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00:01:53.790Welcome to Tech Time Radio, where we explore this week's hottest tech buzz.
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00:02:00.614Now the Department of Justice makes headlines with a major move in the AI space and Google's Chrome browser.
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00:02:02.808We're going to break into that as our main story of the day.
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00:02:12.967Gwen Way returns with a can't miss gadget and gear segment while we dive into the groundbreaking brain chip trials in a SpaceX rocket mishap.
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00:02:20.911Now scientists are teasing a Jurassic style comeback, hp shakes up its policies and YouTube reveals a new subscription tier Plus.
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00:02:28.213Of course, we have our guest, james Riddle, who joins the show, so he's going to be adding into more of the information on the medical technology side.
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00:02:33.608In addition, we have our standard features and a possible Nathan Nugget and, of course, our pick of the day whiskey tasting.
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00:02:37.872To see if our selected whiskey pick is zero, one or two thumbs up at the end of the show.
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00:02:42.491But now it's time for the latest headlines in the world of technology.
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00:03:09.354All right, story number one Last Friday, the US Department of Justice abandoned its proposal to mandate the Alphabet's Google divestment into artificial intelligent firms, including a competitor to OpenAI with Anthropic let's go to Corinne Westland for more on this story.
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00:03:20.062Google will no longer be required to sell its investments in artificial intelligence startups like Anthropic as a remedy for its monopoly on internet search, according to a revised Department of Justice proposal.
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00:03:28.335It now notes that forcing Google to sell its Anthropix day could cause unintended consequences in the evolving AI space.
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00:03:38.931The DOJ is still recommending that Google be forced to divest its Chrome browser, despite the company's entreaties to the new administration for a less aggressive stance.
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00:04:00.973The Department of Justice, along with 38 state attorney generals, is still pursuing, of course, the court order that would require Google to divest its Chrome browser and implement other strategies to address what the judge have deemed a monopoly in Google's enterprise.
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00:04:11.883But a Google spokesman stated that the broad proposal goes far beyond the court's ruling and would negatively impact consumers, the economy and, of course, the national security in the United States.
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00:04:17.584Google holds a minority stake in Anthropic that is valued at over billions of dollars.
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00:04:28.365Losing the investment could put a disadvantage to the company compared to OpenAI and its new partner partner, microsoft, as noted by Anthropic in a February court statement.
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00:04:41.091Now prosecutors provided new evidence since their draft recommendations in November of last year, indicating that prohibiting Google from AI investments might lead to an unforeseen effect in the evolving AI sector.
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00:04:49.194As mentioned in the final proposal on Friday, they also requested that Google notify the government about any future generative AI investments.
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00:04:54.706Now this significant case is among several US antitrust lawsuits targeting big tech firms.
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00:05:02.009Apple, meta Platforms and Amazoncom are also accused of sustaining illegal monopolies within their market.
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00:05:14.689Now, since the Trump election, google has argued that the Department of Justice approach in this case could cripple its competitiveness in the AI space, therefore endangering America's global economy and technology leadership.
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00:05:16.653So it's very interesting.
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00:05:18.824Let's kind of talk about this a little bit, mike.
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00:05:22.963So we have Google that was told that they had to break up their Chrome browser.
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00:05:26.851Now, all of a sudden, they're saying that they want to stay competitive in the AI world.
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00:05:35.634Microsoft just invested millions of dollars into the going public stock of OpenAI and ChatGPT.
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00:05:44.045Do you think that this reprieve for Google, allowing them to stay competitive in the AI market, is good for the US economy, or what are you thinking?
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00:05:49.651If I were an economist, I'd probably have a good answer for that, but I'm not Okay.
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00:05:51.605And your feeling, though?
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00:05:54.086My feeling on it is well.
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00:06:00.033We all know how I feel about AI, so I kind of like who cares, who cares?
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00:06:01.076Okay, okay.
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00:06:03.327Well, we'll see what Google does on this.
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00:06:04.422Now anthropic.
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00:06:15.959Now, I guess the biggest problem here is if, if they think that them losing their stake in anthropic is going to jeopardize american internal security.
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00:06:21.048Uh, that raises some questions in my brain about okay, what are they doing?
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00:06:24.533That would jeopardize security.
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00:06:32.545Well, that's the T2 Skynet stuff that they're worried about if they don't have the market on that.
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00:06:34.230Yeah okay, whatever.
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00:06:42.071Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens here, because this is kind of the antitrust breakup like Microsoft had back in the early 90s type of deal.
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00:06:55.834It's evident that we have several players in this space that have an overbalance of whatever market they're in.
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00:07:08.661Right, yep, and we're seeing this more and more as we have these other companies trying to come into these spaces and they're not being allowed to do so.
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00:07:11.565You know I can't wait for your story, story number two.
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00:07:14.290We talked about this in our pre-show event.
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00:07:17.115This is going to be something that you are really excited about.
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00:07:18.221Yeah, okay, what do?
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00:07:19.887we got going on Story number two here, Mike.
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00:07:30.833Okay, did you know that HP yes, hewitt Packard, hewitt Packard, hewitt Packard has a 15-minute wait time policy for people who call in for assistance?
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00:07:31.934Well, explain that to me.
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00:07:33.355It's a 15-minute policy.
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00:07:34.096What does that mean?
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00:07:54.346That means that if you call HP or you try to contact HP and get a live person to help you out with you, know whatever, maybe your printer's not working or whatever yeah, person to help you out with you, know, whatever, maybe your printer's not working or whatever yeah, uh, you have to wait a mandatory period of 15 minutes before they will allow you to start talking to a real person.
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00:07:59.944oh, my word did you know that I well, I only found out about it when we did the story, but I did not know that.
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00:08:01.127You know what that?
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00:08:08.846That irritates me, because you know I I have waited on call with companies like ringCentral and other companies and I'll just wait and wait, and wait.
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00:08:12.670I believe that this is a standard operating procedure.
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00:08:33.663Okay, they do this so that the customer is forced to look other places, like their FAQ pages or their stupid chat bot things, which I don't know if you, you know, if you play that game like, for instance, I did this, uh, what was it?
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00:08:46.457The other day I was, I was on something and I tried to get on their chat bot and, uh, it was like not working, oh wow, and I couldn't find any, any alternative numbers to this.
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00:08:48.443I mean, this is one of the biggest frustrating things.
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00:09:03.831However, hp inc last week abruptly ditched its mandatory 15 minute wait time that it poses on customers dialing up as a telephone based support team due to initial feedback initial feedback, I guess.
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00:09:11.269I guess a lot of people called HP and waited 15 minutes and then blessed them out for having them wait.
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00:09:33.350Okay, this came into force for folks phoning up to call center but were soon went down like a lead balloon internally at HP when some staff on the front line, unhappy that they were having to deal with a decision taken by management who didn't have to directly interact with customers, left hanging on the telephone for 15 minutes.
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00:09:38.432Now HP has abandoned this policy, but it does not say if it might return again.
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00:09:56.922Hp started to play a recorded message to punters ringing up as call centers that warned of a longer wait time of 15 minutes and apologized for the inconvenience which we all we all know this, this little message that comes in right yep, we're sorry, we're experiencing more than usual traffic.
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00:09:59.546Okay, yep, okay, uh.
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00:10:08.004Hp decided the two inconvenience customers deliberately to make them give up and use online support, and we talked about this.
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00:10:11.149We talked about this at our production meeting.
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00:10:20.373This is one of the ways that companies really manipulate the customer by using pain pleasure.
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00:10:23.245Yeah, they're hoping that you leave, if you're.
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00:10:26.241If your issue is not, yeah, they don't urgent that's right.
