Renowned pile of garbage Leo Laporte performs ten minute commercials at the behest of the bottom-rung of advertisers that will still support him, but does he care?
To answer this, let’s look back at The Tech Guy 1210 from August 9, 2015 and see how he responds to a chatter asking if Leo still recommends a prior sponsor. Since he isn’t beholden to their money anymore, he lets them have it.
#Soup is rarely honest. He prefers to say whatever is most convenient in any situation, like his after-TWiT guest greetings. Oh you’re from X? I just loooooooooooooooooove X. My good friend Steve Martin loves X. Have you tried the Y? No? Oh you must! It’s amazing!!!! Well, thanks for coming out!
However, sometimes the actual truth slips out. You may also read our other coverage of Leo and TWiT shitting on advertisers.
Yep, a jilted shill.
Mark Byrn» Quote comment
From people you trust…
Fake Account» Quote comment
“netcasts”
The Patrick Klepto» Quote comment
I kinda figured that out when I signed up for that highly praised stamp outfit. Canceling it was worse than canceling cable.
oinkers» Quote comment
It’s always good to burn bridges with your previous customers!
I haven’t listened to anything outside of Windows Weekly, does citrix still advertise with TWIT?
Moonchild» Quote comment
Have there ever been repeat advertisers that weren’t shot gunners like Naturebox or Warby Parker or the used mattress place? You know, the advertisers that place ads on any podcast with more than ten subscriptions. It seems like once an advertiser leaves TWiT they don’t come back.
oinkers» Quote comment
Speaking of these nefarious types, whatever happened to Jack Erwin. I thought Leo looooooooved Jack Erwin. I thought Leo wholely replaced his own personal footwear stash with nothing but Jack Erwins because they were so great. Now I haven’t heard ANY podcast shill for Jack Erwin for about five months. Did Jack blow his wad ???
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
Leo’s dressing room is probably filled with them now and is decked out for a few years. Mission accomplished. On to the next.
I haven’t heard Blue Apron either for a while but it could be that I mentally muted his babble.
Joe Shoe» Quote comment
Nope, Blue Apron is still an advertiser. Him and Lisa usually get the dinner for two don’t ya know… guess the kid gets chicken fingers from the freezer.
Though, Leo hasn’t gotten a trunk full of clothes lately…
Jimmy Jam» Quote comment
This is why Leo Laporte’s claims about how he only selects advertisers he supports is just plain disingenuous. It’s really just whatshername (or her executive manager or what have you) with a spreadsheet and gmail doing impression/revenue wack-a-mole. It’s all bullshit. Leo claims to turn down advertisers frequently. This is a man who’s never turned down a hot dog that fell on the ground.
The Patrick Klepto» Quote comment
Exactly!
What ever happened to that trunk clothing thing? Or Bespoke?
My conclusion: advertising on Leo’s network isn’t effective. If it were, he’d have lower turnover.
I’ll bet Wealthfront is gone in a month.
Liar LeWhore: hawking bullshit products that nobody wants.
macsimcon» Quote comment
He turned 100% pitchman.
But wait … there’s more!
Limited time only!
You can do it!
Set it and forget it!
Like this dumb doorbell
Joe Shoe» Quote comment
Is that the same spread sheet that Leo&Lisa place under their sex swing? Just asking…
John» Quote comment
“Don’t confuse love with advertising” = when he says he loves them its advertising = he doesn’t love them = he lies for money = total drama is right again.
Is this recent? That’s a pretty big scoop
CEHo» Quote comment
Leo lying about loving a product is not unique to him, people do this all the time with ads. Listen to any radio station where the DJs read the ads. You would swear they personally use every single product they advertise (and most times they say they do!) and every single one is the greatest thing EVER.
I can’t fault Leo for doing the same thing, he’s just playing the radio game because sadly it still works.
Esch» Quote comment
Fair enough, what else is he lying about? Android? Apple? Google? Microsoft? Fixing a router? His taxes? How you’ll be treated if you visit the brickhouse? How thankful he is to people who bought a brick? Why he fired someone? Why someone didn’t show up for a booking? How much work he puts into his job? The kind of person he is?
The Patrick Klepto» Quote comment
All of these rhetorical questions are completely valid. It is a sad state the Leo finds himself in where he has been the one to validate all these questions for us, time and time again.
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
Oh there is no mistake that Leo is a pathological liar. I am with you on that 100%. I just think in the case of lovvvvvvving the products he’s reading the ad for, that’s standard radio practice and isn’t exclusive to him.
