The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
Welcome to the worst podcast in the known world! Being partial to Scifi and electronic stuff we find enjoying many not so ordinary things happens a to us often. Doing a podcast just happens to hit most or all of that. We try not to narrow the podcast down to one niche but we like to move around. You might need to hang on. Sunny shows up in most episodes. He likes to add a word or as many as he can get in. We have our revisiting guest Lily come aboard as much as possible. We hope you will join us often. Check us out at -- https://theuglyquackingduck.com
The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
A Journey Through Myth With a Little Help
On the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, we're back at it with Lily, myself (Bruce), and Sunny reflecting on the hilarious ups and downs of recording when your voice is less than perfect. Despite Lily taking a short break, we couldn't resist sharing our stories of family quirks and the relentless ticking of time. And with Halloween on the horizon, we're already hinting at some spooky fun lined up for our loyal listeners.
Our latest adventure takes us into the world of microphone mishaps and sound upgrades again. Having endured the trials of old equipment, we’re now armed with a new setup that’s got us sounding sharper than ever. The journey has been anything but ordinary—think discussions about being aliens and the chaos of everyday life. Plus, we’ve managed to squeeze in some chatter about the erratic weather in southern Illinois.
Hold onto your seats as we switch gears to tackle world news, earthquake reports, and the philosophical depths of creation myths. With insights on reliable news sources and the evolution of podcasting platforms. As Halloween approaches, join us in embracing storytelling and the camaraderie that brings joy to the everyday. You won't want to miss the tales we've got in store, especially with an AI-assisted story narration in the works! Took the story I had written and read it on the podcast. The I let NotebookLM do a podcast - summary of it. Hope you find it intriguing.
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Uh-oh, I picked the wrong intro. Lily wasn't in that one. Let's do it again. Let me mark this what did you just do? You found us Awesome. Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck.
Speaker 2:Podcast. It's amazing that you found us. So on with the show amazing that you found us.
Bruce:So on with the show. Alright, how do you like that one, lily? Is that one better? No, this is the.
Speaker 2:Ugly Quacking. Duck Podcast and I'm Bruce, I was so young when I did that and I'm Lily and I'm Sunny Yay, how long ago was that?
Bruce:I really don't know, but it's cute.
Speaker 2:I kept it. It sounds so tiny.
Bruce:Well, it sounds good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does, but I sound so small I sound like you sound good. I sound tiny. Now this podcast may not sound good because we're coming back from some it had to be sometime in 2022 2022, because that was not last year.
Bruce:I could probably look it up and see when we did it. Yeah, you might be surprised. It may be last year it could be because it's not so small yeah, well, like I said, this podcast may not sound good because we're coming back from some cold flu bug stuff and I'm on the downhill from it and Lily's coming back down from it.
Speaker 2:I'm working my way down.
Bruce:So we're trying not to cough, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you guys are sickies Blah, blah, blah, and I like to feel better than you. You guys are sickies, blah, blah, blah, and I like to feel better than you. Well, sonny, if you don't stay outside, if, you don't come back inside when it's not cold you're going to get sick.
Bruce:Hey, sonny. Yeah, I've seen some of your cousins going over a while ago. They was heading south, southwest. You could just jump up and join them.
Speaker 2:I won't growl at you.
Bruce:You are so funny.
Speaker 2:You think I'm going to give this home up what was that. That was me describing my home, wow.
Bruce:Wow's right.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3:That was a lot.
Bruce:That was a lot.
Speaker 3:Are you sure about that, Sonny?
Speaker 4:I am positive, i'mny I am positive, I'm positive.
Bruce:I'm positive, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Whatever you say.
Bruce:Whatever you say, all right, we're back. We had to pause for a minute and let Lily have her coughing fit for a minute and let Lily have her coughing fit, and we actually have lost her to going back home. So I guess we'll do without her for the rest of this episode, or mostly the rest of it. We'll see if we can't get her back in there sometime soon.
Speaker 2:Well, I hope we can. She's fun to have around and not as boring as you are, oh gee thank you.
