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272: TechTime Radio: Apple embraces touchscreens and drops the (+), Meta redefines home theater, streaming prices climb, phishing scams evolve, and a Florida “Tech Fairy” proves grassroots innovation thrives | Air Date: 10/21 - 10/27/25

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 272

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Apple finally blinks. We break down the rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro on M6 silicon and what it means for the Mac–iPad divide, creative workflows, and the future of touch-first productivity without giving up a real keyboard and trackpad. If Apple embraces touch on macOS, does the iPad’s role shrink, or do we enter a new era of flexible, two-in-one computing?

Streaming also sheds a skin as Apple TV drops the “Plus” while raising prices. We talk about what a name change signals, how the industry is normalizing higher monthly fees, and why subscriber rotation is your smartest money move. Then we put on a headset and test Meta’s Horizon TV app—turning a $399 Quest and a $1 download into a wraparound home theater. It’s shockingly good for travel, apartments, and late-night bingeing, even with some missing apps.

Security stays front and center with a meticulous loyalty email phish that threads through a legitimate address, a Zendesk excuse, a call center handoff, and a final push for remote access. We slow it down, show you every red flag, and share simple rules that stop sophisticated cons. We also look at the PayPal and Venmo outage overlap and why a backup payment rail should be part of your daily toolkit. And we spotlight a Florida “Tech Fairy” who refurbishes laptops and gives them away—proof that practical innovation often starts at home.

Along the way, we sip Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 from 1972 versus today’s bottle, compare notes, and talk about what changed in the glass. If you enjoyed this one, tap follow, share it with a friend who loves tech and whiskey, and drop a review to help more curious listeners find the show.

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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, hmm. Pull up a seat, raise a glass with our hosts as we spend the next hour talking about technology for the common person. Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum, the show that makes you go, hmm, Technology News of the Week, the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm your host, Nathan Mum, with over 30 plus years of technology expertise. Our co-host Mike Roday. Here is our award-winning author, a human behavior expert, and he is also bald and beautiful. If you were here on last week.tv, Facebook, LinkedIn, Kick and Rumble. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradio.com, see our new faster site, and become a Patreon supporter at patreon.com forward slash techtime radio. We're all friends from different backgrounds. We bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends, and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have Odie, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

Announcement:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, today on the show we have, of course, our letter segment, the funny yet informative reading of emails that I received or that were submitted to me during the week. This includes scam, fishing emails, text scams, and all out missed truths. In addition, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, technology failed the week, and a Nathan Nugget. We may even get two of those in. And of course, our pick of the day, whiskey taste in the CFR. Selected whiskey pick. It's zero, one or two thumbs up by the end of the show. I'm looking at our whiskey. We have two bottles, which isn't bad, but it's not a testing day. So I am very confused on what Mark has for.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know what Mark is doing.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't know what Mark's doing? I don't either. All right. Well, but now let's hopefully have great whiskey and get ready for the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Announcement:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, this is a big earth-shaking news story. Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is reportedly going to be offering a touch screen. They're going to get into the business that Microsoft Surfaces has dominated over the last 10 years to come up with a touch screen. Let's go to what's that? Go ahead. I was going to say, do you want to hear what Lisa Walker has first, or what do you have? Yeah, let's listen to Lisa. Okay, let's see what Lisa has.

Announcement:

Apple insiders are pointing to a tactile new future for the company's laptops. Apple will incorporate touch screens into MacBooks sometime in the next few years, further blurring the line with the iPad. The touchscreen approach for a MacBook Pro is currently projected for release in late 2026 or early 2027. Apple's touchscreen laptops are internally known as K114 and K116 and will run on M6 chips. Apple just introduced the M5 generation of its silicon for this year's iteration of the MacBook Pro and iPad Pro, but some might bypass this upgrade for the M6 chips the following year. Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, so what do you think about this? This is a big deal.

Mike Gorday:

I I thought Apple was never, ever, never, never, never, ever going to do touch screen.

Nathan Mumm:

That's what they said. Steve Jobs is just rolling over in his grave right now.

Mike Gorday:

They've been talking to Microsoft out of there.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't I don't think.

Mike Gorday:

They're like, hey, we're gonna if if you guys are gonna not support Windows 10 anymore, we're gonna do touch screen.

Nathan Mumm:

We're gonna do this. So the laptops will still have a trackpad and keyboard uh for non-touch control. So it's just gonna be like your server. You have a surface in front of you. You have a keyboard, you have a mouse. Yes, I love this and the touch screen. Now the MacBooks Pro camera also is going to move to above the screen. Right now they have it integrated in the screen, which is always kind of the weirdest thing ever, but it's kind of their little um so they're basically copying the surface, huh?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, they are.

Nathan Mumm:

They're basically gonna copy. So this is it. They've kept those audiences separate. So if I wanted to have a touchpad, I mean I have an iPad right here, right in front of me in the studio. If I want to use touch type stuff, I have to use a touchpad. If I want to use my Mac laptop, which I have in front of me right now with my tech time radio stickers on and everything, I have to use it without touch. Now they're gonna blur the they're gonna blur the line. That's right. I you know what? I think this destroys the iPad market. I think this will end up destroying the iPad market. I think everybody will get laptops. I think they're gonna get laptops that can then flip over upside down and so that I could actually have the they make the yogas and a bunch of devices that do this now.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, okay. But is it app is it is really it really you think it will be? I really do. The iPad is still a cheaper version of the Mac.

Nathan Mumm:

But if I can just spend another $400 more, get a laptop, and I can just fold over the top when I want to use the touchpad, yeah.

Mike Gorday:

You know, I'm not a huge Apple guy, but can't you buy a keyboard for your iPad?

Nathan Mumm:

Um well, I can buy I can buy a keyboard, I can buy a Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad right now, but it doesn't feel the same as the built-in keyboards. So I this this layout right here that I I love, if I hadn't I had touch, I could just scroll up and down. Well, I don't need anything else.

Mike Gorday:

I I think you know you should stay away from Apple and just get a surface because that's cooler. Uh I have a surface too, though, but okay, yeah. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well Okay, whatever. We're gonna see if they can both coexist. Let's see, Odie over there. Odie, Odie, the Odie is she has no comments on this, but she probably will have comments on story number two. What do you have for story number two here, Mike? We're gonna talk about Apple again. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

They're leading the wave of minus pluses. Okay. What? The the wave the wave of minus pluses. Okay, explain what that way. Do you remember back in when did we start this thing? Uh uh, we're on year six right now. Okay. Do you remember remember back when uh Hulu added plus to their name? They did. And then everybody started adding plus to their name. Yep.

