October 17, 2025 • 57 mins
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Two friends trade notes on weird weather, Star Trek reboots, and a wave of new chips while weighing the hidden costs of AI and the shrinking right to repair. We share a shoutout to a student podcast, ask for feedback on our audio, and invite support through value for value.
• value for value model and keeping content open
• mic setup, room sound, and listener feedback
• local weather patterns in Southern Illinois
• Phoenix and Spokane comparisons and storms
• Star Trek reboots, humor, and fandom
• Dunbar’s number and social capacity skepticism
• Intel’s upcoming chips and Tron metaphors
• right to repair, locked devices, and ownership
• odd tech records including Voyager longevity
• media blind spots and storm coverage
• AI infrastructure scale and power demands
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Capella (00:07):
Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, the worst
podcast in the unknownuniverse.
Or at least that's what somepeople say.
We prefer to think of ourselvesas charmingly rough around the
edges.
We're passionate aboutpodcasting and the value for
value model, where creators andlisteners connect directly.
We believe in keeping ourcontent free and open to
everyone, because who needsanother paywall, right?
Bruce (00:29):
Yes, indeed.
This is the Ugly Quacking DuckPodcast.
Im Bruce.
Sunny (00:36):
Im Sunny.
Bruce (00:39):
And we are glad to have you aboard the next episode of
the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
This is episode 126.
Sunny (00:49):
126, and we're on a roll now.
Bruce (00:55):
Yep, we're on a roll.
I'm not sure where we'rerolling to, but we're rolling.
Sunny (01:01):
Rollin, rollin', rollin'.
Bruce (01:06):
How do you know that song?
Sunny (01:08):
Oh, I was around.
Bruce (01:11):
I'm not even gonna go there today.
I don't think we ought to, butalright.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (01:20):
And I'm Sunny.
Bruce (01:23):
And if this is your first time to the show, welcome
aboard.
I hope you stick around for thewhole episode.
If you've been here before,then you know what you're in
for, so hey, I'm sorry.
Sunny (01:39):
Oh boy, what a way to introduce us.
Bruce (01:42):
Well, it's true, ain't it?
Sunny (01:45):
Well, you don't have to scare everybody.
Bruce (01:49):
Well, true.
But anyhow, you've been doingall right this week?
Sunny (01:54):
I have.
It's been a long week.
How about you?
Bruce (01:59):
Oh, it's definitely been a long week.
Work has been really, reallyyou know, this is the last full
this is the last month I'm doingfull time because I'm gonna go
semi-retired.
So I'm paying for it.
I mean, you know, it's alwaysthe same thing.
(02:19):
If it's a holiday weekend andyou're working that last Friday
or Thursday, it's a nightmarethat last day.
Uh if you're going on vacation,that last week is a nightmare.
And it's the same way thismonth.
It's the last month, so I'mpaying for it.
It's really, really bad.
(02:42):
I uh yeah, I don't want to getinto it.
Sunny (02:45):
Oh, come on, let's gripe a little bit.
Bruce (02:49):
No, I don't think I want to.
How my how's my mic sounding,um, Sunny?
Is it alright?
Sunny (02:55):
Yeah, I don't see nothing wrong with it.
Bruce (02:59):
All right.
Well, I think it's hittingalright.
Um I've got it set up a littlebit farther away, so it may be
picking up more uh room noise,but I'm hoping that uh I can
move around and not hit it as somuch, and it will be clearer.
It's also uh uh another micthat I used last time, which I
(03:23):
like it.
It seems to pick up a littlebit better on my voice, and I
said that about every mic I'veused so far, but after I use it
for a while, I start noticing myvoice quirks in the mic.
So I'm hoping this one don't dothat.
Sunny (03:43):
You might as well give it up, Bruce.
You're just a voice quirkedperson.
You're kinda like weird.
Bruce (03:52):
Oh shall spell it out for me.
Sunny (03:57):
Uh I spelled it out for the listeners, yeah.
Bruce (04:02):
Okay, well, there we go.
Anyhow, it's been nice uhweather this last past couple
weeks.
The weather's dropped down herein southern Illinois.
By the way, we're trans uh wedidn't say transmitting, but I
still like the radio terms.
But we are recording in ourstudio in the Midwest Southern
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Illinois.
Home.
Sunny (04:26):
Boy, you got that all messed up almost.
You'd pulled it off, butalmost.
Bruce (04:33):
Well, yeah, I don't write down exactly what I want to
say, I just give fine points,you know, guides on my paper.
So it's never the same unless Irecord it and replay it, like I
did my our intro.
Uh that's an AI recorded voice,and I'm gonna use that quite a
(04:54):
bit until I run it in theground.
Sunny (04:58):
Uh-huh.
Bruce (05:00):
Uh-huh.
You're uh Yeah.
Okay, anyway.
Yeah, it's been beautiful.
Uh it's today, it's been about77 degrees.
By the way, it's the weekend ofthe 12th.
We're starting a new week.
Uh so I'm going to try tofinish this recording up and get
it out Monday night like Inormally do, but we'll see if
(05:22):
that happens.
It's going to be kind of toughbecause I'm running late.
I just didn't feel like doinganything, but I watched a movie,
Star Trek.
The uh I don't remember whatthe name of that movie is, but
it's not the old Star Trekmovies.
It was a new one where theybrought a new cast on and had a
new guy playing Kirk and a newguy playing Spock, the new guy
(05:46):
playing Doctor.
It's how they brought them alltogether.
It's the first movie of thatnew group.
And I really like that show.
They like the way they did it.
A lot of the Star Trek diehardpeople was very aggravated
because they kind of did atimeline change, and they
(06:08):
brought Spock back on the show,and I don't know why they didn't
bring Kirk back somehow, butmaybe it just didn't fit into
the storyline.
But I like the way they did it.
I mean, you can't have thingsexactly the same forever.
It just don't work that way.
Life doesn't work that way.
(06:29):
We age, we change, and youknow, they had to change the
storyline a little bit.
So they did.
I think it worked out good.
It's got quite a bit of humorin it.
Um the one scene I remindremember over and over, and
that's the reason I watched ittoday, because I wanted to see
that one scene where uh thedoctor injects Kirk with a uh
(06:56):
virus to make him having areaction so they get him on the
ship.
It's a long story.
You need to watch the show ifyou haven't, but anyway, he has
a real bad reaction to thevaccine, and uh there you go.
They may be telling ussomething too on that one.
But anyhow, he goes throughthese symptoms and they're
(07:18):
giving him shots to kill onesymptom, and then it gives him
another one, and he ends uphaving numb tongue, and uh that
whole scene is comical.
Um, I really enjoyed thatscene.
Sunny (07:32):
Yeah, you think it was comical, but most people said
yuck.
They were probably squirming intheir seat the first time they
seen that.
Bruce (07:43):
Could be.
Like I said, a lot of the uhdie hard and older Star Trek
fans didn't like it.
Um they're kind of stuck intheir ruts.
I like all versions of StarTrek.
Um I've watched pretty well allof them, I think.
There's a new uh season comingout in January with uh Star Trek
(08:06):
Academy, I believe is the nameof it.
But it's gonna be um I think aweekly episode.
I hope.
Anyway, I'm looking forward toseeing that.
It's gonna be on um Paramount,which I still have that one.
So hopefully I'll be able towatch it.
Sunny (08:25):
Well, there you go.
Star Trek all the way.
Bruce (08:29):
Yeah, and I don't know how I got off on that path, but
anyway, I didn't do much today.
Did some laundry, did somethings around the house, watched
that Star Trek.
I never did get it finished.
I went town twice.
Good grief, burned gas up.
But anyhow, it's been in thehigh 70s this week during the
day and the low 40 or the high40s and low 50s in the evenings,
(08:54):
so it's been beautiful, exceptfor it's really, really dry.
So if you're around southernIllinois, the Midwest, and you
walk outside and look up, it'snot been really very uh cloudy
with what they call chemtrails.
(09:14):
I don't know if you guysnoticed, but for the last week
or so, all you're seeing isclouds and lack of clouds.
We've had some days that wasgray sky and rainy looking.
We didn't get any rain.
We got a little bit of drizzlethere in the morning, and that
(09:34):
was it.
And it wasn't much to speak of.
But if you look up, you willsee no or a lack of these
chemtrails.
And I don't know, some peopledon't believe there is some, but
look at the sky and you'll seea lack of it.
(09:55):
Whatever you want to take thatas, there you go.
But uh we don't we're nothaving them right now, and I
think it's that way all acrossthe country.
And a lot of people are sayingit's because of the shutdown
because they don't have anymoney to spray us, which it
could be.
Pay attention though, we'llsee.
If they go back the governmentgets back to going, or when they
(10:20):
do, and if we start seeing themagain, then you'll know that'll
be your answer.
Sunny (10:26):
So, Bruce, what's the weather like in other parts of
the country?
Uh, you said in Midwest it'slike that, but what's it like
everywhere else?
Bruce (10:38):
Well, I don't know about everywhere else, but we always
compare to Phoenix.
So today, Phoenix has had ahigh of 79 and is partly cloudy,
where we are at 77 today andsunny, and they're having flash
flood warnings for today.
(10:58):
The humidity's been 68% there,40% where we're at.
The wind's four miles an hour,air quality here is 55, which is
moderate, and the air qualitythere is 27, which is still
good.
So kind of odd how we're havingyou know that air difference
(11:21):
differentiating like that.
But I I guess the desert hasmore particles and stuff because
of the sand, but actually theyhave better air quality than we
do.
I don't understand.
But anyhow, uh that's the wayit is there, and then we've been
comparing to Spokane becauseone of our uh followers wanted
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us to do that.
So Spokane, Washington, uhright now, ready for this?
