Celebrity Interviews

About 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 AM Tampa Bay Area: 92.1 FM Las Vegas, NV: 1520 AM / 99.5 FM Macon, GA: 87.9 FM Lancaster, PA: AM 1640 / FM 102.1 Boulder, CO: 96.3 FM Milwaukee, WI: 90.3 FM Pittsburgh, PA: 94.7 FM Long Beach, CA: 87.5 FM The Villages, FL: 97.7 FM Colorado Springs, CO: 95.4 FM Jacksonville, FL: 90.3 FM Washington D.C.: 96.7 FM Rock Hill, SC: 89.5 FM

Publisher

Neil Haley

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Mar 2020

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 871 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Corbin Bernsen and Chaute A. Johnson

   On the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes back actor Corbin Bernsen to talk about the film When We Last Spoke, a warm family story based on the novel and co-starring Melissa Gilbert, whom Bernsen has known since they were both young. He describes it as a touching tale of rekindled family, forgiveness, and the human spirit, and reflects on how the past stretch of life has pushed everyone toward what matters most. Bernsen plays Walt, a man ready to settle into his own quiet life who is suddenly entrusted with raising two granddaughters after his son is killed in the war, a role he says mirrors his own experience as a father of four sons. He explains that he is drawn to simple, heartfelt scripts that strike a chord in the better part of the human spirit, and he speaks candidly about the toll of a strange season on his industry and on families kept apart, finding steadiness in his faith. His message is that through every trial, family and love ultimately conquer all. When We Last Spoke is available Friday. Neil’s author guest is Chaute A. Johnson, who discusses her debut novel On the Front Line in the Cosmic Conflict, the first in a planned series. Chaute, who is blind, shares how writing became the one creative pursuit she could do entirely on her own, using adaptive technology that reads her words back to her, and she encourages other visually impaired and disabled writers that the sky is the limit if the determination is there. She walks through her process of capturing a scene or dialogue first, then building the context and chaining chapters together, and makes the case that hearing a manuscript read aloud reveals emotion, tone, and flow a silent read can miss. Her novel pulls back the veil on the long war between God and Satan as it plays out in human lives, following Steve Roberts, a man facing eviction who turns to the bottle and becomes entangled with its demon, and Matthew Day, an intern pastor wrestling with his calling who is prepared to fight for Steve’s soul. Rooted in an encounter years ago with a homeless man in Brooklyn, the book challenges readers, especially Christians, to rethink what it truly means to minister to others. Neil, a former special education teacher and advocate, praised her for carrying a torch for writers with disabilities. The hour closes with the recurring AI Office Hours simulcast, where co-host Pat Riley walks Neil through a week of hands-on experiments across the fast-moving world of AI agents and assistants. Pat shares wins building out his web app and autonomous agents, his testing of several competing tools and voice setups, and the practical headaches and trade-offs of relying on voice-first workflows, offering listeners a candid, real-world look at where the tools shine and where they still frustrate. As always, the two trade a bit of good-natured sports talk before wrapping up.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Soleil Moon Frye, Dr. Louise Stanger, and Pastor Mark Biltz

   Soleil Moon Frye, Dr. Louise Stanger, and Pastor Mark Biltz On the Total Celebrity segment, Neil welcomes Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye, who reflects on how the show became “a way of our lives” and still moves people decades later, with her best friend Cherie beside her through it all. She points fans to her Hulu documentary Kid 90, a coming-of-age story she began about everyone else before it turned personal, and teases new documentaries in the works, the return of Proud Family on Disney Plus, and the continuation of Punky. The heart of the conversation is her work with the Ask2BeSure campaign raising awareness of meningitis B, a vaccine many families overlook. Soleil explains that a dear friend first told her about it, that the illness hits teens aged 16 to 23 hardest, that it can turn life-threatening within 24 hours, and that roughly four in five 17-year-olds have not received even one dose. After learning more, she spoke with her daughter’s pediatrician and encourages parents to simply ask their doctor, pharmacist, or care provider. She also shares her pride in CORE, the disaster-relief organization she co-founded with Ann Lee and Sean Penn, now on the ground in Haiti. Neil’s author guest is Dr. Louise Stanger, who discusses her book Trauma Is Your Superpower, built as an illustrated, flip-to-any-page work with caricatures by her friend Shyrell Fox. Dr. Louise, who is turning 80, speaks candidly about the six sudden deaths she lived through, including losing her father when she was seven and later a husband and an infant son, and argues that no one goes through life unscathed; what matters is how a person processes loss and who stands with them as mentors or “sherpas.” She and Neil trade practical ground on grief, on finding a trustworthy circle rather than yes-men, and on not confusing a temporary setback for a permanent one, with Neil opening up about his own competitor streak and the sting of losing a long-time client. Her message is that your story is still being written, you are not broken, and you get to rewrite it. This is a candid discussion of difficult life experiences, shared as Dr. Louise’s clinical and personal perspective rather than medical advice; anyone struggling is encouraged to reach out to a professional or someone they trust. In the next segment, Pastor Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries talks about Christianity, Judaism, and his life’s work building bridges rather than burning them. Jewish on his father’s side with relatives lost in the Holocaust, and raised amid Catholic and Baptist roots, he describes founding a congregation that teaches the Jewish roots of the Bible and has grown from four people in a house to a worldwide audience, with as many as 300 cities and 30 nations watching his weekend teaching. He shares vivid teaching moments, from the “rooster” who was really a temple priest to the account of Ruth and Orpah, and explains his concern with replacement theology and his conviction, framed as his own faith-based reading of Scripture, that Christians are grafted into Israel. On current events he speaks as a supporter of Israel rather than any political party, offering his perspective respectfully. He is writing a new book with an Orthodox rabbi about loving the Torah, and leads annual tours to Israel. The hour closes with a special simulcast of the Singularity Podcast featuring host Gary Lion Otto, author of Singularity: Mankind’s Search for Relevance. Neil and Gary dig into the surge of interest in artificial and digital intelligence, why fear tends to follow what people do not yet understand, and Gary’s chapters on the “Terminator Threat” and “The Teenage Years,” where capability runs ahead of wisdom. Gary pushes back on doomsday predictions while acknowledging real risks, and Neil previews a friendly debate for a coming episode on whether the singularity has truly arrived.

