The battle for TikTok's future heats up as Trump grants a second 75-day extension while major players like Microsoft, Blackstone, and Amazon circle the bidding arena. With 170 million US users hanging in the balance, we unpack the complex negotiations complicated by recent tariffs and international approvals.
Nintendo Switch 2's announcement brings sticker shock with its $449.99 price tag—matching PlayStation and Xbox pricing—while revealing a troubling trend in the gaming economy. We dive deep into what this means for consumers and examine how the $80 game price point and mandatory $20 upgrade fees to play older games signals a fundamental shift from ownership to rental in our digital lives.
The cryptocurrency world faces its most significant heist ever as North Korean hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange ByBit. Our analysis reveals how this brazen theft was executed, why affected investors won't see their funds replaced, and what this means for cryptocurrency security moving forward.
Our Gadgets and Gear segment introduces the innovative Ring Mouse, a wearable Bluetooth device that transforms how we interact with computers. Beyond its practical applications for presentations, we explore its surprising potential for office pranks and subtle device control.
We celebrate Microsoft's 50th anniversary with a fast-paced quiz on the tech giant's defining moments and conclude with our signature whiskey tasting featuring Joseph A Magnus Murray Hill Club Special Release. Whether you're concerned about digital ownership rights, fascinated by emerging tech, or simply curious about the economics reshaping our digital landscape, this episode delivers insights that will make you go "hmmm."
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now on today's show.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
All right Today on TechTimeRadio.
What's keeping TikTok runningand on top, despite all of its
controversies?
Tune in to uncover the latesttwists and turns.
Imagine controlling yourdevices with just a flick of a
finger Curious.
We'll reveal more with Gwen Weion gadgets and gear.
And then $1.5 billion stolen inthe largest crypto heist ever.
(02:04):
Who did it and how?
Tuned for to find out more.
And social security it servicesare in turmoil, so we're going
to be talking about that.
What dramatic measures arebeing taken?
And then the next generation ofgaming is here.
What's the buzz about nintendoswitch 2 and is it worth the
hype?
We'll give you a sneak peek.
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In addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan Nugget and, ofcourse, our pick of the day
whiskey tastings, to see if ourselected whiskey pick gets zero,
one or two thumbs up at the endof the show.
Now are you okay there, mike?
I was worried about you.
(02:48):
I saw you coughing, are youokay?
no, no, heimlich there anythinglike needs to be done, please,
no, okay, all right.
Well, you do, you know, youknow what you do have, though
don't touch me.
Okay, you have, you have thelegendary uh gaming mug, so you
should be good yeah, that's whatI was drinking out of when I
went into the car okay, well,that didn't work.
Then I almost had a legendarycough mug all right, all right
right.
Now, though, it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All right, Story number one TikTok's clock is
still ticking.
Let's go to Lisa Walker formore on this story.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
US President Donald Trump has granted TikTok a
second 75-day extension tocomply with a law that requires
the highly popular video app toeither sell its US operation or
face a ban in the country.
The social media platform,which claims to have more than
170 million users in the US,must cease operations in the US
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under a law passed by Congress,unless a buyer is found.
In a statement last week,bytedance mentioned that it had
been in discussions, but notedthat an agreement has not been
executed.
There are key matters.
Any agreement will be subjectto approval under Chinese law.
So who was in the running totake over this platform?
Back to you guys in the studio.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
All right, so let's talk a little bit about this.
Who might buy TikTok?
As the ban deadline looms,amazon joins the bidders, so
it's really interesting thatessentially, we have bidders
that are all taking care of it.
Tiktok deals reportedly nearlyfinalized last week, but fell
apart after Trump on the sameday announced sweeping global
(04:28):
tariffs.
I don't know if you've heardabout these tariffs.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No, I have no idea what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay so, and it was imposed on China.
So all of a sudden, theagreement was put on hold and
now the agreement is waiting forapproval of existing investors,
ByteDance, the US governmentand China.
Now Trump imposed these globalimport taxes, which have caused
a problem in the negotiations ofthe purchase of TikTok.
(04:54):
It's interesting to see who isall in this bid to purchase
TikTok.
We have computer giantMicrosoft, we got private equity
giant Blackstone, venturecapital firm Andersonerson, hose
warts and search engine ai.
Company perplexity is also inthe stakes for purchasing this
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social media app.
Now you know what?
I will look back at ourprediction show, and this was
the year that I did not predictmicrosoft would purchase a
social media app.
And guess what?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
oh well, you might be wrong.
Uh, you could be wrong Iactually think you're wrong most
of the time those are.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So you know, this is the time that I think that's
going to happen.
Where I think?
Microsoft.
To be honest, if you're goingto have somebody in there, I
think that's the one that willwork the best I don't know,
black blackstone, who alreadyowns most of the country.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Anyway, probably uh is interested in it.
Yeah, yeah, they want they wantto complete their conversion
into a rental economy.
Would you want Amazon to havethis?
You know I don't want Amazon tohave any more stuff either.
Ok, OK.
I would totally agree with thatyou know, but then again I
don't.
I think we should just bantiktok altogether, and as well
(06:07):
as twitter and x and whateverit's going to be called next
week, when it, when xai changesthe name again.
Okay whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, all right now on the story number two okay.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Well, if you don't know yet, nintendo has confirmed
the nintendo switch 2 is comingout with a hefty price tag of
$449.99 for the console.
That's the same price as anXbox or a PlayStation 5, though
I guess they just want theirpiece of the digital pie there.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Okay all right, if you get the bundle.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's going to be $499 .
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, I think.
What's the bundle?
Come with a game, Comes withMario Kart, I believe.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, Mario Kart World.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Available on June 5th this year.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was fullyrevealed last week, ahead of
pre-orders going live on April9th.
Nintendo Switch 2 is the nextstep at home gaming that can be
taken on the go, based on eightyears of play.
Nintendo Switch 2 comes withthe following the console, a
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joy-con 2 controllers on theleft and right, joy-con 2 grips,
joy-con 2 straps, nintendoswitch 2 dock, ultra high speed
hdmi cable, nintendo switch acadapter and a usbc charging
cable.
Now, with the bundle, it comeswith all that plus mario cart
world, and has a suggestedretail price of 499.99 in the us
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.
Includes a system and adownload code for mario cart
world, but if you want to buythat on your own, guess what?
How much is it?
How much is it, odie?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How much is it?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
$80.
$80 freaking dollars $79.99.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'll let you finish, All right but now, if you get
the online version, it's $30cheaper.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, hang on, I know If you get the bundle it's $30
cheaper.
Yeah, if you get the bundle,it's $30 cheaper.
Yeah, they're bundling it soyou can get it for free, but
that's not the physical game.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
That's only the downloadable, mind you, they're
not making a physical gameanymore.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, I do believe that you can get the $79.99 one.
I believe that's a physicalgame.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
No, they're giving you download keys.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Are they all digital?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, it's all part of the whole new economy system.
Yeah, it's all.
Okay, it's all part of thewhole new economy system.
All right, well, it's nothing.
Nothing you have anymore isyours, and so you actually are
then renting it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's just like when you buy movies online and you
stream them and download themand then all of a sudden, the
studio pulls them back and thenyou've lost the type of deal
just think everybody that hasthe we store.
Right, the we store justofficially well, it was six
months ago closed.
So if you had ever bought adigital copy on the wii store
and you paid 49 bucks, 59 bucks,39 for the prices of that, and
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then it retires, guess whathappens?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
you do not get that game anymore yes, that's
happening with everything withmusic, with uh games, with video
streaming services.
You don't own anything anymore.
Then that's where the economyis going.
So while it's normal to hearlots of curiosity about how much
a new console will cost, theNintendo Switch 2 in particular
(09:16):
has been the focus of a huge lotof hot debates due to the
unusual economic environmentit's releasing in.
As experts said back in January, factors such as supply chain
constraints and uncertaintyaround tariffs could have
impacted Nintendo's decisionaround price setting.
However, analysts have alsosaid that Nintendo is likely to
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sell lots of consoles at launch.
Regardless of the price, it'llstill sell out.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Probably, and then it'll be the whole deal where
you buy it on the black marketand it won't be 4.99, it'll be
700 and some odd dollars thatthey'll sell this for you too
yeah, I'm pretty sure it will dowell well, od will uh.
Will you be in line for one ofthese new units?
No, I will not, will you buyone of these units?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
no, you know what I'm hoping will happen what's that
what they did with the wii uokay, where apparently it had
this huge price tag at firstlaunch and then a lot of people
realize this is no differentthan the wii yeah and it's not
even a better console in itself,and it has that big, hefty
price tag.
So then it ended up reducing invalue a couple months after
(10:24):
launch, okay, so I'm hoping thathappens with this Also.
Another thing to note if youwanted to play Switch games on
the Switch 2, you have to payfor an upgrade.
Yes, for 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes.
That's so ridiculous Per gamePer game Per game, not just the
platform but for a game.
So if you bought yourself,let's say you go down to the
local retro video game store andyou buy a console one of those
type of deals for about 10 bucks, right, if you wanted to play
it in your new device by thetime you take it home and you
pay 10 bucks for it, you'd haveto then upsell double the price
that you paid.
Yeah, to pay it on your newunit for 20 sounds like.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sounds like nintendo has really gotten back behind
this whole screw you concern.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So Xbox is coming out with a portable device.
Right, their portable device issupposed to be the same price
as what the Switch 2 justreleased.
Now I'm interested.
I'm going to go with the Xboxportable.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I'm interested to see how they play it, because I
have a feeling that you'll beable to play the Xbox games on
the mobile device as well as onthe main console that they'll be
like transferable without anyjust your account.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You just want to come into your account, yeah, and
it's supposed to be acloud-based unit.
So what it is, it will have afast internet connection and it
will connect to that to moveforward.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
So but I was really hyped at first because the mario
world is just like a GTA MarioKart, but very friendly.
And you know that's not eventhe full bundle.
You think the bundle would comewith the camera and the
additional joysticks.
It's just a game.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, well, you know, as our buddy Elon Musk said
about his cryptocurrency what'sthat?
It's a hustle.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Honestly, my Switch is doing fine.
I bought it in 2020.
I'm not gonna buy the console.
I was really hyped for it, butall right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, now we're gonna move on to story number three.
All right.
Fbi has confirmed that northkorean hackers stole 1.5 billion
from cryptocurrency exchange bybit on friday the largest
crypto heist record to date.
Now the FBI has encouraged nodeoperators, exchanges bridges,
defi services, blockchainanalytic firms and other
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cryptocurrency service providersto block transactions
originating from the addressused by the North Korean hackers
to launder the stolen assets.
On Friday, the state-sponsoredhacking group tracked by Trader
Trader, the Lazarus Groups andAPT38, intercepted a scheduled
transfer of funds from one ofthe Bybit's cold wallets into a
hot wallet, substantiallyreducing.
(12:55):
The Democratic People Republicof Korea was responsible for the
theft and approximately 1.5billion USD in virtual assets
from cryptocurrency exchange bya bit.
This all happened on February21st 2025.
(13:16):
Now the actors proceeded rapidlyto have all the converted
stolen assets to Bitcoin.
They then tried to convert themto actual, real currency.
Now, if you're going to putmoney into a crypto fund here at
Tech Time Radio, we've talkedabout this many times there's
only one that we recommend, andthat is a company out of
California called Coinbase.
Now, none of these are to beFDI insured.
(13:38):
None of these are guaranteed toexist.
But if you're putting any ofyour cryptocurrency into any of
these one-off areas.
Let me just talk about this.
So, essentially, thecryptocurrency buy bit on Friday
said that they are not going toreplenish any of those
cryptocurrency funds that werestolen.
Why would they?
