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274: TechTime Radio: Wi-Fi TP-Link Bans, Toilet Paper ads in China, Humanoid Robot Hype, QuickBooks Phishing Scams, Apple Bugs, Drone Patrols, and Whiskey Semifinals, Welcome to the Cutting-Edge | Air Date: 11/4 - 11/10/25

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 274

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Your Wi‑Fi might be your biggest blind spot, and we’re putting it under a bright light. We dig into the push to ban TP‑Link in the U.S., what “firmware callbacks” really mean, and the simple, concrete steps that actually harden a home network: changing default credentials, updating firmware at least yearly, enabling WPA3, and leaning on MFA to shut down credential theft. No scare tactics—just the playbook that keeps real people safer.

From there we pull the thread on attention economics in the oddest place: public restrooms. In parts of China, you now scan a QR code and watch an ad to get a ration of toilet paper or pay a few cents to skip it. Officials call it anti‑waste; users call it sponsored dignity. We unpack why this matters beyond bathrooms, and how “rewarded attention” business models creep into public infrastructure when no one’s looking.

We also put a $20,000 humanoid robot under the microscope. Neo can open doors and flip switches, but it relies on remote human operators for the hard stuff—folding laundry, loading dishes, organizing shelves. That’s not autonomy; that’s telepresence with great PR. We talk costs, privacy, and whether you’re paying to be a beta tester while the AI learns on your dime. If you want actual help today, a local cleaner still wins on speed, cost, and accountability.

Scam fighters, this one’s for you: a convincing QuickBooks “relationship manager” email that funnels to a Calendly form harvesting bank details, and a fake invoice attachment that mimics a Microsoft 365 login to steal your password before opening your inbox so you don’t suspect a thing. We show you the red flags and the countermeasures—verify domains, never type creds from an email, use a password manager, and lock in MFA.

We round out with a quick look at Apple’s iOS keyboard bug and AirPods static, a throwback to the Morris Worm’s chaotic lesson on unintended consequences, and a preview of police cruisers that launch drones for aerial patrols. Plus, our whiskey semifinal, banter, and a secret sound challenge to test your ear.

If this mix of practical security, tech trends, and a little humor hits the spot, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review. Your support helps more curious listeners find us—and keeps us fueled for next week’s deep dive.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time 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 sightful and segments weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mum, your host and technologist with over 30 years of technology expertise. Over here to my right, we have Mike Gordet. He's in studio, he's our co-host and the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming on six of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, Twitch.tv, Facebook, LinkedIn, and now Kick and Rumble. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradio.com and become a Patreon supporter at patreon.com forward slash techtime radio. Now we're friends from different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends, and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have 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 our letter segments, of course. Uh, we're gonna go through and read letters that were submitted by fans and the hit my inbox. We also have our secret sound pot has doubled. That's correct. If you listen to the secret sound, all of those that submitted the items last week were incorrect. All right, the number one consensus of the people that said it thought it was a pinball machine, and that's incorrect. It is not a pinball machine, so strike that off your list, and we'll see if you listen until the end of the show for that secret sound extra second of audio. Now, in addition, of course, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, and impossible Nathan Nugget, and of course our pick of the day. Whiskey tasting far sele to see if it gets zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. It looks like we're in a uh semifinal playoff here on which uh whiskey we like. So I gotta make sure I choose the right one this time. Or the one I like.

Mike Gorday:

You know, it's based on which glass it is for no, not really.

Nathan Mumm:

It's it's it's always the best taste. But you know what? Let's get right into the headlines of the world of technology.

Announcement:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. The U.S. is looking to block TP Link routers, and we're gonna talk about why you should replace them now. But before that, let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this story.

Announcement:

Could your Wi-Fi router be a national security risk? The U.S. government is urging a total ban on TP Link, one of the most popular router brands in America. With over 300 internet providers issuing TP Link devices, this move could shake up millions of households. Is this threat real? Or just political posturing? For me personally, I have replaced my TP Link items, but let's get the experts' analysis. Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, here we go. T P Link. Do you have a TP link device at your house? Me? Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

No.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

At least I don't think so.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't think so? What type of router do you have? Do you have a Nighthawk?

Mike Gorday:

I I have whatever, you know, Xfinity gives you. Okay, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

They don't give you a TP link, so that's at least better. Okay, all right. Well, the US government is inching closer to banning TP link routers, citing national security concerns. According to the Washington Post report, more than half a dozen federal agencies, including the Commerce, Defense, and Justice, now support the proposal. Now, TP Link Systems products pose a security reeks because they handle sensitive American data and may still be influenced by the Chinese government. TP Link was founded in Shenzhen, China, and has since split into two entities, TP Link Systems, now based in Irvine, California. And they deny any foreign control that is currently happening. They say no foreign country or government, including China, has access or control over the design of the production of our products. Um but the allegations, investigation, and market dominance, TP Link has rise to be a historical number one router sale device. In 2019, it had about 20% of the router market. Today it's disputed at anywhere between 65 to 70 percent of the market. Now, the Department of Justice is also investigating the company for alleged predatory pricing. TP Link usually um has a degree of vulnerabilities that require with Chinese law, and it seems to be that the lawmakers who wrote laws for China laws being concerning are no longer adhering to them. Cybersecurity experts are divided between um if the risk is real or if it's just kind of been made up. But here's what we got going on here. The CEO of NetRise has found that in the TP link firmware there are actually callbacks that it sends information back to China. Now, cybersecurity experts say the real concern isn't just TP links, it's all routers in general. Most of them uncover once you put a router into your place, most people don't upgrade the firmware. Now, do you have you upgraded your firmware for your modem from Comcast? Am I supposed to do that manually? Uh yes. Oh, then no. No. Okay. Um I have routers around the house. I have Cisco stuff. I got uh routers around my business, which are Cisco and uh other devices. I have to go up to those and have them updated on a quarterly basis to make sure I get new firmware, make sure I have things taken care of. Most experts don't. Tech guy. Most experts on the Odie, have you ever upgraded your uh router at home?

Ody:

No. And I didn't know that I needed to do that.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, so Mr. Tech Guy, there's the question for you is if you have one of these things, how do you update the firmware?

