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Morning In Memphis 9/15/26 · 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: Yeah. Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. Happy Tuesday to you. And it
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Speaker 3: is going to be a hot one. You just heard
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Speaker 3: Laura Huckabee with your forecast. She'll be along a little
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Speaker 3: bit later on with more details, but it's going to
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Speaker 3: be very, very hot, dangerously hot. So be careful if
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Speaker 3: you're going to get out and do the exercise. I
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Speaker 3: saw a lot of you already out in the wee
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Speaker 3: hours of the morning, which is the best time to
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Speaker 3: do exercise these days. And we are hoping and praying
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Speaker 3: the heat dome will eventually dissipate, I don't know, by Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 2: Who knows?
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Speaker 3: We've got a great show for you. Our good friend
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Speaker 3: Congressman Tim Burchett is dropping by a little bit later on. And,
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Speaker 3: of course, we'll be taking your calls. A lot of
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Speaker 3: news coming out of Collierville last night. A lot of
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Speaker 3: residents really fired up over this town administrator. And citizens
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Speaker 3: coming out and standing up for employees who have been
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Speaker 3: fired or have come under fire as a result of
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Speaker 3: the behavior of the town administrator. We'll get into that
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Speaker 3: in just a little while. I know many of you
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Speaker 3: were at the meeting. gave speeches last night, and it's
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Speaker 3: really interesting what's going on over in Collierville right now.
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Speaker 3: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. County Commission meeting last night,
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Speaker 3: and they're spending more of your money. We'll tell you
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Speaker 3: what they're spending that money on as well. But the
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Speaker 3: starting point today are these AI data centers that that
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Speaker 3: are going up all over the country, and especially right
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Speaker 3: here in the Mid-South. As a matter of fact, the
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Speaker 3: largest AI computer, Colossus, built right here in the Mid-South.
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Speaker 3: And there is a big controversy brewing in South Haven.
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Speaker 3: And I'm fascinated by this. And the question is, do
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Speaker 3: we need the data centers? And if we're going to
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Speaker 3: have AI, we have to have these data centers. The
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Speaker 3: question then becomes, all right, where do we put the
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Speaker 3: data centers? And that has become a fierce battle. And
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Speaker 3: you wonder if a lot of this is simply because
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Speaker 3: this is Elon Musk and his company that we're talking about.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting that City Hall was hosting
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Speaker 3: a big job fair yesterday, the city spending millions of
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Speaker 3: your tax dollars to get kids jobs, when in fact
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Speaker 3: you've got many at City Hall that are going after
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Speaker 3: and attacking these data centers. So, you know, you can't
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Speaker 3: have it both ways. You've got Justin Pearson out there
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Speaker 3: leading the charge, trying to shut down all of these
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Speaker 3: data centers, bringing in a lot of revenue into the Mid-South.
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Speaker 3: And so the question is, all right, Justin Pearson, if
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Speaker 3: you're going to kick Elon Musk out of Memphis and
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Speaker 3: if we're going to kick him out of DeSoto County—
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Speaker 3: What kind of businesses are you guys proposing come here?
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Speaker 3: Because right now, all I see are a lot of
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Speaker 3: people packing up and leaving Memphis. And here's a guy,
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Speaker 3: Elon Musk, coming in and dumping tens of millions, maybe
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Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of dollars into our local economy. But anyway,
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Speaker 3: there is a legitimate other side to this. And there's
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Speaker 3: a guy by the name of Jason Haley. I do
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Speaker 3: not know this person. He is a homeowner, a resident
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Speaker 3: of South Haven. And he woke up one day and
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Speaker 3: he was like, what in the world is that? And
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Speaker 3: he describes the sound coming from these data centers as
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Speaker 3: a constant whirring, like an airplane hovering over his home.
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Speaker 3: So the noise has been keeping him and his family
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Speaker 3: awake for quite some time. So Mr. Haley and two
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Speaker 3: other residents, they live within a mile of the AI
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Speaker 3: data center. And they're filing they file a lawsuit and
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Speaker 3: they say there is near constant noise and vibrations are
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Speaker 3: causing a negative physical and psychological health impact. And he's
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Speaker 3: got all of this data or at least I'm sorry,
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Speaker 3: these emails to back up his arguments. He had been
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Speaker 3: reaching out to South Haven Mayor Darren Musselwhite about the
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Speaker 3: noise and. He shared all of these emails with CBS News.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure the response from City Hall actually helped matters.
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Speaker 3: So last November, he urged the mayor just to drive
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Speaker 3: through the neighborhood and listen to the high-pitched noises. And
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Speaker 3: the mayor responded by saying yes, that he was aware
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Speaker 3: of the noise, and he was working on a solution
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Speaker 3: with XAI. The mayor said it is a problem. So anyway,
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Speaker 3: nothing ever happens. And the noise gets worse. The family,
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Speaker 3: they got the ringing of the ears. And he says,
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Speaker 3: you can't live like this. So back and forth, back
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Speaker 3: and forth they go.
