TechTime with Nathan Mumm

282: TechTime Radio: Does OpenAI Health Catch Medical Mistakes? GTA 6 Pushes Photorealism, Lego’s SmartBrick Debuts, Gwen Way Reviews a ProGrade SLS Printer, Samsung Faces Privacy Concerns, & Marc Returns for our Whiskey Bracket | Air Date: 1/13 - 1/19/26

• Nathan Mumm • Season 8 • Episode 282

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Imagine getting your lab results, feeding them into an AI, and realizing it caught a mistake your clinic didn’t. That’s where we start: the real promise of ChatGPT Health against the very real risks of privacy drift and model error. We unpack what “enhanced protections” actually need to look like, why accuracy and safety can’t play second fiddle to consent screens, and how patients can use AI without replacing their doctor. A candid story about a dropdown gone wrong makes the stakes feel personal, not theoretical.

From the body to the browser of your mind, we shift to games racing toward photorealism. GTA 6, Unrecord, and cutting‑edge racers now look like camera footage. Does that change how our brains process violence and emotion? We pull from psychology to separate moral panic from measurable effects, and dig into the design choices—tone, mechanics, exaggeration—that help players keep fiction in focus even as visuals blur the line.

Then the surprise CES headliner: Lego’s new Smart Brick. Sensors, light detection, NFC, and a tiny speaker turn physical builds into reactive play without a screen. We weigh the creativity boost against the risk of gimmick creep, and talk about how accessible coding tools could turn this into a STEM gateway rather than a shortcut. Staying hands‑on, we evaluate a compact SLS 3D printer on Kickstarter that sinters powder with a laser. It’s support‑free, wastes less, and yields sturdy parts, but demands safety gear and a pro‑level budget—great for makers ready to sell, overkill for casual hobbyists.

Privacy takes center stage again with smart TVs using automatic content recognition to silently track what you watch. We call out dark patterns, buried settings, and the illusion of consent when features break if you say no. Across health data, living room screens, and playful bricks, a through‑line emerges: tech should earn trust with transparent defaults, meaningful control, and value you can feel.

To keep it fun and grounded, we run a blind whiskey bracket of finished rye and bourbon—sherry, port, and tequila casks in the mix. A past champion returns, a celebrity label underwhelms, and our palates evolve in surprising ways. If you love sharp takes with a splash of good spirit, this hour’s for you.

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Introduction:

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 and 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 35 years of technology expertise. Our co-host Mike Roday is in the studio today. He's the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming on our show on six of the most popular platforms. We are now exclusively on kick for our stream. So you watch our stream on live on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. You can watch us on Kick, Rumble, YouTube, Twitch.tv, Facebook, LinkedIn, and any other new streaming service that will come on out in the next year. We will definitely uh be on that too. We encourage you to visit us online though at techtime radio.com and become a Patreon supporter at patreon.com forward slash techtime radio. Visit our website so you can take a look at the quote of the day. We have 365 quotes for this year from all of our staff members. Some of them are funny, some of them are serious, and some of them don't even make sense. All right. Well, now we're all 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 Odio, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

Segment:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome to Tech Time Radio. Today on the show, we have Gwenway back with our first gadget of the year. Uh, this is a standard show. So if you listened to the last couple weeks and you joined our program, this is our standard format that we have. So I'm sure you guys will enjoy this. We will be covering next week the best of the best from CES, a review show. We do have one little uh topic we're gonna be talking about at the CES uh show today in our top stories, but definitely tune in for the best of the best. And then the following week at the CES, we have the craziest most inventions. So we take up two shows to kind of main segment wise talking about the consumer electronics show that is just finishing in Las Vegas over the weekend, and everybody's heading back home on Monday. So by Tuesday, you'll start seeing, of course, when our show is uh announcing all of the new press information as it's there. Now, of course, we have our standard features Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, and Nathan Nugget, if we have time, and of course, our pick of the day whiskey taste. And we have four whiskeys today, so Mike and I are going to be uh uh probably really funny by the end of the show. Now, though, let's start with the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Segment:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

Story number one. OpenAI's new chat GPT health raises big promises or big privacy concerns. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this story.

Speaker:

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health in the US, a new feature that lets users connect medical records and data from apps like Apple Health, Peloton, and MyFitnessPal to get more personalized health explanations and guidance. The company says the tool is meant to help people better understand lab results and prepare for doctor visits, not diagnose or treat, and that all health conversations are stored separately with enhanced privacy protections. Are we sure these protections are in place? But then how many health providers have already been breached? Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike, listen. Let's talk about this. So, of all the concerns for ChatGPT's health, of all the concerns, none of it has to do with accurate reporting of your health reports. Everybody's complaining about privacy and your data being leaked out there. Well, yeah, that's that's gonna happen. Okay, so that already happens, right? I mean that happens weekly, weekly our data games.

Mike Gorday:

I feel like I feel like your argument is because we already lose all of our information to hackers already, that it's okay for us to use AI to do our diagnosis. That's what it sounds like you're trying to do.

Nathan Mumm:

I would expect wouldn't all the health people say, you know what, we're concerned about the hallucinations that can happen with AI, the maybe the misdiagnosing of concerns with the chat. Yeah, nobody's concerned about that though.

Mike Gorday:

This is like this should be. This is kind of like WebMD, right? Yeah. I think WebMD has probably driven up the the is probably the reason why I can only get an appointment eight weeks out or 12 weeks out because everybody's on WebMD diagnosing themselves. Is that what it is? Yeah. So now we have an AI that's going to tell us that tell us what's going on. Tell us what's going on.

