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232: Tech Mysteries: Intel's Leadership Shakeup, Retro Gaming Revival, and Stoli Vodka's Cyberattack AI Chip Competition Against NVIDIA Heats Up | Air Date: 12/8 - 12/14/24

• Nathan Mumm • Season 6 • Episode 232

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Ever wondered how a vodka maker could go bankrupt from a cyberattack or why Intel's CEO unexpectedly retired? Tune in to Tech Time Radio where we unravel these mysteries and bring the latest buzz in the tech world straight to your ears. We'll explore the implications of Intel's leadership shakeup amid their struggles with AI chip competition against NVIDIA. Discover the intriguing appointment of a new White House AI and crypto czar, and why this could be a game-changer for the tech industry.

Let curiosity lead the way as we welcome Gwen Way, who unveils a must-have gadget that transports us back to the golden age of gaming with the Boltz Retro Stick. This affordable plug-and-play device promises to revive your nostalgic gaming sessions without the modern hassle of constant updates. We'll also take a lighthearted look at social pressures during the holiday season, reminiscing about simpler times and the tech history of 1987's infamous Christmas tree worm that turned IBM mainframes into festive chaos.

Finally, we'll dissect the latest cyberattack on Stoli Vodka and its ripple effects, not just on finances, but on their bourbon brand, Kentucky Owl, too. Plus, we spotlight Xbox and iFixit's exciting collaboration aimed at promoting sustainability in gaming. And as always, you don't want to miss our whiskey tasting, where we decide if the selection deserves a toast. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast or a retro gaming fan, this episode offers a flavorful mix of insights and entertainment.

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Speaker 1:

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 mmmm. 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 Mumm.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm the show that makes you go hmm. Technology news of the week the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful 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 Mumm, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise. Our co-host, mike Rodea, in studio today, is the award-winning author and is a human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming during our show on four of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitchtv, facebook and LinkedIn. One of these days, we hope Blue Sky will get that streaming service so we can be on there also. We encourage you, though, to visit us online at techtimeradiocom and become a Patreon supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash techtimeradio. We are all friends with different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have Odi, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

Speaker 1:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Today we got Geektastic's show lined up for you. Today we have a new White House AI and crypto czar. What does that mean for tech and regulation? Then Gwen Way joins us for something retro and perfect for that holiday, and it's a blast from the past. Or is it a modern twist? Stay tuned to find out.

Nathan Mumm:

And, in shocking turns of events, a vodka maker has filed for bankruptcy in the US after a ransomware attack. And have you ever heard of an earworm eraser, curious about how it can stop those catchy tunes that just won't quit in your head? We got the scoop on this also, and OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its reasoning model. But the most pressing news that we're going to talk about is Intel's CEO is out. What's next for this tech giant? In addition, of course, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, a possible Nathan nugget and, of course, our pick of the day whiskey tastings to see if our selected whiskey pick gets zero, one or two thumbs up at 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. Intel CEO Pat Gelslinger announces his immediate retirement, marking the end of a challenging era for him. Let's go to Corrine Westland for more on this story.

Speaker 3:

Pat Gelslinginger exits Intel. Intel's announcement that the CEO retired, effective immediately, marks a pivotal moment in the semiconductor giant's history. The decision was surprising yet inevitable, signaling the end of an era that began with Gelsinger's return to the company in 2021. As the company struggles with a challenging market and internal pressures, the question arises can Intel reclaim its edge in a fiercely competitive industry, or has it lost the paranoia that once made it an unstoppable force? Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, let's talk about this, mike. So Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced that he's immediately retiring, marking the end of course's era for him. It's kind of challenging. It's interesting because the real successful CEO, andy Grove, famously declared only the paranoid survive under his leadership at Intel, a mantra that became the company's guiding principle. Intel, a mantra that became the company's guiding principle Under Grove's. Paranoia wasn't about fear, but it was about the consent to vigilantly be the number one innovator in the microprocessing units. Now this mindset propelled Intel from a struggling memory chip maker back in the day to the leader of microprocessors.

Nathan Mumm:

Pat's resignation that happened just this week. Processors Pat's resignation that happened just this week, following his leadership roles at both EMC and VMware, said that it came as an edge and strategic clarity was not able to be met. A seasoned technologist with deep roots in Intel took the daunting task of rejuvenating the company's fortune. To a failure. Now Intel stock has plummeted over 50% this year and the company's fortune to a failure Now. Intel's stock has plummeted over 50% this year and the company suffered a record $17 billion loss last quarter, laying over 15% of its workforce off. This manufacturer's delays misstep AI's far behind the competitors of NVIDIA, which has seized the leadership in AI chips. Intel was removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average a year after the company, once the pinnacle of technology innovation, disappeared. Well, gelsinger inherited significant challenges and an inability to execute at the pace required in today's rapidly changing tech landscape, leading to the ousting Intel, once the apex predator of the semiconductor world, is now scrambling to regain its footing. All right, so what do we think there about Intel?

Mike Gorday:

Well, you know, you pretty much said it. You've used words like apex, predator and these huge things. Everything has a life cycle.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So, does this kind of be like the blockbuster they're? They're kind of at their end.

Mike Gorday:

This is this is the same thing as the beta max and the v but they're the chip manufacturer, intel inside.

Nathan Mumm:

I mean everybody has an intel chip brand recognition doesn't solve everything so what really happened is the ai decided that they were going to do GPU graphics.

Speaker 7:

That's what happened?

Nathan Mumm:

Graphic display chips to do all of their AI stuff, and so now Intel is just kind of holding the bag saying, geez please use us for your AI.

Mike Gorday:

The industry turned, intel didn't figure it out fast enough and now they're suffering the consequences. And while I don't know Gelsingeringer I don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy or whatever but he's obviously, you know, not with intel anymore and they're gonna they're gonna do what they're gonna try and do to get their stockholders money yeah, okay, well, I I.

