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Introduction (00:00):
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Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum, the
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Welcome everyone.
Let's start today's show.

Segment (01:25):
Now on today's show.

All right, today on the show we have Gwenway back
with her gadgets and gearsegment.
What do we have in store today,Mike?
Oh, we did a hot change, so youdon't know yet.
And this is going to be one ofyour favorite gadgets ever.
I can just tell.

Mike Gorday (01:43):
Okay.

All right, there we go.
And of course, besides ourgadgets and gear segment, we
have our standard features,including this week in
technology, our technology failof the week, possible Nathan
Neggett, and of course our pickof the day whiskey tasting to
see if our selected whiskey pickgets zero one or two thumbs up
at the end of the show.
But now, everyone, let's startwith the latest headlines in the
world of technology.

Segment (02:05):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.

All right, story number one.
Anthropic co-founder warns AI ismoving too fast.
Is the anthropic co-founderwarning us of issues or a
disgruntled employee?
Let's head out to our Tech TimeInsider Jennifer Merrick for
more on the story.

SPEAKER_01 (02:26):
Thanks, Nathan.
Here's what we learned fromAnthropic co-founder Jack Clark.
And it's one of the strongestwarnings we've heard from inside
the AI industry.
Clark says AI development isaccelerating so fast that we're
approaching a point wheresystems could start improving
themselves without humanoversight.
His exact words were theindustry has a gas pedal, but no

(02:47):
brake pedal.
Right now, Anthropics Claude isalready running on code that is
80% written by the AI itself.
And Clark believes it couldreach 100% within two years.
Something he says would havehuge implications for safety,
jobs, and national security.
Now back to the studio.

Jennifer, thank you very much.
Clark argues that the governmentmust step in with real oversight
and regulation.
Not to stop innovation, but toensure humans remain in control
as AI systems become autonomousand more capable.
So this is kind of a big deal.
So when you have AI, this Imean, this is the same thing.

(03:33):
This is the whole story of howlike Skynet takes over in the
Terminator movies, right?
So if you have AI that startswriting its own code for its own
self, there is a point where theoriginal code will be changed
completely.
It's already done that.
And it's 80% of the way there.
So we've still got 20% humanintervention.

Yeah, if we go with the whole adage of humans only
use 10% of their brain, AI'salready ahead of humans human
development.
So you know.
There you go.
All right.

Well, uh the wording comes as anthropic
prepares for one of the mostanticipated IPOs in tech
history.
So this is interesting.
We have OpenAI's IPO coming onup.
We have Anthropics IPO.
So we have two public offeringsof AI companies, but each of
them are expecting to hit nearthe trillions in value upon

(04:21):
that.
We are going to create in thematter of a couple months two
companies that are each worth atrillion dollars on paper.
Now Clark highlighted the riseof autonomous AI agents, bots
capable of performing tasks ontheir own, which he believes
will reshape the job market.
Many recent tech layoffs decidedthat the tools are being used

(04:43):
for replacement of humanengineers.

I I feel like Clark should be my bromance guy
because he's saying stuff I'vealready been saying this whole
time.
Okay, so you're so so Clark isyour guy and Altman's my guy?
No, I didn't say that.
I said maybe he should be.
Okay, I think he should be.
The problem here I'm having withthis is that he's he's saying
it's it could reshape the job.
It's already reshaping the jobmarket.

(05:07):
You think so?
Yeah.

Okay, all right, okay.
Well, he has public warningsthat are famed on policy
concerns, not personalgrievance.
So he's not a formerex-employee.
He's not a disgruntled employee,he does not have an axe to
grind.
He's actually considered arespectable leader in AI policy.
So this isn't someone that'sjust coming on out and saying,
Hey, I got I got pissed off ateverybody, and I'm gonna then

(05:31):
come on out and say we should dothis.
This is somebody that's activelyin this world at C.

This warms my heart a little bit.
I have some hope in the humanrace again.
So see this, and there you go.
There's that actual person outthere who can make change who's
actually saying that we shouldwe should do what I've been
hollering about here for forthree years.

Again, we're just we're just two years ahead of
the mainstream media.
That's right.
Weeks ahead, but I think we'relike two years ahead.
All right.
AI's potential is enormous, hesays.
But without a way to slow itdown, the world may not be ready
for what's coming next.
All right.
What are you talking about?
What could be coming next?
AI talking to AI and AI sendingstuff to AI and AI making the I

(06:16):
I can't wait for another AI HRbot.

I wonder if AI ke is the pr thing responsible for
changing my address on AmazonPrime.

Is that the robot that changed it for you?

Every time I order something from Amazon Prime, I
now have to make sure that itgot the right address because it
keeps delivering stuff at adifferent address.

Okay, okay.
Well maybe maybe that's it.

All right.
Well, you know what?
It's it's it's the AI gettingback at me for uh for making the
AI guy being the AI guy.
All right, all right.
What do we have for story numbertwo?
Oh.
A new space telescope is comingout.
Did you know that?
I did not.
What what what's going on forspace?
Roman the NASA's Roman SpaceTelescope is ahead of schedule.

(07:00):
It has announced that the NancyGrace Roman Space Telescope is
officially scheduled to launchon August the thirtieth of 2026,
which is ahead of its timelineby nearly eight months now.
This is not Nancy Grace, the thewoman on the TV.
Okay.

This is not the same.
You thought it was at first.
You did at first.
You thought at first that maybeit could it would have been
anywhere.

