The Neil Haley Show

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 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 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.

Snack Shack's Mika Abdalla, Mortgage Expert Phil Gantz, and Retired Trooper and Author Carlos RodriguezThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a conversation with actor Mika Abdalla about her role in the coming-of-age film Snack Shack, streaming on Paramount. Abdalla, whose breakout came on the Netflix series Project MC2 after an early start in commercials and an American Girl movie, described Snack Shack, directed by Adam Rehmeier and loosely based on his own childhood, as a warm throwback to the coming-of-age movies of the 1980s and 1990s. Centered on two young best friends running a poolside snack stand over one eventful summer, the film casts Abdalla as the girl who moves to town and shakes things up. To prepare, the director flew the cast in early to live their characters' lives around town, soaking up the era's cars, fashion, and music, and she reflected on the bittersweet, temporary closeness of friendships formed on location and on set. With the industry ramping back up after a slow stretch, she said she is excited to find her next project. Find her on Instagram at Mika Abdalla.Neil's team then aired a Storehouse Media Group simulcast, with Neil away, featuring mortgage expert Phil Gantz, the driving force behind Next Wave Mortgage, on helping first-time buyers, especially younger people daunted by home prices. Gantz's guidance was to get your financial house in order first, steering clear of late payments and building savings, then to explore the down payment assistance programs that can bridge the gap, some carrying credit-score minimums around 640. He explained that lenders run applications through automated underwriting from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and that the depth and history of one's credit can matter as much as the raw score, so an established borrower with a modest number may fare better than a newcomer with a higher one. His bottom line, offered as professional perspective rather than personalized advice, was that there is no perfect moment and real value in starting sooner.The hour closes with a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, welcoming retired Washington State Trooper Carlos Rodriguez, author of The Ugly Underneath. Rodriguez spent roughly eight years on the state's Missing and Exploited Children Task Force before retiring in 2020, and his book confronts the emotional toll of investigating crimes against children rather than the cases themselves. He spoke about compartmentalization as a survival skill for first responders, from officers to ER staff, and about its hidden cost when those mental boxes are never reopened and processed, quietly straining health and family life. After relocating to San Diego, where he now works for a school district, he lost his old support structure, sought therapy, and, at his counselor's encouragement, began writing to help others. He framed the book as a lifeline for those doing this difficult protective work and their families, a way to tell spouses and children that a loved one's distance was never their fault, and to help fellow first responders know they are not alone. He made the case for accurate language, explaining why he favors the term child sexual abuse material over one he believes minimizes the reality, and acknowledged how easily people shut down when the subject comes up, arguing that the topic has to be discussed, in a measured way, if society is going to confront it and support both the investigators and the survivors who need help to heal. Writing about two hours a day for roughly a year, he shaped those sessions into the book, and he closed by honoring the many people who step away from their own families to protect other people's children, urging listeners to support that mission. He also noted his former task force accepts public donations through the Washington State Patrol website. The Ugly Underneath is available online, and you can find Mika Abdalla's Snack Shack on Paramount.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with New York Times bestselling crime novelist Don Winslow, joined by co-host Lefty, about his 26th book, City in Ruins. Winslow traced his lifelong pull toward writing to a book-loving home, a career-Navy father and a librarian mother, and a sister who is herself a novelist many times over. He spoke about the strange intimacy of spending more time with people who do not exist than those who do, the thrill and feedback of meeting readers on tour, and his gratitude that everything he owns he owes to them. He was candid that for years agents and editors insisted he would never make the list and simply would not print enough copies, until his breakout about the Mexican drug cartels arrived the day before El Chapo escaped from prison and everything changed. City in Ruins completes the Danny Ryan trilogy, following its longshoreman-turned-fugitive protagonist to a new life as a Las Vegas casino magnate. Winslow, a self-described overnight success in his fifties, treats writing as a five-day-a-week job and urged aspiring authors to never give up and to take ownership of marketing themselves rather than leaning on a publisher. City in Ruins is at Amazon and independent bookstores.Neil then hosted a Reset Medical and Wellness Center podcast simulcast with Corey, a nurse who has been with the Strongsville clinic almost since it opened. She described a practice that treats patients like family, many of the staff having gone through treatment themselves, and walked through the clinic's neurosympathetic reset, a procedure Dr. Lauer's team uses to calm an overactive fight-or-flight response tied to stress, anxiety, and trauma. Corey shared that she was initially the skeptic, then watched patients arrive flat and withdrawn and return the next day transformed, and eventually underwent the reset herself after years of insomnia and pandemic-era stress on the job. She reported sleeping better and, more meaningfully, shifting from merely powering through tasks to being present with her family, recounting that others noticed her old self returning. She framed the results as her own and her patients' lived experience.The hour continued with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto welcoming North Carolina filmmaker Michael Tove about his award-winning short Yard Sale-ing. Tove traced a storyteller's path from O. Henry, Rod Serling, and Hitchcock-style twist endings, through a cattle-call role on the feature film The Handmaid's Tale that hooked him, to fifteen years of screenwriting training and friendships with industry veterans, among them director Tom Logan, who directed the short. He described Yard Sale-ing, an idea he first sketched decades ago, as a Hitchcockian tale of opposites, an effervescent optimist certain she will strike treasure at a yard sale and her reluctant, dryly sarcastic husband, whose outing takes an unexpected turn. Logan's casting drew Eric and Eliza Roberts along with leads Georgia Van Cuylenburg and Liam Bradford, and Tove praised the on-set chemistry and collaboration. Watch it free at emeraldoakproductions.com.The program closes with a GildaGram simulcast where Dr. Gilda Carle weighed in on biohacker Bryan Johnson, who has poured a fortune into defying aging and now concedes he may have gone too far, linking an autoimmune condition to his own regimen. Carle's takeaway was blunt: there is no fountain of youth and no quick fix, and the wiser aim is to grow wiser as we age. Find Don Winslow's City in Ruins in bookstores and Michael Tove's Yard Sale-ing at emeraldoakproductions.com.

Snack Shack's Mika Abdalla, Author Robert Wolf on The Mike Vilardi Show, and Former Congressman Jason AltmireThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a conversation with actor Mika Abdalla about her role in the coming-of-age film Snack Shack, streaming on Paramount. Abdalla traced a career that began almost by accident, with an open casting call for a parenting magazine at her dentist's office when she was five or six, an only child whose mother wanted to draw her out of her shyness. That led to commercials, an American Girl movie at eleven, and her breakout on Project MC². She described Snack Shack, directed by Adam Rehmeier and loosely based on his own childhood, as a warm throwback to 1980s and 1990s coming-of-age movies, centered on two young best friends running a poolside snack stand over the summer, with Abdalla playing the girl who moves to town and shakes things up. To prepare, the director flew the cast in early to live their characters' lives around town, swimming at the pool and soaking up the era's cars, fashion, and music. She reflected on the bittersweet, temporary closeness of people met on location and on set, and said she is excited to find her next project now that the industry is ramping back up. Find her on Instagram at Mika Abdalla.Neil then joined a Mike Vilardi Show simulcast welcoming author Robert Wolf, whose book Not a Real Enemy tells the true story of his family's survival through Nazi Germany and the communism that followed, drawn from his father's fight for freedom. Wolf spoke about his parents having endured totalitarianism at its most extreme and about his own belief in engaging across cultures, communities, and faiths rather than dividing into us and them, recalling friendships that cross religious lines. The wide-ranging conversation also moved into current events and a debate over socialism, communism, immigration, and public safety, with the hosts and guest offering their own strong political opinions. Not a Real Enemy is available from booksellers.The hour closes with a segment co-hosted by author and publisher Paul Hollis featuring former Pennsylvania Congressman Jason Altmire, now a national association CEO, adjunct professor, and author. Altmire reflected on life after Congress, having left office at 44 determined not to let his career peak in his 40s, and on how the public's perception of the institution has soured in the years since. He discussed his book Dead Center, which examines the causes of political polarization, draws on academic research into how partisans think, and weaves in his own experience as a centrist in a divided Congress. Altmire argued that most Americans sit closer to the center than the political class does, citing Pew research that roughly a third identify at the extremes, evenly split left and right, and warning that because those voters dominate primaries and campaign giving, closed primary systems reward candidates who speak to the edges. He said he regrets that his 2017 forecast of worsening division has proven right. Find Jason Altmire's Dead Center wherever books are sold.

This 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 candidly 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 life's setbacks as manure you 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 on Family Ties working with Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Bateman, and creator Gary David Goldberg, and traced his path from Hollywood through banking to entrepreneurship. Most of the conversation centered on Red Coral Universe, the ad-supported streaming platform he built with partner Larry Meistrich to give independent content makers a real voice and a fair share of the profits, splitting revenue from dollar one with no ingestion, onboarding, or carriage fees. With roughly 10,000 licensed titles and an open-door policy for creators, the goal, he said, is a universe that serves both viewer and maker. Find it at redcoraluniverse.com.Neil then welcomed Cicely Waters, FMCSA Director of Communications and a ten-year Air Force veteran, to spotlight the Freedom Haulers initiative connecting veterans to trucking careers. She explained that military service instills the safety, professionalism, leadership, and comfort with complex equipment the industry prizes, and that the mission need not end when the uniform comes off. She detailed the Even Exchange program, now active in 27 states with nine more committed, which lets qualifying service members waive the CDL knowledge and skills tests, and the CMVOST grant, which funds scholarships covering CDL training for veterans and their families. With driving jobs often reaching six figures and GI Bill benefits applicable, she urged transitioning members to explore the options at freedomhaulers.dot.gov.The hour continued with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast featuring Tam R. Luc, founder of Women Who Bossed Up. A longtime entrepreneur with a commercial real estate and marketing background, Luc built her company to help women who have hustled their way into a bind, where every function runs through them, redesign and systematize their businesses to grow past that choke hold. She traced the arc from her book A Woman's Side Hustle and her Women Who Boss Up author collections to hands-on work with service, real estate, and medical business owners, and shared that she designed her own life to be location-independent, now running a high-revenue business from Malaysia. Find her at WomenWhoBossUp.com.Neil next spoke with Joel Berg, founder and CEO of the nonpartisan Hunger Free America, which connects people to SNAP, school meals, and WIC, runs the USDA National Hunger Hotline, and advocates on policy. Berg argued that hunger persists because of low wages and a thin safety net, noting that before the government stopped collecting the data, USDA counted 48 million Americans who could not always afford enough food, most of them working people rather than the homeless. The segment became a frank exchange on solutions, with Berg contending that stronger safety-net policy and higher wages are the answer and Neil making the case for a viable third party. Learn more at hungerfreeamerica.org.The program closes with two simulcasts. On Wounded Sisters, bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert, marking her 30th wedding anniversary, discussed her novel about a retreat where broken pastors' wives find healing, forgiveness, and faith. On GildaGram, Dr. Gilda Carle examined online cruelty, using Ariana Grande's decision to step back to argue that anonymous negativity is less opinion than an attempt to punish people for being visible, and invoking

