The Bruce Cook Show

With the California primary elections a little more than two months away, Republican Gubernatorial Steve Hilton takes time from his busy campaign schedule to spend the hour with Bruce from Bakersfield, CA. The self-made millionaire tells Bruce his path to victory, using Proposition 50, the voter ID initiative, to help propel him to victory over a crowded field, including no real Democratic front r...

Jordan McGillis, besides being a well respected author and student of the economy, technology and industrial policy, is a father with a growing family. Bruce talks with Jordan about how the Fellow at the Economic Innovation Group, and other prestigious think tanks, will tackle what every parent is trying to do in these trying times; how to grow your family where schools and the neighborhood will b...

Regarding the Palisades Fire January, 2025, Bruce's guest Alexandra Pfeifer said LA Mayor Karen Bass is not equipped to handle the situation, before, during and now after the fire. Alexandra Pfeifer, who is not only the number one real estate agent for Sotheby's in Southern California, specifically the Pacific Palisades, but also Bruce's daughter. Ali, as Bruce affectionally calls her,...

What happens when a young, teenaged woman surgically transitions to a man, after her therapist allegedly pressured her to get a double mastectomy as part of her gender transition, and realizes she made a horrible mistake? Soren Aldaco detransitioned after she realized her struggles with gender identity as a young teen was part of growing up with "gender curiosity ", as some youngsters do...

Leigh Haber, is one of Bruce's favorite people. One reason is their love of books. Reading, writing, editing and publishing. Both Leigh and Bruce can't get enough! The former Director of Oprah's Book Club talks about just how difficult it is for writers to get published, in this celebrity driven world, and her review of Olivia Nuzzi's steamy memoir, "American Canto", abou...

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and entrepreneur Steve Hilton join Bruce, as they are the two leading Republican candidates in the race for Governor of California. Both are in a virtual tie with Democrats Eric Swalwell and Katie Porter. While Bianco wants to bring back law and order to the Golden State, Hilton wants to know where the gold has gone, and stop the out of control spending to make...

Legendary Los Angeles Times Editorial Columnist George Skelton joins Bruce for a lively hour, displaying the same blunt, unapologetic opinions, (or no BS approach, as he puts it), about everything from the current state of affairs from Los Angeles to across the country, since Skelton started writing for the Times in 1974.

Former California State Senator Josh Newman, who represented Southern California's very diverse 29th Senate District, during two separate, and contentious, terms. Newman visits Bruce to talk about the Yale alum and Army veteran about his current candidacy for the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, among other things. Besides actually wanting to improve the testing skills of...

Carnie Wilson, the bubbly multi-talented singer, TV personality, author and daughter of legendary Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, stops long enough to chat with Bruce about being honored at the 2026 She Rocks Awards, for her four decades in the music industry, and continuing to inspire young women through advocacy in personal image, overcoming and living with addictions and the music industry. Wi...

World renowned civil rights attorney and fierce women's rights advocate Gloria Allred joins Bruce for an hour of the life and times of the self made multi-generational legal icon, who has become the go-to face and voice on everything from Roe v Wade to the Jeffery Epstein files. Gloria shows Bruce that she hasn't lost a step in her passion and opinions of the law.

Stephen Bryen, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy at the Yorktown Institute, discusses why the US must have a strong military in these times where the world seems to be much closer, with modern technology. Bryen and Bruce also talk about how the modern media shapes the public's opinion of the military and its actions around the world. Bryen has held senior positions in the Depar...

Bruce's trusted, (well, sometimes), producer Lew Stowers joins Bruce to talk about the holiday season, and how times have changed in celebrating the holidays on television and wonder if the new generation of stars are going back to being for wholesome for the holidays? They also tackle the highest mountain that is algorithms that are dominating from retail prices to how we stream, scroll and e...

