January 12, 2025 • 67 mins
Snowstorms have a way of putting life on pause, don't they? As I sat watching snowflakes tumble down in southern Illinois, I found myself reflecting on the serenity and small disruptions they bring. From sharing glimpses of my snow-day musings to welcoming both new and returning listeners, our discussion flowed into hopes for safe travels and a cheerful return to routine. Inviting engagement through our website or Speak Pipe, we set the stage for an exciting year filled with news and earthquake reports.
Did you know the bald eagle's status as the national bird was just confirmed by President Biden? This amusing revelation sparked our conversation on how misconceptions can shape our understanding of history. We then turned a somber eye to the devastating fires in California, extending empathy to affected communities and pondering the complex challenges of such disasters. Adding a touch of wonder, we explored the discovery of 27 new species in the Peruvian rain forest—imagine an amphibious mouse and a fish blob among them!
Bamboo toilet paper, AI computers, and power grid vulnerabilities—what do they have in common? They're all part of our exploration of innovation and resilience. We ventured into the possibilities of NVIDIA's AI computer and the future of AI and quantum computing. With a nod to sci-fi narratives, we highlighted the risks and rewards of technological advancements. We summarized recent earthquake activity, particularly in Southern Tibet. As the episode drew to a close, we celebrated community support through platforms like WavLake, sharing "As We Go" by Matt and Joanne Black, and expressing gratitude to our listeners, with a warm farewell until next time.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, good morning good afternoon good evening good
day wherever you are, there youare.
Hello everyone.
I hope that wasn't too long ofan intro.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I say it was a little bit too long.
Bruce Gosh, I started dancingbefore you got on the mic.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, that's a good thing, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, you ever watch a duck dance.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, I haven't.
I guess I did today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, there you go.
That ought to answer yourquestion.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, it didn't answer anything, but anyway, let's say
hi to everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, that's not quite how I had it in mind, but
okay, welcome to the showeveryone.
This is the Ugly Quacking Duckpodcast, episode number 98, I
believe, and we're glad to haveeveryone aboard.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Everyone aboard.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There you go, everyone aboard.
See, I can do it too.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Everyone aboard.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
All right, we're not having this contest.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Why not?
You're such a chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you're a duck.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Maybe, maybe I'm an alien.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
All right, well, we won't get into that argument or
discussion for now.
Maybe, maybe I'm an alien.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All right.
Well, we won't get into thatargument or discussion for now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Again, you're a chicken, All right.
Well, I don't want to waste allthe valuable airtime that we're
recording here on that and theneverybody get bored and shut us
off.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh yeah, that's a good point.
They may.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, you bet you They'll get bored of us.
And then go click and then goto another podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can you do that again ?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I could, but let's just say I did and don't, all
right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, shoot, you're no fun.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Anyway, again we want to welcome everybody aboard the
show today, episode number 98.
And we are enjoying watchingthe snow come down.
We've been watching it allmorning and we're in southern
illinois and it's just comingdown all day and it's still
(02:53):
coming down and we thought wewould enjoy watching it while we
did our work on our podcast.
We've had a couple of days offwork and it's been kind of nice.
I got to go back tomorrowafternoon, but you know that's
tomorrow afternoon.
We're going to put it off untiltomorrow, right?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's the way you are with everything.
Let's put it off.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, let's put it off, but anyhow, that's what our
plans are.
So, as we continue this podcastagain, if you're a new listener
, you just tuned into us, justfound us, I'm glad you did and I
hope you stick around and comeback.
And if you're one of ourreliable people that's been here
(03:42):
several times, thank you andyou keep coming back, you hear
okay, you got that down, pat,don't you?
well, not quite, but we'retrying anyhow.
Um, today is January the 10th,19.
(04:03):
Wow, show them my age January10th 2025.
It's snowing.
The last time I checked thetemperature let me check it
again it was like 31 degrees.
I'll check it right now as I'mtalking to you.
As soon as I find the app Allright, I'm punching on it.
Get ready.
(04:23):
The weather thing's'm punchingon it.
Get ready.
The weather thing's coming up33 degrees with snow, so it's
probably melting, if it can meltwith all that ice and snow
underneath it Been pretty crazyaround here in southern Illinois
and Missouri and a lot ofdifferent places.
(04:46):
They've had snow, we've hadstores closed and school is
still out and that means they'llhave the weekend to get
recouped and ready to go andhopefully it'll go good and
they'll be able to go back right.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Now, why are you wishing that on anybody?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, you know, yeah, well, the teachers need to go
back so they can make some money.
Right, they get paid.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, well no.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
All right.
Well, we won't go anymore intothat.
Oh nope, not at all.
But good afternoon everybodyfrom the ugly quacking duck
podcast studio.
Uh, we are looking at the snowand it's a beautiful sight.
That's because I don't have toget out in it and I pray, and I
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hope everybody that has to getout in it or did get out in it
and has got to come home safe,travel, safe passage and be
careful, be safe.
Well, we're trying to get ourfeet wet again.
It's been a couple weeks sincewe've done a podcast.
Actually, it's been a littlebit longer than that, because
the New Year Eve podcast wasjust a bit of our voice and then
(06:15):
we had several segments of theold podcast from 2024.
So it's been, you know know, alittle bit of a break and we
hope everybody's got their feetwet into the new year, year 2025
to be exact.
I hope it's going well foreverybody.
(06:38):
Uh, boy, there's been some badthings happening.
We won't get into any of thatyet, although we've got quite a
bit of news wrapped up and theearthquake reports, and it might
take a little bit to getthrough all that, but anyhow,
(06:58):
nobody sent me any texts ormessages on my website or on a
speak pipe, so I don't know ifanything's happening to you guys
out there.
I know everybody's been busygetting ready, you know, for
Christmas and then the New Yearcelebration, and things are
(07:20):
probably starting to slow down,although the weather is not
allowing us to be verybusiness-like, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I think you're silly.
It's beautiful weather.
We can go out there and floparound in that snow.
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, you got that right.
It is kind of nice to beflopping around in.
I know the cats have beenrunning around out there and
bouncing and jumping.
They don't stay out very long,it gets cold for them.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, it gets cold for me too.
My feet get cold.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I bet it does.
Yeah, speaking of bird feet orbirds, did you know back on
Christmas Eve?
I think it was.
Let me look.
Yes, christmas Eve, guess whatJoe Biden signed into
legislation.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
None him, not no telling.
Go ahead, let us know, get itto us, buddy.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All right, I'm not sure all that's necessary, but
he signed into bill that the new, what the new bird for our
national bird is now the baldeagle.
Now, before you say anything,yes, I was one of those also
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that thought the bald eagle now,before you say anything.
Yes, I was one of those alsothat thought the bald eagle was
already our national bird and ifyou're one of those, don't feel
bad.
But according to other people,it had never been into sign and
never had been signed into abill and adopted as a national
(09:07):
bird.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, that sounds kind of weird.
You guys thought it was, but itwasn't.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, really, that's precisely.
Yeah, wow, yeah, it's on uhmoney, it's on very many of the
documents, but yet it wasn'tnationally known bird, but the
bald eagle is now, because itwas signed in a bill on
(09:41):
christmas eve 2024 by PresidentJoe Biden.
I guess I can say that properly.
Give him a little bit ofrespect, even though I'm not
sure anybody Never mind.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You're just about to get yourself in trouble there,
dude.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yes, I am Thank you for catching that, but anyway,
yeah, I thought that was prettyweird.
I'd believe that it was ournational bird for years in fact,
I think I learned that in gradeschool, which was many, many
(10:24):
years ago.
So a lot the missing historyeffect.
That's happened once again.
Anybody have had that happen.
If you've had that happen oryou know of something that has
happened and you agree with thatpast being there, but it's not
(10:45):
anymore, why don't you send me amessage?
Be something good we can talkabout.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh yeah, you get them fired up and then you'll just
talk about it, right?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
More than likely they're already fired up and
that's why you know we're goingto talk about it.
But anyway, on with the show.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All right, I'll go for that.
So our president signed intobill that the bird of the nation
is the official bird is thebald eagle, Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yep, it was actually featured on the US Great Seal
since 1782.
It's been used by the StateDepartment and printed on the
dollar bill, so it's been activefor a long time in our
government stuff, but now it'sbeen signed into a bill.
(11:49):
So I thought that'd be a great,a great beginning of our um,
new stuff and great thing totalk about.
What do you think about thatnow, Sunny?
By the way, I'm Bruce and I'msunny and I'm Sonny Yep, you
(12:09):
ready.
One, two, three and we're withthe Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
How did you know to pause atthe same time I did?
That was kind of eerie.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I watched your head was kind of eerie.
I watched your head it kind oftilted sideways.
Every time you do that you'regetting ready to stop talking
and think a second.
And that's what you did youtilted a little bit sideways, so
I stopped too and waited tillyour mouth moved.
There you go, there's your sign.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All right.
Well, thank you, Sonny, for mysign.
That's a tail sign, I think iswhat they call them.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, I don't know about that, but I can sure tell
Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Okay, boy, thank you for that.
I just don't know how to evengo on with that.
We'll have to figure outsomething to go past that with
and woo.
What do you think about allthose fires, sonny, in
California?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, I've just seen what you've seen on the reports
on news and social media well,yeah, that's probably what
everybody else has seen.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Um, it's sad, sickening, disgusting.
I could go on and on with thenames, but there's been a lot of
people, not a lot of lives,lost.
The last count I heard was fiveand that seems very low for the
damage.
But there was two major areasthat's just been burned all the
(13:56):
way down to the coast andthere's been blame thrown on
everything you know, from thegovernor and the mayor, and
turned the water water off.
Not enough water?
Uh, no, I don't know.
But I know there's been agriping for quite a while, um,
(14:18):
that they'd quit doing um, thefire breaks what they do like
every month or so.
They're for a while, until likethe 80s or 90s, and they quit
doing that.
And there's been quite a fewfires since then.
And this one got started in thecity limits, I guess, and the
(14:41):
100 milemile-an-hour wind theywas getting really ripped that
fire down through there anddemolished many, many homes,
cars, lots of property, manypeople lucky to get out of there
alive and it's just disgusting,I don't know how else to say it
(15:02):
.
