The Neil Haley Show

Tommy Davidson, Karen Hubert, and Jeff ServinIn a simulcast of the Dr. Christopher Hall Show, co-hosted with the Nobel Prize-nominated emergency physician and bestselling author, Neil welcomes back comedian, actor, musician, and author Tommy Davidson. Davidson reflects on how humor came naturally to him from childhood, his mother’s early insight that he had a way of making people laugh before they could even think, and how that gift still anchors a sense of balance and connection in his life. He shares his new single, You Show Me, featuring saxophonist Najee alongside other guest musicians, and hi...

On the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes Jon Taffer, star of Spike TV’s top-rated series Bar Rescue, as the show marks its 100th episode. Taffer recounts his unlikely path from tending bar while studying political science in Denver to a career fixing failing bars on television, sparked when a friend in the industry told him he would never make it on TV and he set out to prove him wrong with a self-funded sizzle reel that drew four offers. He explains why the show resonates: bars are universally relatable, and at its heart each episode is...

Dr. Anila Bindal, William Troy, Dr. Jessi Gold, and Indy PedersonThe show opens with a return visit from Dr. Anila Bindal, who clears up misconceptions about continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs. She explains that these small arm-worn sensors are not only for people with Type 1 diabetes or those on insulin, and that for the more than 30 million Americans with Type 2 diabetes, seeing glucose trends in real time can reveal how meals, exercise, and medication affect the body. Dr. Bindal notes that research links CGM use to better measures like A1C and time in range, and...

Neil opens with actor and singer Cheyenne Jackson of FX’s American Horror Story, who talks about being asked back to the show and the thrill of playing opposite Lady Gaga, whom he praises for her ego-free, all-in commitment to the craft and her Golden Globe-winning turn. Known to many from 30 Rock and Glee, Jackson shares that music is his true first love, tracing it to a childhood in northern Idaho spent listening to Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, and Sarah Vaughan, and to the music teacher who told him his old-fashioned voice was a gift. Th...

Dennis McKinnon, Karen Hubert, and Sharon CameronNeil welcomes former Chicago Bear Dennis McKinnon, a member of the legendary 1985 championship team, who now runs Barely Active Productions and, in his words, prefers to spend his time making a difference rather than reliving the glory days. McKinnon explains his passion for connecting lesser-known charities and nonprofits with media, advertising, and sponsorship so that as close to every dollar as possible reaches the cause rather than overhead. Drawing on four decades of relationships, including a long run as an ambassador for 7-Eleven, he describes how a trusted, well-vetted partner...

Don McLean, Dr. David Sequeira, and Mary Shearer EckertOn the ProVision Brokerage celebrity segment with co-host Eric Couch, Neil welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean. McLean, forever synonymous with American Pie, shares fresh backstory on the song, from his debut album Tapestry on Alan Livingston’s Media Arts label to United Artists buying the company on the strength of what he had written and trimming the eight-and-a-half-minute epic into a chart-topping single. He explains his guiding idea that politics and music flow in parallel, and why he writes sparingly, treating each song, from Vincent to Castles in th...

Bob Drury, Craig DeRoche, and Wayne MillerOn a simulcast of the celebrity interviews live from the Grotto, the recurring segment with co-host Greg Hanna, Neil welcomes New York Times bestselling author Bob Drury to talk about The Phantom: The Untold Story of the American Marine the Nazis Could Not Kill, his latest collaboration with writing partner Tom Clavin. Drury explains the pair’s signature approach of finding untold stories of ordinary men who rise to extraordinary circumstances in wartime, and how a book they planned on the Jedburgh commandos kept leading them back to one remarkable fi...

Denny Seiwell, Christine Waltz, Dr. David Sequeira, and Dr. Anila BindalOn the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes legendary drummer Denny Seiwell, the first musician Paul McCartney called after the Beatles broke up. Seiwell recounts auditioning for the Ram album, getting the career-changing call days later, and the vacation invitation to Scotland that turned into the founding of Wings. He reflects warmly on those years, the highs and the hard breakup, and on staying close friends with McCartney, even lending a hand on upcoming reissues. The heart of the conversation is his return to his first love...

On the Total Celebrity segment, Neil is honored to welcome hip hop legend Coolio, who reflects on a career built on hard work and instinct. He recalls the turning point when an A&R urged him to rewrite a song’s lyrics to make them more universal, and how that instinct became the defining moment that proved he knew what he was doing, leading to his Grammy-winning smash Gangsta’s Paradise, a record he describes as its own entity that in a sense wrote him. He traces his path from early singles through reinventing his brand and...

Dave Foley, Dr. Harold Kooden, and Mary Shearer EckertOn the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes comedian and actor Dave Foley to talk about his role as hospital administrator Pat on ABC’s Dr. Ken. Foley reflects on his start with the sketch troupe Kids in the Hall, a group he likens to a bar band that got its own TV show, and on the joy of still telling jokes for a living after three decades. He praises co-star Ken Jeong as a powerhouse performer in the mold of Martin Short, especially in front of the live mu...

