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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
I am stormy with you this weekend. I've got some
special guests on the show. I know, I tell you
that every weekend, but I do. I've got some special guests,
ladies and gentlemen. Freddie Mac how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm excellent, unusually well how.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you the same?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And the mayor of white havens in the building. She's here, y'all,
Hazel more at you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just glad to be here with two great people.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, no, glad to have you. Thank you so much
for coming up. You guys are not just staples in
our community, but you're also doing amazing things in the community.
So tell me how's white Haven doing? Y'all? Everybody over
there all.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, Oh, everybody's all right.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
They just working for waiting on this big data. Come okay,
So the big day. So this is tell me what?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Tell me? Freddy?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The parade?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, it starts with the Academy for Youth Empowerment, a
nonprofit organization who focuses on empowering youth and one of
the largest events that the Academy does is the mephist
Christmas Parade in white Haven, Okay, not to be confused
with just the white Haven Parade. It's bigger than white Haven.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So yes, and it's not just a parade. It's just
not bands marching up the street. It's just not candy Throne.
It's a celebration. So you say, if it's a celebration,
what it's a celebration of. It's a celebration of the youth.
We give them a platform, a positive platform, and an
opportunity to show their skills because the children work all
year long to prepare for the performances of the red
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carpet that we roll out at the grand stand. So
this is an opportunity not only for the children and
to celebrate the children, but the community comes out. They
get to showcase things that they worked on for months
just to be in this parade. The largest parade in
this city, the twenty eight Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, thank you for clarifying that, yes, because I don't
I thought it was the white Haven Parade, but it's
the Memphis Parade in white Haven. I love it. Now
tell me this, how long have you guys been doing
this parade.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This parade stom has been going on twenty eight years.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What twenty eight years? Right? So do you remember the
first parade that you guys had, do I remember, yeah,
the very first.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh yes, I do. The very first parade that we had.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We had to start at Chevy Drive and Mill Brunch,
come on down to Rain's Road.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And stopping that White Haven shopping.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Center so you can see the progress. Well, now WI
starts on Epis Presley in the South Lamar and we
go all down Evis Pressley.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We march, those kids march. They showed their talent.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, and it's just go to see and I'm just sweet,
just blessed to have come this far and to have
spread it all over the city. Everybody knows we have
bands coming from out of town.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
They're coming here just to see our children.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And a lot of times, most of the time they
recruit some of these young people here. So we are
proud of that that some of them are able to
go to college with the resources that they get.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So we're just glad to be here to talk about
it and and move on and go all into Sunday.
We'll just keep it on into Sunday'll got y'all got
a big weekend plan. Okay, Yes, it's a big, a
big weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's not just the parade, it's other things that you're
doing as well. Celebration, big celebrate, I love it. Okay.
So Saturday, November twenty third is when we can come
out for the parade ten am. And where do you
kick it off?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You said?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The parade starts at Chevy Driving Elvis Presley and it
ends at Laudine, which is just on the other side
of the Piccadilly, the white Haven Plaza. So that's a yeah,
that's how loan the parade is. Wow, that is a
long line up and down and it's it's so refreshing
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to see businesses alone Elvis Presley Boulevard be able to
thrive during the parade because we bring so many people
to the community and the businesses are able to accommodate
those people during the parade, to look on to the
festivities because it was not just.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like I guess, an event or something that is uh,
You're not just helping and serving the young people during
this event, You're also serving the community and the businesses
along the route.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Correct, there has to be some incentive because we shouldn't
like they say, miss Hayes to shut down Elvis Pressley.
So she shuts down the Elvis Presley Boulevard for five hours.
Almost the streets will shut down around nine and the
parade are in just a little after twelve, you know,
so you start shutting it down at nine am to
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kind of prepare. But you have the grand stand right
there across from the White Haven Plaza and that's where
all the major focal action would happen. And most importantly
for those people who cannot attend, we encareg everyone to
come in. It'll be great or cast it. But if
you can attend, if you have family who's out of town,
if you have people who are in the parade and
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you want their family friends to watch, you'll be able
to watch the parade. We're going to live stream it
wo white Haven Christmas Parade dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And is this your first time you've streamed it?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Know, we've streamed it for the last few years. And
we've also had the opportunity ford to being live on
the television partners.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And I stopped at a few business this morning and
talk with them.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
They said, what we are prepared that tab to be
able to come out and sit and look. So it's
a plasure for them to close their doors, come out,
sit and watch all the.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Festivesmen, it is coming through the white table. Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Who should we expect to see as part of this event? Well,
first off, let me say this again. If you're just
joining us for the show, I am stormy. It is
the pulse keeping our fingertips on, the pulse of our community.
Got Freddie Mack in the building and Miss Hazel Moore,
the mayor of white Haven, in the building with me. Okay,
So who should we expect to see when we come
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to this amazing parade?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Y'all?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
All those great schools and great principles that's in white Haven. Oh,
come be there, celebrate starting We will let them start off, okay,
showing performances, all of that. It is so many of
them work together, these schools, and so I'm just proud
to be a part of working with them and all
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of their talent. Twenty eight bands, twenty eight bands. You
will see them out there, twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Eight twenty eight bands, all TC schools marching up the street. Wow,
And I tell.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You it's just fabulous.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
To see even the age elementary schools huh, Junior high, yeah,
and high school. They all work together and prepare for
this great one day.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And so it's just amazing to see them. They're talent.
They are so talent.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They started off they started not having that, but now
they could present to you the best that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I love that. So you guys just didn't do the
White Heaven area when it came to bands. You saw it.
