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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, we're covering this morning's top stories. President Trump's signing
an executive order speaking of the ocean, looking at kickstart
mining on the ocean floor. While large scale deep sea
mining has never been done, a Trump official claim they
expect to find materials like cobalt, nicol, and copper at
the bottom of the ocean. Trump's order will direct the
Commerce Secretary to hasten permits for commercial undersea mining.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, here we go. It's never been done before, so
of course there's going to be apoplectic people, heads exploding.
Is you're doing. There's nothing off limits from this crazy man.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, the environmentalists certainly will have a problem with it.
You know, it's all right for them to do it
over in China, of course, but not herere Africa and
be not my backyard type thing, right.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And at the hands of child labor, and well.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I also wonder I don't know if they were depleted or.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I grew up in Michigan, that's no secret. And you know,
Detroit was the financial center of Michigan for a long
time because of the automobile industry. But what a lot
of people don't realize is that the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan used to be the economic center of Michigan. So
you have the Lower Peninsula, which is formed like a mitten, right,
(01:45):
and then you cross the Mackinaw Straits, and there's a
piece that's the Upper Peninsula, and up there there's all
kinds of copper minds. I mean, there's all kinds of
resources up there that they used to tap into. And
that was the economic center of Michigan before the automobile
industry came along.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And then for.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Whatever reasons, you can even come across ghost towns up
there where they just like packed up and left.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Do you think they mined everything and moved on.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, the mines are still there, you know, of
course they're dangerous at this point, but I don't know,
you know, I'm wondering aloud whether we can start going
back into areas such as that throughout this country and
start mining again and using our own natural resources, and
whether we necessarily need to solely rely on going to
(02:35):
the ocean bottom. I mean, that's a good idea too,
to explore and develop that technology, but maybe we should
look into reactivating some of these areas that have been
decimated for in a lot of cases over a century.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Curious a couple of things why they shut down in
the first place. And then also the fact that, I mean,
the ocean is such an untapped, unknown resource, right, whether
it's exploration, including the cobalt, the nickel, the copper. Unbelievable
that it's never been mined before. That kind of blows
my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, they didn't have the technology to do it. It's
you know, on the deep sea floor.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, and then I also think about what what do
you kick up? We can't pretend that there are pollutants
out there in our oceans, I mean by what percentage
and where I don't know, but think about that when
you start, you know, mucking around, well, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But then you have to come up with you. You have
to make a decision. What kind of life do you
want to live? And how technologically advanced do you want
to be? Do you want to have these electronics that
you carry around everywhere? Do you want to drive your
electric car? Do you want to have a TV to
watch and the lights on and your food refrigerated and
you're conditioning going?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Can we just go back pre cell phones and computers.
I'll be okay with that. I mean, let's keep the
cars in the electricity.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I don't know if I want to go back to
that time.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Really no, I don't mind. I don't mind not a
social media and darn I wanted to say something else.
I'm electronic tether run.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Go check the mailbox every day to make sure.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That I'm okay with that. I already do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So you want everything to slow down to a snails.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Pace not snails pace? Who doesn't want things to slow
down a little bit unless you're what you know, fifteen
and under.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm not saying I want them to slow down, but
I don't want to do away with modern technology and
go back to those days it sucked.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, I don't want to go back to No. You know,
well I don't know. Honestly, we haven't lived in a
simpler time with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You have not you're not that old now.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
With horse and buggy. But I certainly lived in a
time before.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Cell phones, well as did I. And I don't mind it.
I don't mind. And I actually feel for children and
actually young adults on what these cell phones and the
Internet and social media have done to relationships, their mental, physical,
emotional health. I mean, you know, we could talk all
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day about it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
But yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I like my internet and my cell phone.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Do you have either of those right now?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, this is true.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What an S show this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We've had internet problem since yesterday. Apparently it was a
national outage. But I was looking it up yesterday and
I didn't see a whole you know, bunch of stories.
But are head general managers and on a message saying hey,
we don't have internet. He said his wife is affected.
There are people in different parts of our state who
were affected apparently.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And still are I mean, I can't get on anything
in here yet. I'm on the internet in here and
it's making and I'm on my cell phone with my
reading glasses on trying to make sure that it doesn't
go to screensaver while I'm you know, looking at my
notes and trying to navigate here.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'll write everything out by hand scroll and get you
the lead and mail.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It to me, and I'll be checking the mail next
Friday to see if it's there or yet.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Your news, traffic, weather and information station. This is Charleston's
Morning News on ninety four to three WSC. Now back
to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Appreciate you being here with us on this Friday morning.
