TechTime with Nathan Mumm

EP 235: AI Commutes, TikTok Legal Battles, Reddit Initiative Keeps Spirits High, "Two Truths and a Lie", Then 800,000 Electric Vehicle Owners Exposed, and Whiskey Tasting New Adventure | Air Date: 1/7 - 1/13/25

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 235

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Discover the unexpected connections between technology and everyday life in our latest episode of Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. Have you ever wondered how AI could inadvertently impact your commute or if your parking choices could land you in hot water? Join us as we unpack the implications of AI-powered enforcement systems and share the scoop on a Volkswagen data leak that exposed the personal information of 800,000 electric vehicle owners. Plus, hear about a quirky Reddit initiative aiming to keep the holiday spirit alive with a heartwarming tale of a beetle plushie making the rounds as a holiday gift.

We take a closer look at the tangled web of politics and tech with TikTok's ongoing legal battles in the U.S. and former President Trump’s surprising stance on the platform. The stakes are high as privacy concerns collide with national security debates, and we dive into the latest developments in this complex narrative. And if you're in the mood for something lighter, we've got stories about creative settlements that'll leave you chuckling and a playful "Two Truths and a Lie" game that challenges you to guess which tech tidbit isn't true.

No episode of Tech Time Radio would be complete without a whiskey tasting adventure, and this one is no exception. We're sampling four straight bourbons from the 2024 whiskey advent calendar and sharing our tasting notes. As laughter flows like fine whiskey, we also touch upon a tech fail involving Apple AirTags and mark National Pass Gas Day with some hilarious banter. Buckle up for a ride through tech news, spirited tastings, and engaging tales that promise to keep you both informed and entertained.

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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, mmmmm. 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.

Nathan Mum:

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-host, mike Raday, is in the studio today. He's the 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.

Speaker 1:

Let's start today's show.

Nathan Mum:

Now on today's show. All right. This week on Tech Time Radio, we're diving into some exciting updates and intriguing tech mysteries. Discover the latest changes Apple is making to its products and find out what unusual settlements are making headlines. Next, we take a trip down memory lane to an event that happened 25 years ago. At the beginning of the year, the reddit community has also found a creative way to keep the holiday spirit alive, and there's a new reason to consider where you park for your quick errands. Plus, we have to reveal the impacts of a major data leak and the latest twist in the high-stakes legal battle with TikTok. In addition, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, a possible Nathan naked and, of course, our pick of the day whiskey tasting to see if our selected whiskey pick gets 0, 1, 2 thumbs up at the end of the show.

Nathan Mum:

Now, today, we're doing something different on the picking All right, so Marco will explain what's going on here. We're going to be doing this at each beginning of the month all the way through November, and then we'll be picking it up. We're going to kind of do some taste. Testing is what Marco wants to do. He's getting crazy. He just wants more, I think whiskey. Do you think that's what the key is for this?

Mike Gorday:

I don't know. We did the very first shows.

Speaker 1:

We did. So we're kind of going back, except we were sampling like six different whiskeys.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, so at least these. But just think of this.

Mike Gorday:

This is like four shots, so by the time we're done with this show. We're going to be able to you know by the time you're done with yours versus because I'm not drinking that much, I'm just sipping, you're just sipping, yeah.

Speaker 1:

By the All right, okay, well, you know what? Now let's move to the latest headlines in the world of technology. Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mum:

All right. Story number one Trump asks the Supreme Court to delay the start of the TikTok ban. All right, let's go to Corrine Westland for more on this story.

Speaker 6:

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a political resolution to the issue. Trump joined the app during his 2024 presidential campaign and his team used it to connect with younger voters, especially male voters, by pushing content that was often macho and aimed at going viral. Trump said earlier this year that he still believed there were national security risks with TikTok, but that he opposed banning it. This month, trump also met with TikTok CEO Sho Chu at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss the media sharing app. Back to you guys in the studio.

Mike Gorday:

Didn't he want to ban it when he was president before?

Nathan Mum:

So well, no, no, no. Actually, for his first term, he loved TikTok because it created competition against Meta and the other apps that were out there that he was all upset with because he doesn't like them. I must be, but hang on, because I remember things change though.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, I remember there was this big thing during his presidency about how bad tiktok was well, it was bad, but he was also very happy that it was able to compete with the american companies that at that time, zuckerberg, he was very upset with and other people that he was upset with.

Mike Gorday:

But now, what you can do. Billionaire bitch fights. I don, how do you do billionaire bitch?

Nathan Mum:

fights.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know what that's all about.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, you know what I'll tell you. This is what we got going on. We essentially have a whole new president in this term here, because now he's inviting everybody to his estate in Florida and they can just come in. Zuckerberg's been there. Everybody just comes and visits him and by the time they leave, then Trump and him are like best buddies, so he invites the CEO from TikTok over.

Mike Gorday:

They got to go kiss a ring or something. I have no idea All right.

Nathan Mum:

Well, this request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs in court with the company, arguing that the court should strike down the law that could ban the platform by January 19th. Well, the government emphasized its position on the statues it needed to eliminate it as a national security risk. In a brief from Trump, though, he says he opposes banning TikTok at this junction and seeks the ability to resolve the issue at hand through political means once he takes the office. Attorneys for TikTok and his parent company, bytedance, argued that the federal appeals court erred in this ruling and based it on its decisions of alleged risks that China could exercise control over TikTok's US platform by pressuring its foreign affiliates.

Nathan Mum:

The Biden administration has argued in court that TikTok poses a national security risk due to the connection to China, but officials say, just because China owns it and ByteDance has that information, that it's turned over. It's information for US patrons to view and to take a look at. You can't hold them legally liable for having the ability to do something if they haven't done the ability of doing something. So that's kind of where we're at right now. We have this filing that came in last Friday from the administration that says that it's by dance company. All right.

Mike Gorday:

Who's going to? Who's going to? What's going to happen? What do you think?

Nathan Mum:

So I think this is what's going to happen. I think it will get very close to being removed. There'll be lots of pushback from the app stores, including the Apple store, the Google play store, that this would be a really tough thing to pull it back Cause you're gonna have to start blocking people. The technology to do this means you have to go onto their phones, which is kind of an invasion of privacy in their app area. Remove the app. So is that good? The government is now going to control what apps you have on your device. I think nothing happens. I think Trump comes on in. I think he does some type of backdoor agreement not agreement and he comes on out shaking hands and says we're all good, don't worry about it, I'll keep the night on China.

