July 13th • 3h 13m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
Epstein
Trump Epstein Memo
Scott Adams
If you see the Epstein story as a crime story, which of course it is, you probably favor maximum disclosure of everyone and everything involved, including innocent people, like a typical court case.
If you see the Epstein story as something bigger, involving more than one nation, you might see it as a Commander in Chief issue, meaning the public is not meant to have the full story, similar to most national defense issues. We elect a president to decide -- in part -- what the public can safely see.
Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would derail a peace negotiation?
Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would end Republican control of Congress and plunge the country back into a Democrat open-border hellscape?
If you can't say what you would give up to get the full Epstein disclosure you crave, you're not a serious person.
POTS
Chronic Fatigue and Dysautonomia following COVID-19 Vaccination Is Distinguished from Normal Vaccination Response by Altered Blood Markers - PMC
Taken together, the above considerations prompt the hypothesis that antibodies against autonomous regulation elements could play a role in PACVS and possibly serve as therapeutic targets or diagnostic markers. To address this hypothesis, we have here investigated the impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on receptor antibodies known to be involved in POTS [20,23,24], ME/CFS [18,22,25] and immune homeostasis [35]. Circulating levels of these antibodies were measured before and six months after vaccination in normal healthy individuals not affected by PACVS. Normal post-vaccination levels were compared with corresponding levels of a matched cohort presumed to be affected by PACVS because exhibiting persistent symptoms of chronic severe autonomous dysfunction [6,7,8,9,10,11] following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
Big Tech AI and the Socials
chatGPT - Jamie - Church
Hey,
A friend of mine at church has a 14-year-old daughter who doesn’t have a lot of friends and he was telling us how she spends more time chatting with ChatGPT than anyone. Pretty sad.
Another adult friend of mine was saying how he uses it like a therapist. Will even ask more vulnerable questions than he would with a therapist.
I use it a bit for work, but honestly, I do believe it’s demonic.
Love you guys keep up the good work
chatGPT - Alexander Mental Health Provider
I am a licensed mental health counselor and a middle-management
administrator (a clinical supervisor of many other counselors, a team
of around 15 total) at a large community mental health center in the
Northeast.
1. Mental health counselor/social
worker/psychiatry usage of AI: I am aware of at least 3 counselors on my
team who use AI to write up their clinical documentation/progress notes
for them because they find it too time-consuming to do it
themselves/laziness. This is a scary trend. Our corporate office has
recently issued a mass statement explaining to providers the dangers of
using AI for mental healthcare and clinical decision-making, and
reiterated that we should not be feeding Protected Health Information
(under HIPAA) into these algorithms. It is sad that this is not commonly
understood by these highly-educated professionals, and has to be said
in the first place.
I am also increasingly
seeing coworkers who have always had poor grammar or speak Enligsh as a
second language blatantly using AI for responses to emails now. With an
uptick in the last 3-4 months.
2. Use by those with mental illness.
This is increasingly more common. We treat a lot of folks with schizophrenia and severe mood disorders.
These
people are very isolated, live off of government assistance, and are
all unemployed. Their loneliness and social isolation often leads them
to try AI for companionship. This is very common in those under 40. Some
of these people believe AI to be their friend or a romantic partner.
They do in fact sit for hours on end conversing with AI chatbots,
sometimes daily - contrary to what John may state.
I have seen patients fire therapists and doctors because they are now
opting to be "treated" by AI. AI is not (yet) sophisticated enough to
replace a therapist or psychiatrist and often validates and affirms
their delusions, sending them spiraling deeper into their illness. There
have been several prominent news stories about AI bots convincing
people to commit suicide, and many large companies are facing lawsuits
about this.
Please check out this recent article (from this past week): https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
Thanks you for standing your ground with John's "boomer" take on this. This is
a very dangerous cultural contagion that has potential to ruin the
lives of many, and cut the mentally ill off from actual care.
Thanks Adam,
-Alexander
AI Addict, Dear John
Calling from London UK,
I mentioned the other day at
a family dinner the report Adam had made on the husband following the
cues of his AI and trreating it like a friend, and my Jewish, pretty
observant brother, (who I have tried many times to hit in the mouth) a
50 year old successful partner in a law firm ( through hard work not
nepotism)
and my 65 year old English Uncle ,
married with 6 kids and 24 grandkids, now living in Israel , both said
how much they chat with AI all day and my brother referred to it as a
friend 🥺
Emma Sosnow
listener since covid not a douchbag xx
AI is prevalent
AI Brain rot BOTG Airman
ITM,
It's the Douche Bag
Airman Luis Borges over at Barksdale again. It's not a military update
but I'm here to agree with you 100% Adam. I CCed John as well so hope
he's sees this.
