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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stormy conversation, stormy condensations.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You could talk about any situation and the stormy conversations.
What's really going on? Hey, everybody, I am stormy with you.
December eighteenth, seven more days before the big day. Man,
I'm telling you, Oh my goodness, uh d o Zona,
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Did I say it right? Deonzia? Did I say it right?
I'm not sure if I pronounced her name correctly. D No, Zana,
that's it. Yeah. So she messaged me a minute ago
and she said, I don't know if I need tea
coffee or a good bourbon off the bar. Because that's
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what a lot of people in Memphis are feeling right
about now, after you know, watching that meeting last night.
Did y'all watch that meeting now? I'm gonna tell you
I didn't get the first I don't know, maybe thirty
forty five minutes. That was a long meeting last night.
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That was a long meeting last night, that MSCs school
board meeting. And I think a lot of people are
still scratching their heads today because you know, a lot
of people are still wondering what was it about? And
the talk on social media about that meeting last night
is O HIW I know y'all seen it, seen a
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lot of talk. There's even petitions going around right now
to get rid of board members. I don't know if
any of that is going to actually, you know, happen,
or what the deal is. Big Kahuna was there at
that meeting last night. Did see him and have a
chance to hear his speech? I may post it on
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social media if I can get to it. But yeah,
a lot of people talking that board meeting. Let me
see how many people have watched it. Almost fifty thousand
people have watched that board meeting from last night. Almost,
did you hear me? Fifty thousand people have watched that
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board Almost have watched that board meeting last night, and
what a meeting it was. I think it's probably going
to be the conversation for all of us or a
lot of people today when you go to if you
go to any Christmas party over the weekend, whatever you
do up until the time they have another board meeting,
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this is going to be the conversation. And I think
the thing that scares me the most, the thing that
scares me the most is the state coming in to
take over. I was talking to a friend of mine
in Houston and they say you don't want that. They said,
you don't want the state to come and take over,
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because if the state does come and take over, yeah,
it's not gonna be what you won't You don't want it.
We don't want it. We don't want it. So doctor
Marie Fagans did get a chance to stand up for herself.
I don't know, maybe I'm not sure what. I didn't
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get a chance to watch it when it first started,
and not exactly sure if they started on time or
exactly what. You know, but it was three hours and
seven minutes. It was a long meeting last night, and
I do know, I think I stopped watching at nine something.
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I saw a lot of people post live about it,
and thank you to Tracy Betheka. She sent me this
morning the resolution terminating the employment contract of doctor Marie Fagan's.
I don't know if y'all got a chance to hear that,
or if you went back and watched it or what
you did. A lot of people on social media were
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talking about the fact that when doctor Fagan's was talking,
people actually a few of the board members actually got
up and walked out, and not just that, but when
some other folks were talking. Did y'all see the lady
that was at the podium and she mentioned that one
of the board members called her and told her that
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they were going to fire doctor Fagan's. Yeah, one of
the board members, she said, she didn't call the name
of the person who said it, but she mentioned it
last night. And I'm just like, are y'all as confused
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as I am? And do you think that this is
the proper way to handle it what we saw last night?
Do you think that was the proper way to handle
what happened with doctor Fagan's And could it be what
Michelle McKissick said. She said, these are not fireable offenses.
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That's what she said. And not just her, but you
know board member Garcia saying the same thing. I oh,
that was a hot miss. I ain't gonna let to
you that was a miss last night. But so let
me see whereas the board has become aware of professional
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misconduct by doctor Fagan's that violates the terms of the contract.
Such professional misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the
following Doctor Fagin's misled the board and the public when
she stated during a board work session that the district
had paid employees one million dollars in overtime wages for
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time not work. Doctor Fagin's never presented any evidence suggesting
that her statement was true, and she did not correct
or clarify her statement to the public. Number two, Doctor
Fagans accepted a donation of more than forty five thousand
dollars without bored approval at a board work session. Doctor
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Fagan's misrepresented her knowledge of and involvement in depositing that
unapproved donation check and violation of board policy. Number three,
Doctor Fagins was dishonest with the board and the public
when she stated that certain federal grant funds were still
available to the district, despite doctor Fagan's failing to obligate
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the funds prior to the required deadline. Now, those are
the grievances right there are just read to you. So
do y'all think those are fireable offenses? What do you
think about it? I heard a lot of people chiming in,
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saw a lot of people chiming in on social media.
The main thing that I have two concerns about what
happened last night. One is the state is watching and
is there a possibility that they could take over before
this January meeting? And what happens if they do. That's
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number one. And number two is that meeting was a
hot mess. Did it have to be done like that?
I don't know. I saw a lot of like I said, support,
I saw a lot of people standing up coming to
the podium. I saw Tammy Sawyer said, if doctor Fagin's
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is terminated, MSCs will have paid one million dollars in
severance to the past two superintendents. I can think of
one million other things that money could have been used
to do. And she is absolutely right. I can think
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of a So that's my biggest that's my other biggest concern.
Not not that so much that it was hot mess.
It was a hot mess. Lord had mercy, but it
was all out of order. Oh my goodness. But the
money that it's gonna cost, and the possibility because yeah,
you can terminate her, but how much of our money
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are we gonna have to spend to get rid of
doctor Fagans. And you can say all day long, but
if you ain't got if you ain't got proof of
all of this, you are setting the school district up
for a lawsuit. And best believe doctor Fagan's has attorneys.
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Believe and best believe she document and stuff when she
did you notice when she made her response, I thought
she was reading from something, But I don't think doctor
Fagin's was reading from nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And to have it insulted and on the line this
evening is something that I allow my attorney to take
the balance of the way without having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I learned about the meeting as well from the media.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I believe that I shared with board members just last
week in our one on ones that no surprises goes
both ways, and I have done my best for you
not to be surprised about information.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Who else was surprised at the meeting? The board members
because many of them said they just learned about it too.
How do you do that? And if teaching our children,
because we're supposed to be teaching them parliamental functions of
the government of Bord and all that thing, uh, those
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kinds of things, how we gonna teach them if they
see this kind of stuff and they like, they don't
even know what dared? All right, I'm gonnaing to the
phone line. See what y'all talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
W D I A Hello, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'm good Freddie? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm doing fine. Or like with the school issue, they
are so bad, you think they forgot about the kids.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, of course there were kids in the room.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No, that's what I said. You know, did they forget
about them? You know, you know they going to school? No, no,
no heat. You know, schools are being you know, being neglected.
You know, we clubbing and paying out all this money.
We could be building another school and you know, we
could be doing more stuff and then then fussing over uh,
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fussing over what she's doing. And she's just trying to
do right. She's just one little old you know, one
little bitty lady trying to make everything right. So then
when when when I get through saying it means, you know,
then leave us alone unless focused on our kids learning,
because it's gonna hurt them in the long run, because
it's more harder to make it out here than it
was when we was coming up and going to school.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
So you know, so you know they go to school,
and I.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Mean they go somewhere and work and can't even get
their caves resident Dror right because they've been they've been
neglected because the school board, the teachers ain't cooperating and
everybody ain't. You know, all the wheels ain't turning the
right way. So this all I just want to, you know,
worry about the kids and make sure they get their education,
because you know, some teachers are slack back to you
know once they know so much mets going on, but
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it didn't look good. But they don't want to stay
this on, you know, just like you say, come and
take over held it.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They don't want it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
They're something to get it. It got a hard drive
and put the ears in there and run it the
way they want to. We don't want to do that, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
That was all I had to say.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, Freddie, thank you so much, appreciate you. I
saw a comment last night on social media because I
just got an email from PJ and it says, UH suicide.
