November 13, 2025 • 64 mins
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Sunshine after a brush with snow set the tone for a free-ranging ride that starts local and climbs straight into orbit. We celebrate 25 years of continuous life aboard the International Space Station, tip our caps to Mir’s overlooked legacy, and swap stories about chasing auroras sparked by double CMEs. A quick quake roundup keeps us grounded, while a candid update on an AI hosting glitch and a chaotic schedule shows the real-life mess behind making a weekly, value-for-value show.
Then comes the hinge: China’s new rule that influencers must prove credentials to speak on medicine, law, education, or finance. It sounds like public safety. It feels like narrative control. We unpack how “misinformation” becomes a lever for centralizing authority, why badges can inform but shouldn’t silence, and how free societies risk copying the same playbook under friendlier branding. Expect clear definitions, tough questions, and a practical case for personal agency—turning off bad speech rather than outlawing it.
To cool things down, we share the unexpected joy of the Supernatural official cookbook, savor the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and peek at a newly unveiled humanoid robot slated to greet customers in 2026. We wrap with nerdy audio talk: new drive, fresh installs, Audacity quirks, and the endless hunt for cleaner sound. If you value open access, curious conversation, and a show that says the quiet part out loud, you’re in the right feed. Tap follow, share with a friend, and leave a review to keep this conversation wide open.
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Capella (00:06):
Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, the worst
podcast in the unknownuniverse, or at least that's
what some people say.
We prefer to think of ourselvesas charmingly rough around the
edges.
We're passionate aboutpodcasting and the value for
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We believe in keeping ourcontent free and open to
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Bruce (00:29):
That's right.
Hello, everyone.
This is Bruce from the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast.
Sunny (00:36):
And I'm Sunny from the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
Welcome aboard.
Bruce (00:43):
All right.
Well, that was kind of peakedout there for a minute.
Welcome aboard, everybody.
This is episode 128 of ourpodcast, and we are happy to be
able to record today.
It is actually a very beautifultoday, a beautiful day today.
(01:04):
I'll get that right here in aminute.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
We went from having uh coldweather snow, which didn't
stick.
And I, if you want to seepictures of it, I actually
caught a video out my studiowindow, and I put it on our
website, the uglyquackingduck.com.
Sunny (01:25):
So look it up's what he's saying.
Bruce (01:28):
Yep, that's what I'm saying.
Look it up.
Uh, but it we caught that andit's really awesome.
Um snow coming down, and it thecamera caught it really well,
and it didn't stick, so wedidn't have any extra snow on
the ground.
But we went from that weatherto today being 61 degrees right
(01:54):
now as I record this here in theMidwest, Southern Illinois.
Sunny (02:00):
Yep, that is really cool.
We have it nice today, and theweather's not blowing or the
wind is not blowing very much, alittle bit, but the warm air.
Nice.
Bruce (02:16):
Yes, it is.
Thank you, Sunny.
And uh it's uh showingsixty-two degrees and sunny for
my area on our weather channel.
Phoenix, Arizona is showing 75today.
Woo woo! And we mustn't forgetSpokane, Washington, which is
showing 43 degrees and partlycloudy.
(02:39):
Boohoo! Oh well, we knowsomebody has to have colder
weather.
Glad it's not us.
We're at 62, guys.
Yay!
Sunny (02:51):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
It's great.
A lot better than it wasearlier in the week and this
weekend.
Bruce (03:05):
All right.
Sound effects and all.
Oh boy.
Thank you, Sunny.
Sunny (03:10):
Well, Bruce, I'm glad to be here, and I thank you for
letting me be part of yourpodcast.
It's great.
And everybody listening, yay.
Bruce (03:24):
Okay.
You always do get excited, butyeah.
Speaking of that, everybodythat's tuned in, listening,
thank you for finding ourpodcast and for playing this
episode.
If this is the first one you'velistened to, please come back.
And if you've been here beforeand you keep coming back, oh
(03:46):
mercy.
Uh, that tells you somethingabout you.
Uh you fit right in with therest of us, for sure.
Sunny (03:54):
Yeah, for sure.
Bruce (03:57):
But we really do appreciate it.
Tell your friends, okay?
That's the best way for us togrow.
We do appreciate everythingfrom every one of you out there.
And I want to take a second toalso say I'm sorry for anybody
that caught our episode last uhthe last one.
(04:19):
We actually recorded it onHalloween day.
We was going to put it out thatnight or the next morning.
In fact, we recorded it anduploaded it to our hosting page,
and then we found a glitch intheir AI.
That's what they used to umcrunch the audio and sort out
(04:44):
the chapters and sort out anyother things I want to use, like
transcripts and stuff.
Well, they actually had anissue with the AI.
The transcript kind of workedout.
I went in and edited it quite abit, but my chapters I couldn't
get into and change anything oredit it, add or delete.
(05:08):
And so the chapters were justnon-working.
And I contacted them and theycontacted me, and we went back
and forth on email.
They did get it fixed.
Uh, I actually uploaded a Iresaved my audio to a lesser
compressed version, and it tookit and worked.
(05:31):
And then they got back with melater on and said that they'd
actually fixed the problem,found out what it was, and that
it should work next time.
So I could go back to myregular old settings.
Sunny (05:46):
Yeah, your old settings, you old man.
Hey, that sh Oh yeah, I got youagain.
Bruce (05:59):
Well, um, anyway, um they got it fixed.
Uh but what that story is, isthat we uploaded it and wanted
it to be played right afterHalloween, and uh not because it
was spooky, just because thatwas a time frame that we
recorded at four.
But no.
(06:19):
It didn't work that way.
It didn't come out till what,Tuesday or Wednesday of the
following week, which was whatuh the third or fourth, which
wasn't no big deal.
I mean it still works.
It was a good episode.
It just kind of was a bummerfor us.
But, you know, our schedulingkind of went off rail here
(06:43):
lately.
We was trying to get one outevery weekend and put it, you
know, upload it and get it outon Monday of the following week,
and that was kind of a ourtradition.
We'd either do it on a Fridayor Sunday, and you know,
sometime there on that weekendwe'd get it uploaded.
However, since I'vesemi-retired, get that word
(07:06):
semi, they're working me c crazyhours and almost as much as I
was when I was full timeworking.
And that has really threw thescheduling off the rails.
And I'm not sure, you know,like today, it is Wednesday the
twelfth, and we're just nowgetting set down to try to
(07:30):
record again.
Uh it's really crazy.
And I'm gonna work this comingweekend.
So I'm gonna hurry up, try toget this one together and if I
get it edited and everythingposted, uh then the the hosting
page will work right, we hope.
(07:51):
And we'll get it out.
And then I don't know when thenext one will be.
Uh it's just really hard to getthis thing going.
And that was one of the mainreasons I wanted to semi-retire
so I could actually work on mypodcasts.
I wanted to be able to do moreresearch, I call it homework, be
(08:13):
able to produce a little bitbetter of a quality listen at
car.
Quality podcast or episodeanyway.
But uh right now we're notdoing very well.
Sunny (08:29):
Oh, you can say that again.
Bruce (08:32):
Right now we're not doing very well.
Sunny (08:35):
I didn't mean it.
You didn't have to.
Bruce (08:38):
Oh yeah, I had to.
Sunny (08:40):
All right, there you go.
Everybody, he's a little weird.
Bruce (08:45):
A little?
No.
Okay.
Sunny (08:48):
You're a lot weird.
Bruce (08:51):
Okay.
Well, I am a bum.
Sunny (08:54):
Yeah, you're the biggest bum of all.
Bruce (09:00):
Okay.
Don't you don't have to go thatfar.
You really don't.
We'll we'll get it worked out.
I told everybody in the past,and I think I had it on the last
two episodes, the schedulingwill line itself out right after
the first of the year, I'mpretty sure, because it always
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slows down, and then they'll becutting the hours a little bit,
and that will give me more timeto do my thing, you know?
But right now with theholidays, anybody that's ever
been in retail knows what I meanwith the holidays.
You're hitting it hard.
Full time, buddy, even ifyou're not.
(09:42):
Well, I was uh going through,you know, news as I always do,
and there was an article thatcaught my eye.
Uh the headline was 25 years inspace.
And I thought, that's kind ofstrange because it's been longer
than that.
Well, I went and read thearticle, and it was specifically
(10:03):
talking about manned in spaceand the International Space
Station, which was put up thereon November the 2nd, 2000.
Now it was commissioned byRonald Reagan back in 1984, I
believe.
It has been up and people wasin it living since 2000, which
(10:28):
is this is 2025, November thesecond, past, which made it 25
years.
But I do take Go ahead.
Sunny (10:38):
You take what?
Take it home, take it to theriver, what?
Bruce (10:43):
Well, I just take a little bit of I want to take
that to the cleaners.
That's what I'm saying.
No.
It uh sounds good on the faceof it, but what most people
don't realize was the Mirrorspace station was launched back
in February 20th, 1986, and itwas manned.
(11:07):
In fact, we had Americans thatwent up there and stayed for a
while.
I think a thousand days total,maybe.
Uh, don't quote me on that.
You'd have to look it up.
The reason I me m mention themirror and remember it is
because it was before that25-year mark.
And I uh I do a lot of radio,used to do a lot more radio um
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communications, amateur radio,and I got to communicate with
the mirror space station a lot.
In fact, you could look up mycall sign back in the day when
the internet was first going,and you could see my call sign
connecting to the mirror spacestation.
They had a log on the internet.
(11:56):
Not anymore.
I went and looked it back upjust to see if I could find it,
and there was pages and pagesand pages of other stuff, but
the search engines no longer doit like they used to.
I mean, you could typesomething in and it would
actually bring that specificthing up.
(12:16):
But now if it's not uh paid forby a search engine company or
you know, hit the uh what dothey call that SEO's uh lot,
then it won't come up.
I mean, it just won't do it.
So it wouldn't come up anymore.
But to make a long storylonger.
Sunny (12:41):
Oh, you're silly, buddy.
Silly.
I got something for ya.
Bruce (12:50):
Who said you could push my buttons?
Sunny (12:53):
Oh, I pushed them all right.
Bruce (12:56):
Okay, yeah.
You're not gonna aggravate me.
Do I?
Well, that's probably true too.
But anyhow, um yeah, so Imirror has a special place in my
heart and my memory, because uhI got to communicate with it.
I did the International SpaceStation a couple times, but it
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wasn't as much fun.