Nathan Mumm:

And you made a couple jokes about it.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, yeah. This is funny because we started talking about everybody adding plus, and they started adding pluses to everything. So now we have plus plus plus.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I guess Apple got tired of that because Apple TV Plus is getting rid of their plus. Okay, so is it Apple TV Plus minus minus? Or Apple it's Apple, it's Apple TV minus the plus. Okay. So just Apple TV then, yeah. It's gonna be just Apple TV again.

unknown:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

Because the plus is being minused. All right, okay. Okay. Last week, Apple quietly rebranded its streaming service in a press release announcing its streaming plans for the Blockbuster F1, the movie. Okay. They dropped the plus. And guess what they did too? What else? They hiked the price. Oh, okay. Well, uh, you know, everybody's been up to upgrading their prices. Yeah, everybody's like let's raise it 10%. Yeah, the greed bandwagon. Yeah. Apple Plus TV is now simply Apple TV with a vibrant new identity. Oh, okay. Because, you know, that's what happens when you minus your plus. Okay. Uh though as of press time, the plus branding still appears on the platform's website and app. It hasn't quite reached out all to the public yet. Okay. The rebrand comes just weeks after the streaming service raised its subscription fee by 30%. By 30%? Yep, 999 to 1299. And the pricing went into effect on August the 21st. Uh, in announcing the hike, people or Apple noted that Apple TV Not Plus remains the only major streaming service without a lower cost ad-supported tier. I guess they're, you know, on that sort of thing that, like, hey, we're not going to entice you in with all these commercials. Okay. It's also cited as deep library. Quote unquote deep library. Yeah. Justification for the increase. Deep library. I don't have Apple TV, so I their deep library is deep library, yes.

Nathan Mumm:

I guess that's if you know if you're burying somebody in the ground and the difference between four feet underneath or six feet underneath, is four feet still considered deep?

Mike Gorday:

No.

Nathan Mumm:

No. I don't I don't even know what you're talking about. But it's it's like the Halloween time, don't you? Like graves.

Mike Gorday:

I don't go out. No, I don't go out and dig graves. No, on Halloween.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that what you do? Uh uh.

Mike Gorday:

You go out and hang out in graveyards and look at look at look at how how those were created. I fight zombies. I fight zombies down at the local uh uh you could just walk out your door now a day and fight a zombie. You think so? Yeah, that's only if you're in downtown Seattle. No. No, no, no. I almost got run off the road by a zombie this morning because they were so busy looking at their phone, they were completely oblivious to what was going on.

Marc Grégoire:

All right.

Mike Gorday:

So, yeah, here we go. Apple has minus their plus, and I bet you money, we're gonna see a bunch of other people minusing their pluses.

Nathan Mumm:

You think Disney Plus just becomes like Disney TV?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I think I think they'll probably Because they're buying Hulu. Hulu's shutting down next year.

Nathan Mumm:

They they they bought Hulu. Yep, and Hulu's gonna shut down and become Disney. So they're just gonna call it Disney TV.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. You know, I think I think this ridiculousness with all these pluses is is going to go away now. It's gonna go away. Okay. That will be my prediction for our prediction.

Nathan Mumm:

So I wouldn't take that prediction. I'd say I agree with you too. I think that what when once one trend happens. Did you know that the meta they had like their um goggles that they have, right? And so those come on out with like the meta plus two, what was what they're doing for their goggles. They removed that. Now they're just the meta uh the meta two? Yeah, it's just meta two, meta three. They got rid of all their plus branding too. So I think maybe the the anti-plus sign is happening now.

Mike Gorday:

Maybe they just figured out how ridiculous it all was. All right. Well, we're staying on the subject of TV. Didn't you rename your the website Tech Tech Time Radio Plus? I did not. I did not add the Tech Time Radio Plus. Okay, well you can contact me at MikeGordet.com.

Nathan Mumm:

That's perfect. All right, story number three. Staying on television. Mark Zuckerberg's dream of replacing your TV with a one dollar app just became real inside your headset. So now we're gonna be talking about it. So okay. I actually loaded this. This is amazing. This is I I will never need to buy a television again. This essentially gives you a like 90-inch television because it goes on your meta quest headset. So let's talk about this. There's a new app, it's called Horizon TV app. It unveiled at the MetaConnect uh event that Meta had. It transforms the MetaQuest headsight into headset into a full-blown entertainment hub. Think of big splashy thumbnails, rules of app icons, created content. It makes your smart TV experience re-imagined in the virtual reality world. It just puts up a TV. So you're in your reality world and it just puts a TV on your screen, and then you can go full screen, so it goes all the way around and it wraps around you. For IMAX movies and stuff like that, there are built for this wraparound. It is amazing. The quality is full HD and it's your whole screen. So I mean, if I can't see anything right now, I would need to have probably a 300-inch television, right?

Mike Gorday:

Oh, my guy that almost ran me over today because you were looking at your TV in meta quest.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, yeah, it's interesting because this is not just a text flex. Horizon TV is meta's latest move to lure non-gaming audience back into this is $399. Okay. I can get a movie like James Cameron's partnership with this. I I all this for one dollar.

Mike Gorday:

I feel like this is a something really stupid that should have been first.

Nathan Mumm:

It should have been. It absolutely should have been.

Mike Gorday:

Why didn't they add TV to your virtual reality? And uh by the way, yeah, it's virtual reality, not reality.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, it is virtual reality. VR. It is it is VR or AR, depending on how you want to augment into reality or virtual reality. Right? So this headset goes on. It's a one dollar app. Uh it looks and interacts like a television. You know what? This now makes me maybe change my mind. Last week I said I wanted that free TV for 500 bucks.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, well, that guy for that guy's just he just got shunted out of the hole. If I can only have a one dollar app, I think this is it. See, meta just came along and stole all your ideas and all your data.

Nathan Mumm:

I can watch Amazon Rings of Power. Uh it has Pluto, Peacock, YouTube, Spotify, Dazz, and I think. What do you do about the whole sweaty face thing? Uh what do you mean? The sweaty face of New Orleans.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, when you wear when you wear those things for too long, your face gets wet.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, I guess I I don't know.

