Episode 35 - Talking St. George, Livingston Parish, and New Orleans

Dave and Drew are back for Episode 35 of The Sadvocate Podcast, breaking down the latest news, controversies, and unusual stories from across the Baton Rouge area.

This week, they discuss the debate surrounding St. George’s new street signs, the Denham Springs man convicted after $40,000 was discovered inside a wall, allegations involving a volunteer in the Governor Jeff Landry recall effort, and Baton Rouge becoming the first Louisiana city selected for Amazon drone delivery.

They also examine District Attorney Hillar Moore’s continuing fight for additional funding from East Baton Rouge Parish government and the reaction to the Louisiana Department of Health ending certain condom-distribution contracts.

Then, Dave and Drew respond to listener questions about Sadvocate tumblers, the AP meme guy, the long-awaited Adventures of Siegen Lane guest, Wade Evans’ next appearance, and whether conditions around Siegen Lane are beginning to improve.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:06

All right, Savaket Podcast, episode number 35. This is Dave and Drew. Uh Dave Rapolo, a writer at the Savaket, uh, is one of our hosts. And I'm Drew Merle, the other host, St. George Councilman, local attorney. Uh, and you know, a bonus episode for the week. Uh, probably a good idea considering how many edits we had to make to the last episode. Yep. Uh if you think, if you think the content of the last podcast was harsh, and I'll say probably our our our most explicit con uh podcast we've ever done, you didn't hear the stuff we cut out of it.

SPEAKER_02 0:41

Yeah, it started out at three hours and twenty-two minutes, and we cut it back to about six minutes after we cut all the uh uh very yeah if you want to go back and hear it, you can tell me what parts I missed.

SPEAKER_01 0:50

What should I have edited out? Yeah, it's only eight minutes, so it won't take you long. It's a lot. It's a lot, yeah. So uh fun episode. If you want to go see the Ascension Parish Department of Memes, uh Mark Belgard, his interview is up right now at the Savagate Podcast, Savagate.com, Apple, uh, iTunes, all the places you get podcasts. Go check it out. Tell us what you think. I think we're a little more, maybe a little more laid back than Mark's intense.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Yeah, you know, I think I think uh I'm I think he had an ulterior motive though for coming on the show, Drew. Well, did you notice? He's posted nothing but Baton Rouge. Did you notice stuff since that interview?

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yeah, it's been a string. I don't know, you know why, because he finally came to Baton Rouge and didn't get blasted. He left, he left the cozy confines of Ascension Parish.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

So I think I think he uh I think he Trojan horsed us. You know what he saw? He saw a bunch of roads that didn't have open drainage ditches on the side and didn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Uh that's true. Maybe he came through St. George and saw them beautiful street signs and was like, this is the way. He saw some landscaping. I'll tell you what he didn't see. Any homeless people begging.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

He did not see that on Seagan Lane.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

No, and I think that's how he comes in. So may have seen it. So, in all fairness, though, I did immediately do an Ascension Parish post. That's exactly right. Maybe that was just uh, you know, retribution.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Which is funny because we talked about the gap in Livingston Parish where we feel like there's some meme opportunities there. So to have the two sites fighting over the same territory feels like in the land of gang warfare, we should just turn our attention to the LP.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

You know, our page covers really anything, Louisiana. We like we like the low-hanging fruit, Baton Rouge in New Orleans. We do branch out, we've got some new road stuff in there. But I would think the criteria for the sav get's funny.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Yes, right. Funny, yeah. You might get a meme.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

The second criteria is that it's got to be a new story that's gotten out there, it's engaging. You throw up a joke, if no one knows the real story, it it looks kind of crazy. Most of the time they click it and investigate it.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

You're also more story-based and less less meme. More story-based.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Correct. Yeah, we've uh we've changed to more story-based, but it's crazy that we have Chris Hansen right next door in Livingston Parish. He's probably there every couple weeks doing a show with them.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

And we don't write about that. I don't know why. So you got Jim Kit and Tori from the Weather Channel, spends an inordinate amount of time. He was dating someone from here. They're dating somebody from like the Monroe area. I think she's like 30. We're talking IQ or we're talking Delgado-esque age indifference.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

You're talking about the college, right? Delgado.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Belichick age indifference. Oh no. Kind of in that category. So he's here that often that he could definitely troll high schools and area colleges for girlfriends. And you get the same thing with Hansen, right? He can knock on trailers all day long. Yeah. And possibly catch a predator. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:38

And so we we probably Mark and I might get together and uh and do a little uh Livingston Parish uh moonlighting.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

I'd like to say find the positive that we're actually trying to address the problem, and maybe that's what it is. I'm positive there's something funny to post about in Livingston Parish. I guarantee you when the party starts, it may not stop. That's right. Maybe a lot going maybe a lot going on at Juben.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

We we actually have a Livingston uh category on the webpage, I think, and and mostly we get a lot of user uh input to post there. But it's as funny as the stuff is there, uh Baton Rouge is just such it's just so content rich. I mean the hits keep on coming, right? Yeah, it's hard to step out. Hit after hit after hit. It's hard to step out, you know. And I mean eventually we'll probably cut everything out and just do Baton Rouge. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Hey, you know what? If if Baton Rouge will quit having uh politicians get indicted.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Oh, I think it's gonna be just the opposite, though.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Oh, I know. I I think you got at least a few more years of good content coming.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

And and now that um the uh lovely uh attorney general is really upset with uh Democratic politicians, it might come sooner than later.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

I feel like yeah, I feel like we want to I want to call it the Battle of New Orleans too. It's the Battle of Louise, South Louisiana.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

Let's just let's just say the Battle of South Louisiana.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

And the the the governor and the attorney general are about to ride in and invade.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Yeah. I I I would like to read their texts or listening on their conversations because I have never seen two people more pissed off than they were about all that BS uh recently. So it's gonna be a lot of fun and we'll be happy to be a part of it.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah, the best part of New Orleans is why focus on roads, drainage, and the fact that your water and sewer board is a troat. You can't drink the water in New Orleans. Let's focus on indicting an attorney general instead.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

