On No Agenda 1912, Adam Curry has just announced that he will be quitting the show after the episode on 29 October and thus completing 19 years of the podcast. After the death of John C. Dvorak, this spells the end of No Agenda, at least for me. Adam has hinted that the show might continue in some way, with other hosts, but that is definitely not for me.

Adam explained on the episode that he really hadn’t been feeling No Agenda for a while now, since he became religious and actively practicing the Christian faith, and that he simply hadn’t managed to bring that up to John before his heart attack. I think there is definitely some truth to that and everyone who was a regular listener to the show probably detected some of this change in Adam. He says he now wants to concentrate on his “kingdom work”, which I guess means religious evangelising, and that this is why he’s quitting the show. But I do feel a big pat of that decision might also be that the listenership numbers have obviously been in a steep decline ever since John died.

No Agenda just didn’t work without John C. Dvorak’s singular brand of irreverant criticism and acerbic wit and I think many listeners worked this out and stopped listening. I certainly only tuned into the show a few times, and only for short parts of episodes, since John’s passing. Of course, for me personally, it also didn’t help that Adam kept leaning into his newfound Christian faith bullshit and his pro-AI stance. I already vehemently disagreed with him on his very pro-Trump attitude, but this just made it so that I couldn’t logically follow most of his reasoning anymore. And since there was no John there to vehemently push back on some of this stuff and bring another perspective, No Agenda died for me with John. And I guess now it’s finally officially been declared dead.

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