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EP 234: Rage Baiting, Rental Cars, and NASA's latest triumphs, Hertz's surprising EV sales, and the challenges facing OpenAI. 2025 Prediction Show: A Dive into Tech Trends and Tasting Whiskey | Air Date: 12/31 - 1/6/24

• Nathan Mumm • Season 6 • Episode 234

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Rage baiting is taking the digital world by storm, but is it a clever engagement strategy, or are we tapping into a deeper societal issue? In this episode, we dive into the controversial trend of anger-inducing content with creators like Winta Zeus, exploring its impact on both business models and human interactions. As we navigate this turbulent topic, we'll also give you a sneak peek into NASA's latest triumphs, Hertz's surprising EV sales, and the challenges facing OpenAI. Trust us; you won't want to miss this rollercoaster ride through the future of technology and culture.

Ever thought about buying your rental car? Hertz has an intriguing proposition for you, offering electric vehicle renters the chance to make those temporary rides permanent at competitive prices. We tackle the nitty-gritty of this innovative strategy, looking at the pros and cons of purchasing a vehicle that’s seen a lot of action. From Teslas to Bolts, we weigh the skepticism against the appeal, spicing up our conversation with tips on what to watch out for when taking the plunge into the world of used cars. 

To round off our tech talk with a touch of taste, we uncork a bottle of Traveler Whiskey—a collaboration between Chris Stapleton and Buffalo Trace Distillery. While sipping on this delightful spirit, we make bold predictions for 2025, including the potential rise of satellite connectivity and the nostalgic comeback of phones with tactile keyboards. Expect a lively mix of humor, spirited debates, and a sprinkle of tech fails as we gaze into the crystal ball of technological trends. Grab your headphones and a glass; it’s going to be quite the adventure!

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Speaker 1:

Thank you to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go, mmm. 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 mmm. 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-hostday is in studio today. He's an award-winning author and 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. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradiocom and become a patreon supporter at patreoncom forward slash techtimeradio. We are friends from different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have odr producer at the control panel today. Welcome everyone.

Nathan Mumm:

Let's start today's show now on today's show all right, as we close out 2024, we have a fantastic lineup for you. Today, nasa's Parker solar probe has achieved something unprecedented. What could it be? Hertz is making unusual offers to its EV renters and open AI face a significant challenge this last week. Then get ready for our 2024 prediction recap and our 2025 prediction show.

Nathan Mumm:

With Mark, mike Odie and myself, we promised to have some bold forecasts and a few returning predictions from last year. That did not happen. What do you see in the tech world's future? And finally, we have a raging baiting and what is stirring up the controversy about this online? So we're going to be talking about rage baiting. I think Mike has that subject they're going to be talking about very, very interesting. And, of course, in addition to that, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment our technology fail the week and a Nathan nugget. Now, if you want to figure out how you can hide your house on Google maps, on MSNs, bing maps and Apple maps tuned for the nathan nugget, we'll be talking about that on a listener submitted question for us to answer. And then, of course, we have our pick of the day whiskey tasting 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. Story number one why is rage baiting becoming profitable? Let's go to Crenn, westland for more on this story.

Speaker 3:

Social media and content provider Wintazus is part of a growing group of online creators making ragebait content, where the goal is simple Record videos, produce memes and write posts that make other users viscerally angry, then bask in the thousands or even millions of shares and likes. It differs from its internet cousin, clickbait, where a headline is used to tempt a reader to click through to view a video or article. The growth in rage-baiting content has coincided with the major social media platforms paying creators more for their content. These creator programs, which reward users for likes, comments and shares and allow them to post sponsored content, have been linked to its rise. Back to you guys in the studio. Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, mike, let's talk about this, all right? So Winta Zeus is quoted of making last year $150,000 from posting on social media. Says her latest videos are all about hate. What separates Winta from other influencers is that people can comment on her posts driving to her videos and are doing so out of anger. Every single video that has gained more than a million views is because of hate comments, the 24 year old explains. In this video she documents the life of a new york city model whose biggest problem is being too pretty well.

Nathan Mumm:

Some of the comments don't realize that Winta is actually playing a character and it's not actually herself. She gets tons of nasty comments that says you're not the prettiest girl, please bring yourself down, and you have too much confidence in her New York City apartment that she films these. Now two of her videos on TikTok have been hugely looked at, called Celebrity Sightseeing, and the other one was I Was in Gladiator 2. And all of this was is she was a background in Gladiator 2 for a couple seconds and she said that she was a superstar and talks about how it was great. These are all characters that she's created. So she really wasn't on Gladiator 2. She just created a character that said that she was, so she really wasn't.

Nathan Mumm:

On Gladiator 2. She just created a character that said that she was, but she is making more money now because people are engaging it with hate comments saying that they're dissatisfied with her, that there's anger, that they're is going to continue to happen because people are getting paid by engagements and the rage posting encourages people to comment and provide hatred towards the creator. That produces more money. So let's talk a little bit about this. Do we think that this is a good idea? Should we be having rage comments that are happening because of clickbait hate that's out there?

Mike Gorday:

are we? Are we going to talk in a business sense or we're going to talk in a human sense?

Nathan Mumm:

well, let's talk let's talk in a business sense first, and we can do both obviously, this is exactly the right thing for her to do.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, because she is taking advantage of an event that is easy to take advantage of and she's making money off of it. Okay, all right, odie, what do you think?

Ody:

Mike, you and I finally see eye to eye on something. I admire her even.

Nathan Mumm:

You admire her. Yeah For doing this.

Ody:

Because people are going to comment anyway. How many people lose their minds over hate comments? And she's taking advantage of the fact.

Mike Gorday:

So she's purposely posting. Yeah, all she's doing is taking advantage of what the Internet is. It's just a bunch of people.

Nathan Mumm:

It's sewage. It's sewage of a bunch of information there. All right, so let's talk about her. Since you have a background in this area, is that going to actually be good for her psyche or, since she's just playing a character, does that not really affect her when she sees these hate comments, or how does that play into that part?

Mike Gorday:

Whether or not she thinks she might have a thick skin about it, but ultimately it's not going to do her well. It's not Psychically Okay, because one of our deepest needs as a human being is to be liked.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, and if she's encouraging people to hate on her, uh, that's going to take its toll at some point so I find this interesting because we've had consultants come on in that we've talked about the radio show, right, and so we are pretty kind of I say neutral. I'd say we're kind of a neutral, we're not really a right-wing show we don't really get on.