Mike Gorday:

What do you think? What do you think our buddy Espinoza, espinoza, espinoza?

Nathan Mum:

hates TikTok right, yeah. And I like TikTok and I think TikTok is really good because I think it's nice to have other companies out there competing with the United States, companies that we know. Meta sells their data to the United States so that they can go through and prune information and find out information about its clients. I just don't like having only one person in a sphere of control. Let's just have three or four people.

Mike Gorday:

I really enjoy the way you, the way you rationalize this, but uh, what is that?

Nathan Mum:

no, I don't agree with that. Okay, so you're on that. Yeah, you're on next. You're on nick's side.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm on nick's side of the fence okay I.

Mike Gorday:

I don't think we should have foreign powers, learning about american citizens.

Nathan Mum:

See I, I think american powers learning about american citizens, not that, not that. Think American powers are not American citizens.

Mike Gorday:

Not that a Chinese government watching TikToks about people shuffle dancing is really going to do a whole lot, so it's going to know that I like a lot of homework If there's a national security risk involved that's a problem.

Nathan Mum:

I only gave him my name and my email address. More stuff out there has been compromised by me having a healthcare provider that I have to use it really doesn't matter, because, no matter what we do, we talk about it all the time.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody gets hacked and everybody's data is out there anyway. Later in today's show we're going to be talking about, I'll just be positive about that and be like hey, pro TikTok.

Nathan Mum:

Let's get that thing.

Mike Gorday:

Let's fact. Instead of just banning TikTok, let's just open it up to all government agencies and let them have everything.

Nathan Mum:

Wait till story number four, because if this scares you right here, this does scare me. I give them little information of what they have. Wait till you get to story number four.

Mike Gorday:

I don't want, I don't want. I want a drink before then.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, All right, Odie.

Ody:

I think you're up with story number two, is that right? Yeah, um, beth patton. Yep, her favorite gift she's ever given through the holiday exchanges this year was inspired by her anonymous recipient's fondness for antiques and beetles. She made a stuffed beetle plushie using antique brocade fabric she found quote making a stranger's christmas is just really fun.

Marc Gregoire:

End quote Okay.

Ody:

For Beth Patton, the best part of the holiday season is not the lights or the snow or opening presents from family members. It's swapping gifts with random strangers on the internet. It was the latest online gift-giving event of its kind to shut down, as Imgur's event followed the same fate as the immensely popular Redditdit gifts, which I've never heard about okay, you never heard about, I've never heard about until today okay but that ended in 2021.

Ody:

But the christmas spirit is strong and patent and other reddit users are keeping user to user gift exchanges alive. After her go-to exchange died, patent Patton is now participating in Given Gifts, another program that sprung up in the wake of Reddit's gifts demise three years ago. She's already done five gift exchanges this holiday season. Its main holiday gift swap event works much like the Reddit-run Secret Santa. The annual tradition matches hundreds of people together anonymously from around the world, who are then each responsible for giving a present to the other. Gifters are given a brief bit of their gifties interests, their likes and dislikes, to help them come up with a present they think the recipient would like the given gifts exchange are organized on a website separate from its dedicated subreddit, and keeping up the fast growing event became more involved.

Ody:

The team had to find a way to make sure matches were in the same country so this is like a global thing and so that way they didn't have to pay international shipping rates. And when the team ran into issues like people not getting gifts, they began a rematching program that ensured no one came up empty-handed. People are extremely emotional when they're giving and receiving gifts. It becomes a special thing to them and they need help. We would get thousands of emails when it's growing exponentially every year. You know that means that we're still talking to just a massive amount of users. For now, Patton the 26 the 26 year old is happy that her idea of Christmas isn't canceled. There's just nothing like that in real life. Doing a secret Santa with people you know just isn't the same thing as this massive thing with strangers. You feel like you're a part of something bigger.

Nathan Mum:

That's part of Christmas all right so that's a good little feel-good story okay, so so do you do secret Santas.

Ody:

No.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, you don't do secret Santas. We do a little bit of a secret Santa at work and then we do a different gift exchange for New Year's which is much more aggressive than a secret Santa, Would you say, Mike. Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Absolutely A little bit more aggressive. Yes, the mom family Super Bowl. It's a death match of gift giving and taking and throwing.

Nathan Mum:

But you did come out with some nice whiskey. Well, it's fun, it's fun it is All right, so it's very competitive.

Mike Gorday:

It's cutthroat.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, so do you understand this gift gifting stuff? They ship all of the stuff to a company, so it's very competitive, it's cutthroat. Yeah, so do you understand this gift gifting stuff? They ship all of the stuff to a company. So I used to think of that. So until I started researching this, I thought that you would just get an address of somebody and then you could just send that item to an address of somebody.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mum:

That's how it originally started. But then all of a sudden you had like creepers and stalkers and stalkers.

Ody:

That's what I thought.

Nathan Mum:

They would find out what's going on. So now what happens is you get a secret Santa. You send it into this company. This company then takes them. They say there's so many people. They take all these gifts and they say, okay, this is from Amanda H and it's going to Tracy C, and they then ship it out because you pay for the shipping to go there to the place. Then you pay money to have it shipped out so you can send random strangers on the internet just for the holidays that's kind of cool is it kind of cool, you like, you'd like to do that I think it would be fun.

Ody:

I think it's better than, like you know, people are willingly participating other than you know how you said at your work yeah not everybody is super happy and not everybody is fully into getting a good gift. That is 30 some dollars.

Nathan Mum:

You know yeah.

Ody:

A lot of people just try to get away One, they forget about it and then they don't do it. Or two, they don't want to spend up to the exact amount, or like in the office when Michael just spent way too much. And then other people were, you know, fighting over one specific item.

Mike Gorday:

You mean Michael Scott?

Ody:

from the Office.

Mike Gorday:

Yes, with the iPod.

Ody:

With the iPod.

Mike Gorday:

Because he wanted to have the great gift right. Yes, that shows one of the problem areas of these types of things.

