Dana Brunetti, Hollywood Producer Wine Tasting and Somali Pirates
Hollywood producer Dana Brunetti visited a cult winery in Sonoma County for a high-end tasting involving 100-point wines. During the visit, Brunetti shared a story regarding the casting of the film Captain Phillips, noting that the Somali pirates were cast during a cattle call in Minnesota. One of the non-professional actors from that call eventually received an Academy Award nomination, while lead actor Tom Hanks did not.
dana brunetti· hollywood· wine tasting· sonoma county· captain phillips· somali pirates· tom hanks
00:00 Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Getting my bang bang from Fang Fang and broadcasting live from Opportunity Zone 33 here in the frontier of Austin, Texas, capital of the drone star state. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where it turns out that podcasting is a thing, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. No, no, no, wait, you're just discovering this? Who told you? Megyn Kelly? How did you find out podcasting's a thing? Brunetti.
00:42 Oh, our super producer Dana Burnett. Yeah, super. What did he say? What did he say? He said that's a podcast thing. He's doing podcasts. Yeah. Yeah, but he's done it before. He's taking them off the market. They were so good. He took him off the market. They were so good. Yes, he says that he yes he had a but he was doing a Hollywood podcast and apparently it was so good Yeah, that it would have cost him business. Oh I see All right. So are you gonna give us a report on your wine tasting? Sure. We went up to wine case. We went to taste it Let's just set up Dana Burnett II super producer from Hollywood producer of the no agenda show. Oh
01:28 Yeah, yes. Yeah, and he's a reluctant associate producer and still irked about what he thinks that's a lame credit He feels that it's beyond it can't be on his record to be associate executive producer Oh, no, it's just beyond lame All right. Give us a little report great place We went up to this this is one of the cult wineries that sells it's very expensive wine one of our producers happens to be working up there Amy And we got the VIP tour of the drink, like I know, tasted, let's say. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, nine.
02:09 Or I'm sorry six first flight and then another flight of Now was Dana also spitting or was he swallowing? He was tried spitting but apparently he couldn't taste properly by spitting Okay, just spit you got a little thing. You gotta dribble it out into the glut. Yeah, I don't Yeah, you'd be another one to go tasting with yeah, so I So we had these these are these are two hundred point wines all the wines except one of them 100 points from you know the good old days when Parker was actually doing the tasting no and they Really brought in and of course I managed to get the whole tasting off the rails Because this this guy that was the winemaker Pierre. Oh wait a minute you got into a fight with Pierre You did not know I didn't know
03:03 And he has a very photogenic, pretty daughter who is also the winemaker, Helene, with a great French name. No, we started talking about, he started doing the wine BS, well, you know, I've just, next thing you know, we're talking about Arminiac and Cognac and everyone else is really, you know, Bernetti's going for his Glock, he's just about to put it in his mouth, everyone else is dousing themselves with kerosene. This thing went on and on. And so I was having a good time with Pierre. Well, now everyone knows how I feel about doing this show. Exactly. Where's my Glock? So the whole thing was... But it sounds like you had a good time. It was fun. I had a good time. Yeah. And I learned quite a bit. What I did learn, and I'll just say this for anyone out there who likes wine, I have to say I suspected this for a long time. What they really do at this winery
04:00 is they do cabernet merlot and cabernet franc wines but then there's three different wines but sonoma county really is Should be California's home for Merlot. They can make some to put the level of quality of the Merlot is Out of the out of this world is on par with anything Anywhere else? Hey, okay a couple questions one Did you have to wear a mask at the winery and like put the mask up? Let me just say flat-out All proper mask and social distancing and all required California, I'm sorry, all California requirements for social distancing and masking up were observed to the letter. Oh, brr.
04:48 Yes, I'm sure that made it quite enjoyable. Did you have your gloves on as well? We observed every rule. And your face shield. We had the face masks, the plastic guards. No! Everything. It was observed in the letter. That's all I've got to say. Okay, thank you. Understood. And Dana Bernini's... Oh, Dana's fiancé came too. Well, this is going to be my exact question. Tell us about the fiancé. She is just a sweetheart. That's all there is to it. How do guys like Bernetti get all the luck? How does that work? You can tell. Bernetti is a really down-to-earth guy, believe it or not. But he's one of those guys who's just got to touch or something. He's like a Gladstone Gander.
05:42 He's just... Yeah, well we need some of that touch from him then. Touch us! Touch us, Dana! Touch us! He's gonna be short-term, in my opinion. But she's a charmer. She is the heiress to the Bichon family fashion family. Oh! And she is really not... Can she get us a discount? Can she get Tina a discount? Can she get us a discount? I think so. Okay. Just checking. And the point is is that she's uh She's just really nice. He's very pleasant. What is she doing with brunetti then is the question well? They actually met on a dating app no you're telling me that multi hundred millionaire Hollywood producers use dating apps
06:36 This is some high-end dating apps that you have to qualify to get on. And what made it coincidental, not that I want to tell these stories out of church, but there were two of these high-end dating apps and both apps put the two of them together. That's the algo, man. Yeah, it's actually the same math. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven cars. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a seven car Zephyr Economic Report. Tell the boys over at the CNBC Squawk Box desk, the economy is not doing that well. Bitcoin, 18,185. Oh my God!
07:16 Okay, well before I go yes, I would tell them what I have one brunetti story that he Rolled out that I thought was interesting as a Hollywood story and you asked him about Kevin Spacey Which will tell me about off-air right? I don't But we did talk about the movie Captain Phillips. Oh with Tom Hanks. Yeah, there's a producer on yeah, and he They cast the Somali pirates by going to Minnesota. To Elon Omar. Wow, this is already funny. Hey Elon, you got any pirates for us?
08:00 They went to Minnesota, did a cattle call, brought in a whole... everybody from Minnesota, a bunch of Somalis. None of them knew how to act. No, these are method actors. Well, it turned out that they were method actors and half... most of the scenes with Hanks on the bridge were ad-libbed. Wow. That's a take! And after the... yeah, they ad-libbed a lot of it, if not most of it. And then at the end of... after the shoot, everything was wrapped, one of the Somalis got nominated for the Academy Award and Tom Hanks didn't. Oh, that's right! I remember that guy winning! And that was just some dude they picked up off of a cattle call in Minneapolis? Yeah. No, that's fantastic! Wow! That's a good piece of Hollywood trivia.
08:48 That was a good one. From sommeliers to Somali pirates, ladies and gentlemen, the unimitable John C. Dvorak. Well done, sir. Someone finally made a jingle for us. It was fun. Yeah. Very fun. And Brunetti, by the way, is like a hands-on guy. I mean, he's bulldozing his own property and he's got this, you know, that truck, he's got a picture of his truck. He didn't get a giant F-150, 253. He's got the 450. A big giant diesel truck with four wheels in the back. Okay, simmer down, Donna Summer. I know you're all excited about the big truck. Big truck. Big truck. Anyway. All right. Well, there's a lot to get. Thank you for that report. That was good. Shake the cobwebs loose so we can get into today's show because there's some cool stuff going on. Very cool stuff.
