Episode 31 - WBRZ's Abigail Whitam Interview

On this episode of The Sadvocate Podcast with Dave & Drew, Dave Roppolo and Drew Murrell welcome Abigail Whitam from WBRZ for a fun and candid conversation about life in television news, live reporting, strange Baton Rouge stories, unexpected assignments, and what it is really like covering the Capital Region every day.

The guys also break down local headlines, including ankle monitor violations, Baton Rouge crime stories, BRPD officers facing domestic abuse battery charges, and a former New Roads police officer speaking out after his arrest and resignation.

Plus, Dave and Drew read listener texts about Bri Lynn’s appearance, St. George staying in the news, Siegen Lane, Baker, and more.

New episodes of The Sadvocate Podcast with Dave & Drew are released every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and TheSadvocate.com.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:08

Welcome back. It is the Savocate Podcast. We are Dave and Drew. Uh my name is Drew, St. George City Councilman, local attorney. Joined as always by Dave Ripolo, a writer at the Savakate.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Lowly writer. That's like my entire resume. Lowly. That's all you I'm actually, you know what? I think it's time to introduce me as writer at the Savagate and Podcaster. I feel like I feel like this is our 31st episode. I feel like I should that should be on my resume.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

I mean, we've already gotten past you. You left a toothbrush here at the studio, and you got a drawer at the studio. Yeah. I'm official. You're going to change your Facebook profile to digital creator.

SPEAKER_01 0:43

Put digital creator and I'm going to put a mic by my profile picture. I'm a podcaster.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

You know, when you do that and you become a podcaster, every logo you post has to have some microphone or radio too. Headphones. Headphones, all the cliches.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

I'm I'm Dave Rapolo, podcaster and writer at the Savagate.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

I think that is I think that is an awesome title. We'll have to add that to the page in the future. This is Savagate Podcast episode number 31. Seems like only two days ago we do an episode thing. Feels like this episode is coming quicker. So when you got great guests, what are you gonna do? You just say no? No. No, we change our entire school. They try to say no. We change our entire schedule. We cancel meetings. I did. Uh, and then we come in to do this.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

And our guest today, I think, gets up at three o'clock in the morning to go to work. So what a pleasure that she joined us today. Who is she, Drew? Abigail Whittam, WBRZ.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Good morning, guys. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

See, you shouldn't even know it's afternoon because she's programmed for the morning. What happens in the afternoon? 2 50 is uh PM.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Y'all are lucky. I I usually start frying right about now, but frying?

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Like a gremlin.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

She's she's done. So look.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

As soon as the sun comes up, I just kind of start.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

So let's let's talk about your schedule. Because I think when when you think of like I remember morning radio being early, that is nothing compared to morning TV. How early do you get up?

SPEAKER_00 2:05

It depends if it's if you're asking what time my alarm goes off, or do I actually get out of bed?

SPEAKER_02 2:09

I'm gonna say alarm. I'm not gonna give you knock you for that.

SPEAKER_00 2:12

It goes off at 2 45.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

2 45.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

And then I gotta say, I gotta leave early because I'm from the LP, baby.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

You live way out. Yeah, deep LP, not just LP. Like for instance. Like y'all are piping in electricity and scrambling for internet.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

There is no like formal sewer system. Yeah. Uh-uh. You gotta uh you know all about modads and yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

How many cars are jacked up in the front of your house, broke down?

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Well, no, I don't have any that deep LP? No, that is not. I will say I'm not deep enough to have brown water. That's a few miles down the road.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

How close is the next trailer?

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Well you gotta you got a pretty good hike to get to the studio. Yes. Regardless.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

I leave my house at 3.30.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

You get up at 2.45 and leave the house at 3.30 and you're on TV?

SPEAKER_00 3:01

By about five.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Okay, so by five, you gotta get in the studio and then do what happens when you get to the office.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

I get my stuff and I get out of there.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

But don't you normally have an assignment where you might go straight to on scene, like Yeah, so I actually know where I'm going every single day.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

So when I get to the studio, I'm usually last minute. I'll whip some makeup on in five minutes, grab my key, get on my camera, and I head out the door.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

A TV personality whipping on makeup and five. Whipping on makeup.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

No, but I think that's a thing. Like, that's like a every news reporter I've met can put it on that fast.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Well, okay, maybe you never know. If the opportunity arises to be ready and you gotta be ready. Nobody wants to look like Richard Nixon on camera.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

We don't have cameras that's set up, but you look very nice today. You do look nice today. It doesn't look like a five-minute deal. You look very nice.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Because you never know. We could have whipped out our case.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

That's true, that's true. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

You usually take a photo at some point during this interview too.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

I will take a photo. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

So yeah. So charge for that. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I've got plenty. No doubt.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

No doubt.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Yeah. So so you normally know your assignment the night before.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

And it doesn't always involve going to the studio first, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:08

You might go straight out to like tomorrow. I'm just going straight to y'all will never guess.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Where you going? Wait, tomorrow's Friday. I don't know. Where are you going?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

I'm going to uh the Tanjibaho Parish Rodeo.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Oh, they got a rodeo in Tangent.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

Okay. Nice. 5 a.m. So you get to so when you go out and do these, how interactive do you get to be, or does somebody tell you, hey, please don't do that?

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

They're the rodeo could be a please don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 4:37

I will do anything for the TV, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Back up that statement. If you've ever watched any of her spots, she will never cease to amaze you. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

She is enthusiastic participants.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Absolutely. I she might be on a bull tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Yeah, could you ride a bull if you wanted to?

SPEAKER_00 4:54

If I wanted to. Maybe it may be a they might sign me, make me sign a waiver.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Yeah, that'd be definitely a waiver. Ask them if you can wrestle one of the sheep to the ground. That's a whole competition.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

I know what they are making me do. You're gonna have a mechanical bull.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Perfect. That's just like bull riding without the animal goring you.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

Yeah, so there you go.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

You think you could maybe hold on to the to the handle with one hand and hold your Savvy Gate cup with the other hand? Yeah, WBRZ probably wouldn't like that. No, no. I think get a bunch of views.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Hey, I did have a question for y'all.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Oh, that was out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Press pause, Drew. She's an interviewer. See, I told you this was the problem when you start having the media people on. They want to ask you. You're trying to flip the script.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

So tell me about it. Tell me about your recent scandal. Nah, I'm kidding. That wasn't what I was gonna ask.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

It was just Drew, not me. I didn't hear it. He's the attorney here.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

So I was gonna say, if I do this podcast, does this mean I have a six months without being a meme?

SPEAKER_01 5:51

Do you want to go without a meme? Memes are good for you. No, let's let's back up. You're already doing the podcast. So if I do the podcast, I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

So for your next salary negotiation, let's tell you how this should work. Um, you ask about it before you go do it. This was a text you should have sent yesterday. You kind of lost your bargaining power. So no, you're absolutely gonna be a meme. So congratulations.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

You know, actually, though, I believe you're a badge of courage. I believe you're you're being a little goofy because I think you like it. The last time I made a meme out of you, it uh elevated your career, as I understand.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

That's right. You really just did it for me.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Are you saying this is the opposite of what she really wants?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

She wants a meme. She is definitely a good interviewer.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

It's called like gaslighting, okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

She's gaslighting. Yes, okay. It's not working.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

Wait, reverse psychology, that's what it's called.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Yes. No, gaslighting something. I'm gonna make a meme while we're sitting here, so just keep talking.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

No.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

So Tanjimahoa Parish Rodeo tomorrow. That's exciting. Well, you how long will you stay there? Like half the day or just a couple hours ago?

SPEAKER_00 6:49

I'll be there from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Will you get to go straight home or you gotta go back out to Highland Road?

SPEAKER_00 6:55

I gotta come back to Highland Road.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

It's gonna work a full day. So other other misconceptions. She only works when she's on the air. Misconception.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yeah, that's a misconception.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

What do you do when you go back to work?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Hey, like I say, being on air is the easy part, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Okay, when I get back to work, I also I can't say what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Well, we we establish that you take naps occasionally.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

I took a nap um before I came here today.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

At work.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

No, but it was at like 12 30.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Oh, well, that makes it okay. 12 30. Well, would you rather her go back to the LP and take a nap and then come back or just go ahead and hey, take a quick crash nap, get recharged, and get back to work.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

I told you I usually am pretty dead around this time.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Yeah, we're catching her at like 8 p.m., 9 p.m. That's right. So uh we you know, we're really taking advantage of her time at this point. Yeah, so anything she says probably shouldn't be held against her. I'm just saying, disclaimer. It's late night.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

So I was gonna say I do have to prepare stuff for later shows when I get back. So I do stuff for the noon and the 4 p.m. every single day. And then I have to prepare for the next day. So we actually produce all of our own stuff. We write what the anchors say.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Really?

SPEAKER_00 8:12

We write on web stories for your um Yep for tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 8:17

Okay, yeah, so there's more to it. That's what I always say. Like there's more to it than just the five minutes or even a couple of hours a show is on. They got a whole bunch of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

I thought they had some interns that wrote it. She showed up out there, made a scene, you know, took some funny pictures, whatever, did a love, and went home.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

Oh, I weird.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

I thought that was your whole deal. No, to ruin the ruined the whole feeling. You thought you were gonna get into this and not have to work very hard and all of a sudden all the way back downtown, Vetting Right.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I do have intern this summer.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

Really?

