May 5, 2025 • 68 mins
Welcome to Episode 107 of The Ugly Quacking Duck, where we proudly embrace our status as "the worst podcast in the known universe"—because once you're the worst, you can only get better!
This Star Wars Day special brings you Bruce and Sunny's unique perspective on everything from local weather patterns to global seismic activity. We kick off with our signature weather comparison between rainy Southern Illinois and sunny Phoenix, Arizona—a stark contrast that highlights how differently Mother Nature behaves across the continent. While we're dealing with 46°F temperatures and 94% humidity, Phoenix enjoys a comfortable 69°F with just 32% humidity. These weather segments connect us with listeners across different regions and provide a grounding element to our free-flowing conversation.
Our earthquake report reveals some concerning trends in global seismic activity. With 1,774 earthquakes recorded worldwide in the past week alone, including four measuring above 6.0 magnitude and a massive 7.4 quake near South America, we're seeing patterns that suggest when overall earthquake counts decrease, higher-magnitude events tend to increase. This observation could potentially lead to better prediction methods, though we're still far from that reality.
The News Corner segment dives into several fascinating stories you might have missed: scientists bringing back dire wolves through DNA manipulation, Sicily's ancient "white gold" tree sap being compared to biblical manna, Monty Python and the Holy Grail celebrating its 50th anniversary, and devastating sandstorms in Iraq that hospitalized thousands. These stories remind us that beyond our daily concerns, the world continues to surprise us with both scientific breakthroughs and ongoing challenges.
We close with a heartfelt reminder about the importance of community in these divisive times. As Bruce says, "Every one of us bleeds. We need to stick together and pull each other up together, not push one person down to get up."
Have you experienced any interesting weather phenomena in your area lately? Share your thoughts with us and remember—May the Fourth be with you, always!
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Bruce (00:07):
hello, hello, hello everyone, and we're glad you
made it with us.
This is the ugly quacking duck.
I am bruce and I am sunny andwe're glad to have everybody
listening to us today.
If you are catching us on thelive instagram, we're glad to
have everybody listening to ustoday.
If you are catching us on thelive Instagram, we're glad to
(00:28):
have you aboard.
I know it's a Sunday, so I'mgoing to keep it.
Hopefully, keep it within lessthan an hour.
That way, anybody's gettingready for church.
We don't want to put any bindson them.
We want them to be able to goand enjoy the service to the
Lord.
So, with that said, it is Maythe 4th.
(00:50):
Do you know what that means?
Sunny (00:54):
Hey, Bruce, your mic cut out.
Bruce (00:58):
I know, but I got it back , so we're good.
It's doing some flippy thingsagain, but it's May the 4th.
That means may the 4th be withyou.
It is Star Wars Day One day Ilike to just play, so I've got
the podcast going live onInstagram, kind of hoping
(01:19):
everybody we can enjoy that.
I think you're silly.
Sunny (01:24):
Bruce.
Bruce (01:25):
Well, glad to hear that At least I'm getting through to
you.
Sunny (01:29):
Oh, good grief, you are weird, yes.
Bruce (01:35):
So we got up and we worked last night.
We woke up early this morning.
We're trying to scramble aroundand get the live going and
we're hoping it'sramble around,get the live going and we're
hoping it's showing up out there.
Folks, um, I don't have lilyhere with me to uh check it on
her instagram account, so all Ican see is what I got going out.
(01:58):
Hang on, I'm going to hit theuh little speaker and see if I
can hear it.
Folks, um, I don't have Lilyhere with me to.
Alright, that's working.
Yay, a little bit of instantreplay there.
We are glad to have everybodyhere today.
Again, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast coming to
(02:19):
you from our Southern Illinoisstudio just outside of Mount
Vernon.
Yay, that's Mount Vernon.
Yay, that's Mount Vernon,illinois in case you didn't know
.
Sunny (02:31):
Oh yeah, they need to know that we're so big in Mount
Vernon.
Bruce (02:36):
Well, I try to keep it local.
That way people will know.
One day maybe I can get somemore local people involved, some
news from local stuff, and whoknows what happens after that.
There you go, that's wherewe're going, but anyway, it's
May the 4th, it's Star Wars Dayand my plans are to watch a
(02:59):
couple of the Star Wars moviestoday and goof off a little bit,
and the weather is definitelycooperating for that.
It's probably not cooperatingfor anything else today.
Uh, it's kind of cool outsideand it's kind of nasty and rainy
has been all week.
Every day this week it rained alittle bit may not been too
(03:22):
much, but it rained a little bitand most of the country's been
that way.
I know oklahoma, texas,louisiana, missouri, tennessee
and uh what?
Oh, I'm not even sure about theeast coast, but I know that
storm front headed that way andI was at work and I didn't get
(03:43):
to see what happened, but it'sbeen all over the united states.
So, with that said, we got upthis morning.
We was excited about going anddoing a live and using that live
for our eventually uh podcastthat we will put out on our
(04:03):
hosting page, buzzsprout.
Yay, buzzsprout.
It will probably come outMonday morning and if you are
familiar with our webpage, it istheuglyquackandduckcom.
If you went on there andsubscribed, you'll get an email
(04:25):
when this podcast comes up onthe uh live.
No, let me backtrack.
When we put it on our website,you'll get a live email saying
you can go listen to it ahead oftime.
Uh, because I'm running late.
This weekend it's Sundayinstead of Fridayiday didn't get
(04:48):
it done friday, so that meansit'll probably only be a little
bit early.
It'll come out on sunday on theweb page and monday on the
hosting page.
So there you go, I but anyway,I woke up this morning ready to
go, got out of bed and my nosewas stopped up as usual.
(05:09):
All this range bringing in thatstuff and my allergies are
really giving me fits.
So bear with me.
My voice may not be fine tolisten to, but I hope you enjoy
the show anyway.
Right?
So what are we doing today?
I have no idea.
I keep it that way oh man, youreally do.
Sunny (05:32):
Um, I see a bunch of notes on your tablet though.
Well, maybe you know yournotebook.
I've seen you jotting downstuff, so you can't lie to
everybody.
Bruce (05:44):
You did something yeah, yeah, well, I did something.
I wrote down the ugly quackingduck podcast.
There you go and you arelistening to the worst podcast
in the known universe.
That's going to be our taglinefrom there, from now on
everybody, once you're the worst, you can't get any worse.
(06:06):
Haha, you just got to getbetter, right.
So we are the worst podcast inthe known universe and we're
glad of it.
There you go, yay, okay, and Iam recording on my uh mixer this
time, so I haven't messed thatup, and we are going live on the
(06:31):
instagram.
So what we normally do on a live, to keep it short and sweet, is
we do a little bit of weatherand we compare it to where
anybody got an answer for that.
Anybody remember phoenix,arizona, out there?
Yep, we picked that one justbecause it's kind of desert.
(06:52):
It's usually kind of warm andvery dry.
Big comparison to southernillinois, because southern
illinois is usually rainy,almost all the time cloudy, and
when it does warm up we havesunshine.
What do we get?
(07:12):
Humidity.
It's hard to breathe there's somuch humidity.
So we usually go from winter toa week of nice, beautiful
weather, weather in the spring,and that's our springtime.
And then we get summer.
We don't usually have beautifulspring weather, and the fall
has been a lot like that too,although this last fall was kind
(07:35):
of nice.
We got a little bit morebeautiful weather and warm.
Anyhow, that's what's going onon this end of it.
Anyhow, that's what's going onon this end of it, and if you're
expecting a video of me andSonny on the live, that's not
what we do.
We do audio only.
(07:56):
But in order for you guys toenjoy the video portion of it,
we do a few pictures along theway and I shoot some cameras out
the window.
However, today today we have it.
(08:18):
I had to stop and cough.
We have it shot out the window,but the window is shut.
So the screen is in the way.
The screen is in the way, thewindow's in the way.
It's not a very beautiful sightat all.
It's yucky.
Let me switch over to it and Iwill show you what I'm talking
about here.
There we go.
(08:40):
It's coming up just a second.
There's a little bit of delay.
We we like that, but you cansee the screen's really messing
up.
Plus, I got the light on inhere so I can see what I'm doing
, and that really hurts thepicture, and I turned the light
off and I can't tell anydifference, so I'll turn it back
(09:02):
on.
Light off and I can't tell anydifference, so I'll turn it back
on.
But uh, that is the.
That is the most lousy pictureof the outside I think I've seen
in a long time.
It looks like a mosaicsomebody's painted onto some
kind of acrylic paint and, uh,it's even a smeared.
(09:22):
Look, but you're what you'reactually seeing focused in is
the screen.
Anyhow, that's what we do.
Let's switch it over to ourweather app and I'll see if I
can't figure out how to get thatback up here, up here, and
(09:52):
there we go.
We've got the weather appcoming up now and, um, what that
will do is give you anopportunity to see what we're
talking about.
So we're going to go into theweather here locally and uh
won't spend much time on itbecause everybody knows here
locally what it is.
But anybody listening to us inother areas or other countries
(10:15):
get a little bit of weather fromsouthern Illinois, the Midwest
of the United States.
It is 47 degrees right now,according to this thing, and I
usually check it with my localand I mean local local to see
what it shows, because it'salways a degree or so different
(10:39):
and I have to find my littletemperature app here.
But according to this weatherapp app, which is coming from
the weather channel, it is 47degrees, but here locally I have
46 degrees.
So I don't know where theirtemperature is coming from, but
we'll go by mine.
(11:00):
It's 46 here on the outskirtsof Mount Vernon, so yay, and the
humidity or rainfall is 100percent.
So there you go.
That's what it's saying, butit's really not.
I think they're forecastingtoday 48% rainfall by 9 o'clock,
(11:26):
so in about 40 minutes we'regoing to see 48%.
Sunny (11:31):
Woo-woo.
Bruce (11:34):
I think they're silly, definitely silly.
Anyhow, sonny, you got anythingto say?
Sunny (11:44):
Well, I do, it's about time, bruce.
You got anything to say.
Well, I do, it's about time,bruce.
You asked me Gosh.
Bruce (11:49):
Well, I didn't want you to talk too much.
Sunny (11:51):
Oh, I see how you are.
You're a slacker.
Bruce (11:56):
You're a bum Slacker, bum All right?
Sunny (12:01):
Well, we'll give you this for sure.
I wanted to say hello everybody.
I am Sonny and I'm glad to haveeverybody aboard.
Our podcast episode you didn'tsay Bruce, it's 107.
We are episode 107 today and ifyou're listening to this after
(12:26):
we recorded it, you're going tomiss us talking about May the
4th.
Bruce (12:34):
No, they're not.
They're going to hear therecording, they're just not
going to hear it on May the 4th.
Sunny (12:41):
Oh, hmm, yeah, you're right, forgive me, bruce, I'm so
sorry no, you're not, you'rejust giving me a hard time yeah,
for sure, but anyway, I want tothank everybody for being here
on the live and everybody that'slistening to us listening to us
(13:06):
later.