Ody:

Thank you. I was gonna ask that too.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so it's really simple.

Nathan Mumm:

Most of the time you have to log in as an administrator to your router. So if you are leasing it from Comcast, do you also pay for the security services from Comcast, or do you just rent the router itself? If you pay for the security services, it auto-updates and they take care of it on their side. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

If you don't do what's that? I believe that's what I do.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so you don't have to worry about it. But if you have a standard router where you go and you connect it into your main uh ISP's connection, most of those have a default admin, a default password for the admin console. And they have the original router uh software that comes on out with that. And most of the people that have routers at their homes never update it. The original version is all that they ever have because it is an administrative task to log into it, find the IP address of that router. You have to log in with a username and password, you then have to go, and sometimes most of them have the ability to update them on the internet itself, so they self-update. But some of these you actually actually have to have a USB drive and you have to put it in there and you have to load the drivers and update these to keep these safe.

Ody:

So you mentioned that you do this four times a year, every quarter.

Nathan Mumm:

I do it every quarter.

Ody:

Would you recommend that it's done at least once a year?

Nathan Mumm:

At least once a year would be perfect. Once a year would be perfect. I don't think people are saying that that we want to have stuff ultra. I mean, I'm sure it'd be great if you did it every month. That would be fantastic.

Ody:

That's just not realistic for the average consumer.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So once a year when New Year's comes around, you know, you change your clock or you change this and make sure you change your default login credentials immediately once you get a router. It shouldn't be admin with your password. You need to put in a password there. Stick it on the back of the router. Don't try to do some password that you're gonna forget. Just put a big, huge sticky note on inside your router. Write it on paper. Yeah, write it on paper and stick it to the router because if somebody comes on into your house and they're at your router to get your password, you have many other things to worry about than that you wrote your password on a piece of paper there.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I don't know about that.

Nathan Mumm:

Use a VPN with advanced privacy features when you're either on your network or on each of your computers. Ensure your firewall and Wi-Fi encryptions are turned on. Regularly update your router's firmware, it should be done at a minimum of once a year. And consider switching to a WPA3 certified router if you're even more concerned, which is more security that's available there.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, listen to all this tech speak that nobody knows about.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, no, no, no. You have a router at home. Number one, change your default password.

Mike Gorday:

Get it hooked up. My my my question is not how to do this, it's uh how do you feel about all this, Mr. I I love TikTok, even though China steals all my information. Well, yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

So everybody is stealing information out there now, right? We we talk about that each and every week. All your information's out there. I might as well now just give it to people that I know that I kind of like it.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I'm just gonna go to my neighbor and give them all my passwords.

Nathan Mumm:

I you know what? If I like the if I like the thing that I'm using, I realize there's no privacy anymore, ever. So I'm just gonna uh use what I like and keep the privacy items out of TikTok. Um when I'm looking at TikTok, I'm not doing anything there. They can oh, they know that I like fix it stuff, they know that I like technology stuff, and they know that I like the NFL. You know what? That's really not gonna kill me on anything that goes on. Okay, all right. All right, all right. There you go. Protect your digital router and your digital life. Mike, we got story number two.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Speaking of TP. Yeah, hey, uh you do mobile games, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh I I I do not anymore do mobile games. I used to play like Royal Battle or something like that.

Mike Gorday:

Right. And those are those are those things where you have to sit through an advertisement and stuff where you can play. Did you like that? Uh do I like that? No, I don't like that. Okay, well, guess what? What's that? You probably don't want to visit China then. Okay, why would I want to visit China? Okay. Because now China is running this test where you have to watch ads to get toilet paper in public restrooms. What? What are you talking about? Yeah, and a move that's equal parts tech innovation and public inconvenience. Restrooms in parts of China are testing new toilet paper dispensers that require users to scan a QR code and watch an ad before receiving a ration strip of toilet paper. See, they're all over the place. TP Link, TP What are you talking about? So I go into a crapper. You go you go into a public restroom, yeah, you do your business, yeah, and in order to get the cleaning supplies you need, you have to watch an ad. Okay. I think, you know, I I often grumble about the stuff that goes on here in America, but this is one of the few times where I, you know, I'm uh glad that I live here.

Nathan Mumm:

You go to a public park and you have to use the restroom, you're gonna be sitting in there.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody's gonna be sitting in there scrolling on ads. If if this ever happens here in the States where I have to watch an ad just to get toilet paper, yeah, I am destroying every technology thing I can find. Wow. Wow. You wouldn't do that? No. No. I think that's ridiculous.

Nathan Mumm:

So what happens if I I I got so many okay, keep on going on. I have so many questions in my mind right now.

Mike Gorday:

I just got to if you don't want to endure a few seconds of promotional content, you can pay for a direct dispense of toilet paper. So I mean there is Which is it it comes to about seven cents US dollars.

Nathan Mumm:

Or a little strip of a little stuff.

Mike Gorday:

Or a strip of toilet paper.

Nathan Mumm:

How much is that strip? Is that like a single ply, two ply, three ply? I don't I don't I don't know. Is that a hand wrap? Is that three sheets?

Mike Gorday:

I think you're asking questions you should be directing towards China. Maybe you should, you know, get on your TP link and and ask them. What happens if you have a blowout?

Nathan Mumm:

I mean, could you be there like an hour?

Ody:

I don't know how I brought this up that you just it in case you don't need to do like more than with the little toilet paper, you just stay and watch a bunch of ads and ration it out for next time.

Nathan Mumm:

For next time. For next time. So they can take some TP home with you in your pocket. Yeah, yeah.

Ody:

Well that wouldn't be a po or better yet, bring your own TP wherever you go.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Okay.

Ody:

Buy your own roll and just walk around with a room.

Nathan Mumm:

Just walk around. So in your backpack that you're carrying from here on out, you now have a little bit of roll. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

All right. Tell me municipal officials in China say the system is designed to curb waste, especially in high traffic areas where paper hoarding has been a persistent issue.