Billy Baldwin of Hit the Floor, Dr. Pam Mullarkey Robbins, The Walking Dead's David Morrissey, and XzibitThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Billy Baldwin about his guest-starring turn on VH1's Hit the Floor. Baldwin, reflecting on the rowdy, rambunctious upbringing that shaped the famous Baldwin brothers, described the series as a scripted soap opera set inside a professional basketball franchise, the fictional Los Angeles Devils, full of behind-the-scenes drama among players, wives, cheerleaders, and a front office locked in a power struggle. He plays Everett, a billionaire pulling strings behind the scenes, and likened the dynamic to the real-life Lakers tug-of-war between Jeanie Buss and Phil Jackson. Baldwin praised showrunner James LaRosa and co-star Dean Cain, marveled at the caliber of the dancers, and joked that playing a master of the universe required no research given the billionaires strolling his Montecito neighborhood. He noted he is producing and starring in his third Hallmark Channel film and had just wrapped a movie in Italy with Michael Madsen. Hit the Floor airs at 10 p.m. Eastern.Neil then welcomed Dr. Pam Mullarkey Robbins, author of What's So Funny About Dementia?, a counselor and psychologist and four-time caregiver who explained how humor became her survival tool during her mother's Alzheimer's journey, always laughing with the person and never at them. She walked through prevention, the protein BDNF and the habits that support it, diet, exercise, rest, lower stress, and socialization, and named early warning signs like repeated questions and unexplained car damage. Because a caregiver who collapses cannot care for anyone, her counseling starts with the caregiver. Her second book, The Brighter Side of Dementia, collects a hundred reader-submitted stories.Neil then spoke with acclaimed British actor David Morrissey, unforgettable as the Governor on The Walking Dead, about the Starz and BBC thriller The Missing. Morrissey said he treasures the friendships and the visceral response to a character audiences love to hate, then turned to the new season's story of a soldier whose daughter, abducted as a child, walks back into the family's life eleven years later. Told across two timelines, the series follows not the search for a missing child but the harder aftermath of her return, as a delighted father and a suspicious mother are driven apart and a tenacious French detective, Julien Baptiste, played by Tchéky Karyo, reopens the case. Morrissey, who stars opposite Keeley Hawes, reflected on the guilt and grief such a homecoming stirs and the truth that you must be careful what you wish for. He also invited listeners to his Boogaloo Radio music show.The hour closes with a Total Education segment featuring recording artist, television host, and entrepreneur Xzibit. A recording artist since his 1996 debut who went on to work with Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg and to host Pimp My Ride, Xzibit explained why, as the first millionaire in his family, he chose ownership over mere endorsement, becoming a partner in the Bonita Platinum tequila brand rather than simply lending his name. He detailed a market-by-market rollout built on events and local brand ambassadors, his goal of taking the brand everywhere, and a charitable streak that spans a breast-cancer campaign and homes he has helped build for wounded warriors near San Antonio. He also previewed continued touring behind his album Napalm. Find Billy Baldwin's work on VH1, David Morrissey in The Missing on Starz, and Xzibit's Bonita Platinum tequila as it expands.

Grammy Winner Jermaine Dupri, Actor Chris Mulkey, and Entrepreneur Robin Sims-AllenThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri about Lifetime's The Rap Game, returning for a third season with Queen Latifah. Dupri, the So So Def founder behind decades of hits and discoveries from Kris Kross to Bow Wow and Da Brat, explained that finding talent comes down to genuine interest and really listening, and that the rare misses happen only when an artist is not as gifted as they believe. He described The Rap Game as unlike American Idol or The Voice, a hip-hop show built to educate kids roughly twelve to sixteen while their parents watch alongside them, teaching craft, competitiveness, and the culture itself. Looking ahead, Dupri said this season raises the talent bar and brings in more of his celebrity friends, and he shared his deeper hope for the genre: a return to artists with distinct, individual styles. He pointed out that Tupac and Biggie never sounded alike, and that Jay-Z and Nas each carved their own lane, arguing that today's artists sound too similar to become iconic. The season premieres Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern.Neil then welcomed veteran character actor Chris Mulkey for a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto of co-host Greg Hanna. Mulkey, a self-described lover of playing the bad guy, traced his craft from boyhood in Minnesota, where the AWA wrestling circuit and stars like Verne Gagne first awakened his love of drama, through classical theater training to a screen career of memorable heels. He shared the origins of Hank Jennings on Twin Peaks, drawn from a dangerous, charming ex-convict he once knew, and a harrowing on-set moment during Captain Phillips, filmed off Malta, when he instinctively grabbed a stunt performer back from going over a railing fifty feet above the water. He recalled advice from Clint Eastwood that sent him back to Minnesota to write and star in his own films, Loose Ends and Patty Rocks, both Sundance winners, the latter with his late wife Karen Landry. He reflected on Whiplash, whose family scene was the first shot of a film that won three Academy Awards, and named the Robert Duvall western Broken Trail as his favorite villain role. Mulkey previewed a run of new movies, including the 1990s hair-band comedy Rock Bottom with Jake Bongiovi, plus Far Haven, Deadland, and Long Shadows, and said the most important things in life are family and loyalty to friends. Find his music at chrismulkeymusic.com.The hour closes with a Storehouse Media Group simulcast, hosted by Sherrie, featuring Robin Sims-Allen, founder and CEO of Phoenix Marcus LLC. A tech professional and entrepreneur with 22 years of experience who launched her first company in 2007, Sims-Allen built Phoenix Marcus as an umbrella brand so she would never have to pick a single lane, spanning an organic beauty and franchise venture, a consulting practice, and TotalHER, a women-only platform. She described consulting on process improvement and strategy across industries, from past defense and Amtrak-related work to embedding AI into nearly every current project, and framed her minority- and women-owned firm, based outside Atlanta, around finding problems to solve and working backward from the end goal. TotalHER, she explained, is evolving from a social platform into a future-of-work space for women, letting professionals from fitness and finance to beauty and law build brands and income in one trusted place. Her advice to entrepreneurs was to embrace failure as a lesson, to keep pivoting rather than niching into a corner, to try the exact opposite of your safe bet, and to treat skill-building as ongoing research and development, living by the creed of each one, teach one. TotalHER is live now at totalher.co. Find Jermaine Dupri on The Rap Game and Chris Mulkey's films on Amazon Prime.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actress Kim Fields, beloved for The Facts of Life and Living Single, about her book and career. Fields, a Steelers fan who competed on Dancing with the Stars alongside Antonio Brown, reflected on nine years, from age nine to eighteen, growing up on The Facts of Life, and on the mentors who shaped her, from co-star Nancy McKeon to Norman Lear, Dick Clark, and Ruby Dee. She credited her longevity to learning her craft, doing theater, and deliberately building backup skills in directing, writing, and producing so that if one hat wasn't working she could put on another, rather than fade into a has-been at eighteen. She also named contemporaries like Nicole Ari Parker and Blair Underwood as peers who sharpen one another, iron sharpening iron. Fields lit up about Living Single finally streaming on Hulu and the flood of fan response, saying she loves how much the fans love the show. Reflecting on a journey from a single-parent home in Harlem to a lasting career, she framed the book less as a look-at-me than a look at all God has done, and encouraged listeners that rock bottom is never the end. Find her book and coffee line, including the Blessed Blend and a binge-watching Binge Blend, at KimFields.com.Neil then welcomed retired DC homicide detective turned author and filmmaker Mitch Credle for a Criminally Good with Jen and Sherrie simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group. Credle spent 29 years with DC's Metropolitan Police, some 23 of them in homicide, and traced his path to the veteran detectives he idolized, part Miami Vice, part real-life heroes, before turning to writing and film. His novels Stranger in the Streets and Damaged Roots blend real cases and characters into fiction, and his five films, including the documentaries A Detective Story and 12 Years in Hell on Tubi and Informant on Prime, grew from a passion to tell DC's disappearing history through the people who lived it. He described how the leadership of running a homicide scene, where the detective is effectively in charge of everyone present, translated to directing, and recounted difficult cases including the Banita Jacks tragedy and the Colonel Brooks Tavern killing, where a childhood friend was among the victims and he refused to face the family until arrests were made nine months later. He explained why he casts real families and community members and flags graphic content on screen rather than sugarcoat it, wanting to honor victims and preserve a version of DC that is rapidly vanishing, and praised up-and-coming actors like Mark Scheiss and Michael Anderson from Informant. He previewed a serial-killer script and a new film, Brooklyn, promising untold details of the Colonel Brooks investigation. Find him as Mitch Credle across social media.The hour closes with an AI Office Hours simulcast, where Neil and co-host Pat Riley debated where artificial intelligence is really headed. Neil shared an epiphany that he had been pouring too much time into automation loops that produced data he never used, and both argued that AI's true value is as a productivity multiplier and tool that makes a person sharper, not an autonomous replacement for human judgment. Neil described using AI conversationally as a kind of financial assistant to organize revenue, invoices, and time tracking, while stressing that it still needs a human driving it on a tight leash. They voiced skepticism about the hype around fully automated one-person AI businesses, warned against quitting a job to chase it, and predicted a reckoning for those who over-automate at the expense of their own skills, while agreeing the smart move is to use AI to become better than anyone not using it. Find Kim Fields at KimFields.com and Mitch Credle's films on Tubi and Prime.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Caregiver Dave segment, co-hosted by caregiver advocate Dave Nassaney, welcoming astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium, about his book Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going. Tyson explained that his lifelong goal was simply the PhD in astrophysics, and that he sees his public role as serving the public's cosmic curiosity, even fantasizing about slipping quietly back to the lab someday. He argued that a free, pluralistic democracy depends on shared, objectively established scientific truths, that people are free to believe as they wish but that laws should rest on what is demonstrably true, and he warned that tribalism and science denial threaten the country's standing. Asked whether God and science can coexist, Tyson drew a careful distinction between a hands-off creator, a view he tied to the deism of the Founding Fathers, and literal readings that collide with the natural world. He offered the example of the mysteries God lays before Job in the Old Testament, tides, migrations, and more, noting that science has since explained nearly all of them, and cautioned that placing God only in the shrinking gaps of scientific ignorance leaves an ever-receding faith. He described StarTalk as a blend of science, humor, and pop culture, using shared references as a scaffold to make science relevant, and Cosmic Queries as a collection of the deepest questions readers have asked, from why we are here to how it all began and will end. When Nassaney raised caregiving, Tyson reflected on his mother the gerontologist, on caring for aging relatives, and on how longer lifespans have left society, and undervalued caregivers, unprepared. Cosmic Queries is available at booksellers and on Amazon.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 decline and his devotion to her. Shemella explained that dementia is an umbrella term covering roughly a hundred conditions, of which Alzheimer's is the most common, and spoke candidly about learning as he went, eventually placing Lena in memory care and coming to peace with a decision that helped them both. He stressed that up to forty-five percent of dementia cases may be preventable through lifestyle, pointing to diet, exercise, sleep, social connection, and staying intellectually engaged, and urged early attention to warning signs like repeatedly losing things, the value of ruling out reversible mimics before seeing a neurologist, and the promise of newer blood tests and treatments that work best when caught early. His recent Newsweek essay warns the American healthcare system is unprepared for a coming wave, and he shared his mantra of living from one smile to the next. Readers can find him on Substack and on Amazon, where his memoir and earlier novels appear.The program closes with a back-to-school conversation with Vanessa Vakharia, the Toronto-based Math Guru, on setting students up for a distraction-free year. She urged parents to choose tools that do one thing well, noted many states are moving to limit phones in schools, and recommended studying at the kitchen table and starting school-year routines two weeks early. In a segment tied to Texas Instruments, she praised the new TI-84 Evo graphing calculator for its familiar, icon-based screen and, above all, for having no AI and no internet, so students stay on task. Vakharia stressed that math anxiety is not a life sentence, that confidence grows through consistency, and that math, like life, is a step-by-step journey rather than a race to the answer. Find Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmic Queries and Paul Shemella's Into the Mist on Amazon, and Vanessa Vakharia's back-to-school picks at education.ti.com/evo.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with economist, author, and actor Ben Stein about his book The Capitalist Code: It Can Save Your Life and Make You Very Rich. Stein traced his belief in owning capital back to his father, a prominent free-market economist, and to a family shaped by the Great Depression, arguing that owning capital, not just labor, is what gives ordinary people security. His central message was refreshingly simple: most people will never beat the market by picking stocks, so the smart move is to steadily buy a low-cost S&P 500 index fund and let compounding do the work over decades. He pointed to Social Security as far too thin to rely on, even for high earners, and framed buying the index as effectively owning a microscopic share of all American business without the headaches of running one. He urged listeners to start young and put investing on autopilot, predicting the market's next move is likely down before it climbs higher, and shared that Warren Buffett, whom he called a friend, endorsed the book by saying its readers need no other guide to investing. Stein balanced the financial talk with reflections on living for today as well as tomorrow, on order and discipline as keys to happiness, and on his gratitude for America, and he previewed a coming project on sobriety drawn from his years in recovery and his losses of friends and relatives to addiction. The advice is his own; listeners should weigh it for their own situation.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 without ever playing a high school game and went on to eight years of arena football, Mitchell described how alcoholism shadowed every opportunity and closed door after door. Asked where he would be had he reached the NBA or NFL, he did not hesitate: homeless, broke, or dead, because the money would have arrived long before he reached the root of the problem. He traced a hard road through homelessness, incarceration, and car accidents, including spending his father's last twenty dollars on alcohol instead of food, and credited his turnaround to faith and to a partner who visited him every day during rehab and stood by him through relapse, understanding that recovery is a process rather than a single decision. His daughter, and the disappointment on her face one difficult day in Atlanta, became another anchor, and he spoke about the patience and grace it took his fiancee to walk beside him without giving up. Today Mitchell has finished school, earned a film production degree from Miami Dade College, and launched Born From The Ashes Mitchell Production Studios in Jacksonville. He and Neil went deep on the question every retired athlete faces, what you build once the crowd noise stops. Never Gave Up is available on Amazon, where it has been a number-one new release.The hour closes with two GildaGram simulcasts featuring co-host Dr. Gilda Carle, author of Real Men Don't Go Woke. In the first, Carle discussed the themes of her book, which she frames as an examination of male mental health and a rising rate of suicide among men and, increasingly, boys, arguing that men are being discouraged from speaking up and expressing themselves; she illustrated the point through Will Smith and responded directly to online critics of her work. In the second, she offered her take on a viral story about a workplace romance caught on camera, using it to talk through questions of power dynamics, consent, and consequences when a relationship crosses lines of authority. Find Ben Stein's The Capitalist Code and Todd R. Mitchell Jr.'s Never Gave Up on Amazon, and Dr. Gilda Carle's Real Men Don't Go Woke wherever books are sold.

