Dive into a world where technology meets intrigue, humor, and a little bit of whiskey! In this lively episode of our tech-centric podcast, we explore Meta's eyebrow-raising move to prioritize hefty bonuses for executives while cutting back on employee stock rewards, stirring up controversy around corporate ethics in the tech industry. We also shed light on Jeep owners’ grievances as pop-up ads intrude upon their driving experience, showing how deeply technology has embedded itself into our daily lives.
Jeff Bezos’ recent involvement in reshaping the James Bond franchise sparks a passionate conversation about action-hero casting, giving fans a chance to voice their opinions. On a more bizarre note, we unravel the desperation of one man determined to recover an $800 million Bitcoin fortune lost in a landfill, showcasing the lengths individuals will go to when technology and fortune intertwine.
Additionally, we tackle common email scams in our “Letters” segment, providing vital insights for listeners to protect themselves against digital deceit. Each story is infused with a whiskey review that keeps the conversation lively. So whether you're a tech-savvy enthusiast or someone simply trying to navigate today’s tech landscape, this episode has something for everyone. Join us, and don't miss out—subscribe now for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome to Tech Time Radio withNathan Mumm.
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Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, the show
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Welcome everyone.
Let's start today's show.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:39):
All right.
Today we got a packed show withexciting and intriguing stories
.
First up, we'll discuss a boldmove by Meta that's making waves
in the corporate world.
Stay tuned to find out what'shappening behind the scenes at
this tech giant.
Next, jeff Bezos wants yourinput on something big, with
Amazon taking the reins of abeloved franchise.
There's a lot at stake.
We'll reveal what it is and howyou can make your voice heard.
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And, of course, our fan favoritesegment, Letters, is back.
By reading scamming emailletters, we hope to save you or
a friend from a few of thecurrent scams that are going on.
And in a tale straight out of amovie, we're diving into a
quest for a lost treasure worthnearly $800 billion.
You won't want to miss thisincredible detail on this
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treasure hunt.
And are you a Jeep owner?
If you are, you're facing a newand unexpected challenge.
We'll discuss what's happeningwith your vehicle and what it
means for the future of in-carexperiences.
And in addition to that, ofcourse, we have our standard
features, including Mike'smesmerizing moment, our
technology fail of the week andboy is that a good one.
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A possible Nathan nugget.
And, of course, our pick of theday whiskey tasting to see if
our selected whiskey pick getszero, one or two thumbs up at
the end of the show.
Now, though, it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (03:09):
All right.
Story number one Meta hasapproved a bonus plan that it
says will motivate its leaders.
Let's go to Corrine Westlandfor more on this story.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Meta approved a plan that could give company
executives a bonus of up to 200%of their base salary as it
trims stock awards for most ofits other employees.
According to a Securities andExchange Commission filing
submitted last week, the movecame the same month as Meta's
efforts to reduce its workforceby about 4,000 employees.
The company said in the filingthat the bonus plan would
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provide variable cash incentivesdesigned to motivate its
executive officers to focus oncompany priorities and to reward
them for company results andachievements.
Back to you guys in the studio.
Nathan Mumm (03:57):
All right, let's talk about it.
So here's what we have for theemployees at Meta.
What a great place to work.
You know what?
Mr Mark Zuckerberg I've neverbeen really a fan of him, but it
just keeps on getting a littlebit lower, a little bit lower.
What happens when it's like anegative percentage of of my fan
interest for him?
Then what happens, I don't know.
Okay, so here's what we got.
Let's say you're an employeethere and you received your
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stock awards Are you familiarwith stock awards?
Happens so at Microsoft.
I worked at Microsoft, sureyeah.
And they would give you stockevery review and then, after
seven years it was a seven-yearvesting you would get to sell
the full amount of your sharesand then, at increments, each of
those shares were available foryou to sell.
Well, meta does the same thing,as Microsoft does and as other
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large companies do.
They normally do it on a fourto five-year plan, but what they
decided to do is they'veactually decided to take their
value of their annual equityrefreshers for their staff and
reduce that by 10 so they'rescrewing over the employees so
they can give their managementteam a boost.
Mike Gorday (05:00):
Well, is that what they're doing?
Nathan Mumm (05:01):
I'm just saying is what they're doing, is they're
taking it?
So if you had 220 stocks in therefresher, now you're going to
be looking over four years nowyou're going to be looking at
only getting about 200 000 worthof those stock refreshers um
the company then.
So they did that.
Mike Gorday (05:17):
They did that already.
Did the hughes sit down andwatch christmas vacation this
year and get an idea?
Is that what happened?
Well then, what he decided to.
Nathan Mumm (05:23):
Well then, what he decided to do is Zuckerberg
decided to cut about 4,000 jobs.
Now he calls these the lowperformers at the company and
he's streamlining to be moreoperational, efficient and
invest heavily on artificialintelligence, of course, but
what's interesting is when youactually go out of the norms,
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you have to actually submitfilings to regulatory boards
that say that you're doing it.
So if you were just going togive bonuses up to 100 of your
company executives, you actuallyprobably don't even need to uh
petition and send out thatinformation.
You just let it happeninternally.
But what they're trying to dois they're trying to give their
top leaders all the way up to200 percent of stock awards so
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that they can then help drivethe direction of the company.
Okay, so are you excited about?
Mike Gorday (06:15):
that.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm totally.
I am so excited when, whencorporations screw over the
little guy, that that just warmsthe cockles of my heart.
Nathan Mumm (06:25):
So if you're a CEO of a company, shouldn't you
already be driving to do thebest for the company?
So I don't know.
Well, that's why all thesepeople do it.
Mike Gorday (06:34):
But you know, the funny thing is that every time,
what's good for the company isactually putting money in the
pockets of all the stockholdersand the CEO and, in this case,
the C-suite folks.
Nathan Mumm (06:48):
So as a C-suite member, I got like about a 12%
bonus this last year and I washappy with the 12% bonus.
Now that's like right in lineof a.
Mike Gorday (06:57):
C-suite individual, you're not getting 200%.
Nathan Mumm (07:00):
No, I got like maybe 12% to 15%, so it wasn't
tons, but you know what it wasnice, it was a nice amount and
and I really appreciate that therange that I got for that.
So I'm not going to complainand you know that was pretty
good for me.
I was actually pretty happywith that.
So I I don't.
I worked really hard and we dida bunch of projects to save
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would you work harder for 200percent?
Mike Gorday (07:25):
no no, because I work hard all the time, that's
the funny thing because that'sthat's that's actually kind of
true with most people is thatyou don't work harder for that
stuff.
That's 200.
Nathan Mumm (07:38):
It's not it doesn't motivate it so.
So let's say you make a hundredthousand, two hundred percent,
so you're gonna get, so you canmake a hundred thousand in a
year, and then you're gonna getan additional two hundred
thousand dollars as a bonus, soyou're gonna take home three
hundred thousand dollars and I'msure it's way more than that.
A hundred thousand, I'm sure is, is not even a sliver with the
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high brass at meta make.
So I mean I mean you, okay, allright, let's continue on.
I can talk about that all day,zuckerberg, I mean maybe they're
saving that money for all themoney for the inauguration.
Yeah, I'm sure who cares, right,all right.
Mike Gorday (08:14):
Here we go.
Nathan Mumm (08:15):
All right story number two.
Mike Gorday (08:16):
They just do what they do.
Well, imagine driving down theroad in your car, okay, and you
stop at the intersection, allright, and the moment you do, an
ad pops up on your screen, onyour little dashboard screen
that everybody uses these days,okay, covering your gps and
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forcing you to close it and openit again.
And then when you stop again,it happens again.
So every time we stop, so youhave pop-up ads every when you
stop again it happens again.
So every time we stop.
So you have pop-up ads everytime you stop your car.
Nathan Mumm (08:47):
Oh, I would be irate.
Mike Gorday (08:50):
Yeah well, jeep owners are recently having the
same problem.
A number of Jeep owners havebeen complaining about excessive
pop-up ads coming up on theirdashboard screens.
All the ads are reportedly fromjeep and are asking people if
they want to extend their carwarranties, which you know is
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always a great ad for you knowwhatever, it's an upsell ad too.
It is an upsell.
Nathan Mumm (09:15):
So it's not even the standard.
Mike Gorday (09:16):
Ad says purchase peace of mind okay yeah, so flex
care extended car premium plansare factory backed and offer
you peace of mind in case of amechanical breakdown so is it
thinking, because you'restopping, you're having a
mechanical breakdown?
I guess maybe press the callbutton to speak to a specialist
odometer must be less than 36000 miles to purchase.
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Okay, at this point, the userscan hit a okay button or a big x
in the top right corner toremove the ad and actually see
their dashboard monitor again.
However, people have claimedthat the ad appears again and
again, and again and again.
Nathan Mumm (09:56):
So anytime you go on the break, every time they
stop.
Ok.
So what happens then if I don'twant to have an ad pop up and I
just decide to blow through auh?
Mike Gorday (10:05):
I don't, I don't sign.
Nathan Mumm (10:06):
Is that okay?
Because I just I'm trying tonot see my ads what do you tell
me?
Mike Gorday (10:10):
yeah, the cop pulls you, there you go because
there's that, that's a, that's a, that's a good risk, that's a
very good adaptive behaviorthere, let's just stop, let's
just not stop the car.
There you go.
So this is an in-vehiclemessage designed to inform jeep
customers about moparks in thevehicle I.
It really just drives me up awall that you can't get away
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from.
Nathan Mumm (10:33):
Ads, no matter what or buying a car and having
features built into it.
But unless you pay more money,it doesn't like it.
Like yeah, like a lexus.
Mike Gorday (10:41):
Like yeah, heated seats, but you have to do a
streaming service.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Monthly deal, monthly thing.
Mike Gorday (10:49):
So you can get your add-ons.
So yeah, of course this hasbeen called a temporary software
glitch, okay, which affectedthe ability to instantly opt out
of a few isolated cases, though, instant opt-out is the
standard for all our in-vehiclemessages, said Jeep.
Our team has already identifiedand corrected the error, and we
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are following up directly withthe customer to ensure the
matter is fully resolved.
The irony of a software bugtrying to sell you a warranty in
case your Jeep stops workingproperly is kind of overshadowed
by the fact that they're doingit and distracting you from your
driving.
Nathan Mumm (11:29):
Yeah, so what happens if you are a distracted
driver.
You get ads coming on.
I mean this has to be a lot.
There's got to be some lawyerwaiting to grab this immediately
.
I'm sure there are people.
Mike Gorday (11:41):
I'm sure there are people that are already moving
stuff like this through a courtsystem.
Okay, all right, but you know,I just, I just think it's
awesome that, no matter what wedo in today's, in today's modern
, technologically advancedsociety is, we can't get away
from ads.
They pop up on every singlething that we have.
Nathan Mumm (11:59):
I got, I got.
I got a Mike's mesmerizingquestion for you.
Now I know what I'm going toask you already now.
Okay, there you go.
Mike Gorday (12:06):
I'm going to go and get my card and get your ads
taken care of yeah.
See if I can find my pop-up ads.
Nathan Mumm (12:13):
The only ad I actually still like nowadays is
the YouTube ad where it playsnow like three seconds of what
you have and then you can.
It's about 10 seconds and youcan skip it, because you can
skip it after that 10 seconds,yeah but that's crap too,
because then you have to.
Mike Gorday (12:28):
You can't just leave things alone, right?
Nathan Mumm (12:33):
You have to manually pick up your thing and
you have to manually press theskip button, otherwise you do so
you have to.
Mike Gorday (12:40):
it forces you to manually interact with whatever
it is you're doing, so I thinkthat feature is the worst.
I know All right.
Nathan Mumm (12:50):
Odie, this is going to be for you, so get ready to
turn on your camera.
I got a question for you.
Ready Story number three whoshould play the next James Bond?
Jeff Bezos wants you to chimein.
Amazon is taking over creativecontrol of the james bond
franchise.
Great, jeff bezos wants yourthought on who should play the
next 007 bezos.
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Jeff bezos, the billionaireamazon founder, may have a big
say in who gets to cast in oneof the film's most iconic roles,
james bond, and fans have theopportunity to champion their
favorite actor and try tocapture Basil's attention.
Mike Gorday (13:25):
You know who it's going to be.
Nathan Mumm (13:26):
Who's it going to be?
Bezos, bezos, bezos, yep.
Bezos kicked off a flurry ofactivity among bond fans by
posting a simple question tosocial media last week Who'd you
pick as the next James Bond?
With a question mark?
Bezos included a screenshot ofthe Reuters article highlighting
the news that the Bondfranchise's longtime producer
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has handed over creative controlof the action films to the
company Amazon.
All right, before I continue onand read this, odie, I'm going
to ask you a couple questionshere.
Are you a big James Bond fan?
Ody (14:04):
No.
Nathan Mumm (14:04):
You're not a big Jamesames.
I'm really not okay.
Ody (14:07):
All right, I don't think I've even seen a movie the whole
way through okay original, new,don't matter doesn't make any
difference.
Nathan Mumm (14:13):
No, I you know what I have seen what oh my gosh,
it's johnny english, I thinkyeah I love, for I love him oh,
you like johnny english, yeah,but not so, let's just basil's
by that.
Do you realize?
Amazon now controls the lord ofthe rings and the james bond
franchise.
Mike Gorday (14:27):
Well yeah disney bought everything, so jeff is
getting the crumbs, so he'sbuying whatever I don't know why
jeff needs to have all thisstuff, but hey, you know I don't
know we got we got what's that?
We got elon launching cars intothe, into this, into space.
