Professor Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean of Berkeley Law at the University of California. Prior to joining Berkeley Law as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Dean Chemerinsky was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Before that, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of 14 books including his ne...
Oct 13, 2021•29 min
A new documentary from filmmaker Heather O'Neill explores the work and lives of combat camerawomen. "No Ordinary Life" was an official selection at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and features interviews with CNN videographers and correspondents. During this podcast, O'Neill and veteran news camerawoman Maria Fleet discuss the dangerous assignments and personal costs that women experience while covering wars, revolutions, and disasters around the world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...
Oct 06, 2021•34 min
Tommy Davidson is a comedian and actor who came to fame in the 1990s as one of the stars of the groundbreaking sketch comedy TV show “In Living Color,” the first network TV sketch comedy show created by an African American writer-producer-star (Keenan Ivory Wayans) that featured a multicultural cast. Tommy has also appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies including “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” and he tours the nation as a comedy headliner. During this podcast, Tommy discusses his life and ...
Sep 29, 2021•28 min
Bill Bratton served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, chief of the New York City Transit Police, and commissioner of the Boston Police Department and the New York City Police Department. Bratton’s new book “The Profession” is both a searching examination of the path of policing over the past fifty years, for good and also for ill, and a master class in transformative leadership. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...
Sep 22, 2021•28 min
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (Ret.) is the former director for European Affairs at the National Security Council during the Trump Administration. Vindman was one of several government staffers who were tasked with listening in during President Trump's infamous phone call to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky which was at the center of President Trump's first impeachment. Vindman, who earned a Purple Heart during the Iraq War, became a key witness in the Trump impeachment. He writes a...
Sep 15, 2021•28 min
Kimmy Chedel’s late husband Frank Doyle, 39, was the head of equity trading at a firm in the World Trade Center’s south tower on September 11, 2001. He was on the 89th floor when the tower was hit by United Airlines Flight 175 which had been hijacked by terrorists. Frank died when the south tower collapsed. Kimmy lost her husband and their children Zoe, 2, and Garrett,1, lost their father. I n the wake of Frank’s death, Kimmy created Team Frank in 2002 to honor him through a series of athletic e...
Sep 08, 2021•39 min
Tembi Locke is an actress and author of “From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home.” The literary debut details her love affair with her late husband, Saro, a chef from Sicily whose family initially rejected Tembi and refused to attend their wedding because he was marrying a black actress from America. Saro’s mother and family eventually did embrace them and their daughter, Zoela. But then tragically Saro was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. "From Scratch" is currently being ...
Sep 01, 2021•42 min
On August 24, fans of the late great Kobe Bryant pause to the remembers the man's contirbutions to the game of basketball, and to Southern California, as the date 8/24 combines the jersey numbers Bryant wore during his career with the Los Angeles Lakers. Frank Buckley sat down with Kobe Bryant for a conversation a year before his death. In this podcast, we revisit that conversation, along with a conversation Frank had in 2018 with Andrew Bernstein. Andrew is the NBA Hall of Fame photographer and...
Aug 25, 2021•58 min
Melissa Stockwell is a 2 time ParaOlympian who will soon be competing in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. She also 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 conversation from November 2020, she discusses the bombing that left her wounded and her life after the military...
Aug 18, 2021•21 min
In 2017, the Houston Astros emerged victorious against the Los Angeles Dodgers in one of the most hard-fought World Series in Major League Baseball. Two years later, it was revealed that the Astros had committed and benefited from one of the biggest cheating schemes in sports history. Andy Martino is the author of the book "Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing." The book has been hailed as "the definitive insider story of the cheating scandal th...
Aug 11, 2021•34 min
What if you didn't remember that your caregiver is your wife, and you asked her to marry you all over again? The wedding story of Lisa and Peter Marshall is unlike any you've heard before. In this interview with Lisa Marshall, she opens up about her husband's struggles with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She also shares the challenges and moments of grace that come with caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt...
Aug 04, 2021•25 min
On this episode of Frank Buckley Interviews, we revisit conversations with experts who provide potentially lifestyle-altering insight into some of the things we all deal with in our daily lives that we may not always conciouslly thinking about. Tristan Harris, a technology ethicist, explains the dangers of persuasive technology, as discussed in the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma." Trusted food authority Mark Bittman discusses his book "Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Su...
Jul 28, 2021•40 min
On this Frank Buckley Interviews Mixtape, we revisit conversations with people who have had a profound impact on the television medium. Alan Zweibel is one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live, the co-creator and producer of It's Garry Shandling's Show, and a consulting producer on Curb Your Enthusiasm among many other credits. The story of how CNN started is chronicled in Lisa Napoli’s book, Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News. Frank interviewed Lisa for a vir...
