Adam Curry Launches I Love Laundry Tour from McKinney Falls
Adam Curry broadcasts from McKinney Falls State Park in Texas to inaugurate the I Love Laundry Tour in a new Airstream Flying Cloud 23D. The hosts discuss the technical setup of the mobile rig, including the surprisingly high number of over-the-air digital television channels available in the park. Curry outlines plans to travel toward Colorado, Yellowstone, and potentially Canada while testing mobile connectivity via T-Mobile and Verizon.
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00:00 Who does these things at quarter to seven? Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah It's Thursday August 27th 2015 time once again for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 751 This is no agenda Kicking off the I Love Laundry Tour and broadcasting from a live remote in FEMA Region 6 in the capital of the drone star state In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where the traffic's backed up, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill! In the morning... Oh and that's it! Weather & Traffic on the 8s with John C. Dvorak The traffic is backed up Uh yeah Well John here we are The inaugural Wait let me set the stage Yes Set it
00:49 You're out in the sticks doing a remote. Kind of in the sticks, yeah kind of Well you're at a park I am? I'm in McKinney Falls State Park here in Texas And there's probably sticks all over the place There is tons of sticks everywhere Yes so the I Love Laundry Tour vehicle was acquired on Tuesday and I immediately took it out to the park and have been her since then Are you alone? I am alone. Yes, but I have had a visitor not to know Not last night. I have had a visitor one of those trailers behind the prison Yeah conjugal visit trailer exactly Wow No, but I think it's gonna be great John
01:41 I'm very bullish on the tour at this you finally got him out Yeah, but finally you have your wish dreams come true so of course No, it's still about 98 99 degrees during the day here in Texas and Headed I don't know what to tell you. Oh no no this is just the test but it's good so I know what it was like to operate it in Worst-case scenario heat it were we as a worst case scenario So I kept the air the air conditioner on all morning got it to like nice 68 degrees
02:21 And now of course I had to turn it off. Now the Airstream has these vents that suck air out and i've got all the shades down so hopefully we'll be okay, keep it cool at least for the broadcast. Well three hours? Your coolness will last about 40 minutes max Yeah we may be turning the air back on later or I'll be taking off my pants whichever comes first Well, it probably depends first in the air. Yeah exactly. So anyway you know prepping... Tell us a little bit about the trailer! Okay this is an Airstream Flying Cloud 23D as in Delta. So its a twenty three footer? Twenty-three footer exactly The D stands for what dining room? I think it does Dinette that means the dinette is in front with if you ever seen the new Airstreams with big beautiful picture windows
03:16 and it has a bed in the corner, in the back. I have to say this thing's put together really well You know, having the last time we did the Hot Pocket store hauled around that formaldehyde trailer which was a... now granted it was 19-footer with the slide out but this is... I could live in this. I really see myself doing it Yeah! I can too And the kicker so that has a TV built in and you get this little crank and then whoop! The antenna comes up which always thought was just kind of bogus but I'd forgotten all about the transition to digital over the air broadcast
03:55 I must have 50 channels of television here. If you're any, yes digital is fantastic! The only problem is 40 of them are in Spanish. Apparently the Spanish and the Chinese and Vietnamese have taken advantage of this little bitty sub-channels because if you get like a channel 4 You can actually divide that up into five channels. That's true, and it's very confusing as I was flipping through it you have like... It'll be channel 18-1-2-3 so they are indeed multicasting multiple languages at least they get the big networks and they get PBS also a lot of home shopping still on the over-the-air digital I thought that had all gone away Oh no
04:45 I get when i crank mine up to my over the air, I do a scan every so often to update the channels. Right because they do change actually probably more than you'd think Oh really? I get like 96 channels from here. It's phenomenal how much you get and not that there is anything interesting on but at least I could watch News Hour and some of the essentials But yeah, I'm really happy. I'll probably do a little walkthrough video maybe not this time but maybe next time we pull out cuz I'm thinking John around the end of the second week of September I hit the road and head off towards Colorado Yellowstone keep moving up and you know maybe Do the Calgary run?
05:30 We'll get your Yellowstone out of the way before it gets too cold. Yeah, I don't want to be hauling this thing in the snow that's for sure Well actually if you're gonna be out in September You're catching the fall you get the colors you could maybe get the Calgary I would still say Edmonton is might would be my target Okay But yeah very happy and thank you all for all the...I must have 40 different invites already people telling me that I can drop by, get a free hookup take a shower. Free what? A hook up Oh yeah with power and water They said hooker No no but they have offered weed surprising number, surprising number From Colorado! I'm getting it from everywhere Hey man you want some weed come on drop that thing over here Yeah excellent
06:24 So, uh... Check it for trackers every once in a while. I'm sorry? Check it for trackers! Trackers?! Yeah somebody goes up there and you slap a little tracker on their nose. Oh, I was contemplating... Some white kind of following you around for some unknown reason. I've been contemplating just adding an APRS beacon to it so that we can track the progress. Well you might as well go with someone else who's going to be doing it anyway. Right Yeah, yeah. So you don't have to stick any magnetic GPS things on it Don't worry about it all we'll track it through radio and also be interesting to see how well a PRS works Which is no ham radio Was it short messaging service and it can send out the location? You can track it on a PRS dot fi Fox India
07:13 it's pretty cool yeah that'd be great actually in case all of a sudden you disappear we'll know where the trailer is anyway exactly you at least have an idea where i was supposed to be uh technical aspects of the show so we have the mobile rig set up here on the dinette I tweeted out a picture you can take a look at that and running everything on because this is the park, the state park. In the national parks they don't really have any wi-fi coverage you can get it at the campgrounds So this does have a Wi-Fi, there's a Wi-Fi access point somewhere at the entrance to the park. This is right now running on the T-Mobile, on the iPhone 6 I have LTE 2 bars but i have on order of the booster that we talked about and I'm also going to get Verizon MiFi because Verizon seems to have the best coverage all the way into Yellowstone
08:05 And I have no idea how to work in Canada if we get up there. Same thing But, uh...I'm reasonably impressed with how well this works and that was getting five megabits down five megabits up last night Until yeah until you can tell that people are sucking down Netflix or doing something It just crunches down to about a little under one megabit per second But I tested the same time yesterday. I tested everything when the jingles were working which aren't working right now and The speed was good because I guess everyone's off at work, etc So and it was with horror wish I'd do that in just about movie watching time Oh really? That's and that's probably not such a good idea then you should do in a different time
