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“Gen-Z Takeover of the Morning Show” · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Morning in Memphis. It
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Speaker 2: is a beautiful day here in the 901. As you
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Speaker 2: can probably tell by my voice, I am not Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 2: He is out in the Golden State in California at
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Speaker 2: a spiritual leadership conference. But don't worry, you won't miss
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Speaker 2: him too much. He'll be back on the mic bright
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Speaker 2: and early on Monday morning. Today we kind of have
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Speaker 2: a little staff takeover of the morning show. I'm Ian August,
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Speaker 2: more known as Ian the Intern. I've been on the
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Speaker 2: the national show a couple of times. We have a
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Speaker 2: couple of familiar voices who you'll know if you're a
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Speaker 2: loyal KWAM listener. Fasten over to Dylan. Dylan, what's going
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Speaker 2: on here?
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Speaker 1: What's up, man? This is crazy, right? Like, is this allowed?
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes gave us a mic. Is this really what
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Speaker 1: he wanted? I don't know. We'll have to check on
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Speaker 1: Todd because I don't know. This is, he might not
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Speaker 1: be in his right mind giving us a platform here,
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Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll see how it goes. It should
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Speaker 1: be interesting for sure. Hi, I'm Dylan. You hear me
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Speaker 1: on the Todd Starnes show. Sometimes. A lot of times
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Speaker 1: you don't, but I'm there all the time. Helen, how's
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Speaker 1: it going?
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Speaker 3: I'm Helen Hazard. I'm also here. Todd is currently downstairs
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Speaker 3: banging on the door, begging to be let in. He's like,
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Speaker 3: please give me back the mic. Disclaimer, no, Todd Starnes
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Speaker 3: was harmed during the production of the show.
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes is fine. Like Ian said, he's in California
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Speaker 1: at a spiritual leadership conference at Lancaster Baptist Church, which
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Speaker 1: a lot of cool things are happening over there.
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Speaker 3: That's true, and We're just a team here that, I mean,
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Speaker 3: we're basically siblings. It's true.
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Speaker 1: We get along very well. We actually hang out. We
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Speaker 1: live in Memphis. We all hang out. Helen, you've lived
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Speaker 1: in Memphis the least amount of times, but you still count.
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Speaker 3: We're coming up on a year. A year will be
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Speaker 3: October 31st. And today is October 1st. Wow.
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Speaker 1: It's spooky season.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: We just jumped into it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So we hang out. We live in Memphis. To
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Speaker 1: give you an example of how we hang out, we
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Speaker 1: actually went to a Redbirds game this past, what was it, Monday?
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Speaker 3: Last Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Last Tuesday. I've lost track of time, obviously. This was
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Speaker 1: the international championship game between... The Redbirds, and I'm so
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Speaker 1: mad at the other team that I forgot.
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Speaker 3: The Rochester Red Wings?
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Speaker 1: The Red Wings. And Helen knows that because she's actually
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Speaker 1: a Nationals fan, which is the MLB version of that team.
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Speaker 3: You guys told me not to wear a Nationals jersey,
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Speaker 3: and that's all I have.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you have to wear a Redbirds jersey. If
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Speaker 1: you go into a Redbirds game, Helen, that's what everybody knows.
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Speaker 3: Well, luckily I got there early and they were giving
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Speaker 3: out free t-shirts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got free t-shirts.
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Speaker 3: And it was like 2XL, and I, yeah, but it's okay.
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Speaker 1: It fit me pretty well, Helen.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Anyways, we did go. We hung out. And you guys,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this happened. Because there's, I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of people there. This is the championship game.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how this happens. But one of the staffers,
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Speaker 1: who's like part of the events team, came up to
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Speaker 1: you guys. Actually, they came up to me and was like,
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Speaker 1: do you and Ian, do you guys want to participate
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Speaker 1: in a game mid-third inning?
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Speaker 2: Which, of course, I said, what's the game? As long
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Speaker 2: as it's not trivia, I'll play it. Guess what it was.
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Speaker 2: She said.
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Speaker 4: Alas.
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Speaker 1: It's an adult game. And we were like, wait, what's
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Speaker 1: an adult game mean?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what exactly does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Turns out it was trivia.
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Speaker 2: It was trivia.
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Speaker 1: And you, so you guys wanted me to go very badly.
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Speaker 1: And I obviously am not going to do that.
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Speaker 3: You did not succumb to our peer pressure, our healthy
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Speaker 3: peer pressure.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm the oldest here, by the way. The
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Speaker 1: oldest age in this studio right now is 27. Just
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Speaker 1: wanted everyone to know that. Gen Z Takeover, by the way.
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Speaker 1: So you guys participated in the game. I stayed back
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Speaker 1: and watched from afar. And- It was trivia.
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Speaker 3: You would have been allowed to go down, too. They
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Speaker 3: were like, he can come down with you guys for
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Speaker 3: moral support. And you were like, no.
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Speaker 1: No, when they told me what the twist was, which
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Speaker 1: it was if you get the answer wrong, you have
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Speaker 1: to squirt the other one with ketchup and mustard.
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Speaker 3: It was perfect. We were human hot dogs.
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Speaker 1: I hate mustard, so I can't be near mustard. You
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Speaker 1: guys did great. You know, I guess. You got most
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Speaker 1: of the answers wrong, but you got the first one right.
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Speaker 3: Well, also, we looked up some of the answers because
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Speaker 3: the woman told us.
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Speaker 1: We had a lot of questions for her beforehand.
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Speaker 2: Helen did look up some of the answers. I didn't. Like,
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Speaker 2: the Memphis Redbird Games have been a staple of living
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Speaker 2: here for, like, my whole life. Yeah. It's something that
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Speaker 2: we love to go to. Like, a great community event.
