Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Listen all day. Get the app now at ninety four
to three and tell the USC dot com back to
Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, good Friday morning, Tea. Thanks for being with us
this morning. So we have a new pope, as you
just heard. Pope Leo the fourteenth is the first American
pope in two thousand years. The sixty nine year old
was formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago. His
(00:32):
first words as pope were peace be with you. The
new Pope appears to have some opposing views to the
Trump administration. He frequently used social media to push back
on the Trump administration and its policies. The pope shared
articles and posts that disputed Vice President Vance's interpretation of
the Christian Order of Love, criticized anti immigrant rhetoric, and
(00:56):
spoke out against the death penalty as well as congresses
handling of gun laws. President Trump congratulated the first American
born pope in a post untruth social Trump said it's
such an honor to realize that he is the first
American pope. He said he looks forward to meeting the
new Pope and said that it would be a very
(01:17):
meaningful moment for him. So that's something. The first American
pope in two thousand years, although we've only been here
for what two hundred and fifty years, two hundred and
fifty something on yours. I never thought it would happen.
I was talking with my wife. I'm like, look, you know,
there's a two thousand year history there in the Catholic Church.
(01:37):
This country's a baby compared to how old the Catholic
Church is. And I didn't think that an American born
pope ever had a chance, you know, an American born cardinal,
I should say, never had a chance of becoming pope.
But it happened. And so now we have Pope Leo
(02:00):
the fourteenth. So he's been pope for less than a
day already allegations coming out that he looked the other
way on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. So I'm
talking about the new pope, you know, Bishop Robert Prevost
who is now Pope Leo the fourteenth. These allegations are
(02:20):
saying that when he was a bishop, Prevosts was said
to have looked past allegations in Chicago, where he grew up.
After Augustinian priest father James Ray was allowed to live
at the Saint john Stone Friary in Hyde Park, despite
having been removed from ministering to the public years prior
over accusations of abusing minors. The new pope allegedly did
(02:43):
not notify the heads of Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic School,
an elementary school half a block from the Friary, because
the church said at the time Ray was supposed to
be closely monitored in the Friary. The new pope also
faced criticism for not having opened a formal church investigation
into alleged sexual abuse carried out by two priests in
(03:05):
the Diocese of Chiclao, Peru, which he led from twenty
fourteen to twenty twenty three. These groups that are SNAP
and other groups said that they've made the one hundred
and thirty five eligible cardinals who selected them well aware
of is alleged in action on these allegations. Lopez di
(03:29):
Cassis a victim of clergy abuse. He's national vice president
of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests That's SNAP,
he said. Staying silent is a sin. It's not what
God wants us to do. Jesus wants us to stop
these things, not make a healthy garden for sexual abuse
to grow. So I saw this coming. I was talking
(03:53):
about this the other day. I mean, the Catholic Church
has some big embarrassing problems, and embarrassing as an understatement.
So for years and years and years they looked past
sexual abuse in the church and they hit it. And
(04:14):
one could argue, as Lopez, Dicassis and these other members
of SNAP are pointing out that they think that the
new Pope was complicit in covering up sexual abuse in
the Catholic Church, and just that there's an organization called
(04:36):
SNAP to begin with, who are survivors of this abuse?
I mean, really tells you something. They're not all just
making this up. And we have to have a difficult
conversation about this, and this is going to make a
(04:57):
lot of people bristle. But you have to look at,
you know, the hierarchy in the church. You have to
look at the priesthood. You have to look at how
certain sexual provlications might affect people wanting to become a
(05:20):
priest and then have access to these kids, mostly boys.
I mean, so that's it makes me bristle. You know,
it's uncomfortable to talk about, but it's certainly uncomfortable if
you're a victim of it, and the church has a great,
(05:43):
big problem, and there's a whole lot of people that
left the church over this issue solely. I mean, you
can say a lot of things and disagree with the
Church on a lot of issues, but this one, I don't.
You know, how can you ever say that this is right?