Yeah, jeff, jeff is, you know,buying up lord of the rings and
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james bond?
Disney owns everything,everything and mark zuckerberg
is taking all his money awayfrom everybody else, from
everybody else merry christmas,happy years.
Nathan Mumm (15:02):
Yes, all right.
So let me ask you awesome, thebillionaire never mind.
The leading candidate to be injames bond out there amongst the
fans is henry cavill.
Do you know who, henry cavill?
Is, he's the superman yes, doyou like him as an actor?
Ody (15:20):
I've never seen him.
Nathan Mumm (15:22):
he's actually british, so this so this would
be a rarity to actually hire aBritish individual.
Roger Moore wasn't British.
You had Daniel Craig, which isAustralian, so you haven't had
any British person.
Mike Gorday (15:39):
Sean Connery was not British either.
He's Scottish.
Nathan Mumm (15:43):
He's Scottish, but they haven't had a British
person play any of the Britishagents.
Mike Gorday (15:48):
This would be the chance.
Nathan Mumm (15:49):
Are you sure?
Mike Gorday (15:50):
Yeah, well, yes, I was doing my research and that's
what they said.
What about that one?
That was only Bond, for liketwo films, there was Dalton.
Nathan Mumm (16:01):
There was Dalton, you know, I don't know I could
be, maybe one of those wasBritish, but I'm just saying the
main people that I know, SeanConnery, roger Moore, all those,
just all the ones that youthink are important.
Yeah, that's right, okay, allright, but you know what Bezos
wants.
Your feedback play that role.
Remember never say never,because complete control is that
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bezos decision okay.
Ody (16:27):
So I'd either want it to be jonathan bailey okay, from
bridgerton, he's also going tobe the new um.
He's like the new scientist onthe jurassic park movies okay so
I I love him all right and thennikuti or shooty gotwa who's?
That he's the.
He's one of the ken dolls fromthe barbie movie okay hilarious,
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and he's a new doctor who okayokay, so those are the two you
want
Mike Gorday (16:54):
yeah well, you know what.
Nathan Mumm (16:55):
You just need to get on they should have one of
the guys from monty python okay,well, you can get online and
you can tell Jeff Bezos, I wouldprobably go.
I'm a big Cavill fan, so Iwould probably go with Cavill.
If you're going to do it, get aBritish person in there, have
it.
You know what he can play Forthe one time.
Yeah, I mean, I think he couldplay perfect.
Mike Gorday (17:15):
It's funny that you keep getting caught on this
whole British thing.
Oh, Mark wants Elba.
Idris Elba would be a good one.
Ody (17:22):
Oh, that would be good.
Nathan Mumm (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, so did Gwen.
When we were talking about itat the production meeting, they
were both kind of going that way.
That would actually be okay.
I could actually see that.
Okay, continue it on.
Aren't we excited that Bezosnow controls the James Bond?
Mike Gorday (17:37):
No Story number four, just leave things alone.
Nathan Mumm (17:41):
Buried deep in a Welsh landfill Beneath layers of
garbage, there's a hard drivethat holds the key to almost
$800 million in Bitcoin, or soJames Howell believes.
Mike Gorday (17:53):
Is it Howell III?
Nathan Mumm (17:55):
Well, it could be Howell III or IV After
accidentally throwing the driveaway in 2013.
And now after years of battlinglocal authorities in court to
retrieve the hard drive, Hal hascome up with a plan to simply
buy the landfill.
Well, yeah, you know, this is,this is so okay, so we'll read
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this story and then I'm gonna Ifeel like I feel like there's
some accountability here thatyou know, if you threw away the
hard drive, just let it go dude,I'm considering purchasing the
landfill site.
He said funding secured.
He wrote thursday on x saidthat he didn't say who was
providing the funding.
Though how has tried almosteverything to access his docks
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ways.
Landfill in newport, a city 12miles northeast of the Welsh
capital, cardiff.
Mike Gorday (18:44):
According to the Newport City.
What's that?
This is in the UK.
Nathan Mumm (18:47):
Yep.
More than $700 million has beenspent in the council for
permission to dig up the site.
His latest plan, though, comesafter the British High Court
judge stopped his case fromgoing to trial.
His latest plan, though, comesafter the British High Court
judge stopped his case fromgoing to trial, issuing a
judgment in January thatdismissed his attempt to force
the council to allow him tosearch the landfill.
Howes accidentally threw out acrucial hard drive in August of
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2013, which would have been anIDE drive, when he was clearing
out his house.
Thinking that it was a blankdrive that contained no data, he
put it in a trash bag and heleft it in the hallway for his
then partner to take to thegarbage dump before he realized,
as the value of Bitcoin rose,that what he had disposed is
gone.
Since the value of Bitcoin Halsays it is loaded into the hard
drive has skyrocketed fromaround 9 million to almost 800
million as prices ofcryptocurrencies have soared in
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recent years.
Every Bitcoin transactionrequires a private key, a secret
piece of data contained withineach individual Bitcoin wallet
that mathematically proves thetransaction has come from that
wallet.
Now, Howell's Hired Drivecontained a record of that
private key.
According to what he says.
The position is no different,in principle, of what he's
trying to do now.
It would be the same as if thisprivate key was written on a
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piece of paper and put into thelandfill.
Why is it any different thatit's a hard drive?
Without knowing the private key, of course, the access to his
Bitcoin that he's mined allthese years is gone Now.
What's interesting, though, isthat they're planning to close
the landfill in 2025 and 2026.
The council has told Mr Howellon a number of occasions that
excavation is not possible underlicensing permitting, so even
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if he bought it, he could not goand take a look at that drive.
Mike Gorday (20:31):
Yeah, you know what's going to happen if he
actually buys it.
What's that?
He's going to be sanctionedagain and not able to find Okay.
So this is an IDE drive, thisis.
Nathan Mumm (20:40):
This is an ide drive.
The chances I I don't thinkthere's a single bit of chance
that you're going to be able torecover this hard drive.
If it was thrown in a bag,thrown into landfills, stuff has
come on top of it, crushed it,moved it around.
They have big machines thatnormally go over landfills to
compact the items that are there.
I don't know why he thinks hewould be able to find that hard
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drive.
I just don't.
This is his white whale man butsomehow his claim to fame is
that he had a hard drive thathad all this stuff that that's a
horror, that's a horrible.
Mike Gorday (21:14):
You know, thought that this is like, this is like
the plot of uh, of uh.
You know one of those moviesthat we used to watch on Monday
nights.
Monday night movies, oh, mondaynight movies, okay, the movie
of the week, movie of the week,yeah, you know, Guy throws away
$800 million and doesn't realizeuntil it's too late.
Nathan Mumm (21:33):
And then he can't get it back Unsolved mysteries
Unsolved, there you go.
I think he's getting more pressthan what this is worth.
But there you go.
That ends our top technologystories of the week.
Moving on, we have our letters,or later in the show, we have
our letter segment, which willbe next.
We're going to listen to abunch of emails.
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We're going to read out loudand we even have an audio from
one that I actually called thenumber that was on there because
they had something special forme.
We're going to take a look atthat.
Buckle up tech enthusiasts aswe're going to drive 88 miles
into our next segment.
See you after the commercialbreak.
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Nathan Mumm (22:58):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit in a sense of 60 minutes or
less and, of course, with somehumor and whiskey on the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
he has the whiskey to talkabout.
I'm really excited because lastweek's show if you paid
(23:19):
attention I gave whiskey one ofmy favorite whiskeys to your
whiskey group, so I can't waitto hear how that went.
Marc Gregoire (23:25):
We can talk about that in the Mumbles.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
Okay, perfect, I'm excited, I don't have good
feelings about it.
Mike Gorday (23:31):
You don't no.
Marc Gregoire (23:32):
I think they're going to love it.
Why not, Mike?
It was your number one whiskey.
Nathan Mumm (23:35):
It was our number one whiskey, year one, the Mo
Whiskey.
Okay, you remember that?
No, okay, well, alright, we'llsee.
Mike Gorday (23:44):
This is the one that was made in the bathtub
right.
Yes made in the bathtub.
Marc Gregoire (23:47):
Well, let's talk about today's whiskey.
Okay, what's today, Today?
Well, number one,congratulations, guys.
You did a bottle kill, ohthat's fantastic, that was
before the show started.
Nathan Mumm (23:56):
Yeah, so if we say anything that we slumber too
much through, sorry about thatpeople.
Marc Gregoire (24:00):
Okay, and today we are drinking Brown Straight
Bourbon Whiskey, now fromBrown's website.
The aroma is sweet and caramelnotes, with hints of
butterscotch and simple syrup,complemented by traditional wood
oak.
The taste is light and sweet onthe palate, with a smooth
finish that hits and runs.
Nathan Mumm (24:17):
Kind of hits and runs.
I like the hit and run.
Marc Gregoire (24:19):
Now this is from Brown Family Spirits and their
distillery is in Spokane,washington.
They're a straight bourbon.
It's two years, it's 90 proof82% corn, 10% malted barley, 8%
rye.
It goes for about $45.
Nathan Mumm (24:34):
Oh, wow, okay, I'm liking the price.
I'm liking the cork.
Okay, I'm liking the price.
I'm liking the cork.
I see the cork Right.
Mike Gorday (24:41):
It's a nice cork.
Yeah, those are your biggestthings.
The bottle looks nice.
Nathan Mumm (24:48):
How does it taste?
There's no bite at all.
It's very smooth.
What?
Mike Gorday (24:53):
do you think, mike, it has a lot of sweet overtones
.
Are you a big sweet?
Nathan Mumm (24:59):
nut.
I'm okay with it.
You're okay with it.
I don't know if I'm strong onit.
There is no bite.
Marc Gregoire (25:05):
We'll see how it develops over the show.
Nathan Mumm (25:08):
Okay, that sounds great.
Marc Gregoire (25:09):
Don't forget to like and subscribe.
Please comment, let us knowwhat whiskey you'd like us to
review and, after doing a bottlekill, always drink responsibly.
Heaven can wait.
Nathan Mumm (25:18):
All right, heaven can wait, I like that okay, well
, nothing better than startingoff a technology show with some
whiskey as we move on to this.
We are now moving on to ourmain segment.
Today, we bring back the funnyyet informative reading of
emails that I received duringthe week.
This includes scam, phishingemails and all-out mistruths
disguised as legitimate emailsin a segment we call Letters.
(25:42):
Letters we get letters, we getback back, back those letters,
letters.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
we get letters.
Marc Gregoire (25:52):
And the letters all have songs.
Nathan Mumm (25:56):
Alright, so we're going to start out with Odie
first and then we'll come to melast and we'll see if we go
around for a second round or not.
But I know that she has apretty extensive email that was
sent here.
It looks pretty legit.
Odie, what do we have coming onup?
Ody (26:12):
This doesn't look legit at all.
Nathan Mumm (26:14):
Oh, it doesn't.
Ody (26:14):
So it's from Coinbase Help Desk.
Nathan Mumm (26:17):
Oh, okay.
Ody (26:18):
No, no reply, eventeventbritecom whoa, whoa at
where eventevent.
No reply at eventeventbritecomso coinbase is using eventbrite
eventbrite, which is a freeonline service that in itself,
if I, if I would have read thatdelete okay, yeah, that's
probably a first sign, okay,perfect says account
(26:40):
verification required in thesubject line.
This was sent to you bycoinbase support team.
Your can.
Your account cannot be accessedand there's space between the
word accessed okay like insidethe word, and then in the like
the body of the email yeah abunch of typos.
We've noticed a login attempt toyour account from an unfamiliar
(27:03):
web browser linked to anexternal app.
All of that with weird spacingthroughout.
Nathan Mumm (27:07):
Weird spacing and typos.
Ody (27:09):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (27:10):
In today's AI world that we talk about so much.
You can put that probably inchat GPT or even deep seek, as
long as you don't talk aboutChina, and it would have
probably auto-corrected thewords themselves.
So the words are incorrect butyeah.
Ody (27:26):
So there's a big button that says quick fix and then
also an ending with importantnotice if no action is taken in
the next 48 hours, any toinitiate any automatic recovery
process.
This could include liquidatingyour holdings in accordance with
our terms and conditions.
Nathan Mumm (27:45):
Oh no, again.
All typos.
I can't even read it.
An urgency Now.
Where's that coming from?
Go to the second page therethat you have there.
Where's that coming from?
We all know Coinbase is basedout of the LA area in itself.
Ody (27:58):
It says that it's from London, United Kingdom.
Nathan Mumm (28:01):
London United.
Ody (28:01):
Kingdom.
Oh it's the new Coinbase.
Mike Gorday (28:03):
It's Mr Howell looking for his $800 million in
Bitcoin.
Okay, so Coinbase is soCoinbase.
Nathan Mumm (28:09):
the company is only based in the San Francisco area
, LA area, so that should be A1known.
If you do any of this stuff, sothat'd probably be a warning.
Misspellings are a warning.
What happens when you think youactually click on that link
that says you have to click here?
Ody (28:26):
It starts asking for a bunch of information.
It did.
Nathan Mumm (28:28):
It went to.
Not only did they useEventbrite to send this out, but
they used Google Forms tocollect your data.
So they are like multi-talentedto all the free stuff that's
available there.
So they had Google Forms, theyhad Eventbrite and nothing that
had to do with Coinbase.
So what would you do with thatemail, odie?
Ody (28:47):
I'd delete it.
Nathan Mumm (28:48):
Delete it, get rid of it.
Let me All right, are you goingto put it up?
There you go.
Add the stage.
Oh, there you go.
If you're streaming right now,if you look online, you can see
all of our stuff with all of theemails misspelled.
Yeah, that is.
