The No Agenda Show returned on August 20, 2026, with host Adam Curry marking his first broadcast since the passing of co-host John C. Dvorak. Joined by guest Sir Deucifer, Rob Dew of AlexJonesLive.com, Curry opened episode 1896, titled "Just Dew It," from Fredericksburg, Texas, with a warning that every news clip in the two-hour show would be tied to the upcoming midterm elections. The conversation spanned a wide range of flashpoints, each framed through that political lens.
One of the first stories tackled was the USS Abraham Lincoln morale scandal, which has gripped coverage of the Iran war. Reports of moldy showers, broken toilets, and a sailor going overboard after 250 days at sea have dominated headlines. Curry read a dispatch from a Navy aviator disputing the coverage, then relayed his father-in-law Earl's blunt assessment 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, arguing that modern services have traded grit for grievance procedures.
The episode also examined President Trump's shift from bombing Iran to an economic blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting pipelines will make the strait irrelevant. Curry and Dew discussed the federal debt hitting $40 trillion, Bitcoin surging past $72,000, and the Genius Act's stablecoin rollout, linking these financial stories to the midterm narrative.
Domestically, the show delved into 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 conversation also covered the Keystone XL revival, Alberta's October 19 independence referendum, Ukraine's 800-drone assault on Russia, and UK-supplied weapons hitting Wildberries warehouses, as well as Judge Napolitano's interview with Max Blumenthal on the Ankara decoy flight. Throughout, Curry and Dew emphasized how these stories are being shaped by the electoral calendar.
No Agenda, known for its skeptical, independent look at mainstream media and politics, continues to offer an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1896 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
