Adam Curry marked his return to the No Agenda Show on August 20, 2026, joined by special guest Rob Dew of AlexJonesLive.com, for a two-hour deconstruction of a news cycle Curry argues is entirely shaped by the coming midterm elections. Broadcasting from Fredericksburg, Texas, the episode titled "Just Dew It" comes one month and a day after the passing of co-host John C. Dvorak. Curry warned listeners upfront that every clip ties back to that single political throughline.
The conversation moved aggressively across the week's flashpoints, including the USS Abraham Lincoln morale story, with reports of moldy showers, broken toilets, and a sailor going overboard after 250 days at sea amid the war with Iran. Curry read a boots-on-the-ground dispatch from a Navy aviator disputing the coverage, then delivered his father-in-law Earl's blunter verdict from Vietnam: "I was in Vietnam for 8 months, slept in a pup tent for 3 months during the rainy monsoon season, period. Sailors are sissies." Dew countered with a viral Marine drill instructor clip he compared to actor Elliot Page, arguing the modern services have swapped grit for grievance procedures while family members, not sailors, drive the media narrative.
The episode also delved into President Trump's pivot from bombing Iran to an economic blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's prediction that pipelines will render the strait irrelevant. The federal debt hitting $40 trillion, Bitcoin surging past $72,000, and the Genius Act's stablecoin rollout were also on the agenda, alongside the Texas data center boom, ChatGPT for Teens, and Meta's $1.4 trillion multistate addiction trial. Dew connected the newly unsealed indictment of former SPLC CFO Heidi Beirich to a 2013 FBI Boston field office assessment labeling Alex Jones a racially motivated extremist, citing FOIA documents analyzed by former agent Kyle Seraphin. Curry added Texas state Senate testimony on 500 proposed gigawatts of data center power chasing stranded wind capacity in the Panhandle.
The episode dug into the Keystone XL revival, Alberta's October 19 independence referendum, Ukraine's 800-drone assault on Russia and UK-supplied weapons hitting Wildberries warehouses, and Judge Napolitano's interview with Max Blumenthal on the Ankara decoy flight. Throughout, Curry and Dew emphasized that the media's framing of these stories is strategically aligned with midterm election objectives, urging listeners to question the narratives presented by mainstream outlets.
No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak that takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, culture, and the forces shaping the daily news cycle. Known for sharp commentary, humor, and its media deconstruction approach, the show offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1896 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
