When two writers from rural Wisconsin and Oklahoma sit down for the first time, it becomes immediately clear they've been living the same story, just at different angles. Both grew up around machinery that took fingers. Both defied every signal that people like them became writers. So naturally, when they met, they recognized each other immediately. This conversation is about the mentors who showed them the way before the way was clear, and what it means to build a literary voice from something harder than books.

When your life has been a series of reinventions, what does consistency even mean? Phil Pearlman brings new life to a clip from Nancy Burger and Julia Duthie, two executives who've radically transformed themselves, and asks a question that shouldn't work. The answer reveals something more powerful than any rigid routine ever could.

Ten conversations. One through-line: the people you invite into your world determine the life you'll build within that world. Just Press Record is a show about human connection, and if you're interested in building a better, more humane world, we think you'll love these clips on authenticity, reinvention, and finding "switched-on" people to build with.

Superheroes and villains start from the same place - alone, unsupported, hurting. Tyrone Ross Jr. and Neils Ribeiro-Yemofio meet for the first time to discuss origin stories, the power of what you tell people, and why hope is both a tool and a weapon.

Eric Pachman returns to discuss a clip about serendipity and the architecture of lasting work. Fresh off another career pivot, he's launching Data 4 The People - a mission to expose uncomfortable truths about SNAP, poverty, and who we are as a society.

David Foster Wallace called television his "main artistic snorkel to the universe." Rohan Routroy asks: what happens when that snorkel runs through algorithmic comfort content and the Netflix Borg? A meditation on media consolidation, imagination, and the stories we need.

Ben Hunt and Rusty Guinn of Perscient have developed a revolutionary technology for tracking narratives in real time.

The stories we're told precede the decisions already made. Ben Hunt and Rusty Guinn teach us to see the narrative architecture beneath the headlines – the way language is weaponized, how certainty is constructed, and how we're brought along to support predetermined conclusions. Using Perscient's Semantic Signatures technology, they reveal what Storyboards can show us: how narrative operates across media, politics, and markets – not just finance. This isn't cynicism. It's literacy. The question isn't whether the ending is inevitable. It's whether you're discovering it or being led toward it.