I don't know why.
But with the mirror, I actuallygot to communicate with him
quite a few times, a coupletimes with voice, and then many
times with digital.
But anyhow, they were therefirst in the uh space station
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world, I'll put it that way.
And so it's been longer than 25years with man being up there
in space and staying.
Now we had manned orbits beforethat, which was a lot before
that.
So I'm not sure that 25 yearmark is exactly what they're
(14:03):
saying, but it is 25 years forthe International Space Station.
So there you go.
Sunny (14:11):
Now that you bore everybody to death about your
radio communications.
Bruce (14:20):
Well, it's still about the space station, 25 years as
of November the second, twentytwenty five.
Sunny (14:29):
All right.
I'll I'll give you that, Bruce,but let's keep it down to a
minimum yeah, okay.
Bruce (14:38):
Oh, listen to you.
No, not okay, because that'swhat we do on this podcast.
We talk.
Sunny (14:46):
Oh, you talk, I have to listen.
Bruce (14:52):
Ooh, wee, you're on a row.
Sunny (14:54):
Yep, the sun makes me feel good.
You know, I've got winterdepression.
No sun, depressed, sunshine,happy.
Bruce (15:04):
I think that's probably about 90% of Americans or
people, period.
Uh believe it or not, we relyon the sun more than most people
realize.
Um, I kind of agree.
Oh.
Wait, mark it on the calendar,guys.
It's November the twelfth,eleven forty-six AM, and Sunny
(15:28):
agrees with me.
Sunny (15:30):
Well, you don't have to be a smart aleck about it.
Bruce (15:34):
No, but I am.
Sunny (15:36):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Did you hear that?
He admits it.
Bruce (15:42):
Yeah.
Hey, a bit of neat, coolinformation is the Aurora has
been visible most of the UnitedStates, uh, all the way down to
Texas, Arizona, Alabama, um,here in Illinois, Missouri.
(16:02):
I mean, I've I've seen a lot ofsocial media um posts with
pictures showing the uh aurora.
What has happened was there hasbeen a double CME strike, which
produced a big severe storm,and that hit on the 11th
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yesterday, and there's one moreheading this way, supposed to
hit today.
Now, I don't know if it's hityet, but that's gonna produce
another Aurora storm.
So we should be able to seethat one too.
But if you got out there andgot a chance to see that, bless
you, because it's it wasbeautiful.
(16:43):
I had to work, and I got homeand I was tired and I had to
come to bed early.
But look out.
Maybe there's gonna be somemore auroras tonight, which by
the time you hear this, you thechances are gone.
But I wanted to talk about itbecause it's really beautiful.
Sunny (17:01):
Yeah, I got to look at him.
I didn't have a camera becauseI don't want one and I don't
know how to work one and blahblah blah.
Bruce (17:10):
But I got to see him.
Well, that's cool.
I'm glad you got to, man.
I didn't know that.
You didn't tell me that lastnight.
Well you didn't ask.
Well, touche.
I didn't.
I guess I should have.
Well, let's shift gears alittle bit.
I haven't gave a uh earthquakereport in a while, and I'd like
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to give an update.
I'm not gonna do a full pledgereport, you know, the seven-day
report like I normally do.
However, la as of 11.7, thatwas when my last seven-day uh
report I wrote down.
Uh we had four six point oh andover earthquakes, uh, which the
(18:00):
highest one was a six pointthree.
It occurred in Afghanistan, andthen we had uh six point one in
Russia on that peninsula tip,you know, where we've had
several and then we had two sixpoint oh earthquakes also in
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Russia on that peninsula.
And if we look at uh the latestreport, which is seven days
from today, um it brings upthree major earthquakes, six
point oh and over, all in Japan.
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We had as of eleven nine, a sixpoint eight in Japan, and then
eleven nine, we had another one,six point four, and then on
eleven ten, we had a six pointzero earthquake, which was uh
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really bad for Japan.
I don't know if anybody heardabout those, but we need to keep
those people in our prayer.
I may not uh be reporting onthese earthquakes like I have
been, but I am recording them,and they're on the USGS
magnitude or the USGS webpageunder all the magnitude uh
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selections.
But I am keeping a recordof 'em so I can go back and look
at 'em later on.
And it'd be kind ofinteresting.
They've got a map there whereyou can look it up and see
exactly where they're at.
Um I wouldn't mind putting themon a different type map and
seeing if there makes anydifference.
(19:52):
But that's either here orthere.
I just wanted to report on themsince it's been a while.
Now them CMEs I was telling youabout were on their way and
they hit on the 11th.
And I don't know if any of thathad anything to do with these
earthquakes, like over in Japan.
(20:14):
But I'm going to keep an eye onit and see.
Now we're supposed to have thatCME hit today or this evening.
I'm not sure what time, but theeffect will cause another
aurora being seen, um, hopefullydown here in the States.
(20:35):
And we may see some moreearthquake activity.
We'll just have to watch outand see if it happens.
It was such a beautiful day, oris a beautiful day, but I
opened the window up in thestudio here just to get some
fresh air, you know?
I don't like having it allclosed up.
What that means is you'llprobably hear a lot more car
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noises go by.
Bear with me.
That's part of the studio,right?
Live action.
Sunny (21:06):
You mean live noise.
Noise, noise, noise.
Bruce (21:12):
Well, uh what is it?
Uh one person's junks, anotherperson's treasure, or some
something to that effect.
Sunny (21:22):
I think you made that up.
Bruce (21:24):
No, I didn't.
It's actually a saying from along time ago.
However, let's talk aboutsomething else.
Sunny (21:33):
Okay, let's talk about me, me, me, me, me.
Bruce (21:41):
Okay, boy.
Attention sinker, are you?
Sunny (21:46):
No, not at all.
I'm just wanting to talk aboutme, me, me, me, me, me.
Bruce (21:53):
Ah, okay.
Well, we're not going to.
Sorry.
Sunny (21:58):
Oh, I'm not surprised.
You're selfish.
Bruce (22:02):
No, I've got other things and I'm sure our listeners
don't really want to hear aboutyou.
Well, maybe they do.
Have you asked?
Oh, uh I've asked a lot ofthings, and nobody ever answers
me, so I'm just gonna say nope,they don't want to.
Sunny (22:19):
Oh, thank you, everybody.
Bruce (22:24):
Okay.
Anyhow, you know, there was anarticle that I run across.
It's been a while now, and itjust kind of struck me, and it's
been in the back of my head,and it rolls around and comes up
in my uh conscious being a lot.
(22:47):
And uh I'll be at work, and itthe thought of it hits me, and
it's really bugging me, and Ijust think we ought to mention
it here today.
And the article was actually ona podcast two or three weeks
(23:07):
ago, I don't remember exactlywhen.
One of the podcasts I like tolisten to mentioned it.
It's uh the podcast is aboutpodcast news, about you know,
all things to do with podcast.
And this article was aboutpodcasting, but it was about
podcasting in China, of allplaces.
(23:30):
What they did on this podcastwas mention the article that
they had read and kind of said,hey, you know, China has
introduced new regulation.
And I listened to it and Ithought, eh, that's kind of
weird.
And the more I thought aboutit, the more it bugged me.
So I went and looked it up, andsure enough, it's real.
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And there's been a whole lot ofarticles written about it,
which I thought that was kind ofpeculiar because it's in China,
right?
Uh most people don't reallythink much about China.
However, if you stop and thinkabout it, there's been a lot of
news headlines and mentionsabout China here lately.
(24:16):
I mean, about the presidentgoing all the way back to Biden
and his son, on and on and on,all the time.
China's in their headlines.
And it's almost like they're aput-up enemy for us to worry and
be concerned about.
And I don't know how to takethis article.
(24:38):
There's several things aboutit, but let me read it to you.
I went and looked it up, andthe fake first place I run
across it was on Facebook.
Uh, it's called Technology'sInnovation or Technology
Innovation, and they posted anarticle about it, and I'm just
gonna read part of it, so bearwith me.
Sunny (24:59):
Oh, yeah.
Bear with him.
He can't read worth a hoot.
Bruce (25:04):
All right, thanks, Sunny.
You're welcome.
So this is how it begins.
It says China has introduced anew regulation requiring social
media influencers to prove theirofficial qualifications before
posting about sensitive topicssuch as medicine, law,
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education, or finance.
Creators must show proof ofexpertise such as a degree,
professional license, orcertification to discuss these
subjects online.
According to the cyberspaceadministration of China, the
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CAC, the movie the MOVE, sorry,forgive me, the MOVE aims to
combat misinformation andprotect the public from false or
harmful advice.
Okay, did you catch that?
To protect the public fromfalse or harmful advice.
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From misinformation.
There you go.
Sunny (26:23):
Well now, Bruce, protecting us from
misinformation, that's prettyimportant.
I mean, I don't want to bemisinformed about anything, and
I especially don't like lies orfalse information, bad advice.
What's wrong with that?
Bruce (26:43):
Uh, there you go.
That's on the surface, itsounds really good.
And it really hit me wrong, andit took me several weeks of
mulling it over before I startedreally getting into what was
bugging me.
And I'm slow about stuff likethat, so it takes me a little
(27:06):
while.
But uh, let's break this down,let's take a little bit of time
and break it down.
First of all, this informationcomes from China, of all places,
right?
I don't know about you guys.
Now, when I was growing up,everybody was taught that China
was a backwards type of uhcountry, uh their people was uh
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mistreated and poor and blah,blah, blah.
You know, you kind of get thepicture I'm trying to describe.
Now, most of us here recently,maybe not real recent, some
people more than others andsooner than others, have
discovered that information isprobably probably not true.
(27:54):
In fact, we uh have seen uhmany social media posts and
people over in China showing offtheir country.
Now again, they may be hired todo this and to mislead us
Americans.
However, I don't believe that,but they show a different
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country than we've all been ledto believe that China is or was.
So that's the first thing thatbugged me.
All of a sudden we're hearingabout China again, and China's
people are made, wait a minute,what is it?
To get a some kind ofqualification, expertise in
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order to talk about certainsubjects on social media.
So that tells me China hassocial media very much like us,
and we know that's true becauseof TikTok.
Because TikTok was uh at onetime we were able to see their
TikToks and they were able tosee ours.
(29:05):
Now, once that all took placewith our government taking over,
you don't do that anymore.
You can't see them and theycan't see us.
Huh.
Isn't that interesting?
Back to the subject.
