December 18, 2025 • 45 mins
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We track seven‑day earthquake patterns through late fall, compare them with past years, and pause on Japan and Alaska’s big shocks. Then we unpack the “last penny” story, store rounding, and how value‑for‑value keeps this show free.
• value‑for‑value model, why we avoid paywalls
• recording month cadence and how we frame seven‑day stats
• late‑season rise in total quakes and alternating big‑vs‑small pattern
• notable clusters in Japan and Alaska with 6.0+ events
• limits of pattern reading and why prediction is risky
• listener feedback request on keeping weekly quake summaries
• the final penny minting, auction results, and rounding at stores
• what billions of pennies in circulation could mean next
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Capella (00:01):
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, wherecreators and listeners connect
directly.
We believe in keeping ourcontent free and open to
everyone, because who needsanother paywall, right?
Bruce (00:26):
Well howdy, and welcome aboard to the ugly quacking duck
podcast.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (00:35):
And I'm Sunny.
Glad to have you all aboard.
Join us for the next fewminutes, 40 minutes, so who
knows?
Bruce (00:46):
Yeah.
Join us, stay with us, and ifyou're coming back for multiple
times, thank you.
And I appreciate all of you forbeing here and listening.
Sunny (00:58):
Yeah, we like it when you show up and listen.
Bruce (01:03):
Yeah, we do.
That's important.
For those of you that are insouthern Illinois, it's a
beautiful day today.
It's uh right now, Wednesdayafternoon.
I'm doing a little bit ofrecording before I head off to
work.
And we promise you we would tryto do a summary of the
earthquakes we've had in thelast month.
(01:24):
So I'm going to do that today.
This is our last episode of arecording month.
Now, our recording month isslightly different than the
calendar month.
We actually record up until the18th, and then it flips over to
a moon noon month, and ournumbers start all over.
(01:47):
So we try to break everythingup into that month instead of a
calendar month.
Sunny (01:53):
Oh, you just confuse the heck out of everybody.
What difference does that make?
Bruce (02:01):
Well, it doesn't most of the time for the listeners, but
it means my content usuallyfalls in between the 18th and
the 18th of each month, not fromthe first to the 30th.
So if I'm talking monthly, uhmost of the time on my content,
that's what I'm doing.
(02:21):
I'm recording, setting up formy recording month, not for the
calendar month.
That's the only difference.
Anything else you're gonna see?
I use the calendar month tocome back to like on my
earthquakes.
Anything else we do?
Does that make more sense theresunny?
Sunny (02:43):
Yeah, a little bit more.
I'm glad you explained that.
Gee, whiz.
We don't want to make everybodyconfused and lose them the
first two minutes.
Bruce (02:55):
Well, it's only been a minute and well, it's been about
three minutes.
But yeah, you're right.
I don't want to lose anybodythat quick.
Okay.
Sunny (03:05):
Yeah.
Bruce (03:12):
Okay, there we go.
We got it made now.
Well, while we're talking abouthow beautiful it is, let me
describe what it's like here insouthern Illinois.
Uh Southern Illinois.
Now, I just talked to somebodythat's in Spokane, Washington.
Well, I'm having trouble sayingthat for some reason.
(03:33):
But Spokane, Washington todayhas uh, she said, very high
winds, sometimes up to 70 milean hour gusk, if you can believe
that.
And their temperature is rightnow 41 degrees.
So they're not having very goodweather.
But like us, are you ready forthe weather?
Here we go.
Sunny (03:55):
I want to guess the weather is awesome.
Bruce (04:01):
Yes, it is.
It is awesome.
Right now it's 55 degrees asI'm recording.
So this time of the recording,55, sunny, beautiful.
I've been walking aroundoutside, the wind's not blowing
real hard.
It's really a nice day, guys.
I feel good.
I probably shouldn't be in hererecording, but since it's the
(04:23):
17th, this is the end of myrecording month.
I want to get this out beforeall my numbers reset.
Sunny (04:31):
Okay.
I like it because you come into record, because I can come in
and record with you.
Bruce (04:39):
Yep, you're right.
We can do it together.
Sunny (04:42):
Of course.
I feel like I'm your bud.
Bruce (04:46):
Well, I've never thought of it anyway, but I guess you
could be called my recordingbud.
Sunny (04:55):
Is that like an earbud?
Bruce (04:58):
Ooh, boy, I don't know.
I think we'll leave that alone.
But it's beautiful, and wealways compare our weather to
Phoenix, Arizona.
So right now in Phoenix, it's76 degrees, and this is all in
Fahrenheit.
The winds are light andvariable, so they got clear
skies, sunny, just like we do.
(05:20):
They're quite a bit warmer thanus, you know, 55, 76.
What is that?
About 21 degrees warmer.
Boo.
Okay.
I just had to do that.
Sunny (05:34):
Oh yeah, you do that really well.
Bruce (05:41):
Okay.
Suck up.
Sunny (05:44):
Hey, that wasn't fair and it m may be true.
Bruce (05:49):
Well, with all that said, it is beautiful today.
Um they're talking about maybeanother day of this.
Maybe.
Uh let me look real quick.
I was thinking, yeah, tomorrow,Thursday, we're supposed to get
thunderstorms.
So the clouds will probablystart rolling in late this
afternoon.
(06:10):
And then Friday is supposed todrop down, be a lot colder after
that storm rolls through.
And then it's supposed to comeright back up to in the 50s,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,Tuesday, and uh looks like all
week, so I hope they got thatright.
That would be great, wouldn'tit?
Sunny (06:32):
Oh, yeah, that would be awesome.
And I just heard that big truckgo by.
Bruce (06:37):
Yeah, and I got the window shut.
I shut them.
I had them open, folks.
I was enjoying this warm, coolbreeze coming in, giving us some
refreshing air into the studio.
But I learned my lesson a whileback, so I shut the window when
I started recording.
(06:58):
And even then, when trucks, youknow, loud big trucks go by,
they me, they they rumble.
And I pick that up real well.
Uh I'm sorry I don't have afull uh what do you call that?
Soundproof studio.
It's just a room I turned inand put my ham equipment and my
(07:20):
recording equipment in there.
So when I'm not recording, I'llhave my ham equipment running.
Speaking of that, I um hookedup a new microphone, one of the
ones I'd bought for recording onhere.
I hooked up the uh Q2U, Ithink's the name of it, the
Samsung.
(07:40):
Or Samsung, I don't know howyou pronounce that.
Hooked that up to the my 7300,and it really works good.
It is a nice sounding rig now.
It always was.
But I've been looking at thenew 7300, which is pretty well
(08:00):
the same radio that I've got,but it's got a few additives,
and one of the things I reallywas intrigued by is it has a
receive antenna connection onthe back.
The other 7300 just has oneantenna jack.
So with that, I'll be able tohook up a receive antenna and
knock out some of the noise andhave my good transmit antenna um
(08:25):
ready to go full power.
So uh I may have to look intothat.
Sunny (08:32):
Oh yeah.
Radio talk, and here we go,Bruce.
You're all there.
Bruce (08:38):
Yeah, well, I'll leave it alone for now because most of
our listeners either don't havea clue what I'm talking about or
don't care.
Sunny (08:47):
Well, that's no way to put it.
They just don't care.
Bruce (08:52):
Didn't I just say that?
Alright, so what are we gonnatalk about?
Earthquakes.
I'm gonna bring everybody up tospeed.
I'm not gonna keep us on therecording very long, hopefully.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Sunny (09:09):
With you talking, Bruce, there's no telling what's gonna
be.
Maybe an hour long before we'reall over.
Bruce (09:17):
Well, that's true, and I've been trying to keep it down
to about 45 minutes eachrecording.
