The Neil Haley Show

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Jay Underwood, Jim Wolfenbarger, and J. Len Sciuto

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Jay Underwood, Jim Wolfenbarger, and J. Len Sciuto Neil opened the Total Celebrity Show with actor turned full-time pastor Jay Underwood, a beloved face from the 1980s and 1990s known for The Boy Who Could Fly, Not Quite Human, Uncle Buck, The Sonny and Cher Story, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and the unreleased 1994 Roger Corman Fantastic Four. Jay traced his path from Hayward, California, through American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, to Minneapolis's Children's Theatre Company where he booked his first feature opposite Jon Voight, JoBeth Williams, and Ellen Barkin in Robert Redford and Johnny Carson-produced Desert Bloom. He recounted shadowing an autistic boy to research his title role in The Boy Who Could Fly, transforming himself into a Sid Vicious style punk rocker to win the role of Bug for John Hughes and John Candy, and the long, candid backstory of the Roger Corman Fantastic Four that became the documentary Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four. The cast genuinely believed it was their break before learning the German rights-holder had only produced the film to maintain rights for a future sale to 20th Century Fox and Chris Columbus. Jay also shared how God called him out of Hollywood to The Master's Seminary and ultimately to lead First Baptist Church of Weaverville, California as full-time pastor. Find Doomed on iTunes and DVD. Neil then welcomed Jim Wolfenbarger, retired Seventh Chief of the Colorado State Patrol and now with Motorola Solutions, for a timely conversation on securing the June soccer matches and large-scale special events. Jim emphasized that the fundamentals of public safety readiness (good communication and good operational planning anchored by Motorola land mobile radio) have not changed, but new layers of technology now enhance response, including IP-based 911 with precise caller location and live video. He highlighted two Motorola partnerships: with SkySafe in San Diego for airspace situational awareness around no-fly zones at major stadiums and critical infrastructure (identifying drones, locating the operator, and informing response), and with Seattle-based BRINC, a US-manufactured drone company powering Drone as a First Responder programs that can put eyes on an armed robbery scene before officers arrive. Visit motorolasolutions.com. Neil closed with bestselling author J. Len Sciuto, whose third novel Hades' Crypt is rocketing on Amazon. Len opened with his standard geopolitical commentary disclaimer and noted that two-thirds of all book royalties go to junior enlisted E1 through E4 service members still struggling to put food on the table. He recapped how his three novels (Tango Down: China Sea featuring then-experimental lasers, The Devil's Delegation involving a terrorist nuclear threat, and Hades' Crypt set in the Arctic Circle competition between the United States and Russia for precious metals, oil, and natural gas) have each anticipated headlines now playing out in real time. Len then delivered a detailed update on day 33 of the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, with 500 to 1,900 vessels and roughly 22,000 sailors stranded, 67 vessels turned around, four ships disabled, and yesterday's sinking of the Indian wooden vessel Haji Ali about 38 nautical miles north of the UAE while en route from Somalia to Chabahar. He walked listeners through the geography of the Strait (104 miles long, narrowest point two miles wide, with separate northern and southern shipping lanes near Iran and Oman), the depth and tanker draft analysis, and the legal framework: the Strait is an international waterway governed by the right of transit passage under UNCLOS, not Iranian-owned, so any toll would violate international law. Visit JLenSciuto.com.

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Charles Shaughnessy, Susan Shaughnessy, Jason Reynolds, Bret Perkins, Ryan Snyder, and Grace Lynx Jenkins