It's disgusting, I don't knowhow else to say it.
There's a lot of conspiracytalk going on about it and about
judgment and many other thingsgoing on.
All I know is nobody wants tosee that happen.
I mean, whether they're richand can afford another one or
not does not matter.
It's a horrible thing.
(15:25):
So my prayers go out to thosefolks and whatever must come of
it.
We pray it comes in the rightmanner and through the right
light.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Oh boy Down there, buddy, I thought she was
supposed to make these podcaststo make everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, you got to have a little bit of bad news, I
guess.
How am I going to say this?
We've got to discuss some ofthe bad so we can get hope into
them lives.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, but I believe you can say it and they'll
understand it, even if I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, thank you for your vote of confidence.
And yeah, the fires arehorrible.
I don't think they've got themunder control yet, but I haven't
looked today to see if there'sanything else going on or if
it's still going.
But it reminds me a lot ofHawaii and you can take that any
(16:40):
way you want, but it's a goodway to reset stuff.
We've seen it happen over theyears.
Um, even back in the early1900s, almost all the property
they wanted to get rid of, whatthey do, they had fires, bricks,
(17:00):
concrete kind of weird how thatstuff burns.
But anyway, I told my wife it'sthe dragons.
Now you can put your ownthoughts into what the dragons
means.
But there you go.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I didn't know, we still had dragons.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, so I'm not going there, I'm leaving that
alone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Brave duck, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Um smart.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Alright, smart, brave duck, we'll just, we'll leave
it at that.
We'll go on to the next thing.
How's that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
what you drinking over there, bruce well, I'm glad
you asked.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I am got a biscuit tea with pepper and cinnamon
what a concoction.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Is that what you drink?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
every time Hibiscus tea with pepper and cinnamon.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What a concoction Is that what you drink?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
every time you get on a podcast.
No, but I drink it quite oftenbecause it helps my throat.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And it keeps me from getting very hoarse, you know,
like this oh that wasn't likethat.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That was like this Okay, if you could have just
seen Sonny's face when he didthat into his microphone, that
was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, don't be making fun of me now.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Um, okay, I will make fun of you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
No, I said don't.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, okay, I won't.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You're so silly.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Yeah, good drink of hibiscustea.
Yeah, I'm watching these carsgo by, sonny.
I bet you can see them too fromyour seat.
But you'll have three or fourgo by real slow driving like
sensible people, and then you'llhave one zip by here that looks
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like he's going 60 miles anhour.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, there's always one wanting to push it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, I hope everybody had a good Christmas
I'll drop back into that subjectfor just a second and I hope
you got some kind of presentthat you all can brag about and
enjoy.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I bet you're leading into what you got.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I am.
I got one present that I wasshocked to get and it was kind
of fun.
We've got a TV with a soundsystem hooked up to it quite old
system that I had piecedtogether from other stereo
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systems and it had mismatchingspeakers and sub and it got to
where it wasn't working quiteright when you would turn it on.
A lot of times the sound wouldnot work right and you'd have to
tap on the screen on the frontand then it would take off.
(20:24):
But we did get a new sound barthat actually hooked up a lot
different than I was used to.
I was shocked how easily ithooked up.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well, tell us what was different.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Boy, you led me right into that.
I like that, boy, you led meright into that.
I like that.
Well, most of the old stereosthat I've used in the past
either hooked up with a stereowire out of the back of the TV
into the stereo or a fiber wire.
(21:02):
I forget what they actuallycalled that, but that hookup
would go straight from the TV tothe stereo unit and I think I
had it hooked up from the Sonyno, not Sony, the Xbox to the
unit, because that's where I gotmy main power.
But anyhow, this unit actuallyhas an hdmi cable that powers
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the sound.
And before you say that'sbackwards, I really looked at
that paperwork when I got it outand I went really.
But there's an arc, what theycall an arc hdmi hookup on the
back of most of the new TVs andit actually goes dual pathway.
(21:48):
It'll be an intake.
If you hook like a VCR no, aVCR, I'm showing my age Xbox,
playstation or a DVD player,something like that, to the TV,
you can hook it up through thatunit, that port, to the TV.
You can hook it up through thatunit, that port.
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Or if you want to hook up yourspeaker to that port, then it
will drive that speaker and allyou have to do is go into the
settings and turn that arc modeon and then it drives it.
And it's pretty cool.
It works really well.
It's got good bass, good treble.
Uh, I really like have the easeof working it now because I can
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just hit the power button on it, turn the volume up and we're
on where the old system.
I had to readjust each speakerevery time we turned it back on
and it was a a pain, that's allI could say.
So yay to my family for gettingme that christmas present,
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because I was not expecting itand, uh, I was able to enjoy uh
tv viewing.
Now, you know, because I'vealways said you can have a
little bitty picture, but if youhave good audio coming out you
can enjoy the movie.
But you can have a great, big,huge picture and if the sound is
(23:17):
horrible you still won't enjoythat movie, and I've seen that
happen many, many times.
People will buy a huge tv,especially these newer ones, and
they have horrible speakers inthem, very, very small, they're
tinny.
You can't get very good soundout of them.
They do that.
(23:38):
So you'll buy, you know, anewer stereo system to go with
it, but you can't enjoy thatmovie if you're trying to watch
it on that type of audio.
Again, audio is important.
That's why you're listening toa podcast.
Right, and I know people liketo do video podcasts.
(23:59):
I don't call that a podcast,but videos.
And well, there is a good placefor that, but it's still not
audio and if it has bad sound,I'm telling you you're not going
to watch it very often.
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Well, has everybody heard ofJeff Bezos?
Everybody knows who.
That is right, one of the richguys in the world.
Yeah, apparently he got alicense to do a test launch of
his new Glenn heavy lift launchvehicle and it successfully
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fired up rockets on a launch pad.
They call it Blue Origin.
Fired up rockets on a launchpad.
They call it blue origin andlet's see, it did that on
december the 28th.
So another uh test fire.
I guess that's uh.
I'm going to be somecompetition for that other
company and I'm not going tomention no names, but you guys
(25:03):
all know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I think he's the owner of X, yeah, okay, you're
not going to mention no names,but you said he's the owner of X
.
Yeah, that ought to giveeverybody a good hint.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, that's the obvious point there, Sonny, oh I
didn't know you was's theobvious point there, sonny?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh, I didn't know you was making an obvious point.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, obviously you didn't know.
Yeah, I could have come out andjust said what his name was, or
that he's Trump's right-handman, or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh, but we're not gonna mention no names okay,
yeah, we're not gonna mentionany names.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How's that?
Oh boy, you are goofy I am, andyou know I just seen two trucks
go by creeping that.
It must be getting slick outthere now that the snow's
melting as it falls, so I betit's getting slushy.
They're just creeping by and Iwas wanting to go to town a
(26:14):
little bit later and pick up agallon of milk, but you know
what I may not.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh you poor baby, You'll have to do with that milk
.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, that's not true.
I've got three quarters of agallon of 2% in there that I
picked up last week, but I don'treally want 2%.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh you poor baby.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right, I've had enough of that.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh you poor baby.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay.
So what do you think all thesepeople are test-firing these big
, huge rockets for?
Do you think they're going todo something drastic with them,
or they're just blowing money?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think they're not going to be blowing money just
to be blowing money, or wouldthey?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know.
There seems to be a lot of thatgoing around.
I mean, everybody seems to bedoing that right now, even
though we don't have any.
But you know, if we don't haveit, let's just send it to
Ukraine.
Yeah, there we go.
They need billions of moremoney.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Boy, you are getting brave.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You don't have everybody mad at you well, maybe
, maybe I'll have everybody justhappy at me.
What do you think?
I don't even know what thatmeans I don't either, I just
said it well, stop it okay,anyway, yeah, I thought that was
funny when I read that articleback.
(27:58):
It's a couple weeks old.
I read it and I saved it so Icould read it to my followers
and listeners and anybody elsethat tunes into the podcast.
You know what I thought theother day, changing the subject
you know what would be neat ifwe could have a radio, because
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I'm a radio guy, I love radios,I'm a ham operator, but if we
could have a radio that doesn'tpodcast.
So if anybody's listening, thiswould be a neat trick.
If you could just have it.
Uh boy, there goes another onezipping along about two miles an
hour.
It must be really getting slick.
But anyway, if you could uhsomehow turn it on and zip
(28:43):
around the dial and it wouldpick up different podcasts like
it they do right now on stations, and you could zip around and
you pick one up and oh I, I likethat one and listen to it.
That would be kind of cool ifwe had some kind of system that
does that Right now, the way we.
You know, if you were listeningto me, you know how you got
(29:06):
there and it's not really a funexperience trying to find new
podcasts.
I know I've hunted for hoursbefore um, you can type in words
to have it searched for, butthen they're usually words
that's found in the title andit's hard to, you know, find
(29:30):
anything else.
So if the title of the podcastor the episode does not include
those things, it's hard, youknow, to get it to those
narrowed down spots.
So you have something to listento.
Anyway, I'm going to shut upnow.
I'm not making sense, right?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
No, you're making perfect sense.
You're kind of dumb, that kindof sense.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, thank you, sonny, I really appreciate you
having my back.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, no problem, I enjoy it.
Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, anyhow, I think I thought one day that would be
so cool if I could just punch abutton, zip around the band,
but instead of having stationscome in, you'd have podcasts
come in.
That would be so cool.
Anyhow, on with the show.
Uh, nasa has this solar probecalled parker and it's going to
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survive, being the closest probeto the sun.
It's a 1510 pound probe andit's been launched for quite a
while, but it's going to gowithin.
Let's see 3.8 million miles ofthe sun on Christmas Eve and
then it's going to shoot backtheir information so they can
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verify that it made it and itdid that.
Let me pull that information up.
Let me pull that information up.
It was scheduled to make theclosest ever flyby of the sun to
date and that was, like I said,christmas Eve.
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But it will reach 3.8 millionmiles of the solar surface,
about 4.5 times the diameter ofthe sun.
Now I'm not sure what that'ssupposed to mean, but that's
weird why they even said that.
But anyway, they got theinformation back.
