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A simple question sets the tone: what are you thankful for? We lean into the heart of Thanksgiving with real talk about gratitude, grief, and the quiet kind of joy that shows up even when life feels thin. From travel prayers to table rituals, we trace the holiday’s roots across cultures and the way harvest traditions still whisper to us now. Faith makes an appearance, not as a lecture, but as an honest thanks to the Creator and an open invitation to anyone who needs a little hope this week.
Then we turn the dial to the modern frontier: an AI country act called Breaking Rust climbing a digital chart. We break down the song’s polish and the uncanny gap where breath should be, asking whether music needs human imperfection to feel true. Is chart success a mirror or smoke? Are follower counts inflated or earned? You’ll hear a candid debate that balances curiosity with skepticism, and a clear call for your take. If you’ve listened to Walk My Walk, we want to know what you hear—and what you don’t.
Between the moments of reflection and the AI debate, we roll up our sleeves in the studio: rescuing old hardware with Linux Lite and Mint, running Umbrel for a home server, and stress-testing a Raspberry Pi for recording. It’s a small stand for openness, tinkering, and making the most of what you have, rooted in the same value for value ethos that keeps our show free and listener-powered. If you need a warm voice for the drive or a nudge to name your blessings, pull up a chair.
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Bruce (00:00):
What are you thankful for?
Capella (00:08):
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 (00:30):
And on that note, hello and welcome to the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (00:37):
And I am Sunny.
We're glad to have you aboard.
Bruce (00:42):
Yes, we are.
We're glad to have you here andaboard and with us and all that
good stuff.
Like I said, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast.
Episode 129, Thanksgivingepisode.
That's right.
This is Thanksgiving week.
It's actually Tuesday beforeThanksgiving while I'm setting
(01:04):
down recording this.
Hopefully we'll get it outright at Thanksgiving.
Now that doesn't mean you haveto listen to it or you're going
to listen to it by Thanksgiving.
But uh, whatever time you dolisten to it, we hope you enjoy
it.
We hope you get something outof it, and we hope you have a
(01:25):
good Thanksgiving.
Sunny (01:27):
Yeah, that's right.
A great, not good, a greatThanksgiving.
It's kind of important, youknow, that you have a little bit
of quality time with everybody.
Bruce (01:40):
Yes, sir.
That is very true.
It is important this time ofyear, you know, to have a little
bit of time with your family,friends, uh, whoever you want to
spend that Thanksgiving with.
It's very important you getthat done, you have a good time.
That kind of brings some senseof uh center to you and
(02:02):
hopefully get a little bit ofjoy to you.
Now, speaking of that, there'sa a lot of people this year and
uh in the past that uh has nothad the opportunity to spend
much money on food and gettogether and all that, and they
are feeling kind of bad aboutthat.
(02:23):
So we want you to say yourprayers for these people and
these kinds of depression thatpeople face.
And not only that, but there'sa lot of people that have lost
loved ones and this time of yearreally hits hard.
So I want you to take an extraspecial moment to say a prayer
(02:45):
for those people that somehow,even in their depression and
their loss, whatever isaffecting them spiritually and
in their soul, that they willfind a little bit of hope, a
little bit of joy, a little bitof fun during this time, that
(03:06):
this holiday won't be aturnaway, but it will be a way
to draw them back into humanityand fun.
Sunny (03:16):
And fun?
What's that mean?
Bruce (03:19):
Well, you gotta have a little bit of fun.
I mean, if life is nothing butdread and down to the bone work
and growling and all that stuff,your heart's just gonna give
way.
And I don't mean, yeah, maybephysically, but uh it will
spiritually give away.
(03:40):
You have to have a little bitof joy.
When I say fun, I don't meangoing out and partying type of
fun.
I mean joy.
I mean getting a little bit ofsense of joy.
That's fun to me.
That's you know, when you watchsomebody laugh and you enjoy
that, that's the kind of fun I'mtalking about.
(04:01):
So don't get me wrong when Isay fun.
I'm not going to the extreme ofsaying, hey, go out and get
drunk, gamble, and throw awayyour life.
That's not the kind of fun thatI even talked about, okay?
Sunny (04:15):
Well, thanks for clarifying that.
Bruce (04:18):
Woo wee.
Sunny (04:20):
Big difference.
Bruce (04:22):
Yep, and I don't want to end up uh talking about that all
next episode or this episode.
Sunny (04:31):
Well, I agree.
And by the way, before we goany farther, I'm Sunny.
If you've never heard usbefore, you've accidentally or
on purpose tuned in to thisepisode.
Hello, I'm Sunny.
Bruce (04:48):
Okay, Sunny.
I'm Bruce, by the way.
And uh we uh put this podcasttogether and the episode
together.
So if you hear Sunny, you hearBruce.
And if you hear Bruce, you hearSunny most all the time.
And we welcome you aboard ifthis is your first trial.
(05:08):
And uh if you've come herebefore, what's wrong with you?
Sunny (05:13):
Hey, don't run our listeners away.
Bruce (05:17):
Oh, I'm not.
I just I like to tease.
And they know uh they know thatif they've listened to us
before.
But thank you for coming back.
Thank you for coming the firsttime.
We hope you enjoy it, and onceagain, we hope you have a great
Thanksgiving.
There's more holidays to come.
(05:37):
We'll talk about those whenthey get here.
But we want you to enjoy thisThanksgiving this week.
Many of you have taken somevacation time, which is pretty
normal during this time.
And I think that's great.
And I hope you get to enjoy thewhole time, get to enjoy your
family.
(05:58):
A lot of people are traveling,so I pray that you will have
safe passage, not run across anyproblems, any trials.
I hope it's blessed.
May the Father's love andblessings go with you always.
That's my hope and prayer.
So today, if you're facing anydepression or trials or loss
(06:24):
during this time, I hope thenpray that you can find it in
yourself to pull yourself up,look around, and go, okay, it's
not that bad.
I gotta hang on here.
And uh if you need any extraword, email me.
You can email me, and I don'tnormally give this out, but I've
(06:45):
been doing it a lot lately.
It's Bruce at the UglyQackingDuck.com.
That would be my personalemail.
My normal email to reach thepodcast is the uglyquacking duck
at gmail.com, and that's toreach the podcast.
But if you'd like to talkpersonally to me, send me at the
(07:08):
other one.
All right, there you go.
So I said, what are youthankful for at the beginning of
the uh podcast episode?
Just kind of a forethought,right?
Sunny (07:21):
Oh, is that what that was?
I thought you were just blowingsmoke.
Bruce (07:25):
No.
Thanksgiving's here, and thattime of year is when uh people
celebrate and give thanks forthe bountiful harvest that we've
had through the year.
Um, it was originally, uh,that's what it originally was
for.
There was different spiritualthings attached to that,
(07:48):
different religions, differentum beliefs.
Uh, it did not originate inthis country.
It came over with the pioneers,and uh, I believe the American
Indians, I don't know what ifyou call them natives or what,
(08:08):
but the first ones here actuallyhad some kind of observance
like that too, where theycelebrated the spirits that gave
them the bounty, and theycelebrated that towards harvest
season.
I mean, it's just a commonthing that we do, and uh we've
(08:29):
tore tore most of the beliefaway in this country, and we've
made it just a big feast, and wego to the house homes, people's
and friends and family's homes,and we just gorge ourselves,
watch some sports on TV, andthat's our Thanksgiving day.
(08:53):
And that is a skeleton of whatit really means and what it
began as.
What are you thankful for iswhat I started this with, and
I'd like to know.
Stop and think, if you'relistening to this, what are you
thankful for?
Me, myself, I'm thankful for mylife, uh, having the health to
(09:17):
be able to do this podcast.
I'm really thankful for thepodcast and the chance to share
our lives on this kind offormat.
Uh, it kind of reminds me ofthe radio, and I love radio and
what it used to stand for, notso much anymore, you know.
(09:38):
But anyway, we won't get intothat today.
But I'm thankful for that.
I'm thankful, thankful for myfamily, my friends, and uh the
small house that I have, thestudio that I have.
I mean, I'm not really in needof anything.
I mean, there could be betterthings, there could be a lot
(10:01):
worse, believe me.
Sunny, I'm thankful for you.
Sunny (10:06):
Oh, ain't you sweet, Bruce?
Thank you.
And can I say what I'm thankfulfor?
