• Deutschland 83 – Over the Wall and Under the Gun

    Deutschland 83

    Associate Executive Producer, Julianna Lee has a show tip, Deutschland 83 (86 & 89, too). By coincedence (I think, not!) I picked up Deutswchalnd 83 on DVD from my local library a week ago. It looks like an interesting cold war iron curtain drama about young East German spy-kids.

    [No Agenda 1845 2:05]

  • ‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

    Netflix: Breakdown 1975

    Adam and Tina are thoroughly enjoying Netflix’s documentary, ‘Breakdown 1975′.

    Adam: And Tina and I were watching yesterday; we just came across it on Netflix, Breakdown 1975, which is…

    John: Ooh, is it good?

    Adam: Yeah, it’s very good.

    John: Something I can watch?

    Adam: Yes.

    John: I’ve been watching Australian murder mysteries; it’s how bad it’s gotten.

    So Breakdown 1975 is, it’s really, it’s a fractal is what it is. You’ll love it because they look at the year 1975 from a popular culture point of view. So movies and television primarily. And when you look at that time, it was so similar. We had scandals, we had Watergate, New York was a shithole, rats were everywhere. This is where movies come out like Taxi Driver, you know, Death Wish, Charles Bronson.

    John: Blackboard Jungle.

    Adam: Black, yeah, all of this stuff. And it’s very analogous to now, with the exception that it’s probably not quite as bad today as it was then. And what came out of this…

    Yet, yeah. Well, and so maybe we’re a little bit late because by 1976, things started to change. And before you knew it, we had yuppies and we had, you know, Jane Fonda was doing workout videos, but it’s worth watching. It’s narrated by Jodie Foster, who was in Taxi Driver as I think a 13-year-old. And, oh, and they pinpointed it. This was interesting. They pinpointed, so they had Jaws. Jaws was a big change where they shifted from the bad guy winning to the good guy winning and blowing up the shark. And then as they claim in this, in this documentary kind of…

    John: Yes, there was a period of time in the movies, especially where the anti-hero. Yes. Was the key. Was the winner. Epitomized by Steve McQueen in a number of films.

    Watch Breakdown 1975 on Netflix.

    [No Agenda #1845 00:33]

  • Tip of the Day: Free File Converter – p2r3 Converts Every Format

    p2r3 file converter

    This tip came I from a No Agenda Show producer and it’s an online file converter. It’s a GitHub project called p2r3 and it’s still in active development. You can easily convert any file format. If you don’t see a format, make a suggestion to the developer.

    Check it out p2r3 on GitHub here.

    [No Agenda #1845]

  • Tip of the Day: Two Top Gins

    No. TEN Gin

    John is watching the millennials and the older millennials are… they’re gravitating toward gin as like an after-dinner drink. He thinks they’re gonna end up drinking martinis. So people need to know what a good gin is. 

    In the year 2000 Dvorak was a judge at the International Spirits and Wine Tasting Competition. There were two gins vying for best gin–one was Tanqueray No Ten (his go to gin) and from Anchor (famous SF beer brewer) spirits division, Junípero.

    Dvorak reports that the Tanquery No Ten gin ‘is a real killer’ and Junípero which is a very interesting product, because it is just concentrated juniper. It’s incredibly intense, and people should check it out. “You wanna blow away somebody with a martini using this stuff, you got something going on”. 

    [No Agenda #1843]

  • Tip of the Day: LED Taper Candles with Remote

    Flameless LED Taper Candles

    This really turned into two tips. The Flameless LED Taper Candles and using their remote to turn off these candles if you find them in a restaurant. John Dvorak has discovered that regular wax candles can get expensive and for the same price, you can get these LED candles, and they don’t need to be replaced. They look cool on the dinner table and you can control them with the handy remote control.

    Get the Flameless LED Taper Candles with Remote on Amazon.

    [No Agenda #1842]

  • Tip of the Day: PeaceAndQuiet.io

    PeaceAndQuiet.io is a fabulous website-based map that shows you where you can find Peace & Quiet. Enter a zip, and it shows you where to avoid liquor stores, Section 8 housing, Boost Mobile Stores, Methadone Clinics, and gunshots. Adam entered Berkeley (near John Dvorak’s location) and then Oakland, and saw it was where he didn’t want to go for peace and quiet.

    This is a fun little website to find out where you probably do or don’t want to go–PeaceAndQuiet.io

  • Deutschland 83 – Over the Wall and Under the Gun

    Deutschland 83 – Over the Wall and Under the Gun

    Associate Executive Producer, Julianna Lee has a show tip, Deutschland 83 (86 & 89, too). By coincedence (I think, not!) I picked up Deutswchalnd 83 on DVD from my local library a week ago. It looks like an interesting cold war iron curtain drama about young East German spy-kids. [No Agenda 1845 2:05]

  • ‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

    ‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

    Adam and Tina are thoroughly enjoying Netflix’s documentary, ‘Breakdown 1975′. Adam: And Tina and I were watching yesterday; we just came across it on Netflix, Breakdown 1975, which is… John: Ooh, is it good? Adam: Yeah, it’s very good. John: Something I can watch? Adam: Yes. John: I’ve been watching Australian murder mysteries; it’s how…

  • Tip of the Day: Free File Converter – p2r3 Converts Every Format

    Tip of the Day: Free File Converter – p2r3 Converts Every Format

    This tip came I from a No Agenda Show producer and it’s an online file converter. It’s a GitHub project called p2r3 and it’s still in active development. You can easily convert any file format. If you don’t see a format, make a suggestion to the developer. Check it out p2r3 on GitHub here. [No…

  • Deutschland 83 – Over the Wall and Under the Gun

    Deutschland 83 – Over the Wall and Under the Gun

    Associate Executive Producer, Julianna Lee has a show tip, Deutschland 83 (86 & 89, too). By coincedence (I think, not!) I picked up Deutswchalnd 83 on DVD from my local library a week ago. It looks like an interesting cold war iron curtain drama about young East German spy-kids. [No Agenda 1845 2:05]

  • ‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

    ‘Breakdown 1975’ on Netflix

    Adam and Tina are thoroughly enjoying Netflix’s documentary, ‘Breakdown 1975′. Adam: And Tina and I were watching yesterday; we just came across it on Netflix, Breakdown 1975, which is… John: Ooh, is it good? Adam: Yeah, it’s very good. John: Something I can watch? Adam: Yes. John: I’ve been watching Australian murder mysteries; it’s how…

  • Tip of the Day: Free File Converter – p2r3 Converts Every Format

    Tip of the Day: Free File Converter – p2r3 Converts Every Format

    This tip came I from a No Agenda Show producer and it’s an online file converter. It’s a GitHub project called p2r3 and it’s still in active development. You can easily convert any file format. If you don’t see a format, make a suggestion to the developer. Check it out p2r3 on GitHub here. [No…