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259: Avoid Wearing Smart Watches to Summer Concerts, and a new trend has emerged. "Rotary Phones". A Dating App that matches users based on search history. Next, Say What? as we Explore Bizarre Technologies. | Air Date: 7/1 - 7/6/2025

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 259

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What happens when technology takes a step backward to move forward? This week's episode explores the strange territory where nostalgia, practicality, and innovation collide in unexpected ways.

Microsoft is killing off the iconic Blue Screen of Death after four decades, replacing the familiar blue error screen with a simplified black version. While the company claims this will provide better troubleshooting information, we question whether changing such a recognizable symbol of Windows crashes makes sense. After all, when something isn't broken, why fix it?

Meanwhile, a fascinating trend has emerged in Portland, Maine, where parents have created a "landline pod" — installing traditional home phones for their children instead of smartphones. What started with one parent's decision has grown to include 15-20 families who are witnessing remarkable improvements in their children's social skills and creative thinking. It's a powerful reminder that sometimes the most innovative solution is returning to simpler technologies.

The show takes a deep dive into consumer protection as the FTC approves $126 million in refunds for nearly one million Fortnite players who fell victim to "dark pattern" purchases. Epic Games' deceptive design practices that tricked users into making unwanted purchases remind us that ethical considerations often lag behind technological capabilities.

We couldn't help but laugh at the bizarre world of robot pets with the discovery of a $50 "attack dog" from Timu that shoots pellets and simulates urination. This strange creation somehow keeps users engaged for hours, proving there's a market for even the oddest technological innovations.

Our whiskey tasting features Wild Turkey 101 8-year bourbon, which received enthusiastic approval from our hosts. With notes of vanilla, clove, and toffee, this $45 bourbon proves that sometimes traditional craftsmanship is worth celebrating.

Join us for a journey through technology's strangest corners, where old becomes new again and the digital world continues to surprise us in the most unexpected ways. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation!

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Speaker 1:

Broadcasting across the nation, from the East Coast to the West, keeping you up to date on technology while enjoying a little whiskey on the side, with leading-edge topics, along with special guests to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go, 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 Mumm.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm the show that makes you go hmm. Technology news of the week the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media, or months or six months, if it depends on which articles they are. We are welcoming 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 corday, is in studio today. He's the award-winning author and the human behavior expert.

Mike Gorday:

I'm glad I'm the only one. What's that? The award-winning author. I'm glad I'm the award-winning author.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you the award-winning?

Mike Gorday:

author. I'm glad I am. I'm glad there's nobody else to be the award-winning author.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, well, you know I haven't written a book yet.

Speaker 4:

Well, what should my book title be? I did an AI book. I did it back when the AI.

Nathan Mumm:

I did. I didn't get out there early enough to make the money, like that other guy did with his AI book. Now we're live streaming during our show on four of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitch TV, facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to visit us online. Visit us at techtimeradiocom and become a Patreon supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash techtimeradio. Supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash tech time radio. We're friends from different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology so possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have od, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone.

Speaker 1:

Let's start today's show now on today's show all right, right.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time Radio. Are you doing a jig?

Mike Gorday:

there. No, I'm trying to get asymmetrical with the background.

Speaker 6:

You're trying to get asymmetrical with the background.

Mike Gorday:

I'm trying to get symmetrical. Never mind, it's too early for me to be talking, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time Radio. Today on the show we have our Say what segment on crazy stories and technology and of course, we also have our Should we say why we're saying what? We say what that's right. Say what we got some craziness. We have a couple updates on stories that we had last week on the show. I can't wait for the Nathan Nugget and our technology fail and those to come on up. And of course, we have our standard features, features including Mike's mesmerizing moment that technology fail and the Nathan nugget and, of course, our pick of the day, whiskey tastings, to see if our selected whiskey pick at zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show that we have. A couple listeners that I said that we should on last week's stream said that we should change the show to whiskey tasting and a little technology on the side. So you know what?

Mike Gorday:

well, we had a little technology on the side.

Nathan Mumm:

So you know what? Who said that? Well, we had a couple people on the show that maybe we went a little long, I guess, on our whiskey items last week. So they were saying that on our stream.

Ody:

I find that funny because, like, maybe not even 5% of the show is whiskey.

Mike Gorday:

Well see, whiskey is the reason why we can do the show, at least for me, that's exactly, and me too, if we didn't have the whiskey to have in between these articles. I couldn't do the show if we didn't have whiskey.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, there you go. All right, so there you go. So it's our advice everybody, but thank you for letting us know, it's not advice, it's medication.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it's not advice.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, that's what we got, all right. Well, hopefully we'll see if we get a zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. We got a cork bottle today, so I'm good. If you notice, we did a little heavier pour.

Mike Gorday:

We'll explain that a little bit. Yeah, you did a heavy pour. I did All right. Now I think there's something going on.

Nathan Mumm:

There is. Let's move into 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 Windows is getting rid of the blue screen of death. After 40 years, have you ever seen the blue screen of death? Are you kidding? Well, I just, I'm just trying to bring it up.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody knows what the blue screen of death. Everybody has seen it, ok.

Speaker 5:

All right, odie said something bad.

Ody:

Oh, what's that? I don't think I've ever seen it.

Nathan Mumm:

You've never seen the blue screen of death.

Ody:

No, I don't think I have.

Nathan Mumm:

On any Windows boot up. You've never had a problem with it. So that's what happens when your computer hangs up or you have to reboot.

Mike Gorday:

It comes up with a big blue screen.

Nathan Mumm:

It's you what's going on, and then it'll normally restart your computer and it'll dump information into a log file. You've never seen that.

Ody:

I don't think I have Wow Okay.

Mike Gorday:

Well you know what I do know somebody. I think maybe Odie drinks more than we do.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, let's go to Lisa Walker for more on the story.

Speaker 6:

The blue screen of death, or as most people call it, BSOD, has been present in Microsoft's OS since 1985, in Windows version 1. It has served as the stable error screen for Windows for nearly 40 years, but that's about to change. The new design drops the traditional blue color, frowning face and QR code in favor of a simplified black screen. The simplified B-S-O-D resembles the black screen you'd see during a Windows update. However, it will list the stop code and faulty system driver that you wouldn't always see during a crash dump. Are we okay with going to the black screen instead of the traditional blue? What do you?

