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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
Y'all know how I have a special guest on this show.
I do have a special guest today. Another special guests,
Ladies and gentlemen welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Can I tell them?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Or can you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you want me to? Let you tell them?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I want to hear your introduction from.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Ladies and gentlemen all the way from across town Fox
thirteen meteorologist Chelsea Chandler.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That is me, and the crowd is going wild. That
is me. But I am no anchor. I am you are?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah? An?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What times on the weekends? Nope?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Weekdays four point thirty, I'm the early part of Good
Morning Memphis.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So I'm Monday for Fridays. I do a little bit
of everything. I do the anchoring early in the morning.
I report a couple of days a week. I do weather,
I do track. I pretty much am a Swiss Army knife.
Wherever you need me. They will put me wherever they
need me. You could you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So you're anchoring every morning?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And on the weekends? Are you still on the weekends
as well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I sleep got to get it in somehow, right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So your first I guess big thing you did over
there besides being a meteorologist was weekends.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Weren't you an anchor on the weekends as well?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was a co host?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, so I co hosted and was the weekend morning
meteorologist thing when I started at Fox. Okay, oh okay,
but I've been doing this, and I mean I've always
been in Memphis, but for almost fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Fifteen years. Tell me where did you start your career
here in Memphis?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I started at five doing little traffic and then I
took a break actually did sports radio for a little while.
And I actually will do a quick little story of
how I got because it's very backwards how I got
to where I am. So I ended up getting a
job offer from the Phoenix Suns and as I hung up, wait.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
A minute, hold on, Yeah, Chelsea Tander, Ladies and gentlemen
from Fox thirteen, thank you for being here with me today.
First off, and happy holidays because you look very christmasy today.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yes, I'm feeling trying to get them. I'm trying to
get festive. I'm trying to feel it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I just am struggling. I'm struggling. Is it everyone? It
might be, it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Might be because maybe it just moved so fast and
time is yeah. Ever, honestly, since twenty nineteen, it's it's
there's it's been two different It's just two years. It's
not six years. In my mind, it's been two years.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, Okay, let's get back into it with Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Now tell me the story you were getting rid of. Okay,
so sorry, all right, I'm sorry I stopped you from talking.
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I had a job offer with the Phoenix Suns, and
as I hung up the phone or the zoom call
with the president of the Suns, I knew, like, you know,
when you.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Got a job right right and wait, but Phoenix Suns,
what were you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I actually didn't want you, like the couple different things.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know. This was right when teams were really starting
their own kind of broadcasting like we see with grind
City Media with you know, Memphis Grizzlies. But I would
be the inn arena host, I would be anywhere Gorilla went.
I would go because you Scotts can't speak, and Gorilla
actually trained grizz So oh wow, yeah, so super popular,
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one of the most you know, famous in the in
the league. So goes to a lot of events, so
I'd be basically one of the public faces that wasn't
a player for the team.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But you know, in my.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Gut though, I just just I didn't want to leave
right right, But not at the time, I was excited
because I knew I was about to get a job offer.
Right well, as I hang up the phone, my phone rings,
and I am a serial phone screener.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I will not answer that phone if I don't know
that call.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
For some reason, I picked up the phone call and
it was the news director at ABC calling me out
of the blue and wanting to talk to me about
a potential job. And I was like, yeah, okay, sure,
so I mean, all right, well listen, you know, even
though because I didn't have a job over at the time.
Fast forward, we go back and forth and I literally
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finally had to tell them my car is packed and
I'm leaving at two o'clock tomorrow. If you do not
have a job to offer me, I am going to Phoenix.
I laid on my floor of my bedroom crying because
I didn't want to leave. And then at almost ten
o'clock at night, I got a phone call literally being like, hey,
can you be here at like eight o'clock in the morning, we'd.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like to offer you a job.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And so that's how I ended up over there for
eight years and I started doing traffic. I also had
a Grizzlies TV show that I was a part of.
It was a future reporter on and a lot of
not commercial work per se, but I kind of worked
that great line, a lot of fill in for the
lifestyle show, and then they were the ones that actually
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were like, hey, we want you to go to school
for weather, and I started filling in and within a
month of filling in doing weather and traffic, the morning
meteorologists quit and they brought in people, but decided to
keep me and I became the morning meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
For years there. Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I left there, and I was very fortunate, you know.
I went to a couple of interviews across the country,
but again I didn't really leave. Memphis is my home
and I know this is where my family family's here. Yeah,
and that's very important to me. And I was very
blessed to get an opportunity to be able to two
weeks later. So I had a loophole fellow loophole in
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my contract and I was able to hop just down
the street and start working actually at the station that
my mother worked at.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Fifty years before. She was the lead go go.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Dancer on a show called Talent Party, which was like
American Bandstand with George Klein.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
So the studio that I do traffic in is a
studio that she used to dance in.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Wow. Yeah, little kids met for him.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So that's an awesome really family. Yeah, but it's a
really roundabout way, are you saying? You know, this isn't
what I initially went to school for. Right to CBU
where I graduated. I studied psychology, studied some history, music,
and then eventually went on to study meteorology and then
again that was through Penn State. Then I studied at
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Mississippi State their Geoscience's program as well.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh wow, Chelsea, I am a certified nerd without the
glasses or do you?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Oh, I have negative ten and a half vision, so
I have contacts in. I've worn glasses one time on
TV and I had to and it was it was
during a coverage one morning and it was a really
big story anyway, and I just finally had to put
them on because I didn't know at the time I
had an ulcer on my eye. And it was just
excruciatingly painful. And I finally wore glasses on TV. And
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that was a big deal for me because I bet
it was. I bet it was a big deal for
your fans too. They probably had no idea who I was.
