MONDAY: Power Outage News, Air Quality Awareness Week, Film Tax Credits, and the Odds of for the 2016 Presidential Election

HOUR ONE: 

Tom Peters from Entergy shares news on power outages.  In New Orleans there are reports that winds were clocked at 71 miles per hour.  "We still have around 65,000 out in the Baton Rouge area," Peters says.  There are no known fatalities from the thunderstorm.  Peters warns from interfering or moving fallen power lines or branches tangled in power lines.  

Environmental Scientist Manager at Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Vivian Aucoin begins Air Quality Awareness Week today.  She is joined by Lauren Tompkins from Louisiana Clean Fuels.  May is Air Quality Awareness Month.  Their website allows for notification for when there is a dangerous ozone level.  "We are really trying to promote the use of alternative fuel," Tompkins says, "What I mean is natural gas, electric, and propane vehicles." 

The Economist Dr. Loren Scott from LSU comments on film tax credits.  He was at LSU for 33 years.  He calls the potential budget cuts to LSU "ugly" and "cut to the bone."

 His report says that Louisiana is only getting about 25 cents back for ever dollar they spend on the film industry.

HOUR TWO: 

Expert on Odds Peter Loshak gives the current odds of the 2016 presidential election.  The odds right now on Governor Jindal are 25 to 1 to win the GOP Nomination and 41 to 1 to win the presidential election from Paddy Power.  Hillary Clinton is even odds right now to win the presidential election.  Clinton is 1 to 7 to win the Democratic Nomination.  

Jeb Bush is 9 to 4 to win the Republican Nomination.  He is 4 to 1 to win the entire race.  

Kim Kardashian is 1000 to 1 to win the 2016 presidential election.  Donald Trump is 100 to 1.  

Marco Rubio is 3 to 1 to win the Republican Nomination.

Chris Christie is 10 to 1 right now to win the Republican Nomination.   

Elizabeth Warren is 12 to 1 to win the Democratic Nomination.  

Patrick Mulhearn Director of Studio Operations, Raleigh Studios Baton Rouge at the Celtic Media Centre offers a different opinion on tax credits.  He argues that the film industry brings in a great deal of tourism.  He talks about an online poll in which 14.5% of people said that the film industry is the reason people came to Louisiana.  

A film is eligible for tax credits after their budget in Louisiana exceeds $300,00.  People in Louisiana favor 4 to 1 keeping the film tax credits as is.  

Films such as Oblivion and Battleship were filmed in Louisiana, as well as three new television shows.  

"If you were to eliminate the whole thing, there would be zero savings for the 2015-16 budget year." 

He suggests people take a harder look at fracking.  

FRIDAY: English Professors and Fight Club, LSU's 'Racy', Cuba, Iran, President Obama, and Bruce Jenner

HOUR ONE: 

Author Jonathan Gottschall shares his book The Professor in the Cage.  He calls it a "nonfiction version of fight club." They comment on Muhammad Ali and his legend.  "According to fight lore, if your eyes flick away for even a tenth of a second, that meant you were afraid, that you lost." 

"As far back as you can penetrate, whatever culture you go to, you always find that men are responsible for the vast majority of the violence," he says.  

They discuss the first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney and the role of body language.  

"Short men are rarely, if ever, elected to be president." 

"It's a fight club, but all of the hits are given in words," Gottschall says of universities. 

They comment on boxing as a sport and its lagging popularity.  

LSU Student and WAFB 9 News Associate Producer Cessali Fournier and Director Bonny McDonald promote LSU's play 'Racy.'  

Fournier says they tried to express through their body ways they have been affected by racism or racist towards others.  

Her cast member, Emily, is white.  She says that she struggled with identifying movement to her "whiteness." 

"We want to engage people and give them a starting point to have a conversation about race," Fournier says.  

HOUR TWO: 

Conservative Commentator and Professor Bruce Herschensohn gives his opinion on Cuba, Iran, and President Obama.  

He was an advisor to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.  He is not a fan of President Obama.  

"I think it's probably the greatest invention in modern warfare," he says of drones.  

"I don't trust President Obama because so much of what he has promised, domestic and international, hasn't happened." 

"If there is anyone who's listening who wants to run for office, I have no regrets for running.  It is a terrific education," Herschensohn says.  He narrowly lost a senate election.  

He also speaks on a trip he took with his girlfriend and a married couple to a strip club.  "We had a good time," he says.  The story came out three weeks before his election.  "When you're on the defensive, you lose." 

"We were winning the Vietnam War until congress didn't allow us to send over the supplies we promised... and then Watergate." 

