June 9, 2025 • 56 mins
Bruce and Sunny explore earthquake data spanning six years and make a surprising discovery that challenges common assumptions about increasing seismic activity. They introduce a new downloadable tracking tool for listeners who want to follow along with their research.
• New Harry Potter TV series cast has been announced with filming to begin this summer
• SpaceX's ninth Starship test flight ended in failure, crashing into the Indian Ocean after experiencing technical difficulties
• Japan's private lunar landing mission lost contact and was deemed unsuccessful, adding to recent moon mission failures
• 47 volcanoes are currently on the "continuing eruption" list worldwide, including major activity in Italy, Russia, Philippines, and Japan
• Earthquake data comparison shows higher seismic activity in 2019 than in 2025, contradicting the narrative that earthquakes are increasing
• New website features include a downloadable earthquake tracking sheet and a "Podcasts We Love" section
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Bruce (00:05):
It's time.
Sunny (00:08):
What time is it?
Bruce (00:11):
It's time for a brand new episode of the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
Yay, I like it better when wedo it manually.
Sunny (00:23):
Well, I don't know about that, but every time you pushed
up my button it did somethingweird and it was popping and
cracking.
So it's better, since we'vedone it manually.
Bruce (00:37):
Yep, it is definitely better manually, and I don't
know why your mic is so loudtoday.
It's louder than it was thelast time.
I didn't do nothing.
I didn't either, but anyway,welcome aboard folks.
This is episode 110 of the uglyquacking duck podcast, and
you're listening to the worstpodcast in the known universe
(01:02):
aren't you getting tired ofsaying that?
Nope, that's kind of fun allright.
Sunny (01:09):
Well, I'll go along with you for now oh, don't threaten
me all right.
Bruce (01:18):
Well, it's uh sunday june the 8th and we're recording on
this.
Sunday morning it's sun shining.
We got the windows open, thefans are turned off so we won't
have any noise, but you can hearthe trucks and the cars and the
motorcycles go by every now andthen.
(01:40):
But it's a beautiful day, folks.
Uh, it's only 72 in here in thestudio 72, is that warm, cold,
or what?
um, it's what, whatever we makeit to be, we want to welcome
(02:00):
family and friends aboard theshow.
Um, if you um listen to thisand have any comments or
additive things you want to putin there, email us.
We're putting this out rightoff the bat, man.
Email us at the ugly quackingduck at gmailcom.
(02:22):
Hear that loud boy?
They're loud when they go by.
Or go to our website,theuglyquackingduckcom.
Go to the front page and you cango all the way down.
You hit subscribe type in youremail and just click on the
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(02:46):
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time we do a post or a newepisode, it will pop up on an
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That way you don't have tosearch for our stuff.
But if you want to read alittle bit more about our
podcast and what we're doing,you can go to the different
pages and, uh, we've got a newcouple new additives we're going
(03:09):
to tell you about as we goalong.
But there you go.
Um, that's what we're talkingabout today and we are coming to
you from our studio in themidwest southern illinois,
that's, outskirts of MountVernon, illinois.
So we want to shout out toMount Vernon and the surrounding
(03:31):
areas, to our friends andfamily.
We want to shout out toSouthern Illinois we're, you
know, in the same boat, all youguys are in and we've got the
same governor and we don't needto need to say anymore just pray
for us folks in them, otherstates, because you don't know
what it's like apparently ain'tthat bad, or we'd have done all
(03:56):
moved well, that could be said,could be said, could be true.
But when you're owning a home,have a job, the wife has a job
you can't just pick it all upand go somewhere else.
I guess you could, I don't know, that's neither here nor there.
(04:18):
Well, that's where we're atright now and that's where we're
transmitting from.
The broadcast is being recordedhere as of now.
Sunny (04:30):
As of now.
Bruce (04:33):
Well, yeah, there you go, so we're thankful for everybody
that's come over and found ourpodcast, or you search for it
and got it.
However, you come about, listento us at this time.
Thank you, we really appreciateit, and if you're in southern
(04:56):
Illinois, you know what kind ofweather we've been having.
It's been kind of weird one dayit'd be hot and sunny and the
next day it'd be rainy andcloudy, and most of the days
last week were cloudy.
Uh, there was some rain off andon, and then, when the weekend
got here, of course it rained.
(05:19):
Friday it rained.
Saturday it rained.
Uh, today is supposed to be abetter day, though, and it looks
like it.
We're going to have sunshine,and the grass has probably grown
two foot already.
With this sun and warm rain, ohyeah, have to get the lawnmower
(05:40):
out.
Yay, looking forward to that.
Sunny (05:44):
Oh, just hire you a couple of goats.
Bruce (05:48):
Yep, a couple of goats it is.
Get out there, boys, get thatgrass cut, don't you wish?
Sunny (05:58):
it was that easy.
Bruce (06:00):
I do, I do for sure.
Sunny (06:04):
Boy.
This has been a really weirdepisode to get started recording
, hasn't it, bruce?
Bruce (06:12):
It has Very weird.
This is like the fourth timewe've tried to start this
episode.
Sunny (06:22):
Yep, we did it uh friday evening and then again saturday
morning yep, and then uh, two orthree times this morning.
Bruce (06:37):
Um, the friday and saturday we had, uh, I had mic
problems.
It was really bizarre.
I couldn't get my mic to workat all.
You know, I was having troublethe last couple episodes but
didn't pay a bit of attention.
Apparently my mic cable, forwhatever weird reason.
(06:57):
You know I don't move the miccable much, I move the arm
slightly when we get ready torecord, so there's a little bit
of flexing going on, but boy,not much, and that darn mic cord
just quit.
I mean it just I turned it on,uh, friday night and it didn't
(07:19):
work and I messed with it.
Messed with it, I had a coupleother things going on.
So I just went back to itSaturday morning and finally,
right before I got ready to justgive it up, I decided to change
the mic cord.
I don't know why.
I didn't do that the first timeand sure enough the mic cord
(07:42):
went bad.
So the mic just peaked right up.
That may have been the reason Iwas losing volume sometimes.
You know, I'd have to kind ofreadjust.
I don't know if you guys heardall that, but I'd lose a little
bit of power and I'd readjust.
Couldn't figure out why, but Iguess that mic cord had been bad
(08:03):
all along and I'm going to haveto order some good ones anyway.
And then this morning we gotready to go and I kept hitting
that one uh new episode buttonthat I've got a previous
recording of and it, uh it keptpopping and cracking.
(08:23):
It wouldn't record or play.
Right, what a morning, butthat's the way it goes when
we're starting to record.
Sunny (08:34):
I wonder if everybody has that kind of trouble.
Bruce (08:38):
Yeah, I'm sure they do when you're dealing with humans.
This is not AI.
We are full-blooded, breathinglife.
There you go.
Sunny (08:52):
Okay, I was getting ready to say if you call me a human
one more time, I'm leaving.
Bruce (08:58):
Oh, you are not.
Don't be so, darn touchy.
Sunny (09:02):
I can, if I want.
Bruce (09:13):
All right, well, I don't think so, darn touchy, I can't.
If I want, all right, well, Idon't think you want, but anyhow
, um, yeah, folks, it's been aninteresting uh weekend trying to
get this thing recorded.
But I think everybody probablyhas problems off and on.
I mean, there's times when yousit down and our planning goes
smooth I mean, what we want totalk about goes smooth and, um,
me being too able to articulateeverything I'm wanting to say
(09:34):
goes smooth and then I wake upin the mornings and I realize
that was a dream and life isjust not that way.
It just doesn't go smooth forme at all.
I have to work on it and I planwhat I want to say and then I
can't get it out and I, yeah,that's life.
(09:56):
I hope you enjoy that kind ofhillbilly stuff, because that's
the way our podcasts are andwe're not going to be able to
change that.
Sunny (10:07):
Yeah, we can.
We can hire AI to run the botor run the podcast, run
something.
Bruce (10:15):
Yeah, they'll run it right into the ground and leave
us.
Sunny (10:22):
AI has its purpose, but not doing my podcast.
Bruce (10:29):
Okay, I guess we know how you feel about that.
Sunny (10:30):
that's all I got to say about that well, I think, bruce,
you ought to tell everybodyabout the local weather compared
to Phoenix Arizona, you know.
Bruce (10:47):
I think I will.
I like doing that.
Everybody knows what oursouthern Illinois weather is
because I just told you and ifyou're living here you've
experienced it and pretty welleverybody in the Midwest, all
the way down to Texas and up towhat ohio, have been
(11:08):
experiencing the same kind ofweird weather.
But let's talk real short.
I always like comparing us tophoenix, arizona, because that's
kind of a off the beaten pathand, um, it should be a little
bit different type weather.