Oh yeah, I was I asked I asked why is a telescope
being named after the lady onthe criminology show.
Okay, there you go.
She's widely regarded as themother of Hubble for her
foundational work in planningand securing funding for the
space observatory.
Engineers at NASA Scottardrecently completed the final
inspection of Roman 7.9 footprimary mirror, confirming

(07:48):
perfect alignment aftervibration environmental testing.
The telescope is now beingprepared for transport to the
Kennedy Space Center where itwill undergo final checks,
fueling, and integration into aSpaceX Falcon heavy robot that
hopefully will lift off from thepad.
Once in space, Roman will travelto the Sun-Earth L2 point,

(08:09):
joining the James Webb SpaceTelescope with a field of view a
hundred times larger thanHubble's.
Roman will capture enormoussections of the sky at once,
giving astronomers unprecedenteddata on dark energy, galaxy
formation, and how common solarsystems like ours that may exist
out there.
NASA says the mission willdeliver never before seen views

(08:32):
of the universe and open newopportunities for t scientific
discovery worldwide.
I feel like I'm having someNathan problems with my
pronunciation this morning.
A decade beyond its originalone-year plan.

(08:54):
Maven provided the firstlong-term measurements of how
Mars lost its atmosphere overbillions of years, shaping our
understanding of the planet'sclimate history.
NASA called the mission alandmark achievement that will
continue influencing Marsresearch for years to come.
And that's all the tech news inthe world of NASA that we can
talk about today.

Well, that's pretty good though.
I mean, that's uh you know what?
We we have a couple upliftingstories.
If you notice, story number oneand story number two have been
very uplifting, right?
And technology.
We're very excited about that.
Well, here you go, story numberone.

It's always good to know that there's some wise
person out there in AI landthat's that sees the scariness
of this that could happen.
Me who is not even a tech whizcan see.

Okay, well, guess what?
Story number three.
We're going back to normal.
Microsoft tests wearable AIbadges.
Dang it.
Here I was all happy.

unknown (09:47):
Uh there you go.

Microsoft is testing a new AI-powered
hardware design for officeworkers, including a small
desktop cube and a wearable AIaccess badge that hangs on a
lanyard like an employee ID.
The badge has a touch screen,voice controls, and even a
camera.
No, are you serious?
That's serious.
Letting workers interact with AIagents without opening a laptop.

(10:10):
So it's so you're an employeethat just goes around with this
device on you capturingeverything.
So why even have an employeethere?

SPEAKER_09 (10:19):
I mean, that's like a robot, right?
Well, uh Didn't we already havea company that tried to make an
AI integrated pin that you puton your chest?
And it would tell youinformation.
So there was a Kickstarter.

There's a Kickstarter that I invested in,
and then and then that all of asudden didn't quite work well.

Was that the happy little little companion thing
that that was just completelydumb?

SPEAKER_09 (10:38):
Yes.
Yeah.
And it couldn't read like howmuch protein is in this handful
of nuts, and it had no idea.

Yeah.
Okay.
Well, well, a hundred Microsoftemployees are.

I want to know what's going to happen in the
break room.
Are we going to have theselittle AI badges talking to
themselves?
Are they going to be reportingon what the employees are
talking about?

Yeah, are they going to have their own little
gossip channel that they do likehere's office gossip going to
the city?

Is it there to watch how many keystrokes the
person is actually typing out onthis computer?
Oh, or maybe it doesn't need todo that anymore either.

AI is here.
Only a few hundred employees aretesting this out, so don't
worry, Mike.
It's not like everybody has.

I'm not worried about it.
This is Microsoft.

The company says that the new form factor for
using AI on the go.
Now, Microsoft's been really,really successful at these types
of devices.
So let's go through theMicrosoft Zune.
Dun dun dun.

Let's talk about the maybe they should call Meta
and get some uh Ray bandsinstead with the with the Yeah,
the the HoloLens.

That was their VR thing.
Dun dun dun.
The discontinuous.
So everything that Microsoftever does.
The only thing that has everworked is the surface.
And they spent they spentbillions of dollars.
They did a good job.
Other people come on up withwhat to build for the surface.
Yes, they did.
I still have my service.
So there you go.
Now Google is also trying againwith smart glasses.

(12:09):
Remember the Google smartglasses?
I remember.
So we have smart glasses thatare also trying to be a part of
it.
Now, now the badge can takephotos, understand the user's
surrounding, and connectdirectly to Microsoft AI tools,
but the built-in camera raisesprivacy concerns similar to
other AI wearables now hittingthe market.
No, wait, didn't I just mentionthat?

(12:30):
There you go.
For now, Microsoft says thedevices are just an early
concept.
So don't worry.
But it's clear the company wantsAI to follow its workers
everywhere.

I want to know who who they're giving it.
Are they giving it to thoseworkers that are really like
bright and shining stars in thecompany?
Or are they giving it to theones that like visit HR all the
time?

Well, I just still say, what has your badge become?
An HR badge?
I mean, I just I can't wait.
Like I was I was saying, I wantuh AI to take over HR.
And then all of a sudden juststart going through people that
are like lazy and aren't showingup to work and just start
sending out emails.
You're fired, you're fired,you're fired.
You know, that that would bethat would be one of the
funniest things ever.

SPEAKER_09 (13:09):
It's gonna be like your complaint is valid, but I
don't care.
Go back to work.

I don't really, I don't really see you don't see
that happening.
No, I see that happening, but Idon't see where that's a little
I'm I'm joyful of thathappening.

You know you're not joyful of that?
Okay, all right.
Last story here.
Story number four Apple unveilsiOS 27 and the macOS 27 as Tim
Cook prepared his final AppleWorldwide Developer Conference
keynote on Monday.
Apple wrapped up the WWDC.
Uh Tim Cook delivered the finalkeynote as the CEO, and he went

(13:42):
out with a full slate ofsoftware announcement.
The spotlight was on the iOS 27and the Mac 27 bolt arriving
this fall.

Is this really a story that do we really even
need to know that that iOSbecause you know in two months
iOS 2030,000 is gonna come out.
Well, they come out every yearwith normally a new OS.

