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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
To keep reminding myself, it's Thursday. Yesterday. All day I
was thinking it was Thursday. Blaze like, oh man, all right,
one more day, got a big weekend, thinking yeah, got
a big weekend coming up Mother's Day. We'll talk about
it just ahead. If you're prepared, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We're covering this morning's top stories. And the report says
President Trump plans to revive a controversial idea that would
lower drug prices. According to Politico, Trump is expected to
sign an executive order early next week that would direct
his staff to pursue Most Favored Nation Status pricing for
drugs with the within the Medicare program MFN pricing would
(00:44):
ensure that Medicare gets the same low drug prices that
drug makers offer to other countries. Trump announced a similar
plan during his first term, but it faced strong opposition
from the pharmaceutical industry. Imagine that exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, let's see if there's wrong opposition from the pharmaceutical company,
I'm probably for it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's because we're subsidizing the cheaper drug prices in these
other countries.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's why here we go again with Trump trying to
bring prices down and facing opposition not just from the
companies but also from you know, the political side of
it as well.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well. You know, I'm all for a profit motive. Otherwise
things don't get developed, right, And if there's no profit
motive there, what is the motive to create newer and
better and more effective drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, but we're jumping the shark on some of that,
you know, financial wise, I can't believe going through some
of my parents' medications what my mom was saying, she's
paying for some of my stepdad's stuff. I'm like, how much, right,
no average person can afford this. So you can come
up with something that fixes something, but if no one
can get their hands on it and they die, then
(01:55):
what well.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I mean, it comes down to subsidizing these other countries.
So I'm all for them making a profit. But we
don't need to be subsidizing other countries at our expense
and paying more for our drugs. So I'm not against
them making a profit. A lot of Democrats want to
put price caps in all of that. I really don't
believe in all of that. But let's make it a
more even and fair playing field.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I think there's a happy medium. I mean I
would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And so the president is at work doing that again.
We'll see if he's successful or if they're successful in
their opposition.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Place.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm saying a prayer for the morning in the afternoon
commute each and every day. But we're bring a trafficing
weather every ten minutes here on eighty four to three WSC.
Appreciate you listening here this morning on a Thursday edition
of the show. I say that with a bit of
a smirk because I'm reminding myself how much time I
have left.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You're reminding yourself, what how much.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Time I have left to get ready for Mother's Day?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh yeah, I mean it's coming up pretty quick. But
you were talking about getting a razor, an electric razor
for your stepfather.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What would help my mother? My mom, he's now to
a point where she's having to help him shave. And
I'm like, oh, boy, took me down a razor rabbit
a hole and we were discussing recession and I couldn't
believe that garbage razors and how expensive they are. And
then also what I didn't know about razers, was like, wait, what,
I don't even I want options, right, I want drives, shape,
(03:28):
we shave cordless, and apparently I need to start a
barbershop on the side because you know those options are
like three hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, razors aren't cheap for some reason, and I don't
know why razor blades are so expensive. That's why you
saw some of these companies come in to fill the
void with cheaper razors. But even they're kind of expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They are, and.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm talking about the manual ones.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No I know. So what she says she's resorted to
because they've broken three shavers at this point for dropping
them or lord knows what else. So anyway, I'm on
the hunt for that's you know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So you're getting your mom, Well, I'm going to get
my Mother's Day. You're getting your stepfather a new razor
for your mom?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I'm going to get moms. Come on now, Mama.
Mom always gets you know, the sweets and the treats,
and I just I think there's some things that are givens.
Where I had pressure on myself with Mother's Day is
you know, the food, the flowers, the fellowship just remember
your presence. It doesn't cost a thing. So I will
be with my mom for Mother's Day for that. That's
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all that she cares about, honestly, just for us to
have quality time together. But I always give something meaningful
and lasting, So I'm putting the pressure on myself on
that one.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
See see meaningful and lasting.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, Like during COVID, I have an example. My sister
and I we broke down the word mother and I
arranged for us. Now remember this is back during COVID.
