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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Who ever thought up the schedule of repaving the crosstown
during morning drive which is a cone zone this morning.
If you come from West Ashley to James Island, the
right two lanes of the crossown, there's only three lanes
on the crosstown. The far left lane is the only
one that's open. It is a mess on the crossown
this world. If you take the crossdown this morning, you're
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going to be late.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well you know what I mean. Where they paved seventeen
outside of the Crosstown into West Ashley. They did such
a horrible job. I called the dot a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I mean, good for you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm like, this is laughable.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And this isn't me ripping on the workers out there,
because what they're in right now is a dangerous situation.
They should not put their workers in a situation like this.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
No, they shouldn't. It has nothing to do with the workers,
but the.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, they've been doing the job.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They did such a you know what itty job of
repaving seventeen there. I mean there's chunks of it missing already,
it's all uneven. I'm like, this is your new this
is the newly repaved road.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Really well, I mean, I hear you, but I got
to wonder. I mean, if I am those people sitting
right now and standing and.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
There's a lot of people standing around. I'm not trying
to judge how.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They do their job, but it's dangerous. Like people are
not used to the Crosstown being shut down all but
one left lane. Again, this is like heading seventeen North Mound.
You can tell I'm pissed about it. There's a lot
of people who are going to be mad. And you
know what happens. It's their driving. You can feel it,
and they're driving and it makes these people's work zone
very scary. I mean, it's a scary situation going on
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out there. I don't know who came up with the
schedule and this idea, but they need to have that
wrapped up by five o'clock in the morning for their
own safety.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Just say it. It's a mess on the crossdown this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Maybe they ran behind schedule.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't know, but I pray that they don't have
this planned out for the whole week. Is otherwise, please
let the public know a little bit better in advance.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because
I also called a cDOT did it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
By the way, did anybody did you get a response?
Like did you I that no the message or.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, I did not. And I talked to a couple
of different departments and ended up, you know, talking to engineering.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Okay, so you did talk.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So I did talk to somebody. Now I will what
do they say, I will say? They said, you know,
duly noted, I'll pass this along. So but the last
time I called was the same thing. I was very upset,
like you over. They were doing work in the middle
of the day and backing up the road and it
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh I remember this. I mean, I'm all at seventeen
along the automile near the NO.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I was actually talking about sixty one. They were working
on the railroad trestle. Oh, so the guard rail is
collapsing off the side, and so they were out there
and here's how they fix it. They put boards in
between the in between that fix it the posts that
hold the guardrails up, and then they put some asphalt
(03:05):
and dirt in there. Yeah that'll surds. So anyway, and
they're doing this in the middle of the afternoon and
so traffic's backed up for I mean, I'm not even
exaggerating a couple of miles at least, and and it's
dump trucks, and it's people, you know, going to the
bees Ferry landfill. It's all of this, And I'm like,
are you kidding me? Now, I did get a callback
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on that one.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
See that's good at least, I mean, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And the guy agreed and he's like, yeah, I'm you know, sorry,
And we're going to look into changing the schedule for
when we do things like this.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, yeah, I was sending pictures video messages to Art
and traffic just because if you hear me now and
within the next hour, you normally take the crossdown from
James and John's Island and West Ashley, you know, to
get to I twenty six in the morning, avoid it.
And guess what Art just said in traffic there was
some kind of drama on the Cosgrow Bridge, So to
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avoid it you gotta go basically the Cause Group Bridge.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So well Sam written, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Tell you this because a lot of people don't know this.
If you see a problem with the road, a big
old chuck hole, whatever it might be, you need to
contact scdot and let them know about it, because first
of all, that's how it's going to get repaired. Second
of all, you put them on notice. And if you
hit the chuck hole with your car, you can make
a claim to get your car fixed and have s
(04:25):
DOOT pay for it because you already put them on
notice that that problem was there.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You just put SCDOT on notice that like you pay
attention or you pay so when I do, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Call it a chuck hole? What you call it a
chucktown hole?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It is a chucktown hole.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
But sorry, I'm all fired up. And these poor people
this morning. What a mess.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I mean, this is kind of funny because you know,
I also do a show on our sister station Q
one O four, and so whenever I play a song
like say AC DC Highway to Hell, I always send
it out to the SCDOT. I mean, you know, it
feels you are driving on a highway to Hell out
there because these roads are.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In horrible, horrible, horrible shape.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And I've driven all over the state the other day,
you know, so last weekend when I went to Talladega,
yeah you know, I went up I twenty or rather
twenty six to twenty and over right came back down.