The big thing though is this is gonna end
support for all of your IntelMacs.
Oh, well, I don't have those.
So if you have an Intel Mac, soI have Intel Macs.
I have a ton of Intel Macs.
So any of the Intel Macs are nolonger gonna be able to get
upgrades.
They're gonna be stuck at Mac OS26 Tahoe.
Apple says it will continue todo security updates for three

(14:26):
more years.

Well, how how nice of them?

So you have three more years on your Intel-based
Mac, and then all of a sudden,boom, it's gonna go.
Now, this is actually going toreference what we do in This
Week in Technology.
So this is a lead-in story forThis Week in Technology.
Okay.
The first time we've led intoThis Week in Technology
segments.

Okay.
Well, that's awesome.
But um can't AI like do mysecurity updates now?
Well, like it can.
And then it goes and publishesit out.
Shouldn't it be able to supportall my previous things that
don't have support anymore?

You say just ask your AI to write a patch to go
around it to make it to besupported.

We need we need AI to uh get people who are
cheating at games online and getthose guys taken care of.
Oh, get those guys taken careof.

Well, Apple introduced a major upgrade to
Siri, so this is their fourthreboot of Siri.
We'll see if this one works.
The company says the new Appleintelligent platform, Siri, now
behaves more conversational,like an AI assistant.
So kind of like Alexa has forthe last four years.
Yeah, but Alexa, Alexa's on likeGen 2 of this, and Apple's still

(15:29):
trying to hit it out of theballpark on version one.

Maybe they should talk about my talk to Microsoft,
and you know, they had Zune andyou know, all that stuff.
The Halo lens and all thosethings.

Okay.
Well, what's interesting aboutthis is every time I'm driving
and I'm on my iPhone and I askit to look up something, it
literally tells me I can't do ityou're driving.
I'm trying to talk to thisdevice.
Every other device I have cando.

I know, it's the dumbest thing.
Um, I have been yelling at myAlexa more and more because she
I've been referenced it as ashe.
She cannot get it right ever.
She gives me more badinformation than than Google
does.

Well, speaking of Google, oh no the Google Gemini
is the backbone of Apple's AIassistant, so look for it to
crash and tell you incorrectinformation.
Well, that that ends.
I'm not a big fan of uh GoogleGemini.
I I I know that it's uh I I Idon't either choose Anthropic or
OpenAI.

(16:30):
Either use Claude or or Grok oruse grok.
Or you can use grok too, butyeah, Google Gemini, like late.
Is Google Gemini better thangrok?
No, Google Gemini is kind of notreally good at all, but
everybody's using it because itall comes free.
So all right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Next we have Gwen Wei withsomething that Mike needs to get

(16:54):
to stay connected witheverybody.
What is this gadget?
Stay tuned as we'll be talkingabout it.

I don't want to be connected with everybody.
I'm not even on social mediathat often.
Why are you talking about it?
Well, stay tuned.
We'll see what this is after thecommercial break.
Okay.

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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.
We do it with a sense of humorin less than 60 minutes.
Of course, a little whiskey onthe side.
Today, Mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is not in
the studio, but he is coming tous.

He's never coming back to the studio.

He's never coming back to the studio.
He's coming to us from acrossthe cloud, uh, or across not the
pond.
I'm talking about the cloud.
Across the pond today.

It shouldn't be the cloud anymore.

Uh, about what we have and the whiskey we're
tasting.
All right, Mark, what are wetasting today?
It's scotch.

SPEAKER_07 (18:36):
Well, it's an interesting one, Mike.
It's Arbeiki 1794 Highland Rye,single-grain scotch.
From Arbeiki's website.
We combine our unique use of ryewith new charred American oak
and leave this lively oak to doits magic.
The result is a highly originalwhiskey that fires the

(18:58):
imagination and the senses withexciting flavors and aromas.
The new charred American oakbarrel complements the flavors
of rye, wheat, and malted barleygrains, imparting rich color and
deep flavor.
So the palate brings maltedcookies, followed by dry orange
peel, black tea, and spice andripe fruits come to life.

(19:19):
It finishes with peppery,toasted oak, and an elastic
body, which is a columndistillation, gives an elongated
finish.
Now, this is from our BeakyDistillery, and they are located
in Lunan, Angus, Scotland.
Classification is a Scotchwhiskey, but it's technically

(19:42):
can also be considered a ryewhiskey because it is 60% winter
rye, 25% spring malted barley,and 15% winter wheat.
It's age a minimum four years,96 proof, and it goes for about
a hundred and twenty dollars fora 700 milliliter.
However, when I did a searchonline, I found it discounted

(20:02):
down to about$30 on some sites.

Oh, well, I was fixing to say that's never gonna
make Nathan shelf, but I guess Iwas wrong about that.

I don't even know if it'll make it at that price
point.
I don't know.
That was I I I didn't like it sofar.

My first taste of it was not uh I am surprisingly
enjoying this, so you know wemay have a very unique.

SPEAKER_07 (20:22):
Well we'll talk about some uniqueness that this
distillery does in the mumbles,and it's it's a fairly unique
whiskey.
As we saw, it's a Scotchwhiskey, but it's not the
traditional hundred percentmalted scotch or even a blended
scotch.
It's a it's a rye whiskey, butit just happens to be made in
Ireland.

Nice.
Okay.
All right.
Well, Peyton's head almost felloff when he drank soyton.

SPEAKER_07 (20:44):
Oh, I was wondering who was behind the board because
Odie's voice only went deeper.

Yeah, no, Odie's been taking Peyton, what'd you
think of that so far?

SPEAKER_09 (20:54):
Not my preferable favorite.

Um he literally did a Nathan face.
He did a Nathan face.