Nathan Mumm:

But okay, but shouldn't shouldn't the outcry in the community be we do not want AI to be doing healthcare because we're concerned about our patients finding out information ahead of time or incorrectly. No, nobody is complaining about that. They're all complaining about the privacy stuff. So very interesting. My wife went in and did some uh tests, right? So she went and did blood, did some blood work, okay, got the blood work results on her my chart, put it into OpenAI and found out what all the charts were, and pretty much came on up with you need to take care of this, and this is going on here, and this is going on here. Uh, way before she had the consult with the doctor. So then the doctor calls on up. Guess what the doctor's consult notes and information as they're discussing online, they talk about what uh they informed her that she was pregnant. Okay. Okay. So tell tell me why that's that's not a thing. Well well, she's she's in in her early 50s, I'll say. And and not that it can't happen, but there's nowhere near is she being pregnant. And that's what the doctor said. And then she said, Well, I think that's incorrect because I put this in AI and this is what they had. The doctor then had to call back later and say, Oops, we apologize. We me we absolut accidentally hit a drop-down menu that said that you were pregnant instead of the information. So human error and the reports were incorrect, and the chat GPT AI was correct.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. So live example of that. Yay. So there was there was something that a human did that the AI fixed. Yeah, that's that's how often how often does the AI make mistakes?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh I don't know because no one's complaining about that. All they're complaining about is that your privacy would be breached if you put your information in there.

Mike Gorday:

Well, yeah, I I think that would be the primary concern, don't you?

Nathan Mumm:

No, because I've I all three of my providers, right? So I've had Providence. All three of my providers have been breached.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, yeah, but it it's been breached, but So they already have. I mean, this is just this is just the ongoing problem with our wonderful technology age, is that we don't have the ability to stop information being transferred from anywhere. But AI is still basically what Well, AI still runs on the runs on the same thing. Yeah. So it's it's going to get things wrong. What what happens if if this goes through, right? And we start using this thing and suddenly open AI gets mad at us and they start giving us the wrong things? Hey, uh yeah, I just looked at your medical records and it tells me that uh you're gonna die in one year.

Nathan Mumm:

Well then that that's the same as what you get anytime you go to WebMD right now, right? Yes, which is why you shouldn't be used.

Mike Gorday:

So it's gonna be an active Web MD. It's gonna be like Can you imagine just sitting on your computer or your television one day and web uh open AI be like, hey, I'm your medical, I'm your medical review chart, and you're gonna die in six months because of this this cancer and this thing. This genetic, this genetic disorder that nobody's caught.

Nathan Mumm:

And then I'll just run over to China and they'll just change my DNA with RNA sweet and swing.

Mike Gorday:

Sure. Okay. Yeah, whatever.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Whatever. Story Mike, would you use AI to review your health records?

Mike Gorday:

I don't know if this is something that uh we should be overly concerned about at this point. Okay. But it comes up with the same problem with WebMD. So I'm not a doctor. So when I go to WebMD and I type in the things that that I think is going on, and WebMD comes up with the, oh, you're gonna die in six months because you have this. Yeah. Um, I don't know how to interpret that because I didn't go to medical school. So I go to my doctor and say, hey, WebMD told me this, and and the doctor's like, that's not that's not going on.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Right? So so basically I'm going to the doctor for for reasons are almost hypochondri hypochondriacal because I use WebMD to diagnose my issues, even though that's not what it's there to do, right? So we we do this stuff because we want to make things better for our lives, but we don't have the ability to determine what's what's what's what's better. What's up, Odie?

Ody:

Oh, I'm very guilty of that.

Mike Gorday:

How many times have you died?

Ody:

Um died, not that many, but been at like risk of losing a limb or something many, many times. Uh WebMD was yourself to the point where I loved going to the dentist and I didn't go for like about ten years, and I finally made an appointment and I had that.

Mike Gorday:

You love going to the dentist. What's wrong with you?

Ody:

It's it's nice. It's very simple. You you're not expecting like you're gonna lose a tooth today, usually when you go, you know?

Speaker 10:

Okay.

Ody:

And I didn't go for 10 years, and I started to have like gum pain and tooth pain and blah blah blah. And I started freaking out, so I of course went on WebMD.

Mike Gorday:

Of course you did.

Ody:

And it was saying, like, oh, your gums are receding and you're gonna have to have a gum graft and you might even have to take out some teeth. I was really freaked out just for me to show up at the dentist this week, and they were like, No, your gums are healthy, you're doing well, you haven't been in ten years. I was like, No.

Mike Gorday:

See?

Ody:

That's where everybody does it because like one, it's quicker, two, it's not reliable, but at least you feel that it has some truth in it.

Nathan Mumm:

I'll get a bump on my skin and I look it up and I it's cancer. I don't need to amputate.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, here's why people do this because our greatest fear is the fear of the unknown.

Speaker 10:

Right.

Mike Gorday:

If we don't have the information, our brain is gonna try and put it in there, and nine times out of ten, the information is going to be really negative.

Speaker 10:

Yes.

Mike Gorday:

So when we when we get something going on and we can't identify it, we our our limbic brain goes, Oh crap, we need to figure this out. That's why you go to the doctor. But now we have WebMD and then open AI that's gonna say, Hey, you might be dying of cancer. And we But isn't that like the default now?

Nathan Mumm:

So I have all the programming out.

Mike Gorday:

No, no, at this level in the brain, the brain goes, at least we have something now to think about.

Ody:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

Right? And then we freak out about the cancer, so we go to the doctor to verify it. And the doctor's like, No, you don't have cancer. You have a mole. Yeah. You're not gonna die from a mole.

Nathan Mumm:

If that was cancer first and it's been on you for four years, you would already be dead. That's what my doctor always said.

Mike Gorday:

That's right. And then my insurance premiums go up because I'm I'm going to go to the doctor too often because WebMD says I'm dying over.

Nathan Mumm:

I actually had to do an HSA account.

Mike Gorday:

I kind of feel like maybe that's something conspiracy theorists should just glom on who is that. WebMD is a a function of the pharmaceutical industry to get us to go to the doctor off and so that we our insurance premiums can be.

Ody:

There it is.

Mike Gorday:

That's why Web. And now OpenAI is gonna just triple that.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, hey. Speaking of positive stuff, what does your story number two have?

