Episode 1873 of the No Agenda Show, titled 'Supercycle' and published May 31, 2026, finds hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country and Refinery Row for another media deconstruction. The hosts open with a provocative thesis about a nationwide audit of autism treatment billing, where North Carolina alone saw an 11,000% spike in Medicaid spending and Minnesota's ABA therapy outlays surged roughly 51,000% since 2018. Curry argues the original autism epidemic narrative itself may have been the scam that primed the pump.
Listeners can expect a sweeping news rundown anchored to several specific threads: The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, compared across ABC, CBS, and NBC in the show's signature 3x3 segment. The collapsing Freedom 250 concert led by Silicon Valley figure Keith Krach, with dropouts including Martina McBride, the Commodores, Bret Michaels, and Young MC. Joe Rogan's on-air apology after a Theo Von episode raised alarms about SSRIs and the discredited chemical imbalance theory. Texas AG Ken Paxton's push to classify Sharia law enforcement as a second-degree felony. Jill Biden's CBS book tour and the furious response from Pod Save America.
Curry presses his central question about the autism audit directly: 'Perhaps the actual study of autism, of who, how many people have autism, was the scam to begin with, an inside job before it even got to the Medicare and all of this money that was going to autism treatment?'
On the Bezos rocket failure, Dvorak floats sabotage timed to the SpaceX S-1 filing, while Curry notes the launch pad itself was destroyed. The hosts also flag a verbal tic in CBS coverage, observing that the word 'glitch' has been quietly replaced by the century-old farming term 'haywire.'
The episode digs into Keith Krach's Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, the competing America 250 commission chaired honorarily by Barack Obama and George W. Bush, and Treasury Secretary Bessent's remarks at the Reagan National Economic Forum about a proposed $250 bill featuring President Trump, complete with a primer on seigniorage. Curry shares hands-on frustration using Anthropic's Claude Code agent to automate show credits and clip cutting, concluding the AI 'supercycle' touted by Armada CEO Dan Wright is overvalued. A boots-on-the-ground note from an independent Washington State gas station operator details two-week fuel contracts and hidden carbon-credit fees pressuring July 4 prices.
The implications of these stories are significant. The autism billing audit suggests potential systemic fraud in Medicaid-funded treatments, affecting millions of families and taxpayers. The Blue Origin explosion raises questions about the safety and reliability of private spaceflight, especially with SpaceX's upcoming S-1 filing. The proposed $250 bill, if implemented, would be a historic change in U.S. currency and could spark debate about presidential representation on money. The AI 'supercycle' critique warns investors about overvaluation in the tech sector, while the gas station operator's insights highlight hidden costs in fuel pricing that could impact consumers nationwide.