So China's people were havingproblems with what?
Misinformation.
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Now that's very similar to whatwe've all been hearing over
here.
All our news media, themainstream media, has been
squawking and qualking andcrying about misinformation.
And not just in this country,England, UK, uh the whole UK,
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uh, Australia, uh, they're allcracking down on misinformation.
And not just those countries,there's others, but most of
them.
The other countries are led bycertain leaders that don't want
any information at all leaked.
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But, you know, like America,UK, Australia, and there's
several others that aresupposedly free countries that
have free information abidingeverywhere, but yet they're
having trouble withmisinformation, just like China
(30:29):
having it misinformation.
So China is not uncommon theway we think they are.
They have influencers, theyhave social media, and they have
problems with misinformation.
Now, misinformation could bemisinformation in itself.
(30:51):
And let me read this littlesubject matter about
misinformation off of theAmerican Psychological
Association page.
Misinformation anddisinformation is the title.
And it says Misinformation isfalse or inaccurate information
(31:15):
getting the facts wrong.
Disinformation is falseinformation which is
deliberately intended tomislead.
The spread of misinformationand disinformation has affected
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our ability to improve publichealth, address climate change,
maintain a stable democracy, andmore.
All right, that's the way theystand on that.
And that's what all thecountries are doing.
Now what I have noticed, and Idon't know if you've noticed,
uh, all information can be shutoff.
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All that information's on thesocial media, on the radio, on
the TV, and I remember when Iwas young, uh we used to do a
lot of CBing.
And if somebody that was verynasty mouth and hateful was on
there talking, we'd either justturn the channel and get on a
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different channel, or we wouldturn it off.
Problem solved.
They're gone.
And you may say, well, I can'tgo anywhere.
They're everywhere.
Well, no, they're noteverywhere, but they're all the
places where you like to travelin your internet circle.
And that's the same thing withChina and their social media
(32:44):
problems.
And I go back to China, so I Ithink about China and I'm
surprised because one, I didn'tthink China had that kind of
situation, and every day I'mwaking up to the fact that even
though they have a differentgovernment, and sometimes that
(33:07):
government takes away a lot oftheir rights, they still have
people trying to live with newinformation, and they have
social media and everything likewe do here.
And they're having to deal withmisinformation.
The problem is their governmenthas chosen what information is
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correct and what information iswrong or misinformation.
That's what we call communism.
Or you can do it in anotherway.
But what we're seeing in ourcountry is that is taking place
(33:54):
here.
And it has been for years, andit ain't just because we got a
new president and everybodyhates him.
No, it's been like that foryears.
The media that we think istelling us the truth is and has
been paid for by people withdeep pockets, and then people
(34:17):
with deep pockets haveconnections with people that are
in our government, and what ishappening is they tell the
newspapers that's what it usedto be, or the TV shows or even
(34:38):
the movies what to produce, whatto say, what not to say, and
that's the way it is.
And you may not like hearingthat, or you may not believe me,
but if you think about it,you'll know it's true.
They actually have controlledeverything, and they've been
(34:58):
controlling the history booksand the education system for a
long time, also, and we're justnow waking up to that, and I say
they, the pirates to be, theones with the money, the ones
that want us fighting amongstourselves and not looking at
them from what they're doing andwhat they're taking away and
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what they're controlling.
So whether we're talking aboutChina, the UK, Australia, Iran,
any country, the ones that arein charge has always been
controlling the information,what is to be said and not to be
(35:43):
said, and they are labelingthat information either
misinformation or disinformationor accurate information.
And the what you are acceptingis based on what you believe and
(36:05):
what you see and what youtrust.
And why I'm saying this isbecause that really bothered me
when I first read that article.
I thought, first of all, itjust didn't sit right because of
China.
I'm thinking, why is Chinabrought into our news media so
much?
Well, because they're usingthat as the beginning.
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They do it with everything.
They're manipulating you intowhether you're going to accept
this misinformation story, andthen they're going to twist it a
little bit more and a littlebit more before long.
You're going to have to have acertain ID and certain age
requirements to get on theinternet, and uh that way they
(36:52):
can track where you're at, whatinformation you're seeing, what
you're accepting.
It's all part of the plan.
It's just unfolding now, andwe're just now starting to see
it.
I'm not saying there's not aproblem with misinformation.
There's always been people thatwould sit on the street corner
(37:16):
and talk about something thatthey had no idea what they
really was talking about.
And then there was others thatknew that they knew that the
government was cheating, andthey would tell people, and they
would get carted off to jaileither way, either one of them,
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because one didn't know whatthey was talking about and one
really did.
And they wanted to make surethey kept them both quiet.
They don't want anybody comingout against the known powers.
Never has changed, never will.
We are living in a corruptworld.
That's all I got to say aboutthat.
No, not really.
Sunny (37:56):
Oh, you never got all that.
You got more and more and more.
Bruce (38:02):
Yep, I do.
But anyhow, the point I'mtrying to make today is because
it took me a while to kind offigure out what was going on,
but I'm hearing more and more.
Even back several years ago,President Obama was talking
(38:22):
about this, and then there wasum, I think I even hit got that.
Hang on.
President Obama (38:30):
And that's why I'm here today.
On Stanford's campus in theheart of Silicon Valley, where
so much of the digitalrevolution began.
Because I'm convinced thatright now, one of the biggest
reasons for democracy'sweakening is the profound change
that's taken place in how wecommunicate and consume
(38:51):
information.
Bruce (38:53):
This was taken in June 18, 2025.
President Obama (39:01):
Part of what we're gonna have to do is to
start experimenting with newforms of journalism and how do
we use social media in ways thatreaffirm facts, separate facts
from opinion.
We want diversity of opinion,but we don't want diversity of
(39:23):
facts.
That I think is is the big oneof the big tasks of social
media.
And by the way, it will requiresome government, I believe, uh
some government uh regulatoryconstraints around some of these
business models in a way that'sconsistent with the First
(39:44):
Amendment.
Bruce (39:45):
That's just a clip of his speech he gave um talking about
this misinformation problem.
And it's been all the leadershave talked about it.
I mean, President Trump hastalked about the media and how
they've lied.
(40:06):
I mean, in fact, the BBC hasrecently just got in trouble,
and two of their main heads ofthat company has resigned
because they got caught lying.
They took um video and audio ofTrump's speech, and they took
(40:29):
one part of it, and then theytook another part that had been
recorded about an hour later,spliced them together, and made
it sound like he told everybodyto go marching and fight and
yell, and you know, that's notexactly what happened, but they
made it sound like that's whathe did.
(40:50):
So that was proof of what he'sbeen saying and what a lot of
the leaders.
Obama said it when he waspresident that there was
misleading news media out there,and everybody's forgot about
that.
But you know, we are living ina society that has grown up with
(41:13):
news coverage of everything,and we have accepted those as
legitimate facts, but they'renot normally that way.
They're biased, they'recontrolled, and they are
misleading the public.
But the misinformation thatthey're wanting to squalch is
(41:38):
not that.
It's not the main objectivethat they're putting out.
It's the people that aretalking.
And I don't know about you, butI've run across all kinds of
people that are blabbing around,and if I don't like their
message or I know they're justfull of you know what, I'll walk
(41:59):
away from it.
And that's what we should do,whether it's on social media or
YouTube or any of thismisinformation that they're
saying.
However, they should have theright to put out opinions that
is opposite of what ourgovernment is saying.
(42:22):
There's the key.
You know, what about the drugs?
You know, there is a big, big,big riff right now with the
vaccine makers and the vaccineresponsibility.
They took away their right, orno, that's not right.
(42:48):
They took away the consumers'right to sue the vaccine makers
if they did anything wrong andmade people sick and made people
die.
They hid the fact that theywere killing people and then
they took away the r rights ofour consumers to sue them for
(43:11):
damages.
Why?
If the vaccine was so great,why?
That's what I'm saying.
The truth needs to be said, butwhen the truth is said, it is
called misinformation,disinformation, and lies.
Because they don't know theydon't want us to spread the
(43:33):
truth, and they don't wantpeople to wake up.
That's the whole point.
And it doesn't matter if it'sin China.
China's leadership does notwant people talking about them.
They don't want people torealize what they are missing
out on.
Same thing in this country.
(43:53):
They got us believing we'refree.
They have us believing that weare free and that we are living
good and everything's great, andwe just have problems with our
money.
No, that's not what's going on,folks.
Sorry.
If that's what you'rebelieving, then there's
something wrong.
Stop, take a look, and reallysmell the roses because they're
(44:19):
taking away your rights.
They're working you nonstop.
They're making sure you can'tmake enough money to make ends
meet so you can't have enoughtime to think, to stop and talk
and communicate.
And when you do stop and talk,you're so stressed out that
you're relieving yourself,whether it be with drugs,
(44:41):
alcohol, sports, and you're notcommunicating with each other.
And they do not want that tohappen because they don't want
you to figure out that they'reagainst you.
Well, they're making all theirmoney, they're taxing you, and
they're claiming that they'rehelping you.
I don't know, I don't know ifyou guys can see it or not, but
(45:04):
that's I seen that article andit just sat wrong with me, and I
couldn't figure it out for along time, and then I finally
realized that it ismisinformation, but it's not the
people talking about theinformation that makes it
misinformation.
It's the leadership that ismaking it misinformation.
(45:28):
And they're getting ready to dothat here.
They're getting ready to putpeople in charge of claiming,
hey, that guy on social mediamedia is dealing out
misinformation.
Well, who makes that decision?
Well, the guy that has thedegree.
Well, how'd he get the degree?
Well, he went to the schoolthat charged him a whole bunch
(45:52):
of money to give him a degreethat they established was the
right degree.
Now he can go out and judgeeverybody else because he has
that degree from that place thatcharge him that money.
I don't know if you can seewhere I'm going with all that or
(46:13):
not, but I'll uh I'll call itquits for now with that.
Sunny (46:18):
I think you should before you make people mad.
Bruce (46:21):
Well, I don't think I'm gonna make anybody mad because
the people that listen to me areused to me.
But I want everybody to realizethat we are heading into a spot
in this world world that uh iswe better wake up.
(46:41):
That's all I got to say,because it won't be long that
they'll be making you, even inthe states, have some kind of
certification.
They do the same thing witheverything.
Take hairdressers.
Hairdressers have to get acertificate in most states,
(47:02):
whether it's a license or acertification, saying they've
had classes and they'vefurthered their education in
order to cut hair and chargemoney for it.