I can't even tell you the highways. I came back
down Beach Island and all through there, went to Blackfield,
got my some white, some water, drove sixty one anyway.
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Roads terrible, terrible, terrible everywhere. Yeah, almost every other weekend
I drive down to Buford's seventeen is just huge old
swaths of pavement missing off the top layer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Listen, I ride a bike, remember, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So anyway, Yeah, the roads are in terrible shape. Man,
somebody needs to be called out over it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well done? Check all right?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who else are we going after this morning?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Let's get a lot of for beer? Wow?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean fun seriously, I mean you know otherwise,
why are they proud of that that they do?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I wish you had it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you have a direct line to se doot for
the next time, because we need to call them right now.
Get those that cone zone off the crosstown. You're the
people working for you ought to be pissed. I would
be if my boss put me in that position, just
trying to get a job done. I mean, it is
morning drive and the cones are dangerous and they have
the whole thing all. Oh it's a mess.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well you need to call that s DOOT and tell
them that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I would think you had a contact with all the
complaining you've been doing. Where's the direct line contact?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But I'll give you the phone number everybody else to use.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Let's put the hot line on.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
The privileged than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We uh, maybe I'll put the hotline here on the
air and let's see who we can get on the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, it's easy enough to look up. Let me put
it that way. All you have to do is google it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We should have a contact though, I know what we
do somewhere. We'll just I mean, I wish I could
send someone to text like, but it's so it would
be rude.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You need to call them WT eight.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Just google the number and contact s c DOT. That's
literally the number you want to call.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Put them, like Monty Jack to sc.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dot if you want to contact us. Seven two one
talk seven two one eight two five five is the number.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This morning, This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
By the way, the number to call. It's during normal.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Business hours for se DOOT to make the complaints we
were talking about earlier. Eight thirty am to five pm
Monday through fart. It's called one eight five five go
sc doot. I almost want to change that to no sc.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No go right. Welcome inn We're covering today's top stories.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Or I'm just complaining about the traffic this morning because
if you take the crossown you're going to be late.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yep, Well what else is new traveling around here? You know?
The roads suck, there's not enough roads. Takes them forever
to do anything, and it's not like it's within their ability.
You know, maybe they just tell you're the wrong companies
or over it may be. Look how fast you know
the the Revenel bridge came in under scheduled, you know,
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faster than scheduled and under budget.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah yeah, but how many years ago was that?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, the years don't have anything to do with it.
Competence has something to have everything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, I think years have to do with it too.
I mean we I don't think we can ignore the
fact that I and this is going to probably tear
off all kinds of band aids here. But younger generations
versus our generations, versus the ones who thought, you know,
oh these kids, you know, think about the greatest generation
looking down onto our generation, and then us looking down
to the younger ones. They don't work as hard, you know,
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like it's that same kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's different, it's different.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You got a lot of people who don't want to
work trade jobs, hands on hard work.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So there's still a lot of competent people left in
a lot of competent companies. You know, maybe, and I
don't disagree that a lot of companies. I talk to
all kinds of business owners and I always ask them,
you know, what's the number one impediment that you face,
And it's always always staff.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, struggling for hard workers. I mean the work ethic
that I grew up with who I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But I don't think you can blame everything on that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
No, But I do think generationally, I mean, I mean,
we could, like I said, get into the layers on this,
but I think computers is a whole lot to think about.
How you grew up without a screen in your hand.
What was in your hand instead? You were outside, you
were physically active, you had jobs, you know, I think
all the jobs that I had growing up.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I mean, how many kids are reads that way now?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They won't even allow you to work anymore when you're young,
and you know what, they didn't even then. I remember
having to go around and I ended up doing dishes
in this basement of this building. There was like a
lounge where the businessman went from across.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The Listen, did this child sweatshop is unfolding?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, I was because you needed a work permit and
I didn't qualify for a work permit because my grades
weren't all that great, to put it mildly, and so
you needed a work permit. I didn't qualify for a
work permit, and so I had to go around and
just you know, keep begging people to give me a job.