Supposedly it made it.
(31:50):
I'm not sure what they'velearned from it.
I haven't seen any of that comeout yet, but surely they will.
Let us know what they'velearned about getting that close
to the sun 3.8 million miles.
I don't know how they come upwith that stuff oh, you're still
not a believer, are you?
(32:12):
no, not, really not when I cansee the sun set in between
clouds.
And I actually witnessed thatcoming back from uh, effingham,
wasn't it?
Um, when I went up there fortraining this last summer, I was
coming home and the sun wassetting and you could actually
(32:35):
see it setting in between theclouds.
And I'm thinking there'ssomething wrong with that
picture and the information theygive us.
But anyhow, I'm not going toget into it.
But when they start boostingthat kind of mileage and telling
us how far they're going, howfar it's taking them and how
(32:56):
long it takes, and blah, blah,blah, blah, it reminds me of
when I was in school, man andthe kids would start talking
bull.
They'd start telling you thisline of oh, my dad did this and
he did this and he was so big,and blah, blah, blah, and before
long you knew they was tellinga big whopper.
(33:16):
And I think these guys aretelling big whoppers uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Can you prove that?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
well, of course, I can't, nope, can't do it well
yeah, I don't know what day isin.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Did you just cut?
Yeah, you cut out, sorry.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I didn't cut out.
You shut my mic off, you turkey.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You did too, hey guys .
Bruce just shut my mic off andpretended like I got cut off.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Okay, well, I told you I was going to do that one
of these days.
You just keep it up.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, it's not, but anyhow, yeah, you're just
blowing smoke and you can'tprove it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, I don't know about all that, but one of these
days this stuff's going to comeout and we're going to know.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
They may not want it to come out, but it's going to.
The lies never stay dormant.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, that's true very true, on with the show.
Okay, we are on with the show.
Well, I run into an interestingarticle online and it's called
you ready for this, folks.
How did the tradition of NewYear's resolutions start?
(34:45):
So did anybody ever wonder that?
I think I may have wonderedthat twice.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Of course you didn't.
You probably don't even makeNew Year's resolutions, do you?
Nope, I didn't.
Of course you didn't.
You probably don't even makeNew Year's resolutions, do you?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Nope, I don't.
I just try to do better nextyear and better the next year,
and if I don't, well, I guessI'm doing what I need to be
doing.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, that's a good thing.
I wish we could all do that.
But we have to have a startingpoint and an ending point in our
lives where we think, okay,that was behind us, now let's go
forward and that's what.
That's what we use on NewYear's.
And anyway, I ran across thisarticle and it was found on the
(35:32):
Almanac.
Believe it or not, just go toalmanaccom and you can look it
up.
But how did we, how did we getthat information?
Well, apparently, back in 2000bc, the babylonians celebrate
the new year new year during a12-day festival called akatu,
(35:55):
and it's starting with a vernalequinox, and this was during
farm season to plant the crops,to crown their king and make
promises to pay their debts.
Now, I like that.
Make promises to pay their debt?
Huh, that's an interestingconcept.
And so they made uh resolutions, and one common resolution was
(36:19):
the return of borrowed farmequipment.
Uh, yeah, anyhow.
Uh, that was adopted by theancient romans, as was the
tradition of resolutions.
The timing, however, eventuallyshifted with the Julian
calendar in 46 BC, whichdeclared January 1st as the
(36:42):
start of the new year.
Okay, I don't know if you guyscaught that, but before this
time, the new year actuallyhappened in the spring, during
growing season or right beforegrowing season.
And then the romans decided toscrew everybody up and started
(37:04):
smack dab in the middle of thewinter, at january, the first uh
, you think about that.
No wonder everybody's depressedon the new year.
You're going through this uglytime of the year where it's
cloudy all the time, especiallyin southern Illinois, bad
(37:24):
weather, cold, gloomy, dead,because you have hardly any
green, anything, and you start anew year in the middle of that.
No, that don't even seem right.
But they do, because we gotthat new calendar that the
Romans gave us back in 46 BC.
(37:45):
Yeah, anyhow, that's where thatall comes from.
Now, if we started the new year, like it should be started, in
the spring, then we would have agood reason to celebrate
because we'd be starting intothe growing season and the new
(38:08):
is coming up out of the ground,the grass is getting green, the
plants are growing, the birdsare singing.
I mean it would all go together.
You wonder why your body is off, your mind is off.
There you go.
We're not following nature oranything anymore, we're just
doing some weird calendar.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Oh boy, you are on the road today to prosperity,
not you're on the road to makeeverybody mad.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, I don't think anybody's going to be mad.
If they're listening to me andthey're mad, they won't listen
no more.
That'll be it.
It'll be over.
If they are listening to me andthey're understanding what I'm
saying, then maybe they'll comeback, right, Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
well, if you say so, I'll go for it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, thank you for your vote of confidence.
Well, it's slowly getting darkoutside.
I started the podcast a littlebit late.
Still snowing outside.
Temperature's still warm enough, it's trying to melt, but it's
still snowing in southernIllinois.
What do you think about that,sonny?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I think it's great.
We're having a good day, we'reenjoying it and I'm liking being
on this podcast.
We need to podcast forever.
Yay, go podcast, go podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
All right, you're not too excited, are you?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nope, not at all.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
All right.
Well, in that case, have youtalking about being excited?
Have you heard that they found27 new and exciting and blobby
species in Peruvia rainforest?
I think I said that, right, thePeruvian rainforest.
(40:07):
I found this article onpopularsciencecom popular
science dot com, and it isdescribing the the cool species
that they have found, andthey're nothing really different
(40:27):
.
I mean, they found a fish theycall a fish blob and, uh it,
they got a picture of it.
In fact, I think I'll put thepicture of it up on my website
if you're interested.
So I'm not going to go over, uh, all 27 these new species.
(40:48):
This article come out ondecember, the 20th, 2024.
See, I'm just trying to catchup from not being on the air for
a few days or recording mypodcast, if you want me to say
it correctly.
We don't want any people sadbecause I didn't say it right.
(41:08):
Anyway, I'm not going.
I'm not going to go over allthe different species.
I would, if you're an animallover or you like stuff like
that, go look at Popular Science, their article.
It's just go to Popular Scienceand look up the 27 new,
(41:30):
exciting and blobby speciesdiscovered in the Peruvian
rainforest and you'll getpictures of all the new,
different species and they havemany different ones.
But they have a spiny mouse, abat squirrel or is that a bat
(41:57):
and a squirrel?
There you go, and an amphibiousmouse.
Did I say that right?
Amphibious mouse?
It actually has webbed feet.
I'll go ahead and put thatpicture on the web page too.
They got a frog, a fishbutterfly.
(42:21):
I mean, they've got a lot ofneat stuff on here.
See, this is the kind of news Ilike to bring out.
It's exciting and pretty neat.
It's pretty neat.
They said they found 218butterfly species and 71 scarab
(42:42):
beetles wow, that's kind of neat.
And 536 different bird specieswere spotted.
26 of these birds arethreatened with extinction and
they got a beautiful picture ofone.
I may put that one on there too.
I'll do that.
I'll put the bird, the fishblob and the amphibian rat.
(43:13):
That ought to be pretty cool.
Alright, that sounds like awinner.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
What do you think about that, Sonny?
I think that sounds kind ofweird.
They don't have an uglyquacking duck on there, do they?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
No, they would have to have both of us on there to
have the full package.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, that's the first time you've ever said I
was part of the package.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well, don't get your head in an uproar and I need to
buy you a new pillow or anythinglike that.
You know, swollen heads are notcomfortable.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Oh, be quiet.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Oh, you know, it's true.
All right for a segment.
We're going to call this newstuff.
Yeah, we just talked about newspecies and I've got a couple
clips real quick.
They're actually storylinesabout new stuff.
(44:17):
You've heard of the new speciesand this one's about new toilet
paper, believe it or not.
It's called Honeycomb and itwas created in order to save the
trees.
Order to save the trees, therewas apparently 27,000 trees per
(44:39):
day were being destroyed to maketoilet paper.
So these guys, this company,put together an eco-friendly
product.
It is made out of guess what?
It's made out of Everybodyready.
Come on, my guess.
It's made out of Everybodyready.
Come on, my guess.
I'm not hearing anybody.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't think anybody's going to answer you.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Well, probably not, but I like to keep up the facade
.
But anyway, everybody, it'sbamboo toilet paper that got
tongue-tied there.
Yeah, and Honeycomb is not theonly company that's doing it.
There is a couple others if youlook it up, but there is Grove,
(45:27):
I think, is the other companythat I'm thinking of.
But it's great that they aremaking it out of Honeycomb and
why you may ask or not,honeycomb?
Excuse me, I misspoke it out ofhoneycomb and why you may ask
or not, honeycomb?
Excuse me, I misspoke out ofbamboo and why you may ask go
ahead, go ahead and ask it, butsunny all right, I'll fall for
(45:47):
it.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Why bamboo?
Speaker 1 (45:51):
there you go.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because it grows I think theysaid, 100 times faster.
So you know, if they do 27,000trees a day to make toilet paper
, that would set.
You know if everybody would buyplant-based.
There you go, you're killingplants, but some of these plants
(46:15):
will grow faster than a treedoes, so you're actually saving
in the long run.
Now I haven't studied all thepluses and minuses.
So if that is true, you'regoing to save trees quite a bit.
But that would be importantbecause trees are what cleans
(46:36):
our air not just trees but grassand other plants.
But trees are the majority ofour air cleaners in this world
and we're cutting them downfaster than we can get them grow
back up.
That is what they say, thatthese companies are making
(46:57):
bamboo toilet paper.
Now I'm not sure how softthat's going to be.
I've thought about orderingsome of it and give you guys a
report.
If my hiney likes it, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I bet you was waiting for me to do a smart aleck
remark on that.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yes, I was, and you didn't do it.
You disappointed me.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Well, so sorry, I'll let you know if you have your
hiney on here.
Oh man, I'll let you know then.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
All right, that sounds fair to me.
I think everybody's familiarwith AI, right?
Well, NVIDIA, which has been acompany that's produced lots of
chips mainly video boards andchips but they've went to other
(47:54):
places video boards and chips,but they went to other places.
