Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, known for 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 the September 13, 2026, episode of the No Agenda Show. Titled "Non-Practicing," the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment featured host Adam Curry and Brunetti deconstructing media narratives two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
The episode's emotional core was a granular breakdown of 9/11. Brunetti, who was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks, described 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 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 segment 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, and 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." Curry delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
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. The hosts framed these as part of a coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop involving 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.
Why does this matter? Brunetti's willingness to speak candidly about 9/11, AI, and Hollywood's streaming revolution offers a rare insider perspective that challenges mainstream narratives. His firsthand account of 9/11 and his connection of dots between Adrian Lamo and Chelsea Manning add credibility to alternative media deconstructions. The AI discussion highlights growing bipartisan concerns about artificial superintelligence, from prison sentences to alleged psyops. And Brunetti's dismissal of his own role in streaming—"It would have happened no matter what"—undercuts the mythology of tech visionaries. In an era of media distrust, such independent, listener-supported platforms as No Agenda provide a space for unfiltered analysis that corporate outlets often avoid. Episode 1903 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
