June 30, 2025 • 57 mins
Episode Notes My guests include Dr. Dale Criner, Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Chief Medical Officer. Intense heat and humidity are something all of us in the mid south are accustomed to but it’s dangerous. Dr. Criner tells us it’s nothing to play with and taking proper precautions could save your life. Next, the Chamber of Commerce is the public face of any city or community. The Millington Area Chamber of Commerce is led by Chris Thomas who works hard with business members and community partners to make Millington one of the best places to work and live. He joins me to share why it’s a special place. That and more on air and online Monday, 6 pm on WYXR 91.7 FM. Also, the WYXR app, Tunein, Facebook Live, YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. It’s time to talk!
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Here we go on this hot and steamy Monday, late
afternoon going into the evening time.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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It's six o'clock straight up, which means it is time
for alive and all new edition of Real Talk Memphis
right here on your radio down. Great to be in
the air chair again this week. I am your humble hopes.
My name is Chip Washington. It is great to be
here as always. And yeah, it's still hot outside, by
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the way, just in case you were wondering, the heat
will be in effect until further notice. As we're going
into a short week for many people. This is a
short week. Of course, the fourth of July is actually
on what day is that Thursday or Friday, Friday, and
so a lot of folks are going to be out
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and about off a lot of your work three days
and take off Thursday and then not come back into
the town till Sunday. I know all this stuff works,
but yeah, so you have that to look forward to
as well. But welcome, welcome, welcome into the big broadcast
that we are always glad to have you. Last week
BRNN was out and he is back. So the gang
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is all here tonight and we always love that. As
far as the show is concerned, we'll run down the
I guess listen just a minute, But first, how do
you get this fine piece of radio broadcasting? Well, you know,
I'm always glad when you asked that question. We're live
right now on ninety one point seven WYX are on
the FM side of things. You can also find us
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will be on YouTube. And you know we're a podcast,
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so we will be available on all podcast platforms wherever
it is you get your podcasts. You will be able
to hear us in the next couple of days. So
there you go. That is how you find this great program.
And speaking of tonight, we do have a program change.
You know I post all my guests and all that
stuff on social media. Well, Hail Bird unfortunately will not
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be able to make the show tonight. But in his stead,
Ladies and Gentlemen, is our faithful leader, the man who
runs the show around here WYXR. His name is Robbie Grant,
and he will be joining me in just a couple
of minutes to talk about something that I think that
maybe or maybe you have not heard about in reference
to the arts in this country and some potential changes
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that could be on the horizon that I think could
possibly even affect some radio stations like this when the
Robbie's gonna talk a look, talk to me about all
of that in just a couple of minutes.
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A little bit later on. It's hot.
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We all know that we go through this each and
every year around here. Heat in the mid South during
the summertime is no joke. But neither is heat stroke
or heat exhaustion or you know many things that can
happen to the body when exposed to extreme heat for
too long. So we're gonna talk a little bit about
that tonight. Doctor JAYL. Kriner is joining me. He's the
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chief medical officer over at Methodist Lebonner, Germantown, and you knows,
as he says, this is no joke. You can't play
with this kind of heat because you won't win, absolutely will.
You will not win. So he will give us some pointers.
He will talk to us about what happens when you
are exposed to too much sunshine and heat, and in
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it could it could cause some some some very serious problems.
So we'll have that conversation in a bit and a
little bit later on. You know, there's one one community
that you know we never really talked much about around here,
and we're gonna change that tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Millington, Millington, Tennessee. You know it's nice.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I't Millington if you've if you've not been out there
for a while, it's nice and quiet and peaceful.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Uh.
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And but we're going to talk to the man who
sort of leads the charge. You know that he's responsible
for the business and and drawing some positive attention to
that community, Chris Thomas. He is the executive director of
the Millington Chamber of Commerce, and he will be joining
me in the second half hour of the show to
tell us everything you wanted to know about Millington but
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we're afraid to ask. And he is also going to
tell you why it is the place for you to come,
the shot to work into play, how about all of that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's a rundown of the show tonight. We'll get to
that in just a little bit. But first and foremost,
we do this little thing each and every week where
we so salute you those of you who are having
birthdays out there. Many folks are born in June, a
lot of birthdays in June, a lot of birthdays on
this day in June in particular. But we can't do
that until I tell Brian or ask Brand to hit it.
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So there you go. A happy birthday, Happy birthday. June
is a busy, busy month. It really really is Happy birthdays.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Going out too. CJ. Thomas today.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
CJ works over at the Playhouse on the Square. He's
the director of Community Relationship.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Good job. Amy Moulroy. That last name sounds familiar.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
She is the wife of the District Attorney Steve Molroy.
His wife and Amy celebrating her birthday today. Happy birthday
to you. Rick Harrold celebrating today as well. Happy birthday
to Bervermont Levy, Anita Farmer, horse Fill McCaskill, Dion Taylor
celebrating on birthday today?
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Is this Rodney Mayfield. Happy birthday to Lisa.
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Taylor, to Kim von Brewer, to Barbara Chambers Dueling, And
to a friend and a farmer television news.
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Colleague, mister Ryan David Simon.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, what birthday shot out would be
complete without, you know.
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Love, Happy birthday to my dear friend Tanji. Her birthday
is July before.
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She's a little.
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Firecracker okay, firecracker, and happy happily birthday to my friend
Roger Randolph and his brother Zach Randolph.
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Yesday ogah yeah, the one that used to hang out
down at the forum down in the finish Yeah out, okay,
wow wow, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
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And before we even dismissed this little.
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Segment, I was I was informed that there will be
a memo coming out in the next couple of days.
The city of Memphis might be shut down next Monday
because the seventh day of July, each and every year,
we celebrate none other than the birthday of Hellola. Ladies
and Gentlemen, DJ. Lola's birthday is week from today.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
She's already informed.
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Me that she won't be here. She's stunning in next Togo.
But we'll be shouting you out anywhere no next week.
She's looking at me like ice straight, nothing less kettles
at my feet. That's what she said, Thank you, bing
oh man. Yeah y'all. Yeah, so shout her out on
social media. Next Monday is the Lola's birthday. That's gonna
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be a big day for sure. Let's do a little
news and notes, shall we. Two men are dead after
an argument that led to a shooting. You know the
rock climbing gym over in Sultsville. This happened yesterday evening
about four fifteen. It's called Memphis Rocks. I guess you
can go in there and you know the climb rock,
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you know, is the simulated rocks and all that kind
of stuff. Well, anyway, two individuals got into a verbal altercation,
guns were drawn, shots were fired between a man and
a male employee who worked inside the building. Were both
men unfortunately lost their lives. Memphis police say that the
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victims did argue before the shooting happened, and that they
did know each other. And again one of the employees,
one of the employees of Memphis Rock, was one of
the individuals that was killed. So our sincere condolences to
all those who were affected by this tragedy. A woman
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is in trouble tonight. She was arrested after she allegedly
stold hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Memphis nonprofit.
You may have heard about this story. On April twenty eighth,
the interim director of the climbing gym I just mentioned
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filed a report with the Memphis Police Department. He said
that an internal audit allegedly showed that one of the
nonprofit organization's employees, Rashanda Burwell, had been paying her personal
credit cards and MLGW bills with the nonprofits First Horizon
Bank account and no, she didn't have authorization to do that.
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This happened between January twenty seven, January twenty twenty two
and April twenty twenty five, So yeah, this was occurrying
for a few years. She was getting away with this,
she used She obtained records from multiple banks. What the
investigators did rather showing that Miss Burwell used the Rocks
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Memphis Rocks One Memphis account to make payments to the
following thirty seven, two hundred and ninety dollars to her
American Express account on one hundred and eighty thousand, one
hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents to her Chase
credit card account, five thousand, seven hundred thirty two dollars
to Memphis Like gas and water for a total of
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two hundred twenty three thousand, two hundred three dollars and
five cents.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, so she was.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Arrested and posted a fifty thousand dollars bonds. Was doing
court this morning. I don't know what happened with that,
but in any event, there you go. That's a lot
of money if you really I mean, I mean, I'm
you know, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars to a
Chase account. That's that's pretty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Anyway, God bless her heart. Anyway, last story here, and
this is a serious story. The Sherby County Health Department
is observing National HIV Testing Day that is coming up
at the end of the week with an outdoor event,
free testing, available resource giveaways in the whole nine yards.
It will be held at the Health Department at eight
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fourteen Jefferson Avenue, located you know, in the medical district
this Friday. Doctor Michelle Taylor says Shelby County has the
second highest HIV rate among metropolitan area is in this country,
number two in the entire country from HIV infection rates.
That is a very serious thing, second only to Miami
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in Florida. Preliminary data from the Tennessee Department of Health
in the case, the infection rate for people aged fifteen
through nineteen is fifty percent higher than it has been
the last two years. So, you know, obviously, taking the
necessary precautions and being safe should be the priority for
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many folks out there, but it's not. But again, if
you are dealing with that, and if you need to
get tested, please please please go get tested. The Chevy
County Health Department is offering those tests and they are free.
That is a look at news and notes. So when
we come back, we're going to talk to the boss,
and we're going to talk to that's Robbie Grant, of course,
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and we're going to talk about an important issue that
affects the arts. Yes, courtesy of the current president of
the United States. We'll talk about that and a whole
lot more. This is Real Talk Memphis. I'm Chip. You
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It's it's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
There, and welcome back to real talking emphas on this
Monday evening, Chip with you. Glad to be with you,
of course on this uh warm and steamy Monday evening
in the city. And of course you know, we love
w y s R. We love being here, we love
working here, and we love the atmosphere around here.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But you know there there are things that are happening
out there in reference to the arts that I think
warrant some conversation. And in order to be able to
uh to do that, we have our our operations manager,
the boss, the boss, the man he is, I mean,
he is our guy.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Robbie Grant is joining me and Robbie is always good
to see you.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, well thanks for having me on CHIP.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So you know, you know, you and I were talking
a little bit earlier, and you know, there are some
some conversation about, you know, the arts as a whole
of what your course includes radio and the theater and
a lot of other things, and there's some conversation that's
going on around you.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I think that as you told me, earlier. People
need to know about it out for us.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so you know, we've been all
of our DJs here, We've got signed signage here in
the air room around what's going on with the Corporation
for Public Broadcast. So you when you're watching something on
PBS or you know, you're listening to radio, that's it's
this corporation that was created thirty forty years ago maybe longer,
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to help create and public media, you know, you know,
just get you know, PBS is completely funded by corporation,
not completely, but a lot by Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Uh WK and O in town another another public media
station in town. Yeah, and they do classical music. They
have MPR and then there's there's ore. There are thousands
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of stations around that around the like that around the country.
