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MEMernet: Memphis Checking, SZA v. Grok, and NZ to Beale

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Memphis Checking 

TikTok user santinay._ hilariously broke down Memphis checking recently. 

“I don’t know if they teach them how to talk about people in school,” she begins, “but the comebacks are too lethal and they come too fast. You don’t even get to think about what it is you’re going to say before they’re already like 10 to 15 jokes in.”

SZA v. Grok

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Singer-songwriter SZA slammed Elon Musk’s Memphis-based artificial intelligence in an Instagram post to her 23 million followers last week. 

We couldn’t find the original post but Rolling Stone and Billboard reported SZA said, “Please Google the beautiful Black cities like Memphis that are suffering because of Twitter’s new AI system.” 

Many of her posts show her enjoying nature. To be fair, though, at least one shows the artist boarding a super-polluting private jet. 

NZ to Beale

Posted to YouTube by Your New Zealand Family

See Memphis through the eyes of a New Zealand family in this wholesome, uplifting YouTube video: “New Zealand Family see Memphis for the first time!”  

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MEMernet: Fred Smith Remembered, Humid Heat, and Celtic Crash

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Fred Smith

Memphis paused for the passing of critical citizen and FedEx founder Fred Smith last week with praise, personal testaments to his character, and listing his many contributions to the city.

His nephew, Joseph Davis, offered an inside look at the man in a Facebook post with several intriguing details. In his car, Smith “literally jammed out to college marching band fight songs.” He co-founded Ardent Studios when he was 15. And Smith only ever really bragged about his kids and grandkids. 

Davis also pointed to a 2021 interview with Arthur Smith, Fred Smith’s son and former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, on the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast. In it, Arthur calls his dad live to tell (and confirm) the famous and true story of how he once took FedEx’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas to save the company. He won $27,000 on blackjack, enough to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill at the time. 

Hell

“If you want to experience what hell feels like, come to Memphis — 100 and rising,” tweeted @TrumpIsBack7 last week. The account’s location is Memphis and the user identifies as a member of the Memphis Police Department. “Heat index 110. Unlike places with dry heat like Arizona, we have really high humidity, which is way worse.”

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Celtic

Details of the car that crashed through Celtic Crossing Irish Pub’s patio were few as of press time. We’re hoping for a speedy rehab for the pub and any injured.

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MEMernet: No Kings

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No Kings

Memphians joined the national No Kings movement Saturday at the corner of Poplar and Highland. Here are some of our favorite images. Check the Memphis subreddit for a ton more.

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MEMernet: Kroger Demands, Cute, and 100 Days of Blues

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Kroger Demands

Chef Kelly English gave a list of demands for Kroger in an Instagram Reel. (Yes, it was two weeks ago, but it’s still relevant.) Chief among them: “I’m not stopping for your security guard if you make me ring up my own groceries.” (See? Still relevant.) 

Cute

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100 Days of Blues

Posted to Instagram by Memphis Travel

100 Days of Blues kicked off Sunday with a rousing version of “Walkin’ in Memphis” by Marcus Scott and the Tennessee Mass Choir at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale Street. Events and performances will roll here through September 16th, B.B. King’s birthday. 

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MEMernet: Mighty Pride, Stay Gold, and The Onion

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Mighty Pride

Mighty Lights said the Hernando de Soto Bridge will rock rainbows for Mid-South Pride, Tri-State Black Pride, and events throughout Pride Month.

Stay Gold

Posted to Reddit by u/GrowMemphisAgency

“Next time somebody asks me about the quality of Memphis City Schools I’m gonna show them this and say, ‘It’s golden,’” u/GrowMemphisAgency posted in the Memphis subreddit. 

Onion

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The fictional Memphis Science Center made The Onion last week:

“Through our ‘Fun With Funding Cuts’ display, children get a chance to resolve the devastating capital shortage that’s going to force us to close by the end of the year,” museum curator Colleen Gannon said while walking through the exhibit, which features a wall of spreadsheets that children can fill in via a 10-by-10-foot calculator built into the floor.

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MEMernet: Clayborn Arson and Memphis Rap

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Clayborn Arson

“We are heartbroken to confirm what we now know: The fire at Clayborn Temple was not an accident,” Historic Clayborn Temple said on Facebook last week. “It was arson.”

The Memphis Fire Department issued the photo below as a person of interest in the investigation. Anyone with information was asked to called Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH (528-2274) or the State Arson Hotline at 1-800-762-3017 and could be eligible for an $11,000 cash reward. 

