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265: Windows 10 Lives On with Lifeline until 2026. Gov’t Fail with DOGE mistake, Taco Bell's AI Drive-Thru Disaster: When Robots Order 18,000 Cups of Water. Next, TransUnion Breach, Saturn flyby, Two Thumbs up on the Bourbon | Air Date: 9/2 - 9/8/25
The digital house of cards continues to collapse as our personal data faces unprecedented vulnerability. This week, we reveal how the Department of Government Efficiency's reckless handling of over 300 million Americans' Social Security numbers could lead to a massive security crisis. After repeatedly warning about these dangers, our predictions are unfortunately coming true - just as we've seen with Taco Bell's embarrassing AI drive-thru experiment.
Remember when Microsoft promised Windows 10 would be "the last operating system you'd ever need"? That promise expires October 14th, 2025, when support officially ends. But don't panic - we break down exactly how to secure free extended security updates through 2026 using Microsoft Rewards points. With nearly half of all PC users worldwide still running Windows 10, Microsoft has been forced to create options for those who can't or won't upgrade to Windows 11.
The technology failures continue mounting as TransUnion joins Equifax and Experian in the data breach hall of shame. Despite claims of "limited exposure," dark web samples reveal the credit bureau leaked names, addresses, phone numbers, and unredacted Social Security numbers for 4.4 million Americans. When all three major credit reporting agencies have been compromised, who can we trust with our most sensitive information?
Our Two Truths and a Lie segment challenges listeners to separate fact from fiction in today's outlandish tech landscape, while Mike's Mesmerizing Moment examines why the constant pursuit of new technology doesn't actually make us happier. We also take a nostalgic journey back to 1977 when Pioneer 11 made history as the first human-made object to fly past Saturn.
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Nathan Mumm:Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm. The show that makes you go hmm. Technology News of the Week the show for the everyday person talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mumm, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise. Our co-host, Mike Gourdet, is in studio today. He's the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. We have Odie behind the board and we have Mark MIA. He is at a whiskey, he's right here.
Nathan Mumm:Is he right there? Yeah, that's a good version of him, he looks like a little monkey.
Nathan Mumm:He misses out on today's show so he can be at a whiskey conference. That sounds like Mark. That does sound like him. All right, we're live streaming to you in our show on four of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, Twitch TV, Facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to visit us online at techtimeradiocom and become a Patreon supporter at patreoncom. Forward slash techtimeradio. Now, we are all friends with different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have Odi, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.
Speaker 1:Now on today's show.
Nathan Mumm:Now on today's show. All right, today on the show we have Two Truths and a Lie, our game show that pits all of us against each other. Odie and Mike will have an opportunity to listen to three articles that I talk about and see if they guess which one is a fake. We'll also, of course, have tons of information, and we have breaking news on Windows 10. We've talked, of course, have tons of information and we have breaking news on Windows 10. We've talked about this before, so you're going to want to absolutely make sure you stay tuned for that, because it may just save you a year or two of upgrades. Now, in addition, we have our standard features, including Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, a possible Nathan nugget and, of course, our pick of the day, whiskey tasting. Let's see if our selected whiskey pick at zero one or two thumbs up at the end of the show. But now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology here are our top technology stories of the week all right.
Nathan Mumm:So guess what? These are kind of review stories. Mike, this is gonna be interesting. We talked about this when the doge doge, or the department of what was it?
Mike Gorday:the department of government efficiency.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, okay, so we talked about this it's a hustle.
Nathan Mumm:That's right. We talked about this before, but now it's officially coming on out. A whistleblower has said that former senior doge officials now at the social security administration copied Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees by former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security. The whistleblower claims potentially putting a bunch of information out on risk. Let's go to Lisa Walker with more on this.
Speaker 5:A written complaint filed through the Nonprofit Government Accountability Project alleges that senior Trump appointees at the Social Security Administration, who recently were part of the Department of Government Efficiency team, made copies of data in a manner that constitutes violations of law. The complaint states that career cybersecurity officials within the SSA warned that the decision to duplicate the data was very high risk and discussed the potential need to reissue social security numbers to millions of Americans if the cloud server was compromised. Back to you guys in the studio.
Mike Gorday:What was that? The cheek? I think she was what was that?
Nathan Mumm:I don't know. I need to ask Lisa.
Mike Gorday:Isn't this a tech fail of the week? What is this?
Nathan Mumm:What is this so okay? Well, this isn't a tech fail. A tech fail gets even worse. You're going to be even more not happy about that. So here's what we got amazon web services. You know it's a great service, but I don't know if we should have our government social security numbers hanging out on amazon's cloud service. Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn't.
Mike Gorday:Um the you know. This is the time where I you know, thank God, that I am almost dead.
Nathan Mumm:Why is that? Why are you happy that you're almost dead, Mike?
Mike Gorday:Because I don't have to put up with all the stuff that's going on in technology for that much longer. Is that what you did?
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, so what happens if, all of a sudden, you got an email and something in the mail that says that you needed to get a new social security number? What would you do about that? What Is that? What's going to?
Mike Gorday:happen.
Ody:Am I going to?
Mike Gorday:get a piece of mail in my mailbox.
Ody:That is such a pain.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, so your social security number that you have memorized.
Ody:That's insane.
Nathan Mumm:You're going to have to re-memorize a new one Now. We talked about this when this was happening. We said you know what? That we were informed by security experts Some of them maybe are Nick Espinosa and other individuals that you know what this stuff that was going on with the Department of General Unaccountability or General Entertainment.
Ody:Or Doge, yeah, okay, yeah, general, what's that?
Nathan Mumm:a coin Department. It is Department of General Entertainment, is what I'm going to start calling them. I did not use practical security. They actually went on in and they started copying files. You know how? You have Windows Explorer. You open it up.
Mike Gorday:You know you copy stuff to like a USB drive. Just leave me alone. I'm going to sit here and drink.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, so they started copying stuff over. Now, according to Andre Meza, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project, the cloud environment appeared to be set up for DOGE-affiliated Social Security staffers, but it lacks independent security monitoring oversight and has serious concerns about vulnerability. Now this is really important because when somebody sues you as a company, let's say you're an employee and you sue a company and since I work on IT backends, this has happened many times before. There's all about this chain of custody on how information is obtained, retained, what it goes through. Chain of custody in the United States government is a formal process of if this data is copied here, we put this information here. We put this information here. When the Department of General Entertainment decided to come on in and change all of this, they didn't follow the practices. If you have a practice that is developed by your government, you should all have to follow the process, whether it's right or wrong.