Nathan Mumm:

Or left-wing show type of deal, and so all of the feedback we got was choose one side or the other. Be really ultra extremist on either the left or right side, and you're going to get lots of people that will watch your show because you're going to get all those hate comments.

Mike Gorday:

That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

And then you're going to get all those supporters that are bashing it, and so we strive to be very middle ground, and with that we have to get our listeners organically, differently than through each of these mediums.

Mike Gorday:

That's exactly right. That's because the internet, the way it works, the way it's evolved, it engages us on our most basic levels, and one of the things that we can always count on is people disagreeing with what we are saying or people trolling. I mean, that's a natural thing. That's come about because we have the mask of the internet. Nobody knows who you are, so they are free to just engage in some of the most foul stuff that you can imagine. So all right, she she is. She's taking advantage of the advantage of this and she made just last year a hundred.

Nathan Mumm:

And what? Was that number 150 000. Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea personally.

Mike Gorday:

But uh, you know business, business wise, it's a great idea because she, she has found a, she has found a way that is not going to diminish, yeah to to keep making money, but in the end it's going to. I think it's going to affect her. See, platforms like x used to pay out people. Now, since elon musk took it over, it's going to affect her psychology.

Nathan Mumm:

See, platforms like X used to pay out people. Now, since Elon Musk took it over, it's not the same amount of pay that's going on out to that, but X used to be paying for their content, or Twitter back in the day before it was X, now that it's not. It's really interesting to see that, even though the platform allows for a lot of people to complain, there's not a lot of content that's being produced and published to X directly as sole content, because they're not paying those content providers, whereas these other social media sites, like YouTube and like Facebook even, are still paying out people to TikTok or to have these controversial items. So, all so, all right. Well, let's let's move on to story number two. So story number two has some history making information. What do we got going on here?

Mike Gorday:

yeah, did we do a story on this before when it launched we did.

Nathan Mumm:

We did a story about this, uh, I believe back in the october of this year, is it that?

Mike Gorday:

october. So nasa's parker Is it October? So NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Tuesday. Okay, nasa's Parker Solar Probe is a well, it's a record-breaking flight around the sun. The space agency has set a new benchmark early on the morning of Christmas Eve this year, coming within 3.8 million miles of the sun's outer corona. Okay, and my script just like flipped, hate this uh. Signal received by nasa's operation teams late on december the 26th acknowledged that the probe had survived the close encounter and was operating normally.

Mike Gorday:

Flying that close to the sun is an historic moment in humanity's first mission to a star, said nikki fox, head of nasa science mission directorate.

Mike Gorday:

When the spacecraft reaches a new position on january 2025, it will transmit data from this flyback back to earth. According to nasa, the Parker Solar Probe reached speeds of up to 430,000 miles per hour, enduring temperatures as high as 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 982 degrees Celsius. Although the probe is scheduled to orbit the sun two more times, this mission marks the closest it will ever get. The next planned closed solar passes are expected to take place on march, the 22nd, and june 19th of our coming year. The mission is part of a broader effort by scientists to conduct unrivaled scientific research with the potential to change our understanding of our closest star. The spacecraft which launched in 2018 prefer multiple flybys of venus to gradually move closer to the sun. These flybys also provided scientists with insights into venus, thanks to onboard instrumentation capable of capturing physical and near infrared light from the planet. The agency also said that this will allow researchers to peer through Venus's dense cloud cover.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So I know there's some concern on if this probe would actually make it or if it would actually disintegrate, so I guess 982 degrees Celsius is pretty hot. I don't know what they did to embark on that mission so that they didn't have to.

Mike Gorday:

Maybe it's going so fast that it makes its own air conditioning. Well, that's not true.

Nathan Mumm:

It's going to be interesting to see what happens here because, right, the sun is what we get solar energy from, it's how we get light and if we can learn a little bit more about the sun, some of these planets. Ina's new regime of exploration is to figure out how these work and how these operate, and include some of the uniqueness that we're trying to do on mars when seeing if there's extraterrestrial life or how we can manipulate stars. Being now, I don't think there's life on the sun.

Mike Gorday:

That's not what I'm saying, I'm just saying it's are you sure, because you always seem to take it that way. You're mr star trek. Remember, every time we do something like this, you're like talking. You start moving into the fiction realm.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, no, I just. I just find it interesting that now we're spending a lot of time on planets not the moon, though, so I guess we lost interest in the moon. The moon is no interest to us uh, no, they.

Mike Gorday:

They have made plans to return to the moon. Yeah, yeah, but we're going to all these other places.

Nathan Mumm:

first, If I was Japan, which I think Japan is doing they're trying to colonize some of the property on the moon so they can have the next planet right there. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you hear about that?

Mike Gorday:

I believe we reported that. Yeah, we did.

Nathan Mumm:

I think mid-season I had to go through the recap and listen to a bunch of our recap stuff, so it's been interesting here. Let's go into story number three. Hertz is asking its EV renters that's electric vehicle renters if they want to keep their car permanently. Renting a Tesla or Polestar from Hertz might lead to an offer to buy one. If you're interested to buy one. If you're interested. Now the Tesla Model 3 priced at $23,000 plus, and a Mustang Mach-E GT for $60,000 and a Bolt EV for $16,000 are available on Hertz Cars sales site. But Hertz has contacted multiple electric vehicle renters recently interested in a low-cost offer for cars like tesla, offering them the option to buy their rental instead of returning it. So think of this you go to the airport, you get your rental car, you're driving around with it and then hopefully you don't treat your rental cars like I treat my rental cars that's why they're getting such low prices.

Mike Gorday:

It's because nothing's better than everybody treats the rental cars goes zero to 50 in 2.3 seconds right, yeah, let's see what this baby can do on a drag strip that's right.

Nathan Mumm:

So, uh, they essentially sent this out to users. One user shared this on reddit that he was offered to purchase a model 3 from 2023, but the price is 17, 913, which is similar to deals currently shown on the Hertz car sale site. However, the rental they were had had about 30 000 miles on it, fewer than other current listings. Another renter was offered to buy a 2023 Chevy Bolt for 18k a while a Polestar 2 runner said that he got one for 28k for the purchase price. The used cars come with this offer that are being mailed to people with a 12 month 12,000 mile powertrain warranty and a buyback offer for taking it back within seven days. Now it was typical offer for used cars.