SPEAKER_07 (21:02):
Well, I was gonna think, I was gonna say Nathan
and his son probably aren'treally into rye whiskeys that
much.

We're not.
No, I would that is correct.
No, no way.
So this is gonna be a tough onefor me to move forward on.
But you know what?
I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 (21:14):
Nathan, I understand.
His pay's young, his palate isstill expanding, he's still
growing.
Nathan, we've just given up on.

Well, you can't give up.
Don't ever give up.

We're in this together.

Don't give up.
We need to give up more often, Ithink.
That's that's kind of my messagetoday.

SPEAKER_07 (21:29):
I thought Mike was my my hard-boiled egg there
because in the beginning hewould not touch a rye whiskey at
all.
I didn't think I could getsoften that one up.

No, the evil the evil plan.

SPEAKER_07 (21:39):
He is my drinking buddy now.
He's your drinking buddy.

The evil plan of Mark has worked.
There you go.
There he is, taking over thephone.
I have I have uh moved my needleon rye whiskeys.
Okay.
All right.

SPEAKER_07 (21:51):
Well, as you guys drink in our don't forget, as
you guys drink in our ourviewership's drinks, don't
forget to like and subscribe.
Especially after you've had afew drinks.
Drink responsibly.
Kevin can wait.

Thank you so much.
That would be funny that if webecame the Denny's of radio
shows.
The Denny's of radio shows?
What's the Denny's of radioshows mean?
Peyton knew what I was talkingabout.
He's laughing over there.
Well, it's the Denny's.
Explain that to me.
That's where drunk people go.

Oh, is it the Denny's?
Yeah.
Oh, you know what?
If only they serve German beer.

I really, I really hate it when they have to
explain a joke.
Okay, there you go.

SPEAKER_09 (22:30):
Just as long as we're not the water.

That happens often on this show.
All right.
With our whiskey tastingcompleted, let's move on to our
feature segment.
Today we have Gwen Way joiningthe show.
She is an expert incybersecurity during the day and
a game board geek in theevenings and the producer of
Tech Time Radio and our Gadgetsand Gear Gal.
Let's get ready to start theComcast video stream in our next

(22:52):
segment.

What's new in our gadgets and gear?
All right.

Gwen Way (22:58):
Welcome back to the show, Gwen.
Thank you so much.
Happy as always to be here.
And I have to say, for me, itwas always drunken nights at
Villa Gen.
So sorry, not Denny's.

Yeah, see, yeah, but Villa Gen is the same, is
the same type of restaurant.

Well, I'm sure they're all the same.
It's all diners.
It's just a diner restaurant.
A greasy spoon is where all thedrunks go.
Yeah, there's the Waffle Housereference.
Peyton.
Peyton mentioned that earlier.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
Well, Gwen, we're so excited.
For those that are new listenersthat do not know anything about
yourself, please introduceyourself to them.

Gwen Way (23:36):
Well, I'm happy to meet anybody who's new here and
even happier to say hello to ourfriends who come back and listen
to us week after week.
Uh my name is Gwen, and I havebeen in IT for the last quarter
of a century with a focus incybersecurity over the last 10
years.

That's right.
She's she's kind of, you know,Nick's kind of maybe we should
have Gwen on for cybersecurity,and then Nick can just come on
in now for all the AI security.
Nick can do gadgets?
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no.
He's moved from his securitystuff now just to griping and
groaning on AI.

No, no, no, no.
He's he's he's predicting.
He is the new, he is the AINostradamus.
Okay, Nostradamus.

Is that what we're gonna call it?

Nostradamus.
Okay.
For those of you who use thatword.
Yeah, yeah.

All right, okay.
Uh Gwen, now what are we lookingat today?

Gwen Way (24:26):
Well, we're looking at something that I think is very
interesting, especially givenone of our earlier stories.

SPEAKER_02 (24:33):
Okay.

Gwen Way (24:33):
Uh, this is on Kickstarter, as most of our
gadgets are, and it's called theRoro Lee Pocket AI agent.

Okay, I'm not really excited about this so
far.

Gwen Way (24:45):
Tell us more.
So this is kind of similar towhat you were talking about with
the Microsoft badges, but with aslightly less big brother plate.
Uh it does not have a camera, itdoes not do anything with that.
But what it does is take notesfrom meetings and then change

(25:08):
them into an action plan orsomething like that, so that you
can gather all of theinformation that is talked about
around you, make it intosomething that you can send to
the team and make sure thatthings actually get followed up
on and worked.

Or can you imagine taking this to a cocktail party?
Oh, and and figuring out all thegossip that's going on in your
in your friend, not friendgroups.

Gwen Way (25:38):
You could do it.

All right, okay, all right.
So now we gotta get all theinformation on this because now
I I uh we did talk a little biton our pre-show, uh, because we
do uh for everybody that listensto the shows, they know this.
But for a new listener, we dopre-show, we go through stories,
we kind of kick them up or down,and depending on what's gonna be
talked about or not talkedabout.
Throw them on the ground andkick them around.

(26:00):
Yeah, and so just kind of likeSaturday, kind of like Saturday
Night Live when you do a pitchtype of deal and everybody comes
on in and pitches differentstuff for this.
Um, we did not have a gadgetuntil late.
So this is new for Mike becausewe actually changed it last
night just specifically forthis.
But tell me how many backers,where it is, where is the

(26:21):
company located, and how manypledges, and hopefully it's not
like one of our devices that itwas fake.

Gwen Way (26:28):
It appears to be for real.
However, I will say this is acompany out of Hong Kong.
We normally try to go withAmerican-based companies.

SPEAKER_02 (26:37):
Okay.

Gwen Way (26:37):
Um, it is their first project, so we do have to be a
little concerned over that.
But today, just while waiting tobe on this segment, I've watched
it go from about 550 packers upto 576.
So there's definitely a lot of alot of interest in this.
Uh, it is available until June26th.

