July 17, 2025 • 60 mins
The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast provides a lighthearted escape from negative news while tracking important environmental patterns through their earthquake and weather monitoring system.
• Bruce shares updates on new audio Monster cables and a Fethead mic preamp
• Discussion of severe weather patterns including floods in China, New York, Texas, and Mexico
• Space weather report highlighting solar flares and their potential impacts on Earth
• Detailed seven-day earthquake report comparing current data (2,442 quakes) with 2019 (11,724 quakes)
• Analysis of major earthquakes including a 7.3 in Alaska, 6.2 in Panama, and 6.7 in Indonesia
• Report on volcanic activity including a recent eruption in Iceland creating a mile-long lava flow
• Explanation of the podcast's value-for-value model and ways listeners can support the show
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Bruce (00:06):
you have arrived in the ugly quacking duck podcast.
Yes, sir, that's right.
The worst podcast in the knownuniverse could be the most worst
podcast in the unknown universe.
Yeah Well, welcome aboard.
(00:29):
You have arrived at the 114thepisode or edition, if you want
to say that, I hope you stickaround, hope you enjoy it and I
hope you come back again.
Sonny (00:48):
Oh boy, Welcome everybody , I'm Sonny.
Bruce (00:54):
And I'm Bruce.
Sonny (00:56):
And we are glad you're here, especially me.
I'm always glad.
Bruce (01:03):
Always glad.
Well, that's an interestingstatement, but, but, sonny, I'm
glad to have you aboard again.
Sonny (01:08):
Well thank you, Bruce.
It's good to be here.
I really enjoy podcasting withyou.
It's fun.
Bruce (01:15):
Well, I'm glad you feel that way.
I think some people would saywe're boring.
Sonny (01:20):
They don't know what they're talking about.
Bruce (01:22):
Well, I'm glad you said that we're not boring.
We're just what.
Sonny (01:27):
I don't know about you, but I'm fun.
Bruce (01:31):
All right.
Well, we're fun, but again,everybody, welcome to the Ugly
Quacking Duck podcast.
If this is your first timearound, stick around and see
what we have to offer.
If you've been here before,don't run off.
Sonny (01:48):
Okay, I'm waiting for the rest of it.
Bruce (01:51):
Oh, that was it.
I just said don't run off.
Sonny (01:54):
Oh, my mistake, I was waiting.
Bruce (01:58):
Well, that explains this dead silence.
Sonny (02:01):
Are you going to cut that out?
Bruce (02:04):
No, I'm going to leave it in.
I don't want to edit anythingif I don't have to.
It takes too much time and plusit makes it look like we're you
know professionals.
Sonny (02:14):
We're not professional.
Bruce (02:16):
Well, I don't know.
I think professional is whenyou get paid to do it and we're
doing it for the fun of it andthe hobby, and every now and
then somebody will you knowsupport us.
Sonny (02:28):
All right then.
So anyhow, hey, let me tell ajoke before you start the
serious stuff, okay?
Bruce (02:40):
A joke?
Huh yeah, let's do that.
Sonny (02:45):
Wow, that was my intro.
Bruce (02:48):
Yep, I thought that would help you get right in there and
tell a good joke.
You got a good joke, right.
Sonny (02:55):
Well, actually I think I'll tell two.
Bruce (02:59):
Oh, you're pushing your luck now.
Sonny (03:02):
I know, all right, ready, sure, all right.
Bruce (03:04):
Ready, sure All right.
Sonny (03:07):
When does a joke that's a joke now become a dad joke?
Bruce (03:15):
Uh, when does a joke become a dad joke?
Uh, when that dad tells it.
Sonny (03:22):
Oh, when their punchline becomes apparent.
Bruce (03:31):
Okay, when the punchline becomes apparent.
That's what it sounds like whenit goes over my head.
Sonny (03:39):
All right, how about this one Ready?
I put my old car in reverse andI thought, wow this really
takes me back.
Bruce (03:59):
It takes one to get you in the mood and two to really
get you.
You like.
Oh my gosh, I can't believethat one's funny.
It really wasn't.
How about another one?
Sonny (04:09):
All right, one more.
What do you call a cold puppy?
Bruce (04:17):
Uh, I don't know, a cold puppy.
Sonny (04:20):
No, silly it's a chilly dog.
Bruce (04:24):
No silly it's a chili dog man, a chili dog, a dad joke
and wait, a reverse joke.
Wow, have we stepped into a low, low moment.
Sonny (04:43):
No, we stepped back into a dad joke.
Bruce (04:48):
Yay, all right, I bet all of them was because I'm a dad,
right.
Sonny (04:56):
No, it was because you might be boring if we don't do a
dad joke.
Bruce (04:59):
Oh my gosh, Okay, wow, all right, folks forgive us for
being dudley slow on the intakeof jokes.
We'll have to come up with somebetter ones next week, but
that's a good start to gettalking about jokes, because
there's so much bad in the worldanymore.
(05:21):
It's not even funny how theworld's got uh crazy, the
weathers went crazy, and uh, ifyou don't know the father in
person, you may go crazy too.
So on with the show.
Sonny (05:40):
The show hey Bruce, I seen you online ordering some
stuff.
What did you get?
Bruce (05:50):
Well, actually I didn't get anything yet.
Sonny (05:57):
It hasn't come in, but you're being nosy again.
You're looking over my shoulder.
Yeah, you don't share anything,so I have to look.
Bruce (06:05):
Well, I ordered I got on our website sweet water um,
they're the ones that I orderelectronics from and I ordered a
couple more cables mic cablesbecause they seem to be breaking
on me here lately.
I've lost what three now and Ihardly ever move them.
(06:27):
I mean, I move them a littlebit.
When I move the mic boom down,they just quit or they start
shorting out.
They do weird stuff.
I don't know, I really don'tknow, people take them on stage
and they throw them around andthey pull on them and they last
(06:47):
for a long time.
I get them, run them on mypodcast and after a year some of
them last me, uh, about threeyears, but there's a couple that
didn't last over a year, theyjust quit.
So I got and ordered some newMonster cables.
I'll put them in service when Iget them and you won't notice
(07:15):
any difference, but it'll makeme feel better because I got new
cables on everything.
And then I went ahead andordered a new Fethead.
It's a little amplifier stickthat you put in behind your mic
and, uh, I, I've got one.
I'm running on this microphoneright here and the one that is
(07:36):
being used by sunny.
I just run the preamp up higher, um, which you know makes it
sound good.
It doesn't take much on thatthing.
I think I'm running at about 30on that setting.
But a lot of times if you runthe little amplifier like the
(08:00):
fathead, it goes right in behindthe microphone and you just
turn the phantom power on and itwill increase your audio and
you don't have to, you know,turn up your preamp high and
higher, which sometimes willkill some of the extra static
and noise which I'm not seeing,any of that on this setup, but I
(08:25):
thought I'd go ahead and dothat, you know, just a little
bit of improvement.
Like I said, you guys probablywon't out there, see any or not
see.
Wait a minute.
See, yeah, you probably won'thear any difference, but in my
mind there'll be a hugedifference in your mind there's
(08:47):
a huge vacuum.
Everything will make adifference oh, I see how it's
going to be today uh, same asevery day well, that could be
true.
Yeah, very well could be true.
But anyway, I thought I'd goahead and do that.
(09:07):
I had a little extra money outof the bank and my check, so I
thought, well, let's get someextra equipment, because the
next time I lose a cord I'm notgoing to have enough to go
around.
I'm going to be short becauseI've used up all my excess.
I had it set up where I couldhave, let's see, used up all my
(09:28):
excess.
I had it set up where I couldhave, let's see, about six or
seven mics hooked up at once.
Now I'm down to running threeat once.
So if I ever have to hook upthat fourth one or hook up my
mixing board so I can hook upfour more, it's not going to be
possible.
Sonny (09:50):
So that's the reason I went ahead and ordered those.
All right, you're planningahead?
Bruce (09:55):
Good boy, good boy, yeah, good boy.
Sonny (10:03):
Wow, I feel like a little puppy dog.
Well, you're feeding me thatkind of baloney all the time.
Whatever I say doesn't meanwhat you think.
It just means you're doing good.
Bruce (10:17):
All right, lecture given, lecture taken.
Okay, now that we've boredeverybody to death about the
equipment I ordered, I hopeeverybody's having a good week.
We wasn't in here last week.
I actually had two days offlast weekend and I did a lot of
mowing and trying to get stuffcleaned up around here and I
(10:39):
still didn't get anything done.
Got my ditch mowed though YayGot in.
After that day of being hot I'dgo out, mow a little bit, come
in and cool off, go back out andmow and I was wore out and I
really didn't feel like sittingdown and kind of putting all the
podcast together.
So I I just said we'll leave itoff.
(11:02):
I'm off on thursday.
By way, this is the 17th ofJuly, it is a Thursday.
I had a doctor's appointment, soI had the day off and I figured
when I got back I would do apodcast, yeah, and we would try
to make up for not being herelast weekend and that would give
(11:22):
us a little bit of a break thisweekend to do more stuff if I
get a day off.
I don't think I get a day offthis weekend, I don't know, I'll
have to look at that, butanyhow we'll.
We'll get back on schedule andget you a podcast, hopefully
every tuesday, like we weredoing um, but just want will go
(11:44):
out today.
I'm not going to hold it, I'mgoing to send it, post it as
soon as I get it done, I'm goingto upload it and we'll go from
there.
How's that?
Sonny (11:57):
I'm confused when you say you're not going to hold it.
Bruce (12:03):
Yeah, I usually post it on my hosting page and then I
also put it on my or our webpage and I send out to
subscribers a notice that it'sthere so they can come and
listen to it early, and thenthat's usually on a Friday or
(12:23):
Saturday, and then it's usuallyTuesday, sometimes Sunday, and
then Tuesday I release it on myhosting page, so there's a
little bit of a heads-up quickerif you're subscribed.
But this one I'm not going todo that.
I'm very limited on time off,so I'm just going to get it,
(12:45):
edit it as much as I need to andthen post it, get it uploaded
for you guys.
How's that sound now?
Do you understand, sonny?
Sonny (12:57):
Uh, I understand.