And this is kind of funny. I guess my parents
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didn't want me to get a job. They were like,
you need to crack down and your school work. And
the school didn't want me to get a job. Nobody
wanted me to get a job, and my parents like less,
so they were more concerned with me doing better in school. Though,
let's put it that way.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
How old are you at this point?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I was fourteen, I think, all right, And so I
had to go beg and finally one guy's like, and
to be I'm quite honest with you. He ran a
lounge across the street from General Motors Technical Center. It
was in the basement of this we used to joke
and call them high rises. They're really not that high.
I don't know, like maybe ten stories, all right, And
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it was in the basement of this advertising agency across
the street from General Motors Technical Center. And so the
guy who owned it was a drunk. He slept in
the booth like half the nights and all this, and
he's like, sure, I'll give you a job. And that's
where I ended up working. That was my first job.
(11:27):
But that's how the point is, is that I was
motivated to go out and work. And it doesn't seem
to your point. Yes see, like there's a whole lot
of kids that are that motivate some of them are,
and I've met them and I know them.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I mean, you know, we were single.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
We didn't want to blump them all together.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, not everybody, but generationally it's changed and whether it's phones, computers, whatever, however,
we want to you know, work, it's it's just I mean,
I've been working since some single digits. I made a
little bit of a joke about the sweatshop part of it.
I grew up in a sweatshop. I mean, my mom
had the kids work granny, all of them generationally higher
than me. I mean it was I was there meant
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to work. They saw little workhorses.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah well, I mean, well, of course you gotta do
work around.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
The home and their work. Yeah, any but.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You know, I mean that was my first word job
where I got a paycheck, huh.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Where you had to pay taxes.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Before that, I had a paper route, and then I
bought another kid's payper route, so I had a double
paper route. And by the way, I wasn't old enough
to do that either. I had a lie about how
old I was.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm trying to think of how young I was when
I started raking leaves and mowing lawns and babysitting. I mean,
I was, like I said, single digits.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But yeah, well, maybe he wants to discuss beer and hockey.
That story's coming up next to.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Welcome in six point thirty two. Here on ninety four
to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We're recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump says he's
not sure what Canada's prime minister wants to talk about.
Maybe beer in hockey when the two meet today. Prime
Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak with Trump at
the White House. The meeting comes in the midst of
a trade war between the two countries. Trump told reporters
Monday in the Oval Office he thinks Carne wants to
(13:19):
make a deal, and that everybody does. Trump is also
increased tensions, suggesting that Canada should become part of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Wait you want to laugh, yes, politicos Politico, stop looking
at all of the headlines right from you know, BBC,
Toronto Star, all of them, Honolulu Civil Beat. I mean
I'm looking at all the headlines here this morning, CBS, all
the usuals, Politico says Trump to Carney, I'm just not
that into you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, you think.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
This guy's the Liberal party trashing Trump all over the place.
And now what is he hat in hand coming to
the president? This is where I always want the mic,
like I want the.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Fly on the wall microphone. Yeah, well, it really does.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He doesn't know what they want to talk about, but
maybe a trade deal. And Connie just won an election
in his own right. You know, he replaced Justin Trudeau.
A lot of people thought that they would he would
be voted out because he's such a liberal. It could
be argued he's even more liberal than Justin Trudeau was. Yeah,
and but no, they just had an election and he.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Won well, and he won, you know, pushing back on
the idea of Trump trolling about the fifty first state
kind of.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Thing, right, and well that was part of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Well, but he's he's pretty outspoken about President Trump. So
this didn't go in there Zelensky style with a chip
on his shoulder.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
We shall see later today a mistake. He comes bearing
gifts of Moulson Canadian and maple syrup and I'm trying
to think cheese curds ooh with gravy.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
No, see here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What do they call that? Po Tom something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know. It sounds good though.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah. Anyway, I was just kind of ribbon the Canadians.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now when you to throw a biscuit in there?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, well, no cheese kurds and.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Gravy kurd's and gravy right now?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Man, So he's not the new pope after all. That
story's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
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.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
If you're listening before the break, I was close. Cheese,
kurds and gravy is called poutine.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Would you call it Putin?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like, we don't talk about Putin every other day? Right, ladam?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well? It was Well, it has nothing to do with
Vladimir Putin, has to do with the Canadian Prime Minister
visiting the White House today. I was wondering if he
was coming bearing gifts including cheese, kurds and gravy, which
they call poutine. President Trump is downplaying criticism over an
AI generated image of him as the Pope. The image
was shared by the White House ahead of the conclave
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to replace the late Pope Francis. Although the picture was
shared by the White House, the President said he had
nothing to do with it, and added, that's not me
that did that. I have no idea where it came from.
Maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it.
Trump said some Catholics loved it, but other Catholics disapproved
of the image, including New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who
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said the post quote wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, he basically said, lighten up, why can't we have
a laugh. It's the same conversation we had yesterday about it.
It's like, really, that's how the President responded to this
reporter who literally kept trying to repeat herself with the
same question of well it came from the White House
official account. He's like, can we not have a laugh
about it? My wife thought it was cute.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I mean they're just attacking them for and they
did try to drum up. I mean, there was a
bunch of Catholics that were pushing back, but it was
the I think the New York Diocese. So I mean,
what else would you expect from New York? But come on,
you know, it's not even that. I was talking to
my mom and my mom's like, well, that's one thing
that rubs me the wrong one. Well, lighten up, mom.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I mean that's exactly the attitude he had with the
press about it yesterday. So, I mean, you know, take
it or leave it if you're a Trump fan or
supporter or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I mean, well, I don't understand, like I said yesterday,
why you can't have a sense of humor. If God
did not intend you to laugh, he wouldn't have given
you a sense of humor. And it's usually Karen's that
want to put you into your sense of humor into.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A box exactly. Laughter's the best medicine.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It absolutely is, and it's a coping mechanism also, so
get over it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning Use podcast. Catch
Kelly and Blaze weekday mornings from six to nine.
Now Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Who ever thought up the schedule of repaving the crosstown
during morning drive which is a cone zone this morning.
If you come from West Ashley to James Island, the
right two lanes of the crossown, there's only three lanes
on the crosstown. The far left lane is the only
one that's open. It is a mess on the crossown
this world. If you take the crossdown this morning, you're
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going to be late.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well you know what I mean. Where they paved seventeen
outside of the Crosstown into West Ashley. They did such
a horrible job. I called the dot a few weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I mean, good for you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm like, this is laughable.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And this isn't me ripping on the workers out there,
because what they're in right now is a dangerous situation.
They should not put their workers in a situation like this.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
No, they shouldn't. It has nothing to do with the workers,
but the.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Yeah, they've been doing the job.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They did such a you know what itty job of
repaving seventeen there. I mean there's chunks of it missing already,
it's all uneven. I'm like, this is your new this
is the newly repaved road.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Really well, I mean, I hear you, but I got
to wonder. I mean, if I am those people sitting
right now and standing and.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
There's a lot of people standing around. I'm not trying
to judge how.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They do their job, but it's dangerous. Like people are
not used to the Crosstown being shut down all but
one left lane. Again, this is like heading seventeen North Mound.
You can tell I'm pissed about it. There's a lot
of people who are going to be mad. And you
know what happens. It's their driving. You can feel it,
and they're driving and it makes these people's work zone
very scary. I mean, it's a scary situation going on
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out there. I don't know who came up with the
schedule and this idea, but they need to have that
wrapped up by five o'clock in the morning for their
own safety.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Just say it. It's a mess on the crossdown this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Maybe they ran behind schedule.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't know, but I pray that they don't have
this planned out for the whole week. Is otherwise, please
let the public know a little bit better in advance.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt because
I also called a cDOT did it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
By the way, did anybody did you get a response?
