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QUICK ON HIS FEET
Nothing says you’re a pro like being quick on your feet. When guest co-anchor Katie Benner asks Gum why a new phone is not being offered for sale in the US, she catches the eloquent speaker off guard. He has a quick mind and wastes no time before blaming the Kremlin and disparaging the website he is using as a source.
And #Soup says he doesn’t listen to JCD and Curry because they are conspiracy theory nuts. This video is offered up for airing on the No Agenda podcast without prejudice.
‘Mic’ Elgum
Because Mike Elgum is not legally allowed to strike his wife, he’s resorted to punching the studio mic during episodes of TNT.
A Hero for All
At some point someone needs to make a statue.
This is too much to be coincidence.
May any who speak against Sarah Lane suffer a hundred deaths.
CEO SELLING T-SHIRTS
In the future can the posts selling t-shirts be from someone besides the CEo. Surely she has more important things to do. Case in point: #Soupguzzler could not care less about the merchandise, it’s for a lackey, but it keeps the CEO occupied, I guess. We understand that you have some really pathetic fans but there is only so long you can milk a cow. How many shirts do the chat mods need? They barely leave the house as it is. I wish I was a CEo, seems fun, important decisions.
Gum Loves G+
Editor’s Post
Gum can write article after article about how great G+ is, but all he does is mock himself when he does this. Personally, I hate Facebook and think G+ is a very attractive platform. But, and this is a big but, like Kim Kadashian big, no one is on G+. Only Gum can miss the point that people are kind of important to a social network. Google hyped up charlatans like Gum himself and ruined the network.
The guy has almost four million followers and posts his shows on G+ and TNT ratings dropped when he took over?
Explain that someone.
“There’s not a single thing featurewise that I can think of that’s better on Facebook than it is on Google+. (Facebook has everybody, but that’s not a feature. It’s a catastrophic accident of history.)“ The Gum
Gumbot, people are kind of an important part of a social network. Take that sentence out of the parenthesis and think about it a bit longer.
Leo Laporte makes Sarah Lane sad
Leo Laporte makes Sarah Lane sad. She’s doing the best that she can, but the situation is dire. She needs help—help to get out of this unhealthy relationship.
Sarah in Danger
Someone has to look out for Sarah. If that button pops it could easily kill someone. It could even kill two people with enough ricochet. That button is holding on for dear life.
Mythbusters
Well, I think I will start this paragraph with the word “well” in honor of this particular bit of news. Ladies and Gentlemen, #totaldrama was wrong. Wrong wrong wrong, I say again, dead wrong. A hypothesis was expressed here many times that Dec 31st would not just end 2014, it would also end the tenure of our News Director extraordinaire.
We could see it play out in our mind’s eye. Leo at the round table with Gum sitting next to him, probably looking awkward as ever and uncontrollably nodding yes. #Soup thanking him for transforming TWiT into the mega news operation it has become. The Gum saying he loved it here but he just needs to travel, as wanderlust got hold of him, it is in his blood. Then #soup finally heaping praise on Sarah for turning TN2 into a success and enabling her as the rightful successor to the Gum. (Even though to #soup she is only qualified because she is on staff and the only replacement that is cost-free)
This new video creates quite the puzzle. Gum looks more miserable each passing day and although #Drama takes evil pleasure in watching TNT, we think it might be best for his psychological health to get a move on.
#Drama would also like to thank the members of #TWiTLive who ask the real questions. Is Gum leaving? How are TNT ratings? When is I’d Fund That! premiering? Any new shows? How are ad sales? Did TWiT grow or shrink in 2014? Where is this months meet-up?
And again we thank Richard Yes for the clip.
Bizarre Friendship
We have all witnessed bizarre stuff at TWiT. Lately, something unusually bizarre has come to our attention. Laporte has long been known as someone who despises humanity. Every emotion he expresses towards people is disingenuous, but a change is on the horizon.
Jeff is only 18 but he is quickly rising in the echelons of TWiT management. Originally, as noted by the lovely & talented Sarah Lane, his main function was #soup fetching. Reluctantly we will admit that this is a task that is not without prestige at TWiT LLC. Later Jeff was advanced to the position of analyst, a title higher than off-site producer currently occupied by Chad Johnson. (analyst is another title with no known function.) Chad Johnson, speaking of the devil, is someone young Jeff is charged with monitoring when the ex-producer is in the vicinity of the supply closet, to ensure that no office supplies suddenly vanish. Do you wonder what caused the boy’s unusually high comfort level at TWiT while everyone else is in constant fear of being unemployed?
Leo has been known to promote friends and girlfriends to high levels of management. It seems that the young lad is truly friends with Leo. The two have been spotted going to the movies together and now Leo is buying him gifts. (a sweater) Add this oddity to the list of things to keep an eye on at TWiT.
Thanks to Richard Yes for clip
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