Frank Buckley Interviews

Andrew Jay Cohen is the director and co-writer of "The House," a comedy starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler which opens nationwide on Friday, June 30th. The film is about a couple who decide to open an illegal casino in their suburban home to fund their daughter's college education. "The House" is Andrew's feature film directorial debut. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyi...

Janine Sherman Barrois is an executive producer and the show runner for the new TNT show "Claws." The show stars Niecy Nash as one of five manicurists working in a South Florida nail salon while laundering money for a crime family. TNT describes it like this: "Claws is about good women caught in bad places with worse men. It's the story of hardworking women trying to get by in this economy, set ag...

Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, is the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Intelligence Committee is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election and allegations of collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Russians. As the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Schiff has been highly critical of President Trump and he's ris...

Nick Hamm is a film, TV and stage director and producer who has directed a new film "The Journey" about two central figures in the Northern Ireland peace process who helped to forge what has been a lasting peace in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom for the past two decades. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...

Wing Lam is a co-founder and owner of the Wahoo's Fish Taco chain of restaurants. The restaurants started with one taco stand at 1862 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California. Restaurant #1 is still at that location but there are now some 60 Wahoo's restaurants across seven states as well as Japan. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https:/...

Pernille Lopez was president of IKEA North America from 2001-2009 and global HR manager for IKEA from 2009-2011. She oversaw the expansion of IKEA from 15 stores to 38 in North America during her tenure. Pernille says she was trying to be perfect throughout that period in every aspect of her life—as president of an iconic brand, as a wife and as a mother—until she ended up in an ambulance after co...

Norman Mineta may be best known for being the U.S. transportation secretary on Sept. 11, 2001 when America came under attack by terrorists who hijacked four airliners and crashed them into the Pentagon, the World Trade Center buildings, and into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. As America was being attacked, Secretary Mineta ordered every aircraft flying in American airspace--more than 4500 a...

Music hitmaker James "Jimmy Jam" Harris III has worked with his songwriting and producing partner Terry Lewis to create dozens of hit records with artists as varied as Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Gwen Stefani, Pia Zadora, George Michael, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Beyonce and Rihanna just to name a few. In June, they'll be inducted into the Songwrite...

Byron Scott is one of the greatest players in Los Angeles Lakers history--winning three championships with the "Showtime" era Lakers. Charles Norris is a business executive who is equally successful in his field--turning for example, a $200 million company like McKesson Water into one that sold for $1.1 billion. Scott and Norris became friends while the two worked out at a local gym in Los Angeles...

Dr. Sharad Paul is the author of "The Genetics of Health: Understand Your Genes for Better Health." His message--that we can do more to improve our health by understanding our evolutionary past and using that knowledge to make life decisions based on our individual gene types. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...

Greg Grunberg is an actor who often plays the best friend or buddy--perhaps because that's not a stretch for one of Hollywood's good guys. You no doubt recognize him from shows like "Heroes" and "Felicity." Or films like "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...

Curt Smith is one of the two original members of the iconic 80s pop band Tears for Fears. As the band prepares for a spring and summer of touring with Daryl Hall & John Oates, Curt sits down to give us the inside story of how Tears for Fears came to be, why it broke apart, and how he and bandmate Roland Orzabal found a way to work together again. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankb...

Kurt Busch is one of the biggest names in racing with 27 wins in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series including the biggest race in the NASCAR schedule--this year's Daytona 500. But Kurt's career has had its ups and downs--marred by his turbulence as a person. As Fox Sports NASCAR analyst Darrell Waltrip put it in a 2015 column on FoxSports.com: "He’s as talented behind the wheel as anyone I’ve ever seen. W...

Jim Avila is an award-winning, Los Angeles based senior national correspondent for ABC News. He was a White House correspondent for ABC News during the Obama Administration. During this podcast, we discuss the role of the news media in covering the Trump Administration and the contentious relationship between President Trump and the White House press corps. Full show notes available at http://ktla...

Amy Trask was the first female chief executive officer in the NFL. Her book “You Negotiate Like A Girl: Reflections on a Career in the National Football League” written with Mike Freeman recounts her three decades with the Oakland Raiders. Amy started with the team as an intern and worked her way up to the position of CEO. She worked closely with the legendary Raiders owner Al Davis. Full show not...

This podcast is an interview with Saroo Brierley, portrayed by actor Dev Patel and his Australian parents John and Sue Brierley portrayed by David Wenham and Nicole Kidman in the Weinstein Company film "Lion." "Lion" is a film about their amazing true-life story based on Saroo's book "A Long Way Home." Full show notes available at http://www.ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at h...

Sean Rad is co-founder and CEO of Tinder. The mobile dating app went viral soon after launching in 2012, and it has transformed dating. Users swipe right to express interest or swipe left to move on. According to Tinder, 26 million matches are made in this way every day on the app. But Tinder has also been controversial, and it was the target of a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former employee tha...

Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh are the creative minds behind the Disney Channel's long-running animation series "Phineas and Ferb." New episodes appeared on the network from 2007-2015 and the show still runs on Disney channels around the world and on Disney XD. The "Phineas and Ferb" co-creators now have a new show on Disney XD called "Milo Murphy's Law." Full show notes available at http:/...

Amy Hill is an actress and a comedian and an American of Japanese descent who has nearly 160 TV and film credits to her name including TV shows like "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" and Amazon's "Just Add Magic," films like "50 First Dates" and "Lilo and Stitch," and animated series like "American Dad" and "King of the Hill" along with dozens of other shows and films. Full show notes available at http://www....

Chase Millsap is a former Marine officer who served three combat tours with the 1st Marine Division in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq. He then served as a U.S. Army Green Beret for five years in Southwest Asia. Chase has recently been fighting a battle here in the U.S. on behalf of a fellow soldier who served with him in Iraq--an Iraqi soldier who saved Chase's life during a sniper attack. Full sho...

Dr. Michael Breus is a clinical psychologist and a sleep expert who appears regularly on The Dr. Oz Show. The study of sleep and helping people to sleep well is his life's work. Dr. Breus is a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/frankbuckleyinterviews. See Privacy Policy at https://ar...

Gary Taubes is an award-winning science writer who studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford before turning to journalism. In 2007, he wrote "Good Calories, Bad Calories" which took on low-fat diets and refined carbohydrates like white bread and pasta. In 2011, his book "Why We Get Fat," continued the argument against the "calories in, calories out" concept espoused...

Gloria Calderon Kellet is an executive producer of the new Netflix version of "One Day at a Time," the Norman Lear developed sitcom that ran on network TV from 1975-1984. The new version stars Justina Machado as Cuban American Penelope Alvarez, an Afghanistan war veteran mom raising two kids on her own in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Penelope's mom and grandmother to the kids is play...

Luke Davies is the screenwriter for the film "Lion." He is an award-winning Australian poet, novelist, screenwriter and journalist who moved to Los Angeles several years ago and then struggled to find work. Now, he and his screenplay for "Lion" have been nominated for a number of awards including the BAFTA and the USC Libraries Scripter Award which recognizes screenwriters and the authors whose wo...

Greg Silverman is the outgoing President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production at Warner Bros Pictures. During his nearly 20 years at Warner Bros, he’s been involved in dozens of films either as an executive or the head of production. The Dark Knight, The Hangover, 300, Inception, Argo, Gravity, American Sniper, Suicide Squad, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Sully are just a f...