It's been more than a decade, but the Ice Bucket
Challenges back. That was the viral sensation that saw countless
people dumping buckets of ice over their heads to raise
awareness for ALS, also known as lou Gerrit's disease. It's
a neurodegenerative disease that leads to loss of muscle control.
(06:41):
It ended up raising more than one hundred and fifteen
million dollars for the ALS Association. This time, though, the
challenge is raising awareness for mental health causes after ten years,
it was launched again last month, the ice Bucket Challenge
by students at the University of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So far more than three hundred thousand dollars has been
raised for Active Minds, that's a youth mental health nonprofit,
using the hashtag speak your Mind. So see ice bucket
Challenges back.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Does that mean that we can go and throw buckets
of ice on these lunatic protesters that look like easter
eggs with crazy colored hair and wild signs screaming about democracy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well you can if you want to, but the idea
is to pour it over your own head.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh well, I remember trying. You know, we were talking
about the president before the break. I remember he did
the ice bucket challenge. I think it was a top
one of his hotels, maybe Trump Tower in New York.
I don't know if you remember that video years back,
but I was shocked because he let them. You know,
here he is nicely dressed in a suit, you know,
as he always is, but he's so obsessed with his hair.
(07:53):
I mean, we all know this. And he let them
dump an entire bucket of ice and was a huge one,
or you huge, as he would say, And I was like, Wow,
this goes to show you he's not stuffy and you
know all the things that people pain him to be
being a billionaire evil.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Right he and his billionaire buddies. Yeah, but meanwhile he's
out there hanging out with you know, Dana White and
Kid Rock and yeah, I mean think of who his
friends are going to sporting events. I don't know, you know,
he he doesn't get enough credit for. They turn him
into a monster and he's actually a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He really is.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And there's all kinds of examples that you could use
of whether it has to do with how he deals
with children or yeah, what he does for charity, what
he does that's below the radar, where he knows somebody's
in trouble, like like Jennifer Hudson when her family was
you know, tragically murdered. He sent his plane and he
(08:57):
does this under the radar. He doesn't do it too
uh call attention to himself, and they certainly don't go
out of their way to give him any attention.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Over the years, I was gonna say, they don't cover
these stories. They you know, they they surface years later
thanks to the good old interwebs. I mean, who was
it was it Nelson Mandela. Who was it that was
picked up in a Trump plane? It wasn't our Cinio Hall.
But I forget the famous guy that jumped on a
plane and was telling the stories of you know that
(09:28):
in the night, nobody was there to help and they
called Trump. I mean, these these stories are everywhere, including
people that work for him, that generationally changed their families future,
worked their way up through his organization, some of them
actually in his uh you know, in his administration.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I watched a post on I think it was TikTok
where there was a guy I'm not sure what Burrow
he was from. He obviously had a New York accent,
and he said, let me tell you about President Trump.
And he said, more importantly, let me tell you Fred Trump,
the President's father. And he said, you know, I was
in school and I was in this private school with
(10:08):
the Trumps, and my dad died. And he was a
young boy, and he said, there was a knock at
the door one day and it was Fred Trump and
he said, I just want you to know, I'm sorry
to hear about your husband. While he was speaking to
this guy's mother and this guy's in tears and actually
like shouting like a New Yorker, right and crying and
(10:29):
shouting at the same time. Let me tell you, he said,
Fred Trump. There was a knock at the door. It
was Fred Trump. My mother answers the door, and he said,
I want to say, I'm so sorry to hear about
your husband, and I want you to know that I
have your kids tuish and covered. You don't have to
worry about having to switch schools or afford them going
to this school anymore. I'm going to cover those bills
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for you. And he said, that's what Fred Trump did
for me. And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And that's what this president is all about.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
How often do you see that in the media. And
that's how New Yorkers feel about him, a lot of them.