It's great to be able to bepart of this podcast.
I thank you, bruce, forinviting me on a long time ago
and I hope you're still enjoyingme being here.
That's all, bye now.
Bruce (13:26):
Don't tell people bye, because they'll think they need
to hang up now or shut it off orgo away.
We are not saying bye, ohyou're right, alright, hi
everybody.
Oh man, you need to calm down alittle bit.
Sunny (13:45):
Oh yeah, that need to calm down a little bit.
Oh yeah, that's like the catcalling me something else black.
You just call me to calm downbecause you're not calm.
Bruce (14:01):
Boy, you messed that all up so bad.
But okay, I kind of know whatyou're talking about and, anyhow
, 46 degrees according to mylocal temperature and it's
according to the weather appI've got it's 47 degrees.
Humidity is 94% and we aregetting wind at three miles an
(14:23):
hour.
Air quality is 29, which isgood, Good.
Sunny (14:34):
You know, bruce, I can do that, it's good.
Bruce (14:40):
You sound like a car trying to start hey.
Sunny (14:45):
That's not fair.
Bruce (14:52):
And I'm not sure what that means.
But good, all right, we're atair quality 29.
Things are looking pretty good,and what I like to do for our
weather section is just talk alittle bit about it, which we
did, and then compare it tophoenix arizona.
(15:13):
So right now in phoenix arizonait's 69 degrees, yeah, out
there in the desert and it'spartly cloudy, and they're
having a humidity of 32.
Oh boy, I wonder what it'd belike to try to breathe out there
where there's not a bunch ofhumidity hanging in your lungs.
(15:35):
Uh, the wind blowing six milesan hour and the air quality is
35, which kind of surprises me.
It's a little bit higher thanwe are.
It's still good, probablybecause it's a little bit more
dusty out there, because theydon't have much rain.
Okay, they're saying they gotan air quality alert coming up
(16:01):
until 9 pm their time Notcentral time, but their time and
we'll go back a little bit tothe Sunday, the fourth day of
May, and we'll read a little bitabout the weather here in the
(16:23):
Mount Vernon area Considerablecloudiness with occasional rain,
duh.
Yeah, been raining all morning,not real hard, but, yeah,
pavement's wet.
That's why I got the windowclosed because the rain has been
so lousy and we are having wet,they're having dry.
(16:49):
Anyway, sunrise was at 5.55 amtoday and sunset will be at 7.50
pm and moonrise comes at 12.20pm.
And moonrise comes at 12 20 pmand moon set will be at 2 13 am.
(17:10):
We have a uv index of zero,probably because it's cloudy,
hard to get any sunshine throughall those clouds.
You think that's a intentional?
I'm not saying anything, justsaying all right, in phoenix,
(17:31):
arizona, today again is 78degrees.
What 78?
No, it wasn't on the other page, it was let's go back, that's
messed up.
69 degrees.
Wow, that's weird.
So we'll go by the front page.
I didn't notice that thatthing's.
Oh, that's what the high issupposed to be, I guess.
(17:54):
Yep, it shows me the high.
I misread it.
Duh, it's supposed to be partlycloudy, with afternoon showers
or thunderstorms.
Wow, in Phoenix, arizona, highof 78 degrees.
Winds, southwest at 10 miles to20 miles an hour, chance of
(18:17):
rain 40%.
Wow, interesting.
Sunrise in Phoenix was at 536am Excuse me, I had to cough and
sunset will be at 7 13 pm.
Anybody out in phoenix, arizona, let us know?
(18:39):
All right, and moonrise will beat 12 07 pm and moonset will be
at 135 am and the onlydifference is because they are
farther west.
And there you have it, theweather from the Ugly Cracking
Duck Podcast Studio, and I hopeyou guys enjoyed that nonsense.
Sunny (19:08):
Oh boy nonsense, you are something else.
Bruce you know what, what Idon't know.
I just said you know what?
Bruce (19:21):
When you say you know what, that usually leads to
somebody answering you know,like you're getting ready to
tell me something.
So I go what?
And you go, blah, blah, blah,blah, tell me some fantastic
wild story.
Sunny (19:37):
I don't want to.
Bruce (19:42):
Okay, forgive us folks, it's early in the morning and
somebody's being weird.
Sunny (19:49):
Yeah, stop it, Bruce.
They don't need to hear yourweirdness.
Bruce (19:54):
Okay, okay, on with the show.
All right, that is the weatherreport, as we said, and we're
going to shoot what Over to what.
Sunny (20:08):
The earthquake report.
Bruce (20:11):
Yes, sir, we're going to shoot over to the Earthquake
Report and we're going to showeverybody what the earthquakes
are doing for the last sevendays.
So if you are catching this,I'm going to shift it to so you
(20:31):
get a little bit of video.
But I'm going to make sure yep,all right, it shows up.
I want to make sure it shows up.
What I'm doing is switchingover my video effects, trying to
(20:52):
make sure I switch over toInstagram.
I can see it, but I have toturn on one of my logos.
That way I don't do this reallywell.
Let me show you what it does.
I'll just show you what it does.
I'll wait for it to pop up.
So right now you're seeing theearthquake reporting system and
(21:17):
now it's shifted over where I'vegot the instagram up and it
just shows a double image of theinstagram thing.
So I'll switch back to the.
Yeah, there it goes.
So if you're watching oninstagram, you get to see why I
put that uh, why I put thatscene up with the uh logo,
(21:50):
because it will stop all thatfrom happening when I switch
over and look at instagram, makesure I got the picture right.
So there you go.
That's what I was doing.
If you're listening to me,you're going oh boy, what's he
even talking about?
But anyway, I don't like to dolive video of me and the room in
here.
(22:10):
I, when I used to do it ontwitch, I had a green screen set
up which I'll probably do againsometime and I would shoot the
green screen and I'd show meplaying the game in the game.
But, um, I don't know.
I'll work on that.
I've been thinking about goingback to youtube and doing the
(22:31):
audio only, like I'm doing now,with a few pictures, picture
slides and stuff, and if I dothat, we'll probably tell you
guys so you can switch over toYouTube.
That is the plan.
So right now we are on theearthquake screen.
(22:52):
I'm going to switch it back soyou guys can see what we're
talking about.
And the earthquakes has beenwild.
I'm telling you what now, rightnow, they have for the seven
days.
We do a seven day report andwhat that is.
We key it up and we go back andlook at the seven days,
(23:16):
previous seven days.
We get a full count of allmagnitudes and then we do a 2.5
count, that this is themagnitude earthquakes, this is
what they equal to in the 4.5and above and then we call out
anything above 6.0.
That's happened in the lastseven days and let you know it's
(23:40):
been very active for the pasttwo weeks and I'm going to jot
down this information.
Try to do it while I'm talking.
It's kind of hard, but I'mgoing to jot it down so I can
(24:02):
remember what I had on thescreen.
We went back last week.
We didn't want to do a podcast,we wanted to kind of give it a
break, do it every two weeksthere for a while.
We wanted to kind of give it abreak, do it every two weeks
there for a while.
We was doing it every week andit was just really wearing us
out.
So we're back to every twoweeks and we hopefully we'll be
(24:24):
able to do it that way.
But I may do a live weather andearthquake report quickly on
the off week.
So, like this week, I'm doing afull podcast episode.
Next week I may just do thelive, only not publish it on my
(24:45):
podcast hosting page and thenjust to give you an update of
what's going on in ourearthquake and the weather.
I think they all correlate towhat's going on in this weird
life we have.
But I went back on 4-27, whichwas a week from today, I believe
, and we did our report.
(25:07):
So I'm going to tell you thelast time what it was, you the
last, last time what it was.
So if I look at all theearthquakes for that last seven
day report, it was 1925earthquakes, so it was down a
little bit from 418, because 418was 2,281.
(25:32):
Excuse me, sorry about that,but what I've noticed not every
time, but what I've noticed mostof the time is the number of
earthquakes.
If they're more, all of themare more.
Then the larger ones are less,which is a good thing.
(25:54):
But if the full count, the allcount, is lower than the larger
magnitude earthquakes, the countis higher, not always, but most
of the the time, which is not agood thing.
(26:16):
So anyway, um, last time webacked it up seven days and it
was 274, which the time beforethere was 276.
(26:39):
So that week was different.
It went all the way up on allcounts and then the 4.5 and over
was 78.
And the week before that it was95.
So somehow it was totally theopposite than what I had been
(27:01):
seeing.
So my theory has not beenholding out real well, but I
wrote down the 6.0 earthquakesand they were anything above 6.0
earthquakes, and they wereanything above 6.0.
I write it down because usuallythere's nota lot on the list
and they're the ones that doesthe most damage and take lives.
(27:24):
If they're in a populated areawhen they hit, a lot of them are
out in the ocean or onnon-populated areas of the
countries, which is harder andharder to find, but they don't
hurt a lot of people.
But on 4-27, that prior week,that seven-day period, we had a
(27:48):
6.3 in Ecuador.
It happened on 425.
We had a 6.2 in turkey.
That was pretty rough, man,that went uh, it had a lot of
buildings destroyed and peoplelost lives.
I forgot to go back and look upthe, the full count, but it was
(28:10):
not good.
It happened on 4-23.
And then in the Philippines wealso had a 6.2, and it was on
the 22nd of April.
So there you go, that's what wehad.
And, like I said, the priorweek was on 418.
(28:34):
The numbers were higher, but itonly had two 6.0 or above
earthquakes and one of them wasa 6.6 and one of them was a 6.5,
which was what normally happenswhen I have higher counts.
So this week we have a total of1 million.
(29:00):
No, no, I'm just teasingeverybody.
Lord, I hope we don't have 1million of anything like that,
but our total count for the lastseven days was 1774.
Now, normally I make this aguessing game and I have people
guess and come in and tell mewhat's happening and what they
(29:25):
think.
And I'm not going to do thatthis time.
We don't have enough peopledoing it, so we're just going to
just read it to you and let youknow what's happening.
We figured that'd be betterinstead of making people guess
and stuff.
Plus, I don't have any in thelive right now.
(29:45):
I I set this up to go live justin case anybody was paying
attention, but I didn't expectanybody to come in there because
I just sent the message outprior, about 15 minutes prior.
So I don't give anybody enoughnotice.
Plus, I'm not normally doing iton a Sunday morning, so that
(30:07):
didn't give anybody anyopportunity to know where I was
at.
So there, I snuck one in on you, but we did that just because
we wanted to go ahead and golive, make sure we got the
practice and the opportunity andwe would be able to record it
live.
When we record live it's alittle bit different because I I
(30:33):
don't have to um, I don't havethe opportunity I should say it
that way to pause the recording,go do something different, come
back and turn it back on withthe live.
It's just full strength liveand I can't do anything about it
(30:54):
.