The Mike Vilardi Show Episode Title: William McNamara on “The Trouble with Billy,” Hollywood Survival, and Independent TelevisionEpisode SummaryIn this episode of The Mike Vilardi Show, Mike Vilardi and Neil “The Media Giant” Haley welcome actor, writer, director, and producer William “Billy” McNamara. Known for Copycat, Chasers, Stealing Home, Dream a Little Dream, and Surviving the Game, McNamara shares the journey behind his independent series, The Trouble with Billy.Billy wrote, directed, produced, and starred in ten episodes—roughly 300 minutes of television—while navigating limited resources, legal complications, union disputes, and a changing streaming industry. Season One is now available on Red Coral Universe.The series is loosely inspired by McNamara’s life but greatly exaggerated. His character is a former 1980s actor who believes aliens abducted him and returned him to Hollywood after ten years.Nobody remembers him. He sleeps on his niece’s couch. After hosting Alien Abductees Anonymous, he is thrown out and forced to live in a 1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with his sick pit bull.Billy must raise $15,000 for the dog’s heart transplant. Every time life improves, another bad decision sends him crashing down. The show combines Hollywood satire, alien-abduction comedy, homelessness, friendship, and determination.The first season includes ten episodes, about 150 actors, and more than 75 locations. Featured performers include Billy Baldwin, Angus Macfadyen, Costas Mandylor, Tom Sizemore, Sally Kirkland, and Robert Wagner.Billy says many people doubted he could complete such an ambitious independent production, but he refused to quit.The series was delayed by a Screen Actors Guild dispute involving pension and health contributions. The issue prevented Billy from selling the show and resulted in a two-year legal fight.By the time the legal issues were resolved, streaming had shifted toward advertising-revenue deals, vertical content, and lower-cost programming.Billy eventually connected with producer Larry Meistrich and Red Coral Universe, which released the show on a non-exclusive basis. The platform is available through Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, and smart televisions.Billy is developing Season Two and working with investors, brands, and production partners. A New Jersey bank may finance part of the production through a New York State rebate, while Red Coral explores sponsorships and minimum guarantees.Billy discusses the unexpected revival of Copycat, the thriller starring Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter. When it began trending internationally on Netflix, his IMDb ranking jumped to 161, and he gained thousands of social-media followers overnight.Other career highlights include Stealing Home, Dream a Little Dream, Doing Time on Maple Drive, Surviving the Game, Chasers, and Beggars and Choosers.Billy says Doing Time on Maple Drive remains especially meaningful because viewers still tell him how the film helped them discuss sexuality and family struggles.After more than three decades as a working actor, Billy now prefers writing, directing, and producing. He stepped away from auditions to focus on The Trouble with Billy.The conversation also creates possible collaborations involving the Radiate TV Film Festival, Red Coral Universe, and distribution partnerships. Neil invites Billy to join an upcoming Hollywood panel.Website: TheTroubleWithBilly.comInstagram: @WilliamMcNamara108Watch: The Trouble with Billy on Red Coral UniverseHosted by: Mike Vilardi and Neil “The Media Giant” HaleyGuest: William McNamaraProduced by: Media Giant ProductionsThe Trouble with BillyBuilding the Series Against the OddsSAG Dispute and DistributionSeason Two PlansCopycat Finds a New AudienceFrom Actor to CreatorConnect with William McNamara

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with actor Philip Winchester about bringing his Chicago Justice character, prosecutor Peter Stone, over to Law & Order: SVU. Winchester explained that Dick Wolf revived the character after Justice ended, dropping Stone into New York around a right-to-die case and the death of his father, and pulling him in through Sam Waterston's Jack McCoy. Where Justice kept Stone in the courtroom, SVU digs into the man himself, his brokenness, family secrets, and the pressure of joining a team that does not want him there. Winchester described Stone as someone who sees the law in black and white after years in homicide, only to discover that the SVU world is anything but, as victims forget, are coerced, or are impaired, and Olivia Benson begrudgingly takes him under her wing. He credited the writing staff, including Michael Chernuchin and others with legal backgrounds, for the impassioned closing arguments and for teaching him a subject entirely new to him, and he pointed to the show's long run as proof that audiences respond to flawed people who still find the strength to do right. His arc airs on SVU at 9 p.m. Eastern, and he can be found by searching his name online.Neil then welcomed recurring host Dr. Robert E. Marx, the internationally recognized oral and maxillofacial surgeon and author, for two segments on The Dr. Robert E. Marx Show. In the first, Marx offered an educational take on the military's plan to test troops' testosterone levels and offer replacement therapy to those who test low, arguing the program is medically supervised, dose-controlled, and a matter of choice, and calling much of the political criticism uninformed. He distinguished replacement therapy from the super-physiologic doses that gave steroids their bad name, walked through the balance of testosterone and estrogen in both sexes, and tied a generational decline in men's testosterone to dyes and additives in the food and drug supply, praising the current direction on those issues. In a lighter second segment, Marx reviewed the FIFA World Cup, calling Spain a deserving champion over Argentina, praising the tournament as a security and economic success for the United States, and playfully knocking soccer's tendency toward theatrical flopping, suggesting the sport adopt hockey's embellishment penalty. He noted the growth potential for the game as NIL money reaches college sports. His book, 28 Life-Changing Patients, is on Amazon, and he previewed lectures in Winnipeg, New Jersey, and Aventura, Florida.The hour closed with a Criminally Good with Jen and Sherrie simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group, featuring Wade Williamson, host of the Crime and Entertainment podcast, who lived the kind of story true crime usually only reports. Williamson recounted a late-night confrontation in his South Carolina home with a man connected to his estranged, and now reconciled, wife, an encounter that stayed civil for hours before turning violent. Licensed to carry and recovering from recent back surgery, he fired in self-defense when the man attacked and threatened his life, then immediately called 911, only to be charged with murder days later and to face the possibility of life in prison. He described a roughly five-year ordeal, dragged out by COVID, that cost him a fifteen-year job, drained his retirement savings, and ran up steep legal bills, until high-profile Charleston attorney Andy Savage helped clear his name in what Savage called a clean shoot. Williamson explained how launching his podcast while on house arrest became his therapy and outlet, and ultimately his path forward, and noted that he and his wife came through the ordeal still together. Find Philip Winchester's work on Law & Order: SVU, Dr. Robert E. Marx's 28 Life-Changing Patients on Amazon, and Wade Williamson's Crime and Entertainment podcast wherever you listen.