If a teacher mentioned thoughts of suicide, shouldn't that person
have been referred somewhere for an evaluation, especially working around children?
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It is or is it documented that the board member
was contacted about it? Interesting? And so yeah, that was
that was what UH board member sable Otay mentioned. And
I'm gonna tell you Fagan's had a response to that.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
She said, you.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Can't put that on me now, And for you know,
I'm not I'm paraphrasing. Rather, she said, you can't put
that on me. Somebody can thinking of considering considering suicide.
You can't put that on somebody. But that was part of,
you know, miss Otey's response to her. But who was it.
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I think it was Richie Domino that I saw. They said,
if you've got a teacher who who is considering suicide,
any teacher or principal on record having stated they wanted
to off themselves should never be allowed to ever teach again,
not trying to be mean, just saying they may not
have what it takes to deal with these kids of
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today who are on a whole another level. WD. I
a hello, Hey, how are you all right?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I'm doing doing all right? Great show. And I think
doctor Sagan is a perfect example of a classy lady
who she represented herself well.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
She was calm.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And I think the board members are messy, and this
is an example of what people vote into the office.
The vote this kind of messy women, and I think
they're all jealous. And this is another perfect example of
you do not hire people within this city because it's
gonna be favoritism. She came from out of town's her.
She don't know anybody, so she had to pick her
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own people and get to know them. So it wasn't
a favorite tism. In the beginning, they keep hall about
get somebody from Memphis.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wasn't gonna be favorite pism.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's gonna do the same thing. And she just put
back on all this foolishness.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
That was going on.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And that meaning was not about the kids last night.
It was about Vuctor Sagan because they do not like her.
To me, they're jealous of her.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And she's doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And I hope she stays there and do not leave.
And they need to get rid of their boy a
need to clean house, any clean house on a lot
of things in mintic because it's terrible.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
We look Nyphis looks bad and it's all rand about
black people. And now I'm just saying, it's ridiculous that
it means people were class and with common sense and
that knows how to treat people regardless of their degrees.
You got to know how to treat people, and that
that's just just something they don't do, and that Lady
Tauanna Murphy or she's terrible.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
She needs to go anyway she needs to go. And
just watching you vote for people who we put in
these offices, just all the results we get.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Doctor Fagan is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
She She's a great person to me, her her intelligence,
her integrity, her characters say for itself last night, and
all those Ghettold members on that they're just jealous of them.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I you know what, uh, I you know, and I
hear what you're saying. I'm looking at the offenses that
they said, the things that she broke. Those those those
are not fireable offenses. Those are not we're gonna terminate you,
you out of here offenses. Those are you know, we're gonna,
we're gonna work through this. We're gonna deal with it.
But but to but to have a meeting in twenty
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four hours, to set up a meeting and leave the
city and like an uproar. The city is like in
an uproar.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Right now, and it looks bad, and you got somebody
that took sixty million from Meta and you don't hear
anything about.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That, focusing on the wrong thing. Let our kids be
led by great leadership and leave doctor Sagan alone and
let her and those teachers do their things, and he
is more educated in these schools and that's coming for me.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you so much. I love you too. All right,
thank you so much for calling, and I appreciate your call.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
W d I A hello, Hey, good afternoon, Stormy.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Hey there, Hey, how are you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You I'm great.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Well, I'm great right now. I was, I was in
a different I was in the twilight zone last night.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But I looked at it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm in the twilight zone. You can't tell me. I
still feel still feel like I'm in the twilight zone.
I woke up this today before I came to work,
and I was stating to myself, this is this really real?
Had to pinch myself seriously, is this really real? Is
this what's happening?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
What what I This is just my opinion, and I'm
starting that when Tawana Murphy came on w d I
A last week and the day after that, Draws Ray
came home.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
He was a guest.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She was on fun Friday. He was the next Friday.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Got So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
It was back I was.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I called it back to Beck the meeting last night, and.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Those are basically those were our new members.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Most of those are new members. I think now the new.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Members, I think that they got somebody got them set up.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They didn't weren't.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Smart enough to understand what was going on. But and
I'm gonna tell you, Tauana Murphy has posted a lot
of stuff on social media today about the board was
not going to pay doctor Fagan. You better believe it's
a screenshot ministry out.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
There, So it doesn't matter if she deleted or not.
It's already screenshot.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
And you better believe a lot of people don't sit
that to doctor Fagan.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, but not just that, but listen to this. This
was somebody screenshot this one miss Murphy posted. Now, she
spoke nothing but the truth. She is doing exactly what
she should have done years ago. Now the board that
hired her wants to stifle her because she's cutting positions
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that does not need to be in administration. But offered
them the choice to go back in the classroom. Now
this these are her words. The action of the board
was wrong. In capital letters. This is this is to
Wanna Murphy posted this somebody screenshot that so yes, you're
right there screenshot and stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
And as far as what was really our order.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
To me, I just had to put my hand up
at the TV because my one degree is in psychology.
And when they fall up about the suicide, that's what
EAP is. No one knows that it's for whatever company
you're with. No one knows what those people are dealing
with on the side or in their in their personal life.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
To bring that up and point the finger at doctor Fagan,
that just lets you know they were pulling at.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Straws because somebody had sent those people completely out. They
and I don't not to say they're not smart enough,
but someone has that agenda and they use those people
that to want to murry.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Marfrey that she's the loose cannon. That one is gonna
be the demise of that board because you won't stop talking. Wow,
that's gonna be the best. That's that's the that's I got.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's don't take them out, all right, Thank you so much.
I appreciate that, you know, And I've I've seen a
lot of people say some really ugly things about to
wanna on social media, and you know, I'm not going
to join the club when it when it comes to that,
I mean, y'all can say what you want to, but
I'm not gonna I am personally not gonna join the
club on that because I I you where, because because
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you at some point you got to draw the line,
you know, with how you uh talk about women. If
you want to see women do better, sometimes you gotta
do better. You know what I'm saying. I I was
so disgusted with how the women treated Doctor Fagan's last night.
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It broke my heart. I'm not gonna do that to them,
you know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna say some
of the ugly things I've seen because people are saying
really ugly things on social media. But it just it women,
women saying things like that about another one woman. Do
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you know how white people are looking at this? Do
you know they're looking at this? You know they're judging us.
You know they're saying stuff in Nashville about this today.
They were watching last night. You know that, right, Miss
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McNeil emails she said, Hey, Stormy, they should have had
a meeting with Doctor Fagan's with the members only before
trying to put her on the spot in front of
the public. Very unprofessional. Whether she violated any policies or not,
She was ready for the foolery. Love me some her.
That was hard to watch. It was it was difficult
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to watch. We're gonna talk about it some more. So
y'all stay with me. What do you think about last
night's meeting? How are you feeling today? Because I'm not
when Commissioner Ford said last night, we should be celebrating
we just gave all this money for Fraser High School,
but instead we are dealing with the Grinch that stole Christmas.
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I feel like Christmas this year from Memphis for these kids,
it's gonna be different because of that board meeting last night.
What do you think? I see you guys on hold,
hang on, I'm coming to you. And if you want
to call and write the number down, you can't get
in right as the lines of full nine O one
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five three five nine three four two eight hundred five
zero three nine three four two eight three three five
three five nine three four. Hey, everybody, I am stormy
with you on ten seventy WG I A on this
December eighteenth, seven more days before Christmas, y'all. So what
if Superintendent Fagans, what if she came in Memphis like this?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You think you can run this school.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you could, then I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
What I No one talks in my meetings. No one.