So we're having 72 degreestoday, right now.
(11:31):
Um, it's fair, that's whatthey're saying.
Uh, the humidity is at 72percent, the wind is at three
miles an hour and the airquality is 95.
Wow, I'm not sure why it's sohigh.
That's kind of weird.
(11:51):
And if we flip the page over toPhoenix, arizona, it's 85
degrees there and sunny.
And I don't mean it's, I domean it's sunny.
Never mind, and I don't meanit's, I do mean it's sunny.
Sunny (12:06):
Never mind.
Oh, you couldn't think nothingfunny to say about me, so you
kind of blew that one.
Ha ha.
Bruce (12:18):
Yeah, you got egg on your face now, buddy, all right,
well, if you say so, but it is18% humidity in arizona, phoenix
, where we have 72.
You can tell it's dry ourclimate there now.
We did get a lot of rain, so wegot a lot of water in the
ground and on the grass, whichis going to bring up the
(12:42):
humidity and it's going to bringup the heat.
We're going to have nastyweather.
It's june, though, guys,summer's right around the corner
, and yeah, they got six mileper hour wind.
Uh, the air quality is 35compared to our 95.
So, whoa, that's, that'sbizarre.
(13:08):
They are predicting they'regoing to have 107 degree weather
or temperature today.
Yeah, 80 degrees tonight.
107, wow, I'm not sure that'seven nice.
We are predicting to have 82degrees today and a high of 62
(13:33):
tonight.
All right, uv index here is 9out of 11.
Sunrise was at 5 31 amm andsunset is at 8.18 pm.
We are in waxing gibbous moonphase.
(13:54):
The moonrise will be at 6.16 pmand it will set at 3.24 am.
Wow, how wild is that?
Let's see what it says aboutPhoenix.
Now, what was I going to lookfor?
(14:18):
Oh, they're saying today around.
Oh, that's the 15th.
They're saying the 15th Sunday,the 15th is going to be 110
degrees.
Jeez, that's why we're not inPhoenix, isn't it?
(14:40):
People say you know it's adifferent temperature there.
People say you know it's adifferent temperature there.
It's not that hot, humid likewe have.
When you're looking at 107degrees.
I don't think there is a cooler, it's just hot.
Anyhow, we're right now at 72degrees.
(15:04):
It's a fair day, it's beautiful.
Um, I've got the fan barelyturned on to give me a little
fresh air in here while I'mrecording and we got cars going
up and down the strip like crazy.
This highway is really badabout that, so if you're hearing
that noise, I apologize.
(15:24):
We do not have a soundproofstudio.
We got a makeshift studio.
We just have to deal with it.
So I hope you don't mind either, there you go.
(15:47):
So in on and going ahead.
Sunny (15:51):
What was that?
Bruce (15:54):
I don't know, I just made it up as we went.
You can tell, I know for surethat there's some Harry Potter
fans that listen to the show, tothe podcast, and I'm sure
(16:19):
they've already heard the news,but I'm going to re-emphasize it
.
They are coming out with a TVseries, a Harry Potter TV series
, with a tv series, a harrypotter tv series, and they have
chosen the main cast, which isthe young people that's going to
(16:39):
play harry potter, hermione andron, and they've got their
names listed and they actuallyhave a picture on the web and
I've downloaded that picture,I'm going to put it on the
podcast and I may put it on ourweb page too, so you can see.
(17:01):
If you're too lazy to go, lookfor it.
Sunny (17:07):
That was cruel.
Bruce (17:10):
Oh, that was a good dig.
Sunny (17:12):
All right.
Bruce (17:13):
Whatever you think.
Okay, whatever I think goes.
I just noticed my mic volumewas tilted down a little bit.
I hit it back up, so anyway,yeah, I thought that was
(17:34):
interesting for the Harry Potterfans.
They're going to come up withthat TV series.
I forget when it was going tocome out.
They're going to start filmingthis summer and I think it's
going to debut sometime nextyear.
So we'll have to hold them tothat, you know.
(17:57):
But that's a game plan thatcome out on May, the 27th, that
headline, and I've been savingit.
Sunny (18:08):
You've been hoping that there's some Harry Potter fans
that listen to your podcast Iactually know that there are a
few they.
They may not respond, but yeah,anyhow hey, bruce, I see that
you've already drunk your teathis morning.
(18:30):
Now, now you've got a glass ofsomething dark.
What is that?
Bruce (18:37):
Well, I'm glad you asked.
I am switched over to a glassof cold brew beer.
Sunny (18:45):
Oh, brew beer.
Bruce (18:48):
Yep, I went out in the garage and got that a while ago.
I needed something.
You know, I usually drink a lotof water, but for some reason I
just felt the need to have alittle bit of something besides
my tea and water, so I went andgot me a root beer root beer,
yep, root beer.
Yeah, there we go hey, rootbeer, yep, root beer.
(19:11):
Yeah, there we go.
Hey, have you heard.
I've heard a lot.
Yeah, I bet you have.
On May the 28th, spacex carriedout the ninth test flight of
its Starship Yep, and we allknow who's got SpaceX.
So if you guys are all offendedthat I brought his company up,
(19:34):
I'm sorry but it's part of thespace news.
He launched another Starshipthat's that big space vehicle
that they're going to use to geta mission to the moon.
But it carried out another testflight and it was not very good
(19:55):
one.
Now, the not very good one wasmy words.
Uh, it was the third test flightof the starship.
That, uh, didn't complete theentire flight, um, but
apparently elon musk was prettyhappy with the different places
(20:16):
it went through, or differentvalues or the checkpoints for
the flight.
So I don't know what hispicture of success for those
flights are and what I perceive,but apparently after launching
it had a fuel tank leak and afew other issues and it it did,
(20:42):
they lost contact with it and itdid an uncontrolled spin right
into the indian ocean and Ithink the game plan is for this
thing to take some astronauts upto the moon, back in or back
hello in 2027.
So some would say back to themoon, moon, moon, moon, moon,
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moon in 2027.
And then the others would say,oh, we're going there finally,
to the moon, moon, moon, moon.
I'll let you decide which sideof the fence you're on.
And while we are listing failedmissions to the moon, they're
starting to stack up quite a bit.
(21:26):
Uh, japan had a private, had aprivate lander, private company
that took off and they toucheddown or was supposed to touch
down Friday, which was what the5th and apparently they lost
(21:47):
contact with their lander andafter not being able to regain
contact, they described themission, mission, said they
concluded it.
Um, so it probably crashed.
I think it's kind of strangehow there's been so many
(22:07):
missions to the moon, supposedlythat they've lost contact or
crashed there, and yet we gotthere back in what?
69?
On the first attempt, we are sogood, wow, anyhow, japan didn't
(22:34):
make it.
I think that what was theircompany's name?
It was um, ispace, yep, ispace,I think, is what it was called.
Sunny (22:52):
What a weird name.
Bruce (22:57):
That must have been at the end of the news portion.
You got that right.
We just switched over.
I wanted to talk a little bitabout volcanoes.
We're having a lot of volcanoesshow up in the news and I don't
know if anybody's followingthose.
(23:26):
But you know, I did a little bitof research to kind of give a
report and igs volcanic uhreporting site, and did a little
research and what I've got?
Um, they've got a list and most, most of these excuse me, most
(23:52):
of the volcanoes on this listare considered continued active
and they've been that way for along time.
So I thought, well, I'll justscroll through a few of them.
Well, I just got a text fromwork.
I'm going to have to go in andcover somebody's shift, so I'm
(24:15):
probably going to have to cutthis short.
But anyway, I'm on that pageand I got to look into the list
and I figured I would just covera few of them on the list.
The etna volcano in italy, umhas been erupting, I think every
year, but it started a neweruption around June the 2nd and
(24:43):
it reached its highest level by0250.
I'm not sure exactly if that'slocal time or what time they're
using there, because it doesn'tsay greenwich time, if I was
going to guess, but anyway.
(25:03):
The next one's in russia.
And again, this is continuedvolcanic eruption list.
This one's been erupting sincewell, during 23 through 29th of
May.
The biggest explosion was at1945, on May the 28th.
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It would produce ash plums thatrose 6.5 or 21,300 feet in the
air Wow.
And the next one is tailT-A-A-L in the Philippines and
it was active May the 3rdthrough June, so several days,
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but during May the 27th and Junethe 3rd, that time period in
between, there it was the mosttremors and stuff, most tremors
and stuff.
And then there's the next onewas A-H-Y-A or I C-Mount,
(26:19):
c-mount.
It has continued eruptingduring the 24th through the 30th
of May period.
And then there was another onein Japan, a-i-r-a, a-r-i, r-a.
And then there was another onein Japan, aira.
It's been reported activethrough May the 26th through May
(26:43):
the 28th.