Author and Journalist Leo Honeycutt joins the show to comment on former Olympian Bruce Jenner.  

Honeycutt is the confidant to former Governor Edwin Edwards.  He is returning from an event in which Edwards gave a forty five minute speech.  "He has nothing to lose now, so he's speaking his mind and shooting straight," Honeycutt says of Edwards.  

Honeycutt comments on the Bruce Jenner transition.  He points out Bruce's age and says, "You do have to wonder how much of this is about publicity." 

THURSDAY: Cokie Roberts, Baton Rouge DA Hillar Moore, LSU Basketball, and Coach Dale Brown

HOUR ONE: 

Cokie Roberts of ABC News joins Jim in studio.  She has been named Louisiana Humanist of the Year.  "This is very special," she says.  She was born in New Orleans as "Mary Martha."  Both of her parents were politicians.  Her mother and father, Lindy and Hale Boggs, were both Democratic Congresspeople in Louisiana.  She speaks about their careers.  

Roberts has a new book already on the bestsellers list, Capital Dames and the role of women in politics.  

Her father, Hale Boggs, was presumably killed in a plane crash in Alaska.  Roberts recalls the event.  

"I'm the only one left of the original gang," Roberts says, "We were a fivesome, and we did everything together." 

"At the end of it, I wanted to slit my wrists," Roberts says of her latest book.  

"I don't think there's anybody left like her," she says of her mother, "she was so tough and so persistent, it was easier just to say yes the first time to her." 

She comments on Loretta Lynch and the human trafficking bill.  Loretta Lynch is the first African American woman to become United States Attorney General.  

"It's not a done deal," Roberts says of Hillary Clinton, "she's basically running against herself." 

She has been married to her husband Steve for 49 years.  

"It's mind boggling how quickly people change their minds on this subject," Roberts says of gay marriage.  "To young people, being gay is about as interesting as being left handed."   

HOUR TWO: 

Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore talks with Jim today about his career as an investigative attorney.  "Since I saw some really bad things at the start, you really have to find a switch," he says as a way to deal with the things he has seen.  February had zero murders.  "An hour and fifteen minutes after midnight, someone was killed," he says of the end of February.  

Moore comments on the budget crisis and that "education should be priority."  He also adds that more money needs to be added in crime prevention.  

He comments on police legitimacy.  They discuss the recent news about inappropriate relations between teachers and students.

Collis Temple Jr. joins Hillar Moore to talk to specific groups of at risk people for murder.  They are 900% more at risk to kill or be killed than anyone else in Baton Rouge.  

Collis Temple Jr. integrated basketball at LSU.  Former Coach Dale Brown calls in to share a story in which Temple and Brown were threatened with murder if they came out onto the court.

Brown says, "Collis did a lot that he never tooted his own horn about." 

Dale Brown says he coached 89 African American players.  

Temple shares his father's pursuit of graduate school and the difficulty in acceptance as an African American.  Both of his parents pushed him to go to LSU.  

WEDNESDAY: Author Greg Iles, New Orleans Gambit, Feminism and the Restaurant Industry, and BP Oil Disaster

HOUR ONE: 

Author Greg Iles comments on his book The Bone Tree.  He shares his experience of a car crash, and how it inspired him to "tell the story the way it should be told" regardless of others' opinions.  It is the second book in a trilogy.  He tried to tell the story as close to the truth as he could write fiction.  

Greg Iles comments on his lead character Penn Cage.  "He's much more of a boy scout than I am."

He speaks on the death of the character Viola Turner.  He is producing a television series of the trilogy with Toby McGuire "I would like to shoot at least half of this show in Concordia parish," Iles says, in hope to sway the people of Louisiana in favor of film tax credits.  

Publisher of the New Orleans Gambit Clancy DuBos joins us to talk about the Louisiana Legislation.  "We are not bringing in enough revenue to meet the annual commitment we have made," DuBos says.  He continues saying that Louisiana should not be selling off assets just to "keep the lights on." 

A listener asks, "Is it really the role of the taxpayer to pay for education?"  

HOUR TWO:

Las Vegas Waitress Britney Bronson shares her article on feminism and the restaurant industry.  She is an English instructor at the UNLV.  She has been a waitress in Las Vegas for four years.  "Often my approach is to make a joke or feign humor at inappropriate behavior," she says of her waitressing job, "because these people are paying my bills I often excuse the treatment."  

Bronson describes a story in which a man asked for her phone number repeatedly to which she declined each time.  The man waited for her until the end of her shift and asked for her phone number for money.  

"When I leave work, work is over," she says, "but ultimately it does create relief." 

She reveals she does not always tell her students of her part time job.  