That's how the country feels about him. But to hear
the media tell it, you know, he's an orange monster
who just wants to deport everybody and take over as
an iron fisted ruler of this country. You know. So
(11:21):
that's how disconnected from reality it's become.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, now we need to ice bucket challenge the media,
the propaganda press. I'll turn this frown upside out at least,
at the very least, watch him get doused in cold
buckets of ice. Yeah, that would be fun for them
to play the press that they're moving the pieces around
in the White House press briefing room. Let's mix in
(11:47):
the challenge. Oh you want your seat, You're gonna have
to take a bucket ice over the head.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Live.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just wish we could see some more truth in
the media, of course, I mean that's not going to happen.
Everybody admits, I mean, everybody goes to their own camp.
They wonder why we're so divided in this country and
why it's become so polarized. It's because of the media,
and it's all for profit, right, and and people tune
into things.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That align with their.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, ideologies and beliefs, and so you get further
and further apart, and the media just is clickbait for
lack of a better description of what's going on, And
so they're just throwing it up to try to get
your viewership, to get your clicks and make money off
of it, and then and then complain loudly about how
(12:40):
polarized we've become when they're the ones that did it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This is Charleston's Morning US with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, good Friday morning to you. Thanks for listening this morning. Well,
it appears President Trump wants more babies, but maybe not
in the way that you may think. Birth rates in
the United States are at a near record low. New
data released by the CDC says about three point six
million babies were born in the US last year. That's
actually a one percent increase from twenty twenty three. But
(13:11):
here's the thing. Twenty twenty three saw an all time
low birth rate in the United States, so it's not
much of an improvement. The Trump administration has been considering
new policies to encourage women to have more babies, including
giving five thousand dollars in cash to each woman who
gives birth. When asked about it by reporters this week,
President Trump said the proposal sounded like a good idea
(13:34):
to him.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, I appreciate, I think the sentiments are sweet on this.
On the other hand, first of all, five thousand dollars,
it's not going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Very far, and I don't think it's a very good
idea at all. We already pay a certain part of
the population money to have babies and where we see
how that turns out two different ways, and what it
turns into is generational poverty is what it turns into.
And if five thousand dollars is going to motivate you
to have a baby, I would argue, I don't want
(14:05):
to be that child.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You're going to be willfully underfunded.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, like you were so loved and we were praying
for you forever and finally our wishes and our prayers
came true and we had this beautiful little baby. They're like, no,
you know what we were like, Uh, we were a
little short on cash and they offered us five grands,
so we plopped you out.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, and then what's the Uh, it's not earned income
tax credit. What is it that you get for each
child on your taxes.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well, that's the child tax credit child and.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Then and then there's of course, but you're.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Talking about earned income tax credit. Is part of what
I'm talking about. You know, it's the welfare system, right,
and so they you know, they paid and first of all,
it's part of lbj's Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society. And
you know they come out with welfare and the stipulation
of acting welfare is that there was no male in
the house. And it decimated the nuclear family in the
(15:06):
African American community, in the black community. And what it
did was, you know, have these some of these women
having babies simply to increase their income, increase their benefits.
And so that's what I mean by generational poverty. And
(15:27):
look what it did to the Black community and in
really any economically depressed community. It made it that much worse,
and it destroyed the fabric of the nuclear family in
the United States of America, I would argue. So, no,
I don't think it's a great idea to give them
five grand apiece. I mean, you know, we should just
(15:48):
get out there and encourage people. Hey, look, make it
a patriotic thing. If you want to save your country,
have more babies.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I do love seeing younger generations within this administration and
the babies that are running around the White House the lawn.
It's nice. We haven't seen that since. Yeah, we'll just
say this on this topic. I do enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You mean Elon Musk's babies, well, not.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Just his, although he has like what twelve sixteen, he's
got a lot of kids.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, you saw it with h and I am not
defending this man at all. I think if you've listened
to this show at all, you know the disdain I
have for this human being. But you know that's Joe
Biden tried to do it, and they had his grandkids
always around the White House and in photo ops and everything.