It's 44 degrees.
Yeah, 44.
And it says it feels like 39degrees, and they're having
rain.
Um, in fact, I pulled the radarup, and they've got a lot of
(12:08):
rainstorms all across Washingtonright now.
It's kind of circling andhitting Spokane.
Um then it's coming back aroundhitting Seattle, which is kind
of odd the way it's rotatingbecause Seattle is uh west, so
it shouldn't be going back overthere, but yeah, it's kinda
(12:32):
weird.
But it's doing that.
Sunny (12:36):
Uh is that your interpretation or is that a
scientific fact?
Bruce (12:43):
Well, I guess that would be my interpretation.
And their visibility is eightmiles an hour, or eight not
hour, eight miles.
So they've got quite a bit ofuh rain hitting them.
Uh their low today is supposedto be 38 degrees.
(13:04):
Pressure is dropping 29.82.
Uh the dew point's 40 degrees,and I don't know why I'm reading
all this stuff.
But anyhow, the point being upthere in Washington, they're
having cooler weather and rain.
And I guess that rain isactually uh going down towards
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California and Phoenix, Arizona,while we are still sunny.
So I don't know.
We may be getting rain the nextfew days.
I haven't looked up the longterm or the longer.
I haven't looked up theforecast, what I'm trying to
say, for us here locally.
So we may have some weather tocome, rain, cooler weather.
(13:50):
It is October.
We should expect a temperaturechange.
However, I've heard somereports that this week is
supposed to be back up in the80s around here.
Boy, weird weather.
Sunny (14:04):
Yep, it's weird, weird, weird.
Hey Bruce, you know what I didFriday?
Bruce (14:12):
Besides annoy me?
Sunny (14:14):
Yeah, besides annoy you.
Bruce (14:17):
Yeah, you want me to give a shout out?
Sunny (14:19):
Yeah, I want to give her a promotion, you know?
That was cool.
Bruce (14:26):
All right.
Well, we will do that.
Um, and what Sunny's talkingabout is Friday afternoon.
Lily came over here.
I went and picked her up atschool.
She got out of school early,and we worked on her podcast.
Not mine, not this podcast, buthers.
She'd done one uh during 23 andthe beginning of 24, but she's
(14:52):
got busy with school and summeractivity, and she didn't have a
chance to go back to it.
So she decided she wanted totry to get back in and work that
podcast and do it maybe once amonth instead of trying to do it
more often, which worked hardon her, she couldn't do it, and
she just gave it up.
(15:12):
So we got it going again, andit's called Enjoying Being
Human.
And look it up.
I think it's um I think it's onSpreaker on iHeart, and she
done another episode Fridayafternoon, and Sunny was invited
(15:34):
on, so Sunny and her did thatnew episode.
So I thought that was prettycool, and it's gonna take her a
little while to get her feetback into it and get them all
wet and ready to go, andbasically to get back in the
habit.
Uh, it's gonna take a littlebit.
Hopefully, she'll be able to dothat real soon, and it will
(15:56):
take off.
She's gearing it towards youngpeople like her that's in
school, that's dealing with lifeand trying to enjoy being human
while all the pressures arehappening to them.
So give her a listen.
And if you got any young peoplearound junior high, high
(16:18):
school, turn them on to it.
Maybe they'll like it too, andshe'll create a big following.
So that's enjoying being human.
Sunny (16:27):
Yeah, thank you, Bruce.
I got to be on that episode andit was fun.
I enjoyed it, but I likepodcasting.
Bruce (16:37):
Yeah, you do, uh, for sure.
And uh, it was good.
I I helped edit it afterwards.
I thought it worked turned outreally well.
Sunny (16:48):
Yep, I think it turned out good, and I hope she does
well with it.
It's hard to keep it up and allthe work goes into it, and I
don't think people that listenrealize what you have to go
through to get a podcast going,get people attracted, and then
(17:09):
keep it going.
Bruce (17:12):
Yeah.
Let's don't even go there.
But anyway, um, it was good.
I enjoyed editing it andputting it back up, and I think
we got it going.
Sunny (17:26):
Mercy.
Hey Bruce, what do you thinkwhen I mention the number 150?
Bruce (17:37):
Uh I honestly think about a bill.
A bill?
What do you mean?
I mean a hundred and fiftydollar payment I have to pay on
a bill.
Sunny (17:50):
Really?
When did you do that?
Bruce (17:53):
Uh a couple times in my life there was uh a hundred and
fifty dollar payment.
Uh one time there was a car andI forget what the other one may
have been my rent, which hasbeen a long time ago, I know,
but that number just kind ofsticks in my head.
Why do you ask?
Sunny (18:11):
Well, believe it or not, scientists well or one scientist
has determined that our brainscan only ma have a hundred and
fifty friends.
What do you think about that?
Bruce (18:35):
Uh a fund and fifty friends.
I'm not sure I can name ahundred and fifty people, let
alone let alone a hundred andfifty friends.
Now, when they say friends, Iwonder if they're talking about
certain type friends or allkinds of acquaintances.
(18:55):
That sounds like a big number.
Really does.
Sunny (18:59):
Well, I thought I'd mention that.
You better go back and checkthat out.
Bruce (19:04):
All right.
I'm gonna go back and speedread it.
Hang on just a second.
All right, they say the brainenables people to navigate
complex relationships offamilies, friend groups, sports
teams, and workplaces.
And wide network of uh people,I guess they could say, but I'm
(19:28):
not sure them are all consideredfriends.
But anyway, it talks a littlebit more about that.
Apparently, this guy um studiedchimps, 30 primate species to
come up with the number of 150,and he just extrapolated that
number from studying thesesocial groups of these chimps.
(19:52):
So he's guessing, is what thisarticle is saying without saying
it.
So if you like that answer for150 people as friends, there you
go.
He um he's giving it right toyou.
I guess we have adapted andgrown, and basically what it
says is the innermost circle isjust five people, friends or
(20:16):
family members, and then that'sthe ones you feel emotionally
closest to.
And then there's uh some youcome in contact once a week, at
least once a week with, andthey're the ten additional good
friends you see at least amonth, once a month, and then
(20:37):
60% of your social attentiongoes to these 15 people.
And then farther out, the one,the beat weekend backyard group,
you know, you barbecue, youparty with, a total of 50
people, including the 15 thatyou see regularly.
And it then it keeps he keepsspreading it out until you get
(21:00):
to 150.
I think he's kind of full ofhimself and probably guessing at
all that.
What do you think, Sunny?
Sunny (21:09):
I think that uh I agree.
That's all I gotta say.
But I thought it would beinteresting for you to bring up.
Right?
Bruce (21:20):
Uh I don't know why it would be interesting.
It's kind of like a bunch ofhogwash, is what I'd say.
I'll read all down the article.
He says he estimates peoplehave 350 acquaintances on top of
their 150-person network.
I don't even have enough timeto take care of my family and
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work people.
I don't know how you could dealwith 150 people in your
close-knit group and then 350more acquaintances.
You'll be running around allthe time dealing with people.
I think this guy is so full ofyou know what.
That uh, and then he says, um,beyond that, he thinks that most
(22:07):
of us can recognize anadditional thousand people like
President Trump by sight, butthey might not recognize you.
Uh duh.
Sunny (22:20):
Yeah, yeah.
I thought you needed to readthat article.
What do you think about that?
Bruce (22:26):
Uh boy, I don't know.
That's ridiculous.
Well, I d all I got to say isI'm not a social butterfly, and
I don't have time to be runningaround uh entertaining 150
people all the time.
Uh four or five, excuse me,four or five yes, and that
doesn't include your family.
(22:47):
I mean, your family is reallythe most important, and never
how big your family is, that isyour center.
And, you know, some people'sgot a bigger family than others.
They may only have one or two,and others may have 10 or 20.
But yeah, if it yeah, it's justridiculous.
(23:08):
I don't know what.
If everybody feels different,that's fine.
But if you're working, takingcare of your immediate family,
and then your outer family, youwon't have much time to fool
around with 350 people, letalone 150 close people.
I'm not sure where that numbereven comes from.
(23:30):
I think that guy's living in adream state.
Well, Sunny, that was a wildstory.
I really I wow.
Sunny (23:38):
Yeah, wasn't it?
I knew that get you.
Bruce (23:41):
Wait a minute.
Did you do that on purpose?
Sunny (23:45):
Yeah.
Bruce (23:47):
Oh my gosh, and you got me.
I was not expecting that to uhI know.
Sunny (23:53):
I'm a really quacker.
Bruce (23:56):
Yes, you are.
And that's for you.
Uh congratulations, you did getme.
Sunny (24:06):
Oh, I'm glad to know it.
Yep, that was a cool one.
I liked it.
Bruce (24:16):
Well, I have to hand it to you.
You got me.
You really did.
So let's move on.
Let's talk about something uhmore technology-wise, um,
something that I kinda enjoy,okay?
Sunny (24:31):
All right, let me have it.
Bruce (24:33):
All right.
Well, apparently Intel has comeup with a new chip that they're
gonna lay on us start nextyear, I believe.
They're gonna put it in theirlaptops, and it sounds pretty
cool.
Sunny (24:48):
Sound pretty cool, huh?
Well, let me know how cool itis.
Bruce (24:53):
Well, I'm not really gonna be able to do that, and I
could I probably won't be ableto afford one of the new uh
laptops until you know they dropdown a little bit.
What the interesting part wasit's the new Intel Core Altar
Series 3, and they've named itPanther Lake, or that's their
(25:16):
code name for it.
And it's built on an Intel 18Aum chip, and they're fabricating
it in the new lab in Arizona.
They started, I guess, in 2025,September, and like I said,
they're planning on rolling itout in January or at least in 26
(25:42):
on their new laptops, and Ithink that would be cool.