It was spewing out sulfurdioxide emissions.
It was spewing out sulfurdioxide emissions extremely high
, averaging 3,500 tons per day,so that one's really spitting
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out a lot.
And then the next one was AMBAE, a-m-b-a-e, I'm not even sure
where that's at.
It's V-A-N-U-A-T-U, vanatu, andit's been hitting since May the
28th through June the 3rd.
This is the latest report.
(27:25):
It goes through June the 3rd,so that's why you're only
hearing June the 3rd.
And there's several more on thelist and I'm not going to go
over all of them, but there's alot of volcanoes erupting,
vibrating, spewing stuff out.
They've got 47 on theircontinuing eruption list 47.
(27:58):
Their continuing eruption list47.
So that tells me there's been alot more activity than the news
has been showing us and I guessit's regularly reporting this.
Um, it's nothing new to them,which you know.
I've been hearing all these newreports like, oh, we haven't
seen an earthquake, volcaniceruption in so long.
But then you read these reportsit's like, oh, this happens
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every year, or whatever it isthe report.
But there you go.
A little bit of history, golook it up, see what you think.
Just look up volcanic eruptionsand you'll get a page you can
go to.
It's got the list andeverything.
It's pretty wild.
Sunny (28:42):
So you're spoiling all the reports, aren't you?
Way to go?
Yeah, way to go, huh.
Bruce (28:55):
Well, I don't know about spoiling the reports.
If you're talking about thenews media, the news makes their
money off of making newsimportant and exciting so that
people will tune in in, and ifthey can scare you or shock you
(29:17):
out of your senses for a half asecond, so they'll sell
advertising and sell you whatthey're trying to sell you
whether it's advertising or aconscious mind about something
that they want you to payattention to then they've
succeeded.
So take that with a grain ofsalt.
A lot of this stuff that isbeing churned up is being
(29:37):
churned up on purpose to get usall offbeat, worried, scared, so
they can manipulate and controlus more.
Well, I'm going to have to getthis episode shut down earlier
(30:02):
than I thought, so I'm going togo right into the earthquake
report.
I've been excited aboutreporting what I've got, what I
found out, and it's a little bitdifferent than I thought it
would be.
What I did is we'll start rightoff the bat.
Go to our website, the uglyquacking duckcom, and when you
(30:25):
get there, go to the top portion.
They're either on the side ofthe page it shows pages and it's
got a list of all the pages orat the top it's got that same
list.
But if you'll go to the supportour podcast, click on that page
and scroll all the way down.
(30:47):
Now it's very good reading.
It talks about what we believein our support and how we want
to carry our pages and ourepisodes out.
So read that.
But if you scroll on down pastthat, it gives you several
choices of how you can supportus financially.
(31:08):
And then at the bottom part ofthe page, we just added a
seven-day report PDF so you canclick on that.
It'll show it to you.
You can click on it.
There's a download button atthe bottom.
There's a little download arrowat the top of it.
(31:28):
You can click on one of thoseand download it and save it, or
you can just hit the printer andprint it um into your local
printer.
However you want to do it, butget a copy of it.
We made it up so you can followalong every time we do a seven
day report and you can write itdown.
(31:50):
We figured if you wrote it downit would give you a better
picture of what we're talkingabout and it would give you a
record that you could followalong with us.
So we advise you to do it.
Have fun with it, let us knowwhat you think.
But not only are we going togive you a seven-day report,
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like we've been doing, but wedecided to go back and look up
some history of earthquakes andwe uh thought, well, where are
we going to go do?
that at um the first.
When we first did it, we wentback a year to see there wasn't
(32:35):
a whole lot of difference and wethought well.
So we thought, hey, we'll goback to 2019.
That was before COVID and thatwas before the stress and we'll
see if it made any difference inthe earthquakes.
Now we could have picked anyyear.
The one thing I was concernedabout about going back and doing
(32:57):
that was I didn't know how wellthe network was put together.
If we go back too many years.
You know they have anearthquake reporting network of
size whatever the gadgets arecalled that pick up the
earthquakes and then they areturned, the received information
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is turned into the network, andso on and so forth.
But I didn't know, if we wentback too many years, if that
network would fall apart so theearthquakes wouldn't show up as
much, not because we wasn'thaving them, but because the
network wasn't as good.
So I I didn't do that.
I went back 2019 and what I didI picked this like today is
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june the 8th, 2025.
So I did that report and then Iwent back to June 8th, 2019,
and went back seven days fromthere.
So we'd have the exact timeframe, but it would be six years
before.
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So that's what we did.
So if you got that paperprinted off, pause this, go back
and print it off and then youcan write it down as I report it
.
But now, because I haven't beenon for two weeks, I went on
June the 1st and went ahead andwrote them down.
(34:35):
So I'd have a seven-day reportthen and I'd have a seven-day
report seven days later.
So we're going to go back toJune the 1st, 2025.
So if you want to write thatdown, print it out and I'll tell
you how it works.
As you're looking at it.
(34:55):
On the left side, that's whereyou put the date.
You put the date of when we'redoing the report, and then to
the right of that date, there isa column that says all
magnitudes and there's twospaces there in case you mess up
.
And then there's a 2.5 and overmagnitudes and there's two
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spaces there in case you mess up, and then there's a 2.5 and
over magnitudes.
You write the total down thereand then the 4.5 is there.
Then on over to the right,there's a 6.0 and over.
That's the 6.0 and overmagnitudes.
That's the magnitudes that Iactually record, because they're
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the main ones, they're the mostdisastrous.
And then I have a location soyou can write down kind of where
they're at, just a little bitof a history.
And then if you want to writedown that date, like today, and
then below that what I did, Idid it so you can do four
(36:00):
different recordings.
So 6, 8, 19 would go in thedate, the second line of dates,
and then you just follow thesame procedure through that.
So let's begin, and then youjust follow the same procedure
through that.
So let's begin.
I'm going to read out today, sothis is going to take all four
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of the first page.
We're going to start on 6-1.
That's going to be on yourfirst days.
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Back from 6-1, the total was1961 total earthquakes.
So write that down.
And if you want to write the2.5 and over down, it's 279 and
then the 4.5 was 105.
So we had one, two, three, four, five, six and over earthquakes
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.
We had um.
In the Carnatic Islands.
We had three major earthquakes.
We had a 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2.
6.0 and then a 6.2 in the seaoutside of Africa, the southwest
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portion of Africa, so let me goover them again.
K-e-r-m-a-d-i-c islands we hada 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2.
And then in Japan, we had a 6.0.
And then in the southwest ofAfrica, which is out in the sea,
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we had a 6.2.
And that was just this month.
Now, back in 2019, write thatdown in your next line of date
6.1, 2019.
This really freaked me out.
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I didn't realize this was goingto happen, because I thought
the earthquakes were gettingworse.
Right, we was getting more ofthem.
Now I went back and looked onJune, the 1st 2019.
We had a total earthquakes3,111.
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So the totals were up.
The 2.5 and over was 313.
They were up, and the 4.5 andover was 135.
It was up.
All those were up.
And the 6 and over we had fourof them.
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Are you ready for this?
We had a 6.0 in Tonga, whichthem islands get hammered all
the time.
6.1 in the Philippines, a 6.6in El Salvador, a 6.6 in El
Salvador.
Now, if you're writing thisdown and I go too fast, you can
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always, when I tell you what theearthquake was and where it was
at, just hit pause, write itdown and hit start again, or you
can back it up a little bit.
You have control of thispodcast, how fast you listen to
it, how slow.
So then we had a 6.6 in elsalvador.
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Now are you ready for this?
Back on june, the 1st 2019,there was an 8.0.
That's right, you heard meright 8.0 earthquake in peru.
Does anybody remember that?
I didn't even remember that.
That was wild to see that.
Sunny (40:26):
Uh, back in 2019 so you're telling me, bruce, that
they were worse?
Bruce (40:39):
back then.
I'm not sure.
Saying they were worse backthen is right.
That's just one day, or oneseven day period, um, compared
to one seven day period thisyear.
So what we're going to do,we're going to do that for the
next few weeks, next few monthsmaybe, and see what it comes up
(41:03):
to, and then I may pick out ofthe blue, go back and pick
another year and do threedifferent ones.
We'll just have to see how thisgoes.
But I did not anticipate thenumbers being higher three years
(41:25):
or what is that?
Six years ago.
I didn't anticipate that.
I really figured they would belower.
So I'm a little bit shocked.
But again, that's just oneseven-day period compared to one
seven-day period.
We'll have to do this more andsee what happens.
Sunny (41:46):
That is strange, strange, strange.
Bruce (41:49):
Yeah, you said that.
But yeah, I agree with you.
