June 9, 2025 • 21 mins
The Annual Salute to Fatherhood is back says Shelby County Commissioner Mickell Lowery and Bryant Carson on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson
and we're back and I'm here with my guest or
in the host. Let me tell you who is here.
Mister Brian Carson is here and shall become the Commissioner.
Mikail Lowry getting ready to tell us something about what's
coming up. Fabulous. I can't believe fellas, it is already
(02:47):
going to be Father's Day.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Hey, y'all doing doing well about yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm hanging brother. Hey, hey, commission I'm hanging for cougar.
Well you're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well. I'm hanging.
So it's Father's Day and once again you all are
having your annual salute to fatherhood.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Tell us how all about that? That's right, Bev and listen.
I gotta say this. We know we love our mothers, right,
we know we love our moms, but we gotta make
sure that we're giving those same flowers and those same
accolades to our dads. And so we're a continuing our
salute the fatherhood event. We do it every Father's Day.
We took a little break during the pandemic, but this
was started in the early nineties by my father, Maran
(03:30):
Lowry and by Brian's mom, Gail Jones Carson, who really
sawid fortitude though. We got to say thank you to
these fathers out there. And sometimes it's not always just
dad's and the figures of speech. It's sometimes it's people
who had a positive impact in the community. It's sometimes
that coach you had, that mentor you had that somebody
just looked looked out for you on the street and said, hey,
(03:50):
you know, get from over there or whatever it may be.
Because sometimes those strong male presences in our community or
what's important that really drives culture and drives you know,
only connectivity.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So we're happy to be to help bringing fathers on
Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And so again you stopped for the pandemic, and so
you started back up last year. Yeah, we did we did.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So it's gonna be at the Holiday Inn Central on
Father's Day. Now, I say the joke and I said,
on Mother's Day, you can't find a reservation nowhere?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You can?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
You can?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You can't. You gotta start months in advance.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So what we said, you know what, on Father's Day,
you can probably walk into most places on Father's Day.
And that's all right because sometimes on Father's Day, I
want the father yeat on the grill and then cook
it on Father's Day. But we said we're going to
have a good banquet and a good meal and a
good program on Father's Day. So it's gonna be at
the Holiday in Central at two o'clock this year. Our
guest speaker is Jay Lawrence Turner. Well, excuse me, the
(04:44):
reverend doctor Jay Lawrence Turner from MEMPHISIP Boulevard. So we're
excited about that and excited to see our dad's getting
the recognition they deserve.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now now and Brian and coming on you this, Mike
is your mom is just one of the co founders
of this. That's that's my girl. Yeah, why do you
think she wanted to to to highlight this and highlight fathers?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Well, uh, there's a commissioner for saying in our community,
so many families are broken and struggle with the absence
of fathers, and so her and my Burne saw fit
to honor and acknowledge fathers that were actually in the household,
you know, being there for their children day in and
day out. And you know that's that's where it started
(05:29):
and with me and MICHAELA here to make sure it continues.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Now. Now you are gonna have a guest speaker and uh,
Reverend doctor J. Lawrence turned over there at us.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's right working. Well, you saw they just have big
news today. Her medical coming in as well. I mean
that's great for Memphis is great.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That is great. I love that he's working. He's so
he's going to be the keynote speaker. Are you going
to have other folks there? Michall, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So we're gonna have We're gonna have at least eleven
fathers that have been nominated by their families or by
their community partners and say hey want you to recognize
this individual.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So they're going to be there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We're gonna give them a couple of time to speak
also as well as with doctor Turner, uh and we're
gonna have some live music as well, so we want
to really just do it. You know, it's a really
great event that represents our fathers. We're not gonna keep
people there all day neither, because you know, some fathers
want to go rest.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't fathers that right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But we're gonna have a great event with a great
speaker and we're looking forward to seeing those dads get
those accolades.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So so how can people are there tickets or how
can people get those? Yeah, give your number.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
They're almost sold out, which we're excited about.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, we're excited about that because sometimes people wait till
last minute to do things and I get it. But
for someone who wants some information, you can call two
to two one thousand and speak to Ryan again too
to two one thousand and speak to Ryan and she'll
let you know what we have available and how you
can celebrate a good time with your father.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and do you all have a special theme for
