Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti 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 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. Brunetti's participation matters because he offers a rare insider perspective on both the entertainment industry's power shifts and the unresolved national security questions that continue to shape public discourse.
The episode's emotional core was the 9/11 segment. 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. The conversation revisited the classified 28 pages, Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11, and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. Curry also revisited Bob Graham's Senate testimony and Megyn Kelly's reporting on the redacted pages. Brunetti connected the Adrian Lamo thread in his shelved documentary Hackers Wanted to Chelsea Manning's arrest, underscoring how long-standing investigative threads remain relevant a quarter-century later.
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. Brunetti and Curry framed the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar as a distraction from more immediate regulatory and economic concerns. The discussion matters because it challenges the dominant narrative that AI poses an existential risk, instead pointing to political and corporate incentives behind the hype.
Brunetti also 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." That admission undercuts the mythology of individual genius in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, suggesting that structural forces, not lone visionaries, drive major industry transformations.
The episode also covered 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 delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
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.