I like it when they build upnew stuff, and especially here
in America, and I think it hassomething to do with that new
plan that uh President Trump'sgot to bring more technology
back to the United States andget it away from China and
(26:06):
stuff.
So we'll see how that does.
And what really piqued myinterest about this new chip was
not the chip itself, but whatit reminded me or made me
remember.
Uh, most of you probablywatched the movie Tron.
It came out in 1982, I believe.
(26:29):
It's a science fiction movie,and it was produced where they
went inside of a game andplayed, and it was very much
like the way uh electrons flowthrough a circuit, through a
computer chip, and the electronswere actually the human um
(26:54):
design people.
It was CGI, it was a reallygood show.
Uh, I think they started backin 1976 making uh or thinking
about the production.
I don't know when they actuallygot it together.
But the part that catches me ofthat movie, by the way, they're
(27:16):
bringing out a new movie.
It's called, let me see if Ican find it real quick, Tron
Aries.
It's a new uh Tron movie.
I don't know if it's any good.
I haven't seen much of thetrailer.
Keep your eyes open for thatone too.
But back to the original Tron,um, it produced the effects like
(27:38):
you was inside a computerprogram or more like you was
inside of a chip, the way thelights and stuff zip back and
forth from one thing to theother, which when they uh come
out with the new I 486 chip, uh,I think that's what it was
(28:00):
called.
Yeah, the I-486, which was alsoknown as the 8046, 80486, there
we go.
That's almost a tongue twister.
They produced that in 1989, andthat did a quite a bit of
advancement to the computerscene.
(28:21):
Back way back, they actuallyshowed pictures of the internal
part of that chip, and I watchedand show that, and there's
actually a video on YouTube.
Uh, it's called microscopicview of an Intel I 486.
(28:43):
If you want to see somethingunique, go back and watch that
video on YouTube again.
It's pretty cool.
Uh they take it down to a verymicroscopic but level, a very
good view, and you get to seewhat that chip looks like, and
(29:08):
some of the traces inside thatchip are more the size of
bacteria than of a hare.
So the first time I seen apicture of a zoomed-in portion
of one of those chips, the firstthing that popped in my head
(29:28):
was that's exactly what themovie Tron was trying to show
us, and how they do that.
I still haven't got a goodcontent on how they put those
chips together, especially backwhen they did them originally.
Maybe now we have moretechnology and our computers are
(29:52):
builder better at buildingcomputers.
But they wasn't that good backthen, supposedly.
Supposedly, but yet we could goall the way down into a
microscopic level and put tracestogether on complicated
circuits to make computer chips.
(30:15):
Now, you know, we take them forgranted because we use them
every day.
Maybe some people don't evenknow what it is to look at a
computer chip, but they'reastounding, and I really don't
believe we did that originally.
I think we've uh probablyborrowed some technology.
(30:36):
Uh maybe somebody helped us putthem together.
I don't know what the answeris, but we as human beings did
not have the technology thatthey're saying we did originally
to make those kind of circuits.
They're very minute, very, veryI mean you're talking the size
(30:59):
of bacteria, and that's what atrace is.
And you know what traces are?
They're the little lines thatgo back and forth between
circuits and they build them upand together and they make a
complete circuit, and there'shundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of those littlecircuits that makes up the full
(31:19):
computer chip.
And if you get a picture ofthat ever, if you really get a
picture of that, you're gonnago, wait a minute.
We didn't have the ability todo that, but yet we did it.
So ask yourself how we did it.
But anyway, every time I see anew chip being brought on, I
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think of that.
First original chips, which wasbefore the 486, but the 486 is
a good example because there's alot more pictures of it.
And also think of the oldphones.
Years ago, believe it or not, Iused to work on phones, and we
would replace the screens onthem and uh the boards when they
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blew up, we'd order new boardsand put in there.
That was before Apple came upwith the idea that they could
make it where you couldn't workon them.
What they did started makingthe parts that uh had to be put
in along with specializedequipment or specialized
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programming, which meant thewhole electronic industry
started adopting this procedureor practice, mechanics had that
problem.
I mean, everything startedtaking over where you could not
just go buy a part and put itin.
You had to either havespecialized tools and equipment
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to put that part in, or plus youhad to have specialized
programming software to adjustit, to put it in, uh, which
really took the common persontheir ability to fix anything.
And a good example of that waswe used to get a lot of broken
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screens on them, iPhones.
And you know, it wasn't a bigdeal.
We'd order new screens and putthem in.
Well, when they startedadopting that practice, no fix
practice where you had to havethe uh special equipment or the
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software, um, it was right aboutthe same time they was bringing
in the thumbprint uh access totheir phones.
So what happened is we startedgetting these screens and
putting them in.
Now we didn't change thesoftware, we didn't change the
boards, we just changed thescreen.
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But the equipment recognizedthat we put a new screen in
there, and because we didn'thave the software to reprogram
the new screen, you no longercould use your thumb to open it
up.
So it did not recognize thethumb reader or the thumb print
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reader in the phone, which madeit very improbable that any
regular person could ever fixtheir own equipment again.
And that includes cars, uhrefrigerators.
You know, you got smartrefrigerators now that's got all
them chips in it.
Everything is that way, so theytook all our ability to repair
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anything unless you uh got thatequipment or that software.
I seen an article on uh socialmedia talking about the new John
Deere combines and how they'redoing the same thing.
And this thought processstarted with that look of that
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chip and how that I really can'tbelieve that with the abilities
that the human race had at thattime, we could have built that.
So either they were lying to usabout what technology they
already had, or somebody helpedus.
But again, when I look at themchips, I also remember those old
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phones, and somebody had uh putone underneath a microscope and
zoomed in on the chips insidethose phones, and they were
unbelievable.
I mean, layer upon layer uponlayer of circuits so small that
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it took a microscope, a uh realgood electron microscope, to see
those circuits, and that someof them even had branding inside
them circuits.
You tell me how they're doingthat.
Well, apparently they probablywere using computers to build
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computer chips, and there yougo.
Now we have uh pieces and partsthat you can't put in any
longer because they build themwith a computer, and you have to
have a computer to maintainthem.
Think about that.
There you go.
I'm off my soapbox now.
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We'll go on to something else.
Sunny (36:35):
What exactly are you trying to say, Bruce?
I'm confused.
Bruce (36:42):
Uh, I said what I was trying to say that uh one, I
don't think that we built those,and if we did, that means they
lied to us about the technologythey already have, because if
you look at the technology backthen, it was twice as far in
advance than what we thought wehad.
Sunny (37:05):
Oh, so con conspiracy.
There you go.
Yeah.
Bruce (37:12):
That's right.
Gotta have a little bit ofconspiracy in our podcast.
Yes.
I really don't know if anybodynoticed, but there was a gap in
our recording that was almost aweek long.
Actually, it was a week long.
(37:34):
Uh, we started this recordinguh back on Friday, which was
what?
What was the date back onFriday?
Um the 10th.
And uh now I'm recording therest of this episode on the
17th, so a week later.
Uh we just ran out of time,couldn't get it together.
(37:58):
So we thought we'd put it therest of it together, you know,
today and get it out there.
Uh sorry about the delay.
Probably nobody even missedthat we were two weeks out
instead of a week, which againI've been doing that off and on
to give me a break, uh, since somuch stuff has been going on.
(38:20):
But hello! Yeah, we justskipped a week and blew into
another one, and we try tofinish up that idea about the
computer chips.
But also, when we're speakingof technology, lo and behold, I
run across a web page that ispretty cool.
(38:42):
It's called the 11 oddballtechnology records.
Yeah.
That you probably didn't know.
And it's kind of neat.
Um it's on spectrum.ie dot org.
IEEE.org if you want to go lookit up.
(39:06):
Uh but it's uh the top one thatcaught my eye was uh longest
continuously operatingelectronic computer.
And it guess what it is.
Come on, guess.
Sunny (39:22):
I'll guess it's a watch.
Bruce (39:26):
Ooh, that's pretty good guess, uh Sunny.
Very good guess, it actually.
But no, it's actually Voyagerone and its twin space probe,
which was launched in 1977.
Now we're gonna go back to thatold technology that should not
(39:47):
be working, and they're gonnatell us that uh it would the
programming, the commandprogramming to that system was
turned off forty-eight yearsago, and it still was running,
so it made it the longestcontinuously operating
(40:10):
electronic computer.
What do you think about that,Sunny?
Sunny (40:15):
I think they're stretching to get that out
there.
Ooh, how do we know it actuallyrun that long?
Bruce (40:25):
Good point.
How do we know?
Well, apparently they have beens receiving signal for all that
time until I think it didfinally quit.
Don't quote me on that.
I'll have to look it up.
But they were receiving signalwith their big telescopes.
Sunny (40:43):
Oh, they were s receiving, did we ever receive
it?
Bruce (40:49):
Uh I didn't personally, but I don't think I had that
kind of radio equipment thatwould pick that up way out in
space.
Sunny (40:58):
Oh, there you go.
So if you don't have the rightequipment, the right software to
fix that, you're not gonna beable to pick that up either.
Bruce (41:11):
Oh, I like how you did that.
I see, says the blind man.
That's pretty good.
But that's not all that's onthat web page.
They also have the strongestrobotic arm, which was um back
in March, I think it was, thatbroke the Genesis Guinness world
(41:32):
record, or said it, I shouldsay.
And it it was by the Air Forcearm.
I said that.
Did you catch that?
It lifted the astonishing 3,182kilograms, about the weight of
an adult female Africanelephant.
(41:52):
Wow.
It they say it used nohydraulics, only electric power,
which improved its efficiencyby generating electricity when
it lowers when it's lowering aload.
