Dive headfirst into the abyss of digital dangers and delights as we navigate the tumultuous tides of TikTok's EU troubles and the entangled web of online dating apps.
Crack open the virtual handcuffs of misinformation with us as we celebrate the ingenuity behind National Handcuff Day and sift through the media's tech tales with a discerning eye. Forget about the viral smart toothbrush botnet scare; we're here to debunk the bunk and ensure your digital hygiene is as impeccable as your dental routine. Amidst the sparks of controversy, we uncork the robust world of whiskey with an immersive tasting of Smoke Wagon's Batch 155A. But it's not all smooth sipping – we're on high alert, dissecting email scams with a splash of humor and a hefty pour of hard-won wisdom to keep you a click ahead of cyber tricksters.
Our palates may be titillated by bourbon, but our brains are buzzing with the challenge of separating fact from fiction in the wild west of internet news. Don't fall prey to fake narratives; instead, let us guide you through the maze of modern media with our trusty torch of truth.
Wrap up your gadget with a towel, not rice – we're setting the record straight on smartphone salvation. So plug in, pour yourself a dram, and prepare for an episode brimming with revelations, recommendations, and truth for your technology news.
Episode 193: Starts at :30
Episode 193: This week on TechTime with Nathan Mumm®, we talk about the latest and greatest in technology. First, we'll discuss some of the controversies surrounding TikTok, the maker of Tinder and Hinge, and the Lockbit cyber-criminal gang. Then, we'll take a trip down memory lane and look at the Apple QuickTake 100. Next, we'll expose the media's false claims about a particular technology and why they owe an apology to the public.
After that we'll read some of the emails we received from our listeners and our own on the segment LETTERS. And finally, what is the best way to dry a wet phone? All this and more on TechTime with Nathan Mumm.
Stay tuned for all this and more, only on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Humm" Technology news of the week for February 18th - 24th, 2024
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--- [Top Stories in Technology]
--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Reveal]
Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Straight Bourbon (Batch 155a) | 113.08 Proof | 85.00
--- [Letters]
TechTime Staff share this week's informative emails that were received during the week. This includes scams, phishing emails, and all-out mistruths disguised as legitimate emails.
--- [This Week in Technology]
This Week in Technology: February 17, 1994 - Apple QuickTake 100
--- [Marc's Whiskey Mumble]
Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey
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This week’s “Technology Fail” comes to us from every Media Outlet that talked about "Hacked Toothbrushes"
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Question: Why is the President now using TikTok when the Whitehouse wanted to ban this application?
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To use rice or not to use rice on getting that water out of your phone
--- [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]
Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Straight Bourbon (Batch 155a) | 113.08 Proof | 85.00
Mike: Thumbs Up
Nathan: Thumbs Down
Dive headfirst into the abyss of digital dangers and delights as we navigate the tumultuous tides of TikTok's EU troubles and the entangled web of online dating apps.
Crack open the virtual handcuffs of misinformation with us as we celebrate the ingenuity behind National Handcuff Day and sift through the media's tech tales with a discerning eye. Forget about the viral smart toothbrush botnet scare; we're here to debunk the bunk and ensure your digital hygiene is as impeccable as your dental routine. Amidst the sparks of controversy, we uncork the robust world of whiskey with an immersive tasting of Smoke Wagon's Batch 155A. But it's not all smooth sipping – we're on high alert, dissecting email scams with a splash of humor and a hefty pour of hard-won wisdom to keep you a click ahead of cyber tricksters.
Our palates may be titillated by bourbon, but our brains are buzzing with the challenge of separating fact from fiction in the wild west of internet news. Don't fall prey to fake narratives; instead, let us guide you through the maze of modern media with our trusty torch of truth.
Wrap up your gadget with a towel, not rice – we're setting the record straight on smartphone salvation. So plug in, pour yourself a dram, and prepare for an episode brimming with revelations, recommendations, and truth for your technology news.
Episode 193: Starts at :30
Episode 193: This week on TechTime with Nathan Mumm®, we talk about the latest and greatest in technology. First, we'll discuss some of the controversies surrounding TikTok, the maker of Tinder and Hinge, and the Lockbit cyber-criminal gang. Then, we'll take a trip down memory lane and look at the Apple QuickTake 100. Next, we'll expose the media's false claims about a particular technology and why they owe an apology to the public.
After that we'll read some of the emails we received from our listeners and our own on the segment LETTERS. And finally, what is the best way to dry a wet phone? All this and more on TechTime with Nathan Mumm.
Stay tuned for all this and more, only on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Humm" Technology news of the week for February 18th - 24th, 2024
--- [Now on Today's Show]
--- [Top Stories in Technology]
--- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Reveal]
Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Straight Bourbon (Batch 155a) | 113.08 Proof | 85.00
--- [Letters]
TechTime Staff share this week's informative emails that were received during the week. This includes scams, phishing emails, and all-out mistruths disguised as legitimate emails.
--- [This Week in Technology]
This Week in Technology: February 17, 1994 - Apple QuickTake 100
--- [Marc's Whiskey Mumble]
Marc Gregoire's review of this week's whiskey
--- [Technology Fail of the Week]
This week’s “Technology Fail” comes to us from every Media Outlet that talked about "Hacked Toothbrushes"
--- [Mike's Mesmerizing Moment brought to us by StoriCoffee®]
Question: Why is the President now using TikTok when the Whitehouse wanted to ban this application?
--- [Nathan Nugget]
To use rice or not to use rice on getting that water out of your phone
--- [Pick of the Day Whiskey Review]
Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Straight Bourbon (Batch 155a) | 113.08 Proof | 85.00
Mike: Thumbs Up
Nathan: Thumbs Down
Broadcasting Across the Nation, from the East Coast to the West, keeping you up to date on technology while enjoying a little whiskey on the side, with leading-edge topics, along with special guests to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go, hmmm. Pull up a seat, raise a glass with our hosts as we spend the next hour talking about technology for the common person. Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum.
Nathan Mumm:Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mum, the show that makes you go hmmm. Technology News of the Week the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful information on technology in segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mum, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise. My co-host here, Microday, is in studio and is the award-winning author and as our human behavior expert regarding technology and how to interact with humans. We are live streaming.
Mike Gorday:We are live streaming the award-winning author.