Mike Gorday:I think you should not get rid of all the security experts. That's what I think.
Nathan Mumm:And you shouldn't get rid of security experts. All of this is going to point to this being compromised. We've talked about this. I will guarantee you, in the next year or two, we're going to have this compromised social security numbers. Just wait till we get to the technology fail of the week. The technology fail of the week is going to make you go, oh my gosh, because we are at the point now where everything is getting compromised and you know what? It's just like all right. Well, you know what? No big deal. Just hopefully you're checking your credit cards and your credit and everything that you do every day, 24 by 7, to make sure that you're, uh, secured, because the people that have your data online and the companies that have your data no longer care yeah, I'm just gonna be really upset if, if my stuff gets compromised and somebody gets a better job with my social security.
Mike Gorday:So is that what? You're gonna worry that that will.
Nathan Mumm:That will take me out, okay, all right. Well, that's what we got going on. We did talk about this and now it nationally broke as news. So okay, well we're oh you know what? We're months ahead of the mainstream media. Let's let's uh, keep our fingers crossed. All right, I can't wait for this next, this, this, this next, this I I think we should start a new segment.
Mike Gorday:What is this going to be called? I told you so. I told you yeah, we should. You know what this is going to be. This is going to be. I told you so all three of these stories today are I told you.
Nathan Mumm:So yeah, it's going to be interesting. Wait till you okay there you go. So what do we have next on?
Mike Gorday:I told you so okay, remember not too long ago we talked about taco bell replacing all their people with computers.
Nathan Mumm:We did talk about that yeah, and how I think wendy's has done that a little bit with some of their uh marketing and their uh uh pricing right, they did pricing the surge pricing yeah, okay, what happened?
Mike Gorday:so, after two million ai orders, guess what? What? Taco bell has admitted that humans still belong in the drive-thru what yep say?
Nathan Mumm:that's not so it.
Mike Gorday:It apparently is so okay. Fast food companies have been experimenting with integrating artificial intelligence into their restaurants, from Flippy the Burger Flipping Robot at White Castle to Dynamic Pricing at Wendy's. One arena where AI seems to be really struggling, though, is at the drive-thru, and Taco Bell is the latest to experience AI mishaps at the order box. After taking two million orders with AI, taco Bell has reached one conclusion it's a dumb idea.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, alright, now you could have told them that on day one, right.
Mike Gorday:I did. I think I said that on this show that this was a bad idea.
Ody:It's funny because we're not even account executives and we know better.
Mike Gorday:You know, account executives are like tv executives they have no idea what what's going on, but I don't, they don't, they want to save money and then in the long run they're just wasting money. Yes, yeah, well, yeah, but what they did here they're gonna get they're gonna get sacked and then they're gonna go do the same thing at some other company.
Nathan Mumm:Here's the secret, though. What you always say is it's a learning experience.
Mike Gorday:And that's what they said. We're learning a lot. I'm going to be honest with you.
Ody:How long was that? Do you know how long that was? In a time period or anything. Two months. It was only two months.
Nathan Mumm:No, it's been longer than that it's about two and a half months, two and a half months.
Mike Gorday:Okay. Well, dane Matthews, taco Bell's chief digital and technology officer, told the Wall Street Journal I think, like everybody, sometimes it lets me down, but sometimes it really surprises me. Way to go, dane. That's real smart, all right. Revelation comes after Taco Bell's new AI drive-thru ordering system was a subject of memes online, primarily on TikTok, where people had a great time showing off flaws in the new technology. In one video, a customer caught the AI in a loop, continually asking what they wanted to drink, until they became so frustrated they drove away. In another video, a customer started ordering McDonald's food at Taco bell and the ai let them do it and even suggested mcdonald's dipping sauces, before the drive-thru worker cut in to complete the order properly. Oh wow, in a coup de gras, yeah, one customer ordered 18 000 cups of water and the ai was perfectly fine with that, causing the drive-thru worker to once again step in and save the day.
Nathan Mumm:All right, so so these workers, I guess, are listening when these people come up to the ai well, yeah, they have, they have.
Mike Gorday:They have to have somebody sitting there.
Nathan Mumm:So so you have an employee listening to the ai to make.
Mike Gorday:This is this is like this is like that, uh, instead of talking emotional robot thing where the person was standing outside the room and sending the little robot.
Ody:Yeah, they were listening to the whole conversation and they were listening to the conversation Same thing, okay, all right Okay. Or like the Amazon Go. Thing.
Mike Gorday:Yep, yep, where they're just somebody. Some real person is sitting there In.
Nathan Mumm:India. In India, the Amazon Go was all announced. So come on and walk into our stores, grab our stuff and go. And it was people in India 100 people in India that would zoom in on cameras to then charge you on the item that you grabbed. All right, all right.
Mike Gorday:Well, here's a. Here's a firsthand witness. So David Katzmeyer witnessed these issues firsthand. He says my daughter and I are recently a Taco Bell with an AI drive through attendant, got a lot of the order wrong and when she raised her voice to repeat herself and correct the mistake, the human drive-thru person came on and told us he was listening all along. Makes me wonder why they used AI at all. Some Taco Bell employees have also posted content gently reminding folks that when they yell at the AI system, the employees can hear them. So does that give?
Nathan Mumm:you kind of a little bit of a of a lead way Cause if you're thinking you're talking to AI and you just start berating, listen to your mother, I'm going to.
Mike Gorday:I'm going to put something out there and say that that's probably better for the Taco Bell employees. What's that? To listen to the that they're listening to somebody yell at the AI Instead of them.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, I guess that's okay. What were you going to say, Odie?
Ody:I was going to say are you guys part of the online meme where people are calling robots and AI stuff slurs?
Nathan Mumm:No.
Mike Gorday:What kind of slurs? Like clanker yeah, oh, that's, that's that's the that's an old term that's being reused. Yes, well, yeah, that's from star wars yes, yeah, I, I have actually seen that one. I didn't know it was like that prevalent.
Nathan Mumm:But yeah, it is a city robot you don't like yeah well, it's just funny.
Ody:It just just goes to prove that, as much as we try to be on the breaking edge of technology, we can never change human what Behavior.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, human behavior, you can't change humans.
Ody:Because people are going to go off on a robot that literally cannot do anything.