We all had a screen, we had working headphones and
I was and they had working email. All three of
us were in different locations, so we did. You're able
to record I don't know if people know this on
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YouTube offline where people can't see you, so you can
do a private recording on YouTube, and we did. It's
not a high coup. I forget what it's called. My
mother would be embarrassed right now because she's a retired
English and reading teacher. But we broke down the word
mother and with em and oh and th you know,
each one of those we each of our own added
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a memory from you know, as each daughter did the memory,
we shared her with their mother. She just loved every
second of it. And then I send her a link
to the recording so she could watch it forever. So anyway,
there's other examples.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But yeah, I was going to take a poem and
put it on a little plaque and I was going
to burn the edges with a lighter, and then she'll
lack over it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Are you making fun of me?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm not making fun of you, suck, I'm making fun
of what they used to have us do in school
a long time ago. Had you do that?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I don't, I don't know. I mean that's a you know,
good on your teacher for going that far. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, I mean, but then your mother's stuck with this
god awful thing that she has to hang on her walls.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
She probably loves every second of it. Well maybe, oh gosh, yes,
moms are sent them.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I loved it. I'm not sure that you know that
she wanted it as part of her decorpes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, I tell you what. You say that, but my mom,
every time I go home, she's got something else. So
she's pulled out that I made that looks so embarrassing.
I'm like, why do you still have this piece of
pottery that looks like it fell on the ground and
then I glued it back together and then gave it
as a gift. And she's like, because you made it
with your own hands. And I'm like, oh my god,
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I can on those embarrassing things forever.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I can remember so many things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Hang them up. Frankly, it's like, can we I keep
trying to hide stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm like, lord, I remember in wood shop.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I don't want people to know I made this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They were teaching us how to use the lathe, and
so I made candle holders, except I didn't quite plan correctly,
and so they were two different heights.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well that's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, they were supposed to be matching candle holders. So
it was like to say, like barrel shaped candle holders
with a you know, a hole in the top of
the candle. And then it had a nice little design
with the lathe where I put some detail into them.
And so you carve it in one big piece and
cut it down the middle, and supposedly you're going to
have two matching candle holders. Well it didn't turn out
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that way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Does she still have it?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
One was like two inches higher than the other one.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I bet she still has it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They were around for a while, you know. It was
the embarrassment that kept on giving.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That is what I'm saying to me, I know, and
it's like, oh geez. So it adds more pressure because
it's like, all right, you know, you don't want to
just throw it together, because it's going to be it's
going to be hanging up on a wall somewhere, put
up on an for the next thirty years. Well bless them,
depending on how much longer you have with him.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. The other thing I made in wood shop was
I made myself a gun rack, except I didn't take
into account, you know, the the angle of the gun, right,
so I made each side of the rack equal, so
the gun sat, I'll crook it in the rack.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Good lord.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I mean, I did all kinds of stupid stuff in
wood shop, But at least, you know, I got that
experience and I would know better.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now you shouldn't lose a finger.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, at least I made that mistake when I was
a teenager, right, And I didn't lose any fingers or digits.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Or you know, unlike my woodshop teacher.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So at least I made those mistakes when I was
you know, fourteen fifteen years old, and you know later
on in life where I had to be embarrassed as
an adult not know how to know my way around
any of it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Did your witshop teacher have all of his fingers?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He had all of his fingers, but he was missing
an eye. I'm just joking now he had.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All of his finger this could be true. I mean, mine,
miss was missing a couple of fingers. I'm sure there
are other people that went to College Park Middle School
and they know who I'm talking about. But he was awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I still think one of the best most memorable Mother's
Day gifts that you and I combined unknowingly gave our
mothers was featuring them on two hundred and twenty five
affiliates across the country filling in for Joe PAGs on
his weekend show.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, that's one for the books.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
It's a show called The Weekend, and we guest hosted
the Weekend one weekend, Yes Mother's Day Weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I actually had a Trump impersonator record my mom a
message for and played it on the air and then
got her reaction and Blaze's mom called in from Michigan.