My Boston, he was like, I've never seen you glasses,
and I'm like, there's a point, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So then what happened to? Did you bring me to
Fox thirteen? To you being there? Yeah, okay, okay, you
brought me So that was Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So it was three years ago that I started there,
and I started on kind of filling in a little
bit everywhere, and then eventually settled into doing Team Weather
kind of reporting three days a week, and then weekend
co hosting and I was the morning meteorologist, and then
in April I was named the weekday early morning anchor
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for Good Morning Memphis, and I fill in for Val
and Ernie and then midday and all that, and then
I report three days a week and then I do
the traffic and the weather.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, so I do a little I'm literally a Swiss
Army knife. Wherever they need me, they just throw.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Me in there.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. It sounds like it. It sounds like it. So Chelsea,
you're like a legend. What yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, You're
going to be that number of anchors and TV personalities
that we've seen over the years. You're gonna be in
that number of somebody that has, you know, really made
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an impression on Memphians.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
People love you, you know that, right? I appreciate that.
That Actually, when you said that, I was really that
was very sweet. I don't know they don't. I mean
I do too, but they I feel a very.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Deep connection to our community and that's a part of
my job as well.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
How does it feel, Chelsea Chandler, you guys Fox thirteen,
I'm stormy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It is the pulse. Thank you guys for being here
with us.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But how does it feel being from Memphis being so popular.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And being on the news. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You know, to have a city that you're born and
raised in embrace you like that?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I told.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
One of my mentors, who happens to be one of
my former bosses, I told him my dream was always
to make it in Memphis. And you know, I think
the sign of making it in Memphis is when your
own community does embrace you and when that's out in
public and I'm you know, some people.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know hide away or scurry away.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm please if you see me and you recognize me.
I love when y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Say, hey, I love, come here, I hug. I'll hug you.
I'm let's take a picture, let's talk. Tell me about
your grandma.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Like it is such a compliment that not only do
you watch and that you follow, that you have any
idea who I am, that you care who I am,
but that you would even care to take a moment
out of your day to come talk to me like
that means a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It really does. Yeah, and I'm sure it does. I
mean to you as well. Yeah it does, it does.
We're talking about you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
But you know, Memphis is a city that we always
tell people, especially new people, you know that you know
if you hug them, if you hug Memphis, hugg you back.
Why I've been from I'm from Memphis. Yeah, my whole life.
I've grown up, lived all parts of the city. And
you know, I've been able to especially with Fox thirteen,
really I feel like, uh, it's crazy how much more
I've been able to learn about my community and about
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the people of my community. And and I feel like I
have such much, so much more of an appreciation for
the people and and the struggles of our community as well.
And I think that that kind of drives a passion
to help insight change in it as well.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And you know what I'm gonna tell y'all something, Chelsea
probably knows more about rap music than I do. You
better know it, don't you, Chelsea. I know a lot
about rapping, especially Memphis.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Raps, specifically Memphis rappers. I mean that rap in general.
But I mean I'm friends with I mean, if you
name most of the you know, O geez, I got
them in my phone right here. They're my guys, Okay,
I believe Actually, I'll tell you so. Project Project Pat's
one of my big ones. But Primro who is eight
ball and he actually I was supposed to be in
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his He asked me to be in his most recent
music video and I was out of town. He wanted
to me to play a news reporter in it, and
I was, ah, why.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh my goodness, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, So what about the new Memphis rappers Glow Yo God,
oh yeah, money bag you I mean, yeah, oh yeah, Okay,
she got it, Yeah, she got it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Did you keep up with all of that too?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
With everything? I'm I'll tell you something, Chelsea's like a
walking dictionary. When she came into the studios, we were
having a conversation about something, she jumps right in because
she got the we're talking about it, but she has
proof about what we're talking about, like literal proofs.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I got the I got the police right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yet what listen, I am a professional I mean journalism,
is I mean kind of professional gossip? Yeah, but we
have I mean, yeah, we're telling you the truth. I mean,
we're bringing you the facts. But we're talking about right though,
and it's what you want to hear. I never thought
of it that way professional.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And that is not a derogatory's No one take it
that way. None at it was just not to me.
I don't take it that way.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But listen, what is the difference between professional gossip and
sensationalizing the news?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, so I think when you take the stories and
you have to you know, unbiased opinion and presenting the
facts and both sides of it, no opinion, like we
I mean, I've gotten to the point right now where
people will have to ask me, what's your opinion, I'm like, oh,
I'd have to think about it for a second, because
I don't have fun, you know, because I've been so
trained to not think that way, so to look for
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both sides of the story and to know that the
truth probably lies somewhere in between, right, And so my
job is to present you with both sides and you
can draw your own conclusion. And that's that's what our
job is, is to present you with the facts. When
sensationalized stories, that's where you see terms like rage baiting
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or picking out a very part of a headline that's misleading,
that makes you think that's something like I saw one
today that was made. It was it was a clickbait,
you know, yea something that just draws you immediately, Oh
my gosh, and then you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Click it and you're like, that's not anything.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Or my favorite hamburger, my favorite is especially there are
some people who are guilty of it here and I
will not call it names, but when they do it
and you're like, oh my gosh, and you click it
and it happened in like Kenosha, Wisconsin, right, cool, Like
now I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Not interested, but I got my click.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, and with what you do for
a living journalism when you look at it from the
sat that you looked at it and the way you've
been trained and the way you've been taught, uh, and
you see it like that, how does it make you feel?
Does it make you feel sometimes like reaching out to
somebody and saying, look, that's that's not that's not you know,
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the real deal?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
You know, we have to be careful because you can
see people there's it's hard because local social media specifically,
like I will put a post out that's just an
informative post, and then there will be dialogue that's going
on in my comments that I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Engage in, right, And that's sometimes that's hard.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You get used to it over time, but like you
want to jump in and be like whoa, but then
that could appear like you're choosing, you know, aside. And
so it's just sometimes a little a little difficult in
that way. But I will say, you know, I've had
no problem, especially an example, when it came to anytime
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weather cuts into sports, people go crazy, and so you know,
I will interject in times like that, and I've defended
our competitors who were getting just reamed, you know, across
just the board, because we are we are expected to
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carry out these life saving types of services, right right,
and that's part of our job. If it's and weather
is one of them, you know, and so if there's
a tornado on the ground, we do have to cut
into your favorite sports programming. Yeah, that's what two boxes
are for, and that's what they should be utilized for.