Nathan Mumm:

We've talked about this a couple months back, where we didn't know if intel is going to be in a great shape. The government's's come on in and suggested that AMD purchases them, so we're just going to have to see what's going to happen over the long haul.

Mike Gorday:

AMD will purchase them after they've lost more stock value.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. Okay, that's right. All right, I think you have story number two, is that right?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we're going to talk about earworms.

Nathan Mumm:

I do not know what an earworm is. What is an earworm?

Mike Gorday:

Well, an earworm is a small snippet of a song that gets stuck in your head and repeats over and over again Okay. So the science says that about 90% of people suffer from earworms.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

And there's a couple of things that may make it worse or better depending on your particular personality and things going on, but have you ever had a song get stuck in your head.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I hate that Christmas song that's going on with Mariah Carey right now.

Mike Gorday:

Apparently, a lot of people hate that.

Nathan Mumm:

Really, all I want for Christmas is you. Not because she's a bad singer, it's it's prime for earworm material okay people start getting irritated all right, so tell me about this technology for earworms well, so everybody has this problem.

Mike Gorday:

Well, 90 of us have this problem and for a certain percentage of that 90, uh, it's very irritating, uh, but don't worry, you know, if you, if you, were having problem with Mariah Carey getting stuck in your head, help is here, okay. What's the help? The help is called the earworm eraser and it's a 40 second audio track on YouTube that you can.

Nathan Mumm:

So hang on here. So so if I get stuck with a song in my head, you're telling me YouTube is here to help me out.

Mike Gorday:

YouTube is here to help you, okay, all right, maybe Intel, I don't know. Okay, well, not Intel. So some scientists have come together, or supposedly scientists have come together, and created a 40 second audio track that is designed specifically to squash those earworms, those annoying earworms. Okay, and what it is is 40 seconds of discordant disjointed music pieces.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

That play and disrupt your brain so that it starts working again. So, essentially, the… so it reprograms your brain a little bit by disrupting it, or is that? Well, so an earworm is this, is this piece of of neurocognitive stuff okay, we'll just call it stuff, all right and several. What happens is because, because of the pitch and because of the tempo and whatever, several pieces of your brain tend to latch onto it, and it's possibly because music is genetically encoded in us. Okay, that makes sense, and so our brains kind of get stuck on this piece of music, and that's what the earworm is. And that's what the earworm is. In fact, earworm is actually from a German word that means musical itch, and then what happens is the earworm eraser is a bunch of this disjoint music, and it's designed so that it scratches out the itch. Okay, so it basically disrupts these brain functions that are stuck and gives it like a little bit of a reset.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, that makes sense.

Mike Gorday:

And you know it's an interesting thing If you, if you so did I just go in.

Nathan Mumm:

I just go and put earworm eraser. Have you watched the video of it? Yeah, it's a. It's a weird video too. The video.

Mike Gorday:

The video is just there.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

It doesn't. It doesn't, it doesn't function as part of it, but it's got like a worm.

Nathan Mumm:

He gets smashed and shot across space and a bunch. So it's not really about the actual video, it's the sounds.

Mike Gorday:

It's the bunch of discordant and disjointed music bits all squashed together that helps restart your brain, and the Earworm Racer has gotten more than 100,000 hits on YouTube since it launched last year.

Nathan Mumm:

All right.

Mike Gorday:

It isn't foolproof.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, nothing is so. It's not like it's going to 100% guarantee to work, but it's going to most likely work.

Mike Gorday:

No but it makes sense if you understand a little bit about cognitive or neuroscience and how your brain maps this out.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, alright.

Mike Gorday:

So Philadelphia based tech worker Laura Etlinger said that the airworm eraser rescued her after she visited her one-year-old niece in Phoenix. Apparently she's the light of her life, but she listens to really annoying kid songs.

Nathan Mumm:

There's a couple of kid songs that I.

Mike Gorday:

There's a couple of kid songs that this one particularly was about Baby Shark. I don't know if you've heard that one.

Nathan Mumm:

Baby Shark, baby Shark. Yeah, I've heard that that is annoying too, okay.

Mike Gorday:

Ettlinger said she took the eraser earworm eraser to Best Baby Shark and it just rounded out and let her be calm and relaxed. And that's how I mean.

Nathan Mumm:

Do Taylor Swift songs count for this too? The what the Taylor Swift songs.

Mike Gorday:

You ever listen to taylor I don't listen to taylor swift.

Speaker 7:

That's pretty repetitive.

Mike Gorday:

I am not, I was never, never going to be accused of being a swifty. Okay, all right, but yeah, there we go. So if you have, if you have annoying mariah carey music in your brain this holiday season, go ahead and get on there and try out the earworm eraser.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, let's go to story number two. Openai is charging now $200 a month. You just did story number two, buddy, or sorry, story number three. Story number three. Story number three OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its O1 reasoning model. Now OpenAI is creating a new, more expensive tier $200 a month.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, well, they're making $20 a month right now for their current fee, right, because I have ChatGPT's OpenAI's standard user client, it's $20. But now what this does is it gives you the ability to have their reasoning model, which will actually come on back and have kind of like that conversation. And are you really thinking about this when you said this model that's available Right now? It's been in beta but it is soon ready to release. After you pay $200 to make it out of beta, then it will become an enterprise or an EDU user's experience starting next week.