Nathan Mumm:

think Nathan Alright.

Mike Gorday:

so this is a kind of I don't know if I like this. You don't like this.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't like this either.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I hate seeing the blue screen of death, but if it were just the black screen. I might be thinking that it's a video problem.

Nathan Mumm:

There's a lot of different things here. The blue screen was really significant in saying, oops, I have a problem. I mean Mac. When it first came out, mac would have this little Mac icon that would come on out with a frowny face, that would be in the middle of your screen, or a question mark. There's some of these items that I don't know why you would change, because we have developed and understand what happens to that now. You could have kept the blue screen of death and just done the same features that they're talking about, but somehow it must take an extra one line of code to have that blue screen drop on there, that they decide to remove it and it's going back now. What is nice in this new upgrade that's going to be happening sooner than later is that it will have the ability to have the error codes on the screen itself, so you can take a screenshot with your phone. You can take a look at what that error code is instead of going into the dump files.

Nathan Mumm:

But recent versions of the blue screen of death have already had those error codes on there already, so you can still see IRQ issue blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah or whatever's going on.

Mike Gorday:

well, let's see what we got here they should, they should, they should take this opportunity to do something funner, like, like have? You have the google chrome things with the little dinosaur well, yeah, or having some you know graphics like the screen is cracking or something like that, or explosions or something on there

Nathan Mumm:

that that would make it much better. Well, david Weston, the vice president of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft, says it's really an attempt on clarity and providing better information and allowing us and the customers to really get to what the core of the issue is, so we can fix it faster.

Mike Gorday:

That doesn't make any sense, David. It's just a color buddy, we all know what blue means.

Nathan Mumm:

Blue means that there's a screen of death and I I I don't get it. Well, windows says guess what? You really don't have a choice to complain because coming on out in windows 11 later this summer it's going to have the feature already imposed with the black screen. And then they're also adding a new quick machine recovery feature which is designed to quickly restore machines that can't boot. So what's really interesting about this whole thing is that microsoft has so many things that they can take a look at. They've had that whole recording issue, which was a record all your browser stuff and you can restore stuff. That's been kind of a major issue. Windows is using this to say what they're saying is that it addresses CrowdStrike incident last year that left millions of Windows machines booting into the blue screen of death without knowing what was going on. This black screen now will help people understand what's going on. I don't like it.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't like it, keep it blue.

Mike Gorday:

I don't really understand the rationale Like oh, we need more clarity, let's change the color from blue to black.

Nathan Mumm:

I guess maybe black's easier to take a picture of.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know, maybe they just need to save that line of code.

Nathan Mumm:

That's literally probably one digit, that's just taking up too much space that one digit Really have in today's world. Now, back in the olden days they actually used to optimize Windows 3.1.1 used to come on like four or five floppy disks and it was optimized code. Now they just throw the code out there and it's huge. There is no optimization in the code this year, I don't know. I think this is just All right. I don't like it.

Mike Gorday:

I feel like this is just something to let people know that they're still out there doing stuff is that what it is?

Nathan Mumm:

yeah, okay, all right, just a press release to say like they're making progress on it no, like they're.

Mike Gorday:

They're. They're like saying ah, we're still here and your machine is being or that, yeah, okay, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, make us feel much better with story number two, mike, I'm sure you can help us how am I gonna do that I? Don't know, I'm sure this is an uplifting yeah sure it is.

Mike Gorday:

Do you know what Fortnite is?

Nathan Mumm:

The video game. I have tried to play it a couple times, you're not a Fortnite.

Mike Gorday:

I am not good.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't think you're a Fortnite guy. No, I lose to-plus-year-old man losing to some little 7-year-old, I know.

Mike Gorday:

I used to play this quite a bit. Okay, my son was really good at it. He used to beat me up all the time on Fortnite.

Speaker 4:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

Well, the FTC has approved $126 million in Fortnite refunds. What? Because of dark patterns, okay so, hopefully you're going to explain.

Nathan Mumm:

It must be a black screen of death or something, okay, well, okay, explain a little bit more on this.

Mike Gorday:

The Federal Trade Commission has approved 126 million refunds to be sent to 969,173 Fortnite players as part of a settlement over allegations that Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, has tricked users into making unwanted purchases. At the same time, the agency has reopened the claims portal for eligible Fortnite players to submit refund claims, which will be examined for the third round of refunds. This latest development marks the second phase of the settlement the FTC has reached with Epic Games in December of 2022, in which the company agreed to pay $520 million to settle allegations waking the game from sleep mode during the loading screen or while they attempted to preview an in-game item.

Nathan Mumm:

So explain that charging players unintentionally by waking the game from sleep mode. So if the game goes into sleep mode, I have no idea what that is, because they would turn it back on. So if you're in sleep mode in Fortnite, they're going on in and turning it back on for you to do purchases. I have no idea.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, that's not my bailiwick. I have never. I don't know what a sleep mode is in a game.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know.

Mike Gorday:

That doesn't make any sense.

Nathan Mumm:

A sleep mode on a computer or a phone makes sense, but I don't know. I don't know what it is.

Mike Gorday:

Anyway, these charges occur without additional confirmation, like you know, are you sure you want to pay that? And those attempting to dispute and reverse them had to go through complex processes that make it likely for them to give up permanently. So you know, this is probably why Epic Games receives a lot of hate. Yeah, because that's definitely pretty slimy. It's pretty slimy All right.

Nathan Mumm:

So you know some of these return policies. You know I will say Amazon as much as we give Amazon a bunch of crap. And Mr Bezos just got married, whatever.

Mike Gorday:

Did he really?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, in Italy, didn't you hear about that?

Mike Gorday:

No I don't pay attention to that.

Nathan Mumm:

He shut down almost all of Italy just so that he could be there with his celebrities and everybody.