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So you could see the game and have the met
on the screen. But some people just go crazy and
just the hate mail and the calls are just uncalled for.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And wait, so you've got not not the suite, not me.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I have a beautiful but I do know that, so
you never you've I haven't encountered them. I don't get
I don't usually Honestly, I've been very blessed.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Most people are very very kind, and.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What goes around comes around, and because you're very kind,
thank you, and so it comes back around.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You know. I try like I find because again I
was at and trained necessarily the same way that you
see a lot of the people on your TV, right,
I very much felt my way through and figured it
out kind of as I went. Yeah, and so when
I go out on a story, especially if one turns emotional,
I'll find myself just sitting, especially if it's a mother
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or family or something, and I'll just sit and I'll
just hug, pray with them whatever it is like, or
cry with them, you know, because it is compelling.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you feel.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The emotion is not right though, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
There's I mean, there's some people and you know, I
guess that have learned how to turn that off, and
I just I can't. I'm too much of an impath.
So I feel everything, and I feel at times a
thousand Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Have you ever cried on TV?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I I when I signed off of my last station,
I think I was tearing up, But I don't think
I've ever cried.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's been.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
There are some hard moments, specifically during severe weather coverage,
when I'm having to say things like, actually, so we
just had the anniversary of a historic outbreak. There were
seventeen tornadoes here, but that touchdown in one night and
just four years ago, but it actually stretched across eight states.
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But I remember having to process the information I was
reading and tell viewers that if you know anyone in
this city, in this you know where there was this
senior living facility.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The entire building has just collapsed.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
My goodness, and knowing that that's people's grandparents, parents, almost everything,
and knowing that I have had had grandparents, you know,
I don't have. I don't have any left now, but
knowing that that could have been just I felt my
heart drop into my stomach and I thought I was
going to be sick, physically ill, beyond tears.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I thought I was going to be sick.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That's probably the most I think there's a part of
you that just clicks into adrenaline mode when you're in
a real severe weather situation where you're like I have
to with It's a balance.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I have to clearly show emotion because this is my community,
especially too when I know people who live in all
of these areas and I'm telling you, hey, I've called
my parents on the phone while I'm standing at the wall.
I've done a radio hit.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
But at the same time, I was giving a forecast
so that I could get them as much information out
as too as much many as many people as I
could at one time.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like you know what, let me say this about Chelsea.
You guys, I get text messages from Chelsea about and
I never understood this. Now you're making me explain understand it.
It's because you care.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I do care, probably sometimes too much. I feel like I.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Don't know, I don't know too many people that have
texted me and asked me, hey, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Do you want me to call out? I'm there? Do
you want me to call?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And you do that? Yeah? Oh yeah, you're talking about
it when we were at the toy drive. Yeah, because
at the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Times your text messages today just other times you've done that,
and it's like wow, okay, and hearing you talk about,
you know, how you've been on the phone or you've
called your parents while you're working, or you know, trying
to get as much information out, it helps me to
understand brain functions and why people love you so much.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Well. I also think I'm a chronic overshare, Like I
feel like I try to invite people into my life
as much as possible with also, you know, still having
some sembilance of you know, some personal you know life
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But I love you know, I found.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'll tell you for years, I always tried to be
what I thought that I was supposed to be the
vision of whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That everybody, right, but hold on to that because y'all,
just in case you don't know and you've started just
started listening to us, I'm talking to Chelsea Chandler, a
Fox thirteen Memphis homegrown working here in Memphis for fifteen
years on the air, TV station waves or.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How do you say it? Y'all are trying to say, Yeah,
the same thing on the tube.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, and I'm stormy. It is the pulse. Continue, Chelsea, please.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was just gonna say, you know, I've tried.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I tried so long to fit whatever I thought in
my mind I was supposed to be what I was
supposed to sound like or look like and act to
present myself. And you know, I don't remember the exact moment,
but whatever it was when I finally may have just
completely just had broken down in my life, I think,
and I finally was like, you know what, I'm I'm
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just gonna be myself. And you know what, that was
the turning point when people actually started because they were
started connecting with me because the person you see on
TV is the same person. Because you see me at
it at Memphis in May. Yeah, you see me out
a food drives. You see me out at toy drives.
I'm the same person that you see on TV. You
get to say, you know what I mean, like I'm
not putting on an act. And I realized that's what
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people want. They want that connection. I hope that I've
been told. But when I talk to people on TV,
it's like I'm talking to them and not act them.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And that's powerful.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But that's not something you can teach, you know, not
it And that was always the biggest compliment that was
always ever given to me, was that it felt like
you're just here talking to me. And I've tried. So
when I get to when I do my forecast, mine
may not be as fancy and as you know, super scientific,
but you know why because a I didn't learn it
that way.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I can. I could do it that way if I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But I want to tell you the forecast is if
I was just talking to you right now and you
asked me what it's going to be like, you know, yeah,
And so I try to talk to you like I'm
just talking to my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I love that and I just.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Hope, I mean, and it seems like at least people
are you know, get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And if you don't. I'm sorry, but that's Oh my goodness,
that's me, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I tell you you have man.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Your outer exterior is probably what stops people in their tracks, Okay,
but it also probably intimidates people too, because they're like,
she so beautiful, she's probably not gonna want to talk
to me, or she's probably not gonna want to say
anything to me, even though I know her.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I see her on TV.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Number one, And you do this job that you have
become so good at.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But not just that. I mean, you are, from.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What I've learned about you over the years, just a
good human being. And I'm not trying to say all
this to pump your head.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Up or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I just, you know, I just you know, you learn
a lot of times when we see people on the TV,
or we see people or hear people on the rate whatever,
we have our own judgments about them, and then we
get the privilege when we get the privilege of meeting
them and getting to know them, we start to see
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this girl really is the truth. You know, she is amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
She really is.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mean, you y'all see her, y'all know, Chelsea, y'all
y'all see her on TV. You see her in her
viral video. She's dancing all over the place.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I am always dancing.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Always, and your videos while you're dancing, they always go viral.
