AI, FlyDubai Mystery and France in Flames Headline No Agenda 1909
Adam Curry and guest co-host Rob Dew (Sir Dusifer) dissect the FlyDubai Max 8 incident, AI's assault on software and jobs, pneumonic plague in Siberia, measles 'immune amnesia,' France's school riots, and the Cornell fraternity case in Episode 1909, 'Immune Amnesia.'
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Sunday with Rob Dew
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
“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.”
Episode 1909 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Immune Amnesia," published October 4, 2026, finds host Adam Curry broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country alongside returning guest co-host Rob Dew (Sir Dusifer). The multi-hour media deconstruction surveys an unusually dense news cycle: the mysterious FlyDubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 incident, the accelerating displacement of commercial software by AI agents, a pneumonic plague death in Russia's Irkutsk region, a measles resurgence in Pennsylvania, violent school protests across France, and the Cornell fraternity allegations drawing commentary from AOC, Sonny Hostin, and Letitia James.
Curry and Dew work through a stacked clip deck that spans multiple ongoing storylines. Threads examined in depth include:
Sunday with Rob Dew
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
“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.”
- The FlyDubai near-disaster, with pilot simulator analysis from Erin Burnett's CNN segment and skepticism over the 20,000-foot dive narrative
- The "death of software" thesis, including a reverse-engineered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 running Halo assets
- NPR's measles coverage featuring immunologist Michael Mina and the concept of "immune amnesia"
- GB News and France 24 reporting on burning schools, barricades, and "outsiders" in Paris suburbs
- Meta's new Muse AI agent, Mark Zuckerberg's Charm device, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Silicon Valley's disconnection from the public
The hosts' media-deconstruction style surfaces throughout. Reacting to a Gen Z TikToker warning about AI-driven reverse engineering of banks, satellites, and encrypted systems, Curry seizes the kicker: "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 AI doom with his own experiment building a donation-spreadsheet tool that replaced Microsoft Excel in his workflow.
Curry details his new podcastindexrobot.com MCP server, built on the open Podcast Index he co-owns with Dave Jones, demonstrating how an agent can strip six minutes of dynamically inserted ads from Ed Zitron's Better Offline. The segment pivots to a 1999 David Bowie interview with Jeremy Paxman on the BBC predicting 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.
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No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak that takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, culture, and the forces shaping the daily news cycle. Known for sharp commentary, humor, and value-for-value funding, the show deconstructs how stories are framed, repeated, or ignored across news outlets, government messaging, and tech platforms. Episode 1909 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What happened on the FlyDubai flight, and why are the hosts skeptical of the official story?
- The Boeing 737 MAX 8 reportedly dropped roughly 20,000 feet in 35 seconds, allegedly after a co-pilot attack, and landed with its rudder torn away. Curry, a pilot, points out that at 700-plus mph the aircraft should have disintegrated, no overhead-bin injuries were reported, and without the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder the narrative remains unverifiable. He compares the suspect data to 9/11-era anomalies.
- What is "immune amnesia" as discussed on the episode?
- The term comes from immunologist Michael Mina, interviewed on NPR's Shortwave, who says measles infects immune memory cells in lymphoid tissue and can delete up to 70 percent of a person's immunological memory. The result leaves patients vulnerable to other infections for years. Curry questions whether MMR vaccination and processed food may be making modern measles cases more dangerous than historical ones.
- What is podcastindexrobot.com and why did Adam Curry build it?
- Curry built an MCP server on top of the Podcast Index he co-owns with Dave Jones, letting AI agents query podcast data directly rather than scraping websites. In a demonstration, he instructed a robot to fetch the latest Ed Zitron Better Offline episode and strip roughly six minutes of dynamically inserted ads for BetterHelp, Sleep Well, and Chevron, with the episode starting cleanly on playback.
- What is the "death of software" thesis the hosts explore?
- Prompted by a TikTok clip about an AI reverse-engineering Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to run Halo assets, Curry and Dew argue AI agents will dismantle the commercial software industry. Dew replaced Excel with a custom donation-spreadsheet reader that loads jingle requests on click. Curry predicts banks, telecom networks, and legacy government systems built on 20-year-old code are newly exposed.
- How is the French school unrest being covered differently across outlets?
- GB News framed burning schools, 3,000 arrests, and attacked firefighters as a migration-integration crisis before walking back claims about who was responsible. France 24 described peaceful student protests over overcrowded classrooms being derailed by "outsiders" tearing down school gates, with police deploying heavy tear gas. The government blamed hard-left agitators exploiting the demonstrations ahead of an upcoming election.
- What did Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo say about AI's impact?
- Chesky told CNBC that Silicon Valley lives in a bubble disconnected from regular people in Ohio worried about affordability, and that terms like "superintelligence" alienate the public. Raimondo warned that without a plan to retrain workers, tens of millions of Americans could be put out of work, producing a deep recession and, in her words, "rioting in the streets."
- What is Meta's Muse AI agent and the Charm device?
- Muse is Meta's new personal AI agent that connects to Gmail, Shopify, Expedia, Instacart, PayPal, and Walmart to perform tasks like unsubscribing from mailing lists, filling forms, and making purchases with user approval. The Charm is a handheld keychain-style device Mark Zuckerberg unveiled as the fastest way to talk to Muse without AI glasses, shipping before the holidays at an undisclosed price.
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