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Comment by echelon

5 hours ago

This is sad.

I grew up watching his show on Tech TV and reading his columns in PC Magazine.

He used to butt heads with Leo Laporte and it was great:

https://youtu.be/C96YG7qzN80?t=142

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barney54  4 hours ago

I enjoyed John and Leo butting heads. I agree that it was great. It's a bummer they haven't done that for a long time.

  • lorreyfum  3 hours ago

    It was great until Leo went off the deep end and lost 99% of his audience.

    • boyter  3 hours ago

      When Leo cut off Dvroak and CJal I turned out. You really do need that sort of personality for people to bounce off otherwise its less entertaining.

    • etempleton  3 hours ago

      Both of them kind of lost the thread. I really enjoyed the show but they became increasingly polarized and unmoving in their opinions.

    • echelon  3 hours ago

      I didn't stick around that long to see what became of it.

      I see different people saying different things about Leo and John. What happened?

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Brian_K_White  2 hours ago

And Leo will say nothing but nice things about him and express nothing but regret when he talks about this on the next episode.

I am not sure John would have done the same.