Nathan Mumm:So remember the whole idea of groceries being delivered to your house.
Mike Gorday:Well, they do that to people, so why?
Ody:wouldn't, they do that.
Nathan Mumm:So groceries being delivered to people's houses. This actually came on out in 1997, 98, 99. There were companies that built their whole thing, thinking that people didn't want to go to a grocery store and have items delivered to you. Amazon did this, other companies did this and companies did this and it only took when COVID hit that people were starting to get more comfortable with either A picking up food that somebody else did.
Mike Gorday:That's because we didn't have a choice.
Nathan Mumm:We didn't have a choice and now food service, delivery and groceries is starting to pick up, but that's actually almost over 20 years. People did not accept. The technology has always been there, but people didn't accept the idea.
Nathan Mumm:That's why car dealerships still exist yeah, you as much as you think it's easy to go the yeah, there's just some things that just can't become like fully automated yep carvan is not the same experience as that sales guy trying to make sure that I really want that mustang when I don't have any idea of buying it because it's on sale all right, yep, so I told you, so it's a way to go taco bell. I told you so well, you know what, though, it says?
Mike Gorday:they're going to shelve the technology, and they'll come back with that at a later time yeah, they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna try it again when, when they do a little tweaks, or we're gonna probably, to probably, wait for chat GPT what eight? To come out. We're on five now, so there you go.
Nathan Mumm:All right, story number three Now we talked about this. So the big push is that Windows 10 is shutting down. But when Windows 10 came on out, the president of the company and senior officials said that this would be the last operating system you ever needed.
Nathan Mumm:Your favorite company said this. Well, they're not my favorite company, but they said that you would never need to get another operating system If you bought Windows 10, we will always upgrade it. This is the last operating system you need. Microsoft's in a little bit of a dilemma here because they want people to go to Windows 11, but they have made some big promises to companies and the companies are holding them accountable, and so are the consumers. So if you're running windows 10, you need to do this before october 14th to be secure. But windows is not going away anytime soon. Window 10 users who haven't upgraded to windows 11 need to enroll in the microsoft extended security updates program to receive critical security updates.
Mike Gorday:Okay, so this is their thing. Huh, this is the deal. Well, we're not going to keep Windows 10 forever. Oh, wait a minute. We got Windows 11 here, oh now. Well, they're not going to get any new features in Windows 10.
Nathan Mumm:So Windows 10 that you have right now will stay with the features that it has.
Speaker 2:The new features.
Mike Gorday:And it works really good, so maybe that would be a great thing. Yeah, Windows 10 works fine, so all these people are sticking with Windows 10. And Microsoft's response to that is okay, we'll keep supporting the security features as long as you pay us.
Nathan Mumm:Well, hang on here. Well, guess what? You can enroll in the extended security update programs for free. So let me tell you about this. Okay, all right, microsoft's about to pull the plug on windows 10. Support for the decade-old operating system is scheduled to end on october 14th and users are encouraged to upgrade to windows 11. However, with less than two months from the out of end support, nearly 43 percent of pc owners in the world are still running windows 10. That's because it works. So you got 40. You can't just shut down a system when half almost half of the world or so are still running this as their primary system.
Mike Gorday:Because that's because they probably believe Microsoft when they said they weren't going to make another one.
Nathan Mumm:Well, yeah. So these users now must either upgrade their device or continue to use the outdated software. Let's see how Microsoft releases the outdated software if their devices doesn't support Windows 11.
Mike Gorday:Well, people are still running Windows 95, so I don't know about 95.
Nathan Mumm:I think it's Windows XP. All right To give us users more time to upgrade their software and hardware to Windows 11. To give more time, microsoft has promised to continue supporting Windows 10 with one more year of security updates. Anyone with Windows 10 can enroll for the extended security updates program and continue receiving updates through October 13th 2026. Now Microsoft says the EOS program is not intended as a long-term solution, but rather a temporary bridge to stay secure while one migrates to a newer supported platform.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, you know what Microsoft.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah.
Mike Gorday:This is the same thing as Taco Bell.
Nathan Mumm:Well, let me. Let me just tell you this If you're a business, you can opt in to have these Microsoft extended security updates now for three years. So an individual user gets a one-year extension. If you're a business now, you get three years with this program.
Nathan Mumm:Now, to make sure you're running the latest version of Windows 10, which is version 22H2, you can check out your Windows version and settings. You can click Windows Update. After that, you can view your update history. Once you're sure you're up to date, visit Settings again in Windows Update and look for the links in the top right-hand corner of the interface. It should read Windows 10 Support Ends in October 2025. And then it should say Enroll in Extended Security Updates to Keep your Device Secure.
Nathan Mumm:Below the message is a link to, and then it should say enroll in extended security updates to keep your device secure. Below the message is a link to enroll, which will pop up the extended security updates enrollment wizard. Now you're going to need to decide whether you want to sync your settings with OneDrive, which is what they're trying to push you to do, which only gives you a limited amount of space, which means you're going to run out of space, and then you're going to just pay more for OneDrive, or you can pay $30. Or you know what? We've talked about these things before. These are called the Bing Points. If you redeem 1,000 Microsoft reward points for the ESU program, you can get it for free.
Ody:Do you know what that's equal to in USB?
Mike Gorday:He does, yes, he does Bing Points no.
Ody:I know. That's why I'm asking.
Nathan Mumm:So microsoft, a thousand points is probably. Well, it's probably a month's worth of time of searching online. So if you go and search online, every time you search you receive a microsoft point for free with the bing enrollment. Okay, so you?
Nathan Mumm:don't know what that converts to us dollars doesn't necessarily convert uh, exactly, but I would say it converts to shrewd books. It's good, it's it's good it's going to be less than the $30 they're asking you for. Alright, now you can enroll in this program anytime, from now until the program ends October 13th 2026, so you have any time, so it's not a huge rush see, I already got a story for next year's.
Mike Gorday:I told you so that we're going to extend it one more year. After that, microsoft just has to realize they made a bad error and just be like okay, we're just gonna. We're just gonna keep supporting windows 10 for half of all you people who won't upgrade to our awesome windows 11. Yeah, which isn't quite that awesome it's's not horrible? No, it's not horrible. It's not so much better than Windows 10. No, it's not.
Nathan Mumm:Again, if you're a business, you're able to purchase up to three additional years of updates. They're going to allow that for everybody. Because you're going to say, well, I use it at home and it's my personal computer, but I use it for home business. And then Microsoft will be like ah, and it's my personal computer, but I use it for home business. And then Microsoft would be like ah, how do you get the Windows 2 security updates for free?