So whether this new pope was complete in all of this,
and I don't mean that he was an abuser, but
(06:04):
sometimes it's even worse to be the one that helps
to cover up the abuse, because the victims are looking
for somebody to come in and save them, and what
do they get, you know, they get somebody that looks
the other way, or even worse, works to cover these
(06:26):
things up. And that's exactly what this group is accusing
this new pope of doing. So I don't know what's
going to come of this. Obviously, they said that they
made these bishops bishops in the conclave well aware of
their problem with this new pope, and they elected him
(06:48):
pope anyway, So there's you know, to me, there's one
of two things. Either they think that that the victims
are making this up and it didn't happen, or they're
continuing to sweep all of this under the rug and
not give it the attention that it deserves. And why
(07:11):
can't they just come out and come clean on it
and ask for God's forgiveness and clean it up and
move forward. I don't understand. It's the church. Isn't that
what you'd expect of them, to be honest about it,
to take steps to stop it and then ask for
(07:32):
God's forgiveness. That seems like the right course of action
for me, But I haven't really seen that happen. I
don't know. What do you think? Seven to two to
one talk seven two one, eight two five five is
the number of the ninety four to three WSC studio
this morning. Don't forget about talkback. You can leave your
comments if you're listening online or on the brand new app.
(07:53):
I'd like to hear what you think about that subject
this morning, as uncomfortable as it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Is now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Hey, it's this Blaze on this Friday morning. Happy Friday,
two year. It's always good that it's Friday. Doesn't matter
that it's rainy. I mean the count of sucks by
it's Friday. So it's okay. Friday is one of those
days where it can't be bad, right, So I had
to take a deep breath before I even broached to
this subject. Everybody's celebrating the new pope, which is fine,
(08:28):
and you know, we should be proud as Americans that
there's a for the first time ever, you know, an
American born pope. But at the same time, we can't
ignore the history of the Catholic Church. And it took
less than twenty four hours for the accusations to start
coming out against this pope where he was part of
the cover up. And I think it's an important subject
(08:51):
because this has been going on for decades and the
church is not addressed properly, and plenty of people have
left the Catholic Church because of it. It's helped to
erode faith in religion in this country, and we hear
so much. We even heard our presidents say that we
need to start reinserting God into our country in religion.
And you know, why are the reasons why we got
(09:14):
away from that in the first place, and there are many.
This is not the only one, but it certainly is
a contributory factor that ignoring the sexual abuse by these
priests and sweeping it under the rug, and in a
lot of cases just moving them instead of doing something
(09:34):
about it, they just moved them somewhere else where they
could continue their abuse. And it's so bad. There's actually
a whole group called SNAP. They're the Survivor's Network of
those abused by priests that have organized to fight back
(09:55):
against this and expose it. And I said earlier, I
don't you know, I don't get why the church would
not just come out and say, look, these horrible things happened,
and we're getting rid of the evildoers and we're fixing
the problem and we're praying to God for forgiveness. Isn't
(10:16):
that what you would expect of the church instead of
trying to gloss over it and hide it. And I mean,
I don't see any kind of conversation going on there.
Maybe I haven't been privy to it of what you
know of why it got so bad in the first place.
And there's a lot of people that you know, I
(10:37):
brought up the priesthood to begin with. I mean, there
are a lot of good priests, and I want to
attack priests out right. I grew up Catholic, and I
know good priests. I know bad priests, and I know
very creepy priests. And it seems to me like the
whole modern or not even modern, I mean that the
priesthood has not been modernized. I guess is my point
(11:00):
contributes to this factor. Let's go to talk back.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Good morning, Michael, Jodi North, Charleston. One thing I'd like
to ask about all this stuff about the Catholic priests
and all is they're not allowed to marry. And I
don't see how that's biblical. As you know, God created
woman for man to have companionship, and I think that's
(11:23):
one of the main reasons why all these sexual misconduct
in the Catholic Church is because they're restricted from women.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I mean, that's part of it. And I brought that
up earlier with Colors Steve, and Steve's like, oh, so
marriage is supposed to, you know, stop them from all
of this. No, that's not the point. The point is
is when you ask of somebody to abstain from sex
(11:52):
in a sexual relationship with a woman, and some of
them are going to embrace their love of God and
make that their mission in life, the shepherding people to
the Lord into God's word. And some of them are
going to it's going to attract people that are going
to use that position to abuse. And that's just not
(12:17):
my opinion. That's the reality of it. That's what has happened.
