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283: TechTime Radio: From Stair-Climbing Vacuums to AI Soulmates: "The Best of the Best from CES 2026" From Ultrasonic Knives to Emotional AI. We explore Antarctic Myths, AI in Classrooms, and a nationwide Verizon Outage | Air Date: 1/20 - 1/26/26

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What if the most exciting tech of the year wasn’t just shiny—it was useful, personal, and a little unsettling? We dive into our Top 10 from CES 2026 and share what genuinely moved the needle for everyday life, what felt like future shock, and where we think the line should be drawn.

We start with wonder and method: viral claims about “hidden cities” beneath Antarctica meet the real tools behind the map—satellite interferometry, glacier-flow physics, and AI reconstruction. That lens helps us parse a major education study on generative AI: students are learning faster, but thinking less. We lay out the gains for reading and language, the risk of cognitive offloading, emotional bonds with chatbots, and a roadmap for classrooms that teach with AI without surrendering curiosity or equity.

Then the floor opens. We count down gadgets that aim beyond spectacle: a bone-conduction lollipop that plays licensed music you can taste; an AI-powered nail system that swaps colors in seconds without chemicals; an ultrasonic chef knife that cuts clean without crushing; and a luxury smart toilet that pairs comfort with urine analysis and safety monitoring. We talk real-world scenarios—aging in place, chronic care, and the thin edge between helpful data and surveillance.

The hits keep coming: a portable allergen scanner designed to flag gluten and lactose at the table, Samsung’s pocketable trifold that unfolds into a true 10-inch workspace, and a stair-climbing robot vacuum that actually cleans steps and multi-floor homes on a single cycle. Our health pick of the show is a discreet perimenopause wearable that turns hot flashes, sleep disruptions, and anxiety into actionable biometrics, finally giving millions data they can use.

And then there’s the most talked-about demo: a hologram-like “AI soulmate” living in a curved OLED, always on, always attentive, and engineered for attachment. We unpack the appeal, the ethical minefield, and the social cost of simulating intimacy at scale. To ground it all, we spotlight a nationwide Verizon outage—phones stuck in SOS mode and a small opt-in credit—because when your life runs on networks, resilience matters more than hype.

Pull up a chair, pour something good, and join us for a tour that favors clarity over buzz. If our mix of curiosity, skepticism, and humor hits the spot, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so more people can find it. Which CES idea would you actually bring home—and which one should never cross your doorstep?

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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. We go, hmm, a lot. All right. Especially today. 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 35 years of technology expertise. Our co-host Mike Roday is in studio today. He's the award-winning author and our human behavior expert and AI. Uh, what do you want to say? Nostradamus? You kind of predict what AI is gonna do? Yeah. Oh, that was Yeah, that's me.

Ody:

I was gonna say aficionado.

Nathan Mumm:

Aficionado. There you're perfect. Aficionado, yeah. All right, we're guru, yeah. Guru, guru. Yeah. We live stream during our show on six of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitch.tv, Facebook, LinkedIn, and now Kick and Rumble, and we are an exclusive kick provider. So if you watch Kick, we are exclusively on their rolling channel. So I don't know what that really means, but I guess we're on their rolling channel. Now we encourage you to visit us online at techtime radio.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 Odier producer at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

SPEAKER_08:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, today on the show we have the CES review show, the best of the best from CES. We have the 10 best items that we're going to be talking about that were at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And of course, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, and then of course our pick of the day whiskey taste and the CFR selected whiskey pick. Get zero one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. But now it's time for the headlines in the world of technology.

Introduction:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, story number one. We're talking about the coldest, most mysterious place on earth, Antarctica. And scientists have just revealed a hidden world beneath three miles of ice. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this breaking story.

SPEAKER_01:

A new study has uncovered tens of thousands of unseen hills, ridges, and canyon systems. And some of these formations are so unusual, they're already drawing comparisons to ancient myths like Atlantis and even the river-fed paradise described in the Garden of Eden. The surface looks like an endless white desert. But using new mapping data, they've identified massive circular basins, long straight ridges, and canyon networks that look nothing like the smooth, frozen landscape above. One researcher pointed to a region where the terrain forms near perfect rings, the kind of structure that has fueled Atlantis theories for decades. Another showed me branching valleys that resemble ancient river systems, the kind you'd expect in a warm, lush environment, the kind described in early Eden stories. They're not saying these myths are real, but they are saying Antarctica's past was far stranger and more complex than we ever imagined. Back to you guys in the studio.

Nathan Mumm:

My goodness. So let's talk about this. So this is what they did. So the on the technology aspect, we thank Lisa for that story. The entire map is created using satellites, interior ferometry, interferometry. Interferometry, which measures microscopic shifts in the ice surface from orbit. Now these measurements were fed into glacier flow physic models and then a powered AI math subset that reverse engineered the train beneath the ice by combining thousands of satellite passes with the advanced algorithms. Scientific proof is there that there was a world underneath this ice. Okay, yeah. So what so what what are you thinking about this just broke? This is like huge news in the scientific world that the Antarctic's frozen shield has cities underneath it.

Mike Gorday:

I mean I I dove into that. Is there is there any reason why there wouldn't be all the stuff underneath all the ice in Antarctica? Well, that makes sense, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody being excited about land under under the ice of Antarctica, that's kind of ridiculous. Well, they're they're saying patterns, there's mountains, it's it's like frozen cities.

Nathan Mumm:

Of course.

Mike Gorday:

Of course there, of course there is, but throughout the entire life of the world, we've had continental drift, we've had things that have been moving around. It's it's not really all that exciting that there are valleys and mountains and things underneath all this ice, at least to me.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know. The way that they made it look with the pictures that I saw. Yeah, I mean I'm pretty sure it looked pretty cool. It did.

