
Curry Welcomes Rob Dew as USS Lincoln Morale Scandal Grips Iran War Coverage
Adam Curry hosts InfoWars veteran Rob Dew on No Agenda Episode 1896 to deconstruct midterm-driven media narratives, from the USS Abraham Lincoln morale story and Strait of Hormuz blockade to Meta's $1.4 trillion trial, ChatGPT for Teens, and the SPLC funding indictment.
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Show Open — Sailors Are Sissies, and Rob Dew Sits In
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
“I was in Vietnam for 8 months, slept in a pup tent for 3 months during the rainy monsoon season, period. Sailors are sissies.”
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:

Show Open — Sailors Are Sissies, and Rob Dew Sits In
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
“I was in Vietnam for 8 months, slept in a pup tent for 3 months during the rainy monsoon season, period. Sailors are sissies.”
- 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
- 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.
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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 media deconstruction approach, the show offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1896 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who is Rob Dew and why was he chosen as guest co-host for episode 1896?
- Rob Dew, known in the No Agenda community as Sir Deucifer, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable, works at AlexJonesLive.com after Infowars was shut down. Curry reached out after praying about how to move forward following John C. Dvorak's passing, and Dew got the text the night before while getting out of his car and agreed to jump on despite an already crazy day.
- What did the Navy aviator's boots-on-the-ground report say about the USS Lincoln conditions?
- The aviator argued sailors get better at complaining the longer they serve, that families can simply mail toothpaste and soap to the ship, and that broken showers and mold on a floating warship are not comparable to a Marriott resort. He suggested the man-overboard incident likely involved someone seeking a way home or with significant mental issues, and said grievances belong at deck-plate leadership, not the news.
- Why does Curry argue the Texas data center boom is essentially free money?
- Citing testimony from the state affairs chair, Curry notes 500 proposed gigawatts of new power are chasing stranded wind capacity in the Panhandle, but legislators believe only about 15% will actually get built due to ERCOT interconnect limits. He urges listeners to take construction jobs now from Google, OpenAI, and BlackRock because most facilities will never be turned on.
- What is the significance of the Heidi Beirich indictment discussed on the show?
- Dew reports the former SPLC CFO was arrested for allegedly funding hate groups, including reimbursing Klansmen for cross burnings and giving roughly $300,000 tied to the Charlottesville organizers. He connects this to a 2013 FBI Boston field office Type 3 assessment labeling Alex Jones a racially motivated extremist, obtained via FOIA and analyzed by former agent Kyle Seraphin.
- What is the Meta trial about and how much are states seeking?
- Four states—California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey—are collectively seeking $1.4 trillion in damages, alleging Meta designed Instagram to be addictive and harmful to children. California Attorney General Rob Bonta laid out a hook, hold, harvest, hide framework, citing internal data that Mark Zuckerberg personally overruled staff who wanted to ban plastic-surgery-style image filters.
- What did Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predict about the Strait of Hormuz?
- Bessent said Iran's economy has 150-180% food inflation and cannot pay its troops, predicting a 30 to 60-day ceasefire was imminent. Longer term, he argued the Strait will become irrelevant within two years as more than 50-70% of energy currently moving through it shifts to underground pipelines, ending Iran's ability to use it as a chokepoint.
- How did Bitcoin and the national debt figure into the episode?
- The federal debt hit a record $40 trillion, rising $1 trillion in just five months, while Bitcoin surged to roughly $72,500 as the Treasury began buying back bonds to lower long-term yields. Curry also highlighted Trump's Genius Act stablecoin rollout, noting an estimated 300 million people globally use dollar-backed stablecoins, helping preserve the dollar's reserve currency status.
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