Nathan Mumm:

Communication director Jamie Lynn confirmed the strategy isn't new, saying by connecting our rental customers who opt into our emails and our sales channel, we're not only building awareness of the fact that we sell cars, but also offer a unique opportunity to someone who might be on the market for the same car that they have on rent. Last year, hertz decided to scale back to sell the used cars dealership and now work directly with customers. Now, you used to work in car sales, right? So the rental companies most of them sell it to like a third party and then that third party goes around and puts it at auction so other people can come on in and then buy those cars and used car dealerships get them and try to fix them up. But this removes the middleman, allowing for greater profit in selling used cars directly to the consumers if you run it, if you rented a car.

Nathan Mumm:

Would you ever buy a rental car?

Mike Gorday:

no, okay, and why not? Because we all know how they're treated. Okay, uh, we, we know. I mean, a rental car company has two things that it's doing. Right, it's, it's churning, is churning through new cars because that's what people want, right? You don't ever see, you don't ever see hertz, or uh, what's that other one? Uh, alamo, alamo. Wow, isn't alamo one of them? Budget, there's budget. Budget, rent a car. You never see them with these clunky like cars from six years ago to five years.

Mike Gorday:

They're always, they're always almost brand new right so they're churning, they're basically churning through this, so they uh, rent these out for however many, however many times they rent them out. I don't know what their standards are and when they put them on the block, but but they, they, they need to keep updating their, their inventory.

Nathan Mumm:

So but you would not buy a used one. No, oh, do you, would you ever? Oh, do you, would you ever buy a used car from a rental company? Let me ask you that, cause you're kind of a younger demographic.

Nathan Mumm:

I would never, because I treat them so poorly see, I haven't even had the opportunity to rent a car yet okay so you guys are talking about that and I'm just thinking, man, I could get away with renting a u-haul, and that's about it would I want to take a u-haul like buy a u-haul after no no, I would never buy a u-haul after either, because, because you drive the I I, I I'm moving my uncle right now and we rented a u-haul and those transmissions, man, you drive them on, drive one or drive two, no one's taking care of that sucker. That thing screamed when the fly train or whatever it was underneath the. The deal is just going through and you could just hear the kind of metal scraping against it. People don't take care of you stuff that's good.

Ody:

would you say that you're getting a deal, though this is interesting On a numbers standpoint.

Nathan Mumm:

I think you are, and you get a 12-month limited warranty with a 12,000-mile powertrain warranty. I don't think you get that from any used car lot.

Mike Gorday:

You do, oh, you do, yeah, oftentimes, if. But if they are still relatively new, you can still have a warranty on it. Oh, okay Then.

Ody:

I'd say, I'd honestly say yeah.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay.

Ody:

But that's just looking at it from a deal standpoint, not on the niceness, yeah, wear and tear of the car, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you get your tire air pressure fix?

Ody:

No.

Mike Gorday:

At any rate, wherever you buy a car you need to have, you need to do your due diligence. Okay, you know you, you have to, and don't use the car fax report. Yeah, because those are all kind of those are.

Nathan Mumm:

Those are for the dealership, those are for the dealership.

Mike Gorday:

Those are not for the consumer. They're not for the consumer and they can hide things like if the car was in a, in a in a in a wreck In a wreck and it wasn't reported as a wreck, and it was just self-repaired.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, then it doesn't go on that record.

Mike Gorday:

So yeah, they, the dealer, can choose to hide things from the Carfax report. So all that, all that whole. I don't know if you remember the commercial.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, it's the Fox, comes on, go go. Yeah, it's a fox, comes on, go good, it's all BS. Ask for the car facts.

Mike Gorday:

It's all BS. But you know, have a mechanic that you trust, check it out before you purchase a car and dealers will try to not they will try to get you away from that they will argue with you that you didn't need to, because they did a 18-point check when it came into their law. Blah, blah, blah.

Nathan Mumm:

So just be careful, All right. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have our prediction show recap and our 2025 predictions. Buckle up tech enthusiasts. We're going to see who wins our recap show and we're going to see how our predictions for 2025 will come about. And you can play at home too. So join us during the prediction show to see if you can say yes or no on each of these items Also, or to see after this commercial break this is Mark and Greg for copiers Northwest with a terrific offer called printer care Plus.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. Our weekly show covers the top 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, a little whiskey on the side. Today, mark Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur, is back. We missed him over the holiday break. Glad you're back, sir. All right, so now that he's back, mark, what have you chosen for us today? Today we're doing Traveler.

Marc Gregoire:

Whiskey, traveler Whiskey Okay Now, from Buffalo Trace's website, they say, for this first of its kind collaboration from Buffalo Trace Distillery. Traveler brings together the collective artistry of 10-time Grammy Award winning artist Chris Stapleton and Buffalo Trace Distillery master distiller Harlan Wheatley. Authentically crafted to be there whenever you find yourself in good company. Traveler Whiskey is easy to drink, hard not to love. Complex aroma of vanilla, aged fruit and buttery shortbread, rounded off by a caramel and a touch of oak. The palate has just a touch of sweetness, followed by spice, toasted nut and oak flavors with robust finish. Oh, robust finish. Now we said this is from Sazerac Company. It's Undisclosed Sazerac Distilleries because it is a blended whiskey. Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

It is non-age stated but we know it's at least four years old because it's straight whiskey. It's 90 proof. Mash bill is undisclosed and it goes for about $40.

Nathan Mumm:

$40. All glows and it goes for about 40 bucks. 40 bucks, all right, what so? What do you think so far, mike? Well, it's not bad. I liked it, I liked it uh the stuff. I don't know who chris stapleton is, but uh, is that. Is that a is?

Mike Gorday:

he a country, probably a country and western singer country western singer but, what's funny is his famous song yeah, is about tennessee whiskey.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, and this is not tennessee whiskey.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh wow, this is kentucky whiskey yeah, I didn't know it was in the country music until Christmas Day. I guess Mariah Carey now has a country album that she was on for one of the football.

Marc Gregoire:

So it was Beyonce.

Nathan Mumm:

Was it Beyonce or was it Mariah Carey who was?