Mike Gorday:

I mean, I I I think and this is I've always I always think Atlantis exists. And I know and I know I know you're gonna be all over this Atlantis thing. I am.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know, I don't know why they why they chose the think about the Garden of Eden, either well, I I guess because they said the way that the patterns so that the whole thing was the way that the patterns were, it would have had to have been like a warm, luscious area, so there's no way that the patterns underneath the yeah, at one time the in the entire world was a luscious garden.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I just I think they may be I think they I think this may be it. Atlantis is a story, and people have been searching for it forever, so you know. So it's right there underneath Antarctica. But the whole thing is beneath the earth. It's sunk beneath the ocean. So if it's sunk into the ocean, it can't be in Antarctica because that's on land. I don't know.

Ody:

I hate you, Mike, because you're taking all the whimsy.

Mike Gorday:

I I am yes, I'm just but he's like from a logical standpoint.

Ody:

I'm standing with him. I don't want to, you know, it's I don't know.

Nathan Mumm:

The satellite images and AI have helped produce this.

Mike Gorday:

So I think it's cool that we can do this. Okay. I think it's cool that we can take pictures and then use AI algorithms to kind of determine what's going on underneath the ice. That's the cool piece.

Nathan Mumm:

Right.

Mike Gorday:

Okay. Uh creating this whole hype about the lost city of Atlantis or the Garden of the United States. Well, that's how it gets national press, right? Yeah, that's of course. Because people you people have this paradolia experience and they're going, oh my god, we found it. We found it. Well, we're breaking news here first, because I'm not seeing it being picked up by all the major news.

Nathan Mumm:

That's exciting. Okay, there you go.

Mike Gorday:

That is so exciting.

Nathan Mumm:

We are like discovering Atlantis. Just think then soon we'll we'll find a Stargate and then we can transport to Okay.

Mike Gorday:

I knew there was Hey, I'm glad that today it's Stargate, not Star Trek. Okay, there you go. All right. Story number two, Mike. What do we have coming on up here for this? Oh, you know, uh, have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy? Um, I have not. Oh, you need to watch that. And I got another AI story, so great. It's all good. Keep on going. Yeah, so a new global study from Brookings Institution warns that the risk of generative AI in schools outweighs the benefits. Oh, I tell you. No way. Tell me more. Researchers say students are increasingly offloading their thinking to AI, which may already be weakening critical thinking skills. What did I say when we first started talking about AI? I called you the Notre Damas of AI, didn't I? Maybe I am. Okay, there you go. Continue on. So it's weakening critical thinking skills, creativity, and basic content knowledge. At the same time, teachers report that AI can genuinely support reading, writing, and language learning when used as a supplement rather than a replacement. Report also highlights emotional risk, noting that many students are forming unhealthy attachments to chatbots. Hey, like two for two for two that are designed to agree with them, creating a digital echo chamber that undermines resilience and real world social skills. Nearly one in five high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI. Well, experts warn that this could distort how young people understand disagreement, empathy, and connection. Yet AI can also expand access to education for marginalized learners. See, so we have we have good points and bad points. Bad points outweigh the good points. Brookings argues that the solution is not banning AI but redesigning how schools use it, which I don't know how they can design that because that's an individual thing, shifting away from transactional grade-driven tasks toward curiosity and human-led learning. They call for stronger regulation, better AI literacy, and tools that challenge students instead of simply agreeing with them. And they warn that without careful planning, AI could deepen inequity by giving wealthier districts ass access to more accurate power. Hmm, that's three for three. Pros. What are the pros? Okay, so yes, there are always pros to things. So AI, okay. It supports reading, writing, and language learning. Oh, I like that. Um I don't know that this is a pro so much as anything, but it saves teachers significant time on routine tasks, but that's why we get to WALL-E. Okay. Expands access for marginalized or remote learners, and improves ex accessibility for students with learning diseases. Oh, that's right. Cons. Yeah. It weakens critical thinking skills through cognitive offloading. That's a lot of things. This is the exact this is the exact problem why we don't learn math well anymore, right? You don't need to know math because why? You have a calculator. Okay, maybe. Maybe yeah. You know what I do have a we so when we have something that thinks for us, we don't have to think. And our brains are actually designed to do this. Our brains are actually designed to go the route of least resistance. So when when we have something that takes care of something that we already do, we tend to not do the thing that we have done already. That makes sense. Encourages emotional dependence on chatbots, which I have been have I been railing about that forever? Okay. Okay, railing about that. All right, risk widening the digital divide between wealthy and underfunded schools, and free AI tools are often less accurate and more misleading because it'll have you put gravel on your pizza. So you're saying that uh school you're you're supporting the idea that school districts are removing AI? You know, this is this is all a big example of how AI is progressing, and we are we in the in the human world can't follow quickly enough because I forget this was like two or three years ago where I started talking about this stuff, and now we have a study two or three years later about how this is happening.

Nathan Mumm:

So they should have been listening to Tech Time Radio with Mike Gordet, and they should absolutely and they should just call you up instead of these stupid studies, and you'll do this for half the price.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, but it doesn't really matter because no matter what the study says, no matter what I say, well, we're gonna keep going down that road. Yeah, and we're gonna keep doing this, and then we are gonna end up like the movie Idiocracy or Wall. So you know you just don't have that much hope for us as a lot of hope. Well, guess what? Just because you you were toxically optimistic.

Ody:

Real quick.

Mike Gorday:

Yes.

Ody:

What would be your first thing that you drink out of a cup? Like that you're most excited about.

Mike Gorday:

What would be the first thing that I would drink out of a cup?

Ody:

Yeah, because in Wally they drink their foods out of cups.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it's people. Oh did you did you realize that's what I'm asking you?

Ody:

What food are you most excited about? If it were food.

Mike Gorday:

If if we were gonna liquefy my food, yeah, I I don't even want to think about it. A pepperoni pizza.

Ody:

A pepperoni pizza. Yeah, that's it.

Nathan Mumm:

Because that would have a unique taste still, I think. Liquefied.

Ody:

I'd love a pie. A liquefied pie.

Mike Gorday:

I would rather eat my food. Is it a peach pie or peach?

Ody:

Right, but we're thinking, you know, if this is all inevitable and we're gonna be on an axiom someday.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah.

Ody:

Okay. I'm looking forward to a peach peach pie.

Nathan Mumm:

We'll all be dead by then. So do you uh our kids as kids have to worry about this?

