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Morning in Memphis · 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. Good morning, Memphis. Yes, it's Frank Colvette again.
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  Speaker 1: You do not need coffee. You have us. I am
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  Speaker 1: again still Frank Colvette. Last I checked two seconds ago.
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  Speaker 1: I am joined by Helen and the rest of Generation
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  Speaker 1: Z in the out-of-control room. And Ms. Patty Possel is
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  Speaker 1: with us today to talk election commission stuff. Good morning, Patty.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Frank. How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I'm already in fifth gear. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: any more coffee. The Memphis City Council still keeps me up.
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  Speaker 1: But you are in the principal Toyota studios. If you
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  Speaker 1: have any thoughts to share, number is 260-5926. Give us
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  Speaker 1: a shout if you've got something you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But Before I get into my rant, because the City
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  Speaker 1: Council is almost like the Radio Hosts Permanent Employment Act,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to give a big shout out to St.
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  Speaker 1: Jude Country Cares. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been
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  Speaker 1: a staple here in Memphis since 1962. And a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Randy Owens, you heard of the band Alabama, Patty?
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 1: Randy decided about 35 years ago that he wanted he
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  Speaker 1: felt that the pull of St. Jude. And so he
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  Speaker 1: started country cares on 35 years, 35 events, but equally
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  Speaker 1: important 300 plus radio stations across the United States. Do St.
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  Speaker 1: Jude radiothons. I want to say a big shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Randy Owens of Alabama. He has raised 1 billion
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  Speaker 1: with a B with a B billion dollars over the
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  Speaker 1: last 35 years. So Randy Owens of the band, Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: we salute you, my friend. Let's get right into it
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  Speaker 1: because I almost couldn't sleep last night with all the
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  Speaker 1: fun that goes on with the Memphis City Council. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody in our listening audience knows that federal law trumps
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  Speaker 1: state law. State law and the governor trumps local law.
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  Speaker 1: So when you get some of these liberals on the
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  Speaker 1: Memphis City Council that want to pass their referendums, And
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  Speaker 1: it even says non-binding referendum. And it says ICE, get out.
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  Speaker 1: It says National Guard, get out. Why do they do this?
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  Speaker 2: Political theater.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nothing burger. I don't need caffeine this morning.
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  Speaker 1: They're passing a non-binding, worthless resolution that doesn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: except tell America that All the work the Memphis Safe
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  Speaker 1: Task Force has done means nothing to them. Crime going
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  Speaker 1: down means nothing to them. Patty, when you get gasoline
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  Speaker 1: in your car compared to two, three, four, five years ago,
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  Speaker 1: do you look over your shoulder? Are you as nervous
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  Speaker 1: as you were back then?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I was ever nervous, but I
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  Speaker 2: also don't live in some of the areas here that
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  Speaker 2: I would be nervous. I mean, if my car... There
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  Speaker 2: have been times where I have driven into areas that
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  Speaker 2: I just thought, man, I really need to stop and
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  Speaker 2: get gas. But, man, I don't want to stop here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so there, you know, there's that. And I
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  Speaker 2: do remember a couple of years back, I was coming
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  Speaker 2: from an event and I hit a pothole and I
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  Speaker 2: blew my tire. And that scared the bejeebies out of
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  Speaker 2: me because I thought, oh, my gosh, here I am.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, a woman that has stuff in her trunk
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  Speaker 2: and therefore I must take this stuff out of the
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  Speaker 2: trunk to get to the tire. I know how to
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  Speaker 2: change a tire, but you're still stuck on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the road with heavy traffic. And, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a woman on the side of the road. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought about that. But in that particular case, somebody
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  Speaker 2: did see me or heard, you know, was driving next
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  Speaker 2: to me or whatever. circled the block and came back
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  Speaker 2: and said, hey, I know you blew your tire. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here to help you. And I wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you're protected because I could see you're a woman
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  Speaker 2: and alone. So there are a lot of really good
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  Speaker 2: people here. I think 98% of the people are really good.
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  Speaker 2: But I like the fact that some of these neighborhoods
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  Speaker 2: that have heard gunshots routinely throughout their days and nights,
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  Speaker 2: aren't hearing those things anymore. And part of that is
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  Speaker 2: about the Memphis Safe Task Force. So their quality of
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  Speaker 2: life has greatly improved. And for them, to me, this
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  Speaker 2: resolution that they passed is spitting on them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Justin J. Pearson, I'm sorry to interrupt. Justin J.
