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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Check out our website ninety forty three WSC dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A breakthrough a ninety day pause. Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We're covering this morning's top stories. Tarasury Secretary Scott Besson
says the Trump administration is closing in on its trade
negotiations with China. Besson said on Sunday from Switzerland that
details will be coming today with the talks being productive.
Chinese goods have been hit with tariffs' siye one hundred
and forty five percent under the Trump administration. Bessington US
(00:38):
Trade representative Jamison Greer met with their Chinese counterparts in
Switzerland over the weekend, with Trump saying in a post
on truth Social Saturday that an opening up of China
to American business is wanted for the good of both
China and the United States.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Mother's Day Sunday, I said this to my mother, reading
it out loud, and she said, don't trust China. And
she's right, you know, mom knows best. But they're sticking
with a ten percent tariff on goods of ours coming
into their country, and we're sticking with a thirty percent.
So we'll see where this goes. Certainly is a massive
(01:16):
reduction of one hundred and fifteen percent by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, we'll see what comes to fruition out of it.
I mean, nothing's signed yet, so they're just saying the
talks were productive.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, it's positive news for all the people out there
who you know, want to make sure that they can
order something overnight from Timu and not pay exorbitant amounts.
There's I was saying in my mind, there's like generations
of people who don't you know, they used to just
ordering something through an app and having it delivered immediately.
(01:49):
And it's just despite the fact that it's throwaway goods,
you know, goods that don't last. We've got to throw
away society that would had this continue to linger on.
Lord knows it had been a massive reset in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I was mentioning that yesterday I was watching I
think at CBS this morning, and you know, their Sunday
morning news program, and they had a future story on
some woman that has baby products and she started her
own company and it's like these mats that you put
on the tray of a highchair to make clean up easier.
(02:27):
And then there's a few other products too, and she said, well,
I have ninety days worth of supply and after that,
I don't know what I'm going to do because I
have these orders sitting in this Chinese factory and I
don't have enough money to get them because all of
a sudden, it cost a couple of hundred more thousand
dollars than it did before. And I sat down in
(02:48):
the middle of my living room and started crying. And
then my eight year old son came up and put
his arm around me and said, what's wrong, mommy? And
I'm like, I'm not going to let him see me
like this. And I'm like, what a fraud you are.
And you're cool with using slave labor literally on the
other side of the world, and you're sitting here crying
(03:09):
asking for us to feel sorry for you. I mean,
this is what we're up against. It's like, I don't
feel sorry for this woman at all. And nobody has
brought up the humanitarian aspect of these trade deals. We're
outsourcing these jobs to China, which absolutely treats its workers
(03:29):
like garbage, and they're literally paid slave wages in living poverty,
and we're supposed to feel sorry for this female business
owner who had to sit down in the middle of
her living room and cry.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I've seen the very same sort of victimhood type
messages on social and some products that I've bought, and
it's like, we hate to have this conversation, but we need.
You know, we're doing a fire sale in our inventory
and we don't know when we'll be back. And it's like, okay,
well you're going to sell now. All those people are
going to be selling out on their you know, they're
going to see a wave of cash. They're going to
(04:06):
sell out more inventory than they would quit, you know, quicker.
And now with these trade deals likely to be solved,
it's going to be a windfall for them. Do you
think we'll hear those stories being told in the propaganda preath?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, it's a well some of them are going to
it's not going to be a wind full of windfall
for all of them. I think some of them will
go out of business, and probably rightfully so. And you
know the best CBS could conjure up as well, why
don't you make the product here? Well it's too unaffordable here,
which shows you right away like okay, what's wrong with
this picture? So your business depends on slave labor in China.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, China will just steal her idea and produce their
own anyway. That's another thing. It's a whole other layer
to this of their stealing of intellectual properties, and you
can't eat there's no recourse, you can't sue them. I mean,
it is that, and I mentioned the intellectual property. There's
no bigger louder voice on throwing the gauntlet down on
(05:07):
China with regards to tariffs and trade. Then Kevin O'Leary
from Shark Tank, he's been out here from Jump saying
enough is enough. We're going to rail in China. They
steal our ideas, we cannot sue them. There's no legal recourse.
You got to wonder will any of that be up
for grabs With regards to negotiations in China.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I mean the thing that I think about too,
is that nobody explores. Is everybody's saying, oh, it's going
to be too cost prohibitive to not buy all this
cheap stuff from China. Well, maybe it will force wages
to finally go up in the United States, and maybe
that problem solves itself where you have workers making good
wages and you know products might cost some more, but
(05:51):
the workers are making more money and there's plenty of
jobs to go around.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Wouldn't that be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, there's a lot of people saying you can't do that.