this year?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Our theme has always just been salute to fatherhood. Yeah,
just saluting fathers.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
At one point, we had you know, picnics, and we
had softball games and in baseball games with dads at
our Neighborhood Park and we may bring that back as well,
but you know, every year, it's just we we thought
about changing things, but really what we want to do
and say, hey, we're saluting fathers and we want to
make sure that those fathers are getting recognized for the
(07:34):
work they do, because I'm telling you, it takes a village,
as you know, and some of these some of these
fathers out here aren't just fathers to their children, their
mentors to other people. They're the big brothers to somebody else,
or their their uncle to somebody who hadn't had that
father figure in their life. So we want to salute
all the father and father figures out there.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Now, what time is it going to start two o'clock?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Two o'clock on Father's Day at Holiday Inns Central.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And that that's where the University of Emphasis, that's right? Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna go to our phone lines and see who
I have on the phone. W D I a high caller?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Han't Bam Johnson.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And Michelle how Hello Bam?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
You know I got you on you know, I got
you on a feed?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Do what.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You know how to get in you know how to
get in my phone?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah? Yeah, but you have asked the question about so
why I came up with this, well years ago, Uh, so,
you know there there are mothers, you know we we
we we a one, but a lot of fathers, especially
back then when being called dad be dancing. I knew
so many fathers personally who were good dance. And you
(08:58):
don't have to live in the households. You could be
divorced and still be a good death, still have a
connection with your children. And fathers need to keep their condition.
They don't need to be waiting till they're eighteen years
old to children eighteen and talk about the relationship they
got with the mama. They can still have a good relationship.
And I knew men, I knew father's there for a
really really good father, and so admiring and I I
(09:22):
couldnot admiring been by my side no matter what. That's
my guy, that's my brother. So we just want to
always honor father because some of them are a lot
of them are very good father.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And you know, with Gail, I agree with you, and
I love what you admiring thought about doing. But because
a lot of times, and especially are black men, they
don't get saluted, they don't get honored and for those
who may never people never know their story. They're doing something, whether.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
They're with the mother or another is exactly and they
need to be recognized as well because she children. Children
do very very well when they have a mother and
a father, and a lot of us do all right
when we don't have a father. But just think, particularly
boys needs their father. Imagy girl needed too, so they'll
(10:14):
know kind of what to be looking for in life.
You know, my father died when I was six years old,
so my mom raised us, so I know the value.
I had two uncles who actually like our father, so
I know the value in the point of having a
father's figure or actual father or father in your life.
So Myron and I we started just back in the nineties,
(10:35):
and we want to make sure that Brian and McHale
continued its arm with Myron and I just to to Patty.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Be doing that. Hey, Gail, Ryan said, you're not gonna
get too tad to do nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
It's supposed on Facebook. Today we was at on vacation
and she had a leftop. We was in Florida last year. Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I said ninety two, I'm gonna be in front of
somebody computer screen.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Right, you always working, but but this is such a
positive thing and and I'm glad you you and Admiring
started this and the sons are keeping it going.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yeah, and we are so proud of them, so happy
but that they were willing to just pick this up
and keep them moving and honoring the fathers in our community,
just to say thank you for being there, because they
are going to make sure that we hopefully have some productive,
good citizens growing up in our Mimpic community. They need
to stay and take care of mesics, go after school
(11:40):
and come back and make mesics better.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You know, that's right. But thank you Gail for calling in.
You'll be sorry out their sister, all.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Right, I'm ad me tell you all.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right, right right, see, your mother is always working. This
is yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We all three were just at the ribbon cut.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, okay, she was there.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's but I love her, yeah, because she's she always
had my backup. I needed somebody called I need this,
I need this, I need this, and she was there
for me. That's right. So, so Michael and Brian, you
said a few tickets are left or for this on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
A few tickets are left, So if someone's interested, you know,
please call and if not, then we're gonna keep it
again next year. We'll make sure we reach out to
you next year as well. But again we're excited about it.