It's a grant that you get on a yearly basis
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called the Community Services Grant.
So w YXR we actually got one at the end
of last year. So it's something that we couldn't get
at the very beginning of what we were doing. You
have to be a station for three years, you have
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to show you know, active community around your station, which
I think we've done, you know, and so we got
that at the end of last year. I'm super excited
about it, right, I mean, it's it's not it you
know for us, it's a lot around growth. So it
allows us to kind of get the word out about
the station. That's how we were going to use are
going to use that money initially, and we did get
you know, that money already for fiscal year twenty five.
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But what we're talking about today is not even the
fact that they would might might take it away in
a year or two.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
The funding.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
It's something called recession. They're rescinding the money. So that's
what they're talking about now, which is basically taking money
that's already promised, not taking it back, not not from
like not out of the WAXR Bank account. But it's
you know, it's a two year cycle that they go through.
So the Congress has said, you know, here, you get
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this money to you know, for these public media stations
for two years. So for fiscal year twenty six, that
money is guaranteed but hasn't been received by these stations.
So that's what this conversation is about. It's about them
taking the money back out of the Federal Reserve and
saying that these stations can't get it. So for us,
it's very important, you know, for us for growth, but
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it's critical for other stations around I mean, like I'll
mention them again, WK and O and other stations around
the country that need this money.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
To do what they're doing.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
So the House has already passed it, they've already said
they're rescinding it, and so now it has to go
through the Senate. So what we're doing is we're just
letting people know. I mean, it's one point one billion
dollars in funding that's already approved for public media.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
So so that money is okay, like you said, for
the next two years, right, that money is already already
out there.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
So so so so the agreements for two years. So
we received the first year, but the second year we
have you know, we're like, oh, we're going to get it.
You know, we have to meet certain requirements. But and
it's and it's the CPB has already been guaranteed that money.
The Corporation for Public they've already been guaranteed that money.
What's happening is they're saying, now we're going to take
that money back from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which
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means all these stations won't get it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
So you can learn more at protect protect my publicmedia
dot org. There's a lot of resources there. They had
a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday of last week.
Senator Haggerty is the Tennessee senators on that on that committee.
There's about twenty senators that are voting on it, so
they have to vote on it before mid July. But
I mean, there are a lot of the other you know,
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there's some there are other things in that package that
are getting rescinded. We're obviously focused on the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting. But I mean it's a pretty big deal.
That money was guaranteed and then it's being rescinded.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Basically, so if the Congress, the Senate side, uh decides
to go along with the House side to rescind this money,
I mean that that that that that's a yes, that's
a major deal.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
Yeah, it's it's gone for us for for our our
we're on a calendar year, so it's not we've already
budgeted the money for this year, so we're fine, but
next year it'll be all, it'll be a gap that
we'll have to make up. And again, like we're a
we're a city in a station, but the Corporation for
Broadcasting also funds like rural stations. Like it's all about
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the emergency management too, like having the towers and the
radio station to like get the word out about fires
and about floods and that kind of thing. So it's
a big deal. It's a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I didn't I was not aware of anything.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
And so some of these rural stations, the CPB makes up,
probably right now this year, about eight percent of our funding,
but for some of these other stations out there, it
could be forty to fifty to sixty percent. So imagine
if that money goes away, you can't, I mean, you
can't continue to your station. So we're not we're fighting
for ourselves, obviously, but we're really it's a bigger fight
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for all of public media and we want to get
the word out.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So yeah, I think you know, in terms of what
this station, the concept of this station, what is all about.
And we're five, you're in year five now around here,
and I mean the growth and the acceptance of this
station and the format that you all designed when you
first started put this thing together, it has really become
a very big deal around here. So I think that
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what you're saying is collective voices. First of all, we
need to do our homework and kind of find out
what this is all about. Is there any recourse that
listeners might have as supporters that the station might have.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yes, you can go to protect my publicmedia dot org
and it's super super simp. You can basically say you're
put in your address and it'll give you your senators
if you're if you're listening in Mississippi, Arkansas, please do
this too, but it'll give your Tennessee any of those senators,
and then it'll send them an email. You can also
call them. I highly recommend calling them. I think this is,
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you know, a watershed moment for for our senators and
that you know they've guaranteed this money and that they
need to you know, know that it needs to go
where it needs where it's been already allocated.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm sitting here listening to
what you what you're saying and thinking about it. The
money is allocated, so you're okay, But I mean, really,
now that one side of the house is voted to
Yankee back. Yeah, you know, the other the other house,
the other side could do the same thing. And this
could be a deafitel like you said, for a lot
of the smaller stations out there who people depend on
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in the rural counties around this country. This is this
really is uh you know, and and and reference to
the communication the other things. This could be a pretty
big to deal.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Yeah, And I mean us getting a CPB grant allowed,
you know, gave us you know, we're became the station
that we were able to get that, you know, and
it really as we were growing it it's going to
help us grow and so we want to you know,
get our word out to more people involved, more voices
from in the community. So personally, you know, for the
our station, it's it's just critical for us to grow.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So we you know, I don't know you well, I.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Mean I think no, I think it's an important thing
that you came to talk to us about all of this.
You really have become a community you're you're you're becoming
really a community voice. I mean, you know, we we
do what we do here you know, on a daily basis,
the music to talk and everything else but the station
as a whole, and I think from the very beginning
the outset, I think it's important for you people to
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understand that you really wanted just when you say community station,
you meant I mean the entire community, some of the
things that you've done, the activities, the events, the concerts,
the other thing. I mean, it is quite a big,
big deal. Has this matched up to what your vision
was when we first started this thing?
Speaker 11 (24:06):
I like that You always ask me that question every time,
and I like it. I like it because it keeps
you know, it keeps me thinking, yes, of course. I
mean I think that we're doing a lot more actually
more community events than I thought we would, you know,
and I'm happy about that. I think that's you know,
I think that brings us together. We've got a lot
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of over one hundred volunteer DJs, which I wasn't sure
how that would go, you know, but it's been it's
been great, and we've got a great all of our
all of our DJs on air right now are incredible
and we're lucky to you know, have all their voices
and just be on the air twenty four to seven. Yeah,
with really great people around, almost almost like almost exclusively
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from Memphis. There's like about three or four that aren't,
but almost all of them are.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And you know when you say that, I mean everybody
who comes here has their own thing, and everybody does
their own thing.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's very eclectic, man.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And it really does similar as what I hear you
and JB and others talk about the history of this
of the of the city musically. Yes, and I mean
I think from time I hear every genre of music
and many of them, many of it forms Memphis, many
of it, many of it comes from the roots of
the city.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
And we just yeah, and we just did, like this
past Thursday, we did the Doubt Awards, named after Nathan
Nathaniel Dowd WI Williams, the first w d I a DJ.
We did that the Civil Rights Museum, honoring black musicians
who had a big effect on their on the community,
people who aren't normally honored. And that's just you know,
it aligns with our mission, like uplifting voices that haven't
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been heard and given them awards, giving them their their flowers,
and you know, it was it was an amazing event.
And so we love doing stuff like that. We love
having concerts. We love hearing our DJs on the air.
We love you know, engaging with the community.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And you know it's it.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Literally is public media. I mean we're out there in
the public, you know, talking to the public, involving the public.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Well you do it in the amazing job. And thank
you you are you are. We come here and really
talk about this. This is a very important thing.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
And again I urge you all if you have questions,
you know, to reach out to uh protect my publicmedia
dot org. Protect my publicmedia dot org.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
It takes five five seconds, maybe ten seconds to get
involved in this easy and and.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
And reach out to them and let them know how
important this is to you. Thank you, thank you for
having me Chip. I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
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Speaker 5 (28:40):
And welcome back to the Real Talk Memphis Broadcast. Glad
to have you along for the ride this evening. I'm
chipped and that's right. You know, this is the last
day of June, for God's sake. Tomorrow is July first, man,
and time is absolutely flying right on by. Just thought
about that just a minute ago. Goodness gracious. Anyway, welcome
back to the show. And of course I talked about
this at the top of the broadcast. Summertime in Memphis,
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Tennessee is no joke, and it's pretty consistent. It's hot,
it's humid, and for many of us, it can be
a miserable time. But it can also be a dangerous time.
This sun is no joke around here, and it can
cause a lot of harm and a lot of damage.
So I thought it would be important for us to
have a medical expert on the show who could talk
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to us about all of this and.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Let us know.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Maybe if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe him.
But anyway, welcome to the broadcast, doctor dal Criner. Doctor
Criner is the chief medical officer at Methodist Lebonner in Germantown,
and doctor Criner is great to see you Welcome to
Real Talk Memphis.
Speaker 13 (29:43):
Thank you very much for the invitation. You know, more
than a thousand people a year in the United States
die of heat related illnesses, so your message right now
is on point. It's certainly the time of year we
have to worry about.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
This, absolutely that and I didn't know that that number.
That's a sobering number. But you know, we have folks,
you know, every year are out and about and doing
their thing. And I think doctor Crina for me, I
just don't. I think we sort of take for granted
that sun, but how dangerous it could be to us
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if we don't take the necessary precautions and understand that
the sun can kill you if you don't pay enough
attention to it. Now, I'm aware of two things. One
is heat exhaustion and one is heat stroke. And I'm
sure that you'll talk about both of them, but I
mean really emphasizing how important it is for us to
pay attention not only to the grown folks, but to
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the young folks as well in reference to this heat
am I.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Correct, absolutely.
Speaker 13 (30:41):
You know, the extremes of age are the ones that
seem to be the most at risk. They don't really
regulate their body temperature very well. If you're small enough,
sometimes you just don't know to get out of the heat.
You know, older patients sometimes they have chronic medical conditions.
They take medicines and make them more prone to not
being able to get rid of excess heat, not sweat adequately.
(31:01):
So you're exactly right. The older population, the very young
population are really the ones more at risk, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
So you know, again break it down for me, if
you will heat exhaustion and heat stroke, some of the
symptoms that one might feel and some of the things
that we can do to prevent that.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
So heat exhaustion is really kind of your body's early
warning system. It's your body kind of telling you that, hey,
I'm getting a little bit too hot here. I need
to get out of this heat and get into the
shade or into the air conditioning, into a cooler area.
So you got really sweating is kind of a sign
of heat exhaustion. You can feel a little faint, little dizzy,
heart rate is a little fast, but then it can
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progress to something that is really a life threatening problem.