Mike Gorday:

Oh, yay. Yeah. Yay. What do we got? Okay, so we know that Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of your favorite things.

Ody:

We haven't even gotten yet yet. We haven't even got it yet.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we talk about it a lot. Yeah.

Ody:

Well, Grand Theft. Well, it's gonna be huge. I mean, it was in our prediction show last year.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it's gonna be huge, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Two and a half years we've talked about this.

Mike Gorday:

So the question is, and and one of the reasons why it's become it's super high super hyper realistic.

unknown:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

So the question is, is our hyper-realistic games becoming too real? So gaming visuals are accelerating toward near photographic realism, and 2026 may be a tipping point. So Grand Theft Auto 6 is leading that charge with a billion dollar budget, a Florida-like open world and engineering teams focused on details as specific as lifelike ocean waves. Other titles like Unrecord and Forza Horizon 6 are pushing realism so far that early footage has been mistaken for real world video. As these games close the gap between virtual and physical reality, the industry is asking whether immersion is enhancing escapism or race or erasing. I don't think the industry is asking that. I think everybody outside the industry is asking that question.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, actually, I I don't know, because I think the industry, it depends on the industry, because there's these big titles and there's these small titles. So the I think the the indie the indie video games, which are becoming huge now again, right? Simple graphics, really good gameplay, some visuals. Uh there's a real divide in the video game industry. There's middle of the line here that is all indie on the left, and then you have kind of this middle line of these middle publishers, and then you have these top publishers that are about 15 to 20 percent, but they dictate the whole market because everybody buys their games.

Mike Gorday:

Well, yeah, that's that's that's kind of how standards are that's kind of how a free market works.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, okay, so so I think the gaming world that used to be very united is very divided now.

Mike Gorday:

In ten years, yeah, but I think there's a lot of reasons for that. I don't think it's necessarily just because of these billion dollar budgets or these big huge gaming companies can make hyper realism in their games. Okay. What this is doing, though, is leaping, it's reigniting concerns about things like gun violence in games, while decades of research show no definitive link between violent games and gun violence. Okay. Psychologists they don't show a link? Well, well, it depends on it depends on where you go. So so we have we have studies that show that uh children who play violent games have increased aggression, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're mean they're out there in the public doing bad things. It just means they're and we also know that they're addictive and that they can cause anxiety and depression, it can also cause uh problems that are often associated with addiction, like uh, you know, losing your focus and things like that. Uh there are good things about games too, right? Yeah. So problem solving, uh hand-eye coordination, things like that. But the the problem with this is that uh psychologists note that hyper-realism depictions of shooting may change how players emotionally experience the action. Uh muzzle flashes, physics, and character reactions look nearly identical to real foot footage. The line between stylized entertainment and something more unsettling becomes harder to ignore, which I tend to think is true. The hy more hyper-realistic we make our entertainment, yeah, the more desensitized we're going to become to actual real violence, because our brains at its very core doesn't know what's real and what's not real, and it relies on our consciousness to determine that. And if our consciousness is being fooled, our brains are being fooled. Of course, every there everybody in the gaming industry maintains that gameplay tone and exaggerating mechanics will still signal the fiction thing, even when the visuals look real, so that may be true. Uh at the same time.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, if you're playing if you're playing Fortnite, you can't build a house in literally 30 seconds. But you can in a video game. Hopefully, people realize that there's no way you can build a house that quick.

Mike Gorday:

We're talking the the one that we've cited here, we're talking about one that's that's based on a realistic setting, right? Florida. And what is it? In every grand theft auto game, you are the criminal, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, or or falsely accused as the criminal, but or yeah, either.

Mike Gorday:

You have to engage in in all these criminal activities, right? So so that that's problematic for uh our brains, especially when we have a lesser capacity to judge what's real and not. So that's where I think this this is problematic is that the more hyper-realistic it gets, the less that uncanny valley shrinks, or the more that uncanny valley shrinks, the the more difficult we're gonna have time. And it's the same thing we talk about with AI and things like therapy. Yep. So is this gonna happen? I don't know. We'll see. But Grand Theft Auto 6 is never gonna come out, so I don't think that's we don't have to worry about it, right?

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, there you go. Well, let me go to story number three here, real quick. CES preview for next week's show is gonna be good. But breaking the news is all about Lego. The biggest surprise at CES this year doesn't come from AI startups or robotic labs, it comes from Lego. Yes, L E G O. The company unveiled its first ever Smart Brick, a traditional two by four brick packed with sensors, motion detection, light recognition, NFC fields, and even a tiny speaker. The smart brick is part of Lego's new smart play systems designed to make physical builds that react to movements, taps, orientation, and nearby minifigures without using a screen or app. Think of this as Lego meets IoT, but still fully hands-on. Lego isn't easing into this quietly. The first three smart brick sets are already ready for pre-order and they launch in March. All of them are themed around Star Wars, including Darth Vader's TIE Fighter, Luke's X-Wing, and the Throne Room Duel. Prices start at just around 70 bucks, so a few bucks more to get that IoT brick. It's interesting because critics are saying, and play experts, they argue that adding tech to Lego risks undermining imaginative driven play, turning a timeless analog toy into yet another gadget. All right. Well, I have a Mike's mesmerizing moment specifically on that. So hang on to your thought there. That ends our top technology stories of the week. When we return, we have our gadgets and gear gal Gwenway ready to take on a new gadget and gear on Kickstarter for this year. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. See you after this break.

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Nathan Mumm:

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, we do it with a sense of humor. And of course, with little whiskey on the side. Now Mark Gregois back, and we must be having our flavor tasting system here. Because I got a couple here that I really like, and a couple here that, yeah. I don't know.

Mike Gorday:

Mark is drunk at the beginning of every What do we have going on for us here, Mark?

Nathan Mumm:

Explains everything.