You know, Brian and I are both dads. We're both
girl dads.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I met your girl. I didn't know you had girls. Yeah,
remember by Brianna with me last year. Yeah, she did
the interview with us. So yeah, I just said that fellows,
y'all got a job, and here to you, the girl
who you're telling? Who you're telling? You tell what you know?
(13:01):
I know because see I was a daddy's girl. I
was older, so I was a daddy's girl. My dad's
gone on, but I know, but daddy's girl. And then
I was a tarist, bullhead.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And wait a minute, I think my sixteen year old
is a tarist. I just thought about it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Talk to me, you better talk to me. Yeah, you
better talk. I need to better talk.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
My wife probably wants to make sure I'm talking to
you too, because because I'm tarians.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah, we're bullheaded, we're stubborn, very independent. Wow, I'm
telling you, I'm telling you. Just describe my daughter almost
to a TV leave some mother stuff. But we love her.
We love her. Yeah, we're lovable. We're lovable, but we
(13:50):
get that bull. Get to come at them horns.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Ryan, Look at teen years, they're definitely a challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They are a challenge. Step up to the place.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Actually still whatever your moral compass is and your fatherhood duties.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, And I like what Gail said, And you all
can come along, you know, because it's it's great if
you can have a mother and father in your life.
But if you just have that mother and then some
people just have a father, and it's good and and
and men are so important to be in their child's
life where they're male and female, that they need that
(14:27):
it definitely need it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And that's why I say it goes out to those
and those coaches. You know, I played sports coming up,
and I was a coach myself. I coached youth football,
and I know how important those figures are into your life.
So it doesn't necessarily mean that that person's in the
household with you.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Doesn't mean that they grew up.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
In the traditional two parent household. A lot of folks
don't as well. So I didn't, so you know, and
Brian has his story as well, But that's okay. We
have people who really poured into us as well as
our fathers and everybody else want to honor those people
because those all shaped our lives.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
That's what salute the fatherhood is about.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I was just curious when you all say you're saluting
some fathers, people sending names or they know about that,
or churches, How well, how does that work?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, so we have people to nominate the folks they
like to nominate. Obviously somebody they know, right, could be
that could be their own father. Could we're on a
grandfather's too, so it could be their grandfather, or it
could have been just that you know that person they
say doing great work. We had some people nominate their coach,
so and so that's how they go about doing that.
(15:34):
And again someone wants to know about that. Again again
they call that number as well, and they can. You
can put in the nomination for next year because this year's.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Because I will say, if they get ready for next
because I know you're all going to have it next year.
Yeah we will, we will. Yeah, you might have to
have a new location.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I think we will. But you know what continued I said.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To Michael, I don't know I was hearing that that
place is going to be closing down.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
They are, after all, that's right, but they're closing for renovations.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Like y'all can shut that holiday. We'll see when they
open it back up.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But they're closing for locations, so it may be it
may be open by the time we do it again
next year. But you know what, as our event continues
to grow, who knows where we have to go.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So hey, you know, one day you'll be down at
the convention.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well that's a lot of dace, but you know it
would be great. Hey, hey, you know speak that is
that's that's a lot of dams in there. That would
be wonderful. That would be wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So again coming up, y'all call it salute to Fatherhood
byan yes, ma'am. And you're telling everybody as Michela gave
the number, you know, check to see the tickets.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Yeah, there's a few left. We're almost sold out this
Sunday coming up on Father Day, two o'clock holiday University.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I like that, and Andy, and then next year the
y'all start waiting so late to y'all, dass, you know
Father's Day it's coming in June, that's right, so far,
it's coming. It's coming unless somebody up there in Washington
decided to because you never know what he's gonna cancel.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Now you're right about that. We just gonna say it
like this.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
As soon as you celebrated Mother's Day, as soon as
you have Mother's Day dinner on that Monday, go ahead
and make your Father's Day plan.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Right. I like it. I love that. So again, it
is happening. Sunday is Father's Day. It is. That's right,
that's right. We're excited about it Father's Day.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
So happy early Father's Day to all the fathers out
there and all.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
The father figures out there.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And thank you for what you continue to do because
it takes a village, right, So appreciate you all.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And before you all get out of here with how's
your dad doing? He's doing. He's doing better. I appreciate
you asking.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He has some health issues, but you know he's he's
back to being as old. I shouldn't say it's on
the air, but I am. He's back to being his
old stubborn self, which is good, which means turn into
some normalcy. So I appreciate you asking another I'll tell.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You, I tell you, yeah, both of them, both of
them doing well, two of my favorite people. Thank you.