They have come out with a$3,000 desktop.
It's an AI computer for thehome.
Now that thing is called a.
(48:15):
It's made for the ProjectDigits D-I-G-I-T-S and I'm sure
that's some kind of synonym orword for another group of words,
but it's called Project Digitsand this machine's been built so
you can run a local chatbot orother AI on this thing and it
(48:36):
will run on there.
Now, before, anybody that hadwanted to use a chatbot or an ai
had to get on one of thenetworks that was running it
because it took so muchcomputing power.
But supposedly this threethousand dollar desktop will run
this thing, um, and they're notgoing to have any problems with
(48:58):
it.
So we'll see.
But this $3,000 desktop willrun this thing and they're not
going to have any problems withit, so we'll see.
But I don't know if that scaresanybody out there, but they're
going to have an AI running on ahome desktop.
Now, think about that, folks,yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Does that make anybody smarter?
Yeah, Does that make anybodysmarter, or does?
It just make you for a moreexpensive fool, buying this
$3,000 computer.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
That is a good question.
Well, I don't know, but I'mwaiting for them to put together
this type of computer for yourhome Now.
Right now they're aiming thisthing at researchers, data
scientists and students.
I guess our regular old homepeople like a podcaster like me
(49:46):
or maybe a video creator,doesn't have no need for a nice,
beautiful $3,000 computer orthe resources.
So there you go, but I'mwaiting for them to bring
together a computer like thisthat gives you an ai in your
house and a quantum computer.
(50:09):
Put those two together.
You know, quantum computerssupposedly is getting part of
their computations from anotheruniverse or an alternate
universe.
That supposedly this is whatthey say.
That's what makes them so quickat getting the answers.
(50:32):
So If they combine that kind ofcomputing With these AI
computers, then what are wegoing to have?
I'm sure they're thinking aboutit already.
Good grief, we'll have a.
What was that?
A T?
Oh, what was that in the movie?
(50:55):
A T1?
Is that what they called thatcomputer?
That was a living computer thatcome back from the future to
destroy mankind's dream.
I don't remember T1, I think iswhat it's called, but if
(51:16):
anybody out there knows, you canemail me or send me a message.
That would be cool to find out,and I don't know if anybody
heard this or not, butapparently Puerto Rico suffered
an island-wide power outageearly morning on New Year's Day
(51:39):
or Eve.
New Year's Eve.
It was so big, it plungedmillions of people into darkness
and it was something to do withtheir faulty power grid over
there, and I think it took thema few days to get it back to
going.
(51:59):
I'm not even sure if they gotit all back yet, but how'd you
like to have that happen to you?
We're not on an island, but itwouldn't take much to wipe out
our power grid and make all ofus go dark.
Let's hope that doesn't happen.
(52:19):
Okay, well, we're running thisshow a little bit close on time.
I wanted to get done with lessthan an hour and boy, we're
running close.
So let's do a quick count onthe earthquakes.
And then I got a song to endwith from Wave Lake.
So give me just a minute to getthe numbers.
(52:39):
All right, this is the numbersI got.
It wrote down For December, the22nd.
2036 was the total amount ofearthquakes and we show it went
down.
So there's your hint, so go forit, sonny.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
All right if it went down, I'm going to guess 1835.
I'm going to guess 1835.
We'll see what that does.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Well, it gets you close.
You're still a little bit over,but that's all right, we'll
give you applause here.
Hang on, how's that, sonny?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Oh, that's great.
I'm going to take my bow.
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Alright, everybody couldn't see that, but Sonny
took his bow, so you guessed1835, the actual count for the
last seven days is 1753.
1,753 total earthquakes.
The 2.5 earthquakes went down,which kind of blows my theory.
(53:58):
They went down.
They were 305 on the 22nd oflast month and now they're 295,
and the 4.5 was 121 and they are117 now, which shows all of
them went down.
Now there's a whole bunch of4.5s and 5.9s in in that number
(54:26):
range.
Uh, actually there's only two6.0 above, so that leaves us
with 293 of those things.
So I don't know how that'sworking out.
I may need to reevaluate theevaluate the numbers, but anyway
, we had a 6.2 in el salvadorand a 7.1 in tibet, southern
(54:54):
tibet, and it actually hit thenews.
Um, I picked it up on my newsstuff so I'm going to read it to
you.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquakestruck the Shigetse region of
Tibet yesterday at 9.05 am localtime that would have been
(55:16):
Monday Causing a widespreaddamage and claiming at least 126
lives.
Damage and claiming at least126 lives.
The epicenter was located inthe high-altitude Chinese county
(55:37):
of Dengzhi and I'm probablybutchering all these names and I
apologize for that.
It's about 47 miles northeastof Mount Everest at a depth of
6.2 miles.
The tremors were felt acrossNepal, india and Bhutan.
So there you go, folks.
That earthquake actually hit andmade news, which is not a good
(56:00):
thing at all, because that meansit's probably a lot of damage
and a lot of suffering and a lotof lives lost.
So let's stay in prayer forthose people.
Let's remember.
If you don't pray, sendpositive thoughts.
That's just as important.
So either get down and pray orstand up and hold your hands up
(56:25):
and pray.
I don't care how you pray, justpray or send positive thoughts.
Remember the fire victims andthe hurricane victims.
There's been a lot of sufferingthe last few months, the last
year, this year has alreadystarted.
So let's remember those peopleand those things, and I hope
(56:49):
you've enjoyed the show.
So we are going to end thisshow, this season, this episode
I don't know why I said season.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
I don't know why you said it either, but duh all
right.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
So I hope you enjoyed and it was worth staying with
us.
We will try to be back in twoweeks.
Um, if you have anything youwant to say about the show or
the audio, I think it's improvedover the last few months.
(57:23):
We've got it where I think itsounds pretty good and
everybody's got new mics,including uh, well, he's kind of
got a new one, sunny, but wegot a new one for lily, if she
ever gets back on.
I've got two new ones I use offand on and I I've got them
tuned just so I think I like theway it sounds.
(57:45):
Uh, it would be nice if somebodywould comment Again.
Email me theuglyquackingduck atgmailcom.
If you've got an app that's gotthe new 2.0 on it, well, I
don't even have to have that ona lot of them.
But if you've got an app you'reusing to listen, it's got a
(58:07):
place where you can click on mydetails and it will tell you to
go here and text me and we'llread your email or your text off
the next show, unless youspecifically tell me not to.
Speaker 2 (58:23):
Oh yeah, you better tell him not to, because he's
chomping at the bit man.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
he's wanting to read one yeah, it's been a while
since I've got to do that and wealso got a speak pipe.
I think it's what it's calledon the website.
If you go to the comment pageand there's a little button
there you can click on and youcan if you're on phone
especially, you can record itright there.
(58:50):
It will send it to me and I'llbe able to play it on the next
podcast Not just read one, butplay one.
How cool is that.
I still haven't got to use that.
I'm going to have to record oneof my own, I guess, to make it
happen.
Speaker 2 (59:06):
Oh, don't do that to us, please, please, please,
please, please.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
Okay, I might not.
Maybe you know I'm reallywanting to.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
I know, but don't.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
All right, I may.
I'm not going to promise.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
Oh fine, let's say bye.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
All right, well, we're not going to say bye,
we're just pumping up to thatlast spot, but we're going to
play a song from wave lake again.
These guys go on there, thesecreators go on wave lake.
Put their creations, theirproduct, their songs or podcasts
, whatever it is and for peoplelike us to come on there and we
(59:52):
pay them, uh, some kind of valuefor that.
I use the bitcoin and put onthere.
So, hint, hint, if you want toshow your value that I have gave
you for this podcast oranything else, be part of our
podcast.
You can just tell people aboutus, you can help us produce it.
(01:00:16):
We need artwork, we need allkinds of help, or you can
financially help us.
Anything of that would be nice.
Just being part of it would begreat.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Yeah, if you just send him something, he'll be so
excited I won't be able to holdhim down.
Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
You wouldn't be able to hold me down anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Whatever.
All right, let's go on with thesong.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Yeah, let's have the song.
What's go on with the song?
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
what do you think?
Yeah, let's have the song.
What's the name of the song?
All right, folks, the name ofthe song is as we go, and it's
brought to you by matt andjoanne black.
I hope you enjoy it and we'llclose out the the show right
after the song.
So sit back, get you somethingto drink and some chips or
something, and listen to thesong and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
It's His love that has called and compelled us, and
His grace that our wanderinghearts have known, calling us to
go To the lonely, the lost andbroken.
We will hold out the life hegave to us.
(01:01:49):
He's calling us to go as we go.
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
(01:02:11):
glory christ has shown as we go,as we go, the spirit of the
lord is upon us.
So go and speak good news to aworld in need.
He's calling us to go, bind thehearts of the brokenhearted,
(01:02:41):
tell the prisoners that he hasset them free.
Yeah, he's calling us to go aswe go.
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
(01:03:06):
glory Christ has shown as we go,as we go.
Here we go, go, go, go, go, go,go as we go.
(01:03:49):
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
glory Christ has shown as we go,shown as we go.
Oh, as we go, as we go, we willcarry the light as we go, let
(01:04:20):
it shine through the night Tillthe whole world knows we will
share the hope of the gloryChrist has shown.
As we go, as we go, oh, as wego, as we go, as we go.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Woo-wee, that beat as we go, fan-based thing,
whatever you want to callyourselves enjoyed it and if you
did look them guys up onWavelake and get signed up so
you can give them some kind ofpayment for that song, we hope
(01:05:21):
that you did enjoy it.
And again they're on Wavelake.
That's wave W-A-V-v-l-a-k-ecomand they are called matt and
joanna black and the song was aswe go.
(01:05:41):
So again, go and look them upand as we go.
Today we want to say goodbye toeverybody.
We hope you have a good couplemore weeks.
We're just starting the end ofthis year.
The inauguration is going to bein just what?
(01:06:01):
Another week, maybe two weeks,I can't remember exactly when
it's going to happen, but we'regetting close.
So everybody, tighten up,bundle up, watch out for the
cold.
It's been kind of cold aroundhere in Southern Illinois.
