Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, known for executive producing The Social Network, House of Cards, Captain Phillips, 21, and the Fifty Shades franchise, made a rare public appearance on The No Agenda Show. Brunetti joined episode 1903, titled “Non-Practicing,” which was published on September 13, 2026.

Hosted by Adam Curry, the two-and-a-half-hour episode was recorded in the Texas Hill Country and marked Brunetti’s first public podcast appearance since he left Los Angeles in 2019. The discussion ranged from Hollywood anecdotes to an extended examination of recent media narratives. That mix placed Brunetti’s firsthand account alongside the program’s broader media-analysis format, rather than framing the appearance as a conventional Hollywood interview.

Brunetti recalled a Saturday-night phone call from director David Fincher that led to Kevin Spacey starring in House of Cards and the series moving to Netflix. He said Reed Hastings’ team bought the show in the room for $100 million across two seasons. Reflecting on his role in the rise of streaming, Brunetti said, “So everybody gives me credit for starting streaming and all that. It would have happened no matter what.”

The episode’s emotional focus was the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Brunetti said he was two blocks from Building 7 that morning. He described filming the hole in the North Tower from his rooftop before the second plane hit, then evacuating across the bridge with his girlfriend, who was opening Issey Miyake’s flagship store for Fashion Week.

Curry revisited former Senator Bob Graham’s testimony and Megyn Kelly’s reporting on the redacted 28 pages. Brunetti also connected the Adrian Lamo thread in his shelved documentary Hackers Wanted with Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Additional 9/11-related discussion covered the classified 28 pages, Saudi Arabia’s role in the attacks, and widow Terri Strada’s confrontation of sitting and former presidents.

The hosts also discussed the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, the Black holdout juror, and NBC 10 Boston’s rapid opposition-research doxxing. In the artificial intelligence segment, they examined what was described as a coordinated AI “kill all humans” psyop involving Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Rep. Greg Casar. The conversation also addressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s remarks at the G7, Anthropic’s accusations involving Moonshot AI, and the Sanders-Hawley bill proposing 20-year prison sentences for building artificial superintelligence.

Other subjects included what the episode called the AfD’s 43.8% “earthquake” in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia’s new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots.

The episode is available through 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. The twice-weekly program takes a skeptical, independent look at mainstream media, politics, and technology and is known for its media-deconstruction approach, sharp humor, and value-for-value model.

Source: Citybuzz