The Frontier

Dana Brunetti relocated from Los Angeles to a Northern California property in 2019 to escape industry changes. Dana Brunetti notes that moving states does not bypass California's 13 percent tax on profit participation checks originating in the state.

Dana Brunetti argues that his unreleased documentary, Hackers Wanted, indirectly led to Chelsea Manning's arrest. Manning allegedly watched the leaked film in Iraq, contacted subject Adrian Lamo for sympathy, and was subsequently turned in to authorities by Lamo.

Dana Brunetti secured the film deal for The Social Network during a drunken Sunday night pitch call with Sony executives. The studio agreed to option the 20-page book proposal for The Accidental Billionaires before the book had an ending.

Netflix established its original programming footprint by buying House of Cards in the room for 100 million dollars for two seasons. Dana Brunetti notes this occurred shortly after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings publicly denied plans to produce original content.

Casting directors for Captain Phillips sourced Somali actors from Minnesota, home to the largest Somali population in the United States. Lead actor Barkhad Abdi and three others were cast together after auditioning as a collaborative group.

Adam Curry highlights the classified 28 pages of the 2003 joint congressional inquiry, which documented Saudi officials funding 9/11 hijackers. Adam Curry claims the Bush administration classified the pages to protect geopolitical relations, which Donald Trump later declassified.

Adam Curry claims that flight data from the aircraft that struck the Pentagon shows the plane was flying 300 feet above the building, challenging the official government narrative regarding the collision.

Dana Brunetti and Adam Curry argue that local media targeted the sole holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy mistrial because his identity as a Black man disrupted progressive narratives. NBC Boston exposed his dismissed criminal charges and 12,000 dollar eviction judgment.

Adam Curry and Dana Brunetti argue that AI safety warnings and regulatory demands from tech executives are a coordinated marketing stunt. These actions aim to establish a regulatory moat to crush open-source competitors like Hugging Face.

Adam Curry runs local AI models on a specialized workstation equipped with 128 gigabytes of memory. Adam Curry observes that corporate software quality is declining as outsourcing companies increasingly rely on unreliable AI-assisted vibe coding.

Dana Brunetti extracts and processes podcast audio clips on a mobile device using Grokbot on Telegram. Dana Brunetti utilizes a secondary agent called Eggbot to automatically generate custom transcription and audio-editing bots.

Adam Curry attended a private party at Prince's Paisley Park in 1991, navigating rare metal detectors to enter a white, hangar-sized room. The alcohol-free gathering featured only fresh fruit, ice sculptures, and unreleased tracks played by a scaffolding-mounted disc jockey.

Adam Curry flew on the Concorde and found the narrow cabin uncomfortable and cramped. He notes that the aircraft ran warm because depleted fuel was used to cool the structure, which expanded physically during high-speed flight.

Adam Curry argues the Moscow Music Peace Festival was a CIA psychological operation designed to turn Soviet youth toward Western culture. The festival was organized by band manager Doc McGee as community service following a massive Florida drug arrest.

John Dvorak and Adam Curry describe late-Soviet Moscow as dark and chaotic. The airport suffered from dim lighting due to low-lumen Russian bulbs, hotel guests bribed floor managers with toy cars for toilet paper, and youth groups openly pickpocketed travelers.

Gene Simmons once bypassed standard channels by storming into an MTV music programming meeting wearing knee pads. He jumped onto the conference table and aggressively demanded to know what sexual favors were required to get his band's videos played.

In London, a nineteen-year-old Adam Curry interviewed Keith Richards and Ron Wood while they snorted cocaine. Curry and his producer later broke into the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation's press bureau to retrieve camera film containing private, naked photos of Curry's girlfriend.

Adam Curry flew on MGM Grand Air, an ultra-premium airline configured for only fifty passengers. During the flight, he shared a compartment with Sean Penn, whose bare-chested brother drank canned beer while Penn mistook Curry for a VH1 host.

Quincy Jones passed away at ninety-one, leaving a historic production legacy. Adam Curry recalls interviewing Jones in the early 1990s on Hitline USA, where the legendary producer brought a bottle of Château Latour to share in the studio.

Adam Curry hosted MTV's live New Year's Eve coverage from Times Square, accompanied by comedian Paul Reiser and an armed, off-duty police officer. He contrasts the grimy, sex-shop-laden 1987 Times Square with the sanitized, corporate iteration of today.

During the inaugural MTV Beach House shoot in Quogue, fellow VJ Kennedy rammed her wave runner directly into Adam Curry. The high-speed impact threw him from the vehicle, leaving a permanent crease on his left glute.

Adam Curry ran an early Gopher server on the MTV.com domain. He resolved a licensing dispute with the University of Minnesota by agreeing to wear the school's t-shirt on MTV rather than paying a commercial fee.

Adam Curry discovered through transcribed interviews that Axl Rose got him fired from Headbangers Ball. Rose pressured MTV's Doug Herzog to replace Curry with his close friend Riki Rachtman, despite Curry having actively fought to play Guns N' Roses videos.