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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Check out our website ninety four to three doumbleusc dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Man that fog out there this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Wow, it's a little thick.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Little thick is a yes, putting it mildly. When you
cover the Ravenel Bridge this morning, I got literally, I mean,
just whiz right past me. How much do New Ferraris cost?
Quarter of a million dollars two or fifty.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thousand, depends on a model.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well I couldn't tell because it was super foggy, but
just blue past me in the far right lane on
the Ravenue Bridge. And guess what was at the top
of the bridge. A truck hauling some kind of piece
of equipment going about forty miles an hour. And man,
I said, okay, this is why you gotta slow down
in the fog. Anyway, it is a it's soupy out
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there this morning, and they're still unfortunately paving on the crosstown.
So welcome in.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We're covering this morning's top stories. Over one hundred and
thirty cardinals will join in an exclusive ceremony this week
to elect their new pope. The papal election is called
a conclave, and it dates back to the thirteenth century.
The election of a new pope will be signified by
white smoke from a chimney installed in the chapel. Unsuccessful
votes will be signified by black smoke. No conclave has
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gone more than five days in over one hundred years.
The late Pope Francis was elected after five ballots over
two days in twenty thirteen. A cardinal needs two thirds
of the vote to be elected to lead the Catholic
Church and become the new Pope. Early speculation favors Cardinal
Lewis Tagel from the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's the I'm making note of that name to see
his history. Read a little bit about his history. So
I don't I mean, you were raised Catholic, right, So
I'm not very familiar with this whole process other than
the smoke and what reporters are putting out here. But
they say, pay attention to the homily that's going to
be given. So this is from a ninety three year
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old dean of the College of Cardinals, and he's supposed
to sort of give maybe some hat tips on who
the next will be.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I don't know how you would know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I mean I think that there. It's like kind
of a bit of a political process.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, they vote, and you know, the black smoke signifies
a failed two thirds of the vote, and they put
their ballots in a little pot and they light it
on fire and that creates the black smoke that comes up.
And then when they agree and they get two thirds
or more of the vote, they put it in a
little pot lighted on fire, and the white smoke comes up,
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which signifies that they've elected a new pope. That's about
as far as my knowledge goes of the process.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Do you remember, I don't, And certainly we can look
it up and find out. But the last go round,
how long it took, how many votes? I do not.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, we just had in the story it took five
ballots over two days.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And the longest, though was you said five days, so
one never none has gone.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
More than five days in the last one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'd be curious about who it took five days. I wonder,
you know, to get which pope? Maybe Benedett.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, well, this should be interesting. It's hard for me
to get I mean, I wish I could be inside,
you know, inside the vote. I said this before. I
want to be inside the conclave.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean, it's important to Catholics.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But you mean, at the end of the day, who
the next pope is?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yes, yeah, so it's important to Catholics, But I mean that,
you know, it's not like you're electing a president or whatever.
It has no bearing on your everyday life unless you
are a.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Catholic, right, I mean I'm not so, yes, I would agree.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then even arguably, even if you are a Catholic,
I don't know how much bearing your everyday life.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But who's going to offend Catholics more this morning, Michael Blaze?
Or should we do an AI generated version of you
in a in a pope and I don't what do
you call the the outfit that Yeah, I don't even know.
There's probably a I don't know, oh boy, the pope's decor.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I'll just know you're laying bare my ignorance. I'm not
trying to the religion that I was raised in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Listen. I told you. You know, my mother, you know,
grew a Baptist, she raised us Methodist. I married a Presbyterian.
My best friend was Jewish. I mean we were all
over the place, and I just attended my first Catholic
Mass two months ago, I want to say. So anyway,
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it was and it was incredible with the horns and
the you know, all the smoke and frankinsense and murder
whatever it was lit on fire there. I mean, it
was incredible. It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know what to uh, I haven't again, you're
laying bare my I haven't been.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Did you go to Catholic school?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I did for a little while.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, well also, so let's.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Just leave it at that. This morning, seven to two
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Speaker 5 (05:21):
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Speaker 1 (05:26):
This is Charleston This Morning News with Kelly and Blaze
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Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll tell you those top two things this morning with
the traffic and the weather. I couldn't help, but yesterday
paving on the Crosstown just wrecked the morning commute for
a lot of you. It's continuing this morning. And then
you've got this thick fog. Who it's been a minute
since we've had fog, this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thick Yeah, it has been a little while. Yeah, so
we'll see how long it takes the fog to lift
this morning and how much it's going to affect the
morning drive this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What they do in the conclave when with the Pope
when it's foggy out and no one can tell if
the smoke.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Is black or white?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
What do they do?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Rain delay?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Don't light it up yet?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, I think there's like a Pope camera. I think
there's literally, like we have our traffic cameras. I think
there's a camera that sits there and watches.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sure it's shiny of the uh live stream. Yeah, so
there's a live stream of the chapel chimney.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, once the conclave begins, you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Might have to pay a subscription for it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I don't think so. You just tune in and
watch the chimney and wait for smoke to come out
and see what color it is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But imagine if it was rain delay because of fog,
It's like, well, we're gonna have to wait a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, I don't think it works that way.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I know it sounds like we don't know exactly how
it works.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I can't tell you that I know exactly how it works.
