No Agenda #1909: 'Immune Amnesia' — AI's Pandora's Box, FlyDubai Scare, and Media Deconstruction
In episode 1909 of the No Agenda Show, host Adam Curry and guest co-host Rob Dew dissect a dense news cycle including the FlyDubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 incident, AI's growing role in software and media, a pneumonic plague death in Russia, measles resurgence, French school protests, and the Cornell fraternity allegations. The hosts offer skeptical analysis, highlight AI's disruptive potential, and share personal experiments with AI agents.
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In the latest episode of the No Agenda Show, titled "Immune Amnesia," host Adam Curry broadcasts from the Texas Hill Country with returning guest co-host Rob Dew (Sir Dusifer). Published on October 4, 2026, the multi-hour media deconstruction tackles an unusually dense news cycle, applying the show's signature skeptical lens to stories ranging from aviation disasters to AI's creeping influence.
The episode opens with the mysterious FlyDubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 incident, featuring pilot simulator analysis from Erin Burnett's CNN segment. Curry and Dew express skepticism over the official 20,000-foot dive narrative, questioning the consistency of the account. The segment sets the tone for a show that relentlessly probes mainstream media framing.
A major thread is the "death of software" thesis, exemplified by a reverse-engineered version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running Halo assets. The hosts explore how AI agents are accelerating the displacement of commercial software. Curry seizes on a Gen Z TikToker's warning about AI-driven reverse engineering of banks, satellites, and encrypted systems, quoting: "I'm afraid we've opened Pandora's box, but humanity hasn't even recognized it yet because we've been too excited holding it. And now it's become the mark of the beast, the birthing pains of the rapture, the second coming of the nuclear bomb. But instead of fission, it's just text." Dew counters the doom with a practical experiment: building a donation-spreadsheet tool that replaced Microsoft Excel in his workflow.
Curry then details his new podcastindexrobot.com MCP server, built on the open Podcast Index he co-owns with Dave Jones. He demonstrates how an agent can strip six minutes of dynamically inserted ads from Ed Zitron's Better Offline podcast. The segment pivots to a 1999 David Bowie interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC, where Bowie predicted the internet as "an alien life form." Elsewhere, the hosts revisit US Air Flight 427's 1994 rudder hardover, cite Camille Paglia on coeducation, and replay a 1994 Today Show clip of Katie Couric asking "What is internet, anyway?" alongside Gina Raimondo warning of "rioting in the streets" from AI job displacement.
The show also covers a pneumonic plague death in Russia's Irkutsk region, a measles resurgence in Pennsylvania, and violent school protests across France. NPR's measles coverage features immunologist Michael Mina and the concept of "immune amnesia." GB News and France 24 report on burning schools, barricades, and "outsiders" in Paris suburbs. The Cornell fraternity allegations draw commentary from AOC, Sonny Hostin, and Letitia James. Meta's new Muse AI agent, Mark Zuckerberg's Charm device, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Silicon Valley's disconnection from the public round out the discussion.
As always, No Agenda offers a value-for-value, listener-supported alternative to mainstream narratives, deconstructing how stories are framed, repeated, or ignored. Episode 1909 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
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