It's not what I anticipated,but let's move on.
Let's move on to this week.
We're going to do 6-8-25.
So I looked this up thismorning before I started
recording.
Hopefully it didn't change verymuch, very much.
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But we have on 6, 8, 25 thisyear.
All of them was 2086.
So all the earthquakes for thelast seven days, from today back
to 6 11 was 2086.
Write that down, folks.
And the 2.5 in over earthquakeswas 353.
And the 4.5 in over earthquakeswas 84.
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Yeah, and then, uh, we hadthree six and over earthquake
magnitudes.
We had a 6.2 in the AntarcticaRidge and that's way out in the
ocean, a 6.3 in Columbia and a6.4 in Chile and a 6.4 in Chile,
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and then we go back to6-18-2019.
So six years ago Isn't thatright?
Yeah, are you ready for this?
We had a total of seven day theall magnitudes, 3,754.
(43:40):
So this year it was 2,086.
Six years ago it was 3,754earthquakes.
The 2.5 was 444.
This year was 353.
(44:05):
So they had increased ordecreased.
This year 4.5 and over is 119and here this year they was 84.
So again, they all thosenumbers are higher.
I'm just, I'm shocked.
I really I did not anticipatethat Now the 6.0 went over
earthquakes.
There was only two.
One was in Tonga.
(44:26):
Again, tonga seems to get hit alot, it was a 6.0.
And then there was a 6.4 in theJapan region region, I'm not, I
didn't look it up and seeexactly where that was at, but
um, so over near japan somewhere.
Well, I hope you guys find thatfascinating.
(44:50):
So I was anticipating seeingmore and more earthquakes and
I'm just it makes me think thatI don't know.
I don't know what to think.
I'm going to continue to dothat for the next few episodes
and we'll see what the totalsare and if it changes much.
But again, that's why we gotthat ability for you to go print
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that paper off and write itdown so you guys can see the
numbers yourself.
Now the one thing I wasconcerned about is that it's
been accused and here's somemore conspiracy that there's
accusations that the USGS, whodoes the earthquakes, don't
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record the information properly.
They kind of downturn thenumbers sometimes.
I don't know if any of that'strue, but all we've got to go on
is what they are giving us.
So that's what we're reportingon and again, we are shocked at
what we found out so far.
(46:03):
And if there's any interest, Imay go back.
What 1999?
Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999.
1999?
Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999.
So, if you're interested,that'd give us a little bit more
reporting and we could figureout what's going on from there.
Sunny (46:27):
You're going to make our whole podcast about earthquakes
if you do this.
Bruce (46:33):
Well, that's not true, but I did have a lot more I
wanted to talk about, but I'mgonna have to shut up because
I'm gonna go get ready for work.
I gotta go in.
I got that text and yeah.
So I figured that would happen.
I really did.
They're gonna be paying me someovertime, yeah.
(46:56):
So, once again, the new page isup there and if you want to, if
you didn't catch it you go tosupport our podcast link, either
on the left side of the page oron the top, where it lists the
pages.
Click on that, read thatinformation that's on this page
(47:19):
and then scroll down to the verybottom.
I've got a file that pops up.
You have the choice of printingit off or downloading it.
I advise you to download it toyour computer.
You're working off of a phone.
That might be hard to do, butdownload it to your computer.
You're working off of a phonethat might be hard to do, but
download it to your computer soyou can print it off anytime, as
(47:41):
many copies as you want, andfollow along with the episode.
Write that information down.
Then you can get you theold-fashioned school binder if
you want to punch holes in thepaper and put it in that binder.
If you don't get those loosepaper um folders I don't know
(48:05):
what they call them you open itup.
It's got a little sleeve inthere.
You can put them in, but youcan save those.
Put the date on top of it ifyou want, or the month or
however you want to do it, butit gives you a tool and we're
going to find out where thisgoes.
Yep, and one other new thingI've got on the uh web page
(48:28):
website.
Back to it.
If you go to our same thing, goto the website and go to the
pages part and go to our podcast, our podcast.
That that's the page that youcan actually go and listen to
our podcast.
(48:49):
You can just scroll down thelist and click on the one you
want to listen to and then hitplay.
Sunny (49:07):
Below that podcast block is pictures of me and Sonny.
Oh yeah, that's such a badpicture, bad picture of me or
you Me.
Bruce (49:15):
Okay, well, we can fix that next time you morph.
Sunny (49:22):
We'll get you another picture up there.
Oh yeah, I'm going to, I'mgoing to.
Bruce (49:30):
You keep saying that, but I'm waiting.
Sunny (49:34):
Well, I'll do it when you're least expecting.
Bruce (49:36):
All right.
And the next picture was Lily.
We turned her into a cartoonsort of, so that well, anyway,
she's too young to be having toomuch pictures on here.
But anyway, that's not what Iwas wanting to talk about having
too much pictures on here, butanyway, that's not what I was
(49:58):
wanting to talk about.
On that page we did a link.
Um says click below to see thepodcast.
We love um and what that does.
We just added that's rightbelow the pictures.
You click on it and it takesyou to our hosting page, our
buzzsprout.
I'm going to give him ashout-out, Hello, buzzsprout.
They're the ones that host ourpodcast and they give us a lot
(50:23):
of little things that we can do,and one of the things we can do
is what is called Pod Row.
But it's the podcasts that welove, the ones that we like to
listen to, and you can checkthem out.
You can actually click on themand go to them and check them
out, which is cool.
(50:44):
So there's a whole list thatpops up and at the top of this
page that pops up it talks aboutit's got a whole list of
episodes.
It shows the contributors, thepeople that work on the podcast,
and then it's got an about pagethat talks about us and then
(51:09):
the podcast we love.
So it gives you a little bit ofinformation and we want to
thank Pod and Buzzsprout forhosting our web page or hello,
not a web page buzzsprout forhosting our podcast and giving
us these little tweaks here andthere.
We like that.
(51:29):
So go check that out.
That's what I'm trying to tellyou.
I hope you enjoy it.
It gives you something more todo and more to learn and, uh,
every now and then we may changethe podcast that we love.
These are the ones we'relistening to at this time.
But there you go.
That's the two new changes wehave to our website.
(51:52):
We are hosted by uh, I can'tremember the name of the hosting
page that hosts our web site,but, um, anyhow, that's what's
going on.
That's our new information fornow.
(52:14):
Sunny got anything you'd liketo say yes.
Sunny (52:18):
I want to thank you for letting me be part of this
episode and part of the podcast.
We have a lot of fun.
Bruce (52:28):
We do.
I appreciate that, Sunny.
I hope you come back again.
Sunny (52:37):
I'm going to I really am.
Guys, I hope you all come back.
I hope you enjoyed it.
You enjoy coming here again andagain, and again, okay.
Bruce (52:53):
Yes, we thank you all for being there, families and
friends.
We welcome you back the nexttime we're going to have to sign
off.
Sorry, we cut it short.
Well, it's not real short, butanyhow, go out and enjoy your
Sunday.
If you're listening to this,later on in the week, try to
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enjoy the week.
I know there's a lot of thingsgoing on in the news and a lot
of political stuff, and I wasgoing to talk a little bit about
some of that, but I guess Iwon't today.
But don't let it get you down.
That's really what they'rewanting.
They're wanting to bring youdown.
If you're down and depressedand scared and upset, you have
(53:40):
no extra motivation.
You're just going to make itmuddle through, and that's what
they want.
They don't want you to be ableto enjoy life and think about it
and have hope, because then youmay want to outdo their
business, their, their lies,their cheats, and they don't
(54:02):
want that.
They don't want you thank itfor yourself.
They want you worried, upset,so all you can think about is
going to work, coming home,getting over that, maybe having
some kind of party just to getrelief.
That's what they want.
Stop it, take a breath, lookaround, smile because we are
loved and believe it.
(54:25):
Okay, it may be bad, but itcould be worse, and I know
that's easy for me to say, isn'tit?
But there's a lot of people outthere that's got worse going on
and if they look around theyknow somebody that's got worse.
I mean it just continues.
Enjoy the week.
(54:46):
We're going to say bye beforewe get too much into it.
Sunny (54:52):
Yeah, before you're born to death, bruce.
Heh, heh, heh, heh, 73,everybody.
Yeah, before you're born todeath, bruce 73.
Bruce (55:00):
Everybody, this is the ugly quacking duck podcast and
we are saying bye wait a minute.
Sunny (55:07):
I want to say bye too okay, here we go.
Bruce (55:11):
one, two, three.
Bye, that's our show.
Folks, we are glad you rodealong with us today and I hope
you enjoyed the time we spenttogether.
Do you have any questions orcomments?
(55:32):
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That is theuglyquackingduck,all one word, no spaces.