Mike Gorday:

But Amazon at least has a nice return policy. I hope it lasts more than a week.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, at least the best thing about Amazon is the return policy is pretty easy to use, right, you go in, you say you want to return it, you drop it off at a location and you get refunded. Some things are very difficult to return. I just tried to return an item that I had purchased and I had to go through that For Fortnite.

Nathan Mumm:

Not for Fortnite, but for something else. It had like seven different steps for approvals. There was a point where I was going to give up and then I just said, screw it, I'm going to continue.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, okay, so business and ethics are mutually exclusive.

Mike Gorday:

Right, this is all set up for businesses to get your money and keep your money so if they agreed agreed to pay 520 million dollars, they must have made even more than that from the purchases, right, well, I'm sure they made quite a bit of money and, hopefully, unlike some of the things that get slapped against facebook, yeah, where they're like, ah, that's just, that's just like us buying a coffee in regular world, okay, um, maybe this will help. I don't know all right, but if you have performed fortnight purchases between january of 2017 and september of 2022, that's a pretty big yeah. That fall into the category of dark patterns, as those defined by the FTC. You are invited to submit a claim through this portal until July 9th of this year. Okay, you must be 18 years old to complete a claim. However, parents or guardians can do it on their children's behalf. So, you know, that sounds almost like a's a loophole, but there you go, there you go. So, uh, yeah, too bad, fortnight was a. I mean, it's a fun game if you've ever played it.

Nathan Mumm:

The graphics look really good.

Mike Gorday:

They keep on updating the graphics, oh yeah, I mean it's this fortnight is based on the systems of of uh seasons and characters.

Nathan Mumm:

Sometimes you got superman on there, sometimes you have a spongebob. I mean, it seems to be very seasonal and it's set up.

Mike Gorday:

It is uh one of these games that is. It's kind of like uh microtransactions uh it's based on microtransactions oh, microtransactions.

Nathan Mumm:

You know I may ask you about that in your uh Mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you all will. I will be.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. All right. Are you ready for story number three? No. Story number three Technology experts, along with parents, have found a way to reduce their kids' screen time while improving their social skills and creative thinking. You mean taking away their phone. Hang on, here we go their phone hang on, here we go.

Nathan Mumm:

Let me do the story. There's a whole lead. Oh, there's a whole story. Yeah, when carson morris's nine-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction was hell, no. Morris is a mental health provider in portland, maine public school system and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students attention spans and give them anxiety. But she wanted her child to have some independence. So she called friends, arranged to arrange playdates and reached out to her grandparents on her own. So when her daughter turned 10, morris got her a special phone For that gift. It provided all the benefits she wanted. Morris had the way to lay some groundwork, though it would be annoying if her daughter, who was also eight years old, were to start calling their friends smartphones all the time. So she told her neighbors about her plan and suggested they consider getting these special phones also. Silvo bought in immediately excited for the opportunity.

Nathan Mumm:

This is a party line. Hang on just a second, don't tell me. You should tell them. Hang on. Excited for the party line? Hang on just a second, don't don't hang on. Excited for the opportunity to placate their own eager kids with this technology and over the next couple of months, morris kept nudging people. The peer pressure paid off. Now about 15 to 20 families in the south portland neighborhood have installed you guessed it a traditional land line this is dope.

Nathan Mumm:

They've created a retro bubble in which their children can easily call their friends without bugging a parent to borrow their cell phone, in which parents can now live blissfully free of anxiety about the downside of smartphones.

Nathan Mumm:

In the past few years, interest in old school technology has been on the rise, driving partly by desperate adults seeking smartphone alternatives for their kids. Now what we have and the new technology is called a dumb phone. On Reddit, parents shared this information about going full 90s, with a desktop computer installed in a living room, nintendo 64, and, of course, a telephone connected to a landline. Now, in March, after the millennial mom posted on Instagram about getting her home phone for her kids, she received scores of compliments from parents saying they've done the same or planned too soon. Now, jonathan Hite, the author of Ang's the Anxious Generation, said that many parents are having problems with their children trying to use smartphones, so everybody should do what South Portland did and form a landline pod. That is exactly where parents see. The idea of this is that you pick up a phone, you have to dial a number and then you can talk to people.

Nathan Mumm:

Now, parents are loving this. They are getting on their pods. They got corded phones that everybody can talk to on these devices. It's a party line With a large cord. They can then have their children listen in and have communication. Now, only after a few months, more and more people are getting comfortable with this program, having their children go on over and pick up a phone to talk to people on the other side. So let's talk about it. What have we got to talk about?

Nathan Mumm:

here, so this is the idea. So here's what parents are doing.

Mike Gorday:

This is this is this is this is this is I like how you're freaking out about it and I just overjoyed here.

Ody:

I do see this is my one critique was would be instead of the landline phone, I'd get a, a small flip phone a flip.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, that way they could take it anywhere. Here's the thing. Here's what I'm. I'm not flipping out over this idea, I am flipping out the. This is just ridiculous.

Nathan Mumm:

It's been a proven fact that a generation has already tested this method out before I know.

Mike Gorday:

This is an indication.

Ody:

There have been several generations that have tested that out.

Mike Gorday:

This is an indication.

Ody:

That we're regressing.

Mike Gorday:

No, it's not about regressing. It's about that we are starting to figure out that our technological life is far beyond our, our control and our healthy ability to do things right, and so every time we get on the, we talk about this all the time. With other stuff, we're going backwards technologically in order to save ourselves from all kinds of stuff right, we got, we got, we were it.

Nathan Mumm:

I think the 80s were it.

Mike Gorday:

You write your passwords on paper.

Speaker 5:

Now you go back to that.

Mike Gorday:

What else? There's other ones that we've talked about.

Nathan Mumm:

So now we're going back to a landline that you can call people.

Ody:

Cds, polaroid cameras, whatever Digital media is coming back. I think what I find so funny about Polaroid cameras Whatever Digital media is coming back, we've got Physical media.

Mike Gorday:

I think what I find so funny about this Is this is like some sort of revolutionary.

Nathan Mumm:

This is a huge article. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. A million people have up like this.

Mike Gorday:

First off, your 10 year old child does not need A whole lot of independence. Okay, the whole idea about this is you don't have independence Because now they're in a shared room.

