TechTime with Nathan Mumm

275: TechTime Radio: Congress Hacked, Zoom is Pantless, Gadgets & Gear spotlights Raycon Earbuds, IKEA sells a Phone Bed, and LEGO Beams Up Star Trek joy.” Is our Government Hacked more under TRUMP? We Answer | Air Date: 11/11 - 11/17/25

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 275

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Government data doesn’t just live in vaults anymore, and the latest suspected foreign cyberattack at the Congressional Budget Office proves how fragile our policy pipeline can be. We unpack why breaches keep landing on core agencies, what “zero trust” actually changes, and how identity, patch cadence, and monitoring fit together when the stakes are Congressional forecasts and budget models.

Then we pivot hard into the human side of tech: a Detroit police officer’s pantsless Zoom court moment. It’s funny until you realize how remote optics shape trust in high-stakes settings. We share practical rules for video etiquette, attention, and boundaries that actually stick. From there, we wade into the strangest product of the week: IKEA’s $200 “phone bed” that gamifies bedtime with vouchers. Silly? Maybe. But the ritual taps real sleep science, and we explain cheaper ways to build the same habit without feeding your charger a duvet.

We also bring a hands-on pick from Gadgets & Gear: Raycon’s Essential Open Ear earbuds. Open-ear audio makes more sense for city walking and office life than full isolation, and the battery life plus sub-$60 sale price make them an easy upgrade. Between sips of Remus Repeal Reserve Series 5—a blend that rewards a little air time—we revisit Microsoft’s early tablet misfire and how Surface ultimately learned the right lessons. And yes, we end with a grin at LEGO’s lavish Star Trek Enterprise set, because sometimes tech joy is the point.

If you enjoyed the mix of sharp takes, practical gear, and a little levity, follow and subscribe. Share this with a friend who needs better Zoom habits or better earbuds. And drop a review with the one habit you’re changing this week—camera angle, sleep ritual, or both.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mum, the show that makes you go, hmm, Technology News a week, the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments. On 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. Our co-host Mike Radays in studio today. He's the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming during the show on six. That's right. One, two, three, four, five, six. That means two hands I have to use to put that one up. All right, six of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitch.tv, Facebook, LinkedIn, and now pick and rumble. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradio.com and become a Patreon supporter at patreon.com forward slash techtime radio. 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.

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Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, welcome to Tech Time Radio. Today on the show we have Gwen back with our gadgets and gear segments, and we have a Zoom meeting failure that will make you go, hmm. But now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Introduction:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, the US Congressional Budget Office was targeted by a suspected foreign cyber attack. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on the story.

Lisa Walker:

The Congressional Budget Office confirms a cybersecurity breach, likely by a foreign hacker that may have exposed sensitive communications with Congress. Spokesperson Caitlin Emma says the agency acted quickly to contain the incident and has added new security measures. The Washington Post broke the story, noting officials discovered the hack recently and fear emails between CBO analysts and congressional offices may have been compromised. Well, folks, I'm sleeping soundly with our national security getting compromised every few months. Aren't you? Back to the studio.

Mike Gorday:

Well, that was a little snarky.

Nathan Mumm:

Was it? Uh, you know what? Lisa uh just decided to go for it all there. I guess, I guess she must be sleeping much better than I'm doing because let's talk about this. The CBO is a nonpartisan agency that provides lawmakers with economic analysis, cost estimates for proposed legislation. So they're the ones that do all the budget. So if we're gonna put in cyber security people that need to be hired and do certain stuff, they'll have a price for that. So they come up with all of the forecast economic budget information. Now, they're a part of a cybersecurity attack, a known entity, which is uh China. I don't know if you've ever heard of them. Have you heard of China? No, no. So China uh main hacking group was actually the group that decided to compromise what they had going on there. Now, let me let me just ask you this. You know what? I I I'm kind of about numbers. You know what? Do you know that since President Donald Trump took office, we have 12 major security incidents that have happened. So it's just very interesting. This is who has been compromised so far this year that we have talked about on Tech Time Radio. Now, we can't cover every single cyber attack to our government, otherwise, we would just have uh 12 of our shows dedicated to this. But we have the U.S. Treasury Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice, the Department of Interior, and the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, which reviews foreign investment for national security risks, have all been breached this year. So there you go. You know what? Be careful with your data. And if you're the United States government, uh I don't think it matters. Be uh be even more careful. I know. You know, I I just wish that you know what the government needs to hire back some cybersecurity people that can help us in this incident. Let's hope that we can figure out these uh breaches and and not have them happen anymore. I you know, we can get rid of the internet, that would work. You get rid of the internet? Okay. I don't know if that would work good for our six streaming uh platforms.

Mike Gorday:

Well, it might yeah, it might not work for us, but it'd certainly work for you know going back to going back to the good old days when you had to write a check for your groceries.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh I sat down and had to write checks this week. Do you do you know how long it takes for people to deposit checks? I can write a check for something. I grew up in that. And it literally Odia, how uh so I I know that you get paid uh in checks. How long does it take you to deposit your check?

Ody:

What do you mean, like the bank or for me to do it?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, for you to do it.

Ody:

Oh, I forgot I forget about it all the time. I go like a month without depositing it.

Nathan Mumm:

That's exactly what I'm saying. And you know what you'd think that that would be uniquely different, but every every I send out stuff for our I do a big event once a year. I send I now have people cashing two and three thousand dollar checks. Okay, and this is literally now now. This is four months after the event itself. So then I kind of look back and say, Did they really need to get paid money if they didn't ever go through and do the check? But never mind. Okay. All right, all right. Story story number two. This this is exciting here, Mike. This is our tease for the show. Uh is it really? It was. What do we got going on here?

Mike Gorday:

Well, you know, I thought we had been done and over with the whole Zoom thing, you know, after the pandemic, but clearly we haven't because a Detroit police officer was caught without his pants on a court hearing video.

Nathan Mumm:

What's more caught all excited? He decided just to crash the way.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, yeah. He's excited about the pants. Okay. All right. Officer Matthew Jackson of the Detroit Police Department appeared at virtual court proceeding, missing a crucial part of his uniform. He was caught during the court appearance with his pants down, literally. It actually looks like he was on the toilet. It does. The verified video shared online. Detroit police officer Matthew Jackson is seen during a Monday court appearance via video conference without his pants on. Officer Jackson was dressed in his police uniform top, but was apparently wearing only undershorts, which prompted the judge to ask him a pointed question. You got some pants on, officer?

