Episode 19 - Brian Haldane of Talk 107.3 Interview

Dave and Drew interview Talk 107.3 Morning Show Host Brian Haldane.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Savagate Podcast, Dave and Drew. We are at episode number 19. Dave Rapolo, writer at the Savagate. That's me pointing at him if you can't see me. Uh Drew Merle, St. George City Councilman, local attorney. Shameless plug. Shameless plug. Uh this weekend we welcome a very special guest, my cousin, Mr. Brian Haldane, morning host, talk 1073.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Well, first of all, it is no BS. We actually are cousins. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Really? Yeah. I feel like that's something I should have known before I agreed to do this show. I'm related to a Haldane of Glenn Eagles somewhere in the 1600s, and then the Adam and Eve principle says we're all related at some point. We are related in the 1600s. Before my people ventured over on the Mayflower.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Yours were on the Mayflower. Mine took a completely different route, got here through New Orleans.

SPEAKER_03 0:52

So what possessed you two to trace your family tree to see if you would relate to it?

SPEAKER_00 0:58

The Haldane came up? Yeah. Haldane of Glen Eagles.

SPEAKER_03 1:01

I'm like cousin Brian.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

That means Brian automatically gets a discount on representation if he ever needs the Murray law firm, right? The family, the family discount.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Family discount, I'll take it. I'll take it anywhere and get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Let me tell you what, where nice segue. Where Brian would get a family discount, his saint of a mother. So I actually saw your mom. That's right. From uh I gotta eat I go to eat at school with my daughters the last two weeks because you eat with one, then you gotta eat with the other one, or the man. So I get there, and there's your mother, substitute teaching, in the cafeteria, the same time I get there. He looks he looks puzzled. I didn't know she was doing this. Comes over to me, wonderful, as always. I mean, that is You didn't know your mother sub?

SPEAKER_01 1:43

She lives in my backyard. Okay, well, that's a whole other show. No, so okay, we built her. What am I getting her a house? It's always called a mother-in-law suite, but for me, I guess it'll be a mother suite. So we built her out, you know, a one bathroom in the backyard. Yeah, that's a little better. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

No, but seriously, she is the I mean nicest person you'll ever meet. She is wonderful. She was being wonderful with the kids. She came over, she did some fractions with my daughter that involved giving them grapes. Uh so my daughter loved that. That was fun. I mean, just how do you not love your mother? I mean, she's wonderful. She's wonderful.

SPEAKER_03 2:15

Well, she's like your great aunt now, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Is that somewhere like that? Well, she would be. Did you know how Dane had her in his backyard? I did. I actually did know that, yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:22

That was a process, man. That was a build-out that took like, I think Rome was built in less time.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

So I'm gonna tell you something, and I've told this to my wife before, so not a secret. So, as my dad was was dying in 2001, we're sitting there having some of these, you know, heart-to-heart last week kind of conversations, and he looks at me and he says, Son, don't ever let your mother-in-law live with you. I'm like, huh. Because my grandmother lived with us for like 30 years. Okay. And he looks at me, he's like, Don't ever let that happen. That was his dying words? Like in the last week. Not the dying words, in the last week.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

And so I'm like, What a way to go.

SPEAKER_00 2:58

File that away. He clearly was very serious and passionate about that. Don't I understand why? Later in life, you learn more and you understand things.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

So, not the problem for me. That would be Christy's problem. But it's not technically living with us because she has, you know, the the entrance and exit the carport, they're all and clearly she's obviously working and not telling you.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

That's what it is. That's why she can tell you she was scared you'd ask her for rent. It's money.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

I need to be doing some substituting and some tutoring. I just did not know what.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

It sounds so nefarious the way we're I knew she was doing some stuff on the side, but I didn't know exactly what she was doing. Side on the side.

SPEAKER_03 3:33

He's gonna confront her tonight and go, I need to see your St. Thomas More paycheck. I heard I don't think I'm charging you enough. Heard heard you were subbing again, Mom. You know how much that tent cost me to put up back there for you to start.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

I it I I leave people down the wrong path when I say she lives in my backyard.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

You know, that Bragg Park we put you at behind Industrialplex? You know how hard that was? Brian, I can see his wife, Brian.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

There's a there's a lady living in the backyard. That's mom, honey. That's mom. You should give her some food or something. It keeps point James keeps pointing out the back window yelling, Grammy.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

What's that all about? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

It's it it it truly is a wonderful family. And mom, it really, really, I mean, just wonderful. So so that's shameless. And I did this to you last time, too. I think last time I saw you, I just said something. I was near your mom because she was substituting at St. Thomas More again. Yeah. And and the kids loved her so much. I was really disappointed when she she stopped.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

So I'm glad she's back.

SPEAKER_03 4:28

So so tell us what you do at Talk 107. Tell us about your show.

SPEAKER_01 4:31

I host the morning show on Talk 1073, 6 till 9 a.m. That's uh that's the shortest for I sit in a small room with one other person and I talk till that person tells me to stop.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Is that person Britney Tully?

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Uh yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Let's talk about your radio career since we're here to interview. You always interview, you never get interviewed.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yeah, that's I'm uncomfortable on this side of the interview to be sure. Well, we have no cameras, so you're good. Well, that is good.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

So I we'll we'll talk about some of the nefarious things you've done over time, then this will be great. Another nefarious thing has his mom living in his backyard. Apparently in a shanty.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

That's a way to open.

unknown 5:03

Mrs.

SPEAKER_03 5:03

Taledan, if you're listening, um, I have an Airbnb. I'd love to have you if you want to stay there, get out of the backyard. Does it have indoor plumbing? Uh yes, it does.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

I mean, upgrade. It's look, I look I I I have trouble saying this because sit across from St. George people who, you know, you're big on your permits and whatnot.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Hey, every everything's great. She'd have indoor plumbing in St. George, I promise.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

She's got indoor plumbing now.

SPEAKER_00 5:24

You know what? If if my if if Mama Haldain would like to move to my house, I I can get a permit.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

I actually think we have separate council people, so it's true. That's uh like I I've got done and she's got Moak.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Good luck with that. So tell us about your radio career. Yeah, let's talk about your radio career.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

All right, what do you want to know about my radio career?

SPEAKER_00 5:40

So how why did you uh apply for a radio job in the first place? I was there on your first day.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

We were there on my first day. We have known each other since October 20th of 2004.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Wow. Damn, that's he prepped for the show. Very exacting.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

So you remember your first day of work?

SPEAKER_01 5:56

I do. I do. I remember the whole process. Okay, so I know since high school that I wanted to be in radio, and I did not pursue it when I got to LSU because I had a very low GPA in high school and a very high ACT score. So I came in on like this.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So you're a slacker.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Pretty much. Really effing smart. So like I came in on this probationary period, so I couldn't learn I couldn't declare a major in my first year and all this stuff. And honestly, I worked myself out of school my first time at LSU. So ended up pulling too many jobs, working too often, and ended up flunking after my third semester. Got out, was out of school for a while, came back to school at uh well while I was out um and I was working in a hotel. Um Christy and I met while I was still in school.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

So in my time out of school, I was working in a hotel, I was making decent money, uh, but I knew I wasn't where I wanted to be.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

You were you were working in a hotel making decent money.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Uh yes, as a sales rep in a hotel. Okay. I was going to hold it. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Uh bank with the.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Which airline motel were you at?

SPEAKER_01 6:58

I was well, uh airline may not have been an upgrade because you remember the comfort inn on Acadian Thruway?

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Oh, you were at one of uh okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Yeah, yeah. We had a do what?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Is that the one they demoed?

