Frank Buckley Interviews

Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association. Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California, and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created afterwards. In this episode of Frank Buckley Interviews, Dolores Huerta talks about her ongoing work for labor rights and...

Kathy Fiscus was a three-year-old girl who fell into a well in San Marino, California in April 1949. The multi-day rescue effort was heartbreaking and became the focus of the first live breaking news event in the history of television news. KTLA's coverage brought thousands of people to the scene in a desperate attempt to save Kathy. In the new book "Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nat...

Bob Bergen is an actor and voice over artist best known as the voice of Porky Pig. He has also been lent his voice to Minions, Wreck it Ralph, Cars and many other movies and TV shows. Bergen's voice talents will also be heard in new upcoming episodes of the Looney Tunes on HBO Max later this month, and the much celebrated return of the Space Jam franchise with the upcoming release of Space Ja...

Eric Nusbaum is the author of the award-winning book, "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between." Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities. In the early 1950s, those communities were condemned to make way for a utopia...

Professor Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is the former chair of the Astronomy Department at Harvard (2011-2020). Professor Loeb is the founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The professor also chairs the advisory committ...

Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret) was the 16th NATO Supreme Allied Commander. The 4-star admiral oversaw operations in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and the Balkans during his tenure. Following his military career, he served as dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and now works with The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm and McLarty Associates, an internation...

Kimberley Chambers is a marathon open water swimmer from New Zealand. After a freak accident left Kim Chambers with a mere one-percent chance of walking unassisted again. Determined to prove the doctors wrong, Kim spent two years rehabilitating her leg and has now regained almost full functionality. She began swimming again as part of her rehabilitation, and has since become the sixth person in th...

JIm Gray is a longtime sportscaster and the author of the new book, "Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard". In the book, Gray shares stories about some of the greatest athletes of all time, including Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Michael Phelps, Lebron James, Tiger Woods, and more. In this episode of the podcast, Jim Gray opens up about his profes...

Janice P. Nimura is a writer and recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of the new book "The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine ."  Her previous book, "Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back," was a  New York Times  Notable book in 20...

Melissa Gould is the author of the Amazon best selling "Widowish: A Memoir," a book chronicling the death of her husband Joel seven years ago and the way Melissa dealt with the loss and moving forward with her life, including raising their 13-year-old daughter. David Kessler is a grief expert and the author of several books including the best selling "Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief."&nb...

On July 30th, 2020, the Perseverance Rover embarked on NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The main purpose of the mission is to seek signs of ancient life on Mars, and collect samples of rock and regolith for possible return to Earth. The Perseverance Rover is set to touch down on the surface of Mars on February 18th, 2021. On this episode of Frank Buckley Interviews, we are joined by two crucial members o...

Bryan Fogel is the Academy Award winning director of the 2017 film Icarus, the documentary thriller that tracked exposed Russia's Olympic doping scheme. His new documentary is The Dissident about the murder of Saudi Arabian dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.  During this podcast, Bryan discusses the making of The Dissident...

Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are doctors and co-directors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. They are the authors of "The Alzheimer's Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age." In March, they are releasing a new book, "The 30-Day Alzheimer’s Solution." The neurologists say that it'...

Frank Figliuzzi is a former FBI assistant director in charge of counterintelligence who currently works as a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. He is the author of a new book "The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence." During this podcast, Figliuzzi discusses the January 6th insurrection, security threats against the U.S. from within the nation from white supremacists...

Los Angeles is the epicenter of the Covid 19 pandemic. By the end of this week, the total case count is expected to exceed one million people. The rate of infection is alarming--an average of 10 people are infected every minute in Los Angeles County. The virus has claimed the lives of more than 2,300 people in the county since New Year's Day.  During this podcast, we discuss the Covid 19...

While it my now be 2021, many of the issues we were experiencing in 2020 such as the pandemic, divisive politics, unemployment, business and school closures, and restrictions on going out or getting together, have carried over into the new year. If you find yourself feeling stressed, maybe better sleep and meditation may help. On this episode of the podcast, we revisit conversations with Andy Pudd...

As 2020 draws to a close, we're counting down our most downloaded episodes of the year. First, Dateline's Josh Mankiewicz talks about crime reporting and storytelling. Legendary broadcaster Larry King opens up about how he thought of ending his life after suffering a severe stroke. We also hear from the multi-talented comedian Cristela Alonzo, the first Latina to create, write, produce a...

Dr. Anne Rimoin is Professor of Epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Infectious Disease Division of the Geffen School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and the director of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program. She is a regular guest on the KTLA 5 Morning News and is frequently quoted in national publications an...

Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a medical doctor and University of Pennsylvania researcher who experimented on himself to save his own life. Dr. Fajgenbaum discovered he had Castleman disease, a rare disease that ravaged his body and nearly killed him. After experiencing several bouts of the disease, he set about researching his condition to determine what if anything could be done to “cure” it. He c...

Suzi Weiss-Fischmann is a co-founder and brand ambassador of OPI Products, a global nail care products company. Suzi founded the company with George Schaeffer as a dental supply business in 1981 before adapting their products to the acrylic nail market. It came to redefine the nail industry and Suzi became known as the First Lady of Nails. In this episode, we look back at...

Tristan Harris is a former Goggle Design Ethicist who was featured in the Netflix Original Documentary "The Social Dilemma." Tristan is the co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology "whose mission is to reverse ‘human downgrading’ and re-align technology with humanity," according to its website. The Atlantic Magazine once described Tristan as "the closest thing Silicon Valley ha...

Jay Leno hosted "The Tonight Show" for 22 seasons until 2014. An avid car collector, he now hosts "Jay Leno’s Garage." The show has become a destination for automobile aficionados. Jay opens up about his passion for cars, and shares some of his favorite car stories. He also shares what he thinks may be future of car collecting. This episode also includes a Thanksgiving-themed interview with a prof...

John King was the man at CNN’s "Magic Wall" during the 2020 election night. He kept America and the world informed state by state, and county by county on election night, the day after, and the night after that. It would go like that until the evening of Saturday, November 7th, when CNN became first major news organization to call the race, projecting Joe Biden as the next President of the United...

Melissa Stockwell became the first female to lose a limb in active combat in Iraq in April of 2004. The U.S. Army Second Lieutenant would return to the U.S. and turn to sports after her military service, becoming a world champion paratriathlete and a paralympic bronze medalist. During this podcast she discusses the bombing that left her wounded and her life after the military. Melissa also discuss...

Maria Hinojosa is the anchor and executive producer of NPR's Latino USA. The program won a Peabody Award for its 2014 episode "Gangs, Murder and Migration in Honduras." Maria has also won multiple Emmy awards for her reporting and anchoring on TV programs including "Maria Hinojosa One on One" on WGHB/La Plaza. She is also the founder of Futuro Media Group, a non-profit that produces multimedi...