Dr. Mark Lazenby, Dean and Professor of the UCI School of Nursing, joins Bruce on the quality of health care around the nation, and specifically in California, where prices of care and prescription drugs are skyrocketing. That, mixed with the lack of quality doctors, nurses and the changing landscape of how health care is obtained, could mean longer wait times for less than adequate care. Then, Vi...

The season of giving is upon us. And, what better way to get in the mood than with Grammy nominated jazz pianist-composer, radio show host and philanthropist David Benoit, who will be playing the music of Vince Guaraldi's , "A Charlie Brown Christmas" at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood on Friday, November 28 & 29. David and Bruce discovered that they share having had re...

Conductor, composer, Emmy Award Winner and Director of the world renowned Young People's Chorus of New York joins Bruce, who is a talented musician in his own right, to talk about the importance of music in young people's lives, especially in education. Nunez, a MacArthur Fellow and Educator of the Year award winner, tells Bruce that not only do the more than 1,700 school aged singers part...

As the dust settles on the victory lap of the passage of California Proposition 50, allowing the already powerful Democratic state party to gerrymander Congressional District lines to serve their own purposes, taking away that job from the very successful independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission, what really comes next? Bruce talks to Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher, who&#39...

Political strategist, educator, author and political commentator Mike Madrid joins Bruce in a spicy hour on topics ranging from Proposition 50 to racism in higher education systems on down to the streets of Latino communities. Although Madrid is a Republican, he has consulted political candidates on both sides of the aisle including former LA Democratic mayor Antonio Villaraigosa during his 2018 r...

Legendary FBI agent, author, attorney and cybersecurity expert Eric O'Neill joins Bruce to talk about how the riches of cybercriminals have grown into the world's third largest economy, and how you can prevent being taken. O'Neill also talks about taking down the world's first cyberspy, Robert Hanssen in 2001, a thriller that became a hit movie, "Breach".

Stak Space is a live experiment in living, working and playing in the same building in Oakland, California. Stak Space, an already thriving community in one building, is the brain child of Venture Capitolists Colin Behring, CEO of Behring Capitol and Brian Sparkes, CEO of Silicon Valley Venture tell the Bruce the benefits of an all-in-one space grow your business and your life. Deepak Pilai, CEO &...

Superstar model and Golden Globe award winning actress Cybil Shepard joins Bruce to talk about her upcoming singing tour. The performances will include Ms. Shepard singing blues, pop & jazz, while mixing in stories and conversation about her incredible career as a Hollywood starlet.

California State Senator Tony Strickland, a Republican who represents District 36, which includes much of Orange County's beautiful coastline, joins Bruce for a conversation about California's upcoming special election, Proposition 50, the State legislature redistricting act, which takes away redistricting from the people into the hands of politicians. If passed, the Golden State could hav...

Emmy Award winning actress Sally Struthers, who just happens to be one of Bruce's best friends, spends an hour with Bruce talking about handling life as a celebrity who has to deal with the cost of fame, for the past fifty four years, after she starred in "All In The Family". On a more personal note, how her fame has affected her relationship with her daughter, and how difficult it w...

As the world continues the tug of war of words in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, 36 year-old conservative pundit, author, attorney and fellow talk radio host Josh Hammer gets into a sometimes heated conversation with Bruce about Kirk's Christianity vs Hammer's Judaism beliefs, and how this fractured country can heal. Hammer has some interesting thoughts and opinions about Kirk...

The effervescent and always delightful Celebrity Chef Jamie Gwen not only brings treats to brighten up Bruce's radio stage, but proves that she is also one smart cookie! Chef Jamie's opinions on how the recent events have changed how she raises a 5 year-old son, and even though Jamie leans to the liberal side, she makes sense in whipping up a recipe of how things can and must change in our...

Dr. Susan Thompson, a Master Certified Addiction Counselor and Life Coach, talks with Bruce about her new book, "Parenting; The Rules. Twenty Transformative Precepts To Change The Children Of The World In One Generation". That's quite a lofty goal, as Dr. Thompson explains to Bruce the hows and whys parents can change their children's behavior through improving their way of paren...