That became very clear in the last person.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I know, I set up my gosh, blase, I thought,
you know you were raised, you went to Catholic school,
and here you are. You know, you're the expert here
this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I am not the expert. Do not look at me
to be the expert. And yes, we went to church
every week when I was a kid, and yes I
went to Catholic school and I even did the Catechism
up through youth group until I was I don't remember
how old. Wow, I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then you rebelled and became a rock chalk.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, that has nothing to do with it. No, I know, No,
I mean, you know, there's some there's some things I
don't like about the Catholic Church. There's some things I
don't look about religion in general. You see, you're getting
me in trouble here, putting me on the spot.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm not trying to.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I do have to People have died on this earth
in the name of religion.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh good Lord, yes, look at uh we don't even know.
With the top of the hour news there in Fox,
I mean Trump had a quote about it. They has
played where look at India and Pakistan. What's that fighting
going on? For you know, he said decades, probably centuries
at this point, is that about religion? Dig into it?
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Probably so well, a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Of people will look at you know, they are problem
with the Muslims, or the Muslims with the Western world
or the you can go you know, all around. Yeah,
and so you know a lot of people would say, so,
you know, I, of course I have faith in God
and the faith in Jesus, but the religion part I
have a trouble with a problem with sometimes and of
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course very religious people would say, you know, I'm being
a heretic in all of these things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But that's his middle name. No one knows that yet,
breaking news Michael Heretic. You know, he's probably saying the
break he prefers nuns.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I do, But you took it the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I know, I was only joking. I take it the
wrong way.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I said, I prefer nuns because they take, you know,
an oath of poverty, and priests do not. Priests lived
the high life, priest drive, you know, or at least
when I was growing up today, I don't know what
it would kind of car. It would be lexus, I guess,
or something like that. When I was growing up you know,
priest drove Cadillacs and Lincoln's and went to poker parties
and they get to drink and smoke and gamble and
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drive an nice car and go have a good time
while the nuns are living in poverty.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's absurd. Well, sorry, don't hate on me, Catholics, but
come on, what yeah, now I'm thinking about the popemobile.
I know that.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, the popemobile got converted into a gozen medical mobile.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh under this last pope interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
His wishes when he died were to convert his Pope
Mobile into a mobile medical station for the Gods, for
the Palestinians, for the Gaza Strip, And so they honored
his wish. And once they lift the you know, because
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see this is such a mess. So there's a ban
actually now on a lot of aid going in there
because the terrorist groups are taking that aid and using
it to fund themselves and supply themselves and not the
population that it was meant for. So you know, that's
the first thing I thought of. When they're like, okay,
when that band gets lifted, the popemobile, the converted popemobile
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is going into the Guys and Strip, and I'm like,
this is not going to turn out the way he wished.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now Charleston This Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Really it's so pretty. Did that bring back did that
trigger some memories?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Catholic school record, some whatever?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Welcome in so all eyes the Vatican and the you know,
the conclave and the homily. I mean, hopefully people who
aren't Catholic maybe are leaning in and paying attention in
a way. Don't you think that that is? I mean,
death brings you know, new life. Maybe it brings people
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to the religion.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean possibly, I guess I think people are I'm curious.
Probably not, I'm a little curious. I will say, I'm
not going to probably sit there and watch the live
stream waiting for the white smoke or the black smoke
for five potential days. I won't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But yeah, I mean, I don't think the death of
the pope causes people go, Okay, I'm going to become Catholic. Now,
Oh I'm going to start paying attention. Oh I hear
some pretty good things. I'm going to become Catholic.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You might be surprised, just saying I.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Would be very surprised if that happens.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean I was. I was very literally, I mean
kind of blown away by the mass that I attended.
I think it was Saint John's Downtown month or two.
