10/04 Wednesday: Vincent Bruno, Chris Bird, Alan Risher, Matt Riccardi

Hour 1:

Vincent Bruno

Republican former law enforcement officer from the New Orleans area, Vincent Bruno, chats with Jim about the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas. Bruno is a close friend of Congressman Steve Scalise, who was injured in a shooting at a ball field in Virginia in June. 

Chris Bird

Journalist and former officer in the Royal Military Police of the British Army, Chris Bird, joins the conversation to discuss gun regulations in the U.S. after mass shootings. Bird is an avid handgun shooter.

Hour 2:

Alan Risher

Former LSU quarterback, Alan Risher, joins the conversation to talk about the Tigers' performance on the field this season and what we can expect moving forward. Risher also comments on President Trump and his connection to the demise of the USFL. 

Matt Riccardi

Marine Corp. Veteran and Conservative, Matt Riccardi, chats with Jim about his campaign to be the Governor of New Jersey and the attack in Las Vegas. Riccardi says he is running for governor to fix the failed system of corruption and work towards a future of honesty and integrity where common people can thrive and safely live the American dream. 

02/05 Friday: Conservative Black Chick on Black History Month, Hillary Clinton's Campaign, Flashback Friday with Governor John McKeithen, Superbowl, and Mental Health

HOUR ONE: 

Crystal Wright 

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Crystal Wright is author of the newly released book Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division. As a black conservative woman living in Washington, D.C, some would say she is a triple minority: woman, black and a Republican living in a Democrat dominated city. By day, Crystal is a communications consultant and editor and publisher of the blog Conservative Black Chick. 

Ted James

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Ted James is the Louisiana State Representative for District 101.  He discusses Hillary Clinton's campaign and promotes her message.  "The Republicans are in a worse situation than they were four and eight years ago," James says. 

Flashback Friday

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John Julian McKeithen (May 28, 1918 – June 4, 1999) was the 49th Governor of Louisiana, serving from 1964 to 1972. A Democrat from the town of Columbia, he was the first governor of his state in the twentieth century to serve two consecutive terms. He strongly advocated the construction of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.Former Louisiana Governor John McKeithen remarks on the LSU budget in 1988 with board member Beychok.  They also discuss Pete Maravich.  

Alan Risher

Alan David Risher is a former LSU quarterback.  He also played for the Greenbay Packers.  Risher discusses the Superbowl. 

HOUR TWO: 

Fred Hickman

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Fred Hickman is an American sports broadcaster who has had stints with CNN, TBS, YES Network, and ESPN.  He discusses his career as a newscaster.  

FRIDAY: Visit Baton Rouge, The Tom Brady Deflated Football Scandal, NAACP, and Crowd Management at Jazz Fest

HOUR ONE: 

Paul Arrigo, President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge, joins the show today to discuss the Miss USA pageant and Bayou Country Superfest.  He has been in Baton Rouge for 18 years.  He was a native to New Orleans.  

The telecast for Miss USA reaches 70 countries.  It will be held at the River Center July 12th.  

"New Orleans has a love affair with itself... it's a world class city..."

"Baton Rouge has great pride in itself," he says.  

They also comment on the Louisiana International Film Festival.  

"In 2014, we had about 4 million visitors to Baton Rouge."

"Travel is ____ Tweet for Tourism" to win Taylor Swift tickets to one of her concerts on her 1989 World Tour.  

  "This state has become Hollywood South as a result of the film credits.  You would have to assume that if that goes away, so would the business." 

Former LSU quarterback Alan Risher comments on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots deflated football scandal.  

"He's probably mentally in a tough spot... worried about his reputation for sure." 

"I'm sure he'll get a 2-4 game suspension at the start of this season." 

"Maybe I should have deflated a few balls back in my day," Risher says.  

"For the most part Americans are forgiving people if you come out with the truth." 

He also comments on La'el Collins.  

HOUR TWO: 

Musheer Robinson from the NAACP joins the show to discuss the riots in Baltimore.  Robinson is a graduate of Brown University and a Rhodes Scholar.    

He also comments on Ferguson and South Carolina.  He suggests that now racial upset it coming into mind for everyone.  "How are we going to reevaluate our relations to make that convivial society?" 

"The economic division is absolutely gigantic," he says of race relations in Louisiana.  

Robinson laments that Governor Jindal had not done more for racial relations with his heritage.  

"We need elected officials to start thinking strategically about how to build communities... and create opportunities for everybody." 

"There's a vibrancy in the culture and the music," Robinson says, "but in human actualization, there's so much segregation." 

"He has had more threats on his life than all of the other presidents in the past century combined," Robinson says of President Obama.   

Security Expert Paul Wertheimer, founder of Crowd Management Strategies in Los Angeles comments on Jazz Fest 2015.  

This year's Jazz Fest held the largest amount of people ever at 460,000 people.  

He has spent a large part of his life studying disasters.  "Communities don't recover from it.  Families don't recover." 

"It <Jazz Fest> should make as much money as it can without compromising public safety." 

Wertheimer says that those in charge of Jazz Fest are "taking a gamble with people's lives."