Nathan Mumm:

First off, your 10-year-old child does not need a whole lot of independence. Okay, okay, well, see, the whole idea about this is you don't have independence because now they're in a shared room.

Mike Gorday:

They have to take their cord there so everybody can hear their conversations. Yeah, it's basically Luddite philosophy.

Nathan Mumm:

This is how I dated. This is how I was a teenager. This is what I did. I don't know. Mixtapes are next. I guess they probably will. Mixtapes have already come back, have comebacks, so here's what parents are saying.

Mike Gorday:

I'm talking about having a recorder next to a radio thing and then pressing record when the song comes on and waiting.

Nathan Mumm:

Mixtapes in the 80s were like you had to talk over. You had to talk. Nobody talks over because these stations don't have DJs anymore.

Mike Gorday:

You are completely not following here.

Nathan Mumm:

They don't Most of these DJs don't exist.

Mike Gorday:

I'm talking about the actual effort you had to put in an 80s mixtape today, because you had to sit by the radio.

Nathan Mumm:

Unpause it record.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, whatever, just go to the next one.

Speaker 4:

No, no, no, Keep on going. You're just too busy trying to be the expert one. No, no, no, keep on going.

Mike Gorday:

You're just too busy, you're too busy trying to be the expert here.

Nathan Mumm:

No, no, keep on going, keep on going. So you're talking about the pause button that you used to do on the radio.

Mike Gorday:

No, I'm talking about you had to sit next to the radio until the song of choice came on, then press record and then wait for the next one. So doing an 80s mixtape was like this huge process. Yeah, and now you know, if you do a mixtape today, it's like going on Spotify and being like this, this, this and this. Oh, here I love you.

Nathan Mumm:

They have the playlist, see what you can do. Well, here's what the people said on this.

Mike Gorday:

This is just. I just find this ridiculous, based because it's.

Nathan Mumm:

Her daughter can now engage people in a conversation. She says it's mind blowing. Yeah, she can talk on the phone. I'm sure it is mind blowing.

Speaker 4:

Well, I'm sure it is mind blowing.

Mike Gorday:

We grew, I grew up with this stuff and it's just funny that Well, I'll just go to Odie here.

Nathan Mumm:

A little bit of a younger generation, right? Do you love calling and talking to customer service people on the phone?

Ody:

Is it an actual customer person?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, Maybe, maybe, I don't mind it, you don't mind it, okay.

Ody:

I grew up with a house phone.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah.

Ody:

You know it wasn't connected to a landline or anything, it was cordless.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

But I did have phone etiquette okay and I'm okay with that.

Nathan Mumm:

That's good. I didn't have a corded phone, well, that's okay.

Ody:

Remember, at the very end of the life cycle of the landlines, they had the big but I do think I'm glad that this is making a comeback in the weirdest kind of way yeah because a lot of thing that my sister and I talk about is that, or people my age talk about, about the younger generation, like my brother's age, is that the awkward tween phase is not much of a thing anymore. They go from kids straight to wanting to be a teenager.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep, yep.

Ody:

So, with this coming back, it kind of instills that you still need a parent, you don't need that independence of a 10-year-old, you can talk to your friends on there, the parents.

Mike Gorday:

I just find this funny because this this is presented in some revelatory way it's like oh well, that's just, that's a miracle from heaven, that's just millennial parenting.

Nathan Mumm:

This is just a rotary phone system. Okay, it is a rotary phone system but I'm excited for it, you know have you, have you seen kids try to use rotary phones?

Ody:

Oh my god.

Nathan Mumm:

Have you seen those on videos? Oh yeah, yeah, that's the most craziest thing in the world. They have no idea how to put their hand in it and then actually move it on over.

Mike Gorday:

They did the same thing with, like the Nintendo Original Nintendo.

Ody:

Yeah have you seen? Oh, my god, I think it was with my brother, who is 15, by the way. If I gave him an iPod like the classic, I think it would blow his mind.

Nathan Mumm:

He'd have to see the little screen and use up and down arrows to hit, play Not the up and down arrows, but the little scroll.

Ody:

Oh, the scroll bar, yeah, and then the fact that you have to plug in your headphones it's not just a Bluetooth thing and you have to recharge it.

Nathan Mumm:

You to recharge it.

Ody:

You have to the action of loading content onto that thing, what it's not just automatically there's just not automatically there what these are revolutionary ideas that's coming back, by the way, I know I think you should be telling this while you're on your cordless phone the 80s and the 90s, if you want to do a business right now.

Mike Gorday:

You just go and buy all the 80s, 90s. I mean to me this is just maddening. I mean we maddening.

Ody:

Maddening yeah. Maddening in what way?

Mike Gorday:

Because we already know this exists. We already should be thinking along these lines, but we are jeopardizing all the future generations because our technology system is pushing so fast, so quickly. We can't keep up. We're already into an arena where we are far beyond the ability to adapt to our technology and it's creating all these problems social problems, psychological problems individually.

Nathan Mumm:

What are you saying? I don't know if you could actually get a landline anymore. It seems like all these are voice over IP. I don't know if you can, can you?

Ody:

Maybe in some rural.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know.

Mike Gorday:

I have a friend who still has a landline.

Speaker 4:

Okay, well, there you go.

Mike Gorday:

I don't, because why would you pay for two different phone systems?

Nathan Mumm:

Because of that landline you can run a bulletin board service on it.

Mike Gorday:

Oh yeah, yeah, I'm going to get a 50 or 500 baud modem and set up a bulletin board.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what. You should probably do that right now and that would probably be a huge trend sender in the next six to eight months, I don't know and it can make a fortune.

Ody:

What's nice about all this technology coming back is that it kind of opens up Right now. If you have a smartphone, you're okay, but if you don't like the smartphone, you're kind of limiting yourself from the everyday thing, yeah, from a lot of stuff. If you just have cash on you, like there's no pay phones anymore. Imagine if you're stranded and you don't have your phone wallet. What are you gonna do? Yep, yep, we can this is let's bring back payphone.

