The Neil Haley Show

This edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with a faith-filled conversation with author Carolyn Mannila Harper about her memoir, Why Didn't Anybody Ever Tell Me About This! A Mother's Search for a Living God. Harper, whose son was at her side during the interview, described a mother's relentless journey caring for a boy who has epileptic seizures nearly every day, a road on which doctors offered no real solutions and even some religious voices questioned her faith. Through it all, she leaned on the belief she has carried since childhood, captured in the simple line...

Author Joby Walters, Author Judith Perrine Armour, Lifestyle Expert Jane Clauss, and Marine Pilot Robbie AllenThis edition of The Neil Haley Show opens with Joby Walters, author of Cut Free: A Hells Angel's Ride to Redemption. Walters, now seventy, traced an extraordinary arc from a hardened outlaw, an enforcer patched into the Hells Angels by the club's legendary founder, to a man remade by faith. He recalled a teenage brush with the Holy Spirit that frightened a boy with no family support to make sense of it, a handshake goodbye with his father at a Greyhound...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...