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00:10:27.063They don't want you to.
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00:10:30.032They don't want you to be on the phone, they want to.
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00:10:43.720They want you to solve your problem by using and and I don't know how you feel about looking at faqs, but I they never answer the question that I, that I so I, I try faq first and then I try chatbot.
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00:10:57.322So if I've now gone and I and I do actually sometimes chatbot first even, and I like the chat, even though I know it may be an india person, but I like to initiate that way I only call if I've already exhausted going to their website and searching for something.
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00:11:08.817I already taken their faq process, so, having me wait another 15 minutes and during the study I did a little bit more research Do you realize that 40% of people leave after five minutes?
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00:11:13.885Yeah, so when you're on a phone call, so they're they're hoping you drop off and that you're not.
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00:11:16.051That patient and you're just going to deal with it.
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00:11:16.932This is the.
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00:11:20.048This is the effect of applying.
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00:11:26.653This is this is technically, this is painful and human beings beings don't like pain, so we avoid it.
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00:11:31.207Uh, so, by this is this is exactly the same thing.
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00:11:47.643That's being applied to streaming services, where all the commercials we've talked about it yeah, uh, the commercials that they're gonna be talking, if we get to the nathan that good about youtube, to house now a new premium standard that gets that gets rid of almost all the ads.
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00:12:04.210I really 799 youtube, youtube, but not all of them it doesn't matter, it's the worst because, because it's so irritating, uh, dealing with dealing with their interruptions that it forces people to really consider paying the money to get rid of it.
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00:12:05.572It does, and it's a cash grab.
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00:12:05.854Yes.
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00:12:11.397And I really think this is one of the things that people should really stand up against.
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00:12:12.360But you know, okay.
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00:12:19.609Anyway, in a memo to staff, hp said the wait time for each customer is set to 15 minutes.
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00:12:23.350Notice, the expected wait time is mentioned only at the beginning of the call.
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00:12:26.307It was absolutely intended to test people's patient.
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00:12:31.864It was all about encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online.
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00:12:32.686And this is again.
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00:12:34.071You see that word nudge.
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00:12:37.740Yeah, this is the wrong way of using nudge.
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00:12:42.961So why don't you just say hey, if you're trying to get done quicker, we'll answer it as soon as possible.
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00:12:44.144You can find these available.
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00:12:49.488Instead of just making it so you listen to music, why wouldn't you just advertise that in your call?
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00:12:50.029Waiting thing.
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00:12:53.769Well, because why would you reveal that?
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00:12:54.471That's the reason.
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00:13:01.827Well, I mean, because if you say that two or three times by minute seven and I quit, I may actually then, if I hang up, go and take a look.
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00:13:02.711Well, I don't.
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00:13:06.243It's all based on cast, actually does that.
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00:13:07.164So I know which is actually.
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00:13:08.025I have used it.
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00:13:10.451I cannot stand, okay.
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00:13:15.750So you know, I'm one of those people that as the older I get, the less time I want something wasted.
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00:13:17.679That that's across the board, okay.
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00:13:36.330So if I have a problem with my xfinity yeah, and I am forced to call Xfinity by the time I get to somebody I am so angry that it becomes not about my problem with Xfinity, it becomes my problem about how Xfinity handles my problems.
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00:13:39.527Anyway, Tech Time.
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00:13:46.105Radio asked HP for a comment, but it's probably going to take more than 15 minutes for a response to Ching Ching.
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00:13:47.028All right Story.
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00:13:52.532Number three Get out your space umbrella as SpaceX rocket explodes.
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00:13:54.105Let's talk about this.
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00:13:57.070Have you ever thought about having an umbrella to protect you from space debris?
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00:14:04.989Well, a SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after its launch from Texas last week, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling space debris.
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00:14:20.889now spacex confirmed the uncrewed ship had suffered a rapid, unscheduled disassembly wow, that's a blowout, that's a euphemism, that that really puts it in perspective suffered an explosion during its ascent into space and lost contact with the ground.
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00:14:26.647a massive space x starship, the largest rocket ever created, spun out of control shortly after its launch.
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00:14:35.504No injuries or damage have been reported, but images from the Caribbean Sea Islands nations show fiery debris raining from the sky.
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00:14:37.912Furry debris, furry debris.
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00:14:42.442That was the eighth mission.
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00:14:44.624That was who was on the thing with a bunch of furries.
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00:14:48.567That's right To test the rocket and consecutive failure.
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00:14:49.985So they're 0 for 2 right now.
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00:14:51.466What happens when you go 0 for 3?
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00:14:53.166You just buy yourself a new rocket.
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00:14:56.408All right, as always, success comes from what we learn.
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00:15:04.693This is what they said, and today's flight will offer additional lessons to improve Starship's reliability, said a spokesperson at SpaceX.
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00:15:11.971The statement says debris should have fallen within a pre-planned area and the rocket did not contain any toxic material.
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00:15:14.803So that's bs, so it's not toxic.
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00:15:17.710And there's a it's probably biodegradable too.
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00:15:22.206I'm sure that's right, so so when do you get for launching a rocket?
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00:15:25.092When do you get a pre-planned area to just dispose of your waste?
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00:15:28.432I mean, so you can if it just blows up in a certain area that's okay.
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00:15:34.811Yeah, no, I mean, you can pretty much tell where things are going to fall if you know the projection, how many times it's?
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00:15:35.681blown up before.
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00:15:36.302Okay.
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00:15:42.346The company also included an email and phone number for those who believe they found any remnants of the craft.
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00:15:48.048So I guess if I I found something, I can contact them with an email and they'll come on out with a bunch of FBI agents.
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00:15:51.528They'll come out and get the stuff that's non-toxic.
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00:15:52.692That's right, okay.
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00:15:55.307Well, that ends our top technology stories of the week.
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00:16:05.573Moving on, we have our gadgets and gear, gal Gwenway on the show up next and, of course, we have our guest, James Riddle, back with an update on the journey to bring back the Willie Mammoth.
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00:17:02.443Welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm.
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00:17:07.354Wow, our weekly show covers the top technology subjects without a political agenda.
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00:17:11.030We verify the facts and we do it with a sense of humor, in less than 60 minutes.
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00:17:12.606And, of course, a little whiskey on the side.
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00:17:16.039Wow, that whiskey has got a bite.
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00:17:16.381Today.
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00:17:23.571Mark Redwire, our whiskey connoisseur, is back and tell us what we are drinking today.
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00:17:31.210Today you are drinking Smokeye Hill Barrel Proof, so it has a kick if it's the first whiskey of the day.
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00:17:31.611It is.
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00:17:35.250Now from Smokeye Hill's website, straight from the barrel.
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00:17:38.446Four-grain bourbon delivers unmatched aroma and taste.
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00:17:52.426In its most unadulterated form, it is crafted with a proprietary mash, resulting in a bold, full-flavored whiskey, Robust vanilla, caramelized brown sugar, honey, nougat, rich tobacco, leather and oak.
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00:17:54.768Yeah, it tastes like super sweet turpentine.
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00:17:57.292Boy, it's got a bite.
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00:18:00.722So now you said this is our first whiskey of the day, it's a bite.
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00:18:02.821So how many whiskeys have you been drinking today?
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00:18:05.328Is it not as big of a bite for Mr Gregoire?
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00:18:12.313Well, no, it's my first whiskey of the day but my palate's a little bit more accustomed to the higher proof bourbons.
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00:18:15.607Okay, but it's still, I have to sip it very slowly.
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00:18:16.451The first few sips.
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00:18:18.467Is this a high corn?
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00:18:20.566Well, let's talk about that.