Bruce (13:00):
Oh, copycat.
Sonny (13:02):
I am not a cat, but I can do that.
Next morph.
Bruce (13:07):
I'm still waiting on you to morph again.
I kind of liked you being aduck, because that went along
with the Ugly Quacking Duckpodcast thing the theme you know
and then you morphed into afrog.
Why, why a frog?
Sonny (13:27):
It was raining.
Bruce (13:28):
Was it?
Was it raining that day?
Sonny (13:31):
Yes, it was.
Bruce (13:34):
So you morphed into a frog because it was raining.
Are you going to morph again?
Sonny (13:43):
I am Maybe Sometime, somehow.
Bruce (13:50):
Well, that wasn't a very good answer.
Are you going to tell us whatyou're going to morph into, or
do you have an idea?
Sonny (13:59):
Um, no, maybe, and who knows?
Bruce (14:10):
Okay, so no answers for us or the listeners.
Sonny (14:13):
Is that what you're telling us?
Our friends have to wait.
There you go.
You have to wait.
Bruce (14:16):
Just wait and see you know I'd like to have a video of
the last time, because that wasa surprise.
Who was it?
Lily was here.
She caught it with me and thatwas pretty cool, to be honest.
Sonny (14:32):
Well, if it had a video, I probably wouldn't have morphed
, would I?
Bruce (14:39):
Oh, I see how it is.
Okay.
Well, there we go.
We'll be waiting for the nexttime.
Hopefully you'll be telling uswhat you're going to be instead
of just shocking us.
Sonny (14:54):
Not really.
Hey, what's going on with theweather?
It's awful dark outside andit's only 3 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Bruce (15:05):
Yeah, there was a big, big dark black cloud that come
rumbling over earlier.
I was hurrying trying to beatit home from the doctor's
appointment before it hit and ithit and it rained really hard,
great big raindrops for about 15minutes and then it quit.
(15:29):
Uh, I don't think it'ssprinkling or anything right now
.
I guess I go raise up my blindso I could see.
Hang on, let me go do.
Okay, it doesn't look like it'ssprinkling or raining either
one, but it sure is.
Dark Cloud cover has blockedthe sunlight.
(15:50):
We are unable to see any UVbecause we can't see UV, but it
looks like it's dusk.
It looks like about 7.30 atnight, maybe 8 o'clock at night,
and it's only 3, well, it's 344.
Right now, here in SouthernIllinois we are transmitting, or
(16:14):
actually recording our show inour Midwest studio.
Sonny (16:23):
Studio yes, sir, we are live, not really we're recorded.
Bruce (16:31):
Yep, we are recorded.
If you're hearing this, we havebeen recorded.
Yeah, it's a.
What was that commercial?
Oh, it was a recording for a ora commercial for recording
(16:52):
tapes I think Maxell tapes,maybe Is it no Memorex.
There it goes.
Are you, is it live or is itMemorex?
Yeah, that was a goodcommercial.
Sure, it goes.
Is it live or is it Memorex?
Yeah, that was a goodcommercial.
Sonny (17:06):
Sure it was, I believe it .
Ha not.
So anyway, it's been storming.
Is that what you're saying,Bruce?
Bruce (17:16):
Yep, it's been leaning that way according to the
weather, off and on for thewhole week, but been leaning
that way according to theweather, off and on for the
whole week.
We've got very little moistureout of that storm, except for
today.
Today it actually come to astorm Now.
I think was it last night orthe night before it rained some.
(17:39):
I don't think there was a bigbad storm.
I know my lawnmower cover blewoff, so there must have been
some wind sometime, but they'repredicting it's supposed to
continue this through theevening.
So, yay, we're having someweather, not good weather.
(18:00):
Speaking of weather, it's beenkind of crazy around the world.
There's been flash flooding.
I understand China got somefloods, new York, new Jersey had
some floods and everybodyremember Texas.
Last time I did an episode,they were having floods and we
(18:22):
had to or we didn't have to, butwe asked for a prayer for
everybody and I still believethat's what we should be doing,
because there's been quite a bitof earthquakes, storms across
this country and across the restof the world.
We need to remember to pray foranybody that's affected.
(18:44):
Pray for a little bit of acalming effect, believe
positively and I think it willchange things.
They're trying to get everybodystirred up and worried and sick
, and that will cause a lot ofthese catastrophes.
But yeah, there's been a lot offloods.
(19:06):
Mexico had some, texas had someCalifornia if I'm forgetting
anybody, any state, I'm sorry.
There's been an earthquake inAlaska, 7.3.
We'll get more into theearthquakes in a little while.
Volcanic eruption I think itwas Iceland.
(19:27):
I'll have to look that upbefore I finish the podcast.
The weather's been bad, thoughWhile we're talking about local
weather, let's talk about ourcomparison here in southern
Illinois to where Sonny PhoenixArizona.
(19:48):
That's right, that's a good one.
We like to compare our localweather with Phoenix Arizona
because there's a slightdifference.
And so we're at 90% humiditytoday, and that's because it's
been raining and our wind is sixmiles an hour and our air
(20:10):
quality is 55, which is kind ofmoderate, and phoenix arizona
right now, oh, by the way, it's77 degrees.
Phoenix arizona right now is100 degrees and fair.
That means they probably have afew clouds 27% humidity, 8 mile
(20:31):
an hour winds.
Air quality is 35.
That's it.
They're having some weather.
Don't know if you like that kindof weather or not.
The radar here shows a lot ofmore clouds coming through that
looks like they're going todissipate this evening and, uh,
(20:52):
most of the storms are going togo south of our location, which
is, uh, outside of mount vernon,illinois, and they're going to
go southeast, south ofEvansville, into Kentucky.
So, if that holds true, we maynot have much rain this
afternoon and this evening.
(21:14):
Don't know, we'll just have towait and see, right?
Yeah, and this is really weird,but I always look up the moon
rise and the moon set on thisweather app that I use and it
does not have a moon rise listed.
It's got two dots.
(21:34):
The moon set is at 103 pm, so Ithink we just already had that
cloudy, but we can't tell.
So I think we just already hadthat Cloudy, but we can't tell.
Kind of weird, but we're in thelast quarter of the moon, if
anybody cares.
Sonny (21:49):
Weird.
That's kind of weird, Bruce.
Why don't they?
Bruce (21:55):
have the moonrise.
I'm not sure.
I've not seen that before, evenif the moonrise is past, they
always have it, and I looked onmy phone and it's the same way.
So I'm not sure.
I don't know if it's a glitchin the matrix or something I'm
overlooking, but anyhow, whilewe're talking about the weather,
let's go to space weather andcheck out the solar flares, for
(22:18):
today Looks like we've had a C2and a C5, is not very bad.
Could be a whole lot worse.
Uh, so so far we've got asunspot number of 182, which was
updated today, and we have zerodays of spotless sunspotless
(22:44):
days.
In other words, each day thatwe've had so far has had some
kind of sunspot.
Sonny (22:52):
And tell us why that's important, Bruce, because you
haven't in a long time.
Bruce (22:59):
Well, I think you're right there, sonny, I probably
should a long time.
Well, I think you're rightthere, sonny, I probably should.
Sunspot activity is kind ofimportant because the more there
is and the larger there is theplasma and the electronic not
electronic, but the magneticwaves hit the Earth, especially
if they're heading this way.
(23:19):
If they shear off and gosomewhere else, it's not that
big a deal.
But if they're headed this wayand they react with our
atmosphere, especially ourmagnetic field, it will cause a
lot of aurora borealis.
It will cause our magneticwaves to change Sorry about that
(23:43):
, excuse me, had to burp it willcharge up the shielding and it
will cause radials not to workproperly and all kinds of weird
things.
And a lot of the radio operatorslike to watch that solar flux
and it will kind of anticipatewhat the radio waves are going
(24:07):
to be doing in the next few days.
But anyhow, if we get largeones we'll have a lot of effects
from that.
If there are smaller ones,probably not so much.
But it's neat to keep an eye onand I try to do that.
I haven't reported on it asmuch as I should and I apologize
for that.
But again, c5 is not too bad,not too great, but it's all
(24:35):
right.
If they get up into the Xs,then we need to worry.
Sonny (24:40):
Hey Bruce, you mentioned a volcano erupting.
Tell me more.
Bruce (24:47):
All right.
Yeah, the volcano over there inIceland actually erupted and
sent a long line of lava out.
They actually showed a pictureon it if you go look up Google,
but it was actually kind ofpretty in a destructive way.
(25:10):
But Iceland had a volcaniceruption that spewed wall of
lava.
I think it was mile long orsomething to that effect pretty
awesome effect.
But that happened July 17th,which is today.
Sonny (25:27):
Do that again.
Bruce (25:30):
Today.
Sonny (25:33):
Well, you got that mic set pretty good, that sounded
good.
Bruce (25:38):
Well, I'm glad I can impress you.
You're not easily impressed.
Sonny (25:43):
Oh don't I know it.
Oh don't I know it.
Bruce (25:46):
Oh, don't, I know it.
Yeah, anyhow, there's been alot of volcanic activity.
They're talking about someearthquakes happening to the
volcano out there in the oceanby california.
There are minor earthquakes andthey're kind of concerned that
that may cause that one to erupt.
(26:08):
And then the one uh, mountrainer I think's what it is
actually had several earthquakesaround it.
Now these are small ones, like2.0s and stuff, but there's some
speculation that that may, ifthat continues, that may cause
an eruption.
Everybody's speculating.
(26:29):
Nobody knows.
That's not in our hands, ormaybe it is.
Maybe there's people that havethe power to do stuff like that
and they're just not telling us.
But anyhow, that's what's goingon around the world.
Are you going to tell?
Sonny (26:43):
us about the earthquakes and they're just not telling us.
But anyhow, that's what's goingon around the world.
Bruce (26:50):
Are you going to tell us about the earthquakes?
I figured I would, but I'mgoing to try to shorten it down
so it's not as long If you'venot been here.
For our other reports we do aseven-day earthquake report
where we take the earthquakesand back it up seven days.
Wow, I don't know if anybodyheard that, but there was a
(27:10):
lightning strike and that isthunder and it just continues
rumbling.
