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All right Today on TechTimeRadio . What's keeping

1:44

TikTok running and on top , despite

1:46

all of its controversies ? Tune in

1:48

to uncover the latest twists and turns

1:51

. Imagine controlling your devices with

1:53

just a flick of a finger Curious . We'll

1:55

reveal more with Gwen Wei on gadgets

1:58

and gear . And then

2:00

$1.5 billion stolen

2:02

in the largest crypto heist ever . Who

2:06

did it and how ? Tuned for to find out more

2:08

. And social security it services

2:10

are in turmoil , so we're going to be

2:12

talking about that . What dramatic measures

2:15

are being taken ? And then the next generation

2:17

of gaming is here . What's the buzz

2:20

about nintendo switch

2:22

2 and is it worth the hype ? We'll

2:25

give you a sneak peek . In addition , we have our

2:27

standard features , including Mike's mesmerizing

2:29

moment , our technology fail of the week , a possible

2:31

Nathan Nugget and , of course , our pick

2:33

of the day whiskey tastings , to see if our selected

2:36

whiskey pick gets zero , one or two

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thumbs up at the end of the show . Now are

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you okay there , mike ? I

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was worried about you . I saw you coughing , are you okay ? no , no , heimlich there anything like needs

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to be done , please , no , okay , all right . Well , you do , you know , you know what you do have , though don't touch me . Okay , you have

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, you have the legendary uh gaming mug , so

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you should be good yeah , that's what I was drinking out

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of when I went into the car okay , well , that didn't

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work . Then I almost had a legendary cough

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mug all right , all right right . Now , though , it's

3:03

time for the latest headlines in the world

3:05

of technology .

3:08

Here are our top technology stories of

3:10

the week .

3:12

All right , Story number one TikTok's

3:15

clock is still ticking . Let's

3:17

go to Lisa Walker for more on this

3:19

story .

3:22

US President Donald Trump has granted

3:24

TikTok a second 75-day

3:26

extension to comply with a law

3:28

that requires the highly popular video

3:30

app to either sell its US

3:32

operation or face a ban in

3:34

the country . The social media

3:37

platform , which claims to have more

3:39

than 170 million users in

3:41

the US , must cease operations

3:43

in the US under a law passed by

3:45

Congress , unless a buyer is found

3:47

. In a statement last week , bytedance

3:49

mentioned that it had been in discussions , but

3:52

noted that an agreement has not

3:54

been executed . There are key matters

3:56

. Any agreement will be subject to approval

3:58

under Chinese law . So who was in

4:00

the running to take over this platform ? Back

4:03

to you guys in the studio .

4:06

All right , so

4:08

let's talk a little bit about this . Who might buy TikTok

4:11

? As the ban deadline looms

4:13

, amazon joins the bidders

4:15

, so

4:19

it's really interesting that essentially , we have bidders that are all taking care

4:21

of it . Tiktok deals reportedly nearly finalized last week

4:23

, but fell apart after Trump on

4:25

the same day announced sweeping global tariffs

4:28

. I don't know if you've heard about these tariffs .

4:30

No , I have no idea what this is all

4:32

about .

4:32

Okay so , and it was imposed

4:35

on China . So all of a sudden , the agreement was

4:37

put on hold and

4:39

now the agreement is waiting for approval

4:42

of existing investors , ByteDance

4:44

, the US government and China . Now

4:47

Trump imposed these global import taxes

4:49

, which have caused a problem in

4:51

the negotiations of the purchase of TikTok

4:54

. It's interesting to see who is

4:56

all in this bid to purchase

4:58

TikTok . We have computer giant Microsoft

5:00

, we got private equity giant Blackstone

5:03

, venture capital firm

5:05

Andersonerson , hose

5:08

warts and search engine

5:10

ai . Company perplexity

5:12

is also in the stakes for purchasing

5:15

this social media app . Now you

5:17

know what ? I will look back at our prediction show

5:19

, and this was the year that I did not predict

5:21

microsoft would purchase a social media

5:23

app . And guess what ?

5:24

oh well , you might be wrong . Uh

5:27

, you could be wrong I actually think you're wrong most

5:30

of the time those are .

5:31

So you know , this is the time that I think that's going to happen

5:33

. Where I think ? Microsoft . To be honest , if

5:36

you're going to have somebody in there , I think that's the one

5:38

that will work the best I don't know

5:40

, black blackstone , who already owns

5:42

most of the country .

5:43

Anyway , probably uh is interested

5:45

in it . Yeah , yeah , they want they want to complete

5:48

their conversion

5:50

into a rental economy

5:52

. Would you want Amazon to have this ? You

5:55

know I don't want Amazon to have any more stuff

5:57

either . Ok , OK . I

5:59

would totally agree with that you know , but then

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again I don't . I think we should just ban

6:04

tiktok altogether , and as

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well as twitter and x

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and whatever it's going to be

6:11

called next week , when it , when xai

6:14

changes the name again . Okay whatever

6:16

.

6:17

Okay , all right now on the story number two

6:19

okay .

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Well , if you don't know yet , nintendo

6:22

has confirmed the nintendo switch 2

6:24

is coming out with a hefty price tag

6:26

of $449.99

6:30

for the console . That's the

6:32

same price as an Xbox or a

6:34

PlayStation 5 , though I guess they just want

6:36

their piece of the digital pie there .

6:38

Okay all right , if you get the bundle .

6:40

It's going to be $499

6:42

.

6:42

What .

6:43

Yeah , I think . What's the bundle ? Come

6:45

with a game , Comes

6:48

with Mario Kart , I believe .

6:49

No , Mario Kart World .

6:51

Available on June 5th this year . The Nintendo

6:53

Switch 2 was fully revealed last week , ahead

6:56

of pre-orders going live on April

6:58

9th . Nintendo Switch 2 is

7:00

the next step at home gaming that

7:02

can be taken on the go , based on eight years

7:04

of play . Nintendo

7:11

Switch 2 comes with the following the console , a joy-con 2 controllers on the left and

7:13

right , joy-con 2 grips , joy-con 2

7:15

straps , nintendo switch 2 dock , ultra high speed

7:17

hdmi cable , nintendo switch

7:20

ac adapter and a usbc

7:22

charging cable . Now , with

7:24

the bundle , it comes with all that

7:26

plus mario cart world , and

7:29

has a suggested retail price of

7:31

499.99

7:33

in the us . Includes

7:35

a system and a download code for

7:38

mario cart world , but if

7:40

you want to buy that on your own

7:42

, guess what ? How much is it ? How

7:45

much is it , odie ?

7:47

How much is it ?

7:49

$80 . $80 freaking dollars $79.99

7:52

.

7:52

I'll let you finish , All right but now , if you get

7:55

the online version , it's $30 cheaper

7:57

.

7:57

No , it's not .

7:58

Well , hang on , I know If

8:00

you get the bundle it's $30 cheaper

8:02

. Yeah , if you get the bundle , it's $30 cheaper . Yeah , they're

8:04

bundling it so you can get it for free , but that's not the physical game

8:06

.

8:07

That's only the downloadable , mind you , they're not making a physical

8:09

game anymore .

8:10

Well , I do believe that you can get

8:12

the $79.99 one . I believe

8:14

that's a physical game .

8:16

No , they're giving you download keys .

