187: CES 2024 Highlights, AI Advances, Tetris Record Breaking Week, and the Beginning of Bitcoin and Cybersecurity. Plus, Gwen Way is back for our Gadgets and Gear Segment talking about "Skyted" | Air Date: 1/7 - 1/13/24

Feast your ears on the electric energy of CES 2024 as Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm brings the future to your fingertips. Prepare to be amazed by Walmart's colossal setup, the unveiling of a mobility marvel from Kia, and a pioneering vibrating capsule that's all the buzz in the battle against obesity. Our very own Gwenydd Way joins the fray, sharing the lowdown on the latest in European electric car charging solutions and the groundbreaking Skyted device set to transform how we converse on phones in public.

Pour yourself a glass and join us for a spirited whiskey tasting as we relish the rich complexity of Michter's 10-Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye 2023. But as the whiskey warms our palates, we turn to the chill of cybersecurity threats, dissecting the monumental Comcast hack that left customer data exposed.

Wrap up your week with a foray into the cryptic origins of Bitcoin, and marvel at the staggering value it commands in today's market.

Episode 187: Starts at 1:49

This week on TechTime with Nathan Mumm®, we have much to discuss. CES, the biggest tech event of the year, is happening right now in Las Vegas, and we'll give you a sneak peek of what's on display. Then, we have a 13-year-old who made history by beating the unbeatable game of Tetris and the engineers who developed a vibrating capsule that could help fight obesity. Plus, we'll discuss the Comcast hack that has exposed millions of its customer data, the mysterious origins of Bitcoin, and the return of our gadget guru, Gwen Way, with her first "Gadgets and Gear" segment of 2024.

Thank you for tuning in to Techtime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Humm" Technology news of the week for January 7th - 13th, 2024

--- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 3:29
--- [Top Stories in Technology]: Starts at 5:34 

• CES, the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, starts today and runs through Friday, Jan 12th. We have an overview of what to expect - http://tinyurl.com/a9jh3u8u
• A 13-year-old in Oklahoma may have just become the 1st person to ever beat Tetris - http://tinyurl.com/yck7r6kh
• Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity - http://tinyurl.com/367c3up8

--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Reveal]: Starts at 22:48
Michter’s 10-Year Kentucky Straight Rye 2023 | 92.8 Proof | $180 MSRP

--- [Gadgets and Gear with Gwen Way]: Starts at 26:19
Gwen Way reviews Skyted the Silent Mask

--- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 39:06
This Week in Technology: January 9, 2009 - Satoshi Nakamoto releases the first version of Bitcoin.
 
--- [Marc's Whiskey Mumble]: Starts at 42:03
Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey

--- [Technology Fail of the Week]: Starts at 45:15
This week’s “Technology Fail” comes to us from Comcast as customer's information leaked after the company is hacked.

--- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 47:55
Question: What 2024 technology will provide an advancement on a psychological level

--- [Nathan Nugget]: Starts at 50:04
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2023 - from Bleeping Computers

--- [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]: Starts at 52:52
Michter’s 10-Year Kentucky Straight Rye 2023 | 92.8 Proof | $180 MSRP
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Nathan Mumm: 1:49

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Nathan Mumm: 2:36

I'm Nathan mum, your host, a technologist with over 30 years of technology expertise working for fortune 500 companies across the country. Today in studio we have our co-host, mike Rd, and Mark Gregoire, our whiskey tech time taster. Mike's an award-winning author originally from Arizona. He is a human behavior expert living in the Seattle area with a master's degree in forensic psychology. Mike is here to keep me from geeking out while providing insight into human behavior and how to interact with technology. Mark Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur and our senior technical executive with a 30-year record of establishing technology solutions. He's a skilled whiskey drinker, black market whiskey distributor and our go-to pick of the day experts. We are friends from different backgrounds but bring the best technology show possible every week for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. Buckle up as our producer, odie, is at the control panel. Let's start today's show.

Nathan Mumm: 3:31

Now on today's show Today on tech time with Nathan mum. We have much to discuss as CES the biggest tech event of the year, is happening right now in Las Vegas. I'm going to give you a sneak peek of what's going on and what they are talking about and what is trending down there in Vegas. Then we have a 13 year old there. What's that? Where are you?

Mike Gorday: 3:49

there you always go to see. Well, I always go to see us.

Nathan Mumm: 3:52

You know who's down there right now covering the show for us, phil Hennessy. So Phil is our tech time radio reporter. He's going to do in a bunch of interviews he's excited to be there as a part of tech time radio. We have Tom Geichen down there also, so we got lots of people reporting back. I am going to be here in the studio and at the main station to see what's going on. Read the stories, because I have to get ready for our best of the best for CES.

Nathan Mumm: 4:16

You're such a martyr dude. All right, you like that?

Mike Gorday: 4:18

there you go, so we're gonna have to do a lot of work.

Nathan Mumm: 4:21

So again, to get on the best of the best for CES, I look at the top 100 items that come out of CES and then we whittle it down to about 20, interview each of them and put the top 8 to 10.

Mike Gorday: 4:32

Yeah, you're usually down there at CES doing this. I am, you know, this year I missed off.

Nathan Mumm: 4:36

I'll have to be there next year to go on back. All right, we're gonna be talking about a 13 year old who sets a record by beating one of the most unbeatable games ever, and we're gonna be talking about engineers who developed a vibrating capsule that can help you fight obesity. Plus, we are going to discuss the Comcast hack that is exposed to music and discuss the Comcast hack that has exposed millions of our customers data and the mysterious origins of Bitcoin, and a return of our gadget and guru Gwynn way for our first gadget and gear segment of 2024. In addition, of course, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment the technology failed the week, comcast and a possible Nathan Nugget. So sit back, raise a glass and welcome to tech time radio. As always, we have our pick of the day whiskey tastings during the commercials to see if our selected whiskey pick gets Zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. So sit back and enjoy tech time radio. Now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Speaker 5: 5:35

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm: 5:39

All right. Story number one CES. The consumer electronic show in Vegas starts today, runs through Friday, january 12th. What are we going to be looking at for the big trends this year? Well, we have Tom Geichen at CES with more on the story.

Speaker 7: 5:57

Starting today, the world's most influential tech event, ces, returns to Las Vegas, bringing together 4,000 plus exhibitors, including global brands and startups, industry professionals and media and government leaders. The CES platform is all on for 2024. No other event in the world connects the full ecosystem of the tech industry like CES, said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of Consumer Technology Association. Ces 2024 will be the hub where business leaders meet, dream and solve. I cannot wait for the upcoming episode. Best of the best from CES. What happens in Vegas is all now recorded for tech time signing off back to you in Seattle.

