• 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 been sitting unused. Adam says he’s now running “all kinds of amazing stuff” on it at effectively zero ongoing cost. Later in the same episode, a donor’s note confirms it’s not just a toy: the show itself is now partially produced using the machine.

    Genuinely sold on Amazon — this is a real, current product (NVIDIA’s “DGX Spark”-class hardware, ASUS’s version of it). It comes in several SSD configurations (1TB/2TB/4TB) at different price points; the base 2TB configuration is linked here: ASUS Ascent GX10 on Amazon.

    [No Agenda #1903 1:20:36 (the gift); 2:49:11]

  • 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 David Fincher between camera setups on The Social Network, adapting a British series about Parliament for American television, and a $100 million, two-season order from Netflix that came together before star Kevin Spacey or Fincher even knew a deal was on the table.

    [No Agenda #1903 24:31]

    House of Cards
  • 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 by scanning through roughly 1,900 episodes of No Agenda transcripts to mine the anecdotes (the MTV Chronicles episode, #1902, was an early piece of that effort). He’s structuring the book in the mold of “The Kid Stays in the Picture” — Dana Brunetti’s favorite documentary, and by Dana’s own account the reason he became a producer in the first place. The idea: an audiobook-style narration from Adam himself, paired with archival photos and footage animated in a Ken Burns style, the same technique the Robert Evans documentary used.

    Dana is helping shepherd the project, and the two have some good-natured “creative differences” — Dana wants to dial back how heavily the book leans into Adam’s faith angle to reach a wider audience, while Adam’s aiming in part for “the Christ-curious.” They’ve even joked about eventually doing the whole adaptation in AI, though Adam insists on narrating it in his own voice rather than an AI clone.

    [No Agenda #1903 1:36:53–1:42:20 (memoir discussion); 1:38:36–1:39:25 (The Kid Stays in the Picture mention)]

    Adam Curry's Memoir
  • 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 easy it makes hooking file storage into that kind of workflow.

    He also walked through the setup behind it. Dana uses Grokbot, and rather than one bot doing everything, he builds task-specific bots for each job. He downloaded a bot called Eggbot from Grokbot’s marketplace — a bot that builds other bots — told it what he wanted, and had Eggbot build him a bot called “Clip.” He feeds Clip a link to wherever a video’s audio is (he can do this right from his phone by just sharing a link from Twitter/X into Grokbot), it pulls the audio and gives him a transcript; he tells it in plain language to “tighten it up, go from this word to that word,” and it hands back trimmed audio files as MP3s — the exact process he uses to cut the clips he plays on his own segments.

    [No Agenda #1903 2:33:15 (Dropbox tip); 2:29:12–2:31:35 (Grokbot/Eggbot workflow)]

    Dana Brunetti's AI Workflow
  • 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:

    • Uncle Frank & Beyond the Sea — Early producing credits from 2002, named in passing with no story attached.
    • The Sasquatch Gang — Dana’s first real feature — a small independent comedy made for about $2 million alongside the creators of Napoleon Dynamite.
    • Mini’s First Time — The film behind Dana’s public Twitter dispute with Alec Baldwin over a casting-age controversy.
    • 21 — Based on Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House,” about the real MIT card-counting students. Opened number one two weekends running.
    • Hackers Wanted — A documentary about hacker culture that shifted focus onto Adrian Lamo; Dana says it leaked online against his wishes and believes it indirectly led to Chelsea Manning’s arrest.
    • The Social Network — Dana’s biggest hit, greenlit after he pitched the concept to studio executives on a call while, by his own admission, completely drunk.
    • Captain Phillips — The Tom Hanks hijacking film; Dana cast Barkhad Abdi through an open call in Minnesota’s Somali community, landing him an Oscar nomination.
    • The Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy — All three films, which came together after a cold call while Dana was mid-shoot on Captain Phillips in London.
    • Fanboys — A Star Wars-fan comedy caught up in a public falling-out with Harvey Weinstein, who Dana says “pretty much butchered” it.
    • Gran Turismo — Dana’s most recent film, based on the racing game, mentioned only in passing.
    • Young Washington — A recent film with Ben Kingsley and Kelsey Grammer, streaming now.

    [No Agenda #1903 8:29–1:53:59]

    No Agenda Show with Adam Curry & Dana Brunetti
  • 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 right where his old Photoshop muscle memory left off — a straightforward, no-cost image editor for basic graphics work.

    gimp.org

    [Unrelenting #204 1:59:43]

  • Tip of the Day: ICON Tools From Harbor Freight Have a Lifetime Warranty

    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 on his ranch, he’s broken hole punches and chisels twice — both times he just walked the broken tool back to the counter and swapped it for a…

  • ASUS Ascent GX10 — The Machine Now Partly Running the No Agenda Show

    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 been sitting unused. Adam says he’s now running “all kinds of amazing stuff” on it at effectively zero ongoing cost. Later in the same episode, a donor’s note…

  • Dana Brunetti’s TV Work — House of Cards

    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 David Fincher between camera setups on The Social Network, adapting a British series about Parliament for American television, and a $100 million, two-season order from Netflix that came…

  • Adam Curry’s Memoir — In the Works

    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 by scanning through roughly 1,900 episodes of No Agenda transcripts to mine the anecdotes (the MTV Chronicles episode, #1902, was an early piece of that effort). He’s structuring…

  • Tip of the Day: ICON Tools From Harbor Freight Have a Lifetime Warranty

    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 on his ranch, he’s broken hole punches and chisels twice — both times he just walked the broken tool back to the counter and swapped it for a…

  • ASUS Ascent GX10 — The Machine Now Partly Running the No Agenda Show

    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 been sitting unused. Adam says he’s now running “all kinds of amazing stuff” on it at effectively zero ongoing cost. Later in the same episode, a donor’s note…

  • Dana Brunetti’s TV Work — House of Cards

    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 David Fincher between camera setups on The Social Network, adapting a British series about Parliament for American television, and a $100 million, two-season order from Netflix that came…

  • Adam Curry’s Memoir — In the Works

    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 by scanning through roughly 1,900 episodes of No Agenda transcripts to mine the anecdotes (the MTV Chronicles episode, #1902, was an early piece of that effort). He’s structuring…

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