Mike Gorday:

Hey, are you just not into whimsy today? Yeah. Oh, wait a minute.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I'm I I'm in there.

Mike Gorday:

All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, Mike, thanks for that uplifting story.

Mike Gorday:

I love uplifting stories.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm glad I keep getting these. Hey, you like that story. You wanted that story from the get-go. When that was brought up in the production meeting, you're like, I got that. I got it. All right, we're gonna move on now. CES best of the best is just around the corner, and that ends our top technology stories of the week. When we return, we'll shape the future with all the new technology. You're listening to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. See you after this.

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Nathan Mumm:

Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mum. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects with any polit 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, a little whiskey on the side. Now, today, Mark Greguire, whiskey connoisseur, is remote, but he's joining us in studio. So, Mark, I'm gonna turn it over. Well, he's joining us via a live stream in the studio. So joining us, I'll turn it over to you and tell us what do we have here.

Mike Gorday:

Here at TechCon Radio, fantasy and reality don't always mix.

SPEAKER_11:

Well, I am so, so excited to be here remotely today. Oh, we are drinking, which I don't have to, Oregon Barrel, Muckity Muck, 26 year single malt scotch. Now, from Orphan Barrel's website, this 26-year-old whiskey is one of those rare remaining stocks from a closed distillery. It is the third release in the Muckity Muck series. A masterful blend that pays homage to the previous releases, yet possesses a distinct profile on its own. The aroma starts with a burst of caramel and notes of baked sugar, backed by the taste of crisp fruit and light toasted oak. The fruit forward flavor is blended with hints of butterscotch vanilla, which carries through to the finish. I'm sure Mike gets all of that on this taste. It's from uh the company that owns it is uh Diaggio. Yeah, but they put it under their Orphan Barrel Whiskey Company brand. The distillation is Port Dundas Distillery in Glasgow, Scotland. It's a single multi scotch, 26-year-old, 92-proof, 100 multed 100% multed barley. Now let's talk about the price. The MSRP on this is$300. The secondary market that is kind of trading for off-brand is at$200 right now, but you can buy it at Costco for$150.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, you can buy five bottles if you want.

Nathan Mumm:

You can. Alrighty. Okay. I like that little jab at the end there. So how much is it worth, MSRP there, Mark?

SPEAKER_11:

MSRP, what the company says it's worth is$300.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right. Well, you know. Yeah, that's like cars. You know what? This this this tastes like a$300 whiskey. Does it? Only the type that the A Scotch? Well, it's a little bit of a Scotch. It has a little bit of that taste. All right. Well, you know what? Mark, I can't wait to hear your mumble, and I can't wait to hear your excitement as we continue to drink this great uh whiskey here.

SPEAKER_11:

Well, for remember, guys, since you're in studio drinking, do not forget to like and subscribe for those viewers and those in studio drink responsibly because heaven can wait.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, we thank Mark for joining us with our whiskey tasting completed.

SPEAKER_11:

Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11:

Let's move on to our. I want to make sure when I come back to the studio, you're still there.

Nathan Mumm:

I'll I'll still be here.

Mike Gorday:

I'll I'll I'll definitely still be here. Yeah, he gets up, he gets up at 5 30 in the morning just so he can make this whole thing.

Nathan Mumm:

That's uh absolutely the production day is a long hard work. You know, people that say, Oh, we'll just put a uh a podcast online and do a radio show. There's a difference between doing a couple episodes and then being on for going on our sixth year, Mike. Congratulations. So this is exciting. All right, with our whiskey tasting completed. No, we couldn't. So let's move on to our feature segment. Today we look at the best of the best from CES 2026 from Las Vegas last week. Let's see what's shaping our world.

SPEAKER_05:

Welcome to the best of the best from CES 2026. Presented to you by Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mum.

Mike Gorday:

I don't like a very Christmassy sort of intro. Do you like that?

Nathan Mumm:

That's the same guy that we have. He he he's he's he does a lot of songs for us. All right, he's the same AI we have that does stuff for us. Continuing on, we're starting working our way backwards. Number 10, the Lava Tech Lollipop Star. You guys hear about this? Priced at$8.99. You can buy this at Lava Tech Online Store. What makes it unique is it's a Boeing con a bone, a boing, a boing, a bone conducting audio built into a candy stick. So it's like a sucker, but it has audio built into it. So is it real candy? It's real candy, and you eat it, and then it has music programmed into it. It sends music through your jaw bone, not your ears, and it this that way you can listen to this experience privately without anybody else hearing it. So you buy the sucker, you put the music in, it goes in through the jawbone. You've you've probably used some of those jawbone speakers before where it uses your bone mask to do stuff. Um, why it's on our top 10? It's the first edible tech that merges flavor and audio. A perfect CES novelty with real engineering behind it. They had over a hundred thousand people in line at CES to get because they were giving out a sample of this for this eight dollar uh deal so they could get this Lava Tech lollipop star. Now moving on. What was that? Sorry, you got a question?

Ody:

I just Googled it and they have it paired with different artists that are like popular right now. That's pretty cool. It is really cool. I wouldn't mind paying$9 for some candy.

Mike Gorday:

For a candy that you listen to. Nine mugs that sings to you while you kill it in your mouth? Yeah. Okay. Like what are the artists?

Nathan Mumm:

Did you look up the artists?

Ody:

Yeah, right now it's Ice Spice, and I only see Ice Spice.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, yeah, so they're like three or four different artists are a part of this.

Ody:

And they expect to have Akon, Akon's Beautiful Day, White Peach and Strawberry, featuring Ice Spice's munch baddie, baddie, big guy.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Ody:

And line or Armani White's Mount Pleasant.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. So they're gonna exp so they have three flavors right now. Yeah, they're looking to expand to 12 flavors, and they're gonna have one flavor that will come out every month. So you'll be able to get that month's flavor, and you can sign up online for their service. Dude, that is kind of so Odie, you would you do this? Yeah, it looks like you're kind of pondering.