Pretty cool when it storms likethat.
(27:31):
I've always wanted to get mycondenser microphone out and it
picks up really well 90 degreeson one side, 90 on on the other,
and it's great for recordingoutside stuff or no noises like
that, and I've always wanted toget that thing out and record.
(27:54):
But you know, time I did that,the the thunderstorm would
probably pass, wouldn't catchany of it Anyhow.
Where was I, sonny?
Uh, you was in the studiositting in your chair talking on
your mic.
Sonny (28:14):
Uh boy, I'm sure you took that literally, didn't you?
Bruce (28:20):
Well, yeah, okay.
Sonny (28:25):
I was just wondering where I was in the conversation.
Bruce (28:33):
Oh Well, that would mean I would have had to pay
attention, and I don't.
Sonny (28:38):
Wow, that was a slam.
You don't.
No, why should I?
Bruce (28:42):
You did all the talking.
Oh wow, I'm hurt.
Sonny (28:47):
No, you're not.
Quit lying to people.
Bruce (28:51):
All right.
No, I'm not Sorry folks, but itsounded good.
Sonny (28:56):
Yeah, you're trying to get me in trouble, get everybody
to hate me.
Bruce (29:01):
Well, hate's a strong word.
I was just wanting you to getin trouble.
Trouble get everybody to hateme.
Well, hate's a strong word.
I was just wanting you to getin trouble a little bit and
who's gonna get me in trouble?
come on, bruce, wake up all,right now that we've spent the
next, there's the last fiveminutes talking about where I
was in the conversation.
I definitely don't remember nowand I know you don't remember,
(29:22):
so, uh, let's just go back tothe earthquake report.
Anyhow, if you've not been withus before, that's what we do we
go back seven days, give thenumbers and I actually have put
together a little reportingsheet where you can write all
that down and, uh, you can dothat.
You can go to the Ugly QuackingDuck podcast.
(29:45):
No, forgive me,theuglyquackingduckcom.
Go to that webpage, go to thesupport page, which you can find
, the menu on the left side orup the top of the homepage.
Where you're on the homepage,go down, scroll down to the
bottom of it, type in your email, hit subscribe and follow along
(30:08):
when you get emails, which wedon't do it a whole lot right
now because we're working a lot,but anyway, that's what that's
for and you'll get updates toour podcast when it comes out.
But if you've got a podcast 2.0player, hey, it will alert you,
you'll be able to play it,you'll be able to follow along
(30:30):
with chapters.
You can text us on that 2.0player.
You can also boost us andsupport us.
But anyhow, if you go up thereto the top, click on Support our
podcast page, click on it, godown towards the bottom that you
can print out that spreadsheet.
(30:52):
Uh, you can download it andprint it out again later,
however you want to do it, butthat's where we're at.
That's what that is talkingabout.
There.
On other podcasts or the otherepisodes, I should say it looks
like there's some more stormscoming through.
Right now I'm hearing morethunder as we speak.
(31:16):
I'm not sure the mic's pickingit up, because I've got a pretty
good shielding around it.
We do pick up cars going by andclose booms, but I don't think
you'll hear a lot of it becausea lot of it's farther away.
I want to pause for a minute.
You won't notice the break.
I'm gonna run get me some teato sip on while I continue
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talking.
Sonny (31:40):
So what kind of tea are you cooking there, Bruce?
Bruce (31:49):
Well, I am cooking as you say it.
I'm actually listening for thewater tea kettle to start
whistling.
I still like warming up mywater that way on the stove,
pouring it over my tea bags.
But to answer your question, Imix two different tea bags.
I have a ginger and turmerictea bag and then a dandelion
(32:13):
root tea bag.
I put them both in the tea cupand pour hot water boiling hot
water over them and let themsimmer there for a few minutes
and then I pick them up andsqueeze them and add a little
bit of honey and it's a reallygood drink.
It really is.
Sonny (32:33):
Okay, I'll take your word for it.
I'm not sure that would be thetea I would drink.
Bruce (32:40):
I can see that Probably wouldn't be.
You hear that thunder?
Sonny (32:44):
Yeah, I would drink.
I can see that Probablywouldn't be.
You hear that, thunder?
Yeah, I heard that it soundslike it's coming down.
Bruce (32:51):
Yep, we got another hard rain hitting right now.
Sounds like we're going to havesome rain this afternoon.
This is probably the last ofthat cloud front I've seen on
the radar.
Sonny (33:06):
Could be, or the radar could be wrong.
Bruce (33:11):
Could be.
I have now got my tea and I'mtrying to sip on it.
It's pretty hot, but we're here.
Sonny (33:22):
I think it's about time I was starting to snore.
Bruce (33:27):
Well, it's a good thing I paused the recording, or our
listeners would have heard yousnoring.
Sonny (33:34):
Yeah, probably would have .
Bruce (33:37):
Well, they, they didn't, and I'm glad.
Sonny (33:41):
All right, let's have the report.
Bruce (33:46):
All right, here we go.
If you don't have the paperprinted out, you can always
pause it, go back and print itand then come back.
That's the nice thing abouthaving a recording.
You can do all that kind ofstuff.
Let me hit the air conditionerbutton.
I forgot to turn it off and itwas making quite a bit of static
.
(34:06):
But we're going to start offwith the first year, which is
7-17-25.
Today, this year, we're goingback seven days to get the full
report.
So the first thing we willrecord is is the date.
So put that up there.
Move over to the right column.
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It says all magnitudes.
Today, going back seven days,there was 2,442, 2, 4, 4, 2.
And what I do to get thepercentage is I created a 100%
mark, which is 10,000earthquakes, which, um, so most
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of the earthquakes don't reachthat number, weekly I mean, but
there has been a few times itreached it and went over.
So we're going to get an over100% sometimes, which this
happened this week.
What 7-19,?
Yeah, 2019.
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So that's how we come up withthat number.
I just created a 100% mark tocall it that, so we'd know,
because I don't know what otherthing to use.
But anyway, so we figure 2,442into 10,000, that's our mark to
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get a percentage and it comesout to 24.4%, of course, and
then the rest of the percentageswe take into that all number,
because each one of thosenumbers I'm going to give you
come out of that all number.
So right now there's 242 allmagnitudes.
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That means it encapsulates the4.5, the 2.5s and over is a
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number of 310.
So write that down for the 2.5,310.
And that percentage of the 2442is 12.7.
Now I'm not sure thesepercentages are going to show us
anything.
24.42 is 12.7.
Now, I'm not sure thesepercentages are going to show us
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anything.
It's just going to give us morenumbers to track.
But what I have seen in the pastis many times one week will
have lower amount of allmagnitudes but the higher amount
of 4.5 and above magnitudes.
So if we're having a lot ofsmaller earthquakes which shows
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up in the all magnitude, thenthe 4.5 number is lower.
Usually it don't always add upthat way.
But if there's less allmagnitudes, which means 2.5 and
smaller, and smaller than 4.5,is less than the higher
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magnitude magnitude earthquakes,4.5 and above or more and vice
versa.
And that's what I've seen sofar, not every week, but very
many weeks are that way, whichis kind of a weird pattern.
Let me write this down 24, 42for all magnitudes, 310 for 25,
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and then the 4.5 magnitude comesup to 119.
And did I give you thepercentage for the 310?
That would be 12.7.
12.7 is what the 310 count isof the 2442, 12.7 percent, and
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then the one 4.5 percent or 4.5and over magnitudes come up to
119, which gives us a 4.9percent of that number.
So what I'm hoping is ourpercentages eventually will show
that pattern better.
(38:41):
All right, then the 6.0, I breakthem out into where they're at.
We only had three, but we liketo write down where they're at,
just kind of to show you guysthe main areas that's getting
hit, because it's almost thesame every year, every week,
(39:02):
because there's just certainfault lines that get hit all the
time.
Now there's some that hasn'tbeen hit majorly in quite a long
time, majorly in quite a longtime.
So we go to the 6.0s.
The first one everybody knowsbecause I've already told
(39:26):
everybody about it, but there'sa 7.3 in Alaska.
It was actually south orsouth-southwest, something like
that uh, about 58 miles ofsandpoint alaska, so that that
was pretty close and they wasgiven tsunami warnings.
(39:46):
I think it um eventually rolledout.
We didn't get a someone, so nottsunami.
Forgive me for not being ableto talk Wow.
Sonny (40:01):
You're scary, get a drink of tea.
Bruce (40:05):
I don't know what that has to do with me being scary,
but I will do that.
I'll get a drink of tea.
Hang on just one minute.
Ow, that's hot.
I guess that's what happenswhen you use boiling water to
make your tea.
All right, back to the story,and we're sticking to it.
(40:29):
7.3 location was Alaska, andthen the next one was a 6.2, and
it was in Panama.
And then the next one was a 6.7, and it was in Indonesia, which
(40:51):
all these are on fault linesand you see them quite often.
Panama has not been a reallyactive one that we have seen.
There's a lot of smaller ones,but not a 6.2.
That's kind of very active.
Anyway, then the percentage.
We figure that percentage ofthe 6.0 and over earthquakes
(41:16):
from the 4.5 total, becausethat's where them numbers come
from.
So the 4.5 was 119.
So we had three 6.0 earthquakes, so that percentage turned out
to be a 2.5.
2.5%.
There we go.
So write that down next to thepercent sign on that column and
(41:42):
then go down to the next one.
We're looking at the year 2019.
I backed up to that which, if Iremember correct, that's six
years now.
I picked 2019 just out of theblue, Not sure why I picked that
year and I started goingthrough it and I realized that
numbers on that all magnitudewas sky high and I seen that
(42:08):
there was a lot of sixes andseven earthquakes, which really
blew me away because originallyI would think that there was
lesser amount of earthquakes inthe past.
Now we know there's been majorearthquakes in the past.
I'm not saying that, I'm justsaying the total numbers.
But lo and behold, 2019 seemsto be a bigger amount.
(42:31):
Then I went back a few moreyears 10, I think 15 years and
they didn't really add up toanything.
There's more like what we'rehaving now, with less six and
over earthquakes.
