Full Transcript for Episode 54 - Constable David Wade

00:03:26.560 Get more votes than that. 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:28.719 Drew probably won't even upload this show, so that's not gonna be. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:29.840 Oh my god. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.319 So let's talk about becoming constable. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.879 This is a family history, family legacy, right? 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:40.639 How did you get where you are now? 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.759 My uncle was the constable before me. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.520 Prior about 30 years he was constable. 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:58.719 And when I was in high school and college, I would periodically go with him to do evictions and to help him with that position. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.400 And uh I learned a lot from it. 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:01.280 I enjoyed it. 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.240 Uh I thought that it was uh an interesting thing to do. 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:09.759 And he had passed away midterm and I ran for that spot and won. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:11.360 And you've been there ever since. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:12.400 Been there since. 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:17.519 And how many of uh how much are evictions are you processing in a year? 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.560 Oh pretty much. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.680 80% of what I do is evictions. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:27.439 Um it depends. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:28.079 It depends. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:34.959 I have some months that may go 50 evictions, other months may go 150 evictions or more. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.439 So it just depends on where we're at. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:41.759 You know, it's uh it's what's happening with uh school getting out. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:47.040 Sometimes you have college kids that leave their stuff and disappear, that becomes an eviction. 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:50.800 Um apartment complexes change in ownerships. 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:52.480 There's various reasons that it happens. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:53.360 Gotcha. 00:04:53.519 --> 00:05:07.040 So when we talk to you, and I and I've seen you talk about this before, your approach to the eviction process, you could show up uniform, gun, scary, hover over, yell at people to get out, but that's not how you handle it. 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.240 Wrong approach. 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:14.720 I I I don't believe I firmly don't believe that that's the right way to handle an eviction. 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.079 I you're dealing with a person that didn't ask to be in these positions. 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:27.600 It's a very stressful time for most of these people, and there's no reason to make it that much more intimidating. 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:38.399 I I learned through the years in the beginning, I would do evictions, and I would have these landlords that looked at it as an opportunity to revenge. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.000 You know, we they would want to do evictions in the rain. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:46.879 Um, I got with the attorney general years later and said, you know what, this is wrong. 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:48.959 I I I don't believe in doing this. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:51.040 There's just kicking a man when he's down. 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:51.519 Exactly. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.439 You're kicking them when they're down, you're you're taking their life possessions, you're putting them out on the street, and then you're you're getting wet too at that. 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:04.000 I mean, and to this day now we don't do evictions in the rain anymore in this state due to that. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:10.560 And part of that is is your mentality towards this de-escalates instead of escalates. 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:11.759 Absolutely. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:12.639 Absolutely. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:18.079 When you surprise, attack anybody, they're gonna they're gonna turn on you. 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:20.639 It's gonna make a bad situation worse. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:37.199 And so I I reach out to every put out, every eviction that I have to do with a phone call to that tenant, and I let them know the night before what's about to happen so that they're prepared for it. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:37.519 Yeah. 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.800 And that really helps de-escalate the problems. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:41.920 Oh, I believe it rise. 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.160 It gives them a chance to pre-plan, right? 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:44.560 Absolutely. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:51.360 Call someone and say, listen, I'm in your trailer over here tomorrow, so you don't show up while they're uh just getting ready to do something and go, oh, all your stuff's gotta go on the street. 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:51.839 Absolutely. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.120 Yeah, that's that's fantastic. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:07:00.959 I think a lot of times, even though they've got a notice, the the we'll say apartment complex has given them a notice. 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.319 Somebody posted a notice to vacate on the door, so they've got a delinquent rent, now they got an eviction notice. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.160 It's gone to court, they probably may or may not have actually gone. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.680 It's been granted. 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.720 They really don't think it's real. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:15.600 That is correct. 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:16.720 Until you get there. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:20.879 Until they hear from me, they don't think it's real. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:22.079 So many times. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.160 Scare tactics, they think it's scare tactics. 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:24.720 Give me a pay. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:25.360 Exactly. 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:28.639 Step back to this. 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.079 Most of your landlords don't want to do this. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:32.480 Right. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:33.199 They make money. 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:39.040 They look at me with this face of I don't want to do this. 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:42.240 How can you help me get