Mike Gorday:

All right, who is going to pay first off? Who's going to pay $200 to have a reasoning model on top of a large language?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you know what? I will bet you that probably 30% of their subscribers upgrade to this $200 monthly subscription because it includes unlimited access to GPT-4.0, an advanced voice model, so you already get the current version, but it also includes their more computing power. The best possible answer more up-to-date information from the internet. So this is their live language models that they are using instead of their language models that they have that have collected data. This is the live one. The company continues to offer the plus tier for $20 a month, which is what I have. That includes early access to new features, but this is more powerful with the up-to-date information. So instead of having like six month old data, now I can get real.

Speaker 7:

And this is what I'll say.

Nathan Mumm:

This is what I'll say the best AI bot out there is Bing. Forget all these right now, because Bing and Microsoft have their own. What is it? Language model advancement on top of ChatGPT. So it's got OpenAI, ChatGPT and then their own information that they have there. Just go to Bing. It's free, you don't have to pay for anything. You can ask any question as long as you have a Microsoft account, and then just use it for that.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we all know how I feel about these things. But first off, why would I pay $200 for more recent upgrades and what kind of damage can I do with this stuff?

Nathan Mumm:

What type of damage can you do with it?

Mike Gorday:

Meaning what? Let's say that I'm some sort of deepfake company. I make deepfakes. Is this going to help me make better deepfakes.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, no, but let's say you're an AI company that's using this model to redo a product that you want to have, and then you want real-time stats, like a basketball game or a football game. You want real-time stats. You don't want to wait for that information to be able to crawl on something that's old. And if you want to say, hey, give me the stats of Josh Allen passing on third downs in the snow to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you could probably get that with this version, whereas you wouldn't be able to get it with the other version.

Mike Gorday:

Or so I don't have to wake up, nedry, and be like yo dude, I hired you, make money for me to do all this reasoning for me yeah, that's right.

Nathan Mumm:

You could do like that get rid of lazy employees you could do that, or it could even maybe we become a psychologist right sure, why not? All right. Story number four this is really fantastic news. I I know that we need this in the White House. President-elect Donald Trump is going to have an AI and crypto czar in the White House coming in his term. He's essentially chosen the all-in podcast host, david Sachs, to be this person. Now the appointment of.

Mike Gorday:

Sachs well.

Nathan Mumm:

he hosted a 300,000 a person dinner at his mansion to fundraise for Trump's campaign this past July, so he says he knew anything about crypto. Well, you know what? He has? A talk show that he talks about technology in in cryptocurrency, and I would say he's knowledgeable. I wouldn't say like I don't know if this is like the most intelligent individual that we have, but he's got a lot of bravado he's got a lot of smart enough.

Mike Gorday:

He was smart enough to uh convince people to pay. Paying a lot of money yeah, 300 000 event.

Nathan Mumm:

Right. So now he's going to be working with, of course, paypal mafia member uh Elon Musk. So I'm sure this, this white house, is going to be an interesting uh white house with technology. Now, the first time Trump was in he w, we talked about this on our show. He was horrible for uh technology and and cryptocurrency and cyber attacks. There was no unification and we have said that under the administration of Biden that they actually hired people that did a very good job, so hopefully he will continue to take what was available there and make it successful.

Mike Gorday:

This sounds like a position for my nephew.

Nathan Mumm:

What's interesting is, you can serve for 130 days a year without publicly disclosing your assets. Did you know that this is like?

Mike Gorday:

a special position. No, I don't pay attention to these things. So hey, you know.

Nathan Mumm:

So he's going to be there for 129 days to help out.

Mike Gorday:

He's going to get fired.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know how they serve that time, but then he doesn't have to disclose any of the information he has. Well, there you go. Well, that is our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have Gwen Way up in our gadgets and gear segment with a product that will keep the retro fan in your house entertained. What is it, Gwen? We'll get to share this information in our next segment. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. See you after the commercial break.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome back to Tech Time with nathan mum. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without a political agenda. We verify the facts and we do it with a sense of humor, in less than 60 minutes and, of course, a little whiskey on the side today, mark regoire whiskey connoisseurs in the studio, mark. What have we chosen today? Delicious, deliciousness.

Speaker 7:

This is actually fantastic.

Nathan Mumm:

I have not had something that I this is really.

Mike Gorday:

Seriously, you said that about last week's.

Nathan Mumm:

No, last week's was fantastic because it was cheap and decent, right, but this is. I don't think this is going to be cheap either. This is good, though. What do we got Today?

Marc Gregoire:

is Elmer T Lee single barrel bourbon oh. Now from Buffalo Trace's website. This is named after the master distiller, elmer T Lee, oh Elmer.

Nathan Mumm:

Like Elmer D Fudd, elmer Fudd.

Marc Gregoire:

No, no, okay, okay. This whiskey is hand selected and is bottled to the taste and standards that were set forth by Elmer T Lee himself, martini himself, perfectly balanced and rich, as declared by the man who knew how great bourbon should taste. The nose brings notes of clove, vanilla and old leather.

Nathan Mumm:

Old leather Yep, how do you have a taste of old leather? Oh, that's so delicious Really. Did you ever have like old leather that you'd lick, or something? I don't know what old leather tastes like.

Marc Gregoire:

It's more the smell of old leather that translates into the powder.

Mike Gorday:

People don't usually go around chewing on leather, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm just curious.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, old leather, okay, all right. Okay, the flavor balances fruit, honey and vanilla, with a light spiciness, a long and warm finish. Now this is from the Sazerac Company, which is from the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfurt, kentucky, didn't they have like 80% of the market.

Nathan Mumm:

The Sazerac Company, Because we talk about it all the time.

Marc Gregoire:

They have a good portion Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, that makes sense.

Marc Gregoire:

This is a straight bourbon. It's non-age stated, it is 90 proof. The mash bill is undisclosed, but we do know this is Buffalo Trace's mash bill number two, which is their high rye bourbon mash bill. Price is $40, but on the secondary it can go as high as $250.

Mike Gorday:

Why was my pour so small today? What's going on with that?