8:19

Are they all digital ?

8:20

Yeah , it's all part

8:22

of the whole new economy system

8:24

. Yeah

8:26

, it's all . Okay , it's all part of the whole new economy system . All right

8:28

, well , it's nothing . Nothing you have anymore is yours , and so you actually are then

8:30

renting it .

8:31

It's just like when you buy movies online

8:33

and you stream them and download them and then all of a sudden

8:35

, the studio pulls them back and then you've lost the type

8:37

of deal just think everybody that has the we store

8:39

. Right , the we store just officially

8:42

well , it was six months ago closed . So

8:44

if you had ever bought a digital copy on

8:46

the wii store and you paid 49

8:48

bucks , 59 bucks , 39

8:51

for the prices of that , and then it retires

8:53

, guess what happens ?

8:54

you do not get that game anymore yes

8:56

, that's happening with everything with music

8:59

, with uh games , with video

9:02

streaming services . You don't

9:04

own anything anymore . Then

9:06

that's where the economy is going . So

9:09

while it's normal to hear lots of curiosity

9:11

about how much a new console will

9:13

cost , the Nintendo Switch 2 in

9:15

particular has been the focus of a

9:17

huge lot of hot debates due

9:20

to the unusual economic environment

9:22

it's releasing in . As experts

9:25

said back in January , factors such

9:27

as supply chain constraints and

9:29

uncertainty around tariffs could have

9:31

impacted Nintendo's decision around

9:33

price setting . However , analysts

9:36

have also said that Nintendo is likely to

9:38

sell lots of consoles at launch . Regardless

9:40

of the price , it'll still sell out

9:42

.

9:43

Probably , and then it'll be the whole

9:45

deal where you buy it on the black

9:47

market and it won't be 4.99 , it'll be 700

9:50

and some odd dollars that they'll sell this for you too

9:52

yeah , I'm pretty sure

9:54

it will do well well , od will

9:56

uh . Will you be in line for one of these new units

9:59

? No , I will not , will you buy one

10:01

of these units ?

10:01

no , you know what I'm hoping will happen

10:03

what's that what they did with the wii

10:05

u okay , where apparently it

10:07

had this huge price tag at first

10:10

launch and then a lot of people realize

10:12

this is no different than the wii yeah

10:14

and it's not even a better console in itself

10:17

, and it has that big , hefty price

10:19

tag . So then it ended up reducing

10:22

in value a couple months after

10:24

launch , okay , so I'm hoping

10:26

that happens with this Also . Another

10:29

thing to note if you wanted to play

10:31

Switch games on

10:33

the Switch 2 , you have to

10:35

pay for an upgrade . Yes , for

10:37

20 bucks .

10:38

Yes . That's so ridiculous Per

10:40

game Per game Per game , not just

10:42

the platform but for a game . So if you bought

10:45

yourself , let's say you go down to the local retro

10:47

video game store and you buy a console one

10:49

of those type of deals for about 10 bucks , right , if

10:52

you wanted to play it in your new device by the time you

10:54

take it home and you pay 10 bucks for it , you'd have to

10:56

then upsell double the price that you

10:58

paid . Yeah , to pay it on your new unit for 20

11:00

sounds like .

11:00

Sounds like nintendo has really gotten back

11:03

behind this whole screw

11:05

you concern .

11:07

So Xbox is coming out with a portable device

11:09

. Right , their portable device is supposed

11:11

to be the same price as what

11:13

the Switch 2 just released . Now

11:15

I'm interested . I'm going to go with the Xbox

11:18

portable .

11:19

I'm interested to see how they play it

11:21

, because I have a feeling that you'll be able

11:23

to play the Xbox games on

11:25

the mobile device as well as on

11:27

the main console that they'll be like

11:29

transferable without any just your account .

11:31

You just want to come into your account , yeah , and it's supposed

11:33

to be a cloud-based unit . So what it is

11:35

, it will have a fast internet connection and

11:38

it will connect to that to move forward .

11:39

So but I was really hyped at

11:42

first because the mario world is just like

11:44

a GTA Mario Kart

11:46

, but very friendly . And

11:48

you know that's not even the full bundle

11:50

. You think the bundle would come with the camera

11:53

and the additional joysticks . It's

11:55

just a game .

11:56

Yeah , well , you know , as our buddy

11:58

Elon Musk said about his cryptocurrency

12:02

what's that ? It's a hustle .

12:05

Honestly , my Switch is doing fine . I bought

12:07

it in 2020 . I'm not gonna buy the console

12:09

. I was really hyped for it , but

12:11

all right .

12:12

Well , now we're gonna move on to story number three . All

12:14

right . Fbi has confirmed that north

12:16

korean hackers stole 1.5 billion

12:18

from cryptocurrency exchange by bit

12:20

on friday the largest crypto

12:22

heist record to date . Now

12:25

the FBI has encouraged node operators

12:27

, exchanges bridges , defi services

12:29

, blockchain analytic firms and

12:35

other cryptocurrency service providers to block transactions originating from the address used

12:37

by the North Korean hackers to launder the stolen

12:39

assets . On Friday , the state-sponsored hacking

12:41

group tracked by Trader Trader

12:43

, the Lazarus Groups and

12:46

APT38 , intercepted

12:48

a scheduled transfer of funds from one

12:50

of the Bybit's cold wallets into

12:52

a hot wallet , substantially

12:54

reducing . The Democratic People Republic of Korea

12:56

was responsible for the theft and approximately 1.5

12:58

billion USD in

13:09

virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange

13:11

by a bit . This all happened on February

13:13

21st 2025 . Now

13:16

the actors proceeded rapidly to have

13:18

all the converted stolen assets to Bitcoin

13:21

. They then tried to convert them to actual , real

13:23

currency . Now , if you're going to put money

13:25

into a crypto fund here at Tech

13:27

Time Radio , we've talked about this many times there's

13:29

only one that we recommend , and

13:31

that is a company out of California

13:34

called Coinbase . Now , none of these are

13:36

to be FDI insured . None

13:38

of these are guaranteed to exist . But

13:40

if you're putting any of your cryptocurrency into any

13:42

of these one-off areas . Let me just talk

13:45

about this . So , essentially , the cryptocurrency

13:47

buy bit

13:49

on Friday said that they are

13:51

not going to replenish any of those cryptocurrency

13:54

funds that were stolen . Why would they

13:56

? Because it's fake money .

13:58

It's a hustle .

14:00

So it's fake . Well , it's

14:02

$1.5 billion that has just

14:04

gone down the drain , and if you were one of those individuals

14:06

that had one of those cryptocurrencies

14:08

on this exchange , it is now gone

14:11

forever .

14:11

Yeah , how about ? How awesome is that

14:13

? So you spend money to buy non-money

14:16

yes , which gets stolen

14:19

by other people , and because it's non-money

14:21

, it's not actually stolen . And

14:23

then you convert it into cash and then you convert it into

14:25

cash , and then you can convert that .

14:26

The laundering is the only thing they get you on . How about that

14:29

?

14:30

I didn't think about it .