Sunny (30:56):
Yeah, you're telling people you mess up, you're just
there, you can't change it andyou don't normally edit after
you record the live, so you justpost the same old thing.
Bruce (31:13):
Pretty much.
There's been a couple times.
There's been a long pause in mylife, so I get rid of that, but
that's about all I do.
So anyway, to keep this short,we have several earthquakes.
Like I said, the full count was1773 for the last seven days
(31:38):
and we just looked it up thismorning, about two minutes ago.
So there you go.
So the 2.5 and over countmagnitude totals was 337.
337, that's uh let's see whatwas the last week 274.
(32:07):
So it looks like this one'sgoing to do what I normally see
it's going to be lower for theall count, but the other numbers
are going to go up.
So the 2.5 was 337 for the lastseven days and the 4.5 was are
(32:28):
you ready?
It was 138.
The 4.5, writing this down 138.
The 4.5, brightness down 138.
And last week it was 78.
So again, what I normally seeis happening this week we have a
lower all count, which meanswhen we have a higher all all
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count, the 2.5 and under hasmore, and then the other numbers
are lower.
That's what we usually see.
And then when the lower, whenthe all count for this last
seven days I hope you'refollowing me because I'm not
explaining it real well, but theall count is lower for the last
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seven days.
That means the 2.5 lower countsare lower, but the other counts
go up.
That's why the there's adifference.
It's really weird how thatworks, but that's why it works.
So our 2.5 was all the way upto 337 this week, but it's only
274 the last seven days.
(33:42):
No, the, which would have beentwo weeks ago.
And the 4.5 was 138, which backon 4, 4-27, I went back seven
days from there it was only 78.
So now we're going to look up.
I should have wrote this downearlier so I could read it to
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you very well.
I usually pre-write this downso when I get on my recording I
can just record everythingthat's happening as I have read
it off.
But now I'm going through andlooking them up.
But we have a 6.0 earthquakethat happened on 5 3 in
(34:27):
indonesia.
So that's the first one.
Indonesia gets hit quite a bit,a lot, a lot.
So we see the first 6.0 andabove.
(34:51):
Like I said, that's the onlyones I bring out for the 6.0 and
above, and that one happened on5-3.
And then we are going to scrollon down and look at these and
there's a 6.5 and there's a 6.5in Argentina.
(35:14):
6.5, now, that's a majorearthquake 6.5 in Argentina, and
that one happened on 5-2.
So, as I tell everybody, anytimewe see these earthquakes, we
need to keep in prayer thesepeople and these lands that are
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having these.
May the Father show mercy onthese people.
If you don't believe in prayer,don't believe in God, then send
your positive thoughts, becauseI do believe there's a lot of
power in thinking, talking,acting positive.
So, anyway, do that, do thatfor me, if nothing else.
(36:01):
And then we're going to go on.
We had that 6.5.
Oh man, okay, we got a 7.4 onthis stretch, and that one was
the 2025 Drake Passage.
(36:22):
Now, I haven't seen that onebefore, but if I'm looking at
the map right, it's on the verysouthern tip of South America.
That's a weird name for that,but the Drake Passage had a 7.4
(36:47):
earthquake and that happened on5-2.
On 5-2.
What we're seeing is theearthquake counts have been high
for a long time.
Consistently, they areincreasing quite a bit, and the
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number of big ones are gettingbigger or getting higher on the
count.
So that's why we do this.
We bring it out Now that DrakePassage that I was talking about
.
It has had many earthquakes inthat area, in that area.
(37:34):
I'm looking right now to see ifI can get a good count.
But yeah, wow, that's all.
Basically, at the end ofArgentina it looks like 7.4.
(37:55):
All right, there was a 6.8earthquake in the McGuire Island
region.
I'm not sure I'm pronouncingthat m-a-c-q-u-a-r-i-e mcquire
(38:18):
island 6.8.
What we are seeing is severalbig earthquakes which, again,
that's been the pattern thatI've noticed in the past.
We'll have a lower count of allthe earthquakes, but what that
(38:39):
means is the higher earthquakes,like the six and over increases
, which is not good.
It's just, it's weird how itdoes that.
It just it's weird how it doesthat.
Now, if I could figure out howto way to predict and there's
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been several people believe theyhave come up with a way to do
it, but as of yet I have notreally seen them be real
accurate but if we could come upwith a good way to predict that
there's going to be, you know,maybe not even where just that
there was going to happen, itwould be very interesting and
(39:24):
maybe helpful.
But I haven't done it yet.
Oh, I didn't count that.
That earthquake happened on 4-29.
So we're going back quite aways, almost to the end of our
seven days and I'm scrollingthrough right now and I'm just
(39:46):
looking for any more, and that'sthe end of our list.
So this seven-day count, we hadone, had one, two, three, four
earthquakes over six, and theweek, the on 4 27.
I went back seven days on thatdate.
We had three and on 418, whichhad a real high, all count, all
(40:15):
magnitudes, we only had two oversix.
Now, they were pretty good ones, but we only had two.
So the theory's kind of holdingtrue still.
Sunny (40:31):
You know, if you get that theory figured out, we get
famous, don't we?
Bruce (40:38):
no, we're not doing it to be famous.
Uh, if we could figuresomething out, maybe we could
help people well, good luck well, thanks, sonny.
I don't even know if you wasbeing a smart aleck or for you
was really wishing me good luck.
But you know, some don'tbelieve in good luck.
They believe in the power ofGod.
(40:59):
So there you go.
Sunny (41:01):
Well, you got me.
Bruce (41:02):
That's true.
All right.
Well, this is Sonny, and Idon't want to keep people on the
live and listen to me, so I'mgoing to tell you guys, see you
later.
I'll finish this podcast up andwe will get it posted on our
webpage so you can hear it.
And then, uh, I should say thisepisode, not the podcast.
(41:25):
We don't want to finish thatpodcast, we want to keep it
going, keep podcasting, as butBuzzsprout says.
But while I'm on my life, I wantto say hello to my fellow
people at uh, real king.
Um, thank you for uh putting upwith me and being part of my
life, and uh also that we wantto give a shout out to the
(41:49):
people at seven brew, which Iget to see, maybe too often.
Um and uh.
Well, we're going to saygoodbye for now for the live,
but I'm going to keep recordinguh for everybody else and we're
going to finish this episode out.
It'll probably come out onmonday, so if you're listening
(42:10):
to it on monday any timethereafter, I hope you got a
chance to watch some Star Warsthis weekend.
See you guys later.
All right, we are back folks.
I hope you enjoyed that livesection.
If you didn't, I'm sorry, butwe are recording this.
(42:42):
Uh, still, um, if you didn'thear our live, then you're not
seeing any difference in therecording, but the fact that we
said we're um, yeah, all right.
Sunny (42:52):
Well, let's go on.
We don't want to bore him toobad, bruce, or maybe we do.
Hey, maybe we ought to bore himsome more.
We are the worst podcast in theknown universe yep, you are
right.
Bruce (43:11):
Okay, let's bore them a little bit more.
Let's talk oh, excuse me, uhtalk a little bit about our news
corner.
That's what we uh pull out somenews from the internet and we
talk a little bit about it.
Nothing big, nothing major.
We try to pull everybody'sthought process away from all
the hobgoblin, that stuff that'sgoing on with the news and the
(43:36):
political scene and the uhswaying of people's opinion by
most of the news media.
That's not what we're hereabout.
We want to sway you a littlebit, but it's more about the
conspiracy.
End of it.
Sunny (43:52):
Okay, yeah you better state that right we are that's
not what I said it's what I saidyou are sure acting a little
bit strange today.
Bruce (44:14):
Did you get up too early?
Yep, all right, well, okay.
Sunny (44:27):
We'll call it too early Sonny.
Well, I am early up and I amSonny, so I guess that fits
Bruce.
What have you got there?
Is that your?
It is, it's your star warscoffee cap it is.
Bruce (44:42):
Yep, I had tea in it earlier and I went ahead and got
me a one cup of coffee to getthe caffeine.
I drink one cup a day maybe,yeah, most days one cup a day.
Maybe, yeah, most days one cup.
But they say the caffeineactually opens up your arteries
and I hope it does help me withthat.
(45:05):
But yeah, we're at the newscorner part of the episode.
That's where we talk about someof the news that I pulled up.
So the first one on the listRepeat that, if you could.
Nope, I don't think I can.
But we are going to talk nowabout the dire wolves.
(45:33):
Now, if anybody's been payingany attention to what's going on
in social media and the news,we have now three dire wolf cubs
and they went extinct.
Let me look this article up andI can just read it for you
yourself.
I think it's funny how that thearticle is brought to you by
(45:59):
the hollywood.
Get that hollywood post.
But it's the people that arethe hollywood reporter.
I'm sorry.
So take that as you will, if iteven means anything, but the
dire wolves was brought back toextinct from extension
(46:20):
extinction.
Oh, I can't talk.
Maybe I need more coffee.
It doesn't help that my nose isall stopped up today.
Usually, uh, you know, I haveto take allergy pills this time
of year and, uh, I took onebefore I went to bed and usually
(46:41):
when I wake up I'm better, but,boy, not this morning.
I think that rain has blownsomething in, or the storm, rain
, storm.
I should say, not the actualrain, but anyway.
But anyway, what we was talkingabout is dire wolves.
That was a type of wolf Game ofThrones.
That show actually brought themout or talked about them, but
(47:06):
they've been gone in extinctionsince prehistoric times, but
they have been brought back bydna.
They were extracted two fossilsand 20 edits of genetic code of
(47:28):
the gray wolf, and that's thespecies that was closest living
relative, according toresearchers.
So they have brought back thesegray wolves, they colored them
white, like the dire wolf, andthey are.
What did they do?
They got three males no, twomales and a female.
(47:49):
So there we go.
We're experimenting with animalsnow.
Have been for quite a while,though if you remember the sheep
uh, I can't remember thatsheep's name.
I should have looked it up, butthey've been doing this for
years, uh, messing with thisstuff.
(48:11):
But uh, if you, um, rememberwhat it says in the bible, if
anybody believes in that stuffanymore but it says that it will
be like unto the days of noah.
So you read into that whateveryou want, but in noah's day,
supposedly, they were doing thesame thing with animals and
(48:35):
humans messing with the DNA.
There you go.
That's the first article of theday.
The next article will be whatArticle, I don't know.
I've covered up my ability tolook.
(48:58):
There we go, got it back now.
Boy, I'm telling you I'mrunning a tight show today.
It's just all over the place.
Sunny (49:10):
Hey Bruce, maybe you got up too early.
Maybe you ought to go back tobed.
Bruce (49:14):
No, Maybe you ought to get this episode recorded, like
I wanted to do and you can helpme.
And then we're going to gowatch some Star Wars movies.
Sunny (49:28):
Okay, if you insist.
Gosh, you're making it so hardon me.
Bruce (49:37):
Boy, you're sounding a lot like me now.