You take out your pencils and write.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I want the name every hoodlum, Doug Dealer and Miscrea's
done nothing but take this place apart on my best
by noon today.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That Joe Clark wasn't no joke. He didn't play with it.
And if I do you, I don't know how many
lean on me references I have seen from people on
social media, and it is it makes light of this situation.
Now none of us are really making light in that way,
but you know, it's just sometimes you have to laugh
to keep from crying, and that is our way of
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getting through the pain of what a lot of us
are feeling right now. It's a tough one.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
W D I a hello, good evening story.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
How you doing Hey, I'm good, big cahuna.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
How you doing well?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
I'm doing just man.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Like I stayed in the board meeting yesterday. I have
worked for she every kind of schools so over thirty
three years and we currently retired and never been motivated
to attend any of the meetings until yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
It was a.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Scangulous and a shame of me.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let me let me let them hear what you said yesterday,
Big Konah, go ahead, Mitchy, let me see if I
can play it right here. Let me see.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Hold on, I appreciate you, I love you. I appreciate
you coming to our city to try to straighten out
this mess. Now, people understand. Look at everybody around. Look,
can't you see it? Everybody's in support of her. And
I'm for one thing, the power other people shall provail
and keep doctor.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Pathan in office. Yeah, that was you right there, Big Khona.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
I was.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
I was truly motivated and I made full support for
miss Favor. And what what got me the most one
statement she said? She said she has and you have
to think in terms of when people say things. She
can't go into details, but it's something behind it. She
stated that she has nothing to do with finance.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
And romance.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Now, when you look at those two words, it means something.
It's something as underlying that she's not talking about. And
then also when everybody there was one hundred percent in
Miss Stagan's corner, and then you have the board members
that abruptly walked out when she started speaking, like Juana Murphy.
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Okay and and uh, what is that Stephanie in Love
or whatever.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Her name is.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
It's just there's no respect for her position. And then
when people talk about why we hub balls and all that, yes,
that's true, but you have to be respectful and people
understand something. If they go through with this, it's a
good possibility they just delayed it and they'll strictly fill
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in on their point. And I believe and I pray
and hope that they don't. But I'm thinking they're gonna.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Probably vote her out this next meeting.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
And if they do, we already forming a coalition of
parents and business people. We're going to vote each in,
every one of those people out. And remember, folks, the
place to be is with Stormy tea.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
He experienced in seventy w d A thank.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
You very much, Happy holiday, Thank you, Vigahuna.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I never have to jump in with him. He is
hit it and quitted. You know how to get in
here and get out. Yeah, I think it's interesting what
he said this year. I got an email here from
Ms Thomas. Good evening, Stormy. I'm so ashamed of some
of these ladies on our board. It took the board
two years and a lot of tax dollars spent to
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find a competent superintendent, and when they do, this is
what happens. Something has to be done. This is a
travesty towards our children and it has to be stopped.
WDA Hello, Hey, how you doing, Neil.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I'm doing good, Stormy good, And I'm just like you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't need to you don't need to to, you
don't need a roll to take what I said yesterday,
I'm gonna say the same thing. It's a hot mess.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's toxic.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You got board members on there, even ex board members
trying to run their mouth and put their two cents
and everything. I would have did, just like, uh, lean
on me or whatever. I know, somebody putting in charge.
I'm not gonna have the friends, don'tkay your family. I'm
gonna be in charge of you. And this how it goes.
That's probably how she should have came across. But they
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thought they could. She could come in there. They could say, well,
we can bamboos like we did all the other superintendents.
You know what I'm saying, street talk them and be
their favorite and everything. And then when she starts saying
business is business, nobody likes that, you know, people about
Nick losing cars and living the homes. Yeah, gods, y'all
making fast Saturday, we're doing you know what I'm saying,
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just you live and how.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
In the hall.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
But that's about land.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
They just toxic and I don't just what to say.
But like I said, I'm in the Troiley's on too,
and I didn't even see it. I just seen the
ones on the news clipp.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, it was last night. Was it was hard to watch.
It was hard to watch you and you got a
lot of though I am too, I am too, but
you got a lot of people that actually watched it,
and they didn't watch it like a lot of us
watched it. They watched it and laughed at us. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, yeah, because they've seen how the you know, all
the tomfooler is going on in Memphis again, and they
saw it and in the firsthand.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
But you know, it's just just a lot of things
going on.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
But the really didn't They just got it there and
then they trying to they trying to oust her, you
know what I'm saying. But I ain't know if they
had walked out on her when she started talking and everything.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, respect sometimes you got.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You gotta get you respected me first come in, you know,
because she's she's not the.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Type of person.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
She just she she's all busy, but sometimes.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
She sat there through everything. She sat there through everything.
She never moved. She never walked out on anybody. She
never moved. And we don't know because sitting for three
hours is not an easy feet And you know, I
understand one of the board members may have been crying
at the time, but I hate to say, because I'm
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a woman and we all get emotional, but when it's
something serious like that, you can't bring your tears to
a meeting. I forgive me for saying it. You got
to be There's a reason they say don't let them
see you sweat in moments like that, in moments like that,
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because anytime people can see you like that, they think
you weak. They think you're weak, and they gonna want
you up out of that position.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Man, she was very professional and sturdy, and she was
you know what I'm saying, like, Hey, you know, y'all,
come on it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
There's no basis on what y'all was saying, Like you.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Said, that was good.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The things they're trying trying to power over is not
powerful things. It's more like a hater thing going on,
you know what I'm saying each other? Yeah, I mean
I don't know what to say so much just so
that's all I got to say is just like I
said again, just a hot mess.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, thank you, Neil, appreciate your calling. Now, okay, all right, Yeah,
it's it's heartbreaking what happened last night, just downright heartbreaking.
W D I A hello, hey, Shardy man, how you
doing all right? Good?
Speaker 11 (30:34):
They really that was really embarrassing until our city last night,
And I know those people in Nashville had a full
view of what's going on. Like you said, you white
folks to be laughing at us when we mess up
and cut up like that, D man, that is too
much power for their women to want to have, or
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what they they portrayed at that meeting last night, that's
too much power.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
And I told us stand a couple of days ago, I.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
Said, staying, I won't even go into the meeting when
they when they mentioned on TV.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
It's going to be a meeting tomor night or all
this just five, I.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Told her, staying on his show, I said, Stan she
needed to.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Get lawyered up.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
She is, She said her lawyer was going to address
it all coming.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
It's coming to pass. I said this a couple of
days ago. It's just that, uh, them.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Folks creating a hospital environment that lay ain't been here
for eight nine months and they haven't these meetings to
get rid of the lady.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
That's conspiracy right there.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And you can say all day long, we don't have
to pay her, you know, you can say that all
day long. But from what we saw the public, for
what we saw last night, right we would it looked
like harassment, It looked like bullying. It looked like you
can sue for all of that.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Did you see all that Hayar aid just straight hair
aid up in that against that lady, and she just
as meking I'm a little lamb.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
That's why I like the way she handled it.
Speaker 11 (32:04):
If she had to, just if she had lost it
and just had a crime spell, it would have looked bad.
Not saying that she deserved that, but I'm glad she didn't.
She didn't break down at.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
That meeting, did she. No, No, I didn't see the
whole deal.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
Well, I'm glad she didn't cause her some of them
people got to go those storm and that's just just
just plain ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
They act like they're in the school.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
And everybody got their little group that get over in
the corner.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And you know, that's what one of the ladies said
last night at the meeting. She said, you know, it's clicks.
