The Neil Haley Show Featuring Maya Feller, Griff Ruby, and Pat

Neil opened with registered dietitian Maya Feller of Maya Feller Nutrition for a conversation on how GLP-1 medications are reshaping the way Americans eat. With one in eight American adults currently on a GLP-1 (a number expected to triple by 2030), Maya emphasized that when people are eating less, the nutritional density of every bite matters more than ever. She framed protein and fiber as "the power pair," with protein supporting sustained energy, muscle, immune health, skin, and hair, while fiber drives gut health. She recommended building every meal around both, leaning on lean proteins like chicken, dairy, and beans alongside fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Maya pointed listeners toward the frozen aisle and Vital Pursuit, a line of GLP-1 friendly meals developed with chefs and registered dietitians offering at least 20 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber per meal. Her favorite is the Max Pro line with 30+ grams of protein and 12+ grams of fiber, including the new Uncured Pepperoni Max Pro Pizza, which holds the title of most protein per serving of any pizza in the frozen nutritional meal category. Visit vitalpursuit.com.Author Griff Ruby returned for a deeper conversation about his book The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A Guide to the Traditional Catholic Community, the foundational volume in his trilogy that also includes Sede Vacante! Parts One and Two. Griff shared his personal journey discovering traditional Catholicism in 1991, attending a one-off Latin Mass at a conservative parish, then making the pilgrimage to Spokane, Washington and a nearby Society of St. Pius X priory in Post Falls, Idaho. After seven years of research interviewing priests, communities, and reading every periodical and parish bulletin he could find, he wrote what he believes remains the only book of its kind documenting the worldwide Traditional Catholic community.Griff explained why Latin matters: as a non-evolving language it preserves universal worship, and traditional Catholics anywhere in the world can recognize the same prayers spoken since time immemorial. He contrasted the traditional Mass with what he calls the Novus Ordo "service," arguing that the consecration's change from "for many" to "for all" dilutes its meaning and even raises questions about the validity of the sacrament. He walked through the importance of valid sacraments, baptism, marriage as a great sacrament, and how Vatican II's switch from extreme unction to anointing of the sick effectively turned a sacrament into a sacramental. Griff outlined three schools of traditionalist thought: the indult community, the Society of St. Pius X middle position, and the sedevacantist analysis he favors. Find his books on Amazon under Griff Ruby and at MrUbiPetrus.com.Neil closed the hour with a real-time AI face-off alongside Pat, putting Claude Cowork (Neil's tool) head-to-head with Perplexity (Pat's tool) on the same prompts. They tested how many concurrent subagents each could spawn, then asked both platforms to automate Neil's podcast workflow at 30 episodes per week. Both agents recommended self-hosted n8n connecting Zoom cloud recordings to Descript and Google Drive, with Claude generating show notes and identifying the best moments for YouTube Shorts (with timestamps, hooks, and ready-to-paste captions) and uploading them back into Descript automatically. The estimated savings ran 30 to 60 hours per week. They also briefly explored building a website through Perplexity, which ran Nano Banana for image generation, and Neil shared his ongoing AI employee experiments with Sista. The takeaway: both Perplexity and Claude Cowork are powerful, but Claude's deep Descript and Google Drive integrations make the podcast pipeline almost magical, while Perplexity's edge is the ability to route across multiple frontier models in a single workflow.