You know, you can't fill these positions. I mean, and
look how spoiled. Quite honestly, a lot of workers have
become in this country and they don't want to do
the work anymore. But I don't know what you know,
and I don't think they've ever been taught, like the
(06:18):
whole reason you have a job is so that you
can produce. And if the company that you're working for
is not making more than what it costs to have.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You on his payroll, you're out of there.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You're out of there. But they don't seem to get
that anymore. So we'll see what comes of the details
of this of these productive, so called productive talks with China,
and at the end of the day, we'll see what
we end up with. And then there's according to Scott Besstt,
there's eighteen major trade partners. We've already signed one deal
with Great Britain, so if they signed this one with China,
(06:53):
there's still sixteen more to go.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
So we'll see how all this works out. Listen all day.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hit the app now at ninety FOUSC dot com. Back
to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And another look at the forecast and the roadways here
coming up as you had inbound this morning. Appreciate you
joining us here on ninety four to three WSC. You
know the traffic report almost became subject to of it.
After a bit of a waylay from sickness getting to
mom's house for Mother's Day, I got pushed off the
road Blaze into the media and you know those cable
(07:27):
beerrier medians, man, they work, yep, Thank goodness, saved my car,
my life.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well you didn't hit the cable, Yes you did.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yes, wait till the sun comes up. You see the
back of my car this morning, of which I thought
I was going to maybe trade in and get something
new here, Not so much. Now I'm stuck with it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I think, well, it's good that you're okay.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Thank the Lord. But you know what, the two cars
have pushed me off the road, just down the road.
Once I pulled myself together and like I said, save
my car saved my life. I was pulled it all together,
got back on the road. By the way, nobody stopped
for me. It was okay, but I was a little
bit surprised. But anyway, I'm able to get back on
the road. Yeah, those same two cars crashed into each other.
(08:15):
They were totaled. I don't know if those people are
dead or alive. And all I could think was, my God,
did I just get spared from something worse? You know
what I mean? It was just one of those things
where I just prayed to God and all my angels,
thank you. Raging, I yes, the whole trip. I swear
it took me four hours to take a two hour journey.
(08:37):
It was lots of slamming on brakes and speeding up
and even coming home yesterday in the rain, I saw
road raging. Very scary stuff. I don't know if it's
the scorpio full moon out there this morning or.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What, But well, how'd they run you off the road?
Were they chasing? Was one chasing the other one?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know how the left lane goes where it's like you,
you know, you try to keep up with the clip
of cars in the left lane, right, you don't want
to be the slow poke in the left lane. I mean,
it's hard to basically recount, but there was I don't
want to say how fast people were going the left
lane of which I was keeping up, and then there
was massive slamming on brakes and cutting off and anyway,
(09:20):
after that, I stayed in the right hand lane, went
the speed limit and tried to stay as far away
from every crazy all the road as possible. So anyway,
I'm just happy those cable barriers, you know, the median
barriers were there. And it wasn't you know a stretch
of road where you have no pull off, you have
no options or trees.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Who was it that said, well, the trees will stop them.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh my gosh. I'm just I'm thankful. I'm thankful and
had a great Mother's Day. I would have never predicted
Blaze that the iHeartRadio app Mother's Day playlists would have been.
My special moment was my mom. We have many special moments.
But I pulled up the iHeartRadio app on my phone,
(10:06):
had the speaker in the kitchen. My mom's sitting in
the living room in her chair, favorite chair. She's all
you know, got a blanket, she's all cozy. I'm making
some bacon, some blueberry bread. We're having a good time,
and she's holding my phone in her hand and she
pulls up the lyrics. So she goes, oh, look, lyrics.
I didn't even plan any of this. And so my
(10:28):
mom went from singing Tim McGraw to Beyonce to but
all these mother theme songs. It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I mean she, I.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Don't know about your mom, but anytime my mom sings,
it's always opera. So she's singing like Beyonce like opera.