Nathan Mumm:

Odie just told you how to be hoarded up even more.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, Odie just Odie just uh game that system. Okay. The machines are equipped with optical scanners and connect to ad platforms via low-power wireless modules serving localized video content. It's a digital evolution of Beijing's 2017 facial recognition dispensers, which limited paper access to once every nine minutes. So if you have a bad day, if you had a bad if you had a bad day, you would have to sit there for nine minutes before you got used to it.

Nathan Mumm:

So I don't use public restrooms very often. And if I use it, it's that means it's kind of like an emergency. That's right. So that means everything that I do on the public side of stuff, I could be in there for literally an hour if I had an issue. And and and then what if I have a job or have to head someplace else? And it's like, why are you late? It's like, well, because I couldn't watch enough ads to get toilet paper to be here on time.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know why you're asking me these questions because I'm just bagging on it. Okay. So supporters supporters argue that the ad-based system is easier to deploy than the facial recognition system. Okay. Remember, these are two different systems that they're run.

Nathan Mumm:

So sometimes they see my face and scan my face for toilet paper, and sometimes they'll watch you watch ads.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. Critics, however, aren't buying it, at least not without a full battery and mobile data. Social media reactions have been scathing with one user equipping toilet paper in China now requires watching ads. Dignity is no longer free. It's sponsored. The trial has sparked broader debate about the commercialization of public infrastructure. What began as a solution to paper theft now feels like many to be a microcrans transaction for basically? So it's like a video game. Yeah, we have turned we have turned toileting into a video game. You have to you have to you have to pay to win. Okay. Let's be honest, if your bathroom break starts with a toothpaste commercial and ends with a ration square, you might start questioning your choices. One can only hope the ads are th thematically appropriate. Imagine watching a luxury car ad while waiting for two play.

Nathan Mumm:

So I'm watching a Lexus ad, experience the excitement, and I'm like, hurry up, hurry up, get through these ads. I don't know.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it's like yeah. Lexus. All right. The finer points of awesomeness.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh boy.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, okay. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Story number three. Uh maybe I'm glad that your story was story number two. Maybe we should perfect.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it was that's right. Maybe we should go to an ad before we move on to story number three.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, story number three. Neo, the 200, the 20,000 K workhorse robot in your living room. Yeah, this is yeah. Ah, we have different opinions on this. Meet Neo, the humanoid home robot from California-based 1x technologies, is now available for pre-order. Designed to tackle everyday chores. Neo can open doors, fetch items, flip light switches all on its own. But there's a twist. The more complex tasks like folding laundry, organizing shelves, Neo relies on remote human teleporters who guide it in real-time VF VR. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Now owner staying control.

Mike Gorday:

So wait, wait, wait. You need to explain that this is a fully humanoid robotic creation. For 20K. For $20,000. $20,000 one-time payment. It looks like something you would see on a movie. Yeah. It's about what, five feet tall? Something like that?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh yeah, it was about five feet tall. It looks like a it's a pretty good uh looking robot. It it looks like something that you would see in a sci-fi movie. It's got fully posable hands, which means you got all your fingers, digits, and thumbs looking graphics.

Mike Gorday:

Alexa with a body.

Nathan Mumm:

Was that? Yeah. And what this does is this workhorse robot will clean for you, take care of your house while you're gone at work, and do everything you need to for 20K.

Mike Gorday:

Except you have to have a human hooked up to it somewhere else running virtual.

Nathan Mumm:

Because they don't have the systems in place. They have a VR headset that comes on.

Mike Gorday:

Do you realize what you're saying, right? You realize that you are buying you are buying a piece of equipment to clean your house, yeah, and somebody has to do it for you. So it's basically hiring a maid. So it's hiring a maid. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

For 20K.

Mike Gorday:

For $20,000. Forever. I'm sure there's a I'm sure there's a I'm sure there's a subscription.

Nathan Mumm:

No, there it's not. I looked it up. There's just a one-time fee for $20K. No?

Mike Gorday:

Okay. So it's not a it's not a it's not a plus deal. It's not a plus deal right now.

Nathan Mumm:

Nope. Now, just owner state control do a scheduling app. Now, I did look at it. You cannot have it run 24 by 7. It'll only work up to eight hours a day.

Mike Gorday:

So you have to schedule your maid visit. So you got well, you gotta schedule the time. Yeah, because you need to get your robot, your robot human companion to power it.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, well, yeah, you know what? The goal is to train Neo's AI to eventually handle tasks solo using real-world data from early adopters. Okay, it's a bold step forward. It's either $499 a month, or you can pay the full thing up front at $20K.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Just don't expect it to cook dinner yet. That's the only thing I want to do. I so would you want a robot.

Mike Gorday:

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things it won't do, but you know.

Nathan Mumm:

So would you want a robot running around your house, even if it was a guy in some studio in California that has to pick up your dishes, fold your clothes for 20K? No. Dude, that sounds like a steal of a deal.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, okay. Just think of a way. Yeah, if we if we think if we talk if we talk completely about time per hour, how much is how much is $20 or two $20K uh in uh the hours? So we so we broke it up, right?

Nathan Mumm:

And I I did it over a five-year deal. It's like four dollars, it was like four dollars an hour.

Mike Gorday:

So it's a five-year plan for four bucks an hour.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh no, I uh yes, that's correct.

Mike Gorday:

Right? So I can get the same service by paying what twenty bucks an hour for a maid to come in once a year.

Ody:

You know, you bring up a really excellent point because the robot doesn't really do a good job. We watched it do load dishes into a dishwasher. It took forever.

Mike Gorday:

What about what about those people on the other end that are looking at your stuff?

Ody:

Yeah. This is just like Amazon Go. It's all a facade, it does nothing, and you're overpays.

Mike Gorday:

I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you know, I I was very excited about it. Now now you now you're thinking me. Now ODR just put me down a little bit.

Mike Gorday:

The real question though, Nathan, is that when is yours going to get here? Because this is definitely a Nathan buy. It is, man. I struggled. I mean, the fact that the fact that you broke it down, broke it down to hourly wages.

Ody:

Okay, wait.

Nathan Mumm:

I had it in my cart. We did the hourly wage.

Ody:

I think it's a very reasonable price for something that's gonna last you at least five years. Oh no no, but no, no, but it doesn't work how it should.