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Speaker 2: And Mr.
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Speaker 3: Haley spoke up. And he decided, you know what, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to get involved here. And so he became a
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Speaker 3: part of a group, a coalition called Safe and Sound,
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Speaker 3: drawing what they say is awareness to concerns about XAI
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Speaker 3: in the region. And he said, quote, telling CBS, I've
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Speaker 3: never been into any kind of activism, never really kept
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Speaker 3: up with politics a whole lot. I'm just a guy
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Speaker 3: that has a problem with this noise and started speaking
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Speaker 3: out and trying to raise awareness. So, again, I don't
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Speaker 3: know the background of this guy, but he sounds like
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Speaker 3: a regular Joe who owns a house. They built a
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Speaker 3: data center, and now the guy can't sleep. City Hall
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Speaker 3: acknowledges there's a problem. So the guy emails the mayor
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Speaker 3: again in December. And he told the mayor, I am
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Speaker 3: not a Republican or a Democrat. I don't care that
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Speaker 3: this is Elon's project. I didn't know whose it was
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Speaker 3: when I started complaining about the noise that started in August.
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Speaker 3: So the mayor responded and said, you seem like a
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Speaker 3: reasonable person. I will give you some unsolicited advice from
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Speaker 3: an older man. Be careful with whom you associate so
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Speaker 3: you don't damage your credibility. What the heck? That sounds
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Speaker 3: like a threat. Anyway, then later on, the mayor tells
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Speaker 3: the guy, this is terrible, that maybe he just ought
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Speaker 3: to move. Maybe that's the right, just sell your house
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Speaker 3: and move. But the question is, and ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 3: I ask you, would you live near a data center?
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Speaker 3: And here's another question. You folks in Germantown and Collierville, Bartlett,
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Speaker 3: How about this? We got a lot of empty warehouses
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Speaker 3: in downtown Memphis. Would you guys like one of those
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Speaker 3: data centers in your area? 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. We already
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Speaker 3: have people wanting to weigh in on this. Let's go
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Speaker 3: to Dean in East Memphis. Dean, what do you think
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Speaker 3: about that? I feel bad for the guy, but at
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Speaker 3: the same time, we got to have the data center.
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Speaker 3: It's kind of like you got to have a garbage
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Speaker 3: dump somewhere.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get it. I get it. And I've known
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Speaker 4: Darren for years. I mean, I guess that guy's got the.
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Speaker 5: Emails for the receipts and everything.
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Speaker 4: I saw a post by a guy that lives in
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Speaker 4: South Haven. He was standing out in his backyard, and
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Speaker 4: the data center was a half a mile away from
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Speaker 4: his house. He had a noise meter, and that thing
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Speaker 4: was at 96 decibels a half a mile away.
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Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: He said it's constant, 24-7, 365. You know, they should
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Speaker 4: do the same thing like with solar panels and stuff
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Speaker 4: like that. Instead of putting them out in farmer's fields
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Speaker 4: and stuff, put them up on top of buildings. But
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Speaker 4: they should put those data centers where there's not– I mean,
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Speaker 4: I know we've got to.
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Speaker 3: Have them, but, you know, Here's the thing, Dean. XAI
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Speaker 3: knows they have a problem because they're spending millions of
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Speaker 3: dollars trying to fix this by building sound walls and
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Speaker 3: putting in trees, a berm. And by the way, this
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Speaker 3: is all coming from the mayor. So he posted something
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Speaker 3: on Facebook. So that tells me they do have a problem.
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Speaker 3: And I feel bad for these people because you're right.
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Speaker 3: With that kind of noise, you can't get any sleep,
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Speaker 3: and that's going to drive you crazy.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Have a good one.
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Speaker 2: Dean, thank you.
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Speaker 3: You know what really bothers me, ladies and gentlemen, and
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Speaker 3: that's the great Dean Franklin. He has a great podcast,
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Speaker 3: by the way. You ought to check that out. What
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Speaker 3: really bothers me about all of this is that they're
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Speaker 3: now trying to turn this around and say anybody who
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Speaker 3: opposes a data center is somehow a liberal or a leftist.
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Speaker 2: That's insane.
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Speaker 3: Because that's not what this is about. This is about
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Speaker 3: these people that have homes, they have property, they just
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Speaker 3: want to be able to live their lives, and now
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Speaker 3: they've got to deal with these, well, with the sound
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Speaker 3: of an airplane hovering over their home.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.