Then you can have, you know, a heat stroke. At
that point, really your temperature is one hundred and three
hundred four degrees or higher. At that point, many times
you quit sweating, you become confus used, agitated, you can
have seizures, you can lose consciousness, and really at that
point is when the organs start to fail, and that
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can be deadly.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, that's some scary stuff that you talked about, you know,
in terms of that, Now, I do know that this
time of year, when we see the thermometer get above
ninety degrees and the heat in disease around here, or
the humidity can go well above one hundred maybe one
hundred and five, one hundred and ten, you know, is
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that is key critical in reference to this.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What times are the day or night?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I'm sorry not night, but what times of the day
are times that when there's intense heat that we need
to stay away from.
Speaker 13 (32:43):
That Really, from about ten in the morning to about
four o'clock in the afternoon, that's kind of your peak
times to try to avoid the heat. Maybe you have
things to do outside, if you need to do some
yard work, try to get it done as soon as
the sun comes up early in the morning, or maybe
late in the evening when the sun starts to go down,
those are your safer times. But gosh, here in Memphis.
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You know, even at seven or eight o'clock at night,
it can be quite hot.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, absolutely that And of course we always emphasize watching
out for our senior population because you know, I think
their body you know, I mean the blood gets thinner,
and a lot of other things that they don't really
feel things like maybe you know, we think they should.
Why is it so important for us to really watch
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our senior population, especially during extreme heat times.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Well, some of our older population, again, they're taking medications
they can make it difficult for them to regulate their
body fluid levels and their body temperature. They may be
taking fluid pills or diuretics because they have a history
of congestive heart failure that can make it difficult for
them to maintain their salt balances and lose fluids. They
could be taking certain psychiatric medicines that also make it
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hard for them to sweat and to get rid of
the heat from their body. The other thing is, you know,
sometimes they just you know, some some of the folks
have limited resources and making sure that they have an
air conditioned house, having somebody check in on them. Their
mobility sometimes is not very good. So you know, all
of that we do. You're exactly right, need to take
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care of our older population. They're the reason why we're
successful now, so we need to honor them and take care.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Of them absolutely that.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
And you know another thing that many people cherish are
their pets, and of course our little four legger friends
who like to go for walks around the neighborhood. But again,
that is something that people need to pay attention to,
especially during the heat of the day, because it can
do some serious damage.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Talk about that, well, I'm glad you brought that up,
because you know, pets, children, cars, it can really only
take about six minutes for it to become a deadly
situation for an animal, for a small child that's left
a car with the windows up. I mean literally, you
can just walk into the store and walk back out
and they can already be in a life threatening situation.
(35:04):
You know, our animals like to get out and play,
and believe it or not, the asphalt the concrete that
we have gets up to a point that it actually
burns their paws. It causes damage. So it's important for us,
as responsible owners of our animals and great parents to
be watching out for those populations, whether it be our animals,
whether it be our small children.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
You know, you mentioned something that I hadn't really thought
about necessarily, but this is young kids. I mean, people
do it every year. Every single year. We see cases
where people will leave children, babies in cars, in car
seats with the windows rolled up all the way on
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a hundred degree day when they come out, Like you say,
many times there are tragic circumstances that come from that.
But even you shouldn't do that, period. Should you even
leaving a crack in the window or on all four
windows in the car. That's not enough, is it? In
terms of the extreme heat that that that generates in
that car.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
It's not enough.
Speaker 13 (36:09):
And really, honestly, you shouldn't be doing it period. I mean,
if you're if you have a child, they should be
out of the vehicle. If you're out of the vehicle,
you take responsibility for them. But leaving them in the vehicle,
even with a window cracked, is potentially a life threatening situation.
And you know, we're talking about the heat right now,
but this applies also in the cold months when it's
freezing outside.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, that's very very true. That's very true.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
You know, one thing that I've noticed that seems to
be a bit of a change, and correct me if
I'm wrong. In terms of athletics, this is the time
of year where you know, football starts to crank up, right,
and uh, you know, training starts to happen, and and
and it's it's during this time of year, the most
intense extreme, uh, part of this part of the year
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weather wise. I've noticed that there are some schools that
have moved practices to six o'clock in the morning or
late in the evening and really not too much during
the day. But I don't know how you you know,
there's an argument about that because they say, well, you know,
you have to have them out there, you know, during
that the heat of the day, so their bodies can
be conditioned.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I mean, if you had to argue about that, what
would that argument be.
Speaker 13 (37:17):
The argument is there's you know, from my viewpoint, there's
no sports that are children are planned that's worth losing
your life over. So they're taking good safety precautions to
avoid having them in the middle of the day. It
is great that they're trying to exercise them in the
mornings early and the evenings. More importantly, it's just making
sure they're hydrated. But all of our emergency departments throughout
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Memphis through every every summer, we treat high school athletes
student athletes of heat related illnesses and exhaustion and dehydration.
So it is very serious.
Speaker 15 (37:50):
You know.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
One of the things that you mentioned briefly at the top,
and I wanted to talk about a little bit more,
was how one hydrates oneself. You know, I always hear,
you know, stay hydrated if you're going to be outside
and doing outdoor activities. That doesn't mean the alcoholic stuff.
That means water obviously, but we lose minerals from our body.
(38:16):
You mentioned sweating earlier. There are certain things that we lose,
proteins and things that we lose from our bodies when
we sweat too much. And how do we replenish that
a lot of people are thinking Gatorade and some other
things like that, but not necessarily, but I'll let you.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
You're the doctor.
Speaker 13 (38:31):
You tell me, Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be
Gatorade brand. You know, any kind of drink that has
electrolytes in it, that doesn't have caffeine, doesn't have alcohol,
that's going to be good for you if you outside sweating.
A whole lot water is still a good standby, so
you can't go wrong with drinking water prehydrate before you
know you're going to be out in the heat. You know,
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drink two or three glasses of water before you're going
to go out there. If you wait until you're thirsty,
you've waited too long, because that's your body's way of
telling you. You're onto a ball.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
And sugary drinks, you know, like like any drink with
sugar in it, that's not good for you either, especially
during this heat.
Speaker 13 (39:08):
Am I correcting that excessive sugar high frontose, corn syrup.
We should try to avoid those things. A little bit
of sugar, you know, that's okay. The body uses sugar
to some extent, but like everything, you want to avoid
it to excess if preferably if you're out there, you're
drinking water or something like Gatorade, whether it's that brand
(39:29):
or another brand.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
People who work outside last question, people who work outside
in businesses who are outside like utility workers or construction workers,
or folks who are laying you know, black top and
things like that. You know, whenever I pass those type
of crews, my heart goes out. But do these businesses
and companies and things like that who employ folks like that, doctor,
(39:53):
to your knowledge, do they employ certain rules and regulations
in terms of keeping their employees safe and hydrated, especially
once you have to be outside most of the day working.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
Well, as far as they adhere to OSHA standards, at
least they have them posted. I have seen most of
those organizations. They really do try to take some safety
precautions and have their workers drink plenty of water, have
access to water, make sure it's around. But it's important
for them to also take breaks. I think the thing
(40:26):
that gets some folks sometimes it's the cumulative effect. I'll
see somebody that's been doing the same job outside for
several days in a row, and a day or two
of that their body is able to kind of compensate,
but then it kind of catches up with them. So
it's really important to do short periods of work if
you're going to be out there, and then take frequent
(40:47):
breaks and get out of the heat and get into
some shade.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Doctor Dale Criner, Ladies and gentlemen, she's medical officer for
Methodist Lambana or Germantown dot Chriner. Thank you for coming
on the show and really laying it out there. These
are important things that you're talking about. And while each
and every year you mentioned you see a number of
people who may not follow the rules or may get
sick in reference to the sun, there are things that
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we can do to ourselves in for each other and
for others that will keep us safe. Thank you so
much for coming on the show and laying it out
for me. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 14 (41:19):
Thank you so much, absolutely anytime.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Thank you, Yes, sir, There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
This heat is no joke. And I realized that.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
You know, of course, for a lot of folks, they
love to get out in the hot sun and they
but it doesn't take long for it to mess with
you and mess with you in a way that could
cause you some very very serious damage.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
And we don't need that, we don't want that. I
will share a personal story for you with you.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
When I was younger and I was playing football back
in the days, back in the high school days. We
practiced in the heat of the day, in the heat
of the afternoon, and I had a friend of mine,
a good friend of mine, he fell faint on the
field during practice and he succumbed to heat stroke. And
I've never forgotten that my entire life. And that's why
(42:06):
I understand how serious it is. And how you know
when I hear things like that that happen around either
the state or the community or the country. You know,
I just implore folks, please, please please understand that the
human body can only take so much. And so I'm
glad that Dr Criner was able to come on the show.
Let's take a final break, and when we come back,
we're gonna take a trip. We're gonna take a little
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trip up Highway fifty one to a place called Millington.
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Speaker 1 (44:50):
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Speaker 5 (45:00):
Become back to real Talk Memphis on this warm and
steamy Monday evening in the city Chip with you. And
of course, you know, uh, you know, I've been doing
the show for some years now and one of the
places I have to admit I don't talk about much,
but it really is a rather nice place, and I
wanted to get someone on here who could give me
(45:22):
some perspective and give you some perspective on the wonderful
city of Millington, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
He is, and please welcome to the show. Chris Thomas.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
He's the executive director of the Millington Chamber of Commerce,
and he joins me, now, Chris is great to see you,
my friend.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
Been good?
Speaker 13 (45:39):
Man?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
We go long ways back, don't we?
Speaker 4 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, we really do, Yeah, long way back.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
And you know, Chris used to be a former county commissioner,
and yeah, he's had an illustrious career. Chris, in terms
of Millington, how long have you been the executive director
of the Chamber?
Speaker 10 (45:55):
Man, I just took over four months ago. Yeah, I
just came in in middle of February, so it's all new.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, it's all new. It's all new. Now, what you know,
I think of you as almost the de head of tourism.
What is there about Millington that folks don't know that
you think they should know?
Speaker 10 (46:19):
Oh, there's so much up there? What people don't know
a lot of some people don't even talk when they
think of Shelby County. I've had people say, is Millington
and Shelby County. I'm like, well, yes, it's in Shelby County,
but it is the fastest growing municipality in Shelby County
at forty one said growth, Wow, And I can't you know,
(46:39):
I heard you earlier describing and that I've been part
of the development. I can't take I'm new there, so,
like Terry Rowland was executive director of the former administration,
take credit for it.
Speaker 14 (46:49):
But it's a safe town.
Speaker 10 (46:51):
And it's just we've got the military base up there,
of course, and then we've got so much growth.
Speaker 14 (46:57):
We've had restaurants, We've got.
Speaker 10 (46:58):
Over twenty five current projects going on right now up
in Millington. But it's just the people are good down home.