It looks horrible.
Accessed space D-A-C-C-E-S-Espace D.
Yeah, that looks horrible.
Don't click on those people,don't.
(29:09):
Those are scams.
Ody (29:10):
Quick fix.
Nathan Mumm (29:11):
All right, mark, we're going to you next.
What do we have here?
You have a couple, because wemay get a second round, so what
do you have?
Marc Gregoire (29:17):
I'm going with this one.
This one is a throwback.
I said throwback okay I love it.
It is so in your face, yeah,that they just went old school.
Okay, what old school it's frommr daniel.
All right, he says hey, you wona hundred thousand american,
united states dollars.
Oh, and we want to give it toyou directly to your bank, with
your login pin.
So please send us your accountnumber, your mobile number, your
(29:40):
address, your driver's license,your mother's maiden name and
everything else in the world andwe'll just take care of it for
you.
Wow, and please send it to thisgeneric email address.
Ody (29:49):
Wow, they're covering all their bases.
Mike Gorday (29:51):
He doesn't pussyfoot around, he's just like
hey.
Marc Gregoire (29:54):
He just decides to go full board of of what he
wanted I think this was ascammer that that got the the
rule book it says this is allthe information you try and get
out of somebody he's like well,let me just throw it all out
there, so that is old school wayright.
Nathan Mumm (30:07):
No tricks, he's just gonna go right, that's
right he didn't.
Mike Gorday (30:10):
It's not even old school.
He didn't talk about, you know,princes in nigeria or anything
I know I do miss that hey uh,you want a bunch of money.
If you want it, give me yourinformation.
So what would you?
Nathan Mumm (30:20):
do with an email like this, mark Besides, read it
on the show.
Marc Gregoire (30:24):
Besides, read it on the show.
I think this wouldautomatically go into the spam
folder.
Nathan Mumm (30:29):
Okay, yeah.
Marc Gregoire (30:30):
I think I'd laugh first.
Yeah, and hopefully nobodyfalls for this anymore.
This is one that I hope nobodyfalls for anymore.
My other one is much morecomplex.
Mike Gorday (30:40):
It more.
This is one that I hope nobodyfalls for anymore.
My other one is much morecomplex.
Yes, I see that mr danieldoesn't even have a an email
address listed, is that?
Marc Gregoire (30:46):
up there, yeah, but down here he tells you to
send it to, like pj zero and abunch of numbers at gmail, at
gmail.
Wow at a free account, yeah hehid it up above in the front
yeah, yeah, he got a hidden.
Mike Gorday (30:57):
How did?
How do you do that?
Nathan Mumm (30:58):
I say he probably did.
A blind carbon copy was how itwas sent out, probably.
So it wasn't there.
Very good, mr Daniel, all right.
Ok, now, mike, we're up to you.
Mike Gorday (31:09):
Well, we got one from Endurance Auto Protection
at infoed3tz6wl at nacchdcom.
Marc Gregoire (31:19):
I want to communicate with them.
Mike Gorday (31:22):
I feel like Mr Daniels got some learnings to do
.
He does.
Okay.
It's to your Hotmail account,okay, and the subject line is
$300 off promo Save on your newendurance auto protection policy
.
Save $300 on endurance autoprotection.
Tired of unexpected car repaircosts We've got you covered,
okay.
Save $300 on endurance autoprotection, tired of unexpected
car repair costs We've got youcovered, okay.
(31:43):
This sounds like a pop-up ad onthe Jeep.
I was going to say you got bothof the you got all the car
stuff.
That's right For a limited timesave $300 on.
Well, you know they've told youthree times that you can save
$300.
So they've been reading somebooks or something.
Nathan Mumm (32:00):
Oh yeah, and then you also get a complimentary $29
non-refundable application fee.
Mike Gorday (32:06):
Look at that First year complimentary.
Nathan Mumm (32:08):
Yes, so they give that to you too.
So what this is is this is alegitimate scam.
What they're looking for is tograb information.
What do you mean it's alegitimate?
Mike Gorday (32:18):
scam.
Nathan Mumm (32:18):
I mean.
So these are out in the wildeverywhere.
This is not like they're nottrying to actually necessarily
get you to buy their insurance.
They just want you to fill outa form, tell them what insurance
policy you have, what yourcurrent insurance policy number
is, so that they can build adata based upon you as the
(32:40):
person that responds to this, sothey can then resell that
information as an updatedprofile of Mr Gorday or Mr Mom
or whoever decided to click onit.
They do not actually even havea endurance auto protection
policy.
That is not even their goal tosell you anything.
Their goal is just to collectdata.
Mike Gorday (32:59):
Just trying to get information to sell to brokers.
Nathan Mumm (33:01):
Yep, this is just a broker.
Mike Gorday (33:02):
Well, look at that.
Nathan Mumm (33:04):
All right, well, I got.
Oh, do you got this audio readyfor this?
All right, I got something fromdiscount mugs you have audio.
I do.
I actually called up this oneso we could actually take a look
.
This is Discount Mugs.
They say they have deals goingon for everything that you can
believe on $75 off, $135 off,$200 off, anything you need at
(33:25):
Discount Mugs.
It's not the actual DiscountMugs site, but anything you need
, and so I decided to actuallycall up the number and see what
type of discounts they have forme.
Let's take a look at what theyhave.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Press one now to continue this call in English.
Hello and thank you for callingTo help us better service your
needs.
Please listen closely to thefollowing special offers
available to you.
Are you looking for affordableTV or internet at the lowest
prices, with no annual contracts?
Press one to get the bestpackages available for you and
(34:02):
your family.
Looking to book your next dreamvacation or trip?
Press 2 for cheap flights,airline tickets and airfare
deals.
Would you like to book abeautiful hotel room at the
fraction of the normal price?
Press 3 to get a great deal onyour next hotel reservation.
For all other calls, presspound.
Marc Gregoire (34:21):
All right, so did you press pound.
Other calls press pound, allright.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
So did you press pound?
Did you press pound?
I did not, so here's what wegot.
Nathan Mumm (34:25):
So this is like the discount mugs they have like
everything on sale so I couldget internet that was on sale
for me, I could have got aflight that was available for me
and vacations that were allavailable for me.
Now when you pressed any of thebuttons it went into just a
beep and I guess you're supposedto leave your name and message
and they'll call you back.
So I was a little disappointedbecause the discount mug said I
(34:48):
could get promotional mugs and Ican only get internet service
trips and hotel and vacationpackage.
So I couldn't even get my mugs.
They promised me I could get onmy ad.
That's terribly disappointing.
It even get my mugs.
They promised me I could get onmy ad that's.
That's terribly disappointing.
It is a little disappointing,but this we're going to start
adding this.
We've added some new technologywhere I'm actually going to
start calling these people up.
I had one with coinbase, fakeperson and and, but I had the
(35:10):
guy start swearing at me.
So I enjoy calling these andI'm now going to start recording
these so we can have a littleadded uh audio feature for
letters all right if you.
Marc Gregoire (35:19):
You want, I can swear at you too, if it makes
you feel good.
It doesn't make me feel better.
Mike Gorday (35:22):
We swear at them all the time.
It doesn't do anything.
All right, it doesn't changeanything.
Nathan Mumm (35:25):
So that was it.
So let's go back to Mark.
Let's have you finish out withyour last one here.
Marc Gregoire (35:30):
All right.
Well, this one is one of theonly ones.
Anything wrong with it?
Oh, I know, it actually isreally good.
It's really good, it's reallygood.
This is really for probablysomebody that's as part of a
company.
So this is hurry.
Time's running out.
Achieve that sales growth foryour msp.
So it's really targeted towardsa particular market.
It's showing a workshop.
You pay 9.95 for the workshop.
(35:51):
It's a four-part workshop.
They say who the speakers arewith their pictures, what the
agenda is.
I mean it looks like alegitimate business email.
Nathan Mumm (35:59):
It is All right.
So you click on this and youcan actually sign up to get
their leadership training on howto be really good on MSP.
Now, if you pay the $995, theysend you links to watch this
great information.
Guess where this video ishosted?
Of China.
Well, no, it's not in China,it's on YouTube.
(36:19):
Okay, if you actually and youwould think, well, okay, so
maybe it's this private videofor this youtube type of deal,
so I'm paying 995 bucks.
It would be like this specialtype of seminar that I'd learn a
lot of stuff from.
Guess what happens that youtubeurl is public.
Marc Gregoire (36:37):
Oh so these are all free videos you can find
anyway.
Nathan Mumm (36:39):
So these are free videos that you have access to
from all these but it says it'sgoing to be live.
Well, no, it's going to be live,so it's going to be a
re-recorded video that they will.
They'll send you the links andthey can have it so you can do
question and answers with themlive on their event and if
you're one of the people inthere, they will answer the
questions.
It it's already pre-done, sothey already have people ask
(36:59):
them questions and they send youthe.
Literally, they send you aYouTube video to watch that is
not hidden, not behind thebackground, not some secret
sauce that anybody can click toat any time.
So you're going to pay 995bucks.
They send you to the links tothese people.
I don't even know if the peoplethat are on there know that
their links are being sold outthere for 995 bucks, because I
(37:21):
believe that each of thoseindividuals just had those
posted for free up there.
But somebody went through,decided to find some free videos
on youtube, send a marketingemail out, charge you 995 bucks
so they can give you the freelinks so is this a scam or is
this just a smart business thisguy's put together?
it's kind of, I guess it kind ofborderlines on both right.
Mike Gorday (37:43):
I guess the real question is is how do you know?
Did you pay 995 to find this?
Nathan Mumm (37:49):
I did not.
I actually went to reddit, sothis is a discussion that was
all over reddit and somebodyactually did it and they posted
all the information that wasthere.
Uh, I did have the actual emailthat was sent to me also, so it
was kind of a Reddit discussion, and I find Reddit to be a
really good if you're lookingfor comedy versions of people
that are technical talking aboutthese types of things.
(38:10):
The MSP market, which is themanaged service provider market,
is being scammed all over forsmall businesses right now, and
so this is happening all overand people are paying $900 to
save a buck because they didn'twant to go to this event and
then they get it so normally, inorder to figure out whether or
not we are dealing with aphishing email or something,
(38:32):
we're looking at a few keyfeatures.
Mike Gorday (38:34):
We're looking at the email that it comes from.
We're looking at thegrammatical errors.
We're looking at content.
How do you figure out that thisis a scam when all that stuff
looks legit, so it is legit.
Nathan Mumm (38:52):
It's a business idea that somebody is going and
selling for 995 bucks so itcould be Nathan Mums Corporation
and you pay me $995 and I'mgoing to go out and find two
people on YouTube that I enjoylistening to and after you pay
me $995, I'm going to send youthe links of them and say here
you go, here's the seminars okay, so it's not really a scam well
(39:16):
is it, though?
why, if I can get those for free, why am I paying 995 bucks for
nathan's company?
To tell you what those are, wewould call.
Mike Gorday (39:24):
We would call that a a valuable marketing technique
so okay, that's what, like marksaid.
Nathan Mumm (39:30):
So I mean it looks legit.
These people are legit speakers.
Everything in there is legit.
The idea is that I shouldn't bepaying 900 bucks to get links
that I can find them for free onwell, that's see, that's that's
the question.
Mike Gorday (39:41):
How do you figure out whether or not that's a scam
or not?
I mean it the.
Nathan Mumm (39:46):
The way that you figure it out is that somebody
ended up paying 995 bucks.
They got the links and thenthey looked at it to answer your
question, mike, more directly.
Marc Gregoire (39:55):
I think before you invest in anything, even it
looks good, you got to do alittle due diligence, like what
Nathan did.
You do a little search on the.
Mike Gorday (40:00):
Internet Go on Reddit and look for it.
Nathan Mumm (40:02):
Yeah, Actually I just did a Google search based
on it, and it came right on up,so you could easily have found
it too.
Mike Gorday (40:09):
All right, so are you listening to that folks?
Marc Gregoire (40:12):
What is the takeaway?
You got to take your extrasteps.
Mike Gorday (40:15):
You got to do some due diligence when you find
something that you might want toinvest in.
That's right.
Nathan Mumm (40:20):
All right, you know what?
Let's now move on to Mike'smesmerizing moment.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, here's myquestion for you.
We've moved to streamingplatforms, right?
And the best part about astreaming platform is it had no
ads.
You could just watch the TVshows in the movies without any
(40:43):
interruption.
Now, though, each time I go onmy streaming services, I have to
watch a minute, two minutes,sometimes even up to three and a
half minutes of ads.
Why are we accepting that theseplatforms that we pay for that
used to not have ads?
now have ads and we watch themlearned helplessness all right.
(41:05):
Well, explain that to me.
What is for the listeners?
What is learned?
Helplessness we're.
Mike Gorday (41:09):
There's just no getting away from them, so we
just, we just accept that wecan't do it okay well, you know
it's, it's, it's learnedhelplessness and you're, you're
damned if you do, damned if youdon't.
So you just stop trying, we juststart trying yeah because do
you pay for it if you want alittle bit of a deeper thing in
there?
So what happens is it's kind oflike uh, you know drug dealing.
(41:29):
You know, I'm going to give youa free sample, you're going to
enjoy it, you're going to comeback and then, as you come back,
I'm going to start cuttingthings into that stuff.
Yeah, so that you're notgetting as high, but I'm making
more money off of you.
Marc Gregoire (41:42):
Okay, you need to get the plus version of the
drugs.
Mike Gorday (41:45):
Yeah, yeah, so and then I'm going to upsell you by
using a pop-up ad in your jeep,uh-huh, and.