Nathan Mumm:

How do you have to ask that, right?

Mike Gorday:

I don't know. He no, sir, he said. He tilted his camera up so that you could only see the waist up. The waist up. Okay, which is this is the zoom.

Nathan Mumm:

If they're gonna do the party on the bottom and the professionalism on the top, wouldn't you know by now how to point a camera? Are you I mean come on now, too?

Mike Gorday:

Did you just relate Zoom to well?

Nathan Mumm:

There's a lot of people that do mullets? There's a lot of people that that do Zoom calls that'll have like shorts on or something like that. Doesn't everybody know no, but if but if you're not gonna have either.

Mike Gorday:

You do it opposite, you you don't wear the shirt and then you can't get away with that.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, yeah. Right now I I'm fully dressed up, so I I'm not like in shorts that are here.

Ody:

Yeah, this is a this is But there was an episode a couple weeks ago where you were wearing cargo shorts on top of your shirt. Yes, we all we all saw.

Nathan Mumm:

We all know that he does this sometimes, but I'm gonna make sure I'm not on camera there during the whole time if I'm doing this.

Ody:

But you didn't do that that day.

Nathan Mumm:

I did do it that day.

Ody:

But I'm not like at least stood up.

Mike Gorday:

All right. Well, anyway, the court wants you to wear your dress code. Did the person get hoped? Did the person not not wearing it? No, he just tilted his camera.

Ody:

Okay, okay. So it was just like a a warning. Yeah, an advisory.

Mike Gorday:

I I think I think this one's gone off the rails. But it happens. You know, this is this is human this is human behavior.

Nathan Mumm:

So what did the guy say about it? Just think he's gotta be the most teased guy at the poor.

Mike Gorday:

You know, you know he is getting you know he is getting he is getting all kinds of hazing for this. Right? So Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison issued a statement in response to this that said that Detroit Police Department requires this officers represent represent themselves in a dignified and professional manner while attending court proceedings, even if you are at home on Zoom. Involved officers' actions are not representative of the professionalism of this department, will be appropriately addressed to maintain the public confidence and efficient operation of this department. Our apologies are hereby extended to the judges and staff of the court as well as anyone else who may have been in attendance during this incident. Moral of the story is wear pants or make sure your camera is tilted in the right direction. That's exactly right, right? Yeah. Don't you just this is just normal, this is just normal stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Really, that's normal? A police officer goes onto a Zoom meeting wearing only his underwear. Okay.

Ody:

We're talk we're talking about you had a top on.

Mike Gorday:

We're talking about we're talking about social behavior here. Yeah. And with the advent of all these video conferencing that that's you know, predominantly because of the pandemic, yeah, we have made behavior changes that reflect that. And what happens with people is that we we when we learn things, when we get we have some learned behavior, we start we don't have to think about it. So we start doing things unconsciously. And one of those things is you know, not checking the camera angle. Oh man.

Nathan Mumm:

I saw I I saw when I do camera angle stuff, I make sure even if I have chunk in the back ground type of deal, that if they're gonna zoom in type of deal, that none of that would be offensive to anybody. Because you can do it with the HD camera now, you can zoom in pretty good and see what's going on.

Mike Gorday:

We just don't, we just don't we have so much stuff going on that that some of some of these things they just bypass our conscious that guy got caught with his pants down. Dun dun dun. And and he's gonna he's gonna be the butt of a lot of jokes for right now. Comedy nights opening up, huh? Yep. All right, there you go. Perfect. All right, well let's talk about let's talk about this this next one, which hey do you like making passive income?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. Odie, do you like making passive income? Who doesn't like passive income? Oh, this I mean this is the thing to make passive income. All right, and everybody likes a good night's sleep, right? IKEA has a smartphone bed that just might make you sleep. It allows you to also make passive income. Every night when you tuck in your kids, our pets and ourselves, blankets fluffed, lullabies dance in our heads. We forget about the number one friend on our list, the glowing rectangle that we cradle like a digital teddy bear while doom scrolling ourselves into insomnia. Enter IKEA, the Swedish Jenga expert, has a solution. A tiny bed for your smartphone. Yes, it has a comforter. No, it's not a joke. And yes, your phone might now have better sleep setup than you do. Yeah, this is ridiculous. The internet reacted with predictable chaos. Half the world screamed, Ah, well, the other half Googled, is this satire or is this even real? But the science checks out. Behavioral psychology says rituals help us disconnect. Is that correct, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Rituals do help us disconnect. Okay, there you go. If you ritually put your phone down, you will ritually disconnect. How about tucking your phone into a miniature bed? Like a sleepy totter. Yeah, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, you know, okay, whatever floats your boat in. All right, so guess what? IKEA actually has a little bed for you to plug your phone in. Now, if your phone naps undisturbed for seven hours a night, IKEA will reward you with a voucher. That's right. They will give you money. That's right. They will give us to get discounts on meepalls and getting that Swiss Army lamp that nothing better for 19 bucks or whatever. You can build yourself credit by having your phone go to sleep in its own bed. Now, you'd think that this would be the internet crave of the United States. No, it's only available in the United Arab of Emirates store. So it's not here in the United States. Well, okay. Yeah, we can wow. But it may be coming. Now, here's what you have to do. You have to spend $200 on this little bed. Literally, it probably is $200. And that's more than a bed that you can get off of Amazon. Well, hang on, hang on. $200 for this bed, and it must include one item from the complete sleep collection from IKEA. Oh. So $200 plus a complete sleep collection. Now, if IKEA rolls this out globally, just think you could have the dream of having passive income and you could pay $200 to let your phone sleep when you can actually go to IKEA itself and buy the $60 Needon bed frame for $60 and have back problems. So there you go. As a human, you can buy a bed for $60, but as a phone, your bed can only be purchased for $200. I don't know about, you know, so the passive income probably is accounted into how long you're gonna pay the $200 for your little bed, how long you're gonna keep it. Maybe, maybe.

Mike Gorday:

But if I'm gonna pay $200 for a tiny bed for my phone to sleep in and they're gonna give me a discount on meatballs, I'm not really behind that. You're not behind that? No.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, guess what? That ends our top technology stories of the week. She's got the picture of it right there. Look at that. That that's just ridiculous. Odie, would you buy it? She would.