Ody:

on that. Christmas Was it.

Nathan Mumm:

Beyonce. Okay, so I was trying, it was Beyonce. I'm sorry it was Beyonce that has a country album out, so is everybody.

Mike Gorday:

I'm sure this has a lot to do with our whiskey.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, All right. Well, you know what so far? Whatever this has in here, I'm enjoying this.

Marc Gregoire:

That's nice. Okay, Now please don't forget everybody out there. Like and subscribe. In addition, leave us a comment and if you have a whiskey you want us to review, let us know it might be in one of our collections. And drink responsibly. Heaven can wait.

Nathan Mumm:

We're going to have to come in a little closer, mark, so you can be on the TV all the way. There you go, come on in, get a little closer.

Marc Gregoire:

If you were sitting in the middle, I'd be right up in the middle.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, wow, wow I don't know if I should be insulted by that or glad a little of both, okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, with our first whiskey tasting complete, let's move on to our feature segment. Today we're looking back at 2024 and ahead to 2025 with our prediction show. Let's start it now. Welcome to the 2024 recapcap Prediction Show. Question number one Will Google be the dominant search engine in 2024? Yes, yes, mike says yes, we're going to go and go to Odie. Next, odie. What do you say? Yes, okay, we're going to go to Mark. Yes, okay, we're going to go to Nick. Yep, and we'll go to me. Yep, I'll say yes, i'm're going to go to Mark. Yes, okay, we're going to go to Nick. Yep, and we'll go to me. Yep, I'll say yes, I'm just going to join the band.

Mike Gorday:

I got to make sure.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Question number two Will Facebook be the dominant market leader in social media?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, this is tough too. I'm going to say no, because they just aren't performing the way I see it.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, odie, you're on this one too.

Ody:

Wait a second. So are you asking if Facebook is going to continue to dominate?

Nathan Mumm:

Will they be the market leader? Right now, they own 52% of the market.

Ody:

How far behind is.

Nathan Mumm:

TikTok, they're at 42%.

Ody:

Yes, they're going to keep going Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

So you're saying that Facebook is going to be the leader?

Mike Gorday:

Facebook is going to still be the leader.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right.

Mike Gorday:

That's a coin toss question, I think.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. This next question is no, Mark doesn't get that one. Mark gets this one. Mark gets this one. Mark, yes, Will Elon Musk start your buddy? Elon Musk, you love him so much start an AI company, yes or no? Will he start an AI company? Hopefully it's a no, yes or no, Will he?

Marc Gregoire:

start an AI company. Hopefully it's a no, it's a no, so you're saying no on that, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, mike, I'm going to you on this. Will he start a company, an AI company? He's probably going to start one.

Mike Gorday:

So you're going to say yes, then I'm going to say yes, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

And then, odie, I'm going to you on this one Musk, start an AI company.

Ody:

Everyone's saying yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

No, they're split. They got a yeah to no. He had a yeah, What'd you?

Mike Gorday:

say Mark no, he said no, I said yes.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm going to go with no. I may be wishful thinking Okay, no, okay, all right, odie puts a no on that too.

Mike Gorday:

All right, here we go.

Nathan Mumm:

I think his behavior predicts that he will probably do that spokesperson for open ai at the end of 2024 I think that's a yes too and I will go absolutely as a yes to. He's never leaving that company guy.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, he's my bromance, he just flipped the whole board over. I know he has nothing to worry about, he can stay there however long he wants.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you that? Well, microsoft purchases. I've been asking this since we started the show. Uh, no, no, I'm gonna say no. I always say yes, I I'm going to say no. They will not. Linkedin is not a social media company. Mark, what?

Marc Gregoire:

do you think I was hoping you wouldn't go to me on this?

Nathan Mumm:

one.

Marc Gregoire:

That's a tough one. I'm going to stay with no for another year. It is coming close.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So right now we currently have 12 known streaming services that have over a million subscribers. That includes shutter with 1 million, espn plus with 14.9 million 12 streaming services. The question is will there be more or less than 12 streaming services with a million subscribers at the end of 2024.

Mike Gorday:

Alright, odie, it's to you. He's influencing my answer, odie 12.

Nathan Mumm:

More or less?

Ody:

So are you? You know what?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you're gonna say what? Yeah is not More, or yes, well, listen, I think.

Ody:

I don't think they're ever gonna condense them.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, I do.

Ody:

You really think so.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh yeah, I'm going. I think there'll be less than 12. I'm just putting mine out there.

Ody:

So you're saying that at the end of next year Yep. A million subscribers.

Nathan Mumm:

A million subscribers have to be a part of it.

Ody:

There's not going to be 12 streams anymore.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I think there'll be like 10.

Ody:

See, I don't see that happening. Okay, I don't see them.

Mike Gorday:

Because Disney is trying to do it with Netflix.

Nathan Mumm:

Right answer is more, more. Yeah, okay, mike, what's yours? I'm gonna say more because, because human behavior, all right, mark, more or less. I think more, more, okay, I'm alone on that. Will nintendo re-release a new console this year 2024?

Marc Gregoire:

no no, okay, you're asking the guy whose last game console was a sega genesis. Well, that's it, you're up on the question. No, no, I say no, they will not release it okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, here we go. Will marvel have a hit movie this year? Now last?

Nathan Mumm:

year they had one guardians of the galaxy 3 was its only hit. So essentially, a hit means you have to make more than the budget of the film and you're advertising, you have to make profits. You have to make more than the budget of the film and you're advertising, you have to make profits. You have to make profits and advertising budgets are normally the same price whatever you spend on producing the film. If it's $400 million, you normally spend $400 million to advertise it. So that's what we're taking. Will there be a hit this year from Marvel?

Mike Gorday:

All right, mike, I'm going to say no. I think we've hit Marvel fatigue and the peak is over with. They're going to keep trying, but I don't think we're going to see the numbers we did previously listen.

Ody:

The issue is I haven't been keeping up that's not my fault.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm not saying it's your fault it's the last movie I liked it. Screw you, I still hit it.

