Memphis Morning News With Ditch & Tim

A brother and sister were trying to make a few extra bucks in a Boston, MA neighborhood when two suspects approached them with a gun and stole the cash drawer with about $50 bucks.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Congressman David Kustoff says a bill passed in the US Senate under reconciliation to pay border patrol and ICE and will be sent to the House for a vote this week.   Federal debt has surpassed the size of the U.S. economy and more voters are starting to show real concern.  Mr. Kustoff says he's hearing more and more concerns about the national debt than he used to and people are tru...

Cheif economist at Heritage Foundation, EJ Antoni says that the good news in the economic numbers that is not being discusssed, is the government jobs number.   "You have to go back to 1966 to find a time when there are fewer fedral bureaucrats than there are today. Six decades of growth (federal jobs) this President has been able to undo". According to the numbers, on average one federa...

Lin Neal "The Real Deal" shared the news this morning that Darana Memphis Motorsports Park plans have changed. The IHRA Midsouth Team Finals from  October 15–18 , and the IHRA Sportsman Bracket Racing World Finals from October 22–24  are no longer on the IHRA schedule.   The organization that purchesed the abandoned track had announced plans to return it to active r...

Former Shelby County Commissionor Terry Roland told Ditch & Tim during Memphis Morning News that the county is broke and a forensic audit needs to be performed on Mayor Lee Harris administration.   Terry also says that the state takeover of Memphis Shelby County Schools will be overturned after a federal court looks at it. He explains that one body is appointed and the other is elect...

Our air travel and aviation expert, Jay "The Fly Guy" Ratliff says one airline has a new policy- leave your robots home because they aren't allowed in the cabin or in cargo department.   Plus, TSA is trying a bold new plan to get passengers through security more efficiently.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listene...

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...

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 advancement 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 bu...

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. Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener...

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.   Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnyst...

Ditch and Tim are joined by Representative David Kustoff to discuss redistricting in Tennessee.    Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ditch and Tim are joined by Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett to discuss everything from "man bun bureaucrats," "little green men," and redistricting.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As written in Section 2 of The Voting Rights Act- "this law does not entitle people to proportional representation".  Former Federal Election Commission member and voting rights legal expert, Hans Von Spakovsky detailed the interpretations in the past of the Voting Rights Act and how the justices were interpreting it wrong.  "The current Supreme Court said, if you're looking at proving a...

Ditch and Tim are joined by Republican Shelby County Mayoral candidate John DeBerry, as he discusses his vision for nurturing the growth he knows is possible for Memphis and Shelby County.    Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tennessee State Rep. Mark White spoke on the re-districting special session and the fight by Shelby County Commission to stop the state takeover.  White told Ditch & Tim during his call-in on Memphis Morning News that he doesn't support the redistricting in Tennessee at this time.  "I'd like to govern in a different way, I understand the issue between blue states and red states natio...

Ditch and Tim talk with TN Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti about Mayor Lee Harris' intent to prevent a state intervention of Memphis Shelby County Schools.    Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Radio voice of the Memphis Grizzlies, Eric Hasseltine talks NBA Draft, hotels and some advise for players complaing about Memphis.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carl Davis of Memphis Allies says that [gun violence] it's starting to be normalized. The outreach team is usually members of the community, former gang affiliated and are now trying to show guys that this is not normal and they don't want people to becoome numb to the gun violence. The research shows that typically, 1 shooting results in 4 additional shootings. Memphis Allies works to be the stop...

Memphis Crime Beat founder, Leslie Taylor and statistician Ron Walker addressed accusations by DA Steve Mulroy that the watchdog group is "sloppy with statistics".   Mulroy claims that the December rate of 75% of convicted Criminal Court defendants recieved no jail time is "just flat wrong".  Jail and prison are seperate from one another. One follows a judges decision after convicti...

Jenn Bennie, a Veteran who flew the SH-60-Bravo Seahawk helicopter during deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, stopped by the Memphis Morning News studios to share some of her experiences and training in SERE.  Bennie now hosts Walk With History on Youtube and hosts a podcast Talk With History .  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/p...

Congressman and gubinatorial candidate, John Rose says he supports deployment of the Tennessee National Guard and doesn't think it's the regular, sustainable way to safety in any community.  Support the show: https://www.newstalk989.com/personalities/memphis-morning-news/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's the Memphis mom that simply thanked President Trump for sending the law enforcment surge to Memphis in September, 2025.  Shortly after, crime began to drastically drop and Delisia Balinger posted a TikTok thanking the President for The Memphis Safe Task Force. That video went viral and the threats towards Dee Dee began. The "resistance" wasn't going to stand for a mom in Memphis giving...

National Security Analys, Fmr: Bridgewater Associates, Pentagon, IC, U.S. Army,  @NorthropGrumman | Iraq & Afghanistan.   Alex Plitsas on Memphis Morning News with Ditch & Tim, says Kurds in Iraq have been armed and were planning to cross the border into Iran. The US has a long standing relationship with a sector of Iraqi Kurds. Alex gives context to our relationship with th...