Nathan Mumm:The award-winning author. We live streamed during our show on five of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitchtv X, facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradiocom and become a Patreon supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash Tech Time Radio. Now we're all friends from different backgrounds and we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have Odie in house as our producer, behind the control panel, making sure everything is smoothly and operated, and we welcome everyone. Now let's start today's show.
Speaker 1:Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Today on Tech Time with Nathan Mum, we're going to talk about the latest and greatest in technology. First, we're going to discuss some controversies surrounding TikTok. We're going to talk about the makers of Tinder and Hinge and the lockpick Cyber Criminal Gang, the God Arrest. We're going to be talking about that. Then we take a trip down memory lane. We talk about the Apple Quick Take 100. Then we expose some media's false claims, particularly about technology that essentially went global, and these media outlets owe an apology to the public. After that, we revisit the classic rivalry between Mario and Donkey Kong and see how Nintendo is bringing it back in an all new game. Plus, we'll read some of the emails that we received from our listeners and our own individuals at the company in segments that we like to call letters. And finally, the best way to dry a wet phone. Do you know what it is? What's the best way to draw to dry a wet phone? Your phone gets stuck.
Nathan Mumm:Well, really that.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, you keep that thought and we're going to talk about what the proper right way is Well, just talk about it. You may have got it right, you may have got it wrong, but we're going to talk about that on our Nathan Nugget. And of course we have Mike's mesmerizing moment Our technology failed the week and the Nathan Nugget. And of course, our pick of the day whiskey tasting, to see if our selected whiskey pick gets zero, one or two thumbs up by the end of the show. But now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology.
Speaker 1:Here are our top technology stories of the week.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Story number one the European Union opens formal probe into TikTok under the Digital Service Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concerns, just as the same time as our president gives in to bite dance for the election. Let's go to David Larson with more on the story.
Speaker 2:The European Union is taking a look at TikTok for addictive behaviors. The EU says it's worried TikToks UX may stimulate behavioral addictions and or create so-called rabbit hole effects. The commission is also concerned that mitigation measures TikTok has put in place to protect kids from accessing inappropriate content, namely age verification tools, may not be reasonable, proportionate and effective. But that is not all on the TikTok front, as President Biden has previously expressed security concerns regarding whether bite dance, tiktok's parent company, could share user data with China's authoritarian government. Biden has just recently joined TikTok, so does he no longer have any concerns? I am sure this news will make your listeners go, hmm.
Nathan Mumm:All right. So TikTok is just butt man. They are front and focus. Forget you last year at this time we're talking about Elon Musk and X. Now it's bite dance, which is the parent company of TikTok. It's TikTok. So the first thing that's happening is, essentially, we are having a group in the European Union that have all come together, different countries that are taking a look at the Child Privacy Acts, the age verification process. This is the same thing that we had to talk about two years ago with Facebook and with Instagram and with all those services.
Mike Gorday:So now TikTok is up to bat. I feel like this is a little too late, too little too late.
Nathan Mumm:So here's the problem is that TikTok's became very, very popular. It is almost the number one social media. It's like 0.1 percent, 0.2 percent behind Facebook and Instagram conglomerate together the meta team to actually take over as the number one social media platform out there. So now, of course, a year ago it was pretty small. We don't care about it. So now we're having all this regulations come on in. For verification, the European Union wants to go as far as to have a picture of your parents that gets verified through a safe process and then having you video on your phone to make sure you approve of the age appropriate stuff for your children.
Mike Gorday:I guess that's not a bad idea for a solution, but the fact that they're even asking the question if it's addictive and dangerous to children, it's kind of stupid.
Nathan Mumm:Why is that?
Mike Gorday:Because we all know it already is.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, yeah, but you know what? They weren't big enough in players in the space when this came out a year and a half ago, when Facebook had to deal with it. So now, all of a sudden, when you move up the needle between being the third and fourth most popular app to the number one or number two app, guess what?
Mike Gorday:you have all eyes on you. There's a scorecard for each of these companies, and if they don't make the scorecard, they're not addictive enough.
Nathan Mumm:I guess that would. It is so now. So I guess TikTok has not changed how they use their services from the time that I've been on it to where it is now. Per se, it was as addictive when I first started using it two and a half three years ago. Are you a TikTok addict? I like TikTok a lot. I would say I'm as close as an addict as it could be. You scroll, don't you?
Mike Gorday:I do you fall down that rabbit hole that they were talking about?
Nathan Mumm:Now it's interesting, though let's go back and do a little bit of a rewind here. Okay, in 2022, the president signed a law that banned TikTok from federal government devices, with the officials later citing an ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting America's people's security, privacy and information. Now, all of a sudden, president Biden has decided to join TikTok. Last week he got on. He has his own TikTok account, which is called Biden HQ. So you can just go to TikTok right now and look at Biden HQ and, essentially, nine months out from the election, all of a sudden now he's saying that it's safe. Now Biden did say in February of 2023 I know I don't have it on my phone, so he didn't have TikTok on his phone and the White House spokesman, john Kirby, faced questions on Monday about whether the administration stands regarding TikTok and essentially he says that it is still not allowed on government devices and the policy remains the same. So does that mean President Biden's got a phone that's not a government issued phone, that he's deciding to take a look at TikTok on?
Mike Gorday:Well, I don't know, because I don't know President Biden. So I don't know what he's up to.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, well, why have all of a sudden? All of a sudden we have this event that was so important that we had to block TikTok from.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, this is where. This is where ethics come in conflict with politics. Okay you know, we're probably going to talk about that later. Well, we are going to talk about that.
Nathan Mumm:So I will just say this I have always, since I've been on the show regarding TikTok, I've been a supporter of TikTok because I say I know you love.
Mike Gorday:TikTok, there's no difference. Nobody, nobody that says anything bad about. Tiktok is not going to be unheard from you Okay.
Nathan Mumm:Well, nick Espinosa hates. Tiktok but so we're on two different sides of that, but what my take has always been is that TikTok gets the same information that you give Facebook, that you give Instagram, that you give any of these other social media platforms, and the nice thing about it is at least they don't sell it to the government, whereas Facebook and Meta specifically sells their information directly to the United States government.
Mike Gorday:They're not selling it to the American government.
Nathan Mumm:They're selling it directly to the United States government. Meta is.
