Episode 39 - No Mason Batts

Dave and Drew talk about Mason Batts from Mayor Edwards office becoming the first no show on the Sadvocate, running for Justice of the Peace and alleged investigations into potential alleged indictments.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

We are back. It's episode number 39 of the Savaged Podcast, Dave and Drew, host Dave Ripolo. He is a writer at the Savagate. I am Drew Merle, St. George City Councilman, local attorney, candidate for justice of the peace. And you know, we've already this is the first time. This is a historic moment. Historic moment. Savagant Podcast. I cannot believe it's actually taken 39 episodes for this to happen, but we've been stood up. Like a tender date. We our first ever guest no show, allegedly, because he got the schedule wrong. Thought it was P.M. instead of A.M. I think that's a likely excuse.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

I I that's that's a mistake I could have made when I uh created the uh calendar event, but I went back and double checked and it was uh I was here on time.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

Yeah. Well I'm the one that usually is not here on time.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

So we got stood up by the mayor's Wonder Kind, Mason Batts.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

He apologized and uh said he wanted to come in and do the show later, but unfortunately Drew and I are tied up.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Yeah, we have other stuff to do, amazingly. Uh we can't just bend to the whim of the mayor's office.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

But we'll have him back on, and his his uh Savagate Tumblr will be sitting there in the chair waiting for him.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Maybe it won't be here when he gets back. Very, very nice Savagate Tumblr, too. Very nice color. Blue. Yeah. Very very good. Uh so really sad. Uh I wonder if he was not allowed to show up like curfew, like his mom didn't let him.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Could it could be it? He could have overslept.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

Overslept. You know, kids do that a lot. You know, mine I have to wake up like two and three times before she gets up.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

So but but in his defense, it is a very stressful day for anyone working for the mayor's office, Drew, because today is the deadline for the recall petition to be turned in to the Secretary of State.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

So he's probably getting a box together with his prized possessions and belongings in the mayor's office and getting ready to move out.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Because I mean you got to figure that the recall effort had to get what 50,000 signatures?

SPEAKER_00 2:09

Yes. 50,000.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

So you think this is the day where they're gonna turn in like 50,000 signatures and he is gonna see the writing on the wall, not to mention that they have to have a vote after the recall. This isn't the only part of it. Um that he's just gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 2:26

Yeah. Maybe he's maybe he's worried about it. But in his defense, again, after the first month, they only had 10 signatures, not 10,000, Drew. Ten. Ten whole signatures. And they were verified, though. Ten verified signatures. So we're not just talking about 10. I think these people live in Baton Rouge and are registered to vote. We're talking about 10 whole signatures.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

I used to tell people at the St. George organizers all the time, they'd get worked up that we had all this like hate online. And I'm like, who is it? And they start naming them. It's like exactly. If you can name the people that are opposed to you, that's totally uh that is all right. So in this case, if you look around the room and go, hey, you signed it, you signed it, you sign it. I mean, when you're talking 10 signatures, there's somebody in the room of the recall effort who didn't sign it. Right. Like, oh, I uh I'll get around to it later. I forgot.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Without a doubt, without a doubt. So uh yeah, so Mason uh Mason got his uh calendar uh a little um messed up, but he he's gonna join us again soon. We'll do a show with him. Looking forward to having him.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

What happened was he was looking at the calendar and he saw the Sue St. George line, and he got that confused with go on the show, the St. George Councilman's on. You just got those two things, just a schedule mix-up. No big deal. No big deal. Well played. So what do we do?

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Like the good old saying goes, the show must go on.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

We are consummate professionals.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

And and showing up at uh the Drew Merrill law firm is not cheap. Uh the billable uh time is a minimum of an hour, which I can't afford, so I figure while I'm here getting billed, we're gonna do a damn show.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

May as well do something. Let's go. What do we got?

SPEAKER_00 4:01

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

I like I like the um being able to operate on the fly. It shows the adaptability of the savagant that in a moment of uh controversy or adversity, that's what I was looking for, that that we can overcome that. So, what is going on if we're gonna do some Savagant news? What do we got?

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Well, Drew, before we before we move forward, let's let's find out what's going on with the uh with the JOP campaign, man. Well, so the Justice.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

I mean we don't have a sponsor for the show, so we might as well boost someone up and you're running. Shamelessly promoted. Look, some would call that if I win, it would be a victory for the Savagate Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

And if you do win, uh the Savagate Podcast will send you a bill.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

Very well played, sir. Yes. Um so yes, Justice of Peace campaign's underway. A lot of what we do is, you know, you got I think three components to it. Uh, one, a lot of times people don't know what the Justice of the Peace office actually does. So a lot of what I'm trying to do is educate. Um, this is the most affordable uh court proceeding you can be a part of. It's the usually the fastest. Um and so for for the rank and file, for most people who have a small claims dispute, this is the place you should go if it's available to you, uh, if it's in your jurisdiction. So you've got small claims, claims under 5,000, you've got evictions, you've also got notary work, you've got weddings, you've got uh we can adjudicate litter violations, and there's a few other things the Justice of Peace office can do, but it's a really valuable resource that you just got to know about.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Um Does this replace city court for for for uh areas outside of Baton Rouge City limits?

