Dana Brunetti Joins No Agenda to Deconstruct 9/11, AI Hype and Hollywood's Exit

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," published September 13, 2026. Hosted by Adam Curry from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment pairs Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The episode matters because it offers a rare, unfiltered look at how mainstream narratives are constructed and challenged, from the classified 28 pages to the AI fear campaign.

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 humility underscores a key implication: technological shifts are often inevitable, not the work of singular visionaries, and the media industry's obsession with attributing change to individuals obscures broader forces.

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. Also discussed are Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11 and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. These threads highlight why official accounts remain contested and why independent media like No Agenda continue to probe unanswered questions.

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 frames the coordinated AI "kill all humans" psyop from Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar as a hype cycle designed to shape regulation and public fear. The implication is that such narratives can stifle open development and concentrate power among a few players.

Other topics include the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston's rapid opposition-research doxxing, as well as the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots. Brunetti also shares insider accounts of pitching Sony while drunk, adding levity to a dense news week. The episode's title comes from Curry after a TikToker declares herself "a non-practicing white."

By combining firsthand Hollywood experiences with skeptical analysis, Brunetti's appearance on No Agenda reinforces the value of independent, listener-supported media in an era of consolidated news. Episode 1903 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.