8/7 Friday: Remembering Nagasaki, Celebrating Edwin Edwards' 88th Birthday, Nick Saban, and the First 2016 GOP Presidential Debate

August 7, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Susan Southard

Susan Southard is the founder and artistic director of Essential Theatre in Arizona. She shares her book, Nagasaki, which was published just this week. Nagasaki was a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, sponsored by Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation and the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Edwin Edwards

Edwin Edwards is a former Governor of Louisiana. He celebrates today, his 88th birthday, with Jim and discusses the Louisiana Gubernatorial election and the first GOP Presidential Debate. Edwards reflects on his long life and political career.

HOUR TWO:

Monte Burke

Monte Burke is a staff writer at Forbes magazine and a senior editor at ForbesLife. He shares his book Saban: The Making of a Coach. "That charisma and ability to connect are what makes him a great recruiter," Burke says, "The reason many people dislike him is sort of his demeanor; he can be very overbearing."

Gus Weill

Gus Weill is a well known Louisiana author and politico. He gives his analysis of the first GOP Presidential Debate last night. "If he was elected president, we would be at war in thirty minutes," Weill says about Donald Trump, "The way he handled Megyn Kelly was so insulting, so condescending to her. It was shocking to me no man onstage called him down for acting that way." Weill likes Chris Christie. He also feels that were the election today, Hillary Clinton would win.

8/6 Thursday: Leo Honeycutt May Run for Lt. Gov, The LSU Reveille, Bobby Jindal, 2016 Presidential Race, and the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election

August 6, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Leo Honeycutt

Leo Honeycutt is the author of Edwin Edwards' biography. He is a well established journalist, writer, and politico. He discusses potentially running for Lt. Governor.

Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez

Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez is the LSU Reveille student fall editor and an online news editor for The Advocate in Baton Rouge.

Gubernatorial Q&A

Louisiana's poverty rate is one of the highest in the country. If elected governor, what steps would you take to reduce the number of people who live below the federal poverty level?

David Vitter: "Dramatically improving our education... That is the answer to ending poverty."

Jay Dardenne: "Emphasizing education and creating job opportunities are the key ingredients to ending the embarrassing poverty rates in Louisiana..."

Scott Angelle: "We must ramp up our technical and community college programs... put them on steroids.... 60% of the jobs we create in the next ten years will require more than a high school diploma, but less than a 4 year degree."

John Bel Edwards: "Important to increase the earned income tax credit... I call on Congress to raise the minimum raise. It's about family values; when women succeed, families succeed. I am the only candidate that has supported and will support equal pay legislation... We must get smart on crime and better on budgeting."

HOUR TWO:

Jeremy Alford

Jeremy Alford is the publisher and editor of LaPolitics.com. He comments on Bobby Jindal's quest for the GOP Presidential nomination as well as the soon approaching Gubernatorial election for Louisiana. He comments on the potential candidacy of John Georges for Governor. "John Georges gets in the race on the last day of qualifying... Can you imagine the media?"

Scott McKay

Scott McKay is the publisher of The Hayride. He also discusses Bobby Jindal and the Gubernatorial election. McKay provides the most recent polls which put David Vitter and John Bel Edwards at 31.1% and 30.6%. He says he doesn't see any other way than a Vitter Edwards runoff.

8/5 Wednesday: Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election, Remembering the Hiroshima Bombing, and Remembering Representative Alfred Williams

August 5, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

James Kunetka

James Kunetka is an author. He shares his book The General and the Genius , which is about the two men responsible for the atomic bomb. It is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of HIroshima tomorrow.

Jan Moller

Jan Moller is the executive director of the Louisiana Budget Project. He discusses the Jindal legacy and the challenges of the man who will succeed him.

HOUR TWO:

Tiffany Foxworth and Ted James

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Tiffany Foxworth is an attorney at Foxworth Law Firm in Baton Rouge. Ted James is the Louisiana Representative for District 101. James is a Democrat. Foxworth and James remember Representative Alfred Williams who passed away yesterday at age 64.

8/4 Tuesday: The Micronutrient Miracle, Morris Bart Themed Birthday Party, Jerry Lee Lewis Biographer, 2016 Presidential Election, and the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election

August 4, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Jayson and Mira Calton

Dr. Jayson Calton is micronutrient specialist. His wife, Dr. Mira Calton, is nutritionist and also a micronutrient specialist. The Caltons are considered some of the world's leading experts on weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. They share their latest book The Micronutrient Miracle with Jim.

George Morris

George Morris is a writer for The Advocate. His recent article on Morris Bart earned him over 500,000 hits online. He shares the story of a toddler from Prairieville who was so fascinated by the personal injury attorney that his family threw him a Morris Bart-themed birthday party.

HOUR TWO:

Rick Braggs

Rick Bragg is a journalist and writer especially known for his non-fiction books. He shares his biography about music legend Jerry Lee Lewis.

Tony Guarisco

Tony Guarisco is a Louisiana attorney. He discusses the 2016 presidential election and gives commentary on the swiftly approaching Gubernatorial primary for Louisiana.

8/3 Monday: Childhood Friend of Donald Trump, Obesity, A Louisiana Nudist Colony, and 40th Anniversary of the Superdome

August 3, 2015 Show Producer

HOUR ONE:

Steven Heymsfield, M.D.

Dr. Steven Heymsfield is the Executive Director of Pennington Biomedical Center and a renowned expert on obesity. Dr. Heymsfield is also a childhood friend of presidential hopeful Donald Trump. He describes Donald Trump as a "rambunctious young man."

As he goes on to discuss obesity, Dr. Heymsfield says that while women should naturally have a BMI of about 25%, men should have a BMI of about 15%.

HOUR TWO:

Patrick and Tracia Kraemer

Patrick and Tracia Kraemer are the heads of the only nudist colony in Louisiana, Indian Hills in Slidell. "Anywhere from 25 to 75," Patrick says of the age range of their guests, "It's mostly all about relaxing and being free, you know?" Tracia says, "It's hard to be mean when you're naked."

Bill Curl

Bill Curl worked as the public relations director of the Superdome for 33 years and retired in 2010. He joins Jim today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the New Orleans Superdome.

7/31 Friday: Gus Weill, Susan Murphy, Denny McLain, John Wirt

July 31, 2015 Show Producer

Hour 1:

Gus Weill

Political Analyst Gus Weill joins Jim to talk about the killing of Cecil the Lion. He also comments about the presidential and gubernatorial elections.

Susan Murphy

Hour 2:

Denny McLain

Denny McLain calls in to talk about the Tom Brady scandal. He talks about the power of the NFL.

McLain says MLB pitches make more now than he made in his entire 10 year career.

John Wirt

The Advocate's John Wirt chats about the recent Lafayette movie theater shooting and increased security at theaters.

Wirt comments on why he loves the movies and being a critic, attends them frequently. He talks about policy and how other countries do not have the sort of gun violence like American.

Wirt gives his opinions on several different movies out in theater now. He says he didn't like Trainwreck, even though it got great reviews.