Ody:

Maybe not a flavor of the month, but I would do like like I think I would do the Akon one.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. All right, there you go. So there you go. It's only nine bucks. Pretty smart idea. Next thing the Odie, this may be up your alley too. It's called eye polish. It's an AI nail wand. No. So starting at$95 for the starter kit.$6.50 replacement for a nail. This is what it does. It is uh, they're kind of like e-ink for nails. So it's kind of like one of those old version lead press on nails, but with new technology. Uh, it comes in 400 colors in five seconds. So you put these on with no chemicals, no drying, no spud, no smudging, nothing to worry about.

Ody:

Wait a second. I just looked it up.

Nathan Mumm:

And you're gonna buy it now too, aren't you?

Ody:

I'm not gonna buy it, but I am intrigued.

Nathan Mumm:

It is pretty cool, isn't it?

Ody:

It is all right.

Nathan Mumm:

So that makes our number nine. This is the biggest thing here in the leap of nail tech in decades is that you're not using the chemicals to change your nails. Yeah. And if you're going on out, you could change your outfits black. You could have black nails for the night. And then later on, if you have a blue outfit, you got blue nails. And they're coming out with designs. So not only are they gonna have colors, but they'll even have designs that they're gonna be working on in their next generation, not on the first generation, but on the second generation, they'll come up with designs. So you know how you see the nails that have like little white spots in there and little logos and different stuff? They're working on having those available in the nails too.

Mike Gorday:

So is this is this like the total recall? Remember when he goes to total recall and you have that woman in the chair and she's like clicking on her nails and they're changing colors?

Nathan Mumm:

Uh it's kind of like that, but you don't have to click on them. It actually has there's an AI app that you load up and it just changes it for you.

Mike Gorday:

Of course there is.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, there you go.

Ody:

That is really cool though. Like that is innovation in my eyes.

Nathan Mumm:

See, there's so I'm two for two.

Ody:

So I'm super two. Odie, isn't this good? It's they're press-on acrylics that you can change with your phone.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

Ody:

$95. I was I was against it. Now I'm like, okay, well, if a set, a good set, is between$70 to$120, yeah, and you can save that with just bloop. Yeah, I think that's really cool.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, this is so now you got two things you're gonna have to.

Ody:

All right, here we go.

Nathan Mumm:

You've already spent a hundred bucks. We haven't even gotten anywhere else. All right, number eight, we have the Seattle Ultrasonic Chef Knife. Now, this is made here. Oh, oh, oh. So this is a vibro knife. So this is that's what it is. A vibro knife. So priced at$399 from Seattle Ultrasonics. What it does is the blade vibrates 30,000 times per second. Now, this for a chef, this is a huge I a huge thing to have because it will cut with no resistance and has a traditional feel of the knife. So if you're in there and you're a chef and you're cooking for lots of people, and it does precise precision cuts through meat, through different items that you don't have to worry about. Tomatoes? It can do a lot of stuff. It brings the whole ultrasonic cutting for the home kitchen cook. This is what high-end chefs use that do production factories that have high-end stuff. This is now allowing this to be done on any level of a cook. So the high-end cooks already use ultrasonic cutting techniques when they prepare stuff. This is now making it so I as a person could have one for under a grand for these.

Mike Gorday:

You can get a vibro knife of your very own. And before your head goes where it's going, this is a Star Wars thing. Is it a Star Wars thing? Haven't you heard of those in the Star Wars extended universe? Okay. I have not. You're gonna have to tell me about that. Okay.

Ody:

Well, if you are following on at home or at work, I recommend that you look up everything as we're going through it. Because I was just from the description, I'm like, okay, but now that I'm seeing the product online, I'm kind of putting it in the code.

Mike Gorday:

Or you can go to our blog post. Our blog post. If you go to a tech time radio.com, it's like 500 bucks spent, huh? Right.

Ody:

Well, the fibro knife I'm not down for it.

Nathan Mumm:

But techtimeradio.com. Uh when the show airs immediately after the on the website, we will have the updates so that you can go and take a look at all the items as a blog post. So let's take a look at that. All right, number seven. Now, this is uh this is up Mark's area here. This is this is something I know Mr. Gregois will like. This is called the Vovo Neo Smart Toilets. I love that we have smart toilets. Okay, smart toilets here. This is the price at$4,999. You have to buy it from Vovo, and it's a luxury home toilet. It's heated seats, a bidet, deodorizer, auto lid. But what it does is it does urine analysis that's built into this type of deal, and it has an AI assistant called Gene Doe the Dog, which monitors bathroom safety.

Mike Gorday:

So is your toilet gonna start talking to you? Well, it does. So there's gonna be like hey, the idea of this is that let's see asparagus today.

Ody:

I can tell toilet last year.

Nathan Mumm:

We always do the other toilet toilets. Oh, okay. It has at least 20 different toilet things. This is uh this is still to this day hot items that they have here. But the idea of the AI assistant is let's say you don't go to the restroom for 12 hours or 24 hours. Oh it will alert you that you haven't used the restroom.

Ody:

Does it does it that's actually kind of sweet? But if you have an elderly person that maybe it needs to be.

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know if it does all of that, but what it does is this is for an elderly person that needs to have their clinics taken care of, and you want to regulate to make sure they don't have too much iron in their system.

Ody:

You know what? This would be great for I'm assuming a colonoscopy, because don't you have to bring in You do you see? Oh my god, don't you?

Mike Gorday:

Oh my god, you are just thinking all kinds of things. Here I am thinking it should go in my apartment so it can scream at me when I'm missing it.

Ody:

Do you have to put like a travel notice? Like I will be gone from this in this day.

Nathan Mumm:

So businesses are put businesses are putting these in because if they're doing drug testing, you can immediately know on the drug test with the urine samples if somebody has it. So there is that's an invasion of privacy. No. So there is, well, it's I just like the idea of throwing something screaming at you all the time. They had 10,000 units. Stop peeing on me. All 10,000 units were sold out at CES. They have no more of these units. You have to get on their waiting list. That's because they want talking toilets. All right, the next thing we have here, then you're you're gonna so my wife is into this, and Odie, you're gonna be into this one too.

