
The Neil Haley Show
Author Carolyn Mannila Harper, AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, and GildaGram with Dr. Gilda Carle
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 Jesus loves me this I know, and on a conviction that Jesus is real, loving, and present through every trial. Neil praised her devotion as a caregiver, and Harper framed the book not as a set of answers but as a testimony meant to encourage others facing life's hardest trials, a reminder that faith is less an idea than a relationship with a God who walks alongside us. She spoke candidly about the exhaustion and isolation of caregiving, and about learning to trust God with what she could not control. Her enduring message was simple and hopeful: no journey is too difficult when you are not walking it alone. Neil then turned to an AI Office Hours simulcast with co-host Pat Riley, a lighter installment focused on the week's wins rather than any controversy. Riley opened with a laugh, offering that his real AI lesson of the week was never to bet on what a model predicts, after the algorithms gave the Broncos a chance on Monday Night Football and were promptly proven wrong, a reminder, both agreed, that the technology still misses the human element. Riley shared that he has his AI assistant building code for him in the background while he tackles other work, and Neil said he was pleased with his own progress for the week. The pair returned to their steady theme that these tools shine as a force multiplier when a person stays in charge and keeps a hand on the wheel, and read a few listener comments along the way. The program closes with two GildaGram simulcasts featuring Dr. Gilda Carle. In the first, she used the on-again, off-again romance of Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi, now reportedly turning serious, as a springboard to explore why a rekindled relationship sometimes finally works when it did not before, urging listeners to ask what has genuinely changed, in themselves or the other person, since the last time around, since that, she said, is usually what determines whether a reunion lasts. In the second, she reflected on a meme that made her smile, be a good human being, there is a lot of opportunity and very little competition, and lamented how much greed, nastiness, and you-did-this language dominates today, leaving real room for anyone willing to lead with love, kindness, and care. She encouraged listeners to be that person. Find Carolyn Mannila Harper's Why Didn't Anybody Ever Tell Me About This wherever books are sold.