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Sharon Cameron, Yair Pinto, and Dr. Mohamed Tasouji

   Sharon Cameron, Yair Pinto, and Dr. Mohamed Tasouji The Neil Haley Show opens with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Cameron, whose historical novel Up from the Ashes she calls both historic and deeply timely. Based on the true story of Chaim Engel and Selma Wijnberg, the book follows two strangers paired to dance for the amusement of their guards inside the Sobibor death camp in 1943, who did not share a language yet, as Selma later said, made love their language and chose to become each other's reason to survive. Cameron described Sobibor's horrors plainly while framing the novel as a story of hope, drawn to the idea of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances who discover their own strength, and to the real 1943 prisoner uprising in which the couple walked out the front gate among the survivors. She argued these histories depend on the choices of ordinary individuals and challenged readers to examine how they treat others. Reflecting on resilience, she shared her own mid-30s pivot from musician to writer, sparked in forty-five free minutes, and the years of work behind her success. Find her at SharonCameronBooks.com. Marking the October 7th anniversary, Neil then welcomed Israeli journalist and IDF reservist Yair Pinto, host of the daily program Boots on the Ground on TBN Israel and author of a book by the same name. Pinto recounted waking on October 7, 2023 to rocket sirens and the news of the attack, and his decision to report daily from the front lines, he said, to counter what he described as an information war and widespread misinformation about Israel. He shared his firsthand account of reporting through missile barrages, going into tunnels with cameras, and his stated view that the conflict is with Hamas as a terrorist organization rather than with the Palestinian people, pointing to Muslims serving across Israeli society. He described, from his perspective, IDF efforts to warn civilians before operations and the humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and framed the fight as one he believes extends beyond Israel. His book pairs each chapter with a QR code linking to video he recorded on location. Learn more at bootsonthegroundbook.com. The program closes with Dr. Mohamed Tasouji, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, who drew a sharp distinction between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people, asserting that the vast majority of Iranians reject the current government and that the real struggle is between the people and the regime. He argued against a boots-on-the-ground approach as too costly, citing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and instead urged continued sanctions targeting the regime's leadership alongside support for what he called the legitimate resistance, including the Mojahedin-e Khalq. He pointed to Maryam Rajavi's NCRI and its ten-point plan calling for separation of church and state, a non-nuclear Iran, an end to executions, and gender equality, and contended that cutting off the regime's oil revenue while backing the opposition could let Iranians topple it themselves. He asked listeners not to conflate the regime with the Iranian people. Find more at the NCRI, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Inside a recent episode

Sara Blakely - From $5,000 in an Apartment to Shark Tank: The Spanx Founder on Finding White Space and Selling Problems

Published 16 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I tell people, I'm looking for someone who's found the white space and that can tell me why they're different from any other option that's out there. So I often say, sell the problem you're solving, not the product. So if you can sell me the problem you're solving and say, here's the problem, here's the product I invented or the service I invented in the reason why and then here's why I'm the best option. Then I'm all in. See interesting because you want to be able to say that's what an entrepreneur needs to look at Sarah or even someone that has a business idea. Am I solving a certain problem or solution that's not in the marketplace right now? […]

Who has been a guest on Celebrity Interviews

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• David Clennon
• Brendan Devane
• Rachel Finninger
• Marc Hills
• Pete Hegseth

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

1.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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