The Neil Haley Show
The Neil Haley Show
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The Neil Haley Show is a syndicated radio program broadcast on over 150 stations across the United States, reaching over 5 million listeners weekly. The show features live streams 30-40 times per week and covers a variety of topics. It is hosted by Neil Haley and is distributed through various AM and FM stations in markets such as Pittsburgh, Tampa, Las Vegas, and others.
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L.A. Law's Michele Greene, Author Tom Askman, and the Marrow Marxman with Dr. Robert E. Marx and Eric Papenfus 08.09.2026 1時間L.A. Law's Michele Greene, Author Tom Askman, and the Marrow Marxman with Dr. Robert E. Marx and Eric PapenfusThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Caregiver Dave celebrity segment, co-hosted by caregiver advocate Dave Nassaney, welcoming actress, singer, songwriter, and author Michele Greene, best known as attorney Abby Perkins on L.A. Law, a role that earned her a 1989 Primetime Emmy nomination and which she reprised in the 2002 reunion film. Greene shared the warmth of reconnecting with her castmates, recounting how nearly the entire cast reunited on The Talk, the first time they had all been together since the show ended, and marveled at how emotional it proved, with Michael Tucker admitting he was unprepared for how deeply it affected him. She said the group even headed out to an impromptu dinner that night, and previewed an upcoming fan signing event drawing familiar faces like Susan Ruttan and Harry Hamlin, with hopes that others, perhaps Corbin Bernsen, might turn up too. Beyond acting, Greene, raised in a bilingual Mexican and Central American household in Los Angeles, spoke to her parallel life as a bilingual singer-songwriter and author, and, over the yelps of her puppy in the background, came across as gracious and grateful for the affection fans still hold for the show.Neil then welcomed author Tom Askman to discuss his book The Way Back to Being: Tools for Returning Home. Askman explained that he never expected to become an author, having spent fifty-four years as a studio art professor, and that the book grew out of his own long journey through alcoholism and, ultimately, sobriety and a spiritual awakening. Teaching one-on-one, he said, he watched more and more students grow disillusioned, conditioned to chase happiness somewhere out in the world, and he came to believe, echoing Emerson and Wayne Dyer, that people are born connected to their authentic selves and lose that connection to overthinking and cultural programming. The book, he said, offers the practical tools that helped him reconnect, get free of addiction, and live more fully and lovingly, a message that grew out of a class he taught and that his students urged him to put into writing.The program closes with a Dr. Robert E. Marx Show and Million Dollar Minutes simulcast, produced by Michael Aguas, spotlighting the newly FDA-cleared Marrow Marxman, a device developed over years by oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Robert E. Marx and engineer Eric Papenfus, chief engineer and CEO of Medimetrix. Marx explained that the device harvests a patient's own adult stem cells from bone marrow at higher concentration, allowing surgeons to regenerate bone, even rebuild a jaw, without taking bone from the hip or leg, a minimally invasive alternative to older grafting surgery with a published track record dating to 2022. Papenfus walked through the patented flexible shaft and cutting head and the years of studies and rigorous review behind it. Both emphasized benefits they see for patients, no general anesthesia and little swelling, and framed it as their own account of the technology and its clearance rather than medical advice. Find Michele Greene on L.A. Law and Tom Askman's The Way Back to Being wherever books are sold. -
Punky Brewster's Soleil Moon Frye and Retired Chief John Matthews 04.09.2026 1時間Punky Brewster's Soleil Moon Frye and Retired Chief John MatthewsThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Soleil Moon Frye, beloved as the star of the 1980s classic Punky Brewster. Frye, an unabashed lover of the era herself, reflected on how deeply the show still moves people decades later, saying Punky was never just a show but a way of life, and that her castmate Cherie felt like a true best friend and the set like family. She pointed viewers to her Hulu documentary Kid 90, a decades-in-the-making project that began as a film about everyone else and became a personal coming-of-age story of both the teen and adult her, spanning college, marriage, four children, and years of transformation, and she hinted a new book could be next. The heart of the conversation was her work with the Ask to Be Sure campaign, raising awareness of meningitis B, a rare but fast-moving and potentially deadly infection that especially affects teens and young adults roughly sixteen to twenty-three. Frye said she had not realized the childhood meningitis vaccine does not cover meningitis B until a friend told her, and, after hearing from survivors and grieving families, she spoke with her own daughter's pediatrician. Framed as awareness rather than medical advice, her message was simple: do not be shy about asking your doctor, pharmacist, or care provider to be sure. She noted that a striking share of seventeen-year-olds had not received a single dose, and that families often assume the shots kids get for school already cover it, a gap she hopes the campaign closes by keeping the conversation going between parents, teens, and providers.Neil then joined a Storehouse Media Group simulcast welcoming retired police chief John Matthews, who blended two very different passions into one memorable brand. A four-decade veteran of law enforcement who began with the Dallas Police Department and is known for the investigation and arrest of the city's first serial killer, Matthews went on to spend about thirty years training police nationwide, more than a hundred thousand officers, specializing in serial killers, mass shooters, and school safety, work he has also done alongside federal agencies. Rather than slow down, he founded the well-rated Casara Winery and Vineyards, focusing on Italian dry reds like Sangiovese and Montepulciano, and created True Crime and Wine, a live event and podcast in which audiences sip wine while he walks them through real cases, his own and others from around the world. He described more than a hundred sellout nights at wineries across the country and a new national tour ahead, noting his crowds are overwhelmingly women drawn to the how and the why behind these crimes. Born, almost literally, into a law enforcement family, Matthews said the most satisfying part of the career has always been helping put dangerous people behind bars and bringing families some measure of closure. He and Neil's co-host connected over shared roots in Virginia and Georgia, both stops on his upcoming tour, and he traced the surge of interest to appearances at CrimeCon, where audiences kept asking how someone could commit such acts, a question he tries to help ordinary, good-hearted people begin to understand. -
Author Steven Jay Rubin, Crime Watch Daily's Chris Hansen, Author Tracy Emerick, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle 04.09.2026 1時間Author Steven Jay Rubin, Crime Watch Daily's Chris Hansen, Author Tracy Emerick, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Steven Jay Rubin, author of The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia. Rubin, a film historian who spent over three years on the project, said he set out to honor not just Rod Serling but the hundreds of actors and behind-the-scenes people across the show's 156 episodes who might otherwise be lost to history, gathering rare photos and untold stories. He described Serling as a genius who came out of live television determined to tell morality plays about the common man, and who, blocked at every turn by nervous networks and sponsors, learned to cloak real-world issues in science fiction and fantasy, wanting to dramatize the Emmett Till case and being told to change the victim's identity before turning to allegory like Eye of the Beholder. Rubin argued Serling was among the first to grasp television's power to reach more people in twenty minutes than all the authors in history, and pointed fans to his daily Twilight Zone history feature on Facebook. The book is available at bookstores and on Amazon.Neil then welcomed veteran journalist Chris Hansen of Crime Watch Daily. Hansen described a daily program unlike anything else on daytime television, spanning murder mysteries, investigations, the latest Hansen versus Predator work, and breaking news, all guided by his longtime mission: to get into the mind of the criminal, hear the voice of the victim, and help prevent others from becoming victims. He spoke about the show's Badge of Honor segment saluting law enforcement, sharing the story of an Oregon state trooper shot twelve times who survived and returned to duty, and