We want to say hi to theMidwest, hi to the Southern
(01:06:32):
Illinois group, hi to MountVernon, illinois people, anybody
else out there that knows us,hi, and I hope you have a good
time and we will see you backhere on the radio, so to speak.
But we'll be back here on theuh podcast, probably in another
two weeks.
So have a good time everybody.
Are you ready, sonny?
We're gonna say it one, two,three.
(01:06:55):
Bye everybody.
73.
Well, good morning good afternoon good evening good
day wherever you are, there youare.
Hello everyone.
I hope that wasn't too long ofan intro.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I say it was a little bit too long.
Bruce Gosh, I started dancingbefore you got on the mic.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, that's a good thing, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, you ever watch a duck dance.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, I haven't.
I guess I did today.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, there you go.
That ought to answer yourquestion.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, it didn't answer anything, but anyway, let's say
hi to everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hi everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, that's not quite how I had it in mind, but
okay, welcome to the showeveryone.
This is the Ugly Quacking Duckpodcast, episode number 98, I
believe, and we're glad to haveeveryone aboard.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Everyone aboard.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
There you go, everyone aboard.
See, I can do it too.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Everyone aboard.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
All right, we're not having this contest.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Why not?
You're such a chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And you're a duck.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Maybe, maybe I'm an alien.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
All right, well, we won't get into that argument or
discussion for now.
Maybe, maybe I'm an alien.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All right.
Well, we won't get into thatargument or discussion for now.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Again, you're a chicken, All right.
Well, I don't want to waste allthe valuable airtime that we're
recording here on that and theneverybody get bored and shut us
off.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh yeah, that's a good point.
They may.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, you bet you They'll get bored of us.
And then go click and then goto another podcast.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can you do that again ?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I could, but let's just say I did and don't, all
right.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, shoot, you're no fun.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Anyway, again we want to welcome everybody aboard the
show today, episode number 98.
And we are enjoying watchingthe snow come down.
We've been watching it allmorning and we're in southern
illinois and it's just comingdown all day and it's still
(02:53):
coming down and we thought wewould enjoy watching it while we
did our work on our podcast.
We've had a couple of days offwork and it's been kind of nice.
I got to go back tomorrowafternoon, but you know that's
tomorrow afternoon.
We're going to put it off untiltomorrow, right?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's the way you are with everything.
Let's put it off.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, let's put it off, but anyhow, that's what our
plans are.
So, as we continue this podcastagain, if you're a new listener
, you just tuned into us, justfound us, I'm glad you did and I
hope you stick around and comeback.
And if you're one of ourreliable people that's been here
(03:42):
several times, thank you andyou keep coming back, you hear
okay, you got that down, pat,don't you?
well, not quite, but we'retrying anyhow.
Um, today is January the 10th,19.
(04:03):
Wow, show them my age January10th 2025.
It's snowing.
The last time I checked thetemperature let me check it
again it was like 31 degrees.
I'll check it right now as I'mtalking to you.
As soon as I find the app Allright, I'm punching on it.
Get ready.
(04:23):
The weather thing's'm punchingon it.
Get ready.
The weather thing's coming up33 degrees with snow, so it's
probably melting, if it can meltwith all that ice and snow
underneath it Been pretty crazyaround here in southern Illinois
and Missouri and a lot ofdifferent places.
(04:46):
They've had snow, we've hadstores closed and school is
still out and that means they'llhave the weekend to get
recouped and ready to go andhopefully it'll go good and
they'll be able to go back right.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Now, why are you wishing that on anybody?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, you know, yeah, well, the teachers need to go
back so they can make some money.
Right, they get paid.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, well no.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
All right.
Well, we won't go anymore intothat.
Oh nope, not at all.
But good afternoon everybodyfrom the ugly quacking duck
podcast studio.
Uh, we are looking at the snowand it's a beautiful sight.
That's because I don't have toget out in it and I pray, and I
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hope everybody that has to getout in it or did get out in it
and has got to come home safe,travel, safe passage and be
careful, be safe.
Well, we're trying to get ourfeet wet again.
It's been a couple weeks sincewe've done a podcast.
Actually, it's been a littlebit longer than that, because
the New Year Eve podcast wasjust a bit of our voice and then
(06:15):
we had several segments of theold podcast from 2024.
So it's been, you know know, alittle bit of a break and we
hope everybody's got their feetwet into the new year, year 2025
to be exact.
I hope it's going well foreverybody.
(06:38):
Uh, boy, there's been some badthings happening.
We won't get into any of thatyet, although we've got quite a
bit of news wrapped up and theearthquake reports, and it might
take a little bit to getthrough all that, but anyhow,
(06:58):
nobody sent me any texts ormessages on my website or on a
speak pipe, so I don't know ifanything's happening to you guys
out there.
I know everybody's been busygetting ready, you know, for
Christmas and then the New Yearcelebration, and things are
(07:20):
probably starting to slow down,although the weather is not
allowing us to be verybusiness-like, is it?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I think you're silly.
It's beautiful weather.
We can go out there and floparound in that snow.
Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Well, you got that right.
It is kind of nice to beflopping around in.
I know the cats have beenrunning around out there and
bouncing and jumping.
They don't stay out very long,it gets cold for them.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, it gets cold for me too.
My feet get cold.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I bet it does.
Yeah, speaking of bird feet orbirds, did you know back on
Christmas Eve?
I think it was.
Let me look.
Yes, christmas Eve, guess whatJoe Biden signed into
legislation.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
None him, not no telling.
Go ahead, let us know, get itto us, buddy.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
All right, I'm not sure all that's necessary, but
he signed into bill that the new, what the new bird for our
national bird is now the baldeagle.
Now, before you say anything,yes, I was one of those also
(08:46):
that thought the bald eagle now,before you say anything.
Yes, I was one of those alsothat thought the bald eagle was
already our national bird and ifyou're one of those, don't feel
bad.
But according to other people,it had never been into sign and
never had been signed into abill and adopted as a national
(09:07):
bird.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, that sounds kind of weird.
You guys thought it was, but itwasn't.
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, really, that's precisely.
Yeah, wow, yeah, it's on uhmoney, it's on very many of the
documents, but yet it wasn'tnationally known bird, but the
bald eagle is now, because itwas signed in a bill on
(09:41):
christmas eve 2024 by PresidentJoe Biden.
I guess I can say that properly.
Give him a little bit ofrespect, even though I'm not
sure anybody Never mind.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You're just about to get yourself in trouble there,
dude.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yes, I am Thank you for catching that, but anyway,
yeah, I thought that was prettyweird.
I'd believe that it was ournational bird for years in fact,
I think I learned that in gradeschool, which was many, many
(10:24):
years ago.
So a lot the missing historyeffect.
That's happened once again.
Anybody have had that happen.
If you've had that happen oryou know of something that has
happened and you agree with thatpast being there, but it's not
(10:45):
anymore, why don't you send me amessage?
Be something good we can talkabout.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh yeah, you get them fired up and then you'll just
talk about it, right?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
More than likely they're already fired up and
that's why you know we're goingto talk about it.
But anyway, on with the show.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All right, I'll go for that.
So our president signed intobill that the bird of the nation
is the official bird is thebald eagle, Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yep, it was actually featured on the US Great Seal
since 1782.
It's been used by the StateDepartment and printed on the
dollar bill, so it's been activefor a long time in our
government stuff, but now it'sbeen signed into a bill.
(11:49):
So I thought that'd be a great,a great beginning of our um,
new stuff and great thing totalk about.
What do you think about thatnow, Sunny?
By the way, I'm Bruce and I'msunny and I'm Sonny Yep, you
(12:09):
ready.
One, two, three and we're withthe Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
How did you know to pause atthe same time I did?
That was kind of eerie.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I watched your head was kind of eerie.
I watched your head it kind oftilted sideways.
Every time you do that you'regetting ready to stop talking
and think a second.
And that's what you did youtilted a little bit sideways, so
I stopped too and waited tillyour mouth moved.
There you go, there's your sign.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
All right.
Well, thank you, Sonny, for mysign.
That's a tail sign, I think iswhat they call them.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, I don't know about that, but I can sure tell
Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Okay, boy, thank you for that.
I just don't know how to evengo on with that.
We'll have to figure outsomething to go past that with
and woo.
What do you think about allthose fires, sonny, in
California?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well, I've just seen what you've seen on the reports
on news and social media well,yeah, that's probably what
everybody else has seen.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Um, it's sad, sickening, disgusting.
I could go on and on with thenames, but there's been a lot of
people, not a lot of lives,lost.
The last count I heard was fiveand that seems very low for the
damage.
But there was two major areasthat's just been burned all the
(13:56):
way down to the coast andthere's been blame thrown on
everything you know, from thegovernor and the mayor, and
turned the water water off.
Not enough water?
Uh, no, I don't know.
But I know there's been agriping for quite a while, um,
(14:18):
that they'd quit doing um, thefire breaks what they do like
every month or so.
They're for a while, until likethe 80s or 90s, and they quit
doing that.
And there's been quite a fewfires since then.
And this one got started in thecity limits, I guess, and the
(14:41):
100 milemile-an-hour wind theywas getting really ripped that
fire down through there anddemolished many, many homes,
cars, lots of property, manypeople lucky to get out of there
alive and it's just disgusting,I don't know how else to say it
(15:02):
.
It's disgusting, I don't knowhow else to say it.
There's a lot of conspiracytalk going on about it and about
judgment and many other thingsgoing on.
All I know is nobody wants tosee that happen.
I mean, whether they're richand can afford another one or
not does not matter.
It's a horrible thing.
(15:25):
So my prayers go out to thosefolks and whatever must come of
it.
We pray it comes in the rightmanner and through the right
light.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Oh boy Down there, buddy, I thought she was
supposed to make these podcaststo make everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Well, you got to have a little bit of bad news, I
guess.
How am I going to say this?
We've got to discuss some ofthe bad so we can get hope into
them lives.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
No, but I believe you can say it and they'll
understand it, even if I don't.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, thank you for your vote of confidence.
And yeah, the fires arehorrible.
I don't think they've got themunder control yet, but I haven't
looked today to see if there'sanything else going on or if
it's still going.