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00:18:23.169All right this is a hazelwood spirits company.
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00:18:25.557Um, it's distilled.
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00:18:29.686It's actually distilled from mgp, but it's barreled in colorado springs.
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00:18:32.573Colorado, it is straight bourbon.
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00:18:33.621Five plus years.
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00:18:36.586It's 134.2 proof.
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00:18:37.709They have different batches.
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00:18:39.291Wow, this particular batch is.
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00:18:42.163I think this is one of the highest proof whiskeys we've had on.
00:18:42.443 -->
00:18:47.171It's pretty close the highest we've ever had was 138 or 139.
00:18:47.171 -->
00:18:47.951Okay, wow.
00:18:47.951 -->
00:18:49.914And then the mash bill.
00:18:49.914 -->
00:18:51.657It's an unknown mash bill.
00:18:51.657 -->
00:18:57.250In terms of the percentages, mike's, I can't answer that, but I can tell you what the four grains are in there.
00:18:57.250 -->
00:19:03.308Okay, it's blue corn, yellow corn, rye and malted barley blue corn corn.
00:19:03.469 -->
00:19:04.832Is there a different taste from blue?
00:19:04.872 -->
00:19:05.553corn yes, there is.
00:19:05.673 -->
00:19:06.575Okay, okay.
00:19:07.181 -->
00:19:08.787And it goes for $90 a bottle.
00:19:08.787 -->
00:19:11.246All right, it's got a bite.
00:19:11.246 -->
00:19:13.867Now don't forget to like and subscribe.
00:19:13.867 -->
00:19:16.946In addition, please comment, let us know if you have a whiskey you want us to review.
00:19:16.946 -->
00:19:21.270Drink responsibly, because heaven can wait, that's right, all right.
00:19:29.599 -->
00:19:31.365Well, with our whiskey tasting completed, let's move on to our feature segment.
00:19:31.365 -->
00:19:32.087Today we got gwen way joining the show.
00:19:32.087 -->
00:19:33.963She's an expert in cyber security during the day and a game board.
00:19:33.963 -->
00:19:36.751Wow, that is a lot of proof game board geek in the evenings, as well as a producer of tech time, radio and our gadgets and gear.
00:19:36.751 -->
00:19:37.053Gal.
00:19:37.053 -->
00:19:44.884Let's get ready to bring her up on our comcast video stream to start our next segment what's new in our gadgets and gear.
00:19:44.884 -->
00:19:50.387All right, gwen, let me tell you Woo-wee, be careful driving with this whiskey.
00:19:51.429 -->
00:19:55.511Anything that gets that much of a reaction off the first sip Wow.
00:19:55.571 -->
00:19:57.653Well, it's 160 proof, right.
00:19:57.834 -->
00:19:59.154No, what does it say?
00:19:59.154 -->
00:20:00.115It's 134.
00:20:00.135 -->
00:20:00.895134.
00:20:00.895 -->
00:20:02.017Sorry, 134.
00:20:02.017 -->
00:20:02.817Well, it could be.
00:20:02.817 -->
00:20:08.500Yeah, You're not buzzing yet buddy, I'm not buzzing, yet I will be Unless you were partaking before.
00:20:08.539 -->
00:20:09.683Until we get to James.
00:20:09.743 -->
00:20:11.789I'll be like, hey, how are you doing, james?
00:20:12.982 -->
00:20:15.866All right, gwen, we always love having you on the show.
00:20:15.866 -->
00:20:18.429Now tell us a little bit about yourself for any of our new listeners.
00:20:18.429 -->
00:20:22.711Tell us what you do in your day job and what you're doing for us today.
00:20:23.612 -->
00:20:24.593Certainly, certainly.
00:20:24.593 -->
00:20:35.138I've got about a quarter century of technical experience at this point and have dug into cybersecurity.
00:20:35.138 -->
00:20:39.308It's fascinating, it's tough and it's super important.
00:20:39.308 -->
00:20:42.717So anybody out there who doesn't care about it, maybe you should start.
00:20:42.717 -->
00:20:42.894That's right.
00:20:42.894 -->
00:20:43.412Absolutely Cybersecurity.
00:20:43.412 -->
00:20:43.548You know what?
00:20:43.548 -->
00:20:43.934We need to be a little bit more aggressive.
00:20:43.893 -->
00:20:44.580I don't know why we're not aggressive against Russia out there.
00:20:44.580 -->
00:20:44.954Who doesn't care about it?
00:20:44.954 -->
00:20:45.208Uh, maybe you should start.
00:20:45.208 -->
00:20:45.701That's right absolute cyber security.
00:20:45.701 -->
00:20:46.265You know what?
00:20:46.265 -->
00:20:47.693And we need to be a little bit more aggressive.
00:20:47.693 -->
00:20:55.096I don't know why we're not aggressive against russia right now, but that was another whole segment, all right, so tell us, gwen, you have a new gadget for us.
00:20:55.096 -->
00:20:56.836What do you have for the listeners today?
00:20:57.911 -->
00:21:09.398Well, you know, a couple months back we did a translator app that you could get that would allow you to download translations and talk on the fly, on the go.
00:21:09.398 -->
00:21:14.900I've got something like that that also gives a little bit of added benefit.
00:21:14.900 -->
00:21:22.624Okay, so this gadget is called the Monoise pg3 or pg2, excuse me.
00:21:22.624 -->
00:21:38.200It's available on kickstarter and it's a combination of a headset, so earphones that also connect to an app on your phone to allow for some translation so it would translate directly into your ear all right, so it goes.
00:21:38.361 -->
00:21:41.311Oh, your cat's joining us.
00:21:41.311 -->
00:21:50.065She is there, you go okay, so, so, so it's called it's m-o-n, so o-i-s-e, so mo, m-o.
00:21:50.065 -->
00:21:51.030Noise is what I.
00:21:51.030 -->
00:21:56.061I kind of got it taken care of, so explain us this translation aspect of it.
00:21:56.061 -->
00:21:58.333So there are regular earbuds first off, right?
00:21:58.333 -->
00:21:59.955So there are okay.
00:22:00.396 -->
00:22:26.519You can connect to your iPad, you can listen to movies on an airplane any of the normal things.
00:22:26.519 -->
00:22:27.240What?
00:22:27.240 -->
00:22:28.000This does, is it combines?
00:22:28.422 -->
00:22:33.545all of that functionality with an application on your phone that uses chat GPT to translate and also record, so you can save.
00:22:33.545 -->
00:22:33.964Okay, we like that.
00:22:33.964 -->
00:22:42.192Thank goodness they mostly know English, but there were a couple of times when we went off the beaten path and in some of the smaller cities and we would go to a restaurant and we really couldn't translate.
00:22:42.192 -->
00:22:50.682So we had to type in information into Google Translate and then we had to show them what it was and then they would talk back and then Translate didn't work very well.
00:22:50.682 -->
00:22:56.001This has the opportunity to do what uniquely on translations?
00:22:56.691 -->
00:23:08.970This is actually really cool because you can split the headset, you can have one earpiece in your ear, you can hand it to somebody else and then they're actually going to hear what you're saying in their language.
00:23:08.970 -->
00:23:12.538And you'll hear what they're saying in your language In real time.
00:23:13.240 -->
00:23:14.303In real time In real time.
00:23:14.303 -->
00:23:25.957So if I'm having a conversation with somebody now, I guess the only barrier is having to get that person to put the earpiece in their ear convince them to put it in yeah, so that would be the the biggest part of.
00:23:25.957 -->
00:23:28.151You know, that's a little gross, that's what I know.
00:23:28.151 -->
00:23:30.376I kind of think that's a little barrier of entry.