Because it's fake money.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's a hustle.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So it's fake.
Well, it's $1.5 billion thathas just gone down the drain,
and if you were one of thoseindividuals that had one of
those cryptocurrencies on thisexchange, it is now gone forever
.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, how about?
How awesome is that?
So you spend money to buynon-money yes, which gets stolen
by other people, and becauseit's non-money, it's not
actually stolen.
And then you convert it intocash and then you convert it
into cash, and then you canconvert that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The laundering is the only thing they get you on.
How about that?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I didn't think about it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, that's how they get you.
That's why the FBI is involved,because it is a laundering
scheme, because you're takingmoney and you're converting it
into other money.
You're not really giving anasset for it.
So it's kind of the way thatthey get that taken care of.
But let me just tell you, donot be putting your money into
cryptocurrency.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, gwenway will bejoining us for our gadgets and
(14:51):
gear segment.
Next, buckle up as we drive 88miles per hour into our next
segment.
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
All right, 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 with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes.
And, of course, a littlewhiskey on the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur in studio.
What are we tasting?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
today.
Today is Joseph A Magn magnus.
This is their murray hill clubspecial release, batch number
four.
Oh, a little coffin over there.
Wow, let me tell you about it.
It's a little bit long.
This is from their website.
Okay, but it's going to be allthese tons of tasting notes, so
see if you get all these notesfrom it.
Water oil it's artfully blended.
Eight and 17 year old bourbon,finished in four months in fresh
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Cavados casks imported from thelower Normandy region of France
.
The nose offers a complexcornucopia of aromas, such as
apple strudel, gingerbread cakedrizzled with white icing
potpourri, old fashioned NewEngland apple molasses, persian
black tea with sugar cubes androasted chestnuts.
(16:48):
I detected every single one ofthose.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I always tasted the potpourri from my grandmother's
old house, but okay.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Now everything that knows promise is delivered on
the palate, with further notesof poached pears in ruby, red,
port star, anise, apple blossomhoney, brown butter with
cinnamon, roasted coffee beans,dried apricots, branded cherries
, candied walnuts and agedbalsamic vinegar.
I tasted every one of those.
(17:17):
You are turning into aconnoisseur.
And what about the finish, Mike?
And what about the finish, Mike?
They say the finish isextraordinary long and rich,
with plenty of plum pudding,apple crisp and citron peels
that wash across the palate.
Okay, I don't know anythingabout citron peels, but the
finish was awesome.
So this is from Joseph A MagnusCompany.
(17:37):
It's distillation.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's MGP distilled, but they bring it in and they
finish it and they age it.
It's a fancy looking bottle, soit's got to be some expensive
stuff.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's finished bourbon aged 8 to 17 year blend 111
proof only.
It's 75% corn, 21% rye, 4%malted barley and the price is
$200.
That's why you don't like it.
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Too expensive for.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I don't know, I don't know, man, I I yeah, well,
maybe, it'll grow on me, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Well, don't forget to like and subscribe.
All you people out there hit,smash that like button.
Drink responsibly.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Heaven can wait there you go, perfect.
All right, with our whiskeytasting completed, let's move on
to our feature segment.
Today we have gwen way joiningthe show.
She's an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a
game board geek in the evenings,as well as the producer of Tech
Time Radio and our Gadgets andGear gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video stream and our
next segment.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What's new in our Gadgets and Gear.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
All right, Gwen, welcome to the show.
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself for any new listeners
that would be listening fortheir first time.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Certainly certainly Hi everybody.
Listeners that would belistening for their first time.
Certainly certainly Hieverybody.
I'm Gwen and I have been in thetech world for a little over a
quarter of a century.
I've decided to go with thatinstead of just 25 years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, I like that, there you go.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
It sounds good.
And speaking of sounding good,every word out of Mark's mouth,
that whiskey sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Wow, yeah, okay, all right, thank you Gwen.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Are you serious?
Are you serious right now?
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, gwen.
Well, technology meets fashion.
At our fingertips we have thisnew device that is born the
world's first ring-shapedBluetooth mouse.
Tell us what this device is,tell us why someone would use it
, tell us what this gadget isand explain this to me in layman
terms, because I looked at thisand I got so many questions.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Oh, I had questions as well and I read into it and I
just love it.
I've been a fan of wearabletechnology, from smart watches
to health apps Just all of it isfun.
This particular one, though,appeals greatly because it is
just what you said a ring mouseand that's how you can find it
(19:52):
on Kickstarter Search ring mouse.
Basically, what this allows youto do is a couple of different
things.
It's just a ring, you put it onand you're able to use it just
like any regular mouse.
You can use it forpresentations, you can use it if
you're in a meeting and want tobe subtle about doing work
while you're in that meeting anduh, you can also probably use
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it to mess with other people'swork if you want to that was,
that was my, that was whereyou're going.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
first I kind of figured Can I do with that like
you would do with an old TVremote?
You know where you would beable to switch your neighbor's
TV, so I guess if you connectedit to their computer as a
Bluetooth device.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
If you connect to their Bluetooth.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Yep, exactly that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right.
So let me tell you does thiswork only on a Mac environment?
Does this work on a PC?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
What does environment ?
Does this work on a pc?
What does this work with?
This is pretty open.
It's just like any bluetoothmouse.
You can use it for max, you canuse it for windows machines.
I do not know whether it willactually work on a linux machine
or not.
I had asked that question and,uh, had not gotten an answer yet
okay, all right, so you gotthis.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It's so.
I, I'm looking at it and againyou.
All you got to do is, I guess,go to kickstarter and search for
ring mouse.
They got a good name right.
There's no other ring my mouseout there uh, tell me how many
people have backed it?
How many days to go?
How much is their fund?
Are they fully funded?
Tell us the the kind of themetrics they're on on all of
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that good stuff.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Yeah, uh, they are fully funded.
They were looking for twothousand dollars to start.
They're up to 75 000 already.
They've got slightly over 800people backing it and it is
available until april 24th okay,wow, until april 24th now yep
this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't know if I would ever wear a ring for a
mouse, so I'm struggling withthe application processes of why
you would actually use.
Would, you wear a mouse for aring.
No, I wouldn't do that wayeither but I might be a little
big.
Yeah, I just so.
So, oh, I'll try to understandthis.
(22:06):
Why would I use this If I'm at?
So I saw their big thing thatthey said well, mice are loud.
Okay, I guess if you bang amouse on a table constantly in a
meeting it could be loud, butyou know what?
I think you can be pretty quietwith mice, so I don't think
that's a huge of the items.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
The sound wasn't really the big thing for me.
Of the of the.
Uh, the sound wasn't really thebig thing for me.
Okay, the thing that reallyinterests me is, as my career
progresses, as I'm sure manyothers uh, I'm doing a lot more
presentations now, okay, andit's much easier if you're up
there speaking, to just click abutton on a ring than it is to
either have one of the you know,actual remote controls or try
(22:47):
to use your actual mouse or haveone of those floating mice that
they have now.
This just seems much simplerand less distracting okay, okay,
I, I guess now.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So there's looks like there's two buttons on here and
then there's like a littlescreen type of deal.
What's that let's?
I didn't quite understand whatthe screen area was for little
screen type of deal.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
What's that let's?
I didn't quite understand whatthe screen area was for.
That's that's actually apointer that you can use okay,
so that you're able to, you know, not only advance slides, uh,
in the presentation, but alsopoint to things on the slide
yeah, and you can now mess withyour cat, with a mouse, oh a
ring with the arena okay that'snot the
Speaker 2 (23:26):
joke buddy it's fine, move on, okay.
So you know, most of the time II buy, I did not look to back
this.
So so tell us though, now,what's the price?
Now?
Hopefully you don't have to payimport tariffs.
No, joking aside, I mean, whoknows?
Is the company local?
Is it in the United States?
(23:47):
Is it overseas?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
It is.
It's out of Arvada Colorado.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, which is good, that's nice.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Currently you can still get some of the early bird
specials, All right.
So, for example, if you want toget the stainless steel version
, it's only $69.
If you want to kind of bump itup a little bit and get the
titanium alloy, it is currently$89.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You know, I guess that's 69 bucks.
That's not that bad, because ifyou pay for a high-end mouse
right now, you're paying about49 to 69 bucks for a mouse with
that.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, my biggest thing now is how long is it
going to last?
Because you know I got a Fitbitlast February.
Okay, it has a one-yearwarranty yeah my warranty ran
out this february.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
My fitbit stopped working last night, so yeah, so
you're just out of the warrantything, yeah just out of the
warranty.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The fitbit completely fails.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It bricked itself oh no, is there anything you can do
to fix it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I tried everything that is suggested on the
internet and it didn't work.
No and even throwing it againstthe wall didn't help so put it
in the freezer for a few hours.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
So how long does the battery?
How do?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
you charge, I guess, how do you charge this ring?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
that is a good aspect for that there is a container
that charges it, kind of likewhat you have for airpods okay,
for the apple devices, so you'reable to put it in its container
.
It charges it each charge.
If you fully charge it is up to10 hours of use.
If you need a just really quickcharge that you can do
(25:22):
something specific, if youcharge for about five minutes it
will last for about an hour.
Okay, so that you can dosomething specific.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you charge for about five minutes, it will last
for about an hour.
Wow, okay, that's actuallypretty reasonable.
So it's like a mouse charge forthat, yeah but again, how long
will it last?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean physically, if it's a titanium ring, it
probably will last quite a bit,right yeah, but how long will
the functionality functionalitywork?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
well, since it's bluetooth, I'm sure it only does
like you got button click here,button do here.
So you got two buttons and, anduh, in a laser pointer it's not
.
So if you look at that, I guessthat's not that sophisticated,
because if you have two buttons,what happens, though, if you're
wearing the ring and you hitthe buttons and then it's
connected to your computer andit opens up?
I'm struggling.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
What are you dancing around there, buddy?
Well, you said it opens upstuff.
You know what other people see,or you're in a presentation.
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I think you're in a presentation.
All of a sudden it goes back tothe Windows screen Right.
So you actually double click onit and it does a double click.
You actually double click on itand it does a double click.
It goes out of your window andthen you have to.
Now, it's not going to be.
You can't navigate your ring togo left and right Cause it's
only the buttons right, so Icouldn't get it back.
So here I'm on stage going help, help, and then someone's going
to have to plug in a physicalmouse, put it down, move it
(26:39):
around.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
And then I'll say your ring.
So I am okay.
I think you would definitelyhave to practice with it before
using it for a presentation butI still think the usability is
there okay, all right, well, soso are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
are you gonna get the delorean version?
Are you gonna get the upgrade?
I'm getting zero of these.
The question goes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The question goes no, I'm actually gonna get zero of
these.
I have no real interest, butgwen the listeners want to, are
you going to get one of theseunits?
Speaker 8 (27:08):
I think I am.
I'm going to go ahead and gofor the stainless steel, because
I don't need anything too fancy.
I just want something that Ican easily flip slides with.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Tina.
Would be really cool though, Iguess is if you had this like to
your wife's phone and you addthe Bluetooth without her noting
, and then she's like sittingthere and she's scrolling
through and all of a sudden youstart scrolling through it's
like what the heck's going on tomy computer?
What the heck's going on to myiPhone?
I think.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Nathan's talking about me to it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That would be like an April Fool's joke.
Yeah, you weren't here for myprevious joke, were you?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, no, I mean no, I was.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
but I mean this is yeah, I would take it to the
office and hook it into otherpeople's computers and be like
messing with them and you justwalk over to them because he
doesn't look like.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You have a mouse and you're just walking over there
and you're like clicking andsliding and you get one of these
boring things and as Nathantalks himself into it.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
I think both of you might be buying these now.