14:31

Yeah , that's how they get you . That's why the FBI is

14:33

involved , because it is a laundering scheme , because

14:35

you're taking money and you're converting it into other money

14:37

. You're not really giving an asset for it . So it's

14:39

kind of the way that they get that taken care

14:41

of . But let me just tell you

14:43

, do not be putting your money into cryptocurrency

14:45

. Well , that ends our top technology

14:47

stories of the week . Moving

14:50

on , gwenway will be joining us for our gadgets and gear segment . Next , buckle up

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as we drive 88 miles per hour into

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our next segment . See you , guys , after the commercial

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weekly show covers the top technology subjects

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without any political agenda . We verify the

15:55

facts and we do it with a sense of humor , in less than

15:57

60 minutes . And , of course , a little whiskey on the side

15:59

. Today , mark Gregoire , our whiskey connoisseur in

16:01

studio . What are we tasting

16:03

?

16:04

today . Today is Joseph A Magn

16:06

magnus . This is their murray hill club

16:08

special release , batch number four

16:10

. Oh , a little coffin over there . Wow

16:12

, let me tell you about it . It's a little bit

16:14

long . This is from their website . Okay , but

16:17

it's going to be all these tons of tasting

16:19

notes , so see if you get all these notes from it . Water

16:21

oil it's artfully blended . Eight

16:23

and 17 year old bourbon , finished in

16:25

four months in fresh Cavados casks

16:28

imported from the lower Normandy region of

16:30

France . The nose offers a

16:32

complex cornucopia

16:34

of aromas , such as apple

16:37

strudel , gingerbread cake drizzled

16:39

with white icing potpourri , old

16:42

fashioned New England apple

16:44

molasses , persian black

16:46

tea with sugar cubes and roasted chestnuts

16:48

. I detected every single

16:51

one of those .

16:51

Thank you , Mike .

16:53

I always tasted the potpourri from my grandmother's

16:55

old house , but okay .

16:56

Now everything that knows promise is delivered on

16:59

the palate , with further notes of

17:01

poached pears in ruby

17:04

, red , port star , anise , apple

17:06

blossom honey , brown butter with

17:08

cinnamon , roasted coffee beans

17:10

, dried apricots , branded cherries

17:13

, candied walnuts and aged balsamic

17:15

vinegar . I tasted every one of those

17:17

. You are turning into a connoisseur . And

17:19

what about the finish , Mike ? And what about the finish , Mike ? They say the finish

17:22

is extraordinary long and rich , with

17:24

plenty of plum pudding , apple

17:26

crisp and citron peels

17:28

that wash across the palate . Okay

17:34

, I don't know anything about citron peels , but the finish was awesome . So this is from Joseph

17:36

A Magnus Company . It's distillation

17:38

.

17:43

It's MGP distilled , but they bring it in and they finish it and they age it . It's a fancy looking

17:45

bottle , so it's got to be some expensive stuff .

17:46

It's finished bourbon aged 8 to

17:49

17 year blend 111

17:51

proof only . It's 75%

17:53

corn , 21% rye , 4%

17:55

malted barley and the price is $200

17:58

. That's why you don't like it . There

18:01

you go .

18:02

Too expensive for .

18:04

I don't know , I don't know , man , I I yeah

18:06

, well , maybe , it'll grow on me , okay .

18:08

Well , don't forget to like and subscribe . All you

18:10

people out there hit , smash that like button

18:12

. Drink responsibly .

18:13

Heaven can wait there you go , perfect . All right

18:15

, with our whiskey tasting completed , let's move on to our

18:17

feature segment . Today we have gwen way joining the show

18:20

. She's an expert in cyber security

18:22

during the day and a game board geek in the evenings

18:24

, as well as the producer of Tech Time Radio and

18:26

our Gadgets and Gear gal . Let's get ready

18:28

to start our Comcast video stream and our next

18:30

segment .

18:33

What's new in our Gadgets and Gear .

18:36

All right , Gwen , welcome to the show . Tell us a little

18:38

bit about yourself for any new listeners that

18:40

would be listening for their first time .

18:43

Certainly certainly Hi everybody . Listeners that would be listening

18:45

for their first time . Certainly certainly Hi everybody . I'm Gwen and I have been in

18:47

the tech world for a little over

18:49

a quarter of a century . I've decided to go with

18:51

that instead of just 25 years .

18:53

Okay , I like that , there you go .

18:55

It sounds good . And speaking of sounding

18:57

good , every word out of Mark's

18:59

mouth , that whiskey sounds amazing

19:01

.

19:02

Wow , yeah , okay

19:04

, all right , thank you Gwen .

19:06

Are you serious ? Are you serious right

19:08

now ? I really don't .

19:10

Okay , gwen . Well , technology meets fashion

19:12

. At our fingertips we have this

19:14

new device that is born the world's

19:16

first ring-shaped Bluetooth

19:19

mouse . Tell us what this device

19:21

is , tell us why someone would

19:23

use it , tell us what this gadget

19:26

is and explain this to me in layman terms

19:28

, because I looked at this and I got

19:30

so many questions .

19:32

Oh , I had questions as well

19:34

and I read into it and I

19:36

just love it . I've been a fan of

19:38

wearable technology , from smart

19:41

watches to health

19:43

apps Just all of it is fun . This

19:48

particular one , though , appeals greatly because it is just what you said

19:50

a ring mouse and that's how you can find it

19:52

on Kickstarter Search ring mouse . Basically

19:55

, what this allows you to do is a couple of different things

19:58

. It's just a ring , you put it

20:00

on and you're able to use

20:02

it just like any regular mouse . You can

20:04

use it for presentations , you

20:06

can use it if you're in a meeting and

20:09

want to be subtle about doing work

20:11

while you're in that meeting and

20:13

uh , you can also probably

20:15

use it to mess with other

20:18

people's work if you want to that

20:21

was , that was my , that was where you're

20:23

going .

20:23

first I kind of figured

20:25

Can I do with that like you would do with an

20:27

old TV remote ? You know where you would be

20:29

able to switch your neighbor's TV , so I guess

20:31

if you connected it to their computer as a Bluetooth device

20:34

.

20:34

If you connect to their Bluetooth .

20:35

Yep , exactly that's awesome

20:37

.

20:37

All right . So let me tell you does this work only on a Mac

20:39

environment ? Does this work on a PC ?

20:47

What does environment ? Does this work on a pc ? What does this work with ? This is pretty open . It's

20:49

just like any bluetooth mouse . You can use it for max , you can use it for windows

20:51

machines . I do not know whether it

20:53

will actually work on a linux

20:56

machine or not . I had asked that question and

20:58

, uh , had not gotten an answer yet

21:00

okay , all right , so you got

21:02

this .

21:03

It's so . I , I'm looking at it and

21:05

again you . All you got to do is , I guess , go to kickstarter

21:07

and search for ring mouse . They

21:10

got a good name right . There's no other ring my mouse

21:12

out there uh , tell me how

21:15

many people have backed it ? How many days to

21:17

go ? How much is their fund

21:19

? Are they fully funded ? Tell us the the kind

21:21

of the metrics they're on on all of that

21:23

good stuff .

21:24

Yeah , uh , they are fully funded . They

21:26

were looking for two thousand dollars to start

21:28

. They're up to 75 000

21:31

already . They've got slightly over

21:33

800 people backing it and

21:35

it is available until april 24th

21:38

okay , wow , until april 24th

21:40

now yep this

21:43

is interesting .