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Charles Shaughnessy, Susan Shaughnessy, Jason Reynolds, Bret Perkins, Ryan Snyder, and Grace Lynx Jenkins Neil opened the Total Celebrity Segment with actor Charles Shaughnessy, beloved as Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny, and also the current Lord Shaughnessy of Montreal and Ashford, a baronetcy passed down from his great-grandfather, the Canadian Pacific Railroad president honored by the Crown for services during the First World War. Charles traced his journey from a kid who loved reading aloud in class, to Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he met his wife of 35 years, ballet dancer turned actress Susan Shaughnessy, to eight years on Days of Our Lives, a Murphy Brown guest spot, and finally The Nanny, where CBS's network head championed him for Maxwell. He marveled at how the universal archetype of the cheeky servant smarter than the boss has kept the show in international rerun rotation from China to Germany. Charles then welcomed Susan onto the call to preview their two-person performance of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters on Friday, September 7 at the North Shore Music Theatre, benefiting the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps. Tickets at NSMT.org, with a meet-and-greet hosted by Boston news veteran Susan Wornick. Neil then welcomed Jason Reynolds, Vice President and General Manager of Integrated Air and Missile Defense at Lockheed Martin, broadcasting live from the historic Building 47 groundbreaking in Troy, Alabama. Jason detailed how the expansion will more than double the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) production line's footprint and quadruple critical munition output, with hundreds of new local jobs already 20 percent filled through a dedicated training pipeline. He explained that THAAD operates in both the endo and exo-atmosphere (hitting a bullet with a bullet at the borders of space) and is currently defending US soldiers and sailors in Operation Epic Fury beyond spec, with a ripple effect across nearly 750 supplier companies in 42 states. Jason credited an $8 to $9 billion investment through 2030 in partnership with the current administration for enabling Lockheed Martin to scale at depth. Apply through Lockheed Martin's online career portal. Neil then turned to Bret Perkins, Senior Vice President of Community Growth and Economic Development at Comcast Corporation, for a Main Street conversation. Citing the US Chamber's finding that 99 percent of all businesses are small businesses and nearly half of American workers are employed by them, Bret pointed to Comcast Business serving over two million small business customers as the country's largest small business connectivity provider. He urged owners to invest from day one in reliable internet, strong Wi-Fi, built-in cybersecurity, and scalable infrastructure rather than constantly reacting to threats. Visit ComcastBusiness.com/SBMonth during National Small Business Month. Neil then welcomed Ryan Snyder, Director of Governmental and Legislative Affairs at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, for a National Moving Month conversation under Operation Protect Your Move, championed by President Trump, Secretary Sean Duffy, and Administrator Derek Barrs. Ryan shared red flags including movers who quote without asking what is being moved, websites with no valid local address (he caught one pointing to a flower shop while researching his mom's California to Florida move), price changes after items are loaded, and blank documents being signed. Green flags include a written estimate, a bill of lading, a DOT number that matches the truck at pickup, and a rights-and-responsibilities booklet. Verify any mover at ProtectYourMove.gov and NCCDB.FMCSA.DOT.gov.

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Yul Vazquez, James Muir, Dr. Gilda Carle, and Mike Freix

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Yul Vazquez, James Muir, Dr. Gilda Carle, and Mike Freix Neil opened the Total Celebrity Segment with actor Yul Vazquez, the Reverend on NBC's Midnight, Texas, talking ahead of the season finale. Yul shared how he constantly gets recognized for his Seinfeld appearances (including the famously controversial Puerto Rican Day Parade episode and the "wear the ribbon" episode) decades after the fact. He walked through his Reverend character, the oldest inhabitant of Midnight whose secret were-tiger nature surfaces during the full moon, and previewed the finale's veil fraying and demon arrival. Yul lit up describing the show's fan base, with whom the cast live-tweets every episode, and made a direct appeal to network executives that streaming, social media engagement, and demographic wins matter more than overnight ratings, urging NBC to renew rather than risk a fan riot. Find him on Twitter at @YulVazquez and use #AskMidnightTexas during the live tweet. Neil then welcomed retired paramedic and author James Muir to discuss his book Damaged: A First Responder's Experiences with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. James offered a clear-eyed definition of PTSD as a normal response to abnormal situations, with the amygdala refusing to let go of what it has seen. He shared how decades of unprocessed trauma turned him into someone who couldn't tolerate small sounds, blew up over dropped spoons, lost sleep, and ended three marriages before his current wife became his biggest supporter and found him a PTSD service dog (part Great Dane, part Dutch Shepherd) that transformed his ability to leave the house. James walked through coping tools that have worked for him, including woodworking, music (especially Evanescence at bedtime), and counseling, and described the most haunting call of his 1986 to 2011 career, a 1988 pediatric case for a little girl named Krista whose mother reached out through a memorial page in 2018 after he posted that he still thought of her every day, finally letting him release the guilt. James spoke candidly about hypervigilance, isolation, addiction to pain medication after breaking his hand and his back, and the truth that asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness. Pick up Damaged on Amazon or contact James at damagedthebook@outlook.com [damagedthebook@outlook.com]. Dr. Gilda Carle then joined for a Gilda Gram dedicated to the International Council for Men and Boys, where she serves as spokesperson. Inspired by a request from the executive vice president to write a blog, she highlighted country music singer Tate Holder, who canceled the rest of his tour to take a mental health break. Dr. Gilda called him a real man not just for acknowledging the problem, but for doing so without a woman pushing him to a doctor and for sacrificing something he loved (his music) to address that he felt "lonely and unfulfilled." She cited the suicide rate among men being four times that of women and urged listeners to recognize that real women love real men who allow themselves to be vulnerable. Visit drgilda.com. Neil closed with the Storehouse Media Group / Jesus and Ugly Jody simulcast with host Jody Corbet welcoming her dear friend Mike Freix, founder of Lazarus MotorWorks and Make a Difference NoVa, based in Centreville, Virginia. Mike shared his faith journey from 45 years as a practicing Catholic to questioning the Magisterium after Bible study with a seminarian, full-immersion baptism in June 2023 at New Life Church under Pastor Pat Ferguson, and the two annual words his wife challenged him to pick that reshaped his life: "surrender" and "make a difference." Out of those came his nonprofit work serving the homeless and the founding of Lazarus MotorWorks with co-founder Dan, branded by Patrick Dennis, which has now given away 50+ cars in less than three years, including roughly 15 to 20 cars to Afghan Special Immigration Visa refugee families.