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Yeah, shout out Trent.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

Does Trent know what he's getting into?

SPEAKER_01 8:48

He has no earthly idea.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

Well, today was his fourth day.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

Okay, so he's getting it. He made it three. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Hey, we're having fun.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Does he get to go with you to the rodeo?

SPEAKER_00 8:59

He's not working tomorrow. He only works two days. He only works two days a week.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Do you go by yourself? Like you have a camera crew that comes with you? Or you set up your own Sometimes I'm by myself. You do it on your phone mostly, right?

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I got a camera.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

Have you not seen them when they come in and do stuff? They lug in. I don't think they have you don't have the big old camera. Oh, I do.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

I do.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

What is this 1980? Yes. Yeah. Minus that no, in 1980, she had another person with her helping her.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Hey, that's why I got these guns to steal.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

They still have the big cameras. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

You know, when at the council meeting, they were there with these camcorders.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Every time they come to the office, they set up the whole thing with the conference room.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Okay, tell me something. Why have we not moved past that? Why don't you have a very small digital camera on a tripod that does absolutely the same thing?

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Does it look official?

SPEAKER_00 9:50

That's a great question.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Let me tell you why. I'll tell you why. It's the it's the I'm working on something. So you want to get access to something and you want to look like no one should question you, carry a ladder. Or a clipboard. What? Oh, oh, there's a clipboard? Oh, there's a lot of research on this.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

There's a guy on YouTube who walks into random places with a ladder and gets right in everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Every time. And they just let him in because they think he's working on something. I must have called him. Why would you stop the guy with the ladder? So if you have the big camera, they think you're working. They know you're official. They think you're official. Uh, and they're not going to bother you because you got a lot of stuff. In fact, they may help you. They'll probably ask you to carry it for you and then take it somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

But also couldn't, it could be a bad thing too, because if like, you know, if I came to cover your scandal next week.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

She's dropping some hints. She's dropping some hints. Listen, she's dropping some hints.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

This could be uh this could be the foreshadowing you didn't. I'm probably not the city official in this parish that's gonna get indicted.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Next week on the Savicate podcast with Dave. What happened to Drew?

SPEAKER_02 10:51

I'll have my one phone call, so I'll call into the show. No, officer, hold on. We're finishing this segment. We're doing news and textbooks.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

That's so great.

unknown 11:01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Scandal with Drew. Boy, she's dropped two hints. I'm gonna learn more about this. I'm gonna put this down. Other people are gonna be at my door knocking. You have your phone, text me with the scandalous so you don't have to see it on the air.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

That's so nice.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

That's really nice. Yeah, I got you. I gotta I gotta find out what it is first.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

So you really do carry like a behemoth camera?

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Old school camera and tripod.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Yeah, I mean, think about that. Lugging that thing around, even though your iPhone is the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Yeah, because you do a lot of lives um when you're at but you put on your personal page, and I think they use them sometimes as well.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Hey, true or false, um, doing news cut-ins from the actual studio is silly. Here she is in the next room live. Oh, I've seen some people.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Oh, that's actually kind of funny.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Yeah, it's silly. Stand in front of a green screen with traffic behind it. Like somebody with a fan blowing. No, no, you're literally in the next room. Like, we're gonna go to her live in the newsroom. On location. On location, right next to us. She could have been right here, but we wanted to put her ten feet over there.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Oh, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

And that's funny, it's like everywhere, too.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

It's everywhere. Everybody does it. So, out of high school, what made you decide you went to Northwestern State and Nacketish, right? Spent some time there myself.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Wait, have you told them that you went there too?

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Who did that?

SPEAKER_02 12:16

No, this is actually breaking news in the show. No, no, he went to North Artists.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

No, your viewers.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Oh, he's never been proud of us, apparently. He's hit this front.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

Are you ashamed?

SPEAKER_01 12:24

I believe it or not, I actually took broadcasting at Northwestern. I don't believe that. But your parents may not have even been dating back then. However, did you go to did you go to Northwestern with journalism in mind, or that something that took you when you got there?

SPEAKER_00 12:37

Oh, I actually knew I was gonna do broadcast.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

So I was, believe it or not, I was on our high school morning news called The Beak.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Now, where is this? The Beak.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

Live Oak High School.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Okay. Do those videos still exist anywhere?

SPEAKER_00 12:52

I was gonna say they still do. Will I provide them for you? No, you had to do.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

So does Live Oak still have this?

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Yes, they do. They still have this.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

This is outstanding.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

It's actually more like techie now. They've got better equipment and everything. It's like a real deal now. When I did it, we just It was pretty much it was the second year was when I started.

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Oh, yeah, so not much.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

I guess none of us knew what we were doing. We would just read the lunch and tell you what the weather was gonna be from the lunch coming up tomorrow, the lunch ladies and rice mystery meat.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Was there any lunch scandals that you covered they are pouring milk on it to make it look fresher? They told us we're gonna have pork chops and these are hamburgers. Story at six. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

And something weird. So a guy that um I did the beak with, Jace, he actually is our social media guy now.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Really? Live oak producing talent. He's a social media guy channel two. Wait a second. Is this a public school?

SPEAKER_00 13:47

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Is it a magnet school?

SPEAKER_00 13:49

It's a 5A.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

It's a public school that just includes everybody in that area and they can all go there and have broadcasting class and be successful.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

That's nuts how that worked out, huh?

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Well, Watson, Watson.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

That's so that's amazing. So congratulate, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

So you knew you want to get into broadcasting. Yeah. And Northwestern, did you go there for their broadcasting? Okay, you just want to leave, get the heck out of bed.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Oh, well, no, I didn't go there there specifically for that. I went because I wanted to get away.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Oh, 100%. You need some distance, you know what? And you got there and found out they had a decent broadcasting uh okay, good.

SPEAKER_02 14:20

And Northwestern's far enough away to be away from home, but close enough to get to the show.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Close enough to shoot in on a Friday. Or if you need something, they can get it to you.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Oh yeah, I used to come home a lot.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Oh, yeah, I did too. Yeah, yeah. So you get into Northwestern, you got into broadcasting, you loved it, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Yep. And then I interned at uh 33 also in Baton Rouge.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Yeah. Okay. So you m what year did you move back here from Northwestern and and do that intern?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Back in 23. I s I interned from May to August at 33. And then I started at channel two in November.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Okay, very good. So when you started channel two, did you immediately start mornings or did you have to go do other things?

SPEAKER_00 15:01

No, I actually started the regular shift three days a week, and then I worked weekends. I'd work weekends for quite a few months. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

That's a tour of duty you gotta be able to do that. Yeah, that's the initiation work in initiation phase.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

It is an initiation fee.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Yeah. Yeah, it's like the haze you on the weekends. That's what I heard.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Who told you you're not supposed to know that?

SPEAKER_02 15:20

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

No, I'm kidding.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

So you like WBRZ, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Oh yes. Yeah, you seem very happy there.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

So, real quick, when they told you, hey, we'd like you to move you to mornings, uh, how'd you feel about that?

SPEAKER_00 15:32

One of the weird thing, I actually chose mornings.

SPEAKER_02 15:34

Okay. That's rather rebellious.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

I wanted to get off weekends. That's fair. And somehow I ended up on mornings. And my parents were like, Abigail, there's no way. I used to sleep like I used to go to bed really late, and I hated waking up at 9 a.m. And my parents were like, Oh, you're not gonna make it doing that.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

You're not gonna make it. Not like encouragement from mom and dad. We don't really feel really good about this.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Two years later, I'm still doing this, waking up at 2 45.

SPEAKER_01 16:00

Still doing it. And you get home like in a regular time, five, six o'clock?

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Oh, no, I get home at like one, one thirty.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

So so you'll go to Tanjipahoa tomorrow, drive all the way back to channel two, and then drive all the way back home for one-ish, two-ish.

unknown 16:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Hey, I'm I'm good at driving. What can I say? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Putting some miles on it. Well, she has her uh little unit. Don't you have your little uh WBRZ mobile?

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Oh, and it lets you do stuff normal people can't do? Yeah. I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

You ever go through the drive-thru dockery shop in your WBRZ truck?

SPEAKER_00 16:30

I'm not supposed to say that on here.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

It's got a tape on the straw. I'm thinking in meme, I'm thinking in meme format. I'm just thinking in meme format.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

No, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 16:39

That's right. Very good answer.

unknown 16:41

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Do people uh get concerned when they see you that do they not want to talk to you ever?

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Well, you're not investigative, but you still are with media shows. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

They don't know what she's up to.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Yeah, they don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

I've seen her on TV. Don't say a word to her. So do you find that morning news is the happiest news?

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Oh, yeah. It's more lighthearted, obviously, because the way we look at it, people are getting out the door. You don't want them to, you know, necessarily be depressed when they're leaving the house for the rest of their day.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

So more rodeos, less murders. That's probably better.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

We still cover some murders in the morning.

SPEAKER_02 17:13

Every once in a while. I mean, because they happen at night. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Yeah, yeah. Anything that happens from 10 p.m. onwards, we have to cover.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

So if are you a morning anchor like fill in?