Nathan Mumm:There's two ways to enroll the Windows Extended Program. You can set up your syncing automatically with OneDrive and you can get it for free or redeem those 1,000 Microsoft reward points. So if you want to sync your stuff to OneDrive, you kind of already do that, mike, so you may be able to do it for free. What? Syncing my one drive? Yeah, sync to your one drive. The ESU enrollment wizard will allow you the three choices when you sign up for free or backup your PC or pay 30 bucks. Now, windows 10 has been impressive. It's had a 10-year run, but the operating system isn't likely to receive updates beyond 2026 is what microsoft said.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, I told you okay.
Nathan Mumm:Still, for many users not yet ready to dive into windows 11, microsoft's free esu program is a welcome stop how many of those people who are running windows 10 can't upgrade to windows 11?
Speaker 2:a lot I have laptops.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, that cannot upgrade to windows 11 yeah, so now you can get extended for windows 10 for a year.
Mike Gorday:So yeah, microsoft microsoft was probably thinking yeah, we'll do this and everybody will buy new computers and yeah, they didn't you remember back in the, the old days?
Nathan Mumm:the olden days, the olden days, remember. You have 286 and 386s and 486s and penny mpcs.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, man, you'd update about every three or four years because the technology advancement and graphics and really it was graphics and video games, to be honest well, yeah, yeah, I think the video game industry drives all that stuff because everybody wants that new game, but they can't run it on the stupid old machine, old machines.
Nathan Mumm:But then they came out with these things, all these entertainment systems like the Xbox S and all these other things that people are like okay, well, I guess I don't need a PC, and so your PC then just becomes a work productivity machine. And guess what? You don't need those high end graphics anymore, so updates are limited. Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week, or the segment we should just call. I Told you so, with all three stories.
Mike Gorday:No, no, no. That has to be a separate segment. That has to be a separate segment. We have to do a separate segment that says I Told you so because, then we can just have our normal stuff, and then we can do? I Told you so, and then we can go. I told you so.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Well, that ends our top telly stories of the week. Next we dive into our game show. Two truths and a lie. Can Odie and Mike pick out the false article? We'll see after this commercial break.
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Nathan Mumm:Welcome back to Tech Time. That was Mike making sure we're all ready to go. I'm clearing my throat. That's right. Our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without any political agenda. We verify the facts, we do it with a sense of humor, in less than 60 minutes and, of course, a little whiskey on the side. Today, mark Gregoire, whiskey Connoisseur, is away. He's in California at a whiskey convention. I'm not bitter about this at all. This is only the second time now. Bitter like the whiskey, that's right so is it really a whiskey convention?
Nathan Mumm:Really it is a whiskey convention.
Ody:Yeah, it is Homies together, so they sit there, they're just getting around.
Nathan Mumm:They're just partying. Yes, so they just sit there. No, no, no, no.
Mike Gorday:Have you seen these?
Nathan Mumm:conventions and stuff Anyway, that go around and go. Oh, I don't think I like that little whiskey, it's not as good as it needs to be.
Ody:They're not like those whiskey.
Nathan Mumm:How is it? Yes, they are. No no, no.
Ody:Not like the wine people. They're like ooh.
Mike Gorday:I don't know about that, so the wine and the whiskey snobs. Maybe they're the same, but I want to know why your accents change in the middle of the sentence. I go wow.
Nathan Mumm:I'm really excited.
Ody:Maybe it has to do with the whiskey of today.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, Odie. What did he pick for us while he was out?
Ody:Today we're drinking the 1792 Bottled and Bond, the Ballard Cut Pick From the whiskey bottle label. In 1897, the Bottled and Bond Act revolutionized the quality of American whiskey. Carrying on that tradition, this well-aged bourbon comes from only barrels filled during the same distilling season and is bottled at exactly 100 proof for a bold taste and lingering finish, a testament to the Bottled and Bond Act established over a century ago. True to its heritage, the unmistakable spice of 1792 bourbon is met with notes of charred oak and fresh mint. Subtle caramel apple tones are delicately balanced with the lingering essence of coffee and black pepper.
Nathan Mumm:I taste the coffee.
Ody:I don't taste the coffee.
Mike Gorday:I have coffee so I taste it anyway.
Ody:But I can attest to the lingering finish because that stayed with me for a really long time.
Nathan Mumm:It does, I did not time, it does, I did not like that, you did not like that oh but you know, here are the stats.
Ody:It's from the sazerac company, the distillation is a barton 1792 distillery in bardstown, kentucky, classified as a straight bourbon aged for at least four years. Uh, 50 abv or 100 proof. The mash bill is undisclosed but it's believed to be a high rye, between 15% to 25% rye, going for $45.
Mike Gorday:That's going to be on Nathan's shelf.
Ody:Now that I know that it's $45.
Nathan Mumm:I kind of like it, I really like it.
Ody:I wouldn't go that far, but I'm not as hating on it.
Nathan Mumm:So if it was a $100 bottle'd be like and be like but now that it's 45 well, how is it?
Mike Gorday:how is it? The cheaper it is, the better it tastes for you folks chill out hold on.
Ody:Last week's was 56 bucks the remus straight bourbon whiskey from.
Mike Gorday:Single Barrel.
Ody:Yeah, from Ross and Squibb Distillation that was 56 bucks.
Nathan Mumm:I like that a lot more than this week's, and I were even price quoting the difference of them. I like that I like that. There you go.
Ody:Anyway.
Nathan Mumm:Okay.
Mike Gorday:Do you know what the best whiskey is for the price?
Nathan Mumm:Oh, my God, canadian Mist? No, not even Canadian. No, not even Canadian. That was so bad, that is the worst.
Ody:That is the worst whiskey.
Nathan Mumm:We need to bring that back as a salute.
Ody:Yeah, as an end of year, cheer.
Nathan Mumm:End of year cheer Every year we should bring back.
Ody:Remember our roots. Yes, yeah.
Mike Gorday:What was the one that we thought was worse than Canadian Mist?
Nathan Mumm:It was a Trader Joe's something. It was a mash bill from Trader Joe's Trader Joe's something.
Speaker 2:It was a mash bill from Trader Joe's.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, and it was horrible too.
Ody:Anyway, you guys, please do not forget to like and subscribe. Drink responsibly. Heaven can wait.