You know they and I can say this you they
just like your mom. They've always been cordial. They always
treated me with respect and matter of fact that I've
been to your mom and dad's home, so you know,
I think about them off and I think about them all.
I'm telling them both.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You said, hello, is your royalty here with almost fifty
years here, royalty in our miss So thank you all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm trying to hang now you go hang hey, thank you, Brian.
I'm trying to hang on in here as long as
I can hang on hanging. But I love what you're
doing and and and supporting men, and this is gonna
be great. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
At the Holiday Inn Universe of Memphis, h two o'clock
on Father's Day, give that number again for Ryan, two
to one thousand, very is two to two one thousand, right, any.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Last words you like to say, Brian.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Respect, honor, and celebrate your father's this Sunday, even if
you don't come by our event showing me your appreciation.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, that's all I know. And you're right, you know,
And if they're still with you really show you appreciation.
But I wish mine was still here. But but I
appreciate my daddy. Thank you fellas you are just here.
Your folks raised you, all right, that's all I can say.
You were raised right. Thanks. We got as I tell folks,
(19:32):
you got a little ht home train. We're working on
our daughters. Now, hey, the teenagers get ready for the boys.
Ready for the boys. Huh oh, that's another topic topic
daughters and following your following. Thank y'all for being here
(19:56):
and and to you all. Happy Father's Day. Yeah, always
a pleasure, my pleasure having him. Shelby County Commissioner, y'all
know him. Mikail Lowry and Brian Carson getting ready for
their annual salute to father hood. Yeah. I want to
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thank you callers. I want to thank you listeners for
joining us this day on the BEB Johnson Show. We do,
we really do appreciate you. So until tomorrow, please be safe,
keep a cool head, y'all, don't let anyone still be
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(20:42):
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You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show. Here's Bev Johnson
and we're back and I'm here with my guest or
in the host. Let me tell you who is here.
Mister Brian Carson is here and shall become the Commissioner.
Mikail Lowry getting ready to tell us something about what's
coming up. Fabulous. I can't believe fellas, it is already
(02:47):
going to be Father's Day.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Hey, y'all doing doing well about yourself?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm hanging brother. Hey, hey, commission I'm hanging for cougar.
Well you're doing pretty well. You're doing pretty well. I'm hanging.
So it's Father's Day and once again you all are
having your annual salute to fatherhood.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Tell us how all about that? That's right, Bev and listen.
I gotta say this. We know we love our mothers, right,
we know we love our moms, but we gotta make
sure that we're giving those same flowers and those same
accolades to our dads. And so we're a continuing our
salute the fatherhood event. We do it every Father's Day.
We took a little break during the pandemic, but this
was started in the early nineties by my father, Maran
(03:30):
Lowry and by Brian's mom, Gail Jones Carson, who really
sawid fortitude though. We got to say thank you to
these fathers out there. And sometimes it's not always just
dad's and the figures of speech. It's sometimes it's people
who had a positive impact in the community. It's sometimes
that coach you had, that mentor you had that somebody
just looked looked out for you on the street and said, hey,
(03:50):
you know, get from over there or whatever it may be.
Because sometimes those strong male presences in our community or
what's important that really drives culture and drives you know,
only connectivity.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
So we're happy to be to help bringing fathers on
Father's Day.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And so again you stopped for the pandemic, and so
you started back up last year. Yeah, we did we did.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So it's gonna be at the Holiday Inn Central on
Father's Day. Now, I say the joke and I said,
on Mother's Day, you can't find a reservation nowhere?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You can?
Speaker 6 (04:19):
You can?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
You can't. You gotta start months in advance.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So what we said, you know what, on Father's Day,
you can probably walk into most places on Father's Day.
