Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while
preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Every clip below was chosen by a producer. Credits are named where the producer is known; ClipGenie does not record who made a clip, so ~30 are uncreditable.
01 0:00:00 ยท Chris Wilson - JCD jingle botg (1:03) โ Chris Wilson
๐๏ธ Producer: Chris Wilson
02 0:01:04 ยท S.L. Carson - Gasification - I always knew you would go out like that (1:17) โ S.L. Carson
๐๏ธ Producer: S.L. Carson
03 0:02:22 ยท Animated No Agenda - 16,000 Lies Fact Check FALSE! (3:25) โ Animated No Agenda (YouTube channel)
๐๏ธ Producer: Animated No Agenda โ youtube.com/@AnimatedNoAgenda
๐บ Source: Animated No Agenda (YouTube)
04 0:05:49 ยท 157 totd (1:26)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
05 0:07:16 ยท Reed Cornelius - Game Set Match - Lizard People Win (0:02) โ Reed Cornelius
๐๏ธ Producer: Reed Cornelius
06 0:07:20 ยท Animated No Agenda - 2000 Ex-DOJ Malarkey (2:39) โ Animated No Agenda (YouTube channel)
๐๏ธ Producer: Animated No Agenda โ youtube.com/@AnimatedNoAgenda
๐บ Source: Animated No Agenda (YouTube)
07 0:10:00 ยท Chris Hollman - Screen Recording 2026-07-23 at 7.36.41 AM (0:13) โ Chris Hollman
๐๏ธ Producer: Chris Hollman
08 0:10:15 ยท JCD Vasectomies As 1920s Youth Serum - NA-1201 (2:11) โ Allison O
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ John claims he can look at a man's face and tell whether he has had a vasectomy. Adam stops him dead and runs through the absurd list of things John has already claimed expertise in - oil companies, master chef, wine connoisseur, hand-delivering PC Magazine - before letting him continue. John then produces the actual source: a 1920s health book in which vasectomies were sold as a rejuvenation treatment rather than birth control, complete with before-and-after photographs.
09 0:12:27 ยท John J - JCD zephyr end of show mix (1:02) โ John J
๐๏ธ Producer: John J
10 0:13:30 ยท 200 totd (0:35)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
๐บ Source: NA-200 โ The Deuce! ยท 0:28:05 - 0:28:41
22 0:35:59 ยท John J - wine talk -End of show mix (1:40) โ John J
๐๏ธ Producer: John J
23 0:37:40 ยท UpBEATs Music Podcast - Toe Tapper (0:09) โ UpBEATs Music Podcast
๐๏ธ Producer: UpBEATs Music Podcast
24 0:37:50 ยท Animated No Agenda - Animated No Agenda (Throwback) - R-E-S-P-I-C-T (1:31) โ Animated No Agenda (YouTube channel)
๐๏ธ Producer: Animated No Agenda โ youtube.com/@AnimatedNoAgenda
๐บ Source: Animated No Agenda (YouTube)
25 0:39:22 ยท JCD British Tea Trade And The Boston Tea Party - NA-1201 (1:02) โ Allison O
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ Adam tags John's vinegar digression as another culinary tip, and John pivots to why British supermarket tea is so good: the colonial-era supply contracts were locked down in the 1800s and never really renegotiated. Adam connects it to the approaching anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. John's answer reframes the whole event as a forced-distribution scheme rather than a tax protest.
26 0:40:26 ยท Geoff Smith - John's In The Morning (1:43) โ Geoff Smith
๐๏ธ Producer: Geoff Smith
27 0:42:10 ยท 496 totd (2:03)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
47 1:32:47 ยท JCD Shanty Towns And Urban Homelessness - NA-1201 (4:37) โ Allison O
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ John argues that liberal cities are going to have to bite the bullet and let shanty towns exist, the way they do in South America. Adam pushes back immediately and says he does not like the idea; John agrees nobody does, but calls it the most realistic option available. The pair then build out what such a place would actually look like, trading details until it becomes a joint riff.