through this situation? 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:50.480 For that reason, I have a 99% satisfaction rate with my landlords. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.000 They love what I do because I help them with these situations. 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:00.720 By doing that, I let the tenant know ahead of time with what's going to happen. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.120 It takes the pressure off of the landlord. 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:03.600 Yeah. 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.720 And that's what kind of makes it flow. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:18.319 Well, the last thing you want as a landlord is a tenant escalating a situation to violence or destruction, or or for the landlord, property destruction is just as bad. 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:18.959 Correct. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:21.759 And this is a way to kind of tamp that down a bit. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:22.560 It does. 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.720 It it lets it it lets it's a humane way of doing it. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:27.040 Yeah. 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:38.799 And as I said, the landlord, for the most part, for several months sometimes, has given the tenant the leniency of not paying, of paying a little. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.519 And now they're at the point where they have to do something. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:48.080 So the tenant is still under the impression of ah, maybe he'll work with me a little bit more until I step in. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:54.559 Once I step in and start getting involved, then they realize, okay, now the leniency is up. 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:56.480 Now we have to do something. 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:01.679 And that's when I begin to work that fragile balance of landlord-tenant relationship. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:13.039 And let me tell you, um, a tenant knowing nothing about them, that's a very, that's a very tough position to be in when a man is at your door saying, You've got to take all your belongings out of here. 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.200 I don't care what you do with them, and you got to go. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:17.039 Man, anything could happen at that point. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.720 You think I could be you could be you could be one of three you know issues going on in his life right now. 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.120 If he's not paying the rent, he could be not paying his car note. 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:28.320 That could have just got repossessed, anything else, you know. 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.879 So that's a that's a time for someone to snap. 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.279 So that approach is definitely needed. 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:34.480 It is, it is. 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:41.600 It's uh once again, it's a situation that that a lot of these people live paycheck to paycheck. 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:48.480 Yeah, they might not have the funds this month because the car broke down or they had to help a loved one who was in the hospital. 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.840 Yeah, and they just are in a bad point in time in their life. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.639

And yeah, you gotta have some respect for that person. 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:56.000 You have to. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:56.639 For sure. 00:09:56.799 --> 00:10:04.159 Yeah, I mean, that's that is I I can't imagine, other than death of a family member, uh, a worse day than you just lost your house. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:04.879 Yeah. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.799 It's it's tough, and it's tough for everybody involved. 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:15.679 I mean, when you sit there and look at a single mom with these children who are sitting there looking at you, and no, I I know what's fixing to happen. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.120 They're fixing to be homeless. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:28.080 So you have to do what you can to balance that between everybody in the in the group, the landlord, the tenant, and the constable, to make the right decisions. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:32.320 And I have done a great job with that. 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:36.639 I I I I if I don't get them on the phone, I text them. 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:38.320 And I've said this many times. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:47.200 To this day, in at least 15 years of starting that process, I've never gotten one bad phone call, one bad text. 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:52.720 Every single person in Baton Rouge has my personal cell phone, and I leave it on until I go to bed at night. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:56.159 Yeah, and I get, God bless you, thank you. 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:58.159 Sometimes nothing at all. 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:03.440 And then occasionally, months later, years later, somebody will call me and say, Hey, Mr. 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.200 Wade, when I talked to you that time and you gave me that little bit of talk. 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:13.840 I just want to let you know, I got a house now, you know, and my kids are doing good, and that's what means the most to me. 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.279 It means everything in the world. 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.279 Thank you for booting me out of my house, Dave. 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:18.559 You're such a great guy, man. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.639 I mean, can I send you something for Christmas? 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:22.960 That's great. 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:23.759 No, that really is. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:24.480 That's that's good. 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:25.200 That's a good feeling. 