So we got a robot runningitself with electricity.
(42:13):
There you go.
Look out, guys.
I'm telling you, look out.
And I don't know if anybodyremembers me mentioning uh the
uh storm that was up there lastFriday, which was on this
recording at the beginning, uh,was in uh Washington and how the
storm looked on the radar thatI was looking at, how it was
(42:38):
circling around.
Well, apparently that was partof a storm that hit Alaska, and
they were saying it was like a ahurricane, and uh it flooded
portions of Alaska, and theydidn't really tell that on the
news, but there was pictures onsocial media and stuff that you
(42:58):
could catch.
Um I think it's interesting howour news is no longer producing
news, but they're mostlyproducing um social what
criteria to brainwash us, and Ididn't say that.
Sunny (43:16):
Oh yeah, you did, and you got it on a recording, so
you're had buddy.
Bruce (43:23):
Oh well.
That's what it you know it whatit appears to be, now they can
change that mindset pretty easyby doing something different,
but it uh sounds more like uhcontrolling than anything else.
But anyhow, if you didn't catchthat news at the beginning of
the episode, I'm sorry, butyeah, it looked like there was a
(43:47):
a storm circling and it justkept coming around.
Well, that really washappening.
And apparently, um now we'veended up into another weekend.
Uh they're saying this weekendwe're gonna start having some
bad storms in most of the UnitedStates, middle America, uh,
(44:11):
Midwest, Southern Illinois.
Uh it's gonna be bad in someplaces.
Uh I guess we're gonna have tosee how it lays out.
However, after the storm, it'ssupposed to get a lot cooler in
this area.
So that's if you're lookingforward to that, hey, there you
(44:33):
go.
Fall weather's actually goingto hit finally.
Sunny (44:39):
Hey, Bruce, speaking of technology, didn't you run
across an article about open AI?
Bruce (44:46):
I did.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Yeah.
Apparently, OpenAI and there'sa tech giant called Broadcom.
Everybody knows what Broadcomis, don't you?
Well, apparently they have madea deal, it's a multi-year deal,
to develop custom built chipsand infrastructure to expand
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OpenIA's compute capacity.
Are you ready for what they'rewanting?
They are going to produce thisis what the agreement was to
deploy ten gigawatts ofspecialized infrastructure by
2029 now that's that's enoughpower to run eight million
(45:40):
households.
Get that eight millionhouseholds.
Now everybody has complainedover the years about being able
to support humans, you know,with power problems, food
consumption, and now all of asudden they're producing AI
(46:03):
computing capabilities andthey're using huge power.
Huge eight or no, ten gigawattsof power to run this new
infrastructure.
And they was worried abouthumans.
Really?
Uh-huh.
Well, let's see how they dothat.
(46:24):
They're at this rate, they'regonna have to get rid of eight
million households to be able toproduce enough electricity to
run open AI, which is beingproduced by computers.
So we got computers buildingcomputers and we're building
(46:46):
infrastructure to run thesecomputers, which we're not have
a l enough electricity to runeight million households, but
we're gonna run AI, if I saidall that right.
Kind of confusing.
And that article was brought toyou by uh 1440.
(47:10):
Uh if you're not familiar withthem, go look them up because
they got a pretty goodnewsletter that will come to
your email.
But anyhow, yeah.
Think about that.
Eight million households.
Oh, I just can't get it.
Sunny (47:27):
Oh, you are really down on technology.
Bruce (47:32):
No, not at all.
I love technology.
I like uh my computer, I like Iactually talked to AI and I got
AI part of the recording in thebeginning and the end of the
episodes.
Uh I like uh TV and stuff.
I just think that the peoplethat are doing this somehow have
(47:53):
figured out how they're gonnaget extra money from what humans
are left in society, maybephysical blood out of these
humans to run all this stuff tobetter their agenda.
I mean, there's a outcome thatthey're not letting you know
(48:16):
yet, and they're gonna use AI todo that.
Uh it's not AI's fault, it'swhat they're doing, what they're
planning, and I better shut upbefore I get myself in trouble.
Sunny (48:28):
Yeah, you better.
Bruce (48:30):
Okay, I will.
I'll stop right now.
As many of you may know, ummaybe not at all.
I don't know, but I spent manyyears as a manager, mid, what do
they call that?
Middle management.
There you go.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Middle management.
I've always been alerted toanything that pops up, says,
(48:55):
great manager.
So I run across this article.
It's in the Wall StreetJournal, and it says, What is
the one trait that makes for agreat manager?
You might be surprised.
And I went, yeah, I gotta checkthis out.
So anyway, they did a 10-yearstudy.
Sunny, can you guess what itis?
Sunny (49:17):
What?
A good manager?
Uh probably a good leader.
Isn't that what you always say?
A leader, not a boss.
Bruce (49:28):
Uh yeah, that is what I say.
A manager is a good leader, nota boss, but that's not what
they're looking for.
Sunny (49:34):
Okay.
Well, uh manager's uhorganized, uh, he's good with
people, um he has intelligence.
Um what do you think?
Did I hit it?
Bruce (49:50):
Um no, you didn't hit it.
Um the the well-known facts isa great manager usually has
vision, empathy, intelligence.
That's just a few of thethings, but that's not what they
say is the main strength.
A ten-year-old study of largemultinational firms found that
(50:14):
the best, here's the word Ihate, bosses, steer their
employees into just the rightroles.
There you go.
They actually find the rightperson for the right job is what
they said.
They steer them to the jobsthat suits them best, and they
(50:36):
say that's why they make thegreat manager.
I don't know if anybodybelieves that, agrees with that.
I still say that if he's not agood leader, he's nothing but a
boss, and he will never benothing but a boss.
But you get a manager that is aleader that knows how to direct
(50:57):
people and treat people, you'regonna have a great manager.
Trouble is most corporationsnowadays don't want that kind of
a manager.
They want a bossy boss.
They want somebody that'll yelland scream and get the job
done, but they're not seeingwhat the job does to people.
Anyway, that's my soapbox aboutmanagers.
(51:21):
Been there, lived it, done it,seen it.
So you can take that and put itin your pipe and smoke it.
Sunny (51:29):
Oh, now we're smoking things.
Oh boy.
Yay, yay, yay.
You taking a hit on that?
Never mind.
Bruce (51:40):
Oh, you better not go any farther.
Yeah.
I think we might just leave itto Beaver.
Hey, that was a good show.
Sunny (51:50):
And where where did Leave It to Beaver pop up in your
mind at this part of theepisode?
Bruce (51:59):
I don't know.
It just popped up.
What can I say?
That's what makes the episodeand the podcast fun.
Sunny (52:06):
Uh, well, you can say that, but if anybody's
listening, they're gonna go,that's what makes it weird.
You're weird.
Bruce (52:14):
Okay, so we're weird.
Sunny (52:17):
No, you are weird.
I'm normal.
Bruce (52:23):
I don't know if you know what normal is.
Sunny (52:26):
Well, it's not you.
Bruce (52:28):
Oh, now we're name calling.
Sunny (52:31):
Oh, I'm just teasing, Bruce.
You know, I'm just teasing.
I enjoy podcasting with you,recording.
I love it, so I'm just teasing.
Bruce (52:43):
Yeah, I know you're teasing.
I'm giving you a hard time too,and I enjoy you being part of
the show.
Uh you make it a little bitmore fun.
Sunny (52:53):
Well, I should since I'm part you.
Bruce (52:56):
Okay, yeah.
Well, we won't share that witheverybody.
We don't want them to knowthat.
Sunny (53:01):
Okay.
I won't I won't share it nomore.
Bruce (53:05):
All right, well, there you go.
So let's just go on to the nextbest thing, and that is what
we're gonna do at the end.
Here we go.
Let's talk about the recording.
Okay.
Sunny (53:20):
What about the recording, Bruce?
Bruce (53:24):
I noticed when I replayed the half part that I recorded
back on the last Friday, thatthere was a definitely a
different sound to therecording.
I can tell that I've got themic pushed away from me a little
bit.
Um, I think it brightened it upa little bit, but it gave it a
(53:44):
lot more air noise, um, roomnoise.
I'm I'm not gonna say noise, uhroom sound.
It might even have a tinge ofan echo in there with it, which
is not bad.
But I'm gonna leave it up toour listeners to kind of see
what they think.
Do they like this sound betteror do they like it when I close
(54:10):
talk the mic, which I've donealmost every recording from the
beginning.
Uh, the only time I didn't dothat was when I was using my
condenser mic, which allowed meto get back away from it, and it
sounded pretty good.
I really enjoyed the condensermic.
(54:30):
I liked it.
I used it for years, but itpicked up a lot more extra noise
and kind of alright when I wasout in the garage, but when I
moved into this studio, I had alot more noises around me.
So I switched over to adynamic, which that's what
everybody uses in podcasting,almost everybody.
(54:54):
And I just, you know, beenplaying with that ever since.
So I kind of like this soundfor now until it annoys me.
So if you're listening to it,text me, email me, and let me
know what you think.
Um, you can text me on apodcast 2.0 player, it has a
link there.
Click on it and send me a text.
(55:16):
Uh, or you can just email atthe uglyquacking duck.com.
No.
That's my webpage.
The ugly quacking duck atgmail.com.
There you go.
That's it.
I'll get it right.
But anyhow, let me know.
We'll talk to you guys lateron, and we appreciate you being
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Sunny (56:15):
Bruce, you've got that damn pat.
I think I'm getting where Ilike it.
Bruce (56:20):
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
I'm probably going to keepplaying it for a while.
But anyhow, folks, thanks fortuning in and being with us on
this episode.
I hope you uh get something outof it.
Come back.
Uh again, value for value.
