Daily Giz Wiz

Daily Giz Wiz

Infobox Podcast
title = Daily Giz Wiz


caption =
host = Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte
url = http://www.gizwiz.biz
rss = http://leoville.tv/podcasts/dgw.xml
status = Daily
began = February 20, 2006
ended =
genre = Technology-Gadgets
ratings =

Daily Giz Wiz is a daily Podcast featuring Dick DeBartolo and Leo Laporte and is part of the TWiT.tv Network. It is a short, daily discussion about one technology and gadget. A shorter, weekly version of The Daily Giz Wiz also appears on Laporte's syndicated radio show The Tech Guy. It celebrated its 500th episode on February 8th, 2008

tructure

Each episode of the Daily Giz Wiz starts out with a gadget. The reviewer depends on the day.
* Monday: Dick DeBartolo
* Tuesday: Turn The Table Tuesday : Leo Laporte
* Wednesday: Theme-Free Wednesday: Dick DeBartolo
* Thursday: Dick DeBartolo
* Friday: Gadget Warehouse Friday: Dick DeBartolo

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 [http://www.podcastthemes.com PodcastThemes.com] ( [http://twit.tv/dgw1 Episode 1 on February 20th 2006] )
* Closing Jingle ( [http://twit.tv/dgw116 Episode 116 on July 31st 2006] )
* [http://www.mondaytheme.com Monday Theme]
* [http://www.tuesdaytheme.com Turn the Tables Tuesday]
* [http://www.wednesdaytheme.com Theme Free Wednesday]
* [http://www.thursdaytheme.com Crappy Theme Thursday] (aka, the Thursday Jingle)
* [http://www.fridaytheme.com Gadget Warehouse Friday] by George Wood and Paul Minshall
* [http://www.saturdaytheme.com Show Free Saturday] (Not used in actual episodes)
* [http://www.sundaytheme.com Sleepin' in Sunday] (Not used in actual episodes)
* Giz Wiz Letters ( [http://twit.tv/dgw166 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

Ending

Dick finishes with his signature line,"I'll be here".

Additional information

DeBartolo appears as a monthly guest of Computer America, heard in New York, Boston and 28 other markets, plus streaming on the Internet. He also has a periodic "gadget" segment on ABC World News Now.

600th Show special

The 600th episode was recorded on Friday the 20th of June 2008. Dick travelled from NYC to Petaluma to do the show with Leo on twitlive.tv this is due to be aired on 27th June 2008, the gadget was "Fred Lanes" third hand.

To view photo's of the meeting please visit [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvtroiano/sets/72157605724034344/] DGW @ TWiT

References

External links

* [http://www.twit.tv/dgw Official site]
* [http://www.gizwizbiz.com/ DeBartolo's site]
* [http://www.gizwizsearch.int.pl/ The Daily Giz Wiz search tool]
* [http://insidedgw.vox.com/ The Daily Giz Wiz blog thing]
* [http://willhallmusic.com/category/audible/daily-giz-wiz/ The Daily Giz Wiz Book Picks]


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