Dana Brunetti Joins No Agenda to Deconstruct 9/11, AI Hype and Hollywood's Exit
On Episode 1903 'Non-Practicing,' Adam Curry welcomes Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti (The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, Fifty Shades of Grey) for a two-and-a-half-hour deep dive into 9/11's unanswered questions, the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, AI regulation theater and life after Hollywood.
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In The Morning — and the guest
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
"So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what." — Dana Brunetti on greenlighting House of Cards at Netflix.
Episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing," published September 13, 2026, features host Adam Curry welcoming a rare guest co-host: Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, the executive behind The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21 and the Fifty Shades franchise. Broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment marks Brunetti's first public podcast appearance since leaving Los Angeles in 2019, and pairs Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
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:
In The Morning — and the guest
Photo: Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak
"So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what." — Dana Brunetti on greenlighting House of Cards at Netflix.
- 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.
- 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.
About No Agenda Show
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who is Dana Brunetti and why is his appearance on No Agenda significant?
- Dana Brunetti is the Oscar-nominated producer behind The Social Network, Captain Phillips, House of Cards, 21 and the Fifty Shades franchise. He left Los Angeles in 2019 and now lives on a 40-acre ranch in Northern California. Episode 1903 marks his first public podcast or interview appearance since exiting Hollywood, making it a rare, on-the-record conversation with a producer who publicly walked away from the industry.
- What does the episode title 'Non-Practicing' refer to?
- The title comes from a TikTok clip Brunetti played about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, in which a woman declares, 'I'm not going to share any opinions because I'm not a person of color. I am a non-practicing white.' Curry immediately seized on the phrase, joking he would use it to deflect future accusations of white privilege, and it became the running gag of the episode.
- How did House of Cards actually end up at Netflix, according to Brunetti?
- Brunetti says HBO wanted a traditional pilot, but David Fincher insisted on a multi-episode order. A throwaway meeting at Netflix — a company Reed Hastings had publicly said would not do original content — resulted in an in-the-room offer of roughly $100 million for two seasons. Brunetti and Kevin Spacey took the call on a Saturday from Spacey's Malibu house, with Spacey initially thinking Netflix was a DVD service.
- What did Brunetti witness on 9/11?
- Brunetti lived two blocks from World Trade Center Building 7 and was in his apartment when the first plane hit. He grabbed a video camera, went to the roof, and filmed the hole in the North Tower before the fire fully started. After the second plane struck, he evacuated with his girlfriend — who was opening Issey Miyake's flagship store that day — over one of the last open bridges out of Manhattan.
- What is the controversy around the Lindsay Clancy juror discussed on the show?
- The lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's trial was a Black man, which Curry and Brunetti argue destroyed the media's narrative. Within hours, NBC 10 Boston published an investigation revealing his prior domestic violence charge, an active restraining order and a pending eviction — information the hosts characterize as effectively doxxing him while ignoring the other eleven jurors.
- What is the AI 'kill all humans' psyop the hosts describe?
- Curry and Brunetti argue that Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and politicians like Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are coordinating fear messaging to justify heavy AI regulation that would build a moat around incumbent companies. They point to the Sanders-Hawley bill proposing 20-year sentences for building artificial superintelligence and note the campaign lets hobbyists running local models on hardware like the ASUS Ascent be shut out.
- What tools does Brunetti recommend for working with AI?
- Brunetti's tip of the day is Grokbot, which he used to build a custom 'Clipbot' via an agent-builder called Eggbot that pulls audio from links, transcribes it and exports MP3s for the show. He also recommends Harbor Freight's Icon Tools line for ranch work, citing their lifetime replacement guarantee similar to the old Sears Craftsman policy.
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