In this month’s episode of Parallel Streams we listen to an episode of a wildly popular podcast called No Agenda, published under a Creative Commons licence.

The podcast is hosted as always by Adam Curry, and this episode features Rob Dew as co-host.

PARALLEL STREAMS

EPISODE 10 | OCTOBER 9 | 2026

 

PARTICIPANTS

Adam Curry | Rob Dew | Owen Kelly

 

COMMENTARY

Wikipedia says that “No Agenda is a podcast co-created by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak. Since its launch, the show has been recorded twice weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and is primarily focused on deconstructing and critiquing mainstream news media. Following Dvorak's death in July 2026, Curry announced that the podcast would continue, beginning with a memorial episode featuring stories and anecdotes from Dvorak's family and friends”.

The show has no advertisers and instead relies 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.

They have over 1,400,000 listeners per episode and - WARNING - the episodes can last up to three hours in length.

The episode we have chosen to rebroadcast is episode 1904 titled Junkie Communism and first broadcast on September 17, 2026. It lasts approximately two hours and forty five minutes.

REFERENCES

The No Agenda website https://noagendashow.net

The Tribute to John C Dvorak episode https://noagendashow.net/listen/1889

About Value for Value https://noagendashow.net/about/value4value

About the No Agenda community https://noagendashow.net/producers 

Adam Curry's microblog http://adam.curry.com/linkblog.html