Comedy television writer Dan Goor joins us for this informative and entertaining episode. Dan has written for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Office, and  Parks and Recreation all before he became the cocreator of the very successful Brooklyn 99 which has already won 2 Golden Globes in its first season. He joins us for a lively discussion on breaking into television, creating successful characters, writing a pilot that sells, and planning the story arc for a season.

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Scott Neustadter discusses how an internship was an incredibly valuable experience that helped to launch his career, and how his time working in development affected his screenwriting process. He also discusses his bi-coastal writing partnership with Michael H. Weber and the several successful adaptations, including The Fault in Our Stars, that the two writers have penned.

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Andrew Jenks, award-winning twenty-something American filmmaker, explains how to find the story in documentaries, and how the story often leads you to discover material you were never expecting. From the realities of nursing homes to  a young man fighting to get a wrongful conviction overturned, Jenks finds moving topics and uses his storytelling skills to craft unforgettable documentaries. In addition to his filmmaking, he is also the host of MTV's very popular documentary series World of Jenks. If all that work weren't enough to keep him busy, he is the founder of the All-American High School Film Festival. The annual event was designed to inspire and educate young filmmakers from around the world and features judges such as Kristen Stewart, Morgan Spurlock, and Diablo Cody.

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