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Doug Minnick is the co-founder of the Garagiste Festivals (www.californiagaragistes.com), which bring together small, artisan winemakers and wine lovers in various cities across California.

He loves wine, but not in that snobby, intimidating kind of way that the world of wine sometimes holds.

"Garagiste" is a French term originally used in the Bordeaux region to criticize small-production winemakers, sometimes producing out of their garage.

Think rule-breakers and renegades -- driven by their love of wine.

The Garagiste Festivals connect people with ultra-premium and hard-to-find wines. It also raises scholarship funds for future winemakers at Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo.

Doug is a garagiste himself, sourcing top-quality grapes for his Hoi Polloi Winery (www.hoipolloiwinery.com) that he owns with two other wine lovers. A plural noun in the Greek language, "hoi polloi" translates to "the masses, the common people, riff-raff."

The label has a tasting room called "Double Trouble" in Old Town Newhall, just north of Los Angeles.

Doug joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about his background working in the music industry, the wine industry itself and the benefits and challenges of opening a small-production winery like his, what you'll find at the Garagiste Festival and more. 

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Todd Wertman and Nick Smith are both car buffs and are professional appraisers on the Discovery Channel show "Sticker Shock."

The 13-episode show features some classic cars and asks the question: "What's my car worth?" 

It's a show for everyone (even those who are non-car buffs), telling the owner's story behind the vehicle. More often the not, the owner of each car has spent years and thousands of dollars restoring the vehicle -- and it holds a lot of sentimental value for each person. 

Todd and Nick are among four appraisers who investigate the vehicle's history and condition to come up with a price tag. 

In the show you'll see a 1966 Batmobile replica with working rocket launchers, a 1931 Chevrolet Roadster that was once featured with the Beach Boys during a performance on the "Ed Sullivan Show," and even a street-legal WWII military tank that the owner inherited from his dad. 

Both Todd and Nick me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about their backgrounds, filming for "Sticker Shock" and the various car owners on the show, some of the specific car cultures that exist in America and more!   

"Sticker Shock" airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. PT/ET on Discovery and is available on the Discovery GO app. 

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Drew Manning was working as a personal trainer when he purposely gained and lost 75 pounds in order to gain a better perspective on the struggles of his clients.

He has since become a New York Times bestselling author and hosted the A&E show "Fit To Fat To Fit," which follows other personal trainers from across the country as the undergo a similar experiment in which they intentionally gain weight -- and then lose it alongside their clients.  

Drew has also become very knowledgeable about the ketogenic diet, appearing on "The Dr. Oz Show" to explain its benefits. He now runs a 60-day Keto Jumpstart Program and is working on a keto book. 

On his podcast, The Fit2Fat2Fit Experience, Drew interviews various people talking about everything from physical health to mental health. In two recent episodes that are both very honest and vulnerable, he shares some pretty intimate details about his own life, his divorce and overcoming his addiction to pornography -- and then his ex-wife Lynn follows by sharing her side of the story and tips to heal after a major life change. 

He joined me on Olympic & Bundy to discuss "Fit To Fat To Fit," the keto diet, his religious upbringing, the importance of being vulnerable and more. 

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Francesco Mastalia is a photographer who takes portraits of people using an old and beautiful photographic technique from the 1850s, called the wet plate collodion process.

The photographs are taken on glass plates, and Mastalia uses a large format wooden camera and antique brass lens. The glass plates are hand coated to produce images that are each individually unique -- yet possess an ethereal-like quality in all.

For his new book "Yoga: The Secret of Life," Mastalia met and photographed more than 100 of the world's most renowned yogis, asking how they came to yoga and what it means to them.

In doing so, the project seems to have left a profound effect on his own life.

Mastalia joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about the enchanting wet plate collodion process, how this project positively impacted his own life, his photography style versus digital photography and more!

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Tony McEwing was surprised this week by Los Angeles City Council with June 13th being proclaimed "Tony McEwing Day."

He recently celebrated his 25th anniversary on Los Angeles television at FOX 11, and there were a lot of surprises for him.

Tony says he doesn't really like all of the attention on himself, but is very grateful and appreciative for all of the love.

He joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about his early days in Chicago, what made him switch from law school to a news man, his strict diet and more!

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Jen and Samir Sarkar are the loving parents to 6-year-old Carter and 8-year-old Sophia. Their son, Carter, was diagnosed with a fatal disease called Sanfillipo syndrome, which is sometimes referred to as childhood Alzheimer's.

It's a progressive brain disorder in young children -- caused by a missing enzyme. Carter’s parents say as the disease progresses, he will eventually lose the ability to talk, swallow and walk. He will develop seizures, suffer severe dementia and eventually pass away.   

His parents, like all parents would do, are working tirelessly to give Carter his rightful chance at life. They started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $1 million to fund a clinical trial that could potentially save Carter’s life.  

Visit www.SavingCarter.com to read more and use #SavingCarter on social media to further spread the word. 

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If you're drawn to true crime shows and podcasts, you may have heard the voice of Tracy Pattin.

She is the host and co-producer of the popular Hollywood & Crime podcast by Wondery, which delves into the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short (aka The Black Dahlia) in 1947, as well as the murder of more than a dozen other women who died in similar circumstances around the same time.

Most recently, Tracy's new six-part series called "The Wonderland Murders" skyrocketed to No. 1 on Apple Podcasts upon being released.

She and writer/director Larry Brand use a docudrama style of storytelling to look at the 1981 case in which four people were brutally murdered at 8763 Wonderland Avenue — located in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles. The case involves drugs, criminals and even the world's most famous porn star "on a downward and deadly spiral."

Based on the success of Tracy's projects, as well as others like "Serial" or the docuseries "Making a Murderer," it's clear that people are drawn to true crime stories.

But why?

She joined me on Olympic & Bundy to discuss this very topic, as well as the cases covered in many of her popular podcast series, her love of research and history of West Hollywood, her new political series, Women2018, documenting stories of women running for political office across the country — and more.

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Lesli Linka Glatter is one of the most prolific television directors around. She's received seven Emmy nominations, won two Directors Guild Awards and even received an Oscar nomination. 

Her work includes "Homeland," for which she also serves as an executive producer, "Twin Peaks," "Mad Men," "The West Wing," "Gilmore Girls" and even "Freaks and Geeks."

As part of the Female Forward Initiative, she's actively opening the door for other female directors to advance in their own careers.  

As all good stories begin, you could say Lesli's began with a conversation with a stranger at a coffee shop in Japan.

She joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about her modern dance background, the person she met in Japan that ultimately led her to change career paths, her first short film that got her an Oscar nomination and noticed by Steven Spielberg, directing and the environment she likes to create on set, reinventing each season of "Homeland" and more. 

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Valorie Kondos Field, or "Miss Val" as she's affectionately known, is the longtime head coach of the UCLA Women's Gymnastics Team with seven NCAA National Championships. 

Valorie has been named the PAC-12 Gymnastics Coach of the Century and is a member of the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame. 

Most importantly, she has a unique coaching style with a focus on joy, gratitude and choices. She says a breast cancer diagnosis in 2014 led her to an epiphany: "Be anxious for nothing and grateful for all things." 

Valorie joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about her ballerina background, what led her to coaching gymnastics at UCLA, her coaching philosophy, the culture of gymnastics amid the Larry Nassar trial and conviction, empowering athletes to use their voices, how her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment changed her -- and a lot more. 

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Heidi Moneymaker is one of Hollywood's go-to stuntwomen and has been doubling for actress Scarlett Johansson for years.

She's also doubled for Julianne Moore ("The Hunger Games"), Michelle Rodriguez ("Fast and the Furious"), Drew Barrymore ("Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle") and many more.

Before entering the stunt double world, she was a champion gymnast for UCLA. Heidi is the only woman gymnast in UCLA history to win NCAA gymnastics titles all four years in school, and she is UCLA’s first-ever uneven bars NCAA champion.

In other words, she's a force to be reckoned with.

Heidi joined me on Olympic & Bundy to talk about what got her into gymnastics as a kid, the transition to working as a stunt double, various films and roles she's taken on, the training you need to get work as a stunt double, her fitness company Fierce Lotus and its Action Star Workouts -- and much more.

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