Nathan Mumm:

These are all societal, societal growing pains and at least I pay phones in europe.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, they and they use and people use them there's, there should be but uh, you know our infrastructure is, everything is based on money. So, yeah, you know, if the phones are getting used, why should we have them? That's right. And then you know our infrastructure is everything is based on money. So you know, if the phones are getting used, why should we have them?

Ody:

That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

And then you know all right. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on up next, we have our say what segments that we're going to be talking about, some even more unique stories and mumbles.

Mike Gorday:

And that's right Buckle up as we drive 88 miles per hour in our next segment. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, Seattle Commercial Break. Maybe you should try saying we need to use a rotary phone to introduce the next segment. Okay, here we go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, commercial Break.

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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 not in the studio, obviously, so we have our producer filling in Odie. What has Mark chosen for us today?

Ody:

Well, today we are drinking the Wild turkey 101 eight-year-old bourbon directly from their website. It's crafted by jimmy russell and rooted in a time-tested recipe. This is whoa this exquisite bourbon is the result of utilizing hand-picked, small batch bourbons that have been aged for a minimum of eight years, with notes of vanilla, clove, toffee, chored oak, lemon zest and black cherry on palette with long and lingering brown sugar, dried fruit, vanilla and allspice. Okay, you guys getting any of that?

Nathan Mumm:

I got, I got the allspice no, lemon zest I did not get a lemon zest. Did you get a lemon zest? I did vanilla's in there, sure, why not yeah?

Ody:

okay, okay, it's from the campari group. Uh, wild turkey distillery in lawrenceburg, kentucky, classified as a straight bourbon aged eight years.

Mike Gorday:

A hundred proof 75 corn, 13 rye and 12 malted barley yeah, I'm starting to be able to tell that this is a mostly corn-ripe, corn-based thing, because it's sweet.

Nathan Mumm:

What are you thinking so far, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

It's okay. It's not a bad taste. It's very mild so far.

Nathan Mumm:

I like mine.

Ody:

Do you guys want to know the price now or later?

Nathan Mumm:

Tell us now.

Ody:

How much do you think it goes?

Nathan Mumm:

for $39.

Ody:

Oh, okay, you were saying it was expensive earlier.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I bet you it's $39. Is that about right?

Ody:

Michael.

Mike Gorday:

I'll up the ante and say this is about $50.

Ody:

Okay, it's $45. I give it to Mike then, okay. But yeah, please do not forget to like and subscribe.

Nathan Mumm:

Drink. Give it to mike, then okay. But yeah, please do not forget to like and subscribe drink responsibly. How do you give it to mike? The price is right, that's over.

Ody:

That doesn't work, you said 50 yeah, I thought it was about 50 you.

Mike Gorday:

You said it was 39 you're six away.

Ody:

Okay, he's five, okay, okay, okay, we're not going by the price is right if you're over it.

Nathan Mumm:

No, no no no.

Mike Gorday:

For those of you joining us right now, the Price is Right is something that happens on that old weird thing called the TV. You know what I think that is going to come back too. Which we used to get on party lines and talk about, and you know what it used to be free.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what that.

Ody:

You didn't have to pay for you used to just have it on. You said, yeah, it was, oh yeah, a long, long time ago, in a society far, far away. You're saying you didn't have to pay cable for it you didn't have to pay any money for it. So it's just like on, what do you call that?

Nathan Mumm:

there were four channels yeah, yeah rabbit ears. It was on rabbit ears and they were the air okay, they were.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, they were transmitted by uhf okay, wasn't it? Uhf yeah uh, and you just had to get the right signal and you could get NBC, abc, cbs and PBS.

Ody:

I know about that. I just didn't know that it was on one of those public channels, I guess.

Nathan Mumm:

No, just regular channels.

Ody:

It wasn't public.

Mike Gorday:

This is back in the day, man.

Nathan Mumm:

This is going to come back in style.

Mike Gorday:

You get on your rotary phone and talk about the price is right that cable is cheaper than streaming right now.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, but you didn't even have to have cable.

Ody:

This was free over the air Right, right, right, right, so you didn't pay for it.

Nathan Mumm:

With an antenna, you still got commercials.

Mike Gorday:

Yes, so I didn't have to pay $20 month to watch commercials. I got them for free. Yeah, okay, like all right. Okay, that's what happens when you apply consumerist philosophies and policies to a society all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, let's move on from our whiskey tasting. Do I get to say drink responsibly you already did, I did all right.

Ody:

Okay, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, too much I, I did have a big pour. There we go. So moving on. Uh, let's move into our feature segment. Today we have our favorite segment called this is not our favorite segment.

Mike Gorday:

Well, it's my favorite segment, called Say what, when have we ever done this?

Ody:

You know what Many times Say what he wasn't here the time that we did this, we've done it like twice. So here we go. Well, this is my favorite intro.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Speaker 5:

Say what again, say what again.

Nathan Mumm:

I dare you, I double dare you Say what one time. All right, here we go.

Mike Gorday:

Say what Okay, where's that from?

Speaker 4:

Pulp Fiction. Okay, everybody knew that. Okay, yes, I just wanted to make sure you knew where the references were from All right.

Nathan Mumm:

So these are segments and before I start, mike, you have to go say what. I'm not going to say what, say what.

Ody:

I'll say what for you.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, you'll say what, say what. Okay, here we go Ready. Thank you, odie. Start Odie.

Ody:

Say what.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Download festival warning, as police urge attendees not to wear smart watches. After issues last year now the lanchester police said on a routine weekend the force handles around 600 emergency calls, but during the download festival weekend they have 700 more than usual. Body worn devices such as smart watches automatically call the emergency services if it senses the wearer the wearer of the device has been in a crash or suffered a fatal fall. Now the problem with this is that this hang-banging big concert that has a mosh pit that fans jump into listening to heavy metal music and they put their smart watches up and down and with that music intensity and the falling down it seems to set off the alert that they have had either a seizure or a serious crash. That has fallen. Police are urging people this year that attend the download festival please put your devices in airplane mode, otherwise they do not understand what they need to do with all of the people that are coming in with seizure type uh alerts to the local emergency system.

