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 and broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment paired Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The episode's significance lies in its timing and its guest: Brunetti, a key architect of Netflix's original-content strategy, offers a rare insider perspective on an industry he helped transform, while the show's skeptical lens challenges dominant narratives on everything from national security to artificial intelligence.
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; and 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.
The episode underscores the value of independent media in an era of consolidated news. No Agenda, a long-running, listener-supported podcast hosted by Adam Curry and the late John C. Dvorak, 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.