Bruce (10:13):
Well, yeah.
Sunny (10:14):
Okay, I'm thankful for being here.
For being in this existence atthis time, and being able to be
part of this life.
With whoever I'm with, whoeverI meet, it's part of that, and
I'm glad of it.
Bruce (10:35):
Well, that was wow.
That was kind of that was wellspoken.
I'm not sure if I could addanything else to that, but that
is beautiful.
I mean, whatever we run into ispart of this existence, and we
are, or should be, thankful forit because even in the difficult
times, it brings growth andblessing.
(11:00):
We just have to look for itsometimes.
Answer the question.
You can answer it to yourfriends, family, to your pets,
and to your beloved, or just toyourself internally, but uh
answer yourself what you'rethankful for.
And I have to say one morething.
I'm thankful for the ability togive the creator the one that
(11:27):
started the whole thing andplanned it out even to the
minute detail, and will notfinish the plan until it settles
right.
I'm thankful for that.
You can call him very manynames, very many things, look to
(11:47):
him in different ways, pray tohim in different ways, but I am
very thankful for him and whathe's done and the ability to do
this, and we turn Thanksgivinginto a Christian um holiday many
times.
And yes, it is, but it'soriginally to give thanks for
(12:16):
what we've been given throughthe years, not however you do
that.
And I do believe we ought togive the Creator that blessing,
that thanks, and his son and hisspirit that has enveloped us
and gave us life.
That we should be thankful for,and I am.
Sunny (12:38):
Woo we, we're going to church now.
Bruce (12:44):
Okay, I guess we are, but uh no.
This is one of those holidayswhere you give thanks for the
things around you and the thingsyou've gotten.
And I know a lot of people doesnot have a lot to be thankful
for.
And I'm not one of those goingto pressure in to pressure you
into finding something to bethankful for.
(13:08):
No, I just want you to hang onand try to live and enjoy this
holiday.
And if you're having troublewith it, don't give up.
Just hang in there, okay?
Just believe my words.
Believe my words.
It will be different tomorrow.
(13:32):
So just hang in there, okay?
And try to enjoy what you gotif you can.
If you can't, just try to hangin there, okay?
There you go.
That's that's all we got to sayabout that, right?
Sunny (13:46):
That's right.
And that was a lot.
Bruce (13:50):
Yeah, it was.
It was more than I wasanticipating talking about, but
hey, anyhow, let's go back toThanksgiving history.
Want to?
Sunny (13:59):
Oh, sure.
Yeah, are you gonna be ahistory major now?
Bruce (14:03):
Negatory.
I just want to read out ofWikipedia of all places.
You know, that they can addthings to it and change it, and
it's yeah.
Anyhow, Wikipedia talks aboutThanksgiving and it says that
it's a national holiday, and itis, celebrated in various dates
(14:27):
or on various dates in Octoberand November in the United
States, in Canada, in St.
Lucia, Liberia, and uhunofficially in countries like
Germany.
Sunny (14:43):
Oh boy, I didn't know it was so rampant.
Bruce (14:46):
Rampant.
That's not the right word touse for that.
Sunny (14:50):
Oh, yeah, it is.
Bruce (14:52):
Okay.
All right, Sunny.
But anyway, it also is observedin some Australia territory of
Norfolk Island.
And I don't know if I said allthat right, but anyway, it's
celebrated very, very manyvarious places, and they all
(15:12):
celebrate in different ways.
Like I said before, prayer andthanks and special Thanksgiving
ceremonies are common among mostreligions after harvests and
other times of the year.
So once again, they're sayingwhat I said earlier that it is a
(15:33):
time of Thanksgiving.
It's after harvest, it's likein the fall of the year when the
crops are being pulled out andwe get our bounti, and you say,
Well, what if it's not abountiful crop?
Are you going to give thanks?
Yes.
They always gave thanks even ifit wasn't bountiful.
It was about the amount yougiven, not if it was enough, if
(15:59):
that makes sense.
And it's always enough.
I mean, we survived, did wenot, for generations and
generations and generations andgenerations.
So it must have been enough.
Maybe just enough, but it wasenough.
Sunny (16:14):
So what if harvest season comes way before Thanksgiving?
Bruce (16:22):
That's a good question.
And it does in a lot of statesand a lot of countries comes at
different times, but we kinda inthe United States have elected
to do it close to the same timesevery year all throughout the
states.
And a lot of countries are thesame way.
(16:43):
They have celebrated that timeof year at a certain time,
pretty well every generation.
Now it's not always the sametimes as us, but it's pretty
close the same thing.
And you know, it's just been aphenomenon.
Ooh, that's a big word.
(17:04):
During the harvest festival todo this kind of celebration.
Now again, uh there's a lot ofdifferent ways of celebrating.
There's Thanksgiving feasts andweek-long celebration some
places, and there's feasts and ffasting.
(17:26):
I mean, there's different ways,but center point to all of it
is we give thanks for theharvest for the year.
And we uh celebrate that by agood big meal and trying to get
together with everybody that wecan to celebrate.
(17:47):
So there you go.
Now, if you want to give thisfeast and bountiful harvest uh
rewarding honor to um uh someother god or some other entity
or some other spirit that that'sup to you.
(18:07):
I mean, I'm not gonna tell youwhat's right or wrong.
I'm not the judge.
Somebody else will do that oneday, and I'm not gonna be in
that in that honor or dishonor.
I'm going to be one that isbeing judged just like you are.
(18:28):
So let's remember that, okay?
Celebrate it, give everybodythe thanks and the honor and
love them, feast with them.
That's what we're here for,okay?
Sunny (18:41):
All right.
I think that's got it all saidand done.
You could probably go over itand beat that horse to death,
but let's don't.
Bruce (18:54):
Okay, we won't.
Sunny (19:00):
Oh, Bruce, Bruce, I want to talk about something.
Bruce (19:04):
All right, Sunny.
You want to talk aboutsomething?
What do you want to bring up?
Sunny (19:09):
Well, I read a news article and I want to Wait,
wait, a news article?
Yeah, yeah, I really did.
Bruce (19:18):
Where was you at to get this news article?
Sunny (19:21):
On your new computer.
Bruce (19:23):
I don't have a new computer.
Sunny (19:26):
Well, you know, that old computer that you rebuilt and
made new.
Bruce (19:33):
Oh, you was playing with that old computer.
Sunny (19:37):
Yeah, it was fun.
Bruce (19:40):
I'm glad you didn't tear it up.
Sunny (19:42):
Oh, I know what I'm doing.
Bruce (19:45):
Oh, famous last words.
But anyhow, so you was on therebrowsing the internet, right?
Sunny (19:52):
Yeah.
I was having fun.
Bruce (19:56):
Oh man, I thought you was above that.
Sunny (19:59):
What, having fun?
Bruce (20:01):
No, browsing the internet.
Sunny (20:03):
Oh, I just looking for some neat stuff to talk about
like you do.
Bruce (20:09):
Okay.
That makes a lot more sense.
I just don't want you to gethooked and start streaming and
listening and watching hours ata time.
Sunny (20:22):
Oh, you have nothing to worry about there.
Yeah.
After I got done with thatnews, I just went click and gone
I went somewhere else to dosomething else.
Bruce (20:35):
Okay.
Well, that's a good thing.
So, Sunny, tell us what you'retalking about.
Sunny (20:42):
All right.
Yeah, okay.
You're always talking about howthe NAI is doing and what
they're doing and how they'redoing and blah blah blah blah.
Bruce (20:56):
All right.
You made your point.
What do you got to say?
Sunny (21:01):
Did you know you talked about the AI movie star that
wasn't really yet a movie star,but the AI actress, well, now
there's an AI country artist.
That's right.
Country artist, country singer,you know.
Bruce (21:21):
Yeah, we all know what a country artist is.
Uh it's not a artist from thecountry.
It's an artist that has countrymusic at its soul, right?
Sunny (21:35):
Well, now you put it that way, yeah.
I just thought it was the genreof country.
Bruce (21:42):
Well, that too.
So how did you run across thisinformation?
Sunny (21:49):
Well, y I didn't really read about it first.
I actually ran across the songon Twitter, and I went, wow,
that almost sounds good.
It's got Bruce's singing beatall to pieces.
Bruce (22:08):
Now you didn't have to go there.
I mean, really, you didn't haveto go there.
