Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, hosts of the No Agenda Show, released Episode 1885 titled "Adult Day Care" on July 12, 2026, providing their signature media deconstruction of one of the most turbulent news weekends of the year. Broadcasting from Amsterdam and Northern Silicon Valley, the duo opened with the shocking death of Senator Lindsey Graham at age 71, dissecting the cryptic "brief and sudden illness" language from his office and applying Occam's razor to conspiracy theories swirling across podcast land.
Across nearly three hours, Curry and Dvorak walked listeners through a dense news cycle with characteristic skepticism. Key threads included President Trump's Truth Social post threatening 1,000 missiles "locked and loaded" at Iran, and Israel's warning of an assassination plot. They also examined Section 224 of the NDAA and the proposed US-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, Justice Department subpoenas of four New York Times reporters over Air Force One leaks, a newsroom "3x3" comparison of ABC, NBC, and CBS evening broadcasts, and Palantir, Whitney Webb, and the Patriot Front DC metro incident.
The hosts refused to sanitize the late senator's record, with Curry observing plainly: "We were kind of annoyed by Lindsey Graham. He was a warmonger. He always wanted to bomb everything. He wanted to kill everybody. He seemed to like killing. And somehow we had affection for him." Dvorak countered overheated podcaster theories about foul play by pointing to genetics, noting Graham's father died of heart failure at 68.
The episode's most substantive segment interrogated viral claims from Kim Iverson, Alex Jones, and Anna Kasparian that the NDAA would "merge" the US military with the IDF. Curry read directly from Section 224, comparing the executive agent provision to existing Five Eyes and AUKUS arrangements, and pushed back on the sovereignty panic. The hosts also examined Palantir CEO Alex Karp's 2009 Charlie Rose appearance on predicate-based research, unpacked Whitney Webb's claims about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Jeffrey Epstein, and analyzed Trump's Australia-style superannuation proposal as a potential Social Security alternative. A recurring segment broke down why Bari Weiss's CBS Evening News trails ABC's David Muir in the "breaking news" cadence war.
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 value-for-value model, the show offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1885 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