The attorney general who could, you know, probably help us plenty if we played nice with her, right? She could probably give if I'd like to see the left and the right, especially in New Orleans, right? I'd like to see them come together and say, listen, guys, here's the deal. We both have different ideological, you know, viewpoints. Let's come together and let's do something unprecedented and let's do something right. I think she would be willing to work with them, maybe would have been, but now I'm not so sure if they extend the olive branch, what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Well, you have this gym that is New Orleans, right? One of the historic cities in America, a city that predates America, that's got this wonderful rich history and culture, if I can still use the word culture. You can't. Uh I can maybe um it's got all this wonderful things about it, except for the people who run it. And it's been long enough now, 50, 60, 70 years of crap, and the roads are terrible, impassable, you've got drainage that's awful, you have floods when it shouldn't. And we need it to do better. It's supposed to be a it should be a wonderful city. How about a little political trivia? Oh.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

What year was the last Republican mayor in power in New Orleans? Oh, I'll bet you miss it. It has to be I'll bet you don't get within 25 years of it.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

Never.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

You're wrong.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Oh, wait, wait, Reconstruction. Sorry, 1866. Damn it, you got it by one year, 1867.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Was that right? Yes, it was 1867. You get credit for that. 1867, the last Republican mayor of New Orleans.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

Forced to be the mayor. But that voluntary.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Yeah, but that Republican governor and Lewis Morrell are just destroying New Orleans.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

All the MAGA people in New York. I'll tell you from a law standpoint, New Orleans has always uh treated itself like it were special. And because of that, it's always there's always been carve-outs for New Orleans, and a lot of them, uh the criminal clerk at court being one of those, only parish in the state that's got two clerks of court, one for criminal, one for two clerks. Makes no sense. Right. Only place in the state where you record a mortgage somewhere else entirely, yeah, other than a clerk court, it makes no sense. And so all these carve outs need to go away. We need a little more state uniformity, and it just makes doing business easier. It makes it for the citizens, it's easier.

SPEAKER_02 7:54

I would venture to say that I thought Helena Moreno would come in with a whole lot more common sense and go to come to the capital city, not for a hundred and twenty five million dollar loan, but go there and go, listen, red, blue, left, right, whatever. How about we do something good for New Orleans? Everybody wants something good for New Orleans. Even though Baton Ridge is the capital, New Orleans is it. How about we do something good? Let's put all of our political beliefs aside, all the right, wrong, whatever. Let's do something good for New Orleans. Here's my olive branch. I thought she would do it. I met her, and she seemed like a very level-headed person. Did not see that she was gonna jump right on the bandwagon and Drew, you're a politician.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

What?

SPEAKER_02 8:36

If the mayor. You gotta be a politician if you're if the mayor ever, yeah, if the mayor ever gathered the council at St. George and says, hey, yeah, I got this letter from the Attorney General. Yeah, we're gonna try to throw her in jail. What would you, a level-headed person, do? Uh, I resigned, I don't want any part of this. Why not? Not I, not I.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Why would you do that? I think that's the the really scary part is the lack of understanding on the law. That to me is one of my bigger problems. Look, it's focused on you now. I think that's my biggest concern is yeah the that that's the idea they had. That was their best plan, was that.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

And that concerns me.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

No, that was that was bad.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

The other part is I I what I gotta know about New Orleans, is it crazy that runs for that office, or is it that office that makes you crazy? Ray Nagan, by all intents and purposes, pre-Katrina, was a smart guy, very level-headed, ran energy, everybody liked him, gets into office, did a couple of positive things early on, and then all of a sudden goes nuts, goes to prison.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Yeah. So what happened? Is it the office? Is it seeking the mayor of New Orleans that makes you crazy? Chicken or the egg. Or both. Yeah. Maybe some, maybe some part of both.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

But it's just crazy that any body of officials would look at the letter she wrote and go, I think we could get her thrown in jail for this thing.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

That'd be insane. Let's all sign off on this. It'll be great.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

It's gonna be a good, it's gonna be a great, great uh turn of event. The entire thing is gonna be fantastic to watch. I'm looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

I'm very excited about the future of of New Orleans. Yeah. Now that I realize we're going to go this direction, um It's gonna be awkward when they come to town for another loan, isn't it? Yeah, I mean it'd be real weird. Hey, how you how are you gonna uh get those pumps working if uh you got no money? We did an article that they're gonna the state said they're gonna need a co-signer if they come back for a lot of I think they're like a billion dollars short, if I remember correctly. Something stupid. Yeah, it was. Welcome to New Orleans. Yeah. All right, so we've got some other news going on. What happens? Uh what else you want to talk about?

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Yeah, we got some news. Uh apparently new uh new St. George street signs have sparked a little bit of a debate. Um and I I want to take this moment on behalf of the city of St.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

George to officially apologize. Take ownership for the misspelling of the O'Neill sign above the other O'Neal sign, which is spelled crazy.

SPEAKER_02 11:05

Eight inches above the uh other O'Neal sign.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

I mean, to be fair, I guess if it's a guy out there doing it and he's not paying a lot of attention, he's just trying to get his job done, he may not realize they're the same exact spelling because why would you have two roads that are virtually the same name connecting to each other? Yeah. But whoops, it happens. We're not perfect. I think it's a wonderful example of we are flawed just like everyone else. We will get it right, we'll redo it. Yeah, I uh I called someone right after I saw it and asked to go get it down.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

He said he would be uh he'd be right on it. Yeah, so I'm sure it's probably down by now. But personally, I don't like the signs. I I had no say so in it. I'm not a I'm I'm not I'm not saying I hate the signs. Yeah, and I'm I'm not saying I don't like them because um we could have done something else with that money. I'm just saying that the font is god-awful. It's very hard to read on the move. I feel like it's it's it's very nice looking, and I feel like when the kids start stealing and put them in their bedrooms, it's gonna look really cool. But on the street, I feel like the font should be like aerial type, easy to read, just bam, because you know you're moving. Yeah, and um so the contrast, the on the white on the black and the blue on white, I believe.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Yeah, if it the blue is supposed to be north and south, it's supposed to have a purpose. Yeah, and it that's north and blue. Always no directions.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

That's cool. I just wish the seal maybe could have left left been left out. It's hard to, it's hard to tell what it is. More room for the letters, more you know, legibility, but um not a big fan of the signs. Cool, unique, great, you know, great uh idea. Not a big fan.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

So I'll tell you how they actually got paid for. Uh, we we did not allocate additional funds for this. So basically, the private contractor that performs public works for us and uh the back office financial IBTS, they're a nonprofit corporation. So they have a cap uh that that they have on their profit margin essentially. And during that first year, uh they're trying to ramp up, they're trying to get services running. Some of the positions they intended on getting hired didn't happen immediately. There was a little delay for that. So they wound up at the end of fiscal year one with too much, too much money left over. It's a good problem to have. And so what they did was this was a part of a greater if you look at the uh landscape and you'll see, I think on Jones Creek, uh Sherwood Common, you see there was a uh drainage clean out in Inniswald, and the signs were all part of taking that money that they could have a normal company could have just kept it or banked it. So they literally donated it back to St. George? Kinda. That's kind of how it functions because they that was above what they were it was theirs to do with whatever they want. Correct. It was intended, and you know, first year sometimes you you intend on doing this or hiring this position, you don't find the right candidate, time goes by, or maybe you do something different instead. And so I thought that was a really neat function of hiring a nonprofit as your contractor, uh, a nice byproduct of it.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

And and made use of it. Short description what does IBTS do for St. George?

