Memphis Road Trip | Civil Rights History & Historic Landmarks - Talk With History

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And that, folks, is how the show rolls.

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Welcome

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to Talk With History.

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I'm your host, Scott here with my wife and historian,

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Hello.

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On this podcast, we give you insights to our history inspired

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world travels, YouTube channel journey, and examine history

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through deeper conversations with the curious, the explorers, and

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the history lovers out there.

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Now today, Jen, before we get into our main topic, I wanna thank our

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Spotify listeners for 5 star reviews.

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We actually just got a couple more last time I

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checked, and so we're up to 9.

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So if you're listening on Spotify, if you could be our tenth 5 star

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review, that would be fantastic.

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And we actually got another 5 star review over on Apple Podcast

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from our friend, GE Historian.

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So this 1 is her review starts with the subject line.

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It's for the Masters of the Air episode that we did not too long ago.

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The history of the Masters of the Air with an aviator turned historian, 5 stars.

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Love this episode, Jen and Scott.

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It was so fascinating to hear the history of aviation during World War 2 and how

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it helped shape the future of aviation.

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I'm a huge fan of Masters of the Air in your podcast.

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My 2 favorite characters from the show is Buck and Bucky.

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Yeah.

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I think

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I I would agree with that.

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I also love Curtis too.

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Like you, Jen, I sympathize too with the aviators and how they have to make split

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second decisions up in the air that may or may not go against the plan that their

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superiors had created down the ground.

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Keep up the good work.

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Well, thank you so much.

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We actually inter we actually interact with GE Historian a fair amount on

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Instagram.

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So if you wanna follow us on Instagram, we have a pretty big following

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over there, and we post pretty much

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Yeah.

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We're pretty active over on Instagram.

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A lot quicker hit kinda history, little little hits over there.

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We do have some membership options over there, and we appreciate this kind of

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the support wherever we can get Today, we're taking a whirlwind tour of Memphis,

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Tennessee, a city dripping with soul, swagger, and stories that shaped America.

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From the king's throne to the fight for equality, Memphis packs a

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historical punch, so put on your blue suede shoes and grab some dry rub

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ribs because we're hitting the road on a Mississippi Delta adventure.

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We're going to explore the birthplace of rock and roll, uncover a hotel with

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a bit of adorable whimsy, and leave you humming a blues tune and hungry for more.

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So stay tuned, history enthusiasts.

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The Memphis magic is about to begin.

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Now,

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Jen Yes.

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We actually haven't recorded in a couple weeks.

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We recorded ahead, so we've been staying on our regular schedule, but

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we didn't record because you and I are getting ready to move back to the

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greater Memphis area, some navy moves.

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And so with that, we wanted to kinda share some tips and tricks, travels, some top

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5 things that you picked out that people can go see in Memphis that have both a

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historical significance and are like the must sees in the greater Memphis area.

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Yes.

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So we've lived there before.

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Yeah.

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We lived there for 3 years.

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And moving from California to Memphis, we really didn't know anything about Memphis.

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So it is really the birth of Walk With History.

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Your very first video is from Memphis, Tennessee.

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It actually has to do around a Confederate statue that neither

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of us even knew who this guy was.

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And it was such a well known character in Memphis in the south that we

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were just shocked that there's so much knowledge and history of the

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south that is just not widespread.

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Yeah.

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We we've we've told this story a couple times, and if you've never heard it

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before the the channel actually started in about 20 21, not long after the

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pandemic, and and you had been watching some YouTube you had actually gone out.

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We were living in Memphis where I moved there for the Navy, and you had gone

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out just with your, iPhone, you know, 10 or something like that at the time,

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and just started filming vertical video saying, hey, I wanna show this to my

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family and show them who this person

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Yeah.

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I made a Facebook group.

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a Facebook group.

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was called walk with history.

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And I added a bunch of friends and family and asked them if they are interested.

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I'm gonna just film around the South and Memphis and things that I'm learning and

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if they're interested in learning too.

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And you have to also understand it's just coinciding with me

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getting my master's degree there.

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So, again, former military used my GI bill and went back to school

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at the University of Memphis and got a master's degree of history.

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So for me, it was so poignant to get that degree there because my undergrad

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is from Penn State, a a Yankee school.

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And to get your graduate degree in a southern school, I it really is

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a crossroads of American history.

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And I did not realize how important Memphis is to American history until

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I started to really immerse myself into that culture and history.

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Yeah.

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And so that was really the Genesis of Walk With History.

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It started there, and then we kinda moved and life moved on.