Uh drone operators.
Now, if you're just gonna do itout for fun, that's one thing.
But if you're gonna fly it andtake pictures and make money,
(47:23):
guess what?
You gotta go take a class andget licensed.
Yeah.
Kind of weird how you can justfly it f without anything, but
if you wanted to make money, yougotta get a license.
Again, it's kind of strange howthey control things.
The key word is control.
And I won't go into it verymuch more, but I just want
(47:47):
everybody to realize how crazyit is and how much they have
really started manipulating themisinformation story, and
they're wanting everybody torealize, hey, they're giving you
misinformation.
(48:08):
We need to come in and controlthe situation to protect you.
And you know, that's not whatthey're doing, they're just
controlling everything.
We don't need protected.
I I know a lot of people, letme read something real quick.
This is uh from the Facebookpost that I read, um, this is
(48:30):
some of the comments.
This one gentleman says, Ithink this is a brilliant idea,
partially at least, but I thinkI would do it slightly
different.
I would enable a system where aqualified person can have a
badge or a verified icon ontheir account and post that they
can't have unless they provetheir credentials.
(48:54):
This way people could stillhave an opinion without being
silenced.
But you wouldn't be able topost.
I don't know.
And then this other guy says,you know, people might see this
as interference with people'sfreedom of speech, but it's
actually a smart idea.
It's China looking out for themental health of their citizens,
(49:17):
unlike some other countries Iknow.
Really?
Now you have to have somebodylook out for your mental health.
You can't make your own choice.
There's the rub, there's theproblem.
We're not training people anylonger to make choices based on
truth and knowledge and how theheart feels.
(49:40):
We're basing it on or we'retraining them to base it on what
they're told is truth.
Big difference.
Control.
This one gentleman says what itreally means is that the
government can control thenarrative of said fields.
There you go.
(50:02):
That's what I'm trying to say.
Without getting too much on thesoapbox any more than I already
have, I want everybody torealize that what we're seeing
happening is more control.
And it won't be long to till wehave in this country also uh
(50:22):
some kind of regulation whereyou have to have some kind of
paperwork before you talk.
And it's you think I'm funny.
Don't don't even think thatbecause we are heading that
direction.
It may not be today, but we'reheading there.
So uh if you don't agree withme, that's great.
(50:43):
I'm glad you don't.
If you do agree with me, Ithink that's great.
But look into what I'm tellingyou and see for yourself and
form your own opinion.
That's what makes this work.
If we don't form our ownopinion, make our own mind up,
and we let other people tell uswhat it needs to be, then we are
(51:07):
always gonna be sheep, andwe're never gonna break free.
And that's what they want.
That's what they expect, andthat's what they're gonna get if
you do that.
Okay.
So I'm gonna shut up now.
Sunny (51:22):
No, you're not.
You're just talking, and you'regonna quit talking about that.
Bruce (51:28):
Well, that's true.
We're gonna shift gears reallyquick, like.
If you haven't seen it, it'skind of it's kind of wicked.
(52:13):
I don't know how to explain it,but it deals with uh ghosts and
funny things.
It's kind of like X-Files, butit deals with Supernatural
instead of UFOs.
It gets really, really bizarretowards the last several
episodes or seasons, I shouldsay.
It's a long-running show.
(52:34):
But we've watched it here atthis house several times.
And they got me a book.
It's called Supernatural, theofficial cookbook.
Yeah.
Burgers, pies, and other bitesfrom the road.
And uh when I got it, Ithought, oh, that's kind of
cool.
I like apple pie, and that fitsin perfect because um one of
(52:59):
the guys on Supernatural lovedapple pies.
But when I opened it up, itdoes.
It has recipes from the show'sfood.
So if you fix one of therecipes, you get food from the
show.
But what was neat was it alsohas pictures from the show that
(53:21):
goes along with the series, andthat that made the book really
cool.
It's worth keeping and hangingon to because I can flip through
here and see pictures that fituh the mood of the the food
you're getting ready to fix.
So it's pretty cool.
Anyway, I'm telling you thatbecause I wanted a little bit
(53:43):
lighter subject to shift to andget off of that deep, dark uh
subject that we was in, eventhough that it's very important
to talk about.
It's not uh what we need tostay in.
We need to jump out of it andget into something better.
(54:04):
So if you've not watchedSupernatural, I'm telling you
right now, you need to go watchit and catch it.
Don't live it and believe itfor a fact.
It's a fictional show, but it'sgot some fun stuff to it, man.
You watch it, enjoy it.
It's several seasons, and uhyou can actually spend a lot of
(54:29):
time watching every one of theseasons.
That's for sure.
Hey.
On another subject, did youknow that this last week, I
think it was this just this lastweekend, they had the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame uh inductionparty.
(54:51):
Yeah.
And they have some newinductees to the Hall of Fame,
and I've got it pulled up.
I want to read the list.
Uh don't um if I don'tpronounce something wrong or
right, don't haunt me on it,okay?
Uh the first one on the list.
(55:12):
Bad company Carol K, ChubbyChecker, Cindy Lauper, Joe
Cocker, Lenny Warner, Warner,Nikki Hopkins, Outcast, Salt and
Pepper, Soundgarden, Tom Bell,Warren Zavon, and the White
(55:33):
Stripes.
There's that complete list.
What do you think about that,folks?
Sunny (55:38):
Well, I don't know about them, but that's pretty cool.
I like some of those bands alot.
Bruce (55:47):
Yeah, I like some of them also.
Um, I like pretty well all ofthem, but some better than
others.
I really have enjoyed many ofthe groups that has been
inducted into the Hall of Fame,and I just enjoy music, some
better than others, and I'm notjust stuck on rock and roll.
(56:07):
I like country, I like umclassical.
There's numbers of things Ilike, and there's probably a lot
of music I haven't heard.
Hey, there you go.
That's the list for 2025.
All right, and at the 2025 AIDay, that's right, I did.
(56:35):
I said AI Day.
Didn't know there was such athing, but they unleashed or
unveiled, revealed, however youwant to say that, a second
generation iron humanoid robot.
Now this thing has beenupgraded.
(56:56):
It's uh powered by a solidstate battery, and they're
saying it's gonna greetcustomers in 2026.
The engineer spent a yearupgrading its movement control
and balance systems to make itbehave like a person navigating
a busy street.
(57:17):
The new version can walk, talk,and interact with people in
real time.
It stands five foot ten inches,weighs about 154 pounds, and it
appears to be an average adult,but operates with far more
precision.
(57:37):
And I will include a picture onthe chapter marker if you guys
want to see it.
We hope that you will find itinteresting.
I'm not sure how I like it ornot, or whether I like it or
not.
Uh, it looks like a human beingwrapped up in some kind of uh
(57:58):
wrap without a face.
So there you go.
Well, I hope everybody enjoyedthis episode.
Um, it's been interesting, andI I think the sound is better.
(58:19):
I won't be able to tell untilsomebody tells me uh I've really
worked hard on the audioquality.
I actually had a hard drive, Ithink I mentioned this, but I
had a hard drive go down, andI've got a new solid state hard
drive in my computer that is umrunning, up and running, and
(58:42):
I've updated all my programs andput them on the new hard drive,
which uh it seems to be runningpretty good and pretty fast.
However, I um had a fewprograms that I had on my small
solid state drive, and I movedthem over to that hard drive.
(59:03):
And when I did, I had touninstall them, reinstall them
on that drive.
And uh Audacity, the program Iused to record and do the
editing, um, it's acting weirdnow.
It's um not acting the same asit did before, and I don't know
(59:24):
how to explain it.
It's it's just hard to explain,but it it's getting feedback
sometimes when I have the USB uhbutton on where I can hear, you
know, things from the computer,which it didn't do that before.
I could leave it on and talk,and it didn't feed back, and
(59:46):
then when I played somethingfrom the computer, I could hear
it.
And now I have to switch itback and forth on and off.
And there's a few other quirks,it works good.
Um, I don't know what changed,something changed.
When I did all that, but Ithink the sound's good.
Anyway, I've been working on mycomputer system and working on
(01:00:08):
the audio too, and I hope itstill sounds good.
You'll have to let me know ifthere's anything weird going on.
But this took place after I hadthe problem with the AI on my
bus sprout hosting page.
It's uh all been fixed now,hopefully.
(01:00:30):
Anyway, thanks for tuning inand being with us.
I hope you enjoyed the episode,and we will have more to come.
I am Bruce.
Sunny (01:00:41):
And I am Sunny, and we are going to say good afternoon
to everybody.
Bruce (01:00:48):
Yeah.
We hope you enjoyed the wholeday, and I hope you get
something out of this podcast.
Uh that one portion from theChina talk has really been
bothering me for a couple weeks.
I had to get it out, had toshare it, and I didn't do a very
good job.
In fact, part of the rant goterased.
(01:01:12):
I hit the wrong button anderased part of it, so you didn't
have to put up with the wholerant.
But there was more of it,believe me.
But I I won't put put youthrough that anymore.
I just kind of cut it off andended it, uh, so you wouldn't
(01:01:33):
have to put up with that.
But it's important.
What we see coming down thepike is um not good if we don't
put a stop to it, if we don'tjust stand up and talk about it.
And uh there's so many peopleout there that want somebody to
control the situation.
(01:01:54):
They don't want to have to makea decision, they don't want to
have to choose anything in life,they just want to be led.
And that's fine.
Go off somewhere and do that,but there's a lot of people, a
lot of people that want tocreate and do things and be
something and be part ofsomething, and there there's
(01:02:17):
young people growing up to dothat, and we need to allow that.
We don't need them to begrowing up into a world that is
manipulating them andcontrolling them.
I'm gonna get off of it, guys.
I'm sorry.
Sunny (01:02:33):
You better you better get off of it.
Bruce (01:02:37):
I am.
I'm gonna leave it with thisepisode, and then the next
episode will be totallysomething else I can gripe
about.
Sunny (01:02:44):
Ha ha yeah, you uh you said that right.
Bruce (01:02:48):
Yeah, I did, I know.
But anyhow, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast, and I am
Bruce.
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All right.
Thanks again, everybody.
We really do appreciate it.
We thank you for being here,and we hope you share this with
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Thank you very much.
Sunny (01:03:54):
All right, I think that's a very good fact, and I
appreciate everybody too.
Take care, have a good week.