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Yeah, they demoed it and the La Kintha next door. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Um Okay, so a lot of a lot of black lights in the hotel rooms.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Uh we had a sh a gunshot victim walk into the lobby.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Looks like a Jackson Pollock painting, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

A little bit, a little bit. We actually had um, I I I know y'all don't want to take it down this path, but um, we had a person performing abortions in one of our hotel rooms. Like, literally, he would check in once a week, and when he would check out the next day, blood everywhere, all over the sheets and all that stuff, and like after about four or five times of this happening, because you don't put together that trend immediately, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:44

That's not probably where your mind goes now.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

No, no. So after about the fourth or fifth time, we got word from a a law enforcement agency, it wasn't local, um, that this guy was going all over the south doing this. So as soon as we started looking out for it, uh the next time he booked in, we got him arrested.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Your boy was performing abortions in room 130.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

So at that moment, you go, I really should focus on something else and get back into the street.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Okay, so no, I is that not the moment? No, it the moment it started slightly before that. So I had gotten married, and at 27 years old, Christy, I got married at 25. At 27, Christy's like, listen, we're plugging along just fine, but we're gonna have kids soon. So if you want to go back to school and you want to move on from a job to a career, it is time to shit or get off the pot.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Now she did not think in this process that you meant radio, or she would have said, raise the bar, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

No, no, totally. It's I mean, you gotta remember this was uh it's like oh three, oh four.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

The B's don't feed those babies.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

No, they don't. And we're here in 2026 and they still don't. But uh she she pushed me back into school, um, went back to school, and started looking for a job and I'm looking for an internship in radio. Uh could not find an internship. I got turned down uh to be the B over at B-103. I think I lost that job to Moscona, actually.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

My wife didn't give you that job.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

No.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

My wife was the promotions director.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

I think I think I think your wife was already over at Clear Channel by that time.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So um by the way, the B was the so B-103 radio station, they had a uh B mascot as their big thing. Yeah. Uh because that was a good idea. The B mascot did not have any way to cool that outfit off. So when you're in the B in the middle of July and and nobody paid to wash the B costume, so everybody who wore the B cost, you got the essence of all those who came before you when you wore the B on. Nice. Uh it was the saddest. It's exactly what you thought. Sounds like you dodged a bullet.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

I kind of did dodge a bullet with that one. So um went over to Clear Channel, went looking for an internship. Matt Kennedy said, I don't have an internship, but I do have a part-time job. Uh, Saturday night in a Sunday morning, or Friday night and a Saturday morning, Saturday night and Sunday morning from midnight to 8 a.m. My job was to babysit a little black cordless phone.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:10

And if that phone went off, it meant one of two things. Either the radio radio station was off the air or riverbend melted down. One of those two things. Either way, I gotta call Bob Murphy. That was the whole job.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Now, did did Matt give you the courtesy of laying you off the first day so you could see what it felt like to work at Clear Channel?

SPEAKER_01 10:27

No, no, you did not. Okay. Uh, but and so I started at Clear Channel in October vote for Took the Job. Took the job, absolutely. Phone ever rang. It's a foot. It's a foot. Did you give me a foot where I will run?

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Here's the thing people don't realize about radio, because number one, everyone thinks they can do it.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Uh, and your bosses think everyone can do your job, and there's actually not a lot of jobs. In fact, even then there were no jobs. Right. Now there's really no jobs. Like Brian's like the last guy. Yeah. Like when he leaves, he turns off the light. That's it. Pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Pretty much. So I take that job, and like Drew said, he was there on day one. I was just hanging out in the daytime like a goober because I didn't have anything else to do, just trying to follow everybody, see what goes on in the daytime, and then work my night shift. And I had like two other part-time jobs as well, just to make ends meet along the way. Um, but that's where it started. It was working overnights. About three months in after just babysitting a a a cordless phone, I asked Matt, I was like, dude, can we carve out one minute at the bottom of every hour that I'm here for me to record a newscast? And like it costs you, it's not like the inventory sold. Right. It's it's in the middle of coast to coast.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

Doing some truckers, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:35

It's a yeah. Me, uh me, a handful of truckers and a host talking about aliens and and you know, so Matt's like, yeah, no problem. So I started doing that. And then um August 29th, 2005, my radio career exploded. So August 29th, 2005, of course, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Oh, thank you for saying we didn't know. Sorry. We weren't sorry.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

I thought you knew your Louisiana history right there.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

I was there.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

So, yes, you are. So um, Clear Channel turns into United Radio Broadcasters, and every ounce of experience you could possibly want was at your fingertips through WJBO, through WWL, through all the New Orleans radio stations that were broadcasting from up here. So if I wanted to call screen, I could call screen. If I wanted to produce, I could produce. If I wanted to cut news, I could cut news. Uh, if I wanted to work aboard, I like it was all there because all the New Orleans people had to balance working with going back to rebuild their homes and their lives. Yeah. So I would pick up shift after shift after shift, and everything exploded from there.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

I'll tell you a story. I was there because our shifts became like these weird, almost like as long as you want to be there, you could be do something. Yeah. And I remember I got a call from a Denver radio station at like three in the morning, and they want to interview about what's going on. I'm like, all right, well, I'm here, let's do it. And so the guy gets on there and he asked me, How are the Creole people faring in the swamps? Like in like in my the way he painted that visual was he thought of New Orleans as one giant swamp and there's some Creole people. So I started talking about P-Rows and alligators, and I mean, I made like I made a whole I gave a whole story about it. He was trolling him, huh? He never stopped. He was so fascinated by it. I just kept going. I wanted to see how far I could go.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

I did roughly the same thing, and I'm not trying to one-up you, but I was on BBC every morning.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Bragg.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

Yeah. British broadcasting company, don't Google.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Did you troll them or did you?

SPEAKER_01 13:28

No, no, no, no, no. I was trying to give real news. But like they would they would ask me questions to try and draw more drama out of me.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Do you think the BBC is really upset that their acronym has been taken? I'm pretty sure they are.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Yeah, they're stuck with it.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02 13:44

Yeah. They're stuck with it. Don't Google it. Someone shafted them. There's nothing they could do.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Uh yes. Look, because yeah, you don't want to Google Brian Haldane and BBC. That would be terrible. Terrible, terrible stereo.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Well, he says he's had a few jobs. You know, whatever he can do to make ends meet. He did.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Look a hard worker.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

So 2011, um, Guarantee went to launch a news talk station. Um, and Gordy came and recruited me and Matt Kennedy and like a couple of other talents from WJBO had already been let go.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Yeah, thanks for nothing, Gordy.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

By by WJBO. You weren't on the news talk side.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

I know, they wouldn't let me. Every time I go over there, I get in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Well, imagine that. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 14:21

So make one comment about manifest destiny and they're mad.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

So I made my way across town, worked for guarantee, uh, pretty much since it was a short stint where I was let go and brought back. But other than that, that's where the careers were.

SPEAKER_03 14:35

Didn't you didn't you do the morning with Kennedy at some point? I thought so.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

It was with me and Matt Kennedy, and then it was me and Kevin Gallagher, and then I was let go, and it was Kevin and Bill. And Bill. And then when Bill and Kevin and Clarence were all let go, it was me, as Drew said.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

You're like the lone holdout, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:53

I'm the Highlander, baby.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Last man standing. That's exactly. They just can't get rid of Halliday. No, you're more like a like a disease. Like we just can't cure it. And you just keep flaring back up every couple of months.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Whatever keeps me in the headlines.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

You know, like some poor decisions you made in college, and you just keep flaring back up over and over again. But hey, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 15:10

Um do what?

SPEAKER_03 15:11

You're doing great. So you're the you're the you're the solo morning guy now. Right. What's the focus of the morning show?

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Focus of the morning show is it goes Baton Rouge first, Louisiana second, national eighth. Okay. I try so hard not to talk national politics. It's so degenerative.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Well, you got a bunch of shows that are gonna cover that subject matter. Literally.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

What am I gonna say that's gonna be unique? What what what is my genius take gonna be that nobody else has?

SPEAKER_03 15:36

Of what's going on in DC.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Right.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

So I plus there's no reason for me to want to hate half my community. Yeah. Uh what I mean, if I'm Bat Rouge first, Louisiana second, those that's when I'm mapping out my show every morning, that's how I map out what topics I'm going to.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Okay. And uh so what so you worked with Matt Kennedy. What is that like for people that don't know?

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Honestly, like in retrospect, a legend. He's awesome. He like literally he taught me most of what I know.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

Um, he was a big brother to me the entire way through. Probably put a up with a lot more foolishness than he should have from me because I was hella cocky. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, he he is I I I you can hang me off a cliff and I won't have a bad word to say about Matt.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

So you probably listened to him at J-Bo like I used to. Religiously, him and Kevin Meeks were him and Meeks. Yep. Um, fantastic show. Was happy to see that he at least made it over to 1073. I remember y'all's show. It was fantastic as well. Sucks that uh he's no no longer on the air.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Well, it sucks for everybody but him. I mean, he's printing money now.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

So look, the the the tell what time do you get to work every day? People, so this is a radio misconception that the only time you're at work is the only time. Your time you're on the air. Your time you're on the air. What time are you getting to work every day?

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I roll in at five o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

But um I gotta walk you through the whole day though. I walk, I walk in the door at five o'clock in the morning. Show starts at six, show runs from six till nine. From nine to eleven, I'm working on the next day's show, and then it's on to other things. Guarantee likes us to be very active. And honestly, I would like to be active as well. So uh, for example, today I was at the Rotary Club. I'm a member of the Rotary Club. Uh this evening I'll be going to the Young Entrepreneurs Academy. Their pitch night is tonight. I'm on the steering committee over there. So I'll get home from all my day's events um at about 8, 8.30, and then get to work on more of tomorrow's show. So uh I walk through the front door at 5, but I don't go to bed until about 11.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

He's gotta throw some food out for his mom, too.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

That's well, you forgot I forgot about that point. Gotta fill her water bowl. Note to self throw some food in the backyard for mom.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

He's got a calendar reminder for that. Everybody needs to be. Hey, Mom, it's not gonna rain and I don't think you're Mother's such a saying. She's so wonderful. I can't believe she's stuck with us.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Um meanwhile, she's gonna listen to this and be like, how the hell did I end up catching streams?

