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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Check out our website ninety four to three WUSC dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome in seven o four. We made it to Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump is shrugging
off an upcoming deadline for US tariffs to go back
into effect on several countries. The White House deadline for
countries to come to the bargaining table is July ninth.
Trump told Fox News that it's going to be very simple.
He says he's going to send letters to the countries
that don't make a deal by then and inform them
(00:36):
that they can trade with the US, but the tariffs
are returning.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I believe that this was a headline end of last
week and got buried with a lot of other things,
but that he was shutting off talks with Canada with
regards to tariffs. So he's already continuing to I guess
stand his ground is the best way to describe it
with regards to tariffs and not react to a lot
(01:00):
of the you know, Tara trauma being thrown around out
there with the press and so many others, including lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, I saw one economists say the best thing he
can do is put like a ninety day pause on
it and say you come to the bargaining table. And
this is kind of what he already did, but now
that's expiring. So this economist says, extend it for ninety days,
give companies time to adjust, give other countries time to negotiate,
(01:28):
and that would be a good thing for the American economy. Now,
whether he's going to do that or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, in many ways this is no should be no
surprise if you paid attention to Trump in his art
of the deal in negotiations. So in a lot of ways,
you know he'll throw out there a hard line when
it comes to at least economic negotiations, and then he
(01:56):
sort of waits. It's almost like I don't want to
say dropping a bomb, because quite literally that did happen
with regards to Iran and their nuclear program. But if
we're talking about the economy, he's more malleable. I suppose.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, if he means to starting to lie ninth, extend it,
like I just said, like this economist suggests he's not
going to say he's going to do that now, or
they're not going to come to the negotiating chabel. So
he's trying to force as many people as he can
to come and make a deal. And then if they're
making some progress and there's still some work to be done,
at that point he can say, Okay, we've made good progress.
(02:33):
We have deals with so and so and so and
so and so and so, and we're going to keep
moving forward here. And then now you have X amount
of days to get these deals done. Well, an extension
of the contract. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So it's a good way of saying it. He was
very real ature of you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, thanks, I guess, I mean that's literally what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So, hey, we're moving along here, we're making progress, we're
not quite done yet, so we're going to extend this
them gators are mad as a hatter. A study of
gators in Georgia and South Carolina found high levels of
mercury in the reptiles and the waterways they live in.
Researchers at the University of Georgia studied alligators from the
(03:20):
Finoke Swamp and Juckle Island in Georgia and the Yauchi
Wildlife Center on the South Carolina coast. After months of
collecting over one hundred alligator samples, they found that gators
from the Oka Finoke Swamp had the highest levels of
the neurotoxin. The swamp, located in Georgia's southeastern corner, had
levels eight times higher than the other two sites tested.
(03:43):
Researchers say the high amounts found in the gators is
evidence that the toxin can easily move up the food
chain from fish to alligator and the people who rely
on the waterways for food and.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Raise I eat a lot of fish and seafood.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, I might have to explain my mad as a
hatter reference. Yeah, do you know where the term mad
as a hatter comes from? So back in the old days,
hatters utilize mercury in the formation of their craft of
crafting hats, and they got mercury poisoning and it drove
them literally nuts, and so the term mad as a hatter.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm glad you explained. That's that's new, learning something new,
which I don't want to go a day without learning
something new. Well, would you think about the mercury here?
Does it not? Especially being in the low country, and
how we're not just eating from the water, but we're
playing in it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, where did it come from? Is the first thing
we have to answer. I don't know, did it come
from you know, industry in the past, or where's this
mercury coming from?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I mean, this is very concerning. We have so many
stories about whether it's the food, the air, you know,
things poisoning us. And you know, now we're lord. Not
even our swamps are safe. Not that we're playing in
the swamps, but some I played.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
In the swamp a little bit. Yeah, I will never forget.
It was during a drought, and so we were doing
a canoe trip down the Edisto and there was nowhere
to put in because the water levels were so low,
so we had to with the outfitter took us to
this site where we literally had to walk through the
swamp to get out to the river to launch. So
(05:30):
I actually walked through the swamp barefoot pulling this canoe.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You can't people other can't see my face, but I'm
making a face.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I was a little unsettled, but I did it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Ooh. Yeah, I don't like things touching my feet in
the water if I can't see through it. I just
so I often wear water shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I didn't have any water shoes with.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Me, clearly, but I just ooh, it's just one of
those things. Yeah, but at least you hopefully didn't sink, right,
at least in the swamp, you're you're not having to
deal with the pluff mud. That's a whole other thing.