Bruce:I like to know that I'm boring oh you don't do it right, boring. Oh boy.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, oh boy. See, I can do it too Are you going to be on my case all afternoon? Oh no, I wouldn't do that, I will leave one minute out of the day for you to take a breath and then I'll get back on it, All right? Well, I appreciate that You're full of it today. For you to take a breath and then I'll get back on it.
Bruce:All right. Well, I appreciate that You're full of it today, the cloud cover and the cool weather helping you or what I don't know.
Speaker 2:I just feel pretty good and I'm enjoying my life. Hip, hip, hooray.
Bruce:All right. Well, I got to say you, you're showing it. I hope everybody out there can feel the vibes from sunny. And while we're talking about everybody, once again, we want to welcome, uh, everybody out there in the world. We pray that you're listening to us and enjoying it. If this is your first time on the podcast, welcome. If this is a another time around, well, I'm sorry that you feel like you have to be here again. Oh, should I be that way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should be Run them all off.
Bruce:Well, you know I'm not doing that, but anyway.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you are.
Bruce:All right, well, we're just glad to have everybody aboard. This is episode number 29, I think. I believe Sure.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, now you don't even know what it is. Have you been asleep or what?
Bruce:I could say that for several years, but I don't think that would get me by. I'll just say I'm a hillbilly. What do you think about that?
Speaker 2:Well, don't give the hillbillies a bad name, you hillbilly.
Bruce:Okay, I'm just backwards. How's that?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know, we'll see, all right.
Bruce:Well, anyway, wherever you are, there you are, and we appreciate you being here with us, so we hope that you have a good morning.
Speaker 2:A good day.
Bruce:A good evening, yeah see, we did that.
Bruce:We need Gloria to finish it up, though she is missed every time she's not on here with us. I mean, we got her on here for a few seconds and then, uh well, we ran out of time and she had to go home and she'll be back tonight, but it'd be too late for us to finish this up. We might do a little bit more tomorrow, who knows, may have to wait to halloween. I took a few days off to enjoy the halloween. I'm hoping to sit down to a special during that time, maybe a scary special. We did one one year and made up some ghost stories and it was fun, but it was really a lot of work. Um, but I was off at that time and now that I'm back to work full time, it leaves me little time to be create creative at all. Um, so I struggle with trying to, uh, keep up with my job and to keep up with creativity oh, now you're saying he was creative.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, no, I cannot agree with that oh well, what do you think I was? A pain in the butt.
Bruce:Well, that's not. That has nothing to do with my creativity.
Speaker 2:Well, that has nothing to do with my creativity.
Bruce:Oh, good grief.
Speaker 2:Now bring her into it.
Bruce:All right, ladies and gentlemen, and all areas of the board, we're going to get through this and we're going to be happy to have you aboard and I hope you stay all the way through it. Anyhow, this is episode 29 and um, what? What? I'm just looking at you.
Speaker 2:I didn't say nothing, are you sure? Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. You know what I want to tell them? No, but okay. Tell them All right, I wanted to tell them, wait, wait, you wanted to tell them about the microphone equipment, about the microphone equipment, about the microphone equipment.
Bruce:About the microphone equipment About the microphone equipment.
Speaker 2:About the microphone wait, wait you wanted to tell about the microphone equipment yeah, you wouldn't let me say it by myself, would you?
Bruce:you just had to butt in yeah, well, we've been playing with the mics again and adding some equipment and moving some equipment, ordering some equipment, and I think we've got it back down to where it used to be a long time ago. Uh, but with some better mics and we actually have one, two, three, four new using mics so we can use them full-time. And then a couple of spares that are not quite as good, and then one decent spare, and then on top of that, yeah, go ahead, tell me.
Speaker 2:On top of that, what do you got?
Bruce:uh, we have a couple condenser mics that we'll throw in every now and then, but anyhow, if you notice a difference in our audio, a lot of it may be because I've got uh still overcoming this cold, but some of it may be because I finally got that pod mic working the way I want it. It took me a long time, folks but I think it's going to work out.