Mike Gorday:No, not Meta, we're talking about TikTok.
Nathan Mumm:Tiktok does not no.
Mike Gorday:No, they sell it to the Chinese government.
Nathan Mumm:Well, I don't even know if they sell it to anybody. I'm sure they sell it to somebody. They probably just give it to them for free, but that's okay. All right, okay.
Mike Gorday:Are you?
Nathan Mumm:finished. Oh, today's episode is. This show is going to be great today, so, okay, I got lots of pent up energy for this show, so we're going to go at it Did you get your requisite to monster drinks in before you got here. Well, I had one today. I'm cutting back All right. Story number two Mike.
Mike Gorday:Okay, yeah, I got this, probably because of why, what's that we're talking about dating? Well, because you're the only one that is dating.
Nathan Mumm:I'm the only one right I'm the only one that, yeah, the dates.
Mike Gorday:I don't know what these I had to do notes back in the olden days when I did it Well, again Talking about addictive qualities for the social medias. The maker of Tinder and hinge are being sued over the same things Addictive qualities that are putting profits over love.
Mike Gorday:Okay, all right, explain more. Match group, which owns the dating apps, including Tinder and hinge, was sued on Wednesday and they sued, claiming the apps are designed to hook users so the companies can make more profit, rather than helping people find romantic partners. The popular dating apps Tinder, hinge and the league hook users with the promise of seemingly endless romantic matches in order to push people to pay money to continue their compulsive behavior. Okay, and I've talked about this before, I've talked about this several times about how, specifically, dating apps, the swiping apps, make you swipe more and more and more.
Mike Gorday:They encourage this behavior. The question of the lawsuit poses is does match group have to disclose the potentially addictive quality of such commonplace design features and have the company's lack of warnings constituted a violation of consumer protection laws? The suit, which is brought by six plaintiffs in states including New York, California and Florida, argues that dating apps parent company, match group, gamifies the service to transform users into gamblers locked in asserts for psychological wars that match makes elusive on purpose.
Speaker 1:And I agree with that, I agree with that.
Mike Gorday:Most of these apps because you know I have used them. They will do things like hey, this person has a message and in order to access that message you have to pay for the service. Or you know, hey, we've got a great match for you. Pay this amount to see who it is and how many people don't?
Nathan Mumm:I mean, if you're looking for love and all of a sudden you get pinged, if you pay 11 bucks more, you may find the love of your life Probably psychology based. You're thinking 11 bucks is worth it, right?
Mike Gorday:Yeah, I think so. I think they can justify it, but it's taking advantage of several pieces of your psychology, which is, you know, the need to be with somebody, which is the high motivation for this is that people are trying to find that romance, and we live in a world, in our country anyway of everything, is there for you, no matter what. You don't have to earn it, you don't have to work for it, you don't have to do much to get it. Just pay money and I'll give you a supplement that will, you know, give you rapid weight loss, will help you quit smoking, and then we'll also get you the date of your dreams. Okay, yep.
Mike Gorday:Anyway, the suit references a 2020 study on ghosting and bread crumbing, terms which are used to describe a dating app match who suddenly disappears or gives only intermittent attention. These are also bots. Do this too. While Hinge's advertising slogan boasts that it is designed to be deleted, the lawsuit claims match groups dating apps are really designed to turn users into addicts who do not find true love and instead keep purchasing subscriptions and other paid perks to keep the publicly traded company in the red. And I think, if you're using dating apps, you probably should know this anyway. A dating app is not for you, it's for the company. The company is generating profits off of you and if they're going to immediately be able to find your date or the one, how much money they got to make off of you.
Nathan Mumm:You're probably going to keep on paying whatever you need to right.
Mike Gorday:Not a lot. If you get what you need right off the bat, you're not going to be on it.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, so Hinge is supposed to be this app where their tagline is what is it? It's designed to be deleted.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, they have this whole idea. There's this whole campaign that says you use our app to find this person. Of course, everybody has their protected plan for how they get there, but you're supposed to be able to find your match fairly quickly. And I've used Hinge and it doesn't do that. It tries to snake you into paying money, which is what Tinder does, which is what Bumble does, which is what this other thing, the league, does, which I don't even know.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, matchcom Score you didn't sign up for the score app. Absolutely not Okay. We talked about that last week.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, that is one of the more ridiculous ones, and I'm not sure that's going to be a very good success, okay, so yeah, that's story number two.
Nathan Mumm:All right, story number three UK leads disruption of a major cyber crime gang. Let's go to Karen Westland for more on the story.
Speaker 7:The UK has led an operation to disrupt what is thought to be the world's largest criminal ransomware group. The National Crime Agency, nca, has infiltrated systems belonging to LockBit and stolen its data. The organization is believed to be based in Russia and, by volume, be the most prolific ransomware group selling services to other criminals. On Monday evening, a message appeared on LockBit's website saying it was now under control of law enforcement. The operation is being billed as one of the most significant disruptions of the cyber criminal world. The FBI, europol and other countries have also been involved in the long running operation, but it is the first of its kind to be led by the UK.
Nathan Mumm:All right, so let's talk about LockBit. We've talked about LockBit a lot on this show, so LockBit is essentially what criminals use to hack into computers. They're an organization that provides ransomware as a service. So as a consumer or as a business, I could hire LockBit to actually go on and steal data, threaten to release it unless a ransom is paid. Now the group emerged in 2019 and established itself as the biggest dominant player in the cyberspace. They own the dark web of everything for services.
Mike Gorday:LockBit essentially uses their customers as referral sources.
Nathan Mumm:Well they do. Now. The operation has been underway for quite some time. It came out more public data essentially on Monday evening. Now it's interesting, though LockBit not only shut down the sites, but they've also taken all of the hardware, software and data used and, essentially, have sent a message out to everybody Everybody that has ever used their services with a simple title that said we may be in touch with you very soon. So, essentially, people that have used this service are now on a list.
Mike Gorday:So the hackers got hacked.
Nathan Mumm:So the hackers got hacked their hardware and software and everything was taken in. They have done forensics and information to get the customer lists that use this LockBit service, so this takedown is considered to be in the cyber criminal area. The dark web, like 60% of their main onion sites, which is what the dark web used are essentially blacked out.