How in the world I saw you doing a video
with Latia Yates, but not just Lottia, There's been other people.
But you did a chore a choreographed dance with Latti.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Are sorry the Chris Brown girl? How long did it?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yes? Well, let me tell you what happened. So the
music went out and we actually did that perfectly in
time with no music, and we had to add the
music later when she edited the video.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But yeah, no, she she just.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Sent it to me because we were gonna talk about
nine oh one day and the year before I had
learned the uh she did a flash mob. Yeah, and
so she's like, well, you gotta do this this year
and I was like, Okay, we're gonna have to edit
Chris Brown's version of.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It a little bit if I'm gonna be on TV
doing it. So we did the Fox thirteen version of it.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But you know, I've won Dancing with the Stars, the
first ever Memphis Dancing with the Stars this summer and
raise over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the YMCA.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
See what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I'm seriously, I I have I'm one of those people that,
like I don't I don't say no very often, like
if someone asked me, well, you know, if someone needs me,
even like, I'll make it work. I do so many
events and it is such a privilege when people ask me,
and you know, I get everything approved through my boss,
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which I don't even know that I have to do that,
but I always do it because I feel like that's
a professional courtesy. And sometimes he's like are you sure,
and I'm like yeah, because they asked me, you know,
and at some point the phone may stop bringing and I.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So I want to be there for the community, you know,
so I just you know, I try to go out
to do as many events, and I have fundraisers or
whatever I can do to help if I I mean,
you know, God gave us all gifts and gave us all,
you know, ways to impact each other and to uplift
each other. And if that's mine, then that's how we
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use it. Because I've you know, always been about the
community and giving back In fact, actually the governor gave
me the highest civilian honor, the Aid de Camp, which
is for service to the State. And a lot of
that is because it really started back when I lost
my brother to suicide back in twenty eleven and tried
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to turn that into more of a positive thing of
educating people because a lot of times sometimes people just
need to be heard. And I feel like, you know,
if just sitting and talking to someone, or just giving
someone that hug, or being there for that friend or
that stranger for that matter, you never know what kind
of impact that can make. And you know, I think
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that's kind of what really continued on my you know,
journey of giving back to the community. I've been with
the Breast Cancer American Cancer Society for tis twenty years
of working all of this stuff. I'm right here in Memphis,
and you know, I feel like God gives us all
talents and gifts, and if this is how he wants
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me to use mine, then that's how I'm going to
use that every day that I'm on this earth.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Merry Christmas to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well gift. Well, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm sorry, you got me all emoting all over here.
I just think it's so beautiful, y'all. I'm just trying
to tell you when you when you come along, and
maybe this is a lesson for everybody in their lives.
You know, a lot of us take people for granted,
and we don't always embrace people in our lives. Maybe
there's somebody you've been taking it for granted that you
haven't embraced like you should embrace them. Embrace them, you know,
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reach out to them. Maybe we don't do that enough.
Maybe I haven't done that to you enough. Maybe I
need to do that more to people.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, it's the season of giving, and maybe that's what
gets us into the Christmas feeling.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I don't think it's necessarily about you know. I think
what means more to me is when you get that
random text that you know clearly meant someone was thinking
about you, And sometimes I feel like they're divinely timed,
like you get them and you're like, man, I needed
that right now, right It's like the virtual hug that
you can get that I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Give you necessarily because I'm across town.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
But you know, just being there for each other and
that's why family, Like I told you, family was so
important to me.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's been it's been a hard year and almost two
years for my family.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
My dad was diagnosed with a stage three colon cancer.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
My mom had her own health problems.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I was in the hospital for over five weeks over
the past year, and so we've we've felt what it
feels like to have people literally holding you up, you know,
And so I think that changed my perspective even more,
especially when we went into you know, just the past
couple of months, like with.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The community that needed when we.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Had to shut down, and you know, being able to
help when we needed at the most, when people needed
just needed food. You know, our station really had a
big push for that, and I was really proud to
be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So Chelsea Chandler Fox thirteen just a superstar just on
social media. She's always engaging and engaged not just there,
but even in this community. And let me be the
probably millionth or more than that to say thank you, welcome,
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thank you for your yesterday, thank you for coming on
this show and blessing somebody today. Somebody needed to hear
some of the things that you said. And I just
want to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, you're welcome. I appreciate you asking me to come.
We've been talking about it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, too long, and it just happened, and I'm glad
that it did.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It is the pulse, and we keep our fingertips on
the pulse of our community. Chelsea Chandler, Fox thirteen. Anything
in partying before we go, you know, I just we
don't know, you know. I just to say with my
family and things like that. You know, we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Hug the ones you love and hug them tight, extra tight,
because we never know. You literally never know what is
in the day ahead of you. And I see that
every day in the news. Yeah, and especially and don't
take anything for granted that you have and just have
a blessed and wonderful Christmas season, holiday season, whatever that
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may look like for you.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I hope that it is Mary and bright. It is
the pulse. I am stormy, keeping our fing fingertips on
the pulse of our community, focusing today on the one
and only Chelsea Chandler. Thank y'all for joining us. We'll
see you next week. Same time, same station, God bless
you have a great week.
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
Y'all know how I have a special guest on this show.
