TechTime with Nathan Mumm

276: TechTime Radio: Steam Machine Dreams, cloned Pets, Robots Stumble, Travel Scams, Paycheck Glitch, Russia Hacks Again, Quirky EV Smells, and Security Camera Louvre "Password Fail" | Air Date: 11/18 - 11/24/25

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 276

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A living room PC that wants to be your next console, a cloned dog that raises bigger questions than it answers, and a museum heist made possible by the world’s laziest password. That’s the lineup we tackle as we break down the most head-scratching, revealing tech stories of the week with equal parts clarity and humor.

We start with Valve’s Steam machine: a sleek, SteamOS-powered box aiming for 4K/60 on your TV. We unpack the real-world hurdles—8GB VRAM limits, upgrade ambiguity, and the make-or-break pricing line—while noting the window of opportunity as Sony stays quiet on PS6 and Microsoft doubles down on cloud and subscriptions. If Valve can balance performance, cost, and openness, they might just rewrite the console conversation.

From there, the show gets wonderfully weird—and instructive. Tom Brady’s reported dog clone spotlights the gap between genetics and identity. A Russian humanoid robot faceplants onstage, underscoring how hard dynamic stabilization really is. A Florida homeowner learns her address has been hijacked by a fake garage-door business, the kind of “legitimacy theater” scam that thrives on stolen photos and Google listings. And a payroll glitch sends $87,000 to a factory worker who spends first and argues later, setting up a courtroom lesson in what “salary” really means.

We also get practical: holiday travel phishing is spiking, with fake Booking, Expedia, and Airbnb pages skimming cards in seconds. We share simple, effective defenses: go direct to official apps, inspect URLs, and enable card alerts. Then we pour Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B520 and compare notes—rich chocolate, caramel, and spice at a hefty 127.2 proof—while reflecting on why the Nintendo Wii’s motion-first design still matters. To top it off, Kia’s gas-scented EV air freshener proves sensory nostalgia can be a clever bridge to cleaner tech.

The jaw-dropper comes from Paris: a Louvre security failure reportedly tied to a camera password you could guess in two tries. It’s a blunt reminder that protecting treasures requires basic cyber hygiene: strong unique credentials, MFA, segmentation, and monitoring. Whether you’re guarding crown jewels or your photo library, the fundamentals are non-negotiable.

Enjoy the ride, share a laugh, and leave with takeaways you can use—from buying choices to security habits. If you’re into smart tech talk without the jargon, hit follow, share with a friend, and drop us a review with your hot take: would you buy Valve’s Steam machine for your living room?

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Broadcasting across the nation from the East Coast to the West, keeping you up to date on technology while enjoying a little whiskey on the side with leading edge topics, along with special guests, to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go, hmm. Pull up a seat, raise a glass with our hosts as we spend the next hour talking about technology for the common person. Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum, the show that makes you go, hmm, Technology News of the Week, the show for the everyday person talking about technology broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mum, your host and technologist with over 30 years of technology expertise. Our co-host Mike Roday is in the studio today and is the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming during our show 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. 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.

Introduction:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, welcome to Tech Time Radio. Guess what we have today? We have our favorite segment, and we have a secret sound that we need to have people start guessing. Our favorite new segment is Say What? Say what? Okay, okay. That's why we're making it all right. Yeah. Now we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, a possible Nathan Nugget, and of course our pick of the day, whiskey tasting. The CFR selected whiskey pick gets zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. 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, story number one Valve turns up the heat as Steam Machine reignites the console worlds. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this.

Lisa Walker:

Valve's new gaming device, built to be entirely wireless and streaming first, claims to deliver sharper visuals by focusing processing power only where the user looks. Industry watchers note the timing is strategic as Microsoft leans into Game Pass subscriptions, and Sony fans await news of a PS5 successor. Whether Valve can turn its PC empire into a console success story will be tested when the Steam machine hits shelves in early 2026. Is this on anyone's purchase list? Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

The Steam Deck came out, right? Steam trying to compete with the handheld market. And they actually have done very successful with the Steam Deck. And I purchased one of these and I've been very happy with the device itself.

Mike Gorday:

Do you still use that or does it still sit in your desk drive?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I used it pretty aggressively, and then all of a sudden I have this thing called children. And when they want to buy something and they don't have any money, they come on over and they take their father's item so that they can play with it and then pretend that it's theirs.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. You're seriously throwing your children under the bus because absolutely.

Nathan Mumm:

Because they're actually using it now. Oh, so let's talk about this. So the new Steam machine is a hybrid design PC that is supposed to plug into your living room television or big screen or your projector TV. It's a sleek black cube. It looks just like almost kind of an Xbox X. It's a big, tall tower that's black, powered by SteamOS and AMD graphics, promises 4K resolution at 60 frames per second, and also can be doubled as a full-time computer. The problem with computers and televisions is there have always been all those cables you have to plug into your TV. You know what? So you end up just having a monitor that you use for your computer and your TV for your entertainment system. Steam thinks now is the time, and they are going to come out with a device that has the ability to provide your Steam games on your television. The big question I have though is the hardware that's actually being announced is only coming on out with 8 gigabytes of dedicated VRAM for video, and most blockbuster games require 12 gigabytes. So that looks like the video card, which is probably one of the most important aspects of any of these gaming machines, is going to be a little underpowered. So I have some concerns here, Mike, because uh if you if you game and you're not at the most well, it depends on if you're a console gamer or a PC gamer. Okay. So but if you're if you're if you're trying to compete in the console market on your big screen TV, I think you have to have those graphics up there so that you can do those 60 frames per second first-person shooter games that are going to be there. But let's talk about the Steam machine because Valve in 2014 tried to release a console. It was an actual device. I bought one of those and it did not work at all. You'd have to have your computer connect to that device, and then that device was connected to your TV. And the lag on that was just impossible to play on offline games, let alone any online games. But now they think that they have the ability to do it. They do think the price is gonna probably be higher than that $499 price point, which that I think is kind of the key. That $499, $500 price point is accepted in the industry for a console machine.

