Today's guest is Mike Farris. Mike graduated from Texas Tech University's School of Law, then went into private practice focusing on commercial litigation and entertainment law, in particular in the movie and publishing industries. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the political science department, where he teaches constitutional law and entertainment law. He's also written 19 books, both fiction and nonfiction, including historical true crime. Mike is here to discuss his new book, which he co-wrote with Paul Heckman. The book chronicles Paul's years-long search for his biological brother, who he never knew, John Wesley Kearns III. John served in the US Army before joining the CIA and was killed in action during the Secret War in Laos in December 1972.

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Today Justin sits down with Geoff Shepard. Geoff graduated from Harvard Law with honors in 1969 and was selected as a White House fellow shortly thereafter. He then worked at the Department of the Treasury until he was hired in September 1970 to work for John Ehrlichman, assistant to the president for domestic affairs. Geoff worked at the White House for the next five years, including all of President Nixon's second term, the entire Watergate affair, and the beginning of the Ford administration. Afterwards, he went to work as an attorney in the insurance industry, where he remained until he retired in 2011. Since then, Geoff has written three books on the Nixon presidency and Watergate. He's here to discuss his third and newest book, "The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President," which was published in 2021.

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Today Justin talks with Miles Hargrove. Miles has worked for more than 20 years behind the scenes in the film industry as a cinematographer, editor, and camera operator, including on major feature films such as The Last Castle and the Harry Potter series. But long before his start in films, Miles was living with his family in Cali, Colombia, where his father, Thomas Hargrove, worked as a freelance journalist for the agriculture industry. In 1994, Thomas was kidnapped by FARC rebels and held for nearly a year. His wife, children, and friends banded together to negotiate with his captors for his release. Afterwards, their ordeal became the basis for the film Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Dave Morse. Miles filmed everything that year using their home video camera, which he produced as the 2020 documentary Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped in Colombia.

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