LA Fires Continue, Max Long Caruso, Tech Award Show, F40 Modifications

**John Coogan** (0:00)
Welcome to Technology Brothers, the most profitable podcast in the world. Geordi is back in the studio. He made it out alive.

**Jordi Hays** (0:06)
I'm back, got the suit on.

**John Coogan** (0:07)
Half of his city has burned down, half of my city has burned down. But we are here recording, bringing you the news and the breakdowns. And we're still on the topic of the fire. We're gonna do a breakdown on Rick Caruso, who a lot of people have been talking about. But first, we wanted to do a little unboxing of a Starlink I picked up yesterday from Best Buy.

**Jordi Hays** (0:27)
Not a lot of people have heard about this device, but it is really wild. You can get internet almost anywhere in the world. Yeah. And we should just set ours up right here on the table.

**John Coogan** (0:38)
Yeah, a couple hundred bucks. And yeah, it comes with a big, long power cable. I got a power brick too. And I'm very excited to get this set up. I'll definitely be traveling with this because I'm gonna get caught lacking without gotta stay connected. Wi-Fi anywhere. But very, very cool device. I'll have to figure out how to put this together. But pretty simple. You just kind of aim it at the sky. And as long as you can see the sky, you have...

**Jordi Hays** (1:03)
So it's interesting. I was actually using satellite messaging on the iPhone.

**John Coogan** (1:07)
Oh, really?

**Jordi Hays** (1:07)
I was working well.

**John Coogan** (1:09)
I've seen that.

**Jordi Hays** (1:10)
I didn't actually cry. So the way that it works is if...

**John Coogan** (1:14)
I guess you just do that.

**Jordi Hays** (1:15)
So during, starting like 48 hours ago, I completely lost cell service, power, gas, et cetera. Basically, my neighborhood was totally in the dark. So we were trying to figure out what was going on.
So yeah, two nights ago, the fire was really starting to pick up. The wind was still picking up. And so yeah, I've had pretty good success with the iPhone satellite imagery. I don't know what the tech is actually based on. But if you've never had this happen, basically, if you lose all cell coverage, it'll pop something up that says you want to send messages. And you really can't do much. You can't send images, but you can send text-based messages. And you just have to get outside, and it actually has a pretty interesting...

**John Coogan** (2:00)
So I think it's on the older satellite network, not the low Earth orbit.

**Jordi Hays** (2:03)
So it has...

**John Coogan** (2:04)
It's on like one via web or one web. Via web is the PG thing. One web is the bigger satellites. So they're big. I think they're geostationary in high Earth orbit. So the delay is crazy. So you can never do bandwidth load.

**Jordi Hays** (2:15)
And they give you this little graphic. You actually have to aim your phone in a certain way to try to get the messages out.

**John Coogan** (2:22)
But I'm super stoked.

**Jordi Hays** (2:23)
But good in a pinch.

**John Coogan** (2:24)
Yeah, this is great. So yeah, I've been recommending that everyone get one of these, especially if you're a founder doing important work, doing deals, you never want to be without internet. So pick one up. And shockingly, they were still available. And Elon's giving out a bunch to people that are in affected disaster areas and hopefully keeping people online and communicating. I mean, it's funny to joke about doing deals and just reading posts, but having access to the internet if the grid goes down.

**Jordi Hays** (2:54)
Yeah, I actually didn't have one and also didn't have power.

**John Coogan** (2:58)
Yeah, you need a battery pack.

**Jordi Hays** (2:59)
Because this just runs on the wall.

**John Coogan** (3:01)
So you can get a battery pack that will run this for days.

**Jordi Hays** (3:04)
So I don't know if you know this, but the house I bought last year was a fire rebuild. It had burned to the ground, literally to the dirt in 2018 And so my entire neighborhood is pretty savvy around fires. They're sort of used to it. And so most people have these gas power generators that just use natural gas. And so when all the power was cut off, everybody was like, okay, their generators flick on in 30 seconds. And then they cut the gas lines for some reason, which everybody was like, why are they cutting the gas lines? They run underground. But then it turns out that the gas lines for Western Malibu, where I am, run through Eastern Malibu. And so we're now looking at potentially multiple SoCal Edison, the utilities provider for gas, said that they will have to send somebody individually to your home, every single home in all of Malibu, to get the gas actually turned back on. So we're now looking at probably at least two weeks, something like that until, and so no hot water. Nobody has gas right now.