It was unexpected. It was so fun, and then we
were never invited back exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It was so good that that was the last we
ever heard of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, well, I'm glad that the opportunity was seized.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Absolutely. Well, it's you know, good to make your mother
happy sometimes.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, my mother's never I don't I think you agreed.
Correct me if I'm wrong. My mother's never been on
radio or the show or anything. So that was a first,
and we work hard for first.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I never talked to my mother on the air but
one time, and she was so uncomfortable with this. So
at the wind Jammer, you know, I hosted the bikini
contest at the wind Jammer, the Budwise your bikini.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Bash, rough life you have.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, it was horrible for years and years and years.
And so for one the campaign I did one whole summer.
The creative campaign I did for it was I tagged
all of the spots we talked about you know what
a wild time we were going to have it the
wind Jammer that weekend, and then I had my mom
record a line saying this is Michael Blaze's mother, and
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I just want you to know I did not raise
him to turn out this way. That's great, and I
thought it was hilarious. And my Mom's like, I really
don't want to do this. I'm like, just say it,
just say it, just say it. And then I played
that thing all summer.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, it was funny and got to include my mom,
even though she didn't want an association with a Budweiser
Borghini Bash. I forced her into it. But like a
good mom, she helped out her son and did it
for the sake of a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Your news, Traffic, Weather, and Information Station. This is Charleston's
morning News on ninety four to three WUSC. Now back
to Kelly and Blaze, and.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We'll dig into pending Mother's Day coming up here on
ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
First recovering this morning's top stories. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
is due to unveil his plan for overhauling the nation's
air traffic control system today. The move comes mid continuing
delays resulting from communication blackouts and a shortage of air
traffic controllers at one of the nation's busiest airports already today,
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cancelations and delays are stacking up in New Jersey's Newark
Liberty International Airport. Duffy has offered glimpses of the plan,
saying in recent interviews the system would have new telecom,
new radars, and new infrastructure. I saw an article that
said that the FAA has been experiencing lately one thousand
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incidents a month, one thousand a month.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
This is facepalm time, where I'm like, first of all,
Newark has been assessmentle in a dump. You know, when
you travel, you're like some of the airports you don't
want to go to or be in. I mean, honestly,
Atlanta is one of them. And we're forced in many
ways to go through Lana Hartsfield.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Most of the time. And you know, once in a
while you'll be able to catch a direct flight out
of somewhere else. But I always joked in the past,
it's like you're not getting out of Charleston unless you're
going to Atlanta first.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, and it's it's just a mess. And you know,
behind the scenes, as a passenger on a plane, I mean,
who out here isn't thinking my god? I mean, you know,
I've I've traveled recently. Of course, back in January covered
the inauguration live in d C. I mean, we had
ice and snow and it was scary. And to think
behind the scenes of all of this A thousand you
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just said in one month.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
One thousand a month on average.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, it just doesn't inspire confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I mean this new administration does, thank God. But how
long is it going to take to overhaul this stuff?
Is my question?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, I don't know. We'll find out later today, you know,
what the plan is, and maybe he'll lay out a
timeline for this, but I would imagine there would have
to be, you know, training sessions and all of this
to learn how to use the new equipment.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, it's going to take timeminds.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Me of you know the movie Is It Airplane? Where
Lloyd Bridges is smoking a whole pack of cigarettes at once.
He's the air traffic controller. He has twenty cigarettes in
his mouth. He's like, I picked the wrong day to
quit smoking.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh, the good old days.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I know, when movies were funny.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
How about when you could smoke on an airplane?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, I mean I don't think there's probably a lot
of people that want to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I just couldn't believe when when I was in
college in the nineties, I'll just say flying, I think
I guess it was British Airways and flying with my sister.
