The Neil Haley Show Featuring Larry Thomas, Trenton Gunsolley, Grace Lynx Jenkins, Mary Shearer Eckert, and Pat Riley

The Neil Haley Show Featuring Larry Thomas, Trenton Gunsolley, Grace Lynx Jenkins, Mary Shearer Eckert, and Pat RileyNeil opened the Total Celebrity Show with actor Larry Thomas, the iconic Soup Nazi from Seinfeld and the official spokesman for the Original Soupman brand. Larry shared the origin story of how Al Yeganeh's storefront soups became shelf-stable through Tetra Pak technology, allowing the brand to scale into mass production while preserving the obsessive ingredient quality that made the original 55th and 8th Avenue soup stand famous. At a Brooklyn Cyclones appearance, the team noticed that fans assumed Larry was behind the brand, leading to the partnership. He pushed back on the typecasting myth, pointing to a recent Lifetime movie where he played a struggling working-class father, and walked through his touring schedule of Acme supermarket appearances in Paoli, Devon, and Goshen, Pennsylvania. He was at originalsoupman.com, on Amazon, on Facebook and Twitter as @OriginalSoupman, and personally on Twitter as @RealSoupNazi.The Storehouse Media Group simulcast with co-host Sherry Price Clark welcomed magician, vocalist, and actor Trenton Gunsolley, the Honest Cheat and a resident magician with Virgin Voyages. Trenton shared how his first professional show at age 15 in a Colorado Springs theater (over 100 friends and family) launched a career rooted in studying classic magic history (Fred Kaps, Channing Pollock, and Night Court's Harry Anderson) rather than simply YouTubing card tricks. He explained the difference between magic, mentalism, and mind-reading (the last of which does not actually exist), described his cruise ship life with Virgin Voyages, and previewed his next project: a cabaret magic musical blending original big band and swing music with sleight of hand. Find him at honest-cheat.com or on Instagram at @TrentonGunsolley.The next Storehouse simulcast featured author Grace Lynx Jenkins, whose new novel Sight releases May 26. Sherry praised Grace as a "big writer" who arrived already knowing how to layer detail. Grace explained that Sight grew out of an opening nightmare scene she could see in her mind paired with concepts from her master's degree in psychology, particularly social psychology and depression. She and Sherry tackled the novel's frank portrayal of cutting and self-harm, with Grace arguing that mental health belongs on the table in fiction rather than glossed over, because untreated pain in young men in particular eventually finds release. Grace also discussed how her Christian faith threads through the book without preaching, comparing the approach to The Chronicles of Narnia. Pre-order at GraceLynxJenkins.com.Neil then welcomed back bestselling author Mary Shearer Eckert (Wounded Sisters) for a return conversation on her writing journey. Mary shared how her love of writing began in childhood with Nancy Drew and Mark Twain at the local library, how she wrote and produced her own fifth-grade play after being passed over for the school play, and how she trained herself through her Fredericksburg writing group and decades of workshops despite being a nurse by trade. Her advice: write what you know, paint a picture with your words, never flatline your prose, use voice and humor, and let conversation move the story because conversation is the foundation of all real-life relationships. A sequel to Wounded Sisters is in progress. Visit MaryShearerEckert.com.Neil closed with AI Office Hours with Pat Riley. The conversation centered on the headaches of running 50 simultaneous AI agent projects and the difficulty of setting guardrails on email-drafting agents that fire off 32 drafts from a single inbound email. Pat and Neil reviewed Opus Clip for video clipping, Hostly.ai for social media at $6 a month, Manus via Telegram, Claude Cowork for lead pulling, Whisperflow for voice-driven AI, Victor as Neil's next project management experiment across 2,000+ apps via Slack, and the trade-offs between n8n,...