Ody:

If it wasn't $200, I'd say maybe like it was just cocky or something. It is so cute, though. I know. And it has a little comforter.

Nathan Mumm:

I look forget I'm looking at there's little there's there's sheets on it.

Ody:

Yeah. And a pillow. I know. Well, I mean, like your phone. Now, if it charged your phone, it does appear.

Nathan Mumm:

It does charge your phone too.

Mike Gorday:

So it's a $200 charger that looks like a bed for your phone.

Ody:

I think that's adorable. But $200 is not a cute right now.

Mike Gorday:

So you know it's gonna be next. We're gonna have like a little dollhouse that goes with it.

Ody:

I'm not against it.

Mike Gorday:

You're gonna well, yeah. I get that you're not against that. Just think next year, but instead of using dolls for dollhouse, it's gonna be your phone house.

Ody:

I'm like, oh look, my little bit for my phone. Oh, you put your little leash on it.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, let's just passive income. You know what? We come up with business ideas each each and every show on the colour. There we go. That's all right. Okay, well, that answer give us some meatballs. They're meatballs. Have you tried their vegan meatballs? I don't drive meatballs. Oh my word. Oh, okay. All right. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Vegan meatballs should not be ever created in this world. Uh moving on, we have Gwen that will be joining us in our gadgets and gear segment up next. We're gonna take an 88 mile per hour break. See you next segment.

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Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike is figuring out how to save his pennies for that $200 phone bed. I just want to know how long it takes to build it. That's about the IKEA instructions. Yeah, you get you get seven-page instructions with no words on it, and a guy that has like the thumbs up, thumbs down, and the little Can I just say that Gwen and I are in agreement?

Ody:

We would pay like $25 for it.

Nathan Mumm:

You pay $25?

Ody:

I'd pay $25.

Nathan Mumm:

But you wouldn't pay $200.

Ody:

No.

Nathan Mumm:

But it's a charger, so the charger is like $60. And it gives you meatballs.

Ody:

Yeah. I'm not against that.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. Well, welcome back to Tech Time with Lathe the Mom. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without any political agenda. We verify the facts, we do a sense of humor in less than 60 minutes, and of course, with a little whiskey on the side. Today, Mark Gregoire, a whiskey connoisseur, is in studio, and he has a single whiskey. We're not doing our competition, but this is really, really good already. So what do we have that we're tasting today?

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, Mark, what are we drinking to take the pain away? Today is Remus Repeal Reserves Series 5. Oh. From Remus' website introducing Remus Repeal Reserves Series 5, comprised of a melody of five bourbons aged since 2005 to 2008. Series 5 is carefully crafted to honor the repeal of Prohibition on December 5th, 1933. The 2021 limited edition leads with dried fruit, rich caramel, maple syrup, roasted nuts, and leather. The beginning includes rich toffee and vanilla, followed by chocolate, glazed nuts, and oak. The finish offers candied fruit, caramel baking spices, baking spice, and a lingering oaky rice spice. Now when this was released at the time in 2021, it was by the Luxco Company, which then was bought by MGP, which then changed their name to Ross and Squib. The distillation at the time was G Remus Distillery, which is of course a Ross and Squibb distillery now in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Straight bourbon, it's non-age stated because the mash bills are a mix of five different bourbons. Okay. If you try and pick it up on the secondary market now, it's about 175 plus. Alright, so did you pick this up on the secondary market? I did not.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

I did I I got it recently, and you will find out in the mumbles how I obtained it. Oh.

Nathan Mumm:

Did Mr. Remus himself give it to you? Yeah, that's another black market thing that he does. Did you see that he did he talked he kind of plugged in another YouTube uh uh whiskey place? Maybe that is the plug for the place that he got it from.

Marc Grégoire:

What I'm thinking for. Nathan's on fire today. That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

See, I'm paying attention here.

Marc Grégoire:

Now, as you're enjoying this whiskey, so Nathan's finished his already. That's great. Wow, some of those tough stories must have been tough for you guys. Please don't forget to like and subscribe. Nathan, please drink responsibly. Heaven can win.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. You know what we want to thank all the veterans today. It is Veterans Day. So I just want to thank all the veterans that all that you have done for our country and keep us safe.

Marc Grégoire:

Oh, we jump into the uh what we're celebrating on November 11th. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, no. So I have to come back. You still gotta come back. I just want to get ahead of ourselves.

Nathan Mumm:

I just want to thank Veterans Day.

Mike Gorday:

Nathan is.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, no, I just say today is Veterans Day.

Mike Gorday:

Nathan, yeah, but the difference is Nathan doesn't know he's getting ahead of himself. I don't know what you have. I'm sorry that I got ahead. Okay. All right. Okay. Well you know, part of the best thing about this show is making making Odie bust up.

Nathan Mumm:

With our whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment today. We have Gwenway joining the show. She is an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a game board geek in the evening, as well as a producer of Tech Time Radio and our gadgets and gear gal. Let's get ready to start our Comcast video stream for our next segment.

Introduction:

What's new in our gadgets and gear?

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Gwen, welcome back to the show. Tell us a little bit about yourself for any new listeners.

Gwen Way:

Certainly, certainly. Hello, everybody. Uh, I am Gwen and I've been in technology for a little over a quarter of a century. Uh, as Nathan said, I uh focus on cybersecurity during my day job. Uh, but I also like to have fun with different gadgets. So let's talk.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. So normally uh now let me just tell you, Gwen. So I don't I on Kickstarter, there's a thing that I have. I have one of the original Vetrexes, and so there's a mini Vetrix on sale right now. If anybody wants to go out there, I bought 10 of them. So Christmas gift spoiler for everybody that they're getting 10 of these mini vetrix game units and like the mini mini computer. So there you go. My wife, I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of wrap these up like the pots and pans I did for for Christmas now. Um, but besides we want to talk about something that we can get in time for the holidays, right? So we don't or we're not gonna do Kickstarter. Now I tell you, I have three Kickstarter funding that said that they would be here before the holidays. All three of them have been delayed, Quinn. So I I I didn't get them for Christmas, and I'm gonna just put IOUs in in those stockings for people and say, here you go. No, I might added different stuff. So Kickstarter takes a while. This item is available on the market right now.