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And then all of a sudden, you know, a few years later, here

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we are with Walk With History.

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So let's start with the where Memphis fits in the greater

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American history picture, and then we'll go into some some top

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Top 5.

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Top 5.

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Top 5 places to visit.

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If you were going to Memphis for the first time, this is our list,

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and we're gonna go in reverse

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order.

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But we'll start with some history, and then we're gonna go go in the top 5.

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So

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stick around.

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So usually when I listen to podcasts, I'm driving somewhere

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and I'm like, oh, does anyone have a podcast about this so I can

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listen to it before I get there?

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So if you're on your way to Memphis, first time, these are your top 5 places to visit

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if you've never been to Memphis before.

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But some background on Memphis is it's at the southern west tip of

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Tennessee on the Mississippi River.

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It is an old Chickasaw area.

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So Chickasaw was the American Indians that live there, the Chickasaw people.

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And then it was bought by Andrew Jackson pretty early in in land grants.

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Andrew Jackson's from Tennessee.

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And if you remember, he his home is outside of Nashville.

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And so he's a early landowner of the Tennessee area.

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So he owns Memphis.

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And him and 2 other people established the city.

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And that's about 18 19.

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And because it's on the Mississippi, which is the second largest river

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in America, it looks like the Nile.

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And so for Andrew Jackson, he wanted to name it after a city in Egypt.

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And Memphis is the name of a city on the Nile in Egypt.

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So Memphis, Tennessee is like Memphis, Egypt because of its place along the Nile.

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Because of that, there's a lot of Egyptian influence in Memphis.

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And even when I went to the University of Memphis, we have a big statue

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of Ramses out front of the school because we have an Egyptology program.

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And I think it's it's 1 of the largest in the country.

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Yes.

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So if you like Indiana Jones, everybody most people who I

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went to grad school with are are Egyptologists, reading hieroglyphics.

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And we have at the University of Memphis Museum, we have mummies.

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And a lot of that schooling is there.

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So it is 1 of those larger programs.

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Most people will go to Egypt and do a dig.

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And I also got a certificate in museum studies.

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So I was also working with them in that realm as well as well.

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So you may not realize how big Egyptology is in Memphis because

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it's like the middle of the south.

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That makes no sense.

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But it is.

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It's it's

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Yeah.

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It was it was neat to learn about that as you were going through

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grad school and and it kinda

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makes sense for some of our 1 of the items on our list here, and actually

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probably the first 1 that we're gonna talk about about kinda why it

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was designed the way that it was.

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So the fifth place on our list, because we're gonna jump into

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this, I don't want people sitting on I hate sitting on a podcast going,

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when are they gonna get to it?

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Is the pyramid.

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There's a huge pyramid in Memphis right on the Mississippi and because of Egypt.

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So think of if you've ever been to Vegas and you've seen the

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Luxor, it's almost the same thing.

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But it was built as arena in 19 91 to hold 20000 people.

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And it had some famous concerts there.

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The Grateful Dead played there.

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Oh, I didn't realize

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It's also known for a Mike Tyson fight.

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In 2002, Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson actually fought

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Oh, I didn't know that.

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was like an arena.

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But after that, it it closed, and it was revamped as a Bass Pro Shop.

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And that's what it is today.

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let me tell you folks, it is such a fun Bass Pro Shop.

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I I so enjoy going there.

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And if I know there's people that have been stationed with me there in in

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Memphis, Millington area before, and I'm I'm sure they probably feel the same way.

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It's just kinda 1 of those things that hey.

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I'm gonna go after church.

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I'm gonna go there on a Sunday afternoon and just you could spend a couple

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hours there literally just walking out looking at whatever you wanna look at.

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And it has all sorts of stuff inside, like lakes and fish

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and gators and all this crazy

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It it's so it's free.

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So if you wanted just something fun to do with your family,

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you could park there, walk in.

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You can look at all the cool aquariums.

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They have a bowling alley.

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They have a nice restaurant upstairs, like fine dining.

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They have an a a good restaurant downstairs.

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It's more family friendly.

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And you can even stay there.

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They have rooms and

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That's right.

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There's a hotel.

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There's a hotel aspect to it, but it has all the classic Bass Pro Shop stuff.

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All the classic Bass Pro.

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It's it's super fun.

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Well, I highly recommend if you're if you want something a little

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that every the whole family would enjoy, I I think this is a a an easy

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And you would see it.

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If you're driving through Memphis, and you're taking the Memphis bridge across

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the Mississippi, you'll see the pyramid.