That sounds great practicaljoke.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was on board when you first started talking about
it, because I immediately sawthe practical joke part of it
especially when you're bucksespecially when you're you know
all these stupid, boringmeetings with everybody in their
power points.
Can you imagine sitting there?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
just taking over the next, next, next, next, next,
next, next, next.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And you're like okay, now we're done, like yeah or
you know, keep, keep it on thesame one, and every time they
move it, just move it back, andjust just okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, all right.
Well, you know, all right.
Well, gwen, it's always greathaving you talk about new
gadgets on the show.
Um, we want to thank you forbeing a part of the show.
I realized we only get 12unique items per year because
you're on once a month, so whenwe actually go through all these
items, I end up well, that'sgood for you, mr.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Mr, buy everything.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I only buy about 10 of these things, so this is the
one that I may pass, but youknow what that's okay well, the
more you think about all thatstuff that we were talking about
.
Just think if I was doing thatover here and then all of a
sudden Odie's trying to run theboard there and all of a sudden
they slide up and slide down.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Odie I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well, of those 10 items, how many do you actually
receive?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Normally like 7 of the 10.
Normally it's like 3 that don'tgo through.
That's still more than half hebuys 100.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He gets eight back.
That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I just got this new dot one.
Did you ever remember the dotthing that we had?
I just got that.
It finally came in Well, Gwen,thank you for being a part of
the show.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
We will see you next month Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Where can people find you?
Where can people find youonline?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Well, you can find me on LinkedIn, but really the
best place to find me is thetech timers group over on
facebook there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
They talk to gwen.
You can ask her about lots ofgadgets there.
All right, thank you so muchfor being a part of our show.
Gwen bye, gwen, thank you byeall right, that is our segment
gadgets and gear up.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
(30:11):
All right, my question for you,mike.
We're getting into the timewhen a new video game like Grand
Theft Auto is going to come onout, and it looks like the
starting price of a video gameis going to be in the $100 range
for a video game.
Is this something that we aregoing to pay for a video game?
Because when I look at myentertainment value, I can go to
a movie still for under $20,and they're asking me now to
(30:33):
start paying a hundred dollarsfor a video game.
And Grand Theft Auto will havemicrotransactions in it.
So I'm going to pay a hundredbucks and then I'm going to be
microtransacting another 200 to$300 for this game.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So what do you want to know?
If people are going to go forit, yeah, well, yeah, they're
absolutely going to go.
We train people to do this fromthe very outset.
Okay, you know, we useaddictive things to get them
hooked and then we train themthat things are going to go
higher priced and everybody justsort of absorbs it and like for
(31:07):
me, probably not.
You know, I'm not, I wouldn'tconsider myself that that much
of a gamer, in that I will.
I'm like always on the hot newtitles.
I, I like my games and I playedthe same game.
But these folks that are gamersand they're always trying to
jump to the next new thing yeah,don't pay for it, so you're
going to pay $500 for this newNintendo device that comes on
(31:29):
out.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Yeah, not me.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, and then the consumers are asked to spend $75
to $100.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I think it's ridiculous, but then again I
think things are ridiculous thatmost people just ignore.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So like $1,000 could easily be spent in like the
first month of your purchase ofthis new Nintendo.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
Switch.
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
A thousand bucks.
Do you know how?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
many movies I can go to for a thousand.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, but the whole thing with the movies is the
movie price is so low becauseodds are you're going to pay
twice as much for the condimentsthat go with the movie.
Okay, that's why that exists.
That's why that exists.
But we in this world and Idon't think we really pay much
attention to it, because it'sjust normal is that we go and we
work so that everybody else andtheir mom can devise ways of
(32:15):
separating us from our income.
That's what marketing is.
That's what all these gaming Imean with the gaming industry,
the media every industry istrying to separate you from your
dollars.
They have been training us to dothis from way back.
They use all kinds ofpsychological tricks on you.
I think it's a normal thing,but I don't think it should be.
(32:37):
I think we should push back alot on it.
So I would hope that the gamingcommunity would be like nope,
I'm not buying that, it's toomuch.
Odie, would you pay $100?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
for Grand theft auto.
I've never played gta, so no,okay, okay.
Would you pay 100 bucks formario kart world?
No, no, mario kart 8, that's 60bucks.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah, it should not be more than that see it's
normalized now that games are 60bucks.
How much were games back whenwe were?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
kids.
Okay, so pc games I went backto this, so pc games like sierra
, online games and stuff were 35to 49.
Right, how much were games backwhen we were kids?
Okay, so pc games I went backto this, so pc games like sierra
, online games and stuff were 35to 49 right.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
How much were, how much were nes games?
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I don't know about that, but thinking back to like
the ds, that's my first majorconsole yeah or portable console
, however you want to 39 bucks agood game that was very popular
, 40 bucks yeah, and that makessense because you could take it
anywhere.
You could put it anywhere.
Yeah, I was able to play on theDSI when they came out with the
new one.
Yeah, it did not matter whatgame I had, I didn't have to buy
(33:37):
another one.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But with this, you can't even play your own game,
transfer it to another device.
No, you have to have two ofthem.
Yeah, so when you go traveling,you're going to be like boom,
boom, boom.
Here's my Switch 2 and here'smy Switch original.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Yeah, that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Okay, all right.
Well, yeah See, I don't knowwhat you're talking about,
because I remember buying NESgames when I was younger, and
you know, of course 29 bucks atToys R Us.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, it was always something affordable once I had
above 59 I think now.
I think now we're.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
We're just sort of edging into let's get away with
what we can get xbox for thatbecause when the xbox one came
out.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
I remember something like forza yeah sixty dollars.
But it made sense for theconsole, like those, graphics
were great for the time.
But now would I pay 60 bucksfor a digital copy of a game?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No, Well, that ends our mesmerizing moment.
What are you?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
going to say I don't think it was very mesmerizing,
real quick yes.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Gwenny over here says that it's like boiling a frog.
They raise the prices a littlebit at a time and we don't
notice and just keep paying more.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's right.
But now it's to the point whereyou're not even owning what
you're buying, you're justpaying somebody, you're
licensing it, leasing it, but.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
NES.
Again.
Those were like 40 to 50 bucksa game when it came on out.
So again, I don't know if it'schanged too much From.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
PC.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't know if it's changed too much from PC to the
games.
It's changed, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
It used to cost more to make a game, too, everybody's
doing.
How, how do you mean?
Well, you had to have a plasticcontainer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You had to have chips that you had to burn.
So those were actual hard costprices.
Nowadays, when you do a game,all it is is software.
When you release a softwareversion of a game, you're just
putting code out there thatsomebody downloads.
There is no.
There is cost for people todevelop it the testers.
I totally understand there'sdevelopment costs, but the
actual physical costs are muchless than what they used to be
back when you had a cartridgeand you had to have ROMs that
(35:35):
were in there and a bunch oftesting and burning of the ROMs.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, but it was your game.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It was true.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I have a bunch of my games at home that I own that.
I can't play because I don'thave even a Wii anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Thank you for that mesmerizing moment.
We're going to head out on acommercial break.
You're going to see us in justa couple minutes.
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Speaker 1 (37:01):
And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
All right, we're going to our Wayback Machine and
it's April 12th 1976.
Who in the world is RonaldWayne?
One of Apple's computer three'sco-founders departed just 11
days after founding the company,selling his 10% stake for $800.
During his brief tenure, waynecreated the first Apple logo,
(37:27):
drafted the company'spartnership agreement and wrote
the manual for the Apple I.
He decided to leave because thepartnership agreement imposed
unlimited personal liabilitieson all the co-founders, no
matter which partner accrued thedebts.
In contrast to Jobs and Wozniak, who were both 21 and 25 at the
time, wayne had his ownpersonal assets vulnerable to
(37:49):
creditors.
Additionally, prior failures ofa slot machine venture which
launched five years earlierinfluenced his choice to
withdraw from the partnership.
Wayne later remarked either Iwas going to go bankrupt or the
richest man in the century.
By 1982, his 10% share of AppleComputer had grown to the value
of $1.5 billion, which has nowsoared to $22 billion in 2010,
(38:13):
and then saw hindsight 2020.
Right now, it'd be worth about$22 billion.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Maybe this was a tech fail, not a.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, no, no, no.
This is just a history thing.
Our tech fail will be a techfail.
So there you go.
Sometimes you have anopportunity to invest in
something and if you do it youcan make it.
Sometimes you don't.
I can see it.
He was kind of scared.
He had two young kids spendinghis money and he would be liable
.
He's like I don't know if theseguys are going to make it, but
(38:42):
clearly they did.
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The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
All right.
Well, somebody at this table iscelebrating April 8th today.
Oh, and what is that?
It's Trading Cards for GrownupsDay.
Oh, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I love trading cards.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Now, a collection of trading cards by grownups is
usually considered childish.
What Trading Cards for Grownups?
Day is a day for peoplepretending to be adults to show
their trading cards and be proudof their collection.
Oh, I am.
It is celebrated by them to tryand normalize the collection of
trading cards by those that arenot children anymore.
What a day.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It is.
Do you know how many tradingcards I have?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
This is not no.
If there were a museum of oldtoys, it would be you, okay.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So I do have a lot of .
I also big.
I have Michael Jordan's rookie.
I got a whole bunch of stuffthat's been slabbed and put a
PSA ratings on, so I'm a bigcard collector.
I never got into Magic, theGathering or any of those games
at the time, I just did reallysports cards.
It was kind of my thing.
Garbage Pail Kids.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Now time I just did really sports cards was kind of
my thing.
Garbage pail kids.
Now let's talk about an adultthat had better things to do
than trading cards.
Oh wow, okay, joseph magnusstory.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
I think it marks on the childish, childish side of
that equation.
So joseph magnus story beginsall the way back in the young,
war-torn america in the middle19th century.
Now, during the civil war in1864, young magnus has received
news that his father had beenkilled in battle, with three
younger siblings to take care of.
He matured quickly and took onthe responsibility of caring for
his siblings.
His late father had been amerchant and Magnus took after
(41:18):
him to become a savvybusinessman.
He soon discovered a nichemarket for wholesale liquors.
By the time he was 26, he hadpainstakingly built up a liquor
empire.
Now, magnus prided himself notonly on the quality and age of
his spirits, but on intelligentand honorable business methods.
Excellent whiskey, herecognized, was more than simply
a pleasant experience fordrinkers.
(41:39):
It was a means of promotinggood conversation, close
fellowship and the interchangeof kindly deeds and pleasant
thoughts.
That's why we drink.
That's why we drink.
That's why, because of pleasantthoughts.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, no, I drink right now because both of my
kids are getting married.
That's why.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
I drink.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I thought there were other reasons to drink too.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
At the end of the show.
Somebody heard you on the radiotalking about that.
Nathan and I have a present foryou.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh, okay heard you on the radio talking about that,
nathan, and I have a present foryou.
Oh, okay, from that person.
Okay, all right.
Is it alcohol?
Maybe whiskey chris?
Was it whiskey chris?
You'll have to wait and see,but yes okay about the whiskey.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
This one is a thinker , not only throughout sipping it
but also every time I've had it.
It's a roller coaster offlavors, delivering new ones at
each turn.
It has rich dark fruit, raisraisins and dark chocolate and
lots of flavors of ruby portwithout that cloying sweetness.
The finish on this lastsforever and brings along with it
some nice crisp apple.
(42:35):
I hope to savor this bottle andwill enjoy every pour of it.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Okay, so you know what I really did not like it.
Oh, I know you don't, but I'mstarting to get a little bit.
So it's not.
I would never pay the price forthis and I would never ask and
recommend this from any placethat I would be at, but I will
say that it is maybe not as badas I first had when I had the
first bite of it.
Okay, all right.