Mike Gorday:

These are established consoles, though. Those are these are not brand new people trying to enter the market.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So do you think that you would you pay a little bit more for a PC?

Mike Gorday:

Absolutely not.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, you wouldn't. So you would you would actually ask them to probably be a little lower than the $499 processor price.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, if they want to, if they want me to try out their console, it can't be higher than my, you know, my Xbox or my PlayStation.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, well, you know what? They have 25 million online daily users with more with no more than 6 million gamers given at any time on their platform system. So they do have a pretty large platform of users that are using their system. Now it's interesting that the console war, let's let's kind of talk about that. So PlayStation 5 now hits its fifth anniversary, and Sony says that there's plenty of life in the old dog. We used to every five years have a brand new console, right? So we'd have a brand new device that would come on out back in the Sega time when Sega was uh available as a console. Every five years ColecoVision.

Mike Gorday:

Remember Coleco?

Nathan Mumm:

Coleco Atari and television. I mean, so it was like a five-year, we got kind of bored after five years. We wanted something new, but guess what? PlayStation hits their anniversary and they have no news on the PlayStation 6 anywhere in sight. It's interesting because if you also look at Microsoft, Microsoft is taking a big leap in deciding that they're not even really focusing on the next generation of gaming, they're moving everything to the online market with all of their online subscription services and their whole streaming service to play. So I think Steam has an opportunity to jump in here. I don't know if Valve is gonna have the ability to price the console at the right price to get into that early market. So I I I do have some concerns about that, but they do promise the Steam machine in early of 2026. So without PlayStation 6 anywhere near, this may be the new console people buy and give it a shot.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I don't know. I don't I don't really see that being uh a huge deal there.

Nathan Mumm:

You don't think you know you you'd rather play Steam on your computer?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Okay. For anybody, I I mean, I'm not a I'm not a gamer gamer, I just use a laptop, but you know, I've got friends who have these elaborate setups. Okay. And they've got multiple screens and they're using their PC and they use Steam through their PC, right? Yep. Um what happens what happens when they go console and suddenly all the licensing goes paywre because they're now trying to license stuff simply for the exclusivity of the Steam console, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, you're saying it's uh so you mean like with Sony and Microsoft have exclusive titles? You're worried that they're gonna be able to do that. Yeah, what happens what happens then? Oh so Microsoft could d delay and not release anything on PC for a while, right?

Mike Gorday:

So I don't I don't really think that Steam's gonna make a big dent in the console market.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

You know, I like the idea of the Steam Deck, uh, but I didn't get one.

Nathan Mumm:

So you're saying forget it. Uh you're not buying it. I I'm not gonna get one. No. All right, all right. Odie, would you buy a uh a Steam console machine? Let's say it's 700 bucks.

Ody:

Seeing that I was fighting over the Nintendo Switch 2, no. Also, I don't think I've ever used a Steam Deck. I know you were talking and raving about it like two years ago, but Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it was just cool. It was cool. It was kind of cool. It was a portable way to play. It was it was really big compared to the Switch, but it is, and it's a kind of a bulky. I kind of like the bulkiness of it.

Ody:

I will say that before our show meeting, I did have a friend reach out to me and and sent me a link to that article, like, oh, they're coming out with a console. Are you guys talking about it? So it is viral.

Nathan Mumm:

It is viral, it's in the news.

Ody:

It is big. I just don't think it's gonna do well.

Nathan Mumm:

The the the big questions in the community is one, can you upgrade the video adapter after you purchase it? So if it is a PC, can you feel PC, can you? Yeah, well, that's so that's unknown, right? So it could be that it's all inclusive into the architecture and you can't add a video card. If they really want to make this work, they need to be able to come out with maybe even proprietary video card spaces and slots and different areas that maybe only it's built for that device, but you need to be able to upgrade. I don't think when you buy a computer, uh especially like a desktop computer, that you don't ever think that that you're just buying the one unit. You're always looking at what you can upgrade.

Mike Gorday:

Well, that's the that's the problem with buying a uh gaming laptop, right? Because you can't upgrade stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

You can't.

Mike Gorday:

You don't have to just go buy a new a new computer every couple of years.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh every five years.

Mike Gorday:

There you go.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, what do you got for story number two here, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Well, you know, I'm having trouble.

Ody:

They're at it again, man. They're at it again.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so last last week we talked about the cop with his pants down, right? On Zoom. Yeah, you did. Apparently nobody saw that because this week a council meeting goes down the drain, literally. Okay. Tell me about this. Okay, well, this week in Glasgow, a city council meeting flushed away its uh way into the headlines thanks to a very forgetful webcam. Councilor Hannif Raja, who represented Polo Pollock Shields, accidentally live streamed his bathroom break during a planning session. The meeting was supposed to be about a battery storage system, but viewers got an unscheduled demo of human storage capacity. Oh right. Okay. Colleagues quickly warned him, but not before the clip spread across social media faster than the I'm not a cat video. The council has since pulled the footage, promising to re-upload once the comfort break is edited out. Roger explained he needs regular breaks due to his diabetes, but the technical lesson here is universal. Always check your mutant camera toggles before you step away from your computer. Think of it like cybersecurity. As he left an open port broadcasting unintended data to the entire network. Remote meetings blur the line between professional and personal space, which we talked a little bit about last last week. Yep. Uh but uh webcams can turn into accidental accidental surveillance devices in a heartbeat. Uh the moral of the story is uh don't don't use the bathroom when you're on a Zoom meeting. You think you think? Yeah. Okay. And don't forget that you're I mean, this is this is one of the problems with our technology is that when we get so comfortable with it that we we're engaging in normal human behavior when we're supposed to be paying attention. We talked a little bit about this last week as well. Yeah. That we start doing things unconsciously not realizing that we're still on a meeting. You know, this is something that you wouldn't do in a professional event. In-person meeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in a per in-person meeting. But here you can, you know, often carry around your devices and and whatnot. And you know, getting caught on the toilet is not as uncommon as we're making it out to be.

