John C. Dvorak

And yes, the, we'll call him tech journalist and provocateur, Robert X. Cringely passed his real name was mark stevens he passed away earlier this month we will link out to the obituary as well as his recent blogging work uh you probably best remember him for his work on triumph of the nerds which was a hallmark video from the early internet era but he you know wrote tons and tons and tons of articles for lots and lots and lots of different publications uh both under the the pseudonym that he lost control of and then regained control of as well as other names so If you're unfamiliar with his work, good time to dive into there.

Less caustic than John Dvorak, who I also memorialized earlier this year, but definitely edgy in his own way.

Sensi Soccer, which is according to many the definitive 16-bit football game, is now on the C64.

It's surprisingly fast.

That's right.

The late, great John C. Dvorak there.

Oh, he said so.

I love that guy.

There was actually a big...

Dvorak and Curry got all mad.

Luckily, somebody was in the chat during the live show to correct them.

But they're like, why is he...

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I said that people, if they want to listen a little bit more about this and sort of hear what I'm talking about in terms of what he's talking about, Wednesday's episode of We Get to Do This, which is his godly Christian podcast, and he has a co-host for that one.

Thursday is the No Agenda show, which he used to do with John C. Dvorak, but John C. Dvorak sadly passed away this year.

That made him rethink his sort of path, not just whether or not he was going to stay on the show, but what he should be doing with his time if he doesn't stay on the show.

And then Friday, he has another podcast called Podcasting 2.0, where they talk about the different tools and techniques of podcasting and how they're sort of building the future for podcasting itself.

I kind of go like, what's going on here? Why? And then you kind of realize that the Pope right now, that is the Pope of Rome, is American.

Oh, so do the Christians, the Catholics, the God-fearing people of the United States, do they now feel a little bit more safe to voice their religiosity, their faith, rather than maybe cower behind the DEI, the diversity, equity, and inclusion type of umbrella that has blanketed so much of the mainstream media, mainstream talk so much over the last 15 years, 10, 15 years.

So it's, I guess this, if Adam Curry took, and he talks about how the death of John C. Dvorak really did rattle him.

And I agree with that.

Yeah.

I w- that is part of what I wanted to talk about today, and, you know, kind of tangential But I listen to a podcast called No Agenda, and it's hosted by two guys, uh, John Dvorak and Adam Curry.

And Adam Curry, he's been on the Tom Wood show a few times, but he's, uh, credited by a lot of people with inventing the podcast.

They call him the Podfather.

And, uh, he and John Dvorak, John Dvorak have been doing No Agenda for nineteen years.

This month they'll have their nineteenth anniversary, so a very long-running and successful podcast.

Well, back in, I think it was around April or so, John had a mild heart attack and had to have, uh, double bypass surgery and, uh, you know, he was out for a couple weeks, then he came back to the show, and then about six weeks ago, he died.