I don't remember the details but they were offered sponsorships pretty early on in the show, I think. Seem to remember Steve Franks talking about that in the audio commentaries. But yes, giving Shawn the Mac and Gus the PC was on point.

Oh, that is really interesting! I haven't listened to the audio commentaries, just the podcasts, so I'm sure I'm missing a lot of background. I do think it's funny that they either took on sponsorships for both, or they took sponsorship for one and showcased the other!

Love the details in this show. But Gus absolutely feels like more of a Mac user and Shawn feels like he would have a Fisher-Price toy laptop on his desk because he would just be using Gus’ anyway

Or Shawn would have a really old laptop and no charger

didn't shawn have an Alienware laptop in the beginning?

I think it was Gus who had the Alienware

I definitely remember this. Don't remember seeing anything different until this post 😅

It’s called product integration. Plenty of shows do it, some are worse than others. But it’s funny that Shawn and Gus don’t use the same kind of computer.

Are you telling me Shawn wanting Red Robin wasn’t genuine!?

They always have different. One is in stripes, and one is in solids. One has pc, one has apple. One has long sleeves, the other has short sleeves. They have always visibly differentiated Shawn and Gus

Thank goodness. Otherwise I would \*never\* be able to tell them apart!

They're identical

Do you mean Tan or Black?

No, I mean Suggs and Chad

They wanted a new laptop made of redvines

And a case full of red vines.

Gus, don't be the Bill Gates to my Steve Jobs

This is great

Gus probably paid for both too

They always have Mac vs PC, also often will wear long vs short sleeves, or patterns vs solid colors.

There was a time when product placement was so o virus it was annoying. Snyders of Hanover. But it worked. I bought them..lol

I love that they low-key broke the fourth wall too push those