It was very I mean, the thing is, though, this
is terrible, but I was like, wow, there's a lot
of preying on the knees. I don't know how older
people do this.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well some of them don't. They just sit for it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, but there were a lot of people who, you know,
they had canes and we're definitely older, and they were
getting down on their knees and I was impressed. I
was like, Okay, that's very impressive. But I wasn't used
to that, and I was like, I don't know if
I can commit to all the preying on the knees
during you know, mass every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, well, I mean you don't necessarily have to.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, I know. There were some people just were sitting back,
which I was too, because I mean, I thought, well,
I'm a visitor, so am I supposed to get on
my knees.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're supposed to do everything they tell you to do, Kelly,
and live in fear. Oh if you don't, and live
in fear even if you.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do, okayness see, I would not like a religion like that.
I wouldn't like that. Well, I want to live in fear.
I want to be inspired, I want to have hope.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm not sure it's the religion, you know, or the
or the priest or the pastor that's given the mass,
but sometimes you will run into those people.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, you mentioned the nuns earlier. Nuns get a bit
of a bad rap.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're the ones that the makes me think of, you know,
rulers hitting hands and cracking the whip and keeping you
in line.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, there's some of those too, But I mean I
had very nice nuns when I went to Catholic school.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's good, a sweet.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Now, some of the priests were kind of creepy, but oh.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, see I experienced some of that. I was like,
oh okay, but.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The nuns were all very sweet. Well, so that's why
I like nuns better.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I don't blame you. I mean, I still think that
this is a boy. Are they getting the short end
of the stick here? They do get they can't party.
The priests are over here partying and the nuns, no
wonder why they you know, might want to smack some
kids around with the ruler.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, it's just a simple fact that I don't know.
The nuns probably maybe have a good time inside the contact.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I have some nuns out there. I kill the team.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I'm just same.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Discussing the president sit down with Prime Minister of Canada
Mark Carney yesterday. I thought it was nice the way
he started things with a congratulatory nod to Carney's win.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well, then also be discussing Ukraine, Russia, the war because
Mark once it ended as quickly as I do, I
think it has to end probably one of the greatest
comebacks in the history of politics, maybe even greater than mine.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That was a nice nod here the Trump. You know,
Trump has this historic win in America and he's saying
probably bigger than mine.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yours was well, and it's no secret. I mean he
did not like Justin Trudeau.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh yeah, I still wish I was a fly on
the wall for the sit down to mar A Lago
with just and Trudeau.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Was it Trump? They called him twinkletoes.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Maybe he does like his you know, he loves his
nicknames Little Hans Marco forgot the last nickname he had
for Queen Clinton. But Hillary, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I mean, well, you know so anyway, he of course
Mark Karney is more of a liberal, probably than even
Justin Trudeau. But he's more accomplished than Justin Trudeau. You know,
he ran a bank. He's not a stupid man. He
might be a very liberal man. So I think Trump's
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appealing to his more cerebral side.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, I think it's interesting the National Press over my
shoulder here on CBS this morning says Canada not for sale.
That's the headline. I swear they can't think of anything positive,
can they. It wasn't a knockdown drag out like you
saw Zelenski come in and that was a whole you
know show.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well Trump even addressed that. He said, you know, this
is not because they were trying to frame it that way,
and Trump said, that is not this. This is not
going to go that way. This meeting with Mark Carney.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right, it was very respectable. And of course Mark Carney
was in a tie in a suit. Just point that out.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You know. At the end of the day, you know,
I don't know what they I even try to search
for it, and I don't see what else they discussed.
Trump Party said, no, I'm not going to there's nothing
he could do to convince me to drop the tariffs
on Canada because we want to make these items like
aluminum and steel and automobiles here in our country. Yeah,
and we have to look out for our own best interests.
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And he said in Canada has to look out for
their best economic interests. And he said, I think they
have the ability to do so. So it wasn't confrontational
at all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, it wasn't and you know, it was respectful, respectable,
and I'm not surprised by any of it. Twenty five
percent tariffs is what Canada is facing still at this point.
But you know what, he's going to take that up
with our Commerce secretary, is my assumption. You know they've
got people for that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, they were painting it yesterday that you know. Trump said,
you know, I don't know why he wants to meet
with me.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, you know, the press, you know, clearly wanted to
find out why. So we'll see what comes. It's always
what comes after these meetings that you really need to
be paying attention to. Otherwise, you know, they're sitting in
the Oval office, the press is in the round. It
just seems like a dog and pony show.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well, it is somewhat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Unless you're the President of Ukraine. And then whoo, nobody
was expecting that one.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, I mean that was because of the behavior, you
could argue of the President of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well, yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm backfired on them. Yep. And again Mark Karnie is
smarter than to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, I'll be paying attention. This will be interesting to say,
see what comes of it. Does he sit down with
Scott Bessett, you know, for you know what, I'm also
curious how Canada responds to it, given the fact that
this guy is so liberal and left leaning and farther
so than Justin Trudeau. Can't imagine that they're big Trump fans.
