Hour 1:

Jay Dardenne

Lt. Gov and incoming Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne joins Jim in studio to discuss the budget problems in Louisiana and how the next administration will try to fix them.

Julie Baxter

Incoming Deputy Chief of Staff Julie Baxter joins the show to talk about the upcoming administration and how it's different from ones in the past.

Hour 2:

George Sells

Former WAFB anchorman George Sells comments on the latest Bill Cosby scandal.

Jane Leavy

Jim is joined by author Jane Leavy to chat about her biography of Sandy Koufax. Today is Koufax's 80th birthday.

The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers’ pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then—just as quickly—into self-imposed exile. -Amazon

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.