Discover the unexpected connections between technology and everyday life in our latest episode of Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. Have you ever wondered how AI could inadvertently impact your commute or if your parking choices could land you in hot water? Join us as we unpack the implications of AI-powered enforcement systems and share the scoop on a Volkswagen data leak that exposed the personal information of 800,000 electric vehicle owners. Plus, hear about a quirky Reddit initiative aiming to keep the holiday spirit alive with a heartwarming tale of a beetle plushie making the rounds as a holiday gift.
We take a closer look at the tangled web of politics and tech with TikTok's ongoing legal battles in the U.S. and former President Trump’s surprising stance on the platform. The stakes are high as privacy concerns collide with national security debates, and we dive into the latest developments in this complex narrative. And if you're in the mood for something lighter, we've got stories about creative settlements that'll leave you chuckling and a playful "Two Truths and a Lie" game that challenges you to guess which tech tidbit isn't true.
No episode of Tech Time Radio would be complete without a whiskey tasting adventure, and this one is no exception. We're sampling four straight bourbons from the 2024 whiskey advent calendar and sharing our tasting notes. As laughter flows like fine whiskey, we also touch upon a tech fail involving Apple AirTags and mark National Pass Gas Day with some hilarious banter. Buckle up for a ride through tech news, spirited tastings, and engaging tales that promise to keep you both informed and entertained.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting across the nation, from the East Coast
to the West, keeping you up todate on technology while
enjoying a little whiskey on theside, with leading-edge topics,
along with special guests tonavigate technology in a
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Pull up a seat, raise a glasswith our hosts as we spend the
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Welcome to Tech Time Radio withNathan.
Nathan Mum (00:28):
Mumm.
Welcome to Tech Time withNathan Mumm.
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Welcome everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Let's start today's show.
Nathan Mum (01:32):
Now on today's show.
All right.
This week on Tech Time Radio,we're diving into some exciting
updates and intriguing techmysteries.
Discover the latest changesApple is making to its products
and find out what unusualsettlements are making headlines
.
Next, we take a trip downmemory lane to an event that
happened 25 years ago.
At the beginning of the year,the reddit community has also
found a creative way to keep theholiday spirit alive, and
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there's a new reason to considerwhere you park for your quick
errands.
Plus, we have to reveal theimpacts of a major data leak and
the latest twist in thehigh-stakes legal battle with
TikTok.
In addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan naked and, ofcourse, our pick of the day
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whiskey tasting to see if ourselected whiskey pick gets 0, 1,
2 thumbs up at the end of theshow.
Now, today, we're doingsomething different on the
picking All right, so Marco willexplain what's going on here.
We're going to be doing this ateach beginning of the month all
the way through November, andthen we'll be picking it up.
We're going to kind of do sometaste.
Testing is what Marco wants todo.
He's getting crazy.
He just wants more, I thinkwhiskey.
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Do you think that's what thekey is for this?
Mike Gorday (02:39):
I don't know.
We did the very first shows.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We did.
So we're kind of going back,except we were sampling like six
different whiskeys.
Nathan Mum (02:45):
Yeah, so at least these.
But just think of this.
Mike Gorday (02:47):
This is like four shots, so by the time we're done
with this show.
We're going to be able to youknow by the time you're done
with yours versus because I'mnot drinking that much, I'm just
sipping, you're just sipping,yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
By the All right, okay, well, you know what?
Now let's move to the latestheadlines in the world of
technology.
Here are our top technologystories of the week.
Nathan Mum (03:11):
All right.
Story number one Trump asks theSupreme Court to delay the
start of the TikTok ban.
All right, let's go to CorrineWestland for more on this story.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme
Court on Friday to pause thepotential TikTok ban from going
into effect until hisadministration can pursue a
political resolution to theissue.
Trump joined the app during his2024 presidential campaign and
his team used it to connect withyounger voters, especially male
voters, by pushing content thatwas often macho and aimed at
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going viral.
Trump said earlier this yearthat he still believed there
were national security riskswith TikTok, but that he opposed
banning it.
This month, trump also met withTikTok CEO Sho Chu at his
Mar-a-Lago club in Florida todiscuss the media sharing app.
Back to you guys in the studio.
Mike Gorday (04:08):
Didn't he want to ban it when he was president
before?
Nathan Mum (04:11):
So well, no, no, no.
Actually, for his first term,he loved TikTok because it
created competition against Metaand the other apps that were
out there that he was all upsetwith because he doesn't like
them.
I must be, but hang on, becauseI remember things change though
.
Yeah, I remember there was thisbig thing during his presidency
about how bad tiktok was well,it was bad, but he was also very
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happy that it was able tocompete with the american
companies that at that time,zuckerberg, he was very upset
with and other people that hewas upset with.
Mike Gorday (04:41):
But now, what you can do.
Billionaire bitch fights.
I don, how do you dobillionaire bitch?
Nathan Mum (04:45):
fights.
Mike Gorday (04:45):
I don't know what that's all about.
Nathan Mum (04:46):
Yeah, you know what I'll tell you.
This is what we got going on.
We essentially have a whole newpresident in this term here,
because now he's invitingeverybody to his estate in
Florida and they can just comein.
Zuckerberg's been there.
Everybody just comes and visitshim and by the time they leave,
then Trump and him are likebest buddies, so he invites the
CEO from TikTok over.
Mike Gorday (05:06):
They got to go kiss a ring or something.
I have no idea All right.
Nathan Mum (05:09):
Well, this request came as TikTok and the Biden
administration filed opposingbriefs in court with the company
, arguing that the court shouldstrike down the law that could
ban the platform by January 19th.
Well, the government emphasizedits position on the statues it
needed to eliminate it as anational security risk.
In a brief from Trump, though,he says he opposes banning
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TikTok at this junction andseeks the ability to resolve the
issue at hand through politicalmeans once he takes the office.
Attorneys for TikTok and hisparent company, bytedance,
argued that the federal appealscourt erred in this ruling and
based it on its decisions ofalleged risks that China could
exercise control over TikTok'sUS platform by pressuring its
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foreign affiliates.
The Biden administration hasargued in court that TikTok
poses a national security riskdue to the connection to China,
but officials say, just becauseChina owns it and ByteDance has
that information, that it'sturned over.
It's information for US patronsto view and to take a look at.
You can't hold them legallyliable for having the ability to
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do something if they haven'tdone the ability of doing
something.
So that's kind of where we'reat right now.
We have this filing that camein last Friday from the
administration that says thatit's by dance company.
All right.
Mike Gorday (06:28):
Who's going to?
Who's going to?
What's going to happen?
What do you think?
Nathan Mum (06:32):
So I think this is what's going to happen.
I think it will get very closeto being removed.
There'll be lots of pushbackfrom the app stores, including
the Apple store, the Google playstore, that this would be a
really tough thing to pull itback Cause you're gonna have to
start blocking people.
The technology to do this meansyou have to go onto their
phones, which is kind of aninvasion of privacy in their app
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area.
Remove the app.
So is that good?
The government is now going tocontrol what apps you have on
your device.
I think nothing happens.
I think Trump comes on in.
I think he does some type ofbackdoor agreement not agreement
and he comes on out shakinghands and says we're all good,
don't worry about it, I'll keepthe night on China.
Mike Gorday (07:14):
What do you think?
What do you think our buddyEspinoza, espinoza, espinoza?
Nathan Mum (07:19):
hates TikTok right, yeah.
And I like TikTok and I thinkTikTok is really good because I
think it's nice to have othercompanies out there competing
with the United States,companies that we know.
Meta sells their data to theUnited States so that they can
go through and prune informationand find out information about
its clients.
I just don't like having onlyone person in a sphere of
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control.
Let's just have three or fourpeople.
Mike Gorday (07:44):
I really enjoy the way you, the way you rationalize
this, but uh, what is that?
Nathan Mum (07:49):
no, I don't agree with that.
Okay, so you're on that.
Yeah, you're on next.
You're on nick's side.
Marc Gregoire (07:53):
I'm on nick's side of the fence okay I.
Mike Gorday (07:56):
I don't think we should have foreign powers,
learning about american citizens.
Nathan Mum (08:01):
See I, I think american powers learning about
american citizens, not that, notthat.
Think American powers are notAmerican citizens.
Mike Gorday (08:05):
Not that a Chinese government watching TikToks
about people shuffle dancing isreally going to do a whole lot,
so it's going to know that Ilike a lot of homework If
there's a national security riskinvolved that's a problem.
Nathan Mum (08:18):
I only gave him my name and my email address.
More stuff out there has beencompromised by me having a
healthcare provider that I haveto use it really doesn't matter,
because, no matter what we do,we talk about it all the time.
Mike Gorday (08:32):
Everybody gets hacked and everybody's data is
out there anyway.
Later in today's show we'regoing to be talking about, I'll
just be positive about that andbe like hey, pro TikTok.
Nathan Mum (08:41):
Let's get that thing .
Mike Gorday (08:43):
Let's fact.
Instead of just banning TikTok,let's just open it up to all
government agencies and let themhave everything.
Nathan Mum (08:49):
Wait till story number four, because if this
scares you right here, this doesscare me.
I give them little informationof what they have.
Wait till you get to storynumber four.
Mike Gorday (08:58):
I don't want, I don't want.
I want a drink before then.
Nathan Mum (09:00):
Okay, All right, Odie.
Ody (09:11):
I think you're up with story number two, is that right?
Yeah, um, beth patton.
Yep, her favorite gift she'sever given through the holiday
exchanges this year was inspiredby her anonymous recipient's
fondness for antiques andbeetles.
She made a stuffed beetleplushie using antique brocade
fabric she found quote making astranger's christmas is just
really fun.
Marc Gregoire (09:24):
End quote Okay.
Ody (09:26):
For Beth Patton, the best part of the holiday season is
not the lights or the snow oropening presents from family
members.
It's swapping gifts with randomstrangers on the internet.
It was the latest onlinegift-giving event of its kind to
shut down, as Imgur's eventfollowed the same fate as the
immensely popular Redditditgifts, which I've never heard
about okay, you never heardabout, I've never heard about
(09:48):
until today okay but that endedin 2021.
But the christmas spirit isstrong and patent and other
reddit users are keeping user touser gift exchanges alive.
After her go-to exchange died,patent Patton is now
participating in Given Gifts,another program that sprung up
in the wake of Reddit's giftsdemise three years ago.
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She's already done five giftexchanges this holiday season.
Its main holiday gift swapevent works much like the
Reddit-run Secret Santa.
The annual tradition matcheshundreds of people together
anonymously from around theworld, who are then each
responsible for giving a presentto the other.
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Gifters are given a brief bitof their gifties interests,
their likes and dislikes, tohelp them come up with a present
they think the recipient wouldlike the given gifts exchange
are organized on a websiteseparate from its dedicated
subreddit, and keeping up thefast growing event became more
involved.
(10:51):
The team had to find a way tomake sure matches were in the
same country so this is like aglobal thing and so that way
they didn't have to payinternational shipping rates.
And when the team ran intoissues like people not getting
gifts, they began a rematchingprogram that ensured no one came
up empty-handed.
People are extremely emotionalwhen they're giving and
receiving gifts.
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It becomes a special thing tothem and they need help.
We would get thousands ofemails when it's growing
exponentially every year.
You know that means that we'restill talking to just a massive
amount of users.
For now, Patton the 26 the 26year old is happy that her idea
of Christmas isn't canceled.
There's just nothing like thatin real life.
Doing a secret Santa withpeople you know just isn't the
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same thing as this massive thingwith strangers.
You feel like you're a part ofsomething bigger.
Nathan Mum (11:38):
That's part of Christmas all right so that's a
good little feel-good story okay, so so do you do secret Santas.
Ody (11:45):
No.
Nathan Mum (11:45):
Okay, you don't do secret Santas.
We do a little bit of a secretSanta at work and then we do a
different gift exchange for NewYear's which is much more
aggressive than a secret Santa,Would you say, Mike.
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (12:02):
Absolutely A little bit more aggressive.
Yes, the mom family Super Bowl.
It's a death match of giftgiving and taking and throwing.
Nathan Mum (12:14):
But you did come out with some nice whiskey.
Well, it's fun, it's fun it isAll right, so it's very
competitive.
Mike Gorday (12:22):
It's cutthroat.
Nathan Mum (12:22):
Yeah, so do you understand this gift gifting
stuff?
They ship all of the stuff to acompany, so it's very
competitive, it's cutthroat.
Yeah, so do you understand thisgift gifting stuff?
They ship all of the stuff to acompany.
So I used to think of that.
So until I started researchingthis, I thought that you would
just get an address of somebodyand then you could just send
that item to an address ofsomebody.
Ody (12:36):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (12:36):
That's how it originally started.
But then all of a sudden youhad like creepers and stalkers
and stalkers.
Ody (12:41):
That's what I thought.
Nathan Mum (12:41):
They would find out what's going on.
So now what happens is you geta secret Santa.
You send it into this company.
This company then takes them.
They say there's so many people.
They take all these gifts andthey say, okay, this is from
Amanda H and it's going to TracyC, and they then ship it out
because you pay for the shippingto go there to the place.
Then you pay money to have itshipped out so you can send
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random strangers on the internetjust for the holidays that's
kind of cool is it kind of cool,you like, you'd like to do that
I think it would be fun.
Ody (13:11):
I think it's better than, like you know, people are
willingly participating otherthan you know how you said at
your work yeah not everybody issuper happy and not everybody is
fully into getting a good gift.
That is 30 some dollars.
Nathan Mum (13:25):
You know yeah.
Ody (13:27):
A lot of people just try to get away One, they forget about
it and then they don't do it.
Or two, they don't want tospend up to the exact amount, or
like in the office when Michaeljust spent way too much.
And then other people were, youknow, fighting over one
specific item.
Mike Gorday (13:43):
You mean Michael Scott?
Ody (13:44):
from the Office.
Mike Gorday (13:46):
Yes, with the iPod.
Ody (13:46):
With the iPod.
Mike Gorday (13:49):
Because he wanted to have the great gift right.
Yes, that shows one of theproblem areas of these types of
things.