Well, whiskey and technologyare a great pairing, just like
(43:00):
the TV show Ren and Stimpy fromNickelodeon 1991 and 1995.
Remember Ren and Stimpy.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
All you have to say is Ren and Stimpy.
I don't think you have todescribe where you're.
Do you know how to tell a joke,odie?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
was like who the heck are those?
She didn't even know what I wastalking about.
Speaker 7 (43:16):
No, I think.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
You know why I made that face?
Why is he telling me it was onTV?
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Because we just talked about how childish you
are and here you are talkingabout a Nickelodeon show
Absolutely Ren and Stimpy babyyou were well into your 20s when
that came out.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Let me just tell you, I still watch South Park pretty
religiously myself South.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Park makes sense, the classic Ren and Stimpy was just
yeah then there was Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Had it for a bit you are so stupid, Stimpy, that's
right.
Then MTV got it for like aseason or two and then they kind
of like went they were tryingto do the Beavis and Butthead
type of deal.
But all right, there we go,continuing on.
All right, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week
brought to us by Elite ExecutiveServices.
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 9 (44:04):
Oh, I failed.
Did I yes, did I yes, did I.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes, all right.
Well, this week's technologyfailure kind of comes to us from
this company called DOGE haveyou ever heard of this?
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Is it a cryptocurrency?
No, it's not cryptocurrency.
I think we'll take a littledrink of this one.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
All right.
And what is happening with thestaff for Social Security?
And what is happening with thestaff for Social Security Now?
Doge offered layoffs at SocialSecurity and plans to get the IT
team and the website.
Continuity is breaking.
No-transcript is.
(44:56):
They're having problems withthe traffic on their current
website.
So those people that are tryingto use Social Security services
through the website haveactually been hit with crashes,
unable to go to the site itselfbecause the senior department
officials said that they do nothave adequate people for their
IT team.
Their IT team consists of about4,000 members and they've
(45:16):
already been told that theyshould expect at least 800 or
more to be laid off next week.
Speaker 6 (45:22):
Now I also heard that they claim that they're going
to rewrite the whole SocialSecurity underlying code which
is on Cobalt.
Yeah, and rewrite it in threemonths, okay, and make it all
perfect and all easy and allperfect, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Well, you know what that's going to be interesting?
Speaker 6 (45:35):
They should be game designers.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
They should be game designers.
Oh wait, Maybe they are.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
It could be like Bethesda, day one and then you
have to write the whole patchand download the whole game.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
So that's what they're going to do they're
going to write all this code,launch it.
It's not going to work.
Then they're going to spendeight years patching it until it
doesn't work.
Still, that's right, well hangon It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It'll be great Our technology fail is.
I understand there this PSA outthere for everybody.
But please, if you're havingproblems with something already,
it is not the ability to go inthere and just cut everything so
you can then see what happens.
You need to be able to fixthose items first before you go
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and cut.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
We're going to head out to our last commercial.
So you mean, like measure twicecut once.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
No, no, well, no, not even measure twice.
That's not how it is.
Just do an evaluation.
It's cut five times, measurenone, and then just put wood
glue back together for any ofthe pieces that you cut
incorrectly, right there you go.
Alright, we're going to headout to our last commercial break
.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget of the week and,
of course, our pick of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
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Speaker 1 (47:02):
This is your Nugget of the Week, all right?
Well, let's get ready for ourNathan Nugget of the Week, all
right.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Well, let's get ready for our Nathan Nugget.
Now.
Microsoft is celebrating 50years, and I worked for them for
one-fifth of that time.
I have a quiz here for Mike,mark and Odie.
Let's take a look at some ofthe important red-letter dates
for Microsoft and compare themto what we have available now in
our Microsoft 50 quiz.
Here's what we go, all right,do we know when the beginning is
(47:29):
considered, when Microsoft wasfounded?
Does anybody know what datethat is?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
The date or the year.
Well give me the year.
Give me the year 1988.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Nope, Odie do you have an idea?
Speaker 7 (47:41):
No, okay, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Mark, do you have an?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
idea 1975, probably around April 4th.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Somebody.
I really don't.
Mark, do you have an idea?
1975, probably around April 4th.
Somebody read their scriptahead of time.
That is correct.
Ding, ding, ding.
Good job.
Microsoft was founded from thehumble Is that in the script.
Yeah, it was in the script.
In the humble beginnings,microsoft grew quite frequently
with the personal computer andsoftware company.
All right, we're going to takea look at the next thing Now.
Everybody's heard of MicrosoftWord right Now.
It was officially launched as arevolutionary document creation
(48:08):
process.
It was actually competing witha product in the market that had
95% of the share, which wascalled WordPerfect WordPerfect
which is a much better product.
It was it was, but MicrosoftWord came on out.
Does anybody know what date itcame on out?
1988.
No, a little earlier, a littleearlier, a little earlier od.
Do you have any idea on this?
It was like 84 was mark.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Oh, one year before, mike.
Oh, there you go.
1983, 1983 october 29th.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
That is correct.
Now, do you know what was theprice that you had to pay in
1983 for a copy of microsoftword?
20 bucks, nope, 79 dollars fora copy.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
It was a video game.
It was a video game.
It was $80.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
It was $80 for the productivity.
Guess how much you pay now forit?
Nothing, because it is nowavailable in the Office Suite
for free.
If you create a Microsoftaccount or a Bing account, you
can go online and use MicrosoftWord on the web version for free
for everybody to use today.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Didn't that lead to Microsoft getting in trouble?
Well, they got in trouble forlots of stuff, having lead to
microsoft getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Uh well, they got in trouble.
Monopoly, yeah, something likeall right now the biggest thing
here microsoft, windows 95, big,big deal.
It was at least released in1995, but do you know which
month it was released?
In 1988.
No well, that was the betterversion.
Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (49:23):
month was it released .
Speaker 6 (49:26):
April, nope Mark.
I think it was the best monthof the year.
What was that?
November?
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Is that the best month?
Speaker 6 (49:31):
of the year.
No, it was November.
I was wrong.
I thought it was August.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
No, November 20th 1985.
And it actually shipped with abunch of issues that were a
problem.
What's that, Cody?
Speaker 7 (49:44):
Were you asking for the month?
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (49:48):
You're off there, buddy.
Speaker 7 (49:50):
Excuse me, it was August 24th 1995.
Speaker 6 (49:54):
Yes, no, you were talking about the first Windows,
not Windows 95.
You mixed the two up.
The first Windows version theyreleased.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
You worked there for I meant Windows 95.
I'm for, I meant Windows 95.
I'm sorry, I meant Windows 95.
Windows 95 was August.
Speaker 6 (50:11):
No, Windows 95 was August of 1995.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
I still want to know why August is the best month of
the year.
I'm looking at the thing rightnow, November 20th 1985.
Speaker 7 (50:21):
Windows is released.
Windows opened up a new era ofmultitasking.
Speaker 6 (50:24):
That wasn't Windows 95.
That was the original Windows,windows 3.1.
Remember that early.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I guess I'm looking at the picture of the Windows 95
release, but it was actually.
Speaker 7 (50:35):
Windows.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Word perfect.
Microsoft may be wrong on thatthing.
There, there you go.
Okay, now we're continuing on.
So Odie now has the same thing,so she can go ahead too.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
She's cheating too.
All right, Mike will know thisnext one.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
I still want to know why August is the best month of
the year.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
It's his birthday.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Leo.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Internet Explorer is released.
Internet Explorer was competingwith another.
Does everybody know what theywere competing against?
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Nobody cares, netscape, netscape, big time at
the time percent of the market.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, came on out, it was august 24th.
Better product august 24th.
Escape was yeah, yep 1995 andmsn has launched as a debut with
windows 95 on august 24th 1995.
It was the combined of news andtechnology for the msnbc uh arm
.
That uh really kind of failed.
Uh was not a really good Iadventure.
But they do have MSNBC now asits own news article and then
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you have MSN.
Let's move on to your favoriteone.
When was the Xbox?
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Well, you didn't answer the question.
When did MSN come out?
Msn came out in August.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
August 24th, msn and.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
IE.
All were launched with Windows95.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I'm just clarifying I didn't hear the month.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Maybe I'm just stuck on the fact that August is the
best month of the year, the Xboxconsole the original Xbox
console, the one that I actuallyworked in helped put all the
hardware in this bad boy.
Speaker 3 (51:56):
It came out in 1988.
2001,.
November 15th.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Space Odyssey.
We can skip the next one.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
The next one just does not matter.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
Bing was launched in June 3rd 2009.
Just move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Microsoft Edge is released.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Nobody cares about Edge, April 29th 2015.
Speaker 6 (52:16):
That one took me by surprise.
For some reason in my mind Ijust thought that was older than
that.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
No, Edge is just the Internet Explorer.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
That's because it works like an old person.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
I still use Google Chrome and Firefox, and Brave is
my browser.
I really don't use.
Edge Okay.
Speaker 6 (52:32):
Cheers to Microsoft 50 years.
50 years here we go there, wego.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Cheers, cheers.
I'm glad to know that I'm olderthan Microsoft.
There you go.
All right, there we go.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Now, though, let's move on to our pick of the day.
And now our pick of the day forour whiskey tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
Okay, we are drinking today to Joseph A Magnus the
Murray Hill Club Special Releasebatch four.
And batch four is a blend ofeight and 17-year-old bourbon
finished in Cavados Cass.
It's 111 proof, $200.
Are you giving it a thumbs?
Speaker 2 (53:09):
up yeah dude, this is awesome.
I love this.
I'm giving it a thumbs down.
It does not hit my palate atall and you know I feel really
bad.
Do you want the rest of my?
Speaker 6 (53:18):
$200?
.
You don't have a palate buddy,I'm sure Mike will finish that.
There you go, okay.
Finish that.
There you go, okay.
All right, I got a couplethings for you, nathan.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yep, what do we got going on here?
Speaker 6 (53:26):
First of all from Whiskey Chris.
He heard about your twoweddings.
He also listened to one of yourshows that's our one listener
out there and he heard thatremember he'd given us this
bottle to review Traveler'sWhiskey.
Yeah, and you just loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I did.
Oh, thank you, Whiskey Chris,Whiskey Chris.
I can fill my cup with this andneither one of us wanted it.
Speaker 6 (53:46):
It's not a drink for a connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Can I get that one?
Speaker 4 (53:50):
No, no, that's my bottle, dang it.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
All right.
And then also oh, you got morestuff here.
Speaker 6 (53:55):
You had given me a wine bottle, so I'm returning
that to you empty.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
It was phenomenal.
This is Woodinville WineCellars.
You love this.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
Phenomenal wine.
Every wine from there has beenterrific.
Each one is more of a getsbetter and better.
Thank you for these gifts.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
I have a bunch of not weddings happening this year.
Can I get some whiskey?
Speaker 6 (54:17):
You can have the leftover in Nathan's glass I
didn't backwash.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
Well, you know what fans.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
Is you the reason that we makethis show?
Well, maybe not.
Maybe just for Mark and Mikeand I just to have a good time
hanging out together.
Speaker 6 (54:34):
And drink a little.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
That's right.
Well, we want to let everybodyknow that the science of
tomorrow starts with thetechnology of today.
See you guys next week Later.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:42):
All right Today on TechTimeRadio.
What's keeping TikTok runningand on top, despite all of its
controversies?
Tune in to uncover the latesttwists and turns.
Imagine controlling yourdevices with just a flick of a
finger Curious.
We'll reveal more with Gwen Weion gadgets and gear.
And then $1.5 billion stolen inthe largest crypto heist ever.
(02:04):
Who did it and how?
Tuned for to find out more.
And social security it servicesare in turmoil, so we're going
to be talking about that.
What dramatic measures arebeing taken?
And then the next generation ofgaming is here.