00:23:30.376 -->
00:23:35.757Right, there is is a here you go, put this in your ear after you just kind of a litmus test?
00:23:36.278 -->
00:23:41.113yeah don't ignore that little yellow wax build up there, it's no big deal, just put it into your ear.
00:23:41.113 -->
00:23:44.842But let's say you pulled it out generically from the device.
00:23:44.842 -->
00:23:46.614I think it'd probably work really well, right?
00:23:46.614 -->
00:24:11.048And you say here you go, put one, one piece in the other piece in, and then we just have a regular conversation in english and it's translating it to them in the earpiece itself correct, and and I mean they've got a deal where you can buy two of them so you could keep one for, you know, use just working with somebody else and use the other for the rest of your normal use, ah, okay.
00:24:11.068 -->
00:24:13.217Well, let's talk about pricing and let's talk about backers, right?
00:24:13.217 -->
00:24:13.999So that's the next thing.
00:24:13.999 -->
00:24:15.751So great, great technology.
00:24:15.751 -->
00:24:21.163I would probably myself be interested in this, especially with that trip that we just did to Japan.
00:24:21.163 -->
00:24:31.217This would have been nice, especially if you could have had some conversations on the trains and community transportation, which is phenomenal over there.
00:24:31.217 -->
00:24:33.176Now you can kind of find out what's going on.
00:24:33.176 -->
00:24:38.391So tell us what the prices is, where the backers are, where this is from Hopefully it's a reliable.
00:24:38.391 -->
00:24:42.315I've backed one of these projects still and I'm still waiting to hear from them, so we'll see what happens.
00:24:42.315 -->
00:24:43.076What do we got here?
00:24:43.096 -->
00:24:43.576Some of them.
00:24:43.576 -->
00:24:50.603Well, it's definitely a United States-based product, so you've got that in your pocket.
00:24:50.603 -->
00:24:54.866They're sitting at just over 260 backers.
00:24:54.866 -->
00:25:02.394We still have until March 27th, so if any of our listeners want to purchase this, they can go out and grab it.
00:25:02.394 -->
00:25:18.903They're sitting at right around $26,000 earned of $2,000 requested and to this point, you can still get one of the super early bird specials and pick up a pair of these for $99.
00:25:19.490 -->
00:25:23.280That's not bad for a headset the 99 bucks on a price that you have there.
00:25:23.280 -->
00:25:32.400So the next question of course, comes that we ask you all the time Is this something that you're looking to back yourself?
00:25:33.392 -->
00:25:34.919I may already have backed it.
00:25:34.939 -->
00:25:35.803Did you already back it?
00:25:35.803 -->
00:25:37.210Okay, I did I did.
00:25:37.309 -->
00:25:38.513This is something you know.
00:25:38.513 -->
00:25:40.180My husband and I like to travel.
00:25:40.180 -->
00:25:46.042This just makes sense as a way to do that and be able to understand what's happening around us.
00:25:46.369 -->
00:25:49.598All right, mike, would you get a pair of these headsets if you're traveling?
00:25:49.939 -->
00:25:51.041No, no, okay.
00:25:51.991 -->
00:25:53.154Is the barrier of entry for you.
00:25:53.154 -->
00:25:55.221Would it be the sharing of the earpiece?
00:25:55.221 -->
00:26:02.752No, I be the sharing of the earpiece.
00:26:02.752 -->
00:26:04.580Uh, no, I just don't trust chat gpt to translate everything that I'm saying.
00:26:04.580 -->
00:26:05.123That makes sense, you know.
00:26:05.123 -->
00:26:08.353You know we're getting close to a universal, a universal communicator from star trek.
00:26:08.353 -->
00:26:12.201You know that, yeah I'm real sure I was all of a sudden.
00:26:12.201 -->
00:26:16.558You just put on a little pin and you're gonna hear it one way and what happens?
00:26:16.659 -->
00:26:19.174what happens when it can't understand local dialects?
00:26:19.174 -->
00:26:20.038What happens then?
00:26:21.532 -->
00:26:23.219How many languages does it say you support Gwen.
00:26:23.219 -->
00:26:24.536How many does it have?
00:26:25.290 -->
00:26:30.575Over a hundred Over a hundred languages, but those are base languages, they're not dialectical.
00:26:30.575 -->
00:26:32.233You're right, true.
00:26:32.457 -->
00:26:44.354So if I go into the interior of Japan, like Bohunk over here, or even Louisiana, or even Louisiana, the interior of japan, like like uh bohunk over here.
00:26:44.354 -->
00:26:45.195Or even louisiana, or even louisiana.
00:26:45.215 -->
00:26:45.958Yeah, yeah, from english to english.
00:26:45.958 -->
00:26:56.757You may struggle, you may, you may end up, you may end up using words that even the chat gpt doesn't know, so it might spit out translations that are are funny or not very funny.
00:26:56.896 -->
00:27:01.136Yeah, well, at least least it's using ChatGPT instead of DeepSeek, because if it was DeepSeek, you can have everything.
00:27:01.136 -->
00:27:02.031All of a sudden.
00:27:02.031 -->
00:27:06.809You'd have a communication and the thing you'd be saying China is the best out of whatever thing that you do.
00:27:06.849 -->
00:27:13.056Well, you know, this is actually one of the ways that I can get on board.
00:27:13.056 -->
00:27:25.505The AI train is with this type of stuff, but until it's tested enough to work well in all these situations, it's still a problem for me.
00:27:26.291 -->
00:27:27.616Now I'm just reviewing this.
00:27:27.616 -->
00:27:33.542I guess I was dogging on DeepSeek, but I guess it also works on DeepSeek R1.
00:27:34.517 -->
00:27:35.148It can use.
00:27:35.490 -->
00:27:39.650So I guess if you want to have the Chinese filtered AI stuff, you could put it in there too.
00:27:39.690 -->
00:27:44.199Well then it's going to just run around saying I'm sorry, I don't have the ability to talk about that.
00:27:44.199 -->
00:27:47.547That's right, it's like where's the bathroom?
00:27:47.646 -->
00:27:50.919I'm sorry, just ask me about Chinese history, you'll be okay, where's the bathroom?
00:27:50.979 -->
00:27:51.381I'm sorry.
00:27:57.657 -->
00:27:58.419I don't know where.
00:27:58.419 -->
00:28:04.673They wouldn't come with one companion over-the-ear speaker microphone to hand out, which is a lot of people.
00:28:04.673 -->
00:28:06.640Would be much easier to hand that to them.
00:28:06.640 -->
00:28:09.499I'm not going to hand an earbud to a stranger.
00:28:10.611 -->
00:28:12.739You're not thinking about the portability of it.
00:28:13.029 -->
00:28:14.375You can have these tiny little ones.
00:28:16.634 -->
00:28:22.765You can get really handy alcohol wipes to hand out with it exactly.
00:28:22.825 -->
00:28:24.769I don't want to waste my alcohol mike?
00:28:24.929 -->
00:28:25.390oh, that's right.
00:28:25.390 -->
00:28:28.636Well, you're not supposed to be sucking on those whiskey.
00:28:28.636 -->
00:28:36.340That's right all right, but that that does bring up an option you know what you know what gpt didn't come up with.
00:28:36.361 -->
00:28:50.059That, that's right you know, we need to come up with our, our own tech time version of this, because I totally agree, I think the earbud part is the limit of having that to give to somebody, even if it was coming out of the container and I say, here you go, put it on your ear.
00:28:50.059 -->
00:28:56.703But if you had in a way that you could put like one of the like the jaw, what do you?
00:28:56.743 -->
00:29:02.173want Like sophomoric and childish ways of of dealing with things.
