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I'm Alan Alder, and this is Clear and Vivid, conversations about connecting and communicating.

The ability to communicate in this world communicate effectively is so important.

It's more important than being a brain surgeon because really how many people can a brain surgeon save in a career?

100, 500, 500, but in communication, entertainment, print, digital, you can affect the lives, you can influence people, millions of people, you can inform, you can inspire people.

Around the world, what greater career could you possibly have than something in some form of communications?

We make a distinction around here between communication and communications, with an S.

The way we look at it, communicating is connecting with people, and communications with an S is the technical way you reach out to millions, like with broadcasting.

Some people find ways to combine those two ideas in ways that are interesting, like my old friend Henry Schleif.

Henry happens to work for Discovery, but before they ever became our presenting sponsor, I wanted to talk to him on our show, because he has a thoughtful, funny angle on communication, that we haven't explored yet.

Henry, the thing that I love about you, one of the things I love about you, is that you've perfected the art of doing well, while doing good.

You're in charge of several networks and your job is to bring in the viewers.

If you wanted to, you could just go for the profit, but I'm also aware that you make sure you do specials on serious important topics that improve our lives.

Well, you're certainly right in terms of the effort, for sure.

I mean, I've been in this business for quite a while now, and in some respect, it's a privilege almost to have the access to the number of listeners or viewers that you have at any cable network.

So what access do you have? How many homes are you in?

Right now, just domestically, in the United States, we pass about 82 million homes, and around the world probably in total about 140 million homes with ID network.

And the fun of ID network is that it's obviously about true crime stories and what have you, but it gives you a platform.

And it gives you a platform that from time to time, you can actually do something, produce something like what, what have you done? What are some of the shows you're doing?

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