But we have a few callers that went away in
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on this issue. Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now, Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze just wants
you to.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Know, a Blaze, you're sounding a little bit like Whoopy
Goldberg this morning from the View pushing back pushing back
on the idea of giving five thousand dollars to new
families to have a baby.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Whoopy Goldberg actually pushed back on this, he.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Did, and did Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back on the View,
saying that they're an absurd program.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So well, how did Whoopy Goldberg push back?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now, I'm curious, Oh, she basically was her reasoning. She
basically said, the administration doesn't understand how much it costs
to have a child. Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So her point was that it wasn't enough. So I know,
I'm not sounding like Whoopy Goldberg.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
At all a little bit. The direct quote here is
about that to understand how you know, women have babies
and how expensive it is. It's like, I'm pretty sure
they understand how women have babies.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
But I digress well, And my point was not that
it wasn't enough money. My point was you shouldn't be
paying women to have babies.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well, and I'm curious seven two two five five. So
Phil and Lynn are on the line, and Phil had
an alternative idea. I think, so go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I don't believe in handing out checks for babies. I
think a better idea, which, to be honest, you know,
came author true Social yesterday, is we should be giving
people either a tax credit with the same amount, but
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how about also providing that same amount for people that
want to adopt. There are so many kids out there
just waiting to be adopted. So I think those are
two alternative ideas well.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
One we already do with the tax credit, but I
love the adoption idea.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, that would be nice. And here's another idea. How
about we improve the economy so that people that want
to have families can go earn enough money to raise
their families in you know, a nice middle class fashion.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What a wild thought place for it not to be
such a scary place to, you know, even think about
starting a family or raising a child. So Lynn, you said,
you have a background when it comes to neglected children,
and what do you think about Phil's idea that's a.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Very good idea. And being a former attorney for the
Department of Children and Families in Florida years ago, I mean,
I can attest to the fact that women and are
having children out of wedlock and just collecting more money.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So, yeah, she doesn't agree with the you know, throw
more money at this problem.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That was my point. All you're doing is institutionalizing for
generations poverty and abuse and inner city decay and everything else.
So I think it's a horrible idea. I think it's
an extension of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which destroyed the
fabric of the African American, of the black nuclear family.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It was that was the reset and.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Of their communities.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And you know what, and let's just even out the
playing field, and how about we lower taxes and improve
the economy so that there's just not such a burden
on all of the citizens of the United States as
far as taxes and regulations and all of these things goes,
and that there's a booming economy where you can go
make money and you can raise a f family fairly comfortably.
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How about that notion.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
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Sounds like we're going to see some cooler temperatures for
the thirty eighth annual Blessing of the Fleet coming up
on Sunday. I'm excited for that. I'll be back on
a shrimp boat. Be sure to check out our social
at nine four to three WSC. I'll do a little
live streaming. It's always a little difficult when you're on
the ocean out there trying to live stream. I'm just
going to pre warn everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, we're covering this morning's top stories. President Trump's signing
an executive order speaking of the ocean, looking at kickstart
mining on the ocean floor. While large scale deep sea
mining has never been done, a Trump official claim they
expect to find materials like cobalt, nicol, and copper at
the bottom of the ocean. Trump's order will direct the
Commerce Secretary to hasten permits for commercial undersea mining.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, here we go. It's never been done before, so
of course there's going to be apoplectic people, heads exploding.
Is you're doing. There's nothing off limits from this crazy man.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, the environmentalists certainly will have a problem with it.
You know, it's all right for them to do it
over in China, of course, but not herere Africa and
be not my backyard type thing, right.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And at the hands of child labor, and well.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I also wonder I don't know if they were depleted or.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I grew up in Michigan, that's no secret. And you know,
Detroit was the financial center of Michigan for a long
time because of the automobile industry. But what a lot
of people don't realize is that the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan used to be the economic center of Michigan. So
you have the Lower Peninsula, which is formed like a mitten, right,
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and then you cross the Mackinaw Straits, and there's a
piece that's the Upper Peninsula, and up there there's all
kinds of copper minds. I mean, there's all kinds of
resources up there that they used to tap into. And
that was the economic center of Michigan before the automobile
industry came along.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
And then for.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Whatever reasons, you can even come across ghost towns up
there where they just like packed up and left.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Do you think they mined everything and moved on.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, the mines are still there, you know, of
course they're dangerous at this point, but I don't know,
you know, I'm wondering aloud whether we can start going
back into areas such as that throughout this country and
start mining again and using our own natural resources, and
whether we necessarily need to solely rely on going to
(02:35):
the ocean bottom. I mean, that's a good idea too,
to explore and develop that technology, but maybe we should
look into reactivating some of these areas that have been
decimated for in a lot of cases over a century.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Curious a couple of things why they shut down in
the first place. And then also the fact that, I mean,
the ocean is such an untapped, unknown resource, right, whether
it's exploration, including the cobalt, the nickel, the copper. Unbelievable
that it's never been mined before. That kind of blows
my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Well, they didn't have the technology to do it. It's
you know, on the deep sea floor.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, and then I also think about what what do
you kick up? We can't pretend that there are pollutants
out there in our oceans, I mean by what percentage
and where I don't know, but think about that when
you start, you know, mucking around, well, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But then you have to come up with you. You have
to make a decision. What kind of life do you
want to live? And how technologically advanced do you want
to be? Do you want to have these electronics that
you carry around everywhere? Do you want to drive your
electric car? Do you want to have a TV to
watch and the lights on and your food refrigerated and
you're conditioning going?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Can we just go back pre cell phones and computers.