Nathan Mumm:So, they're no longer up. Right now they're all down. So all these little smaller cyber groups are trying to jump on and say well, we have this and we have this person that used to work there and this person that used to work there, but they have detained the hardware, the people that used it, and the customer database Is this freaking everybody out.
Mike Gorday:Oh it is Surf the dark web.
Nathan Mumm:Oh well, if you do something illegal, you should be very concerned at this time because you will be on a list and I bet you that this list is going to be gone through with both FBI and many other individuals to make sure that they can go to the companies and other groups that we're hiring for this service to take care of them. Now the question is is this exposure going to disrupt everything or is it going to return quickly? That's kind of what we're going to take a look at over the next probably month and see if a bunch of other cyber gangs pop up with some of those expertise or if this they were the main. This is like McDonald's in the burger joint type of deal they're the main guy. If this is hurt, this may shut down some of those cyber crime processes that have been in place.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, that's not really going to happen. Nature abhors a vacuum, so you're going to see a lot of people vying for that spot now using different probably different ways of doing it.
Nathan Mumm:But if you're a business and you were doing this and now you're on a list, are you going to be putting your business back out there again and putting?
Mike Gorday:your information back out there again. How hard is it to create a new business under new names and different?
Nathan Mumm:Well, you transferred, so you would have had to transfer in the dark web space.
Mike Gorday:Everybody has to be prosecuted first. Yeah, there's going to be a list.
Nathan Mumm:There's going to be a list of these people and they're just going to start boarding into businesses and taking machines and other people.
Mike Gorday:This is just bad news, for if you've used LockBit because they finally got what they're comeuppance right. This has nothing to do with anybody else out there who's doing the same thing, so I'm guessing that they're going to have this big competition to see who fills that hole in the hacking world, and the disruption that we're going to be seeing is not going to be this devastating. We can't do this anymore. I've learned my lesson, type of thing.
Nathan Mumm:Yes.
Marc Gregoire:So, I'll just tell you Do you really learn your lesson Um.
Nathan Mumm:I will tell you that this is going to be big.
Mike Gorday:And.
Nathan Mumm:I have had people there's some people popping in right now on to YouTube, so we want to thank SA Bean our puff that's on there asking a bunch of questions. I can tell you that I have never used a hacking service so I have zero concerns. It was kind of like that list when it came on out of the Ashley Madison hack and everything like that and everybody's names were on that that they shouldn't have been on those types of things.
Mike Gorday:I understand.
Nathan Mumm:The Madison still works.
Mike Gorday:It's still up and going.
Nathan Mumm:Oh yes, so clearly. It didn't stop anybody, they just went back to it. I'll tell you this everything is tracked. If you think you can get away with doing anything, this is not the 70s and 80s, where you could be like this cool criminal and there wasn't cameras on A, every corner. There wasn't B tracking of everything that you do. So understand, be a good citizen and don't do anything that would get you in trouble, otherwise you will be found out.
Mike Gorday:That's kind of.
Nathan Mumm:All right, papa, that's my daddy.
Mike Gorday:There you go, got the lecture from dad.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Well, that ends our technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have our letters segment up next, with a few listeners submitted letters and, of course, our own Buckle up Tech Enthusiasts, as we're going to drive this show 88 miles per hour into the next segment. See you after the commercial break.
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Nathan Mumm:Well, welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Our show covers weekly technology subjects without any political agenda. We verify the facts and we do it with a sense of humor in less than 60 minutes and, of course, with a little whiskey on our side. Today, mark Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur, joins us again in studio.
Mike Gorday:Mark and verify that we are drinking whiskey.
Marc Gregoire:That is. This is whiskey, and it is on the side. That's right, it is on the side. Well, today, what we are sipping on is smoke wagon uncut, unfiltered straight bourbon, and this is batch 155A. Now, from Smoke Wagon's website, they say we took the same vintage blending philosophy that we used to create small batch, except this time the goal is to create high-proof bourbon that tasted its best. Neat Uncut is so rich and sweet, with an unbelievable thick mouthfeel. The heat and the right spice finish are an welcome addition. It's like milk and cookies. They must been listening to Tech Time and Nathan's little things.
Mike Gorday:They were like do your thing. I don't think he's used to cookies yet.
Nathan Mumm:I have not done milk and cookies yet.
Mike Gorday:That's good, because that would be cliche.
Nathan Mumm:That would be right around Christmas time. That's a little Santa type of thing.
Marc Gregoire:Let me tell you a little bit about the bottle here it looks like a wine bottle. The company that produces this is Nevada H&C Distilling Company. It's age and bottled in Las Vegas but distilled by MGP in Lawrenceburg, indiana. Made bourbon, non-age stated 113.08 proof. It is 60% corn, 36% rye, 4-multed barley and it is currently MSRP at $85.
Nathan Mumm:$85. So what's your first initial? You liking this. Oh yeah, this is good. You like this Wow.
Mike Gorday:I just took a nice long sip. I wasn't even paying attention. It really was what we had First time you tasted this, nathan.
Marc Gregoire:You weren't crazy about it, but I didn't know about it. Every day is different.
Nathan Mumm:It tastes a little too smoky for me and I love smoke because I have barbecue outside. I love that smell of barbecue. This is really, really, really smoky. Do you taste like the char from the?
Mike Gorday:I can taste the char, but it's good for me Okay, I'm kind of on the fence.
Nathan Mumm:I'm not too excited about it.
Marc Gregoire:Well, if any of our listeners out there are on the fence about liking and subscribing, please do. In addition, please comment and let us know your favorite whiskey or what kind of whiskey you would like to see on the show, and we'll see about reviewing it.
Nathan Mumm:Perfect. You know what the one thing nice about whiskey is? We got probably another 10 years with the current whiskey market. This out there Everybody creates whiskey. Thank goodness we didn't do gin or vodka or something I need to start creating whiskey. Was that I need to start creating whiskey.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, there you go, all right. Well, with our first whiskey tasting complete, let's move on to our future segment. Today we're bringing back the funny yet informative reading of emails that I received during the week. This includes scam, phishing emails and all out mistruth disguised as legitimate emails in the segment we call Letters. Letters, we get letters, we get tax and tax on letters, all letters, we get letters and the letters all have All right. So each of us have two letters. Hopefully we'll get through two. We're going to be quick. We've got to be a little bit more precise.