SPEAKER_04:

We'll see.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so the this is a Kickstarter, so maybe Gwen will talk about this. It hasn't price hasn't been uh taken care of, but it's called Venabot Moving AI Picture Frame. It turns any photo into a script and a talking, moving AI portrait. Think Harry Potter style animated frames that can then have animated celebrities, fictional characters, real people, and it will learn your conversations you have back with it, and your photo will then talk. You're talking to the photo, it's talking to you, it's creating a relationship in what you're doing, and then that photo exelf can experience AI do trap. And Harry Potter, right? They have animated photographs, right?

Ody:

Yes. Now and that's photographs paintings, and the paintings then have conversations with people, right?

Nathan Mumm:

You can have a relationship with an AI. Well, wait till the number one.

Ody:

And they live in my own home. That's pretty nice. All right, yeah, that's right. Like, hello, Chuck.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, and he could be like, How are you doing today? Odie? Is there anything I can do for you?

Ody:

And then we'll talk and you can see that's where I'm like, uh I don't want to.

Nathan Mumm:

No, no, no, we'll not look at you. Okay.

Mike Gorday:

So the picture frame can have conversations with your toilet.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, well, there we go. Now, the next thing at number five is an allergen alert. It's a portable food safety scanner. All right, so launching mid-2026, pricing is to be determined. What makes this unique is that it is the first direct for allergy alert items. It's a pocket-sized detector. You can take it on dates with you, you can take it to a restaurant with you. Chemical sensing. Well, just think of this. So if you go out to a restaurant and you're, let's say you're gluten-free and lactose intolerant, and you don't know if the food is there, all you got to do is take this pocket-sized detector, touch the food, and it will tell you if it's gluten or lactose, and it'll say, Don't eat it, you can't eat it. This could be a life-saving tech for millions with food allergies. Right now, it just does the gluten and lactose, but they expect it to have 20 to 30 different items also continuing. A little stick, you put it into your food and you see it.

Ody:

Yeah, that's what it's like. Are you just like poking your food?

Nathan Mumm:

Yep, you're just poking your food. Yeah.

Ody:

But all the spaces? Because like, what if I get something like a pad thai and that has crunched peanuts on one side and I put it in the center? That's probably not gonna be.

Mike Gorday:

How dare they? They need to know all the stuff. So if you're on a date and you're just kind of randomly sticking your food, your thing in your food. Well, if you if you're glued.

Ody:

At first I was like, okay, because like then it could kind of you can leave your uh service dog at home, kind of thing. But now that you have to poke around everything, no.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you just wait till your date goes to the restroom and then you're just gonna.

Ody:

What date goes to the restroom right as the food arrives?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, apparently his day.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, I guess you're right. He's been married for 8,000 years, so nobody knows.

Nathan Mumm:

Next thing we're talking about, number four, the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold. All right. Hang on, Samsung.com had major different items at the show. Now, this is a 10-inch trifold display. It's a tablet level workspace in your pocket, and what happens is you can unfold it so that it's a much larger, true present uh screen for a tablet. Samsung had a bunch of stuff. So think of it. The first forward and truly replaces a tablet in a mobile design. So say like half of my screen here, I fold it one way and I fold it another way, like a Z fold, right? So you one way and another. Yeah, yeah. It fits in my brochure. Yeah. So it's a brochure type size, fits in the single pane that you originally have, so you could stick it in your pocket.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, see, this is this is a good example of of how technology advances and everybody else is left behind because bifold phones are still not a big thing yet.

Nathan Mumm:

So we're but we're passing it.

Mike Gorday:

Samsung says, forget Yeah, they're like, forget bifolds, let's go for trifolds. They probably have dudes sitting around in the office going, Wow, what are we gonna do now? We we invented the bifold, and somebody goes, Hey, I just got this brochure, and somebody went, Oh yeah, let's do a brochure phone.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, well, you know what? I let's say if you're presenting something. Everybody will want one. Well, I think they're I uh I don't know if this will kick up, but it definitely is an innovation that was at CES. So that's why I made a number four.

Mike Gorday:

I can't wait for the menopause one.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh well, next one, number three. Pretty big thing here. Pre-order pricing to be determined. It's called the para perimenopause. Perimenopause. Perimenopause wearable. Thank you there. You're welcome. All right, it's the first wearable for perimenopause tracking. It's a patch-like sensor that monitors biomarkers tied to hot flashes, sleep issues, anxiety, and night sweats. It turns the guesswork into real data. It fills a massive gap in the women's health tech area with a discrete data-driven device that people don't have to then work with their doctors with and go back to, and it takes care of all the alerting with their without having to go and see the doctor each and every month regarding different items. So in the health area, this won almost all the awards for health aspects for CES because nobody has this women uh health area on nearly their radar for force.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, that's because we're making toilets that talk to you and things that change your nail color.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, there you go. So there you go. That was that was number three. Number two, the Roborock SARS rover stair climbing robot vacuum. So this is a prototype. The consumer versions expected in 2027. What it does is this now takes your beloved Roomba type, well, not Roomba because they're out of business. They're out of business, but your vacuuming robot and now moves it so it can climb stairs. So if you have a split-level place and you have stairs in your house, you don't have to have a device upstairs. It will climb the stairs. It will clean as it climbs the stairs. So it cleans the stairs, and then it will move to a second-level house and continue to do its cleaning throughout the day. There we go. It's about a four to five hour battery life extended compared to most of these, which are about 45 minutes. So it has an extended battery life to go around your whole house. The demo that they had was about 4,000 square foot house, and it cleaned all of it in about five to six hours. Cool.

Mike Gorday:

I'm gonna I'm gonna buy one from my apartment and just set it outside and let it wander up and down the stairs.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Well, it's got AI and 3D spatial mapping. It climbs stairs and cleans multiple floors. It's got a wheel leg hybrid design, so it has this wheel leg that goes, launches up as it climbs the stairs. Yeah, okay. So it's your first version of getting almost to R2D2. R2D2 doesn't really climb stairs, so this is R2D2. You know that great.

Mike Gorday:

I think they've they've shown him navigating stairs in some movies.

Nathan Mumm:

So I don't know how they do that. They do it with a central leg. The job of the hut. How does he move in in the palace there? How does he move from the lower floor to the upper floor?

