05/25 Thursday: Dale Brown, Mark Ballard, Donna Collins Lewis

Hour One

Dale Brown 

 

Dale Brown is an accomplished writer and New York Times Bestselling author. You may know him as the author of Iron Wolf, but today he was here to talk about he newest work, Price of Duty. At least 13 of Brown's books have been New York Times Bestselling books. Brown attended Penn State and was involved in ROTC.

Mark Ballard

Mark Ballard from the Advocate came on the air to comment on the recent session and give his take on other events happening in Baton Rouge and the state of Louisiana.

Hour Two

Donna Collins Lewis

 

Donna Collins Lewis is an East Baton Rouge Metro councilwoman; she discusses Mayor Broome's request to have the officer who shot Alton Sterling, be dismissed from the force. She is Democratic representative for District 6 and was first elected to council in 2008. 

9/14 Monday: Former Reporter Derek Myers on Senator Vitter, Walking with Tigers with Dale Brown, and Environmental News of Louisiana

HOUR ONE: 

Jeffrey Marx 

Jeffrey Marx is the youngest-ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.  He is also the author of six books.  Marx discusses his book Walking with Tigers with former LSU Basketball Coach, Dale Brown. 

Dale Brown

Dale Brown is the former Basketball Coach for LSU.  He discusses Jeffrey Marx's new book, Walking With Tigers.  

HOUR TWO: 

Edward Overton

Edward B. Overton is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at LSU.  He discuss the LSU Lakes Project, the Water Campus, and what we can do now to benefit the water of the Capitol region.  

Derek Myers

Derek Myers was a Baton Rouge television reporter who was fired this past Tuesday from WVLA.  Myers says he was fired because he asked Senator Vitter a question about a "serious sin" <Vitter's Prostitution scandal>. 

THURSDAY: Cokie Roberts, Baton Rouge DA Hillar Moore, LSU Basketball, and Coach Dale Brown

HOUR ONE: 

Cokie Roberts of ABC News joins Jim in studio.  She has been named Louisiana Humanist of the Year.  "This is very special," she says.  She was born in New Orleans as "Mary Martha."  Both of her parents were politicians.  Her mother and father, Lindy and Hale Boggs, were both Democratic Congresspeople in Louisiana.  She speaks about their careers.  

Roberts has a new book already on the bestsellers list, Capital Dames and the role of women in politics.  

Her father, Hale Boggs, was presumably killed in a plane crash in Alaska.  Roberts recalls the event.  

"I'm the only one left of the original gang," Roberts says, "We were a fivesome, and we did everything together." 

"At the end of it, I wanted to slit my wrists," Roberts says of her latest book.  

"I don't think there's anybody left like her," she says of her mother, "she was so tough and so persistent, it was easier just to say yes the first time to her." 

She comments on Loretta Lynch and the human trafficking bill.  Loretta Lynch is the first African American woman to become United States Attorney General.  

"It's not a done deal," Roberts says of Hillary Clinton, "she's basically running against herself." 

She has been married to her husband Steve for 49 years.  

"It's mind boggling how quickly people change their minds on this subject," Roberts says of gay marriage.  "To young people, being gay is about as interesting as being left handed."   

HOUR TWO: 

Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore talks with Jim today about his career as an investigative attorney.  "Since I saw some really bad things at the start, you really have to find a switch," he says as a way to deal with the things he has seen.  February had zero murders.  "An hour and fifteen minutes after midnight, someone was killed," he says of the end of February.  

Moore comments on the budget crisis and that "education should be priority."  He also adds that more money needs to be added in crime prevention.  

He comments on police legitimacy.  They discuss the recent news about inappropriate relations between teachers and students.

Collis Temple Jr. joins Hillar Moore to talk to specific groups of at risk people for murder.  They are 900% more at risk to kill or be killed than anyone else in Baton Rouge.  

Collis Temple Jr. integrated basketball at LSU.  Former Coach Dale Brown calls in to share a story in which Temple and Brown were threatened with murder if they came out onto the court.

Brown says, "Collis did a lot that he never tooted his own horn about." 

Dale Brown says he coached 89 African American players.  

Temple shares his father's pursuit of graduate school and the difficulty in acceptance as an African American.  Both of his parents pushed him to go to LSU.  

TUESDAY: Terry Layman, Jane Page, Rob Maness, Dale Brown, George Morris

HOUR ONE: 

Actor Terry Layman and Director Jane Page promote LSU's upcoming play, All My Sons by Arthur Miller which premieres Friday night.  Terry Laymon will be playing 'Joe Keller' in the play.  Layman shares his experience working with Scarlett Johanson.  

"It's a classic play... It's extremely funny and when it turns dark it takes your heart right along with it," Layman says.

Colonel Rob Maness who received 14% of the vote in the senate elections joins the show to discuss his conservative views.  He comments on the national budget and his ideas on how to improve the national security strategies.  

When asked if he would run for federal office, Maness says, "We'd like to keep our options open." 

Maness discusses his views on the national debt.  

"Giving out free community college when you have the opportunity to work for it?  I don't think so," says Maness.

A listener says the United States went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan "on a credit card."  Maness responds, "I call on Congress and our President to put our country into a declared state of war."  He continues, "As a country and as a people, we have to get right with our own citizens and our own law."

Maness comments on the Measles Outbreak and the question of vaccinations.  "We think the vaccination system worked very well in our family... We all have different opinions, and mine is that it works."  

"Choose the opportunity," Maness says, "Don't worry about getting free money."  

HOUR TWO: 

Former Louisiana Basketball Coach and two time NCAA Basketball Coach of the Year Dale Brown commemorates the 25th anniversary of the highest scoring game in United States college basketball at LSU vs. Loyola Marymount.  It was a non conference game: 148-141 overtime.  

"When I was on the court watching it," Brown says, "I thought I was watching a Chinese ping-pong match."  

On May 18, 1990, Ronald Reagan joked at the LSU commencement speech asking whether all the cameras were for him or Dale Brown.  

"The ball changed once every twelve seconds," Jim says of the LSU v. Loyola-Marymount basketball game in 1990.

"I told them, these guys could catch you faster than you could say shizam!" Dale Brown says, "And guess what?  They said shizam." 

Dale Brown comments on the basketball player Hank Gathers.  

When he retired, Brown asked his wife, "Where do you want to live?  Any place in the world? ...and we wanted to live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana." 

"The first time I ever went out to recruit... I said, 'I'm here to recruit a human being first and a basketball player second.'" 

Writer for The Advocate, George Morris, discusses his coverage of the LSU vs. Loyola-Marymount game.