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:31.600 It just seems like a better policy than you know, arming up and making it into something, and it's really right. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:32.559 Doesn't need to be. 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:40.879 Yeah, it's just it, you you I've got to sleep at night too, and I've got to sleep knowing I did the right thing and I did everything that I could do to help these people. 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.440 It's not about me, it's about it's about them. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.720 It's about the children, the true victims of it is the children. 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.799 And you know, that's why I just I try and do everything correctly. 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:55.279 So district six has grown a little bit, uh, thank the legislature. 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:56.960 Where is your district at? 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.240 So that district has grown tremendously. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:05.679 And uh when I first started 28 years ago, my district basically was Gardier. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:16.240 That is where City Limits started, was on Gardier Lane, and then through the years it moved to Lee Drive, where it is sat until August of this year. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:20.000 In August of this year, it moved all the way to government. 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:27.279 So now it basically is from the parish line at I-10 Country Club to government. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:27.840 Huge. 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:28.879 Yeah, you're traveling. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:33.840 All the way, that's correct. 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.480 You're now 85,000 people. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:36.960 Yes. 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:38.559 That's the whole city of St. 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:39.120 George. 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:40.399 Gigantic district. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:44.000 And when I started, I remember the number was 36,000. 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:44.960 Well, really? 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:46.080 You have grown. 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:47.600 So how's the district grown? 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:48.960 What's what's what's the response? 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:50.399 What's responsible for making the district grow? 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:56.320 I mean, you've got a lot of growth that has been with housing apartments, more people moving in, not the district expression. 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:56.799 Correct. 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:05.120 More people moving in, but then you do have the fact that the district doubled in its size because they changed the the laws. 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:06.879 They changed the jurisdictions of the case. 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:16.000 Would you think that's a um the the jurisdiction changing and expanding is that an indication that the Justice of the Peace and the Constable are doing a good job? 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:17.039 Absolutely. 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:20.159 Um because otherwise they would have just kept it like it was. 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:21.279 That is correct. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:29.919 They see landlords are happy with the timeline that they can get through uh a court from a five-day notice to an actual put out. 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:37.279 That timeline is shortened tremendously versus going to city court and potentially waiting six weeks. 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:47.279 You could almost do it in JP court in roughly two weeks, and that's huge to that landlord that's trying to re-rent that apartment and get it back up and going again. 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:48.399 Yeah, yeah. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:49.679 That you're right. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.799 So, how do you balance the the constable's role with the the David Wade Marie? 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00:13:59.679 You know, after 28 years of figuring that out, I I have figured it out. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:08.399 I I uh uh fortunately I have a great group of of technicians and employees at my shop that that really can run that place without me. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:11.200 And so easy dude. 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:12.720 Easy. 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:15.440 They may listen to me, but we can't. 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:16.799 Somebody may hear that. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:17.440 That's right. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:17.919 That's right. 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:19.840 No, I'm we're gonna cut that out. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:20.879 There you go. 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:32.960 I can handle a lot of it over my phone, and I figured out my timelines throughout the day where I can be effective at the shop and still be effective in my constable's position. 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:34.320 All right, that's great. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:42.879 I mean, uh you so far, like I said, uh I think what's amazing is in that entire time, you've never made the news for doing anything. 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.639 We've got no complaints of you ever doing anything wrong. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:51.120 Uh you seem to have a pretty good record with both landlords and tenants. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:52.000 Correct. 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.840 Uh that's a pretty good track record because you've got a large body of work. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:57.039 That is correct. 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:58.080 That is correct. 00:14:58.159 --> 00:14:58.559 Yep. 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.039 What um so you work with a JOP, right? 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.759 You're you're the enforcement arm of the JOP. 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.080 Is that how it's basically more importantly? 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:13.279 We're really kind of so statewide, we're under the Attorney General. 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:13.600 Right. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.000 And then it drops down to the JOP. