01/04 Monday: Remembering Politico C.B. Forgotston, Louisiana Budget Chaos, and Stock Market Drop

HOUR ONE: 

Elliott Stonecipher

Dayne Sherman

Elliott Stonecipher is a Louisiana pollster.  He discusses the death and legacy of C. B. Forgotston with Dayne Sherman.  Dayne Sherman is a Louisiana author, blogger, and librarian.  Forgotston died at age 70 yesterday of a self-inflicted gun shot.  

Stonecipher says Forgotston had "real courage" and that "the lesson here is all people are not replaceable."  Sherman says, "No one knew what he knew, and no one was less bothered by how politicians didn't like what he did." 

HOUR TWO: 

Ron Faucheux

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Ron Faucheux is a lawyer, non-fiction author, and political consultant.  Faucheux is also a former Louisiana State Representative for District 100.  He comments on the chaos surrounding the Louisiana budget and discusses his recent article, Cleaning up swamp-like Louisiana budget key to Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards' success.  

Fred Dent III 

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Fred Dent is in his 29th year in the financial planning and investment business.  He is a frequent speaker and commentator on financial topics.  After his return to Baton Rouge from his work at a major Wall Street firm, Fred was the resident financial analyst on CBS affiliate, WAFB-TV, with his popular and informative segment, “Dollars and Dent.”  A graduate of Louisiana State University, Fred is an active participant in several local community organizations and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter.  He discusses the drop in the stock market today.  

12/10 Thursday: Frank Sinatra, 2016 Presidential Election, and Reflecting on the New Governor Elect

HOUR ONE: 

James Kaplan

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In November 2010, Doubleday published Frank: The Voice, the first volume of Kaplan’s definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, which quickly went onto the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen by Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In 2011, Kaplan signed with Doubleday to write Volume Two, Sinatra: The Chairman, to be published in 2015. In 2012, James Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. "The first book kind of romanticizes this musical troubadour," Kaplan says, "The second book is about power."  Kaplan calls Sinatra a "Mozartian genius." 

HOUR TWO: 

Elliott Stonecipher 

Elliott Stonecipher is a Louisiana pollster.  He comments on the 2016 Presidential election and the upcoming GOP CNN Debate on Tuesday of next week.  "The idea that it's just going to be a Republican and a Democrat next year...I'm just not buying it.  I think there is still a very real risk on the Hillary Clinton side of the issue regarding the emails...Can Donald Trump be perfect timing for president next year? Absolutely." 

10/22 Thursday: War of Two, Scott McKay, Jada Lewis, Elliott Stonecipher

Hour 1: 

John Sedgewick 

Author John Sedgewick joins the conversation to discuss his latest book, War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation. 

"A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America’s most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. That two such men would risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge is almost beyond comprehension. Yet we know that it happened. The question is why. "- Amazon

Scott McKay

Founder and Publisher of The Hayride Scott McKay joins the show to discuss the governor's race. McKay predicts a David Vitter and John Bel Edwards runoff.  He gives his take on the candidates attacks on each other. 

Jada Lewis

Jada Lewis is seeking the BESE seat for district 8. She says she's running for the future of our kids in Louisiana. Lewis is for Common Core. 

Hour 2: 

Elliott Stonecipher

Pollster Elliott Stonecipher chats with Jim about Saturday's gubernatorial election. Stonecipher says there are a lot of undecided voters this close to election election day. He says the chance for a Vitter and Edwards runoff is about 50:50. Stonecipher discusses Vitter's prostitution scandal. 

9/23 Wednesday: Donald Trump, GOP Pool of Candidates, and the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election

HOUR ONE: 

William Schnaffer, MD

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Dr. William Schaffner is the Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine Chairman at Vanderbilt University.  He discusses the controversial GOP Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump.  Dr. Schaffner also comments on the New York Times article, Vaccine Issue Arises at Republican Debate, to Doctors’ Dismay. 

Julianne Thompson

Julianne Thompson is a political pundit and news commentator.  She is also a Republican Operative of the Tea Party of Atlanta in Georgia.  

HOUR TWO:

Elliott Stonecipher

Elliott Stonecipher is a demographer, pollster, political pundit, civic activist, and public speaker from his native Shreveport, Louisiana.  He comments on the 2016 Presidential election and the Louisiana Gubernatorial election.  

Wednesday: Texas Floods, Gun Owners of America, Bobby Jindal vs. Rand Paul and the 2016 Presidency

HOUR ONE: 

Lisa Dimond

Owner of DoubleDimond Public Relations and Former Louisiana Reporter Lisa Dimond joins the show from Houston, Texas to comment on the floods in Texas.  

C. B. Forgotston

C.B. Forgotston alleges that Governor Jindal is using public resources to attack Rand Paul.  He comments on the 2016 Presidential election.  

Christopher Stone

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Christopher Stone is the Director of Federal Affairs at Gun Owners of America.  He announces his endorsement for David Vitter for Governor.  

HOUR TWO: 

Elliott Stonecipher

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Elliott Stonecipher is an established pollster and politico.  He discusses Governor Jindal's quest for the presidency.  

WEDNESDAY: President of LSU F. King Alexander, 2016 Presidential Election, Baltimore Riots, and Healthy Living

HOUR ONE: 

President of LSU F. King Alexander joins the show to discuss the potential budget cuts to higher education and the effects on the flagship school.  

LSU ranks 46th in the country as what the school spends on its students.  

Only 13% of LSU is funded by the state.  That is a budget of 110 million dollars.  The cuts would bring the budget down to about 28 million dollars.  

He discusses the balancing out the growing TOPS program.  

"Everything needs to be on the table, and everyone needs to pay their fair share," he says, calling the film industry a "questionable investment."

They comment on the march that will take place tomorrow at the Baton Rouge Capital.  

"Tenure is there for professors to challenge society to be a better place... we need to uphold that." 

"We want to be able to invest just enough in our students to create a new economy," Alexander concludes.  

Louisiana spends 7 times more per prisoner than per student.  

HOUR TWO: 

Pollster Elliott Stonecipher comments on the Louisiana Legislative Session.  "I think Governor Jindal is going to be exactly as he has been all these years," he says, regarding the raising of taxes.  

"This slow moving crash has been going on for the better part of 8 years," he says of potential higher education cuts.  He says that colleges used to be designed for a specific purpose.  "If you wanted to teach, you went to Northwestern.  If you wanted to be an engineer, you went to Tech." 

He comments on the governor's race and the amount of money each candidate has raised.  

5 months and 26 days until the governor's election.  

JR Ball from Nola.com comments on the events in his hometown, Baltimore and the Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox baseball game that was played in an empty stadium.  

He comments on the rally tomorrow at the State Capital in which LSU students will march around the capital building at 1 pm.  

Authors Justin and Erica Sonnenburg share their book The Good Gut.  They are both professors at Stanford University.  

"The microbes in our gut influence not just digestive health, but fundamental processes in our bodies... metabolism, immune system..." 

Humans used to consume 100-150 grams of fiber per day.  Now a US citizen struggles to consume 15.