Can't even walk in pluff mud.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, I mean, so this is one of the reasons
we had to go where we went. And of course
you know the rights to access in all of those things.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I love canoeing and kayaking in the beautiful swamps
of the Low Country, I truly do. But swimming in
them really concerns me because the water is so dark.
It's like, well, I would never know what I'm sharing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What's that I would not go swimming in the swamp.
Now the other of Stow, I mean, that's a black
water river. Yeah, so it's you know, it's dark, that
dark brown color already. Anyway, So, and if you've ever
been canoeing down the Edistow, you see all kinds of things,
water moccasins hanging on their train.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have you ever seen a gating.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Branches that were above you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Have you seen a gator though?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah? In the Edisto in the surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, so the only time I've ever really seen as
the rivers go down to the sea is that brackish
line on your water map where the freshwater meets the
salt water. That's where they all collect. I mean, it's
like gator Haven.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Somebody was commenting on this the other day. So supposedly,
you know, they won't live in salt water, they live
in freshwater, but they will hunt in brackish and saltwater. Now,
if you ask people around here, they'll say they don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, we got to talk back actually about they just.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Go where the food goes or where the food is rather,
and they don't care if they're in salt water, freshwater
or whatever. But that's why you see so many, you know,
like neighborhood retention ponds that everything always have gators in them, right,
they like the fresh water. So this is a lot
of people don't realize that the lakes have gators.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. See, I don't know if I've just been lucky
that in the portions that I've kayakd that I haven't
been face to face with alligators except when I get
closer to the brackish line. So if I'm way up
in the freshwater parts. I don't know, maybe I'm just well, there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Was a gentleman, you know, this is several years ago,
but I think it was in short Stay. You know
what short Stay is up by Bono And he had
put a bait bucket tied to a dock there and
he reached down to retrieve his bait buckets. Oh yeah,
and alligator bit his arm off. Oh no, and I
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believe he succumbed to his injuries.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh my gosh. This is the time of year when
the crazy alligator videos start showing up in my social
scroll and one popped up last night of an alligator
somewhere in South Carolina. And this is video from a
few years ago. But people of course are looking at
their feeds thinking that this just happened. But it was
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an alligator eating another alligator. Have you seen this baby alligator?
But this alligator who's that's consuming? This is a massive
alligator and it's eating and I say a baby alligator.
It was like six feet long. Wasn't that much of
a baby And a lot of people were like, my god,
alligators sometimes eat other allegaty, yes they do. Sometimes they'll
(09:22):
eat their own young.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It sounds like a far side cartoon where one alligator
is eating another alligator with a person sticking out of
his mouth. The whole thing's wrapped up in a Boa constrictor.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's true, though they have cannibalistic behavior.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Fanny May and Freddie mc may soon start counting cryptocurrency
assets in considering mortgage applications. Bill Poltiu, oversees the two
government created mortgage guaranteurs, posted on social media yesterday that
the move is in keeping with President Trump's vision to
make the US the crypto capital of the world. He
said he's ordered the businesses to prepare for the new policy.
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It's a change for Freddy and Fanny, which, under President
Biden were barred from considering crypto due to high levels
of uncertainty in the digital currency market.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now see that last line, there was new information to me.
I'm not some crypto investor. I mean, you know, maybe
one day I'll look back on that and go, what
was I thinking? You not jumping in early on crypto?
But did you realize that Biden had barred this? I mean,
you're in the real estate world.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I did so.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Then I'm curious your thoughts on this. How does this
affect future, the future of the market, if you will,
with regards to homeownership.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, it's saying that you can have that you can
use crypto as you know, an asset, as an asset
and as you know, a proof of available income to
qualify for a loan.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, I'm just shocked that you weren't able to do
so before.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, you know, you can't use cash either. You want
to be shocked, I.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mean to me that hmm, that's I don't understand. I
don't quite understand that it's been.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So it's got to be in the bank or in
an account somewhere. You can't just have a pile of
cash and go okay, So here's what I'm using to qualify.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh I see, Well look say cash. I'm thinking, all right,
you can't. I mean, how is that possible if you
have a savings account stacked with however much money.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
In the same sense that they're allowing you to now
use crypto as you know, a means to pay you
in the same sense of why you weren't able to before,
you're not able to use cash in that sense.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I wonder does this if this actually comes to fruition,
would it maybe change that that cash option.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Probably not, But so crypto's out there. So if you
have money in the stock market, you can say here
my proof of funds. Here, it's in my h you know,
in my index funds, or here it's in the mutual
funds that I own, or in the stock market or whatever,
and that will count. But before you couldn't say here,
I've got a bunch of money over here in crypto.