She was doing a broad program at the time, and
I couldn't believe it. It was there were two back
rows of this big air bus and you could drink smoke.
I was like, what it was shocking. Now, I don't
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think we did that on American flights at the time
in the nineties. Maybe way back in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, I used to call it in Atlanta the smoking
zoo because at first you could still smoke in the airport,
and then they curbed that and they turned it just
into this special room.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That room is sad to go by.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The smoking lounge. Well, it's not there anymore, but the
and it had like a big glass front on it. Yeah,
so it looked like a zoo. So I called it
the smoking zoo because you just walked by and looked
at all the smokers puffing away in there on the
other side of the glass. It was kind of funny.
And where was I recently, there's still some places in
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the United States. I walked into I can't remember what
state I was in, but I walked into a bar
and everybody was smoking, and I'm like, wow, am I
look at this? Yeah? Where am I? What happened? I
didn't know this was.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Allowed, So I felt on that plane, I was like, wow,
people are smoking on the plane, and I get it.
You know, listen, not advocating for smoking. On the other hand,
it's not illegal, right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I mean, you know, it's a to me, it's a balance,
and no, you shouldn't be allowed to smoke on airplanes
and pollute everybody else's lungs.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, honestly, oddly enough, I didn't even know that there
was a smoking section in the back. You couldn't smell it.
I didn't. They had some serious you know, I didn't
even know how or how the wizardry happened, but they
had some serious output.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I guess air ionization system or something.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, use headlines and the talk you need. This is
Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze on ninety four
to three WSC.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If you missed it earlier, we were talking about handcrafted
gifts for mom this Mother's Day and recounting some of
the stories Blaze had missed. We misshapen. The links were
different when it came to woodcraft and shot a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Some of the things we made I made for in
wood shop and didn't turn out too well, like the
candle holders that were supposed to be you know, they
were supposed to look like a matching set of candleholders
that didn't turn out that way. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's inspired some shop class stories on the talkback feature
on the iHeart app, which is free to download today.
If you haven't already, you are missing out. It's a
round radio microphone. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
The most embarrassing thing I've seen happen in wood shop
class in middle school wasn't something I did, but my
best friend Nicholas, he handcrafted a let's just say what
you would call an adult novelty and he got expelled
from school for It's pretty embarrassing for him. I felt
embarrassed for him to.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I'm sure my shop teacher is missing a few fingers.
He was really cool. He's an old guy, and every
time there was a dispute or something between the kids,
if there was like two boys that are fighting, he'd
take them all behind the gym and let him sort
it out. And then if you ever got you chewing tobacco,
which was often the case, he would wouldn't turn it
in and he would just make you swallow it till
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you have to do it again.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So here's a tribute to shop teachers all around the world. Yes, yeah,
I told the story about where you on some projects,
they'd assign two of you. And so one day in
shop class, one of the kids tosses this big old
chunk of wood across the classroom to his teammate, and
another student stood up right at that exact moment and
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like literally got knocked out, was laying on the floor.
I know I shouldn't laugh, but that was not a
good day in shop class. And another thing that strikes
me about shop class was our shop teacher had a
teacher's assistant. You know what his name was, something that
has to do with would No, it was mister Batesen.
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Now think about this for a minute, when you're that
age in school and the teacher's assistant is named mister Bateson.
I'll leave it at that, but you can use your
imagination on how that went. And that guy used to
get so pissed off because he was just mercilessly made
fun of and mocked.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Mister Bateson was myop teacher. I wish if anyone can
remind me middle school, Oh my gosh, College Park Middle
growing up? Do we still have shop class anymore? He
was missing some fingers, but he was the coolest guy over.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, I mean we need you know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't even know if you shop class anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
High school anymore. I don't know some of them do.
