In his first episode since the passing of co-host John C. Dvorak, Adam Curry returned to the microphone on August 20, 2026, for a special edition of the No Agenda Show. Broadcasting from Fredericksburg, Texas, Curry welcomed Rob Dew of AlexJonesLive.com as his guest for a wide-ranging deconstruction of what he argues is a news cycle entirely shaped by the upcoming midterm elections. Throughout the two-plus-hour conversation, Curry warned listeners that every clip played ties back to that single political throughline.
The episode, titled "Just Dew It," covered a host of pressing stories, including the morale crisis aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where reports of moldy showers, broken toilets, and a sailor going overboard after 250 days at sea in the war with Iran have sparked controversy. 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 that modern services have swapped grit for grievance procedures while family members, not sailors, drive the media narrative.
The conversation also delved into President Trump's pivot from bombing Iran to an economic blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicting 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. Curry and Dew explored the Texas data center boom, ChatGPT for Teens, and Meta's $1.4 trillion multistate addiction trial.
Additional topics included 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. 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.
Throughout the episode, Curry and Dew emphasized the importance of looking beyond the headlines to understand the underlying political motivations driving media narratives. As the midterms approach, they argued, every story is being framed to influence voters. The episode serves as a reminder of the need for independent, skeptical analysis in an era of information overload. Episode 1896 of the No Agenda Show is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