So then I looked at 2018, andthat number is a little bit high
too, especially the overallearthquakes.
(42:54):
So I got to thinking maybe thejust like when we figure a seven
week and then the next or Imean the seven days, then the
next week the seven day numbersare a little bit lower or higher
.
Maybe that's going on on thatyear too.
Maybe 2018 was kind of high,but 2019, the total six and old
(43:22):
numbers was higher and as I givethese reports out over the year
, we'll see if that comes up.
That's another reason I'm usingor figuring the percentages,
see if that would show it.
And I'm keeping track onanother table that I've created
(43:42):
and if it works out, I'll beable to put that on the webpage
too, so you can see that.
Anyhow, 2019, the totalall-magnitude earthquakes.
Let's write that down.
7-17-2019, all-magnitudeearthquakes.
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Was you ready for this?
11,724.
That's right.
11,724 all-magnitudes that's abig amount.
724, all magnitudes that's abig amount.
And then that percentage.
If you figure it at 10,000,that percentage is going to be
(44:22):
over 100%.
So let's figure that.
So it goes at 117.2%.
And then 2.5 and aboveearthquakes was 861, and that
figures into 11,000, so you comeup to a 7.3%.
(44:45):
And then the 4.5 number was 208, and it was a 1.8 percent.
So I'm not sure this percentageis going to work out for us as
far as what we're seeing.
(45:06):
But, um, if the percentage ofum all magnitudes was lower than
we're seeing, a higher, 2.5 anda 4.5 maybe, and then we'll
just have to see if that worksout, because that seems to be
(45:26):
the way it's going so far.
And then the 6.0 and aboveearthquakes there was five of
them, and the first one was a6.3, and it was in Papua New
Guinea.
I'm writing this down as I'msaying it, so pardon me pausing
for a minute.
The next one was a 7.2.
(45:48):
Now I just go down the list.
Sometimes if I catch them, I'llwrite them in power order.
So the sixes, sevens.
But if I'm unable to do that, Ijust write them down as they
appear on the list, and theyusually appear by date, not by
(46:10):
size.
The next one was a 7.2 and itwas in Indonesia.
And the next one was a 7.2 andit was in indonesia.
And the next one was a 6.6 andit was in australia, which's a
very common one to see.
And then we had another one inPapua New Guinea.
(46:45):
It was a 6.0.
That was probably an aftershockin Papua New Guinea.
Aftershock in Papua New Guinea.
Alright, we're going to takethat 5 into the 208, 4.5
magnitude total and we're goingto come up with a 2.4 percentage
(47:08):
, 2.4.
And I'm not sure how this isgoing to work out in the long
run.
I just start doing this.
I've been doing my seven dayreport for the like the last
three years, on and off, but Ijust started doing the backward
(47:29):
account and the percentages thelast couple reports, so we'll
see how that turns out.
All right, we've got one moreyear to go back and look at, and
that's 2018.
So write it down 7-17-2018.
And we're going back seven daysfrom that date.
(47:50):
All magnitudes, are you readyfor it?
7,756.
All magnitudes, are you readyfor it?
7,756.
7,756, which gives a percentageof 77.6.
Now you see why I chose the10,000 earthquake total to start
(48:15):
from, because it made it easierto figure that percentage.
And then the 2.5 count is readyfor it?
1,908.
1908, which gave us apercentage of 24.6.
Which gave us a percentage of24.6.
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And then the 4.5 and over was204.
So it was very close to the2019 count, which was 208.
But the oil magnitude went down.
So you know what that means.
That percentage will be higher.
It's a 2.6 instead of a 1.8.
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Now we had four, four 6.0s andabove.
So the first one was a 6.0.
And it was in the SolomonIslands.
I hope I'm coming across themic all right, because I've got
my head turned sideways, becauseI'm reading this paperwork and
(49:23):
writing on the report at thesame time and it's kind of hard
to get it all situated.
Let me see if I can move thatkeyboard.
That would help, probably.
Okay, maybe I can get itsituated.
So's mike's on the side of mymouth, which might help a little
bit, I can keep it the sametone.
(49:44):
And then the next one is a 6.0and it was in yam yamen yamen,
yamen y e-n, and I was able topronounce that until just now.
Yeh-men, there we go.
The next one was a 6.0, againin Yeh-men, and that's not a
(50:10):
mistake.
They had two earthquakes, oneafter the other, both of them
being a 6.0.
And then the next one was a 6.4.
And I'm not sure if it'sVanuata is the right
pronunciation, but it'sV-A-N-U-A-T-A and it was a 6.4.
(50:35):
Let me write that down.
So taking this report andwriting it down will give you an
idea of what I'm talking about.
Otherwise it's just a bunch ofnumbers, but if you can see it
for yourself it may startlooking like a pattern.
But we had four majorearthquakes, which I call
(50:58):
anything over six major becausethey could be very catastrophic
life and physical damage toproperty.
They all could be bad.
But the sixes and over isreally bad.
But anyway, that percentagecomes to 2.0.
So we gota 2.0 percentage.
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Now the 30 day column once again.
I only do that once a month, soat the end of this month we
will do it again.
We'll just give the total ofall magnitudes, just to give us
a look at what the monthentailed for the last three
years, this year and the yearsprior to that.
(51:44):
So there you go.
There's a seven-day report.
If you've been with me before,you've kind of been familiar
with that.
It's a lot of numbers, a lot ofpercentages, kind of boring.
If you're not into it, and Iapologize if you're with that.
It's a lot of numbers, a lot ofpercentages, kind of boring.
If you're not into it, and Iapologize if you're not, we have
chapter markers.
If you're listening to it on apodcast player 2.0, you can just
(52:08):
hit the chapters and go onthrough all this stuff.
If you don't have one, thenyou're just going to have to
fast forward till you get to thegoodbye scene.
But that's it.
As you noticed, um, we did havea higher amount of all
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magnitudes in 2018 19 and we didhave a really high um 861 at
2.5, which is a lot of 2.5 andbelow earthquakes, then at 4.5
(52:56):
level, they wouldn't know.
It was just a little bit overour normal, which for this
year's around 100, 200, mainly150, stuff like that.
But the percentage stayed lowerbecause our all magnitude
number was higher.
So I'm not sure how to ratethis, to figure it, but five 6.0
(53:24):
earthquakes and above, and onceagain we had a seven, really
makes it look different.
But there you go.
Thank you for tuning in.
Really makes it look different,but there you go.
Sonny (53:39):
Thank you for tuning in.
I know what that means.
You're shifting gears.
Bruce (53:43):
Yep, we want to shift gears.
We want to give a shout-out toa couple of people that come
down to the store when was that?
Yesterday I believe, and theywere from Corporate two young
ladies and I gave them mysticker for the podcast and they
probably won't listen to it,but if you do and you pick this
(54:05):
one, I'm giving you a shout-out.
It was a joy to be able to meetyou and see one of them again.
It had been a while.
I'm not going to mention namesbecause I didn't get their
permission to do so, but hello,you know who I'm talking about.
Uh, thanks for coming into thestore and saying hi to me and
being friendly.
(54:25):
I enjoyed it and thanks forletting me give you a sticker
and a little bit more of ashout-out there for a minute
before we say goodbye.
Our downloads not a big amountof downloads.
In the past, I mean, we went anaverage, I think, 10 or 12 a
(54:48):
week, which is not a real bignumber, but here lately we've
been averaging between 60 and 80downloads a week.
So I want to do a shout out toall those people that have come
aboard.
That's downloading andreviewing our podcast.
(55:08):
I thank you, family, friendsand listeners.
I really appreciate it.
It's nice to know there'speople out there.
Again, we do value for value,which means most pretty well,
all the time I'm hoping foreverour stuff is going to be on the
(55:29):
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of all, for listeners to comeback.
That's the main thing.
Come back.
We appreciate that, and if youtell one person about one of our
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to gain.
Tell five and we may gain quitea bit, but the idea is to share
(55:53):
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But come back.
That's the main thing.
That's how you show support.
If you want to text us, if yougot a five point or a 2.0
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(56:14):
There's a place where it saystext us and we'll give you a
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That's exactly what it means.
You click on that link andit'll pull up a page where you
can text us and we will read iton the next episode.
That's what that's for guys.
Show us your support.
(56:34):
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We do an early episode postevery time we do an episode and
(56:59):
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You can go there.
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We have a Bitcoin link therewhere you can pay in Sochi Sassi
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(57:44):
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I just thought it was fittingto set it at that so you could
pay us in a row of ducks.
But any of that is very nice.
But the main thing again wewant you to do is come back,
tell us if you enjoyed the show,if you'd like to have more of
(58:06):
something or less of something.
Did you hear that?
Sunny, less of sunny?
Sonny (58:12):
hey, now I want to be here too.
You know that.
Bruce (58:16):
I do, I do and I like you being here.
We'll have to get Lily back too.
She's going to spend her wholesummer vacation and we're only
going to get her on here acouple times.
Sonny (58:28):
Yep, well, she is growing up.
Bruce (58:32):
Yeah, that's what happens .
They get older and they havedifferent things that get their
attention, and there's nothingwrong with that.
I enjoy it, I'm glad for herand I'm glad we had her when she
was younger.
Sonny (58:49):
Yeah, she did a good job, man.
You showed her the ropes andshe took off.
She was a natural.
Bruce (58:58):
Yes, I think she was With .
That, though, we're going tobid you guys a farewell.
It's been great.
I've enjoyed the day.
I always enjoy doing thepodcast, and if I don't enjoy it
, I just stop and save it fornext week, because I don't want
to give negative vibes.
I mean, we're here for the funof it, for the hobby of it.
(59:18):
We're also here, hopefully, togive our listeners something
other than the the bad news andthe wartime news and the
political news to listen to,because I could spend many, many
, many, many hours talking aboutall that stuff, just like
everybody else does.
That's not what we want to do.
(59:40):
We want to give you somethingelse to think about, listen to,
maybe even laugh, if you like,our dumb jokes.
Anyhow, we want to wisheverybody a good day.
The rest of the week.
I hope you have a good weekendand next week I hope it's a
blessing for you.
Stay tuned for the next episodewhen it comes rolling around.