We go to our restaurant. The service is great, the
food is great. We have friends that come from Bartlett, Lakeland,
Arlington and come to Millington. They say this is service
is better, but the leadership is good. I mean the
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leadership's good too. So that's another big thing.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, you know, in reference
to that, you know, you name some things, and I mean,
obviously every town has, every city has it's it's it's
it's it's pluses and and you know, certain things that
people are attracted to. You all do a lot of
baseball tournaments and things up there. Do you know, isn't
isn't that a big isn't that big? Are fit up there?
Speaker 14 (47:42):
Yeah, that was one of the things on my list.
I've got a list here.
Speaker 10 (47:45):
But the USA Baseball Stadium used to be called the
Olympic because it's tried the stadium to It's where they
did the trials years ago.
Speaker 14 (47:52):
But that stadium, people don't realize.
Speaker 10 (47:54):
Every weekend except Easter, they host a baseball or softball tournament.
Teams come from all over this country, kids adults, and
it fills up Millington restaurants and hotels and all over
the area. Some of them can't even stay in Millington
because of that.
Speaker 14 (48:09):
But no, it's that's.
Speaker 10 (48:11):
Amazing and there there's a great attraction. That's the number
one attraction really up there. We've got several others with
that thing draws a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (48:19):
Yeah, and uh, you know again you don't hear I know,
I have several folks that I know who live in
Millington who lived there for some time and and really
like it up there. I mean it's very quiet. As
you say, you don't hear a whole lot about what's
going on. And and uh, you know it's it's it's
it's peaceful for the for for the most part.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
In your job, what what what are your goals?
Speaker 5 (48:39):
You know you've only been there for a few months obviously,
but but what as you as you continue to move
forward in in this journey, what are your goals for
for the.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
City of Millington? What what what do you want to see?
Speaker 13 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 14 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 13 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 4 (48:51):
What do you like? What would you like to see?
What do you want people to really know?
Speaker 10 (48:56):
Well, you know, we've had some like I said, we've
had a lot of growth us you on the north side,
but I want to sort of help with getting Navy
Road in the south part.
Speaker 14 (49:06):
Of fifty one back to where it was before. Help
growth there.
Speaker 10 (49:10):
But controlled growth is very important a lot of people.
I've seen some towns they grow so fast that it
brings a lot of bad things to it. But I'm
just trying to grow the chamber because one thing, Millington's
pop sales tax is seventy percent of their budget, so
that's business r and so my job is to help
with that and work with the new mayor Dagon and
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Frankie Dacon, the city manager, work with them and in
the IDB to try to help bring business there and
keep the business there and making sure, you know, I
want to make sure businesses get value for their money.
I don't want to just take their money and say
thank you for being a member. I'm providing value. We're
working a lot of different things that I won't bore
(49:53):
you with, but like the website, we're redoing all kinds
of things.
Speaker 14 (49:56):
We're coming up with a video, magazine, online.
Speaker 10 (49:58):
Just a lot of things that when people are looking
at coming here or they've just moved here, they go
online and they want to be able to find things.
And so that's something and I'm working on helping to
rebuild the relationship with the naval base, which is our
largest employer.
Speaker 14 (50:13):
With about eight thousand people, and a lot of people
don't know about that base.
Speaker 10 (50:17):
As far as every recruit every decision made about personnel
and recruiting in the world for the Navy goes through Milington, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
I did that event.
Speaker 14 (50:27):
I didn't need it until I got there.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (50:29):
So yeah, yeah, but we and we've got like currently
we've got one hundred and eighty five members of our chamber,
and that's it's already grown.
Speaker 14 (50:37):
We're getting about two or three new members a week.
Speaker 10 (50:40):
I'm out there working just trying to you know, meet
people that are coming to town, people that haven't joined.
Speaker 14 (50:46):
I'm just going around trying to make sure people know
about us.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
And uh.
Speaker 14 (50:50):
But now it's been it's been good and fun and
it's a you know, it's uh.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
We have several different big events and we're working on
some other things too for the community. One of the
things is that I that the city is running Wednesday
night is the big fireworks up there.
Speaker 14 (51:04):
They moved it to the airport.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
I was gonna say, yeah, you guys have a huge
fireworks show up there, and it's always is.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
There's always quite entertaining.
Speaker 14 (51:12):
Yeah, this year they moved it over to the airport.
Speaker 10 (51:14):
But now there's a lot I mean people Like I said,
years ago, it was a lot bigger because they had
all the training for the naval base out there. But
they moved out to Pensacola in ninety two, so we
lost a lot of residents. But you know, I think
they have about fifteen new residents a month moving on
the base.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
Oh okay, yeah they're and they're building.
Speaker 10 (51:35):
Like five new new homes a week in Millington right now,
building five new homes a week.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
Wow, that's that's excellent.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
Before we go, I want to I want to I
want to divert from this the Millington side of things
just a minute.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
You and your family were.
Speaker 5 (51:55):
On a little show that many of us have seen
on television called Family Feud, and I think you were
on that once but twice. Am I correcting it?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (52:04):
About five years ago, me and my ex wife actually.
Speaker 10 (52:09):
And my daughter and a nephew and cousin, we auditioned
live here in Memphis, and twenty nineteen took us a
long time because of COVID and other things. Get on
there but we actually they really wanted us on. We
we went out two years ago to Atlanta in May
film the show.
Speaker 14 (52:26):
It's been on.
Speaker 10 (52:27):
So I can tell you that we won the first game,
but we did not win twenty thousand dollars unfortunately. Oh
so I'm still working. And then we lost our second game.
But they liked us so much as what they told us,
they wanted us to come back. So we went back
to the end of this April and we filmed again.
But all I can say is we were on the
show and had a great time. And I could tell
you some stuff about Steve Harvey at Man's the trip,
(52:51):
but anyway, but.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
No, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 14 (52:53):
They paid for everything and good for you.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Good for you, it was. It was a lot of
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (52:58):
So yeah, we had a it's been just I was
on Wheel of Fortune in nineteen eighty six when I
had dark here when I was twenty two.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Look at you. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (53:06):
Well listen, Chris Thomas, Ladies and gentlemen, the executive director
of the Millington Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 4 (53:11):
It's a nice city, it really is.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
And I know several people that I wasn't exaggerating when
I said that who loved Millington lived in Millington for
some period of time and like and like the city
and just enjoy being there. Chris, thank you for taking
some time to come on the show and talk to
us a little bit about this today.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
Hey, thank you real quick. Good.
Speaker 10 (53:29):
Tell everybody out there, y'all go to our Facebook page
Millington Chamber dot Area Chamber dot com.
Speaker 14 (53:33):
Our website's Millington Chamber dot com Facebook.
Speaker 10 (53:36):
You can find us. We keep a lot of information there.
We are growing and want you all to come up
there and see us. And if you got a business
and want to move to Millington, a great town, give
me a call.
Speaker 14 (53:45):
Find me on Facebook.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
Absolutely that and tell Frankie. I said, hello, I know him,
I Frankie Dakin, And so tell him. I said, Hi,
you all do that? Thank you, my friend, really appreciate you.
Thank you so much, Chris Thomas. Ladies and gentlemen talking
about Millington. They're doing some good stuff up there. Like
I say, you know, when they stay quiet, they're just
kind of doing their thing. But they're they're on there,
they're on the move. And as he said, man, we've
(54:08):
got folks coming all the time. We're rebuilding and building
houses and everything else. And that's a good that's a
good problem to have. So we really appreciate him. But
before we get out of here, of course Event Horizon
is next.
Speaker 12 (54:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (54:21):
I don't know if you realize this or not, but
this team here, we we dominate the Monday evening.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Uh, you know, broadcast here at WIX.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
Lola DJ Lola Lisa's Off with her show comes on
for five to six each and every evening and Monday evening.
And then we follow here with Real Talk Memphis doing
our thing, and then we wrap this thing up with
Brent brin Is. Brn Butler is the host of Event
Horizon and Uh, when Robbie was in here a little
while ago, Robbie said, hey, listen to your show, and
(54:51):
I'm enjoying it. See Brendan, you never know who's listening. Brn,
I'm telling you that. So do you have a do
you have a genre tonight? Do you have a thought
that you.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
Come into to day thinking what am I gonna play
to that? On her Horizon?
Speaker 1 (55:04):
What do you got?
Speaker 17 (55:04):
Yeah? I did, although for no reason in particular because
this is a h an apolitical program here, but I'll
be celebrating New York City for the first half.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
Yeah, we like that New York City. Yeah, strictly some.
Speaker 17 (55:20):
New York rap. And then in the second half it'll
be a little more guitar stuff of the stuff you know,
I've just been listening to this past week, discovering, you know,
oldies and things like that in the in the metal
world and things like that.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
Well, listen, man, you're doing a good job on that show.
You haven't been doing it long, but you developing a
little bit of following out here. We really appreciate that,
and we appreciate you. If Brent plays this time, we're
gonna get out of here and clear They're clear the
studio for him to do his thing. I want to
say thank you to all of you folks out there
who are finding real talk methods. I'm looking at numbers,
(55:55):
I'm looking at people. I'm looking at you know, the
folks who are checking us down on Facebook Live, because
that's really my own measure of how I measure what's
going on out here.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
And I mean the numbers served. I'm impressed.
Speaker 5 (56:08):
I'm truly am which means I'm hopefully that you're impressed.
With what we're trying to do here. Look, we can't
be successful without you, and I want you each and
every one of you you know who have invested in
this show in one form or another, that I truly,
truly appreciate it from the heart. I mean that's sincerely
from the heart, and thank you, thank you, thank you,
and keep telling folks about what we're doing. You like
(56:30):
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other folks to check us out as well. So as
we prepare to get out of here, for all of us,
a real Talk Memphis, for a brand who will be
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and for the soon to be birthday girl Lola Back then,
ladies and gentlemen, the birthday is next Monday, and of
course support brand H and myself. I'm Chip, and I
(56:55):
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fourth fourth of July weekend. Okay we safe. I can
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Here we go on this hot and steamy Monday, late
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Speaker 4 (01:24):
Ladies and gentlemen.
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It's six o'clock straight up, which means it is time
for alive and all new edition of Real Talk Memphis
right here on your radio down. Great to be in
the air chair again this week. I am your humble hopes.
