Episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing," published September 13, 2026, features host Adam Curry welcoming a rare guest co-host: Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, the executive behind The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21 and the Fifty Shades franchise. Broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment marks Brunetti's first public podcast appearance since leaving Los Angeles in 2019, and pairs Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Listeners get a wide-ranging conversation that moves from insider accounts of pitching Sony while drunk to a granular breakdown of the week's dominant narratives. Topic 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.
- 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.
About No Agenda Show
No Agenda is a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and the late John C. Dvorak that takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics and technology. Known for its media-deconstruction approach, sharp humor and value-for-value model, the twice-weekly show offers an irreverent alternative to conventional news analysis. Episode 1903 is available now wherever podcasts are heard, and at noagendashow.net.