(01:00:03):
Thanks for being with us on thepodcast.
This is bruce.
This is sunny and we want to saymay the Father's blessing go
with you, and we're going to bidyou farewell.
Are you ready, sonny?
Sonny (01:00:18):
I am ready, we're going to do it together.
Bruce (01:00:22):
Well, of course, let's go Bye.
you have arrived in the ugly quacking duck podcast.
Yes, sir, that's right.
The worst podcast in the knownuniverse could be the most worst
podcast in the unknown universe.
Yeah Well, welcome aboard.
(00:29):
You have arrived at the 114thepisode or edition, if you want
to say that, I hope you stickaround, hope you enjoy it and I
hope you come back again.
Sonny (00:48):
Oh boy, Welcome everybody , I'm Sonny.
Bruce (00:54):
And I'm Bruce.
Sonny (00:56):
And we are glad you're here, especially me.
I'm always glad.
Bruce (01:03):
Always glad.
Well, that's an interestingstatement, but, but, sonny, I'm
glad to have you aboard again.
Sonny (01:08):
Well thank you, Bruce.
It's good to be here.
I really enjoy podcasting withyou.
It's fun.
Bruce (01:15):
Well, I'm glad you feel that way.
I think some people would saywe're boring.
Sonny (01:20):
They don't know what they're talking about.
Bruce (01:22):
Well, I'm glad you said that we're not boring.
We're just what.
Sonny (01:27):
I don't know about you, but I'm fun.
Bruce (01:31):
All right.
Well, we're fun, but again,everybody, welcome to the Ugly
Quacking Duck podcast.
If this is your first timearound, stick around and see
what we have to offer.
If you've been here before,don't run off.
Sonny (01:48):
Okay, I'm waiting for the rest of it.
Bruce (01:51):
Oh, that was it.
I just said don't run off.
Sonny (01:54):
Oh, my mistake, I was waiting.
Bruce (01:58):
Well, that explains this dead silence.
Sonny (02:01):
Are you going to cut that out?
Bruce (02:04):
No, I'm going to leave it in.
I don't want to edit anythingif I don't have to.
It takes too much time and plusit makes it look like we're you
know professionals.
Sonny (02:14):
We're not professional.
Bruce (02:16):
Well, I don't know.
I think professional is whenyou get paid to do it and we're
doing it for the fun of it andthe hobby, and every now and
then somebody will you knowsupport us.
Sonny (02:28):
All right then.
So anyhow, hey, let me tell ajoke before you start the
serious stuff, okay?
Bruce (02:40):
A joke?
Huh yeah, let's do that.
Sonny (02:45):
Wow, that was my intro.
Bruce (02:48):
Yep, I thought that would help you get right in there and
tell a good joke.
You got a good joke, right.
Sonny (02:55):
Well, actually I think I'll tell two.
Bruce (02:59):
Oh, you're pushing your luck now.
Sonny (03:02):
I know, all right, ready, sure, all right.
Bruce (03:04):
Ready, sure All right.
Sonny (03:07):
When does a joke that's a joke now become a dad joke?
Bruce (03:15):
Uh, when does a joke become a dad joke?
Uh, when that dad tells it.
Sonny (03:22):
Oh, when their punchline becomes apparent.
Bruce (03:31):
Okay, when the punchline becomes apparent.
That's what it sounds like whenit goes over my head.
Sonny (03:39):
All right, how about this one Ready?
I put my old car in reverse andI thought, wow this really
takes me back.
Bruce (03:59):
It takes one to get you in the mood and two to really
get you.
You like.
Oh my gosh, I can't believethat one's funny.
It really wasn't.
How about another one?
Sonny (04:09):
All right, one more.
What do you call a cold puppy?
Bruce (04:17):
Uh, I don't know, a cold puppy.
Sonny (04:20):
No, silly it's a chilly dog.
Bruce (04:24):
No silly it's a chili dog man, a chili dog, a dad joke
and wait, a reverse joke.
Wow, have we stepped into a low, low moment.
Sonny (04:43):
No, we stepped back into a dad joke.
Bruce (04:48):
Yay, all right, I bet all of them was because I'm a dad,
right.
Sonny (04:56):
No, it was because you might be boring if we don't do a
dad joke.
Bruce (04:59):
Oh my gosh, Okay, wow, all right, folks forgive us for
being dudley slow on the intakeof jokes.
We'll have to come up with somebetter ones next week, but
that's a good start to gettalking about jokes, because
there's so much bad in the worldanymore.
(05:21):
It's not even funny how theworld's got uh crazy, the
weathers went crazy, and uh, ifyou don't know the father in
person, you may go crazy too.
So on with the show.
Sonny (05:40):
The show hey Bruce, I seen you online ordering some
stuff.
What did you get?
Bruce (05:50):
Well, actually I didn't get anything yet.
Sonny (05:57):
It hasn't come in, but you're being nosy again.
You're looking over my shoulder.
Yeah, you don't share anything,so I have to look.
Bruce (06:05):
Well, I ordered I got on our website sweet water um,
they're the ones that I orderelectronics from and I ordered a
couple more cables mic cablesbecause they seem to be breaking
on me here lately.
I've lost what three now and Ihardly ever move them.
(06:27):
I mean, I move them a littlebit.
When I move the mic boom down,they just quit or they start
shorting out.
They do weird stuff.
I don't know, I really don'tknow, people take them on stage
and they throw them around andthey pull on them and they last
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for a long time.
I get them, run them on mypodcast and after a year some of
them last me, uh, about threeyears, but there's a couple that
didn't last over a year, theyjust quit.
So I got and ordered some newMonster cables.
I'll put them in service when Iget them and you won't notice
(07:15):
any difference, but it'll makeme feel better because I got new
cables on everything.
And then I went ahead andordered a new Fethead.
It's a little amplifier stickthat you put in behind your mic
and, uh, I, I've got one.
I'm running on this microphoneright here and the one that is
(07:36):
being used by sunny.
I just run the preamp up higher, um, which you know makes it
sound good.
It doesn't take much on thatthing.
I think I'm running at about 30on that setting.
But a lot of times if you runthe little amplifier like the
(08:00):
fathead, it goes right in behindthe microphone and you just
turn the phantom power on and itwill increase your audio and
you don't have to, you know,turn up your preamp high and
higher, which sometimes willkill some of the extra static
and noise which I'm not seeing,any of that on this setup, but I
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thought I'd go ahead and dothat, you know, just a little
bit of improvement.
Like I said, you guys probablywon't out there, see any or not
see.
Wait a minute.
See, yeah, you probably won'thear any difference, but in my
mind there'll be a hugedifference in your mind there's
(08:47):
a huge vacuum.
Everything will make adifference oh, I see how it's
going to be today uh, same asevery day well, that could be
true.
Yeah, very well could be true.
But anyway, I thought I'd goahead and do that.
(09:07):
I had a little extra money outof the bank and my check, so I
thought, well, let's get someextra equipment, because the
next time I lose a cord I'm notgoing to have enough to go
around.
I'm going to be short becauseI've used up all my excess.
I had it set up where I couldhave, let's see, used up all my
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excess.
I had it set up where I couldhave, let's see, about six or
seven mics hooked up at once.
Now I'm down to running threeat once.
So if I ever have to hook upthat fourth one or hook up my
mixing board so I can hook upfour more, it's not going to be
possible.
Sonny (09:50):
So that's the reason I went ahead and ordered those.
All right, you're planningahead?
Bruce (09:55):
Good boy, good boy, yeah, good boy.
Sonny (10:03):
Wow, I feel like a little puppy dog.
Well, you're feeding me thatkind of baloney all the time.
Whatever I say doesn't meanwhat you think.
It just means you're doing good.
Bruce (10:17):
All right, lecture given, lecture taken.
Okay, now that we've boredeverybody to death about the
equipment I ordered, I hopeeverybody's having a good week.
We wasn't in here last week.
I actually had two days offlast weekend and I did a lot of
mowing and trying to get stuffcleaned up around here and I
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still didn't get anything done.
Got my ditch mowed though YayGot in.
After that day of being hot I'dgo out, mow a little bit, come
in and cool off, go back out andmow and I was wore out and I
really didn't feel like sittingdown and kind of putting all the
podcast together.
So I I just said we'll leave itoff.
(11:02):
I'm off on thursday.
By way, this is the 17th ofJuly, it is a Thursday.
I had a doctor's appointment, soI had the day off and I figured
when I got back I would do apodcast, yeah, and we would try
to make up for not being herelast weekend and that would give
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us a little bit of a break thisweekend to do more stuff if I
get a day off.
I don't think I get a day offthis weekend, I don't know, I'll
have to look at that, butanyhow we'll.
We'll get back on schedule andget you a podcast, hopefully
every tuesday, like we weredoing um, but just want will go
(11:44):
out today.
I'm not going to hold it, I'mgoing to send it, post it as
soon as I get it done, I'm goingto upload it and we'll go from
there.
How's that?
Sonny (11:57):
I'm confused when you say you're not going to hold it.
Bruce (12:03):
Yeah, I usually post it on my hosting page and then I
also put it on my or our webpage and I send out to
subscribers a notice that it'sthere so they can come and
listen to it early, and thenthat's usually on a Friday or
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Saturday, and then it's usuallyTuesday, sometimes Sunday, and
then Tuesday I release it on myhosting page, so there's a
little bit of a heads-up quickerif you're subscribed.
But this one I'm not going todo that.
I'm very limited on time off,so I'm just going to get it,
(12:45):
edit it as much as I need to andthen post it, get it uploaded
for you guys.
How's that sound now?
Do you understand, sonny?
Sonny (12:57):
Uh, I understand.
Bruce (13:00):
Oh, copycat.
Sonny (13:02):
I am not a cat, but I can do that.
Next morph.
Bruce (13:07):
I'm still waiting on you to morph again.
I kind of liked you being aduck, because that went along
with the Ugly Quacking Duckpodcast thing the theme you know
and then you morphed into afrog.
Why, why a frog?
Sonny (13:27):
It was raining.
Bruce (13:28):
Was it?
Was it raining that day?
Sonny (13:31):
Yes, it was.