of NYPD officers who drove a suspected bomb to a less populated area to save lives. Noting the show reaches hundreds of cities, he previewed an exclusive interview in a self-defense case and pointed viewers to crimewatchdaily.com to find local listings.The hour continued with author Tracy Emerick, Ph.D., about his book Nifty Neighbors: Mister Rogers and Jesus Christ. Emerick explained that the book is part of a series he writes as bridges for people who are not necessarily believers, pairing well-known figures, Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Belichick, Oprah Winfrey, and others, with Jesus Christ, telling stories rather than lectures. He described Fred Rogers, a Presbyterian minister, as a masterful storyteller whose on-air transformation into sweater and sneakers made him a comforting neighbor, and drew parallels to Jesus welcoming the little children and meeting people, like the woman at the well, where they were. Both, he argued, were gentle but never pushovers, holding high expectations while leading with kindness, and his hope is simply to hold up a mirror that prompts readers to reflect.The program closes with GildaGram, where Dr. Gilda Carle explored what success can cost at home, warning that when two partners compete to climb, jealousy can replace partnership, and urging couples to set clear roles and boundaries and to give each other room to decompress after demanding days. In a heavier segment, she responded to backlash over a remark about male fragility, clarifying that she was pointing to the disproportionately high rate of suicide among men and boys and calling on listeners to mentor and support struggling young men rather than dismiss the issue. Find Steven Jay Rubin's The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia on Amazon and Tracy Emerick's Nifty Neighbors wherever books are sold. -
Black-ish Star Marcus Scribner, Dr. Robert E. Marx on AI, and a Faith Testimony from Owen Wilson 04.09.2026 1時間Black-ish Star Marcus Scribner, Dr. Robert E. Marx on AI, and a Faith Testimony from Owen WilsonThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Marcus Scribner of ABC's Black-ish, a show Neil and his wife catch up on every weekend. Scribner, who has grown up on the series, reflected on auditioning as a naive newcomer who assumed the show would simply run thirty years, only to learn how quickly most pilots come and go, making a run like Black-ish all the more special. He praised the series for telling a fresh story every week and reflecting the diaspora of cultures across the country, and marveled at how it can tackle prickly subjects and poke at every group without leaving audiences feeling attacked. He spoke about his character reaching the milestone of graduation, an honor he called super special, and about weighing his own next steps, from college classes to what comes after a childhood spent on set. Warm and grateful for a role that shaped his coming of age, he clearly relishes being part of a show he believes tells the story of the American people.Neil then hosted a Dr. Robert E. Marx Show simulcast in which the veteran oral and maxillofacial surgeon, once a skeptic, came on as an enthusiastic new convert to artificial intelligence. Marx said his early wariness came mostly from unfamiliarity, but that the more he looked, the more he saw enormous potential with minimal drawbacks, and that the technology is a juggernaut no one can afford to ignore. He and Neil talked through the debate over AI data centers and their demand on resources like water, and made the case, as their own opinion, that the United States and its allies cannot afford to slow down while other nations race ahead, arguing the country should embrace the tools rather than fall behind out of fear. Both framed AI as most powerful when it augments human work rather than replaces it, and Neil, who had earlier helped introduce Marx to the tools, noted how far the doctor's enthusiasm had come in a matter of months. They offered the political dimensions of the debate as their own views rather than settled fact.The program closes with a faith testimony from Owen Wilson, a New Zealand aircraft mechanic and pilot, not the actor, featured in Daniel Fasina's book and set to appear at the Power of Testimony event at Shelter Rock Church in Syosset, New York, on September 12th. Wilson recounted a gorgeous late-autumn afternoon flight he took to celebrate a friend's birthday in a small aero-club plane he had flown and trusted for years over the rugged, ocean-lined Marlborough region. Partway through, he said, the engine fell silent with nowhere to land, and as he and his passenger prayed, it sputtered back to life in just enough bursts to clear a ridge, revealing a hidden airfield below where he set the plane down safely, a spot he had never once seen in years of flying that coastline. Having marked every possible emergency landing spot on his maps over four years, he had never known that airfield existed, and he credits the whole chain of events, and the tricky landing that followed, to divine intervention. Tickets for the September 12th event are at events.artoheaven.com, and Marcus Scribner can be seen on Black-ish. -
Leeza Gibbons, Walking Miracles' Brett Wilson, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle 04.09.2026 1時間Leeza Gibbons, Walking Miracles' Brett Wilson, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Emmy winner, New York Times bestselling author, and Celebrity Apprentice champion Leeza Gibbons about her passion for seniors and their caregivers. Gibbons said too few people pay attention to an aging population, and that she wants to shine a light on how adult children can honor the senior loved ones who deserve it. She traced her advocacy back to caring for her own mother through Alzheimer's, and described how her mission has broadened beyond that one disease to seniors more generally. Gibbons spoke about her work with Senior Helpers, whose in-home caregivers are specially trained to work with cognitive impairments and to educate families on what to expect, and stressed how much easier the road becomes when a family has a plan in place before a crisis hits rather than scrambling afterward. She framed it as awareness for families rather than one-size-fits-all advice, encouraging loved ones to start the conversation early. Warm and grateful, she framed the whole effort as making sure our elders are seen and valued, and reflected on how winning Celebrity Apprentice let her pour a spotlight, and real resources, onto a cause the culture too often overlooks.Neil then welcomed Brett Wilson, CEO of The Unspoken Cost of Cancer and founder of the Walking Miracles Family Foundation, to launch a new podcast the two are producing together. Wilson, a two-time childhood cancer survivor who has spent years building the resources she and her mother never had, explained that after their first interview she and Neil hit it off and decided to join forces, with Neil lending his media network and contacts to grow her foundation and her patient-education work. The Unspoken Cost of Cancer, she said, addresses the toll cancer takes not only on patients but on the caregivers, families, and communities around them, a burden she believes goes largely unspoken. She recounted how she and her mother faced her own childhood cancers with little guidance in rural West Virginia, the experience that fuels the mission, and said the new show is a way to reach far more families than she ever could alone. She continues to give overlooked cancer families navigation, resources, and a voice.The program closes with a series of GildaGram simulcasts featuring Dr. Gilda Carle. In one, she returned to the backlash she gets whenever she calls men fragile, clarifying that she is not insulting men but pointing to real warning signs, from a widening gap in which women now outpace men in earning college degrees to the disproportionately high rate of male suicide, and urging support and mentorship over defensiveness. In another, aimed at her professional audience, she warned about over-functioning, the trap of overpromising and burning yourself out to impress higher-ups, and the toll it quietly takes. In a lighter final segment, she reacted to a proposed United Kingdom law that could grant a long-term cohabiting partner rights to a person's assets even without marriage, using it to talk through the modern anxieties reshaping how people approach dating and commitment, and cautioning listeners against letting resentment harden into writing off an entire gender. Find Brett Wilson's Walking Miracles at walkingmiracles.org. -