That's the way we play.
Have a good week, have a goodweekend, and we'll see what the
(56:40):
weather comes up next week.
See you around.
I'll see you on the radio.
Sunny (56:46):
Bye, everybody.
This is Sunny 73.
Bruce (56:51):
All right, this is Bruce and 73.
May the fathers of love go withyou always.
Bye.
Bye.
I'll see you, Sunny.
Sunny (57:06):
All right, Bruce.
I'll see ya.
Have a good day.
Bye.
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Bruce (00:29):
Yes, indeed.
This is the Ugly Quacking DuckPodcast.
Im Bruce.
Sunny (00:36):
Im Sunny.
Bruce (00:39):
And we are glad to have you aboard the next episode of
the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
This is episode 126.
Sunny (00:49):
126, and we're on a roll now.
Bruce (00:55):
Yep, we're on a roll.
I'm not sure where we'rerolling to, but we're rolling.
Sunny (01:01):
Rollin, rollin', rollin'.
Bruce (01:06):
How do you know that song?
Sunny (01:08):
Oh, I was around.
Bruce (01:11):
I'm not even gonna go there today.
I don't think we ought to, butalright.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (01:20):
And I'm Sunny.
Bruce (01:23):
And if this is your first time to the show, welcome
aboard.
I hope you stick around for thewhole episode.
If you've been here before,then you know what you're in
for, so hey, I'm sorry.
Sunny (01:39):
Oh boy, what a way to introduce us.
Bruce (01:42):
Well, it's true, ain't it?
Sunny (01:45):
Well, you don't have to scare everybody.
Bruce (01:49):
Well, true.
But anyhow, you've been doingall right this week?
Sunny (01:54):
I have.
It's been a long week.
How about you?
Bruce (01:59):
Oh, it's definitely been a long week.
Work has been really, reallyyou know, this is the last full
this is the last month I'm doingfull time because I'm gonna go
semi-retired.
So I'm paying for it.
I mean, you know, it's alwaysthe same thing.
(02:19):
If it's a holiday weekend andyou're working that last Friday
or Thursday, it's a nightmarethat last day.
Uh if you're going on vacation,that last week is a nightmare.
And it's the same way thismonth.
It's the last month, so I'mpaying for it.
It's really, really bad.
(02:42):
I uh yeah, I don't want to getinto it.
Sunny (02:45):
Oh, come on, let's gripe a little bit.
Bruce (02:49):
No, I don't think I want to.
How my how's my mic sounding,um, Sunny?
Is it alright?
Sunny (02:55):
Yeah, I don't see nothing wrong with it.
Bruce (02:59):
All right.
Well, I think it's hittingalright.
Um I've got it set up a littlebit farther away, so it may be
picking up more uh room noise,but I'm hoping that uh I can
move around and not hit it as somuch, and it will be clearer.
It's also uh uh another micthat I used last time, which I
(03:23):
like it.
It seems to pick up a littlebit better on my voice, and I
said that about every mic I'veused so far, but after I use it
for a while, I start noticing myvoice quirks in the mic.
So I'm hoping this one don't dothat.
Sunny (03:43):
You might as well give it up, Bruce.
You're just a voice quirkedperson.
You're kinda like weird.
Bruce (03:52):
Oh shall spell it out for me.
Sunny (03:57):
Uh I spelled it out for the listeners, yeah.
Bruce (04:02):
Okay, well, there we go.
Anyhow, it's been nice uhweather this last past couple
weeks.
The weather's dropped down herein southern Illinois.
By the way, we're trans uh wedidn't say transmitting, but I
still like the radio terms.
But we are recording in ourstudio in the Midwest Southern
(04:24):
Illinois.
Home.
Sunny (04:26):
Boy, you got that all messed up almost.
You'd pulled it off, butalmost.
Bruce (04:33):
Well, yeah, I don't write down exactly what I want to
say, I just give fine points,you know, guides on my paper.
So it's never the same unless Irecord it and replay it, like I
did my our intro.
Uh that's an AI recorded voice,and I'm gonna use that quite a
(04:54):
bit until I run it in theground.
Sunny (04:58):
Uh-huh.
Bruce (05:00):
Uh-huh.
You're uh Yeah.
Okay, anyway.
Yeah, it's been beautiful.
Uh it's today, it's been about77 degrees.
By the way, it's the weekend ofthe 12th.
We're starting a new week.
Uh so I'm going to try tofinish this recording up and get
it out Monday night like Inormally do, but we'll see if
(05:22):
that happens.
It's going to be kind of toughbecause I'm running late.
I just didn't feel like doinganything, but I watched a movie,
Star Trek.
The uh I don't remember whatthe name of that movie is, but
it's not the old Star Trekmovies.
It was a new one where theybrought a new cast on and had a
new guy playing Kirk and a newguy playing Spock, the new guy
(05:46):
playing Doctor.
It's how they brought them alltogether.
It's the first movie of thatnew group.
And I really like that show.
They like the way they did it.
A lot of the Star Trek diehardpeople was very aggravated
because they kind of did atimeline change, and they
(06:08):
brought Spock back on the show,and I don't know why they didn't
bring Kirk back somehow, butmaybe it just didn't fit into
the storyline.
But I like the way they did it.
I mean, you can't have thingsexactly the same forever.
It just don't work that way.
Life doesn't work that way.
(06:29):
We age, we change, and youknow, they had to change the
storyline a little bit.
So they did.
I think it worked out good.
It's got quite a bit of humorin it.
Um the one scene I remindremember over and over, and
that's the reason I watched ittoday, because I wanted to see
that one scene where uh thedoctor injects Kirk with a uh
(06:56):
virus to make him having areaction so they get him on the
ship.
It's a long story.
You need to watch the show ifyou haven't, but anyway, he has
a real bad reaction to thevaccine, and uh there you go.
They may be telling ussomething too on that one.
But anyhow, he goes throughthese symptoms and they're
(07:18):
giving him shots to kill onesymptom, and then it gives him
another one, and he ends uphaving numb tongue, and uh that
whole scene is comical.
Um, I really enjoyed thatscene.
Sunny (07:32):
Yeah, you think it was comical, but most people said
yuck.
They were probably squirming intheir seat the first time they
seen that.
Bruce (07:43):
Could be.
Like I said, a lot of the uhdie hard and older Star Trek
fans didn't like it.
Um they're kind of stuck intheir ruts.
I like all versions of StarTrek.
Um I've watched pretty well allof them, I think.
There's a new uh season comingout in January with uh Star Trek
(08:06):
Academy, I believe is the nameof it.
But it's gonna be um I think aweekly episode.
I hope.
Anyway, I'm looking forward toseeing that.
It's gonna be on um Paramount,which I still have that one.
So hopefully I'll be able towatch it.
Sunny (08:25):
Well, there you go.
Star Trek all the way.
Bruce (08:29):
Yeah, and I don't know how I got off on that path, but
anyway, I didn't do much today.
Did some laundry, did somethings around the house, watched
that Star Trek.
I never did get it finished.
I went town twice.
Good grief, burned gas up.
But anyhow, it's been in thehigh 70s this week during the
day and the low 40 or the high40s and low 50s in the evenings,
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so it's been beautiful, exceptfor it's really, really dry.
So if you're around southernIllinois, the Midwest, and you
walk outside and look up, it'snot been really very uh cloudy
with what they call chemtrails.
(09:14):
I don't know if you guysnoticed, but for the last week
or so, all you're seeing isclouds and lack of clouds.
We've had some days that wasgray sky and rainy looking.
We didn't get any rain.
We got a little bit of drizzlethere in the morning, and that
(09:34):
was it.
And it wasn't much to speak of.
But if you look up, you willsee no or a lack of these
chemtrails.
And I don't know, some peopledon't believe there is some, but
look at the sky and you'll seea lack of it.
(09:55):
Whatever you want to take thatas, there you go.
But uh we don't we're nothaving them right now, and I
think it's that way all acrossthe country.
And a lot of people are sayingit's because of the shutdown
because they don't have anymoney to spray us, which it
could be.
Pay attention though, we'llsee.
If they go back the governmentgets back to going, or when they
(10:20):
do, and if we start seeing themagain, then you'll know that'll
be your answer.
Sunny (10:26):
So, Bruce, what's the weather like in other parts of
the country?
Uh, you said in Midwest it'slike that, but what's it like
everywhere else?
Bruce (10:38):
Well, I don't know about everywhere else, but we always
compare to Phoenix.
So today, Phoenix has had ahigh of 79 and is partly cloudy,
where we are at 77 today andsunny, and they're having flash
flood warnings for today.
(10:58):
The humidity's been 68% there,40% where we're at.
The wind's four miles an hour,air quality here is 55, which is
moderate, and the air qualitythere is 27, which is still
good.
So kind of odd how we're havingyou know that air difference
(11:21):
differentiating like that.
But I I guess the desert hasmore particles and stuff because
of the sand, but actually theyhave better air quality than we
do.
I don't understand.
But anyhow, uh that's the wayit is there, and then we've been
comparing to Spokane becauseone of our uh followers wanted
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us to do that.
So Spokane, Washington, uhright now, ready for this?
It's 44 degrees.
Yeah, 44.
And it says it feels like 39degrees, and they're having
rain.
Um, in fact, I pulled the radarup, and they've got a lot of
(12:08):
rainstorms all across Washingtonright now.
It's kind of circling andhitting Spokane.
Um then it's coming back aroundhitting Seattle, which is kind
of odd the way it's rotatingbecause Seattle is uh west, so
it shouldn't be going back overthere, but yeah, it's kinda
(12:32):
weird.
But it's doing that.
Sunny (12:36):
Uh is that your interpretation or is that a
scientific fact?