I do have a special guest today. Another special guests,
Ladies and gentlemen welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Can I tell them?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Or can you?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do you want me to? Let you tell them?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I want to hear your introduction from.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Ladies and gentlemen all the way from across town Fox
thirteen meteorologist Chelsea Chandler.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That is me, and the crowd is going wild. That
is me. But I am no anchor. I am you are?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Yeah? An?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What times on the weekends? Nope?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Weekdays four point thirty, I'm the early part of Good
Morning Memphis.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
What Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So I'm Monday for Fridays. I do a little bit
of everything. I do the anchoring early in the morning.
I report a couple of days a week. I do weather,
I do track. I pretty much am a Swiss Army knife.
Wherever you need me. They will put me wherever they
need me. You could you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
So you're anchoring every morning?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Hmm?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And on the weekends? Are you still on the weekends
as well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I sleep got to get it in somehow, right.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
So your first I guess big thing you did over
there besides being a meteorologist was weekends.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Weren't you an anchor on the weekends as well?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was a co host?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Yeah, so I co hosted and was the weekend morning
meteorologist thing when I started at Fox. Okay, oh okay,
but I've been doing this, and I mean I've always
been in Memphis, but for almost fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Fifteen years. Tell me where did you start your career
here in Memphis?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I started at five doing little traffic and then I
took a break actually did sports radio for a little while.
And I actually will do a quick little story of
how I got because it's very backwards how I got
to where I am. So I ended up getting a
job offer from the Phoenix Suns and as I hung up, wait.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
A minute, hold on, Yeah, Chelsea Tander, Ladies and gentlemen
from Fox thirteen, thank you for being here with me today.
First off, and happy holidays because you look very christmasy today.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yes, I'm feeling trying to get them. I'm trying to
get festive. I'm trying to feel it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I just am struggling. I'm struggling. Is it everyone? It
might be, it.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Might be because maybe it just moved so fast and
time is yeah. Ever, honestly, since twenty nineteen, it's it's
there's it's been two different It's just two years. It's
not six years. In my mind, it's been two years.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, Okay, let's get back into it with Chelsea.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Now tell me the story you were getting rid of. Okay,
so sorry, all right, I'm sorry I stopped you from talking.
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I had a job offer with the Phoenix Suns, and
as I hung up the phone or the zoom call
with the president of the Suns, I knew, like, you know,
when you.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Got a job right right and wait, but Phoenix Suns,
what were you going to do?
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I actually didn't want you, like the couple different things.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know. This was right when teams were really starting
their own kind of broadcasting like we see with grind
City Media with you know, Memphis Grizzlies. But I would
be the inn arena host, I would be anywhere Gorilla went.
I would go because you Scotts can't speak, and Gorilla
actually trained grizz So oh wow, yeah, so super popular,
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one of the most you know, famous in the in
the league. So goes to a lot of events, so
I'd be basically one of the public faces that wasn't
a player for the team.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But you know, in my.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Gut though, I just just I didn't want to leave
right right, But not at the time, I was excited
because I knew I was about to get a job offer.
Right well, as I hang up the phone, my phone rings,
and I am a serial phone screener.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I will not answer that phone if I don't know
that call.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
For some reason, I picked up the phone call and
it was the news director at ABC calling me out
of the blue and wanting to talk to me about
a potential job. And I was like, yeah, okay, sure,
so I mean, all right, well listen, you know, even
though because I didn't have a job over at the time.
Fast forward, we go back and forth and I literally
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finally had to tell them my car is packed and
I'm leaving at two o'clock tomorrow. If you do not
have a job to offer me, I am going to Phoenix.
I laid on my floor of my bedroom crying because
I didn't want to leave. And then at almost ten
o'clock at night, I got a phone call literally being like, hey,
can you be here at like eight o'clock in the morning, we'd.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like to offer you a job.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
And so that's how I ended up over there for
eight years and I started doing traffic. I also had
a Grizzlies TV show that I was a part of.
It was a future reporter on and a lot of
not commercial work per se, but I kind of worked
that great line, a lot of fill in for the
lifestyle show, and then they were the ones that actually
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were like, hey, we want you to go to school
for weather, and I started filling in and within a
month of filling in doing weather and traffic, the morning
meteorologists quit and they brought in people, but decided to
keep me and I became the morning meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
For years there. Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I left there, and I was very fortunate, you know.
I went to a couple of interviews across the country,
but again I didn't really leave. Memphis is my home
and I know this is where my family family's here. Yeah,
and that's very important to me. And I was very
blessed to get an opportunity to be able to two
weeks later. So I had a loophole fellow loophole in
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my contract and I was able to hop just down
the street and start working actually at the station that
my mother worked at.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Fifty years before. She was the lead go go.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Dancer on a show called Talent Party, which was like
American Bandstand with George Klein.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
So the studio that I do traffic in is a
studio that she used to dance in.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Wow. Yeah, little kids met for him.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
So that's an awesome really family. Yeah, but it's a
really roundabout way, are you saying? You know, this isn't
what I initially went to school for. Right to CBU
where I graduated. I studied psychology, studied some history, music,
and then eventually went on to study meteorology and then
again that was through Penn State. Then I studied at
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Mississippi State their Geoscience's program as well.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh wow, Chelsea, I am a certified nerd without the
glasses or do you?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Oh, I have negative ten and a half vision, so
I have contacts in. I've worn glasses one time on
TV and I had to and it was it was
during a coverage one morning and it was a really
big story anyway, and I just finally had to put
them on because I didn't know at the time I
had an ulcer on my eye. And it was just
excruciatingly painful. And I finally wore glasses on TV. And
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that was a big deal for me because I bet
it was. I bet it was a big deal for
your fans too. They probably had no idea who I was.