SPEAKER_02 5:45

No, for the small claims component, I would say yeah. It's a it's a very accessible court system. Um the rules of evidence are very relaxed to allow someone to represent themselves and tell their story. It's really designed to give you that day in court, uh, even if you don't know the vocabulary terms, even if you don't necessarily, you know, have everything all buttoned up like you would in big court, it does allow you your day in court. So I I think it's extremely underutilized, extremely valuable. And you know, the the office I'm running for, which used to be Ward 3 District 2, now district 5, uh Steven Sanders has been the Justice Peace for God, 24, 30 years now. Um and so we've we've always had an extremely competent, very knowledgeable Justice of the Peace. Like he's the best. And so we've always had that available to us in our district. Uh in fact, I just wish more people knew about it. Uh I use a justice piece on a regular basis, it's part of my practice. Uh a lot of people don't, but it's uh, you know, when you got a justice of the peace like that, he is a practicing attorney. Um, he knows what he's doing, and he's been there for a couple of decades, so there's not much he hasn't seen. Very utilized resource.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

So you'll be the you'll basically be the judge.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you throw anybody in the slammer? Uh I mean, there is a mechanism to do that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Well, I mean, I realize we're in East Baton Ridge Parish, so y'all don't do that.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

I mean, the la the last thing I want to do is send somebody to East Baton Reefs Parish prison.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Good point. Now, is there any truth that uh a new company called the Savagate Ankle Monitoring Company has approached you about a contract?

SPEAKER_02 7:23

I heard the Savagate Ankle Monitoring Monitoring Company is coming.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

That's a second layer.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

And it's the it's to monitor the monitoring company. Well, you won't you won't need that for the Savagate Monitoring Company because we'll actually monitor the ankle monitors. The Savagate Ankle Monitoring Monitoring Company has one purpose every day to call the monitoring company and go, hey, you watching these people? You know where this guy is? It's sitting in the bill.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Hey, hey, he's not in his house. You want to tell somebody? So you won't be you you won't be uh throwing people in. You can't look at someone and go, one more outburst like that, I'll give you 10 days in the county lockup.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

No, they have a uh a fine mechanism for that instead. No, I I don't I don't want to throw people in jail. But you could. I mean, in theory, you can throw anybody in jail if they do something. Anybody can. Assault, battery. There's a whole list of crimes. But I mean, in your courtroom. Uh, in theory, maybe. Okay. I mean, I don't know why that's the direction you want to go with the Justice of Peace Office.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Now, if you get Full Peace, P D A C E.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

I thought it was P-I-E-C. Hey, I'm not giving you full justice today, just a little sliver.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Yeah, yeah. That's all you got. Um so if you if you win this position and and you will have to find a a private office, I guess you'll have to purchase or or whatever. And you'll have a court in there, right?

SPEAKER_02 8:40

We actually have to move. It's a really kind of a sad part of it, is we have to move from the uh our current office uh to an office that's in the district. My house is in the district, obviously. But um, yeah, we'll be moving locations. So new You'll have a courtroom in there? Have a courtroom.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

Will it double as a Sadvocate podcast studio? It might. It might sit on the bench.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

It'll also double as a wedding venue. We're gonna perform marriages and back to performing weddings again. Very exciting. We we could have a really nice uh studio with a little arbor with some lace and like white lace and flowers on it, really bring a different feel.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

So when we get when we get when we get video, we can start wearing those white powdered wigs and sit on the bench and make it look like that.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

We can definitely have powdered wigs. Uh yes, I'm so sorry that you're being evicted from your home, but I have a powdered wig on, so that makes it way more fun. Don't mind Dave in the Savagate podcast, who's laughing hysterically at your misery. So now the camera's not on, uh believe me. The red light means nothing. Got to be some rules for that, Dave. Uh but we're also uh Robert in my office is also running for Justice of the Peace of the other district. St. George is basically two Justice of the Peace districts. Um, District 5, which I'm running for, and District 6, which he's running for. So we're trying to have some uniformity. So when St. George citizens and other citizens throughout the parish that that can utilize this court come in, they get kind of the same feel, the same process, some uniformity to those offices. So we we're very excited.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

Um Drew, is there a place anyone can uh find you to find any more information about you or your campaign? Assuming no one steps in and you end up running unopposed.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

Well, uh, if you want to know more about me, andrewmerle.com, uh, you can find all the contact info. Uh Andrew Merle, my Facebook page. You know, I I got away from creating the special pages for stuff. You know, people run off and create, oh, this is me for this office. The problem is you got to grow that. You know, I've already got a Facebook page, I've already got a law firm page. I'm very easy to find. Yeah. I got a councilman page for City of St. George. All right. Uh so you can find me at all those places, contact me, happy to visit with you, tell you more about it. I think it's exciting. I think uh it's a great office, uh, and I think it really is um what I think is the next step in the St. George process is to go that direction.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Nice. All right, well, good. Appreciate you. Shameless plugs. Uh yeah, and you can uh tell Robert uh we can send the bill to him.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Robert absolutely gets a bill. Um I don't want to tell him that we are promoting him to give him a big ego. Just added into his rent.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

That's uh Drew Merle, who who could soon be uh J O P Merle, but still host of the Savvycate podcast. We're not losing him.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

No, no, we can sit there and talk and chat and talk about stuff all day long. I wanna see why not. So what else we got? We got some news? Anything happening?

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Yeah, you know, let's uh let's get back into this um mayor recall. So so as you know, or maybe not, because it's not really a big deal.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

You notice we haven't heard a word about how many signatures she has on the mayor's recall since we found out there was 10.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

And there, yeah, and there's uh they're tight-lipped about it. There's no one posting because if I was getting really close, I would absolutely be publishing.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

We're so close. Come on out, we're only five more. So here's what I think is happening, and maybe I could be wrong, is she's trying to recall, you know, anybody she can find that she doesn't like. And so she's got these people come into her little area to sign the recall. And I bet you she's got like the Sid Edwards one, but she's got it covered up with like the Jeff Landry one. Maybe hey, hey, you gotta sign this one. Oh, wait, well, you gotta sign it twice. You gotta sign it twice. Oh my god. Everything we do here is in triplicate. You've got to sign it three times.