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They're like, oh no, that's too volatile, too volatile and unreliable,
so you're not allowed to use it. So they're changing
that rule. So that means that the advancement of crypto
being accepted as mainstream currency is on the march.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I can see that to be the case. Again,
it makes me wonder should I be going in investing
more in crypto now it seems like it's going to
get well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You should invest in whatever you're versed in enough to
be able to smartly invest, not just for the sake
of I heard crypto is a good idea. I'm all in.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, Crypto to me, up until maybe this point, if
there's some big changes here with regards to how you
can use it assets or otherwise, has been very much
a question mark.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm waiting good Monday morning to you. Hopefully you're week's
off to a good start. Appreciate you listening this morning.
Microsoft's blue screen of death air message is going away.
The computer giant says it's part of a larger revamp
following last year's Crown strike outage that crashed over eight
million Windows devices, including banks, companies, and airlines. In Windows eleven,
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there won't be a frownie face and QR code appearing
during unexpected restarts like there's been for the past forty years.
The airscreen will now be black, with a short message
that tells users they need to restart their computer.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What Why why are we changing this now? Is there
some outrage?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Uh? Probably because nobody wants to see that blue screen
of a lot?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Why don't I get that but black? You don't think
that's you.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Know, that's what I said? Is it racist?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
But anyway, probably because you know the these millions, eight
million Windows devices all got this blue screen of death
message and anybody who's experienced it, and you've probably experienced
it several times if you if you use a Windows
computer PC, then yeah, it's quite upsetting and it's probably
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gave them a black enough eye where they're like, okay,
let's just change this to black in a racist fashion
and change it to black and your sake.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's jokingly, obviously, but.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm saying it jokingly, but not only half jokingly, because
we've seen in the past where you know, they say that,
you know that there's a connotation with the color black
bad things, and it's racist and all of this. So
I don't know. I wouldn't surprise me if somebody at
GEL sharpened and come out and say, Microsoft, you need to,
you know, shake him down or else he's gonna boycott
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him and say that they're acting with racist intention by
switching this bad message on their computer to the color black.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now the blue screen of death will be the black
screen of death. Yes, it's not going to change our world,
at least here in our studios. When's the last time
you do you even get a blue screen of death?
What windows are we on in here? Something? Every time
I look up, I'm like, wait, how what are we
up to version wise? With Microsoft?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well? I like how they haven't said, you know, hey,
due to technico logical advances and we've really hunkered down
and worked on this problem. The blue screen of death
is going away because we've solved the issue.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Now we're just going to change the color.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You don't go to change the color.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You're not mad at us as much anymore. Well for
our failures.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Just so you don't freak out as much. You know,
it won't take long before you know you'll have you'll
be conditioned to have the same reaction when that black
screen pops up. So we were talking about the swamp,
which garnered a bunch of comments like this one talking about,
you know, canoeing down the Edisto.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Blaze, same thing. I used to play paintball and I
was always in the swamp. But uh, the one thing
that I always worried about alligator snapping turtles. I hate
those things. They will take off a finger or toe
or whatever. And I've seen some of them that were
very large, probably take off half your foot. So good thing, dad,
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A good outcome.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, those snapping turtles are scary, man. Now they have
a lot of force in that snap. And Andrew called
and said, you said you didn't want to play in
the swamp, and he said, you know what. President Trump
plays in the swamp every day. He enjoys it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I have played in the swamp. I don't like swimming
in the swamp. That's not a place I like to swim.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, at least they were thinking of the USA. The
Trump Organization is no longer saying that its new smartphone
is made in the USA. Earlier this month, Trump's company
introduced a gold colored smartphone called the T One, which
goes for about five hundred dollars. The company's website said
it was made in the USA, but that slogan has
since been replaced with the claim that the T One
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has an American proud design and was brought to life
right here in the USA. When the T One first
came out, financial experts told CNBC that the US does
not have the supply chain to make smartphones, and that
even if it did, many components would still need to
come from overseas.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You thought they may have checked on this before they
made the launch and the initial claims.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well you would think, you know how marketing goes sometimes.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh boy, it makes me wonder if they'll be able
to stick with the five hundred dollars price point.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, yeah, but they just had to admit that it's
not made in the USA.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, I know, my point being them walking back on
the means that components are being made in other parts
of the world, and are these components going to affect
the price because of the ongoing tariff wars? So I
guess we'll see. I'm tracking it. I want a new
phone and it's going to be gold, So.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, you're getting the T one. I don't know that
is not made in America.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well I don't know. I mean what phone is made
in America.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That's the whole point, none, because they can't be because
we don't have the materials to make them. So when
they came out and said, hey, we're going to offer
you this American made phone for five hundred bucks, the
experts were like, no, you're not I and they had
to go back and change their marketing because obviously they can't.