Nathan Mumm:

Maybe he was just, you know, it was a planning meeting, so maybe he was just thinking on his throne, you think?

Mike Gorday:

You know, I don't I don't know anything about this guy, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna Did you ever sit on the toilet and that's where you're like your thinking spot? Where are we talking about? I don't know. I I just showing. So yeah. So uh he should have watched last week's show and clearly he didn't behaved accordingly.

Nathan Mumm:

Alrighty. Okay, well let's go to story number three. Think your hotel booking is safe? Oh no. Russian hackers have just turned your vacation into their payday. Ugh. Russian hackers have cooked up more than 4,300 fake travel sites this year as we're heading into the holidays. It sends phishing emails that look like urgent booking confirmation, tricking guests into handing over credit cards and more with sites that mimic like booking.com, expedia.com, Airbnb, complete with logos and even fake captures and logins. Hey, I think I got one of these in my email the other day. I did it too, uh, as a matter of fact. I got one and it was an Expedia knockoff. What was yours? I think it was Airbnb. Okay, all right. But you know what? What's that? I didn't click on sh you don't click on that link. Don't click on those links. So what happens is once the victim types in their payment information, the crook skims the instant credit card, pretending that it's running a secure verification and then takes money out of your account for whatever price point they put in. Researchers say the scam is multilingual, automated, and basically phishing as a service for the hospitality industry. So if your inbox screams, confirm now or lose your room, it might be a hacker trying to check you in. So be careful. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, we have our most interesting news segment. Say what next. So grab a sip of whiskey and get ready for the crazy but true technology stories after this commercial break.

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Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Welcome back to Tech Time with Nate the Mum. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without any political agenda. We verify the facts and we do it with a sense of humor in less than 60 minutes, and of course, with a little whiskey on the side. Today, Mark Gregois, our whiskey connoisseurs in studio. What do we have that we're sipping today, Mark?

Marc Grégoire:

Today we're sipping a little throwback. Okay, is Elijah Craig Barrelproof B520 from Elijah Craig's website. Sip barrelproof is to experience bourbon in its purest form, uncut, straight from the barrel, and without chill filtering. Each bottle has an age statement, proof, and batch number, allowing for subtle nuances from batch to batch. But the nose, taste, and finish are pure Elijah Craig. Vanilla, oak, bacon spices, caramel, and a hint of dark chocolate. So this bottle is from Heaven Hill Distillery from their uh Bardstown, Kentucky distillery. It's a straight bourbon. It's 12, it's a minimum of 12 years old. This particular bottle is 127.2 proof, and their mash bill is 78% corn, 12 malted barley, 10% rye. This bottle was $65 when it was released back in uh roughly May of ninth of 2020. Okay. Um, but right now it goes for $175. True.

Nathan Mumm:

So did you have this on your shelf?

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, it's my bottle. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

I I I didn't know if you've you've had it on there since that time, or did you just buy it recently?

Marc Grégoire:

Uh no, I have not had it since that time. I picked up from a friend a few years back. Okay. All right. He had it opened already and was trying to clear out his closet. So I said, sure, I'll take it. Is that how you get a lot of your whiskey? Different ways. Okay. All right. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Marc Grégoire:

All right.

Nathan Mumm:

I need I need friends with opening bottles of lights, man. I I don't question it. All right, Mark. Well, you know that that's fantastic. Okay. Well, now I I I like Elijah Craig, but I wonder if this is the one that I didn't like previously. Is it have I tasted this before? No, you have not. Okay, all right. That was I I was I there's I guess maybe one bottle I didn't like, but I like this one.

Ody:

Are you traumatized now that you're gonna miss something that you did like previously?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, you know, I have well, I got Mark here, so I gotta be, I gotta be on top of things just to make sure. So I I I kind of pre- He said he got it from a friend, so that could be a change.

Mike Gorday:

I think what Mark, you need to do is put them in different glasses because apparently that changes his palate.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that is that what it is? All right, okay. With our whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment today. We have strange but true stories about technology. Mark is our special guest segment that he adds into very exclusive insights on each one of these articles. So let's let's start our next segment.

Segment:

Say what again? Say what again? I dare you, I double daddy, pay what one time.

Mike Gorday:

All right, so I just watched that movie yesterday.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you really? Yeah, okay. Well, there you go. All right. Well, a football star cloned his dog instead of rescuing what? Say what? That's right. So there you go, Mark. The seven times Super Bowl champ Tom Brady revealed that he had his late pit bull mix cloned through Colossal Bioscience.

Mike Gorday:

It started.

Nathan Mumm:

A company where rich people do stupid things. It started. A company he also advises after dropping 50k for this process. Uh, will Bradley's call it a second chance as it's really just a pricey genetic copy that ignores millions of sheltered dogs waiting in homes today, with over 164,000 dogs euthanized in U.S. shelters alone this year. Cloning feels more like a branding stunt than compassion. So let's talk about this.

Mike Gorday:

The first thing I want to know is why is Tom Brady advising a genetic company? What is that about?

Ody:

He's bored. That's really what it comes down to. He's not in football anymore, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, he doesn't announce him. He doesn't announce. So he's bored.

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna claim he doesn't announce. I want to know what what he advises on. Does he advise on games?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, he might well he has a lot of protein shakes and he's got like this this power. So maybe he goes into this company. So what that means is instead of paying him money to do something, they have him as an advisor, and then he paid him 50k to clone a dog. Now, it's interesting because I actually read way more into this cloning than probably should have been. So they actually had the they changed the DNA, the genetic DNA after another dog was pregnant. So they had a fetus inside a dog, and then they put the genetic markers in after the attempt to clone this dog. So they altered the existing dog that was there so it now has these genetic markers. Is I i is that I mean, this is the beginning, isn't it?

Marc Grégoire:

Isn't that what they did with your mammoth stories? Yeah, this is what they're trying to do with mammoths. Yeah, that's the crisper stuff that James talks about.