And upsell you on the, on theplus, on the plus, and then, and
then I'm going to, at somepoint, I'm going to add, add
things into that and then I'mgonna, at some point, I'm gonna
add, add things into that andthen I'm gonna have you upgrade
to the premium plus and thepremium plus plus, plus in the
plus plus, premium plus.
(42:06):
Okay, because the bottom lineis that, uh, what happens is, as
we get used to that and humanbeings don't like change.
Yeah, so this becomes thisbalance point between pain and
pleasure, where the addition ofthe ads irritates us, but
(42:26):
because we have investment inthe, in the streaming service,
we don't, we don't fight it, weand and then, you know, at some
point we may get irritatedenough and what they want to do
is irritate you enough to buyinto their their higher their up
plan where they tell you theydon't have but it's a I mean,
look how how much of a lie it is.
(42:48):
Yeah, because you know they theydo this all the time where they
said, okay, well, you, you come, come see our service, we don't
have ads.
And then they put the ads in.
Oh, now you can get a premiumplus service where you don't
have ads.
They're just going to keepdoing this because, at the end
of the day, they're going tocreate enough pain in your
(43:10):
system that you're going to doit out of frustration.
Okay, thank you, Mike.
Marc Gregoire (43:15):
This was brought to you by GeekFest West Are you
serious.
Mike Gorday (43:21):
All right, so now you should be a pop-up ad there
you go.
Nathan Mumm (43:25):
Thanks for that mesmerizing moment here.
We are going to head out to acommercial break.
When we come back, though, wehave this Week in Technology.
Hey, Mike.
Mike Gorday (43:33):
Yo, what's up.
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I think it's Patreon.
Okay, patreon, if you reallylike us, you can like us in
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I butcher the.
Nathan Mumm (43:51):
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You know, you butcher theEnglish language all the time.
It's Patreoncom, patreoncom.
You butcher the Englishlanguage all the time it's
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And now let's look back at thisweek in technology.
All right, on our way backmachine, we're going to february
29th, a leap year, 2012.
The tokyo sky tree is completed.
Construction of the tokyo skytree broadcast tower, delayed
two months due to the 2011 japanearthquake and the tsunami, was
completed on leap day offebruary 29th, 2012.
The tokyo sky tree is thetallest structure in japan and
(45:10):
the world's largest tower.
Now, you know it's interesting,as I actually saw this up front
when I did my trip to japanthis last year.
Not impressive, I'll just tellyou.
All it is is a commercial towerthat sits there.
It looks like t-mobile and at&tand verizon all got together
and put 500 different antennason this thing so we can shoot it
(45:32):
across the area.
I guess it works really goodfor a communication tower, but
yeah what does impress?
you.
Well, I the space needle, Ithink is pretty cool, right, I
think that's a unique landmarkthat was a part of the uh.
There's a lot of other largebuildings are you talking about?
Seattle space needle okay yeahso.
So take the seattle spaceneedle, okay, and think about
(45:54):
putting like 135 antennas on it.
Mike Gorday (45:59):
All over the thing, not even on the top of it, but
all over the side.
Never mind, just move on.
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The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Gregoire (47:14):
Bam February 25th .
Nathan Mumm (47:16):
Yes.
Marc Gregoire (47:17):
Today.
I'll give you a hint what todayis okay, it reminds me of you
oh, it can't be world's sexiestperson day, oh no, it's, it's,
it's most, it's world awkwardday thanks, oh, okay all right,
what is today?
National chocolate covered nutday.
Oh, you're a nut, but you'resweet on the outside.
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Oh, that's so nice and I evenbrought to celebrate.
Mike Gorday (47:41):
See, it should be natural awkward day, some nuts?
Oh, look at that.
Marc Gregoire (47:44):
With chocolate.
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
Oh, look, at that Goes well with the whiskey.
Nothing's better than sharingnuts with you.
Marc Gregoire (47:49):
Yeah, where's that sound?
Mike Gorday (47:52):
effect.
Ow, I'm frozen.
Your nuts are a little salty.
Marc Gregoire (47:59):
Mmm, but you know what?
One of the best Santa Clausgifts.
I'm frozen.
Your nuts are a little salty.
One of the best Santa Clausgifts.
Nathan Mumm (48:03):
Nothing's better than the crunch.
All at once, it's just boomright there.
Well, let's talk about the day.
Marc Gregoire (48:08):
Did you know that it's been almost 100 years
since the firstchocolate-covered peanut was
sold?
So chocolate is something weall love, and one of the ways to
make it even better is to addsomething else that we all adore
Nuts.
National Chocolate Covered NutDay is dedicated to the pleasing
combination of chocolate withnuts like peanut, almond,
cashews and hazelnuts thatcelebrate these tasty treats
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enjoyed by people of all ages.
Nathan Mumm (48:31):
It's a little chewy , A little sticky too.
Mike Gorday (48:37):
There is so much I want to say right now and I'm
not going to what's that?
Marc Gregoire (48:41):
well, while you guys enjoy your nuts covered
with brown chocolate.
Our whiskey today is from brown.
Okay, I get the tide.
All right, thank you.
Brown family vineyards wasfounded by noted wine
entrepreneur andrew brown as atribute to his family and honor
his late grandfather, mentor,veteran and community stalwart,
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william Bittner.
Brown Andrew has statedeverything I do is dedicated to
my grandfather, who is theinspiration for my life.
My grandfather's legacyinspired one simple question.
I ask daily what would Bittnerdo?
Make great wines?
Wines practice empathy, strivefor excellence and leave the
world in a better place.
So I don't know if you've everhad their wine.
They are a fairly famous winemaker.
(49:26):
They have especially in the?
Um.
They're out of spokane, um,they have tasting rooms
throughout washington and theirwine is thrown throughout the
united states.
Now the question is he'sstarting to make whiskey.
What do I think of his whiskey?
Okay, that's what everybody'swondering.
I think after tasting thewhiskey.
Andrew's whiskey is not at thesame level as his wines.
(49:48):
Okay, this whiskey tastes youngand grainy.
It does have a nice sweetness,so it would work in a cocktail.
I'm hoping if they stick withit, letting their whiskey age
another 8 to 12 years, theymight have a decent product.
What would Bittner do now?
He'd probably buy a differentwhiskey.
Okay, alright.
Nathan Mumm (50:07):
I got a little bit of the nuts stuck in the back of
my teeth.
Mike Gorday (50:10):
I don't think we need to know about your nuts
anymore.
Alright, well, you know what?
Nathan Mumm (50:13):
Nothing is such a good pairing in technology, in
whiskey and nuts, as is cheeseand wine.
Perfect pairings.
Look at that.
We put it together and wedidn't even know Beautiful.
Well, let's prepare for ourtechnology fail of the week by
Elite Executive Services.
(50:34):
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 8 (50:39):
Oh, failed.
Did I, yes, did I, yes, did Iyes, all right.
Nathan Mumm (50:48):
so this technology fails.
Both the technology fail andactual responsibility of making
sure mike is just diving intomark's balls balls here, I can't
.
Or nuts here, sorry, I can't.
I there you go, all right.
So here's what we got going on.
The aspect you need to makesure is you should never send a
drunk text right If you'redrinking and driving um be
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careful how you use technologywhether driving a car or working
on your phone or working onyour phone.
That's what we got.
A man's promising first datewent south when he received a
drunken text message exposinghis date's true feeling about
him, leading to a swift responsethat has commentators cheering.
The original poster explainedon Reddit that he had met a
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woman through Matchcom.
After swapping messages forseveral days, they decided they
were in positive chats and theydecided to meet for dinner at a
nice restaurant.
Things took a turn when thewoman who had been drinking
heavily through the meal excusedherself to the restroom.
Moments later, he received atext that was clearly meant for
somebody else.
This date is rubbish.
(51:50):
He's brutally ugly and I'm nothaving fun.
Can you call me in about fiveminutes and I'll pretend there's
an emergency?
The woman evidently did notknow that while she was
intoxicated, she had mistakenlysent her escape plan directly to
the man she was having dinnerwith.
Rather than confronting her,the man acted without hesitation
(52:11):
.
Marc Gregoire (52:11):
So it wasn't crushing him, it didn't sit
there and cry, it did not.
Nathan Mumm (52:15):
No.
He beckoned the waiter to comeon over, as he pulled on his
coat and told her my wife hasgone to the bathroom and I have
received an emergency call fromwork that I have to deal with.
She has the credit card andshe'll square up the bill.
He then walked out and didn'tlook back.
As the reddit thread has sinceattracted over 6600 upvotes
within the three-day time that'sbeen posted online, many of the
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users comments come back sayingwhat a bittersweet payback.
Uh, another consider that adrunken text was mistakenly sent
to you has helped you dodge abullet man.
I think she was trying to useyou for a free meal.
Uh, other supporters praise theman.
Great job, mate.
He did exactly what itshouldn't have done.
Uh, having him walk out was theperfection of this process.
(53:02):
So if you're gonna send a textmessage to somebody on a date
and you're a little bitintoxicated, use your technology
wisely and do not send it tothe person that you're having
the day with.
Mike Gorday (53:14):
That's a little.
It's a little hard to do ifyou're drunk is be wise, be wise
.
Nathan Mumm (53:20):
Well, hey, there you go, so be careful on the
whiskey that you drink.
That's, that's.
Marc Gregoire (53:24):
This guy had a good sense of humor because
somebody asked him if he wasreally brutally ugly and he was
funny about.
He's like well, I don't thinkI'm brutally ugly, but you know,
sort of ugly, sort of ugly okay, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (53:34):
So so again, what it just tells you is just be, be
nice, be polite.
You know, if a date isn'tworking out, you don't have to
like try to have somebody justsay hey, it's not working out,
you don't have to go through thewhole deal there.
All right, well, that was ourtechnology fail.
We're going to go right now,though we were going to do a
commercial break.
Let's skip that.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Let's go right into the nathan nugget this is your
nugget of the week all right,we're going to talk about a
mouse now.
Nathan Mumm (54:00):
This is a mouse that you need to get.
Are you ready?
Mr gorday asus has a new mousethat's equipped with a built-in
aromatic oil diffuser oh, whywould?
my mouse fart.
Is that well, the unique mousefeature it's a fragrance
compartment that you can fillwith essential oils.
While the idea of combinationof mouse and oil diffusers might
(54:21):
raise some eyebrows, thisoption is now available.
Refilling the scent is simplejust wash out the vial and
replace it with new oil.
However, be cautious, as thevial is located in the bottom
compartment of your mouse.
You wouldn't want toaccidentally damage it and spill
oils on your desk.
It's important to note thatonly oils designed for the reed
diffuser, ultrasonic diffusersor aromatic stones can be used.
(54:44):
Pure essential oils are notcompatible with the asus mouse.
I'm gonna run out and get oneright now.
Oh, the mouse isn'trechargeable.
Asus claims that it can operateon a single double a battery
for up to a year.
Furthermore, this this which isdesigned to endure up to 10
million clicks.
So the switch is on the bus.
On the mouse you can go 10million clicks.
While asus has not disclosedthe price for release date of
(55:06):
the fragrant mouse, users areinterested in this feature can
go right now to amazon andpurchase a diffuser to put in
your room.
Buy your mouse for under 10bucks and this isn't a scam this
isn't a scam, would you everbuy an asus mouse with a
diffuser?
No, no I just want to know whothought of this?
Marc Gregoire (55:28):
I want to know who was sitting around going hey
, we need to sell mice better,let's make it smell good
probably somebody that used towork at home has to work in an
office and has gas issues, orjust buy a diffuser, right I?
Nathan Mumm (55:41):
mean I just think you're playing, you're in the
battle of war and all of asudden you start leaking out oil
.
I mean, this is the firstinteractive mouse you get hit.
Mike Gorday (55:51):
maybe it just will open a compartment and then
you're like You're going to walkaway with a stinky hand.
Nathan Mumm (55:59):
Yeah, a stinky hand , Peppermint yes, there you go,
all right.
Well, you know what?
Now we need to move to our pickof the day.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Marc Gregoire (56:14):
From Brown Family Spirits, a distillery in
Spokane, washington, a straightbourbon, two years, 90 proof,
$45.
Nathan Mumm (56:22):
All right, thumbs up or thumbs down, mike, I'm
going to give it a thumbs down.
I'm going to give it a thumbsdown too.
Mike Gorday (56:28):
Not because it's not.
I mean, it's nice and sweet,but I think I'm going to fall
onto Mark's deal.
Yeah, I don't like it, it wasokay.
Marc Gregoire (56:38):
All right, I think I'm going to fall onto
Mark's deal.
My whiskey group wanted me toreturn this with their thanks,
but they definitely wanted me toreturn it.
Oh, they wanted you, did they?
Nathan Mumm (56:44):
love this.
This is the law.
Yeah, they totally loved it thebest comment on.
Marc Gregoire (56:49):
It was that's interesting.
What does?
Nathan Mumm (56:52):
that mean it's got a cork top, so it's technically
not whiskey.
Marc Gregoire (56:56):
Uh-oh, what do you mean?
It is a blend of distilledspirit which is totally more
like a vodka or a moonshine withrum.
Nathan Mumm (57:07):
Corn squeezings.
That's why it makes sense.
It was done in there and it'svery young People are like man.
Marc Gregoire (57:12):
I don't know if it's sat more than a day in any
kind of oak, what?
Nathan Mumm (57:16):
It was a big thumbs down all the way around from
the snobby people Wow, what does?
Mike Gorday (57:21):
that, tell me, that tells everybody that you have
no idea how to taste whiskey.
Oh boy All right.
Nathan Mumm (57:29):
Well, everybody, thank you for joining our show.