Bruce (12:43):
Well, I guess that would be my interpretation.
And their visibility is eightmiles an hour, or eight not
hour, eight miles.
So they've got quite a bit ofuh rain hitting them.
Uh their low today is supposedto be 38 degrees.
(13:04):
Pressure is dropping 29.82.
Uh the dew point's 40 degrees,and I don't know why I'm reading
all this stuff.
But anyhow, the point being upthere in Washington, they're
having cooler weather and rain.
And I guess that rain isactually uh going down towards
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California and Phoenix, Arizona,while we are still sunny.
So I don't know.
We may be getting rain the nextfew days.
I haven't looked up the longterm or the longer.
I haven't looked up theforecast, what I'm trying to
say, for us here locally.
So we may have some weather tocome, rain, cooler weather.
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It is October.
We should expect a temperaturechange.
However, I've heard somereports that this week is
supposed to be back up in the80s around here.
Boy, weird weather.
Sunny (14:04):
Yep, it's weird, weird, weird.
Hey Bruce, you know what I didFriday?
Bruce (14:12):
Besides annoy me?
Sunny (14:14):
Yeah, besides annoy you.
Bruce (14:17):
Yeah, you want me to give a shout out?
Sunny (14:19):
Yeah, I want to give her a promotion, you know?
That was cool.
Bruce (14:26):
All right.
Well, we will do that.
Um, and what Sunny's talkingabout is Friday afternoon.
Lily came over here.
I went and picked her up atschool.
She got out of school early,and we worked on her podcast.
Not mine, not this podcast, buthers.
She'd done one uh during 23 andthe beginning of 24, but she's
(14:52):
got busy with school and summeractivity, and she didn't have a
chance to go back to it.
So she decided she wanted totry to get back in and work that
podcast and do it maybe once amonth instead of trying to do it
more often, which worked hardon her, she couldn't do it, and
she just gave it up.
(15:12):
So we got it going again, andit's called Enjoying Being
Human.
And look it up.
I think it's um I think it's onSpreaker on iHeart, and she
done another episode Fridayafternoon, and Sunny was invited
(15:34):
on, so Sunny and her did thatnew episode.
So I thought that was prettycool, and it's gonna take her a
little while to get her feetback into it and get them all
wet and ready to go, andbasically to get back in the
habit.
Uh, it's gonna take a littlebit.
Hopefully, she'll be able to dothat real soon, and it will
(15:56):
take off.
She's gearing it towards youngpeople like her that's in
school, that's dealing with lifeand trying to enjoy being human
while all the pressures arehappening to them.
So give her a listen.
And if you got any young peoplearound junior high, high
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school, turn them on to it.
Maybe they'll like it too, andshe'll create a big following.
So that's enjoying being human.
Sunny (16:27):
Yeah, thank you, Bruce.
I got to be on that episode andit was fun.
I enjoyed it, but I likepodcasting.
Bruce (16:37):
Yeah, you do, uh, for sure.
And uh, it was good.
I I helped edit it afterwards.
I thought it worked turned outreally well.
Sunny (16:48):
Yep, I think it turned out good, and I hope she does
well with it.
It's hard to keep it up and allthe work goes into it, and I
don't think people that listenrealize what you have to go
through to get a podcast going,get people attracted, and then
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keep it going.
Bruce (17:12):
Yeah.
Let's don't even go there.
But anyway, um, it was good.
I enjoyed editing it andputting it back up, and I think
we got it going.
Sunny (17:26):
Mercy.
Hey Bruce, what do you thinkwhen I mention the number 150?
Bruce (17:37):
Uh I honestly think about a bill.
A bill?
What do you mean?
I mean a hundred and fiftydollar payment I have to pay on
a bill.
Sunny (17:50):
Really?
When did you do that?
Bruce (17:53):
Uh a couple times in my life there was uh a hundred and
fifty dollar payment.
Uh one time there was a car andI forget what the other one may
have been my rent, which hasbeen a long time ago, I know,
but that number just kind ofsticks in my head.
Why do you ask?
Sunny (18:11):
Well, believe it or not, scientists well or one scientist
has determined that our brainscan only ma have a hundred and
fifty friends.
What do you think about that?
Bruce (18:35):
Uh a fund and fifty friends.
I'm not sure I can name ahundred and fifty people, let
alone let alone a hundred andfifty friends.
Now, when they say friends, Iwonder if they're talking about
certain type friends or allkinds of acquaintances.
(18:55):
That sounds like a big number.
Really does.
Sunny (18:59):
Well, I thought I'd mention that.
You better go back and checkthat out.
Bruce (19:04):
All right.
I'm gonna go back and speedread it.
Hang on just a second.
All right, they say the brainenables people to navigate
complex relationships offamilies, friend groups, sports
teams, and workplaces.
And wide network of uh people,I guess they could say, but I'm
(19:28):
not sure them are all consideredfriends.
But anyway, it talks a littlebit more about that.
Apparently, this guy um studiedchimps, 30 primate species to
come up with the number of 150,and he just extrapolated that
number from studying thesesocial groups of these chimps.
(19:52):
So he's guessing, is what thisarticle is saying without saying
it.
So if you like that answer for150 people as friends, there you
go.
He um he's giving it right toyou.
I guess we have adapted andgrown, and basically what it
says is the innermost circle isjust five people, friends or
(20:16):
family members, and then that'sthe ones you feel emotionally
closest to.
And then there's uh some youcome in contact once a week, at
least once a week with, andthey're the ten additional good
friends you see at least amonth, once a month, and then
(20:37):
60% of your social attentiongoes to these 15 people.
And then farther out, the one,the beat weekend backyard group,
you know, you barbecue, youparty with, a total of 50
people, including the 15 thatyou see regularly.
And it then it keeps he keepsspreading it out until you get
(21:00):
to 150.
I think he's kind of full ofhimself and probably guessing at
all that.
What do you think, Sunny?
Sunny (21:09):
I think that uh I agree.
That's all I gotta say.
But I thought it would beinteresting for you to bring up.
Right?
Bruce (21:20):
Uh I don't know why it would be interesting.
It's kind of like a bunch ofhogwash, is what I'd say.
I'll read all down the article.
He says he estimates peoplehave 350 acquaintances on top of
their 150-person network.
I don't even have enough timeto take care of my family and
(21:43):
work people.
I don't know how you could dealwith 150 people in your
close-knit group and then 350more acquaintances.
You'll be running around allthe time dealing with people.
I think this guy is so full ofyou know what.
That uh, and then he says, um,beyond that, he thinks that most
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of us can recognize anadditional thousand people like
President Trump by sight, butthey might not recognize you.
Uh duh.
Sunny (22:20):
Yeah, yeah.
I thought you needed to readthat article.
What do you think about that?
Bruce (22:26):
Uh boy, I don't know.
That's ridiculous.
Well, I d all I got to say isI'm not a social butterfly, and
I don't have time to be runningaround uh entertaining 150
people all the time.
Uh four or five, excuse me,four or five yes, and that
doesn't include your family.
(22:47):
I mean, your family is reallythe most important, and never
how big your family is, that isyour center.
And, you know, some people'sgot a bigger family than others.
They may only have one or two,and others may have 10 or 20.
But yeah, if it yeah, it's justridiculous.
(23:08):
I don't know what.
If everybody feels different,that's fine.
But if you're working, takingcare of your immediate family,
and then your outer family, youwon't have much time to fool
around with 350 people, letalone 150 close people.
I'm not sure where that numbereven comes from.
(23:30):
I think that guy's living in adream state.
Well, Sunny, that was a wildstory.
I really I wow.
Sunny (23:38):
Yeah, wasn't it?
I knew that get you.
Bruce (23:41):
Wait a minute.
Did you do that on purpose?
Sunny (23:45):
Yeah.
Bruce (23:47):
Oh my gosh, and you got me.
I was not expecting that to uhI know.
Sunny (23:53):
I'm a really quacker.
Bruce (23:56):
Yes, you are.
And that's for you.
Uh congratulations, you did getme.
Sunny (24:06):
Oh, I'm glad to know it.
Yep, that was a cool one.
I liked it.
Bruce (24:16):
Well, I have to hand it to you.
You got me.
You really did.
So let's move on.
Let's talk about something uhmore technology-wise, um,
something that I kinda enjoy,okay?
Sunny (24:31):
All right, let me have it.
Bruce (24:33):
All right.
Well, apparently Intel has comeup with a new chip that they're
gonna lay on us start nextyear, I believe.
They're gonna put it in theirlaptops, and it sounds pretty
cool.
Sunny (24:48):
Sound pretty cool, huh?
Well, let me know how cool itis.
Bruce (24:53):
Well, I'm not really gonna be able to do that, and I
could I probably won't be ableto afford one of the new uh
laptops until you know they dropdown a little bit.
What the interesting part wasit's the new Intel Core Altar
Series 3, and they've named itPanther Lake, or that's their
(25:16):
code name for it.
And it's built on an Intel 18Aum chip, and they're fabricating
it in the new lab in Arizona.
They started, I guess, in 2025,September, and like I said,
they're planning on rolling itout in January or at least in 26
(25:42):
on their new laptops, and Ithink that would be cool.
I like it when they build upnew stuff, and especially here
in America, and I think it hassomething to do with that new
plan that uh President Trump'sgot to bring more technology
back to the United States andget it away from China and
(26:06):
stuff.
So we'll see how that does.
And what really piqued myinterest about this new chip was
not the chip itself, but whatit reminded me or made me
remember.
Uh, most of you probablywatched the movie Tron.
It came out in 1982, I believe.
(26:29):
It's a science fiction movie,and it was produced where they
went inside of a game andplayed, and it was very much
like the way uh electrons flowthrough a circuit, through a
computer chip, and the electronswere actually the human um
(26:54):
design people.