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It is right there on the on the coast of the Mississippi

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Yeah.

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that Memphis Bridge it's going across you know, the Mississippi

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there, it looks like a big m.

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Yeah.

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It's right there.

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It's

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right there.

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So let's move on to number 4.

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And this is important historically.

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We'll talk about that as well.

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It also is in a movie, but it's the Peabody Hotel.

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So the Peabody Hotel is 1 of these old Southern hotels.

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The original was built in 18 69, right after the

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Civil War.

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Now, it wasn't at the present location.

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It is today.

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The present location of the Peabody today was built in 19 25.

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But you would remember it from The Firm, the Tom Cruise movie where he

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gets offered the job and they're on top of the Peabody having a party.

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And you can see the big words, the Peabody.

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It also has a great view of the Mississippi from it.

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And another thing that people love to see at the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:28</time>
And that was cool.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:29</time>
I it wasn't something I had seen the firm, you know, before we moved

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
there, but I wasn't aware of the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:34</time>
Mhmm.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:35</time>
So the firm is that Tom Cruise movie.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:38</time>
It was written by Grisham, where he plays a lawyer in Memphis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:41</time>
Just so people like what?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:43</time>
If you remember that 1 of the John Grisham novel, john

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:45</time>
Grisham is from the South.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:47</time>
But the ducks in night in 19 33, some duck hunter came into the hotel and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:54</time>
they have a big fountain in the middle.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:56</time>
And he thought it was funny to put his duck decoys in the fountain.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:01</time>
And it just made people laugh.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:03</time>
And so they thought it would be like a novelty to have real ducks.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:08</time>
And so they do now.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:10</time>
So every day they parade the ducks in in the morning and it's a big deal.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
You can sit there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:15</time>
They're they're housed at the top of the hotel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
They come in in the morning.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:19</time>
They walk across the red carpet and they sit in the fountain all day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:23</time>
And then at the afternoon or the 3 or 4, they parade the ducks out to go to bed.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
and and don't I guess, certain people on host hotel staff, they're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:31</time>
like they're like I want I don't know the word for it, but they're,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
like, integrated with the ducks.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
The ducks know these

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:38</time>
particular people, and they wranglers.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
They they will follow them.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:41</time>
through the through the hotel.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
And so I think I've seen it once, but only kinda on the periphery because I

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
was trying to kinda help the kids see

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:47</time>
it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
So I'm actually looking forward to going back and actually seeing it truly

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
seeing it for myself, you know, sometime

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:53</time>
Again, it's free.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
It's something fun to do with your family.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:56</time>
They have a great lobby area where you can go have a drink or hot cocoa,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:01</time>
and you can get food or just dessert.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:04</time>
We go there after date night sometimes, and we just sit in the lobby.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:07</time>
It's a beautiful lobby.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:08</time>
They have a lot of events there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:10</time>
So Saint Jude is in Memphis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
And a lot of Saint Jude's events will be at the Peabody.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:16</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:17</time>
And now the Peabody all that's there, and it's right in the downtown area

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:21</time>
next to our number 3 place on the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:32</time>
I wanna talk a little bit more about the history of Memphis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:35</time>
So Memphis, again, along the Mississippi River and during

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
the early times of America and enslavement, this was a cotton area.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
And Memphis was the cotton market of America.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:50</time>
That's where they they did the cotton exchange because you could

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:53</time>
bring cotton up the Mississippi, exchange it, and then send it further

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:58</time>
up north to basically sell it and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:00</time>
Well and and also in that neck of the woods, in that part of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
the south of the Mississippi Delta area you can grow cotton for so

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
long.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
You know, the the the growing season is is pretty

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
long.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
still see cotton growing there today, which is something

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
we never saw until we moved there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:15</time>
But during enslavement, this is where you get a lot of African Americans and working

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:21</time>
through getting free or not being free.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
And so you have the blues.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:27</time>
The birthplace of the blues is Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
they really think the birthplace of jazz will be Bourbon Street in New Orleans,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:43</time>
but this is the birthplace of the blues.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:45</time>
And Beale Street is our number 3 place to visit because it is that birthplace

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:50</time>
of that particular kind of music, which is jazz, but more on a sadder

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:55</time>
storytelling, just like your your your travels and trials through life.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:05</time>
And you get famous people like BB King and Muddy Waters who really

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:11</time>
left their mark on Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
But it was WC Handy who was a trumpet player, who African American, who

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:20</time>
wrote the song and became known as the Memphis City Blues or the Beale Street