Nathan Mumm:

I have not to take it off when you go to the bathroom. But just think of traveling. If I travel on a plane, I put one of these bad boys on. I don't have to see anybody around me, and I could be watching full sports 360, all around. I could look left and right and see Aaron Rodgers throwing a pass and yelling at his sideline members. I mean, all of it. Now, there are some big gaps though. Disney Plus, uh, which will soon be Disney, and ESPN are on the way, but they do not have Netflix, Hulu, which you don't need Hulu anymore because they're going and being bought by Disney, and HBO are not in the mix. Neither is Tubi or the Roku channel, but they say that these are coming on their way. So let me ask you this $399 for a headset, virtual reality, one dollar for an app, and you get yourself a 200 plus inch television. Is that worth the price? Would you do that, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Not not for me.

Nathan Mumm:

You wouldn't do that? No.

Mike Gorday:

All right. Well, I think I I think it could be there. Well, you know, I I this I have a I have less problems with this. Yeah. Than I do with the other reasons to buy virtual reality crap, like, you know, meta's whole virtual reality, re realty world and and whatnot. Okay. All right. Well, the what is that? What is that game? Second life?

Nathan Mumm:

Second life, uh, yeah, there's a whole bunch of those. And Eve, and there's a bunch of other games that you can do your Eve is science fiction, that's pretty cool.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, is that Eve the science fiction one? Yeah, Eve is Eve is a whole science fiction.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you can play Fallout now on these VR units. Just think about being in the Fallout world. That would be that would be all right. Yeah, there you go. All right, well, guess what? That ends our top technology stories of the week. Next, we're gonna dive into our letter segment, but first we're gonna need to take a commercial break. We're gonna head out at 88 miles per hour until our next segment comes back up. We'll catch you after this break.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without any political agenda. We verify the facts, 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 in the studio. It's always a great day when he's here visiting us. Now, what? Oh, look at that. Back to the bourbon shirt. That's you know what? I think he's got some comments on that. Of all the things that we've had, I think that's maybe the few comments we get on the website. So tell us, what are we doing with our bourbon today?

Mike Gorday:

Why do we have two glasses in front of us? Both of them taste pretty good.

Marc Grégoire:

We are drinking Jack Daniels Old No. 7, the black label. Okay. And why is there two? Yeah. One of them is from 1972, and one of them is from today.

Nathan Mumm:

I can I can actually pick out, I believe, which one is which. Alright. Okay, Nathan the palette guy has it figured out already.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, let me tell you what Jack Daniels talks about there all the time.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I just know old whiskey because I keep it around forever, so I know there's a different taste.

Marc Grégoire:

From Jack Daniels' website, mellowed drop by drop through ten feet of sugar maple charcoal, then matured in handcrafted barrels. Our Tennessee whiskey doesn't follow a calendar. It only it's only ready when our tasters say it is. We judge it by the way it looks, by its aroma, and of course by the way it tastes. It's how Jack Daniels himself did it over a century ago, and how we still do it today. Vanilla caramel and almond with well-rounded barrel notes. Now, this is from the Brown Foreman uh company. Now I believe in 1972, I didn't have a chance to double check that, but I don't believe it was owned by Brown Foreman. Not 100% sure. But regardless, both were distilled at the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. This is classified as a Tennessee whiskey, which of course is a subset of bourbon. Its age is undisclosed. Now here's where some of the differences is. The one from 1972, they used to do it at 90 proof, while today's Jack Daniels is at 80 proof. Oh. The mash bill is the same: 80% corn, 12% malted barley, 8% rye. If you buy a Jack Daniels bottle today, it'll cost you about 23 bucks. This bottle back then was about five bucks.

Nathan Mumm:

Now, how did you come across a 1972 bottle?

Marc Grégoire:

Uh, my dad's closet. Okay, okay. It was a gift. Uh, he had a few bottles from way back when when he used to uh when he was working at the bank and there are gifts from people, and he's not a big whiskey drinker, and so I raided the closet. All right, okay. And so I just opened this up uh this past summer. Had a uh whiskey Chris and his dad came over.

Nathan Mumm:

Could could they tell which one was which?

Marc Grégoire:

We didn't we didn't do a quite a side-by-side. Side-by-side.

Nathan Mumm:

Did they did they like it? Did they think it was good?

Marc Grégoire:

Oh, they loved it. Oh, they loved it. They loved it. They loved it. And they said that we I don't want to spoil everything, but we all wish the Jack Janiels of yesterday could be today.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, okay. So the additional ten proof. So you're saying one more time that the old ways are better than the new ways? Back to the bourbon. Dun dun dun. Dun dun dun.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I see one of them has kind of a flat taste, in my opinion. One of them has a vibrant taste. So now I'm really with the flat flat the flat taste would in my mind would be the older aged whiskey. But maybe not. Okay. So one has a really nice one's got a no burn really to it, and the other one does. Um I'm just gonna taste the one that I like, that's what I'll say. All right. Okay, Mark.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, don't forget to like and subscribe, give us a comment, and as you're drinking, drink responsibly. Heaven can wait.

Nathan Mumm:

Now, are the bottles worth anything if you cli uh for like collector's items? If they're older bottles, Mark?

Marc Grégoire:

The old bottles, yeah, they do sell those on eBay. Now, if it's if I had sold it with the juice in it sealed, yeah, that that that's worth quite a bit. That's worth quite a bit. Okay. Not a huge amount for a Jack Daniels because there's a lot of those floating around. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

So you drink a lot of old whiskey.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh well, I so it happens. Like, I mean, look at my shelf there. So I buy whiskey. And then you don't sits there.

Mike Gorday:

But is is is that why you don't like wine? Because you wait so long that's turned to vinegar?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh yeah. You know what? I you know what? It it's really funny because my go-to drink is like a gin and tonic. So isn't that just like totally everything different than whiskey? Anything? I mean, if I'm just sipping around watching a sports game.

Marc Grégoire:

It's a gin and tonic. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well. You know what? I'm sure we're gonna have a great time figuring out what the special day is today, and of course, our uh Jack Daniels. Now, with our whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment. Today we bring back the funny yet informative reading of emails that I received during the week. This includes scam, phishing emails, texting scams, and all out missed truce discussed as legitimate emails in a segment we call letters.