That's a good time, you know,30 minutes a little bit short to
get all the stuff out that I'mtrying to do, and it's a little
bit l you know, not too long.
If you go an hour, that'salmost, you know, unless you got
a really good topic thatinterests a lot of people, it's
(09:42):
kinda long.
Sunny (09:44):
Oh, it's very long because you're long-winded and
nobody wants to hear that for anhour.
Bruce (09:52):
Oh, well, boo.
Well, now we're gonna talk alittle bit about the
earthquakes.
Now I'm I haven't beenmentioning it too much on my
recordings.
I've still been keeping trackof it, watching it, but most
(10:13):
people, I mean, I haven't gotany response from anybody about
anything.
And I've been, you know, I wasputting the reports on the
website, and I was uh everyrecording updating everybody for
a weekly summary, and I wasn'tgetting any response.
No, yes, I like it, nonegative, I don't like it.
(10:36):
It was just dead air, man.
It was like it was like this,you ready?
And that's you know about whatit was like when I'd tune in all
my stuff, check my emails,listen to my recordings.
So I elected not to do thatmuch anymore.
(10:57):
It took a lot of time out of myrecording, and which I could do
other things with, and withoutthe response coming back, it
felt like it was a waste oftime.
Now, if you're out therelistening to this and you like a
little bit of earthquake newseach week, let me know.
(11:17):
I don't mind doing it.
In fact, I enjoy it, and I justneed somebody to let me know.
And I guess I'm pulling onsomebody's tree trunk and it's
not moving because I am notgetting any responses and I'm
getting downloads.
I know people are out there,but they're just not wanting to
comment, be partakers of thepodcast.
(11:40):
I don't know what's going on.
But anyway, if you feel led toemail me, send me a voice mail
message, you can do that on mycontact page, comment page on
the website, the oldquackingduck.com.
Send me a text.
You can do that if you got aplayer that plays the 2.0 stuff
(12:03):
because my host, BuzzSprout,actually puts a link there in
the description of my episode.
Just click on it, send me atext, and I'll read it off on
the next episode.
It's pretty simple.
Email, voice recording, text.
Three easy ways to do it,however you want to do it.
(12:27):
But do it.
All right, a little bit of rainthere to make you feel better
because it's so beautifuloutside, and I don't want people
to get used to that.
Sunny (12:47):
Just do it.
Bruce (12:51):
Oh boy.
Can't go without this.
Thank you, Sunny.
That was uh uh appropriate.
Sunny (13:04):
I know.
I'm such a good guy.
Bruce (13:07):
Oh, now you're calling yourself a guy.
Sunny (13:10):
It was just a phrase, Bruce.
Don't quite, don't try at allto corner me, okay?
I won't put up with it.
I will start screaming.
Bruce (13:25):
Oh my goodness.
Drama King for sure.
Sunny (13:31):
Hey, I did a good job.
I was proud of that.
That was good acting.
Bruce (13:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, you're gettingbetter for sure.
Sunny (13:41):
No, I've always been good.
I'm just letting you in on it,see.
Bruce (13:46):
Oh, is that what it is?
Sunny (13:48):
Oh yeah.
Bruce (13:51):
Okay, well, let's get back to it, okay?
Earthquakes.
We haven't been reporting onit, but I've been keeping track.
So going back and looking atthe numbers for like the middle
of November, which we figuredthat'd be about the 14th.
That was when uh I did myseven-day report in the paper,
(14:14):
not on the uh podcast.
Uh, we went back and startedlooking at them.
And what I started noticing wasum there was a little bit of
increase on the overallearthquakes, which what what we
do, we figure out all theearthquakes.
There's a way to do that on theearthquake reporting site.
(14:37):
Then we figure out the 2.5 andthe 4.5, and then anything six
and above, we write that down.
And I figure out the percentageof overall all earthquakes for
that seven-day period against aten thousand amount.
(15:00):
So I just made that up.
I could have made a hundredthousand, but ten thousand,
every now and then we get overten thousand.
Not very often, it's nothappening much at all, but every
now and then we do.
So I use that as a number.
So if we hit over that, we getover a hundred percent.
Anything under is, you know,under.
So uh what I noticed was forfrom the middle of November to
(15:27):
now, it's well, m actually thetwelfth was the last uh
reporting on here.
But it looks like the overallamounts has slightly increased.
Not a lot, but slightly,because we was averaging about
(15:47):
twenty percent, anywhere, youknow, twenty-twenty-one percent
for the overall magnitudes forthe last few months, and then
starting in November, it lookslike it increased up to
twenty-two percent, andtwenty-five percent, twenty-four
(16:11):
percent, twenty back down totwenty-one percent.
That was for in November, andthen in December it went up and
it hit twenty-one, twenty-sevenpercent.
So it's increased at the end ofthe year, which surprises me.
So basically what I'm saying isthe total amount of earthquakes
(16:36):
for that seven-day period waslike on the fourteenth, it was
twenty-two thirty-one.
So we started on the fourfourteenth and went backwards
seven days, or actually w theday the the formula starts seven
days prior to the fourteenthand goes all the way up to the
(16:57):
fourteenth.
In those seven-day period,there was two thousand two
hundred and thirty-oneearthquakes, which if you take
that to against a ten thousandtop and it figure it in, get
your formula, your percentage,it actually increased to
twenty-two point three percent,which is not much of an
(17:21):
increase.
But each week was a little bitof an increase.
Like the next week wastwenty-five point three percent,
and then the next one wastwenty-four point six.
So for some weird reason,towards the end of the month, it
started increasing.
Now I don't know if that's aphenomenon that happens every
(17:44):
year, because I haven't beendoing this every year.
I've I've just now startedkeeping track.
I think it was in July when Istarted doing that.
I'd go back and look.
But just now seeing thisincrease.
And on the 14th, there was aslight increase of the
(18:09):
seven-day.
Let me go back figure explainthis.
I went back seven years backtwenty eighteen and I do the
same thing and then I thought,wait a minute, the numbers is
kind of weird.
I went back twenty nineteen, Iwent back several years around
(18:32):
the eighteenth to see how thenumbers did, and they was lousy
as far as earthquake numbers.
And then I noticed 2019actually had a little bit more
activity than 2018.
And I thought, well, that'sweird, because I've got to know
some most seven-day reports thatI did, the numbers would
(19:00):
increase, and then you wouldhave a higher amount of 2.5
earthquakes, but a lower amountof four point five, which
includes the six oh and overearthquakes.
Then you'd have a lower twopoint five, but a higher four
(19:25):
point five, so it's about everyother seven days.
And it kind of kinda falls atnot very tightly, it's kind of
loosely, so I I'm not hitexactly what we need to be
looking at.
But what I discovered was sevenyears it seems to do the same
thing.
But twenty nineteen is notseven years back, it's six,
(19:50):
right?
And what it I thought, well,wait a minute, if it's got a
little bit higher numbers maybenext year, which is twenty
twenty six.
Is going to have more activity,which is not a good thing.
Sunny (20:06):
You can say that again.
You're going to have everybodyscared what you're doing.
Bruce (20:12):
No, I just thought it was kind of weird.
I'm not saying that I knowanything.
I'm just saying, you know, whenyou're looking at numbers that
already happened, it's prettyeasy to pick out some kind of
weird pattern and make, youknow, kind of uh estimate.
Uh doesn't mean it's going tohappen, and who knows?
If I could figure something outand tell you when the
(20:35):
earthquake's going to be or whatsize it's going to be, that
would be cool.
But all this information isprevious.
It's already happened.
It's kind of like, oh yeah,like watching a storm go by and
then getting on the radio andgo, hey, we just had a storm
three hours ago.
It's kind of over with then,right?
Sunny (20:55):
Very, very, very true.
Bruce (20:59):
Well, thank you for that.