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Speaker 5: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: There's a study, they said, get this, that constant humming
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Speaker 3: or buzzing. And by the way, they're even telling people now,
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Speaker 3: don't even sleep with like your smartphones or any sort
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Speaker 3: of computer devices in your bedroom, because all of that
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Speaker 3: humming or buzzing, all that stuff, it actually disturbs your sleep.
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Speaker 3: So if that's going to disturb your sleep, can you
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Speaker 3: imagine what the humming from a data center– and you
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Speaker 3: just heard Dean there with the eyewitness account– That's that's troubling.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, now and then you've got, you know, Justin
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Speaker 3: Pearson out there saying, well, this is it's all about racism. No,
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Speaker 3: it's really not. But at the same time, you have
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Speaker 3: to ask yourself, where where do we put these? Where
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Speaker 3: do we put these data centers? 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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Speaker 3: That's 901. Coming up, we've got Tim Burchett, Congressman, East Tennessee,
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Speaker 3: joining us. Got to take a quick break. Let's check
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Speaker 3: in with Commander Chuck.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: Grab some iced tea, everybody. It's going to be a
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Speaker 2: hot one out there.
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Speaker 3: By the way, we can't talk just about the controversies
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Speaker 3: surrounding this, but also the good things that SpaceX AI
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Speaker 3: is doing in Memphis. And some exciting news for you
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Speaker 3: students at Fairleigh High School and faculty. SpaceX AI spent
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Speaker 3: a ton of money to completely renovate the high school gymnasium,
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Speaker 3: locker rooms, classrooms, and restrooms. SpaceX AI Memphis saying we're
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Speaker 3: proud to work with our local schools and community to
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Speaker 3: complete upgrades that will benefit students and teachers. We're excited
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Speaker 3: to keep working with Memphis schools to inspire the next
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Speaker 3: generation of explorers on the road to making life multi-planetary.
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Speaker 3: So there you go. I wonder if they gave the
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Speaker 3: kids earplugs to just throw that out there. And I
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Speaker 3: don't want to be, you know, you don't want to
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Speaker 3: look a gift horse in the mouth. But maybe if
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Speaker 3: SpaceX just passed or one of the noise canceling headphones,
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Speaker 3: that might work. Welcome back, everybody. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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Speaker 3: Soul Burger and Great Jukebox. So anyway, congratulations there. Always
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Speaker 3: nice to see Memphis businesses and restaurants getting some national attention.
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Speaker 3: If you've got a favorite Southern dive bar here in
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Speaker 3: the Mid-South, give us a call.
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Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: Our number, that's 901-260-5926. Let's go to the phone lines.
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Speaker 3: Justin in Collierville says, wants to weigh in on that
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Speaker 3: big meeting last night. All right, Justin, give us the details.
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Speaker 3: What's the tea?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Carter, Carterville. Good morning, Todd, and also Collierville
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Speaker 1: for listening. So last night's meeting didn't go too long.
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Speaker 1: They had about 21 minutes. I actually pulled a comment
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Speaker 1: card and we're just so tired of all the drama
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Speaker 1: that is happening in town hall and this administration. We
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Speaker 1: have no clear answers.
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Speaker 5: We have no transparency.
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Speaker 1: So what I asked for last night was the independent
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Speaker 1: investigation into the town administration because we've had conflicting statements.
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Speaker 1: The reason why they fired Chief Selberg, they said that
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Speaker 1: he used profanity and that, you know, he doesn't answer
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Speaker 1: to the town administrator. But, you know, you have one
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Speaker 1: person that says that, and then the chief says he
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Speaker 1: didn't say that. So we need answers on that. There's
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Speaker 1: also been overpayment to the town administrator of the tune
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Speaker 1: of over $ 14, 000. We've had the public information officer actually
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Speaker 1: write an opinion piece using her official title, depending the
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Speaker 1: town administrator. And there's been a history of retaliation against employees,
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Speaker 1: or you would call them whistleblowers, reporting problems with the
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Speaker 1: town administration, and specifically around contracts and how they're handled.
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Speaker 1: So to put all this to rest, To find out
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Speaker 1: the answers, we need to bring somebody independently in to
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Speaker 1: investigate all this. So that way there's not any fear
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Speaker 1: of retaliation of employees if they give truthful answers. And
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Speaker 1: this just isn't a good look for our town. We
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Speaker 1: need a more professional town government that doesn't look more
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Speaker 1: like the city of Memphis or the Shelby County government
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: I think it's really shocking a lot of people. I mean,
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Speaker 3: and Collierville is a pretty big town. A lot of
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Speaker 3: people don't realize Collierville has a larger population than Germantown.
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Speaker 3: You guys, what, over 50,000 citizens. So it's a good-sized city,
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Speaker 3: and you would think that things.
