Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, known for executive producing films such as The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21, and the Fifty Shades franchise, made a rare public appearance on the No Agenda Show, episode 1903, titled “Non-Practicing,” published on September 13, 2026. Hosted by Adam Curry, the two-and-a-half-hour episode marks Brunetti’s first public podcast appearance since leaving Los Angeles in 2019 and was recorded in the Texas Hill Country.
The conversation covered a wide range of topics, from insider Hollywood anecdotes to a detailed deconstruction of recent media narratives. Brunetti recounted the Saturday-night phone call from director David Fincher that led to Kevin Spacey starring in House of Cards and the show’s move to Netflix, where Reed Hastings’ team bought it in the room for $100 million across two seasons. Reflecting on his role in the streaming revolution, Brunetti said, “So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what.”
The episode’s emotional core focused on the 25th anniversary 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 and then evacuating over the bridge with his girlfriend, who was opening Issey Miyake’s flagship store 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.
Other topics included the classified 28 pages, Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11, and widow Terri Strada’s confrontation of sitting and former presidents. The show also discussed the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston’s rapid opposition-research doxxing. The AI segment dissected what was described as a coordinated AI “kill all humans” psyop involving Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar, as well as 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. Additionally, the episode covered the AfD’s 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia’s new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots.
The episode is available on the No Agenda Show website and wherever podcasts are heard. 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.