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.320 And that is essentially who I work with on a daily basis. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:25.360 Uh I am the only constable, there's no deputies, there's nobody else, there's just me. 00:15:25.519 --> 00:15:34.639 Yeah, the JOP does their rulings, their citations, whatever. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:37.440 I serve those and I carry out the writs. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.039 That is what I do. 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.600 And so when you do the evictions, are you you carrying a gun? 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:48.799 No, I I think that's uh I think that's threatening in a way. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:55.600 And in in my years, I I uh I think that the least threatening is the best. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:02.320 Um I approach these tenants in these situations in just casual attire. 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:16.799 And it really helps to alleve any kind of tension that may arise from showing up in a uniform with guns strapped on and putting somebody that's in a situation already stressed, that much more stressed. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:24.159 The double-edged sword, though, because like I mentioned earlier, that these people could be ready to snap at any moment and you've got no defense. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.000 But it's worked for you, obviously. 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:27.200 It's worked for me. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:33.360 And I mean, you know, there there's always these times you just you you do have to be on guard. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:34.639 I am on guard. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.919 I am always prepared for something to happen. 00:16:38.080 --> 00:17:00.720 I feel like I've said it before, it this isn't necessarily a this is not a job for law enforcement as much as it is for a negotiator, a mediator, mediator, somebody to go in there, and I feel that I have kind of a knack for being able to read people's personalities enough to know when something's not quite right or gonna get wrong. 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:02.720 I I call in backup. 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:10.799 I have I have a lot of city police lieutenants, I have a lot of sheriff's office, I work one-on-one with those. 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:18.960 When I feel something's gonna come up, when that landlord says, Hey Dave, this one's been a little bit rough, this one might be a problem. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:21.759 I pick up the phone and they're there. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:22.799 They're there to help me. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.720 They don't do the eviction, they're there to assist me in case there's an issue. 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.400 Have you ever had to disengage because things were getting a little dangerous? 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:36.880 Somebody just getting up in your face, refusing or whatnot, you to like back up and come up with a plan B, come back the next day with law enforcement? 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:37.519 I have. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:46.160 I've I've backed off on several of them, probably 10 to 20 in all of these years where yeah, I felt uncomfortable. 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:55.279 Yeah, it just didn't seem like the right situation, and I backed off and then I made the phone calls, and then we handled it from the Which is a very small number when you 28 years. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:59.200 I mean, that's what he's doing 50 to 150 a month, unbelievably small. 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.920 We should get uh Yelp reviews for David Wade. 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.079 I can I could I can make do you have a web page? 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.240 Is there a webpage, David Wade Constable? 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:08.880 There is. 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:15.039 I mean, David Wade just woke up like media like a month ago, the uh the the uh election one. 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:16.960 I'm talking about like David Wade Marine. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:18.079 Okay, yeah. 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.880 We need one for your constable's office so you can get reviews, is what I'm saying. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:21.519 I do need to do that. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:22.160

Yeah, you're right. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:23.119 I do not have that. 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:25.200 I I that I wouldn't be opposed to it. 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.680 He just found the internet like you gotta understand something. 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.839 I I I'm this is when last time I ran, Facebook didn't exist. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:35.440 So, you know, I I've had no social media at all. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:36.000 Ever. 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:39.599 Did you ever ask Jess what the hell is a podcast and what is the savage? 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:40.160 Exactly. 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:41.359 Like, what are we doing? 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:42.400 What is this internet? 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:43.920 I've got to learn. 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:45.680 I'm doing to use it. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:46.880 Things are going fine. 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:47.920 Yeah, exactly. 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:49.839 Did you come in looking for a cassette tape? 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:50.880 That's right. 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:53.440 Where's the C D? 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:54.720 You know, where's the cassette? 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.720 Sometimes I wish I wasn't so involved in the internet and stuff like that. 00:18:58.880 --> 00:18:59.920 Believe me, I envy you. 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:00.480 Understood. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.200 Envy you. 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:08.960 And so, but but you have, you're now online, you've got a Facebook page, you've got you've got the uh Marine website to go to. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:14.319 Um, as far as getting more info about the campaign, election day is coming up on Tuesday. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.799 Uh, what is the Facebook page address? 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:19.119 Famous last words. 