Sunny (21:02):
You are so welcome.
Bruce (21:07):
Do you want to tell them what we did last night?
Sunny (21:11):
Yeah, that was cool.
All right.
Share.
All right.
Bruce and the family sat downand finished watching Stranger
Things.
They had started episode one ofseason five about whenever it
came out, that first night,which is what, a month ago?
(21:33):
I don't know, man.
I don't remember.
But, you know, they uh well goahead and tell them, Bruce, you
do better.
Bruce (21:43):
Well, I don't know about that, but what we did was we
watched that first episode whenit came out originally of season
five, and I went, What?
I don't understand.
Where'd that come from?
What happened?
Where I felt like I had missedthe show before because it had
(22:03):
been so long since they'd donethe last episode that I had
forgot almost every bit of it.
So we went back and re-watchedseason one all the way to
through season four, which tookus a while.
And then once we did that, were-watched season five, episode
(22:24):
one, and then the rest of them.
And it made so much bettersense, and it was actually
enjoyable.
I picked up on a lot of stuffthat I had not previously
noticed, um, kind of hints ofwhat was going to happen or
what's going on, and um I wasn'tdisappointed then when I got to
(22:47):
season five, and I'm hoping therest of season five will be
just as good.
I think this is the last seasonfor this show, and uh I have a
lot of questions, and I hopethey're not like all the other
shows that you um you get 90% ofyour questions answered, but
(23:08):
there's always a few that theydon't seem to bring them
together for a good answer.
They just kind of leave it outthere hanging, and I hope they
have a good ending because I'veonly seen over the years a
couple shows that actually cometo fulfillment at the end, and
(23:28):
it actually felt good.
It actually, you know, left youwith a good story, a good hero,
and it, you know, it didn'ttake it away.
These shows nowadays they theybuild you up, they build this
hero up, and then they killeverybody off.
Or they end it in such a waythat it just leaves a terrible
(23:48):
taste in your mouth.
And I hate it when they dothat.
Sunny (23:53):
Yeah, you do.
I've heard you gripe.
Bruce (23:57):
All right, that's enough of that.
So back to the earthquakereport.
So the numbers from 2019 are alittle bit higher.
Now I'm talking overallnumbers, are a little bit
higher, but also I noticed thatthe the 6.0 and above numbers,
(24:19):
they they had seemed like alittle bit more 6.0 earthquakes
each seven-day report.
Now it wasn't every one ofthem, but it was a lot of them.
Like um, I'll give you anexample.
In September the 7th for 25,there was one 6.0 earthquake.
(24:42):
Now I'm talking magnitude, 6.0magnitude earthquake in Alaska,
and that was it.
On 2019, same date, 9.7, therewas one 6.6 magnitude earthquake
in Fiji.
But on 917 or 9.7, 2018, whichis six years back.
(25:08):
Did I get that backwards?
Yeah, I got that backwards.
I'm sorry.
Alright, I got that backwards,but there was three in the
following year.
And I move on up to umNovember.
And we'll go back to the 14th.
(25:31):
November had the 14th, three6.0 magnitude earthquakes for
1114-25.
18, 1114, 18 had three sixpoint oh earthquakes, and then
1114-2019, which is six yearsback, had four, which is not a
(25:57):
big difference, but it justseems almost like there's a
pattern.
If you go to 21, 1121, 25, weonly had none, no 6.0 and over.
And that doesn't mean therewasn't earthquakes.
There was uh 25,000, 2534earthquakes, which average, or
(26:23):
not average, the percentage istwenty-five point three, which
is higher than you know, normal.
And that's goes back to thatreal weird uh instance where we
got more earthquakes but lesssix point oh.
Now 1121 18, 2018, which isseven years back, we had one,
(26:50):
two, three, four, four six pointoh earthquakes.
And the numbers were startingto increase for overall
earthquakes, which we had at28.3.
And then on 1121, 2019, we hadone, two, three, four, five.
(27:14):
We had five, one more, which isno big deal, it's just one,
right?
But if that one happens to behuge, like a seven point one in
Indonesia, which it was, thenthat's not good because it's
going to be crashing a lot ofthings, hurting people, killing
people.
And if this is uh a seven-dayperiod, like it's a seven-day
(27:41):
period, then we may see some badthings happening in twenty
twenty-six.
Don't know.
But I'll give you anotherexample.
If you go to 1128, we had two6.0 earthquakes in 25.
In 2018, there was one.
(28:05):
But in 2019, there was one,two, three, four.
So strange.
So we'll have to see whathappens now.
In uh 12 December the 5th,2025, we had 06.0 earthquakes
(28:28):
again, and the totals went backdown to 21.6 percent for total
uh um all earthquake magnitudes,which is about where they
normally are running, 20, 24 or20, 21 percent somewhere, 22,
but right in that area.
(28:49):
Although in December the 5th,2018, there was a huge increase.
We ended up doing 6,268earthquakes all magnitude back
in 2018, which gave us a 62.7percent.
(29:09):
I don't know what happened thatday or that week in 2018, but
there was a huge increase, andthey had one, two, three, four,
five, six point and above uhearthquakes for that period of
time in 2018.
And one of them was a 7.1 inAlaska, which is not good, and
(29:35):
there's a 7.5 in New Calonia anda 6.6 in New Caldenia.
So there's some hugeearthquakes in that time period.
So we're not exactly now if youyou're figuring seven years to
(29:58):
the date, it's not falling thatway.
But if you turn around and lookat twelve twelve twenty-five,
which is the following sevendays, again, twelve five only
had zero six point zeroearthquakes, and then we move up
(30:19):
seven more days, twelve twelve,and do that count, and we have
one, two, three, four, four sixpoint oh and above earthquakes,
one of them being a seven pointsix in Japan.
So on twelve twelve that week,that seven-day week, you count
(30:42):
back seven days, we had a sevenpoint six in Japan, a six point
six in Japan, and a six pointseven in Japan.
And then we also had a sevenpoint oh in Hubbard Glacier
earthquake, and I have no ideawhat that means, why they named
it that, but that's upper byAlaska, um, that area that keeps
(31:06):
getting hammered all the time.
Which I find that's reallystrange, really, really strange.
And I don't know what's goingon there.
I really don't.
So, with that said, I want togo back to the 11, 14, 25, um,
seven-week report.
Japan got hammered back thentoo.
(31:29):
They had a 6.8, a 6.4, and a6.0 uh in that order.
The 6.0 was the first one thatgot hammered, and then the 6.4
and the 6.0.
So the aftershocks they wereslowly decreasing.
And if I went and hunted thatup, I would say they had some
(31:51):
smaller activity ones rightbefore that 6.8 happened.
Same way with 1212, thatseven-day report.
Again, Japan had 7.6, a 6.6,and a 6.7 in that order.
Um, so they had aftershocksafter they had that 7.6.
(32:16):
So we need to pray for them.
Need to pray for uh all thatearthquake.
I don't know if you heard that.
Uh that was seven days, almostseven days ago.
Friday will be the seventh day,and I'll be writing down
another seven-day report thisFriday.
Um well, not this Friday.
I'll be going to work, I'llhave to look it up later.
(32:38):
I just wanted to give you themnumbers, and I thought that was
weird how December the 5th, uh,seven years ago, had some kind
of weird influx in numbers, andI don't know what that means,
but there there was a big jumpin percentages.
And every now and then we havethat, and it looks like the week
(33:02):
after this week, or not thisweek, this last seven-day week,
it increased in 2025.
So maybe it was just slower toreact this seven-year period.
Who knows?
We'll just have to keep this upand we'll get back with you
during the process and we'll seewhat next year brings.
(33:26):
Now, I don't think the yearsstart um where we do calendar
years, because I think it goeswith the moon uh and the moon
stages and the seasons.
