11/27 Friday: Mike Wagenheim, Marie Lu, The Future of Les Miles at LSU

Hour 1:

Mike Wagenheim 

Former Assistant Athletic Director of Communications at Nicholls State University Mike Wagenheim joins Jim to discuss his move to Israel. Wagenheim talks about the challenges living in a new country but says it's everything be thought it would be and more. He mentions the recent terror attacks close to where he lives. 

Marie Lu

American Young Adult Author Marie Lu joins the show to talk about her series of books. Lu discusses the characters in her latest book, The Rose Society. 

Cody Worsham

Tiger Rag Editor Cody Worsham chats about recent reports claiming LSU head coach Les Miles told members of the Gridiron Club that Saturday will be his last game. The Tigers have lost three games in a row for the first time in 16 years. 

Hour 2:

Glenn Guilbeau

Tiger Rag columnist Glenn Guilbeau joins the show to discuss if Saturday will be Les Miles' last game with the Tigers. He comments on the reports saying Les Miles told some members of the Gridiron Club tomorrow would be his last game. 

11/26 Thursday: Thanksgiving The Best of The Jim Engster Show

Hour 1:

The first hour of the Jim Engster Show is a repeat of the July 21st show with Justice of the Peace Moses Evans and Father Bryce Sibley discussing same-sex marriage.

Hour 2:

The second hour of the Jim Engster Show is a repeat of the Mary 5th show with the Secretary of the Louisiana Economic Development Stephen Moret discussing the state's economy, current economic legislation and what the future has in store for LED.

11/25 Wednesday: GMO's, Football, Edwin Edwards Hospitalized, Death of Bob Neese, and Transition of John Bel Edwards

HOUR ONE: 

Sarah Davidson Evanega

Evanega received her PhD in the field of Plant Biology from Cornell University in 2009, for which she conducted an interdisciplinary study combining work in plant molecular biology with science communication. Her dissertation focused on the controversy over genetically engineered papaya in developing countries with a specific focus on Thailand.  Evanega now serves as the PI and Director for the Cornell Alliance for Science—a global communications effort that promotes evidence-based decision-making in agriculture.

Wayne Coffey

Wayne Coffey is the author of Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season. 

"In only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban Meyer has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the annals of his sport, with three national championships and a cumulative record of 142 wins and only 26 losses. But sheer statistics are not the measure of his true accomplishment, nor do they speak to his own extraordinary learning journey. Now, in Above the Line, he offers to readers his unparalleled insights into leadership, team building and the keys to empowering people to achieve things they might never have thought possible."

Leo honeycutt

Leo Honeycutt -author, reporter, father, cook- is an award-winning television journalist of 28 years whose credits include CBS News, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today Show, and CNN as well as an exclusive in the Oval Office with President Ronald Reagan (on his birthday in 1983), a rare interview with Muhammad Ali, and being the first Louisianan to conduct a live interview with space shuttle astronauts in orbit.  He gives an update on former Governor Edwin Edwards who was hospitalized for pneumonia at 88.  

Julie Baxter

Julie Baxter is a WAFB journalist, a lawyer, and a communications advisor.  She remembers journalist Bob Neese who died this morning after a long fight with cancer at age 62. 

HOUR TWO: 

Sam Jones

Sam Jones is the former Mayor of Franklin, Louisiana.  He is close friends with John Bel Edwards, and he comments on the new governor-elect and the transition to governor. 

11/24 Tuesday: Jon Meacham, Assassination of JFK, Les Miles' Future with LSU

Hour 1: 

Jon Meacham 

"Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of Communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. This is the human story of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed."-Amazon

Jim Featherston

Jim replays an interview from 1993 with Former LSU Journalism Professor Jim Featherston who witnessed the assassination of President John Kennedy. 

Hour 2:

Michael Kurtz

Southeastern Louisiana University Professor Michael Kurtz joins Jim to discuss the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He teaches the only JFK assassination class in the country. Kurtz believes Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the shooting. He has wrote the book Crime of the Century: The Assassination  From a Historian's Perspective.

James Moran

Tiger Rag Associate Editor James Moran joins Jim in studio to discuss Les Miles' future coaching the Tigers after coming off of a three game losing streak. 

11/23 Monday: John Bel Edwards Wins the Gubernatorial Election, Local Cancer Survivor Jeff Sirlin, and John Bel Edwards' Campaign manager

HOUR ONE: 

Don Cazayoux

Don Cazayoux is a former U.S. Attorney, congressman and state representative.  Cazayoux joins Henry to discuss the results of the Louisiana Gubernatorial election.  Cazayoux says that John Bel Edwards was "just the perfect candidate. He's a balanced guy. He's just got a perfect pedigree."

E.L. "Bubba" Henry

E.L. "Bubba" Henry is the former Speaker of the House of Louisiana.  Henry joins Cazayoux to remark on the Gubernatorial win of Democrat John Bel Edwards on Saturday.  Henry says that the endorsement of Jay Dardenne, Lieutenant Governor and former Republican Gubernatorial opponent, helped Edwards on his way to victory. 

Jeff Sirlin

Jeff Sirlin is  the Founder and CEO of Cancer Wellness TV, a two-time cancer survivor, and Huffington Post blogger.  


HOUR TWO: 

Mary-Patricia Wray

Mary-Patricia Wray is the General Consultant/Communications Director for the John Bel Edwards campaign for governor.  Although she joined the team in February 2013, her official role was not public until 2014.  She reports from Edwards' camp after Edwards' victory on Saturday. 

11/20 Friday: Louisiana Gubernatorial Election and Louisiana Politics

HOUR ONE: 

Mark Ballard

Mark Ballard is the Editor of The Advocate Capitol news bureau covering Louisiana government and politics.  He speculates on the outcomes of this weekend's elections.  

Karen Carter Peterson

Karen Carter is a Louisiana State Senator and Chairwoman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.  Senator Karen Carter Peterson represents New Orleans and parts of Jefferson Parish in the Louisiana State Senate.  She expresses her hope for a John Bel Edwards win for governor. 

Elbert Guillory 

Elbert Guillory is a Louisiana state senator.  He recently ran in the lieutenant governor's election.  He comments on the gubernatorial election this weekend.  "I don't see how anyone in Louisiana could vote for such idiocy," Guillory says of John Bel Edwards. 

HOUR TWO: 

Foster Campbell

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Foster Campbell is an elected official, businessman and farmer from Bossier Parish.  He was elected to the North Louisiana seat on the Public Service Commission in November 2002, representing 24 parishes and nearly one million people.  He was re-elected in October 2008 with 78 percent of the vote.  Campbell now serves as Louisiana Public Service Commissioner.  Campbell supports John Bel Edwards. 

Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson is a Louisiana State Representative of Bossier City.  Johnson is a nationally recognized attorney and legal analyst who serves as Chief Counsel of Freedom Guard, a not-for-profit, public interest law firm that works to defend religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and traditional American values.  He has been working for and through the Louisiana Legislature for more than fifteen years as an attorney, consultant, and contributing author of many landmark pieces of legislation.  Mike Johnson supports David Vitter for governor.