SPEAKER_00 17:25

No.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

If there's no if there's no something nothing for you to do on tune-in, on site, do you do a tune-in show from the studio if there's nothing on site?

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Or it's all it's all off-site, like uh no, I I'm actually on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I'm in studio.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

Doing traffic?

SPEAKER_00 17:39

I'm not an anchor. No, I don't do traffic anymore. I do. Those are some fun days. I actually did it last Friday. I had to fill in.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

True or false. You've made up a traffic report based on it's always the delay from the bridge to the 1012 split.

unknown 17:53

What?

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Wait, say that one more time.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Have you ever made up a traffic report and just said, hey, you know, I feel like there's heavy delays from the Mississippi River Bridge all the way to the 1012 split, rinse, repeat. It's the same delay every morning.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Oh, okay. I have said that on air before, actually.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

I have.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

I used to say, this is bad right here, every right near Denham Springs. I don't know what it is. It's always slow every day for no reason.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

Yep. We had one, uh, I remember once where I said uh I did uh radio traffic, and it was like, well, the plane's not up today and the cars aren't rolling. How am I supposed to know what the delay is? And the guy's like, You really think it's gonna be any different than it was yesterday, the day before, the day before that? Heavy delays.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

You know, it seven extra minute this morning because there was a breakdown. That's pretty much it. Surface streets are also crowded. I feel like I feel like with the with the technology on mobile phones being so specific with traffic, it's almost like the traffic units are a little bit a little better now.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

I guess before you leave the house, because you're not watching it while you're in traffic. They had cameras, they got to look at it all the time. We didn't have those back then. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

You still can on 511.org. Um, tell us about your little uh blooper on the air that we capitalized on. I forgot what what did you what did you did? You follow or did you drop something?

SPEAKER_00 19:07

Yeah, I remember that day.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Was it the remote? Yeah, the drop the remote were you in traffic?

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Oh, yeah. So yeah, my remote flippy thingies, the flicky thing.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

People don't know those.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Um you would if you'd have watched that morning. It was so embarrassing. It's actually all over my socials because it was so funny. Um I went to click to the next slide, this thing falls on the ground and it shatters. Like there's no picking up into pieces, but I still ducked down while I was live and tried to pick it all up. And so then I sh I just come back on screen, hands full of just like.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

And and then I start laughing, our anchor starts laughing, and I'm just like back to news.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

You know what that taught you? That that's probably the most popular segment you'll you'll do, and it's funny. Turn out to be a really good meme relatable.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

Turn out to be a pretty good meme. I forgot. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

I did with the Oh, you you said fight fight club.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Oh, I know that was um Street Fighter. Yeah, and then the old video game Street Fighter, the guy came with kicked it out of her hand. It happened. She probably picked up like 400 followers off the house.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

That's what I'm saying. Like, they were like, we should be mad about this. Never got a thing. It really worked out great. So we're gonna keep going with it. I think she thanked me for that.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Maybe you should break something every day. It's your second appearance on the Savagate.

SPEAKER_03 20:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

But I will say this she surprised me when she finally got her pink tumbler. She walked her butt right into the WBRZ studio, took a picture right in front of the big WBRZ mural, and posted. I went, Okay, that's when I realized that the people at WBRZ love them some Savagate.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

Yeah, we sure do.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Or they're afraid of the Savagate, which is equally good.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

They should not be. They should not be. We we pick on the media every now and then when they deserve it for these crazy headlines or typos.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Hey, we don't make the headlines, we just write them.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Yeah. I can tell. If that's what you want to call writing. Oh man. Does your social media guy follow the Savocate?

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Who? Oh.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Your old high school buddy. I don't know. You know he does. I have to ask you. You know, if you're doing social screen news, you know you got one screen with the Savvy.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

I feel like we should do a Savagate podcast from the Live Oak broadcast studio.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

You know what? I think you should.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

I think that'd be great.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I don't know if you know anybody that can get a setup in there. Do we have any content? Are you like alumni? Are you like, do you like, if you go back there, they're like, oh I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Have you done a broadcast at BRZ in the Live Oak studio?

SPEAKER_00 21:29

No, I have done uh last year I covered the first day of school at Live Oak. I saw that. Oh my gosh. That was so cool.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

That was neat going back. Oh so yeah, you're probably pretty big name around there, huh?

SPEAKER_02 21:41

Do they have a Hall of Fame?

SPEAKER_00 21:43

If they did, I'd be in it.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

You'd be in it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. If y'all any Live Oak people hear this.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

We actually have a lot of LP uh people who follow this advocate.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Well, if anyone out there has any uh what's the word? Pool or anything.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

Yeah, we gotta get her in the hall of fame. You wanna start a Live Oak Hall of Fame? Yes, I think that'd be great. Oh, just the Beak Hall of Fame. That'd be great. Anybody can like click can collect.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Wait, that's a great idea. The Beak Hall of Fame. They should frame everyone that works in media now and just like I'm sure there's plenty of y'all that got out there and went into media.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

That's it. I mean, that's a great way to highlight.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

What is your dream job in media? Like you're a morning, you know, which is fun, but like what if you like what is you if you if you what is your dream if you get to this point and you're doing this in media, I've made it, I'm happy, this is where I want to be. Everybody's got a different answer for this.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

I was uh working for the Sadvocate.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Oh wow. You already have a Tumblr. Why are you talking about it? She's again, she's she didn't realize she should have negotiated before she got she already gets a tumbler.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

Would she be great making some Savagate reels?

SPEAKER_02 22:44

She is like Yeah, Savagate.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Yeah, love that.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

No, I'm not good at coming up with original content. I'd have to chat GPT it.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Oh, we don't we don't come up with anything original.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

So like anyways in media, like do you see there's something you really want to do in particular, maybe a specialized type of media or just stay with the news or national, or or what would you like to do?

SPEAKER_00 23:04

I actually don't know. People ask me that a lot. I don't really know what my goal is. I obviously want to stay here forever. I'm not moving unless Good Morning America calls, but I like that little disclaimer at the end there.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

You're not gonna say no. Because I would venture to say, and I I So Good Morning America is your goal, because she just said it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

Well, I guess I just did, huh?

SPEAKER_01 23:26

I wouldn't think there is a single journalist or broadcaster or anyone in media in any way, shape, or form in this city who would not absolutely move someone called. Because they move all the time. It would actually, it's aggravating because I don't watch TV, but I see all the news clips, obviously, on socials or whatever, and I really get to be used to someone's style, and I hate when they move. And I'm like, oh man, I really enjoyed watching and listening to that person. And then someone new comes in and I gotta adjust to their style. It really is a it really is a revolving door. It is, yeah, it is, it is.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

So, what is your favorite story you've done so far where you didn't break something?

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

You gotta know what this is. This you you've this is like when he asked you that, this had to come right through the top of your mind.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Liberty Lagoon.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

Liberty Lagoon?

SPEAKER_00 24:14

I did that this year and last year. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Why was that your favorite story? Because you get to swim.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Yes, all by myself.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

What'd you do today? Swim water spots from 5 to 7 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

I have Liberty Lagoon to myself.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Oh, you were like the only one there?

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Well, obviously the owner is there and then my photographer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Thank you for clarifying that. Yes, but as far as riding the rides, yes. Hey, yes. At any point during that, you know, segment, did anyone holler, Abby, the wireless mic? Did you like bail in with the wireless mic? Oh, so great.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

Oh, I just looked that one up. I'm gonna go in the way pool. I think you shouldn't. I'm going.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

That would not be good. Yeah, no, I didn't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

You didn't do that.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

I should have.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

So are you gonna just go on adventures? Is this is this a fun? It's a fun gig, right? You get to go, you do fun stories.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Some days are fun, some days are not.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

It is an assignment that fits our personality, though. I would agree. She has a blast out there at it. Doesn't matter how boring it is or what it is, she has a blast and makes it a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

We gotta have a fun story and we need somebody to sell it.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

And uh Oh, we have a boring story, and we need someone fun.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Yeah, there's some days I I'm not excited about my story, but I do it.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

That's right, it's a job. You gotta get there. What's the farthest they've ever sent you out? Like you stay pretty close.

SPEAKER_00 25:31

I mean, this one actually ties into something. You had asked me what the craziest story that I ever done was earlier.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Yeah. It's also the farthest one.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Yes. Apparently.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Let's hear it.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

It's when I went to uh catch chickens in Mamu.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

In in Mamu? Oh, for the chicken uh. What was it called? The chicken um Doug.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

It's got some French name, right?

SPEAKER_01 25:53

They dropped the chickens and they and they Corrier de Martigras. Yes. So did you catch a chicken? Did you try it?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

I think I was kind of culture shocked, to be honest. Nobody warned me.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

You'd never been around a chicken before?

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Yeah, but never people dressed up in those outfits chasing them.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

Never one that was alive and that cooked. I would say if you didn't know what my moo was ahead of time for that that event, it would probably be uh a little different. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

It's like I heard before they sent me their like, oh, the chicken chase or whatever. I thought it was just gonna be normal people dressed up in normal clothes, kind of just normal people in my mood.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Maybe some little kids run around grabbing some chickens.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

As soon as I got to this story at five in the morning, these people, these random people were like, I didn't know where to go. They were like, come on, just get in this RV, we'll drive you. I got into this RV with these random people. I don't even know their names, and I did it willingly. And they drove off with me in there.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

And they they took, yeah. And then did they bring you back?