Author Susan Hall, Real Estate Star Ryan Serhant, Author Daniel Fazzina, and a Testimony from Owen Wilson 04.09.2026 1時間Author Susan Hall, Real Estate Star Ryan Serhant, Author Daniel Fazzina, and a Testimony from Owen WilsonThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a lively cross-continental simulcast, joining Fernando and Sergio Bravo of InfoRadio in Madrid, live from Callao Square during their marathon World Radio Challenge, before turning to author Susan Hall, sister of the late Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss. Calling in from Phoenix, Hall discussed her book, I Laugh in the Face of Cancer, a title Neil and the Spanish hosts loved. She explained that she wrote it because there is so much fear around cancer, much of it understandable, and she wanted to hand people a more hopeful, resilient way to face a diagnosis, drawing on her own family's experience. Warm and upbeat across the language barrier, she made the case that courage, faith, and even humor can be powerful medicine, and thanked the Spanish hosts for staying up through their overnight marathon to include her. She framed the book as encouragement for anyone walking that frightening road, or loving someone who is.Neil then joined a Caregiver Dave celebrity segment, co-hosted by caregiver advocate Dave Nassaney, welcoming Ryan Serhant of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York. Serhant discussed the honor of being named the American Cancer Society's 2021 National Ambassador for the Real Men Wear Pink program, part of his family's and his company's commitment to giving back. He said he was moved to act after reading that a large share of Americans, some forty-one percent, delayed medical care in 2020 amid the pandemic out of fear of doctors and hospitals, and used his platform to urge people, especially men, not to put off screenings and checkups. His message, offered as encouragement rather than medical advice, was simple: showing up matters, and early detection saves lives, so book the appointment you have been avoiding. Neil praised the philanthropic streak behind a career better known for luxury listings.The hour continued with a Mike Vilardi Show simulcast featuring award-winning author, broadcaster, and media professional Daniel Fazzina, host of Divine Intervention Radio. A native New Yorker now living in Virginia, Fazzina traced a Long Island Lutheran upbringing and a media career spanning radio, music videos, and film before sharing the testimony that changed his path: healings he attributes to God, from a chronic back condition in 2001 and a massive cancerous tumor in 2002. Those experiences, he said, inspired him to launch Divine Intervention Radio in 2007 and a book series collecting firsthand accounts of people who believe they have witnessed the hand of God, from healings to transformed lives, all offered, in his telling, as encouragement for believers and skeptics alike. He is gathering many of those voices for the Power of Testimony event at Shelter Rock Church in Syosset, New York, on September 12th.The program closes with a return testimony from Owen Wilson, a New Zealand aircraft mechanic and pilot, not the actor, also featured in Fazzina's work. Wilson recounted a birthday flight over the rugged Marlborough coast in a small plane he had flown for years when the engine fell silent with nowhere to land; as he and his passenger prayed, it sputtered back to life just long enough to clear a ridge and reveal a hidden airfield he had never known existed, where he landed safely, a rescue he credits to divine intervention. Tickets for the September 12th event are at events.artofheaven.com. Find Susan Hall's I Laugh in the Face of Cancer and Daniel Fazzina's Divine Intervention wherever books are sold. -
AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, Author J. Len Sciuto, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle 04.09.2026 1時間AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, Author J. Len Sciuto, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with an AI Office Hours simulcast, where Neil and co-host Pat Riley traded their weekly love-hate notes on artificial intelligence, the tools that dazzle one minute and frustrate the next. Riley, juggling a packed weekend of work, described the grind of the end of the month and his ongoing struggle to funnel feedback to a ghostwriting team that keeps sending material through scattered channels, some by email, some posted to a shared site, with several contacts instead of one, a reminder of how much a single point of contact matters. He recounted riding out a multi-day outage when one assistant tool went down for an update, forcing him to back everything up and lean on another, and the pair returned to their steady theme that these systems are powerful when a human stays in charge and organized, and maddening when workflows get tangled. Neil admitted he can swing from hating AI five minutes in to praising it for the next three hours, and the two agreed the real skill now is building clean, repeatable systems, then keeping a person watching over them, so a stray glitch or an update does not derail a whole week. They read a few listener comments and encouraged people to keep experimenting while guarding their time and budget.Neil then turned to a J. Len Sciuto Show simulcast, where the retired Coast Guard officer and thriller author opened, as always, with a disclaimer that his remarks are opinion and discussion drawn from public reporting, with certain claims disputed or unverified. Sciuto noted his novel Hades Crypt has now spent forty-one weeks on the Kindle bestseller list, thanking readers, then offered his own high-level geopolitical assessment of ongoing tensions abroad, framing the range of scenarios he sees strictly as personal speculation rather than settled fact. He was careful to keep the discussion at the level of broad strategy and possibility rather than operational specifics, presenting the whole of it as one veteran's informed opinion. He again reminded listeners that a portion of his book proceeds supports junior enlisted service members, the reason, he said, he writes at all.The program closes with two GildaGram simulcasts featuring Dr. Gilda Carle. In the first, aimed at her professional audience, she spotlighted what she called the cost nobody puts on the balance sheet, arguing that as layoffs mount, whether from AI, mergers, or shrinking need, companies overlook the hidden price of turnover, absenteeism, and unresolved conflict, and the toll all of it takes on the morale and productivity of the people who remain. In the second, drawing on her background as a former celebrity gossip columnist, she reflected with compassion on Kate Beckinsale, who has spoken publicly about the grief and trauma of losing her mother and, years earlier, the stepfather she adored, a reminder, Carle said, that all that glitters is not gold and that we never truly know what someone is carrying beneath a polished surface. Find J. Len Sciuto's Hades Crypt wherever books are sold. -
Horror Star Bill Moseley, Entrepreneur Ed Chaffin, Walking Miracles' Brett Wilson, and Cheryl Lovell of Vassia Care 27.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with horror icon Bill Moseley of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and much more. A lifelong horror fan spooked as a young man by the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Moseley recounted the delightfully unlikely break that made his career: while working on a Wyoming ranch, a coworker's random outburst inspired him to write and film a short spoof called The Texas Chainsaw Manicure, in which he also appeared. He got a copy to director Tobe Hooper, who was so tickled that he cast Moseley as the unforgettable Chop Top in the sequel, launching a run that would later include Otis in Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. Moseley, who lives in Los Angeles, spoke warmly about Halloween as a celebration of monsters, admitting that he happily stays in on the big night, calling it amateur hour, and stocks up on the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups he loves. His affection for the genre and its fans was unmistakable.Neil then welcomed entrepreneur, author, and executive coach Ed Chaffin for a Storehouse Media Group simulcast about his remarkable business journey. Chaffin clarified that the company was publicly traded rather than his own, but that he ran its largest division, some 1,200 employees and roughly 150 million dollars in revenue, part of an operation built through a dozen acquisitions from five million to three hundred million and sold for 1.4 billion dollars in 2007. In 2008 he reinvented himself as an international leadership consultant and executive coach, and, a storyteller at heart, he described printing out the flood of farewell emails he received at retirement, tucking them in a folder, and using them as the seed for the next chapter of his work helping leaders grow. He drew a sharp line between the many self-styled gurus who have never actually built or sold anything and the hard-won credibility of having done it, a distinction Neil underscored in introducing him.The hour continued with a moving conversation with Brett Wilson, CEO and survivorship navigator of the Walking Miracles Family Foundation. A two-time childhood cancer survivor, diagnosed with leukemia as a toddler and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at nine, Wilson has spent fourteen years building the resources she and her mother never had. She explained that because she and her family faced the disease in rural West Virginia with little guidance, often driving two to three hours each way for treatment, she vowed as a child to create a center so others would not have to navigate cancer alone. Through Walking Miracles she connects families with patient navigation, travel help, counseling, and survivorship plans that link people to specialists who watch for the long-term effects of treatment, effects she still lives with today. Her book, I Am A Walking Miracle, carries the same mission, and the foundation can be found at walkingmiracles.org.The program closes with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast hosted by Sherrie Price Clark, welcoming returning guest Cheryl Lovell to announce the launch of Vassia Care. Drawing on a background in health consulting, Lovell explained that the venture came together after she connected with an entrepreneur from a healthcare-technology background who wanted to bring real innovation to the way care is actually delivered. Together, she said, they are building Vassia Care to modernize the provider space and bring technology-driven innovation to the actual delivery of care, a story she had been eager to share since her first appearance. -