I'm going to cry in the corner.
The Science of Tomorrow startswith the technology of today.
See you next week Later,bye-bye.
Starts with the technology oftoday.
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Speaker 1 (01:35):
Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm (01:39):
All right.
Today we got a packed show withexciting and intriguing stories
.
First up, we'll discuss a boldmove by Meta that's making waves
in the corporate world.
Stay tuned to find out what'shappening behind the scenes at
this tech giant.
Next, jeff Bezos wants yourinput on something big, with
Amazon taking the reins of abeloved franchise.
There's a lot at stake.
We'll reveal what it is and howyou can make your voice heard.
(02:04):
And, of course, our fan favoritesegment, Letters, is back.
By reading scamming emailletters, we hope to save you or
a friend from a few of thecurrent scams that are going on.
And in a tale straight out of amovie, we're diving into a
quest for a lost treasure worthnearly $800 billion.
You won't want to miss thisincredible detail on this
(02:28):
treasure hunt.
And are you a Jeep owner?
If you are, you're facing a newand unexpected challenge.
We'll discuss what's happeningwith your vehicle and what it
means for the future of in-carexperiences.
And in addition to that, ofcourse, we have our standard
features, including Mike'smesmerizing moment, our
technology fail of the week andboy is that a good one.
(02:48):
A possible Nathan nugget.
And, of course, our pick of theday whiskey tasting to see if
our selected whiskey pick getszero, one or two thumbs up at
the end of the show.
Now, though, it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm (03:09):
All right.
Story number one Meta hasapproved a bonus plan that it
says will motivate its leaders.
Let's go to Corrine Westlandfor more on this story.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Meta approved a plan that could give company
executives a bonus of up to 200%of their base salary as it
trims stock awards for most ofits other employees.
According to a Securities andExchange Commission filing
submitted last week, the movecame the same month as Meta's
efforts to reduce its workforceby about 4,000 employees.
The company said in the filingthat the bonus plan would
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provide variable cash incentivesdesigned to motivate its
executive officers to focus oncompany priorities and to reward
them for company results andachievements.
Back to you guys in the studio.
Nathan Mumm (03:57):
All right, let's talk about it.
So here's what we have for theemployees at Meta.
What a great place to work.
You know what?
Mr Mark Zuckerberg I've neverbeen really a fan of him, but it
just keeps on getting a littlebit lower, a little bit lower.
What happens when it's like anegative percentage of of my fan
interest for him?
Then what happens, I don't know.
Okay, so here's what we got.
Let's say you're an employeethere and you received your
(04:17):
stock awards Are you familiarwith stock awards?
Happens so at Microsoft.
I worked at Microsoft, sureyeah.
And they would give you stockevery review and then, after
seven years it was a seven-yearvesting you would get to sell
the full amount of your sharesand then, at increments, each of
those shares were available foryou to sell.
Well, meta does the same thing,as Microsoft does and as other
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large companies do.
They normally do it on a fourto five-year plan, but what they
decided to do is they'veactually decided to take their
value of their annual equityrefreshers for their staff and
reduce that by 10 so they'rescrewing over the employees so
they can give their managementteam a boost.
Mike Gorday (05:00):
Well, is that what they're doing?
Nathan Mumm (05:01):
I'm just saying is what they're doing, is they're
taking it?
So if you had 220 stocks in therefresher, now you're going to
be looking over four years nowyou're going to be looking at
only getting about 200 000 worthof those stock refreshers um
the company then.
So they did that.
Mike Gorday (05:17):
They did that already.
Did the hughes sit down andwatch christmas vacation this
year and get an idea?
Is that what happened?
Well then, what he decided to.
Nathan Mumm (05:23):
Well then, what he decided to do is Zuckerberg
decided to cut about 4,000 jobs.
Now he calls these the lowperformers at the company and
he's streamlining to be moreoperational, efficient and
invest heavily on artificialintelligence, of course, but
what's interesting is when youactually go out of the norms,
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you have to actually submitfilings to regulatory boards
that say that you're doing it.
So if you were just going togive bonuses up to 100 of your
company executives, you actuallyprobably don't even need to uh
petition and send out thatinformation.
You just let it happeninternally.
But what they're trying to dois they're trying to give their
top leaders all the way up to200 percent of stock awards so
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that they can then help drivethe direction of the company.
Okay, so are you excited about?
Mike Gorday (06:15):
that.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm totally.
I am so excited when, whencorporations screw over the
little guy, that that just warmsthe cockles of my heart.
Nathan Mumm (06:25):
So if you're a CEO of a company, shouldn't you
already be driving to do thebest for the company?
So I don't know.
Well, that's why all thesepeople do it.
Mike Gorday (06:34):
But you know, the funny thing is that every time,
what's good for the company isactually putting money in the
pockets of all the stockholdersand the CEO and, in this case,
the C-suite folks.
Nathan Mumm (06:48):
So as a C-suite member, I got like about a 12%
bonus this last year and I washappy with the 12% bonus.
Now that's like right in lineof a.
Mike Gorday (06:57):
C-suite individual, you're not getting 200%.
Nathan Mumm (07:00):
No, I got like maybe 12% to 15%, so it wasn't
tons, but you know what it wasnice, it was a nice amount and
and I really appreciate that therange that I got for that.
So I'm not going to complainand you know that was pretty
good for me.
I was actually pretty happywith that.
So I I don't.
I worked really hard and we dida bunch of projects to save
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would you work harder for 200percent?
Mike Gorday (07:25):
no no, because I work hard all the time, that's
the funny thing because that'sthat's that's actually kind of
true with most people is thatyou don't work harder for that
stuff.
That's 200.
Nathan Mumm (07:38):
It's not it doesn't motivate it so.
So let's say you make a hundredthousand, two hundred percent,
so you're gonna get, so you canmake a hundred thousand in a
year, and then you're gonna getan additional two hundred
thousand dollars as a bonus, soyou're gonna take home three
hundred thousand dollars and I'msure it's way more than that.
A hundred thousand, I'm sure is, is not even a sliver with the
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high brass at meta make.
So I mean I mean you, okay, allright, let's continue on.
I can talk about that all day,zuckerberg, I mean maybe they're
saving that money for all themoney for the inauguration.
Yeah, I'm sure who cares, right,all right.
Mike Gorday (08:14):
Here we go.
Nathan Mumm (08:15):
All right story number two.
Mike Gorday (08:16):
They just do what they do.
Well, imagine driving down theroad in your car, okay, and you
stop at the intersection, allright, and the moment you do, an
ad pops up on your screen, onyour little dashboard screen
that everybody uses these days,okay, covering your gps and
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forcing you to close it and openit again.
And then when you stop again,it happens again.
So every time we stop, so youhave pop-up ads every when you
stop again it happens again.
So every time we stop.
So you have pop-up ads everytime you stop your car.
Nathan Mumm (08:47):
Oh, I would be irate.
Mike Gorday (08:50):
Yeah well, jeep owners are recently having the
same problem.
A number of Jeep owners havebeen complaining about excessive
pop-up ads coming up on theirdashboard screens.
All the ads are reportedly fromjeep and are asking people if
they want to extend their carwarranties, which you know is
(09:11):
always a great ad for you knowwhatever, it's an upsell ad too.
It is an upsell.
Nathan Mumm (09:15):
So it's not even the standard.
Mike Gorday (09:16):
Ad says purchase peace of mind okay yeah, so flex
care extended car premium plansare factory backed and offer
you peace of mind in case of amechanical breakdown so is it
thinking, because you'restopping, you're having a
mechanical breakdown?
I guess maybe press the callbutton to speak to a specialist
odometer must be less than 36000 miles to purchase.
(09:39):
Okay, at this point, the userscan hit a okay button or a big x
in the top right corner toremove the ad and actually see
their dashboard monitor again.
However, people have claimedthat the ad appears again and
again, and again and again.
Nathan Mumm (09:56):
So anytime you go on the break, every time they
stop.
Ok.
So what happens then if I don'twant to have an ad pop up and I
just decide to blow through auh?
Mike Gorday (10:05):
I don't, I don't sign.
Nathan Mumm (10:06):
Is that okay?
Because I just I'm trying tonot see my ads what do you tell
me?
Mike Gorday (10:10):
yeah, the cop pulls you, there you go because
there's that, that's a, that's a, that's a good risk, that's a
very good adaptive behaviorthere, let's just stop, let's
just not stop the car.
There you go.
So this is an in-vehiclemessage designed to inform jeep
customers about moparks in thevehicle I.
It really just drives me up awall that you can't get away
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from.
Nathan Mumm (10:33):
Ads, no matter what or buying a car and having
features built into it.
But unless you pay more money,it doesn't like it.
Like yeah, like a lexus.
Mike Gorday (10:41):
Like yeah, heated seats, but you have to do a
streaming service.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Monthly deal, monthly thing.
Mike Gorday (10:49):
So you can get your add-ons.
So yeah, of course this hasbeen called a temporary software
glitch, okay, which affectedthe ability to instantly opt out
of a few isolated cases, though, instant opt-out is the
standard for all our in-vehiclemessages, said Jeep.
Our team has already identifiedand corrected the error, and we
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are following up directly withthe customer to ensure the
matter is fully resolved.
The irony of a software bugtrying to sell you a warranty in
case your Jeep stops workingproperly is kind of overshadowed
by the fact that they're doingit and distracting you from your
driving.
Nathan Mumm (11:29):
Yeah, so what happens if you are a distracted
driver.
You get ads coming on.
I mean this has to be a lot.
There's got to be some lawyerwaiting to grab this immediately
.
I'm sure there are people.
Mike Gorday (11:41):
I'm sure there are people that are already moving
stuff like this through a courtsystem.
Okay, all right, but you know,I just, I just think it's
awesome that, no matter what wedo in today's, in today's modern
, technologically advancedsociety is, we can't get away
from ads.
They pop up on every singlething that we have.
Nathan Mumm (11:59):
I got, I got.
I got a Mike's mesmerizingquestion for you.
Now I know what I'm going toask you already now.
Okay, there you go.
Mike Gorday (12:06):
I'm going to go and get my card and get your ads
taken care of yeah.
See if I can find my pop-up ads.
Nathan Mumm (12:13):
The only ad I actually still like nowadays is
the YouTube ad where it playsnow like three seconds of what
you have and then you can.
It's about 10 seconds and youcan skip it, because you can
skip it after that 10 seconds,yeah but that's crap too,
because then you have to.
Mike Gorday (12:28):
You can't just leave things alone, right?
Nathan Mumm (12:33):
You have to manually pick up your thing and
you have to manually press theskip button, otherwise you do so
you have to.
Mike Gorday (12:40):
it forces you to manually interact with whatever
it is you're doing, so I thinkthat feature is the worst.
I know All right.
Nathan Mumm (12:50):
Odie, this is going to be for you, so get ready to
turn on your camera.
I got a question for you.
Ready Story number three whoshould play the next James Bond?
Jeff Bezos wants you to chimein.
Amazon is taking over creativecontrol of the james bond
franchise.
Great, jeff bezos wants yourthought on who should play the
next 007 bezos.
(13:11):
Jeff bezos, the billionaireamazon founder, may have a big
say in who gets to cast in oneof the film's most iconic roles,
james bond, and fans have theopportunity to champion their
favorite actor and try tocapture Basil's attention.
Mike Gorday (13:25):
You know who it's going to be.
Nathan Mumm (13:26):
Who's it going to be?
Bezos, bezos, bezos, yep.
Bezos kicked off a flurry ofactivity among bond fans by
posting a simple question tosocial media last week Who'd you
pick as the next James Bond?
With a question mark?
Bezos included a screenshot ofthe Reuters article highlighting
the news that the Bondfranchise's longtime producer
(13:49):
has handed over creative controlof the action films to the
company Amazon.
All right, before I continue onand read this, odie, I'm going
to ask you a couple questionshere.
Are you a big James Bond fan?
Ody (14:04):
No.
Nathan Mumm (14:04):
You're not a big Jamesames.
I'm really not okay.
Ody (14:07):
All right, I don't think I've even seen a movie the whole
way through okay original, new,don't matter doesn't make any
difference.
Nathan Mumm (14:13):
No, I you know what I have seen what oh my gosh,
it's johnny english, I thinkyeah I love, for I love him oh,
you like johnny english, yeah,but not so, let's just basil's
by that.
Do you realize?
Amazon now controls the lord ofthe rings and the james bond
franchise.
Mike Gorday (14:27):
Well yeah disney bought everything, so jeff is
getting the crumbs, so he'sbuying whatever I don't know why
jeff needs to have all thisstuff, but hey, you know I don't
know we got we got what's that?
We got elon launching cars intothe, into this, into space.
Yeah, jeff, jeff is, you know,buying up lord of the rings and
(14:50):
james bond?
Disney owns everything,everything and mark zuckerberg
is taking all his money awayfrom everybody else, from
everybody else merry christmas,happy years.
Nathan Mumm (15:02):
Yes, all right.
So let me ask you awesome, thebillionaire never mind.
The leading candidate to be injames bond out there amongst the
fans is henry cavill.
Do you know who, henry cavill?
Is, he's the superman yes, doyou like him as an actor?
Ody (15:20):
I've never seen him.
Nathan Mumm (15:22):
he's actually british, so this so this would
be a rarity to actually hire aBritish individual.
Roger Moore wasn't British.
You had Daniel Craig, which isAustralian, so you haven't had
any British person.
Mike Gorday (15:39):
Sean Connery was not British either.
He's Scottish.
Nathan Mumm (15:43):
He's Scottish, but they haven't had a British
person play any of the Britishagents.