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Speaker 2: You get to support your team. You get to meet
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Speaker 2: cool people. Everyone there was really nice. What I didn't know...
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Speaker 2: is how competitive Helen is anytime we're out and about somewhere. Immediately,
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Speaker 2: she went straight for blood. I don't know what happened,
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Speaker 2: but something just clicked.
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Speaker 3: I said I wouldn't go for the face, and then
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Speaker 3: the first one that I got right, I went for
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Speaker 3: the face. And I was like, oh, don't care. Once
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Speaker 3: I crossed the threshold.
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Speaker 1: I was like, it's me. No, you guys definitely emptied
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Speaker 1: out those bottles. You said the guy was mad. So
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Speaker 1: the main promoter guy that's on the mic the old times,
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Speaker 1: He was basically waving his arms up in the air
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Speaker 1: because the game was done, and you guys just kept
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Speaker 1: squirting each other with ketchup and mustard. The video is
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Speaker 1: still going showing you guys do that, so I think
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Speaker 1: it was worth it in the end. But he was like,
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Speaker 1: all right, these are kids. This is not an adult game.
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Speaker 3: If that guy is listening, Helen Hazard is mad.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, guys, we are Memphians, and this show
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Speaker 1: is sort of themed around Gen Z being part of
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Speaker 1: Memphis and also what we want to see as Memphians
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Speaker 1: moving forward. We obviously want to live in a Memphis
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Speaker 1: that is safe, affordable, and also thriving for our generation,
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Speaker 1: Gen Z, but also for our kids and our kids' kids.
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Speaker 1: So that's sort of the– it's not the goal of
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Speaker 1: the show, but it's sort of just sort of where
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Speaker 1: we're coming at. We've lived here. We work on this show.
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Speaker 1: We follow a little bit of politics. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're here to have fun too. This is like the
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Speaker 1: first time this has happened.
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Speaker 2: It's like the theme. It's the overarching theme of the show.
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Speaker 1: It's the overarching theme of the show.
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Speaker 3: I feel like– You, Dylan, have lived in South Haven.
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Speaker 3: You lived in South Haven most of your life. Ian,
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Speaker 3: you were in California for a little bit, but then
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Speaker 3: you've been here most of your life. And then I'm
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Speaker 3: like a newbie. So we have like ranges of everybody
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Speaker 3: who's like lived.
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Speaker 1: Here basically their whole life.
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Speaker 3: Just call me old. Pause. So I like having different,
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Speaker 3: we've all been here in different stages, which is good because,
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Speaker 3: you know, I only know basically Virginia, but coming here
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Speaker 3: is completely different. difference.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You probably have a different perspective of what we have.
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Speaker 1: So like, and we'll talk about this later coming up,
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Speaker 1: but the Memphis safe task force, they've been here a
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Speaker 1: whole year and we, I mean, for me personally, I
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Speaker 1: can tell that things have changed in terms of crime.
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Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing and what you'll hear
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Speaker 1: the most out of, you know, the police that you'll
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Speaker 1: see and the people that you talk to is the
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Speaker 1: presence of the police. There is really what matters the most.
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Speaker 1: And The crime numbers, they've definitely come down. But I
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Speaker 1: think the fact that we see more police out there,
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Speaker 1: we see National Guard out there, that's what matters. Because
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Speaker 1: if we see them, we know a crime's probably not
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Speaker 1: going to happen.
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Speaker 2: Also, criminals can see them. I have a story about
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Speaker 2: that related to the Redbirds game. Fourth of July, right
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Speaker 2: outside Redbirds Stadium, I think one or two people that
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Speaker 2: were either threatening people or got in a fight got
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Speaker 2: tackled on Fourth of July at the Redbirds game that
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Speaker 2: I was out. They also took down I think a
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Speaker 2: block away, an armed gunman on that same night. So
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Speaker 2: that's three criminals prevented at a Redbirds game that me
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Speaker 2: and my family were at.
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Speaker 3: On America's birthday.
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Speaker 2: On America's birthday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. So they're out there, folks. And we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it more later. John Covington, the vice president
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Speaker 1: of the MPA, he'll weigh in a little bit. He
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Speaker 1: has some thoughts on that. But yeah, we're here to
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Speaker 1: have fun. We are. We've never done this before. We've
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Speaker 1: only been part of the audio team. team, the audio
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Speaker 1: and video. Ian's the tech whiz of this company. He's
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Speaker 1: also the youngest, which is sort of sad on me
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Speaker 1: and Helen's part, but we'll get over it, I think.
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Speaker 3: We'll see if Todd ever lets us do this again.
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Speaker 3: He might be listening right now being like, never give
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Speaker 3: them the mic again.
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Speaker 1: By the way, it is 71 degrees here at the
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Speaker 1: Principal Toyota Memphis studio. It's I mean, it feels good,
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Speaker 1: but it's a little on the warmer side. A 71.
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Speaker 1: If it was 70, I don't know what it is
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Speaker 1: about just being a 70, but that feels better than 71.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't throw it over the edge into hot. It's officially, like, mid. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But it's October, and I want 60-degree weather when I
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Speaker 1: wake up in the morning.
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Speaker 3: He wants to pull out the sweaters.
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Speaker 1: I have a box of sweaters that's sitting under my
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Speaker 1: bed right now that has not been touched in months.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 1: We're looking forward to this month, and there's some things
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Speaker 1: coming up this month that we can do. Obviously, haunted houses.