Nathan Mum (13:56):
All right, exactly.
Speaking of problems, you knowwhat?
There's a lot of problems withpeople parking where they
shouldn't.
Ody (14:04):
I'm guilty of this.
Are you're guilty of that, areyou?
Mike Gorday (14:06):
are you guilty of parking in the bus lane?
Ody (14:09):
no, but listen.
Capitol hill is a minefield onits own.
If I want to park in the centerlane and put on my little
caution lights for the fiveminutes that I'm picking up a
pizza, yeah screw that, I'mdoing it.
Whoa Well not an, even maybenumber.
Nathan Mum (14:25):
All right, I think Mike has a story for us.
Ody (14:28):
It's not a bus lane, it's the center lane.
Nathan Mum (14:30):
Okay, well, hey, don't be giving spoilers out yet
.
That's even worse.
Here you go here you go.
Mike Gorday (14:33):
You're up, mike yeah, if you're the kind of
person that likes to park in thebus lane for a quick errand
because the nation's biggesttransit systems are now using
AI-enhanced cameras to keep buslanes clear of illegally parked
cars.
The company behind thosecampers is a startup called
Hayden AI, which offered todemonstrate how they work in
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real life on the streets.
Near its offices in New Jerseysuburbs, cameras are mounted
inside of the front windshieldof the bus, where they can take
in everything that's happeningin the front of it.
The system analyzes thoseimages to the side of us looking
at a vehicle and whether thatvehicle is stopped somewhere it
shouldn't be.
In just three years, hayden AIhas launched services with
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transit agencies in New York,washington, oakland, california
and Los Angeles, so right nowit's okay, but it is deploying
pilot programs in Seattle andDenver.
There you go, it's not okay, asit should.
And it's talking with othercities, including Philly and
Chicago.
Nathan Mum (15:33):
So yeah, they now have these installed.
I know the person that actuallyworked on installing these in
Seattle.
Ody (15:39):
As a Washingtonian, what are you doing?
Parking in the bus lane.
We don't have any space forthese cars, to begin with,
because we don't have any space.
Mike Gorday (15:48):
That's one of the urban problems is the amount of
space and the amount of vehiclesthat we have and all the
wonderful infrastructure thatdoesn't support it.
That's why you need to take thelight rail.
So, yes, take the light rail.
Nathan Mum (16:02):
It actually works really nice.
In center of seattle yeah yeahbut, and on the outskirts, not
that much, okay, okay, all right, I'll keep on going.
Mike Gorday (16:10):
Mike, tell us more about this great system that
it's going to be the camerasystems are using the ai to help
transit agencies catch and finddrivers who illegally black the
law, illegally block bus lanesand bus stops.
Uh, but that's not the ultimategoal.
Ody (16:26):
No.
Mike Gorday (16:26):
When you look at the reason for enforcement, it's
really not to write tickets.
It's about changing behavior.
So this is basically what'scalled reinforcement types of
behavior management, and we'reseeing a reduction in the number
of repeat offenders.
That's true, because if youkeep getting tagged, you're
probably going to stop doingthat.
Marc Gregoire (16:48):
You're really going to stop doing it.
Mike Gorday (16:49):
There's some evidence that these camera
systems are helping buses movefaster, though their rollout has
hit a few speed bumpsthemselves.
That expansion is not goingquite as planned.
As hundreds of driversoriginally received some
erroneous tickets, it wasn'tanything too worrisome at first,
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because you realize that youwere parked in a legal spot, and
this person that I guess waserroneously tagged says that
he's careful about parking onlyin a legal spot, so he was
surprised when the ticketsstarted arriving.
Tickets, tickets.
Tickets Three in a single day.
(17:30):
What?
Yes, there's supposed to be anadditional level of human review
.
Again, this is always theproblem that I talk about, that
we talk about when we talk aboutthis AI stuff.
There should be somebody who islooking at each video of the
alleged violation beforedeciding whether or not to issue
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the ticket and, typicallyspeaking, that doesn't happen
because we have a replacement.
Nathan Mum (17:58):
We trust the technology, yeah.
But if you replace it and youget 80 to 90% of the people that
actually end up paying thefines immediately and then you
have to only have customersupport for the 10 to 20% I'm in
all these new meetings now atsenior level management At a
senior level, they wouldconsider that a great idea that
I only have to worry about 20%.
Mike Gorday (18:22):
That's like saying we have 100 hostages and and
we're gonna be able to rescue 90of them.
That's, that's exactly the sameargument yes, you're saying
that 10 is going to getillegally fined, that's okay
well, but then so they can.
Nathan Mum (18:39):
10.
Mike Gorday (18:39):
The hostages are not going to make it out, that's
okay we've got 90.
Ody (18:42):
you know what.
If they have an issue, theycould just pay attention to
where they're parking well,that's what.
Mike Gorday (18:48):
That's what this fellow's point was is he was
parking in a legal spot and hegot, he was getting tickets.
He said he got three tickets inone day so because the system
was erroneously thinking he wasin an illegal spot.
Nathan Mum (19:03):
He does not believe in the system, but just like red
light cameras.
Do you like red light cameras?
Ody (19:09):
I love red light cameras.
Best form of entertainmentwhile you're driving.
Mike Gorday (19:15):
Truly, you're just sitting there at the red light
watching people get tagged, yeah.
Nathan Mum (19:22):
They get tagged all the time.
So you know red light camerasnow are pretty much universal
across the United States andthey generate a lot of income
because people don't stop and doit so some of the stuff will
pay for itself.
They keep on issuing lots oftickets for you.
Mike Gorday (19:37):
It's not always about the money, though, is it?
Nathan Mum (19:40):
No, you think the departments of these really care
about people parking in the buslanes.
They want to make the money.
Mike Gorday (19:46):
They want the bus lanes clear.
I get that, okay, okay, so thisis not a simple problem, it's a
complex problem.
Yeah, because, like we talkedabout at the beginning of the
the thing, the infrastructure isnot built for what americans
like to have.
So we have all these cars andthen we conglomerate in these
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cities and there's not enoughplaces to put your cars
especially if you have more thanone, was perfect when we were
traveling in japan.
They understand how to do carslike one car have cars.
Nathan Mum (20:18):
So everything is yeah, everything is mass
commuted on either a bus line,an Uber, Pica or a shuttle
service that's culturallygenerated.
Ody (20:26):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (20:26):
Because they live on islands.
Ody (20:29):
They don't require all that stuff.
Americans are not like this.
We want our cars.
Nathan Mum (20:35):
We want our freedom.
Mike Gorday (20:35):
Yeah, personal freedoms and stuff like that.
Speaking of cars.
Nathan Mum (20:37):
Let's talk about Volkswagen.
The car manufacturer had a leakthat exposed the location of
800,000 electric vehicles.
Just think, if you're drivingin a Volkswagen, it's an
electric car and all of a sudden, someone can track and know
exactly where you are.
Know information about youremail, your address, your phone
number and information on yourdriver's record.
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That's all available.
Well, for months, thisinformation has been around for
all Volkswagen vehicles,available online, due to a data
leak.
According to a report from aGerman news magazine,
jurorspiegel, the leakreportedly stemmed from the
software running inside theVolkswagen's vehicle.
A whistleblower noted that italso affects EVs from
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Volkswagen's owned car brands ona global scale, including the
Audi, the Seat and the Skoda.
We talked about this eightmonths ago regarding modern cars
are a privacy nightmare on areport that was done from
Mozilla, and we talked about howautomakers are also selling
data and blocking the rights torepair.
(21:39):
Automakers are also sellingdata and blocking the rights to
repair.
It's very interesting becausewhen you ask the customer
service on what happened here,it does note that there was a
leak of services, but it hasbeen fixed and the amounts of
data collected by modern dayvehicles in this privacy
nightmare has been taken care ofand no action is needed.
So let's talk about whatactually happened here, just
(22:01):
real briefly.
We had 800 000 electricvehicles in volkswagen that has
a pinging device inside of them,with gps pinging device that
they did not have code writtencorrectly for, and at any time
you could just pull up a carmake and model number and you
could see the person driving it,the email, the person driving
it where, the email of theperson driving it where it was
across the globe.
Does that make you feel safe tobuy a new Volkswagen?
Mike Gorday (22:24):
Oh yeah, I always want everybody knowing where I
live.
Nathan Mum (22:27):
Exactly where I park and your phone number,
especially if I'm in a bus lane.
Your bus lane.
What's interesting about thisis there's no recourse for
Volkswagen.
They just say that they had aleak and they took care of it
and as that information wasavailable online for people to
look at, just freely available,nobody hacked into it, it was
just available on that.
It's no big deal, I guess.
Mike Gorday (22:46):
No harm, no foul.
That's what happened, Becauseat some point people just go, eh
, it's going to happen.
Nathan Mum (22:51):
That's because they signed their user agreements
that said, if that happens, thatthey cannot sue.
All All right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, we have moretechnology news just around the
corner.
Buckle up tech enthusiasts, aswe're going to do so with two
truths and a lie, after thiscommercial break.
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Nathan Mum (23:56):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, where
our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without a
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
he has a new first of the monthtradition that we're going to
start.
So, mark, what have we chosenfor us today?
What is going on here?
Mike Gorday (24:15):
We have four glasses in front of us, all
these glasses of whiskey, and wehaven't even started drinking
yet.
So after that last news report,I really need some all right.
Marc Gregoire (24:24):
Well, I'm glad I brought four for each of you
today.
So today we are doing the 2024flavor out advent calendar round
one okay so we are using the2024 whiskey advent.
That way we don't spoil it foranybody.
All right, there's 24remarkable whiskeys to use for
our year-long blind whiskeycompetition to see which one
(24:48):
Nathan and Mike like best.
Come along for the ride on thefirst Tuesday of every month
while we uncover new tastes andtrain their senses to become
true connoisseurs, today isround one, where they will
choose their winner to move on.
If they disagree, I will be thedeciding vote.
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Now, today, all four of oursamples are straight bourbon
(25:10):
whiskey.
So start tasting them, becauseyou got to get through four.
Nathan Mum (25:13):
All right, here we go.
Here's the first one.
Marc Gregoire (25:15):
Now bourbon.
Straight bourbon whiskey is atype of bourbon whiskey aged in
new charge oak containers for atleast two years, adhering to
strict regulations to ensureauthenticity and purity.
Now these are the regulationsto be called straight whiskey
Location must be made in the US.
The ingredients must have atleast 51% corn in the mash bill.
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Distillation to no more than160 proof when you distill it,
Age and you chart oak containersfor at least two years.
Additives there's no flavoring,coloring or additives allowed,
Only water to adjust the proofthe proof must go into the
barrels at no more than 125proof, Bottled at less than 80
(26:00):
proof.
And the labeling if it's underfour years, that there must be
an age on the bottle.
If there's no age on the bottle, you know it's at least four
years.
Nathan Mum (26:09):
Wow all right, okay, all right, have you tasted?
Mike Gorday (26:14):
tasted all of them, mike.
No, I'm.
I'm taking my time so I cangive a little bit of space
between my tasting.
You just slammed everything.
Nathan Mum (26:23):
I got two immediately that I have
eliminated.
I'm eliminated two.
I'm going to get it downbetween the next two as I will
continue to sip.
The other items number one anditems number four are pretty
much been gotten rid of.
Marc Gregoire (26:40):
Number one and number four, all right, well,
hang on, but don't tell me yet,though, why not?
Nathan Mum (26:45):
That's good.
Marc Gregoire (26:45):
We're going to reveal what everything is at the
end of the Mark's Mumbles, sostay tuned for that.
In the meantime, just keepdrinking and enjoying, but
remember, drink responsibly,because heaven can wait All
right.
Nathan Mum (27:00):
With our first whiskey tasting, completed our
first four.
Let's move on to our featuresegment.
Today we have a rare segmentthat tests our staff with what
is true and what is not.
Let's start our next segment.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And now we have two truths and a lie and now we have
.
Nathan Mum (27:19):
And now we have two truths and a lie.
Mike Gorday (27:21):
We a lot of two truths, two truths, two truths
and a lie all right, here's whatwe got.
Nathan Mum (27:26):
I'm gonna ask you guys these are three headlines
out of the news and you're gonnachoose which one of these is
correct od, you're up on thisone too.
So here we go, let's take alook.
Number one story the mostpirated tv show in 2024 was
avatar the last airbender.
A young boy known as the avatarmust master the four elements
powers to save the world andfight against an enemy bent on
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stopping him.
So that's story number one.
Story number two samsungbespoke fridges are adding ai
that will look inside yourfridges and analyze your grocery
needs and then put in anautomatic Instacart order.
Samsung wants your fridge totake care of your grocery
shopping with a littleassistance from Instacart.
Samsung and Instacart havepartnered on same-day grocery
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delivery based on what the AI inSamsung's bespoke refrigerators
sees that you need to have.
In other words, the fridgecould tell them the milk is
running low and add a carton toyour Instacart order before you
even notice.
And story number three.
So that's story number two yourrefrigerator is now ordering
stuff for you from Instacart.
Story number one the mostpirated show was Avatar.
(28:31):
And story number three AppleCEO Tim Cook is the next tech
executive to donate $1 millionto the president-elect Donald
Trump's inauguration committee.
Cook's donation follows similarcomments and commitments from
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, amazonfounder Jeff Bezos and Meta, as
a big tech company's andexecutive's work to curry favor
(28:54):
with the incoming administration.
All right.
So I never knew that thisinauguration committee and this
inauguration money was ever likethis big deal, but this guy has
now got over $10 million in hiswar chest.
For what's the inauguration?
Is it just for the party?
I need to find out moreinformation from that, cause I
(29:14):
don't know if that's just tothrow the party or it's for the
whole ceremony.
Marc Gregoire (29:19):
The swearing in it's for all that they bring
bands.
Yeah, okay, it's gonna be thebiggest one ever.
Mike Gorday (29:24):
Wow so that one is a true one, huh well I don't
know that.
Nathan Mum (29:27):
Okay, well, did you?
Did you listen to everything inthere?
Are we sure that opens aico?
