No Agenda Fun

During NA 953, John Dvorak disclosed the details of the big meetup at Sacramento’s California State Railroad Museum. Meetup at the train museum on Saturday, August 12th. John will be taking the California Zephyr at 9:10am from  Emeryville stations and will arrive around 11:00 am. Then there’s space for 20 people to ride in a

During a discussion on Net Neutrality, Adam admitted that he used a VPN to circumvent the BBC’s licensing scheme so he could watch Panorama’s SSRI special. [NA 950 1:56]

****UPDATE*** Date of meetup changed to Saturday, August 12. More details to follow when Dvorak posts them. **************** Trains Good, Planes Bad… For many years, John C. Dvorak has been threatening to host a meetup at Sacramento’s California State Railroad Museum. This has gone unfulfilled for song long (like his vinegar book idea) that we

HyperNormalisation is the latest documentary from the brilliant Adam Curtis. Many of his past films have been mentioned in No Agenda. Now, the entire 2:15 length documentary is on YouTube. In HyperNormalisation, Curtis explains the connections that influenced the situations Lybia and Syria as well as filling in a lot of holes in the story.

Adam highly recommends the new Netflix documentary, Get Me Roger Stone. Dvorak has heard lots of buzz about it too and assumes it’s dynamite. Adam compared it to Adam Curtis’ Hypernormalizaiton. According to the Book of Knowledge (Wikipedia) Roger Jason Stone Jr. (born August 27, 1952) is an American political consultant,[2] lobbyist, and strategist, noted for

Dvorak is trying to remember the name of a chain of chicken restaurants in Saudi Arabia. Supposedly, even critics of the Kingdom rave about this chicken. Jokingly, Adam asked if it was called Hermanos Pollos in reference to the infamous chicken joint in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. We looked around and discovered Al Baik is

While discussing geo-engineering schemes, Dvorak brought up Snowpiercer, a fantastic movie. He further described it as a  dynamite sci-fi movie about a train that has to keep moving to keep the world from freezing over. Get it at Amazon. [NA 916 :22]

Time for another Dvorak Food & Travel Tip! This time in Spain: You want to go the eat the food in Bilbao, they have some of the greatest restaurants in the world – in that area, San Sebastián to be honest about it; then you leave there and go down to Rioja which is a

John Dvorak recommends checking out the crazy Korean energy drink available at Hankook market in Menlo Park (or Redwood City) in the San Francisco Bay Peninsula. FACT CHECK!  We discovered Hankook is really 20 miles down the road in Sunnyvale. According to Dvorak, these Korean energy drinks are not like the ones we have domestically, loaded with taurine,

While discussing the censorship of the new version of Beauty and the Beast, Dvorak brought up The Producers with Mel Brooks. and wonders why it wasn’t banned since it contains of the funniest anti-gay stuff in it. [9:12 2:42]