SPEAKER_00 26:48

That, yep, I'm here now.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

The chicken, uh, it's the chicken run, they call it.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Yeah, that was interesting.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

And there you are with the chicken. There you go. You didn't catch it, but you held it.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Yeah, that was me.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Was that a prop chicken? They made it look like you caught it. That's the that's the tame chicken that's been domesticated. That chicken looks absolutely pissed.

SPEAKER_00 27:07

Yeah, that was that was uh just an interesting.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

He's almost as tall as you. That's not very nice. That's not nice.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

He makes short jokes all the time.

SPEAKER_02 27:16

You know, there's short jokes written into the script today.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Listen, there's one guy in the room who won't make any short jokes today. I'm right here.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

Wait, why? Because you're short.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

When I told Drew last month that you were coming, I sent him a picture. He's like, She looks shorter than me.

SPEAKER_02 27:29

I'm like, always good. What? So our first guest. This is the first. How many times do you do a story where you stand on something?

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Oh, all the time. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

You make the camera pan up so they can't tell, or you just you just share the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Sometimes it's just terrible the height difference.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Sometimes the box don't even help.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

We were talking today um with one of my coworkers. Um, my tripod that I have can go very, very high. I can't even reach the top of it. And I told them, I said, who would ever would you need to use your tripod this high? I was like, Shaquille O'Neal. And then they were like, Yeah, what would you look like if you interviewed Shaq? I'd have to be standing on my TV, hey Shaq.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

The good thing is when you interview Shaq, everyone expects there to be a dramatic height. So it wouldn't look that it wouldn't look like that big of a deal.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Yeah right now.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

This would just it would me and him next to each other would not be good.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

You just look for curbs, sidewalks to stand on, anything to give you an elevation.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Oh yeah. I'm pretty good at balancing. I can balance on anything to get some height now.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Yeah. So tell us about the weirdest assignment you've ever been on.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Like the weirdest, like I think the Mamoo story probably can't.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

The chicken thing's pretty weird, but is there anything else that stands out that was like, okay, that was really weird.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Hmm. How long do a pause do I have on this?

SPEAKER_02 28:45

Don't worry, we don't edit anything. It's fine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

Dave said if he can edit something out.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

We can edit it out? Yeah, that's the humor. Dave doesn't edit anything. Oh, that's the joke. You'll be lucky if this makes it on the air. Oh, you'd be lucky if the show even Drew will leave here, and like next Wednesday I go, hey man, uh, I forgot about the Abigail. I've only lost part of one interview thus far. I've got a pretty good track record. It's been 31 episodes.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

You probably spilled about your scandal and then it magically disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

He's gonna hold this one.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

He's gonna hold this one, make sure nothing pops up. Right. Now if the scandal happens, like we knew it was coming. How stupid are you? She told you a scandal was coming.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

But the weirdest one, I don't know. I think the chicken one takes the the cake there.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Oh yeah, so the chicken one, I think, I think they well they drop them in the middle of a little field and you gotta everybody's gotta grab them. Yeah, that's a that's like a long tradition they've had there.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

I did have to go. I don't know if y'all are familiar with the to your town stuff, where we pick a a town every month and we go to it and we do a whole week long of their covers. Well, we went to Clinton.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

You stayed there a whole week, or you just kept going back?

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Oh no, like we we each cover one story in Clinton.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

And then that whole week our stories air. And I had to go to a dairy farm in Clinton. And when I got there, did you milk a cow?

SPEAKER_02 30:08

You had to milk a cow, right?

SPEAKER_00 30:09

I did not.

SPEAKER_02 30:10

Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

I was so sad. He said that they milked them at like 3 a.m. and then 7 p.m.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

or something, and you got there, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Well, anyway, it was in the middle of nowhere. No, it is. Yeah, that was that was interesting. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Dairy farm didn't get to milk a cow. Feels like a lost opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

It was.

SPEAKER_02 30:32

If you have a dairy cow available, Abby would like to milk it.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

They send you out there's some fun stuff though, like festivals and events and fairs, and uh um, you do a lot of that stuff. Of course, that's absolutely a blast.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Food truck festivals.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

I was about to say, yeah, I'm gonna, you know, go to the show.

SPEAKER_01 30:47

She might pop up out of the St. George Food Truck Festival.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

I mean, I think it's newsworthy as well. Well, she's got a shirt on and she has a car. What else does it and she has a tripod? I swear, I I guarantee you it works. If you just walk up with nothing else but the tripod and the camera, somebody's gonna let you. You should do it as a story. How many places can you get in?

SPEAKER_01 31:06

But it would have to be after hours because this could be a Saturday gig and you don't work on weekends. There's no tune in on Saturday mornings.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

As long as I have the props, like he said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

They're not even gonna be real cameras and tripods, just gonna be a box. Looks like she's carrying a bag around. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

Yeah, that should be fun. I'll definitely be sending an invitation to WBRZ to send someone out there.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

And send them where, Dave? Where are they gonna go?

SPEAKER_01 31:27

What is this event going? The St. George Food Truck Festival, November 21st at the fairgrounds on Airline Highway in St. George.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Excellent. If you want more info about that event, where would you go? SGfoodtruckfest.com. Excellent. 100 vendors, live music. Yes, fun for every vendor booth. Chase Tyler band, Chris LeBlanc. I mean, what else do you want?

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Can I sing a song?

SPEAKER_02 31:49

You can absolutely sing a song?

SPEAKER_00 31:52

If you want some time on stage, you can have to find out.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

I mean, is that something you would do?

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Oh, yeah. I actually performed at the Texas Club.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

Okay, this isn't like daiquiri shop karaoke. You're ready to go.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

I actually did sing at the Texas Club one song. And it was for a hurricane benefit. It was my last two dollars.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

That's the name of a song? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Yeah, mine. How does it go? Two dollars. I'm not gonna lose.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

Oh, she's right. Come on, don't stop. No, no, don't stop. We'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

And the way I ended up there was weird because I had covered a story. It was for the hurricane, I think Helene benefit that happened in Tennessee, I think. Is that where that is? Yeah. And uh they had an event at the Texas Club where they had all these people come, sing music, and they raised money, and then they would send it there. And so I went and did a story that morning about it. And me and my photographer at the time used to sing that song all the time, and they said, um, y'all need to come back tonight and sing it. And I was like, You're lying. I wasn't gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Because you're not a night person.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

But I went at like 9 p.m. and sang this song at the Texas Club on a work night.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Oh, work night?

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Uh you just went straight to the studio and what that means. That means she really, really, really wanted to do it. Really wanted to do it.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

Well, now I can say I sang at the Texas Club.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

Does a video of that exist?

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Yeah, I got a I got a picture of it.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

There's a video of that. I don't exist.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

There is, but where it is, I have no clue.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Well, yeah, we gotta work on that. Yeah. All right, we'll get that back. Send me the picture and I'll AI it. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Look, there I am.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

Oh, so you know. Shades on? Yeah, we we really gotta think about taking a photo when you do an audio performance. I'm actually more impressed that she pulled that picture up that fast.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Because I have it, because it's one of my projects.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Exactly right. She really wanted that. Yes, she that she pumped up about that. Be sure you send me that picture.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Okay, we're gonna put it on.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

We can work with that.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:45

Yeah. That'll get you some memes. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Oh, wait, no, I was using it so y'all could put it on the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Oh, we can do both.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

Sure, we'll put it on.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Yeah, you can do all kinds of stuff. Absolutely. So you like singing? I mean, or is that just some?

SPEAKER_00 33:56

Yeah, I actually do theater.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

You did. Now tell me about one of the plays you were in. I saw last year. Did you do it?

SPEAKER_00 34:03

I was in the nutcracker.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

Yes. The nutcracker.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

I was in the nutcracker with the Baton Ridge Ballet Theater. Right. That was my second time. I also work with um Christian Community Theater, who is the adult version of CYT. I'm sure you heard of them here.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Yeah. Awesome.

SPEAKER_00 34:17

Yeah, I like I like too much.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

What was your what was your role in in a nutcracker?

SPEAKER_00 34:21

I was a party mom.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Did you have any like lines? Any speaking?

SPEAKER_00 34:24

Well, you don't speak in the uh nutcracker. There's no where it's true, it's all okay to ballad.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

So it's an easy gig. Do you dance?

SPEAKER_00 34:31

I dance and sing.

SPEAKER_02 34:33

We got a lot, we got a lot more to open in Pandora's box. It'll be uh Abigail Wittham Part 2.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

I'm pretty talented. I'm pretty talented.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

It may just be a performance.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:44

We may have just some singing and dancing on the show. That might be our first video with video. Maybe the first video showed.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Wait, we should have a Sadvocate podcast halftime show.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

I like that we had a we. Halftime of what? Me dancing. I'm barely on the show. What the hell? Oh shit. I like that. Have you ever thought about being a podcaster? Shut your mouth. Do you have your own equipment? Because that's really all he cares about.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

I wouldn't even I don't even care about that. I wouldn't even know what to talk about if I had my own shit. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_02 35:16

You did a great job. Apparently singing and dancing.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

You're like hacker.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Yeah, you're like wealth.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

I do listen to a certain podcast every single day.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Every day? Which one?