Bruce (13:34):
So you morphed into a frog because it was raining.
Are you going to morph again?
Sonny (13:43):
I am Maybe Sometime, somehow.
Bruce (13:50):
Well, that wasn't a very good answer.
Are you going to tell us whatyou're going to morph into, or
do you have an idea?
Sonny (13:59):
Um, no, maybe, and who knows?
Bruce (14:10):
Okay, so no answers for us or the listeners.
Sonny (14:13):
Is that what you're telling us?
Our friends have to wait.
There you go.
You have to wait.
Bruce (14:16):
Just wait and see you know I'd like to have a video of
the last time, because that wasa surprise.
Who was it?
Lily was here.
She caught it with me and thatwas pretty cool, to be honest.
Sonny (14:32):
Well, if it had a video, I probably wouldn't have morphed
, would I?
Bruce (14:39):
Oh, I see how it is.
Okay.
Well, there we go.
We'll be waiting for the nexttime.
Hopefully you'll be telling uswhat you're going to be instead
of just shocking us.
Sonny (14:54):
Not really.
Hey, what's going on with theweather?
It's awful dark outside andit's only 3 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Bruce (15:05):
Yeah, there was a big, big dark black cloud that come
rumbling over earlier.
I was hurrying trying to beatit home from the doctor's
appointment before it hit and ithit and it rained really hard,
great big raindrops for about 15minutes and then it quit.
(15:29):
Uh, I don't think it'ssprinkling or anything right now
.
I guess I go raise up my blindso I could see.
Hang on, let me go do.
Okay, it doesn't look like it'ssprinkling or raining either
one, but it sure is.
Dark Cloud cover has blockedthe sunlight.
(15:50):
We are unable to see any UVbecause we can't see UV, but it
looks like it's dusk.
It looks like about 7.30 atnight, maybe 8 o'clock at night,
and it's only 3, well, it's 344.
Right now, here in SouthernIllinois we are transmitting, or
(16:14):
actually recording our show inour Midwest studio.
Sonny (16:23):
Studio yes, sir, we are live, not really we're recorded.
Bruce (16:31):
Yep, we are recorded.
If you're hearing this, we havebeen recorded.
Yeah, it's a.
What was that commercial?
Oh, it was a recording for a ora commercial for recording
(16:52):
tapes I think Maxell tapes,maybe Is it no Memorex.
There it goes.
Are you, is it live or is itMemorex?
Yeah, that was a goodcommercial.
Sure, it goes.
Is it live or is it Memorex?
Yeah, that was a goodcommercial.
Sonny (17:06):
Sure it was, I believe it .
Ha not.
So anyway, it's been storming.
Is that what you're saying,Bruce?
Bruce (17:16):
Yep, it's been leaning that way according to the
weather, off and on for thewhole week, but been leaning
that way according to theweather, off and on for the
whole week.
We've got very little moistureout of that storm, except for
today.
Today it actually come to astorm Now.
I think was it last night orthe night before it rained some.
(17:39):
I don't think there was a bigbad storm.
I know my lawnmower cover blewoff, so there must have been
some wind sometime, but they'repredicting it's supposed to
continue this through theevening.
So, yay, we're having someweather, not good weather.
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Speaking of weather, it's beenkind of crazy around the world.
There's been flash flooding.
I understand China got somefloods, new York, new Jersey had
some floods and everybodyremember Texas.
Last time I did an episode,they were having floods and we
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had to or we didn't have to, butwe asked for a prayer for
everybody and I still believethat's what we should be doing,
because there's been quite a bitof earthquakes, storms across
this country and across the restof the world.
We need to remember to pray foranybody that's affected.
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Pray for a little bit of acalming effect, believe
positively and I think it willchange things.
They're trying to get everybodystirred up and worried and sick
, and that will cause a lot ofthese catastrophes.
But yeah, there's been a lot offloods.
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Mexico had some, texas had someCalifornia if I'm forgetting
anybody, any state, I'm sorry.
There's been an earthquake inAlaska, 7.3.
We'll get more into theearthquakes in a little while.
Volcanic eruption I think itwas Iceland.
(19:27):
I'll have to look that upbefore I finish the podcast.
The weather's been bad, thoughWhile we're talking about local
weather, let's talk about ourcomparison here in southern
Illinois to where Sonny PhoenixArizona.
(19:48):
That's right, that's a good one.
We like to compare our localweather with Phoenix Arizona
because there's a slightdifference.
And so we're at 90% humiditytoday, and that's because it's
been raining and our wind is sixmiles an hour and our air
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quality is 55, which is kind ofmoderate, and phoenix arizona
right now, oh, by the way, it's77 degrees.
Phoenix arizona right now is100 degrees and fair.
That means they probably have afew clouds 27% humidity, 8 mile
(20:31):
an hour winds.
Air quality is 35.
That's it.
They're having some weather.
Don't know if you like that kindof weather or not.
The radar here shows a lot ofmore clouds coming through that
looks like they're going todissipate this evening and, uh,
(20:52):
most of the storms are going togo south of our location, which
is, uh, outside of mount vernon,illinois, and they're going to
go southeast, south ofEvansville, into Kentucky.
So, if that holds true, we maynot have much rain this
afternoon and this evening.
(21:14):
Don't know, we'll just have towait and see, right?
Yeah, and this is really weird,but I always look up the moon
rise and the moon set on thisweather app that I use and it
does not have a moon rise listed.
It's got two dots.
(21:34):
The moon set is at 103 pm, so Ithink we just already had that
cloudy, but we can't tell.
So I think we just already hadthat Cloudy, but we can't tell.
Kind of weird, but we're in thelast quarter of the moon, if
anybody cares.
Sonny (21:49):
Weird.
That's kind of weird, Bruce.
Why don't they?
Bruce (21:55):
have the moonrise.
I'm not sure.
I've not seen that before, evenif the moonrise is past, they
always have it, and I looked onmy phone and it's the same way.
So I'm not sure.
I don't know if it's a glitchin the matrix or something I'm
overlooking, but anyhow, whilewe're talking about the weather,
let's go to space weather andcheck out the solar flares, for
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today Looks like we've had a C2and a C5, is not very bad.
Could be a whole lot worse.
Uh, so so far we've got asunspot number of 182, which was
updated today, and we have zerodays of spotless sunspotless
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days.
In other words, each day thatwe've had so far has had some
kind of sunspot.
Sonny (22:52):
And tell us why that's important, Bruce, because you
haven't in a long time.
Bruce (22:59):
Well, I think you're right there, sonny, I probably
should a long time.
Well, I think you're rightthere, sonny, I probably should.
Sunspot activity is kind ofimportant because the more there
is and the larger there is theplasma and the electronic not
electronic, but the magneticwaves hit the Earth, especially
if they're heading this way.
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If they shear off and gosomewhere else, it's not that
big a deal.
But if they're headed this wayand they react with our
atmosphere, especially ourmagnetic field, it will cause a
lot of aurora borealis.
It will cause our magneticwaves to change Sorry about that
(23:43):
, excuse me, had to burp it willcharge up the shielding and it
will cause radials not to workproperly and all kinds of weird
things.
And a lot of the radio operatorslike to watch that solar flux
and it will kind of anticipatewhat the radio waves are going
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to be doing in the next few days.
But anyhow, if we get largeones we'll have a lot of effects
from that.
If there are smaller ones,probably not so much.
But it's neat to keep an eye onand I try to do that.
I haven't reported on it asmuch as I should and I apologize
for that.
But again, c5 is not too bad,not too great, but it's all
(24:35):
right.
If they get up into the Xs,then we need to worry.
Sonny (24:40):
Hey Bruce, you mentioned a volcano erupting.
Tell me more.
Bruce (24:47):
All right.
Yeah, the volcano over there inIceland actually erupted and
sent a long line of lava out.
They actually showed a pictureon it if you go look up Google,
but it was actually kind ofpretty in a destructive way.
(25:10):
But Iceland had a volcaniceruption that spewed wall of
lava.
I think it was mile long orsomething to that effect pretty
awesome effect.
But that happened July 17th,which is today.
Sonny (25:27):
Do that again.
Bruce (25:30):
Today.
Sonny (25:33):
Well, you got that mic set pretty good, that sounded
good.
Bruce (25:38):
Well, I'm glad I can impress you.
You're not easily impressed.
Sonny (25:43):
Oh don't I know it.
Oh don't I know it.
Bruce (25:46):
Oh, don't, I know it.
Yeah, anyhow, there's been alot of volcanic activity.
They're talking about someearthquakes happening to the
volcano out there in the oceanby california.
There are minor earthquakes andthey're kind of concerned that
that may cause that one to erupt.
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And then the one uh, mountrainer I think's what it is
actually had several earthquakesaround it.
Now these are small ones, like2.0s and stuff, but there's some
speculation that that may, ifthat continues, that may cause
an eruption.
Everybody's speculating.
(26:29):
Nobody knows.
That's not in our hands, ormaybe it is.
Maybe there's people that havethe power to do stuff like that
and they're just not telling us.
But anyhow, that's what's goingon around the world.
Are you going to tell?
Sonny (26:43):
us about the earthquakes and they're just not telling us.
But anyhow, that's what's goingon around the world.
Bruce (26:50):
Are you going to tell us about the earthquakes?
I figured I would, but I'mgoing to try to shorten it down
so it's not as long If you'venot been here.
For our other reports we do aseven-day earthquake report
where we take the earthquakesand back it up seven days.
Wow, I don't know if anybodyheard that, but there was a
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lightning strike and that isthunder and it just continues
rumbling.
Pretty cool when it storms likethat.
(27:31):
I've always wanted to get mycondenser microphone out and it
picks up really well 90 degreeson one side, 90 on on the other,
and it's great for recordingoutside stuff or no noises like
that, and I've always wanted toget that thing out and record.
(27:54):
But you know, time I did that,the the thunderstorm would
probably pass, wouldn't catchany of it Anyhow.
Where was I, sonny?
Uh, you was in the studiositting in your chair talking on
your mic.
Sonny (28:14):
Uh boy, I'm sure you took that literally, didn't you?
Bruce (28:20):
Well, yeah, okay.