00:29:02.173 -->
00:29:06.556They have those jaw speakers you kind of just put on the outside and you can still hear it through your bone density.
00:29:06.556 -->
00:29:10.395Now, if you had something like that where you could just kind of put it around, but I guess not portable.
00:29:10.556 -->
00:29:22.345So I guess you know what we're trying to just to solve a uh yeah, I'm excited, I'm like mike, I'm a hesitant now, but I'm really looking forward to these as they develop, because it's not just for personal use, for traveling for vacation.
00:29:22.345 -->
00:29:23.769This is a strong.
00:29:23.769 -->
00:29:26.356Companies can use this for businesses.
00:29:26.376 -->
00:29:27.318It would be great for businesses.
00:29:27.318 -->
00:29:32.039We're actually having a and you could watch foreign movies without the subtitles.
00:29:32.500 -->
00:29:34.733I have a doubt about that.
00:29:34.733 -->
00:29:36.317That actually is worth it right there.
00:29:36.317 -->
00:29:38.762I hate reading movies, so if I could actually listen to it.
00:29:39.592 -->
00:29:42.779Somehow I find it difficult to believe that you actually watch foreign movies.
00:29:42.779 -->
00:29:45.328Wow, you know most foreign movies you can go.
00:29:45.410 -->
00:29:47.811We just have sold Nathan on it Most foreign movies.
00:29:47.832 -->
00:29:51.362You can go and they have a different English track that you can turn on oh, do you really?
00:29:51.490 -->
00:29:52.467Yeah, they could dub them.
00:29:53.349 -->
00:29:57.038But businesses are looking at we're looking into it at our business for our plant floors.
00:29:57.038 -->
00:30:00.066But businesses are looking at we're looking into it at our business for our plant floors?
00:30:00.066 -->
00:30:01.127Yeah, Because we have a lot of different.
00:30:01.147 -->
00:30:01.669Like Hispanic, spanish.
00:30:01.689 -->
00:30:01.910Vietnamese.
00:30:01.910 -->
00:30:09.990There's a lot of different eclectic people and so Eclectic people, not eclectic people.
00:30:10.050 -->
00:30:12.413No Diversity, you're very diversified.
00:30:12.413 -->
00:30:13.292There you go, thank you.
00:30:13.453 -->
00:30:18.457Okay, and that's why we needed to understand what we're talking about.
00:30:18.457 -->
00:30:19.678Yeah, Exactly.
00:30:19.678 -->
00:30:20.097Okay.
00:30:20.137 -->
00:30:22.640Will it translate for ourselves I?
00:30:22.680 -->
00:30:24.621don't think it translates stupid.
00:30:24.621 -->
00:30:28.003Wow, okay, all right.
00:30:28.084 -->
00:30:29.304Well, all right.
00:30:29.304 -->
00:30:32.165Gwen, where can people find out more information about you?
00:30:32.165 -->
00:30:34.107If they wanted to find you online, when could they go?
00:30:35.049 -->
00:30:38.560You know, linkedin is going to always be the best place to track me down.
00:30:38.560 -->
00:30:48.335Or, if you want to and are interested in all of the hosts here at tech time radio, go to our facebook page that's right.
00:30:48.454 -->
00:30:52.550Or you can join even our tech timers facebook group right, and you're in charge of that.
00:30:52.550 -->
00:30:56.588So if you want to talk with gwen directly, you can just get on that and be ready to go.
00:30:56.588 -->
00:30:58.794All right, gwen, we thank you so much for being a part of the show.
00:30:58.794 -->
00:30:59.516We'll see you in a month.
00:31:00.417 -->
00:31:00.980Sounds good.
00:31:00.980 -->
00:31:01.661Thank you all.
00:31:01.961 -->
00:31:04.678All right, now that ends our segment Gadgets and Gear Up.
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00:32:18.923That's it.
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00:32:19.423That's it.
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00:32:20.125It's that simple.
00:32:22.310 -->
00:32:27.125And now let's look back at this week in technology.
00:32:27.929 -->
00:32:31.160All right, we're going back to March 15th 1995.
00:32:31.160 -->
00:32:34.961Kevin Metnick, the hacker, was arrested.
00:32:34.961 -->
00:32:38.097Oh, you have a little pin in front of you there, odie.
00:32:38.097 -->
00:32:39.060It says free Kevin.
00:32:39.060 -->
00:32:40.676You're going to understand what the story is about.
00:32:40.676 -->
00:32:43.609So, computer hacker Kevin Metnick was arrested.
00:32:43.609 -->
00:32:47.721At the time he was the most wanted computer criminal in the United States.
00:32:47.721 -->
00:33:04.063He then worked as a computer security consultant of Metnick Security Consulting LLC, a computer security consultancy, which is also known to be part of a company called KnowBe4, a provider of integrated platform and security awareness training and simulated phishing tests.
00:33:04.063 -->
00:33:08.882He sadly passed away on July 16, 2023 from cancer.
00:33:09.390 -->
00:33:16.084Now, interesting point here, a little bit off the script that I have here, is there's many debate.
00:33:16.084 -->
00:33:19.480There was a whole campaign when Kevin was in prison.
00:33:19.480 -->
00:33:33.121It was called Free Kevin and it was a bunch of people that were saying that computer hackers shouldn't be hold to the same standard as some of the security processes were for enemy of the state and other aspects of hacking.
00:33:33.121 -->
00:33:45.384Kevin Metnick is known as the godfather or the main person of hacking in the 80s and 90s.
00:33:45.384 -->
00:33:55.125But my question for everybody that's listening today is the computer hacker that gets caught as good as the computer hacker that does not get caught.
00:33:55.125 -->
00:33:56.807Hacker that does not get caught.
00:33:56.807 -->
00:34:06.132So that's been an ongoing conversation on the dark web and other places where Kevin Metnick is known as kind of the big name that was arrested and he was this great hacker.
00:34:06.132 -->
00:34:13.278But if you get caught, does that mean you're as good as somebody else or does that mean that you didn't completely have your tracks covered?
00:34:13.278 -->
00:34:14.675So just think about that.
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00:35:29.697The segment we've been waiting all week for mark's whiskey mumble I have a bone to pick with you.
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00:35:39.559All right, last year or last week's um uh day, uh, the grammar day I I got a lot of ribbon online for that.
00:35:39.559 -->
00:35:45.398So let me just tell you, we're trying to be really positive now, so hopefully we're not doing an additional ribbon.
00:35:46.213 -->
00:35:49.175I'm positive that you don't grammar well.
00:35:49.215 -->
00:35:53.438So March 11th, I am positive you have never celebrated this day.
00:35:53.438 -->
00:35:58.079Okay, what is this National Organize your Home Office Day?
00:36:00.460 -->
00:36:01.164Oh, wow.
00:36:01.871 -->
00:36:03.757Wow, wow, wow.
00:36:03.757 -->
00:36:05.630Oh, look at that, is it?
00:36:05.652 -->
00:36:06.012true.
00:36:06.012 -->
00:36:12.498Look around, well, you know, his whiskey thing looks pretty organized, yeah, but he didn't do that?
00:36:13.601 -->
00:36:14.262Oh, that's right.
00:36:14.471 -->
00:36:16.418That's also not a home office thing.
00:36:16.418 -->
00:36:20.659Your wife organized the bar she probably did Yep.
00:36:22.190 -->
00:36:23.134She probably did.
00:36:23.153 -->
00:36:23.817She did, she did.
00:36:24.871 -->
00:36:27.978Now, just so you know what this day is about, since you have no clue on it.
00:36:27.998 -->
00:36:28.721Nathan Okay Wow.