Mike Gorday:

You no, so this is asking you can't say that it's gonna last five years because you don't know. Okay, all we're saying is that we broke it.

Nathan Mumm:

So in a couple years from now, though, if we have a robot at this 20k price point, a little C3PO or an R2D too, I'd do that.

Ody:

That's the cheapest price I've seen for the robot. Because how much are the Tesla bots going for?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh I don't know if it's probably half a million, but but but uh significantly more. So this seems to be a rock steel price for a technology that's out there.

Mike Gorday:

Uh yeah, this is I you know my feelings about this. I do. This is this is like those emotional support robots. How do you feel about those? I I think that's do you like those when we had the lady on CS? This is the dumbest thing in the world to have emotional robot. Somebody, yeah, an emotional support robot has. Somebody across the door that's somebody that's controlling the thing outside the room so that the person can get emotional support. Give me a break.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, that is our top technology stories of the week. Next, we dive into our letter segment, featuring scams submitted by listeners in some studio selected emails. Be sure to listen and share this segment with a friend. But now we're gonna head out at 88 miles per hour to head on to a commercial break.

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Nathan Mumm:

All right, welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Bum. Our weekly show covers of top technology subjects without any political agenda. Did you get your toilet paper? 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 studio, and he has our monthly tradition going on. Mark, explain this to new listeners what we got going on here. I guess uh Mike wants to know if you were done with uh scrolling through your ads for uh the toilet paper.

Mike Gorday:

So yes, no no no no no you you totally missed that. What was that? We just went for an ad. Yeah. Did you get your toilet paper? No, I didn't get my toilet paper.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, I get what you're saying, actually. I get it. Okay. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, Mark, what do you got? We are doing the 2024 Flavor Advent Calendar. This is round three, the semis, and this is our second semis. So we're using the 2024 Flavor Whiskey Advent Calendar. 24 remarkable whiskeys to use for our year-long blind whiskey competition to see which one Nathan and Mike like best. You brushed up against Nathan when you were coming in here.

Mike Gorday:

That's why you can't teak.

Marc Grégoire:

So come along for the ride once every month while they uncover new tastes and train their senses to become true connoisseurs. Today is round three, as we mentioned, our second semifinals, where they will choose their winner to move on to the finals. If they disagree, I of course will be the deciding vote. Tonight's blind battle brings together two heavy hitters. One with a touch of old world elegance, the other a bold showcase of classic American spice. Both bring strength, depth, and character to the glass, but only one will rise above the rest. Let's see which one takes the cake as we turn up the heat.

Nathan Mumm:

This one will take the cake. Turns up the heat.

Mike Gorday:

Which one which one? How many more cooking analogies can we throw out here? Ah, that was pretty good.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what? I I can't wait for the 2025 flavor advent calendar.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, we can talk about that in next year. But right now, what are you thinking on your whiskey?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh absolutely I have one that is way ahead of everybody. I got one that I like and one that I do not like at all.

Marc Grégoire:

So do you like old world elegance or do you like American spice?

Nathan Mumm:

I bet you I like American spice. I think it's mine's a little bit spicier. It's got a little uh some some spice as well.

Mike Gorday:

You like some spice in your life, do you? I I do. Mike, you have a favorite right here? Uh no, not yet. I have one. I have two really distinct tastes, and I'm not sure which one I like the best. Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

Wow.

Ody:

Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

Interesting. Well, I'll fill you in more a little bit later.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you know, speaking of advent calendars, you know Red Bull just came out with an advent calendar? Nobody cares. Twenty-four different flavors of Red Bull. Just think of that. It's a December. There's 24 different flavors, so there you go. Right. What kind of flavors does Red Bull have?

Marc Grégoire:

Don't forget to like and subscribe. Drink responsibly. Heaven can wait and stay away from the Red Bulls.

Mike Gorday:

Stay away from the Red Bulls. I mean, the original taste is pretty gross. What's what what is it? Red Bull. Red Bull with lemon. Red Bull gets you wings.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, okay. Mark, thank you so much. You're welcome. With our whiskey tastings completed, let's move on to the feature segment. Today we bring back the funny yet informative reading of emails that I received during the week. This includes some scam fishing emails, texting scams, and all out mistruths disguised as a legitimate email in a segment we call letters. Odie, are you ready? What was that?

Marc Grégoire:

I think it's a leftover pirate.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that leftover pirate? No, I was like, alrighty. I'm drinking that whiskey.

Ody:

I wish there was a way to turn off your accents.

Nathan Mumm:

My accents?

Ody:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Just like okay, let's let's let's let's make something clear here. Nathan doesn't have accents.

Ody:

Impression.

Mike Gorday:

He has tonal shifts that just don't work.

Speaker 3:

Oh wow.

Marc Grégoire:

Don't you have a switch where you can just turn them off completely?

Ody:

That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

No, his human operator is on is on a different Odie?

Nathan Mumm:

Let's uh these guys are rambling. What do we have here for your your email? Who is it from?

Ody:

It's from QuickBooks support support.

Nathan Mumm:

QuickBooks support.

Ody:

But it's not from QuickBooks support. Uh-oh. Really. Because it's support at QB dot experta accounting.com. Oh I want to trust that.

Nathan Mumm:

QB Expert Accounting.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

QuickBooks maybe got the renamed to expertaccounting.com. No. Maybe. Probably not. But okay. So that would be your first warning sign.

Ody:

Okay. The subject says meet your new QuickBooks account manager. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Ody:

Unless I'm excited about that. I'm not excited about that.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't use QuickBooks, but I get to meet an account manager.

Ody:

Okay. So it says, dear QuickBooks user, we're happy. No. We hope you're enjoying the new QuickBooks upgrade and the added convenience it brings to your business. To make sure the best pro blah blah blah. Uh please schedule a meeting with your relationship manager today and get tailored guidance for your business. Schedule a callback.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So you click on the schedule callback.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, it comes on up with a link error. So the the schedule callback doesn't come on up.

Ody:

So they're not trying to talk to me?