Mike Gorday:

You know what's funny about that? What's that? Is that now that that PSA has gone out, everybody's going to make sure they go to the mosh pit without turning on their thing.

Speaker 4:

So they're going to do it reverse. It's going to be a reverse effect.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, disabling your emergency alerts if you're going to go to a metal concert with loud music.

Mike Gorday:

I wonder if my smart watch does this.

Nathan Mumm:

It. You're going to go to a metal concert with loud music. I wonder if my smartwatch does this. It'll send out signals and we'll just say don't come to the studio. All right, here we go. Next story Ready. Say what All right Cursed new dating app matches you based on the most deranged things you can imagine.

Ody:

You say it every time. That's right, I'm going to break the energy bike.

Nathan Mumm:

It's something you can't do. You should say it judging by say what. Okay, here we go. That was a perfect say what. Let's talk about this. There's a new dating app that matches you based on the most deranged things you can imagine. Here's what this app is called a fetish app, no, well, no, it's a. It's a dating app where it will show every side of you. Now in this, it's called newly developed dating app. It's potential lovers based on the entire internet browsing histories of your machine the new service is straightforward named browser dating, and it's the brainchild of a Belgian artiste, dyers Deporte.

Nathan Mumm:

After years of creating the one-off projects like shirt, he's now created the most, uh, unique pursuit of love. Now, instead of choosing the best pictures or the best things about yourself that will show you on the positive side, the artist says of the site that he is going to actually upload all of your internet search history from that. He will then decide on what needs to be done, and then your browser dating experience will expose all of your internet search history.

Mike Gorday:

This is where you should be saying say what.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right, okay, say what? There you go. So not only does this expose all of your information on the internet, it also probably violates three or four different privacy items, as you're going to be updating everything you have searched on, including, and could be, uh key phrases, uh, password link sites and other things that you don't want people to know you have so this is a dumb idea uh, so if you have your bank account right, so they're going to know everything about your bank account.

Nathan Mumm:

They're going to know everything that you searched on. They're going to know everything about your bank account. They're going to know everything that you searched on. They're going to have huge information on there. Would you upload your search history?

Ody:

Absolutely not Immediately. No, no, I don't feel like my search history gives me a good depiction of what I want in my love life.

Nathan Mumm:

Well then you can find somebody else online through this app and you can say well we have the same things. We both searched for anime movies, and now we have a common.

Mike Gorday:

That's still a dumb idea, because what if?

Ody:

I'm searching for somebody else and I'm using my device to do so.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know, I don't want my, like my brain.

Mike Gorday:

Here's the here's the deal. Here's the deal. Right, so you're not a writer. No, you're not a writer. I'm a writer, ok, you're not a writer.

Speaker 5:

I'm a writer, okay.

Mike Gorday:

You never want to. You never. Yeah, I'm the award winning author. You never want to see my search bar? Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Exactly.

Mike Gorday:

Thank you. You never want to see that, because there's stuff like there's like how do you commit a murder with this? Yeah.

Ody:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

I didn't want to go that route. What's the, what's the, what's the the best way of destroying a whole city block, you know, because you're trying to write stuff and if that is put into that, uh, you might be having the fbi knocking on your door instead of getting a date with somebody okay, that's just that's a ridiculous, dumb idea.

Nathan Mumm:

Let's say what. All right, here we go. Are we ready for our last story here?

Mike Gorday:

we go. I think you should say say what after he reads the title, because it doesn't make sense. All right, okay, I'll do that. Okay, here we go. I'm here for you.

Nathan Mumm:

The peeing robot attack dog from Timu was even more surprisingly than we thought when we bought it, for some unusual reasons.

Ody:

Say what All right, say what all right, there we go see let's see we're developing this segment on the show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, arriving in a slightly battered box following a series of questionable decisions on timu is the robot attack dog. Now the lab notes that this is called clippy from the box, so immediately you're met with the clippy. Yeah, clippy is the name of your dog, so clippy.

Mike Gorday:

clippy is a thing on my desktop from the 90s it is so the 90s are kind of a. While I still had a rotary phone. Okay, and watch Price is Right on free channels.

Nathan Mumm:

Now it's immediately opening in the box, you see the cheapest, glossiest plastic that could ever be produced. But you know what? That's okay because all of a sudden, it comes with an official app which lets you control your robot via Bluetooth, or it comes with a remote. Now, the best part about the Bluetooth app is, once you load it, all of your data will be sent to China at the same time that you're using the Bluetooth app.

Mike Gorday:

That's okay, you can get a date from China.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, there you go. Now let's talk about this robot attack. It shoots pellets, it tells stories and pretends to urinate is by far the most bizarre device that I have ever seen in my 15 plus years of reviewing different items I know that's because you know in my whole, in my whole dream of technology is to make something that works exactly like a real thing okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, it's very interesting on on the box that you get your choice. It has fire bullets. Pet printed with a catchy phrase that definitely got my attention right away. The plastic destroyer of worlds, uh, is allowed to load these plastic items into it and it'll shoot it out of its mouth or the front area where it's supposed to have its mouth. So he's gonna like throw up on you and he's gonna to shoot plastic pellets. Now, these pellets are not for anybody under the age of 18, because they're too small and can be swallowed by young children.

Mike Gorday:

Under the age of 18, huh.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, so you have to be the age of 18. So I?

Mike Gorday:

mean 16-year-olds are choking to death on these pellet dogs.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, it says 18 on the side, 18 plus plus. That's now. What's also interesting I fear for our future is that it has a button that says urinate. When it does this, it lifts its back leg and it has an audio speaker underneath its belly. That actually sounds like something urinating into a toilet bowl with a flush nothing better that's.

Mike Gorday:

That's even stupider, youider. Why are?

Ody:

you hating on it, I'm just.