My name is Chip Washington. It is great to be
here as always. And yeah, it's still hot outside, by
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the way, just in case you were wondering, the heat
will be in effect until further notice. As we're going
into a short week for many people. This is a
short week. Of course, the fourth of July is actually
on what day is that Thursday or Friday, Friday, and
so a lot of folks are going to be out
(02:06):
and about off a lot of your work three days
and take off Thursday and then not come back into
the town till Sunday. I know all this stuff works,
but yeah, so you have that to look forward to
as well. But welcome, welcome, welcome into the big broadcast
that we are always glad to have you. Last week
BRNN was out and he is back. So the gang
(02:27):
is all here tonight and we always love that. As
far as the show is concerned, we'll run down the
I guess listen just a minute, But first, how do
you get this fine piece of radio broadcasting? Well, you know,
I'm always glad when you asked that question. We're live
right now on ninety one point seven WYX are on
the FM side of things. You can also find us
(02:48):
on the wyx our app. You can also catch the
show live on the tune in app. We are live
streaming tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, on Facebook Live, so if
that's your thing, you can go to my page and
you can watch the show live as we move through
this the next hour and once the show post, we
will be on YouTube. And you know we're a podcast,
(03:13):
so we will be available on all podcast platforms wherever
it is you get your podcasts. You will be able
to hear us in the next couple of days. So
there you go. That is how you find this great program.
And speaking of tonight, we do have a program change.
You know I post all my guests and all that
stuff on social media. Well, Hail Bird unfortunately will not
(03:37):
be able to make the show tonight. But in his stead,
Ladies and Gentlemen, is our faithful leader, the man who
runs the show around here WYXR. His name is Robbie Grant,
and he will be joining me in just a couple
of minutes to talk about something that I think that
maybe or maybe you have not heard about in reference
to the arts in this country and some potential changes
(04:02):
that could be on the horizon that I think could
possibly even affect some radio stations like this when the
Robbie's gonna talk a look, talk to me about all
of that in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
A little bit later on. It's hot.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
We all know that we go through this each and
every year around here. Heat in the mid South during
the summertime is no joke. But neither is heat stroke
or heat exhaustion or you know many things that can
happen to the body when exposed to extreme heat for
too long. So we're gonna talk a little bit about
that tonight. Doctor JAYL. Kriner is joining me. He's the
(04:39):
chief medical officer over at Methodist Lebonner, Germantown, and you knows,
as he says, this is no joke. You can't play
with this kind of heat because you won't win, absolutely will.
You will not win. So he will give us some pointers.
He will talk to us about what happens when you
are exposed to too much sunshine and heat, and in
(05:00):
it could it could cause some some some very serious problems.
So we'll have that conversation in a bit and a
little bit later on. You know, there's one one community
that you know we never really talked much about around here,
and we're gonna change that tonight.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Millington, Millington, Tennessee. You know it's nice.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I't Millington if you've if you've not been out there
for a while, it's nice and quiet and peaceful.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
And but we're going to talk to the man who
sort of leads the charge. You know that he's responsible
for the business and and drawing some positive attention to
that community, Chris Thomas. He is the executive director of
the Millington Chamber of Commerce, and he will be joining
me in the second half hour of the show to
tell us everything you wanted to know about Millington but
(05:44):
we're afraid to ask. And he is also going to
tell you why it is the place for you to come,
the shot to work into play, how about all of that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
That's a rundown of the show tonight. We'll get to
that in just a little bit. But first and foremost,
we do this little thing each and every week where
we so salute you those of you who are having
birthdays out there. Many folks are born in June, a
lot of birthdays in June, a lot of birthdays on
this day in June in particular. But we can't do
that until I tell Brian or ask Brand to hit it.
(06:16):
So there you go. A happy birthday, Happy birthday. June
is a busy, busy month. It really really is Happy birthdays.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Going out too. CJ. Thomas today.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
CJ works over at the Playhouse on the Square. He's
the director of Community Relationship.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Good job. Amy Moulroy. That last name sounds familiar.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
She is the wife of the District Attorney Steve Molroy.
His wife and Amy celebrating her birthday today. Happy birthday
to you. Rick Harrold celebrating today as well. Happy birthday
to Bervermont Levy, Anita Farmer, horse Fill McCaskill, Dion Taylor
celebrating on birthday today?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Is this Rodney Mayfield. Happy birthday to Lisa.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Taylor, to Kim von Brewer, to Barbara Chambers Dueling, And
to a friend and a farmer television news.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Colleague, mister Ryan David Simon.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, what birthday shot out would be
complete without, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Love, Happy birthday to my dear friend Tanji. Her birthday
is July before.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
She's a little.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Firecracker okay, firecracker, and happy happily birthday to my friend
Roger Randolph and his brother Zach Randolph.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Yesday ogah yeah, the one that used to hang out
down at the forum down in the finish Yeah out, okay,
wow wow, Happy birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
And before we even dismissed this little.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Segment, I was I was informed that there will be
a memo coming out in the next couple of days.
The city of Memphis might be shut down next Monday
because the seventh day of July, each and every year,
we celebrate none other than the birthday of Hellola. Ladies
and Gentlemen, DJ. Lola's birthday is week from today.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
She's already informed.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Me that she won't be here. She's stunning in next Togo.
But we'll be shouting you out anywhere no next week.
She's looking at me like ice straight, nothing less kettles
at my feet. That's what she said, Thank you, bing
oh man. Yeah y'all. Yeah, so shout her out on
social media. Next Monday is the Lola's birthday. That's gonna
(08:25):
be a big day for sure. Let's do a little
news and notes, shall we. Two men are dead after
an argument that led to a shooting. You know the
rock climbing gym over in Sultsville. This happened yesterday evening
about four fifteen. It's called Memphis Rocks. I guess you
can go in there and you know the climb rock,
(08:46):
you know, is the simulated rocks and all that kind
of stuff. Well, anyway, two individuals got into a verbal altercation,
guns were drawn, shots were fired between a man and
a male employee who worked inside the building. Were both
men unfortunately lost their lives. Memphis police say that the
(09:06):
victims did argue before the shooting happened, and that they
did know each other. And again one of the employees,
one of the employees of Memphis Rock, was one of
the individuals that was killed. So our sincere condolences to
all those who were affected by this tragedy. A woman
(09:28):
is in trouble tonight. She was arrested after she allegedly
stold hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Memphis nonprofit.
You may have heard about this story. On April twenty eighth,
the interim director of the climbing gym I just mentioned
(09:50):
filed a report with the Memphis Police Department. He said
that an internal audit allegedly showed that one of the
nonprofit organization's employees, Rashanda Burwell, had been paying her personal
credit cards and MLGW bills with the nonprofits First Horizon
Bank account and no, she didn't have authorization to do that.
(10:12):
This happened between January twenty seven, January twenty twenty two
and April twenty twenty five, So yeah, this was occurrying
for a few years. She was getting away with this,
she used She obtained records from multiple banks. What the
investigators did rather showing that Miss Burwell used the Rocks
(10:35):
Memphis Rocks One Memphis account to make payments to the
following thirty seven, two hundred and ninety dollars to her
American Express account on one hundred and eighty thousand, one
hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents to her Chase
credit card account, five thousand, seven hundred thirty two dollars
to Memphis Like gas and water for a total of
(11:00):
two hundred twenty three thousand, two hundred three dollars and
five cents.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, so she was.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Arrested and posted a fifty thousand dollars bonds. Was doing
court this morning. I don't know what happened with that,
but in any event, there you go. That's a lot
of money if you really I mean, I mean, I'm
you know, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars to a
Chase account. That's that's pretty Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Anyway, God bless her heart. Anyway, last story here, and
this is a serious story. The Sherby County Health Department
is observing National HIV Testing Day that is coming up
at the end of the week with an outdoor event,
free testing, available resource giveaways in the whole nine yards.
It will be held at the Health Department at eight
(11:47):
fourteen Jefferson Avenue, located you know, in the medical district
this Friday. Doctor Michelle Taylor says Shelby County has the
second highest HIV rate among metropolitan area is in this country,
number two in the entire country from HIV infection rates.
That is a very serious thing, second only to Miami
(12:11):
in Florida. Preliminary data from the Tennessee Department of Health
in the case, the infection rate for people aged fifteen
through nineteen is fifty percent higher than it has been
the last two years. So, you know, obviously, taking the
necessary precautions and being safe should be the priority for
(12:34):
many folks out there, but it's not. But again, if
you are dealing with that, and if you need to
get tested, please please please go get tested. The Chevy
County Health Department is offering those tests and they are free.
That is a look at news and notes. So when
we come back, we're going to talk to the boss,
and we're going to talk to that's Robbie Grant, of course,
(12:55):
and we're going to talk about an important issue that
affects the arts. Yes, courtesy of the current president of
the United States. We'll talk about that and a whole
lot more. This is Real Talk Memphis. I'm Chip. You
know who you are. Let's take a quick break and
we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's it's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
There, and welcome back to real talking emphas on this
Monday evening, Chip with you. Glad to be with you,
of course on this uh warm and steamy Monday evening
in the city. And of course you know, we love
w y s R. We love being here, we love
working here, and we love the atmosphere around here.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But you know there there are things that are happening
out there in reference to the arts that I think
warrant some conversation. And in order to be able to
uh to do that, we have our our operations manager,
the boss, the boss, the man he is, I mean,
he is our guy.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Robbie Grant is joining me and Robbie is always good
to see you.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, well thanks for having me on CHIP.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
So you know, you know, you and I were talking
a little bit earlier, and you know, there are some
some conversation about, you know, the arts as a whole
of what your course includes radio and the theater and
a lot of other things, and there's some conversation that's
going on around you.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I think that as you told me, earlier. People
need to know about it out for us.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so you know, we've been all
of our DJs here, We've got signed signage here in
the air room around what's going on with the Corporation
for Public Broadcast. So you when you're watching something on
PBS or you know, you're listening to radio, that's it's
this corporation that was created thirty forty years ago maybe longer,
(16:52):
to help create and public media, you know, you know,
just get you know, PBS is completely funded by corporation,
not completely, but a lot by Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Uh WK and O in town another another public media
station in town. Yeah, and they do classical music. They
have MPR and then there's there's ore. There are thousands
(17:12):
of stations around that around the like that around the country.
It's a grant that you get on a yearly basis
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called the Community Services Grant.
So w YXR we actually got one at the end
of last year. So it's something that we couldn't get
at the very beginning of what we were doing. You
have to be a station for three years, you have
(17:32):
to show you know, active community around your station, which
I think we've done, you know, and so we got
that at the end of last year. I'm super excited
about it, right, I mean, it's it's not it you
know for us, it's a lot around growth. So it
allows us to kind of get the word out about
the station. That's how we were going to use are
going to use that money initially, and we did get
you know, that money already for fiscal year twenty five.