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:21.519 Go to Facebook and type in David Wade Constable. 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:22.000 Yep. 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.200 I put QR codes on everything, all my pamphlets that I hand out. 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.720 You know what QR codes are? 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:27.039 I do. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.839 I learned you joking about things not knowing Facebook. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:31.279 Do not, but do now. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:32.880 Re-elect Constable David Wade. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.119 Re-elect Constable David Wade. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:38.880 Dave just went from I just gotta add in the yellow pages to I got a QR code. 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:44.000 Do I want that full page in the yellow pages or the back page? 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:44.559 That's right. 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:46.400 Dave, do you used to have a blockbuster card? 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:49.680 Look, I'm that's right. 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:53.359 Yeah, I had a boom box when I was a kid. 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:55.279 Yeah, now we know the age. 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.160 So we've talked about a David Wade Marine. 00:19:58.240 --> 00:19:59.920 We've talked about David Wade the constable. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.759 Let's talk

about you, the family man. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:02.559 Yes, sir. 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:08.400 Uh talk about marriage and children, and let's let's learn a little bit more about you know what we can't find on the internet. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.400 33 years of marriage. 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.759 Um so she's been the constable almost as long as you have. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:15.279 She has. 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:20.160 She knows all the ins and outs, hears every story every night, and yeah, yes, she does. 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:21.839 I've got three children. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.519 I've got uh a daughter, Mallory, 31. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:30.319 I got a son, Lance, 24, and another son, Mitchell, who's 17. 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:31.839 There you be good, man. 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.319 I only have two, and I don't think I could have done it that fluently. 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:34.799 That's good. 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:36.240 Don't ask me birth dates. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:37.839 Say that in the podcast. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:38.480 That's good. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:39.839 I don't know my kids. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.039 Names and ages. 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.880 I know the kids do it as fluently. 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:44.079 I can do it. 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:47.039 My wife doesn't listen to this, I don't think. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:48.559 No, mine don't. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:49.039 True. 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:49.440 Cut that out. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:50.160 Delete that for me. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:50.720 We're safe. 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:51.519 Yeah, right. 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.960 Uh so talk about the kids. 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:53.599 What are they doing? 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:54.720 What are they up to? 00:20:54.960 --> 00:21:09.839 Uh, my daughter has a uh gym that's off of Highland Road, Epic Fitness, across from French Market Bistro, and she just opened up Golf Haven, which is a simulated uh golf uh kind of range. 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:10.880 It's really a cool place. 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:11.839 Cool place, man. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:20.240 Very cool because you can drink and hit golf balls at a screen and play with your buddies, play with other people around the world, and play any golf course you want. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:20.960 Absolutely. 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:22.160 Yeah, it is correct. 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:23.279 It was pretty neat in there. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:28.400 I I went to go see you and I wound up getting like lost in wanting to play golf and do stuff like that. 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.759 So it's inviting. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:32.480 Yeah, it's very, very inviting, very convenient. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:38.640 Um, and you got a bay and you can hang out and not have to run around for five hours and worry about the rain. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:39.759 Just go play some golf. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.720 Pick multiple PGA courses and hit it. 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:43.839 All right, what about the boys? 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:44.480 What are they doing? 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:50.480 My boys, uh my oldest son, Lance, just uh graduated from Missouri State. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:59.599 He uh baseball player, um, pitched for Missouri State in the Kansas Regionals, and um he is now playing Pro Ball up. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:04.960 In Montana for the Glacier Range Riders and moving through the system. 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:09.839 And my youngest one is uh playing baseball for Parkview. 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:12.160 And he plays third base and pitches? 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:13.920 Yes, third base and pitches. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.240 So so you spent a lot of baseball time. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.079 Yeah, baseball is my life. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:19.119 I don't know what I do. 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:20.720 Did you play baseball? 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:21.920 Not to that level. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.039 Loved baseball, but not near to that level. 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.400 High school, and that's it. 