Mike Gorday:

He obviously uses a vacuum room thing.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go.

Mike Gorday:

He sits on top of it.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you guys ready for number one? Yeah, this is my favorite. This is actually very scary.

Mike Gorday:

Hit me with it. Is it really?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I don't know. This so this was the okay. This they said that they had people lining up two hours early to come on in to demo this product. So it is a concept design. It's not even available to the market yet. It's not available. It is a hologram-like AI companion living inside a curved O LED display. Now, the demo that they have is of a gal. And so this is like, has anybody ever played the Halo game with Cortana? You know, like this AI person that's kind of talking to you. It has the same type of voice as Cortana, so it's got a Cortana. That they use their Cortana design. Yes. So it's uh so it really looks like a Halo thing, but it's this it think of it as that whiskey bottle, and think of having your AI companion in there that's on 24 by 7 talking with you and a friend that you carry with you. And it's called the AI soulmate. So it's the AI soulmate hologram. So this hologram, like AI companion living inside a curved O L E D display, is always on presence designed to simulate emotional connections, learns your personality, and adapts over time. It blurs the line between assistant companion and digital partners.

Ody:

What is it called?

Nathan Mumm:

It is called the Libro A-L-E-P-R-O Amy A-M-I, AI Soulmate. You're you're you're looking at it right now online. So this is really, really scary.

Mike Gorday:

This is the most really scary. Is this what scares Nathan?

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, it's the most futuristic, surreal, talked-about device that's CES. It pushes the boundaries of emotional AI and raises a big question about the future of human and AI relationships. It's bold, unsettling, and unforgettable. The pure essence of CES. So this person, I believe, is to be just more than a companion and an AI assistant in your pet. This is moving from a Tamagotchi pet that you'd have in your pocket to a full-fledged 24 by seven partner that you can talk about. Man. Yeah, did you just read about it? And what do you think? She looks you look bothered by this. What's that, Vodie?

Ody:

I I will make this reference to the day I die. The movie, her. We are getting closer and closer to it every freaking day.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, yeah. This is getting close.

Ody:

And even in her, they never gave it like an image of what she looked like or anything, of what what he walking Phoenix's character wanted it to look like.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, this is exactly this is exactly what I've been talking about. The the demo was of only a female, not a male.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah.

Ody:

No, I see it right here.

Nathan Mumm:

And she's very attractive.

Ody:

Yes.

Nathan Mumm:

And very um, she she doesn't spend a lot a big budget on clothing. So they're very uh very light clothed. Um this is like lightly clothed. Light light light. Um so the idea of this, and they didn't have the demo because people were waiting in line to see if they could get this unit naked, if they could do some excuse stuff. But the idea of this when it releases, if you read the information, is that it's your companion, so you could pretty much do whatever you want with this companion because it's your live in companion. Yes.

Mike Gorday:

Well, if it's a hologram, it has several cameras making it look like a 3D generated. And it looks like a 3D generated type of deal.

Ody:

So it's like AI. But I was expecting something that you wear all the time and have it project like in front of you.

Mike Gorday:

They already have cases for this to travel. Well, I'm sure somebody's out there doing that because they wanna, you know, they wanna they want to marry their pillow. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

So this is like this is where you're gonna get people that want to marry their side. This is the first step.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, this is this is more and more problematic as we go along, especially if you see that all these people, all these nerds were lining up to do this because you know they need to get their digital girlfriend and and all. They gotta get their socks off. They gotta get their socks. AI soulmate. Yeah, it's AI soulmate. That's I don't even have to predict this stuff. I can just, I can just you know send you out there and you can find it yourself. Well, there you go.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go. Well, you know that movie? I do know that movie. Okay, okay. Okay, well, this ends our 2026 look at CES. Hopefully, you guys had a great time. If you want to review any of these items, just go to techtime radio.com and you can take a look at our blog post, and I'll have links to each of these items available for you guys to take a look at. What's up, Odie?

Ody:

I might be sold on the polish thing. I just looked at the whole video and everything. That is really freaking cool. It is so freaking cool.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. There you go. So they I believe they still have some of those devices.

Ody:

I mean, I'm not there yet, so not now, but that is also really cool. The fact that because women are often overlooked in the medical world. They are world. They are so it's nice that that's finally being like, oh, let's put this on a standpoint right now.

Nathan Mumm:

So so you're you're almost$300. Uh she's$300 in the hole from today's CES episode.

Mike Gorday:

What was the first one?

Nathan Mumm:

No, she's uh she's a hundred she's a hundred dollars in the hole.

Ody:

She's a hundred dollars in the hole.

Mike Gorday:

You're only gonna do this ninety-five and eight.

Nathan Mumm:

You're not gonna do the uh lava tech lollipop star. Yeah. No. Okay. No, that was her first purchase. Okay. So she she did that. She did she said she would buy it.$95 for the starter kit. Odie, if you really want this, you should like get on and order it like immediately.

Ody:

Right, right, right, right.

Nathan Mumm:

Because it's gonna come on out.

Ody:

Right.

Nathan Mumm:

People are gonna start listening to other CES items and it's gonna get it.

Ody:

I don't like the fact that it's a standard length. Like, I wish I could change the length because I have little hands and I have little fingernails, and what they have right now is really long for me, but I am really intrigued.

Nathan Mumm:

So if you get it now, I'm sure you can get on the code.

Ody:

I'm like, I'm sold on it, and I don't, I'm not usually sold on the next side of things. All right.

Nathan Mumm:

Nathan is corrupting you. All right, Mike, we're gonna now move on to your mesmerizing moment.

SPEAKER_02:

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

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we're going right back to the CES top 10 innovations. Which one of these items interests you the most and why? What? Which one which one of these interests you the most and why?

Mike Gorday:

What if I'm not interested in any of them? Uh so you're not interested in the are you interested in I I totally want the hologram girlfriend. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Do you want that?

Ody:

The toilet?

