Leo Laporte has a podcast called This Week In Tech. It’s widely distributed, it’s won awards - Yay Leo. You might know Leo from the cable television channel “TechTV”. He has hosted numerous shows there including Call For Help and The Screensavers. He’s your typical “star” broadcast personality. Ego as big as a house and as fragile as an egg.
He has a website for TWiT. From this website he operates a Drupal-powered blog that recaps his various podcasts, and tells listeners the sources from which they can be downloaded. Like any blog, there are comments.
This week I think - in my opinion - they produced a lemon. I said so in the blog comments that announced that particular issue of the podcast. I was relatively nice about it. I didn’t resort to name-calling or profanity of the sort. I simply stated that the episode had been boring. In fact… here is my original post.
This TWiT Was Burned To CD Immediately
Submitted by netnomad on 24 October, 2005 - 4:14pm.The reason is I suffer from insomnia and this was the first thing I’ve heard in months that put me immediately to sleep. (And I’m not just crapping because you didn’t answer my question.)
I cannot BELIEVE you spent almost an HOUR talking about production rights.
This was the worst TWiT ever. It’s a good thing you DIDN’T have a live audience or else Leo would have ended up with an overripe tomato in the side of the head.
This is a topic that less than 1% of your listenership gives a rat’s tailpipe about and you planted the epidural in our proverbial backs after putting us through TWiT withdrawl for twice as long as usual. Congrats.
A few people agreed with me and then…. oh how the flames started.
You want to know why mainstream technology programs suck? It’s because there are so many buttkissers in the world who think they have something to gain for putting these “celebrities” on pedestals. There must have been a dozen or more kneejerk responses from people who were coming running to “poor Leo’s” aid with kleenex and jellybeans. “Oh those guys must have been the younger listeners”, one idiot chimed. Yeah. I’m really young. The topic was boring and they milked it for an entire hour. Every previous TWiT podcast (that I’ve heard) had a variety of subjects. Leo’s response was “Well we covered some other topics at the beginning of the show.” Yeah. They blew through some Apple-related stuff in about 10 minutes and then pulled out the ether-soaked rags.
Yeah I know. I don’t take criticism well either. But when I suck I’m not afraid to admit it.