Nathan Mumm:All right, thank you, odie. With our whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment. Today, we bring the three stories ripped from the headlines. Two are true and one's a lie. Can you spot the fake as we start this next segment? And now we have two truths and a lie. All right, here's how we play the game. Od and mike, I'm going to read you three articles. You're going to choose which one of the two are. Well, actually, you really just need to pick out the fake the first one is is All right.
Nathan Mumm:The first one is Wow, hang on, you got to listen to these first. Here's what we got. Scientists create incredible materials that could and put your phones down. No searching, no Googling. They were trying to keep this all all taken care of. Scientists create incredible materials that could boost performance of solar panels, and this can be a significant enhancement. By 2030, solar technology expected to count for 80 of the renewable energy growth. As the cost of solar energy generations have dropped, installations have boomed around the world. However, there is work to be done to optimize the efficiency and reduce the use of toxic materials. Silicon has long been the go-to material for solar panels, but switching home.
Nathan Mumm:Silicon what's?
Ody:that Okay, sorry.
Nathan Mumm:Don't listen to him.
Ody:Okay, my bad, my bad, my bad Continue sir.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, but watching periscite could boost efficiency and allow for the creation of ultralight solar cells. The most efficient proskite solar cells have been incorporated into the designs of some new panels. Toxic metal is particularly dangerous to children. It's being removed, the alternative is lead.
Mike Gorday:Are you reading the article to us?
Ody:Yes, that's the whole thing, yeah.
Mike Gorday:I thought we were just supposed to go off the titles. No, no.
Nathan Mumm:As an alternative to lead-based periscopes. The research has found that using phrenosone uh is a self monolayer molecule abbreviated as a th2 ept, they can achieve a higher power consumption efficiency with lex toxicity good lord nascent.
Mike Gorday:Okay, that's why I was asking why he's reading the whole article, because there's words he can't pronounce and I can't understand.
Nathan Mumm:What Toxicity.
Mike Gorday:Toxicity.
Nathan Mumm:Alright, there you go. Silicon Silicon. You know what silicon is?
Ody:Silicone.
Nathan Mumm:Silicon, whatever. Okay, so the idea. Here scientists are creating incredible material to boost performance of solar panels.
Ody:Okay, thanks for that Story number two.
Nathan Mumm:Finland is on the verge of an incredible human-made alteration for deep beneath the earth that can hold a total of 5,500 tons of waste. In a bold step forward, sustainable nuclear waste management, finland is poised to become the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for long-term storage. Nuclear energy is a type of low-carbon energy source that is harnessed from the power within atoms. However, managing nuclear waste is important because it remains radioactive and can pose safety and environmental risks for many years. Finland's Onkei project represents a monumental leap forward curbing waste and safeguarding the environment. Onkei meaning cave or hollow and finished has been built over the past two decades by an expansive underground repository that serves as the world's first permanent storage site for nuclear waste.
Mike Gorday:Nuclear.
Nathan Mumm:Nuclear, waste Nuclear, and story number three. So you got story one.
Mike Gorday:We got story one one and then we got story two.
Nathan Mumm:Now we're on three amazon announced the new breakthrough and data transfer called photo net. Amazon announced this week the groundbreaking new technology called photo net, designed to transfer data at the speed of light. The company says the system uses a proprietary form of phototonic transmission that is bypassed traditional fiber optic satellites and Wi-Fi interference. According to Amazon, photonet works by encoding digital information directly into controlled light pulses, allowing data to move instantly between compatible devices. Early demonstrates show file transfers completing in fractions of milliseconds, regardless of the distance.
Nathan Mumm:The future of connectivity, said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during the launch event. Photonet is faster than fiber, more stable than 5G and more secure than any wireless protocol on the market today. We believe it'll redefine global communication. Amazon claims the benefit includes instant downloads, a 4K movie transfer in under a second, zero latency communication, video calls feels if the other person's in the same room, and ultra secure channels. Light speeds signals are so far harder to intercept than conventional radio frequencies because they move so fast. Company plans to roll this out into its data centers later this year, with consumer devices expected in 2026 okay, so we've got three stories.
Mike Gorday:The first one is solar panels being upgraded to be more efficient.
Ody:Yeah, yeah.
Mike Gorday:We've got Finland that's going to bury nuclear material in caves.
Nathan Mumm:Yep.
Mike Gorday:And Amazon has created the transporter.
Nathan Mumm:No Well, no, it's just a photo net. No Well, no, it's just a photo net.
Mike Gorday:Amazon is claiming that they can encode photons with information that can be beamed directly to you in a second In a millisecond.
Nathan Mumm:In a millisecond.
Mike Gorday:So are you leaning towards two and three. You know, the Amazon one sounds the most true out of all, really no.
Ody:Okay.
Mike Gorday:I don't think Amazon has figured out how to encode photons with energy.
Ody:They haven't even figured out. Alexa, yeah, or Amazon, go Sidewalk or Sidewalk.
Nathan Mumm:Well, they figure it out, they just use your internet and you just don't know it.
Mike Gorday:Okay, all right. So if they've figured out how to use light to transfer information, that's a lie. That means that I have to have something that can receive light to get that information. Yes, it won't be transmitted over my ethernet, that's correct. So new device, so I'm gonna have to upgrade my my crap to photon receptors, I think so is that?
Nathan Mumm:Is that what I have to do? I think so, all right. Which of these stories do you think is fake?
Ody:I think story three. I think Either story two or story three.
Mike Gorday:I think Amazon is the wrong one. You think Amazon's the wrong one, Mike? Okay.
Nathan Mumm:All right.
Mike Gorday:That's a little bit too much outside of my rational grumpy brain brain all right.
Nathan Mumm:So mike says story number three are you gonna go with mike?
Ody:yeah, you're gonna go with mike well, don't give me that like little glint in your eye about it you know it's gonna turn out he's gonna like.
Mike Gorday:He's gonna like tell us that the finland one is not finland, it's something else it's scotland see what I told you no, no, no, no no, no, no, no.
Nathan Mumm:You said okay. So you got the amazon one. All right and od, I need you, I need your decision five she gave you her decision.
Mike Gorday:She went with the one that sounded ridiculous amazon okay yeah, all right story.