Marc Gregoire:We're going to be quick, we're going to be quick.
Nathan Mumm:We're going to be quick. We're going to be quick. We're going to be quick. We're going to be quick. We're going to be quick. We're going to be a little bit quicker on the feedback that I've gotten regarding the letters. Nathan talks too long, but I'm going to start it out here with the subject order for ECH time radio. So someone's decided to send this to one of our staff members. This is not ours. This is a staff member. It says hi, blank person. I work for Relay and emailed you a while back. I want to check to see if you have any interest in our promotional items, specifically 140 ounce stainless steel tumblers for $17.95 each. 220 ounce tumblers for $8.95 each. All these are kitchen grade. Blah, blah, blah, blah. We're a direct importer. Please reach out to us. Craig Nelson at Egon Industrial World Egon, Egon, Egon I know my ghostbuster name, so Egon.
Nathan Mumm:Phone number and click on this link to stop further emails. Now, craig Nelson does not work at this company, so it's nwjonescom. So whenever you've got an email, that's a little bit creative like NW Jones probably not the same deal. We almost had one of our staff members click on this email.
Mike Gorday:I think it's interesting that a kitchenware company is asking you to buy kitchens.
Nathan Mumm:So let me just tell you I hate these tumblers. My wife's got like 80,000 of these tumblers. It's got stainless steel those tumblers. Well, I don't know of any tumbler. I got silver ones, I got blue ones, I got green ones. They don't fit in the freaking car holder. She comes on in and she just shoves that sucker in. It doesn't fit in the car. I think too much water.
Mike Gorday:I would never buy the tumblers man, you got a lot of hang-up. Okay, there you go.
Nathan Mumm:So you tried to get us with our order for time radio and you forgot the tea.
Marc Gregoire:There you go, next All right, All right.
Nathan Mumm:it's to you now.
Mike Gorday:Oh well, I'm going to do the simple one first. This comes from Peacock. No reply at peacocckcom. Is that Peacook, Peacookcom?
Nathan Mumm:So what did they do there? They changed one letter on the domain. That's right.
Mike Gorday:There's one letter different on the domain. So, this is for a stream. Smarter, not pricier. $2 a year offer inside. Oh, so that's what they do for Peacock Limited offer $2 per year. It's got the Peacock logo. Dear Peacock customer, you've been randomly selected. Save 95% on a yearly subscription. Cancel anytime. Claim offer button.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Mike Gorday:And then, after signing up, you will have to insert your credit card details for validation of your account. We will not withdraw any amount. Yeah, they're telling you they're not going to hack you before they hack you.
Nathan Mumm:So again, very, very simple scam. So Peacock is spelled P-E-P-A-C-O-O-C-K, but this one has C-O-O-K, so they took a domain name. They decided to do this. Once you click on the claim offer, it says we'd like to proceed forward. We're going to just verify your address. Clearly, peacock didn't know my address and didn't know anything about my account.
Mike Gorday:So I typed in my credit card. For those of you out here who've never heard letters before, nathan actually goes through all the clicks and links to see what they do, and I would recommend you not do that.
Nathan Mumm:Yes, we don't want anybody listening to do that. That's correct.
Mike Gorday:Because Nathan has a dedicated computer that he runs, that I reformat all the time.
Nathan Mumm:We format Probably three or four times a year. That I do because it gets compromised with malware.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, so do not do that, okay.
Nathan Mumm:All right, mark, we're going over to you next. All right, we'll keep on yours.
Marc Gregoire:Wow, I don't know what to say. Okay, because I'm used to whiskey, you're what? What does that mean?
Nathan Mumm:It's not about whiskey.
Marc Gregoire:It's about technology.
Nathan Mumm:You know technically, come on your technology guy. You're the force wall of whiskey.
Mike Gorday:Is that what he was doing, I think. I think it should be the fourth tumbler of whiskey.
Marc Gregoire:Well, talking about tumblers. That's kind of what my email is about. Okay, you want to get your Starbucks Stanley Cup.
Mike Gorday:Okay, here.
Marc Gregoire:That's huge. It is now. This is a pretty easy one. It's sent. It says the title of Starbucks Thank you, get your Starbucks card, but the email address is a crazy long Email address that makes no sense. So that in itself should tell you. Number two if you want to get a Stanley Cup, buy it directly from Starbucks. Don't go off some spam email. And number three if you want lead poisoning, stay away.
Mike Gorday:Oh, Okay that was a really interesting as an earn of events I like more other game.
Marc Gregoire:They're getting research in New York about lead poisoning Stanley Cups.
Mike Gorday:Oh yeah you know, wow, you know, okay, that one takes, that one takes advantage of the scarcity Com.
Nathan Mumm:So clearly Stanley Cups and these tumblers are a hot item because all the spam stuff.
Mike Gorday:Well, I'm out about these. Have you heard about the Stanley Cups?
Nathan Mumm:Yes, like they like they did a Saturday. I like joke on that where they had like the big cup and yeah, it was like just this, one of these weird cabbage patch moments. Yeah, yeah and then everybody's gonna have these in garage sales in the next three years and they're not gonna be able to get rid of them. And what?
Speaker 2:okay, so this is this. Is that you ever remember?
Nathan Mumm:the 7-eleven Super Gulp.
Mike Gorday:Absolutely so.
Marc Gregoire:This is a sexy remember it's a gone away Well.
Nathan Mumm:I do think they I think they're smaller now because they're more Conscious about giving you all that sugar in a certain Super Gulp was like it was like a 42 ounce deal that you'd stick in 64 ounce.
Mike Gorday:64 ounces, the biggest, four ounce.
Nathan Mumm:Yep, all right, my next one. This was sent to Nathan. I'm at hotmail from QIL be kebab. Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah at blah, blah, blah blah something. Dot gmail Dot com that's, that's a hi there. I regret to inform you that I have some sad news for you. Approximately a month or two ago so he doesn't really know, but approximately a month or two ago I successfully gained total access to all your devices utilizing for browsing the internet. Moving forward, I started observing your internet activities on a continuous basis.
Nathan Mumm:Oh go ahead and take a look at the sequence of events provided for your reference. Initially, I brought I bought an exclusive access from hackers for a long list of email accounts in today's roles that's really common thing to do which can be arranged via the internet. Thanks, thanks for telling me all that information.