Sunny (22:14):
Well, I'm telling the truth.
Your singing lacks everything.
Bruce (22:21):
Oh no, you didn't.
Sunny (22:24):
Oh, I did.
Bruce (22:27):
All right, so you've just really threw me under the
bridge and told everybody howbad I sing.
Even in the shower, I scare thecats.
Sunny (22:37):
Oh, you scare more than that.
But anyhow, I was listening tothis Twitter account, and it had
this AI country singer, which Ididn't know was AI at first.
And after I listened to it, Icould tell.
Bruce (22:56):
Oh, well, hang on.
Let's stop.
I'm gonna go listen to it so Iknow what you're talking about.
And we'll be back, folks.
So just snap your finger andwe'll be back that quick because
you won't even know we went.
All right, you're talking aboutbreaking rust, correct?
Sunny (23:17):
That's right.
Breaking rust, AI generatedcountry music artist.
Bruce (23:24):
Okay, yep, I just found it and very interesting.
I listened to it and not bad, Ihave to agree.
Sunny (23:33):
See?
I was telling you, you thoughtI was telling a fib, but nope,
not bad.
Bruce (23:40):
Yep, not bad, but not that great either.
I mean, it doesn't haveanything that stands out.
It sounds like country, and itis, you know, that genre.
Uh it has a good rhythm, uhbeat, and some good music,
rhymes, words, you know.
(24:01):
However, um, that's about it.
Sunny (24:06):
Oh, you're gonna put it down now.
Bruce (24:09):
No, I'm not gonna put it down, but I am gonna say that
everybody needs to go listen toit.
It's Breaking Rust, is thecountry music artist, and that
was created this year.
And the songwriter that did itwas Aubrey Rivaldo Taylor
Rivaldo.
(24:29):
Forgive me for tearing thatname up.
I'm not very good at differentnames.
The song he's talking about isWalk My Walk, correct, Sunny?
Sunny (24:39):
Yeah, that's the one.
Bruce (24:41):
All right.
He's got other ones like Livingon Borrowed Time and uh some
different ones, but walk by walktop the Billboard Country
Digital Song Sales.
Yeah.
Number one on the BillboardCountry Digital Song Sales.
(25:02):
What is this world coming towhen we got AI winning that kind
of stuff?
But anyhow, um on Instagram, itwas Instagram, not TikTok.
Sunny (25:14):
Oh, well maybe it was.
I don't know.
I didn't pay attention to that.
Bruce (25:20):
Now you sound a lot more like me than I would care to
ever imagine.
Oh poo.
All right, anyway, supposedlythey've got uh that person, that
AI, I don't know how you sayit, has thirty-five thousand
followers.
I wonder how many of them areAI and made up.
(25:43):
Oh, no.
Sunny (25:46):
I never thought about that.
Bruce (25:48):
Yeah.
If they can make a artist upusing AI, why can't they make
the followers up too?
And yeah.
So this may all be a bunch ofmade up baloney to get people
like us stirred up.
What do you think about that,Sunny?
Sunny (26:07):
I don't like that.
That's manipulation.
Bruce (26:11):
Uh-huh.
Yep.
Yeah, it is.
Okay, so go out and listen tothe song.
Just look it up, walk by walk.
No, walk my walk, and it's bybreaking rust.
And you can listen to it andsee what you think about it.
Comment to us.
Yeah, tell us what you think ofthis AI going out to be
(26:35):
actresses and going to besongwriters and singers.
We want your opinion.
There you go.
Challenge of this episode is toget back with Bruce at the
uglyquacking duck.com.
No, let's just leave thepersonal one off.
Get back to us at theuglyquacking duck at gmail.com.
(26:57):
That's the ugly quacking duckat gmail.com.
Does that go good, Sunny?
Yeah, I like it.
Let's do that, Bruce.
All right, you guys get backwith us if we get any any
response, which we nobodyusually responds.
They just download us andlisten to us and probably go,
them bunch of dummies.
(27:17):
But if you will respond, we'lladd up the responses and see
what the opinions are of AI.
So tell us what you think ofthe AI and tell us what you
think specifically of Walk MyWalk song.
If you want to give an opinionwhere you think all this is
(27:39):
going, it would be veryinteresting.
We'll even read your notes offunless you specifically said,
don't, Bruce, don't.
Sunny (27:52):
Oh my gosh, really?
I want to do it.
Sunny don't.
Bruce (28:00):
Okay.
Uh I don't even know what tothink.
Can I add anything to that?
Sunny (28:08):
Of course you can, but don't.
Bruce (28:11):
All right.
Fair enough.
Anyway, uh, we will read it offto you.
Had to clear my throat there.
We'll read it off after on thenext episode if you give us
anything to read.
Come on, guys.
We're begging you to be part ofthis podcast.
(28:34):
I mean, you're listening to it.
Why not participate?
That's, you know, that's all weask.
Well, maybe not all.
Yeah, we're needy.
Susan at work always says,You're being needy this day.
And I say, Yeah, probably so.
But anyhow, yeah, let's dothat.
(28:54):
So here's what I think aboutthe song.
It sounds good, like I said,has a good beat, good rhythm
going to it, kind of got theblues kind of sound to the
country.
Uh instrumentals are prettydecent.
What I noticed is there's nopause for breathing, and that
(29:19):
really bothers me.
I like the human effect.
I like to listen to people on apodcast and hear their voice
when they take a breath.
Maybe when they slop somesaliva around, because I know
those things, because I do it.
And when I hear a pause in thissong this walk my walk song,
(29:44):
it's just a pause.
They just pause in between thewords so they can take up
another phrase or to give you asemblance of humanity.
But there's no breath.
There's no pause taking abreath.
There's no sigh.
There's no in-between.
(30:06):
It's just non-stop song audiowith a pause of the audio.
But no, if you listen to it andlisten for that, you'll hear
what I'm saying.
And that really bugged me.
I mean, once I noticed that, itwas like I couldn't get it out
of my head.
I couldn't unnotice it.
(30:28):
As a Reese at work always says,you can't unnotice it once you
notice it.
And that's so true.
Sunny (30:37):
Oh.
Oh.
No.
You just ring that song for me.
Bruce (30:45):
Well, I didn't intend to reign it, but you know what?
I don't know what it is.
There's something going on inthe studio today.
I don't know if you've noticedall those cars going by.
Hopefully I can get most ofthat out.
But man, we are really hearinga weird echo in here today.
And I I didn't change anything.
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I well, I've got the blinds up,but that's normal.
But there is a weird weirdnessabout the echoes.
The cars go by and they justecho in this room.
And I've not noticed it likethat before.
And I haven't added morefurniture or taken any away.
(31:29):
I've worked on my computers,but that hasn't changed
anything.
But every time a car goes by, Ijust hear this echo.
And I've not noticed it before,and I'm hearing it in the
headphones a lot.
And there went one again.
Now I'm not sure it's pickingit up, and I'm hoping if it is,
(31:51):
I can get it out in post becauseit's very loud in my
headphones.
Sunny (31:58):
Maybe it's your head echoing, you know, that space in
between your ears, and whenthem cars go by, it's
reverberating in your head.
Because there's nothing upthere but concrete.
Bruce (32:18):
No, I don't think so.
Sunny (32:20):
Oh yeah.
Whatever makes you sleep atnight, Bruce.
Bruce (32:26):
Okay, Sunny.
Okay.
Well, I like that story youbrought to our attention, and I
hope we get some responses.
Sunny (32:34):
Well, thank you, Bruce.
I enjoyed that.
I know why you do it now.
I may have to do that moreoften.
Bruce (32:41):
Well, I think you might.
I appreciate it.
Hey, Sunny.
Sunny (32:48):
Yeah, Bruce.
Bruce (32:49):
I want you to tell me something, okay?
Sunny (32:52):
All right.
I'll try if I can.
Bruce (32:55):
All right.
Can you tell me why teddy bearsare never hungry?
Sunny (33:00):
What?
Bruce (33:01):
Yeah.
Tell me why teddy bears neverare never hungry.
Sunny (33:05):
Because they're always uh I don't know.
They're eating honey.
Bruce (33:10):
Uh uh, no.
It's because they're alwaysstuffed.
Sunny (33:19):
Oh no.
Wow.
I don't know what you yeah, no.
Bruce (33:30):
You really thought I was being serious, wouldn't you?
