Dana Brunetti Joins No Agenda to Talk Netflix, 9/11, and the AI Psyop
In Episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, host Adam Curry welcomes Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti for a wide-ranging conversation covering his role in Netflix's House of Cards, his firsthand account of 9/11, and a deconstruction of media narratives from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial to the AI 'kill all humans' psyop.
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In a rare podcast appearance, Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti joined Adam Curry on Episode 1903 of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing," published September 13, 2026. Broadcasting from the Texas Hill Country, the two-and-a-half-hour Curry & Friends installment marked Brunetti's first public podcast since leaving Los Angeles in 2019, pairing Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Brunetti, the executive behind The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21, and the Fifty Shades franchise, recounted the Saturday-night phone call from David Fincher that steered Kevin Spacey and House of Cards to Netflix's untested original-content push. He described 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."
The 9/11 segment formed the emotional core. Brunetti was two blocks from Building 7 on the morning of the attacks and 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 episode also tackled the classified 28 pages, Saudi Arabia's role in 9/11, and widow Terri Strada's confrontation of sitting and former presidents. Other topics included 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.
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. Curry delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
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.
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