G+_Ronald Wolf Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 So is it true? I heard John C. Dvorak say on No Agenda that Leo banned him from appearing on TWIT. Is this right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bernie Murray Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 What happened that he would ban him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Clark Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 He did for a few days and then relented and said John could come back anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bernie Murray Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 But what was the reason to begin with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Clark Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I lost track lol. Someone said that Leo and Jeff Jarvis were idiots for falling for the Texas clock bomb hoax. Then John got involved somehow. Then Leo told him not to come back. Then John got pissed and wrote some huge expose on TWiT. It was something stupid that spiraled out of control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bernie Murray Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Wow. I haven't listened in a while. I missed a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timmy T Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 John is a blow hard, who brings little to the tech world anymore, he should just retire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Donald E. “Don” Riley Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I loved his practical jokes.Like the time he re-set Leos phone to a foreign language.HA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Comeau Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Looking at the Twitter feed... Leo essentially said John wasn't adding anything to the discussion, taking things off the main point, and playing around too much (e.g. w/ Leo's phones). As one who used to read Dvorak back in the day (20 years ago). Yeah he's been phoning it in for a while. He might be o.k. in person, but as a tech guy he's been out of it for a while. Also when he's on I think Leo and the moderators get tired of having to ban/moderate the No Agenda fans that show up and de-rail the chat room, but that's just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Trautman Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Let's not forget how JCD said all those nasty things about some TWiT shows. The last straw was his conspiracy crap about the clock kid. Leo can choose whomever he wants to appear on his channel. The word "banned" was JCD and not Leo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Comeau Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Yup... Leo discussed it in a pre-roll (iirc) to his radio show. Essentially John isn't adding to the conversation and occasionally dissed advertisers. So just now welcome on the show. I do find mild humor this all happened after Dvorak finally returned Leo's rather expensive lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian Parks Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 A few years ago when phones and other handhelds began to dominate the conversation the amount of new and interesting things they discuss dropped of significantly. The minutiae of details are covered in the array of specific programs. TWIT was always a more general freewheeling show. Once or twice a month John provided much needed humor. Leo seems to be having trouble getting over himself with all the success. The other guests are more on top of the trends but more and more are dreary geek types. The kind of guests are rarely like the ones that were on the first episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Compliant Citizen (HeyC Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 John doesn't take Leo's advertisers seriously; he has been speaking his mind for 8 years on the No Agenda Show without worrying about advertisers, making him unsuitable for Leo's carefully proper "tech news". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Compliant Citizen (HeyC Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Also, buy a mattress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Uncle Joe (Uncle Joe Hi Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 But it was over a tweet that Leo disagreed with. Seems petty of Leo. If he would stick to Tech instead of injecting politics into his shows this wouldn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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