Sunny (33:33):
Well, no, I knew it.
I was just going along withyou.
Bruce (33:37):
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh, sure.
Whatever makes you sleep atnight.
Sunny (33:42):
Oh, burn.
Bruce (33:46):
Yeah.
Sunny (33:47):
All right.
I I admit it, you got me.
Bruce (33:51):
Well, it's about time because you've done that two or
three times to me.
Sunny (33:55):
Hey, Bruce, hey, why don't you give the listeners a
quick rundown of what you'vebeen doing with all your
computers?
Bruce (34:05):
Oh, what a lead-in.
Yeah, I'd love to.
Um, I'll try not to bore themto death.
Sunny (34:10):
Well, don't worry, you've already done that, but just go
ahead, tell us.
It's kind of interesting.
Bruce (34:16):
Okay.
I um actually have uh threecomputers that have got out of
date.
One of them's a laptop, andit's uh had Windows 8 on it, and
it's just a a streaming laptop,is what they called it, I
believe.
It is has a small solid stateuh hard drive on it, so you
(34:40):
can't really put very much stuffon it, so I can't upgrade it to
the newest Windows.
And then I have a all-in-oneAcer desktop that used to run
really good, and then I let itset for a long time and the
battery died on it.
(35:00):
It's got Windows 8 on it, soyou can't run anything newer on
either one of those.
Now that one's got a 500 gighard drive, which is big enough
to put you know anotheroperating system on, but it's
not going to run anything else.
So I had a problem.
Do I junk them?
(35:21):
And I really can't afford toreplace them, or do I try to use
them for something else?
And then I also had a RaspberryPi 3 that I got when was it?
Like 2015, 16.
So it set for a long time, andI just got it back out.
(35:41):
What I did was I took the um HPlaptop that wouldn't run hardly
anything other than a streamingstripped-down OS.
I put um Linux Lite on it, andso far it's working really good.
Now, the trouble with thatlaptop, it would not find, or
(36:06):
Linux or any other operatingsystem I put on there would not
find the internal wireless card.
Just wouldn't do it, no matterwhat I did.
So I ordered one that was builtfor Linux machines, plugged it
into the USB, found itimmediately, and wham bam, I'm
(36:26):
on the internet with that LinuxLite operating system.
Works real good, it's reallyfast.
Now, before that, I had putLinux Mint on it.
That worked, but not real well.
It was a uh more of a resourcehog than I needed on that thing,
(36:48):
and it would bog it down.
But I put that Linux light onthere and it wow, I'm not
kidding you, it runs really,really good.
Now I don't know how much I'mgonna be able to do with that
machine because it don't havemany resources, not a very big
hard drive.
Now I can always plug one intoit and you know add memory, but
(37:12):
I don't know.
I may just use it for browsingand you know, maybe playing some
music, who knows?
And then on the Acer machine, Iuh actually took it.
I put a bunch of differentoperating systems on there.
I did Linux, didn't like it,did Linux Mint, and I really
(37:34):
like that, and I tried Start OS,which is another Linux-based
operating system, and I wantedthat one to work, but for some
reason I I reloaded it threedifferent times and it would not
run right.
It would one day it would run,and then the next time I'd come
(37:55):
in and try to start something,it wouldn't even get and find on
the so the store front, itwould not find any of the uh
anything.
And it just act like it wasn'tgetting on the internet, but it
was.
Because it start OS was aserver program, and uh I tried
(38:15):
and just wouldn't work, nomatter what I did.
And the reason I was wanting todo that is because I was
wanting to run my Albi Hub onit, which is what I use for
Bitcoin.
I tried Linux Mint, it workedgood, but I could not get that
program to run the hub, which itwas supposed to.
So it wasn't a I don't think itwas a program.
(38:37):
I think it was just I neededmore experience and learning
with Linux, and I didn't have itat the time.
Shoot, the last time I'd usedLinux was back when I was living
in Wayne City, which wasprobably about 20 years ago or
more, probably more.
And Linux had first come out umuh Red Hat, I think, and it
(39:00):
came in like five discs, and youput it on your computer and you
had to install everything.
And I worked through and got,you know, the moldem installed
and this installed and thatinstalled.
I hated it.
It was too much time, a lot ofwork.
I didn't mind that as much asthe time it took me to try to
(39:21):
learn all the commands, and thenwhen I had a problem, yeah, I
just I gave up on it because Ididn't have time to go back and
learn it.
I was working, you know.
Anyone have that problem?
Hobbies have to take them, youknow, a second.
Anyway, with that said, I umthen switched over to Umbral,
(39:42):
and it's another server program,and I put it on there, and
guess what?
It worked.
Yeah.
So I have a server programrunning by Albi Hub, and then on
the Raspberry Pi 3, I put aRaspberry OS on there, and it
works great.
Tried recording a little bit ofthis podcast episode on it, and
(40:09):
it just wasn't quite fastenough, so it had a lot of pops
and cracks.
So I may do that eventually.
Uh do another Raspberry Pi 5and put a podcast studio station
on that thing so I can goportable with it also.
But there you go, Sunny.
That's all my uh ranting on mycomputers.
Sunny (40:32):
Woo woo! You got a lot done.
Bruce (40:36):
Well, I don't know about that, but I I made some changes
here in the studio, and I've gota lot of playing and a lot more
learning to do on Linux, butthose systems I'm talking about
are more like Windows than theoriginal Linux was, and uh it
made it a lot easier to do allthat.
Sunny (40:57):
Well, I'm glad it kept you out of my hair for about a
week or two.
Bruce (41:04):
Yeah, probably did.
Probably did.
Sunny (41:07):
Well, I just wanted you to share it because I knew you
were excited and you had funwith it.
Bruce (41:14):
That's true, that's very true.
And as time goes on, I willprobably share a little bit more
about it.
And uh I may do another hobby.
I've been looking into meshtastic, which I'm not even gonna
go into that because we'regonna close down here in a
minute.
That's another uh part of my uhradio hobby I may get into.
(41:38):
You can look it up, meshtastic.
See what you think about it.
The only drawback to it, itlooks like it might be fun, but
it doesn't look like it willtravel because it's 915
megahertz here in the States.
So it doesn't look like it'sgonna travel very far.
So, you know, you may have tohave a lot of nodes.
(42:00):
It kind of reminds me of theold the old packet radio
stations, and we used them.
We humped from one node toanother node to another node.
That was cool, and that's kindof what this does.
Sunny (42:15):
Well, that sounds like fun too.
I hope you get that going.
Bruce (42:21):
Well, we we may.
Well one step at a time.
I'm gonna get a little bit moreLinux stuff done, and then
maybe do that podcast stationthing, and then we may look at
doing that later on this winter.
Who knows?
We'll talk more about itthough.
Let's um let's bid everybody agood farewell and a happy
Thanksgiving.
(42:41):
What do you think, Sunny?
Sunny (42:42):
Oh, that'd be good.
I hope I didn't get too boredby your antics.
Bruce (42:48):
My antics?
Oh, listen to you.
What about your antics?
Sunny (42:53):
I'm a nice guy.
Bruce (42:55):
You're not even a guy.
Sunny (42:57):
Well, for all general purposes, yeah, I am.
Bruce (43:02):
All right, whatever.
So, hey folks, thanks fortuning in, listening to our
episode.
I hope it is not your last.
I hope you come back.
And if you've been here before,sh man, thanks for keeping up
with us and staying with us,being part of us.
(43:23):
And if this is your first time,come back.
Thank you for being here.
Sunny (43:28):
Oh yeah, and keep coming back.
Bruce has made the effort topodcast and keep podcasting.
That's Buzz Sprout's words, soyou can keep coming back and
listening.
Bruce (43:42):
Oh, yeah, that is Buzz Sprouts mantra.
Start podcasting and keeppodcasting.
That's who we send our podcaststo to host them, to publish
them, and we really doappreciate them.
So for Thanksgiving, we'resaying happy Thanksgiving to
them and everybody else.
(44:03):
We really appreciate everybody.
Get in touch with us, allright?
Be part of a show.
Don't just listen, but be partof the show.
Sunny (44:13):
Yeah, let's do it to it, Bruce.
Bruce (44:17):
We gotta have Apella, Capella, I think the AI, do one
more thing for us before we saybye.
So here we go.
Capella (44:25):
There are many ways you can show your support for the
Uggy 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.
