A Rememberance:

Blog Post 3: Remembering my favorite podcaster

A long time ago, there was a loud hiss, then a bang, then a hum, followed by a lot of beeping and clanging.

This was what most people knew the internet as when it was first invented. The way that people connected to the internet was slow, and loud, and annoying, and mainly for nerds.

A lot has changed since then, and whether the man was joking or serious, noted that each of the modern inventions that make the internet oh so more usable, were doomed to fail, or had something wrong with them, or that he just plain thought the idea was dumb or bad.

This part of his personality he decided to either share with his close circle, or take to his grave with him.

This man is John C. Dvorak.

He was a tech columnist for PC magazine a long time ago, but famous for his grouch.

He was one of the biggest and most famous podcasters in the world, and he brought light into my life and a perspective on the biggest crisis of my lifetime at the moment I needed it the most.

During covid, most people were hesitant to say anything to anyone about anything, and clung to their television sets awaiting their next instruction on how to live their lives. John didn’t. John was steadfast in his beliefs that this cannot be as bad as other diseases he had remembered, and frequently pointed out the hypocrisies and mismatches in public health messaging, so much so that many people credit him with saving their lives during that testing time in all of our lives.

To most people, John was a stable island of grouchy naysayer contrarianism that stayed consistently John until this week. Now, John is a legend of grouchyness and perfect sarcasm as well as intellectual humility when it served him best.

I never met John, but I could have. I regret that.

I think that most people wonder how they will get their favorite podcast again, not as if that was all he was good for, but because he is so irreplaceable.

Nobody can do what he did.

Some people look at some of the boxing greats and say there will never be another Muhammad Ali, but then someone else knocks someone else out. A fatalist view of a great sport.

Some people look at the written history served by The NoAgenda Show, and say, that is just another podcast, whatever. They are accurately dubbed Clip Historians for a reason.

They pioneered the Curation of Cultural Intelligence, and papers have been written about their scope and reach.

This was more than my favorite podcast, it was the world’s favorite podcast.

Good Luck Adam.