11/17 Friday: Paul Arrigo, Tony Guarisco, Bridget Gardner, Scott McKay, Bill Bryan

Hour 1:

Paul Arrigo & Tony Guarisco

President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge Paul Arrigo and former state senator Tony Guarisco chat with Jim about the hotel-motel occupancy tax. Arrigo supports it and Guarisco does not. 

Bridget Gardner

Registered Nurse with the University Medical Center in New Orleans Bridget Gardner chats with Jim about a program through the fast food chain, Sonic, to purchase child safety seats for local communities.

Hour 2:

Scott McKay & Bill Bryan

Republican Scott McKay of the Hayride and Independent Bill Bryant join the conversation in the last hour to comment on President Donald Trump and allegations against Al Franken and Roy Moore. 

09/15 Friday: William Taylor, Mark Calvit, Paul Arrigo, Mark Lipton

Hour One

William Taylor

Saints historian William Taylor was on air with Jim to remember the first regular season game for the Saints. The anniversary of the game is September 17, 1967. This photo is of John Gilliam making a play during the game.

Mark Calvit

Mark Calvit is the executive director of Southside Gardens Retirement and Assisted Living. Calvit came in studio to talk more about his business, LSU football and other various topics. 

Hour Two:

Paul Arrigo

Paul Arrigo is the head of Visit Baton Rouge. Arrigo was here to chat with Jim about many things including the anniversary of the first football game for the New Orleans Saints and how he attended the game as a young man.

 

Mark Lipton

 

Mark Lipton discussed his book Mean Men: The perversion of America's Self Made Man. He asks does why our society celebrates the success of mean men and why women stay married to controlling men. For over forty years, Lipton has been a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 corporations, think tanks, philanthropies and more.

05/15 Monday: Ronald Rael, Peter Harrington and Paul Arrigo

Hour One

Ronald Rael

Ronald Rael is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkley. He came on the show to discuss his book, Borderwall as Architecture: a Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary. Rael is also the author of another book titled, Earth Architecture. 

Peter Harrington

Peter Harrington will represent the round table in the Civil War today, May 15th and will discussed his role with Jim. The Round Table is bi-partisan and represents the north and the south. 

Hour Two

Paul Arrigo

Paul Arrigo is President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge; he came on the show to discuss tourism in Baton Rouge. Arrigo is a native of New Orleans and has over 40 years of experience in hospitality marketing. He joined Visit Baton Rouge in 1997 and became President and CEO in 2002. 

11/21 Monday: Electoral College, Acadiana Table, Alex Martin, Visit Baton Rouge

HOUR ONE

Prof. George C. Edwards III

George C. Edwards III is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M University.  Edwards joins the show to discuss the electoral college and why it is bad for America.

George Graham

George Graham welcomes home cooks and food lovers to the world of Cajun and Creole cooking in his book, Acadiana Table. It includes brand-new recipes, techniques, and an exploration into the culture, geography, and history of this distinctive area. Graham tells the story of how cuisine has transformed the Louisiana culture.

HOUR TWO

Alex Martin

Alex Martin, news editor from the Wall Street Journal is a former graduate of LSU.  Martin elaborates on the outcome of the presidential election and the effect voting had on the outcome of the election.  Martin also describes what Trump will do in his first 100 days in office.

Paul Arrigo

President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge joins the show to talk about the past events with support of Mayor Kip Holden.  Arrigo describes upcoming events in Baton Rouge and an item on the ballot for a 2% hotel increase, excluding the areas of Baker, Zachary & Central.

FRIDAY: Visit Baton Rouge, The Tom Brady Deflated Football Scandal, NAACP, and Crowd Management at Jazz Fest

HOUR ONE: 

Paul Arrigo, President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge, joins the show today to discuss the Miss USA pageant and Bayou Country Superfest.  He has been in Baton Rouge for 18 years.  He was a native to New Orleans.  

The telecast for Miss USA reaches 70 countries.  It will be held at the River Center July 12th.  

"New Orleans has a love affair with itself... it's a world class city..."

"Baton Rouge has great pride in itself," he says.  

They also comment on the Louisiana International Film Festival.  

"In 2014, we had about 4 million visitors to Baton Rouge."

"Travel is ____ Tweet for Tourism" to win Taylor Swift tickets to one of her concerts on her 1989 World Tour.  

  "This state has become Hollywood South as a result of the film credits.  You would have to assume that if that goes away, so would the business." 

Former LSU quarterback Alan Risher comments on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots deflated football scandal.  

"He's probably mentally in a tough spot... worried about his reputation for sure." 

"I'm sure he'll get a 2-4 game suspension at the start of this season." 

"Maybe I should have deflated a few balls back in my day," Risher says.  

"For the most part Americans are forgiving people if you come out with the truth." 

He also comments on La'el Collins.  

HOUR TWO: 

Musheer Robinson from the NAACP joins the show to discuss the riots in Baltimore.  Robinson is a graduate of Brown University and a Rhodes Scholar.    

He also comments on Ferguson and South Carolina.  He suggests that now racial upset it coming into mind for everyone.  "How are we going to reevaluate our relations to make that convivial society?" 

"The economic division is absolutely gigantic," he says of race relations in Louisiana.  

Robinson laments that Governor Jindal had not done more for racial relations with his heritage.  

"We need elected officials to start thinking strategically about how to build communities... and create opportunities for everybody." 

"There's a vibrancy in the culture and the music," Robinson says, "but in human actualization, there's so much segregation." 

"He has had more threats on his life than all of the other presidents in the past century combined," Robinson says of President Obama.   

Security Expert Paul Wertheimer, founder of Crowd Management Strategies in Los Angeles comments on Jazz Fest 2015.  

This year's Jazz Fest held the largest amount of people ever at 460,000 people.  

He has spent a large part of his life studying disasters.  "Communities don't recover from it.  Families don't recover." 

"It <Jazz Fest> should make as much money as it can without compromising public safety." 

Wertheimer says that those in charge of Jazz Fest are "taking a gamble with people's lives." 

WEDNESDAY: Issac Wright, Gordy Rush, Paul Arrigo, Kelly Strenge, Rex Nelson

Neal Gladner fills in for Jim today.

Hour 1

Issac Wright, Executive Director of Correct The Record, on the 2016 Presidential Election. http://correctrecord.org/

Gordy Rush, LSU sideline reporter, on the bowl game loss and departure of DC John Chavis to Texas A&M.


Hour 2

On New Years Celebrations throughout Louisiana we speak with Visit Baton Rouge President Paul Arrigo, Kelly Strenge with the Lafayette CVB and NOLA CVB President Mark Romig.

We round out the hour with Southern Food Blogger Rex Nelson on New Years eating traditions.