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So instead of saying made in the USA, now it
says American proud design and was brought to life in
the USA.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Again, I go back to It's shocking to me that
they didn't know from the beginning that they couldn't claim this.
I mean this. The Trump Trump family as an organization
or pretty smart when it comes to business and marketing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, apparently they weren't too smart when it came to
the T one smartphone, because they ended up with egg
on their face.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Very specifically, Junior who made this announcement last week?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Well, I think it was, you know, I think it's
Eric and Junior run in the company. I think Eric
actually runs the enterprise, doesn't he?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, maybe this falls on him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yish seven to two to one talk seven two two
five five is the number to the ninety four to
three WSC studio. You can use that number whether you're
calling on a gold T one made not in the US,
or any other phone.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I would like to know if someone's bought one already.
If you have one, how is it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't think they're out on the general market yet. No,
I think that's coming in September. If I remember correctly,
I could be wrong, but I think that's when they
announced that they would be available.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Thanks for listening to the Charleston Morning News podcast. Catch
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Check out our website ninety four to three WUSC dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome in seven o four. We made it to Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump is shrugging
off an upcoming deadline for US tariffs to go back
into effect on several countries. The White House deadline for
countries to come to the bargaining table is July ninth.
Trump told Fox News that it's going to be very simple.
He says he's going to send letters to the countries
that don't make a deal by then and inform them
(00:36):
that they can trade with the US, but the tariffs
are returning.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I believe that this was a headline end of last
week and got buried with a lot of other things,
but that he was shutting off talks with Canada with
regards to tariffs. So he's already continuing to I guess
stand his ground is the best way to describe it
with regards to tariffs and not react to a lot
(01:00):
of the you know, Tara trauma being thrown around out
there with the press and so many others, including lawmakers.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, I saw one economists say the best thing he
can do is put like a ninety day pause on
it and say you come to the bargaining table. And
this is kind of what he already did, but now
that's expiring. So this economist says, extend it for ninety days,
give companies time to adjust, give other countries time to negotiate,
(01:28):
and that would be a good thing for the American economy. Now,
whether he's going to do that or not, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, in many ways this is no should be no
surprise if you paid attention to Trump in his art
of the deal in negotiations. So in a lot of ways,
you know he'll throw out there a hard line when
it comes to at least economic negotiations, and then he
(01:56):
sort of waits. It's almost like I don't want to
say dropping a bomb, because quite literally that did happen
with regards to Iran and their nuclear program. But if
we're talking about the economy, he's more malleable. I suppose.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well, if he means to starting to lie ninth, extend it,
like I just said, like this economist suggests he's not
going to say he's going to do that now, or
they're not going to come to the negotiating chabel. So
he's trying to force as many people as he can
to come and make a deal. And then if they're
making some progress and there's still some work to be done,
at that point he can say, Okay, we've made good progress.
(02:33):
We have deals with so and so and so and
so and so and so, and we're going to keep
moving forward here. And then now you have X amount
of days to get these deals done. Well, an extension
of the contract. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So it's a good way of saying it. He was
very real ature of you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, thanks, I guess, I mean that's literally what it is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So, hey, we're moving along here, we're making progress, we're
not quite done yet, so we're going to extend this
them gators are mad as a hatter. A study of
gators in Georgia and South Carolina found high levels of
mercury in the reptiles and the waterways they live in.