SPEAKER_00 12:22

You know, it's not too far. You wanna walk over there and sign afterwards? See what see what uh you just want to go there and check it out. You think I got my I got my Ray-Ban glasses with the cameras on and we can roll up. They'll never see you coming with those. I'll see them. Oh my goodness. Um, so yeah, I would have figured to really make the uh recall e sweat. The last push. I would I would be showing the numbers and we're coming to get you. Yeah, because I think time is short. Didn't the St.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

George people they were proud of the of the signatures they got going into it and they were like, hey, we're we're absolutely in fact we intentionally we were a month early and we overshot it by about 2,000 to make sure this time there would be no doubt. Yeah, because the first time uh short 81 signatures was well the humor of that was a lot of people signed it um intentionally to withdraw their name later to create a false sense of uh of our success. So the second time around we went so far over that that couldn't be possible.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Yeah, and and that little uh ploy didn't work. No, it didn't.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

It didn't. And on the 2019 St.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

George was incorporated.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

2019, that is the year. Don't let anybody lie to you and tell you different. 2019.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Well, um Mr. Mason Batts calling me on at the call on hold.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

It's not the same as coming on it. He's now he's now worried.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

He might be outside.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

He's now worried.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

No, that's Wade. I'm sorry. I saw a truck outside. That's Wade. That's Wade. He sleeps in our driveway now. I wonder if Wade's gonna tell us since he's withdrawn from the Mayor race. No, he might be withdrawing from uh the Savagate Future podcast as well.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

He might be turning turning his life around. We have a bit of contention with Wade over announcing that on somebody else's show, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Like we should have been the ones.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Nobody gave more love and attention to Wade Evans.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

Almost second, second love is not a potential ethical violation. There's no touching.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

He can't get in trouble for that. Oh, so good. Um and yet he couldn't even announce it on our show. Thanks for nothing, Wade Evans. We're gonna send him a bill. Wade Evans, you're dead to me.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

But I will say this knowing Wade Evans and knowing that he is, I guess, the equivalent of a lame duck now. Not really, but he's not gonna be elected again. It could be a fun three months in Central. Oh man. Let it fly. It started last night because there was a Central City Council meeting, and Wade on his desk, who sits right in the middle, had his big pink savages on your right hand. He is getting he's making up for it.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

He's making up for it, yeah. He's trying. Yeah, we got a little marketing last night. He is a fan of the show.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

And I I thought uh I thought he might, but maybe between now and then he might throw some savagate stuff into the council meeting. He didn't last night, though.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

Did he just work it in? Yeah, like uh like like saying meow. He could just work in something.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

Couldn't believe he didn't do it. But in the f maybe if you and I go there.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

Well, we better get all our privileges in now. Do you think the next I mean the next potential mayor is gonna be as welcoming to the Savagate as Wade Evans?

SPEAKER_00 15:28

They better be.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

They better be. How bad you want that cup.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Yes, we have we have a lot of uh political uh research to do on the list of candidates that seems to be growing.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

I know. I I would have thought if if I were, yes, we we heard there's gonna be potentially four candidates for the central mayors, right?

SPEAKER_00 15:49

The qualifying goes till next week, right?

SPEAKER_02 15:52

Uh August 5th through the 7th, 5 p.m. is the cutoff. See who jumps in. Could be very, very fun fall and little little tiny quiet hamlet of Central.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

And I will tell you this we will try to have every one of the candidates on as a guest because we gotta size them up. We we gotta figure out who that that's that is uh the spotlight they're gonna fall into as the mayor of Central.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

You gotta see if they're for us or against us. Can they take it? Can they take a little good ribbon?

SPEAKER_00 16:22

So far it's three men and one female, I believe. Yeah. Um so we shall see.

SPEAKER_02 16:27

If they can uh handle uh the kind of pressure that we intend on uh delivering here at the Savagate, that hard-hitting fake news.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Yeah, yeah. Um also in the news, uh it looks like another broom staff member was uh what would you call it, Drew? Um Lamot Cole went and answered some questions.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

Well, first I'm not gonna say he's a broom staff member. Well, X. He was mayor pro tem.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Lofty, lofty uh position of excellence awarded usually to the smartest, most best-looking, qualified person uh on a council. That's what I'm told.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Except in some cases. What did you say in Baton Rouge? No, I thought it's St. St. George. Oh, uh usually picked the shortest guy who ran unopposed. That's right. But can they can get free legal advice from? So you're like you're like the perfect pick.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

That's right. Somebody heard me saying that just now. They go, oh, wait, DeLucci's mayor pro team.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

So good looking.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

He's so good looking.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Oh, by the way, real quick, if you um win the JOP position, have to resign St. George, how do they appoint the next mayor pro tem? They'll they'll vote on it. Council votes and approves. Okay, for the remaining council members to be okay. Anyway, um, so Lamont Cole, he was uh member of the Metro Council as mayor pro tem. And exactly what happened uh with this investigation.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Well, you know, I love the way the uh the we'll talk about the school board in a minute, but hey, he is being investigated. That's what the article says uh for some impropriety. I believe it's the mayor Broome's Healthy City initiative, where she may or her office may or may not have received some federal funding that may or may not have been doled out to to friends and family and fake charities that may or may not have included officials and and employees within the mayor's executive office. Uh, I mean, we know Katz got caught up because three people got indicted from the bus service. Right. Uh we know there's been a ton of people subpoenaed, including uh Lamont Cole's former legislative aide who replaced him on the council. Most of the council members have been subpoenaed to testify in some capacity. And so far, when they've testified, uh the the coverage has been whether or not they're subject to the investigation or they've just been called in to provide something.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

See if they'll roll.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

Oh, I've I'm telling you now. There's gonna be some rolling.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

I'm telling you now, if you're not puckering up, yeah, there will be an every man for himself moment, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

That's when you find out exactly who your friends are and who your real friends are.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

So um there there's been a few people who were previously employed with the city during Broom's administration have been called in uh under similar circumstances. Was it all the healthy initiative or was it all different?