She's singing Tim, We're crawl like opera. It was but
the lyrics on our app I just it led to
such an unexpected yet very special moment.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well good.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, So anyway, I know that we're digging into today's
stops stories and it is great to wake up on
a Monday morning and hear that China's finally fallen in line.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, if they signed the deal, I mean, it's kind
of strange to me because it was on some of
the news outlets. It's like they've reached a deal, except
there's no signatures yet, there's no really details yet, so
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
What that deal is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, it's interesting, you said, because my mother said, don't
trust that, don't trust China, don't trust them. So I mean, listen,
I get it. I don't trust them. I don't trust Russia.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, well, I mean, we'll see what the meat is
on the bone of this trade deal. They haven't really said.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Meantime. I wonder if they're going to stop pumping through
everybody's social scroll with their videos of how to go
get around the tariffs. I mean, those have been flooding
mini feeds of hey, here's how we make the bags,
and then someone else slaps their logo on them, but
(11:59):
it's still the same bags.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I was shopping for a pool pump the other day,
and so there was a Chinese website that came up,
and it had the same product a lot cheaper, about
fifty five dollars cheaper, and I'm like, okay, this thing,
(12:25):
and you know, it tells you the information. It says
been in business since March I think second twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm like, okay, wit may okay, so they've been in
business month and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Red flag blaze red flag.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, And then it had the brand name on the pump,
and I went to that site and they don't show
anything similar, and I'm like, hmmm, I'd like that extra
fifty five bucks, but I ain't doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, it's red flag. Fifty five dollars be nice
to keep in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And I'm like, with all these tariffs and all of this,
how is it still fifty five dollars cheaper? And this
company's only been in business since March second of this year,
and it's a Chinese website to begin with, and then
this Chinese company selling it, and then I can't prove
that this is the real product even though it's branded
with this name. That company doesn't have any products like
(13:24):
that available right now. So I think I'll just pay
fifty five dollars more.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So, did you?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And how long I wonder how long that's going to
take to kind of where's it coming from? Is it
an American made product?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I can't tell you. Okay, maybe, I mean it's sold
from an American company.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But you know how that goes, Yeah, exactly. That's part
of the problem we're talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
As they go get it made in China and put
their name on it, like you were just saying, and
then sell it to you from an American company and say,
you know, buy American.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Well, here I am talking about cars, same same type thing.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Welcome into a Monday edition of the program where you
appreciate your listening. Kicking off your week with us here
at ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We're covering this morning's top stories. The Environmental Protection Agency
announced that the United States in Mexico are closer to
permanently ending.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
A sewage crisis.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
EPA chief Lee Zelden wrote on AX on Friday that
the EPA sent Mexico proposed one hundred percent solution that
would permanently end the crisis of raw sewage flowing into
the US from Mexico. The issue, blamed on outdated wastewater infrastructure,
has gone on for decades, but has recently spiraled as
(14:42):
Tijuana's population increases. The sewage is flowing into waters off
the coast of San Diego.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This is Look Look how quickly, Look how quickly this
administration is moving. I'm so thankful for it. Decades in
the making. I looked up, who's our previous EPA director?
Do you even I had no idea who this guy was?
Michael Reagan. You know what his during his tenure, You
know the big thing about Michael Reagan. You know what
did he do as our former EPA guy clearly ignored this.
(15:13):
He was well, he was the first black man to
run the agency, and he was responsible for advancing environmental
well climate change Biden's climate change agenda, and then he
promoted and wanted to address the effects of environmental racism.
(15:34):
Do you have any idea what environmental racism is?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I mean, I can, I have a clue. It's just
we're disproportionately where pollution disproportionately affects people of color. But yeah,
this problem's been going on for decades. My guess is
it says one solution. I'm guessing we're going to go
build them a wastewater plant. So they stopped polluting our water.
(16:00):
And we've heard how the military training in those waters.
They've gotten sick, you know, Navy seals, and it's disgusting
and it's been going on so and it shows you like,
we can pass all these laws and all these regulations
in this country. But right there's Mexico polluting our water
(16:22):
right across the border. And this has gone on for decades.
So we've taken on the added burden of paying for
all of these regulations and for trying to clean everything
up and their Mexico is polluting it worse than ever.
So that just shows you, like now apply that around
(16:42):
the world. Same thing with our air in what China
and India does, where we hold these other countries to
a different standard than what we hold ourselves to.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Another instance also where the federal government is coming in
to fix a California problem.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Hey, thanks for being with us on this wet Monday morning.
