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Hope you can have a great weekend. I'm Staff Meteorologist Laura Huckabee in the Mighty 990 KWAM Weather Center.  Mid-South weather on the mighty 990 KWAM. Powered by All-Star Chevrolet and Olive Branch. Now, back to Wake Up Memphis from the Principal Toyota Memphis Studios on the mighty 990 AM KWAM. Everybody in old South Park. Woodland to do the trail out of rock. Spine a mother, play the tenor saxophone.  Welcome back to the morning show. Glad to have you guys joining us. A day really before Elvis week, but really the entire globe is in Whitehaven right now, which is quite something. And I am waiting for that foot traffic that we talked about in the first hour to make its way to downtown. Because what a lot of those people will do is they'll take a little bus ride from Whitehaven.  elvis this is graceland down to downtown and so you start to see them i know last year i knew it was elvis week before knowing it was elvis week because so many people were running around with like pork chop um cyberns and there were a ton of elvis lookalikes all right so speaking of elvis you guys  We are doing Elvis trivia and your chance to win a pair of tickets to go see John Bogarty tonight at Live at the Gardens. And we appreciate our partnership with them this year. Shout out to Sherry May over it. Let's go to Lisa calling in from Memphis. Lisa, top of the morning to you. Happy Friday.  Good morning, Ben. How are you doing? Wait, is this the Lisa? Parker, you didn't tell me this was the Lisa, like Lisa the candidate, the heroine of Shelby County. Lisa, welcome. This is the legendary Lisa Arnold. Lisa, welcome. Now, I've lost my train of thought. We just have to give these tickets to Lisa because she ran against Tammy Sawyer. Lisa, first of all, how are you doing? I'm doing good. When I called in, I was listening.  And I didn't realize the concert was tonight. I am out of town. So I'm going to give them to my brother and his wife. They would love to go to that concert. Okay. Okay. Well, this is perfect. And that's very generous of you. Of course, you are a very generous woman. Wow. We're talking to a hero. All right, Lisa, can you name, though, for these tickets for the brother and the brother's girlfriend, where was Elvis born? Tupelo, Mississippi.  Congratulations. Well done. Because when I first threw this out to our staff here, I heard Memphis and I heard Hernando. So I was really concerned that I might get one of those answers. Congratulations on that, Lisa. So what we want to do is get you on the morning show because a lot of our listeners have asked how you're doing, want an update.  And I know you have a lot of things to say to your supporters, of which there were so many, thousands and thousands. So how about you find a time? I know you're getting some R&R, which you deserve. And drop by the morning show, will you? Yes, absolutely. I would love to. I do want a chance to speak and thank everybody. And I kind of took my little trip out of town and just  decompressing which has been very very good yeah yeah good i do want to get out so maybe uh next uh maybe next friday next friday oh i would love that let's book it let's call it a day lisa thank you and uh if parker didn't already make sure you stay on and we'll get you connected get an email so we can get you those tickets for the brother  All right. We just got a programming notice from Cheryl, very sweet Cheryl, who's in sales. And she said, you know what? We have two more tickets that we will give away, a pair of tickets, because we're feeling very generous on this Friday. So, Parker, let's go to phone line number two. We're going to talk to Tony. Tony, top of the morning to you. How are you?  I'm doing great, Ben. How about yourself? I'm happy because it's Friday. So we're going to throw you a bone. And I don't have a trivia question right in front of me. So your trivia question is, do you have a favorite Elvis Presley song, Tony, for you to win these tickets? Love Me Tender. Love Me Tender. That's an iconic one. That's a great choice. And Tony, I've got to ask, have you as a local been to Graceland? Please say yes. Yes, I have.  Perfect. My last two guests, Friday with Friends panelists, they have lived in Memphis all of their life, and they have not been there yet. Well, I was actually wanting to question before, because I was born in Tupelo, too. No way. So, I'm curious, because I've never been to Tupelo, Tony, do they have a lot of it built up around Elvis Presley? Obviously, that's going to put a small Mississippi town on the map, I would assume.  There's not a whole lot built up around it, but they got his birth, where he was, the house he was born in, they've got it set up as a tourism. Oh, that's interesting. How far is Tupelo from here, out of curiosity? From the line, it's probably about 75 miles.  Okay. Well, Tony, do appreciate you phoning in, playing along this morning. Stay on the phone line. Parker, we'll get that information so we can get you connected to those tickets. Thanks for dropping by. All right. Thank you. All right. Good stuff. Let's go back to the phone lines. We've got Todd Starnes on phone line number three. Todd, welcome to the morning show. Ben, good morning. And yes, we're very generous here at the Mighty 990.  