She breaking up these clicks, and people got problems with it.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
I think a lot of these people lost their job,
was in position they need to be. Then lady came
in and cleaned house like they asked her to do.
And then when she do her job, they got problems
because they cousins and friends probably got to let go.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
All. I appreciate. I want to appreciate you.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Last night I was in the car driving on somebody
on the way to the house, and you was letting
us in on their live coverage.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I said, Stormy got it going on. It is a
stormy experience here. Yeah, all right, I.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Appreciate, Thank you, Shorty Mack. Appreciate you last night.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
The board members voted to postpone a termination UH. The
yes voters supported punting the resolution to January. The no
voters did not want to postpone the proceedings. They wanted
to get rid of the last night, and and these
are how they voted. Okay, the people that really really
wanted her out of there and basically said it last
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night at the meeting, voting no vice chair Stephanie Love
District three, Natalie McKinney District two, Sable O Tay District five,
and Tuanna Murphy District seven.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
There you go, a hello, Hay, Stormy, Hey there, hey, look,
Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
I don't even know where.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
To start, but I'm going to be very brief.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
They how many.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Of those people.
Speaker 14 (34:21):
Have gone to the homes of students, the school board
going to the homes in the past ten or twenty years,
went to their homes to find.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Out why they are not in school.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I don't know one, not one.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
They don't do that.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
All they do is sit up there, do they little paperwork,
put on their lips, stick and do what they do.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
I am so stick of it.
Speaker 14 (35:01):
This city is just My only regrets, Stormy, is that
I didn't uh finish going to college. I didn't get
my degree because I would have been an excellent school teacher,
you know, because I would teach kids how to look
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at things in the future like mentally and dreaming.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's what I would have been teaching.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
But it's, oh my god, it's pitiful.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
And they set up there and and.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Try to get this woman fired. But what why aren't
they trying to fire?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I still don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, I read, I read the reasons in the and
and I read the reasons. But I also uh agree
with missus McKinney last night board member machissic mackissic uh
not McKinny, because there's a McKinny on the board. I
agree with board member machistic. She said these are not
fireable offenses, and I'll reach them to you guys again.
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On the way, Beverly, thank you so much for calling in.
Uh w d I a hello.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Doing?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hey, I'm good Michael. How are you going fine? Am I?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Alvin or one another?
Speaker 15 (36:28):
You?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You pop dropping and lopping up? I didn't even say that, right,
pop dropping and locking a tad? But I think you're okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I just wanted to make because I can't.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I called him on the agent you should do a
little bit, huh, you know, but.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
That's what I called on the day.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Have you better on I guess that was.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I will try back.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, back. I had hope for him. I did w
D I a hello.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh I got in. Ain't that's just a miracle.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I'm yeah, you are. That is a miracle. I'm telling you.
These phones be ringing like crazy.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
I've been trying to get in every day.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
But here's what gets me.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
They almost felt like you say, you've been telling that
last car.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
You dropped it like the pot.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I had to drop him like it was hot. I
had to let him go.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Oh giving me.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
And they did the same thing with what was the
last one in the name, Uh don't you Ray?
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Ray? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
They paid him a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 15 (37:43):
Okay, you send out his money.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
You're hurting the city.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
You're not hurting yourself.
Speaker 15 (37:48):
And then for Wanner Murphy to get on there, she
was the only one the interviewed. The teachers and their
parents are upset. That's a lot because the teachers and
parents were the one of them speaking for her.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
She was it's so much support. Doctor Fagan's has so
much support right now. It is crazy.
Speaker 15 (38:07):
Exactly, But for her to say that, it's almost like
when she was on stand that day, she was she
was she was starting to create it then seemed like
because surely after she got off there, that's when they
decided they wanted to come up against her.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Mm It just just just it was hard to watch.
I'll tell you.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Yeah, it's gonna hurt the city and it's gonna hurt them.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They're gonna run out of money because.
Speaker 15 (38:29):
Eventually there's not gonna be an out of town person
to come and take the job, because they say they
ain't gonna keep you long. They get you there, and
if you don't do what they say, they're gonna faright you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Well, they were ready to vote somebody in last night.
They said they were gonna get rid of her and replace.
That's gonna do all of that last night?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
How you gonna do that? Look how long it took
them to get one?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, No, I'm glad.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
I ain't paying tax in Memphis anyway.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
That's job money, all right, Harol, Thank you so much?
You too, you too?
Speaker 9 (39:04):
W d I A hello, Hey that beautiful storm me?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (39:09):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
William? How you being.
Speaker 10 (39:13):
Doing good?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
God is good and life is good.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
But we we but from time to time we see
uh words of the Bible come through life, which is
the craziness of thinking, is going to get worse and worse.
So now we're dealing with a generation when you talk
about respect, you know, and how doing things in order, Yes,
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for our generation, that makes sense. Buff of this next generation,
I know some of them are about around our.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Age, but you know, they they they are have William
them kids acting better than we are when they having meetings.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Come on now, when they have meetings, that's exactly right.
But check this out.
Speaker 13 (39:54):
When we get ninety hundred years old and these children
are in the school board, we're gonna see reality shows.
They're gonna be just right out fights, you know every
quarter when they're gonna be holding people back and you know,
flat out fight.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
And that's what that's where we're gonna because here it
is with this you know, foolery with loves and all
of them.
Speaker 13 (40:18):
And they're not gonna back down. I don't think they
voted for Trump, but they had Trump mentality where they're wrong,
but they're gonna double down on it because they're not down.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it's it's crazy thinking and they're gonna.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
Go on forward with this kind of thinking, and the
next generation gonna be worse, and the next generations gonna
be worse. So what we do right now is one
we need to pray because when they start talking about
losing money out of the system because of these lawsuits,
then eventually the children gets it, which is what's been happening,
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exactly what's been happening.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
The children gets the brunt of it. And so here
we are again. We just we're just eye a wide
open to it now. But this is the way the
children been suffering because of these crazy adults like love
and all the other names you pointed out.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Thank you, Stormy, Love.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
You, love you too, William, thank you so much for
calling in. Yeah, yeah, again. It's just it's kind of
heartbreaking just to hear all of this. But I do
have some good news for those of you that have
been calling in and praying for Denver. Miss Carroll. And
I see a email she said, I hear that Chipmunk
line and that tickled you.
Speaker 14 (41:30):
It did.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I tried not to love, but Michael did took me.
He got that. Anyway, let me go to this Denver's wife.
His beautiful wife by the way, messaged me on Instagram
and she said, good evening, Miss Stormy.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Tea.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
The Word of the Lord says, the steps of a
good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighted
in his ways. Denver's surgery was a success. Wow, we
serve a well abled God. Please share this with the listeners,
missus Denver. Ooh, prayers have been answered because a lot
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of people have been praying for Denver. Denver, we've been
praying for you. If you are listening, we've been praying
for you, brother, and we are glad to hear the
good news. Not on one five three, five, nine three
four two eight hundred five zero three nine three four
two eight three three five three five nine three four two.
I'm gonna take a break. We'll come back in a moment.
Stormy conversation, stormy condensations.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You could talk about any situation and the stormy conversations.
What's really going on? Hey, everybody, I am stormy with you.
December eighteenth, seven more days before the big day. Man,
I'm telling you, Oh my goodness, uh d o Zona,
(00:30):
Did I say it right? Deonzia? Did I say it right?