SPEAKER_02 19:16

I think it's di that that's the the amazing part. My understanding is it's been several different issues. And look, Broome's administration was land of the $50,000 contract. So the contract level that you don't have to get any council approval that has no real scrutiny or oversight to, allegedly. Um it's a bunch of those. And so you they just dole them out, dole them out, dole them out. Remember, there's uh the Brave funding when uh Broom took office initially. There was this Brave funding, federal funding, to help fight crime in a targeted area, in this case 70805, this little triangle of crime, and she lost all that funding. And part of the reason was she was doling out contracts, she got silky slim driving a bus around all day, uh you know, a van around with nobody on it all day getting paid. Yeah. Uh things like that. So he's allegedly uh being investigated, which is a humor of the next part with the school board um you know has to release a letter.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yeah, they uh this so Lamont Cole, that's a little background. Lamont Cole was the previous mayor pro tem. Um he was also one of the uh original um uh people who sued St. George. What wasn't he? Wasn't he? Didn't he didn't he didn't sign on to that? He did. Um and he is now the head of the East Baton Rouge School Board. And and I honestly don't follow that much, but I've heard he's doing some decent things around there. Um can't complain about that.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

But um apparently the school board put out a statement yesterday, which I'm which is really odd why they bother to even do that because when you do that, you create the panic you were trying to avoid. Right. Especially when you have a statement like, oh, calm down. Yeah, nothing to see here.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Literally, the headline in on WAFB said school board, uh, ask everyone to just remain calm. Like a fire drill. I've never heard anything but a fire drill. Make your way to the accents in a safe manner. But, you know, um, so yeah, I'm not sure why they would even put a statement out, even giving that thing legs, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:24

By the way, uh EBR school system PR department, I would suggest you take your statements in the future to like one of your magnet schools where all the the smart kids are told they have to go, and take it to the English department. It's not allegedly being investigated. You're being investigated. You're being investigated for an alleged crime. Not allegedly being investigated. So work on that. You got a whole English department at several magnet schools. One of those folks will step in and help you out and proofread it for you. Just thought.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Drew, was he being investigated or was she allegedly being investigated?

SPEAKER_02 22:00

We're allegedly doing this show.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

Allegedly. You just thought, hey, if I just throw allegedly in front of stuff, it makes it way better.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Yeah. So uh it's like bless your heart.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

You just throw it out there, yeah. It makes everything better.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

So another um another blast from the past. Um uh under the same, I guess A.G. Liz Merle is doing this investigation. A lot of stuff coming out. Um, a lot of stuff coming out. Interesting to see where this goes.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Good.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Don't worry, don't worry. The Broom supporters will still be sticking up for it. Every one of them gets indicted. Broom will still Broom supporters. Oh, there's nothing to see here. Everyone else should get indicted too.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

There's no been there have been no investigations under the Sid Edwards administration. Um, but he's he's under a recall. I thought that's crazy. That's weird how recalled. Are any of the uh are any of the uh people from the Broom administration who are currently still officials, have they been uh subject to recall or that's weird.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

It appears even after being indicted, some of them are just doing business as usual.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

I would think that they should you know to me, if I were indicted for malfeasance or committing a felony, that maybe my colleagues would require me to take a step back during that period of time.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Surely it would be strange if you were um indicted for uh misuse of tax money, would that be fair to say?

SPEAKER_02 23:26

And then you're sitting there every voting voting on getting rid of tax money or using tax dollars. Just seems crazy. I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Um, you know, I'm also disappointed. I heard like the people who get number 18 at LSU, they get this group chat message after that, and they get to like they they all talk to each other all the time. I would have thought we'd have a mayor pro tem chat message, and like me and Lamont and Brandon Knoll would be on it. Who's Brandon Knoll? Uh current mayor pro tem for EBR Parish.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

So y'all would want to pass mayor pro tem or just the current ones?

SPEAKER_02 24:00

I just say you get into text, you're in there forever. You're the mayor pro tem, you're in this group forever, and we can talk about mayor pro tem stuff and you have like a little fraternity, like maybe meetings. Like a club. Now I'm kind of glad we don't, but you'd be going down, pal. What do you know? I don't know nothing. It's a pen of your text messages. You were talking to a mayor process reminds me I can't name another mayor pro tem in the parish. Such a letdown. Um, also in the news, speaking of maybe I'll just maybe I'll just join with the mayor pro Tims of Central and Zachary. They have one? Who's the one in Central? I don't know. I need to do more work on this. Yeah. What a terrible club. It is such an important position. Five of y'all right here in these matters. You only know two of them. It's like being the vice president of something. Is it required to have one for a for a council? I I think it would depend on the form of government you have. So I'd say under the Larsen Act, yes. I don't see why St. George has one.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Useless. I mean, it's such a small little group. Did you just did you just make that up and say, I want to be mayor pro tem just so I could have something else on my resume. For the resume. Is it? Because no one knows what it is. So did they vote for you as mayor pro tem? The council members did, yeah. Let me ask you another question. Oh god. Did anyone else run for that? Or was it just you?