I think we're at the time. Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast. Catch
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Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
To keep reminding myself, it's Thursday. Yesterday. All day I
was thinking it was Thursday. Blaze like, oh man, all right,
one more day, got a big weekend, thinking yeah, got
a big weekend coming up Mother's Day. We'll talk about
it just ahead. If you're prepared, welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We're covering this morning's top stories. And the report says
President Trump plans to revive a controversial idea that would
lower drug prices. According to Politico, Trump is expected to
sign an executive order early next week that would direct
his staff to pursue Most Favored Nation Status pricing for
drugs with the within the Medicare program MFN pricing would
(00:44):
ensure that Medicare gets the same low drug prices that
drug makers offer to other countries. Trump announced a similar
plan during his first term, but it faced strong opposition
from the pharmaceutical industry. Imagine that exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Well, let's see if there's wrong opposition from the pharmaceutical company,
I'm probably for it.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's because we're subsidizing the cheaper drug prices in these
other countries.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's why here we go again with Trump trying to
bring prices down and facing opposition not just from the
companies but also from you know, the political side of
it as well.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well. You know, I'm all for a profit motive. Otherwise
things don't get developed, right, And if there's no profit
motive there, what is the motive to create newer and
better and more effective drugs.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, but we're jumping the shark on some of that,
you know, financial wise, I can't believe going through some
of my parents' medications what my mom was saying, she's
paying for some of my stepdad's stuff. I'm like, how much, right,
no average person can afford this. So you can come
up with something that fixes something, but if no one
can get their hands on it and they die, then
(01:55):
what well.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I mean, it comes down to subsidizing these other countries.
So I'm all for them making a profit. But we
don't need to be subsidizing other countries at our expense
and paying more for our drugs. So I'm not against
them making a profit. A lot of Democrats want to
put price caps in all of that. I really don't
believe in all of that. But let's make it a
more even and fair playing field.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, I think there's a happy medium. I mean I
would agree with that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And so the president is at work doing that again.
We'll see if he's successful or if they're successful in
their opposition.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Place.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm saying a prayer for the morning in the afternoon
commute each and every day. But we're bring a trafficing
weather every ten minutes here on eighty four to three WSC.
Appreciate you listening here this morning on a Thursday edition
of the show. I say that with a bit of
a smirk because I'm reminding myself how much time I
have left.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You're reminding yourself, what how much.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Time I have left to get ready for Mother's Day?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Oh yeah, I mean it's coming up pretty quick. But
you were talking about getting a razor, an electric razor
for your stepfather.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
What would help my mother? My mom, he's now to
a point where she's having to help him shave. And
I'm like, oh, boy, took me down a razor rabbit
a hole and we were discussing recession and I couldn't
believe that garbage razors and how expensive they are. And
then also what I didn't know about razers, was like, wait, what,
I don't even I want options, right, I want drives, shape,
(03:28):
we shave cordless, and apparently I need to start a
barbershop on the side because you know those options are
like three hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Well, razors aren't cheap for some reason, and I don't
know why razor blades are so expensive. That's why you
saw some of these companies come in to fill the
void with cheaper razors. But even they're kind of expensive.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
They are, and.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I'm talking about the manual ones.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
No I know. So what she says she's resorted to
because they've broken three shavers at this point for dropping
them or lord knows what else. So anyway, I'm on
the hunt for that's you know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So you're getting your mom, Well, I'm going to get
my Mother's Day. You're getting your stepfather a new razor
for your mom?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
No, I'm going to get moms. Come on now, Mama.
Mom always gets you know, the sweets and the treats,
and I just I think there's some things that are givens.
Where I had pressure on myself with Mother's Day is
you know, the food, the flowers, the fellowship just remember
your presence. It doesn't cost a thing. So I will
be with my mom for Mother's Day for that. That's
(04:30):
all that she cares about, honestly, just for us to
have quality time together. But I always give something meaningful
and lasting, So I'm putting the pressure on myself on
that one.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
See see meaningful and lasting.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, Like during COVID, I have an example. My sister
and I we broke down the word mother and I
arranged for us. Now remember this is back during COVID.