Nathan Mum:

All right, exactly. Speaking of problems, you know what? There's a lot of problems with people parking where they shouldn't.

Ody:

I'm guilty of this. Are you're guilty of that, are you?

Mike Gorday:

are you guilty of parking in the bus lane?

Ody:

no, but listen. Capitol hill is a minefield on its own. If I want to park in the center lane and put on my little caution lights for the five minutes that I'm picking up a pizza, yeah screw that, I'm doing it. Whoa Well not an, even maybe number.

Nathan Mum:

All right, I think Mike has a story for us.

Ody:

It's not a bus lane, it's the center lane.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, well, hey, don't be giving spoilers out yet. That's even worse. Here you go here you go.

Mike Gorday:

You're up, mike yeah, if you're the kind of person that likes to park in the bus lane for a quick errand because the nation's biggest transit systems are now using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. The company behind those campers is a startup called Hayden AI, which offered to demonstrate how they work in real life on the streets. Near its offices in New Jersey suburbs, cameras are mounted inside of the front windshield of the bus, where they can take in everything that's happening in the front of it. The system analyzes those images to the side of us looking at a vehicle and whether that vehicle is stopped somewhere it shouldn't be. In just three years, hayden AI has launched services with transit agencies in New York, washington, oakland, california and Los Angeles, so right now it's okay, but it is deploying pilot programs in Seattle and Denver.

Mike Gorday:

There you go, it's not okay, as it should. And it's talking with other cities, including Philly and Chicago.

Nathan Mum:

So yeah, they now have these installed. I know the person that actually worked on installing these in Seattle.

Ody:

As a Washingtonian, what are you doing? Parking in the bus lane. We don't have any space for these cars, to begin with, because we don't have any space.

Mike Gorday:

That's one of the urban problems is the amount of space and the amount of vehicles that we have and all the wonderful infrastructure that doesn't support it. That's why you need to take the light rail. So, yes, take the light rail.

Nathan Mum:

It actually works really nice. In center of seattle yeah yeah but, and on the outskirts, not that much, okay, okay, all right, I'll keep on going.

Mike Gorday:

Mike, tell us more about this great system that it's going to be the camera systems are using the ai to help transit agencies catch and find drivers who illegally black the law, illegally block bus lanes and bus stops. Uh, but that's not the ultimate goal.

Ody:

No.

Mike Gorday:

When you look at the reason for enforcement, it's really not to write tickets. It's about changing behavior. So this is basically what's called reinforcement types of behavior management, and we're seeing a reduction in the number of repeat offenders. That's true, because if you keep getting tagged, you're probably going to stop doing that.

Marc Gregoire:

You're really going to stop doing it.

Mike Gorday:

There's some evidence that these camera systems are helping buses move faster, though their rollout has hit a few speed bumps themselves. That expansion is not going quite as planned. As hundreds of drivers originally received some erroneous tickets, it wasn't anything too worrisome at first, because you realize that you were parked in a legal spot, and this person that I guess was erroneously tagged says that he's careful about parking only in a legal spot, so he was surprised when the tickets started arriving. Tickets, tickets. Tickets Three in a single day.

Mike Gorday:

What? Yes, there's supposed to be an additional level of human review. Again, this is always the problem that I talk about, that we talk about when we talk about this AI stuff. There should be somebody who is looking at each video of the alleged violation before deciding whether or not to issue the ticket and, typically speaking, that doesn't happen because we have a replacement.

Nathan Mum:

We trust the technology, yeah. But if you replace it and you get 80 to 90% of the people that actually end up paying the fines immediately and then you have to only have customer support for the 10 to 20% I'm in all these new meetings now at senior level management At a senior level, they would consider that a great idea that I only have to worry about 20%.

Mike Gorday:

That's like saying we have 100 hostages and and we're gonna be able to rescue 90 of them. That's, that's exactly the same argument yes, you're saying that 10 is going to get illegally fined, that's okay well, but then so they can.

Nathan Mum:

10.

Mike Gorday:

The hostages are not going to make it out, that's okay we've got 90.

Ody:

you know what. If they have an issue, they could just pay attention to where they're parking well, that's what.

Mike Gorday:

That's what this fellow's point was is he was parking in a legal spot and he got, he was getting tickets. He said he got three tickets in one day so because the system was erroneously thinking he was in an illegal spot.

Nathan Mum:

He does not believe in the system, but just like red light cameras. Do you like red light cameras?

Ody:

I love red light cameras. Best form of entertainment while you're driving.

Mike Gorday:

Truly, you're just sitting there at the red light watching people get tagged, yeah.

Nathan Mum:

They get tagged all the time. So you know red light cameras now are pretty much universal across the United States and they generate a lot of income because people don't stop and do it so some of the stuff will pay for itself. They keep on issuing lots of tickets for you.

Mike Gorday:

It's not always about the money, though, is it?

Nathan Mum:

No, you think the departments of these really care about people parking in the bus lanes. They want to make the money.

Mike Gorday:

They want the bus lanes clear. I get that, okay, okay, so this is not a simple problem, it's a complex problem. Yeah, because, like we talked about at the beginning of the the thing, the infrastructure is not built for what americans like to have. So we have all these cars and then we conglomerate in these cities and there's not enough places to put your cars especially if you have more than one, was perfect when we were traveling in japan. They understand how to do cars like one car have cars.

Nathan Mum:

So everything is yeah, everything is mass commuted on either a bus line, an Uber, Pica or a shuttle service that's culturally generated.

Ody:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Because they live on islands.

Ody:

They don't require all that stuff. Americans are not like this. We want our cars.

Nathan Mum:

We want our freedom.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, personal freedoms and stuff like that. Speaking of cars.

Nathan Mum:

Let's talk about Volkswagen. The car manufacturer had a leak that exposed the location of 800,000 electric vehicles. Just think, if you're driving in a Volkswagen, it's an electric car and all of a sudden, someone can track and know exactly where you are. Know information about your email, your address, your phone number and information on your driver's record. That's all available. Well, for months, this information has been around for all Volkswagen vehicles, available online, due to a data leak. According to a report from a German news magazine, jurorspiegel, the leak reportedly stemmed from the software running inside the Volkswagen's vehicle. A whistleblower noted that it also affects EVs from Volkswagen's owned car brands on a global scale, including the Audi, the Seat and the Skoda.