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Does the mother have a radio back there? She has internet? That's not a bad stuff. Moving on up.

SPEAKER_01 17:57

Just um an old Philco. Have you done some sports on sports radio? Yeah. So, yes. Um, one of the one one of my favorite parts of of my career has been that short stint where I was out was around the time of the flood in Baton Rouge in 2016.

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Right.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

And my performance at my other job started slacking because I was sleeping on my children's floor because we had down, we couldn't, we couldn't land a contractor forever. We had the a minimal.

SPEAKER_03 18:25

So you all flooded.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Yeah, we flooded. So my performance at work was lacking. I got scaled back to part-time. I called Gordy up at guarantee. I'm like, dude, I know we talk about bringing me back every once in a while, but I I really need something. Part-time, we'll get it done for now. Like, what can we do? Gordy's like, you want to report traffic? I was like, Yes, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Every radio person in Baton Rouge does a tour of duty. That's so point.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

I hang up, I hang up. Well, so Gordy said, give me an hour, let me see what I get done. Okay. I hang up the phone with Gordy. Ten minutes later, Moscone calls me back and he says, Gordy talked about doing traffic. I said, Yes. He says, F that, come be my producer.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

So I produced AFR for two years and then another year and a half once COVID hit.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 19:07

So yeah, that's my stent as the brain. Which, by the way, his wife gave me that nickname.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

The brain?

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 19:13

How about that?

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yep. It was a typo. But Brain was a typo because it was handwritten. But you know, you have the production orders for where you have a remote or whatever, taped to my door, it said for brain, and it just stuck.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

I have a question. So I noticed your show is live streamed video um in the mornings, which is relatively a new concept. Pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

Yeah, so it's it's such a slow burn to build it because it's not made for that. Radio is meant to have breaks. Anything in media is meant to have breaks.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Which is what my question was. I noticed that when you're not broadcasting and you're on video, it seems like it's kind of awkward. It's like, okay, we're we're live, but we're not live.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

We're we we are live. I try to chat with the audience, I try to chat with whoever's in the chat, right? I try to maintain, but there's I mean, there's I we don't have a whole staff.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

My my producers my producer is my call screener, is my board op. Like that's all three jobs in one. So I'm trying to map out with guests and whatnot what's coming next, who do I need to let in a building? Because a part of being morning radio is two hours worth of lobby's not even open.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

That was always the first thing I was like, who's gonna let me in this morning? And it was you. I'm like, you're busy. Shouldn't you be doing something?

SPEAKER_01 20:25

Yeah, so I'll hop out of my chair and the camera's just standing in and staring in an empty room.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

So yeah, that's uh that that that seems like since you've been a radio guy your whole life, you're like, okay, it's a little different.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

So I think most people know where your building is on government street, but I don't think most people, at least our age range, don't realize what that building was.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

That was a Batonouge General Hospital, the original Baton Rouge General Hospital.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

What was it?

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Absolutely, and I'll take it a step further. The basement was the morgue.

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Which became a cafeteria at some point.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

It is now a cafeteria. Well, that's where the refrigeration was. So, I mean, I hate to be so part the pun cold about it, but we put the cafeteria where the dead people were because the dead people were where you could keep it cold.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Sometimes the job's just a drain.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

That's so so I notice you have Franz on quite a bit. Do y'all pay him or does he pay y'all? Because he comes on there quite a bit. Franz? Franz.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Uh, Borkhart, uh, he's every week.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

Every week. Yeah, for some reason that's his friend that's a lawyer. So weird. Yeah, that's true. You do keep touch with a lot of people. Friend. Have you has he ever asked you to come on the show? No, I never get on to give legal.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

As the as what?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

And now I don't get to go on at all.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

As a cousin? The St. George guy.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

St. George guy. So now I don't get to go on as that. I'm not even the best St. George guy anymore. He's like an elected official now.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Now hang on, hang on. If you're gonna do this, what every time I call you, you say you should call Dustin.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Well, because he's the mayor. Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Right. No, no, no, no. You're not the you're not the you Dustin's not the best St. George guy by my call. It's by your call.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Because I want you to have the mayor on. It's the mayor's job.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

You can't bitch about not being on the show and then defer when I ask. You to be on the show.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

I mean, I can tell you about civil law stuff all day long.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

That's no, I want you to talk shit about Baton Rouge what you did when y'all were foreman in him sitting.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

Oh, there it is. I'm free to do that anytime. I'm good at that.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

So Franz was a holdover from Bill and Kevin. Um, and he and I talked when, and it would they there's we don't need to get into agreements and whatnot, but uh he and I talked when I was taking over the show, and Bill and Kevin would call on him on occasion. And when I was building out a show, a three-hour show solo is tough.

SPEAKER_03 22:34

I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Building out a few segments along the way to where it would be, you know, I could kind of hand off it back and forth and it just lighten the load a little bit. Well, Franz and I clicked immediately.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

So that just I was like, you know, forget this call you when I need you thing. Let's do every Wednesday. Because there's never gonna be a Wednesday where there aren't headlines out there.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

So he's a co-host on Wednesdays.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

From Wednesday till from 6 30 to 7, yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Didn't really make that commitment where they've left their toothbrushes at each other's house. And they've got taken taken it to that level by his toothbrushes at your house. Yeah. Drew's a little upset. A little jealous, maybe. Can we have a therapist on next week?

SPEAKER_01 23:11

You might not need to work on that. Help?

SPEAKER_00 23:14

That's um maybe in the future you won't be the radio host we have on the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

That's so let me let me ask you an LSU football question.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Well, so yes, I uh the other answer part that I work for LSU sports properties as well. I produce for LSU radio.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Okay. Do you get free clothes?

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Uh actually, yes.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Did you get a national championship ring in 2019?

SPEAKER_01 23:37

I did not.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

You were working for them then?

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Beginning of so the football crew, um of course, Chris Blair, uh Gordy Rush, Jacob Hester up in the booth for pre- and post-game, it's Brandon Taylor, Marlon Favorite, and Taunt Palmer, and I'm the producer. So at the beginning of the year, we get the the swag bag that has whatever shirt you see the coach wearing or whatever. And so I yeah, I'll I get like two or three shirts, okay. Uh maybe a quarter zip or a pullover.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

And if it's a nice little swag bag. If they accidentally slipped an extra pullover in your bag this year, would you give it to Franz or to Drew?

SPEAKER_01 24:09

I would give it to Drew. Franz. No, we already know this. 1000% give it to it.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Because they're together all the time. He's in front of you right now. He's probably just saying that. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Would 1,000% give it to me. We got it, we got it recorded now then.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

So have you ever thought, because Gordy's still doing sideline stuff, right? Yeah. Have you ever like thought to yourself, because you got a staircase and and guarantee, if I just push him down the stairs today, can I be the sideline reporter?

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Gordy is spry. I don't think I could push him down the stairs, and he would land like a cat.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

So I don't plus he moves fast and nobody can run at Gordy speed. So I don't think I don't think couldn't get it on him would be a good plan. No.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Um other question. So Representative McMacon clearly politicized himself into that that job as the PA announcer for Tiger Stadium. Possibly the greatest job in the history of man. Uh, did you want that job?

SPEAKER_01 25:04

I did not want that job.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Why? Um did you know I wanted that job. Did you know I wanted that job? Yeah. You wanted that job? Yeah, cool. Did you apply? I no one ever said there was an application period.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

My ass. It was open for over a month. Was it? Yes, it was. Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Exactly. I how many people applied? Apparently you had to go to a representative.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

There were a good there were a few dozen that applied.

SPEAKER_00 25:26

And I don't was that'd been great.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

There there were yeah, there were a few dozen that applied. I I I know at least of I know of ten personally.

SPEAKER_03 25:34

Did you see the graffiti on the Acadian Overpass? Someone was wanting to bring back um the pre-yeah you didn't see that? Someone would graffiti that? Someone graffited it. McMacon was out there cleaning it off the next morning. I know because I posted the picture. Must must be true. Must have happened. That sounds like a sad victory. I did fix his hair in the picture. That sounds like a sad one that was blowing in the wind. It would never do that. Is Deleen Kiffin the real deal? What do you think is going to happen this year? It was a brutal, it was a brutal season last year.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

It was. A lot of expectations. There should be expectations. Yeah, there better be some expectations.

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Did you like Brian Kelly? Did you ever have a conversation with him?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Never cared for him.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Did you ever talk to him?