We all had a screen, we had working headphones and
I was and they had working email. All three of
us were in different locations, so we did. You're able
to record I don't know if people know this on
(05:06):
YouTube offline where people can't see you, so you can
do a private recording on YouTube, and we did. It's
not a high coup. I forget what it's called. My
mother would be embarrassed right now because she's a retired
English and reading teacher. But we broke down the word
mother and with em and oh and th you know,
each one of those we each of our own added
(05:28):
a memory from you know, as each daughter did the memory,
we shared her with their mother. She just loved every
second of it. And then I send her a link
to the recording so she could watch it forever. So anyway,
there's other examples.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But yeah, I was going to take a poem and
put it on a little plaque and I was going
to burn the edges with a lighter, and then she'll
lack over it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Are you making fun of me?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm not making fun of you, suck, I'm making fun
of what they used to have us do in school
a long time ago. Had you do that?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I don't, I don't know. I mean that's a you know,
good on your teacher for going that far. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, I mean, but then your mother's stuck with this
god awful thing that she has to hang on her walls.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
She probably loves every second of it. Well maybe, oh gosh, yes,
moms are sent them.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I loved it. I'm not sure that you know that
she wanted it as part of her decorpes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Well, I tell you what. You say that, but my mom,
every time I go home, she's got something else. So
she's pulled out that I made that looks so embarrassing.
I'm like, why do you still have this piece of
pottery that looks like it fell on the ground and
then I glued it back together and then gave it
as a gift. And she's like, because you made it
with your own hands. And I'm like, oh my god,
(06:48):
I can on those embarrassing things forever.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I can remember so many things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Hang them up. Frankly, it's like, can we I keep
trying to hide stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I'm like, lord, I remember in wood shop.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I don't want people to know I made this.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They were teaching us how to use the lathe, and
so I made candle holders, except I didn't quite plan correctly,
and so they were two different heights.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well that's not terrible.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, they were supposed to be matching candle holders. So
it was like to say, like barrel shaped candle holders
with a you know, a hole in the top of
the candle. And then it had a nice little design
with the lathe where I put some detail into them.
And so you carve it in one big piece and
cut it down the middle, and supposedly you're going to
have two matching candle holders. Well it didn't turn out
(07:39):
that way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Does she still have it?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
One was like two inches higher than the other one.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I bet she still has it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They were around for a while, you know. It was
the embarrassment that kept on giving.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
That is what I'm saying to me, I know, and
it's like, oh geez. So it adds more pressure because
it's like, all right, you know, you don't want to
just throw it together, because it's going to be it's
going to be hanging up on a wall somewhere, put
up on an for the next thirty years. Well bless them,
depending on how much longer you have with him.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. The other thing I made in wood shop was
I made myself a gun rack, except I didn't take
into account, you know, the the angle of the gun, right,
so I made each side of the rack equal, so
the gun sat, I'll crook it in the rack.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Good lord.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I mean, I did all kinds of stupid stuff in
wood shop, But at least, you know, I got that
experience and I would know better.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now you shouldn't lose a finger.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, at least I made that mistake when I was
a teenager, right, And I didn't lose any fingers or digits.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Or you know, unlike my woodshop teacher.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So at least I made those mistakes when I was
you know, fourteen fifteen years old, and you know later
on in life where I had to be embarrassed as
an adult not know how to know my way around
any of it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Did your witshop teacher have all of his fingers?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
He had all of his fingers, but he was missing
an eye. I'm just joking now he had.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All of his finger this could be true. I mean, mine,
miss was missing a couple of fingers. I'm sure there
are other people that went to College Park Middle School
and they know who I'm talking about. But he was awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I still think one of the best most memorable Mother's
Day gifts that you and I combined unknowingly gave our
mothers was featuring them on two hundred and twenty five
affiliates across the country filling in for Joe PAGs on
his weekend show.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, that's one for the books.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
It's a show called The Weekend, and we guest hosted
the Weekend one weekend, Yes Mother's Day Weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I actually had a Trump impersonator record my mom a
message for and played it on the air and then
got her reaction and Blaze's mom called in from Michigan.