SPEAKER_01 14:06

So they do uh everything from you'll see public works for us, code enforcement, uh inspections, uh basically all of the city functions of St. George. DPW type stuff, DPW, uh back office accounting and finance permits. So it is the company that runs. Now they will sub out some of these processes. Sure. Uh you'll see a different for civil engineer, it's it's DDG for the most part. Yeah. Uh and you'll see some other companies brought in, but that is so that's so that's a whole pool of employees.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

We're not paying insurance.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

No pension liability, no maintenance, no, no. St. George doesn't own that car. We don't have the mechanic, we're not paying for the insurance on it.

SPEAKER_02 14:45

I remember uh that being one of the selling points. And that's it.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

So every year, and right now it wouldn't matter, but in 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, we get down the road and you start incurring that long-term pension liability, instead of having the next year's budget saddled with legacy costs, legacy cost, not even services you get now, services you rendered 20 years ago, we will never have that problem in St. George.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

And I've always felt like when you sub something out to someone like IBTS, when you are not satisfied with the service, you're the customer. You don't have three DPW guys you got to go jump on because they they're not doing the job, threaten to fire them, then have to hire someone else, train someone else, deal with that. You go to your contact and go, hey, these weren't done right, get them redone, please.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

That's exactly right. And unfortunately for them, they've got to hear from uh you know, idiot city councilmen all day saying the unopposed ones or the ones who actually had an opponent. Uh the ones who walked right into the job. Yeah, that's right. Just just coast right in like they handed me something. Here, sir, you get it. Here's your golden envelope. You can do it.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

So uh yeah, the soda street signs didn't come out of St. George's directly out of St. George's. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

But in the future, you'll see that the goal is you know, year one really was about let's landscape, let's mow the grass, let's get some litter picked up. You see, we actually have litter patrols that we pay in addition to keep Tigertown beautiful to go out and do it. Uh so that's Vagrance picked up. Yeah. Yeah. The homeless initiative was part of that, getting them into rehab, getting them off the streets, uh, getting the felons out of that crowd so we can really address the ones that need help. Uh year one. Getting ready to run for office. I mean, I guess apparently someone. Well, you gotta at least get a suit. I mean, apparently you can you can be a criminal and and and do pretty well in government, I'm told. Um, but year two is really starting to change the aesthetic and the appearance beyond that, the permanent things. The signage will start changing. Uh you'll start seeing instead of the the the base level street signs and and and road signs, you'll start seeing the wrought iron post, things like that. So you'll start seeing that in year two and year three.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Nice. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. Moving right along, apparently a denim Springs man uh was found guilty. Um he was arrested and they found $40,000 cash and some drugs in the wall of his home. What happens to that money, Drew? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Wish I'd have known five minutes before they got there.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

The crazy thing is, if I remember correctly, it was $80,000 when they made the arrest.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

That's two questions. What happens to the money you found? And what happens to the money you didn't find?

SPEAKER_02 17:21

Money you found. That's right. Yeah, um, I think we did uh we did an article years ago uh about a drug bus with cash and it progressively got less, you know. Police reported $160,000 taken in. Uh immediately the $150,000 was placed in evidence, and the $140,000 is at the time the trial came around, the $10,000 was forfeited.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

That really is the second question, right? Yes. I kudos to turn in enough money so we don't look and the guy's like, hey, where's my money at? But at $40,000, oh, it's right here.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Right there.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

Yeah, nothing to see here. What are you talking about? And look, your trunk's open on your police car over there. No, nothing to see here. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

I'm all for using illicit money to better the department that makes the arrests or the, you know, um, you know, maybe we should uh start giving that to the DA's office before they go completely broke. Like everything.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

We solved the DA problem last week. Remember? They're all because I have a have an article in there about that. It's all going to work for the library. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Uh Hiller is gonna run the downtown library branch. It's gonna be great. And it's automatically gonna quite with having the uh district attorney's office in the River City branch, yeah, it's automatically gonna triple the number of patrons that come in there.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

It'll it'll it'll zero out the number of homeless people sleeping there. They're not gonna hang out with the cops. And if you don't turn a book in, you skip the arrest process altogether and go straight to prosecution because the DA is like I mean, it's called booking him, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:45

That sounds like a library term.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

It's a good one. Gotta keep that in mind. Saved it.

SPEAKER_01 18:49

Good one.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

Um moving moving right along. So we have this uh Landry recall going on, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Well, you know, we we have not had an update in quite a while on the Sid Edwards recall.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Um I feel like that's lost some steam. And it's only got a well weeks left.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

When the same person is trying to recall the state attorney general, the governor, and the mayor East Paton Rouge, she's probably having to focus all of her effort on one thing. Um, so I would be willing to bet anyone out there a thousand dollars, not a single one of these will make it to the ballot. Any of them.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Well, that's fair. Okay, but I would think if I'm in a recall, we've been in a petition effort before. Yes. It's a lot of work, it's very intense, it takes a lot of focus. How many signatures did y'all have to verify? 18, 17,000 before we got to the ballot. We need a half a million for Edwards. Very, very difficult to do. So very, very difficult to do. But bigger area. I'm saying, I, if I were doing that, a recall effort, and I'm clearly not, I would focus all of my effort and my attention on that effort. Singular focus, right? All I'm doing is this. I would not be doing the following.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

I would not be carjacking. It depends on what kind of car and how far you had to get.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Did we get a report on what kind of car it was? Nissan Versa. Oh, you shouldn't. She couldn't find an ultima.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

She couldn't find an ultima.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

So she just jumped right into the club. Maybe, you know, she's probably not a car person. She probably shouldn't be an ultima. Because why she saw the Nissan badge, jumped in it, goes, I got me an ultima. She saw Versa, and she was like, pulled out a gun and started shooting the first person. That's what set her off. People were laughing as she went back, is that a Versa?

