Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, the executive behind 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" and published September 13, 2026. Host Adam Curry welcomed Brunetti for a two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment broadcast from the Texas Hill Country, pairing Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
The episode's emotional core is Brunetti's firsthand account of the September 11 attacks. He was two blocks from Building 7 that morning 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 segment also covers Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. This matters because the 25th anniversary has renewed pressure on the U.S. government to release the classified 28 pages, and Brunetti's eyewitness perspective adds a rare personal dimension to a still-unresolved national wound.
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." That admission undercuts the myth-making that often surrounds Hollywood's digital disruption and underscores how streaming's rise was inevitable, not the work of a single visionary.
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 discussion also examines the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar. These developments signal a widening regulatory crackdown on artificial intelligence and a growing bipartisan consensus that superintelligence poses an existential risk. For an industry still racing to deploy AI, the proposed penalties represent a dramatic escalation that could reshape research and investment priorities.
Additional topics include the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston's rapid opposition-research doxxing; the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt; and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots. Curry delivers the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declares herself "a non-practicing white." The episode is available now wherever podcasts are heard. By platforming a Hollywood insider willing to deconstruct his own legacy alongside the week's dominant narratives, the No Agenda episode offers a skeptical, independent alternative to conventional news analysis at a moment when trust in media and technology institutions is sharply contested.