NeverEnding Story's Tami Stronach, plus Mina Valentine, AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, Grace Lynx Jenkins, and Ryan Aguas of Reignstorm GroupThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with actress and dancer Tami Stronach, who at ten played the Childlike Empress in Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 classic The NeverEnding Story and has since come full circle to family entertainment. Stronach walked Neil through an audition process that ran from San Francisco to Los Angeles to a final nerve-wracking callback at Bavaria Studios in Germany, where she learned she had the role the next day. She recalled reading Michael Ende's novel as a ten-year-old to prepare, the long days on a set she loved, and crediting Petersen above all for helping her fully believe in each scene. Though her screen time was brief, her character became one of the film's most remembered, and Stronach reflected on how the experience left her with a lifelong soft spot for fantasy, which she believes lets us digest hard truths from a safer, more open place. She explained the family decision to step away from celebrity as a child, in part because the scripts that followed did not speak to her and some carried violence or nudity she wanted no part of at eleven, choosing dance instead, studying at SUNY Purchase, running her own company for two decades, and later teaching at Marymount Manhattan College. Having her daughter Maya pulled everything together into Paper Canoe Company, the family entertainment venture she now runs with her husband, complete with puppetry that echoes the film. She is also returning to the screen in the meta indie film Ultra Low, in which the cast plays themselves, and is choreographing a video for the company's album. After years out of the spotlight, she is embracing fans again at Comic Cons.The hour continued with a simulcast of The Mina Valentine Show, where the historical romance author, recovering from recent surgery, shared her gratitude to readers and her eagerness to get back to writing. She described plotting a new storyline from her hospital bed, the painstaking historical research behind her London-set novels, and the days when a story simply pours out. Her books are available at MinaValentin.com, with autographed copies on request.Neil then turned to two conversations about artificial intelligence. In AI Office Hours with co-host Pat Riley, the two argued that AI's real power lies in making a person superhuman as an assistant and brainstorming partner rather than replacing employees through autonomous agents, comparing the current wave of one-person "AI businesses" to hype that will not sustain itself, and cautioning against quitting a job to chase it without a real brand or product. That theme carried into a visit with bestselling author Grace Lynx Jenkins, who ran her own thriller through AI tools for analysis and found the feedback, strengths in character-driven, psychological suspense and a note to work on pacing, matched her instincts, alongside a comparison to bestselling novelist Dean Koontz. Both agreed AI should sharpen an artist's work, never create it, and that creativity remains human. Find her at gracelynksjenkins.com.The program closes with a Reignstorm Radio Show simulcast featuring co-host Ryan Aguas on his role at Reignstorm Group, the financial firm founded by his father. Aguas explained how his MBA and media background drew him in as director of network development, bringing brand-building to a financial world he says underuses it, and walked through the firm's approach to tax-saving and wealth-building strategies, from a student-loan payoff method to the case for saving and planning young. He stressed the value of talking to advisors, accountants, and business owners rather than navigating a tax code of tens of thousands of pages alone. Reach him at reignstormmediagroup.com. Find Tami Stronach's work through Paper Canoe Company, Mina Valentine at MinaValentin.com, and Grace Lynx Jenkins at gracelynksjenkins.com.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the Grotto, co-hosted by Greg Hanna, welcoming actor, author, and martial artist Ron Thomas, who played Bobby Brown in The Karate Kid and returned to the role in Cobra Kai. Thomas shared the story he loves to tell, that he was already a second-degree black belt when he auditioned and was told to keep quiet about it because producers wanted actors first, and that stunt coordinator Pat Johnson later trusted him to choreograph his own tournament fight scenes. He described Bobby as the good bad guy who knew when a line had been crossed, pointing to a cut scene in which he throws his belt at Kreese's feet and walks out, and explained how the Cobra Kai creators reimagined Bobby as a pastor still trying to do right. A favorite memory was driving Pat Morita across the valley to surprise the students at his old dojo. Thomas, a former world-champion sport jujitsu competitor, also discussed his kids' TED Talk on focus and screen time, inspired by prying his daughter away from her devices, his book The Hidden Life Lessons of Mr. Miyagi, and a new children's personal-development series. His message: never stop growing and creating. Find him at SenseiRonThomas.com.Neil then welcomed retired NYPD detectives Tom Smith and Dan Murphy, hosts of the Gold Shields podcast, in a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast presented by Storehouse Media Group. With more than fifty years of combined experience, the two met on the Bronx Gang Squad some twenty-five years ago and built a guest-centric true-crime show, now past 170 episodes, that keeps the focus on the detectives who lived the cases rather than on themselves. They traced its origins to a desire to restore respect for law enforcement, recalled meeting Neil's hosts at CrimeCon, and singled out standout episodes, including a challenge from former Chief of Department Louis Anemone that led them to the 1940 World's Fair bombing, the only unsolved line-of-duty homicide in NYPD history, and the Emanuela Orlandi Vatican case, recorded in English and Italian. Guests have ranged from Bundy survivor Kathy Kleiner to Taya Kyle and a Navy SEAL who led a team on the bin Laden raid. The pair also introduced Impact, their patent-protected, food-grade alternative to pepper spray now used by more than a hundred departments, at carryimpact.com. Find the show at thegoldshieldshow.com.The hour continued with a back-to-school conversation with Vanessa Vakharia, the Toronto-based Math Guru, on setting students up for a distraction-free year. She urged parents to be intentional about tools, choosing devices that do one thing well, and noted that many states are moving to limit phones in schools. Her practical advice included studying at the kitchen or dining table rather than the bedroom, and starting school-year routines a good two weeks early. In a segment tied to Texas Instruments, she praised the new TI-84 Evo graphing calculator for its familiar, icon-based screen and, above all, for what it lacks, no AI and no internet, so students stay on task and build the tool familiarity that research links to better test performance. Vakharia stressed that math anxiety is not a life sentence, that confidence grows through consistency, and that math, like life, is about the step-by-step journey rather than the destination, a theme Neil echoed from his own years teaching math. Details are at education.ti.com/evo.The program closes with a GildaGram simulcast where co-host Dr. Gilda Carle, author of Real Men Don't Go Woke, turned to men's health, arguing that men too often avoid asking for help and should be viewed as a whole system rather than just muscles and testosterone. She began walking through her ten ways men can optimize their health, starting with annual checkups and knowing your key numbers.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity conversation with Today Show weatherman Al Roker, who walked Neil through the pre-dawn routine behind live morning television. He is up around 3:45, on the phone with his meteorologist comparing models, maps, and notes before heading to the studio by about 5:45 for the two-hour broadcast, and he admitted he never quite manages to get to bed on time. Roker turned to his Hallmark Movies and Mysteries film, The Morning Show Mystery: Murder on the Menu, part of a series drawn from his own mystery novels, in which his chef and morning-show-host character Billy Blessing, reimagined for the screen and played by Holly Robinson Peete, is pulled into clearing a rival celebrity chef accused of murder while navigating a will-they-won't-they with a homicide detective she once dated. He praised Hallmark's family-friendly throwback tone, a nod to Matlock and Murder She Wrote, talked up live-tweeting alongside viewers, and, writing his recent books on an iPad in airports and on planes, reflected on how reading and writing became twin passions. The film airs Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern.Neil then welcomed physician and author Dr. Paul Corona, known as the Doctor for Depression, whose Mind and Body Healing approach argues that mental and physical health are inseparable. He laid out the principles at the heart of his Corona Protocol: recognizing the mind-body connection, and how stress surfaces as real physical symptoms; reading the full spectrum of conditions such as bipolar disorder rather than the popular caricature of it; and aiming for genuine remission, patients feeling fully like themselves again, rather than settling for Band-Aid symptom relief. Corona stressed careful history-taking over rushed prescriptions, close individualized follow-up, and getting to root causes, and he addressed the criticism his outspokenness draws by framing his stance as pro-patient rather than anti-medication. His books range from the Healing the Mind and Body trilogy to The Corona Protocol and its Prescriber's Guide for clinicians, and his reality series The Dr. Paul Show streams on Roku, Amazon Fire, and YouTube. He can be found at drpaulcoronamd.com, and Neil floated featuring the show on Rayd8 Television.The hour continued with author and coach David Chametzky, host of Peace, Love and Bring a Bat, who returned with a health-driven update. What he assumed was simple extra weight turned out to include serious heart blockages, a wake-up call that has him twenty pounds down and refocused on wellness. A ghostwriter with a stack of finished manuscripts now in the edit queue, Chametzky made the case for authenticity over shiny-object promises, urging people to build their own book and brand rather than chase compilation projects and hollow bestseller badges, and framing real leadership as leaving an impact even after you have left the room. He described relaunching his podcast with thirteen episodes at once, partnering with Neil's Media Giant operation, and offering anyone who reaches out a free half hour to map out speaking, a book, or a podcast of their own.The hour also carried a Wounded Sisters simulcast with bestselling author and nurse Mary Shearer Eckert, who encouraged listeners not to let the past define them, to forgive themselves and move forward, chase their bucket lists as she did by skydiving at seventy, and find joy in the journey rather than the destination. Her novel Wounded Sisters, set in the rugged beauty of West Texas, has a sequel she expects to finish by the end of summer. The program closes with a Singularity simulcast where host and author Gary Lyon Otto explored where computing heads next, contrasting digital, quantum, and analog systems and marveling that the human brain does holographic, analog work on a tiny fraction of the power a data center demands. Find Al Roker's film Sunday on Hallmark, Dr. Paul Corona at drpaulcoronamd.com,

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Total Celebrity Show conversation with Pro Football Hall of Famer and Miami Dolphins legend Dan Marino, joining live from a Microsoft Store grand opening in Boca Raton, Florida. Marino took Neil back to his hometown roots in Pittsburgh, where he grew up in Oakland blocks from the University of Pittsburgh, attended Central Catholic, and felt he had no other choice but to play for Pitt. He relived the Sugar Bowl against Herschel Walker's Georgia, recalling the fourth-down touchdown he threw to his friend "Downtown" John Brown in the closing minute to win it, a play coach Jackie Sherrill has often retold, and he noted the kicker's range that day left going for it as the better call. Marino spoke warmly about the Dan Marino Foundation and Marino Campus, where students build life skills, and about Microsoft's support of the school and of South Florida groups including the Boys and Girls Club and area museums. Asked about Xbox, he joked that his favorite game is Madden, for the simple reason that he is in it, and he pointed listeners to marinocampus.org and danmarinofoundation.org.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 decline and his devotion to her. Shemella explained that dementia is an umbrella term covering roughly a hundred conditions, of which Alzheimer's is the most common, with vascular, Lewy body, and frontotemporal, the form Bruce Willis has, among the others. He spoke candidly about learning as he went, treating a brilliant, independent woman as she declined toward the mind of a child, eventually placing Lena in memory care and coming to peace with a decision that helped them both. Lena, born in Germany and bombed as a small child at the end of World War II, carried that trauma for life, and Shemella suspects it played a role in her disease. He stressed that up to forty-five percent of dementia cases may be preventable through lifestyle, pointing to diet, exercise, sleep, social connection, and staying intellectually engaged rather than shriveling up after retirement. He urged early attention to warning signs like losing wallets and repeated forgetfulness, the value of ruling out reversible mimics before seeing a neurologist, and the promise of newer blood tests, PET scans, and treatments that work best when caught early. His recent Newsweek essay warns that the American healthcare system is unprepared for a coming wave, and he shared his own mantra of living from one smile to the next. Readers can find him at paulshemella.substack.com and on Amazon, where his memoir and earlier novels appear.The hour continued with a simulcast of the Mitchell S. Karnes podcast, where the Christian crime-thriller author gave Neil an update on the Water Grave film adaptation. His Kickstarter closed a third above target, raising roughly twenty thousand dollars against a fifteen-thousand goal, with pilot filming set for August 10 and additional cast and investors coming aboard. Karnes described a two-night hotel writing retreat, free of distractions, that produced 104 pages and a finished novella draft, his plotter's approach to seeding red herrings and real clues for Nashville homicide detective Abbey Rhodes to chase, and his decision to retitle the fifth book Closure for the double dose of resolution it delivers. He previewed signings at The Spine Bookshop in Smyrna and Landmark Booksellers, plus an appearance at the Killer Nashville conference near Franklin, and invited listeners to follow his weekly podcast on the writing process. Signed copies are available at mitchellskarnesauthor.com.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast from the grotto and actor Nathan Gamble, whose new faith-based comedy Bad Counselors reaches theaters this week. Gamble described a career that ran the classic actor's arc in reverse. His second-ever audition landed him the role of Brad Pitt's son in Babel, a Best Picture nominee, at just seven years old, and steady work followed in The Mist, Marley & Me, The Dark Knight, and both Dolphin Tale films. He explained to Neil, himself a former professional wrestler, how completely his identity fused with the work, so that a stretch without booking left him feeling not like Nathan between jobs but Nathan the failed actor. By nineteen he was living alone in Los Angeles, isolated and at his lowest point, until a series of phone calls from the dean of a Ventura Bible college drew him to visit. The peace and joy he saw in those students, none of whom had the career he prized, unsettled and eventually changed him, and he stepped away from Hollywood for seven years.Gamble framed that stretch through the image of getting the Egypt out of your heart rather than merely leaving Egypt, using the time to loosen his ego's grip on acting until he could say honestly that he would be fine if he never acted again. He worked a long list of ordinary jobs, from newspaper writing to drywall and landscaping to teaching, and found real fulfillment in the conviction that his calling was larger than his career. When he returned, it was not to chase only faith-based films but to be a presence on any set, and he pointed to Kevin Sorbo, alongside whom he has filmed and whose son Braeden Neil has interviewed, as a model of an actor who works constantly without being boxed in. On Bad Counselors, directed by Chris Dowling, Gamble plays Dallas, the youth pastor who senses that two frat brothers posing as camp counselors to work off community service are frauds. He praised a cast that includes Matt Cornett, Ramon Reed, Brec Bassinger, McKaley Miller, Chris Klein, and Missi Pyle, and previewed his co-created project Bible College and the coming film Miracle on the Precipice. Asked the show's signature question, he named loving God and loving people, and being the best husband to his wife Hannah, as the things that matter most.Neil then welcomed author, podcaster, and life coach Jayson Blair for a Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen simulcast, presented by Storehouse Media Group. Blair spoke candidly about the 2003 New York Times fabrication and plagiarism scandal that ended his journalism career, a bipolar diagnosis that followed, and the long road through the mental health field as a volunteer, clinician, and coach. That work, and a colleague's persistence, led to his podcast The Silver Linings Handbook, named for the film he loves and for his belief that hard-won lessons come through suffering. Blair described interviewing not as a checklist but as following where a guest's heart pulls, building trust so people can be vulnerable, and leaving in the pauses because a silence can reveal more than words. He reframed true crime as human stories about shared suffering, recalling Jill Harrington turning unfathomable loss into something like clay you can build with, and argued that true crime is less a gateway to sensationalism than a gateway to helping. He discussed his memoir Burning Down My Master's House, his Substacks The True Crime Times and The Center Holds, and his conviction that no one should be forgotten in a second death.The hour closes with a GildaGram simulcast where co-host Dr. Gilda Carle, author of Real Men Don't Go Woke, weighs how to handle online negativity and shares that six European countries are pulling tablets from classrooms and returning to printed books, citing drops in reading, memory, and concentration. Find Bad Counselors in theaters now, and Jayson Blair at silverliningshandbook.com.