I mean, I bet that, you know, the derangement syndrome
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is probably pretty thick up there, thick as you know
syrup there with their maple syrup.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I can understand why they would, you know, be rubbed
the wrong way by the comments that Trump made.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The fifty first state.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We helped support their military, we helped to protect them.
We've had these trade deals, you know, they are direct neighbor.
And I don't think that Trump's wrong for saying, well,
I mean, we have to look out for best our
best interests, and you have to look out for your
best interest. I saw William Shatner yesterday, I think it
was on Jesse Waters say well, look, maybe Canada should
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become consider becoming a province of the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, Trump said, you can keep your flag.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Like Puerto Rico or you know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah. In some ways, I think there's a little bit
of trolling therea there's a tinge of trolling, but it's
getting the conversations going because it's not talked about enough.
One that Trump points out the military aspect of it
and what that cost to America is. But beyond that,
their border situation is a nightmare that isn't talked about
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enough either.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well what's not talked about enough is the details and
how all this works. And so I lived up there
along the close to the Canadian border, you know, twenty
minutes away whatever it was. So there's these trade agreements
where you can the US automakers are building cars in
Canada and then shipping them over here and go look
at you know, if you buy a Japanese car, there's
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a good chance that it was built here in one
of the Southern States or Ohio. And there's a good
chance that if you buy an American made car, that
it was built in Canada or Mexico. So how does
that make sense? And then there's also the exchange rate
on the dollar, so it becomes cheaper to pay the
labor in Canada. Even if you're paying on the same rate
as you are in the United States, you get a
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twenty thirty percent discount because of the exchange rate on
the dollar. And they won't let regular old people go
over to Canada and go grocery shopping and bring those
groceries back. It's been that way forever. You have to
stop and pay a duty at the border. But I
haven't heard any reports mentioned those type things.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
From major events to local headlines.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
This is Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, Blaze. We don't know if Canada's Prime Minister
came with you know, good old maple syrup and Canadian bacon,
or if you had any gifts to give Canadian beer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm a fan of Canadian beer. I'm a fan of
Canadian whiskey.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, so he could have wonder if he brought offerings
of peace, please take our tariffs away?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, I mean I don't know. I mean that would
be bribery.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh my goodness, a slab of Canadian bacon and some whiskey.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, the way you framed hey, I'm just I'm playing bribery,
I'm playing around. Well, if you framed it like, hey, please,
here's some Canadian bacon and some Canadian whiskey and some
Canadian beer and some maple syrup, please take our tariffs away, yeah,
that would be bribery.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Pay to play it listed the well, Trump doesn't even
I don't know. He could be persuaded.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Bearing gifts and not demand anything, and that would be okay.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, hopefully he did. Hopefully he brought some gifts, and
hopefully we when people come and visit, you know, send
them away with gifts as well. We'll see though. The
most important thing, of course, about the talk of the
tariff and where it could go.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, literally, as I was mentioning in last break, I
would like to see a more honest conversation about this.
They act like Trump's ridiculous over this, but they won't
let They'll let companies, these big corporations take advantage, but
they won't let your average person. So if you live
in Michigan or New York or any of the states
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that border Canada and you try to go, you know,
there's the exchange rate changes. I don't know what it
is right now. I'm guessing somewhere around thirty percent. So
if you stop at the border, you can go in
and exchange your money, and for every dollar you take American,
you get a dollar thirty back in Canadian And so
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you could go do your grocery shopping. And that's a
pretty big nice discount for you, isn't it. And then
but when you come back across the border, the first
question they ask is do you have anything to declare?
And if you do, you have to pay duties on it.
So they won't let you take advantage of that disparity
between the value of the dollars, but they'll let these
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big corporations take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, therein lies why they feel so strongly about things.
But it is definitely hypocritical and ironic, isn't It's like
you you're making money, you understand what tariffs mean and why
you would stand up to sweep your own front porch
first as Trump pushes forward with an America First agenda
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of not wanting your steel and your cars and all
these other things.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, well, I would just like, you know, more balanced
reporting on what's actually going on and how it all works.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Man that fog out there this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Wow, it's a little thick.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Little thick is a yes, putting it mildly. When you
cover the Ravenel Bridge this morning, I got literally, I mean,
just whiz right past me. How much do New Ferraris cost?