Mike Gorday:

All right, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Odie, Odie's passing, so we're gonna start with Mark. Mark, you're gonna start us. This is kind of a long, this is a long built-up uh scam here that happens. So take a look at it.

Marc Grégoire:

I'm gonna give you the overview because uh this one I am very this I look through this one and nothing jumps out as me as a scam. So it says it's from Marriott, yeah, and you look at the from and it's at Marriott.com, which looks valid. Yep. Hello, Mr. Mom. Basically, they're saying that you have a free nights award and it will expire after a year. You're getting close to expiration, and please use it. Okay. Um, it's got the Marriott logo and the and the signature, and there's a few web links in here, and they all look like they actually go to the Marriott's correct links. So that does.

Nathan Mumm:

So so this so I think so. I think uh here's what happened. I think Marriott actually uh individual users at this program got compromised. Because this email does look correct, but isn't there a look down for the contact information? What's it say for the contact information?

Marc Grégoire:

Melissa A. Marriott Envoy Customer Care.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so I sent that person an email. So I think she was hijacked or somebody was in her machine that was running her machine itself. Because what happens is I responded, looks really good, right? They're telling me I need to use up my free day, I need to have everything taken care of. I responded so all right, thank you very much. Is there anything else I need to do? I do not see it on my profile because I use a lot of these points. I don't see it on my profile listed anywhere. So immediately I get a response back that says, I have now forwarded it over to our help desk services, and it went to a Zen Desk email account. So it was like someone was in her email, in her box, it said, Here's what you need to do to contact us. So now I I I follow this. I I'm a hook and ladder of going what needs to be taken care of. So I click on the Zen Desk uh type video, it opens up, and all of a sudden it says, We're having problems with our Zen Desk system. Now that that sometimes happens too. So that's not a red alert immediately. Um, it says, please contact us. So now I contact them, and here's where everything starts going a little awry. When you start calling people for support, or if you reach out to them and you hear a call center in the background, that is my first warning sign that you know what? I think that I need to be careful of what I'm doing. Well, he said, sorry, sir, we don't have access to our systems, our systems are down right now. That's why you we had to reach out to you this way. Here's what we're gonna do we're gonna contact you when our system is up and running. Again, no real big warnings here. This is all like, okay, this is legit. They're having problems on their system. Once our system's back up and working, we'll let you know. I give them my full phone number. Full phone number, everything, because you know, it's a free night. I'm I'm a thrifty guy.

Marc Grégoire:

I was gonna say normally I would have just saw this, logged in my account, whatever, and deleted it, moved on with life, but not Nathan. Nathan wants a freebie. I want my free night. I want my you know, I want to keep going, Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

So then all of a sudden, I get a call that comes on in, and my phone picks it up as a scam, likely. And I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting. So they introduce themselves and they say that they're calling back on this and that they're sorry that they have problems. And this is the key where I'm like, what the heck is going on here? You know what? Since we're having problems, let us send you an access code so we can remote into your computer to take a look and see why this is important. Oh bingo, bingo. So everything was fine until they wanted to get remote access. I uh they should just tell me it's backup. You can go and click on it here. Here's your login. So somehow during all this communication, whether it was from the Marriott individual themselves that was compromised, whether it was the Zendesk installation that was compromised, somehow. What you're saying was this was a very well done scam. Very well done. And only at that point did I actually hang up, say that this probably my phone said it was scam likely. Anytime I hear a call center when I reach out to somebody, that puts up my red alert to be careful of what's going on. As soon as they then ask for complete control of my machine so they can help me out. That's totally what I would give them. Then I call the beekeeper. So then, yeah, that's right. So then all of a sudden I said no. I closed it down. I then went and took a look at my account. So they may have actually been down. I take a look at my account the following day, and my uh day was back in there, everything was fine, like it hasn't even been touched, and I didn't give these people access to my computer.

Marc Grégoire:

So you actually had a free day that wasn't showing up for a while, and then it actually came back into your system. That's correct. Wow.

Nathan Mumm:

So now either they didn't have it in their system and they re-added it, or this was scammed.

Marc Grégoire:

I I don't know exactly how it put together, but that was my guess is that the Melissa A from Marriott was hacked. We've seen that a few times with uh companies that we work with, and what those hackers do is they log in and they create a special rule. So they probably created a rule on the subject line that then goes to a folder that a user doesn't notice, and then that's how they communicate back and forth while the person's still doing their email.

Nathan Mumm:

And so it's still and it still seems legit, right? So they still seem like they're actively working on my email's slow. That's exactly what I believe hacked.

Marc Grégoire:

You've been hacked or look at always look at your rules in in your your email application. Yeah. If anything's been ever added in there.

Mike Gorday:

I got I got the reverse. What's that? I got I got these really strange emails from a medical company that said I had a reimbursement and I needed to log into their link. Yeah. And you know, I don't I don't click on sh stuff. You don't got your hat on.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right.

Mike Gorday:

You don't click on so I ignored it and I ignored it. I ignored it for three weeks and I got a check in the mail.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow.

Mike Gorday:

So you still got the check in the mail? I yeah, I got a I actually had a uh reimbursement and uh they were doing the scammer stuff by sending me text messages and emails that said, hey, click on this link.

Nathan Mumm:

So they're trying to get you back. So the moral of the story is guess what? If they owe you sound stuff, if they owe you, they're still gonna send you the check.

Mike Gorday:

Right? Yeah, if they if if you're getting money back, they'll figure out a way to figure out a way to send it to you.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so this one I'm excited about this one that you have to share with us.

Mike Gorday:

I'm excited about this one. Okay. Can you read that one to me, Mike? I will totally read it to you. Thank you. Because it's from somebody from service at itm.etree.org. Okay, well that seems legit. Yeah, and it's to Nathan. Okay. The subject line is something with T S I A in it. Okay. And then the entire email is kanji. Do you know what kanji is? Oh, it's kanji. Uh Japanese writing. So it's all Japanese, right? It's all Japanese writing except for T S I A and some numbers. Okay. Um, so I I think I think I don't know if this is a scam or they just think you're Japanese. Because maybe, maybe mommy are you just in Japanese?