Sunny (49:41):
You was a good teacher.
Bruce (49:46):
I know a lot of people will disagree with you, Sonny,
on that one.
Sunny (49:51):
Well, they can just disagree all they want, but I
have to live with you.
Bruce (49:57):
True, true that, okay, next news article we're going to
talk about the white gold.
Yeah, white gold, and this is apretty.
This article caught my eye.
It was.
Let me see if I can find thepage.
(50:20):
I'm having trouble getting mybrowser to do what it should do.
All right, it messed up.
Why did it mess up?
Something's not right here.
Try one more time trying topull up this article so I can
(50:45):
actually talk sensible about it.
But this white gold they'retalking about is they're
comparing it to the manna of thebible.
There we go, we got it upfinally.
It's from the bbc, uh, butthey're calling it the return of
sicily's ancient white gold andthey're comparing it to the
(51:08):
manna of the bible times.
Now, I'm not sure if it's thesame stuff or they're just
making it seem the same.
But the man, if you rememberthe story, is what, um, god sent
the Israelites when theywandered in the wilderness.
They would get up in themornings, collect the manna, and
(51:32):
they wouldn't say be able tosave it for that, just that one
day.
And they would have to do itall over, except for the day
before the sabbath or the holyday.
Um, that day it would lastlonger for some weird reason, uh
, but anyway, this uh manna iswhat they're calling it.
(51:55):
The white gold from Sicily issupposedly going to be a
superfood, but it comes fromtrees.
It's the liquid out of thetrees, the sap, basically Not
calling you a sap, but a sapcoming from the trees, and they
(52:19):
have used it in food forcenturies.
But in the past 80 days they'venot been able to do it.
And they say in the past 80days because of urbanization and
industrialization.
It led to it nearly vanishing.
So for the past 30 years, thisGerald Lardy made his mission to
(52:49):
put this biblical superfoodback on our tables.
And again they're referencingthe manna out of the Bible and
I'm still not positive.
That's the same stuff, or ifit's just a way of them getting
more um lines of news.
But they have a picture on hereof this manna coming out of the
(53:14):
tree and I will post this up onmy website and probably on the
episodes chapters.
If you have a 2.0 podcastplayer you'll be able to see it,
but it's a pretty interestingarticle.
It's found on BBC.
(53:35):
The title of the article is theReturn of Sicily's Ancient
White Gold.
So if you're interested inanything like that, go back and
check it out.
I find it pretty cool.
But the picture I've got has aman holding a piece of that
(53:55):
dripping sap in his hand andit's showing the tree it's
dripping from and everything.
It's pretty cool, but they makeit into food.
They put it in bread and stuff.
So check it out, man, it'spretty cool.
I wouldn't lie to you.
Sunny (54:19):
I wouldn't lie to you.
Bruce (54:23):
No, but you sure can wind a big tail Okay.
Sunny (54:27):
When have you known me to do that?
Bruce (54:31):
When have you not?
Okay, I'm not going to arguewith you because I'll lose.
Oh boy, would I ever On was thenext show?
No, on was the next news clipwe're going to talk about guess
what, guess what, or who, Ishould say, guess what movie
(54:53):
turned on April the 9th?
I should have done a podcast acouple weeks ago with it, but I
didn't.
On April the 9th, what movieturned 50 years old?
And this is a particular goodsubject for me, because my wife
(55:15):
and quite a few Americans likethis show.
Um, but it's not an Americanmovie, believe it or not.
This also I found on the BBC.
If you go to bbccom, you'llfind these show or hello, these
uh news articles.
Sunny (55:35):
All right, nobody suspended in.
Bruce (55:40):
What is that word?
I have no idea what you'retalking about, but nobody's
curious.
Is that what you're saying?
Sunny (55:50):
No, nobody's hanging on your words, waiting for your
answer.
Bruce (55:56):
Oh well, how do you know that?
Are you talking to everybody?
I just know.
All right, well, I don'tbelieve you, sonny, I think
you're just giving me a hardtime.
But anyway, the movie that justturned 50 on April the 9th was
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
(56:19):
Do you guys remember that?
Have you ever seen that?
It's really I'm going to haveto say it a kind of a stupid
movie, but the one it's an olddry comedy type movie by the
British and it turned 50, andthe one scene that I remember
(56:42):
and hearing the the phrase bringyour dead out, and it was just
kind of.
You just had to watch the movieand if you haven't go watch it,
I'm telling you will enjoy it.
Maybe, maybe not.
Anyhow, mighty Python and theHoly Grail turned 50 on April
(57:04):
the 9th.
What do you know about that?
Pretty cool, huh, okay.
Sunny (57:15):
So on with the show.
All right, bruce.
What's on the news next?
Bruce (57:22):
Well, I got one last news article I want to talk about
and then I'll let everybody inpeace go.
I hope they get to church anddo what they need to do today
and I hope somebody's watchedStar Wars today and we're going
to.
And while you're listening tothis, later on, I hope you have
(57:45):
a good week and a good day.
But anyway, this article is.
I found it in the Middle EastMonitor.
I found it in the Middle EastMonitor and I just happened to
lock onto it by accident, or Iwould not have caught this
article at all.
But because I'm always talkingabout the weather here in the
(58:07):
United States, specifically insouthern Illinois, the Midwest,
I like to bring this article upbecause they have a different
kind of storm.
They had a sandstorm in Iraqand this article says it
hospitalized over 3,700 peopleand we deal with tornadoes and
(58:35):
stuff, but we don't have to dealwith sandstorms and they have
them all the time.
They say no deaths werereported in the sandstorm, which
is a plus 1,747 people admittedto the hospital.
(58:59):
I'm sorry my nose stopped up andI can't hardly talk, but in
Baghdad since Monday.
So this article was on the 15thof April.
Yeah, 15th of April, and thatwas, let me see, I'll look back
(59:22):
for you guys so you can uh knowwhat I'm talking about.
15th of april was on tuesday,so the article was written on
tuesday and monday was the storm, apparently.
But I caught that, caught myeye.
I mean, I'm you know, you seesandstorms every now and then in
movies.
Uh, if you're up to people thatcomes from the middle east and
(59:47):
you talk to them a lot, you'veprobably been confronted with
the sandstorms, but most of ushere in the United States we
don't have to deal with that.
I mean, maybe somebody out inthe desert might see some and
they may know what that's allabout.
But in the middle of the UnitedStates all we have is rain and
(01:00:13):
floods and tornadoes and it'svery uncommon for us to even
think about, uh, any of that.
And I seen the article and Ithought wait a minute.
You know, this is important tothese people.
They are suffering just like wedo during bad storms, and this
(01:00:33):
needs to be talked about.
So, um, they're in the middleeast, they need your prayers,
they deal with this all the time.
Apparently it's, uh, this isone of the more bad storms that
they've had.
Let's see, the article says thehighest number of cases in the
past in baghdad was,014.
(01:00:56):
So this was what triple Wow.
Anyway, that's our articles.
I hope you guys remember thesepeople and pray for them or send
them positive thoughts.
This has been almost what twoweeks, three weeks, two weeks
(01:01:17):
ago, and uh, it doesn't meanthat you know, they don't don't
still need your help and prayerand positive thoughts.
But that is the news corner ofEpisode 107.
Sunny (01:01:36):
And you're still calling it News Corner Wow.
Bruce (01:01:41):
Yeah, you still haven't come up with a better name, have
you?
Sunny (01:01:44):
Well, no, but that's not my job.
Bruce (01:01:48):
Well, I'm going to call it News Corner until somebody
gives me a better title and Isay, oh yeah, I like that.
Still waiting?
Okay, all right.
Well, with that said, we'rejust going to talk a little bit
(01:02:12):
about our value for value.
That's what we do, believe itor not.
We don't hide behind a paywallor have you do anything like
that to hear our show.
We want our show out there free, but we do, from time to time,
(01:02:37):
ask you for your help, uh,contributions, or you know
wisdom, um, just telling usyou're out there listening,
anything like that will boostour morale.
We really can use prayer for us.
Our show, anything like thatwould help.
(01:02:59):
That's what value for value is.
If you hear the show and youget a laugh, you get a
conviction or anything, you needto show us that value that you
got out of it one way or theother.
We're not asking for everybodyto contribute money.
We're just asking for you toacknowledge we're here.
(01:03:22):
Contribute financially if youfeel led, or just help with
artwork or ideas, anything likethat, but pray for us for sure,
as anything like that, but prayfor us for sure.
That's what we try to keepeverybody entertained and not
(01:03:45):
thinking about the world becausethe world has got crazy.
I don't know about anybody elseIf they've been paying
attention to the news, most ofit leads you to hate one or two
different people and thinkthey're totally crazy and
they're out to corrupt the wholewide world.
(01:04:07):
And then maybe another couplenews article or news places does
the other thing and it's justlike they.
Everybody's trying to bid youbetween one or two different
peoples, trying to get you tohate each other and not notice
(01:04:29):
what's really going on.
And what's really going on isthe rich are getting richer and
the poor is getting poor andwe're being segregated.
But and I'm not talking aboutthe doctor who's trying to work
his um schooling off and he maydrive a fancy car, but he's no
(01:04:49):
way near rich.
He's a poor fool like the restof us, being used by the society
.
I would say no, I'm talkingabout the ultimate rich that
gets in their limo, gets droveto the airport and gets in their
(01:05:09):
private jet of 50 differentchoices and goes somewhere that
has no idea what their servantsand their drivers and their
pilots are going through becausethey're so much out of touch.
And I'm not going to say toomuch more.
I just want you to know that,through all that whirlwind of
(01:05:32):
garbage that we're having to putup with, I just like to stick
out and say, hey, try to relaxfor a minute, get all that out
of your mind and enjoy what wehave now, before we not have it
anymore, if that makes sense,and pray for each other, be nice
to each other, because everyone of us bleed.
(01:05:55):
Every one of us is goingthrough it.
We need to stick together andpull each other up together, not
push one person down to get up.
It didn't work that way, guysat all, but anyway.
That said, we believe in valuefor value.
So if you get anything out ofour episodes, let us know.
(01:06:18):
All right, so we're here.
We try to do it every otherweek and, uh, every now and then
we do every week.
But go totheuglyquackingduckcom.
Subscribe to our web page.
There you can find a little bitmore information.
We post every now and then youcan.
(01:06:39):
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because usually it's a day ortwo earlier, according to when
we get the episode recorded.
We try to do a live section onFridays when I'm off this week.
(01:07:01):
We didn't get that done.
That's why we recorded onSunday.
Anyhow, thank you for beinghere, for being part of the show
, for listening to all thismumble jumble.
I hope everybody has a greatweek.
Once they hear this, they havea better week.
Sunny (01:07:24):
Hopefully that it brings up some kind of joy for you yeah
, I hope y'all have a great day,a great week and a great month.