(44:48):
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 (45:02):
Whether you have heard this before Thanksgiving, after
Thanksgiving, duringThanksgiving, may you have a
great and blessed week.
Thank you for being part of theshow.
Sunny (45:15):
Yep, it's been a fun, fun episode.
I've enjoyed doing therecording and being part of this
show.
Bruce, have a goodThanksgiving, everybody.
Bruce (45:28):
Yes, have a good Thanksgiving, everybody.
And we will talk to you nexttime around.
So until next time, may theFather's blessings and love be
with you.
Sunny (45:39):
Yes.
Thank you.
What are you thankful for?
Capella (00:08):
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 (00:30):
And on that note, hello and welcome to the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
I'm Bruce.
Sunny (00:37):
And I am Sunny.
We're glad to have you aboard.
Bruce (00:42):
Yes, we are.
We're glad to have you here andaboard and with us and all that
good stuff.
Like I said, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast.
Episode 129, Thanksgivingepisode.
That's right.
This is Thanksgiving week.
It's actually Tuesday beforeThanksgiving while I'm setting
(01:04):
down recording this.
Hopefully we'll get it outright at Thanksgiving.
Now that doesn't mean you haveto listen to it or you're going
to listen to it by Thanksgiving.
But uh, whatever time you dolisten to it, we hope you enjoy
it.
We hope you get something outof it, and we hope you have a
(01:25):
good Thanksgiving.
Sunny (01:27):
Yeah, that's right.
A great, not good, a greatThanksgiving.
It's kind of important, youknow, that you have a little bit
of quality time with everybody.
Bruce (01:40):
Yes, sir.
That is very true.
It is important this time ofyear, you know, to have a little
bit of time with your family,friends, uh, whoever you want to
spend that Thanksgiving with.
It's very important you getthat done, you have a good time.
That kind of brings some senseof uh center to you and
(02:02):
hopefully get a little bit ofjoy to you.
Now, speaking of that, there'sa a lot of people this year and
uh in the past that uh has nothad the opportunity to spend
much money on food and gettogether and all that, and they
are feeling kind of bad aboutthat.
(02:23):
So we want you to say yourprayers for these people and
these kinds of depression thatpeople face.
And not only that, but there'sa lot of people that have lost
loved ones and this time of yearreally hits hard.
So I want you to take an extraspecial moment to say a prayer
(02:45):
for those people that somehow,even in their depression and
their loss, whatever isaffecting them spiritually and
in their soul, that they willfind a little bit of hope, a
little bit of joy, a little bitof fun during this time, that
(03:06):
this holiday won't be aturnaway, but it will be a way
to draw them back into humanityand fun.
Sunny (03:16):
And fun?
What's that mean?
Bruce (03:19):
Well, you gotta have a little bit of fun.
I mean, if life is nothing butdread and down to the bone work
and growling and all that stuff,your heart's just gonna give
way.
And I don't mean, yeah, maybephysically, but uh it will
spiritually give away.
(03:40):
You have to have a little bitof joy.
When I say fun, I don't meangoing out and partying type of
fun.
I mean joy.
I mean getting a little bit ofsense of joy.
That's fun to me.
That's you know, when you watchsomebody laugh and you enjoy
that, that's the kind of fun I'mtalking about.
(04:01):
So don't get me wrong when Isay fun.
I'm not going to the extreme ofsaying, hey, go out and get
drunk, gamble, and throw awayyour life.
That's not the kind of fun thatI even talked about, okay?
Sunny (04:15):
Well, thanks for clarifying that.
Bruce (04:18):
Woo wee.
Sunny (04:20):
Big difference.
Bruce (04:22):
Yep, and I don't want to end up uh talking about that all
next episode or this episode.
Sunny (04:31):
Well, I agree.
And by the way, before we goany farther, I'm Sunny.
If you've never heard usbefore, you've accidentally or
on purpose tuned in to thisepisode.
Hello, I'm Sunny.
Bruce (04:48):
Okay, Sunny.
I'm Bruce, by the way.
And uh we uh put this podcasttogether and the episode
together.
So if you hear Sunny, you hearBruce.
And if you hear Bruce, you hearSunny most all the time.
And we welcome you aboard ifthis is your first trial.
(05:08):
And uh if you've come herebefore, what's wrong with you?
Sunny (05:13):
Hey, don't run our listeners away.
Bruce (05:17):
Oh, I'm not.
I just I like to tease.
And they know uh they know thatif they've listened to us
before.
But thank you for coming back.
Thank you for coming the firsttime.
We hope you enjoy it, and onceagain, we hope you have a great
Thanksgiving.
There's more holidays to come.
(05:37):
We'll talk about those whenthey get here.
But we want you to enjoy thisThanksgiving this week.
Many of you have taken somevacation time, which is pretty
normal during this time.
And I think that's great.
And I hope you get to enjoy thewhole time, get to enjoy your
family.
(05:58):
A lot of people are traveling,so I pray that you will have
safe passage, not run across anyproblems, any trials.
I hope it's blessed.
May the Father's love andblessings go with you always.
That's my hope and prayer.
So today, if you're facing anydepression or trials or loss
(06:24):
during this time, I hope thenpray that you can find it in
yourself to pull yourself up,look around, and go, okay, it's
not that bad.
I gotta hang on here.
And uh if you need any extraword, email me.
You can email me, and I don'tnormally give this out, but I've
(06:45):
been doing it a lot lately.
It's Bruce at the UglyQackingDuck.com.
That would be my personalemail.
My normal email to reach thepodcast is the uglyquacking duck
at gmail.com, and that's toreach the podcast.
But if you'd like to talkpersonally to me, send me at the
(07:08):
other one.
All right, there you go.
So I said, what are youthankful for at the beginning of
the uh podcast episode?
Just kind of a forethought,right?
Sunny (07:21):
Oh, is that what that was?
I thought you were just blowingsmoke.
Bruce (07:25):
No.
Thanksgiving's here, and thattime of year is when uh people
celebrate and give thanks forthe bountiful harvest that we've
had through the year.
Um, it was originally, uh,that's what it originally was
for.
There was different spiritualthings attached to that,
(07:48):
different religions, differentum beliefs.
Uh, it did not originate inthis country.
It came over with the pioneers,and uh, I believe the American
Indians, I don't know what ifyou call them natives or what,
(08:08):
but the first ones here actuallyhad some kind of observance
like that too, where theycelebrated the spirits that gave
them the bounty, and theycelebrated that towards harvest
season.
I mean, it's just a commonthing that we do, and uh we've
(08:29):
tore tore most of the beliefaway in this country, and we've
made it just a big feast, and wego to the house homes, people's
and friends and family's homes,and we just gorge ourselves,
watch some sports on TV, andthat's our Thanksgiving day.
(08:53):
And that is a skeleton of whatit really means and what it
began as.
What are you thankful for iswhat I started this with, and
I'd like to know.
Stop and think, if you'relistening to this, what are you
thankful for?
Me, myself, I'm thankful for mylife, uh, having the health to
(09:17):
be able to do this podcast.
I'm really thankful for thepodcast and the chance to share
our lives on this kind offormat.
Uh, it kind of reminds me ofthe radio, and I love radio and
what it used to stand for, notso much anymore, you know.
(09:38):
But anyway, we won't get intothat today.
But I'm thankful for that.
I'm thankful, thankful for myfamily, my friends, and uh the
small house that I have, thestudio that I have.
I mean, I'm not really in needof anything.
I mean, there could be betterthings, there could be a lot
(10:01):
worse, believe me.
Sunny, I'm thankful for you.
Sunny (10:06):
Oh, ain't you sweet, Bruce?
Thank you.
And can I say what I'm thankfulfor?
Bruce (10:13):
Well, yeah.
Sunny (10:14):
Okay, I'm thankful for being here.
For being in this existence atthis time, and being able to be
part of this life.
With whoever I'm with, whoeverI meet, it's part of that, and
I'm glad of it.
Bruce (10:35):
Well, that was wow.
That was kind of that was wellspoken.
I'm not sure if I could addanything else to that, but that
is beautiful.
I mean, whatever we run into ispart of this existence, and we
are, or should be, thankful forit because even in the difficult
times, it brings growth andblessing.
(11:00):
We just have to look for itsometimes.
Answer the question.