Nathan Mumm:Finland on the verge of incredible human alteration is correct. All right, so that is correct. You guys are correct. So now it comes down to scientists create material. Or Amazon announces a breakthrough in the data transfer photo net, in photonic transfer information transfer and guess what? Mike and Odie, you are correct. No way, Amazon has not broken out in the photo net.
Mike Gorday:That is correct, See even booze this late in the day can't keep me from thinking that Amazon has figured out how to create photonic information. So this is how the story was created.
Nathan Mumm:Let me tell you I will put in the chat GPT-5.
Mike Gorday:I bet you did. Are you joking?
Nathan Mumm:Create a fake story about a technology that Amazon is going to create.
Mike Gorday:You kind of need to not do that in the next game because that was just way, way over.
Nathan Mumm:It was way out there. But the CEO comments was pretty good though, right, no?
Ody:You didn't like the comments. No, I don't care for the comments.
Mike Gorday:He should have said Taco Bell needs drive-thru people Alright.
Nathan Mumm:well, guess what? Hopefully you listening at home also picked out the segment.
Mike Gorday:I'm pretty sure they did.
Nathan Mumm:We do not have transporters created by Amazon yet. If we did have the ability to do that, we're not going to get anywhere near that.
Ody:Oh, from Amazon.
Mike Gorday:Well, that's true.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, from Amazon. You're correct, that's right.
Mike Gorday:That would be cool, because then I could get my stuff a lot faster, can you? Yeah, if they created light transport or teleportation, you know that would be cool.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, so Amazon used to have two-day delivery and it used to have next-day delivery.
Mike Gorday:Oh my God, I ordered something from Amazon last night at 7 o'clock or so. I got it at 4.30 this morning. Oh, my word, that is amazing. But I will say some things. But it didn't come by light.
Nathan Mumm:It did not come by light.
Mike Gorday:It did not come by light, it came by somebody. It could have been His name, could have been light. It freaked out my neighbors because somebody was tromping up and down the stairs.
Nathan Mumm:I like that, I order the 2 am, the 4 am, services all the time, just so that my wife can get the alarm on our doorbell system that somebody's walking outside.
Mike Gorday:That's really, you know. There's this old story called the Boy who Cried Wolf.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah.
Mike Gorday:You know, you know what that story.
Nathan Mumm:I do know that story. Okay, all right. And then the wolf actually comes and no one listens.
Mike Gorday:Amazon, amazon's coming, amazon's coming.
Nathan Mumm:All right, that is our segment, and with that, let's move on to Mike's mesmerizing moment. Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does mike have to say today? All right, mike, here's my questions for you. Okay, when humans get excited about stuff let's say a new technology, a new thing, a new toy does it make us, as humans, happier?
Mike Gorday:no what no well are you? What, what?
Nathan Mumm:wait, ask the question again when humans get excited about new technologies, new things or new toys, does it make us as humans happier?
Ody:no, how can you say that?
Mike Gorday:because there is tons and tons of information out there right now that our technology age is creating people with more depression than ever. Okay, what you're talking about is two different things. Okay, excitement is a feeling and it's very similar to fear. Okay, it, it releases almost the exact same uh, not pheromones, endorphins and things like that pheromones, endorphins and things like that it releases. But there's one thing that excitement releases that, uh, fear does not. So they're very similar and they're these are emotional states.
Mike Gorday:Okay, so if we get excited about something, we have a heightened emotional state. A heightened emotional state does not translate into something like happiness, which is a kind of considered to be this long-term state of being All right, all right, and the interesting thing about our modern society is that we have created this idea that we all have to be happy and there's like this cult of happiness out there that you can't reach. Nobody can reach it. Okay, and so you know, we're out there running around, but what you're talking about is a is an emotional state versus a state of, uh, I guess we could say prolonged contentment or something, something like that. You can't really even define what happy is Okay In in many different terms, but so when I get a new toy, I'm happy. When you get a new toy, you're happy for a while, yeah, and then do you get bored with that new toy.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, yeah.
Mike Gorday:That means you're not happy anymore. Oh, okay, I see what you're saying and, like I said earlier, we, we have this idea that we, we, we deserve happiness. We uh chase happiness and the uh information is different than we're getting. We got everybody's on depressants, antidepressants and depressants. I'm drinking alcohol. That's a depressant. Is it a depressant?
Nathan Mumm:Okay, all right. Well, mike, see, that was good Cause I think Odie and I were kind of questioning that. I would have said yeah but I see your point. Thank you for that mesmerizing moment. Up next we have this Week in Technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we're going to be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. See you in a few minutes.
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Speaker 1:And now let's look back at this week in technology.
Nathan Mumm:Let's look back at this week in technology. All right, we're going back to September 1st, 1977. Pioneer 11 becomes the first man-made object to fly by Saturn. Now Pioneer 11 is the sister spacecraft to Pioneer 10, and it was the first human-made object to fly past Saturn and also returned the first pictures of the polar regions of Jupiter. After boost by the TEM 364-4 engine, the spacecraft sped away from Earth at a velocity of about 32,000 miles per hour, thus equaling the speed of its predecessor, the Pioneer 10. During the outbound journey, there were a number of malfunctions on the spacecraft, including the momentary failure of one of the RTG booms to deploy a problem with an altitude control thruster.
Mike Gorday:Attitude.
Nathan Mumm:Attitude, attitude, yep, attitude.
Mike Gorday:It was happy.
Nathan Mumm:And partial failure of the asteroid dust detector, but none of these jeopardized the asteroid Asteroidal Asteroidal that's what it's called. You know what I got it from the information.
Mike Gorday:No, no, no. It has nothing to do with what you're reading, it's how you're reading it.
Nathan Mumm:Okay, but none of these jeopardize the mission. So that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history, with over 260 plus weekly broadcasts spanning our four plus years broadcast spanning our four plus years that's incorrect. We're now on year six. Uh podcast and blog information. You can visit us at techtimeradiocom to watch our older shows. We're going to take a commercial break, but when we return we have mark's mumble whiskey reveal.
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Speaker 1:Print copies available on Amazon, the Book Pository and more. The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey Mumble.
Ody:All right, you guys.
Mike Gorday:Yep, mumble for us, mark, okay.
Ody:Okay, does anyone know what we're celebrating today?
Mike Gorday:National Mumble Day. Imagine day, national mumble day, imagine um we are celebrating the um first uh ever anyway, it's september 2nd, it's, I told you so day it's calendar adjustment day.
Ody:Oh oh, it's Adjustment Day, oh oh it's.