Nathan Mumm:

Maybe your pour happened.

Mike Gorday:

Did you pour?

Nathan Mumm:

Maybe I poured and maybe I took a little bit out of your drink before I switched it over to mine.

Mike Gorday:

You drank some of my pour.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, yeah, I drank it at two minutes before the show.

Marc Gregoire:

it's a hard to find bottle and this was donated to us for the tasting today by our friend chris.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, okay, chris. Well nice, shout out to chris how uh he's a, he's a big uh whiskey connoisseur, just like mark. Is you guys need to do?

Speaker 7:

do like a whiskey show, snob yeah they're connoisseurs.

Nathan Mumm:

That's the nice way they meet. Do you guys meet like once a week to have sippings?

Marc Gregoire:

We don't meet that often. That would be nice if we did. Okay, all right, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Well, I am really liking this right off the bat.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm starting to get a little bit suspicious that you keep bringing in these high rye things that I'm starting to really like, so he's changing your palate yeah.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay well, that's good.

Mike Gorday:

Is that something you're doing on purpose? Are you trying to do that on purpose?

Marc Gregoire:

Well, no.

Speaker 1:

Yeah whatever.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Well, with our first whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment. Today, we have Gwen Way joining the show. She's an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a game board geek in the evening, as well as a producer of Tech Time Radio and our Gadgets and Gear Gal. Let's get ready to start our Comcast video stream to start our next segment.

Speaker 1:

What's new in our Gadgets and Gear.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, welcome back to the show, gwen. It's been great to hear I'm sure Mike's excited about this object that you're going to be bringing in, aren't you, mike?

Mike Gorday:

Sure, why not?

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so let's take a look at what we got here, gwen.

Gwen Way:

Always happy to be here, Nathan. I am, as Nathan said, a cybersecurity expert. I've been working in IT for about 25 years now and I love it, Love it, love it, love it.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Gwen. Well, let's get to our gadget today. What do you have in store for us in this holiday season?

Gwen Way:

Well, you know we're closing in on Christmas. It's gift time of year, so I wanted to find something that people could put under their trees to have fun with. So today I tracked down something called the Bolt's Retro Stick.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so it's the Bolt Retro Stick. Now I'm really into retro gaming. I have tons with the Raspberry Pi that I've created, different versions with Retro Pi and different ROMs. Make sure you only use ROMs that you have purchased the games for, Otherwise that's illegal. But tell us a little bit more about this.

Gwen Way:

Well, this device is for the non-technical who don't want to actually set up a computer. The Boltz Retro Stick is just a small rectangular device that you plug directly into your television set, and you're able to play up to 20,000 different types of games on it.

Nathan Mumm:

That sounds good. You can have up to four people playing concurrently, so that's kind of different because most of the units I have only have two player controllers.

Gwen Way:

Exactly so. It's a great family Christmas morning kind of thing. The other good thing about it is well, with the consoles you have to wait to download updates and all of that kind of stuff which, because everybody gets consoles for Christmas, takes a long time. On Christmas Day, this is just ready to go. You literally just plug it into your TV and play.

Nathan Mumm:

You know, nothing's better than a plug and play device, because that is true with all these new consoles that are out there. Play device, because that is true with all these new consoles that are out there. If you get a new game by the time, even if you got it on a physical format by the time you put it into your console, it'll take an hour to two hours to download all the updated maps, all the new upgrades, because everybody releases stuff late. I remember having to do that last christmas with, just like madden trying to play games during the holiday break, and it was was just so long. So this I can put it in there probably go play some 10-yard fight or one of the traditional football games that were a part of the old retro type deal and be ready to go.

Gwen Way:

Definitely, definitely. So, like I said, this is 20,000 games available on one device. It is only $49.99, so under $50.

Nathan Mumm:

That's better than cheaper, than any brand new game you can get nowadays. All of them cost way much more than that, starting at like that $60 price point.

Gwen Way:

Exactly. You can also double the number of games and the storage with an extra $25 right now, so that's even better.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, gwen. So Mike's looking at me over here and we're like, are these the name games or are these like the generic games? So some of the times I've gotten uh, some of these retro uh sticks and they've come with name games, like mario brothers and dig dug and tetris and the names that you would actually recognize are were a part of the retro arcade. And then sometimes I've gotten here, mama Khan, and I've gotten Pipe Brothers, the stuff that was not really even what was supposed to be taken care of. I got Mario running around in a purple outfit instead of a red outfit, luigi's outfit's yellow instead of of green. I mean they, they just change everything about these games. So are these the name brands or those generic?

Gwen Way:

running around in purple instead of red. This actually has named games. It also has a couple of the the less popular games. When you get up to 20 000, you're going to have to have some that are not bangers.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep.

Gwen Way:

But yeah, it's got some of your name game. It's got Street Fighter on there so you can hop on and play Street Fighter.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, I love Street Fighter, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, all those blood fighting games there. I guess if you have two controllers you'd be set with that. I guess you get four controllers and then you can probably play old, retro four-player games too controllers, and then you can probably play old retro four-player games too.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah exactly get all of the aggression out before christmas. Okay, now you're talking with just the four controllers. I have to rethink about this, because I remember playing in the arcades many quarters, the old gauntlet series, where you had, of course, elf and valkyrie and warrior and wizard and all the retro games that I always have. You either have to choose which character you're going to be, so of course everybody chooses Valkyrie and then the other person normally is the elf. Every once in a while you'll get a wizard, but no one ever picked the warrior, so I guess you could have all four of your friends and relatives without having to put the quarters in each of these games. I've spent like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars on on gauntlet and then then you'd start shooting each other and potions would run okay exactly, exactly, and you could have all four sides on combat too.