Now, making an ad be 10 mins long, however, is uniquely him, I’ll give you that.
Esch» Quote comment
LMAO. the ten minute ad read is really some spectacle to behold.
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
Esch,
You are right they do it all the time. Leo’s show is an infomercial. More like HSN or QVC with a couple of tech questions. Snacks, shoes and swings. Most advertisers do not involve their families with long senseless stories. Nobody cares about Leo’s kid getting laid except Leo’s kid.
Harkonnen Mentat» Quote comment
Esch, good post. I listen to Howard Sten and he never never does this. Every ad is so obviously an ad. Howard says what they ask him to say but in the most insincere voice you can imagine.
In fact, he usually starts ads like this, as an example: “what ad is next”, sound of rustling papers and then “oh audible I loooove audible, audible is the #1….” It’s hard to explain but his cadence is notably different when he does ads. They sound like a gag.
It’s the opposite of what advertisers want. They want a podcast ad read by the podcaster so the listener associates it as content. It’s why they won’t pay 2 cents for pre recorded non-native ads.
CEHo» Quote comment
In an ideal world hosts shouldn’t be doing ads at all. In lots of other countries they can be fined and even have their broadcasting abilities revoked for doing it. At least most of Twit’s advertisers are US-only.
Qwerty» Quote comment
That snake oil salesman Leo LaCunt can peddle all the bullshit he wants,I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who’s never purchased one ad from any sponsor this FatFuck pushes on his gullible Twit Army sheep.
Even if I needed a SquareSpace or a fucking doorbell with a camera in it I wouldn’t use Fat Fucks Leo’s promo code , I’d use another Podcasters info instead.
So dry up already you fat arrogant idiot LaCunt
OhNoYetAnotherTroll» Quote comment
I wonder whats up with his comment on his daughter and how he tells her don’t confuse love with advertising. What the fuck kind of comment is that is Abby now a call girl sure the fuck sounds like it.
specie8470» Quote comment
Amen TrumpBump.
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
Leo has thrown his children under the bus for his own material gain time and again. He has sold Casper mattress’s claiming his son’s lady friends love the mattress . He then tosses Abby under when he’s late for his TTG radio program, claims he had to drop Abby off for a Sat. Dental appt. Really Leo, like Abby can’t drive herself to the dentist?? Or maybe, just maybe, ask Lisa to do something other than workout on that treadmill.
John» Quote comment
Lisa came into that relationship so late. She wants nothing to do with Leo’s grown ass kids. She’s only in it for the money (and power???).
Ken Sintek» Quote comment
The saddest part is, he will only say this truth about former advertisers. If you ask about current advertisers you will get the speech about how he is very selective concerning advertisers and how he turns away advertisers every day.
The truth: he turned away one real advertiser ‘Go Daddy’ that’s it.
The other ones he turns away every day are small companies asking how much is it for one ad on one show. No broadcaster can make money on those but those companies call all the time about that. Everyone turns those away and it’s not for ethical reasons.
CEHo» Quote comment
I bet the only reason why he turned GoDaddy away was because of the uproar they caused in the tech reporting industry. If he took GoDaddy’s money then he couldn’t get any lady reporters to come on TWIT.
Moonchild» Quote comment
Was him turning down GoDaddy around the time that Kevin Rose was in tight with them a few years back? I don’t know when he turned it down but that may be one possible reason why Leo wanted nothing to do with them. (Petty reasons)
Esch» Quote comment
Nonsense, Leo loooves Kevin.
Jimmy Jam» Quote comment
It’s obvious that Kevin doesn’t share those Leo love pangs… Hence the NY move.
John» Quote comment
Leo’s relationship with Kevin seems odd. I don’t think he’s outright in love with the guy, but that’s the general ball park. Could be as simple as a non-sexual George Costanza male-crush. It’s there.
The Patrick Klepto» Quote comment
First thing I thought of into this comment was “petty”, and I do remember that a lot of Leo/Kevin related stuff from early TWIT had a major stench of pettiness.
The Patrick Klepto» Quote comment
I like Molly.
justthisguy» Quote comment
On Windows Weekly during an ITProTV advert Leo outright said they stole everything from TWiT. I was totally stunned. What a absolute dickhead.
Dusty» Quote comment
Soup guts states ad-nauseum how much he just absolutely lurrrrrrrrrves Wealthfront but is restricted by law from using their services. What a load of shit.
Ahmed» Quote comment