Friday 7/10: Ethical Business Practice, Former Football Star Dub Jones, Parisian Bestseller, and the Confederate Battle Flag

July 10, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Aaron Beam

Aaron Beam is the former Founder and first Chief Financial Officer of HealthSouth. He joins Jim today to discuss legal and ethical business practice. Beam shares about his time in prison for fraud. He served 3 months in a minimum security prison. He had to pay over a million dollars in restitution money.

Dub Jones

William Augustus "Dub" Jones is a former football star from Ruston, LSU, Tulane, and most notably, the Cleveland Browns. He reminisces on his 10 year career in the NFL with Jim.

Michelle Gable

Michelle Gable is the best selling author of the book A Paris Apartment. Gable shares her story with Jim.

HOUR TWO:

Gus Weill

Gus Weill is a veteran political consultant and famed author. He discusses the controversial removal of the Confederate Battle Flag in South Carolina. He also gives his expert opinion on Bobby Jindal, the Gubernatorial election, and the 2016 presidential election.

William Taylor

William Taylor is a radio show host at KTIB in Thibodaux. He talks football and remembers the Louisiana hall of fame members.

Thursday 7/9: Louisiana Music Hall of Fame Art Wall at BTR, Gubernatorial Q&A on Film Tax Credits, Confederate Flag, Bill Cosby, and Bobby Jindal

July 9, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Mike Shephard

Mike Shephard is the President of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He shares the new Art Wall at the BTR Airport for the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

The legislature just passed a bill to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the South Carolina capitol. Jim discusses this controversial issue.

Gubernatorial Q&A

Do you agree with what the legislature did in the last session capping the state's film tax credits at $180 million dollars? As Governor, what changes, if any, would you propose to make to the program?

David Vitter:

Jay Dardenne: Dardenne says that though the film tax credits were too generous, they have now been capped too low and should exceed 200 million.

Scott Angelle: As governor, I'll see to it that each and every tax credit, exemption etc. is evaluated to a cost/benefit comparison.

John Bel Edwards: The motion picture industry must be capped... in the range of 180 million dollars each year.

HOUR TWO:

Gloria Allred

Gloria Allred is a discrimination attorney who is nationally recognized for taking on high profile cases. She shares her expertise on the recent evidence against Bill Cosby in which he drugged women with whom he planned to have sexual relations. "Some of the women blame themselves," she says. She is representing 16 women who claim Bill Cosby sexually abused them using Quaaludes to have sex with them.

Taylor Huckaby

Taylor Huckaby is a guest commentator for The Advocate and only openly gay staffer for Bobby Jindal. Huckaby discusses his article that was published yesterday in The Advocate "Once a Jindal Supporter but No More..."

Wednesday 7/8: Debating Gay Marriage, Donald Trump, and Louisiana Politics

July 8, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Andrea Carroll

Christopher Odinet

Andrea Beauchamp Carroll is the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Christopher Odinet is a property, housing, and commercial law professor at Southern University. They discuss their article on marriage equality in Louisiana: Gay Marriage is Legal in Louisiana... Now What? in which they describe and debate how the SCOTUS decision will affect adoption and how Louisiana is evolving and resisting acceptance of the change.

Wayne Allyn Root

Wayne Allyn Root is a libertarian-conservative commentator. He is a talk show host and a bestselling author. He joins Jim to discuss the ever controversial Donald Trump and Trump's quest for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

HOUR TWO:

Roy Fletcher

Roy Fletcher is a political consultant and has been involved in over 500 political campaigns. Fletcher discusses the Fall gubernatorial election, commenting on each candidate and their potential to succeed and compete in the runoff.

Tuesday 7/7: Big Science, Louisiana Politics, Republicans, and Bill Cosby

July 7, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. He shares his latest book, Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex. "Without Lawrence, I think we would not have had the atomic bomb in World War II."

Jeremy Alford

Jeremy Alford is the publisher and editor of LaPolitics.com and LaPolitics Weekly. He discusses Gubernatorial race.

HOUR TWO:

jason dore'

Jason Dore' is the Executive Director of the Louisiana Republican Party. Dore' gives his insight on the dynamics of the crowded ring for the Republican Presidential Nomination. He also discusses the growth of the GOP in the south and in Louisiana over the past decade and how this has affected policy and the party.

Racheal Hebert

Racheal Hebert is the President and CEO of STAR (Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response). Hebert discusses her reaction to the recent evidence that has been brought to light in which Bill Cosby admits to intentionally drugging women with whom he would have sexual relations.

Monday: We All Looked Up, BP Agreement, Greece Financial Crisis, and the Gubernatorial Election

July 6, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Tommy Wallach

Tommy Wallach is a writer and musician from Brooklyn. He shares his debut novel, We All Looked Up. Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, Wallach writes the story of four teenagers and their feelings and experiences as an astroid comes to destroy the world.

Ameen Walker

Ameen Walker is the President of First Financial of Baton Rouge. He comments on the BP Oil Agreement.

Fred Dent III

Andy Anderson

Fred Dent III is the Principal of Dent Asset Management/Raymond James Financial Services Inc. He discusses the financial crisis of Greece with B.F. Andy Anderson. Andy Anderson is a registered investment advisor at B.F. Anderson and Company. Dent says that the worry is that the crisis in Greece will spill into Portugal and/or Spain, though he doesn't think this worry has ground.

HOUR TWO:

foster campbell

Foster Campbell is the Louisiana Public Service Commissioner. He discusses the BP Oil Agreement as well as the chances of the Democratic party in the fall Gubernatorial election. Campbell believes it will be John Bel Edwards and David Vitter in the run off. He also expresses his distaste for Bobby Jindal and his lack of confidence that the Governor will succeed in his quest for the Oval Office.

Friday: Parenting Advice, Women Soliders, Wrestling, and the Republican Takeover

July 3, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

HELEN THORPE

Helen Thorpe is an author and freelance journalist. She shares her book Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War. Thorpe shares her research strategy behind choosing the particular three women and how their stories resonated with her.

GUBERNATORIAL Q&A

The Gubernatorial Candidates give their stance on the Confederate Flag.

David Vitter: As far as I know, the Confederate Battle Flag doesn't fly in Louisiana State offices, and it shouldn't.

Jay Dardenne: Though it is correct that the Confederate Battle Flag should not fly over state buildings, but we should not try to rewrite history.

Scott Angelle: Certainly, the Confederate Battle Flag should not fly over state buildings.

John Bel Edwards: I think we owe it to the people of Louisiana to discuss whether we ought to issue license plates with the Confederate Battle Flag on them.

Armin Brott

Armin Brott is a blogger, author and columnist. He joins Jim to discuss one of his parenting books, The Expectant Father.

HOUR TWO:

Roxy astor

Roxy Astor is a former professional women's wrestler. They discuss GLOW "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling." She shares her experiences as a professional wrestler and her recent television show in Vegas that lasted four seasons.

Tony guarisco and BEN BAGeRT

Former State lawmakers Tony Guarisco and Ben Bagert debate why the Republican party has taken over the Louisiana statewide election. They also comment on the Gubernatorial candidates and give their opinions on the potential outcomes of the election.