Nathan Mum:

We talked about this eight months ago regarding modern cars are a privacy nightmare on a report that was done from Mozilla, and we talked about how automakers are also selling data and blocking the rights to repair. Automakers are also selling data and blocking the rights to repair. It's very interesting because when you ask the customer service on what happened here, it does note that there was a leak of services, but it has been fixed and the amounts of data collected by modern day vehicles in this privacy nightmare has been taken care of and no action is needed. So let's talk about what actually happened here, just real briefly. We had 800 000 electric vehicles in volkswagen that has a pinging device inside of them, with gps pinging device that they did not have code written correctly for, and at any time you could just pull up a car make and model number and you could see the person driving it, the email, the person driving it where, the email of the person driving it where it was across the globe. Does that make you feel safe to buy a new Volkswagen?

Mike Gorday:

Oh yeah, I always want everybody knowing where I live.

Nathan Mum:

Exactly where I park and your phone number, especially if I'm in a bus lane. Your bus lane. What's interesting about this is there's no recourse for Volkswagen. They just say that they had a leak and they took care of it and as that information was available online for people to look at, just freely available, nobody hacked into it, it was just available on that. It's no big deal, I guess.

Mike Gorday:

No harm, no foul. That's what happened, Because at some point people just go, eh, it's going to happen.

Nathan Mum:

That's because they signed their user agreements that said, if that happens, that they cannot sue. All All right. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have more technology news just around the corner. Buckle up tech enthusiasts, as we're going to do so with two truths and a lie, after this commercial break.

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Nathan Mum:

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, where 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 Gregoire, our whiskey connoisseur, is back and he has a new first of the month tradition that we're going to start. So, mark, what have we chosen for us today? What is going on here?

Mike Gorday:

We have four glasses in front of us, all these glasses of whiskey, and we haven't even started drinking yet. So after that last news report, I really need some all right.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, I'm glad I brought four for each of you today. So today we are doing the 2024 flavor out advent calendar round one okay so we are using the 2024 whiskey advent.

Marc Gregoire:

That way we don't spoil it for anybody. All right, there's 24 remarkable whiskeys to use for our year-long blind whiskey competition to see which one Nathan and Mike like best. Come along for the ride on the first Tuesday of every month while we uncover new tastes and train their senses to become true connoisseurs, today is round one, where they will choose their winner to move on. If they disagree, I will be the deciding vote. Oh no, oh no, oh no. Now, today, all four of our samples are straight bourbon whiskey. So start tasting them, because you got to get through four.

Nathan Mum:

All right, here we go. Here's the first one.

Marc Gregoire:

Now bourbon. Straight bourbon whiskey is a type of bourbon whiskey aged in new charge oak containers for at least two years, adhering to strict regulations to ensure authenticity and purity. Now these are the regulations to be called straight whiskey Location must be made in the US. The ingredients must have at least 51% corn in the mash bill. Distillation to no more than 160 proof when you distill it, Age and you chart oak containers for at least two years. Additives there's no flavoring, coloring or additives allowed, Only water to adjust the proof the proof must go into the barrels at no more than 125 proof, Bottled at less than 80 proof. And the labeling if it's under four years, that there must be an age on the bottle. If there's no age on the bottle, you know it's at least four years.

Nathan Mum:

Wow all right, okay, all right, have you tasted?

Mike Gorday:

tasted all of them, mike. No, I'm. I'm taking my time so I can give a little bit of space between my tasting. You just slammed everything.

Nathan Mum:

I got two immediately that I have eliminated. I'm eliminated two. I'm going to get it down between the next two as I will continue to sip. The other items number one and items number four are pretty much been gotten rid of.

Marc Gregoire:

Number one and number four, all right, well, hang on, but don't tell me yet, though, why not?

Nathan Mum:

That's good.

Marc Gregoire:

We're going to reveal what everything is at the end of the Mark's Mumbles, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, just keep drinking and enjoying, but remember, drink responsibly, because heaven can wait All right.

Nathan Mum:

With our first whiskey tasting, completed our first four. Let's move on to our feature segment. Today we have a rare segment that tests our staff with what is true and what is not. Let's start our next segment.

Speaker 1:

And now we have two truths and a lie and now we have.

Nathan Mum:

And now we have two truths and a lie.

Mike Gorday:

We a lot of two truths, two truths, two truths and a lie all right, here's what we got.

Nathan Mum:

I'm gonna ask you guys these are three headlines out of the news and you're gonna choose which one of these is correct od, you're up on this one too. So here we go, let's take a look. Number one story the most pirated tv show in 2024 was avatar the last airbender. A young boy known as the avatar must master the four elements powers to save the world and fight against an enemy bent on stopping him. So that's story number one. Story number two samsung bespoke fridges are adding ai that will look inside your fridges and analyze your grocery needs and then put in an automatic Instacart order. Samsung wants your fridge to take care of your grocery shopping with a little assistance from Instacart. Samsung and Instacart have partnered on same-day grocery delivery based on what the AI in Samsung's bespoke refrigerators sees that you need to have. In other words, the fridge could tell them the milk is running low and add a carton to your Instacart order before you even notice. And story number three. So that's story number two your refrigerator is now ordering stuff for you from Instacart. Story number one the most pirated show was Avatar. And story number three Apple CEO Tim Cook is the next tech executive to donate $1 million to the president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration committee.

Nathan Mum:

Cook's donation follows similar comments and commitments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Meta, as a big tech company's and executive's work to curry favor with the incoming administration. All right. So I never knew that this inauguration committee and this inauguration money was ever like this big deal, but this guy has now got over $10 million in his war chest. For what's the inauguration? Is it just for the party? I need to find out more information from that, cause I don't know if that's just to throw the party or it's for the whole ceremony.

Marc Gregoire:

The swearing in it's for all that they bring bands. Yeah, okay, it's gonna be the biggest one ever.

Mike Gorday:

Wow so that one is a true one, huh well I don't know that.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, well, did you? Did you listen to everything in there? Are we sure that opens aico? Sam altman and jeff bezos and meta have also donated a million dollars. So let's see, that was the little trick I could have thrown in there, right?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we know your game, buddy.

