Beep boop - this is a robot. A new show has been posted to TWiT…
What are your thoughts about today’s show? We’d love to hear from you!
I’m really sorry I didn’t get my video finished in time, but life got in the way.
I started listening to TWiT when I was working for an advertising agency, here in Germany. I had just handed in my notice in mid 2009, but I had to stay there for the full 3 months of the notice period, but I wasn’t getting new projects, I was assigned a project all by myself and sat in a corner, so I started looking for something to listen to and I stumbled across TWiT, I listened to TWiT, Security Now, MacBreak Weekly and Windows Weekly, I actually went back and listened to Security Now from episode 1 and I listened to many old TWiTs as well.
Since then I have listened to around 12 hours of programming every week and I have been a member of Club TWiT since it was announced (I joined up in the first or second week after it was announced, I think, the biggest issue at the time was it being billed in dollars monthly, which means surcharges, so either an annual or a Euro subscription would have made more sense, but the charges were small enough that I have ignored them all these years, I’m currently looking at switching to annual).
I listen to:
TWiT, Security Now, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Intelligent Machine, iOS Today and the Events and News channels.
I also dip into Ant’s archive of photo shows, his best show was also the most short lived, where he would have a fireside chat with photographers (Focus on Photography).
I also listened to TWiL, Dr. Kiki, TWiET, All about Android and several other shows on and off over the years.
I did appear on one of Ant’s fireside chats, along with Joe and Joe, which was great fun, I had never used Zoom before, so I turned up half an hour early to ensure everything worked (I use Teams all day every day, but I even today, I can count the number of Zoom calls I’ve done on the fingers of one hand) and was chatting with him and the producer, I’m really sorry, I can’t remember if it was Benito or Jammer B. (edit: it might have been Burke) But they were both so great, I got to listen to them setting up and have a quick chat with them, discussing fine malt whisky, before the show started.
I also popped in to Stacey’s Book Club a couple of times, but the shows generally start during family time or after I have gone to bed, so the Discord and live shows are generally active at times when I can’t participate, which is why I am always on here, but rarely in Discord (I am on at a time when the last messages were a couple of hours ago and the answers come in 7 or 8 hours, which is fine for a structured forum, like this, but pretty useless for the unstructured blurt that is Discord, I spend more time scrolling back and forth trying to put threads together than actually reading messages or interacting).
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Yes, I too didn’t manage to put a video together in time for Sunday’s TWiT.
I started listening to TWiT in the autumn of 2005, likely finding out about the podcast from a posting on Digg. My regular listening routine is TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Security Now, Windows Weekly and the interview segment of Intelligent Machines. I also often dip into the archives to listen to past Triangulation episodes (the hidden gem of TWiT in my opinion!)
For nearly five years, I commuted daily on the M25 motorway and the TWiT programmes definitely helped keep my mind occupied while coping with the regular traffic jams. Even now, fifteen years on, snippets of TWiT programmes come to mind as I drive on the M25 and the scenery jogs my memory. Leo, thank you for so many great hours of education and entertainment!
Like Big_D, I’ve been a Club TWiT subscriber since launch - I’m delighted that annual subscriptions are back!
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Thank you! I really appreciate your stories - and support. I’m kind of glad you didn’t get around to making videos - we had so many and I didn’t want to leave anyone out!!
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Just make the show longer, it has worked before! 
What makes America great? Just look at the names of the participants in this episode: Laporte, Abuelsamid, Malventano, and Ballecer. A rainbow of immigrant families who came here for freedom and a better life and who made life better and for everyone who came before and after. Any administration that forgets this, and today’s is not the first by any means, makes our lives worse and less free. History will not forgive.
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I was just able to watch the show today. Congratulations on 20 years! I have been a student of yours since the Tech TV days! I say “student” because I learn so much about technology from the shows. I have to say though, and I have mentioned it before, Ipods are not totally gone, I still use one to listen to your “Podcasts”. I found out recently I am not alone, the comedian Bill Maher uses an Ipod still as well. LOL Anyway, thanks again for all the hard work and shows. Hope you continue on for quite some time so I can continue to learn new things.
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I also started listening to twit shows around 2006-2007. I am generally an open source software guy and back then I used to work for a cooperative bank in a role not at all related to software engineering.
I was doing independent software projects on the side and I needed a way to stay up to date with the software world.
I discovered FLOSS weekly and then the rest of the shows and I have been a regular since then.
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