SPEAKER_01 26:13

A handful of times, yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Okay. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 26:15

Not that. His personality as bad as everyone says, he was just um bumping a log.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

He I uh how do I put this? He probably won't hear this. His mind was on some other things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

So gotcha. She was like looking. Distracted.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Yeah. Yeah, a little distracted.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Different playbook he was looking at.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

That's I yeah, that's well he sure didn't leave a he sure didn't leave a legacy here, and hopefully all the kiffin hype and all the kiffin money will be well spent.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

But how do you define well spent though? I mean,$40 million for a roster? I mean, and you can't guarantee an actually. I think he's gonna do it. I I think I think he's a good enough coach to get it done. I just forty million dollars is not sustainable.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

No, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

And it's only gonna go up from there.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

Yeah, of course it's gonna go up.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

So Dave and I suggested we redirect some NIL dollars to a better cause. Uh Baton Rouge Police Department pay raises that perhaps NIL deals we could put them on like the Canes load uh the electronic billboards and stuff. TJ loved that idea. TJ loved that idea.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

I love that idea. That's that's one that's actually I was working on a bit where other things we could do with this roster. Because I mean we're starting to talk about the$40 million now, but once the season rolls around, it's gonna be hot. Yeah, so it's like name me five things you could do with this money that would be better for Baton Rouge.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Get Gordon, get arrested. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

I like it. Well, luckily we have the library as a backup funding source.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Uh very true. And that was the other choice was could the police department go to work as librarians where they would obviously get paid better and they can enforce uh overdue books.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Writing up warrants for overdue books, getting the cut of the overdue books.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Like Detective Bookman from Seinfeld. Best episode ever. Thank you. That's a you realize how dated of a reference it is. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

Yeah, Dave likes dating. Big Seinfeld guy. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I I I think you're right. I think uh it's a lot of pressure. I I think Lyft Kiffin's a guy to do it, but we won't know till the first kickoff. We won't know till till we start. You could you could do all the predictions you want. He did this, he did this, but let's see it.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

You know, I just I don't know how to measure what is the right ROI from him. Uh, because you're not going to get a national championship every year. And if we get one in five years, well, 40 times five, it'd be 200 million. So you're getting one championship out of every 200 million dollars, and that's just the roster, not the coaches.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

I think LSU fans would take that deal.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Uh you think so?

SPEAKER_00 28:42

Yep, once every four or five years, that's a pretty good cycle.

SPEAKER_03 28:45

Yeah, but the question is, is it gonna be the first year or the third or whatever? Because if it doesn't happen the first two years and we're spending this money, right? It's gonna be some fans that'll go back to like they were uh last uh October being ticked off.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Do you feel like NIL is Louisiana's first motivation to do better at business and create a better business environment because we need more businesses to contribute to NIL?

SPEAKER_01 29:06

Well, sadly, Alabama's been slinging money at Louisiana students for the last decade now. So some of the best entrepreneurs in Louisiana are gonna be Bama grads.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

So uh yeah, it's we're we're a little bit behind the eight ball on that for sure.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

What's the what's the ROI if we win a national championship? What's the number? I've heard it it had started with a B, like billion in returns. You win a national championship, like overall.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

But it's you're talking secondary dollars though. You're not talking about direct revenue, you're not talking about just hotel stays or planes that are landing here. You're gonna talk about like um would residents of Baton Rouge go out to eat more? Well who the hell knows?

SPEAKER_00 29:42

You can take this so many like Johnny Menziel, when he won the Heisman, they valued that Heisman trophy at about 200 million in some kind of benefit. How do you measure it? I don't know, but applications to the school increase when you have a Heisman Trophy winner or a national championship. Uh people do come into more games and more sport. Your other sports benefit from it. And so it has all these unmeasurables, and they just make numbers up. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

So if other sports do better when football does better, do other sports do worse when football does poorly?

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Well, I think you look at so Alabama's athletic department came out with the breakdown of their sports, and I think the point was to show how important football was. Right. Football generated like an eighty million dollar profit in the athletic department.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Which rises all ships, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Which pays for all the non-revenue generating sports. And in Alabama land, not LSU land, baseball lost four million last year. Well, it's offset by the success of the football program. So in theory, if a football program's revenue is directly attributable to its success, which is somewhat true, then all the uh other ships are gonna increase.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah. If you care about those. But I don't know how you could put uh the number in billions on I don't know how you could determine what exactly was generated by a football championship from that.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

So with the radio show, when you have a guest on and they're boring, how do we as an audience know that you think they're terrible? What are some key signs we know that this is a terrible interview, other than they're terribly boring?

SPEAKER_01 31:17

My questions get longer.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Do they?

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Yeah. You start you testify a little bit. It's a bad crutch, uh, but I try to give them longer ramp up uh to give them more to work with. Um but yeah, the shorter and punchier a question, the better the guest is.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Are you sad we don't have a comedy club so you can't have comedians on each other? We do have a comedy club, don't we? Do we? And then one here? Oh, silly rabbit. It's right over there. Block away from here. But they don't it's not like it used to be where Triple A was like in your face. Funny bun. Funny bun was like in your face.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Well, we've also got the uh thing off of Government Street in Mid City. Yes. I don't know what middle is. They have a comedy club and then they have uh Mid City, what is that? Uh that's the most like the it's what St. George should aspire to be. Oh my god. It's like where you have people that live there and they don't mind seeing other people and like they come together as a community.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

Yeah, they take a they take a four-lane major thoroughfare and make it a two-lane. Oh, and then don't plant anything in the middle. Well, they do. You know, beer.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

It dies regularly, but it's not about the the infrastructure, it's about the people who like want to be in a community with other people.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Oh, you mean crime. I got you.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean St. George. No, like yeah, it's it's it's St. George where you know, get the hell off my lawn.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

We gotta stop having your family members on the show. This is just too much. What?

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Mid City, that's a gentrified neighborhood, correct? Oh, thousand percent.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Wait, wait, wait, wait, which block? We're still working.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

So good. Hey, didn't you have a shooting across the street from your office?

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Yeah, but that was a child shooting another child. Oh yeah, that was that poor little girl died. Why did I just say that?

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Welcome to Baton Rouge. You have to cut that out of the show. We don't cover crime here. Fine. And it What about basketball, Haldane?

SPEAKER_01 33:00

What about it?

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Okay, can we fire the coach already? Is this a slump?

SPEAKER_03 33:04

Is this a slump or is this just a bad team?

SPEAKER_01 33:06

It's a poor sample size, it's a misleading sample size.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Which year?

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Because in year one, Matt McMahon had zero personnel on his roster. Okay. Why? Because Will Wade left us with eight pounds of garbage.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Hey, give me some context. What year are we in?

SPEAKER_01 33:24

We're we're finishing year four. Okay. Walk with me here. Walk with me now. Hang on. A lot of years. Year one, he had to start from nothing and had nothing. Year two, we went to the NIT tournament, which is miles worth of improvement. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Wait, wait. NIT tournament. That's when you're number sixty-nine and worse?

SPEAKER_01 33:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Got it.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Yeah, it's the next step up. Year three? It's the next step up above zero tournament.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

Okay. Year three was when NIL exploded and everybody decided to spend money left and right. And oh, by the way, LSU spent two million dollars when the SEC average was eight and a half. We regressed in year three because we had no personnel.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

Year four, we kept I'd be choking too if I had to explain this for this long. Edit the cough. Brutal.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Year four, we invest some money in NIL dollars. By the way, thanks for offering guests uh your woo some water. Um year four, we invest in the NIL dollars, and one third of that NIL budget was hurt for the conference season.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Okay. So that's where we are now? Yes. Year four?

SPEAKER_03 34:29

Yes. Hey, Dave, name a player. How much does McMahon make? Exactly. How much does he make a year? Three million dollars. Three and a half. Three and a half million?

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Hey, name a player on the team. So we're 14 million on this guy plus name a play name one player on this team.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Markel Sutton. Not you. Pablo Tombo. Let me go try to find Halloween. That's McKinnon.

SPEAKER_03 34:46

Let me go try to find Halday and some more.

SPEAKER_00 34:48

Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

No, I'll stand by McMahon. He is a very good basketball coach. His record is not indicative of who he is as a coach. And oh, by the way, if we fire him, who we're gonna go get? You're because we're not gonna see the investment in NIL dollars that you want to see. We're gonna do this.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

This is the this is the Florida baseball problem. Ish. You're expecting higher expectations. You've got some things in place, but we're not willing to make the investment.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Let's go pull another mid-major in here to s fail where he succeeded in his previous stop. Let's go pretend that somebody forgot how to coach basketball because we refuse to invest in it. And the one time we do invest in it, we lose an all-American for conference play and we lose a starter at the beginning of the year.

SPEAKER_00 35:35

So do you think we're apathetic enough to allow him another year?

SPEAKER_01 35:40

I think we are focused on football enough to make basketball more down that apathy road. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Because we're not willing to pay the money.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Absolutely. Okay. Not on a consistent basis.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

Are we ready to fire Jay Johnson and get this over with?

