Grok Auto-Configured a Home Router’s Guest Network
A smaller, very practical AI use case: Gene had Grok add a separate guest network for his IoT devices. He pointed it at the router’s admin page,…
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This Week in Startups — J-Cal’s Original Podcast, Still Going Three Days a Week
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Little Snitch or Lulu — Know When Software Is Phoning Home
Darren’s recommendation was blunt: “Everybody that runs a Mac should have Lulu or Little Snitch.” Both sit quietly in the background and flag the moment any app…
This Week in Startups — J-Cal’s Original Podcast, Still Going Three Days a Week
When Adam asked guest co-host Jason Calacanis if he still did This Week in Startups, he lit up: “No, no, I still do. It’s three days a…
DH Unplugged — The Financial Markets Show Continues
An unprompted, genuine recommendation from Adam during the value-for-value shout-outs, on the same episode Jason Calacanis guest-hosted: “I need to tell everyone about a great value-for-value podcast,…
Arby’s Meat Cubes and a Surprisingly Good Reuben
Gene’s genuine, mixed take after an Arby’s run: the new “meat cubes” (half-ounce cubes of meat over potatoes or mac and cheese, about a buck a cube)…
Dave’s Garage — YouTube Channel
A genuine shout-out from Darren for Dave’s Garage, a YouTube channel run by a former Microsoft engineer credited with inventing Task Manager. Darren watches a couple videos…
Gold Goats and Guns (Tom Luongo) — Again
Adam name-checked Tom Luongo’s Gold Goats and Guns again this episode: “Luongo understands this stuff like nobody else does. I’ll have to listen to his latest analysis.”…
Helium Mobile — Cheap Until It Wasn’t
Rob Dew mentioned he was on Helium Mobile paying $15/month — Adam called it “a great mobile network” — but Helium got acquired by Andrew Yang’s Noble…
Health Sharing Over Insurance — CrowdHealth via Tina
Adam’s been on health sharing instead of traditional insurance for years — currently Christian Health Ministries, previously Samaritan Ministries. Tina is on CrowdHealth and likes it a…
Small Batch Steve’s Taco Seasoning
In the donation segment, Adam thanked producer Small Batch Steve (smallbatchsteve.com) for sending a batch of his seasoning. Adam and Tina tried it on taco meat the…
ASUS Ascent GX10 — The Machine Now Partly Running the No Agenda Show
Producer Eric Timmer, out of Austin, sent Adam an ASUS Ascent GX10 — NVIDIA’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with 128GB of unified memory — after it had…
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Dana Brunetti’s TV Work — House of Cards
Dana Brunetti is widely credited with putting Netflix on the map as a real content platform with House of Cards. His origin story: a conversation with director…
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Adam Curry’s Memoir — In the Works
Influenced by “The Kid Stays in the Picture” Adam is working on a memoir pulling together 20 years of stories from his own life, built in part…
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Dropbox, Grokbot, and Eggbot — Dana Brunetti’s AI Workflow
Dana Brunetti’s actual Tip of the Day pick: anyone building AI agents/bots beyond a basic ChatGPT or Claude chat session should look at Dropbox specifically for how…
Dana Brunetti’s Movies — A Hollywood Producer’s Filmography
No Agenda producer and guest co-host Dana Brunetti walked Adam through his Hollywood career on episode 1903. Here’s the rundown, in the order he made them: [No…
GIMP 3 — Back to the Free Photoshop Alternative
After getting frustrated trying to build custom tier-list graphics in the newly-freeware Affinity suite, Gene went back to GIMP and found the latest version (3.x) picked up…
Tip of the Day: ICON Tools From Harbor Freight Have a Lifetime Warranty
Guest co-host Dana Brunetti’s Tip of the Day: Harbor Freight’s in-house Icon Tools line comes with a lifetime guarantee, much like the old Sears Craftsman deal. Working…
Joe Satriani’s Guitar-Face Lesson
In an old MTV story, Adam recalled interviewing guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani, who offered him a “guitar lesson” that turned out to be about something other than…
Breeze — Open-Source AI Voice Cloning
Talking about AI-generated influencers, Darren named a specific open-source voice tool: “there’s also other platforms that will let you create voices, that there’s one called Breeze that’s…
Netflix’s “Death of the Pastor’s Wife”
Darren mentioned a docuseries his wife had him watch: “my wife made me look at something on Netflix. It’s called the preacher’s wife, I guess, is trending…