(17:56):
But what we're talking about today is not even the
fact that they would might might take it away in
a year or two.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
The funding.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
It's something called recession. They're rescinding the money. So that's
what they're talking about now, which is basically taking money
that's already promised, not taking it back, not not from
like not out of the WAXR Bank account. But it's
you know, it's a two year cycle that they go through.
So the Congress has said, you know, here, you get
(18:24):
this money to you know, for these public media stations
for two years. So for fiscal year twenty six, that
money is guaranteed but hasn't been received by these stations.
So that's what this conversation is about. It's about them
taking the money back out of the Federal Reserve and
saying that these stations can't get it. So for us,
it's very important, you know, for us for growth, but
(18:45):
it's critical for other stations around I mean, like I'll
mention them again, WK and O and other stations around
the country that need this money.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
To do what they're doing.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
So the House has already passed it, they've already said
they're rescinding it, and so now it has to go
through the Senate. So what we're doing is we're just
letting people know. I mean, it's one point one billion
dollars in funding that's already approved for public media.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
So so that money is okay, like you said, for
the next two years, right, that money is already already
out there.
Speaker 11 (19:14):
So so so so the agreements for two years. So
we received the first year, but the second year we
have you know, we're like, oh, we're going to get it.
You know, we have to meet certain requirements. But and
it's and it's the CPB has already been guaranteed that money.
The Corporation for Public they've already been guaranteed that money.
What's happening is they're saying, now we're going to take
that money back from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which
(19:36):
means all these stations won't get it.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
So you can learn more at protect protect my publicmedia
dot org. There's a lot of resources there. They had
a hearing in the Senate on Wednesday of last week.
Senator Haggerty is the Tennessee senators on that on that committee.
There's about twenty senators that are voting on it, so
they have to vote on it before mid July. But
I mean, there are a lot of the other you know,
(20:01):
there's some there are other things in that package that
are getting rescinded. We're obviously focused on the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting. But I mean it's a pretty big deal.
That money was guaranteed and then it's being rescinded.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Basically, so if the Congress, the Senate side, uh decides
to go along with the House side to rescind this money,
I mean that that that that that's a yes, that's
a major deal.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (20:26):
Yeah, it's it's gone for us for for our our
we're on a calendar year, so it's not we've already
budgeted the money for this year, so we're fine, but
next year it'll be all, it'll be a gap that
we'll have to make up. And again, like we're a
we're a city in a station, but the Corporation for
Broadcasting also funds like rural stations. Like it's all about
(20:47):
the emergency management too, like having the towers and the
radio station to like get the word out about fires
and about floods and that kind of thing. So it's
a big deal. It's a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I didn't I was not aware of anything.
Speaker 11 (20:59):
And so some of these rural stations, the CPB makes up,
probably right now this year, about eight percent of our funding,
but for some of these other stations out there, it
could be forty to fifty to sixty percent. So imagine
if that money goes away, you can't, I mean, you
can't continue to your station. So we're not we're fighting
for ourselves, obviously, but we're really it's a bigger fight
(21:20):
for all of public media and we want to get
the word out.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
So yeah, I think you know, in terms of what
this station, the concept of this station, what is all about.
And we're five, you're in year five now around here,
and I mean the growth and the acceptance of this
station and the format that you all designed when you
first started put this thing together, it has really become
a very big deal around here. So I think that
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what you're saying is collective voices. First of all, we
need to do our homework and kind of find out
what this is all about. Is there any recourse that
listeners might have as supporters that the station might have.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yes, you can go to protect my publicmedia dot org
and it's super super simp. You can basically say you're
put in your address and it'll give you your senators
if you're if you're listening in Mississippi, Arkansas, please do
this too, but it'll give your Tennessee any of those senators,
and then it'll send them an email. You can also
call them. I highly recommend calling them. I think this is,
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you know, a watershed moment for for our senators and
that you know they've guaranteed this money and that they
need to you know, know that it needs to go
where it needs where it's been already allocated.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm sitting here listening to
what you what you're saying and thinking about it. The
money is allocated, so you're okay, But I mean, really,
now that one side of the house is voted to
Yankee back. Yeah, you know, the other the other house,
the other side could do the same thing. And this
could be a deafitel like you said, for a lot
of the smaller stations out there who people depend on
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in the rural counties around this country. This is this
really is uh you know, and and and reference to
the communication the other things. This could be a pretty
big to deal.
Speaker 11 (23:01):
Yeah, And I mean us getting a CPB grant allowed,
you know, gave us you know, we're became the station
that we were able to get that, you know, and
it really as we were growing it it's going to
help us grow and so we want to you know,
get our word out to more people involved, more voices
from in the community. So personally, you know, for the
our station, it's it's just critical for us to grow.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
So we you know, I don't know you well, I.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Mean I think no, I think it's an important thing
that you came to talk to us about all of this.
You really have become a community you're you're you're becoming
really a community voice. I mean, you know, we we
do what we do here you know, on a daily basis,
the music to talk and everything else but the station
as a whole, and I think from the very beginning
the outset, I think it's important for you people to
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understand that you really wanted just when you say community station,
you meant I mean the entire community, some of the
things that you've done, the activities, the events, the concerts,
the other thing. I mean, it is quite a big,
big deal. Has this matched up to what your vision
was when we first started this thing?
Speaker 11 (24:06):
I like that You always ask me that question every time,
and I like it. I like it because it keeps
you know, it keeps me thinking, yes, of course. I
mean I think that we're doing a lot more actually
more community events than I thought we would, you know,
and I'm happy about that. I think that's you know,
I think that brings us together. We've got a lot
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of over one hundred volunteer DJs, which I wasn't sure
how that would go, you know, but it's been it's
been great, and we've got a great all of our
all of our DJs on air right now are incredible
and we're lucky to you know, have all their voices
and just be on the air twenty four to seven. Yeah,
with really great people around, almost almost like almost exclusively
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from Memphis. There's like about three or four that aren't,
but almost all of them are.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
And you know when you say that, I mean everybody
who comes here has their own thing, and everybody does
their own thing.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's very eclectic, man.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And it really does similar as what I hear you
and JB and others talk about the history of this
of the of the city musically. Yes, and I mean
I think from time I hear every genre of music
and many of them, many of it forms Memphis, many
of it, many of it comes from the roots of
the city.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, totally.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
And we just yeah, and we just did, like this
past Thursday, we did the Doubt Awards, named after Nathan
Nathaniel Dowd WI Williams, the first w d I a DJ.
We did that the Civil Rights Museum, honoring black musicians
who had a big effect on their on the community,
people who aren't normally honored. And that's just you know,
it aligns with our mission, like uplifting voices that haven't
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been heard and given them awards, giving them their their flowers,
and you know, it was it was an amazing event.
And so we love doing stuff like that. We love
having concerts. We love hearing our DJs on the air.
We love you know, engaging with the community.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And you know it's it.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
Literally is public media. I mean we're out there in
the public, you know, talking to the public, involving the public.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Well you do it in the amazing job. And thank
you you are you are. We come here and really
talk about this. This is a very important thing.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
And again I urge you all if you have questions,
you know, to reach out to uh protect my publicmedia
dot org. Protect my publicmedia dot org.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
It takes five five seconds, maybe ten seconds to get
involved in this easy and and.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
And reach out to them and let them know how
important this is to you. Thank you, thank you for
having me Chip. I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (26:27):
I don't call you very often.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I want to get on.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I will anytime, enjoy seeing anytime. Robbie Grant, ladies. Thanks.
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Speaker 1 (28:36):
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Speaker 5 (28:40):
And welcome back to the Real Talk Memphis Broadcast. Glad
to have you along for the ride this evening. I'm
chipped and that's right. You know, this is the last
day of June, for God's sake. Tomorrow is July first, man,
and time is absolutely flying right on by. Just thought
about that just a minute ago. Goodness gracious. Anyway, welcome
back to the show. And of course I talked about
this at the top of the broadcast. Summertime in Memphis,
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Tennessee is no joke, and it's pretty consistent. It's hot,
it's humid, and for many of us, it can be
a miserable time. But it can also be a dangerous time.
This sun is no joke around here, and it can
cause a lot of harm and a lot of damage.
So I thought it would be important for us to
have a medical expert on the show who could talk
(29:26):
to us about all of this and.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Let us know.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Maybe if you don't believe me, maybe you'll believe him.
But anyway, welcome to the broadcast, doctor dal Criner. Doctor
Criner is the chief medical officer at Methodist Lebonner in Germantown,
and doctor Criner is great to see you Welcome to
Real Talk Memphis.
Speaker 13 (29:43):
Thank you very much for the invitation. You know, more
than a thousand people a year in the United States
die of heat related illnesses, so your message right now
is on point. It's certainly the time of year we
have to worry about.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
This, absolutely that and I didn't know that that number.
That's a sobering number. But you know, we have folks,
you know, every year are out and about and doing
their thing. And I think doctor Crina for me, I
just don't. I think we sort of take for granted
that sun, but how dangerous it could be to us
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if we don't take the necessary precautions and understand that
the sun can kill you if you don't pay enough
attention to it. Now, I'm aware of two things. One
is heat exhaustion and one is heat stroke. And I'm
sure that you'll talk about both of them, but I
mean really emphasizing how important it is for us to
pay attention not only to the grown folks, but to
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the young folks as well in reference to this heat
am I.
Speaker 14 (30:39):
Correct, absolutely.
Speaker 13 (30:41):
You know, the extremes of age are the ones that
seem to be the most at risk. They don't really
regulate their body temperature very well. If you're small enough,
sometimes you just don't know to get out of the heat.
You know, older patients sometimes they have chronic medical conditions.
They take medicines and make them more prone to not
being able to get rid of excess heat, not sweat adequately.
(31:01):
So you're exactly right. The older population, the very young
population are really the ones more at risk, you know.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
So you know, again break it down for me, if
you will heat exhaustion and heat stroke, some of the
symptoms that one might feel and some of the things
that we can do to prevent that.
Speaker 13 (31:22):
So heat exhaustion is really kind of your body's early
warning system. It's your body kind of telling you that, hey,
I'm getting a little bit too hot here. I need
to get out of this heat and get into the
shade or into the air conditioning, into a cooler area.
So you got really sweating is kind of a sign
of heat exhaustion. You can feel a little faint, little dizzy,
heart rate is a little fast, but then it can
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progress to something that is really a life threatening problem.