And so when you don't you know, I mean, I
love women, and don't get me wrong, women frustrate the
hell out of me. But I can't imagine living without one.
And it's a natural thing. And so maybe there are
some priests that are strong enough to abstain and do
(12:37):
it honestly and morally and religiously, but there are plenty
of others where it attracts people that are not so
honest or moral or looking out for your best interest.
In some cases it attracts pedophiles, right, and we keep
hearing while it attracts kay priests, I don't think that
(12:59):
that's the ise, you know, whether they're gay or not,
because it wouldn't even matter if they're abstaining from sex.
What matters are the pedophiles that are abusing little boys.
What matters is the church swept that under the rug.
What matters as the church continues to hide it and
sorry to rain on the parade of the new Pope,
but it took less than twenty four hours for the
(13:20):
accusations against his pope to come out, not that he's
a pedophile or has engaged in that kind of behavior himself,
but that he has helped to cover it up.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Good Friday morning to you. Hopefully it's a good one
for you. Covering this morning's top stories, the US and
the UK are announcing a new trade deal. President Trump
made the announcement at the Winehouse yesterday morning. He said
he feels it will be a great deal for both countries.
The trade deal with the UK is the first to
be reached since Trump unveiled his sweeping tariff plan. Trump
(14:00):
said the United States is working on trade deals with
other countries. British Prime Minister ker Starmer spoke about the
deal over the phone in the Oval Office. He said,
this is a really fantastic historic day, noting that the
announcement came nearly at the same hour eighty years ago
when World War II ended in Europe. He said, this
(14:21):
is going to boost trade between and across our countries.
It's going to not only protect jobs, but create jobs,
opening market access. He said, the deal lowers average British
tariffsend US goods to one point eight percent from five
point one percent. But of course this deal keeps in
place a ten percent tariff on British goods. So this
(14:45):
is the beginning. This is the first official signed trade deal.
You heard the presidents say that they're negotiating, a lot
of people say that that's just pluster, right, and China
is the main one and all of these things. We'll
guess what after all the bluster from China about US
being imperialistic in bullies and all of these things, which
(15:06):
I find it rich being lectured by communists China, they're
coming to the negotiating table this weekend. US trade negotiators
and China sitting down in Switzerland this coming weekend. And
this is all a part of a plan by Trump
that doesn't get talked about enough. It certainly gets criticized,
(15:26):
but it doesn't get explained enough. Here's Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary,
laying out the plan.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
There are eighteen very important trading relationships. We are currently
negotiating with Seventeen of those trading partners, China, we have
not engaged in negotiations with as of yet, so I
expect that we can see a substantial reduction in the
(15:54):
teriffs that we are being charged, as well as non
tariff barriers, currency manipulation, and the subsidies of both labor
and capital investment. So that is proceeding very well. Many
of our trading partners have approached us with very good
(16:16):
offers and we are in the process of renegotiating those.
With the economy, I would say that this is a
three legged stool, trade, tax and deregulation. Trade was first
this house. According to Speaker Johnson, expects to move their
(16:40):
portion of the bill over to the Senate owner about
the Memorial Day, so we're looking forward to that. And
then deregulation necessarily takes longer to affect the economy, but
I would expect in the third and fourth quarters we
would see substantial benefits from deregulation that by this time
(17:01):
last year could be in full force.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And of course he meant by this time next year.
I think Scott Bessen's a very capable man as secretary
or Treasury secretary, and he pointed out, there you go
eighteen main trading partners seventeen of them are already in negotiations,
and he said, you know, China has yet to come
(17:24):
to the table, but they're coming to the table this
weekend in Switzerland, and that this is a three pronged
plan that has to do with reading, negotiating trade deals,
lowering taxes, and then deregulation. So you start to see
it coalesce and come together. This can't happen overnight, and
all President Trump is received, for the most part, is
(17:45):
criticism over all of this. He certainly has his supporters,
but all the news concentrates on is the damage that
he's doing to the world economy. But you start to
see the plan come together, as Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
just explained, So let's all pray that the president is
(18:09):
successful in that you can barbecue it, boil it, broil it,
bake it, saute it. There's shrimp, kebab, shrimp, creole, shrimp, gumbo,
pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp,
coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp, soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad,
shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burgers, shrimp sandwiches, and That's about it,
(18:29):
and that story's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It just Blaze this Friday morning. Good morning to you.