48 1:37:25 ยท I think JCD and I were on the same flight (1:42)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
56 1:55:02 ยท Michaelanthony - EOSM - John Has No Control Over the Bass - Sir Michaelanthony (0:41) โ Michaelanthony
๐๏ธ Producer: Michaelanthony
57 1:55:45 ยท JCD Thrown Out Of A Meeting By Marvin Minsky - NA-1201 (2:36) โ Allison O
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ John spots Marvin Minsky's name in a document being discussed and mentions, almost in passing, that Minsky once personally threw him out of a meeting. Adam stops everything and asks him to explain who Minsky is and then tell the story. John describes touring the MIT Media Lab with Hearst executives on a no-NDA visit, collecting material he later used in columns, until the final meeting where Minsky recognised him and asked what he was doing there.
58 1:58:22 ยท Frogs, Atrazine, and the Insect Diet Connection (1:26)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
๐บ Source: NA-1572 โ Chop Shop ยท 1:53:48 - 1:55:19
59 1:59:49 ยท 1581 totd (1:53)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
69 2:15:46 ยท Animated No Agenda - Do NOT Bring Up the Talking Points! (4:27) โ Animated No Agenda (YouTube channel)
๐๏ธ Producer: Animated No Agenda โ youtube.com/@AnimatedNoAgenda
๐บ Source: Animated No Agenda (YouTube)
70 2:20:14 ยท Johnson Pivot, Whats That In Your Mouth - NA-1656 (0:33) โ Dan Gehring
๐๏ธ Producer: Dan Gehring
๐บ Source: NA-1656 "Johnson Pivot" (2024-05-02)
๐ Adam announces he has rethought his position on Mike Johnson, and John asks what the original position even was. Adam lays out his old theory โ that someone from the CIA showed Johnson a compromising photograph โ and John immediately supplies the unprintable punchline about what is in the picture. Adam plays scandalised, offers "succotash" as an innocent alternative, and the bit resolves when the pair land on the phrase "Johnson pivot" โ which became the title of the episode.
71 2:20:48 ยท 1665 totd-2 (3:46)
๐๏ธ Producer: not attributed โ ClipGenie does not record the clipper
๐บ Source: NA-1665 โ Flag Gate ยท 3:38:01 - 3:41:58
72 2:24:34 ยท John Kumar - JCD Donate jingle - (NA-1440-2022-04-07-Final) (1:22) โ John Kumar
๐๏ธ Producer: John Kumar
73 2:25:58 ยท JCD The Etymology Of Nerd And Dr Seuss - NA-1201 (1:55) โ Allison O
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ Annoyed by the word nerd, John set out in a 90s PC Magazine column to find its origin, and found nothing that made sense to him. His research traced it to a 1950s Dr Seuss book, with no usage findable anywhere before it. The kicker arrives years later at a Universal Studios exhibit for that very book, where the one creature that gave the language a word was missing from the display.
74 2:27:54 ยท Daniel Mackey - na-55-clip-theres a lot of gayness to us (1:29) โ Daniel Mackey
๐๏ธ Producer: Daniel Mackey
75 2:29:25 ยท Animated No Agenda - Defining Sexual Harassment Remastered (2:22) โ Animated No Agenda (YouTube channel)
๐๏ธ Producer: Animated No Agenda โ youtube.com/@AnimatedNoAgenda
๐๏ธ Producer: Allison O โ picked the moment; cut by Sam
๐บ Source: NA-1201 โ John's Story Time (2019-12-22)
๐ John prefaces the story by calling it a legend, then describes early-1980s Microsoft in Bellevue, before the Redmond campus, as a place where coders lived at their desks overnight. He describes an arrangement the company allegedly kept on account for those coders, attributing it to the author of a Bill Gates book and to what the writer left out. Adam caps it by comparing the perk to Google's free lunch.
79 2:38:08 ยท Chris Wilson - JCD jingle if (2:38) โ Chris Wilson