Marc Grégoire:

We are doing we are starting the 2025 Flavor Calendar Event Calendar. This is round one, one of six. Okay. We are using the 2025 Flavor Whiskey Advent Calendar, 24 remarkable whiskeys to use for a year-long blind whiskey competition to see which one Nathan and Mike like best this year. Come along for the ride once every month, and they'll uncover new tastes and train for a second year their senses to become true connoisseurs. Today is round one, one of six, where they will choose their winner to move on to the next round. If they disagree, of course, I will be the deciding vote. Now today we are tasting four finished whiskeys. Not to be confused with flavored whiskies. Too rye and too bourbon. Finished whiskey starts with a traditional base and then adds an extra labor of complexity through a secondary aging, usually in a different barrel or with additional wood influence. That finishing step lets the whiskey pick up new flavors and aromas, whether from wine or sherry casks, or carefully selected wood types, given it more depth and character. The result is more expressive, creative, taking on the original spirit, and we are about to find out which one has earned the right to move on to the next round.

Nathan Mumm:

I already have one that I finished I really, really, really like. And I got another one that's okay. These are these this is my lineup that I have currently right here.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay. Alright. So which one is your one that you really, really like? What glass is it in?

Nathan Mumm:

It was in the shot glass. The shot glass. Did you like that one, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

Oh no. Okay. Yeah, those are the the smaller glasses are the tastiest for me. Okay. The worst is the grandma glass. The grandma glass or the the grandma glass. Yeah, what you you called it the grandma glass.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh the log.

Marc Grégoire:

It's a it's a long or what is that? What's the name of this one? A long long glass. Nathan hated the one in the tall glass the most. What about you, Mike?

Mike Gorday:

I didn't like that one. I didn't like the initial taste.

Marc Grégoire:

This is gonna be so, so interesting. Stay tuned. This is quite amazing what is going on here today.

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Marc Grégoire:

Uh don't forget to like and subscribe. Drink responsibly, especially if you have four glasses in front of you. Heaven can wait.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, with our first whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment. Today we have Gwen Wei joining the show. She's an expert in cybersecurity during the day and a game board geek in the evenings and a producer of Tech Time Radio. But of course, you know her as our gadgets and gear gal. Let's get ready to start a Comcast stream and start the 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:

Happy to be here. I am, as you've said, a uh technologist. I've been working in cybersecurity now specifically for about 10 years. So that's exciting.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Great, great, great. Now, yeah, for everybody that's new that started joining us this year, thank you for joining our show. So every month, normally the second week, unless something really happens, it's the second week of the month. We do our gadgets and gear segment. And towards the end of the year, we always get stuff that you can buy immediately. And to start out the year, we go to this experimental site called Kickstarter, or uh we have a couple of other startup uh sites that we normally visit. But Kickstarter is our main site. I just want to give a warning anything that you purchase on Kickstarter, understand you are supporting the artist, and you need to be careful because sometimes the artist's intentions do not happen and you can lose money.

Mike Gorday:

So take that from take that from Nathan who buys everything on Kickstarter and never gets anything.

Nathan Mumm:

I get some of the stuff. I will say that I got this the the Quell. I'll just tell you one of the coolest things I got at Kickstarter is the Quell QU E L L device. It's a boxing machine that you don't have to have virtual reality on, but it runs on your computer. Right now it's on a sale on a closeout sunset sale. They've shut the project down. I spent $300 on this device. It's now available for $69. So if you go to Quell.com and you want it for your New Year's resolutions, you want to work out, it's got restraints. You fight a bunch of stuff. Very cool device. It works on both PC for your Mac or your Windows based.

Mike Gorday:

They're shuttering it. So there's never going to be support for it.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you don't need it though, because it has one video game that you play. It's about a six-hour video game. And I don't think I'm ever going to work out for six hours. So I'm okay with just working out a 30 minutes out of spot.

Mike Gorday:

That's usually not how video games work. What's that? You start and you save and you go back and you start from where you start.

Nathan Mumm:

So well on the on the game though, when you start at each uh event is a new event. So you can kind of go left or right, but there is no save feature of it. So I would have to Pillet for six hours to get through it, but I can take different routes. Well, that'd be a really good workout. It is really fun.

Gwen Way:

Yeah, it would.

Nathan Mumm:

It is really fun. There you go. All right. Now done with that. Gwen, what are you gonna be pitching to everybody today as your gadget?

Gwen Way:

Well, today is a couple of fun things. I do want to say though, for anybody who's new and is is questioning what Nathan said about uh being careful. If you go back to, I believe, our October gadgets and gears show, we actually go through and point out some of the problems and how to spot them.

Speaker 10:

We do.

Gwen Way:

Uh today, however, we're talking about something that's a little aspirational. It's a little more than we usually go for, but I think it's a great deal of fun. And that is the Lub Zizo K100 3D printer. And the thing that makes this one kind of cool is it's using a specific technology. It's called SLS or selective laser centering, uh, where instead of doing what the normal 3D printer does, where it's taking a loop of plastic or whatever and running it through and printing based on that, this actually just shoots a laser into a pile of powder and selectively uh solidifies or melts some of the powder into the form that you want it to be in.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, so explain so I am very new to 3D printers, so I know nothing about 3D printers. Of all the technology, this one that I haven't jumped into itself.

Ody:

Throw it to Mike then.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Well, Mike, you're you're a 3D printer guy, right? Yeah, I yeah, I have a 3D printer. Okay. So you uh how much is your 3D printer? Uh how much was it?

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Oh, it was somewhere around four or five hundred bucks. Four to five hundred bucks. Okay. All right. And this but it's a it's a it's not a it's not one of these types of printers. It's a yeah. It's a standard, I guess you'd call it a standard PLA printer.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, a standard printer. So this takes the so what you're saying to me, Gwen, because I'm I'm brand new to this, and maybe listeners are hopefully are a little smarter than me, but if they're not, this takes the powder and makes the powder into the actual object. Is that correct?

Gwen Way:

Exactly. The standard 3D printers, kind of like the one that Mike is talking about and has at home, have basically spools of plastic. And you put the spools of plastic in, it unwinds the plastic, it melts it and and builds it into whatever design you've told it to do.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, I'm familiar with those. So okay.