Mike Gorday:

It's so cute. I'm grumpy, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Now guess what the best part is? Timu can get this to you in three to four days. Forget the Boston Dynamics high-end robot dog that costs $10,000 plus in memberships. You can get this for $50. And if you're lucky enough and get a Timu special, you can get it all the way down for $29.99. I think I'd rather just have the liquor. Well, you know what. You may think that this sounds bad, but people continuously play with the Clippy Dog. It's shown that it averages more than four to six hours for a toy device, which is one of the highest engaged team toys online. So that means people actually play it. That makes sense. If you got pellets that shoot out of its mouth and you're peeing on a bunch of stuff, you give it to your five or six year old kid.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm sure he's Nathan or Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

Now it also has the ability to do some rather unique gestures, depending on if you want it to be happy or shake your hand. When you do the handshake one, they'll be careful because it does not have any balancing gyros, so the robot will automatically tip over. But the best part is, after it's been tipped over, it does seem to get back up on its hind legs, so it can walk again.

Mike Gorday:

Okay so we watched several videos. Is this the one with the dog that was humping stuff?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, they call that the dance mode. So, I wouldn't call that humping or anything into that, but it does gyrate it gyrates? Its back Exactly what it's not looking like. Yeah, it gyrates its back legs in unison for 20 seconds, but this isn't this one.

Mike Gorday:

This one is the one, no, is the one. This is the one. It has the same thing, has the same thing. No, no, no. The one that shoots pellets is not the same one. That was, I know, that was the smaller love it loving on the, loving on the the phone no, no, okay so.

Nathan Mumm:

So that was not the same guy that threw it out. Now it does come with a big designed xbox controller, which is kind of imaginative, because the controller itself probably costs 20 to 30 bucks just to make the controller to have it work. But don't worry, if your controller breaks, you can always use the Bluetooth technology app. That is not in English but in China only, and so it makes it even more fun when you decide to press buttons, not knowing what your robot may do now, yeah, that see, there you go say what say what now?

Nathan Mumm:

the best part is how it violently has face plants. It falls down automatically onto its face itself. Nothing's more exciting than when you're trying to do basic commands, moving left and right with your robot dog, to have it just automatically miss a step and fall face down. But again, as we said, the best part of it is that you also get to have it pick itself up and continue. Now don't blame me, but I'll tell you. Right now there's limited runs on Teemu for this pet robot. All you have to do is go to Teemucom and type in pissing robot dog or pee robot dog and it comes on up as your first hit.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, I'm going to do that when I get home. Okay, there you go. Can I call him on my rotary?

Nathan Mumm:

I'm sure you can do that. Well, you know what that ends. Our Say what segments. All right we're going to take a break when we return. I think we're going to have our this Week in Technology, so now would be a great time to have some whiskey on the side. We'll see you after this commercial break.

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English language all the time.

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Speaker 1:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we're going to July 1st 1952. The trademark of Silly Putty was officially registered. In addition to its success as a toy, other uses for putty have officially registered. In addition to its success as a toy, other uses for putty have been found in the home. You can use it to remove substances such as dirt, lint and pet hair or ink from various surfaces. The material's unique properties have found niche applications in the medical and scientific fields. Do you know that in the space shuttle, they actually use this to hold equipment and items to the wall as it transfers up into space? What's interesting about this day is that two other major trademarks happened also, including the roar of the MGM lion in the shape of the Coca-Cola bottle boxes that were also trademarked.

Nathan Mumm:

That was this Week in Technology. If you ever wanted to watch some tech time history, with over 250 plus weekly broadcasts spanning our four-plus years on video, podcasts and blog information, you can visit us at techtimeradiocom and watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break. No, we're not. We are going to go right now into Mike's mesmerizing moments.

Mike Gorday:

Yep.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does mike have to say today? Apparently a lot all right, here we go. What mike? What are impulse purchases in video games or even other major purchases? All about the fear of missing out. So we talked about that in your earlier segment. Fomo is it fomo? Why do we have all these impulse purchase and video games?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, fomo is one reason. Okay, and, interestingly enough, we had FOMO when we were little. You know what it was called. What was that? Keep up with the Joneses? Okay, remember that. I do remember that saying so, this is social pressure in which we try to compete with each other for status, or you know other other. So pro, pro-social activities. So, uh, yeah, fomo is a big one, with impulse buying also. Uh, the after effect is the dopamine hits that you're getting for these buys, which sets up the behavior to keep going. So it might start. It might. Maybe it starts off with FOMO and then it can become an addictive thing, uh, which is not FOMO.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, so you know do you ever play a game where you you do an instant purchase online?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I've done it.

Speaker 4:

I've done it.

Mike Gorday:

I've done it. I do it on occasion um do you get?

Nathan Mumm:

that dopamine hit after you purchase? Okay?

Mike Gorday:

we, we get what we don't understand. One of the reasons why we don't understand all this stuff, and one of the reasons why things like facebook have been so successful, is that we don't realize that this is happening to us. Okay, so every time you get a like on your post, that's, that translates into your brain's pleasure pain system going oh look, we love this, we have, we have attention, we're getting status, and so your brain gets a dopamine hit. Uh, when we do it in a video game, we are doing the same thing, because now we're saying, oh, oh, I got this cool skin and you know it's too bad. Mark is not here because we could talk about how Mark is like, but we, you know, yeah, because he really poops on this stuff.

Speaker 4:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

But Mark doesn't play video games. Mark is not a gamer.

Nathan Mumm:

No, remember when he played Sea of Thieves. Did you ever play with him?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, he was always complaining about he Did you ever play with him?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, he was always complaining about he was running around.

Mike Gorday:

Well, he was always complaining about, you know, all these other little side purchases and things you could do. But that does create when we do this and we start showing other people that we have like with Fortnite when we talked about Fortnite. So Fortnite has all these characters and skins and things that you can get, dances and little emotes and whatnot. Uh, and collectively, the more you get the you, there's more status that's in okay, involved in that. So you do, you do start to gain, uh, these sort of dopamine behavioral modifications.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, we're going to take a commercial break. When we return, we have the Mark Mumble Whiskey Review. See you after the break.

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Speaker 1:

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

Mike Gorday:

All right, tell us your wisdom, Mark.

Ody:

Today is July 1st.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Ody:

It's early bird day.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, what does that mean? Is that a prime thing? A?

Ody:

prime.

Mike Gorday:

No, amazon Prime, is it early bird? Isn't that the 9th and?

