11/03 Tuesday: Bridgett Massengill, Cary Deaton, Kevin Kane, Glenn Guilbeau

Hour 1: 

Bridgett Massengill

Project Manager of THRIVE 2055 Bridgett Massengill from Chattanooga joins the conversation to talk about the citizen-lead, public-private endeavor in a tri-state area to encourage people to make the most of economic opportunities. She discusses the challenges she faces with a new automobile plant and what the future holds. 

Massengill is attending the Louisiana Smart Growth Summit. 

Cary Deaton

Democrat Cary Deaton, candidate for the governors election, who finished 5th in the primary, discusses the runoff election. He says he hasn't decided on a candidate he supports for the governor's election and has focused on the Lt. governor's race. 

Neal Gladner

Vice President of Sales for Louisiana Radio Network Neal Gladner joins the show to remember 23 years ago today, when Bill Clinton was elected President of the United State. Gladner was present on the chilly Tuesday night in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1992. 

Hour 2:

Kevin Cane

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President of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy Kevin Kane discuss their research at the institute. Kane discusses the incarceration rate in Louisiana and how each gubernatorial candidate views the issue. There are about 40,000 people in prison in the Louisiana right now. 

Glenn Guilbeau

Sports writer Glenn Guilbeau chats about this weekend LSU-Alabama match up in Tuscaloosa. Guilbeau discusses why Tiger fans hate Nick Saban so much but says they need to remember how mad LSU football was before he was the coach. 

Guilbeau talks about the relationship between Les Miles and Nick Saban. 

11/02 Monday: Lawyer David Vitter Campaign Admits to Spying On, Michael Jackson, Gubernatorial Election, LSU, and the Saints Game

HOUR ONE:

Steve Knopper 

Steve Knopper is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone.  He shares his biography of Michael Jackson The Genius of Michael Jackson.   He describes Jackson's desire to have children and his lasting distrust within his own family.  

Julio Melara 

Julio Melara is the publisher of 225 Magazine.  He is partners with Rolfe McCollister.  The Magazine is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.  According to Melara, the name of the magazine was a choice between 'BRinc' and '225'. 

John Cummings

John Cummings is a private Attorney from New Orleans.  He is also the owner of the Whitney Plantation, which he is transforming into a slavery museum.  Cummings is the lawyer reportedly targeted by the David Vitter campaign.  Cummings says he believes Vitter's private investigator was after the Sheriff of Jefferson parish.  

HOUR TWO:  

Trey Ourso

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Trey Ourso is the former Executive Director of the Louisiana Democratic Party.  He is also the former Director of the Gumbo Pac.  He discusses the Gubernatorial election.  He also comments on the recent reports about the private investigator hired by the David Vitter campaign spying at the Jefferson Parish breakfast meeting.  

Alan risher

Alan Risher is a former LSU quarterback.  He comments on the Saints' win yesterday.  The Saints game yesterday broke the record of touchdowns in a single game set by New Orleans Saints Billy Kilmer and St. Louis Cardinals Charley Johnson in 1969.  He also speculates on the upcoming LSU game against Alabama.  

8/30 Friday: Former Baseball Player Denny McClain, Gubernatorial Runoff, and the 2016 Presidential Election

HOUR ONE: 

Stephen Maitland Lewis 

Stephen Maitland Lewis is an award-winning British author and jazz aficionado.  He shares his latest book Botticelli's Bastard.  Lewis will be at the Louisiana Book Festival.  Botticelli's Bastard is "a mystery that deals with the relationship between a fine art restorer and the journey of an old master portrait of the 16th Century."   

Robert Maness 

Robert Maness is a retired colonel.  He also comments on the Gubernatorial election.  Maness is endorsing David Vitter, "It is the character of his policies... a constitutional conservative." Maness also says, "I think John Bel Edwards is a man of high morals."   

HOUR TWO:

Denny Mcclain 

Dennis Dale "Denny" McClain is an American former professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball for ten seasons, most notably for the Detroit Tigers.  He comments on the World Series.  "This is the highest the game could get.  This is the epitome of baseball...every guy on that field is an all star," McClain says. 

