Jeff was on this week's TWIT (This week in Tech) he talked about the Xbox One very candidly so if you want to hear the video game talk it begins at

5:52 end at 36:35

after that it's boring as hell

Video or Audio on the link below

http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/407

This podcast should be called "This Week At Tech" instead.

EDIT: Ah. I thought it was something like "tech.com". Damn, that joke works far less well now.

Thanks, i might check this out later tonight!

Caught the very end of this, so waiting for the HD video version to be up before checking out the rest.

Natali kinda looks like AJ Lee.

I watched this earlier, it was pretty good. Jeff is THAT DUDE.

Thanks for the heads up Big Jeffery!

Thanks. Listening to it now.

Oh Leo Laporte. Wasn't there some drama around that guy and a firing and him being a jerk?

Listening now.

he fired someone for "instigating" a cards vs humanity game , and encouraging "sick jokes about rape and dead babies" on a family podcast , a family podcast that happened to be streaming live at midnight or something ...

Ugh, now I remember why I loathe the tech press types.

Oh man that was painful to watch, talking about mussle memory getting messed up when you get a new controller and saying shit like "hardcore gamers play on PC." The host seems like a twat and the lady was trying but she had nothing to add. The other CBS guy was fine and his lisp made me smile. They should bring him into an episode of the bombcast.

Oh, you mean Harry McCracken doesn't just strike you as the most relatable, easy-going gentleman ever?

@darthorange: She had a good point about elderly or non-tech-savvy people using the Xbox One for watching TV, and her asking about muscle memory wasn't that bad.

I made the mistake of listening onwards and now she's talking about how it's only a few generations ago that we were hunter gatherers. What?!

edit: Nevermind. Jeff's reaction around 1:45:20 when Laporte says kids aren't interested in sex these days and the kid safety guy says "that's actually too bad" is so fucking worth it. I don't even.

@believer258 said:

I chuckled.

Leo Laporte's fuckin voice cuts through hard jesus christ

From the comments I think I did the right thing by downloading the audio version

It's Leo Laporte, so the joke works great.

Oh you mean The Zone?

I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but Ryan was on Idle Thumbs last week, too. The boys are guesting around a lot.

That was a decent conversation, an interesting look to non-gamers thoughts.

Also, that's totally a Divekick t-shirt Jeff has on.

My God, I wonder if Jeff (or anyone else on the site) looks at old photos of themselves and admit that mistakes were made.

Wow guys. What's with the Leo hate? None of you grew up watching TechTV?

I don't watch much now-a-days, but I used to love tuning into TWiT and some of his other shows. And while he sometimes doesn't know the subject perfectly, I always found the guy super likable and informative to his audience.

I listen to the TWiT podcast every week so imagine my surprise when I opened the app and found that Jeff Gerstmann was a motha fuckin guest. It was so awesome to hear actual insight on what is normally atrocious gaming coverage on that show.

I don't really care for TWiT, but Jeff makes everything better.

I will never ever listen to a podcast named TWIT.

Thanks for the heads-up! DLing it to my iPod nows.

It was annoying how that Leo guy kept cutting Jeff off every time, that's just rude.

Natalie says: "Buy? You mean like spend money on something? Never!"

Host's chair is fucking awesome.

Getting ready for their solo albums!

I have been following Leo and the gang ever since the TechTV days. Seems like lots of hate around here for Leo, but I have always found him to be a pretty likable guy.

I like to imagine Jeff doing anything that is not Giantbomb being kinda like this.
I'm usually disappointed.

@theht: Not bad, though he does make a point; there's several reasons why the rate of natural increase goes down in developed countries and lack of interest in fucking is one of them; though it's a much much larger issue in Japan, most of Eastern Asia, and Europe than it is here; but imagine what would happen if the South became educated!? There might be less fat people!

Aww yeah Leo Laporte. I've been following him for like 10 years. His shows on TechTV were instrumental in me getting hugely into technology (and likely my future careers since I am doing a comp sci degree with a focus on technology). I don't watch his TWiT stuff as much as I used to but I still watch some of it at least once a week. I used to just leave his main stream on every day. But that was like 5 years ago.

1:45:20 definitely the highlight.

I watched, it was a pretty fun show!