An investigation is underway after a homeowner in Woodland Hills,
Los Angeles found home security footage of an Amazon driver
defecating on their front porch. The video footage shows the
Amazon delivery driver dropping off a package, then dropping their
(17:26):
shorts to leave behind this money delivery. According to the homeowner,
Amazon's response to the incident was not apologetic. The homeowner
also got video footage of a soiled paper towel that
was left in a planter just outside the property. Yeeesh,
So this is not the first time we've seen this,
(17:47):
except on the other video footage I remember of the
same type thing happening.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
It was in somebody's driveway. This one was on the
front porch.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How would you feel if this happened.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
To you, Well, how do you think I'd feel?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I mean, I'd be pissed and upset. I don't understand.
Do you think that there's a pattern with this homeowner
of just being a turd themselves, you know, treating the
driver in some way badly?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't know how you would treat an Amazon driver badly,
you who normally don't even see them, right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, but this is escalating, and I didn't
see the previous one of would you say the Pooh
and the driveway?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, there was one a couple of years ago where
a driver dropped their shorts in the middle of the
driveway drop some friends at the lake right there on
the driveway.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Off.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This is so horrifying, how frustrated you have to be
at your job that you're you know, it's to this
level where you're dropping trowel on the porch. I mean,
I've seen the videos of people throw in the packages.
If I had to have a friend last week, I
saw her feed where just this lady just hurled from
(19:07):
the middle of the yard, just hurled the package onto
the front porch, and she said in the caption, I'm
glad there was nothing breakable in there.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, I'd like to see what Amazon's response was, because
this homeowner says that their response was not apologetic.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's a little shocking to me that Amazon wouldn't, you know,
in some way disciplined the driver At the very least,
you would think they would lose their job. You're caught
on camera taking a dump on someone's porch like that
seems like grounds for dismissal.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the rest of
the details are, but the homeowner wasn't happy with Amazon's response,
and of course not happy with finding a pile of
you know what on their front porch and then whatever
they wiped with stuck in the planters.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
This is sick.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's totally sick, and I think i'd be uh. I
would make it my mission to find that Amazon.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Driver here we go and teach them a little lesson
if Amazon was not willing to get even for me.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But anyway, how do you get even for someone poohing
on the porch?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well, I think we should keep that under wraps in
case I ever have to hear.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You have to pull it out.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Take that action.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast, catch
Kelly and Blaze weekday mornings from six to nine
Check out our website ninety forty three WSC dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A breakthrough a ninety day pause. Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We're covering this morning's top stories. Tarasury Secretary Scott Besson
says the Trump administration is closing in on its trade
negotiations with China. Besson said on Sunday from Switzerland that
details will be coming today with the talks being productive.
Chinese goods have been hit with tariffs' siye one hundred
and forty five percent under the Trump administration. Bessington US
(00:38):
Trade representative Jamison Greer met with their Chinese counterparts in
Switzerland over the weekend, with Trump saying in a post
on truth Social Saturday that an opening up of China
to American business is wanted for the good of both
China and the United States.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Mother's Day Sunday, I said this to my mother, reading
it out loud, and she said, don't trust China. And
she's right, you know, mom knows best. But they're sticking
with a ten percent tariff on goods of ours coming
into their country, and we're sticking with a thirty percent.
So we'll see where this goes. Certainly is a massive
(01:16):
reduction of one hundred and fifteen percent by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh, we'll see what comes to fruition out of it.
I mean, nothing's signed yet, so they're just saying the
talks were productive.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well, it's positive news for all the people out there
who you know, want to make sure that they can
order something overnight from Timu and not pay exorbitant amounts.
There's I was saying in my mind, there's like generations
of people who don't you know, they used to just
ordering something through an app and having it delivered immediately.
(01:49):
And it's just despite the fact that it's throwaway goods,
you know, goods that don't last. We've got to throw
away society that would had this continue to linger on.
Lord knows it had been a massive reset in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I was mentioning that yesterday I was watching I
think at CBS this morning, and you know, their Sunday
morning news program, and they had a future story on
some woman that has baby products and she started her
own company and it's like these mats that you put
on the tray of a highchair to make clean up easier.
(02:27):
And then there's a few other products too, and she said, well,
I have ninety days worth of supply and after that,
I don't know what I'm going to do because I
have these orders sitting in this Chinese factory and I
don't have enough money to get them because all of
a sudden, it cost a couple of hundred more thousand
dollars than it did before. And I sat down in
(02:48):
the middle of my living room and started crying. And
then my eight year old son came up and put
his arm around me and said, what's wrong, mommy? And
I'm like, I'm not going to let him see me
like this. And I'm like, what a fraud you are.