Like did you I that no the message or.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, I did not. And I talked to a couple
of different departments and ended up, you know, talking to engineering.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Okay, so you did talk.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So I did talk to somebody. Now I will what
do they say, I will say? They said, you know,
duly noted, I'll pass this along. So but the last
time I called was the same thing. I was very upset,
like you over. They were doing work in the middle
of the day and backing up the road and it
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Oh I remember this. I mean, I'm all at seventeen
along the automile near the NO.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I was actually talking about sixty one. They were working
on the railroad trestle. Oh, so the guard rail is
collapsing off the side, and so they were out there
and here's how they fix it. They put boards in
between the in between that fix it the posts that
hold the guardrails up, and then they put some asphalt
(03:05):
and dirt in there. Yeah that'll surds. So anyway, and
they're doing this in the middle of the afternoon and
so traffic's backed up for I mean, I'm not even
exaggerating a couple of miles at least, and and it's
dump trucks, and it's people, you know, going to the
bees Ferry landfill. It's all of this, And I'm like,
are you kidding me? Now, I did get a callback
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on that one.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
See that's good at least, I mean, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And the guy agreed and he's like, yeah, I'm you know, sorry,
And we're going to look into changing the schedule for
when we do things like this.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Well, yeah, I was sending pictures video messages to Art
and traffic just because if you hear me now and
within the next hour, you normally take the crossdown from
James and John's Island and West Ashley, you know, to
get to I twenty six in the morning, avoid it.
And guess what Art just said in traffic there was
some kind of drama on the Cosgrow Bridge, So to
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avoid it you gotta go basically the Cause Group Bridge.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
So well Sam written, and I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Tell you this because a lot of people don't know this.
If you see a problem with the road, a big
old chuck hole, whatever it might be, you need to
contact scdot and let them know about it, because first
of all, that's how it's going to get repaired. Second
of all, you put them on notice. And if you
hit the chuck hole with your car, you can make
a claim to get your car fixed and have s
(04:25):
DOOT pay for it because you already put them on
notice that that problem was there.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You just put SCDOT on notice that like you pay
attention or you pay so when I do, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Call it a chuck hole? What you call it a
chucktown hole?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
It is a chucktown hole.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
But sorry, I'm all fired up. And these poor people
this morning. What a mess.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I mean, this is kind of funny because you know,
I also do a show on our sister station Q
one O four, and so whenever I play a song
like say AC DC Highway to Hell, I always send
it out to the SCDOT. I mean, you know, it
feels you are driving on a highway to Hell out
there because these roads are.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In horrible, horrible, horrible shape.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And I've driven all over the state the other day,
you know, so last weekend when I went to Talladega,
yeah you know, I went up I twenty or rather
twenty six to twenty and over right came back down.
I can't even tell you the highways. I came back
down Beach Island and all through there, went to Blackfield,
got my some white, some water, drove sixty one anyway.
(05:30):
Roads terrible, terrible, terrible everywhere. Yeah, almost every other weekend
I drive down to Buford's seventeen is just huge old
swaths of pavement missing off the top layer.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Listen, I ride a bike, remember, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So anyway, Yeah, the roads are in terrible shape. Man,
somebody needs to be called out over it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well done? Check all right?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who else are we going after this morning?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Let's get a lot of for beer? Wow?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I mean fun seriously, I mean you know otherwise,
why are they proud of that that they do?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I wish you had it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Do you have a direct line to se doot for
the next time, because we need to call them right now.
Get those that cone zone off the crosstown. You're the
people working for you ought to be pissed. I would
be if my boss put me in that position, just
trying to get a job done. I mean, it is
morning drive and the cones are dangerous and they have
the whole thing all. Oh it's a mess.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well you need to call that s DOOT and tell
them that.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I would think you had a contact with all the
complaining you've been doing. Where's the direct line contact?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But I'll give you the phone number everybody else to use.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Let's put the hot line on.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
The privileged than anybody else.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We uh, maybe I'll put the hotline here on the
air and let's see who we can get on the phone.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, it's easy enough to look up. Let me put
it that way. All you have to do is google it.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We should have a contact though, I know what we
do somewhere. We'll just I mean, I wish I could
send someone to text like, but it's so it would
be rude.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You need to call them WT eight.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Just google the number and contact s c DOT. That's
literally the number you want to call.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Put them, like Monty Jack to sc.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Dot if you want to contact us. Seven two one
talk seven two one eight two five five is the number.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This morning, This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
By the way, the number to call. It's during normal.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Business hours for se DOOT to make the complaints we
were talking about earlier. Eight thirty am to five pm
Monday through fart. It's called one eight five five go
sc doot. I almost want to change that to no sc.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No go right. Welcome inn We're covering today's top stories.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Or I'm just complaining about the traffic this morning because
if you take the crossown you're going to be late.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yep, Well what else is new traveling around here? You know?
