Leaked Trump-Netanyahu Call Sparks Media Deconstruction on No Agenda Episode 1874
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak analyze a leaked phone call where President Trump called Prime Minister Netanyahu 'effing crazy,' exploring the implications for US-Israel relations and media framing.
The latest episode of the long-running media deconstruction podcast "No Agenda" has delved into a leaked phone call between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which Trump reportedly called Netanyahu "effing crazy" over the Lebanon incursion. Episode 1874, titled 'Kennel Index,' hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak, examines the implications of this leak and the broader media narrative surrounding it.
The leak, first reported by Axios, has been a focal point for the hosts, who dissect the framing of the story. Curry and Dvorak highlight a second, less-reported portion of the Axios article, which quotes a source saying, "There are people in the Trump administration who are gravely concerned that Netanyahu has been, in the words of one of them, too bloodthirsty." Curry argues that the leak appears engineered to redirect public anger away from Israel and toward Netanyahu personally, while Dvorak questions who the leakers could be and why journalist Miranda Devine did not follow up on that part of the call.
The episode also covers Miranda Devine's follow-up interview on the New York Post podcast, as well as commentary from Megyn Kelly and Sean Ryan, who lament Israeli influence, and Cenk Uygur and Anna Kasparian's shifting positions on the matter. The hosts explore how these narratives shape public perception and the potential consequences for US-Israel relations.
Beyond the Trump-Netanyahu leak, the podcast touches on other significant stories, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote in Korea unveiling the RTX Spark and DGX Station for Windows, which Huang called a "reinvention of laptop" capable of running trillion-parameter models on the desktop. The hosts contrast this with Ed Zitron's appearance on Bloomberg questioning AI ROI, David Sachs invoking Jevons' Paradox on the All-In Pod, and a CNBC segment on $30 to $50 billion data-center debt deals.
Other segments cover the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, the scrapped $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund,' Eli Lilly's retatrutide trial results, Richard Gere's 'Dictatorship of the Monsters' speech, and Ukraine's drone strike on St. Petersburg during Putin's economic forum. The episode also examines the House War Powers Resolution vote, which drew four Republican defectors including Kentucky's Thomas Massie.
The No Agenda Show, now in its nearly two decades on the air, offers a skeptical, humor-laced analysis of how stories are framed, amplified, or buried across mainstream news, government messaging, and big tech platforms. Episode 1874 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.