You went outside of the city. You got people coming
in from all.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Over the place, the entire city.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We provide buses for them to be able to attend
the parade, so we eliminated that hurdle because parents may
not be able to get them to Right Haven, but
the parents can get them to the schools. Like the
parents get them to the schools, and we provide the
buses to get them to White Haven and then the
buses to get them back to their schools. So there's
no logistical challenges with their families. It's all about empowering
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them so we can remove any type of restrictions that
they made.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Tell me a little bit, Freddy about your nonprofit again.
So how long has the nonprofit been in existence?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Thirty eight years?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's because we feel like if all kids give it
the necessary tools to work with, they can be successful,
and that we have proved that we try to bring
the best out of them, whether they want to perform
and art, whether they want to perform in games, tendency,
the many things that they want. They suggest what they
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want and that's what the cab brings to them, the
things that they want, and it's necessarious them.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The classes, the instructions, resources, health care.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, it sounds like miss Hazel, you sound so excited
about this. I am. It makes me excited. It makes
me joyful just to hear about it, you know, because
I think when it comes to our kids sometimes we're
not as jubilant as we should be when we are
talking about them. We so often talk about the negative
things that they do that a lot of times we
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don't highlight the good.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, And first of all, we have to motivate them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Parents get up, yeah, me and Dret the children's raggit, Yeah,
and get them to the schools and to the activities,
and boy, they could jump out of their cars all.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
With big spies ready to go.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thirty eight years.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Do you ever see any of the kids that have
come through that program, or that have come to the
parade over the years come back to the parade to
say hey, I used to be in this.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yes, all over the city. They that's how I guess
I became the mirror. They say, you been with us,
you motivated us, you guided us in the right directions.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
So that makes you feel proud. I know I'm not
a payer.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well you are to white Haven and
to a lot of folks. Yeah, and that means something
to a lot of people. They don't give you that
title for nothing. They give you that title because you're
impacting and being empowerful where you are and this is
a part of it, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So how long have you been with this?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, I began helping miss Hazel. It had to be
around twenty twelve when I became involved hands on with
the parade and other initiatives to back to school healthfare.
So we just always been hands on. So since two.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thousand, back to school health fare.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh yes, health fare providing everything that the kids need
to go back to school before school have all of
the different not only school supplies, but services that they
need so they can enroll in school.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it's all in one place for them.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, that's awesome, because we want all kids to be
ready to go to school the very first day of school,
that stay out the week. And so we have made
great drive strives and making this to happen and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Even though there's paradeous for Christmas, most of the.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Time, there are children that don't have coats and toys
and different things, but we do. We came from a
promises to everybody. Yeah, those that are really needed the most.
We try to find resources and things that are willing
to ready to pour in to this. And so this
is what made it lasts all of those years and
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everything and so well, actually, I hate to say the
many years I have worked.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess a lot of times.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I really got started heavily working started in nineteen seven.
That's why most people can remember me from seventy three.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Or whatever was in school, some.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Of the teenagers that's going through college and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So yeah, so that's why it motivates me.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
When you could see and hear those voices telling you
you made a great difference in their lives and they
could come back. I mean, so I went to college
and I'm living it and I'm doing that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, So if that makes you feel good.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And especially when you see these young men say that
it made such a great difference in their lives, that's
been very important.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So that's awesome and that's I'm sure what happened to you. Freddick.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, it's all about listening and following the words of wisdom,
and that's what we as young people, and I was
much younger then. The information is there, the twos are there,
the resources are there. Sometimes we try to do it
our way. That's right and when we and that's one
thing I encourage others, trust the process. This person is
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already paved the way, so their challenges that they have
already overcome and voice their opinion to change laws, to
change rules, to make resources developed to us, all we
have to do is just apply ourselves, be dedicated, and
once we dedicated to it, resources are just unlimited. There
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have lots of organizations out here that are just trying
to promote but it's a challenge finding you who are
just dedicated. So we try to be strategic and providing
those resources in a way where, like you said, barrier,
where we can remove those barriers. Yeah, I want to
be a part, but I can't attend Boom. Now we
know as a team this is something that we need
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to do to try to run their period addressing the need.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, it's the Pulse again. I'm Stormy. Freddie Mack is
in with me as well as Miss Hazelmore, mayor of
white Haven. Thank y'all so much for coming in. So
tell me again, okay. Celebrating the pason with this big parade.
Should we wear Christmas attire on November twenty third, please.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Please?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I would just like to give a great shout out.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Shout out to all the sponsors that are helping to
come in and support this.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's what helped us as well.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Uh huh uh huh what shout out to all the sponsors.
This is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The parade begins at Shelby Drive and Elvis Presley Boulevard
and ends at Elvis Presley Boulevard and Laudan.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
With Santa Claus Don't forget center.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay, tell me about Santa. Is it a black Santa?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's Santa. Santa will be there with the candy. The
kids will probably have more cannon than Halloween. Before Santa
gets there, Santa comes to brings so much more candy.
So the parade starts with the blue lce and in
with the blue license. Okay, the City of Memphis Police Department,
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who we appreciate, City of Memphis Shavy can, the government
and both mayors respectfully. They start the parade off and
get everything going so people know when they see the
blue lights the parade has started with the motorcycle team
of the Memphis Police Department. And then when you see
blue lights at the end, you know that's the end
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of the parade. So memoh Police Department they begin and
the end of the parade. But Santa Claus is right
there to wrap it all up. And then once we
get done with the parade tended to on Saturday, November
twenty third, which is live stream at Whitehaven Christmas Parade
dot com, then we go and do the songs of
the season at Abundant Grace Sunday at four pm. So
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you're taking the same use the same talent, and we'll
allow on them to see Saturday, they use their physical
instruments such as the drums and the flutes and the clarinets.