Researchers at the University of Georgia studied alligators from the
(03:20):
Finoke Swamp and Juckle Island in Georgia and the Yauchi
Wildlife Center on the South Carolina coast. After months of
collecting over one hundred alligator samples, they found that gators
from the Oka Finoke Swamp had the highest levels of
the neurotoxin. The swamp, located in Georgia's southeastern corner, had
levels eight times higher than the other two sites tested.
(03:43):
Researchers say the high amounts found in the gators is
evidence that the toxin can easily move up the food
chain from fish to alligator and the people who rely
on the waterways for food and.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Raise I eat a lot of fish and seafood.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, I might have to explain my mad as a
hatter reference. Yeah, do you know where the term mad
as a hatter comes from? So back in the old days,
hatters utilize mercury in the formation of their craft of
crafting hats, and they got mercury poisoning and it drove
them literally nuts, and so the term mad as a hatter.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm glad you explained. That's that's new, learning something new,
which I don't want to go a day without learning
something new. Well, would you think about the mercury here?
Does it not? Especially being in the low country, and
how we're not just eating from the water, but we're
playing in it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Well, where did it come from? Is the first thing
we have to answer. I don't know, did it come
from you know, industry in the past, or where's this
mercury coming from?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I mean, this is very concerning. We have so many
stories about whether it's the food, the air, you know,
things poisoning us. And you know, now we're lord. Not
even our swamps are safe. Not that we're playing in
the swamps, but some I played.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
In the swamp a little bit. Yeah, I will never forget.
It was during a drought, and so we were doing
a canoe trip down the Edisto and there was nowhere
to put in because the water levels were so low,
so we had to with the outfitter took us to
this site where we literally had to walk through the
swamp to get out to the river to launch. So
(05:30):
I actually walked through the swamp barefoot pulling this canoe.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You can't people other can't see my face, but I'm
making a face.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I was a little unsettled, but I did it.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Ooh. Yeah, I don't like things touching my feet in
the water if I can't see through it. I just
so I often wear water shoes.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I didn't have any water shoes with.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Me, clearly, but I just ooh, it's just one of
those things. Yeah, but at least you hopefully didn't sink, right,
at least in the swamp, you're you're not having to
deal with the pluff mud. That's a whole other thing.
Can't even walk in pluff mud.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, I mean, so this is one of the reasons
we had to go where we went. And of course
you know the rights to access in all of those things.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And I love canoeing and kayaking in the beautiful swamps
of the Low Country, I truly do. But swimming in
them really concerns me because the water is so dark.
It's like, well, I would never know what I'm sharing.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What's that I would not go swimming in the swamp.
Now the other of Stow, I mean, that's a black
water river. Yeah, so it's you know, it's dark, that
dark brown color already. Anyway, So, and if you've ever
been canoeing down the Edistow, you see all kinds of things,
water moccasins hanging on their train.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Have you ever seen a gating.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Branches that were above you?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Have you seen a gator though?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah? In the Edisto in the surrounding area.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Yeah, so the only time I've ever really seen as
the rivers go down to the sea is that brackish
line on your water map where the freshwater meets the
salt water. That's where they all collect. I mean, it's
like gator Haven.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Somebody was commenting on this the other day. So supposedly,
you know, they won't live in salt water, they live
in freshwater, but they will hunt in brackish and saltwater. Now,
if you ask people around here, they'll say they don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, we got to talk back actually about they just.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Go where the food goes or where the food is rather,
and they don't care if they're in salt water, freshwater
or whatever. But that's why you see so many, you know,
like neighborhood retention ponds that everything always have gators in them, right,
they like the fresh water. So this is a lot
of people don't realize that the lakes have gators.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. See, I don't know if I've just been lucky
that in the portions that I've kayakd that I haven't
been face to face with alligators except when I get
closer to the brackish line. So if I'm way up
in the freshwater parts. I don't know, maybe I'm just well, there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Was a gentleman, you know, this is several years ago,
but I think it was in short Stay. You know
what short Stay is up by Bono And he had
put a bait bucket tied to a dock there and
he reached down to retrieve his bait buckets. Oh yeah,
and alligator bit his arm off. Oh no, and I
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believe he succumbed to his injuries.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh my gosh. This is the time of year when
the crazy alligator videos start showing up in my social
scroll and one popped up last night of an alligator
somewhere in South Carolina. And this is video from a
few years ago. But people of course are looking at
their feeds thinking that this just happened. But it was
(08:59):
an alligator eating another alligator. Have you seen this baby alligator?