Nathan Mumm:

So this is changed, it changed the original DNA of the dog that was in there, so he can now have a clone dog. But it's not his dog, it's not, and it's gonna have different growing up processes is he bought it. There's nature versus nurture, which is a big difference, right? So the nurturing is never gonna be the same, right? So it's not gonna be the same dog.

Mike Gorday:

I mean, okay, we can get into all the philosophical things about this, but I still want to know how paying fifty thousand dollars to a company you advise is is any good.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, it probably costs them that much to do the work to clone the dog.

Mike Gorday:

I'm I'm I'm guessing that there's a lot of people up the back.

Nathan Mumm:

How do you really know? The other thing I was thinking about as I was doing the research of this, how do you really know that that genetic cloning actually worked? You you may not even know that, right? The dog comes on out, you're like, oh, it didn't work, but hey, the dog comes on out. It looks like your old dog. Oh, yeah, it's just my old dog. I mean, I don't know there, right?

Marc Grégoire:

You run a genetic test and pay another 50,000.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go.

Marc Grégoire:

All right. We just entered a new timeline.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, we're moving on to the next story. Are you ready? For this, Mark. Oh, absolutely, Nathan. Yeah, he heard Russia's first humanoid robot face planted at its debut.

Marc Grégoire:

What? Say what? There you go. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Startup Adal unveiled the AI-powered humanoid in Moscow, only for the machine to topple mid-demo as Rocky's theme blared in the background. Yeah, what's funny, dude? Watch that. I did watch that later. It looked like a joke. I did. It looked like, and then they have the guy with the black with the turn. He's trying to get the black curtain up saying, you didn't see this here, man. I didn't think happened.

Marc Grégoire:

I don't think we can describe this good enough. Our listeners have to go watch this video.

Nathan Mumm:

They do. Absolutely. All you gotta do is uh take a look at uh Russian Russian robot fall. Uh fall. There you go. That would perfect. Uh the company says the stumble is part of the challenges of dynamic stabilization. Does Tom Brady advise this company too? You know, he doesn't have problems standing up, even when he's totally drunk. He still figures out how to do it. A core uh hurdle in building robots that can walk, balance, and interact like humans, despite the viral flop. Adult touts its bots' facial expressions and offline context aware dialogue, it's breakthroughs in Russian robotic.

Ody:

I don't remember seeing any of that.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I didn't either. There isn't any of that.

Mike Gorday:

Nope. That's propaganda right there. That's what that's that's like China saying.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you really are you really worried about Russia in the space race of uh uh uh the robot race when the robot comes on out and does a face plant and looks like something like it literally looked like it was 10 years old technology?

Ody:

I went I wanted to ask about that. Why are they making it so small?

Nathan Mumm:

It was steampunk. So I I I I have I have no idea, and it looks like a reject that you would have seen at like CES, like eight or ten years ago, and they took the robot the robot back and then they said, Okay, now we're gonna do some of our own customization, and then they demo it, and it still doesn't work. I have seen better stuff from startup companies at the consumer electronic show years ago. Years ago. Well, it's definitely not the same robot that you can buy to do your dishes. It's not for only 20k. I mean, that one moves around all over every yeah, as long as you have a guy wearing a suit somewhere else offline. All right. Okay, well, we're moving on to the next story. These stories get better and better as we go. A Florida woman found her home listed as a garage repair company. Oh say what that's right, Mark. Brookville resident Laurie Green discovered that Level Garage Door LLC had posted her address, complete with a photo of her house on its website. Though the state has since dissolved the company, its online listing still directs strangers to her dead end street, raising safety and privacy concerns. Investigators say that the business isn't licensed, and the better bus better business bureau warns of a growing trend. As many shady companies are hijacking other people's homes address to look legit.

Marc Grégoire:

Wow. This is this is cruel and unusual. It is. Just think of that.

Nathan Mumm:

I mean so I mean, what if you did like uh hey, come and and and we're a coffee service or we're this type of service, or you try to sell something where people actually come on up and knock and say, hey, how about dog clones?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, well, I I I could be rich people coming.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. What's that? The rich people coming over over there. Okay. All right. Well, here's I wonder if Paris Hilton's gonna do that. Paris Hilton's gonna put out a fake address? No, clone her dogs.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, it's interesting because I she has a lot of purses, man. Wait, we we do. Um, so let's talk about the address thing. So I look at a couple, so I do an event once a year, and a lot of times the address of the event is at a different place. So there's actually safeguards in place when I say, here's the event that's going on, here's the address, it's not at my place, it's not a business place, it's at a community uh large arena type event event. There's steps you have to go through. Google will have to verify it on the streets to send a postcard. So I don't understand how this happened.

Mike Gorday:

This is just an this is no normal thing. This is like, you know, having a post office box and a home-based business, and you call your post office sweet something or other. Okay. Right? This is people have been doing this forever.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, but this is different. They the this company took an innocent person's data and pretended to be theirs.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, yeah, I get it. They they wanted to have some homespun look on their website and have a physical address for for people to think of think of, and they want there's this nice home.

Marc Grégoire:

You think of people driving up to the house. There's very very, very cheap ways. So back when I was independent contractor, I I there's a third party people you that you hire that you can put you put in their address of that law firm, and that's what gets published as public. Yep. So I can go to UPS store. Crazy people can't find you and UPS store.

Nathan Mumm:

I can go to the UPS store and I can have a uh P.O. box through them. Yeah, that's an actual street address.

Marc Grégoire:

That's a street address. Well, the street. These people, these people just grab some random person's information, even took a picture of her house. Yeah, I'm not her house.

Mike Gorday:

I'm not condoning this behavior. I'm just saying that this is just normal stuff. I'm sure I how many times have we looked at some of these uh things on the letters? Yeah. Where we've looked up the address and they're like empty lots. Yeah, or a four-lease building. Four-lease buildings all the time. All the time.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Here we go. Continuing on. A glitch in the payroll software allowed a factory worker to get everyone's paycheck by mistake. And now he won't give it back.