Now Sunday you'll hear their vocal instruments, ah and the
primary focus of Sunday's concert is to bring awareness to
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pacritic patriatic cancer. Oh okay, and hon of past state
represented Lords D. Barry, who was a very intricate part
of this organization and this program, very good friend with
Miss Hazel Moore and Lords D. Bear was very instrumental
into where we are today. So in her memory, we
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host the songs of the season, allowing the other students
who are not in the band but who are still
in all West and vocal and all of that, that's
their platform. Sunday at Abundant Grace.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Okay, Okay, Sunday at Abundant Grace. What time is that
gonna be again?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Four pm, Sunday, November twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay. So it's not just a one and done. It's
not just the parade. You're gonna keep the kids busy
all all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
This is just like I said, this is just one
of many celebrations.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Okay, I love it, keep.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It going, we get done, Christmas will be working on
Black History, so it's not a one and done, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And then after Black History you'll start back over again,
helping the kids, get them health fare and get them
getting the kids back into school. So kids that are
in the area that are interested in becoming a part
of what you're doing, how do they become a part
of the you know, the nonprofit and and get involved
in what you guys are doing in white Haven?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They can check the nonprofits website or you can go
to white Haven Christmas Parade dot com, which is linked
to the academt for Youth Empowerment's website, and that's where
they can get further information about the programs that are
available to them. Okay, everyone use technology now, so that'll
be the most simple way for them to.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Engage Academy for Youth Empowerment. Correct, Okay, Now, when they
become a part of the program, tell me a little
bit more about what is I guess what they do
or what do you guys, how do they Once you
get them involved, once you get them in the door,
then what's next?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, like I said, once we get them in the doors,
they're major programs that we have and present, and we
let them get suggest themselves. What are the things they
need to listen to.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Or be involved in because they know themselves if you
listen to their voice.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's very important.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Because we have Softwest College y'd we have all these
activits it's going on out there. We have so many
events going out there, and some of them besides the
different one that they want to be in, and some
you know, wants to be in several, and somebody just
want to be in one. But it helps them when
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they go back to school, they have so much more
poise and grace and know how to present themselves. It
just it just means so much to them to know
that they can be able to present themselves and ought
to be able if they want to even grow up.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And get a job, they're prepared for.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Absolutely. I love that. So do you guys do anything
like there was a There's been a lot of talk
about maybe and I've seen some of these classes on
social media, like de escalation of confrontations things like that,
maybe etiquette manners, things like that. Do you do all
those kinds of things as well?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Well, we're gonna get back bing. That's how I started.
When I first started with.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
The programs and stuff. I used to do it because
what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
We still do that because you got to learn them
how to be able to present themselves. You got to
learn them how to walk, you got to learn them
how to dress.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You got to learn them.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Everything that carries them and present them to be intelligent
enough to get a job and go into college and
be successful.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, yeah, I love that what you learned, Freddie and
the communication.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
It's all about having the knowledge and when you have
the knowledge, using the knowledge and maximize in every possibility
that's in front of you. Just maximizing your resources. And
that's what I always tell people around me. Maximize your resources.
You never know who you're meeting, why you're meeting them,
but always look at the positive in it. And like
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you said, conflict resolution, that's a daily task that we do.
People have faced with so many different struggles and a
lot of it can be stemmed from something that's going
on at home. So teaching them how to overcome such situations,
how to realize that, hey, it's not worth it, it's not
worth life changing decisions based on how you feel. And
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I always tell people and they say, well, you made
me feel this way, you made me feel this way,
or the kids may say she made me feel this well,
he made me feel this way. I said, stop focusing
so much on how a person makes you feel, but
focus on how a person makes you think. How do
you make me think? Are you making me thinking the
way that's going to elevate me? Are you making me
thinking the way that's going to have me in a
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sustainable place where I can actually be a great citizen.
Are you making me thinking a way where I can
continue my education and be the best at whatever I am?
And if you, just like she said, with the program,
you just listen to the keys. And a lot of
times we take programs and try to fit kids into
the programs. But if you listen to the kids, they'll
tell you the programs that they need. So listen to
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them and then create programs that are geared to them.
And those programs are ever evolving and every changing because
things change. Technologies constantly change, So what worked five years
ago may not work today. Now we're talking about technology,
we're talking about AI. So now you have so many
tools and resources that are helping us be more efficient.
So use those tools and be more efficient. And it's
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not to be used to make us lazy. It's just
to make us more efficient and be on top of
whatever we're doing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you know what, I applaud that because I think
a lot of people are afraid of surely afraid of AI.
They're afraid to learn about it. And the best thing
you can do, I think in this day and age
is learn about it because your kids are going to
learn about it, and if you want to know what
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they're up to, you might want to know yourself. That
is correct, because it's so different. It's I mean, we
talk about and you know, a lot of people don't
understand the metaverse and how Memphis is trying to actively
become involved in the metaverse. You know a lot of
people don't even understand it. They don't even get it.
But there's a reason for it all. And if we
all start to learn that's that i'ven't been embracing it. Chat,
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GPT and all these other apps, the one that elon
must you might as well embrace it because it's not
going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And the most important thing with those platforms, if the
platform does not have the correct answer, it will give
you an educated guest. So there's something training on the internet.
When attorney used chat GPT, but it gave him an
educated guest versus a factual legal basis. So that's why
the attorney got in in trouble with that. But yeah,
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so I said that to say you still have to
go to school, you still need the foundation check gbt AI.
These things are.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Tools to assist.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're not used to replace. Come on if you can.
