Ditka’s Pot Roast Nachos — Still Craveable, Just Not Downtown Anymore
This one keeps coming up. On Planet Rage #238, in the middle of remembering Mike Ditka after his passing, one of the hosts couldn’t help himself: “His…
October 13, 2026
Ditka’s Pot Roast Nachos — Still Craveable, Just Not Downtown Anymore
October 13, 2026
The Art of Deception — Kevin Mitnick’s Classic Book on Social Engineering
October 12, 2026
Pot Shards — Adam’s Uncle Donald Gregg’s CIA Memoir
October 11, 2026
RAM and Storage Prices Are Spiking — Here’s How to Track Them Before You Buy
October 10, 2026
Gray Zone Warfare — the Realistic Military Shooter Gene Can’t Stop Playing
October 10, 2026
Required Reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
October 10, 2026
Swiftpoint — Gene’s Pick for the Best Mouse Out There
October 8, 2026
Teach Your AI Assistant a Voice Shortcut to Control Your Smart Speakers
October 13, 2026
Ditka’s Pot Roast Nachos — Still Craveable, Just Not Downtown Anymore
October 13, 2026
The Art of Deception — Kevin Mitnick’s Classic Book on Social Engineering
October 12, 2026
Pot Shards — Adam’s Uncle Donald Gregg’s CIA Memoir
October 11, 2026
RAM and Storage Prices Are Spiking — Here’s How to Track Them Before You Buy
October 10, 2026
Gray Zone Warfare — the Realistic Military Shooter Gene Can’t Stop Playing
October 10, 2026
Required Reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
October 10, 2026
Swiftpoint — Gene’s Pick for the Best Mouse Out There
October 8, 2026
Teach Your AI Assistant a Voice Shortcut to Control Your Smart Speakers
This one keeps coming up. On Planet Rage #238, in the middle of remembering Mike Ditka after his passing, one of the hosts couldn’t help himself: “His…
While swapping stories about Kevin Mitnick — the legendary hacker who got famous not for coding skill but for social engineering (he talked his way into phone-company…
A genuine family-history tip that almost slipped by in a segment about ex-CIA pundits writing books: Adam’s uncle, Donald Gregg, wrote a memoir called Pot Shards —…
A real, practical heads-up buried in the show’s “clip of the day” segment: RAM and storage drive prices have spiked hard this year, driven by data centers…
Gene’s pick for the most realistic game currently out: Gray Zone Warfare. He likes it for the tactical realism (limited ammo, no spray-and-pray, real disorientation effects when…
An actual on-air homework assignment: “If you haven’t read Douglas Adams, we are going to give that as your homework before the next episode. Read the Hitchhiker’s…
Gene’s unprompted plug for his mouse: “that’s the best mouse out there… it’s called a Swiftpoint.” Swiftpoint is a real ergonomic mouse brand — Gene jokes about…
Adam’s follow-up tip of the day in the same segment — he calls it “the sexier tip.” Rather than fighting with a smart-speaker app’s own controls (he…
Dana’s actual on-air tip of the day — he’s the one who created the segment, and this is the one he picked: if an infrared remote control…
Adam built an MCP server (a connector that lets an AI agent query a data source) on top of the Podcast Index, the free, open podcast database…
Rob’s actual on-air tip of the day: go find a drum circle and join in, even if you’ve never played a drum in your life. He described…
Darren’s real-world Grok use case: he asked it about Keith Olbermann’s “Trump wrote me a fan letter” claim, then asked it to find and clip the exact…
Gene’s fix for the “am I still paying to store something I could just stream” problem: justwatch.com. Look up any movie or TV series, and it tells…
Gene’s real recommendation of the week: Landman, the Taylor Sheridan-produced oil-business drama starring Billy Bob Thornton. “Landman is hilarious. I went for Billy Bob, but I’m staying…
Gene’s Amazon price-comparison find: his usual Yorkshire Tea is genuinely cheaper on Amazon when shipped from a Middle East vendor than from a UK one, despite being…
Gene’s latest “AI video has arrived” discovery: full 15-minute, laugh-track sitcom episodes, entirely AI-generated. Comrades is a Friends parody where the roommates are Mao, Stalin, Che Guevara,…
Gene’s real-world carrier endorsement: Mint Mobile for $240 a year ($20 a month) and says he uses 17GB data a month. For only $16 a month, you…
Gene ran the real numbers on ditching cloud AI for your own hardware. A maxed-out Mac Studio (M5 Ultra, 256GB RAM, 8TB SSD) runs about $14,000. The…
Gene’s birthday dinner find at French Lick Resort: a Sunday-only sunset dinner at the Pete Dye Course clubhouse, held inside the historic Taggart mansion (former Indiana governor’s…
Gene’s tea setup: a Zojirushi electric water boiler/warmer — basically a thermos that plugs into the wall, boils water, holds it at the exact temperature your tea…