21:44

I don't know if I would ever wear a ring

21:46

for a mouse , so

21:48

I'm struggling with the application processes

21:51

of why you would actually use . Would , you

21:53

wear a mouse for a ring . No , I

21:55

wouldn't do that way either but I might be

21:57

a little big . Yeah , I just so

22:01

. So , oh

22:03

, I'll try to understand

22:06

this . Why would I use this If I'm at ? So

22:08

I saw their big thing that they said well

22:10

, mice are loud . Okay

22:12

, I guess if you bang a mouse on a table constantly

22:15

in a meeting it could be loud , but you

22:17

know what ? I think you can be pretty quiet with mice , so

22:19

I don't think that's a huge

22:21

of the items .

22:23

The sound wasn't really the big thing for me

22:26

. Of the of the

22:28

. Uh , the sound wasn't really the big thing for me . Okay , the thing that really interests me is , as my

22:30

career progresses , as I'm sure many others

22:32

uh , I'm doing a lot more presentations

22:34

now , okay , and it's much easier

22:36

if you're up there speaking , to just click a

22:39

button on a ring than it is to

22:41

either have one of the you know , actual

22:44

remote controls

22:46

or try to use your actual

22:48

mouse or have one of those floating

22:50

mice that they have now . This

22:52

just seems much simpler and less

22:55

distracting okay , okay

22:57

, I , I guess now .

22:58

So there's looks like there's two buttons

23:00

on here and then there's like a little screen type of deal

23:03

. What's that let's ? I didn't quite understand what the

23:05

screen area was for little screen type

23:07

of deal .

23:07

What's that let's ? I didn't quite understand what the screen

23:09

area was for . That's that's actually a pointer that you can use okay , so

23:11

that you're able to , you know , not only advance

23:13

slides , uh , in the presentation , but also

23:16

point to things on the slide yeah

23:18

, and you can now mess with your cat , with a mouse

23:20

, oh a ring with the

23:22

arena okay that's

23:25

not the

23:26

joke buddy it's fine , move on

23:28

, okay . So you know , most of the time I

23:31

I buy , I did not look to

23:33

back this . So so tell

23:35

us though , now , what's the price

23:37

? Now ? Hopefully you don't have to pay import

23:39

tariffs . No , joking aside , I mean

23:41

, who knows ? Is

23:44

the company local ? Is it

23:46

in the United States ? Is it overseas

23:48

?

23:48

It is . It's out of Arvada Colorado

23:51

.

23:51

Okay , which is good , that's nice .

23:54

Currently you can still get some

23:56

of the early bird specials , All right . So

23:58

, for example , if you want to get the stainless

24:00

steel version , it's only $69

24:03

. If you want to kind of bump

24:06

it up a little bit and get the titanium alloy

24:08

, it is currently $89

24:11

.

24:11

You know , I guess that's 69 bucks . That's

24:14

not that bad , because if you pay for a high-end mouse right

24:16

now , you're paying about 49 to 69

24:18

bucks for a mouse with that .

24:20

You know , my biggest thing now is how

24:22

long is it going to last ? Because you know I got a Fitbit

24:25

last February . Okay

24:28

, it has a one-year warranty yeah my warranty

24:30

ran out this february .

24:32

My fitbit stopped working last night , so

24:36

yeah , so you're just out of the warranty

24:38

thing , yeah just out of the warranty .

24:40

The fitbit completely fails .

24:42

It bricked itself oh no , is

24:44

there anything you can do to fix it .

24:47

I tried everything that is suggested

24:49

on the internet and it didn't work . No

24:51

and even throwing it against the wall didn't help

24:53

so

24:56

put it in the freezer for a few hours .

24:57

So how long does the battery ? How do ?

24:59

you charge , I guess , how do you charge this ring ?

25:00

that is a good aspect for that there

25:03

is a container that charges it

25:05

, kind of like what you have for airpods

25:08

okay , for the apple devices

25:10

, so you're able to put it in its

25:12

container . It charges it each

25:14

charge . If you fully charge it is

25:17

up to 10 hours of use . If

25:19

you need a just really quick

25:21

charge that you can do something specific

25:23

, if you charge for about five minutes it

25:25

will last for about an hour . Okay , so that you can do something specific

25:27

.

25:27

If you charge for about five minutes , it will last for about an hour . Wow , okay , that's actually

25:30

pretty reasonable . So it's like a mouse charge

25:32

for that , yeah but again , how long will

25:34

it last ?

25:37

I mean physically , if it's

25:39

a titanium ring , it probably will

25:41

last quite a bit , right yeah , but how

25:44

long will the functionality functionality

25:46

work ?

25:48

well , since it's bluetooth , I'm sure it only does like

25:50

you got button click here , button do here

25:52

. So you got two buttons and , and uh , in

25:54

a laser pointer it's not . So

25:57

if you look at that , I guess that's not that sophisticated

25:59

, because if you have two buttons , what happens , though

26:01

, if you're wearing the ring and

26:03

you hit the buttons and then it's connected to your computer

26:06

and it opens up ? I'm

26:09

struggling .

26:10

What are you dancing around there , buddy ? Well

26:12

, you said it opens up stuff . You know

26:14

what other people see , or you're in a presentation

26:17

. That's what I'm thinking .

26:18

I think you're in a presentation . All of a sudden it goes back

26:20

to the Windows screen Right . So you actually double

26:22

click on it and it does a double click . You actually

26:24

double click on it and it does a double click

26:27

. It goes out of your window and then you have

26:29

to . Now , it's not going to be . You

26:31

can't navigate your ring to go left and right Cause it's only the buttons right , so I couldn't get

26:33

it back . So here I'm on stage going help , help , and

26:35

then someone's going to have to plug in a physical

26:37

mouse , put it down , move it around

26:39

.

26:47

And then I'll say your ring . So I am okay . I think you would definitely

26:49

have to practice with it before using it for a presentation but I still think the usability

26:51

is there okay , all right , well , so so are

26:53

you gonna ?

26:54

are you gonna get the delorean version ? Are you gonna

26:56

get the upgrade ? I'm getting zero of these . The

26:59

question goes .

26:59

The question goes no , I'm actually gonna get

27:01

zero of these . I have no real interest , but gwen

27:04

the listeners want to , are you

27:06

going to get one of these units ?

27:08

I think I am . I'm going to go ahead and go for

27:10

the stainless steel , because I don't need anything

27:12

too fancy . I just want something that

27:14

I can easily flip slides

27:17

with .

27:18

Tina . Would be really cool though , I guess is if you

27:20

had this like to your wife's phone and you add the Bluetooth

27:22

without her noting , and then she's like sitting there

27:24

and she's scrolling through and all of a sudden you start scrolling

27:27

through it's like what the heck's going on to my computer

27:29

? What the heck's going on to my iPhone ? I

27:31

think .

27:31

Nathan's talking about me to it .

27:32

That would be like an April Fool's joke . Yeah , you weren't here

27:34

for my previous joke , were you ?

27:41

Well , no , I mean no , I was .

27:43

but I mean this is yeah , I would take it to the office

27:45

and hook it into other people's computers

27:47

and be like messing with them and

27:49

you just walk over to them because he doesn't look like .