Nathan Mumm: 6:47

All right. So here we got four major themes for this year's show on the floor, starting with you guessed it AI, your favorite subject here. Now. Artificial intelligence will be front and center with applications that can improve health care, sustainability, productivity and accessibility, and more. The key exhibitors in this area include Garmin, intel, qualcomm and Walmart. Wow, yeah, you got Walmart coming up with AI, so they have that. That that's very disturbing. So they have this 10,000 Square foot setup. That is all about how to do inventory control without humans running at CES it's one of the biggest displays is everybody's talking about it? Essentially, it's how you can run a store all on AI and bots and never have humans interact with the customers themselves.

Mike Gorday: 7:34

So you could go down there, that's, that already happens anyway.

Nathan Mumm: 7:37

Okay they go to.

Mike Gorday: 7:38

Walmart not interact.

Nathan Mumm: 7:39

Interact with anybody you still get the guy at the end waving at you right and then looking at your receipt and just putting that big yellow checkmark in the middle Right.

Mike Gorday: 7:46

All right, I don't know what are they gonna do with those people that coming in their pajamas and stuff. Have you ever seen the people of Walmart, they should have the people of Walmart. Ai edition.

Nathan Mumm: 7:57

There you go, all right. So number two, we have human security for all. It's a. Now this is a big new catch word. It's called HS4A. So you're gonna see that in all the Shortcut words and the power word of the year is gonna be HS4A. Ces will again partner with the United Nations Trust Fund for Humanities, security and World Academy of Arts and Science on the human security for all global campaign, showcasing how technology Can solve the world's biggest challenges. Main exhibitors on this will be.

Mike Gorday: 8:30

That's okay. That's yeah, with all the hacks going on I don't know how they're gonna be doing it. You got.

Nathan Mumm: 8:35

Abbott. Abbott is the essentially the COVID-19 testing company that came out of nowhere, right? So they came out of this. So Abbott's a part of that. Aarp Bosch I don't know what the speakers are gonna do with that, but okay. Nasdaq and Siemens then. The third key pillar of CES 2024 is mobility, with 250 plus exhibitors from the automotive tech to self-driving electric vehicles and personality Based mobility services.

Mike Gorday: 9:05

These are coming from mobility.

Nathan Mumm: 9:06

Yep. So this comes from BMW, honda, kia, mercedes and Volkswagen. Sustainability Companies will show how they're making a positive impact with innovations, accessibility for energy, food tech, resilience, smart cities, clean water and more. These exhibitors are Exker, hd, honda, honda or Honda Honda, john Deere and Super Null. Now let's just talk about a couple of these things. Kia, you know. You know what Kia is used for, right know what so what? Happens when you go down and and you purchase a Kia car right now. So it's a vehicle right now.

Mike Gorday: 9:45

I have no idea. They're pretty much modular.

Nathan Mumm: 9:47

They're modular. So what Kia now is coming up with? Electronic fans at CES that are essentially a Modular, swappable bodies that can turn each of them into just about whatever you want.

Nathan Mumm: 9:59

So this is like this is like a Lego version and transformer version of a car. You can build one that goes up 20 feet high. You can do one that goes wide to 18 feet. All these are modular, or items you purchase, you put it into this base, you tighten it and then you have yourself a car itself. So it's like literally by. You can buy the base model that's gonna come on out for under $10,000 and you can continuously upgrade that into some super deluxe van Without ever having to throw anything away. It just keeps on purchasing and purchasing and purchasing Isn't that exciting yeah okay.

Nathan Mumm: 10:36

More things that'll make you excited. Walmart showcasing when we talked about that 10,000 square foot exhibit. Honda is introducing the Moto compacto. Moto compacto is essentially a compact, folding, portable electric mobility device that takes up almost 20% less space than a carry-on suitcase for your airplane, so you can now take with you this portable.

Mike Gorday: 11:00

It's like an older person's type of ability deal how things are going. Yeah we won't need people anymore at all to do anything.

Nathan Mumm: 11:10

Okay, well, you know, that's just kind of the headlines. Today is day one, so those are the headlines that we got right now with the AI is gonna come.

Speaker 8: 11:16

Yeah, it's gonna be very excited out.

Nathan Mumm: 11:18

And that's how.

Mike Gorday: 11:18

That's how judgment day happens.

Nathan Mumm: 11:20

We will do a recap next week of all the great things at CES and then we'll have our best of the best CES in the Upcoming week. So there you go.

Mike Gorday: 11:27

Okay, this is with the story number two. This sounds exciting.

Nathan Mumm: 11:30

Oh well, I'm excited. You're, are you? I'm excited you have you played Tetris? I do. I play Tetris every day, are you serious? Monday through Friday, every night before I leave work, I play this app called Kumo space and I play Tetris in there against co-workers every night.

Mike Gorday: 11:48

Okay, well, you know.

Nathan Mumm: 11:49

I'm not any good at it, but I, but I do play it.

Mike Gorday: 11:52

Okay, isn't Tetris like 35 years old now?

Nathan Mumm: 11:54

It's really old.

Mike Gorday: 11:54

Yes, so a 13 year old boy may have just become the first person ever to beat the Tetris game.

Nathan Mumm: 12:08

Wow, okay.

Mike Gorday: 12:12

Right. Yeah, we saw the video on YouTube last night in our production meeting, right oh yeah, in certain video games, usually the game beats the player and not the other way around 13 year old Willis Gibson of Oklahoma may have become the first person to ever have beaten the original Nintendo version of Tetris. This is the Game Boy version. Okay, right.

Nathan Mumm: 12:32

Well, so it's unclear I don't know if it's the Nintendo version or the Game Boy color edition, but I guess, since it's the original Nintendo, version.

Mike Gorday: 12:40

maybe it's just the original Nintendo, did it just come out? Didn't Nintendo? Or yes, didn't Tetris come out?

Nathan Mumm: 12:47

on the Game Boy it did, and that was kind of like the big hit that it came with, and I just think it's the same port so it's probably exactly the same game, yeah.

Mike Gorday: 12:54

So, 34 years after Tetris was first released, gibson advanced so far that the game could not keep up with him. At level 157, he reached the notorious kill screen, which is the point at which the game becomes unplayable because of limitations with the original programming Took him less than 39 minutes to reach this kill screen. Okay, what happens here is that you get so far that the programmers that made the game they never expected anybody to get that far, so they really didn't do anything after that.