Gwen Way:

Exactly, which is why we went with it this month. Uh, we'll probably do one that's actually already on the market next month as well, because I want to make sure the listeners can get the best uh Christmas presents possible for their family.

Nathan Mumm:

Perfect. Tell us, what are we looking at today?

Gwen Way:

Well, this is something that I personally use and love and highly recommend. So we can already get off on a good footing with that. Uh if our listeners have spent any time on YouTube, they've probably seen ads for Raycon. And yeah, this this could be a Raycon ad if Raycon wants to reach out to Tech Time Radio and say, hey guys, work with us. Okay. Uh in the meantime, though, I'm going to send everybody to rayconglobal.com and recommend that they look specifically at the essential open air buds.

Nathan Mumm:

Essential open air buds. Okay. All right. And how uh Raycon is R-A-Y-C-O-N.

Gwen Way:

That is correct.

Nathan Mumm:

Perfect. Okay.

Gwen Way:

All right. So these earbuds are really cool for a couple of different reasons. Number one, they are open ear, uh, which means that while you're listening to, I don't know, your favorite podcast, like I don't know, cause exactly. Uh you can also hear things around you. Uh they're really good for office environments. They're really good for going for walks or runs. They are great for public transportation. The one place I would recommend not using them is on an airplane because they won't help deal with all of the crying children and uh buzz and very upset TSA agents.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. So they're not noise canceling, is that correct?

Gwen Way:

Nope. That is correct.

Nathan Mumm:

So I'm about to tell you the noise canceling part, I that kind of freaks me out now. I put those in the iPod threes and the errors in there, and I listen, all of a sudden I can't hear anything around me. And it's like quiet, and then I just like think of my inner thoughts.

Mike Gorday:

That's because you have to listen to your inner monologue. My inner thoughts are pretty scary. Or your inner monologue because of all the voices in there.

Gwen Way:

And they're all talking to each other. Yeah, yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Nice word use. There you go. All right. Now let's take a look and see what makes these earbuds better than other earbuds, though.

Gwen Way:

Honestly, there's there's a great number of things. They've got an extremely long battery life. Uh I've I've got some of the over the ear headphones also that have the noise canceling. And in my last work trip to Spain, they lasted all the way over and all the way back on the plane. On a single charge? On a single charge.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, wow, no way.

Gwen Way:

So these are incredible. They also come with a carrying case that charges them uh if you need to bump them up, kind of like the AirPods have similar things. And they come in really cool colors.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, what are the colors they come in?

Gwen Way:

Uh well, you can get a mint, you can get a carbon black, you can get a blue, and you can get a lavender.

Mike Gorday:

A lavender.

Gwen Way:

One for everybody in your family.

Mike Gorday:

Everybody in my family.

Nathan Mumm:

Gwent said it would be a telemetry.

Gwen Way:

It is basically. But wait, there's more.

Mike Gorday:

All right, so we're gonna- Can I really put them in my ears and hear things? You can.

Gwen Way:

Why yes you can. Yes, you can.

Nathan Mumm:

But wait, there's more. But wait. All right, so okay, where's the place we can find these again?

Gwen Way:

Give us the the URL because it's it's rayconglobal.com. Raycon is R-A-Y-C-O-N. Uh, you can go in, you can see all of their things there. Again, I highly recommend the essential open air earbuds. Okay. Exactly. Uh right now, also, and I'm I'm stealing your thunder a little bit, but I think it's important. They're doing an early Black Friday deal, and you can get these for 30% off.

Nathan Mumm:

30% off. Dun dun dun.

Gwen Way:

Yeah, so they're regularly $80, which is still well worth the money, but right now you can get them for $56.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, you see that? $80 for $56. That's stuff that you get only. You're gonna go get some, I know.

Mike Gorday:

I think I will get some.

Nathan Mumm:

So I got four colors.

Mike Gorday:

You should plug your whole telemercial thing too.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. So Black Friday, do you think they're gonna be a bit a better sale for Black Friday, or do you think this will be the the best?

Gwen Way:

I think this is probably the best. I think this sale is likely to go on through Black Friday.

Mike Gorday:

Okay.

Gwen Way:

Um they have occasionally done Cyber Monday specials, but they tend to be about the uh 30 to 40% off anyway in prior years.

Mike Gorday:

Right. Okay. So are they ever on the Amazon Prime specials that Nathan loves so much?

Gwen Way:

Uh I have never seen them on there.

Nathan Mumm:

I I looked on I looked on Amazon, I did not see them, so I think you have to actually go to the website to buy these. Okay. Final review and costs, and do you have a unit? Those are the questions.

Gwen Way:

Final review, these are stellar. They've got six, they've got a 4.7 star review right now with 606 people reviewing them. So that should give you a good idea. Uh I own some and absolutely adore them. I also have the over the ears and the everyday earbuds. Like I am a Raycon stan for sure. And right now, with 30% off, you can get a pair of these open earbuds for $56.

Nathan Mumm:

$56. That's a deal. That's the deal.

Gwen Way:

Run to the website.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. You know what? We're gonna put that on deal of the week. That'll be the top part of our banner for Tech Time Radio. I'm gonna put a link to that so everybody can get the deal that's available. Just visit techtime radio.com. They can see Glenn's recommendation for gadgets and gear. All right, Gwen, well, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's always a pleasure to have you talk about new gadgets. Uh, you got you for for a relay for you, you need to go look at Vetrex V-E-T-R-E-X minis on Kickstarter. Take a look at them. It's actually gonna be fully funded. So go take a look at that. I got 10 of those bad boys. I so there you it's a very old console, but for us old people in good one, it's pretty cool. You know what? Your your husband would love it. So if you don't tell him about it, you get it. You could there, there you go. Shh. Just like my wife's getting one for Christmas too. Does he listen to the show?

Gwen Way:

Uh he he does when I'm on, but uh we'll we'll pretend that he didn't hear anything.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh-oh, look at that. He does when she's on. Otherwise, like she's like, no, he doesn't listen to it when Nathan's on. But when I'm on, of course, it's a lot of fun.