But it reminds me a lot ofHawaii and you can take that any
(16:40):
way you want, but it's a goodway to reset stuff.
We've seen it happen over theyears.
Um, even back in the early1900s, almost all the property
they wanted to get rid of, whatthey do, they had fires, bricks,
(17:00):
concrete kind of weird how thatstuff burns.
But anyway, I told my wife it'sthe dragons.
Now you can put your ownthoughts into what the dragons
means.
But there you go.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well, I didn't know, we still had dragons.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, so I'm not going there, I'm leaving that
alone.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Brave duck, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Um smart.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Alright, smart, brave duck, we'll just, we'll leave
it at that.
We'll go on to the next thing.
How's that?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
what you drinking over there, bruce well, I'm glad
you asked.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I am got a biscuit tea with pepper and cinnamon
what a concoction.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Is that what you drink?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
every time Hibiscus tea with pepper and cinnamon.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What a concoction Is that what you drink?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
every time you get on a podcast.
No, but I drink it quite oftenbecause it helps my throat.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And it keeps me from getting very hoarse, you know,
like this oh that wasn't likethat.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
That was like this Okay, if you could have just
seen Sonny's face when he didthat into his microphone, that
was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Hey, don't be making fun of me now.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Um, okay, I will make fun of you.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
No, I said don't.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh, okay, I won't.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You're so silly.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Yeah, good drink of hibiscustea.
Yeah, I'm watching these carsgo by, sonny.
I bet you can see them too fromyour seat.
But you'll have three or fourgo by real slow driving like
sensible people, and then you'llhave one zip by here that looks
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like he's going 60 miles anhour.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, there's always one wanting to push it.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, I hope everybody had a good Christmas
I'll drop back into that subjectfor just a second and I hope
you got some kind of presentthat you all can brag about and
enjoy.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And I bet you're leading into what you got.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, I am.
I got one present that I wasshocked to get and it was kind
of fun.
We've got a TV with a soundsystem hooked up to it quite old
system that I had piecedtogether from other stereo
(20:02):
systems and it had mismatchingspeakers and sub and it got to
where it wasn't working quiteright when you would turn it on.
A lot of times the sound wouldnot work right and you'd have to
tap on the screen on the frontand then it would take off.
(20:24):
But we did get a new sound barthat actually hooked up a lot
different than I was used to.
I was shocked how easily ithooked up.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Well, tell us what was different.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Boy, you led me right into that.
I like that, boy, you led meright into that.
I like that.
Well, most of the old stereosthat I've used in the past
either hooked up with a stereowire out of the back of the TV
into the stereo or a fiber wire.
(21:02):
I forget what they actuallycalled that, but that hookup
would go straight from the TV tothe stereo unit and I think I
had it hooked up from the Sonyno, not Sony, the Xbox to the
unit, because that's where I gotmy main power.
But anyhow, this unit actuallyhas an hdmi cable that powers
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the sound.
And before you say that'sbackwards, I really looked at
that paperwork when I got it outand I went really.
But there's an arc, what theycall an arc hdmi hookup on the
back of most of the new TVs andit actually goes dual pathway.
(21:48):
It'll be an intake.
If you hook like a VCR no, aVCR, I'm showing my age Xbox,
playstation or a DVD player,something like that, to the TV,
you can hook it up through thatunit, that port, to the TV.
You can hook it up through thatunit, that port.
(22:08):
Or if you want to hook up yourspeaker to that port, then it
will drive that speaker and allyou have to do is go into the
settings and turn that arc modeon and then it drives it.
And it's pretty cool.
It works really well.
It's got good bass, good treble.
Uh, I really like have the easeof working it now because I can
(22:31):
just hit the power button on it, turn the volume up and we're
on where the old system.
I had to readjust each speakerevery time we turned it back on
and it was a a pain, that's allI could say.
So yay to my family for gettingme that christmas present,
(22:53):
because I was not expecting itand, uh, I was able to enjoy uh
tv viewing.
Now, you know, because I'vealways said you can have a
little bitty picture, but if youhave good audio coming out you
can enjoy the movie.
But you can have a great, big,huge picture and if the sound is
(23:17):
horrible you still won't enjoythat movie, and I've seen that
happen many, many times.
People will buy a huge tv,especially these newer ones, and
they have horrible speakers inthem, very, very small, they're
tinny.
You can't get very good soundout of them.
They do that.
(23:38):
So you'll buy, you know, anewer stereo system to go with
it, but you can't enjoy thatmovie if you're trying to watch
it on that type of audio.
Again, audio is important.
That's why you're listening toa podcast.
Right, and I know people liketo do video podcasts.
(23:59):
I don't call that a podcast,but videos.
And well, there is a good placefor that, but it's still not
audio and if it has bad sound,I'm telling you you're not going
to watch it very often.
(24:19):
Well, has everybody heard ofJeff Bezos?
Everybody knows who.
That is right, one of the richguys in the world.
Yeah, apparently he got alicense to do a test launch of
his new Glenn heavy lift launchvehicle and it successfully
(24:40):
fired up rockets on a launch pad.
They call it Blue Origin.
Fired up rockets on a launchpad.
They call it blue origin andlet's see, it did that on
december the 28th.
So another uh test fire.
I guess that's uh.
I'm going to be somecompetition for that other
company and I'm not going tomention no names, but you guys
(25:03):
all know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I think he's the owner of X, yeah, okay, you're
not going to mention no names,but you said he's the owner of X
.
Yeah, that ought to giveeverybody a good hint.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, that's the obvious point there, Sonny, oh I
didn't know you was's theobvious point there, sonny?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh, I didn't know you was making an obvious point.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Well, obviously you didn't know.
Yeah, I could have come out andjust said what his name was, or
that he's Trump's right-handman, or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh, but we're not gonna mention no names okay,
yeah, we're not gonna mentionany names.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
How's that?
Oh boy, you are goofy I am, andyou know I just seen two trucks
go by creeping that.
It must be getting slick outthere now that the snow's
melting as it falls, so I betit's getting slushy.
They're just creeping by and Iwas wanting to go to town a
(26:14):
little bit later and pick up agallon of milk, but you know
what I may not.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh you poor baby, You'll have to do with that milk
.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
No, that's not true.
I've got three quarters of agallon of 2% in there that I
picked up last week, but I don'treally want 2%.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh you poor baby.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right, I've had enough of that.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh you poor baby.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Okay.
So what do you think all thesepeople are test-firing these big
, huge rockets for?
Do you think they're going todo something drastic with them,
or they're just blowing money?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think they're not going to be blowing money just
to be blowing money, or wouldthey?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I don't know.
There seems to be a lot of thatgoing around.
I mean, everybody seems to bedoing that right now, even
though we don't have any.
But you know, if we don't haveit, let's just send it to
Ukraine.
Yeah, there we go.
They need billions of moremoney.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Boy, you are getting brave.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You don't have everybody mad at you well, maybe
, maybe I'll have everybody justhappy at me.
What do you think?
I don't even know what thatmeans I don't either, I just
said it well, stop it okay,anyway, yeah, I thought that was
funny when I read that articleback.
(27:58):
It's a couple weeks old.
I read it and I saved it so Icould read it to my followers
and listeners and anybody elsethat tunes into the podcast.
You know what I thought theother day, changing the subject
you know what would be neat ifwe could have a radio, because
(28:19):
I'm a radio guy, I love radios,I'm a ham operator, but if we
could have a radio that doesn'tpodcast.
So if anybody's listening, thiswould be a neat trick.
If you could just have it.
Uh boy, there goes another onezipping along about two miles an
hour.
It must be really getting slick.
But anyway, if you could uhsomehow turn it on and zip
(28:43):
around the dial and it wouldpick up different podcasts like
it they do right now on stations, and you could zip around and
you pick one up and oh I, I likethat one and listen to it.
That would be kind of cool ifwe had some kind of system that
does that Right now, the way we.
You know, if you were listeningto me, you know how you got
(29:06):
there and it's not really a funexperience trying to find new
podcasts.
I know I've hunted for hoursbefore um, you can type in words
to have it searched for, butthen they're usually words
that's found in the title andit's hard to, you know, find
(29:30):
anything else.
So if the title of the podcastor the episode does not include
those things, it's hard, youknow, to get it to those
narrowed down spots.
So you have something to listento.
Anyway, I'm going to shut upnow.
I'm not making sense, right?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
No, you're making perfect sense.
You're kind of dumb, that kindof sense.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, thank you, sonny, I really appreciate you
having my back.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, no problem, I enjoy it.
Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, anyhow, I think I thought one day that would be
so cool if I could just punch abutton, zip around the band,
but instead of having stationscome in, you'd have podcasts
come in.
That would be so cool.
Anyhow, on with the show.
Uh, nasa has this solar probecalled parker and it's going to
(30:43):
survive, being the closest probeto the sun.
It's a 1510 pound probe andit's been launched for quite a
while, but it's going to gowithin.
Let's see 3.8 million miles ofthe sun on Christmas Eve and
then it's going to shoot backtheir information so they can
(31:06):
verify that it made it and itdid that.
Let me pull that information up.
Let me pull that information up.
It was scheduled to make theclosest ever flyby of the sun to
date and that was, like I said,christmas Eve.
(31:29):
But it will reach 3.8 millionmiles of the solar surface,
about 4.5 times the diameter ofthe sun.
Now I'm not sure what that'ssupposed to mean, but that's
weird why they even said that.
But anyway, they got theinformation back.
Supposedly it made it.
(31:50):
I'm not sure what they'velearned from it.
I haven't seen any of that comeout yet, but surely they will.
Let us know what they'velearned about getting that close
to the sun 3.8 million miles.
I don't know how they come upwith that stuff oh, you're still
not a believer, are you?
(32:12):
no, not, really not when I cansee the sun set in between
clouds.
And I actually witnessed thatcoming back from uh, effingham,
wasn't it?
Um, when I went up there fortraining this last summer, I was
coming home and the sun wassetting and you could actually
(32:35):
see it setting in between theclouds.
And I'm thinking there'ssomething wrong with that
picture and the information theygive us.
But anyhow, I'm not going toget into it.