Nathan Mumm:

So I'm not no, I'm not fluent in Japanese.

Marc Grégoire:

Mike can sing us that song.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Are are you fluent in Japanese, Mike?

Marc Grégoire:

Well, the song, Nathan.

Mike Gorday:

Turning Japanese. Oh, turning Japanese.

Nathan Mumm:

That's from your era, too.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know that. Move on, move on.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, well, can you read this out loud to me? Yeah, it says, hi, Nathan. No, no, no. I want the characters. Is that like it's like no, I can't read Japanese. Oh, why?

Mike Gorday:

I can speak a little Japanese, but I can't read it. Okay. It says, hi, Nathan. Yeah. We're totally on board with you being our Japanese person in our email. We know you recently visited our lovely country and you hate our bourbon.

Nathan Mumm:

Um, I don't hate that. I think Mark more hates the bourbon.

Marc Grégoire:

Oh, maybe it's more there's no such thing as Japanese bourbon, number one, because bourbon is a legal term that can only be made in the United States. That's what it says here.

Mike Gorday:

That's what it says here. It says Mark doesn't know what he what he's talking about because we make bourbon all the time.

Nathan Mumm:

So so that it's really tough of you. We should probably put that up to the camera.

Mike Gorday:

So I don't I don't know, I don't know if that's a scam or not, but it is funny.

Nathan Mumm:

So I did put it in Google Translate.

Mike Gorday:

What did it tell you?

Nathan Mumm:

It's uh either Google Translate did not work well, or they did not have the uh phishing attempt well, or they didn't have just their email well. So I don't know which one was. Wrong, but it could not make coherent stuff. There was some welcome in there, there was some we'd like to show you, and then there was some tech time radio in there, and that was it on the stuff that it pulled out. So when you actually pulled it on out, it did not Google translate it correctly.

Marc Grégoire:

Maybe it's an offer for a million dollars to buy Tech Time Radio. Oh, it could have been. It could have been. Yeah, or it's you know or a thousand yen.

Nathan Mumm:

Sure. All right. Okay, here's my next one. This got me excited. This came from Jamie Smith2702 at V I R I L O dot info. But it's Harbor Freight. Well, hang on. Well, it is. It says you are an October winner. Claim your free Pittsburgh car maintenance set. And then it has the title reply UAX5MS9, which is their tag. So when the email comes on in, they can see which one of the scammers that sent this out actually gets credit. Yep, that's their credit number. So they included that in the title subject. So you know what? Uh it did tell me now how do I say this? If I'm winning a Makita tool or if I'm winning something, I get it. This is a Pittsburgh car maintenance set at Harbor Freight. These are like $15. Well, these are like $15. All right. You still want it. So I don't know. And then say get now, right? So it's got it's got Pittsburgh car maintenance, limited harbor freight offer. It's got tons of things. You've been chosen to participate in our loyalty program for free. You get to be freely loyal. Get it now. Click here. And what happens is when you actually click on this link, when it clicks on this link, it actually says that you have to write in to 8286 ExpressLane Spanish Forks, Utah, 84660. You actually have to take them a letter. You have to send this in. After you've claimed, you get an ID, and then you have to send it to them in email or in mail. Mail. So I pay for a stamp to send them to win my $15 Pittsburgh Car meeting.

Mike Gorday:

Edition Star Wars Star Wars figure. Star Wars figure.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you call you got collectibles, yeah. Emperor Papel team that you could only do. That's right. I got Emperor Pap team.

Mike Gorday:

Did you that way?

Nathan Mumm:

That oh that one, that's the most funny.

Mike Gorday:

Was this a scam? He just incensed that he would have to pay. Scam over mail. Well, yeah. He has to buy a stamp in order to get a $15 tool.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, see, a stamp, I have to pay for a stamp. I have to go to the site, click on the special thing. I I I'm not you know, this may not be a mic.

Mike Gorday:

This may just be a Nathan Rand. No, no, no. I get I I kind of get it because if I have to mail stuff, I really don't because then I have to go buy stamps and you know. That's a whole different level. That's a whole it's weird how that used to be a part of my everyday life. And now when I have to buy stamps, I'm like, nah, those those bill guys can wait.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, you know what? Last thing before we leave, because we're a little bit ahead of time, we were talking about this uh pre-show. So let's talk about what is one of the big scams that are going on right now, Mark.

Marc Grégoire:

You were talking about as we were talking about Yes, I believe it started in Oregon, and I believe it's through phone calls is how it starts. I'm not sure if it's phone calls or emails or emails and it turns into phone calls. Yeah. But basically they tell you your cash is not safe, whether it's in your house or in the bank, because the banking system's gonna have issues and crash, right? It's gonna crash. So please go out and use this money to buy gold. Okay. Gold is priceless and never goes out of style. Okay. And then to really protect you after you buy the gold, they're gonna send an FBI agent to meet you to pick it up to hold it for you.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, so they're so hang on here. So I buy the gold. Uh so I'm safe now. I I spend all my safety.

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna come and pick it up and physically take it to a safe house like you know Leavenworth. Okay, too. Or what no, what where is it? Where's the gold uh Colorado? Very, very famous. Fort Knox.

Nathan Mumm:

Fort Knox, yes. So you're so you're you're gonna do the transportation for me?

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna do everything, man. Okay I'm gonna I'm gonna keep your gold safe for you.

Nathan Mumm:

And you're gonna even have to click on a link. I don't have to click on a link. And uh, how do I get in touch with you at a later time? I'll leave you a phone number. So you're gonna leave me a phone number and then you're gonna answer that, right? Sure. I give you my life savings in gold. This is happening, especially I know.

Mike Gorday:

This is the horrible thing is that people are falling for this.

Marc Grégoire:

It is, and and most of them are older. Um scared about 80s, scared about the environment, and as we grow older, we grow more insecure about our money.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that what it is?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Okay. The uh the older population is always targeted by these people because they are more easily swayed by these things than other folks.

Marc Grégoire:

And I believe the ring that's running it is been is based out of India. Because I have arrested a few people. Okay. And they've uh India based. Okay, so India base. There you go.

Mike Gorday:

Do not trust anybody if they're gonna do they bring the gold to India?

Nathan Mumm:

Is that is that don't I don't think they've figured out yet where it goes. I'm sure they take it down to the local pawn shop, make the money from it. Probably what happens. Yeah, I mean that's the best way to do that.