(27:02):
So if anybody wants to hop onand do their research and get a
feel for it, I highly recommendit.
Uh there's a a few of the superearly birds left, although not
many.
You can get uh, I believeeverything, so the whole device
for about a hundred dollars.
Or if it goes run out, there'sstill a fair amount of early

(27:26):
birds, which is about a hundredand twenty.

Okay.
All right.
So there's a couple couple earlybirds that are available there.
So what does this do?
I yeah, we did talk about thisdevice kind of for Microsoft is
testing something.
So it doesn't have the camerabuilt into it.
What what would be a feature inhere that you would actually use
that would be really uh adapt toand and really important to you
to use that you think wouldwould make a difference?

Gwen Way (27:51):
I think the note-taking feature is the best,
in my opinion.
It's something that you can thentranslate into, as I said,
outlines, you can translate itinto action plans, you can even
translate it into just a simpleto-do list to go through and
make sure that everything ischecked off.

How long is the battery life or how long is the
memory for that?
So this is what I've alwaysworried about, right?
So if I go into a meeting and Ihave an AI taker for notes and
it listens and it captures thenotes and then sends out the
information, I normally on myphone or or device that I have,
I normally only get like amaximum of 10 hours, which is uh
good enough for a day, but uhthe but that pretty much at the

(28:31):
end of the day, I betterdownload everything and then
start on over again and start onover.
Do we know how long this willlast, how much it has the
ability, so I don't have toworry about that?
Is there any AI that's tied withit specifically?

Gwen Way (28:44):
It's actually tied with quite a bit of AI.
Um it tends to lean on somethingcalled superclaw, which is
related to open claw.
Uh it also connects everythingto the web, so you're able to
actually store it on cloud.
You've got about 40 gigs worthof storage, which is quite a bit

(29:06):
of information for both audioand written files.

Okay.
All right.
So, you know, what's interestingis these devices now, before uh
you if you were to record aconversation, right?
Uh that was like you had to telleverybody in the room, you had
to say certain stuff that'sgoing on.
With these new devices thateverybody's gonna be wearing
soon, uh how do you disclosethat you're recording

(29:31):
everything?
How are you gonna have say, hey,I got this device around my neck
and I am recording you?
And and and what what what isgonna happen with this?

Gwen Way (29:40):
I mean, from a legal perspective, and I am not a
lawyer, so please don't take mylegal advice for anything more
than it's worth.
Uh you still would need toinform people in most states.
Okay.
There are some states that haveone party rule where as long as
one person knows it's beingrecorded, you're okay.

SPEAKER_02 (30:01):
Okay.

Gwen Way (30:01):
But the vast majority is a requirement to have
everybody who's being recordedknow that they're being
recorded.

I don't really care about this one, but I would like
one that just tells everybodystuff like that.
Or just yells at get off mygrass or something.

That's you wanna you want an old guy chat?
I want to I wanna yeah.

It's gonna run around, it's gonna I'm gonna be
hanging out and it's gonna telldon't be don't be taping this or
I'm gonna sue you.
Or or uh don't click on stuffbecause you're you'll end up
getting your foam bricked orsome stuff like that.
Get off my lawn.

There you go.
Okay, again tell everybody whatthe price is, where they can
find it.

Gwen Way (30:41):
Right now you can still get some of the super
early bird specials for about$100.
If you miss out on the last 22of those, it only goes up by$20
to$120.
You can find it by going toKickstarter.com and searching
for Roro Lee.
R-O-R-O-L-E.

So one last question though.
Well, I know Mike is getting oneof these.
Yeah, Mike is not getting one ofthese.
No, Mike does not does not needor want one of these, but Mike
does have a question about wheredoes all this stuff transfer.
You said you said it's got cloudaccess and all this other stuff,
and it's a Hong Kong-basedcompany.

(31:22):
Are we sending all ourinformation to Hong Kong then?

Gwen Way (31:26):
Uh yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Alright, so I would I would caution anybody to
Again, I don't know why we I youknow what I again I I I've at
this point, at this point Ithink.
Everybody's recordingeverything, so at this point you
should just post everythingonline anyway.
Yeah, they can have all of it.

Oh wait, we already do that.
That's social media.
Never mind.

It just gets breached, and then when
something gets breached, we justsay, Oh, we're sorry.
And there's no realconsequences.
So I mean it doesn't make sense.

See, Weedy Mike, Mike would like AI powered um
devices that thwart stuff likethat.
Oh, sorry there, buddy.
Okay.

That thwarts it?
That doesn't allow it to happen.

Yeah, like AI countermeasures, like it it
something that detects thatsomebody is wearing one of these
things and then like turns itoff.

Okay.
Well.
So the AI is gonna fight it.
You're gonna be wearing thisdevice and it's gonna be.
It's like anti-AI, yeah.
So you're gonna have the the therobots fight each other, and
then your robot's gonna beat itup and kill it.

Yeah, it's yeah, or it just sends out a dart.

They have these little things called Tamagotchis
that did this back in like theearly 90s.

Yeah, the Tamagotchi.
You had to, you know, manuallydo that.
I'm talking about something thatno will search it out and say,
like, hey, somebody's justwhisper in your ear, you know.
Hey, somebody's wearing one ofthese recordable devices and and
it's taking down everything yousay, and then I can yell, get
off my lawn! There you go.
Okay.
All right.

Gwen Way (32:48):
Who knows?
Our listeners may have justheard a a new invention that we
uh produced by my picture ongadgets.

Yeah, I would get I would get behind that.

Okay, there you go.
The kick the AI that fight theAI.

Even better, something with a little
tranquilizer dart that wouldshoot out at somebody who would
do it.