00:36:29.150 -->
00:36:37.400This is a day to clean up the mess that's accumulated in your home offices and to establish a productivity and healthy working environment at home.
00:36:37.400 -->
00:36:41.925If establish a productivity and healthy working environment at home.
00:36:41.925 -->
00:36:44.782If you've been putting off organizing your files and clearing that tiny area where you work every day, now is the time to do it, nathan.
00:36:46.304 -->
00:36:48.326You know that's a little wrong-sided there, buddy.
00:36:49.072 -->
00:36:49.713Thank you, Mike.
00:36:49.713 -->
00:36:51.179You're defending me.
00:36:51.179 -->
00:36:52.855I haven't had this happen in a while.
00:36:52.855 -->
00:36:54.039I appreciate that yeah.
00:36:54.510 -->
00:36:57.559I'm on board with that, because I have a disorganized area.
00:36:57.559 -->
00:37:01.153Okay, if my area is too organized, it freaks me out.
00:37:01.153 -->
00:37:04.905I have to have a disorganized area in order for me to work.
00:37:04.925 -->
00:37:14.018Sounds like you need some counseling, mike no, that's not how it works all right, okay, tell us about the whiskey different way of organizing, that's right.
00:37:14.059 -->
00:37:17.012well, let me tell you about some people that are highly organized.
00:37:17.012 -->
00:37:26.543All right, arizona's legendary Smoke Hill area Okay, during the era of American Prohibition, smoke Eye Hill and its surrounding emerged as a secluded haven for bootleggers.
00:37:26.543 -->
00:37:32.362Here they crafted and distilled their illicit spirits, attracting a clientele that extended to the glamour of Hollywood.
00:37:32.362 -->
00:37:39.449Legend has it that a Prohibition agent with ties to the area would discreetly tip off the community about their arrival.
00:37:39.449 -->
00:37:49.244In response, the moonshiners of Smoke Eye Hill and the surrounding areas hung bells on the necks of roaming mules as a way to warn of lawmen rounding the bend.
00:37:49.244 -->
00:37:50.385Oh, okay.
00:37:51.409 -->
00:37:53.898So the mule would run and then the bell would go off.
00:37:53.918 -->
00:37:58.559Yeah, exactly so when they heard the bell going off, they knew the law was close.
00:37:58.559 -->
00:38:14.172Okay, okay, that's cool, it's pretty organized, yeah, now this bottle that we are drinking today has become known to the whiskey community when it came in first place at an award event, and that same event was George T Stagg, a highly prized and allocated bottle from Buffalo Trace.
00:38:14.172 -->
00:38:18.114Because of this Smoke Eye has become known as the Stag Killer.
00:38:18.114 -->
00:38:21.978Let me tell you here and now it is not Okay.
00:38:22.478 -->
00:38:29.184It doesn't even beat out Stag Junior, which is now just called Stag, which is the baby bottle to George T Stag.
00:38:29.184 -->
00:38:31.847Now don't get me wrong this is a decent pour of whiskey.
00:38:31.847 -->
00:38:40.914However, for the price, I should not be getting a hit of ethanol or as said turpentine and grain, I get a little green which I think comes from that blue corn.
00:38:40.914 -->
00:38:41.980Is that what, the blue corn?
00:38:42.039 -->
00:38:45.253tastes, because I haven't heard, I haven't tasted that necessarily before.
00:38:45.514 -->
00:38:48.119Very often yeah, it's also only five years roughly.
00:38:48.119 -->
00:38:50.693It needs more time too to age out some of that grain.
00:38:50.693 -->
00:38:53.079Now, when this bottle is done, that's it for me.
00:38:53.079 -->
00:38:56.677You know, unless they come out with some higher aged, I would give it another try.
00:38:56.677 -->
00:38:57.498Try, but it's good.
00:38:57.498 -->
00:38:58.762But for 90 bucks.
00:38:59.451 -->
00:39:06.282I've had way better for 50 and 49 and in in other areas, but I don't know.
00:39:06.282 -->
00:39:08.737I I I'm on the fence of it's a thumbs down.
00:39:08.737 -->
00:39:12.101I think I'm probably going to trend a little bit down, but we'll see what happens.
00:39:12.349 -->
00:39:13.311Like that'd be tough for me.
00:39:13.311 -->
00:39:15.612I don't know if I'd actually give it a thumbs down personally.
00:39:15.612 -->
00:39:21.559I just know for the price and I can usually pick up a regular stag for a little bit less.
00:39:21.559 -->
00:39:24.280Okay, Well, okay.
00:39:24.300 -->
00:39:28.105Would you drink this on a porch in the middle of the summertime, mr Gorday?
00:39:28.105 -->
00:39:30.106Yeah, okay, all right.
00:39:30.106 -->
00:39:30.987Okay, there you go, all right.
00:39:30.987 -->
00:39:37.760Well, whiskey and technology a great pairing, just like James Riddle and our technology updates in the medical field.
00:39:37.760 -->
00:39:40.242Now we're going to move on to our next segment.
00:39:40.262 -->
00:39:41.224You like that?
00:39:41.364 -->
00:39:41.766There you go.
00:39:41.766 -->
00:39:45.280James has been a longtime contributor to the program.
00:39:45.280 -->
00:39:49.800James is our special guest here to talk about what's going on in the medical research and innovation.
00:39:49.800 -->
00:39:57.942He has spent the last 25 years working in clinical research fields and lends his expertise to our audience to help break down what's going on in the world of research.
00:39:57.942 -->
00:39:59.577You can also follow him on LinkedIn.
00:39:59.577 -->
00:40:02.217Let's start our next segment with James Riddle.
00:40:03.951 -->
00:40:11.762Welcome to the segment we call Ask the Experts with our tech time radio expert James Riddle.
00:40:12.831 -->
00:40:13.612All right, james.
00:40:13.612 -->
00:40:15.335Welcome to our show today.
00:40:16.237 -->
00:40:18.081Greetings, gentlemen, All right Hi.
00:40:18.123 -->
00:40:18.483James.
00:40:18.483 -->
00:40:24.780So let me just tell you, did you hear that we had an Arizona comment about the whiskey right as we lead into our?
00:40:24.780 -->
00:40:26.416Are you calling us from Arizona?
00:40:26.416 -->
00:40:27.635Is that where you're calling in from us?
00:40:28.349 -->
00:40:31.259I happen to be here in the sunny desert southwest.
00:40:31.259 -->
00:40:37.329Okay, it has been very nice so far this spring, that's to be sure.
00:40:38.574 -->
00:40:40.434Well, we go from See it's technically winter.
00:40:40.851 -->
00:40:41.492See, that's.
00:40:41.492 -->
00:40:47.043What's nice about Arizona is that he gets to enjoy spring weather while we're enjoying not spring weather.
00:40:47.130 -->
00:40:49.539Yeah, we got two people here because Mike was from Arizona.
00:40:49.539 -->
00:40:51.317He grew up there and raised there.
00:40:53.034 -->
00:40:54.039So you still want to go back there?
00:40:54.039 -->
00:40:55.934I miss the Arizona winters.
00:40:55.934 -->
00:40:56.936Okay, there you go.
00:40:57.197 -->
00:40:58.561All right, well, let's move on here.
00:40:58.561 -->
00:41:01.793Glad to have you back on the show.
00:41:01.793 -->
00:41:04.882Tell us a little bit about yourself for any of the new listeners and maybe join the program.
00:41:05.990 -->
00:41:21.295So I've been a longtime friend of the show, been around doing clinical and medical research activities for goodness better part of a quarter century, and appreciate being able to come on and talk about new and innovative stuff.