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Speaker 2: Would be a little bit more orderly there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think when you've got too many people
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Speaker 1: that got their hands in the cookie jar, this is
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Speaker 1: what you necessarily get. But I will tell you, Every
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Speaker 1: single alderman candidate last night was in attendance, so I
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Speaker 1: just don't see how this doesn't become a bigger election issue.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of those aldermen, they're on the ballot,
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Speaker 1: so I don't see why they wouldn't want transparency on
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Speaker 1: all this. And just to put all the facts out there,
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Speaker 1: this is why we handled this, but they're hiding behind
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Speaker 1: lawyers right now.
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Speaker 3: All right, Justin, before we let you go, Justin, I
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Speaker 3: know that you're heavily involved with VFW, and you guys
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Speaker 3: are in the middle of a major fundraiser to expand
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Speaker 3: that parking lot, which is much needed. What's going on
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Speaker 3: down there, and how can our listeners help out?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that place was built in the 40s. So
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Speaker 1: in the 40s, you had one car per household. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't like now where you got probably three. So anytime
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Speaker 1: you have a large event there, parking's an issue. So
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Speaker 1: our commander, Brad Bell, he's leaving, paving the way, a
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Speaker 1: parking lot project. I think the goal is 150,000. They're
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Speaker 1: about halfway there. If you go to their Facebook page,
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Speaker 1: I believe that they have some information listed there if
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Speaker 1: you want.
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Speaker 5: To make a donation.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: The VFW there in Collierville, Justin Johnson, keeping an eye
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Speaker 3: on things out in the burbs.
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Speaker 2: Justin, good to hear from you this morning, my friend.
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Speaker 1: Good to hear from you this morning, Todd.
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Speaker 3: By the way, a lot of people wonder where Elon
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Speaker 3: spends the night when he's in Memphis. He's here quite
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Speaker 3: a bit because they're building all of these data centers.
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Speaker 3: Anybody want to take a wild guess where Elon actually
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Speaker 3: spends the night? If you were just asking where we're
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Speaker 3: at at the gate, I would say the Peabody Hotel.
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Speaker 3: And he would be at the top of the new,
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Speaker 3: you know, they got the hotel within the hotel now.
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Speaker 3: I think he would be staying at the high dollar
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Speaker 3: rooms there at the Peabody.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, it turns out that Elon Musk actually stays in
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Speaker 3: an Airstream trailer while he's in Memphis. So he also
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Speaker 3: has been known to sleep on the factory floor. So
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Speaker 3: my question is, and again, I'm just throwing this out.
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Speaker 3: I understand that the noise is a thing, but if
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Speaker 3: Elon can get a good night's rest.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. By the way, U.S.
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Speaker 3: Postal Service hiring new positions in Memphis. Big, big job fair.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people turning out. I pray to Almighty
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Speaker 3: God that some of those people are going to be
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Speaker 3: working at the Germantown Post Office. We need help down there.
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Speaker 3: All right. Hang tight.
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Speaker 2: Congressman Tim Burchett on the way. Your calls as well.
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Speaker 5: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 3: All right, I know we've got a lot of folks
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Speaker 3: that listen to the show out on the farm, a
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Speaker 3: lot of farms across West Tennessee, and want to say
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Speaker 3: a very good morning.
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Speaker 2: You guys have been up for a while.
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Speaker 3: It's almost lunchtime for the farmers here in West Tennessee.
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Speaker 3: This information coming from the Farm Bureau, which, by the way,
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Speaker 3: we broadcast exclusively the Farm Bureau on KWAM. But the
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Speaker 3: good news is a very strong harvest for Tennessee farmers today.
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Speaker 3: which is great news in spite of all of this
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Speaker 3: dry weather. The Farm Bureau says weather is not the
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Speaker 3: biggest concern, though. There is one challenge, farmers dealing with
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Speaker 3: the rising cost of diesel fuel and fertilizer. So Leo
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Speaker 3: Maddox with the Tennessee Farm Bureau says all of that
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Speaker 3: rain in late June and July helped crops recover, and
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Speaker 3: now the dry weather helping those farmers get the equipment
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Speaker 3: into the field.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 3: God bless all of the great farmers here in the Mid-South.
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Speaker 3: Before we go to Tim Burchett, I want to share
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Speaker 3: a story with you. And again, it's easy to get
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Speaker 3: sucked into the notion that Memphis is a horrible place.
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Speaker 3: It's not a horrible place. We're just dealing with violent crime,
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Speaker 3: and we've got to get this figured out and I
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Speaker 3: just wish, here's the thing, I truly believe that Mayor
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Speaker 3: Paul Young is a good man in his heart. He's
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Speaker 3: a great husband. He's a great father. And I think
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Speaker 3: those are the true measures of a man, somebody who
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Speaker 3: takes care of his family. I think the challenge with
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Speaker 3: Paul Young is he needs to know that there are
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Speaker 3: a lot of people out there who will support him,
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Speaker 3: stand alongside of him if he were to truly crack
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Speaker 3: down on crime. I want to see my mayor walk
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Speaker 3: in the streets with a baseball bat. That's what I
20:21
Speaker 3: want to see. And that's really what we need here.