Mike Gorday:

I mean, okay. There you go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, I understand. All right. Thank you so much, Gwen. We'll see you next month. Thank you. All right, that ends our segment. We want to thank Gwen for being a part of the show. She does a great job finding the most unique items each month for our show. And with that, let's now move on to Mike's mesmerizing moment.

Speaker 2:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, I'm going back to the question that we had on the the since you're talking about Zoom meetings and different stuff, are we more reliant on tech during in-person meetings? I go into some of these in-person meetings and I see people now on their phones and never paying attention. So it's literally just a bunch of bobbled heads scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, one person talking, and then everybody's like, uh, what'd you say? What'd you say? Well, what's going on with this, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Why are you asking me? You already have the evidence.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I but why are we why is this happening?

Mike Gorday:

Why well, I think a a good answer would be we have an a tech addiction and we have trouble getting off of our phones. This is not a new phenomenon. When we did all these in-person meetings prior to all this video technology, what were people doing? They were doodling or picking their nails or staring off in the space. Okay. Yeah. So this is not necessarily a new behavior, it's just a new focal point.

Nathan Mumm:

That we've now become accepted uh that you can pick up your phone and look at it during a meeting.

Mike Gorday:

Well, yeah, and there's also there's also some things called boundary issues that we're talking about. If you allow people to have their phones and and don't call them out for it, they're gonna just sit there and do this. But you know, part of it is the normal behavior coupled with the addiction of technology that makes this happen. So I don't know, I don't I don't I don't think it makes it smoother.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't think it makes it smoother.

Mike Gorday:

But you know, in video conferencing, I guess you can you can also add the fact that uh when you when you're on a Zoom meeting, are you paying attention to everything or are you reading emails and doing things like that?

Nathan Mumm:

So I must be old school because most of the time I'm actually trying to engage in the meeting. Okay. Well That's your fault. Okay, I I I clearly that must be the the point because I will I do some online meetings and I and I know that when I ask in questions.

Mike Gorday:

Are these meetings that you're running or meetings that you're just sitting in? Sometimes they're running. Because, you know, when we're sitting in meetings, because you know, I work for the government, so we have meetings about meetings that we're gonna have a meeting about. Okay. Right? So we're just sitting there and nothing is really relevant to me personally. So, you know, I'm gonna be reading emails or I'm gonna be doing some other productive thing because I don't need to be sitting in this meeting except for I have to be sitting in the Meeting.

Nathan Mumm:

So isn't that when you should just send an email to somebody? If it can't be if it has to be more than a 10 minute engagement, you should do a meeting. If you can get it done in an email and it doesn't take any it's a yes or no decision, it should just be an email, right?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, there's a lot of shooting right there. Okay. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

A lot of shooting.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, you just should all over the place.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. That was should. Uh Odie's like, I gotta go back and edit that out. No, you don't. It's not it's a word. Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

That's a whole bunch of shit. It's a bunch of yeah, don't shoot on the don't shoot on the the the thing, Odie. All right, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Thank you, Mike, for that mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, that's that was really mesmerizing.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, kind of was I was mesmerized. You're mesmerized?

Mike Gorday:

All right, well up next we have your dazzling personality.

Nathan Mumm:

Thank you, Mike, for that mesmerizing moment. Up next we have This Week in Technology. Now would be a good time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side as we're gonna be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nate the Mum. See you in a few minutes. 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, you 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 English guy? Patreon.com. I I butcher the English language? You know you butcher the English language. So it's patreon.com. 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. You know the one that Zuckerberg owns? 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.

Speaker 2:

That's it. That's that simple.

Speaker 5:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike. We're going all the way back to November 12th, 2000. That was a long time ago. That was a long time ago. All right. Microsoft declares tablets are the future. Now, Bill Gates does a demonstration of a functional prototype of a tablet PC. Microsoft claims that the tablet PC will represent the next major evolution in PC design and functionality. However, the tablet PC initiative never really takes off, and it isn't until Apple introduced the iPad in 2010 that tablet computing is widely adopted. Now, Microsoft's failure with the tablet PC initiative was twofold. First, they simply tried to adapt Windows, an operating system designed to use a keyboard and mouse to all of a sudden be touch screen and pen interface. Users never really warmed up to the awkward hybrid interface, and none of the items worked correctly when you had your PIN. So your PIN was like the biggest drawback for the whole thing. You'd have to collaborate it every time you used it. And then if it was off a bit as you were writing, it would not do the correct A, B, C's, any of the letters it would do that have spaces in there. Did not work.

Mike Gorday:

Now I mean really it was in 2000, so it was way before its time. So it was before its time. That's correct.

Nathan Mumm:

And you know, finally then they decided the design for the hardware would be for their OEM partners. So anybody could come up with the idea of what the tablet PC looked like. So you had Dell fighting over this, you had a bunch of different laptop providers, ASUS, you had Lenovo at the time that was coming up with different ideas, and none of them really took off. It's interesting because Microsoft has been very successful and has learned from this failure because they created the Surface tablets. You have a surface right in front of you right now. Yeah, it's one of the most awesome things that I own. Now, do you know why? This because Microsoft decided to steal Apple's interface and information and then mimic the models that Apple proved successful to create a tablet. And then that's really funny because we just talked about this a couple episodes ago. Now Apple is copying the surface because their new PCs that are coming on out next year and the year after are going to have touch screens. So Microsoft copied good old Apple. Now Apple's copying that. This isn't this isn't new behavior. It's not new behavior. Okay. Well, we're going to take a commercial break. When we return, we have Mark Mumble Whiskey Review. See you after this break.

Mike Gorday:

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Speaker 5:

The segment we've been waiting all week for.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you notice Mike's out of his whiskey also now?

Marc Grégoire:

I did. I see two empty glasses. Luckily, I saved a little bit for me. Uh-oh.

Nathan Mumm:

That's pretty good stuff.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, celebrating November 11th. First, as Nathan mentioned earlier, a heartfelt shout-out to all veterans in both Canada and the United States, because both countries are celebrating today. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice as we celebrate Veterans Day.

Nathan Mumm:

Now, speaking of Canada.

Marc Grégoire:

Cheers.

Nathan Mumm:

Speaking of Canada, are you uh I I heard a little rumor, a little birdie, saying that you now have your uh citizenship up in Canada.