Marc Grégoire:

Say, say, say, say, say, si, si, say what that's right.

Nathan Mumm:

Vladimir Rycher, buddy. Opened his banking app to find uh $87,000 instead of his usual $580, thanks to a payroll glitch that sent him the salaries of 34 co-workers. Now he's refused to return the money, arguing that the deposit looked like his salary, and even bought a car, moved away, and bought a new house before his accounts were frozen.

Mike Gorday:

This is some this is somebody who who you know think thinks ahead of the curve.

Nathan Mumm:

So I mean, he's like, oh, look, I got him through a thousand dollars. He pieced out. He's like, I respect him for that.

Mike Gorday:

You do? Do you?

Ody:

Yeah. I'm thinking that they're gonna do the opportunity.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, I'm thinking they're 34 co-workers that got their torches and pitchforks. It ruins his court case because he claimed he just thought it was his salary, like a bonus.

Mike Gorday:

But when you get a bonus, you don't just eighty seven thousand dollars.

Marc Grégoire:

I guess he for a week. He retired. He retired.

Nathan Mumm:

We yeah. Well I think that's another term for the company's coming after him and asked him for his money back, and he denied to pay. Like no. So now they've had to go to courts.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, what does the internet say to do? What does the internet say to do? Chat GPT. Well, you know what?

Nathan Mumm:

There's a couple there's a couple different things.

Marc Grégoire:

I'm not sure the internet has a we don't go to a lawyer, we go to the internet. We go to the internet, yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right, that's right. Well yeah, what's the subreddit say, buddy? A lot of people are f in favor of him because it was listed as salary and figured, you know, that it's well worth it. Now the company ended up having to pay the other 34 uh co-workers because they got paid. So this is a weekly payment of you know, it makes about five hundred and eighty bucks a week.

Mike Gorday:

He may you know, there is something to be said for for arguing that he should get to keep that money, you know, because if the company made a mistake, why shouldn't he? Okay. Right? Yeah, you know, but then there's the other thing where, like, well, you know, you weren't supposed to earn that money, so you need to be a good guy and give it back instead of being like, nope, I'm gonna go buy it.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, guess where this guess where this uh happened at? The same country that just tried that failed robot.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, arrest the Supreme Court. This guy was probably a robot. Yes, that was the robot, right? The robot that took the money.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, that that would have been a good thing. He must have been one of the lower paid at this because if it's 87,000, there's 34 co-workers. If you do the math, they're mak everybody else is on average is making almost four times what he was making.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, so he's like he's like the janitor and all these things. These are all middle level line games.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, what you okay. So if they yeah, it's I could see why they he would be like, yep, this is or most of the workers are making the low salary, and there's a couple of high end people.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Russia's Supreme Court now has this on their docket to take a look and see what happens in this high stakes. Legal battle.

Ody:

How does that even happen? That's such a big like screw up for somebody.

Nathan Mumm:

So it's like a whole department. So a whole department didn't get their paychecks and they got sent to him. So the other question I'm at in old Russia, the Russia that I grew up with, he would still not be walking around on this earth. Oh no. So he's still walking around. Yeah, he would have been a frozen tundra. And now he's still walking around taking care of his.

Mike Gorday:

But this is what happens in the in the states. If the government, if the government overpays you, they just take it back. They don't give a crap how it affects your lifestyle. That is correct. They just they're just like, eh, we've overpaid you for like eight years. Yep. So we're taking it all back like yesterday. All right.

Marc Grégoire:

We'll have to come back to the story after the Supreme Court rules.

Nathan Mumm:

You want to take a look at it again? Oh, yeah. All right, okay. Well, here's our next story. We have more. Kia is giving EV drivers a special new smelling air freshener. Nice.

Marc Grégoire:

See, I told you. I told you. No, no, that's I told you. That's no say what on that.

Mike Gorday:

He should be. Hey, Mark, do you like gasoline? Well, hang on now. What? For the what?

Marc Grégoire:

That's how that works, man. That's how that works. What? What? What? What? What?

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Okay, that that takes us. Just getting into the creepy zone. All right, to ease nostalgia for EV buyers. Specifically, Kia in Finland created a limited edition fragrance. Now, this fragrance comes from Max Pirtula. Pirtulo. The scent blends gasoline, motor uh oil, and burning rubber packages in a tiny red gas can that you can hang from your rear view mirror. I got an EV, but I need to smell gas. The quirky campaign highlights how scent marketing can bridge the emotional gap between traditional cars and modern EVs. By tapping into the nostalgia, Kia, this is Kia Car Company. Yeah, I got it. This is the same thing.

Mike Gorday:

This is the same thing. Who does this? This is the same thing as vegetarian, you know, chicken nuggets. Vegetarian chicken nuggets? Yeah. What about vegetarian chicken nuggets? No, it's the same thing.

Ody:

I was gonna say, this is the same company that made the viral hamster commercials.

Nathan Mumm:

They did.

Ody:

So maybe now it's gonna be laughed at? What are you talking about? They were all over the house.

Marc Grégoire:

Weren't they gerbles?

Ody:

No. No, they're hamsters. They were hamsters. Like life-size hamsters that were wearing jumpsuits and dancing the hip-hop in the car as they're driving. The Kia Soul. Like when it was a cube.

Marc Grégoire:

Yep. No.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh my wife loved those.

Ody:

Oh my god. Anyway, that was laughed at back in the day.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep. And now we still remember it for marketing. Yeah.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. So these things are hot market items. I looked at it on eBay. Yeah, this is a good idea. Somebody had this for sale on eBay for a hundred American bucks.

Mike Gorday:

This psychologically, this makes sense. I'm not going to argue about this psychologically. No. But I th I just think it's funny because it's like I said, it's it's like the wide range of vegetarian meat products.

Ody:

Right.

Marc Grégoire:

That the stuff that's Yeah, but vegetarians don't eat meat, but they crave they crave it because meat is delicious. We'll throw that out there.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. That's that yeah, there we go.