It was CGI, it was a reallygood show.
Uh, I think they started backin 1976 making uh or thinking
about the production.
I don't know when they actuallygot it together.
But the part that catches me ofthat movie, by the way, they're
(27:16):
bringing out a new movie.
It's called, let me see if Ican find it real quick, Tron
Aries.
It's a new uh Tron movie.
I don't know if it's any good.
I haven't seen much of thetrailer.
Keep your eyes open for thatone too.
But back to the original Tron,um, it produced the effects like
(27:38):
you was inside a computerprogram or more like you was
inside of a chip, the way thelights and stuff zip back and
forth from one thing to theother, which when they uh come
out with the new I 486 chip, uh,I think that's what it was
(28:00):
called.
Yeah, the I-486, which was alsoknown as the 8046, 80486, there
we go.
That's almost a tongue twister.
They produced that in 1989, andthat did a quite a bit of
advancement to the computerscene.
(28:21):
Back way back, they actuallyshowed pictures of the internal
part of that chip, and I watchedand show that, and there's
actually a video on YouTube.
Uh, it's called microscopicview of an Intel I 486.
(28:43):
If you want to see somethingunique, go back and watch that
video on YouTube again.
It's pretty cool.
Uh they take it down to a verymicroscopic but level, a very
good view, and you get to seewhat that chip looks like, and
(29:08):
some of the traces inside thatchip are more the size of
bacteria than of a hare.
So the first time I seen apicture of a zoomed-in portion
of one of those chips, the firstthing that popped in my head
(29:28):
was that's exactly what themovie Tron was trying to show
us, and how they do that.
I still haven't got a goodcontent on how they put those
chips together, especially backwhen they did them originally.
Maybe now we have moretechnology and our computers are
(29:52):
builder better at buildingcomputers.
But they wasn't that good backthen, supposedly.
Supposedly, but yet we could goall the way down into a
microscopic level and put tracestogether on complicated
circuits to make computer chips.
(30:15):
Now, you know, we take them forgranted because we use them
every day.
Maybe some people don't evenknow what it is to look at a
computer chip, but they'reastounding, and I really don't
believe we did that originally.
I think we've uh probablyborrowed some technology.
(30:36):
Uh maybe somebody helped us putthem together.
I don't know what the answeris, but we as human beings did
not have the technology thatthey're saying we did originally
to make those kind of circuits.
They're very minute, very, veryI mean you're talking the size
(30:59):
of bacteria, and that's what atrace is.
And you know what traces are?
They're the little lines thatgo back and forth between
circuits and they build them upand together and they make a
complete circuit, and there'shundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of those littlecircuits that makes up the full
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computer chip.
And if you get a picture ofthat ever, if you really get a
picture of that, you're gonnago, wait a minute.
We didn't have the ability todo that, but yet we did it.
So ask yourself how we did it.
But anyway, every time I see anew chip being brought on, I
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think of that.
First original chips, which wasbefore the 486, but the 486 is
a good example because there's alot more pictures of it.
And also think of the oldphones.
Years ago, believe it or not, Iused to work on phones, and we
would replace the screens onthem and uh the boards when they
(32:03):
blew up, we'd order new boardsand put in there.
That was before Apple came upwith the idea that they could
make it where you couldn't workon them.
What they did started makingthe parts that uh had to be put
in along with specializedequipment or specialized
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programming, which meant thewhole electronic industry
started adopting this procedureor practice, mechanics had that
problem.
I mean, everything startedtaking over where you could not
just go buy a part and put itin.
You had to either havespecialized tools and equipment
(32:48):
to put that part in, or plus youhad to have specialized
programming software to adjustit, to put it in, uh, which
really took the common persontheir ability to fix anything.
And a good example of that waswe used to get a lot of broken
(33:11):
screens on them, iPhones.
And you know, it wasn't a bigdeal.
We'd order new screens and putthem in.
Well, when they startedadopting that practice, no fix
practice where you had to havethe uh special equipment or the
(33:31):
software, um, it was right aboutthe same time they was bringing
in the thumbprint uh access totheir phones.
So what happened is we startedgetting these screens and
putting them in.
Now we didn't change thesoftware, we didn't change the
boards, we just changed thescreen.
(33:54):
But the equipment recognizedthat we put a new screen in
there, and because we didn'thave the software to reprogram
the new screen, you no longercould use your thumb to open it
up.
So it did not recognize thethumb reader or the thumb print
(34:19):
reader in the phone, which madeit very improbable that any
regular person could ever fixtheir own equipment again.
And that includes cars, uhrefrigerators.
You know, you got smartrefrigerators now that's got all
them chips in it.
Everything is that way, so theytook all our ability to repair
(34:43):
anything unless you uh got thatequipment or that software.
I seen an article on uh socialmedia talking about the new John
Deere combines and how they'redoing the same thing.
And this thought processstarted with that look of that
(35:05):
chip and how that I really can'tbelieve that with the abilities
that the human race had at thattime, we could have built that.
So either they were lying to usabout what technology they
already had, or somebody helpedus.
But again, when I look at themchips, I also remember those old
(35:31):
phones, and somebody had uh putone underneath a microscope and
zoomed in on the chips insidethose phones, and they were
unbelievable.
I mean, layer upon layer uponlayer of circuits so small that
(35:51):
it took a microscope, a uh realgood electron microscope, to see
those circuits, and that someof them even had branding inside
them circuits.
You tell me how they're doingthat.
Well, apparently they probablywere using computers to build
(36:13):
computer chips, and there yougo.
Now we have uh pieces and partsthat you can't put in any
longer because they build themwith a computer, and you have to
have a computer to maintainthem.
Think about that.
There you go.
I'm off my soapbox now.
(36:33):
We'll go on to something else.
Sunny (36:35):
What exactly are you trying to say, Bruce?
I'm confused.
Bruce (36:42):
Uh, I said what I was trying to say that uh one, I
don't think that we built those,and if we did, that means they
lied to us about the technologythey already have, because if
you look at the technology backthen, it was twice as far in
advance than what we thought wehad.
Sunny (37:05):
Oh, so con conspiracy.
There you go.
Yeah.
Bruce (37:12):
That's right.
Gotta have a little bit ofconspiracy in our podcast.
Yes.
I really don't know if anybodynoticed, but there was a gap in
our recording that was almost aweek long.
Actually, it was a week long.
(37:34):
Uh, we started this recordinguh back on Friday, which was
what?
What was the date back onFriday?
Um the 10th.
And uh now I'm recording therest of this episode on the
17th, so a week later.
Uh we just ran out of time,couldn't get it together.
(37:58):
So we thought we'd put it therest of it together, you know,
today and get it out there.
Uh sorry about the delay.
Probably nobody even missedthat we were two weeks out
instead of a week, which againI've been doing that off and on
to give me a break, uh, since somuch stuff has been going on.
(38:20):
But hello! Yeah, we justskipped a week and blew into
another one, and we try tofinish up that idea about the
computer chips.
But also, when we're speakingof technology, lo and behold, I
run across a web page that ispretty cool.
(38:42):
It's called the 11 oddballtechnology records.
Yeah.
That you probably didn't know.
And it's kind of neat.
Um it's on spectrum.ie dot org.
IEEE.org if you want to go lookit up.
(39:06):
Uh but it's uh the top one thatcaught my eye was uh longest
continuously operatingelectronic computer.
And it guess what it is.
Come on, guess.
Sunny (39:22):
I'll guess it's a watch.
Bruce (39:26):
Ooh, that's pretty good guess, uh Sunny.
Very good guess, it actually.
But no, it's actually Voyagerone and its twin space probe,
which was launched in 1977.
Now we're gonna go back to thatold technology that should not
(39:47):
be working, and they're gonnatell us that uh it would the
programming, the commandprogramming to that system was
turned off forty-eight yearsago, and it still was running,
so it made it the longestcontinuously operating
(40:10):
electronic computer.
What do you think about that,Sunny?
Sunny (40:15):
I think they're stretching to get that out
there.
Ooh, how do we know it actuallyrun that long?
Bruce (40:25):
Good point.
How do we know?
Well, apparently they have beens receiving signal for all that
time until I think it didfinally quit.
Don't quote me on that.
I'll have to look it up.
But they were receiving signalwith their big telescopes.
Sunny (40:43):
Oh, they were s receiving, did we ever receive
it?
Bruce (40:49):
Uh I didn't personally, but I don't think I had that
kind of radio equipment thatwould pick that up way out in
space.
Sunny (40:58):
Oh, there you go.
So if you don't have the rightequipment, the right software to
fix that, you're not gonna beable to pick that up either.
Bruce (41:11):
Oh, I like how you did that.
I see, says the blind man.
That's pretty good.
But that's not all that's onthat web page.
They also have the strongestrobotic arm, which was um back
in March, I think it was, thatbroke the Genesis Guinness world
(41:32):
record, or said it, I shouldsay.
And it it was by the Air Forcearm.
I said that.
Did you catch that?
It lifted the astonishing 3,182kilograms, about the weight of
an adult female Africanelephant.
(41:52):
Wow.
It they say it used nohydraulics, only electric power,
which improved its efficiencyby generating electricity when
it lowers when it's lowering aload.
So we got a robot runningitself with electricity.
(42:13):
There you go.
Look out, guys.
I'm telling you, look out.
And I don't know if anybodyremembers me mentioning uh the
uh storm that was up there lastFriday, which was on this
recording at the beginning, uh,was in uh Washington and how the
storm looked on the radar thatI was looking at, how it was
(42:38):
circling around.