The roads suck, there's not enough roads. Takes them forever
to do anything, and it's not like it's within their ability.
You know, maybe they just tell you're the wrong companies
or over it may be. Look how fast you know
the the Revenel bridge came in under scheduled, you know,
(08:08):
faster than scheduled and under budget.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah yeah, but how many years ago was that?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, the years don't have anything to do with it.
Competence has something to have everything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, I think years have to do with it too.
I mean we I don't think we can ignore the
fact that I and this is going to probably tear
off all kinds of band aids here. But younger generations
versus our generations, versus the ones who thought, you know,
oh these kids, you know, think about the greatest generation
looking down onto our generation, and then us looking down
to the younger ones. They don't work as hard, you know,
(08:42):
like it's that same kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's different, it's different.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You got a lot of people who don't want to
work trade jobs, hands on hard work.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So there's still a lot of competent people left in
a lot of competent companies. You know, maybe, and I
don't disagree that a lot of companies. I talk to
all kinds of business owners and I always ask them,
you know, what's the number one impediment that you face,
And it's always always staff.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, struggling for hard workers. I mean the work ethic
that I grew up with who I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But I don't think you can blame everything on that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
No, But I do think generationally, I mean, I mean,
we could, like I said, get into the layers on this,
but I think computers is a whole lot to think about.
How you grew up without a screen in your hand.
What was in your hand instead? You were outside, you
were physically active, you had jobs, you know, I think
all the jobs that I had growing up.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I mean, how many kids are reads that way now?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They won't even allow you to work anymore when you're young,
and you know what, they didn't even then. I remember
having to go around and I ended up doing dishes
in this basement of this building. There was like a
lounge where the businessman went from across.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
The Listen, did this child sweatshop is unfolding?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, I was because you needed a work permit and
I didn't qualify for a work permit because my grades
weren't all that great, to put it mildly, and so
you needed a work permit. I didn't qualify for a
work permit, and so I had to go around and
just you know, keep begging people to give me a job.
And this is kind of funny. I guess my parents
(10:31):
didn't want me to get a job. They were like,
you need to crack down and your school work. And
the school didn't want me to get a job. Nobody
wanted me to get a job, and my parents like less,
so they were more concerned with me doing better in school. Though,
let's put it that way.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
How old are you at this point?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I was fourteen, I think, all right, And so I
had to go beg and finally one guy's like, and
to be I'm quite honest with you. He ran a
lounge across the street from General Motors Technical Center. It
was in the basement of this we used to joke
and call them high rises. They're really not that high.
I don't know, like maybe ten stories, all right, And
(11:07):
it was in the basement of this advertising agency across
the street from General Motors Technical Center. And so the
guy who owned it was a drunk. He slept in
the booth like half the nights and all this, and
he's like, sure, I'll give you a job. And that's
where I ended up working. That was my first job.
(11:27):
But that's how the point is, is that I was
motivated to go out and work. And it doesn't seem
to your point. Yes see, like there's a whole lot
of kids that are that motivate some of them are,
and I've met them and I know them.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I mean, you know, we were single.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
We didn't want to blump them all together.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, not everybody, but generationally it's changed and whether it's phones, computers, whatever, however,
we want to you know, work, it's it's just I mean,
I've been working since some single digits. I made a
little bit of a joke about the sweatshop part of it.
I grew up in a sweatshop. I mean, my mom
had the kids work granny, all of them generationally higher
than me. I mean it was I was there meant
(12:06):
to work. They saw little workhorses.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah well, I mean, well, of course you gotta do
work around.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
The home and their work. Yeah, any but.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You know, I mean that was my first word job
where I got a paycheck, huh.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Where you had to pay taxes.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Before that, I had a paper route, and then I
bought another kid's payper route, so I had a double
paper route. And by the way, I wasn't old enough
to do that either. I had a lie about how
old I was.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm trying to think of how young I was when
I started raking leaves and mowing lawns and babysitting. I mean,
I was, like I said, single digits.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
But yeah, well, maybe he wants to discuss beer and hockey.