Ody:

11th this year.

Nathan Mumm:

It is yes, okay, that's the summer event.

Mike Gorday:

That's not Prime Day, that's the summer event it's. Nathan's favorite summer event. That's not prime day, that's the summer it's.

Ody:

It's nathan's favorite amazon it's prime day summer event because I now have a fall event this wild day, early bird day, is all about being first in line to snatch up the best of what is to offer so it is prime day shops, restaurants and supermarkets are filled with early risers eager to claim the top deals, meals and goods before anyone else. Become a morning person, Mike.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so shouldn't this be Black Friday?

Ody:

No, Become a morning person, Michael. Channel your inner Nathan if you really want to seize the day, says Mark, who is still lounging in bed with absolutely no justification.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I tried channeling my inner Nathan once and I had to go to therapy.

Ody:

Wow. And since we're on the topic of early bird day, it only feels right to give a nod to the finest bird of them all wild turkey. No need to set your alarm for this one wild turkey 101.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I was going to say big bird.

Ody:

Eight-year-old bourbon marks the return of the 101's brand's age statement, which had been absent since 1992. This expression is now a permanent line extension offered alongside the standard Wild Turkey 101, which carries no age statement but is said to include barrels aged between six and eight years. A true reward for those who know that sometimes the best bird is found in a glass. I will admit it, I am biased when it comes to wild turkey. It is one of my top favorite distilleries and the 101 lineup has a permanent place on my shelf.

Ody:

The 12-year export exotic and refined. The 70th anniversary, absolutely divine. Even the standard 101 punches well above its price point and pairs beautifully with something like fried chicken, it is true, daily workhorse. Now enter the Wild Turkey 101 8-year, and it does not disappoint. It takes everything I love about the standard and dials it in just a little bit more Richer, deeper, more composed. For me, me, the extra few dollars are worth it and if you already enjoy the core 101, this is an easy upgrade that rewards every sip well, now I know what I need to complete my fried chicken dinner.

Mike Gorday:

There you go all right, odie.

Nathan Mumm:

Thank you so much, you know thank you mark yes, whiskey and technology are a great pairing, just like cheese and wine or cheese and meat all spread over a charcuterie board. All right, now what's that?

Ody:

I'm surprised you were able to say that.

Speaker 4:

Charcuterie board. Yeah, you couldn't even say niche Wow.

Mike Gorday:

Wow, wow, wow. You said niche. You know what's on your charcuterie board Cheese whiz.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, no, we have some good race. No, I have some good race. All right, you know what? Now we're gonna forego the technology fail of the week which is tesla, and we're just gonna make fun of tesla for all their new driving cars that don't work. But we'll talk about that because there's still some pending stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

But I want to go right now to our nathan nugget this is your nugget of the week all right, let's talk about this as we talked about it last week in our Two Truths and a Lie. The Trump phone is no longer promised that it's made in America. Now the T1 phone is quote unquote, designed with American values in mind, which is not made in America. The Trump organization launched the Trump mobile wireless carrier, its flagship phone, to be called the T1 phone carrier, it's flagship phone to be called the t1 phone. Uh, the 8002 gold version. One of the phone's main selling points was that it was made in america under 500. Now we figured this was unlikely to be true.

Speaker 4:

We called it out last was it a lie. Could it have been a?

Nathan Mumm:

lie it was a lie and we're right.

Nathan Mumm:

Sometime in the last several days, the trump mobile site appears to have scrubbed all the language indicating the phone was made in the usa, like, for instance, the huge banner on the home page that says t1 is made in the usa, just for one example. Instead, the trump mobile website now has the t1 tagline premium performance, proudly american. None of it's built in America, but it's designed with American proud individuals and it will have the hands of Americans touch it as it comes apart of their standard phone itself.

Nathan Mumm:

All right the 6.7 inch screen is gone. That's your.

Speaker 4:

Amazon delivery driver.

Nathan Mumm:

It's 6.25 is now going to be the screen 12 gigabytes of RAM, smaller it doesn't have the 12 gigabytes of RAM Inappropriately. Now. The badly photoshopped image of the phone hasn't changed though, so that's still there. If you want to have one of these phones, the best part is that an American will deliver it to you at your doorstep.

Ody:

Yeah, in America.

Nathan Mumm:

So there's what you get for the phone. We talked about it last week. There's no way you can do a $500 mobile phone and we were proven right. There you go. That is our Nathan Nugget. Be careful what you read. Be careful if someone promises you technology in America for a certain price point because it may not be able to be there.

Mike Gorday:

Now, let's move on. Now Be careful of Nathan's charcuterie boards.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, 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 Rapid.

Ody:

Fire. Distillery is Campari Group, the Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg, kentucky. Distillery is Campari Group, the Wild Turkey Distillery in Lawrenceburg Kentucky. 100 proof 75% corn, 13% rye, 12% malted barley leaf for $45.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah thumbs up. Yeah, I'm going to give it a thumbs up, yay.

Ody:

You guys are becoming connoisseurs.

Mike Gorday:

Maybe I have more of a mad feeling for this. It's really tasty, but it You're going to start dating it.

Nathan Mumm:

Be careful, there's a dating app out there. You're going to start dating it so much, meta, that you're going to date the bottle.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know where you came up with that. Is that considered meta? It's not. Definitely on my search bar.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Well, you know what guys? We're out of time. We want to thank everyone listening to our program today. You know what? You can't get this type of comedy anywhere else except for tech time radio what are you actually plugging yourself as a comedian again? Well, you know, we still have that uh yeah, that's never gonna happen oh, it was gonna happen. One of these days I'll have somebody else ai write all my uh taglines all right, here we go.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I that would be something you would do, and you you know what in In today's society, you might be successful at it because people are stupid.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh wow, that's what we're getting at. People out there just want to let you know Mike thinks you're stupid, not our listeners.

Speaker 4:

I'm talking about other people, anybody that?

Nathan Mumm:

doesn't listen to us. He's saying it's stupid. There you go. Say that to your cohort next to you when you're listening to our podcast. Remember the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. We're going to see you next week, mike. Oh bye.

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