SPEAKER_02 25:15

We had discussions about it. Yeah, we hadn't we had other people talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Talking about it? Was that another position you got unopposed? Yeah, yeah. Shut up. This is gonna be the look. If you get the JOP thing that will be the trifecta of running unopposed. Leave me alone. There's gotta be a t-shirt for that. Leave me alone. Yes. Listen, you can parlay that and run for governor, and they'd be like, that's the guy that no one runs against.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Don't do it. Don't do it. Landry would be like, hell no. That's right. Garrett Graves, I'm not doing that. That's Merle. Stay out of that.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

That'd be great. Oh, Lord, Lord. Um, also in the news, um, so apparently the Baker, speaking of councils, the Baker City Council just voted on a tax increase.

unknown 25:59

What?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

In Baker. What?

unknown 26:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

I thought only uh St. George wanted to raise only something that St. George was gonna do. It raised taxes.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

For eight years I've been told how St. George was gonna raise our taxes.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

They're gonna raise y'all's taxes.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Oh my god, we're gonna tax you for all those things we talk about.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

They're gonna be broke. I would like to say two things about St. George. They have not raised taxes. And they won't. We haven't. But you could go to St. George right now and open a barbershop unopposed. Anywhere, well, you would not get any flack. They would gladly let you open a barbershop and they haven't raised taxes.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

You can't say that about Baker. I want to make a suggestion to Mayor Darnell Waits, who's never come on the show despite repeatedly being asked. Uh, and we would love to talk to him more about this. Instead of raising taxes, Mayor, instead of banning new barbershops, which they did, I would suggest a compromise, a barbershop tax. Hey. Let them have all the barbershops they want. We want as many of them as we can because there is a barbershop tax. We'll call it the fade fee. The fade fee. The fade fee. Wow. Which would bring lots of money to the baker coffers, maybe more than a tax would, and would only affect the people going to the barbershops.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

You know, you'd make a good Baker Mayor. Baker mayor. You have some good ideas. Moving on up. You've already been on the Savagate Show. Already been on the Savage. So that would round us out.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

Right. God. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

I wonder if Baker's got a mayor pro tem. Maybe we should holler at that guy. If Mayor Waits would come on here, we would talk about that. I mean, maybe. Maybe. I'd be a uh I could support the Baker Buffaloes.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

I would I would go to a zoo occasionally. We're gonna look it up, see if we can get a the Baker Mayor Pro Tim in it when then when the Baker mayor finds out, he'd be like, hey, they didn't invite me on that show. And the Baker Mayor Pro Tim, who's probably jockeying to be mayor one day, that'd be his that would be.

SPEAKER_02 28:01

I'll tell you, if I were the mayor pro Tim of Baker, you know what we'd have right now? An elephant in the zoo. That's what I would do.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

I thought we had an elephant in the zoo.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

I don't think we do. Last time you went to the zoo, Dave, go.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

It's been a while. It was Boo at the Zoo years ago when my kids were really young.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Boo at the zoo was great. Yeah. Boo at the zoo was great. Uh yeah, been a minute, been a few minutes. I don't think they have an elephant.

unknown 28:27

All right.

SPEAKER_02 28:28

In fact, I'm almost positive. I would bring an elephant to Baker. Which is like, you know, a double, uh, a double entendre. I'd bring an elephant to Baker. How the hell would that help anything in Baker? Elephant Baker. Elephant to Baker.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Do we have a donkey at the zoo? Ah, I need more donkeys at the zoo. Baker, mayor pro tem. We are going to seek him out and invite him on the show. Guarantee he'll come.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

And you know what? He can go be mayor of Baker after that. Yeah. Because he'll have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

That would boost him. He'd be right in the spotlight.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

He would he would be. I feel like with the uh Google machine, I should know there's a mayor pro tem of Baker. You think the head of the mayor pro tem club of East Paton Ridge Parish should know about that? You know, I'm sorry, you know, I'm gonna start an association and we're gonna have meetings in like Hawaii. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Also in the news, apparently, Ole Miss has filed lawsuits against two LSU players.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

You feel like you feel like, unfortunately, with Ole Miss that we're just living rent-free.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

It's gotta be. I mean, it's it's gotta be something like that. Why? I don't, and I don't I admittedly, I didn't really uh read up on it. I just saw it this morning, I didn't read up on it too much. Um but um I I feel like it it it's gotta be that.

SPEAKER_02 29:56

I mean it's like what are you doing? One you sue in college kids. This is like a million dollars, too. Well, yeah, they have so you know, in the world we live in now, um college athletes have buyouts with their transfers, and allegedly we may not have paid the buyout for those two transfers, uh, and and and the kids didn't pay back some money or whatever. But I just feel like you know Ole Miss isn't gonna let this go. They're very sad.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

It says here they are being sued for allegedly breaching revenue sharing contracts that they signed before entering the transfer transfer portal. Ole Miss is seeking nearly a million dollars. Both players sign revenue sharing agreements with Ole Miss in early January 2026 while the rebels were still competing in the college football playoff.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

I I feel like what's gonna happen is Lane Kiffin is gonna board the private jet that he's got as part of his contract, and he's gonna he's gonna fly over Oxford in that private MMR jet and he's gonna make it rain. In pennies.

