Leo 'The Tech Guy' Laporte is a Browncoat! by cljohnston108

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Leo 'The Tech Guy' Laporte is a Browncoat!

POSTED BY: CLJOHNSTON108
UPDATED: Sunday, June 24, 2007 14:54
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Saturday, June 9, 2007 10:02 AM

I was just listening to Leo Laporte, "The Tech Guy" < http://techguylabs.com/>, on KFI 640, and I posted in the chat room about the STS-117 mission (with the Breaking Atmo URL), while he was in the middle of an interview, and Leo posted back "Cool!"
Then he spent a couple of minutes talking about it when he came out of commercial, just 5 minutes later!
It's near the end of the second hour, and the podcast will be posted within the next week.
I'll post the link when it comes online.
________________________

"Spry for a dead fella!"

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 8:29 PM

FLORALBUNNY

I've been a Leo listener since he was on
KGO San Francisco on Sunday evenings oh,
so many years ago. Ten or twelve?
So did he admit to full-on Browncoat status
or what? My weekends have been full of
yard-work and not much daytime radio,
therefore not much LL.

bun
Frisky Browncoat
~Bastards singed my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 11:00 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

I can't remember his exact words, cuz I was just s'dang excited (and I knew I'd be able to download the show later), but it went some'n like this...

He comes out of commercial, identifying himself and his show, then jokes that they can probably hear the show in space, then says that what they will be watching in space, on the ISS, is Serenity!
Then he explains what Firefly is, who Browncoats are, who Joss Whedon is, how Fox jacked us, etc. (Maybe not in that order, but I'll transcribe it when I download the podcast.)

But, I mean, this was, like, two minutes after I mentioned it in chat!
How's that for "audience participation"!

Too bad other radio programs don't use chat.

http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=27916

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Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:13 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Your "precis" of the LL discussion has me so
goldurn excited -- if I'd heard it live there'd
have been a call for paramedics to stop me
screaming.
Heh. If anyone knows about being jacked by a
network it's Leo...

bun
Frisky Browncoat
~Bastards canceled my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:04 PM

PUMAMANREDUX

I read through the archives of the podcasts .. interestin' stuff

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'You leave Earth and anything you forget to bring with you will kill you. Anything you do bring with you which doesn't work properly will kill you. When in doubt, just assume *everything* will kill you.' Nathan Spring, Star Cops

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http://www.freewebs.com/mjspages/tempfireflypage.htm

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:44 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Leo's been a FF/Serenity supporter for years. He used to mention it on tv and on twit. In fact, several of the former TechTv folks liked FF. Some also found it annoying that it was talked about so much....but what're gonna do? I don't think he's ever called himself a Browncoat though.

Heh.

Leo's a good guy.

---
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charlie Brown

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:24 AM

TERRI

That's cool. I LOVED TechTV!!! Then they screwed Leo and the rest over when it became G4. Even G4 didn't suck until now. Now the only good show is XPlay. I remember when I used to be excited to turn to TechTV and see what was going on. Those were good days. So, Leo's a Browncoat, huh? That's cool. It seems like all the awesomest people are.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:43 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Leo's finally updated the Audio Archives (the latest had been May 13)!

2007-June-09 64kbps
http://podcast.dslextreme.com/kfi/TTG20070609-359.mp3

2007-June-09 16kbps
http://podcast.dslextreme.com/kfi/TTG20070609-359L.mp3

Starts at 1:11:35

Quote:
Leo Laporte, theeee Tech Guy talking High Tech... with you at 888–8 ASK LEO all over the United States, all over the world, thanks to podcasts and Internet. Even in space... well I'm, I'm imagining they might be listening on the Shuttle. 888–8 ASK LEO. I know what they are doing on the Shuttle: They're watching Serenity! Did you see that? Mission Specialist Steven R. Swanson is a Browncoat. Browncoats are what they call the fans of Firefly and Serenity, uh, the great, oh, wonderful, wonderful TV show that Fox botched so badly. Joss Whedon's the creator, he's the guy who did Buffy. It was... one of the... I just don't... kinda 'Sci-Fi meets Western', just a fun show, didn't last very long, they made a movie, you remember, Serenity, out of it, and the movie wasn't a huge hit, but it has its fans, and apparently one of them's up at the Space Station, so now in the permanent library, the DVDs of Firefly and Serenity. And, y'know, given the fact that it's about the future of space exploration, I think that it'd be pretty popular up there on the Space Station.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007 2:54 PM

FLORALBUNNY

TQVM, clj!
Oh, so very yeah!
Be
side
myself!

bun
Frisky Browncoat
~Bastards exclaimed at my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

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