, which is the
Louvre.
That was all of their securitycameras.
Everything that ran theirsecurity information from any of
these movies that you would seewith a security camera
break-in.
It doesn't take too much timeto break in when your password
is the name of the buildingitself.
(48:52):
Experts say the museums havebeen warned about this museum
specifically, and many have beenwarned about weak securities
from years prior.
Now French leaders call thetheft an attack on national
heritage and promise strongerprotections.
In response, Swiss privacycompany Proton is offering
(49:15):
museums and libraries two yearsof free password protection.
The lesson is simple, though.
In today's world, protectingtreasures means guarding both
security doors and digitalsystems.
You know what?
You can't have your password beI mean, that that that's not
okay.
Mike Gorday (49:31):
This is this is this is the epitome of human
human technology.
Nathan Mumm (49:36):
So they shut down all the cameras in the matter of
seconds.
Mike Gorday (49:40):
Okay, so all right, so that's why it's still a
mystery.
And we want something to beable to move quickly back and
forth between people, like newemployees and stuff.
So using the Louvre as thepassword is makes sense to us
simplistically because we don'tunderstand in an IT forum.
(50:04):
Yeah, in the IT forum.
In IT world had dual factorauthentication.
Marc Grégoire (50:09):
So let me add to that, that does make sense to
the common person.
But as Nathan said in the ITworld.
So I'm gonna do a shout out tothe Louvre.
My wife and I would love tomove to Paris.
You have sh oh, you gotta bleedthat one out.
You have terrible IT.
Um you want to hire your if youneed a new CIO or CTO, uh, my
resume's online.
Do you have their passwordprotection?
Nathan Mumm (50:31):
Well, Proton has just said they just decided to
add onto the marketing sayingwe'll help protect your systems.
Yeah, yeah.
So that is horrible.
So the reason that they'rehaving problems recovering this
is all their security cameraswent down.
They have no footage of thisbecause someone came in to it,
didn't have to hack in like yousee in the movies where they're
gonna be like, it sounds like aninside job.
They had one arrest, right?
Ody (50:51):
Oh, I think I thought it was two, but they arrested two
people, but those people werenot at all attached with it,
from what I've heard.
Nathan Mumm (50:57):
Okay, so they were released.
Ody (50:58):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (50:59):
So you know what?
That just goes to tell you justhave your cameras work.
Let's move on now to ourpassword.
I think that I think the Ithink the password should work.
Password should work.
The password should work.
And write it down on the books.
Ready to do our secret soundlistening.
Segment (51:14):
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submit your answer.
Odie, play that sound.
Marc Grégoire (51:29):
It's the same sound.
I'm gonna say, if you'relistening right now, you better
go and do what Nathan says toget your 4X because I know
somebody that's gonna take itthis way.
Is it now 20?
Is it 20 minutes?
I got ping that he's like hewants to listen to it one more
time.
Okay, and he's got an idea.
All right, let's do it one moretime.
Nathan Mumm (51:51):
Okay, so all you gotta do is go to techtime
radio.com, click on the uh callback uh or leave us a message
area underneath contacts andtell us what that secret sound
is.
You you you got a guy that youknow?
Marc Grégoire (52:02):
Whiskey Chris has been texting me.
He goes, I think I know what itis.
Okay, is this kid?
What's the prize?
What's the prize?
Nathan Mumm (52:09):
Five dollars per day, so that would be 20 bucks
now.
20 bucks?
Yeah, 20 bucks now.
Okay.
Or maybe he waits a week ortwo.
Mike Gorday (52:16):
That's a smart idea.
What's that?
Right?
You think that's a smart ideato raise the stakes by five
bucks?
Five bucks every week.
Okay, five bucks every week.
Marc Grégoire (52:24):
Well, he texted me this past weekend, he thinks
he knows.
He's ruled out because eachweek he had the you know, one
week he had the pinball, and oneweek so he's got him narrowed
down.
So we kind of get he wanted toput it on this past weekend, and
and he was like, Should I waitthough to get to four action?
I said, Yeah, go for it.
Whiskey, Chris, wait for twomore weeks.
Nathan Mumm (52:45):
Okay.
Ten more weeks and they get 10more weeks.
All right, Odie, what are yousaying?
Ody (52:49):
I was gonna say that there's an unofficial cap on it.
We just haven't decided wherethe cap is.
Nathan Mumm (52:53):
Yeah, I think we'll probably cap it out.
Probably like probably I'dprobably go up to a hundred
bucks.
I go up to a hundred.
So how many weeks is that?
Five times uh five times fiveis fifty.
Ody (53:03):
So twenty weeks.
Twenty weeks.
Nathan Mumm (53:05):
There you go.
I go up to twenty weeks, butyou know what?
I hope someone gets it becausewe want to have this be
different things all the time.
I already have the second soundready to go and the third sound
ready to go, so we want it tobe different.
Mike Gorday (53:16):
Okay, well, I think you're I think your business
model needs some adjusting, mybuddy.
Nathan Mumm (53:20):
All right, let's move on to our pick of the day.
Introduction (53:23):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey
tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Nathan Mumm (53:30):
All right, what do we have here, Mark?
Marc Grégoire (53:32):
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B520.
So this was from May 2020 fromHeaven Hill Distillery, straight
bourbon, 12 years old, 127.2proof.
It was 65 when it was released.
Secondary market, you can findabout 175.
Nathan Mumm (53:47):
Uh, absolute thumbs up.
Mike, what do you say?
Marc Grégoire (53:49):
I like I like Elijah Craig, and this is this
is very good.
You ever see a barrel proof?
I always grab one.
Nathan Mumm (53:55):
Is barrel is barrel proof kind of like the the the
highest of of what you do forthe whiskeys?
Is that kind of the uniquecollector's item limited edition
version?
Marc Grégoire (54:04):
No, that's my bottom shelf stuff.
That's your bottom shelf shelf?
It is.
Mike Gorday (54:09):
I think I think I think he's asking what what's
important about barrel proof.
Nathan Mumm (54:12):
Is that is that is barrel proof not is that is that
bottom shelf or is that topshelf?
Almost all my stuff is barrelproof or high proof.
Okay.
That's even your bottom shelf,is what you're saying?
Marc Grégoire (54:21):
Well, Elijah Craig, I love Elijah Craig, I
love the Larseny foolproof.
Those are just staples.
Okay.
That's my bottom shelf staples.
Anyone wants to know why it'scalled barrel proof?
Because they bottle up thebarrel proof.
Okay, okay.
Nathan Mumm (54:34):
Self-explanatory.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Well, you know what?
From one Star Wars fan toanother.
unknown (54:41):
Right?
Nathan Mumm (54:42):
You must be talking to Mike.
Yeah.
Marc Grégoire (54:45):
We talk Star Trek.
Now we're talking.
Nathan Mumm (54:47):
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joining the program.
Listeners, we want to hear fromyou, especially with the secret
sound.
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and answer that question of whatthe secret sound is.
All right.
You know what?
Tomorrow starts with thetechnology of today.
We'll see you next week.
Later.
Bye-bye.
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