Quarter of a million dollars two or fifty.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Thousand, depends on a model.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well I couldn't tell because it was super foggy, but
just blue past me in the far right lane on
the Ravenue Bridge. And guess what was at the top
of the bridge. A truck hauling some kind of piece
of equipment going about forty miles an hour. And man,
I said, okay, this is why you gotta slow down
in the fog. Anyway, it is a it's soupy out
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there this morning, and they're still unfortunately paving on the crosstown.
So welcome in.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We're covering this morning's top stories. Over one hundred and
thirty cardinals will join in an exclusive ceremony this week
to elect their new pope. The papal election is called
a conclave, and it dates back to the thirteenth century.
The election of a new pope will be signified by
white smoke from a chimney installed in the chapel. Unsuccessful
votes will be signified by black smoke. No conclave has
(01:24):
gone more than five days in over one hundred years.
The late Pope Francis was elected after five ballots over
two days in twenty thirteen. A cardinal needs two thirds
of the vote to be elected to lead the Catholic
Church and become the new Pope. Early speculation favors Cardinal
Lewis Tagel from the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's the I'm making note of that name to see
his history. Read a little bit about his history. So
I don't I mean, you were raised Catholic, right, So
I'm not very familiar with this whole process other than
the smoke and what reporters are putting out here. But
they say, pay attention to the homily that's going to
be given. So this is from a ninety three year
(02:07):
old dean of the College of Cardinals, and he's supposed
to sort of give maybe some hat tips on who
the next will be.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I don't know how you would know.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, I mean I think that there. It's like kind
of a bit of a political process.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, they vote, and you know, the black smoke signifies
a failed two thirds of the vote, and they put
their ballots in a little pot and they light it
on fire and that creates the black smoke that comes up.
And then when they agree and they get two thirds
or more of the vote, they put it in a
little pot lighted on fire, and the white smoke comes up,
(02:46):
which signifies that they've elected a new pope. That's about
as far as my knowledge goes of the process.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Do you remember, I don't, And certainly we can look
it up and find out. But the last go round,
how long it took, how many votes? I do not.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, we just had in the story it took five
ballots over two days.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
And the longest, though was you said five days, so
one never none has gone.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
More than five days in the last one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'd be curious about who it took five days. I wonder,
you know, to get which pope? Maybe Benedett.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I have no clue.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, well, this should be interesting. It's hard for me
to get I mean, I wish I could be inside,
you know, inside the vote. I said this before. I
want to be inside the conclave.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I mean, it's important to Catholics.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But you mean, at the end of the day, who
the next pope is?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yes, yeah, so it's important to Catholics, But I mean that,
you know, it's not like you're electing a president or whatever.
It has no bearing on your everyday life unless you
are a.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Catholic, right, I mean I'm not so, yes, I would agree.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then even arguably, even if you are a Catholic,
I don't know how much bearing your everyday life.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But who's going to offend Catholics more this morning, Michael Blaze?
Or should we do an AI generated version of you
in a in a pope and I don't what do
you call the the outfit that Yeah, I don't even know.
There's probably a I don't know, oh boy, the pope's decor.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I'll just know you're laying bare my ignorance. I'm not
trying to the religion that I was raised in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Listen. I told you. You know, my mother, you know,
grew a Baptist, she raised us Methodist. I married a Presbyterian.
My best friend was Jewish. I mean we were all
over the place, and I just attended my first Catholic
Mass two months ago, I want to say. So anyway,
(04:48):
it was and it was incredible with the horns and
the you know, all the smoke and frankinsense and murder
whatever it was lit on fire there. I mean, it
was incredible. It was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't know what to uh, I haven't again, you're
laying bare my I haven't been.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Did you go to Catholic school?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I did for a little while.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, well also, so let's.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Just leave it at that. This morning, seven to two
one talk seven two one eight two five five is
the number of the ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Studio traffic and weather every ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This is Charleston This Morning News with Kelly and Blaze
on ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll tell you those top two things this morning with
the traffic and the weather. I couldn't help, but yesterday
paving on the Crosstown just wrecked the morning commute for
a lot of you. It's continuing this morning. And then
you've got this thick fog. Who it's been a minute
since we've had fog, this.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Thick Yeah, it has been a little while. Yeah, so
we'll see how long it takes the fog to lift
this morning and how much it's going to affect the
morning drive this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What they do in the conclave when with the Pope
when it's foggy out and no one can tell if
the smoke.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Is black or white?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
What do they do?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Rain delay?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Don't light it up yet?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Well, I think there's like a Pope camera. I think
there's literally, like we have our traffic cameras. I think
there's a camera that sits there and watches.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Sure it's shiny of the uh live stream. Yeah, so
there's a live stream of the chapel chimney.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, once the conclave begins, you.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Might have to pay a subscription for it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
No, I don't think so. You just tune in and
watch the chimney and wait for smoke to come out
and see what color it is.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But imagine if it was rain delay because of fog,
It's like, well, we're gonna have to wait a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, I don't think it works that way.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I know it sounds like we don't know exactly how
it works.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I can't tell you that I know exactly how it works.