Mike Gorday:So that was really good.
Nathan Mumm:Tell you, what he hacked evidently, it wasn't hard for me to Process with logging in your email account at Nathan mom at hotmailcom. Within the same week, I moved from installing a Trojan virus in the operating system for all your devices that you use to log into email. Frankly speaking, I wasn't very challenged at all. Because of the Trojan, I was able to gain access to entire set of controllers and devices your video Camera, keyboard, microphone and others. As a result, I've downloaded all your data, as well as photos, web browsing histories and other type of data From your servers. That's scary, man. I more over it. I keeps on going, on and on and on. Essentially, what he's doing is I've been able to produce a video exposing you doing inappropriate things. I won't say those words. I don't think those words are allowed to be read on the on the air, but essentially, I need scenes that were compromised.
Nathan Mumm:So, he's going through here and essentially saying that he's caught me. Look, look, how big this email is. So, first of all, this email is a book and a half. This is just the email, so he goes through in great details of describing how he did, how he got my accent. Look how big that is this.
Marc Gregoire:This is one of my favorite all-time ones.
Nathan Mumm:And you know what it scares people with that if you're doing something bad, you get a wake-up call because all of a sudden you're worried that you've been exposed.
Mike Gorday:This is the guilt. This is, this is a guilt principle. Okay, all right, because we all do things in front of our computers when we're alone that we may not want somebody looking at. So when somebody accuses us of something, we automatically start feeling that guilt.
Marc Gregoire:Okay, but this, this, this one is fun because Nathan's worked at quite a few companies and the C-Mails been around quite a long time, yep, and when it comes around, everybody in the company gets it. Most people ignore it, but it seems all the executives call down to it in a frantic. Frantic. Is that amazing?
Nathan Mumm:it is. That's what happens. All the execs. Hey, did this really happen? So first off, is I always now I answer it. Why is there anything you?
Mike Gorday:should be concerned about. Well, he's really, he's really trying to get.
Nathan Mumm:I always kind of like do that, is there anything you should be concerned about? And then I'm like no, it's just a spam, they don't have any videos. If you're doing anything, if you were doing something inappropriate in front of your computer, probably not best to do that and in this should be a wake-up call to yourself to not do that type of Lurro blackmail.
Mike Gorday:Fine and dandy, but have you seen the black mirror episode that pertains to this? I'd have yes okay, you know, you can only trust so much well, just so again.
Nathan Mumm:How did I start out my dad lecture today? Don't do anything on the internet or anything on your computer. That you don't want to get tracked if you download. The biggest myth is the incognito mode. Right, I have people call me up. Incognito mode does not mean that it's not tracking your internet, you're still going through Comcast or whatever service provider, and they're tracking what you're doing this is literally, this is literally a blackmail letter.
Mike Gorday:Yep, yeah, this is. I mean this.
Nathan Mumm:There's no, and then it gives you a place you can pay for it on the cryptocurrency.
Marc Gregoire:Do not. It's a blackmail bluff, though that's even better it is because, because if you don't think you know worry about it.
Mike Gorday:It is, but the way it comes across $1,300 he wants very it's very likely that somebody has done what this is people send that money to him. Yeah.
Marc Gregoire:I imagine they do.
Mike Gorday:they do all right, you're up next I Want to talk about that one more, that one's fun.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Mike Gorday:Oh, now we're gonna move on to info. Equals social sales link comm at.
Nathan Mumm:Who knows what address knows what.
Mike Gorday:On behalf of Brent Tillman okay. Be our guest. I hope you gave me this idea for this.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's on purpose, I did yes.
Mike Gorday:Yes, the coaching, because you know how I feel about coaching. How do you feel about life coaches? Okay, keep on going. February 15th, thursday, one o'clock pm, eastern time, you were invited to attend the live Group coaching session, where like-minded professionals come to ask their LinkedIn and social selling questions, get insights from the SSL team and community and learn strategies and tactics to grow their business.
Nathan Mumm:Register. So SSL has nothing to do with anything on here. All right, so that's actually a legitimate coaching business, but that's not where it came from. So if you actually take a look at like the SSL coaching, page It'll actually look like it's a coaching page, but that email is completely off.
Nathan Mumm:And when it happens, when you go to register, it's amazing. That's a free registration but they want to take a credit card just to validate You're gonna be attending if you attend the event. I've never seen this before if you attend the event, you get your money back, but if you don't attend the event because it's all this great coaching, they're gonna keep the money that you have how much money are they gonna keep?
Nathan Mumm:I did not look at how much money that I had, but I had never seen before when they promise to give it back to you if you attend, but they're gonna take it first from you until you attend.
Mike Gorday:So this has a number of things that are involved. So you have your registration and you have it looks like class using gorilla publicity to increase prospects, clients and profits. Yeah, which is Looks like a class register. Yeah and then there's an interview with somebody.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah.
Mike Gorday:An e-book of the week how to grow. Following of your LinkedIn page so you can download.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, so you can actually download that are these?
Mike Gorday:are these at? Is this, so that link went to the SIL page to do it so.
Nathan Mumm:So what they did is they had links that went to an, a coaching page that actually had the same information, but what they wanted to do is they wanted to grab your credit card when you registered, which was not a part of their page for this company. So if I go to that company's webpage and sign up, they don't have any classes available during this time. So they were using a fake time, a fake class, but everybody else's information with links but the free grab me stuff was yeah, they were legitimate Books.
Nathan Mumm:Of what they talked about, that was that's pretty, that's pretty good pretty subtle.
Marc Gregoire:All right last one here, mark. All right, I like this one because this one came into your work, but I get this one at least once a week the same type of email. Okay, so it says pretends it's coming from your own voice network PBX system or your own voicemail system, but of course, if you look at the actual email address, it's some crazy email from Japan, yep. And it says you have an email message 54 seconds. Please listen here. Of course, the attachment technically is not a voice recording, so it's not an MP3 or MP4, any other kind of AVI, any kind of other voice recording. It's actually an HTML file that then clicks you onto a link that then it's got a big picture so he takes you on the internet.
Nathan Mumm:It's got a big picture of a speaker that makes it look like you're gonna click on it and when you click on the speaker it says do you want to allow access to listen to this file? And then, if you hit, apply. Essentially what you're gonna do is you're gonna give them access and that will essentially install malware. That is a full threat Malware detection process. If you click on that and try to play that media file, that's hosted on a website and is not a media file.
