Leo Laporte Archive

  • Leo Laporte tries to explain that there is no such thing as a “free Wi-Fi access point”

    Leo Laporte tries to explain that there is no such thing as a “free Wi-Fi access point”

    Listen as Jennifer tries to explain how she used to get free Wi-Fi from the Linksys and now she can't. Leo Laporte is nice enough not to call her a moron and instead explains, in great detail, why she is a moron.

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  • The making of a great commercial

    The making of a great commercial

    I didn't watch the Superbowl, so I didn't see any of the commercials. Had I watched, I would have seen -- and thoroughly enjoyed -- this Old Spice body wash commercial. Leo Laporte saw it, though, and was so utterly blown away by it that he got the creative team who created it on for an interview. The interview is illuminating in several aspects, but the whole point of the discussion was to find out whether the commercial was composited using digital tricks, or if it was all done in real time. It's the difference between Star Wars Episode One's digital trickery and the Lord of the Ring's forced perspective visual trickery.

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  • Hey, look, it’s Nicholas on TWiT with Leo Laporte

    Hey, look, it’s Nicholas on TWiT with Leo Laporte

    “CrunchGear. Always doing great stuff.”

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