Nathan Mumm:

So it comes up with a link air. At the very bottom of it, it has a link to a calendarly file. All right. So the calendarly file is very commonly used. I do, I do. So very uh it it uses the link doesn't work, so you can't just take care of it. So then all of a sudden your calendly file goes to schedule a quick book expert, and they give you 15-minute time slots. Now, a lot of these places that do that, you you just put in your email and your name, and then that auto schedules a time. This form that they have, which you can pay for forms on Calendly, it asks you for your social security number, your bank number, your routing number, all this information when you go to schedule the meeting, which is uncommon in Calendly. Normally it's just a user email and a name, and then they'll schedule you through their client system. So by the time you answer 25 questions on this, well, maybe it was like 20. You figure out what your personality is. Yeah, you get your personal, you get your Myers Briggs score back. No. So you then click submit. It schedules you a meeting, but they never call you back and they never do anything for the meeting. They'll actually cancel the meeting invite. What they did is they just got your bank information, your existing balance, what you have going on for the questions to ask. Now, they weren't really necessarily evasive questions, but they're asking you what's your current balance of your money and what's current. Well, then they they ask what bank you're banking with. They don't they actually didn't ask for account routing numbers or anything like that. They just asked where your bank is, what your current balance is. So general stuff that would really be good for a phishing call. I could say, hey, I'm calling on up from Chase Bank, and I see that you have uh $9,000 in there. So they're trying to harvest the information.

Ody:

So they're setting up their next scam.

Nathan Mumm:

Correct. So that's building up from one scam to another scam by collecting data because data is the key.

Ody:

Now, I will say, I feel like that seems pretty odd to get a QuickBooks thing and then be sent to Calendly, and that's where you submit all your information.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, except for people use Calendly a lot now.

Ody:

Yeah, but would you be submitting your like filling out a questionnaire with that?

Nathan Mumm:

It was kind of yes, it did it didn't.

Ody:

Like that's kind of an awkward kind of transition there.

Nathan Mumm:

I uh Mike, if that happened to you, would you would you consider that kind of a little bit? Absolutely not. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

You'd fall oh you'd no, I would I would absolutely ignore that.

Ody:

There for one ignore it or not question it.

Mike Gorday:

Ignore it. Okay. I would I would not open that up in the first place. Okay.

Ody:

Yeah, neither would I immediately.

Mike Gorday:

I mean, if if if I even had QuickBooks and I got this and I said, Huh, I wonder what This is and it took me to this page and it started to ask me questions about my bank accounts. Yeah. I don't think so. Yeah. Okay. I mean, you for this scam to work, you have to be kind of really deluded into uh not deluded, but very trusting.

Nathan Mumm:

80% of businesses in the United States use QuickBooks. So I mean that's a pretty good stab to throw it on out there.

Mike Gorday:

I'm talking I'm talking about the the levels of of things you have to support in your brain to go through this whole process. You have to first, you know, not ignore the QuickBooks coming from a non-QuickBooks email. Yep. Then you have to ignore the fact that you have a a missing link or an a link error. Then you have to go to a Calendly thing and and uh enter information into that. Then you then is this where the form happens? I was in the calendar. So then you have to go through this form where they're asking some seriously personal information. Okay. And then submit it. So this is you have to pass on this. I mean, I would have to do that.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh do you pass on this if you saw this?

Ody:

Yeah, I don't have QuickBooks. Okay. Specifically from the From. Okay. Or at Q. The farm.

Nathan Mumm:

Marky, would you pass on this too? No, he'd do. Oh, we're we're experts, so yes. Okay, that's right. Okay. But you know what? It does hit people. All right.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Yeah, there were a significant amount of people that were always fall for these types of things. Correct.

Nathan Mumm:

But hopefully they listen to Tech Time Radio and they know not to click on the link. What does your hat say, Mike? Don't click on sh stuff. Okay. There you go. All right. Mark, I think you're up next.

Marc Grégoire:

I am. I think mine uh most people out there would pass on. Okay. So this is from OmniNet.io, and they say we have an attached invoice with a number, and you have an amount due of zero dollars. So I think most people would be like, Great, I don't have to do anything. Throw it away.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, okay, good. Okay. All right.

Marc Grégoire:

Now, of course, there's a link that you click and they said please reference, and they give you a reference code when they contact you, which must mean something to them that they can attach to. But I don't understand why they have a different reference number than the actual invoice number. Most people, when you call, your invoice number is your reference number. That would be correct. So you made it even more complicated than needs to be.

Nathan Mumm:

So you get so you get an invoice asking you to click and contact them. It says that you owe nothing. Somebody didn't put in the right number in the in their in their script there. So it says you owe nothing, then gives you a different ID and a reference number. So that would be your instant ding ding ding ding ding. A lot of things aren't lining up here.

Marc Grégoire:

Correct. Plus, it's a.io, which is always the.ios are the the the new thing now.

Nathan Mumm:

I know, but I'm dot AI is.ai is also the big thing, too. You know, somebody just bought $8,000 worth of dot AI domains.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, yeah, we know who that is. You don't you don't have to you don't have to obscure it by the way.

Nathan Mumm:

Hormel, if you want your Hormel.ai, just let me know. 5k and I'll give it to you. All right. Well just buy him a robot.ai. Uh there that was already taken. It was already taken. It was already taken. All right, here we go. All right. This is uh so Mike has the best of the items, and we did this in our production show meeting. So all of you guys got to see this in action. I I'm not sure why this is the best, but well, because it was really good. And it and actually I don't remember seeing this.

