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 his first public podcast appearance since leaving Los Angeles in 2019 on episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing," published September 13, 2026. Hosted by Adam Curry from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment aired two days after the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and paired Hollywood war stories with a granular deconstruction of dominant media narratives.
The episode's emotional core was the 9/11 segment. Brunetti, who was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks, described 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 revisited Bob Graham's Senate testimony and Megyn Kelly's reporting on the redacted 28 pages, while Brunetti connected the Adrian Lamo thread in his shelved documentary Hackers Wanted to Chelsea Manning's arrest. The discussion also covered Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents.
Brunetti recounted 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 was characteristically flat: "So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what." Curry delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
The conversation also moved into other hot-button topics. The AI block dissected 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 examined what it described as a coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop involving Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar. Other segments covered the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston's rapid opposition-research doxxing, as well as the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots.
This episode matters because it offers a rare, unfiltered platform for a Hollywood insider to challenge mainstream narratives on 9/11, artificial intelligence, and the streaming revolution he helped ignite. For listeners, it provides an alternative perspective on events that continue to shape public discourse. For the media industry, Brunetti's dismissal of his own role in streaming—"It would have happened no matter what"—undercuts the mythology of individual genius and highlights the collective forces behind technological shifts. The AI segment's focus on proposed criminal penalties for building superintelligence signals growing legislative scrutiny that could impact tech companies and researchers. The deconstruction of 9/11 coverage keeps pressure on calls for transparency over classified documents, affecting public trust in government. Episode 1903 is available now wherever podcasts are heard, and at noagendashow.net.