Hopefully you're commute is going well this morning. So you
heard me quote Bubba from Forrest Gump at the end
of the last break. Why did I do that? Because
today is National Shrimp Day. Shrimp's commonly called the fruit
of the sea, which seems odd at least to me.
(19:00):
Is that because in French and Italian cuisine, fruits demur
and fruity de mare refer to a variety of seafood dishes.
It's also because much like fruit trees on land, they
provide abundant food. Of course, shrimp's a very important to
our economy and our culture here in South Carolina. According
(19:22):
to the South Carolina DNR, shrimp populations experienced relatively dramatic fluctuations.
Annual commercial shrimp landings have ranged from one point three
to six point eight million pounds here in South Carolina.
And there's nothing more delicious than our local shrimp here
in South Carolina. So support your local shrimpers and eat
(19:45):
some shrimp today on a National Shrimp Day. Former President
Joe Biden tried to save face on the View yesterday
and ended up looking like a shrimp. Somewhat of that
story coming up next.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
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 2 (20:11):
Hey, good Friday morning to you. We're covering this morning's
top stories. Former President Joe Biden ripped President Donald Trump's
first one hundred days and defended his own record as
president during an appearance yesterday on ABC's The View that
was his first live television interview since leaving the White House.
In the joint interview with his wife, fake doctor Jill Biden,
(20:33):
the two pushed back on reports and upcoming books that
claimed the former president experienced cognitive decline while in office.
Biden simply said they are wrong. Joe Biden went further
and actually, when the president, former president said they're wrong,
then he goes off into some other tangent and then
trails off, and Jill Biden had a step in and
(20:55):
said the people who wrote those books were not in
the White House with us, and they didn't see how
hard Joe worked every single day. The former president said
of Trump, he's had the worst one hundred days any
presidents ever had. He also blamed the loss of Kamala
Harris on sexism, racism, and COVID of all things. Yep,
(21:17):
that's why Kamala Harris lost because you know, all those
people that did not vote for her were motivated by sexism, racism,
and of course COVID shook up the world, and there
was a backlash against COVID, and all of that conspired
to make sure that Kamala Harris was not elected as president.
As capable as she is, according to him, that she's
(21:40):
very capable. So this former president still doesn't get it.
And as a matter of fact, he disgusts me. I
just I have a visceral reaction to that man. Fifty
years of smiling and lying and cheating and being a
slime bag, slimeball and you know, dirt bag, And there
(22:05):
he is still smiling away, still trying to con the
American people with his fake doctor wife on the view,
who what he said, would have been a good attorney general,
that she should have been nominated for attorney general under
Biden's administration because she heard that she was one hell
of a good doctor. This is the intelligence of these
(22:28):
people that were dealing with Yeah, so, And I have
to be honest, if I didn't know what I know
about the Bidens and everything, you know, I didn't think
that the interview was that bad on that kind of level.
If I wouldn't, if I would have not known anything
about it, I'd be like, Okay, that's a pretty sweet
old couple, and they're friendly enough in all of this.
But you know, knowing everything that we know about Joe
(22:49):
Biden and the rest of his family, to get up
there and listen to him, still conned. The American people
still try to say that, you know, he would have
beat Trump in that Trump's first one hundred days is
the worst of any president, and that Kamala lost because
of sexism, racism and COVID and all of this ridiculousness.