27:51

You have a mouse and you're just walking over there and you're like clicking

27:53

and sliding and you

27:55

get one of these boring things and as Nathan talks himself

27:57

into it .

27:59

I think both of you might be buying

28:01

these now . That sounds great practical

28:03

joke .

28:04

I was on board when you first

28:06

started talking about it , because I immediately

28:09

saw the practical joke part of it

28:11

especially when you're bucks especially

28:14

when you're you know all

28:16

these stupid , boring meetings with everybody

28:18

in their power points . Can you imagine sitting

28:21

there ?

28:21

just taking over the next , next , next , next , next

28:23

, next , next , next .

28:24

And you're like okay , now we're done

28:26

, like yeah or you know , keep

28:28

, keep it on the same one , and every

28:30

time they move it , just move it back , and just

28:33

just okay , all right .

28:35

Okay , all right . Well , you know , all

28:38

right . Well , gwen , it's always great

28:40

having you talk about new gadgets on the show . Um

28:43

, we want to thank you for being a part of the show

28:45

. I realized we only get 12 unique

28:47

items per year because you're on once a month

28:49

, so when we actually go through all these items

28:52

, I end up well , that's good for you , mr

28:54

.

28:54

Mr , buy everything .

28:55

I only buy about 10 of these things , so this

28:57

is the one that I may pass , but you

28:59

know what that's okay well

29:02

, the more you think about

29:04

all that stuff that we were talking about . Just think

29:06

if I was doing that over here and then all of a sudden Odie's

29:08

trying to run the board there and all of a sudden they slide

29:10

up and slide down .

29:12

Odie I'm sorry .

29:13

Well , of those 10 items , how

29:16

many do you actually receive ?

29:17

Normally like 7 of the 10 . Normally it's like

29:20

3 that don't go through . That's still more than half he

29:22

buys 100 .

29:23

He gets eight back . That's

29:26

how it works .

29:27

I just got this new dot one . Did you ever

29:29

remember the dot thing that we had ? I just

29:32

got that . It finally came in Well

29:35

, Gwen , thank you for being a part of the show .

29:41

We will see you next month Sounds good .

29:42

Where can people find you ? Where can people find you online ?

29:44

Well , you can find me on LinkedIn , but really the best

29:46

place to find me is the tech timers group

29:48

over on facebook there you go .

29:50

They talk to gwen . You can ask her about lots of gadgets

29:53

there . All right , thank you so much for being a part

29:55

of our show . Gwen bye , gwen , thank you bye

29:57

all right , that is our segment gadgets and gear up

29:59

. Next we have mike's mesmerizing

30:01

moment . Welcome

30:05

to mike's mesmerizing

30:07

moment . What does Mike

30:09

have to say today ? All

30:12

right , my question for you , mike . We're getting into the

30:14

time when a new video game like Grand Theft Auto

30:16

is going to come on out , and it looks like the starting

30:18

price of a video game is going to be in the $100

30:21

range for a video game . Is

30:23

this something that we are going to pay for a video

30:25

game ? Because when I look at my entertainment

30:27

value , I can go to a movie still

30:30

for under $20 , and

30:32

they're asking me now to start paying a hundred

30:34

dollars for a video game . And Grand Theft Auto

30:36

will have microtransactions in it . So

30:38

I'm going to pay a hundred bucks and then I'm going to be microtransacting

30:41

another 200 to $300

30:44

for this game .

30:45

So what do you want to know ? If people are going to go

30:47

for it , yeah , well , yeah , they're absolutely going

30:49

to go . We train

30:51

people to do this from the very outset

30:54

. Okay , you know , we use

30:56

addictive things to get them hooked and

30:58

then we train them that things

31:00

are going to go higher priced and

31:03

everybody just sort of absorbs it and

31:06

like for me , probably not . You

31:09

know , I'm not , I wouldn't consider

31:11

myself that that much of a gamer

31:13

, in that I will . I'm like always on the

31:16

hot new titles . I , I like

31:18

my games and I played the same game

31:20

. But these folks that are gamers

31:22

and they're always trying to jump to the next new

31:24

thing yeah , don't pay for it , so

31:26

you're going to pay $500 for this new Nintendo

31:29

device that comes on out .

31:30

Yeah , not me .

31:30

Okay , and then the consumers are asked

31:33

to spend $75 to $100

31:35

.

31:35

I think it's ridiculous , but then again

31:37

I think things are ridiculous that most people

31:40

just ignore .

31:41

So like $1,000 could easily be spent

31:43

in like the first month of your purchase of this

31:46

new Nintendo .

31:46

Switch . Yeah , why not ?

31:48

And that's okay .

31:48

A thousand bucks . Do you know how ?

31:50

many movies I can go to for a thousand .

31:52

Yeah , but the whole thing with the movies

31:54

is the movie price is so

31:56

low because odds are you're going to

31:58

pay twice as much for the condiments that

32:00

go with the movie . Okay , that's why that exists . That's

32:02

why that exists . But we in this world

32:05

and I don't think we really pay much attention

32:07

to it , because it's just normal is that we

32:09

go and we work so that

32:11

everybody else and their mom can

32:14

devise ways of separating us from

32:16

our income . That's what marketing

32:18

is . That's what all these gaming I mean with

32:20

the gaming industry , the media

32:23

every industry is trying

32:25

to separate you from your dollars . They

32:28

have been training us to do this from

32:30

way back . They use all kinds of psychological

32:32

tricks on you . I think

32:35

it's a normal thing , but I don't think it should

32:37

be . I think we should push back a lot on it

32:39

. So I would hope that the

32:41

gaming community would be like

32:43

nope , I'm not buying that , it's too much . Odie

32:53

, would you pay $100 ?

32:54

for Grand theft auto . I've never played gta , so no , okay , okay . Would you pay 100 bucks

32:56

for mario kart world ? No , no , mario kart 8 , that's 60 bucks .

32:57

Yeah , it should not be more than that see it's normalized

33:00

now that games are 60 bucks . How

33:02

much were games back when we were ?

33:04

kids . Okay , so pc games I went back to this , so pc games like sierra , online games and stuff were

33:06

35 to 49 . Right , how much were games back when we were kids ? Okay , so pc games I went back to this , so pc games like sierra , online games

33:08

and stuff were 35 to

33:10

49 right .

33:11

How much were , how much were nes games

33:13

?

33:14

I don't know about that , but thinking back to

33:16

like the ds , that's my first major

33:18

console yeah or portable console

33:20

, however you want to 39 bucks a

33:22

good game that was very popular

33:24

, 40 bucks yeah , and that makes sense

33:26

because you could take it anywhere . You could put it

33:28

anywhere . Yeah , I was able to play

33:30

on the DSI when they came out with the new one

33:33

. Yeah , it did not matter what game

33:35

I had , I didn't have to buy another one .

33:37

But with this , you can't even play

33:40

your own game , transfer

33:43

it to another device . No , you have to have two of them . Yeah , so when you go traveling

33:46

, you're going to be like boom , boom , boom . Here's my Switch 2 and here's

33:48

my Switch original .

33:48

Yeah , that's so ridiculous .

33:50

Okay , all right . Well , yeah See , I don't know

33:52

what you're talking about , because I remember buying

33:54

NES games when I was younger , and

33:56

you know , of course 29 bucks at Toys

33:58

R Us .