00:41:21.315 -->
00:41:21.777All right, so let's go.
00:41:21.777 -->
00:41:22.478Story number one here.
00:41:22.478 -->
00:41:26.918Scientists are breeding mice on their journey to bring back the mammoth.
00:41:26.918 -->
00:41:35.878Now we talked about this in our jurassic park segment with james on episode 7 or 70 airing in october 16.
00:41:35.878 -->
00:41:42.780So if you want to go and talk about the first part of this, go back and take a look on YouTube for episode 70.
00:41:42.780 -->
00:41:49.278Now James explain to us what is going on with this mice in the journey to bring back the woolly mammoth.
00:41:50.050 -->
00:41:54.561Yeah, so definitely worth going back and listening to the prior episode.
00:41:54.561 -->
00:42:04.760The folks at Colossal Lab and Biosciences they've come a fair bit along in their quest to recreate and bring back the woolly mammoth.
00:42:04.760 -->
00:42:21.675Okay, the basic premise of this is it's a little bit of Jurassic Park, a little bit of environmental recreation and the like, but in essence what they're trying to do is they've got some woolly mammoth DNA that they found laying around on the tundra somewhere.
00:42:21.675 -->
00:42:32.920I don't know exactly where they got it, but they've got enough of it that they think they can use genetic engineering to recreate the woolly mammoth, bring it back, put it out on the plains, let it roam around.
00:42:32.920 -->
00:42:35.791You know, maybe give us some woolly mammoth burgers or something.
00:42:35.791 -->
00:42:37.034I don't know.
00:42:37.074 -->
00:42:37.333All right.
00:42:37.333 -->
00:42:39.795So how do mice factor into this?
00:42:39.795 -->
00:42:41.458It was very interesting to see.
00:42:41.458 -->
00:42:42.199What.
00:42:42.199 -->
00:42:49.144Does mice have Anything to do with a pretty small rodent versus a large mammal?
00:42:49.144 -->
00:42:50.246What do we have going on here?
00:42:53.690 -->
00:43:06.326Genes are complicated and it does take a little bit of trial and error to tinker around with the woolly mammoth DNA to see if you're going to be able to create a viable live organism.
00:43:06.326 -->
00:43:13.583And much like most medical research, that starts off from the lab and then before it gets to humans there's some animal testing.
00:43:13.583 -->
00:43:46.610Usually it's from lab mice, and so what the folks at Colossal have done here, they've taken their genetically engineered woolly mammoth embryos and they have figured out a way to gene transfer that into a mouse, and what they're trying to perfect is what we picked up on for purposes of this particular segment.
00:43:46.911 -->
00:43:47.496All right, so, so so.
00:43:49.146 -->
00:43:51.253Mice are used in lots of testing.
00:43:51.253 -->
00:43:55.876Did they put a DNA sequence inside the mice?
00:43:55.876 -->
00:43:58.512How do they make them be so furry?
00:43:58.512 -->
00:44:00.876And a part of this process?
00:44:03.248 -->
00:44:09.248Yeah, so they've spliced some of the woolly mammoth genes into the mouse, and so the mouse is.
00:44:09.248 -->
00:44:12.548I guess you would call it a woolly mouth, Okay there you go.
00:44:14.505 -->
00:44:15.630It's going to be like alien.
00:44:15.690 -->
00:44:18.572It's going to pop out a little tiny mammoth.
00:44:18.885 -->
00:44:21.226We're going to start selling those down at the local pet store.
00:44:21.226 -->
00:44:23.588It's like a mouse with a Okay.
00:44:23.588 -->
00:44:24.070Never mind.
00:44:25.228 -->
00:44:38.487You probably aren't going to see those at your local pet store anytime soon the folks who are responsible in doing gene editing and creating transgenic strains of animals.
00:44:38.487 -->
00:44:45.773They tend to keep those out of the population, so you don't get little Stuart Littles driving all over that's what I was exactly thinking about?
00:44:45.833 -->
00:44:47.097All right, all right.
00:44:47.097 -->
00:44:53.481Our second item here fake studies are slowing life-saving medical research, all right.
00:44:53.481 -->
00:45:05.695So there's fraudsters that are getting rich, and it looks like crooks are not just stealing your information through phishing attempts, but they're now actually penetrating the medical field.
00:45:05.695 -->
00:45:13.117James, tell me a little bit about what this article talks about regarding fake papers and what's going on in the industry here.
00:45:21.184 -->
00:45:21.264Yeah.
00:45:21.264 -->
00:45:26.775So if you've been around in the clinical research or medical research, even just research in general, the way that you advance your career is you get published right.
00:45:26.775 -->
00:45:29.166Some people hear the term publish or perish.
00:45:29.166 -->
00:45:38.068Well, if you don't publish, there's a tendency to indeed perish your career and you find yourself doing something else.
00:45:39.012 -->
00:45:46.329If your research doesn't work quite right, yeah.
00:45:46.449 -->
00:46:18.576So what's been going on is that, as there's been more and more pressure to develop new and innovative things and the pace of research is accelerating, not surprisingly some people are fudging their results, and the detection mechanism for being able to get into a published journal is that you get the journal editors reviewing your paper and they're supposed to be able to detect fraud or maybe fabricated information.
00:46:18.576 -->
00:46:31.851Well, it's hard to detect, and there's enough of it out there that it does impede future research, and so it also has the added implication I know how much you all love chat GPT.
00:46:31.851 -->
00:46:34.766Well, if you go out to chat GPT, guess what it learns on.
00:46:35.166 -->
00:46:37.266It learns on that scientific literature.
00:46:37.867 -->
00:46:44.771And if it's fake, then it's one of my biggest problems with chat.
00:46:44.791 -->
00:46:55.675GPT off of the scientific literature what to say about the current state of affairs on some scientific question?
00:46:55.675 -->
00:47:12.103And you get also this garbage that is out there, and so there is a and garbage begets garbage, because then of course, if you want to create a new study, you go to chat GPT or Gemini and you ask it what's the scientific literature say about the current state of this and that?
00:47:12.103 -->
00:47:20.449And then you start to recreate the project for something that wasn't even right in the first place.
00:47:20.449 -->
00:47:20.849So it is a problem.
00:47:20.849 -->
00:47:29.449Uh, it's not unique to the research universe, uh, but it does tend to creep in, uh, when you get into this publish or perish model so are these.
00:47:29.610 -->
00:47:38.965Are these papers penetrating the established and qualified journals and research nets?
00:47:38.965 -->
00:47:48.280Or is this the thing where they're actually publishing through a backdoor publisher and looking like a peer-reviewed system?
00:47:48.947 -->
00:47:49.710Yes to both.
00:47:49.710 -->
00:47:59.945Yes to both.
00:47:59.945 -->
00:48:02.251You're more likely to be able to put questionable science into journals that don't have a solid peer review.
00:48:02.251 -->
00:48:11.893But if you go and look at the retraction history that's in the news article, it's tens of thousands of papers being retracted from reputable journals.
00:48:11.893 -->
00:48:20.795Wow, now, it's a small fraction of the millions of papers that get published each year, but still it's enough that it's a problem.
00:48:22.365 -->
00:48:22.606James.
00:48:22.606 -->
00:48:25.034What's the end game on that for them Money?
00:48:26.626 -->
00:48:30.516You mean as far as the end game for faking your?
00:48:30.536 -->
00:48:32.844data is the famous eating on anything else.
00:48:33.125 -->
00:48:41.237Right, you get done faster, you don't have to put in the effort, you don't have to perhaps publish results that don't prove your hypothesis.
00:48:43.347 -->
00:48:51.992So it's more researchers and scientists taking shortcuts, trying to promote themselves versus something malicious like cybersecurity, it's a degradation of the scientific method.