SPEAKER_09 (33:07):
Quietly whisper, someone's listening to you right
now.
Just any schizophrenic personstarts freaking out.
Like, whoa.

Who's listening?
We're already becomingnarcissistic.
We might as well become you knowschizophrenic, too.

All right, so last question, Gwen, since Mike is
not buying one of these.
Are you looking to buy one ofthese?

Gwen Way (33:26):
My husband is actually more interested in it than I am.

Okay.

Gwen Way (33:31):
But uh, he is seriously considering backing
this.

All right, I uh you know what?
I probably will back it.
Nathan already did.
No, I haven't yet, but I willprobably do it by the time I'm
off.
Dude, you as long as they'redoing it.

You support you support the stuff before Gwen
even gets to it.

Uh well, I didn't know about this one until late.
This is a late breakingKickstarter.

Oh, wow.
Okay.

All right, okay.
Well, Gwen, thanks so much forcoming on the show.
It's always a pleasure to talkwith you about our new gadgets.
I cannot wait to see what wehave next month.
We'll see if maybe we cancontinue our AI gadget stuff
here.
Yeah, because Mike loves AI.
Uh, speaking of that, as we go,thank you so much, Gwen, for
being a part of the show.
Thanks, Gwen.

Gwen Way (34:08):
Thank you.

All right, Mike, you know what?
Mr.
AI guy, let's get ready for yoursegment.

SPEAKER_02 (34:18):
We have the grumpiest guy in the world
coming up.

Alright.

I I I I just have to bask in the theme song for a
second.
I I like the theme song.
I do too.
Okay, all right.

What do we got coming on us?

Oh, this is a very, very sad thing.
Very sad.
Okay.
But buckle up, buddy.
Apparently we've reached a pointin human evolution where AI has
to flirt for us too.
What?
According to Hinge's CI.
Hinge, you know what Hinge is,right?
Yeah, Hinge is like a datingapp.
Dating app, yeah.
It's supposed to be for, I thinkit's supposed to be for

(35:11):
Christians, isn't it?
Uh Hinge.
No, it's not serious.
Or was Hinge was supposed to befor like married, looking to get
married type.
They were looking for seriousrelationships.
I think a serious relationship.
Or whatever.

I think their tagline is that you load the app
and then soon you'll get todelete it because you're gonna
find your perfect match.

Yeah, which is BS.
All right.
Uh anyway, uh Hinge's CEO,Jackie Jontos.
Single 20 somethings absolutelywant love.
They just don't have theconfidence to actually talk to
another human being.
Okay.
So now Hinge has loaded up someAI tools that help Gen Z start

(35:46):
conversations because nothingsays romance like outsourcing
your personality to a serverfarm.
See?
I already I already I alreadysaid it earlier.
You know, there there's the appthat I'm talking about right
there.
Instead of flirting for me, itsays get off my lawn.
Okay.

All right, okay.

Janto says Gen C spends a thousand fewer hours a
year socializing in person thanpeople their age twenty years
ago.
Uh that's because we didn't haveall this stuff.
Okay.
A thousand hours.
Yep.
A thousand.
Yep.
That's not a gap, that's a wholeseason of life missing.
No wonder they're lonely.

unknown (36:24):
Okay.

They're spending uh two hours a day, not with
people, but with their phones,which ironically is where
they're now going to findpeople.
Okay.
And get this.
Yeah.
Tender's numbers are dropping,but Hinge's growing.
Hinge is growing.
Yeah, I guess.
Okay.
All they needed was somethingto, you know, do all the talking
for 'em.
So so the app that's designed tobe deleted is now the one

(36:46):
everybody's downloading.
Wow.
Sure.
Totally not a marketing line.
Okay.
Experts say Gen Z is burned outon dating apps, confused by a
lack of social cues.
And my favorite part, they'renot into drinking culture.
All right.
So instead of meeting someone ata bar, they're at the gym on
Friday night hoping their bicepswill do the talking.

(37:07):
That's not even a thing.
That's not even a thing, man.
Everybody's hollering about thattoo.
Okay.
Meanwhile, Hinges AI is overhere writing profile prompts
like tell them about yourhobbies.
Because apparently that's toomuch pressure.
I think I think we've gotten tothis point.
Yes, dating is hard.

(37:29):
I get it.
I mean, it was hard when we wereyoung.
Yeah, we were but we were also alittle bit social too, right?
I I think we were more har wewere more hardcore.
Okay.
Because we didn't have all thisstuff that could do stuff for
us.
That makes sense.
But when the AI is making thefirst move for you, alrighty
then.
Is that really dating?
Or is that or is that youralgorithm that's dating?

(37:51):
Uh I think it's your algorithmthat was dating, right?
Now we're gonna have algorithmsthat are dating other algorithms
from other dating profiles.
So your profiles are gonna bedating, but you're not ever
gonna meet the person that's onthe other end of that profile.
All right.
Yeah, there we go.
See how mesmerizing that was?

Well, that was a mesmerizing moment and Mr.

I feel like we've definitely moved into the new,
into the whole new thing.
The whole new generation of I'vegone from being mesmerizing to
being the grumpiest guy on theinternet.

All right.
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Segment (41:20):
And now, let's look back at this week in technology.

All right.
We're coming back to June 8th,2009.
Apple introduces the Mac OS XSnow Leopard.
An update famous for the flashynew features.
Now, Snow Leopard featuredspeed, stability, and
efficiency.
It was actually something reallygreat because it actually

(41:47):
reduced the size of the OSpreviously.
So unlike every other OS thatdecides to go larger and larger,
they actually compounded thecode and made it smaller.
This was a big release becausewhat this did is this was
Apple's moving away from thepower PC processors and
completely transitioning to theIntel chipset.