We'll see you on the round, orsee you next time, or see you
sometime.
How's that?
Bruce (01:04:08):
Hey, we will be here, you be here, and we'll all be here.
How's that sound?
Until next time, may theFather's blessings and love go
with you.
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That's right.
Hello, everyone.
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Sunny (00:36):
And I'm Sunny from the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
Welcome aboard.
Bruce (00:43):
All right.
Well, that was kind of peakedout there for a minute.
Welcome aboard, everybody.
This is episode 128 of ourpodcast, and we are happy to be
able to record today.
It is actually a very beautifultoday, a beautiful day today.
(01:04):
I'll get that right here in aminute.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
We went from having uh coldweather snow, which didn't
stick.
And I, if you want to seepictures of it, I actually
caught a video out my studiowindow, and I put it on our
website, the uglyquackingduck.com.
Sunny (01:25):
So look it up's what he's saying.
Bruce (01:28):
Yep, that's what I'm saying.
Look it up.
Uh, but it we caught that andit's really awesome.
Um snow coming down, and it thecamera caught it really well,
and it didn't stick, so wedidn't have any extra snow on
the ground.
But we went from that weatherto today being 61 degrees right
(01:54):
now as I record this here in theMidwest, Southern Illinois.
Sunny (02:00):
Yep, that is really cool.
We have it nice today, and theweather's not blowing or the
wind is not blowing very much, alittle bit, but the warm air.
Nice.
Bruce (02:16):
Yes, it is.
Thank you, Sunny.
And uh it's uh showingsixty-two degrees and sunny for
my area on our weather channel.
Phoenix, Arizona is showing 75today.
Woo woo! And we mustn't forgetSpokane, Washington, which is
showing 43 degrees and partlycloudy.
(02:39):
Boohoo! Oh well, we knowsomebody has to have colder
weather.
Glad it's not us.
We're at 62, guys.
Yay!
Sunny (02:51):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
It's great.
A lot better than it wasearlier in the week and this
weekend.
Bruce (03:05):
All right.
Sound effects and all.
Oh boy.
Thank you, Sunny.
Sunny (03:10):
Well, Bruce, I'm glad to be here, and I thank you for
letting me be part of yourpodcast.
It's great.
And everybody listening, yay.
Bruce (03:24):
Okay.
You always do get excited, butyeah.
Speaking of that, everybodythat's tuned in, listening,
thank you for finding ourpodcast and for playing this
episode.
If this is the first one you'velistened to, please come back.
And if you've been here beforeand you keep coming back, oh
(03:46):
mercy.
Uh, that tells you somethingabout you.
Uh you fit right in with therest of us, for sure.
Sunny (03:54):
Yeah, for sure.
Bruce (03:57):
But we really do appreciate it.
Tell your friends, okay?
That's the best way for us togrow.
We do appreciate everythingfrom every one of you out there.
And I want to take a second toalso say I'm sorry for anybody
that caught our episode last uhthe last one.
(04:19):
We actually recorded it onHalloween day.
We was going to put it out thatnight or the next morning.
In fact, we recorded it anduploaded it to our hosting page,
and then we found a glitch intheir AI.
That's what they used to umcrunch the audio and sort out
(04:44):
the chapters and sort out anyother things I want to use, like
transcripts and stuff.
Well, they actually had anissue with the AI.
The transcript kind of workedout.
I went in and edited it quite abit, but my chapters I couldn't
get into and change anything oredit it, add or delete.
(05:08):
And so the chapters were justnon-working.
And I contacted them and theycontacted me, and we went back
and forth on email.
They did get it fixed.
Uh, I actually uploaded a Iresaved my audio to a lesser
compressed version, and it tookit and worked.
(05:31):
And then they got back with melater on and said that they'd
actually fixed the problem,found out what it was, and that
it should work next time.
So I could go back to myregular old settings.
Sunny (05:46):
Yeah, your old settings, you old man.
Hey, that sh Oh yeah, I got youagain.
Bruce (05:59):
Well, um, anyway, um they got it fixed.
Uh but what that story is, isthat we uploaded it and wanted
it to be played right afterHalloween, and uh not because it
was spooky, just because thatwas a time frame that we
recorded at four.
But no.
(06:19):
It didn't work that way.
It didn't come out till what,Tuesday or Wednesday of the
following week, which was whatuh the third or fourth, which
wasn't no big deal.
I mean it still works.
It was a good episode.
It just kind of was a bummerfor us.
But, you know, our schedulingkind of went off rail here
(06:43):
lately.
We was trying to get one outevery weekend and put it, you
know, upload it and get it outon Monday of the following week,
and that was kind of a ourtradition.
We'd either do it on a Fridayor Sunday, and you know,
sometime there on that weekendwe'd get it uploaded.
However, since I'vesemi-retired, get that word
(07:06):
semi, they're working me c crazyhours and almost as much as I
was when I was full timeworking.
And that has really threw thescheduling off the rails.
And I'm not sure, you know,like today, it is Wednesday the
twelfth, and we're just nowgetting set down to try to
(07:30):
record again.
Uh it's really crazy.
And I'm gonna work this comingweekend.
So I'm gonna hurry up, try toget this one together and if I
get it edited and everythingposted, uh then the the hosting
page will work right, we hope.
(07:51):
And we'll get it out.
And then I don't know when thenext one will be.
Uh it's just really hard to getthis thing going.
And that was one of the mainreasons I wanted to semi-retire
so I could actually work on mypodcasts.
I wanted to be able to do moreresearch, I call it homework, be
(08:13):
able to produce a little bitbetter of a quality listen at
car.
Quality podcast or episodeanyway.
But uh right now we're notdoing very well.
Sunny (08:29):
Oh, you can say that again.
Bruce (08:32):
Right now we're not doing very well.
Sunny (08:35):
I didn't mean it.
You didn't have to.
Bruce (08:38):
Oh yeah, I had to.
Sunny (08:40):
All right, there you go.
Everybody, he's a little weird.
Bruce (08:45):
A little?
No.
Okay.
Sunny (08:48):
You're a lot weird.
Bruce (08:51):
Okay.
Well, I am a bum.
Sunny (08:54):
Yeah, you're the biggest bum of all.
Bruce (09:00):
Okay.
Don't you don't have to go thatfar.
You really don't.
We'll we'll get it worked out.
I told everybody in the past,and I think I had it on the last
two episodes, the schedulingwill line itself out right after
the first of the year, I'mpretty sure, because it always
(09:20):
slows down, and then they'll becutting the hours a little bit,
and that will give me more timeto do my thing, you know?
But right now with theholidays, anybody that's ever
been in retail knows what I meanwith the holidays.
You're hitting it hard.
Full time, buddy, even ifyou're not.
(09:42):
Well, I was uh going through,you know, news as I always do,
and there was an article thatcaught my eye.
Uh the headline was 25 years inspace.
And I thought, that's kind ofstrange because it's been longer
than that.
Well, I went and read thearticle, and it was specifically
(10:03):
talking about manned in spaceand the International Space
Station, which was put up thereon November the 2nd, 2000.
Now it was commissioned byRonald Reagan back in 1984, I
believe.
It has been up and people wasin it living since 2000, which
(10:28):
is this is 2025, November thesecond, past, which made it 25
years.
But I do take Go ahead.
Sunny (10:38):
You take what?
Take it home, take it to theriver, what?
Bruce (10:43):
Well, I just take a little bit of I want to take
that to the cleaners.
That's what I'm saying.
No.
It uh sounds good on the faceof it, but what most people
don't realize was the Mirrorspace station was launched back
in February 20th, 1986, and itwas manned.
(11:07):
In fact, we had Americans thatwent up there and stayed for a
while.
I think a thousand days total,maybe.
Uh, don't quote me on that.
You'd have to look it up.
The reason I me m mention themirror and remember it is
because it was before that25-year mark.
And I uh I do a lot of radio,used to do a lot more radio um
(11:33):
communications, amateur radio,and I got to communicate with
the mirror space station a lot.
In fact, you could look up mycall sign back in the day when
the internet was first going,and you could see my call sign
connecting to the mirror spacestation.
They had a log on the internet.
(11:56):
Not anymore.
I went and looked it back upjust to see if I could find it,
and there was pages and pagesand pages of other stuff, but
the search engines no longer doit like they used to.
I mean, you could typesomething in and it would
actually bring that specificthing up.
(12:16):
But now if it's not uh paid forby a search engine company or
you know, hit the uh what dothey call that SEO's uh lot,
then it won't come up.
I mean, it just won't do it.
So it wouldn't come up anymore.
But to make a long storylonger.
Sunny (12:41):
Oh, you're silly, buddy.
Silly.
I got something for ya.
Bruce (12:50):
Who said you could push my buttons?
Sunny (12:53):
Oh, I pushed them all right.
Bruce (12:56):
Okay, yeah.
You're not gonna aggravate me.
Do I?
Well, that's probably true too.
But anyhow, um yeah, so Imirror has a special place in my
heart and my memory, because uhI got to communicate with it.
I did the International SpaceStation a couple times, but it
(13:20):
wasn't as much fun.
I don't know why.
But with the mirror, I actuallygot to communicate with him
quite a few times, a coupletimes with voice, and then many
times with digital.
But anyhow, they were therefirst in the uh space station
(13:40):
world, I'll put it that way.
And so it's been longer than 25years with man being up there
in space and staying.
Now we had manned orbits beforethat, which was a lot before
that.
So I'm not sure that 25 yearmark is exactly what they're
(14:03):
saying, but it is 25 years forthe International Space Station.
So there you go.
Sunny (14:11):
Now that you bore everybody to death about your
radio communications.
Bruce (14:20):
Well, it's still about the space station, 25 years as
of November the second, twentytwenty five.
Sunny (14:29):
All right.
I'll I'll give you that, Bruce,but let's keep it down to a
minimum yeah, okay.
Bruce (14:38):
Oh, listen to you.
No, not okay, because that'swhat we do on this podcast.
We talk.
Sunny (14:46):
Oh, you talk, I have to listen.
Bruce (14:52):
Ooh, wee, you're on a row.
Sunny (14:54):
Yep, the sun makes me feel good.
You know, I've got winterdepression.
No sun, depressed, sunshine,happy.
Bruce (15:04):
I think that's probably about 90% of Americans or
people, period.
Uh believe it or not, we relyon the sun more than most people
realize.
Um, I kind of agree.
Oh.