Sam altman and jeff bezos andmeta have also donated a million
dollars.
So let's see, that was thelittle trick I could have thrown
in there, right?
Mike Gorday (29:42):
Yeah, we know your game, buddy.
Nathan Mum (29:43):
Okay or alright so here.
So okay, odie, are you tryingto look online real quick?
Ody (29:49):
I'm on Facebook.
You're on Facebook, okayalright.
Nathan Mum (29:52):
Which one of these three do you think is the lie?
Ody (29:54):
You know as much as I love Avatar, the Last Airbender.
I think that's a lie.
Nathan Mum (29:59):
You think that's a lie.
Ody (30:00):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (30:01):
Okay.
Ody (30:01):
It's too good to be true.
Nathan Mum (30:03):
Okay, in my eyes All right, that's your lie.
Marc Gregoire (30:05):
Okay, mark, what's your lie?
You know, I had the samethought as Odie, except I don't
want number three to be true.
So I'm going to say that one'snot Tim Cook and Apple CEO
giving him money.
All right.
Nathan Mum (30:20):
So he's got a number .
Well, Mike, it's up to you.
There's two.
Mike Gorday (30:24):
Yeah, I'm going to go with Odie here.
I'm going to say that LastAvatar is the false one, because
I can really believe that AI istrying to tell me my milk is
low and going to try and orderit online.
I'm pretty sure that donating amillion dollars to the
(30:47):
inauguration fund is a normalbehavior.
Okay.
Nathan Mum (30:51):
All right, well, so let's just talk about number two
.
Samsung's fridge of AI is goingto be adding there.
Guess what?
That is going to be happeningin CES, which we're going to be
talking the best of CES from2024 coming on up.
So that was a correct story.
Marc Gregoire (31:05):
That means Nathan did not win today.
Nathan Mum (31:06):
I did not win today.
That is absolutely what thatmeans, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is
donating $1 million to thepresident elect Donald Trump's
committee.
Marc Gregoire (31:17):
That's correct.
That was true, but I didncouldn't vote any other way.
Nathan Mum (31:22):
So the most pirated TV show in 2024.
Does anybody have a guess ofwhat it was?
It was not Avatar, the LastAirbender.
Ody (31:28):
So I knew that was the lie, so I googled it because I was
curious.
I know what the answer is.
Nathan Mum (31:33):
Oh, so you know the answer no, no, no, it's so
obvious.
Ody (31:37):
It wasn't Avatar the Last Airbender.
Nathan Mum (31:39):
So that was the second most downloaded, so that
was actually number two, that'sthe runner up.
Ody (31:46):
Number two was less than half of the pirate Avatar, the
Last Airbender, the Netflixversion or the original the
Netflix.
Nathan Mum (31:52):
The Netflix because it came on out in 2024.
Marc Gregoire (31:55):
Rings of Power.
It wasn't Rings of Power, no.
Nathan Mum (31:59):
Everybody's got Amazon Prime.
Mike Gorday (32:01):
You're talking about the original last.
Ody (32:04):
No, you're talking about the live action one, the dumb
movie.
No, no, no, I don't have.
Mike Gorday (32:11):
Netflix, I think probably the most pirated one
was what's that Netflix showcalled?
It's one of the best Netflixshows.
The Last of Us?
Nathan Mum (32:24):
no, not that one that's HBO.
You just really put your footin it, didn't you?
You're like yeah, no, mike,it's the last of us no, so HBO
is normally the number onedownloaded deal, because most
people don't have HBO that isthe key so the House of Dragons
series continued this season.
You know the House of Dragons.
(32:46):
Yeah, I don't really like thatone.
Okay, well, that was the mostpirated by all over double.
What was the second?
Mike Gorday (32:54):
one, the last dragon.
Ody (32:56):
Or the dragon, the House of Dragons.
The House of Dragons was themost pirated.
It's a Game of Thrones reboot.
Mike Gorday (33:02):
Oh, I know what it is.
I just don't think it's worthyof.
Maybe it's worthy of pirating,I don't know.
Ody (33:10):
Well.
Marc Gregoire (33:10):
Maybe it's worthy of pirating.
I don't know.
A lot of people don't have HBO.
Like Nathan just said,Everybody has Amazon Prime.
If it's not good, is it worthit Pirating?
Mike Gorday (33:15):
versus pain-free.
That's my thing.
Nathan Mum (33:19):
You wouldn't want it on Pirated, let alone you
wouldn't pay for it.
Mike Gorday (33:21):
No, I wouldn't pirate it if I were a pirate.
Okay, well there you go.
Nathan Mum (33:25):
So good job, odie.
Did you find that it was theHouse of Dragons?
Did you look at it real quick?
Ody (33:31):
Well, I just couldn't believe that the live, because
Mark and I went into a wholediscourse about it last year I
know, you know, I could notbelieve that that is the most
pirated one.
Nathan Mum (33:40):
Well, that ends our two truths in the line it's the
second most pirated one.
Marc Gregoire (33:46):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (33:47):
That was a pretty good show actually.
I enjoyed the live-action OnePiece a lot, All right.
Mike Gorday (33:53):
The movie, the old movie, no, no, no, one Piece.
Nathan Mum (33:57):
The new show on Netflix.
Mike needs to get Netflix.
Clearly, Mike does not haveNetflix.
Yeah, Mike needs.
Mike Gorday (34:03):
So somebody needs to call Tim Cook and have him
give some of that inaugural freeso that I can get.
Nathan Mum (34:09):
Netflix A private invite to go down to Trump's
estate down in Florida?
Mike Gorday (34:14):
I don't pay for.
Nathan Mum (34:15):
Netflix Do you realize that he just named his
property.
Ody (34:18):
Mar-a-Lago.
Nathan Mum (34:18):
Yeah, so he just named it.
He just decided, you know whatI'm going to call it something.
And then, instead of anybodycoming on over to my Florida
house, you're just going to comeon over to my Florida house.
You're just going to come onover to this name that I did.
It just kills me.
He just decided to market hisown house.
Ody (34:32):
Are we surprised by this?
Mike Gorday (34:35):
This is now.
Nathan Mum (34:35):
Kingdom Come.
So when you come into my houseand you come into the studio,
you're now coming into KingdomCome.
Marc Gregoire (34:41):
Nathan, I don't want to defend anybody.
However, that is not anuncommon thing to do and it's
actually been shown in realestate.
If you actually name yourproperty or have a name for it,
it actually increases its valuetoo, really, yeah.
Nathan Mum (34:56):
That's why I'm going to name my apartment complex.
Oh, well, there you go.
Mike Gorday (35:06):
There's the get out of that story.
Nathan Mum (35:09):
Let's move on now to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
to say today.
Nathan Mum (35:21):
Mike, here you go.
How do you feel about gettingan AI ticket for committing an
infraction?
Mike Gorday (35:27):
Why do you always have to ask me AI questions when
you know how I feel.
Because it's fun.
Because it's fun, you don'tlike it.
Nathan Mum (35:32):
Well, he does like it.
He's very positive about it.
Mike Gorday (35:35):
Yeah, I'm super positive that I want all AI to
track my movements, what I eat,when I pee in my toilet, where.
Marc Gregoire (35:43):
I park.
Oh, I'm actually lookingforward to that.
Mike Gorday (35:51):
Because that can tell you so much.
Yeah, yeah, the water from thetoilet, yeah, tell me if my
kidneys are failing.
Nathan Mum (35:54):
That's, that's something.
Mike Gorday (35:55):
We got kidney stones, or I'm, I'm so, I'm, so,
I'm getting so old that.
Nathan Mum (35:58):
How do you feel about getting an ai ticket for
committing an infraction?
Mike Gorday (36:01):
I you know what.
I would be okay with it becausethat has a better chance of
getting thrown out of the courtand I won't have to pay anything
, except for the fact that Ihave to spend time going to
court to challenge it.
Ody (36:13):
Yeah, I was just about to say you have to go to court, pay
your parking ticket, which isprobably also AI.
Mike Gorday (36:20):
If we're talking about getting a ticket from a
real police officer versus an AIticket, I would rather get the
AI ticket.
I don't want to get AI ticketsat all.
Okay, but if I have to decidewhether or not I'm going to get
a ticket from a real cop or anAI cop, I would prefer the AI
(36:41):
one, because that would beeasily challenged in court, okay
.
Nathan Mum (36:45):
All right.
Well, thank you, Mike, for yourmesmerizing moment.
Mike Gorday (36:47):
I don't think that was very mesmerizing.
Nathan Mum (36:50):
It's your moment.
Mike Gorday (36:52):
It doesn't really talk about human behavior.
Nathan Mum (36:56):
But you had the AI ticket thing so I was just
curious.
You know people like to learn alittle bit about Mike.
Mike Gorday (37:01):
No, they already know that I don't like AI that
much.
Nathan Mum (37:04):
Okay, well, they're learning If they're new to the
show.
If you're new to the show.
Mike Gorday (37:07):
I don't like AI.
I think it's irresponsible andway overpowered.
Nathan Mum (37:14):
All right Up.
Next, we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side, as we're
going to be doing so during thebreak.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumm.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, mike Yo, yeah, what's up?
Hey?
Mike Gorday (37:29):
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We need people to start likingour social media page.
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I think it's Patreon, okay,patreon.
If you really like us, you canlike us on Patreoncom.
Nathan Mum (37:42):
I butcher the English language.
You know, you butcher theEnglish language all the time.
It's Patreoncom.
Mike Gorday (37:49):
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You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one
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Yeah, we're on Facebook too.
Mike Gorday (38:02):
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Nathan Mum (38:03):
Do you know what our Facebook page is?
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there's a.
There's a trend here?
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Or you can even instagram withus, and that's at tech time
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Or you can find us on tiktok,and it's tech time radio.
Mike Gorday (38:20):
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social like us today we need youto like us, like us and
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That's it's it.
Nathan Mum (38:27):
That's it.
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mum (38:37):
All right.
This week in technology we lookback to January 1st 2000.
It's been 25 years since Y2Kwas a world scare.
What seemed like a joke nowcaused IT people in the world in
1999 to freak out.
In December of 1999, the worldprepared for the global meltdown
known as Y2K.
(38:57):
It all stemmed from a smallsoftware glitch.
Many older computer programshad been coded with dates using
just two numbers instead of four.
At midnight of December 31st itcould misrepresentate what was
going on with a zero.
Zero for the year 2000, whichspread wide panic that this air
(39:18):
could revert everything back tothe early 1900s.
Now the Clinton administrationsaid the preparing was that.
Mike Gorday (39:26):
I said see, this would have been a great question
.
They asked me earlier what wasthat?
What happened here?
Well, you can talk.
The Clinton administration saidthe preparing.
What was that?
I said see, this would havebeen a great question.
Nathan Mum (39:31):
They asked me earlier what was that?
What happened here case?
Well, you can talk.
Okay.
The clinton administration saidthe preparing for the us for y2k
was probably the single largesttechnology management challenge
in history.
The bug threatened to cascade apotential disruption, blackouts
, medical equipment failures,banks shutting down, travel
screeching to a halt if thesystems and softwares weren't
able to continue to functionbecause they did not know what
(39:51):
Euro was.
At least these gave a rise tothe end of the world as we know
it.
But thankfully the Y2K problemin the year 2000 didn't live up
to the height.
Computer specialists andgrassroots organizers prepped
for a global meltdown.
They had formidable yearscoming on up to this where
people were so worried about thezero, zero moving into the
(40:12):
1900s, the people decided tocreate what was known as bug out
bags and mobile home and a yearsupply of dehydrated food, a
propane generator.
They were just some of theprecautions purchased from
California.
Computer programmer ScottOlmstead made an advance to the
year 2000.
Some financial analysts remainskeptical why 2K would come and
(40:33):
go without any disruption.
But by November of 1999, theFederal Reserve said that it was
confident the US economy wouldweather the big glitch.
Dozens of communities acrossthe US formed Y2K-prepared
groups to starve off anunnecessary panic.
Now Kathy Gracia, an organizerfor the Y2K Community Project in
(40:54):
Boulder, colorado, said fearsof the social meltdown offered
opportunity to take stock.
So let me ask you this, mikeY2K came during your time.
Were you scared about Y2Kshutting down everything?
Mike Gorday (41:07):
I was not, but I was working security at that
time frame, so everything wasall hands on deck all over the
place.
We had to lock down ourfacilities, we had to make sure
nobody was trying to break in.
We were advised that we mighthave looters and it was crazy.
(41:30):
This is a really good instanceof mass hysteria on a societal
level.
Nathan Mum (41:38):
I think it was probably even larger than maybe
some of the COVID lockdowns andscares.
It's a little different becausethat is more of a disease that
could kill you, but this waslike the whole economy, you know
arguably, arguably, the y2kproblem could have contributed
to the lack of response for thecovid problem.
Mike Gorday (41:58):
Okay, I mean that you could.
Marc Gregoire (42:00):
You could argue that that some people were like
I remember when y2k came aroundand nothing happened that's a
good point because I rememberwhen y2k come, I was kind of one
of the poo-pooers.
This was overblown, the wholething.
But now, being over 35 years inthe tech industry, I think it
was a really good job by theengineers and software coders
that we had a few years to workon it and the problem got dealt
(42:22):
with.
They did with upgrades.
Nathan Mum (42:24):
I worked for a large software company down in
Redmond Washington Go ahead andsay it it's okay, you can admit
it was.
Microsoft.
Well, I didn't say that, butyou did.
Okay, and it was all hands ondeck and I was an IT person
providing high-level support tobillionaires at the time.
(42:44):
So I was in an executivesupport position and we had all
hands on deck and we had peopleliterally fly to remote
locations.
Most of the executives atMicrosoft were at like remote
locations that they flew to andthey were bunkering down to
ensure in case, things were bad.
This is the big wigs at thesoftware company were scared of
(43:05):
what was going to happen andthey bunker down.
And then all of a suddeneverybody watched Sydney.
So that was, everybody waswatching to see what happened in
Australia.
And then, when Sydney didn'tcrash and things were still
running there, then all of asudden there was this big yes,
we may be able to make it.