Nathan Mumm:California. Are you going to sing a song? It's California Adjustment Day. It's California Adjustment Day Calendar. Adjustment Day Calendar.
Ody:Marks the moment history skipped ahead In 19,. No, sorry, in 1752, after Britain adopted their Gregorian calendar, the residents of Britain and the American colonies went to bed on September 2nd and woke up on September 14th, losing 11 days forever.
Mike Gorday:Man.
Ody:The change also reset New Year's Day to January 1st, where it still stands today.
Mike Gorday:Wow, talk about daylight savings time.
Ody:But back in 1752, britain skipped 11 days just to fix its calendar. Fast forward a few decades to 1792, when Kentucky became a state, a milestone that now lives on in the 1792 bottled and bogged bourbon. Two big shifts in the 1700s, one in time, one in whiskey. That's a scratch buddy hey, and here is a twist you probably did not expect. Barton 1792 distillery runs its own coal-fired power plant right on site in bardstown, kentucky wow, yeah, I knew that that's something everybody should know that old school grit fuels one of the boldest bourbons out there 1792 bottled and bond.
Ody:1792 bottled and bond is a great couch pour or something delicious to set your palate at the start of the night, sitting right at a solid 100 proof it. It comes across spicy and sweet. It is not as robust as the 1792 full proof, which is Mark's personal choice, though it carries more potency and spice than 1792's small batch and is worth the step up. This is the fifth time we have featured a 1792 product. The real question is the real question now is will Mike make it a sweep with five out of five thumbs up? Look at him with the statistics. Way to go.
Mike Gorday:Mark, that's a question I'm wavering on this one.
Ody:You're wavering on it, I am.
Mike Gorday:I mean it's good, but I don't know if it's good good.
Ody:You don't think it's a thumbs up?
Mike Gorday:I haven't made my decision yet. Oh, all right. Well, thank you.
Ody:How are you feeling about it? I actually like it.
Nathan Mumm:I'm going to give it a thumbs up.
Ody:You haven't seen him with it. I don't know he hasn't had an epileptic fit.
Nathan Mumm:You haven't finished your Wait how much did you pour, is that? Your, I just poured it a lot. Okay, now Odie's complaining about alcohol.
Mike Gorday:That's right, I just poured it a lot. You want more? She does. She keeps picking up the glass and looking During our commercial break.
Nathan Mumm:we'll get you more Odie so that you can have.
Mike Gorday:Hey no, all right, I'm good. Well, guess what?
Nathan Mumm:We just got a salute. Whiskey and technology are such a great pairing, like Sonics and Tails Shut up.
Mike Gorday:Is it Sonic?
Nathan Mumm:and Knuckles, or Sonic and.
Mike Gorday:Tails.
Nathan Mumm:Let's not. I mean, there's a pairing, that's a good pairing.
Mike Gorday:You know what a good pairing is Mario and Luigi Click and drag. That's a good pairing.
Nathan Mumm:How about Eli and Jacob in the Last of Us? Or is it Ellie? Whatever it's Ellie, I've never seen the Last of Us, do you?
Ody:know how to read. It's not spelled as Eli.
Nathan Mumm:I just looked at it real quick on there. Okay, how about Gordon and Alex?
Mike Gorday:You should try doing it in one of your accents. That turns into some weird sounding. How about?
Nathan Mumm:banjoing. No, no, no.
Mike Gorday:I was just kidding.
Nathan Mumm:Hello Mike. We'll continue on into our next area.
Speaker 1:Okay, Clark.
Ody:Thank you so much Mark.
Nathan Mumm:I got many voices.
Ody:We're like Conrad and Belly Conrad and. Belly, you guys are too old to get that reference, but anybody that's out there that's currently Gen Z.
Nathan Mumm:How about Leo and Stitch?
Ody:Shut up.
Nathan Mumm:Anyway, that's Lilo and.
Mike Gorday:Stitch.
Ody:God, what is up with you? You are missing like full syllables, man.
Nathan Mumm:He's been drinking lots of alcohol.
Mike Gorday:He's trying to do his voices. That's right, all right.
Nathan Mumm:You know what? Coffee that's right. All right, you know what copy and paste?
Ody:buddy, how about that?
Nathan Mumm:one. That was a good one. How about clippy and resumes? Uh, what's what?
Speaker 5:would clippy be windows 95 no, clippy was a part.
Nathan Mumm:Well, yeah, it was windows 95. Do you ever remember the never mind continuing? On let's prepare for our technology fail of the week, brought to us by elite executive services technology experts to help you out of a technology fail. Congratulations, you're a failure.
Speaker 2:Oh, I failed. Did I yes, did I yes.
Nathan Mumm:Alright, this week our technology fail comes to us from the consumer credit reporting giant called TransUnion. Have you ever heard of them?
Mike Gorday:Oh yes.
Nathan Mumm:Alright, well, guess what TransUnion wants to let everybody know that they suffered a data breach exposing personal information of 4.4 million people in the United States 4.4 million people in the United States Essentially, 97% of the United States individuals learning that data was stolen from its Salesforce account.
Mike Gorday:So it doesn't really matter that it doesn't really matter that DOGE is putting all of our information in a cloud-based thing that can get hacked really well easily, does it?
Ody:Well, Salesforce is also a cloud-based thing, aren't they not? So Equifax?
Nathan Mumm:and Experian have both experienced security breaches and there's only three major credit bureaus in the United States, so Equifax breached, Experian breached and now, of course, we have. Transunion breached, so all of our data for any financial information at any time.
Mike Gorday:So it doesn't matter what the government's doing, they're just like making it easy.
Nathan Mumm:Well TransUnion operates in 30 countries, employing over 13,000 staff I don't know why, because they surely don't back up their data and it has an annual revenue of $3 billion. Now it collects and maintains credit information over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the US. According to the filing submitted, the breach occurred on July 28, 2025 and was discovered two days later. Great security we recently experienced, they said. We recently experienced a cyber incident involving a third-party application serving our US consumer operations released the data. What are you doing.
Nathan Mumm:You asked me to do voice.
Mike Gorday:I didn't ask you to do that I consistently tell you not to do them.
Nathan Mumm:Access includes some limited personal information belonging to you. Now, the data exposed in this incident was limited, according to the company, although what exactly it might entail hasn't been specified in the sample notification. Instead, the letter underlines that no credit reports or core credit information was exposed in this incident you know.
