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DOUG MCINTYRE is one of those rare people who can apparently do anything they try (except math) and do it brilliantly. Who graduates college, moves to L.A. and lands work as a TV writer/director/producer? Doug. Who parlays that into success as a talk radio host, a newspaper columnist, and an emcee/interviewer to the stars? This guy. And, who has his first attempt at a novel going to press as we speak? Your old Red Eye Radio pilot.

We're lucky to have him.

If you've ever thought of traveling alone you need to hear this. If you've never thought about it, you need it even more. Kirsteen is a woman of the world with no permanent address. She counsels and teaches the tranquility and joy of solitude.

As my dear dad told me: "If you don't learn to love yourself you'll never be worth a damn to anyone else."

MARK AUSTIN THOMAS retired after a long and distinguished career as a broadcast journalist. Here, he talks with Dave Williams about his radio experience and about race relations. This is an enlightening conversation. Highly recommended.

ELLEN JOVIN is a modern Joanie Appleseed, sowing vast groves of grammatical wisdom throughout the realm. Schlepping her folding table and library of reference books, Ellen and her husband, Brandt, have set up shop on the streets, at the malls and outside the libraries of America to spread the Word: 

"The rules of grammar are but guidelines, not commandments. Go forth and clarify!"

JIM DAVIES is an American/Canadian cognitive scientist and one of the leading authorities in the world on imagination. What is it? How does it work? In this episode, he explains the difference between imagination, creativity, and memory. And get this: he says ALL imagination is based on memory.

JOHN LEVEY has four primetime Emmy awards for casting major TV hits The West Wing, and E.R. The actors he cast in those two shows have more than 50. He was also Casting Director for Third Watch, China Beach, Southland, Torchwood, Animal Kingdom, SEAL Team, Shameless... The list goes on for decades. John loves his career and has written about it in a new book, RIGHT FOR THE ROLE, available soon.