Marc Grégoire:

That's correct. I'm a dual citizen. Okay, there you go. Well, congratulations. Now, also today we're celebrating another thing. Oh, what's that? Dun dun dun. Uh is it origami? Origami Day. Bingo! Thank you for helping out, OD. Today, National Origami Day. Oh, look at Odi. There you go. Put on screen there. A time to slow down, find your Zen, and appreciate the beauty of precision and patience. Originally called Oryekata, origami dates back to Japan as early as 105 AD. Now that's a long time ago. Not 25 years. 105 AD. Alright, that is. Before the Industrial Revolution, paper was a luxury reserved for the elite. But today, anyone with a sheet of paper and a little focus can master the fold. Even Odie joins in, showing off her best origami dog. That's right. That was pretty good.

Nathan Mumm:

Have you ever done the origami with the frog that hops?

Mike Gorday:

Uh yeah. Yeah. Okay, see. I I I I I actually do a lot of origami. You do? Yeah. Well, maybe not a lot, but I do origami.

Marc Grégoire:

Origami? I thought it helps with Zen. Doesn't seem to help you helping Mike. Hey, I didn't say I do a lot of it.

Mike Gorday:

I do Tai Chi too.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, what's it?

Mike Gorday:

What's Tai Chi? Never mind. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Isn't that the thing you're outside? I didn't I go to a Tai Chi event with you? Uh yeah, you did. Yeah, you uh Mike led it.

Ody:

I cannot imagine Nathan doing Tai Chi. Nathan can't do it.

Nathan Mumm:

Well now, hang on now. I I thought I was doing it.

Marc Grégoire:

Did you bring a long chair just to watch?

Nathan Mumm:

No, I had a mat and I was doing everything. Did you just we don't need a mat. Then all of a sudden I did the crane kick in Karate Kid.

Ody:

That tells me all I need to know about.

Marc Grégoire:

That's exactly right. Continue on. So origami day celebrates the art of precision layering, just like Remus Repeal Reserve 5, where five distinct bourbon vintages are folded together with the same meticulous care it takes to turn paper into poetry. You see how he does that? I did.

Nathan Mumm:

Maybe you should take lessons. He should just read books to people at night and become a narrator. It's so soothing.

Marc Grégoire:

So each blend of this whiskey combines high high rye bourbons aged six to fourteen years from the historic Ross and Squibb distillery. Some with mash bills nearly 40% rye. Now it's still a bourbon, but they're very high rye mash bills. The real artistry lies in the blending where flavors of spice, oak, and caramel don't just balance, they transform. In bourbon chemistry, new flavor compounds are born as those distinct profiles merge, creating a whiskey experience that literally cannot exist without the blend.

Nathan Mumm:

So so when they do this, do they let the the blends sit for a year or so so that they mix together, or is it something that they do pretty quickly and then bottle it?

Marc Grégoire:

It depends on the district. So I don't know this particular one. Some of them will mix a few together, let it sit for up to a month, and then taste it again, see how it's what it's doing, and then see what other barrels to add or what other people they did not choose these five whiskies up front to blend together, at least that's my hypothesis. They just started blending and kind of see which ones would fit together. Okay. All right. Now, I could not have asked for a better raffle win. This port turned out to be an absolute gem. Rich, bold, and full of personality from start to finish. I snagged it at a get together hosted by the YouTube channel Curiosity Public. And let me tell you, when whiskey meets good company and great conversation, that's my kind of victory.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Now you really are.

Marc Grégoire:

That's the only reason I show up here every week.

Mike Gorday:

For good conversation? I don't think so.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay, all right. Well, at least for the whiskey. That's okay.

Nathan Mumm:

So so but so uh the little plug to that, the YouTube group is every once a year they have an event and you go to and you and you kind of hang out and have a good time.

Marc Grégoire:

I do, and and then on the air, you guys rip on me for not being here. But you know what? I'm bringing bottles back to you. That's all right. That's a good that's a good you know what? We appreciate that.

Mike Gorday:

He's paying us with whiskey.

Marc Grégoire:

And you got from that trip, you got this one, and then you got the Baker's 13, which we had uh. This is actually really, really good.

Nathan Mumm:

This one's excellent. Is this on your top shelf or middle shelf? This is on my top shelf. Oh, it was on his top shelf, like before we go out. And I have a backup bottle. Oh, he's got a backup bottle. Oh, you know what? I'm getting for Christmas then. All right, no, just joking. All right, let's let's move on. Whiskey and technology are such a great pairing. Like wine and Jesus. The holiday season is upon us. Okay, okay. That's good, right?

Mike Gorday:

No, I'm just I'm laughing because of the suspense content there.

Marc Grégoire:

Oh, yeah, there was wondering what's gonna drop next because I was ready to rip on him, but you know what? That's a that's a beautiful pairing. That is pretty good pairing. Actually, my wife and my daughter and I this past weekend just went to a wine and cheese tasting out in Woodenville. There you go. Fantastic. It was fantastic. It was great cheese, great wine.

Nathan Mumm:

Excellent pairing. Just like technology and whiskey. I love you again. There you are. All right, now let's prepare for our technology fail of the week. Let's get out of this week. That's my Elita Executive Services.

Speaker 2:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right. So, you know, that this is gonna be Mike's gonna love this. It's about chat GPT. So let's let's talk about this. All right, the University of Illinois. What was that in Illinois? The University of Illinois. Illinois.

Marc Grégoire:

No, no, can we say Illinois? Illinois?

Nathan Mumm:

Illinois. Where are we? Is it not Illinois? Most people say Illinois.

Marc Grégoire:

Now, of course, if you're from the inner city of Chicago, you're allowed to say Illinois, but you're not, so stick with Illinois. Okay, Illinois.

Nathan Mumm:

Guess what happens? When you get an apology that gets flagged for plagiarism, it might be the time to log off a chat GPT. At this university, two data science professors caught dozens of students cheating with AI. Dozens of students. Dozens of students, then caught them using AI again to write an apology email. The professors known on campus as the data science duo read these robotic remorses out loud in class, projecting the copy and paste parade for 1,200 students to witness. That's awesome. All right, turns out the students old school scaming right there. I know. I mean, they probably got in so much trouble because all those people's feelings were hurt. All right. Since the syllabus did not ban AI, no one was punished for grades, but they did receive public criticism. One student reportedly asked if AI could write a better excuse next time. Another wondered if their apology could at least come up with a chatbot generated hug. Moral of the story if you're gonna cheat with AI, at least don't let it plagiarize your apology too. So so this is becoming a little bit of an issue.