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Speaker 1: If you're a fan of that, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: I know, and I definitely, after we go to break,
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Speaker 3: when we come back, I will definitely tell some fun
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Speaker 3: haunted house stories because I love the spooky season. I
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Speaker 3: love going to the mazes. I love the apple cider donuts.
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Speaker 3: I got Ian and Dylan apple cider donuts.
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Speaker 1: Those are good. Who would have thought an apple cider
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Speaker 1: and a donut could mix together?
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Speaker 3: It's so good. And they heated them up for you.
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Speaker 3: They asked me, and I'm like, oh, they're going to
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Speaker 3: be so hot.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about them now.
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Speaker 2: I want them.
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Speaker 1: Well, guys, stick around. Coming up, we have more on
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Speaker 1: the AI data centers. We have Memphis Safe Task Force updates. Quickly,
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Speaker 1: I want to give a shout-out to Atlanta Braves third
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Speaker 1: baseman Austin Riley. He grew up in South Haven, Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: He went to DeSoto Central High School, which– They were
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Speaker 1: rivals of South Haven High School, but it's fine because
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Speaker 1: he was amazing. He hit a three-run home run that
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Speaker 1: put the Braves ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies to cap
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Speaker 1: Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series. And
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Speaker 1: if the Braves, so he's part of the Atlanta Braves,
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Speaker 1: if they win that series, they move on to the NLDS,
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Speaker 1: which I'll figure out what that means. in the break.
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Speaker 1: But that's the next step to the World Series, which
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Speaker 1: is cool. So shout out to him. Our telephone number,
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Speaker 1: if you want to call in to the Gen Z
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Speaker 1: Takeover of the Morning Show is 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to Commander Chuck and Laura Huckabee. with the traffic
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Speaker 1: and weather.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Morning in Memphis. We
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Speaker 2: kind of had a little Gen Z takeover as we
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Speaker 2: are filling in for Todd, who is out today at
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Speaker 2: a spiritual leadership conference. I'm Ian August. I'm here with
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Speaker 2: Dylan and Helen. Right now, I wanted to bring up
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Speaker 2: some new controversy over the AI data center.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be quick.
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Speaker 2: I know probably a lot of you are bored of
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Speaker 2: hearing about these over and over again. This is something
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Speaker 2: you should know to stay informed about what's going on
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Speaker 2: in your area and in your community. So Mayor Paul
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Speaker 2: Young has claimed that he endorses the data centers. He
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Speaker 2: wants to bring them in for revenue, for the community,
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Speaker 2: for taxes. And Justin Pearson says he strongly disagrees with that,
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Speaker 2: claiming that they're just bringing them in to take our water,
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Speaker 2: sacrifice our air quality and take jobs. So there's bound
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Speaker 2: to be some sort of disagreement there within the Memphis government.
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Speaker 2: So it's interesting to see how it's going to play out.
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Speaker 1: It's actually surprising that the mayor is talking very highly.
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Speaker 1: So not to me. And I'm glad that he's doing
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Speaker 1: it because I think that AI is the future. I
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Speaker 1: think that he knows that AI is the future because
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Speaker 1: AI is one of the biggest, if not already the
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Speaker 1: biggest like business from a business standpoint thing that's happening
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Speaker 1: in the world.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that we have several data centers that
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Speaker 1: are here in our area, that's huge for not only
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Speaker 1: business itself, jobs. I mean, you know, I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: think of what else is so good for it. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of negatives. There's a lot of people that
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Speaker 1: are complaining about, The noise, about the pollution, about the water,
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Speaker 1: which I don't know. To me personally, I don't live
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Speaker 1: near a data center. I don't know how much of
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Speaker 1: a nuisance that really is. But I think that the
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Speaker 1: good outweighs the bad in this scenario.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of controversy because it's so hard
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Speaker 2: to determine, does the good outweigh the bad? And who
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Speaker 2: gets to decide that? Is it the people who live
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Speaker 2: around it? Is it the government? So right now we
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Speaker 2: have SpaceX AI, which has the mega data center right
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Speaker 2: across the state line in South Haven, saying if the
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Speaker 2: people in the area around it who are complaining agree
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Speaker 2: to sell their homes, right, they'll buy them as long
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Speaker 2: as those people don't join a lawsuit against them for
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Speaker 2: like public nuisance and negligence, which is interesting. I haven't
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Speaker 2: seen something like this before. Well, we're not only do
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Speaker 2: they have the land, but they're trying to buy out
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Speaker 2: the area and people's houses around. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, if I'm a South Haven resident and I'm compliant
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Speaker 1: and this is really what's bugging me, they're offering to
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Speaker 1: buy my house. I don't know about you guys, but
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Speaker 1: I might take that deal.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I might move somewhere else.
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Speaker 2: It does seem pretty tempting.
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Speaker 1: I'll take the money. Someone told me, and it might
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Speaker 1: be our next guest, and we'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: a minute, but the sound that they're complaining about, the
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Speaker 1: sound part, is only one decibel higher than the legal
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Speaker 1: sound limit of a city or something, or whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: which is not that bad considering the fact that me personally,
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Speaker 1: I sleep with a sound machine. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you guys know this. I sleep with a Category 5
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Speaker 1: hurricane in my room. You would never even hear anything
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Speaker 1: outside of that.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking a lot of people sleep with fans on.
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Speaker 1: That can't be too much louder.
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Speaker 3: Dylan, you've actually suggested that I get the sound machine
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Speaker 3: that you have because sometimes there's loud... My roommate plays
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Speaker 3: a lot of TV right next to my room. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I'm such a light sleeper. And you have recommended
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Speaker 3: your sound machine. And we kept trying to look up
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Speaker 3: the video of it. And it wouldn't tell you what
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Speaker 3: sounds were on it.