Music Icon KC of KC and the Sunshine Band, Actor Kristoffer Polaha, NFL-Veteran-Turned-Author Andre Hardy, and Boxing Legend Butterbean 20.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast live from the grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, welcoming music icon KC of KC and the Sunshine Band. KC reflected on a life steeped in music, growing up in a family where relatives cut radio commercials and gospel records and everyone gathered around the piano to sing and dance. He recalled an almost premonitory certainty that music was his path, and traced his break to a Miami record store that put him near where records were being made, where he crossed paths with Steve Alaimo of Dick Clark's Where the Action Is and found a mentor and father figure in the legendary Henry Stone, soaking up publicity, sales, marketing, and studio work while doing whatever it took to learn. Decades on, with hits like Get Down Tonight, That's the Way I Like It, and Shake Your Booty still filling dance floors, he marveled that his music simply lives on and on, and said he remains grateful for the whole ride.Neil then welcomed actor Kristoffer Polaha to talk about both his humanitarian work and a new series. A World Vision ambassador since 2020, inspired by Bono and by Meghan Markle, Polaha described the organization's disaster response, rushing food, clean water, books, and trauma kits into devastated communities and staying to rebuild long after the news cameras leave, and pointed viewers to the gift catalog at worldvision.org, where the bracelets he and his wife design help fund the work. He then previewed American Hostage, in which he plays mortgage-company president Dick Hall, taken hostage for sixty-three hours by Tony Kiritsis in a harrowing true 1977 Indianapolis standoff that unfolded live on the radio through reporter Fred Heckman, played by Jon Hamm, opposite Giovanni Ribisi. Polaha praised the Shawn Ryan series and director Adam Arkin's choice to film it in real time like a play, and noted he prepared by reading Hall's own long-delayed memoir. He also shared his directorial debut, Mimics, a Goonies-style romp with Stephen Tobolowsky and Chris Parnell, on Tubi.Neil next joined a simulcast, co-hosted by Michael, welcoming Andre Hardy, an NFL veteran reinvented as a crime novelist with his debut, Tear the City Down. Hardy, a lifelong reader sparked in third grade by a Bob Gibson biography and later by Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress, drew on his work for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a ghostwritten memoir to craft a layered protagonist, a fixer for a crooked power broker who longs to get out and be present for his daughter, only to be pulled into the disappearance of a star running back. He called the book both a love letter to and a critique of San Diego, and teased a next novel built around an NIL deal gone bad. Find him at andrehardy.com.The program closes with another Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto, with Greg Hanna, featuring boxing legend Butterbean. He recounted rising from the Toughman circuit, where he won all he was allowed to before turning pro, named Larry Holmes as the most famous fighter he faced, and rattled off knockouts including a roughly eight-second finish, a memorable stoppage of Lewis Monaco, and the wrestler he flattened at WrestleMania. His philosophy was simple: skip the dancing and strategizing, give the fans who came for a real fight their money's worth, and try to knock somebody out, which he said is exactly how a fighter earns a following. Asked about dream bouts, he said he always wanted Mike Tyson and would relish shutting up Jake Paul, while calling the on-again Tyson-Paul talk a scam. Catch KC and the Sunshine Band on tour, Kristoffer Polaha in American Hostage, Andre Hardy's Tear the City Down at booksellers, and Butterbean wherever the fights are. -
NFL Legend Barry Sanders, Actors Mariette Hartley and Jerry Sroka, Author George Goodsaid, and Dr. Paul Corona 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with Pro Football Hall of Famer Barry Sanders and his advocacy campaign, Tackle PBA. Sanders explained that PBA stands for pseudobulbar affect, a little-known neurological condition that triggers sudden, uncontrollable episodes of laughing or crying that do not match how a person feels, and noted the effort was spurred in part by a Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund survey linking head injuries among former players to PBA-like symptoms. Stressing that the condition is treatable and that the goal is awareness, he encouraged anyone who recognizes the signs to take the self-assessment at tacklepba.org and speak with their doctor.Neil then welcomed a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, with married actors Mariette Hartley, an Emmy winner remembered for The Incredible Hulk and her classic Polaroid ads with James Garner, and Jerry Sroka, a veteran actor and comic. The couple, who married in 2005, wrote and star in the romantic comedy Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, directed by Don Scardino, a warm, wisecracking, largely autobiographical look at finding love later in life, though they cheerfully admitted the on-screen bird-store meet-cute was invented. Trading affectionate banter, they spoke about the vulnerability of opening their lives to audiences and the labor of love it took to bring the film to the screen with friends and family.The hour continued with author and educator George Goodsaid, whose book Catholic Positive Energy shares the same name as the YouTube channel he launched during the pandemic. Goodsaid, who holds a master's degree in Catholic theology from Catholic International University, described a personal journey of leaving the church as a boy and returning at nineteen, when mentors reignited a passion for the faith that he had never fully explored. He said he wrote the book to tell that backstory and to use his faith to spread joy, hope, and encouragement, describing his mission, with a smile, as trying to be a kind of Catholic Mr. Rogers who reminds people of their worth as children of God. He credited the amazing people he has met in recent years with changing his life for the better and drawing him out of a season that was not always filled with positive energy. Warm and upbeat, he framed the book, his first step into Catholic writing and speaking, as an invitation to find hope and joy in everyday life and to remember one's own significance, no matter what challenges arise.The program closes with a return visit from Dr. Paul Corona, physician and author of The Corona Protocol: 3 Secrets to Success and its companion Prescriber's Guide, two of his six books written to teach other doctors his method. He laid out the three principles at the heart of the protocol: understanding the mind-body connection and how stress produces real physical, or somatic, symptoms; grasping the full spectrum of bipolar disorder rather than the manic caricature many picture; and treating patients toward genuine remission. He framed the approach as decades in the making and rooted in getting to root causes rather than settling for surface fixes, and noted that his recent books are written as training manuals to pass that method along to fellow physicians. Neil, who admitted he could not resist a little teasing about the Corona name given the beer and the later virus, kept the focus on the doctor's work and his platforms, including his reality series and website. Find George Goodsaid's Catholic Positive Energy at georgegoodsaid.com and Dr. Paul Corona at drpaulcoronamd.com. -
