12/09 Wednesday: "Approaching Ali" Author Davis Miller, Donald Trump Deporting Muslims, and Gumbo Pac Trey Ourso

HOUR ONE: 

Davis Miller is the author of international bestsellers including The Tao of Muhammad Ali: A Fathers and Sons Memoir and Tao of Bruce Lee: My Martial Arts Memoir.  He is also the co-librettist of a chamber opera that is based on his transformed-by-Ali stories. He is at work on a harrowing yet comic memoir about having been recently kidnapped in China and on an obsessive modern love novel.  Today he shares his latest book, Approaching Ali. "I think he saved me from what might have been an otherwise, bad, miserable existence."   

Darrell White

Judge Darrell White is the founder and president of the Retired Judges of America.  In light of GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump's recent statements on deporting all Muslims and banning them further entry to America, Ourso speculates the constitutionality of such a statement should Trump win the presidency.  


HOUR TWO: 

Trey Ourso

Trey Ourso is the former executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party.  He is the director of the Gumbo PAC.  Gumbo PAC is a non-partisan clearinghouse of information focused on educating Louisiana voters about U.S. Senator David Vitter's disgraceful public record.  He discusses the improbable win of now Governor-Elect John Bel Edwards. 

12/08 Tuesday: Finding Happiness, Les Miles, John Bel Edwards, Gun Control, and Remembering John Lennon

HOUR ONE: 

Jenny Santi

Jenny Santi was born and raised in Manila in the Philippines; has lived in London, the French Loire Valley and Singapore, and is now based in New York. Santi is a trusted philanthropy advisor to some of the world’s most generous philanthropists and celebrity activists, and for five years beginning at only 28, was the Head of Philanthropy Services (Southeast Asia) for the world’s largest wealth manager. Her consulting firm Saint & Partners based in Singapore and New York City, serves clients including an Oscar-winning actress and signatories of the Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge.  Santi shares her new book: The Giving Way to Happiness.   

Elizabeth Crisp

Elizabeth Crisp is a capitol reporter for The Baton Rouge Advocate.  She comments on Les Miles and John Bel Edwards.  

HOUR TWO: 

Mike Wolf

Mike Wolf is a libertarian Louisiana attorney.  He discusses the politics and legality behind gun regulation.  

John Wirt

John Wirt is a reporter for the Baton Rouge Advocate.  Thirty-five years ago, music legend John Lennon was killed in his home at Dakota.  Wirt remembers Lennon's legacy and career.  

12/07 Monday: LSU's Stephen Moret, Frank Sinatra Authority Sid Mark, and Filmmaker Al Reinert

HOUR ONE: 

Sid Mark

Sid Mark launched The Sounds of Sinatra in Philadelphia 59 years ago. It all began as a call from a listener, who suggested that Sid spin one hour of Frank Sinatra.  Mark's Sunday with Sinatra show airs from 8am-1pm every week. The Philadelphia program has been ranked #1 in nearly every demographic.  This is the only radio program of its kind to have been personally authorized by Frank Sinatra.   Mark remembers the late music legend as Sinatra's 100th Birthday falls on December 12th, later this week.  

Al Reinert

An award-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer, Al Reinert co-wrote the screenplay for Apollo 13, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay. He received his second Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, Feature for the film, For All Mankind, which also garnered the Sundance Film Festival’s Audience Award, Documentary and Grand Jury Prize, Documentary. His most recent documentary, An Unreal Dream — The Michael Morton Story, won the SXSW Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Documentary. - Reinert shares news of his latest documentary and film showing on Audubon: The Film, which will premiere at Perkins Rowe tomorrow. 

HOUR TWO: 

Stephen Moret

Stephen Moret, LSU alumnus and former Louisiana Economic Development Secretary, joined the LSU Foundation May 11, 2015 as president and CEO.  Moret received his MBA from Harvard.  He discusses the transition from the economic department of development and his first six months at LSU.  

12/04 Friday: Dukes of Hazzard's John Schneider Christmas Concert, Baton Rouge Beach Marathon, San Bernardino, and the Louisiana Governor's Election

HOUR ONE: 

John Schneider 

John Schneider is an actor and producer.  Schneider has a television show for every generation; from Bo on “Dukes of Hazzard” in the 80s, to Jonathan Kent on “Smallville”, and now Judge Jim Cryer in the smash Tyler Perry hit in “The Haves and the Have Nots”. He’s also starred numerous television movies and big screen films over the last 35 years.  Today he promotes his Christmas Concert tomorrow.  

Bart Yasso

The Baton Rouge Beach Marathon and Half Marathon races are Saturday, Dec. 5 at 7 am.  Bart Yasso joined Runner's World in 1987 to develop the groundbreaking Runner's World Race Sponsorship program, creating a vehicle for Runner's World to work with over 7,000 races representing 4 million runners per year.  Yasso also invented the Yasso 800s, a marathon-training schedule used by thousands around the world.  He is one of the few people to have completed races on all seven continents.  

HOUR TWO:

Raymond Strother

Raymond Strother is a bestselling author and well known politico.  He comments on the San Bernardino terrorist attack and the political implications that will follow this tragedy.  He also discusses the post mortem of the Louisiana Gubernatorial election. 

12/03 Thursday: Lamar White, Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez, Gus Weill

Hour 1:

Lamar White

Blogger Lamar White, Jr. joins Jim in studio to talk about the resiliency of Donald Trump and the controversy over Trump allegedly ridiculing a handicapped reporter. White comments on the recent mass shootings across the United States. 

Hour 2:

Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez

Editor of the Daily Reveille Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez joins the show to discuss the Reggie's Bar dress code issue. She comments on an article in the Reveille about the bar and how the dress code targets a certain race. Zamudio-Suarez mentions the Confederate flag inside Reggie's, as well as, the bar's entrance hand stamp controversy. 

Zamudio-Suarez discusses the lack of minorities in Greek life at LSU. She is retiring from the position of editor. 

Gus Weill

Political Consultant Gus Weill joins the show to comment on the San Bernardino mass shooting. He discusses the recent terror attacks and how we can keep our cities safe from these attacks. 

12/02 Wednesday: Bestselling Young Adult Author Ellen Hopkins, S.T.A.R., and the J.R. Ball on Governor Elect John Bel Edwards

HOUR ONE: 

Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins is a poet, freelance writer, and the award-winning author of twenty nonfiction titles and five NY Times Bestselling novels-in-verse. She has published hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from aviation to child abuse to winegrowing. Ellen mentors other writers through her position as a regional adviser for the Nevada chapter of the Society of Children√ïs Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). She is a regular speaker at schools, book festivals and writers conferences across the US, and now throughout the world.  

She shares her book Traffik.  

Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling author of Tricks.

Racheal Hebert

Racheal Hebert is a community organizer and nonprofit director with experience in a variety of programs, including initiatives involving sexual trauma, violence prevention, crime victims' rights, and women’s health.  Hebert comments on State Senator Troy Brown's assault charges which he denies.  

HOUR TWO: 

J. R. Ball 

J.R. Ball is the managing editor at the Baton Rouge, nola.com.  He shares his article: Government leaders quick to promise, but slow on the all-important delivery.  Ball also comments on LSU's football season and Les Miles.