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Speaker 1: No, it wouldn't. But that's fine. It's called Hatch, not sponsored.
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Speaker 1: Hatch alarm clocks, folks. They work miracles.
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Speaker 2: So is the AI data center just a free noise
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Speaker 2: machine that you get?
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Speaker 1: You know what? I would probably be okay with it.
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Speaker 3: That's a pro.
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Speaker 1: Me personally. But who knows?
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Speaker 2: I think the question is, is it... Okay, if you're
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Speaker 2: not okay with any of the things that are affected
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Speaker 2: by the data center, like noise, the air quality, or
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Speaker 2: the consumption of water, are they trying to push people
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Speaker 2: out of areas that they move into?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. Well, so moving on, we
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Speaker 1: have the one-year anniversary of the Memphis Safe Task Force,
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Speaker 1: which has been a great, great thing that's happened in
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Speaker 1: our city. I know me personally, I've noticed that crime
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Speaker 1: has gone down. I, you know, personally, things have happened
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Speaker 1: to me and, you know, cars been vandalized. I didn't
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Speaker 1: go back to that area for years and years because
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Speaker 1: I was just, you know, nervous that it was just
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Speaker 1: going to happen again. And so the numbers are out
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Speaker 1: for the Memphis Safe Task Force. Crime overall is down
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Speaker 1: nearly 38%, which is great. And I want to bring
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Speaker 1: in our next guest. He is the vice president of
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Speaker 1: the Memphis Police Association Association. Longtime police officer John Covington. John,
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Speaker 1: how's it going?
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Speaker 4: It's going well, guys. You're doing a great job. So
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Speaker 4: congratulations on your new career as the Gen Z Takeover
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Speaker 4: Show morning star.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see if Todd lets us keep the mic
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Speaker 1: for next time. But I appreciate it, John. Well, you
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Speaker 1: are a professional at this. We're just young guns out here.
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Speaker 1: We don't really know what's going on out there, but
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Speaker 1: I wanted to get your take on the numbers from
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Speaker 1: the Memphis Safe Task Force. What are your thoughts overall
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Speaker 1: of them being here and the impact that they've had
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Speaker 1: on the city of Memphis?
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Speaker 4: Well, here comes a shameless plug, because I have an
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Speaker 4: op-ed that ran this morning. It's in today's Daily Memphian,
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Speaker 4: and it says, one year ago, they told Memphis to
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Speaker 4: be afraid. And I'll tell you, on the numbers side,
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Speaker 4: and now I do want to be fair, we had
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Speaker 4: started to see crime trending down before the task force
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Speaker 4: got here. But when they got here, it clearly was
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Speaker 4: an accelerant, because we've reached crime lows that we haven't
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Speaker 4: seen in 15 years, which is pretty amazing. And You know,
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Speaker 4: it has freed our officers up to be more proactive.
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Speaker 4: We're seeing more guns off the street, lost children found.
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Speaker 4: So it has had a huge impact. And the point
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Speaker 4: of my article is seeing how where we are after
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Speaker 4: a year, I went back and looked at what people
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Speaker 4: were saying before they got here. And you had one group.
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Speaker 4: It was the most hyperbolic. We live in an Orwellian dystopia.
17:14
Speaker 4: And then you had other people saying this is going
17:15
Speaker 4: to be a force multiplier. It's going to make Memphis safer. Well,
17:18
Speaker 4: it's been a force multiplier. Memphis is safer, and we
17:20
Speaker 4: are not living under a dictatorship. So I just wanted
17:24
Speaker 4: to point out that the things people were saying to
17:27
Speaker 4: scare Memphians were just ridiculous. And so some of these voices,
17:33
Speaker 4: when people tell you the sky is falling, you might
17:35
Speaker 4: want to double-check and look up at the sky and
17:37
Speaker 4: make sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well. John, we're about to run out of time.
17:41
Speaker 1: And I appreciate you so much for the work that
17:43
Speaker 1: you do and everything that you just said. We certainly
17:47
Speaker 1: are living in a safer Memphis. And me, for one,
17:51
Speaker 1: I'm very thankful. And I'm thankful to President Trump. I'm
17:54
Speaker 1: thankful for the Republicans that sent the National Guard here.
17:58
Speaker 1: You know, everything has just been overall positive for me personally.
18:02
Speaker 1: So I appreciate you joining us today.
18:04
Speaker 4: Absolutely. My pleasure. All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, folks, give us a call, 901-260-5926. We're going to
18:09
Speaker 1: check in more on that traffic as your roadways, and
18:12
Speaker 1: you're getting to work this morning, so stay with us.
18:31
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Morning in Memphis here
18:35
Speaker 2: with the KWAM crew. I'm Ian. We have Dylan and
18:40
Speaker 2: Helen also with us. Now, I know a lot of
18:44
Speaker 2: people in our community. Of course, I'm pretty young. So
18:47
Speaker 2: a lot of us are just looking for internships, looking
18:49
Speaker 2: for jobs, trying to get a head start on our careers.
18:54
Speaker 2: And I know there's like a little thing going on
18:57
Speaker 2: about bringing iced lattes. into job interviews. Dylan, do you
19:02
Speaker 2: bring iced lattes into job interviews?
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Speaker 1: I think that you do. I think that maybe you do.