But this alligator who's that's consuming? This is a massive
alligator and it's eating and I say a baby alligator.
It was like six feet long. Wasn't that much of
a baby And a lot of people were like, my god,
alligators sometimes eat other allegaty, yes they do. Sometimes they'll
(09:22):
eat their own young.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
It sounds like a far side cartoon where one alligator
is eating another alligator with a person sticking out of
his mouth. The whole thing's wrapped up in a Boa constrictor.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's true, though they have cannibalistic behavior.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Fanny May and Freddie mc may soon start counting cryptocurrency
assets in considering mortgage applications. Bill Poltiu, oversees the two
government created mortgage guaranteurs, posted on social media yesterday that
the move is in keeping with President Trump's vision to
make the US the crypto capital of the world. He
said he's ordered the businesses to prepare for the new policy.
(09:57):
It's a change for Freddy and Fanny, which, under President
Biden were barred from considering crypto due to high levels
of uncertainty in the digital currency market.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Now see that last line, there was new information to me.
I'm not some crypto investor. I mean, you know, maybe
one day I'll look back on that and go, what
was I thinking? You not jumping in early on crypto?
But did you realize that Biden had barred this? I mean,
you're in the real estate world.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
I did so.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Then I'm curious your thoughts on this. How does this
affect future, the future of the market, if you will,
with regards to homeownership.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, it's saying that you can have that you can
use crypto as you know, an asset, as an asset
and as you know, a proof of available income to
qualify for a loan.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, I'm just shocked that you weren't able to do
so before.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, you know, you can't use cash either. You want
to be shocked, I.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Mean to me that hmm, that's I don't understand. I
don't quite understand that it's been.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
So it's got to be in the bank or in
an account somewhere. You can't just have a pile of
cash and go okay, So here's what I'm using to qualify.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Oh I see, Well look say cash. I'm thinking, all right,
you can't. I mean, how is that possible if you
have a savings account stacked with however much money.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
In the same sense that they're allowing you to now
use crypto as you know, a means to pay you
in the same sense of why you weren't able to before,
you're not able to use cash in that sense.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, I wonder does this if this actually comes to fruition,
would it maybe change that that cash option.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Probably not, But so crypto's out there. So if you
have money in the stock market, you can say here
my proof of funds. Here, it's in my h you know,
in my index funds, or here it's in the mutual
funds that I own, or in the stock market or whatever,
and that will count. But before you couldn't say here,
I've got a bunch of money over here in crypto.
(12:07):
They're like, oh no, that's too volatile, too volatile and unreliable,
so you're not allowed to use it. So they're changing
that rule. So that means that the advancement of crypto
being accepted as mainstream currency is on the march.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I can see that to be the case. Again,
it makes me wonder should I be going in investing
more in crypto now it seems like it's going to
get well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You should invest in whatever you're versed in enough to
be able to smartly invest, not just for the sake
of I heard crypto is a good idea. I'm all in.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, Crypto to me, up until maybe this point, if
there's some big changes here with regards to how you
can use it assets or otherwise, has been very much
a question mark.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm waiting good Monday morning to you. Hopefully you're week's
off to a good start. Appreciate you listening this morning.
Microsoft's blue screen of death air message is going away.
The computer giant says it's part of a larger revamp
following last year's Crown strike outage that crashed over eight
million Windows devices, including banks, companies, and airlines. In Windows eleven,
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there won't be a frownie face and QR code appearing
during unexpected restarts like there's been for the past forty years.