This is May and it's thebeginning of May, the first part
of the week.
Bruce (01:07:40):
Oh, you're right, I should have said that, yeah,
it's a new month.
Everybody, we ought to enjoy itas much as we can.
Now around here, it's going tostart getting warm and probably
humid.
After all, this rain goesthrough.
After all this rain goesthrough.
So, yeah, back to mowing thegrass and the summer-type
opportunities and jobs and deals.
Sunny (01:08:03):
Yeah, don't go so downer.
You need to go back to bed.
Bruce (01:08:09):
No, I'm going to go watch a movie.
Sunny (01:08:13):
All right, whatever, Bye everybody.
Bruce (01:08:16):
Wow, that was quick, All right, whatever.
Bye everybody.
Oh wow, that was quick, Allright, everybody 73,.
May the Father's blessings bewith you and we're going to bid
you farewell.
I hope everybody enjoyed it.
hello, hello, hello everyone, and we're glad you
made it with us.
This is the ugly quacking duck.
I am bruce and I am sunny andwe're glad to have everybody
listening to us today.
If you are catching us on thelive instagram, we're glad to
have everybody listening to ustoday.
If you are catching us on thelive Instagram, we're glad to
(00:28):
have you aboard.
I know it's a Sunday, so I'mgoing to keep it.
Hopefully, keep it within lessthan an hour.
That way, anybody's gettingready for church.
We don't want to put any bindson them.
We want them to be able to goand enjoy the service to the
Lord.
So, with that said, it is Maythe 4th.
(00:50):
Do you know what that means?
Sunny (00:54):
Hey, Bruce, your mic cut out.
Bruce (00:58):
I know, but I got it back , so we're good.
It's doing some flippy thingsagain, but it's May the 4th.
That means may the 4th be withyou.
It is Star Wars Day One day Ilike to just play, so I've got
the podcast going live onInstagram, kind of hoping
(01:19):
everybody we can enjoy that.
I think you're silly.
Sunny (01:24):
Bruce.
Bruce (01:25):
Well, glad to hear that At least I'm getting through to
you.
Sunny (01:29):
Oh, good grief, you are weird, yes.
Bruce (01:35):
So we got up and we worked last night.
We woke up early this morning.
We're trying to scramble aroundand get the live going and
we're hoping it'sramble around,get the live going and we're
hoping it's showing up out there.
Folks, um, I don't have lilyhere with me to uh check it on
her instagram account, so all Ican see is what I got going out.
(01:58):
Hang on, I'm going to hit theuh little speaker and see if I
can hear it.
Folks, um, I don't have Lilyhere with me to.
Alright, that's working.
Yay, a little bit of instantreplay there.
We are glad to have everybodyhere today.
Again, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast coming to
(02:19):
you from our Southern Illinoisstudio just outside of Mount
Vernon.
Yay, that's Mount Vernon.
Yay, that's Mount Vernon,illinois in case you didn't know
.
Sunny (02:31):
Oh yeah, they need to know that we're so big in Mount
Vernon.
Bruce (02:36):
Well, I try to keep it local.
That way people will know.
One day maybe I can get somemore local people involved, some
news from local stuff, and whoknows what happens after that.
There you go, that's wherewe're going, but anyway, it's
May the 4th, it's Star Wars Dayand my plans are to watch a
(02:59):
couple of the Star Wars moviestoday and goof off a little bit,
and the weather is definitelycooperating for that.
It's probably not cooperatingfor anything else today.
Uh, it's kind of cool outsideand it's kind of nasty and rainy
has been all week.
Every day this week it rained alittle bit may not been too
(03:22):
much, but it rained a little bitand most of the country's been
that way.
I know oklahoma, texas,louisiana, missouri, tennessee
and uh what?
Oh, I'm not even sure about theeast coast, but I know that
storm front headed that way andI was at work and I didn't get
(03:43):
to see what happened, but it'sbeen all over the united states.
So, with that said, we got upthis morning.
We was excited about going anddoing a live and using that live
for our eventually uh podcastthat we will put out on our
(04:03):
hosting page, buzzsprout.
Yay, buzzsprout.
It will probably come outMonday morning and if you are
familiar with our webpage, it istheuglyquackandduckcom.
If you went on there andsubscribed, you'll get an email
(04:25):
when this podcast comes up onthe uh live.
No, let me backtrack.
When we put it on our website,you'll get a live email saying
you can go listen to it ahead oftime.
Uh, because I'm running late.
This weekend it's Sundayinstead of Fridayiday didn't get
(04:48):
it done friday, so that meansit'll probably only be a little
bit early.
It'll come out on sunday on theweb page and monday on the
hosting page.
So there you go, I but anyway,I woke up this morning ready to
go, got out of bed and my nosewas stopped up as usual.
(05:09):
All this range bringing in thatstuff and my allergies are
really giving me fits.
So bear with me.
My voice may not be fine tolisten to, but I hope you enjoy
the show anyway.
Right?
So what are we doing today?
I have no idea.
I keep it that way oh man, youreally do.
Sunny (05:32):
Um, I see a bunch of notes on your tablet though.
Well, maybe you know yournotebook.
I've seen you jotting downstuff, so you can't lie to
everybody.
Bruce (05:44):
You did something yeah, yeah, well, I did something.
I wrote down the ugly quackingduck podcast.
There you go and you arelistening to the worst podcast
in the known universe.
That's going to be our taglinefrom there, from now on
everybody, once you're the worst, you can't get any worse.
(06:06):
Haha, you just got to getbetter, right.
So we are the worst podcast inthe known universe and we're
glad of it.
There you go, yay, okay, and Iam recording on my uh mixer this
time, so I haven't messed thatup, and we are going live on the
(06:31):
instagram.
So what we normally do on a live, to keep it short and sweet, is
we do a little bit of weatherand we compare it to where
anybody got an answer for that.
Anybody remember phoenix,arizona, out there?
Yep, we picked that one justbecause it's kind of desert.
(06:52):
It's usually kind of warm andvery dry.
Big comparison to southernillinois, because southern
illinois is usually rainy,almost all the time cloudy, and
when it does warm up we havesunshine.
What do we get?
(07:12):
Humidity.
It's hard to breathe there's somuch humidity.
So we usually go from winter toa week of nice, beautiful
weather, weather in the spring,and that's our springtime.
And then we get summer.
We don't usually have beautifulspring weather, and the fall
has been a lot like that too,although this last fall was kind
(07:35):
of nice.
We got a little bit morebeautiful weather and warm.
Anyhow, that's what's going onon this end of it.
Anyhow, that's what's going onon this end of it, and if you're
expecting a video of me andSonny on the live, that's not
what we do.
We do audio only.
(07:56):
But in order for you guys toenjoy the video portion of it,
we do a few pictures along theway and I shoot some cameras out
the window.
However, today today we have it.
(08:18):
I had to stop and cough.
We have it shot out the window,but the window is shut.
So the screen is in the way.
The screen is in the way, thewindow's in the way.
It's not a very beautiful sightat all.
It's yucky.
Let me switch over to it and Iwill show you what I'm talking
about here.
There we go.
(08:40):
It's coming up just a second.
There's a little bit of delay.
We we like that, but you cansee the screen's really messing
up.
Plus, I got the light on inhere so I can see what I'm doing
, and that really hurts thepicture, and I turned the light
off and I can't tell anydifference, so I'll turn it back
(09:02):
on.
Light off and I can't tell anydifference, so I'll turn it back
on.
But uh, that is the.
That is the most lousy pictureof the outside I think I've seen
in a long time.
It looks like a mosaicsomebody's painted onto some
kind of acrylic paint and, uh,it's even a smeared.
(09:22):
Look, but you're what you'reactually seeing focused in is
the screen.
Anyhow, that's what we do.
Let's switch it over to ourweather app and I'll see if I
can't figure out how to get thatback up here, up here, and
(09:52):
there we go.
We've got the weather appcoming up now and, um, what that
will do is give you anopportunity to see what we're
talking about.
So we're going to go into theweather here locally and uh
won't spend much time on itbecause everybody knows here
locally what it is.
But anybody listening to us inother areas or other countries
(10:15):
get a little bit of weather fromsouthern Illinois, the Midwest
of the United States.
It is 47 degrees right now,according to this thing, and I
usually check it with my localand I mean local local to see
what it shows, because it'salways a degree or so different
(10:39):
and I have to find my littletemperature app here.
But according to this weatherapp app, which is coming from
the weather channel, it is 47degrees, but here locally I have
46 degrees.
So I don't know where theirtemperature is coming from, but
we'll go by mine.
(11:00):
It's 46 here on the outskirtsof Mount Vernon, so yay, and the
humidity or rainfall is 100percent.
So there you go.
That's what it's saying, butit's really not.
I think they're forecastingtoday 48% rainfall by 9 o'clock,
(11:26):
so in about 40 minutes we'regoing to see 48%.
Sunny (11:31):
Woo-woo.
Bruce (11:34):
I think they're silly, definitely silly.
Anyhow, sonny, you got anythingto say?
Sunny (11:44):
Well, I do, it's about time, bruce.
You got anything to say.
Well, I do, it's about time,bruce.
You asked me Gosh.
Bruce (11:49):
Well, I didn't want you to talk too much.
Sunny (11:51):
Oh, I see how you are.
You're a slacker.
Bruce (11:56):
You're a bum Slacker, bum All right?
Sunny (12:01):
Well, we'll give you this for sure.
I wanted to say hello everybody.
I am Sonny and I'm glad to haveeverybody aboard.
Our podcast episode you didn'tsay Bruce, it's 107.
We are episode 107 today and ifyou're listening to this after
(12:26):
we recorded it, you're going tomiss us talking about May the
4th.
Bruce (12:34):
No, they're not.
They're going to hear therecording, they're just not
going to hear it on May the 4th.
Sunny (12:41):
Oh, hmm, yeah, you're right, forgive me, bruce, I'm so
sorry no, you're not, you'rejust giving me a hard time yeah,
for sure, but anyway, I want tothank everybody for being here
on the live and everybody that'slistening to us listening to us
(13:06):
later.
It's great to be able to bepart of this podcast.
I thank you, bruce, forinviting me on a long time ago
and I hope you're still enjoyingme being here.
That's all, bye now.
Bruce (13:26):
Don't tell people bye, because they'll think they need
to hang up now or shut it off orgo away.
We are not saying bye, ohyou're right, alright, hi
everybody.
Oh man, you need to calm down alittle bit.
Sunny (13:45):
Oh yeah, that need to calm down a little bit.
Oh yeah, that's like the catcalling me something else black.
You just call me to calm downbecause you're not calm.
Bruce (14:01):
Boy, you messed that all up so bad.
But okay, I kind of know whatyou're talking about and, anyhow
, 46 degrees according to mylocal temperature and it's
according to the weather appI've got it's 47 degrees.
Humidity is 94% and we aregetting wind at three miles an
(14:23):
hour.