(23:11):
Just totally. It just sets me off. Every time you
can ask my wife what I have to say when
I see the TV screen, I think you can guess. FJB.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast. Catch
Kelly and Blaze weekday mornings from six to nine
Listen all day. Get the app now at ninety four
to three and tell the USC dot com back to
Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hey, good Friday morning, Tea. Thanks for being with us
this morning. So we have a new pope, as you
just heard. Pope Leo the fourteenth is the first American
pope in two thousand years. The sixty nine year old
was formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago. His
(00:32):
first words as pope were peace be with you. The
new Pope appears to have some opposing views to the
Trump administration. He frequently used social media to push back
on the Trump administration and its policies. The pope shared
articles and posts that disputed Vice President Vance's interpretation of
the Christian Order of Love, criticized anti immigrant rhetoric, and
(00:56):
spoke out against the death penalty as well as congresses
handling of gun laws. President Trump congratulated the first American
born pope in a post untruth social Trump said it's
such an honor to realize that he is the first
American pope. He said he looks forward to meeting the
new Pope and said that it would be a very
(01:17):
meaningful moment for him. So that's something. The first American
pope in two thousand years, although we've only been here
for what two hundred and fifty years, two hundred and
fifty something on yours. I never thought it would happen.
I was talking with my wife. I'm like, look, you know,
there's a two thousand year history there in the Catholic Church.
(01:37):
This country's a baby compared to how old the Catholic
Church is. And I didn't think that an American born
pope ever had a chance, you know, an American born cardinal,
I should say, never had a chance of becoming pope.
But it happened. And so now we have Pope Leo
(02:00):
the fourteenth. So he's been pope for less than a
day already allegations coming out that he looked the other
way on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. So I'm
talking about the new pope, you know, Bishop Robert Prevost
who is now Pope Leo the fourteenth. These allegations are
(02:20):
saying that when he was a bishop, Prevosts was said
to have looked past allegations in Chicago, where he grew up.
After Augustinian priest father James Ray was allowed to live
at the Saint john Stone Friary in Hyde Park, despite
having been removed from ministering to the public years prior
over accusations of abusing minors. The new pope allegedly did
(02:43):
not notify the heads of Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic School,
an elementary school half a block from the Friary, because
the church said at the time Ray was supposed to
be closely monitored in the Friary. The new pope also
faced criticism for not having opened a formal church investigation
into alleged sexual abuse carried out by two priests in
(03:05):
the Diocese of Chiclao, Peru, which he led from twenty
fourteen to twenty twenty three. These groups that are SNAP
and other groups said that they've made the one hundred
and thirty five eligible cardinals who selected them well aware
of is alleged in action on these allegations. Lopez di
(03:29):
Cassis a victim of clergy abuse. He's national vice president
of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests That's SNAP,
he said. Staying silent is a sin. It's not what
God wants us to do. Jesus wants us to stop
these things, not make a healthy garden for sexual abuse
to grow. So I saw this coming. I was talking
(03:53):
about this the other day. I mean, the Catholic Church
has some big embarrassing problems, and embarrassing as an understatement.
So for years and years and years they looked past
sexual abuse in the church and they hit it. And
(04:14):
one could argue, as Lopez, Dicassis and these other members
of SNAP are pointing out that they think that the
new Pope was complicit in covering up sexual abuse in
the Catholic Church, and just that there's an organization called
(04:36):
SNAP to begin with, who are survivors of this abuse?
I mean, really tells you something. They're not all just
making this up. And we have to have a difficult
conversation about this, and this is going to make a
(04:57):
lot of people bristle. But you have to look at,
you know, the hierarchy in the church. You have to
look at the priesthood. You have to look at how
certain sexual provlications might affect people wanting to become a
(05:20):
priest and then have access to these kids, mostly boys.
I mean, so that's it makes me bristle. You know,
it's uncomfortable to talk about, but it's certainly uncomfortable if
you're a victim of it, and the church has a great,
(05:43):
big problem, and there's a whole lot of people that
left the church over this issue solely. I mean, you
can say a lot of things and disagree with the
Church on a lot of issues, but this one, I don't.
You know, how can you ever say that this is right?