And that's all right because sometimes on Father's Day, I
want the father yeat on the grill and then cook
it on Father's Day. But we said we're going to
have a good banquet and a good meal and a
good program on Father's Day. So it's gonna be at
the Holiday in Central at two o'clock this year. Our
guest speaker is Jay Lawrence Turner. Well, excuse me, the
(04:44):
reverend doctor Jay Lawrence Turner from MEMPHISIP Boulevard. So we're
excited about that and excited to see our dad's getting
the recognition they deserve.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Now now and Brian and coming on you this, Mike
is your mom is just one of the co founders
of this. That's that's my girl. Yeah, why do you
think she wanted to to to highlight this and highlight fathers?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Well, uh, there's a commissioner for saying in our community,
so many families are broken and struggle with the absence
of fathers, and so her and my Burne saw fit
to honor and acknowledge fathers that were actually in the household,
you know, being there for their children day in and
day out. And you know that's that's where it started
(05:29):
and with me and MICHAELA here to make sure it continues.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Now. Now you are gonna have a guest speaker and uh,
Reverend doctor J. Lawrence turned over there at us.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
That's right working. Well, you saw they just have big
news today. Her medical coming in as well. I mean
that's great for Memphis is great.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That is great. I love that he's working. He's so
he's going to be the keynote speaker. Are you going
to have other folks there? Michall, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So we're gonna have We're gonna have at least eleven
fathers that have been nominated by their families or by
their community partners and say hey want you to recognize
this individual.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
So they're going to be there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We're gonna give them a couple of time to speak
also as well as with doctor Turner, uh and we're
gonna have some live music as well, so we want
to really just do it. You know, it's a really
great event that represents our fathers. We're not gonna keep
people there all day neither, because you know, some fathers
want to go rest.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Don't fathers that right.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But we're gonna have a great event with a great
speaker and we're looking forward to seeing those dads get
those accolades.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So so how can people are there tickets or how
can people get those? Yeah, give your number.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
They're almost sold out, which we're excited about.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, we're excited about that because sometimes people wait till
last minute to do things and I get it. But
for someone who wants some information, you can call two
to two one thousand and speak to Ryan again too
to two one thousand and speak to Ryan and she'll
let you know what we have available and how you
can celebrate a good time with your father.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah, and do you all have a special theme for
this year?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Our theme has always just been salute to fatherhood. Yeah,
just saluting fathers.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
At one point, we had you know, picnics, and we
had softball games and in baseball games with dads at
our Neighborhood Park and we may bring that back as well,
but you know, every year, it's just we we thought
about changing things, but really what we want to do
and say, hey, we're saluting fathers and we want to
make sure that those fathers are getting recognized for the
(07:34):
work they do, because I'm telling you, it takes a village,
as you know, and some of these some of these
fathers out here aren't just fathers to their children, their
mentors to other people. They're the big brothers to somebody else,
or their their uncle to somebody who hadn't had that
father figure in their life. So we want to salute
all the father and father figures out there.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Now, what time is it going to start two o'clock?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Two o'clock on Father's Day at Holiday Inns Central.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And that that's where the University of Emphasis, that's right? Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna go to our phone lines and see who
I have on the phone. W D I a high caller?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Han't Bam Johnson.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
And Michelle how Hello Bam?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
You know I got you on you know, I got
you on a feed?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Do what.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You know how to get in you know how to
get in my phone?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah? Yeah, but you have asked the question about so
why I came up with this, well years ago, Uh, so,
you know there there are mothers, you know we we
we we a one, but a lot of fathers, especially
back then when being called dad be dancing. I knew
so many fathers personally who were good dance. And you
(08:58):
don't have to live in the households. You could be
divorced and still be a good death, still have a
connection with your children. And fathers need to keep their condition.
They don't need to be waiting till they're eighteen years
old to children eighteen and talk about the relationship they
got with the mama. They can still have a good relationship.
And I knew men, I knew father's there for a
really really good father, and so admiring and I I
(09:22):
couldnot admiring been by my side no matter what. That's
my guy, that's my brother. So we just want to
always honor father because some of them are a lot
of them are very good father.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And you know, with Gail, I agree with you, and
I love what you admiring thought about doing. But because
a lot of times, and especially are black men, they
don't get saluted, they don't get honored and for those
who may never people never know their story. They're doing something, whether.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
They're with the mother or another is exactly and they
need to be recognized as well because she children. Children
do very very well when they have a mother and
a father, and a lot of us do all right
when we don't have a father. But just think, particularly
boys needs their father. Imagy girl needed too, so they'll
(10:14):
know kind of what to be looking for in life.
