About the archive
The No Agenda Archive is an independent, searchable record of the No Agenda Show — the twice-weekly media-deconstruction podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak since 2007.
Every episode is transcribed and then analysed to extract the things producers care about: donations and the peerage (with switcheroo routing, knightings, protectorate territories, first-time-donor flags, and shoutouts), recurring themes, predictions, jingles, the Tip of the Day, end-of-show mixes, artwork attribution, people mentioned, news clip sources, places in the news, buzzwords, notable quotes, book/movie/game references, ISOs, chapters, and greetings. New episodes are processed as they air; the back catalogue is filled in gradually. 38 of 1,891 episodes are archived so far.
How it works
- Transcription
- Deepgram nova-3 in the cloud — fast, and it separates the speakers (Adam vs. John) in the same pass. Biased with an editable NA-vocabulary keyterm boost (Dvorak, Gitmo Nation, peerage titles, Crackpot, Buzzkill, ITM, karma…) so host names + show jargon transcribe cleanly.
- Analysis
- Anthropic's Claude API (Opus 4.8) across 15 forced-tool extraction passes per episode — donations, themes, predictions, tips, mixes, jingles, people, sources, places, quotes, buzzwords, media references, chapters, ISOs, greetings.
- Artwork
- Original cover art resized to WebP and cached on Cloudflare R2 for fast loads on every page.
- Site
- Astro, statically built and served on Cloudflare Pages.
- Search
- Pagefind full-text index across every transcript, donor page, theme, jingle, person, and tip.
- Processing
- Runs on an always-on Mac. New episodes are picked up automatically as they air — usually live within a couple hours of release. Sponsored episodes jump the queue.
- Source
- Open archive — the database is the single source of truth, rebuilt fully on every change. No paywalls, no tracking pixels, no ads.
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