00:48:52.072 -->
00:48:52.251Okay.
00:48:56.724 -->
00:48:58.449And it's pervasive enough to get mentioned in the news.
00:48:58.449 -->
00:49:07.253It's been a problem forever, but it's exacerbated by the AI learning models, where the learning models are learning from things that they don't know aren't right.
00:49:07.492 -->
00:49:09.329And see, I guess that's a huge problem.
00:49:09.369 -->
00:49:22.514Where a discerning scientist might be able to detect that a particular paper had, uh, something that might be questionable because as you create a large language model for chat, gpt, and then all of a sudden you have china with deep sea, go and steal that information.
00:49:22.514 -->
00:49:28.748If they don't, because they don't go back to the most current large language model, they go to the one that they published with the information.
00:49:28.748 -->
00:49:37.612So if they don't go back to the newest information and you have that language model with all those fake papers, now you know you may have something that will be completely false.
00:49:37.612 -->
00:49:44.041That is proven in one or two or three different versions of AI systems that are out there.
00:49:44.644 -->
00:49:51.197Yeah, but this is also compounded by the brutal, dark side of research science.
00:49:51.197 -->
00:49:52.960Okay, all right, all right.
00:49:53.447 -->
00:49:57.309Okay, well, let's see, james, that we're gonna have to be drinking even more after that.
00:49:57.309 -->
00:50:05.233All right, last question that I have here the uk plans for human trials on the world's most advanced brain chip for anxiety and depression.
00:50:05.233 -->
00:50:09.670Uh, what is this chip going to do and what's going on with this?
00:50:09.670 -->
00:50:10.873This is, this is exciting.
00:50:10.873 -->
00:50:14.693I've been watching severance season two, so tell me a little bit about what we got going on here.
00:50:15.074 -->
00:50:17.773Yeah, so if you're a Severance fan, this will resonate.
00:50:17.974 -->
00:50:18.195Okay.
00:50:20.347 -->
00:50:25.177After the down article we talked about with the fake papers, this one's actually super cool.
00:50:25.177 -->
00:50:41.597And so the folks at Forest Neurotech have devised a new type of brain implant that uses targeted ultrasound to change your behavior and your mood, and it's being researched over in the UK right now with the National Health Service.
00:50:41.597 -->
00:50:53.514And unlike most of the other neuro implants you've heard Neuralink from Elon Musk and all that this one doesn't have to penetrate into your brain matter in order to work.
00:50:53.514 -->
00:51:20.074It sits inside the skull and it uses a brain computer interface and what it does is it uses targeted ultrasound in various parts of your brain to change your mood and your behavior less invasive way to impact people's health rather than drugs or surgeries or implantable brain implants.
00:51:20.905 -->
00:51:27.349If you've ever been to the Seattle Science Center, I suspect that many of the listeners in the Seattle area have.
00:51:27.349 -->
00:51:37.418They have this game there where you put on a cap and then the person on the other side of the table puts on a cap and you basically think the ball across to the other side of the table.
00:51:37.418 -->
00:52:07.034That's using this basic technology, although the folks at forest neurotech have figured out how to make it really small and more, much more accurate and put it inside, in underneath the skull, but not in your brain matter super cool all right, oh great, that's a huge leap in technology over musk, yeah yeah, well, yeah, it would be, because if you don't have to go in and start attaching stuff to the skull itself and you just put it underneath, that would be perfect or crash rockets all right days are out of time.
00:52:07.356 -->
00:52:10.726Tell us how people can get in touch with you offline after the show.
00:52:10.726 -->
00:52:14.034We got to have you back because we have one subject that we didn't get to talk about.
00:52:14.034 -->
00:52:16.070That, I think, would make great for our next time.
00:52:16.746 -->
00:52:17.210How can people?
00:52:17.251 -->
00:52:17.695contact you.
00:52:19.346 -->
00:52:20.992You can connect with me on LinkedIn.
00:52:20.992 -->
00:52:23.005Just go look me up there.
00:52:23.005 -->
00:52:25.353That's where I do all of my social media stuff.
00:52:27.112 -->
00:52:28.382James thanks for being a part of the show.
00:52:28.382 -->
00:52:37.378If you want to go back and hear all about the Woolly mammoth, you can go to episode 70, aired on october 16th 2021, and find out what we got going on for there.
00:52:37.378 -->
00:52:38.800We thank james so much yeah he's.
00:52:38.940 -->
00:52:42.090He's one of my all-time favorite guests you have we like james.
00:52:42.112 -->
00:52:44.237James is fantastic, so all right.
00:52:44.237 -->
00:52:49.260Well, now we're going to move right now into our uh last commercial break.
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00:53:15.938This is your Nugget of the Week.
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00:53:17.606All right.
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00:53:23.016Youtube is expanding its pilot program for its new premium light subscription in the United States.
00:53:23.016 -->
00:53:37.088The company announced last week that the prices for a $7.99 per month plan instead of the $13.99 will allow you to skip most videos without ads, including gaming, fashion, beauty news and more.
00:53:37.088 -->
00:53:39.909But if you're listening to music, it will not be ad-free.
00:53:39.909 -->
00:53:47.793Are you interested in spending a little less, at $7.99 per month, to skip through commercials on YouTube?
00:53:47.793 -->
00:53:51.650Mike Bad YouTube, all right, mr Gregoire, would you do that?
00:53:51.650 -->
00:53:53.711No, no, all right, neither would I.
00:53:53.711 -->
00:53:57.358So best of luck for your guys' non-premium ad music.
00:53:57.358 -->
00:54:01.675Whatever you're trying to do, all right, let's now move on to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.
00:54:03.885 -->
00:54:07.195And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings.
00:54:07.195 -->
00:54:10.146Let's see what bubbles to the top.
00:54:11.106 -->
00:54:14.248What we are sipping on today is Smokeye Hill Barrel Proof.
00:54:14.248 -->
00:54:16.809It is a straight bourbon, five plus years.
00:54:16.809 -->
00:54:19.731This one, this batch, is 134.2 proof.
00:54:19.731 -->
00:54:26.494It's a mash bill of four grains, with one of them being blue corn, and it is $90.
00:54:27.153 -->
00:54:34.297All right, and we think the blue corn adds to that little kind of turpentine taste, not the turpentine, more of the grainy, the grainy sweet taste.
00:54:34.557 -->
00:54:34.858All right.
00:54:34.858 -->
00:54:38.460Well, I'm going to give it a thumbs down.
00:54:38.460 -->
00:54:40.400Wow, you know what?
00:54:40.400 -->
00:54:42.121The price point.
00:54:42.121 -->
00:54:46.003If I throw in the price point in there, I just think there's a whole lot better that I've tasted.
00:54:46.003 -->
00:54:52.670And I don't know if I would See I would have a $50 bottle of something I enjoy, versus a $90 bottle is something I wouldn't.
00:54:52.670 -->
00:54:53.590So I'm saying thumbs down.
00:54:53.590 -->
00:54:54.851What are you going to go with, Mr Gorday?
00:54:55.132 -->
00:54:56.172I'm going to give it a thumbs up.
00:54:56.172 -->
00:54:57.954Okay, I agree with both of you.
00:54:57.954 -->
00:55:03.740So without the price it'd probably be a thumbs up for me, okay, but with the price it goes thumbs down.
00:55:03.740 -->
00:55:04.822It goes thumbs down, all right.
00:55:12.675 -->
00:55:15.960Well, there you show, so it should be great segments for everybody to talk about.
00:55:15.960 -->
00:55:17.771Mike, we're about out of time.
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