And then what we didn't realizewhich is interesting now is
that this is such a global eventthat we could watch other
(43:28):
nations as their time rolledover at different times and then
see how things were going,because by the time it hit
through uk, as it was comingthrough, and there was no issues
, then all of a sudden we gotbig emails coming on out.
It looks like this was a littlebit overblown we've been able
to fix this, don't don't worryabout it, you can stand down.
So it was a very interestingdeal because it didn't even come
(43:49):
to the United States by thetime that we were back on
minimum staff back to justregular support.
Mike Gorday (43:54):
I managed a 20-something person security
force at this one facility.
It was a tech facility and weended up we were all outside
watching fireworks go off.
That's all we did on New Year's1999 was watch fireworks.
All right, Mark, did you doanything?
Nathan Mum (44:15):
in particular.
Marc Gregoire (44:16):
I partied like it was 1999.
Oh Okay.
Nathan Mum (44:21):
All right, I would ask Odie, but Odie does not
remember the words.
Ody (44:25):
I was born seven months later.
Nathan Mum (44:27):
Oh, okay.
Ody (44:28):
There you go, non-existent.
Mike Gorday (44:31):
And then, a year later, we had our actual, real
problem.
What was that?
Ody (44:35):
In 01?
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (44:37):
What?
What happened in 01?
Nathan Mum (44:40):
The attacks, oh, the world tracing Anyway, okay, wow
.
Wow you guys, man, all right,here we go.
Mike Gorday (44:47):
All right, well, no , the word train was 9-11.
That was 9-11, right, it was2001.
Ody (44:54):
Yes, but that's it.
Marc Gregoire (44:55):
Well, let's move to drinking.
Nathan Mum (44:56):
All right, that sounds good that was this week
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gentlemen, the three of us areso excited about january 7th,
I'm sure.
Marc Gregoire (46:07):
What is that?
Oh my goodness, it is nationalpass gas day.
Oh wow, odie, odie, those arebeautiful sound effects.
Mike Gorday (46:20):
I think every day is national fart day this is
with no regret yeah, no, no,what do you call that no?
Nathan Mum (46:29):
hatred Silent, but deadly.
Marc Gregoire (46:32):
It's no better time than to express ourselves
and free our bowels of stale airwithout shame.
That's what he said.
Mike Gorday (46:38):
Oh, okay, okay, so we can crop, dust the aisle in
the Safeway and be okay with it.
Marc Gregoire (46:44):
You just let them know it's January 7th.
It's okay because passing gasis one of those things that will
make everyone giggle, fromchildren to adults.
Do you know that the gas wepass contains methane and
hydrogen?
Yes, making it flammable, allguys know this Terrence and
Phillips, but don't worry.
You need an insane amount ofgas to be able to burst into
(47:04):
flames just from passing gas.
Mike Gorday (47:06):
No, but you can get some really good party tricks
going on.
Marc Gregoire (47:10):
So you can keep on passing as much gas as you
desire, mike, today.
Mike Gorday (47:16):
Okay, well, I should have ate some beans
before I showed up.
Ody (47:21):
I got you covered, Mike.
Thanks, man.
Marc Gregoire (47:25):
Now you know what else produces gas.
Our listeners know.
Oh, what's that?
The yeast during the making ofwhiskey, oh, that's right.
Our samples here release traceamounts of carbon dioxide and
methane, among other gases,while fermenting.
Mike Gorday (47:41):
How about that?
So we have bacteria farting inyour liquor?
Nathan Mum (47:44):
Oh, okay, all right, you got to make it so gentlemen
, All right, so got to make itGentlemen, all right so are we
going to wait till the very endand then choose our favorite?
Marc Gregoire (47:54):
Or how do we do this, but I'll tell you what
they are now, if you want.
So which ones?
You rule some out, let's talkabout one and one, and four is
gone from Mike.
Mike Gorday (48:02):
I ruled out one, so that was the one we have, all
right so number one is fromHeaven Hill Distillery in
Bardstown, kentucky.
Marc Gregoire (48:09):
It's a straight whiskey, seven years, 100 proof,
78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10%rye and it goes for about $45.
It's a Heaven Hill bottled andbond seven year, okay.
Okay, is there any other onethat you ruled out?
I ruled out four, Mike.
Mike Gorday (48:26):
I guess, if I have to rule out something, I rolled
out three, but I had.
Nathan Mum (48:31):
Is three still in contention Three is still in my
contender.
Marc Gregoire (48:34):
Well, I'll tell you what everything is.
Nathan Mum (48:35):
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (48:36):
You guys already have.
Okay, that's the sips, sonumber two is Chicken Cock.
Mike Gorday (48:45):
I'm going to just rule out all the names Chicken,
cock.
Marc Gregoire (48:48):
Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
It's from Grain and BarrelSpirits.
Bardstown Bourbon Companydistilled it.
Straight whiskey.
It's non-age stated, 90 proof,70% corn, 21% rye, 9% malted
barley $60.
Nathan Mum (49:02):
I've actually bought that before it's got a red
chicken.
You've been on the show before.
Marc Gregoire (49:05):
Yep.
You're a chicken cock, are you?
No, I can't see the numberthree is pinhook Kentucky
straight bourbon.
That's kind of I'm liking thatone from C H C J S beverage Corp
.
It's distilled at castle andkey distillery in Frankfurt.
Kentucky straight whiskey.
Non-age stated, 98 proofs, 75%corn, 15% ride, 10 malted barley
(49:26):
.
$43 for this one.
Okay.
And the final one, number four,which you did not like and Mike
has not ruled out, which isshocking.
It is Remus Highest Rye Bourbon.
Okay.
Mike Gorday (49:41):
I don't think that's shocking, because you
have been trying to get me tobecome a rye fan and I have been
totally going on that.
Marc Gregoire (49:46):
So this is from Ross and Squ squib, which is
used to be known as mgp, fromindiana straight whiskey, six
years old, 109 proof, 51 corn.
So the minimum corn it can beto be called a bourbon, 39 rye
and 10 malted barley, it goesfor 55 dollars all right, okay.
Nathan Mum (50:07):
Well, we'll see which ones are at the end of
their show.
Whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, just like the
comedian classic gems of Laureland Hardy.
Did you know that they impairedas a team and 107 films,
starting in 32 short silentfilms, 40 short sound films and
23 full length feature films?
Marc Gregoire (50:27):
I did not know they did that.
There were that yeah that was.
Mike Gorday (50:30):
that's a lot, Did you like that?
Nathan Mum (50:32):
information.
All right, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week
brought to you by EliteExecutive Services.
We are out of time.
Congratulations, You're afailure.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh, I failed.
Speaker 8 (50:45):
Did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes
.
Nathan Mum (50:51):
All right.
Well, today's failure comes tous from the world of Apple and
CPSC.
Now Apple AirTags had to add anew child safety battery warning
.
Apple is adding the warnings tocomply with law mandating
labels on products with buttons,cell or coin batteries.
Apple has added warning labelsto AirTags and their boxes to
(51:15):
comply with the law requiringthe label of the product with
buttons, cell or coin batteriesthat they could be ingested by
children.
According to the US ConsumerProduct Safety Commission in a
press release, airtags importedto the US after March 19, 2024,
which was when the law was knownas Reese's Law went into effect
, did not have the requiredon-product, on-box warning
concerns for the severe risk orinjury of battery ingestion if
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these small batteries are notkept out of reach of children.
Now Apple AirTag batterycompartments have the warning
symbols.
Apple has updated all the boxesto include required warning
statements and we are here tohelp remind people that anytime
your child decides to ingest abattery the size of over a
(52:03):
quarter size, please make sureyou get it taken care of,
because these batteries could bedangerous.
Can you believe that I said?
I have my own personal opinions.
Speaker 6 (52:13):
I'm just reporting the news okay, all right, so how
?
Nathan Mum (52:15):
can you swallow something this big?
These are huge.
I remember little things,little little bullets that I
used to have as kids that wehave.
I understand it wasn'tbatteries, but there was those
little batteries you used tohave that you put together.
Mike Gorday (52:28):
You know children of a certain age are going to
put stuff in their mouth andthey're going to swallow stuff.
I mean, one of my memories ofmy own children is when my son,
my eldest son, actually chokedon a nickel so I had to do the
Heimlich on him on a nickel, soI had to do the Heimlich on them
(52:52):
.
So this is obviously a concernfor little children.
I don't know why older childrenare swallowing these things.
I don't know why anybody wouldswallow these things.
Ody (53:02):
Why would anyone eat Tide Pods?
They're just dumb.
Nathan Mum (53:04):
Of course, of course you know, Sorry, we had a whole
generation that did that.
Mike Gorday (53:09):
Maybe I have well-meaning parents that want
to be able to locate me whereverI am.
Is that what you have?
Nathan Mum (53:15):
going on, so here, okay, instead of putting this on
their clothes.
Mike Gorday (53:19):
I just, I don't know.
Nathan Mum (53:21):
I, you know.
Mike Gorday (53:21):
I shouldn't joke about this, but I mean, it's
interesting that this is allabout putting a warning on a
label, when people shouldunderstand that small objects
get swallowed by children allthe time my parents didn't care
about me.
Nathan Mum (53:35):
They just let me go out and play.
I figured out how to survive onmy own.
I must have ate a bunch ofbatteries.
Mike Gorday (53:42):
Gen X kids were probably the last generation
that experienced real life.
Nathan Mum (53:51):
Okay, is that what you're saying?
Ody (53:53):
Yeah, your life is fake.
You're all virtual reality.
Mike Gorday (53:58):
Don't look like that, Odie.
Nathan Mum (54:01):
We have seatbelts.
Mike Gorday (54:02):
We had lawn darts.
I still have those lawn dartstoo, I know you do, because you
have everything.
Nathan Mum (54:09):
Hang on now.
Let's move on now to our NathanNugget.
Speaker 1 (54:16):
This is your Nugget of the.
Nathan Mum (54:18):
Week, here we go.
Do you know Apple?
Everybody listen up.
What is that?
When they used to come onSaturday morning cartoons and
they provided you educationalupdates.
What do they call those things?
It was like a conjunctionjunction.
Ody (54:33):
There was like PSA, psa, here's your PSA, here's public
service announcement.
Nathan Mum (54:37):
Yeah, so this is a PSA for everybody.
Mike Gorday (54:39):
This listing for Nathan Saturday morning cartoons
.
That's right.
Nathan Mum (54:43):
Apple will pay $95 million to people who were spied
on by Siri.
You can get up to $20 for eachdevice you bought that you
accidentally activated Siri on.
Apple has agreed to pay $95million in assentment with users
whose conversations wereinadvertently captured by its
Siri voice assistant andpotentially overheard by human
(55:05):
employees Overheard by human.
Marc Gregoire (55:07):
So maybe that's why Apple's paying Trump $1
million as part of thesettlement.
Nathan Mum (55:11):
The proposed settlement reported by Bloomberg
could pay as many devices $20per device up to five
Siri-enabled devices.
That means, if it's approved bya judge, you could receive $100
in your pocket.
Mike Gorday (55:25):
How do I prove that Siri is buying on me?
Ody (55:28):
Yeah, thank you, because that literally happened to me
two weeks ago.
Okay, if approved thesettlement.
Nathan Mum (55:32):
Listen up here.
If approved, the settlementwould apply a subset of US-based
people who owned and bought aSiri-enabled iPhone, ipad, apple
Watch, macbook, imac, homepod,ipad Touch, apple TV between
September 17, 2014,.
December 31, 2024.
10-year gap A user would alsoneed to meet one major criteria
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they must swear under oath thatthey accidentally activated Siri
during a conversation intendedto be confidential or private.
You could do this, was that?
Mike Gorday (56:03):
You could do this.
Nathan Mum (56:04):
I know.
Mike Gorday (56:05):
Because of that incident at the radio station.
Yeah, I know when Siri started.
Yeah, I know Independ of thatincident at the radio station.
Yeah, I know.
Nathan Mum (56:11):
When Siri legs started.
Yeah, I know Independently howthey claim.
The initial class action suitagainst Apple followed a 2019
report.
I can actually say that itwasn't supposed to do.
It Alleged Apple.
Third-party contractorsregularly heard confidential
information, including medicalinformation, drug deals, couples
(56:31):
having sex and other items thatwere out of series control.
Ody (56:36):
So when can I do this with my Amazon?
Mike Gorday (56:38):
devices Wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
Ody (56:40):
Alexa gosh.
She's just going off all thetime.
You know, sometimes she turnson music now when I don't even
ask for it.
Nathan Mum (56:47):
All of a sudden I'm sitting there and like music.
I want to know.
I said now, when I don't evenask for it, all of a sudden I'm
sitting there and music comes on, mexican music.
Mark says that he keeps onasking Siri to do the Mexican
music Mariachi, mariachi music.
Mike Gorday (57:00):
I want to know how you turn it on while you're
doing it.
Nathan Mum (57:07):
Your trigger word is the same word as that Are you
saying oh Siri, oh Siri.
Oh Siri, now you know what.
With that great visual in myhead, let's move on to our pick
of the day whiskey tasting.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Nathan Mum (57:28):
I'm going to get money from Apple for that,
because the series I shouldwrite a claim, All right
gentlemen, you have fourwhiskeys in front of you for a
round, one of our 2024 Flavor.
Advent Calendar.
Okay, so now, if I pick one,does that continue on to the
next round?
Marc Gregoire (57:43):
If it's the winner of this round.
Nathan Mum (57:44):
yes, it does oh wow, okay, I am going to go with
number two, the chicken cock.
Mike Gorday (57:50):
all right, mike, yeah, that was one.
That was one of my picks.
I was having trouble with the,the chicken one and the number
four one, so so which one areyou picking?
So I will pick, I will.
I, just for the sake of movingit on, I'll pick three.
Marc Gregoire (58:07):
I'll pick chicken , that's number two All right
Chicken cock which is luckybecause you guys the correct
order for our listeners out.
There is glass number four, theRemus was number one and then
in second place should have beenthe Heaven Hill, which is
bottle number one.