On the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes back actor Corbin Bernsen to talk about the film When We Last Spoke, a warm family story based on the novel and co-starring Melissa Gilbert, whom Bernsen has known since they were both young. He describes it as a touching tale of rekindled family, forgiveness, and the human spirit, and reflects on how the past stretch of life has pushed everyone toward what matters most. Bernsen plays Walt, a man ready to settle into his own quiet life who is suddenly entrusted with raising two granddaughters after his son...

Soleil Moon Frye, Dr. Louise Stanger, and Pastor Mark BiltzOn the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye, who reflects on how the show became “a way of our lives” and still moves people decades later, with her best friend Cherie beside her through it all. She points fans to her Hulu documentary Kid 90, a coming-of-age story she began about everyone else before it turned personal, and teases new documentaries in the works, the return of Proud Family on Disney Plus, and the continuation of Punky. The heart of the conversation is her...

The Neil Haley Show opens with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Cameron, whose historical novel Up from the Ashes she calls both historic and deeply timely. Based on the true story of Chaim Engel and Selma Wijnberg, the book follows two strangers paired to dance for the amusement of their guards inside the Sobibor death camp in 1943, who did not share a language yet, as Selma later said, made love their language and chose to become each other's reason to survive. Cameron described Sobibor's horrors plainly while framing the novel as a...

Julie Piekarski, Mary Shearer Eckert, and Jaimie SkultetyThis edition opens with a Mitchell S. Karnes Podcast simulcast featuring actress, dancer, and choreographer Julie Piekarski, who was one of just twelve children chosen from some thirty thousand for Disney's 1970s New Mickey Mouse Club before going on to play Sue Ann on The Facts of Life. Piekarski shared warm memories of filming daily, performing at Disneyland, and the show's enduring global fan base, noting the Mickey Mouse Club's fiftieth anniversary reunion is coming in January. A St. Louis native who kept up her Catholic schooling on set...

Jim Poole, Chairman and CEO of NuCalm, and Dr. Robert J. McCunney, author of The Aging Code, join Neil Haley on a body under load. Poole on resetting a nervous system that never gets an off switch. McCunney on whether aging can be slowed, and what the science supports.Segment 1: Jim Poole, NuCalmAlso closed as The NSRT Podcast. Free trial on air: nsrt.ai. More episodes: nsrt.ai/podcast.Poole frames NuCalm as neuroscience, not a sleep soundtrack. Inventor Dr...

Christopher Rice, Maya Christobel, and Gary Lyon OttoThe Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast alongside Greg Hanna welcoming New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice to talk about his latest novel, Sapphire Storm, part of his Sapphire Cove series. Rice shared that he originally wanted to be an actor and turned to writing in his college dorm as a creative outlet no one could take from him, and spoke candidly about being the son of the late Anne Rice, acknowledging that a famous last name opened early doors but that staying in the...

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with actor and comedian Ken Jeong, who called this the greatest year of his career as his ABC series Dr. Ken wrapped its final episode. Jeong, known to fans from Community and The Hangover, described the joy of building a family comedy rooted in his own life as a doctor and father of twin daughters, and of bringing back friends and comedy heroes like his Community co-stars and Jeffrey Ross as guests. He highlighted a favorite Ken-and-Molly episode in which his character takes his daughter, played by Krista...

Roma Downey, Willem Geri, Michael Aguas, and Jodi CorbetThe Neil Haley Show opens with a Celebrity Interviews simulcast alongside Greg Hanna welcoming beloved actress and producer Roma Downey, who reflected warmly on her years playing the angel Monica on Touched by an Angel before turning to her new family drama The Baxters, launching on Amazon Prime Video for Easter. Downey explained that she first came to the material as a fan, unable to put down Karen Kingsbury's Redemption series, and reached out to the author for the rights to adapt it. The result follows Elizabeth and...

Bill Bellamy, Mitchell Mueck, Jaimie Skultety, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda CarleThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with comedian and actor Bill Bellamy, who reflected on how MTV launched him into the middle of 1990s pop culture and gave him the platform that led to comedy and film. Interviewing everyone from Madonna and Janet Jackson to Whitney Houston and Boyz II Men, he said, was a fantastic education, and he credited MTV with making his career work. Bellamy turned to his new film The Bounce Back, opening December 9th, in which he plays Terry...

The Neil Haley Show opens with a warm, wide-ranging conversation with legendary television executive producer Peter Engel, the man behind Saved by the Bell and the author of the forthcoming memoir I Was Saved by the Bell, out November 15th. Engel, speaking from his home overlooking the ocean, admitted he never wanted to make the show and even told NBC president Brandon Tartikoff to find someone else, only to watch it become a global phenomenon airing in eighty-five countries at a time when few American comedies traveled beyond a handful of English-speaking markets. He credited the...