Weekly Daily Giz Wiz
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo Topic: Gadgets Debut: February 20th, 2006 Recorded: Saturdays Released: Saturdays Duration: ~ 60 minutes Set: Leo's Office Studio |
The Weekly Daily Giz Wiz is a weekly, formerly daily show hosted by Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo. Each episode is roughly 60 minutes. The first episode (Docupen) was released on 20 February 2006.
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Themes and 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)
Downloading old 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 (previusly http://insidedgw.vox.com, and not updated since vox ceased to exist)
- The Daily Giz Wiz Book Picks
- Dan Lueders Official site
- Paul Minshall's site
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