And, of course, we just had Lisa Arnold winning those awesome tickets to John Fogerty. And we also, in the spirit of fair and balanced, we also would like to offer a pair of tickets to Tammy Sawyer, who was Lisa Arnold's competitor in that hotly contested race. Let's do it. I will zap her an email after the show.  Absolutely. And so just our way of being fair and balanced. And so congratulations to both of them. Thank you. Well, Todd, we appreciate that. Anything else on your mind? That's about it, Ben Dieter. But we just wanted to shout out and hope everybody enjoys Life at the Garden.  All right. Well said. Great word. All right. Let's go to our comment section because we have been flooded with comments. A lot of you guys have been phoning in. So I want to read some of these because, yes, we've got some phone calls, but we also have a lot of great comments coming in on the simulcast. All right. Let's see here.  um mindy is asking about voter turnout what could we have done differently i think it's a fair question i think that we have got to figure out take a couple pages out of the dems playbook and i know that the word community organizer is is a tough one for us to swallow but we have absolutely got to either pay a lot of people and here's the thing i hear well you have to pay to do these things  When there is a famous person that comes in town. OK, so say you get Governor Christie. No, a lot of those events are very costly. I know this because some of our listeners have reached out and said, I would love to go to some of these galas, some of these Lincoln Day dinners. And to go, a ticket is 250 bucks.  So, yeah, it's a lot of money. So that money's got to go somewhere. And in the case of this last election, August 1st,  there were that many contested primary general election races. So where is all of that money going? And I'm not saying anything nefarious. I'm not saying that someone's squandering the money. I'm saying, can we better use our resources to get those interns out there knocking on doors? I think of people like Max Bonner, Seth Coker. I mean, if we had a force of guys like that knocking on doors, phone banking,  You have to pay those people. You can't just... Not everything can be pro bono. That's just the reality. So some of that money is going to have to go to getting people on the ground. And it goes to the conversation we were having last hour with the RNC right now. And one of the concerns that I have going into November...  Kamala Harris just being a bad candidate and having word salad moments isn't enough to win a ground game, especially in the seven battleground states. When you look at the margins, Democrats know what they're doing. You look at Pennsylvania, if you look at Arizona, look at some of these key battleground states, it comes down to one, two percent of the vote.  And what those people do is they go and they zoom into those counties. And all they have to do is just blitz them with volunteers, blitz them with people knocking on doors, incentivizing people legally. I mean, they're still following election federal laws. And that could be the difference between an L and a W.  And right now, Democrats are sending their operatives into those swing states. The Republicans are right now outsourcing a lot of that. And I love those third party grassroots organizations. But that is not the same thing as the RNC opening up these campaign headquarters and these outreach centers in these highly contested swing states.  So I think what we're seeing nationwide is also happening in Shelby County. So many more of your comments reading down through them. Let's see here. Justin says the Shelby County Democrat Party outsources their activism to nonprofits. Some of the Shelby County GOP women's clubs kicks their members out if they join approved blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. See Moms for Liberty, conservative women of Collierville. Let's read down through some of these. Lisa says I would have been there.  I definitely want to talk about the lack of grassroots in Shelby County GOP outreach. That would be very interesting to get Lisa's POV on this side of the election.  Richard, on an unrelated topic, but what we were talking about last hour, does anyone find it interesting that DAs and former DAs seem to have such a grip on our lives at the moment? You know, that's very interesting. Bill Gibbons, for example, Shelby County DA before Amy Weirich, he's always on the nightly news, speaking into our criminal justice system. What have you done, Bill? Now he oversees the criminal justice system, but same with this DA coming out of Crockett County.  He's speaking into our D.A. situation with our here's here's how I know that this guy is not an actual tough on crime district attorney of which the Daily Memphian rolled him out to be this tough on crime Republican D.A. that served in the military. And I also love our Second Amendment rights. That's how they're trying to frame this guy so they can make an argument.  