Mike Gorday:

All right, well how do you know that, Nathan?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh Nathan's goldforall.com. Just visit Nathan's goldforall.

Mike Gorday:

No, it has to be Nathan's Goldforall Plus.com.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Dot AI, because the AI uh extensions now are the highest thing. I'll be talking to you about how many AI extensions I just purchased.

Mike Gorday:

I I don't want to hear about it.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. That ends our letter segment on the show. Up now we have Mike's Mesmerizing Moment. Welcome to Mike's Mesmerizing Moment. What does Mike have to say today? All right, with Black Friday coming, we have great deals on technology items just around the corner. But we know the TVs are not to get at the Black Friday specials. Do not buy a TV. Buy a TV at the Super Bowl specials because you get the new ones at the prices that are there instead of the leftovers that haven't selled. But laptops and desktops are on the docket for upgrades. Many people are looking to upgrade this year. Why do we like shopping on these big holiday deal days? Well, Amazon Prime just had their prime times five day or whatever it was, or Prime Days, or whatever they had up there, and they they have a people spend money. We look forward to these days. What is wrong with us?

Marc Grégoire:

Can I answer for mic? Yeah, go ahead. This is a dumb question. This is a dumb because traditionally these are the best deals, and so we want deals, so you're gonna buy when it's the cheapest price. Okay, and a story. Okay, okay.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I don't I don't know if I don't know if we could say we like shopping for these items, but we are trained to shop for these items. Okay, how's that? We we always want the deal. We always want to feel like we're getting something of value for less than what it's supposed to be, right? And when and when they do these things, they're banking on the fact that you're gonna you're gonna go into some sort of buying frenzy. Okay. Right? It's it's kind of like a loss leader at a grocery store. You know what a loss leader is? Yeah, that's where they get you on in and then buy uh milk for dirt cheap, but yeah, they tell you, you know, during Thanksgiving, they tell you that they're gonna be selling their turkeys for whatever you know, a small amount of money per pound. So, right, so so you're the idea is that you come in and you buy the turkey, but you also need the basting stuff, you need the the stuffing, and so you're going to pay full price for that stuff, which is actually probably hiked up because it they need to offset the price of the turkey. Okay. So this is this is some of the same thing. And it takes advantage of our scarcity problem when we have these sort of scarcity uh feelings that enter into our brains. Fear of missing out. Yeah, fear of missing out. We start reacting and we start doing things subconsciously. You know, I you know I worked as a car salesman, right? I do, yep. Um You're the only person I've ever known that worked in the car dealership stuff. So you're you're my guy. Yeah, it was not, it wasn't even an accident, and I I don't like talking about it that much. Okay. But uh we would have a sale every day, even when we didn't have sales. You know, you're riding down the road and you see the little flag guys and the big sale things. Yep. That's all BS. Yeah, going out of business. None of those none of those cars are on sale. It's all BS. It's it's because we react to that kind of stuff because of those those feelings of scarcity and fear of missing out and whatnot. And and we just sort of this is why I was talking about last week about how easily we are are led down the path of destruction when it comes to this kind of psychological Have you ever have had did you ever have anybody come on in and ask to buy a car that wasn't on sale?

Nathan Mumm:

It didn't matter.

Mike Gorday:

It doesn't matter. Because none of us are when it comes to car sales, yeah, the customer is never right.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, and you're always trying to push something out.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we're gonna take you we're gonna take you as you come in and you're looking for this particular model and car, and we're gonna take you around and try and manipulate you until you get the one that we want you to get because that's what gives us the biggest sale. Biggest sale. And I'm saying I'm saying the collective we, not because I enjoyed it, but because that's how I was trained to do it.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, that makes sense. Well, Mike, thanks for that mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

So what are you gonna buy? What are you gonna buy on Black Friday?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh I have to find I gotta buy a new desktop, so I gotta figure out what I'm gonna buy. I I I think I'm gonna probably take advantage you're gonna take advantage of those low, low prices. Uh I will, probably, yeah. Uh probably buy something on New Egg or some other couple different places so I can get my Does New Egg still exist? Yeah, it still exists. It's kind of more of a eBay marketplace now, so you can post stuff up there. All right. Thanks for that mesmerizing moment. We're gonna head out, and when we come on back, we have this weekend technology. So now's a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we will be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum. Hey Mike. Yeah, what's up? Hey, so you know what? We need people to start liking our uh social media pages.

Mike Gorday:

If you like our show, if you really like us, we could use your support on Patreon.com. Or is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, Patreon. If you really like us, you can say I'm the English guy? Patreon.com.

Nathan Mumm:

Is it I I butcher the English language? You know you butcher the English language. So it's all the time. It's Patreon.

Mike Gorday:

Patreon.com. If you really like if you really like our show, you can subscribe to Patreon.com and help us out. Oh, and you can visit us on that Facebook platform.

Nathan Mumm:

You know the one that Zuckerberg owns?

Mike Gorday:

The one that we always bag on?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you can we're on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on Facebook. Do you know what our Facebook page is? Tech Time Radio. At Tech Time Radio. You know what? There's a trend here. 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. It's at Tech Time Radio.

Mike Gorday:

Like and subscribe to our social media.

Nathan Mumm:

Like us today. We need you to like us.

Mike Gorday:

Like us and subscribe. That's it.

Nathan Mumm:

That's it. That's that simple.

