Part I: King of Tech Talk, Leo Laporte

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Leo Laporte is on radio shows across the nation, most notably on KFI in Los Angeles and KGO in San Francisco, two of the most listened to radio stations in the world. His This Week in Tech show has the largest tech podcast audience on iTunes. He usually has the biggest tech audience of any live show on Stickam. People like Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, have launched their careers after being associated with him. Here we sit down for a fun talk with Leo at his studio in Petaluma, California to find out how he does it all.

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Hey, why not record your own video response on Youtube - and insert the url here.

Why is it so difficult to see your video. Slow. Jumpy. Makes me nuts. Have tried at Peet's, at home on Comcast... Even at Apple Store. Is it me? Are there workarounds? Tnx.

Why is it so difficult to see your video. Slow. Jumpy. Makes me nuts. Have tried at Peet's, at home on Comcast... Even at Apple Store. Is it me? Are there workarounds? Tnx.

Why is it so difficult to see your video. Slow. Jumpy. Makes me nuts. Have tried at Peet's, at home on Comcast... Even at Apple Store. Is it me? Are there workarounds? Tnx.

Hi. You guys are so easy to listen to. Laporte with his smooth-as-silk voice and you Mr Scoble.. so unassuming yet such a leader in your field. Thanks for the generous sharing of ideas.
No.. not brown-nosing.. just very grateful to have access to this information.

will all those microphones you would think the audio would be better than just SLIGHTLY audible!

in FIREFOX, I found that their pre-roll advertising was what was stopping playback. If you are running "Adblock Plus" either disable it completely for "fastcompany.tv" or simply for the suspect pages.
Hope this helps!

The video stops at 12s. in FF3 and IE7 on Vista.

I have watched Leo since I can remember Tech TV being on the air. He inspired me to learn about computers and eventually open my own business. I met him in St. Louis about 6 or 7 years ago with Patrick Norton. Business is doing good. Nice to see what he is up to these days.

Seems to hang at the same point in both Safari and Firefox (on the Mac). Sad.

Awesome video, Robert. It was very interesting to listen to Leo give a "behind-the-scenes" look at his podcasting network. Fascinating.

Somehow all of the fastcompany.tv videos only work in IE, not in Firefox for me. Great video though.

two high integrity people who i completely respect and trust. thank you for that which drives you to be who you are and do what you do!

A BIG bravo....

Sorry Robert, wanted to watch this video, tried to watch this video, but it doesn't play (can only watch the spinning ring for so long)

No offense but outside of the state of California the number of internet users with capable bandwidth to be able to stream a 146 MB is likely less than half of all worldwide internet users. The quality looks incredible but unfortunately nearly nobody seems to care about that unless it somehow means spending more money for pure mentality. I'm very grateful for the download link which I am using with DTA so I can successfully reconnect the download when it times out. Thanks for the video it look great.

You might actually have more viewers if you properly served up the video!

Cool.

What a great interview. I come from a similar background radio career to tech career. So I know what Leo does is not easy. Leo has a lot of fun with tech and he makes people feel less intimidated by it which is something I try to do working in desktop support/Helpdesk. When Tech TV went off I really missed my daily tech news and fun. Leo has brought it back with the podcasts and TWIT-video. I'd love to do something like TWIT. It looks like a lot of fun.

Hey guys, wanted to say thanks for such a nice interview. It was actually quite relaxing to listen to...the lean back in the chair experience. I remember listening to Leo way back both on KGO and screen savers so this brought back some memories. Maybe next time Leo can interview you Robert. Although with your "expressed passion" it might make me sit forward a bit more and not be as laid back as this one :-)

Hi there, Getting stuck 51" in. Tried watching both low and high quality and can't get past this point. Is there another place I can watch as I'm sure the content is great.
Cheers
Suzi

as leo said, he does what he loves, thus learning more about it never becomes a burden. so true.