Mike Gorday (15:48):
This would be the chance.
Nathan Mumm (15:49):
Are you sure?
Mike Gorday (15:50):
Yeah, well, yes, I was doing my research and that's
what they said.
What about that one?
That was only Bond, for liketwo films, there was Dalton.
Nathan Mumm (16:01):
There was Dalton, you know, I don't know I could
be, maybe one of those wasBritish, but I'm just saying the
main people that I know, SeanConnery, roger Moore, all those,
just all the ones that youthink are important.
Yeah, that's right, okay, allright, but you know what Bezos
wants.
Your feedback play that role.
Remember never say never,because complete control is that
(16:25):
bezos decision okay.
Ody (16:27):
So I'd either want it to be jonathan bailey okay, from
bridgerton, he's also going tobe the new um.
He's like the new scientist onthe jurassic park movies okay so
I I love him all right and thennikuti or shooty gotwa who's?
That he's the.
He's one of the ken dolls fromthe barbie movie okay hilarious,
(16:51):
and he's a new doctor who okayokay, so those are the two you
want
Mike Gorday (16:54):
yeah well, you know what.
Nathan Mumm (16:55):
You just need to get on they should have one of
the guys from monty python okay,well, you can get online and
you can tell Jeff Bezos, I wouldprobably go.
I'm a big Cavill fan, so Iwould probably go with Cavill.
If you're going to do it, get aBritish person in there, have
it.
You know what he can play Forthe one time.
Yeah, I mean, I think he couldplay perfect.
Mike Gorday (17:15):
It's funny that you keep getting caught on this
whole British thing.
Oh, Mark wants Elba.
Idris Elba would be a good one.
Ody (17:22):
Oh, that would be good.
Nathan Mumm (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, so did Gwen.
When we were talking about itat the production meeting, they
were both kind of going that way.
That would actually be okay.
I could actually see that.
Okay, continue it on.
Aren't we excited that Bezosnow controls the James Bond?
Mike Gorday (17:37):
No Story number four, just leave things alone.
Nathan Mumm (17:41):
Buried deep in a Welsh landfill Beneath layers of
garbage, there's a hard drivethat holds the key to almost
$800 million in Bitcoin, or soJames Howell believes.
Mike Gorday (17:53):
Is it Howell III?
Nathan Mumm (17:55):
Well, it could be Howell III or IV After
accidentally throwing the driveaway in 2013.
And now after years of battlinglocal authorities in court to
retrieve the hard drive, Hal hascome up with a plan to simply
buy the landfill.
Well, yeah, you know, this is,this is so okay, so we'll read
(18:17):
this story and then I'm gonna Ifeel like I feel like there's
some accountability here thatyou know, if you threw away the
hard drive, just let it go dude,I'm considering purchasing the
landfill site.
He said funding secured.
He wrote thursday on x saidthat he didn't say who was
providing the funding.
Though how has tried almosteverything to access his docks
(18:38):
ways.
Landfill in newport, a city 12miles northeast of the Welsh
capital, cardiff.
Mike Gorday (18:44):
According to the Newport City.
What's that?
This is in the UK.
Nathan Mumm (18:47):
Yep.
More than $700 million has beenspent in the council for
permission to dig up the site.
His latest plan, though, comesafter the British High Court
judge stopped his case fromgoing to trial.
His latest plan, though, comesafter the British High Court
judge stopped his case fromgoing to trial, issuing a
judgment in January thatdismissed his attempt to force
the council to allow him tosearch the landfill.
Howes accidentally threw out acrucial hard drive in August of
(19:18):
2013, which would have been anIDE drive, when he was clearing
out his house.
Thinking that it was a blankdrive that contained no data, he
put it in a trash bag and heleft it in the hallway for his
then partner to take to thegarbage dump before he realized,
as the value of Bitcoin rose,that what he had disposed is
gone.
Since the value of Bitcoin Halsays it is loaded into the hard
drive has skyrocketed fromaround 9 million to almost 800
million as prices ofcryptocurrencies have soared in
(19:40):
recent years.
Every Bitcoin transactionrequires a private key, a secret
piece of data contained withineach individual Bitcoin wallet
that mathematically proves thetransaction has come from that
wallet.
Now, Howell's Hired Drivecontained a record of that
private key.
According to what he says.
The position is no different,in principle, of what he's
trying to do now.
It would be the same as if thisprivate key was written on a
(20:04):
piece of paper and put into thelandfill.
Why is it any different thatit's a hard drive?
Without knowing the private key, of course, the access to his
Bitcoin that he's mined allthese years is gone Now.
What's interesting, though, isthat they're planning to close
the landfill in 2025 and 2026.
The council has told Mr Howellon a number of occasions that
excavation is not possible underlicensing permitting, so even
(20:27):
if he bought it, he could not goand take a look at that drive.
Mike Gorday (20:31):
Yeah, you know what's going to happen if he
actually buys it.
What's that?
He's going to be sanctionedagain and not able to find Okay.
So this is an IDE drive, thisis.
Nathan Mumm (20:40):
This is an ide drive.
The chances I I don't thinkthere's a single bit of chance
that you're going to be able torecover this hard drive.
If it was thrown in a bag,thrown into landfills, stuff has
come on top of it, crushed it,moved it around.
They have big machines thatnormally go over landfills to
compact the items that are there.
I don't know why he thinks hewould be able to find that hard
(21:02):
drive.
I just don't.
This is his white whale man butsomehow his claim to fame is
that he had a hard drive thathad all this stuff that that's a
horror, that's a horrible.
Mike Gorday (21:14):
You know, thought that this is like, this is like
the plot of uh, of uh.
You know one of those moviesthat we used to watch on Monday
nights.
Monday night movies, oh, mondaynight movies, okay, the movie
of the week, movie of the week,yeah, you know, Guy throws away
$800 million and doesn't realizeuntil it's too late.
Nathan Mumm (21:33):
And then he can't get it back Unsolved mysteries
Unsolved, there you go.
I think he's getting more pressthan what this is worth.
But there you go.
That ends our top technologystories of the week.
Moving on, we have our letters,or later in the show, we have
our letter segment, which willbe next.
We're going to listen to abunch of emails.
(21:54):
We're going to read out loudand we even have an audio from
one that I actually called thenumber that was on there because
they had something special forme.
We're going to take a look atthat.
Buckle up tech enthusiasts aswe're going to drive 88 miles
into our next segment.
See you after the commercialbreak.
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Nathan Mumm (22:58):
Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
Our weekly show covers the toptechnology subjects without any
political agenda.
We verify the facts and we doit in a sense of 60 minutes or
less and, of course, with somehumor and whiskey on the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur, is back and
he has the whiskey to talkabout.
I'm really excited because lastweek's show if you paid
(23:19):
attention I gave whiskey one ofmy favorite whiskeys to your
whiskey group, so I can't waitto hear how that went.
Marc Gregoire (23:25):
We can talk about that in the Mumbles.
Nathan Mumm (23:27):
Okay, perfect, I'm excited, I don't have good
feelings about it.
Mike Gorday (23:31):
You don't no.
Marc Gregoire (23:32):
I think they're going to love it.
Why not, Mike?
It was your number one whiskey.
Nathan Mumm (23:35):
It was our number one whiskey, year one, the Mo
Whiskey.
Okay, you remember that?
No, okay, well, alright, we'llsee.
Mike Gorday (23:44):
This is the one that was made in the bathtub
right.
Yes made in the bathtub.
Marc Gregoire (23:47):
Well, let's talk about today's whiskey.
Okay, what's today, Today?
Well, number one,congratulations, guys.
You did a bottle kill, ohthat's fantastic, that was
before the show started.
Nathan Mumm (23:56):
Yeah, so if we say anything that we slumber too
much through, sorry about thatpeople.
Marc Gregoire (24:00):
Okay, and today we are drinking Brown Straight
Bourbon Whiskey, now fromBrown's website.
The aroma is sweet and caramelnotes, with hints of
butterscotch and simple syrup,complemented by traditional wood
oak.
The taste is light and sweet onthe palate, with a smooth
finish that hits and runs.
Nathan Mumm (24:17):
Kind of hits and runs.
I like the hit and run.
Marc Gregoire (24:19):
Now this is from Brown Family Spirits and their
distillery is in Spokane,washington.
They're a straight bourbon.
It's two years, it's 90 proof82% corn, 10% malted barley, 8%
rye.
It goes for about $45.
Nathan Mumm (24:34):
Oh, wow, okay, I'm liking the price.
I'm liking the cork.
Okay, I'm liking the price.
I'm liking the cork.
I see the cork Right.
Mike Gorday (24:41):
It's a nice cork.
Yeah, those are your biggestthings.
The bottle looks nice.
Nathan Mumm (24:48):
How does it taste?
There's no bite at all.
It's very smooth.
What?
Mike Gorday (24:53):
do you think, mike, it has a lot of sweet overtones
.
Are you a big sweet?
Nathan Mumm (24:59):
nut.
I'm okay with it.
You're okay with it.
I don't know if I'm strong onit.
There is no bite.
Marc Gregoire (25:05):
We'll see how it develops over the show.
Nathan Mumm (25:08):
Okay, that sounds great.
Marc Gregoire (25:09):
Don't forget to like and subscribe.
Please comment, let us knowwhat whiskey you'd like us to
review and, after doing a bottlekill, always drink responsibly.
Heaven can wait.
Nathan Mumm (25:18):
All right, heaven can wait, I like that okay, well
, nothing better than startingoff a technology show with some
whiskey as we move on to this.
We are now moving on to ourmain segment.
Today, we bring back the funnyyet informative reading of
emails that I received duringthe week.
This includes scam, phishingemails and all-out mistruths
disguised as legitimate emailsin a segment we call Letters.
(25:42):
Letters we get letters, we getback back, back those letters,
letters.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
we get letters.
Marc Gregoire (25:52):
And the letters all have songs.
Nathan Mumm (25:56):
Alright, so we're going to start out with Odie
first and then we'll come to melast and we'll see if we go
around for a second round or not.
But I know that she has apretty extensive email that was
sent here.
It looks pretty legit.
Odie, what do we have coming onup?
Ody (26:12):
This doesn't look legit at all.
Nathan Mumm (26:14):
Oh, it doesn't.
Ody (26:14):
So it's from Coinbase Help Desk.
Nathan Mumm (26:17):
Oh, okay.
Ody (26:18):
No, no reply, eventeventbritecom whoa, whoa at
where eventevent.
No reply at eventeventbritecomso coinbase is using eventbrite
eventbrite, which is a freeonline service that in itself,
if I, if I would have read thatdelete okay, yeah, that's
probably a first sign, okay,perfect says account
(26:40):
verification required in thesubject line.
This was sent to you bycoinbase support team.
Your can.
Your account cannot be accessedand there's space between the
word accessed okay like insidethe word, and then in the like
the body of the email yeah abunch of typos.
We've noticed a login attempt toyour account from an unfamiliar
(27:03):
web browser linked to anexternal app.
All of that with weird spacingthroughout.
Nathan Mumm (27:07):
Weird spacing and typos.
Ody (27:09):
Yeah.
Nathan Mumm (27:10):
In today's AI world that we talk about so much.
You can put that probably inchat GPT or even deep seek, as
long as you don't talk aboutChina, and it would have
probably auto-corrected thewords themselves.
So the words are incorrect butyeah.
Ody (27:26):
So there's a big button that says quick fix and then
also an ending with importantnotice if no action is taken in
the next 48 hours, any toinitiate any automatic recovery
process.
This could include liquidatingyour holdings in accordance with
our terms and conditions.
Nathan Mumm (27:45):
Oh no, again.
All typos.
I can't even read it.
An urgency Now.
Where's that coming from?
Go to the second page therethat you have there.
Where's that coming from?
We all know Coinbase is basedout of the LA area in itself.
Ody (27:58):
It says that it's from London, United Kingdom.
Nathan Mumm (28:01):
London United.
Ody (28:01):
Kingdom.
Oh it's the new Coinbase.
Mike Gorday (28:03):
It's Mr Howell looking for his $800 million in
Bitcoin.
Okay, so Coinbase is soCoinbase.
Nathan Mumm (28:09):
the company is only based in the San Francisco area
, LA area, so that should be A1known.
If you do any of this stuff, sothat'd probably be a warning.
Misspellings are a warning.
What happens when you think youactually click on that link
that says you have to click here?
Ody (28:26):
It starts asking for a bunch of information.
It did.
Nathan Mumm (28:28):
It went to.
Not only did they useEventbrite to send this out, but
they used Google Forms tocollect your data.
So they are like multi-talentedto all the free stuff that's
available there.
So they had Google Forms, theyhad Eventbrite and nothing that
had to do with Coinbase.
So what would you do with thatemail, odie?
Ody (28:47):
I'd delete it.
Nathan Mumm (28:48):
Delete it, get rid of it.
Let me All right, are you goingto put it up?
There you go.
Add the stage.
Oh, there you go.
If you're streaming right now,if you look online, you can see
all of our stuff with all of theemails misspelled.
Yeah, that is.
It looks horrible.
Accessed space D-A-C-C-E-S-Espace D.
Yeah, that looks horrible.
Don't click on those people,don't.
(29:09):
Those are scams.
Ody (29:10):
Quick fix.
Nathan Mumm (29:11):
All right, mark, we're going to you next.
What do we have here?
You have a couple, because wemay get a second round, so what
do you have?
Marc Gregoire (29:17):
I'm going with this one.
This one is a throwback.
I said throwback okay I love it.
It is so in your face, yeah,that they just went old school.
Okay, what old school it's frommr daniel.