Marc Grégoire:

So so they want it, but uh who likes a smell of stinky gasoline from filling up your car?

Mike Gorday:

I don't know. I don't know. I grew up I grew up I grew up in the 70s, so the smell of gas is is is like flowers to me. Oh, okay. So you so you like so you get it.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, all right.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, I I I I wouldn't buy an uh an electric vehicle. Sure. But I wouldn't buy an electric vehicle and then put a gas smelling air freshener on it. The benefit of that you I just go hang out at a gas station. I go to the ass for free. Yeah, I just go over to the gas station and smell my neighbors.

Nathan Mumm:

To end the segment, who knew the smell of gas can calm the purchase of a new electric vehicle? It's funny. That is his funny.

Mike Gorday:

That is tough.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, that ends our segment. Say what? We're done? Yeah. Come on. Yes. We're done with the screen, the crazy stories. Uh now we're gonna move on to Mike's mesmerizing moment.

Marc Grégoire:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike, explain to me. From Russia. Don't be Tom Brady. All right, Mike, explain to me how culturally this has become an an issue. I I I have some uh Generation Z employees. And do you realize that in their life cycle they expect to go home and spend anywhere between one hour to two hours of gaming per night as a standard process of just unplugging?

Marc Grégoire:

Mike, before you answer, Nathan, you say it's an issue. Is it an issue for them or is it an issue for you? Yeah, I want I want to cover an issue before Mike answers.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I I just I I I find that when people now are making gaming like a part of the routine, it's not something to relax about, to have fun in. They literally it's literally like a scheduled event to uh do each and every day. It's just killing me. I I just I just don't understand it. I am completely Alright, Mike.

Mike Gorday:

You got the clarification. You take it from here. Nathan, it's just weird. Why is that?

Ody:

Agreed.

Mike Gorday:

Explain this to me. This is this is not something that is abnormal. W Gen Z grew up in the technological age. Gaming is their way of dealing with stresses and unplugging. This is so when we were kids, when I was a kid, I would come home from school and then I would go out and play in the actual real world. Because we didn't have all this stuff. Then when Atari came out, I was coming home from school and playing Atari for a couple hours a day. Okay. Okay, so this there's nothing new about this.

Ody:

I don't know why it would be a concern to you because you know you bring up a really good thing because or good point, because in the show meeting, my sister who's not a gamer at all, has uh been asking, Oh, how do I get my hands on a week? And she's also Gen Z. We just want to go back and decompress a little bit, feel a bit nostalgic.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, these are these yeah, these are just these are just all hobbies and coping mechanisms.

Marc Grégoire:

So Nathan, in your youth, when you're this age and finished either school or work and came home, what did you do? Read Aristotle? You you wrote plays? What did you do? Well, yeah, that's what that's what Ratha. He sits around, he's gonna be. What is your issue?

Nathan Mumm:

What's that? You're seeing that. That's right. Isn't that nice? Isn't that fantastic? And look at what above, what do you have above Pac-Man there? You got a collectible Barbie and Ken.

Ody:

Yeah, you're somebody to be talking about that now. I don't know.

Nathan Mumm:

You're right. I watch television.

Ody:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

So I'd watch about an hour. You rush home from school to watch cartoons.

Ody:

Oh, so it's the time that they're spending? Because you're what, an hour? That's it?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I just I just can't believe that video games is now a process. Are you joking right now? Okay, so you're joking when I say this.

Mike Gorday:

No, there is an issue. Okay, there can be an issue. The issue is if they are playing video games when they're supposed to be doing something else. Okay. So, like if they're on, like, for instance, a Zoom meeting and you're playing video games on your phone instead of being on the Zoom meeting.

Ody:

I would prefer they play video games during a Zoom meeting than going to the bathroom and we can all hear it and see it.

Mike Gorday:

So that's true. No, no, that's that's that's gold, right? The lesser of two easy. That is gold. If you have somebody, you know, flushing the toilet on your Zoom meeting, that's gold.

Nathan Mumm:

So you're saying so you're just saying that I I I just am struggling with if I guess you know what, you know, you're right.

Marc Grégoire:

You're struggling with their particular choice because it's not your particular choice, but we all have choices of what how we do de-stress.

Ody:

When do you play Madden then?

Mike Gorday:

Or chess.

Ody:

When do you play chess?

Mike Gorday:

He plays all the time. He is always on a video game when he's not working.

Nathan Mumm:

I guess um continuing on. So all those that Nathan's worried about you are Vindicans, they play games, and I watch television.

Marc Grégoire:

Nathan Nathan's just trying to get free therapy here. Oh, yeah. He's trying to bash on his employees, and they just I was just they're gonna bash on who's gonna be.

Ody:

That's insane! Imagine how much football you watch in a week. That's more than what people are gaming.

Mike Gorday:

So, in in in answer, in ads.

Nathan Mumm:

Let me take this knife out of my back.

Mike Gorday:

No, no, it's right in the chest. Right there. Right there. In answer to your question, Nathan, this is a you problem, not a they problem.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Thank you, Mike, for that mesmerizing moment. Up next, we have this weekend technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side as we're gonna be doing so during the break. 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, we could use your support on patreon.com. Or is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, Patreon. If you really like us, you can say I think English guy's Patreon.com. I I butcher the English language?

Nathan Mumm:

You know you butcher the English language. So it's political. It's patreon.com.

Mike Gorday:

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

Nathan Mumm:

That's it. That's that simple.

Segment:

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

Nathan Mumm:

Alright. We're going on the Wayback Machine to November 19th, 2006. Odie's gonna like this. The Nintendo releases the Wii. There you go. See, there you go. Nintendo releases the Wii in game console. Was this on a Zoom call? No. To compete with the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Ring, the Red Ring of Death. Man, those things died all the time. By forging raw computing power. Foregoing. Oh, but foregoing raw, sorry, raw computing power. And instead having player interaction as the primary reason for the console, utilizing the innovative motion-sensitive Wii Remote controller. Uh the Wii defined the expectation and became the best-selling seventh generation gaming console ever. Now, you know what? I I I enjoy the Wii. I enjoyed Wii sports, Wii bowling. There was an aspect when the Wii came on out, the graphics were kind of shoddy, but the whole interaction was amazing. There was a Toy Story game.