So whether this new pope was complete in all of this,
and I don't mean that he was an abuser, but
(06:04):
sometimes it's even worse to be the one that helps
to cover up the abuse, because the victims are looking
for somebody to come in and save them, and what
do they get, you know, they get somebody that looks
the other way, or even worse, works to cover these
(06:26):
things up. And that's exactly what this group is accusing
this new pope of doing. So I don't know what's
going to come of this. Obviously, they said that they
made these bishops bishops in the conclave well aware of
their problem with this new pope, and they elected him
(06:48):
pope anyway, So there's you know, to me, there's one
of two things. Either they think that that the victims
are making this up and it didn't happen, or they're
continuing to sweep all of this under the rug and
not give it the attention that it deserves. And why
(07:11):
can't they just come out and come clean on it
and ask for God's forgiveness and clean it up and
move forward. I don't understand. It's the church. Isn't that
what you'd expect of them, to be honest about it,
to take steps to stop it and then ask for
(07:32):
God's forgiveness. That seems like the right course of action
for me, But I haven't really seen that happen. I
don't know. What do you think? Seven to two to
one talk seven two one, eight two five five is
the number of the ninety four to three WSC studio
this morning. Don't forget about talkback. You can leave your
comments if you're listening online or on the brand new app.
(07:53):
I'd like to hear what you think about that subject
this morning, as uncomfortable as it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Is now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Hey, it's this Blaze on this Friday morning. Happy Friday,
two year. It's always good that it's Friday. Doesn't matter
that it's rainy. I mean the count of sucks by
it's Friday. So it's okay. Friday is one of those
days where it can't be bad, right, So I had
to take a deep breath before I even broached to
this subject. Everybody's celebrating the new pope, which is fine,
(08:28):
and you know, we should be proud as Americans that
there's a for the first time ever, you know, an
American born pope. But at the same time, we can't
ignore the history of the Catholic Church. And it took
less than twenty four hours for the accusations to start
coming out against this pope where he was part of
the cover up. And I think it's an important subject
(08:51):
because this has been going on for decades and the
church is not addressed properly, and plenty of people have
left the Catholic Church because of it. It's helped to
erode faith in religion in this country, and we hear
so much. We even heard our presidents say that we
need to start reinserting God into our country in religion.
And you know, why are the reasons why we got
(09:14):
away from that in the first place, and there are many.
This is not the only one, but it certainly is
a contributory factor that ignoring the sexual abuse by these
priests and sweeping it under the rug, and in a
lot of cases just moving them instead of doing something
(09:34):
about it, they just moved them somewhere else where they
could continue their abuse. And it's so bad. There's actually
a whole group called SNAP. They're the Survivor's Network of
those abused by priests that have organized to fight back
(09:55):
against this and expose it. And I said earlier, I
don't you know, I don't get why the church would
not just come out and say, look, these horrible things happened,
and we're getting rid of the evildoers and we're fixing
the problem and we're praying to God for forgiveness. Isn't
(10:16):
that what you would expect of the church instead of
trying to gloss over it and hide it. And I mean,
I don't see any kind of conversation going on there.
Maybe I haven't been privy to it of what you
know of why it got so bad in the first place.
And there's a lot of people that you know, I
(10:37):
brought up the priesthood to begin with. I mean, there
are a lot of good priests, and I want to
attack priests out right. I grew up Catholic, and I
know good priests. I know bad priests, and I know
very creepy priests. And it seems to me like the
whole modern or not even modern, I mean that the
priesthood has not been modernized. I guess is my point
(11:00):
contributes to this factor. Let's go to talk back.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Good morning, Michael, Jodi North, Charleston. One thing I'd like
to ask about all this stuff about the Catholic priests
and all is they're not allowed to marry. And I
don't see how that's biblical. As you know, God created
woman for man to have companionship, and I think that's
(11:23):
one of the main reasons why all these sexual misconduct
in the Catholic Church is because they're restricted from women.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I mean, that's part of it. And I brought that
up earlier with Colors Steve, and Steve's like, oh, so
marriage is supposed to, you know, stop them from all
of this. No, that's not the point. The point is
is when you ask of somebody to abstain from sex
(11:52):
in a sexual relationship with a woman, and some of
them are going to embrace their love of God and
make that their mission in life, the shepherding people to
the Lord into God's word. And some of them are
going to it's going to attract people that are going
to use that position to abuse. And that's just not
(12:17):
my opinion. That's the reality of it. That's what has happened.
And so when you don't you know, I mean, I
love women, and don't get me wrong, women frustrate the
hell out of me. But I can't imagine living without one.