Air quality is 29, which isgood, Good.
Sunny (14:34):
You know, bruce, I can do that, it's good.
Bruce (14:40):
You sound like a car trying to start hey.
Sunny (14:45):
That's not fair.
Bruce (14:52):
And I'm not sure what that means.
But good, all right, we're atair quality 29.
Things are looking pretty good,and what I like to do for our
weather section is just talk alittle bit about it, which we
did, and then compare it tophoenix arizona.
(15:13):
So right now in phoenix arizonait's 69 degrees, yeah, out
there in the desert and it'spartly cloudy, and they're
having a humidity of 32.
Oh boy, I wonder what it'd belike to try to breathe out there
where there's not a bunch ofhumidity hanging in your lungs.
(15:35):
Uh, the wind blowing six milesan hour and the air quality is
35, which kind of surprises me.
It's a little bit higher thanwe are.
It's still good, probablybecause it's a little bit more
dusty out there, because theydon't have much rain.
Okay, they're saying they gotan air quality alert coming up
(16:01):
until 9 pm their time Notcentral time, but their time and
we'll go back a little bit tothe Sunday, the fourth day of
May, and we'll read a little bitabout the weather here in the
(16:23):
Mount Vernon area Considerablecloudiness with occasional rain,
duh.
Yeah, been raining all morning,not real hard, but, yeah,
pavement's wet.
That's why I got the windowclosed because the rain has been
so lousy and we are having wet,they're having dry.
(16:49):
Anyway, sunrise was at 5.55 amtoday and sunset will be at 7.50
pm and moonrise comes at 12.20pm.
And moonrise comes at 12 20 pmand moon set will be at 2 13 am.
(17:10):
We have a uv index of zero,probably because it's cloudy,
hard to get any sunshine throughall those clouds.
You think that's a intentional?
I'm not saying anything, justsaying all right, in phoenix,
(17:31):
arizona, today again is 78degrees.
What 78?
No, it wasn't on the other page, it was let's go back, that's
messed up.
69 degrees.
Wow, that's weird.
So we'll go by the front page.
I didn't notice that thatthing's.
Oh, that's what the high issupposed to be, I guess.
(17:54):
Yep, it shows me the high.
I misread it.
Duh, it's supposed to be partlycloudy, with afternoon showers
or thunderstorms.
Wow, in Phoenix, arizona, highof 78 degrees.
Winds, southwest at 10 miles to20 miles an hour, chance of
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rain 40%.
Wow, interesting.
Sunrise in Phoenix was at 536am Excuse me, I had to cough and
sunset will be at 7 13 pm.
Anybody out in phoenix, arizona, let us know?
(18:39):
All right, and moonrise will beat 12 07 pm and moonset will be
at 135 am and the onlydifference is because they are
farther west.
And there you have it, theweather from the Ugly Cracking
Duck Podcast Studio, and I hopeyou guys enjoyed that nonsense.
Sunny (19:08):
Oh boy nonsense, you are something else.
Bruce you know what, what Idon't know.
I just said you know what?
Bruce (19:21):
When you say you know what, that usually leads to
somebody answering you know,like you're getting ready to
tell me something.
So I go what?
And you go, blah, blah, blah,blah, tell me some fantastic
wild story.
Sunny (19:37):
I don't want to.
Bruce (19:42):
Okay, forgive us folks, it's early in the morning and
somebody's being weird.
Sunny (19:49):
Yeah, stop it, Bruce.
They don't need to hear yourweirdness.
Bruce (19:54):
Okay, okay, on with the show.
All right, that is the weatherreport, as we said, and we're
going to shoot what Over to what.
Sunny (20:08):
The earthquake report.
Bruce (20:11):
Yes, sir, we're going to shoot over to the Earthquake
Report and we're going to showeverybody what the earthquakes
are doing for the last sevendays.
So if you are catching this,I'm going to shift it to so you
(20:31):
get a little bit of video.
But I'm going to make sure yep,all right, it shows up.
I want to make sure it shows up.
What I'm doing is switchingover my video effects, trying to
(20:52):
make sure I switch over toInstagram.
I can see it, but I have toturn on one of my logos.
That way I don't do this reallywell.
Let me show you what it does.
I'll just show you what it does.
I'll wait for it to pop up.
So right now you're seeing theearthquake reporting system and
(21:17):
now it's shifted over where I'vegot the instagram up and it
just shows a double image of theinstagram thing.
So I'll switch back to the.
Yeah, there it goes.
So if you're watching oninstagram, you get to see why I
put that uh, why I put thatscene up with the uh logo,
(21:50):
because it will stop all thatfrom happening when I switch
over and look at instagram, makesure I got the picture right.
So there you go.
That's what I was doing.
If you're listening to me,you're going oh boy, what's he
even talking about?
But anyway, I don't like to dolive video of me and the room in
here.
(22:10):
I, when I used to do it ontwitch, I had a green screen set
up which I'll probably do againsometime and I would shoot the
green screen and I'd show meplaying the game in the game.
But, um, I don't know.
I'll work on that.
I've been thinking about goingback to youtube and doing the
(22:31):
audio only, like I'm doing now,with a few pictures, picture
slides and stuff, and if I dothat, we'll probably tell you
guys so you can switch over toYouTube.
That is the plan.
So right now we are on theearthquake screen.
(22:52):
I'm going to switch it back soyou guys can see what we're
talking about.
And the earthquakes has beenwild.
I'm telling you what now, rightnow, they have for the seven
days.
We do a seven day report andwhat that is.
We key it up and we go back andlook at the seven days,
(23:16):
previous seven days.
We get a full count of allmagnitudes and then we do a 2.5
count, that this is themagnitude earthquakes, this is
what they equal to in the 4.5and above and then we call out
anything above 6.0.
That's happened in the lastseven days and let you know it's
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been very active for the pasttwo weeks and I'm going to jot
down this information.
Try to do it while I'm talking.
It's kind of hard, but I'mgoing to jot it down so I can
(24:02):
remember what I had on thescreen.
We went back last week.
We didn't want to do a podcast,we wanted to kind of give it a
break, do it every two weeksthere for a while.
We wanted to kind of give it abreak, do it every two weeks
there for a while.
We was doing it every week andit was just really wearing us
out.
So we're back to every twoweeks and we hopefully we'll be
(24:24):
able to do it that way.
But I may do a live weather andearthquake report quickly on
the off week.
So, like this week, I'm doing afull podcast episode.
Next week I may just do thelive, only not publish it on my
(24:45):
podcast hosting page and thenjust to give you an update of
what's going on in ourearthquake and the weather.
I think they all correlate towhat's going on in this weird
life we have.
But I went back on 4-27, whichwas a week from today, I believe
, and we did our report.
(25:07):
So I'm going to tell you thelast time what it was, you the
last, last time what it was.
So if I look at all theearthquakes for that last seven
day report, it was 1925earthquakes, so it was down a
little bit from 418, because 418was 2,281.
(25:32):
Excuse me, sorry about that,but what I've noticed not every
time, but what I've noticed mostof the time is the number of
earthquakes.
If they're more, all of themare more.
Then the larger ones are less,which is a good thing.
(25:54):
But if the full count, the allcount, is lower than the larger
magnitude earthquakes, the countis higher, not always, but most
of the the time, which is not agood thing.
(26:16):
So anyway, um, last time webacked it up seven days and it
was 274, which the time beforethere was 276.
(26:39):
So that week was different.
It went all the way up on allcounts and then the 4.5 and over
was 78.
And the week before that it was95.
So somehow it was totally theopposite than what I had been
(27:01):
seeing.
So my theory has not beenholding out real well, but I
wrote down the 6.0 earthquakesand they were anything above 6.0
earthquakes, and they wereanything above 6.0.
I write it down because usuallythere's nota lot on the list
and they're the ones that doesthe most damage and take lives.
(27:24):
If they're in a populated areawhen they hit, a lot of them are
out in the ocean or onnon-populated areas of the
countries, which is harder andharder to find, but they don't
hurt a lot of people.
But on 4-27, that prior week,that seven-day period, we had a
(27:48):
6.3 in Ecuador.
It happened on 425.
We had a 6.2 in turkey.
That was pretty rough, man,that went uh, it had a lot of
buildings destroyed and peoplelost lives.
I forgot to go back and look upthe, the full count, but it was
(28:10):
not good.
It happened on 4-23.
And then in the Philippines wealso had a 6.2, and it was on
the 22nd of April.
So there you go, that's what wehad.
And, like I said, the priorweek was on 418.
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The numbers were higher, but itonly had two 6.0 or above
earthquakes and one of them wasa 6.6 and one of them was a 6.5,
which was what normally happenswhen I have higher counts.
So this week we have a total of1 million.
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No, no, I'm just teasingeverybody.
Lord, I hope we don't have 1million of anything like that,
but our total count for the lastseven days was 1774.
Now, normally I make this aguessing game and I have people
guess and come in and tell mewhat's happening and what they
(29:25):
think.
And I'm not going to do thatthis time.
We don't have enough peopledoing it, so we're just going to
just read it to you and let youknow what's happening.
We figured that'd be betterinstead of making people guess
and stuff.
Plus, I don't have any in thelive right now.
(29:45):
I I set this up to go live justin case anybody was paying
attention, but I didn't expectanybody to come in there because
I just sent the message outprior, about 15 minutes prior.
So I don't give anybody enoughnotice.
Plus, I'm not normally doing iton a Sunday morning, so that
(30:07):
didn't give anybody anyopportunity to know where I was
at.
So there, I snuck one in on you, but we did that just because
we wanted to go ahead and golive, make sure we got the
practice and the opportunity andwe would be able to record it
live.
When we record live it's alittle bit different because I I
(30:33):
don't have to um, I don't havethe opportunity I should say it
that way to pause the recording,go do something different, come
back and turn it back on withthe live.
It's just full strength liveand I can't do anything about it
(30:54):
.
Sunny (30:56):
Yeah, you're telling people you mess up, you're just
there, you can't change it andyou don't normally edit after
you record the live, so you justpost the same old thing.
Bruce (31:13):
Pretty much.
There's been a couple times.
There's been a long pause in mylife, so I get rid of that, but
that's about all I do.
So anyway, to keep this short,we have several earthquakes.
Like I said, the full count was1773 for the last seven days
(31:38):
and we just looked it up thismorning, about two minutes ago.
So there you go.
So the 2.5 and over countmagnitude totals was 337.
337, that's uh let's see whatwas the last week 274.
(32:07):
So it looks like this one'sgoing to do what I normally see
it's going to be lower for theall count, but the other numbers
are going to go up.
So the 2.5 was 337 for the lastseven days and the 4.5 was are
(32:28):
you ready?
It was 138.
The 4.5, writing this down 138.
The 4.5, brightness down 138.
And last week it was 78.