That became very clear in the last person.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I know, I set up my gosh, blase, I thought,
you know you were raised, you went to Catholic school,
and here you are. You know, you're the expert here
this morning.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I am not the expert. Do not look at me
to be the expert. And yes, we went to church
every week when I was a kid, and yes I
went to Catholic school and I even did the Catechism
up through youth group until I was I don't remember
how old. Wow, I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then you rebelled and became a rock chalk.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Well, that has nothing to do with it. No, I know, No,
I mean, you know, there's some there's some things I
don't like about the Catholic Church. There's some things I
don't look about religion in general. You see, you're getting
me in trouble here, putting me on the spot.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm not trying to.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I do have to People have died on this earth
in the name of religion.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh good Lord, yes, look at uh we don't even know.
With the top of the hour news there in Fox,
I mean Trump had a quote about it. They has
played where look at India and Pakistan. What's that fighting
going on? For you know, he said decades, probably centuries
at this point, is that about religion? Dig into it?
(08:12):
Probably so well, a lot.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Of people will look at you know, they are problem
with the Muslims, or the Muslims with the Western world
or the you can go you know, all around. Yeah,
and so you know a lot of people would say, so,
you know, I, of course I have faith in God
and the faith in Jesus, but the religion part I
have a trouble with a problem with sometimes and of
(08:36):
course very religious people would say, you know, I'm being
a heretic in all of these things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But that's his middle name. No one knows that yet,
breaking news Michael Heretic. You know, he's probably saying the
break he prefers nuns.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I do, But you took it the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I know, I was only joking. I take it the
wrong way.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I said, I prefer nuns because they take, you know,
an oath of poverty, and priests do not. Priests lived
the high life, priest drive, you know, or at least
when I was growing up today, I don't know what
it would kind of car. It would be lexus, I guess,
or something like that. When I was growing up you know,
priest drove Cadillacs and Lincoln's and went to poker parties
and they get to drink and smoke and gamble and
(09:19):
drive an nice car and go have a good time
while the nuns are living in poverty.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
That's absurd. Well, sorry, don't hate on me, Catholics, but
come on, what yeah, now I'm thinking about the popemobile.
I know that.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, the popemobile got converted into a gozen medical mobile.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Oh under this last pope interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
His wishes when he died were to convert his Pope
Mobile into a mobile medical station for the Gods, for
the Palestinians, for the Gaza Strip, And so they honored
his wish. And once they lift the you know, because
(10:02):
see this is such a mess. So there's a ban
actually now on a lot of aid going in there
because the terrorist groups are taking that aid and using
it to fund themselves and supply themselves and not the
population that it was meant for. So you know, that's
the first thing I thought of. When they're like, okay,
when that band gets lifted, the popemobile, the converted popemobile
(10:25):
is going into the Guys and Strip, and I'm like,
this is not going to turn out the way he wished.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Now Charleston This Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Really it's so pretty. Did that bring back did that
trigger some memories?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Catholic school record, some whatever?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Welcome in so all eyes the Vatican and the you know,
the conclave and the homily. I mean, hopefully people who
aren't Catholic maybe are leaning in and paying attention in
a way. Don't you think that that is? I mean,
death brings you know, new life. Maybe it brings people
(11:16):
to the religion.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean possibly, I guess I think people are I'm curious.
Probably not, I'm a little curious. I will say, I'm
not going to probably sit there and watch the live
stream waiting for the white smoke or the black smoke
for five potential days. I won't be doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
But yeah, I mean, I don't think the death of
the pope causes people go, Okay, I'm going to become Catholic. Now,
Oh I'm going to start paying attention. Oh I hear
some pretty good things. I'm going to become Catholic.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
You might be surprised, just saying I.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Would be very surprised if that happens.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean I was. I was very literally, I mean
kind of blown away by the mass that I attended.
I think it was Saint John's Downtown month or two.