I'm not sure if I pronounced her name correctly. D No, Zana,
that's it. Yeah. So she messaged me a minute ago
and she said, I don't know if I need tea
coffee or a good bourbon off the bar. Because that's
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what a lot of people in Memphis are feeling right
about now, after you know, watching that meeting last night.
Did y'all watch that meeting now? I'm gonna tell you
I didn't get the first I don't know, maybe thirty
forty five minutes. That was a long meeting last night.
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That was a long meeting last night, that MSCs school
board meeting. And I think a lot of people are
still scratching their heads today because you know, a lot
of people are still wondering what was it about? And
the talk on social media about that meeting last night
is O HIW I know y'all seen it, seen a
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lot of talk. There's even petitions going around right now
to get rid of board members. I don't know if
any of that is going to actually, you know, happen,
or what the deal is. Big Kahuna was there at
that meeting last night. Did see him and have a
chance to hear his speech? I may post it on
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social media if I can get to it. But yeah,
a lot of people talking that board meeting. Let me
see how many people have watched it. Almost fifty thousand
people have watched that board meeting from last night. Almost,
did you hear me? Fifty thousand people have watched that
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board Almost have watched that board meeting last night, and
what a meeting it was. I think it's probably going
to be the conversation for all of us or a
lot of people today when you go to if you
go to any Christmas party over the weekend, whatever you
do up until the time they have another board meeting,
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this is going to be the conversation. And I think
the thing that scares me the most, the thing that
scares me the most is the state coming in to
take over. I was talking to a friend of mine
in Houston and they say you don't want that. They said,
you don't want the state to come and take over,
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because if the state does come and take over, yeah,
it's not gonna be what you won't You don't want it.
We don't want it. We don't want it. So doctor
Marie Fagans did get a chance to stand up for herself.
I don't know, maybe I'm not sure what. I didn't
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get a chance to watch it when it first started,
and not exactly sure if they started on time or
exactly what. You know, but it was three hours and
seven minutes. It was a long meeting last night, and
I do know, I think I stopped watching at nine something.
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I saw a lot of people post live about it,
and thank you to Tracy Betheka. She sent me this
morning the resolution terminating the employment contract of doctor Marie Fagan's.
I don't know if y'all got a chance to hear that,
or if you went back and watched it or what
you did. A lot of people on social media were
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talking about the fact that when doctor Fagan's was talking,
people actually a few of the board members actually got
up and walked out, and not just that, but when
some other folks were talking. Did y'all see the lady
that was at the podium and she mentioned that one
of the board members called her and told her that
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they were going to fire doctor Fagan's. Yeah, one of
the board members, she said, she didn't call the name
of the person who said it, but she mentioned it
last night. And I'm just like, are y'all as confused
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as I am? And do you think that this is
the proper way to handle it what we saw last night?
Do you think that was the proper way to handle
what happened with doctor Fagan's And could it be what
Michelle McKissick said. She said, these are not fireable offenses.
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That's what she said. And not just her, but you
know board member Garcia saying the same thing. I oh,
that was a hot miss. I ain't gonna let to
you that was a miss last night. But so let
me see whereas the board has become aware of professional
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misconduct by doctor Fagan's that violates the terms of the contract.
Such professional misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the
following Doctor Fagin's misled the board and the public when
she stated during a board work session that the district
had paid employees one million dollars in overtime wages for
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time not work. Doctor Fagin's never presented any evidence suggesting
that her statement was true, and she did not correct
or clarify her statement to the public. Number two, Doctor
Fagans accepted a donation of more than forty five thousand
dollars without bored approval at a board work session. Doctor
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Fagan's misrepresented her knowledge of and involvement in depositing that
unapproved donation check and violation of board policy. Number three,
Doctor Fagins was dishonest with the board and the public
when she stated that certain federal grant funds were still
available to the district, despite doctor Fagan's failing to obligate
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the funds prior to the required deadline. Now, those are
the grievances right there are just read to you. So
do y'all think those are fireable offenses? What do you
think about it? I heard a lot of people chiming in,
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saw a lot of people chiming in on social media.
The main thing that I have two concerns about what
happened last night. One is the state is watching and
is there a possibility that they could take over before
this January meeting? And what happens if they do. That's
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number one. And number two is that meeting was a
hot mess. Did it have to be done like that?
I don't know. I saw a lot of like I said, support,
I saw a lot of people standing up coming to
the podium. I saw Tammy Sawyer said, if doctor Fagin's
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is terminated, MSCs will have paid one million dollars in
severance to the past two superintendents. I can think of
one million other things that money could have been used
to do. And she is absolutely right. I can think
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of a So that's my biggest that's my other biggest concern.
Not not that so much that it was hot mess.
It was a hot mess. Lord had mercy, but it
was all out of order. Oh my goodness. But the
money that it's gonna cost, and the possibility because yeah,
you can terminate her, but how much of our money
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are we gonna have to spend to get rid of
doctor Fagans. And you can say all day long, but
if you ain't got if you ain't got proof of
all of this, you are setting the school district up
for a lawsuit. And best believe doctor Fagan's has attorneys.
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Believe and best believe she document and stuff when she
did you notice when she made her response, I thought
she was reading from something, But I don't think doctor
Fagin's was reading from nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And to have it insulted and on the line this
evening is something that I allow my attorney to take
the balance of the way without having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I learned about the meeting as well from the media.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I believe that I shared with board members just last
week in our one on ones that no surprises goes
both ways, and I have done my best for you
not to be surprised about information.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Who else was surprised at the meeting? The board members
because many of them said they just learned about it too.
How do you do that? And if teaching our children,
because we're supposed to be teaching them parliamental functions of
the government of Bord and all that thing, uh, those
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kinds of things, how we gonna teach them if they
see this kind of stuff and they like, they don't
even know what dared? All right, I'm gonnaing to the
phone line. See what y'all talking about?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
W D I A Hello, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'm good Freddie? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I'm doing fine. Or like with the school issue, they
are so bad, you think they forgot about the kids.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, of course there were kids in the room.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
No, that's what I said. You know, did they forget
about them? You know, you know they going to school? No, no,
no heat. You know, schools are being you know, being neglected.
You know, we clubbing and paying out all this money.
We could be building another school and you know, we
could be doing more stuff and then then fussing over uh,
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fussing over what she's doing. And she's just trying to
do right. She's just one little old you know, one
little bitty lady trying to make everything right. So then
when when when I get through saying it means, you know,
then leave us alone unless focused on our kids learning,
because it's gonna hurt them in the long run, because
it's more harder to make it out here than it
was when we was coming up and going to school.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
So you know, so you know they go to school,
and I.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Mean they go somewhere and work and can't even get
their caves resident Dror right because they've been they've been
neglected because the school board, the teachers ain't cooperating and
everybody ain't. You know, all the wheels ain't turning the
right way. So this all I just want to, you know,
worry about the kids and make sure they get their education,
because you know, some teachers are slack back to you
know once they know so much mets going on, but
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it didn't look good. But they don't want to stay
this on, you know, just like you say, come and
take over held it.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
They don't want it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
They're something to get it. It got a hard drive
and put the ears in there and run it the
way they want to. We don't want to do that, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
That was all I had to say.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
All right, Freddie, thank you so much, appreciate you. I
saw a comment last night on social media because I
just got an email from PJ and it says, UH suicide.
If a teacher mentioned thoughts of suicide, shouldn't that person
have been referred somewhere for an evaluation, especially working around children?
