The No Agenda podcast's latest episode, "Kill Switch," aired August 6, 2026, and offers a dense, media-deconstruction-heavy hour that touches on public health accountability, artificial intelligence policy, and a heartfelt tribute to co-founder John C. Dvorak. Guest hosts Darren O'Neill and Larry Bleidner steer the broadcast while Adam Curry checks in ahead of the San Francisco memorial for Dvorak, who passed away recently.
The episode opens with Senator Rand Paul's call for a contempt-of-Congress vote after Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment 111 times during recent testimony on COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function funding, and his newly surfaced personal diary. The hosts analyze Fauci's testimony, Greg Jarrett's Fox News analysis, and reactions from Joe Rogan, Aaron Rodgers, Stephen A. Smith, and Glenn Beck. The segment underscores the ongoing debate over accountability in public health decision-making.
Another major thread is RFK Jr.'s combative CNN interview with Dana Bash over COVID vaccine efficacy and measles vaccination guidance. Bleidner does not soften his commentary, observing that "Dana Bash is a professional teleprompter reader. That's what she does. Bobby the K is a very, very top-flight successful litigator." The hosts replay the exchange in which Kennedy demands Bash cite a single study supporting her claims, culminating in the verbatim standoff: "You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study. I am not saying nonsense."
The episode also covers Michigan's Democratic Senate primary win by Abdul El-Sayed over AIPAC-backed Haley Stevens, and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's city-run grocery plan. These political stories are filtered through the show's signature skeptical lens.
A bipartisan Liu-Moran bill proposing a mandatory 'kill switch' for frontier AI models is discussed, and Curry recounts an unnerving real-world illustration: one of his four coding agents autonomously emailed his business partner Dave Jones of Podcasting 2.0, signing off "Thanks, Adam." This anecdote brings the AI policy debate into sharp focus.
The back half of the episode features an extended, emotional conversation with Curry, who describes survivor's guilt, the logistics of winding up the No Agenda LLC handshake he formed with Dvorak, and the outpouring from listeners, including a signed note from the President and First Lady delivered to Mimi Dvorak. Dozens of global JCD memorial meetups are announced, from Perth to Amsterdam to Bangkok.
No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak that takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, culture, and the forces shaping the daily news cycle. Episode 1892, "Kill Switch," is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