Nathan Mum:

Okay or alright so here. So okay, odie, are you trying to look online real quick?

Ody:

I'm on Facebook. You're on Facebook, okay alright.

Nathan Mum:

Which one of these three do you think is the lie?

Ody:

You know as much as I love Avatar, the Last Airbender. I think that's a lie.

Nathan Mum:

You think that's a lie.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mum:

Okay.

Ody:

It's too good to be true.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, in my eyes All right, that's your lie.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, mark, what's your lie? You know, I had the same thought as Odie, except I don't want number three to be true. So I'm going to say that one's not Tim Cook and Apple CEO giving him money. All right.

Nathan Mum:

So he's got a number. Well, Mike, it's up to you. There's two.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm going to go with Odie here. I'm going to say that Last Avatar is the false one, because I can really believe that AI is trying to tell me my milk is low and going to try and order it online. I'm pretty sure that donating a million dollars to the inauguration fund is a normal behavior. Okay.

Nathan Mum:

All right, well, so let's just talk about number two. Samsung's fridge of AI is going to be adding there. Guess what? That is going to be happening in CES, which we're going to be talking the best of CES from 2024 coming on up. So that was a correct story.

Marc Gregoire:

That means Nathan did not win today.

Nathan Mum:

I did not win today. That is absolutely what that means, and Apple CEO Tim Cook is donating $1 million to the president elect Donald Trump's committee.

Marc Gregoire:

That's correct. That was true, but I didn couldn't vote any other way.

Nathan Mum:

So the most pirated TV show in 2024. Does anybody have a guess of what it was? It was not Avatar, the Last Airbender.

Ody:

So I knew that was the lie, so I googled it because I was curious. I know what the answer is.

Nathan Mum:

Oh, so you know the answer no, no, no, it's so obvious.

Ody:

It wasn't Avatar the Last Airbender.

Nathan Mum:

So that was the second most downloaded, so that was actually number two, that's the runner up.

Ody:

Number two was less than half of the pirate Avatar, the Last Airbender, the Netflix version or the original the Netflix.

Nathan Mum:

The Netflix because it came on out in 2024.

Marc Gregoire:

Rings of Power. It wasn't Rings of Power, no.

Nathan Mum:

Everybody's got Amazon Prime.

Mike Gorday:

You're talking about the original last.

Ody:

No, you're talking about the live action one, the dumb movie. No, no, no, I don't have.

Mike Gorday:

Netflix, I think probably the most pirated one was what's that Netflix show called? It's one of the best Netflix shows. The Last of Us?

Nathan Mum:

no, not that one that's HBO. You just really put your foot in it, didn't you? You're like yeah, no, mike, it's the last of us no, so HBO is normally the number one downloaded deal, because most people don't have HBO that is the key so the House of Dragons series continued this season. You know the House of Dragons. Yeah, I don't really like that one. Okay, well, that was the most pirated by all over double. What was the second?

Mike Gorday:

one, the last dragon.

Ody:

Or the dragon, the House of Dragons. The House of Dragons was the most pirated. It's a Game of Thrones reboot.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, I know what it is. I just don't think it's worthy of. Maybe it's worthy of pirating, I don't know.

Ody:

Well.

Marc Gregoire:

Maybe it's worthy of pirating. I don't know. A lot of people don't have HBO. Like Nathan just said, Everybody has Amazon Prime. If it's not good, is it worth it Pirating?

Mike Gorday:

versus pain-free. That's my thing.

Nathan Mum:

You wouldn't want it on Pirated, let alone you wouldn't pay for it.

Mike Gorday:

No, I wouldn't pirate it if I were a pirate. Okay, well there you go.

Nathan Mum:

So good job, odie. Did you find that it was the House of Dragons? Did you look at it real quick?

Ody:

Well, I just couldn't believe that the live, because Mark and I went into a whole discourse about it last year I know, you know, I could not believe that that is the most pirated one.

Nathan Mum:

Well, that ends our two truths in the line it's the second most pirated one.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah.

Nathan Mum:

That was a pretty good show actually. I enjoyed the live-action One Piece a lot, All right.

Mike Gorday:

The movie, the old movie, no, no, no, one Piece.

Nathan Mum:

The new show on Netflix. Mike needs to get Netflix. Clearly, Mike does not have Netflix. Yeah, Mike needs.

Mike Gorday:

So somebody needs to call Tim Cook and have him give some of that inaugural free so that I can get.

Nathan Mum:

Netflix A private invite to go down to Trump's estate down in Florida?

Mike Gorday:

I don't pay for.

Nathan Mum:

Netflix Do you realize that he just named his property.

Ody:

Mar-a-Lago.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, so he just named it. He just decided, you know what I'm going to call it something. And then, instead of anybody coming on over to my Florida house, you're just going to come on over to my Florida house. You're just going to come on over to this name that I did. It just kills me. He just decided to market his own house.

Ody:

Are we surprised by this?

Mike Gorday:

This is now.

Nathan Mum:

Kingdom Come. So when you come into my house and you come into the studio, you're now coming into Kingdom Come.

Marc Gregoire:

Nathan, I don't want to defend anybody. However, that is not an uncommon thing to do and it's actually been shown in real estate. If you actually name your property or have a name for it, it actually increases its value too, really, yeah.

Nathan Mum:

That's why I'm going to name my apartment complex. Oh, well, there you go.

Mike Gorday:

There's the get out of that story.

Nathan Mum:

Let's move on now to Mike's mesmerizing moment. Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does Mike have?

Speaker 6:

to say today.

Nathan Mum:

Mike, here you go. How do you feel about getting an AI ticket for committing an infraction?

Mike Gorday:

Why do you always have to ask me AI questions when you know how I feel. Because it's fun. Because it's fun, you don't like it.

Nathan Mum:

Well, he does like it. He's very positive about it.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm super positive that I want all AI to track my movements, what I eat, when I pee in my toilet, where.

Marc Gregoire:

I park. Oh, I'm actually looking forward to that.

Mike Gorday:

Because that can tell you so much. Yeah, yeah, the water from the toilet, yeah, tell me if my kidneys are failing.

Nathan Mum:

That's, that's something.

Mike Gorday:

We got kidney stones, or I'm, I'm so, I'm, so, I'm getting so old that.