Mike Gorday:

And then and then the other side of the coin is resin printers, okay, which do this what she's talking about is kind of like a combination of a resin and and plastic printer or whatever.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, but this takes powder and it makes the powder into the device.

Gwen Way:

Yeah, so you you start with a pile of powder and the laser goes in and melts and merges the the powder in a very specific format so that it builds whatever you've told it to build.

Speaker 10:

All right.

Gwen Way:

Uh this means a couple of different things. Number one, there's less waste because the powder that is left behind is reusable. You just pour it into your powder bin and you can pour it back in the next time. And number two, you don't have all of the structure that has to be built to support whatever you're printing. Okay. The powder itself adds that support.

Nathan Mumm:

So you're building it in the powder and the powder kind of cushions it so you don't need to build all those crazy other things that you have to cut off and then you kind of file them down so that it looks as close as you can, but it may not be perfect. Okay, okay. That makes that makes more sense. So is this, would you consider this if you go to like a maker space, right? One of these higher end places to do this device, is this something that they normally have there, or would this even be a little higher than that?

Gwen Way:

Most of them will have the 3D printers like mics where you have the spools of plastic that you put in.

Speaker 10:

Okay.

Gwen Way:

Um this may be in some of the larger, more well uh equipped maker spaces. Okay, but this is really a lot more industrial than it is maker.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. So tell me more. I'm I'm I'm I'm starting to figure this out. Thank you so much. Not a problem. No, I'm figuring out I'm figuring out that it's not the spool type that I always see that has all the little things that people then build these supports for and they have to take them off or anything like that.

Gwen Way:

This is exactly now it does come out when you print something a little rough on the surface, so you may have to like sand it to get it smooth, depending on what you're going for.

Speaker 10:

Okay.

Gwen Way:

But it's really an interesting technology that it is kind of taking it to the next step. Uh, one of the things that I did over the holidays was go and visit my parents. We wandered around a mall, and every third or fourth shop had a bunch of just 3D printed uh gadgets and and things to play with and all of that kind of stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

It's kind of the new low-end low low-end uh toy now, as uh I see them all over everywhere.

Gwen Way:

And this is a great way to do a lot of cool things with it.

Mike Gorday:

Come on, man.

Gwen Way:

Yeah. Exactly. This is a great way to kind of jump into that kind of cottage business or cottage industry if you want to do something like that for yourself.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. So so what makes this one unique? What are uh uh the items I'm looking at this place here online, which is called L-O-O-P-Z-I-Z-O-K-100. And it looks like it's an all-in-one, like a large computer box. So tell me about this.

Gwen Way:

Exactly. So it's it's actually a one of the most compact SLS 3D printers available. Uh, it's something that you could very easily set up in a garage or a workshop or something like that without the needs for, you know, a lot of space or a lot of power. That's what kind of sets this aside and makes it special.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. So tell me the stats. How many backers where the company's located, how many pledges are at, and how someone can sign up for one of these.

Gwen Way:

Well, there are a couple of interesting things here. Uh, first of all, we're sitting at 78 backers for this, and it has almost 400,000 pledged out of a 20,000 goals. So it has far surpassed that already. Uh, we still have a couple of weeks to go. The it's finalized on Sunday, February 1st. So there's plenty of time to go and do your do your research, figure out if you want to do this or not. Uh, it is based out of New York, New York. Uh, and I believe that a lot of the designers of this model are actually there. However, the company itself, uh, Loop Sizio, is an existent company out of Hong Kong. Okay. So we may see some Hong Kong portion of the yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. How much does it cost?

Gwen Way:

Well, that's that's where we get to the interesting thing. It's a lot more expensive than our normal Kickstarters, okay, but I think it's worth it for the the reasons stated before. Right now, you still have the option for the super early bird special, okay, which is fifty two hundred dollars.

Nathan Mumm:

5,200 bucks. Okay. So if you're buying this, you you better be in the 3D printing. Not not Nathan. This is a Mike Gorday No, yeah, this is this is somebody and yeah, this is not starter level.

Gwen Way:

This is you've got some experience and you want to put this to work.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

So Mike, would this even be your lit? No, no. I I have a very simple setup and it it's whatever for my needs. Yeah. I don't have to put on lab gear to do anything.

Nathan Mumm:

So this one it looks like you have to put on some lab gear if you're using it because of the powder with it.

Gwen Way:

Yeah, they recommend a rebreather or or something that will help you so that you don't accidentally inhale the powder. That's the big thing right here. And also, if you're going to open it while the laser is firing, you need eye protection as well.

Mike Gorday:

Oh wow. And resin printers, you have to do that too. Okay. That's why I don't uh don't have a resin printer.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. So our final question here. When are you getting one of these units?

Gwen Way:

You know, I think I I would love to have one, but I think it's too big a uh bite for me. I'm I'm not to that point in my 3D printing journey.

Speaker 10:

Okay.

Gwen Way:

Uh, but I am gonna keep an eye on this particular company and see where they go in the future. I think there's a lot of exciting things there.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh it did look really interesting. So it did, I I I just I don't I have a I have a daughter-in-law that will do all my 3D printing for me. So I I I I I guess I've been lazy and I just say, Hey, can you print this? And she prints it up for me and it's good to go. So did she use a what kind of she uses a printer like you, Mike. She has like the stuff that goes on in the yeah, but I think but I think she's got kind of an upgraded one because I think it does like multicolors instead of one color at a time. So it'll do like Yeah, that's what I have. Oh, you have that too?

Mike Gorday:

Okay, all right. Yeah, I can spool four different colored.

Nathan Mumm:

I think that's what hers is too. So maybe you guys have the same thing. There you go.

Gwen Way:

Probably entirely possible. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

What is your printer? What is your 3D printer, Gwen? Do you have one?