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  Speaker 1: Pearson has no problem spitting on Tennessee Highway Patrolmen and
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  Speaker 1: cussing them out. Jesse J. Pearson, the socialist running against
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  Speaker 1: Brent Taylor for Congress. Patty, see, that would scare me.
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  Speaker 1: But equally important, it would scare me as my friend
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  Speaker 1: or if it was my daughter. But I find myself
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  Speaker 1: not worrying about my daughter going to get gas, my
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  Speaker 1: wife going to get gas, gasoline. And so I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: to myself, what kind of a signal Are we sending
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  Speaker 1: not just the governor, but America when we want business
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  Speaker 1: to come to Memphis? Let's face it. Our population is shrinking.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, definitely. Our population is shrinking. But I think it's
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  Speaker 2: more of an insult to the citizens that have had
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  Speaker 2: positive impacts with the Memphis Safe Task Force. You have
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  Speaker 2: this small group of people with megaphones and literally they
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  Speaker 2: have megaphones, right? coming in disruptive to the Memphis City
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  Speaker 2: Council just, what, a couple weeks ago. And they're being
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  Speaker 2: bullies and going, hey, we want chaos. We want disruption.
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  Speaker 2: And by golly, you've got to listen to us because
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  Speaker 2: this is what we're demanding. When the silent majority that
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  Speaker 2: are going out there working their day jobs or sometimes
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  Speaker 2: two jobs, sometimes three jobs that just want safe streets,
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  Speaker 2: good schools and a little peace and quiet when they
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  Speaker 2: are home and not have to worry about doing gardening
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  Speaker 2: in their front yards and having bullets fly and allowing
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  Speaker 2: their kids to play and to hear laughter. That's what
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  Speaker 2: this resolution is insulting to.
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  Speaker 1: Could not be more accurate because, you know, the only
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  Speaker 1: thing banging through my head this morning is You know,
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  Speaker 1: if the facts are on your side, argue the facts.
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  Speaker 1: And ladies and gentlemen, one thing, because I always have
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  Speaker 1: nicknames for my guests. Patty Posse, I'm going to call
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  Speaker 1: her Details. Pesky Details Posse. Because every time I've heard
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  Speaker 1: arguments to do something, she's slowly and methodically using those
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  Speaker 1: pesky details like facts. And she slowly dismantles your argument
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  Speaker 1: until you realize, wait a minute, she's right. So, Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, as you're getting up this morning and you're
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  Speaker 1: getting your coffee, don't worry about it. That is a
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  Speaker 1: non-binding resolution, nothing burger, not even worth the paper it's
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  Speaker 1: printed on. The concern we have, though, is the signal
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  Speaker 1: that it sends people that want to move to Memphis,
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  Speaker 1: businesses that want to come here, governor, as they see
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  Speaker 1: and approach Memphis and how to work with us. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Going forward in the time we have in this segment,
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  Speaker 1: XAI was also on the agenda yesterday, and the city
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  Speaker 1: council very wisely, very wisely, shot down a proposal to
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  Speaker 1: ban XAI from the city of Memphis. Now, I get
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  Speaker 1: the guardrails. I get the time to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we protect our citizens. I get that. But an outright ban,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad... we turned around and shot that down.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely. Because XAI, yeah, we do have to explore
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  Speaker 2: some of these things that people are upset with, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's noise pollution, whether it's air pollution, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: water consumption, energy consumption, because we know me personally watching
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  Speaker 2: MLGNW under the leadership of Doug McGowan, I think he's
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  Speaker 2: doing a fantastic job. I think that was a huge
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  Speaker 2: job that he had to come in and improve a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that have been slacking with MLGNW. And
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  Speaker 2: one of that is the infrastructure grid. And so I
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  Speaker 2: can understand the people's concerns, but we do need to
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  Speaker 2: figure some of those things out. But overall, to just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're going to ban this because we don't
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  Speaker 2: like Elon Musk's politics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's call it what it really is. We are
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  Speaker 1: against Elon Musk because he's friends with Donald Trump. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just call it what it is. Ladies and gentlemen, we're
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  Speaker 1: about to have to take an obscene profit timeout. But
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  Speaker 1: before we do, remember, today is Wednesday, October 21st, all day.