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:28.000 Yeah, because I mean they're not good. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.119 They're they're like really good. 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:30.319 So that's a little different. 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:31.839 Yeah, they do. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:32.319 I don't know. 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.960 My life's gonna get boring when they're not playing baseball anymore. 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:36.079 But I got grandkids now. 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:39.279 Two grandkids, so that's gonna keep me uh busy and occupied. 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.480 And uh 85,000 people in your your new district. 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:44.720 They definitely keep me busy and occupied. 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.839 Yeah, do they ask you how the family's doing? 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:48.880 Do you know some of these people? 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:49.839 You know, they do. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:50.319 I do. 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:51.680 I actually I do know a few. 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:54.720 Few few of them are repetitive uh offenders. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:55.359 Yep. 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:57.680 So uh I always call them frequent flyers. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:01.680 They're frequent flyers, and that that it happens, but that's that's okay. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:02.640 That's okay. 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:05.839 So uh what you ready to get done with the election? 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:07.839 Have you enjoyed the election prompt? 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:12.160 I have, I have, you know, I I like like I said, I've learned so many things. 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:14.160 You know, I I know there's an internet now. 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.519 You know, didn't know that before, but I've learned so much. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:22.319 More than one internet, exactly. 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:26.319 You know, like when I ran last time, we just stick a sign in a yard and there you go. 00:23:26.480 -->

00:23:28.000 Shake somebody's hand and walked away. 00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:31.440 You know, now we're having to do podcasts and all this crazy stuff. 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:33.039 I know what a terrible concept. 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:34.000 Podcasting. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:40.960 I think what's uh what's great about you is, and and I knew you because I've used the Justice of the Peace office, so I've called your house before. 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.119 Uh, but a lot of people Did you get evicted, Drew? 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:43.440 Huh? 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:44.480 Did you get evicted? 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.319 No, no, I'm on the other end of the process usually. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:53.039 Um and so, yeah, so I've I've worked with you before and never had a problem. 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:54.160 Everything was great. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:59.519 Uh, but I think a lot of people, because you don't go out there and promote yourself at all, uh, really. 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:02.960 Uh the boat business has been so successful, they come to you. 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:08.079 Uh the constable's business comes to you, and you haven't gone out there like a sleeping giant. 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:13.119 You're like, you're like pre-Pearl Harbor David Wade versus post-Pearl Harbor David Wade. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:16.799 Like they woke a sleeping giant because all of a sudden, like, hey, you know David Wade? 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:18.640 Oh, David Wade Marine is of course I do it. 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:18.960 What? 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:20.400 So he didn't find the internet, did he? 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:20.640 Yeah. 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.279 Oh, wait a minute. 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:28.960 It's amazing how many phone calls I got from customers that said, Is that you whose sign I see in the yard? 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:30.319 I'm like, Yeah, that's me. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.559 You're not closing the boat shop now, right here. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.200 These people had no clue because I haven't run in 18 years that I actually was the constable. 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:37.519 Yeah. 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:38.240 So yeah. 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:39.039 I didn't know. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:40.000 Yeah, a lot of people do. 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:42.880 Yeah, it's it's uh again, like I said, sleeping giant. 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:44.000 I wouldn't have known any better. 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:46.799 I mean, guy does his job, shows up every day. 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.400 I don't know what you do all day. 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:49.839 Uh, never had to ask. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.319 Yeah. 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:52.880 Uh, and now of a sudden everybody on earth knows now. 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:53.519 They know what I do. 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:54.720 I hate to give away my secrets. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:55.680 Can't hide anymore. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:56.160 Yeah, I know. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:57.279 I'm giving away all my secrets. 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.240 Now you're gonna win by 95% instead of just 87%. 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:01.279 There you go. 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:02.400 So um nice. 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:04.799 You're getting those Sid Gotro numbers. 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:09.039 Um, what does for people who don't know, what does the constable actually do? 00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.039 Like I said earlier, 80% of what I do is evictions. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:14.240 That's the main thing. 