You know, my father died when I was six years old,
so my mom raised us, so I know the value.
I had two uncles who actually like our father, so
I know the value in the point of having a
father's figure or actual father or father in your life.
So Myron and I we started just back in the nineties,
(10:35):
and we want to make sure that Brian and McHale
continued its arm with Myron and I just to to Patty.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Be doing that. Hey, Gail, Ryan said, you're not gonna
get too tad to do nothing.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
It's supposed on Facebook. Today we was at on vacation
and she had a leftop. We was in Florida last year. Yeah, yeah, man.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I said ninety two, I'm gonna be in front of
somebody computer screen.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Right, you always working, but but this is such a
positive thing and and I'm glad you you and Admiring
started this and the sons are keeping it going.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yeah, and we are so proud of them, so happy
but that they were willing to just pick this up
and keep them moving and honoring the fathers in our community,
just to say thank you for being there, because they
are going to make sure that we hopefully have some productive,
good citizens growing up in our Mimpic community. They need
to stay and take care of mesics, go after school
(11:40):
and come back and make mesics better.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You know, that's right. But thank you Gail for calling in.
You'll be sorry out their sister, all.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Right, I'm ad me tell you all.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Right, right right, see, your mother is always working. This
is yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
We all three were just at the ribbon cut.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, okay, she was there.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's but I love her, yeah, because she's she always
had my backup. I needed somebody called I need this,
I need this, I need this, and she was there
for me. That's right. So, so Michael and Brian, you
said a few tickets are left or for this on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
A few tickets are left, So if someone's interested, you know,
please call and if not, then we're gonna keep it
again next year. We'll make sure we reach out to
you next year as well. But again we're excited about it.
You know, Brian and I are both dads. We're both
girl dads.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I met your girl. I didn't know you had girls. Yeah,
remember by Brianna with me last year. Yeah, she did
the interview with us. So yeah, I just said that fellows,
y'all got a job, and here to you, the girl
who you're telling? Who you're telling? You tell what you know?
(13:01):
I know because see I was a daddy's girl. I
was older, so I was a daddy's girl. My dad's
gone on, but I know, but daddy's girl. And then
I was a tarist, bullhead.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
And wait a minute, I think my sixteen year old
is a tarist. I just thought about it.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Talk to me, you better talk to me. Yeah, you
better talk. I need to better talk.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
My wife probably wants to make sure I'm talking to
you too, because because I'm tarians.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh yeah, we're bullheaded, we're stubborn, very independent. Wow, I'm
telling you, I'm telling you. Just describe my daughter almost
to a TV leave some mother stuff. But we love her.
We love her. Yeah, we're lovable. We're lovable, but we
(13:50):
get that bull. Get to come at them horns.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Ryan, Look at teen years, they're definitely a challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They are a challenge. Step up to the place.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Actually still whatever your moral compass is and your fatherhood duties.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, And I like what Gail said, And you all
can come along, you know, because it's it's great if
you can have a mother and father in your life.
But if you just have that mother and then some
people just have a father, and it's good and and
and men are so important to be in their child's
life where they're male and female, that they need that
(14:27):
it definitely need it.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And that's why I say it goes out to those
and those coaches. You know, I played sports coming up,
and I was a coach myself. I coached youth football,
and I know how important those figures are into your life.
So it doesn't necessarily mean that that person's in the
household with you.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Doesn't mean that they grew up.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
In the traditional two parent household. A lot of folks
don't as well. So I didn't, so you know, and
Brian has his story as well, But that's okay. We
have people who really poured into us as well as
our fathers and everybody else want to honor those people
because those all shaped our lives.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
That's what salute the fatherhood is about.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I was just curious when you all say you're saluting
some fathers, people sending names or they know about that,
or churches, How well, how does that work?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yes, so we have people to nominate the folks they
like to nominate. Obviously somebody they know, right, could be
that could be their own father. Could we're on a
grandfather's too, so it could be their grandfather, or it
could have been just that you know that person they
say doing great work. We had some people nominate their coach,
so and so that's how they go about doing that.