And it's a natural thing. And so maybe there are
some priests that are strong enough to abstain and do
(12:37):
it honestly and morally and religiously, but there are plenty
of others where it attracts people that are not so
honest or moral or looking out for your best interest.
In some cases it attracts pedophiles, right, and we keep
hearing while it attracts kay priests, I don't think that
(12:59):
that's the ise, you know, whether they're gay or not,
because it wouldn't even matter if they're abstaining from sex.
What matters are the pedophiles that are abusing little boys.
What matters is the church swept that under the rug.
What matters as the church continues to hide it and
sorry to rain on the parade of the new Pope,
but it took less than twenty four hours for the
(13:20):
accusations against his pope to come out, not that he's
a pedophile or has engaged in that kind of behavior himself,
but that he has helped to cover it up.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Good Friday morning to you. Hopefully it's a good one
for you. Covering this morning's top stories, the US and
the UK are announcing a new trade deal. President Trump
made the announcement at the Winehouse yesterday morning. He said
he feels it will be a great deal for both countries.
The trade deal with the UK is the first to
be reached since Trump unveiled his sweeping tariff plan. Trump
(14:00):
said the United States is working on trade deals with
other countries. British Prime Minister ker Starmer spoke about the
deal over the phone in the Oval Office. He said,
this is a really fantastic historic day, noting that the
announcement came nearly at the same hour eighty years ago
when World War II ended in Europe. He said, this
(14:21):
is going to boost trade between and across our countries.
It's going to not only protect jobs, but create jobs,
opening market access. He said, the deal lowers average British
tariffsend US goods to one point eight percent from five
point one percent. But of course this deal keeps in
place a ten percent tariff on British goods. So this
(14:45):
is the beginning. This is the first official signed trade deal.
You heard the presidents say that they're negotiating, a lot
of people say that that's just pluster, right, and China
is the main one and all of these things. We'll
guess what after all the bluster from China about US
being imperialistic in bullies and all of these things, which
(15:06):
I find it rich being lectured by communists China, they're
coming to the negotiating table this weekend. US trade negotiators
and China sitting down in Switzerland this coming weekend. And
this is all a part of a plan by Trump
that doesn't get talked about enough. It certainly gets criticized,
(15:26):
but it doesn't get explained enough. Here's Scott Bessant, Treasury Secretary,
laying out the plan.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
There are eighteen very important trading relationships. We are currently
negotiating with Seventeen of those trading partners, China, we have
not engaged in negotiations with as of yet, so I
expect that we can see a substantial reduction in the
(15:54):
teriffs that we are being charged, as well as non
tariff barriers, currency manipulation, and the subsidies of both labor
and capital investment. So that is proceeding very well. Many
of our trading partners have approached us with very good
(16:16):
offers and we are in the process of renegotiating those.
With the economy, I would say that this is a
three legged stool, trade, tax and deregulation. Trade was first
this house. According to Speaker Johnson, expects to move their
(16:40):
portion of the bill over to the Senate owner about
the Memorial Day, so we're looking forward to that. And
then deregulation necessarily takes longer to affect the economy, but
I would expect in the third and fourth quarters we
would see substantial benefits from deregulation that by this time
(17:01):
last year could be in full force.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And of course he meant by this time next year.
I think Scott Bessen's a very capable man as secretary
or Treasury secretary, and he pointed out, there you go
eighteen main trading partners seventeen of them are already in negotiations,
and he said, you know, China has yet to come
(17:24):
to the table, but they're coming to the table this
weekend in Switzerland, and that this is a three pronged
plan that has to do with reading, negotiating trade deals,
lowering taxes, and then deregulation. So you start to see
it coalesce and come together. This can't happen overnight, and
all President Trump is received, for the most part, is
(17:45):
criticism over all of this. He certainly has his supporters,
but all the news concentrates on is the damage that
he's doing to the world economy. But you start to
see the plan come together, as Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
just explained, So let's all pray that the president is
(18:09):
successful in that you can barbecue it, boil it, broil it,
bake it, saute it. There's shrimp, kebab, shrimp, creole, shrimp, gumbo,
pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp,
coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp, soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad,
shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burgers, shrimp sandwiches, and That's about it,
(18:29):
and that story's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
It just Blaze this Friday morning. Good morning to you.
