Cybertruck + Home Solar — Dana’s Basically-Free Driving Setup
Dana Brunetti talked up how his Cybertruck plus his ranch’s home solar setup — 38 kilowatts of panels and six Powerwalls — makes driving into town essentially…
October 1, 2026
John C. Dvorak’s Office, Untouched: The No Agenda 5K Reveal
October 4, 2026
Mint Mobile — Mobile Plans for Cheap
October 4, 2026
What It Actually Costs to Run AI Locally — Mac Studio vs. Nvidia DGX Spark
October 4, 2026
The Pete Dye Course Sunset Dinner at French Lick Resort
October 4, 2026
A Zojirushi-Style Hot Water Dispenser for Proper Tea
October 2, 2026
Chambord + Champagne — Darren’s Fix for Not Being a Champagne Guy
October 2, 2026
Muse, Part 3 — Trip Planning, Recipe Tweaks, and Outsmarting Amazon’s Own Pricing
October 2, 2026
The West Wing — Adam’s Rewatch Recommendation
October 2, 2026
AI Pricing Engines Are Already Setting Your Price — McDonald’s, Chipotle, and the Lyft/Uber Precedent
October 1, 2026
John C. Dvorak’s Office, Untouched: The No Agenda 5K Reveal
October 4, 2026
Mint Mobile — Mobile Plans for Cheap
October 4, 2026
What It Actually Costs to Run AI Locally — Mac Studio vs. Nvidia DGX Spark
October 4, 2026
The Pete Dye Course Sunset Dinner at French Lick Resort
October 4, 2026
A Zojirushi-Style Hot Water Dispenser for Proper Tea
October 2, 2026
Chambord + Champagne — Darren’s Fix for Not Being a Champagne Guy
October 2, 2026
Muse, Part 3 — Trip Planning, Recipe Tweaks, and Outsmarting Amazon’s Own Pricing
October 2, 2026
The West Wing — Adam’s Rewatch Recommendation
October 2, 2026
AI Pricing Engines Are Already Setting Your Price — McDonald’s, Chipotle, and the Lyft/Uber Precedent
Dana Brunetti talked up how his Cybertruck plus his ranch’s home solar setup — 38 kilowatts of panels and six Powerwalls — makes driving into town essentially…
Dana and Adam dug into a CNBC segment about Odysseus: The Fall, a two-and-a-half-hour, fully AI-generated retelling of the Odyssey from Fountain 0’s Ash Koosha and Tom…
Adam gave Dana Brunetti an enthusiastic pitch for Ox Ranch — the real-deal Texas experience where you can drive a WWII tank, shoot it, and fire full-auto…
Dana’s second on-air “tip of the day” this episode is a genuinely handy iPhone trick: when you need to get your text cursor back into the middle…
During the AI-filmmaking discussion, Adam brought up a book he read as a kid that he’s convinced would make a great movie: Enid Blyton’s The Land of…
Dana’s own on-air “tip of the day” bit this episode, and it’s a genuinely good one: never answer bank/account security questions honestly. “When you have to do…
A smaller, very practical AI use case: Gene had Grok add a separate guest network for his IoT devices. He pointed it at the router’s admin page,…
Darren’s recommendation was blunt: “Everybody that runs a Mac should have Lulu or Little Snitch.” Both sit quietly in the background and flag the moment any app…
When Adam asked guest co-host Jason Calacanis if he still did This Week in Startups, he lit up: “No, no, I still do. It’s three days a…
An unprompted, genuine recommendation from Adam during the value-for-value shout-outs, on the same episode Jason Calacanis guest-hosted: “I need to tell everyone about a great value-for-value podcast,…
Gene’s genuine, mixed take after an Arby’s run: the new “meat cubes” (half-ounce cubes of meat over potatoes or mac and cheese, about a buck a cube)…
A genuine shout-out from Darren for Dave’s Garage, a YouTube channel run by a former Microsoft engineer credited with inventing Task Manager. Darren watches a couple videos…
Adam name-checked Tom Luongo’s Gold Goats and Guns again this episode: “Luongo understands this stuff like nobody else does. I’ll have to listen to his latest analysis.”…
Rob Dew mentioned he was on Helium Mobile paying $15/month — Adam called it “a great mobile network” — but Helium got acquired by Andrew Yang’s Noble…
Adam’s been on health sharing instead of traditional insurance for years — currently Christian Health Ministries, previously Samaritan Ministries. Tina is on CrowdHealth and likes it a…
In the donation segment, Adam thanked producer Small Batch Steve (smallbatchsteve.com) for sending a batch of his seasoning. Adam and Tina tried it on taco meat the…
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…
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…
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…
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…