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Speaker 1: And here's the controversy, okay? It kicked off with a
19:13
Speaker 1: TikTok corporate recruiter. Is that a thing? She called out
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Speaker 1: Gen Z candidates for arriving to interviews with iced lattes
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Speaker 1: in their hands. Drawing from her 16 years of experience
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Speaker 1: placing candidates at Fortune 500 companies, she warned job seekers
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Speaker 1: against the casual habit. Quote, when you show up with
19:32
Speaker 1: an iced coffee or an iced latte, it is perceived
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Speaker 1: from my opinion in a hiring standpoint that this interview
19:38
Speaker 1: is just a stop on your list of errands.
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Speaker 3: For the day.
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Speaker 1: I kind of see that. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it's just coffee.
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm personally not an iced coffee person. I was
19:51
Speaker 3: born and bred on hot coffee. I, my dad, when
19:54
Speaker 3: we went to church, I wanted to be like my dad.
19:56
Speaker 3: So I would get black coffee.
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Speaker 1: So your problem is with the, the ice.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because it also waters it down. So then you're,
20:05
Speaker 3: you have watered down coffee and that makes me sad.
20:07
Speaker 3: I want it all coffee.
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Speaker 1: I guess, but if you're the person that's hiring and
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Speaker 1: you see the candidate walk in, they got a hot coffee,
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Speaker 1: you're changing your mind? You're saying that's a professional person?
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Speaker 3: I'm hitting the red buzzer. I'm hitting the red buzzer
20:22
Speaker 3: for American Idol.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're Simon Cowell?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think it should be fine. They can drink whatever
20:29
Speaker 2: they want as long as they don't show up late
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Speaker 2: with a drink because that shows that they prioritized coffee
20:36
Speaker 2: over the job. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Quote, it looks like you went to Target, went to Starbucks,
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Speaker 1: and now you're stopping by for your interview before moving
20:43
Speaker 1: on to your next thing. It's sort of giving off
20:45
Speaker 1: the lazy, like, Gen Z, I don't really care to
20:50
Speaker 1: be here, this is just one of my interviews, I
20:52
Speaker 1: have 13 other ones coming up.
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Speaker 3: I also have a different take from it, but this
20:57
Speaker 3: might just be like public school, high school Helen trauma, maybe?
21:01
Speaker 3: It's more of the, I don't know if anybody else...
21:05
Speaker 3: saw this in high school. Dylan, you can confirm because
21:07
Speaker 3: you went to public school. Unfortunately. But when all the
21:12
Speaker 3: girls got their license, what they would purposefully do is
21:17
Speaker 3: show up late to class with their Dunk-a-Latte and they'd
21:24
Speaker 3: have like a million keys on their thing and they'd
21:27
Speaker 3: shake them around and be like, I'm so sorry I'm late. Like,
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Speaker 3: I had to stop and get my coffee. That is
21:32
Speaker 3: what I see happening. If that if I was a
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Speaker 3: hiring manager and somebody came in and did that, I guess, though,
21:38
Speaker 3: being late contributes to that. But I would still get
21:40
Speaker 3: annoyed because they're like, oh, sorry, I had to drive
21:43
Speaker 3: my car.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And that's annoying.
21:47
Speaker 3: It's the vibe.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:48
Speaker 1: High school girls are annoying. Also, the Duncan that throws
21:52
Speaker 1: me off because I don't know if I've ever had
21:54
Speaker 1: a Duncan coffee before. I've had their breakfast Sammy's.
21:58
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
21:58
Speaker 1: But the Dunkin' Coffee, I'm not sure. And Starbucks is
22:01
Speaker 1: not that much better. I mean, it all tastes burnt
22:03
Speaker 1: to me. At this point, I'm, like, cool with community coffee. Like,
22:07
Speaker 1: the K-Cups, give me the K-Cup, I'm good. We have
22:10
Speaker 1: a special creamer here at the office, a little insider,
22:13
Speaker 1: that Helen buys for us. Thank you, Helen. Every time.
22:16
Speaker 1: We call it Cookie Butter Creamer.
22:18
Speaker 3: It's actually not even called that.
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Speaker 5: No.
22:20
Speaker 3: We just call it Cookie Butter Creamer.
22:21
Speaker 1: It's like brown sugar or something.
22:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, brown butter chocolate chip cookie.
22:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great. Well, on that same beat, we also
22:28
Speaker 1: have another story. This is sort of a Gen Z
22:30
Speaker 1: segment because, you know, we're Gen Z.
22:33
Speaker 2: It makes sense.
22:33
Speaker 1: That's just what it is.
22:35
Speaker 4: Right.
22:35
Speaker 1: So the next Gen Z demands millennials retire so they
22:40
Speaker 1: can grab their corporate jobs for themselves. Quote, how do
22:43
Speaker 1: you expect us to live? First of all, let me
22:46
Speaker 1: just let me just say this. I think the oldest millennial. Actually,
22:50
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a fact because years are
22:52
Speaker 1: a thing. Forty five years of age is the oldest millennial.
22:56
Speaker 3: He can math. He went to public school.
22:58
Speaker 1: I can math, surprisingly. I think you don't get Social
23:00
Speaker 1: Security until, like, mid-60s. So we shouldn't be worried about
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Speaker 1: the millennials grabbing, I mean, you know, going for their jobs, right?
23:10
Speaker 1: We should be looking at the boomers. We should tell
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Speaker 1: the boomers to retire, folks.
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Speaker 3: It's true. It's true.
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Speaker 2: There's also the question, what are they supposed to do?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, retire.
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Speaker 2: No, millennials? Yeah. Move up.
23:21
Speaker 1: Move up in their job. The argument is that they
23:24
Speaker 1: have the... The what are those jobs? The first job
23:28
Speaker 1: that you get entry level entry level jobs. That's what
23:31
Speaker 1: the argument is. And they're stealing our jobs. I think
23:34
Speaker 1: we may have some audio.