My Boston, he was like, I've never seen you glasses,
and I'm like, there's a point, there's a reason for that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So then what happened to? Did you bring me to
Fox thirteen? To you being there? Yeah, okay, okay, you
brought me So that was Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
So it was three years ago that I started there,
and I started on kind of filling in a little
bit everywhere, and then eventually settled into doing Team Weather
kind of reporting three days a week, and then weekend
co hosting and I was the morning meteorologist, and then
in April I was named the weekday early morning anchor
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for Good Morning Memphis, and I fill in for Val
and Ernie and then midday and all that, and then
I report three days a week and then I do
the traffic and the weather.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, so I do a little I'm literally a Swiss
Army knife. Wherever they need me, they just throw.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Me in there.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah. It sounds like it. It sounds like it. So Chelsea,
you're like a legend. What yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, You're
going to be that number of anchors and TV personalities
that we've seen over the years. You're gonna be in
that number of somebody that has, you know, really made
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an impression on Memphians.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
People love you, you know that, right? I appreciate that.
That Actually, when you said that, I was really that
was very sweet. I don't know they don't. I mean
I do too, but they I feel a very.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Deep connection to our community and that's a part of
my job as well.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
How does it feel, Chelsea Chandler, you guys Fox thirteen,
I'm stormy.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It is the pulse. Thank you guys for being here
with us.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
But how does it feel being from Memphis being so popular.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And being on the news. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You know, to have a city that you're born and
raised in embrace you like that?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I told.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
One of my mentors, who happens to be one of
my former bosses, I told him my dream was always
to make it in Memphis. And you know, I think
the sign of making it in Memphis is when your
own community does embrace you and when that's out in
public and I'm you know, some people.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You know hide away or scurry away.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm please if you see me and you recognize me.
I love when y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Say, hey, I love, come here, I hug. I'll hug you.
I'm let's take a picture, let's talk. Tell me about
your grandma.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Like it is such a compliment that not only do
you watch and that you follow, that you have any
idea who I am, that you care who I am,
but that you would even care to take a moment
out of your day to come talk to me like
that means a lot.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It really does. Yeah, and I'm sure it does. I
mean to you as well. Yeah it does, it does.
We're talking about you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
But you know, Memphis is a city that we always
tell people, especially new people, you know that you know
if you hug them, if you hug Memphis, hugg you back.
Why I've been from I'm from Memphis. Yeah, my whole life.
I've grown up, lived all parts of the city. And
you know, I've been able to especially with Fox thirteen,
really I feel like, uh, it's crazy how much more
I've been able to learn about my community and about
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the people of my community. And and I feel like I
have such much, so much more of an appreciation for
the people and and the struggles of our community as well.
And I think that that kind of drives a passion
to help insight change in it as well.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And you know what I'm gonna tell y'all something, Chelsea
probably knows more about rap music than I do. You
better know it, don't you, Chelsea. I know a lot
about rapping, especially Memphis.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Raps, specifically Memphis rappers. I mean that rap in general.
But I mean I'm friends with I mean, if you
name most of the you know, O geez, I got
them in my phone right here. They're my guys, Okay,
I believe Actually, I'll tell you so. Project Project Pat's
one of my big ones. But Primro who is eight
ball and he actually I was supposed to be in
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his He asked me to be in his most recent
music video and I was out of town. He wanted
to me to play a news reporter in it, and
I was, ah, why.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh my goodness, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Okay, So what about the new Memphis rappers Glow Yo God,
oh yeah, money bag you I mean, yeah, oh yeah, Okay,
she got it, Yeah, she got it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Did you keep up with all of that too?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
With everything? I'm I'll tell you something, Chelsea's like a
walking dictionary. When she came into the studios, we were
having a conversation about something, she jumps right in because
she got the we're talking about it, but she has
proof about what we're talking about, like literal proofs.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I got the I got the police right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yet what listen, I am a professional I mean journalism,
is I mean kind of professional gossip? Yeah, but we
have I mean, yeah, we're telling you the truth. I mean,
we're bringing you the facts. But we're talking about right though,
and it's what you want to hear. I never thought
of it that way professional.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And that is not a derogatory's No one take it
that way. None at it was just not to me.
I don't take it that way.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But listen, what is the difference between professional gossip and
sensationalizing the news?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Yeah, so I think when you take the stories and
you have to you know, unbiased opinion and presenting the
facts and both sides of it, no opinion, like we
I mean, I've gotten to the point right now where
people will have to ask me, what's your opinion, I'm like, oh,
I'd have to think about it for a second, because
I don't have fun, you know, because I've been so
trained to not think that way, so to look for
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both sides of the story and to know that the
truth probably lies somewhere in between, right, And so my
job is to present you with both sides and you
can draw your own conclusion. And that's that's what our
job is, is to present you with the facts. When
sensationalized stories, that's where you see terms like rage baiting
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or picking out a very part of a headline that's misleading,
that makes you think that's something like I saw one
today that was made. It was it was a clickbait,
you know, yea something that just draws you immediately, Oh
my gosh, and then you.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Click it and you're like, that's not anything.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Or my favorite hamburger, my favorite is especially there are
some people who are guilty of it here and I
will not call it names, but when they do it
and you're like, oh my gosh, and you click it
and it happened in like Kenosha, Wisconsin, right, cool, Like
now I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Not interested, but I got my click.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, and with what you do for
a living journalism when you look at it from the
sat that you looked at it and the way you've
been trained and the way you've been taught, uh, and
you see it like that, how does it make you feel?
Does it make you feel sometimes like reaching out to
somebody and saying, look, that's that's not that's not you know,
(13:57):
the real deal?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
You know, we have to be careful because you can
see people there's it's hard because local social media specifically,
like I will put a post out that's just an
informative post, and then there will be dialogue that's going
on in my comments that I can't.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Engage in, right, And that's sometimes that's hard.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You get used to it over time, but like you
want to jump in and be like whoa, but then
that could appear like you're choosing, you know, aside. And
so it's just sometimes a little a little difficult in
that way. But I will say, you know, I've had
no problem, especially an example, when it came to anytime
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weather cuts into sports, people go crazy, and so you know,
I will interject in times like that, and I've defended
our competitors who were getting just reamed, you know, across
just the board, because we are we are expected to
(15:04):
carry out these life saving types of services, right right,
and that's part of our job. If it's and weather
is one of them, you know, and so if there's
a tornado on the ground, we do have to cut
into your favorite sports programming. Yeah, that's what two boxes
are for, and that's what they should be utilized for.
