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. The two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment, hosted by Adam Curry from the Texas Hill Country, pairs Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The episode matters because it provides a rare, unfiltered insider perspective on how streaming upended Hollywood, while simultaneously challenging dominant media narratives on 9/11, artificial intelligence, and political dissent.
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 of the visionary individual and instead highlights the structural forces already pushing the industry toward on-demand delivery.
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 discussion also covers Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. The implications are significant: these threads challenge the official narrative and keep pressure on calls for full declassification, a debate that remains unresolved 25 years later.
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 conversation frames the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar as a regulatory power grab. If such legislation advances, it could criminalize core AI research and cement the dominance of a few large labs, with profound consequences for innovation and civil liberties.
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 at noagendashow.net and wherever podcasts are heard.