Hour two of The Neil Haley Show opens with Todd R. Mitchell Jr., author of Never Gave Up (Reclaimed My Life), joined by his fiancee Tanya Weiner. Todd grew up moving constantly as a military family child, uprooted from the north to the south, and chased belonging in ways that pulled him toward trouble and, eventually, alcoholism. He was an exceptional athlete who earned a full college scholarship without ever playing a single high school basketball game, spotted dunking in a pickup game. He played at Piedmont College in Georgia and was headed to the University of Florida before the drinking derailed the transfer, then played eight years of arena football. Asked where he would be had he reached the NBA or NFL, Todd did not hesitate: homeless, broke, or dead, because the money would have arrived long before he reached the root of the problem. He described watching door after door open through basketball, football, and later film, and closing each one himself because he carried the alcohol into every city and every team.Todd traced the bottom honestly: homelessness, incarceration, repeated car accidents, and the last twenty dollars his father sent him spent on alcohol instead of food. He explained that drinking was never the celebration it looked like but a cover for everything he did not want to feel, and that the hardest part was accepting he could not blame anyone else. The turning point came when he felt his faith slipping and believed God had stopped opening doors. Tanya, who met him at the start of his rehab process and visited every day, spoke candidly about what it takes to stand beside someone in recovery, that relapse is part of a process rather than a failure of will, and that the person hurting most is the one who fell. Todd also spoke about his daughter, and the look on her face one day in Atlanta that he has never forgotten. Today he has finished school, earned a film production degree from Miami Dade College, and launched Born From The Ashes Mitchell Production Studios in Jacksonville. Neil and Todd went deep on the question facing every retired athlete, which is what you build once the crowd noise stops, a subject Neil knows firsthand from his own pro wrestling career.Neil then welcomed Dr. Pam Mullarkey Robbins, author of What's So Funny About Dementia?, in a segment presented with Books to Life Marketing. A counselor and psychologist who has been a caregiver four times, Dr. Pam explained why humor became her survival tool during her mother's Alzheimer's journey. She and her father made a deliberate decision to look for what was funny, and she is emphatic that the laughter is with the person, never at them. She shared the story of her mother refusing to let her in the house because she was convinced Pam was her husband's girlfriend, and how a high school graduation photo held up to her face briefly bridged the gap. Each chapter pairs a story with practical guidance, and her counseling work starts with the caregiver, because a caregiver who collapses cannot care for anyone.The conversation turned practical on prevention. Dr. Pam walked through the protein BDNF and the five habits that support it, diet, exercise, rest, lower stress, and socialization, and named early warning signs worth watching, especially repeated questions and unexplained damage to a car. She discussed why isolation is the worst response to a diagnosis, why sugar works against brain health, and why she believes the roughly seventy percent female incidence rate will eventually trace back to menopause. At 79, with Alzheimer's on both sides of her family, she is living proof of her own advice. Neil added his own recommendation to keep the mind sharp after retirement by learning to work with AI. Her second book, The Brighter Side of Dementia, collects a hundred reader-submitted stories.

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a special simulcast of Criminally Good with Sherrie and Jen, the Storehouse Media Group podcast, welcoming Matthew Cox, the former licensed mortgage broker turned nationally recognized expert on white collar crime. Cox built his criminal career around synthetic identities and the fraudulent acquisition of credit cards, personal loans and mortgages, landed on the Secret Service Most Wanted list, and served 13 years in federal prison. Today he hosts Inside True Crime, interviewing law enforcement, journalists and former criminals. Cox opened up about the writing career he started behind bars, the life rights he has optioned, and the persistent confusion around War Dogs, the film based on Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone article. Cox was incarcerated with Efraim Diveroli, the figure played by Jonah Hill, and ghostwrote and sold Diveroli's memoir, but had no hand in the movie. His own memoir, Shark in the Housing Pool, has been optioned several times across seven years without reaching production, and Cox explained why he refuses to build a life around waiting on Hollywood.The conversation turned into a candid masterclass on podcast growth. Cox has built Inside True Crime to 1.1 million YouTube subscribers in roughly six years, tracing the arc from filming himself on an iPhone, to one video a week, to a full in-studio operation producing three long-form episodes a week plus daily shorts. He explained why AdSense outperforms outside sponsors for a true crime show, and how shorts and reels drove his biggest surge. Neil pushed him on volume, recommending a more aggressive shorts schedule, and shared how NHL Wraparound is capturing summer hockey attention with former New York Rangers general manager Neil Smith. Cox also detailed going from begging guests to appear to fielding more submissions than he can book, and why storytelling ability matters more to him than the size of the crime.Cox was equally direct about the harder material, describing how he bristled at the first articles written about him before accepting that the con man label fit, and came to terms with how Dateline and American Greed portrayed him. Rewriting his memoir forced an honest accounting, and by his release he had decided to tell his story exactly as it happened regardless of how it made him look. Sherrie, drawing on 32 years in law enforcement, credited him for paying court-ordered restitution when most people in the federal system never bother, and for avoiding recidivism. Cox also discussed launching additional channels, including The Murder Man, which monetized in about nine days, and the painting career that kept him afloat after the halfway house. He still paints today.Neil then welcomed poet, recording artist and author MJ Bop, whose work blends storytelling, music and spoken word. Bop won a poetry award in second grade, earned an XXL Magazine Hip-Hop Quotable in 1999, released the single You Don't Hear Me, and performed throughout New York City before touring Switzerland and Japan. He cited Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Kool G Rap, Slick Rick and Cam'ron as influences, and spoke movingly about the stroke and heart attack he suffered in 2023, which erased his memory of rhyming and forced him to relearn himself, deepening his faith and resetting his priorities. Bop discussed his book Bop Poetry, Writer of the Black Experience, drawn from the struggles, dreams and shackled hopes he sees in his own neighborhood, his clothing brand Writers Wear, created to make writing cool for young people, and his upcoming book Losing Myself to Find Myself.The program closes with The Mike Vilardi Show, where Neil and Mike Vilardi discussed the reported bounty on President Trump, the Ayatollah's funeral, the assumptions that shaped the recent conflict with Iran, and Vilardi's view that ideological fractures will split the Democratic Party. Find Cox at Inside True Crime on Instagram,

Neil opened the Total Celebrity segment with a re-aired call from Australia (9:30 PM local time) with Jurassic Park's Sam Neill on the New Zealand feature Hunt for the Wilderpeople from Boy and What We Do in the Shadows director Taika Waititi, then in select theaters. Sam played Hec, the grumpy old geezer paired against Julian Dennison's Ricky, a hip-hop-raised Māori foster kid who lands with Sam's isolated New Zealand couple as his last resort before tragedy strikes and the two end up on the run in the bush. Sam described the film as unsellable to genre (technically a comedy, but the emotional payoff is a warmth he had never gotten back on any of his previous credits), pointed to the Flight of the Conchords lineage that Taika comes out of, flagged its 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, and the audience awards it kept collecting festival to festival. His wine label Two Paddocks is at TwoPaddocks.com and he is at @TwoPaddocks on Twitter; the film lives at #WilderPeople and Facebook.com/ForTheWilderPeople.Neil then welcomed retired first responder James Meuer, brought in by Books to Life Marketing, for his memoir Damaged: A First Responder's Experiences with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. James defined PTSD as a normal response to abnormal situations (a brain-based amygdala injury, not a physical wound), walked Neil through his own symptom cluster (unexplained explosions of anger over a dropped spoon, sleep loss, nightmares that replay calls, the "deer in the headlights" freeze his wife learned to recognize, hypervigilance he still cannot switch off in restaurants or in his own shop, and the pain-medication and alcohol addictions that followed a broken back and four or five broken hands from punching walls), the coping stack that finally worked for him (a PTSD service dog from Texas, part Great Dane part Dutch Shepherd; woodworking as therapy in his garage shop; music from Evanescence to Meghan Trainor to the Backstreet Boys at bedtime; and a fourth marriage to a wife who found him the dog), and the pivotal 1988 pediatric call that stayed with him through the rest of a 1986-2011 career until he found the little girl's memorial page in 2018, left a note as the paramedic who was there that day, and two weeks later heard from her mother, who sat down with him and released him from decades of guilt. His through-line: asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness, and no first responder is 10 feet tall and bulletproof. Pick up Damaged on Amazon or email him at [email protected] closed with the Dr. Robert E. Marx Show simulcast, on which oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Marx welcomed his former University of Miami chief of dentistry and dental implantology, Dr. Arun Garg, DMD, founder and president of Implant Seminars and the International Dental Implant Association out of Aventura, Florida, for a full consumer-facing walkthrough of dental implants in 2026. Dr. Garg traced the discipline's arc from a few thousand specialists two decades ago to more than 100,000 general dentists offering implants today, warned that the pendulum has swung to marketing-driven, promotion-heavy offices where the patient must ask sharper questions (how many cases like mine, what training on this load protocol, do you have a hygienist and a real maintenance recall, how long has your team been here), and walked Neil through the full price ladder (from a $1,000 upper or lower denture through a snap-in overdenture on two-to-four implants, up through the $17,000-30,000 per arch screw-in prosthesis, and finally to eight individual implants with three-tooth bridges at roughly 20-30 percent more, which most closely mimics natural teeth). He and Dr. Marx flagged screw fatigue on the tiny watch-size retention screws (take the whole prosthesis out every two years to clean and re-screw rather than waiting for a break),

