No Agenda Episode 1816 Introduction and Merchandise Updates
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 1816 from the Texas Hill Country and Northern Silicon Valley. They critique a poorly executed AI-generated sales pitch from an individual named Stone McGee regarding the No Agenda Rings website. The discussion moves to the sustainability of podcast merchandise, the upcoming production of a new challenge coin by artist Paul Couture, and the collectible nature of past No Agenda memorabilia.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· texas hill country· silicon valley· no agenda rings· challenge coins· stone mcgee
00:00 Oh my, Dad was right! Adam Curry. John C. Dvorak It's Thursday November 13th 2025 This is your award-winning Get More Nation Media Assassination Episode 1816 This is no agenda. We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley where there are no bikinis because it's raining out I am John C. Dvorak Who gave us these?
00:40 Somebody said I don't remember and then somebody and they look like this one of the few times They send them to both of us usually get stuff, and they look like a really bad sex toy It takes a lot of feet you have to figure out how to use it right it takes talent is what you're saying And what's the point by people have that we should probably take a picture of this put it on? The newsletter but it say. What's the point of the lid well If you close the lid it doesn't work. Right, but what's the point of it? Well if you look inside... Is to keep rats out going in or what is the point? I have wondered this myself and if you bring it up and if you look inside there's a very sensitive film
01:27 Inside and so I believe it is to protect that from rats You see that this there's a little film little rubbery thing yeah, no. I see what's in there It looks like a smiley face if you touch if you touch that then that thing has no I wouldn't be okay Crazy Good morning to you podcast enthusiasts we're glad that you're here I'm waiting for the penny to drop with you. Okay, well you set me up with a beautiful opening for...I am not sure what. Unless you're talking about these Kimmel clips? No, I'm talking about the great email we received from Stone McGee What was the Stone McGee email? Stone McGee said- oh, I have his email Hi Noah Gender Rings!
02:26 Oh, right. Okay I forgot about this email yes I got an email sent it to Adam I got this e-mail that was obviously done... These guys should be ashamed of themselves Especially Stone McGee Stone McGee in particular and yes I would hope to yes thank you Thank you for bringing that email up This is the kind of email we get or i got this one both of us get these though from guys who are sales guys that really don't know how to sell because they can't even write a note. This is not even written by them, this is written by some AI and this shows you why it fails. Please read this list. And by the way I think Stone McGee is a great DJ name there's nothing wrong with that. Stone McGee in the morning! In the morning everybody Stone McGee with ya
03:17 Hi, NoAgendaRings. We have noagenderrings.com so this is where it was... Somebody scraped the internet and found this web address I wanted to share the result of my 60-day comparative analysis of NO Agenda Show It appears that noagendashow.net and noagendashop.com are receiving better online clicks! The good news? Enhancing strategies around keywords like No Agenda Podcast, Knighthood Rings Sir Dame status rings my favorite I like a sir. Dame status ring and unique podcast merchandise along with effective technical modifications Will allow no agenda rings calm to improve engagement with podcasts enthusiasts Well when I heard that when I heard that we could improve engagement with podcasts enthusiasts, I was very turned on
04:15 Interested in discussing this further? Regards, Stone McGee. So I just wondered how many people out there are a podcast enthusiast who are listening to us? Probably a few. I'm sure there are quite a few podcast enthusiasts yes it's amazing! Yes that is the kind of pathetic pitch as a pitch that floats around and I don't know that it's like, it's a negative. If you get a pitch from a guy like this you would never do business with him because this is just a moment of incompetence and still I wager that he still gets people yeah! Yeah that's great stuff. High stone. You know under the...I suppose if he sent out 1 million emails to every web address that you have scraped
05:06 Yeah, there's got to be one that would fit the criteria perfectly for that So in other words as it pulled out information. It would pull out exactly the right information And and sound like a real pitch well And maybe there could be 10 or 20 or 30 of them I have yet to see one I haven't seen one either But you know I did get a note from Justin from OP way He was on a flight and he was catching up on no agenda. He's like, holy mackerel you guys called me out like three times! He says yes! Noagendaboots.com, noagendasneakers.com and noagendashoes.com will soon be on the air for our value tainment footwear. Value tainment clone. He says shall I send the contract so? I said no
05:54 No, if you can just put podcast no agenda on the soles of these shoes or stitch in some itm 33s. Just send a donation from time to time will be fine. That's our basic system that is the value tennis works. So we're not changing nothing although I wonder how not signing anything else when I was signing it How are they? I wonder how the kids at know agendashop.com are doing haven't heard for an hour need a boost Noagendashop.com for all your no agenda shop slop, it's all there everybody I think they may have burned out The whole we've noticed this of course and we've been doing this long enough
06:33 that you... because we did t-shirts too at the very beginning. We did? Yeah, yeah we had to know it. Oh Eric tried to make money off of it. Yeah he was getting a donation or something and stuff like that He lost his shirt so to speak. Yeah It's a loser and people who do merch MERCH! they lose their asses eventually. Sometimes you'll get a little boost at the beginning, but it's not sustainable because it's like you have a set number of in our case producers and they grab a few things now and again at the beginning when they're enthusiastic and then after awhile they stop buying so you can't get repeat customers. Now then your stuck with a whole pile of T-shirts
07:17 Yeah, which you can't even give away to anybody else because they don't know what the hell you're talking about. What is this Gitmo Nation thing? I want this. Bring them to goodwill! So we do it this way... It's actually quite difficult. We have one premium feature which is the knight in the dame ring And we got a note from... We also have the other minor, the come and go features which is for example currently we have the Peace Prize. Yeah but that's very exclusive limited supply. Then we have the Rub-A-Lizer which I gotta do quick update on the Rub-a-Lizer Oh for the challenge coin?
08:01 Yeah, Paul Couture just sent me a mock-up of one side of the challenge coin. He is the best at this he did the original challenge coin for us and he does the website that we use noagendaart.com No, noagendaartgenerator.com Okay, so it's only been there for 15 years Yeah what am I gonna do? I can't... you know, noagendaartgenerator.com So it's very convenient to type all that in Once you do it, it auto-completes Don't worry once you get it right So he did the original art and he is just an incredibly talented artist
08:44 And he's, this thing will be done probably within the next 30 days. Then we got to have it produced which Jay will do. Yeah I was looking at my Challenge coin collection and we've done quite a number of challenge coins. One of my favorites is the 2012 Geocache coin, remember that one? I have a collection too. It doesn't come to mind. These things will be around long after we're gone. That's what I like. Yeah yeah that's for sure and at some point like 100 years from now people somebody will discover them
09:22 And it'll be on Antiques Roadshow. Yes, and we found one of these! These are very collectible and the market's been going up What is a challenge coin where I've got two of them? They're worth $7000 each Wow Oh my dad was right! The Antique Roadshow Yeah Well, I did see your series of chemo clips come in. Just for form's sake, we should probably do the Epstein stuff because that is oh my lord is just so amazing. Trump has mentioned he's with bikini clad girls as all...Epstein! Tonight in newly released email sex offender Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly discussing Donald Trump shedding new light on their long friendship and seeming to suggest Trump had information he never shared