Actor Corbin Bernsen, Novelist Leah Harper Bowron, AI Entrepreneur Arturo Del Rio Jr., and Jesus and Ugly Jody with Jody Corbett 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Corbin Bernsen, familiar from L.A. Law and Psych, about his heartwarming family film When We Last Spoke. Bernsen reflected candidly on navigating a strange, uncertain season, restoring his longtime Los Angeles family home and pouring himself into writing, and said that without his faith he might have thrown in the towel. Turning to the movie, based on Marci Henna's novel, he described playing Walt, a grandfather who, alongside his wife Ruby, played by Melissa Gilbert, takes in their two young granddaughters after the girls' father is sent to Vietnam and their mother leaves to chase a singing career, with Cloris Leachman appearing as Walt's eccentric, poetry-quoting mother. Bernsen said he is a sucker for a simple, well-told story about redemption and the human spirit, and related deeply to Walt as a father of four sons at the settle-down stage of life who is suddenly pulled back into raising children. He praised his young co-stars and his decades-long friendship with Gilbert, whom he joked he has known since the two were puppies, and reflected that a book and its film adaptation are really different universes, two distinct ways of telling the same story. He called it a touching, tender film full of the human spirit and kindness.Neil then welcomed author Leah Harper Bowron to discuss her novel Colorblind, newly re-released. A lawyer who handled real estate, wills and trusts, and bankruptcy work before turning to fiction, Bowron explained that the writing bug she developed drafting legal documents eventually led her to novels. Colorblind, she said, is deeply autobiographical, drawn from what she witnessed as a child when her all-white sixth-grade class in Montgomery, Alabama was integrated in 1968. She recalled an openly segregated society of separate drinking fountains and restrooms, and how the city first brought an African American teacher into the white school before busing any students, based on fact but reshaped, she noted, to make the story richer for readers. Bowron, who also spent time teaching in a special education classroom, said the experience shaped her lens on difference, and she opened each chapter with a line from Maya Angelou, whose words meant a great deal to her. Written years ago and only now finding fresh readers, the book, she said, is a hopeful reflection on empathy and learning to see past color.The hour continued with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast featuring Arturo Del Rio Jr., founder of Lakeside Growth and its Stack Growth platform, on artificial intelligence and automation. A serial founder on his third AI company, Del Rio argued that as powerful as AI has become, it is the humans running the machines who matter most, cautioning that the costliest mistake is trusting an automated system to run unchecked. He explained that general chatbots and purpose-built automation are different tools, that large models can drift toward average output or lose the thread of a long exchange, and that success comes from matching the right tool to each task and keeping a knowledgeable person in the loop.The program closes with a Jesus and Ugly Jody simulcast, where host Jody Corbett shared the story behind his Five Stones Ministry. Rooted in David gathering five smooth stones to face Goliath and refusing Saul's armor so he could fight the way he knew how, the ministry, a vision Corbett said came to him while he was still with the FBI, reflects his belief that God works through the willing and the humble. Find Corbin Bernsen's When We Last Spoke on Amazon and Leah Harper Bowron's Colorblind wherever books are sold. -
Rudy's Dan Ruettiger, Author Benton Savage, and Bestselling Novelist Grace Lynx Jenkins 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Just Two Choices celebrity segment, co-hosted by Rico Rokowski, welcoming Dan "Rudy" Ruettiger, the real-life inspiration behind the classic sports film Rudy. Ruettiger, who grew up the thirteenth of fourteen children, shared warm, funny memories of a household so full his fiercely organized mother once kept a chain and lock on the refrigerator to keep track of the food, and reflected on the years of setbacks and the sheer determination that carried him against long odds to suit up for Notre Dame and, in the final moments of a game, get onto the field for a single, unforgettable play. He framed his story around what he calls the power of the dream, the choice to chase what others say is impossible, and the discipline and faith it takes to keep going when the door keeps closing. Decades after the movie made his name a byword for perseverance, Ruettiger said his mission now is to help others believe their own dreams are worth the fight. He spoke about the two choices he believes everyone faces every day, to move toward a dream or away from it, and about surrounding yourself with people who lift you rather than hold you back. His enthusiasm, Neil noted, is as genuine as the story that inspired millions, and Ruettiger encouraged listeners to stop waiting for permission and take the first small step toward whatever they have been putting off.Neil then welcomed author Benton Savage to discuss his book The Stoic Alcoholic: It's Not Only About Counting Days. Savage, who has published four books in the last few years after two decades of writing, explained that he began the project as a daily sobriety journal titled around the first 366 days, wrote productively for about a hundred days, then stumbled, set it aside, and eventually returned to it, deciding his own recovery mattered more than the book and that finishing it could help others. Its core message, he said, is that while staying sober and the day count genuinely matter, a single bad day does not erase months or years of progress, and no one should treat a slip as total failure or a reason to give up, since tomorrow is simply another day to begin again. He also offered candid advice to fellow writers, that a book is only a tool and that no PR team or talk-show appearance replaces an author getting out and speaking to people directly, adding that the shift toward flexible, independent publishing had finally opened doors that the traditional houses kept closed for years. Throughout, he framed the work less as a memoir than as encouragement for anyone in the same fight.The hour closes with a conversation with bestselling author Grace Lynx Jenkins about her thriller Sight and her first book signing, held at a Barnes & Noble on Alabama's Eastern Shore. Jenkins recalled arriving expecting to sell only three or four copies, bringing thirty-nine, and walking out with just three, and said what warmed her heart most was meeting fellow authors and reviewers and, above all, watching parents bring their young children into the store, a reminder of how much early reading and critical-thinking skills matter. One little girl, she delighted to report, proudly announced she had already written three books of her own, the kind of moment, Jenkins said, that makes the work worthwhile. She encouraged aspiring writers to keep going and to champion reading in the next generation -
Shark Tank's Robert Herjavec, Author Todd R. Mitchell Jr., and AI Office Hours with Pat Riley 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Robert Herjavec of ABC's Shark Tank. Herjavec reflected that none of the Sharks expected a show about five people talking business to become a hit, and were amazed to find it embraced above all as a family show, one that gives viewers hope and inspiration. Even after nine seasons, he said, the creativity of the entrepreneurs who walk in, and the dreams and stories behind their products, never cease to astonish him. He described the experience as a pressure cooker on both sides of the pitch, with far more happening behind the scenes than makes the edit, and spoke fondly of the very different personalities on the panel, some sharp with numbers and some not, and the spirited Shark fights that give the show its spark. Drawing on his own journey from an immigrant who arrived with next to nothing to building a major cybersecurity company, Herjavec framed the program as a celebration of passion, persistence, and the belief that a great idea and a compelling story can change a life. He said he is proud to be part of a platform that, more than anything, gives people permission to chase what they believe in, and reflected that the same qualities the Sharks look for in a pitch, resilience, clarity, and heart, are the ones that carry entrepreneurs through the hard years after the cameras stop rolling.Neil then welcomed author Todd R. Mitchell Jr., joined by his fiancee, to talk about his book Never Gave Up. A gifted athlete who earned a college basketball scholarship and went on to arena football, Mitchell described how alcoholism shadowed every opportunity, and said that had he reached the pros, the money would have arrived long before he reached the root of the problem, likely leaving him broke, homeless, or worse. He traced a hard road through homelessness, incarceration, and car accidents, and credited his turnaround to faith and to a partner who visited him daily in rehab and stood by him through relapse, understanding