Nathan Mumm: 13:32

So they didn't kind of completely QC test it, they just figured there's no one in there, no one's going to get here, we're fine.

Mike Gorday: 13:38

Yeah, and the game starts breaking down until it finally just stops. Before this, allegedly the only way to get to the kill screen was through AI.

Mike Gorday: 13:50

Your favorite thing A robot that would have to do it Okay, and that is the only thing that has thus far been attributed to reaching the end of this game. So in a video posted to his YouTube channel under the name Blue Scooty, gibson can be seen saying just please crash. As the Tetris stacks fall faster and faster. Moments later the screen freezes and then he collapses and triumph. Yep. In classic Tetris, players, you know, stack differently shaped blocks. As they fall, players can rotate them in different directions and they're trying to form solid lines, which gets deleted when the blocks form Okay. If unclear pieces reach the top of the screen, the game ends over time. So you pretty much know that.

Nathan Mumm: 14:37

Yeah, so he keeps on filling up and if you get to the top, you're over.

Mike Gorday: 14:40

Yep. So Gibson said he was attracted to Tetris mainly because of its simplicity. He says it's easy to start playing and understand it, but very difficult to master it. Gibson has been playing in tournaments since 2021. In October he was the youngest person to make it to the classic Tetris World Championship where he plays, for I had no idea they even had these things going on.

Ody: 15:03

I did not have you ever you haven't watched one of those tournaments?

Nathan Mumm: 15:07

No, not a Tetris tournament no.

Ody: 15:08

They are so entertaining.

Nathan Mumm: 15:10

Are they?

Ody: 15:10

They really are and watching people that have been playing the game since you know, game Boy first came out with Tetris versus kids that are learning like Game Boys, and all that from this generation. So entertaining, okay, yeah.

Mike Gorday: 15:22

Okay, well, according to the Tetris company, over 520 million units of Tetris have been sold worldwide, making it one of the top selling games of all times. Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnof created Tetris in 1985. It was released by Nintendo Entertainment System four years later. Gibson says he's been playing since he's 11 years old. Like that was like two years ago.

Nathan Mumm: 15:49

So that was like a long time ago. He's been playing for years. He's 13 and he started when he was 11.

Mike Gorday: 15:54

He plays for three to five hours a day.

Nathan Mumm: 15:59

I'm playing for like about 15 minutes to 20 minutes.

Mike Gorday: 16:02

I'm thinking this guy, this kid, has a lot more time on his hands than he should have.

Nathan Mumm: 16:07

I don't know if I could play that three to four times a day, and I don't think it's that much of an exciting one player experience no no, I used to go.

Mike Gorday: 16:14

I used to play asteroids for hours. Okay, yeah, I used to play.

Nathan Mumm: 16:18

Super Mario Brothers back down at the bowling alley and you go there and you get your unlimited lives and you can play on one quarter for like three hours.

Mike Gorday: 16:24

Yeah, so yeah, I guess congratulations are in order for this kid.

Nathan Mumm: 16:28

You know what? He got to meet the creator of it. They did a Zoom meeting and he got to talk with them and he said how great he was, and so this actually essentially made Tetris now a top story again. Yeah, yeah. All right, there you go, yay Story number three Engineers develop a vibrating ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity. Let's go to Karen Westlent for more on the story.

Speaker 3: 16:55

The secret diet pill or just another attempt to alter your weight? Mit engineers have designed an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach, creating an illusory sense of fullness and reducing appetite. The pill could offer a minimally invasive, cost effective way to treat obesity. Swallowing the device before a meal could create a sense of fullness, tricking the brain into thinking it's time to stop eating. Is this wonder pill safe? This is definitely something that makes me go. Hmm.

Mike Gorday: 17:26

All right.

Nathan Mumm: 17:27

So when you eat a large meal, your stomach sends signals to your brain to create a feeling of fullness, which helps you realize when you should be stopped at eating time. A stomach fills with liquid before this. This is why people sometimes drink water before you eat. It can help often in dietary processes to not necessarily gain as much weight. But now MIT engineers have come up with a way to take advantage of the phenomenon of food in your stomach using an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach. These vibrations activate the same stretch receptors that sense when the stomach is disintended, creating a sense of fullness when the stomach becomes disintended, distended, distended, distended, distended. Specialized cells sense the stretching and send signals to the brain via the vagus nerve, and the result is the brain stimulus production of insulin, such as the hormones of C-pepidide, pi and GLP-1. And animals who are given this pill 20 minutes before eating. The researchers found that this treatment not only stimulated the release of hormones, but also reduces the animal's food intake by about 40%.

Mike Gorday: 18:38

I don't know about you, but if I have something vibrating in my stomach, I don't know if I want to eat something too.

Nathan Mumm: 18:43

It's a research show that once the pill begins vibrating, it activates and sends a signal to the brain, stimulating that, essentially, you are full. The researchers tracked hormone levels.

Mike Gorday: 18:53

I think it's something in your brain, that there's something alive in your stomach that's trying to get out.

Nathan Mumm: 18:58

The current version of the pill is designed to vibrate for about 30 minutes after arriving in the stomach. So you swallow this bad boy and it's going to go crazy for 30 minutes. Then it essentially passes through your digestive tract within 4 to 5 days. Do you have to retrieve it afterwards? And reuse it? No. The study also found that animals do not show any signs of obstructions no negative impacts while the pill was in the digestive tract. Now I don't understand how necessarily you're going to have that conversation with that dog, or?

Nathan Mumm: 19:28

say hey, how are you feeling snorky?

Mike Gorday: 19:31

He's like ok, he's feeling great. If it goes in and comes out, then I think there's no obstruction. But you know I can't wait for human use to see what happens, because you know.

Nathan Mumm: 19:42

Well, such studies looks like they're going to go. What happens?

Mike Gorday: 19:44

when somebody wants to overdo on these things.

Nathan Mumm: 19:48

Well, the studies are. They're trying to come up with a process where you can connect it to a Bluetooth device, so essentially, you can keep it in there and you can activate it for different times and have it come on for each of your meals instead of just the actual digest and you can actually turn it on with your phone, swallow it once and it stays in there, and it stays in there for a while and then you can activate it like once a week.

Nathan Mumm: 20:07

How does it stay in there? I don't know. Well, the researchers plan to explore ways to scale up the manufacturing of these capsules.