That story's coming up next to.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You're listening to Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to
three WUSC. Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Welcome in six point thirty two. Here on ninety four
to three WSC.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
We're recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump says he's
not sure what Canada's prime minister wants to talk about.
Maybe beer in hockey when the two meet today. Prime
Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak with Trump at
the White House. The meeting comes in the midst of
a trade war between the two countries. Trump told reporters
Monday in the Oval Office he thinks Carne wants to
(13:19):
make a deal, and that everybody does. Trump is also
increased tensions, suggesting that Canada should become part of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Wait you want to laugh, yes, politicos Politico, stop looking
at all of the headlines right from you know, BBC,
Toronto Star, all of them, Honolulu Civil Beat. I mean
I'm looking at all the headlines here this morning, CBS, all
the usuals, Politico says Trump to Carney, I'm just not
that into you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, you think.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
This guy's the Liberal party trashing Trump all over the place.
And now what is he hat in hand coming to
the president? This is where I always want the mic,
like I want the.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Fly on the wall microphone. Yeah, well, it really does.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He doesn't know what they want to talk about, but
maybe a trade deal. And Connie just won an election
in his own right. You know, he replaced Justin Trudeau.
A lot of people thought that they would he would
be voted out because he's such a liberal. It could
be argued he's even more liberal than Justin Trudeau was. Yeah,
and but no, they just had an election and he.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Won well, and he won, you know, pushing back on
the idea of Trump trolling about the fifty first state
kind of.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Thing, right, and well that was part of it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Well, but he's he's pretty outspoken about President Trump. So
this didn't go in there Zelensky style with a chip
on his shoulder.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
We shall see later today a mistake. He comes bearing
gifts of Moulson Canadian and maple syrup and I'm trying
to think cheese curds ooh with gravy.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
No, see here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
What do they call that? Po Tom something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know. It sounds good though.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah. Anyway, I was just kind of ribbon the Canadians.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Now when you to throw a biscuit in there?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, well, no cheese kurds and.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Gravy kurd's and gravy right now?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Man, So he's not the new pope after all. That
story's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
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.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
If you're listening before the break, I was close. Cheese,
kurds and gravy is called poutine.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Would you call it Putin?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like, we don't talk about Putin every other day? Right, ladam?
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Well? It was Well, it has nothing to do with
Vladimir Putin, has to do with the Canadian Prime Minister
visiting the White House today. I was wondering if he
was coming bearing gifts including cheese, kurds and gravy, which
they call poutine. President Trump is downplaying criticism over an
AI generated image of him as the Pope. The image
was shared by the White House ahead of the conclave
(16:05):
to replace the late Pope Francis. Although the picture was
shared by the White House, the President said he had
nothing to do with it, and added, that's not me
that did that. I have no idea where it came from.
Maybe it was AI, but I know nothing about it.
Trump said some Catholics loved it, but other Catholics disapproved
of the image, including New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who
(16:25):
said the post quote wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, he basically said, lighten up, why can't we have
a laugh. It's the same conversation we had yesterday about it.
It's like, really, that's how the President responded to this
reporter who literally kept trying to repeat herself with the
same question of well it came from the White House
official account. He's like, can we not have a laugh
about it? My wife thought it was cute.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, I mean they're just attacking them for and they
did try to drum up. I mean, there was a
bunch of Catholics that were pushing back, but it was
the I think the New York Diocese. So I mean,
what else would you expect from New York? But come on,
you know, it's not even that. I was talking to
my mom and my mom's like, well, that's one thing
that rubs me the wrong one. Well, lighten up, mom.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I mean that's exactly the attitude he had with the
press about it yesterday. So, I mean, you know, take
it or leave it if you're a Trump fan or
supporter or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I mean, well, I don't understand, like I said yesterday,
why you can't have a sense of humor. If God
did not intend you to laugh, he wouldn't have given
you a sense of humor. And it's usually Karen's that
want to put you into your sense of humor into.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
A box exactly. Laughter's the best medicine.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It absolutely is, and it's a coping mechanism also, so
get over it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning Use podcast. Catch
Kelly and Blaze weekday mornings from six to nine.
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