And you're cool with using slave labor literally on the
other side of the world, and you're sitting here crying
(03:09):
asking for us to feel sorry for you. I mean,
this is what we're up against. It's like, I don't
feel sorry for this woman at all. And nobody has
brought up the humanitarian aspect of these trade deals. We're
outsourcing these jobs to China, which absolutely treats its workers
(03:29):
like garbage, and they're literally paid slave wages in living poverty,
and we're supposed to feel sorry for this female business
owner who had to sit down in the middle of
her living room and cry.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I've seen the very same sort of victimhood type
messages on social and some products that I've bought, and
it's like, we hate to have this conversation, but we need.
You know, we're doing a fire sale in our inventory
and we don't know when we'll be back. And it's like, okay,
well you're going to sell now. All those people are
going to be selling out on their you know, they're
going to see a wave of cash. They're going to
(04:06):
sell out more inventory than they would quit, you know, quicker.
And now with these trade deals likely to be solved,
it's going to be a windfall for them. Do you
think we'll hear those stories being told in the propaganda preath?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Well, it's a well some of them are going to
it's not going to be a wind full of windfall
for all of them. I think some of them will
go out of business, and probably rightfully so. And you
know the best CBS could conjure up as well, why
don't you make the product here? Well it's too unaffordable here,
which shows you right away like okay, what's wrong with
this picture? So your business depends on slave labor in China.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, China will just steal her idea and produce their
own anyway. That's another thing. It's a whole other layer
to this of their stealing of intellectual properties, and you
can't eat there's no recourse, you can't sue them. I mean,
it is that, and I mentioned the intellectual property. There's
no bigger louder voice on throwing the gauntlet down on
(05:07):
China with regards to tariffs and trade. Then Kevin O'Leary
from Shark Tank, he's been out here from Jump saying
enough is enough. We're going to rail in China. They
steal our ideas, we cannot sue them. There's no legal recourse.
You got to wonder will any of that be up
for grabs With regards to negotiations in China.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I mean the thing that I think about too,
is that nobody explores. Is everybody's saying, oh, it's going
to be too cost prohibitive to not buy all this
cheap stuff from China. Well, maybe it will force wages
to finally go up in the United States, and maybe
that problem solves itself where you have workers making good
wages and you know products might cost some more, but
(05:51):
the workers are making more money and there's plenty of
jobs to go around.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Wouldn't that be nice.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, there's a lot of people saying you can't do that.
You know, you can't fill these positions. I mean, and
look how spoiled. Quite honestly, a lot of workers have
become in this country and they don't want to do
the work anymore. But I don't know what you know,
and I don't think they've ever been taught, like the
(06:18):
whole reason you have a job is so that you
can produce. And if the company that you're working for
is not making more than what it costs to have.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
You on his payroll, you're out of there.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You're out of there. But they don't seem to get
that anymore. So we'll see what comes of the details
of this of these productive, so called productive talks with China,
and at the end of the day, we'll see what
we end up with. And then there's according to Scott Besstt,
there's eighteen major trade partners. We've already signed one deal
with Great Britain, so if they signed this one with China,
(06:53):
there's still sixteen more to go.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
So we'll see how all this works out. Listen all day.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hit the app now at ninety FOUSC dot com. Back
to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And another look at the forecast and the roadways here
coming up as you had inbound this morning. Appreciate you
joining us here on ninety four to three WSC. You
know the traffic report almost became subject to of it.
After a bit of a waylay from sickness getting to
mom's house for Mother's Day, I got pushed off the
road Blaze into the media and you know those cable
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beerrier medians, man, they work, yep, Thank goodness, saved my car,
my life.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Well you didn't hit the cable, Yes you did.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yes, wait till the sun comes up. You see the
back of my car this morning, of which I thought
I was going to maybe trade in and get something
new here, Not so much. Now I'm stuck with it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I think, well, it's good that you're okay.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Thank the Lord. But you know what, the two cars
have pushed me off the road, just down the road.
Once I pulled myself together and like I said, save
my car saved my life. I was pulled it all together,
got back on the road. By the way, nobody stopped
for me. It was okay, but I was a little
bit surprised. But anyway, I'm able to get back on
the road. Yeah, those same two cars crashed into each other.
