12/01 Tuesday: Tyler Bridges, John Folse, Kevin Cope

Hour 1:

Tyler Bridges

Journalist Tyler Bridges joins the show to discuss his latest article in The Advocate about Governor-elect John Bel Edwards' unlikely journey to the Governor's mansion. Bridges talks about how Senator David Vitter lost ground. 

John Folse

Chef John Folse joins Jim to chat about his newest book, Can You Dig It: Louisiana's Authoritative Collection of Vegetable Cookery.  Folse comments on what went into creating this giant cook book and the variety of photographs within the book. This is Folse's tenth book. 

Hour 2:

Kevin Cope

LSU Facility Senate President Kevin Cope discusses how Les Miles managed to stay the head coach for the Tigers. Cope also comments on the censure matter with LSU President F. King Alexander.  

11/30 Monday: Obesity and Navigating Holiday Temptations, Rannah Gray on Scott Rogers, and Les Miles

HOUR ONE: 

Catherine Carmichael 

Cathy Carmichael is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator.  She shares some tips about how to avoid all those sugary holiday calories and maintain proper nutrition, ideas for working in exercise, suggestions for working in exercise to holiday travel and how our community policies can improve our health. 

Rannah Gray is President of Marmillion/Gray Media, an advertising and public relations firm she founded with Val Marmillion that specializes in developing unique brands and creative campaigns for clients.  She was named one of the "Top 100 Influencers" in Louisiana by Politics Magazine.  Gray was a former associate Athletic Director at LSU.  She speaks about Scott Rogers, the late local TV host in her new book Familiar Evil. 

HOUR TWO:

Marty Mule 

Marty Mule is a columnist for Tiger Rag Magazine.  He comments on the reaction following the 'almost' termination of Les Miles' position as LSU's football coach.  

Steve Myers

Steve Myers is the founder of Tiger Rag Magazine.  He discusses the saga of Les Miles with Marty Mule.  

11/27 Friday: Mike Wagenheim, Marie Lu, The Future of Les Miles at LSU

Hour 1:

Mike Wagenheim 

Former Assistant Athletic Director of Communications at Nicholls State University Mike Wagenheim joins Jim to discuss his move to Israel. Wagenheim talks about the challenges living in a new country but says it's everything be thought it would be and more. He mentions the recent terror attacks close to where he lives. 

Marie Lu

American Young Adult Author Marie Lu joins the show to talk about her series of books. Lu discusses the characters in her latest book, The Rose Society. 

Cody Worsham

Tiger Rag Editor Cody Worsham chats about recent reports claiming LSU head coach Les Miles told members of the Gridiron Club that Saturday will be his last game. The Tigers have lost three games in a row for the first time in 16 years. 

Hour 2:

Glenn Guilbeau

Tiger Rag columnist Glenn Guilbeau joins the show to discuss if Saturday will be Les Miles' last game with the Tigers. He comments on the reports saying Les Miles told some members of the Gridiron Club tomorrow would be his last game. 

11/26 Thursday: Thanksgiving The Best of The Jim Engster Show

Hour 1:

The first hour of the Jim Engster Show is a repeat of the July 21st show with Justice of the Peace Moses Evans and Father Bryce Sibley discussing same-sex marriage.

Hour 2:

The second hour of the Jim Engster Show is a repeat of the Mary 5th show with the Secretary of the Louisiana Economic Development Stephen Moret discussing the state's economy, current economic legislation and what the future has in store for LED.

11/25 Wednesday: GMO's, Football, Edwin Edwards Hospitalized, Death of Bob Neese, and Transition of John Bel Edwards

HOUR ONE: 

Sarah Davidson Evanega

Evanega received her PhD in the field of Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2009, for which she conducted an interdisciplinary study combining work in plant molecular biology with science communication. Her dissertation focused on the controversy over genetically engineered papaya in developing countries with a specific focus on Thailand.  Evanega now serves as the PI and Director for the Cornell Alliance for Science—a global communications effort that promotes evidence-based decision-making in agriculture.

Wayne Coffey

Wayne Coffey is the author of Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season. 

"In only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban Meyer has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the annals of his sport, with three national championships and a cumulative record of 142 wins and only 26 losses. But sheer statistics are not the measure of his true accomplishment, nor do they speak to his own extraordinary learning journey. Now, in Above the Line, he offers to readers his unparalleled insights into leadership, team building and the keys to empowering people to achieve things they might never have thought possible."

Leo honeycutt

Leo Honeycutt -author, reporter, father, cook- is an award-winning television journalist of 28 years whose credits include CBS News, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, and CNN as well as an exclusive in the Oval Office with President Ronald Reagan (on his birthday in 1983), a rare interview with Muhammad Ali, and being the first Louisianan to conduct a live interview with space shuttle astronauts in orbit.  He gives an update on former Governor Edwin Edwards who was hospitalized for pneumonia at 88.  

Julie Baxter

Julie Baxter is a WAFB journalist, a lawyer, and a communications advisor.  She remembers journalist Bob Neese who died this morning after a long fight with cancer at age 62. 

HOUR TWO: 

Sam Jones

Sam Jones is the former Mayor of Franklin, Louisiana.  He is close friends with John Bel Edwards, and he comments on the new governor-elect and the transition to governor. 

11/24 Tuesday: Jon Meacham, Assassination of JFK, Les Miles' Future with LSU

Hour 1: 

Jon Meacham 

"Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of Communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. This is the human story of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed."-Amazon

Jim Featherston

Jim replays an interview from 1993 with Former LSU Journalism Professor Jim Featherston who witnessed the assassination of President John Kennedy. 

Hour 2:

Michael Kurtz

Southeastern Louisiana University Professor Michael Kurtz joins Jim to discuss the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He teaches the only JFK assassination class in the country. Kurtz believes Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the shooting. He has wrote the book Crime of the Century: The Assassination  From a Historian's Perspective.

James Moran

Tiger Rag Associate Editor James Moran joins Jim in studio to discuss Les Miles' future coaching the Tigers after coming off of a three game losing streak.