SPEAKER_01 20:29

So she starts blasting. Literally gets out of car, wrecks the car, gets out of the car. And she's from New Orleans. And start, yeah, and she for some reason came to Bat Rouge.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

A mile from the governor's mansion and with a gun. With a loaded gun. Oh now clearly loaded shooting people. It was a 357 revolver. She's playing. She couldn't mag dump it. Can't play. Um, but yeah, uh, so when I saw the news article and saw the name, I have seen she has spammed the Facebook page for Savagate with some Landry Rico stuff. And she um she was uh affiliated with a group that was going around trying to um boycott restaurants who wouldn't put up ice, uh anti-ICE stuff. So I knew her name. When I saw the arrest, I knew it was just a matter of time before the governor found out she was affiliated with, he incorrectly identified her as the organizer. He was wrong. She was affiliated with at some point the recall. I knew he would. Yeah, she was blasting recall stuff, and she has a big following. So of course they immediately said, Oh no, we got rid of her, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Um, but she was posting stuff on the Savagate Facebook page less than a week ago. So either she's gone rogue or they didn't get rid of her. Doesn't matter. She's a bad seed, even for look, even for a recall effort, she's not someone you want to associate with.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Maybe we need a new term. Maybe we need a new term. And it's the activist. Activist, I I don't necessarily, I know it can have a bad connotation, but I'm not necessarily. Necessarily mad at the word activist. That doesn't denote violent behavior or derangement. No. We need a new vocabulary word that sums up people like that. She's literally going into businesses and saying, If if you don't post my angry point of view, I'm going to do everything I can to ruin your life.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

And she got on Facebook and I mean she attacked these people. I'm talking about some big businesses in New Orleans. That's not activism. No. That is hostilism. That's almost like domestic terrorism. I mean, you know, John Delgado used the term for the St. George movement. I feel like he can get away with it.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

No, take it off then. You cannot use Delgadoisms on this show.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

No, no. Um, so uh yeah, Landry, uh Landry got on and jumped on the back. Well, of course, he stirred the hornets and those boy, because inadvertently everyone shared it making fun of Landry, but didn't realize they were sharing that one of the recall organizers was a violent lunatic.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

You know, that group in general appears to have some internal issues that make success for them in any facet of life appear to be very difficult.

SPEAKER_02 23:07

Yeah, yeah. And they probably wouldn't come on the show if we asked them. Even though the main recall office is about three blocks from here. Really? I I would have her on. I'll email her. I think that would be fun. I'll tell her. Well, no, I couldn't do that to Landry. Tell her she could promote her recall here, but we only have like three listeners, so it wouldn't have been every time she mentions it, beep.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

We can just cut it out. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, man. The censor got that one. I missed that one. Yeah. Um what else we got? I mean, there's a lot going on this week. No wonder we did this extra show.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

Baton Rouge becomes the first city in Louisiana to receive Amazon's drone delivery system, and there's only about eight or nine cities nationwide. We were one of the first ones. And it's been going on for over 24 hours, and not a single one has been shot at.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

I think the assumption would have been. So it's got a seven and a half mile radius. So seven and a half. It gets Summer St. George, like I'm 5.9 miles. I am 6.5. So you gotta pay extra for this. I don't know that yet. I believe it's like $5 extra, something like that. Which seems to be productive. Small because it's gotta be five pounds or less. It's gotta be already at the distribution center. Like they're not waiting for it to come in. It's gonna be it's gotta be boom boom. Uh and then apparently it's very loud. I've heard that as well. It's very loud.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

It is not as loud as my Amazon delivery driver who drives through my neighborhood with the sliding door open, and whatever station he listens to on full blast, you can hear him coming around the corner.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

I believe you also pointed out because one of the comments has been, what happens when the packages are all damaged? I'm gonna say the drone is probably the safest way to get your package. It drops it from like eight feet. Some dude's not football tossing it to your door or drop kicking it.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Somebody commented today on uh one of the posts about it that up or yesterday, oh great, now people can be following this thing around and stealing the packages. I'm like, yeah, because that's never happened. Nobody follows the with this 20-foot billboard, it says Amazon, you know, nobody, you know.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Nothing to see, or they're not waiting and just walking by your door because it's there's packages in front of your door at all times.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

And and let's face it, for the first year, anyone that gets a message saying the drone is in the air, your package is on the way, there's gonna be them and 60 of their neighbors out front. We're gonna be playing family gatherings around the drone to drinking beer, having barbecue, we've got a bounty house, the drones.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

The drone's coming. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna be my Saturday entertainment.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

Yeah, we're talking, we're talking um the uh Amazon said there's over 60,000 items that qualify to be delivered, and they said um as long as two hours, but sometimes as fast as 30 minutes, depending on the traffic.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Well, I'd like I I I did appreciate the Savagate post that the drone immediately got stuck in traffic on the still there.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

The Amazon people emailed us today and said, listen, how do we get this drone out of the off ITIN? It's still there. Uh still there? Yeah, yeah. Stuck on the bridge. Uh haven't made it to the bridge yet. That's outside the uh radius. Uh it's right over College Drive over there trying to deliver a phone case or something.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Don't let my bridge reference ruin a good joke.

unknown 26:12

Right.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

We were gonna do the bridge, but I did the radius, it's outside the seven and a half miles.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Yeah, somebody would absolutely post. You know, the bridge is more than seven and a half miles from the oh, we'd had some haters.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

I would love that.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

So, yeah, Amazon um drones flying out of Cortana. Check your maps. Can we have local business? So, for example, if somebody wanted a Savagate tumbler, would we be able to put one in our own drone and deliver it to somebody?