If you're a lawyer, you can't be in course say
hold on your let me see what you rest you
the card is, or let me see what collateral stuff is.
You can't. You have to know those things. You know,
the check GPT is not going to make an objection
for you on the record. Same thing. If you're a doctor,
you can't say hold on, let me let me see
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what this diagnosis. You have to know these things. But
these are tools to help you learn more efficiently. So
in the days where we had to just read in
the book or the days where we had to actually
do research, now we have to just know how to
ask the right question. And if you know how to
ask the right question, to be detailed in your questioning.
Now these asks become some of the most powerful resources
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for you. And with me being at it, I'm on
the machine learning side of it. So I take the
expertise that I know and I populate that into code
and then create different machine learning algorithms that it'll you know,
improve the whole AI domain.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, I like it. Freddie, thank you so much. Freddie
nak here is mayor of Whitehaven, Hazelmore. I'm storming with you.
It is the pulse, and I'm glad you explained that
it does not take the place of education. You still
need to read, you still need to educate yourself. It's
there to assist, not to be. You know, they used
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to say, what was the what's the word where somebody's
dropping information in your head.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's just a virtual cosmosis.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It's not gonna give you information by osmoses. It's just
what you said in a virtual assistant it is, That's
what it is. But yeah, parents need to learn. And
it's great that you guys have so much for those
kids with your academy and then to have them participate
in the twenty eighth Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven
is amazing. November twenty third, don't y'all forget now? Are
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you still looking for people that want to be in
the parade? No?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
At the end of that we have closed the gap
in that.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Okay, it's too late because we got enough people now.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, okay, we don't want to go over time. Frame.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So it's too late for that, Yes, but what can
they do?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Come?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Come and won't you come?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
They come and celebrate, Come and celebrate, break your chair
of whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, okay, won't you there? Yeah, this is gonna be nice,
you guys. Saturday September November. What did I say September before?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, he did get you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Saturday November twenty third, y'all know September is over. But
November twenty third, ten a m. It's going down. You
want to be there and be a part of this
in white again, Freddie, tell us where we're starting, where
we're ending, where you want people to line up? Give
me that information again.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, to those listening, you can support anywhere on Elvis
Presley between Chevy Drive and Lording Okay, the main grand
stand to be right there, across from the white Haven
Plaza and the forty one hundred block of Elvis Presley.
So we have a big old stage. You won't be
able to miss it. Okay, a huge stage up there
to be red carpet rolled across Elvis Presley Boulevard. And
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being white, they say lights, sound.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Action, Miss Hazel, are you wearing your Christmas attire? For
this beautiful day.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Oh yes, I'm gonna do something to make sure that
it's representing Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So I know it's before Thanksgiving you guys, but they
do want you to wear your Christmas attire. November twenty
thirty is Saturday ten a m n. White Hen Now,
are y'all on social media?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We are white Haven Christmas Parade.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Facebook, okay, and where else? Just on Facebook? Just on Facebook, okay,
white Haven Christmas Parade. Now, that's where we're streaming it
as well.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Correct. So if they go on Whitehaven Christmas Parade dot Com,
they'll give them a central vocation where they can just
click on the link and in the stream on YouTube. Okay,
So if you just get a search on YouTube, you
will see a stream as well.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, all right, well we're excited about it. Anything else
you guys want to tell us before you go.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I tell you it's gonna be a little bit different
from that. And one of the things that brought me
into doing this type of things. I came from a
family most of the teachers, nurses. I decided to go
into cosmetology, and going into cosmetology, I got the chance
to sit talk with so many of these great people
and people every day people just talk and have conversations
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with them and listen to them. That changed my life
and going to other things and their lives. So wow,
we all communicated for all of my years in the
shop Hazel's Hair Fishing. They could come to Hazels Hair
Fishing and here and get anything they wanted. If it's
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talidas that they needed food, we made sure they could
get it there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
We just made sure that spot. They'll never forget. Wow,
Hazel's Hair Fishing.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, you'll never forget it too, Freddy, never again. Thank
you guys for coming. So this is the twenty.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Eighth, twenty third wait eight Christmas No, the twenty eighth
annual Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven and it's the
Academy for Youth Empowerment. They're presenting the twenty eighth Memphis
Christmas Parade in white Haven Saturday, November twenty third and
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Sunday and Sunday at Abundance at Abundant four.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, that's gonna be awesome too. So it's a big weekend.
It's not just the parade, but it's also some for
the kids on Sunday as well. So don't y'all forget
that as well. And if you need more information, they
can go where.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
White Haven Christmas Parade dot.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Com go get all the information you need and you
can go to Facebook dot com backslash white Haven Parade
to find them on Facebook as well. All right, thank
you guys so much, thank you, thanks to you stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
We have joyed this afternoon with you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, thank you so much. I'm so glad y'all came
by to tell us about this, and just so glad
for the work that you guys are doing in our community.
It's God's work and we create appreciate the work that
you're doing with the youth. It's gonna last them a lifetime.
This this this work y'all are doing, is gonna outlive you. Yeah,
all of us, all of us, Yeah, all yeah, that's it.
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All right, Thank you again. Freddie mac in the building,
come on here, I like it, uh. The white Haven mayor,
Hazel mor thank you again for coming in. We appreciate
you guys so very much. I'm stormy. It is the pulse,
keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community. We'll
see you next week, same time, same station. God bless
you have a great week
Well, hello everyone, welcome to another edition of the Pulse.