But when they start boostingthat kind of mileage and telling
us how far they're going, howfar it's taking them and how
(32:56):
long it takes, and blah, blah,blah, blah, it reminds me of
when I was in school, man andthe kids would start talking
bull.
They'd start telling you thisline of oh, my dad did this and
he did this and he was so big,and blah, blah, blah, and before
long you knew they was tellinga big whopper.
(33:16):
And I think these guys aretelling big whoppers uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Can you prove that?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
well, of course, I can't, nope, can't do it well
yeah, I don't know what day isin.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Did you just cut?
Yeah, you cut out, sorry.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I didn't cut out.
You shut my mic off, you turkey.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You did too, hey guys .
Bruce just shut my mic off andpretended like I got cut off.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Okay, well, I told you I was going to do that one
of these days.
You just keep it up.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
That's not fair.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, it's not, but anyhow, yeah, you're just
blowing smoke and you can'tprove it.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Well, I don't know about all that, but one of these
days this stuff's going to comeout and we're going to know.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
They may not want it to come out, but it's going to.
The lies never stay dormant.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well, that's true very true, on with the show.
Okay, we are on with the show.
Well, I run into an interestingarticle online and it's called
you ready for this, folks.
How did the tradition of NewYear's resolutions start?
(34:45):
So did anybody ever wonder that?
I think I may have wonderedthat twice.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Of course you didn't.
You probably don't even makeNew Year's resolutions, do you?
Nope, I didn't.
Of course you didn't.
You probably don't even makeNew Year's resolutions, do you?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Nope, I don't.
I just try to do better nextyear and better the next year,
and if I don't, well, I guessI'm doing what I need to be
doing.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, that's a good thing.
I wish we could all do that.
But we have to have a startingpoint and an ending point in our
lives where we think, okay,that was behind us, now let's go
forward and that's what.
That's what we use on NewYear's.
And anyway, I ran across thisarticle and it was found on the
(35:32):
Almanac.
Believe it or not, just go toalmanaccom and you can look it
up.
But how did we, how did we getthat information?
Well, apparently, back in 2000bc, the babylonians celebrate
the new year new year during a12-day festival called akatu,
(35:55):
and it's starting with a vernalequinox, and this was during
farm season to plant the crops,to crown their king and make
promises to pay their debts.
Now, I like that.
Make promises to pay their debt?
Huh, that's an interestingconcept.
And so they made uh resolutions, and one common resolution was
(36:19):
the return of borrowed farmequipment.
Uh, yeah, anyhow.
Uh, that was adopted by theancient romans, as was the
tradition of resolutions.
The timing, however, eventuallyshifted with the Julian
calendar in 46 BC, whichdeclared January 1st as the
(36:42):
start of the new year.
Okay, I don't know if you guyscaught that, but before this
time, the new year actuallyhappened in the spring, during
growing season or right beforegrowing season.
And then the romans decided toscrew everybody up and started
(37:04):
smack dab in the middle of thewinter, at january, the first uh
, you think about that.
No wonder everybody's depressedon the new year.
You're going through this uglytime of the year where it's
cloudy all the time, especiallyin southern Illinois, bad
(37:24):
weather, cold, gloomy, dead,because you have hardly any
green, anything, and you start anew year in the middle of that.
No, that don't even seem right.
But they do, because we gotthat new calendar that the
Romans gave us back in 46 BC.
(37:45):
Yeah, anyhow, that's where thatall comes from.
Now, if we started the new year, like it should be started, in
the spring, then we would have agood reason to celebrate
because we'd be starting intothe growing season and the new
(38:08):
is coming up out of the ground,the grass is getting green, the
plants are growing, the birdsare singing.
I mean it would all go together.
You wonder why your body is off, your mind is off.
There you go.
We're not following nature oranything anymore, we're just
doing some weird calendar.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Oh boy, you are on the road today to prosperity,
not you're on the road to makeeverybody mad.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, I don't think anybody's going to be mad.
If they're listening to me andthey're mad, they won't listen
no more.
That'll be it.
It'll be over.
If they are listening to me andthey're understanding what I'm
saying, then maybe they'll comeback, right, Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
well, if you say so, I'll go for it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, thank you for your vote of confidence.
Well, it's slowly getting darkoutside.
I started the podcast a littlebit late.
Still snowing outside.
Temperature's still warm enough, it's trying to melt, but it's
still snowing in southernIllinois.
What do you think about that,sonny?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
I think it's great.
We're having a good day, we'reenjoying it and I'm liking being
on this podcast.
We need to podcast forever.
Yay, go podcast, go podcast.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
All right, you're not too excited, are you?
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Nope, not at all.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
All right.
Well, in that case, have youtalking about being excited?
Have you heard that they found27 new and exciting and blobby
species in Peruvia rainforest?
I think I said that, right, thePeruvian rainforest.
(40:07):
I found this article onpopularsciencecom popular
science dot com, and it isdescribing the the cool species
that they have found, andthey're nothing really different
(40:27):
.
I mean, they found a fish theycall a fish blob and, uh it,
they got a picture of it.
In fact, I think I'll put thepicture of it up on my website
if you're interested.
So I'm not going to go over, uh, all 27 these new species.
(40:48):
This article come out ondecember, the 20th, 2024.
See, I'm just trying to catchup from not being on the air for
a few days or recording mypodcast, if you want me to say
it correctly.
We don't want any people sadbecause I didn't say it right.
(41:08):
Anyway, I'm not going.
I'm not going to go over allthe different species.
I would, if you're an animallover or you like stuff like
that, go look at Popular Science, their article.
It's just go to Popular Scienceand look up the 27 new,
(41:30):
exciting and blobby speciesdiscovered in the Peruvian
rainforest and you'll getpictures of all the new,
different species and they havemany different ones.
But they have a spiny mouse, abat squirrel or is that a bat
(41:57):
and a squirrel?
There you go, and an amphibiousmouse.
Did I say that right?
Amphibious mouse?
It actually has webbed feet.
I'll go ahead and put thatpicture on the web page too.
They got a frog, a fishbutterfly.
(42:21):
I mean, they've got a lot ofneat stuff on here.
See, this is the kind of news Ilike to bring out.
It's exciting and pretty neat.
It's pretty neat.
They said they found 218butterfly species and 71 scarab
(42:42):
beetles wow, that's kind of neat.
And 536 different bird specieswere spotted.
26 of these birds arethreatened with extinction and
they got a beautiful picture ofone.
I may put that one on there too.
I'll do that.
I'll put the bird, the fishblob and the amphibian rat.
(43:13):
That ought to be pretty cool.
Alright, that sounds like awinner.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
What do you think about that, Sonny?
I think that sounds kind ofweird.
They don't have an uglyquacking duck on there, do they?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
No, they would have to have both of us on there to
have the full package.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, that's the first time you've ever said I
was part of the package.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Well, don't get your head in an uproar and I need to
buy you a new pillow or anythinglike that.
You know, swollen heads are notcomfortable.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Oh, be quiet.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Oh, you know, it's true.
All right for a segment.
We're going to call this newstuff.
Yeah, we just talked about newspecies and I've got a couple
clips real quick.
They're actually storylinesabout new stuff.
(44:17):
You've heard of the new speciesand this one's about new toilet
paper, believe it or not.
It's called Honeycomb and itwas created in order to save the
trees.
Order to save the trees, therewas apparently 27,000 trees per
(44:39):
day were being destroyed to maketoilet paper.
So these guys, this company,put together an eco-friendly
product.
It is made out of guess what?
It's made out of Everybodyready.
Come on, my guess.
It's made out of Everybodyready.
Come on, my guess.
I'm not hearing anybody.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't think anybody's going to answer you.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Well, probably not, but I like to keep up the facade
.
But anyway, everybody, it'sbamboo toilet paper that got
tongue-tied there.
Yeah, and Honeycomb is not theonly company that's doing it.
There is a couple others if youlook it up, but there is Grove,
(45:27):
I think, is the other companythat I'm thinking of.
But it's great that they aremaking it out of Honeycomb and
why you may ask or not,honeycomb?
Excuse me, I misspoke it out ofhoneycomb and why you may ask
or not, honeycomb?
Excuse me, I misspoke out ofbamboo and why you may ask go
ahead, go ahead and ask it, butsunny all right, I'll fall for
(45:47):
it.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Why bamboo?
Speaker 1 (45:51):
there you go.
Well, I'll tell you why.
Because it grows I think theysaid, 100 times faster.
So you know, if they do 27,000trees a day to make toilet paper
, that would set.
You know if everybody would buyplant-based.
There you go, you're killingplants, but some of these plants
(46:15):
will grow faster than a treedoes, so you're actually saving
in the long run.
Now I haven't studied all thepluses and minuses.
So if that is true, you'regoing to save trees quite a bit.
But that would be importantbecause trees are what cleans
(46:36):
our air not just trees but grassand other plants.
But trees are the majority ofour air cleaners in this world
and we're cutting them downfaster than we can get them grow
back up.
That is what they say, thatthese companies are making
(46:57):
bamboo toilet paper.
Now I'm not sure how softthat's going to be.
I've thought about orderingsome of it and give you guys a
report.
If my hiney likes it, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I bet you was waiting for me to do a smart aleck
remark on that.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yes, I was, and you didn't do it.
You disappointed me.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Well, so sorry, I'll let you know if you have your
hiney on here.
Oh man, I'll let you know then.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
All right, that sounds fair to me.
I think everybody's familiarwith AI, right?
Well, NVIDIA, which has been acompany that's produced lots of
chips mainly video boards andchips but they've went to other
(47:54):
places video boards and chips,but they went to other places.
They have come out with a$3,000 desktop.
It's an AI computer for thehome.
Now that thing is called a.
(48:15):
It's made for the ProjectDigits D-I-G-I-T-S and I'm sure
that's some kind of synonym orword for another group of words,
but it's called Project Digitsand this machine's been built so
you can run a local chatbot orother AI on this thing and it
(48:36):
will run on there.
Now, before, anybody that hadwanted to use a chatbot or an ai
had to get on one of thenetworks that was running it
because it took so muchcomputing power.
But supposedly this threethousand dollar desktop will run
this thing, um, and they're notgoing to have any problems with
(48:58):
it.