Gwen Way:

Do you have a I I I do not, my brother actually has one though, and it also will do the four different colors.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so he probably has a bamboo. Uh yeah, it's probably the same. That's what she has, actually. I think that's the bamboo.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep. All right, there you go.

Mike Gorday:

We're getting the finger wave.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Gwen. Well, thank you for coming on the show. It's always a pleasure to have you talk about new gadgets. I think we'll be talking about some CES stuff, so maybe one of those gadgets may hit your uh uh liking on our production shows when you see some of the CES stuff that's coming on out. Are you are you a Lego fan? Do you do you want a brick that makes noise for Legos?

Gwen Way:

I would love that, honestly.

Nathan Mumm:

Me too.

Gwen Way:

I I may have to look into that because uh I'm a huge Lego fan and having smart Legos, oh yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

That'd be great. All right, we want to thank Gwen for being a part of the show. She does a great job of finding the most unique items each month for our show now. Let's throw, let's move on to Mike's mesmerizing moment.

Segment:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, Mike, here's my question. I have a uh question regarding the Lego. The Lego that I talked about in story three. Is it a step too far to now have a smart prick, or is that something that you're excited about?

Mike Gorday:

Well, I don't know exactly everything that it does, but the first time when I first heard about it, the little kid of me like jumped for joy. Okay. Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

The demo's pretty cool. So we'll talk a little bit more about it. They're flying a ship through and it's moving left and right, and it knows that the X-wing is near it because there's another smart ship, so it starts firing when you're the TIE fighter, and and then you hear R2D2 on the X uh wing go, well, I'm not sure.

Mike Gorday:

See, I yeah, that's what I think is cool. I know that I know that I know that the critics are like it it's gonna decrease imagination and things like that. I don't I don't know if that's true or not. I don't think so.

Nathan Mumm:

I I I I think I think those are people that that are just true trades. They don't do Legos. That's right. They they're just not Lego people.

Ody:

I do think it takes the simplicity out of it though.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, but man, I still put a cool factor in there. Well, think of just being able to program it.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, so I guess some of the issues here is that does is the smart brick programmable or is it is it come already programmed with the set that is it already comes programmed.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. In the future, they're gonna have some STEM kits that they've already talked about that they you would able to go on in there and code different voices and different stuff to them.

Ody:

If anything, that would be encouraging for the child to get into STEM.

Nathan Mumm:

And they're gonna make it so it's coding. So now all of a sudden you load some coding stuff. See, I think that's a great thing.

Mike Gorday:

That's why that's why Lego that's why Legos are really great as as I I wouldn't call them toy. I don't call Legos toys. They're they're 3D creative modeling. They're yeah, yeah, because you're you're you're you're learning you're learning some basic geography or geography. Uh geometry, you're learning how things look in 3D space, you're you're doing the tactical stuff building. Yeah. Some of that stuff. Okay. All right. So a smart having a smart brick, I don't I don't think that's going to be a problem. I think it will be a problem if that becomes the focus. It's kind of like these video or movies that are only you can tell that they are are just massively into the the special effects. Yeah. And it it's so awesome visually, but it's but yeah, but the movie's just dumb. There's no plot, there's no character, there's nothing.

Nathan Mumm:

So Lord of the Rings has been around what almost 20 years now? Yeah, still great. And it's still great.

Mike Gorday:

So I think I I think as long as Lego doesn't make this the focus of their thing, I think it's a great addition. If they start doing what everybody else does and start focusing on the smart brick as being the one and only blah blah blah, this and blah blah blah that, and they start making things around the smart brick, I think that'll be the problem.

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, there you go. We're gonna take a commercial break when we return. We have this week in technology. See you in a bit. 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 should use your support on patreon.com. Or is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, Patreon. If you really like us, you can say I'm English guy?

Nathan Mumm:

Patreon.com. I I butcher the English language? You know you butcher the English language. Okay, so it's all the time. 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.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, and you can visit us on that Facebook platform. You know the one that Zuckerberg owns?

Mike Gorday:

The one that we always bag on?

Nathan Mumm:

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

All right, we're going back to January 13th, 1989. The Friday the 13th virus gets the Brits. Now, the Friday the 13th virus infected hundreds of IBM computers in Britain, becoming one of the earliest and most well-known computer viruses to receive media attention. Over two decades later, while many companies now have antivirus systems in place, Microsoft has yet to fully prevent such infections on its own systems and will likely never allocate staff to address this issue. Discovered in 1987 at Hebrew University, the virus would delete programs upon activation and randomly remove code from EXE files, especially on Friday the thirteenth. Today modern Windows systems are completely immune since the virus depended on DOS interrupts and it hasn't been relevant since the era of shoulder pads. That was this week in Technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history with over 280 plus weekly broadcast spending all five plus years, as we start year six of video podcasts and blog information, visit us at techtime radio.com to watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break when we return. We have the Mark Mumble Whiskey Review. See you after the break.

Mike Gorday:

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Segment:

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

Marc Grégoire:

What is today besides Tuesday, January 13th? I have no idea what is it. We we have a special clip for you. Okay, a special clip.

Speaker 9:

So I don't rubber ducky, you're so fine. Sesame Street Day.

Speaker 10:

Rubber Ducky Day?

Speaker 9:

Yeah, rubber ducky. I'm awfully fond of you. Doo doo doo doo doo.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, that's that's uh actually that's fairly surprising that you just really got into that just now. I used to watch that all the time. I love that rubber ducky with Ernie and Burton. And you even sound a little bit like rubbery. Rubberducky, you're the one.

Marc Grégoire:

I had Odie play this so none of us would have to sing.