I am stormy with you this weekend. I've got some
special guests on the show. I know, I tell you
that every weekend, but I do. I've got some special guests,
ladies and gentlemen. Freddie Mac how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I'm excellent, unusually well how.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Are you the same?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And the mayor of white havens in the building. She's here, y'all,
Hazel more at you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Just glad to be here with two great people.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Oh, no, glad to have you. Thank you so much
for coming up. You guys are not just staples in
our community, but you're also doing amazing things in the community.
So tell me how's white Haven doing? Y'all? Everybody over
there all.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, Oh, everybody's all right.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
They just working for waiting on this big data. Come okay,
So the big day. So this is tell me what?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Tell me? Freddy?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
The parade?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, it starts with the Academy for Youth Empowerment, a
nonprofit organization who focuses on empowering youth and one of
the largest events that the Academy does is the mephist
Christmas Parade in white Haven, Okay, not to be confused
with just the white Haven Parade. It's bigger than white Haven.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So yes, and it's not just a parade. It's just
not bands marching up the street. It's just not candy Throne.
It's a celebration. So you say, if it's a celebration,
what it's a celebration of. It's a celebration of the youth.
We give them a platform, a positive platform, and an
opportunity to show their skills because the children work all
year long to prepare for the performances of the red
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carpet that we roll out at the grand stand. So
this is an opportunity not only for the children and
to celebrate the children, but the community comes out. They
get to showcase things that they worked on for months
just to be in this parade. The largest parade in
this city, the twenty eight Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, thank you for clarifying that, yes, because I don't
I thought it was the white Haven Parade, but it's
the Memphis Parade in white Haven. I love it. Now
tell me this, how long have you guys been doing
this parade.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
This parade stom has been going on twenty eight years.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What twenty eight years? Right? So do you remember the
first parade that you guys had, do I remember, yeah,
the very first.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh yes, I do. The very first parade that we had.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We had to start at Chevy Drive and Mill Brunch,
come on down to Rain's Road.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
And stopping that White Haven shopping.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Center so you can see the progress. Well, now WI
starts on Epis Presley in the South Lamar and we
go all down Evis Pressley.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
We march, those kids march. They showed their talent.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, and it's just go to see and I'm just sweet,
just blessed to have come this far and to have
spread it all over the city. Everybody knows we have
bands coming from out of town.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
They're coming here just to see our children.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
And a lot of times, most of the time they
recruit some of these young people here. So we are
proud of that that some of them are able to
go to college with the resources that they get.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
So we're just glad to be here to talk about
it and and move on and go all into Sunday.
We'll just keep it on into Sunday'll got y'all got
a big weekend plan. Okay, Yes, it's a big, a
big weekend.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's not just the parade, it's other things that you're
doing as well. Celebration, big celebrate, I love it. Okay.
So Saturday, November twenty third is when we can come
out for the parade ten am. And where do you
kick it off?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You said?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
The parade starts at Chevy Driving Elvis Presley and it
ends at Laudine, which is just on the other side
of the Piccadilly, the white Haven Plaza. So that's a yeah,
that's how loan the parade is. Wow, that is a
long line up and down and it's it's so refreshing
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to see businesses alone Elvis Presley Boulevard be able to
thrive during the parade because we bring so many people
to the community and the businesses are able to accommodate
those people during the parade, to look on to the
festivities because it was not just.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Like I guess, an event or something that is uh,
You're not just helping and serving the young people during
this event, You're also serving the community and the businesses
along the route.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Correct, there has to be some incentive because we shouldn't
like they say, miss Hayes to shut down Elvis Pressley.
So she shuts down the Elvis Presley Boulevard for five hours.
Almost the streets will shut down around nine and the
parade are in just a little after twelve, you know,
so you start shutting it down at nine am to
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kind of prepare. But you have the grand stand right
there across from the White Haven Plaza and that's where
all the major focal action would happen. And most importantly
for those people who cannot attend, we encareg everyone to
come in. It'll be great or cast it. But if
you can attend, if you have family who's out of town,
if you have people who are in the parade and
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you want their family friends to watch, you'll be able
to watch the parade. We're going to live stream it
wo white Haven Christmas Parade dot com.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And is this your first time you've streamed it?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Know, we've streamed it for the last few years. And
we've also had the opportunity ford to being live on
the television partners.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And I stopped at a few business this morning and
talk with them.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
They said, what we are prepared that tab to be
able to come out and sit and look. So it's
a plasure for them to close their doors, come out,
sit and watch all the.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Festivesmen, it is coming through the white table. Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Who should we expect to see as part of this event? Well,
first off, let me say this again. If you're just
joining us for the show, I am stormy. It is
the pulse keeping our fingertips on, the pulse of our community.
Got Freddie Mack in the building and Miss Hazel Moore,
the mayor of white Haven, in the building with me. Okay,
So who should we expect to see when we come
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to this amazing parade?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Y'all?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
All those great schools and great principles that's in white Haven. Oh,
come be there, celebrate starting We will let them start off, okay,
showing performances, all of that. It is so many of
them work together, these schools, and so I'm just proud
to be a part of working with them and all
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of their talent. Twenty eight bands, twenty eight bands. You
will see them out there, twenty.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Eight twenty eight bands, all TC schools marching up the street. Wow,
And I tell.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You it's just fabulous.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
To see even the age elementary schools huh, Junior high, yeah,
and high school. They all work together and prepare for
this great one day.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And so it's just amazing to see them. They're talent.
They are so talent.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
They started off they started not having that, but now
they could present to you the best that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I love that. So you guys just didn't do the
White Heaven area when it came to bands. You saw it.
