Memphis Morning News

Memphis Morning News

Memphis Morning News, weekdays from 6-9 on Newstalk 989. Ditch and Jeff talk with people important in shaping news and politics in The Mid-South and the country.

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July 17, 2025 14 mins

Newt Gingrich spoke with Ditch & Tim on Memphis Morning News about a generation of brainwashed people. "You don't go to Harvard today or Princeton or Yale to get educated, you go to get brainwashed" 

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This week on What's Bugging You (presented by James Pest Management) you called about the fight of words used in arguments with your wife. Also, trash continues to pile up and the 311 system is backed up so much, that pick up is now 5 weeks late according to residents.  Trash on the roads, dumpster trucks and dump trucks continue to trash the roads and now we all have to wait on TDOT to get out and pick it up. 

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Senator Bill Hagerty called in during Memphis Morning News to stress the importance of America leading the digital currency frontier and AI.  China is racing to breaking quantum computing that would essentially "crack the code" in all of our encryptions and codes.  The GENIUS Act is expected to be passed by the House and signed by President Trump.  It's a stablecoin system that is backed by treasury and uses blockcha...

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Memphis Tiger basketball alum and NBA star, William Bedford is being inducted into the American Basketball Hall of Fame this November.  William stopped by the Memphis Morning News studio to share memories of the 85 Final Four team from Memphis State and his time in the NBA.

"We didn't know anything about whether we were put on Sports Illustrated and where we ranked, we just wanted to play "

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Audrey answered the question- what is the Code Crew Hackathon?  This year's hackathon is based on sports and introduces young people to the world of technology. The "next big thing" in code and technology might be seeded through the mind of a kid right here in Memphis and Audrey explains more about this years Code Crew Hackathon while visiting Memphis Morning News with Ditch and Tim.  

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Robberies,  $40 Million boat docks, Perverts and more in today's edition of 5-1st on Memphis Morning News. 

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The Epstein client list,  Seat Belt enforcement and dismissing tickets...

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July 10, 2025 2 mins

Fake temporary car tags and beaters on the roads of west Tennessee. Is Bringing back the inspection stations the answer to help enforce laws requiring basic safety standards?

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As House of Representatives wait for minority leader, Jeffries to finish his delay tactics speech on the floor, 8th Congressional District representative, David Kustoff called Memphis Morning News with some facts over the rhetoric fictions.  Jeffries stating that the OBBB is the beginning of a nationwide abortion ban and other rhetoric statements to draw fears in voters. David Kustoff provided some facts about the tax cuts for...

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As Congress works to get the One Big Beautiful Bill passed, one side of the aisle is using extreme rhetoric to persuade the Americans against the passage of the bill.  "People will die...." , "millions of kids will loose their food benefits..." are statements made by minority leadership in the hours before the final vote. 

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Former Mayor of Memphis, Jim Strickland shares some of his personal experiences working with Fed Ex Founder / CEO Fred Smith and the reach that the Smith family has around the world and the ways it's helped Memphis.  

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Serving the 6th Congressional District of Tennessee, John Rose stopped by Memphis Morning News to talk with Ditch & Tim about his run to be the next Governor of Tennessee.  

  

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Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor on Memphis Morning News sharing stories of representing Fed Ex Founder / CEO Fred Smith as a constituent during Brent's days on city council and most recently in his district at the state level.  Fred and son Richard Smith discussed crime often. 

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Congressman David Kustoff called Memphis Morning News today to discuss the philanthropic contributions and importance of Fed Ex founder and CEO, Fred Smith to Memphis. 

Congressman Kustoff also addressed US Military strikes in Iran and the importance of knowing where the Iran nationalists are inside our borders that were released into the interior by the Biden administration.   

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In the precedence setting case United States v Skrmetti  banning transgender treatments in Tennessee,  SCOTUS has ruled in favor of Skrmetti. 

The AG called Memphis Morning News to discuss the opinion and react to those who say this ban is a loss for all Tennesseans.  

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Senator Bill Hagerty called Ditch and shared his thoughts on the Israel precision strikes in Iran, the organizations funding and organizing the LA rioters, the Big Beautiful Bill and Rand Paul. 

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Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor shared his thoughts with Ditch this morning about the planned No King protest Saturday in Memphis and in other cities.  An event that calls for comedy skits, clown shows and other interesting acts of silliness.    

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The violent protests in Los Angeles required federal assistance. President Trump utilized his authority to protect federal personnel and property. Governor Gavin Newsom is attempting to stop the federalization of the National Guard in California and Mark Miller from Pacific Legal Foundation says he's wrong and explains why.  

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Congressman David Kustoff called in during Memphis Morning News to talk about Trump v. Elon, The Big Beautiful Bill and the "Green New Scam" and the escalating of antisemitism in America. 

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