(15:24):
So you could see the game and have the met
on the screen. But some people just go crazy and
just the hate mail and the calls are just uncalled for.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And wait, so you've got not not the suite, not me.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I have a beautiful but I do know that, so
you never you've I haven't encountered them. I don't get
I don't usually Honestly, I've been very blessed.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Most people are very very kind, and.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What goes around comes around, and because you're very kind,
thank you, and so it comes back around.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You know. I try like I find because again I
was at and trained necessarily the same way that you
see a lot of the people on your TV, right,
I very much felt my way through and figured it
out kind of as I went. Yeah, and so when
I go out on a story, especially if one turns emotional,
I'll find myself just sitting, especially if it's a mother
(16:17):
or family or something, and I'll just sit and I'll
just hug, pray with them whatever it is like, or
cry with them, you know, because it is compelling.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, you feel.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
The emotion is not right though, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
There's I mean, there's some people and you know, I
guess that have learned how to turn that off, and
I just I can't. I'm too much of an impath.
So I feel everything, and I feel at times a
thousand Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Have you ever cried on TV?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I I when I signed off of my last station,
I think I was tearing up, But I don't think
I've ever cried.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It's been.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
There are some hard moments, specifically during severe weather coverage,
when I'm having to say things like, actually, so we
just had the anniversary of a historic outbreak. There were
seventeen tornadoes here, but that touchdown in one night and
just four years ago, but it actually stretched across eight states.
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But I remember having to process the information I was
reading and tell viewers that if you know anyone in
this city, in this you know where there was this
senior living facility.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
The entire building has just collapsed.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
My goodness, and knowing that that's people's grandparents, parents, almost everything,
and knowing that I have had had grandparents, you know,
I don't have. I don't have any left now, but
knowing that that could have been just I felt my
heart drop into my stomach and I thought I was
going to be sick, physically ill, beyond tears.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I thought I was going to be sick.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
That's probably the most I think there's a part of
you that just clicks into adrenaline mode when you're in
a real severe weather situation where you're like I have
to with It's a balance.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I have to clearly show emotion because this is my community,
especially too when I know people who live in all
of these areas and I'm telling you, hey, I've called
my parents on the phone while I'm standing at the wall.
I've done a radio hit.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
But at the same time, I was giving a forecast
so that I could get them as much information out
as too as much many as many people as I
could at one time.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like you know what, let me say this about Chelsea.
You guys, I get text messages from Chelsea about and
I never understood this. Now you're making me explain understand it.
It's because you care.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I do care, probably sometimes too much. I feel like I.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Don't know, I don't know too many people that have
texted me and asked me, hey, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Do you want me to call out? I'm there? Do
you want me to call?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And you do that? Yeah? Oh yeah, you're talking about
it when we were at the toy drive. Yeah, because
at the.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Times your text messages today just other times you've done that,
and it's like wow, okay, and hearing you talk about,
you know, how you've been on the phone or you've
called your parents while you're working, or you know, trying
to get as much information out, it helps me to
understand brain functions and why people love you so much.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Well. I also think I'm a chronic overshare, Like I
feel like I try to invite people into my life
as much as possible with also, you know, still having
some sembilance of you know, some personal you know life
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
But I love you know, I found.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'll tell you for years, I always tried to be
what I thought that I was supposed to be the
vision of whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That everybody, right, but hold on to that because y'all,
just in case you don't know and you've started just
started listening to us, I'm talking to Chelsea Chandler, a
Fox thirteen Memphis homegrown working here in Memphis for fifteen
years on the air, TV station waves or.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
How do you say it? Y'all are trying to say, Yeah,
the same thing on the tube.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, and I'm stormy. It is the pulse. Continue, Chelsea, please.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I was just gonna say, you know, I've tried.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I tried so long to fit whatever I thought in
my mind I was supposed to be what I was
supposed to sound like or look like and act to
present myself. And you know, I don't remember the exact moment,
but whatever it was when I finally may have just
completely just had broken down in my life, I think,
and I finally was like, you know what, I'm I'm
(20:30):
just gonna be myself. And you know what, that was
the turning point when people actually started because they were
started connecting with me because the person you see on
TV is the same person. Because you see me at
it at Memphis in May. Yeah, you see me out
a food drives. You see me out at toy drives.
I'm the same person that you see on TV. You
get to say, you know what I mean, like I'm
not putting on an act. And I realized that's what
(20:52):
people want. They want that connection. I hope that I've
been told. But when I talk to people on TV,
it's like I'm talking to them and not act them.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And that's powerful.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But that's not something you can teach, you know, not
it And that was always the biggest compliment that was
always ever given to me, was that it felt like
you're just here talking to me. And I've tried. So
when I get to when I do my forecast, mine
may not be as fancy and as you know, super scientific,
but you know why because a I didn't learn it
that way.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I can. I could do it that way if I
wanted to.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But I want to tell you the forecast is if
I was just talking to you right now and you
asked me what it's going to be like, you know, yeah,
And so I try to talk to you like I'm
just talking to my friend.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I love that and I just.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Hope, I mean, and it seems like at least people
are you know, get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And if you don't. I'm sorry, but that's Oh my goodness,
that's me, Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I tell you you have man.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You're beautiful.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Your outer exterior is probably what stops people in their tracks, Okay,
but it also probably intimidates people too, because they're like,
she so beautiful, she's probably not gonna want to talk
to me, or she's probably not gonna want to say
anything to me, even though I know her.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I see her on TV.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Number one, And you do this job that you have
become so good at.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
But not just that. I mean, you are, from.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What I've learned about you over the years, just a
good human being. And I'm not trying to say all
this to pump your head.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Up or whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I just, you know, I just you know, you learn
a lot of times when we see people on the TV,
or we see people or hear people on the rate whatever,
we have our own judgments about them, and then we
get the privilege when we get the privilege of meeting
them and getting to know them, we start to see
(22:46):
this girl really is the truth. You know, she is amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
She really is.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mean, you y'all see her, y'all know, Chelsea, y'all
y'all see her on TV. You see her in her
viral video. She's dancing all over the place.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I am always dancing.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Always, and your videos while you're dancing, they always go viral.