SPEAKER_01 35:52

100%. Get rid of Jay Johnson.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

I was going to launch, I was at the game on Sunday against Sacramento State. Yeah. I leaned over to my mother-in-law and said, I'm getting firedj Johnson.com.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

By the way, thank you for the water, Dave. You're welcome. Um no, uh Jay Johnson should be a lifetime pass.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Oh, I mean, I know.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

You win two out of three. I mean, that's that's pretty damn remarkable.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

Uh, but are you expecting the trolls to be out wondering why he can't win uh against Sacramento State? Sure. Dude, it's a rough benefit.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Give him three weeks of worth of conference play, and we will have forgotten about all of it.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Agreed. Agreed. They started.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Provided they start hitting the ball. Yeah. I mean, Omar Cerna went for a grand slam Tuesday night.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

So you coached girls' basketball for a while, but you've retired from that vocation.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

I'm over to boys' basketball now.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

What?

SPEAKER_01 36:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

James is playing? Yeah, oh man, you are moving on.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

Yeah. I miss my girls, though, man.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Girls' basketball's a girl.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Coaching girls, you tell girls to do something in basketball and they listen. They they do like you tell boys what you want them to do in basketball and they think that they're Steph Curry.

SPEAKER_00 36:55

Do you find that uh you have to be more sensitive when you're coaching the girls' sport versus the boys' sport?

SPEAKER_01 37:01

Absolutely not. Really? Absolutely not. No, it's it's all in how you build the program from because you're building young women, right? You want them to be strong. So from the start, you let them know I'm gonna be loud, but I'm not mad at you. From the start, you say I'm going to be blunt, but you're going to learn from it. Like, and then they're they come out stronger on the other side.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

Feels like therapy.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

That's a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

But it's it's all about growing. I mean, it's middle school basketball. Like, they're not gonna well, three of them will go on to play in high school, and none of them will go on to play in college. So you're you're building character, you're not building basketball players.

SPEAKER_00 37:38

Right there.

SPEAKER_01 37:39

Did you hear a coach? He says his daughter's really good.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

If if Abby listens to this podcast, he's really a first first problem. If she could find it and knew it existed, right, then she'd have to listen to it, which she wouldn't. Does she listen to does your family listen to the show now?

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Yes, on the way to school. Which, by the way, this is why, okay. There are a number of grown-ups who dislike the opening song that I have for the 7 o'clock hour. It's called Don't You Worry, Child, by the Swedish House Mafia.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

You still use that? That's been a while.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

That's your 705. You're gonna hear that song. That's Abby's that was Abby's favorite song.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:13

She's probably moved on from it since, but because she's in the car at that time, that's what she's gonna hear. So she daddy and daughter have a connection.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

Yeah. Well, that's nice. Does she know that her grandmother lives in the backyard? Is she allowed to be a good one? She might like the song, but that might be the game changer right now. Only if we leave the curtains open.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

You know what I'm feeling is we really should have had his mom on the show. That we could have gotten some good information. We could have gotten some good info. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

No, my mom spills info on me.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

It's just Hey, let's see if we can get in touch with her.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Talking about like childhood trauma unpacked.

SPEAKER_03 38:48

No. I feel like if we promised her she could stay in a place with running water and maybe some food, she'd come on the show. I feel like she's still in this change. She's not leaving.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

Does Dave get her some water? Is the name of the show catching strays?

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

Good lord. Oh, this is way better than our other guests. We had to be nice to some of them.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

Well, man, um, it's dude, we appreciate you coming out, Brian. Thank you. Of course. Yeah, if you if you um so you can stay with us and do the news.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Yeah, let's do the news.

SPEAKER_03 39:19

Well, let's uh we can catch. I got one more question.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Who's gonna be the new morning show for Eagle 98.1?

SPEAKER_03 39:26

Oh, I was thinking about bringing that up, but I that's a hot topic. I didn't want to.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

I didn't say anything about the circumstance. I'm just asking.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

As soon as I know, I'll tell you. Oh. I asked him if he wanted to come on and do the podcast. He said he did. Breaking news. We gotta wait till he, you know. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

I told him when he's ready. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

I left it at that.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

That's a legend, man. Yeah. Open door. Look, it's a we might not work together anymore, but I'm gonna love him for the rest of my life.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Oh, yeah. No, I like I like his uh I like his both of them, by the way. Uh least favorite person you worked with in radio. You talk about all these people you like. It could be you. It might be. Look, I'll tell you now. This is the time. I am absolutely several people's least favorite person in radio.

SPEAKER_01 40:06

You don't have to say so. See, there's there's the laziest person I ever work with. Oh, who's that? I'm not saying his name out loud because people love him. Um prefaced. Um least favorite person I ever work with in radio. That's a that's a tough one. Um I don't think I've got to be.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

We're thinking of the same person. You're right. We are we are we are.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

I'm just I still work in I'm still working radio, so I don't want to burn that bridge.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

That's fair. That's fair. That's the only company you haven't worked for yet. That's yeah. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 40:40

It's good that y'all on the same wavelength about that.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Yeah, the rest of the audience has no idea.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

So catch Brian How Dan on Talk 1073. You can stream it on Facebook in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

Facebook or YouTube. YouTube. Uh, I'm not watching the stream on YouTube, so if you want to comment, come over to Facebook Live.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

Uh I try to be as interactive as possible, but as Dave mentioned earlier, I'm terrible at that.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

So they got anything else going on, Talk 107.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Um, I mean, so Moon Grafon comes on after me.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

No.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

He's statewide. Um, so we keep it pretty local. I mean, it's still, you know, it's still within the state.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Only statewide guy.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

For now, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

Okay. Oh, that was some breaking news.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

No, no, no. It's breaking speculation. Okay, fair. Goals and aspirations.

SPEAKER_00 41:23

I gotcha. Savagate goes statewide. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 41:25

Okay. So yeah, 1073. If you still have a radio, Facebook, and YouTube. You can catch up, Brian, from 5:30 to 9. 6 to 9. 6 to 9 on on and uh check it out. Um, so for the rest of the show. Yeah. Now what? Let's go into the news.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

What you got?

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Yeah. We're gonna, we're gonna, we have uh three stories this week local news that um that could have been the Savakate articles, but they weren't. They had Savakate potential, we like to call it. You didn't have to do anything with them. Yeah, well, we did with uh one of these at least. Um Landry, Governor Landry pushes the QR code stickers to replace traditional vehicle inspection stickers. Now that's a real story. That's a real story. Um not sure if there was any details in this story, if if he's just gonna replace the inspection sticker with the QR code. Don't don't don't know, but uh that's his that's his offer. I'm not sure where he's going with that. Brian? Did you read about it?

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Did you Yep? Uh so the fee for the sticker doesn't go away. It will get reduced greatly, but you won't have to go through an inspection. Basically, you point your phone at your QR code and fork over a couple of dollars. I don't remember the exact time. I want to see.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

So we're just paying money for the right to have the car.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

We're paying money because there's a fiscal note to this bill because the money from the inspection stickers pays for our state police.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

Yep, and it's about a ten million dollar hit if you eliminate the event.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

So, yeah, the inspection stickers that they run what, 17 bucks apiece? 18. Yep. And um, yeah, if our state police rely on that money. Yep. So you can't subtract that without some kind of offset.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

So the the less than 50 percent of us who go get our cars inspected annually as law-abiding citizens are paying that bill, so the other 50 percent don't have to.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

So the other 50 percent, by the way, my inspection sticker expired in 24.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Why would you say that?

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Well, because hopefully it won't be a law anymore.

SPEAKER_00 43:20

Oh, that's fair. He's trying to he's trying to make it to tell you the truth. Every year they've brought this is the third or fourth straight year this bill's been brought up.

SPEAKER_01 43:28

Third, but this is the first time they're not just blanket eliminating it.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

Yeah, so every year I sat there and waited to get the inspection sticker until after the session.

SPEAKER_03 43:36

If it expires close to the session, you'll never say it now.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Every single person who lives on the west bank of Baton Rouge in West Baton Rouge right now is like, yeah, we can't do that. There's a checkpoint every day for them. But us, you know, I could wait for it and just not go to Port Allen. So the so the QR code is not gonna be on your vehicle, is that what you're saying?

SPEAKER_01 43:54

It's gonna be I believe it's on your vehicles to where like you can be checked to make sure it's up to date. But you You don't have to pull into the station, turn on your right blinker, turn on your left blinker blinker. I mean, and I grew up in the New Orleans area where we call it a brake tag. And the only thing they don't check is the brakes.

SPEAKER_03 44:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:11

Those are important on a car.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

Fairly important. I feel like we've made it to a point to where you shouldn't need an inspection sticker, a paper registration, a paper insurance. I feel like all that should be tied into the plate, which is read automatically now by these license plate readers in the unit. So why do you need any of that stuff?