SPEAKER_00 35:25

Face File. Oh, you're like, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

You know, you know what all women listen to? Zero killer podcast.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

That's yeah, that's scary.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

That's pretty creepy, right? Scary.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

That's terrible.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

A little concerning. Like I leave the city.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

The ones you never suspect, the real short ones.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

The ones you gotta be scared of.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

It's like I leave work in the news for eight hours and then go and listen to that.

SPEAKER_02 35:47

That's right. You're maybe unstable.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

Their neighbors probably go, the little short girl's leaving at 3 45 again.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Every day she leaves at 345. Yeah, we hear it. We hear her talking about murdering people on the way up the door.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

She's on TV, but we don't get that signal out here this far, so we can't verify that. The rabbit ears don't pick it up. Do you get cable out where you live? Or is it just is it like is it just a canon to strength?

SPEAKER_00 36:15

She's so bad. I want to I wish you could draw me a picture of where you think I live at.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

I would be best experiment ever.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

It's like you I'll make AI draw a picture of why you think of Livingston Parish and you think of just like sticks. No, I think I live in a buff.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Do you live in Koyel? You're a French settlement. I'm not a Koyelian.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

I'm not a Koyolian. Yeah, if you didn't know it, if you didn't know French settlement, Koyel people like joke on each other.

SPEAKER_01 36:42

They don't they don't get along?

SPEAKER_00 36:43

I'm not a Koyelian.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

Which one's more uh which one's more up class? Uptown, French settlement. People from French settlement look at Koyel people and go, he must be from Koyel.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

That's the French part of the French settlement, is looking down your nose at somebody.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

I don't know if uh MD 2020 really counts as a uh French beverage in French settlement.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

That's right. I would have some of your finest French wine. Would you like the uh Snow Creek Berry or the Strawberry Hill, sir?

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Oh, good. Great, great. So you really don't have any idea where you want to end up in Good Morning America. But other I don't actually. I mean you'd like to do a cable news show like that, obviously. Is that like a is that like most um most journalists' yeah goal was to get to where they do a but I wouldn't mind staying at channel two forever.

SPEAKER_02 37:28

Yeah. I'm sure they'd love to have you. That's so great. I'm glad you brought that back to make sure you stay employed.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

If they keep me there. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

They could listen to this going, oh, we got some bad news when she gets back to the studio.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

No, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Nah, nah. I think you'll be fine. I think you'll be fine. What is your favorite Good Morning America style show, like your favorite morning talk or whatever? You do you have any?

SPEAKER_00 37:48

No, you can't watch them, but I saw one today. Good morning America steals and deals.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

You get to shop while you're working. Are you kidding me? That sounds like a dream.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

So, like merging all those things together. I get it. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Any other shows you watch?

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Like news?

SPEAKER_01 38:09

Table news or any? Oh, you you probably don't want to watch anyone doing what you do after you. I just gotta watch serial killer stuff. She probably watches it, listens to it. You like SVU like shows like that? Or you just listen to the podcast?

SPEAKER_02 38:21

I've never actually like crime TV.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

I've never watched that. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Don't, don't. My wife used to wake up really mad at me all the time. Well now I used to watch it going to sleep, and she'd wake up mad at me every day.

SPEAKER_03 38:31

Why?

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Like I didn't do any of that stuff. But that was in her head. So she went to sleep watching that show. She'd start dreaming about it, and then for some reason I'd get worked into it. I didn't do none of that.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

Well, then maybe I should go watch it at home.

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

But you don't have time to watch it. When you get home, you're probably so tired.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

No, that's my favorite thing to do. Like, yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

You go be on TV all day, then you go home and watch TV.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Yes, I love my favorite thing of all time. Like, even on Friday and Saturday nights, be in my pajamas on the couch watching something.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

That'd be like Drew coming home after watching, after going to court all day and watching Matlock.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

I don't.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

Hey yeah. No, you know.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Watch Franklin and Bash.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

It helps me watch. I've never seen an episode of it.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

I'm a Matlock man.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

Helps me strengthen my craft.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

So you so you take notes. So you're actually you're learning, you're furthering your education.

SPEAKER_00 39:21

Uh I was kidding. I kind of just said that for the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

Just veg out. Eat chips and salsa and watch TV.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

I'm drinking.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

So for your husband comes home from work, he's like, oh, let's go. It's so good to be on for my wife who's been on TV all day. Now she's in front of the TV, watching TV. Now she's asleep.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Oh, I do that sometimes too.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

What time do you go to bed? 7, 7.45?

SPEAKER_00 39:40

Yeah, like 7:30.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Dude, that's a tough life. But I'll tell you, if if you're her husband, you can watch whatever you want on TV after that.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

Okay, what about you flipping through the channels watching girl stuff? Does he have to be real quiet or are you like a heavy sleeper? Uh I'm sure he stays up late.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

Yeah, it depends on. Well, he's got a man cave, so.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

He doesn't have to watch Korean dramas all night long. He can watch whatever he wants. Yeah. So he comes home, spends 10, 15 minutes with you, you're off to bed. He's into the man came. In the highlights, that's exactly it. Oh my god. Wow. This guy. You know who we need on the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

This guy.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Can you send me his contact? Yeah, we need to talk to him and see how it works. If he ever hears it, she should be like, oh shoot.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

Everybody knows now. My secret's out. My secret's out. This is the best way to keep a marriage.

SPEAKER_00 40:31

Isn't that funny? Yeah, I got married at the ripe age of 22.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

Oh, ripe age of 22.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

Mm-hmm. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

Um, so tell us, how do people find you on social media? Like if they want to follow along and watch the anti-s, because you obviously put on a lot of content from your from your uh your gigs, right? When you're out on the scene, you'll do a little quick video and do go live. I know I've seen you live before.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Yeah, both my Instagram and my Facebook, Abigail Wittem TV.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

And that's W-H-I-T-A-M.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Abigail Wittem TV.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

Abigail Whittem. I know my Instagram it's Abigail Wittem.tv.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

That's pretty smart. See that. She moves in. If she ever moves into another position, another station, she can retain it because TV is universal.

SPEAKER_00 41:12

These ones that I'm not going to another station. Never mind.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Never. Unless Good Morning America calls.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02 41:18

Yeah, she's she's not selling out BRZ like you know, some people do.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Hey, and and watch channel two.

SPEAKER_01 41:26

If you ever left WBRZ, this is hypothetical, and got another job with another news organization. Would you jump in their car and go park right across the street from WBRZ?

SPEAKER_00 41:37

I know you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 41:39

Would you uh pick you up right across the street from the car? What if it were a Savagate car?

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

I a hundred percent feel like he did that for us to see it because it was I mean, it was that was orchestrated well. That was that was a good little skit. You know, you would never do that.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

We need a Savagate car so you can do the same thing. So when we have our media guests on, I can go pick them up.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

They can be seen in the Savages. We could send the car. Oh, they'll freak people out. I'll tell you what, if you buy it, I'll pay to have it wrapped.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

It really would scare people if they saw that van.

SPEAKER_01 42:11

I would. Savagate van? Yeah, scared. It would cause a frenzy.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

You know what? I kind of wish I could go back to the time.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00 42:19

I did not know who the Sadvocate was ran by.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

Oh, was that a mystery time?

SPEAKER_00 42:23

Yeah, it was like a mystery. I didn't know who it was.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

Yeah, so much more fun. I agree. Uh now we know, and it's not as much fun.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Until the snow meme came up. Boy. The snow meme was a good one. So January of last year was the heavy, like the major snow. Snow apocalypse. Yeah. And, you know, it was funny because, and I've always laughed at this for years. We never have snow here, but I've always seen on TV, it's like these people out driving in the snow, the weathermen are out in the snow talking about conditions are dangerous for driving. Stay home. Even while cars are passing. So, so my girl Abigail here, they sent her out somewhere in the snow.

SPEAKER_00 42:58

Denham Springs.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

It was coming down. Okay, and I'll I'll show you the picture, but I mean, you could visibly see in her face. It was she was having trouble because it was coming down. So, of course, I snapped a screen grab of it, and her face was just like, and the meme was when you spent all day out in the snow driving around, doing spots, telling people it's too dangerous to drive in the snow.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

But you remember you had to drive back to the station.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

Yeah, I remember to drive back to the studio in the snow.

SPEAKER_02 43:20

You know why they sent you out to the snow story, right?

SPEAKER_00 43:23

I don't want to know.

SPEAKER_02 43:24

A little accumulation looks really dramatic. It's true with her. Yes, with her. Oh my god, it's like it's so bad. It's actually six inches.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

You get two or three inches of snow.

SPEAKER_02 43:32

Oh my god, we're all dying.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

But you could also put like a milk crate in the snow and stand on it, and no one would know the better. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

That is well, I actually was gonna roast myself real quick. Y'all keep talking about how short I am.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

Uh-oh. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 43:46

You know what I get more than the short?