SPEAKER_00 31:01

He's gonna pay it off in pennies.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Yeah, I mean, he could probably fill up that little dinky stadium, a little 50,000 seat stadium with some pennies. He'd be if he stepped up and paid this million dollars, because I mean he's that's gotta be like my family vacation last week cost more than this.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Who are you, Peter? Exactly. I just bought a Bentley.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

You want to know why I went to LSU? Because you people are petty.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

This says uh Ole Miss lost around 20 players in the Transfor portal, but only these two are being seen. Yeah, exactly right. Rent-free, baby. And they both play where?

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Huh? LSU. Weird, weird. Something worth noting. Look, if you're if you're gonna be the villain of college football, just lean in.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Yeah. Lean in and enjoy it. Right. No doubt. No doubt. So that'll be interesting development. Uh probably some good uh potential for some uh satire. I agree. Um, we'll see. I agree. Also in the news, a Baton Rouge man is wanted. I don't think they've picked him up yet, for it says towing vehicles, but I'm gonna go out and say stealing vehicles. Not towing if it's not yours. Yeah. Stealing vehicles, making up fake paperwork for these vehicles, and bringing them to scrapyards and selling them.

SPEAKER_02 32:16

I mean, there's some flaws in the program. I mean, there are. Um, but I can absolutely so three-fourths of this, I can absolutely see how you could pull that off, right? Vehicles get towed all the time, you know, in college especially, right? Uh vehicles get towed every night and they come through there and they got a sign, it's a tow truck, tow truck comes in, hooks the car up, takes off, you can't do anything about it. Uh and you and you know, college kids spend the next couple of days trying to figure out where their car went. And this problem, the hard part is like, so if the same guy, and I think I thought this the other day with copper wiring, if the same people keep showing up with rando cars and random copper wiring, at what point do you go, hey, where are you getting this from? Look, I've got a paper here. Sir, is that written in crayon? It is. It's a car title. No, I don't think it is. Ask extra questions.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

I thought about that, and I think the answer to that is the scrapyard guy who they obviously have some sort of relationship with. Yeah, they're just okay, is like, you know, that stuff normally goes for, you know, um $1.20 a pound, but um, I'm gonna give you 60 cents a pound, and there ain't a damn thing you're gonna say, right?

SPEAKER_02 33:34

I feel like the other guy on the end of the end of that string is uh probably also involved.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. That's the same thing with the catalytic inverters. How many uh walks into a place with 160 catalytic I slipped and fell and I found all these catalytic inverters? Uh my my wife and kids, uh all over our catalytic converters went bad, so I went and had a new one's put on, and I just saved all of them.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

So in the in the car uh towing theft ring, um, how many uh East Baton Reach Parish officials are being investigated for it?

SPEAKER_00 34:04

I don't know. Probably zero.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

I mean at this point, you know what I'm saying? The over-under is probably more than zero.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Yeah. Yeah. Tow this car.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Love that. So that's good. Um, so yeah, that's all we got in the news today. All we got. Well, we would have had more, but we had to throw this show together because uh something happened. I'm not sure. But we do have a couple of texts, Andrew. Oh, uh, if you want to text the show, how do you do that? You can send a text from your mobile device at 225-255-2480. And we will read them on the air, whether they're good, bad, ugly. And most times we will respond to them. Um we'd love to hear from you. Good, bad, or ugly uh about the show or any any other savagate. Um any other savvy. Sky's the limit.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Sky's the limit. Text message-wise, what do we got?

SPEAKER_00 34:54

We got a couple texts today. Let's see what we have. The first one the first one is have y'all started scoping out the next mayor of Central LOL. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

We have to. Let me tell you my first uh first prediction. Uh so um City Metro Council member Aaron Moak is one of the uh candidates.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

He lives there, right?

SPEAKER_02 35:17

He lives there. I feel like uh he would have none of the controversy that Wade would have.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Allegedly. Allegedly. I mean, you know. Um he's well, if he brings his East Baton Rouge Parish access card with him as the central mayor, so true. He would have would he get the same treatment he got that Wade got from the you know the people. And Wade would keep his card, obviously. So Wade will be the first civilian with access to any building in East Baton Ridge Parish because he's not giving up his cards. You didn't have to.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

No, you don't give up the cards.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

When they give you the card, there's nothing you have to sign saying, now if you ever leave office, you get the card is yours.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Okay. I just feel like uh I feel like that could be exciting.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

But I do hear that Aaron Moak is a very formidable opponent to the other ones because he has the ties in central. That's his that's his Metro Council district, basically.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Well, uh, you know, you got D Ann Wells, who uh I believe is a central council member now. Yeah. Um concerned about the apostrophe in the middle of her name. I don't know what to do with that. Uh so I have to work on that. What what was the D for originally?

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Uh, you know, what is Anne short for? How do you get to D Ann? That's true. There's a lot of there's some secrets there I want to know more about to have her on the show to find out the answers to all those questions. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Um and whether she accepts or declines, we will know going forward if she wins.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

Are we gonna have a Baker Mayer situation on our hands in Central? No, thank you. Uh then you got uh third guy. I don't know who he is, I don't know his name.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

I saw um he put up a Facebook page with a bunch of generic I'm gonna do this for you posts.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Ipsum, get him, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

Yeah, right. Ipsum, lure him, whatever. Um yes. Love that. Um we'll reach out to him. Very excited. Give him some uh give him some time.

