07/14 Thursday: Michelle McCalope, The End of The Perfect 10, Gary Chambers, Bill to De-Escalate Violence, Trump and Pence

HOUR ONE

Michelle McCalope

Award-winning journalist and native of Baton Rouge, McCalope joins the show to talk about the aftermath in the community since the shooting of Alton Sterling.

Dvora Meyers

Gymnastics insider Dvora Meyers examines the evolution of elite women’s gymnastics over the last few decades with her book, "The End of The Perfect 10." Meyers reveals why successful female gymnasts are older and more athletic than they have ever been before, how the United States became a gymnastics powerhouse, and what the future of gymnastics will hold.

Gary Chambers

Publisher and Co-Owner of Baton Rouge's The Rouge Collection is responsible for a large part of Alton Sterling's funeral at Southern University, Friday, July 15.  Chambers describes who is expected to attend the funeral.

HOUR TWO

Garret Graves

Congressmen Cedric Richmond and Garret Graves have teamed up to introduce legislation that would give police training to de-escalate situations and help provide law enforcement access to nonlethal weapons. Graves says this comes after last week’s fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling. He says this bill’s goal is to use new technology to bridge gaps between life and death.

Rob Maness

Rob Maness joins the show to talk about Indiana Gov. Mike Pence who is expected to be Donald Trump's running mate.

06/06 Monday: 72th Anniversary of DDay, Terry McMillan, Rob Maness, Rudy Macklin on Muhammad Ali

HOUR ONE

George Morris

George Morris of The Advocate joins the show on the 72th Anniversary of DDay to talk with Jim about the importance of war and what the men who fought experienced.

Terry McMillan

The author of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "Mama" is back on the scene with her newest book, "I Almost Forgot About You."  McMillan talks with Jim about the characters in her books and how relate-able they are to our own lives.

HOUR TWO

Rob Maness

Rob Maness is a Senate candidate and talks to Jim about what makes him different from the other candidates.  Maness also remembers DDay and describes his qualifying background and experience.

Rudy Macklin

Former LSU basketball player Rudy Macklin remembers his friend from Louisville, Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at the age of 74.  Macklin talks about growing up in the same hometown as Ali and watching Ali's fights as a child.

 

03/22 Tuesday: The Presidential Election, Terror Attacks in Belgium, Black Conservatives, Gun Legislation

Hour 1:

Michael Chittom 

Republican activist Michael Chittom joins Jim in studio to talk about the presidential election and his support for billionaire businessman Donald Trump. Chittom believes Trump will shake things up and has good stances on immigration. 

Col. Rob Maness

Col. Rob Maness discusses this morning's terror attacks in Belgium. Maness believes Congress should issue a declaration of war against ISIS. Maness is running for the US Senate seat that will soon be vacated by David Vitter.  

Hour 2:

Ali Akbar

Conservative and Senior Advisor at the Black Conservatives Fund Ali Akbar joins Jim to talk about black conservatives. Akbar said he found out he was a Republican when he was a senior in high school on the debate team. He is supporting Ted Cruz for president. Akbar says he's a conservative and wants all blacks to vote. 

Barry Ivey

Baton Rouge Representative Republican Barry Ivey joins the conversation to discuss his proposed legislation for Louisiana citizens to carry a concealed weapon without a permit and a license. 

01/05 Tuesday: Health and Wellness, Manship Film 'After the Spill', Candidate for Senate Col. Rob Maness, and Remembering Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and Basketball Legend Pete Maravich

HOUR ONE: 

David Agus

Dr. David B. Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading physicians and the cofounder of two pioneering personalized medicine companies, Navigenics and Applied Proteomics.  He shares his new book, The Lucky Years: How to Survive in the Brave New World of Health.  

Medicine is undergoing rapid change. In the old world, you followed general principles and doctors treated you based on broad, one-size-fits all solutions. In this new golden age, you’ll be able to take full advantage of the latest scientific findings and leverage the power of technology to customize your care. Only those who know how to access and adapt to these breakthroughs—without being distracted by hyped ideas and bad medicine—will benefit. Imagine being able to get fit and lose weight without dieting, train your immune system to fight cancer, edit your DNA to avoid a certain fate, erase the risk of a heart attack, reverse aging, and know exactly which drugs to take to optimize health with zero side effects.

Cyril Vetter

Over the past five decades, Cyril Vetter's career has spanned a variety of industries, including music, broadcasting and publishing.  He owned TV and radio stations, a television production firm, newspapers as well as music recording and publishing companies. Vetter's music career began in the mid-1960s, when he co-wrote the frat-rock classic "Double Shot (of my Baby's Love)," and he is a member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.  He promotes the new Manship Film 'After the Spill' with Jon Bowermaster. 

Jon Bowermaster

Writer, filmmaker and adventurer, Jon is a six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society’s ‘Ocean Heroes,’ his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. Jon has written a dozen books and produced/directed more than fifteen documentary films. He promotes his latest film, 'After the Spill' with Cyril Vetter. 

HOUR TWO: 

Robert Maness

Rob Maness has a life long record of providing dedicated service to the Nation and ran as a Republican Candidate for the Louisiana United States Senate seat in 2014.  Having worked his way up from the enlisted ranks to full colonel, he retired from active duty in 2011, ending his military service of more than 32 years.  He worked in the utility industry as a director for two years after his military retirement and is currently the Owner of Iron Liberty Consulting Group, residing in Madisonville, Louisiana.

John Brummett

John Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.  He remembers the late, former Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, who passed away at age 90. 

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.