Announcement:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike, we're going back to October 24th, 2003. This was the last flight of the Concorde. Now the Concorde was constructed from aluminum. It was the first airline to have an analog flyby wire flight controls. The airliner had a transatlantic range, which, while super cruising at twice the speed of sound for 75% of the distance that it traveled. Now the Concorde supersonic jet made its last commercial flight while the Concorde crossed the Atlantic and about 3.5 miles or 3.5 hours, low passenger numbers, and rising maintenance costs made it unprofitable for British Airways and Air France to operate. 18 of the 20 aircraft built are preserved today and are on display in Europe and North America. It's considered by aviation as one of the greatest inventions, yet one of the worst produced airplanes of all time. Why was it the worst produced? Well, because they had so many problems and so expensive, and it was such a revolutionary idea to what they did. They couldn't mass produce the items. They're all specialty-based items, and therefore wasn't able to stay in the market. Now, it's interesting because it was a Europe-based company that built the Concorde, and then Boeing tried to come on out with their competitive stuff, and that still didn't work either. And they found out the traditional planes that take a little longer to fly are the most economic, easiest to build, and cheapest to maintain. So there it is, the cheapest to maintain. That was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some tech time history with over 270 plus weekly broadcast spanning over six plus years of video, podcast, blog, and information, you can visit us at techtime radio.com. Watch our older shows. That's right. Techtime radio.com, the new fast site. Come and visit. We're going to take a commercial break. Uh you know what? I gotta tell everybody soon we may have this cryptocurrency thing that's gonna be going on with Tech Time Radio. This little spoiler that you're gonna I you get you you like that idea? No. You know, say you watch us and you earn cryptocurrency. What do you think about that? What does that mean? You get an Ethereum chain. You get an Ethereum chain and the more you watch the more you watch, the more you get?

Mike Gorday:

Yes. Okay. Okay, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

Let's you know what?

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna take advantage of the marketing employees by TV. What do I get for being on the show? Do I do I the more I'm on the show, the more I get? Uh you know what?

Nathan Mumm:

You can go home. This is what you can get. Oh, if I go home and watch it. That's a 24 by 7. Uh-huh.

Mike Gorday:

That's what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna set it on loops.

Nathan Mumm:

It's a hustle. All right, we're gonna take a commercial break when we return. We have Mark Mumble Whiskey Review. See you after the break.

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Announcement:

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

Marc Grégoire:

All right, October 21st. What is today? Today Nathan is celebrating along with me.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh. Oh, that's not bald stuff. Uh must be um something to do with strength or good looking or or intelligence. Isn't it naturally?

Marc Grégoire:

What we're doing with the whiskey and what I'm wearing. Uh oh, is it is it back to the future? It is back to the future day.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, wow. Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

Throw on your Nikes, pop in the VHS, and rev up your DeLorean. Oh. Because October 21st is Back to the Future Days. First celebrated in 2015. Okay. A significant year for serious fans. Yep. The original Back to the Future is a 1985 sci-fi classic.

Nathan Mumm:

2015 is the day that they go into the future. That's correct. And Marty's son gets in trouble. But I don't know why. We still don't have hoverboards. We still don't have hoverboards. And I don't know why Marty's son would still be hanging out with a relative of Biff. You're telling me that in this world that they could not, he could not have found any other friends in his high school at that time.

Mike Gorday:

Look at that what they were wearing in Back to the Future 2015.

Nathan Mumm:

Some of that stuff is in style. Except for maybe not the helmets that looked like they were uh from uh Mario Brothers. The Jetsons.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, tell us more. All right. So great Scott. If we could fire up the DeLorean and head back to 1972, a bottle of Jack Daniels Old No. 7 would cost just a few bucks. Fast forward to today, and while the prices change at smooth Tennessee character has not. Proof that some things do not need time travel to stay timeless. Just like the fact that every drop is still made in Lynchburg since 1866 from the oldest registered distillery in the U.S. A town that has been dry since Prohibition. What?

Nathan Mumm:

So they make it in a town that's dry.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

So they make it in a town.

Marc Grégoire:

I've heard that before.

Nathan Mumm:

I think I have heard that too.

Marc Grégoire:

So they can't even taste their own whiskey. There's an exception for on the distillery to taste.

Nathan Mumm:

So does that mean everybody in the town just somewhere else to buy it? They all work, they all work there. Or they all have one bar that they set up and they all just come and drink there all night. Well they just go across a city limit.

Marc Grégoire:

Now, tasting Jack Daniels number seven from 1972, besides today's release, shows just how much things have changed. The 1972 pour has character, more oak, proof, and authenticity. If that version were still on the shelf, it would be a daily drinker for me. The modern bottle, though, smoother and sweeter, lacks that soul. It is one I would rarely reach for. Better to do a Jack and Coke with the new version. Well, 1972 is a sipper.

Mike Gorday:

This is the 1972 version. He hasn't said yet.

Marc Grégoire:

He's not telling. I don't know. I don't know. Have you said yet? Which one do you like better? I like this better. The one in the Glenn Karen versus the beer glass?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you know that I'm a Glenn Karen.

Marc Grégoire:

This is the better tasting of the two.

Nathan Mumm:

It is sweeter.

Marc Grégoire:

So you both think the Glenn Karen is better tasting. Well, you both like the 1972. All right, good. How about that?

Nathan Mumm:

There you go. That's what I thought. We agreed. That's all right.

Mike Gorday:

Well, what's gonna happen there? It is gonna be a record day. Yeah, that's that's a sign in the end times, man. There's a trumpet blower somewhere.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Thanks, Odie and Mark. Whiskey and technology are such a great pairing, like milk and ovaltine. What? What a miss. What are you talking about? Don't you like milk and ovaltine?

Mike Gorday:

Does anybody know what oval teen is? Yes.

Marc Grégoire:

Odie, do you know what oval teen is? A classic example would be milk and Oreo cookies.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, that would have been a good classic. Ovaltine is absolutely an additive that you add to the milk itself.

Mike Gorday:

So then you then you then you I I think you were on the back end of the whole oval teen push.

Nathan Mumm:

No, then you use a uh a spoon and you have everything ready to go.

Mike Gorday:

Did you ever drink ovaltine? I did not as a kid?

Nathan Mumm:

I did I did drink oval teen as a kid.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. All right. All right. Next segment.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, let's let's move on from the oval teen. Let's prepare for our technology fail of the week.

Announcement:

Congratulations. You're a failure. Oh, I failed. Did I? Yes. Did I? Yes.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. This week our technology fail comes to us from payment processes across the globe. Two of the largest platforms went down at the same time. Is this a coincidence? All right, PayPal and Venmo were down, and here's what you know about each of these platform outages. If you weren't able to send money last week, you're not alone. Two of the largest online payments experienced major outages on October 16th. According to Down Detector, which attracts reports, outages from services, both PayPal and Venmo saw a surge beginning from 11 a.m. Eastern and lasted for over an hour. PayPal hit nearly 10,000 reports, and Venmo wasn't far behind at 8,000. Now PayPal took a while to reflect the issue. It was having on its own status page, but shared a statement with us that said the outage had been concluded. PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service disruption almost at the same time. And they're on two different platforms. Hmm. Was this a misconfiguration hack? Or was this a major breach? Well, guess what? We'll find out later. Yeah, we do not know yet because they have not made the announcement. There has not been a posting online that said it was a hack either. If there was, I would be announcing that. But there seems to be still in the dark that either they both have the same IT service person that hit the wrong button or something happened. Fire eye. All right. There you go. We're gonna head right now. Don't, don't, to our neighborhood. Yeah, to our Nathan Nugget.