In third place was bottlenumber two, chicken cock, and
then last place was pinhook,according to the actual
(58:29):
connoisseur.
Nathan Mum (58:30):
Really.
Marc Gregoire (58:30):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (58:31):
Okay, well, I did like.
Marc Gregoire (58:33):
So, mike, if you had chosen number four I would
have chosen that over yourchicken cock.
Mike Gorday (58:36):
Yeah, I was going to choose that one, but chicken
cock was a little too mild.
Nathan Mum (58:40):
All right, the science of tomorrow starts with
the technology of today.
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Welcome everyone.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Let's start today's show.
Nathan Mum (01:32):
Now on today's show.
All right.
This week on Tech Time Radio,we're diving into some exciting
updates and intriguing techmysteries.
Discover the latest changesApple is making to its products
and find out what unusualsettlements are making headlines
.
Next, we take a trip downmemory lane to an event that
happened 25 years ago.
At the beginning of the year,the reddit community has also
found a creative way to keep theholiday spirit alive, and
(01:55):
there's a new reason to considerwhere you park for your quick
errands.
Plus, we have to reveal theimpacts of a major data leak and
the latest twist in thehigh-stakes legal battle with
TikTok.
In addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan naked and, ofcourse, our pick of the day
(02:15):
whiskey tasting to see if ourselected whiskey pick gets 0, 1,
2 thumbs up at the end of theshow.
Now, today, we're doingsomething different on the
picking All right, so Marco willexplain what's going on here.
We're going to be doing this ateach beginning of the month all
the way through November, andthen we'll be picking it up.
We're going to kind of do sometaste.
Testing is what Marco wants todo.
He's getting crazy.
He just wants more, I thinkwhiskey.
(02:36):
Do you think that's what thekey is for this?
Mike Gorday (02:39):
I don't know.
We did the very first shows.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We did.
So we're kind of going back,except we were sampling like six
different whiskeys.
Nathan Mum (02:45):
Yeah, so at least these.
But just think of this.
Mike Gorday (02:47):
This is like four shots, so by the time we're done
with this show.
We're going to be able to youknow by the time you're done
with yours versus because I'mnot drinking that much, I'm just
sipping, you're just sipping,yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
By the All right, okay, well, you know what?
Now let's move to the latestheadlines in the world of
technology.
Here are our top technologystories of the week.
Nathan Mum (03:11):
All right.
Story number one Trump asks theSupreme Court to delay the
start of the TikTok ban.
All right, let's go to CorrineWestland for more on this story.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme
Court on Friday to pause thepotential TikTok ban from going
into effect until hisadministration can pursue a
political resolution to theissue.
Trump joined the app during his2024 presidential campaign and
his team used it to connect withyounger voters, especially male
voters, by pushing content thatwas often macho and aimed at
(03:47):
going viral.
Trump said earlier this yearthat he still believed there
were national security riskswith TikTok, but that he opposed
banning it.
This month, trump also met withTikTok CEO Sho Chu at his
Mar-a-Lago club in Florida todiscuss the media sharing app.
Back to you guys in the studio.
Mike Gorday (04:08):
Didn't he want to ban it when he was president
before?
Nathan Mum (04:11):
So well, no, no, no.
Actually, for his first term,he loved TikTok because it
created competition against Metaand the other apps that were
out there that he was all upsetwith because he doesn't like
them.
I must be, but hang on, becauseI remember things change though
.
Yeah, I remember there was thisbig thing during his presidency
about how bad tiktok was well,it was bad, but he was also very
(04:33):
happy that it was able tocompete with the american
companies that at that time,zuckerberg, he was very upset
with and other people that hewas upset with.
Mike Gorday (04:41):
But now, what you can do.
Billionaire bitch fights.
I don, how do you dobillionaire bitch?
Nathan Mum (04:45):
fights.
Mike Gorday (04:45):
I don't know what that's all about.
Nathan Mum (04:46):
Yeah, you know what I'll tell you.
This is what we got going on.
We essentially have a whole newpresident in this term here,
because now he's invitingeverybody to his estate in
Florida and they can just comein.
Zuckerberg's been there.
Everybody just comes and visitshim and by the time they leave,
then Trump and him are likebest buddies, so he invites the
CEO from TikTok over.
Mike Gorday (05:06):
They got to go kiss a ring or something.
I have no idea All right.
Nathan Mum (05:09):
Well, this request came as TikTok and the Biden
administration filed opposingbriefs in court with the company
, arguing that the court shouldstrike down the law that could
ban the platform by January 19th.
Well, the government emphasizedits position on the statues it
needed to eliminate it as anational security risk.
In a brief from Trump, though,he says he opposes banning
(05:30):
TikTok at this junction andseeks the ability to resolve the
issue at hand through politicalmeans once he takes the office.
Attorneys for TikTok and hisparent company, bytedance,
argued that the federal appealscourt erred in this ruling and
based it on its decisions ofalleged risks that China could
exercise control over TikTok'sUS platform by pressuring its
(05:53):
foreign affiliates.
The Biden administration hasargued in court that TikTok
poses a national security riskdue to the connection to China,
but officials say, just becauseChina owns it and ByteDance has
that information, that it'sturned over.
It's information for US patronsto view and to take a look at.
You can't hold them legallyliable for having the ability to
(06:14):
do something if they haven'tdone the ability of doing
something.
So that's kind of where we'reat right now.
We have this filing that camein last Friday from the
administration that says thatit's by dance company.
All right.
Mike Gorday (06:28):
Who's going to?
Who's going to?
What's going to happen?
What do you think?
Nathan Mum (06:32):
So I think this is what's going to happen.
I think it will get very closeto being removed.
There'll be lots of pushbackfrom the app stores, including
the Apple store, the Google playstore, that this would be a
really tough thing to pull itback Cause you're gonna have to
start blocking people.
The technology to do this meansyou have to go onto their
phones, which is kind of aninvasion of privacy in their app
(06:54):
area.
Remove the app.
So is that good?
The government is now going tocontrol what apps you have on
your device.
I think nothing happens.
I think Trump comes on in.
I think he does some type ofbackdoor agreement not agreement
and he comes on out shakinghands and says we're all good,
don't worry about it, I'll keepthe night on China.
Mike Gorday (07:14):
What do you think?
What do you think our buddyEspinoza, espinoza, espinoza?
Nathan Mum (07:19):
hates TikTok right, yeah.
And I like TikTok and I thinkTikTok is really good because I
think it's nice to have othercompanies out there competing
with the United States,companies that we know.
Meta sells their data to theUnited States so that they can
go through and prune informationand find out information about
its clients.
I just don't like having onlyone person in a sphere of
(07:40):
control.
Let's just have three or fourpeople.
Mike Gorday (07:44):
I really enjoy the way you, the way you rationalize
this, but uh, what is that?
Nathan Mum (07:49):
no, I don't agree with that.
Okay, so you're on that.
Yeah, you're on next.
You're on nick's side.
Marc Gregoire (07:53):
I'm on nick's side of the fence okay I.
Mike Gorday (07:56):
I don't think we should have foreign powers,
learning about american citizens.
Nathan Mum (08:01):
See I, I think american powers learning about
american citizens, not that, notthat.
Think American powers are notAmerican citizens.
Mike Gorday (08:05):
Not that a Chinese government watching TikToks
about people shuffle dancing isreally going to do a whole lot,
so it's going to know that Ilike a lot of homework If
there's a national security riskinvolved that's a problem.
Nathan Mum (08:18):
I only gave him my name and my email address.
More stuff out there has beencompromised by me having a
healthcare provider that I haveto use it really doesn't matter,
because, no matter what we do,we talk about it all the time.
Mike Gorday (08:32):
Everybody gets hacked and everybody's data is
out there anyway.
Later in today's show we'regoing to be talking about, I'll
just be positive about that andbe like hey, pro TikTok.
Nathan Mum (08:41):
Let's get that thing .
Mike Gorday (08:43):
Let's fact.
Instead of just banning TikTok,let's just open it up to all
government agencies and let themhave everything.
Nathan Mum (08:49):
Wait till story number four, because if this
scares you right here, this doesscare me.
I give them little informationof what they have.
Wait till you get to storynumber four.
Mike Gorday (08:58):
I don't want, I don't want.
I want a drink before then.
Nathan Mum (09:00):
Okay, All right, Odie.
Ody (09:11):
I think you're up with story number two, is that right?
Yeah, um, beth patton.
Yep, her favorite gift she'sever given through the holiday
exchanges this year was inspiredby her anonymous recipient's
fondness for antiques andbeetles.
She made a stuffed beetleplushie using antique brocade
fabric she found quote making astranger's christmas is just
really fun.
Marc Gregoire (09:24):
End quote Okay.
Ody (09:26):
For Beth Patton, the best part of the holiday season is
not the lights or the snow oropening presents from family
members.
It's swapping gifts with randomstrangers on the internet.
It was the latest onlinegift-giving event of its kind to
shut down, as Imgur's eventfollowed the same fate as the
immensely popular Redditditgifts, which I've never heard
about okay, you never heardabout, I've never heard about
(09:48):
until today okay but that endedin 2021.
But the christmas spirit isstrong and patent and other
reddit users are keeping user touser gift exchanges alive.
After her go-to exchange died,patent Patton is now
participating in Given Gifts,another program that sprung up
in the wake of Reddit's giftsdemise three years ago.
(10:09):
She's already done five giftexchanges this holiday season.
Its main holiday gift swapevent works much like the
Reddit-run Secret Santa.
The annual tradition matcheshundreds of people together
anonymously from around theworld, who are then each
responsible for giving a presentto the other.
(10:30):
Gifters are given a brief bitof their gifties interests,
their likes and dislikes, tohelp them come up with a present
they think the recipient wouldlike the given gifts exchange
are organized on a websiteseparate from its dedicated
subreddit, and keeping up thefast growing event became more
involved.
(10:51):
The team had to find a way tomake sure matches were in the
same country so this is like aglobal thing and so that way
they didn't have to payinternational shipping rates.
And when the team ran intoissues like people not getting
gifts, they began a rematchingprogram that ensured no one came
up empty-handed.
People are extremely emotionalwhen they're giving and
receiving gifts.
(11:11):
It becomes a special thing tothem and they need help.
We would get thousands ofemails when it's growing
exponentially every year.
You know that means that we'restill talking to just a massive
amount of users.
For now, Patton the 26 the 26year old is happy that her idea
of Christmas isn't canceled.
There's just nothing like thatin real life.
Doing a secret Santa withpeople you know just isn't the
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same thing as this massive thingwith strangers.
You feel like you're a part ofsomething bigger.
Nathan Mum (11:38):
That's part of Christmas all right so that's a
good little feel-good story okay, so so do you do secret Santas.
Ody (11:45):
No.
Nathan Mum (11:45):
Okay, you don't do secret Santas.
We do a little bit of a secretSanta at work and then we do a
different gift exchange for NewYear's which is much more
aggressive than a secret Santa,Would you say, Mike.
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (12:02):
Absolutely A little bit more aggressive.
Yes, the mom family Super Bowl.
It's a death match of giftgiving and taking and throwing.
Nathan Mum (12:14):
But you did come out with some nice whiskey.
Well, it's fun, it's fun it isAll right, so it's very
competitive.
Mike Gorday (12:22):
It's cutthroat.
Nathan Mum (12:22):
Yeah, so do you understand this gift gifting
stuff?
They ship all of the stuff to acompany, so it's very
competitive, it's cutthroat.
Yeah, so do you understand thisgift gifting stuff?
They ship all of the stuff to acompany.
So I used to think of that.
So until I started researchingthis, I thought that you would
just get an address of somebodyand then you could just send
that item to an address ofsomebody.
Ody (12:36):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (12:36):
That's how it originally started.
But then all of a sudden youhad like creepers and stalkers
and stalkers.
Ody (12:41):
That's what I thought.
Nathan Mum (12:41):
They would find out what's going on.
So now what happens is you geta secret Santa.
You send it into this company.
This company then takes them.
They say there's so many people.
They take all these gifts andthey say, okay, this is from
Amanda H and it's going to TracyC, and they then ship it out
because you pay for the shippingto go there to the place.
Then you pay money to have itshipped out so you can send
(13:03):
random strangers on the internetjust for the holidays that's
kind of cool is it kind of cool,you like, you'd like to do that
I think it would be fun.
Ody (13:11):
I think it's better than, like you know, people are
willingly participating otherthan you know how you said at
your work yeah not everybody issuper happy and not everybody is
fully into getting a good gift.
That is 30 some dollars.
Nathan Mum (13:25):
You know yeah.
Ody (13:27):
A lot of people just try to get away One, they forget about
it and then they don't do it.
Or two, they don't want tospend up to the exact amount, or
like in the office when Michaeljust spent way too much.
And then other people were, youknow, fighting over one
specific item.
Mike Gorday (13:43):
You mean Michael Scott?
Ody (13:44):
from the Office.
Mike Gorday (13:46):
Yes, with the iPod.
Ody (13:46):
With the iPod.
Mike Gorday (13:49):
Because he wanted to have the great gift right.
Yes, that shows one of theproblem areas of these types of
things.
Nathan Mum (13:56):
All right, exactly.
Speaking of problems, you knowwhat?
There's a lot of problems withpeople parking where they
shouldn't.
Ody (14:04):
I'm guilty of this.
Are you're guilty of that, areyou?
Mike Gorday (14:06):
are you guilty of parking in the bus lane?
Ody (14:09):
no, but listen.
Capitol hill is a minefield onits own.
If I want to park in the centerlane and put on my little
caution lights for the fiveminutes that I'm picking up a
pizza, yeah screw that, I'mdoing it.
Whoa Well not an, even maybenumber.
Nathan Mum (14:25):
All right, I think Mike has a story for us.
Ody (14:28):
It's not a bus lane, it's the center lane.
Nathan Mum (14:30):
Okay, well, hey, don't be giving spoilers out yet
.
That's even worse.
Here you go here you go.
Mike Gorday (14:33):
You're up, mike yeah, if you're the kind of
person that likes to park in thebus lane for a quick errand
because the nation's biggesttransit systems are now using
AI-enhanced cameras to keep buslanes clear of illegally parked
cars.
