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WARNING: POSSIBLE BORING BIO
DICK DeBARTOLO wears many hats, which may explain his severe hair loss.
Dick appears regularly on WORLD NEWS NOW, the overnight ABC Network news program showing the latest gizmos and gadgets. He also records quite a few Tech Bytes for ABC News. Along with Leo Laporte, one of the most famous names in the world of technology, Dick does a daily Podcast/Netcast called "The Daily GizWiz". Just ten months after it started, it made the People's Choice List at iTunes with 4.2 million downloads in less than a year. The Daily Giz Wiz is now going into it's third year, with more than 750 episodes so far. Dick also does a weekly gadget spot on WBAL radio, Baltimore.
Dick's gadget spots are low to medium-tech and light hearted. The light-hearted part stems from his second career as MAD Magazine's MADDEST Writer. For more than forty years he's been writing many of those famous off-the-wall movie, tv and ad take-offs. He started his MAD writing career in high school when he submitted an article. He thought it had been returned when his own envelope came back. The envelope was stuffed with cardboard, a check and a note: "ha, ha, thought you were rejected, but we bought your piece. Dick wrote the book GOOD DAYS AND MAD, which is all about the insane way MAD founder William M. Gaines ran his multi-million dollar empire. (No secretaries, no switchboard, even white wine in the water cooler one day!)
Dick is also a boating expert. For 35 years he had an office on a 50' houseboat docked in the Hudson River. Now he's downsized and moved his office to a 24' workboat which stays in the water year round. In the summer, his fleet expands in the summer when he brings his 25' walk-around cabin boat to the marina. Although he has owned 26 boats, he has never owned a car! He has been writing a monthly column for Powerboat Magazine for 30 years! For about 12 of those years he also was part of the Powerboat Test Team, putting new boats through their paces. And through a lot of waves!
He's also big fan of G guage trains, sometimes known as outdoor trains and has a layout in his backyard. Having a backyard in Manhattan is rare, having trains in a backyard in Manhattan, is just about unheard of!
He used his MAD Magazine background to change the "Match Game" from normal questions to silly "Dumb Donald" and "Weird Willie" questions, and then wrote thousands of them for Mark Goodson/Bill Todman Productions.
Dick's website is www.gizwiz.biz but you should know that because you're visiting it now.
You can contact Dick at dick@gizwizbiz.com.
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You can contact Dick at dick@gizwizbiz.com.
Okay, wake up now. The bio has ended!
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