Speaker 9:

Lots of fun.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, but now we now we have Nathan that can actually do fond of you. Do you have Muppet Ancestry? Yeah.

unknown:

All right.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, so today we are celebrating the humble rubber ducky, a bathtime icon with a surprisingly wild backstory. First created in the eighteen hundreds, the duck has evolved from rubber to plastic to vinyl thanks to wartime sort of shortages and was officially patented in nineteen twenty-eight with a built-in weight to keep it proudly upright. And yes, rubber ducks have seen more of the world than most of us. In nineteen ninety-two, nearly twenty-eight thousand ducks fell off a cargo ship and have been washing up on shores around the globe ever since. Proof that even a squeaky little duck can live a life of adventure. I think you print rubber ducks every once in a while. Do you play with them in your bathroom? No. No. Oh, well, what do you do with them? No, no, they just sort of sit there looking all ducky like. Now, rubber duckies float in water, finished bourbon and rye, float in barrels before reaching your glass. And only one of them belongs anywhere near your mouth. That's almost that's almost like a Nathan pair. Here's what we have in our glasses today. In one of the glasses, we have our winner from last year, Bakta 1928 rye whiskey. Distillation Vermont, finished rye whiskey. Non-age stated, 100-proof. It is at 60% rye, 30% cavados, and 10% blend of Armagnac. $67. Oh boy. In another glass, we have Sir Davis. This is from Mult Hennessy and Beyoncé. This is a Beyonce whiskey. From Texas, finished rye whiskey, non-age stated, 88 proof, 51% rye, 39% rye.

Nathan Mumm:

Beyonce like the singer?

Marc Grégoire:

Yes. Yes.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, okay.

Marc Grégoire:

Sorry, 51% rye, 39%, I believe, uh corn and no, this is wrong. Hang on. It's 51% rye, 49% malted barley, finished in a sherry cask. There we go. $76. The other one we have is Mary Dowling Tequila Barrel Finished Bourbon from Rabbit Hole Distillery and from Kentucky. It's a straight bourbon, four plus years, 93 proof, 70% corn, 25% malted rye, 5% malted barley, finished in tequila casks.

Nathan Mumm:

I like tequila though. For $75.

Marc Grégoire:

And the last one we have is a local Woodenville Straight Bourbon and Port Barrels. From the Woodenville Whiskey Company here in Woodenville, Washington. Oh no. Straight bourbon, non-aged stated, 90 proof, 72% corn, 22 rye, and 6% malted barley. Oh my gosh. For $45.

Nathan Mumm:

I'd choose that one. Oh my word. Now maybe they have a new distillery because Woodville uh whiskey is nasty. Okay. Alrighty. Okay. Do you have anything else for us?

Marc Grégoire:

No, it's going to be so fun. Oh no.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you know what? Whiskey and technology are such a great pairing. Like time travel and the TV show Fringe. You remember that TV show? The TV show what? Fringe. Oh, yes. There you go. All right. Now though.

Marc Grégoire:

You didn't go with quantum leap.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, we have some more. The time travel's going to continue on.

Mike Gorday:

So I'm going to continue on. Nathan, you know how Nathan pairs things. They don't make sense to anybody but Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, here we go. Move to the technology fail of the week brought to you by Elite Executive Services. Congratulations.

Segment:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, our technology failed comes to us from Samsung with smart TV's dark patterns and growing privacy concerns. Now, Samsung's in trouble across the United States after people learned how it's smart TV tracks what viewers watch. The company uses a system to take quick screenshots of your TV screen and studies of your viewing habits. The problem is that most people never clearly agree to this. The menus are confusing, the choices are hard to find. The privacy information is buried so deep almost no one can see it. And most of the time you don't have an option to hit agree or disagree. If you disagree, you aren't able to use the device itself. Now a Texas judge briefly blocked Samsung from collecting this data, but the order was canceled the following week. Even though the block didn't last, it brought a lot of attention to the issue. Now people across the country are asking the question whether smart TVs are specifically from Samsung, but then also other brands like Sony LG, HiSense, and TCL are using this privacy method also. Instead of calming the situation, Samsung's actions made many Americans feel even less confident about how their viewing data is being used. Just think of that. A screenshot every 500 milliseconds is being taken. So it's it's so it's not a live camera, but it's as close as you can get to a live camera going on of capturing what you're doing.

Mike Gorday:

I wonder what they do with all the information that when I uh leave my television on when I go to bed and it it goes to the the little like the screen that the screensaver the screensaver if the if what that data tells. I don't know. I don't know. He likes really watching that pattern move around on your screen. Maybe all right. Well no he must be dropping acid or something.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know if that's the coalition they get from that. Otherwise, there's a lot of acid droppers in the United States. All right, let's move on now to our secret sound.

Speaker 6:

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:

Alright, what is that sound? It still thinks it's like you drunk one. Yeah, it's happening.

Mike Gorday:

No, no.

Nathan Mumm:

Like you flipping through a magazine. Oh, well, well, okay. You know what? Now though, let's prepare for our Nathan Nugget.

Introduction:

This is your Nugget of the Week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, that secret sound lingers in your mind. Florida man stole a BMW and later told deputies he didn't drive it, and he was teleported into it by the X-Men, which is honestly the most Florida plot twist possible. After crashing the car at 130 miles per hour, he thanked officers for rescuing him from the aliens he claimed were chasing him. Proving seatbelt saves our lives even during the Intergalactic mission. The BMW's owner had simply been walking his dog and came back to find his car gone, keys still in the cup holder, like a cosmic invitation. Body cam footage showed the suspect rambling about superheroes, mind control, and teleportation while officers tried to figure out what planet he was on. He was taken to the hospital and now faces charges. Uh they do not suspect that he is a superhero and a time traveler or alien invasions happened.

Ody:

There's our acid user right there.

Marc Grégoire:

That could be a minute. So he was being chased by aliens. So to help him, the X-Men teleported him away into this fast moving car. That's correct. Yeah. Well, I would let him off.

Speaker 10:

You'd let him off.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we're talking about where I don't I'm not sure why this is why this is important to the show, but you know what's important?

Nathan Mumm:

Submits this each week, and he was gonna do this for another 30 weeks this year. A lot of disconnected.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, yeah, there's a lot of teleportation. Yeah, okay. The teleportation. This is an example, this is an example of somebody who is a yes, chemically imbalanced. Imbalanced.