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Speaker 3: We need that sort of mentality coming from city leaders.
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Speaker 3: We've got to put down this violence. And that's the
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Speaker 3: only way that it's going to work. But hear me
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Speaker 3: on this. We live in a great town. I want
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Speaker 3: to share a story with you. This is from Martin
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Speaker 3: Luther King Jr. High School, the football team there. So
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Speaker 3: there's a young man apparently at the school. And I'm
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Speaker 3: just going to– I do want to set this in
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Speaker 3: racial terms for just a moment to make a point.
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Speaker 3: There's a white kid at the school. He was getting
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Speaker 3: bullied for three weeks. And we don't know a lot
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Speaker 3: about this kid. We're working on that. And I'll tell
21:03
Speaker 3: you why we're working on it in just a minute.
21:06
Speaker 3: So this kid was apparently wearing the same clothes to
21:09
Speaker 3: school every day. Probably kid didn't have a lot of money.
21:15
Speaker 3: And there were a couple of football players from the
21:18
Speaker 3: high school, and they saw that this kid was being bullied,
21:23
Speaker 3: and they came to the kid's defense. And then these
21:28
Speaker 3: two football players, who happened to be black young men,
21:31
Speaker 3: they went out and got this kid clothes so that
21:34
Speaker 3: he wouldn't have to wear the same clothes to school.
21:38
Speaker 3: I don't know if that young kid, that white kid,
21:42
Speaker 3: understands what happened there. And the reality is that those
21:50
Speaker 3: two young men on that high school football team at
21:53
Speaker 3: Martin Luther King Jr. High School changed that kid's life,
21:56
Speaker 3: changed his trajectory there in that high school. And that
22:02
Speaker 3: is the kind of spirit and attitude that we have
22:06
Speaker 3: in this town. And this is why I love Memphis,
22:10
Speaker 3: because we are looking out for everybody. And that's what
22:13
Speaker 3: this is all about happening at this high school. We're
22:16
Speaker 3: going to find out. We want to be able to
22:18
Speaker 3: honor these two young men. And I know they didn't
22:20
Speaker 3: do it. As a matter of fact, somebody shot video
22:21
Speaker 3: of it. These kids, it was very clear, very obvious
22:24
Speaker 3: that these young men did not know they were being filmed.
22:27
Speaker 3: So we want to find out who these kids are,
22:31
Speaker 3: and then we're going to work with one of the
22:35
Speaker 3: locally owned clothing stores, and we're going to make sure
22:37
Speaker 3: this young man is taken care of and he doesn't
22:40
Speaker 3: have to show up at school wearing the same clothes.
22:44
Speaker 3: But God bless these boys for doing what they did.
22:47
Speaker 3: And I guarantee you they took their own money, and
22:51
Speaker 3: they bought this kid looks like some shoes. and some
22:55
Speaker 3: other things. So God bless these great kids. Great city
23:00
Speaker 3: we live in, ladies and gentlemen, and we love sharing
23:02
Speaker 3: those kinds of stories here.
23:04
Speaker 2: On the Mighty 990. 901-260-5926.
23:09
Speaker 3: By the way, if you'd like to be a part
23:10
Speaker 3: of that effort, you just give us a call and
23:12
Speaker 3: we'll give you some information on that as well.
23:14
Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
23:18
Speaker 3: Congressman Tim Burchett joining us on The National Show, and
23:23
Speaker 3: here's that conversation. Congressman, first, I know you're out there
23:28
Speaker 3: on the campaign trail. You're working hard. How are things
23:31
Speaker 3: going in East Tennessee?
23:34
Speaker 5: They're going incredibly well, and thank you for asking, but
23:37
Speaker 5: I think people need to be very cognizant of what's
23:41
Speaker 5: going on. This will be a non-presidential year, so Traditionally,
23:45
Speaker 5: numbers will be down. And we're seeing a lot of
23:49
Speaker 5: money flowing into these so-called Democrat socialist candidates. They're really
23:54
Speaker 5: just communists, but they're just sort of soft on it.
