Welcome to Shutdown 2025, everyone. Hope you brought a sleeping pad. We might be here a while

The government shutdown began today ... again, and there's one thing you want to know: How does this affect me? Find out.

Keep calm and enjoy Bad Bunny; Do ladies even like gentlemen - or do they want a bad boy? It's official, National Guard is coming to Louisiana cities - what now? Texas teacher feeds kitten to snake, punches her ticket to hell; Brandon Ingram shades New Orleans Pelicans fans - does he have a point?

Scoot rounds up some offbeat news from the first half of the week including a Texas teacher who fed her sickly kitten to a classroom snake, traumatizing her students - and making headlines across the world

Jonee Daigle and Bobby Asaro are in studio to talk about "Inside New Orleans" magazine's new feature on real New Orleans gentleman. Are you one yourself?

Shreveport, New Orleans and Baton Rouge are all going to see an influx of National Guard troops to support local law enforcement - but unlike we've seen in other cities and states, pretty much everyone is on board

If the government shuts down at midnight tonight, what should regular working Americans expect to change? Dr. Jim Richardson from LSU joins Scoot to explain the forces at work and what's happened in the past

What can you say about Saints's loss in Buffalo - and LSU in Oxford? We're no experts, but it seems obvious what the Saints need to improve; Buc'ees is really an innovator in bathroom stall design; Why do we have games ending in ties, who asked for that? Bad Bunny picked for Super Bowl show - some people have a big problem; Is the NFL focused on global growth at the expense of making US fans mad?

Bad Bunny is one of the most popular recording artists on the planet, second only to Taylor Swift, but that hasn't stopped people from whipping themselves into a fury over his selection to play the halftime show at the Super Bowl next February

Incidents in Wisconsin and North Carolina show that whether they are politically motivated or not, crazy people are finding easy targets for them to act out their sick fantasies