(42:09):
So this is a bad move.
Yeah, well, fast forward totoday.
Apple is now making anotherhistoric shift with the
announcement of the Mac OS 27.
Apple's officially endingsupport for the Intel-based Mac.
The very architecture, SnowLeopard Embraced, is now being

(42:29):
put to the end.
After 20-year chapter, Mac isnow going back to the back and
shooting it.
It's going back to thesilicon-based processor that
they once did with PowerPC.
So this is what happens.
They come around, PowerPC isn'tcompeting with Intel.
Mac says, you know what, we'regoing to go start working with
Intel.

(42:49):
Now Intel is struggling, and sothey created their own chipset
for the silicon that they havenow.
And they're going back.
So it just takes 20 years.
And then in 20 years from now,they're going to be going to
whatever version of the code.

I don't think it's about 20 years.
I think it's about who'sstruggling when they're using
their product.
Well, there you go.
They're kind of like Costco likethat.
Kind of like Costco?
How's that?
Yeah, I go into Costco and I getsomething that I like that's
made by a different vendor.
And then it's never there.
And then they add one that lookslike it, that's, you know,
Costco brand.
Yeah.
And then next thing you know,the one that I like is gone.

(43:21):
Now I have to get their crappyCostco brand.
All right.

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See you after this.

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Segment (44:11):
The segment we've been waiting all week for, Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.

SPEAKER_07 (44:22):
Alright, Mark, what do we got?
Oh, June 9th.
Celebrating today.
If it was uh kind of Mike we'recelebrating.
What?
Mike, if Mike has a doppelgangeras a cartoon character, who
would he be?

Mr.
McGoo?

SPEAKER_07 (44:42):
Oh no, no, Mr.
McGoo is he's a nice old man.

Oh, that's right.
I'm not a nice old man.
I'm a grumpy old guy.

SPEAKER_07 (44:50):
Okay.
So who is Mike's doppelganger asa cartoon character?

As a cartoon character.
Uh Cartman.
What?
You call me Fat Boy?

SPEAKER_07 (45:00):
I didn't know I didn't say that.
It was that bone.
You're big boy! We arecelebrating.
We are celebrating Donald DuckDay.

Oh.
Donald Duck.

SPEAKER_07 (45:09):
So we're here honoring the famously cranky,
barely understandable Disneyicon who made his cartoon debut
as the guys in the studiosprobably remember in The Wise
Little Hen back in 1934.

Well, thanks for telling me not understandable.

SPEAKER_07 (45:26):
He would not meet C Mouse until later that same year
in his second appearance, OrphanBenefits.
Now, much like Mike, Donald'sgrumpy little charm is
impossible to replace.
And he also explained whileDonald has appeared in over 200
films, proving once again thatbeing loud, irritating, and hard
to understand can apparentlylead to a very long career.

Wow.
I I'm I'm not sure I'm feelingthe warmth here, buddy.
You're not feeling the warmth?

SPEAKER_07 (45:57):
Hey, Donald Ducks appeared in almost more than
anything ever for uh for Disney.

For Disney?
I isn't Donald Duck in more uhstuff than even Mickey?
That's because he doesn't wearpants.
I believe so, because Mickeyactually, as much as Mickey is
the main character, I've been Iuh I'm a big Walt Disney fan,
right?
So I I I've the only books thatI've actually read are like
history and stuff of of WaltDisney in itself.
Dr.
Sears books?
Oh well.
No, and so as much as MickeyMouse is the icon that he

(46:23):
decided to draw on his trainride back from New York, as he
was pretty much had just lostOswald the Rabbit, which was his
original icon.
Um it's interesting that Mickeyis limited in all the cartoons
that they produce.
I mean, they had DuckTales withDonald Duck and everything that
was out there.
There's very few Mickey Mousecentric was not with Donald.

(46:45):
DuckTales was Scrooge McDuck.
Well, Scrooge and Donald.
Donald was the the uncle and theHuey Dewey and Louie were all
the nephews that they camearound, right?
Yep.
I mean DuckTales was like show.
Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_07 (46:56):
Continuing on, much like much like Donald Duck, as
Nathan talks about, who comesfrom the proud Scottish lineage
of Clan McDuck.
Tonight's distillery also hasdeep Scottish roots.
Arbeiki distillery is owned bythe Sterling family, who have
been farming for more than 400years with four generations at
Lunan Bay, and a family historytracing back to 1660.

(47:20):
So today, brothers David, Ian,and John Sterling are the
visionaries behind our Beaky, atrue field distillery.
Now, our Beaky is also lookingto the future, just like tech
time.
The distillery has taken stepstowards becoming the first
world's hydrogen powereddistillery, install installing a

(47:41):
one megawatt wind turbine,hydrogen electrolyzer, hydrogen
storage, and a hydrogen toilersystem.

SPEAKER_02 (47:49):
Wow.
Okay.

SPEAKER_07 (47:50):
The goal is to become the world's first climate
positive positive distilleryproducing zero carbon emissions
during combustion, changing thespirit making process.

So today we are drinking Was that didn't didn't
didn't the one we talked aboutlast week have some of the same
outlook?
Uh maybe.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 (48:10):
A little bit.
They're from uh yeah, they werefrom was it Denmark?
I don't remember.

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_07 (48:15):
Yeah, so so Europe's kind of leading the charge on
that.

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_07 (48:20):
Uh so today we're drinking whiskey that honors
Scottish tradition, embracesfuture technology, and still
somehow ended up being judged bythis distinguished panel of
misfits in a certainquestionable palette, honestly.

No ow.

SPEAKER_07 (48:35):
Wow, wow, wow.

No names.
No names.
That's okay.
I said it.
I outed them.
There you go.

SPEAKER_07 (48:43):
All right.
Well, I I just say, hey, how'sit how's it drinking, Mike?

I'm already done.
Yes, I'm still done.