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It is or is it documented that the board member
was contacted about it? Interesting? And so yeah, that was
that was what UH board member sable Otay mentioned. And
I'm gonna tell you Fagan's had a response to that.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
She said, you.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Can't put that on me now, And for you know,
I'm not I'm paraphrasing. Rather, she said, you can't put
that on me. Somebody can thinking of considering considering suicide.
You can't put that on somebody. But that was part of,
you know, miss Otey's response to her. But who was it.
(12:55):
I think it was Richie Domino that I saw. They said,
if you've got a teacher who who is considering suicide,
any teacher or principal on record having stated they wanted
to off themselves should never be allowed to ever teach again,
not trying to be mean, just saying they may not
have what it takes to deal with these kids of
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today who are on a whole another level. WD. I
a hello, Hey, how are you all right?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I'm doing doing all right? Great show. And I think
doctor Sagan is a perfect example of a classy lady
who she represented herself well.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
She was calm.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
And I think the board members are messy, and this
is an example of what people vote into the office.
The vote this kind of messy women, and I think
they're all jealous. And this is another perfect example of
you do not hire people within this city because it's
gonna be favoritism. She came from out of town's her.
She don't know anybody, so she had to pick her
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own people and get to know them. So it wasn't
a favorite tism. In the beginning, they keep hall about
get somebody from Memphis.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Wasn't gonna be favorite pism.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's gonna do the same thing. And she just put
back on all this foolishness.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
That was going on.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And that meaning was not about the kids last night.
It was about Vuctor Sagan because they do not like her.
To me, they're jealous of her.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
And she's doing the right thing.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
And I hope she stays there and do not leave.
And they need to get rid of their boy a
need to clean house, any clean house on a lot
of things in mintic because it's terrible.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
We look Nyphis looks bad and it's all rand about
black people. And now I'm just saying, it's ridiculous that
it means people were class and with common sense and
that knows how to treat people regardless of their degrees.
You got to know how to treat people, and that
that's just just something they don't do, and that Lady
Tauanna Murphy or she's terrible.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
She needs to go anyway she needs to go. And
just watching you vote for people who we put in
these offices, just all the results we get.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Doctor Fagan is.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
She She's a great person to me, her her intelligence,
her integrity, her characters say for itself last night, and
all those Ghettold members on that they're just jealous of them.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I you know what, uh, I you know, and I
hear what you're saying. I'm looking at the offenses that
they said, the things that she broke. Those those those
are not fireable offenses. Those are not we're gonna terminate you,
you out of here offenses. Those are you know, we're gonna,
we're gonna work through this. We're gonna deal with it.
But but to but to have a meeting in twenty
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four hours, to set up a meeting and leave the
city and like an uproar. The city is like in
an uproar.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Right now, and it looks bad, and you got somebody
that took sixty million from Meta and you don't hear
anything about.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That, focusing on the wrong thing. Let our kids be
led by great leadership and leave doctor Sagan alone and
let her and those teachers do their things, and he
is more educated in these schools and that's coming for me.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Thank you so much. I love you too. All right,
thank you so much for calling, and I appreciate your call.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
W d I A hello, Hey, good afternoon, Stormy.
Speaker 9 (16:12):
Hey there, Hey, how are you doing.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
You I'm great.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Well, I'm great right now. I was, I was in
a different I was in the twilight zone last night.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
But I looked at it.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'm in the twilight zone. You can't tell me. I
still feel still feel like I'm in the twilight zone.
I woke up this today before I came to work,
and I was stating to myself, this is this really real?
Had to pinch myself seriously, is this really real? Is
this what's happening?
Speaker 6 (16:39):
What what I This is just my opinion, and I'm
starting that when Tawana Murphy came on w d I
A last week and the day after that, Draws Ray
came home.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
He was a guest.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She was on fun Friday. He was the next Friday.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Got So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
It was back I was.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I called it back to Beck the meeting last night, and.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Those are basically those were our new members.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Most of those are new members. I think now the new.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Members, I think that they got somebody got them set up.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
They didn't weren't.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Smart enough to understand what was going on. But and
I'm gonna tell you, Tauana Murphy has posted a lot
of stuff on social media today about the board was
not going to pay doctor Fagan. You better believe it's
a screenshot ministry out.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
There, So it doesn't matter if she deleted or not.
It's already screenshot.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
And you better believe a lot of people don't sit
that to doctor Fagan.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, but not just that, but listen to this. This
was somebody screenshot this one miss Murphy posted. Now, she
spoke nothing but the truth. She is doing exactly what
she should have done years ago. Now the board that
hired her wants to stifle her because she's cutting positions
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that does not need to be in administration. But offered
them the choice to go back in the classroom. Now
this these are her words. The action of the board
was wrong. In capital letters. This is this is to
Wanna Murphy posted this somebody screenshot that so yes, you're
right there screenshot and stuff.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
And as far as what was really our order.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
To me, I just had to put my hand up
at the TV because my one degree is in psychology.
And when they fall up about the suicide, that's what
EAP is. No one knows that it's for whatever company
you're with. No one knows what those people are dealing
with on the side or in their in their personal life.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
To bring that up and point the finger at doctor Fagan,
that just lets you know they were pulling at.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Straws because somebody had sent those people completely out. They
and I don't not to say they're not smart enough,
but someone has that agenda and they use those people
that to want to murry.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Marfrey that she's the loose cannon. That one is gonna
be the demise of that board because you won't stop talking. Wow,
that's gonna be the best. That's that's the that's I got.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's don't take them out, all right, Thank you so much.
I appreciate that, you know, And I've I've seen a
lot of people say some really ugly things about to
wanna on social media, and you know, I'm not going
to join the club when it when it comes to that,
I mean, y'all can say what you want to, but
I'm not gonna I am personally not gonna join the
club on that because I I you where, because because
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you at some point you got to draw the line,
you know, with how you uh talk about women. If
you want to see women do better, sometimes you gotta
do better. You know what I'm saying. I I was
so disgusted with how the women treated Doctor Fagan's last night.
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It broke my heart. I'm not gonna do that to them,
you know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna say some
of the ugly things I've seen because people are saying
really ugly things on social media. But it just it women,
women saying things like that about another one woman. Do
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you know how white people are looking at this? Do
you know they're looking at this? You know they're judging us.
You know they're saying stuff in Nashville about this today.
They were watching last night. You know that, right, Miss
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McNeil emails she said, Hey, Stormy, they should have had
a meeting with Doctor Fagan's with the members only before
trying to put her on the spot in front of
the public. Very unprofessional. Whether she violated any policies or not,
She was ready for the foolery. Love me some her.
That was hard to watch. It was it was difficult
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to watch. We're gonna talk about it some more. So
y'all stay with me. What do you think about last
night's meeting? How are you feeling today? Because I'm not
when Commissioner Ford said last night, we should be celebrating
we just gave all this money for Fraser High School,
but instead we are dealing with the Grinch that stole Christmas.
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I feel like Christmas this year from Memphis for these kids,
it's gonna be different because of that board meeting last night.
What do you think? I see you guys on hold,
hang on, I'm coming to you. And if you want
to call and write the number down, you can't get
in right as the lines of full nine O one
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five three five nine three four two eight hundred five
zero three nine three four two eight three three five
three five nine three four. Hey, everybody, I am stormy
with you on ten seventy WG I A on this
December eighteenth, seven more days before Christmas, y'all. So what
if Superintendent Fagans, what if she came in Memphis like this?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
You think you can run this school.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
If you could, then I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
What I No one talks in my meetings. No one.
You take out your pencils and write.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I want the name every hoodlum, Doug Dealer and Miscrea's
done nothing but take this place apart on my best
by noon today.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That Joe Clark wasn't no joke. He didn't play with it.
