11/14 Monday: ACLU Exec. Director., Clarke Perkins, Ray Strother

HOUR ONE

Marjorie Esman

Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Louisiana, Marjorie Esman joins the show in light of the open letter written in the New York Times to President-elect Donald Trump.  Esman talks about the rights of all Americans and how the ACLU will fight to make sure that happens throughout the next presidency.

Clarke Perkins

Perkins joins the show to talk about the hate crimes she experienced at her apartment on LSU's campus and how race affected the presidential election.  Perkins received a letter from her former boss Hillary Clinton about her misfortune.

HOUR TWO

Raymond Strother

Veteran political consultant Ray Strother joins the show to elaborate on what has occurred in the country since the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States.

9/16 Wednesday: Fathers and Sons and College Football, Louisiana Debtors Prison, 2016 Presidential Debates and Election, and the Louisiana Gubernatorial Election

HOUR ONE: 

Stuart Stevens

Stuart Stevens is a founding partner in Strategic, Partners & Media, is a contributor to The Daily Beast, and is currently working on a new show for HBO about Georgetown in the JFK era and has just completed a novel set at a political convention in the near future.  He shares his latest novel, The Last Season, about fathers, sons, and college football.  

Marjorie Esman

Marjorie Esman is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana.  She discusses Louisiana's Debtors Prisons: An Appeal to Justice.  

HOUR TWO: 

Jerry Sanson

Jerry Sanson is a Professor of History and Political Science,  Behavioral Science and Social Sciences Department at Louisiana State University at Alexandria.  He comments on tonight's Presidential debate and on the impending Louisiana Gubernatorial election.  

Leo Honeycutt

Leo Honeycutt is a well known Louisiana author and award-winning journalist.  He also discusses the 2016 Presidential Debates and Election.  Honeycutt comments further on the Gubernatorial election which is five weeks away.  

FRIDAY: Happiness, Rep. Garret Graves, Oklahoma City Bombing, and the Louisiana Legislative Session

HOUR ONE: 

French author Federic Lenoir shares his book Happiness.  "Happiness is a state of being," Lenoir says.  

"You have to know what is good for you and what is bad for you so you can make the good choice," Lenoir says, "To be happy you have to have pleasure, but in moderation."  Lenoir gives a list of necessary things to be happy such as love, health, and acts of joy.  He says that faith is a major component of leading a happy life.  

"The people have to know how to be happy by themselves," he says.  "I think sex with love is much better than sex without love. If you have a good sexual life with love, you will be very happy." 

"Happiness must not be an obligation," he concludes.  

Representative Garret Graves comments on the 1732 legislative piece.  "They're trying to right a uniform standard for everywhere in the United States," Grave says, "The amount of water coming down from our state is greater than any other." 

"I think you can very clearly see the correlation between land loss and land gain in regards to federal action." 

Former News Director at Oklahoma Radio Network Matt Skinner comments on the Oklahoma City Bombing because the 20th anniversary is Sunday.  He describes his experiences in the building and with the FBI.

 "We were all saying that looks just like the video in Bosnia." 

Jim comments that there are those who believe that President Clinton would not have won reelection were it not for the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.  

Political Consultant Scott Wilfong comments on the Marriage and Conscience Act.  Jim comments that Governor Jindal placed the bill at the top of his agenda, second only to Common Core. 

Wilfong says that it is just "smart politics" for Governor Jindal to support the bill Marriage and Conscience Act regarding religious liberty and marriage equality.  

Wilfong says that asking people to put their creativity into something they don't believe in is wrong.

He thinks there is a greater percentage of homosexuals in San Francisco, California.  

"It's about not letting the government get their fingers in businesses," he says.  

ACLU Executive Director Marjorie Esman shares her opinion on the Marriage and Conscience Act.  "It starts out creating a blanket exception for conduct otherwise prohibited by the law," she says, "All you have to say is it's my moral conviction to do this... if that's not what the bill intends, that's what it says." 

"It allows people to kind of preemptively sue the state if they feel their moral convictions are threatened, not even infringed," Esman says.  

"It would mean for a judge to refuse to sign divorces," Esman says.  

She discusses the high rate of incarceration in Louisiana.  "We spend more on incarceration than on LSU," she says.  

"Something that is legal in one state ought not to deserve a 20 year sentence in another," she says.

Esman says that about 40,000 people are incarcerated at any given time in Louisiana.