Mike Gorday:It's on the what's on the what's on the media file at all nothing.
Nathan Mumm:There's just a link to a web page.
Mike Gorday:So as soon as you hit apply on the little speaker page.
Nathan Mumm:It says it needs to access your computer to download stuff and you said yes. I did not say yes because I already knew that it was a full-fledged service. It came on up and was tracked in three of my different virus. Checking the system solutions.
Mike Gorday:So they were freaking out.
Marc Gregoire:Yep. So the tips on this? One is no matter what this, what where it says it's from, always look at the specific email address. And Number two don't quickly click on anything.
Mike Gorday:Take a look at it, verify what it is what kind of the best thing to do is to take five. Whatever you get is to take five and think about it. I mean, all these almost all of these are Are trying to activate your limbic system. Okay, they're trying to. They're trying to get you to do something, either without thinking, or because you're afraid of something, or quickly. That's exactly why they're trying to bypass your critical thinking, so that you just do it, and that's how they're successful.
Nathan Mumm:Except for the guy that wants to meet a, send him 1300. Well, you know, you know you've been looking at, you've been looking at stuff and for ever.
Speaker 7:That's like a book and a half.
Mike Gorday:I think it's funny that the way they said it was like you were looking at nasty stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, that's what it says.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, yeah so that's right. Well, that ends our letter segment. Up next we have this week in technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we're gonna be doing so during our break. You're listening to tech time radio with Nathan mum. See you in a few minutes.
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Speaker 1:And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm:All right, we're gonna go all the way back to February 17th 1994, the Apple Quick Take 100. Now Apple launched the Quick Take 100 digital camera, one of the very first digital cameras aimed at the consumer market. Unfortunately for Apple, it was the colossal failure at the time. They did not execute the marketing of this advice very well, allowing other companies to take the lead in the digital camera market. Apple was out of the digital camera market in 1997 with few people even knowing they had created a digital camera.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, I had no idea.
Nathan Mumm:You had no idea until until I just talked about that right there.
Mike Gorday:Is that you found it? Yeah, we found it. I had no idea they did that.
Nathan Mumm:You know what I did not either so clearly. So Apple has had a couple big misses.
Mike Gorday:Well, now they don't do it as much as they could be in trouble with the new vision. Pro Was this in the time frame when Steve Jobs was not. That is correct. Yes where they were just so they're it's pumping all over the place.
Nathan Mumm:They were. They were just stumbling at the time and digital camera markets Mavica was like a big digital camera company that came on out of time. Kodak actually did a pretty good job of kind of switching to that. And then, of course, you have your DSL cameras, canon and all these other devices.
Nathan Mumm:Samsung, samsung that came on out with both consumers and high-end pro consumers that were available on the market at that time. Well, that was this week in technology. Have you ever wanted to watch some tech time history? We're over 180 weekly broadcasts spanning four plus years video, podcast and blog information. You can visit techtime radio comm to watch our older shows or join the tech timer Facebook group to talk with us live all the time. We're gonna take a commercial break, but when we return we have our mark mumble whiskey review. We'll see you after the break.
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Speaker 1:The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's whiskey mumble.
Marc Gregoire:Hello, I'm back again. All right, mark, what do?
Mike Gorday:we got here.
Marc Gregoire:We have a great day today. What is today? Both you guys should know what today is for different reasons.
Nathan Mumm:February 20th it must be good-looking guys day.
Marc Gregoire:No, not today, Not today oh okay, you're delusional.
Mike Gorday:What? What is today?
Marc Gregoire:today is national handcuff day.
Nathan Mumm:Oh, handcuff day.
Mike Gorday:Okay, I'm not sure I like that inference there.
Marc Gregoire:Well, you weren't with law enforcement Mike.
Mike Gorday:Okay, okay, okay, we'll leave it at that. We don't need to describe Nathan.
Marc Gregoire:So on this very day, george Carney was given a patent number in the US for his lightweight and adjustable swinging bow ratchet type handcuffs. The handcuffs were developed in 1912 and had a design that was more comfortable than the previous handcuffs that were developed. These handcuffs are now used when arresting criminals or when the need to detain someone arises. Hmm, this is a tribute to great American inventors that have changed the life as we know it.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, it's handcuff day, okay, All right Now, as we move from handcuffs.
Marc Gregoire:To Las Vegas. Yep where they use handcuffs in multiple ways there. Yeah, keep this PG 13. Anyways, our Las Vegas bourbon is from smoke wagon, uncut, unfiltered, straight bourbon batch 155a. Source from MGP in Indiana. The company ages or whiskey in the Nevada desert and Leans on custom blending to differentiate their whiskey from other MGP sources, because MG is the the biggest Market out there for whiskey.
Marc Gregoire:Okay, that resells it. The company started their release of this in 2017 and quickly grew in popularity, both their small batch and uncut filtered releases. Both come with a stamped Wax seal of two cross guns and the phrase see, if I remember my Latin be bombless More a dumb est. Do you know tating Drink for we must die? Oh, or, according to the company, they've updated it to drink and enjoy today, because we won't be around forever.
Nathan Mumm:Oh, I like that, all right.
Marc Gregoire:Now, what does Mark think about this?
Nathan Mumm:Yes, I'm sure.
Marc Gregoire:I'm sure our viewers are wondering what I'm thinking about the bourbon?
Mike Gorday:No, they're still thinking about handcuffs. No, we've all moved on.
Speaker 7:I.
Marc Gregoire:Well, I will probably pass on further bottles of this. Is it bad?
Marc Gregoire:No is it worth the cost? Probably not. Early batches were wonderful and inexpensive. There were, you know. Since then the bourbon's been creeping up in cost. So back then I got it for about in between 50 to 60, it's up to about 85 now and the juice back then was much older and it's getting much younger and greenier. So if young and grainy is your jam great, a lot of people like that. A lot of the craft whiskies are young and has that green forward flavor, then this is perfect for you. Little expensive, but not my jam. Otherwise there's plenty of other MGP products out there to choose from for me All right, I think Mike liked it.
Nathan Mumm:I'm still struggling with it a bit. Mike likes the young whiskies.
Speaker 2:The grain forward.