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You can also visit our webpage,theuglyquackingduckcom.
(55:53):
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Check out the homepage.
Put in your email and clicksubscribe.
Every new blog we post fromthen on will show up in your
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Our comment page now has a wayfor you to leave us a voice
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How cool is that?
(56:13):
Check it out Again.
For those joining us for thevery first time.
We're glad you found us To allthe listeners out there, tell a
friend and come back.
73 fellow people of Earth, andremember this is not our home
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Until next time.
This is the Ugly Quacking DuckPodcast 73, and God bless.
It's time.
Sunny (00:08):
What time is it?
Bruce (00:11):
It's time for a brand new episode of the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
Yay, I like it better when wedo it manually.
Sunny (00:23):
Well, I don't know about that, but every time you pushed
up my button it did somethingweird and it was popping and
cracking.
So it's better, since we'vedone it manually.
Bruce (00:37):
Yep, it is definitely better manually, and I don't
know why your mic is so loudtoday.
It's louder than it was thelast time.
I didn't do nothing.
I didn't either, but anyway,welcome aboard folks.
This is episode 110 of the uglyquacking duck podcast, and
you're listening to the worstpodcast in the known universe
(01:02):
aren't you getting tired ofsaying that?
Nope, that's kind of fun allright.
Sunny (01:09):
Well, I'll go along with you for now oh, don't threaten
me all right.
Bruce (01:18):
Well, it's uh sunday june the 8th and we're recording on
this.
Sunday morning it's sun shining.
We got the windows open, thefans are turned off so we won't
have any noise, but you can hearthe trucks and the cars and the
motorcycles go by every now andthen.
(01:40):
But it's a beautiful day, folks.
Uh, it's only 72 in here in thestudio 72, is that warm, cold,
or what?
um, it's what, whatever we makeit to be, we want to welcome
(02:00):
family and friends aboard theshow.
Um, if you um listen to thisand have any comments or
additive things you want to putin there, email us.
We're putting this out rightoff the bat, man.
Email us at the ugly quackingduck at gmailcom.
(02:22):
Hear that loud boy?
They're loud when they go by.
Or go to our website,theuglyquackingduckcom.
Go to the front page and you cango all the way down.
You hit subscribe type in youremail and just click on the
subscribe button and it willclick on the subscribe button
(02:46):
and it will subscribe you tothat web page and then every
time we do a post or a newepisode, it will pop up on an
email that you can just go clickon it.
That way you don't have tosearch for our stuff.
But if you want to read alittle bit more about our
podcast and what we're doing,you can go to the different
pages and, uh, we've got a newcouple new additives we're going
(03:09):
to tell you about as we goalong.
But there you go.
Um, that's what we're talkingabout today and we are coming to
you from our studio in themidwest southern illinois,
that's, outskirts of MountVernon, illinois.
So we want to shout out toMount Vernon and the surrounding
(03:31):
areas, to our friends andfamily.
We want to shout out toSouthern Illinois we're, you
know, in the same boat, all youguys are in and we've got the
same governor and we don't needto need to say anymore just pray
for us folks in them, otherstates, because you don't know
what it's like apparently ain'tthat bad, or we'd have done all
(03:56):
moved well, that could be said,could be said, could be true.
But when you're owning a home,have a job, the wife has a job
you can't just pick it all upand go somewhere else.
I guess you could, I don't know, that's neither here nor there.
(04:18):
Well, that's where we're atright now and that's where we're
transmitting from.
The broadcast is being recordedhere as of now.
Sunny (04:30):
As of now.
Bruce (04:33):
Well, yeah, there you go, so we're thankful for everybody
that's come over and found ourpodcast, or you search for it
and got it.
However, you come about, listento us at this time.
Thank you, we really appreciateit, and if you're in southern
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Illinois, you know what kind ofweather we've been having.
It's been kind of weird one dayit'd be hot and sunny and the
next day it'd be rainy andcloudy, and most of the days
last week were cloudy.
Uh, there was some rain off andon, and then, when the weekend
got here, of course it rained.
(05:19):
Friday it rained.
Saturday it rained.
Uh, today is supposed to be abetter day, though, and it looks
like it.
We're going to have sunshine,and the grass has probably grown
two foot already.
With this sun and warm rain, ohyeah, have to get the lawnmower
(05:40):
out.
Yay, looking forward to that.
Sunny (05:44):
Oh, just hire you a couple of goats.
Bruce (05:48):
Yep, a couple of goats it is.
Get out there, boys, get thatgrass cut, don't you wish?
Sunny (05:58):
it was that easy.
Bruce (06:00):
I do, I do for sure.
Sunny (06:04):
Boy.
This has been a really weirdepisode to get started recording
, hasn't it, bruce?
Bruce (06:12):
It has Very weird.
This is like the fourth timewe've tried to start this
episode.
Sunny (06:22):
Yep, we did it uh friday evening and then again saturday
morning yep, and then uh, two orthree times this morning.
Bruce (06:37):
Um, the friday and saturday we had, uh, I had mic
problems.
It was really bizarre.
I couldn't get my mic to workat all.
You know, I was having troublethe last couple episodes but
didn't pay a bit of attention.
Apparently my mic cable, forwhatever weird reason.
(06:57):
You know I don't move the miccable much, I move the arm
slightly when we get ready torecord, so there's a little bit
of flexing going on, but boy,not much, and that darn mic cord
just quit.
I mean it just I turned it on,uh, friday night and it didn't
(07:19):
work and I messed with it.
Messed with it, I had a coupleother things going on.
So I just went back to itSaturday morning and finally,
right before I got ready to justgive it up, I decided to change
the mic cord.
I don't know why.
I didn't do that the first timeand sure enough the mic cord
(07:42):
went bad.
So the mic just peaked right up.
That may have been the reason Iwas losing volume sometimes.
You know, I'd have to kind ofreadjust.
I don't know if you guys heardall that, but I'd lose a little
bit of power and I'd readjust.
Couldn't figure out why, but Iguess that mic cord had been bad
(08:03):
all along and I'm going to haveto order some good ones anyway.
And then this morning we gotready to go and I kept hitting
that one uh new episode buttonthat I've got a previous
recording of and it, uh it keptpopping and cracking.
(08:23):
It wouldn't record or play.
Right, what a morning, butthat's the way it goes when
we're starting to record.
Sunny (08:34):
I wonder if everybody has that kind of trouble.
Bruce (08:38):
Yeah, I'm sure they do when you're dealing with humans.
This is not AI.
We are full-blooded, breathinglife.
There you go.
Sunny (08:52):
Okay, I was getting ready to say if you call me a human
one more time, I'm leaving.
Bruce (08:58):
Oh, you are not.
Don't be so, darn touchy.
Sunny (09:02):
I can, if I want.
Bruce (09:13):
All right, well, I don't think so, darn touchy, I can't.
If I want, all right, well, Idon't think you want, but anyhow
, um, yeah, folks, it's been aninteresting uh weekend trying to
get this thing recorded.
But I think everybody probablyhas problems off and on.
I mean, there's times when yousit down and our planning goes
smooth I mean, what we want totalk about goes smooth and, um,
me being too able to articulateeverything I'm wanting to say
(09:34):
goes smooth and then I wake upin the mornings and I realize
that was a dream and life isjust not that way.
It just doesn't go smooth forme at all.
I have to work on it and I planwhat I want to say and then I
can't get it out and I, yeah,that's life.
(09:56):
I hope you enjoy that kind ofhillbilly stuff, because that's
the way our podcasts are andwe're not going to be able to
change that.
Sunny (10:07):
Yeah, we can.
We can hire AI to run the botor run the podcast, run
something.
Bruce (10:15):
Yeah, they'll run it right into the ground and leave
us.
Sunny (10:22):
AI has its purpose, but not doing my podcast.
Bruce (10:29):
Okay, I guess we know how you feel about that.
Sunny (10:30):
that's all I got to say about that well, I think, bruce,
you ought to tell everybodyabout the local weather compared
to Phoenix Arizona, you know.
Bruce (10:47):
I think I will.
I like doing that.
Everybody knows what oursouthern Illinois weather is
because I just told you and ifyou're living here you've
experienced it and pretty welleverybody in the Midwest, all
the way down to Texas and up towhat ohio, have been
(11:08):
experiencing the same kind ofweird weather.
But let's talk real short.
I always like comparing us tophoenix, arizona, because that's
kind of a off the beaten pathand, um, it should be a little
bit different type weather.
So we're having 72 degreestoday, right now.
(11:31):
Um, it's fair, that's whatthey're saying.
Uh, the humidity is at 72percent, the wind is at three
miles an hour and the airquality is 95.
Wow, I'm not sure why it's sohigh.
That's kind of weird.