Nathan Mumm:

Remember that old atari game okay, now are you just calling me old here? Going back to atari games, come on now. I wasn't. I do remember the 2600 and I do remember the original n Nintendo that you had to blow in the cartridge for, but you have to be careful on combat and air-sea battle, because those were games that I could probably still compete with some of these young'uns with today. All right though, gwen, let's get to the most important question Is this going to be something that you get for the holidays? You know, with the holiday gift giving and santa claus around the corner, is this going to be in your stocking or giving to somebody else's stocking?

Gwen Way:

I am actually going to get one of these. Uh, it's going to be for our upstairs tv, just where we kind of hang out and play games. It's. It's cheaper than you know going out and buying the latest Xbox or PS5 or anything like that, and it gives us just as much enjoyment. So, listener, if you like, I would like to have that ease. You can go to Boltz Retro Sticks, that's B-O-L-T-Z Retro Sticks S-T-I-C-K-Scom.

Nathan Mumm:

And Santa has something in those holiday stocking for you, I'm sure.

Gwen Way:

Yep, we've got one on the way already, All right okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Gwen, thank you so much for coming on the show. We really appreciate that. Now, this is the last time we're going to see you this year, so it's going to be a whole year until I get to see you again. With that, though, I'm kind of curious and maybe our listeners are also Maybe some of the ideas that you're going to be having to start off the new year.

Gwen Way:

Well, I can tell you, we're going to start out going back to Kickstarter and looking at new and potential things, looking at new and potential things, but I think I'd like to wrap a few more of the ready-made, ready-to-order stuff in as well, so that our listeners will be able to actually pick things that would be great.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Gwen, we're going to have to be careful with that Kickstarter stuff, though, because I still have about eight of the items that I purchased over the last three or four years still waiting to come on in, and that's the thing about Kickstarter is that you know still waiting to come on in. That's the thing about Kickstarter is that you know.

Gwen Way:

whatever their date is, it's probably a year after that that they ship, Almost guaranteed yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

But I do have my Luna robot and a bunch of other great things, so it's not that it's a bad deal to do, but I do like how you find information and new projects and new gadgets for us to fund, and so that'll be exciting as we kick off the new year. All right, Gwen, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you about new gadgets. We now have to wait until next year all the way until next year to see what she has in store for us again, that joke never, gets old.

Gwen Way:

See you next year. Thank you, and thank you Mike and Mark. Bye.

Nathan Mumm:

Thank you so much, Gwen. Well, that ends our gadgets and gear segment up. Next we have mike's mesmerizing moments.

Speaker 6:

Mike are you ready for this?

Nathan Mumm:

let's start your moment now welcome to mike's mesmerizing moment. What does mike have to say today? All right, mike. Why do people hate the holidays?

Mike Gorday:

why do people hate the holiday?

Nathan Mumm:

yeah, I'm just gonna go right here, right, that's, you're gonna just check that in.

Mike Gorday:

Why do people hate the holiday? Yeah, I'm just gonna go right here, right that's. You're gonna just chuck that in. Why do people hate?

Nathan Mumm:

what is up with?

Mike Gorday:

the holidays. Uh, I can tell you, I can tell you that one of the big reasons why people may hate the holidays is the incredible amount of social and, uh, economic pressure. Okay, goes on during the holidays. So, in the holiday season, we have all these sales coming at us all the time and trying to get us to buy. But we also have this huge which is, you know, economically driven this huge social pressure to do things. And it starts off with Halloween.

Mike Gorday:

We have the push to to give candy out okay right and then and then comes thanksgiving, and then we're pressured to hang out with people that traditionally we may not want to hang out with normally you know our, you know that's our families, our families are our families. But uh, you know, there's a reason why we only get together once a year.

Marc Gregoire:

That is true.

Mike Gorday:

And there's a lot of pressure around doing that. And then comes Christmas, and the big part of Christmas is spend, spend, spend, spend money to give, give, give, give and to do all these socially acceptable things that you don't hear about any time of the year, like help the homeless and go to soup kitchens and whatnot, and then we top it off with a party where we get drunk and say goodbye to the old year. So there's this sort of pattern of social pressures that start after the 4th of July that continually become. See, that's my holiday, 4th of July.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't have to invite family, invite friends, you blow up stuff, you barbecue stuff. I mean, that is the holiday of holidays.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, not the point. That's why.

Nathan Mumm:

That's why you said started after.

Mike Gorday:

That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

It starts after that. Do you like the?

Mike Gorday:

holidays. You know I like holidays but I don't like, I don't like the all the junk that goes with the holiday. I really get upset about do you like? I don't really get upset, but I don't like all the little things.

Nathan Mumm:

The do you like the steam sale that happens during the holidays though?

Mike Gorday:

yeah, I like those things okay, I like the sales okay, especially for tech.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, there's some good stuff there yeah, but I don't.

Mike Gorday:

I don't like all the social pressure. All right that makes sense.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, well, mike, thank you for that mesmerizing moment. Up next we have this Week in Technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as I am sure we will be doing so during the break.

Mike Gorday:

You're listening to Tech Time Radio with.

Nathan Mumm:

Nathan Mumm, see you in a few minutes. Hey, Mike See you in a few minutes. I butcher the English language. You know you butcher the English language all the time.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so it's patreoncom. Patreoncom. If you really like our show, you can subscribe to patreoncom and help us out.

Nathan Mumm:

And you can visit us on that Facebook platform. You know the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one that we always bag on. Yeah, we're on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on Facebook. Do you know what our Facebook page is? Tech Time Radio. At Tech Time Radio. You know what? There's a trend here.

Mike Gorday:

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.

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That's at Tech Time Radio. Or you can find us on TikTok, and it's Tech Time Radio.

Mike Gorday:

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Nathan Mumm:

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Mike Gorday:

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Nathan Mumm:

That's it. It's that simple.