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Speaker 3: We have a we have an audio clip of the
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Speaker 3: millennials saying, you know, we wish we could retire. Here's
23:40
Speaker 3: what we do if we retire here. Let's play cut
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Speaker 3: number three.
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Speaker 1: How is Gen Z supposed to climb the corporate ladder
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Speaker 1: if all you boomers and millennials won't retire?
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Speaker 5: You think we don't want to? You think we don't
23:51
Speaker 5: want to retire? Have you seen a millennial? We'd sell
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Speaker 5: off every worldly possession today just to live out the
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Speaker 5: rest of our days at a swim up bar neck
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Speaker 5: deep in margaritas with Lil Jon's whole catalog on repeat.
24:05
Speaker 5: Like we can barely afford our plants and our puppies.
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Speaker 5: We got 68 people sharing streaming passwords and you think
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Speaker 5: we're ready to retire? We've been swimming upstream with ankle
24:17
Speaker 5: weights since 2001. But we need to retire. Half of
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Speaker 5: us just got the job. And the rest of us
24:25
Speaker 5: are slinging toes on Feet Finder. Like, we told you
24:30
Speaker 5: adulting was a zero out of ten experience.
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Speaker 4: And you didn't want to hear it.
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Speaker 5: That's on you.
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Speaker 3: Okay?
24:38
Speaker 5: Like, how did we get here, dude? Boomers think we
24:41
Speaker 5: don't work at all. Zoomers think we work too much. Meanwhile,
24:44
Speaker 5: we're just.
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Speaker 2: Trying to stay hydrated and alive. Like, for the love
24:48
Speaker 2: of God, please just leave us alone. I think he's
24:52
Speaker 2: got a point there, right?
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Speaker 1: He sounds more mad than Gen Z would be.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 1: He's like fed up with his own job.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know millennials knew what Feet Finder was. I'm
25:02
Speaker 3: not going to lie.
25:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, seriously, that's a snipe. That's a pull right there.
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Speaker 3: I was taken off guard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't Google search that, folks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want that in your search history.
25:12
Speaker 3: This segment is spot on. No!
25:15
Speaker 1: But if you're thinking about it, if I'm trying to
25:17
Speaker 1: get a job as a fry cook at McDonald's and
25:21
Speaker 1: some 35-year-old... Okay, I'm not going to talk bad about 35-year-olds.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to back that up.
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Speaker 2: I think the issue is It's hard to move up
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Speaker 2: the corporate ladder as everyone's experienced, not just the younger generation.
25:35
Speaker 2: There can be arguments that like it's going to get
25:39
Speaker 2: harder as technology advances and as the population grows. But
25:44
Speaker 2: it's an issue that we all face is the cost
25:47
Speaker 2: of living and people get whatever jobs they can.
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Speaker 4: Right.
25:50
Speaker 2: Not everyone's able to get an entry level position, then
25:54
Speaker 2: move up, move up, move up, move up and create
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Speaker 2: more entry level positions.
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Speaker 3: I remember when I was looking for jobs about a
26:03
Speaker 3: year ago or when I got out of college, you
26:06
Speaker 3: go on LinkedIn, Indeed, whatever, and it's like, oh, entry level.
26:12
Speaker 3: And then you look down in the.
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Speaker 1: Description, it says you have done 100 years.
26:16
Speaker 3: Of experience and an internship with the co-founder of whatever
26:23
Speaker 3: your thing is like music. You need to have been
26:27
Speaker 3: Working under Mr. Music as a music major. You needed
26:30
Speaker 3: to have been with Mr.
26:31
Speaker 5: Music.
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Speaker 1: Right, right. No, I totally understand that. And I guess
26:35
Speaker 1: I don't know how to relate to this because I've
26:37
Speaker 1: only had two jobs in my life. Three if you
26:39
Speaker 1: count the lawn mowing business, which was a booming thing
26:42
Speaker 1: for me, by the way. I worked at a grocery
26:45
Speaker 1: store for the longest time. Shout out to them. What's
26:50
Speaker 1: it called? It rhymes with pooper load. I'm just kidding. No,
26:56
Speaker 1: they're a great, great company. But then this job. And
26:59
Speaker 1: so I don't know, you know, being a Gen Z now,
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Speaker 1: how hard it is. I know that jobs coming out
27:05
Speaker 1: of college are not the easiest to get. Like you guys,
27:09
Speaker 1: that is a true thing. You go on LinkedIn, you
27:12
Speaker 1: do have to have a lot of experience. So maybe
27:15
Speaker 1: there is something to this. Maybe we should be mad
27:17
Speaker 1: at millennials. Folks, you're listening to Morning in Memphis. We're
27:22
Speaker 1: the Gen Z staff of Todd Starnes. Todd Starnes, is
27:25
Speaker 1: the owner of KWAM, and it's 71 degrees, which is,
27:29
Speaker 1: I can't really complain about that.
27:32
Speaker 3: And if you have something to say as either like
27:35
Speaker 3: a hiring manager, a CEO, or talking about millennials or
27:39
Speaker 3: the job market, call in. We would love to hear
27:42
Speaker 3: what you have to say. Our number is 901-260-5926. Do
27:44
Speaker 3: we want to talk about pickles?
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Speaker 5: Do.
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Speaker 3: I know Ian does.
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Speaker 1: Ian likes pickles. I don't understand this phenomenon with Gen Z.
27:56
Speaker 1: And I am Gen Z, and I don't understand it.
27:59
Speaker 1: So the headline is, Pickle snacks are surging in popularity
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Speaker 1: as Gen Z buys all the pickles.