(11:51):
And if we flip the page over toPhoenix, arizona, it's 85
degrees there and sunny.
And I don't mean it's, I domean it's sunny.
Never mind, and I don't meanit's, I do mean it's sunny.
Sunny (12:06):
Never mind.
Oh, you couldn't think nothingfunny to say about me, so you
kind of blew that one.
Ha ha.
Bruce (12:18):
Yeah, you got egg on your face now, buddy, all right,
well, if you say so, but it is18% humidity in arizona, phoenix
, where we have 72.
You can tell it's dry ourclimate there now.
We did get a lot of rain, so wegot a lot of water in the
ground and on the grass, whichis going to bring up the
(12:42):
humidity and it's going to bringup the heat.
We're going to have nastyweather.
It's june, though, guys,summer's right around the corner
, and yeah, they got six mileper hour wind.
Uh, the air quality is 35compared to our 95.
So, whoa, that's, that'sbizarre.
(13:08):
They are predicting they'regoing to have 107 degree weather
or temperature today.
Yeah, 80 degrees tonight.
107, wow, I'm not sure that'seven nice.
We are predicting to have 82degrees today and a high of 62
(13:33):
tonight.
All right, uv index here is 9out of 11.
Sunrise was at 5 31 amm andsunset is at 8.18 pm.
We are in waxing gibbous moonphase.
(13:54):
The moonrise will be at 6.16 pmand it will set at 3.24 am.
Wow, how wild is that?
Let's see what it says aboutPhoenix.
Now, what was I going to lookfor?
(14:18):
Oh, they're saying today around.
Oh, that's the 15th.
They're saying the 15th Sunday,the 15th is going to be 110
degrees.
Jeez, that's why we're not inPhoenix, isn't it?
(14:40):
People say you know it's adifferent temperature there.
People say you know it's adifferent temperature there.
It's not that hot, humid likewe have.
When you're looking at 107degrees.
I don't think there is a cooler, it's just hot.
Anyhow, we're right now at 72degrees.
(15:04):
It's a fair day, it's beautiful.
Um, I've got the fan barelyturned on to give me a little
fresh air in here while I'mrecording and we got cars going
up and down the strip like crazy.
This highway is really badabout that, so if you're hearing
that noise, I apologize.
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We do not have a soundproofstudio.
We got a makeshift studio.
We just have to deal with it.
So I hope you don't mind either, there you go.
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So in on and going ahead.
Sunny (15:51):
What was that?
Bruce (15:54):
I don't know, I just made it up as we went.
You can tell, I know for surethat there's some Harry Potter
fans that listen to the show, tothe podcast, and I'm sure
(16:19):
they've already heard the news,but I'm going to re-emphasize it
.
They are coming out with a TVseries, a Harry Potter TV series
, with a tv series, a harrypotter tv series, and they have
chosen the main cast, which isthe young people that's going to
(16:39):
play harry potter, hermione andron, and they've got their
names listed and they actuallyhave a picture on the web and
I've downloaded that picture,I'm going to put it on the
podcast and I may put it on ourweb page too, so you can see.
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If you're too lazy to go, lookfor it.
Sunny (17:07):
That was cruel.
Bruce (17:10):
Oh, that was a good dig.
Sunny (17:12):
All right.
Bruce (17:13):
Whatever you think.
Okay, whatever I think goes.
I just noticed my mic volumewas tilted down a little bit.
I hit it back up, so anyway,yeah, I thought that was
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interesting for the Harry Potterfans.
They're going to come up withthat TV series.
I forget when it was going tocome out.
They're going to start filmingthis summer and I think it's
going to debut sometime nextyear.
So we'll have to hold them tothat, you know.
(17:57):
But that's a game plan thatcome out on May, the 27th, that
headline, and I've been savingit.
Sunny (18:08):
You've been hoping that there's some Harry Potter fans
that listen to your podcast Iactually know that there are a
few they.
They may not respond, but yeah,anyhow hey, bruce, I see that
you've already drunk your teathis morning.
(18:30):
Now, now you've got a glass ofsomething dark.
What is that?
Bruce (18:37):
Well, I'm glad you asked.
I am switched over to a glassof cold brew beer.
Sunny (18:45):
Oh, brew beer.
Bruce (18:48):
Yep, I went out in the garage and got that a while ago.
I needed something.
You know, I usually drink a lotof water, but for some reason I
just felt the need to have alittle bit of something besides
my tea and water, so I went andgot me a root beer root beer,
yep, root beer.
Yeah, there we go hey, rootbeer, yep, root beer.
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Yeah, there we go.
Hey, have you heard.
I've heard a lot.
Yeah, I bet you have.
On May the 28th, spacex carriedout the ninth test flight of
its Starship Yep, and we allknow who's got SpaceX.
So if you guys are all offendedthat I brought his company up,
(19:34):
I'm sorry but it's part of thespace news.
He launched another Starshipthat's that big space vehicle
that they're going to use to geta mission to the moon.
But it carried out another testflight and it was not very good
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one.
Now, the not very good one wasmy words.
Uh, it was the third test flightof the starship.
That, uh, didn't complete theentire flight, um, but
apparently elon musk was prettyhappy with the different places
(20:16):
it went through, or differentvalues or the checkpoints for
the flight.
So I don't know what hispicture of success for those
flights are and what I perceive,but apparently after launching
it had a fuel tank leak and afew other issues and it it did,
(20:42):
they lost contact with it and itdid an uncontrolled spin right
into the indian ocean and Ithink the game plan is for this
thing to take some astronauts upto the moon, back in or back
hello in 2027.
So some would say back to themoon, moon, moon, moon, moon,
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moon in 2027.
And then the others would say,oh, we're going there finally,
to the moon, moon, moon, moon.
I'll let you decide which sideof the fence you're on.
And while we are listing failedmissions to the moon, they're
starting to stack up quite a bit.
(21:26):
Uh, japan had a private, had aprivate lander, private company
that took off and they toucheddown or was supposed to touch
down Friday, which was what the5th and apparently they lost
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contact with their lander andafter not being able to regain
contact, they described themission, mission, said they
concluded it.
Um, so it probably crashed.
I think it's kind of strangehow there's been so many
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missions to the moon, supposedlythat they've lost contact or
crashed there, and yet we gotthere back in what?
69?
On the first attempt, we are sogood, wow, anyhow, japan didn't
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make it.
I think that what was theircompany's name?
It was um, ispace, yep, ispace,I think, is what it was called.
Sunny (22:52):
What a weird name.
Bruce (22:57):
That must have been at the end of the news portion.
You got that right.
We just switched over.
I wanted to talk a little bitabout volcanoes.
We're having a lot of volcanoesshow up in the news and I don't
know if anybody's followingthose.
(23:26):
But you know, I did a little bitof research to kind of give a
report and igs volcanic uhreporting site, and did a little
research and what I've got?
Um, they've got a list and most, most of these excuse me, most
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of the volcanoes on this listare considered continued active
and they've been that way for along time.
So I thought, well, I'll justscroll through a few of them.
Well, I just got a text fromwork.
I'm going to have to go in andcover somebody's shift, so I'm
(24:15):
probably going to have to cutthis short.
But anyway, I'm on that pageand I got to look into the list
and I figured I would just covera few of them on the list.
The etna volcano in italy, umhas been erupting, I think every
year, but it started a neweruption around June the 2nd and
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it reached its highest level by0250.
I'm not sure exactly if that'slocal time or what time they're
using there, because it doesn'tsay greenwich time, if I was
going to guess, but anyway.
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The next one's in russia.
And again, this is continuedvolcanic eruption list.
This one's been erupting sincewell, during 23 through 29th of
May.
The biggest explosion was at1945, on May the 28th.
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It would produce ash plums thatrose 6.5 or 21,300 feet in the
air Wow.
And the next one is tailT-A-A-L in the Philippines and
it was active May the 3rdthrough June, so several days,
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but during May the 27th and Junethe 3rd, that time period in
between, there it was the mosttremors and stuff, most tremors
and stuff.
And then there's the next onewas A-H-Y-A or I C-Mount,
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c-mount.
It has continued eruptingduring the 24th through the 30th
of May period.
And then there was another onein Japan, a-i-r-a, a-r-i, r-a.
And then there was another onein Japan, aira.
It's been reported activethrough May the 26th through May
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the 28th.
It was spewing out sulfurdioxide emissions.
It was spewing out sulfurdioxide emissions extremely high
, averaging 3,500 tons per day,so that one's really spitting
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out a lot.
And then the next one was AMBAE, a-m-b-a-e, I'm not even sure
where that's at.
It's V-A-N-U-A-T-U, vanatu, andit's been hitting since May the
28th through June the 3rd.
This is the latest report.