Nathan Mumm: 20:16

What's can enable clinical trials in humans this year, studies being essentially learned more about the Device safety, as well as determining the best time to swallow the capsule before a meal or how often you need to be Administrative? Continue on this process now. Hang on, though. We do crazy crap for diets, right, we go into people's stomachs and we put balloons in them. We go in and the people's stomachs and we just one.

Nathan Mumm: 20:39

Yeah, that's just one more, one more thing, okay, so yeah exercising, you can do all these little hacks, and now they found out a hack. Sure a pill in your stomach.

Mike Gorday: 20:47

Let's, let's, let's put a vibrator in your stomach and Trigger your vagus nerve to say I'm not hungry anymore, yes, okay.

Nathan Mumm: 20:56

Well, it's so. Mit just came out with it. It's, it's breaking news, it's gonna be, I Guarantee. You know, I asked the next couple weeks. Oh sure Will.

Mike Gorday: 21:04

I just have to wonder what scientists is hanging around saying.

Ody: 21:08

Hmm.

Mike Gorday: 21:09

I wonder, wonder how we could enter the weight weight loss market, create a pill that's all around let's let's, let's, yeah let's, let's essentially give people jumping beans.

Nathan Mumm: 21:21

It's exactly remember those jumping beans used to get they last for a while you have a animal in there, until the poor animal passes away. Yeah, I'm not real sure about this one, this one you're not excited, you're not jumping on the trials for this today.

Mike Gorday: 21:33

Yeah, I won't be on the trials for this one, all right.

Nathan Mumm: 21:35

Well, that is our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, gwenways up with our first gadget of the year. You're listening to tech time with Nathan mum. We'll be back after this commercial break.

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Nathan Mumm: 22:50

All right, welcome back to tech time with Nathan mum tech times a weekly hour Technology show that talks about current technology in a simple format, without having geek out brought to you by myself and microday. We just had our first whiskey tasting during the break and we have mark in studio to tell us what we are sipping for.

Marc Gregoire: 23:05

Did you actually taste the whiskey you? Guys are so busy talking about those little vibrating pills.

Mike Gorday: 23:12

All right, it was actually really good. I'll put that in my mouth. All right.

Marc Gregoire: 23:16

Well, today we are drinking Mikter's 10 year Kentucky straight ride the 2023 release.

Marc Gregoire: 23:24

So, from Mikter's website. One of our most limited production items, mikter's 10 year single barrel, kentucky straight ride, continues the legacy of America's first whiskey variety Rye from Americans first whiskey company, mikter's, originally known as shanks. It has deep notes of vanilla and toffee, toasted almonds and cinnamon, with an ample dose of crushed black pepper with a hint of Orange citrus. All right. So this is from Mikter's distillery, which they're owned by Chatham imports. It's an undisclosed distillery in Kentucky. It's a straight. Why, right? It's actually 10 years old. At least they do say there may be some older in there also. 92.8 proof Mashville's, undisclosed. It's considered a low rye rye, okay, and the price of this bottle MSRP is a hundred and eighty dollars, but you can find it online for about 350.

Mike Gorday: 24:21

Wow, or you can get a black market or a call mark Craig one aside and he can hook you up.

Marc Gregoire: 24:26

No no, wait a minute, so I don't deal in black market. No, okay, unlike my buddy next to me for technology on the dark web.

Mike Gorday: 24:35

Okay, no, no, so everybody's gonna be the first one to get vibrating pills.

Nathan Mumm: 24:39

Mark does not on the black market, but you do have a Facebook group that you guys swap what with and samples and stuff.

Marc Gregoire: 24:46

Yeah, it's a private group that we are.

Nathan Mumm: 24:49

Oh People. Yeah, that was this bottle brand new, or was it pre-opened when you got it?

Marc Gregoire: 24:54

No, this is brand new.

Nathan Mumm: 24:56

Oh wow, this is really good. This is really really good.

Mike Gorday: 24:59

Yeah, I have to say that my hate of rye has gone away, I think, especially if you buy a really expensive rice, as I'm starting to like rise more and more, the more, the more I taste them. So there you go. But this is not a high rye, so so it didn't have that rye burn correct.

Marc Gregoire: 25:16

Yes, and it's low proof too, so it doesn't have that extra burn there, but it's. But it goes in at a little lower proof into the barrels so it develops a stronger Intensity at the lower proof.

Nathan Mumm: 25:28

Yeah, it's got a really good. It's got kind of like a smoky taste. Got a really yeah.

Marc Gregoire: 25:31

And I like and I love barbecuing with the smoke type of deal and that smoky taste is very good, all right, Well, thanks, gentlemen, and I'll be back for the mumbles, but if you're not listening on the radio, please do not forget to like and subscribe. In addition, feel free to add a comment.

Nathan Mumm: 25:45

There you go. That's would be fantastic. Ask mark about some whiskey stuff, or you can ask us, and then I can forward it to mark.

Ody: 25:51

You can just send that to press it.

Mike Gorday: 25:53

Press at a time radio dot com. Anything only knows what shelf they come off.

Nathan Mumm: 25:57

The top shelf or the middle shelf or only the bottom shelf at?

Mike Gorday: 26:00

one Nathan, nathan drink and all right with our first whiskey tasting complete.

Nathan Mumm: 26:04

Let's move on to our future segment a, with Gwen way joining the show. She's an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a game board geek in the evenings. Producer of tech time radio and our gadgets and gear Gal, let's get ready to start our Comcast videos stream on our next segment gadgets and gear.

Speaker 5: 26:21

What's new in our gadgets and gear.

Nathan Mumm: 26:24

All right, gwen, welcome to the show. We had always happy to be here, oh, so we're always great to have you here now. So before we talk about our gadgets and gear, we had something that did not make on. So for people that don't know how we do our show, on Monday nights pitch night you come on in, you put in a bunch of links, we kind of pitch ideas and what's stories we're gonna do and what we're not gonna do, and one of the stories you pitched last night Didn't make it on our top stories, but it's essentially talking about electrical charges For cars, specifically in Europe. So can you talk just a little bit about that and kind of give us a little bit about what's going on?

Gwen Way: 26:59

Well it's, it's kind of exciting. So here in the United States, thanks to our friends at Tesla, there's been a big push at getting electric charging stations in multiple places. You know, gas stations, walmart, parking lots, what have you? Europe doesn't necessarily have, however, the landmass to make that feasible, so they're looking at other solutions, one of which is just adding them into features that already are In the environment, for example, light poles. Well, you pull, drive past plate poles. They have electricity going to them, obviously. Why not just tap into that?