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  Speaker 1: It is 13 days to victory. And when you come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about early voting and what you
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  Speaker 1: need when you want to exercise your liberty and your
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  Speaker 1: right to vote. We'll see you in just a second.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Memphis. Principal Twib. of studio. You have Frank Colvette,
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  Speaker 1: proud Memphian, Patty Possil, the details, and Data Girl, Helen
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  Speaker 1: in the out-of-control room. Today is Wednesday, October 21st. We
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  Speaker 1: have eight more days of early voting, and Election Day
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  Speaker 1: is only 13 days, 13 days. days, my friends, 13
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  Speaker 1: days to victory. And if you're racing to work, remember,
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  Speaker 1: you still have seven and a half minutes. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 1: Slow down. The Tennessee Highway Patrol will give you a
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  Speaker 1: high velocity award if you don't. OK, we need to
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  Speaker 1: thank state senator, congressional candidate Brent Taylor for that. Mark White,
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  Speaker 1: John Gillespie for making sure that we have Highway Patrol
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  Speaker 1: and keeping our interstate system safe. So Slow down, take
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  Speaker 1: it easy. You still got seven minutes to get to work. Patty,
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  Speaker 1: before we get back into XAI, just want to make
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  Speaker 1: a public service announcement. It is that time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Nutcracker.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't see that coming, but yes. Tonight, though, our Memphis
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  Speaker 1: Grizzlies take the court. First game of the season, Utah Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: It's basketball season in Memphis, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Or ballet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: We have culture here, too. And if they want to
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  Speaker 2: be good grizzly players, they're over in the ballet studio
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  Speaker 2: building those muscle core strength.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever gets us to the playoffs. This is that time
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  Speaker 1: of hope in Memphis. It is basketball season here in
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  Speaker 1: the River City. But let's go back to XAI. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of the Memphis City Council. I don't say
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  Speaker 1: that very often, but I'm proud that they blocked. This wrong,
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  Speaker 1: wrong idea to ban XAI. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the benefits. Pros and cons. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do both.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Curiosity on my part, whether or not you know,
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  Speaker 2: what is the estimated tax revenue?
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  Speaker 1: $ 53 million.
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  Speaker 2: $ 60.
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  Speaker 1: $ 60. Well, it's estimated. $ 53 first year.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. How many jobs does it support? I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: guess 2,000.
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  Speaker 1: 7,500. 7,000 jobs in Memphis, Tennessee. 7,000 jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily permanent jobs, but right now we're at 7,500 jobs.
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  Speaker 1: 7,500 jobs. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How many families is that impacting?
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  Speaker 1: Name the last time we had 7,500 jobs come to Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, there's more than that because how many suppliers
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  Speaker 2: are supplying them?
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  Speaker 1: Vendors, yes.
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  Speaker 2: How many vendors?
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  Speaker 1: No clue.
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  Speaker 2: 630 plus have vendor relationships. So on top of the
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  Speaker 2: 7,500 that are getting direct paychecks, then you have these
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  Speaker 2: additional companies and everything else making money, making money for
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  Speaker 2: people right here.
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  Speaker 1: And employing more people right here.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And it's not just here. It's also in
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  Speaker 2: northern Mississippi and over in Arkansas, right? So it's a
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  Speaker 2: regional impact.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So what are the major... you know, arguments against them. Pollution.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's be fair. We don't use bullhorns here. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have to because Patti Possil brings facts.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. So they want to
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  Speaker 2: talk pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, electricity demands, water consumption, right?
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  Speaker 2: Uncertain number of permanent jobs, you know, those transparency and
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  Speaker 2: enforcement issues. Those are the major downs. But on the
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  Speaker 2: flip side, what are the positives? Major private investment, right?
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  Speaker 2: $ 90 billion with a B. That's huge. Additional tax revenue.
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  Speaker 2: If we're losing 7% of our population, who's going to
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  Speaker 2: pay the bills, right? So you've got tax revenue coming in, right?
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  Speaker 2: And they didn't even ask for an abatement, right? None.
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  Speaker 1: They asked for no benefits.
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  Speaker 2: No benefits and... The deal is, I forget how many.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have that figure right in front of me.
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  Speaker 2: But it's how many millions of dollars must be invested
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  Speaker 2: just in that community. So, you know, this money being
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  Speaker 2: made isn't going to help necessarily the residents out in
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  Speaker 2: Cordova or out in Lakeland, right? It has to be
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  Speaker 2: invested in that zip code with school improvements and things
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  Speaker 2: along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: And not to interrupt you, but that's as a realtor.