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It goes through June the 3rd,so that's why you're only
hearing June the 3rd.
And there's several more on thelist and I'm not going to go
over all of them, but there's alot of volcanoes erupting,
vibrating, spewing stuff out.
They've got 47 on theircontinuing eruption list 47.
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Their continuing eruption list47.
So that tells me there's been alot more activity than the news
has been showing us and I guessit's regularly reporting this.
Um, it's nothing new to them,which you know.
I've been hearing all these newreports like, oh, we haven't
seen an earthquake, volcaniceruption in so long.
But then you read these reportsit's like, oh, this happens
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every year, or whatever it isthe report.
But there you go.
A little bit of history, golook it up, see what you think.
Just look up volcanic eruptionsand you'll get a page you can
go to.
It's got the list andeverything.
It's pretty wild.
Sunny (28:42):
So you're spoiling all the reports, aren't you?
Way to go?
Yeah, way to go, huh.
Bruce (28:55):
Well, I don't know about spoiling the reports.
If you're talking about thenews media, the news makes their
money off of making newsimportant and exciting so that
people will tune in in, and ifthey can scare you or shock you
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out of your senses for a half asecond, so they'll sell
advertising and sell you whatthey're trying to sell you
whether it's advertising or aconscious mind about something
that they want you to payattention to then they've
succeeded.
So take that with a grain ofsalt.
A lot of this stuff that isbeing churned up is being
(29:37):
churned up on purpose to get usall offbeat, worried, scared, so
they can manipulate and controlus more.
Well, I'm going to have to getthis episode shut down earlier
(30:02):
than I thought, so I'm going togo right into the earthquake
report.
I've been excited aboutreporting what I've got, what I
found out, and it's a little bitdifferent than I thought it
would be.
What I did is we'll start rightoff the bat.
Go to our website, the uglyquacking duckcom, and when you
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get there, go to the top portion.
They're either on the side ofthe page it shows pages and it's
got a list of all the pages orat the top it's got that same
list.
But if you'll go to the supportour podcast, click on that page
and scroll all the way down.
(30:47):
Now it's very good reading.
It talks about what we believein our support and how we want
to carry our pages and ourepisodes out.
So read that.
But if you scroll on down pastthat, it gives you several
choices of how you can supportus financially.
(31:08):
And then at the bottom part ofthe page, we just added a
seven-day report PDF so you canclick on that.
It'll show it to you.
You can click on it.
There's a download button atthe bottom.
There's a little download arrowat the top of it.
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You can click on one of thoseand download it and save it, or
you can just hit the printer andprint it um into your local
printer.
However you want to do it, butget a copy of it.
We made it up so you can followalong every time we do a seven
day report and you can write itdown.
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We figured if you wrote it downit would give you a better
picture of what we're talkingabout and it would give you a
record that you could followalong with us.
So we advise you to do it.
Have fun with it, let us knowwhat you think.
But not only are we going togive you a seven-day report,
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like we've been doing, but wedecided to go back and look up
some history of earthquakes andwe uh thought, well, where are
we going to go do?
that at um the first.
When we first did it, we wentback a year to see there wasn't
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a whole lot of difference and wethought well.
So we thought, hey, we'll goback to 2019.
That was before COVID and thatwas before the stress and we'll
see if it made any difference inthe earthquakes.
Now we could have picked anyyear.
The one thing I was concernedabout about going back and doing
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that was I didn't know how wellthe network was put together.
If we go back too many years.
You know they have anearthquake reporting network of
size whatever the gadgets arecalled that pick up the
earthquakes and then they areturned, the received information
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is turned into the network, andso on and so forth.
But I didn't know, if we wentback too many years, if that
network would fall apart so theearthquakes wouldn't show up as
much, not because we wasn'thaving them, but because the
network wasn't as good.
So I I didn't do that.
I went back 2019 and what I didI picked this like today is
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june the 8th, 2025.
So I did that report and then Iwent back to June 8th, 2019,
and went back seven days fromthere.
So we'd have the exact timeframe, but it would be six years
before.
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So that's what we did.
So if you got that paperprinted off, pause this, go back
and print it off and then youcan write it down as I report it
.
But now, because I haven't beenon for two weeks, I went on
June the 1st and went ahead andwrote them down.
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So I'd have a seven-day reportthen and I'd have a seven-day
report seven days later.
So we're going to go back toJune the 1st, 2025.
So if you want to write thatdown, print it out and I'll tell
you how it works.
As you're looking at it.
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On the left side, that's whereyou put the date.
You put the date of when we'redoing the report, and then to
the right of that date, there isa column that says all
magnitudes and there's twospaces there in case you mess up
.
And then there's a 2.5 and overmagnitudes and there's two
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spaces there in case you mess up, and then there's a 2.5 and
over magnitudes.
You write the total down thereand then the 4.5 is there.
Then on over to the right,there's a 6.0 and over.
That's the 6.0 and overmagnitudes.
That's the magnitudes that Iactually record, because they're
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the main ones, they're the mostdisastrous.
And then I have a location soyou can write down kind of where
they're at, just a little bitof a history.
And then if you want to writedown that date, like today, and
then below that what I did, Idid it so you can do four
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different recordings.
So 6, 8, 19 would go in thedate, the second line of dates,
and then you just follow thesame procedure through that.
So let's begin, and then youjust follow the same procedure
through that.
So let's begin.
I'm going to read out today, sothis is going to take all four
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of the first page.
We're going to start on 6-1.
That's going to be on yourfirst days.
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Back from 6-1, the total was1961 total earthquakes.
So write that down.
And if you want to write the2.5 and over down, it's 279 and
then the 4.5 was 105.
So we had one, two, three, four, five, six and over earthquakes
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.
We had um.
In the Carnatic Islands.
We had three major earthquakes.
We had a 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2.
6.0 and then a 6.2 in the seaoutside of Africa, the southwest
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portion of Africa, so let me goover them again.
K-e-r-m-a-d-i-c islands we hada 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2.
And then in Japan, we had a 6.0.
And then in the southwest ofAfrica, which is out in the sea,
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we had a 6.2.
And that was just this month.
Now, back in 2019, write thatdown in your next line of date
6.1, 2019.
This really freaked me out.
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I didn't realize this was goingto happen, because I thought
the earthquakes were gettingworse.
Right, we was getting more ofthem.
Now I went back and looked onJune, the 1st 2019.
We had a total earthquakes3,111.
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So the totals were up.
The 2.5 and over was 313.
They were up, and the 4.5 andover was 135.
It was up.
All those were up.
And the 6 and over we had fourof them.
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Are you ready for this?
We had a 6.0 in Tonga, whichthem islands get hammered all
the time.
6.1 in the Philippines, a 6.6in El Salvador, a 6.6 in El
Salvador.
Now, if you're writing thisdown and I go too fast, you can
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always, when I tell you what theearthquake was and where it was
at, just hit pause, write itdown and hit start again, or you
can back it up a little bit.
You have control of thispodcast, how fast you listen to
it, how slow.
So then we had a 6.6 in elsalvador.
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Now are you ready for this?
Back on june, the 1st 2019,there was an 8.0.
That's right, you heard meright 8.0 earthquake in peru.
Does anybody remember that?
I didn't even remember that.
That was wild to see that.
Sunny (40:26):
Uh, back in 2019 so you're telling me, bruce, that
they were worse?
Bruce (40:39):
back then.
I'm not sure.
Saying they were worse backthen is right.
That's just one day, or oneseven day period, um, compared
to one seven day period thisyear.
So what we're going to do,we're going to do that for the
next few weeks, next few monthsmaybe, and see what it comes up
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to, and then I may pick out ofthe blue, go back and pick
another year and do threedifferent ones.
We'll just have to see how thisgoes.
But I did not anticipate thenumbers being higher three years
(41:25):
or what is that?
Six years ago.
I didn't anticipate that.
I really figured they would belower.
So I'm a little bit shocked.
But again, that's just oneseven-day period compared to one
seven-day period.
We'll have to do this more andsee what happens.
Sunny (41:46):
That is strange, strange, strange.
Bruce (41:49):
Yeah, you said that.
But yeah, I agree with you.
It's not what I anticipated,but let's move on.
Let's move on to this week.
We're going to do 6-8-25.
So I looked this up thismorning before I started
recording.
Hopefully it didn't change verymuch, very much.
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But we have on 6, 8, 25 thisyear.
All of them was 2086.
So all the earthquakes for thelast seven days, from today back
to 6 11 was 2086.
Write that down, folks.
And the 2.5 in over earthquakeswas 353.
And the 4.5 in over earthquakeswas 84.
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Yeah, and then, uh, we hadthree six and over earthquake
magnitudes.