that recovery is a process rather than a single decision. The look on his daughter's face one difficult day became another anchor, and he spoke of the patience it took his fiancee to walk beside him without giving up. Today Mitchell has earned a film production degree from Miami Dade College and launched Born From The Ashes Mitchell Production Studios in Jacksonville. Never Gave Up is available on Amazon, where it has been a number-one new release.The hour closes with an AI Office Hours simulcast, where Neil and co-host Pat Riley traded practical lessons from their week of experimenting with artificial intelligence assistants and agents. Neil opened by joking that his own AI assistant had been running him through a drill-sergeant week. Riley's hard-won takeaway was simple: when a setup is working well and running cheaply, do not tinker with it, recounting how a small change quietly burned through his budget faster than expected before he reined it back in and returned to what had worked. He also shared a favorite story making the rounds, of a traveler abroad who set an AI agent to keep scanning a shelter's listings until it flagged the person's lost cat. The pair returned to their recurring theme that AI is a powerful multiplier for a human who stays in charge, watching the costs and keeping a hand on the wheel, rather than a set-and-forget replacement. Find Robert Herjavec on Shark Tank and Todd R. Mitchell Jr.'s Never Gave Up on Amazon. -
Stan Against Evil's John C. McGinley, Children's Author Laure Stack, and Investigator Melissa Sandberg 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor John C. McGinley, beloved as Dr. Cox on Scrubs, about the comedy-horror series Stan Against Evil and its second season. McGinley pitched the show, in which he plays a cantankerous small-town sheriff who discovers his New England home sits atop a witch's curse, as essentially Archie Bunker fighting witches, and said he was pleasantly caught off guard when The New York Times named the first season one of its ten best new shows, a stamp of validation for a scrappy genre comedy. He explained that the hardest and most important thing the team guards is tone, aiming for the sweet spot between the pure terror of The Exorcist and the pure fun of Scooby-Doo, landing somewhere near An American Werewolf in London, funny without ever declawing the monsters. McGinley noted that horror fans at Comic-Cons in San Diego, New York, and Silicon Valley will not forgive a show that softens its creatures, so the production respects them, tapping the department heads of The Walking Dead during their hiatus in Atlanta to make the effects look as good as they do. That discipline, he said, is finally paying real dividends, both with critics and with the loyal genre fans who make the difference. He spoke about relishing a role that lets him blend his comedic timing with the darker, sharper edges of his craft in a single character.Neil then welcomed author Laure Stack to discuss her bestselling children's book Howie the Unusual Bear: The Heartwarming Journey of Courage, Friendship, and Embracing What Makes You Different. A lifelong educator, mainly a special education teacher and resource specialist who helped kids with learning disabilities keep pace with their classrooms, Stack now lives in the mountains, substitute teaches from kindergarten through high school, and stays busy skiing, hiking, and even skydiving. She traced her writing back to childhood, when she made her own little books about animals and plants, a dream she finally had time to pursue after retiring. Stack said Howie grew out of watching how wonderfully different today's kids are, and how much they need to feel that what sets them apart is a strength rather than something to hide. She reads the books to students herself, delighting in the moments a child connects with the message, and, alongside three more published titles and several on the way, is exploring stories drawn from her own animals and adventures. Her wish is simply for young readers to see their differences as a gift.The hour closes with a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming Melissa Sandberg, host of the Dog With a Bone podcast. A self-described civil investigator rather than a police officer or private eye, Sandberg takes on overlooked, low-profile cold cases to give victims and their families a voice, affectionately calling her listeners the Dog Pound. She traced a path from a childhood love of solving mysteries and two decades in hospice care to the investigative work that became her passion, noting that not being in law enforcement makes people more comfortable opening up to her. She shared a chilling reminder to trust one's instincts, recounting how, while gathering information on a case, she unknowingly crossed paths with a man later charged in a young woman's death, and said her mission is simply to keep pushing until families get their answers. Find John C. McGinley on Stan Against Evil, Laure Stack's Howie the Unusual Bear at booksellers, and Melissa Sandberg's Dog With a Bone wherever you get podcasts. -
Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson, Author Paul Shemella, and Retired Captain and Author Donna Roman Hernandez 16.08.2026 1時間Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson, Author Paul Shemella, and Retired Captain and Author Donna Roman HernandezThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Ernie Hudson, beloved as Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters. Hudson recounted that the role was anything but a given, since director Ivan Reitman, with whom he had worked the year before on Spacehunter, initially felt he was wrong for the film and would not even see him. It took months to land an audition, which he eventually won. Hudson said he always believed Ghostbusters would be a hit, given the funny cast and sharp script, but never imagined it would endure for decades and inspire such fiercely loyal fans. He recalled how, after Ghostbusters, fans and strangers alike began sharing their own ghost stories with him, a fitting lead-in to his appearance on the paranormal series The Haunting Of, airing Saturday, September 10th at 11 a.m., in which he revisits and shares personal experiences with the unexplained. Grateful and busy with a slate of projects, he said it is a great time in his career and that he feels blessed.Neil then welcomed author Paul Shemella, a retired Navy SEAL captain, lecturer, and caregiver whose memoir Into the Mist: An Alzheimer's Journey chronicles his wife Lena's illness and his devotion to her. Shemella explained that dementia is an umbrella term, like cancer, covering some hundred conditions, of which Alzheimer's is the most common at roughly seventy percent, with other forms requiring different approaches. He spoke candidly about starting out knowing nothing, even about a wife whose healthy living seemed like it should have prevented the disease, and about learning as he went. He pointed to encouraging research and to lifestyle habits that can lower risk, and framed his work, sharing what he wishes he had known, as a ministry to help other caregivers cope more effectively. He counts himself lucky that Lena, now unable to speak or walk, still smiles, and his mantra is to live from one smile to the next.The hour closes with a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming Donna Roman Hernandez, a retired thirty-year New Jersey police captain turned award-winning filmmaker, author, podcaster, and victim advocate. Roman Hernandez shared that she pursued the badge because she admired her father, an Essex County constable, only to endure decades of abuse from him at home, and she chose law enforcement anyway to help others who might have a bad parent too. Rising from a Newark 911 dispatcher to captain of an all-male department, a promotion she had to fight to have affirmed, she served as the county's domestic violence liaison and a trainer for the attorney general's office, all while never disclosing her own experience, out of a fear, common among officers and especially women, of being seen as weak. Her memoir, Battered Blue, released through her company Blue Force Films, weaves in her late mother's handwritten diary to honor a dying wish to tell their shared story. She reflected that the community she served became a kind of shield of armor, a place where, unlike in her childhood home, she felt safe and could see the good her work did, and that surviving the danger at home made the street feel manageable. Above all, she spoke of transforming pain into empathy and purpose, meeting victims not as someone reciting a training guide but as someone who has lived it. Find Ernie Hudson on The Haunting Of, Paul Shemella's Into the Mist on Amazon, and Donna Roman Hernandez's Battered Blue wherever books are sold. -