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  Speaker 2: But you love interrupting me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I do. But that's 38109. Okay. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the poorest zip codes.
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  Speaker 2: In the country.
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  Speaker 1: In the country.
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  Speaker 2: In the country. So it brings jobs and business opportunities there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's going to help, you know, how do
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  Speaker 2: I find a lot of these facts? You know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm using AI. If you do a Google search, hate
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  Speaker 2: to tell you, you've been using AI for a number
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  Speaker 2: of years and not even realizing it. And then you've
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  Speaker 2: got reuse of an existing property. Do you really want
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  Speaker 2: that whole area blighted?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You just have vast areas of of nothingness. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is actually really could be a real positive. Now, noise, noise.
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  Speaker 2: You want to compare that to an airport. There's only
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  Speaker 2: five decibels difference between an airplane and what those turbines
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  Speaker 2: are producing.
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  Speaker 1: So five decibels. Yep. OK.
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  Speaker 2: One sixty five, one seventy. So that's not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of difference. differential. And having lived on the end of
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  Speaker 2: a runway at one point in my life, not here,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm smart enough to look where runways are anytime
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  Speaker 2: I moved the other 12 times, you couldn't even talk
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  Speaker 2: on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting coming, marrying into a family where you hear
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  Speaker 1: them talking before you even round the corner. Five decibels
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  Speaker 1: difference is a rat's burp. I mean, it's nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me for is probably not the best language or example,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm from Memphis. And so we put things in
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  Speaker 1: blunt terms. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do I want my house right next to it? No,
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  Speaker 2: but it's zone industrial. Right. So you don't build a house.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can if you want to because you're allowed.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to put my house right next to it,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to go work there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're bringing up some great points as well. former
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  Speaker 1: planning and zoning chairman on the Memphis City Council, industrial
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  Speaker 1: zoning quite literally is exactly what you think it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a warehouse district. Now, yes, you are by right
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  Speaker 1: allowed to build almost anything. Matter of fact, remember my
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  Speaker 1: planning and zoning days, you can build nightclubs and gentlemen's
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  Speaker 1: clubs in industrial and only in industrial zone. Where's the
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  Speaker 1: women's club? You know, you can start that up. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you want to do. But I was thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've got this opportunity and we have to take an
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  Speaker 1: obscene profit timeout. We're going to come back and talk
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  Speaker 1: about elections. But, guys, XAI is coming. So let's balance
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  Speaker 1: and put up our guardrails and let's welcome a new
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  Speaker 1: corporate citizen. We'll see you in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're starting out with Prince this morning. Well, look, if
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  Speaker 1: you've gotten to work by 730, it's 735. You've got
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  Speaker 1: your coffee. You're ready to roll. If you're heading to work,
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  Speaker 1: take it easy on the interstate, guys. The Highway Patrol,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to great people like Congressman David Kustoff, they're out there.
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  Speaker 1: They'll give you those speeding tickets. So take it easy.
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  Speaker 1: Take it easy. I'm Frank Colvette, proud Memphian. Patty Postle
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  Speaker 1: is with us, the Electric Commission. Mrs. Details. And Helen
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of Generation Z are in the out-of-control room,
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  Speaker 1: keeping us straight and squared away. Today is Wednesday, October 21st.
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  Speaker 1: We are, I can't believe this, 13 days. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you at the Election Commission, y'all are prepping, y'all
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  Speaker 1: are working 25 hours a day.
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  Speaker 2: Something close to that. That's why my voice is kind
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  Speaker 2: of out.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine. Well, so I was thinking. As
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  Speaker 1: you're getting ready to go see the Grizzlies play tonight
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  Speaker 1: and you're recovering from what the Memphis City Council did,
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about is a big question
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people are stopping me. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk in this half hour about the amendments because
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  Speaker 1: everybody gets to the, you know, they vote and they
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  Speaker 1: vote and then they get to amendments they read and
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  Speaker 1: they've never heard about it. They don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: So Stick around this half hour. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that and give you the information you need to
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  Speaker 1: make some good decisions. But, Patty, let's get right in it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right in it.
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  Speaker 2: Voter integrity.
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  Speaker 1: Voter integrity.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about that first.
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  Speaker 1: So share with me. I want to go early vote.