What's the buzz about nintendoswitch 2 and is it worth the
hype?
We'll give you a sneak peek.
(02:26):
In addition, we have ourstandard features, including
Mike's mesmerizing moment, ourtechnology fail of the week, a
possible Nathan Nugget and, ofcourse, our pick of the day
whiskey tastings, to see if ourselected whiskey pick gets zero,
one or two thumbs up at the endof the show.
Now are you okay there, mike?
I was worried about you.
(02:48):
I saw you coughing, are youokay?
no, no, heimlich there anythinglike needs to be done, please,
no, okay, all right.
Well, you do, you know, youknow what you do have, though
don't touch me.
Okay, you have, you have thelegendary uh gaming mug, so you
should be good yeah, that's whatI was drinking out of when I
went into the car okay, well,that didn't work.
Then I almost had a legendarycough mug all right, all right
right.
Now, though, it's time for thelatest headlines in the world of
technology.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All right, Story number one TikTok's clock is
still ticking.
Let's go to Lisa Walker formore on this story.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
US President Donald Trump has granted TikTok a
second 75-day extension tocomply with a law that requires
the highly popular video app toeither sell its US operation or
face a ban in the country.
The social media platform,which claims to have more than
170 million users in the US,must cease operations in the US
(03:44):
under a law passed by Congress,unless a buyer is found.
In a statement last week,bytedance mentioned that it had
been in discussions, but notedthat an agreement has not been
executed.
There are key matters.
Any agreement will be subjectto approval under Chinese law.
So who was in the running totake over this platform?
Back to you guys in the studio.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
All right, so let's talk a little bit about this.
Who might buy TikTok?
As the ban deadline looms,amazon joins the bidders, so
it's really interesting thatessentially, we have bidders
that are all taking care of it.
Tiktok deals reportedly nearlyfinalized last week, but fell
apart after Trump on the sameday announced sweeping global
(04:28):
tariffs.
I don't know if you've heardabout these tariffs.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No, I have no idea what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay so, and it was imposed on China.
So all of a sudden, theagreement was put on hold and
now the agreement is waiting forapproval of existing investors,
ByteDance, the US governmentand China.
Now Trump imposed these globalimport taxes, which have caused
a problem in the negotiations ofthe purchase of TikTok.
(04:54):
It's interesting to see who isall in this bid to purchase
TikTok.
We have computer giantMicrosoft, we got private equity
giant Blackstone, venturecapital firm Andersonerson, hose
warts and search engine ai.
Company perplexity is also inthe stakes for purchasing this
(05:16):
social media app.
Now you know what?
I will look back at ourprediction show, and this was
the year that I did not predictmicrosoft would purchase a
social media app.
And guess what?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
oh well, you might be wrong.
Uh, you could be wrong Iactually think you're wrong most
of the time those are.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So you know, this is the time that I think that's
going to happen.
Where I think?
Microsoft.
To be honest, if you're goingto have somebody in there, I
think that's the one that willwork the best I don't know,
black blackstone, who alreadyowns most of the country.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Anyway, probably uh is interested in it.
Yeah, yeah, they want they wantto complete their conversion
into a rental economy.
Would you want Amazon to havethis?
You know I don't want Amazon tohave any more stuff either.
Ok, OK.
I would totally agree with thatyou know, but then again I
don't.
I think we should just bantiktok altogether, and as well
(06:07):
as twitter and x and whateverit's going to be called next
week, when it, when xai changesthe name again.
Okay whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, all right now on the story number two okay.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Well, if you don't know yet, nintendo has confirmed
the nintendo switch 2 is comingout with a hefty price tag of
$449.99 for the console.
That's the same price as anXbox or a PlayStation 5, though
I guess they just want theirpiece of the digital pie there.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Okay all right, if you get the bundle.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's going to be $499 .
Speaker 2 (06:42):
What.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, I think.
What's the bundle?
Come with a game, Comes withMario Kart, I believe.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, Mario Kart World.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Available on June 5th this year.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was fullyrevealed last week, ahead of
pre-orders going live on April9th.
Nintendo Switch 2 is the nextstep at home gaming that can be
taken on the go, based on eightyears of play.
Nintendo Switch 2 comes withthe following the console, a
(07:12):
joy-con 2 controllers on theleft and right, joy-con 2 grips,
joy-con 2 straps, nintendoswitch 2 dock, ultra high speed
hdmi cable, nintendo switch acadapter and a usbc charging
cable.
Now, with the bundle, it comeswith all that plus mario cart
world, and has a suggestedretail price of 499.99 in the us
(07:34):
.
Includes a system and adownload code for mario cart
world, but if you want to buythat on your own, guess what?
How much is it?
How much is it, odie?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How much is it?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
$80.
$80 freaking dollars $79.99.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I'll let you finish, All right but now, if you get
the online version, it's $30cheaper.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well, hang on, I know If you get the bundle it's $30
cheaper.
Yeah, if you get the bundle,it's $30 cheaper.
Yeah, they're bundling it soyou can get it for free, but
that's not the physical game.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
That's only the downloadable, mind you, they're
not making a physical gameanymore.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, I do believe that you can get the $79.99 one.
I believe that's a physicalgame.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
No, they're giving you download keys.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Are they all digital?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, it's all part of the whole new economy system.
Yeah, it's all.
Okay, it's all part of thewhole new economy system.
All right, well, it's nothing.
Nothing you have anymore isyours, and so you actually are
then renting it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's just like when you buy movies online and you
stream them and download themand then all of a sudden, the
studio pulls them back and thenyou've lost the type of deal
just think everybody that hasthe we store.
Right, the we store justofficially well, it was six
months ago closed.
So if you had ever bought adigital copy on the wii store
and you paid 49 bucks, 59 bucks,39 for the prices of that, and
(08:53):
then it retires, guess whathappens?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
you do not get that game anymore yes, that's
happening with everything withmusic, with uh games, with video
streaming services.
You don't own anything anymore.
Then that's where the economyis going.
So while it's normal to hearlots of curiosity about how much
a new console will cost, theNintendo Switch 2 in particular
(09:16):
has been the focus of a huge lotof hot debates due to the
unusual economic environmentit's releasing in.
As experts said back in January, factors such as supply chain
constraints and uncertaintyaround tariffs could have
impacted Nintendo's decisionaround price setting.
However, analysts have alsosaid that Nintendo is likely to
(09:38):
sell lots of consoles at launch.
Regardless of the price, it'llstill sell out.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Probably, and then it'll be the whole deal where
you buy it on the black marketand it won't be 4.99, it'll be
700 and some odd dollars thatthey'll sell this for you too
yeah, I'm pretty sure it will dowell well, od will uh.
Will you be in line for one ofthese new units?
No, I will not, will you buyone of these units?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
no, you know what I'm hoping will happen what's that
what they did with the wii uokay, where apparently it had
this huge price tag at firstlaunch and then a lot of people
realize this is no differentthan the wii yeah and it's not
even a better console in itself,and it has that big, hefty
price tag.
So then it ended up reducing invalue a couple months after
(10:24):
launch, okay, so I'm hoping thathappens with this Also.
Another thing to note if youwanted to play Switch games on
the Switch 2, you have to payfor an upgrade.
Yes, for 20 bucks.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes.
That's so ridiculous Per gamePer game Per game, not just the
platform but for a game.
So if you bought yourself,let's say you go down to the
local retro video game store andyou buy a console one of those
type of deals for about 10 bucks, right, if you wanted to play
it in your new device by thetime you take it home and you
pay 10 bucks for it, you'd haveto then upsell double the price
that you paid.
Yeah, to pay it on your newunit for 20 sounds like.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sounds like nintendo has really gotten back behind
this whole screw you concern.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So Xbox is coming out with a portable device.
Right, their portable device issupposed to be the same price
as what the Switch 2 justreleased.
Now I'm interested.
I'm going to go with the Xboxportable.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I'm interested to see how they play it, because I
have a feeling that you'll beable to play the Xbox games on
the mobile device as well as onthe main console that they'll be
like transferable without anyjust your account.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You just want to come into your account, yeah, and
it's supposed to be acloud-based unit.
So what it is, it will have afast internet connection and it
will connect to that to moveforward.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
So but I was really hyped at first because the mario
world is just like a GTA MarioKart, but very friendly.
And you know that's not eventhe full bundle.
You think the bundle would comewith the camera and the
additional joysticks.
It's just a game.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, well, you know, as our buddy Elon Musk said
about his cryptocurrency what'sthat?
It's a hustle.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Honestly, my Switch is doing fine.
I bought it in 2020.
I'm not gonna buy the console.
I was really hyped for it, butall right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Well, now we're gonna move on to story number three.
All right.
Fbi has confirmed that northkorean hackers stole 1.5 billion
from cryptocurrency exchange bybit on friday the largest
crypto heist record to date.
Now the FBI has encouraged nodeoperators, exchanges bridges,
defi services, blockchainanalytic firms and other
(12:35):
cryptocurrency service providersto block transactions
originating from the addressused by the North Korean hackers
to launder the stolen assets.
On Friday, the state-sponsoredhacking group tracked by Trader
Trader, the Lazarus Groups andAPT38, intercepted a scheduled
transfer of funds from one ofthe Bybit's cold wallets into a
hot wallet, substantiallyreducing.
(12:55):
The Democratic People Republicof Korea was responsible for the
theft and approximately 1.5billion USD in virtual assets
from cryptocurrency exchange bya bit.
This all happened on February21st 2025.
(13:16):
Now the actors proceeded rapidlyto have all the converted
stolen assets to Bitcoin.
They then tried to convert themto actual, real currency.
Now, if you're going to putmoney into a crypto fund here at
Tech Time Radio, we've talkedabout this many times there's
only one that we recommend, andthat is a company out of
California called Coinbase.
Now, none of these are to beFDI insured.
(13:38):
None of these are guaranteed toexist.
But if you're putting any ofyour cryptocurrency into any of
these one-off areas.
Let me just talk about this.
So, essentially, thecryptocurrency buy bit on Friday
said that they are not going toreplenish any of those
cryptocurrency funds that werestolen.
Why would they?
Because it's fake money.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's a hustle.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
So it's fake.
Well, it's $1.5 billion thathas just gone down the drain,
and if you were one of thoseindividuals that had one of
those cryptocurrencies on thisexchange, it is now gone forever
.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, how about?
How awesome is that?
So you spend money to buynon-money yes, which gets stolen
by other people, and becauseit's non-money, it's not
actually stolen.
And then you convert it intocash and then you convert it
into cash, and then you canconvert that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The laundering is the only thing they get you on.
How about that?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I didn't think about it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, that's how they get you.
That's why the FBI is involved,because it is a laundering
scheme, because you're takingmoney and you're converting it
into other money.
You're not really giving anasset for it.
So it's kind of the way thatthey get that taken care of.
But let me just tell you, donot be putting your money into
cryptocurrency.
Well, that ends our toptechnology stories of the week.
Moving on, gwenway will bejoining us for our gadgets and
(14:51):
gear segment.
Next, buckle up as we drive 88miles per hour into our next
segment.
See you, guys, after thecommercial break.
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
All right, 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 with a sense of humor, in
less than 60 minutes.
And, of course, a littlewhiskey on the side.
Today, mark Gregoire, ourwhiskey connoisseur in studio.
What are we tasting?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
today.
Today is Joseph A Magn magnus.
This is their murray hill clubspecial release, batch number
four.
Oh, a little coffin over there.
Wow, let me tell you about it.
It's a little bit long.
This is from their website.
Okay, but it's going to be allthese tons of tasting notes, so
see if you get all these notesfrom it.
Water oil it's artfully blended.
Eight and 17 year old bourbon,finished in four months in fresh
(16:27):
Cavados casks imported from thelower Normandy region of France
.