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
Oh, cool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:26</time>
how Beale Street got its name.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:28</time>
So you would know it from the new Elvis movie, Lansky Brothers, where Elvis

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:35</time>
got his clothes is on Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
Elvis visits Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:39</time>
It's just a major musical influence

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
was actually a pretty long scene in that movie where he's at some bar, some

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
music spot downtown, and he's hanging out right with other musicians down

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:50</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:50</time>
He's hanging out with just other influential musicians because the African

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:55</time>
American sound was so influential to his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:58</time>
And if you It's it's an easy Google search.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
You can Google Beale Street, and there's a there's a lot of fantastic places to eat,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:07</time>
great bars you can go listen to music too.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:09</time>
They actually have what do they call them?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:11</time>
The Memphis Street flyers

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:12</time>
where Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
They will they will kinda do gymnastics.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:15</time>
They will tumble, kinda doing

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:16</time>
flips.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:17</time>
you remember in The Firm, when Tom Cruise is kinda challenged to do flips

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
down the street, they have people who do

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:23</time>
And they They still do it to this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:24</time>
still do it to this day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:25</time>
Great places to eat like you said.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:27</time>
We love Blue City Cafe which is right on the corner.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:30</time>
It's also from The Firm where Tom Cruise meets the FBI agents for the first time.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
But they have the best gumbo cheese fries I've ever had

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
They're they're fantastic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
1 of the other places that I wrote down that's just off of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
Beale Street is Rendezvous.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
So rendezvous so so when we say gumbo cheese fries, that's not barbecue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
When we're getting into barbecue and you get into rendezvous, rendezvous

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:55</time>
is by the Peabody, which is just 2 blocks away from Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:58</time>
And Rendezvous is down a back alley from the Peabody.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:03</time>
And and if folks, if you're listening and you're like, oh my gosh.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:05</time>
I gotta take all these notes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
Don't worry.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:08</time>
I have links to all of these places.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:09</time>
I will put them in the show notes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:11</time>
So just save this episode or text it to your husband or your wife

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:14</time>
or whatever and be like, hey.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:15</time>
On our trip, we have to relisten to this, and we gotta look in the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:18</time>
show notes because I have links.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
I'm gonna have links to all these places in the show

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
And rendezvous Justin Timberlake is from Memphis, and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:25</time>
rendezvous is his favorite ribs.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:27</time>
So if you want some good barbecue ribs, rendezvous is where Justin

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:31</time>
Rendezvous Rendezvous really good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:32</time>
It's it's pretty cool too because 1 parking is it can be tricky around

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
there, but it's like you have to go into this alley to get into Rendezvous, and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
then it's like down inside, and it's actually pretty expansive once you get

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:42</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
And I still use Rendezvous spices when I make chicken for us.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
So I buy it even for that because it's special.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:50</time>
But yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:51</time>
You can't miss Beale Street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:52</time>
FedEx Forum is there right off of Beale.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:54</time>
FedEx Forum is our big arena now where the Grizzlies will play.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:59</time>
We saw Justin Timberlake there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:00</time>
We saw Garth Brooks there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:02</time>
There's a great hotel right beside it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:04</time>
If you don't wanna stay at the Peabody, there's a hotel right there by the FedEx

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:08</time>
Forum, which is your right on Beal then.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:10</time>
There's other great music places on Beal.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:12</time>
You can hear the blues coming out the door and you can stop in and have a drink.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:16</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:17</time>
Beale Street is 1 of those things if you can't hit all 5 of these places

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:21</time>
in 1 day, if you do 1 thing in the morning and then you kinda do 1 thing

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
later on evening dinner time, Beale Street is the is that great place.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:29</time>
That 1 last thing kinda before we move on to the next 1 that I noticed the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:33</time>
last time we were there, They have those musical notes like Hollywood

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:37</time>
Boulevard has the, you know, walk of fame, but they have these kind of

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:40</time>
brass notes that are in in the sidewalk with all these famous musicians that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
have been there, played there, or or from the area or something like that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
So you can see all these names that you will recognize

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
that are in the sidewalk

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
The musical influence of Memphis is tremendous and far reaching.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:03</time>
I will also mention the oldest establishment on Beal is Schwab.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:08</time>
It's it's a good store.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:10</time>
It has great ice cream in there now.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:11</time>
It's another great place to start with your family

