Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, San Francisco FEMA Region Reunion
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the show from San Francisco, noting the rare occurrence of both "guardians of reality" being in the same FEMA region. Curry describes his mobile studio setup and technical difficulties involving a Netgear router and a Freedom Pop MiFi device. The hosts discuss the convenience of mobile hotspots versus phone tethering.
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00:00 It's the same outfits, it's the same costumes. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. At Sunday September 21st 2014 time for your Good Monation Media Assassination Episode 654! This is no agenda high above the city by the bay breaking the two guardians of reality in the same FEMA region rule. In downtown San Francisco, in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from not downtown San Francisco northern Silicon Valley I am John C Devorah. No, that was the reason why we started late. No with its two guardians of reality in the same FEMA region simultaneously It's like it's like everybody being on Air Force One you can't have this this is not a good idea Yeah somebody nuked to the area this show would be done So I started off this morning and I'm so proud of my kit You know I've got it down to a science I could set it up and break it down in 10 minutes
01:04 Okay, a whole studio which sounds exactly the same whether I'm it is the same studio whether I'm at home Yeah, or whether. I'm on the road you always say this but in a 10-minute thing never plays out It was perfect I had everything before I went to sleep last night had it all set up checked everything check check double check and I am now I have The final piece which is this netgear router so I can connect to the hotel network And then connect all my devices on my own personal network So nothing should be able to go wrong And this morning, and the main reason for this is my first generation iPad has to talk to the MacBook Air in order to fire off the jingle. So when you say something that warrants a buzzer I need be able to hit it which is why have this very tactile thing. A reason to play the buzzer without cause? Well this is true
01:53 And I couldn't get it to connect, and was connecting to the hotel network. It looked like it was connecting to the hotel network... ...I did not understand what's going on until I figured out that I had put my Macs to sleep. I opened them up and they connected to my MiFi which was still running in my pants pocket. Let's talk a little bit about that What is that? The Mifi? Yeah! I got one of these Freedom Pop things If I'm really into jamming- Where did you get it?! I've had for couple months Where do you get them from? Freedompop.com Freedom pop yeah, it's I think it's 10 bucks a month or something Yeah, I only use it if I really am somewhere where I might need to get network access on my iPod touch since I don't have a smartphone
02:40 And I've used it last night. I showed it to you in the restaurant Yeah, no if that was a cute little device is very pretty But but everything was connected to that and when you and I were on Skype this morning Well, I'm trying to figure out why can't connect my iPad My iPad was on the on my internal Netgear network, but I was talking to you over the over the MiFi Which was doing phenomenally well Oh, that was your problem. Interesting little thing you got to turn things off once in a while well Let's go what is this let's go back to this device so it's a little bitty thing It looks like a compact for makeup smaller I think very small bigger than
03:19 If you took a lipstick tube and smashed it, it'd be about that big. And you keep in your pocket and what does it do? It goes and looks for...it gets you an LTE or an edge or 4G or 3G? What does it do for you? How do you get Wi-Fi out of...? What is it hooking to? It connects to the cell phone network. Okay. I have the cheap version because I barely need it and it connects 4G, not LTE but 4G. And it creates...you know and I have a network there. Yeah makes a hotspot exactly. You actually lit up the whole restaurant? Well it's not like I'm using radar to light up enemy aircraft but yeah, yeah I lit up the whole restaurant. It's no different than having you know people have all these all the time!
04:07 I thought you had one of these. You set up your laptop, your smartphone to do that? No, I just tether off my phone. It's the same thing. Yeah but there is no phone involved. You're just basically buying a remote tether... Yeah for whenever I need it and then I can turn it off shut it down and then I have my goal of... That's 10 bucks a month. ...I like to separate my data from my network thats what I like to do. Unlimited data for ten bucks a month. Its not unlimited. It's a limit, but it looks like a handy little device. I don't know if I'd want to Wi-Fi Transmitter in in my pants next to my nuts like you had it It was it was not an extra But this it was in my jacket pocket which is why I forgot all about it wasn't next of mine nuts Was next to my heart where belongs well that's even worse
04:57 Anyway, okay. So you had to think running this morning? It was confused what confused everything yeah Okay it was he was handing out a network of one six one nine two one six eight one dot foo And and I couldn't figure out why my iPad was connecting to 16816 8 dot foo But that was corrected that was just confusing is too many devices working now. There's too many devices Yeah You should do ya really so I'm here in San Francisco Why oh Well, two reasons. One was to... I used the pod show 10-year reunion as an excuse to really come and see you. And I am disappointed by the whole trip. Why? Well… You didn't—you were disappointed in me? No not you specifically!
05:45 So we did the reunion it was at this bar called dog patch Dog patch saloon and it was cute. You know these are people who we work with ten years ago We started pod show, and I mean It wasn't I see you know the some of the original people there who all and I think except for Michael Butler everybody looks kind of old Yeah well they're older yeah, but do we look that way? You don't look you don't look like you've changed much in 10 years um I started old. Hey! Well this is true. Didn't hear you. I did notice back of your head is getting a little thin on the hair in the shoulder part. I gotta get back on the Rogaine for that part, yeah. Have you ever used the Rogaine for that? Oh yeah, yeah. You gotta do something otherwise you're gonna get a bald spot back there. It's kind of cute though because it's almost like a baby's head at the back, soft kind of flashy...