Gus Weill 

Gus Weill is a well known author and Louisiana politico.  He discusses the Gubernatorial election as the runoff approaches.  He also comments on the 2016 Presidential election.  

10/29 Thursday: Renee Chatelain, Tom Schedler, Russel Honore

Hour 1: 

Tom Schedler

Recently re-elected Secretary of State Tom Schedler talks about the runoff election and discusses if voter turnout will be greater than it was for the primary. Schedler says the weather had a lot to do with undecided voters staying inside but hopes the outlook is better on November 21st. 

Schedler says many people are turned off from voting because of negative attack ads. 

Renee Chatelain

Recently named CEO of the Baton Rouge Art Council Renee Chatelain chats with Jim about her new job position. Chatelain talks about Jazz history in Louisiana and The River City Jazz Masters. 

Hour 2: 

Russel Honore

General Russel Honore joins the show to discuss the upcoming runoff election. Honore says he isn't qualified to be president, after a comment from a caller. 

Honore says doesn't comment on who he is endorsing for governor because he's following the law. General Honore is not a member of either major political party. 

10/28 Wednesday: Gubernatorial Election Results, Gubernatorial Runoff, and Authors from the Louisiana Book Festival

HOUR ONE: 

Joseph Cummins

Quin Hillyer is a Contributing Editor of National Review magazine, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator magazine, and a nationally recognized authority on the American political process.  He has won mainstream awards for journalistic excellence at the local, state, regional nation levels.  

James Grissom

James Grissom writes books and plays and scripts.  He shares his book Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog.  He will be at the Louisiana Book Festival.  


HOUR TWO: 

Moses Evans

Moses Evans is a Justice of the Peace in Baker.  

David Diamond

David Diamond is a pastor in Baton Rouge.  Diamond and Evans debate the issues surrounding the Gubernatorial election results and the upcoming runoff election between David Vitter and John Bel Edwards.  

10/27 Tuesday: Patricia Goldstone, Raymond Jetson, M.O. Walsh, John Bel Edwards

Hour 1:

Patricia Goldstone

Author Patricia Goldstone discusses her latest book, Interlock, which delves into the death of Mark Lombardi. 

"In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that unveiled the more nefarious financial connections of Presidential candidate George W. Bush, the hugely ambitious Conceptual artist Mark Lombardi was found hanged in his studio, an apparent suicide. With museums lining up to buy his work, and the fame he had sought relentlessly at last within his reach, speculation about whether his death was suicide or murder has titillated the art world ever since. Lombardi was an enigma who was at once a compulsive truth-teller and a cunning player of the art game, a political operative and a stubborn independent, a serious artist and a Merry Prankster, a metaphysicist if not a scientist. " -Amazon
 

Raymond Jetson

Former State Representative and Pastor of Star Hill Baptist Church Raymond Jetson joins Jim in studio to talk about his time working with Republican gubernatorial candidate David Vitter. Starhill Baptist Church is hosting their annual Social Innovation Workshop to build stronger networks on Friday, October 30th. Jetson says the focus of this workshop is the wealth of low income communities. 

Jetson comments on Vitter's prostitution scandal. He says avoiding the topic is one of the biggest mistakes made by the Vitter campaign. 

M.O. Walsh

Author and Baton Rouge native M.O. Walsh chats about his latest book, My Sunshine Away.

"My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom. But in the summer of 1989, when fifteen-year-old Lindy Simpson—free spirit, track star, and belle of the block—experiences a horrible crime late one evening near her home, it becomes apparent that this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia has a dark side, too. "- Amazon

Hour 2:

John Bel Edwards

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Bel Edwards joins the conversation to discuss the upcoming runoff election of November 21st. Edwards says David Vitter is not a good role model for the people of Louisiana. He says Vitter "wouldn't last five minutes at West Point." 

The Louisiana Sheriff's Association recently endorsed Edwards. Edwards discusses future debates before the election and says he will attend each one.