Murphy Sam & Jodi - Callin' Baton Rouge

Sam is looking for ideas on where to take and what to show his new girlfriend around Baton Rouge.

Ever spent the night at the most haunted house in the U.S.? Find out what happened Murphy Sam and Jodi and Producer Faith spent a night at the Myrtles in St Francisiville.

In the Summer of 2011, the late Gov Edwin Edwards was one of our funniest guests. He told Jodi how he learned to charm others and why he wasn't pardoned early. (From MSJ: We were honored to have his time, and send our condolences to his family during this time.)

Flooded streets and homes are a more frequent occurrence in recent years in East Baton Rouge Parish. Lots of guesses as to why, but we wanted to know the actual reasons. Fred Raiford gets real with us on what is working well, and what needs to be fixed and when!

EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about LSU's Live Mascot Mike the Tiger: Was he really rescued? Why he's not brought onto the football field on gameday anymore? Is he lonely?

Mestizo Restaurant Owner Jim Urdiales "dishes" on his favorite menu item,
where ELSE he likes to dine out in BR, and how he's dealt with flooding 4 times in 5 years!!!!

Sam admits to something he probably shouldn't have done in Tiger Stadium. We should note that what he is talking about is not something anyone should try today (he did this in the 1980s). This was before gates, locks, cameras, security and new rules.

Connections to Murphy's family that surprised him as a child. In a previous episode, we found out that Murphy's grandmother was in a sorority run by the late Huey P Long's wife. This time, it's a family member who was a foreman on the construction of the "Old" Mississippi River Bridge, and another who is the reason the cannon is stuck in the sidewalk on Third and Laurel St.

If you grew up in Baton Rouge you either had field trips or family outings to tour what everyone calls the "new" State Capital building (even though it was built in 1932). Still the tallest capital building in the U.S., it was built by Gov Huey Long who was assassinated there after a speech in 1935. Sam wonders if the holes in the marble were caused by bullets as some tour guides have explained, or if those stories have taken on a new life over the decades.

Murphy Sam & Jodi have the conversation that is the most common in Baton Rouge - but specifically about their youngest daughter now officially driving on her own. Entrances, exits, flyovers, merge lanes, shifting lanes.