Nathan Mumm: 27:44

So it's a pretty cool. It's a wait, so it's a pretty cool.

Mike Gorday: 27:46

Drive up to a light pole and plug in, yeah yeah, yeah, or does it like like a passive battery charger? Where it just you drive past it. No, no, no, no, so you'd actually go on up.

Nathan Mumm: 27:54

So it was a story that didn't quite make it and they actually had these plugs that were in the Sidewalks also, so for an electric car. So you'd actually go on up and they have Plenty of light posts in Europe and the idea is to put in electrical chargers in the lamp posts that you have there and you can pull your car up and you're ready to go. Or one of these units in the sidewalk Do you put your cord into and essentially it's just running the standard electricity that goes out there to now charge your vehicles.

Gwen Way: 28:22

It's basically using the electricity that's already in place for a new piece of Okay what's your skepticism, that's surprising.

Nathan Mumm: 28:27

I just, I just see a lot of competition over parking now.

Mike Gorday: 28:35

Yeah, because if they're trying to get to one of these light posts or one of these little sidewalk dealies now, you're gonna have people fighting over. Yeah, it could be only available for electric.

Nathan Mumm: 28:43

It could be right up at the very front. I think the whole idea of this is they're gonna be primo spots that will have these charging units and they'll only be electrical vehicles.

Mike Gorday: 28:51

That can park there. You're gonna have somebody who's just really Enterprising and is gonna double park and run a longer cord over to the thing, block traffic.

Gwen Way: 29:02

Okay, you'll get that, but I mean, honestly, you're gonna get that regardless. Let's just take a look at it. Call us fade to spade. The other really cool thing about this, though, is not only is the electric car. The other really cool thing about this, though, is not only is the electricity already there, but the infrastructure is already there as well, so rather than costing you know, $15,000, $20,000 per charger, you're looking at about $1,600 per unit.

Nathan Mumm: 29:31

That's a pretty cool idea. I was pretty, did quite make our stories. But think of all the electricity that you have probably already pre wired. Within the United States also, you can just go to stop lights, have all that electricity in there if you start taking that electrical, you can't pull up to a cross, you can't pull up to a crossroad.

Mike Gorday: 29:47

Be like hang on. Well, you're not gonna do that. But what if?

Nathan Mumm: 29:50

you pull over the side of the road where they have electricity that's already running there and you can plug in. I thought it was pretty good.

Nathan Mumm: 29:55

All right well, gwen, thank you for talking a little bit about that. It didn't quite make it, but there you go now. Let's move on, though, to why you are here the most important aspects of what we got, and our gadgets and gear. We're gonna talk about a device at the production pitch meeting, and, oh boy, I think everyone needs one of these, especially on public transportation. What do we have on the docket today for our gadget and gear?

Gwen Way: 30:18

So this is a great thing, we're back to Kickstarter.

Gwen Way: 30:24

Okay, so we're going back to Kickstarter, exactly we got got away from it for a bit so that people could purchase Christmas presents and things like that, but we're back to Kickstarter just for some fun new tech that we haven't really seen before. Okay, this particular thing is called the Sky-Did. That's SKY-TED and quite frankly, it reminds me of the old show Get Smart, where they had the cone of silence and you would just see this giant cone come down from the ceiling and nobody could hear outside of it. Instead of that, they've downsized it and it's just a mask. You strap the mask on and you could have conversations on your phone and nobody outside can hear.

Nathan Mumm: 31:08

Alright. So we got to explain that because that was kind of tough for us at first, because we're like, oh, this is like a mask idea, and then we started looking a little bit more into it. It's a mask that goes around your face and it looks just like a standard. What do you say, covid-19?

Mike Gorday: 31:23

It looks like a blown up version of an N95. Okay, so it's a little bit larger than that, or, yeah, something that you wear and essentially what it does is I kept thinking everybody was calling it Sky-NIT, so that's what you kept on saying and the thing.

Nathan Mumm: 31:39

So, essentially, when you talk in this device, nobody can hear you.

Gwen Way: 31:43

Right. So this is actually created by somebody who came out of the airline industry and he took a lot of the products they're used currently to keep the Noise within a plane to a minimum and just kind of made it smaller and more personalized so that you can have conversations, you can conduct work meetings, you can talk to your loved ones in public without, number one, disturbing anybody, but number two and, more importantly in my opinion, keep from giving data away to people around you.

Mike Gorday: 32:19

So you talk on this, so there would be really great. I don't know, I think. I think somebody just got irritated with listening to everybody's phone call. Yeah, I mean, is that is that?

Ody: 32:26

a good way.

Nathan Mumm: 32:27

Well, why do people in these public spaces? They put their, they put their phone on Speakerphone. I don't want to hear your conversation about interest him about what groceries you need to bring home. I was literally.

Mike Gorday: 32:39

I was literally in in a store the other day, walking next to this guy who was chatting on the phone about some business deal he was doing, and he gave me the side. I like I was gonna steal his idea.

Nathan Mumm: 32:51

Oh really.

Mike Gorday: 32:52

Yeah, I'm like Dude so this is a public place.

Nathan Mumm: 32:58

All right. So you put this on. You can't hear it. It'd be good that everybody would get. One of these is in public space areas. Well, let's talk about, since it's a Kickstarter, we we got to go and do some clarifications here. So what is so? The device works that to mute people's conversation. You can yell and scream, nobody can hear you. What is the Backers? How many backers have taken care of it? What's the price and when is the expected shipping date of this device?

Gwen Way: 33:25

Well, they're right now sitting at 313 backers, which means they have Exceeded their goal by quite a bit. They're right now sitting at about $68,000 of an 8800 dollar goal. Now there are a couple of prices here. The big thing is you can get either a wired model or a wireless model.

Nathan Mumm: 33:50

Okay, how? What's the wired model? You're gonna have that go into your phone then as a USB connection, so that that's how you're transporting your conversation.

Gwen Way: 33:59

Exactly rather than using Bluetooth.

Mike Gorday: 34:02

So that should probably be better to do wired Maybe.

Nathan Mumm: 34:06

I would.

Speaker 5: 34:06

I don't really see this really catching on myself.

Nathan Mumm: 34:09

I mean I liked it, I liked it, I want everybody else to have it.

Mike Gorday: 34:12

It's. It would be really nice If we were under masking protocols, but so many people get upset about the masking protocols, yeah that I think that might be a turnoff Okay.