So we're getting ready to enterinto December 21st, which is
(33:47):
the beginning of winter.
And uh once we get out of thatand get into springtime, I think
we're gonna see the new yearstarting out.
So um that's where we're gonnabe.
Um that's gonna make changestoo, and I think that's why
maybe why we're seeing thesechanges now, is because we're
(34:08):
entering into that winter timein the this last part of this
year.
We don't know.
Sunny (34:16):
You said that twice now.
You don't know.
Why are you talking about it?
You know, in some countries,they're wanting to make you get
some kind of certificate orproof that you are qualified to
talk about it.
Bruce (34:33):
Yeah.
Don't get me started on thatbecause that is just control
waiting to happen.
I know a lot of people think,well, that's good.
That way you don't have allthat people out there talking
about stuff they shouldn't betalking about.
But uh, aren't we allowed totalk?
That's why God gave us ourvoices.
Now, maybe we shouldn't besaying some of the things we
(34:55):
say, but I don't think it shouldbe controlled by the government
what we say.
And yeah, if you're gonnaproduce a doctor type podcast or
radio show or anything likethat where you're gonna pretend
like you're a doctor, you needto have them qualifications.
(35:16):
But if I'm just gonna mentionit and tell you I don't know, I
don't think I need to have themqualifications.
I think that's just control,folks.
Control.
Control.
Sunny (35:29):
All right.
I just wanted to bring that upbecause I wanted to get you
excited.
Bruce (35:36):
Yeah, get me on my soapbox, and I'm sure our
listeners would love that.
Sunny (35:42):
Oh yeah.
They like it.
They like it when I talk,Bruce.
Bruce (35:47):
Okay.
Okay, well, if you say so, I'mnot gonna agree or disagree
because I don't want to.
Well, we're gonna call it quitson the earthquake report.
So if you enjoyed that, let meknow.
And if you don't want to everhear it again, let me know.
But if somebody lets me know,that's the way it'll go.
(36:09):
And if nobody lets me know go.
If nobody lets me know, thenI'll just do it again later on.
There you go.
What do you think about that?
Sunny (36:22):
I don't even know what you just said.
Bruce (36:25):
That means my listeners don't either.
Sunny (36:28):
You're right.
Nobody knows.
But nobody knows.
Bruce (36:35):
Okay, Sunny, don't sing to me.
Sunny (36:38):
Oh, why not?
You love my singing.
Bruce (36:42):
Nope, I don't, honestly.
I don't like my singing either.
Well, you know I can't not do arecording, so anytime I do it,
I like to kick in one, at leastone, news article that I found
(37:04):
on the internet and share itwith you.
Sometimes I like to go in depthand talk about it and you know,
poo-poo it, but you know, I'mnot gonna do that m all the
time.
Sunny (37:19):
Oh no, you're not gonna do it 99.9% all the time.
Bruce (37:28):
I'm not sure what you just said, but yeah, okay.
For you guys out therelistening, like I said, I like
to give a little bit of a newsreport.
So today I'm gonna talk alittle bit about the penny.
Really?
Everybody knows the penny,right?
You know that they they'requitting production of the penny
(37:50):
because it costs so much tomake it.
So this is the last year forthe pennies being made.
In fact, they just minted thelast bunch, and that's that what
news article I want to talkabout.
Yep.
The last bunch has been minted,and uh let me get that news
(38:11):
article up and I'll just tellyou about it.
It's found on is found on ABCNews page, and it's called a
pretty penny.
Last US cents sales for 16.7million.
You heard me right.
(38:32):
They minted the last penny, andthe grouping of them, they sold
off, and they added it all up,and it was sixteen point seven
million.
Good grief.
Um I'll have pictures on my uhif you watch the or listen to
(38:55):
the podcast on a 2.0 player,you'll see chapters.
Click on the chapters, and youcan see um it'll take you to
this section, but you don't evenhave to click on it.
They'll bring up a picture andI'll have that penny on there.
But it's uh omega circulatingpenny, um, which is the penny,
(39:17):
and it's got a little omegathing underneath the Liberty.
But they sold them, let me seeif I can find it down here.
I read it just a while ago, howmuch they sold.
Each trio of coin coins soldfor an average of rarely lot
(39:39):
value of over seventy-twothousand dollars, and the final
set, number two hundredthirty-two, sold for eight
hundred thousand, as it includesthe very last circulating penny
from Philadelphia and Denver,and the final gold omega penny.
So they quit minting penniesbecause it was too expensive,
(40:05):
but they made the last one ofgold.
Good grief, guys.
Really?
And then they m sold them for sthis world's crazy.
Speaking of that though, haveyou not noticed already people
are quitting businesses, I say,or stopping any penny intake.
(40:28):
They're not wanting to takeyour pennies, they're not
wanting to um give your penniesback when they they're rounding
everything off.
Yeah, they really are.
I know the business I work at,there's a sign in the window.
We are rounding, and then theygive the formula.
You know, it's so much theyround down, so much they round
(40:48):
up.
So what ends up happening isyou may lose a couple pennies in
the business, and there's notmuch you can do about it unless
you just refuse.
But people are gonna quitkeeping pennies.
Now that brought me to theconclusion of what's going on,
because you know they've beenminting pennies every year for
(41:11):
years, since 1793, I believe.
And yeah, the penny was firstminted in 1793.
There you go.
They've been minting them everyyear since then.
And there is estimated, ready?
Here you go.
Estimated 250 or 300, no.
(41:34):
250 to 300 billion pennies incirculation.
But they're gonna quit usingthem.
I think people are jumping tothe gun.
So what's gonna happen?
People are gonna see the storesare no longer gonna take them,
so they're gonna start hoardingthem and hope they get worth
(41:58):
more and more money, and theymay, I don't know, but it's
gonna take a while.
But it's getting crazy, guys.
250 to 300 billion penniesstill left in circulation, and
they're gonna stop taking them.
What do you think about that?
Yeah.
Anyhow, this is Bruce.
(42:18):
And I'm Suddy.
And we are gonna end thisepisode.
We are happy that you comehere, and I hope you stuck it
out with us, and if you did, letme know.
I want to hear something fromyou guys, alright?
Be a participant in ourpodcast.
I can't say it any better thanthat.
(42:41):
That's what I want.
Sunny (42:43):
Yeah.
He said it.
Sticking to it, buddy.
Bruce (42:49):
Yeah.
Sorry about the podcast episodethis time around.
I ha got tongue-tied a lot andI've lost my place a lot, but
it's because I'm hurrying,trying to get it recorded before
I head to work, so I can get ituploaded to my hosting page and
(43:11):
get it set before the 18th.
I may not even have time to goback and edit it.
It's I'm running really low ontime, but that's that's what's
happening.
Usually I have my notes and Ihave time to pause it and take
time, you know, and catch mybreath and stuff and not be
(43:34):
hurried.
And this I I shouldn't havetried to do it, but I was
running out of time.
And I wanted to do the youknow, the report for the
earthquakes before the uhrecording month ended.
So I got that done.
And I'm gonna say goodbye.
(43:55):
We're gonna leave it with you.
We're gonna say bye right afterwe get done saying our value
for value with uh Capella.
So here we go.
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Bruce (44:43):
All right.
Thank you guys for being here.
Thank you for listening to us,and thank you for participating.
We hope you come back, and wehope you have a good Christmas.
Christmas is right around thecorner, and uh, I don't know
what how we're gonna handleChristmas and New Year's.
Um we'll give you something,but I don't know if it's gonna
(45:05):
be a very long recording.
Haven't decided where we'regonna be and what we're gonna do
and what work's gonna do.
So we'll just leave you hangingfor now.
But 73 guys, may the Father'sblessings and love be with you
always.
Bye.