So we'll see.
But this $3,000 desktop willrun this thing and they're not
going to have any problems withit, so we'll see.
But I don't know if that scaresanybody out there, but they're
going to have an AI running on ahome desktop.
Now, think about that, folks,yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Does that make anybody smarter?
Yeah, Does that make anybodysmarter, or does?
It just make you for a moreexpensive fool, buying this
$3,000 computer.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
That is a good question.
Well, I don't know, but I'mwaiting for them to put together
this type of computer for yourhome Now.
Right now they're aiming thisthing at researchers, data
scientists and students.
I guess our regular old homepeople like a podcaster like me
(49:46):
or maybe a video creator,doesn't have no need for a nice,
beautiful $3,000 computer orthe resources.
So there you go, but I'mwaiting for them to bring
together a computer like thisthat gives you an ai in your
house and a quantum computer.
(50:09):
Put those two together.
You know, quantum computerssupposedly is getting part of
their computations from anotheruniverse or an alternate
universe.
That supposedly this is whatthey say.
That's what makes them so quickat getting the answers.
(50:32):
So If they combine that kind ofcomputing With these AI
computers, then what are wegoing to have?
I'm sure they're thinking aboutit already.
Good grief, we'll have a.
What was that?
A T?
Oh, what was that in the movie?
(50:55):
A T1?
Is that what they called thatcomputer?
That was a living computer thatcome back from the future to
destroy mankind's dream.
I don't remember T1, I think iswhat it's called, but if
(51:16):
anybody out there knows, you canemail me or send me a message.
That would be cool to find out,and I don't know if anybody
heard this or not, butapparently Puerto Rico suffered
an island-wide power outageearly morning on New Year's Day
(51:39):
or Eve.
New Year's Eve.
It was so big, it plungedmillions of people into darkness
and it was something to do withtheir faulty power grid over
there, and I think it took thema few days to get it back to
going.
(51:59):
I'm not even sure if they gotit all back yet, but how'd you
like to have that happen to you?
We're not on an island, but itwouldn't take much to wipe out
our power grid and make all ofus go dark.
Let's hope that doesn't happen.
(52:19):
Okay, well, we're running thisshow a little bit close on time.
I wanted to get done with lessthan an hour and boy, we're
running close.
So let's do a quick count onthe earthquakes.
And then I got a song to endwith from Wave Lake.
So give me just a minute to getthe numbers.
(52:39):
All right, this is the numbersI got.
It wrote down For December, the22nd.
2036 was the total amount ofearthquakes and we show it went
down.
So there's your hint, so go forit, sonny.
Speaker 2 (53:02):
All right if it went down, I'm going to guess 1835.
I'm going to guess 1835.
We'll see what that does.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Well, it gets you close.
You're still a little bit over,but that's all right, we'll
give you applause here.
Hang on, how's that, sonny?
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Oh, that's great.
I'm going to take my bow.
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Alright, everybody couldn't see that, but Sonny
took his bow, so you guessed1835, the actual count for the
last seven days is 1753.
1,753 total earthquakes.
The 2.5 earthquakes went down,which kind of blows my theory.
(53:58):
They went down.
They were 305 on the 22nd oflast month and now they're 295,
and the 4.5 was 121 and they are117 now, which shows all of
them went down.
Now there's a whole bunch of4.5s and 5.9s in in that number
(54:26):
range.
Uh, actually there's only two6.0 above, so that leaves us
with 293 of those things.
So I don't know how that'sworking out.
I may need to reevaluate theevaluate the numbers, but anyway
, we had a 6.2 in el salvadorand a 7.1 in tibet, southern
(54:54):
tibet, and it actually hit thenews.
Um, I picked it up on my newsstuff so I'm going to read it to
you.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquakestruck the Shigetse region of
Tibet yesterday at 9.05 am localtime that would have been
(55:16):
Monday Causing a widespreaddamage and claiming at least 126
lives.
Damage and claiming at least126 lives.
The epicenter was located inthe high-altitude Chinese county
(55:37):
of Dengzhi and I'm probablybutchering all these names and I
apologize for that.
It's about 47 miles northeastof Mount Everest at a depth of
6.2 miles.
The tremors were felt acrossNepal, india and Bhutan.
So there you go, folks.
That earthquake actually hit andmade news, which is not a good
(56:00):
thing at all, because that meansit's probably a lot of damage
and a lot of suffering and a lotof lives lost.
So let's stay in prayer forthose people.
Let's remember.
If you don't pray, sendpositive thoughts.
That's just as important.
So either get down and pray orstand up and hold your hands up
(56:25):
and pray.
I don't care how you pray, justpray or send positive thoughts.
Remember the fire victims andthe hurricane victims.
There's been a lot of sufferingthe last few months, the last
year, this year has alreadystarted.
So let's remember those peopleand those things, and I hope
(56:49):
you've enjoyed the show.
So we are going to end thisshow, this season, this episode
I don't know why I said season.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
I don't know why you said it either, but duh all
right.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
So I hope you enjoyed and it was worth staying with
us.
We will try to be back in twoweeks.
Um, if you have anything youwant to say about the show or
the audio, I think it's improvedover the last few months.
(57:23):
We've got it where I think itsounds pretty good and
everybody's got new mics,including uh, well, he's kind of
got a new one, sunny, but wegot a new one for lily, if she
ever gets back on.
I've got two new ones I use offand on and I I've got them
tuned just so I think I like theway it sounds.
(57:45):
Uh, it would be nice if somebodywould comment Again.
Email me theuglyquackingduck atgmailcom.
If you've got an app that's gotthe new 2.0 on it, well, I
don't even have to have that ona lot of them.
But if you've got an app you'reusing to listen, it's got a
(58:07):
place where you can click on mydetails and it will tell you to
go here and text me and we'llread your email or your text off
the next show, unless youspecifically tell me not to.
Speaker 2 (58:23):
Oh yeah, you better tell him not to, because he's
chomping at the bit man.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
he's wanting to read one yeah, it's been a while
since I've got to do that and wealso got a speak pipe.
I think it's what it's calledon the website.
If you go to the comment pageand there's a little button
there you can click on and youcan if you're on phone
especially, you can record itright there.
(58:50):
It will send it to me and I'llbe able to play it on the next
podcast Not just read one, butplay one.
How cool is that.
I still haven't got to use that.
I'm going to have to record oneof my own, I guess, to make it
happen.
Speaker 2 (59:06):
Oh, don't do that to us, please, please, please,
please, please.
Speaker 1 (59:11):
Okay, I might not.
Maybe you know I'm reallywanting to.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
I know, but don't.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
All right, I may.
I'm not going to promise.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
Oh fine, let's say bye.
Speaker 1 (59:27):
All right, well, we're not going to say bye,
we're just pumping up to thatlast spot, but we're going to
play a song from wave lake again.
These guys go on there, thesecreators go on wave lake.
Put their creations, theirproduct, their songs or podcasts
, whatever it is and for peoplelike us to come on there and we
(59:52):
pay them, uh, some kind of valuefor that.
I use the bitcoin and put onthere.
So, hint, hint, if you want toshow your value that I have gave
you for this podcast oranything else, be part of our
podcast.
You can just tell people aboutus, you can help us produce it.
(01:00:16):
We need artwork, we need allkinds of help, or you can
financially help us.
Anything of that would be nice.
Just being part of it would begreat.
Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Yeah, if you just send him something, he'll be so
excited I won't be able to holdhim down.
Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
You wouldn't be able to hold me down anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Whatever.
All right, let's go on with thesong.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Yeah, let's have the song.
What's go on with the song?
Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
what do you think?
Yeah, let's have the song.
What's the name of the song?
All right, folks, the name ofthe song is as we go, and it's
brought to you by matt andjoanne black.
I hope you enjoy it and we'llclose out the the show right
after the song.
So sit back, get you somethingto drink and some chips or
something, and listen to thesong and enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
It's His love that has called and compelled us, and
His grace that our wanderinghearts have known, calling us to
go To the lonely, the lost andbroken.
We will hold out the life hegave to us.
(01:01:49):
He's calling us to go as we go.
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
(01:02:11):
glory christ has shown as we go,as we go, the spirit of the
lord is upon us.
So go and speak good news to aworld in need.
He's calling us to go, bind thehearts of the brokenhearted,
(01:02:41):
tell the prisoners that he hasset them free.
Yeah, he's calling us to go aswe go.
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
(01:03:06):
glory Christ has shown as we go,as we go.
Here we go, go, go, go, go, go,go as we go.
(01:03:49):
We will carry the light as wego, let it shine through the
night till the whole world knowswe will share the hope of the
glory Christ has shown as we go,shown as we go.
Oh, as we go, as we go, we willcarry the light as we go, let
(01:04:20):
it shine through the night Tillthe whole world knows we will
share the hope of the gloryChrist has shown.
As we go, as we go, oh, as wego, as we go, as we go.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Woo-wee, that beat as we go, fan-based thing,
whatever you want to callyourselves enjoyed it and if you
did look them guys up onWavelake and get signed up so
you can give them some kind ofpayment for that song, we hope
(01:05:21):
that you did enjoy it.
And again they're on Wavelake.
That's wave W-A-V-v-l-a-k-ecomand they are called matt and
joanna black and the song was aswe go.
(01:05:41):
So again, go and look them upand as we go.
Today we want to say goodbye toeverybody.
We hope you have a good couplemore weeks.
We're just starting the end ofthis year.
The inauguration is going to bein just what?
(01:06:01):
Another week, maybe two weeks,I can't remember exactly when
it's going to happen, but we'regetting close.
So everybody, tighten up,bundle up, watch out for the
cold.
It's been kind of cold aroundhere in Southern Illinois.
We want to say hi to theMidwest, hi to the Southern
(01:06:32):
Illinois group, hi to MountVernon, illinois people, anybody
else out there that knows us,hi, and I hope you have a good
time and we will see you backhere on the radio, so to speak.
But we'll be back here on theuh podcast, probably in another
two weeks.
So have a good time everybody.
Are you ready, sonny?
We're gonna say it one, two,three.
(01:06:55):
Bye everybody.
73.
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