SPEAKER_02 26:37

I don't know if I want to um fly my drone anywhere near the average Savocate listener or viewer, because some of them are really mad, and I don't think that will work. But believe it or not, Drew.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

Hey, you know who would definitely shoot down a drone? Layla Habib. 100%. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Especially if it was on I-10.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

That's all right.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Um we are we actually might be uh our the Savicate shop is uh back online, by the way. Very nice. But we have considered we have considered, since we're local to Amazon Hub, putting everything on Amazon and just linking everybody there. And if that was the case and you live seven and a half miles away, our tumblers and shirts qualify for drone delivery. So to answer your question, yes, so you can get a Savagate Tumblr delivered by drone. I didn't think you were gonna go that far with not from the Savagate drone service. Yeah, our drone drone service.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

Because I was thinking, could a normal business, I mean, could I get food delivered by the Amazon drone? I'm sure there's some dry goods that qualify. Or not even the Amazon drone. Could could a business put in, could a pizza place bring me a pizza via drone their own drones?

SPEAKER_02 27:45

I'm not saying that's not coming, but from what I read, Amazon had to do a lot of things to appease the FAA to make this happen. And I don't think the average, maybe some of the pizza joints might, but I don't think uh they're anywhere near that yet. Plus, I'm sure the Fs the FAA would probably want to limit if every business when you know you know the the drone the drone technology is coming to where it's affordable to buy a cargo drone or whatever, and there's gonna be software that you put an address in it, flies over, drops. But I believe the FAA is probably gonna stop it and go, we're not gonna have this.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Here's the thing. I'll tell you, I'd be super pumped, and I think most most of our listeners would agree if it delivered alcohol, which currently is not on the list, or because of alcohol, if it would deliver Taco Bell somewhere between midnight and 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

I could see I could see a taco, um, you know, or something, but I don't think they fly after dark. Taco drone. Taco drone or something quick, you know. Yeah. I was kind of amazed that the drone hovers and drops the package because believe it or not, I've been following this technology for years. And when Amazon came out with this idea, it was on April 1st, several years back. Yes, it was. And everybody's like, oh, I'm like, did you see the date? Like, ah, the original, which they might still have those, was a cargo drone with a cable that hovered 100 feet over your house and lowered it down with a cable and released it on the stealing the drones, I bet. I think they don't want people grabbing the cable or whatever, but you know, uh I but might have been a weight thing, it might have been something else.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

You know what'd be really good? A delicious Deerman's burger via drone.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

I don't know if Casey would he he might, but I think it'd be over the five-pound limit because them things are huge.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

Those things are huge. Couldn't it wouldn't work? I secretly get the kids' cheeseburger.

SPEAKER_02 29:35

Or you could get one, but it'll only like be able to fly like 200 feet because it's so heavy, the burger, you know, with the drone just keeps like bouncing off the I can't get clearance.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Bouncing off car roofs. It'd be great. Yeah. That'd be great. All right, what else we got?

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Um well, it's funny because you mentioned uh you mentioned Hiller Moore. Hiller Moore files to have appeals court review lawsuit asking for more funding from EBR parish government. I'm sure you know what this is about. I do know a little about this one. Yeah, the courts ruled that he had to include Baker, Central, Zachary, uh, and St. George. Sue everybody, you guys sue. You guys, if you sue one of them, you got to sue all of them. He objected, but did not want to go against the court. So he added everybody a week and a half, two weeks ago. Now he wants everybody removed.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

Well, I mean, he he must have read the state constitution, which says parishes. Is that saying the judge didn't read it? Parishes or misinterpreted it? I would never say that. I would never say that. Misunderstood. I I'm just saying that the state constitution specifically says that parishes are responsible for uh constitutionally mandated offices because they're parish-wide uh constitutionally mandated offices. I'm just saying. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Um but yeah, but uh let's face it, the DA needs some moolah.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

We we've offered many suggestions on this show in particular. Uh I've offered it privately and publicly different suggestions on how to to fix the DA's problem. And to date, they have no one has taken us up on any of those offers.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Maybe there's no one to do it because they're shorthanded.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

You mean the one with like 80-something? 80-something employees and seven and a half million dollar budget annually, yet they still outsource almost everything they do that group.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

A quarter of that would save the DA's office.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

I mean, yeah, get them in the right spot, right? And help the public defender's office, which we all think uh is is a necessary requirement. Um yeah, I think that librarians, that was another suggestion. Either we get them libraries, give them some library money, or make them librarians. Yeah, you know, you get that bill of information for that overdue book. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_02 31:47

Good luck to the DA. Maybe we could have him on the show. Maybe not a he's running for office, so he may definitely want to come off.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Forget the Dewey Decimal system. We need a docket number, is what we mean.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

You might like the idea of going falling under the library system. He would be flush with cash.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

He would have he'd be bathing in it. Yes, we could prosecute everybody. Everybody. I mean, they'd have so many employees. Yes, right. You could probably get Boosie to come back and work with him. Yeah, probably get MBA Youngboy. Yes. He's free. Trump pardon him, of course he can come back. Mystical's available. No. I'm told he's uh He's available if you're at Angola. Well, he's in one spot. You can find him. Yeah, yeah. He's not moving around freely.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

So um apparently uh the Louisiana Department of Health ended condom distribution contracts. Knew nothing about this, didn't realize we were paying to have condoms handed up.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

I'll tell you, the only reason I do know the answer to this. Um why do you know the answer to this? So when you start when I started LSU, oh back in the day. I thought you were a Southern boy. I went to Southern for law school, go Jackson. I went to LSU for undergrad. I I'm I'm a man of all people.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

So I went to LSU and like the first week, I can't remember her name. She comes in and gives this big speech on like sexual health as like part of orientation and gives out class was this? It was like an orientation for school for undergrad. And they gave and they gave everybody like a bag, like a brown paper bag full of condoms. It's like the first week of school, or like orientation, maybe. I don't know. I remember, I remember who somebody's gonna hear this and know exactly what I'm talking about. Um you think our you think our follower will hear it? The the one to LSU. One or two. I hope you're old enough because she was definitely there in the the mid to late nineties. Uh and yes, I know that. And if you go, if you spend enough time on 110, Interstate 110, a lot of condom aides get tested billboards in that area. And attorney billboards. And attorney bills.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

You guys are all all over the place out there.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Condoms and attorneys. Go hand in hand. When you think of getting screwed, you that hey, if you're gonna screw, here's this. If you're getting screwed, here's this. Uh that's a billboard.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

So the LDH pulled the funding from this, and and uh some people, some people got really upset, said uh HIV is gonna shoot through the roof.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Oh my god. You know, um these things aren't really that expensive, are they? Condoms are like the second part of that equation, though, right? What's the other way AIDS could stop spreading? I guess you get uh stop having unprotected sex. That's ridiculous, Drew. Step one.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

I mean, that's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

My concern, and look, I don't care if you give up free condoms. I think it's great. Um but my concern is always when you think that it's government's responsibility to do your job for you. Yes. And the moment you think that government has to be the end-all be-all for all the things you're doing, you're wrong. Yep. And I can show you a dozen examples of when people let government be all things to them, and it ain't good. Not a positive.

