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The Joe Cunningham Radio Show
The Joe Cunningham Show airs daily from 3-4 p.m. CT on NewsTalk 96.5 KPEL in south Louisiana, and you can listen to it anywhere you download your podcasts.
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Episodes
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E85: Sotomayor Gets It Wrong (Again)
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Last week, Justice Sotomayor chastised fellow progressive Justice Jackson for…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E84: Sen. John Kennedy and 'Spending Porn'
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana has routinely attacked what he calls “spending porn”…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowInterview: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana (7/11/25)
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Here is our full interview with Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, talking about the…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E83: Get Rid of FEMA? Or Get It Out of the Way?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. There’s a lot of talk about the Trump administration eliminating FEMA. But is that the…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E82: Social Media Age Requirements and Jeffrey Epstein
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana has a new law on the books regarding age verification for phone app stores…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E81: Alternative Energy in Louisiana
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Iberia Parish appears set to lift a ban on solar farming in the parish. But while wind…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E80: What We Know About the Iran Strikes Now
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Despite what Trump critics says, it looks like the damage from the airstrikes on Iran…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E79: Lafayette LEAPs Ahead
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Lafayette Parish outperforms the state in LEAP scores. We’ll break down the numbers…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E78: Jeff Landry's Petty Line-Item Vetoes
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry exercised his line-item veto to stop projects in the…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E77: The Dangerous Roads of Lafayette
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. It sure seems like we’ve been getting more and more reports of major or fatal car…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E76: A Conversation With Louisiana AG Liz Murrill
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is an extremely busy AG. A bizarre decision by…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E75: SCOTUS Punts on Louisiana Racial Gerrymandering Case
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Supreme Court dropped its last major opinions on Friday, but punted on the issue…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E74: Louisiana's Congressional Map Could Change Tomorrow
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Supreme Court has ten cases left to release opinions on this term, and one of them…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E73: Louisiana Is Suing CVS
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced she is filing three lawsuits against…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E72: Exposed Wires, Failed Inspections for LPSS
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Lafayette Parish School System is again cutting corners where public bids are…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowVacation Episode 3: What Is Conservatism These Days?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. What exactly is conservatism in the Trump era? What does it mean to be a conservative…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowVacation Episode 2: Establishments, Algorithms, and Outrage
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Today, a discussion on captured institutions, the age of algorithms, and why the media…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowVacation Edition Ep. 1: Can We Fix the Broken System?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. I’m on vacation, but I didn’t want to leave you all hanging. On today’s show, a deep…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E71: David Hogg's Demise
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Democratic National Committee gave David Hogg the boot. It was the right move but…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E70: Jeff Landry Broke His Promise
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said, “Whatever y’all send to my desk, I’m gonna sign.”…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E69: A Chat Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple joins us on the show today, and we spend a lot of…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E68: Is the Plan to Rig 2026 for Bill Cassidy Dead?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The attempt to change the closed party primaries in Louisiana has failed for now. But…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E67: Rigging the Game for Bill Cassidy?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. There is a movement from Louisiana Senate leadership to rig the 2026 election for Sen…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E66: Big Day at the Supreme Court
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Supreme Court dropped two major unanimous decisions that were big wins for…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E65: The Ballad of House Bill 327 (Plus, Forgeries!)