And if I do you, I don't know how many
lean on me references I have seen from people on
social media, and it is it makes light of this situation.
Now none of us are really making light in that way,
but you know, it's just sometimes you have to laugh
to keep from crying, and that is our way of
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getting through the pain of what a lot of us
are feeling right now. It's a tough one.
Speaker 10 (23:24):
W D I a hello, good evening story.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
How you doing Hey, I'm good, big cahuna.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
How you doing well?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
I'm doing just man.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Like I stayed in the board meeting yesterday. I have
worked for she every kind of schools so over thirty
three years and we currently retired and never been motivated
to attend any of the meetings until yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
It was a.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Scangulous and a shame of me.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Let me let me let them hear what you said yesterday,
Big Konah, go ahead, Mitchy, let me see if I
can play it right here. Let me see.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Hold on, I appreciate you, I love you. I appreciate
you coming to our city to try to straighten out
this mess. Now, people understand. Look at everybody around. Look,
can't you see it? Everybody's in support of her. And
I'm for one thing, the power other people shall provail
and keep doctor.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Pathan in office. Yeah, that was you right there, Big Khona.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
I was.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
I was truly motivated and I made full support for
miss Favor. And what what got me the most one
statement she said? She said she has and you have
to think in terms of when people say things. She
can't go into details, but it's something behind it. She
stated that she has nothing to do with finance.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
And romance.
Speaker 10 (24:55):
Now, when you look at those two words, it means something.
It's something as underlying that she's not talking about. And
then also when everybody there was one hundred percent in
Miss Stagan's corner, and then you have the board members
that abruptly walked out when she started speaking, like Juana Murphy.
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Okay and and uh, what is that Stephanie in Love
or whatever.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Her name is.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
It's just there's no respect for her position. And then
when people talk about why we hub balls and all that, yes,
that's true, but you have to be respectful and people
understand something. If they go through with this, it's a
good possibility they just delayed it and they'll strictly fill
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in on their point. And I believe and I pray
and hope that they don't. But I'm thinking they're gonna.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Probably vote her out this next meeting.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
And if they do, we already forming a coalition of
parents and business people. We're going to vote each in,
every one of those people out. And remember, folks, the
place to be is with Stormy tea.
Speaker 9 (26:13):
He experienced in seventy w d A thank.
Speaker 7 (26:18):
You very much, Happy holiday, Thank you, Vigahuna.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I never have to jump in with him. He is
hit it and quitted. You know how to get in
here and get out. Yeah, I think it's interesting what
he said this year. I got an email here from
Ms Thomas. Good evening, Stormy. I'm so ashamed of some
of these ladies on our board. It took the board
two years and a lot of tax dollars spent to
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find a competent superintendent, and when they do, this is
what happens. Something has to be done. This is a
travesty towards our children and it has to be stopped.
WDA Hello, Hey, how you doing, Neil.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
I'm doing good, Stormy good, And I'm just like you.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't need to you don't need to to, you
don't need a roll to take what I said yesterday,
I'm gonna say the same thing. It's a hot mess.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's toxic.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You got board members on there, even ex board members
trying to run their mouth and put their two cents
and everything. I would have did, just like, uh, lean
on me or whatever. I know, somebody putting in charge.
I'm not gonna have the friends, don'tkay your family. I'm
gonna be in charge of you. And this how it goes.
That's probably how she should have came across. But they
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thought they could. She could come in there. They could say, well,
we can bamboos like we did all the other superintendents.
You know what I'm saying, street talk them and be
their favorite and everything. And then when she starts saying
business is business, nobody likes that, you know, people about
Nick losing cars and living the homes. Yeah, gods, y'all
making fast Saturday, we're doing you know what I'm saying,
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just you live and how.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
In the hall.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
But that's about land.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
They just toxic and I don't just what to say.
But like I said, I'm in the Troiley's on too,
and I didn't even see it. I just seen the
ones on the news clipp.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Yeah, it was last night. Was it was hard to watch.
It was hard to watch you and you got a
lot of though I am too, I am too, but
you got a lot of people that actually watched it,
and they didn't watch it like a lot of us
watched it. They watched it and laughed at us. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, yeah, because they've seen how the you know, all
the tomfooler is going on in Memphis again, and they
saw it and in the firsthand.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
But you know, it's just just a lot of things
going on.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
But the really didn't They just got it there and
then they trying to they trying to oust her, you
know what I'm saying. But I ain't know if they
had walked out on her when she started talking and everything.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, respect sometimes you got.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
You gotta get you respected me first come in, you know,
because she's she's not the.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Type of person.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
She just she she's all busy, but sometimes.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
She sat there through everything. She sat there through everything.
She never moved. She never walked out on anybody. She
never moved. And we don't know because sitting for three
hours is not an easy feet And you know, I
understand one of the board members may have been crying
at the time, but I hate to say, because I'm
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a woman and we all get emotional, but when it's
something serious like that, you can't bring your tears to
a meeting. I forgive me for saying it. You got
to be There's a reason they say don't let them
see you sweat in moments like that, in moments like that,
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because anytime people can see you like that, they think
you weak. They think you're weak, and they gonna want
you up out of that position.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Man, she was very professional and sturdy, and she was
you know what I'm saying, like, Hey, you know, y'all,
come on it.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
There's no basis on what y'all was saying, Like you.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Said, that was good.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The things they're trying trying to power over is not
powerful things. It's more like a hater thing going on,
you know what I'm saying each other? Yeah, I mean
I don't know what to say so much just so
that's all I got to say is just like I
said again, just a hot mess.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
That's all I have to say.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, thank you, Neil, appreciate your calling. Now, okay, all right, Yeah,
it's it's heartbreaking what happened last night, just downright heartbreaking.
W D I A hello, hey, Shardy man, how you
doing all right? Good?
Speaker 11 (30:34):
They really that was really embarrassing until our city last night,
And I know those people in Nashville had a full
view of what's going on. Like you said, you white
folks to be laughing at us when we mess up
and cut up like that, D man, that is too
much power for their women to want to have, or
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what they they portrayed at that meeting last night, that's
too much power.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
And I told us stand a couple of days ago, I.
Speaker 11 (31:04):
Said, staying, I won't even go into the meeting when
they when they mentioned on TV.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
It's going to be a meeting tomor night or all
this just five, I.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Told her, staying on his show, I said, Stan she
needed to.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Get lawyered up.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
She is, She said her lawyer was going to address
it all coming.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
It's coming to pass. I said this a couple of
days ago. It's just that, uh, them.
Speaker 11 (31:24):
Folks creating a hospital environment that lay ain't been here
for eight nine months and they haven't these meetings to
get rid of the lady.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
That's conspiracy right there.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
And you can say all day long, we don't have
to pay her, you know, you can say that all
day long. But from what we saw the public, for
what we saw last night, right we would it looked
like harassment, It looked like bullying. It looked like you
can sue for all of that.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Did you see all that Hayar aid just straight hair
aid up in that against that lady, and she just
as meking I'm a little lamb.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
That's why I like the way she handled it.
Speaker 11 (32:04):
If she had to, just if she had lost it
and just had a crime spell, it would have looked bad.
Not saying that she deserved that, but I'm glad she didn't.
She didn't break down at.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
That meeting, did she. No, No, I didn't see the
whole deal.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
Well, I'm glad she didn't cause her some of them
people got to go those storm and that's just just
just plain ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
They act like they're in the school.