Mike Gorday:

It's the best because Nathan likes it. This is the best because Nathan likes it. All right, who's this from? That's from Tanya DeSilva Trilha. Oh, my best friend. Tanya.trilha at candidoMendez.edu.br. Oh, sounds legit. No, does it? No. Okay. To Nathan Mum. Okay. Payment completed. Oh. Please confirm attached invoice. Okay. Good day, Nathan Mum. Okay. They put your whole name together. I like that. Simple and sweet. Yeah. We are pleased to inform you that payment for your invoice has been completed as instructed by our management. Please download and review the attached invoice payment confirmation for your reference. Best regards accounts department. Okay. Question mark, question mark, attached invoice payment. PDF.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, let's take a look at it. Guess what happens?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, this is a this is a virus.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, well, no, no. This is uh harvesting your login password to a Microsoft email account. So here's what happens. You click on the attachment, and it immediately pops up a window that looks very much similar to what you would get on Office 365. Does that mean it's really not a PDF attachment? It's not a PDF attachment. No PDF downloads. It immediately goes to a execute file, right? That's correct. It immediately goes to a link and launches a link. And it looks like it asks me for my login password for Microsoft Office. And it already has the username, already had been filled out. It's missing on the very top. Normally you have your username on the top and your password on the second line, and you click next. There's no username there, but it just says enter your password. Now, when you type in your password, whatever password you're you're going to type in, that's going to go back to their conglomerate that's going to grab that information on their website and say that this username from the email, which was Nathan Mum at Bobmail. There you go. It was with my email. And it's going to associate that link with the password that I typed in. Now, if I type in the correct password, I would be in big trouble because now they would have my username and password, but I would still be Nathan would be okay because I have dual factor authentication. So they couldn't actually log in. I would get an alert on my phone. But most people, if you don't have a dual factor authentication enabled, what would happen is they'd have your username and your password. So when that came out for the password, I put in a bunch of profanities and then hit enter. But what was really good about this is instead of saying, hey, let's just go to type in the password again. It didn't work. Can you retype it back in again? What it did is it actually launched opening up my email. So it actually had in the code to see if you had an Office 365 existing uh login credentials. If so, to go to that email. So it looked like I signed in to Office 365, put in my password, and had everything there. So I could continue working, not even knowing anything. But what the script did is it took that password that I typed in and sent it to them to try to log in. Pretty sophisticated. Mike, I I I was I was pretty impressed with this uh uh scenario.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, well, you know, I I suppose from the technical end, it yeah, that would be. So what are your red flags on this one so people can watch out for it?

Nathan Mumm:

What's your red flag here, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Well the first one the first red flag is just from an educational thing. Okay. And it doesn't tell me w what this is all about. There's no name of what your paid invoice is on. It just says Good day, we your payment has been completed. So it doesn't tell you what payment for what.

Nathan Mumm:

So maybe they were thinking that I was uh in college in the EDU, maybe I I I would pay a payment. Is that what they're thinking about maybe?

Mike Gorday:

Possibly, maybe if you're going to college in Britain.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

All right. I don't know.

Ody:

That doesn't make any sense though, because they're asking you to log into your email. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, they they don't actually ask you to log into your email. What happens is when you click on the attachment.pdf, instead of instead of downloading a PDF, it automatically sends me into a script that logs me into email.

Marc Grégoire:

So it's isn't that a clue right there? You should never click on an attachment. Don't click on never click on attachment from a source you don't know. Stuff. That's correct. And if you do want to do something, you should do it in like a virtual um sandbox.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, well, here's the you know, here's the sad thing. This is like telemercials, you know, those evening things. Yeah. You're still getting these, so that means they're still working.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, yeah, absolutely. These work all the time. Okay, and now we know what we're gonna head over to our uh segment for letters is ended. Now let's get into Mike's mesmerizing moment.

Speaker 3:

Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does Mike have to say today?

Nathan Mumm:

All right, this is a question for the everyday person. Mike, how many more advertisement gimmicks can a normal p person take before they hit overload? Yeah, that's a loaded question.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, why is that? Because I think we've already hit overload. Okay, okay. And the problem is not that we've so what we've done is we have gotten attacked by this stuff so much that we've begun ignoring it. And so the ad companies are trying to find more ways of getting our attention. And if we if we look at if we look at this whole idea of attention span getting shorter and shorter and shorter, that's a direct result of all this stupid stuff that's that we are uh hit with every day because our brains just don't need well, they don't want to handle it. So our attention spans are directly related to the amount of input that we're getting from our technological society. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

So have we So we've already hit overload.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, unless you're like me and you and you uh kind of study some of this stuff and you find it really annoying every time there's some ad that pops up, like like YouTube ads really annoy me because they're always stuff that is unscientifically based and for you to lose weight or get your herring back or you know you can do uh things that get your eyesight back. It's all BS, but you know, we we have come to accept this as part of life. Okay. And we just sort of mow through.

Nathan Mumm:

We've hit overload, that's what Mike says. Thank you for that mesmerizing.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, exactly. And that's that's that's the that's the tragedy of all this stuff. I I I would love to see a national or a global revolution where everybody comes together and says, Stop sending me stuff. I don't want to see your stupid ads. I don't want it's it's like junk mail. You remember junk mail? Yeah. How much junk mail did you keep?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh none of it. None of it.

Mike Gorday:

You just file it immediately and yeah, so and this was this was back when back when everybody was worried about the trees and the Amazon. Yeah. Right? So everybody's wasting all this paper because companies are buying and sending us crap that we don't want.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what? I kind of would love to get more uh real mail that was that had the ads. Remember those little yellow coupon flyers and stuff? None of that happens anymore. Now it's all on email. So I you know what? I I would I would fancy to have something come to me in regular mail. All right, thank you for it.

Mike Gorday:

Floodie regular mail is where you actually have a physical mailbox to get a number one salute there.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we're gonna head out for a commercial break. When we return, we have this week in technology. So now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side as we're doing so during this break. See you after this. 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 should 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. I I butcher the English language? You know you butcher the English language.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so it's all the time.

Mike Gorday:

It's patreon. 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.

Mike Gorday:

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

Nathan Mumm:

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.

Nathan Mumm:

That's it. That's it. That's that simple.

Announcement:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we're going back to November 2nd, 1988. The Morris Worm. Robert Morris of Cornell University launches a self-replicating worm as a part of a research project designed to determine the size of the early internet. It was intended to count the number of computers and initiate connections with other computers. When the worm was loaded, though, into the program, it started causing some program errors. And the Morris worm began repeatedly infecting machines, clogging network traffic and causing machines to crash. Eventually the worm spread to 6,000 machines, which was roughly 10% of the internet at the time. Causing significant downtime for government and university systems for two days. Morris was dismissed for from Cornell, sentenced to three years probation and a ten thousand dollar fine. Poor fellow.