The company behind thosecampers is a startup called
Hayden AI, which offered todemonstrate how they work in
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real life on the streets.
Near its offices in New Jerseysuburbs, cameras are mounted
inside of the front windshieldof the bus, where they can take
in everything that's happeningin the front of it.
The system analyzes thoseimages to the side of us looking
at a vehicle and whether thatvehicle is stopped somewhere it
shouldn't be.
In just three years, hayden AIhas launched services with
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transit agencies in New York,washington, oakland, california
and Los Angeles, so right nowit's okay, but it is deploying
pilot programs in Seattle andDenver.
There you go, it's not okay, asit should.
And it's talking with othercities, including Philly and
Chicago.
Nathan Mum (15:33):
So yeah, they now have these installed.
I know the person that actuallyworked on installing these in
Seattle.
Ody (15:39):
As a Washingtonian, what are you doing?
Parking in the bus lane.
We don't have any space forthese cars, to begin with,
because we don't have any space.
Mike Gorday (15:48):
That's one of the urban problems is the amount of
space and the amount of vehiclesthat we have and all the
wonderful infrastructure thatdoesn't support it.
That's why you need to take thelight rail.
So, yes, take the light rail.
Nathan Mum (16:02):
It actually works really nice.
In center of seattle yeah yeahbut, and on the outskirts, not
that much, okay, okay, all right, I'll keep on going.
Mike Gorday (16:10):
Mike, tell us more about this great system that
it's going to be the camerasystems are using the ai to help
transit agencies catch and finddrivers who illegally black the
law, illegally block bus lanesand bus stops.
Uh, but that's not the ultimategoal.
Ody (16:26):
No.
Mike Gorday (16:26):
When you look at the reason for enforcement, it's
really not to write tickets.
It's about changing behavior.
So this is basically what'scalled reinforcement types of
behavior management, and we'reseeing a reduction in the number
of repeat offenders.
That's true, because if youkeep getting tagged, you're
probably going to stop doingthat.
Marc Gregoire (16:48):
You're really going to stop doing it.
Mike Gorday (16:49):
There's some evidence that these camera
systems are helping buses movefaster, though their rollout has
hit a few speed bumpsthemselves.
That expansion is not goingquite as planned.
As hundreds of driversoriginally received some
erroneous tickets, it wasn'tanything too worrisome at first,
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because you realize that youwere parked in a legal spot, and
this person that I guess waserroneously tagged says that
he's careful about parking onlyin a legal spot, so he was
surprised when the ticketsstarted arriving.
Tickets, tickets.
Tickets Three in a single day.
(17:30):
What?
Yes, there's supposed to be anadditional level of human review
.
Again, this is always theproblem that I talk about, that
we talk about when we talk aboutthis AI stuff.
There should be somebody who islooking at each video of the
alleged violation beforedeciding whether or not to issue
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the ticket and, typicallyspeaking, that doesn't happen
because we have a replacement.
Nathan Mum (17:58):
We trust the technology, yeah.
But if you replace it and youget 80 to 90% of the people that
actually end up paying thefines immediately and then you
have to only have customersupport for the 10 to 20% I'm in
all these new meetings now atsenior level management At a
senior level, they wouldconsider that a great idea that
I only have to worry about 20%.
Mike Gorday (18:22):
That's like saying we have 100 hostages and and
we're gonna be able to rescue 90of them.
That's, that's exactly the sameargument yes, you're saying
that 10 is going to getillegally fined, that's okay
well, but then so they can.
Nathan Mum (18:39):
10.
Mike Gorday (18:39):
The hostages are not going to make it out, that's
okay we've got 90.
Ody (18:42):
you know what.
If they have an issue, theycould just pay attention to
where they're parking well,that's what.
Mike Gorday (18:48):
That's what this fellow's point was is he was
parking in a legal spot and hegot, he was getting tickets.
He said he got three tickets inone day so because the system
was erroneously thinking he wasin an illegal spot.
Nathan Mum (19:03):
He does not believe in the system, but just like red
light cameras.
Do you like red light cameras?
Ody (19:09):
I love red light cameras.
Best form of entertainmentwhile you're driving.
Mike Gorday (19:15):
Truly, you're just sitting there at the red light
watching people get tagged, yeah.
Nathan Mum (19:22):
They get tagged all the time.
So you know red light camerasnow are pretty much universal
across the United States andthey generate a lot of income
because people don't stop and doit so some of the stuff will
pay for itself.
They keep on issuing lots oftickets for you.
Mike Gorday (19:37):
It's not always about the money, though, is it?
Nathan Mum (19:40):
No, you think the departments of these really care
about people parking in the buslanes.
They want to make the money.
Mike Gorday (19:46):
They want the bus lanes clear.
I get that, okay, okay, so thisis not a simple problem, it's a
complex problem.
Yeah, because, like we talkedabout at the beginning of the
the thing, the infrastructure isnot built for what americans
like to have.
So we have all these cars andthen we conglomerate in these
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cities and there's not enoughplaces to put your cars
especially if you have more thanone, was perfect when we were
traveling in japan.
They understand how to do carslike one car have cars.
Nathan Mum (20:18):
So everything is yeah, everything is mass
commuted on either a bus line,an Uber, Pica or a shuttle
service that's culturallygenerated.
Ody (20:26):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (20:26):
Because they live on islands.
Ody (20:29):
They don't require all that stuff.
Americans are not like this.
We want our cars.
Nathan Mum (20:35):
We want our freedom.
Mike Gorday (20:35):
Yeah, personal freedoms and stuff like that.
Speaking of cars.
Nathan Mum (20:37):
Let's talk about Volkswagen.
The car manufacturer had a leakthat exposed the location of
800,000 electric vehicles.
Just think, if you're drivingin a Volkswagen, it's an
electric car and all of a sudden, someone can track and know
exactly where you are.
Know information about youremail, your address, your phone
number and information on yourdriver's record.
(20:58):
That's all available.
Well, for months, thisinformation has been around for
all Volkswagen vehicles,available online, due to a data
leak.
According to a report from aGerman news magazine,
jurorspiegel, the leakreportedly stemmed from the
software running inside theVolkswagen's vehicle.
A whistleblower noted that italso affects EVs from
(21:18):
Volkswagen's owned car brands ona global scale, including the
Audi, the Seat and the Skoda.
We talked about this eightmonths ago regarding modern cars
are a privacy nightmare on areport that was done from
Mozilla, and we talked about howautomakers are also selling
data and blocking the rights torepair.
(21:39):
Automakers are also sellingdata and blocking the rights to
repair.
It's very interesting becausewhen you ask the customer
service on what happened here,it does note that there was a
leak of services, but it hasbeen fixed and the amounts of
data collected by modern dayvehicles in this privacy
nightmare has been taken care ofand no action is needed.
So let's talk about whatactually happened here, just
(22:01):
real briefly.
We had 800 000 electricvehicles in volkswagen that has
a pinging device inside of them,with gps pinging device that
they did not have code writtencorrectly for, and at any time
you could just pull up a carmake and model number and you
could see the person driving it,the email, the person driving
it where, the email of theperson driving it where it was
across the globe.
Does that make you feel safe tobuy a new Volkswagen?
Mike Gorday (22:24):
Oh yeah, I always want everybody knowing where I
live.
Nathan Mum (22:27):
Exactly where I park and your phone number,
especially if I'm in a bus lane.
Your bus lane.
What's interesting about thisis there's no recourse for
Volkswagen.
They just say that they had aleak and they took care of it
and as that information wasavailable online for people to
look at, just freely available,nobody hacked into it, it was
just available on that.
It's no big deal, I guess.
Mike Gorday (22:46):
No harm, no foul.
That's what happened, Becauseat some point people just go, eh
, it's going to happen.
Nathan Mum (22:51):
That's because they signed their user agreements
that said, if that happens, thatthey cannot sue.
All All right.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, we have moretechnology news just around the
corner.
Buckle up tech enthusiasts, aswe're going to do so with two
truths and a lie, after thiscommercial break.
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Nathan Mum (23:56):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, where
our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without a
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes and, ofcourse, a little whiskey on the
side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
he has a new first of the monthtradition that we're going to
start.
So, mark, what have we chosenfor us today?
What is going on here?
Mike Gorday (24:15):
We have four glasses in front of us, all
these glasses of whiskey, and wehaven't even started drinking
yet.
So after that last news report,I really need some all right.
Marc Gregoire (24:24):
Well, I'm glad I brought four for each of you
today.
So today we are doing the 2024flavor out advent calendar round
one okay so we are using the2024 whiskey advent.
That way we don't spoil it foranybody.
All right, there's 24remarkable whiskeys to use for
our year-long blind whiskeycompetition to see which one
(24:48):
Nathan and Mike like best.
Come along for the ride on thefirst Tuesday of every month
while we uncover new tastes andtrain their senses to become
true connoisseurs, today isround one, where they will
choose their winner to move on.
If they disagree, I will be thedeciding vote.
Oh no, oh no, oh no.
Now, today, all four of oursamples are straight bourbon
(25:10):
whiskey.
So start tasting them, becauseyou got to get through four.
Nathan Mum (25:13):
All right, here we go.
Here's the first one.
Marc Gregoire (25:15):
Now bourbon.
Straight bourbon whiskey is atype of bourbon whiskey aged in
new charge oak containers for atleast two years, adhering to
strict regulations to ensureauthenticity and purity.
Now these are the regulationsto be called straight whiskey
Location must be made in the US.
The ingredients must have atleast 51% corn in the mash bill.
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Distillation to no more than160 proof when you distill it,
Age and you chart oak containersfor at least two years.
Additives there's no flavoring,coloring or additives allowed,
Only water to adjust the proofthe proof must go into the
barrels at no more than 125proof, Bottled at less than 80
(26:00):
proof.
And the labeling if it's underfour years, that there must be
an age on the bottle.
If there's no age on the bottle, you know it's at least four
years.
Nathan Mum (26:09):
Wow all right, okay, all right, have you tasted?
Mike Gorday (26:14):
tasted all of them, mike.
No, I'm.
I'm taking my time so I cangive a little bit of space
between my tasting.
You just slammed everything.
Nathan Mum (26:23):
I got two immediately that I have
eliminated.
I'm eliminated two.
I'm going to get it downbetween the next two as I will
continue to sip.
The other items number one anditems number four are pretty
much been gotten rid of.
Marc Gregoire (26:40):
Number one and number four, all right, well,
hang on, but don't tell me yet,though, why not?
Nathan Mum (26:45):
That's good.
Marc Gregoire (26:45):
We're going to reveal what everything is at the
end of the Mark's Mumbles, sostay tuned for that.
In the meantime, just keepdrinking and enjoying, but
remember, drink responsibly,because heaven can wait All
right.
Nathan Mum (27:00):
With our first whiskey tasting, completed our
first four.
Let's move on to our featuresegment.
Today we have a rare segmentthat tests our staff with what
is true and what is not.
Let's start our next segment.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
And now we have two truths and a lie and now we have
.
Nathan Mum (27:19):
And now we have two truths and a lie.
Mike Gorday (27:21):
We a lot of two truths, two truths, two truths
and a lie all right, here's whatwe got.
Nathan Mum (27:26):
I'm gonna ask you guys these are three headlines
out of the news and you're gonnachoose which one of these is
correct od, you're up on thisone too.
So here we go, let's take alook.
Number one story the mostpirated tv show in 2024 was
avatar the last airbender.
A young boy known as the avatarmust master the four elements
powers to save the world andfight against an enemy bent on
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stopping him.
So that's story number one.
Story number two samsungbespoke fridges are adding ai
that will look inside yourfridges and analyze your grocery
needs and then put in anautomatic Instacart order.
Samsung wants your fridge totake care of your grocery
shopping with a littleassistance from Instacart.
Samsung and Instacart havepartnered on same-day grocery
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delivery based on what the AI inSamsung's bespoke refrigerators
sees that you need to have.
In other words, the fridgecould tell them the milk is
running low and add a carton toyour Instacart order before you
even notice.
And story number three.
So that's story number two yourrefrigerator is now ordering
stuff for you from Instacart.
Story number one the mostpirated show was Avatar.
(28:31):
And story number three AppleCEO Tim Cook is the next tech
executive to donate $1 millionto the president-elect Donald
Trump's inauguration committee.
Cook's donation follows similarcomments and commitments from
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, amazonfounder Jeff Bezos and Meta, as
a big tech company's andexecutive's work to curry favor
(28:54):
with the incoming administration.
All right.
So I never knew that thisinauguration committee and this
inauguration money was ever likethis big deal, but this guy has
now got over $10 million in hiswar chest.
For what's the inauguration?
Is it just for the party?
I need to find out moreinformation from that, cause I
(29:14):
don't know if that's just tothrow the party or it's for the
whole ceremony.
Marc Gregoire (29:19):
The swearing in it's for all that they bring
bands.
Yeah, okay, it's gonna be thebiggest one ever.
Mike Gorday (29:24):
Wow so that one is a true one, huh well I don't
know that.
Nathan Mum (29:27):
Okay, well, did you?
Did you listen to everything inthere?
Are we sure that opens aico?
Sam altman and jeff bezos andmeta have also donated a million
dollars.
So let's see, that was thelittle trick I could have thrown
in there, right?
Mike Gorday (29:42):
Yeah, we know your game, buddy.
Nathan Mum (29:43):
Okay or alright so here.
So okay, odie, are you tryingto look online real quick?
Ody (29:49):
I'm on Facebook.
You're on Facebook, okayalright.
Nathan Mum (29:52):
Which one of these three do you think is the lie?
Ody (29:54):
You know as much as I love Avatar, the Last Airbender.
I think that's a lie.
Nathan Mum (29:59):
You think that's a lie.
Ody (30:00):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (30:01):
Okay.
Ody (30:01):
It's too good to be true.
Nathan Mum (30:03):
Okay, in my eyes All right, that's your lie.
Marc Gregoire (30:05):
Okay, mark, what's your lie?
You know, I had the samethought as Odie, except I don't
want number three to be true.