The nose offers a complexcornucopia of aromas, such as
apple strudel, gingerbread cakedrizzled with white icing
potpourri, old fashioned NewEngland apple molasses, persian
black tea with sugar cubes androasted chestnuts.
(16:48):
I detected every single one ofthose.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I always tasted the potpourri from my grandmother's
old house, but okay.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Now everything that knows promise is delivered on
the palate, with further notesof poached pears in ruby, red,
port star, anise, apple blossomhoney, brown butter with
cinnamon, roasted coffee beans,dried apricots, branded cherries
, candied walnuts and agedbalsamic vinegar.
I tasted every one of those.
(17:17):
You are turning into aconnoisseur.
And what about the finish, Mike?
And what about the finish, Mike?
They say the finish isextraordinary long and rich,
with plenty of plum pudding,apple crisp and citron peels
that wash across the palate.
Okay, I don't know anythingabout citron peels, but the
finish was awesome.
So this is from Joseph A MagnusCompany.
(17:37):
It's distillation.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
It's MGP distilled, but they bring it in and they
finish it and they age it.
It's a fancy looking bottle, soit's got to be some expensive
stuff.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
It's finished bourbon aged 8 to 17 year blend 111
proof only.
It's 75% corn, 21% rye, 4%malted barley and the price is
$200.
That's why you don't like it.
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Too expensive for.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I don't know, I don't know, man, I I yeah, well,
maybe, it'll grow on me, okay.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
Well, don't forget to like and subscribe.
All you people out there hit,smash that like button.
Drink responsibly.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Heaven can wait there you go, perfect.
All right, with our whiskeytasting completed, let's move on
to our feature segment.
Today we have gwen way joiningthe show.
She's an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a
game board geek in the evenings,as well as the producer of Tech
Time Radio and our Gadgets andGear gal.
Let's get ready to start ourComcast video stream and our
next segment.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What's new in our Gadgets and Gear.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
All right, Gwen, welcome to the show.
Tell us a little bit aboutyourself for any new listeners
that would be listening fortheir first time.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Certainly certainly Hi everybody.
Listeners that would belistening for their first time.
Certainly certainly Hieverybody.
I'm Gwen and I have been in thetech world for a little over a
quarter of a century.
I've decided to go with thatinstead of just 25 years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, I like that, there you go.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
It sounds good.
And speaking of sounding good,every word out of Mark's mouth,
that whiskey sounds amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Wow, yeah, okay, all right, thank you Gwen.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Are you serious?
Are you serious right now?
I really don't.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Okay, gwen.
Well, technology meets fashion.
At our fingertips we have thisnew device that is born the
world's first ring-shapedBluetooth mouse.
Tell us what this device is,tell us why someone would use it
, tell us what this gadget isand explain this to me in layman
terms, because I looked at thisand I got so many questions.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Oh, I had questions as well and I read into it and I
just love it.
I've been a fan of wearabletechnology, from smart watches
to health apps Just all of it isfun.
This particular one, though,appeals greatly because it is
just what you said a ring mouseand that's how you can find it
(19:52):
on Kickstarter Search ring mouse.
Basically, what this allows youto do is a couple of different
things.
It's just a ring, you put it onand you're able to use it just
like any regular mouse.
You can use it forpresentations, you can use it if
you're in a meeting and want tobe subtle about doing work
while you're in that meeting anduh, you can also probably use
(20:15):
it to mess with other people'swork if you want to that was,
that was my, that was whereyou're going.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
first I kind of figured Can I do with that like
you would do with an old TVremote?
You know where you would beable to switch your neighbor's
TV, so I guess if you connectedit to their computer as a
Bluetooth device.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
If you connect to their Bluetooth.
Speaker 8 (20:35):
Yep, exactly that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right.
So let me tell you does thiswork only on a Mac environment?
Does this work on a PC?
Speaker 8 (20:47):
What does environment ?
Does this work on a pc?
What does this work with?
This is pretty open.
It's just like any bluetoothmouse.
You can use it for max, you canuse it for windows machines.
I do not know whether it willactually work on a linux machine
or not.
I had asked that question and,uh, had not gotten an answer yet
okay, all right, so you gotthis.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
It's so.
I, I'm looking at it and againyou.
All you got to do is, I guess,go to kickstarter and search for
ring mouse.
They got a good name right.
There's no other ring my mouseout there uh, tell me how many
people have backed it?
How many days to go?
How much is their fund?
Are they fully funded?
Tell us the the kind of themetrics they're on on all of
(21:23):
that good stuff.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Yeah, uh, they are fully funded.
They were looking for twothousand dollars to start.
They're up to 75 000 already.
They've got slightly over 800people backing it and it is
available until april 24th okay,wow, until april 24th now yep
this is interesting.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I don't know if I would ever wear a ring for a
mouse, so I'm struggling withthe application processes of why
you would actually use.
Would, you wear a mouse for aring.
No, I wouldn't do that wayeither but I might be a little
big.
Yeah, I just so.
So, oh, I'll try to understandthis.
(22:06):
Why would I use this If I'm at?
So I saw their big thing thatthey said well, mice are loud.
Okay, I guess if you bang amouse on a table constantly in a
meeting it could be loud, butyou know what?
I think you can be pretty quietwith mice, so I don't think
that's a huge of the items.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
The sound wasn't really the big thing for me.
Of the of the.
Uh, the sound wasn't really thebig thing for me.
Okay, the thing that reallyinterests me is, as my career
progresses, as I'm sure manyothers uh, I'm doing a lot more
presentations now, okay, andit's much easier if you're up
there speaking, to just click abutton on a ring than it is to
either have one of the you know,actual remote controls or try
(22:47):
to use your actual mouse or haveone of those floating mice that
they have now.
This just seems much simplerand less distracting okay, okay,
I, I guess now.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So there's looks like there's two buttons on here and
then there's like a littlescreen type of deal.
What's that let's?
I didn't quite understand whatthe screen area was for little
screen type of deal.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
What's that let's?
I didn't quite understand whatthe screen area was for.
That's that's actually apointer that you can use okay,
so that you're able to, you know, not only advance slides, uh,
in the presentation, but alsopoint to things on the slide
yeah, and you can now mess withyour cat, with a mouse, oh a
ring with the arena okay that'snot the
Speaker 2 (23:26):
joke buddy it's fine, move on, okay.
So you know, most of the time II buy, I did not look to back
this.
So so tell us though, now,what's the price?
Now?
Hopefully you don't have to payimport tariffs.
No, joking aside, I mean, whoknows?
Is the company local?
Is it in the United States?
(23:47):
Is it overseas?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
It is.
It's out of Arvada Colorado.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Okay, which is good, that's nice.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Currently you can still get some of the early bird
specials, All right.
So, for example, if you want toget the stainless steel version
, it's only $69.
If you want to kind of bump itup a little bit and get the
titanium alloy, it is currently$89.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
You know, I guess that's 69 bucks.
That's not that bad, because ifyou pay for a high-end mouse
right now, you're paying about49 to 69 bucks for a mouse with
that.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
You know, my biggest thing now is how long is it
going to last?
Because you know I got a Fitbitlast February.
Okay, it has a one-yearwarranty yeah my warranty ran
out this february.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
My fitbit stopped working last night, so yeah, so
you're just out of the warrantything, yeah just out of the
warranty.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
The fitbit completely fails.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It bricked itself oh no, is there anything you can do
to fix it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I tried everything that is suggested on the
internet and it didn't work.
No and even throwing it againstthe wall didn't help so put it
in the freezer for a few hours.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
So how long does the battery?
How do?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
you charge, I guess, how do you charge this ring?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
that is a good aspect for that there is a container
that charges it, kind of likewhat you have for airpods okay,
for the apple devices, so you'reable to put it in its container
.
It charges it each charge.
If you fully charge it is up to10 hours of use.
If you need a just really quickcharge that you can do
(25:22):
something specific, if youcharge for about five minutes it
will last for about an hour.
Okay, so that you can dosomething specific.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
If you charge for about five minutes, it will last
for about an hour.
Wow, okay, that's actuallypretty reasonable.
So it's like a mouse charge forthat, yeah but again, how long
will it last?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
I mean physically, if it's a titanium ring, it
probably will last quite a bit,right yeah, but how long will
the functionality functionalitywork?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
well, since it's bluetooth, I'm sure it only does
like you got button click here,button do here.
So you got two buttons and, anduh, in a laser pointer it's not
.
So if you look at that, I guessthat's not that sophisticated,
because if you have two buttons,what happens, though, if you're
wearing the ring and you hitthe buttons and then it's
connected to your computer andit opens up?
I'm struggling.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
What are you dancing around there, buddy?
Well, you said it opens upstuff.
You know what other people see,or you're in a presentation.
That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I think you're in a presentation.
All of a sudden it goes back tothe Windows screen Right.
So you actually double click onit and it does a double click.
You actually double click on itand it does a double click.
It goes out of your window andthen you have to.
Now, it's not going to be.
You can't navigate your ring togo left and right Cause it's
only the buttons right, so Icouldn't get it back.
So here I'm on stage going help, help, and then someone's going
to have to plug in a physicalmouse, put it down, move it
(26:39):
around.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
And then I'll say your ring.
So I am okay.
I think you would definitelyhave to practice with it before
using it for a presentation butI still think the usability is
there okay, all right, well, soso are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
are you gonna get the delorean version?
Are you gonna get the upgrade?
I'm getting zero of these.
The question goes.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The question goes no, I'm actually gonna get zero of
these.
I have no real interest, butgwen the listeners want to, are
you going to get one of theseunits?
Speaker 8 (27:08):
I think I am.
I'm going to go ahead and gofor the stainless steel, because
I don't need anything too fancy.
I just want something that Ican easily flip slides with.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Tina.
Would be really cool though, Iguess is if you had this like to
your wife's phone and you addthe Bluetooth without her noting
, and then she's like sittingthere and she's scrolling
through and all of a sudden youstart scrolling through it's
like what the heck's going on tomy computer?
What the heck's going on to myiPhone?
I think.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Nathan's talking about me to it.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
That would be like an April Fool's joke.
Yeah, you weren't here for myprevious joke, were you?
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Well, no, I mean no, I was.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
but I mean this is yeah, I would take it to the
office and hook it into otherpeople's computers and be like
messing with them and you justwalk over to them because he
doesn't look like.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You have a mouse and you're just walking over there
and you're like clicking andsliding and you get one of these
boring things and as Nathantalks himself into it.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
I think both of you might be buying these now.
That sounds great practicaljoke.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I was on board when you first started talking about
it, because I immediately sawthe practical joke part of it
especially when you're bucksespecially when you're you know
all these stupid, boringmeetings with everybody in their
power points.
Can you imagine sitting there?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
just taking over the next, next, next, next, next,
next, next, next.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And you're like okay, now we're done, like yeah or
you know, keep, keep it on thesame one, and every time they
move it, just move it back, andjust just okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, all right.
Well, you know, all right.
Well, gwen, it's always greathaving you talk about new
gadgets on the show.
Um, we want to thank you forbeing a part of the show.
I realized we only get 12unique items per year because
you're on once a month, so whenwe actually go through all these
items, I end up well, that'sgood for you, mr.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Mr, buy everything.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I only buy about 10 of these things, so this is the
one that I may pass, but youknow what that's okay well, the
more you think about all thatstuff that we were talking about
.
Just think if I was doing thatover here and then all of a
sudden Odie's trying to run theboard there and all of a sudden
they slide up and slide down.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Odie I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Well, of those 10 items, how many do you actually
receive?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Normally like 7 of the 10.
Normally it's like 3 that don'tgo through.
That's still more than half hebuys 100.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He gets eight back.
