In a rare public appearance, Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti joined the No Agenda Show on September 13, 2026, for a two-and-a-half-hour conversation that deconstructed the week's dominant narratives and reflected on his role in reshaping Hollywood. The episode, titled "Non-Practicing," marked Brunetti's first podcast since leaving Los Angeles in 2019 and paired insider war stories with sharp media analysis 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, spoke from the Texas Hill Country with host Adam Curry. The episode is available now wherever podcasts are heard, and at noagendashow.net.
The 9/11 segment formed the emotional core. Brunetti was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks and described filming the North Tower's hole from his rooftop before the second plane hit. He then evacuated 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. He explained 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."
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. Brunetti and Curry also examined the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar.
Other topics included 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 delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
The episode matters because it offers a rare, unfiltered look at how media narratives are constructed from someone who once shaped them at the highest level. Brunetti's first-hand account of 9/11 and his role in the streaming wars provide a counterpoint to mainstream histories, while the AI discussion highlights the growing bipartisan push to regulate artificial superintelligence. As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 passes, the conversation underscores the enduring gaps in the official record and the ways in which independent media continues to challenge them.