Hopefully you're commute is going well this morning. So you
heard me quote Bubba from Forrest Gump at the end
of the last break. Why did I do that? Because
today is National Shrimp Day. Shrimp's commonly called the fruit
of the sea, which seems odd at least to me.
(19:00):
Is that because in French and Italian cuisine, fruits demur
and fruity de mare refer to a variety of seafood dishes.
It's also because much like fruit trees on land, they
provide abundant food. Of course, shrimp's a very important to
our economy and our culture here in South Carolina. According
(19:22):
to the South Carolina DNR, shrimp populations experienced relatively dramatic fluctuations.
Annual commercial shrimp landings have ranged from one point three
to six point eight million pounds here in South Carolina.
And there's nothing more delicious than our local shrimp here
in South Carolina. So support your local shrimpers and eat
(19:45):
some shrimp today on a National Shrimp Day. Former President
Joe Biden tried to save face on the View yesterday
and ended up looking like a shrimp. Somewhat of that
story coming up next.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
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 2 (20:11):
Hey, good Friday morning to you. We're covering this morning's
top stories. Former President Joe Biden ripped President Donald Trump's
first one hundred days and defended his own record as
president during an appearance yesterday on ABC's The View that
was his first live television interview since leaving the White House.
In the joint interview with his wife, fake doctor Jill Biden,
(20:33):
the two pushed back on reports and upcoming books that
claimed the former president experienced cognitive decline while in office.
Biden simply said they are wrong. Joe Biden went further
and actually, when the president, former president said they're wrong,
then he goes off into some other tangent and then
trails off, and Jill Biden had a step in and
(20:55):
said the people who wrote those books were not in
the White House with us, and they didn't see how
hard Joe worked every single day. The former president said
of Trump, he's had the worst one hundred days any
presidents ever had. He also blamed the loss of Kamala
Harris on sexism, racism, and COVID of all things. Yep,
(21:17):
that's why Kamala Harris lost because you know, all those
people that did not vote for her were motivated by sexism, racism,
and of course COVID shook up the world, and there
was a backlash against COVID, and all of that conspired
to make sure that Kamala Harris was not elected as president.
As capable as she is, according to him, that she's
(21:40):
very capable. So this former president still doesn't get it.
And as a matter of fact, he disgusts me. I
just I have a visceral reaction to that man. Fifty
years of smiling and lying and cheating and being a
slime bag, slimeball and you know, dirt bag, And there
(22:05):
he is still smiling away, still trying to con the
American people with his fake doctor wife on the view,
who what he said, would have been a good attorney general,
that she should have been nominated for attorney general under
Biden's administration because she heard that she was one hell
of a good doctor. This is the intelligence of these
(22:28):
people that were dealing with Yeah, so, And I have
to be honest, if I didn't know what I know
about the Bidens and everything, you know, I didn't think
that the interview was that bad on that kind of level.
If I wouldn't, if I would have not known anything
about it, I'd be like, Okay, that's a pretty sweet
old couple, and they're friendly enough in all of this.
But you know, knowing everything that we know about Joe
(22:49):
Biden and the rest of his family, to get up
there and listen to him, still conned. The American people
still try to say that, you know, he would have
beat Trump in that Trump's first one hundred days is
the worst of any president, and that Kamala lost because
of sexism, racism and COVID and all of this ridiculousness.
(23:11):
Just totally. It just sets me off. Every time you
can ask my wife what I have to say when
I see the TV screen, I think you can guess. FJB.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast. Catch
Kelly and Blaze weekday mornings from six to nine
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Boysober
Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you stopped worrying about being wanted, and focused on understanding what you actually want? That was the question Hope Woodard asked herself after a string of situationships inspired her to take a break from sex and dating. She went "boysober," a personal concept that sparked a global movement among women looking to prioritize themselves over men. Now, Hope is looking to expand the ways we explore our relationship to relationships. Taking a bold, unfiltered look into modern love, romance, and self-discovery, Boysober will dive into messy stories about dating, sex, love, friendship, and breaking generational patterns—all with humor, vulnerability, and a fresh perspective.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com