Sunny (45:23):
Bye, everybody.
This is Sunny 73, and I loveyou.
Bye.
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Or at least that's what somepeople say.
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Bruce (00:26):
Well howdy, and welcome aboard to the ugly quacking duck
podcast.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (00:35):
And I'm Sunny.
Glad to have you all aboard.
Join us for the next fewminutes, 40 minutes, so who
knows?
Bruce (00:46):
Yeah.
Join us, stay with us, and ifyou're coming back for multiple
times, thank you.
And I appreciate all of you forbeing here and listening.
Sunny (00:58):
Yeah, we like it when you show up and listen.
Bruce (01:03):
Yeah, we do.
That's important.
For those of you that are insouthern Illinois, it's a
beautiful day today.
It's uh right now, Wednesdayafternoon.
I'm doing a little bit ofrecording before I head off to
work.
And we promise you we would tryto do a summary of the
earthquakes we've had in thelast month.
(01:24):
So I'm going to do that today.
This is our last episode of arecording month.
Now, our recording month isslightly different than the
calendar month.
We actually record up until the18th, and then it flips over to
a moon noon month, and ournumbers start all over.
(01:47):
So we try to break everythingup into that month instead of a
calendar month.
Sunny (01:53):
Oh, you just confuse the heck out of everybody.
What difference does that make?
Bruce (02:01):
Well, it doesn't most of the time for the listeners, but
it means my content usuallyfalls in between the 18th and
the 18th of each month, not fromthe first to the 30th.
So if I'm talking monthly, uhmost of the time on my content,
that's what I'm doing.
(02:21):
I'm recording, setting up formy recording month, not for the
calendar month.
That's the only difference.
Anything else you're gonna see?
I use the calendar month tocome back to like on my
earthquakes.
Anything else we do?
Does that make more sense theresunny?
Sunny (02:43):
Yeah, a little bit more.
I'm glad you explained that.
Gee, whiz.
We don't want to make everybodyconfused and lose them the
first two minutes.
Bruce (02:55):
Well, it's only been a minute and well, it's been about
three minutes.
But yeah, you're right.
I don't want to lose anybodythat quick.
Okay.
Sunny (03:05):
Yeah.
Bruce (03:12):
Okay, there we go.
We got it made now.
Well, while we're talking abouthow beautiful it is, let me
describe what it's like here insouthern Illinois.
Uh Southern Illinois.
Now, I just talked to somebodythat's in Spokane, Washington.
Well, I'm having trouble sayingthat for some reason.
(03:33):
But Spokane, Washington todayhas uh, she said, very high
winds, sometimes up to 70 milean hour gusk, if you can believe
that.
And their temperature is rightnow 41 degrees.
So they're not having very goodweather.
But like us, are you ready forthe weather?
Here we go.
Sunny (03:55):
I want to guess the weather is awesome.
Bruce (04:01):
Yes, it is.
It is awesome.
Right now it's 55 degrees asI'm recording.
So this time of the recording,55, sunny, beautiful.
I've been walking aroundoutside, the wind's not blowing
real hard.
It's really a nice day, guys.
I feel good.
I probably shouldn't be in hererecording, but since it's the
(04:23):
17th, this is the end of myrecording month.
I want to get this out beforeall my numbers reset.
Sunny (04:31):
Okay.
I like it because you come into record, because I can come in
and record with you.
Bruce (04:39):
Yep, you're right.
We can do it together.
Sunny (04:42):
Of course.
I feel like I'm your bud.
Bruce (04:46):
Well, I've never thought of it anyway, but I guess you
could be called my recordingbud.
Sunny (04:55):
Is that like an earbud?
Bruce (04:58):
Ooh, boy, I don't know.
I think we'll leave that alone.
But it's beautiful, and wealways compare our weather to
Phoenix, Arizona.
So right now in Phoenix, it's76 degrees, and this is all in
Fahrenheit.
The winds are light andvariable, so they got clear
skies, sunny, just like we do.
(05:20):
They're quite a bit warmer thanus, you know, 55, 76.
What is that?
About 21 degrees warmer.
Boo.
Okay.
I just had to do that.
Sunny (05:34):
Oh yeah, you do that really well.
Bruce (05:41):
Okay.
Suck up.
Sunny (05:44):
Hey, that wasn't fair and it m may be true.
Bruce (05:49):
Well, with all that said, it is beautiful today.
Um they're talking about maybeanother day of this.
Maybe.
Uh let me look real quick.
I was thinking, yeah, tomorrow,Thursday, we're supposed to get
thunderstorms.
So the clouds will probablystart rolling in late this
afternoon.
(06:10):
And then Friday is supposed todrop down, be a lot colder after
that storm rolls through.
And then it's supposed to comeright back up to in the 50s,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,Tuesday, and uh looks like all
week, so I hope they got thatright.
That would be great, wouldn'tit?
Sunny (06:32):
Oh, yeah, that would be awesome.
And I just heard that big truckgo by.
Bruce (06:37):
Yeah, and I got the window shut.
I shut them.
I had them open, folks.
I was enjoying this warm, coolbreeze coming in, giving us some
refreshing air into the studio.
But I learned my lesson a whileback, so I shut the window when
I started recording.
(06:58):
And even then, when trucks, youknow, loud big trucks go by,
they me, they they rumble.
And I pick that up real well.
Uh I'm sorry I don't have afull uh what do you call that?
Soundproof studio.
It's just a room I turned inand put my ham equipment and my
(07:20):
recording equipment in there.
So when I'm not recording, I'llhave my ham equipment running.
Speaking of that, I um hookedup a new microphone, one of the
ones I'd bought for recording onhere.
I hooked up the uh Q2U, Ithink's the name of it, the
Samsung.
(07:40):
Or Samsung, I don't know howyou pronounce that.
Hooked that up to the my 7300,and it really works good.
It is a nice sounding rig now.
It always was.
But I've been looking at thenew 7300, which is pretty well
(08:00):
the same radio that I've got,but it's got a few additives,
and one of the things I reallywas intrigued by is it has a
receive antenna connection onthe back.
The other 7300 just has oneantenna jack.
So with that, I'll be able tohook up a receive antenna and
knock out some of the noise andhave my good transmit antenna um
(08:25):
ready to go full power.
So uh I may have to look intothat.
Sunny (08:32):
Oh yeah.
Radio talk, and here we go,Bruce.
You're all there.
Bruce (08:38):
Yeah, well, I'll leave it alone for now because most of
our listeners either don't havea clue what I'm talking about or
don't care.
Sunny (08:47):
Well, that's no way to put it.
They just don't care.
Bruce (08:52):
Didn't I just say that?
Alright, so what are we gonnatalk about?
Earthquakes.
I'm gonna bring everybody up tospeed.
I'm not gonna keep us on therecording very long, hopefully.
Maybe.
Who knows?
Sunny (09:09):
With you talking, Bruce, there's no telling what's gonna
be.
Maybe an hour long before we'reall over.
Bruce (09:17):
Well, that's true, and I've been trying to keep it down
to about 45 minutes eachrecording.
That's a good time, you know,30 minutes a little bit short to
get all the stuff out that I'mtrying to do, and it's a little
bit l you know, not too long.
If you go an hour, that'salmost, you know, unless you got
a really good topic thatinterests a lot of people, it's
(09:42):
kinda long.
Sunny (09:44):
Oh, it's very long because you're long-winded and
nobody wants to hear that for anhour.
Bruce (09:52):
Oh, well, boo.
Well, now we're gonna talk alittle bit about the
earthquakes.
Now I'm I haven't beenmentioning it too much on my
recordings.
I've still been keeping trackof it, watching it, but most
(10:13):
people, I mean, I haven't gotany response from anybody about
anything.