Sonny (28:25):
I was just wondering where I was in the conversation.
Bruce (28:33):
Oh Well, that would mean I would have had to pay
attention, and I don't.
Sonny (28:38):
Wow, that was a slam.
You don't.
No, why should I?
Bruce (28:42):
You did all the talking.
Oh wow, I'm hurt.
Sonny (28:47):
No, you're not.
Quit lying to people.
Bruce (28:51):
All right.
No, I'm not Sorry folks, but itsounded good.
Sonny (28:56):
Yeah, you're trying to get me in trouble, get everybody
to hate me.
Bruce (29:01):
Well, hate's a strong word.
I was just wanting you to getin trouble.
Trouble get everybody to hateme.
Well, hate's a strong word.
I was just wanting you to getin trouble a little bit and
who's gonna get me in trouble?
come on, bruce, wake up all,right now that we've spent the
next, there's the last fiveminutes talking about where I
was in the conversation.
I definitely don't remember nowand I know you don't remember,
(29:22):
so, uh, let's just go back tothe earthquake report.
Anyhow, if you've not been withus before, that's what we do we
go back seven days, give thenumbers and I actually have put
together a little reportingsheet where you can write all
that down and, uh, you can dothat.
You can go to the Ugly QuackingDuck podcast.
(29:45):
No, forgive me,theuglyquackingduckcom.
Go to that webpage, go to thesupport page, which you can find
, the menu on the left side orup the top of the homepage.
Where you're on the homepage,go down, scroll down to the
bottom of it, type in your email, hit subscribe and follow along
(30:08):
when you get emails, which wedon't do it a whole lot right
now because we're working a lot,but anyway, that's what that's
for and you'll get updates toour podcast when it comes out.
But if you've got a podcast 2.0player, hey, it will alert you,
you'll be able to play it,you'll be able to follow along
(30:30):
with chapters.
You can text us on that 2.0player.
You can also boost us andsupport us.
But anyhow, if you go up thereto the top, click on Support our
podcast page, click on it, godown towards the bottom that you
can print out that spreadsheet.
(30:52):
Uh, you can download it andprint it out again later,
however you want to do it, butthat's where we're at.
That's what that is talkingabout.
There.
On other podcasts or the otherepisodes, I should say it looks
like there's some more stormscoming through.
Right now I'm hearing morethunder as we speak.
(31:16):
I'm not sure the mic's pickingit up, because I've got a pretty
good shielding around it.
We do pick up cars going by andclose booms, but I don't think
you'll hear a lot of it becausea lot of it's farther away.
I want to pause for a minute.
You won't notice the break.
I'm gonna run get me some teato sip on while I continue
(31:39):
talking.
Sonny (31:40):
So what kind of tea are you cooking there, Bruce?
Bruce (31:49):
Well, I am cooking as you say it.
I'm actually listening for thewater tea kettle to start
whistling.
I still like warming up mywater that way on the stove,
pouring it over my tea bags.
But to answer your question, Imix two different tea bags.
I have a ginger and turmerictea bag and then a dandelion
(32:13):
root tea bag.
I put them both in the tea cupand pour hot water boiling hot
water over them and let themsimmer there for a few minutes
and then I pick them up andsqueeze them and add a little
bit of honey and it's a reallygood drink.
It really is.
Sonny (32:33):
Okay, I'll take your word for it.
I'm not sure that would be thetea I would drink.
Bruce (32:40):
I can see that Probably wouldn't be.
You hear that thunder?
Sonny (32:44):
Yeah, I would drink.
I can see that Probablywouldn't be.
You hear that, thunder?
Yeah, I heard that it soundslike it's coming down.
Bruce (32:51):
Yep, we got another hard rain hitting right now.
Sounds like we're going to havesome rain this afternoon.
This is probably the last ofthat cloud front I've seen on
the radar.
Sonny (33:06):
Could be, or the radar could be wrong.
Bruce (33:11):
Could be.
I have now got my tea and I'mtrying to sip on it.
It's pretty hot, but we're here.
Sonny (33:22):
I think it's about time I was starting to snore.
Bruce (33:27):
Well, it's a good thing I paused the recording, or our
listeners would have heard yousnoring.
Sonny (33:34):
Yeah, probably would have .
Bruce (33:37):
Well, they, they didn't, and I'm glad.
Sonny (33:41):
All right, let's have the report.
Bruce (33:46):
All right, here we go.
If you don't have the paperprinted out, you can always
pause it, go back and print itand then come back.
That's the nice thing abouthaving a recording.
You can do all that kind ofstuff.
Let me hit the air conditionerbutton.
I forgot to turn it off and itwas making quite a bit of static
.
(34:06):
But we're going to start offwith the first year, which is
7-17-25.
Today, this year, we're goingback seven days to get the full
report.
So the first thing we willrecord is is the date.
So put that up there.
Move over to the right column.
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It says all magnitudes.
Today, going back seven days,there was 2,442, 2, 4, 4, 2.
And what I do to get thepercentage is I created a 100%
mark, which is 10,000earthquakes, which, um, so most
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of the earthquakes don't reachthat number, weekly I mean, but
there has been a few times itreached it and went over.
So we're going to get an over100% sometimes, which this
happened this week.
What 7-19,?
Yeah, 2019.
(35:12):
So that's how we come up withthat number.
I just created a 100% mark tocall it that, so we'd know,
because I don't know what otherthing to use.
But anyway, so we figure 2,442into 10,000, that's our mark to
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get a percentage and it comesout to 24.4%, of course, and
then the rest of the percentageswe take into that all number,
because each one of thosenumbers I'm going to give you
come out of that all number.
So right now there's 242 allmagnitudes.
(35:57):
That means it encapsulates the4.5, the 2.5s and over is a
(36:19):
number of 310.
So write that down for the 2.5,310.
And that percentage of the 2442is 12.7.
Now I'm not sure thesepercentages are going to show us
anything.
24.42 is 12.7.
Now, I'm not sure thesepercentages are going to show us
(36:42):
anything.
It's just going to give us morenumbers to track.
But what I have seen in the pastis many times one week will
have lower amount of allmagnitudes but the higher amount
of 4.5 and above magnitudes.
So if we're having a lot ofsmaller earthquakes which shows
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up in the all magnitude, thenthe 4.5 number is lower.
Usually it don't always add upthat way.
But if there's less allmagnitudes, which means 2.5 and
smaller, and smaller than 4.5,is less than the higher
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magnitude magnitude earthquakes,4.5 and above or more and vice
versa.
And that's what I've seen sofar, not every week, but very
many weeks are that way, whichis kind of a weird pattern.
Let me write this down 24, 42for all magnitudes, 310 for 25,
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and then the 4.5 magnitude comesup to 119.
And did I give you thepercentage for the 310?
That would be 12.7.
12.7 is what the 310 count isof the 2442, 12.7 percent, and
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then the one 4.5 percent or 4.5and over magnitudes come up to
119, which gives us a 4.9percent of that number.
So what I'm hoping is ourpercentages eventually will show
that pattern better.
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All right, then the 6.0, I breakthem out into where they're at.
We only had three, but we liketo write down where they're at,
just kind of to show you guysthe main areas that's getting
hit, because it's almost thesame every year, every week,
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because there's just certainfault lines that get hit all the
time.
Now there's some that hasn'tbeen hit majorly in quite a long
time, majorly in quite a longtime.
So we go to the 6.0s.
The first one everybody knowsbecause I've already told
(39:26):
everybody about it, but there'sa 7.3 in Alaska.
It was actually south orsouth-southwest, something like
that uh, about 58 miles ofsandpoint alaska, so that that
was pretty close and they wasgiven tsunami warnings.
(39:46):
I think it um eventually rolledout.
We didn't get a someone, so nottsunami.
Forgive me for not being ableto talk Wow.
Sonny (40:01):
You're scary, get a drink of tea.
Bruce (40:05):
I don't know what that has to do with me being scary,
but I will do that.
I'll get a drink of tea.
Hang on just one minute.
Ow, that's hot.
I guess that's what happenswhen you use boiling water to
make your tea.
All right, back to the story,and we're sticking to it.
(40:29):
7.3 location was Alaska, andthen the next one was a 6.2, and
it was in Panama.
And then the next one was a 6.7, and it was in Indonesia, which
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all these are on fault linesand you see them quite often.
Panama has not been a reallyactive one that we have seen.
There's a lot of smaller ones,but not a 6.2.
That's kind of very active.
Anyway, then the percentage.
We figure that percentage ofthe 6.0 and over earthquakes
(41:16):
from the 4.5 total, becausethat's where them numbers come
from.
So the 4.5 was 119.
So we had three 6.0 earthquakes, so that percentage turned out
to be a 2.5.
2.5%.
There we go.
So write that down next to thepercent sign on that column and
(41:42):
then go down to the next one.
We're looking at the year 2019.
I backed up to that which, if Iremember correct, that's six
years now.
I picked 2019 just out of theblue, Not sure why I picked that
year and I started goingthrough it and I realized that
numbers on that all magnitudewas sky high and I seen that
(42:08):
there was a lot of sixes andseven earthquakes, which really
blew me away because originallyI would think that there was
lesser amount of earthquakes inthe past.
Now we know there's been majorearthquakes in the past.
I'm not saying that, I'm justsaying the total numbers.
But lo and behold, 2019 seemsto be a bigger amount.
(42:31):
Then I went back a few moreyears 10, I think 15 years and
they didn't really add up toanything.
There's more like what we'rehaving now, with less six and
over earthquakes.
So then I looked at 2018, andthat number is a little bit high
too, especially the overallearthquakes.
(42:54):
So I got to thinking maybe thejust like when we figure a seven
week and then the next or Imean the seven days, then the
next week the seven day numbersare a little bit lower or higher
.
Maybe that's going on on thatyear too.
Maybe 2018 was kind of high,but 2019, the total six and old
(43:22):
numbers was higher and as I givethese reports out over the year
, we'll see if that comes up.
That's another reason I'm usingor figuring the percentages,
see if that would show it.
And I'm keeping track onanother table that I've created
(43:42):
and if it works out, I'll beable to put that on the webpage
too, so you can see that.