You went outside of the city. You got people coming
in from all.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Over the place, the entire city.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
We provide buses for them to be able to attend
the parade, so we eliminated that hurdle because parents may
not be able to get them to Right Haven, but
the parents can get them to the schools. Like the
parents get them to the schools, and we provide the
buses to get them to White Haven and then the
buses to get them back to their schools. So there's
no logistical challenges with their families. It's all about empowering
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them so we can remove any type of restrictions that
they made.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Tell me a little bit, Freddy about your nonprofit again.
So how long has the nonprofit been in existence?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Thirty eight years?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's because we feel like if all kids give it
the necessary tools to work with, they can be successful,
and that we have proved that we try to bring
the best out of them, whether they want to perform
and art, whether they want to perform in games, tendency,
the many things that they want. They suggest what they
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want and that's what the cab brings to them, the
things that they want, and it's necessarious them.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The classes, the instructions, resources, health care.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, it sounds like miss Hazel, you sound so excited
about this. I am. It makes me excited. It makes
me joyful just to hear about it, you know, because
I think when it comes to our kids sometimes we're
not as jubilant as we should be when we are
talking about them. We so often talk about the negative
things that they do that a lot of times we
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don't highlight the good.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
No, And first of all, we have to motivate them.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Parents get up, yeah, me and Dret the children's raggit, Yeah,
and get them to the schools and to the activities,
and boy, they could jump out of their cars all.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
With big spies ready to go.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thirty eight years.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Do you ever see any of the kids that have
come through that program, or that have come to the
parade over the years come back to the parade to
say hey, I used to be in this.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yes, all over the city. They that's how I guess
I became the mirror. They say, you been with us,
you motivated us, you guided us in the right directions.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
So that makes you feel proud. I know I'm not
a payer.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well you are to white Haven and
to a lot of folks. Yeah, and that means something
to a lot of people. They don't give you that
title for nothing. They give you that title because you're
impacting and being empowerful where you are and this is
a part of it, right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
So how long have you been with this?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Well, I began helping miss Hazel. It had to be
around twenty twelve when I became involved hands on with
the parade and other initiatives to back to school healthfare.
So we just always been hands on. So since two.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Thousand, back to school health fare.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh yes, health fare providing everything that the kids need
to go back to school before school have all of
the different not only school supplies, but services that they
need so they can enroll in school.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it's all in one place for them.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, that's awesome, because we want all kids to be
ready to go to school the very first day of school,
that stay out the week. And so we have made
great drive strives and making this to happen and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Even though there's paradeous for Christmas, most of the.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Time, there are children that don't have coats and toys
and different things, but we do. We came from a
promises to everybody. Yeah, those that are really needed the most.
We try to find resources and things that are willing
to ready to pour in to this. And so this
is what made it lasts all of those years and
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everything and so well, actually, I hate to say the
many years I have worked.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess a lot of times.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I really got started heavily working started in nineteen seven.
That's why most people can remember me from seventy three.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Or whatever was in school, some.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Of the teenagers that's going through college and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So yeah, so that's why it motivates me.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
When you could see and hear those voices telling you
you made a great difference in their lives and they
could come back. I mean, so I went to college
and I'm living it and I'm doing that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, So if that makes you feel good.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And especially when you see these young men say that
it made such a great difference in their lives, that's
been very important.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So that's awesome and that's I'm sure what happened to you. Freddick.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, it's all about listening and following the words of wisdom,
and that's what we as young people, and I was
much younger then. The information is there, the twos are there,
the resources are there. Sometimes we try to do it
our way. That's right and when we and that's one
thing I encourage others, trust the process. This person is
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already paved the way, so their challenges that they have
already overcome and voice their opinion to change laws, to
change rules, to make resources developed to us, all we
have to do is just apply ourselves, be dedicated, and
once we dedicated to it, resources are just unlimited. There
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have lots of organizations out here that are just trying
to promote but it's a challenge finding you who are
just dedicated. So we try to be strategic and providing
those resources in a way where, like you said, barrier,
where we can remove those barriers. Yeah, I want to
be a part, but I can't attend Boom. Now we
know as a team this is something that we need
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to do to try to run their period addressing the need.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, it's the Pulse again. I'm Stormy. Freddie Mack is
in with me as well as Miss Hazelmore, mayor of
white Haven. Thank y'all so much for coming in. So
tell me again, okay. Celebrating the pason with this big parade.
Should we wear Christmas attire on November twenty third, please.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Please?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I would just like to give a great shout out.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Shout out to all the sponsors that are helping to
come in and support this.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's what helped us as well.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Uh huh uh huh what shout out to all the sponsors.
This is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The parade begins at Shelby Drive and Elvis Presley Boulevard
and ends at Elvis Presley Boulevard and Laudan.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
With Santa Claus Don't forget center.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay, tell me about Santa. Is it a black Santa?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's Santa. Santa will be there with the candy. The
kids will probably have more cannon than Halloween. Before Santa
gets there, Santa comes to brings so much more candy.
So the parade starts with the blue lce and in
with the blue license. Okay, the City of Memphis Police Department,
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who we appreciate, City of Memphis Shavy can, the government
and both mayors respectfully. They start the parade off and
get everything going so people know when they see the
blue lights the parade has started with the motorcycle team
of the Memphis Police Department. And then when you see
blue lights at the end, you know that's the end
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of the parade. So memoh Police Department they begin and
the end of the parade. But Santa Claus is right
there to wrap it all up. And then once we
get done with the parade tended to on Saturday, November
twenty third, which is live stream at Whitehaven Christmas Parade
dot com, then we go and do the songs of
the season at Abundant Grace Sunday at four pm. So
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you're taking the same use the same talent, and we'll
allow on them to see Saturday, they use their physical
instruments such as the drums and the flutes and the clarinets.