SPEAKER_02 37:05

So this this brings up something I actually want to talk to you about, not on the show, but I'm gonna do it now because talk about it now. I would like the Savagate to moderate a few debates in this political climate. That has actually come up before. I feel like if we had all the candidates to central mayor, like we'll even do it at Central City Hall, right? Have them up there and let us ask any questions we want. Now, the best shot of getting that done is doing it now while Wade's still in office. Wade could make that out. Well, he would we would have access. But I mean that's what I'm saying. So if you're a central mayor's candidate and you're willing to go on the Savagate debate, maybe you need to contact the show, text the show, let us know that you're in, or message Dave, and we can moderate our first debate. Like a soft opening.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

I tell you what, that would get the that if we announced we were gonna be the moderators, that would get the people watching.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

So much better.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

So much I mean three times the audience.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

I mean, do we need to see BRZ do another debate? Yawn. ASB, yeah. No, Savagate. Yeah. Imagine what we could do with a debate format revolutionized. Huh.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Not very funny. Yeah. That would be the make or break right there. We could tell me about Surflakes. How do you really feel? Go. What are you doing with Wade's hotel plans? Wade's Pleasure Paradise. Is that gonna be a thing? Uh-huh. I mean, is it gonna be Aaron's pleasure paradise?

SPEAKER_02 38:40

Is the Central City Hall gonna lose its mood lighting?

SPEAKER_00 38:45

Oh, goodness, goodness.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Best mayor's race ever.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Uh, okay, so what else? Y'all should do a special show with every one of the Broom administration who has been in the news about being investigated by the AG's office.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

I mean Will they all will they all even show up? It's a very limited time frame we have to do an episode.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

Right now, we uh if your indictments are at three confirmed, one but but only one of those was a metro the other ones were just employees of the bus, right?

SPEAKER_02 39:16

That's right. That's right. So you got well, one was uh the executive under Mayor Broom, like in her office. Yeah, that's right. Nothing to see here. Uh and the other one was a sitting council member. Yeah. Um I would say would we don't have enough time.

SPEAKER_00 39:31

Well, they probably wouldn't show up. You don't say we're uh we're 0-1 for uh East Baton Rouge administration.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

We thought we had one coming in today. Mason Bats. Yeah, yeah. If Mason Bats won't show up for our show, then what's the odds that the allegedly investigated, allegedly indicted people will show up?

SPEAKER_00 39:51

Yeah, and and and Drew and I came up with a new catchphrase for um guests that we invite. It's very simple. The show is either gonna be about you or without you.

SPEAKER_02 40:01

That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

Whether you show up or not, you're on the show.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

Two choices, buddy. You're on the show. Mason Batts, welcome to the other approach.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Uh next text. They cut the grass at Sherwood 9-12 after y'all's post. LOL.

SPEAKER_02 40:14

You're welcome. You're welcome, homeless people on Sherwood Forest. We took away your hiding spots. Yeah.

unknown 40:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:21

Now y'all have higher visibility. Yes, now you have to do fentanyl at the Popeyes. Yeah. Not at the exit ramp.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Yeah, so the um no joke, it's no secret. This the uh there's been some issues with some of the grass cutting around the parish. I mean, you know, even though there was a photo on WFB last week with Mayor Sid Edwards on a lawnmower, ZTR lawnmower. I don't think he's actually cutting the grass. So uh they probably have some problems. And I mean, you know, listen, when you have contractors like that, be it money or unreliability, you're gonna have problems.

SPEAKER_02 40:51

So I I think it was DOTD that cut the grass. Uh I think they cut grass in the seed limits, even though it's I think EBR Paris, because those exit ramps are kind of the the uh their area. Yeah. Uh I think my understanding is, and I could be wrong, Mason could have corrected me, but he's not here, so I get to do whatever I want. Um, I think EBR may have canceled the contract with DOT to mow that area. Had a little controversy over how much they were getting to mow it. Okay. And so once that contract was canceled, nobody was mowing it.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

So the silent protest was we're just gonna let this crap grow up five feet, and I promise you, people will see it.

SPEAKER_02 41:26

You don't like what I'm giving you? Yeah, I'll give you nothing. Yeah. See you like that.

SPEAKER_00 41:30

Yeah. So uh it looks like hopefully um I kinda like St.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

George support when we get sued by other people.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Ooh, yeah. Yeah, see where that goes. Um, not saying the Savagate post that we did about the grass uh is responsible for actually getting it cut. It did very, very well.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

I like to think I like to think Savagate had everything to do with that.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Yeah. Um so uh but the force for change. Yeah, yeah. The grass is cut though. Um, so thank you for that text. Um and you're welcome. We got another text that says, I got my tumbler, and everyone at work is jealous. Thank you, Rhea. Rhea, thank you for ordering your Savagate Tumblr.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

That's awesome. Um, she could have shouted out to her work colleagues, and that would have probably helped him out, but she didn't.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Um, you you probably recall that um we've had a couple of texts in the past about savagate tumblers. We actually got a store that is online. You can go and order savagate tumblers and shirts.

SPEAKER_02 42:21

I would say, and and I'm not just being shame shameless here, the Savagate Tumblr is really good looking.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

It is. It is, and I tell you, um, you know, we sell we sell a decent amount of them, and I I give them to uh certain people. I attempt to give them to uh people that work for the hair. This beautiful one that I bought for Mr. Bats. Very lonely, I guess. I'm gonna leave it right there and we can see if it makes it too.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

He could have put milk in there and dunked his cookies in it. Now he cannot.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

You could you could probably get a big cookie in that. Big cookie. A lot of milk. A lot of milk. Um, but yes, so if you don't want to hope and pray that you come across a Savagate employee who bestows upon you a Savagate Tumblr, you can go to the Savocate dot shop and you can buy one of uh many varieties, red, white, blue, pink, and black.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

And the great part of the Savigate Tumblr is when you have it and you proudly display it at work, it tells your coworkers you're fun. Yeah, right. You're a good person. This guy's not a you have a sense of humor. Not straight. Yeah, you're not an engineer.