Speaker 11 (32:28):
And everybody got their little group that get over in
the corner.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And you know, that's what one of the ladies said
last night at the meeting. She said, you know, it's clicks.
She breaking up these clicks, and people got problems with it.
Speaker 11 (32:40):
I think a lot of these people lost their job,
was in position they need to be. Then lady came
in and cleaned house like they asked her to do.
And then when she do her job, they got problems
because they cousins and friends probably got to let go.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
All. I appreciate. I want to appreciate you.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Last night I was in the car driving on somebody
on the way to the house, and you was letting
us in on their live coverage.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
I said, Stormy got it going on. It is a
stormy experience here. Yeah, all right, I.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Appreciate, Thank you, Shorty Mack. Appreciate you last night.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
The board members voted to postpone a termination UH. The
yes voters supported punting the resolution to January. The no
voters did not want to postpone the proceedings. They wanted
to get rid of the last night, and and these
are how they voted. Okay, the people that really really
wanted her out of there and basically said it last
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night at the meeting, voting no vice chair Stephanie Love
District three, Natalie McKinney District two, Sable O Tay District five,
and Tuanna Murphy District seven.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
There you go, a hello, Hay, Stormy, Hey there, hey, look,
Oh my god.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
I don't even know where.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
To start, but I'm going to be very brief.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
They how many.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Of those people.
Speaker 14 (34:21):
Have gone to the homes of students, the school board
going to the homes in the past ten or twenty years,
went to their homes to find.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Out why they are not in school.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I don't know one, not one.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
They don't do that.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
All they do is sit up there, do they little paperwork,
put on their lips, stick and do what they do.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
I am so stick of it.
Speaker 14 (35:01):
This city is just My only regrets, Stormy, is that
I didn't uh finish going to college. I didn't get
my degree because I would have been an excellent school teacher,
you know, because I would teach kids how to look
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at things in the future like mentally and dreaming.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's what I would have been teaching.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
But it's, oh my god, it's pitiful.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
And they set up there and and.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Try to get this woman fired. But what why aren't
they trying to fire?
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I still don't understand that.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, I read, I read the reasons in the and
and I read the reasons. But I also uh agree
with missus McKinney last night board member machissic mackissic uh
not McKinny, because there's a McKinny on the board. I
agree with board member machistic. She said these are not
fireable offenses, and I'll reach them to you guys again.
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On the way, Beverly, thank you so much for calling in.
Uh w d I a hello.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Doing?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Hey, I'm good Michael. How are you going fine? Am I?
Speaker 5 (36:26):
Alvin or one another?
Speaker 15 (36:28):
You?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You pop dropping and lopping up? I didn't even say that, right,
pop dropping and locking a tad? But I think you're okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I just wanted to make because I can't.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I called him on the agent you should do a
little bit, huh, you know, but.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
That's what I called on the day.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Have you better on I guess that was.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
I will try back.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, back. I had hope for him. I did w
D I a hello.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh I got in. Ain't that's just a miracle.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
I'm yeah, you are. That is a miracle. I'm telling you.
These phones be ringing like crazy.
Speaker 9 (37:18):
I've been trying to get in every day.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
But here's what gets me.
Speaker 9 (37:22):
They almost felt like you say, you've been telling that
last car.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
You dropped it like the pot.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I had to drop him like it was hot. I
had to let him go.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Oh giving me.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
And they did the same thing with what was the
last one in the name, Uh don't you Ray?
Speaker 5 (37:39):
Ray? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
They paid him a quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 15 (37:43):
Okay, you send out his money.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
You're hurting the city.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
You're not hurting yourself.
Speaker 15 (37:48):
And then for Wanner Murphy to get on there, she
was the only one the interviewed. The teachers and their
parents are upset. That's a lot because the teachers and
parents were the one of them speaking for her.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
She was it's so much support. Doctor Fagan's has so
much support right now. It is crazy.
Speaker 15 (38:07):
Exactly, But for her to say that, it's almost like
when she was on stand that day, she was she
was she was starting to create it then seemed like
because surely after she got off there, that's when they
decided they wanted to come up against her.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Mm It just just just it was hard to watch.
I'll tell you.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Yeah, it's gonna hurt the city and it's gonna hurt them.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
They're gonna run out of money because.
Speaker 15 (38:29):
Eventually there's not gonna be an out of town person
to come and take the job, because they say they
ain't gonna keep you long. They get you there, and
if you don't do what they say, they're gonna faright you.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Well, they were ready to vote somebody in last night.
They said they were gonna get rid of her and replace.
That's gonna do all of that last night?
Speaker 5 (38:48):
How you gonna do that? Look how long it took
them to get one?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, No, I'm glad.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
I ain't paying tax in Memphis anyway.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
That's job money, all right, Harol, Thank you so much?
You too, you too?
Speaker 9 (39:04):
W d I A hello, Hey that beautiful storm me?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
How you doing?
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (39:09):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
William? How you being.
Speaker 10 (39:13):
Doing good?
Speaker 5 (39:13):
God is good and life is good.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
But we we but from time to time we see
uh words of the Bible come through life, which is
the craziness of thinking, is going to get worse and worse.
So now we're dealing with a generation when you talk
about respect, you know, and how doing things in order, Yes,
(39:37):
for our generation, that makes sense. Buff of this next generation,
I know some of them are about around our.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Age, but you know, they they they are have William
them kids acting better than we are when they having meetings.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Come on now, when they have meetings, that's exactly right.
But check this out.
Speaker 13 (39:54):
When we get ninety hundred years old and these children
are in the school board, we're gonna see reality shows.
They're gonna be just right out fights, you know every
quarter when they're gonna be holding people back and you know,
flat out fight.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
And that's what that's where we're gonna because here it
is with this you know, foolery with loves and all
of them.
Speaker 13 (40:18):
And they're not gonna back down. I don't think they
voted for Trump, but they had Trump mentality where they're wrong,
but they're gonna double down on it because they're not down.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it's it's crazy thinking and they're gonna.
Speaker 13 (40:33):
Go on forward with this kind of thinking, and the
next generation gonna be worse, and the next generations gonna
be worse. So what we do right now is one
we need to pray because when they start talking about
losing money out of the system because of these lawsuits,
then eventually the children gets it, which is what's been happening,
(40:53):
exactly what's been happening.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
The children gets the brunt of it. And so here
we are again. We just we're just eye a wide
open to it now. But this is the way the
children been suffering because of these crazy adults like love
and all the other names you pointed out.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Thank you, Stormy, Love.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
You, love you too, William, thank you so much for
calling in. Yeah, yeah, again. It's just it's kind of
heartbreaking just to hear all of this. But I do
have some good news for those of you that have
been calling in and praying for Denver. Miss Carroll. And
I see a email she said, I hear that Chipmunk
line and that tickled you.
Speaker 14 (41:30):
It did.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I tried not to love, but Michael did took me.
He got that. Anyway, let me go to this Denver's wife.
His beautiful wife by the way, messaged me on Instagram
and she said, good evening, Miss Stormy.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Tea.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
The Word of the Lord says, the steps of a
good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighted
in his ways. Denver's surgery was a success. Wow, we
serve a well abled God. Please share this with the listeners,
missus Denver. Ooh, prayers have been answered because a lot
(42:09):
of people have been praying for Denver. Denver, we've been
praying for you. If you are listening, we've been praying
for you, brother, and we are glad to hear the
good news. Not on one five three, five, nine three
four two eight hundred five zero three nine three four
two eight three three five three five nine three four two.
I'm gonna take a break. We'll come back in a moment.
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