So again, what I normally seeis happening this week we have a
lower all count, which meanswhen we have a higher all all
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count, the 2.5 and under hasmore, and then the other numbers
are lower.
That's what we usually see.
And then when the lower, whenthe all count for this last
seven days I hope you'refollowing me because I'm not
explaining it real well, but theall count is lower for the last
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seven days.
That means the 2.5 lower countsare lower, but the other counts
go up.
That's why the there's adifference.
It's really weird how thatworks, but that's why it works.
So our 2.5 was all the way upto 337 this week, but it's only
274 the last seven days.
(33:42):
No, the, which would have beentwo weeks ago.
And the 4.5 was 138, which backon 4, 4-27, I went back seven
days from there it was only 78.
So now we're going to look up.
I should have wrote this downearlier so I could read it to
(34:06):
you very well.
I usually pre-write this downso when I get on my recording I
can just record everythingthat's happening as I have read
it off.
But now I'm going through andlooking them up.
But we have a 6.0 earthquakethat happened on 5 3 in
(34:27):
indonesia.
So that's the first one.
Indonesia gets hit quite a bit,a lot, a lot.
So we see the first 6.0 andabove.
(34:51):
Like I said, that's the onlyones I bring out for the 6.0 and
above, and that one happened on5-3.
And then we are going to scrollon down and look at these and
there's a 6.5 and there's a 6.5in Argentina.
(35:14):
6.5, now, that's a majorearthquake 6.5 in Argentina, and
that one happened on 5-2.
So, as I tell everybody, anytimewe see these earthquakes, we
need to keep in prayer thesepeople and these lands that are
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having these.
May the Father show mercy onthese people.
If you don't believe in prayer,don't believe in God, then send
your positive thoughts, becauseI do believe there's a lot of
power in thinking, talking,acting positive.
So, anyway, do that, do thatfor me, if nothing else.
(36:01):
And then we're going to go on.
We had that 6.5.
Oh man, okay, we got a 7.4 onthis stretch, and that one was
the 2025 Drake Passage.
(36:22):
Now, I haven't seen that onebefore, but if I'm looking at
the map right, it's on the verysouthern tip of South America.
That's a weird name for that,but the Drake Passage had a 7.4
(36:47):
earthquake and that happened on5-2.
On 5-2.
What we're seeing is theearthquake counts have been high
for a long time.
Consistently, they areincreasing quite a bit, and the
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number of big ones are gettingbigger or getting higher on the
count.
So that's why we do this.
We bring it out Now that DrakePassage that I was talking about
.
It has had many earthquakes inthat area, in that area.
(37:34):
I'm looking right now to see ifI can get a good count.
But yeah, wow, that's all.
Basically, at the end ofArgentina it looks like 7.4.
(37:55):
All right, there was a 6.8earthquake in the McGuire Island
region.
I'm not sure I'm pronouncingthat m-a-c-q-u-a-r-i-e mcquire
(38:18):
island 6.8.
What we are seeing is severalbig earthquakes which, again,
that's been the pattern thatI've noticed in the past.
We'll have a lower count of allthe earthquakes, but what that
(38:39):
means is the higher earthquakes,like the six and over increases
, which is not good.
It's just, it's weird how itdoes that.
It just it's weird how it doesthat.
Now, if I could figure out howto way to predict and there's
(39:00):
been several people believe theyhave come up with a way to do
it, but as of yet I have notreally seen them be real
accurate but if we could come upwith a good way to predict that
there's going to be, you know,maybe not even where just that
there was going to happen, itwould be very interesting and
(39:24):
maybe helpful.
But I haven't done it yet.
Oh, I didn't count that.
That earthquake happened on 4-29.
So we're going back quite aways, almost to the end of our
seven days and I'm scrollingthrough right now and I'm just
(39:46):
looking for any more, and that'sthe end of our list.
So this seven-day count, we hadone, had one, two, three, four
earthquakes over six, and theweek, the on 4 27.
I went back seven days on thatdate.
We had three and on 418, whichhad a real high, all count, all
(40:15):
magnitudes, we only had two oversix.
Now, they were pretty good ones, but we only had two.
So the theory's kind of holdingtrue still.
Sunny (40:31):
You know, if you get that theory figured out, we get
famous, don't we?
Bruce (40:38):
no, we're not doing it to be famous.
Uh, if we could figuresomething out, maybe we could
help people well, good luck well, thanks, sonny.
I don't even know if you wasbeing a smart aleck or for you
was really wishing me good luck.
But you know, some don'tbelieve in good luck.
They believe in the power ofGod.
(40:59):
So there you go.
Sunny (41:01):
Well, you got me.
Bruce (41:02):
That's true.
All right.
Well, this is Sonny, and Idon't want to keep people on the
live and listen to me, so I'mgoing to tell you guys, see you
later.
I'll finish this podcast up andwe will get it posted on our
webpage so you can hear it.
And then, uh, I should say thisepisode, not the podcast.
(41:25):
We don't want to finish thatpodcast, we want to keep it
going, keep podcasting, as butBuzzsprout says.
But while I'm on my life, I wantto say hello to my fellow
people at uh, real king.
Um, thank you for uh putting upwith me and being part of my
life, and uh also that we wantto give a shout out to the
(41:49):
people at seven brew, which Iget to see, maybe too often.
Um and uh.
Well, we're going to saygoodbye for now for the live,
but I'm going to keep recordinguh for everybody else and we're
going to finish this episode out.
It'll probably come out onmonday, so if you're listening
(42:10):
to it on monday any timethereafter, I hope you got a
chance to watch some Star Warsthis weekend.
See you guys later.
All right, we are back folks.
I hope you enjoyed that livesection.
If you didn't, I'm sorry, butwe are recording this.
(42:42):
Uh, still, um, if you didn'thear our live, then you're not
seeing any difference in therecording, but the fact that we
said we're um, yeah, all right.
Sunny (42:52):
Well, let's go on.
We don't want to bore him toobad, bruce, or maybe we do.
Hey, maybe we ought to bore himsome more.
We are the worst podcast in theknown universe yep, you are
right.
Bruce (43:11):
Okay, let's bore them a little bit more.
Let's talk oh, excuse me, uhtalk a little bit about our news
corner.
That's what we uh pull out somenews from the internet and we
talk a little bit about it.
Nothing big, nothing major.
We try to pull everybody'sthought process away from all
the hobgoblin, that stuff that'sgoing on with the news and the
(43:36):
political scene and the uhswaying of people's opinion by
most of the news media.
That's not what we're hereabout.
We want to sway you a littlebit, but it's more about the
conspiracy.
End of it.
Sunny (43:52):
Okay, yeah you better state that right we are that's
not what I said it's what I saidyou are sure acting a little
bit strange today.
Bruce (44:14):
Did you get up too early?
Yep, all right, well, okay.
Sunny (44:27):
We'll call it too early Sonny.
Well, I am early up and I amSonny, so I guess that fits
Bruce.
What have you got there?
Is that your?
It is, it's your star warscoffee cap it is.
Bruce (44:42):
Yep, I had tea in it earlier and I went ahead and got
me a one cup of coffee to getthe caffeine.
I drink one cup a day maybe,yeah, most days one cup a day.
Maybe, yeah, most days one cup.
But they say the caffeineactually opens up your arteries
and I hope it does help me withthat.
(45:05):
But yeah, we're at the newscorner part of the episode.
That's where we talk about someof the news that I pulled up.
So the first one on the listRepeat that, if you could.
Nope, I don't think I can.
But we are going to talk nowabout the dire wolves.
(45:33):
Now, if anybody's been payingany attention to what's going on
in social media and the news,we have now three dire wolf cubs
and they went extinct.
Let me look this article up andI can just read it for you
yourself.
I think it's funny how that thearticle is brought to you by
(45:59):
the hollywood.
Get that hollywood post.
But it's the people that arethe hollywood reporter.
I'm sorry.
So take that as you will, if iteven means anything, but the
dire wolves was brought back toextinct from extension
(46:20):
extinction.
Oh, I can't talk.
Maybe I need more coffee.
It doesn't help that my nose isall stopped up today.
Usually, uh, you know, I haveto take allergy pills this time
of year and, uh, I took onebefore I went to bed and usually
(46:41):
when I wake up I'm better, but,boy, not this morning.
I think that rain has blownsomething in, or the storm, rain
, storm.
I should say, not the actualrain, but anyway.
But anyway, what we was talkingabout is dire wolves.
That was a type of wolf Game ofThrones.
That show actually brought themout or talked about them, but
(47:06):
they've been gone in extinctionsince prehistoric times, but
they have been brought back bydna.
They were extracted two fossilsand 20 edits of genetic code of
(47:28):
the gray wolf, and that's thespecies that was closest living
relative, according toresearchers.
So they have brought back thesegray wolves, they colored them
white, like the dire wolf, andthey are.
What did they do?
They got three males no, twomales and a female.
(47:49):
So there we go.
We're experimenting with animalsnow.
Have been for quite a while,though if you remember the sheep
uh, I can't remember thatsheep's name.
I should have looked it up, butthey've been doing this for
years, uh, messing with thisstuff.
(48:11):
But uh, if you, um, rememberwhat it says in the bible, if
anybody believes in that stuffanymore but it says that it will
be like unto the days of noah.
So you read into that whateveryou want, but in noah's day,
supposedly, they were doing thesame thing with animals and
(48:35):
humans messing with the DNA.
There you go.
That's the first article of theday.
The next article will be whatArticle, I don't know.
I've covered up my ability tolook.
(48:58):
There we go, got it back now.
Boy, I'm telling you I'mrunning a tight show today.
It's just all over the place.
Sunny (49:10):
Hey Bruce, maybe you got up too early.
Maybe you ought to go back tobed.
Bruce (49:14):
No, Maybe you ought to get this episode recorded, like
I wanted to do and you can helpme.
And then we're going to gowatch some Star Wars movies.
Sunny (49:28):
Okay, if you insist.
Gosh, you're making it so hardon me.
Bruce (49:37):
Boy, you're sounding a lot like me now.
Sunny (49:41):
You was a good teacher.
Bruce (49:46):
I know a lot of people will disagree with you, Sonny,
on that one.
Sunny (49:51):
Well, they can just disagree all they want, but I
have to live with you.
Bruce (49:57):
True, true that, okay, next news article we're going to
talk about the white gold.
Yeah, white gold, and this is apretty.
This article caught my eye.
It was.
Let me see if I can find thepage.
(50:20):
I'm having trouble getting mybrowser to do what it should do.
All right, it messed up.
Why did it mess up?
Something's not right here.
Try one more time trying topull up this article so I can
(50:45):
actually talk sensible about it.
But this white gold they'retalking about is they're
comparing it to the manna of thebible.
There we go, we got it upfinally.
It's from the bbc, uh, butthey're calling it the return of
sicily's ancient white gold andthey're comparing it to the
(51:08):
manna of the bible times.
Now, I'm not sure if it's thesame stuff or they're just
making it seem the same.