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Hear from LPSS Superintendent Francis Touchet on the accusations that someone forged…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E64: Too Fast, Too Sloppy at LPSS
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Some pretty serious allegations are being leveled at the Lafayette Parish School…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E63: Jeff Landry's Turkey Talk
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Gov. Jeff Landry brought turkeys into the KPEL studio when appearing with Moon…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E62: Louisiana's Surprise $600 Million Price Tag
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana celebrated when Hyundai announced a new steel plant in Ascension Parish, but…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E61: The Transactional Governor's Folly
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has made some serious mistakes in his quest to appease…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E60: Jeff Landry's Vendetta
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Jeff Landry is taking a victory lap on a bill that is as anti-conservative as it gets…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E59: Trump vs. NPR
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. NPR has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump. Some of its claims are wild, some might…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E58: About Those Medicaid Cuts
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The cuts to Medicaid that the Democrats are complaining about? They’re not that…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E57: Louisiana's Senate Endorses Price Controls
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. HB 148 passes the Senate, and with it Louisiana comes one step closer to endorsing…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E56: Jeff Landry Sent Us All a Letter and Lied the Whole Way Through
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Did you get a letter from Governor Jeff Landry in the mail? It’s an extraordinary…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E55: The Big Beautiful Bill, The Even Bigger Lie
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. What’s in the Big Beautiful Bill and what’s the state of play? Plus, the media’s role…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E54: Oh No! Cutting Taxes in Louisiana Would Decrease Revenue!
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. There is a very panic-driven report about how cutting taxes in Louisiana might leave…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E53: Stop Being Cowards, House GOP
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Moderates believe that if they pull the party back from being too conservative…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E52: Budgets and Bidens
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Louisiana House and the U.S. House are working on budgets. They could be more…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E51: Stay in Your Lane, Governor
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. For some reason, Gov. Jeff Landry is getting involved in the U.S. Senate race. His…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E50: John Bel Edwards For Senate?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. There’s a story floating around about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer attempting…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E49: Eyes on the Middle East
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. There’s a difference between how things were done during the Biden years and the way…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E48: Biased Journalism in Baton Rouge
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. A news article in The Advocate paints the insurance reform issue as Gov. Jeff Landry…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E47: Trump, GOP Fighting for the Midterms
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. If a meeting with GOP leaders and the NRCC is any indication, President Donald Trump…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E46: Monuments to the Trial Lawyers
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Gov. Jeff Landry still seems beholden to the trial lawyers who have built monuments to…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E45: Did SCOTUS Get It Wrong, and Is Julia Letlow Running for Senate?
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. I do think the Supreme Court got its ruling on the Trump deportation stuff wrong, but…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E44: A Conversation With Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Well, since there is no official show today due to other programming, I wanted to…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E43: Cassidy and Landry Can Have Money, But They Need Their Base
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Bill Cassidy is raising a lot of money for his re-election bid. Jeff Landry is worried…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E42: Trump vs. The Courts (Part 8,000)
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. A Massachusetts judge rules that the Trump administration can’t do yet another thing…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E41: The Legislature Convenes
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Hide your wallets (and possibly your families) because the Louisiana legislature has…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E40: Jeff Landry Isn't a RINO—He's Just Fallen Into a Familiar Trap
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. I didn’t have a full show on Friday, but I filled in for Moon Griffon and got a lot of…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E39: Gov. Landry Is Burning Bridges
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is doubling and tripling down on siding with trial…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E38: Jeff Landry's Hunting Trip
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and legislative leaders went on a hunting trip with two…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E37: Jeff Landry's Defeat at the Ballot Box
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry suffered a major setback over the weekend when his four…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E36: I Hope Democrats Listen to Tim Walz
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Tim Walz, former running mate and current progressive governor, is out there basically…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E35: Too Narrow in the House
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Donald Trump pulled Elise Stefanik’s nomination for UN Ambassador to preserve the…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E34: Ghost Guns, Signal, and the Economy (Stupid)
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. I won’t talk about Signal (much) but I do want to talk about why it won’t matter…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E33: Signalgate
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The scandal over the use of Signal for planning attacks is being looked at the wrong…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E32: Louisiana Gets a BIG Economic Boost from Hyundai
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. The Trump Administration announced Hyundai will be building a massive steel plant in…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E31: A Little More Pain Coming
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Some things Donald Trump wanted to do he’s getting done quickly (like immigration)…
The Joe Cunningham Radio ShowS4 E30: Democrats Grasping at Straws
The official podcast for the Joe Cunningham Show on News/Talk 96.5 KPEL. Progressives are grasping at whatever issue they think will win them votes, but they…