(08:15):
They were totaled. I don't know if those people are
dead or alive. And all I could think was, my God,
did I just get spared from something worse? You know
what I mean? It was just one of those things
where I just prayed to God and all my angels,
thank you. Raging, I yes, the whole trip. I swear
it took me four hours to take a two hour journey.
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It was lots of slamming on brakes and speeding up
and even coming home yesterday in the rain, I saw
road raging. Very scary stuff. I don't know if it's
the scorpio full moon out there this morning or.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What, But well, how'd they run you off the road?
Were they chasing? Was one chasing the other one?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know how the left lane goes where it's like you,
you know, you try to keep up with the clip
of cars in the left lane, right, you don't want
to be the slow poke in the left lane. I mean,
it's hard to basically recount, but there was I don't
want to say how fast people were going the left
lane of which I was keeping up, and then there
was massive slamming on brakes and cutting off and anyway,
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after that, I stayed in the right hand lane, went
the speed limit and tried to stay as far away
from every crazy all the road as possible. So anyway,
I'm just happy those cable barriers, you know, the median
barriers were there. And it wasn't you know a stretch
of road where you have no pull off, you have
no options or trees.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Who was it that said, well, the trees will stop them.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh my gosh. I'm just I'm thankful. I'm thankful and
had a great Mother's Day. I would have never predicted
Blaze that the iHeartRadio app Mother's Day playlists would have been.
My special moment was my mom. We have many special moments.
But I pulled up the iHeartRadio app on my phone,
(10:06):
had the speaker in the kitchen. My mom's sitting in
the living room in her chair, favorite chair. She's all
you know, got a blanket, she's all cozy. I'm making
some bacon, some blueberry bread. We're having a good time,
and she's holding my phone in her hand and she
pulls up the lyrics. So she goes, oh, look, lyrics.
I didn't even plan any of this. And so my
(10:28):
mom went from singing Tim McGraw to Beyonce to but
all these mother theme songs. It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I mean she, I.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Don't know about your mom, but anytime my mom sings,
it's always opera. So she's singing like Beyonce like opera.
She's singing Tim, We're crawl like opera. It was but
the lyrics on our app I just it led to
such an unexpected yet very special moment.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Well good.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, So anyway, I know that we're digging into today's
stops stories and it is great to wake up on
a Monday morning and hear that China's finally fallen in line.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, if they signed the deal, I mean, it's kind
of strange to me because it was on some of
the news outlets. It's like they've reached a deal, except
there's no signatures yet, there's no really details yet, so
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
What that deal is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, it's interesting, you said, because my mother said, don't
trust that, don't trust China, don't trust them. So I mean, listen,
I get it. I don't trust them. I don't trust Russia.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Yeah, well, I mean, we'll see what the meat is
on the bone of this trade deal. They haven't really said.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Meantime. I wonder if they're going to stop pumping through
everybody's social scroll with their videos of how to go
get around the tariffs. I mean, those have been flooding
mini feeds of hey, here's how we make the bags,
and then someone else slaps their logo on them, but
(11:59):
it's still the same bags.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I was shopping for a pool pump the other day,
and so there was a Chinese website that came up,
and it had the same product a lot cheaper, about
fifty five dollars cheaper, and I'm like, okay, this thing,
(12:25):
and you know, it tells you the information. It says
been in business since March I think second twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm like, okay, wit may okay, so they've been in
business month and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Red flag blaze red flag.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, And then it had the brand name on the pump,
and I went to that site and they don't show
anything similar, and I'm like, hmmm, I'd like that extra
fifty five bucks, but I ain't doing it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, it's red flag. Fifty five dollars be nice
to keep in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And I'm like, with all these tariffs and all of this,
how is it still fifty five dollars cheaper? And this
company's only been in business since March second of this year,
and it's a Chinese website to begin with, and then
this Chinese company selling it, and then I can't prove
that this is the real product even though it's branded
with this name. That company doesn't have any products like
(13:24):
that available right now. So I think I'll just pay
fifty five dollars more.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So, did you?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And how long I wonder how long that's going to
take to kind of where's it coming from? Is it
an American made product?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I can't tell you. Okay, maybe, I mean it's sold
from an American company.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But you know how that goes, Yeah, exactly. That's part
of the problem we're talking about right now.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
As they go get it made in China and put
their name on it, like you were just saying, and
then sell it to you from an American company and say,
you know, buy American.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Well, here I am talking about cars, same same type thing.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Welcome into a Monday edition of the program where you
appreciate your listening. Kicking off your week with us here
at ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We're covering this morning's top stories. The Environmental Protection Agency
announced that the United States in Mexico are closer to
permanently ending.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
A sewage crisis.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
EPA chief Lee Zelden wrote on AX on Friday that
the EPA sent Mexico proposed one hundred percent solution that
would permanently end the crisis of raw sewage flowing into
the US from Mexico. The issue, blamed on outdated wastewater infrastructure,
has gone on for decades, but has recently spiraled as
(14:42):
Tijuana's population increases. The sewage is flowing into waters off
the coast of San Diego.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
This is Look Look how quickly, Look how quickly this
administration is moving. I'm so thankful for it. Decades in
the making. I looked up, who's our previous EPA director?
