Talk Louisiana

About Talk Louisiana

Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster airs weekdays at 9am and 9pm on WRKF.

Publisher

Jim Engster

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Mar 2017

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 2,513 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Mary Stein, Sis. Helen Prejean, Meredith Hathorn, Holly Carey

   Assistant Director for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Mary Stein gives insight into what's new at the library in the month of October. For more information, visit https://www.ebrpl.com/events-classes/#/events/. Catholic religious sister and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty Sister Helen Prejean talks the botched execution in Tennessee and the reignition of death penalty abolition. Meredith Hathorn and Holly Carey from Cat Haven speak on the organization and the grand opening of its new location.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Zia Tammami, Mary Patricia Wray, Dr. Ma'at Latham

   Veteran jazz and blues radio host Zia Tammami talks the upcoming 20th anniversary of River City Jazz Masters. For more information and tickets, visit https://manshiptheatre.org/comingsoon/rivercityjazzmasters-a7mhr-cr3wp. Political consultant Mary Patricia Wray comments on the latest in politics including the upcoming midterm elections. Executive director of the Interfaith Federation of Greater Baton Rouge speaks on the organization and its impact in the community.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Tyler Bridges, Vastine Stabler, Kevin Cope

   The Advocate and The Times-Picayune reporter Tyler Bridges talks various political topics including the upcoming midterm election and the Jack Smith hearing. Managing Artistic Director at Swine Palace and LSU Theatre Vastine Stabler speaks on the late LSU Professor George Judy, and also spotlights the ongoing theatre production at the Swine Palace- "POTUS: Behind Every Great Dumb*** are Seven Great Women Trying to Keep Him Alive". For more information: https://www.lsu.edu/cmda/theatre/events/2026-27_season.php Retired LSU Professor Kevin Cope speaks on higher education and political topics including what's happening with the Maine senate race.

Inside a recent episode

Friday, September 24th: Dr. Kip Corbin, Dr. Wendy Suzuki, Nancy Colier, Paul Hawken

Published 24 Sept 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It is a critical emotion. You write in the book, my early days of investigating and writing on this subject began in my lab as a neuroscientist at NYU. At the time, I never really thought of myself as being an anxious person. That is, until I started to notice the words used by my subjects, friends, lab members, colleagues, and even myself to describe how we were all feeling. Words like worried, on edge, stressed out, distracted, bored, pessimistic, unmotivated, nervous, ready to snap, defensive, frightened, unable to sleep. And you posed the question, sound familiar? And a simple Google search shows that 18% of the American population, 40 million people, suffer from one of several anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, PTSD, and others. […]

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