I'll be okay with that. I mean, let's keep the
cars in the electricity.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I don't know if I want to go back to
that time.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Really no, I don't mind. I don't mind not a
social media and darn I wanted to say something else.
I'm electronic tether run.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Go check the mailbox every day to make sure.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That I'm okay with that. I already do it anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So you want everything to slow down to a snails.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Pace not snails pace? Who doesn't want things to slow
down a little bit unless you're what you know, fifteen
and under.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm not saying I want them to slow down, but
I don't want to do away with modern technology and
go back to those days it sucked.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
No, I don't want to go back to No. You know,
well I don't know. Honestly, we haven't lived in a
simpler time with.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You have not you're not that old now.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
With horse and buggy. But I certainly lived in a
time before.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Cell phones, well as did I. And I don't mind it.
I don't mind. And I actually feel for children and
actually young adults on what these cell phones and the
Internet and social media have done to relationships, their mental, physical,
emotional health. I mean, you know, we could talk all
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day about it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
But yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I like my internet and my cell phone.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Do you have either of those right now?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, this is true.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
What an S show this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We've had internet problem since yesterday. Apparently it was a
national outage. But I was looking it up yesterday and
I didn't see a whole you know, bunch of stories.
But are head general managers and on a message saying hey,
we don't have internet. He said his wife is affected.
There are people in different parts of our state who
were affected apparently.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
And still are I mean, I can't get on anything
in here yet. I'm on the internet in here and
it's making and I'm on my cell phone with my
reading glasses on trying to make sure that it doesn't
go to screensaver while I'm you know, looking at my
notes and trying to navigate here.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I'll write everything out by hand scroll and get you
the lead and mail.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
It to me, and I'll be checking the mail next
Friday to see if it's there or yet.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Your news, traffic, weather and information station. This is Charleston's
Morning News on ninety four to three WSC. Now back
to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Appreciate you being here with us on this Friday morning.
It's been more than a decade, but the Ice Bucket
Challenges back. That was the viral sensation that saw countless
people dumping buckets of ice over their heads to raise
awareness for ALS, also known as lou Gerrit's disease. It's
a neurodegenerative disease that leads to loss of muscle control.
(06:41):
It ended up raising more than one hundred and fifteen
million dollars for the ALS Association. This time, though, the
challenge is raising awareness for mental health causes after ten years,
it was launched again last month, the ice Bucket Challenge
by students at the University of South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So far more than three hundred thousand dollars has been
raised for Active Minds, that's a youth mental health nonprofit,
using the hashtag speak your Mind. So see ice bucket
Challenges back.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Does that mean that we can go and throw buckets
of ice on these lunatic protesters that look like easter
eggs with crazy colored hair and wild signs screaming about democracy.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Well you can if you want to, but the idea
is to pour it over your own head.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh well, I remember trying. You know, we were talking
about the president before the break. I remember he did
the ice bucket challenge. I think it was a top
one of his hotels, maybe Trump Tower in New York.
I don't know if you remember that video years back,
but I was shocked because he let them. You know,
here he is nicely dressed in a suit, you know,
as he always is, but he's so obsessed with his hair.
(07:53):
I mean, we all know this. And he let them
dump an entire bucket of ice and was a huge one,
or you huge, as he would say, And I was like, Wow,
this goes to show you he's not stuffy and you
know all the things that people pain him to be
being a billionaire evil.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Right he and his billionaire buddies. Yeah, but meanwhile he's
out there hanging out with you know, Dana White and
Kid Rock and yeah, I mean think of who his
friends are going to sporting events. I don't know, you know,
he he doesn't get enough credit for. They turn him
into a monster and he's actually a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He really is.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And there's all kinds of examples that you could use
of whether it has to do with how he deals
with children or yeah, what he does for charity, what
he does that's below the radar, where he knows somebody's
in trouble, like like Jennifer Hudson when her family was
you know, tragically murdered. He sent his plane and he
(08:57):
does this under the radar. He doesn't do it too
uh call attention to himself, and they certainly don't go
out of their way to give him any attention.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Over the years, I was gonna say, they don't cover
these stories. They you know, they they surface years later
thanks to the good old interwebs. I mean, who was
it was it Nelson Mandela. Who was it that was
picked up in a Trump plane? It wasn't our Cinio Hall.