You can answer it to yourfriends, family, to your pets,
and to your beloved, or just toyourself internally, but uh
answer yourself what you'rethankful for.
And I have to say one morething.
I'm thankful for the ability togive the creator the one that
(11:27):
started the whole thing andplanned it out even to the
minute detail, and will notfinish the plan until it settles
right.
I'm thankful for that.
You can call him very manynames, very many things, look to
(11:47):
him in different ways, pray tohim in different ways, but I am
very thankful for him and whathe's done and the ability to do
this, and we turn Thanksgivinginto a Christian um holiday many
times.
And yes, it is, but it'soriginally to give thanks for
(12:16):
what we've been given throughthe years, not however you do
that.
And I do believe we ought togive the Creator that blessing,
that thanks, and his son and hisspirit that has enveloped us
and gave us life.
That we should be thankful for,and I am.
Sunny (12:38):
Woo we, we're going to church now.
Bruce (12:44):
Okay, I guess we are, but uh no.
This is one of those holidayswhere you give thanks for the
things around you and the thingsyou've gotten.
And I know a lot of people doesnot have a lot to be thankful
for.
And I'm not one of those goingto pressure in to pressure you
into finding something to bethankful for.
(13:08):
No, I just want you to hang onand try to live and enjoy this
holiday.
And if you're having troublewith it, don't give up.
Just hang in there, okay?
Just believe my words.
Believe my words.
It will be different tomorrow.
(13:32):
So just hang in there, okay?
And try to enjoy what you gotif you can.
If you can't, just try to hangin there, okay?
There you go.
That's that's all we got to sayabout that, right?
Sunny (13:46):
That's right.
And that was a lot.
Bruce (13:50):
Yeah, it was.
It was more than I wasanticipating talking about, but
hey, anyhow, let's go back toThanksgiving history.
Want to?
Sunny (13:59):
Oh, sure.
Yeah, are you gonna be ahistory major now?
Bruce (14:03):
Negatory.
I just want to read out ofWikipedia of all places.
You know, that they can addthings to it and change it, and
it's yeah.
Anyhow, Wikipedia talks aboutThanksgiving and it says that
it's a national holiday, and itis, celebrated in various dates
(14:27):
or on various dates in Octoberand November in the United
States, in Canada, in St.
Lucia, Liberia, and uhunofficially in countries like
Germany.
Sunny (14:43):
Oh boy, I didn't know it was so rampant.
Bruce (14:46):
Rampant.
That's not the right word touse for that.
Sunny (14:50):
Oh, yeah, it is.
Bruce (14:52):
Okay.
All right, Sunny.
But anyway, it also is observedin some Australia territory of
Norfolk Island.
And I don't know if I said allthat right, but anyway, it's
celebrated very, very manyvarious places, and they all
(15:12):
celebrate in different ways.
Like I said before, prayer andthanks and special Thanksgiving
ceremonies are common among mostreligions after harvests and
other times of the year.
So once again, they're sayingwhat I said earlier that it is a
(15:33):
time of Thanksgiving.
It's after harvest, it's likein the fall of the year when the
crops are being pulled out andwe get our bounti, and you say,
Well, what if it's not abountiful crop?
Are you going to give thanks?
Yes.
They always gave thanks even ifit wasn't bountiful.
It was about the amount yougiven, not if it was enough, if
(15:59):
that makes sense.
And it's always enough.
I mean, we survived, did wenot, for generations and
generations and generations andgenerations.
So it must have been enough.
Maybe just enough, but it wasenough.
Sunny (16:14):
So what if harvest season comes way before Thanksgiving?
Bruce (16:22):
That's a good question.
And it does in a lot of statesand a lot of countries comes at
different times, but we kinda inthe United States have elected
to do it close to the same timesevery year all throughout the
states.
And a lot of countries are thesame way.
(16:43):
They have celebrated that timeof year at a certain time,
pretty well every generation.
Now it's not always the sametimes as us, but it's pretty
close the same thing.
And you know, it's just been aphenomenon.
Ooh, that's a big word.
(17:04):
During the harvest festival todo this kind of celebration.
Now again, uh there's a lot ofdifferent ways of celebrating.
There's Thanksgiving feasts andweek-long celebration some
places, and there's feasts and ffasting.
(17:26):
I mean, there's different ways,but center point to all of it
is we give thanks for theharvest for the year.
And we uh celebrate that by agood big meal and trying to get
together with everybody that wecan to celebrate.
(17:47):
So there you go.
Now, if you want to give thisfeast and bountiful harvest uh
rewarding honor to um uh someother god or some other entity
or some other spirit that that'sup to you.
(18:07):
I mean, I'm not gonna tell youwhat's right or wrong.
I'm not the judge.
Somebody else will do that oneday, and I'm not gonna be in
that in that honor or dishonor.
I'm going to be one that isbeing judged just like you are.
(18:28):
So let's remember that, okay?
Celebrate it, give everybodythe thanks and the honor and
love them, feast with them.
That's what we're here for,okay?
Sunny (18:41):
All right.
I think that's got it all saidand done.
You could probably go over itand beat that horse to death,
but let's don't.
Bruce (18:54):
Okay, we won't.
Sunny (19:00):
Oh, Bruce, Bruce, I want to talk about something.
Bruce (19:04):
All right, Sunny.
You want to talk aboutsomething?
What do you want to bring up?
Sunny (19:09):
Well, I read a news article and I want to Wait,
wait, a news article?
Yeah, yeah, I really did.
Bruce (19:18):
Where was you at to get this news article?
Sunny (19:21):
On your new computer.
Bruce (19:23):
I don't have a new computer.
Sunny (19:26):
Well, you know, that old computer that you rebuilt and
made new.
Bruce (19:33):
Oh, you was playing with that old computer.
Sunny (19:37):
Yeah, it was fun.
Bruce (19:40):
I'm glad you didn't tear it up.
Sunny (19:42):
Oh, I know what I'm doing.
Bruce (19:45):
Oh, famous last words.
But anyhow, so you was on therebrowsing the internet, right?
Sunny (19:52):
Yeah.
I was having fun.
Bruce (19:56):
Oh man, I thought you was above that.
Sunny (19:59):
What, having fun?
Bruce (20:01):
No, browsing the internet.
Sunny (20:03):
Oh, I just looking for some neat stuff to talk about
like you do.
Bruce (20:09):
Okay.
That makes a lot more sense.
I just don't want you to gethooked and start streaming and
listening and watching hours ata time.
Sunny (20:22):
Oh, you have nothing to worry about there.
Yeah.
After I got done with thatnews, I just went click and gone
I went somewhere else to dosomething else.
Bruce (20:35):
Okay.
Well, that's a good thing.
So, Sunny, tell us what you'retalking about.
Sunny (20:42):
All right.
Yeah, okay.
You're always talking about howthe NAI is doing and what
they're doing and how they'redoing and blah blah blah blah.
Bruce (20:56):
All right.
You made your point.
What do you got to say?
Sunny (21:01):
Did you know you talked about the AI movie star that
wasn't really yet a movie star,but the AI actress, well, now
there's an AI country artist.
That's right.
Country artist, country singer,you know.
Bruce (21:21):
Yeah, we all know what a country artist is.
Uh it's not a artist from thecountry.
It's an artist that has countrymusic at its soul, right?
Sunny (21:35):
Well, now you put it that way, yeah.
I just thought it was the genreof country.
Bruce (21:42):
Well, that too.
So how did you run across thisinformation?
Sunny (21:49):
Well, y I didn't really read about it first.
I actually ran across the songon Twitter, and I went, wow,
that almost sounds good.
It's got Bruce's singing beatall to pieces.
Bruce (22:08):
Now you didn't have to go there.
I mean, really, you didn't haveto go there.
Sunny (22:14):
Well, I'm telling the truth.
Your singing lacks everything.
Bruce (22:21):
Oh no, you didn't.
Sunny (22:24):
Oh, I did.
Bruce (22:27):
All right, so you've just really threw me under the
bridge and told everybody howbad I sing.
Even in the shower, I scare thecats.
Sunny (22:37):
Oh, you scare more than that.
But anyhow, I was listening tothis Twitter account, and it had
this AI country singer, which Ididn't know was AI at first.
And after I listened to it, Icould tell.
Bruce (22:56):
Oh, well, hang on.
Let's stop.
I'm gonna go listen to it so Iknow what you're talking about.