That's how it works.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I just got this new dot one.
Did you ever remember the dotthing that we had?
I just got that.
It finally came in Well, Gwen,thank you for being a part of
the show.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
We will see you next month Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Where can people find you?
Where can people find youonline?
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Well, you can find me on LinkedIn, but really the
best place to find me is thetech timers group over on
facebook there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
They talk to gwen.
You can ask her about lots ofgadgets there.
All right, thank you so muchfor being a part of our show.
Gwen bye, gwen, thank you byeall right, that is our segment
gadgets and gear up.
Next we have mike's mesmerizingmoment.
Welcome to mike's mesmerizingmoment.
What does Mike have to saytoday?
(30:11):
All right, my question for you,mike.
We're getting into the timewhen a new video game like Grand
Theft Auto is going to come onout, and it looks like the
starting price of a video gameis going to be in the $100 range
for a video game.
Is this something that we aregoing to pay for a video game?
Because when I look at myentertainment value, I can go to
a movie still for under $20,and they're asking me now to
(30:33):
start paying a hundred dollarsfor a video game.
And Grand Theft Auto will havemicrotransactions in it.
So I'm going to pay a hundredbucks and then I'm going to be
microtransacting another 200 to$300 for this game.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
So what do you want to know?
If people are going to go forit, yeah, well, yeah, they're
absolutely going to go.
We train people to do this fromthe very outset.
Okay, you know, we useaddictive things to get them
hooked and then we train themthat things are going to go
higher priced and everybody justsort of absorbs it and like for
(31:07):
me, probably not.
You know, I'm not, I wouldn'tconsider myself that that much
of a gamer, in that I will.
I'm like always on the hot newtitles.
I, I like my games and I playedthe same game.
But these folks that are gamersand they're always trying to
jump to the next new thing yeah,don't pay for it, so you're
going to pay $500 for this newNintendo device that comes on
(31:29):
out.
Speaker 7 (31:30):
Yeah, not me.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Okay, and then the consumers are asked to spend $75
to $100.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I think it's ridiculous, but then again I
think things are ridiculous thatmost people just ignore.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So like $1,000 could easily be spent in like the
first month of your purchase ofthis new Nintendo.
Speaker 9 (31:46):
Switch.
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And that's okay.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
A thousand bucks.
Do you know how?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
many movies I can go to for a thousand.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, but the whole thing with the movies is the
movie price is so low becauseodds are you're going to pay
twice as much for the condimentsthat go with the movie.
Okay, that's why that exists.
That's why that exists.
But we in this world and Idon't think we really pay much
attention to it, because it'sjust normal is that we go and we
work so that everybody else andtheir mom can devise ways of
(32:15):
separating us from our income.
That's what marketing is.
That's what all these gaming Imean with the gaming industry,
the media every industry istrying to separate you from your
dollars.
They have been training us to dothis from way back.
They use all kinds ofpsychological tricks on you.
I think it's a normal thing,but I don't think it should be.
(32:37):
I think we should push back alot on it.
So I would hope that the gamingcommunity would be like nope,
I'm not buying that, it's toomuch.
Odie, would you pay $100?
Speaker 7 (32:54):
for Grand theft auto.
I've never played gta, so no,okay, okay.
Would you pay 100 bucks formario kart world?
No, no, mario kart 8, that's 60bucks.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah, it should not be more than that see it's
normalized now that games are 60bucks.
How much were games back whenwe were?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
kids.
Okay, so pc games I went backto this, so pc games like sierra
, online games and stuff were 35to 49.
Right, how much were games backwhen we were kids?
Okay, so pc games I went backto this, so pc games like sierra
, online games and stuff were 35to 49 right.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
How much were, how much were nes games?
Speaker 7 (33:14):
I don't know about that, but thinking back to like
the ds, that's my first majorconsole yeah or portable console
, however you want to 39 bucks agood game that was very popular
, 40 bucks yeah, and that makessense because you could take it
anywhere.
You could put it anywhere.
Yeah, I was able to play on theDSI when they came out with the
new one.
Yeah, it did not matter whatgame I had, I didn't have to buy
(33:37):
another one.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But with this, you can't even play your own game,
transfer it to another device.
No, you have to have two ofthem.
Yeah, so when you go traveling,you're going to be like boom,
boom, boom.
Here's my Switch 2 and here'smy Switch original.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Yeah, that's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Okay, all right.
Well, yeah See, I don't knowwhat you're talking about,
because I remember buying NESgames when I was younger, and
you know, of course 29 bucks atToys R Us.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, it was always something affordable once I had
above 59 I think now.
I think now we're.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
We're just sort of edging into let's get away with
what we can get xbox for thatbecause when the xbox one came
out.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
I remember something like forza yeah sixty dollars.
But it made sense for theconsole, like those, graphics
were great for the time.
But now would I pay 60 bucksfor a digital copy of a game?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No, Well, that ends our mesmerizing moment.
What are you?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
going to say I don't think it was very mesmerizing,
real quick yes.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
Gwenny over here says that it's like boiling a frog.
They raise the prices a littlebit at a time and we don't
notice and just keep paying more.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
That's right.
But now it's to the point whereyou're not even owning what
you're buying, you're justpaying somebody, you're
licensing it, leasing it, but.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
NES.
Again.
Those were like 40 to 50 bucksa game when it came on out.
So again, I don't know if it'schanged too much From.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
PC.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't know if it's changed too much from PC to the
games.
It's changed, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
It used to cost more to make a game, too, everybody's
doing.
How, how do you mean?
Well, you had to have a plasticcontainer.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
You had to have chips that you had to burn.
So those were actual hard costprices.
Nowadays, when you do a game,all it is is software.
When you release a softwareversion of a game, you're just
putting code out there thatsomebody downloads.
There is no.
There is cost for people todevelop it the testers.
I totally understand there'sdevelopment costs, but the
actual physical costs are muchless than what they used to be
back when you had a cartridgeand you had to have ROMs that
(35:35):
were in there and a bunch oftesting and burning of the ROMs.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yeah, but it was your game.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It was true.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
I have a bunch of my games at home that I own that.
I can't play because I don'thave even a Wii anymore.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Thank you for that mesmerizing moment.
We're going to head out on acommercial break.
You're going to see us in justa couple minutes.
Hey, mike, yeah, what's up?
Hey, so you know what.
We need people to start likingour social media page, if you
like our show.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
If you really like us , you can use your support on.
Patreoncom show.
If you really like us, we coulduse your support on Patreoncom.
Is it Patreon?
I think it's Patreon.
Okay, patreon, if you reallylike us, you can like us in.
Patreoncom.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I butcher the English language.
You know, you butcher theEnglish language all the time.
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And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
All right, we're going to our Wayback Machine and
it's April 12th 1976.
Who in the world is RonaldWayne?
One of Apple's computer three'sco-founders departed just 11
days after founding the company,selling his 10% stake for $800.
During his brief tenure, waynecreated the first Apple logo,
(37:27):
drafted the company'spartnership agreement and wrote
the manual for the Apple I.
He decided to leave because thepartnership agreement imposed
unlimited personal liabilitieson all the co-founders, no
matter which partner accrued thedebts.
In contrast to Jobs and Wozniak, who were both 21 and 25 at the
time, wayne had his ownpersonal assets vulnerable to
(37:49):
creditors.
Additionally, prior failures ofa slot machine venture which
launched five years earlierinfluenced his choice to
withdraw from the partnership.
Wayne later remarked either Iwas going to go bankrupt or the
richest man in the century.
By 1982, his 10% share of AppleComputer had grown to the value
of $1.5 billion, which has nowsoared to $22 billion in 2010,
(38:13):
and then saw hindsight 2020.
Right now, it'd be worth about$22 billion.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Maybe this was a tech fail, not a.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Well, no, no, no.
This is just a history thing.
Our tech fail will be a techfail.
So there you go.
Sometimes you have anopportunity to invest in
something and if you do it youcan make it.
Sometimes you don't.
I can see it.
He was kind of scared.
He had two young kids spendinghis money and he would be liable
.
He's like I don't know if theseguys are going to make it, but
(38:42):
clearly they did.
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The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's
Whiskey Mumble.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
All right.
Well, somebody at this table iscelebrating April 8th today.
Oh, and what is that?
It's Trading Cards for GrownupsDay.
Oh, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I love trading cards.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Now, a collection of trading cards by grownups is
usually considered childish.
What Trading Cards for Grownups?
Day is a day for peoplepretending to be adults to show
their trading cards and be proudof their collection.
Oh, I am.
It is celebrated by them to tryand normalize the collection of
trading cards by those that arenot children anymore.
What a day.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
It is.
Do you know how many tradingcards I have?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
This is not no.
If there were a museum of oldtoys, it would be you, okay.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
So I do have a lot of .
I also big.
I have Michael Jordan's rookie.
I got a whole bunch of stuffthat's been slabbed and put a
PSA ratings on, so I'm a bigcard collector.
I never got into Magic, theGathering or any of those games
at the time, I just did reallysports cards.
It was kind of my thing.
Garbage Pail Kids.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Now time I just did really sports cards was kind of
my thing.
Garbage pail kids.
Now let's talk about an adultthat had better things to do
than trading cards.
Oh wow, okay, joseph magnusstory.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
I think it marks on the childish, childish side of
that equation.
So joseph magnus story beginsall the way back in the young,
war-torn america in the middle19th century.
Now, during the civil war in1864, young magnus has received
news that his father had beenkilled in battle, with three
younger siblings to take care of.
He matured quickly and took onthe responsibility of caring for
his siblings.
His late father had been amerchant and Magnus took after
(41:18):
him to become a savvybusinessman.
He soon discovered a nichemarket for wholesale liquors.
By the time he was 26, he hadpainstakingly built up a liquor
empire.
Now, magnus prided himself notonly on the quality and age of
his spirits, but on intelligentand honorable business methods.
Excellent whiskey, herecognized, was more than simply
a pleasant experience fordrinkers.
(41:39):
It was a means of promotinggood conversation, close
fellowship and the interchangeof kindly deeds and pleasant
thoughts.
That's why we drink.
That's why we drink.
That's why, because of pleasantthoughts.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Yeah, no, I drink right now because both of my
kids are getting married.
That's why.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
I drink.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
I thought there were other reasons to drink too.
Speaker 6 (41:59):
At the end of the show.
Somebody heard you on the radiotalking about that.
Nathan and I have a present foryou.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Oh, okay heard you on the radio talking about that,
nathan, and I have a present foryou.
Oh, okay, from that person.
Okay, all right.
Is it alcohol?
Maybe whiskey chris?
Was it whiskey chris?
You'll have to wait and see,but yes okay about the whiskey.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
This one is a thinker , not only throughout sipping it
but also every time I've had it.
It's a roller coaster offlavors, delivering new ones at
each turn.
It has rich dark fruit, raisraisins and dark chocolate and
lots of flavors of ruby portwithout that cloying sweetness.
The finish on this lastsforever and brings along with it
some nice crisp apple.
(42:35):
I hope to savor this bottle andwill enjoy every pour of it.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Okay, so you know what I really did not like it.
Oh, I know you don't, but I'mstarting to get a little bit.
So it's not.
I would never pay the price forthis and I would never ask and
recommend this from any placethat I would be at, but I will
say that it is maybe not as badas I first had when I had the
first bite of it.
Okay, all right.
Well, whiskey and technologyare a great pairing, just like
(43:00):
the TV show Ren and Stimpy fromNickelodeon 1991 and 1995.
Remember Ren and Stimpy.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
All you have to say is Ren and Stimpy.
I don't think you have todescribe where you're.
Do you know how to tell a joke,odie?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
was like who the heck are those?
She didn't even know what I wastalking about.