It was unexpected. It was so fun, and then we
were never invited back exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It was so good that that was the last we
ever heard of it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, well, I'm glad that the opportunity was seized.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Absolutely. Well, it's you know, good to make your mother
happy sometimes.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, my mother's never I don't I think you agreed.
Correct me if I'm wrong. My mother's never been on
radio or the show or anything. So that was a first,
and we work hard for first.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I never talked to my mother on the air but
one time, and she was so uncomfortable with this. So
at the wind Jammer, you know, I hosted the bikini
contest at the wind Jammer, the Budwise your bikini.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Bash, rough life you have.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, it was horrible for years and years and years.
And so for one the campaign I did one whole summer.
The creative campaign I did for it was I tagged
all of the spots we talked about you know what
a wild time we were going to have it the
wind Jammer that weekend, and then I had my mom
record a line saying this is Michael Blaze's mother, and
(10:59):
I just want you to know I did not raise
him to turn out this way. That's great, and I
thought it was hilarious. And my Mom's like, I really
don't want to do this. I'm like, just say it,
just say it, just say it. And then I played
that thing all summer.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, it was funny and got to include my mom,
even though she didn't want an association with a Budweiser
Borghini Bash. I forced her into it. But like a
good mom, she helped out her son and did it
for the sake of a good laugh.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Your news, Traffic, Weather, and Information Station. This is Charleston's
morning News on ninety four to three WUSC. Now back
to Kelly and Blaze, and.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We'll dig into pending Mother's Day coming up here on
ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
First recovering this morning's top stories. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
is due to unveil his plan for overhauling the nation's
air traffic control system today. The move comes mid continuing
delays resulting from communication blackouts and a shortage of air
traffic controllers at one of the nation's busiest airports already today,
(12:09):
cancelations and delays are stacking up in New Jersey's Newark
Liberty International Airport. Duffy has offered glimpses of the plan,
saying in recent interviews the system would have new telecom,
new radars, and new infrastructure. I saw an article that
said that the FAA has been experiencing lately one thousand
(12:31):
incidents a month, one thousand a month.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
This is facepalm time, where I'm like, first of all,
Newark has been assessmentle in a dump. You know, when
you travel, you're like some of the airports you don't
want to go to or be in. I mean, honestly,
Atlanta is one of them. And we're forced in many
ways to go through Lana Hartsfield.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Most of the time. And you know, once in a
while you'll be able to catch a direct flight out
of somewhere else. But I always joked in the past,
it's like you're not getting out of Charleston unless you're
going to Atlanta first.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, and it's it's just a mess. And you know,
behind the scenes, as a passenger on a plane, I mean,
who out here isn't thinking my god? I mean, you know,
I've I've traveled recently. Of course, back in January covered
the inauguration live in d C. I mean, we had
ice and snow and it was scary. And to think
behind the scenes of all of this A thousand you
(13:28):
just said in one month.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
One thousand a month on average.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, it just doesn't inspire confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I mean this new administration does, thank God. But how
long is it going to take to overhaul this stuff?
Is my question?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, I don't know. We'll find out later today, you know,
what the plan is, and maybe he'll lay out a
timeline for this, but I would imagine there would have
to be, you know, training sessions and all of this
to learn how to use the new equipment.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, it's going to take timeminds.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Me of you know the movie Is It Airplane? Where
Lloyd Bridges is smoking a whole pack of cigarettes at once.
He's the air traffic controller. He has twenty cigarettes in
his mouth. He's like, I picked the wrong day to
quit smoking.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Oh, the good old days.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I know, when movies were funny.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
How about when you could smoke on an airplane?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, I mean I don't think there's probably a lot
of people that want to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I just couldn't believe when when I was in
college in the nineties, I'll just say flying, I think
I guess it was British Airways and flying with my sister.