It was very I mean, the thing is, though, this
is terrible, but I was like, wow, there's a lot
of preying on the knees. I don't know how older
people do this.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well some of them don't. They just sit for it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, but there were a lot of people who, you know,
they had canes and we're definitely older, and they were
getting down on their knees and I was impressed. I
was like, Okay, that's very impressive. But I wasn't used
to that, and I was like, I don't know if
I can commit to all the preying on the knees
during you know, mass every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, well, I mean you don't necessarily have to.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, I know. There were some people just were sitting back,
which I was too, because I mean, I thought, well,
I'm a visitor, so am I supposed to get on
my knees.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're supposed to do everything they tell you to do, Kelly,
and live in fear. Oh if you don't, and live
in fear even if you.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Do, okayness see, I would not like a religion like that.
I wouldn't like that. Well, I want to live in fear.
I want to be inspired, I want to have hope.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm not sure it's the religion, you know, or the
or the priest or the pastor that's given the mass,
but sometimes you will run into those people.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Well, you mentioned the nuns earlier. Nuns get a bit
of a bad rap.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
They're the ones that the makes me think of, you know,
rulers hitting hands and cracking the whip and keeping you
in line.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, there's some of those too, But I mean I
had very nice nuns when I went to Catholic school.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's good, a sweet.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Now, some of the priests were kind of creepy, but oh.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yes, see I experienced some of that. I was like,
oh okay, but.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
The nuns were all very sweet. Well, so that's why
I like nuns better.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I don't blame you. I mean, I still think that
this is a boy. Are they getting the short end
of the stick here? They do get they can't party.
The priests are over here partying and the nuns, no
wonder why they you know, might want to smack some
kids around with the ruler.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Well, it's just a simple fact that I don't know.
The nuns probably maybe have a good time inside the contact.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I have some nuns out there. I kill the team.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I'm just same.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Listen all day, Get the app now at ninety four
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Discussing the president sit down with Prime Minister of Canada
Mark Carney yesterday. I thought it was nice the way
he started things with a congratulatory nod to Carney's win.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well, then also be discussing Ukraine, Russia, the war because
Mark once it ended as quickly as I do, I
think it has to end probably one of the greatest
comebacks in the history of politics, maybe even greater than mine.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That was a nice nod here the Trump. You know,
Trump has this historic win in America and he's saying
probably bigger than mine.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yours was well, and it's no secret. I mean he
did not like Justin Trudeau.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Oh yeah, I still wish I was a fly on
the wall for the sit down to mar A Lago
with just and Trudeau.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Was it Trump? They called him twinkletoes.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Maybe he does like his you know, he loves his
nicknames Little Hans Marco forgot the last nickname he had
for Queen Clinton. But Hillary, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I mean, well, you know so anyway, he of course
Mark Karney is more of a liberal, probably than even
Justin Trudeau. But he's more accomplished than Justin Trudeau. You know,
he ran a bank. He's not a stupid man. He
might be a very liberal man. So I think Trump's
(15:40):
appealing to his more cerebral side.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well, I think it's interesting the National Press over my
shoulder here on CBS this morning says Canada not for sale.
That's the headline. I swear they can't think of anything positive,
can they. It wasn't a knockdown drag out like you
saw Zelenski come in and that was a whole you
know show.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well Trump even addressed that. He said, you know, this
is not because they were trying to frame it that way,
and Trump said, that is not this. This is not
going to go that way. This meeting with Mark Carney.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Right, it was very respectable. And of course Mark Carney
was in a tie in a suit. Just point that out.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You know. At the end of the day, you know,
I don't know what they I even try to search
for it, and I don't see what else they discussed.
Trump Party said, no, I'm not going to there's nothing
he could do to convince me to drop the tariffs
on Canada because we want to make these items like
aluminum and steel and automobiles here in our country. Yeah,
and we have to look out for our own best interests.
(16:44):
And he said in Canada has to look out for
their best economic interests. And he said, I think they
have the ability to do so. So it wasn't confrontational
at all.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
No, it wasn't and you know, it was respectful, respectable,
and I'm not surprised by any of it. Twenty five
percent tariffs is what Canada is facing still at this point.
But you know what, he's going to take that up
with our Commerce secretary, is my assumption. You know they've
got people for that.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, they were painting it yesterday that you know. Trump said,
you know, I don't know why he wants to meet
with me.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, you know, the press, you know, clearly wanted to
find out why. So we'll see what comes. It's always
what comes after these meetings that you really need to
be paying attention to. Otherwise, you know, they're sitting in
the Oval office, the press is in the round. It
just seems like a dog and pony show.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well, it is somewhat.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Unless you're the President of Ukraine. And then whoo, nobody
was expecting that one.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Well, I mean that was because of the behavior, you
could argue of the President of Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Well, yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I'm backfired on them. Yep. And again Mark Karnie is
smarter than to do that.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, I'll be paying attention. This will be interesting to say,
see what comes of it. Does he sit down with
Scott Bessett, you know, for you know what, I'm also
curious how Canada responds to it, given the fact that
this guy is so liberal and left leaning and farther
so than Justin Trudeau. Can't imagine that they're big Trump fans.