Former State Senator Dr. Mike Robichaux comments on the BP Oil Disaster.  He identifies as a populist.  He speaks about people who are impacted by illness from being exposed to the BP oil spill, some of which are his patients.  

"The number one thing they had was headache.  The number two thing and most prominent thing is memory loss."  He speaks about a class law suit, but that there is no compensation for individual suits.  

"Rashes were one of the things that they (BP) compensated," Dr. Robichaux says.

Today is the 79th birthday of Glen Campbell.  Rhinestone cowboy was ranked as the number 1 song in 1975.  

TUESDAY: Photography, Oklahoma City Bombing, State Treasurer John Kennedy, and Cuba Policy

HOUR ONE: 

Photographer Lynsey Addario shares her book It's What I Do.  "I sort of try to start every story with a blank page... but so often it's tragic... very devastating things." 

Addario shares her experiences working in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  She focuses a lot on women's issues.  "Yes, these stories take a toll, but I remember the fact that I was raised in privilege and can leave at any time." 

She speaks about her experience as an American in foreign countries and what the general opinion of Americans is.  "I think people hold a real grudge towards America because of its policies." 

She has one the Pulitzer Prize for her work.  She describes a time in which she was kidnapped and beaten with other journalists.  Addario is currently working on a story about the African migrants.  

Scott Bud Welch is a father of one of the victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995.  He remembers the tragedy with us today.  He describes the year following his daughter's death.  "I finally came to the conclusion that the day they took Tim McVay from his cage would not be part of my healing process... You cannot go through the healing process as long as you're living with revenge."  He speaks about how his protests against the death penalty allowed him to heal.  

"When your parents die, you go to the hilltop to bury them.  When your children die, you bury them in your heart.  It never goes away," Welch says.  

HOUR TWO: 

State Treasurer John Kennedy comments on the budget.  The budget deficit now is projected at 1.8 billion.  The hospitals are short 142 million dollars.  

He is running for reelection.  

We get 50 million dollars in settlement with the tobacco companies per year for the next 8 years.  

Kennedy says, "I'm especially conservative fiscally... I would go to Republicans in a different party and they would help me... so I switched." 

Linguist, Historian, and Author Aviva Chomsky gives her insight on the new policy to do with Cuba.  "Cuba has repeatedly made overtures to try to achieve relations with the United States."  The United States is the only country in the world that has tried to make trade embargoes against Cuba.  

The Cuban American Right Wing is the only section of the United States that Chomsky feels is against relations with Cuba.

"Pretty much every country in Latin America has carried out policies that you or I or the US Government might not like... how do they compare to Cuba's policies?" Chomsky says, asking why the United States is so hostile towards Cuba.  

A caller remarks against her views.  

MONDAY: News Anchor Jean West, Baton Rouge Symphony, Eagles and Tim Teebo, The BP Oil Spill, and Billy Nungesser

HOUR ONE: 

One of the first African-American Anchors Jean West comments on her 30 year career and her move to WAFB.  She is from Louisville, KY.  "I think inherently we are all introverted geeks," West says of people in the news.

She recounts the film Broadcast News.  "You have to be prepared," she says, "you have to know a little bit about everything."  

"People find some comfort in knowing a person in a market for awhile," she says of aging as an anchor.  

"I think if you work hard and show that you're doing your best, you can be around for awhile," she says.  

Conductor Tim Muffitt joins the show from the Baton Rouge Symphony.  He discusses the members of the orchestra and their primary jobs, which are often teachers.  This coming Thursday will be the finale of the season.  Their next season begins in September.  

Sports Writer from Philadelphia Mark Kram Jr. comments on the Eagles getting Tim Teebo. 

HOUR TWO: 

Attorney Keith Jones remembers the BP oil spill.  His son Gordon Jones died in the oil spill. "My life is in two parts.  The part before Gordon was killed and the part after Gordon was killed." 

Gordon was about to come home from Deep Water Horizon for the birth of his second son.  "What I take solace in is that the explosion was so big and so strong, those men died instantly." 

"This was not a spill.  Nobody dumped anything overboard.  This was a blowout." 

"No one from BP has ever said that they were sorry Gordon was killed on their rig," Jones says.  

He describes meeting the President of BP America and the exchange they had.  

"Bitterness would show a bit of a character weakness on my part, but there it is.  I'm bitter," Jones says.  

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser also remembers the BP oil spill.  

Nungesser publicly apologizes for the incorrect report that was put up that those 11 men were found in a capsule.  

He discusses the local oil spills that have happened since and speaks of their local companies taking responsibility.  

Nungesser is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.  He comments on tourism.