Daily Giz Wiz
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Hosts: Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo Topic: Gadgets Debut: February 20th, 2006 Recorded: Tuesdays, 1:30 PM PST Released: Weekdays Duration: 15 minutes on average |
Daily Giz Wiz is a daily show hosted by Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo. Every episode is about 15 minutes long and usually features one gadget. The first episode (Docupen) was released on 20 February 2006, more than 890 episodes have been published since then.
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Themes & Jingles
The show has several jingles and songs it uses to indicate different sections or events, including (First aired in brackets):
- Opening Theme by Mark Blasco at PodcastThemes.com (Episode 1 on February 20th 2006)
- Closing Jingle by Paul Minshall at PaulMinshall.com (Episode 116 on July 31st 2006)
- Monday Theme by Dan Lueders with Dane Del Principe on lead guitar
- Turn the Tables Tuesday
- Theme Free Wednesday by Dan Lueders with John Carlson on saxophone
- Rock Out Thursday Theme (aka, Another Crappy Theme) by Dan Lueders with Jimmy Riley on lead guitar and backing vocals
- Gadget Warehouse Friday by George Wood and Paul Minshall
- Show Free Saturday (Not used in actual episodes) by Dan Lueders
- Sleepin' in Sunday (Not used in actual episodes)
- Giz Wiz Letters (Episode 166 on October 9th 2006)
- Festive Letters Jingle (starts the first Monday of November, ends at new year) by George Wood
- The Liability Jingle
- Dick's On Hold
- Waiting for Dick to get a UPS delivery by Paul Minshall
- Audible Jingle, first appearance on episode 696 by Paul Minshall
- The Titamium Spork by Dan Lueders
- DGW-The Disclamer by Dan Lueders
- The DGW "Celebrity" Letters Jingles by Dan Lueders
Episodes
Further information: Daily Giz Wiz Show Notes
There is no TWiT show with more episodes than The Daily Giz Wiz. In January 2009 the Giz Wiz Search site held a voting for listeners' favorite episodes. After counting all 666 votes the results were published:
- UroClub (episode 598)
- Toothpick Bird (episode 282)
- Titanium Spork (episode 182)
- Zelco PurseGuard Ultra (episode 406)
- A Tribute to William M. Gaines (episode 76)
- Vat19's Talking Photo Album (episode 463)
- Keybuoy (episode 149)
- A Visit To The Gadget Warehouse (episode 246)
- GFX-100 Indoor Dish Antenna (episode 670)
- Cruzin' Cooler (episode 101)
Video Recordings
The Daily Giz Wiz is released as a podcast in audio form only. However the weekly recording sessions are streamed live. Recordings of those sessions are available on independent fan sites:
- odtv.me has the whole recording sessions (usually about 5 podcast episodes) available for download in mp4 format
- GizWizSearch.com has separate episodes playing as flash videos (list of all available videos)
Downloading old episodes
The official podcast feed contains only the 20 most recent episodes. To download a specific archival episode one can find it using the search tool and then download it manually. For automatic download there is a special unofficial "Download Old Shows" podcast feed containing every single episode ever released. After subscribing to it in a podcast client one can choose episodes for download, or use the "get all" option to automatically download all episodes.
Jokes
There are a number of long running jokes associated with the Daily Giz Wiz which Dick and Leo frequently refer to during the podcast. These jokes include:
- The Spork, Leo's 'gadget' for Turn the Table Tuesday in episode 182[1].
- The Toothpick Bird, another awful Turn the Table Tuesday gadget from episode 282[2].
Trivia
As of December 30th, 2009 (based on GizWizSearch.com statistics page):
- If one listened to all the Daily Giz Wiz episodes one after another it would take 11 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes, and 16 seconds.
- Average length of the Daily Giz Wiz episode is 16 minutes and 23 seconds.
- Episode 967 "Verizon's Droid" from November 2009 is the longest episode ever recorded. It's over 36 minutes.
- Episode 36 "Logitech Wireless Headphones" from April 2006 is the shortest episode ever recorded. It's only 5 minutes and 3 seconds.
External links
- Official site
- DeBartolo's site
- The Daily Giz Wiz search tool
- InsideDGW blog
- The Daily Giz Wiz Book Picks
- Dan Lueders Official site
- Paul Minshall's site
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