Nathan Mumm: 34:23

Okay, all right, so tell what was. What's the price points here?

Gwen Way: 34:26

The two price points so right now Both the wired and unwired are available in their super early bird. There's about 30 of each left, so if you're interested, hop on it now. The wired is $249, the wireless is 299. Personally, I don't think it really matters that much. I think the wired might be good if you are specifically looking for security, whereas the wireless is great for just you know, talking to friends and families and in public.

Mike Gorday: 35:00

Okay, perfect, I have a better solution.

Nathan Mumm: 35:03

What's that? Don't talk on your phone, public, okay that's this company done a Kickstarter before a crowd funding project, before.

Gwen Way: 35:10

This is actually the first one they've done. Okay, the gentleman who designed it and who's leading the Kickstarter Comes from, as I said, an aerospace background, and he actually got funding from both Airbus and onara, who are two very large players in the European market.

Nathan Mumm: 35:27

Okay, that's. That's pretty good backers. The big question I mean that's a pretty good.

Mike Gorday: 35:32

What's your?

Nathan Mumm: 35:33

question Well, at least they're not grounding their planes, because, I don't know, this might be a good idea for awkward bathroom things.

Mike Gorday: 35:41

Yeah, I mean people talking, talking while they're on the toilet. Yeah, that's really bothers.

Nathan Mumm: 35:46

That is the thing. So you just put it on that way. He kind of sounds like the nobody knows your sense, nobody knows you're carrying out a conversation while you're doing your business.

Mike Gorday: 35:56

That's right because, you can be, yeah, yeah, you wouldn't be in there making noise, yeah you probably wouldn't have somebody saying are you talking to me while you're on the toilet?

Nathan Mumm: 36:04

Exactly All right last, most important question here Gwen, would you purchase one of these?

Gwen Way: 36:09

Honestly, I'm seriously considering it. Okay, I do enough travel and I'm going to start doing more travel for work. That Having this and being able to take calls Based around cybersecurity in a secure manner sounds like a pretty good idea.

Nathan Mumm: 36:25

Yeah, it's kind of a cool thing. I'm gonna. So my goal was, since CES started, I'm gonna see if there's anybody else that has a project like this or anything else out there in the market with this kickstarter, and I'm gonna be kind of reporting back on that next week. So that's my goal to see if somebody else has come up with a like cone of silence While I'm talking on the phone. I can be as loud as I want those people hear it, but nobody else hears it. All right, well, gwen, we want to thank you so much for joining the show. It's always a pleasure. What was that, odie?

Ody: 36:53

Oh well, I have a commenter saying that it would be nice in the cold especially. Yeah because that way you're keeping it your conversation private, but you're also keeping your face warm.

Gwen Way: 37:02

Oh, that's a good, exactly, and there's actually air vents, so you get a more direct flow of air, which is a little bit more comfortable.

Nathan Mumm: 37:11

Okay, and the name of the product.

Mike Gorday: 37:12

The name of the product I have heaters and.

Nathan Mumm: 37:14

Yeah, massa-sing for your eyes.

Mike Gorday: 37:18

Oh, I got just All kinds of stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 37:20

All right. So Gwen, tell us what is the name of this product again.

Gwen Way: 37:23

It's Sky Ted. That's SKY TED. You can find it on Kickstarter and you have until February 7th to place your order sky Ted, sky Ted.

Nathan Mumm: 37:35

That's kind of. That's kind of so sky SKY and Ted like like the bear bear.

Nathan Mumm: 37:41

That's right. All right, thank you so much for joining the show, gwen. All right, so always a pleasure to have you. We'll see you in a month from now. Oh, all right. That ends our gasses and gear segment up. Next we have this week in technology, so now be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we'll be doing so during the break. You're listening to tech time radio with Nathan mum. See you in a few minutes.

Nathan Mumm: 38:00

Hey, mike, yeah what's up, hey, so you know what we need that people start liking our social media page.

Mike Gorday: 38:05

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Nathan Mumm: 38:16

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Nathan Mumm: 38:31

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Mike Gorday: 38:33

The Zuckerberg owns, the one that we always bag on yeah, you can do.

Nathan Mumm: 38:37

We're on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on Facebook. You know what our Facebook pages. Tech time radio. At tech time radio. You know what? There's a there's a trend here.

Mike Gorday: 38:46

It seems to be that there's a trend and that's tech time radio, or you can even Instagram with us, and that's at tech time radio.

Nathan Mumm: 38:52

That's that's a term. Or you can find us on tiktok, and it's tech time radio. It's that a tech time radio.

Mike Gorday: 38:58

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Nathan Mumm: 39:03

That's it, that's it, that's that simple.

Speaker 5: 39:07

And now let's look back at this week in technology.

Nathan Mumm: 39:12

All right, in our way back machine. Here we're going to. January 9th 2009, satoshi Nakamoto releases the very first version of what is now known as Bitcoin. Through a posting to the cryptograph mailing list, the pseudonym of Satat, satoshi Nakamoto released the very first version of the Bitcoin software and launches the network of the decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. Six days earlier, nakamoto had generated the first block of 50 bitcoins, now known Historically as the Genesis block.

Nathan Mumm: 39:49

Bitcoin has slowly but steadily gained momentum as its users appreciate that no one entity Can control, manipulate or Deactivate the digital currency, along with it being a currency not owned by any country for private forms of payment. One Bitcoin today is valued at 46,000 American dollars. It's really interesting about this. I went back to take a look at some Bitcoin history there. Back in the day when Bitcoin cryptocurrency was just coming on out, there was a tournament event for this video game series. Essentially, everybody that entered in and did not win first, second and third place Received one Bitcoin. They got but, but the winners got a $50 gift card to Amazon. $25 gift card to Amazon.

Mike Gorday: 40:36

Wow, that's a participation trophy I could get behind a $15 gift card.

Nathan Mumm: 40:41

Just think of you won this tournament, gaming tournament event, and you win that Amazon gift card and instead of being the loser in getting one Bitcoin right now, you'd be sitting at 46,000 American dollars how about that.

Nathan Mumm: 40:53

There you go, all right. Well, that was this week in technology. Have you ever wanted to watch some tech time history, with over 180 weekly broadcast spanning four plus years of videos, podcasts and blog information? You can visit us at techtime radio comm to watch our older shows and join our tech timers Facebook group. You can talk with us live. We'll take care of your Technical issues. You can talk with Gwen on there. Everything you need to do by joining the Facebook group, tech timers. Now we're gonna go to commercial break, but when we return we have our marks, mumble, whiskery view and our technology fail the week. See you after the break.