And I've been, you know, I wasputting the reports on the
website, and I was uh everyrecording updating everybody for
a weekly summary, and I wasn'tgetting any response.
No, yes, I like it, nonegative, I don't like it.
(10:36):
It was just dead air, man.
It was like it was like this,you ready?
And that's you know about whatit was like when I'd tune in all
my stuff, check my emails,listen to my recordings.
So I elected not to do thatmuch anymore.
(10:57):
It took a lot of time out of myrecording, and which I could do
other things with, and withoutthe response coming back, it
felt like it was a waste oftime.
Now, if you're out therelistening to this and you like a
little bit of earthquake newseach week, let me know.
(11:17):
I don't mind doing it.
In fact, I enjoy it, and I justneed somebody to let me know.
And I guess I'm pulling onsomebody's tree trunk and it's
not moving because I am notgetting any responses and I'm
getting downloads.
I know people are out there,but they're just not wanting to
comment, be partakers of thepodcast.
(11:40):
I don't know what's going on.
But anyway, if you feel led toemail me, send me a voice mail
message, you can do that on mycontact page, comment page on
the website, the oldquackingduck.com.
Send me a text.
You can do that if you got aplayer that plays the 2.0 stuff
(12:03):
because my host, BuzzSprout,actually puts a link there in
the description of my episode.
Just click on it, send me atext, and I'll read it off on
the next episode.
It's pretty simple.
Email, voice recording, text.
Three easy ways to do it,however you want to do it.
(12:27):
But do it.
All right, a little bit of rainthere to make you feel better
because it's so beautifuloutside, and I don't want people
to get used to that.
Sunny (12:47):
Just do it.
Bruce (12:51):
Oh boy.
Can't go without this.
Thank you, Sunny.
That was uh uh appropriate.
Sunny (13:04):
I know.
I'm such a good guy.
Bruce (13:07):
Oh, now you're calling yourself a guy.
Sunny (13:10):
It was just a phrase, Bruce.
Don't quite, don't try at allto corner me, okay?
I won't put up with it.
I will start screaming.
Bruce (13:25):
Oh my goodness.
Drama King for sure.
Sunny (13:31):
Hey, I did a good job.
I was proud of that.
That was good acting.
Bruce (13:36):
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, you're gettingbetter for sure.
Sunny (13:41):
No, I've always been good.
I'm just letting you in on it,see.
Bruce (13:46):
Oh, is that what it is?
Sunny (13:48):
Oh yeah.
Bruce (13:51):
Okay, well, let's get back to it, okay?
Earthquakes.
We haven't been reporting onit, but I've been keeping track.
So going back and looking atthe numbers for like the middle
of November, which we figuredthat'd be about the 14th.
That was when uh I did myseven-day report in the paper,
(14:14):
not on the uh podcast.
Uh, we went back and startedlooking at them.
And what I started noticing wasum there was a little bit of
increase on the overallearthquakes, which what what we
do, we figure out all theearthquakes.
There's a way to do that on theearthquake reporting site.
(14:37):
Then we figure out the 2.5 andthe 4.5, and then anything six
and above, we write that down.
And I figure out the percentageof overall all earthquakes for
that seven-day period against aten thousand amount.
(15:00):
So I just made that up.
I could have made a hundredthousand, but ten thousand,
every now and then we get overten thousand.
Not very often, it's nothappening much at all, but every
now and then we do.
So I use that as a number.
So if we hit over that, we getover a hundred percent.
Anything under is, you know,under.
So uh what I noticed was forfrom the middle of November to
(15:27):
now, it's well, m actually thetwelfth was the last uh
reporting on here.
But it looks like the overallamounts has slightly increased.
Not a lot, but slightly,because we was averaging about
(15:47):
twenty percent, anywhere, youknow, twenty-twenty-one percent
for the overall magnitudes forthe last few months, and then
starting in November, it lookslike it increased up to
twenty-two percent, andtwenty-five percent, twenty-four
(16:11):
percent, twenty back down totwenty-one percent.
That was for in November, andthen in December it went up and
it hit twenty-one, twenty-sevenpercent.
So it's increased at the end ofthe year, which surprises me.
So basically what I'm saying isthe total amount of earthquakes
(16:36):
for that seven-day period waslike on the fourteenth, it was
twenty-two thirty-one.
So we started on the fourfourteenth and went backwards
seven days, or actually w theday the the formula starts seven
days prior to the fourteenthand goes all the way up to the
(16:57):
fourteenth.
In those seven-day period,there was two thousand two
hundred and thirty-oneearthquakes, which if you take
that to against a ten thousandtop and it figure it in, get
your formula, your percentage,it actually increased to
twenty-two point three percent,which is not much of an
(17:21):
increase.
But each week was a little bitof an increase.
Like the next week wastwenty-five point three percent,
and then the next one wastwenty-four point six.
So for some weird reason,towards the end of the month, it
started increasing.
Now I don't know if that's aphenomenon that happens every
(17:44):
year, because I haven't beendoing this every year.
I've I've just now startedkeeping track.
I think it was in July when Istarted doing that.
I'd go back and look.
But just now seeing thisincrease.
And on the 14th, there was aslight increase of the
(18:09):
seven-day.
Let me go back figure explainthis.
I went back seven years backtwenty eighteen and I do the
same thing and then I thought,wait a minute, the numbers is
kind of weird.
I went back twenty nineteen, Iwent back several years around
(18:32):
the eighteenth to see how thenumbers did, and they was lousy
as far as earthquake numbers.
And then I noticed 2019actually had a little bit more
activity than 2018.
And I thought, well, that'sweird, because I've got to know
some most seven-day reports thatI did, the numbers would
(19:00):
increase, and then you wouldhave a higher amount of 2.5
earthquakes, but a lower amountof four point five, which
includes the six oh and overearthquakes.
Then you'd have a lower twopoint five, but a higher four
(19:25):
point five, so it's about everyother seven days.
And it kind of kinda falls atnot very tightly, it's kind of
loosely, so I I'm not hitexactly what we need to be
looking at.
But what I discovered was sevenyears it seems to do the same
thing.
But twenty nineteen is notseven years back, it's six,
(19:50):
right?
And what it I thought, well,wait a minute, if it's got a
little bit higher numbers maybenext year, which is twenty
twenty six.
Is going to have more activity,which is not a good thing.
Sunny (20:06):
You can say that again.
You're going to have everybodyscared what you're doing.
Bruce (20:12):
No, I just thought it was kind of weird.
I'm not saying that I knowanything.
I'm just saying, you know, whenyou're looking at numbers that
already happened, it's prettyeasy to pick out some kind of
weird pattern and make, youknow, kind of uh estimate.
Uh doesn't mean it's going tohappen, and who knows?
If I could figure something outand tell you when the
(20:35):
earthquake's going to be or whatsize it's going to be, that
would be cool.
But all this information isprevious.
It's already happened.
It's kind of like, oh yeah,like watching a storm go by and
then getting on the radio andgo, hey, we just had a storm
three hours ago.
It's kind of over with then,right?
Sunny (20:55):
Very, very, very true.
Bruce (20:59):
Well, thank you for that.
Sunny (21:02):
You are so welcome.
Bruce (21:07):
Do you want to tell them what we did last night?
Sunny (21:11):
Yeah, that was cool.
All right.
Share.
All right.
Bruce and the family sat downand finished watching Stranger
Things.
They had started episode one ofseason five about whenever it
came out, that first night,which is what, a month ago?
(21:33):
I don't know, man.
I don't remember.
But, you know, they uh well goahead and tell them, Bruce, you
do better.
Bruce (21:43):
Well, I don't know about that, but what we did was we
watched that first episode whenit came out originally of season
five, and I went, What?
I don't understand.
Where'd that come from?
What happened?
