No Agenda Returns: Curry and Dew Dissect Iran War Coverage and Midterm Media Narratives

In the first episode since the passing of co-host John C. Dvorak, Adam Curry returned to the microphone for a special edition of the No Agenda Show, joined by Rob Dew of AlexJonesLive.com. Broadcasting from Fredericksburg, Texas, the two-hour conversation dissected a news cycle Curry argues is entirely shaped by the upcoming midterm elections. Every clip, he warned listeners upfront, ties back to that single political throughline.

The episode, titled 'Just Dew It' and published August 20, 2026, wasted no time in tackling the week's major stories. Central to the discussion was the USS Abraham Lincoln morale scandal, with reports of moldy showers, broken toilets, and a sailor going overboard after 250 days at sea in the war with Iran. Curry read a boots-on-the-ground dispatch from a Navy aviator disputing the Lincoln 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 moved aggressively across other flashpoints, including 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 also came under scrutiny. Curry and Dew explored 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 also delved into the Keystone XL revival, Alberta's October 19 independence referendum, Ukraine's 800-drone assault on Russia, UK-supplied weapons hitting Wildberries warehouses, and Judge Napolitano's interview with Max Blumenthal on the Ankara decoy flight.

The return of Curry, one month and a day after Dvorak's passing, marks a significant moment for the podcast's loyal listener base. The show, known for its media deconstruction approach, offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1896 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.