Mike Gorday:

Unintended consequences.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you know, that was back in the day when people Yeah, I I I I know about fines. Do you? Do you know about fines? I do know about fines in government stuff. All right, that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history with over 270 plus weekly broadcasts spanning our five plus years of video, podcast, and blog information, visit us at techtime radio.com to watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break. When we return, we have Mark Mumble Whiskey Review. See you after this.

Mike Gorday:

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Announcement:

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

Nathan Mumm:

This is the best intro music. I like that intro. That's pretty good. All right.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, today, November 4th. Hopefully everybody uh put in your election ballot already and voted. But besides that, what is today? Uh November 4th. Well, that's true, Mike. Thank you, Mr. Obvious.

Nathan Mumm:

It is what are we celebrating today? National votes to make a difference for your country day.

Marc Grégoire:

No, it's not it's nothing, it's much more fun than that. Oh, okay. Okay, what is it? National Easy Bake Oven Day. Oh, I remember the easy bake ovens. Odie, did you ever have one?

Mike Gorday:

No? Odie, do you even know what an easy bake oven is?

Ody:

Was I born yesterday?

Marc Grégoire:

What compared to our ages? Yes.

Ody:

Telling me I don't know how to do mail. I don't know what easy bake oven. What else have you said?

Nathan Mumm:

You know, those have come from Mark and Mike. Nathan has not given you a uh Yes, there you go. I'm showing you the love today.

Mike Gorday:

Now, did you have one as a kid? No. Yes, yes, you did.

Marc Grégoire:

You were you were teaching her how to eat cereal earlier. So it's well, most of us had one as a kid. Okay. And you know the magic: a light bulb, a tiny pan, and a level of pride no Michelin star could match. If you did not, it's never too late to relive that small scale glory. The early ovens used actual incandescent bulbs to bake cookies and cakes, which is still one of the most charming examples of childhood innovation.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, my sister had one of those when we were little. Yeah. And it took her four hours to bake a brownie.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, that's because it was a light bulb. And it was the most delicious brownie you've ever had.

Mike Gorday:

No. It was nasty as I had I had the boy version of easy bake oven, which is creepy crawlies. Remember that?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh yeah, it was a little uh gummy worm type of gas. Oreo Oreo stuff. Wasn't it Oreo cookie crush? No, no.

Marc Grégoire:

Never mind. Go away. Okay. Alright. Well, just like the Easy Bake Oven turned childhood imagination into something real. Today's blind tasting does the same. Featuring Bakta 1928 rye whiskey and Remus highest rye bourbon. Two pours that prove craftsmanship is as rewarding as creativity. So we have in one glass of Bakta 1928 rye whiskey, which is from Bakta Spirits. It's a finished rye, non-age stated, 100-proof. It is 60% rye, 30% cavidose, and 10% blend of Armagnac. And it's $67. In the other glass, we have a Remus highest rye bourbon, which is from MGP Ross and Squib, which is done uh distilleries in Indiana. It's straight bourbon, six years old, 109 proof, 51% corn, 39% rye, 10 malted barley, $55.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

What does that mean? What are we doing?

Ody:

How are we feeling about the how are we feeling about this?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I just looked up Creepy Crawlers online just to take a look at it.

Marc Grégoire:

I know Nathan has one whiskey that he has already finished. Yeah, one other one that's on our screen.

Mike Gorday:

Do you now remember creepy crawlies? Yeah, but you can eat them. No, no, you didn't eat them. They were little, you made your own little thing.

Marc Grégoire:

I think one of your viewers is correct. Why do we do whiskey on this show? All you ever talk about is whatever that day of the is, and you go off on the internet.

Nathan Mumm:

I love the day sniff because Mark has to be a little bit more. Okay, all right.

Mike Gorday:

Why do we do this? Because with all the news that we cover, we need it. Yeah, but Mike's done with both of his. I already know.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, which which one did you? I I like one and I do not like one at all. So there's one that I is absolutely wondering.

Marc Grégoire:

Give me a little hint, Mike, because I gotta know whether I need to start tasting this library.

Mike Gorday:

You know, I I they were both okay. I didn't really prefer the the overall taste of either one, but I I think this one was better than that one. So I like the I think I think it was the actual bourbon over the one with Armagnac in it.

Ody:

Wow.

Mike Gorday:

I think I'm not sure because are you in agreement, Nathan? No, he is he is the opposite.

Speaker 3:

I love this completely. I do not like this at all.

Marc Grégoire:

He is he is the opposite of the thing. Well, give us a a minute to discuss this later when it's time to reveal. Okay. Because uh very interesting. You two are not connoisseurs. I never claim to be. Well, Mike Mike's closest to a connoisseur.

Nathan Mumm:

Right. That makes sense.

Marc Grégoire:

At least knowing what his palate is telling him, but it's topsy turvy today. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you know what? Whiskey and technology are such a great pairing. Like family and Thanksgiving dinner.

Ad:

What? I can't.

Nathan Mumm:

We are now in November, so the holiday season is once again upon us.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. I don't know what Thanksgiving dinner you have, but most people don't think that's a great pairing. Family and Thanksgiving?

Ody:

You know, we're finally in the season for it, so congrats.

Nathan Mumm:

Congrats. Very cliche of you. There you go. All right.

Ody:

Ultimately we're a week too soon. I mean, yeah. No, no, no, no.

Mike Gorday:

We start early. He's in this, he's in the same month. This is not like Palmar. This is not like Costco having Christmas.

Ody:

You better have like a holiday release. Well, I guess I well, you know what?

Nathan Mumm:

We got we got Black Friday coming on up. So we got a bunch of stuff that we have to put to You know who you're talking to, right? What's that?

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Not you. Here. Yeah. She's talking Nathan. No, I guess you're okay. I guess you know. All right. All right. You know what? Let's prepare for our technology fail of the week brought to you by Elite Executive Services.

Mike Gorday:

Congratulations. You're a failure.

Ad:

Oh, I failed. Did I? Yes. Did I? Yes.

Nathan Mumm:

You know that button has never changed.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, she's the one that sets up the board. She brought you the technology fail today.