Mike Gorday:You know what I. You know what they should do. What's that? Since everybody's been breached, my credit score should be better now should be better, they should be like it. We lost all your information, but your credit score is awesome, so so they said, unauthorized access happened, no relevant information or no information was released. Yeah, that's what they always say.
Nathan Mumm:You know what? Let's go and take a look Now. Threat Actor claims that the stolen data consists of over 13 million records, with 4.4 million records related to people in the United States. So this is the Threat Actor, with 4.4 million records related to people in the United States. So this is the threat actor. Now, a sample of the stolen data shared on dark web, which I've looked at myself, contains quite a lot of sensitive personal information, including your name, billing address, phone number, email address, dates of birth, unredacted social security number and more.
Nathan Mumm:So I guess TransUnion is saying that all of this stuff is not important your phone number, your email address, your birth date or your unredacted social security number, which means they can see your social security number. But I guess if the social security numbers are on Amazon cloud services, they're going to get breached. I guess all the social security numbers are just free for all.
Mike Gorday:Yeah, it seems like none of this. All this just comes out in the wash anyway, so we just need to go back to pen and paper.
Nathan Mumm:South African and Canadian breaches suffered through. Cybersecurity breaches exposed customer information also from them. So none of these credit data stuff. And so they can pull your credit. They can change your credit. On their stupid little algorithms they can do whatever they want, but when you actually ask them to secure your data, it's not really a priority to them. Too much money, so we're just going to let it all be exposed out there. I always love that the companies lie about what data was stolen and then the poor people that breach them just post it out there in clean.
Mike Gorday:This is why who was a company that issued a wanted? Oh a bounty, yeah a bounty. I think, we should just standardize bounties now. So anybody that does this, they hunt them down and murder their computers. Oh, murder their computers.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, oh, okay. Well, I don't know if we really I mean now we're getting into a whole bunch of different philosophies, so you're going to have to tell me how that works, because I don't know if we're going to start getting aggressive or we don't get aggressive, but all right, that was the story. I'm sure that was uplifting for everybody else.
Mike Gorday:Right, yeah, that was uplifting. I feel uplifted by that. See, that's what happiness is. Right there, there's happiness, happiness.
Nathan Mumm:Happiness is knowing that all your information is going to get breached, no matter who does it or where they put it or that's why I asked you last week in the show would you pay for a service that would guarantee your security being safe?
Mike Gorday:oh no, no, because nobody can guarantee that. Do you know?
Nathan Mumm:why? Because people that are in charge of the data are some of the lowest paid people, and it's not that somebody broke in. It's that somebody shared the data.
Mike Gorday:No, it's because they skimp on security. Yep.
Nathan Mumm:They skimp on IT staff.
Mike Gorday:This is the security paradox. I worked in physical security for a while, okay, and there's a paradox. I worked in physical security for a while, okay, and there's a paradox yeah. Where, if nothing's happening? What does that mean?
Nathan Mumm:Then we don't need security. We don't need security Because we would never get breached, even though the security group is working really hard to make sure.
Mike Gorday:That's why nothing's happening, because security's doing its job. So when they think, okay, nothing's going on, need to, we need to cut some areas and for our finances stuff, they cut security. Yep, because there's no incidents happening. Yep, there's no reason so a smart security company would let an incident come by every once in a while and be like, oh yeah, we need security, remember all right here, all right, here we go.
Nathan Mumm:We're gonna go right now to the nathan nugget this is your nugget of the week all right, here's the nugget. We're gonna talk about windows 10. Going back to one of our why we want to do that because windows 10 is a great operating system. If you have not gone, though, and set up bing to get your thousand points, you can do it right now by just visiting bingcom and setting up that as your default user account to search the web. It may take a little bit to figure out.
Mike Gorday:You know that's a low-key form of blackmail.
Nathan Mumm:Well, I'm just saying that if you want your free upgrade with 1,000 points I just looked on it this morning to see what we needed to do it's going to be a week of time and within a week of searching the web through Bing, which may be a little bit of a of an issue, you will receive Microsoft reward points. So so, mike, here's how many, how many, microsoft report reward points. Does it say that I have right there?
Mike Gorday:You have an excessive amount 11,000 is 76.
Nathan Mumm:Guess what? These have only been redeemed from last month. That was last month, I believe that because you are a Bing disciple. Okay, so if you decide to go on a daily streak to search for Bing, you will automatically receive 1,000 Bing points, which will give you the free upgrade. Go to Bingcom. Look at Microsoft Rewards. Sign up for the dashboard so you can get your upgrade for security.
Mike Gorday:Just pay attention to how Microsoft is manipulating you into using their products. Just take that into account while you're playing with your Bing.
Nathan Mumm:Okay there you go. Well, you know what Now?
Speaker 1:we need to move to our pick of the day Whiskey Tasting. And now our pick of the day for our Whiskey T.
Nathan Mumm:Let's see what bubbles to the top. All right, so now we're moving to our whiskey tasting odia. What do we have here?
Ody:uh, today we're drinking the 1792 bottle and bond uh the ballard cut pick uh from the sazerac company distillate. Distillation is barton 1792 distillery in Bardstown classified as a straight bourbon aged for at least four years, 100 proof, undisclosed, 45 bucks on the market. What are we saying, y'all?
Nathan Mumm:What are you saying, Mike? Are you giving a thumbs up?
Ody:Yeah, I'll give it a thumbs up. He's five for five y'all, it's good.
Nathan Mumm:It's not as good as some of the other ones that we've had on the show.
Mike Gorday:I actually like this a lot. I did not like last week's yeah, because it was 56 bucks.
Nathan Mumm:No, I did not like the taste Sure.
Mike Gorday:That's absolutely great.
Nathan Mumm:All right. Well, mike, we're about out of time. We want to thank our listeners for joining the program. Listeners, we want to hear from you. Just visit techtimeradiocom, click on, be A Caller and ask us a question. When you watch the stream, peoples, we had like 5,000 plus people on the stream and one of our producers sends out a question for you. Please respond to it. We do not know why we get no responses for that. So just say hi if you don't have a question.
Ody:So now we're groveling.
Nathan Mumm:Yeah, we are.
Mike Gorday:Nathan's into that stuff.
Nathan Mumm:Didn't you hear?
Mike Gorday:that ad where he was groveling about going to Patreon Patreoncom.
Nathan Mumm:You butcher the English language.
Mike Gorday:I did that on purpose. I don't do that on accident.
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