SPEAKER_07 (48:49):
There you go.
Pretty good.
They're rye whiskey.
Yeah, I'm really I like it.

Do you want my extra?
No.
Okay.

SPEAKER_07 (48:54):
That kind of calls out who the questionable palette
is.

unknown (48:58):
Wow.

Okay.
All right.
You know what?
Thanks, uh, Mark.
Whiskey and technology are sucha great pairing.
Like the Family Feud and SteveHarvey.
Uh yeah.
See?
Last week was the prices rightand Bob Barker.

SPEAKER_07 (49:14):
You have you You didn't do Drew Carey, the new
generation.
You did so.
Okay, Mark.
Richard Dawson, come on.

I know Mark, you're a Richard Dawson fan.
So every time I watch the FamilyFeud and see him kissing ladies,
I just think, Mark, that musthave been the Mark's favorite
host.
All right, here we go.
Did you see Richard Dawson inperson?

SPEAKER_07 (49:34):
I went to Family Feud and saw tape back then.
Oh, did you really?

I did.
Was he as drunk as he lookedlike on TV?

SPEAKER_07 (49:41):
No.

No?
Okay.
Okay.
So that was kind of he did I myuncle and his family was on it.
Oh, really?

SPEAKER_07 (49:47):
Did they win?
Oh, that's so long.
I think they won one round andthen lost the next.

Okay.
All right.
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Instagram had a major slip-upthis week as the new AI support
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people's account.

Here's what happened (50:21):
the hacker used a VPN to pretend they were
in the victim's location.
They went through Instagram'saccount recovery steps and
simply asked the AI support tochange the email on the account.
Yeah, I said okay.
Sent the verification code tothe hacker, and from there the
hacker could reset the passwordand take over the account.
Even high profile accounts werehit, including an Instagram post

(50:43):
that was uh sent out fromPresident Barack Obama, which
briefly posted strange politicalcontent that said that he loved
Donald Trump before beingrecovered.
Security researchers alsoreported their passwords being
changed without their knowledge.
The bigger issue?
Many users say they can't reacha human for help.
And at these online companies, Iknow that is correct.

(51:05):
You can always get asalesperson, but if you ever
need anything with your account,you can pretty much forget it.
So guess what?
We have AI to help us takecontrol or lose control of the
system.
Now, Meta says the flaw is fixedand affected accounts are being
secured.
What a great thing.
Yeah, thanks, Meta.
Yeah, we screwed up.
Oh yeah, oops, we shouldn't havedone that.
Guess what?
Oops, sorry.
Guess what?

(51:25):
It's a free system.

I'm gonna try to log on to Instagram when I get
home to see if I have a if Istill have it.
Well, we'll see if I never useit, but you know.
Yeah.
We know the power of somebodyusing mics social media.

Yeah, these are the only AI bots it seems that uh uh
Instagram or Meta can usebecause you can never get hold
of anybody else.
Well, let's now get ready.
I know.
Get ready for the Nathan Nugget.

This is your nugget of the week.

All right, Hasbro, please stop doing AI wrong with
our childhood.
Now, Hasbro's latest brainstormis to turn Optimus Prime,
Megatron, and Mr.
Potato Head into AI chatbots.
And if that sounds like aterrible idea, that's because it
is.
The company's new sixth wall AIstudio promises to serve these
characters with the thinking andtalking that is iconic for each

(52:20):
of these characters.
But now they're gonna help youwith AI.
So just think of that.
If I wanted to go to Hasbro'ssite, I can get Optimus Prime
and he can help me be my talkbuddy.
Roll on.
All right, here's the hero inthe story.
Mr.
Potato Head didn't evenoriginally talk when it came on
out.
But now we decided after theyput him in Toy Story and he had

(52:41):
a voice that we're now gonnahave Mr.
Potato Head have a voice andhelp with AI.
Let me just tell you this.
Are they gonna use the voiceactor?
They did.
They're using the voice actorthat's passed away.
Really?
So they so they had the use ofhis voice.
They have Optimus Prime andMegatron's very close simulation
voices.

Which one?
The movie Optimus or theCartoon.
The Cartoon Optimus.

The Cartoon Optimus.
All right.
This is a bad idea.
Yeah, Hasbro, please.

Yeah, Hasbro has become a really not good.

Make better toys, tell better stories, create new
characters, and leave thechatbots dead of something else.
Well, now we're gonna move intoour pick of the day.
Game over, man.
Whiskey tasting.
Game over, man.
All right, let's see what wegot.

And now our pick of the day for our whiskey
tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.

SPEAKER_07 (53:36):
Alright, what do we have here, Mark?
Arbeiki 1794 Highland Rye SingleGrain Scotch.
So it's from Arbeiki Distilleryfrom Scotland.
It's a Scotch whiskey, but it'sreally classified can be as a
rye whiskey.
Four years, 96 approof and$120MSRP, but you can find it for
much cheaper out there.

Okay.
Alright.
Well, what was your take onthis?

You like thumbs up or thumbs down, Mike?
I I think I can confidently givethis a thumbs up.
I really enjoyed this one.

Okay.

Even though I'm not a huge Scotch guy.
Uh but I'm a rye guy,apparently, so that made up the
difference.

SPEAKER_07 (54:13):
It's a rye whiskey made in Scotland.

Okay.
You know what, Mark?
I'm gonna have to say I'm sorry,I'm gonna put a thumbs down.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Of course.

SPEAKER_07 (54:20):
We expected that.

Okay.
I think he moved seven.
That's right.
Um, so you need Canadian mist.
I need Canadian mist.
Is that what I need?

SPEAKER_02 (54:32):
Yeah.

Yeah.
Well, guess what we're about outof time.
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world.
One breach, breakthrough, andbourbon at a time.
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