Mike Gorday:

The toilet yelling at me that I haven't peed in a long time. That Uh yeah, I'm not really on the on board with that. How about the stair climbing robot? The stair climbing robot uh it only serves it only serves people who live in houses that have stairs, which I don't. All right. Do you have any allergies? Nope. Okay. Nope. And you know and and while I think that's an interesting idea where you could scan your food uh for allergens, um I don't think it's I don't think it's good enough. I don't think I don't think that's good enough. All right, so you gotta choose one. Which one and why? Which one do you like? Why do I have to choose one? Because that's your mesmerizing moments. That's my that's my mesmer. I don't know.

Nathan Mumm:

How about the Harry Potter frame? Would you like that?

Mike Gorday:

No, because that's one step below the the AI the AI girlfriend.

Nathan Mumm:

So I guess you're stuck with then with the lollipops.

Mike Gorday:

I might I might go with the you know, if I had to pick something off of this this list, yeah, even though I've even though I've bagged on every single thing that's we've talked about today. Yeah, I would probably have to pick the ultrasonic chef knife. Ah, there you go. See? Well, I don't I don't have to worry about the perimenopausal stuff, obviously. Okay. Uh I'm not into AI girlfriends, so that cuts off a couple of things. I don't need the nail thing. Okay. I don't have allergies. Okay. Uh I don't need I don't need a triple fold phone. All right. Right. Okay. But I do cook, so Okay, so you're gonna go with the knife. Maybe I'll yeah, I think I'll just go with the knife. Okay, there you go. Yeah, I'm uh that was very super mesmerizing and has nothing to do with human behavior, but hey. Well, well, you know, you know what?

Nathan Mumm:

I just wanted to re-go back to the CES stuff. So we'll get you something next week.

Mike Gorday:

That's fine. I mean, CES, we do this every year where we talk about I think thank goodness I did this. It seemed like CES was super boring. Well, I had to dig and dig. You know, we usually have we usually have the best CES stuff and then we have this the really, really bad stuff. But there isn't really we do that.

Nathan Mumm:

No, there is no real bad stuff. So normally we do two shows. This is kind of the one show. So CES has really gone back to pre-COVID times. During COVID, CES had to become more creative, and really is what happens. So now you have all the big boxes there. Samsung doing 20,000 different I think.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, because ultimately it's going to they they go with what people want to buy. That's right.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, now though, we're gonna move into our secret sound.

SPEAKER_06:

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.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, there's the secret sound. So you know what that secret sound is. The pot's currently at$15, so jump online now and leave us a message under the contact page. If no one guesses it, the pot will continue to grow$5 per show. Now we're gonna take a commercial break. When when we return, 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 too. 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, we could use your support on patreon.com. Or is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, Patreon. If you really like us, you can say I'm English guy? Patreon.com. I I butcher the English language? You know you butcher the English language.

Nathan Mumm:

So it's all the time.

Mike Gorday:

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

Nathan Mumm:

You know the one that Zuckerberg owns? The one that we always bag on? Yeah, you can we're on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on Facebook. Do you know what our Facebook page is? Tech Time Radio. At Tech Time Radio. You know what? There's a trend here.

Mike Gorday:

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

Nathan Mumm:

Or you can even Instagram with us. And that's at Tech Time Radio. That's at Tech Time Radio. Or you can find us on TikTok. And it's Tech Time Radio. It's at Tech Time Radio.

Mike Gorday:

Like and subscribe to our social media. Like us today. We need you to like us. Like us and subscribe. That's it.

SPEAKER_02:

That's it. That's that simple.

SPEAKER_08:

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

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, we're going all the way back to January 20th, 1970. The Super Fight. Now, the Super Fight was a simulated boxing match between two all-time greats, Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano, created by a filming both of these actors acting out scenarios, and then the winner was decided by computer algorithms. It was screened on over 1,500 cinemas, and it's been later released on DVD. The project aimed to determine the greatest heavyweight champion by staging fantasy bouts between champions from different eras. After losing one such radio broadcast, though, Ollie sued for one million dollars claiming Defamination. Defamation player, sorry. This is a great story of how technology, video, and personalities all came together, and it's a reality TV show must-watch just to review the actual event. Not including all the technology used to make this happen. The DVD is available on Amazon for eleven dollars. And if you do a Google search and just take a look at the Wikipedia page, go and just spend a couple minutes and look up the super fight. It was revolutionary for the idea to create computer animated uh live video to simulate a boxing match. And it's interesting that Europe had a different winner than the United States in their releases. So that's all I say. We could do a whole show on this, and maybe you know Neat Tech should do something like that.

Mike Gorday:

All right, moving on. That's where Mortal Kombat came from.

Nathan Mumm:

There you go. Uh that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some tech time history with over 280 plus weekly broadcast spanning our five plus years of video, podcast, and blog information. You can always visit us online at techtime radio.com to watch our other shows. We're going to take a commercial break when we return. We have the Mark Mumble whiskey review. So see you after this.

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Segment:

The segment we've been waiting all week for.

Nathan Mumm:

Did you listen to this CES toilet review?

SPEAKER_11:

I did. Thank you for making a call out to me, but I really like those nails.

Nathan Mumm:

You like the nails, though. Okay. The nails are it. All right. Okay.

SPEAKER_11:

I'm with Odie on that one, man. That's not a bad prize for a full set of good nails. No. Changing colors. How do you know?

Ody:

He's a girl dad.

SPEAKER_11:

Oh, there you go. All right. Okay. Thank you, Odie. I was trying to figure out how to explain that one to Mike.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, there you go. Continue on. No, no, the way you the way the way he behaves around here, you have to ask that question.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Mark, continue on. Tell us what is unique about today.

SPEAKER_11:

Today, January 20th. You guys are sort of celebrating today already.

Nathan Mumm:

All right.

SPEAKER_11:

Today is national coffee break day.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, we always like coffee. We like coffee with our on our show.

SPEAKER_11:

Coffee and coffee break.

Nathan Mumm:

Coffee.

