“FredtheDorfman” pointed out that this exact misspelling happened before. We can’t even keep up. Thanks Fred!
Cheif TWiT Leo Laporte, before the move to the shoebox, 02:10 from TNSS 67
An eagle-eyed reader — who can still manage to watch The New Screen Savers — wrote in to make us aware that TWiT misspelled Leo’s “title” in the last episode in the Brickhouse.
They are big fans of misspelling lower-thirds on landmark episodes. Bryan Burnett — aka Male Snubs — managed to misspell Peatluma on the first episode of The New Screen Savers, and they previously misspelled this same word.
Maybe Yoko needs to allocate her resources toward correct spelling?
Well-respected journalist and sometimes Apple shill David Pogue finally put Leo Laporte in his place during the pre-show on The New Screen Savers.
Leo tried to belittle his guest, saying he forgot Pogue was there, but Pogue came right back with a dramatic mic drop letting Leo in on what we already know: he’s not an important journalist.
We’d go one step further: He’s not a journalist at all.
Fake Android expert Ron Richards was thankful that no one would ever see the clip, saving Leo the embarrassment of anyone seeing the video above.
On Saturday, September 3, 2016, at approximately 11:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Leo G. Laporte discussed his upcoming absence with one of his The Tech Guy segment contributors, Scott Wilkinson.
During this exchange, Mr. Laporte experienced some difficulties controlling the TriCaster video switcher from his in-office control station, resulting in a limited outburst of anger.
Mrs. Laporte stomping on engineers after a tiring move to a new studio.
Lisa Laporte — wife of The Tech Guy Leo Laporte and CEO of TWiT, LLC — has been known to stomp on engineers on her Instagram account while stating “Yes, I have worn my engineering team out.” Mr. Laporte has only occasionally abused them.
Leo previously stated that TWiT has the “worst engineers in the business” and forces them to configure the in-house Windows Active Directory with a Leo’s House domain name. Additionally, he stated: “Fuuuuuck. I have explained this about a thousand times.” to his engineers during an attempted live-streaming event.
In this instance, in frustration, Mr. Laporte suggested to Mr. Wilkinson that he might fire the entire engineering department — which just finished moving him into his much-smaller studio — and start over. Mr. Wilkinson appeared to be amused at the prospect of this occurrence, as he is by many things.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the event’s date as 2015. It has been corrected to 2016.
An elderly man — The Tech Guy’s core audience — called in Saturday to get some help, apparently unaware that Leo Laporte knows nothing about tech that happened after 1994.
As the washed-up DJ was wrapping up the segment, the caller mentioned that he went on the same cruise as the pot-bellied host of the show. When the elderly gentleman attempted to tell Soup what he liked about the cruise, he was interrupted, as often happens to people daring to interact with Mr. Laporte.
Leo let us all know that he bought such an expensive cruise — perhaps topping his previous $22k cruise — that he will have an assigned butler for his suite aboard the vessel.
One of our frequent commenters would like us to acknowledge that Andy Ihnatko sucks too.
As his eyes popped out of his head — Graves’ Disease? — he exclaimed in jubilation that he would have a butler because Lisa Kentzell Laporte (also known as Yoko) refused to cruise without a butler.
According to Leo, Yoko needs a butler to bring her coffee in the morning, because her diabetic husband can’t perform the job anymore.
Wrapping up the call, as Leo often does when he should be working, he starts to shove food down his throat. Fuck you, Leo. How do you like that?
Update 2: Yoko has now disabled comments on her blog.
Update 1: Shortly after publishing this article, Lisa’s site has been updated to work without www. You’re welcome, Yoko.
Terrifying
Yoko has taken to her never-trafficked, poorly-configured — you can’t get there without the www — blog to once again admit that she is a miserable, abject failure of a CeHO.
We wrote about the last time she admitted that she’s bad at her only above-the-table job. We’ve also covered her other misadventures in running a small business.
This time at Artisanal Agency, she’s thrown advertisers, clients, and her own staff under the bus as well. Her writing is terrible, and we know it’s tough to get through, but please read her post in its entirety. (That’s an archive link, but you can comment on the actual post if you want, as long as it’s around.)
Neither Hilton A. Goring nor any other black employees could be reached for comment.
In her post, she calls some of her Art Is Anal current clients “amateurs” and says she has to drop them. She makes fun of advertisers for actually wanting to track the campaigns to make sure they work; fuck them, right?
Perhaps, most gallingly, she insults her staff as not being her “equals”. You really have to read the entire thing for the full effect.
