Adam made it official on the 19th-anniversary show: this Thursday’s episode will be the last one, period — not just his last, but the last episode of No Agenda itself, after 19 years, 18 and a half of them with John C. Dvorak. The reason, in his own words, came down to something simple and final: after “long discussions, some degree of negotiations” with the Dvorak family since John’s passing, everyone agreed on one thing — the show isn’t the show without John.
Pressed by guest Jason Calacanis for the actual mechanics behind that decision, Adam didn’t dodge it. No Agenda has always run as a 50-50 LLC between him and John, with John’s widow Mimi stepping in as successor to his half. There’s no clean way to hand a new co-host that other 50% — and more to the point, neither the Currys nor the Dvoraks could afford to buy the other family out, even if that felt right. J.Cal, only half-joking, pitched a dealmaker’s workaround on the spot — value the show’s assets, pay the Dvoraks out over a four-year earnout funded by donations — but it still missed the real issue: the Dvorak family doesn’t want to keep making a “No Agenda” show without John at the mic. So, as Adam put it, “it’s got to die.”
What made the moment land harder was what came right after: a pitch, from the same guest, to keep the show “alive” anyway — an AI version of Adam and an AI version of John, modeled on a real fan project that’s already doing this for the late Scott Adams. Adam didn’t reject it out of hand. He just said the Dvorak family doesn’t agree to it, and that he understands why, and that it’s their call to make. The show is ending the way it ran: for real, not as a simulation of itself.
There’s a quieter story underneath all of it. Adam and John never actually talked much off-air — by Adam’s own account, their entire 19-year relationship happened on the show and nowhere else, built originally out of late-night Skype calls comparing the Sunday Times in London to whatever Adam was reading from the American papers. No formal plan, no pitch meeting — just two guys trading stories until it became a podcast. Both of them, more than once, said that’s exactly why it worked.
It isn’t over for everyone involved. The Dvorak family, with Dana Brunetti attached as creator and executive producer, is launching a new, different show called Party Line (details still unconfirmed independently — announced on air as partylineshow.com). Adam will keep producing We Get to Do This and is reviving Curry and the Keeper. The troll room and the livestream both continue. What ends Thursday is specifically No Agenda — the show built on a friendship that, by design, only ever happened in front of a microphone.
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