(15:34):
And again someone wants to know about that. Again again
they call that number as well, and they can. You
can put in the nomination for next year because this year's.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Because I will say, if they get ready for next
because I know you're all going to have it next year.
Yeah we will, we will. Yeah, you might have to
have a new location.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I think we will. But you know what continued I said.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
To Michael, I don't know I was hearing that that
place is going to be closing down.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
They are, after all, that's right, but they're closing for renovations.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Like y'all can shut that holiday. We'll see when they
open it back up.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But they're closing for locations, so it may be it
may be open by the time we do it again
next year. But you know what, as our event continues
to grow, who knows where we have to go.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So hey, you know, one day you'll be down at
the convention.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well that's a lot of dace, but you know it
would be great. Hey, hey, you know speak that is
that's that's a lot of dams in there. That would
be wonderful. That would be wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
So again coming up, y'all call it salute to Fatherhood
byan yes, ma'am. And you're telling everybody as Michela gave
the number, you know, check to see the tickets.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Yeah, there's a few left. We're almost sold out this
Sunday coming up on Father Day, two o'clock holiday University.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I like that, and Andy, and then next year the
y'all start waiting so late to y'all, dass, you know
Father's Day it's coming in June, that's right, so far,
it's coming. It's coming unless somebody up there in Washington
decided to because you never know what he's gonna cancel.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Now you're right about that. We just gonna say it
like this.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
As soon as you celebrated Mother's Day, as soon as
you have Mother's Day dinner on that Monday, go ahead
and make your Father's Day plan.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Right. I like it. I love that. So again, it
is happening. Sunday is Father's Day. It is. That's right,
that's right. We're excited about it Father's Day.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
So happy early Father's Day to all the fathers out
there and all.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
The father figures out there.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And thank you for what you continue to do because
it takes a village, right, So appreciate you all.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
And before you all get out of here with how's
your dad doing? He's doing. He's doing better. I appreciate
you asking.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
He has some health issues, but you know he's he's
back to being as old. I shouldn't say it's on
the air, but I am. He's back to being his
old stubborn self, which is good, which means turn into
some normalcy. So I appreciate you asking another I'll tell.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
You, I tell you, yeah, both of them, both of
them doing well, two of my favorite people. Thank you.
You know they and I can say this you they
just like your mom. They've always been cordial. They always
treated me with respect and matter of fact that I've
been to your mom and dad's home, so you know,
I think about them off and I think about them all.
I'm telling them both.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You said, hello, is your royalty here with almost fifty
years here, royalty in our miss So thank you all.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm trying to hang now you go hang hey, thank you, Brian.
I'm trying to hang on in here as long as
I can hang on hanging. But I love what you're
doing and and and supporting men, and this is gonna
be great. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
At the Holiday Inn Universe of Memphis, h two o'clock
on Father's Day, give that number again for Ryan, two
to one thousand, very is two to two one thousand, right, any.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Last words you like to say, Brian.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Respect, honor, and celebrate your father's this Sunday, even if
you don't come by our event showing me your appreciation.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, that's all I know. And you're right, you know,
And if they're still with you really show you appreciation.
But I wish mine was still here. But but I
appreciate my daddy. Thank you fellas you are just here.
Your folks raised you, all right, that's all I can say.
You were raised right. Thanks. We got as I tell folks,
(19:32):
you got a little ht home train. We're working on
our daughters. Now, hey, the teenagers get ready for the boys.
Ready for the boys. Huh oh, that's another topic topic
daughters and following your following. Thank y'all for being here
(19:56):
and and to you all. Happy Father's Day. Yeah, always
a pleasure, my pleasure having him. Shelby County Commissioner, y'all
know him. Mikail Lowry and Brian Carson getting ready for
their annual salute to father hood. Yeah. I want to
(20:18):
thank you callers. I want to thank you listeners for
joining us this day on the BEB Johnson Show. We do,
we really do appreciate you. So until tomorrow, please be safe,
keep a cool head, y'all, don't let anyone still be
your joy until tomorrow on BEB Johnson and y'all keep
(20:42):
the faith.
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