And we'll be back, folks.
So just snap your finger andwe'll be back that quick because
you won't even know we went.
All right, you're talking aboutbreaking rust, correct?
Sunny (23:17):
That's right.
Breaking rust, AI generatedcountry music artist.
Bruce (23:24):
Okay, yep, I just found it and very interesting.
I listened to it and not bad, Ihave to agree.
Sunny (23:33):
See?
I was telling you, you thoughtI was telling a fib, but nope,
not bad.
Bruce (23:40):
Yep, not bad, but not that great either.
I mean, it doesn't haveanything that stands out.
It sounds like country, and itis, you know, that genre.
Uh it has a good rhythm, uhbeat, and some good music,
rhymes, words, you know.
(24:01):
However, um, that's about it.
Sunny (24:06):
Oh, you're gonna put it down now.
Bruce (24:09):
No, I'm not gonna put it down, but I am gonna say that
everybody needs to go listen toit.
It's Breaking Rust, is thecountry music artist, and that
was created this year.
And the songwriter that did itwas Aubrey Rivaldo Taylor
Rivaldo.
(24:29):
Forgive me for tearing thatname up.
I'm not very good at differentnames.
The song he's talking about isWalk My Walk, correct, Sunny?
Sunny (24:39):
Yeah, that's the one.
Bruce (24:41):
All right.
He's got other ones like Livingon Borrowed Time and uh some
different ones, but walk by walktop the Billboard Country
Digital Song Sales.
Yeah.
Number one on the BillboardCountry Digital Song Sales.
(25:02):
What is this world coming towhen we got AI winning that kind
of stuff?
But anyhow, um on Instagram, itwas Instagram, not TikTok.
Sunny (25:14):
Oh, well maybe it was.
I don't know.
I didn't pay attention to that.
Bruce (25:20):
Now you sound a lot more like me than I would care to
ever imagine.
Oh poo.
All right, anyway, supposedlythey've got uh that person, that
AI, I don't know how you sayit, has thirty-five thousand
followers.
I wonder how many of them areAI and made up.
(25:43):
Oh, no.
Sunny (25:46):
I never thought about that.
Bruce (25:48):
Yeah.
If they can make a artist upusing AI, why can't they make
the followers up too?
And yeah.
So this may all be a bunch ofmade up baloney to get people
like us stirred up.
What do you think about that,Sunny?
Sunny (26:07):
I don't like that.
That's manipulation.
Bruce (26:11):
Uh-huh.
Yep.
Yeah, it is.
Okay, so go out and listen tothe song.
Just look it up, walk by walk.
No, walk my walk, and it's bybreaking rust.
And you can listen to it andsee what you think about it.
Comment to us.
Yeah, tell us what you think ofthis AI going out to be
(26:35):
actresses and going to besongwriters and singers.
We want your opinion.
There you go.
Challenge of this episode is toget back with Bruce at the
uglyquacking duck.com.
No, let's just leave thepersonal one off.
Get back to us at theuglyquacking duck at gmail.com.
(26:57):
That's the ugly quacking duckat gmail.com.
Does that go good, Sunny?
Yeah, I like it.
Let's do that, Bruce.
All right, you guys get backwith us if we get any any
response, which we nobodyusually responds.
They just download us andlisten to us and probably go,
them bunch of dummies.
(27:17):
But if you will respond, we'lladd up the responses and see
what the opinions are of AI.
So tell us what you think ofthe AI and tell us what you
think specifically of Walk MyWalk song.
If you want to give an opinionwhere you think all this is
(27:39):
going, it would be veryinteresting.
We'll even read your notes offunless you specifically said,
don't, Bruce, don't.
Sunny (27:52):
Oh my gosh, really?
I want to do it.
Sunny don't.
Bruce (28:00):
Okay.
Uh I don't even know what tothink.
Can I add anything to that?
Sunny (28:08):
Of course you can, but don't.
Bruce (28:11):
All right.
Fair enough.
Anyway, uh, we will read it offto you.
Had to clear my throat there.
We'll read it off after on thenext episode if you give us
anything to read.
Come on, guys.
We're begging you to be part ofthis podcast.
(28:34):
I mean, you're listening to it.
Why not participate?
That's, you know, that's all weask.
Well, maybe not all.
Yeah, we're needy.
Susan at work always says,You're being needy this day.
And I say, Yeah, probably so.
But anyhow, yeah, let's dothat.
(28:54):
So here's what I think aboutthe song.
It sounds good, like I said,has a good beat, good rhythm
going to it, kind of got theblues kind of sound to the
country.
Uh instrumentals are prettydecent.
What I noticed is there's nopause for breathing, and that
(29:19):
really bothers me.
I like the human effect.
I like to listen to people on apodcast and hear their voice
when they take a breath.
Maybe when they slop somesaliva around, because I know
those things, because I do it.
And when I hear a pause in thissong this walk my walk song,
(29:44):
it's just a pause.
They just pause in between thewords so they can take up
another phrase or to give you asemblance of humanity.
But there's no breath.
There's no pause taking abreath.
There's no sigh.
There's no in-between.
(30:06):
It's just non-stop song audiowith a pause of the audio.
But no, if you listen to it andlisten for that, you'll hear
what I'm saying.
And that really bugged me.
I mean, once I noticed that, itwas like I couldn't get it out
of my head.
I couldn't unnotice it.
(30:28):
As a Reese at work always says,you can't unnotice it once you
notice it.
And that's so true.
Sunny (30:37):
Oh.
Oh.
No.
You just ring that song for me.
Bruce (30:45):
Well, I didn't intend to reign it, but you know what?
I don't know what it is.
There's something going on inthe studio today.
I don't know if you've noticedall those cars going by.
Hopefully I can get most ofthat out.
But man, we are really hearinga weird echo in here today.
And I I didn't change anything.
(31:07):
I well, I've got the blinds up,but that's normal.
But there is a weird weirdnessabout the echoes.
The cars go by and they justecho in this room.
And I've not noticed it likethat before.
And I haven't added morefurniture or taken any away.
(31:29):
I've worked on my computers,but that hasn't changed
anything.
But every time a car goes by, Ijust hear this echo.
And I've not noticed it before,and I'm hearing it in the
headphones a lot.
And there went one again.
Now I'm not sure it's pickingit up, and I'm hoping if it is,
(31:51):
I can get it out in post becauseit's very loud in my
headphones.
Sunny (31:58):
Maybe it's your head echoing, you know, that space in
between your ears, and whenthem cars go by, it's
reverberating in your head.
Because there's nothing upthere but concrete.
Bruce (32:18):
No, I don't think so.
Sunny (32:20):
Oh yeah.
Whatever makes you sleep atnight, Bruce.
Bruce (32:26):
Okay, Sunny.
Okay.
Well, I like that story youbrought to our attention, and I
hope we get some responses.
Sunny (32:34):
Well, thank you, Bruce.
I enjoyed that.
I know why you do it now.
I may have to do that moreoften.
Bruce (32:41):
Well, I think you might.
I appreciate it.
Hey, Sunny.
Sunny (32:48):
Yeah, Bruce.
Bruce (32:49):
I want you to tell me something, okay?
Sunny (32:52):
All right.
I'll try if I can.
Bruce (32:55):
All right.
Can you tell me why teddy bearsare never hungry?
Sunny (33:00):
What?
Bruce (33:01):
Yeah.
Tell me why teddy bears neverare never hungry.
Sunny (33:05):
Because they're always uh I don't know.
They're eating honey.
Bruce (33:10):
Uh uh, no.
It's because they're alwaysstuffed.
Sunny (33:19):
Oh no.
Wow.
I don't know what you yeah, no.
Bruce (33:30):
You really thought I was being serious, wouldn't you?
Sunny (33:33):
Well, no, I knew it.
I was just going along withyou.
Bruce (33:37):
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh, sure.
Whatever makes you sleep atnight.
Sunny (33:42):
Oh, burn.
Bruce (33:46):
Yeah.
Sunny (33:47):
All right.
I I admit it, you got me.
Bruce (33:51):
Well, it's about time because you've done that two or
three times to me.
Sunny (33:55):
Hey, Bruce, hey, why don't you give the listeners a
quick rundown of what you'vebeen doing with all your
computers?
Bruce (34:05):
Oh, what a lead-in.
Yeah, I'd love to.