SPEAKER_00 44:29

I I'm inclined to agree with you. If you could access all of it through a license plate, right. Cut the chase, verify the insurance. Verifying insurance is more important to me than an inspection sticker. If we got this population that doesn't have insurance and they're out in the roadways, well, one, uh, somebody gets injured by one of those people. And I've had clients who got hit by a driver who didn't have insurance. And you know what happens? It sucks. Yes. It's terrible for somebody who got hurt. Yeah. I want them off the road. Yeah. That's more I don't care about inspection stickers.

SPEAKER_01 44:59

Same. Well, and also because part of the inspection stickers, you don't want like the emissions from a car, like you're, you know, burning oil heavy and whatnot. Like all that stuff. Cars that were built in the last 20 years don't have those problems as regularly.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

25 years or older, make them go get some kind of inspection. But the rest of us, if you want to just charge us 18 bucks a year, add 36 bucks to a two-year registration and bury it in there, and no one will say anything.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Well, the problem is the people who have the car problems, they don't get inspection stickers. Right. They're not going anyway.

SPEAKER_03 45:28

Right.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Who cares?

SPEAKER_03 45:29

Right. All right, what else we got? 85 olds out there, Buicks and stuff, they're not getting inspections. They're not going through the line. Um, Senator Michael Eccles proposes naming New Mississippi River Bridge after President Trump.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Did you read this one? I did see that one because I saw what you did to it. Extremely smart move on his behalf.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

Agreed. Agreed. Spoke to him personally about it yesterday. Whether you like Trump or not, if you put the man's name on something that big, he is going to push it to the front of the line to try to get it done before he's out of office.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Yep. So interestingly enough, had Mike Eccles on my show and we talked about exactly that. Yeah. And that's exactly his reasoning.

SPEAKER_00 46:07

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 46:08

Hey look, stroking egos. Several people.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

I'd like to introduce the President Donald J. Trump Independent School District in the city of St. John.

SPEAKER_03 46:20

Noted. Fight me now. I don't know if that one will make it to the uh to DC as fast as it's just.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

It'll be the best school district ever in the history of man. Big beautiful school district. Most beautiful school in the history of man.

SPEAKER_03 46:32

This will be a school district that likes of no one's ever seen. Amazing. Genius move. I told him this yesterday at Cafe American. Genius move. Of course, there's still people like, I'm not driving over. And I'm like, the hell you're not. You will drive over it, and you will love every minute of driving over it.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

Fine. Don't drive over it. You don't have to. You're helping traffic. You can divert 30% of the traffic, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Maybe that's his ulterior motive. He's like, no Trump haters will drive over it, and we can eliminate 30% of traffic. America's first genius conservative bridge.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

46% will not drive over this bridge. Excellent. Eccles solved. Eccles great move. That's 3D chest. That's correct. But now 100% aren't driving. That's right. That's right. Genius move, though. So yeah, this advocate did a little take on that. The problem is what this does, if this really works, this is a gateway drug. The moment this works like this, we're gonna be naming everything Donald J. Trump. If it pushes it to the front of the line funding wise. Welcome to the new Donald J. Trump loop.

SPEAKER_03 47:38

Very curious to see how this goes.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

I don't think Trump can pull the loop.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Sorry, R Lady of the Lake. It's the new Donald J. Trump Arena. I love it. Fantastic. Donald J. Trump Blue Bayou.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

As long as it's open, I'm down for it. That's right. The only question about this is like so I do a weekly hit on Corey Johnson's show in New Orleans every Tuesday afternoon I go on his show. And he was saying a sitting president shouldn't name something after himself. And I'm like, well, Herbert Hoover would disagree.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

Right. I mean, and for that matter, so would have wasn't the Kennedy Center named after Kennedy while Kennedy was still alive?

SPEAKER_00 48:17

He had to go all the way back to Herbert Hoover. It's the biggest reference. Look at every project ever let sitting anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

Sitting.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 48:28

George Bush Airport didn't become George Bush Airport until after he was president. Reagan didn't become Reagan.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

I'm talking about like if you go look, politicians have been doing this since the beginning of time.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

I'm telling you now, somewhere in the Roman Coliseum, you know, somebody Caesar is etched in stone on there. Every time we have a road project, you got to look at the mayor's name blown up on it. They're all sitting politicians. That's it. That's what they do. Yeah. Yeah. Good point.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

You don't think I want to name a bunch of stuff under myself? And if anyone if if that's been a thing, the guy to break the chain is Trump. Let's face it. He'd be the one to do it, you know. Well, why are you waiting till you're dead? You can't enjoy any of it. It's a stupid rule. No one wants it.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

I'm not saying dead. I'm just saying out of office. And oh, by the way, if they start building it today, he will be out of office by the time it's built.

SPEAKER_03 49:15

They start building it five years ago. This thing got up to three billion dollars. Interesting. The last one built in St. Francis was 400 million. Well, I mean, we didn't do as well.

SPEAKER_00 49:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

Yeah. Didn't do as many studies on that. Insane at how much it's gotten up to. Great material for us, but insane. They don't have a spot where they're building it yet, right? That's still in Limbo.

SPEAKER_01 49:35

So they're down to three spots. They're within a mile. It's like less than a half a mile between the three spots. It's really stupid how the environmentals are working out right now. Um, but they're just gonna have to pick one because they're all the damn same. Sure. But all three have like, oh, there's a cypress tree here that you can't.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

Oh, is that a frog? We have frogs in deal. Representative so-and-so owns a lot of land right here. They're waiting for all those deals to close, so they pick a spot, is what it is.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

That that district just turned over. So Representative So-and-so is uh brand spanking new.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

Saying who somebody owns the land right there for a reason.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

Somebody's speculating. We uh we have some emails and text that um Do we? Yeah, we we actually got quite a few none about um uh Mr. Haldane, but I'm sure next week they will be. Next week. He was controversial. He'll probably get some uh text about his mom. Is that what I am now? Very controversial. I think we'll have some texts and emails about his mom's situation next week. Probably elderly remains. We might have them now. I just can't show you.

SPEAKER_01 50:30

Should I set up a GoFundMe before I leave?

SPEAKER_03 50:32

We need the attorney general to weigh in. At least get her a tent with an air conditioner.

SPEAKER_01 50:36

I mean, well, that's why you have a tent so you get to even float.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

She's so wonderful.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

Maybe that's because she Mrs. Halday and I apologize that we uh we let in that you were making some money, and uh, if your son shakes you down for something. She'll never have grapes again for my kids.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Fractions of grapes, apparently. Fractions of grapes.

SPEAKER_03 50:51

It was like two fifths. Um, yeah, we got some uh we got some emails. You can email us at podcast at the savicate.com or you can text us at 225-255-2480, and we will read them on the air as long as they're not vulgar. You can bash us, you can comment, questions, anything you want. Why are you discriminating against vulgarity? Um, first email. Hey, I was wondering if y'all are writing in any St. Patty's parades and throwing green merch. We don't have any green merch. You don't have a green cup laying around? I I do, but it doesn't say the savagate on it. That's a good thought for next year. Um, but no.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

I like how it's open in about any St. Patrick's Day Parades. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:26

Yeah. I mean, there's one in the green. Dem Springs has one this year. Yes. I think it's the first one.

SPEAKER_01 51:32

Okay. Well, you your boy over here is in the Metary Parade on Sunday. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 51:37

Check out how Dan in the Metary Parade on Sunday. And it's uh you're throwing stuff?

SPEAKER_01 51:40

With the committee. Well, yeah, I'm up in front marching with the committee and handing out the flowers and throwing a little bit. But yeah, I don't ride, I march.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

So that's legit. Excellent. Um, you know, so when's the last time you did the Baton Rouge version?

SPEAKER_01 51:56

Road in it? I've only rode in it once.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

Is that a for-profit parade or is it for charity?

SPEAKER_03 52:01

Dude, no idea. With the what they charge, it's absolutely they must kill it. It's so expensive. Megan some money. Put a float. It's so expensive to put a float in there.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

It's the best parade in Baton Rouge, though.

SPEAKER_03 52:11

I agree. Okay. When is the governor coming on the show and can I come co-host? We're gonna get Jeff Landry on this show. I think the governor should come on this show. Now, the show might have to go to Landry.

SPEAKER_01 52:24

Yeah, you're gonna have to go to him.

SPEAKER_00 52:25

We can do that.

SPEAKER_03 52:26

It's mobile. Yeah, let's he can absolutely be on the show. Yeah, we're not gonna be. And um, yeah, and you can't come co-host, absolutely not. No, absolutely. We might not be able to get into the mansion.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

No, no. So hey, that that would mean our question for Brian. Brian, is the Savagid podcast media? Yes. Should we get a press pass? Yes. Excellent. That's all I need to hear.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

Can we get down LSU uh field during games with this? Yeah, we get on the field. Let's get us to LSU. All right, what's the point?