Now Sunday you'll hear their vocal instruments, ah and the
primary focus of Sunday's concert is to bring awareness to
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pacritic patriatic cancer. Oh okay, and hon of past state
represented Lords D. Barry, who was a very intricate part
of this organization and this program, very good friend with
Miss Hazel Moore and Lords D. Bear was very instrumental
into where we are today. So in her memory, we
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host the songs of the season, allowing the other students
who are not in the band but who are still
in all West and vocal and all of that, that's
their platform. Sunday at Abundant Grace.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Okay, Okay, Sunday at Abundant Grace. What time is that
gonna be again?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Four pm, Sunday, November twenty fourth.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay. So it's not just a one and done. It's
not just the parade. You're gonna keep the kids busy
all all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
This is just like I said, this is just one
of many celebrations.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Okay, I love it, keep.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
It going, we get done, Christmas will be working on
Black History, so it's not a one and done, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And then after Black History you'll start back over again,
helping the kids, get them health fare and get them
getting the kids back into school. So kids that are
in the area that are interested in becoming a part
of what you're doing, how do they become a part
of the you know, the nonprofit and and get involved
in what you guys are doing in white Haven?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They can check the nonprofits website or you can go
to white Haven Christmas Parade dot com, which is linked
to the academt for Youth Empowerment's website, and that's where
they can get further information about the programs that are
available to them. Okay, everyone use technology now, so that'll
be the most simple way for them to.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Engage Academy for Youth Empowerment. Correct, Okay, Now, when they
become a part of the program, tell me a little
bit more about what is I guess what they do
or what do you guys, how do they Once you
get them involved, once you get them in the door,
then what's next?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well, like I said, once we get them in the doors,
they're major programs that we have and present, and we
let them get suggest themselves. What are the things they
need to listen to.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Or be involved in because they know themselves if you
listen to their voice.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
It's very important.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Because we have Softwest College y'd we have all these
activits it's going on out there. We have so many
events going out there, and some of them besides the
different one that they want to be in, and some
you know, wants to be in several, and somebody just
want to be in one. But it helps them when
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they go back to school, they have so much more
poise and grace and know how to present themselves. It
just it just means so much to them to know
that they can be able to present themselves and ought
to be able if they want to even grow up.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
And get a job, they're prepared for.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Absolutely. I love that. So do you guys do anything
like there was a There's been a lot of talk
about maybe and I've seen some of these classes on
social media, like de escalation of confrontations things like that,
maybe etiquette manners, things like that. Do you do all
those kinds of things as well?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Well, we're gonna get back bing. That's how I started.
When I first started with.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
The programs and stuff. I used to do it because
what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
We still do that because you got to learn them
how to be able to present themselves. You got to
learn them how to walk, you got to learn them
how to dress.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
You got to learn them.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Everything that carries them and present them to be intelligent
enough to get a job and go into college and
be successful.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, yeah, I love that what you learned, Freddie and
the communication.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
It's all about having the knowledge and when you have
the knowledge, using the knowledge and maximize in every possibility
that's in front of you. Just maximizing your resources. And
that's what I always tell people around me. Maximize your resources.
You never know who you're meeting, why you're meeting them,
but always look at the positive in it. And like
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you said, conflict resolution, that's a daily task that we do.
People have faced with so many different struggles and a
lot of it can be stemmed from something that's going
on at home. So teaching them how to overcome such situations,
how to realize that, hey, it's not worth it, it's not
worth life changing decisions based on how you feel. And
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I always tell people and they say, well, you made
me feel this way, you made me feel this way,
or the kids may say she made me feel this well,
he made me feel this way. I said, stop focusing
so much on how a person makes you feel, but
focus on how a person makes you think. How do
you make me think? Are you making me thinking the
way that's going to elevate me? Are you making me
thinking the way that's going to have me in a
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sustainable place where I can actually be a great citizen.
Are you making me thinking a way where I can
continue my education and be the best at whatever I am?
And if you, just like she said, with the program,
you just listen to the keys. And a lot of
times we take programs and try to fit kids into
the programs. But if you listen to the kids, they'll
tell you the programs that they need. So listen to
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them and then create programs that are geared to them.
And those programs are ever evolving and every changing because
things change. Technologies constantly change, So what worked five years
ago may not work today. Now we're talking about technology,
we're talking about AI. So now you have so many
tools and resources that are helping us be more efficient.
So use those tools and be more efficient. And it's
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not to be used to make us lazy. It's just
to make us more efficient and be on top of
whatever we're doing.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you know what, I applaud that because I think
a lot of people are afraid of surely afraid of AI.
They're afraid to learn about it. And the best thing
you can do, I think in this day and age
is learn about it because your kids are going to
learn about it, and if you want to know what
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they're up to, you might want to know yourself. That
is correct, because it's so different. It's I mean, we
talk about and you know, a lot of people don't
understand the metaverse and how Memphis is trying to actively
become involved in the metaverse. You know a lot of
people don't even understand it. They don't even get it.
But there's a reason for it all. And if we
all start to learn that's that i'ven't been embracing it. Chat,
(22:32):
GPT and all these other apps, the one that elon
must you might as well embrace it because it's not
going to go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And the most important thing with those platforms, if the
platform does not have the correct answer, it will give
you an educated guest. So there's something training on the internet.
When attorney used chat GPT, but it gave him an
educated guest versus a factual legal basis. So that's why
the attorney got in in trouble with that. But yeah,
(23:03):
so I said that to say you still have to
go to school, you still need the foundation check gbt AI.
These things are.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Tools to assist.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
They're not used to replace. Come on if you can.