33:59

Yeah , it was always something affordable once I had above 59 I

34:09

think now . I think now we're .

34:10

We're just sort of edging into let's get away

34:12

with what we can get xbox for that because

34:15

when the xbox one came out .

34:17

I remember something like forza

34:19

yeah sixty dollars . But

34:21

it made sense for the console , like

34:24

those , graphics were great for the time

34:26

. But now would I pay

34:28

60 bucks for a digital copy

34:30

of a game ?

34:32

No , Well , that

34:34

ends our mesmerizing moment . What are

34:36

you ?

34:36

going to say I don't think it was very mesmerizing

34:39

, real quick yes .

34:40

Gwenny over here says that it's

34:42

like boiling a frog . They raise the prices

34:44

a little bit at a time and we don't notice and

34:47

just keep paying more .

34:48

That's right . But now it's to

34:50

the point where you're not even owning

34:52

what you're buying , you're just paying somebody

34:54

, you're licensing it , leasing it , but

34:56

.

34:56

NES . Again . Those were like 40

34:58

to 50 bucks a game when it came on out

35:00

. So again , I don't know if it's changed

35:02

too much From .

35:03

PC .

35:03

I don't know if it's changed too much from PC to the games . It's changed

35:05

, but not as much .

35:06

It used to cost more to make a game , too , everybody's doing

35:08

. How , how do

35:10

you mean ? Well , you had to have a plastic container

35:13

.

35:13

You had to have chips that you had to burn . So those

35:15

were actual hard cost prices . Nowadays

35:17

, when you do a game , all it is is software . When

35:21

you release a software version of a game , you're just putting code out there that somebody

35:23

downloads . There is no . There is cost for

35:25

people to develop it the testers . I totally

35:27

understand there's development costs , but the actual

35:29

physical costs are much

35:31

less than what they used to be back when you had a cartridge

35:34

and you had to have ROMs that were in there

35:36

and a bunch of testing and burning of the ROMs

35:38

.

35:38

Yeah , but it was your game .

35:40

It was true .

35:41

I have a bunch of my games at home that

35:43

I own that . I can't

35:45

play because I don't have even a Wii anymore .

35:48

Thank you for that mesmerizing moment . We're going to head out

35:50

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35:54

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And now let's

37:03

look back at this week in

37:05

technology .

37:06

All right , we're going to our Wayback Machine and it's

37:08

April 12th 1976

37:10

. Who in the world is Ronald

37:13

Wayne ? One of Apple's computer

37:15

three's co-founders departed

37:17

just 11 days after

37:19

founding the company , selling

37:21

his 10% stake for $800

37:24

. During his brief tenure , wayne created

37:26

the first Apple logo , drafted the company's partnership

37:29

agreement and wrote the manual for the Apple I

37:31

. He decided

37:33

to leave because the partnership agreement imposed unlimited

37:35

personal liabilities on all the co-founders

37:38

, no matter which partner accrued

37:40

the debts . In contrast to Jobs

37:42

and Wozniak , who were both

37:44

21 and 25 at the time , wayne

37:47

had his own personal assets vulnerable

37:49

to creditors . Additionally , prior

37:51

failures of a slot machine

37:53

venture which launched five years earlier

37:56

influenced his choice to withdraw from the partnership

37:58

. Wayne later remarked either

38:00

I was going to go bankrupt or the richest

38:02

man in the century . By 1982

38:05

, his 10% share of Apple Computer had

38:07

grown to the value of $1.5 billion

38:10

, which has now soared to $22 billion

38:12

in 2010 , and then saw hindsight

38:14

2020 . Right now , it'd

38:16

be worth about $22 billion .

38:19

Maybe this was a tech fail , not a .

38:21

Well , no , no , no . This is just a history thing . Our

38:25

tech fail will be a tech fail . So there you go . Sometimes

38:28

you have an opportunity to

38:30

invest in something and if you do it you

38:32

can make it . Sometimes you don't . I can see

38:34

it . He was kind of scared . He

38:36

had two young kids spending his money

38:38

and he would be liable . He's like I don't know if these guys

38:41

are going to make it , but clearly

38:43

they did . That

38:46

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39:40

Mark's Whiskey Mumble .

39:47

All right . Well , somebody

39:49

at this table is celebrating April

39:52

8th today . Oh , and

39:54

what is that ? It's Trading Cards

39:56

for Grownups Day . Oh

39:58

, fantastic .

39:59

I love trading cards .

40:00

Now , a collection of trading cards by grownups

40:02

is usually considered childish . What Trading

40:05

Cards for Grownups ? Day is a day for people pretending

40:07

to be adults to show their trading cards and be

40:09

proud of their collection . Oh , I am . It

40:11

is celebrated by them to try and normalize

40:13

the collection of trading cards by those that are not

40:15

children anymore . What a day

40:18

.

40:18

It is . Do you know how many trading cards I have ?

40:21

This is not no . If there

40:23

were a museum of old toys

40:26

, it would be you , okay

40:28

.

40:28

So I do have a lot of . I also big . I have

40:30

Michael Jordan's rookie . I got a whole bunch

40:33

of stuff that's been slabbed and put

40:35

a PSA ratings on , so

40:37

I'm a big card collector . I never got into Magic

40:39

, the Gathering or any of those games at the time , I just

40:41

did really sports cards . It was kind of my thing . Garbage

40:44

Pail Kids .

40:51

Now time I just did really sports cards was kind of my thing . Garbage pail kids . Now let's

40:54

talk about an adult that had better things to do than trading cards . Oh wow , okay , joseph

40:56

magnus story .

40:56

I think it marks on the childish , childish side of that equation . So joseph magnus story begins all

40:58

the way back in the young , war-torn

41:01

america in the middle 19th century . Now , during

41:03

the civil war in 1864

41:05

, young magnus has received news that his father

41:07

had been killed in battle , with three younger

41:09

siblings to take care of . He matured quickly

41:11

and took on the responsibility of caring for

41:13

his siblings . His late father

41:15

had been a merchant and Magnus took after

41:17

him to become a savvy businessman . He

41:20

soon discovered a niche market

41:22

for wholesale liquors . By the time he was 26

41:24

, he

41:27

had painstakingly built up a liquor empire

41:29

. Now , magnus prided himself not only on the quality and age of his spirits

41:31

, but on intelligent and honorable

41:33

business methods . Excellent whiskey , he

41:36

recognized , was more than simply a pleasant

41:38

experience for drinkers . It was a

41:40

means of promoting good conversation , close

41:43

fellowship and the interchange of kindly

41:45

deeds and pleasant thoughts . That's

41:48

why we drink . That's why we drink

41:50

. That's why , because of pleasant thoughts .

41:52

Yeah , no , I drink right now because

41:54

both of my kids are getting married . That's why .

41:56

I drink .

41:56

I thought there were other reasons to drink too

41:59

.

41:59

At the end of the show . Somebody heard you

42:01

on the radio talking about that . Nathan and

42:03

I have a present for you .

42:05

Oh , okay heard you on the radio talking about that , nathan , and I have

42:07

a present for you . Oh , okay , from that person . Okay , all right . Is it alcohol

42:09

? Maybe whiskey chris ? Was it whiskey chris ? You'll have to wait and

42:11

see , but yes okay

42:13

about the whiskey .