She was doing a broad program at the time, and
I couldn't believe it. It was there were two back
rows of this big air bus and you could drink smoke.
I was like, what it was shocking. Now, I don't
(14:49):
think we did that on American flights at the time
in the nineties. Maybe way back in the seventies.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Well, I used to call it in Atlanta the smoking
zoo because at first you could still smoke in the airport,
and then they curbed that and they turned it just
into this special room.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That room is sad to go by.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The smoking lounge. Well, it's not there anymore, but the
and it had like a big glass front on it. Yeah,
so it looked like a zoo. So I called it
the smoking zoo because you just walked by and looked
at all the smokers puffing away in there on the
other side of the glass. It was kind of funny.
And where was I recently, there's still some places in
(15:30):
the United States. I walked into I can't remember what
state I was in, but I walked into a bar
and everybody was smoking, and I'm like, wow, am I
look at this? Yeah? Where am I? What happened? I
didn't know this was.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Allowed, So I felt on that plane, I was like, wow,
people are smoking on the plane, and I get it.
You know, listen, not advocating for smoking. On the other hand,
it's not illegal, right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I mean, you know, it's a to me, it's a balance,
and no, you shouldn't be allowed to smoke on airplanes
and pollute everybody else's lungs.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, honestly, oddly enough, I didn't even know that there
was a smoking section in the back. You couldn't smell it.
I didn't. They had some serious you know, I didn't
even know how or how the wizardry happened, but they
had some serious output.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I guess air ionization system or something.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, use headlines and the talk you need. This is
Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze on ninety four
to three WSC.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
If you missed it earlier, we were talking about handcrafted
gifts for mom this Mother's Day and recounting some of
the stories Blaze had missed. We misshapen. The links were
different when it came to woodcraft and shot a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Some of the things we made I made for in
wood shop and didn't turn out too well, like the
candle holders that were supposed to be you know, they
were supposed to look like a matching set of candleholders
that didn't turn out that way. Well.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's inspired some shop class stories on the talkback feature
on the iHeart app, which is free to download today.
If you haven't already, you are missing out. It's a
round radio microphone. Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
The most embarrassing thing I've seen happen in wood shop
class in middle school wasn't something I did, but my
best friend Nicholas, he handcrafted a let's just say what
you would call an adult novelty and he got expelled
from school for It's pretty embarrassing for him. I felt
embarrassed for him to.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I'm sure my shop teacher is missing a few fingers.
He was really cool. He's an old guy, and every
time there was a dispute or something between the kids,
if there was like two boys that are fighting, he'd
take them all behind the gym and let him sort
it out. And then if you ever got you chewing tobacco,
which was often the case, he would wouldn't turn it
in and he would just make you swallow it till
(17:52):
you have to do it again.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So here's a tribute to shop teachers all around the world. Yes, yeah,
I told the story about where you on some projects,
they'd assign two of you. And so one day in
shop class, one of the kids tosses this big old
chunk of wood across the classroom to his teammate, and
another student stood up right at that exact moment and
(18:16):
like literally got knocked out, was laying on the floor.
I know I shouldn't laugh, but that was not a
good day in shop class. And another thing that strikes
me about shop class was our shop teacher had a
teacher's assistant. You know what his name was, something that
has to do with would No, it was mister Batesen.
(18:37):
Now think about this for a minute, when you're that
age in school and the teacher's assistant is named mister Bateson.
I'll leave it at that, but you can use your
imagination on how that went. And that guy used to
get so pissed off because he was just mercilessly made
fun of and mocked.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Mister Bateson was myop teacher. I wish if anyone can
remind me middle school, Oh my gosh, College Park Middle
growing up? Do we still have shop class anymore? He
was missing some fingers, but he was the coolest guy over.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, I mean we need you know.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I don't even know if you shop class anymore?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
High school anymore. I don't know some of them do.
I think we're at the time. Have a good day.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast. Catch
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