If you're a lawyer, you can't be in course say
hold on your let me see what you rest you
the card is, or let me see what collateral stuff is.
You can't. You have to know those things. You know,
the check GPT is not going to make an objection
for you on the record. Same thing. If you're a doctor,
you can't say hold on, let me let me see
(23:37):
what this diagnosis. You have to know these things. But
these are tools to help you learn more efficiently. So
in the days where we had to just read in
the book or the days where we had to actually
do research, now we have to just know how to
ask the right question. And if you know how to
ask the right question, to be detailed in your questioning.
Now these asks become some of the most powerful resources
(24:01):
for you. And with me being at it, I'm on
the machine learning side of it. So I take the
expertise that I know and I populate that into code
and then create different machine learning algorithms that it'll you know,
improve the whole AI domain.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, I like it. Freddie, thank you so much. Freddie
nak here is mayor of Whitehaven, Hazelmore. I'm storming with you.
It is the pulse, and I'm glad you explained that
it does not take the place of education. You still
need to read, you still need to educate yourself. It's
there to assist, not to be. You know, they used
(24:40):
to say, what was the what's the word where somebody's
dropping information in your head.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
It's just a virtual cosmosis.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
It's not gonna give you information by osmoses. It's just
what you said in a virtual assistant it is, That's
what it is. But yeah, parents need to learn. And
it's great that you guys have so much for those
kids with your academy and then to have them participate
in the twenty eighth Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven
is amazing. November twenty third, don't y'all forget now? Are
(25:11):
you still looking for people that want to be in
the parade? No?
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
At the end of that we have closed the gap
in that.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Okay, it's too late because we got enough people now.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, okay, we don't want to go over time. Frame.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So it's too late for that, Yes, but what can
they do?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Come?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Come and won't you come?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
They come and celebrate, Come and celebrate, break your chair
of whatever you want to do.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, okay, won't you there? Yeah, this is gonna be nice,
you guys. Saturday September November. What did I say September before?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No, he did get you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Saturday November twenty third, y'all know September is over. But
November twenty third, ten a m. It's going down. You
want to be there and be a part of this
in white again, Freddie, tell us where we're starting, where
we're ending, where you want people to line up? Give
me that information again.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, to those listening, you can support anywhere on Elvis
Presley between Chevy Drive and Lording Okay, the main grand
stand to be right there, across from the white Haven
Plaza and the forty one hundred block of Elvis Presley.
So we have a big old stage. You won't be
able to miss it. Okay, a huge stage up there
to be red carpet rolled across Elvis Presley Boulevard. And
(26:31):
being white, they say lights, sound.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Action, Miss Hazel, are you wearing your Christmas attire? For
this beautiful day.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Oh yes, I'm gonna do something to make sure that
it's representing Christmas.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So I know it's before Thanksgiving you guys, but they
do want you to wear your Christmas attire. November twenty
thirty is Saturday ten a m n. White Hen Now,
are y'all on social media?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We are white Haven Christmas Parade.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Facebook, okay, and where else? Just on Facebook? Just on Facebook, okay,
white Haven Christmas Parade. Now, that's where we're streaming it
as well.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Correct. So if they go on Whitehaven Christmas Parade dot Com,
they'll give them a central vocation where they can just
click on the link and in the stream on YouTube. Okay,
So if you just get a search on YouTube, you
will see a stream as well.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, all right, well we're excited about it. Anything else
you guys want to tell us before you go.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
I tell you it's gonna be a little bit different
from that. And one of the things that brought me
into doing this type of things. I came from a
family most of the teachers, nurses. I decided to go
into cosmetology, and going into cosmetology, I got the chance
to sit talk with so many of these great people
and people every day people just talk and have conversations
(27:51):
with them and listen to them. That changed my life
and going to other things and their lives. So wow,
we all communicated for all of my years in the
shop Hazel's Hair Fishing. They could come to Hazels Hair
Fishing and here and get anything they wanted. If it's
(28:11):
talidas that they needed food, we made sure they could
get it there.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
We just made sure that spot. They'll never forget. Wow,
Hazel's Hair Fishing.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, you'll never forget it too, Freddy, never again. Thank
you guys for coming. So this is the twenty.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Eighth, twenty third wait eight Christmas No, the twenty eighth
annual Memphis Christmas Parade in white Haven and it's the
Academy for Youth Empowerment. They're presenting the twenty eighth Memphis
Christmas Parade in white Haven Saturday, November twenty third and
(28:50):
Sunday and Sunday at Abundance at Abundant four.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, that's gonna be awesome too. So it's a big weekend.
It's not just the parade, but it's also some for
the kids on Sunday as well. So don't y'all forget
that as well. And if you need more information, they
can go where.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
White Haven Christmas Parade dot.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Com go get all the information you need and you
can go to Facebook dot com backslash white Haven Parade
to find them on Facebook as well. All right, thank
you guys so much, thank you, thanks to you stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
We have joyed this afternoon with you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Oh, thank you so much. I'm so glad y'all came
by to tell us about this, and just so glad
for the work that you guys are doing in our community.
It's God's work and we create appreciate the work that
you're doing with the youth. It's gonna last them a lifetime.
This this this work y'all are doing, is gonna outlive you. Yeah,
all of us, all of us, Yeah, all yeah, that's it.
(29:49):
All right, Thank you again. Freddie mac in the building,
come on here, I like it, uh. The white Haven mayor,
Hazel mor thank you again for coming in. We appreciate
you guys so very much. I'm stormy. It is the pulse,
keeping our fingertips on the pulse of our community. We'll
see you next week, same time, same station. God bless
you have a great week
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