42:15

This one is a thinker , not only throughout

42:17

sipping it but also every time I've

42:19

had it . It's a roller coaster of flavors , delivering

42:22

new ones at each turn . It has rich

42:24

dark fruit , rais raisins and dark chocolate

42:26

and lots of flavors of ruby port without

42:28

that cloying sweetness . The

42:32

finish on this lasts forever and brings along with it some nice crisp

42:34

apple . I hope to savor this bottle

42:37

and will enjoy every pour of it .

42:39

Okay , so you know what I really did not like it . Oh

42:41

, I know you don't , but I'm starting

42:43

to get a little bit . So it's

42:46

not . I would never pay

42:48

the price for this and

42:52

I would never ask and recommend this from any place that I

42:54

would be at , but I will say that it is maybe not as bad as I first had when I

42:56

had the first bite of it . Okay , all right . Well , whiskey

42:58

and technology are a great pairing , just like the

43:00

TV show Ren and Stimpy from Nickelodeon

43:02

1991 and 1995

43:05

. Remember Ren and Stimpy .

43:07

All you have to say is Ren and Stimpy . I don't think

43:09

you have to describe where you're . Do

43:11

you know how to tell a joke , odie ?

43:12

was like who the heck are those ? She didn't even know

43:14

what I was talking about .

43:16

No , I think .

43:18

You know why I made that face ? Why is he telling

43:20

me it was on TV ?

43:21

Because we just talked about how childish

43:23

you are and here you are talking about a Nickelodeon

43:25

show Absolutely Ren and Stimpy baby you were well into

43:27

your 20s when that came out .

43:29

Let me just tell you , I

43:32

still watch South Park pretty religiously myself

43:34

South .

43:35

Park makes sense , the classic

43:37

Ren and Stimpy was just yeah

43:39

then there was Nickelodeon .

43:41

Had it for a bit you are so stupid , Stimpy

43:43

, that's right . Then MTV got it for like a season

43:46

or two and then they kind of like went they were trying to do the

43:48

Beavis and Butthead type of deal . But all right

43:50

, there we go , continuing on . All right

43:52

, let's prepare for our technology fail of the week

43:54

brought to us by Elite Executive Services

43:56

. We are out of time . Congratulations

44:00

, you're a failure .

44:04

Oh , I failed . Did I yes , did I

44:06

yes , did I

44:09

.

44:09

Yes , all right . Well , this week's technology

44:12

failure kind of comes to us from this company

44:14

called DOGE have you ever heard

44:16

of this ?

44:16

Is it a cryptocurrency ? No , it's not cryptocurrency . I think

44:19

we'll take a little drink of this one .

44:21

All right . And what is happening with the staff for Social

44:23

Security ? And what is happening with the staff for Social Security Now

44:25

? Doge offered layoffs at

44:27

Social Security and plans to get the IT

44:30

team and the website . Continuity

44:32

is breaking . No-transcript

44:55

is . They're having problems with the traffic on

44:58

their current website . So those people that are trying

45:00

to use Social Security services through the website

45:02

have actually been hit with crashes , unable

45:05

to go to the site itself because

45:07

the senior department officials said that they do

45:09

not have adequate people

45:12

for their IT team . Their IT team

45:14

consists of about 4,000 members and

45:16

they've already been told that they should expect at least

45:18

800 or more to be laid

45:20

off next week .

45:22

Now I also heard that they claim

45:24

that they're going to rewrite the whole Social Security

45:26

underlying code which is on Cobalt . Yeah

45:28

, and rewrite it in three months , okay

45:30

, and make it all perfect and all easy and

45:32

all perfect , okay .

45:34

Well , you know what that's going to be interesting ?

45:35

They should be game designers .

45:37

They should be game designers . Oh wait , Maybe they are .

45:41

It could be like Bethesda , day one and then you have

45:43

to write the whole patch and download the

45:45

whole game .

45:45

So that's what they're going to do they're going to write all this code

45:48

, launch it . It's not going to work . Then they're going to spend

45:50

eight years patching it until it doesn't work

45:52

. Still , that's right , well hang on It'll be

45:54

great .

45:55

It'll be great Our

45:59

technology fail is . I understand there this PSA

46:02

out there for everybody . But please , if

46:04

you're having problems with something

46:06

already , it

46:09

is not the ability to go in there and just cut everything so you can then see what happens . You

46:12

need to be able to fix those items first

46:14

before you go and cut .

46:16

We're going to head out to our last commercial . So you mean , like measure

46:18

twice cut once .

46:19

No , no , well , no , not even measure twice

46:22

. That's not how it is . Just do an evaluation . It's

46:27

cut five times , measure none , and then just put wood glue back together for any of the pieces that

46:29

you cut incorrectly , right there you go . Alright

46:31

, we're going to head out to our last commercial break . When

46:33

we return , we have our Nathan Nugget of the week and , of course

46:36

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This is your Nugget of the Week , all right ? Well , let's get ready for our

47:04

Nathan Nugget of the Week , all

47:06

right .

47:06

Well , let's get ready for our Nathan Nugget . Now . Microsoft is

47:08

celebrating 50 years , and I worked for them for

47:11

one-fifth of that time . I have

47:13

a quiz here for Mike , mark and Odie . Let's

47:15

take a look at some of the important red-letter dates for

47:17

Microsoft and compare them to

47:19

what we have available now in our

47:22

Microsoft 50 quiz

47:24

. Here's what we go , all right , do

47:29

we know when the beginning is considered , when Microsoft was founded ? Does

47:31

anybody know what date that is ?

47:32

The date or the year . Well

47:35

give me the year . Give me the year 1988

47:38

.

47:38

Nope , Odie do you have an idea

47:40

?

47:41

No , okay , I really don't .

47:42

Mark , do you have an ?

47:42

idea 1975 , probably around

47:45

April 4th .

47:46

Somebody . I really don't . Mark , do you have an idea ? 1975 , probably

47:48

around April 4th . Somebody read their script ahead of time . That is correct . Ding , ding , ding . Good job . Microsoft was

47:51

founded from the humble Is that in the script . Yeah , it was in

47:53

the script . In the humble beginnings , microsoft

47:56

grew quite frequently

47:58

with the personal computer and software company

48:00

. All right , we're going to take a look at the next thing Now . Everybody's

48:03

heard of Microsoft Word right Now . It was

48:05

officially launched as a revolutionary

48:07

document creation process . It was

48:09

actually competing with a product in the market that

48:12

had 95% of the share , which was

48:14

called WordPerfect WordPerfect which is a

48:16

much better product . It was it

48:18

was , but Microsoft Word came on out . Does

48:20

anybody know what date it came on out ? 1988

48:22

. No , a little earlier

48:24

, a little earlier , a little earlier od . Do you have any idea on this

48:26

? It was like 84 was mark

48:29

.

48:29

Oh , one year before , mike . Oh , there you go . 1983

48:32

, 1983 october 29th .

48:34

That is correct . Now , do you know what was the price

48:36

that you had to pay in 1983 for a copy

48:38

of microsoft word ? 20 bucks , nope

48:40

, 79 dollars for a copy .

48:42

It was a video game . It was a video game . It was $80

48:45

.

