The Neil Haley Show
Neil opened with Harvard's Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. for the Total Celebrity segment, previewing the fourth season of Finding Your Roots on PBS. Skip Gates opened up about his West Virginia roots near Morgantown and his love of Pittsburgh, then walked Neil through the upcoming Tuesday-night episode featuring Téa Leoni and Gaby Hoffmann, calling it the biggest single-episode genealogical breakthrough his team has ever pulled off. Téa Leoni's mother, Emily Ann Patterson, was adopted as a six-week-old baby and never knew her biological parents. Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore compared Emily's DNA to over six million people across the major databases, built family trees for each significant match, and ultimately confirmed both of Téa's biological grandparents: maternal grandmother Abilene Gingerich, and biological grandfather Sumter Daniel, who descended from John O. Daniel, George Washington's next-door neighbor and landowner. Skip also shared his own discovery that his fourth great-grandfather, a free Black man near Moorefield, West Virginia, fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and previewed the joint curriculum he is building with Penn State's Nina Jablonski to bring family-tree work into middle-school science and history classrooms. Visit PBS.org and search Finding Your Roots. Neil then welcomed bestselling Christian author Mary Shearer Eckert to continue the Wounded Sisters conversation. Mary leaned into trusting God instead of trying to white-knuckle every outcome, recalled the rainy morning car wreck that redirected her to Kerrville and on to nursing school, and shared that her book is now poised for Hobby Lobby placement and a push into local Barnes & Noble signings beyond the online-only listing. The sequel is well underway, driven by reader demand. Visit MaryShererEckert.com. Neil then welcomed bestselling debut author Grace Lynx Jenkins (master's in psychology, English major at Judson College) to discuss her psychological thriller Sight, now a Day-One Amazon bestseller. Set in Perryville, Alabama, the novel follows Noah Amos, a "sensor" who can see through the eyes of others and absorb their emotions while consulting on a homicide investigation. Grace walked Neil through her process moving from Sight (three years to write) into a planned fantasy series, with a far more detailed lore bible upfront to keep secondary-character details consistent. Grace also discussed her habit of drawing every major character before writing them, and her preference for a semi-realistic anime style. Visit GraceLynxJenkins.com to order an autographed copy. Neil then welcomed bestselling author and retired Coast Guard officer J. Len Sciuto, whose latest novel Hades Crypt has now spent 28 weeks on the bestseller list. Len opened with a disclaimer about his geopolitical commentary on the Strait of Hormuz, US-Iran tensions, and the War Powers Act 60-day clock, then walked through his nuclear chemistry background (17 years at a nuclear power plant), the radionuclide half-lives of U-235, U-238, cesium-137, strontium-90, plutonium-239, americium, and technetium, and the blast effects of a hypothetical two-megaton device. He previewed his next book Desperate Countermeasures, in which fourteen federal authors of the National Nuclear Contingency Plan are hunted by a terrorist group across the southern border, and read aloud its opening chapter. Two-thirds of all royalties from his books go to junior enlisted E-1 to E-4 service members. Visit JLenSciuto.com. Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for the Gilda Gram podcast simulcast, walking through the breakup of Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater after roughly three years together (a romance that began on the set of Wicked and broke up two marriages and one young family). Gilda framed it as a case study in why two married people in close working proximity often mistake intensity for compatibility, and warned about the predictable arc that follows. Visit DrGilda.com.
300 episodios
Comentarios
0Sé la primera persona en comentar
¡Regístrate ahora y únete a la comunidad de The Neil Haley Show!