Wait, mark it on the calendar,guys.
It's November the twelfth,eleven forty-six AM, and Sunny
(15:28):
agrees with me.
Sunny (15:30):
Well, you don't have to be a smart aleck about it.
Bruce (15:34):
No, but I am.
Sunny (15:36):
Yeah, that's for sure.
Did you hear that?
He admits it.
Bruce (15:42):
Yeah.
Hey, a bit of neat, coolinformation is the Aurora has
been visible most of the UnitedStates, uh, all the way down to
Texas, Arizona, Alabama, um,here in Illinois, Missouri.
(16:02):
I mean, I've I've seen a lot ofsocial media um posts with
pictures showing the uh aurora.
What has happened was there hasbeen a double CME strike, which
produced a big severe storm,and that hit on the 11th
(16:22):
yesterday, and there's one moreheading this way, supposed to
hit today.
Now, I don't know if it's hityet, but that's gonna produce
another Aurora storm.
So we should be able to seethat one too.
But if you got out there andgot a chance to see that, bless
you, because it's it wasbeautiful.
(16:43):
I had to work, and I got homeand I was tired and I had to
come to bed early.
But look out.
Maybe there's gonna be somemore auroras tonight, which by
the time you hear this, you thechances are gone.
But I wanted to talk about itbecause it's really beautiful.
Sunny (17:01):
Yeah, I got to look at him.
I didn't have a camera becauseI don't want one and I don't
know how to work one and blahblah blah.
Bruce (17:10):
But I got to see him.
Well, that's cool.
I'm glad you got to, man.
I didn't know that.
You didn't tell me that lastnight.
Well you didn't ask.
Well, touche.
I didn't.
I guess I should have.
Well, let's shift gears alittle bit.
I haven't gave a uh earthquakereport in a while, and I'd like
(17:32):
to give an update.
I'm not gonna do a full pledgereport, you know, the seven-day
report like I normally do.
However, la as of 11.7, thatwas when my last seven-day uh
report I wrote down.
Uh we had four six point oh andover earthquakes, uh, which the
(18:00):
highest one was a six pointthree.
It occurred in Afghanistan, andthen we had uh six point one in
Russia on that peninsula tip,you know, where we've had
several and then we had two sixpoint oh earthquakes also in
(18:20):
Russia on that peninsula.
And if we look at uh the latestreport, which is seven days
from today, um it brings upthree major earthquakes, six
point oh and over, all in Japan.
(18:42):
We had as of eleven nine, a sixpoint eight in Japan, and then
eleven nine, we had another one,six point four, and then on
eleven ten, we had a six pointzero earthquake, which was uh
(19:06):
really bad for Japan.
I don't know if anybody heardabout those, but we need to keep
those people in our prayer.
I may not uh be reporting onthese earthquakes like I have
been, but I am recording them,and they're on the USGS
magnitude or the USGS webpageunder all the magnitude uh
(19:32):
selections.
But I am keeping a recordof 'em so I can go back and look
at 'em later on.
And it'd be kind ofinteresting.
They've got a map there whereyou can look it up and see
exactly where they're at.
Um I wouldn't mind putting themon a different type map and
seeing if there makes anydifference.
(19:52):
But that's either here orthere.
I just wanted to report on themsince it's been a while.
Now them CMEs I was telling youabout were on their way and
they hit on the 11th.
And I don't know if any of thathad anything to do with these
earthquakes, like over in Japan.
(20:14):
But I'm going to keep an eye onit and see.
Now we're supposed to have thatCME hit today or this evening.
I'm not sure what time, but theeffect will cause another
aurora being seen, um, hopefullydown here in the States.
(20:35):
And we may see some moreearthquake activity.
We'll just have to watch outand see if it happens.
It was such a beautiful day, oris a beautiful day, but I
opened the window up in thestudio here just to get some
fresh air, you know?
I don't like having it allclosed up.
What that means is you'llprobably hear a lot more car
(20:59):
noises go by.
Bear with me.
That's part of the studio,right?
Live action.
Sunny (21:06):
You mean live noise.
Noise, noise, noise.
Bruce (21:12):
Well, uh what is it?
Uh one person's junks, anotherperson's treasure, or some
something to that effect.
Sunny (21:22):
I think you made that up.
Bruce (21:24):
No, I didn't.
It's actually a saying from along time ago.
However, let's talk aboutsomething else.
Sunny (21:33):
Okay, let's talk about me, me, me, me, me.
Bruce (21:41):
Okay, boy.
Attention sinker, are you?
Sunny (21:46):
No, not at all.
I'm just wanting to talk aboutme, me, me, me, me, me.
Bruce (21:53):
Ah, okay.
Well, we're not going to.
Sorry.
Sunny (21:58):
Oh, I'm not surprised.
You're selfish.
Bruce (22:02):
No, I've got other things and I'm sure our listeners
don't really want to hear aboutyou.
Well, maybe they do.
Have you asked?
Oh, uh I've asked a lot ofthings, and nobody ever answers
me, so I'm just gonna say nope,they don't want to.
Sunny (22:19):
Oh, thank you, everybody.
Bruce (22:24):
Okay.
Anyhow, you know, there was anarticle that I run across.
It's been a while now, and itjust kind of struck me, and it's
been in the back of my head,and it rolls around and comes up
in my uh conscious being a lot.
(22:47):
And uh I'll be at work, and itthe thought of it hits me, and
it's really bugging me, and Ijust think we ought to mention
it here today.
And the article was actually ona podcast two or three weeks
(23:07):
ago, I don't remember exactlywhen.
One of the podcasts I like tolisten to mentioned it.
It's uh the podcast is aboutpodcast news, about you know,
all things to do with podcast.
And this article was aboutpodcasting, but it was about
podcasting in China, of allplaces.
(23:30):
What they did on this podcastwas mention the article that
they had read and kind of said,hey, you know, China has
introduced new regulation.
And I listened to it and Ithought, eh, that's kind of
weird.
And the more I thought aboutit, the more it bugged me.
So I went and looked it up, andsure enough, it's real.
(23:52):
And there's been a whole lot ofarticles written about it,
which I thought that was kind ofpeculiar because it's in China,
right?
Uh most people don't reallythink much about China.
However, if you stop and thinkabout it, there's been a lot of
news headlines and mentionsabout China here lately.
(24:16):
I mean, about the presidentgoing all the way back to Biden
and his son, on and on and on,all the time.
China's in their headlines.
And it's almost like they're aput-up enemy for us to worry and
be concerned about.
And I don't know how to takethis article.
(24:38):
There's several things aboutit, but let me read it to you.
I went and looked it up, andthe fake first place I run
across it was on Facebook.
Uh, it's called Technology'sInnovation or Technology
Innovation, and they posted anarticle about it, and I'm just
gonna read part of it, so bearwith me.
Sunny (24:59):
Oh, yeah.
Bear with him.
He can't read worth a hoot.
Bruce (25:04):
All right, thanks, Sunny.
You're welcome.
So this is how it begins.
It says China has introduced anew regulation requiring social
media influencers to prove theirofficial qualifications before
posting about sensitive topicssuch as medicine, law,
(25:28):
education, or finance.
Creators must show proof ofexpertise such as a degree,
professional license, orcertification to discuss these
subjects online.
According to the cyberspaceadministration of China, the
(25:54):
CAC, the movie the MOVE, sorry,forgive me, the MOVE aims to
combat misinformation andprotect the public from false or
harmful advice.
Okay, did you catch that?
To protect the public fromfalse or harmful advice.
(26:19):
From misinformation.
There you go.
Sunny (26:23):
Well now, Bruce, protecting us from
misinformation, that's prettyimportant.
I mean, I don't want to bemisinformed about anything, and
I especially don't like lies orfalse information, bad advice.
What's wrong with that?
Bruce (26:43):
Uh, there you go.
That's on the surface, itsounds really good.
And it really hit me wrong, andit took me several weeks of
mulling it over before I startedreally getting into what was
bugging me.
And I'm slow about stuff likethat, so it takes me a little
(27:06):
while.
But uh, let's break this down,let's take a little bit of time
and break it down.
First of all, this informationcomes from China, of all places,
right?
I don't know about you guys.
Now, when I was growing up,everybody was taught that China
was a backwards type of uhcountry, uh their people was uh
(27:31):
mistreated and poor and blah,blah, blah.
You know, you kind of get thepicture I'm trying to describe.
Now, most of us here recently,maybe not real recent, some
people more than others andsooner than others, have
discovered that information isprobably probably not true.
(27:54):
In fact, we uh have seen uhmany social media posts and
people over in China showing offtheir country.
Now again, they may be hired todo this and to mislead us
Americans.
However, I don't believe that,but they show a different
(28:18):
country than we've all been ledto believe that China is or was.
So that's the first thing thatbugged me.
All of a sudden we're hearingabout China again, and China's
people are made, wait a minute,what is it?
To get a some kind ofqualification, expertise in
(28:42):
order to talk about certainsubjects on social media.
So that tells me China hassocial media very much like us,
and we know that's true becauseof TikTok.
Because TikTok was uh at onetime we were able to see their
TikToks and they were able tosee ours.
(29:05):
Now, once that all took placewith our government taking over,
you don't do that anymore.
You can't see them and theycan't see us.
Huh.
Isn't that interesting?
Back to the subject.
So China's people were havingproblems with what?
Misinformation.
(29:25):
Now that's very similar to whatwe've all been hearing over
here.
All our news media, themainstream media, has been
squawking and qualking andcrying about misinformation.
And not just in this country,England, UK, uh the whole UK,
(29:49):
uh, Australia, uh, they're allcracking down on misinformation.
And not just those countries,there's others, but most of
them.
The other countries are led bycertain leaders that don't want
any information at all leaked.
(30:09):
But, you know, like America,UK, Australia, and there's
several others that aresupposedly free countries that
have free information abidingeverywhere, but yet they're
having trouble withmisinformation, just like China
(30:29):
having it misinformation.
So China is not uncommon theway we think they are.
They have influencers, theyhave social media, and they have
problems with misinformation.
Now, misinformation could bemisinformation in itself.
(30:51):
And let me read this littlesubject matter about
misinformation off of theAmerican Psychological
Association page.
Misinformation anddisinformation is the title.
And it says Misinformation isfalse or inaccurate information
(31:15):
getting the facts wrong.
Disinformation is falseinformation which is
deliberately intended tomislead.