That even Republicans are siding with our George Soros back in front of District Attorney Steve Morey. That's how they're making this happen. So he's not tough on crime. So we talked about this a little bit yesterday. He opposed truth in sentencing, of which even our Democrats here were in favor of. Then I found this was very interesting. So on WKNO yesterday, he was asked, Brent Taylor talks about restorative justice schemers like Just City.  Would you be in favor of hiring some of those justice bin column schemers here in your DA's office? And here is what this guy, Fred AG, had to say. This is so interesting. Cut nine.  One of the phrases that Senator Taylor has used a lot is he's talked about restorative justice, what he calls schemers. Does your office work with restorative justice groups? We don't, but I would be open. We don't work with those types of groups. We'd be open to discussing anything we can do to reduce recidivism in the criminal justice system. Yeah, I thought so. So he's in favor of justice restorative schemers.  There's more on this story that I want to talk about, but we are running out of time in this segment. We'll pick it up on the other side because one of the things that I have an issue with in this opinion piece is, again, it's fine to disagree with Brent Taylor and what he's doing. Sure, you're a Republican. Don't love that. But whatever. This isn't a cult. But to actually compare him to Xi Jinping.  That's sick. That's that's inaccurate. And he knows better. But then he goes on WKNO and then he tries to cover that up a little bit and play cleanup. 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But many workplaces are moving to more flexible options to keep employees fed and happy. Why this matters, blah, blah, blah. Axios has this piece. Basically, they say free food is popular corporate perk. But in today's hybrid work environments, they are now using reoccurring meal delivery services, kind of like a fresh meal.  Packet that they send to cafeterias and give to employees and kids. That's a boring headline, so let's move on. So we talked about biopics, and there was one on Elvis just a couple years ago. Britney Spears is getting her own biopic movie. She said it's a project she's been working on in secret for a while now. It's going to be named after...  her memoir, The Woman in Me. So do you guys care about this? I don't. Only that she's obviously out of that conservatorship or whatever that was because she can actually create some content. Now, the Vatican, of course, has come out 1,400 days after Christians were mocked by the Olympic Games opening ceremony in a pathetic statement.  The Vatican saying just a couple days ago it deplored the offense caused to Christians by that fat chick and the Smurf dude that were mocking the Last Supper. Here's what they said in a statement. At a prestigious event where the whole world comes together to share common values, there should be no ridiculous allusions to religion.  And that's all they had to say. Speaking of the Olympics, Belgium has pulled out of a mixed relay triathlon after one of their athletes fell ill following a swim in the river, the Sin River, at the Olympics. So that apparently is still also an issue. Switzerland is facing issues as well due to gastrointestinal infections because of how much E. coli is in that water right now. And then this...  White women are less confident about their bodies than other women, according to a new study. Is this true? I have a thought about this because in the last couple of years, really past 2020, there's been a whole campaign, which is like white women. First of all, you don't matter because you're white.  And they need to apologize for being white. I mean, look at the VP pick, Tim Walz, Harris Walz. He's on tape apologizing for being a white person. So white women, are you even allowed to be confident in the first place, much less about your bodies? But there has been a campaign and who's led the big body, black body, whatever it is, campaign. It sounded like Jasmine Crockett, the congresswoman out of Texas, was Lizzo.  And Lizzo actually teamed up with like Victoria's Secrets and all of these model agencies, because that is the world that we live in, 2024, where you can get a model contract and be 500 pounds. And so that's what she did. And they started this movement of all of these really big, curvy women that are black, and they would put them all over billboards.  So I think that is why this study could have some accuracy. And it's not just a claim where white Western women found to experience much higher pressure from the media to conform to thin or athletic body ideals across their lifespan.  And it's too far into the weekend to continue talking about this. So there was this piece that was in Dear Abby that I wanted to talk about, but we have run out of time in a lot of our shows that I wanted to take a second to discuss because...  It's insane. So basically you have these parents housing their children well into their 19s, 20s, 21s. And I understand like if the kid is staying at your house during the summer months because they are involved in school at the moment. But after that, you should not house your child, your 18 year old.  when they, or your 22-year-old, rather, when they graduate from college. So this was in Dear Abby, and the woman wrote in, my best friend and I both have children in their mid-20s. I don't understand why she coddles her son to the point that he is just now learning how to do his laundry, clean his own bathroom, pay bills, grocery shop, or even attend doctor's appointments on his own. What? That's awkward. You're 20, dude. You're in your mid-20s. You're 25. Why are you bringing your mom...  to go get your exam done. She always has some excuse as to why he wasn't taught life skills when he was younger.  