48:45

It was $80 for the productivity . Guess how much

48:47

you pay now for it ? Nothing , because

48:49

it is now available in the Office Suite for

48:51

free . If you create a Microsoft account

48:53

or a Bing account , you can go online and

48:56

use Microsoft Word on

48:58

the web version for free for everybody

49:00

to use today .

49:01

Didn't that lead to Microsoft getting in trouble

49:03

? Well , they got in trouble for lots of stuff , having

49:07

lead to microsoft getting in trouble .

49:08

Uh well , they got in trouble . Monopoly , yeah , something like all right now the biggest thing here

49:10

microsoft , windows 95 , big

49:12

, big deal . It was at least released in 1995

49:15

, but do you know which month

49:17

it was released ? In 1988

49:19

. No well , that was the better version

49:21

. Do you know what ?

49:23

month was it released .

49:26

April , nope Mark . I think it was

49:28

the best month of the year . What was that ? November

49:30

?

49:31

Is that the best month ?

49:31

of the year . No , it was November

49:34

. I was wrong . I thought it was August .

49:36

No , November 20th 1985

49:38

. And it actually shipped with

49:41

a bunch of issues that were a problem

49:43

. What's that , Cody ?

49:44

Were you asking for the month ?

49:45

Yes .

49:48

You're off there , buddy .

49:50

Excuse me , it was August 24th

49:52

1995 .

49:54

Yes , no , you were

49:56

talking about the first Windows , not

49:58

Windows 95 . You mixed the two

50:00

up . The first Windows version they released

50:02

.

50:02

You worked there for I meant Windows 95

50:05

. I'm for , I meant Windows 95 . I'm sorry

50:07

, I meant Windows 95 . Windows 95

50:10

was August .

50:11

No , Windows 95 was August

50:13

of 1995 .

50:14

I still want to know why August is the best month of the year . I'm

50:16

looking at the thing right now , November

50:19

20th 1985 .

50:21

Windows is released . Windows opened up

50:23

a new era of multitasking .

50:24

That wasn't Windows 95 . That was the

50:26

original Windows , windows 3.1 . Remember

50:28

that early .

50:30

I guess I'm looking at the picture of the Windows 95

50:33

release , but it was actually .

50:35

Windows .

50:35

Word perfect . Microsoft may be

50:37

wrong on that thing . There , there you go . Okay

50:39

, now we're continuing on . So Odie now

50:41

has the same thing , so she can go ahead too

50:43

.

50:44

She's cheating too . All right , Mike will know

50:46

this next one .

50:47

I still want to know why August is the best month

50:49

of the year .

50:49

It's his birthday .

50:50

Leo .

50:51

Internet Explorer is released . Internet

50:53

Explorer was competing with another . Does everybody

50:55

know what they were competing against ?

50:57

Nobody cares , netscape , netscape , big time at

50:59

the time percent

51:06

of the market .

51:06

Yeah , came on out , it was august 24th . Better product august 24th . Escape was yeah

51:08

, yep 1995 and msn has launched as a debut with

51:10

windows 95 on august 24th 1995

51:13

. It was the combined of news and

51:16

technology for the msnbc

51:18

uh arm . That uh really

51:20

kind of failed . Uh was not a really good I

51:22

adventure . But they do have MSNBC

51:25

now as its own news

51:28

article and then you have MSN . Let's

51:30

move on to your favorite one . When

51:32

was the Xbox ?

51:33

Well , you didn't answer the question . When did MSN

51:35

come out ? Msn came out in

51:37

August .

51:38

August 24th , msn and

51:41

.

51:41

IE . All were launched with Windows 95

51:43

.

51:44

I'm just clarifying I didn't hear

51:46

the month .

51:47

Maybe I'm just stuck on the fact that August is

51:49

the best month of the year , the Xbox

51:51

console the original Xbox console , the one that

51:53

I actually worked in helped put all the hardware in this

51:55

bad boy .

51:56

It came out in 1988 . 2001,

51:59

. November 15th .

52:01

Space Odyssey . We can skip

52:03

the next one .

52:04

The next one just does not matter .

52:06

Bing was launched in June 3rd 2009

52:09

. Just move on to the next one .

52:10

Microsoft Edge is released .

52:12

Nobody cares .

52:13

Nobody cares about Edge , April 29th 2015

52:16

.

52:16

That one took me by surprise . For some reason

52:18

in my mind I just thought that was older than that

52:20

.

52:20

No , Edge is just the Internet Explorer

52:22

.

52:25

That's because it works like an old person .

52:26

I still use Google Chrome and Firefox , and

52:29

Brave is my browser . I really don't use . Edge

52:31

Okay .

52:32

Cheers to Microsoft 50 years

52:34

. 50 years here we go there , we go .

52:36

Cheers , cheers . I'm glad to know that

52:38

I'm older than Microsoft . There you go

52:40

. All right , there we go .

52:49

Now , though , let's move on to our pick of the day . And now our pick of the day for our whiskey

52:51

tastings . Let's see what bubbles to the top

52:54

.

52:54

Okay , we are drinking today to Joseph A

52:56

Magnus the

52:59

Murray Hill Club Special Release batch four . And batch four is a blend of eight and

53:01

17-year-old bourbon finished

53:03

in Cavados Cass . It's

53:05

111 proof , $200

53:08

. Are you giving it a thumbs ?

53:09

up yeah dude , this is awesome

53:11

. I love this . I'm giving it a thumbs down

53:13

. It does not hit my palate at all and

53:16

you know I feel really bad . Do you want the rest of my ?

53:18

$200? . You don't have a palate buddy , I'm

53:20

sure Mike will finish that . There you go , okay . Finish that . There you go , okay

53:22

. All right , I got a couple things for you , nathan .

53:24

Yep , what do we got going on here ?

53:26

First of all from

53:29

Whiskey Chris . He heard about your two weddings . He also listened to one of your shows

53:31

that's our one listener out there

53:34

and he heard that remember

53:36

he'd given us this bottle to review Traveler's

53:38

Whiskey . Yeah , and you just loved it .

53:40

I did . Oh , thank you , Whiskey

53:42

Chris , Whiskey Chris . I can fill

53:44

my cup with this and neither one of us wanted

53:46

it .

53:46

It's not a drink for a connoisseur .

53:48

Can I get that one ?

53:50

No , no , that's my bottle , dang it .

53:52

All right . And then also oh

53:54

, you got more stuff here .

53:55

You had given me a wine bottle , so I'm returning that

53:57

to you empty .

53:59

It was phenomenal . This is

54:01

Woodinville Wine Cellars . You

54:03

love this .

54:04

Phenomenal wine . Every

54:06

wine from there has been terrific . Each

54:09

one is more of a gets better and better . Thank

54:11

you for these gifts .

54:12

I have a bunch of not weddings happening

54:15

this year . Can I get some whiskey ?

54:17

You can have the leftover in Nathan's glass I

54:21

didn't backwash .

54:22

Well , you know what fans .

54:24

Thank you so much for being a part of our program . Is

54:27

you the reason that we make this show ? Well , maybe not . Maybe

54:29

just for Mark and Mike

54:31

and I just to have a good time hanging out together

54:33

.

54:34

And drink a little .

54:34

That's right . Well , we want to let everybody know that the

54:37

science of tomorrow starts with

54:39

the technology of today . See you guys next week

54:41

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