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Speaker 5: 42:04

S-T-O-R-I-Coffeecom, the segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey Mumble.

Marc Gregoire: 42:14

Boom, boom, boom boom. What a day today is. Alright. What is today? Today is a day Nathan celebrates. I think it's National Nerd Day, isn't it? It's pretty close, okay, it's not just National, any National Nerd Day. What is it? It's National Word, nerd Day.

Nathan Mumm: 42:31

Oh, a National Word Nerd Day, okay so.

Mike Gorday: 42:34

Nathan celebrates by mispronouncing anywhere he can get a hold of.

Marc Gregoire: 42:37

He sees it trying to improve himself.

Nathan Mumm: 42:39

Hey, I got a bunch of two syllable words done today.

Mike Gorday: 42:44

You got a lot of words mispronouncing. Okay, alright, a lot of them.

Marc Gregoire: 42:47

Well, let me tell you a little bit about the day we celebrate National Word Nerd Day by being enthusiastic about our favorite words and the importance of language in our culture. Whether you always know what to say or you often end up with a foot in your mouth oh there you go, there you go.

Nathan Mumm: 43:02

Oh, a plethora of words, a plethora of words, a plethora of feet in your mouth.

Marc Gregoire: 43:07

Words are essential to our success and progress. That's why Nathan keeps improving himself. There you go. National Word Nerd Day gives us a chance to learn new words, use some old ones and maybe even borrow them from someone else.

Nathan Mumm: 43:19

There you go. Okay, alright. Well, tell us a little bit more about this whiskey.

Marc Gregoire: 43:22

Yeah, so as we discuss Mikders, its name has an interesting word nerd story. Okay, so in the 1950s Lou Forman, who had a liquor distribution business, took over the distillery known at the time as Abraham Bomberger and Sons, and changed it to its current name of Mikders. He came up with it using a portmanteau of his two sons' names, michael and Peter. Okay, that sweet name stuck and known by that name still today.

Nathan Mumm: 43:53

That's kind of cool Okay.

Marc Gregoire: 43:54

And did you notice how I threw in portmanteau I?

Mike Gorday: 43:56

did. That was a pretty good word. That's a word nerd day, there we go.

Nathan Mumm: 43:59

He didn't know what that meant I did not, I just overpassed it's when you take multiple words. Words are important to go Like smog is a good example.

Marc Gregoire: 44:06

Smog is a mash of fog and Smoke. There you go.

Mike Gorday: 44:10

Very good oh come on.

Marc Gregoire: 44:13

Now in terms of the actual whiskey Mikders 10 year Kentucky Straight Ride 2023. Well, if you love rye, or even bourbon, this is a must try. You may not be able to find a bottle at a reasonable price, but don't let that stop you. Okay, find a pour at a local bar, sit back and enjoy this delicious dram. Anyone who truly appreciates whiskey will give this one a big thumbs up.

Nathan Mumm: 44:37

All right, I'd like to begin with. I'm almost done with it.

Marc Gregoire: 44:41

I'm done with it. I'm done with it. Mike's going to do a second pour. I've had a refill already.

Nathan Mumm: 44:46

You're in the commercial break, All right Well.

Marc Gregoire: 44:49

Mark, yes, thanks for that Mumble. You're welcome, you're going to Paris.

Nathan Mumm: 44:53

As always, whiskey and technology. What a great pairing, just like CES and a Las Vegas show All right Now, let's get.

Marc Gregoire: 45:00

That's not bad. That's technology related.

Nathan Mumm: 45:04

Yeah, we've got a little CES.

Marc Gregoire: 45:05

Better than forks and spoons and other weird things. Well, you know what? Let's get ready for our technology Copy and paste. All right, hold on, we're out of time.

Nathan Mumm: 45:13

Congratulations, you're a failure.

Speaker 5: 45:17

Oh, I failed. Did I yes, did I yes.

Speaker 9: 45:23

Did I yes.

Nathan Mumm: 45:25

All right. Speaking about this week's technology fail, it comes to us from Comcast.

Nathan Mumm: 45:29

Mike's favorite internet company, comcast. Customers information leaked after company is hacked. On November 16, 2023, comcast discovered threat actors had access to its internal systems and accessed Xfinity customers information of 35.8 million people. They notified the federal law enforcement conducting an investigation in the nature of the scope of the incident and on November 16, 2023, it was determined that the information was likely acquired, said Comcast. Now, on December 6, though 2023, comcast determined that the data breach exposed customers account information. Here's what they got, including user names, hashed passwords that means your password, great. It also exposed names, contact information, last four digits of your social security number, date of birth and your secret questions and answers to that questions for all of its customers. According to the regulatory filing with the office of Maine Attorney General, comcast disclosed that the Comcast data breach in the company has notified the victims via email or through the news media, or they could find it on its website.

Mike Gorday: 46:37

They actually don't even notify this.

Nathan Mumm: 46:39

So you have to actually go to the news media to find out that, all of your information. So if you use, like your mother's main name as a deal or your best friend's name or your pets all that is hosed now and any other service has that.

Mike Gorday: 46:51

Yeah, doing the show. What's that? Is that none of this stuff matters. It doesn't. You might as well just tell everybody what they are. They'll not have passwords, secret words, secret questions.

Nathan Mumm: 47:02

somebody's going to hack into it and get that information Like our guests that we had on during the December time frame, coming from New Zealand. She said the best thing to do is to come up with some crazy password and every single time you need to log into your account, just do a reset password for them and then do that one time when you need to log in so that you can be more secure.

Mike Gorday: 47:20

Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 5: 47:21

Totally agree with that, yeah.

Nathan Mumm: 47:21

All right. Well, we're going to head out to our last commercial break here. We're going to have a six-measurement moment and our Nathan Nugget of the Week. So sit back, raise a glass. You're listening to TechTime Radio with Nathan Mum. This is Mike's mesmerizing moment, presented by StoryCoffee. Visit StoryCoffeecom. All right, mike, here's my question for you what 2024 technology will provide an advancement on the psychological level?

Mike Gorday: 48:14

You want it. I don't know if I can answer that question, because typically there's an inverse relationship with technological advancement and psychological advancement. Okay, well, explain that to me. Meaning like the Google effect? Okay, right, the Google effect has affected our ability to memorize, yep, because we don't need to memorize as much as we used to, so we stop using that. Google has taken that away from us, kind of like your contact list in your phone.

