No Agenda
{{Short description|Political podcast}}
{{primary sources|date=November 2015}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox podcast
| title = No Agenda
| image = No Agenda cover placeholder.jpg
| caption = No Agenda album art
| host = Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak
| url = {{URL|https://www.noagendashow.net/}}
| updates = Sunday and Thursday
| num_episodes = 1,741 (as of {{dts|2025-02-23}})
| began = October 26, 2007
| genre = Comedy, Political Talk
| license = CC BY 3.0
}}
No Agenda is a podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak that is recorded twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.{{cite web |title=No Agenda: The Show |url=http://www.noagendashow.com/ |access-date=24 February 2019}} The show is primarily focused on mainstream media deconstruction.
The show has no advertisers and instead subsists entirely on donations. There are no guidelines for the amount and frequency of contributions; instead, these are left to the discretion of the listener, a model called "value for value" by the show's hosts. The show also relies on its listeners—dubbed "producers"—to provide artwork and audio clips.{{cite book|title=Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAYqDwAAQBAJ&dq=no+agenda+curry+dvorak&pg=PA147|pages=146–147| isbn=978-1-315-43875-7 | last1=O'Connell | first1=Michael | date=26 June 2017 | publisher=Taylor & Francis }}
In July 2016, the show won the Podcast Award for Best Podcast in the category "News & Politics."{{Cite web|url=http://www.podcastawards.com/ |title=PodCastAwards.com |last=LLC |first=One Technologies |website=www.podcastawards.com |access-date=2016-07-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527093834/http://www.podcastawards.com/ |archive-date=May 27, 2014 }} In September 2013, the show was nominated for Podcast Awards in two categories, "People's Choice" and "Politics / News".[http://www.podcastawards.com/ 2013 Winners and Nominees] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527093834/http://www.podcastawards.com/ |date=May 27, 2014 }}, Podcast Awards Talkers Magazine featured the podcast in their "Frontier Fifty", an alphabetically sorted list containing a "Selection of Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters".{{cite web|title=Frontier Fifty|date=6 September 2011 |url=http://www.talkers.com/frontier-fifty/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925125101/http://www.talkers.com/frontier-fifty/|archive-date=25 September 2011|publisher=Talkers Magazine|access-date=17 July 2018}}
In December 2009, the show announced they had reached 450,000 listeners.{{cite episode
| title = Audio: No Agenda 157 – The Democratic Industrial Complex
| url = https://www.noagendashow.net/listen/157
| series = No Agenda
| credits = Presenter: Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, Executive Producer: Steven Pelsmaekers
| network = Mevio
| location = San Francisco
| air-date = 2009-12-16
| minutes = 97:00
}} During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience in July 2021, Curry stated that No Agenda has 1–1.4 million listeners per episode.{{cite episode
| title = #1679 - Adam Curry
| url = https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Ze3PhFhZUeNMeDPmeHGjm?t=10010
| series = The Joe Rogan Experience
| network = Spotify
| location = Austin
| air-date = 2021-07-06
| minutes = 166:50
}}
A primer has been produced for newer listeners, both as an introduction and a discussion of the show.{{cite web
| title = Audio: No Agenda 200.6 – Understanding No Agenda
| url = http://noagendanation.com/archive/200.6
| date = 12 Jul 2012
| access-date = 27 Nov 2015
}}
History
No Agenda debuted in October 2007.{{cite web
| title = NA-001-2007-10-26 @SpokenWord.org
| url = http://www.spokenword.org/program/152092
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20110728045240/http://www.spokenword.org/program/152092
| url-status = usurped
| archive-date = July 28, 2011
| date = 26 Oct 2007
| access-date = 29 Nov 2009
| title = Audio: No Agenda 1
| url = http://noagendanation.com/archive/1
| date = 26 Oct 2007
| access-date = 27 Nov 2015
}} Its premise was that the co-founder (Curry) and then vice-president (Dvorak) of mevio (until Oct. 2012) would have an unfiltered dialogue. The impetus for starting the show, according to Curry, was a 4-minute phone call made to Dvorak saying that they "should do a show together." Little thought was given to what the show would be about, in fact only the name was agreed upon before the first show was recorded.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} The show discusses news, current events and conspiracy theories.
The podcast does not accept advertising and is supported by the listeners to prevent conflicts of interest. Through this direct listener-supported model, those that contribute amounts above a predetermined level are referred to as executive producers.
No Agenda was named to Talkers Magazine's Frontier Fifty list for 2011, a list of 'Outstanding Media Webcasters.'
The show received five out of five microphones in review published by Podcast Magazine.{{Cite magazine |last=Patzer |first=Tami |date=February 2020 |editor-last=Olsher |editor-first=Steve |title=Under the Radar: No Agenda |url=https://podcastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PodcastMagazine_February2020_FINAL.pdf#page=91 |url-status=live |magazine=Podcast Magazine |language=en-US |location=San Diego, CA |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=91 |issn=2690-4608 |oclc=1140254648 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221002155043/https://podcastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/PodcastMagazine_February2020_FINAL.pdf%23page=91 |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |access-date=October 1, 2022}}
No Agenda Social
No Agenda Social served as the flagship social media platform for the show until early 2024 when it was closed down.{{Cite web|title=Network - No Agenda|url=https://www.noagendashow.net/social|access-date=2024-03-22|website=www.noagendashow.net}} A goal of this platform was to avoid the censorship, restrictions, and rules found on many "Big Tech" social media platforms.{{Cite web|title=No Agenda Social|url=https://gitmolist.org/r/no-agenda-social/|access-date=2021-11-05|website=gitmolist.org}} It ran Mastodon software and was connected to a network of distributed social media platforms known as the Fediverse.{{cite web |title=Secret to Mastodon's Success... |url=https://www.business2community.com/social-media/secret-mastodons-success-mastering-hyperlocal-01818502 |website=Business2Community}}
See also
References
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External links
{{commons category|No Agenda}}
- {{Official website|http://www.noagendashow.net}}
- [http://www.noagendastream.com No Agenda Stream]
- {{Internet Archive|NoAgendaShow|Archive of episodes 1–700}}
- [http://www.noagendanation.com/archive "No Agenda" permanent backup archives]
- [https://www.playnoagenda.com/ A complete archive of "No Agenda" from episode 1 to present episode]
- [https://www.noagendaplayer.com No Agenda Player] – Annotated Web Player for the Show
- [http://callclooney.org No Agenda Summaries]
- [http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2009/04/podthoughts-by-colin-marshall-no-agenda.html Podthoughts by Colin Marshall: "No Agenda"]
- [https://search.nashownotes.com NA Shownote Search]
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