I thought Natalie Morris was the smartest person on there, and at least this radio-voice dude seems to know about, and play, videogames.

@i_smell said:

Really? Because her whole anti-technology rant was so thoroughly destroyed by Larry Magid it got a bit gringe-worthy towards the end there.

For the record, this Larry Magid guy that I had never heard about before? Loved him. From the nerdy lisp to the entirely unironic moustache to the very articulate, open minded, very moderate and reasonable position on tech and children. He's just somewhere between delightful and downright cuddly.

Also, may I point out that she seems to spell her name as "Natali", which immediately obstructs your "smartest person in the room" claim. That and how she wasn't in the room.

well, you sound happy.

That was pretty ok, I liked Natali's perspective on stuff we don't really get that perspective on the bombcast.

I admit I have a thing against prim and proper people of this stripe, with this notion that there is a correct way to do things that is mostly contained in morning television, self-help books and interesting, but slightly suspicious "science" books from researchers with an agenda. Granted, your name being spelled with a single, meaningful "i" at the end could be a curse passed on from your parents, but you don't end up pursuing "transcendental meditation as a way to remove the technology from the interactions you have from your family in order to teach them how to better synthesise their thoughts" without owning that "i" deeply and to the core.

This is the character people win Oscars and Emmys writing satirical fiction about.

I don't despise her, though. She does seem clever and she's clearly reasonable. The purest incarnation of the stereotype is the kind that rants about media violence on television when a teenager commits a crime, not this, but she did lose me pretty hard with her whole regressive fear of tech based on "will somebody think of the children".

This reminds me why I don't like Leo. Yeah, I'm still bitter they canceled "Game On"

I didn't mention a room, that's a joke on your own quote.

The way news gets delivered now is so totally different to how it used to be. You used to read one newspaper a day in a quiet room and have the whole rest of the day to absorb and comprehend and consider what's being said.

Now there's a thousand different places competing for the same eyeballs, as soon as you read something you scroll down and see the comments, or formulate an opinion immeadiately to contribute, or decide what this says about me if I share this and a dozen other add-on transactions of information around the quadrillion new stories out there.

It's the same with everything; audiobooks and podcasts are just information washing through people like water through a sponge, and from games like Simpsons Tapped Out or Candy Crush to a lot of the GiantBomb video content, there's a trillion hours of distractionware out there for people to just breeze through and fill the time with, and it's all being marketed like nothing ever has before.

Growing up with it, and raising kids with it, IS something to worry about. Going from 3 channels on TV to 900, to a damn billion on the internet now is a weird thing that's worth talking about, and I liked hearing that explored a lot more than "Hey just plug me in, ha ha! People were worried about MySpace too, but f that, let me at this new google glass, I can't wait!"

@noelveiga:

fair enough. i was mostly testing to see if your statement had a supporting ideology, or if it just consisted of 'god damn hippie mommy-blog liberals.'

and to be completely fair, although her mindspace or view of the world is clearly visible for all to see and deride- she did give the impression of being present, attentive, and well-read. which is better than most i find on these sorts of 'internet-talk' shows.

The host or Leo I guess seemed so dismissive of all the Xbox One features and seemed really cynical of the whole thing. He also came off closed minded about it and only open to what he does at home.

oh thats great

thats the fuckin shit right there

Oh, yeah, granted on all counts. Like I said, the real deal on that space is a lot more abrasive and a lot less tech-cultured. Still, she is neatly within that space.

Also, it's weird you're thinking of "hippie mommy-blog liberals", I'd say the stereotype skews more conservative. New age conservative, maybe, not hardcore extreme-right Fox News tin foil wearing anarchocapitalists, but conservative nonetheless.

Oh I agree that baby help-books are dumb. Yeah there's also plenty of stuff to not like, so alright I get that.

ha, really? i guess having just recently lived in berkeley, CA for a stretch- my exposure and therefore experience is somewhat skewed. it's sorta the mecca for that sort of ideology. my notion of the stereotype is the slightly granola-y, exclusively organic-eatin, jezebel-readin, let's-have-a-check-in-with-our-feelings doing, disparate aspects of eastern religion-co-opting individual.

not that have any issue with any of those characteristics (i'm certainly prone to some). but that's just what comes to mind when it comes to alternative spellings of names.