Where I felt like I had missedthe show before because it had
(22:03):
been so long since they'd donethe last episode that I had
forgot almost every bit of it.
So we went back and re-watchedseason one all the way to
through season four, which tookus a while.
And then once we did that, were-watched season five, episode
(22:24):
one, and then the rest of them.
And it made so much bettersense, and it was actually
enjoyable.
I picked up on a lot of stuffthat I had not previously
noticed, um, kind of hints ofwhat was going to happen or
what's going on, and um I wasn'tdisappointed then when I got to
(22:47):
season five, and I'm hoping therest of season five will be
just as good.
I think this is the last seasonfor this show, and uh I have a
lot of questions, and I hopethey're not like all the other
shows that you um you get 90% ofyour questions answered, but
(23:08):
there's always a few that theydon't seem to bring them
together for a good answer.
They just kind of leave it outthere hanging, and I hope they
have a good ending because I'veonly seen over the years a
couple shows that actually cometo fulfillment at the end, and
(23:28):
it actually felt good.
It actually, you know, left youwith a good story, a good hero,
and it, you know, it didn'ttake it away.
These shows nowadays they theybuild you up, they build this
hero up, and then they killeverybody off.
Or they end it in such a waythat it just leaves a terrible
(23:48):
taste in your mouth.
And I hate it when they dothat.
Sunny (23:53):
Yeah, you do.
I've heard you gripe.
Bruce (23:57):
All right, that's enough of that.
So back to the earthquakereport.
So the numbers from 2019 are alittle bit higher.
Now I'm talking overallnumbers, are a little bit
higher, but also I noticed thatthe the 6.0 and above numbers,
(24:19):
they they had seemed like alittle bit more 6.0 earthquakes
each seven-day report.
Now it wasn't every one ofthem, but it was a lot of them.
Like um, I'll give you anexample.
In September the 7th for 25,there was one 6.0 earthquake.
(24:42):
Now I'm talking magnitude, 6.0magnitude earthquake in Alaska,
and that was it.
On 2019, same date, 9.7, therewas one 6.6 magnitude earthquake
in Fiji.
But on 917 or 9.7, 2018, whichis six years back.
(25:08):
Did I get that backwards?
Yeah, I got that backwards.
I'm sorry.
Alright, I got that backwards,but there was three in the
following year.
And I move on up to umNovember.
And we'll go back to the 14th.
(25:31):
November had the 14th, three6.0 magnitude earthquakes for
1114-25.
18, 1114, 18 had three sixpoint oh earthquakes, and then
1114-2019, which is six yearsback, had four, which is not a
(25:57):
big difference, but it justseems almost like there's a
pattern.
If you go to 21, 1121, 25, weonly had none, no 6.0 and over.
And that doesn't mean therewasn't earthquakes.
There was uh 25,000, 2534earthquakes, which average, or
(26:23):
not average, the percentage istwenty-five point three, which
is higher than you know, normal.
And that's goes back to thatreal weird uh instance where we
got more earthquakes but lesssix point oh.
Now 1121 18, 2018, which isseven years back, we had one,
(26:50):
two, three, four, four six pointoh earthquakes.
And the numbers were startingto increase for overall
earthquakes, which we had at28.3.
And then on 1121, 2019, we hadone, two, three, four, five.
(27:14):
We had five, one more, which isno big deal, it's just one,
right?
But if that one happens to behuge, like a seven point one in
Indonesia, which it was, thenthat's not good because it's
going to be crashing a lot ofthings, hurting people, killing
people.
And if this is uh a seven-dayperiod, like it's a seven-day
(27:41):
period, then we may see some badthings happening in twenty
twenty-six.
Don't know.
But I'll give you anotherexample.
If you go to 1128, we had two6.0 earthquakes in 25.
In 2018, there was one.
(28:05):
But in 2019, there was one,two, three, four.
So strange.
So we'll have to see whathappens now.
In uh 12 December the 5th,2025, we had 06.0 earthquakes
(28:28):
again, and the totals went backdown to 21.6 percent for total
uh um all earthquake magnitudes,which is about where they
normally are running, 20, 24 or20, 21 percent somewhere, 22,
but right in that area.
(28:49):
Although in December the 5th,2018, there was a huge increase.
We ended up doing 6,268earthquakes all magnitude back
in 2018, which gave us a 62.7percent.
(29:09):
I don't know what happened thatday or that week in 2018, but
there was a huge increase, andthey had one, two, three, four,
five, six point and above uhearthquakes for that period of
time in 2018.
And one of them was a 7.1 inAlaska, which is not good, and
(29:35):
there's a 7.5 in New Calonia anda 6.6 in New Caldenia.
So there's some hugeearthquakes in that time period.
So we're not exactly now if youyou're figuring seven years to
(29:58):
the date, it's not falling thatway.
But if you turn around and lookat twelve twelve twenty-five,
which is the following sevendays, again, twelve five only
had zero six point zeroearthquakes, and then we move up
(30:19):
seven more days, twelve twelve,and do that count, and we have
one, two, three, four, four sixpoint oh and above earthquakes,
one of them being a seven pointsix in Japan.
So on twelve twelve that week,that seven-day week, you count
(30:42):
back seven days, we had a sevenpoint six in Japan, a six point
six in Japan, and a six pointseven in Japan.
And then we also had a sevenpoint oh in Hubbard Glacier
earthquake, and I have no ideawhat that means, why they named
it that, but that's upper byAlaska, um, that area that keeps
(31:06):
getting hammered all the time.
Which I find that's reallystrange, really, really strange.
And I don't know what's goingon there.
I really don't.
So, with that said, I want togo back to the 11, 14, 25, um,
seven-week report.
Japan got hammered back thentoo.
(31:29):
They had a 6.8, a 6.4, and a6.0 uh in that order.
The 6.0 was the first one thatgot hammered, and then the 6.4
and the 6.0.
So the aftershocks they wereslowly decreasing.
And if I went and hunted thatup, I would say they had some
(31:51):
smaller activity ones rightbefore that 6.8 happened.
Same way with 1212, thatseven-day report.
Again, Japan had 7.6, a 6.6,and a 6.7 in that order.
Um, so they had aftershocksafter they had that 7.6.
(32:16):
So we need to pray for them.
Need to pray for uh all thatearthquake.
I don't know if you heard that.
Uh that was seven days, almostseven days ago.
Friday will be the seventh day,and I'll be writing down
another seven-day report thisFriday.
Um well, not this Friday.
I'll be going to work, I'llhave to look it up later.
(32:38):
I just wanted to give you themnumbers, and I thought that was
weird how December the 5th, uh,seven years ago, had some kind
of weird influx in numbers, andI don't know what that means,
but there there was a big jumpin percentages.
And every now and then we havethat, and it looks like the week
(33:02):
after this week, or not thisweek, this last seven-day week,
it increased in 2025.
So maybe it was just slower toreact this seven-year period.
Who knows?
We'll just have to keep this upand we'll get back with you
during the process and we'll seewhat next year brings.
(33:26):
Now, I don't think the yearsstart um where we do calendar
years, because I think it goeswith the moon uh and the moon
stages and the seasons.
So we're getting ready to enterinto December 21st, which is
(33:47):
the beginning of winter.
And uh once we get out of thatand get into springtime, I think
we're gonna see the new yearstarting out.
So um that's where we're gonnabe.
Um that's gonna make changestoo, and I think that's why
maybe why we're seeing thesechanges now, is because we're
(34:08):
entering into that winter timein the this last part of this
year.
We don't know.
Sunny (34:16):
You said that twice now.
You don't know.
Why are you talking about it?
You know, in some countries,they're wanting to make you get
some kind of certificate orproof that you are qualified to
talk about it.
Bruce (34:33):
Yeah.