23:57
Speaker 5: They're friendly communists, I guess you could say. And I
24:01
Speaker 5: would warn people to be very, very, very vigilant in
24:06
Speaker 5: their voting. And, you know, I was at a little
24:09
Speaker 5: Christian school last week, I think it was. and they
24:13
Speaker 5: asked me what would be my wish for young people,
24:16
Speaker 5: and it would be that they'd be bold. I wish
24:18
Speaker 5: they would be bold. I wish our preachers would preach
24:21
Speaker 5: the gospel, quit worrying about offending people, and I wish
24:24
Speaker 5: young people would stand out more in the classroom, among
24:28
Speaker 5: their peers, and other places. I always remember I had
24:32
Speaker 5: a psychology class at the University of Tennessee, and it
24:35
Speaker 5: was during the Reagan years, and it was one of
24:37
Speaker 5: those required classes, so it was It was like a
24:39
Speaker 5: double classroom. They moved the divider so everybody could take
24:43
Speaker 5: this mandatory class. And I spent most of my time,
24:47
Speaker 5: the teacher would attack Reagan just constantly. And she was
24:52
Speaker 5: very left-wing. And I would always stand up to the president.
24:56
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it at least caused me one letter grade.
24:58
Speaker 5: I'm not sure. But I always remember when I would
25:01
Speaker 5: leave class, I'd walk out, and without a doubt, somebody
25:04
Speaker 5: would come up to me and say, man, I really
25:07
Speaker 5: appreciate you standing up for President Reagan or whatever our views.
25:12
Speaker 5: And I always say, well, why didn't you all stand up?
25:14
Speaker 5: Why didn't you stand up? Well, you know, I mean,
25:17
Speaker 5: I get it. There's people like Todd Stearns and Tim
25:20
Speaker 5: Burgess in the world that are going to stand up regardless,
25:24
Speaker 5: but the rest of the population needs to start paying
25:27
Speaker 5: attention and standing up.
25:29
Speaker 3: To that point, while things are going great in East Tennessee,
25:33
Speaker 3: here in the western part of the state, the newly
25:35
Speaker 3: redrawn 9th Congressional District, you have a full-blown socialist, Justin Pearson,
25:40
Speaker 3: running against State Senator Brent Taylor, a good friend of
25:43
Speaker 3: mine and yours. They brought AOC to Memphis, and there
25:51
Speaker 3: in a large megachurch, the pastor got up and said
25:55
Speaker 3: Jesus was a socialist. all of us ought to be socialist.
25:58
Speaker 3: And the crowd just jumped to their feet, roared with approval.
26:02
Speaker 3: So this is not something that's just happening in Berkeley
26:05
Speaker 3: or New York City. It's happening right here in the
26:07
Speaker 3: state of Tennessee as well.
26:09
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
26:10
Speaker 5: We had Betsy Henderson, our new county mayor in Knox County,
26:14
Speaker 5: a very conservative young lady who I helped out, did
26:18
Speaker 5: a video for, which I rarely do on local races.
26:21
Speaker 5: But They came within 5,000 votes for beating her in
26:25
Speaker 5: Knox County, Tennessee, 5,000 votes. A guy that had marched
26:31
Speaker 5: with Maduro. And in the march, and this was just,
26:35
Speaker 5: they called it youthful indiscretions. I mean, it was just
26:38
Speaker 5: five years ago, Todd. And in the march, he wore
26:41
Speaker 5: a shirt, clearly visible, a hammer and sickle. So I
26:47
Speaker 5: think we'd better wake up about what we're doing in
26:50
Speaker 5: this country and where we're headed. because we are headed
26:53
Speaker 5: down a very dark path. They always say socialism is
26:58
Speaker 5: delivered at the ballot box and communism is at the
27:02
Speaker 5: point of a bayonet. And at this point, there's not
27:08
Speaker 5: a lot of differentiation between the two. And I hope
27:11
Speaker 5: we start paying attention.
27:13
Speaker 2: I do too, Congressman.
27:14
Speaker 3: I still go back to Friday, the 25th anniversary of
27:18
Speaker 3: the 9-11 incident. Muslim terrorist attacks. And the video of
27:23
Speaker 3: the man weeping at the memorial, they're reading the names
27:27
Speaker 3: of the victims of that horrible day. And then they
27:30
Speaker 3: cut to an image of Mayor Zoran Mamdami and AOC
27:35
Speaker 3: laughing and yucking it up. And this is why those
27:39
Speaker 3: families did not want him there in the first place.
27:44
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. And he proved their point. And I'm
27:48
Speaker 5: disgusted that they allowed him to do it. I guess
27:50
Speaker 5: it was the mayor. They didn't have any choice, but
27:53
Speaker 5: we've got to realize that there are people in this
27:55
Speaker 5: world that don't like us at all. They want to
27:58
Speaker 5: destroy this country and they're anarchists. And, um, you know,
28:03
Speaker 5: we've been labeled, uh, you know, there's all, all the
28:07
Speaker 5: titles they give people like me and you for saying
28:09
Speaker 5: stuff like this. But the truth is, um, That is
28:15
Speaker 5: exactly what they're doing, and we are falling trap in
28:18
Speaker 5: the trap of the media and the left-wing intelligentsia and
28:22
Speaker 5: these college professors that when we call them out, we're intolerant.