How in the world I saw you doing a video
with Latia Yates, but not just Lottia, There's been other people.
But you did a chore a choreographed dance with Latti.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Are sorry the Chris Brown girl? How long did it?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yes? Well, let me tell you what happened. So the
music went out and we actually did that perfectly in
time with no music, and we had to add the
music later when she edited the video.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
But yeah, no, she she just.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Sent it to me because we were gonna talk about
nine oh one day and the year before I had
learned the uh she did a flash mob. Yeah, and
so she's like, well, you gotta do this this year
and I was like, Okay, we're gonna have to edit
Chris Brown's version of.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
It a little bit if I'm gonna be on TV
doing it. So we did the Fox thirteen version of it.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But you know, I've won Dancing with the Stars, the
first ever Memphis Dancing with the Stars this summer and
raise over one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the YMCA.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
See what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I'm seriously, I I have I'm one of those people that,
like I don't I don't say no very often, like
if someone asked me, well, you know, if someone needs me,
even like, I'll make it work. I do so many
events and it is such a privilege when people ask me,
and you know, I get everything approved through my boss,
(24:29):
which I don't even know that I have to do that,
but I always do it because I feel like that's
a professional courtesy. And sometimes he's like are you sure,
and I'm like yeah, because they asked me, you know,
and at some point the phone may stop bringing and I.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Don't want that to happen.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So I want to be there for the community, you know,
so I just you know, I try to go out
to do as many events, and I have fundraisers or
whatever I can do to help if I I mean,
you know, God gave us all gifts and gave us all,
you know, ways to impact each other and to uplift
each other. And if that's mine, then that's how we
(25:05):
use it. Because I've you know, always been about the
community and giving back In fact, actually the governor gave
me the highest civilian honor, the Aid de Camp, which
is for service to the State. And a lot of
that is because it really started back when I lost
my brother to suicide back in twenty eleven and tried
(25:28):
to turn that into more of a positive thing of
educating people because a lot of times sometimes people just
need to be heard. And I feel like, you know,
if just sitting and talking to someone, or just giving
someone that hug, or being there for that friend or
that stranger for that matter, you never know what kind
of impact that can make. And you know, I think
(25:49):
that's kind of what really continued on my you know,
journey of giving back to the community. I've been with
the Breast Cancer American Cancer Society for tis twenty years
of working all of this stuff. I'm right here in Memphis,
and you know, I feel like God gives us all
talents and gifts, and if this is how he wants
(26:10):
me to use mine, then that's how I'm going to
use that every day that I'm on this earth.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Merry Christmas to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well gift. Well, okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm sorry, you got me all emoting all over here.
I just think it's so beautiful, y'all. I'm just trying
to tell you when you when you come along, and
maybe this is a lesson for everybody in their lives.
You know, a lot of us take people for granted,
and we don't always embrace people in our lives. Maybe
there's somebody you've been taking it for granted that you
haven't embraced like you should embrace them. Embrace them, you know,
(26:50):
reach out to them. Maybe we don't do that enough.
Maybe I haven't done that to you enough. Maybe I
need to do that more to people.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
No, it's the season of giving, and maybe that's what
gets us into the Christmas feeling.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I don't think it's necessarily about you know. I think
what means more to me is when you get that
random text that you know clearly meant someone was thinking
about you, And sometimes I feel like they're divinely timed,
like you get them and you're like, man, I needed
that right now, right It's like the virtual hug that
you can get that I can't.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Give you necessarily because I'm across town.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
But you know, just being there for each other and
that's why family, Like I told you, family was so
important to me.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's been it's been a hard year and almost two
years for my family.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
My dad was diagnosed with a stage three colon cancer.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
My mom had her own health problems.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I was in the hospital for over five weeks over
the past year, and so we've we've felt what it
feels like to have people literally holding you up, you know,
And so I think that changed my perspective even more,
especially when we went into you know, just the past
couple of months, like with.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
The community that needed when we.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Had to shut down, and you know, being able to
help when we needed at the most, when people needed
just needed food. You know, our station really had a
big push for that, and I was really proud to
be a part of that.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So Chelsea Chandler Fox thirteen just a superstar just on
social media. She's always engaging and engaged not just there,
but even in this community. And let me be the
probably millionth or more than that to say thank you, welcome,
(28:47):
thank you for your yesterday, thank you for coming on
this show and blessing somebody today. Somebody needed to hear
some of the things that you said. And I just
want to say thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, you're welcome. I appreciate you asking me to come.
We've been talking about it for a long time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, too long, and it just happened, and I'm glad
that it did.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It is the pulse, and we keep our fingertips on
the pulse of our community. Chelsea Chandler, Fox thirteen. Anything
in partying before we go, you know, I just we
don't know, you know. I just to say with my
family and things like that. You know, we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Hug the ones you love and hug them tight, extra tight,
because we never know. You literally never know what is
in the day ahead of you. And I see that
every day in the news. Yeah, and especially and don't
take anything for granted that you have and just have
a blessed and wonderful Christmas season, holiday season, whatever that
(29:51):
may look like for you.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I hope that it is Mary and bright. It is
the pulse. I am stormy, keeping our fing fingertips on
the pulse of our community, focusing today on the one
and only Chelsea Chandler. Thank y'all for joining us. We'll
see you next week. Same time, same station, God bless
you have a great week.
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