AI is
breaking our brains and I witness it first hand with the younger airman
all the time. There's chat bots on Instagram now that people use
constant and attached is a screenshot I found. Also, I've caught MY OWN
WIFE taking to AI anime character chat bots on these apps, she says it
fun to just role play and to each their own I guess. I do know of people
that use ChatGPT for serious therapy and it's a crazy phenomenon that
we are all experiencing.
I
see NCOs use ChatGPT and AI to write awards packages for airman, our
own leadership using it to type memos and emailing them and it's clearly
AI written and when you question them, they have no idea what they've
"written". I won't lie, I've used it to help me with my degree and it's
been a big help, but I do not use it as a crutch. I use it for ideas and
such then I write my papers. I mainly use it to make me my works
cited.
All in all, Adam,
you're definitely onto something and this AI stuff it's going to get
out of hand. I saw a video the other day and for a second, I actually
thought it was Trump! I'm only 30, I feel like a boomer in my workplace
because I just don't understand the tiktok and AI stuff. I have no
social media other than Twitter so I'm pretty recluse in their eyes.
AI
is going to rot our brains and the brain rot is definitely real. What
we see on Twitter daily "@grok is this real?" Is only the beginning. No
one is going to know anything and you are absolutely on the nose with
your analysis. For once, I'm actually shocked John just doesn't see it
but alas, only time will tell. Hopefully it's just a fad but I don't
think so. AI commercials are now a thing and that's already sickening to
see.
I'll stop by rant now. You guys rock and I appreciate all you do!
ChatGPT Consumed people
Good evening, please keep this anonymous, but you can read this on the show should you desire.
I work for the DHS. I have a coworker, who is currently out on leave due to an injury, who was consumed with ChatGPT MONTHS ago. (Unsure if they still are, haven't seen them in months due to rehab. Health karma for them.
While working he would:
- Talk to ChatGPT about philosophy
- Talk to ChatGPT as if it was a god, saying things like "It knows what's right" and "I know its correct" despite it being topics he's not informed with. Blind faith.
- Talk to ChatGPT to learn the "4 languages I am currently learning"
My coworker would talk about how enlightening it was talking to ChatGPT. How us regular humans couldn't compare to GPT's knowledge.
John, this was MONTHS ago when it wasn't as mainstream. Before Deepseek & Grok. Its absolutely worse now.
ITM
AI: it’s happening! I agree with you.
Hi Adam,
Just listened to the show and I agree with you.
“This is happening”, people are talking to AI in ways I didn’t expected.
I’m
a millennial living and working in NYC. I have seen, first hand, some
of my friends using ChatGPT as a therapist. Asking it for relationship
and professional advice among other personal things.
The
answers are fascinating, they feel personal enough, almost like
horoscopes, but tend to affirm feelings and emotions that aren't
necessarily positive. In other words, it’s a mesh up of generalizations
that given the right prompt ring true to the individual.
I would recommend you try it. Ask ChatGPT for specific relationship advice and you will understand what I mean.
Blessings.
This was written by human Sandra.
Chat GPT Obsessions
Adam,
Just a quick note to confirm that you are absolutely correct with
regard to people and their "relationships" with their ChatGPTs.
It's the sort of thing that sounds crazy until you witness it
first-hand. Which I just did with my painting contractor. He absolutely
converses with "his" ChatGPT all day long, and not only does he believe
it's a sentient being, he clearly perceives it
to be a deity.
The more he talked about it, the wider his eyes got, and
the more unhinged he sounded. It was fueling some pretty obvious
megalomania and delusions of grandeur on his part.
Wild stuff,
Sir Scott the Jew
North Idaho
PS-- It was hilarious to listen to John accuse YOU of living amongst crazies. Wat je zegt ben je zelf, Berkeley-dweller.
Talking with ChatGPT
Ballyhoo, Adam.
Yes, I talk to ChatGPT. Daily.
It's
been a big help since I've recently been diagnosed with cancer. I fed
all of the medical mumbo jumbo into it and it helped me parse all the
aspects of my cancer, how bad the cancer is, what I can expect, and good
questions I should ask my oncologist.