Anyhow, 2019, the totalall-magnitude earthquakes.
Let's write that down.
7-17-2019, all-magnitudeearthquakes.
(44:02):
Was you ready for this?
11,724.
That's right.
11,724 all-magnitudes that's abig amount.
724, all magnitudes that's abig amount.
And then that percentage.
If you figure it at 10,000,that percentage is going to be
(44:22):
over 100%.
So let's figure that.
So it goes at 117.2%.
And then 2.5 and aboveearthquakes was 861, and that
figures into 11,000, so you comeup to a 7.3%.
(44:45):
And then the 4.5 number was 208, and it was a 1.8 percent.
So I'm not sure this percentageis going to work out for us as
far as what we're seeing.
(45:06):
But, um, if the percentage ofum all magnitudes was lower than
we're seeing, a higher, 2.5 anda 4.5 maybe, and then we'll
just have to see if that worksout, because that seems to be
(45:26):
the way it's going so far.
And then the 6.0 and aboveearthquakes there was five of
them, and the first one was a6.3, and it was in Papua New
Guinea.
I'm writing this down as I'msaying it, so pardon me pausing
for a minute.
The next one was a 7.2.
(45:48):
Now I just go down the list.
Sometimes if I catch them, I'llwrite them in power order.
So the sixes, sevens.
But if I'm unable to do that, Ijust write them down as they
appear on the list, and theyusually appear by date, not by
(46:10):
size.
The next one was a 7.2 and itwas in Indonesia.
And the next one was a 7.2 andit was in indonesia.
And the next one was a 6.6 andit was in australia, which's a
very common one to see.
And then we had another one inPapua New Guinea.
(46:45):
It was a 6.0.
That was probably an aftershockin Papua New Guinea.
Aftershock in Papua New Guinea.
Alright, we're going to takethat 5 into the 208, 4.5
magnitude total and we're goingto come up with a 2.4 percentage
(47:08):
, 2.4.
And I'm not sure how this isgoing to work out in the long
run.
I just start doing this.
I've been doing my seven dayreport for the like the last
three years, on and off, but Ijust started doing the backward
(47:29):
account and the percentages thelast couple reports, so we'll
see how that turns out.
All right, we've got one moreyear to go back and look at, and
that's 2018.
So write it down 7-17-2018.
And we're going back seven daysfrom that date.
(47:50):
All magnitudes, are you readyfor it?
7,756.
All magnitudes, are you readyfor it?
7,756.
7,756, which gives a percentageof 77.6.
Now you see why I chose the10,000 earthquake total to start
(48:15):
from, because it made it easierto figure that percentage.
And then the 2.5 count is readyfor it?
1,908.
1908, which gave us apercentage of 24.6.
Which gave us a percentage of24.6.
(48:39):
And then the 4.5 and over was204.
So it was very close to the2019 count, which was 208.
But the oil magnitude went down.
So you know what that means.
That percentage will be higher.
It's a 2.6 instead of a 1.8.
(49:01):
Now we had four, four 6.0s andabove.
So the first one was a 6.0.
And it was in the SolomonIslands.
I hope I'm coming across themic all right, because I've got
my head turned sideways, becauseI'm reading this paperwork and
(49:23):
writing on the report at thesame time and it's kind of hard
to get it all situated.
Let me see if I can move thatkeyboard.
That would help, probably.
Okay, maybe I can get itsituated.
So's mike's on the side of mymouth, which might help a little
bit, I can keep it the sametone.
(49:44):
And then the next one is a 6.0and it was in yam yamen yamen,
yamen y e-n, and I was able topronounce that until just now.
Yeh-men, there we go.
The next one was a 6.0, againin Yeh-men, and that's not a
(50:10):
mistake.
They had two earthquakes, oneafter the other, both of them
being a 6.0.
And then the next one was a 6.4.
And I'm not sure if it'sVanuata is the right
pronunciation, but it'sV-A-N-U-A-T-A and it was a 6.4.
(50:35):
Let me write that down.
So taking this report andwriting it down will give you an
idea of what I'm talking about.
Otherwise it's just a bunch ofnumbers, but if you can see it
for yourself it may startlooking like a pattern.
But we had four majorearthquakes, which I call
(50:58):
anything over six major becausethey could be very catastrophic
life and physical damage toproperty.
They all could be bad.
But the sixes and over isreally bad.
But anyway, that percentagecomes to 2.0.
So we gota 2.0 percentage.
(51:21):
Now the 30 day column once again.
I only do that once a month, soat the end of this month we
will do it again.
We'll just give the total ofall magnitudes, just to give us
a look at what the monthentailed for the last three
years, this year and the yearsprior to that.
(51:44):
So there you go.
There's a seven-day report.
If you've been with me before,you've kind of been familiar
with that.
It's a lot of numbers, a lot ofpercentages, kind of boring.
If you're not into it, and Iapologize if you're with that.
It's a lot of numbers, a lot ofpercentages, kind of boring.
If you're not into it, and Iapologize if you're not, we have
chapter markers.
If you're listening to it on apodcast player 2.0, you can just
(52:08):
hit the chapters and go onthrough all this stuff.
If you don't have one, thenyou're just going to have to
fast forward till you get to thegoodbye scene.
But that's it.
As you noticed, um, we did havea higher amount of all
(52:29):
magnitudes in 2018 19 and we didhave a really high um 861 at
2.5, which is a lot of 2.5 andbelow earthquakes, then at 4.5
(52:56):
level, they wouldn't know.
It was just a little bit overour normal, which for this
year's around 100, 200, mainly150, stuff like that.
But the percentage stayed lowerbecause our all magnitude
number was higher.
So I'm not sure how to ratethis, to figure it, but five 6.0
(53:24):
earthquakes and above, and onceagain we had a seven, really
makes it look different.
But there you go.
Thank you for tuning in.
Really makes it look different,but there you go.
Sonny (53:39):
Thank you for tuning in.
I know what that means.
You're shifting gears.
Bruce (53:43):
Yep, we want to shift gears.
We want to give a shout-out toa couple of people that come
down to the store when was that?
Yesterday I believe, and theywere from Corporate two young
ladies and I gave them mysticker for the podcast and they
probably won't listen to it,but if you do and you pick this
(54:05):
one, I'm giving you a shout-out.
It was a joy to be able to meetyou and see one of them again.
It had been a while.
I'm not going to mention namesbecause I didn't get their
permission to do so, but hello,you know who I'm talking about.
Uh, thanks for coming into thestore and saying hi to me and
being friendly.
(54:25):
I enjoyed it and thanks forletting me give you a sticker
and a little bit more of ashout-out there for a minute
before we say goodbye.
Our downloads not a big amountof downloads.
In the past, I mean, we went anaverage, I think, 10 or 12 a
(54:48):
week, which is not a real bignumber, but here lately we've
been averaging between 60 and 80downloads a week.
So I want to do a shout out toall those people that have come
aboard.
That's downloading andreviewing our podcast.
(55:08):
I thank you, family, friendsand listeners.
I really appreciate it.
It's nice to know there'speople out there.
Again, we do value for value,which means most pretty well,
all the time I'm hoping foreverour stuff is going to be on the
(55:29):
free part and the way we'regoing to get support is, first
of all, for listeners to comeback.
That's the main thing.
Come back.
We appreciate that, and if youtell one person about one of our
podcasts and maybe they'lllisten to it, then we're going
to gain.
Tell five and we may gain quitea bit, but the idea is to share
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But come back.
That's the main thing.
That's how you show support.
If you want to text us, if yougot a five point or a 2.0
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There's a place where it saystext us and we'll give you a
shout-out.
That's exactly what it means.
You click on that link andit'll pull up a page where you
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That's what that's for guys.
Show us your support.
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Tell us you're there.
Ask us a question.
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Look us up, look at some of theposts we've done.
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We do an early episode postevery time we do an episode and
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every time we do a new one, soyou won't get to see the old
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But we have a support page.
You can go there.
If you feel like supporting usfinancially, click on one of the
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We have a Bitcoin link therewhere you can pay in Sochi Sassi
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duck Row of ducks is what thatis.
I just thought it was fittingto set it at that so you could
pay us in a row of ducks.
But any of that is very nice.
But the main thing again wewant you to do is come back,
tell us if you enjoyed the show,if you'd like to have more of
(58:06):
something or less of something.
Did you hear that?
Sunny, less of sunny?
Sonny (58:12):
hey, now I want to be here too.
You know that.
Bruce (58:16):
I do, I do and I like you being here.
We'll have to get Lily back too.
She's going to spend her wholesummer vacation and we're only
going to get her on here acouple times.
Sonny (58:28):
Yep, well, she is growing up.
Bruce (58:32):
Yeah, that's what happens .
They get older and they havedifferent things that get their
attention, and there's nothingwrong with that.
I enjoy it, I'm glad for herand I'm glad we had her when she
was younger.
Sonny (58:49):
Yeah, she did a good job, man.
You showed her the ropes andshe took off.
She was a natural.
Bruce (58:58):
Yes, I think she was With .
That, though, we're going tobid you guys a farewell.
It's been great.
I've enjoyed the day.
I always enjoy doing thepodcast, and if I don't enjoy it
, I just stop and save it fornext week, because I don't want
to give negative vibes.
I mean, we're here for the funof it, for the hobby of it.
(59:18):
We're also here, hopefully, togive our listeners something
other than the the bad news andthe wartime news and the
political news to listen to,because I could spend many, many
, many, many hours talking aboutall that stuff, just like
everybody else does.
That's not what we want to do.
(59:40):
We want to give you somethingelse to think about, listen to,
maybe even laugh, if you like,our dumb jokes.
Anyhow, we want to wisheverybody a good day.
The rest of the week.
I hope you have a good weekendand next week I hope it's a
blessing for you.
Stay tuned for the next episodewhen it comes rolling around.
(01:00:03):
Thanks for being with us on thepodcast.
This is bruce.
This is sunny and we want to saymay the Father's blessing go
with you, and we're going to bidyou farewell.
Are you ready, sonny?
Sonny (01:00:18):
I am ready, we're going to do it together.
Bruce (01:00:22):
Well, of course, let's go Bye.
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