Mike Gorday:

So there were no there was no lesson, there was no lesson learned. I told you this was an issue way back when we're gonna be.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay, I understood the story right. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

So so this is what's happening. This people are now are getting lazy. And I now No way.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, let's start off.

Nathan Mumm:

People have always been lazy. Okay, go on. People were coding is happening. Now I use vibe code that affects our tech time radio uh website and some stuff, and it did a great job, which vibe coding means you put in your prompt into an AI and it comes out with code. You got to be careful about it because malware can get introduced to it. A bunch of things can happen also, but it seems to be now people instead of just typing emails anymore, people just put it in the chat GPT, boom, send, boom, send, and it's becoming kind of uh is that what you do? Yeah, absolutely. So you don't write any of your emails anymore, you just say, Hey, I'm in a uh upset mood. Tell my boss that I need this to be taken care of.

Marc Grégoire:

You write the summary or you write kind of I write just the bullet points of what I want in there, and then because we're we're technical people, we suck in English. Okay, that is true in grammar, that is true and spelling, and pronouncation is that Nathan's excuse? Pronunciation so then it writes it for me. I read it quickly, and I'm like, oh not right, modify this, modify this. I get it what I want, then I cut and paste it, and then I'll tweak it just a fine time.

Mike Gorday:

All right, all right. As an interested observer in this, because you know I write my own stuff. I I don't use chat GPT write stuff. Okay, you unicorn. Right? So um Oh, look at Odie got really good. Does it take you just as long to write a chat GPT email that it does to for me to write a regular email? It's absolutely not way, way, way, way faster.

Marc Grégoire:

I get so much. It's more creative. It's more creative. I am so slow to write and properly write an email for me. So let's talk SATs. My overall SAT was pretty good because my math was super high. My English was abysmal. Okay. And so it takes me a very long time to do it. See, I had the opposite.

Mike Gorday:

I had a I had a really high, really high vocab and a a not so high math. It was not bad, but it was I had high math too. I had all Yeah, well.

Marc Grégoire:

It was pretty late. We already know about his English. That's why we both went into our personality. You know, I want a spelling be in like fifth grade. I just want to know that.

Nathan Mumm:

My spelling was good for some time in life. Yeah, okay.

Ody:

Well, I was gonna say, if you're not using the skills to write a proper email, you're just hindering yourself later down the line. That's correct.

Mike Gorday:

That is exactly the problem. Okay, Odie, and that's and Odie, I'm too old for that.

Ody:

How are you any better than these students that can't even be bothered to write their own apology?

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, I don't I I would have just said I'm mic drop. Burn. Uh uh You know, I actually don't have a problem with them writing the apology with AI. So, in other words, uh Marxist okay, no matter what. You know, they took the time to actually do something. No, they had to bring them up. They got caught apologies.

Mike Gorday:

They got caught using chat GPT for their assignments. The professor said, Hey, you you got caught, now you apologize. Then they went back and used the chat GPT to apologize. Is there one Ferris jeweler that's running the whole group? It's just like say, well, no, that's just all just lazy. Like you guys, it's exactly the same thing.

Marc Grégoire:

ChatGPT is a tool. It's a tool. So I don't use it to do my job.

Mike Gorday:

My main job is your job not have emails in it? This is exactly the same thing by saying that. Sorry I got caught.

Marc Grégoire:

That's just the negative part of your job. Whoa.

Ody:

I feel like if I went into an interview and was like, listen, I'm great at doing the board, but I suck at the personal thing. I want to uh I wouldn't get hired.

Mike Gorday:

Can I can I do that in future interviews? Can I say, hey, when they ask me to get hired? When they ask me a question, can I say hang on wait?

Nathan Mumm:

Wait, wait till I check the GPT the answer. I'll make sure I get stuff taken care of. All right.

Marc Grégoire:

You have to know your job, you have to know what to do, you have to have those personal connections. But for the little side things, just like calc, so nobody uses a calculator here? Right.

Nathan Mumm:

Because I got a phone. Actually, I do. I use calc all the time.

Marc Grégoire:

You can't use calc. No, no, that's terrible. You must do the math by hand. No, you know, my teaching said I need to. Exactly what you're saying.

Nathan Mumm:

You need to know math case. You're never gonna have a device that's gonna have a calculator on it. How are you gonna be able to do math? Guess what? I got it in my pocket. I got three of them now. I just from two phones to three phones. That was probably your best accent so far. Oh, you think so? Okay. Don't encourage never encourage. All right, let's go to our Nathan Nuggets. I think we really need to.

Mike Gorday:

I think we need to spend time. You just had everybody yelling in a mic. That's all right. Here we go.

Marc Grégoire:

We're off the rails today.

Introduction:

This is your nugget of the week.

Mike Gorday:

All right, you guys are all gonna love this. Yeah, I gotta get on Chat GPT and figure out what I'm gonna answer. Hold on.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay, make it think for you. Just write what you think.

Nathan Mumm:

Lego is going boldly where no brick has gone before. Yeah, this has nothing to do with tech, but it's awesome. We're all gonna like this. A $400 Star Trek Enterprise set is now available. True. Move over Millennium Falcon. There's a new nerd shrine in town, and it goes warp speed. Starting November 28th, Lego is finally releasing the neutral zones Star Trek territory for the first time ever from the franchise with a glorious 3600.

Marc Grégoire:

It's been five years. You're not gonna fix it. Star Trek? He claims to be a geek, but he's really just a collector that resells things.

Mike Gorday:

He's really not a nerd. Well, I'm not I'm not laughing about that. I'm laughing at the fact that he uses ChatGPT to do a script and you can't read it properly.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't do chat GPT.

Mike Gorday:

Lego is finally crossing the neutral zone into Star Trek territory. That's what you should have said.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, with the first ever from the franchise, a glorious 3600 piece US Enterprise NC 17D from the next generation. 1701D, what? From the next generation.

Mike Gorday:

1701. 1701, not 17D. That's a brass up. 1701D. Wow. You would think he never watched the show.