Um, I'll try not to bore themto death.
Sunny (34:10):
Well, don't worry, you've already done that, but just go
ahead, tell us.
It's kind of interesting.
Bruce (34:16):
Okay.
I um actually have uh threecomputers that have got out of
date.
One of them's a laptop, andit's uh had Windows 8 on it, and
it's just a a streaming laptop,is what they called it, I
believe.
It is has a small solid stateuh hard drive on it, so you
(34:40):
can't really put very much stuffon it, so I can't upgrade it to
the newest Windows.
And then I have a all-in-oneAcer desktop that used to run
really good, and then I let itset for a long time and the
battery died on it.
(35:00):
It's got Windows 8 on it, soyou can't run anything newer on
either one of those.
Now that one's got a 500 gighard drive, which is big enough
to put you know anotheroperating system on, but it's
not going to run anything else.
So I had a problem.
Do I junk them?
(35:21):
And I really can't afford toreplace them, or do I try to use
them for something else?
And then I also had a RaspberryPi 3 that I got when was it?
Like 2015, 16.
So it set for a long time, andI just got it back out.
(35:41):
What I did was I took the um HPlaptop that wouldn't run hardly
anything other than a streamingstripped-down OS.
I put um Linux Lite on it, andso far it's working really good.
Now, the trouble with thatlaptop, it would not find, or
(36:06):
Linux or any other operatingsystem I put on there would not
find the internal wireless card.
Just wouldn't do it, no matterwhat I did.
So I ordered one that was builtfor Linux machines, plugged it
into the USB, found itimmediately, and wham bam, I'm
(36:26):
on the internet with that LinuxLite operating system.
Works real good, it's reallyfast.
Now, before that, I had putLinux Mint on it.
That worked, but not real well.
It was a uh more of a resourcehog than I needed on that thing,
(36:48):
and it would bog it down.
But I put that Linux light onthere and it wow, I'm not
kidding you, it runs really,really good.
Now I don't know how much I'mgonna be able to do with that
machine because it don't havemany resources, not a very big
hard drive.
Now I can always plug one intoit and you know add memory, but
(37:12):
I don't know.
I may just use it for browsingand you know, maybe playing some
music, who knows?
And then on the Acer machine, Iuh actually took it.
I put a bunch of differentoperating systems on there.
I did Linux, didn't like it,did Linux Mint, and I really
(37:34):
like that, and I tried Start OS,which is another Linux-based
operating system, and I wantedthat one to work, but for some
reason I I reloaded it threedifferent times and it would not
run right.
It would one day it would run,and then the next time I'd come
(37:55):
in and try to start something,it wouldn't even get and find on
the so the store front, itwould not find any of the uh
anything.
And it just act like it wasn'tgetting on the internet, but it
was.
Because it start OS was aserver program, and uh I tried
(38:15):
and just wouldn't work, nomatter what I did.
And the reason I was wanting todo that is because I was
wanting to run my Albi Hub onit, which is what I use for
Bitcoin.
I tried Linux Mint, it workedgood, but I could not get that
program to run the hub, which itwas supposed to.
So it wasn't a I don't think itwas a program.
(38:37):
I think it was just I neededmore experience and learning
with Linux, and I didn't have itat the time.
Shoot, the last time I'd usedLinux was back when I was living
in Wayne City, which wasprobably about 20 years ago or
more, probably more.
And Linux had first come out umuh Red Hat, I think, and it
(39:00):
came in like five discs, and youput it on your computer and you
had to install everything.
And I worked through and got,you know, the moldem installed
and this installed and thatinstalled.
I hated it.
It was too much time, a lot ofwork.
I didn't mind that as much asthe time it took me to try to
(39:21):
learn all the commands, and thenwhen I had a problem, yeah, I
just I gave up on it because Ididn't have time to go back and
learn it.
I was working, you know.
Anyone have that problem?
Hobbies have to take them, youknow, a second.
Anyway, with that said, I umthen switched over to Umbral,
(39:42):
and it's another server program,and I put it on there, and
guess what?
It worked.
Yeah.
So I have a server programrunning by Albi Hub, and then on
the Raspberry Pi 3, I put aRaspberry OS on there, and it
works great.
Tried recording a little bit ofthis podcast episode on it, and
(40:09):
it just wasn't quite fastenough, so it had a lot of pops
and cracks.
So I may do that eventually.
Uh do another Raspberry Pi 5and put a podcast studio station
on that thing so I can goportable with it also.
But there you go, Sunny.
That's all my uh ranting on mycomputers.
Sunny (40:32):
Woo woo! You got a lot done.
Bruce (40:36):
Well, I don't know about that, but I I made some changes
here in the studio, and I've gota lot of playing and a lot more
learning to do on Linux, butthose systems I'm talking about
are more like Windows than theoriginal Linux was, and uh it
made it a lot easier to do allthat.
Sunny (40:57):
Well, I'm glad it kept you out of my hair for about a
week or two.
Bruce (41:04):
Yeah, probably did.
Probably did.
Sunny (41:07):
Well, I just wanted you to share it because I knew you
were excited and you had funwith it.
Bruce (41:14):
That's true, that's very true.
And as time goes on, I willprobably share a little bit more
about it.
And uh I may do another hobby.
I've been looking into meshtastic, which I'm not even gonna
go into that because we'regonna close down here in a
minute.
That's another uh part of my uhradio hobby I may get into.
(41:38):
You can look it up, meshtastic.
See what you think about it.
The only drawback to it, itlooks like it might be fun, but
it doesn't look like it willtravel because it's 915
megahertz here in the States.
So it doesn't look like it'sgonna travel very far.
So, you know, you may have tohave a lot of nodes.
(42:00):
It kind of reminds me of theold the old packet radio
stations, and we used them.
We humped from one node toanother node to another node.
That was cool, and that's kindof what this does.
Sunny (42:15):
Well, that sounds like fun too.
I hope you get that going.
Bruce (42:21):
Well, we we may.
Well one step at a time.
I'm gonna get a little bit moreLinux stuff done, and then
maybe do that podcast stationthing, and then we may look at
doing that later on this winter.
Who knows?
We'll talk more about itthough.
Let's um let's bid everybody agood farewell and a happy
Thanksgiving.
(42:41):
What do you think, Sunny?
Sunny (42:42):
Oh, that'd be good.
I hope I didn't get too boredby your antics.
Bruce (42:48):
My antics?
Oh, listen to you.
What about your antics?
Sunny (42:53):
I'm a nice guy.
Bruce (42:55):
You're not even a guy.
Sunny (42:57):
Well, for all general purposes, yeah, I am.
Bruce (43:02):
All right, whatever.
So, hey folks, thanks fortuning in, listening to our
episode.
I hope it is not your last.
I hope you come back.
And if you've been here before,sh man, thanks for keeping up
with us and staying with us,being part of us.
(43:23):
And if this is your first time,come back.
Thank you for being here.
Sunny (43:28):
Oh yeah, and keep coming back.
Bruce has made the effort topodcast and keep podcasting.
That's Buzz Sprout's words, soyou can keep coming back and
listening.
Bruce (43:42):
Oh, yeah, that is Buzz Sprouts mantra.
Start podcasting and keeppodcasting.
That's who we send our podcaststo to host them, to publish
them, and we really doappreciate them.
So for Thanksgiving, we'resaying happy Thanksgiving to
them and everybody else.
(44:03):
We really appreciate everybody.
Get in touch with us, allright?
Be part of a show.
Don't just listen, but be partof the show.
Sunny (44:13):
Yeah, let's do it to it, Bruce.
Bruce (44:17):
We gotta have Apella, Capella, I think the AI, do one
more thing for us before we saybye.
So here we go.
Capella (44:25):
There are many ways you can show your support for the
Uggy 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.
(44:48):
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 (45:02):
Whether you have heard this before Thanksgiving, after
Thanksgiving, duringThanksgiving, may you have a
great and blessed week.
Thank you for being part of theshow.
Sunny (45:15):
Yep, it's been a fun, fun episode.
I've enjoyed doing therecording and being part of this
show.
Bruce, have a goodThanksgiving, everybody.
Bruce (45:28):
Yes, have a good Thanksgiving, everybody.
And we will talk to you nexttime around.
So until next time, may theFather's blessings and love be
with you.
Sunny (45:39):
Yes.
Thank you.
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