But I forget the famous guy that jumped on a
plane and was telling the stories of you know that
(09:28):
in the night, nobody was there to help and they
called Trump. I mean, these these stories are everywhere, including
people that work for him, that generationally changed their families future,
worked their way up through his organization, some of them
actually in his uh you know, in his administration.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I watched a post on I think it was TikTok
where there was a guy I'm not sure what Burrow
he was from. He obviously had a New York accent,
and he said, let me tell you about President Trump.
And he said, more importantly, let me tell you Fred Trump,
the President's father. And he said, you know, I was
in school and I was in this private school with
(10:08):
the Trumps, and my dad died. And he was a
young boy, and he said, there was a knock at
the door one day and it was Fred Trump and
he said, I just want you to know, I'm sorry
to hear about your husband. While he was speaking to
this guy's mother and this guy's in tears and actually
like shouting like a New Yorker, right and crying and
(10:29):
shouting at the same time. Let me tell you, he said,
Fred Trump. There was a knock at the door. It
was Fred Trump. My mother answers the door, and he said,
I want to say, I'm so sorry to hear about
your husband, and I want you to know that I
have your kids tuish and covered. You don't have to
worry about having to switch schools or afford them going
to this school anymore. I'm going to cover those bills
(10:49):
for you. And he said, that's what Fred Trump did
for me. And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And that's what this president is all about.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
How often do you see that in the media. And
that's how New Yorkers feel about him, a lot of them.
That's how the country feels about him. But to hear
the media tell it, you know, he's an orange monster
who just wants to deport everybody and take over as
an iron fisted ruler of this country. You know. So
(11:21):
that's how disconnected from reality it's become.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Well, now we need to ice bucket challenge the media,
the propaganda press. I'll turn this frown upside out at least,
at the very least, watch him get doused in cold
buckets of ice. Yeah, that would be fun for them
to play the press that they're moving the pieces around
in the White House press briefing room. Let's mix in
(11:47):
the challenge. Oh you want your seat, You're gonna have
to take a bucket ice over the head.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Live.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I just wish we could see some more truth in
the media, of course, I mean that's not going to happen.
Everybody admits, I mean, everybody goes to their own camp.
They wonder why we're so divided in this country and
why it's become so polarized. It's because of the media,
and it's all for profit, right, and and people tune
into things.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
That align with their.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You know, ideologies and beliefs, and so you get further
and further apart, and the media just is clickbait for
lack of a better description of what's going on, And
so they're just throwing it up to try to get
your viewership, to get your clicks and make money off
of it, and then and then complain loudly about how
(12:40):
polarized we've become when they're the ones that did it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
This is Charleston's Morning US with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, good Friday morning to you. Thanks for listening this morning. Well,
it appears President Trump wants more babies, but maybe not
in the way that you may think. Birth rates in
the United States are at a near record low. New
data released by the CDC says about three point six
million babies were born in the US last year. That's
actually a one percent increase from twenty twenty three. But
(13:11):
here's the thing. Twenty twenty three saw an all time
low birth rate in the United States, so it's not
much of an improvement. The Trump administration has been considering
new policies to encourage women to have more babies, including
giving five thousand dollars in cash to each woman who
gives birth. When asked about it by reporters this week,
President Trump said the proposal sounded like a good idea
(13:34):
to him.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Well, I appreciate, I think the sentiments are sweet on this.
On the other hand, first of all, five thousand dollars,
it's not going to go.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Very far, and I don't think it's a very good
idea at all. We already pay a certain part of
the population money to have babies and where we see
how that turns out two different ways, and what it
turns into is generational poverty is what it turns into.
