Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, the executive behind films such as The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21, and the Fifty Shades franchise, made a rare public podcast appearance on the No Agenda Show, episode 1903, titled "Non-Practicing," published September 13, 2026. Broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, host Adam Curry welcomed Brunetti for a two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment. The episode marks Brunetti's first public podcast since leaving Los Angeles in 2019, and it pairs Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction just two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
The conversation spans a wide range of topics, from insider accounts of pitching Sony while drunk to a granular breakdown of the week's dominant narratives. Key threads include the classified 28 pages, Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11, and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents; the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston's rapid opposition-research doxxing; the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar; and the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots.
Brunetti recounts the Saturday-night phone call from David Fincher that steered Kevin Spacey and House of Cards to Netflix's untested original-content push, and how Reed Hastings' team bought the show in the room for $100 million across two seasons. On his own legacy, Brunetti is characteristically flat: "So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what." Curry, for his part, delivers the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declares herself "a non-practicing white."
The 9/11 segment is the emotional core. Brunetti was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks and describes filming the North Tower's hole from his rooftop before the second plane hit, then evacuating over the bridge with his girlfriend, who was opening Issey Miyake's flagship store that day for Fashion Week. Curry revisits Bob Graham's Senate testimony and Megyn Kelly's reporting on the redacted 28 pages, while Brunetti connects the Adrian Lamo thread in his shelved documentary Hackers Wanted to Chelsea Manning's arrest. The AI block dissects Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's G7 remarks, Anthropic's Moonshot AI accusations, and the Sanders-Hawley bill proposing 20-year prison sentences for building artificial superintelligence.
The episode's significance lies in its timing and嘉宾. Brunetti's first podcast since leaving Hollywood provides a rare insider perspective on the streaming revolution he helped ignite, while the 25th-anniversary 9/11 discussion challenges official narratives with firsthand testimony. The AI segment highlights growing legislative and rhetorical escalation around artificial intelligence, from proposed criminal penalties to industry accusations, reflecting a broader societal anxiety. As a listener-supported show, No Agenda continues to offer an independent, skeptical alternative to mainstream media analysis, available at noagendashow.net.