Do you even I had no idea who this guy was?
Michael Reagan. You know what his during his tenure, You
know the big thing about Michael Reagan. You know what
did he do as our former EPA guy clearly ignored this.
(15:13):
He was well, he was the first black man to
run the agency, and he was responsible for advancing environmental
well climate change Biden's climate change agenda, and then he
promoted and wanted to address the effects of environmental racism.
(15:34):
Do you have any idea what environmental racism is?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I mean, I can, I have a clue. It's just
we're disproportionately where pollution disproportionately affects people of color. But yeah,
this problem's been going on for decades. My guess is
it says one solution. I'm guessing we're going to go
build them a wastewater plant. So they stopped polluting our water.
(16:00):
And we've heard how the military training in those waters.
They've gotten sick, you know, Navy seals, and it's disgusting
and it's been going on so and it shows you like,
we can pass all these laws and all these regulations
in this country. But right there's Mexico polluting our water
(16:22):
right across the border. And this has gone on for decades.
So we've taken on the added burden of paying for
all of these regulations and for trying to clean everything
up and their Mexico is polluting it worse than ever.
So that just shows you, like now apply that around
(16:42):
the world. Same thing with our air in what China
and India does, where we hold these other countries to
a different standard than what we hold ourselves to.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Another instance also where the federal government is coming in
to fix a California problem.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Hey, thanks for being with us on this wet Monday morning.
An investigation is underway after a homeowner in Woodland Hills,
Los Angeles found home security footage of an Amazon driver
defecating on their front porch. The video footage shows the
Amazon delivery driver dropping off a package, then dropping their
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shorts to leave behind this money delivery. According to the homeowner,
Amazon's response to the incident was not apologetic. The homeowner
also got video footage of a soiled paper towel that
was left in a planter just outside the property. Yeeesh,
So this is not the first time we've seen this,
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except on the other video footage I remember of the
same type thing happening.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
It was in somebody's driveway. This one was on the
front porch.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How would you feel if this happened.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
To you, Well, how do you think I'd feel?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I mean, I'd be pissed and upset. I don't understand.
Do you think that there's a pattern with this homeowner
of just being a turd themselves, you know, treating the
driver in some way badly?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't know how you would treat an Amazon driver badly,
you who normally don't even see them, right.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I mean, but this is escalating, and I didn't
see the previous one of would you say the Pooh
and the driveway?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, there was one a couple of years ago where
a driver dropped their shorts in the middle of the
driveway drop some friends at the lake right there on
the driveway.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Off.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This is so horrifying, how frustrated you have to be
at your job that you're you know, it's to this
level where you're dropping trowel on the porch. I mean,
I've seen the videos of people throw in the packages.
If I had to have a friend last week, I
saw her feed where just this lady just hurled from
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the middle of the yard, just hurled the package onto
the front porch, and she said in the caption, I'm
glad there was nothing breakable in there.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, I'd like to see what Amazon's response was, because
this homeowner says that their response was not apologetic.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That's a little shocking to me that Amazon wouldn't, you know,
in some way disciplined the driver At the very least,
you would think they would lose their job. You're caught
on camera taking a dump on someone's porch like that
seems like grounds for dismissal.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the rest of
the details are, but the homeowner wasn't happy with Amazon's response,
and of course not happy with finding a pile of
you know what on their front porch and then whatever
they wiped with stuck in the planters.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
This is sick.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's totally sick, and I think i'd be uh. I
would make it my mission to find that Amazon.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Driver here we go and teach them a little lesson
if Amazon was not willing to get even for me.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
But anyway, how do you get even for someone poohing
on the porch?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Well, I think we should keep that under wraps in
case I ever have to hear.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You have to pull it out.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Take that action.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast, catch
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