Mike Gorday:

One of my favorite things was the Wii. The Wii? Yeah. And this is the only console I've gone through like many, many times. And you still enjoy it? I s yeah, I still I just don't have the console anymore. I just can't keep a hold of them or some for some reason. My kids take them or my apartment burns down or something. The apartment burned down thing. It's only a once I chase it. I got I got I I had a okay. I got a Wii when it came out. Yeah. Okay, and then my kids got it in in the divorce. I bought a new Wii when my kids came over to play. And then theirs broke, so I gave them that one. I got another one and it broke. And I got another one, and my apartment burned down with the Wii in it. I'm not getting any more Wii's. You're not getting any more Wii's? No, I'm I'm upset about that because I have all these games. Do you still have the Wii games? I still have uh I I managed to rescue, I think, four games.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

All right. So I didn't lose everything.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history with over 260 plus weekly broadcasts spanning our four plus years, uh video podcasts and blog information, you can visit us at techtime radio.com and watch our older shows. We're gonna take a commercial break. When we return, we have the Mark Mumble whiskey review. See you after this break.

Mike Gorday:

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Segment:

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

Marc Grégoire:

Say what? Alright. Yes, Mike. Say what? What is today? November 18th. I know Odie's been celebrating, and I know you guys are gonna want to celebrate this. Here we go. What are we celebrating today? Is it Princess Day? Bingo! Are you serious? It is National Princess Day. Are you serious?

Mike Gorday:

I have no words. Well, I have words to tell you.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, with your little tiara. Okay. Thank you, Odie, for bringing it in for me.

Ody:

You shine extra bright right now.

Marc Grégoire:

I had one at home, but my daughter took it away.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, your daughter. Kind of like Mike's wheeze. Did you keep on going through all your different uh princess outfits? I know. I love them.

Marc Grégoire:

So everyone has a favorite princess. Mark, real or fictional. And today is the day to channel that royal energy. Okay. Nathan dreams of being treated like one and has been secretly practicing his royal way since episode 42. Oh, okay. And Mike, remember, a dream is a wish your heart makes. So go ahead and wish for the tiara, the glass slippers, and maybe a foot massage while you're at it.

Mike Gorday:

Where's your where's your show?

Marc Grégoire:

And make that wish come true.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. Mark has a show somewhere that we don't know about. He does. He does. Where is it? OnlyFans?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh my god. And you can subscribe for a daily stream and updates. Like just silent.

Marc Grégoire:

I gotta make money somehow. I don't get paid on this show.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. Nobody gets paid on this show. You know what? We do this for the love of the show. Yeah. It's really silent there. Okay, continuing on.

Marc Grégoire:

I do this for the love of you, Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, well, thank you so much.

Marc Grégoire:

All right. Well, let's let's let's talk how this day ties into the whiskey. Okay. Can't wait for this one. She-Ra in the Princess of Power dropped its fifth and final season on Netflix in May 2020, the very same month Elijah Craig barrel-proof B520 hit the shelves.

Mike Gorday:

Wasn't She-Ra an 80 Saturday morning cartoon? Did they really come back and She-Ra did another one?

Ody:

Are you not paying attention?

Mike Gorday:

I'm not. Did they do He-Man? He-Man Power Up! Isn't that true?

Ody:

Are you guys not listening? It's Princess Peach. Isn't this?

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, I'm sorry. Keep on going. I forgot Mark is a princess. Princess Peach. Thank you. The TR that doesn't say anything to you. So this whiskey hit the shelves right in the middle of global lockdown. While most distillers were pausing or cutting releases, Heaven Hill stuck to the schedule and quietly delivered what many consider one of the standout batches of Elijah Craig barrel proof. Collectors even nicknamed this the dessert bourbon for its rich notes of chocolate, caramel, and brown sugar, all perfectly balanced by a solid oak backbone. Backbone. Now for me, this B520 is a decent pour. It leans heavily into sweetness, sweetness, and misses a bit on the overall balance. The finish is slightly astringent, leaving it just short of the depth I usually expect from the series and keeping it from being one of my favorites. Okay. How's this princesses? Still a thumb up. Well, this is just my opinion now. Do you put peas in it?

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, continuing on.

Mike Gorday:

You didn't understand that reference. Alright. Princess and the pea? Uh I do not. Oh, the the famous story that's the thing.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that the pea underneath the bed and she can sleep?

Marc Grégoire:

But 12 mattresses. Yeah. Yeah. And she still felt the peas in the bed. Mike, I actually knew about it.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. All right. I can tell you.

Marc Grégoire:

That was a good reference, Mike.

Mike Gorday:

I can tell you. Alright, so did you have anything else, Mark here? Catch a seal.

Marc Grégoire:

I've got nothing more for you, gentlemen. Hang on. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, let's stay right here because we're going to move right now into the technology.

Marc Grégoire:

Oh, don't we get a pairing?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, we do. Sorry. Oh, wait. Technology and whiskey are such a great pairing. Like Black Friday deals and overspending for the holidays. Is that a good pairing? No. Yeah. No, it's not. It's not. Alright, let's prepare for our technology fail of the week. Congratulations.

