Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interviews is the number 2 Celebrity Podcast in The World and has over 5 million listeners a week. The Neil Haley Show is syndicated on 150+ stations. Here are some of the stations and markets the show is being played on:Prestonsburg, KY - 1310 AMTampa Bay Area: 92.1 FMLas Vegas, NV: 1520 AM / 99.5 FMMacon, GA: 87.9 FMLancaster, PA: AM 1640 / FM 102.1Boulder, CO: 96.3 FMMilwaukee, WI: 90.3 FMPittsburgh, PA: 94.7 FMLong Beach, CA: 87.5 FMThe Villages, FL: 97.7 FMColorado Springs, CO: 95.4 FMJacksonville, FL: 90.3 FMWashington D.C.: 96.7 FMRock Hill, SC: 89.5 FM

Celebrity Interviews is a news podcast hosted by Neil Haley, with 858 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Stan Against Evil's John C. McGinley, Children's Author Laure Stack, and Investigator Melissa Sandberg

  Aug 16, 20261 hour

  Stan Against Evil's John C. McGinley, Children's Author Laure Stack, and Investigator Melissa Sandberg 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.

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  Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson, Author Paul Shemella, and Retired Captain and Author Donna Roman Hernandez

  Aug 16, 20261 hour

  Ghostbusters' Ernie Hudson, Author Paul Shemella, and Retired Captain and Author Donna Roman Hernandez This 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.

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  America's Got Talent Host Terry Crews, Author Chris Klein, GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle, and the Wounded Sisters

  Aug 16, 20261 hour

  America's Got Talent Host Terry Crews, Author Chris Klein, GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle, and the Wounded Sisters 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 Klein, 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.

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  Golden Globe Winner Meg Tilly, First Responder and Author James Meuer, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle

  Aug 16, 20261 hour

  Golden Globe Winner Meg Tilly, First Responder and Author James Meuer, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle 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.

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  William McNamara (UFO), AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram.

  Aug 11, 20261 hour

  William McNamara (UFO), AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram. 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 Carle This 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.

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