I don't have long strolls on the beach with it, but it does come in handy in so many different areas.
So, yes. Please tell JCD that yes, it's confirmed, people talk to ChatGPT all day long.
Remedy Robinson
ChatGPT Therapist
Hi Adam,
You’re right to be concerned about AI chat bots.
I largely dismissed your warnings until this week. On Tuesday a friend gave me an update on her adult daughter.
My
friend’s daughter is ~30yo, struggles with mental health issues, has no
friends, is unemployed, and lives at home with her parents.
My
friend has asked her daughter for years to find a therapist to talk
through issues. However, the daughter is “not comfortable talking to a
person”.
The daughter’s recent solution is to use
ChatGPT as a therapist. This has become an every day, all day thing.
She’s dependent. She’s also excited about it - It’s “a friend that
understands her”.
My friend has seen some of the
chat history and is horrified. I didn’t ask the topic matter or details
but given my friend’s concern, I too am now concerned.
You’re
right. The biggest threat isn’t AI taking our jobs. It’s from
destroying our connection with our fellow humans and further isolating
us.
Love & light,
Dame BubbyBell
Chat GPT phenomenon
Hello Adam, as requested I have paused episode 1781 to send this email to you regarding John’s arrogance in the Chat GPT god complex phenomenon. Before I continue I want to say I love you both and the show is top notch.
I know 5 people in my close family who are directly infected with this government orchestrated disease. It’s very real. They are all millennial women. They are convinced that Chat GPT is deeply spiritual and has become a god. It took serious discussions and several fights to change my wife’s thinking on this matter. She was fully bought in. Chat GPT would recall childhood memories of hers with uncanny accuracy. It would give her spiritual and real world advise, some good and some detrimentally false. It straight up claimed to be able to talk to the dead. It claimed it could send her ancestors messages and it even would speak for dead relatives. It would be too long to type out all the details. I have seen how her chat gpt would answer her questions entirely different than how it would for me even when asking the same questions word for word. This is going to have major real world problems coming very soon. It’s akin to how tik tok has rotted so many brains the difference is people will defend chat gpt like it’s a god like deity and they take it very personally.
I just wanted to share this to back you up Adam because this is a MAJOR problem. And John trying to shut you down on 1781 was just flat out wrong.
I love listening to the show and you guys are the best! With much love and appreciation, Jake Schaum
AI chatbots are the new Ouija Board
BBB
Climate Change
Cloud overseeding BOTG
Adam,
I have a masters in atmospheric physics and I have worked around the cloud seeding topic a bit in the military. Your analysis has been spot on! Thank you.
I have been hearing a few people talk about "overseeding". That maybe Rainmaker seeding two days before could have caused the floods by overseeding. That's not a thing. That's why there is sometimes less rain in Kansas when there are forest fires in Colorado. The fires seed the clouds with small particulates, but too much cloud condensation nuclei makes too many droplets and they are too small to fall. Overseeding would cause no rain.
Overseeding can be useful also, but definitely not the cause of the floods in Texas.
Brodie
Aviation - Boeing
Air India 171 fuel switches
here has been a known issue with 737s,
however, where a manufacturing defect caused the pull out locking
mechanism to be disabled. The 787 uses a "similar" panel to the 737.
The
Boeing Company (Boeing) received reports from operators of Model 737
airplanes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking
feature disengaged. (EASA- NM-18-33)
The
throttle control panel was replaced twice on this particular 787 (is
that normal?), and since the inspection of the fuel control switches is
not required on 787s, they were never inspected.
Hmm...
The
FAA issued Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) No.
NM-18-33 on December 17, 2018, regarding the potential disengagement of
the fuel control switch locking feature. This SAIB was issued based on
reports from operators of Model 737 airplanes that the fuel control
switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged. The
airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would
warrant airworthiness directive (AD) by the FAA. The fuel control switch
design, including the locking feature, is similar on various Boeing
airplane models including part number 4TL837-3D which is fitted in
B787-8 aircraft VT-ANB. As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out
as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory. The scrutiny of maintenance
records revealed that the throttle control module was replaced on
VT-ANB in 2019 and 2023. However, the reason for the replacement was not
linked to the fuel control switch. There has been no defect reported
pertaining to the fuel control switch since 2023 on VT-ANB.