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Uh-oh. Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

It's like thinking I'm like 12 or something. Everyone always thinks I'm in the high school.

SPEAKER_02 43:55

I'll tell you now.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

So I look at 10.

SPEAKER_02 43:58

Right now, this may be bothering. Some right now. But when you're 60 and they're going, You look 20. When you're 60 and you look 20, you're gonna be like, Yeah, ID me now.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

Yeah. See, everyone says that. They're like, Oh, it'll come in handy. It'll come up, it'll be good like Botox for me.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Yeah, but the same thing at time. As long as you have the camera and the tripod, no one's gonna bother you at all.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

The secret is going to bed early, not staying up late, partying and doing all that stuff. That's right. You got it out of your system at Northwestern, I'm sure. Yeah. But now, career, marriage, 745 in bed. That's that's the secret to youth right there.

SPEAKER_00 44:31

You know what my life motto is? You can't get in trouble if you're sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 44:35

Um, you can't. To some degree, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 44:38

No, you can't get in trouble.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Trying to think. Maybe he's an attorney.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

He's going through his case right now, going, no. So I got some examples of stuff that's pretty baffling. Actually, no, you know what? Thank you, Dave. You're exactly right. You certainly can get in trouble when you sleep in the city. Okay, what is it? I can't say it.

SPEAKER_00 44:55

Come on, spin.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

A specific example. You're part of his scandal. Horror part of your scandal. No, it's not part of my scandal.

SPEAKER_00 45:00

Is it still going on?

SPEAKER_02 45:02

No, it's not. No, it's no good though.

SPEAKER_01 45:06

Okay, so so Abigail Wittham TV on Facebook, Instagram, and people can follow along with you, and you usually do a little live before your tune-in gig so they can see where you're at. Do you ever do any teasers as to where you're going the day before? Or they don't want you to do that.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

I actually got told not to do that.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

You got told not to do that. Yeah. I feel like that would I feel like that would really help though if people because not everybody's up that time of morning, but if they go, oh, the Tanjipoa rodeo, I've been wanting to check that out.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

Well then if I got any people that got a crush on me, they might come out there to get me.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 45:41

It's a safety precaution.

SPEAKER_02 45:43

Stuff you gotta worry about.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Alright, well then.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

We won't play this till tomorrow after the Tanjibua rodeo. So after the Tanji road. We don't want to be responsible for some cowboy showing up on you on the Savagid podcast.

SPEAKER_02 45:57

I got out here early.

SPEAKER_01 45:59

The good news is that of the six listeners we have, I don't think any of them are.

SPEAKER_02 46:02

You know what he's gonna do? The creeper's gonna get a Savaket van because she just referenced it. He's gonna go go look in the Savagid van. Dave's in there, and that's how you get got. That was funny. Anybody have a crush on me anymore?

SPEAKER_00 46:15

That's right. How many, how many viewers do you probably like what, seven people listening to the show? I was kidding.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

I mean, this is every episode that's gonna get us there.

SPEAKER_02 46:29

I agree.

SPEAKER_01 46:29

I mean, I this is gonna do it.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

Seven genes is it popping off for y'all or what?

SPEAKER_01 46:36

I mean, we're gonna quit our job. We're pleasantly happy with uh the results. We have some subscribers, and but um regardless, it's it's fun to do, and we meet interesting people and find out all kind of great stuff. Yes, we're happy to have uh the opportunity to do it.

SPEAKER_00 46:50

Yeah, thank y'all for having me.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

You are our first TV personality, first TV personality.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

Well, thank you for having us.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

This thing pops off and we get like a hundred listeners uh at a time. We can look back and go, that was our first one.

SPEAKER_02 47:04

You gotta think about all the people we told no before we arrived at having you in today.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_02 47:10

You turn a lot of people down. We turn people down. Popular gigs. People want to come on this show. Probably two people standing outside right now trying to get in here to get on this show. Wade Evans, one of those.

SPEAKER_00 47:19

And then I'm just gonna walk by and flip my hair.

SPEAKER_02 47:21

That's right. So, yes, very good. So, but we do do news. So that's it. Yeah, we we um we gotcha. So you can chime in as you feel uh you need to. And as a Savvy Gate fan, you you know how the show works. So, Dave, what do we got?

SPEAKER_01 47:38

We we typically do a couple of news uh articles. Um not with our guests, they normally run over, but we're gonna we're gonna do some since you're a news team.

SPEAKER_02 47:45

If you are a guest that would be adept at covering news.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

Um, so so um apparently a suspect on an ankle monitor was tracked out of state driving 119 miles per hour the other day. And as I understand it, this was like hundreds of violations.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Now we are huge fans of the ankle monitor process.

SPEAKER_01 48:07

Ankle monitors stories keep the savagate hopping because he delivered some serious memes for the savagate. You know, it's like every time you turn on the news, it's oh well the suspect was out on ankle monitor when he committed the crime, or judge sent it, gives a guy who killed 16 people ankle monitored till his trial. It's really, it's really ridiculous. But this guy, um, as I understand it, went to at least one other state and five or six other cities. Now the ankle monitor thing means you're supposed to be at home.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

No.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

Or at some at least finite location, usually locally.

SPEAKER_01 48:40

Yeah. So uh don't you ever get tired of hearing about all the criminals who were out on the street committing more crimes? Oh, yeah. That like the being in the newsroom, you've got to see that nonstop.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

And it's I yeah, it's it's it's just I'm gonna go Spencer Pratt on this issue and say no, the TV news does not get unexcited about people committing crimes. Otherwise, what would they have to cover? Well, fun stories like me. Coverage or not, you have to be like exactly yeah, yeah. Coverage or not, you have to be like, is this ever gonna end up? I think suggested the other day that we have an ankle monitoring monitoring company. Um I believe there's a story on the Savagate about ankle monitor and monitor. I believe so. Did you know? By the way, I'm gonna tell you a little city municipal thing. Did you know, because of Hurricane Katrina and all the fraud with all the companies that claim to have done work during Katrina, you have to have a debris monitoring company to monitor the debris being removed so it can be proven. So we've already had this concept already. So this is not a new thing. No, the ankle monitoring monitoring comp oh that's crazy. I'm gonna leave this podcast and create that business.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

There's something for everything.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

There's something for everything.

SPEAKER_00 49:48

You need to have a news monitoring news station.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

Yes. That's uh that's called Facebook people because they're always watching in golf. The savagate. Always watching.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Someone's actually, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

Always watching.

SPEAKER_00 50:00

We're watching.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

Always watching.

SPEAKER_01 50:02

That's right. Um, did you catch this New Roads police officer um who got fired? This is a guy who got arrested in Baton Rouge last year for I believe it was I believe it was drug related, allegedly. But he got fired from the New Roads Police Department, and he spoke up this week and said, the New Roads Police Department is junk. It's a terrible department. So could you believe a guy who got fired from his job left a one-star review about a place?

SPEAKER_02 50:29

I mean, have you ever seen that happen? I think there's so much to unwrap with that. Because one, he got fired. Yes. So he's a disgruntled employee. Yes. Two, he got busted somewhere else committing a crime. Right. Probably frowned upon. I'm told it's frowned upon in the police industry to be a criminal, trying to be a policeman.

SPEAKER_01 50:48

Allegedly. Now, in his defense, the New Roads Police Department has had no shortage of news stories about him over the past.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

And then you get to the other end of that story, and you're like, you know, we're at story number five or six. I mean, is this the same police department that shot the guy in the field? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

Same one. Yeah. A lot of problems there. The chief defended him. Uh, I didn't actually read it from this story. It's on, you can find it on WBRZ.com. Yeah, absolutely. Um, but he got up and he defended the the police department. I'm curious to read what he what he wrote. It was a little short on time. He just comes out and the camera goes, No, it's not.

SPEAKER_02 51:21

If you don't read the news from the past eight months, we're in great department. That's right. Things are going great. You know, he's just sitting there with the fire around him. Everything is fine. Nothing is here.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Did he use his real name when he commented that review? The review?

SPEAKER_01 51:35

No, he didn't make the review. He was it was it was in front of the camera.

SPEAKER_00 51:39

Like he went on the camera and said, Hey, I think I saw New Rose Police.

SPEAKER_01 51:43

It's just a junk department. It just ain't you know, and he ain't doing things right.

SPEAKER_02 51:47

And then the fourth part of that story is, you know, because he worked for it, is he proving the point?

SPEAKER_01 51:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:53

The reporter should have said, Yeah, they got a lot of officers getting fired from getting arrested. They got a lot of criminals that used to work over there. That's weird. That's so odd. He did not, he did not help himself. He did not help the police department. He he only helped the news coverage that day.

SPEAKER_01 52:10

So on the same topic, the BRPD had two officers get arrested within a short time of each other for domestic battery. Third BRP BRPD officer in his many weeks in trouble. They all have one thing in common. What? They were hired under the last police chief who is alleged to have relaxed the standards for hiring officers so he could help build up officers.