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:14</time>
Great great place to get souvenirs and all the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:17</time>
And that's what has the fountains.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:18</time>
If you go up on the second floor, they have a little museum and they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:21</time>
show you fountains from segregation.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:23</time>
Because again, Memphis is really a part of American crossroads and segregation and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
enslavement is all part of the history.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:31</time>
And we'll get more into that in our next location.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:34</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:34</time>
So our our next location is a little bit more of a serious note, but this

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:37</time>
is actually pretty well known and a lot some people may know it as the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
National Civil Rights Museum, but in Memphis, it started off as something

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:45</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:56</time>
Lorraine Motel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:58</time>
So it's important.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:00</time>
If you're in Memphis again for a day, you can just drive by it and stop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:03</time>
You don't have to go inside the actual motel, which is now the National

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:07</time>
Civil Rights Museum, because because you can see the balcony where Martin

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:10</time>
Luther King was assassinated on April fourth 19 68 just by standing outside.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:15</time>
And it's open and free to the public to do that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:18</time>
So Martin Luther King was in Memphis for the sanitation strike.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
Again, this is the sixties.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:24</time>
This is Jim Crow.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:25</time>
This is segregation.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:27</time>
Sanitation workers were the basically the garbage men in town.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:31</time>
And it was segregated where white workers drove and black workers had to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:35</time>
stay in the back of a garbage truck.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
And a garbage truck had malfunctioned and killed 2 black men.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:41</time>
And the sanitation workers, African American sanitation workers, walked

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:45</time>
off the pick walked off the job because of their working conditions.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
They weren't paid as much.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:50</time>
They weren't allowed time off.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
They had to sit in the back of a garbage truck, and then 2 men had died.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:56</time>
So if you ever see those I Am a Man posters, that's from the sanitation

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:00</time>
strike of Memphis, Tennessee.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:02</time>
And that's what Martin Luther King was doing in town to help

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
support that strike and that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:08</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
We actually have a great video that you did from there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:12</time>
And if if you know anything about Martin Luther King and you're familiar with his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
I have seen the mountaintop speech, that is the last speech that he gives because

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:22</time>
he's there for those sanitation strikes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:24</time>
You know, if you I would encourage you to listen to the whole thing because a lot

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:27</time>
of people are familiar with that phrase.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:30</time>
But somewhere I read.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:33</time>
Of the freedom of Assembly somewhere.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:36</time>
I read of the Freedom of Speech.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
Yes.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
Somewhere I read of the Freedom of Press.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:43</time>
Yes.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:43</time>
Somewhere I read that The Greatness of America is the right to protest.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:49</time>
for right.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:57</time>
I'm so blessed.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
As I say, we aren't gonna let.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
Dogs or water hoses turn us around.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
We aren't gonna let any injunction turn us around.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:14</time>
Well, I don't what will happen now.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:18</time>
We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter with me now

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:24</time>
because I've been to the Mountain Top

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:33</time>
like anybody.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
I would like to live long.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:38</time>
Life Longevity has its place, but I'm not concerned about that now.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:46</time>
I just want do God's will and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:54</time>
and I've looked over and I've.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:23:59</time>
The Promised Land.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:02</time>
I may not get there with you, but I want you to know the night that we as

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:08</time>
a people will get to the Promised Land.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:17</time>
So I'm happy tonight.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:19</time>
I'm not worried about anything.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:21</time>
I'm not fearing any.

<cite>MLK:</cite>
<time>00:24:24</time>
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:36</time>
But listening to the whole thing that I remember doing this for the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:39</time>
videos, it's it's a phenomenal speech.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:42</time>
It's it's absolutely incredible.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:45</time>
That's the last speech that he gives.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:47</time>
And then the next next morning?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:49</time>
Next evening.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:50</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:50</time>
He's at 6 0 1 PM.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:52</time>
He's out of room 3 0 6 on the balcony there at the Lorraine Motel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:56</time>
Today, the Lorraine Motel is the National Civil Rights Museum.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:59</time>
So if you do visit, it's a tremendous museum.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:03</time>
It walks you through the African American experience in America from enslavement

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:09</time>
to civil war, reconstruction Jim Crow, segregation, and now mass incarceration.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:14</time>
So it's a really fantastic museum.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:16</time>
And then they also own across the alleyway, the boarding house

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:20</time>
where James Earl Ray was staying.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:22</time>
And that walks you through more Martin Luther King and the assassination.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:27</time>
But like you said, we have a video.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:29</time>
And we go to the church where Martin Luther King delivered that last speech.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:33</time>
We show you what that's off the beaten path.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:35</time>
But if you're interested in that, that video will show you where that is at.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:39</time>
It's about 2 miles away from the Lorraine Motel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:42</time>
And then we take you to the Lorraine Motel and give you all of that background