And if five thousand dollars is going to motivate you
to have a baby, I would argue, I don't want
(14:05):
to be that child.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
You're going to be willfully underfunded.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, like you were so loved and we were praying
for you forever and finally our wishes and our prayers
came true and we had this beautiful little baby. They're like, no,
you know what we were like, Uh, we were a
little short on cash and they offered us five grands,
so we plopped you out.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well, and then what's the Uh, it's not earned income
tax credit. What is it that you get for each
child on your taxes.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well, that's the child tax credit child and.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Then and then there's of course, but you're.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Talking about earned income tax credit. Is part of what
I'm talking about. You know, it's the welfare system, right,
and so they you know, they paid and first of all,
it's part of lbj's Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society. And
you know they come out with welfare and the stipulation
of acting welfare is that there was no male in
the house. And it decimated the nuclear family in the
(15:06):
African American community, in the black community. And what it
did was, you know, have these some of these women
having babies simply to increase their income, increase their benefits.
And so that's what I mean by generational poverty. And
(15:27):
look what it did to the Black community and in
really any economically depressed community. It made it that much worse,
and it destroyed the fabric of the nuclear family in
the United States of America, I would argue. So, no,
I don't think it's a great idea to give them
five grand apiece. I mean, you know, we should just
(15:48):
get out there and encourage people. Hey, look, make it
a patriotic thing. If you want to save your country,
have more babies.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I do love seeing younger generations within this administration and
the babies that are running around the White House the lawn.
It's nice. We haven't seen that since. Yeah, we'll just
say this on this topic. I do enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
You mean Elon Musk's babies, well, not.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Just his, although he has like what twelve sixteen, he's
got a lot of kids.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Well, you saw it with h and I am not
defending this man at all. I think if you've listened
to this show at all, you know the disdain I
have for this human being. But you know that's Joe
Biden tried to do it, and they had his grandkids
always around the White House and in photo ops and everything.
But we have a few callers that went away in
(16:36):
on this issue. Coming up next.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Now, Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze just wants
you to.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Know, a Blaze, you're sounding a little bit like Whoopy
Goldberg this morning from the View pushing back pushing back
on the idea of giving five thousand dollars to new
families to have a baby.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Whoopy Goldberg actually pushed back on this, he.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Did, and did Speaker Mike Johnson pushed back on the View,
saying that they're an absurd program.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So well, how did Whoopy Goldberg push back?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Now, I'm curious, Oh, she basically was her reasoning. She
basically said, the administration doesn't understand how much it costs
to have a child. Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So her point was that it wasn't enough. So I know,
I'm not sounding like Whoopy Goldberg.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
At all a little bit. The direct quote here is
about that to understand how you know, women have babies
and how expensive it is. It's like, I'm pretty sure
they understand how women have babies.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
But I digress well, And my point was not that
it wasn't enough money. My point was you shouldn't be
paying women to have babies.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well, and I'm curious seven two two five five. So
Phil and Lynn are on the line, and Phil had
an alternative idea. I think, so go ahead.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I don't believe in handing out checks for babies. I
think a better idea, which, to be honest, you know,
came author true Social yesterday, is we should be giving
people either a tax credit with the same amount, but
(18:04):
how about also providing that same amount for people that
want to adopt. There are so many kids out there
just waiting to be adopted. So I think those are
two alternative ideas well.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
One we already do with the tax credit, but I
love the adoption idea.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yeah, that would be nice. And here's another idea. How
about we improve the economy so that people that want
to have families can go earn enough money to raise
their families in you know, a nice middle class fashion.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What a wild thought place for it not to be
such a scary place to, you know, even think about
starting a family or raising a child. So Lynn, you said,
you have a background when it comes to neglected children,
and what do you think about Phil's idea that's a.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Very good idea. And being a former attorney for the
Department of Children and Families in Florida years ago, I mean,
I can attest to the fact that women and are
having children out of wedlock and just collecting more money.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So, yeah, she doesn't agree with the you know, throw
more money at this problem.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That was my point. All you're doing is institutionalizing for
generations poverty and abuse and inner city decay and everything else.
So I think it's a horrible idea. I think it's
an extension of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which destroyed the
fabric of the African American, of the black nuclear family.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It was that was the reset and.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Of their communities.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And you know what, and let's just even out the
playing field, and how about we lower taxes and improve
the economy so that there's just not such a burden
on all of the citizens of the United States as
far as taxes and regulations and all of these things goes,
and that there's a booming economy where you can go
make money and you can raise a f family fairly comfortably.
(20:01):
How about that notion.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning Use podcast. Catch
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