SPEAKER_02 52:39

Wait a second. So you're telling me, help me out, lowering the standards for the guy who gets to k and girls who get to carry guns was a bad policy. Raising their pay to a a better average pay is a better policy. Yes. It seems that way. God seems that way.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

I would never, I would never And I I'm not sure, but I believe this is almost there are a few other ones from those academies who have been in some trouble. Um frowned upon. Yes. So lowering the standards, obviously not a good thing, especially for law enforcement. For media, maybe lower standards for media.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

I mean, yeah. I'm just saying. Uh it'll to be fair, if they come from the live oak newsroom, that's raising the standards.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

And if you keep your standards very high, you get seasoned high school journalists who go out there and absolutely kill it.

SPEAKER_00 53:32

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 53:33

Miss Abigail What I'm here.

SPEAKER_00 53:34

Well, you're making me blush.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

We're not on camera. We're not on camera, so it doesn't matter. We'll just have to agree with you.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

That's why I had to say it out loud.

SPEAKER_01 53:41

She's blushing. So we also do um, we have a thing where you can text this advocate podcast, and we read them on the air um every time uh we do a show. And uh if you text us at 225-255-2480, yeah, we will read your text on the air, even if it's poking fun at us, making fun of me and Drew, or just Drew. Yeah, I want to do it making fun of the show.

SPEAKER_00 54:03

What people say. I want to People love Day.

SPEAKER_01 54:05

We have some texts this week. People love day. We will probably have some about you for the next show.

SPEAKER_02 54:10

You know what it's like to be you don't know what it's like. Do you know what it's like to be the least popular person on a two-person show? You know what that feels like. Let me tell you how it is. John Pastrick, ask him about it.

SPEAKER_00 54:22

Wait, you said he's the least favorite?

SPEAKER_02 54:26

No, I'm the least favorite of the two. He's an attorney. Right off, right out the gate. He's like, oh, he's an attorney. Yeah, yeah. He's also a politician. Hey. He's a politician. You lump me in with the used car salesman. Oh, the worst of the worst. Oh, scumbags.

SPEAKER_00 54:42

Northwestern dropout.

SPEAKER_02 54:44

Oh my gosh. Man, she's bringing the heat, huh?

SPEAKER_00 54:47

Northwestern. Bringing on the heat.

SPEAKER_02 54:50

I mean, purple and orange go great together. Small package, but packs a lot of punch. Yes. That's ones you gotta worry about. Us little people are mean. We gotta fight. We have to be. We have to fight for everything we gotta make up for it with something else. Tall people are just giving stuff. I imagine if I were six foot tall, they just hand me things all the time. Oh, here you go, sir. You can have this. When we're little people, we gotta scratch and claw. Little people.

SPEAKER_00 55:12

Scratch and claw. How tall are you?

SPEAKER_02 55:14

Five foot eight. Yeah, feels like a giant, doesn't he? I know.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

You're not much taller than me. I'm five three.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

On a good day.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

Five inches is like it is.

SPEAKER_02 55:26

You've been lying to yourself for a while.

SPEAKER_01 55:28

It's like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory up in here today. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

That's right.

SPEAKER_02 55:32

If y'all would have worn orange, it's suspect. Exactly. You characterized us as oompa loompas. We can't be Willy Wonka because we're short.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

So, yes, you can text us at 225-255-2480, and we will read your text. And after the uh Bree Lynn show, which is only two days ago, we got two texts about it. Wow. And she sent them both. Um, I don't know if she sent them. Okay. They weren't from her number, though. Oh. One of them came right after the uh the show, Aaron said Brie Lynn was great on the podcast. I agree. Very sweet. I agree.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

You had a lot of fun with her. I mean, you to be fair, should she not be great? Would that be a negative? And if she wasn't, would you send that text? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:09

You think we'd get some negative text about your little uh performance today? I doubt it.

SPEAKER_02 56:12

No, no, I think you're great.

SPEAKER_00 56:14

People are gonna send negatives about me.

SPEAKER_02 56:16

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_00 56:17

I'm gonna go home and cry.

SPEAKER_01 56:18

You don't get a lot of uh like hate emails at the Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 56:21

Do you ever read our comments?

SPEAKER_01 56:23

No. Well, I'm not talking about Facebook. I mean like people email in the studio going, I saw that section about blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_00 56:29

Yeah, I get emails all the time.

SPEAKER_01 56:31

Like about you?

SPEAKER_00 56:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 56:33

People are mean.

SPEAKER_00 56:34

I got an email saying, My hair's frizzy.

SPEAKER_02 56:38

Was that from your mom again?

SPEAKER_00 56:40

No.

SPEAKER_02 56:40

Was that your mom? Mom is not very supportive. We know this already. We're gonna have your husband and your mom on the show in the future. I'm gonna email her real quick. You're not gonna make it in mornings. See, your hair is frizzy.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

My mom did take some pictures she showed me the other day. She said she had taken pictures of me on the TV and said, I don't know what highlighter you were wearing this day, but it made you glow on TV. Don't wear that again. Don't it would be glad to go? She said I was like I was shiny. Shiny.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

She said, don't wear it again. I said, Mom, I wasn't even wearing a highlighter. Because I don't even wear a highlighter.

SPEAKER_02 57:13

She said, Mama, put your glasses on. Mama, that wasn't me. Yeah, I don't know what didn't your mom win a Sadvocate contest one time.

SPEAKER_00 57:21

My mom is a Sadvocate supporter.

SPEAKER_02 57:23

Oh, so you're just trying to win favor with your mother by coming on the show. So she'll lay off you in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 57:28

One more in your face to your mom. I was on a Sadvocate podcast.

SPEAKER_02 57:30

You're gonna come out and she go, hey, you know, baby. What did your mom win?

SPEAKER_01 57:33

Some tickets or something?

SPEAKER_00 57:34

Yeah, she won. Sure. They won shirts. There was a bunch of people that have been winning. Remember my aunt Sean won a shirt as well.

SPEAKER_01 57:42

This is like collusion. I had like three winners, and they all text me and said, Hey, if you ever see Abigail winner was given to her, that's what it was. I'm like, people are in your family. Three winners. Right. Rigging contests.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

Yeah. So hey, look, if you keep them away from this and your mom goes, hey, you really do have a face for radio, that's not a compliment.

SPEAKER_01 58:01

Shout out to Abby's mom. I just want you to know she looks perfect. Her her whatever whatever uh highlight she's wearing or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 58:07

She looks like the end of her day, so really she should be miserable right now. She's doing great.

SPEAKER_01 58:11

She's doing a great job. No, no need to harass her about this. Okay, but she could call you and go, You sounded terrible on that show. Was the mic too close? What was the deal? I mean, what are you doing? I mean, why did you bother? Why were they picking on you about your height?

SPEAKER_00 58:21

No, my mom is actually sweet.

SPEAKER_01 58:22

Do you get your height from your mom or your dad?

SPEAKER_00 58:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:26

Is she? Is everybody short?

SPEAKER_00 58:28

No, me and my mom are about the same. About the same. My brother's really tall, so.

SPEAKER_01 58:32

She sends me nice messages on the Savagate sometimes, very nice later. Yeah, she has. She has. I think she uh sent me something about.

SPEAKER_02 58:38

Does it upset you that Dave gets all the nice messages that that you want? She's never said anything about me glowing. Is this therapy? Well, do we need to talk about this?

SPEAKER_00 58:46

Yeah, we should probably talk about this.

SPEAKER_02 58:50

The last time mom listened to the Savicate.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

I loved hearing Brie Lynn on the podcast this week. More Brie. She's got a little, she's got a little fan base.

SPEAKER_00 58:58

Oh, yeah, Brie Lynn. That's nice.

SPEAKER_01 59:00

We might maybe charge her for coming back on the show.

SPEAKER_02 59:03

I feel like that's her last free ride. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 59:05

Yeah. Yeah, she was good though. Um send Drew to Talk 107 next week. What's that about, Andrew?

SPEAKER_02 59:11

Uh, we we missed an opportunity because I'm going to the beach next week. Is this we or is this you? It was gonna be we because you were gonna do it with me. I didn't tell you that at the time. I just I was asked to find it. You didn't want to let me down since you couldn't do it? I was at I I wanted to see if I could do it first and then talk to you about it. I was asked to fill in on Talk 1073. It doesn't happen very often. Uh I wanted to do it, but I'm going to the beach.

SPEAKER_00 59:35

Well, that's when Dave asked for um fill-in, and that's where I come in.

SPEAKER_01 59:39

Oh, we'd have if that would have been after we had you, we'd have absolutely had you in there.

SPEAKER_02 59:43

Oh, no, she wants she's taking over.

SPEAKER_01 59:46

What about taking over? Now that I know like her mom's. I remember you doing that when you're doing your traffic. That was what did that happen the same day?