SPEAKER_00 43:27

Yes, you're fun. Yeah, no, that's that's a good point. Um, you can also buy shirts at that thesadvocate.shop. And if you would like to advertise with the Sadvocate or the Sadvocate podcast, there is a uh link there where you can see some information about that and send us an inquiry, and we'd love to talk to you because we'd love to have a sponsor for the show. We love good businesses. Yeah, yeah. So uh thesadvocate.shop. Check it out. Savvocate.shop. Um, last text message, Andrew. Yes, is Drew resigning from the show if he gets to J-O-P gig.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Well, a couple of things with this. Number one, no. I love doing the Savagate podcast. It's a lot of fun. Get to hang out with a friend and talk about whatever. And me. And you're here too. Always a bonus. The second part of that is I like how resigning is so official. I'm going to give you my two weeks' notice.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

A little credibility.

SPEAKER_02 44:22

Next thing you know, people are going to want equal time on this show too.

SPEAKER_00 44:26

Even though this is your office, I'm going to need your keys.

SPEAKER_02 44:28

That's exactly right. Sir, you're going to have to leave. I'll be halfway down the street. Hey, wait a second. That's my damn office. You get out of my office. Um, so no, the intent is to continue doing the Savagate for as long as Dave will have me, uh, and for as long as we can keep doing fun shows and have quality content. And, you know, today, kind of a sad marker in the life of the Savagate Podcast because we have an empty third chair that's supposed to have a person in it.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

Man. There's a first for everything.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

And maybe Mason resigned from the Savicate Podcast. It's true. Apparently he didn't want to come on the show.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

Maybe he texted us Sid last night and goes, Yeah, you know, here's what's going on, blah, blah. And tomorrow I'm doing the Savicate podcast. No! Did you see that high grass?

SPEAKER_02 45:13

I mean, I would have said that he wasn't gonna be here. That was not him him not getting the right time was not the thing I thought was gonna be the calendar invite was very clear. AM. Hey Mason, you know who would have shown up today for the Savaged Podcast? Lon Vickner.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Oh Charlie Davis. Oh Chief Leduff. Charlie Davis is a must. I gotta have Charlie.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

A lot of uh uh you know current and former staffers.

SPEAKER_00 45:39

I think Cleve Don would have showed up today if we'd invited him.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

You know, if we'd have said, hey, Cleve, we're gonna come on and dedicate 20 minutes to bashing Mason Bats, 100%. 20. He'd have done it for two.

SPEAKER_00 45:51

Yeah. Look, I'm just gonna pull up. Y'all come out with the mic. I'm gonna roll my window down, talk some shit. If Cleve would just go with, we're not friends. That's it. We'll take it.

SPEAKER_02 46:02

That's it. Here's your Tom Blue. Have a good day. You know, if I were uh more astute at this, I just have that in the soundbar. So every time that something happens, we're not friends.

SPEAKER_00 46:13

Yeah, so uh Mason goes down in history as the first guest to not make the Savag at first. First guest ever. Mason's a funny guy, good guy. We're definitely looking forward to getting him getting him in here so we can do the show. He's got a lot to uh talk about. Mason was actually the mayor's campaign manager. Yeah, for the most unlikeliest win ever. That is a big feather in your cap. You can get that man elected to that position. That's a big feather.

SPEAKER_02 46:40

You got a football coach who's never been involved in politics, in fact, hasn't even voted in eight years that he's gonna win.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

With a campaign manager who uh I don't think Mason had, I think he was pretty new in this uh field.

SPEAKER_02 46:52

Well, he has to be pretty new. He's 12. Yeah, well, you know, aside from that. He's very, very young, and I'm not joking. He's very, very young. I mean, but uh his age, I was not being uh serious about much.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

No. What the hell is a mayor? Um but no, great guy. We've had a lot of conversations. He he uh we talk a lot about stuff, and uh we are definitely looking forward to having him on. We will extend another invite, but Drew, if he doesn't show up for the second one, the writing will be on the wall.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

You know how you get EBR officials to show up for an interview. How? Subpoena. Everybody knows that. You have the power to do that, don't you? Mason, we're gonna we're gonna send you.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

You know, ironically, yes. Yes, I do, Mason. Mason, we we're gonna send you another invite, but it's not gonna be a calendar invite since those don't work. It's gonna be by way of constable. We're gonna send a subpoena to you to be here.

SPEAKER_02 47:41

If you came on to Savagut voluntarily, Mason, I wasn't gonna ask you any questions about zoning. If you hit subpoenaed, that's it. Welcome to the party. We're gonna have to change all the questions up. All the questions get different. Yeah. You're not getting the Wade Evans questions, buddy. All right, that's episode 39, Savaged Podcast. You want to help us out, like us, subscribe to us, review us positively. If you don't review us positively, text the show some negative stuff, and that way we can address that. But uh we're everywhere podcasts are found, so Apple, Spotify, Buzz Sprout, you can get at the Savagut Podcast Facebook page, Savagate.com. We're pretty easy to find these days. Pretty easy.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

Yeah, the savagate.com slash podcast, or you can just go to thesavig.com and click the word podcast right at the top. And all the episodes are right there. You can stream them right from your uh mobile device.

SPEAKER_02 48:33

39 of them, some of which have guests, but not. Which don't, yeah. Which don't. So that's episode thirty-nine. It's been the Savagate Podcast.