Jul 21, 2021•37 min
This month, the KTLA Morning News is celebrating 30 years on the air! In this 'Frank Buckley Interviews' Mixtape, we revisit some of the conversations with the people who are part of KTLA's broadcast legacy, including longtime entertainment reporter Sam Rubin and Mark Kriski, who has been a part of the KTLA Morning News team from the very start. We also hear interviews with anchor Megan Henderson, and Frank's first KTLA co-anchor, Michaela Pereira, who worked at KTLA for 9 years. See Privacy Pol...
Jul 14, 2021•48 min
Caitlyn Jenner is an Olympic Champion (Decathlon, 1976 Summer Olympics) turned reality TV star who is now running for Governor of California in the state's September recall election. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, appeared in the show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." In 2015, Jenner revealed that she is a transgender woman and became Caitlyn Jenner. During this conversation (originally conducted for the TV program "Inside California Politics,' airing on KTLA and other Nexstar ...
Jul 07, 2021•33 min
Katie Engelhart is a writer and producer and author of the new book "The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die." Her story “ What Happened in Room 10? ” won a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting in 2021. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent for VICE News. During this podcast, Engelhart discusses the history and current state of assisted suicide and the right to die including stories of individuals who have chosen to end their lives to end suffering. See Privacy Policy at http...
Jun 30, 2021•32 min
Karis Jagger and Fabienne Toback are the executive producers of the documentary series "High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America." The Los Angeles based filmmakers also write the food and culture blog "Hey Sistah." During this podcast, Jagger and Toback discuss the food journey that took them from Africa to the Carolinas to Texas as they told the story of the food that came with black slaves to America, of enslaved chefs responsible for popularizing foods that we eat to ...
Jun 23, 2021•32 min
Bill Bratton served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, chief of the New York City Transit Police, and commissioner of the Boston Police Department and the New York City Police Department. Bratton's new book "The Profession" is both a searching examination of the path of policing over the past fifty years, for good and also for ill, and a master class in transformative leadership. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...
Jun 16, 2021•28 min
Dr. Robert M. Gates is a former Secretary of Defense and former CIA Director. Secretary Gates joined the CIA as an entry level employee in 1966 and spent 27 years as an intelligence professional. During his career of public service, he served eight presidents including George W. Bush and Barack Obama. During this podcast, Secretary Gates discusses threats the U.S. faces including from China, Russia, and cyber criminals. He also talks about his new book "Exercise of Power: American Failures, Succ...
Jun 09, 2021•26 min
Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroscientist, former member of the Time Magazine "100 Most Influential People in the World" list, and the New York Times best-selling author of "My Stroke of Insight" which documented the devastating stroke she suffered in 1996 along with her eight-year-long recovery to regain the ability to speak, read, write, and walk. Her new book is "Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters that Drive Our Life." During this podcast, Dr. Bolte Taylor goes ...
Jun 02, 2021•29 min
The new book "Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie" is journalist Lisa Napoli’s captivating account of the four women who founded National Public Radio, their deep and enduring friendships, and the trail they blazed to becoming icons. Lisa joined Frank Buckley Interviews to share the fascinating stories of Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Nina Totenberg. Based on extensive interviews and calling on the author’s deep connections in news and public radio, "Susan, Linda, Nina, and Coki...
May 26, 2021•32 min
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the new book "The Committed," a sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel "The Sympathizer." He is also the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Professor Nguyen was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. as a child refugee with his parents and brother. During this podcast, Professor Nguyen discusses his personal experience as a refuge...
May 19, 2021•31 min
In the new book "Animal, Vegetable, Junk," trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments, from slavery and colonialism to famine and genocide—and to our current moment, wherein Big Food exacerbates climate change, plunders our planet, and sickens its people. Bittman joins Frank Buckley Interviews to discuss the arguments in his books. He also explains why "Impossible meat" and meatless burg...
May 12, 2021•26 min
MIchio Kaku is a renowned theoretical physicist, and professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York. Kakue is the co-founder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books. Kaku is now author of the new book, "The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything." The epic story explains the greatest quest in all of science—the holy grail of physics that would explain the creation of the universe. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...
May 05, 2021•28 min
Leslie Lehr is the author of the book “A Boob’s life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You." Lehr is also a breast cancer survivor. In this conversation from October 2020, Leslie shares the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. She blends her personal memoir with national history, and the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Lehr explains how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today....
Apr 28, 2021•31 min
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 civil rights. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https...
Apr 21, 2021•22 min
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 Nation," William Deverell, professor of history and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on Califor...
Apr 14, 2021•29 min
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 Jam: A New Legacy starring LeBron James. During this episode from 2019, Bob reveals how he snuck his way on...
Apr 07, 2021•39 min
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 utopian public housing project. Then, in a remarkable turn, public housing in the city was defeated amidst...
Mar 31, 2021•28 min
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 committee for the $100 million research and engineering program, Breakthrough Starshot Initiative, which ai...
Mar 24, 2021•31 min
