In a rare podcast appearance, Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti joined Adam Curry on episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing." The two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment, published September 13, 2026, marks Brunetti's first public podcast since leaving Los Angeles in 2019. From the Texas Hill Country, the pair blends Hollywood insider tales with a full media deconstruction, arriving two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Brunetti, the executive behind The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21, and the Fifty Shades franchise, recounts the Saturday-night phone call from director David Fincher that steered Kevin Spacey and House of Cards to Netflix's untested original-content push. He details how Reed Hastings' team bought the show in the room for $100 million across two seasons. On his legacy, Brunetti remains flat: "So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what."
The 9/11 segment forms the emotional core. Brunetti was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks. He 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, as well as Saudi Arabia's alleged role and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. Brunetti connects the Adrian Lamo thread in his shelved documentary Hackers Wanted to Chelsea Manning's arrest.
The episode also dissects the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston's rapid opposition-research doxxing. In the AI block, Curry and Brunetti examine the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar. They also cover 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.
International politics feature the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots. The title of the episode comes from Curry after a TikToker declares herself "a non-practicing white."
No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and the late John C. Dvorak. Known for its media-deconstruction approach and value-for-value model, the twice-weekly show offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. The episode is available at noagendashow.net and wherever podcasts are heard. For more information, visit the No Agenda Show website.