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Speaker 2: I can explain this.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
28:07
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Please do. I don't know how to say the name.
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Speaker 2: It's like Grillo's or Grillo's.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Right? It's a pickle brand. Some guy just took his
28:17
Speaker 2: grandma's recipe. And he started making pickled everything with it.
28:23
Speaker 2: And he makes these super strange videos where he just
28:28
Speaker 2: goes up to random people on the street and he's like,
28:31
Speaker 2: do you want a pickle? Do you want a pickled carrot?
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Speaker 1: Do you want a pickle?
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Speaker 3: Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Speaker 1: I've seen this video, yeah. This is great marketing.
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Speaker 2: It's great marketing. And I'm the only one at the
28:41
Speaker 2: studio that actually enjoys pickles. But the love of that
28:46
Speaker 2: food is not just a young people thing. But that
28:49
Speaker 2: specific brand and that specific style of like super fun,
28:54
Speaker 2: like social cringy marketing, that's what brings it into like
28:58
Speaker 2: the young people's space.
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Speaker 1: My wife loves those little pickle chips that you buy
29:03
Speaker 1: in the little bags.
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Speaker 3: My fiance also loves the pickle chips.
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Speaker 1: It's the smell for me. Not just that. It's also
29:08
Speaker 1: the texture. I'm a big texture guy. And that means
29:12
Speaker 1: like I don't want to have that texture on my thing.
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Speaker 1: It's not just pickles, though. It's literally the toothpaste, the
29:22
Speaker 1: crackers that are pickle-flavored, the cotton candy.
29:24
Speaker 3: Wait, you don't like toothpaste?
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Speaker 1: I love toothpaste.
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Speaker 3: Then what's the problem?
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Speaker 1: Pickle-flavored toothpaste shouldn't be a thing. I don't want your
29:31
Speaker 1: breath to smell like pickles when I talk to you.
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Speaker 3: Agreed.
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Speaker 1: Is that okay to ask for?
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Speaker 2: You know i think that's a fair request.
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Speaker 3: You're asking for too much dylan i don't.
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Speaker 1: Think that i am like so so here it is
29:43
Speaker 1: from pickle flavored cotton candy to devil dave's pickle crack
29:48
Speaker 1: a craft dill pickle hot sauce the brand claims is
29:51
Speaker 1: the perfect addition to homemade bloody mary's bloody mary's by
29:54
Speaker 1: the way ew Countless brands are cashing in on the
29:58
Speaker 1: tart trend with an overall snack category growing 3.8%. So
30:01
Speaker 1: it's still low.
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Speaker 2: So it's the social media push for pickle flavors.
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Speaker 1: Propaganda. No one likes pickles.
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Speaker 2: That's not true. I think exactly 50% of people like pickles.
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Speaker 3: If you like pickles, do not call it.
30:17
Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
30:17
Speaker 2: Okay.
30:17
Speaker 1: All right. I think we have time for one more story.
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Speaker 1: Do you guys like nostalgic things?
30:24
Speaker 2: Love nostalgic things.
30:25
Speaker 1: Like the vinyls.
30:27
Speaker 3: Yes.
30:28
Speaker 1: The flip phone. Are we a flip phone team here?
30:30
Speaker 1: I had a flip phone. Yeah, but would you buy
30:32
Speaker 1: a flip phone now?
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Speaker 3: If I did, I would give my number to maybe
30:37
Speaker 3: five people.
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Speaker 2: Sure, sure.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of like Christopher Nolan, the star movie director, interstellar, Oppenheimer.
30:45
Speaker 1: He doesn't have an iPhone, apparently. He has a flip phone,
30:49
Speaker 1: which I'm really jealous. I'm jealous of him. A new study...
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Speaker 1: Claims that Gen Z craves nostalgia, restoring to pre-tech era.
30:59
Speaker 1: Have you guys heard of a brick?
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Speaker 3: Brick?
31:02
Speaker 2: A brick?
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it.
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Speaker 3: Like Lego?
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Speaker 1: No, like the brick you can buy. It's a physical device.
31:09
Speaker 1: You put it on your fridge if you want. And
31:13
Speaker 1: it locks your phone when you get to where you're going.
31:15
Speaker 1: So you can't access social media. You can't access the internet.
31:20
Speaker 2: I like that idea as a concept. But every time
31:24
Speaker 2: I've like deleted an app or blocked on my phone
31:27
Speaker 2: to spend less time on it, I always re-download it.
31:30
Speaker 2: So I feel like no matter what you do, as
31:32
Speaker 2: long as you have a normal phone, you're still going
31:36
Speaker 2: to end up using it regardless.
31:38
Speaker 3: Right.
31:39
Speaker 2: And I know there's one company, I forget the name
31:41
Speaker 2: of it, but they're coming out with a phone that
31:43
Speaker 2: just has like a camera, maps, and you can call people. Yeah.
31:46
Speaker 2: To get you off of social media and like back
31:48
Speaker 2: into the real world. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We need to talk face-to-face more. I, and I personally
31:54
Speaker 1: struggle with this. I'm on my phone way, way too much.
31:57
Speaker 3: Y'all are the problem.
31:58
Speaker 1: We are definitely the problem.
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Speaker 3: I'm not, but y'all are.
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Speaker 1: If I have to meet someone new, I have a
32:03
Speaker 1: literal panic attack in front of them. I forget my
32:06
Speaker 1: own name when I talk to people. So I think
32:08
Speaker 1: being off my phone would help. And I think that
32:10
Speaker 1: phone is probably marketed towards Gen Z. Cause like that's,
32:14
Speaker 1: that can be, well, in old, older folks, probably boomers.