Nathan Mumm:

I just went through the whole season of next generation again. This Star Trek. All right. So let me okay. All right. Talk to us Nathan. Okay, Star Trek nerds. If you order it, this is the really important. You gotta get on and order it when it becomes available. You you actually get bonus shadow pod. Before December 1st, if you order it, you get the extra type 15 shuttle pod set. So this is like a Black Friday deal with more Dilithium crystals. But let's talk about what you actually get on there. These are the characters you get. Captain Picard comes with a teacup, all right? Because diploma Earl Grey. Earl Glay. With Earl Grey, that's correct. Commander Riker comes with a trombone. Okay. Because he played the trombone in the series, right? Okay. Wharf comes with a phaser and tons of forehead ridges. Now, this is the best thing. This is in their promotional material. Wesley Crusher wields a portable tractor beam generator, presumably to pull himself out of plot holes. They actually wrote that on the on the ad. Isn't that hilarious? That's a good one. That's a good one. Gaynan uh comes with bartending wisdom included. Dr. Beverly Crusher comes with medical gear. Um, and Geordia the Forge comes with a tricorder and an engineering case in the P A D D. And Deanna Troy readies your senses to see why the heck you just spent $400 on plastic pieces. There you go. That was actually in their ad stuff. That's a pretty good ad, eh? You gotta like it. Are you gonna buy it? No. No. No.

Ody:

Are you gonna buy it?

Mike Gorday:

No, you know Nathan's gonna buy it.

Ody:

No, no, no, because yeah. That's a big thing going on in the Lego community right now, is that they're overcharging like house.

Marc Grégoire:

Yes, yes. Were you a Lego person growing up? I mean not buying Legos and putting them on your shelf unopened. I mean actually opening and playing with it.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes. My parents were not literally Legos behind. They were not very rich, so I didn't have sets that I could actually build when I was a kid. We would go to garage sales and find all the loose. So I have a bunch of chewed up Legos that I would get from my parents. I was never a Lego person. So I still have every Lego that I had when I was a kid.

Mike Gorday:

I was a poor box Lego.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh no. I just have a I have a big tote with all the Legos.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, a tote with all these poor little old Legos. For the grandkids he had to scrounge up when he's a little bad.

Nathan Mumm:

For grandkids, nice try. Alright, there you go.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, what are you gonna use them for then?

Nathan Mumm:

To sell. No, I'll I'll wait until I have grandkids. Come on over. Show fit!

Mike Gorday:

Back back to the back to the issue at hand. Yes. That's a lot of money for a Lego set.

Ody:

Except But they've all been rising in price lately.

Mike Gorday:

Well, yeah, that the Lego is Lego is crazy with rings, marbles. It's really a hard choice because if I I can buy this, or I can buy two beds for my phone.

Nathan Mumm:

That's exactly right. I can have a bed on my bed and a bed in my in my lifting. Yeah. All the Swedish.

Ody:

Maybe I can charge my phone.

Nathan Mumm:

What's that?

Ody:

Have that laying all day 24-7. Because don't you have two phones?

Nathan Mumm:

I have three.

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna no, I'm gonna use my work phone. I know I can just have one actively making money.

Marc Grégoire:

I'm gonna use my work phone burner phone in there all the time, like Odie said, until you need it. No, no, no, no. I don't have a burner phone.

Mike Gorday:

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on a second, hold on a second. I'm gonna use my work phone so I can both get the benefits of the meatballs and I can charge my workplace rent for the phone in the bed.

Nathan Mumm:

He likes the couch quite a bit. He's talked about this more than any other uh gadget we've had on for quite a long time, besides the robots that he loves.

Ody:

Gwen did ask. Yeah, not if you bought it, but how many have you bought?

Mike Gorday:

So how many did you buy there, Meatball Boy?

Ody:

No, no, not the phone. I may have bought the Lego for the Mum family. What, the phone thing or the Lego thing? The Lego. I'm bought one Lego. You only bought one?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. But this is my new thing I'm gonna start doing for Christmas. I'm gonna give out like vouchers of like percentages of a gift that I buy for myself. So if I buy a gift for myself and I say it's the mum family, and then I'm just going down.

Marc Grégoire:

No, no, no, no.

Mike Gorday:

25% play the whiskey music. Play the pick of the game. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is awesome. This is awesome. All right, we want to thank everybody. We're about out of time.

Nathan Mumm:

Hold on, we need to do that. Nathan Inc. is sharing shares. Oh, okay. And we need to do the secret sound.

Introduction:

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

Ody:

I forget I have that ability.

Marc Grégoire:

We are drinking it. Thank you, Odie. Remus Repeal Reserve Series 5. This came out in 2021, the limited release. If you can get your hands on it, it's delicious. Hundred-proof, mix of five bourbons. It's fantastic.

Nathan Mumm:

It's a whole thumbs up. Like two thumbs up times two from this is one of the best of the series. It is.

Marc Grégoire:

This may be best idea. You do need to open up and let it air out. So I didn't bring it in right away because when you first open, it's a little tight. Needs to breathe to really bring out all those flavors. What do you think, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

I think it's excellent. So I gave it a thumbs up too. But not two thumbs up times two. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, let's now go to our secret sound. This is triple the money now. Yeah, and if you act now, you can get shares. Alright, so so does anybody know what that is? Actually, one of our one of our staff members knows. Actually, I think maybe both of the guys know. So we gotta be careful. If you're on the live chat, one of them actually spoiled it and actually put it on the ball. I did not say, I didn't say what the word what it was. Somebody was on the live chat. So you need to go in the live stream and make sure you see what's available there.

Marc Grégoire:

And then Tech Time Radio said, is it fooze ball? Yeah, like they're gonna give the answer away. Of course. That's a metal ball. That's not a plastic ball. Oh, you're right.

Ody:

Is that not a hint?

Marc Grégoire:

That is a hint.

Nathan Mumm:

That is a hint. Okay. You know what? You know what, listeners? We're about out of time. We want to thank you for joining our program. Listeners, guess what? You can visit us at techtime radio.com and click on the be a collar and click on that to select the secret sound. Choose that secret sound. Tell us what it is. We are now up to triple the original pot. It will keep on going. You know what? See, this might be like a lottery type of deal. We want to thank everybody for listening to our show. Thank you to all of our great guests and hosts that join our show. Thank you so much, guys. Remember that the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of the day. See you next week. Later. Bye-bye.

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