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Larry Thomas, Trenton Gunsolley, Grace Lynx Jenkins, Mary Shearer Eckert, and Pat Riley

Neil opened the Total Celebrity Show with actor Larry Thomas, the iconic Soup Nazi from Seinfeld and the official spokesman for the Original Soupman brand. Larry shared the origin story of how Al Yeganeh's storefront soups became shelf-stable through Tetra Pak technology, allowing the brand to scale into mass production while preserving the obsessive ingredient quality that made the original 55th and 8th Avenue soup stand famous. At a Brooklyn Cyclones appearance, the team noticed that fans assumed Larry was behind the brand, leading to the partnership. He pushed back on the typecasting myth, pointing to a recent Lifetime movie where he played a struggling working-class father, and walked through his touring schedule of Acme supermarket appearances in Paoli, Devon, and Goshen, Pennsylvania. He was at originalsoupman.com, on Amazon, on Facebook and Twitter as @OriginalSoupman, and personally on Twitter as @RealSoupNazi. The Storehouse Media Group simulcast with co-host Sherry Price Clark welcomed magician, vocalist, and actor Trenton Gunsolley, the Honest Cheat and a resident magician with Virgin Voyages. Trenton shared how his first professional show at age 15 in a Colorado Springs theater (over 100 friends and family) launched a career rooted in studying classic magic history (Fred Kaps, Channing Pollock, and Night Court's Harry Anderson) rather than simply YouTubing card tricks. He explained the difference between magic, mentalism, and mind-reading (the last of which does not actually exist), described his cruise ship life with Virgin Voyages, and previewed his next project: a cabaret magic musical blending original big band and swing music with sleight of hand. Find him at honest-cheat.com or on Instagram at @TrentonGunsolley. The next Storehouse simulcast featured author Grace Lynx Jenkins, whose new novel Sight releases May 26. Sherry praised Grace as a "big writer" who arrived already knowing how to layer detail. Grace explained that Sight grew out of an opening nightmare scene she could see in her mind paired with concepts from her master's degree in psychology, particularly social psychology and depression. She and Sherry tackled the novel's frank portrayal of cutting and self-harm, with Grace arguing that mental health belongs on the table in fiction rather than glossed over, because untreated pain in young men in particular eventually finds release. Grace also discussed how her Christian faith threads through the book without preaching, comparing the approach to The Chronicles of Narnia. Pre-order at GraceLynxJenkins.com. Neil then welcomed back bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert (Wounded Sisters) for a return conversation on her writing journey. Mary shared how her love of writing began in childhood with Nancy Drew and Mark Twain at the local library, how she wrote and produced her own fifth-grade play after being passed over for the school play, and how she trained herself through her Fredericksburg writing group and decades of workshops despite being a nurse by trade. Her advice: write what you know, paint a picture with your words, never flatline your prose, use voice and humor, and let conversation move the story because conversation is the foundation of all real-life relationships. A sequel to Wounded Sisters is in progress. Visit MaryShearerEckert.com. Neil closed with AI Office Hours with Pat Riley. The conversation centered on the headaches of running 50 simultaneous AI agent projects and the difficulty of setting guardrails on email-drafting agents that fire off 32 drafts from a single inbound email. Pat and Neil reviewed Opus Clip for video clipping, Hostly.ai for social media at $6 a month, Manus via Telegram, Claude Cowork for lead pulling, Whisperflow for voice-driven AI, Victor as Neil's next project management experiment across 2,000+ apps via Slack, and the trade-offs between n8n, Zapier, and Make.com.