All right, he says hey, you wona hundred thousand american,
united states dollars.
Oh, and we want to give it toyou directly to your bank, with
your login pin.
So please send us your accountnumber, your mobile number, your
(29:40):
address, your driver's license,your mother's maiden name and
everything else in the world andwe'll just take care of it for
you.
Wow, and please send it to thisgeneric email address.
Ody (29:49):
Wow, they're covering all their bases.
Mike Gorday (29:51):
He doesn't pussyfoot around, he's just like
hey.
Marc Gregoire (29:54):
He just decides to go full board of of what he
wanted I think this was ascammer that that got the the
rule book it says this is allthe information you try and get
out of somebody he's like well,let me just throw it all out
there, so that is old school wayright.
Nathan Mumm (30:07):
No tricks, he's just gonna go right, that's
right he didn't.
Mike Gorday (30:10):
It's not even old school.
He didn't talk about, you know,princes in nigeria or anything
I know I do miss that hey uh,you want a bunch of money.
If you want it, give me yourinformation.
So what would you?
Nathan Mumm (30:20):
do with an email like this, mark Besides, read it
on the show.
Marc Gregoire (30:24):
Besides, read it on the show.
I think this wouldautomatically go into the spam
folder.
Nathan Mumm (30:29):
Okay, yeah.
Marc Gregoire (30:30):
I think I'd laugh first.
Yeah, and hopefully nobodyfalls for this anymore.
This is one that I hope nobodyfalls for anymore.
My other one is much morecomplex.
Mike Gorday (30:40):
It more.
This is one that I hope nobodyfalls for anymore.
My other one is much morecomplex.
Yes, I see that mr danieldoesn't even have a an email
address listed, is that?
Marc Gregoire (30:46):
up there, yeah, but down here he tells you to
send it to, like pj zero and abunch of numbers at gmail, at
gmail.
Wow at a free account, yeah hehid it up above in the front
yeah, yeah, he got a hidden.
Mike Gorday (30:57):
How did?
How do you do that?
Nathan Mumm (30:58):
I say he probably did.
A blind carbon copy was how itwas sent out, probably.
So it wasn't there.
Very good, mr Daniel, all right.
Ok, now, mike, we're up to you.
Mike Gorday (31:09):
Well, we got one from Endurance Auto Protection
at infoed3tz6wl at nacchdcom.
Marc Gregoire (31:19):
I want to communicate with them.
Mike Gorday (31:22):
I feel like Mr Daniels got some learnings to do
.
He does.
Okay.
It's to your Hotmail account,okay, and the subject line is
$300 off promo Save on your newendurance auto protection policy
.
Save $300 on endurance autoprotection.
Tired of unexpected car repaircosts We've got you covered,
okay.
Save $300 on endurance autoprotection, tired of unexpected
car repair costs We've got youcovered, okay.
(31:43):
This sounds like a pop-up ad onthe Jeep.
I was going to say you got bothof the you got all the car
stuff.
That's right For a limited timesave $300 on.
Well, you know they've told youthree times that you can save
$300.
So they've been reading somebooks or something.
Nathan Mumm (32:00):
Oh yeah, and then you also get a complimentary $29
non-refundable application fee.
Mike Gorday (32:06):
Look at that First year complimentary.
Nathan Mumm (32:08):
Yes, so they give that to you too.
So what this is is this is alegitimate scam.
What they're looking for is tograb information.
What do you mean it's alegitimate?
Mike Gorday (32:18):
scam.
Nathan Mumm (32:18):
I mean.
So these are out in the wildeverywhere.
This is not like they're nottrying to actually necessarily
get you to buy their insurance.
They just want you to fill outa form, tell them what insurance
policy you have, what yourcurrent insurance policy number
is, so that they can build adata based upon you as the
(32:40):
person that responds to this, sothey can then resell that
information as an updatedprofile of Mr Gorday or Mr Mom
or whoever decided to click onit.
They do not actually even havea endurance auto protection
policy.
That is not even their goal tosell you anything.
Their goal is just to collectdata.
Mike Gorday (32:59):
Just trying to get information to sell to brokers.
Nathan Mumm (33:01):
Yep, this is just a broker.
Mike Gorday (33:02):
Well, look at that.
Nathan Mumm (33:04):
All right, well, I got.
Oh, do you got this audio readyfor this?
All right, I got something fromdiscount mugs you have audio.
I do.
I actually called up this oneso we could actually take a look
.
This is Discount Mugs.
They say they have deals goingon for everything that you can
believe on $75 off, $135 off,$200 off, anything you need at
(33:25):
Discount Mugs.
It's not the actual DiscountMugs site, but anything you need
, and so I decided to actuallycall up the number and see what
type of discounts they have forme.
Let's take a look at what theyhave.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Press one now to continue this call in English.
Hello and thank you for callingTo help us better service your
needs.
Please listen closely to thefollowing special offers
available to you.
Are you looking for affordableTV or internet at the lowest
prices, with no annual contracts?
Press one to get the bestpackages available for you and
(34:02):
your family.
Looking to book your next dreamvacation or trip?
Press 2 for cheap flights,airline tickets and airfare
deals.
Would you like to book abeautiful hotel room at the
fraction of the normal price?
Press 3 to get a great deal onyour next hotel reservation.
For all other calls, presspound.
Marc Gregoire (34:21):
All right, so did you press pound.
Other calls press pound, allright.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
So did you press pound?
Did you press pound?
I did not, so here's what wegot.
Nathan Mumm (34:25):
So this is like the discount mugs they have like
everything on sale so I couldget internet that was on sale
for me, I could have got aflight that was available for me
and vacations that were allavailable for me.
Now when you pressed any of thebuttons it went into just a
beep and I guess you're supposedto leave your name and message
and they'll call you back.
So I was a little disappointedbecause the discount mug said I
(34:48):
could get promotional mugs and Ican only get internet service
trips and hotel and vacationpackage.
So I couldn't even get my mugs.
They promised me I could get onmy ad.
That's terribly disappointing.
It even get my mugs.
They promised me I could get onmy ad that's.
That's terribly disappointing.
It is a little disappointing,but this we're going to start
adding this.
We've added some new technologywhere I'm actually going to
start calling these people up.
I had one with coinbase, fakeperson and and, but I had the
(35:10):
guy start swearing at me.
So I enjoy calling these andI'm now going to start recording
these so we can have a littleadded uh audio feature for
letters all right if you.
Marc Gregoire (35:19):
You want, I can swear at you too, if it makes
you feel good.
It doesn't make me feel better.
Mike Gorday (35:22):
We swear at them all the time.
It doesn't do anything.
All right, it doesn't changeanything.
Nathan Mumm (35:25):
So that was it.
So let's go back to Mark.
Let's have you finish out withyour last one here.
Marc Gregoire (35:30):
All right.
Well, this one is one of theonly ones.
Anything wrong with it?
Oh, I know, it actually isreally good.
It's really good, it's reallygood.
This is really for probablysomebody that's as part of a
company.
So this is hurry.
Time's running out.
Achieve that sales growth foryour msp.
So it's really targeted towardsa particular market.
It's showing a workshop.
You pay 9.95 for the workshop.
(35:51):
It's a four-part workshop.
They say who the speakers arewith their pictures, what the
agenda is.
I mean it looks like alegitimate business email.
Nathan Mumm (35:59):
It is All right.
So you click on this and youcan actually sign up to get
their leadership training on howto be really good on MSP.
Now, if you pay the $995, theysend you links to watch this
great information.
Guess where this video ishosted?
Of China.
Well, no, it's not in China,it's on YouTube.
(36:19):
Okay, if you actually and youwould think, well, okay, so
maybe it's this private videofor this youtube type of deal,
so I'm paying 995 bucks.
It would be like this specialtype of seminar that I'd learn a
lot of stuff from.
Guess what happens that youtubeurl is public.
Marc Gregoire (36:37):
Oh so these are all free videos you can find
anyway.
Nathan Mumm (36:39):
So these are free videos that you have access to
from all these but it says it'sgoing to be live.
Well, no, it's going to be live,so it's going to be a
re-recorded video that they will.
They'll send you the links andthey can have it so you can do
question and answers with themlive on their event and if
you're one of the people inthere, they will answer the
questions.
It it's already pre-done, sothey already have people ask
(36:59):
them questions and they send youthe.
Literally, they send you aYouTube video to watch that is
not hidden, not behind thebackground, not some secret
sauce that anybody can click toat any time.
So you're going to pay 995bucks.
They send you to the links tothese people.
I don't even know if the peoplethat are on there know that
their links are being sold outthere for 995 bucks, because I
(37:21):
believe that each of thoseindividuals just had those
posted for free up there.
But somebody went through,decided to find some free videos
on youtube, send a marketingemail out, charge you 995 bucks
so they can give you the freelinks so is this a scam or is
this just a smart business thisguy's put together?
it's kind of, I guess it kind ofborderlines on both right.
Mike Gorday (37:43):
I guess the real question is is how do you know?
Did you pay 995 to find this?
Nathan Mumm (37:49):
I did not.
I actually went to reddit, sothis is a discussion that was
all over reddit and somebodyactually did it and they posted
all the information that wasthere.
Uh, I did have the actual emailthat was sent to me also, so it
was kind of a Reddit discussion, and I find Reddit to be a
really good if you're lookingfor comedy versions of people
that are technical talking aboutthese types of things.
(38:10):
The MSP market, which is themanaged service provider market,
is being scammed all over forsmall businesses right now, and
so this is happening all overand people are paying $900 to
save a buck because they didn'twant to go to this event and
then they get it so normally, inorder to figure out whether or
not we are dealing with aphishing email or something,
(38:32):
we're looking at a few keyfeatures.
Mike Gorday (38:34):
We're looking at the email that it comes from.
We're looking at thegrammatical errors.
We're looking at content.
How do you figure out that thisis a scam when all that stuff
looks legit, so it is legit.
Nathan Mumm (38:52):
It's a business idea that somebody is going and
selling for 995 bucks so itcould be Nathan Mums Corporation
and you pay me $995 and I'mgoing to go out and find two
people on YouTube that I enjoylistening to and after you pay
me $995, I'm going to send youthe links of them and say here
you go, here's the seminars okay, so it's not really a scam well
(39:16):
is it, though?
why, if I can get those for free, why am I paying 995 bucks for
nathan's company?
To tell you what those are, wewould call.
Mike Gorday (39:24):
We would call that a a valuable marketing technique
so okay, that's what, like marksaid.
Nathan Mumm (39:30):
So I mean it looks legit.
These people are legit speakers.
Everything in there is legit.
The idea is that I shouldn't bepaying 900 bucks to get links
that I can find them for free onwell, that's see, that's that's
the question.
Mike Gorday (39:41):
How do you figure out whether or not that's a scam
or not?
I mean it the.
Nathan Mumm (39:46):
The way that you figure it out is that somebody
ended up paying 995 bucks.
They got the links and thenthey looked at it to answer your
question, mike, more directly.
Marc Gregoire (39:55):
I think before you invest in anything, even it
looks good, you got to do alittle due diligence, like what
Nathan did.
You do a little search on the.
Mike Gorday (40:00):
Internet Go on Reddit and look for it.
Nathan Mumm (40:02):
Yeah, Actually I just did a Google search based
on it, and it came right on up,so you could easily have found
it too.
Mike Gorday (40:09):
All right, so are you listening to that folks?
Marc Gregoire (40:12):
What is the takeaway?
You got to take your extrasteps.
Mike Gorday (40:15):
You got to do some due diligence when you find
something that you might want toinvest in.
That's right.
Nathan Mumm (40:20):
All right, you know what?
Let's now move on to Mike'smesmerizing moment.
Welcome to Mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
All right, mike, here's myquestion for you.
We've moved to streamingplatforms, right?
And the best part about astreaming platform is it had no
ads.
You could just watch the TVshows in the movies without any
(40:43):
interruption.
Now, though, each time I go onmy streaming services, I have to
watch a minute, two minutes,sometimes even up to three and a
half minutes of ads.
Why are we accepting that theseplatforms that we pay for that
used to not have ads?
now have ads and we watch themlearned helplessness all right.
(41:05):
Well, explain that to me.
What is for the listeners?
What is learned?
Helplessness we're.
Mike Gorday (41:09):
There's just no getting away from them, so we
just, we just accept that wecan't do it okay well, you know
it's, it's, it's learnedhelplessness and you're, you're
damned if you do, damned if youdon't.
So you just stop trying, we juststart trying yeah because do
you pay for it if you want alittle bit of a deeper thing in
there?
So what happens is it's kind oflike uh, you know drug dealing.
(41:29):
You know, I'm going to give youa free sample, you're going to
enjoy it, you're going to comeback and then, as you come back,
I'm going to start cuttingthings into that stuff.
Yeah, so that you're notgetting as high, but I'm making
more money off of you.
Marc Gregoire (41:42):
Okay, you need to get the plus version of the
drugs.
Mike Gorday (41:45):
Yeah, yeah, so and then I'm going to upsell you by
using a pop-up ad in your jeep,uh-huh, and.
And upsell you on the, on theplus, on the plus, and then, and
then I'm going to, at somepoint, I'm going to add, add
things into that and then I'mgonna, at some point, I'm gonna
add, add things into that andthen I'm gonna have you upgrade
to the premium plus and thepremium plus plus, plus in the
plus plus, premium plus.
(42:06):
Okay, because the bottom lineis that, uh, what happens is, as
we get used to that and humanbeings don't like change.