The airscreen will now be black, with a short message
that tells users they need to restart their computer.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What Why why are we changing this now? Is there
some outrage?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Uh? Probably because nobody wants to see that blue screen
of a lot?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Why don't I get that but black? You don't think
that's you.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Know, that's what I said? Is it racist?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
But anyway, probably because you know the these millions, eight
million Windows devices all got this blue screen of death
message and anybody who's experienced it, and you've probably experienced
it several times if you if you use a Windows
computer PC, then yeah, it's quite upsetting and it's probably
(14:19):
gave them a black enough eye where they're like, okay,
let's just change this to black in a racist fashion
and change it to black and your sake.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's jokingly, obviously, but.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I'm saying it jokingly, but not only half jokingly, because
we've seen in the past where you know, they say that,
you know that there's a connotation with the color black
bad things, and it's racist and all of this. So
I don't know. I wouldn't surprise me if somebody at
GEL sharpened and come out and say, Microsoft, you need to,
you know, shake him down or else he's gonna boycott
(14:55):
him and say that they're acting with racist intention by
switching this bad message on their computer to the color black.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now the blue screen of death will be the black
screen of death. Yes, it's not going to change our world,
at least here in our studios. When's the last time
you do you even get a blue screen of death?
What windows are we on in here? Something? Every time
I look up, I'm like, wait, how what are we
up to version wise? With Microsoft?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well? I like how they haven't said, you know, hey,
due to technico logical advances and we've really hunkered down
and worked on this problem. The blue screen of death
is going away because we've solved the issue.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Now we're just going to change the color.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
You don't go to change the color.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
You're not mad at us as much anymore. Well for
our failures.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Just so you don't freak out as much. You know,
it won't take long before you know you'll have you'll
be conditioned to have the same reaction when that black
screen pops up. So we were talking about the swamp,
which garnered a bunch of comments like this one talking about,
you know, canoeing down the Edisto.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Blaze, same thing. I used to play paintball and I
was always in the swamp. But uh, the one thing
that I always worried about alligator snapping turtles. I hate
those things. They will take off a finger or toe
or whatever. And I've seen some of them that were
very large, probably take off half your foot. So good thing, dad,
(16:23):
A good outcome.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, those snapping turtles are scary, man. Now they have
a lot of force in that snap. And Andrew called
and said, you said you didn't want to play in
the swamp, and he said, you know what. President Trump
plays in the swamp every day. He enjoys it.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I have played in the swamp. I don't like swimming
in the swamp. That's not a place I like to swim.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, at least they were thinking of the USA. The
Trump Organization is no longer saying that its new smartphone
is made in the USA. Earlier this month, Trump's company
introduced a gold colored smartphone called the T One, which
goes for about five hundred dollars. The company's website said
it was made in the USA, but that slogan has
since been replaced with the claim that the T One
(17:08):
has an American proud design and was brought to life
right here in the USA. When the T One first
came out, financial experts told CNBC that the US does
not have the supply chain to make smartphones, and that
even if it did, many components would still need to
come from overseas.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You thought they may have checked on this before they
made the launch and the initial claims.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Well you would think, you know how marketing goes sometimes.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh boy, it makes me wonder if they'll be able
to stick with the five hundred dollars price point.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, yeah, but they just had to admit that it's
not made in the USA.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, I know, my point being them walking back on
the means that components are being made in other parts
of the world, and are these components going to affect
the price because of the ongoing tariff wars? So I
guess we'll see. I'm tracking it. I want a new
phone and it's going to be gold, So.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, you're getting the T one. I don't know that
is not made in America.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well I don't know. I mean what phone is made
in America.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
That's the whole point, none, because they can't be because
we don't have the materials to make them. So when
they came out and said, hey, we're going to offer
you this American made phone for five hundred bucks, the
experts were like, no, you're not I and they had
to go back and change their marketing because obviously they can't.
(18:49):
So instead of saying made in the USA, now it
says American proud design and was brought to life in
the USA.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Again, I go back to It's shocking to me that
they didn't know from the beginning that they couldn't claim this.
I mean this. The Trump Trump family as an organization
or pretty smart when it comes to business and marketing.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, apparently they weren't too smart when it came to
the T one smartphone, because they ended up with egg
on their face.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Very specifically, Junior who made this announcement last week?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Well, I think it was, you know, I think it's
Eric and Junior run in the company. I think Eric
actually runs the enterprise, doesn't he?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, maybe this falls on him.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yish seven to two to one talk seven two two
five five is the number to the ninety four to
three WSC studio. You can use that number whether you're
calling on a gold T one made not in the US,
or any other phone.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
I would like to know if someone's bought one already.
If you have one, how is it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't think they're out on the general market yet. No,
I think that's coming in September. If I remember correctly,
I could be wrong, but I think that's when they
announced that they would be available.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
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