SPEAKER_02 34:47

I'm with you on that. Um, yeah, I did not know this was a thing, though.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

No, who knew? Well, like I said, that's the only reason I knew is the free condom lady. Um, very attractive lady. Remember, I remember I've never heard of Stankly.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Like I said, an ugly woman. I was talking about.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

God, I'm here at LSU. This is so great. This attractive woman is giving me condoms. That's gotta be a good sign, right? I was told when I went to LSU I'd meet a bunch of attractive women. I didn't think they'd be handing me these. Oh, never going to class. Yeah, so uh that's news. That's excellent. So that if you know, uh news tips, you could always get them at the Savicate. But we got some text and emails. Um got a couple texts this week. But if we're doing a bonus episode, we can do more of those. Yeah. Hey, if you want to text us, how do you get a hold of us? Uh well, you used to be able to email us, but it's only text now.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

You said no more emails. No more emails. Text is aware. Text only, you can text us at 225-255-2480. And if your text is relative to something you want us to uh talk about on the show or you want us to read your comment on the show, we will gladly do it. Much like much like we're about to do these uh five or six texts here. All right, let's hear it. Uh, first one is are those tumblers on the Facebook page for sale again? Now you may um have noticed that we changed the Facebook background to a set of red, white, and blue tumblers sitting on a picnic table. And a fourth of July barbecue. Couldn't be more American than that. Only thing we didn't have was an eagle in the background. Oh yes, they are available. I'm providing an eagle. We we um we have a shop that is a soft launch now um that you can buy all the colored tumblers and shirts. It is the sadvocate.shop. It's launched um and it is it is functioning, and you can buy it is uh in soft launch mode though. So check it out though. You can uh get them uh anything you buy, it's five dollar delivery or shipping fee. No drone, 10 or 20.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

No drones, no drones yet. No drones yet. Very important caveat. Yeah. I swear to god, the moment I see a drone delivering a savagate anything will be one of the best days ever.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Would that be sweet? That would be now we we won't deliver them by drone, but the guy who sometimes runs them around for me, I'll get him to stand in your neighbor's yard and chunk it like up in the air to where it lands hard. So it simulates Could we do like drive-bys? We just do a drive-by delivery. Yeah, and those would actually be free. We wouldn't charge you for that. That'd be a free delivery if we can just toss it at someone. Yeah, sign the waiver first. Yeah. Now, if someone steals your savagate tumbler off your porch, there's a hundred percent replacement, you know, uh deal we have.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

So uh I mean, I I would assume if a Savagate Tumblr stayed on a porch for too long, say an hour, yeah, somebody's stealing it. Yeah, we we wrap them in in plain white uh box so no one sees it, no one judges you. Yeah, we put Adam and Eve's on the side of it so everyone knows exactly what you just got.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

Yeah. Um, so yeah, flir. Thesavate.shop. It's uh mobile friendly and it uh it's working. You could buy um tumblers, uh shirts, and we have some other stuff coming up pretty soon. You'll be able to buy advertising on thesavigate.com for the shop.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 37:51

Um, yeah, Drew Merle uh law firm would be a great test. Wouldn't it? Wouldn't that be amazing? Could you imagine if we put Drew Merle law firm on the Savagate, how much business you would get? Fine, get some clouds. Have a lot of uh people in trouble who browse the Savagate. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

Yeah, that's right. It is a good site for troublemaking, which is always a good recipe for attorneys. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

Next text Did the AP Meme Guy show ever happen? Now, admittedly, we just got it online this afternoon. It did happen. We had to get a team of people to cut out all the uh all the stuff uh that we couldn't put on the air because this is a family show. That was an exhausting interview. Yeah, yeah. Much fun though, my boy Mark Belgard is a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

I mean that that is a guy. I I think about him, and I don't know how old he is, because he's he clearly is younger than I am, I think. Um a man who lives a life without filters. None. He does not care, none. He is he is what he is, and he's happy, he's comfortable with that, and and just lets it fly. And you know, I I used to think I was kind of like that at some point, and clearly I'm not.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Nope, he does. Now I I picked on I picked on about the car he drives months ago. He drove a Nissan rogue. Oh he is uh uh he is a male, so he didn't take too kindly to that, so he showed me he went and traded it in. No, he did not, but he got another Nissan Rogue, so he just got a different color, hoping I wouldn't notice. Hey, that's that's my rogue guy to each their own.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

It could have been it could have been an ultima, definitely not a Versa.

SPEAKER_02 39:16

The the uh AP Meme Guy show is up. You you may have seen it already. You could you could see a link to it at the uh Savagate Podcast group on Facebook. Fun show, and Mark will definitely be back. And we're gonna be on Mark's show pretty soon, Mr. Andrew.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Okay, yeah. Good to good to venture over to the do we have to go to Ascension Parish for that?

SPEAKER_02 39:32

I hope not.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Okay, he's got like a booth at the Tanger Outlet Center.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

I think his whole show is just uh an iPhone, so he can go wherever. He's mobile.

SPEAKER_01 39:40

He's mobile. Yeah. I want to do it at the Tanger Outlet Center.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

No, no, I don't want to go there.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

In front of like a uh like a Soma.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Moving right along. Next text. When is the Seagan Lane dude coming?

SPEAKER_01 39:53

We're not having that guy on because Seegan Lane is a paradise. Which is why we're absolutely having him on.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

We want to hear his belly aching.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

It's over, buddy. Party's over. Seagan Lane is a paradise for f if you're a family and you're not on Seegan Lane shopping right now, you're missing an opportunity. You know what he's gonna be doing? When he goes out and does his Seagan Lane post now, he's gonna have to stage it.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

He's gonna be on camera and like have his buddy throw like some garbage off camera and land behind him and go, look at this, they're littering on Segan Lane.

