The Tech Guy
Hosts: Leo Laporte Topic: "Anything with a chip in it" Debut: January 3, 2004 Recorded: Saturday and Sunday Released: Saturday and Sunday Duration: 3 hours Set: Leo's Office Studio |
The Tech Guy is Leo Laporte's nationally syndicated radio show. It is aired every Saturday and Sunday from 2-5PM Eastern and focuses on caller questions about computers and technology. The show was originally called the "The KFI Tech Guy" when Leo began doing it in 2004 on the Los Angeles station. The show was picked up for syndication in 2007. It can now be heard on the radio in more than 120 cities, as well as on XM radio. There have been more than 800 episodes so far, almost all of which are archived online.
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Podcast
The podcast for The Tech Guy show usually appears within 24 hours of the original airing. It contains the entire show (including caller audio) minus ads, news, traffic, and local breaks. You can download it from http://twit.tv/ttg or subscribe at http://feeds.twit.tv/ttg. You can also subscribe on iTunes or the Zune Marketplace.
Hosts
Show format
The show is video only if you watch live otherwise it is provided as a downloadable podcast and is made into two long format podcasts. One podcast for each day.
How to call the show
The phone number for the Tech Guy show is 1-88-88-ASKLEO (+1-888-827-5536). If you're outside the US, you can use Skype to call that toll free number and it will not cost you any Skype Credit.
Live video
The video stream of The Tech Guy show can be seen at http://live.twit.tv. Listeners can listen to the feed on the KFI website or many other radio stations, over the air or Internet streams, but those feeds will be delayed at least 40 seconds for FCC profanity censoring.
Since the delay over the radio is a minimum of 40+ seconds, should you hear an occasional echo of about 1 second or less, this is NOT due to the caller having their radio on but rather a well-known issue with the ISDN equipment used to link the TWiT studio with the Premiere studio. Please do not complain about this when it occurs in the IRC chat room as this can cause Leo to mute all caller audio for extended time periods.
During the breaks for the news, ads, traffic, etc. on the live video stream, Leo interacts with the IRC chat room at irc.twit.tv. He lovingly calls them the "kids in the back of the class" but he also admits that he uses the combined knowledge of those in the chat to solve almost every problem.
The large text that's shown on Leo's Mac that gives him "Wrap" and "Break" reminders is an AppleScript. You can compile the script from the source code on Leoville, it is saved as a "stay open" script and requires Quicksilver.
Recent shows
Show notes
Show Notes for The Tech Guy are taken by James DeRuvo and can be found at TechGuyLabs.com. A station list can also be found at the website.
Frequent guests
Frequent guests include Chris Marquardt of Tips from the Top Floor podcast and blog, who often gives Leo and the community assignments they can post to the Tech Guy Flickr group and Scott Wilkinson, editor of the UltimateAVMag, who chats with Leo about home theater. Dick DeBartolo, MAD's maddest writer and cohost of the Weekly Daily Giz Wiz netcast, usually makes a weekly visit on the last segment of Saturday's radio broadcast.
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