SPEAKER_01 52:54

You probably can't get a field. Well, I you know, I don't know. We know you. Why why do you need to go? Hang on. Why do you need to be on the field if you're audio?

SPEAKER_03 53:02

To watch the game. We're not we don't care about the show.

SPEAKER_01 53:04

We just want to watch the game. You can see the game from the press box just fine.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

Sounds of the game.

SPEAKER_01 53:09

That's no, it's wrong. You can wrong.

SPEAKER_03 53:12

Where do I apply for an LSU press pass?

SPEAKER_01 53:14

With the LSU office. I control it.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

One deal. Brian's dead to us. One deal. Not gonna help us.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

He's gonna he just said he's gonna help us. I produce radio. I have no poll.

SPEAKER_03 53:23

We got McMain on our side. We got McMain. Yeah. I just got him on the show. We can get wherever we want to. Sounds like it. I feel like we're in. Um, email number three. We don't need more studies for a bridge. We need a bridge. Ready to study whether we need a study for a bridge. Now, DOTD is going to launch a study as to whether or not we need more studies or we just need construction. Good job. Thank you for that email. Yep, that's all they needed to hear.

SPEAKER_01 53:48

We don't need a study. So you just build it in the mud and slop so it can fall down. Love that.

SPEAKER_00 53:52

Okay, to be fair. Love that. To be fair. More studies. Not studies, more studies. One study is fine. Sure. What number are we on? I think what really aggravates people.

SPEAKER_01 54:02

With these three locations, we're on environmental study number one for these three locations.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

Listen, let me tell you what aggravates people. It's not the environmental studies. That aggravates them. What aggravates them is a feasibility study. Yes, all you have to do is fly over Interstate 10 any time of the day and realize, yep, there's a need for a new bridge. Let's move on to a location that's environmental, right? There's a need for it.

SPEAKER_00 54:24

You know what they secretly want to do, though? Take our cars away. They don't want to build a new bridge. They want to study cars.

SPEAKER_03 54:30

I made Erica.

SPEAKER_00 54:31

That's our conspiracy theorists.

SPEAKER_01 54:37

Right there.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

Well, I mean, I every time I listen to a consulting study on building roads, and this would be part of the Government Street road diet. The research tells you the bigger you make the road, it automatically fills up with more traffic and it does not solve the problems. The research tells them to shrink the road, Government Street, and you'll have less traffic.

SPEAKER_01 54:58

The hope on Government Street was that people would actually change their habits and move over to North Boulevard, which I have to myself right now, and I love the elbow room. I can swerve back and forth between lanes and not touch anybody. Everybody chooses to sit there.

SPEAKER_00 55:12

There's so little traffic, the stray gunshots can't even hit people.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

No, you're yeah, it's it's exactly right. But what everyone's just gonna sit on government street just waiting. Like as opposed to, oh, I can't go over to Florida Boulevard, I can't go over to North Boulevard.

SPEAKER_03 55:26

Yeah. No, and I think it's a great idea, but my argument when that was a thing was what about the businesses who moved onto Government Street because of the abundance of traffic? Now you're telling them your rent's gonna stay the same, but everyone's gonna be on North Boulevard. Uh business community, that that's I mean, that's a huge deal.

SPEAKER_01 55:43

Yeah. You have to agree. It is. Well, which ones would have lost business along the way, though? That's because there's no business on North Boulevard.

SPEAKER_03 55:51

That's all residential, backside of Baton Rouge High, and then what I'm saying is if you're moving people off Government Street that are passing all these businesses to North Boulevard, it's not fair to them.

SPEAKER_00 56:01

My argument would have been you got too many schools on Government Street, so carpool is a nightmare.

SPEAKER_01 56:06

Carpool is a nightmare on Government Street.

SPEAKER_00 56:12

And it's your it's your direct uh roadway to get to the arena and the exhibition space. Yeah. So it wouldn't have been the choice. Well, I understand the research because I have to look at it all the time. That would not have been my choice because of all those factors I don't think they really considered when they did the road diet, as opposed to choosing Florida or North Boulevard.

SPEAKER_01 56:32

I don't think they really listened to a whole lot of people when they did the road diet. I think they had their plan in mind. I understood their plan, disagreed with their plan. I got it, but you don't people don't change their habits. No.

SPEAKER_04 56:43

No.

SPEAKER_01 56:43

I I I could tell you like, don't put your hand on the stove, but if you're used to putting your hand on the stove, you're going to anyway.

SPEAKER_00 56:48

Well, there are roadways that are meant to move you from A to B, and there are roadways that are meant for you to stop along between A and B. Right. And government street is is a little bit of both. Right. You can't take that away, and that's what they did. So now the major roadway to our current major arena and exhibition space is now clogged with all this other stuff going on. Where it could have been another one of the roadways to downtown.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

That well, first of all, this is the closest I've ever ever heard you to promoting downtown. Secondly, especially an art an artery through Mid City as well. He's downtown St. George. So uh was plenty of room on Jones Creek.

SPEAKER_00 57:27

I think I said Jones Creek.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

You did. So secondly, is that the people who are looking to get up and down Government Street because of the business on Government Street, if they were the only ones there, it wouldn't be a problem. If the people looking to get from downtown out to Terra, Broadmoor, Sherwood, wherever wonderful areas. Yes, all three of them are.

SPEAKER_00 57:48

God's country.

SPEAKER_01 57:48

That's uh I live in Sherwood, so and we're we're in Broadmoor. So, like if you're looking to get from point A to point B and bypass all that, move your ass to a different road. Right. That was the mentality.

SPEAKER_00 58:01

Yeah. Yeah, well, that's exactly the problem. So, you know, I by the way, speaking of downtown Baton Rouge, I advocated and have advocated loudly for instead of this stupid train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, which is stupid, I advocated for a monorail system from downtown Baton Rouge. Ready for this? The purple line to LSU, LSU, and even beyond, all the way down to the Gardier, Blue Monet, La Berge area, the purple line. The red line from downtown down Florida Boulevard, all the way past BRCC, all the way to potentially you go as far as Livingston Parish. Love it. And the blue line, Rocket Science, downtown all the way out to Southern. And that would make way more sense than a stupid train in New Orleans. You should run for mayor. Of what?

SPEAKER_03 58:52

That rouge. Oh God, no. It's not a hot seat. You got a recall going and got 10 signatures. That's right. Hey, hey, maybe we should help with the recall effort and I'll get there. We can at least get them to 12. We're gonna get Edwards on while this recall is hot. When they get up to a dozen, we're gonna have him here.

SPEAKER_00 59:10

Brian, can you have the recall person on uh your show?

SPEAKER_01 59:14

I cannot get hold of the recall person.

SPEAKER_00 59:16

You tried?

SPEAKER_01 59:17

We got a Facebook times. Yeah. Sent some messages on Facebook. I don't have a phone number.

SPEAKER_00 59:22

You think this is part of hindering the effort?

SPEAKER_01 59:24

Scroll through a few of the boudoir photos that are on the Facebook.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

Do you think this hinders the effort to get signatures if you can't contact the person who's a bit of a hindrance, yes. You think that I mean, what if we wanted to sign? Maybe you should tell her you want to sign it. That's uh ten signatures. Ten.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

Sharon Weston Broom still has more supporters than that.

SPEAKER_03 59:43

Tell her you have a group of five people ready to sign. That's 50%. You're in. She will absolutely call you. I mean, that would be the saddest little protest ever.

SPEAKER_00 59:52

All ten people out there.

SPEAKER_03 59:54

Okay, moving along. Moving along. I thought the central mayor was going to be a regular guest on the podcast. That was the next text.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:02

So this is so you don't have this problem. Do you ever have Wade Evans on Talk On?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

As often as I can.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:06

Okay. Okay, this is maybe the problem. Yeah. He gets a free act. That's what it is. So you're telling me how dang treatment. So you're telling me Franz gets on the show anytime he wants. Wade Evans gets on the show anytime he wants. I can't beg to get on that show. You're an elected official.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:24

Open your texts right now. Point me to the time I've ever told you no. Ever.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:29

Y'all are family. That's right. I know. He doesn't tell me anything on it. You should be able to call him and say, man, I want to come on next Tuesday. He'd probably go, let's go. Done.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:36

Done. We'll see about that. We'll put that to the why are you trying to schedule me now? I gotta check my calendar. Wade. We have a ribbon cutting.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

Wade, we're gonna have you back on the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

Wade's gonna get back on the show. Wait, was Wade asking about getting Wade on the show? Yes. Because I would totally believe that.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:50

You get a suspect text every week that mentions Wade Evans. On our Facebook page. That is a thousand percent him.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:59

If you go to the Savagate Podcast Facebook page, and I encourage you to go and become a member, uh, join the group. Uh, you because you can see Wade Evans tag on every one of our posts. Yeah, it's great. I mean, there's got to be something. I mean, he nobody promotes uh nobody promotes Wade, but nobody promotes the city of Central better than Wade Evans. Yep. 100%. He's a dude. He keeps him in the news. There's no reason for us to mention central as much as we do. God love him. I do. Wade, you're coming back soon, buddy. I promise.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:25

