The September 13, 2026, episode of the No Agenda Show, titled "Non-Practicing," featured a rare guest co-host: Oscar-nominated producer Dana Brunetti, known for 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 marked Brunetti's first public podcast appearance since leaving Los Angeles in 2019. It paired Hollywood war stories with a full media deconstruction two days after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Listeners heard a wide-ranging conversation that moved from insider accounts of pitching Sony while drunk to a granular breakdown of the week's dominant narratives. Topic threads included 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; and the AfD's 43.8% earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt and Russia's new targeting of Ukrainian rail and fuel depots.
Brunetti 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." Curry, for his part, delivered the line that gives the episode its title after a TikToker declared herself "a non-practicing white."
The 9/11 segment was 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 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.
The episode matters because it demonstrates the growing influence of independent, listener-supported media in an era of corporate consolidation and government secrecy. By hosting a figure like Brunetti—who shaped Netflix's streaming revolution and witnessed 9/11 firsthand—No Agenda provides a platform for unfiltered perspectives that rarely surface in mainstream outlets. The discussion of the 28 pages and Saudi involvement keeps pressure on unanswered questions from 9/11, while the AI segment challenges the fear-based narratives pushed by tech leaders and politicians. The show's value-for-value model, detailed at noagendashow.net, exemplifies how alternative funding can sustain journalism that prioritizes skepticism over access. In a media landscape where Hollywood and Silicon Valley often align with political power, Brunetti's willingness to speak candidly—and Curry's relentless deconstruction—offer a rare counterweight. As streaming reshapes entertainment and AI threatens to upend labor, the episode serves as a reminder that the stories we tell about technology, tragedy, and power are never neutral. Episode 1903 is available now wherever podcasts are heard.