Speaker 6:

I'm not saying it's your fault, it's the last movie. I liked it, yes or no, screw you, okay, yes.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow. Okay, all right, all right. Well, deadpool 3. Oh you see. Well, hang on. You guys should have been thinking Will Deadpool 3 be the largest grossing movie release globally in 2024? Now, just to give you a fact Deadpool 1 andpool 2, both were deadpool 3 coming out in 2024 in two months, all right. So I'm gonna go to mark. Are you first? Will this be the largest grossing movie released globally for 2024? Let's go. Yes, I'm gonna go. Yes, all right. There's when you put ryan reynolds in a movie, it's pretty darn good.

Mike Gorday:

All right, I think you just bust it. Good, I think you just busted out the last question.

Nathan Mumm:

Will Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power, season 2, be rated higher on Rotten Tomatoes than Season 1? Season 1 was rated 83%. Mike says no, no, okay, we'll go to you next, odie. Will it be 83%? Or, I guess, will it be higher than season one's 83%?

Ody:

Yeah, I think it will.

Nathan Mumm:

It'll be higher. Okay, all right. So I'm going to say that no, it'll be lower than 83%. Even though I liked the first season. I thought it was like a 90%.

Marc Gregoire:

I enjoyed the first season too. So you said no. So I'm going, yes, no, yes, I'm going to have a better record going off for you.

Mike Gorday:

There you go For doing fireworks. Pay attention to what Master Chief is doing over here.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, this last question is for everybody. So everybody pay attention. We're coming to the end. Will the development of brain-computer interface plugs in your brain be a technology marvel that is showcased sometime at a keynote event in 2024? So computer interface plugs in your brains showcased as a keynote event in 2024, are you asking me?

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna go to you first yeah, I'm sure that somebody's gonna showcase elon's brain.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay as a keynote. Okay, all right, odie.

Ody:

No, but I do expect it.

Marc Gregoire:

Mark, I'm going to you next. Well, I'm curious what your thoughts are.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes, I say this will be a keynote.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm going, yes, up with Nathan on this one. This one seems very particular this question, it was.

Mike Gorday:

This one was super. Yeah, this was a little. Yeah, I looked into this quite a bit and I'm going to ask the question.

Nathan Mumm:

And now our 2025 predictions.

Speaker 6:

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation, because the profit invariably falls between two stools. If, by some miracle, a profit could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd, so far-fetched, that everybody would laugh him to scorn all right, okay, guys.

Nathan Mumm:

well, there you go. We went through the recap so I did edit out some of those items because it would have been another like 15 minutes. Our winner last year for our prediction show was marked by one ahead of both Odie and Mike, so it was like six to five to five.

Marc Gregoire:

So you can call me Nostradamus.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

Don't scorn me though, Okay.

Mike Gorday:

All right, that's part of the package. I Don't scorn me though.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, that's part of the package, I was in third place. The only consolation was that we had Nick on and we don't have Nick on because we're just going to keep it with them. It was way too long to edit all of our comments out. I did beat Nick, so Nick was a little bit less on the items. But let's start out with our question number one Will Facebook be the number one social media platform in 2025?

Nathan Mumm:

now there are less series yes, so we've asked this for the last three years. All right, they are one percent or two percent, depending on which poll you look at ahead and they're like at 48 and then it's 46 tick tock. So they're two percent ahead of tick tock in the united states. Is what we're going to do? There's that possible band that's lurking out there for TikTok.

Marc Gregoire:

You had Mark Zuckerberg going down to Mar-a-Lago.

Nathan Mumm:

And having drinks with President Trump. President Trump, you said that he loved TikTok.

Marc Gregoire:

That's a complicated one.

Nathan Mumm:

Will Facebook be the number one social media platform? I'm going to go with Mark Mike. O is Okay. So we'll Facebook be the number one social media platform? And I'm going to go with Mark Mike Odie and then myself here.

Mike Gorday:

No, no, I think we should go with you first, okay, and then we're all going to employ Mark's strategy by disagreeing with you.

Nathan Mumm:

So I will say that they will not be the number one social media platform in 2025.

Marc Gregoire:

I think TikTok will overtake them and TikTok will still be legal in the United States. I hate to agree with Nathan on this one, but no, they will not be.

Nathan Mumm:

Facebook will not be Okay. So there's two for TikTok. Yeah, I have to go with no. No, all right, odie. So here's the question is to you Will Facebook be the number one social media platform in 2025?

Ody:

I will say yes.

Nathan Mumm:

You'll say yes, just so you can be different than us.

Ody:

Facebook has really stood the test of time. You know, through MySpace, through YouTube, through TikTok, and you know there is TikTok, but those same people that are making TikToks are posting on all platforms, so it's keeping the audience on Facebook as well.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, but Facebook stops paying for their creators, that's a pretty good strategy there, Although.

Ody:

I have to say Also it's been three years now. It has not died.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, but you're right. You're right, but the margins have never been this close. Last year, when we did the prediction show, tiktok was 10% behind Facebook. Now they're 2%. Don't try and change your answer?

Marc Gregoire:

I'm not going to he's arguing, I can predict something.

Ody:

My grandma is a diehard Facebook girlie. I'm there with her. That's because.

Nathan Mumm:

Facebook is for older people.

Mike Gorday:

That's for older people, if they're not dying out. If I say no every year, I'm going to be right, at least at some point.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go. All right, okay, well, google Chrome be the market leader in the internet application platform? Now they consider themselves more than a browser, so they can. If you ask Google Chrome is it a browser, they say no, that's an internet application platform. I consider them a browser. So, but will Google Chrome be the market leader platform? Right now, they have a 10% lead over Microsoft Edge, but, it's very interesting, they have a 10% lead over them, but they only have a 13% lead over Firefox, so there's two browsers that are starting to grow. Chrome last year at this time had a significant lead, so I'm going to start with you first, odie. Will Google Chrome be the market leader this upcoming year?

Ody:

What's the first thing that somebody does when they search into Bing?

Mike Gorday:

They go to Google. Oh, do they go to?

Nathan Mumm:

Google. They look up Google. Yeah, I don't do that anymore. You, because whatever I'm going to stick with Google, you're going to stick with Google? Yeah, all right, you're going to stick with Google. All right, we'll go to Mike next. Mike.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm going to say yeah, I think Chrome is going to continue to be the preferred browser.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, mark, I'm going to go with the preferred browser. I'm not a big edge and I definitely don't like Firefox. You don't like Firefox.

Mike Gorday:

I like Brave though.