32:17
Speaker 1: Some people probably still rocking the flip phone and I'm,
32:19
Speaker 1: I'm totally down for that. Yeah, but I also love Instagram.
32:23
Speaker 3: Dylan, be honest. Are you able to talk to people
32:27
Speaker 3: when you go up and order food, or do you
32:30
Speaker 3: order ahead of time so you don't have to talk
32:32
Speaker 3: to anyone?
32:32
Speaker 1: Oh, I order on DoorDash. I knew it. I don't
32:36
Speaker 1: even interrupt. So not only do I order on DoorDash,
32:39
Speaker 1: I make them leave it at the door, no contact delivery.
32:42
Speaker 3: So you don't have to say hi to them.
32:43
Speaker 1: And that's another problem with Gen Z. We can't afford anything,
32:46
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the problem. I think that is a
32:48
Speaker 1: big problem. So this is a separate issue. But Gen Z,
32:51
Speaker 1: they care about money. We love to self-fund. We love
32:55
Speaker 1: to live our exuberant, Starbucks-filled lives. But that's the problem.
33:01
Speaker 1: We buy Starbucks every day.
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Speaker 3: Right.
33:03
Speaker 1: We order DoorDash every day. And I'm saying we, like,
33:06
Speaker 1: it's not just me here that's talking. Cause like, I
33:09
Speaker 1: feel like I do that way too much. And you know,
33:12
Speaker 1: let's get back to, I don't know a lot of
33:13
Speaker 1: Gen Z's that are meeting with financial advisors on a
33:16
Speaker 1: regular basis.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
33:17
Speaker 2: I agree with you. That is an issue. Like everyone
33:20
Speaker 2: nowadays has a bad spending habits because it's so easy
33:23
Speaker 2: to spend money. But also within the past, like six years,
33:26
Speaker 2: we had a 30% rise in cost of living. I
33:29
Speaker 2: feel like a lot of people use like, Oh, Gen
33:33
Speaker 2: Z spends all their money on Starbucks is like an excuse,
33:36
Speaker 2: like forgetting about how much prices are constantly going up
33:41
Speaker 2: and the jobs are not like raising pay. And there's
33:45
Speaker 2: also super competitive job market.
33:47
Speaker 1: I think the gist of it is we need to
33:49
Speaker 1: have a little bit more self-discipline, a little bit more financial, uh, responsibleness.
33:53
Speaker 1: Is that, that's not a word. Responsibility. Responsibility. That should
33:57
Speaker 1: happen because, you know, we, we're struggling out here and
34:00
Speaker 1: it's kind of our own fault.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
34:02
Speaker 1: That's a hot take. Maybe that's my hottest take, is
34:05
Speaker 1: that Gen Z, the reason why you're struggling is because
34:07
Speaker 1: of you.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Fight me on it.
34:11
Speaker 3: Well, I think on that note, we're going to have
34:14
Speaker 3: to take a break and listen to some traffic and weather.
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Speaker 3: If you want to give us a call about Gen
34:21
Speaker 3: Z and talk about our job markets, our nostalgia, give
34:25
Speaker 3: us a call, 901-260-5926. Thank you.
34:35
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Morning in Memphis. We
34:39
Speaker 2: are guest hosting.
34:40
Speaker 3: I'm Ian.
34:40
Speaker 2: We have Dylan and Helen with us. I guess on
34:43
Speaker 2: a final note for the last segment of our show,
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Speaker 2: I guess the overall theme has been stay engaged with
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Speaker 2: your community. Get off your phone. This is the loneliest
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Speaker 2: generation that we're coming up on, Gen Z, right? We
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Speaker 2: need more personal interaction in our Memphis community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to other Gen Zs. Talk to adults. Ian
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Speaker 1: said it perfectly. Get active physically and engage your mind
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Speaker 1: a little bit. That's something that's a little bit more
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Speaker 1: than scrolling on TikTok. That needs to happen a little
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Speaker 1: bit more for us to actually make a difference in
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Speaker 1: the community. If you're going to be an adult, you're
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Speaker 1: going to be a leader one day, get off the phone.
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Speaker 3: Get off the phone.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 1: It's about time that we're almost done with this show. Billy,
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Speaker 1: you have a shout-out.
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Speaker 3: I do.
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Speaker 1: So, guys, I just said get off TikTok, but I
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Speaker 1: actually do make TikToks. Thank you, Ellen. I'm a TikToker, folks. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. I made a TikTok out of desperation to
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Speaker 1: get topics for this show. And someone commented and said
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Speaker 1: that their family-owned business, Newton's Trophy Corner... And it's in Whitehaven.
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Speaker 1: They're celebrating their 50th anniversary of being in business. Now,
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Speaker 1: this company makes trophies. They make plaques. And I think
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Speaker 1: that we should maybe commission that.
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Speaker 3: We could have like a Dundies, like from the office. Yes.
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Speaker 3: But we could have the whammies, like the K-whammies. You know,
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Speaker 3: like the Grammys.
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Speaker 1: The K-whammies. What would you get an award for, Alan?
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Speaker 3: Probably most talkative in the office.
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Speaker 1: For sure. Oh, yeah. Most techie. I would get probably...
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Speaker 1: Most awkward. For sure. Well, we want to thank Todd
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Speaker 1: Starnes for giving us the opportunity to host. If we
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Speaker 1: make it back on the air next time, you know,
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Speaker 1: we appreciate you listening. Thanks for joining us today. Join
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Speaker 1: us next time on Morning in Memphis. We'll see you
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Speaker 1: guys later.