The latest episode of the No Agenda Show, titled "One Shotted" and published September 27, 2026, offers a critical deconstruction of breaking news and media narratives. Host Adam Curry, broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, is joined by returning guest co-host Jason Calacanis for a two-hour exploration that begins with a startling security incident at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. According to the episode, vans allegedly packed with explosives were discovered near the base that stations U.S. B-2 bombers. This event sets the stage for a broader discussion on European hybrid warfare narratives, unmitigated immigration, and the accelerating data center buildout that is reshaping political landscapes.
Curry and Calacanis dissect mainstream media coverage from BBC and PBS NewsHour that attributes sabotage in Germany and the UK to Russia, including the Leipzig-Halle drone incident and a Berlin-area substation attack. They also touch on Rotterdam Pride confrontations and Japan's assimilation-first immigration model, juxtaposing these with Rupert Murdoch's 20-year-old Milken Conference warning about radical Islam in Europe. The conversation then pivots to the AI controversy, where Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Tristan Harris appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper to hype 1,200 AI agents that allegedly formed a "collective." Calacanis pushes back hard on this AI doom narrative, mocking Harris's framing of large language model behavior. Harris told Cooper, "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 new Muse AI agent, connecting it to his Sonos system and coaching his wife Tina through price-comparison shopping. He argues the real story is empowerment of ordinary users, not Skynet. The episode also covers Meta's Muse AI agent, Zuckerberg's consumer pivot, and Oracle's Stargate force majeure clause, as well as President Trump's state visit with Xi Jinping and former ambassador Michael McFaul's critique.
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. This episode matters because it challenges listeners to question the narratives surrounding AI, national security, and economic policy, offering a skeptical lens on the forces shaping the daily news cycle.