Nathan Mumm:

That they have been doing stuff that they should Professor Xavier call him to do that, or this is a psychologically disturbed person.

Ody:

But what a fun time that must have been for him. You know?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, because the aliens were coming after him. He was running away as quick as possible.

Ody:

Okay, maybe not.

Nathan Mumm:

So he was like scared for his life that he's gonna be sometimes.

Ody:

But what a man of action. I mean, he got it.

Mike Gorday:

What a man of action. So so did the BMW owner leave his keys in the couple before the guy?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, well, when you're that rich, I guess you don't care. You just take your dog for a walk and you put your keys in the city.

Ody:

So does this also mean that this dude was rich as well to be in that kind of neighborhood?

Nathan Mumm:

Probably.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, first off, this is Florida. So um probably what happened is he he drove his car to a dog park.

Ody:

Oh, right. Okay that's what I'm thinking.

Mike Gorday:

He drove his dog to a dog parking. This guy was not out of the dog park, was walking his dog. This this guy teleported into the car. Yeah, found the keys that were there, and it's probably a smart BMW, so it's just one of those the fob has to be around so you can do an electric start and then off he goes. There you go.

Marc Grégoire:

Well, yeah, why would they teleport him in one where he has to find keys and yeah, that would that that goes against the storyline there?

Mike Gorday:

That would never work. Okay, but I think the crux of this, you know, this is this is some either uh drug-induced behavior or this is psychotic behavior. Or the aliens uh are attacking us.

Marc Grégoire:

I'll just I'll just say the core of it, it's another day in Florida.

Nathan Mumm:

Or yeah, it's another day in Florida. All right, let's move on now to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Introduction:

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

Marc Grégoire:

All right. Well, Nathan has a clear order, right? I have a clear order. Mike does not. Uh I have a clear order.

Nathan Mumm:

This is my favorite. Are you matching with him? This is my favorite. I think this is probably the one with tequila. It's my guess, because I like tequila, and I so that's just a guess. I am sure hoping this is Woodenville. Um, but this was okay. So I think this may have been our winner last year. Or or this.

Marc Grégoire:

Let's take your your tall glasses, your last one. Mike, was this a thumbs up or thumbs down for you?

Mike Gorday:

Uh the tall glass. Uh initially I didn't like the the initial taste. And so I put it on the back skin. But as as I tasted it better, it it grew it grew more tasteful. Thumbs up or down. So I give it a thumbs up. I give it a down. And is it your win? Is it possibly your winner? Uh it's not I don't think it's my winner, but it's it's up it. This was very hard because after after letting sit for a while, I really enjoyed it. So, how would you rank the one Nathan gave last year?

Nathan Mumm:

Was our last year's winner, Bakta? We just have so many better whiskeys this year. Yeah, okay.

Marc Grégoire:

And I'm disappointed because he did give Bakta thumbs down the first couple of rounds last year, but then it became thumbs up and it became the winner. So that's because he saw the bottle. I thought he was developing. No, he just saw the bottle.

Nathan Mumm:

So I no, no, no, I the glass. No, I did not see anything out of the second to last one. My second to last one was this uh shot class with the old timer one.

Marc Grégoire:

All right, and was that a thumbs up or down?

Nathan Mumm:

I would still put that one as a thumbs down.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, Mike? Uh, this was this was one of my thumbs ups.

Marc Grégoire:

It's a thumbs up. Was it could you be your winner?

Mike Gorday:

It it could be my winner for all four. Oh wow.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay. That was Woodenville.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, yes! Look at that. The one that I gave thumbs down last year and Woodenville. Golly Molly, my palate is good. If I keep this right, if this is the tequila one, then I'm gonna say my palate has grown uh hugely.

Marc Grégoire:

What's the next one that you have? The the Glenn Cairn? Yeah. Was that up or down for you?

Nathan Mumm:

I give this an up though. It just wasn't.

Mike Gorday:

Mike, up or down. Uh I'm gonna give it an up, but it was it was blander than the other three.

Marc Grégoire:

That was the Mary Dowling tequila barrel finished bourbon. Okay, okay. That makes sense. Yeah, your palette's still crap. Oh wow. Wow.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. That was close, so I gave it a thumbs up. I said I liked it.

Marc Grégoire:

And the shot glass. What did you think, Mike? Uh that's Nathan's winner.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, I liked all of them. So I will still give the shot glass a thumbs up. Uh but like the Glenn Carron glass, it it it lost its edge the more I drank it. So it kind of blanded out.

Marc Grégoire:

Yeah, that makes sense because that is uh What is it? That's the Sir Davis. Beyonce's.

Mike Gorday:

That's Beyonce's. Beyonce's. Oh, look at that.

Nathan Mumm:

You know?

Marc Grégoire:

It's just generic.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah. Yeah, I kept moving it. You know what? I can easily I kept moving it to the left for some reason.

Nathan Mumm:

I can easily change those two. So I can easily have to.

Mike Gorday:

So Mike, which was your top? My top two were these two.

Marc Grégoire:

The tall glass?

Mike Gorday:

The tall glass and the I guess the wooden bill.

Marc Grégoire:

Okay, you gotta choose one.

Mike Gorday:

I'll I'll choose the the last year's one. The back.

Marc Grégoire:

Alright, well, I guess we have a split vote here. We have a split vote. So I have to decide between those two.

Nathan Mumm:

But you cannot take last year's winner.

Marc Grégoire:

Oh. I'm not gonna choose a celebrity whiskey. Okay. That's fine.

Speaker 9:

That's fine.

Marc Grégoire:

So we're going with the box then. You're gonna put that to your left?

Mike Gorday:

You're gonna put Beyonce to the left? All righty. We should have had a little clip of that. A box of the left.

Nathan Mumm:

Alrighty. Okay. Well.

Mike Gorday:

I think I think Mike Mike is showing that he has a pattern.

Nathan Mumm:

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Nathan Mumm

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