The Daily Giz Wiz
Flag Waver (released July 4, 2006)
Run Time: 11:38
Hosted by Leo Laporte and Mad's Maddest Writer and the Giz Wiz Dick DeBartolo, the Daily Giz Wiz is a Monday thru Friday podcast featuring the latest, hottest gadgets. Started in February 2006, the Daily Giz Wiz has released over 200 podcasts. Dick DeBartolo, writer for the Match game and Mad Magazine, introduces a new gadget each day, the exceptions on Tuesdays and Fridays. Tuesdays are "Turn the Tables Tables", when Leo must present a new gadget to Dick. Fridays are "Warehouse Fridays", when Dick digs deep into the gadget warehouse to pull out an old gadget or a gadget that didn't quite make it in the market. Each episode consists of a daily letter and has the traditonal sign off of Dick "I'll Be Here" and Leo "It Makes It's Own Gravy".
Episode 97 of the Daily Giz Wiz is my favorite podcast of the year. It was released on July 4 and features the flag waver, a patriotic gadget for Independence Day. The laugh fireworks begin to fly when Leo hears Dick describe where and how he views fireworks each year in Manhattan (description starts at 5:50). I've heard that part over twenty times and it never fails to make me laugh. Enjoy.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 29, 2006
Podcast Pick of the Day - The Writer's Almanac
The Writer's Almanac
December 29, 2006
Run Time: 5:00
Hosted by the renowned Garrison Keillor, the Writer's Almanac is a daily podcast featuring the the most interesting historical aspects of the current day's history and always concludes with a closing poem and Keillor's trademark signoff.
Today's highlights:
Birthday of the novelist William Gaddis (1922)
James Joyce publishes first novel - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
December 29, 2006
Run Time: 5:00
Hosted by the renowned Garrison Keillor, the Writer's Almanac is a daily podcast featuring the the most interesting historical aspects of the current day's history and always concludes with a closing poem and Keillor's trademark signoff.
Today's highlights:
Birthday of the novelist William Gaddis (1922)
James Joyce publishes first novel - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Podcast Pick of the Day - In Our Time
Podcast Pick of the Day
In Our Time
Siege of Constantinople
Run Time: 42:06
In Our Time consistently delivers unique, fresh views on intriguing and diverse topics in history. Today’s topic was the Siege of Constantinople - the end of the thousand years of Byzantine Empire. In Our Time’s host, Melvyn Brag and his guests Roger Crowley, Judith Herrin, and Colin Imber deliver a rousing discussion regarding how the Ottomans captured Constantinople, the center of the Byzantine Empire that had survived for a thousand years until it fell in 1453.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(BBC_Radio_4)
In Our Time
Siege of Constantinople
Run Time: 42:06
In Our Time consistently delivers unique, fresh views on intriguing and diverse topics in history. Today’s topic was the Siege of Constantinople - the end of the thousand years of Byzantine Empire. In Our Time’s host, Melvyn Brag and his guests Roger Crowley, Judith Herrin, and Colin Imber deliver a rousing discussion regarding how the Ottomans captured Constantinople, the center of the Byzantine Empire that had survived for a thousand years until it fell in 1453.
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Our_Time_(BBC_Radio_4)
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