Don't get me started on thatbecause that is just control
waiting to happen.
I know a lot of people think,well, that's good.
That way you don't have allthat people out there talking
about stuff they shouldn't betalking about.
But uh, aren't we allowed totalk?
That's why God gave us ourvoices.
Now, maybe we shouldn't besaying some of the things we
(34:55):
say, but I don't think it shouldbe controlled by the government
what we say.
And yeah, if you're gonnaproduce a doctor type podcast or
radio show or anything likethat where you're gonna pretend
like you're a doctor, you needto have them qualifications.
(35:16):
But if I'm just gonna mentionit and tell you I don't know, I
don't think I need to have themqualifications.
I think that's just control,folks.
Control.
Control.
Sunny (35:29):
All right.
I just wanted to bring that upbecause I wanted to get you
excited.
Bruce (35:36):
Yeah, get me on my soapbox, and I'm sure our
listeners would love that.
Sunny (35:42):
Oh yeah.
They like it.
They like it when I talk,Bruce.
Bruce (35:47):
Okay.
Okay, well, if you say so, I'mnot gonna agree or disagree
because I don't want to.
Well, we're gonna call it quitson the earthquake report.
So if you enjoyed that, let meknow.
And if you don't want to everhear it again, let me know.
But if somebody lets me know,that's the way it'll go.
(36:09):
And if nobody lets me know go.
If nobody lets me know, thenI'll just do it again later on.
There you go.
What do you think about that?
Sunny (36:22):
I don't even know what you just said.
Bruce (36:25):
That means my listeners don't either.
Sunny (36:28):
You're right.
Nobody knows.
But nobody knows.
Bruce (36:35):
Okay, Sunny, don't sing to me.
Sunny (36:38):
Oh, why not?
You love my singing.
Bruce (36:42):
Nope, I don't, honestly.
I don't like my singing either.
Well, you know I can't not do arecording, so anytime I do it,
I like to kick in one, at leastone, news article that I found
(37:04):
on the internet and share itwith you.
Sometimes I like to go in depthand talk about it and you know,
poo-poo it, but you know, I'mnot gonna do that m all the
time.
Sunny (37:19):
Oh no, you're not gonna do it 99.9% all the time.
Bruce (37:28):
I'm not sure what you just said, but yeah, okay.
For you guys out therelistening, like I said, I like
to give a little bit of a newsreport.
So today I'm gonna talk alittle bit about the penny.
Really?
Everybody knows the penny,right?
You know that they they'requitting production of the penny
(37:50):
because it costs so much tomake it.
So this is the last year forthe pennies being made.
In fact, they just minted thelast bunch, and that's that what
news article I want to talkabout.
Yep.
The last bunch has been minted,and uh let me get that news
(38:11):
article up and I'll just tellyou about it.
It's found on is found on ABCNews page, and it's called a
pretty penny.
Last US cents sales for 16.7million.
You heard me right.
(38:32):
They minted the last penny, andthe grouping of them, they sold
off, and they added it all up,and it was sixteen point seven
million.
Good grief.
Um I'll have pictures on my uhif you watch the or listen to
(38:55):
the podcast on a 2.0 player,you'll see chapters.
Click on the chapters, and youcan see um it'll take you to
this section, but you don't evenhave to click on it.
They'll bring up a picture andI'll have that penny on there.
But it's uh omega circulatingpenny, um, which is the penny,
(39:17):
and it's got a little omegathing underneath the Liberty.
But they sold them, let me seeif I can find it down here.
I read it just a while ago, howmuch they sold.
Each trio of coin coins soldfor an average of rarely lot
(39:39):
value of over seventy-twothousand dollars, and the final
set, number two hundredthirty-two, sold for eight
hundred thousand, as it includesthe very last circulating penny
from Philadelphia and Denver,and the final gold omega penny.
So they quit minting penniesbecause it was too expensive,
(40:05):
but they made the last one ofgold.
Good grief, guys.
Really?
And then they m sold them for sthis world's crazy.
Speaking of that though, haveyou not noticed already people
are quitting businesses, I say,or stopping any penny intake.
(40:28):
They're not wanting to takeyour pennies, they're not
wanting to um give your penniesback when they they're rounding
everything off.
Yeah, they really are.
I know the business I work at,there's a sign in the window.
We are rounding, and then theygive the formula.
You know, it's so much theyround down, so much they round
(40:48):
up.
So what ends up happening isyou may lose a couple pennies in
the business, and there's notmuch you can do about it unless
you just refuse.
But people are gonna quitkeeping pennies.
Now that brought me to theconclusion of what's going on,
because you know they've beenminting pennies every year for
(41:11):
years, since 1793, I believe.
And yeah, the penny was firstminted in 1793.
There you go.
They've been minting them everyyear since then.
And there is estimated, ready?
Here you go.
Estimated 250 or 300, no.
(41:34):
250 to 300 billion pennies incirculation.
But they're gonna quit usingthem.
I think people are jumping tothe gun.
So what's gonna happen?
People are gonna see the storesare no longer gonna take them,
so they're gonna start hoardingthem and hope they get worth
(41:58):
more and more money, and theymay, I don't know, but it's
gonna take a while.
But it's getting crazy, guys.
250 to 300 billion penniesstill left in circulation, and
they're gonna stop taking them.
What do you think about that?
Yeah.
Anyhow, this is Bruce.
(42:18):
And I'm Suddy.
And we are gonna end thisepisode.
We are happy that you comehere, and I hope you stuck it
out with us, and if you did, letme know.
I want to hear something fromyou guys, alright?
Be a participant in ourpodcast.
I can't say it any better thanthat.
(42:41):
That's what I want.
Sunny (42:43):
Yeah.
He said it.
Sticking to it, buddy.
Bruce (42:49):
Yeah.
Sorry about the podcast episodethis time around.
I ha got tongue-tied a lot andI've lost my place a lot, but
it's because I'm hurrying,trying to get it recorded before
I head to work, so I can get ituploaded to my hosting page and
(43:11):
get it set before the 18th.
I may not even have time to goback and edit it.
It's I'm running really low ontime, but that's that's what's
happening.
Usually I have my notes and Ihave time to pause it and take
time, you know, and catch mybreath and stuff and not be
(43:34):
hurried.
And this I I shouldn't havetried to do it, but I was
running out of time.
And I wanted to do the youknow, the report for the
earthquakes before the uhrecording month ended.
So I got that done.
And I'm gonna say goodbye.
(43:55):
We're gonna leave it with you.
We're gonna say bye right afterwe get done saying our value
for value with uh Capella.
So here we go.
Capella (44:05):
There are many ways you can show your support for the
Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
First, simply keep us in yourthoughts and prayers, and maybe
send good vibes too.
Second, spread the word.
Tell your friends about us,even the ones with questionable
taste in podcasts.
Third, share your talents.
If you have skills intechnology, art, or anything
else that could help us, we'dlove to hear from you.
(44:28):
And finally, considersupporting us financially.
Equipment, hosting, and websitecosts add up, and any
contribution is greatlyappreciated.
We promise not to spend it allon rubber duckies, unless you
want us to.
Thank you for your support.
Bruce (44:43):
All right.
Thank you guys for being here.
Thank you for listening to us,and thank you for participating.
We hope you come back, and wehope you have a good Christmas.
Christmas is right around thecorner, and uh, I don't know
what how we're gonna handleChristmas and New Year's.
Um we'll give you something,but I don't know if it's gonna
(45:05):
be a very long recording.
Haven't decided where we'regonna be and what we're gonna do
and what work's gonna do.
So we'll just leave you hangingfor now.
But 73 guys, may the Father'sblessings and love be with you
always.
Bye.
Sunny (45:23):
Bye, everybody.
This is Sunny 73, and I loveyou.
Bye.
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