SPEAKER_01 40:21

Look at the dirty diaper over here. Oh, they're fighting behind me. No, they're not. There's not. There's no panhandling on Seegan anymore. Um I'm telling you now, you're about to Segan is about to be Paradise, baby. Paradise. I mean, if you don't get in on Seagan Lane now, I'm telling you're missing an eye. I heard. I'm like President Trump telling you what's coming. It's coming. This is like insider trading stuff. Yeah, I'm like telling you about crypto or something.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

This is it. I've heard the rumors, Segan Lane's gonna be absolutely gorgeous. Absolutely amazing. And I heard it won't cost the taxpayers of St. George.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Not a penny. Not a penny. It's gonna be amazing. Uh and we're talking like weeping, uh, people weeping openly with joy.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

Maybe uh, and the guy who runs the Adventures of Seagan Lane page is a good guy, a friend of mine. Maybe we can convince him to change the name of it for the better because he's got a lot of followers.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

You know what he needs to do. Adventures of College Drive. Or Sherwood. I think he just needs to move just a little bit north. Sherwood. Right across Airwater Highway. Yeah, by the way, Seegan Lane guy, why Seegan Lane? Sherwood Forrest is terrible. You have a whole interstate system that's terrible. In his defense.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

College drive, a Canadian. In his defense, when he started that page, Seagan Lane was a wash in content.

SPEAKER_01 41:36

Blank road hookers are everywhere. I mean, you really had to focus on Segan.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

Yeah, but the thing is that the thing is that everyone's everyone knows other roads. Everyone knows those other roads are are, you know, havens for crime and fan handling. I don't need but Seegan Lane used to be the pinnacle of Baton Rouge.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

There's a dozen, I can name a dozen streets that have a wee parts of weaves hanging out on them right now. Yeah, but it's been like that for 40 years. Seagan Lane used to be the pinnacle of Baton Rouge. That was the joke. Yeah, I blame Seegan Lane Marketplace, and what a disaster that shopping. Not for long, though, as I understand, Drew.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

But he really wants to come on the show. So whenever, whenever um if something happens in the near future about Seagan Lane getting better, we'll have him on the show to discuss.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

We got talking about new suggestions, yeah, places to go. How about that? Yeah, otherwise he's gonna be banned. I'm gonna call him a panhandler. Yeah, he'll be prohibited from Seagan Lane for panhandling. I kid, I can't, I wouldn't do that. People take things too seriously. Gotta watch out.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

We could um we could rename it to uh the old Seagan Lane. Seagan Lane of yesteryear.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

We need to know I'm gonna change the name of Seegan Lane to something else entirely, something beautiful and magical, fairy tale lane and put another Seagan Lane somewhere else. Yeah, go Seegan Avenue, somewhere off of uh South St. George. Exactly. He can go check that road out and make fun of it all day long. Figure out. Um can someone tell me when the next Wade Evans episode will be. Wade, Christ, man. Come on. So to be fair, uh it it Wade is one of my favorite people, and I I can say that because I mean it just starts and you know he's gonna be entertaining. He really does give you information while he's doing it. Um good guess. He means the best for his community. That is that is something I I have no doubt that Wade means to do the best thing he can do for Central and make Central great. So but in the same token, I'll never forget. I mean, I'm seared into my brain, butthole free baloney. Got a couple of uh weird messages about that show. And and then other so I thought we were crazy. We didn't know what it was. And all of a sudden, like, yeah, and there's I said to somebody, oh yeah, that's bougie bologna. Everybody knows that. What? If I'm included in everybody, not everybody knew it. Sorry, there's no such thing as fantastic. Nancy Baloney. That is an oxymoron all by itself.

SPEAKER_00 44:03

No.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

No. Don't tell me it's like a uh uh some sort of uh wag you hot dog.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

Oxymoron. Hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

But to answer your question, uh Mr. Evans will be back on. Uh Drew and I are calculating to have him back on the week after he officially announces his run for mayor of Central. I cannot. So we might be able to get a little sponsorship money out of that guy.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

Wait. More more mayor races. Yes. More politics. More politics. More politicians laughing at themselves is always good for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

For sure. For sure.

SPEAKER_01 44:37

Taking yourself too seriously. We got too much of that already.

SPEAKER_02 44:40

Moving right along, another Steegan Lane text. Two Segan Lane. Is that a record? Y'all stop. This is a good one. Y'all were right about Seagan Lane. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone asking for money at the interstate.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Let me tell you. So this program to uh I'll say eradicate, and even though it sounds like we're like exterminating people, uh, eradicate the panhandling was designed because you were seeing some things that off-ramp that children going to school and churches, uh, and there's multiple schools in that area, should not have to see. Uh, two, uh, sending the grove in to do the recovery efforts. We've got about 60 people into rehab from that program. We've taken about two dozen felony warrants off the streets. These are criminals committing crimes that are hiding in that community. We've sent several with bus tickets back to their homes when they're reunited with their families. A couple have gotten psychiatric help, a couple have been on missing persons lists. Um, and it's about paying attention. Yep. That's part of it. And we're beautifying the area on top of it. Uh, you'll see a lot more about Segan Lane coming in the very near future. That's going to I again, it's going to be transformative for that project. But yes, I've I would take the Segan Challenge. Yeah, go down Seagan Lane. Tell me if you see a panhandler. Uh, people walking down the side of the road, they're not panhandling. If they're holding a sign, that's panhandling. Go check it out. Tell me if you see that. Go shopping, tell me if you feel safe. Uh, and I think you'll you'll see that that we've made some some changes already. Is that your district? What is district five? Both sides? Both sides? No, uh, I get seagan all the way to the interstate. I have seagan from interstate to airlock. I mean left, wet east and west. Correct. Both sides. Okay. So we've we've made a lot of progress so far, and we've got a lot of progress coming. Can't wait to hear about that, buddy. So if you want to text the show, how do you get us?

SPEAKER_02 46:32

You can text us at 225-255-2480. And guess what? You can text us 24-7. 24-7. You might even get a reply. Somebody won't be late at night.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

The phone is on 24-7. Someone will be there to receive your text message.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

We would love to hear your comments or questions or suggestions for um guests.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

Take all kinds. Um a lot of people suggest themselves as guests. Yeah, Wade. He's only continuously. If there's if there's a text or an email on the show sheet, I know that Wade has been involved. He he he definitely sends us the text a week. He has also offered us the opportunity to do this show from Central City Hall. Did we take him up on that? We have not yet, but I think we're going to. We need to. That's not a bad thing. We're going to go on location. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:19

That'd be our first one. Yeah, I think that'd be a special place for us to be. You got to get some of them central tax dollars for that because that's economic development. That's uh marketing, that's promotion.