So I'm going to say that one'snot Tim Cook and Apple CEO
giving him money.
All right.
Nathan Mum (30:20):
So he's got a number .
Well, Mike, it's up to you.
There's two.
Mike Gorday (30:24):
Yeah, I'm going to go with Odie here.
I'm going to say that LastAvatar is the false one, because
I can really believe that AI istrying to tell me my milk is
low and going to try and orderit online.
I'm pretty sure that donating amillion dollars to the
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inauguration fund is a normalbehavior.
Okay.
Nathan Mum (30:51):
All right, well, so let's just talk about number two
.
Samsung's fridge of AI is goingto be adding there.
Guess what?
That is going to be happeningin CES, which we're going to be
talking the best of CES from2024 coming on up.
So that was a correct story.
Marc Gregoire (31:05):
That means Nathan did not win today.
Nathan Mum (31:06):
I did not win today.
That is absolutely what thatmeans, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is
donating $1 million to thepresident elect Donald Trump's
committee.
Marc Gregoire (31:17):
That's correct.
That was true, but I didncouldn't vote any other way.
Nathan Mum (31:22):
So the most pirated TV show in 2024.
Does anybody have a guess ofwhat it was?
It was not Avatar, the LastAirbender.
Ody (31:28):
So I knew that was the lie, so I googled it because I was
curious.
I know what the answer is.
Nathan Mum (31:33):
Oh, so you know the answer no, no, no, it's so
obvious.
Ody (31:37):
It wasn't Avatar the Last Airbender.
Nathan Mum (31:39):
So that was the second most downloaded, so that
was actually number two, that'sthe runner up.
Ody (31:46):
Number two was less than half of the pirate Avatar, the
Last Airbender, the Netflixversion or the original the
Netflix.
Nathan Mum (31:52):
The Netflix because it came on out in 2024.
Marc Gregoire (31:55):
Rings of Power.
It wasn't Rings of Power, no.
Nathan Mum (31:59):
Everybody's got Amazon Prime.
Mike Gorday (32:01):
You're talking about the original last.
Ody (32:04):
No, you're talking about the live action one, the dumb
movie.
No, no, no, I don't have.
Mike Gorday (32:11):
Netflix, I think probably the most pirated one
was what's that Netflix showcalled?
It's one of the best Netflixshows.
The Last of Us?
Nathan Mum (32:24):
no, not that one that's HBO.
You just really put your footin it, didn't you?
You're like yeah, no, mike,it's the last of us no, so HBO
is normally the number onedownloaded deal, because most
people don't have HBO that isthe key so the House of Dragons
series continued this season.
You know the House of Dragons.
(32:46):
Yeah, I don't really like thatone.
Okay, well, that was the mostpirated by all over double.
What was the second?
Mike Gorday (32:54):
one, the last dragon.
Ody (32:56):
Or the dragon, the House of Dragons.
The House of Dragons was themost pirated.
It's a Game of Thrones reboot.
Mike Gorday (33:02):
Oh, I know what it is.
I just don't think it's worthyof.
Maybe it's worthy of pirating,I don't know.
Ody (33:10):
Well.
Marc Gregoire (33:10):
Maybe it's worthy of pirating.
I don't know.
A lot of people don't have HBO.
Like Nathan just said,Everybody has Amazon Prime.
If it's not good, is it worthit Pirating?
Mike Gorday (33:15):
versus pain-free.
That's my thing.
Nathan Mum (33:19):
You wouldn't want it on Pirated, let alone you
wouldn't pay for it.
Mike Gorday (33:21):
No, I wouldn't pirate it if I were a pirate.
Okay, well there you go.
Nathan Mum (33:25):
So good job, odie.
Did you find that it was theHouse of Dragons?
Did you look at it real quick?
Ody (33:31):
Well, I just couldn't believe that the live, because
Mark and I went into a wholediscourse about it last year I
know, you know, I could notbelieve that that is the most
pirated one.
Nathan Mum (33:40):
Well, that ends our two truths in the line it's the
second most pirated one.
Marc Gregoire (33:46):
Yeah.
Nathan Mum (33:47):
That was a pretty good show actually.
I enjoyed the live-action OnePiece a lot, All right.
Mike Gorday (33:53):
The movie, the old movie, no, no, no, one Piece.
Nathan Mum (33:57):
The new show on Netflix.
Mike needs to get Netflix.
Clearly, Mike does not haveNetflix.
Yeah, Mike needs.
Mike Gorday (34:03):
So somebody needs to call Tim Cook and have him
give some of that inaugural freeso that I can get.
Nathan Mum (34:09):
Netflix A private invite to go down to Trump's
estate down in Florida?
Mike Gorday (34:14):
I don't pay for.
Nathan Mum (34:15):
Netflix Do you realize that he just named his
property.
Ody (34:18):
Mar-a-Lago.
Nathan Mum (34:18):
Yeah, so he just named it.
He just decided, you know whatI'm going to call it something.
And then, instead of anybodycoming on over to my Florida
house, you're just going to comeon over to my Florida house.
You're just going to come onover to this name that I did.
It just kills me.
He just decided to market hisown house.
Ody (34:32):
Are we surprised by this?
Mike Gorday (34:35):
This is now.
Nathan Mum (34:35):
Kingdom Come.
So when you come into my houseand you come into the studio,
you're now coming into KingdomCome.
Marc Gregoire (34:41):
Nathan, I don't want to defend anybody.
However, that is not anuncommon thing to do and it's
actually been shown in realestate.
If you actually name yourproperty or have a name for it,
it actually increases its valuetoo, really, yeah.
Nathan Mum (34:56):
That's why I'm going to name my apartment complex.
Oh, well, there you go.
Mike Gorday (35:06):
There's the get out of that story.
Nathan Mum (35:09):
Let's move on now to Mike's mesmerizing moment.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have?
Speaker 6 (35:20):
to say today.
Nathan Mum (35:21):
Mike, here you go.
How do you feel about gettingan AI ticket for committing an
infraction?
Mike Gorday (35:27):
Why do you always have to ask me AI questions when
you know how I feel.
Because it's fun.
Because it's fun, you don'tlike it.
Nathan Mum (35:32):
Well, he does like it.
He's very positive about it.
Mike Gorday (35:35):
Yeah, I'm super positive that I want all AI to
track my movements, what I eat,when I pee in my toilet, where.
Marc Gregoire (35:43):
I park.
Oh, I'm actually lookingforward to that.
Mike Gorday (35:51):
Because that can tell you so much.
Yeah, yeah, the water from thetoilet, yeah, tell me if my
kidneys are failing.
Nathan Mum (35:54):
That's, that's something.
Mike Gorday (35:55):
We got kidney stones, or I'm, I'm so, I'm, so,
I'm getting so old that.
Nathan Mum (35:58):
How do you feel about getting an ai ticket for
committing an infraction?
Mike Gorday (36:01):
I you know what.
I would be okay with it becausethat has a better chance of
getting thrown out of the courtand I won't have to pay anything
, except for the fact that Ihave to spend time going to
court to challenge it.
Ody (36:13):
Yeah, I was just about to say you have to go to court, pay
your parking ticket, which isprobably also AI.
Mike Gorday (36:20):
If we're talking about getting a ticket from a
real police officer versus an AIticket, I would rather get the
AI ticket.
I don't want to get AI ticketsat all.
Okay, but if I have to decidewhether or not I'm going to get
a ticket from a real cop or anAI cop, I would prefer the AI
(36:41):
one, because that would beeasily challenged in court, okay
.
Nathan Mum (36:45):
All right.
Well, thank you, Mike, for yourmesmerizing moment.
Mike Gorday (36:47):
I don't think that was very mesmerizing.
Nathan Mum (36:50):
It's your moment.
Mike Gorday (36:52):
It doesn't really talk about human behavior.
Nathan Mum (36:56):
But you had the AI ticket thing so I was just
curious.
You know people like to learn alittle bit about Mike.
Mike Gorday (37:01):
No, they already know that I don't like AI that
much.
Nathan Mum (37:04):
Okay, well, they're learning If they're new to the
show.
If you're new to the show.
Mike Gorday (37:07):
I don't like AI.
I think it's irresponsible andway overpowered.
Nathan Mum (37:14):
All right Up.
Next, we have this Week inTechnology, so now would be a
great time to enjoy a littlewhiskey on the side, as we're
going to be doing so during thebreak.
You're listening to Tech TimeRadio with Nathan Mumm.
See you in a few minutes.
Hey, mike Yo, yeah, what's up?
Hey?
Mike Gorday (37:29):
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We need people to start likingour social media page.
If you like our show, if youreally like us, you can use your
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I think it's Patreon, okay,patreon.
If you really like us, you canlike us on Patreoncom.
Nathan Mum (37:42):
I butcher the English language.
You know, you butcher theEnglish language all the time.
It's Patreoncom.
Mike Gorday (37:49):
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Nathan Mum (37:57):
You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one
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Yeah, we're on Facebook too.
Mike Gorday (38:02):
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Nathan Mum (38:03):
Do you know what our Facebook page is?
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there's a.
There's a trend here?
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Or you can even instagram withus, and that's at tech time
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Mike Gorday (38:20):
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That's it's it.
Nathan Mum (38:27):
That's it.
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mum (38:37):
All right.
This week in technology we lookback to January 1st 2000.
It's been 25 years since Y2Kwas a world scare.
What seemed like a joke nowcaused IT people in the world in
1999 to freak out.
In December of 1999, the worldprepared for the global meltdown
known as Y2K.
(38:57):
It all stemmed from a smallsoftware glitch.
Many older computer programshad been coded with dates using
just two numbers instead of four.
At midnight of December 31st itcould misrepresentate what was
going on with a zero.
Zero for the year 2000, whichspread wide panic that this air
(39:18):
could revert everything back tothe early 1900s.
Now the Clinton administrationsaid the preparing was that.
Mike Gorday (39:26):
I said see, this would have been a great question
.
They asked me earlier what wasthat?
What happened here?
Well, you can talk.
The Clinton administration saidthe preparing.
What was that?
I said see, this would havebeen a great question.
Nathan Mum (39:31):
They asked me earlier what was that?
What happened here case?
Well, you can talk.
Okay.
The clinton administration saidthe preparing for the us for y2k
was probably the single largesttechnology management challenge
in history.
The bug threatened to cascade apotential disruption, blackouts
, medical equipment failures,banks shutting down, travel
screeching to a halt if thesystems and softwares weren't
able to continue to functionbecause they did not know what
(39:51):
Euro was.
At least these gave a rise tothe end of the world as we know
it.
But thankfully the Y2K problemin the year 2000 didn't live up
to the height.
Computer specialists andgrassroots organizers prepped
for a global meltdown.
They had formidable yearscoming on up to this where
people were so worried about thezero, zero moving into the
(40:12):
1900s, the people decided tocreate what was known as bug out
bags and mobile home and a yearsupply of dehydrated food, a
propane generator.
They were just some of theprecautions purchased from
California.
Computer programmer ScottOlmstead made an advance to the
year 2000.
Some financial analysts remainskeptical why 2K would come and
(40:33):
go without any disruption.
But by November of 1999, theFederal Reserve said that it was
confident the US economy wouldweather the big glitch.
Dozens of communities acrossthe US formed Y2K-prepared
groups to starve off anunnecessary panic.
Now Kathy Gracia, an organizerfor the Y2K Community Project in
(40:54):
Boulder, colorado, said fearsof the social meltdown offered
opportunity to take stock.
So let me ask you this, mikeY2K came during your time.
Were you scared about Y2Kshutting down everything?
Mike Gorday (41:07):
I was not, but I was working security at that
time frame, so everything wasall hands on deck all over the
place.
We had to lock down ourfacilities, we had to make sure
nobody was trying to break in.
We were advised that we mighthave looters and it was crazy.
(41:30):
This is a really good instanceof mass hysteria on a societal
level.
Nathan Mum (41:38):
I think it was probably even larger than maybe
some of the COVID lockdowns andscares.
It's a little different becausethat is more of a disease that
could kill you, but this waslike the whole economy, you know
arguably, arguably, the y2kproblem could have contributed
to the lack of response for thecovid problem.
Mike Gorday (41:58):
Okay, I mean that you could.
Marc Gregoire (42:00):
You could argue that that some people were like
I remember when y2k came aroundand nothing happened that's a
good point because I rememberwhen y2k come, I was kind of one
of the poo-pooers.
This was overblown, the wholething.
But now, being over 35 years inthe tech industry, I think it
was a really good job by theengineers and software coders
that we had a few years to workon it and the problem got dealt
(42:22):
with.
They did with upgrades.
Nathan Mum (42:24):
I worked for a large software company down in
Redmond Washington Go ahead andsay it it's okay, you can admit
it was.
Microsoft.
Well, I didn't say that, butyou did.
Okay, and it was all hands ondeck and I was an IT person
providing high-level support tobillionaires at the time.
(42:44):
So I was in an executivesupport position and we had all
hands on deck and we had peopleliterally fly to remote
locations.
Most of the executives atMicrosoft were at like remote
locations that they flew to andthey were bunkering down to
ensure in case, things were bad.
This is the big wigs at thesoftware company were scared of
(43:05):
what was going to happen andthey bunker down.
And then all of a suddeneverybody watched Sydney.
So that was, everybody waswatching to see what happened in
Australia.
And then, when Sydney didn'tcrash and things were still
running there, then all of asudden there was this big yes,
we may be able to make it.
And then what we didn't realizewhich is interesting now is
that this is such a global eventthat we could watch other
(43:28):
nations as their time rolledover at different times and then
see how things were going,because by the time it hit
through uk, as it was comingthrough, and there was no issues
, then all of a sudden we gotbig emails coming on out.
It looks like this was a littlebit overblown we've been able
to fix this, don't don't worryabout it, you can stand down.
So it was a very interestingdeal because it didn't even come
(43:49):
to the United States by thetime that we were back on
minimum staff back to justregular support.
Mike Gorday (43:54):
I managed a 20-something person security
force at this one facility.
It was a tech facility and weended up we were all outside
watching fireworks go off.