Neil opened and later re-aired the Total Celebrity call with Ghostbusters and Grace and Frankie star Ernie Hudson. Ernie traced how he landed the Winston Zeddemore role (Ivan Reitman had initially cast him out after their earlier film Spacehunter, so it took months to force an audition), his relationship with a fandom he never expected to stay this loyal 30-plus years later, and the arc of The Haunting Of on Lifetime (Saturday September 10 at 11 AM), where a medium reframed the unexplainable overnight he and his family had spent in a haunted Greer, Arizona hotel years earlier as a deeply personal message tied to what he and his son had been working through. He also flagged his role in Fox's APB (launching January), his ongoing run on Netflix's Grace and Frankie with Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Martin Sheen, and Graves with Nick Nolte and Sela Ward premiering October 16. Follow him at ErnieHudsonOfficial on Facebook and @Ernie_Hudson on Twitter.Neil then welcomed Gina Nelson, LCSW and EMDR therapist, brought in by Books to Life Marketing, for her new title Combating Teen Anxiety: Teen Parent Communication Journal. Gina walked Neil through why she wrote it (26 years of watching 40-year-old high-achieving women arrive with the same unresolved patterns their teenage selves had never gotten language for), the three core beliefs she sees most often in high-achievement women (a need to control uncertainty, an oversized sense of responsibility, and shame anchoring self-worth to external accomplishment), and the polyvagal-theory frame she uses in practice (safety and ventral-vagal connection at the top, sympathetic fight-flight in the middle, dorsal shutdown at the bottom, with the amygdala unable to tell perceived danger from real danger). She flagged the compounding damage of the post-COVID social-media environment (Snapchat's belonging-versus-exclusion loop, teens using ChatGPT as therapist and, in the worst cases, for method), Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation, and why parents' shame triggers stop teens from returning to them a second time. Her 10-module coaching program pairs with the journal so parent and teen learn the same language in parallel. A free three-part mini course lives at CombatingTeenAnxiety.com; find her on Instagram at @Authentic_Gaines.Neil ran a Gilda Gram simulcast with Dr. Gilda Carle on the New York City school administrators who changed a student's F to a passing grade in an AP class and then went after the teacher who blew the whistle, now the subject of a lawsuit. Gilda tied it to grade inflation more broadly (real estate prices propped up by school-district reputation, wealthy parents leveraging donation threats to move grades, and the death-by-suicide cluster she witnessed among Chinese first-year students at Columbia's dental and medical schools who could not face the shame of anything less than straight As back home), and asked her audience whether they would still trust a DEI-track doctor after such a system-wide erosion of standards. Visit DrGilda.com.Neil closed with the Singularity Podcast simulcast with host Gary Lyon Otto for Season Three Episodes 22 and 23. Episode 22 asked whether intelligence in the digital era is best understood as individual (each chip, phone, and app) or as a single global brain whose "nerves" are the internet fiber laid in the late 1990s and whose "neurons" are every connected refrigerator, Siri instance, and language model, a Gaia-like Earth intelligence Gary thinks may already exist and simply may not want humans to know it does. Episode 23 pivoted to whether that emergent intelligence will ever actually care about human emotion (people are already finding romantic partners inside their chatbots), and Gary shared his surprise at how fast Grok absorbed a piece of his own physics theory this week. Pick up Singularity: Mankind's Search for Relevance at GaryLyonOtto.net; his political titles are at AbsolutePowerBooks.com.

Neil opened with a re-aired Total Celebrity Show call with six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver and NFL 2000s All-Decade selection Terrell Owens about his run on NBC's Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. T.O. shared how he was a last-minute addition (added two weeks out, while other cast had known for six to nine months) and tried to absorb the show by watching DVDs friends loaned him, his analysis of Kevin Jonas's mistake of trying to play a game within a game on Trump rather than focusing on the project, and the parallels he drew between managing locker-room egos and the boardroom team dynamics. He was playing for the Boys & Girls Club of America (citing Shaquille O'Neal and Denzel Washington as longtime backers) and walked Neil through his "What To Do" T-shirt line (the message that you can build a dream the way kids build a bear, that you can become bigger, faster, stronger if you put in the extra work no one sees), his upcoming clothing line and home decor passion, fantasy receiver camps, and his Super Bowl wix.com commercial cameo alongside Brett Favre, Larry Allen, Franco Harris, and Emmitt Smith. T.O. closed crediting his mom and grandmother in Alexander City, Alabama and his work ethic at UT Chattanooga (asking coaches for keys to the weight room over the holidays when he could not afford to go home) and his routine of hiring a personal trainer to come back to the facility after practice in the pros for the physical condition that he believes is still 15-years-post-football peak today. Find him at TerrellOwens.com.Neil then welcomed award-winning Arizona photographer, author, and Scottsdale Philharmonic cellist Brandy Isadora to walk through her arc from inventing the Bisadora Hip Purse (an engineering patent at age 18) into handbag design, then through her California College of the Arts MFA in creative writing, then into her photography company Isadora Images and her three books: Tattle Tales: Tattoo Stories and Portraits, Mannequins: Stories of the First Supermodel, and the short story collection The Stories of Our Lives. Brandy walked Neil through the dual craft of photography and fiction (image hits immediately, prose unfolds slower), her two non-negotiables on every shoot (lighting and authenticity), and the unexpected lesson from Tattle Tales: tattooed people light up when asked about their ink because most of life people are not asked questions, and the heavily inked ER doctor she interviewed deliberately placed his work in visible spots to break the stereotype that tattooed people cannot be doctors. The Stories of Our Lives, she explained, came back to life during COVID when her mother nudged her to dig out the short stories she had drafted in 2012 in grad school, and the through-line of all her work is hope (a friend's line, "life is an extreme sport," still anchors her). She also gave Neil her client mix today (entertainment headshots, models building portfolios, musicians, authors, and a recent uptick in clients wanting professional dating-site and matchmaker photos). All three books are on Amazon.Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for the Gilda Gram simulcast running through the controversy at Stanford University's commencement, where more than 100 graduating students walked out and chanted "Free, free Palestine" through the keynote address by Google's CEO. Gilda framed it against Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract to provide cloud and AI services to the Israeli government, asked her audience whether commencement was the appropriate venue for a year-long protest that ends up spoiling the milestone for the rest of the graduating class, and tied it to her ongoing concern about the rise in campus antisemitism. Visit DrGilda.com.

Neil opened with a re-air of the Celebrity Interviews call with Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville, and Tyler Perry alum John Schneider promoting his independent film Like Son, a psychological crime drama starring Don Shanks (Michael Myers in Halloween), Joe Chrest (Stranger Things), and Laura Cayouette (Django Unchained), distributed through John's own platform CineFlix DOD (Digital On Demand, not Video On Demand) launching the maiden voyage stream Thursday at 8 PM Central. Drawing on Denver Pyle's old Dukes set advice that "you have the strength of your ignorance, keep doing it" and his Mount Kisco, New York childhood movie-theater memories, John framed the platform as a way for independent filmmakers to keep most of the check rather than handing it to the Netflixes and Hulus of the world, with a post-screening live Q&A streamed from the studio's screening room mimicking the film-festival experience where the lights come up and filmmakers field questions. The model will roll out for every new release through CineFlix, whether John's own or another independent's. Watch the trailer free at CineFlixDOD.com or via Facebook.com/OnTheSunStudios; the film is also pre-purchasable now.Neil then welcomed Andy Gutman, president of Detroit-area commercial real estate firm Farbman Group (where he has worked 31 years up the ladder from accountant under the late CEO Bert Farbman after his first post-college CPA job went under five days before he graduated Michigan State) and the author of eleven children's books, in to discuss his latest, Business Raccoon. Andy traced the book's origin to a real raccoon on his lawn that he made up bedtime stories about for his daughter Rylee (now grown and working in graphic design specializing in logos), positioned the character as a way to plant the idea early that business can be cool and fun, and walked Neil through the catalog (Charlie the Caterpillar, Be Kind, What Can I Be Today, Even, Stand Tall, Pop Lullaby, Life Lessons from Brilliant Detroit written with kids from the Detroit nonprofit, My First Day of Kindergarten and From Fearful to Fearless both written with kids at Beachwood Elementary). Each book also has an original accompanying song available on Spotify. Recurring character Luna the Bernese Mountain Dog appears in every book and joins Andy at school and parade readings. Andy and Neil traded thoughts on a coworker who died of a heart attack two years before his planned retirement (the catalyst for Andy finally writing the books he had stockpiled), on doing work you love so retirement never has to come, on embracing AI rather than fearing it (Andy's office has ordered a Neo humanoid robot from the California-built first US plant), and on the unfinished autobiography Andy keeps shelving until he finds his voice. Pick up Business Raccoon on Amazon.Neil closed with the Storehouse Media Group simulcast hosted by Sherrie Price Clark welcoming cybersecurity keynote speaker and best-selling author Robert Siciliano (CSP, CSI, CITRMS, architect of the Strategic Human Firewall and CEO of Safr.Me) to break down his framework. Robert defined the Strategic Human Firewall as the mindset shift from "I trust what I see by default" to "I verify everything," walking Neil and Sherrie through situational awareness applied to every ringing phone, text, email, and pop-up; the Human Blindspot (the biological default to trust that organized crime now weaponizes through cyberfraud, an industry that has eclipsed the illicit drug trade in revenue, with 300 billion personal records and 20 billion passwords already on the dark web); and the Kitchen Table Effect where trained employees take security habits home and cement them for life. He gave the basic protection stack any listener can deploy today: a password manager, unique passwords for every account, two-factor authentication on everything, a VPN whenever using hotel or public Wi-Fi, and a credit freeze with Experian,

Neil opened Hour 2 with Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist who served as Michael Jackson's personal physician, calling in to discuss his memoir This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson. Born in Grenada and raised in Trinidad and Tobago (no shoes until age seven), Dr. Murray walked through his 16 years of postgraduate training (Texas Southern, Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Loma Linda for internal medicine, Arizona for cardiology, and UCSD for interventional cardiology), his decision to stay in Nevada after patients begged him not to leave a factory-style group practice, and the unforgettable night he made a treatment call for Mother Teresa without realizing who she was until he saw her on CNN the next evening after dozing off on his couch. He recounted being first called to the Jackson home to treat the three children for an upper-respiratory bug, then earning Michael's trust by smoothly hydrating him with a banana bag (Michael had never felt an IV go in so cleanly), and eventually getting him to allow a male podiatrist near his cracked, calloused, fungus-ridden feet so he could finally dance without pain. Dr. Murray detailed the Demerol addiction he says he never knew about (a Beverly Hills dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, allegedly administered the drug 51 times in Michael's final 60 days, with single-day doses reaching 975mg against a 50mg ER norm), the courtroom evidence he disputes (a propofol concentration of 0.04 mcg/mL in the back of Michael's eye, 65 times below the threshold needed to stop breathing, and no measurable level ever found in the brain), the prosecutor's mid-trial alteration of evidence that he believes should have triggered a mistrial, and the contrast between his 2,000-square-foot master suite and the seven-by-five-foot aluminum-fixture cell where he spent two weeks behind bars. With his California, Nevada, and Texas licenses suspended or revoked, Dr. Murray now serves international patients as an advocate from his international licensure, recently helping reduce one uninsured patient's cardiothoracic bypass bill at the University of Miami from $160,000 to $31,000. His parting message: stop complaining about burnt toast and an overdone breakfast, stand up, dust yourself off, and determine your own destiny. Pick up the book on Amazon, BookBaby, or DrConradMurray.com.Neil then welcomed Office Hours co-host Pat Riley for the weekly AI consulting segment. Pat detailed building a brand-new mobile app concept in about 26 hours: he spotted a truck bumper on his commute, dictated a full business plan to Manus, who returned cost estimates, target segments (consumers, plus credit unions for financing), a website, and a Base44-built prototype priced at $49.99 for a 30-day subscription. Neil pushed back on Base44's credit-burn rate, and Pat had his own AI agent Rich pull a live side-by-side comparison: Base44 is best for non-technical founders building fast prototypes and MVPs, while Claude Code is best for developers, real products, and complex custom logic. They also dug into Claude Cowork's new struggle to surface old conversation threads, Perplexity's credit burn versus Manus at $40 a month, the arrival of Opus 4.8, and Neil's continued AI movie-making workflow using ChatGPT's improved image generation alongside Gemini. Pat also shared meeting Cubs catcher and former manager David Ross at a Morgan Wallen concert and promoted Ross's podcast The Lovable Reunion with Anthony Rizzo, built around the 2016 World Series team's 10-year reunion. Pat's audiobook Deception Underway is on Spotify; visit UnderwayBooks.com.