28:26
Speaker 5: And it's just, to me, it's just we are going to–
28:30
Speaker 5: they're not going to do it with a gun. We're
28:35
Speaker 5: just going to give it to them if we're not careful,
28:37
Speaker 5: and I sure hope we wake up.
28:39
Speaker 3: Congressman, I know that you're one of the few, I mean,
28:44
Speaker 3: what you say is what you mean and what you
28:46
Speaker 3: do up on Capitol Hill, and we appreciate that. But
28:50
Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of people that are concerned,
28:52
Speaker 3: and I am one of them, that we may not
28:55
Speaker 3: end up doing well in the midterms. The messaging just
28:59
Speaker 3: seems to be all over the place. What's going on?
29:02
Speaker 2: What's happening?
29:02
Speaker 5: Well, I think you're saying, once again, the woke nature
29:08
Speaker 5: of some of these corporations down deep. You're looking at
29:11
Speaker 5: big oil. Their profits are through the roof right now,
29:15
Speaker 5: and they're sticking it to us using this instant with
29:24
Speaker 5: the fighting in Iran to jack up our prices. Let
29:30
Speaker 5: me read you something. A man in the oil business
29:34
Speaker 5: sent this to me. And, he's profiting incredibly, but he's
29:39
Speaker 5: just saying this is just wrong. And he said he's
29:43
Speaker 5: talking about diesel, the price of diesel is at $ 6. Well, heck,
29:46
Speaker 5: it's at $ 10 a gallon in California. But the refiner's margin–
29:52
Speaker 5: is $ 110 per barrel. That's $ 2. 61 per gallon. It's typically
29:54
Speaker 5: $ 15 per barrel or $ 0. 35 per gallon. So they've gone
29:56
Speaker 5: from $ 0. 35 to $ 2. 61, and that's their profits they're making.
29:59
Speaker 5: And so I think that they... And that's per gallon.
30:23
Speaker 5: That's per gallon they're making. So they are ripping us off.
30:28
Speaker 5: And these gutless Republicans and Democrats, frankly, they're in bed
30:33
Speaker 5: with them, Todd. We'll have them in a hearing when
30:37
Speaker 5: this is all over, and they'll shower us legally with money.
30:42
Speaker 5: Not me, of course, because I've been raising hell about it.
30:45
Speaker 5: But the truth is they're just ripping us off. And
30:48
Speaker 5: I've talked to people in the industry. And they agree
30:52
Speaker 5: with me that they are, that are making big profits.
30:55
Speaker 1: Off this stuff.
30:56
Speaker 5: But they're telling me, yeah, we're ripping you off and
31:00
Speaker 5: we're allowed to do it because we're using this as
31:02
Speaker 5: an excuse. We get zero oil out of the straits
31:06
Speaker 5: and we are exporting it right now. And people are
31:10
Speaker 5: going to freak out when I say this, but we
31:12
Speaker 5: better get some controls. We need to limit how much
31:16
Speaker 5: diesel we're exporting right now. If we kept 25% of
31:21
Speaker 5: it here, more, prices would plummet. They would plummet. And
31:26
Speaker 5: I'm proposing legislation to do just that, to limit the
31:30
Speaker 5: amount that they can export because they are sticking it
31:33
Speaker 5: to us, knowing they can do it. And it's an
31:37
Speaker 5: American industry, and there ought to be some responsibility within
31:40
Speaker 5: those corporations to take care of America. And they're not.
31:44
Speaker 5: They're sticking it to us worse than anybody else.
31:46
Speaker 3: Congressman Tim Burchett joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
31:50
Speaker 3: line today. Congressman, you look at Gen Z voters. They
31:56
Speaker 3: really they just feel like that they're not being heard
32:00
Speaker 3: when it comes to issues regarding affordability. And sometimes I
32:04
Speaker 3: do wonder if those folks inside that bubble in the
32:08
Speaker 3: White House and in the administration, if they actually go
32:12
Speaker 3: shopping at the local supermarket, because I know I do.
32:15
Speaker 3: And I can tell you the prices are going up
32:19
Speaker 3: and the idea that some of these kids who are
32:21
Speaker 3: working good jobs can't afford to put that down payment
32:25
Speaker 3: on a house. That is if we don't address that,
32:29
Speaker 3: those kids are going to go somewhere else.
32:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, that short term financial gain, your portfolio, it will be.
32:39
Speaker 5: when all these things are nationalized under a socialist agenda,
32:43
Speaker 5: which is their ultimate goal. I mean, they're playing right
32:45
Speaker 5: into their hands by doing this, you know, because they're
32:49
Speaker 5: forcing us all into slapping them back. And the truth is, Todd,
32:55
Speaker 5: if we don't do something, we could lose everything. We
32:59
Speaker 5: lose those midterm elections and it's over and we better
33:02
Speaker 5: start addressing it.