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:45</time>
as well if you're interested in watching that video before you visit.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:49</time>
And I believe we actually have another podcast episode that's a little

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:52</time>
bit more in-depth about the Martin Luther King assassination, things that you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:55</time>
learned while you were in grad school,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:56</time>
and kinda different perspectives of people who who grew up and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:59</time>
and lived in the area of that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:01</time>
So,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:01</time>
If you're if you're interested in kinda going further into depth in that, I'll

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:04</time>
I'll put some links in links in the show

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:06</time>
And like I said, I got my degree there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:09</time>
So it was a lot of learning for me as a white woman learning a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
lot about understanding this race problem that has been happening

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:18</time>
in Memphis for years, centuries.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:22</time>
The Lorraine Motel was a segregated motel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:25</time>
So that is why Martin Luther King was staying there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:27</time>
There were white and black hotels at the time, and you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:30</time>
couldn't stay in the same hotels.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:33</time>
It was built in 19 25.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:35</time>
It was named after the owner's wife.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:37</time>
But famous African Americans had stayed there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:40</time>
Nat King Cole had stayed there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:41</time>
Aretha Franklin had stayed there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:42</time>
It was the place you stayed if you were an African American

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:46</time>
influencer in Memphis at the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:48</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:50</time>
Highly recommended.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:51</time>
That's why it's number 2 on our list.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:54</time>
Moving on from there is someone who is a a Memphis local that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:58</time>
many of you most people will know.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:01</time>
And this is the, I believe, the second most visited house in the entire nation.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:07</time>
So what is number 1 on our list

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:14</time>
It's Graceland.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:15</time>
It's Graceland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:15</time>
How can you not?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:16</time>
It's the king.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:18</time>
Again, so when we learned we're moving to Memphis, I think

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:21</time>
that is the 1 thing we knew.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:22</time>
It was Graceland.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:23</time>
And I because I had actually been there before.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:26</time>
Mhmm.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:27</time>
15 years prior or something like that, maybe 12 years prior.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:30</time>
So the other 4 places, Bass Pro Shop, Peabody, Bill Street,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:35</time>
Lorraine, they're pretty close.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:37</time>
You could probably walk to all of them.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:39</time>
Graceland is off the beaten path.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:41</time>
You you will have to wanna go visit that if you, specifically,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:44</time>
if you wanna see it because it's at 37 64 Elvis Presley Boulevard.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:49</time>
But at the time, it was the out skirts of Memphis, the only 4

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:53</time>
miles from the Mississippi border.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:54</time>
of a ranch

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
He had bought a ranch and it was Elvis's home from 19 7 to 19 77.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:01</time>
So 20 years he lived there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:03</time>
And it it's preserved in the way it would have looked in the sixties.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:08</time>
It's awesome.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
it's amazing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:10</time>
And so what they have there too is they have the new Graceland

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:14</time>
Hotel, which is right beside it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:16</time>
And you can stay there and you can get suites with all different kind of themes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:20</time>
And they recreate the staircase in Graceland so you can actually because you

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:23</time>
can't walk up the real staircase, but you can walk up the staircase in the hotel.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:26</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:27</time>
If you've been to Graceland before and you're you're listening to this, but you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:30</time>
haven't been, I think the hotel and kind of the new exhibits opened in about 20 19.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:36</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:37</time>
So we were there during the transition because it used

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:40</time>
to just be really centralized.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:42</time>
Everything was at in Graceland proper, and then they really expanded.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:46</time>
They open up the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:47</time>
hotel, and they op they they took a lot of stuff, and they spread it out

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:50</time>
to to exhibits across the street.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:52</time>
And now they have this really expansive, you know, kind of museum

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:57</time>
experience for all of this Elvis stuff.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:01</time>
So if you haven't if you haven't been back since 20 19, there's

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:06</time>
a lot to kinda go back and see.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:08</time>
So we did it before and after.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:09</time>
So we can talk about that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:11</time>
We were there for his fortieth anniversary of his death.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:14</time>
And they had prepared for that with this huge expansion where they had

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:19</time>
taken everything out of the racquetball court, which used to hold all of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:22</time>
his records and all of his costumes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:23</time>
They took everything out of the pool house, which used to hold all

