Tip of the Day Archive
26 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Bissell Little Green Multi-purpose Portable Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner

John’s got another winning cleaning product for this Tip of the Day. It’s especially great if you have dogs! It’s a Bissell product called the Bissell Little Green Multi-purpose Portable Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner. It has a lot of suction and John’s wife, Mimi, swears by it! Adam: It really sucks? John: It really sucks!
23 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Crow 86 Whiskey Is an Outstanding Value

John Dvorak has a cheap alcohol tip! Crow 86 Whiskey or even better, Crow 86 Reserve. For the price, it’s an Outstanding Value! John also has a tasting tip from the professionals, unlike wine, where you swirl and slurp with air, with spirits, John says, don’t swirl! What happens if you do, it brings up
20 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Plan Euroropean Train Travel with Bahn.de

John Dvorak has a terrific travel tip for those who like to explore Europe by train, it’s the Bahn.de website. He explains that it’s hard to figure out how to navigate the different rail systems which connect the different countries and regions. You just enter your starting and ending destinations into Bahn.de, and it plans
17 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: The Manchurian Candidate

John Dvorak’s latest Tip of the Day is a longtime No Agenda Movie Pick, The Manchurian Candidate. Heck, we even use a still from this movie on our NoAgendaFun.com banner! Get your own copy of The Manchurian Candidate on Amazon. John Dvorak: So I’m not going to do this too often, but I’m going to do
13 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Convert Anything with Convert-Me.com

Hectares to Acres? Furlongs to Miles? John C. Dvorak gets the answer by pointing his Firefox browser to Convert-Me.com. Adam thinks the website looks like it’s from the 80s but it’s very useful! Checkout Convert-Me.com. John Dvorak: I have a rotation of what I do. And this is a website that is incredibly useful for
09 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Free Streaming From Tubi

“OK, this is a good one!” exclaimed John Dvorak. He’s talking about the streaming service Tubi, which has over 300 streaming channels. Dvorak points out it has many local broadcasters, so you can watch their news if you live in a different city. John admits, they do play a lot of repurposed, junk, movies –
06 Oct 2025
Tip: Classical Music Repels Vermin From Your House

Not an official Tip of the Day, but John Dvorak mentioned that he has classical music playing at his house all the time. Not only does it stimulate your mind, but according to his beliefs, it repels vermin like bugs and rodents from nesting in your house. He posits that the low bass notes make
05 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Robert Mondavi Private Selection Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon

Here’s a screwball wine that came out of a bunch of winery purchases Robert Mondavi made before he died. Mondavi was purchasing other California wineries for tax purposes, but one of the wines produced from these wineries is Robert Mondavi Private Selection – Bourbon Barrel Aged Cabernet Sauvignon, with a black label. Adam says it’s
04 Oct 2025
Tip of the Day: Hard Hat Riot on PBS

John Dvorak really digs the new episode of American Experience on PBS titled, Hard Hat Riot. “It’s one of the best histories I’ve seen. I know part of it, I was there, pretty much—but I’m watching this going, this is all news to me. It’s fascinating!” From PBS.com: On May 8, 1970, construction workers in
29 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: Cheap Chinese Fitness Watch

Cheap Chinese sensors glued together–it’s the Cheap Chinese Fitness Watch! John: Mimi turned me on to this, so I got one of these. They’re 25 bucks, and you look it up, there’s a bunch of different ones, but you want the ones that are 25 bucks. They got the same crappy little sensors on the
28 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

John Dvorak thinks that Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West is one of the greatest book ever written–that people have never read! John added that Decline of the West was written in 1918. But it’s very readable as it’s written in a modern style. John: Okay, so this is a screwball tip that came
22 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: Free Exploding Moscato d’Asti

John’s got another Costco (well, sort of) Wine Tip! Apparently, Costco has put out a recall of its Moscato d’Asti sparkling wine because of the potential for it to explode all over the consumer. John describes Moscato d’Asti as a sweet, light sparkling wine. A terrific Summer sipper – great for the upcoming Indian Summer.
22 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: Finviz.com Financial Dashboard

John’s got a website he likes that puts all the stocks, commodities in one big dashboard called Finviz.com. It even has tipoffs of insider trading! John adds if you dig into the site, you can learn so much more. Adam is shocked it’s free because there’s so much info and feels it beats Yahoo Finance.
15 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: ASI 502 Silicone Sealant RTV
John’s big tip is one he’s mentioned before, ASI 502 Silicone Sealant RTV . It makes an amazing water tight seal and RTV means it vulcanizes at room temperature. John mentioned that his partner, Mimi, has used it successfully to repair an expensive Blendtec blender so it wouldn’t leak, and they generate a lot of
11 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: Ginjo Sake in Blue Bottles

Dvorak started with a little lecture on Sake. Ginjo Sake is your baseline; it means it’s at least 100% rice wine and not distilled from other stuff. One observation Dvorak has made over the last thirty years is that when he buys sake from Costco or the local fish market, if it’s in a blue
07 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: BizToc.com Business News Aggregator

BizToc is a killer site, exclaims John Dvorak. Adam thinks the business news aggregator looks like a show prep page for No Agenda Show, also a scraping operation. Dvorak thinks it’s also borderline illegal, but it’s good for your morning prep that you read over a cup of coffee before you head into the office.
04 Sep 2025
Tip of the Day: Max Flat-Clinch Stapler, Staples 30 Sheets!

John thinks this amazing Max Flat-Clinch Stapler is an outstanding product! You can easily staple up to 30 pages with this binding juggernaut. Get one on Amazon. [No Agenda #1796]
31 Aug 2025
Tip of the Day: Black Garlic

John Dvorak warns, “This is another screwball tip!” Since it’s black garlic, we agree! Despite being initially irked about it, Dvorak reports that black garlic has a unique taste, more akin to chocolate. It was invented in 2004 in Korea, but it’s from a 4000 year old recipe that some guy discovered to ferment garlic
28 Aug 2025
Tip of the Day: Safe Sugar Substitute Allulose

At first John Dvorak described this a screwball product, but Allulose appears to be a safe sugar substitute that doesn’t affect glucose levels. Dvorak swears it tastes exactly like sugar. Dvorak researched this product and described Allulose as a rare sugar that can be found in raisins and figs. At NoAgendaFun.com we eat high-protein, low-carb
25 Aug 2025
Tip of the Day: Pumpkin Seed Oil

On a visit to Slovenia, John Dvorak discovered the magic of Pumpkin Seed Oil. It was usually available at the salad bar and is delicious over fresh sliced tomatoes. John shared a tasty recipe of mixing the Pumpkin Seed Oil with a little balsamic vinegar, then you drizzle it over ripe tomatoes. Don’t get the