This woman writes in and continues on to Dear Abby. When it came time for her son to move out, she bought herself a new home instead. She stated it would be easier for him and that he shouldn't have to pay the price of a house with interest rates where they are. She then spent an insane amount on a home and moved by new furniture for herself and leaving her old stuff for him. She goes on to ask this very important question.  which we're all asking, how can she not see that she's doing more harm than good when it comes to teaching him independence? Both parents are doing this to him. My daughter, on the other hand, age 18, has been doing these things since she was a whopping 12 years old, and that includes cooking, yard work, laundry, and housework, besides just vacuuming. Vacuuming. Doesn't my friend realize it's harming to not have her son do son things all on his own?  signed good parent in michigan and so what abby wrote back to the good parent in michigan was quote you're not wrong by teaching her son survival skills he will need on his own if he ever gets there she has slowed his ability to fend for himself  This may have been an attempt to make his life easier. It could also have been an attempt to keep her beloved son dependent upon her as long as possible. Oh, that could be it. She has attachment issues. And she taught her and taught maybe her son the skills he would have been out on his own by age 19. And she wouldn't have that access to her little son.  Wow. So here's the deal. If you are this parent and you are housing your 28-year-old in your basement, at least, bar minimum, charge him rent. He should not be living in your house free of charge if he's 28 years old. He should be paying for groceries. He should be paying for rent, utility bills. Make him feel the pain of adulting because it's painful. I, of all people...  Know what that's like. I moved out when I was like 17 years old. Went to school in South Florida. And I've been on my own ever since. It works. Grow up ASAP to these people. All right. We'll catch up with you on Monday. Take care. Enjoy the weekend.  H-Propatia 5158 Summer Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38122  Hi, I'm Kenny Crenshaw, the Let Me Kill Your Weeds guy. We've been taking care of lawns in Memphis for 40 years now. We know Memphis grasses, Bermuda, fescue, zoysia, and the weeds that infest them. Want some real Memphis experts to kill your weeds? Give us a call at 382-LAWN. Let me kill your weeds.  Mid-South Selection Headquarters, the mighty 990 AM and 1079 FM. KWAM Memphis, a Starnes Media Group station. This is CBS News on the Hour, sponsored by O'Reilly Auto Parts.  I'm Deborah Rodriguez. The remains of a storm named Debbie are picking up the pace as they move north-northeast from the Carolinas, wreaking havoc for travelers. There are ground stops at New York's LaGuardia Airport and at Washington's Reagan National. CBS's Chris Van Cleave is there.  The D.C. area spent the night under a rare tornado watch. There are flood watches and warnings that have been in effect throughout this storm as it's moving through the D.C. area. That wind and rain could slow air traffic as the storm moves north into Pennsylvania and New York. A plane carrying the Carolina Panthers ran off a runway in Charlotte this morning. The death toll from Debbie is up to at least eight. The most recent, a 78-year-old woman in North Carolina who died when a tree fell on her home. Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page.  We felt like, you know, we made it through the storm. But unfortunately, we lost a life today. Three children were rescued in Raleigh after they tried to cross a fast-flowing creek. A third teenager has been arrested. An Iraqi national in the plot to kill people at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Officials say he, like the mastermind, had pledged allegiance to ISIS. CBS's Ian Lee is at the Foreign Desk.  Austrian authorities said the 19-year-old suspect arrested Wednesday morning has made a full confession. After being accused of planning a terror attack, law enforcement says his plan was to use bombs and knives to kill as many people as possible outside the stadium.  According to officials, he quit his job on July 25th, days after pledging himself to ISIS, claiming he had big plans. Russia has declared an emergency in its southern Kursk region after hundreds of troops entered the country in what could be the biggest Ukrainian attack on Russian soil since the war began. The BBC's Steve Rosenberg is in Moscow.  Three days after Ukraine launched its surprise cross-border attack, Moscow has yet to restore control over this part of southern Russia. President Putin chaired a meeting of Russia's National Security Council to discuss the fight against terrorism. A day after agreeing to a debate...