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  Speaker 1: And in Tennessee, you're required to have ID because we trust,
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  Speaker 1: but we also verify. That's right. So I present my
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  Speaker 1: driver's license at any one of the 26 voting locations?
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  Speaker 2: You can, or even your expired driver's license. We will
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  Speaker 2: accept that too, as long as it's issued by the
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  Speaker 2: state of Tennessee and it's issued by the state.
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  Speaker 1: So if I have a former military ID that's long expired,
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  Speaker 1: it's got my picture, it's got my name?
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  Speaker 2: It's got your picture. It's got to look like you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you were 18 and you're coming in
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  Speaker 2: at 85, it might be a little issue there.
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  Speaker 1: Might just be a little bit. So you're saying An old,
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  Speaker 1: like an old handgun carry permit, as long as it
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  Speaker 1: is state or federal.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: If it's a library card, that's going to be a no.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Student ID, no, even though they have your pictures on
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: it and things like that. Those are no's because they're
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: not issued by the feds or the state of Tennessee.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. So what times can everybody vote this week?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. Well, that one kind of throws me off
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: just a little bit. Basically, the polls open at 11.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And they close at 7, Monday through Friday. Saturday is
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: what I always have to look up.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: 8 to 4.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: 8 to 4. But that's only on one of the Saturdays.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: The other Saturday is not at 8 o'clock. It starts
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: at 11 or 10 or something like that. But I'll
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: have it here at my fingertips because those kind of
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: simple little questions, or actually there's a lot of complicated
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: questions too. If you just go to elections with an S, shelbytn.gov,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: We have all kinds of information on there. If you
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: hit elections and you hit then upcoming, you can hit
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: all the dates and times, the early voting schedule, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: election day schedule, the precincts. You can check your voter registration,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: make sure that before you ever even get there, do
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: you have any issues? You know, are you in the rolls?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: That kind of thing. So this coming Saturday, it is
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: 8 to 4.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: So... I was thinking, you know, we were talking yesterday
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: about this. You can go Bethel in Germantown. That's really big. Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: A top anointed temple praise harmony and Bartlett. You can
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: go downtown again. There's 26 early voting locations. So I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: suggest you just go to elections. Shelby tn.gov. Find the
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: one closest to you or find the one farthest away
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: and go explore that area of town.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I like Tennessee Shakespeare at Germantown and Trinity because
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: even though I'm a former elected official, I don't like
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: running the gauntlet, as we'd like to say. They don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: allow signs. They don't allow anybody. I go in, ladies
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, 15 minutes from the— Max. Yeah. I'm in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm out and I'm doing what I consider to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: be my duty as an.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: American— responsibility and privilege.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't understand why people don't vote. It's so easy.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It's 15 minutes of your life. Right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Well, with a little prep time too, right? So we
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: have to do a little prep time. But before we
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: get to that, the hot topic throughout the nation is
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: this election integrity. Well, how do you make sure that
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: these elections are really organized well, You know, that kind
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of thing. And so the number one thing, a lot
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: of people don't know this, is the Election Commission actually
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: tries to equalize if you identify as a Democrat or
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: if you identify as a Republican or even as an
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: independent out at these 26 early voting sites. And then again,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: on Election Day, which there's like 142, if I recall correctly,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: polling locations. We like an equal balance between Republicans and Democrats.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And we'll throw in a few independents. We don't have
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: as many of those. But we want that 50-50 balance
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: between those. And here in Shelby County, we have a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: lot of Democrats that step up that said that they'll
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: work at those 142 locations. We're fine for early voting.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: But on Election Day, we are shy. 400 Republicans. We
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: need 400 Republicans. And people also complain about, hey, Shelby's
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: so late in getting the results out. We could use
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: some help at the op center, too. So if you
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: are a Republican, again, Democrats are doing a great job
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: stepping up. We need some more Republicans. It is not
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: too late. You can you get paid. So this is
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: not a volunteer position, but it is a civic duty.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: If you've got the time, you got vacation time that
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: you're kind of getting double paid because you'll get paid
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and then you get paid because you're off, too.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So also my mom retired. You want to make a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: little extra scratch, mom? Go volunteer and also make sure
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: our election integrity remains intact. I say that huge family
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that I'm blessed to be married into. You know, guys,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you want to get paid? Go volunteer on Election Day
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: for the Election Commission.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And it's not even volunteering. You're getting paid if you're
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a college student. If you're ever going to skip classes,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: that's a great day to skip classes.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Make money. I love it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: You know, high school students, you're 18 years old. We'll