Speaker 1:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we go back to December 9th 1987. We're all about worms today. I guess the Christmas tree worm begins to affect an IBM mainframe. Now the Christmas tree worm begins to affect the IBM mainframe. Now the Christmas tree worm begins to affect the IBM mainframe computers all across the world. The worm was delivered by email and drew a Christmas tree text graphic on the user's monitors and it searched out through the network users to email them. This opportunity, also Named Christmas C-H-R-A-S-T-M-A, dot E-X-E-C because IBM systems only supported eight-character file names allowed for the world's first widely distributed computer worm. While the worm was not intentionally destructive, a volume of emails it created could disrupt a user's network and began to overload email systems. It reached IBM's VNet email network on December 15th and two days later had crippled it to the point that they had to shut it down and eradicate the worm.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, now we just have to get all these scientists together to get rid of tech worms To tech worms, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

Or if you're listening to music, you can get rid of it with your earworm Right.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Whatever dude.

Mike Gorday:

That was this weekend. Technology play the computer, the music and it'll get rid of the christmas worm.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, have you ever wanted to watch some tech time history, with over 230 plus weekly broadcasts spanning five plus years of video podcasts and blog information? You can visit techtimeradiocom to watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break. When we return, we have mark's mumble whiskey review.

Speaker 7:

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Nathan Mumm:

The segment we've been waiting all week for mark's whiskey mumble ah, I just had my little whiskey there during the break, so that was. That was really good this is actually fantastic. So tell me about the mumble. What do we got coming up here on the date today?

Marc Gregoire:

today is december 10th it is.

Mike Gorday:

What day is it today?

Speaker 3:

od hit it chemistry, physics, to a nobel machine oh yeah little stem day I, I have.

Nathan Mumm:

I have no idea. I am completely lost. It's Nobel Prize Day. Oh, it's Nobel Prize. Oh, I didn't know there was a Nobel Prize Day, okay, yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Is this the day that they announce the Nobel. It's a pickle day, so why wouldn't there be a Nobel Prize Day?

Nathan Mumm:

Or Green Bean Casserole Day.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, let me tell you why today exists December 3rd is like the most important day now I day.

Nathan Mumm:

Now I have that on a recurring scheduled calendar on my events.

Marc Gregoire:

But let's talk about Nobel Prize Day. Okay, this day honors the achievements of Alfred Bernard Nobel, a Swedish engineer, chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. We have all heard of the Nobel Prize that recognizes outstanding achievements in various fields in arts and sciences. Nobel Prize Day is a tribute to the person who instituted the prize.

Marc Gregoire:

okay, now mike is going to love how today is related to our whiskey yeah, tell me okay, one famous nobel prize winner in 1986 for chemistry was yon t lee, who is not related to elmer t lee, and our whiskey for today was originally released in 1986. Oh okay, oh wow. Okay 1986 was a year after Elmer retired. Elmer T Lee, besides being one of the most famous distillers, brought the world's Blanton single barrel.

Nathan Mumm:

Hang on a second, I'm going to interrupt you. You said this was the 1986 Nobel Prize winner. Yeah, are you sure it's not?

Mike Gorday:

LI Weasel. There's a number of winners of the Nobel Prize winner. Yeah, are you sure it's not LI Weasel? There's a number of winners of the Nobel Prize. Is there really, did you not?

Marc Gregoire:

know that this was specific for chemistry, oh, never mind. That's why she played the soundtrack without chemistry, oh boy.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, continue it on Mark.

Marc Gregoire:

All right. So Blandon's Single Barrel was a pioneering effort in the bourbon industry, as Blanton's was the world's first single barrel bourbon. That is why Buffalo Trace honored him with another single barrel product named after him.

Nathan Mumm:

Now comes the controversy. Oh no, what is the controversy?

Marc Gregoire:

Well, elmore T Lee's Single Bar barrel is highly sought after and coveted bottle by almost all whiskey enthusiasts. Yeah, this is fantastic. It is the darling of the whiskey community. Sorry, chris, and I personally do not enjoy it at all.

Nathan Mumm:

What that is why my glass hasn't even been poured anything into it. Are you serious? That's the controversy. Are you serious? Are?

Marc Gregoire:

you serious? You do not like this. I do not like it at all what. I find it lacks complexity.

Nathan Mumm:

It's astringent.

Marc Gregoire:

There's a funky flavor like stinky socks. I'm a huge outlier on this one. However, this is a hard hard pass for me, so this originally was my bottle and I gave it to Chris, really. Yeah, he also paid me for it.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, well, he gave it to him and he gave you money for it.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, the whole black market thing. Yeah, I told him not to and he listened to this podcast, so he was bad, okay, and he Venmo'd me.

Nathan Mumm:

Let me just tell you, chris, this is fantastic. I appreciate the Christmas Day gift and Mike and I will be splitting this up and we'll send you back the bottle. Okay, the empty bottle, that's right. That's right, it's a collector's item. All right, whiskey and technology are great pairings, just like a musical and a good old black and white movie for the holidays, right, all right. Okay, don't you like musicals? I mean every holiday music because I have anything musicals come in the holiday time.

Speaker 3:

And black and white movies come for the holidays. Don't you watch musicals?

Mike Gorday:

The way you try to pair things up. Have you watched?

Nathan Mumm:

the movie Spirited Spirited on Apple.

Mike Gorday:

No, but I have a pairing for you. What's that. The holidays.

Nathan Mumm:

Shut the.

Mike Gorday:

F up. No, the holidays goes like the Grange and his dog, max, better together.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, better, and no AI for that. No AI for that one. No AI. Would have probably had so much different stuff. Okay, all right.

