No Agenda Show Episode 1873 'Supercycle' Probes Autism Billing Audit, Blue Origin Blast, and Trump's $250 Bill Proposal
In Episode 1873, Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak deconstruct media coverage of a nationwide autism treatment billing audit showing massive Medicaid spending spikes, the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explosion, and a proposed $250 bill featuring President Trump, questioning the narratives behind these stories.
In the latest episode of the No Agenda Show, titled 'Supercycle' and published May 31, 2026, hosts Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak deliver their signature media deconstruction, focusing on a series of high-impact stories that challenge official narratives. Broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country and Refinery Row, the duo opens 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 that the original autism epidemic narrative itself may have been the scam that primed the pump.
The episode's sweeping news rundown is anchored to several specific threads, including the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, which the hosts compare across ABC, CBS, and NBC in the show's signature 3x3 segment. On the Bezos rocket failure, Dvorak floats sabotage timed to the SpaceX S-1 filing, while Curry notes that 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.'
Other topics include 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; and 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?' The episode also 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 that 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 episode is available wherever podcasts are heard, and in any modern podcast app from podcastapps.com.