Mike Gorday:

She's still trying to figure out how Thanksgiving is family is good things.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, today's technology fail comes to us from Apple. As Apple users report two frustrating glitches with the iOS 26, a keyboard bug and AirPod static. Now, two separate Apple issues are making the waves this week. One is affecting the iPhone keyboards on iOS 26, and the other is causing strange static in your AirPods Pro 3. Now the iOS upgrades the 26 is all of a sudden deciding to put the wrong letter when you type. So if you type in you, guess what shows up? But Jay. If you type in M, an N is being swapped. Now this has been tested and ruled out by autocorrect and predictive texting. It's actually a complete bug in the system themselves. Nothing is worse than typing the word mum. So Nathan Mum has a lot of N's and a lot of M's when I type it. So let me just tell you, not working out. It would be Najum. That's right. Now AirPods 3, static noise. Some AirPod Pro owners are hearing unwanted static, described as white noise, rain, or ocean sounds, especially when active noise cancellization is on and no media is being played. A few say that it's affecting their music itself. Apple hasn't officially responded to this issue.

Mike Gorday:

Now you know what's because they're trying to read the text that they got on iOS.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. Users are hoping Apple's next update brings relief on both fronts. Sure. Or you can just use an Android device. All right. Well, guess what? Now we're moving to our Nathan Nugget.

Announcement:

This is your nugget of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what? Why settle for sirens when you can have surveillance from the sky? Miami Dade's latest law enforcement experiment isn't just a self-driving squad car, it's a mobile drone launcher. That's right. This robotic cruiser rolls up, scans the scene with thermal cameras, and then deploys a drone-like sci-fi reboot of cops. The car nicknamed Pug is packed with AI, 360-degree surveillance, and even enough sensors to make your smartwatch jealous. But the real headline is it can launch drones to patrol from above. No pilot, no officer, just a flying robot without a badge. It's currently in pilot mode, showing up at public events, gathering feedback. It's watching you. If everything goes well though, don't worry, the airborne backup could become a blueprint of the future of policing. So next time you're in Miami and hear a buzz overhead, don't swat it. Say hi to your new drone deputies. Alright, so what do you guys think of that? Drones being launched from a car that are Hey, you know 1984 is getting closer and closer.

Marc Grégoire:

What happens if you send up your drone and you have a drone war? Is that illegal? Uh yeah, because that's police property. How do you know it is? You just think of some other drone.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know.

Nathan Mumm:

I think you know what there will be drone battles soon. Drone battles. Have you ever watched the TV show Battle Bots? You know, you have these robots fight? They have a couple drones in there in the newer seasons, so now all of a sudden you could have two robot drones fighting each other at the same time.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody's gonna be picking them off with 22 rifles from behind from behind trees. All right, now let's 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:

All right, Mark, was I wrong? No, you you're you knew which one was in which glass. Okay, good.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, good job, Mike.

Marc Grégoire:

So in the selection of the best one. The Glenn Kerrin was the Remus highest rye bourbon, and in the beer glass was the Bakta tw 1928 rye whiskey. Okay, perfect. Now, what's very interesting about this, those I'm sure our our listeners know more than than you two. Okay. But if you take the 24 that we do and you go through all the different rounds, you realize that there's one, you really need 25 to make everything work perfectly. Okay. So the remiss is from round one, one that Nathan absolutely hated and brought back in. Okay. Because I want to see how it did. Because the Bakta's one, he's always voted down every time, also. That's because he put one the raw glass. All right. Two that he didn't like and put them again and see if he'd even like one. And he loved one. Which one did I have? And then Mike has always chosen Bakta every round. The only reason Bakta is sitting in close is because Mike has always loved it above everything else. And did he not choose it? And he chose the other one.

Mike Gorday:

Ah yeah. Well, when you compare it to this one, it had a it had a very distinct flavor. So we're not confused.

Marc Grégoire:

Which he wasn't a fan of the Remus in the early round because that was one of my favorites in the early rounds, and neither one of you went for it. Okay, so which one is moving on?

Nathan Mumm:

You get a pick, Mark. Which one are you moving on?

Mike Gorday:

The Remus Higher Eye bourbon.

Marc Grégoire:

I'm sorry, Mike. I have chosen the box over Nathan on every round for you. So we're gonna make this go to the finals because I have a whole bottle of it. Oh, you have that at home, huh? I went and bought it because I was pretty sure that Mike was gonna pick it. And if any tiebreaker, I was gonna pick it with Mike, and then Mike just I just upended the whole thing. He did. But I love the boxes. That's why I wanted a box.

Mike Gorday:

It's because it's a comparative process, right? It is comparative.

Marc Grégoire:

The reemus is delicious too, because that was I did love that one from the first round. Yeah, this is by far the best. Nathan's got the right.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, Nathan. You can this is not proof that you have the palette, Nathan. This is proof that you identify your liquors with whatever glass it's in.

Nathan Mumm:

Mike, we're about out of time. We want to thank our listeners for joining the program. Listeners, we want you to hear from you. Now, before we leave, we have our secret sound. So let's hear the secret sound. It is not a pinball machine. Odie, play it. Play it one more time. Play it again, Sam.

Mike Gorday:

Shouldn't that be two seconds?

Marc Grégoire:

Bet you it has a ball in it, a metal ball in it. A metal or plastic ball. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, good that you're you're right. But what what do we think it is? Do you guys have any other guess?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I know what it is. You know what it is? Yeah. Okay. I know what it is. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

It's it's something that Nathan has. So this is actually in my house. I have it downstairs in my game.

Mike Gorday:

That doesn't give anybody a clue because if they've seen your house, you have everything from 1980 on.

Nathan Mumm:

From 1980 on?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

I got a Pac-Man right behind uh Odie. I know. Followed by uh Optimus Prime and Barbie and Ken Star Trek dolls. All right. Okay, Odie, get ready. Please leave us your feedback on that secret sound. Go to the talkback recording system at techtime radio.com. Click on the recording and let us know what that sound is. From all of us at Tech Time, was honored to be a host of today's show. Each week we're here to decode the technology that shapes our world. One breach, breakthrough, and bourbon at a time. See you next week. Later. Bye-bye.

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