SPEAKER_01 47:27

Got to turn that mood lighting on when we get there. That special lighting you can. We're talking about central the whole time. That's got to be worth something. We talk about central more than we talk about anywhere else.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:38

I mean, that's amazing. Little central. That's true. Yeah. You talk about it more than Baker. Well, Baker gets what Baker deserves. Get a nice haircut there, though. Yeah, great haircut in any one of the five barbershops you can get in a block, one block radius. Uh, but you won't be getting from a new barber shop because Mayor Waits has said no. And until he comes on and explains himself, we're gonna keep talking about Baker like that.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

We're gonna get the mayor on the show.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 48:06

I'm gonna I'm gonna go there with a Savagate tumbler. He doesn't care about that.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

He'd you think he'd a free tumbler? Well, I mean, free tumbler. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

He would come. I'm gonna go in there, meme. He'll come. I'm gonna get the Baker Mayor on the show.

SPEAKER_01 48:19

Pull out that fingernail polish and start scratching that logo off.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

It is what it is.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

He'll show you. Well, then I'll I'll chunk it from uh 40 feet away. Better watch out. We'll send uh Mayor McDavid back undercover. Teach uh Mayor Mc Mayor Waits a lesson. All right, so that's the good news. If you want to email the show, uh don't. We don't take those. Yeah. You can send one.

SPEAKER_02 48:41

You can message. Ain't going anywhere. That email box has been closed.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

You can message us through Facebook, uh, whether it's the SavGood page or the Savaged Podcast page. You can text the show as we pointed out. A lot of ways to find us. The best thing you can do for us is like, link, subscribe, help share the show, give us positive reviews, uh, download the episodes, help us out, spread the show. The more we do, the the more we get, the more we can do. Uh, and we'd like to be able to do more shows and have more fun with this. We got a lot more fun guests coming too. Do you have anybody you want to you want to tease coming out?

SPEAKER_02 49:14

We have um a very well-known attorney, Mr. Franz Borgdart.

SPEAKER_01 49:20

How do you pronounce his last one? Well, step one, Franz has got to come give us a phonetic pronunciation of his name. Yeah. Step two, he keeps horning in on radio shows I'm supposed to be on, not him.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

He keeps stealing a little fight on our hands, guys.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

Like he's like become Haldane's best friend, and so now I can't get on the show.

SPEAKER_02 49:37

I wonder if after uh Franz does the show, if I can get you guys in a bid war to be the official sponsor of this advocate. Probably we need a good we need some of them attorney bucks to sponsor the show, to sponsor the uh the the uh website.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

You can't sponsor the show, you're on it. I'm on it. It's a conflict of interest. Sponsor it every time I say my name. Yes. Andrew Merle offer.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

Uh 20 bucks. No, Franz will be uh on next Wednesday. Franz is great. You know, Franz is on court TV. That's that's why I was wondering when I made the offer to him if he was gonna send me a bill.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Because he's big time. If you're on court TV, I mean tell me now, and this will be a question for Franz next week, but I'm gonna set this up. If you're on court TV, are you just not praying for another OJ situation like every day? Isn't that you wake up going, OJ White Bronco, OJ White Bronco? Because that's what started Court TV was that. That's how Court TV got it. Old school, baby. Yeah, well, that's showing your age there 30 years ago. You know, do you know where you were when the white Bronco happened? I know exactly where I was. Where were you? I was at a friend of mine's apartment. Were you? Yes. Oh, you're older than me. Yeah, because I was in high school with my little girlfriend, Allison Allgood. We were at the McDonald's, and the McDonald's had just gotten TVs and the white Bronco was on it. And I was fascinated by the restaurant having TVs, followed by OJ running from the couch. Plus McDonald's have a TV. What are we doing here? Why is the experience changing? Oh, OJ. Okay, he's in a Bronco. That's weird. And I'd really more fascinated by that.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

Six years later, 9-11.

SPEAKER_01 51:04

9-11.

SPEAKER_02 51:05

And and in comparison, those were both equal TV time.

SPEAKER_00 51:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

Then you, I mean, think about in our lifetime, we've had derail, derailed a whole episode here. Uh, white Bronco Media Moment. They kind of took a year of our lives. My mom watched like every day of the OJ trial. It was a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 51:23

It got so boring.

SPEAKER_01 51:24

Awful, awful. Um, then you had the the war, the first war in Iraq. Yep. And that was the creation of CNN, the first time we could watch a war on TV. Yep. Then you got 9-11.

SPEAKER_02 51:37

Yep. Uh space shuttle explosion, 86, right? 84. 84.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

84. Yeah. I know where I was there. I was in music class in elementary school. And all the teachers rolled in all the TVs on the carts because the first teacher was going in space.

SPEAKER_02 51:51

Yes, with the big VCR at the bottom.

SPEAKER_01 51:53

Had no idea. All we knew is they rush I mean, could not, I mean, the most horrible thing ever. They couldn't get the TVs out of the rooms fast. Everyone's upset. Um, great moment, not so great moment.

SPEAKER_00 52:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 52:07

Uh so yeah. So yeah, a lot of we we should do an entire episode on where were you when. I think we just did. We just did. We just covered from the 80s up. Show's over. Absolutely. Excellent episode. Well played. So again, if you want to help the show, uh, other than send us suggestions, you can like, link, subscribe, go get it. iTunes, uh, Buzz Sprout, uh, anywhere podcast or found, really help us out. We do appreciate it. This has been episode 35, Dave. 35. 35. Seems like only yesterday. Cruising into middle age. Yeah. You're gonna have to think about getting like a Corvette or something soon, this pace. All right, so thank you so much. Uh, and we'll be back again next week.

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SPEAKER_01 53:21

I mean, just think with all this recall stuff, all the Savagate potential coming in the next few weeks, the election cycle's kicking back up. That's gonna get the Savagate cranked up in the next few weeks. Yeah. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 53:33

You get a spot on the show too. You get to come on as a guest when you start sponsoring. Talk about your business the whole show.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

Okay. Yeah. I hope it's a good business. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

I'm not like boring like a law firm or something. We want to. Oh my god, a lot of lawyers. Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 53:49

What are you doing, my lawyer? All right, thank you. Sound again episode number thirty-five.