Yeah, so this becomes thisbalance point between pain and
pleasure, where the addition ofthe ads irritates us, but
(42:26):
because we have investment inthe, in the streaming service,
we don't, we don't fight it, weand and then, you know, at some
point we may get irritatedenough and what they want to do
is irritate you enough to buyinto their their higher their up
plan where they tell you theydon't have but it's a I mean,
look how how much of a lie it is.
(42:48):
Yeah, because you know they theydo this all the time where they
said, okay, well, you, you come, come see our service, we don't
have ads.
And then they put the ads in.
Oh, now you can get a premiumplus service where you don't
have ads.
They're just going to keepdoing this because, at the end
of the day, they're going tocreate enough pain in your
(43:10):
system that you're going to doit out of frustration.
Okay, thank you, Mike.
Marc Gregoire (43:15):
This was brought to you by GeekFest West Are you
serious.
Mike Gorday (43:21):
All right, so now you should be a pop-up ad there
you go.
Nathan Mumm (43:25):
Thanks for that mesmerizing moment here.
We are going to head out to acommercial break.
When we come back, though, wehave this Week in Technology.
Hey, Mike.
Mike Gorday (43:33):
Yo, what's up.
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We need people to start likingour social media page.
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If you like our show, if you really like us, we
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Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, patreon, if you reallylike us, you can like us in
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I butcher the.
Nathan Mumm (43:51):
English language.
You know, you butcher theEnglish language all the time.
It's Patreoncom, patreoncom.
You butcher the Englishlanguage all the time it's
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Mike Gorday (43:58):
If you really like our show, you can subscribe to
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Yeah, we're on Facebook too.
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And now let's look back at thisweek in technology.
All right, on our way backmachine, we're going to february
29th, a leap year, 2012.
The tokyo sky tree is completed.
Construction of the tokyo skytree broadcast tower, delayed
two months due to the 2011 japanearthquake and the tsunami, was
completed on leap day offebruary 29th, 2012.
The tokyo sky tree is thetallest structure in japan and
(45:10):
the world's largest tower.
Now, you know it's interesting,as I actually saw this up front
when I did my trip to japanthis last year.
Not impressive, I'll just tellyou.
All it is is a commercial towerthat sits there.
It looks like t-mobile and at&tand verizon all got together
and put 500 different antennason this thing so we can shoot it
(45:32):
across the area.
I guess it works really goodfor a communication tower, but
yeah what does impress?
you.
Well, I the space needle, Ithink is pretty cool, right, I
think that's a unique landmarkthat was a part of the uh.
There's a lot of other largebuildings are you talking about?
Seattle space needle okay yeahso.
So take the seattle spaceneedle, okay, and think about
(45:54):
putting like 135 antennas on it.
Mike Gorday (45:59):
All over the thing, not even on the top of it, but
all over the side.
Never mind, just move on.
Nathan Mumm (46:03):
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Speaker 1 (47:04):
The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Marc Gregoire (47:14):
Bam February 25th .
Nathan Mumm (47:16):
Yes.
Marc Gregoire (47:17):
Today.
I'll give you a hint what todayis okay, it reminds me of you
oh, it can't be world's sexiestperson day, oh no, it's, it's,
it's most, it's world awkwardday thanks, oh, okay all right,
what is today?
National chocolate covered nutday.
Oh, you're a nut, but you'resweet on the outside.
(47:38):
Oh, that's so nice and I evenbrought to celebrate.
Mike Gorday (47:41):
See, it should be natural awkward day, some nuts?
Oh, look at that.
Marc Gregoire (47:44):
With chocolate.
Nathan Mumm (47:45):
Oh, look, at that Goes well with the whiskey.
Nothing's better than sharingnuts with you.
Marc Gregoire (47:49):
Yeah, where's that sound?
Mike Gorday (47:52):
effect.
Ow, I'm frozen.
Your nuts are a little salty.
Marc Gregoire (47:59):
Mmm, but you know what?
One of the best Santa Clausgifts.
I'm frozen.
Your nuts are a little salty.
One of the best Santa Clausgifts.
Nathan Mumm (48:03):
Nothing's better than the crunch.
All at once, it's just boomright there.
Well, let's talk about the day.
Marc Gregoire (48:08):
Did you know that it's been almost 100 years
since the firstchocolate-covered peanut was
sold?
So chocolate is something weall love, and one of the ways to
make it even better is to addsomething else that we all adore
Nuts.
National Chocolate Covered NutDay is dedicated to the pleasing
combination of chocolate withnuts like peanut, almond,
cashews and hazelnuts thatcelebrate these tasty treats
(48:29):
enjoyed by people of all ages.
Nathan Mumm (48:31):
It's a little chewy , A little sticky too.
Mike Gorday (48:37):
There is so much I want to say right now and I'm
not going to what's that?
Marc Gregoire (48:41):
well, while you guys enjoy your nuts covered
with brown chocolate.
Our whiskey today is from brown.
Okay, I get the tide.
All right, thank you.
Brown family vineyards wasfounded by noted wine
entrepreneur andrew brown as atribute to his family and honor
his late grandfather, mentor,veteran and community stalwart,
(49:04):
william Bittner.
Brown Andrew has statedeverything I do is dedicated to
my grandfather, who is theinspiration for my life.
My grandfather's legacyinspired one simple question.
I ask daily what would Bittnerdo?
Make great wines?
Wines practice empathy, strivefor excellence and leave the
world in a better place.
So I don't know if you've everhad their wine.
They are a fairly famous winemaker.
(49:26):
They have especially in the?
Um.
They're out of spokane, um,they have tasting rooms
throughout washington and theirwine is thrown throughout the
united states.
Now the question is he'sstarting to make whiskey.
What do I think of his whiskey?
Okay, that's what everybody'swondering.
I think after tasting thewhiskey.
Andrew's whiskey is not at thesame level as his wines.
(49:48):
Okay, this whiskey tastes youngand grainy.
It does have a nice sweetness,so it would work in a cocktail.
I'm hoping if they stick withit, letting their whiskey age
another 8 to 12 years, theymight have a decent product.
What would Bittner do now?
He'd probably buy a differentwhiskey.
Okay, alright.
Nathan Mumm (50:07):
I got a little bit of the nuts stuck in the back of
my teeth.
Mike Gorday (50:10):
I don't think we need to know about your nuts
anymore.
Alright, well, you know what?
Nathan Mumm (50:13):
Nothing is such a good pairing in technology, in
whiskey and nuts, as is cheeseand wine.
Perfect pairings.
Look at that.
We put it together and wedidn't even know Beautiful.
Well, let's prepare for ourtechnology fail of the week by
Elite Executive Services.
(50:34):
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 8 (50:39):
Oh, failed.
Did I, yes, did I, yes, did Iyes, all right.
Nathan Mumm (50:48):
so this technology fails.
Both the technology fail andactual responsibility of making
sure mike is just diving intomark's balls balls here, I can't
.
Or nuts here, sorry, I can't.
I there you go, all right.
So here's what we got going on.
The aspect you need to makesure is you should never send a
drunk text right If you'redrinking and driving um be
(51:10):
careful how you use technologywhether driving a car or working
on your phone or working onyour phone.
That's what we got.
A man's promising first datewent south when he received a
drunken text message exposinghis date's true feeling about
him, leading to a swift responsethat has commentators cheering.
The original poster explainedon Reddit that he had met a
(51:30):
woman through Matchcom.
After swapping messages forseveral days, they decided they
were in positive chats and theydecided to meet for dinner at a
nice restaurant.
Things took a turn when thewoman who had been drinking
heavily through the meal excusedherself to the restroom.
Moments later, he received atext that was clearly meant for
somebody else.
This date is rubbish.
(51:50):
He's brutally ugly and I'm nothaving fun.
Can you call me in about fiveminutes and I'll pretend there's
an emergency?
The woman evidently did notknow that while she was
intoxicated, she had mistakenlysent her escape plan directly to
the man she was having dinnerwith.
Rather than confronting her,the man acted without hesitation
(52:11):
.
Marc Gregoire (52:11):
So it wasn't crushing him, it didn't sit
there and cry, it did not.
Nathan Mumm (52:15):
No.
He beckoned the waiter to comeon over, as he pulled on his
coat and told her my wife hasgone to the bathroom and I have
received an emergency call fromwork that I have to deal with.
She has the credit card andshe'll square up the bill.
He then walked out and didn'tlook back.
As the reddit thread has sinceattracted over 6600 upvotes
within the three-day time that'sbeen posted online, many of the
(52:37):
users comments come back sayingwhat a bittersweet payback.
Uh, another consider that adrunken text was mistakenly sent
to you has helped you dodge abullet man.
I think she was trying to useyou for a free meal.
Uh, other supporters praise theman.
Great job, mate.
He did exactly what itshouldn't have done.
Uh, having him walk out was theperfection of this process.
(53:02):
So if you're gonna send a textmessage to somebody on a date
and you're a little bitintoxicated, use your technology
wisely and do not send it tothe person that you're having
the day with.
Mike Gorday (53:14):
That's a little.
It's a little hard to do ifyou're drunk is be wise, be wise
.
Nathan Mumm (53:20):
Well, hey, there you go, so be careful on the
whiskey that you drink.
That's, that's.
Marc Gregoire (53:24):
This guy had a good sense of humor because
somebody asked him if he wasreally brutally ugly and he was
funny about.
He's like well, I don't thinkI'm brutally ugly, but you know,
sort of ugly, sort of ugly okay, yeah.
Nathan Mumm (53:34):
So so again, what it just tells you is just be, be
nice, be polite.
You know, if a date isn'tworking out, you don't have to
like try to have somebody justsay hey, it's not working out,
you don't have to go through thewhole deal there.
All right, well, that was ourtechnology fail.
We're going to go right now,though we were going to do a
commercial break.
Let's skip that.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Let's go right into the nathan nugget this is your
nugget of the week all right,we're going to talk about a
mouse now.
Nathan Mumm (54:00):
This is a mouse that you need to get.
Are you ready?
Mr gorday asus has a new mousethat's equipped with a built-in
aromatic oil diffuser oh, whywould?
my mouse fart.
Is that well, the unique mousefeature it's a fragrance
compartment that you can fillwith essential oils.
While the idea of combinationof mouse and oil diffusers might
(54:21):
raise some eyebrows, thisoption is now available.
Refilling the scent is simplejust wash out the vial and
replace it with new oil.
However, be cautious, as thevial is located in the bottom
compartment of your mouse.
You wouldn't want toaccidentally damage it and spill
oils on your desk.
It's important to note thatonly oils designed for the reed
diffuser, ultrasonic diffusersor aromatic stones can be used.
(54:44):
Pure essential oils are notcompatible with the asus mouse.
I'm gonna run out and get oneright now.
Oh, the mouse isn'trechargeable.
Asus claims that it can operateon a single double a battery
for up to a year.
Furthermore, this this which isdesigned to endure up to 10
million clicks.
So the switch is on the bus.
On the mouse you can go 10million clicks.
While asus has not disclosedthe price for release date of
(55:06):
the fragrant mouse, users areinterested in this feature can
go right now to amazon andpurchase a diffuser to put in
your room.
Buy your mouse for under 10bucks and this isn't a scam this
isn't a scam, would you everbuy an asus mouse with a
diffuser?
No, no I just want to know whothought of this?
Marc Gregoire (55:28):
I want to know who was sitting around going hey
, we need to sell mice better,let's make it smell good
probably somebody that used towork at home has to work in an
office and has gas issues, orjust buy a diffuser, right I?
Nathan Mumm (55:41):
mean I just think you're playing, you're in the
battle of war and all of asudden you start leaking out oil
.
I mean, this is the firstinteractive mouse you get hit.
Mike Gorday (55:51):
maybe it just will open a compartment and then
you're like You're going to walkaway with a stinky hand.
Nathan Mumm (55:59):
Yeah, a stinky hand , Peppermint yes, there you go,
all right.
Well, you know what?
Now we need to move to our pickof the day.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings
.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Marc Gregoire (56:14):
From Brown Family Spirits, a distillery in
Spokane, washington, a straightbourbon, two years, 90 proof,
$45.
Nathan Mumm (56:22):
All right, thumbs up or thumbs down, mike, I'm
going to give it a thumbs down.
I'm going to give it a thumbsdown too.
Mike Gorday (56:28):
Not because it's not.
I mean, it's nice and sweet,but I think I'm going to fall
onto Mark's deal.
Yeah, I don't like it, it wasokay.
Marc Gregoire (56:38):
All right, I think I'm going to fall onto
Mark's deal.
My whiskey group wanted me toreturn this with their thanks,
but they definitely wanted me toreturn it.
Oh, they wanted you, did they?
Nathan Mumm (56:44):
love this.
This is the law.
Yeah, they totally loved it thebest comment on.
Marc Gregoire (56:49):
It was that's interesting.
What does?
Nathan Mumm (56:52):
that mean it's got a cork top, so it's technically
not whiskey.
Marc Gregoire (56:56):
Uh-oh, what do you mean?
It is a blend of distilledspirit which is totally more
like a vodka or a moonshine withrum.
Nathan Mumm (57:07):
Corn squeezings.
That's why it makes sense.
It was done in there and it'svery young People are like man.
Marc Gregoire (57:12):
I don't know if it's sat more than a day in any
kind of oak, what?
Nathan Mumm (57:16):
It was a big thumbs down all the way around from
the snobby people Wow, what does?
Mike Gorday (57:21):
that, tell me, that tells everybody that you have
no idea how to taste whiskey.
Oh boy All right.
Nathan Mumm (57:29):
Well, everybody, thank you for joining our show.
I'm going to cry in the corner.
The Science of Tomorrow startswith the technology of today.
See you next week Later,bye-bye.
Starts with the technology oftoday.
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