Nathan Mumm:Yep, there you go. All right, well, whisking technology. What a great pairing.
Speaker 2:Just like the pairing of tick time and privacy concerns.
Mike Gorday:Oh, let's go to our technology fail of the week.
Nathan Mumm:now, yeah, you're really reaching. We are out of time. Congratulations, you're a failure.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Marc Gregoire:I failed. Did I yes, did I yes, did I.
Nathan Mumm:Yes, all right. Speaking about this week's technology fail, this comes to us from mainstream media and why you should always verify your facts with tech time radio and not the mainstream media or other technology shows. According to a recent report, we have this three million smart toothbrushes that were infected by hackers and enslaved into botnets. The source report said that it had a seasonable army of connected dental cleansing tools that were being used in a DDoS attack on a Swiss company's website. The firm's site collapsed under the strain of the attack, reportedly resulting in the loss of millions of euros for this business.
Mike Gorday:I think that should just be a straight DDS attack.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Well, this was originally reported as a major news outlet story without verifying the facts. Now let's take a look at a few of the headlines that came from CNN, npr, fox News, abc News Routers, bbc, msnbc, nbc News and all of the major news outlets. Every news outlet picked up the story and reported that these hackers are using three million smart toothbrushes to launch a massive cyber attack. Tom's hardware did it, everybody did it. Now this was essentially the quote with three million smart toothbrushes forming a botnet that could control remote. The hackers behind the campaign are seizing access of a Swiss company at the same time. This led to the site crashing and it was unable to be brought back online for several hours afterwards. The site was never down. Fact no site down. No Swiss company had a fact.
Mike Gorday:You mean my smart toothbrush couldn't take down a site.
Nathan Mumm:No fake news all around us on the technology side, from a popular website, from Tom's hardware to other technology shows, including radio shows called Kim Commando. Today, who, kim and her technology, talked about the scary hack and how it was working as a botnet. This toothbrush in question can only sync VI Bluetooth, so it's not even possible to have a botnet, and if you're a technology company or technology shows saying that this happened, you should no longer be on the air.
Nathan Mumm:Fact number one the toothbrush that we're talking about is only Bluetooth. It does not have access to the internet. Not possible to do a botnet attack on Bluetooth. Number two a colleague of mine that I know for 20 plus years reverse engineered every smart toothbrush app available on all the markets, both Android and Apple, to anybody that had over three million downloads. None of them use any internet connection, they only use Bluetooth and one of them use an NFC to gain access on a near field connection.
Nathan Mumm:Now, this is the craziest science fiction idea ever. You're not able to connect and download software to your phone or other devices connected on the network by a Bluetooth command or an NFC command. Final thoughts if you're a security company like, say, fortnite, that essentially said that these details happened, or you're a company reporting the news and you do not verify your facts, you should apologize to the American public and everybody that uses any technology device or toothbrush. Shame on you. To everybody involved here, make sure you listen to TechTime Radio. We did not cover this story because we verify the facts for our technology news.
Mike Gorday:Wow, you're really on the on roll for me, I just have a couple of questions. Why do you need a smart toothbrush that's up to your phone?
Nathan Mumm:All it does is tells you how long you brushed. All the app does is tell you you brushed for two minutes, three minutes, yes, so it tracks it. So if you want to know how long you're brushing it, it has it. All right, let's go.
Mike Gorday:This is a ridiculous use of technology.
Nathan Mumm:It is absolutely, and you know what. There's nothing that you can do for a botnet. All right, how many minutes do we have left? Ok, no, she's just OK.
Mike Gorday:You just got the finger. I did. You just got the finger solution.
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Mike Gorday:We're going to talk about toothbrushes.
Nathan Mumm:No, we talked to you guys. I was going to argue that Probably not that excited. But why is the president now using TikTok, when the White House wanted to ban this application? Mike, explain that to me why.
Mike Gorday:I think this is a catch-22 problem. Ok, he's running for reelection. Now I know in the past he was talking about not running for reelection, that he was just trying to fix something Two or four years Right yeah. So he goes on record in 2022 doing this safety thing with TikTok. Yeah, now he's faced with this overwhelming problem.
Nathan Mumm:Almost the leader in all social media TikTok yeah.
Mike Gorday:This is an overwhelming problem, Because if he's trying to get re-elected- now he has to use it?
Mike Gorday:Yeah, because he's going to reach a significant portion of American voters. Ok. So this is where, like I said earlier, this is where the problem with ethics crossing over with politics becomes problematic. Because now and you have all these awesome spin doctors that are saying, oh well, he's not using it on his work phone, he's not on a federal phone but here you have the leader of the free world two years ago saying this is bad, don't use it, yep, and now he's on it using it, yep. Which that?
Mike Gorday:doesn't really A little bit of a dilemma I'm sorry, joe, but that doesn't look good to the American population. Well, I understand it, because he has to utilize every tool that he has in his bag in order to get his messages out there.
Nathan Mumm:Ok, All right. Well, you know what. Let's go now to our Nathan Nugget. This is your Nugget of the Week, all right? This question I asked at the beginning of the deal. What happens when your iPhone gets wet? What should you do with it?
Mike Gorday:Or your Android device. You throw your iPhone away.
Nathan Mumm:And that's probably the better thing to do, because if you put it in rice it actually causes problems with the little microbes that actually end up going into this phone and will actually harm your phone more than it does if you just let it sit out and dry.
Mike Gorday:Naturally, All right, yep, now let's go Mind it, and do that.
Nathan Mumm:Well, let's go to our pick of the day.
Speaker 1:And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top.
Marc Gregoire:Hey, Mike, your iPhone wasn't it smoke. Also that affected it.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, yeah.
Marc Gregoire:So that's, different.
Mike Gorday:I still have my same one.
Marc Gregoire:And that smoke in the phone is also different than our smoke wagon uncut, unfiltered, straight bourbon, batch 155. It is $113.08, proof and $85. Big thumbs up for me, thumbs up for. Mike, I really like it. I got a thumbs down Split decision. Wow, it's been a while.
Nathan Mumm:I just don't like it. It's just too smoky for me.
Mike Gorday:OK.
Nathan Mumm:All right, we want to thank everybody for listening to our show. You can always check us out at techtimeradiocom. And remember the science to tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week. Bye-bye.
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