America's Got Talent Host Terry Crews, Author Chris Kline, GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle, and the Wounded Sisters 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Terry Crews, host of America's Got Talent, ahead of the show's nineteenth season. Crews, an unabashed fitness devotee, joked with fellow big guy Neil about staying in top shape and called working in entertainment a total privilege. He explained that he landed the hosting job almost by design, telling his agent to push the envelope and make him a guinea pig by putting him where audiences would never expect to see a former athlete his size. That willingness led first to hosting the spinoff AGT: Champions and then the flagship, a run now six seasons deep with no end in sight, and he said he wants to make it impossible to imagine the show without him. Recalling how, as a Midwestern kid, performing in Los Angeles felt as far off as going to Mars, Crews described his favorite part of the job as reassuring wide-eyed contestants that they truly belong on that stage. His enthusiasm for the talent, he said, is genuine.Neil then welcomed returning guest, author Chris Kline, to discuss her autobiography, newly re-edited and re-titled Diamond in the Rough after a first release as Shake, Rattle, and Roll. Klein explained that she reissued the book with a fresh cover and edit once she was unhappy with the original production, and walked through a life story she frames around faith and the supernatural, from her years as a missionary to encounters she recounts as true rather than spooky. Where a previous book of hers was a novel tracing demonic influence passed down through four families, this one is her own account, offered, she said, both for readers who believe in the supernatural and for those simply curious to learn more. She presented the experiences throughout as her personal testimony.The hour closes with a series of simulcasts. On GildaGram, Dr. Gilda Carle weighed how earlier generations let children roam until dark and even ride the subway alone, asking whether today's caution raises kids to be independent or fearful, while acknowledging the world has genuinely changed. In a second segment, she turned to the universal ordeal of a crying baby on a plane, praising the passenger who offered to hold an overwhelmed mother's infant and framing the moment as a public test of maturity that only the baby is allowed to fail. Finally, on the Wounded Sisters podcast, bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert marked her thirtieth wedding anniversary with a reflection on faith as the bedrock of a lasting marriage, giving thanks for the blessings and the hard times alike. Find Terry Crews on America's Got Talent and Mary Shearer Eckert's Wounded Sisters on Amazon. -
Golden Globe Winner Meg Tilly, First Responder and Author James Meuer, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle 16.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a conversation with Golden Globe-winning actress Meg Tilly about the Netflix film War Machine. Tilly first reflected on growing up in a big blended family of twelve, where her sister Jennifer Tilly broadened everyone's horizons, writing plays for the kids to act out and dreaming grandly enough to show them there was a whole world for the taking. A dancer who had performed on the series Fame, Meg fractured her back and could no longer dance, and, with dyslexia making the era's fallback jobs impractical, realized acting was something she had done her whole life. Jennifer let her crash in her Los Angeles apartment and showed her the ropes. In War Machine, a layered satire from director David Michod, Tilly plays Gene McMahon, the wife of Brad Pitt's four-star general. She spoke about portraying the quiet strength and loneliness of a military spouse who raises a child largely alone while her husband serves, and about the film's deeper reckoning with the human and political cost of war, where every action, like a pebble dropped in a lake, sends ripples outward. Praising Michod's talent and Netflix's craftsmanship, she said it is the rare film that rewards a second viewing and leaves audiences knowing a little more than before, and predicted it would spark strong reactions, which she welcomed. Now also a published novelist, she said she felt blessed to have played her part in it.Neil then welcomed James Meuer, a longtime first responder and author of Damaged: A First Responder's Experiences Handling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Meuer described PTSD not as a weakness but as a normal response to abnormal events, explaining how the brain refuses to let go of what it has seen, surfacing as anger, hypervigilance, sleeplessness, and flashbacks that can be triggered by something as small as a dog barking, and how the culture of being ten feet tall and bulletproof keeps too many from admitting they are struggling. Over a career from 1986 to 2011, he said, the hardest calls involved children, and the one that haunted him most, a young girl he writes about in the book's first chapter, stayed with him for decades. Years later he found her memorial online and left a note, and her mother reached out, a reconnection that finally lifted a guilt he had carried and brought him peace. He was candid that for years he had stuffed every difficult call into a backpack he never unloaded, until it finally broke him, and that counseling, friends, and simply talking things through were what turned it around. His message throughout was that the hardest and most important step is asking for help and talking about it, that first responders are human, and that healing is possible.The hour closes with two GildaGram simulcasts featuring Dr. Gilda Carle. In one, she explored the growing phenomenon known as living apart together, couples who sleep in separate bedrooms, or even keep separate homes, and report happier, stronger marriages, sharing the story of a woman who has thrived doing so for twenty-five years. In the other, she reacted to an article about adult children pressing wealthy parents to buy them homes and bankroll their lifestyles, sharing one father's insistence that his children first learn to earn so that whatever they build rests on firm ground rather than sand. She used it to champion self-reliance and to argue, drawing on her own lean early years, that the closest bonds are often forged while building something together from nothing, and offered pointed commentary on a culture of entitlement. Find Meg Tilly's War Machine on Netflix and James Meuer's Damaged wherever books are sold. -
The Waltons' Judy Norton, Investigator Melissa Sandberg, and AI Entrepreneur Arturo Del Rio Jr. 11.08.2026 1時間This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast live from the grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, welcoming actor and singer Judy Norton, who played Mary Ellen on the beloved series The Waltons. Norton reflected on a childhood that turned play-acting into a career, crediting creator Earl Hamner and a cast and crew stocked with golden-age Hollywood veterans for a show that has stayed relevant more than fifty years later, even though CBS initially expected it to fail. She recalled how the network, under pressure to add family programming, greenlit The Waltons half expecting it to flop, only for the show to climb from the bottom of the ratings to the top over its first season. She spoke about the craft she absorbed as a young actor, the continuity and technical demands of film work that she now shares with fans, and her belief that experience and older performers, especially older women, deserve more opportunity than the industry tends to offer. Beyond acting, Norton traced her lifelong love of singing, from early stage fright at sixteen to studying voice and recording her own CDs. She described her current chapter as a freelancer, running a popular YouTube channel that goes behind the scenes of The Waltons and answers fan questions, releasing a short film called Space Limbo, and developing a pilot she is preparing to pitch. Her guiding lesson, she said, is to keep moving forward and find a way over, around, or through every no. Find her at judynorton.com.Neil then hosted a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, featuring Melissa Sandberg, host of the Dog With a Bone podcast. A self-described civil investigator rather than a police officer or private eye, Sandberg takes on overlooked, low-profile cold cases, unsolved homicides and undetermined deaths that draw little media attention, to give victims and their families a voice, affectionately calling her listeners the Dog Pound. She traced an unlikely path from a childhood love of solving mysteries and true-crime books, through two decades in hospice care, to the investigative work that became her passion, and explained that not being in law enforcement makes people more comfortable opening up to her. She shared a chilling reminder to trust one's instincts, recounting how, while gathering information on one case, she unknowingly crossed paths with a man later charged in a young woman's death. Sandberg said several of her cases have recently seen movement toward long-awaited answers, and that her mission is simply to keep pushing until families get them.The hour closes with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast, with Neil presenting, featuring Arturo Del Rio Jr., founder of Lakeside Growth and its Stack Growth platform, on artificial intelligence and automation. A serial founder on his third AI company in a decade, with earlier work spanning fraud detection and international consulting, Del Rio argued that as impressive as AI is, it is the humans running the machines who matter most. He cautioned that the costliest mistake is setting up an automated system and trusting AI to run it unchecked, citing a competitor whose unsupervised tool once posted an approving comment on a deeply disturbing piece of content, a stark illustration of why human oversight is essential. He explained that general chatbots and purpose-built automation are different tools, that large language models tend toward average, middle-of-the-road output and can lose the thread of a long conversation once it runs long, and that expecting one system to do everything is a recipe for failure. Success, he said, comes from matching the right tool to each task, paying for the quality you need, and keeping a knowledgeable person in the loop. Find Judy Norton at judynorton.com and Melissa Sandberg's Dog With a Bone wherever you get podcasts. -
