
Frank Buckley Interviews
KTLA Morning News anchor Frank Buckley engages fascinating guests in conversation. The award-winning Frank Buckley Interviews features newsmakers, celebrities, technologists, entrepreneurs, authors, athletes, artists, and everyday people doing extraordinary things. In 2022, Frank Buckley Interviews was honored with a National Entertainment and Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club for one of its episodes. New episodes are released every Wednesday. The TV version airs on KTLA-TV Channel 5 on weekends and is also available on YouTube and the KTLA+ app.
Latest episodes

May 9, 2018 • 35min
Justin Woolverton, Halo Top Creamery Founder
Justin Woolverton is the founder of Halo Top Creamery, a Los Angeles based ice cream company that in 2017 (six years after Woolverton first started making the ice cream in his kitchen) became one of America's bestselling grocery store ice cream pints, competing with and sometimes beating longstanding brands Ben & Jerry's and Haagen-Dazs. It was one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2017.Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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May 2, 2018 • 35min
Dr. Kristi Funk, Breast Cancer Surgeon
Dr. Kristi Funk is a breast cancer surgeon who was thrust into the public eye in 2013 when Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times explaining her decision to have a double mastectomy. In it, she mentioned that she had the procedure at Dr. Funk’s Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Apr 25, 2018 • 35min
Megan Henderson, KTLA News Anchor
Megan Henderson is one of the anchors of the early edition of the KTLA 5 Morning News. She was recently invited by UNICEF to visit one of the world's largest refugee camps, Kakuma, in northwestern Turkana County, Kenya. Megan learned that 60-percent of the camp's population of 147,355 people are children under the age of 18. Many of their parents have been killed in civil wars. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Apr 18, 2018 • 42min
Clifford V. Johnson, Theoretical Physicist
Clifford V. Johnson is a theoretical physicist and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on the origins of the universe and the very fabric of nature. Professor Johnson studies and writes about things like string theory, space-time, quantum mechanics, black holes and the Big Bang among other things. He is the recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Apr 11, 2018 • 51min
Roy Choi, Chef-Entrepreneur
Roy Choi is the co-owner, co-founder, and chef of Kogi BBQ, Chego!, Alibi Room, A-Frame, Commissary, POT and LocoL. He is a Los Angeles native whose memoir/cookbook “L.A. Son” was a New York Times best seller in 2013. He was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World list in 2016. Roy created the “Korean taco” and is one of the people responsible for the gourmet food truck movement. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.com.
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Apr 4, 2018 • 38min
Brad Meltzer, Author "The Escape Artist"
Brad Meltzer is an author who has written 12 thrillers--all of them best sellers on the New York Times Best Seller list including his new book "The Escape Artist." During this podcast, Brad discusses his career and writing routine, "The Escape Artist" (a thriller set at Dover AFB), and he reveals a secret about an incident early in his career that drives him as he writes each novel. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Mar 28, 2018 • 32min
"Best of" Mixtape: Chefs
This “Best of” episode of Frank Buckley Interviews highlights celebrated chefs and luminaries in the culinary world. Featuring Seamus Mullen, Jet Tila, James Syhabout, and Nancy Silverton. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Mar 21, 2018 • 42min
Charlie Beck, LAPD Chief
Charlie Beck is the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. He oversees 10,000 sworn officers and 3,000 civilian employees. Chief Beck joined the LAPD as an officer in March 1977. The chief recently announced that he was retiring in June. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Mar 14, 2018 • 54min
Zainab Salbi, Humanitarian/Author/Host
Zainab Salbi is the founder of Women for Women International, a grassroots humanitarian and development organization that helps women survivors of war. Zainab is also a media commentator, TV host, and the author of several books including the national best seller "Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam Hussein."Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews.
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Mar 7, 2018 • 1h 13min
George Takei, Actor
George Takei is an actor, author and activist who is perhaps best known for playing Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise on the original "Star Trek" television series. George is currently starring in the musical "Allegiance" playing at the Aratani Theater at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in downtown Los Angeles. Full show notes available at http://ktla.com/FrankBuckleyInterviews
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