Nathan Mumm:

I do like Brave too. He's you like brave. She's gonna say yes, I'm gonna say yes too. Uh, so I guess we have kind of a clean sweep on that one. I was hoping to get somebody there. All right, this is the last question. No, before we go to commercial break, will microsoft purchase a social media company this year? I've asked this since we've had the show. No, no, mike says no again. All right, mark.

Mike Gorday:

They gotta try and buy TikTok.

Ody:

Can I have what's it? What are you?

Nathan Mumm:

I'm gonna say no. I do not think that they purchased A social media company this year. I thought they would last year With the TikTok ByteDance issue that was going on, but I think ByteDance has done A good enough job To circumvent Having to be purchased.

Marc Gregoire:

Let's go. No. I mean, we, like you said, we do it every year and I'm going to keep saying no until I'm wrong. Okay, no, all right, odie.

Ody:

Okay, do I risk being right on everything or going opposite of you guys?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh well.

Ody:

I mean, you guys are saying no.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm saying no, Microsoft has never Again. This LinkedIn does not count. So some people are like, oh, LinkedIn's a social media platform. No, it's a work connection. No a social media platform. No, it's a word connection.

Ody:

No, it's a word.

Mike Gorday:

connection it's not really social. It's not a social media.

Ody:

I can't start posting controversial stuff what you ate for breakfast. I'll say no.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, well, thank you for being part of the herd. That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

We're going to take a commercial break when we come on back.

Mike Gorday:

I think we agreed on everything.

Nathan Mumm:

No, we had no dissenting on this section. Yeah, the very first one, so I got five more questions.

Mike Gorday:

Maybe the one that wins next year.

Nathan Mumm:

Five more questions when we return after this commercial break. Oh, she has.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm the reigning champion.

Nathan Mumm:

Listeners. Thank you, we got five more questions. When we return, we'll see you after this commercial break.

Marc Gregoire:

Hey, mike, because you won when I wasn't playing, hey, so you know what?

Nathan Mumm:

We need people to start liking our social media page.

Mike Gorday:

If you like our show, if you really like us, we could use your support on Patreoncom. Is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, patreon, if you really like us, you can.

Nathan Mumm:

Like us in.

Mike Gorday:

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Nathan Mumm:

I butcher the English language. You know, you butcher the English language all the time. It's Patreoncom.

Mike Gorday:

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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.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, like us on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on.

Nathan Mumm:

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Mike Gorday:

It seems to be that there's a trend, and that's Tech Time Radio.

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Or you can even Instagram with us. And that's at Tech Time Radio, that's at Tech Time Radio or you can find us on TikTok and it's Tech Time Radio. It's at TechTimeRadio.

Mike Gorday:

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Nathan Mumm:

That's it. It's that simple. Welcome back to our 2025 prediction show. We have a course around the table. We got Odie, we got Mike, we got Mark and we got myself going through and breaking down all of the technology items that you have questions about in 2025 or thought you did, or maybe you didn't have any chance, but now you can play along with us at home also. All right, guys we have to, you know.

Nathan Mumm:

So we started out with some easy. We started out, actually, we started out with two returning questions I ask every year we got facebook and about microsoft? We added in the google chrome in there, but now we got some very interesting items here that you're gonna have to put on a little bit more of your thinking cap for all, right. Next question will satellite connectivity replace cell tower connectivity? With over a million subscribers? So so let me explain this, okay. So right now, elon Musk and other satellite companies are looking to have in 2025, the opportunity of selling phones that use satellite connection versus the traditional cell towers. Right now, we have less than about 20 000 subscribers using the service to test. I'm saying, will this number be a million plus by the end of 2025?

Ody:

so we have about 20 000 people question yes satellite phones are a thing of the past uh well right they were so.

Nathan Mumm:

Satellite phones have been around for a long, long, long time, long time.

Ody:

And they went up, and they went down.

Nathan Mumm:

They did and then cell became a thing, but at a different technology. It was only so. Now, with all of Elon Musk's cell towers that are out there that are running Starlink, he is in the process of coming on up with a phone that you don't have to pay for services any longer through a cell tower company but you could then purchase just with your Starlink and attachment for a phone for a couple hundred bucks and you get this taken care of Now. This is a big release that he's doing this year.

Marc Gregoire:

I have a question.

Nathan Mumm:

A million subscribers.

Marc Gregoire:

Is Mint Mobile and Ryan Reynolds going to pick this up and do commercials for it?

Ody:

That's what I'm wondering.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, okay.

Ody:

The whole point is for it. Well, I see, that's what I'm wondering. Well, okay, that's so this just the question.

Marc Gregoire:

The whole point is for it, yes, yes or no, mark yes or no? I need to know if ryan reynolds is going to pitch it.

Nathan Mumm:

I I don't know. I have no insider information. If ryan reynolds is going to pitch it so, but I do I do think some of these uh discount carriers that currently lease lines through either t-mobile or at&t or verizon uh will probably look to switch to this technology.

Mike Gorday:

Are we talking about?

Nathan Mumm:

in the US. In the US, a million subscribers. There's about 20,000 right now I'm going to say no.

Mike Gorday:

I'll just go out on a limb and say no, because that's a huge, huge thing to ask for just a year and everybody not knowing what's going on with it. Well, they might package it differently but I'll say no. Okay, no.

Nathan Mumm:

I say yes.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, I'm going to go with a yes. If it's the cheap carriers and they switch them over quickly and it's inexpensive and it's an initiative for this year and Ryan Reynolds is doing it.

Nathan Mumm:

I say that without ryan reynolds, I still say yes, okay, I, I think, all of your satellite I guess that's my caveat on yes, if ryan reynolds does it yes or no? There's no caveats on the rating system here. All right, odious questions to you, uh I'll go with no, okay, okay yeah, two no's and two yeses. Yeah, I'm scared.

Marc Gregoire:

I did the same as nathan I know I did the same as mike that's right, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Next question will a tactical keyboard phone be produced by either blackberry rim? Let it go, yeah, that horse has died in 2025, okay, so what's the definition that?

Marc Gregoire:

just they, they just do it, or it's got to be released and at least adopted by a certain?