The spread of misinformationand disinformation has affected
(31:36):
our ability to improve publichealth, address climate change,
maintain a stable democracy, andmore.
All right, that's the way theystand on that.
And that's what all thecountries are doing.
Now what I have noticed, and Idon't know if you've noticed,
uh, all information can be shutoff.
(31:59):
All that information's on thesocial media, on the radio, on
the TV, and I remember when Iwas young, uh we used to do a
lot of CBing.
And if somebody that was verynasty mouth and hateful was on
there talking, we'd either justturn the channel and get on a
(32:21):
different channel, or we wouldturn it off.
Problem solved.
They're gone.
And you may say, well, I can'tgo anywhere.
They're everywhere.
Well, no, they're noteverywhere, but they're all the
places where you like to travelin your internet circle.
And that's the same thing withChina and their social media
(32:44):
problems.
And I go back to China, so I Ithink about China and I'm
surprised because one, I didn'tthink China had that kind of
situation, and every day I'mwaking up to the fact that even
though they have a differentgovernment, and sometimes that
(33:07):
government takes away a lot oftheir rights, they still have
people trying to live with newinformation, and they have
social media and everything likewe do here.
And they're having to deal withmisinformation.
The problem is their governmenthas chosen what information is
(33:31):
correct and what information iswrong or misinformation.
That's what we call communism.
Or you can do it in anotherway.
But what we're seeing in ourcountry is that is taking place
(33:54):
here.
And it has been for years, andit ain't just because we got a
new president and everybodyhates him.
No, it's been like that foryears.
The media that we think istelling us the truth is and has
been paid for by people withdeep pockets, and then people
(34:17):
with deep pockets haveconnections with people that are
in our government, and what ishappening is they tell the
newspapers that's what it usedto be, or the TV shows or even
(34:38):
the movies what to produce, whatto say, what not to say, and
that's the way it is.
And you may not like hearingthat, or you may not believe me,
but if you think about it,you'll know it's true.
They actually have controlledeverything, and they've been
(34:58):
controlling the history booksand the education system for a
long time, also, and we're justnow waking up to that, and I say
they, the pirates to be, theones with the money, the ones
that want us fighting amongstourselves and not looking at
them from what they're doing andwhat they're taking away and
(35:22):
what they're controlling.
So whether we're talking aboutChina, the UK, Australia, Iran,
any country, the ones that arein charge has always been
controlling the information,what is to be said and not to be
(35:43):
said, and they are labelingthat information either
misinformation or disinformationor accurate information.
And the what you are acceptingis based on what you believe and
(36:05):
what you see and what youtrust.
And why I'm saying this isbecause that really bothered me
when I first read that article.
I thought, first of all, itjust didn't sit right because of
China.
I'm thinking, why is Chinabrought into our news media so
much?
Well, because they're usingthat as the beginning.
(36:29):
They do it with everything.
They're manipulating you intowhether you're going to accept
this misinformation story, andthen they're going to twist it a
little bit more and a littlebit more before long.
You're going to have to have acertain ID and certain age
requirements to get on theinternet, and uh that way they
(36:52):
can track where you're at, whatinformation you're seeing, what
you're accepting.
It's all part of the plan.
It's just unfolding now, andwe're just now starting to see
it.
I'm not saying there's not aproblem with misinformation.
There's always been people thatwould sit on the street corner
(37:16):
and talk about something thatthey had no idea what they
really was talking about.
And then there was others thatknew that they knew that the
government was cheating, andthey would tell people, and they
would get carted off to jaileither way, either one of them,
(37:36):
because one didn't know whatthey was talking about and one
really did.
And they wanted to make surethey kept them both quiet.
They don't want anybody comingout against the known powers.
Never has changed, never will.
We are living in a corruptworld.
That's all I got to say aboutthat.
No, not really.
Sunny (37:56):
Oh, you never got all that.
You got more and more and more.
Bruce (38:02):
Yep, I do.
But anyhow, the point I'mtrying to make today is because
it took me a while to kind offigure out what was going on,
but I'm hearing more and more.
Even back several years ago,President Obama was talking
(38:22):
about this, and then there wasum, I think I even hit got that.
Hang on.
President Obama (38:30):
And that's why I'm here today.
On Stanford's campus in theheart of Silicon Valley, where
so much of the digitalrevolution began.
Because I'm convinced thatright now, one of the biggest
reasons for democracy'sweakening is the profound change
that's taken place in how wecommunicate and consume
(38:51):
information.
Bruce (38:53):
This was taken in June 18, 2025.
President Obama (39:01):
Part of what we're gonna have to do is to
start experimenting with newforms of journalism and how do
we use social media in ways thatreaffirm facts, separate facts
from opinion.
We want diversity of opinion,but we don't want diversity of
(39:23):
facts.
That I think is is the big oneof the big tasks of social
media.
And by the way, it will requiresome government, I believe, uh
some government uh regulatoryconstraints around some of these
business models in a way that'sconsistent with the First
(39:44):
Amendment.
Bruce (39:45):
That's just a clip of his speech he gave um talking about
this misinformation problem.
And it's been all the leadershave talked about it.
I mean, President Trump hastalked about the media and how
they've lied.
(40:06):
I mean, in fact, the BBC hasrecently just got in trouble,
and two of their main heads ofthat company has resigned
because they got caught lying.
They took um video and audio ofTrump's speech, and they took
(40:29):
one part of it, and then theytook another part that had been
recorded about an hour later,spliced them together, and made
it sound like he told everybodyto go marching and fight and
yell, and you know, that's notexactly what happened, but they
made it sound like that's whathe did.
(40:50):
So that was proof of what he'sbeen saying and what a lot of
the leaders.
Obama said it when he waspresident that there was
misleading news media out there,and everybody's forgot about
that.
But you know, we are living ina society that has grown up with
(41:13):
news coverage of everything,and we have accepted those as
legitimate facts, but they'renot normally that way.
They're biased, they'recontrolled, and they are
misleading the public.
But the misinformation thatthey're wanting to squalch is
(41:38):
not that.
It's not the main objectivethat they're putting out.
It's the people that aretalking.
And I don't know about you, butI've run across all kinds of
people that are blabbing around,and if I don't like their
message or I know they're justfull of you know what, I'll walk
(41:59):
away from it.
And that's what we should do,whether it's on social media or
YouTube or any of thismisinformation that they're
saying.
However, they should have theright to put out opinions that
is opposite of what ourgovernment is saying.
(42:22):
There's the key.
You know, what about the drugs?
You know, there is a big, big,big riff right now with the
vaccine makers and the vaccineresponsibility.
They took away their right, orno, that's not right.
(42:48):
They took away the consumers'right to sue the vaccine makers
if they did anything wrong andmade people sick and made people
die.
They hid the fact that theywere killing people and then
they took away the r rights ofour consumers to sue them for
(43:11):
damages.
Why?
If the vaccine was so great,why?
That's what I'm saying.
The truth needs to be said, butwhen the truth is said, it is
called misinformation,disinformation, and lies.
Because they don't know theydon't want us to spread the
(43:33):
truth, and they don't wantpeople to wake up.
That's the whole point.
And it doesn't matter if it'sin China.
China's leadership does notwant people talking about them.
They don't want people torealize what they are missing
out on.
Same thing in this country.
(43:53):
They got us believing we'refree.
They have us believing that weare free and that we are living
good and everything's great, andwe just have problems with our
money.
No, that's not what's going on,folks.
Sorry.
If that's what you'rebelieving, then there's
something wrong.
Stop, take a look, and reallysmell the roses because they're
(44:19):
taking away your rights.
They're working you nonstop.
They're making sure you can'tmake enough money to make ends
meet so you can't have enoughtime to think, to stop and talk
and communicate.
And when you do stop and talk,you're so stressed out that
you're relieving yourself,whether it be with drugs,
(44:41):
alcohol, sports, and you're notcommunicating with each other.
And they do not want that tohappen because they don't want
you to figure out that they'reagainst you.
Well, they're making all theirmoney, they're taxing you, and
they're claiming that they'rehelping you.
I don't know, I don't know ifyou guys can see it or not, but
(45:04):
that's I seen that article andit just sat wrong with me, and I
couldn't figure it out for along time, and then I finally
realized that it ismisinformation, but it's not the
people talking about theinformation that makes it
misinformation.
It's the leadership that ismaking it misinformation.
(45:28):
And they're getting ready to dothat here.
They're getting ready to putpeople in charge of claiming,
hey, that guy on social mediamedia is dealing out
misinformation.
Well, who makes that decision?
Well, the guy that has thedegree.
Well, how'd he get the degree?
Well, he went to the schoolthat charged him a whole bunch
(45:52):
of money to give him a degreethat they established was the
right degree.
Now he can go out and judgeeverybody else because he has
that degree from that place thatcharge him that money.
I don't know if you can seewhere I'm going with all that or
(46:13):
not, but I'll uh I'll call itquits for now with that.
Sunny (46:18):
I think you should before you make people mad.
Bruce (46:21):
Well, I don't think I'm gonna make anybody mad because
the people that listen to me areused to me.
But I want everybody to realizethat we are heading into a spot
in this world world that uh iswe better wake up.
(46:41):
That's all I got to say,because it won't be long that
they'll be making you, even inthe states, have some kind of
certification.
They do the same thing witheverything.
Take hairdressers.
Hairdressers have to get acertificate in most states,
(47:02):
whether it's a license or acertification, saying they've
had classes and they'vefurthered their education in
order to cut hair and chargemoney for it.
Uh drone operators.
Now, if you're just gonna do itout for fun, that's one thing.
But if you're gonna fly it andtake pictures and make money,
(47:23):
guess what?
You gotta go take a class andget licensed.
Yeah.
Kind of weird how you can justfly it f without anything, but
if you wanted to make money, yougotta get a license.
Again, it's kind of strange howthey control things.
The key word is control.
And I won't go into it verymuch more, but I just want
(47:47):
everybody to realize how crazyit is and how much they have
really started manipulating themisinformation story, and
they're wanting everybody torealize, hey, they're giving you
misinformation.
(48:08):
We need to come in and controlthe situation to protect you.
And you know, that's not whatthey're doing, they're just
controlling everything.
We don't need protected.
I I know a lot of people, letme read something real quick.
This is uh from the Facebookpost that I read, um, this is
(48:30):
some of the comments.
This one gentleman says, Ithink this is a brilliant idea,
partially at least, but I thinkI would do it slightly
different.