Bruce:Um, it seems to be sounding good and when I do the post editing stuff, it seems to come out really well. Now, now, before, it just didn't work right with my voice, I had to finally go in and do a lot of equalization to match up with my voice and my recording style which is very important, folks and I got most of that done and it seems to have a good depth to it and still clear, which is really what I needed, and I won't be able to really tell until I get off of this cold and be able to get back to the mic. But anyhow, that's what he's so excited about he's back on his original mic and he's sounding really good, don't you guys think?
Speaker 2:I am sounding good. Thank you, bruce, for that. I appreciate that well you are.
Bruce:You're sounding good and clear. Um, you're not too high pitched. Um, like you were there for a while, we might believe you're almost human, or something.
Speaker 2:Oh, don't ruin my day I am not nowhere either way able to say I'm human. I may be alien. You don't know what I really look like, bruce, but when you're asleep at night, I stare in your windows and I put on my alien face and you don't wake up.
Bruce:Well, of course not. I don't wake up. I'm asleep and you can't scare me to wake up. You'd have to come in there and knock me in the head, or something.
Speaker 2:Well, don't tempt me. That'd be a good idea.
Bruce:Yeah, I better not tempt you. I'll wake up and I'll be bloody and dumbfounded. What happened? You're always dumbfounded, but bloody and dumbfounded.
Speaker 2:what happened? Uh, you're always dumbfounded, but yeah, you wouldn't know what happened. But anyhow, let's quit teasing each other and talk sensible. What are we going to talk about?
Bruce:Well, I'm not sure. Let me think, um, um, okay, I don't have nothing oh you come in unprepared.
Speaker 2:That's what the word is.
Bruce:Not prepared way to go oh, actually I was and I um did not take time to write down all my notes and stuff. And guess what happened this morning when I got up?
Speaker 2:You forgot. I know what happened you forgot.
Bruce:Well, no, I got rushed into doing some other things, and when I sat down to do this then it all kind of slid back into my back conscience and I can't get it back out. So we may have to have a remembrance conference to go to. Maybe that'll work.
Speaker 2:A remembrance conference. What in the world is that?
Bruce:That's where I remember to go to a conference.
Speaker 2:What's that get you?
Bruce:Uh $2 tickets and a hot dog.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, you're sorry.
Bruce:Now you sound like somebody else, I know.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, who's that?
Bruce:I'm not saying but anyhow. So what did you do this week, sonny? Did you have a good week? Did you experience anything fun and interesting?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you what here in southern Illinois, the Midwest of the United States, it's been dry, really dry. We had a cool spell and then all of a sudden it's been dry, really dry. We had a cool spell and then all of a sudden it warmed back up and it's been warm pretty well every day, today, which is what is today, friday. See you didn't?
Speaker 4:have to tell me this time.
Speaker 2:It actually did not warm up as much, it was cloud covered.
Bruce:You know the sky and it drizzled a little bit the first thing this morning, so, bruce used that as an excuse not to mow again. I thought you liked it when I didn't mow, so you can get out there and catch all those bugs and run around in tall grass and nobody see you, especially them cats.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that's true, but you know, I want to pick on you, you bum.
Bruce:Okay, well, you've been picking on me all morning, all day, so why quit now? Yeah, there you go. Oh, you've been picking on me all morning, all day, so why quit now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there you go, you're standing my way.
Bruce:But I didn't mow. It was a little bit wet and I don't like to run that lawnmower over any wet grass. I have to do that sometimes when it's dew and not dew D-U-E but dew-e-d-e-w, never mind.
Speaker 2:Oh, now you're trying to prove people you're smart. You can spell a word Woo-woo.
Bruce:I'm not sure I can take this today. I'm still not 100%. I may have to shut down and wait to you're in a better mood oh, I'm in a great mood, you're just scratchy well, maybe I am, but anyway, yeah, it's kind of gloomy out today.