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Nathan Mumm:

Alright, this week our technology fail comes to us from a password mishap at the home of Mona Lisa. That's right. The Louvre, her. It's got a little R at the end of that. The Louvre. The Louvre, but you're supposed to roll that. Well, you're supposed to renounce it's not an R like Spanish, but it's an R like the French. That was me trying to do the R like the French, according to. I spent a bunch of time looking up how to pronounce this. All right. Okay. The Louvre Museum of Technology fail in Paris was hit by a hundred million dollar jewel heist. Thieves dressed as construction workers used a lift to break into the Apollo gallery and steal eight pieces of the French crown jewels in minutes. Investigators later found the museum's security cameras were protected by the password L-O-U-V-R-E, which is the Louvre. That was all of their security cameras. Everything that ran their security information from any of these movies that you would see with a security camera break-in. It doesn't take too much time to break in when your password is the name of the building itself. Experts say the museums have been warned about this museum specifically, and many have been warned about weak securities from years prior. Now French leaders call the theft an attack on national heritage and promise stronger protections. In response, Swiss privacy company Proton is offering museums and libraries two years of free password protection. The lesson is simple, though. In today's world, protecting treasures means guarding both security doors and digital systems. You know what? You can't have your password be I mean, that that that's not okay.

Mike Gorday:

This is this is this is the epitome of human human technology.

Nathan Mumm:

So they shut down all the cameras in the matter of seconds.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so all right, so that's why it's still a mystery. And we want something to be able to move quickly back and forth between people, like new employees and stuff. So using the Louvre as the password is makes sense to us simplistically because we don't understand in an IT forum. Yeah, in the IT forum. In IT world had dual factor authentication.

Marc Grégoire:

So let me add to that, that does make sense to the common person. But as Nathan said in the IT world. So I'm gonna do a shout out to the Louvre. My wife and I would love to move to Paris. You have sh oh, you gotta bleed that one out. You have terrible IT. Um you want to hire your if you need a new CIO or CTO, uh, my resume's online. Do you have their password protection?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Proton has just said they just decided to add onto the marketing saying we'll help protect your systems. Yeah, yeah. So that is horrible. So the reason that they're having problems recovering this is all their security cameras went down. They have no footage of this because someone came in to it, didn't have to hack in like you see in the movies where they're gonna be like, it sounds like an inside job. They had one arrest, right?

Ody:

Oh, I think I thought it was two, but they arrested two people, but those people were not at all attached with it, from what I've heard.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so they were released.

Ody:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

So you know what? That just goes to tell you just have your cameras work. Let's move on now to our password. I think that I think the I think the password should work. Password should work. The password should work. And write it down on the books. Ready to do our secret sound listening.

Segment:

And now for our secret sound, brought to us by Elite Executive Services. Visit TechTimeradio.com and click on the contact page to submit your answer. Odie, play that sound.

Marc Grégoire:

It's the same sound. I'm gonna say, if you're listening right now, you better go and do what Nathan says to get your 4X because I know somebody that's gonna take it this way. Is it now 20? Is it 20 minutes? I got ping that he's like he wants to listen to it one more time. Okay, and he's got an idea. All right, let's do it one more time.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so all you gotta do is go to techtime radio.com, click on the uh call back uh or leave us a message area underneath contacts and tell us what that secret sound is. You you you got a guy that you know?

Marc Grégoire:

Whiskey Chris has been texting me. He goes, I think I know what it is. Okay, is this kid? What's the prize? What's the prize?

Nathan Mumm:

Five dollars per day, so that would be 20 bucks now. 20 bucks? Yeah, 20 bucks now. Okay. Or maybe he waits a week or two.

Mike Gorday:

That's a smart idea. What's that? Right? You think that's a smart idea to raise the stakes by five bucks? Five bucks every week. Okay, five bucks every week.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, he texted me this past weekend, he thinks he knows. He's ruled out because each week he had the you know, one week he had the pinball, and one week so he's got him narrowed down. So we kind of get he wanted to put it on this past weekend, and and he was like, Should I wait though to get to four action? I said, Yeah, go for it. Whiskey, Chris, wait for two more weeks.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Ten more weeks and they get 10 more weeks. All right, Odie, what are you saying?

Ody:

I was gonna say that there's an unofficial cap on it. We just haven't decided where the cap is.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, I think we'll probably cap it out. Probably like probably I'd probably go up to a hundred bucks. I go up to a hundred. So how many weeks is that? Five times uh five times five is fifty.

Ody:

So twenty weeks. Twenty weeks.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go. I go up to twenty weeks, but you know what? I hope someone gets it because we want to have this be different things all the time. I already have the second sound ready to go and the third sound ready to go, so we want it to be different.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, well, I think you're I think your business model needs some adjusting, my buddy.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, let's move on to our pick of the day.

Introduction:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, what do we have here, Mark?

Marc Grégoire:

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B520. So this was from May 2020 from Heaven Hill Distillery, straight bourbon, 12 years old, 127.2 proof. It was 65 when it was released. Secondary market, you can find about 175.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh, absolute thumbs up. Mike, what do you say?

Marc Grégoire:

I like I like Elijah Craig, and this is this is very good. You ever see a barrel proof? I always grab one.

Nathan Mumm:

Is barrel is barrel proof kind of like the the the highest of of what you do for the whiskeys? Is that kind of the unique collector's item limited edition version?

Marc Grégoire:

No, that's my bottom shelf stuff. That's your bottom shelf shelf? It is.

Mike Gorday:

I think I think I think he's asking what what's important about barrel proof.

Nathan Mumm:

Is that is that is barrel proof not is that is that bottom shelf or is that top shelf? Almost all my stuff is barrel proof or high proof. Okay. That's even your bottom shelf, is what you're saying?

Marc Grégoire:

Well, Elijah Craig, I love Elijah Craig, I love the Larseny foolproof. Those are just staples. Okay. That's my bottom shelf staples. Anyone wants to know why it's called barrel proof? Because they bottle up the barrel proof. Okay, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Self-explanatory. Okay. Alrighty. Well, you know what? From one Star Wars fan to another.

unknown:

Right?

Nathan Mumm:

You must be talking to Mike. Yeah.

Marc Grégoire:

We talk Star Trek. Now we're talking.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we want to thank our listeners for joining the program. Listeners, we want to hear from you, especially with the secret sound. So visit us at techtime radio.com, click on via caller, and answer that question of what the secret sound is. All right. You know what? Tomorrow starts with the technology of today. We'll see you next week. Later. Bye-bye.

Introduction:

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Mike Gorday

Co-host