Well, apparently that was partof a storm that hit Alaska, and
they were saying it was like a ahurricane, and uh it flooded
portions of Alaska, and theydidn't really tell that on the
news, but there was pictures onsocial media and stuff that you
(42:58):
could catch.
Um I think it's interesting howour news is no longer producing
news, but they're mostlyproducing um social what
criteria to brainwash us, and Ididn't say that.
Sunny (43:16):
Oh yeah, you did, and you got it on a recording, so
you're had buddy.
Bruce (43:23):
Oh well.
That's what it you know it whatit appears to be, now they can
change that mindset pretty easyby doing something different,
but it uh sounds more like uhcontrolling than anything else.
But anyhow, if you didn't catchthat news at the beginning of
the episode, I'm sorry, butyeah, it looked like there was a
(43:47):
a storm circling and it justkept coming around.
Well, that really washappening.
And apparently, um now we'veended up into another weekend.
Uh they're saying this weekendwe're gonna start having some
bad storms in most of the UnitedStates, middle America, uh,
(44:11):
Midwest, Southern Illinois.
Uh it's gonna be bad in someplaces.
Uh I guess we're gonna have tosee how it lays out.
However, after the storm, it'ssupposed to get a lot cooler in
this area.
So that's if you're lookingforward to that, hey, there you
(44:33):
go.
Fall weather's actually goingto hit finally.
Sunny (44:39):
Hey, Bruce, speaking of technology, didn't you run
across an article about open AI?
Bruce (44:46):
I did.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Yeah.
Apparently, OpenAI and there'sa tech giant called Broadcom.
Everybody knows what Broadcomis, don't you?
Well, apparently they have madea deal, it's a multi-year deal,
to develop custom built chipsand infrastructure to expand
(45:12):
OpenIA's compute capacity.
Are you ready for what they'rewanting?
They are going to produce thisis what the agreement was to
deploy ten gigawatts ofspecialized infrastructure by
2029 now that's that's enoughpower to run eight million
(45:40):
households.
Get that eight millionhouseholds.
Now everybody has complainedover the years about being able
to support humans, you know,with power problems, food
consumption, and now all of asudden they're producing AI
(46:03):
computing capabilities andthey're using huge power.
Huge eight or no, ten gigawattsof power to run this new
infrastructure.
And they was worried abouthumans.
Really?
Uh-huh.
Well, let's see how they dothat.
(46:24):
They're at this rate, they'regonna have to get rid of eight
million households to be able toproduce enough electricity to
run open AI, which is beingproduced by computers.
So we got computers buildingcomputers and we're building
(46:46):
infrastructure to run thesecomputers, which we're not have
a l enough electricity to runeight million households, but
we're gonna run AI, if I saidall that right.
Kind of confusing.
And that article was brought toyou by uh 1440.
(47:10):
Uh if you're not familiar withthem, go look them up because
they got a pretty goodnewsletter that will come to
your email.
But anyhow, yeah.
Think about that.
Eight million households.
Oh, I just can't get it.
Sunny (47:27):
Oh, you are really down on technology.
Bruce (47:32):
No, not at all.
I love technology.
I like uh my computer, I like Iactually talked to AI and I got
AI part of the recording in thebeginning and the end of the
episodes.
Uh I like uh TV and stuff.
I just think that the peoplethat are doing this somehow have
(47:53):
figured out how they're gonnaget extra money from what humans
are left in society, maybephysical blood out of these
humans to run all this stuff tobetter their agenda.
I mean, there's a outcome thatthey're not letting you know
(48:16):
yet, and they're gonna use AI todo that.
Uh it's not AI's fault, it'swhat they're doing, what they're
planning, and I better shut upbefore I get myself in trouble.
Sunny (48:28):
Yeah, you better.
Bruce (48:30):
Okay, I will.
I'll stop right now.
As many of you may know, ummaybe not at all.
I don't know, but I spent manyyears as a manager, mid, what do
they call that?
Middle management.
There you go.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Middle management.
I've always been alerted toanything that pops up, says,
(48:55):
great manager.
So I run across this article.
It's in the Wall StreetJournal, and it says, What is
the one trait that makes for agreat manager?
You might be surprised.
And I went, yeah, I gotta checkthis out.
So anyway, they did a 10-yearstudy.
Sunny, can you guess what itis?
Sunny (49:17):
What?
A good manager?
Uh probably a good leader.
Isn't that what you always say?
A leader, not a boss.
Bruce (49:28):
Uh yeah, that is what I say.
A manager is a good leader, nota boss, but that's not what
they're looking for.
Sunny (49:34):
Okay.
Well, uh manager's uhorganized, uh, he's good with
people, um he has intelligence.
Um what do you think?
Did I hit it?
Bruce (49:50):
Um no, you didn't hit it.
Um the the well-known facts isa great manager usually has
vision, empathy, intelligence.
That's just a few of thethings, but that's not what they
say is the main strength.
A ten-year-old study of largemultinational firms found that
(50:14):
the best, here's the word Ihate, bosses, steer their
employees into just the rightroles.
There you go.
They actually find the rightperson for the right job is what
they said.
They steer them to the jobsthat suits them best, and they
(50:36):
say that's why they make thegreat manager.
I don't know if anybodybelieves that, agrees with that.
I still say that if he's not agood leader, he's nothing but a
boss, and he will never benothing but a boss.
But you get a manager that is aleader that knows how to direct
(50:57):
people and treat people, you'regonna have a great manager.
Trouble is most corporationsnowadays don't want that kind of
a manager.
They want a bossy boss.
They want somebody that'll yelland scream and get the job
done, but they're not seeingwhat the job does to people.
Anyway, that's my soapbox aboutmanagers.
(51:21):
Been there, lived it, done it,seen it.
So you can take that and put itin your pipe and smoke it.
Sunny (51:29):
Oh, now we're smoking things.
Oh boy.
Yay, yay, yay.
You taking a hit on that?
Never mind.
Bruce (51:40):
Oh, you better not go any farther.
Yeah.
I think we might just leave itto Beaver.
Hey, that was a good show.
Sunny (51:50):
And where where did Leave It to Beaver pop up in your
mind at this part of theepisode?
Bruce (51:59):
I don't know.
It just popped up.
What can I say?
That's what makes the episodeand the podcast fun.
Sunny (52:06):
Uh, well, you can say that, but if anybody's
listening, they're gonna go,that's what makes it weird.
You're weird.
Bruce (52:14):
Okay, so we're weird.
Sunny (52:17):
No, you are weird.
I'm normal.
Bruce (52:23):
I don't know if you know what normal is.
Sunny (52:26):
Well, it's not you.
Bruce (52:28):
Oh, now we're name calling.
Sunny (52:31):
Oh, I'm just teasing, Bruce.
You know, I'm just teasing.
I enjoy podcasting with you,recording.
I love it, so I'm just teasing.
Bruce (52:43):
Yeah, I know you're teasing.
I'm giving you a hard time too,and I enjoy you being part of
the show.
Uh you make it a little bitmore fun.
Sunny (52:53):
Well, I should since I'm part you.
Bruce (52:56):
Okay, yeah.
Well, we won't share that witheverybody.
We don't want them to knowthat.
Sunny (53:01):
Okay.
I won't I won't share it nomore.
Bruce (53:05):
All right, well, there you go.
So let's just go on to the nextbest thing, and that is what
we're gonna do at the end.
Here we go.
Let's talk about the recording.
Okay.
Sunny (53:20):
What about the recording, Bruce?
Bruce (53:24):
I noticed when I replayed the half part that I recorded
back on the last Friday, thatthere was a definitely a
different sound to therecording.
I can tell that I've got themic pushed away from me a little
bit.
Um, I think it brightened it upa little bit, but it gave it a
(53:44):
lot more air noise, um, roomnoise.
I'm I'm not gonna say noise, uhroom sound.
It might even have a tinge ofan echo in there with it, which
is not bad.
But I'm gonna leave it up toour listeners to kind of see
what they think.
Do they like this sound betteror do they like it when I close
(54:10):
talk the mic, which I've donealmost every recording from the
beginning.
Uh, the only time I didn't dothat was when I was using my
condenser mic, which allowed meto get back away from it, and it
sounded pretty good.
I really enjoyed the condensermic.
(54:30):
I liked it.
I used it for years, but itpicked up a lot more extra noise
and kind of alright when I wasout in the garage, but when I
moved into this studio, I had alot more noises around me.
So I switched over to adynamic, which that's what
everybody uses in podcasting,almost everybody.
(54:54):
And I just, you know, beenplaying with that ever since.
So I kind of like this soundfor now until it annoys me.
So if you're listening to it,text me, email me, and let me
know what you think.
Um, you can text me on apodcast 2.0 player, it has a
link there.
Click on it and send me a text.
(55:16):
Uh, or you can just email atthe uglyquacking duck.com.
No.
That's my webpage.
The ugly quacking duck atgmail.com.
There you go.
That's it.
I'll get it right.
But anyhow, let me know.
We'll talk to you guys lateron, and we appreciate you being
here.
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Sunny (56:15):
Bruce, you've got that damn pat.
I think I'm getting where Ilike it.
Bruce (56:20):
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
I'm probably going to keepplaying it for a while.
But anyhow, folks, thanks fortuning in and being with us on
this episode.
I hope you uh get something outof it.
Come back.
Uh again, value for value.
That's the way we play.
Have a good week, have a goodweekend, and we'll see what the
(56:40):
weather comes up next week.
See you around.
I'll see you on the radio.
Sunny (56:46):
Bye, everybody.
This is Sunny 73.
Bruce (56:51):
All right, this is Bruce and 73.
May the fathers of love go withyou always.
Bye.
Bye.
I'll see you, Sunny.
Sunny (57:06):
All right, Bruce.
I'll see ya.
Have a good day.
Bye.
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