Watch the “News Director” try to stumble and gulp his way through a simple promo for the week ahead with a bit of humor thrown in at the end as a reward. Gum even gives a few mentions to Tom Merritt’s much better Daily Tech News Show.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Mike Elgan Trashes TWiT Sponsor On-Air, Again
Gum had this to say:
“Well, um, I guess, everybody who’s listening to this and watching this show uh has a choice to either uh-uh agree to the user agreement thuh. This’ll be the uh yuh-you’ll be uh asked very soon to uh renew your agreement uh with the new agreement. Uh I personally am not going to. I’m gonna cancel my PayPal account over this, and I suspect that some people will.”
PayPay subsidiary and TNT sponsor Braintree Payments could not be reached for comment. TWiT hosts have previously trashed sponsors on-air:
- Leo Laporte Makes Shit Up for Ads and TWiT Constantly Shits on Its Sponsors
- The list of sponsors that TWiT doesn’t use is growing
- Elgan Encourages Cheating TWiT Sponsors
The Video
Leo Laporte’s #DickGate PR Campaign Succeeds
You too can learn how to suppress truth and keep a sycophant fan base by following along. Enjoy!
Editors Note: Read the rest of our #DickGate coverage here.
Leo’s PR Campaign in 11 Easy Steps:
- Pretend TD threatened/insulted his children/family
- Pretend TD called in a bomb threat
- Claim he will cancel the chat and live stream (while insulting the chatters) and claim that this is one TD member’s fault
- Claim that everyone who dislikes what he and Yoko have made TWiT into are one person, which he can’t believe, but he needs his sycophant audience to believe
- Lie to the advertisers and tell them he didn’t show a dick and tell them to ignore the #OneAss troll
Hilton A. Goring could not be reached for comment. - Dox the #OneAss to get his chatters to go nuts on this person
- Attempt to get back in the chat’s good graces when he realizes he can’t do The Tech Guy without their answers, since he’s a moron
- Astroturf (suspected) the live chat with people like <eliz>
- Go on another rant in the chat room about the #OneAss
- Make everything go back to normal after everyone forgets about the dick pic
- Say no more on it (yeah right, but see chat below)
Chat Log
Download original or read excerpts below.
<EnigmaFX> just read the update on twit , bomb threats? really wtf man wow :( Leo my friend iv been following you for as long as i can remember none of you guys deserve this twit is hands down king of the hill when it comes the structuring of its edifice and has more then anything else been a pioneer in its field n more then one way sorry this is happening , to bad things are going in this direction (sigh) <~Leo> thanks EnigmaFX <~Leo> I think we've found a way going forward <~Leo> I am very lucky to get to do what I do - it's a great job <~Leo> sometimes I get cranky but like everything else there's no hiding on TWiT <EnigmaFX> my heart just sunk with this news iv been “away” for a while came back to this news <~Leo> sorry - but we've weathered the worst of it I think <~Leo> truly - and I hate to talk about this because I know the trolls are always watching - I was worried that we were going to lose the business <~Leo> I would not have considered shutting down live unless it was that dire <~Leo> I shall say no more on it
Leo Forces Employees to Login To “Leo’s House” Domain
Answer: “Leo’s House”.
Even Paul Thurott was disgusted and replied “Hubris aside…”
Imagine having to login to this daily:
Alex explains Windows management to Leo
NYE Celebration Canceled So Lisa Can Have a Tahiti Vacation
Viewers may remember #Soup rang in each time zone’s New Year with a countdown and champagne with a cast of characters from all across the TWiT Network. However, this year, CeHO needs a vacation, according to #Soup, and is forcing him to take off as well.
I guess UNICEF doesn’t need any more money after last year. Children are no longer dying from preventable causes! Congrats everybody!
Previous NYE Coverage:
- TWiT fails in quest for 24-hour broadcast
- Leo Laporte falls short of pledge to “shave head”
- Leo Laporte ends charity broadcast with obscenities
- Leo Laporte, hero of the “family-friendly”
- Leo Laporte bows to chatroom demands to cut hair shorter
Read the Transcript
<iPad_50612> is New Year"s Eve cancelled for security reasons or am I late to the news? <~Leo> we cancelled it for a variety of reasons <~Leo> security certainly, but also because it was killing the staff <~Leo> and I really didn't feel right making them do it <~Leo> I love it but they had to really work much harder than I did <JJtothe4884> Leo: sooo, no announcement of NYE for each time zone? <JJtothe4884> on live stream <~Leo> but that's why we are doing TNSS - it's a variety show inspired by NYE <~Leo> Lisa said I could do it but she'd be in Tahiti watching <iPad_50612> maybe two 2 hours instead of 24 if you wanna do something <~Leo> yeah we were thinking of that <~Leo> but i think people also want to have NYE off! <~Leo> I think we'll be in the Caribbean <~Leo> that's the plan anyway <~Leo> Lisa has had to force me to take more time off