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: take you.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. So you need to be 18.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: No, I think you only have to be 16 or 17. Okay,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: 16 or 17. So then you're like a junior. You
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: kind of do some of the grunt work. You do
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: some running. You call in figures and things along those lines.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So it's a different role. But, yeah, even the younger ones.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Well, friends, this is a great opportunity. You get paid
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: to do it, and it's your civic duty. So I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: think there's a wonderful opportunity. I just got a question
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: over our hotline in the Performance Toyota studio. I got
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a question. They said, if I live in Fayette County,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: just east of us, can I early vote in Shelby?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: No. You have to go to your own because we
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: maintain our own voter rolls inside Shelby. It's county specific.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: You can't just go anywhere randomly across the state. You
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: have to go in your own county. Ideally, you want
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to go to your own poll, right, because you want
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the poll workers to know who you are. Again, that's
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: an integrity verification way for neighbors.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to probably get some questions, and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: hate to interrupt because I really want to get to
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: these amendments because everybody asks. Now, you apparently have six questions,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: three state, three local. Let's talk about the state.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Only in Memphis.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Only in Memphis. Correct, because Memphis question. The Amendment 1
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: is bail reform. Now, we talked about this yesterday. Basically,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: this gives the judge latitude to deny bail. So if
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you vote yes, you want to allow a judge in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a case of, for example, aggravated rape.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very limited number of crimes that you that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: would fall into this category that gives this judge latitude
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: just to flat out deny you bail. Now, on the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: flip side of that is, you know, this person is
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: considered innocent until proven guilty.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to interrupt you because you know how
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I get mad at these kinds of things. And I
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: know I know you hate when I erupt. This just
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: gives the judge latitude to deny bail. It doesn't guarantee.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Very heinous crimes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: It has to be a pretty heinous crime. It's not like, hey,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I'm going to deny you bail because you did a
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: little shoplifting. That's not it. It's aggravated murders, aggravated rapes,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: things along those lines. I mean, it's got to be.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Terrorism.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Terrorism.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: That's another one. So it has to be heinous.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Folks, that's a huge yes. Let's give our judges latitude
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to deny bail when in their opinion.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I have no opinion.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Let's be very careful. Patty Postle is here on behalf
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of the Election Commission. She is facts and figures. Patty,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: data Patty, pesky details Patty. Option one, Amendment 1, bail reform. Yes,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: give the judges the latitude that if somebody is charged
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: with terrorism and that judge believes that there is very
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: probable cause, give them the latitude. Now, Amendment 2, state
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: property tax. To me, this one is simple. This simply... Ask,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: may we ban a state property tax?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: But on the flip side, it's also going to limit
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: our legislators from coming up with creative solutions for budgetary shortfalls.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, that sounds like tax increase. Now, Patty, I know
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you're never going to be in favor of that. Come on.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I have no opinion. I'm giving just pros and cons.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: And the pro is you're going to keep more money
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: in your pocket. Or they're going to come up with
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: other ways to tax you, but they can't do it
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: on your property tax, which really is based locally at
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: this time. Right now, we don't have a state property tax.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Some people are kind of kicking around. But right now,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: property tax is all local.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Well, every little bit that we can limit our government
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: from reaching into your pocket for your hard-earned money. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: say yes. So we're a yes on state.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Question number- No, we are not. You are. Okay.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I keep saying we.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I strongly encourage you, my.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Friends, to vote yes on Amendment 2 state property tax. Now,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to go to an obscene profit timeout,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: but in 15 seconds, Amendment 3 is crime victims' rights. Now,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to jump straight on this one, Patty. This expands.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: If you vote yes, and I say vote yes, not
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Patty Patty's details, vote yes on crime victims' rights because
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: one of the many provisions- It allows the victim's family
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to be part of a sentence felon's parole.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, but those victims could be like harassing the criminals,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of thing, too. So that's the negative
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: There's the other side of it. I say victims' rights
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: all day long. Vote yes on three. So that's a
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: three vote. Three out of three vote yes on the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: state questions. We're going to take that obscene profit timeout.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to come back and talk about the Memphis
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: questions on the ballot. Thank you very much. All right,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: we're back. Hey, look, you've got about seven minutes to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: get to work. Do not speed. You are with Frank Colbert,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Proud Memphian, Patty Postle, Helen on the board with the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: rest of the team. We're finishing up our conversation this
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: morning about the three now Memphis questions.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Holy Memphis.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: That you'll see on the ballot. Now, the first one,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the first one to me is kind of simple. Should