Nathan Mum:

How do you feel about getting an ai ticket for committing an infraction?

Mike Gorday:

I you know what. I would be okay with it because that has a better chance of getting thrown out of the court and I won't have to pay anything, except for the fact that I have to spend time going to court to challenge it.

Ody:

Yeah, I was just about to say you have to go to court, pay your parking ticket, which is probably also AI.

Mike Gorday:

If we're talking about getting a ticket from a real police officer versus an AI ticket, I would rather get the AI ticket. I don't want to get AI tickets at all. Okay, but if I have to decide whether or not I'm going to get a ticket from a real cop or an AI cop, I would prefer the AI one, because that would be easily challenged in court, okay.

Nathan Mum:

All right. Well, thank you, Mike, for your mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

I don't think that was very mesmerizing.

Nathan Mum:

It's your moment.

Mike Gorday:

It doesn't really talk about human behavior.

Nathan Mum:

But you had the AI ticket thing so I was just curious. You know people like to learn a little bit about Mike.

Mike Gorday:

No, they already know that I don't like AI that much.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, well, they're learning If they're new to the show. If you're new to the show.

Mike Gorday:

I don't like AI. I think it's irresponsible and way overpowered.

Nathan Mum:

All right Up. Next, we have this Week in Technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we're going to be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. See you in a few minutes. Hey, mike Yo, yeah, what's up? Hey?

Mike Gorday:

so you know what. We need people to start liking our social media page. If you like our show, if you really like us, you can use your support on Patreoncom. Is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon, okay, patreon. If you really like us, you can like us on Patreoncom.

Nathan Mum:

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

Mike Gorday:

Patreoncom. If you really like our show, you can subscribe to patreoncom and help us out and you can visit us on that Facebook platform.

Nathan Mum:

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.

Nathan Mum:

Do you know what our Facebook page is? Tech Time Radio.

Mike Gorday:

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Nathan Mum:

And you know what?

Mike Gorday:

there's a. There's a trend here?

Nathan Mum:

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. That's at tech time radio. Or you can find us on tiktok, and it's tech time radio.

Mike Gorday:

It's at tech time radio like and subscribe to our social like us today we need you to like us, like us and subscribe. That's it's it.

Nathan Mum:

That's it. It's that simple.

Speaker 1:

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

Nathan Mum:

All right. This week in technology we look back to January 1st 2000. It's been 25 years since Y2K was a world scare. What seemed like a joke now caused IT people in the world in 1999 to freak out. In December of 1999, the world prepared for the global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a small software glitch. Many older computer programs had been coded with dates using just two numbers instead of four. At midnight of December 31st it could misrepresentate what was going on with a zero. Zero for the year 2000, which spread wide panic that this air could revert everything back to the early 1900s. Now the Clinton administration said the preparing was that.

Mike Gorday:

I said see, this would have been a great question. They asked me earlier what was that? What happened here? Well, you can talk. The Clinton administration said the preparing. What was that? I said see, this would have been a great question.

Nathan Mum:

They asked me earlier what was that? What happened here case? Well, you can talk. Okay.

Nathan Mum:

The clinton administration said the preparing for the us for y2k was probably the single largest technology management challenge in history. The bug threatened to cascade a potential disruption, blackouts, medical equipment failures, banks shutting down, travel screeching to a halt if the systems and softwares weren't able to continue to function because they did not know what Euro was. At least these gave a rise to the end of the world as we know it. But thankfully the Y2K problem in the year 2000 didn't live up to the height. Computer specialists and grassroots organizers prepped for a global meltdown. They had formidable years coming on up to this where people were so worried about the zero, zero moving into the 1900s, the people decided to create what was known as bug out bags and mobile home and a year supply of dehydrated food, a propane generator. They were just some of the precautions purchased from California. Computer programmer Scott Olmstead made an advance to the year 2000.

Nathan Mum:

Some financial analysts remain skeptical why 2K would come and go without any disruption. But by November of 1999, the Federal Reserve said that it was confident the US economy would weather the big glitch. Dozens of communities across the US formed Y2K-prepared groups to starve off an unnecessary panic. Now Kathy Gracia, an organizer for the Y2K Community Project in Boulder, colorado, said fears of the social meltdown offered opportunity to take stock. So let me ask you this, mike Y2K came during your time. Were you scared about Y2K shutting down everything?

Mike Gorday:

I was not, but I was working security at that time frame, so everything was all hands on deck all over the place. We had to lock down our facilities, we had to make sure nobody was trying to break in. We were advised that we might have looters and it was crazy. This is a really good instance of mass hysteria on a societal level.

Nathan Mum:

I think it was probably even larger than maybe some of the COVID lockdowns and scares. It's a little different because that is more of a disease that could kill you, but this was like the whole economy, you know arguably, arguably, the y2k problem could have contributed to the lack of response for the covid problem.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, I mean that you could.

Marc Gregoire:

You could argue that that some people were like I remember when y2k came around and nothing happened that's a good point because I remember when y2k come, I was kind of one of the poo-pooers. This was overblown, the whole thing. But now, being over 35 years in the tech industry, I think it was a really good job by the engineers and software coders that we had a few years to work on it and the problem got dealt with. They did with upgrades.

Nathan Mum:

I worked for a large software company down in Redmond Washington Go ahead and say it it's okay, you can admit it was.

Nathan Mum:

Microsoft. Well, I didn't say that, but you did. Okay, and it was all hands on deck and I was an IT person providing high-level support to billionaires at the time. So I was in an executive support position and we had all hands on deck and we had people literally fly to remote locations. Most of the executives at Microsoft were at like remote locations that they flew to and they were bunkering down to ensure in case, things were bad.

Nathan Mum:

This is the big wigs at the software company were scared of what was going to happen and they bunker down. And then all of a sudden everybody watched Sydney. So that was, everybody was watching to see what happened in Australia. And then, when Sydney didn't crash and things were still running there, then all of a sudden there was this big yes, we may be able to make it. And then what we didn't realize which is interesting now is that this is such a global event that we could watch other nations as their time rolled over at different times and then see how things were going, because by the time it hit through uk, as it was coming through, and there was no issues, then all of a sudden we got big emails coming on out. It looks like this was a little bit overblown we've been able to fix this, don't don't worry about it, you can stand down.

