This is Love

Go behind the scenes of The Price Is Right, from contestant selection and backstage rituals to the mechanics of Plinko, Cliffhangers, and the giant wheel. Meet the people who create the show’s contagious energy, hear why fans return year after year, and follow Phoebe as she joins the audience and gets called down to compete.

Bill Stobie, a retired correctional worker and Ottawa art collector, has filled his apartment with 1,300 works, many by local and queer artists. After a terminal cancer diagnosis, he launches “Project Mode Death,” making plans for his collection, funeral, and final days. Then an unexpected remission changes everything, while his art finds new life in an exhibition.

In fire-prone California, lookout crews scan the forest for the first hint of smoke while residents confront an ever-present threat. Indigenous cultural burning, prescribed fire, and hands-on volunteer burns reveal a community working to restore the land and protect what remains. Stories of evacuation, loss, resilience, and the fight to keep human eyes watching round out this immersive journey.

Yla Eason, founder of Olmec Toys who made Sun Man after her son felt no Black superheroes existed, and Ed Duncan, Mattel design SVP who helped bring Sun Man into the Masters of the Universe line. They explore creating a Black action figure, challenges launching independent toys, design choices to reflect African and Jamaican heritage, and how representation shaped kids’ play and confidence.

Marianna Kumlianovich, a Summerland retiree who unexpectedly became a go-to for misdirected grill support calls. Bob Lynch, leader coordinating marine entanglement responses. Scott Landry, veteran whale disentangler with decades of field work. Real Abdulrahman, Auburn grad student staffing a 24/7 info desk. They talk about manned hotlines, prank and long calls, community ambassadorship, and dangerous whale rescue operations.

Erin Scott O'Brien, former owner who kept the stone as a yard ornament. Carolina Rangel de Lima, Roman world scholar who explains Sextus’s likely life as a marine. Suzanne Lusnia, classics professor who identified and traced the inscription. Daniela Santoro, anthropologist who found the gravestone in her New Orleans backyard and alerted experts. They follow the Latin inscription, trace the stone to Italy, and arrange its repatriation.

David Rankin, a nighttime observer and asteroid hunter at the Catalina Sky Survey, tracks and discovers thousands of asteroids. He recounts long nights scanning dark skies, finding asteroids in old photos, and the thrill of a rock that hit over Toronto. He explains monitoring near-Earth objects, how DART-style nudges can help, and why keeping watch matters for our planet.

Ann Druyan, writer and creative director of the Voyager Golden Record project, reflects on crafting a message meant to last a billion years. She describes racing to capture Earth’s sounds and images, deciding what to include and omit, sourcing rare music, and recording intimate human moments. She also shares how the project intersected with love, controversy, launch day, and its lasting emotional legacy.

Bob Brigham, a history professor and memoirist who traced his roots to Vietnam through documents and DNA, shares his lifelong search for identity. He recounts an overheard whisper that shaped his story. He describes finding sealed adoption papers, using DNA matches, and the surprising discovery of his biological parents through an obituary photograph.

Mark Keown, an Iowa corn farmer who built a Wimbledon-style grass tennis court on his family farm and later worked on the grounds at Wimbledon. He describes daydreaming about Wimbledon as a child, designing and maintaining a perfect grass court in a feedlot, interning and serving on Wimbledon’s grounds crew, and dedicating the court to his son Alex after his tragic death.