SPEAKER_11:

It's a little yeah, so let's all take a coffee break, put the pause on the show, and we'll come back in a bit. Okay. Because today, today is a reminder that even the most productive people need to step away and recharge, Nathan. Now, coffee break is not just a habit, it's the quickest way to reset your brain, boost your energy like you need it, and get back to work pretending you are fully awake for that next meeting. So National Coffee Break Day is this to remind us that productivity and caffeine have been in a long committed relationship for a reason.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Mike Gorday:

Alright. Yeah, my co my coffee is gonna go AI someday, and there we go. There you go. Your girlfriend can serve it, yeah. I don't have any.

SPEAKER_11:

I know you guys are both drinking coffee today. We do the whiskey. We do both. Now I love a good coffee break. Okay, but I'm far less enthusiastic about the coffee itself. I'm not a coffee drinker.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh right.

SPEAKER_11:

And I'm even less so about this Scotch whiskey. What? Now that now that brings us today's bar.

Mike Gorday:

It's not a Scotch whiskey.

SPEAKER_11:

I am not. Now, this distillery that this whiskey is from, Nathan, was founded in 1810. And once it was the largest distillery in all of Scotland. It was best known for producing green whiskeys using blends like Johnny Walker and Bell. Now the distillery closed in 2010 and was demolished a year later. Now its remaining stocks are aged elsewhere. And this whiskey is part of orphan barrel. So they the company that closed the distillery has an orphan barrel and they've moved these barrels into that brand, and they showcase rare and often forgotten barrels of whiskey. Now what brings us which brings us back to Nathan and Mike for the tasty note. And since this is Nathan's bottle, we're all about to find out whether this was an inspired configuration or just another one of his silly random impulse vies.

SPEAKER_04:

Do you?

Nathan Mumm:

Okay. Alright. Well, you know, thank you very much for that whiskey mumble there, Mark. I know that I am looking at this table, and it seems Mike has already gone through his whiskey. So that is a pretty positive note there. We'll see if it gets a thumbs up or two thumbs up by the end of the show. Yeah, we already know what what your thumb is gonna do. All right, but now whiskey and technology are such a great pairing. Like time travel and the Stargate movie and TV series callback. All right, now let's pay for our technology fail of the week brought to you by Elite Executive Services. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_05:

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

Nathan Mumm:

Yes. Did I? Yes. All right. Verizon just earned itself a spot on our technology fail of the week as a nationwide outage knocked millions of customers offline. Phones across the country dropped into SOS mode for nearly 10 hours, leaving users without calls, text, or data. And leaving Verizon scrambling for answers, it still hasn't provided. To patch things up, though, immediately, the carrier is offering a$20 account credit delivered through the My Verizon app once it becomes available. But you have to opt into it. So they're not just giving it to you. You will have to launch your app and opt in to get your$20 refund. All right. You'll get a text telling you the credit is ready, the real tech savvy move. Uh don't click the link. Don't click on that. Oh, the outage, like these are prime time for scammers, opening the app directly, tap take action and redeem the credit safely. So you have to open the app directly, tap take action, and then redeem the credit. Otherwise, the$20 will not go rewarded to you. Now Verizon apologized and says it did not meet the standard of excellent customer service and customers expect. This is putting it mildly, a full-day network collapse and no explanation is a textbook infrastructure failure and a reminder that even the biggest carriers can stumble hard. If your phone still hasn't reconnected, a simple restart by throwing it into a bathtub and removing the battery should fix it. It should bring your phone back online. But for now, Verizon's outage stands as a major 2026 tech fail and the wake-up call about the fragility of the networks we rely upon every day.

Mike Gorday:

Now let me just tell you this. Yeah, 20 bucks is not much if you're if you're a Verizon user. That's why I have Team Mobile.

Nathan Mumm:

That's why I'm a T Mobile user. I didn't have to worry about this. I just have to worry about every quarter being compromised and breached. All right. Let's move on 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.

SPEAKER_11:

Today we are drinking Orphan Barrel Muckity Muck, 26 year single malt scotch. It is from a distillery in Glasgow, Scotland that no longer exists. It is, as we mentioned, 26-year-old, 92-proof. And the cost at Costco is$150.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah. Well, Marky's not going the$150 at Costco because he knows that's where I bought it. I get it. I get it. You're right. I got it at Costco. He also knows you bought how many bottles? I bought a couple of bottles. Well, I'm going to start off first with my pick. And this is absolutely positively. Nathan is totally on board with Scotch.

SPEAKER_11:

Up fantastic. So, Mike, Mike, I'm sure you're fine on it. Maybe a little of the back taste is my guess, but does it taste like a 26-year-old single malt scotch?

Mike Gorday:

Uh okay. So I have to say that I I don't have a lot of experience with scotch in and of itself. But no, this tastes more like a bourbon style whiskey. It doesn't taste much like a scotch to me. Okay. I mean it's good. It's a good tasting thumbs up or thumbs down. I I'll give it a thumbs up because it tastes good, but uh, it doesn't have a lot of peaty kind of aftertaste or anything like that, which I've come to understand as part of the scotch experience. There you go.

SPEAKER_11:

A lot of those scotches, as hopefully we'll learn this year, do not contain peat at all.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_11:

Well there's a ton that are non-peated.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, see, I'm not a bit I'm not a big scotch guy, so I don't know what all the little flings are. But it, you know, it's a nice flavor. It's it's kind of bland. So Mark asking me questions.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm so sorry, but we gave it two thumbs up. You're gonna have to put that on the the website and it'll kill you.

SPEAKER_11:

We have to modify that website for Nathan and Mike and Mark. Real connoisseur.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, we we should update it. We can do it for 2026.

SPEAKER_11:

Actually, for this, I wouldn't, I wouldn't do it. Because as as our regular listeners know, I don't anything over usually 20% malted barley just turns my palate off, so it's nothing in particular with it with it.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

Nathan Mumm:

All right.

Mike Gorday:

Well, I always have a conniption over here because we're talking too much.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, from all of us at Tech Time, it was an honor to be the host of today's show. Each week, we're here to decode the technology that shapes your world, one breach, breakthrough, and bourbon at a time. Remember, the science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. See you next week. Later.

Mike Gorday:

Bye-bye.

Introduction:

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Nathan Mumm

Host
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Mike Gorday

Co-host