Mike Gorday:

You know what? Let's move on. Since that was such a failure, let's move on to the next segment.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, let's move on to our Technology Fail of the Week, brought to you by Elite Executive Services. We are out of time. Congratulations, you're a failure.

Speaker 1:

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

Speaker 9:

Did I.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, All right. Well, this week's failures come to us from a vodka maker called Stully. Now I actually have seven bottles of vodka from this distillery. So my question is, my pending question is is the value going to go up or is it going to go down? Here's what we got.

Nathan Mumm:

Stoli's Group, USA company has filed for bankruptcy following an August ransomware attack and Russian authorities seizing the company's remaining distilleries in the country. As Chris Caldwell, the president of Global Chief Executive Officer of Stoli USA and Kentucky Al, the two Stoli Group's subsidiaries, said that it filed on Friday bankruptcy because of the August attack that disrupted its IT systems, including its enterprise resource planning ERP platform. The cyber attack forced manual operations across the group, affecting key processes such as accounting, with full recovery not expected until 2025. Now I just don't get that. I'm struggling with that. Are you going to say that you didn't have any of this in the cloud? So you're saying that all of your information was stored locally, you had no backups of this and you can't start until 2025. Man, those IT people at that company should be taken out and hit with a bottle of Russian vodka. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

In August of 2024, the Stolese Group's IT infrastructure suffered again this disruption in the wake of a data breach, IT infrastructure suffer again this disruption in the wake of a data breach. The attack caused so many infrastructure operational errors that the Stoli group, including Stoli USA systems, have been disabled and most of the Stoli's group's internal processes have all been completely into manual entry mode. Now interesting is that Caldwell said that the incident also prevented the Stoli US subsidiaries from providing financial reports to lenders who claimed the two companies had defaulted on a $78 million debt and that they had to close operations. So now here's a very interesting tidbit at the end of this story. Right, so they have a cyber attack, shuts down all their systems and then, all of a sudden, we find out that the company had defaulted on a $78 million debt. So do you think the cyber attack had anything to do with the pre-existing debt to cause their systems to shut down? Dun dun dun.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know, I don't drink. I don't drink, he doesn't drink. He's totally down. I don't know, I don't drink.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't drink. So, mark, I'm going to put this on some research for you. How is this going to affect Kentucky Owl?

Marc Gregoire:

That is a big bourbon brand. That is a big bourbon brand. It's not as popular now as before, since Dixon sold it years ago to Stoli. Okay, he was the mastermind behind it, okay.

Mike Gorday:

Have we had Kentucky Owl on the show.

Nathan Mumm:

We have not had Kentucky Owl, so should we go run it out and get some Kentucky Owl before it disappears.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, number one, the Kentucky Owl, that was made by Dixon. You can't afford, okay that was made by.

Nathan Mumm:

Dixon you can't afford.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, all right. And the ones after are like Stoli Vodka.

Nathan Mumm:

They're not worth it. They're not worth anything. No, okay, all right.

Mike Gorday:

So we really don't care.

Nathan Mumm:

That's what I am, Well that's what's interesting is, supposedly you need to make sure that you have your data backed up. This is a good data backup process. You shouldn't have your ERP system and you shouldn't have your main financial systems not in the cloud in today's world. If you do have those still local on a local system and you're not running on a cloud system, note to your business get it into the cloud before the end of the year, because that if you have it destroyed there in the cloud, they have redundant backup sees that come with all the cloud services. So get it there. I mean, if you're the IT person here and they reported to me, I would have fired them years ago because there's no way that I would have said that that was a good business structure to have it all local and then now all of a sudden they have a bunch of money that they had to report on.

Mike Gorday:

Don't you find it interesting that a Russian company was hacked by hackers and they're such avid hackers?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I find that. What I really find interesting is the $78 million debt. Have you ever known that when a restaurant is in debt, all of a sudden they amazingly have a fire that happens in their kitchen or something like that, and they get their insurance claim? I'm not saying this is fraud for the cyber attack. We're going to head out to our last commercial break. When we return, we still have a possible Nathan Negative of the Week and, of course, our Pick of the Day. So sit back, raise a glass. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. See you after this break.

Mike Gorday:

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Speaker 1:

This is your Nugget of the Week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, here's our Nugget of the Week. Xbox wants to continue being your console even after the life of the console, and it's pairing with a company called iFixit to help everyone out. This is a great story for me, all right, ifixit now sells genuine Xbox parts that you can use to repair your Xbox Series X and S and offers official guides to help you with the fixes. You can browse what's available from iFixit's Microsoft Repair Hub. Microsoft sent out a press announcement saying that Microsoft is excited to be working and keeping these Xbox running longer and out of the waste heap, elizabeth Chamberlain said. Ifixit's Director of Sustainability also says. The statement is that we now offer official microsoft parts and a step by step repair guys for the xbox series s and x includes both the all digital and disk drive editions.

Nathan Mumm:

Now I fix. It has continued to grow to be a repair hub site more than just the parts that originally started to sell and is now has microsoft surface devices and other hardware devices, including generators and other mechanical devices that could be repaired. Since they've launched their Surface Parts collaboration with Microsoft last year, they've been helping customers repair their own Microsoft laptops and tablets. It's awesome to be able to offer Xbox owners the same opportunity. Microsoft isn't the only gaming company that iFix has partnered with. Ifix sells nearly every part to the Steam Deck and offers a bunch of repair guys for valves held PC2. Microsoft itself offers first-party parts for the standard Elite Series 2 Xbox controllers. Now iFix offers genuine repair parts for Google Pixel phones and Pixel tablets. The company has sold genuine parts for Samsung, but that partnership ended earlier this year. Now, if you want to find out more information, you can click on the link on techtimeradiocom under Nugget and it will actually take you to the iFix repair site so you can find out all of your Xbox information.

