04/11 Tuesday: Chuck Carr Brown, Guns in the Hands of Artists, Victor Sachse

Hour 1:

Chuck Carr Brown Ph.D

State Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Chuck Carr Brown joins Jim in studio. He has been the secretary for the past 15 months. Brown discusses air quality around the state. He also comments on the future of the department under a Trump presidency. 

Hour 2:

Jonathan Ferrara

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Artist and author Jonathan Ferrara chats with Jim about his latest book, Guns in the Hands of Artists.

"In the 1990s, the New Orleans murder rate exploded. In 1996, 350 people were killed―the highest number in the city’s history, and the highest rate in the nation. In response to this crisis, gallery owner and artist Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello, launched a powerful project: Guns in the Hands of Artists. Over sixty artists, including painters, glass artists, sculptors, photographers, and poets, used decommissioned guns taken off the city streets via a gun buyback program to express a thought, make a statement, open a discussion, and to stimulate thinking about guns and gun violence in America. " -Amazon

Victor Sachse

Political analyst Dr. Victor Sachse joins the discussion to talk about comments made by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer comparing Syrian President Assad and Adolf Hitler. Sachse was a former political science professor at UL-Lafayette and is the owner of Centaur Records in Baton Rouge. 

02/29 Monday: Joe Traigle, Kevin Hazzard: A Thousand Naked Strangers, Sec. of Dept. of Environmental Equality, Dr. Chuck Carr Brown, Dr. Sean Illing,

HOUR ONE

Joe Traigle

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Former Louisiana Secretary of Revenue, Joe Traigle now resides in North Carolina and talks to Jim about the setbacks of the state of Louisiana and former Gov. Bobby Jindal.  Traigle expresses how Louisiana is one of the poorest performing southern states and how politicians have set us back.

Author Kevin Hazzard

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Kevin Hazzard, a former EMT from Atlanta, talks to Jim about his book, A Thousand Naked Strangers. He gives the behind the scenes look at what life is like answering life or death calls, delivering babies and sometimes decides who lives and who dies.

HOUR TWO

Dr. Chuck Carr Brown secretary of the
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality

Since jobs were cut in the environmental quality department, Dr. Brown discusses what he plans to do now that he is in office.  Brown explains what he plans on improving and taking advantage of as the Sec. of Environmental Quality.

Dr. Sean Illing

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Dr. Sean Illing talks to Jim about Super Tuesday on March 1, 2016.  He discusses his predictions of the primaries and what he thinks about Donald Trump and his progression throughout the race while keeping his lead on the race to win the presidential election.