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Take Your Magnesium at Night, Not the Morning, for Better Sleep
During a side conversation about blood-pressure medication timing, Darren mentioned he takes his magnesium supplement in the morning along with everything else. Gene’s advice: move it to nighttime instead, since magnesium is commonly used to help with sleep — taking it in the morning wastes that benefit.
No specific brand or form was named on air, so if you want to try it, a standard magnesium glycinate (one of the more commonly recommended forms for sleep) is a reasonable starting point — just not confirmed as the exact product either host uses.
Unconfirmed brand — generic search link: magnesium glycinate on Amazon.
[Unrelenting #208 1:35:56]
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Acetone: Matt Long’s Actual Tip of the Day — Cheap, Multi-Purpose Cleanup
Guest co-host Matt Long’s official, on-air “tip of the day” was refreshingly simple: acetone. He uses it to restore old whiteboards he pulls out of the dumpster — the kind that never quite wipe clean with a regular eraser — making them look new again. It also strips stubborn sticker residue (he mentioned an “I Voted” sticker that went through the wash and left an oval ghost on a shirt) without fading fabric or finish underneath.
His money-saving angle: fingernail polish remover is typically 70-80% acetone, watered down and perfumed, so a $6-7 small bottle of remover is a markup on something you can buy straight. A quart of pure acetone runs about $12, and you can even dilute a bit of it (roughly 20-30% with water) to top off a bottle of nail polish remover at home. Standard safety caveat applies: use it in a well-ventilated area, and don’t sniff it.
Not sold as a single branded product — it’s a basic solvent. You’ll find pure acetone at any hardware store or on Amazon: acetone on Amazon.
[No Agenda #1912 3:00:26]
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Adam’s Exit Strategy: Following His Heart After Nineteen Years
Adam made it official on this episode, telling guest co-host Matt Long plainly: “October 29th will be my last No Agenda show.” It’s an exit strategy that was never going to be about ratings or a business plan — it’s about following where his spirit has been leading him, and it closes out nineteen years plus one extra episode of a show that started as two guys arguing about media and became, for a lot of us, something closer to family.
Adam was candid about why. Over the past three and a half years his own faith journey reshaped how he sees the world, and he found it harder and harder to hold the show’s cynical, mocking format while that change was happening underneath him — something John, by his own account, helped keep in balance. Then came John’s passing, which Adam described as the end of an equal partnership he says he can never fully replace with anyone else. At 62, after watching too many people around him fall, he said he wants to finish this chapter strong, on his own terms, and move fully into what he calls his kingdom work — We Get to Do This, the Godcaster project helping churches become local radio stations, and a book he’s been writing about how he sees his life now.
Whatever comes next for No Agenda, nineteen-plus years of Value for Value — no advertisers, no platform standing between the show and us, the people who showed up for it week after week — is a genuinely rare thing to build and an even rarer thing to sustain. I know my life is going to change from listening to every show, and then posting on this site. From everyone here at NoAgendaFun.com: thank you, Adam, for all of it, and thank you for the years you and John gave this community together. Here’s to finishing strong.
[No Agenda #1912 0:04:24]
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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 restaurants are good. They have pot roast nachos. That’s their specialty.” “Ooh, I want that. Sounds so damn good.” Same bit turned up on Unrelenting #207 too — pot roast nachos, repeatedly singled out as the thing to order.
One heads-up if you’re planning a trip based on this: the original Ditka’s flagship, the Gold Coast location in downtown Chicago, has been permanently closed since 2020. The restaurant hasn’t disappeared, though — Ditka’s Oakbrook, in Oak Brook Terrace, is still open and taking reservations, pot roast nachos presumably included.
Book a table: Ditka’s Oakbrook on OpenTable.
[Planet Rage #238 10:44]
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The Art of Deception — Kevin Mitnick’s Classic Book on Social Engineering
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 buildings just by carrying a clipboard, and got employees to hand over their own logins by posing as IT) — one of the hosts gave a genuine personal recommendation for Mitnick’s book: “a very good book if you’re into that kind of thing, the psychology of how people can get you to believe things or just where you don’t ask questions.”
That’s The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security, Mitnick’s first book, written with William L. Simon. It’s become something of a classic in the security world — less about computers, more about how scammers and social engineers manipulate people into handing over access. Given how often “how a lot of these scams are working now” came up in the same breath, it holds up.
Several editions are in print, so here’s a search starting point rather than a single pinned listing: The Art of Deception on Amazon.
[Planet Rage #238 40:07]
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Pot Shards — Adam’s Uncle Donald Gregg’s CIA Memoir
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 — and before it could be published, he had to submit it to the CIA’s prepublication review board, which Adam calls “the pickle factory,” for sign-off. The agency made him cut material about his time in Japan before they’d let it go to print. Gregg had a genuinely significant real-world career in and around U.S. intelligence and foreign policy: he served as National Security Advisor to Vice President George H.W. Bush and later as U.S. Ambassador to South Korea.
A must for your No Agenda bookshelf!
[No Agenda #1911 1:35:11]
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Take Your Magnesium at Night, Not the Morning, for Better Sleep
During a side conversation about blood-pressure medication timing, Darren mentioned he takes his magnesium supplement in the morning along with everything else. Gene’s advice: move it to nighttime instead, since magnesium is commonly used to help with sleep — taking it in the morning wastes that benefit. No specific brand or form was named on…
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Acetone: Matt Long’s Actual Tip of the Day — Cheap, Multi-Purpose Cleanup
Guest co-host Matt Long’s official, on-air “tip of the day” was refreshingly simple: acetone. He uses it to restore old whiteboards he pulls out of the dumpster — the kind that never quite wipe clean with a regular eraser — making them look new again. It also strips stubborn sticker residue (he mentioned an “I…
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Adam’s Exit Strategy: Following His Heart After Nineteen Years
Adam made it official on this episode, telling guest co-host Matt Long plainly: “October 29th will be my last No Agenda show.” It’s an exit strategy that was never going to be about ratings or a business plan — it’s about following where his spirit has been leading him, and it closes out nineteen years…
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Take Your Magnesium at Night, Not the Morning, for Better Sleep
During a side conversation about blood-pressure medication timing, Darren mentioned he takes his magnesium supplement in the morning along with everything else. Gene’s advice: move it to nighttime instead, since magnesium is commonly used to help with sleep — taking it in the morning wastes that benefit. No specific brand or form was named on…
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Acetone: Matt Long’s Actual Tip of the Day — Cheap, Multi-Purpose Cleanup
Guest co-host Matt Long’s official, on-air “tip of the day” was refreshingly simple: acetone. He uses it to restore old whiteboards he pulls out of the dumpster — the kind that never quite wipe clean with a regular eraser — making them look new again. It also strips stubborn sticker residue (he mentioned an “I…
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Adam’s Exit Strategy: Following His Heart After Nineteen Years
Adam made it official on this episode, telling guest co-host Matt Long plainly: “October 29th will be my last No Agenda show.” It’s an exit strategy that was never going to be about ratings or a business plan — it’s about following where his spirit has been leading him, and it closes out nineteen years…