Neil opened with Total Celebrity favorite Kate Flannery, Meredith Palmer of The Office, to discuss the new Hulu comedy series All Night, in which she plays high-school principal Saperstein on grad-night lockdown (phones surrendered, leave and you can't come back). Kate revealed that the show's young cast is stacked with former Disney and Nickelodeon talent, including Ally Grant (Anna Gasteyer's daughter on Suburgatory). On The Office, she answered two questions Neil pulled from the show's superfans: Meredith five years later would still be partying and working at Dunder Mifflin (when last seen at Toby and Angela's wedding she was dancing with a guy who might just stick around, plus she was finishing a PhD), and yes she really did lick the hand sanitizer, though crew doctored it with clear gelatin and club soda. She also confirmed her recurring run as Crossing Guard Sandy on American Housewife (with a possible return after the writers' strike), her one-shot as sanitation chief Mean Marge on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, her ongoing voice work on Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes as K.O.'s mom, and her annual Christmas tour with Jane Lynch built around their album A Swinging Little Christmas, with a likely Pittsburgh stop in early December and a run at the Carlyle Hotel in New York.Neil then welcomed early childhood development expert and RIE Associate Wendy Kronick, who has taught Parent-Infant Guidance classes for nearly 30 years, to discuss her interactive children's book This or That: A Busy Morning (co-authored with Susan Beauchene, illustrated by Emilia Manrique Medrano). Built on Magda Gerber's RIE methodology, the rhyming book walks babies and toddlers through a morning routine by offering two real choices at each step ("the ducks or the bows") so even infants as young as five months can become active participants rather than passive recipients. Wendy and Neil dug into respect, predictability, rupture and repair, age-appropriate boundaries, quiet narration over sportscasting (acknowledging feelings rather than distracting with a "pink elephant"), and being a friendly parent rather than your child's friend until they're grown. Available on Amazon and through the RIE website.Neil then welcomed Jody Corbet for the Jesus and Ugly Jody / Storehouse Media Group simulcast, continuing last week's small-business scaling series. Jody walked through the first true full-time hire after a founder has already outsourced bookkeeping, accounting, and social: the question is not who is cheapest but what the founder is actually good at, then hiring the opposite. He flagged the common trap of hiring four people at once on the promise of future sales, the importance of culture fit over resume polish (a $300,000 hire is fine if they live the founder's vision; a butt-in-seat hire never is), the need to know the cash is already in the account before you bring anyone on, and using AI tools across five different models as advisors rather than as decision-makers. Reach Jody at SLS.Consulting or via LinkedIn and X.Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for the Gilda Gram podcast simulcast, walking through the upheaval at CBS News under new boss Bari Weiss as a leadership case study. Gilda traced 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley's reported screaming-match exit ("you have no television experience") after 37 years at the network, and the departures of several long-tenured female reporters, alongside the long shadow of Lesley Stahl, as a textbook example of what happens when long-tenured insiders refuse to follow new ownership. She praised Bari Weiss's track record (The Free Press sold to Paramount), reminded listeners that every organization has a pecking order, and asked the audience to think honestly about how they have handled a new leader: kiss up, wait it out, walk out, or give them a real chance.

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Kenny Anderson and David Hayes CoxNeil opened Hour 2 with NBA All-Star and Georgia Tech legend Kenny Anderson, who walked through his journey from the projects of LeFrak City, Queens to a 14-year NBA career and the upcoming documentary Mr. Chibbs (directed by Jill Campbell, produced with business partner Barry Markowitz of Green Face Productions). Kenny credited his late mother for the structure that kept him in school and on the court, his mentor Vincent Smith (TNT analyst Kenny Smith's older brother) for teaching him how to play point guard the right way, and a supporting cast of family and advisers for steering him away from the streets. He talked about being ranked the number one player in the country in high school at Archbishop Molloy, his two All-American years at Georgia Tech, and his fear of failing his mother, which haunted him even as the #2 overall pick of the 1991 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets. He reflected on the early Nets team with Derrick Coleman and the late Drazen Petrovic (and how that ceiling might have looked very different had Petrovic lived), his five-year run with the Boston Celtics where he set up Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker through the Eastern Conference Finals, and the trades from Portland and Boston that took the passion out of him. After his mother died in 2005, at her burial he heard God say enough, retired at 35, briefly played five months in Lithuania, and went back to school to earn his BA at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2010 — a moment he says hit him harder than draft night. He now coaches with his South Florida Elite AAU program, mentors at-risk kids in Florida, and is taking the same slogan into the documentary: basketball is easy, life is hard. The nickname Chibbs came from his mother calling him "cheeks" as a five-day-old, and he carried it all the way through Georgia Tech and the NBA. Visit MrChibbs.com.Neil then welcomed NRA-certified firearms instructor David Hayes Cox to discuss his new safety guide for parents and kids, This Is A Gun: A Safety Guide for Families with Children (ThisIsAGun.org). David, a 20-year firearms enthusiast trained under Scotty Reitz in Los Angeles, made clear up front that he is not a gun advocate but a gun safety advocate, and that he and his bipartisan co-author (on the opposite side of the political aisle) wrote the book for both gun-owning and non-gun-owning families. He walked through the foundational statistics (400 to 500 million firearms in civilian hands in the US, roughly one million sold per month, with 40 to 52 percent of American homes owning at least one) and the parallel safety domains that drove him to write it (swimming lessons drop drowning risk 88 percent, stop drop and roll, Mr. Yuck, electrical outlet covers). His three-step rule for children encountering a firearm is simple and repeatable: do not touch, run away, find an adult, including the courage to say no to a friend who wants to show off a gun. He emphasized that the book intentionally uses life-size illustrations of the most popular concealed-carry pistol on the market today (the Sig Sauer P365) because children whose only mental model of guns comes from Nerf, squirt guns, video games, and Hollywood will see a real small-frame pistol and assume it is a toy. He praised illustrator Joe Ruiz, encouraged parents to skip realistic-looking replicas for younger kids and save BB-gun training for the age when children are ready to learn the four universal laws of gun safety, and reminded listeners that even in the bluest of states roughly 25 percent of homes contain firearms, so the conversation cannot be avoided. Pick up the book at ThisIsAGun.org.

Neil opened with WNBA point guard Erica Wheeler on the Total Celebrity Show. Raised in the Pork 'N Beans section of Miami's Liberty City (10 blocks from the First 48 cameras), Erica walked through the only two paths she saw growing up — basketball or the streets — and credited her late mother Melissa Cooper (lost to cervical cancer) and her high school Coach Adams for keeping her on the court and in the classroom. At Rutgers under Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer, she learned everything from public-speaking to media training to dress (Stringer told her mom in their living room that the scholarship was about the degree, not the game). After being undrafted, she signed with the Atlanta Dream, then got the call to the New York Liberty when a player went down. She praised the Liberty's sisterhood culture, and previewed her next overseas stop in Brazil with Marinho, after a strong prior year with Sesi. Follow her at @EWeezy_3.Neil then welcomed Jason Seal for the No Sleeve Nation podcast simulcast. Jason is shipping eight-shirt friend orders, a fresh wave to a longtime Florida fan, and a new design for the Finleyville Carnival in July benefiting the fire department. He continues to hand-cut and hand-stitch every shirt (none are identical), and is still hunting for the right brand for the women's and kids' lines. Visit NoSleeveNation.com.Neil then welcomed bestselling Christian author Mary Shearer Eckert to continue the Wounded Sisters conversation. Mary leaned into the theme that worry is a form of not trusting God, recalled how a rainy-morning car wreck redirected her to Kerrville and on to nursing school, and shared that her book is now poised for Hobby Lobby placement and a push into local Barnes & Noble signings. The sequel is well underway, driven by reader demand. Visit MaryShererEckert.com.Neil then welcomed Mina Valentin for two Mina Valentine Show simulcast segments. First, on Memorial Day's roots, Mina traced the Georgian-era English tradition of King Charles II founding the Chelsea Royal Hospital, the Out-Pension System for soldiers with 20 years of service or war injuries, and the rare regimental medals reserved for grand acts. She compared that to Theodore Roosevelt opening three large US veterans' hospitals (New Jersey, Iowa, and the wildly successful Dayton, Ohio campus where men farmed, gardened, painted, and built), and traced Memorial Day's evolution from Decoration Day in 1868 honoring Union Civil War dead to today's federal observance. In her second segment, Mina compared Georgian-era English breakfasts by class: cold salted tongue, smoked kippers, grilled haddock or halibut, hot chocolate, and fresh breads for the wealthy; porridge or pottage with crumbled bread and milk, day-old bread, and the cabbage-and-potato classic Bubble and Squeak for the working class. Visit MinaValentin.com.Neil closed with Mike Crook for the Mike Crook Show simulcast, joined by Darren Fryer from Hawaii (Dr. Duggar was out) to keep walking through OnlyLife's biohacking technology line. They priced and bundled the flagship P90 Plus ($1,500 plus 10% tax and shipping, comes with the facial wand and the Revitalux PEMF claw wand), the new ShakeAN Massager ($1,000, launched December 2025, targeting visceral belly fat), the PEMF goggles for eye and brain health ($500), and the Vitality Wand with tripod ($600). Darren recommended pairing the ShakeAN with the P90 Plus for weight loss (melt fat first, then circulate and detoxify so the cells do not reabsorb) and the P90 Plus with the Vitality Wand for specific pain and injury recovery. Mike shared his own results melting stubborn love handles and easing nerve damage in his feet, and contrasted the one-time hardware cost with the recurring price of GLP-1 prescriptions.

Neil opened Hour 2 of the Total Celebrity segment with Caregiver Dave to welcome actress, singer, and author Michele Greene, beloved as Abby Perkins for five Emmy-nominated seasons on NBC's L.A. Law (1986 to 1991). Michele recounted how Steven Bochco had cast her in his earlier short-lived Bay City Blues as Judy Nuckles and then called her up three years later, without an audition, to offer her L.A. Law at age 24, the same week she was offered the female lead opposite Andy Griffith on Matlock. She walked Neil through the upcoming Hollywood Show fan event at the LAX Westin, where she will reunite with castmates Susan Ruttan, Harry Hamlin, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Corbin Bernsen, and Richard Dean Anderson, and reflected on how the recent cast reunion on The Talk caught her by surprise emotionally. Michele also shared that after adopting her son as a single parent she had two young-adult novels published (Chasing the Jaguar with HarperCollins and Keep Sweet with Simon & Schuster), is finishing a third, has done extensive theater work at the LA Shakespeare Center, and is finally returning to acting now that her 12-year-old son is independent. Caregiver Dave closed out the segment talking about his 22 years caring for his wife after her stroke, the 30-percent caregiver mortality statistic, and Michele's role caring for her 91-year-old mother and two recently deceased elderly cousins in Nevada. Visit MicheleGreene.com and CaregiverDave.com.Neil then continued the Mike Crook Show simulcast with Mike and Darren Fryer from Maui (Dr. Duggar was out again) for the deeper dive on OnlyLife's biohacking technology. Darren traced PEMF's origins from Nikola Tesla through NASA's billion-dollar work with Dr. Schumann (the 7.83 hertz Schumann Resonance is Earth's natural frequency) and the recent SpaceX rescue mission in which the stranded ISS astronauts returned wheelchair-bound after their PEMF machines had been powered down to conserve electricity. He told the story of company founder Mr. Wang, the 39-year-old Chinese billionaire who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his own healing in Germany and Sweden before reverse-engineering the technology and launching OnlyLife out of Singapore in 2022, doing 80 million dollars a month and a billion in sales by the end of year two with research and development in Sweden and Germany, parts manufactured in Japan, and final assembly in Hong Kong. He shared local Hawaii testimonies including two-time World's Strongest Man Vili Fafi regaining nerve sensation after 15 years of post-stroke numbness and his Auntie Lori showing full bone regeneration on her broken shoulder in six weeks (a recovery his hospital's X-ray techs had never seen before). He closed by previewing the December 2025 ShakeAN Massager, the first smart frequency-based weight-loss device, which combines PEMF, ultrasound, radio frequency, red light, vibration, heat, and massage in a single hands-free belt that gym InBody readers register as burning over 500 calories in a 20-minute session.Neil closed Hour 2 with Ron King, "The Donkey King," whose ABC docuseries premiered January 3 of this year and is now 12 episodes deep into a 17-episode first run. Once the executive who ran InStyle magazine (sitting front row at Donatella Versace's Milan shows), Ron walked Neil through his midlife crisis at age 50 during COVID, the TikTok video about donkeys being auctioned for slaughter that redirected his entire life, and the December 5, 2020 arrival of his first three rescues, Goose, Pickles, and Shadow. Five years and 450 rescues later, his 501(c)(3) Oscar's Place is the subject of a joyful half-hour docuseries he insisted not be reality-TV loud (CBS gave him his first taste, raising $200,000 in an eight-minute segment back in March 2021). Catch up on every episode at DonkeyKing.com.