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: librarians be civil servants? Code for, shall they be unionized?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And shall we add an extra layer of bureaucracy?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Well, but with this, the con on that is there's
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: going to be added layers of whether or not somebody
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: can be terminated or not. And it also doesn't cover
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: everybody in the library system, employment up and down the scale,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: whether it's the top executives, managers, that kind of thing.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: These would be different roles between the two segments.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Sounds to me like they're trying to get the camel's
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: nose under the tent. Let's start with librarians and then
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: we'll add, add, add. So if you are in favor
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: of adding more bureaucracy, adding more unions, and in our
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: glorious right-to-work state, making it even more difficult to fire
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a bad employee.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: But it also gives me protection if you just don't
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: like me.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I've been in a couple jobs where they just didn't
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: like me. So I love my libraries, but no.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Unfair dismissal. So, you know, there's pros and cons to that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Again, that is Patty, fact-checked apostle, who is here representing
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the Election Commission. So She, friends, is not going to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: have an opinion. She's going to be all about facts
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and figures. I do not have such restraints. I love
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the libraries, but no, I am not interested in spending
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: more tax money on that. Now, the second question, this
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: is interesting. Having been on the Memphis City Council, it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the lobbyist question. Patty, what is that?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Well, pros and cons, they would like to create a
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: registry for lobbyists, which is A pro for the councilman
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: because they know whether or not they're paid or not paid,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: you know, who's paying them kind of thing. But the
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: downside is the way this is written, the ordinance isn't there. So,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: pesty little details aren't there. So, you know, I would
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: consider that a con.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: How's this going to work? Who does it impact? define lobbyists,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: because is that your neighborhood petty parcel with property rights
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: coming in, and all of a sudden I've got this
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: burden of I can't speak to you because I'm not
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a registered lobbyist? You know, those details are not worked out.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: On the pro side, you know, city council knows who's
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: in front of them and knows that they're being paid
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: by somebody.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Well, and I can tell you, especially in your case,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You're not a paid lobbyist, and you brought 300 people.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: More than 300.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: More than 300.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I think we were up to 500 in some of
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: those meetings.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we noticed.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Because it wasn't just me. It was some 1,836 homes
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: from South Cordova.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I vividly remember that as a councilman. I can tell
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you all out there, as an elected official myself, I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: would like to know if someone is being paid to
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: talk to me, if someone is being paid to bring people.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: It means more to me as an elected official when
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: someone who is not paid by a corporation or a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: group brings 500 plus people to council.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: But this is not defined of what is a lobbyist.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: If I come two times, does that make me a lobbyist?
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: If I talk on different topics, does that make me
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: a lobbyist?
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: See, again, Patty, the devil's in the details.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: And how much more is it going to cost taxpayers
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: for the administrative of keeping that roster up to date?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: At one point, is that person, because they might be local,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: they might be talking on one thing, so they're working, say,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: for XAI. But now all of a sudden they got
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: a property tax because they wake up to a newspaper
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: article saying something. You know, just from one job to another.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: So those things aren't worked out yet.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I hate the phrase. I just wish. But I wish
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: we had gotten more intel, more information on this one,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: because it as a former elected official, I would like
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: to know if you're being paid to talk to me
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: because it changes how I see what you're saying to me.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That's my general thought. Now, the third one in the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: one minute that we have, and remember, you still have
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: plenty of time to get to work, so dear listeners,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: just keep listening.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: So pros and cons of this is, you know, the pro,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: it's going to establish, I lost my train of thought here.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Well, it's the arbitration side.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the arbitration side. So they basically want to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: be able to have consultation between the executive branch, which
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: is the mayor in Memphis, And the legislative branch, which
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: is city council, can they talk about the employees to
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: resolve issues, not issues? But the problem with that is
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: now you've got a blending of the executive branch with
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the legislative branch. And does that mean that, you know,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: somebody with a labor dispute can go get to their
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: city councilman and just go, hey, save my job?
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: That's exactly it. That's exactly it. All they want is
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to be able to go to the councilman. and get
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: out of trouble if they did grounds for prying. Ladies
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, this was an awesome morning. I'm Frank Colvette.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: She is Patty Fossil. Helen on the boards. Y'all have
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: a wonderful day.