Nathan Mum:

So it was a very interesting deal because it didn't even come to the United States by the time that we were back on minimum staff back to just regular support.

Mike Gorday:

I managed a 20-something person security force at this one facility. It was a tech facility and we ended up we were all outside watching fireworks go off. That's all we did on New Year's 1999 was watch fireworks. All right, Mark, did you do anything?

Nathan Mum:

in particular.

Marc Gregoire:

I partied like it was 1999. Oh Okay.

Nathan Mum:

All right, I would ask Odie, but Odie does not remember the words.

Ody:

I was born seven months later.

Nathan Mum:

Oh, okay.

Ody:

There you go, non-existent.

Mike Gorday:

And then, a year later, we had our actual, real problem. What was that?

Ody:

In 01? Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

What? What happened in 01?

Nathan Mum:

The attacks, oh, the world tracing Anyway, okay, wow. Wow you guys, man, all right, here we go.

Mike Gorday:

All right, well, no, the word train was 9-11. That was 9-11, right, it was 2001.

Ody:

Yes, but that's it.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, let's move to drinking.

Nathan Mum:

All right, that sounds good that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history. You've got to drink to it 220-plus weekly broadcasts spanning five-plus years of video, video podcast information. Visit us at techtimeradiocom and watch our older shows. Well, we're going to go a commercial break, we're going to taste some more items and then we're going to come back to.

Speaker 4:

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Speaker 1:

that's s-t-o-r-i coffeecom, the segment we've been waiting all week for mark's whiskey mumble all right gentlemen, the three of us are so excited about january 7th, I'm sure.

Marc Gregoire:

What is that? Oh my goodness, it is national pass gas day. Oh wow, odie, odie, those are beautiful sound effects.

Mike Gorday:

I think every day is national fart day this is with no regret yeah, no, no, what do you call that no?

Nathan Mum:

hatred Silent, but deadly.

Marc Gregoire:

It's no better time than to express ourselves and free our bowels of stale air without shame. That's what he said.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, okay, okay, so we can crop, dust the aisle in the Safeway and be okay with it.

Marc Gregoire:

You just let them know it's January 7th. It's okay because passing gas is one of those things that will make everyone giggle, from children to adults. Do you know that the gas we pass contains methane and hydrogen? Yes, making it flammable, all guys know this Terrence and Phillips, but don't worry. You need an insane amount of gas to be able to burst into flames just from passing gas.

Mike Gorday:

No, but you can get some really good party tricks going on.

Marc Gregoire:

So you can keep on passing as much gas as you desire, mike, today.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, well, I should have ate some beans before I showed up.

Ody:

I got you covered, Mike. Thanks, man.

Marc Gregoire:

Now you know what else produces gas. Our listeners know. Oh, what's that? The yeast during the making of whiskey, oh, that's right. Our samples here release trace amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, among other gases, while fermenting.

Mike Gorday:

How about that? So we have bacteria farting in your liquor?

Nathan Mum:

Oh, okay, all right, you got to make it so gentlemen, All right, so got to make it Gentlemen, all right so are we going to wait till the very end and then choose our favorite?

Marc Gregoire:

Or how do we do this, but I'll tell you what they are now, if you want. So which ones? You rule some out, let's talk about one and one, and four is gone from Mike.

Mike Gorday:

I ruled out one, so that was the one we have, all right so number one is from Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, kentucky.

Marc Gregoire:

It's a straight whiskey, seven years, 100 proof, 78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10% rye and it goes for about $45. It's a Heaven Hill bottled and bond seven year, okay. Okay, is there any other one that you ruled out? I ruled out four, Mike.

Mike Gorday:

I guess, if I have to rule out something, I rolled out three, but I had.

Nathan Mum:

Is three still in contention Three is still in my contender.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, I'll tell you what everything is.

Nathan Mum:

Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

You guys already have. Okay, that's the sips, so number two is Chicken Cock.

Mike Gorday:

I'm going to just rule out all the names Chicken, cock.

Marc Gregoire:

Kentucky Straight Bourbon. It's from Grain and Barrel Spirits. Bardstown Bourbon Company distilled it. Straight whiskey. It's non-age stated, 90 proof, 70% corn, 21% rye, 9% malted barley $60.

Nathan Mum:

I've actually bought that before it's got a red chicken. You've been on the show before.

Marc Gregoire:

Yep. You're a chicken cock, are you? No, I can't see the number three is pinhook Kentucky straight bourbon. That's kind of I'm liking that one from C H C J S beverage Corp. It's distilled at castle and key distillery in Frankfurt. Kentucky straight whiskey. Non-age stated, 98 proofs, 75% corn, 15% ride, 10 malted barley. $43 for this one. Okay. And the final one, number four, which you did not like and Mike has not ruled out, which is shocking. It is Remus Highest Rye Bourbon. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

I don't think that's shocking, because you have been trying to get me to become a rye fan and I have been totally going on that.

Marc Gregoire:

So this is from Ross and Squ squib, which is used to be known as mgp, from indiana straight whiskey, six years old, 109 proof, 51 corn. So the minimum corn it can be to be called a bourbon, 39 rye and 10 malted barley, it goes for 55 dollars all right, okay.

Nathan Mum:

Well, we'll see which ones are at the end of their show. Whiskey and technology are a great pairing, just like the comedian classic gems of Laurel and Hardy. Did you know that they impaired as a team and 107 films, starting in 32 short silent films, 40 short sound films and 23 full length feature films?

Marc Gregoire:

I did not know they did that. There were that yeah that was.

Mike Gorday:

that's a lot, Did you like that?

Nathan Mum:

information. All right, let's prepare for 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.

Speaker 8:

Did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes, did I yes.

Nathan Mum:

All right. Well, today's failure comes to us from the world of Apple and CPSC. Now Apple AirTags had to add a new child safety battery warning. Apple is adding the warnings to comply with law mandating labels on products with buttons, cell or coin batteries. Apple has added warning labels to AirTags and their boxes to comply with the law requiring the label of the product with buttons, cell or coin batteries that they could be ingested by children.