William McNamara (UFO), AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram. 11.08.2026 1時間William McNamara (UFO), AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram. Same three segments, same note:The Neil Haley TV Show 08-9-26: Actor William McNamara on The Mike Vilardi Show, AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Mike Vilardi Show simulcast, hosted by Mike Vilardi, welcoming veteran actor William McNamara. Known for Copycat, Chasers, Surviving the Game, and Stealing Home across a 35-year career, McNamara returned to talk about his self-made series The Trouble With Billy, ten episodes he wrote, directed, produced, and stars in as a wildly exaggerated version of a fallen 1990s actor, complete with his pit bull and a beat-up car, now streaming on the independent platform Red Coral Universe. He described building it on a shoestring with friends and a cast that includes the late Tom Sizemore, Sally Kirkland, and Billy Baldwin, and how a union pension-and-health dispute stalled distribution for years before he found the show a home, part of a deliberate shift later in his career toward writing and directing his own material rather than waiting on casting calls. The conversation took an unexpected turn into the real-life inspiration behind the show's off-planet premise, as McNamara shared what he describes as genuine close encounters. By his account, around 2004 and 2005 in the small towns of Salt Point and Harriman in New York's Hudson Valley, he had contact with multiple craft, including a silent, triangular object with no visible propulsion that hovered just above the ground and that he says he followed for some 45 minutes, along with an even stranger encounter, in another small Hudson Valley town, that he recounts in vivid, unsettling detail. He framed those experiences, offered as his own testimony, as part of the seed for the show's premise, in which his character believes he was taken off-planet for a decade, and noted he is a frequent guest on the UFO and disclosure circuit. Find the show at thetroublewithbilly.com.The hour continued with an AI Office Hours simulcast, where Neil and co-host Pat Riley traded notes on their ongoing experiments with artificial intelligence agents and assistants. Riley shared a hard-learned lesson about keeping a close eye on runaway costs when an automated task quietly burns through its budget faster than expected, and the importance of not tinkering with a setup that is already working. He passed along a favorite use case in which someone traveling abroad set an AI agent to repeatedly scan a humane society's website, matching photos and descriptions, until it flagged a listing that turned out to be their lost cat. Neil described his own deep dive into letting an AI assistant take on more and more of his workflow, from booking appointments to lining up sponsorship interest for the NHL Wraparound Podcast to building projects like a children's book, marveling at the productivity while cautioning that it is exhausting and demands a human in the loop. He recounted an agent that hallucinated its own book cover yet still drove a real sale for a client, using it to illustrate both the promise and the pitfalls, and the pair agreed the central challenge now is learning to manage your agents, with a person watching over them, rather than simply turning them loose. Their throughline, echoed by listener comments Neil read on air, was that AI is at its best as a force multiplier for a human who stays in charge, not a hands-off replacement.The program closes with a GildaGram simulcast where Dr. Gilda Carle unpacked a sensational viral story about a scorned spouse's over-the-top revenge on a cheating partner, using the jaw-dropping tale as a springboard to talk about betrayal, consequences, and the depths of a partner's hurt when trust is broken, and the wiser paths a person might choose instead. Find William McNamara's The Trouble With Billy at thetroublewithbilly.com. -
Scott Valentine, True Crime Author Matthew B. Cox, and Jesus and Ugly Jody with Jody Corbett 07.08.2026 1時間Scott Valentine, True Crime Author Matthew B. Cox, and Jesus and Ugly Jody with Jody CorbettThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Love Is podcast simulcast, co-hosted by Kim Sorrelle, welcoming actor Scott Valentine, remembered as Nick Moore on Family Ties. Valentine spoke about resilience, recounting how being run over by a truck left him paralyzed and told he would never walk again, and how he refused to accept that verdict. He framed setbacks as manure to clean off before climbing back on the horse, insisting that when someone treats you like dirt it defines them, not you. He credited his good fortune working with Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Bateman, and creator Gary David Goldberg, then centered the conversation on Red Coral Universe, the ad-supported streaming platform he built with partner Larry Meistrich to give independent creators a real voice and a fair share of the profits, splitting revenue from dollar one and opening the door to makers the big platforms overlook. Find it at redcoraluniverse.com.Neil then joined a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming Matthew B. Cox, a former licensed mortgage broker who became a notorious white-collar offender and once landed on the U.S. Secret Service's most-wanted list before serving time in federal prison. Cox recounted how, since his release, he has reinvented himself as a true-crime author and the host of the popular YouTube show Inside True Crime, where he interviews law enforcement and former criminals, occasionally joking that a guest turns out to be less former than advertised, for an audience of more than a million subscribers. He explained that he began writing behind bars, penning memoirs of fellow inmates, among them Efraim Diveroli, whom he was incarcerated alongside, and clarified a common mix-up: he did not write War Dogs, the film that drew from a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson, with Jonah Hill playing Diveroli. His own book, Shark in the Housing Pool, has been optioned for the screen several times over roughly seven years without yet becoming a movie, a grind Cox takes in stride, noting that only a handful of optioned projects ever get made and that he is happy with where things stand. He offered a candid critique of the true-crime convention circuit for sidelining actual reformed offenders while welcoming him only as a journalist, and, drawing on the long odds he has watched other authors face, cautioned anyone banking on a single Hollywood deal to build something else in the meantime. Now channeling that same hustle into growing his shows across new platforms, he encouraged listeners to check out Inside True Crime.The hour closes with a Jesus and Ugly Jody simulcast, hosted with Sherrie, where recurring guest Jody Corbett led a reflection on blessings. Corbett walked through several kinds, material provision, relationships, and health, and pointed especially to what he called unrealized blessings, the disappointments that only reveal themselves as gifts in hindsight, a point Neil and Sherrie echoed with their own stories of doors that closed before better ones opened. He opened by asking simply what a blessing is, and pressed on where blessings come from. Anchoring the talk in Jeremiah 29:11, he noted that God's plans are meant not only to prosper but to protect, and reminded listeners that even everyday gifts like a healthy body, rest, and the breath of each morning are easy to overlook. He then turned to the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4 to argue that not everything that looks like a blessing is one, since some are distractions meant to pull us off course, and that our free will shapes which doors we let God open. Find Scott Valentine at redcoraluniverse.com and Matthew B. Cox on Inside True Crime.