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Want to know what happens when you climb a hundred foot sheer rock wall with no ropes or find yourself scuba diving with a reef shark you'd hoped would have stuck to his side of the ocean? Join Matt as he steps outside of his Hollywood life and says "yes" to a life of challenging and physically and mentally stimulating adventure!

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  • From the exotic street food of the Kwangjang Market to the implausibly fresh seafood of the Jukdo Fish Market the most educated palates will find a variety of textures, flavors, and temperatures. Photo: Matt Payne

    South Korea: an adventure in street market food

    From the exotic street food of the Kwangjang Market to the implausibly fresh seafood of the Jukdo Fish Market the most educated palates will find a variety of textures, flavors, and temperatures. Published 12:30 p.m. November 12, 2012 - Comments

     
  • With its main drag, historic hotels, charming store fronts, Red Lodge, Montana conjures images of days gone by.

    Ski, shop, and sip local brews in Red Lodge, Montana

    With its main drag, historic hotels, charming store fronts, Red Lodge, Montana conjures images of days gone by. Published 3:41 p.m. October 11, 2012 - Comments

     
  • Home to National Parks, quaint towns, extra-ordinary golfing, camping, mountain biking, and wildlife, Delta and Montrose counties are not something to be missed and the town of Montrose is a perfect hub for exploring Western Colorado.

    Montrose, Colorado: the hub of Colorado's great southwest

    Home to National Parks, quaint towns, extra-ordinary golfing, camping, mountain biking, and wildlife, Delta and Montrose counties are not something to be missed and the town of Montrose is a perfect hub for exploring Western Colorado. Published 10:38 a.m. September 19, 2012 - Comments

     
  • A Canadian couple annually builds luxury Yurts, offering travelers to one of Canada's most remote destinations a unique adventure.

    Yurtville with Boreale Explorers: Yukon Territory's most unique destination

    A Canadian couple annually builds luxury Yurts, offering travelers to one of Canada's most remote destinations a unique adventure. Published 11:11 a.m. September 6, 2012 - Comments

     
  • Downtown LA has become a destination in Los Angeles not to be missed. And at its center, The JW Marriott Los Angeles at LA Live i

    The JW Marriott at LA LIVE: DTLA's only place to stay

    Downtown LA has become a destination in Los Angeles not to be missed. And at its center, The JW Marriott Los Angeles at LA Live i Published 4:42 p.m. August 29, 2012 - Comments

     
  • Matt participates in a series of grand tastings and cooking demos hosted by chefs Giada De Laurentiis, Wolfgang Puck, Andrew Zimmern, Graham Elliot and many more at the Los Angeles Food and Wine Show.

    Three Nights at the Los Angeles Food and Wine Show

    Matt participates in a series of grand tastings and cooking demos hosted by chefs Giada De Laurentiis, Wolfgang Puck, Andrew Zimmern, Graham Elliot and many more at the Los Angeles Food and Wine Show. Published 3:15 p.m. August 15, 2012 - Comments

     
  • Each year in Kearney, Nebraska, more than a half million sandhill cranes gather along the Platte River in route from the Southern United States to Canada, Alaska, and Siberia for what Jane Goodall has referred to as one of the most magnificent spectacles in nature.

    Sandhill Cranes: North America's greatest migrations

    Each year in Kearney, Nebraska, more than a half million sandhill cranes gather along the Platte River in route from the Southern United States to Canada, Alaska, and Siberia for what Jane Goodall has referred to as one of the most magnificent spectacles in nature. Published 5:35 p.m. July 10, 2012 - Comments

     
  • Armed only with red LED lights, volunteers set out onto a remote beach to get to the eggs of the endangered nesting leatherback turtles before poachers do.

    The Pacuare Sea Turtle Project: Saving the leatherback in Costa Rica

    Armed only with red LED lights, volunteers set out onto a remote beach to get to the eggs of the endangered nesting leatherback turtles before poachers do. Published 5:57 p.m. June 23, 2012 - Comments

     
  • In part two of this story, we learn the in's and out's of what it takes to protect nesting sea turtles as they come to land after 25 years at sea to lay their eggs, and what is done to keep those eggs from poachers who have driven these 150 million year old creatures almost to extinction.

    Voluntourism in Costa Rica: Saving the leatherback sea turtles, Part 2

    In part two of this story, we learn the in's and out's of what it takes to protect nesting sea turtles as they come to land after 25 years at sea to lay their eggs, and what is done to keep those eggs from poachers who have driven these 150 million year old creatures almost to extinction. Published 5:27 a.m. June 20, 2012 - Comments

     
  • In a remote part of Costa Rica, volunteers engage in a race against poachers to save the eggs of the nesting and endangered leatherback sea turtles.

    Voluntourism in Costa Rica: Saving the leatherback sea turtles

    In a remote part of Costa Rica, volunteers engage in a race against poachers to save the eggs of the nesting and endangered leatherback sea turtles. Published 4:18 p.m. June 18, 2012 - Comments

     
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Matt Payne

Matt Payne has lived and worked as both a television writer and producer in Los Angeles for nearly ten years.  Matt grew up in Oklahoma City and began his career with a degree in Film and Video Studies from the ...

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Matt Payne has lived and worked as both a television writer and producer in Los Angeles for nearly ten years.  Matt grew up in Oklahoma City and began his career with a degree in Film and Video Studies from the University of Oklahoma.  Since then, he has worked as part of writing staffs for such hits as 24 andWithout A Trace. Most recently Matt wrote and produced episodes of CBS’s The Defenders starring Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell and Memphis Beat, starring Jason Lee, which is set to air on TNT in August of 2011.

In addition to a successful television-writing career, Matt has developed features with major production companies and continues to work as a freelance script analyst for Relativity Media, the production company behind such hits as The Fighter, Zombieland, and Catfish where he has provided script feed back on nearly a thousand features.

When he is not writing and producing television, Matt works as contributor to the Washington Times Communities Travel section, where he has writing skills have taken him from the top of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpar to the jungles of the Philippine Islands.  New York City’s finest restaurants to the earthquake ravaged Port au Prince Haiti. 

Matt was the winner of the 2004 Comedy writing award for Scriptapolooza, a finalist for the Warner Brothers Television Writer’s workshop, and is an active participant in Los Angeles’s Young Storytellers Program.  

Early in his career, Matt spent two years working as an assistant the Endeavor, which is now part of WME, the second largest talent agency in the world, working closely with such talent as Christian Bale and Michael Douglass.

Matt  is a member of  the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor’s Guild.

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