That's all we did on New Year's1999 was watch fireworks.
All right, Mark, did you doanything?
Nathan Mum (44:15):
in particular.
Marc Gregoire (44:16):
I partied like it was 1999.
Oh Okay.
Nathan Mum (44:21):
All right, I would ask Odie, but Odie does not
remember the words.
Ody (44:25):
I was born seven months later.
Nathan Mum (44:27):
Oh, okay.
Ody (44:28):
There you go, non-existent.
Mike Gorday (44:31):
And then, a year later, we had our actual, real
problem.
What was that?
Ody (44:35):
In 01?
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (44:37):
What?
What happened in 01?
Nathan Mum (44:40):
The attacks, oh, the world tracing Anyway, okay, wow
.
Wow you guys, man, all right,here we go.
Mike Gorday (44:47):
All right, well, no , the word train was 9-11.
That was 9-11, right, it was2001.
Ody (44:54):
Yes, but that's it.
Marc Gregoire (44:55):
Well, let's move to drinking.
Nathan Mum (44:56):
All right, that sounds good that was this week
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that's s-t-o-r-i coffeecom, the segment we've
been waiting all week for mark'swhiskey mumble all right
gentlemen, the three of us areso excited about january 7th,
I'm sure.
Marc Gregoire (46:07):
What is that?
Oh my goodness, it is nationalpass gas day.
Oh wow, odie, odie, those arebeautiful sound effects.
Mike Gorday (46:20):
I think every day is national fart day this is
with no regret yeah, no, no,what do you call that no?
Nathan Mum (46:29):
hatred Silent, but deadly.
Marc Gregoire (46:32):
It's no better time than to express ourselves
and free our bowels of stale airwithout shame.
That's what he said.
Mike Gorday (46:38):
Oh, okay, okay, so we can crop, dust the aisle in
the Safeway and be okay with it.
Marc Gregoire (46:44):
You just let them know it's January 7th.
It's okay because passing gasis one of those things that will
make everyone giggle, fromchildren to adults.
Do you know that the gas wepass contains methane and
hydrogen?
Yes, making it flammable, allguys know this Terrence and
Phillips, but don't worry.
You need an insane amount ofgas to be able to burst into
(47:04):
flames just from passing gas.
Mike Gorday (47:06):
No, but you can get some really good party tricks
going on.
Marc Gregoire (47:10):
So you can keep on passing as much gas as you
desire, mike, today.
Mike Gorday (47:16):
Okay, well, I should have ate some beans
before I showed up.
Ody (47:21):
I got you covered, Mike.
Thanks, man.
Marc Gregoire (47:25):
Now you know what else produces gas.
Our listeners know.
Oh, what's that?
The yeast during the making ofwhiskey, oh, that's right.
Our samples here release traceamounts of carbon dioxide and
methane, among other gases,while fermenting.
Mike Gorday (47:41):
How about that?
So we have bacteria farting inyour liquor?
Nathan Mum (47:44):
Oh, okay, all right, you got to make it so gentlemen
, All right, so got to make itGentlemen, all right so are we
going to wait till the very endand then choose our favorite?
Marc Gregoire (47:54):
Or how do we do this, but I'll tell you what
they are now, if you want.
So which ones?
You rule some out, let's talkabout one and one, and four is
gone from Mike.
Mike Gorday (48:02):
I ruled out one, so that was the one we have, all
right so number one is fromHeaven Hill Distillery in
Bardstown, kentucky.
Marc Gregoire (48:09):
It's a straight whiskey, seven years, 100 proof,
78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10%rye and it goes for about $45.
It's a Heaven Hill bottled andbond seven year, okay.
Okay, is there any other onethat you ruled out?
I ruled out four, Mike.
Mike Gorday (48:26):
I guess, if I have to rule out something, I rolled
out three, but I had.
Nathan Mum (48:31):
Is three still in contention Three is still in my
contender.
Marc Gregoire (48:34):
Well, I'll tell you what everything is.
Nathan Mum (48:35):
Okay.
Marc Gregoire (48:36):
You guys already have.
Okay, that's the sips, sonumber two is Chicken Cock.
Mike Gorday (48:45):
I'm going to just rule out all the names Chicken,
cock.
Marc Gregoire (48:48):
Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
It's from Grain and BarrelSpirits.
Bardstown Bourbon Companydistilled it.
Straight whiskey.
It's non-age stated, 90 proof,70% corn, 21% rye, 9% malted
barley $60.
Nathan Mum (49:02):
I've actually bought that before it's got a red
chicken.
You've been on the show before.
Marc Gregoire (49:05):
Yep.
You're a chicken cock, are you?
No, I can't see the numberthree is pinhook Kentucky
straight bourbon.
That's kind of I'm liking thatone from C H C J S beverage Corp
.
It's distilled at castle andkey distillery in Frankfurt.
Kentucky straight whiskey.
Non-age stated, 98 proofs, 75%corn, 15% ride, 10 malted barley
(49:26):
.
$43 for this one.
Okay.
And the final one, number four,which you did not like and Mike
has not ruled out, which isshocking.
It is Remus Highest Rye Bourbon.
Okay.
Mike Gorday (49:41):
I don't think that's shocking, because you
have been trying to get me tobecome a rye fan and I have been
totally going on that.
Marc Gregoire (49:46):
So this is from Ross and Squ squib, which is
used to be known as mgp, fromindiana straight whiskey, six
years old, 109 proof, 51 corn.
So the minimum corn it can beto be called a bourbon, 39 rye
and 10 malted barley, it goesfor 55 dollars all right, okay.
Nathan Mum (50:07):
Well, we'll see which ones are at the end of
their show.
Whiskey and technology are agreat pairing, just like the
comedian classic gems of Laureland Hardy.
Did you know that they impairedas a team and 107 films,
starting in 32 short silentfilms, 40 short sound films and
23 full length feature films?
Marc Gregoire (50:27):
I did not know they did that.
There were that yeah that was.
Mike Gorday (50:30):
that's a lot, Did you like that?
Nathan Mum (50:32):
information.
All right, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week
brought to you by EliteExecutive Services.
We are out of time.
Congratulations, You're afailure.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh, I failed.
Speaker 8 (50:45):
Did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes
.
Nathan Mum (50:51):
All right.
Well, today's failure comes tous from the world of Apple and
CPSC.
Now Apple AirTags had to add anew child safety battery warning
.
Apple is adding the warnings tocomply with law mandating
labels on products with buttons,cell or coin batteries.
Apple has added warning labelsto AirTags and their boxes to
(51:15):
comply with the law requiringthe label of the product with
buttons, cell or coin batteriesthat they could be ingested by
children.
According to the US ConsumerProduct Safety Commission in a
press release, airtags importedto the US after March 19, 2024,
which was when the law was knownas Reese's Law went into effect
, did not have the requiredon-product, on-box warning
concerns for the severe risk orinjury of battery ingestion if
(51:39):
these small batteries are notkept out of reach of children.
Now Apple AirTag batterycompartments have the warning
symbols.
Apple has updated all the boxesto include required warning
statements and we are here tohelp remind people that anytime
your child decides to ingest abattery the size of over a
(52:03):
quarter size, please make sureyou get it taken care of,
because these batteries could bedangerous.
Can you believe that I said?
I have my own personal opinions.
Speaker 6 (52:13):
I'm just reporting the news okay, all right, so how
?
Nathan Mum (52:15):
can you swallow something this big?
These are huge.
I remember little things,little little bullets that I
used to have as kids that wehave.
I understand it wasn'tbatteries, but there was those
little batteries you used tohave that you put together.
Mike Gorday (52:28):
You know children of a certain age are going to
put stuff in their mouth andthey're going to swallow stuff.
I mean, one of my memories ofmy own children is when my son,
my eldest son, actually chokedon a nickel so I had to do the
Heimlich on him on a nickel, soI had to do the Heimlich on them
(52:52):
.
So this is obviously a concernfor little children.
I don't know why older childrenare swallowing these things.
I don't know why anybody wouldswallow these things.
Ody (53:02):
Why would anyone eat Tide Pods?
They're just dumb.
Nathan Mum (53:04):
Of course, of course you know, Sorry, we had a whole
generation that did that.
Mike Gorday (53:09):
Maybe I have well-meaning parents that want
to be able to locate me whereverI am.
Is that what you have?
Nathan Mum (53:15):
going on, so here, okay, instead of putting this on
their clothes.
Mike Gorday (53:19):
I just, I don't know.
Nathan Mum (53:21):
I, you know.
Mike Gorday (53:21):
I shouldn't joke about this, but I mean, it's
interesting that this is allabout putting a warning on a
label, when people shouldunderstand that small objects
get swallowed by children allthe time my parents didn't care
about me.
Nathan Mum (53:35):
They just let me go out and play.
I figured out how to survive onmy own.
I must have ate a bunch ofbatteries.
Mike Gorday (53:42):
Gen X kids were probably the last generation
that experienced real life.
Nathan Mum (53:51):
Okay, is that what you're saying?
Ody (53:53):
Yeah, your life is fake.
You're all virtual reality.
Mike Gorday (53:58):
Don't look like that, Odie.
Nathan Mum (54:01):
We have seatbelts.
Mike Gorday (54:02):
We had lawn darts.
I still have those lawn dartstoo, I know you do, because you
have everything.
Nathan Mum (54:09):
Hang on now.
Let's move on now to our NathanNugget.
Speaker 1 (54:16):
This is your Nugget of the.
Nathan Mum (54:18):
Week, here we go.
Do you know Apple?
Everybody listen up.
What is that?
When they used to come onSaturday morning cartoons and
they provided you educationalupdates.
What do they call those things?
It was like a conjunctionjunction.
Ody (54:33):
There was like PSA, psa, here's your PSA, here's public
service announcement.
Nathan Mum (54:37):
Yeah, so this is a PSA for everybody.
Mike Gorday (54:39):
This listing for Nathan Saturday morning cartoons
.
That's right.
Nathan Mum (54:43):
Apple will pay $95 million to people who were spied
on by Siri.
You can get up to $20 for eachdevice you bought that you
accidentally activated Siri on.
Apple has agreed to pay $95million in assentment with users
whose conversations wereinadvertently captured by its
Siri voice assistant andpotentially overheard by human
(55:05):
employees Overheard by human.
Marc Gregoire (55:07):
So maybe that's why Apple's paying Trump $1
million as part of thesettlement.
Nathan Mum (55:11):
The proposed settlement reported by Bloomberg
could pay as many devices $20per device up to five
Siri-enabled devices.
That means, if it's approved bya judge, you could receive $100
in your pocket.
Mike Gorday (55:25):
How do I prove that Siri is buying on me?
Ody (55:28):
Yeah, thank you, because that literally happened to me
two weeks ago.
Okay, if approved thesettlement.
Nathan Mum (55:32):
Listen up here.
If approved, the settlementwould apply a subset of US-based
people who owned and bought aSiri-enabled iPhone, ipad, apple
Watch, macbook, imac, homepod,ipad Touch, apple TV between
September 17, 2014,.
December 31, 2024.
10-year gap A user would alsoneed to meet one major criteria
(55:53):
they must swear under oath thatthey accidentally activated Siri
during a conversation intendedto be confidential or private.
You could do this, was that?
Mike Gorday (56:03):
You could do this.
Nathan Mum (56:04):
I know.
Mike Gorday (56:05):
Because of that incident at the radio station.
Yeah, I know when Siri started.
Yeah, I know Independ of thatincident at the radio station.
Yeah, I know.
Nathan Mum (56:11):
When Siri legs started.
Yeah, I know Independently howthey claim.
The initial class action suitagainst Apple followed a 2019
report.
I can actually say that itwasn't supposed to do.
It Alleged Apple.
Third-party contractorsregularly heard confidential
information, including medicalinformation, drug deals, couples
(56:31):
having sex and other items thatwere out of series control.
Ody (56:36):
So when can I do this with my Amazon?
Mike Gorday (56:38):
devices Wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
Ody (56:40):
Alexa gosh.
She's just going off all thetime.
You know, sometimes she turnson music now when I don't even
ask for it.
Nathan Mum (56:47):
All of a sudden I'm sitting there and like music.
I want to know.
I said now, when I don't evenask for it, all of a sudden I'm
sitting there and music comes on, mexican music.
Mark says that he keeps onasking Siri to do the Mexican
music Mariachi, mariachi music.
Mike Gorday (57:00):
I want to know how you turn it on while you're
doing it.
Nathan Mum (57:07):
Your trigger word is the same word as that Are you
saying oh Siri, oh Siri.
Oh Siri, now you know what.
With that great visual in myhead, let's move on to our pick
of the day whiskey tasting.
Speaker 1 (57:21):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Nathan Mum (57:28):
I'm going to get money from Apple for that,
because the series I shouldwrite a claim, All right
gentlemen, you have fourwhiskeys in front of you for a
round, one of our 2024 Flavor.
Advent Calendar.
Okay, so now, if I pick one,does that continue on to the
next round?
Marc Gregoire (57:43):
If it's the winner of this round.
Nathan Mum (57:44):
yes, it does oh wow, okay, I am going to go with
number two, the chicken cock.
Mike Gorday (57:50):
all right, mike, yeah, that was one.
That was one of my picks.
I was having trouble with the,the chicken one and the number
four one, so so which one areyou picking?
So I will pick, I will.
I, just for the sake of movingit on, I'll pick three.
Marc Gregoire (58:07):
I'll pick chicken , that's number two All right
Chicken cock which is luckybecause you guys the correct
order for our listeners out.
There is glass number four, theRemus was number one and then
in second place should have beenthe Heaven Hill, which is
bottle number one.
In third place was bottlenumber two, chicken cock, and
then last place was pinhook,according to the actual
(58:29):
connoisseur.
Nathan Mum (58:30):
Really.
Marc Gregoire (58:30):
Yeah.
Mike Gorday (58:31):
Okay, well, I did like.
Marc Gregoire (58:33):
So, mike, if you had chosen number four I would
have chosen that over yourchicken cock.
Mike Gorday (58:36):
Yeah, I was going to choose that one, but chicken
cock was a little too mild.
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