Then you can have, you know, a heat stroke. At
that point, really your temperature is one hundred and three
hundred four degrees or higher. At that point, many times
you quit sweating, you become confus used, agitated, you can
have seizures, you can lose consciousness, and really at that
point is when the organs start to fail, and that
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can be deadly.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, that's some scary stuff that you talked about, you know,
in terms of that, Now, I do know that this
time of year, when we see the thermometer get above
ninety degrees and the heat in disease around here, or
the humidity can go well above one hundred maybe one
hundred and five, one hundred and ten, you know, is
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that is key critical in reference to this.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
What times are the day or night?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
I'm sorry not night, but what times of the day
are times that when there's intense heat that we need
to stay away from.
Speaker 13 (32:43):
That Really, from about ten in the morning to about
four o'clock in the afternoon, that's kind of your peak
times to try to avoid the heat. Maybe you have
things to do outside, if you need to do some
yard work, try to get it done as soon as
the sun comes up early in the morning, or maybe
late in the evening when the sun starts to go down,
those are your safer times. But gosh, here in Memphis.
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You know, even at seven or eight o'clock at night,
it can be quite hot.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Yeah, absolutely that And of course we always emphasize watching
out for our senior population because you know, I think
their body you know, I mean the blood gets thinner,
and a lot of other things that they don't really
feel things like maybe you know, we think they should.
Why is it so important for us to really watch
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our senior population, especially during extreme heat times.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
Well, some of our older population, again, they're taking medications
they can make it difficult for them to regulate their
body fluid levels and their body temperature. They may be
taking fluid pills or diuretics because they have a history
of congestive heart failure that can make it difficult for
them to maintain their salt balances and lose fluids. They
could be taking certain psychiatric medicines that also make it
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hard for them to sweat and to get rid of
the heat from their body. The other thing is, you know,
sometimes they just you know, some some of the folks
have limited resources and making sure that they have an
air conditioned house, having somebody check in on them. Their
mobility sometimes is not very good. So you know, all
of that we do. You're exactly right, need to take
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care of our older population. They're the reason why we're
successful now, so we need to honor them and take care.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Of them absolutely that.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
And you know another thing that many people cherish are
their pets, and of course our little four legger friends
who like to go for walks around the neighborhood. But again,
that is something that people need to pay attention to,
especially during the heat of the day, because it can
do some serious damage.
Speaker 13 (34:43):
Talk about that, well, I'm glad you brought that up,
because you know, pets, children, cars, it can really only
take about six minutes for it to become a deadly
situation for an animal, for a small child that's left
a car with the windows up. I mean literally, you
can just walk into the store and walk back out
and they can already be in a life threatening situation.
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You know, our animals like to get out and play,
and believe it or not, the asphalt the concrete that
we have gets up to a point that it actually
burns their paws. It causes damage. So it's important for us,
as responsible owners of our animals and great parents to
be watching out for those populations, whether it be our animals,
whether it be our small children.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
You know, you mentioned something that I hadn't really thought
about necessarily, but this is young kids. I mean, people
do it every year. Every single year. We see cases
where people will leave children, babies in cars, in car
seats with the windows rolled up all the way on
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a hundred degree day when they come out, Like you say,
many times there are tragic circumstances that come from that.
But even you shouldn't do that, period. Should you even
leaving a crack in the window or on all four
windows in the car. That's not enough, is it? In
terms of the extreme heat that that that generates in
that car.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
It's not enough.
Speaker 13 (36:09):
And really, honestly, you shouldn't be doing it period. I mean,
if you're if you have a child, they should be
out of the vehicle. If you're out of the vehicle,
you take responsibility for them. But leaving them in the vehicle,
even with a window cracked, is potentially a life threatening situation.
And you know, we're talking about the heat right now,
but this applies also in the cold months when it's
freezing outside.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah, that's very very true. That's very true.
Speaker 5 (36:31):
You know, one thing that I've noticed that seems to
be a bit of a change, and correct me if
I'm wrong. In terms of athletics, this is the time
of year where you know, football starts to crank up, right,
and uh, you know, training starts to happen, and and
and it's it's during this time of year, the most
intense extreme, uh, part of this part of the year
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weather wise. I've noticed that there are some schools that
have moved practices to six o'clock in the morning or
late in the evening and really not too much during
the day. But I don't know how you you know,
there's an argument about that because they say, well, you know,
you have to have them out there, you know, during
that the heat of the day, so their bodies can
be conditioned.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I mean, if you had to argue about that, what
would that argument be.
Speaker 13 (37:17):
The argument is there's you know, from my viewpoint, there's
no sports that are children are planned that's worth losing
your life over. So they're taking good safety precautions to
avoid having them in the middle of the day. It
is great that they're trying to exercise them in the
mornings early and the evenings. More importantly, it's just making
sure they're hydrated. But all of our emergency departments throughout
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Memphis through every every summer, we treat high school athletes
student athletes of heat related illnesses and exhaustion and dehydration.
So it is very serious.
Speaker 15 (37:50):
You know.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
One of the things that you mentioned briefly at the top,
and I wanted to talk about a little bit more,
was how one hydrates oneself. You know, I always hear,
you know, stay hydrated if you're going to be outside
and doing outdoor activities. That doesn't mean the alcoholic stuff.
That means water obviously, but we lose minerals from our body.
(38:16):
You mentioned sweating earlier. There are certain things that we lose,
proteins and things that we lose from our bodies when
we sweat too much. And how do we replenish that
a lot of people are thinking Gatorade and some other
things like that, but not necessarily, but I'll let you.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
You're the doctor.
Speaker 13 (38:31):
You tell me, Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be
Gatorade brand. You know, any kind of drink that has
electrolytes in it, that doesn't have caffeine, doesn't have alcohol,
that's going to be good for you if you outside sweating.
A whole lot water is still a good standby, so
you can't go wrong with drinking water prehydrate before you
know you're going to be out in the heat. You know,
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drink two or three glasses of water before you're going
to go out there. If you wait until you're thirsty,
you've waited too long, because that's your body's way of
telling you. You're onto a ball.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
And sugary drinks, you know, like like any drink with
sugar in it, that's not good for you either, especially
during this heat.
Speaker 13 (39:08):
Am I correcting that excessive sugar high frontose, corn syrup.
We should try to avoid those things. A little bit
of sugar, you know, that's okay. The body uses sugar
to some extent, but like everything, you want to avoid
it to excess if preferably if you're out there, you're
drinking water or something like Gatorade, whether it's that brand
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or another brand.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
People who work outside last question, people who work outside
in businesses who are outside like utility workers or construction workers,
or folks who are laying you know, black top and
things like that. You know, whenever I pass those type
of crews, my heart goes out. But do these businesses
and companies and things like that who employ folks like that, doctor,
(39:53):
to your knowledge, do they employ certain rules and regulations
in terms of keeping their employees safe and hydrated, especially
once you have to be outside most of the day working.
Speaker 13 (40:05):
Well, as far as they adhere to OSHA standards, at
least they have them posted. I have seen most of
those organizations. They really do try to take some safety
precautions and have their workers drink plenty of water, have
access to water, make sure it's around. But it's important
for them to also take breaks. I think the thing
(40:26):
that gets some folks sometimes it's the cumulative effect. I'll
see somebody that's been doing the same job outside for
several days in a row, and a day or two
of that their body is able to kind of compensate,
but then it kind of catches up with them. So
it's really important to do short periods of work if
you're going to be out there, and then take frequent
(40:47):
breaks and get out of the heat and get into
some shade.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Doctor Dale Criner, Ladies and gentlemen, she's medical officer for
Methodist Lambana or Germantown dot Chriner. Thank you for coming
on the show and really laying it out there. These
are important things that you're talking about. And while each
and every year you mentioned you see a number of
people who may not follow the rules or may get
sick in reference to the sun, there are things that
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we can do to ourselves in for each other and
for others that will keep us safe. Thank you so
much for coming on the show and laying it out
for me. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 14 (41:19):
Thank you so much, absolutely anytime.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
Thank you, Yes, sir, There you go, ladies and gentlemen.
This heat is no joke. And I realized that.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
You know, of course, for a lot of folks, they
love to get out in the hot sun and they
but it doesn't take long for it to mess with
you and mess with you in a way that could
cause you some very very serious damage.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
And we don't need that, we don't want that. I
will share a personal story for you with you.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
When I was younger and I was playing football back
in the days, back in the high school days. We
practiced in the heat of the day, in the heat
of the afternoon, and I had a friend of mine,
a good friend of mine, he fell faint on the
field during practice and he succumbed to heat stroke. And
I've never forgotten that my entire life. And that's why
(42:06):
I understand how serious it is. And how you know
when I hear things like that that happen around either
the state or the community or the country. You know,
I just implore folks, please, please please understand that the
human body can only take so much. And so I'm
glad that Dr Criner was able to come on the show.
Let's take a final break, and when we come back,
we're gonna take a trip. We're gonna take a little
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trip up Highway fifty one to a place called Millington.
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Speaker 1 (44:50):
It's it's.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
Become back to real Talk Memphis on this warm and
steamy Monday evening in the city Chip with you. And
of course, you know, uh, you know, I've been doing
the show for some years now and one of the
places I have to admit I don't talk about much,
but it really is a rather nice place, and I
wanted to get someone on here who could give me
(45:22):
some perspective and give you some perspective on the wonderful
city of Millington, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (45:29):
He is, and please welcome to the show. Chris Thomas.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
He's the executive director of the Millington Chamber of Commerce,
and he joins me, now, Chris is great to see you,
my friend.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
Been good?
Speaker 13 (45:39):
Man?
Speaker 14 (45:39):
We go long ways back, don't we?
Speaker 4 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah, we really do, Yeah, long way back.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
And you know, Chris used to be a former county commissioner,
and yeah, he's had an illustrious career. Chris, in terms
of Millington, how long have you been the executive director
of the Chamber?
Speaker 10 (45:55):
Man, I just took over four months ago. Yeah, I
just came in in middle of February, so it's all new.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
Yeah, it's all new. It's all new. Now, what you know,
I think of you as almost the de head of tourism.
What is there about Millington that folks don't know that
you think they should know?
Speaker 10 (46:19):
Oh, there's so much up there? What people don't know
a lot of some people don't even talk when they
think of Shelby County. I've had people say, is Millington
and Shelby County. I'm like, well, yes, it's in Shelby County,
but it is the fastest growing municipality in Shelby County
at forty one said growth, Wow, And I can't you know,
(46:39):
I heard you earlier describing and that I've been part
of the development. I can't take I'm new there, so,
like Terry Rowland was executive director of the former administration,
take credit for it.
Speaker 14 (46:49):
But it's a safe town.
Speaker 10 (46:51):
And it's just we've got the military base up there,
of course, and then we've got so much growth.
Speaker 14 (46:57):
We've had restaurants, We've got.
Speaker 10 (46:58):
Over twenty five current projects going on right now up
in Millington. But it's just the people are good down home.
