County Commissioner Amber Mills - District 1, gave an example of how some of the mayor's grant pool money is used by commissioners.

Commissioner Brooks presented an item for $65,000 to be granted to a friends consulting firm with no volunteers, no employees for the non-profit listed on the request. Mills says that Brooks brought the item back up a 3rd time and suddenly there were two volunteers listed and the requested amount was $32,000 and miraculously the grant request passed.

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Do you consider yourself a luddite? Are you fighting the use AI as the answer to furthering civilizations? Ditch, Tim & Producer Max took a few minutes to opine on "neo-luddism" and the idea that questioning the rapid advancment of AI may not categorize someone as a luddite.

Elon Musk's xAI supercomputer Grok calls Memphis home. The facility, Colossus 1 as it's known, was built in an exhisting Electrolux factory. Colossus 2 is being constructed in Southaven, MS and is part of the massive data center construction boom.

A "gargantuan" data center has been approved in Utah that would encompass a 62 square mile space and would double the state's electricity consumption.

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Ditch and Tim are joined by Andreas Johansson, owner of the Mid-South Monarchs, a new minor league hockey team that is set to debut at the Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi, in October 2026.

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Ditch and Tim are joined by TN Representative Andy Ogles to discuss everything from redistricting, the man behind the President, and how he hopes to serve ALL Tennesseans, regardless of party or any other such affiliations.

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Leslie Taylor and Ron Walker from Memphis Crime Beat provided and update with all new data set on the Shelby County Justice system. Comparing Memphis justice data to other cities in Tennessee. Memphis & Shelby County justice data is leading in some, not so good, categories.

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Memphis Morning News is joined by Tennessee's 9th Congressional District Candidate, Charlotte Bergmann to discuss what she calls, the "bad marriage" that people in Shelby County have been in with Democrats for yeats and how she's hoping to improve lives by freeing people from that bad marriage.

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Ditch and Tim are joined by Representative David Kustoff to discuss redistricting in Tennessee.

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Ditch and Tim are joined by Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett to discuss everything from "man bun bureaucrats," "little green men," and redistricting.

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