You are a jewel in the crown of the East Battery show. I'll bet you when we announce Wade's show coming up, we don't get any text about Wade coming back. It's kind of weird. Oddly enough.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

For for at least for a month.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:35

At least for a month. Okay, here's one right up our alley, Andrew. They're building a traffic circle in Harveston to help the U Club residents out, but they're putting just a traffic light on Highland at PQ. Make it make sense. That's back Brian. PQ, PQ.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:51

Piku.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:52

Dave says.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:53

You see PQ? I mean, he's right. He spells Q. You don't hit a Q ball, you hit a Q ball. I think he's right. I think so. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:01

That's the problem. Like, I I I sit there and argue with him about it, and I'm like, ah, secretly, I think he's. PQ Lumber and Ascension Parish. Another shout-up. P-I-C-O-U. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying maybe it's been, you know, Barren's your foreman was misspelled forever.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:15

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:15

One hour. That is the most baton rouge thing ever. Yeah. If they want to honor somebody by misspelling their name on a sign.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:22

Well, and there was also like for over a decade, there was I forget which sign it was on Seagan Lane, but they inverted the I and the E.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:29

That is correct. We actually have ordered a sign to replace that. It's still misspelled? It was still it was misspelled to like not that long ago.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:36

Unbelievable. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:38

Traffic circle for harvest though.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:40

So to be fair, and traffic circles also called roundabouts. I secretly love them. I love roundabouts. I do.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:48

It raised my blood pressure.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

All the research indicates that roundabout is better than traffic light. Traffic light, it sits in traffic. People throw cigarette butts everywhere. There's crap on the road. It backs up traffic. It it messes up the flow, the roundabout. You're kind of moved once you get used to it, and it does take a minute. Once you get used to it, everybody's flowing, feeling the dance, doing the circle. You can decorate the circle and put stuff on it. I think I told you I wanted to put statues up in the middle of the roundabout. Nah, we're going to let the LSU art students do it. So it's their fault. So it'll be some weird abstract crap. Nobody knows what it is. It'll be great. You can even change it out periodically. We can even sell them. How about let's go all out. Put some petunias and some pans so landscapers can go nuts. I mean, God, tell me why you would not want this. Traffic lights.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:41

I want a statue of St. George slaying the dragon.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:45

Well, there's gonna be one somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:47

Yeah. Probably. Then you have like the pro-dragon people come out and they think it's that's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:51

That's right. They're gonna make some allegories about what the dragon is. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:56

So is it decided now it's gonna be a traffic light? Is that the latest?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:59

I I think that's it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:01

But is this this but this is also dovetailing with the whole part where you have to switch lanes?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:05

That's the diamond interchange.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:08

The Red Rover, Red Rover Interchange.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:10

Hey, by the way, the Red Rover that works interchange. I've I didn't know that was not this is not a St. George project. No, it's just a GOT project. Yeah. And I think civil engineers, I'm not gonna say they have low self-esteem, because that would be probably incorrect. But I think sometimes they're they're like, hey, we just build roads and I'm really bored building this straight road. This is boring. I really want to mix it up a bit. Let's switch them over. Let's let's switch them over while having the other lanes switch over at the same time. Won't that be fun? Totally.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:43

This is what I want in traffic is the DJ from House Party yelling, that's exactly right. No, I need Bilal over here. Listen that's played by Martin Lawrence.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:54

The traffic light at PQ and Highland is a story in itself, right? The real story is that eight years ago, they were informed, hey guys, we're about to build an interchange off of PQ at the interstate, so we're gonna be sending 50 times as much traffic down PQ to Highland. You have eight years to prepare. PQ and Highland is still a stop sign, two miles from this interstate exit. That's the real story here.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:21

In fact, I believe that's not a that intersection is not a 90-degree angle.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:25

No, it's a terrible interaction. Crane your neck like an hour.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:30

Yes. To a dead curve. Yes. Two dead curves equal. Death. White crosses. Side of the road. It's a stupid.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:38

So I believe uh business report, or was it was it 225? Was it Rolf? Someone did a an opinion, op ed, I believe, this week about it is insane that Highland at PQ is still a three way single stop sign, and they are now just trying to figure out what to do with it eight years after they knew this interchange was coming.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:57

So as far as red light versus roundabout right there. You probably have some terra firma to put underneath you because you've got drop-offs all over because you'd have to widen out, expand out to make a roundabout there.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:08

But there's a ton of property available. A ton. Like it's huge.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

It's a big thing. That build out might be a little bit too expensive, though. I'm going full Wade Evans right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:18

I believe Fred said it was only a million dollars difference from the light to the red light. I will tell you the St.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:25

George.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:26

That's an expensive red light then.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:27

The St. George resolution. All we asked for was that Piku be straightened. So we were presented, and this is what DOTD presented was two different results that they thought would be an A result and a B result based on their research. Not mine. Didn't do it. A was straight and Piku, so it's not a curve into a curve, so you don't have the blind curve anymore. And put a roundabout. They said that was an A solution. Their B solution was straight and Piku and put a light up at the end of it. That was their B solution. Those were the two best solutions, so they didn't offer any other solutions. What did they go with? Not straightening Piku at all. Throwing up a traffic light. And throwing up a traffic light and praying for the best.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:12

And it is going to be a massive amount of traffic. I have been getting off at PQ. Just it is a massive amount of traffic getting off. Because you're five minutes from Segan and I-10 to be in an airline in PQ. Well, it used to be take 10 minutes just to get off at Seagan. It is a massive amount of traffic.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:29

You know that road we really didn't want traffic on. Yeah. Can we funnel as much traffic as possible there?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:36

Drew and I joke about one day we're going to bring the show to the corner of Piku and Highland. Do the show from Piku and Island with video. Yeah, until a car hits us. Well, but but it would be that would be realism.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:47

Very real. Most listened to episode ever.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:51

At least the first half of it. Rewind, rewind, there's the moment. Um one of you has to live to post it. Last uh text, where can we see a lineup of future guests if this exists? It does not exist, but we are booking a lot of future guests, and I will start posting them a little more frequent on the Savicate podcast group on Facebook.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:10

Stream Brian, you got any good guests coming up that we can steal?

SPEAKER_01 1:08:13

Uh absolutely. Franz.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:17

He said he'd come do the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:18

More than happy to share everybody. My entire Rolodex is yours.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:21

I just realized we have quite a discrepancy because we record on Wednesday mornings, and I believe Mr. Haldane said Franz is his guest every Wednesday morning. So maybe maybe uh miss out on Franz. Sorry, Franz, we can't have you, buddy. Sorry. Nothing we could do.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:38

I'm sure he's fine.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:40

Why don't we bring the podcast to Haldane Show and do it on Wednesday morning? We'll just sit outside. From the studio. We'll just sit outside the studio.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:47

I am so like, yes. Do that.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:50

About that. In the studio. Brittany, you hear that? What about doing the Savagate podcast at the Haldane Show? Live. Live. That we just cut in okay. I'm here for that. Right behind him.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:03

Right behind him.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:04

In the studio with it's not a big studio.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:06

I've seen it. I've been there. Yeah. And the door is always open. You don't even have a door, do you?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:10

Yeah, we have a door.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:11

Okay. On the studio itself, not in between the producer and the Sometimes I'm offended by the advertisements behind you.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:17

That's well, how can you be offended by an advertisement?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:20

Well, because some of those are people that oppose St. George. I get upset about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:23

They're all people that pay me money, so I'm cool with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:26

I look, I get you. I get you. If they'd have paid us money, I'd have been much happier about it. I like I like my people. It's great. All right. Anyone else uh email us? No, that's it. That's it. That's it. If you want to email us or call us, or you want to text you want to email us or text us? How do you do that?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:39

Podcast at thesavigate.com or you could text us at 225-255-2480. And if they're good, we'll read them on the air.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:47

Excellent. Episode 19 of the Savigate Podcast. 19. Did you know we did 19 of these?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:53

I'm number 19. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:54

I'm the Tony Gwynn of the Sadvocate Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:57

God, how many people know Tony Gwen's number off the top of their head? Sports.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:01

I have a problem.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:02

That's pretty good. Hey, Brian, thank you so much for coming out, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:05

Talk 107-3 in the morning. You want to come on with Wade?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:11

Let's do that. Brian probably wants to get a word in there. Yeah, that's true. That's the problem. Hey, you know how we do the Wade Evans episodes?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:19

Siggo.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:19

Yep. Hey, uh, Wade Evans, central mayor, and then we actually leave. Turn off our mics and we leave. Come back like three hours later, and we just cut everything down to an hour. All right, thank you. Episode 19 of the Savaging Podcast.