We go to our restaurant. The service is great, the
food is great. We have friends that come from Bartlett, Lakeland,
Arlington and come to Millington. They say this is service
is better, but the leadership is good. I mean the
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leadership's good too. So that's another big thing.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you, you know, in reference
to that, you know, you name some things, and I mean,
obviously every town has, every city has it's it's it's
it's it's pluses and and you know, certain things that
people are attracted to. You all do a lot of
baseball tournaments and things up there. Do you know, isn't
isn't that a big isn't that big? Are fit up there?
Speaker 14 (47:42):
Yeah, that was one of the things on my list.
I've got a list here.
Speaker 10 (47:45):
But the USA Baseball Stadium used to be called the
Olympic because it's tried the stadium to It's where they
did the trials years ago.
Speaker 14 (47:52):
But that stadium, people don't realize.
Speaker 10 (47:54):
Every weekend except Easter, they host a baseball or softball tournament.
Teams come from all over this country, kids adults, and
it fills up Millington restaurants and hotels and all over
the area. Some of them can't even stay in Millington
because of that.
Speaker 14 (48:09):
But no, it's that's.
Speaker 10 (48:11):
Amazing and there there's a great attraction. That's the number
one attraction really up there. We've got several others with
that thing draws a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (48:19):
Yeah, and uh, you know again you don't hear I know,
I have several folks that I know who live in
Millington who lived there for some time and and really
like it up there. I mean it's very quiet. As
you say, you don't hear a whole lot about what's
going on. And and uh, you know it's it's it's
it's peaceful for the for for the most part.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
In your job, what what what are your goals?
Speaker 5 (48:39):
You know you've only been there for a few months obviously,
but but what as you as you continue to move
forward in in this journey, what are your goals for
for the.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
City of Millington? What what what do you want to see?
Speaker 13 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 14 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 13 (48:51):
What?
Speaker 4 (48:51):
What do you like? What would you like to see?
What do you want people to really know?
Speaker 10 (48:56):
Well, you know, we've had some like I said, we've
had a lot of growth us you on the north side,
but I want to sort of help with getting Navy
Road in the south part.
Speaker 14 (49:06):
Of fifty one back to where it was before. Help
growth there.
Speaker 10 (49:10):
But controlled growth is very important a lot of people.
I've seen some towns they grow so fast that it
brings a lot of bad things to it. But I'm
just trying to grow the chamber because one thing, Millington's
pop sales tax is seventy percent of their budget, so
that's business r and so my job is to help
with that and work with the new mayor Dagon and
(49:32):
Frankie Dacon, the city manager, work with them and in
the IDB to try to help bring business there and
keep the business there and making sure, you know, I
want to make sure businesses get value for their money.
I don't want to just take their money and say
thank you for being a member. I'm providing value. We're
working a lot of different things that I won't bore
(49:53):
you with, but like the website, we're redoing all kinds
of things.
Speaker 14 (49:56):
We're coming up with a video, magazine, online.
Speaker 10 (49:58):
Just a lot of things that when people are looking
at coming here or they've just moved here, they go
online and they want to be able to find things.
And so that's something and I'm working on helping to
rebuild the relationship with the naval base, which is our
largest employer.
Speaker 14 (50:13):
With about eight thousand people, and a lot of people
don't know about that base.
Speaker 10 (50:17):
As far as every recruit every decision made about personnel
and recruiting in the world for the Navy goes through Milington, Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
I did that event.
Speaker 14 (50:27):
I didn't need it until I got there.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (50:29):
So yeah, yeah, but we and we've got like currently
we've got one hundred and eighty five members of our chamber,
and that's it's already grown.
Speaker 14 (50:37):
We're getting about two or three new members a week.
Speaker 10 (50:40):
I'm out there working just trying to you know, meet
people that are coming to town, people that haven't joined.
Speaker 14 (50:46):
I'm just going around trying to make sure people know
about us.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
And uh.
Speaker 14 (50:50):
But now it's been it's been good and fun and
it's a you know, it's uh.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
We have several different big events and we're working on
some other things too for the community. One of the
things is that I that the city is running Wednesday
night is the big fireworks up there.
Speaker 14 (51:04):
They moved it to the airport.
Speaker 5 (51:05):
I was gonna say, yeah, you guys have a huge
fireworks show up there, and it's always is.
Speaker 4 (51:10):
There's always quite entertaining.
Speaker 14 (51:12):
Yeah, this year they moved it over to the airport.
Speaker 10 (51:14):
But now there's a lot I mean people Like I said,
years ago, it was a lot bigger because they had
all the training for the naval base out there. But
they moved out to Pensacola in ninety two, so we
lost a lot of residents. But you know, I think
they have about fifteen new residents a month moving on
the base.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
Oh okay, yeah they're and they're building.
Speaker 10 (51:35):
Like five new new homes a week in Millington right now,
building five new homes a week.
Speaker 4 (51:41):
Wow, that's that's excellent.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
Before we go, I want to I want to I
want to divert from this the Millington side of things
just a minute.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
You and your family were.
Speaker 5 (51:55):
On a little show that many of us have seen
on television called Family Feud, and I think you were
on that once but twice. Am I correcting it?
Speaker 4 (52:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (52:04):
About five years ago, me and my ex wife actually.
Speaker 10 (52:09):
And my daughter and a nephew and cousin, we auditioned
live here in Memphis, and twenty nineteen took us a
long time because of COVID and other things. Get on
there but we actually they really wanted us on. We
we went out two years ago to Atlanta in May
film the show.
Speaker 14 (52:26):
It's been on.
Speaker 10 (52:27):
So I can tell you that we won the first game,
but we did not win twenty thousand dollars unfortunately. Oh
so I'm still working. And then we lost our second game.
But they liked us so much as what they told us,
they wanted us to come back. So we went back
to the end of this April and we filmed again.
But all I can say is we were on the
show and had a great time. And I could tell
you some stuff about Steve Harvey at Man's the trip,
(52:51):
but anyway, but.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
No, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 14 (52:53):
They paid for everything and good for you.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Good for you, it was. It was a lot of
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (52:58):
So yeah, we had a it's been just I was
on Wheel of Fortune in nineteen eighty six when I
had dark here when I was twenty two.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
Look at you. Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5 (53:06):
Well listen, Chris Thomas, Ladies and gentlemen, the executive director
of the Millington Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 4 (53:11):
It's a nice city, it really is.
Speaker 5 (53:12):
And I know several people that I wasn't exaggerating when
I said that who loved Millington lived in Millington for
some period of time and like and like the city
and just enjoy being there. Chris, thank you for taking
some time to come on the show and talk to
us a little bit about this today.
Speaker 4 (53:27):
Hey, thank you real quick. Good.
Speaker 10 (53:29):
Tell everybody out there, y'all go to our Facebook page
Millington Chamber dot Area Chamber dot com.
Speaker 14 (53:33):
Our website's Millington Chamber dot com Facebook.
Speaker 10 (53:36):
You can find us. We keep a lot of information there.
We are growing and want you all to come up
there and see us. And if you got a business
and want to move to Millington, a great town, give
me a call.
Speaker 14 (53:45):
Find me on Facebook.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
Absolutely that and tell Frankie. I said, hello, I know him,
I Frankie Dakin, And so tell him. I said, Hi,
you all do that? Thank you, my friend, really appreciate you.
Thank you so much, Chris Thomas. Ladies and gentlemen talking
about Millington. They're doing some good stuff up there. Like
I say, you know, when they stay quiet, they're just
kind of doing their thing. But they're they're on there,
they're on the move. And as he said, man, we've
(54:08):
got folks coming all the time. We're rebuilding and building
houses and everything else. And that's a good that's a
good problem to have. So we really appreciate him. But
before we get out of here, of course Event Horizon
is next.
Speaker 12 (54:20):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (54:21):
I don't know if you realize this or not, but
this team here, we we dominate the Monday evening.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Uh, you know, broadcast here at WIX.
Speaker 5 (54:29):
Lola DJ Lola Lisa's Off with her show comes on
for five to six each and every evening and Monday evening.
And then we follow here with Real Talk Memphis doing
our thing, and then we wrap this thing up with
Brent brin Is. Brn Butler is the host of Event
Horizon and Uh, when Robbie was in here a little
while ago, Robbie said, hey, listen to your show, and
(54:51):
I'm enjoying it. See Brendan, you never know who's listening. Brn,
I'm telling you that. So do you have a do
you have a genre tonight? Do you have a thought
that you.
Speaker 4 (54:59):
Come into to day thinking what am I gonna play
to that? On her Horizon?
Speaker 1 (55:04):
What do you got?
Speaker 17 (55:04):
Yeah? I did, although for no reason in particular because
this is a h an apolitical program here, but I'll
be celebrating New York City for the first half.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
Yeah, we like that New York City. Yeah, strictly some.
Speaker 17 (55:20):
New York rap. And then in the second half it'll
be a little more guitar stuff of the stuff you know,
I've just been listening to this past week, discovering, you know,
oldies and things like that in the in the metal
world and things like that.
Speaker 5 (55:34):
Well, listen, man, you're doing a good job on that show.
You haven't been doing it long, but you developing a
little bit of following out here. We really appreciate that,
and we appreciate you. If Brent plays this time, we're
gonna get out of here and clear They're clear the
studio for him to do his thing. I want to
say thank you to all of you folks out there
who are finding real talk methods. I'm looking at numbers,
(55:55):
I'm looking at people. I'm looking at you know, the
folks who are checking us down on Facebook Live, because
that's really my own measure of how I measure what's
going on out here.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
And I mean the numbers served. I'm impressed.
Speaker 5 (56:08):
I'm truly am which means I'm hopefully that you're impressed.
With what we're trying to do here. Look, we can't
be successful without you, and I want you each and
every one of you you know who have invested in
this show in one form or another, that I truly,
truly appreciate it from the heart. I mean that's sincerely
from the heart, and thank you, thank you, thank you,
and keep telling folks about what we're doing. You like
(56:30):
what we're doing, not only check it out, but have
other folks to check us out as well. So as
we prepare to get out of here, for all of us,
a real Talk Memphis, for a brand who will be
up in just a minute with the vent Or Rising,
and for the soon to be birthday girl Lola Back then,
ladies and gentlemen, the birthday is next Monday, and of
course support brand H and myself. I'm Chip, and I
(56:55):
thank you for being a part of this experience forction
you called Real Talk Memphis. And until next time you safe,
be careful out there and we'll talk soon. Enjoy your
fourth fourth of July weekend. Okay we safe. I can
talk to you so in peace.
Speaker 13 (57:10):
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