But the man, if you rememberthe story, is what, um, god sent
the Israelites when theywandered in the wilderness.
They would get up in themornings, collect the manna, and
(51:32):
they wouldn't say be able tosave it for that, just that one
day.
And they would have to do itall over, except for the day
before the sabbath or the holyday.
Um, that day it would lastlonger for some weird reason, uh
, but anyway, this uh manna iswhat they're calling it.
(51:55):
The white gold from Sicily issupposedly going to be a
superfood, but it comes fromtrees.
It's the liquid out of thetrees, the sap, basically Not
calling you a sap, but a sapcoming from the trees, and they
(52:19):
have used it in food forcenturies.
But in the past 80 days they'venot been able to do it.
And they say in the past 80days because of urbanization and
industrialization.
It led to it nearly vanishing.
So for the past 30 years, thisGerald Lardy made his mission to
(52:49):
put this biblical superfoodback on our tables.
And again they're referencingthe manna out of the Bible and
I'm still not positive.
That's the same stuff, or ifit's just a way of them getting
more um lines of news.
But they have a picture on hereof this manna coming out of the
(53:14):
tree and I will post this up onmy website and probably on the
episodes chapters.
If you have a 2.0 podcastplayer you'll be able to see it,
but it's a pretty interestingarticle.
It's found on BBC.
(53:35):
The title of the article is theReturn of Sicily's Ancient
White Gold.
So if you're interested inanything like that, go back and
check it out.
I find it pretty cool.
But the picture I've got has aman holding a piece of that
(53:55):
dripping sap in his hand andit's showing the tree it's
dripping from and everything.
It's pretty cool, but they makeit into food.
They put it in bread and stuff.
So check it out, man, it'spretty cool.
I wouldn't lie to you.
Sunny (54:19):
I wouldn't lie to you.
Bruce (54:23):
No, but you sure can wind a big tail Okay.
Sunny (54:27):
When have you known me to do that?
Bruce (54:31):
When have you not?
Okay, I'm not going to arguewith you because I'll lose.
Oh boy, would I ever On was thenext show?
No, on was the next news clipwe're going to talk about guess
what, guess what, or who, Ishould say, guess what movie
(54:53):
turned on April the 9th?
I should have done a podcast acouple weeks ago with it, but I
didn't.
On April the 9th, what movieturned 50 years old?
And this is a particular goodsubject for me, because my wife
(55:15):
and quite a few Americans likethis show.
Um, but it's not an Americanmovie, believe it or not.
This also I found on the BBC.
If you go to bbccom, you'llfind these show or hello, these
uh news articles.
Sunny (55:35):
All right, nobody suspended in.
Bruce (55:40):
What is that word?
I have no idea what you'retalking about, but nobody's
curious.
Is that what you're saying?
Sunny (55:50):
No, nobody's hanging on your words, waiting for your
answer.
Bruce (55:56):
Oh well, how do you know that?
Are you talking to everybody?
I just know.
All right, well, I don'tbelieve you, sonny, I think
you're just giving me a hardtime.
But anyway, the movie that justturned 50 on April the 9th was
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
(56:19):
Do you guys remember that?
Have you ever seen that?
It's really I'm going to haveto say it a kind of a stupid
movie, but the one it's an olddry comedy type movie by the
British and it turned 50, andthe one scene that I remember
(56:42):
and hearing the the phrase bringyour dead out, and it was just
kind of.
You just had to watch the movieand if you haven't go watch it,
I'm telling you will enjoy it.
Maybe, maybe not.
Anyhow, mighty Python and theHoly Grail turned 50 on April
(57:04):
the 9th.
What do you know about that?
Pretty cool, huh, okay.
Sunny (57:15):
So on with the show.
All right, bruce.
What's on the news next?
Bruce (57:22):
Well, I got one last news article I want to talk about
and then I'll let everybody inpeace go.
I hope they get to church anddo what they need to do today
and I hope somebody's watchedStar Wars today and we're going
to.
And while you're listening tothis, later on, I hope you have
(57:45):
a good week and a good day.
But anyway, this article is.
I found it in the Middle EastMonitor.
I found it in the Middle EastMonitor and I just happened to
lock onto it by accident, or Iwould not have caught this
article at all.
But because I'm always talkingabout the weather here in the
(58:07):
United States, specifically insouthern Illinois, the Midwest,
I like to bring this article upbecause they have a different
kind of storm.
They had a sandstorm in Iraqand this article says it
hospitalized over 3,700 peopleand we deal with tornadoes and
(58:35):
stuff, but we don't have to dealwith sandstorms and they have
them all the time.
They say no deaths werereported in the sandstorm, which
is a plus 1,747 people admittedto the hospital.
(58:59):
I'm sorry my nose stopped up andI can't hardly talk, but in
Baghdad since Monday.
So this article was on the 15thof April.
Yeah, 15th of April, and thatwas, let me see, I'll look back
(59:22):
for you guys so you can uh knowwhat I'm talking about.
15th of april was on tuesday,so the article was written on
tuesday and monday was the storm, apparently.
But I caught that, caught myeye.
I mean, I'm you know, you seesandstorms every now and then in
movies.
Uh, if you're up to people thatcomes from the middle east and
(59:47):
you talk to them a lot, you'veprobably been confronted with
the sandstorms, but most of ushere in the United States we
don't have to deal with that.
I mean, maybe somebody out inthe desert might see some and
they may know what that's allabout.
But in the middle of the UnitedStates all we have is rain and
(01:00:13):
floods and tornadoes and it'svery uncommon for us to even
think about, uh, any of that.
And I seen the article and Ithought wait a minute.
You know, this is important tothese people.
They are suffering just like wedo during bad storms, and this
(01:00:33):
needs to be talked about.
So, um, they're in the middleeast, they need your prayers,
they deal with this all the time.
Apparently it's, uh, this isone of the more bad storms that
they've had.
Let's see, the article says thehighest number of cases in the
past in baghdad was,014.
(01:00:56):
So this was what triple Wow.
Anyway, that's our articles.
I hope you guys remember thesepeople and pray for them or send
them positive thoughts.
This has been almost what twoweeks, three weeks, two weeks
(01:01:17):
ago, and uh, it doesn't meanthat you know, they don't don't
still need your help and prayerand positive thoughts.
But that is the news corner ofEpisode 107.
Sunny (01:01:36):
And you're still calling it News Corner Wow.
Bruce (01:01:41):
Yeah, you still haven't come up with a better name, have
you?
Sunny (01:01:44):
Well, no, but that's not my job.
Bruce (01:01:48):
Well, I'm going to call it News Corner until somebody
gives me a better title and Isay, oh yeah, I like that.
Still waiting?
Okay, all right.
Well, with that said, we'rejust going to talk a little bit
(01:02:12):
about our value for value.
That's what we do, believe itor not.
We don't hide behind a paywallor have you do anything like
that to hear our show.
We want our show out there free, but we do, from time to time,
(01:02:37):
ask you for your help, uh,contributions, or you know
wisdom, um, just telling usyou're out there listening,
anything like that will boostour morale.
We really can use prayer for us.
Our show, anything like thatwould help.
(01:02:59):
That's what value for value is.
If you hear the show and youget a laugh, you get a
conviction or anything, you needto show us that value that you
got out of it one way or theother.
We're not asking for everybodyto contribute money.
We're just asking for you toacknowledge we're here.
(01:03:22):
Contribute financially if youfeel led, or just help with
artwork or ideas, anything likethat, but pray for us for sure,
as anything like that, but prayfor us for sure.
That's what we try to keepeverybody entertained and not
(01:03:45):
thinking about the world becausethe world has got crazy.
I don't know about anybody elseIf they've been paying
attention to the news, most ofit leads you to hate one or two
different people and thinkthey're totally crazy and
they're out to corrupt the wholewide world.
(01:04:07):
And then maybe another couplenews article or news places does
the other thing and it's justlike they.
Everybody's trying to bid youbetween one or two different
peoples, trying to get you tohate each other and not notice
(01:04:29):
what's really going on.
And what's really going on isthe rich are getting richer and
the poor is getting poor andwe're being segregated.
But and I'm not talking aboutthe doctor who's trying to work
his um schooling off and he maydrive a fancy car, but he's no
(01:04:49):
way near rich.
He's a poor fool like the restof us, being used by the society
.
I would say no, I'm talkingabout the ultimate rich that
gets in their limo, gets droveto the airport and gets in their
(01:05:09):
private jet of 50 differentchoices and goes somewhere that
has no idea what their servantsand their drivers and their
pilots are going through becausethey're so much out of touch.
And I'm not going to say toomuch more.
I just want you to know that,through all that whirlwind of
(01:05:32):
garbage that we're having to putup with, I just like to stick
out and say, hey, try to relaxfor a minute, get all that out
of your mind and enjoy what wehave now, before we not have it
anymore, if that makes sense,and pray for each other, be nice
to each other, because everyone of us bleed.
(01:05:55):
Every one of us is goingthrough it.
We need to stick together andpull each other up together, not
push one person down to get up.
It didn't work that way, guysat all, but anyway.
That said, we believe in valuefor value.
So if you get anything out ofour episodes, let us know.
(01:06:18):
All right, so we're here.
We try to do it every otherweek and, uh, every now and then
we do every week.
But go totheuglyquackingduckcom.
Subscribe to our web page.
There you can find a little bitmore information.
We post every now and then youcan.
(01:06:39):
Also, once you're subscribed,you can get our episode early
before we put it on our hostingpage and they put it out,
because usually it's a day ortwo earlier, according to when
we get the episode recorded.
We try to do a live section onFridays when I'm off this week.
(01:07:01):
We didn't get that done.
That's why we recorded onSunday.
Anyhow, thank you for beinghere, for being part of the show
, for listening to all thismumble jumble.
I hope everybody has a greatweek.
Once they hear this, they havea better week.
Sunny (01:07:24):
Hopefully that it brings up some kind of joy for you yeah
, I hope y'all have a great day,a great week and a great month.
This is May and it's thebeginning of May, the first part
of the week.
Bruce (01:07:40):
Oh, you're right, I should have said that, yeah,
it's a new month.
Everybody, we ought to enjoy itas much as we can.
Now around here, it's going tostart getting warm and probably
humid.
After all, this rain goesthrough.
After all this rain goesthrough.
So, yeah, back to mowing thegrass and the summer-type
opportunities and jobs and deals.
Sunny (01:08:03):
Yeah, don't go so downer.
You need to go back to bed.
Bruce (01:08:09):
No, I'm going to go watch a movie.
Sunny (01:08:13):
All right, whatever, Bye everybody.
Bruce (01:08:16):
Wow, that was quick, All right, whatever.
Bye everybody.
Oh wow, that was quick, Allright, everybody 73,.
May the Father's blessings bewith you and we're going to bid
you farewell.
I hope everybody enjoyed it.
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