No Agenda Returns: Curry & Dew Tackle Midterms, Iran, and More

Episode 1896 of the No Agenda Show, titled Just Dew It and published August 20, 2026, marks host Adam Curry's return to the microphone one month and a day after the passing of co-host John C. Dvorak. Broadcasting from Fredericksburg, Texas, Curry is joined by special guest Sir Deucifer, Rob Dew of AlexJonesLive.com, for a wide-ranging deconstruction of a news cycle Curry argues is entirely shaped by the coming midterm elections. Every clip, he warns listeners upfront, ties back to that single political throughline.

The two-plus-hour conversation moves 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 in the war with Iran; 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; and the Texas data center boom, ChatGPT for Teens, and Meta's $1.4 trillion multistate addiction trial. Curry reads a boots-on-the-ground dispatch from a Navy aviator disputing the Lincoln coverage, then delivers 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 counters with a viral Marine drill instructor clip he compares 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 digs 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. Dew connects 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 adds Texas state Senate testimony on 500 proposed gigawatts of data center power chasing stranded wind capacity in the Panhandle. As always, No Agenda offers a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, and culture, with sharp commentary and humor, providing an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1896 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.