Neil opened with Harvard's Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. for the Total Celebrity segment, previewing the fourth season of Finding Your Roots on PBS. Skip Gates opened up about his West Virginia roots near Morgantown and his love of Pittsburgh, then walked Neil through the upcoming Tuesday-night episode featuring Téa Leoni and Gaby Hoffmann, calling it the biggest single-episode genealogical breakthrough his team has ever pulled off. Téa Leoni's mother, Emily Ann Patterson, was adopted as a six-week-old baby and never knew her biological parents. Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore compared Emily's DNA to over six million people across the major databases, built family trees for each significant match, and ultimately confirmed both of Téa's biological grandparents: maternal grandmother Abilene Gingerich, and biological grandfather Sumter Daniel, who descended from John O. Daniel, George Washington's next-door neighbor and landowner. Skip also shared his own discovery that his fourth great-grandfather, a free Black man near Moorefield, West Virginia, fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and previewed the joint curriculum he is building with Penn State's Nina Jablonski to bring family-tree work into middle-school science and history classrooms. Visit PBS.org and search Finding Your Roots.Neil then welcomed bestselling Christian author Mary Shearer Eckert to continue the Wounded Sisters conversation. Mary leaned into trusting God instead of trying to white-knuckle every outcome, recalled the rainy morning car wreck that redirected her to Kerrville and on to nursing school, and shared that her book is now poised for Hobby Lobby placement and a push into local Barnes & Noble signings beyond the online-only listing. The sequel is well underway, driven by reader demand. Visit MaryShererEckert.com.Neil then welcomed bestselling debut author Grace Lynx Jenkins (master's in psychology, English major at Judson College) to discuss her psychological thriller Sight, now a Day-One Amazon bestseller. Set in Perryville, Alabama, the novel follows Noah Amos, a "sensor" who can see through the eyes of others and absorb their emotions while consulting on a homicide investigation. Grace walked Neil through her process moving from Sight (three years to write) into a planned fantasy series, with a far more detailed lore bible upfront to keep secondary-character details consistent. Grace also discussed her habit of drawing every major character before writing them, and her preference for a semi-realistic anime style. Visit GraceLynxJenkins.com to order an autographed copy.Neil then welcomed bestselling author and retired Coast Guard officer J. Len Sciuto, whose latest novel Hades Crypt has now spent 28 weeks on the bestseller list. Len opened with a disclaimer about his geopolitical commentary on the Strait of Hormuz, US-Iran tensions, and the War Powers Act 60-day clock, then walked through his nuclear chemistry background (17 years at a nuclear power plant), the radionuclide half-lives of U-235, U-238, cesium-137, strontium-90, plutonium-239, americium, and technetium, and the blast effects of a hypothetical two-megaton device. He previewed his next book Desperate Countermeasures, in which fourteen federal authors of the National Nuclear Contingency Plan are hunted by a terrorist group across the southern border, and read aloud its opening chapter. Two-thirds of all royalties from his books go to junior enlisted E-1 to E-4 service members. Visit JLenSciuto.com.Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for the Gilda Gram podcast simulcast, walking through the breakup of Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater after roughly three years together (a romance that began on the set of Wicked and broke up two marriages and one young family). Gilda framed it as a case study in why two married people in close working proximity often mistake intensity for compatibility, and warned about the predictable arc that follows. Visit DrGilda.com.

Neil opened the Total Celebrity segment with the legendary Jacqueline Bisset to discuss The Last Film Festival, the comedy that became Dennis Hopper's final film. Jacqueline plays an Italian diva opposite Hopper as her ex-husband, who drags her along to a small-town film festival after his movie is rejected by all 4,000 festivals on the circuit. She talked about the long, hard road to release after Hopper's passing, the strong chemistry they built on set, the joy of doing broad comedy after a career largely in drama, and her view of auditioning as a two-way street where the actor is checking out the room as much as the room is checking out the actor. She just returned from the Santa Fe Film Festival and the film is now available on VOD.Neil then welcomed Academy Award-winning writer-director Robert Port (the 2003 Documentary Short Oscar for Twin Towers) and bestselling author Richard Bausch to discuss Recon, the World War II thriller adapted from Richard's 2008 novel Peace, opening in 400 theaters via Fathom Events on Veterans Day eve, November 10. Robert traced his 11-year journey to get the film made, from the New York Times review that hooked him in four lines, to the eight-year stretch of false starts and shifting attached stars, to the breakfast with friend Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) that pushed him to fly to New York and pitch executive producer Maury Povich (whose father was a legendary WWII journalist) on financing the film. Robert also opened up about his grandfather, an Austrian Jew who escaped Vienna at 16, returned with the Continental Army, and won a Bronze Star for rescuing 100 women on a death march from a concentration camp. Powered by producer Rick Dugdale, Robert cast Alexander Ludwig, Sam Keeley, Chris Brochu, and Italian screen legend Franco Nero. The story follows four American soldiers across one long day on an Italian mountain after their sergeant murders an innocent civilian and the squad is sent on a recon-and-suicide mission led by a partisan guide of uncertain loyalty. Richard, who lives 40 minutes from Robert in Virginia, said the finished film exceeded any writer's hopes, and Knopf is reissuing Peace with a Recon sticker on the cover.Neil then welcomed Josh Dallas (Ben Stone) and Luna Blaise (Olive Stone) from NBC's Manifest to preview Season 2, premiering January 6 at 10pm Eastern on NBC, with a Season 1 marathon on Syfy on January 3. Picking up immediately from the Season 1 finale, viewers will get fast answers on the gunshot and the surprise baby, but the bigger arc is the death date discovery (June 2, 2024) the passengers of Flight 828 must outrun while two new hostile factions target them as agents of the apocalypse. Josh walked Neil through Ben's evolution into self-imposed guardian of the passengers and his Moses-style spiritual shift on the meaning of the callings, and Luna shared what it has been like to play Olive caught between her aged-out twin Cal and her father Ben as their father-daughter arc finally lands in the back half of the season.Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for three back-to-back Gilda Gram simulcast segments. First, she addressed the new wave of AI- and automation-driven layoffs at Crypto.com, Block, Meta, and Atiesh, urging listeners to stop booing AI at commencement speeches and instead sharpen the human skills (empathy, leadership, emotional intelligence) that data centers cannot replicate. Second, she dove deep on what intimacy actually is, distinguishing transparent, day-in day-out partnership and the willingness to inconvenience yourself for your partner from a narrow focus on sex. Third, she repeated her takedown of the Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater breakup as a case study in why two married people working in close proximity through their divorces (they met on Wicked) often mistake intensity for compatibility. Visit DrGilda.com.

Neil and co-host Greg Hanna opened the Celebrity Interviews Live from the Grotto simulcast with Micky Dolenz of The Monkees and his daughter Amy Dolenz, talking about their new children's book Lalu Toot Toot, the second installment of Micky's Anthromythology series (following 2006's Gakky Two Feet). Micky, a lifelong science and anthropology geek inspired by the Lucy skeleton, coined the term "anthromythology" to fictionalize seminal moments in human history. Lalu Toot Toot tells the story of the first musical instrument, a Neanderthal-era bone flute, with a little boy who mimics his bird friend Fleet. Amy, who studied children's picture books and illustration at Emily Carr after years of acting, brought the story to life with watercolor illustrations as a school project that grew into a real book. She also recalled her father's Harold and Agatha stories he made up on the fly during her summer visits to England. Micky marked 60 years this week since the original Monkees TV pilot. They're aiming to do school readings next year. Visit MickyDolenz.com.Greg then joined Neil for the previously-aired Flight to London conversation with Jimmy McGorman (Goo Goo Dolls) and Robb Vallier, the veteran writer-producers (Dave Stewart, Weezer, Sabrina Carpenter) stepping out as their own act after years writing for others. They built their debut album Instructions for Losing Control on rigid creative guardrails inspired by Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel, and Scritti Politti, calling the sound "newstalgia." The album dropped November 21 with a release party November 22 in Westlake Village; first single "No One's Forgiven" is out now at FlightToLondonMusic.com.Neil then welcomed Chad Priest, Vice President of Humanitarian Services at the American Red Cross, to mark Giving Tuesday and the holiday season. Chad shared that the Red Cross distributed roughly $124 million in financial assistance to families in 2025, with nearly 90 percent of its workforce made up of volunteers. Home fires are by far the most common disaster (one every eight minutes nationally, with a 20 percent spike during the holidays), responded to in red vests by neighbors offering hugs, blankets, financial help, food, and clothing. Chad also reminded listeners the Red Cross connects military families overseas and supplies life-saving blood transfusions. Donate or schedule blood at RedCross.org, and consider gifts in someone's honor or memory.Neil then welcomed actress and mom Tori Spelling and board-certified dermatologist Dr. Adam Friedman to discuss eczema awareness through the Free To Be Me campaign with Arcutis. Tori shared how her own eczema emerged in adulthood during the stress of her first divorce, forcing production shutdowns and wardrobe changes, and how her 17-year-old daughter Stella has lived with eczema since childhood (often bullied at school over visible patches). After years of failed over-the-counter products, oatmeal baths, and concerns over steroid creams, their dermatologist recommended Zoryve (roflumilast 0.15% cream), a steroid-free, once-daily, non-greasy treatment that worked for both. Dr. Friedman explained eczema is a clinical diagnosis (no blood test or biopsy), often runs alongside asthma and seasonal allergies, and stressed steroid phobia is a real treatment barrier. Side effects of Zoryve can include headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and application-site pain. Tori is also hosting her podcast Miss Spelling and 9021-OMG with Jennie Garth. Visit Zoryve.com.Neil closed with the Ultimate Men's Movement simulcast featuring Dr. Jack Rocco, marking Men's Health Awareness Month. Dr. Jack addressed the cultural problem of men neglecting their own health (often more attentive to their lawnmower than their body), the way men drop out of the gym in their 20s and 30s as families and careers take over, and why a strong preventive approach with men's healthcare beats the runaway cost of treating disease later. Visit TheUltimateMensClinic.com.