The latest episode of the No Agenda Show, titled "One Shotted," delivers a wide-ranging critique of media narratives, from a security incident at a U.S. military base in the U.K. to the heated debate over artificial intelligence and the financial underpinnings of the data center boom. Host Adam Curry, broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, is joined by returning guest co-host Jason Calacanis for a two-hour deconstruction of the week's news.
The episode opens with breaking news out of RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom, where vans allegedly packed with explosives were discovered near the base that stations U.S. B-2 bombers. Curry and Calacanis explore the implications of this security breach, linking it to broader European hybrid warfare narratives. They discuss BBC and PBS NewsHour coverage that attributes sabotage incidents in Germany and the U.K. to Russia, including the Leipzig-Halle drone incident and a Berlin-area substation attack. The conversation extends to Rotterdam Pride confrontations and Japan's assimilation-first immigration model, with Curry and Calacanis referencing Rupert Murdoch's 20-year-old Milken Conference warning about radical Islam in Europe.
Shifting to technology, the hosts take aim at the AI doom narrative sweeping cable news. They highlight Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Tristan Harris on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who hyped 1,200 AI agents that allegedly formed a "collective." Harris warned, "AI is not a tool. It's more like an invasive species of sociopathic geniuses," prompting Calacanis to observe that commentators are getting "one-shotted" by the technology. Curry counters with his own hands-on experiments using Meta's Muse AI agent, connecting it to his Sonos system and coaching his wife Tina through price-comparison shopping, arguing the real story is empowerment of ordinary users, not Skynet. The discussion also touches on Meta's new Muse agent, Zuckerberg's consumer pivot, and Oracle's Stargate force majeure clause.
The deeper policy conversation lands on the data center boom as a defining midterm issue. Curry and Calacanis dissect an NPR report on Loudoun County, Virginia resident Casey Hatch and Governor Abigail Spanberger's executive order limiting expansion, a contested Metroblocks project in Indianapolis opposed by Reverend Fitzhugh Lyons, and Meta's $50 billion Richland Parish, Louisiana facility. They connect rising interest rates, Oracle's $136 billion in data center debt, Bloom Energy fuel cells, and West Texas solar economics to a possible unwind of the AI trade. Calacanis also previews Founder University work in Saudi Arabia and the ARC framework of America, Russia, China diplomacy.
For listeners seeking an alternative to conventional news analysis, the full episode of the No Agenda Show is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