Nathan Mumm:

no, no, it just has to be that one of these phone companies, whether it's apple, actually release one or blackberry has to come out with a new phone not a done that has a tactical keyboard, like the old blackberry room. Everybody knows what tactical keyboard is. Hopefully it's a physical keyboard on the phone, not touching on the screen. Mark, yes, oh, he says yes, mike.

Mike Gorday:

You think they're going to release it?

Marc Gregoire:

There's a lot of retro things going on with the young Gen Zs and the Gen Alphas now.

Ody:

Yeah, but it's updated. I mean, look at the flip phone.

Mike Gorday:

That's where I'm headed.

Marc Gregoire:

I still think they're still going to do something with the keyboard.

Ody:

If they're going to bring back anything, it has to be the kick flip, whatever that.

Mike Gorday:

They're bringing back all kinds of nostalgia things.

Ody:

They are Because that's the highest asked for thing from my generation.

Mike Gorday:

That's because guys who grew up on the Motorola phone Like my kid- wants a Pol the side, the side camera where?

Nathan Mumm:

it does that cool Like it does, flips out and goes back around the top again. Yeah.

Marc Gregoire:

My wife had something similar to that. It was just like rather phone. Microsoft release just slide out.

Ody:

Yes, and you had the keyboard yeah. If it was something like that, I'd say yes.

Nathan Mumm:

It's a tactical keyword, so that would be. I'm going to say yeah.

Mike Gorday:

I'm going to say yeah, somebody, they'll do it.

Nathan Mumm:

These are Apple, google or Blackberry. So it has to be one of these three companies, not some knockoff companies. I mean, it's a real company doing it, not somebody in Japan. That.

Ody:

Not Huawei.

Nathan Mumm:

No, it's got to be a real phone. O Speaker 2 and 3.

Ody:

Speaker, 4 and 4.

Nathan Mumm:

Speaker 1 and 4. Speaker. 3 and 5. Speaker. 4 and 6. Speaker. 1 and 7.

Mike Gorday:

Speaker 2 and 8. Speaker 1 and 9.

Nathan Mumm:

Speaker 1 and 10.

Mike Gorday:

Speaker 1 and 11. Speaker 2 and 12. Speaker 1 and 12. Speaker 1 and 13. Speaker 1 and 14. Speaker 1 and 15.

Nathan Mumm:

Speaker 1 and 16. Speaker 1 and 17. Speaker 1 and 18. Speaker. At least one streaming service. Do you know that Netflix is the number one service with over 269 million subscribers worldwide, but last year we lost two of the top 12 streaming services. My question to you for this year, we're down to 10 that have at least a million subscribers in the United States. Will we have more or will we have less by the end of 2025? You have that list of 10?

Marc Gregoire:

I do have that list. Is Crunchyroll on there? It is. That's a good question.

Mike Gorday:

You got to listen to how he asked the question, because he always puts little things in there.

Nathan Mumm:

I try to make it so that we got everything taken care of. What do you say, nathan? I say that we will have less.

Ody:

You think we're going to continue downsizing?

Marc Gregoire:

Yep.

Ody:

Man.

Marc Gregoire:

I'll go with less.

Mike Gorday:

I'm going to go with less Less, because it has to meet his marker points. Man, I'll go with less. I'm going to go with less Less, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Because it has to meet his marker points.

Ody:

That's a million subscribers in the. United States, so I looked it up. The two companies that I'm thinking of. They're half a million.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, they are. There are some that could move there.

Ody:

And I feel like they could make it to the million.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, without one of the other ones dropping off, though.

Ody:

Yeah, make it to the million Without one of the other ones dropping off, though.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I don't see any of the big. The top 10 are pretty solid.

Ody:

Yeah, they're not dropping off anytime. So, what is your answer? What was the question?

Nathan Mumm:

Will we have more?

Mike Gorday:

or less.

Nathan Mumm:

I think more. I still think more. All right, here we go. We only got eight minutes left here. Will Sony release a new console in 2025.? Grand Theft Auto he's excited about this one. Grand Theft Auto is coming on out six, so are they going to release a new console to go with their new game that's coming out? No no, no no. Hey, we all said no, all right. Last question, speaking of Grand Theft Auto 6, will GTA 6 sell more than a million units in 2025? Yeah, yes.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, okay, currently there's 205 million units that have been sold of their version 5 series.

Ody:

Does it have an official release date yet?

Nathan Mumm:

It does not Okay.

Ody:

So you just said yes, no, no.

Nathan Mumm:

You said yes, wait, hold on, so you're banking on it, releasing in 2025.

Ody:

Yeah, it's supposed to.

Nathan Mumm:

It's supposed to. They say that they're going to release in the fall of. So you say yes. If they release it, yes, right, I say yes also.

Marc Gregoire:

I'll go with yes, okay, let yes, okay, let's just agree.

Mike Gorday:

Let's everybody just act that we're going to agree with everything, so nobody wins.

Nathan Mumm:

I think we have a couple of differences. You know if I tie that we'll be okay. Well, we appreciate everybody that were part of listening to our prediction show. Right now we're going to move right into our Mike's mesmerizing moment. Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does mike have to say today? All right, mike, one minute, because we're short on time, because our prediction show always goes long. Why are hate videos getting more attention now, these days?

Mike Gorday:

I don't know that they're getting more attention. Okay, it's just it's. It's just how it is. That's how we are. Okay, uh, the internet is sewage right, I say that I say that all the time. The internet is a is a festering point for all the negative things that we can do. If you ever had a suggestion box in your office, yeah, what did you get? More of complaints complaints everybody.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody is willing to complain, everybody is willing to throw out their negative opinion. Like I said earlier, the the internet is is rife with the ability to troll, because nobody can nobody, there's no responsibility there, so anybody can say anything they want and get get away with it most of the time. Okay, and that's that's why. That's why they get more attention. It's easier. It's easier to be negative about things than it is to support or be positive about things.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Thank you, mike, for that mesmerizing moment. We're going to take a commercial break. When we come on back we have, of course, mark Mumbles review our technology.

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Speaker 1:

The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey Mumble.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, today is the last day of the year, December 31st. What are we celebrating on this final day of the year?

Nathan Mumm:

Lots of drinking.

Mike Gorday:

What the hell is this? Here's a hint. What the hell is this? Is this like a love ballad? Are we celebrating the 70s?

Marc Gregoire:

She only says one word, pretty much the whole time Lucky, unlucky, unlucky.