In her previous failure post, she was a fan of the “SMART” acronym. This time, it’s “STRONG”. Each time she admits failure, she comes up with a new acronym to try not to fail in the future.
Lisa Kentzell Laporte Stomping on Engineer in a Manly Pose
Leo Laporte’s tumor may be spreading to his brain. He took to his live stream yesterday — before TWiG (This Week in Troll Talk) — to discuss his most ardent of fans, the live stream viewers and IRC chatters.
Did he praise them and thank them for their continued support even as he downsized into the Shoebox Studio? No. He insulted them as he’s done again and again.
He was very angry at some of his fans asking for the schedule to be more accurate. Instead of changing the schedule to reflect when he actually plans to record, his plan is now to insult those people and add wording to the site that says — pretty much — “go fuck yourself if you’re using this for any type of planning.”
An Aside
It doesn’t deserve its own post, but “Geoff Noodles”commented/asked:
They had the biggest change to the network in the last 5 years on Sunday and your guys haven’t said anything about it? Too busy trying to repost your lame videos?
This site is a fucking joke now. You guys might think they’re dying, but this site seems to be dying a hell of a lot faster.
Bye, Felicia.
Thanks for the question, Geoff. Yes, thanks to fraudulent DMCA claims from multiple Gmail accounts on behalf of TWiT, they’ve figured out a good censorship strategy there. They took down the Duke Masterschlong account, NYCritic, and many others. They haven’t taken down Erik Lanigan’s yet, but after what they did to him, a little DMCA won’t even tickle Leo or Yoko’s conscience.
In short, yes, Geoff, we are a little busy working on new infrastructure. We would like to thank Leo and Yoko for pushing us to set up our own CDN and viewing infrastructure, which we are still working on. The video above and a few others are currently hosted from a temporary location.
There will be a video relating to the move to the Shoebox Studios later. Thanks again, Geoff!
Leo Laporte and Lisa Kentzell Laporte say they will move the bricks. Father Robert wasn’t given his talking points and isn’t so sure. He has more specifics and says only “a few choice ones” will survive the move to the TWiT Eastside Studio.
Leo says it will be a while before they’re installed, perhaps hoping #sheeplive forgets by then?
Since each person involved is a known pathological liar, who do we believe?
Unfortunately, we can only present both sides above and let you decide.
In a departure from the usual, there are two videos below.
The Walrus and Yoko
Leo Laporte famously cares nothing for his employees, but this may take the cake — sorry Tonya.
The new Eastside studio doesn’t have enough power to air condition the studio and the office space, forcing a Yoko’s Choice. Master planner Lisa Kentzell Laporte couldn’t manage to get appropriate facilities infrastructure in place in time for the move.
For more on the air conditioning situation, lets go straight to the walrus in suspenders’ mouth.
Sorry, TWiT employees! Sweat it out, thinking about Leo’s $22,000 cruise. I’m sure they had something better to spend their money and time on.
“Let the rest of them suffer.” Nice, Leo Laporte. Nice.
It wasn’t long ago that Leo Laporte suggested to Virginia Heffernan that “it’s all fabricated” and “it’s one guy” when referring to #TeamOneAss and #DvorakTrollArmy. And let us not forget that “it’s all one ass” photoshopping his dick into live video that was later poorly edited out.
He would like to pretend — he doesn’t believe it himself, right? — that only one person dislikes him and what he’s let Lisa Kentzell do to his once-acceptable tech netpodcasting network.
However, look at this sampling of his (previous?) audience’s reaction to him complaining about Twitter… on Twitter.
When we heard the BeanCast — whatever the fuck that is — was having Lisa Kentzell Laporte on their show to discuss agency gender bias, we became supremely excited!
What could legendary business leader Lisa have in store?
We knew that if Lisa was capable of tricking another podcast into believing she has an actual agency representing actual podcast networks, she is pretty much capable of anything. The podcast itself is a bit over an hour, but it’s there if you want to hear it.
Here are Lisa’s insights alone with no interruptions (8 min 37 sec). Listen — if you dare — to her dulcet tones explaining business principles, adversities she’s overcome, and definitely not sleeping her way to the top.
Hilton A. Goring could not be reached for comment.
The credits list her as “Lisa Laporte, CEO, Twit.tv and Artisanal Agency”. You know, Lisa Laporte, the one with the Twitter account set to protected who runs the Art Is Anal LLC Twitter which is also protected.
That Lisa Kentzell Laporte, business expert extraordinaire.
Exposing The Dark Underbelly of TWiT, Leo Laporte, and Failed CEO Lisa Laporte