33:03
Speaker 2: Congressman, you're right.
33:04
Speaker 3: We just had Greg Bovino on the last segment, and
33:08
Speaker 3: he says that, you know, Border Patrol agents, ICE, they're
33:12
Speaker 3: all upset right now because they are ready to do
33:15
Speaker 3: the job that President Trump wanted them to do. But
33:18
Speaker 3: Homeland Security is not letting them do that. And I
33:20
Speaker 3: just hope that the Republicans understand that we really did
33:25
Speaker 3: want mass deportations.
33:28
Speaker 5: Oh, 100 percent. I mean, if you're here illegally, dadgummit,
33:33
Speaker 5: you need to go out legally. It's just, it's no
33:36
Speaker 5: different than somebody breaking into your home. If somebody breaks
33:40
Speaker 5: into my dadgum home, they're probably going to go out
33:42
Speaker 5: in a box. And then, but, but if we break
33:46
Speaker 5: into our country, we give them a cell phone and
33:49
Speaker 5: we give them everything they got, all the comforts that
33:51
Speaker 5: they need at home or more so. And, um, And
33:56
Speaker 5: that's exactly what they want to do. These Democrat socialists,
33:59
Speaker 5: they want to open that border up. They want that anarchy,
34:02
Speaker 5: that locotopia-type situation. And, boy, we will get it if
34:07
Speaker 5: we're not careful, if we are not careful. The law
34:12
Speaker 5: is the law, Todd, and we ought to start paying
34:14
Speaker 5: attention to it.
34:24
Speaker 3: And I hope you are having a great start to
34:26
Speaker 3: your morning wherever you are.
34:28
Speaker 2: In the Mid-South.
34:29
Speaker 3: By the way, the Bobcat still apparently on the loose
34:32
Speaker 3: in South Haven.
34:34
Speaker 2: You know, in.
34:36
Speaker 3: Memphis, you've got wildlife of another kind prowling, roaming the streets.
34:41
Speaker 3: In South Haven, you have an honest-to-goodness bobcat. Now, they're
34:45
Speaker 3: telling us that the bobcats are not dangerous to humans.
34:50
Speaker 3: They say they're basically just like giant, lovable house cats.
34:53
Speaker 2: I'm not a big cat guy.
34:55
Speaker 3: So anyway, I don't think I would say here, kitty, kitty,
35:00
Speaker 3: if you see the bobcat coming your way, but just
35:03
Speaker 3: be on the lookout there. By the way, this is
35:08
Speaker 3: exciting news. Today is the one-year anniversary of the Memphis
35:12
Speaker 3: Safe Task Force. Are you ready for these numbers? They've
35:15
Speaker 3: made more than 12,000 arrests. They've seized more than 2,000
35:21
Speaker 3: illegal firearms.
35:23
Speaker 2: Overall crime.
35:25
Speaker 3: Down in Memphis, 28%. And this is all according to
35:31
Speaker 3: data reviewed by Fox News Digital.
35:35
Speaker 2: Huge numbers. Well done. Well done.
35:40
Speaker 3: The headline at Fox News, Trump's law and order blitz
35:43
Speaker 3: marks one year with eye-popping haul of suspects, guns in
35:48
Speaker 3: Blue City. Murders down 44%. Robberies down 43%. Motor vehicle
35:55
Speaker 3: thefts down 57%. Since federal, state, and local law enforcement
36:00
Speaker 3: joined forces, Ashley DeMella is the writer of the story
36:06
Speaker 3: on FoxNews.com. The task force launched one year ago Tuesday,
36:12
Speaker 3: bringing in all sorts of federal agents and state and
36:17
Speaker 3: local law enforcement. after President Trump signed the memorandum to
36:21
Speaker 3: deploy the National Guard. And where did he get the idea?
36:25
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, right here on the Mighty 990 KWAM.
36:29
Speaker 3: We were the only news organization in the city. We
36:33
Speaker 3: were the only people in the city to ask President
36:36
Speaker 3: Trump to do something about the crime here. And all
36:40
Speaker 3: I can say is you're welcome, Memphis. That's what we're
36:42
Speaker 3: here for. We're happy to ask the questions. We don't
36:45
Speaker 3: care who they are. But we needed some help. God
36:49
Speaker 3: bless you, President Trump. There's a great chapter in my book,
36:53
Speaker 3: The Golden Age, How Trump Saved My Hometown.
36:55
Speaker 2: Hope you get the book. Hope you read it.
36:57
Speaker 3: And I hope you listen to the national show coming
36:59
Speaker 3: up at 11 o'clock right here on KWAM.