We had a 6.2 in the AntarcticaRidge and that's way out in the
ocean, a 6.3 in Columbia and a6.4 in Chile and a 6.4 in Chile,
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and then we go back to6-18-2019.
So six years ago Isn't thatright?
Yeah, are you ready for this?
We had a total of seven day theall magnitudes, 3,754.
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So this year it was 2,086.
Six years ago it was 3,754earthquakes.
The 2.5 was 444.
This year was 353.
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So they had increased ordecreased.
This year 4.5 and over is 119and here this year they was 84.
So again, they all thosenumbers are higher.
I'm just, I'm shocked.
I really I did not anticipatethat Now the 6.0 went over
earthquakes.
There was only two.
One was in Tonga.
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Again, tonga seems to get hit alot, it was a 6.0.
And then there was a 6.4 in theJapan region region, I'm not, I
didn't look it up and seeexactly where that was at, but
um, so over near japan somewhere.
Well, I hope you guys find thatfascinating.
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So I was anticipating seeingmore and more earthquakes and
I'm just it makes me think thatI don't know.
I don't know what to think.
I'm going to continue to dothat for the next few episodes
and we'll see what the totalsare and if it changes much.
But again, that's why we gotthat ability for you to go print
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that paper off and write itdown so you guys can see the
numbers yourself.
Now the one thing I wasconcerned about is that it's
been accused and here's somemore conspiracy that there's
accusations that the USGS, whodoes the earthquakes, don't
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record the information properly.
They kind of downturn thenumbers sometimes.
I don't know if any of that'strue, but all we've got to go on
is what they are giving us.
So that's what we're reportingon and again, we are shocked at
what we found out so far.
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And if there's any interest, Imay go back.
What 1999?
Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999.
1999?
Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999.
So, if you're interested,that'd give us a little bit more
reporting and we could figureout what's going on from there.
Sunny (46:27):
You're going to make our whole podcast about earthquakes
if you do this.
Bruce (46:33):
Well, that's not true, but I did have a lot more I
wanted to talk about, but I'mgonna have to shut up because
I'm gonna go get ready for work.
I gotta go in.
I got that text and yeah.
So I figured that would happen.
I really did.
They're gonna be paying me someovertime, yeah.
(46:56):
So, once again, the new page isup there and if you want to, if
you didn't catch it you go tosupport our podcast link, either
on the left side of the page oron the top, where it lists the
pages.
Click on that, read thatinformation that's on this page
(47:19):
and then scroll down to the verybottom.
I've got a file that pops up.
You have the choice of printingit off or downloading it.
I advise you to download it toyour computer.
You're working off of a phone.
That might be hard to do, butdownload it to your computer.
You're working off of a phonethat might be hard to do, but
download it to your computer soyou can print it off anytime, as
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many copies as you want, andfollow along with the episode.
Write that information down.
Then you can get you theold-fashioned school binder if
you want to punch holes in thepaper and put it in that binder.
If you don't get those loosepaper um folders I don't know
(48:05):
what they call them you open itup.
It's got a little sleeve inthere.
You can put them in, but youcan save those.
Put the date on top of it ifyou want, or the month or
however you want to do it, butit gives you a tool and we're
going to find out where thisgoes.
Yep, and one other new thingI've got on the uh web page
(48:28):
website.
Back to it.
If you go to our same thing, goto the website and go to the
pages part and go to our podcast, our podcast.
That that's the page that youcan actually go and listen to
our podcast.
(48:49):
You can just scroll down thelist and click on the one you
want to listen to and then hitplay.
Sunny (49:07):
Below that podcast block is pictures of me and Sonny.
Oh yeah, that's such a badpicture, bad picture of me or
you Me.
Bruce (49:15):
Okay, well, we can fix that next time you morph.
Sunny (49:22):
We'll get you another picture up there.
Oh yeah, I'm going to, I'mgoing to.
Bruce (49:30):
You keep saying that, but I'm waiting.
Sunny (49:34):
Well, I'll do it when you're least expecting.
Bruce (49:36):
All right.
And the next picture was Lily.
We turned her into a cartoonsort of, so that well, anyway,
she's too young to be having toomuch pictures on here.
But anyway, that's not what Iwas wanting to talk about having
too much pictures on here, butanyway, that's not what I was
(49:58):
wanting to talk about.
On that page we did a link.
Um says click below to see thepodcast.
We love um and what that does.
We just added that's rightbelow the pictures.
You click on it and it takesyou to our hosting page, our
buzzsprout.
I'm going to give him ashout-out, Hello, buzzsprout.
They're the ones that host ourpodcast and they give us a lot
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of little things that we can do,and one of the things we can do
is what is called Pod Row.
But it's the podcasts that welove, the ones that we like to
listen to, and you can checkthem out.
You can actually click on themand go to them and check them
out, which is cool.
(50:44):
So there's a whole list thatpops up and at the top of this
page that pops up it talks aboutit's got a whole list of
episodes.
It shows the contributors, thepeople that work on the podcast,
and then it's got an about pagethat talks about us and then
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the podcast we love.
So it gives you a little bit ofinformation and we want to
thank Pod and Buzzsprout forhosting our web page or hello,
not a web page buzzsprout forhosting our podcast and giving
us these little tweaks here andthere.
We like that.
(51:29):
So go check that out.
That's what I'm trying to tellyou.
I hope you enjoy it.
It gives you something more todo and more to learn and, uh,
every now and then we may changethe podcast that we love.
These are the ones we'relistening to at this time.
But there you go.
That's the two new changes wehave to our website.
(51:52):
We are hosted by uh, I can'tremember the name of the hosting
page that hosts our web site,but, um, anyhow, that's what's
going on.
That's our new information fornow.
(52:14):
Sunny got anything you'd liketo say yes.
Sunny (52:18):
I want to thank you for letting me be part of this
episode and part of the podcast.
We have a lot of fun.
Bruce (52:28):
We do.
I appreciate that, Sunny.
I hope you come back again.
Sunny (52:37):
I'm going to I really am.
Guys, I hope you all come back.
I hope you enjoyed it.
You enjoy coming here again andagain, and again, okay.
Bruce (52:53):
Yes, we thank you all for being there, families and
friends.
We welcome you back the nexttime we're going to have to sign
off.
Sorry, we cut it short.
Well, it's not real short, butanyhow, go out and enjoy your
Sunday.
If you're listening to this,later on in the week, try to
(53:14):
enjoy the week.
I know there's a lot of thingsgoing on in the news and a lot
of political stuff, and I wasgoing to talk a little bit about
some of that, but I guess Iwon't today.
But don't let it get you down.
That's really what they'rewanting.
They're wanting to bring youdown.
If you're down and depressedand scared and upset, you have
(53:40):
no extra motivation.
You're just going to make itmuddle through, and that's what
they want.
They don't want you to be ableto enjoy life and think about it
and have hope, because then youmay want to outdo their
business, their, their lies,their cheats, and they don't
(54:02):
want that.
They don't want you thank itfor yourself.
They want you worried, upset,so all you can think about is
going to work, coming home,getting over that, maybe having
some kind of party just to getrelief.
That's what they want.
Stop it, take a breath, lookaround, smile because we are
loved and believe it.
(54:25):
Okay, it may be bad, but itcould be worse, and I know
that's easy for me to say, isn'tit?
But there's a lot of people outthere that's got worse going on
and if they look around theyknow somebody that's got worse.
I mean it just continues.
Enjoy the week.
(54:46):
We're going to say bye beforewe get too much into it.
Sunny (54:52):
Yeah, before you're born to death, bruce.
Heh, heh, heh, heh, 73,everybody.
Yeah, before you're born todeath, bruce 73.
Bruce (55:00):
Everybody, this is the ugly quacking duck podcast and
we are saying bye wait a minute.
Sunny (55:07):
I want to say bye too okay, here we go.
Bruce (55:11):
one, two, three.
Bye, that's our show.
Folks, we are glad you rodealong with us today and I hope
you enjoyed the time we spenttogether.
Do you have any questions orcomments?
(55:32):
You can emailtheuglyquackingduck at gmailcom.
That is theuglyquackingduck,all one word, no spaces.
At gmailcom.
You can also visit our webpage,theuglyquackingduckcom.
(55:53):
Check out the homepagetheuglyquackingduckcom.
Check out the homepage.
Put in your email and clicksubscribe.
Every new blog we post fromthen on will show up in your
inbox.
Our comment page now has a wayfor you to leave us a voice
recording.
How cool is that?
(56:13):
Check it out Again.
For those joining us for thevery first time.
We're glad you found us To allthe listeners out there, tell a
friend and come back.
73 fellow people of Earth, andremember this is not our home
(56:40):
Until next time.
This is the Ugly Quacking DuckPodcast 73, and God bless.
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