Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak Broadcast from Las Vegas
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the program from the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention. Curry describes staying in the West Wing of a suite provided by Sir David Foley after experiencing technical difficulties with hotel Wi-Fi. The hosts discuss the poor state of connectivity in modern hotels and Curry's reliance on a Verizon LTE connection to broadcast.
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00:00 Nothing says I'm Muslim like running around naked. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Thursday April 16th 2015 time for your Get My Nation Media Assassination Episode 713 This is no agenda Celebrating nine years of not winning and broadcasting live from the West Wing of Grand Duke David Foley's High Roller Suite in FEMA Region 9. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry! And from Northern Silicon Valley where the high roller suites consists of looking over garbage cans...I'm John C. DeVore. We have garbage day today. Yeah, and I had to go running down there because I don't know One guy one truck comes by and knocks the other cans over And do they have a second truck that comes by to pick it up? There's three can three trucks in they expect a can to be standing Anyway
00:54 So I'm here in the high roller suite of sir David Foley Grand Duke of the USA who kindly Notified me that he had an entire West Wing available here and the Cosmopolitan Hotel Did you did that save you money, or does your half? Yeah, no that completely got a complete refund on the hotel really good. Yep And then so stayed here for free took care of me actually Sir Gene Baron to Marriott sheriff of Texas was also here, and he's also been taking care of me. It's like he's in the suite No he's in Vegas he's not in this week Yeah, so next thing would be Mike Tyson would be in this with a tiger hey
01:37 Yeah, but it's... I got here Tuesday afternoon and the National Association of Broadcasters is here along with the New Media Expo and the 10th Annual Podcast Awards. And I decided it made a lot more sense to stay and do the show from here after we restarted the show because it was so atrocious on the hotel Wi-Fi. But I'm on Verizon On the LTE, it's pretty funny. When I check into a hotel like that... well of course you're in that room so you don't have a choice but always ask to see if there is a room with wired connection
02:15 Let's find a Wi-Fi in these things be sketchy so I connected to there is Ethernet here, and I connected to it It same the same crap makes because I have a little router. I have a mini router But I carry everywhere and plugged it into the ethernet So you know but had my own little sub network? And it was just scrap hmm. I don't know how they get away with it hold on a sec That's the cosmopolitan hotel yeah That's like one of the newest places in Vegas. Yeah, four years old or something I think yeah And they can't have good connectivity as ridiculous is pathetic It's a little bit that you know anyway if i have news guess what but we didn't win oh? We knew that before the event occurred yeah and