Mike Gorday:

What if I want to do an older Xbox?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, they have stuff there for the original Xbox and. Xbox 360.

Mike Gorday:

You didn't talk about that.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, they just announced that they have the new stuff, so the new stuff's more important, of course, for a press release than the old stuff. But if you want to go back and take your original Xbox and mod it and do whatever needs to be done, they have the guides to help you there. Not to mod it, but to preparework though, doesn't it. No, no, you brought it to my house and I cleaned it out.

Mike Gorday:

That was the original Xbox.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, you're talking about the new ones, the Xs.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, all the other stuff Doesn't work, didn't make it.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Well, that sounds great. Well, you know what, mike, I Mike, I think we're almost out of time.

Speaker 1:

Now we want to thank our listeners for joining the program, and before that we want to go to our whiskey tastings. And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top All right.

Marc Gregoire:

Today we are drinking from the Buffalo Trace Distillery the Elmer T Lee Single Barrel Bourbon. Okay, it is 90 proof and it is $40. If you can actually find it anywhere on the shelf, usually you have to pay more for it. It's usually around secondary prices are about well, the secondary market is about $120, but if you find it at a liquor store marked up, that can go up to about $250. Wow, this is pretty good.

Nathan Mumm:

I really like this. What are you going to give this? A thumbs up or a thumbs down, mike?

Mike Gorday:

I don't think I have to say anything because I've been talking about it the whole show. All right, so this is a thumbs up for me.

Nathan Mumm:

Thumbs up for me, too also. This is fantastic, and thank you, Chris, for allowing us to have this great whiskey to taste. Mark, you bought this, but then you ended up trading it away.

Mike Gorday:

That's because it tastes like old socks.

Marc Gregoire:

I had an opportunity to buy this at the $40 price point, so I knew other people love it.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you sell it at the $40 price point? Yeah, oh. So that's a nice guy, you're so nice.

Mike Gorday:

Does the price point of the liquor affect the taste? Do you think?

Nathan Mumm:

Price point.

Marc Gregoire:

That's a good point.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, do you think that if we think we're drinking something more expensive, that we think it's better tasting?

Mike Gorday:

Psychologically that does affect how we perceive things.

Marc Gregoire:

It could I have heard from many whiskey enthusiasts that when they buy an expensive bottle, in their mind they're already going to love it. Because they have to justify the cost.

Mike Gorday:

See, that's it. That's it right there.

Nathan Mumm:

So, if you're a, cheapskate and you like the real cheap whiskey, then you like that too.

Mike Gorday:

You don't have to do a lot of justifying.

Marc Gregoire:

That's why blinds are fun. That's right, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, mike, we're about out of time. We want to thank our listeners for joining the program, listeners who want we want to hear from you. You can visit us at techtimeradiocom. Click on, be A Caller and ask us a quick question on technology and our TalkBack recording system. You can also stay connected by signing up for information on our website today. For all of us at TechTime, it was an honor to be on the show today. Mark, thank you for bringing this great whiskey Now. Just to let you know, right at the end of the show, before we do the lead out, we do have a re-look back at some of our best Christmas songs.

Marc Gregoire:

Mike. No, I'm so excited, I'm excited, I'm so excited, I'm so excited.

Nathan Mumm:

That was great. Well, thank you for letting me know about Nobel Prize information there, because I did not know about that. I'm sure I'm going to have some people comment off the air on that for me, but that should be fantastic.

Mike Gorday:

It is great that's not new for you right?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I don't know. Okay, you know. The most important part, though, is remembering. The science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week Later.

Mike Gorday:

tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week later, bye-bye. No, it's, it's like blowing my eardrums out. Uh, yeah, if you want, I think you need to give yourself a couple more beats before you start singing, because you just like on the first day of christmas my ai gave to me sam altman back at open ai on the second day of Christmas, my AI gave to me two biased bots and Sam Altman back at OpenAI.

Speaker 9:

But Sam is definitely back at OpenAI. On the third day of Christmas, my AI gave to me three deep fakes, two biased bots and Sam Altman back at OpenAI. On the fourth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me four data breaches, three deep fakes and two biased bots, and see you all back at OpenAI. That was awful.

Marc Gregoire:

On the fifth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me five Elon tweets, rx's four data breaches, three deep fakes, two bias bots and Sammy Albin back at OpenAI.

Mike Gorday:

Wow, Mark is really singing rel.

Speaker 9:

On the sixth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me Six hackers hacking, five Elon tweets, four data breaches, three deepfakes, two bias blocks and some Altman back at OpenAI. On the seventh day of Christmas, my AI gave to me Seven drones, a spy and six hackers hacking and a couple tech hosts who are bored, four data breaches, three deep fakes, two live bots and some alt-moon back at OpenAI. On the eighth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me music eight ads of tracking, seven drones of spying, six hackers hacking, five Elon tweets, four data breaches, three deep f back at OpenAI. I think it's me here. On the ninth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me nine laws of breaking, eight ads of tracking, seven drones of spying, six hackers hacking, five evil twins, four data breaches, three deep fakes, two biased plots and some open back at OpenAI.

Nathan Mumm:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my AI gave to me twelve AIs rising like T2, eleven ethics of missing. Ten jobs are losing 9 laws are breaking 8 ads.

Speaker 9:

Are tracking 7 drones are spying 6 hackers are hacking 5 Elon tweets or X's or whatever he calls them.

Nathan Mumm:

And then 4 data breaches 3 deep fakes 1 with Mike. 2 bias bots.

Speaker 7:

And my buddy Sam.

Nathan Mumm:

Altman back at Opelia after Microsoft and then rehired again.

Mike Gorday:

That was awful. The music was way too loud. I couldn't hear a damn thing that you said. We wish you a Merry Christmas.

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