SPEAKER_00 59:58

No, this was all different.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Okay, yeah. All right, because I'll you put them together on year, because I'm like 67 degrees, six to seven minutes.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:04

Oh no, that was the same day. But the weather and the traffic were both six to glad that trend has passed. Oh, it's still in it, it lives in my head written free. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:13

She's in Livingston, so it takes a few minutes.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:15

Okay, um, next text. They're shooting people in Baker Bro. This was obviously not addressed to Abby. This barbershop thing is blown up. It is. There's been two shootings in Baker, which is a terrible thing to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:29

But uh our part of this conversation was we're upset that the Baker mayor and Baker City Council has banned additional barbershops in the Baker area, and we don't know why barbershops are bad.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:44

We were we had the Savicate Barbershop plan to open in Baker, and they shut us down. Maybe that's what it was. They found out about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:50

I was gonna do low taper fades all day long. Yeah. It's gonna be awesome. And we're gonna talk about stuff. I was gonna do perms.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:57

I don't know if I trust y'all to do my hair.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:59

You don't have to worry about it now.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

Well, apparently I need to come get my hair done anyway. Ask your mom how it looks.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:04

Let me send this picture to be honest because. According to your mom, we cannot do worse. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:08

No, but my mom didn't say the frizzy hair though. That was a random person.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:11

Rando person, but your mom was thinking.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:13

Might have been your mom just like, she's I don't want to hurt my daughter's feelings. How many times gotta say now? Email news at wbrz.com. Charlie and let Abby know her hair.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:20

Can you email the studio anonymously?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:22

We're gonna make up with them fake email addresses.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:24

Who's your mom's name?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:25

Rhonda.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:25

Rhonda. Ronda Will. Rhonda's gonna be tough. I Rhonda's are tough.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:30

So did you stick to the maiden name and go with that after you got married? Or or did you start with the maiden name because Oh, I'm still on my maiden name on TV. That's what I mean. But is that is that something you that TV people normally do?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Yeah, we keep it. And I will never tell anyone my Yeah, we keep it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:47

Well, I mean, because she's gonna have some privacy. A. And B, I mean, look, we think this is a great marriage right now because dude's getting to watch whatever he wants in the man cave every night. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:58

We can't predict the future. You don't want to build up a name that you could potentially have to abandon. That's so that's true. You have to change it then. So that's smart.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:07

Hey, I'm not planning on on a well, no one ever plans on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:10

I do understand that. But don't don't don't someone normally use their middle name?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:13

Why did you take my card earlier? It's weird. Don't y'all normally use your middle name though, like like for uh for TV.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:20

Yeah, some people do. Yeah, some people use our middle name.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:23

Some people just make up whole new names.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:25

I took your card so when you your scandal comes out, I'll have to.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:28

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:29

Yeah, so good. It's coming too, baby. Text me first. Text me first. Um, y'all were right about Segan. I barely see any vagrants out there these days. Where'd they go?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

Where did they go? That must mean your cousin's doing good. Isn't Jennifer?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:42

Yes. Well, partially my cousin. She does a jam-up job. But when the city of St. George took the reins on Segan Lane, they changed a lot and they forbid me to use Segan Lane as my go-to street to joke about. So, what happened to those vagrants, Mr.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:58

Well, thanks for asking, Dave. Uh, the city of St. George uh really wanted to target Segan as our homeless initiative. And so what we do is in partnership, one, we didn't want to pretend like Keep Tiger Town Beautiful doesn't exist. Baton Rouge did that for a long time. Poor policy. So we wanted to bring Jennifer and that group in and say, hey, see getting your photo taken. And we want to bring that group in and say, hey, what can we do for you to help you do what you do, which is a great job of cleaning up our city. So we partner with them, we partner with the Grove Recovery, and we have off-duty sheriff's deputies we pay to patrol the area. Panhandling right there is illegal, it's dangerous. Uh, you see some really horrible things right next to a Catholic school and a church that you don't need to see. And so we get rid of the panhandlers, we put about 60 people in rehab from that program. We've taken about two dozen felony warrants off the streets and arresting people, and we've helped turn some of these guys and girls' lives around. They're now volunteer, they're now working for the city, cleaning up some of the trash they used to make. Yeah. And because of that, I guarantee you, and I've heard this, they all Jennifer actually said it the other day, they all know where St. George is and they all know where they don't want to be. None of them want to be. They don't get comfortable here. We don't allow it. You're gonna be in rehab or you're gonna be removed. We're gonna get you the help you need, or you're gonna have to find a new place to go.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:20

I have been on at least two cleanups with Keep Tiger Town Beautiful where some of the people who are helping said, I used to live in this encampment. Now they're on the other side helping get their life straight, cleaning up, which is really, really nice to hear. Have you ever had to be a good idea?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:36

Yeah, I was gonna say I love I love um that about not only Keep Tiger Town Beautiful, but you guys too, with what you just told me. Not just, you know, taking them and kicking them on the street, taking them out and putting them somewhere else.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:46

No, they're they're they're given basically three choices rehab, because uh truly all of them are in some form of addiction issue. Um, or we've put some in mental health uh situations, there are a few of those, they go there, or you have the bus ticket option. If you've got a family somewhere else, a lot of these folks come from other places and migrate down here. If we can touch base with a family and coordinate it, we'll put you on a bus and pay for it and send you there. Uh, or if you get to that last choice, really it's gonna be get out. We gave you all these wonderful options. Uh for the most part, all these people have been given that option of going to the shelters. They don't like that because they have rules at shelters. Don't do drugs, don't drink, don't, you know, don't do things you're not supposed to. And they don't choose that option. So we're trying to help them uh find a pathway that doesn't equate to begging on street corners.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:36

And I applied for a grant through St. George to try to find a new street to pick on, but uh that hasn't gone through yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:41

So I get I told you college drive.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:43

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:43

They actually told you you can't pick on them no more.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:45

Uh they didn't tell me that. There's nothing to pick on anymore.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:48

There's nothing out there.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:49

It's Segan Lane is a paradise for families and children and pets to go enjoy.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:54

I'm gonna milk the Motel 6 and the abandoned motel next to it till they tear this down. Once they tear this down, I'm moving on. I'm moving. Bac across the airline to Sherwood.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:02

Back to Sherwood.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

Hey, you can always go to Livingston. We we welcome Livingston's too easy.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:07

Livingston's way too. Livingston's too easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:09

I've got my We already got Chris Hansen out there, my bed.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:12

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Thousands of brothers in Livingston Parish. We're locking them all up. I'm not sure there's really something you want to publicize.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:21

I know. I kind of. Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:24

Yeah, let's. Have you ever picked up with Keep Talking How Beautiful? Have you ever been on one of those?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:28

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:28

I think WBRZ needs to go out and pick up with her. She would absolutely love to do that. I'm gonna put her in touch with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:39

Cool. Oh, I love Mr. I've done a lot of stories with her.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:43

I love her.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:44

She is wonderful. If WBRZ commits, the savagate crew will commit to going out there with y'all.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:49

Oh yeah? Wait, you two? Media day. What? It's media day. I would love to go do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:56

We can't get an attorney out there.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:58

No, it costs too many liabilities.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:00

Look at them shoes. Those attorney shoes. Wait, if you're. He's not getting those things dirty.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:03

He's not even his finger in there. There's no dirt on there. Wait, so we're doing a whole media day? We're doing Sadvocate Us.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:11

And WBRZ. Pickup Day. Sadvocate and B R Z. Yeah. Jennifer loves group pickups like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:17

The only good never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:20

Hey Dave, if you want to text the show, how do you text the show? You're gonna have to finish that statement.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:27

I'm not finishing it. It came out and I shouldn't have said anything.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:30

You can text the show with D. She has a hot mic moment away. Yeah, we're not gonna cut that.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:35

My mom was actually my mom getting something last night about she was scared of me coming on here. She was like, What?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:42

Yeah. Why are people scared of coming on 70? Because we're talking a lot about Rhonda. Maybe that's why Rhonda's scared.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:48

She was scared of what I was gonna say or have slip out of my mouth.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:51

Hey Dave, you want to feel old real quick? You ready? How old is Rhonda?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:55

I can't tell her.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:56

How old is your mom at?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:57

I'll tell her she was uh she's like she was born in 72, so yeah. She's like in her 50s.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:04

In our age range. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:06

Oh, yeah, they're old enough to be my parents.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:12

We have to do a lot of cutting on this this episode. This just shows deteriorating.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:19

I like we're old enough to be your parents. It's in an hour. It's the Pride Month episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:25

You better help us out through our cars whenever uh we got a handicap accent for the office.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:30

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:30

You can find the Savigant Podcast on the Savagate Podcast. Please tell me where to find it. Wait, first tell me how to text the show. 225-255-2480.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:39

And the Savagant Podcast is available everywhere you can find podcasts. So uh if it's iTunes, you can do it. If it's uh podcasts on Spotify, Facebook podcast page online, uh, you can find us pretty much everywhere. What we really love for you to do to help us grow the show and get more reach, uh like it, subscribe to it, leave a positive review. If you got a negative review, don't leave it there because no one will care about it there. We would like to hear it, and you can text that to us. Uh, that's great as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:08

And if you want to say anything about Abigail Whittam when we post it on the Savagate podcast group, which I don't know if you followed yet, you can absolutely post your comments here. She would love to read them.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:17

Yeah, please know that her hair is not frizzy today. It's gorgeous. Uh she is not glowing or shiny. I think she's glowing. Not glowing in a negative. No, shiny, bad glow.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:27

Did y'all actually tell me?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:28

Yes. No. Oh, absolutely not. We'd lie to you.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:30

Nice things only in the group. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:32

It's a super positive show. That's been episode 31 of the Savaging Podcast with Dave and Drew. Thank you. And Abigail Willem.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:39

Thanks for watching. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:40

Thanks for watching.