Nathan Mumm: 48:44

Yeah Right, you don't do that.

Mike Gorday: 48:47

We don't need to memorize it anymore. So we don't, because we have everything in our phones until we have a blackout or something and we completely freak out so with the advent of AI, I think we're going to see a lot more of this sort of lazy production value where people are going to rely on AI to answer their emails and to do school papers and, despite all the problems with cheating, do you know what I find.

Nathan Mumm: 49:17

Speaking of AI, I totally agree with you and I'm not in the same space. The only thing I think AI is now becoming good for is I never understood memes really well, but I do understand.

Ody: 49:26

AI pictures. You know what?

Nathan Mumm: 49:28

Every AI picture you create has massive problems with it. I'd now love to just type in stuff and have AI create a picture and all of a sudden you got a fist coming out of a guy's mouth and you got four ears on a guy and you got glasses and then one guy's got an eye. That's red.

Ody: 49:45

No, because of AI, you now understand memes.

Nathan Mumm: 49:47

Well, I'm starting to figure them out. I find them funny.

Mike Gorday: 49:51

I found AI pictures funny. You have become a meme, I become a meme. There you go. You're a meme that don't understand memes.

Nathan Mumm: 49:58

That's a meme that doesn't understand anything there you go. Okay, well, thank you very much for that, Mike. You're welcome. All right, let's go to our Nathan Nugget.

Speaker 5: 50:04

This is your Nugget of the Week.

Nathan Mumm: 50:08

All right. So bleeping computers that is essentially Gwenway's favorite site. It came up with the biggest cybersecurity and cyber attack stories of 2023. And guess what? They rated 13 different items that were essentially their top stories. We're going to go through this list really quick and see how many of those were covered last year on our show. The biggest cybersecurity breach, according to bleeping computers, was a company called 23andMe Data Breach. The 23and Data Breach essentially added credential stuffing attacks that led to major data breach, exposing the data of 6.9 million users in genetic code. This was covered on TechTime Radio.

Nathan Mumm: 50:50

The next one, number 13, hosting firms says it lost all of its customer data after a ransomware attack. Two Danish hosting providers were forced to shut down after a ransomware attack and crypt to the majority of their customers' data. We missed that one, but we'll continue on with number 12. Sudan hacktivists show the DDoS attacks can impact the largest tech firms. We covered this on TechTime. Essentially, nick Espinosa talked about the hacktivist group known as Anonymous Sudan that took everybody's DDoS attacks down on their websites.

Nathan Mumm: 51:20

Number 11, acoustic attack steal data from keyboard strokes with a 95% accuracy. Essentially, we covered this story also regarding when you type on your keyboards, the ability for British universities with a trained deep learning model to find that information. Then of course we had number 10 PayPal accounts breach. We covered that. On TechTime Dish network goes offline for a cyber attack, we talked about that. We talked about go daddy hackers stealing the source code of information, the MGM cyber shut down of their IT systems. We covered the black cant ransomware operation. Essentially we did not talk about this because it was 100 EXI hyper vision machines that essentially were using this OS layer on top of their standard machines. We missed that one. Bloomberg reported that there was a breach at Caesars. We covered. Barracuda had a hacking thing. We covered Essentially out of those 14, we got 11 of the 14 major stories that bleeping computers considered 14 or 13.

Nathan Mumm: 52:20

You keep saying 14. Well, there was 14 that they added, because there's 13, that they had the top 13. But they included the security breach of the casino and MGM was a different casino, so they included both of those. It kept on changing between 14 and 13 because they threw it in there but kind of lumped it as a casino area. What that tells you is, if you listen to TechTime radio, you're going to get the top story security breaches, then you're going to hate life more.

Nathan Mumm: 52:46

No, that's right. All right. Now let's move to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Speaker 5: 52:53

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

Marc Gregoire: 53:01

All right, what are we tasting today? We are sipping on Mikter's 10 year Kentucky straight ride 2023. It is from Mikter's distillery. It is a straight ride, 10 years old, 92.8 proof, undisclosed mash bill and goes for about $180 MSRP. All right, during the show, somebody asked you a question regarding something they did. I had talked about it being a low-ride ride and they said what is a low-ride ride? Well, to be considered a ride has to be at least 51% ride. A lot of the rides out there, especially from Indiana, are 95%. So if you ride around that 51, 55%, you're just barely legally a ride that is considered a low-ride ride.

Nathan Mumm: 53:39

All right, that's perfect, that's way to go, all right. So are you giving this a thumbs up or a thumbs down, mike?

Mike Gorday: 53:44

I'm giving it a thumb, thumb up, a tooth, a low-ride, so you like this right.

Nathan Mumm: 53:50

Odie didn't taste any.

Ody: 53:52

No, but what did you like about it, Mike?

Mike Gorday: 53:55

I liked it because it didn't have that harsh burn that rides usually give me, the high rides give me, and the taste is really good with a very nice finish.

Nathan Mumm: 54:07

Yeah, I like that smoky taste.

Marc Gregoire: 54:09

This is a ride that even bourbon lovers that generally don't even like ride would like, because a lot of even bourbons get up to almost 51% rise sometimes.

Nathan Mumm: 54:19

So All right. Well, guess what Next week we're going to be talking about.

Marc Gregoire: 54:22

Nathan thumbs up, thumbs down.

Mike Gorday: 54:26

He's been telling us that all day. Yeah, he started a show with it. This is great. Yeah, this is fantastic.

Nathan Mumm: 54:33

This isthis may not make it back on March's shelf.

Mike Gorday: 54:34

It's not going to be on your shelf.

Marc Gregoire: 54:36

No, that's why I came in studio today to make sure my bottle comes back with me.

Nathan Mumm: 54:40

That's great, that's good, that's good. All right. Next week's CES review there are some crazy.

Mike Gorday: 54:45

AI stuff going on. There's always crazy AI stuff.

Nathan Mumm: 54:47

I can't wait to have it. We may have a robot person back on your favorite life-size robot type of deal. No, so we're going to have that on. We're going to have our best of the best, Mark. Thank you so much for bringing in here in studio, Odie. Thank you for so much keeping us on track and not letting the wheels come off. Listeners, if you want to hear more from us, just visit techtimeradiocom and click on. Be a caller and remember this week the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week. Bye.

Speaker 5: 55:50

Thank you.