Huckabee Guests

Father Leo Patalinghug is a Catholic Priest, award-winning chef, internationally acclaimed speaker, host for the weekly Faith, Food and Travel Show “Savoring our Faith” on EWTN and other podcasts and radio shows, and author of several books and articles about the “Theology of Food” and the power of a meal served with love.  His unique background as a two-time third-degree black belt martial arts instructor, former award-winning break-dancer, and winner of the Food Network’s ThrowDown with Bobby Flay, has given Father Patalinghug a unique experience and ability to communicate powerful truths and spiritual insight in an engaging, deeply educational and entertaining way.  He’s also the founder of the non-profit group, The Table Foundation, which serves the people in the hospitality industry and disadvantaged communities, such as veterans and the formerly incarcerated.  His latest venture, as the founder and owner of the Plating Grace And Grub Food Truck, serves award winning food while hiring and training formerly incarcerated people while giving back to the community and feeding the homeless and hungry.

Flat River Band consists of three brothers Andy, Chad and Dennijo Sitze, who grew up in a multi-generational family band. Performing alongside their parents and grandparents, they held residencies at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri and at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Throughout their tenure in music, the Missouri natives have charted #1 hits on the bluegrass gospel charts and have opened for The Chicks’ Natalie Maines, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, TG Sheppard and more. The trio’s songs can be found in the 2018 movie The Least of These, A Christmas Story, featuring Duane Allen (The Oak Ridge Boys), Deborah Allen and Tayla Lynn (Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter). The band recently released a new five-song EP, Sights and Sounds, which has given the trio exposure in the spotlight of the Americana and Country formats.

Joel and Luke Smallbone know how to spin a cocoon of sound that envelopes the listener, lace words of truth and use their voices to lift and inspire. For FOR KING + COUNTRY - the quadruple GRAMMY®-winning progressive pop artist-songwriters - what music can do, as a positive and emotional force in people’s lives, is what drives the Sydney, Australia-born, Nashville-based duo. Fearless and searching for not just commonality, but how we all can take the things that scar us and transform them to grow in love, FOR KING + COUNTRY offers rigorous engagement with the world. 

Learn more about the music of FOR KING + COUNTRY by clicking the links to the left.

Through his work with Samaritan’s Purse and BGEA, Graham has been instrumental in helping people impacted by major crises for 45 years, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the earthquakes in Turkey, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, 9/11 terrorist attacks, wars, and natural disasters across the globe ranging from catastrophic hurricanes to devastating wildfires to massive earthquakes. Under Graham’s leadership, Samaritan’s Purse deployed emergency field hospitals to Italy, New York City, California, North Carolina, Mississippi, and the Bahamas when the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed local hospitals. Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team ministered alongside Samaritan’s Purse to offer spiritual and emotional care to patients and medical personnel alike.

Fred Klett, based out of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin has crafted his sterling reputation from decades of stand-up comedy. Known for a clean style, original material, zany outlooks, impeccable timing, unique delivery and belly laughs, Fred is a sought-after comedian that entertains across all demographics. 

As the second child of ten, Fred had a built-in audience to hone his comedic skills at an early age.  While earning his finance degree from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Fred seized his first opportunity to perform stand-up comedy; entertaining his fellow Warhawk classmates at various campus settings.  During college summer breaks, Fred continued to perfect his style by performing at Marriott’s (now Six Flags) Great America. 

Upon graduation from college, Fred followed in his dad’s footsteps as a Prudential sales rep.  However, his passion for comedy would not be dissuaded and he continued to perform stand-up comedy.  Fred’s comedy career took off after winning Showtime’s “Funniest Man in Milwaukee” contest.  This victory helped propel him to become a national headliner for comedy clubs across America.  Since then, he has performed with comedians Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld and Craig Ferguson and opened for musical superstars such as George Benson, Sheena Easton and Ricky Skags.  The members of the iconic rock band, Kansas, were smitten with Fred’s ability to generate laughter without resorting to innuendo or profanity.  They personally asked Fred to tour nationally with their group Kansas (which he happily did). 

In addition to performing across America, Fred has performed internationally on elite cruise ships in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, St. Lawrence Seaway, Australia/New Zealand, Fiji, Russia and the Antarctic. 

Fred also has numerous tv credits such as Showtime, A&E, NBC Friday Night Video, ABC Nightship, Comedy Channel and Dry Bar Comedy.  His recent Dry Bar special has amassed over 65 million on-line views and generated hundreds of thousands of likes and tens of thousands of responses.  A sampling of 500 responses to both his Dry Bar and LIVE specials indicated 20% of his fans are from outside the USA, representing over 50 countries.  Fred’s comedy has attained international status as his clean style and original material carry a universal appeal. 

Fred is married to Nancy and they have three sons and two grandchildren.  He continues to perform for private and public events, on cruise ships, as well as with his son Gus.  In 2023, Fred is proud to have introduced this new father-son comedy format, the only one of its kind in America.

A ninth-generation Arkansan, Congressman French Hill has represented Arkansas’s Second Congressional District since January 2015. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and as Chairman of the new subcommittee tasked with overseeing all areas related to digital assets and financial technology. Additionally, he is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He was also elected to the Republican Steering Committee for the 118th Congress, which determines committee assignments for Republican members of Congress.

Prior to his congressional service, Congressman Hill was founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corporation. From 1989 to 1991, he also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance, where one of his key assignments was representing the U.S. as a negotiator in the historic bilateral talks with Japan known as the Structural Impediments Initiative (SII).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rep. Hill led the design of U.S. technical assistance to the emerging economies of eastern and central Europe in the areas of banking and securities. In 1991, at the age of 34, President Bush appointed Rep. Hill to be Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council (EPC), where he coordinated all White House economic policy. For his leadership and service at the Treasury and the White House, Rep. Hill was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady in January 1993. Prior to his Executive Branch Service, from 1982 until 1984, Rep. Hill served on the staff of then-U.S. Senator John Tower (R-TX), as well as on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs.

Throughout his career, Rep. Hill has been active in civic affairs. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Little Rock and served as the 2013 chairman of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his long-time support of the Boy Scouts of America, the arts and humanities, tourism, and historic preservation in Arkansas. He is an avid outdoorsman.

Rep. Hill is a magna cum laude graduate in Economics from Vanderbilt University. He and his wife, Martha, have a daughter and a son. The Hill family resides in Little Rock.