I would enable a system where aqualified person can have a
badge or a verified icon ontheir account and post that they
can't have unless they provetheir credentials.
(48:54):
This way people could stillhave an opinion without being
silenced.
But you wouldn't be able topost.
I don't know.
And then this other guy says,you know, people might see this
as interference with people'sfreedom of speech, but it's
actually a smart idea.
It's China looking out for themental health of their citizens,
(49:17):
unlike some other countries Iknow.
Really?
Now you have to have somebodylook out for your mental health.
You can't make your own choice.
There's the rub, there's theproblem.
We're not training people anylonger to make choices based on
truth and knowledge and how theheart feels.
(49:40):
We're basing it on or we'retraining them to base it on what
they're told is truth.
Big difference.
Control.
This one gentleman says what itreally means is that the
government can control thenarrative of said fields.
There you go.
(50:02):
That's what I'm trying to say.
Without getting too much on thesoapbox any more than I already
have, I want everybody torealize that what we're seeing
happening is more control.
And it won't be long to till wehave in this country also uh
(50:22):
some kind of regulation whereyou have to have some kind of
paperwork before you talk.
And it's you think I'm funny.
Don't don't even think thatbecause we are heading that
direction.
It may not be today, but we'reheading there.
So uh if you don't agree withme, that's great.
(50:43):
I'm glad you don't.
If you do agree with me, Ithink that's great.
But look into what I'm tellingyou and see for yourself and
form your own opinion.
That's what makes this work.
If we don't form our ownopinion, make our own mind up,
and we let other people tell uswhat it needs to be, then we are
(51:07):
always gonna be sheep, andwe're never gonna break free.
And that's what they want.
That's what they expect, andthat's what they're gonna get if
you do that.
Okay.
So I'm gonna shut up now.
Sunny (51:22):
No, you're not.
You're just talking, and you'regonna quit talking about that.
Bruce (51:28):
Well, that's true.
We're gonna shift gears reallyquick, like.
If you haven't seen it, it'skind of it's kind of wicked.
(52:13):
I don't know how to explain it,but it deals with uh ghosts and
funny things.
It's kind of like X-Files, butit deals with Supernatural
instead of UFOs.
It gets really, really bizarretowards the last several
episodes or seasons, I shouldsay.
It's a long-running show.
(52:34):
But we've watched it here atthis house several times.
And they got me a book.
It's called Supernatural, theofficial cookbook.
Yeah.
Burgers, pies, and other bitesfrom the road.
And uh when I got it, Ithought, oh, that's kind of
cool.
I like apple pie, and that fitsin perfect because um one of
(52:59):
the guys on Supernatural lovedapple pies.
But when I opened it up, itdoes.
It has recipes from the show'sfood.
So if you fix one of therecipes, you get food from the
show.
But what was neat was it alsohas pictures from the show that
(53:21):
goes along with the series, andthat that made the book really
cool.
It's worth keeping and hangingon to because I can flip through
here and see pictures that fituh the mood of the the food
you're getting ready to fix.
So it's pretty cool.
Anyway, I'm telling you thatbecause I wanted a little bit
(53:43):
lighter subject to shift to andget off of that deep, dark uh
subject that we was in, eventhough that it's very important
to talk about.
It's not uh what we need tostay in.
We need to jump out of it andget into something better.
(54:04):
So if you've not watchedSupernatural, I'm telling you
right now, you need to go watchit and catch it.
Don't live it and believe itfor a fact.
It's a fictional show, but it'sgot some fun stuff to it, man.
You watch it, enjoy it.
It's several seasons, and uhyou can actually spend a lot of
(54:29):
time watching every one of theseasons.
That's for sure.
Hey.
On another subject, did youknow that this last week, I
think it was this just this lastweekend, they had the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame uh inductionparty.
(54:51):
Yeah.
And they have some newinductees to the Hall of Fame,
and I've got it pulled up.
I want to read the list.
Uh don't um if I don'tpronounce something wrong or
right, don't haunt me on it,okay?
Uh the first one on the list.
(55:12):
Bad company Carol K, ChubbyChecker, Cindy Lauper, Joe
Cocker, Lenny Warner, Warner,Nikki Hopkins, Outcast, Salt and
Pepper, Soundgarden, Tom Bell,Warren Zavon, and the White
(55:33):
Stripes.
There's that complete list.
What do you think about that,folks?
Sunny (55:38):
Well, I don't know about them, but that's pretty cool.
I like some of those bands alot.
Bruce (55:47):
Yeah, I like some of them also.
Um, I like pretty well all ofthem, but some better than
others.
I really have enjoyed many ofthe groups that has been
inducted into the Hall of Fame,and I just enjoy music, some
better than others, and I'm notjust stuck on rock and roll.
(56:07):
I like country, I like umclassical.
There's numbers of things Ilike, and there's probably a lot
of music I haven't heard.
Hey, there you go.
That's the list for 2025.
All right, and at the 2025 AIDay, that's right, I did.
(56:35):
I said AI Day.
Didn't know there was such athing, but they unleashed or
unveiled, revealed, however youwant to say that, a second
generation iron humanoid robot.
Now this thing has beenupgraded.
(56:56):
It's uh powered by a solidstate battery, and they're
saying it's gonna greetcustomers in 2026.
The engineer spent a yearupgrading its movement control
and balance systems to make itbehave like a person navigating
a busy street.
(57:17):
The new version can walk, talk,and interact with people in
real time.
It stands five foot ten inches,weighs about 154 pounds, and it
appears to be an average adult,but operates with far more
precision.
(57:37):
And I will include a picture onthe chapter marker if you guys
want to see it.
We hope that you will find itinteresting.
I'm not sure how I like it ornot, or whether I like it or
not.
Uh, it looks like a human beingwrapped up in some kind of uh
(57:58):
wrap without a face.
So there you go.
Well, I hope everybody enjoyedthis episode.
Um, it's been interesting, andI I think the sound is better.
(58:19):
I won't be able to tell untilsomebody tells me uh I've really
worked hard on the audioquality.
I actually had a hard drive, Ithink I mentioned this, but I
had a hard drive go down, andI've got a new solid state hard
drive in my computer that is umrunning, up and running, and
(58:42):
I've updated all my programs andput them on the new hard drive,
which uh it seems to be runningpretty good and pretty fast.
However, I um had a fewprograms that I had on my small
solid state drive, and I movedthem over to that hard drive.
(59:03):
And when I did, I had touninstall them, reinstall them
on that drive.
And uh Audacity, the program Iused to record and do the
editing, um, it's acting weirdnow.
It's um not acting the same asit did before, and I don't know
(59:24):
how to explain it.
It's it's just hard to explain,but it it's getting feedback
sometimes when I have the USB uhbutton on where I can hear, you
know, things from the computer,which it didn't do that before.
I could leave it on and talk,and it didn't feed back, and
(59:46):
then when I played somethingfrom the computer, I could hear
it.
And now I have to switch itback and forth on and off.
And there's a few other quirks,it works good.
Um, I don't know what changed,something changed.
When I did all that, but Ithink the sound's good.
Anyway, I've been working on mycomputer system and working on
(01:00:08):
the audio too, and I hope itstill sounds good.
You'll have to let me know ifthere's anything weird going on.
But this took place after I hadthe problem with the AI on my
bus sprout hosting page.
It's uh all been fixed now,hopefully.
(01:00:30):
Anyway, thanks for tuning inand being with us.
I hope you enjoyed the episode,and we will have more to come.
I am Bruce.
Sunny (01:00:41):
And I am Sunny, and we are going to say good afternoon
to everybody.
Bruce (01:00:48):
Yeah.
We hope you enjoyed the wholeday, and I hope you get
something out of this podcast.
Uh that one portion from theChina talk has really been
bothering me for a couple weeks.
I had to get it out, had toshare it, and I didn't do a very
good job.
In fact, part of the rant goterased.
(01:01:12):
I hit the wrong button anderased part of it, so you didn't
have to put up with the wholerant.
But there was more of it,believe me.
But I I won't put put youthrough that anymore.
I just kind of cut it off andended it, uh, so you wouldn't
(01:01:33):
have to put up with that.
But it's important.
What we see coming down thepike is um not good if we don't
put a stop to it, if we don'tjust stand up and talk about it.
And uh there's so many peopleout there that want somebody to
control the situation.
(01:01:54):
They don't want to have to makea decision, they don't want to
have to choose anything in life,they just want to be led.
And that's fine.
Go off somewhere and do that,but there's a lot of people, a
lot of people that want tocreate and do things and be
something and be part ofsomething, and there there's
(01:02:17):
young people growing up to dothat, and we need to allow that.
We don't need them to begrowing up into a world that is
manipulating them andcontrolling them.
I'm gonna get off of it, guys.
I'm sorry.
Sunny (01:02:33):
You better you better get off of it.
Bruce (01:02:37):
I am.
I'm gonna leave it with thisepisode, and then the next
episode will be totallysomething else I can gripe
about.
Sunny (01:02:44):
Ha ha yeah, you uh you said that right.
Bruce (01:02:48):
Yeah, I did, I know.
But anyhow, this is the UglyQuacking Duck Podcast, and I am
Bruce.
Capella (01:02:54):
And I am Sunny.
There are many ways you canshow your support for the Ugly
Quacking Duck Podcast.
First, simply keep us in yourthoughts and prayers, and maybe
send good vibes too.
Second, spread the word.
Tell your friends about us,even the ones with questionable
taste in podcasts.
Third, share your talents.
If you have skills intechnology, art, or anything
(01:03:17):
else that could help us, we'dlove to hear from you.
And finally, considersupporting us financially.
Equipment, hosting, and websitecosts add up, and any
contribution is greatlyappreciated.
We promise not to spend it allon rubber duckies, unless you
want us to.
Thank you for your support.
Bruce (01:03:35):
All right.
Thanks again, everybody.
We really do appreciate it.
We thank you for being here,and we hope you share this with
somebody.
If you can help us withanything, creativity, sharing
the podcast with somebody else,anything, we do appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Sunny (01:03:54):
All right, I think that's a very good fact, and I
appreciate everybody too.
Take care, have a good week.
We'll see you on the round, orsee you next time, or see you
sometime.
How's that?
Bruce (01:04:08):
Hey, we will be here, you be here, and we'll all be here.
How's that sound?
Until next time, may theFather's blessings and love go
with you.
73, everybody.
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