Nathan Mum:

According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission in a press release, airtags imported to the US after March 19, 2024, which was when the law was known as Reese's Law went into effect, did not have the required on-product, on-box warning concerns for the severe risk or injury of battery ingestion if these small batteries are not kept out of reach of children. Now Apple AirTag battery compartments have the warning symbols. Apple has updated all the boxes to include required warning statements and we are here to help remind people that anytime your child decides to ingest a battery the size of over a quarter size, please make sure you get it taken care of, because these batteries could be dangerous. Can you believe that I said? I have my own personal opinions.

Speaker 6:

I'm just reporting the news okay, all right, so how?

Nathan Mum:

can you swallow something this big? These are huge. I remember little things, little little bullets that I used to have as kids that we have. I understand it wasn't batteries, but there was those little batteries you used to have that you put together.

Mike Gorday:

You know children of a certain age are going to put stuff in their mouth and they're going to swallow stuff. I mean, one of my memories of my own children is when my son, my eldest son, actually choked on a nickel so I had to do the Heimlich on him on a nickel, so I had to do the Heimlich on them. So this is obviously a concern for little children. I don't know why older children are swallowing these things. I don't know why anybody would swallow these things.

Ody:

Why would anyone eat Tide Pods? They're just dumb.

Nathan Mum:

Of course, of course you know, Sorry, we had a whole generation that did that.

Mike Gorday:

Maybe I have well-meaning parents that want to be able to locate me wherever I am. Is that what you have?

Nathan Mum:

going on, so here, okay, instead of putting this on their clothes.

Mike Gorday:

I just, I don't know.

Nathan Mum:

I, you know.

Mike Gorday:

I shouldn't joke about this, but I mean, it's interesting that this is all about putting a warning on a label, when people should understand that small objects get swallowed by children all the time my parents didn't care about me.

Nathan Mum:

They just let me go out and play. I figured out how to survive on my own. I must have ate a bunch of batteries.

Mike Gorday:

Gen X kids were probably the last generation that experienced real life.

Nathan Mum:

Okay, is that what you're saying?

Ody:

Yeah, your life is fake. You're all virtual reality.

Mike Gorday:

Don't look like that, Odie.

Nathan Mum:

We have seatbelts.

Mike Gorday:

We had lawn darts. I still have those lawn darts too, I know you do, because you have everything.

Nathan Mum:

Hang on now. Let's move on now to our Nathan Nugget.

Speaker 1:

This is your Nugget of the.

Nathan Mum:

Week, here we go. Do you know Apple? Everybody listen up. What is that? When they used to come on Saturday morning cartoons and they provided you educational updates. What do they call those things? It was like a conjunction junction.

Ody:

There was like PSA, psa, here's your PSA, here's public service announcement.

Nathan Mum:

Yeah, so this is a PSA for everybody.

Mike Gorday:

This listing for Nathan Saturday morning cartoons. That's right.

Nathan Mum:

Apple will pay $95 million to people who were spied on by Siri. You can get up to $20 for each device you bought that you accidentally activated Siri on. Apple has agreed to pay $95 million in assentment with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees Overheard by human.

Marc Gregoire:

So maybe that's why Apple's paying Trump $1 million as part of the settlement.

Nathan Mum:

The proposed settlement reported by Bloomberg could pay as many devices $20 per device up to five Siri-enabled devices. That means, if it's approved by a judge, you could receive $100 in your pocket.

Mike Gorday:

How do I prove that Siri is buying on me?

Ody:

Yeah, thank you, because that literally happened to me two weeks ago. Okay, if approved the settlement.

Nathan Mum:

Listen up here. If approved, the settlement would apply a subset of US-based people who owned and bought a Siri-enabled iPhone, ipad, apple Watch, macbook, imac, homepod, ipad Touch, apple TV between September 17, 2014,. December 31, 2024. 10-year gap A user would also need to meet one major criteria they must swear under oath that they accidentally activated Siri during a conversation intended to be confidential or private. You could do this, was that?

Mike Gorday:

You could do this.

Nathan Mum:

I know.

Mike Gorday:

Because of that incident at the radio station. Yeah, I know when Siri started. Yeah, I know Independ of that incident at the radio station. Yeah, I know.

Nathan Mum:

When Siri legs started. Yeah, I know Independently how they claim. The initial class action suit against Apple followed a 2019 report. I can actually say that it wasn't supposed to do. It Alleged Apple. Third-party contractors regularly heard confidential information, including medical information, drug deals, couples having sex and other items that were out of series control.

Ody:

So when can I do this with my Amazon?

Mike Gorday:

devices Wait, wait, wait, wait wait.

Ody:

Alexa gosh. She's just going off all the time. You know, sometimes she turns on music now when I don't even ask for it.

Nathan Mum:

All of a sudden I'm sitting there and like music. I want to know. I said now, when I don't even ask for it, all of a sudden I'm sitting there and music comes on, mexican music. Mark says that he keeps on asking Siri to do the Mexican music Mariachi, mariachi music.

Mike Gorday:

I want to know how you turn it on while you're doing it.

Nathan Mum:

Your trigger word is the same word as that Are you saying oh Siri, oh Siri. Oh Siri, now you know what. With that great visual in my head, let's move on to 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.

Nathan Mum:

I'm going to get money from Apple for that, because the series I should write a claim, All right gentlemen, you have four whiskeys in front of you for a round, one of our 2024 Flavor. Advent Calendar. Okay, so now, if I pick one, does that continue on to the next round?

Marc Gregoire:

If it's the winner of this round.

Nathan Mum:

yes, it does oh wow, okay, I am going to go with number two, the chicken cock.

Mike Gorday:

all right, mike, yeah, that was one. That was one of my picks. I was having trouble with the, the chicken one and the number four one, so so which one are you picking? So I will pick, I will. I, just for the sake of moving it on, I'll pick three.

Marc Gregoire:

I'll pick chicken, that's number two All right Chicken cock which is lucky because you guys the correct order for our listeners out. There is glass number four, the Remus was number one and then in second place should have been the Heaven Hill, which is bottle number one. In third place was bottle number two, chicken cock, and then last place was pinhook, according to the actual connoisseur.

Nathan Mum:

Really.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, well, I did like.

Marc Gregoire:

So, mike, if you had chosen number four I would have chosen that over your chicken cock.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I was going to choose that one, but chicken cock was a little too mild.

Nathan Mum:

All right, the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today.

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