Announcement:

This is your nugget of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. So I may have one. I got a little bit of time. I may do a little second one here. So we're gonna talk about something good. This fellow by the name of Craig Clark. Do you know who Craig Clark is? No. He's like a good neighbor.

Mike Gorday:

Nobody knows who Craig Clark is.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Craig Carr is like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Do you need a laptop? We did not get paid for that. We did not get that. This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need. So he retired from a chain of convenience stores. He became a computer technician. Then he got the idea to provide laptops to those who can't afford them. Clark, who is based out of Florida, became known as the Tech Fairy. And there's no memory as to why or how people branded himself that, he says. He says that he doesn't mind the Tech Ferry idea, but really all he wants to do is fix old computers and be able to have them work for somebody new. Now he started eight years ago doing this, and he's helped hundreds of people with photos to prove each one of these that he's given away. In the 700 plus pictures, there's a lot of convenience store workers, a lot of fast food workers, and people you don't really uh able to pay for a brand new laptop at $1,200 a pop. The 79-year-old, one man operation, says that he has stacks and stacks of computers. And what he does is he takes the computers, opens them up, cleans them out, replaces them with bigger hard drives and memory from all the others that he has collected, and then he gives them away. He gives away about eight or nine a month, and he's probably has 500 laptops ready to go right now.

Marc Grégoire:

What does he charge him for the new laptop? No, nothing. That's free.

Mike Gorday:

That's what Nathan. That's what that's what Nathan does, except he doesn't give them to anybody.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I I I do actually I do give them out. Did you yeah, I do give them out. I thought you've sold them. No, because normally by the time I actually do spend a lot of time taking the batteries, going and what I end up doing is I use them for like big events, is I take older machines, use them for big events until they can't be done. Or I give them to my wife, and that's her computer that she has, and I say, Here you go, honey. It looks like it's a new one. I don't know if that counts. Sorry, Tracy.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know if that counts.

Marc Grégoire:

She just moved this this this rating of this show from a 10 down to a one. That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, speaking about Windows, let's talk about something that a lot of people don't know about. Are they touch screens? Do you get do you guys know what Power Uh Toys is? They used to be kind of like Power Toys, Power Tools. These are window enhancements. They're like mods. They're like mods for Windows. But it actually is released by Microsoft, so it's like it officially worked on hacked versions of different stuff. Now, guess what? Microsoft is excited to finally announce with its new version of Power Toys that you can get Power Toys.

Mike Gorday:

It sounds like you're belting anywhere.

Nathan Mumm:

Power Toys that you can get on the Windows Store. So you got to go to the Windows store and look for Power Toys. You can actually now since they've released one. They have. It has been uh they do it about every year and a half, two years. So it takes a little while. But most of these are developers that are doing this on their free time on the back end to add functionality that they at one time had in the code that then gets stripped off, and then they had these rogue developers that were all mad, so they decided to come up with the whole idea of Windows 95 Power Toys is when it really started coming on out because all the features they would throw in there.

Marc Grégoire:

Do you guys know what some of the new toys are?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. You can now have your Windows machine go from light to dark mode. You know the feature that uh a Mac has had for maybe like 10 years. Uh when it gets dark, all of a sudden you can go white and the screen, and then when it's the other one, you can go black and white. So you can now have an update available for free at Power Toys uh in the app store. Well, guys, you know what? I think now we need to move to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Announcement:

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

Marc Grégoire:

Good transition, everybody. Today we are tasting Jack Daniels Old No. 7 black label, a recent purchase versus Back to the Bourbon, a 1972 bottle.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. I give a thumbs up to this bottle right here.

Mike Gorday:

Are we supposed to be thumbs up in each one of them?

Marc Grégoire:

Not each one, just the 1972. I give it a thumbs up. Thumbs up. Absolutely. I wish this was the standard offering right now.

Nathan Mumm:

Can you go back to them and tell them, hey, change it back to the way you had it?

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, you can go back and tell them.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, Mark, you got a lot of power in the whiskey community. How about you?

Marc Grégoire:

MASH Bill, so it's it's more there's a lot of other factors that play into making the whiskey. It's about the the wood that, you know, the wood they use now isn't quite as aged as back in the early 1970s. We have less wood. Uh water has changed, uh yeast that they use, you know, et cetera, et cetera. They just need to go back to the old way.

Nathan Mumm:

That's what I tell everybody at work all the time. Sometimes we just need to find a new way to do that. The old ways the better. The old ways the better.

Mike Gorday:

That's always that's funny coming out of your mouth. It's always better to go back to the old. Yeah, I think so. I think we I think we need to be back in pre-internet days.

Marc Grégoire:

Days, okay. That's all right. That's all right.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. I don't quite think we should go back that far.

Mike Gorday:

No, I know. You you but you want to be you want to live in Star Trek, so I do.

Nathan Mumm:

I do. I want to see the aliens, I want to fly. We just need to determine that future reality. That's right. Not not the not the uh or back to the future reality would be fine too. I could handle that. Go back and and get the uh sports almanac, and I can make millions and millions of dollars. I could be like Biff. All right, now guess what, Mike? Okay, whatever. We're about out of time. We want to thank our listeners for joining the program. Listeners, we want you to hear from you. Go visit techtimeradio.com, click on be a caller, ask us a question on technology in our talk back recording system. If you do that, I will send you ten dollars on my Venmo account. For those that are listening, go and leave me the first one to go to the talk the talkback recording system at techtime radio.com under contacts. Does that? I'll send you 10 bucks. All right. Except is Venmo gonna be working? I hope so. All right. You know what? You can always also like our page on YouTube and watch all of our shows. It's about out of time. It's an honor to be a host on today's show. Each week we're here to decode the technology that shapes our world. One breach breakthrough and bourbon out of time. See you next week. Later. Bye-bye.

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