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:26</time>
of the family kind of memorabilia, his tuxedo, Lisa Marie's crib,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:31</time>
and moved it all into their own separate museums across the street.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:36</time>
So across the street, there are huge museums just dedicated to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:39</time>
Elvis life in the military, just dedicated to Elvis' costumes, just

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:44</time>
dedicated to Elvis' life in Tupelo.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:46</time>
So it's an immersive place.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:49</time>
You can you can spend a day there, even 2 or 3 days.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:53</time>
And your tickets, you can buy tickets for different things.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:56</time>
You can buy tickets just to see the house.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:57</time>
You can buy tickets for the house and all the museums.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:59</time>
You can buy tickets for the house museums and there's like food places there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:04</time>
And now they even have a auditorium to do shows.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:07</time>
I saw Bret Michaels

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:08</time>
Oh, that's right.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:10</time>
So they have it's just a huge experience now.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:15</time>
The house is great.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:16</time>
We've seen the house many times.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:17</time>
You can only visit the first floor.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:19</time>
You cannot go up on the second floor.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
No one's allowed up there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:22</time>
But if you wanna just see the the graveyard, these the serenity garden where

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
Elvis is buried with his parents, his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:30</time>
Right next to his pool.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:31</time>
next to his pool, his grandson, and Lisa Marie, his daughter are all there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:35</time>
It's free every morning from 7 30 to 8 30 AM.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:40</time>
You can park right in front and you can just walk right up.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:43</time>
And they allow that every day, 1 hour.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:46</time>
If you wanna pay your respects to the king like we did, we left him

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:50</time>
a flag for his military service.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:52</time>
Now you don't get to go inside the house, but you can take

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
pictures in front of the house.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:56</time>
So if you didn't wanna spend the money or you didn't have the time or you're just

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:00</time>
driving through, it's very easy to stop.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:02</time>
But it's only that 1 hour in the morning that is open for people to

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:07</time>
It it really is walking through classic Americana.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:12</time>
He is

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:12</time>
such kind of a part of the the American culture, and there's a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:16</time>
reason that is the second most visited house in the entire country, and and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:22</time>
number 1 would be the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:24</time>
Number one's the White House.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:25</time>
And we know because as we live there, you would hear celebrities going to Graceland.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
I remember it was like Aerosmith and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:32</time>
Jagger had gone when we were there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:34</time>
And so you would just see them in the news.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:36</time>
Be like, oh, they went to Graceland today.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:37</time>
So usually everybody who visits America, it's like going to Disney World.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:41</time>
It's I'm gonna go to Disney World.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:42</time>
I'm gonna go to Graceland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:43</time>
And when I was out there for Elvis week, it's the week of Elvis's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:47</time>
death in August, they closed down the street in front of Graceland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:50</time>
And I would talk to people because I wanted to know, again, as a

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:53</time>
historian, what did Elvis mean to you?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:55</time>
Why are you here?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:56</time>
And most everyone was born.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:58</time>
Most everyone was not from America.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:00</time>
And it was just so amazing to be a part of that in that culture.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:04</time>
So, yes, number 1 place to see in Memphis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:07</time>
If you're even driving through, you can just stop and check out Graceland.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:10</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
So so if you if you're listening if you're kinda listening and and you're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
curious about our list, I would actually go in the in the reverse order.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:20</time>
Start with number 1.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:21</time>
If you have to visit 1 thing, you have to see Graceland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:24</time>
Well, we we need to add something onto that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:26</time>
That's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:27</time>
Sun Studio.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:28</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:28</time>
The Sun Studio is not near Graceland.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:30</time>
It's not near Graceland and it's not really it's kinda

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:33</time>
near downtown, but also away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:37</time>
So you have to be specifically looking for Sun Studio.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:39</time>
Studio.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:39</time>
And that's why we kinda kept it as a 1 a

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:42</time>
This is our this is our bonus

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:43</time>
because you probably would want to see Sun Studio,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:46</time>
specifically to see Sun Studio.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:48</time>
And this is where Elvis recorded his first record.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:52</time>
This is where the claim of they recorded the first rock and roll

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:56</time>
record in 19 50 Howling Wolf.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:01</time>
And the and it Ike Turner was there and this is where they

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:04</time>
claimed the birth of rock and roll.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:07</time>
Elvis Presley walked in at 18 years old in 19 53.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:10</time>
He records his famous song, That's Alright, Mama, in 19 54.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:14</time>
And it also has spawned all these other careers.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:17</time>
You get Johnny Cash from there and Jerry Lee Lewis is from there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:21</time>
But you have famous, famous people who want to record in Sun Studio.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:26</time>
And you 2 did an entire album from Sun Studio.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:29</time>
So, again, that's I saw Mick Jagger was there and Aerosmith Steve