I mean, I bet that, you know, the derangement syndrome
(18:19):
is probably pretty thick up there, thick as you know
syrup there with their maple syrup.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I can understand why they would, you know, be rubbed
the wrong way by the comments that Trump made.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
The fifty first state.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
We helped support their military, we helped to protect them.
We've had these trade deals, you know, they are direct neighbor.
And I don't think that Trump's wrong for saying, well,
I mean, we have to look out for best our
best interests, and you have to look out for your
best interest. I saw William Shatner yesterday, I think it
was on Jesse Waters say well, look, maybe Canada should
(18:55):
become consider becoming a province of the United States.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, Trump said, you can keep your flag.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Like Puerto Rico or you know.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah. In some ways, I think there's a little bit
of trolling therea there's a tinge of trolling, but it's
getting the conversations going because it's not talked about enough.
One that Trump points out the military aspect of it
and what that cost to America is. But beyond that,
their border situation is a nightmare that isn't talked about
(19:27):
enough either.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well what's not talked about enough is the details and
how all this works. And so I lived up there
along the close to the Canadian border, you know, twenty
minutes away whatever it was. So there's these trade agreements
where you can the US automakers are building cars in
Canada and then shipping them over here and go look
at you know, if you buy a Japanese car, there's
(19:50):
a good chance that it was built here in one
of the Southern States or Ohio. And there's a good
chance that if you buy an American made car, that
it was built in Canada or Mexico. So how does
that make sense? And then there's also the exchange rate
on the dollar, so it becomes cheaper to pay the
labor in Canada. Even if you're paying on the same rate
as you are in the United States, you get a
(20:12):
twenty thirty percent discount because of the exchange rate on
the dollar. And they won't let regular old people go
over to Canada and go grocery shopping and bring those
groceries back. It's been that way forever. You have to
stop and pay a duty at the border. But I
haven't heard any reports mentioned those type things.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
From major events to local headlines.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
This is Charleston's Morning News on ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, Blaze. We don't know if Canada's Prime Minister
came with you know, good old maple syrup and Canadian bacon,
or if you had any gifts to give Canadian beer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm a fan of Canadian beer. I'm a fan of
Canadian whiskey.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, so he could have wonder if he brought offerings
of peace, please take our tariffs away?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, I mean I don't know. I mean that would
be bribery.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh my goodness, a slab of Canadian bacon and some whiskey.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, the way you framed hey, I'm just I'm playing bribery,
I'm playing around. Well, if you framed it like, hey, please,
here's some Canadian bacon and some Canadian whiskey and some
Canadian beer and some maple syrup, please take our tariffs away, yeah,
that would be bribery.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Pay to play it listed the well, Trump doesn't even
I don't know. He could be persuaded.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Bearing gifts and not demand anything, and that would be okay.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, hopefully he did. Hopefully he brought some gifts, and
hopefully we when people come and visit, you know, send
them away with gifts as well. We'll see though. The
most important thing, of course, about the talk of the
tariff and where it could go.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, literally, as I was mentioning in last break, I
would like to see a more honest conversation about this.
They act like Trump's ridiculous over this, but they won't
let They'll let companies, these big corporations take advantage, but
they won't let your average person. So if you live
in Michigan or New York or any of the states
(22:23):
that border Canada and you try to go, you know,
there's the exchange rate changes. I don't know what it
is right now. I'm guessing somewhere around thirty percent. So
if you stop at the border, you can go in
and exchange your money, and for every dollar you take American,
you get a dollar thirty back in Canadian And so
(22:43):
you could go do your grocery shopping. And that's a
pretty big nice discount for you, isn't it. And then
but when you come back across the border, the first
question they ask is do you have anything to declare?
And if you do, you have to pay duties on it.
So they won't let you take advantage of that disparity
between the value of the dollars, but they'll let these
(23:05):
big corporations take advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, therein lies why they feel so strongly about things.
But it is definitely hypocritical and ironic, isn't It's like
you you're making money, you understand what tariffs mean and why
you would stand up to sweep your own front porch
first as Trump pushes forward with an America First agenda
(23:29):
of not wanting your steel and your cars and all
these other things.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, well, I would just like, you know, more balanced
reporting on what's actually going on and how it all works.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
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