Ody:

It is unlucky day.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh, okay. So unlucky day is a day for you to turn your bad luck into luck by forgetting about your misfortunes. If you felt unlucky this year, Mike, then this is a perfect day for you to move on for unfavorable and pessimistic events that happened. That is just BS this day is your last attempt at turning the year around and entering the new year with a positive mindset. Put some positive pants on and learn about this wonderful day. Yes, dad.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, I love that. I love that, all right.

Mike Gorday:

That's not going to happen. All right, tell us a little bit more about this, all right.

Marc Gregoire:

Traveler Whiskey was first released in January 2024, so the beginning of this year, okay and is an ongoing release. Master distiller Harlan Wheatley eloquently summarizes the collaboration with Chris Stapleton as when making art and we really do think that both Chris's music and the whiskey we make at Buffalo Trace is art you experiment, test, adjust and don't give up until you've got it right. That's why we experimented with more than 50 blends before agreeing that blend number 40 would be for Traveler. More than 50 blends before agreeing that blend number 40 would be for Traveler Jeez, talk about 49 unlucky blends into finally something lucky for them with the right one.

Mike Gorday:

Well, this is the right day for it. Huh, it is. It is a lucky day.

Marc Gregoire:

That's right Now, before Nathan even asks no, this is not on my shelf. Okay, someone gave this to Whiskey Chris and he let us borrow it. Okay, I will say I thought I would hate this and I do not. It is an extremely simple, smooth. Put quotes around that and sweet whiskey. I would not have this at home, though I would buy it if going to a party with simpleton whiskey drinkers like yourselves- oh, simple whiskey drinkers like ourselves.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you hear that he called you a simpleton?

Marc Gregoire:

I did get that and my prediction is Mark Slum will probably be down and you two will be up. Oh, I love this this is my prediction Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm loving this, okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, whiskey and technology are a great pairing, just like pairing predictions shows and winning the lottery, two things that are very unlucky and then never come out the way I want them. How do?

Mike Gorday:

you pick these things. That's in there.

Nathan Mumm:

I just know that we just are all. I don't think so I get lucky, all right. Well, let's go to this week's technology fail. We are out of time. Congratulations, you're a failure.

Speaker 6:

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

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, all right, we're going to go right into our failure. We're going to be real quick about it. Open AI responds to a major outage. So if you were trying to use chat GPT, guess what? There was. Any chatting happened to you for a couple of hours as they were offline.

Marc Gregoire:

I experienced it. I actually couldn't do work for a few hours.

Mike Gorday:

That's right. Do you just chat with ChatGPT all day?

Marc Gregoire:

All day long. It gives me all my answers I need.

Mike Gorday:

It was like hanging out and becoming self-aware. Now that's right. It's almost over with.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, a statement from the artificial intelligence company posted on their social media platform that most of ChatGPT's API and SOAR was down last week. They're working to correct it. Opening eyes says that it was a cause by an upstream provider which the company connects to for their local internet services, and that they had problems with their internet. Now, though, let's move on to our Nathan Nugget.

Speaker 1:

This is your nugget of the week, All right?

Nathan Mumm:

we're going to have to breeze through this, but this is really important. We got this from a listener that left us a voicemail. You can always go to techtimeradiocom, click on the top right-hand corner and say ask us a question. They asked us how can I get my house blurred out on Google Maps and other maps on the internet? So let's go right here and talk specifically about how to do it on all three platforms. So Google Maps you're going to need to essentially open up the map, go into report a problem, click on that and choose a category that you want to select and fill out something that says that you have a problem with your location In there. Please request to have your house blurred, submit and boom, they'll get it done within 7 to 10 days.

Nathan Mumm:

Now for Bing maps, it's not very much different. You're going to go and visit Bing maps and then you're going to then choose. There's three tabs on there that are essentially a satellite. There's a bird's eye and then there's a icon that says something else. This is three dots that go up and down horizontally. You click on that and then you do is request a problem area. In the problem area, you request that you have your house removed and they'll get back to you. Or if you're looking to be removed from Apple Maps, all you got to do is send an email to Maps Image Collection that's Maps M-A-P-S Image I-M-A-G-E Collection C-O-L-L-E-C-T-I-i-o-n at applecom, and ask them to blur out your house. If you have a property that you need to have, not on any of these maps, you can do that now. We thank Andre L for asking us this question at Tech Time Radio on our website.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh, Andre S Andre.

Nathan Mumm:

L. Hey, I know Andre.

Mike Gorday:

Hey, shout out, andre, Not on the updated script. It says Andre.

Nathan Mumm:

That says Andrew, not Andre. No, no, on the updated script it says Andre. There you go.

Mike Gorday:

We should have an updated thing. All right, I think you do in your email. There you go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right Now. I got this from my email. What are you talking about? Okay, let's do our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Speaker 1:

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

Marc Gregoire:

All right. Today from Sazerac Company, we're drinking Traveler Whiskey. It's a blended whiskey, it's non-age, stated 90 proof and it is $40.

Nathan Mumm:

$40. And this is good. Two thumbs up. This is the end of the year. This would be maybe one of the best that I would say Are you serious.

Mike Gorday:

Really.

Nathan Mumm:

I actually like this a lot Did you be maybe one of the best that I would say are you serious, really I, I actually like this a lot, did you? I say, thumbs up.

Mike Gorday:

I really like this. I'm gonna give it a thumbs up, but I don't think it's really all that awesome you don't think it's awesome it's. It's a very nice.

Nathan Mumm:

It's very nice tasting whiskey there's that mark day away, when he was away and we had that stuff from chris, it was also, I think, maybe our pick of the year. I we're gonna have to go back and we'll have to start out 2025. For those that are, serious about whiskey.

Marc Gregoire:

it's too expensive for a cocktail mixer and not good enough for sipping on, Unless you bring it to a party and nobody really cares what they're drinking.

Mike Gorday:

I'm going to bring it. Are you going to bring it to the New Year's party? Yeah, it's.

Marc Gregoire:

Chris's bottle oh okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, last time Chris brought us a bottle Okay, well, I got that.

Mike Gorday:

It's still on my thing.

Nathan Mumm:

We want to thank all of our listeners for listening to the program. We can't wait to see you coming up in our 2025 year. Remember, the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week Later. Bye-bye.

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