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Memphis Rap

Redditor u/Philbofa shared a hilarious meme from @LuzNocedaReal in the Memphis Rap subreddit last week.  

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MEMernet: Homicide Capital?, Owls on HBO?, and ’Cue Town 

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Homicide Capital?

Screenshots of FBI Director Kash Patel calling Memphis the “homicide capital of America” flew all over the MEMernet early this week. The remark came on Fox News Sunday, with Patel promising a task force to handle the situation.

The Trump administration isn’t known for accuracy. So we’re going to dig into the crime numbers. Watch memphisflyer.com this week for what we find.

Owls on HBO?

Posted to Reddit by u/theunnamedban 

An eagle-eyed (or owl-eyed?) Redditor, u/unnamedban, spotted Delaney Buffett sporting a Memphis University School Owls T-shirt in a trailer for a new film, Adult Best Friends. Why? No one on Reddit was exactly sure. 

’Cue Town

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One town. Two barbecue festivals. Blue smoke rolled all over Memphis last weekend with the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest (left) and SmokeSlam (right). 

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MEMernet: Young Avenue Deli, xAI Proof, and RiverBeat

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Young Avenue Deli

The Young Avenue Deli announced it will go 21 and up on Tuesdays and Wednesdays after 10 p.m. in a now-deleted Facebook post from the weekend. The Cooper-Young stalwart said it will also offer free drink covers, increase security, train its staff on handling harassment and misconduct, and conduct a “full internal review on how we operate.” 

“We’ve heard the concerns raised about how we’ve handled misconduct — especially involving the behavior of men in our space — and we recognize that our response has not been good enough,” the restaurant said.

xAI Proof

Posted to Facebook by Southern Environmental Law Center

“Local officials claimed Elon Musk’s xAI facility was only running 15 of their 35 unpermitted gas turbines in South Memphis,” the Southern Environmental Law Center said. “We sent a plane with thermal imaging up to double-check and the thermal images showed that almost all of the polluting turbines are running.”

RiverBeat

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RiverBeat Music Festival drew thousands to the Memphis riverfront last weekend for varied acts from headliner Missy Elliott to Benson Boone to Busta Rhymes and DJ Spliff Star (above).

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MEMernet: Protest, Who to Follow, and Youch 

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Protest 

Hundreds joined for a Hands Off protest at Poplar and Highland last Saturday. President Donald Trump and Memphis businessman Elon Musk were, broadly, the targets of the protest.

“It was overwhelmingly positive,” umelissa3670 said on Reddit. “I had two people flip me off and two yell ‘Trump!’ at me or in my general direction, one of which had frat bro ‘do-you-know-who-my-father-is?’ energy. I just shrugged. All and all [sic] a great day! Loved meeting folks and smiling.” 

Who to Follow

Posted to YouTube by DeeJayTV130

DeeJayTV130 said his little sister “wanted to pull up” to the Belly Acres on Poplar and dine at what he called “the most expensive restaurant in Memphis” in a new YouTube video. The siblings order, eat in the car, and discuss the food. In all, the video (and the whole channel, really) is a gentle, heartwarming slice of foodie life in the Bluff City. 

Youch

Posted to X by @Sxpreme_WRLD

The Grizzlies got dragged on X after their 80-131 defeat against the Oklahoma City Thunder last Sunday. Exhibit A: A screen grab from a gif showed “the Memphis Grizzlies leaving the arena.”

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MEMernet: “Libtard Alert”

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“Libtard Alert”

Elected officials took heat over spicy comments they made on the MEMernet last week.

Memphis-Shelby County School Board Member Towanna Murphy issued a formal apology days after she threatened to have a Facebook commenter deported for comments she made.

Posted to Facebook by Brent Taylor

Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) raged on Facebook about a column from the Daily Memphian’s Dan Conaway. In it, Conaway criticized Taylor’s moves to remove Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy, called him a “gadfly,” and said Taylor lives in a replica of the Mississippi governor’s mansion. 

For this, Taylor issued a “libtard alert,” calling Conaway “a pompous, elitist, leftwing clown … suffering from Taylor Derangement Syndrome.”

“A dog gets more useful information sniffing the ass of another dog than you get reading a Dan Conaway column,” Taylor wrote. 

Posted to Facebook by Otis Sanford 

Otis Sanford, a longtime Memphis pundit, said, “This is one of the meanest things I have ever read from an elected official who fashions himself a public servant.”

Sanford wanted as much hubbub on Taylor’s post as Murphy’s deportation post.  

“Shame on you, Senator,” Sanford wrote. “Your respect meter is plummeting toward zero.”