Speaker 7 (43:16):
No, I think.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
You know why I made that face?
Why is he telling me it was onTV?
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Because we just talked about how childish you
are and here you are talkingabout a Nickelodeon show
Absolutely Ren and Stimpy babyyou were well into your 20s when
that came out.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Let me just tell you, I still watch South Park pretty
religiously myself South.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Park makes sense, the classic Ren and Stimpy was just
yeah then there was Nickelodeon.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Had it for a bit you are so stupid, Stimpy, that's
right.
Then MTV got it for like aseason or two and then they kind
of like went they were tryingto do the Beavis and Butthead
type of deal.
But all right, there we go,continuing on.
All right, let's prepare forour technology fail of the week
brought to us by Elite ExecutiveServices.
We are out of time.
Congratulations, you're afailure.
Speaker 9 (44:04):
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Did I yes, did I yes, did I.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Yes, all right.
Well, this week's technologyfailure kind of comes to us from
this company called DOGE haveyou ever heard of this?
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Is it a cryptocurrency?
No, it's not cryptocurrency.
I think we'll take a littledrink of this one.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
All right.
And what is happening with thestaff for Social Security?
And what is happening with thestaff for Social Security Now?
Doge offered layoffs at SocialSecurity and plans to get the IT
team and the website.
Continuity is breaking.
No-transcript is.
(44:56):
They're having problems withthe traffic on their current
website.
So those people that are tryingto use Social Security services
through the website haveactually been hit with crashes,
unable to go to the site itselfbecause the senior department
officials said that they do nothave adequate people for their
IT team.
Their IT team consists of about4,000 members and they've
(45:16):
already been told that theyshould expect at least 800 or
more to be laid off next week.
Speaker 6 (45:22):
Now I also heard that they claim that they're going
to rewrite the whole SocialSecurity underlying code which
is on Cobalt.
Yeah, and rewrite it in threemonths, okay, and make it all
perfect and all easy and allperfect, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Well, you know what that's going to be interesting?
Speaker 6 (45:35):
They should be game designers.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
They should be game designers.
Oh wait, Maybe they are.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
It could be like Bethesda, day one and then you
have to write the whole patchand download the whole game.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
So that's what they're going to do they're
going to write all this code,launch it.
It's not going to work.
Then they're going to spendeight years patching it until it
doesn't work.
Still, that's right, well hangon It'll be great.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
It'll be great Our technology fail is.
I understand there this PSA outthere for everybody.
But please, if you're havingproblems with something already,
it is not the ability to go inthere and just cut everything so
you can then see what happens.
You need to be able to fixthose items first before you go
(46:15):
and cut.
Speaker 6 (46:16):
We're going to head out to our last commercial.
So you mean, like measure twicecut once.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
No, no, well, no, not even measure twice.
That's not how it is.
Just do an evaluation.
It's cut five times, measurenone, and then just put wood
glue back together for any ofthe pieces that you cut
incorrectly, right there you go.
Alright, we're going to headout to our last commercial break
.
When we return, we have ourNathan Nugget of the week and,
of course, our pick of the day.
So sit back, raise a glass.
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Speaker 1 (47:02):
This is your Nugget of the Week, all right?
Well, let's get ready for ourNathan Nugget of the Week, all
right.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Well, let's get ready for our Nathan Nugget.
Now.
Microsoft is celebrating 50years, and I worked for them for
one-fifth of that time.
I have a quiz here for Mike,mark and Odie.
Let's take a look at some ofthe important red-letter dates
for Microsoft and compare themto what we have available now in
our Microsoft 50 quiz.
Here's what we go, all right,do we know when the beginning is
(47:29):
considered, when Microsoft wasfounded?
Does anybody know what datethat is?
Speaker 3 (47:32):
The date or the year.
Well give me the year.
Give me the year 1988.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
Nope, Odie do you have an idea?
Speaker 7 (47:41):
No, okay, I really don't.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Mark, do you have an?
Speaker 6 (47:42):
idea 1975, probably around April 4th.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Somebody.
I really don't.
Mark, do you have an idea?
1975, probably around April 4th.
Somebody read their scriptahead of time.
That is correct.
Ding, ding, ding.
Good job.
Microsoft was founded from thehumble Is that in the script.
Yeah, it was in the script.
In the humble beginnings,microsoft grew quite frequently
with the personal computer andsoftware company.
All right, we're going to takea look at the next thing Now.
Everybody's heard of MicrosoftWord right Now.
It was officially launched as arevolutionary document creation
(48:08):
process.
It was actually competing witha product in the market that had
95% of the share, which wascalled WordPerfect WordPerfect
which is a much better product.
It was it was, but MicrosoftWord came on out.
Does anybody know what date itcame on out?
1988.
No, a little earlier, a littleearlier, a little earlier od.
Do you have any idea on this?
It was like 84 was mark.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Oh, one year before, mike.
Oh, there you go.
1983, 1983 october 29th.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
That is correct.
Now, do you know what was theprice that you had to pay in
1983 for a copy of microsoftword?
20 bucks, nope, 79 dollars fora copy.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
It was a video game.
It was a video game.
It was $80.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
It was $80 for the productivity.
Guess how much you pay now forit?
Nothing, because it is nowavailable in the Office Suite
for free.
If you create a Microsoftaccount or a Bing account, you
can go online and use MicrosoftWord on the web version for free
for everybody to use today.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
Didn't that lead to Microsoft getting in trouble?
Well, they got in trouble forlots of stuff, having lead to
microsoft getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Uh well, they got in trouble.
Monopoly, yeah, something likeall right now the biggest thing
here microsoft, windows 95, big,big deal.
It was at least released in1995, but do you know which
month it was released?
In 1988.
No well, that was the betterversion.
Do you know what?
Speaker 3 (49:23):
month was it released .
Speaker 6 (49:26):
April, nope Mark.
I think it was the best monthof the year.
What was that?
November?
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Is that the best month?
Speaker 6 (49:31):
of the year.
No, it was November.
I was wrong.
I thought it was August.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
No, November 20th 1985.
And it actually shipped with abunch of issues that were a
problem.
What's that, Cody?
Speaker 7 (49:44):
Were you asking for the month?
Speaker 2 (49:45):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (49:48):
You're off there, buddy.
Speaker 7 (49:50):
Excuse me, it was August 24th 1995.
Speaker 6 (49:54):
Yes, no, you were talking about the first Windows,
not Windows 95.
You mixed the two up.
The first Windows version theyreleased.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
You worked there for I meant Windows 95.
I'm for, I meant Windows 95.
I'm sorry, I meant Windows 95.
Windows 95 was August.
Speaker 6 (50:11):
No, Windows 95 was August of 1995.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
I still want to know why August is the best month of
the year.
I'm looking at the thing rightnow, November 20th 1985.
Speaker 7 (50:21):
Windows is released.
Windows opened up a new era ofmultitasking.
Speaker 6 (50:24):
That wasn't Windows 95.
That was the original Windows,windows 3.1.
Remember that early.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
I guess I'm looking at the picture of the Windows 95
release, but it was actually.
Speaker 7 (50:35):
Windows.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
Word perfect.
Microsoft may be wrong on thatthing.
There, there you go.
Okay, now we're continuing on.
So Odie now has the same thing,so she can go ahead too.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
She's cheating too.
All right, Mike will know thisnext one.
Speaker 3 (50:47):
I still want to know why August is the best month of
the year.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
It's his birthday.
Speaker 7 (50:50):
Leo.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Internet Explorer is released.
Internet Explorer was competingwith another.
Does everybody know what theywere competing against?
Speaker 4 (50:57):
Nobody cares, netscape, netscape, big time at
the time percent of the market.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, came on out, it was august 24th.
Better product august 24th.
Escape was yeah, yep 1995 andmsn has launched as a debut with
windows 95 on august 24th 1995.
It was the combined of news andtechnology for the msnbc uh arm
.
That uh really kind of failed.
Uh was not a really good Iadventure.
But they do have MSNBC now asits own news article and then
(51:28):
you have MSN.
Let's move on to your favoriteone.
When was the Xbox?
Speaker 3 (51:33):
Well, you didn't answer the question.
When did MSN come out?
Msn came out in August.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
August 24th, msn and.
Speaker 6 (51:41):
IE.
All were launched with Windows95.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I'm just clarifying I didn't hear the month.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Maybe I'm just stuck on the fact that August is the
best month of the year, the Xboxconsole the original Xbox
console, the one that I actuallyworked in helped put all the
hardware in this bad boy.
Speaker 3 (51:56):
It came out in 1988.
2001,.
November 15th.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
Space Odyssey.
We can skip the next one.
Speaker 3 (52:04):
The next one just does not matter.
Speaker 6 (52:06):
Bing was launched in June 3rd 2009.
Just move on to the next one.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Microsoft Edge is released.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Nobody cares about Edge, April 29th 2015.
Speaker 6 (52:16):
That one took me by surprise.
For some reason in my mind Ijust thought that was older than
that.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
No, Edge is just the Internet Explorer.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
That's because it works like an old person.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
I still use Google Chrome and Firefox, and Brave is
my browser.
I really don't use.
Edge Okay.
Speaker 6 (52:32):
Cheers to Microsoft 50 years.
50 years here we go there, wego.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Cheers, cheers.
I'm glad to know that I'm olderthan Microsoft.
There you go.
All right, there we go.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
Now, though, let's move on to our pick of the day.
And now our pick of the day forour whiskey tastings.
Let's see what bubbles to thetop.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
Okay, we are drinking today to Joseph A Magnus the
Murray Hill Club Special Releasebatch four.
And batch four is a blend ofeight and 17-year-old bourbon
finished in Cavados Cass.
It's 111 proof, $200.
Are you giving it a thumbs?
Speaker 2 (53:09):
up yeah dude, this is awesome.
I love this.
I'm giving it a thumbs down.
It does not hit my palate atall and you know I feel really
bad.
Do you want the rest of my?
Speaker 6 (53:18):
$200?
.
You don't have a palate buddy,I'm sure Mike will finish that.
There you go, okay.
Finish that.
There you go, okay.
All right, I got a couplethings for you, nathan.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yep, what do we got going on here?
Speaker 6 (53:26):
First of all from Whiskey Chris.
He heard about your twoweddings.
He also listened to one of yourshows that's our one listener
out there and he heard thatremember he'd given us this
bottle to review Traveler'sWhiskey.
Yeah, and you just loved it.
Speaker 2 (53:40):
I did.
Oh, thank you, Whiskey Chris,Whiskey Chris.
I can fill my cup with this andneither one of us wanted it.
Speaker 6 (53:46):
It's not a drink for a connoisseur.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Can I get that one?
Speaker 4 (53:50):
No, no, that's my bottle, dang it.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
All right.
And then also oh, you got morestuff here.
Speaker 6 (53:55):
You had given me a wine bottle, so I'm returning
that to you empty.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
It was phenomenal.
This is Woodinville WineCellars.
You love this.
Speaker 6 (54:04):
Phenomenal wine.
Every wine from there has beenterrific.
Each one is more of a getsbetter and better.
Thank you for these gifts.
Speaker 3 (54:12):
I have a bunch of not weddings happening this year.
Can I get some whiskey?
Speaker 6 (54:17):
You can have the leftover in Nathan's glass I
didn't backwash.
Speaker 5 (54:22):
Well, you know what fans.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
Thank you so much for being a part of our program.
Is you the reason that we makethis show?
Well, maybe not.
Maybe just for Mark and Mikeand I just to have a good time
hanging out together.
Speaker 6 (54:34):
And drink a little.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
That's right.
Well, we want to let everybodyknow that the science of
tomorrow starts with thetechnology of today.
See you guys next week Later.
Bye-bye.
Speaker 1 (54:47):
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