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:35</time>
Tyler was there when we were there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:36</time>
So it's another mecca of music, but people usually specifically want to see it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:42</time>
So it's our 1 a with

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:44</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:44</time>
It's a I I call it a a bonus place to visit, you know, for this for this top 5.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:48</time>
And they do do public

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:50</time>
tours.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:50</time>
So look them up ahead of time because you can you can get in there, and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:54</time>
you can stand next to the microphone.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:55</time>
You can take your picture in the studio and and do all the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:57</time>
fun stuff.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:58</time>
microphone, Elvis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:59</time>
sang

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:00</time>
right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:00</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:00</time>
1 last thing.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:01</time>
Let's talk a little barbecue.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:03</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:03</time>
So those are the top place top 5 places to visit.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:08</time>
Now the other thing that that area of the country is known for is the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:13</time>
barbecue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:18</time>
the barbecue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:19</time>
And we hear we heard everyone's opinions when we moved there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:23</time>
And we ate at a couple different places.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:25</time>
So Rendezvous, definitely best ribs.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:28</time>
is phenomenal.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:29</time>
off of Peabody.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:29</time>
Blues City Cafe, definitely best gumbo.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:32</time>
But if you're looking for other, there is Tops Barbecue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:36</time>
That's a big 1.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:37</time>
Central Barbecue

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:39</time>
a couple of those.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:40</time>
have the best barbecue nachos.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:42</time>
And then there's 1 that's not in Memphis.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:45</time>
It's in actually in Mississippi.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:47</time>
It's a Memphis barbecue.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:49</time>
And Guy Ferreri was there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:51</time>
That was probably honestly so we we tried all these

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:53</time>
places, and Memphis barbecue was actually probably my favorite.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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Just straight Scott Bennie's personal favorite.

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Again, just across the border

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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That's that's right.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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Because, you know, picture Memphis, it's that bottom left corner of Tennessee.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:06</time>
So it's right there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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The border is

<cite>Scott:</cite>
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not not far away.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:09</time>
It might be maybe 30 minutes

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:11</time>
from Memphis, something like that.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:12</time>
But if you wanna try the different barbecue places, again, I'm gonna

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:15</time>
list kinda all these places.

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<time>00:35:16</time>
I'm gonna have links to them into all all the show

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:19</time>
Yes.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:19</time>
I mean, most people do go for the food.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:21</time>
You want some southern soul food and and that's definitely the places we ate at.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:25</time>
Now the commissary has to be on the list too.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:28</time>
It's outside of Memphis, but they do have amazing barbecue and banana

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:33</time>
pudding, which is my favorite.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:34</time>
But, yeah, Memphis will always hold a special place in our heart.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:38</time>
And there's so much more history there that we didn't cover.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:41</time>
But these are the big ones if you've never been before and you just want to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:45</time>
get a taste of Memphis driving through.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:47</time>
These are definitely the top

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:49</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:49</time>
We're we're excited to be moving back there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:52</time>
And in future recorded episodes of Talk With History, we will be recording

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:35:56</time>
from the Greater Memphis Area.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:07</time>
So history buffs, we've barely scratched the surface of Memphis' magic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:12</time>
From Graceland's grandeur and to the grit of Beale Street,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:16</time>
this city pulsates with stories.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:19</time>
We hope you've enjoyed our whirlwind tour on this podcast.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:22</time>
Remember, history isn't confined to museum and monuments.

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<time>00:36:25</time>
It lives in the music, the food, the very spirit of Memphis.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:31</time>
So head down there yourself and soak it in and see what stories you uncover.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:36</time>
Before we sign off, we wanna say a big thank you to all our listeners

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:39</time>
for joining us on this journey.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:40</time>
If you enjoy this episode, please leave us a review on your favorite platform

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:44</time>
and let us know what other historical hotspots you want us to explore.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:48</time>
And if you're feeling peckish after all that southern comfort food talk, don't

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:53</time>
forget to check out our show notes for the links and locations we mentioned.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:36:56</time>
I'm gonna make sure to add some of those good barbecue options in there as well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:00</time>
If you know anybody else that might enjoy this podcast, please share

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<time>00:37:03</time>
with them, especially if they're visiting Memphis sometime soon.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:06</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:08</time>
We rely on you, our community to grow, and we appreciate you all every day.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:12</time>
We'll talk to you next time.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:14</time>
Thank you.

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