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:21.759 Then there's the JP court handles any kind of lawsuits that are under$5,000. 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:25.599 If it's under$5,000, it can come to a JP court. 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:28.079 If it's over, it would go to a city court. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:40.640 Um disputes, you know, disputes on a project, a roof being done, mulch putting out, just it it's smaller disputes, is what most uh mostly we see that come through the JP court. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:47.359 Yeah, you're not doing family law, you're not deciding who owns something, and you're not doing multi-million dollar litigation. 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:51.039 But this is a court where mainly all the people you deal with represent themselves. 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:52.240 That is correct. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.440 They always most of the time always will represent themselves. 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:56.720 And it's been a great court. 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:04.640 I've had a great JP for many years, he's retired, but we've had in 28 years, we've never had a internal court issue. 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:09.119 You know, we don't have problems within the courts, we don't have any of those issues. 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:18.640 He he he's done a great job on his side, and then I try and let that flow into what I do on the streets, and we get a lot of compliments from the tenant and landlord. 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:20.319 I hope that can continue. 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:24.160 Uh thanks, David Wade, for for coming in. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:26.400 District 6 running for constable. 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:30.799 Election day is Tuesday, uh, November 3rd, so please get out and vote. 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:38.400 It's important uh because you may not uh you if if you want to keep this level of constable, then you better get out and vote for it. 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.359 Otherwise, you may not get a phone call before your eviction. 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:46.000 Is there a large victory party plan with unlimited food and alcohol in the way? 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:47.839 Yes, indeed. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:48.960 Excellent. 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.240 At the boat shop. 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:54.000 Now, you did not take my advice, and I said free boats for votes. 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:56.720 Uh, and you said uh free boats for votes. 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.880 Yeah, I was going a different direction with that. 00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:01.359 See, I thought that'd be highly effective. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:02.400 That's a good one. 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:05.200 Not giving away any boats. 00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:06.400 Boats are expensive these days. 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.200 I know you know, they're expensive these days. 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:11.759 How expensive is it to work on a boat day before? 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.480 Well, it's expensive to work on a boat, too. 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.480 Uh, what is it, boat? 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:18.000 Bring on another thousand? 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:18.400 Yeah. 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:19.119 Is that right? 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:21.759 Yeah, these days, though, it's kind of the appointment. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.799 It's it's a dual T. 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:25.599 It ends in a TT, so it's another$10,000. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.000 $1,000 is just for the appointment. 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:29.359 That's just to get and walk. 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:31.440 You can have a credit check just to call and get a spot. 00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:32.799 Just walking around money. 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.880 You don't qualify for next March. 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:37.759 Uh, have I evicted you recently? 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:39.200 I'm sorry. 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:41.359 Probably not gonna be able to get you in today. 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.400 Sorry about that. 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:44.720 Uh all right, so re-elect David Wade. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.000 You can find him on Facebook, you can find him on the intranet. 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:48.799 He's everywhere. 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:50.480 You can find him at David Wade Marine. 00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:52.079 DavidWadeMarine.com. 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:54.000 Uh, he's running for constable for District 6. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:55.680 And again, election day is on Tuesday. 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:56.480 So go vote. 00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.400 All right, it's the Savagate Podcast. 00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.759 We are Dave and Drew. 00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:04.319 If you like us, please like us, subscribe us, review us, say something nice to us. 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.119 Uh, do it on the internet wherever podcasts are found. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.680 So iTunes, Buzz Sprout, Spotify. 00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:12.880 Uh you can always get the link at the Savagate Podcast Facebook page as well. 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.200 Helps us grow the show and do more episodes. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:17.599 Uh, this has been episode 54. 00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:20.319 Allegedly. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.119 Allegedly. 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:22.799 Uh, no one really knows the truth. 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:23.599 That's fine. 00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:26.480 Uh episode 54 of the Savigate Podcast. 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.319 Dave and Drew, thank you, David Wade. 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:29.440 Thank you for having me.