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Aug 19, 2016

NICK STEIN was flying high as the executive producer of Border Wars for the National Geographic Channel. It was the most exciting television series he’d ever been in charge of. But then Fox Cable Networks took over Nat Geo, leading Nick to the greatest existential crisis of his life. (36:36)

 

 

 

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Aug 19, 2016

JAMES RAINEY is a senior film reporter at Variety and covered the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight. The “Best Picture” resonated with Jim who spent 29 years as a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times. But no amount of news experience could have prepared him for the media attention he got after experiencing a...


Aug 19, 2016

TANYA GREEN is a former non-fiction television producer who turned her love of wine into a show biz exit strategy. Tanya now owns Wine 661, a once struggling wine bar and bottle shop where she enjoys holding court and helping her loyal customers develop their own wine palates. (41:34)

 

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Aug 19, 2016

JULES SYLVESTER is Hollywood’s go-to guy for camera-ready reptiles, spiders and creepy crawlies of all kinds. Raised in Africa, Jules moved to America while in his twenties and joined a traveling circus before landing an animal training job that led to his working on hundreds of movies, including Snakes on a Plane. 


Aug 19, 2016

BRENT GREEN has been called the Johnny Appleseed of Los Angeles. He has personally planted, at his own expense, hundreds of trees on once barren city streets. Brent is on a mission to not only beautify the part of LA he lives in, but to change the way other Angelenos view his neighborhood. (31:06)

 

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