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Don Most, Mary Shearer Eckert, Pat Riley, and Jody Corbet

Neil opened the ProVision Brokerage Celebrity Secondary Sunday with co-host Eric Couch of ProVision Brokerage welcoming actor, director, and jazz singer Don Most, beloved as Ralph Malph from Happy Days. Don traced his journey from a 14-year-old singing in a nightclub revue in the Catskills, to acting school in Manhattan, to commercials in New York, to LA after his junior year of college, to a slew of auditions and a screen test that landed him the iconic Ralph Malph role. He explained why he and Ron Howard left after the seventh season (Ron to pursue directing, Don to avoid typecasting in a three-network era when 50 million people watched a single show every Tuesday night). Don praised Garry Marshall, director Jerry Paris, and his entire cast including Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, and Anson Williams. He recalled Henry's genius "evolved in real time" creation of The Fonz before the network started pushing it toward gimmick territory. Don closed by celebrating Happy Days as a multi-generational show parents can still safely watch with kids and grandkids. Eric pointed listeners to ProVisionBrokerage.com. Neil then welcomed bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert, author of Wounded Sisters, for a conversation on her writing journey. Mary shared how her love of writing started in childhood, sitting in the local library while her parents shopped and devouring Nancy Drew and Mark Twain. In fifth grade, after not being cast in the school play, she wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own play for the third, fourth, and fifth grades. Mary, a nurse by training rather than a literature major, taught herself the craft through reading, workshops, and a longtime Fredericksburg writing group. Her core advice: write what you know, paint a picture with your words, never flatline your prose, always include voice and humor, and remember that conversation is what moves a book because conversation is the foundation of every real-life relationship. A sequel to Wounded Sisters is in progress, and Mary shared that her favorite reader compliment is not "you're a great writer" but "that story really blessed my life." Visit MaryShearerEckert.com. Neil then turned to AI Office Hours with Pat Riley, where the conversation centered on the headaches and breakthroughs of running 50 simultaneous AI agent projects. Pat and Neil dissected the difficulty of setting guardrails on email-drafting agents, the limits of Rich (Pat's Mac Mini running Claude), and Neil's frustration that automation tools like n8n and Zapier feel built for developers rather than business users. They reviewed Opus Clip for video clipping, Hostly.ai for social media posting at six dollars a month, Manus via Telegram, Claude Cowork for lead pulling, Whisperflow for voice-driven AI, and Victor as Neil's next experiment for project management across 2,000+ apps through Slack. Pat emphasized that strategic, logic-driven thinkers will become the new one-person organizations because the era of pure code writing is ending. He also encouraged Neil to test Make.com against n8n for simpler workflow building. Domain authority for cold email deliverability emerged as Neil's biggest next bottleneck to solve. Neil closed with the Storehouse Media Group simulcast featuring former FBI agent turned consultant Jody Corbet on scaling a business from one to many. Now consulting with companies selling into federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, and the Department of War, Jody walked through when solopreneurs should start outsourcing accounting, bookkeeping, marketing, and HR (early, but with a 6-to-12-month plan to bring some of it in-house). She emphasized that hiring an internal sales team triggers HR, compliance, ethics training, and legal needs, and urged founders to start with a clear three-to-five-to-ten-year vision before building out infrastructure.