Episodes

Send us Fan Mail A live TV director doesn’t get the luxury of overthinking, because the show keeps moving. That’s why this conversation with three-time Emmy Award-winning director and author Mary Madeiras hit me so hard: she’s spent 30 years making split-second decisions in news, sports, talk shows…

Send us Fan Mail The ideas that haunt you are often the ones you never tried and that’s a 100% failure rate. Pen Densham joins us to unpack a creative life built on persistence more than certainty, from early hardship and foster care to a career in filmmaking that eventually expands into intimate, …

Send us Fan Mail A monkey tears a seasoned primate trainer’s lip off, and the story isn’t told for shock value. It’s a warning about what happens when we mistake wild animals for pets, props, or content. We sit down with Stacy Gunderson, founder of the Animal Tracks sanctuary near Los Angeles, to p…

Send us Fan Mail He turned down a sure thing with Sam Peckinpah and said yes to a script with a strange title: Flashdance. That single choice reshaped Michael Nouri’s acting career, and the way he tells it makes you feel how fragile “overnight success” really is. We talk with Michael about the long…

Send us Fan Mail Your phone may be the next movie studio, and the proof is hiding in plain sight: vertical series built from 90-second episodes that people binge in public, then happily pay to keep watching. We’re joined by Mier Liu, an international producer who’s building real momentum in the ver…