Bruce:Sunny is very right, it's overcast. We had a little bit of drizzle this morning, not Not much at all, it's just enough to dampen the dirt, the dust of the truck, my dust got all spotty and the grass had some water in it. So, no, I didn't mow, not at all. Well, while we're not on the subject, let's go to the subject. Last week all right, well or no, that's been what it was the 13th of October, so this is the 25th, so calculate that.
Bruce:But that episode we had a special. We had Carla Davis on there, actually just her song, but she gave us permission to play it and we did so and we announced it to her. We let her know. Now she's from North Carolina, so I was really worried about her, but apparently she is doing all right. She's put some more videos online and, uh, she tonight I think she has a live um, and I'm not sure I didn't catch where it was at or what was going on, but uh, look her up, carla davis and see what you can find out, but keep those people in your prayers.
Bruce:There's still a lot of damage. I was talking to some people earlier this week and there's been a lot of tragedies in this world and we soon forget about them. And we soon forget about them. I mean we have the people in hawaii that suffered greatly. Lots of life lost, um, lots of uh property lost, um, there was a lot of information coming out about that and there seems to be a lot of disinformation, but all of a sudden you don't hear nothing news about it, no more. And uh, the tragedy of the missing kids and it's sick. And now we see the same thing in north carolina and you have to wonder about some of the information that uh was brought out to us through the news. Um, and it's sick.
Bruce:I mean the things that's going on in this world, and they're not the only people. I mean California's lost a lot of property to fires. I guess that's one way to clean up the neighborhood. Just burn it all down, and I can go on and on, and there's a huge fire I haven't heard any more of it on the news but in Wyoming, and I heard something about idaho having problems that way too. And again, uh, you hear very little in what we call the news, but they don't give you any news anymore.
Bruce:Um, you're better off with independent people and the news that comes out, and I think one of these days we might actually find a podcast locally that are given what's happening locally and then they're putting it out there to the world. That might become a more used method. We may see it more often, until they start taxing the podcasts or trying to shut them down some other way. But that's the way I see it. I hope it happens that way and we have more information coming out. Maybe we can get you know podcasts, reporting to podcasts, and you know something. We need something to change in this world because we're going to get lied to too much.
Speaker 2:A lie to too much. Are you allowed to say that?
Bruce:Well, that's one thing about thing about podcasting pretty well. Say what they want and if you don't like it, you don't have to ever listen to them again. If you like it, come back again, right, so that's the way it is. However, if you're on this, I just found out the other day apple and um spotify apparently has a unique contribution to podcasts, and what I mean by that is, uh, you know, if you're using a independent podcast player whether it's free or one you paid for you're able to download my show and all the other podcasts that are free out there and it will play them for you and you can control when you listen to them, what you listen to and all that stuff. But, like apple, they actually copy the podcast from. What I understand is what, what I've been told? And they don't play your original, they play your copy and with that copy, they include their own advertisements and stuff like that. So if you're listening to me on apple podcast, you're listening to a copied version, which would be no big deal. But if I say something they don't like and they shut me off, you're no longer able to hear my podcast because you've been listening to the copied version. So apparently, spotify is doing the same thing, which they're trying to control their, their listeners, and what I would recommend.
Bruce:I mean, I know if you like podcast listening through Apple or podcast listening through Spotify, I don't want you to change, but you may adventure out and try to find a podcast player that other people are using that you can have as a backup, because it's happened in the past people's disappeared off of apple, disappeared off of spotify, disappeared off of youtube. If you like video podcasts and then you can't find them anymore. So, with that said, if you have a backup, you can play on them. Podcasts on um then you may not be surprised one morning you get up and your favorite podcast is gone.
Bruce:All right, that's my what, my moment in the spotlight. No, I don't know what that was, but anyway, I just learned that the other day and I thought, well, I better announce to Apple and podcasts may not be my best approach. I did have to. This is another thing that bothers me. When you sign up with all the other players, they just take you and you just put your email and stuff in, but with Spotify and Apple, you have to sign an agreement. So again, if I don't fit their wants and needs boom anyway.
Bruce:This is an ugly quacking duck podcast we've already said that burse I know, I just wanted to say it again in case anybody had forgot.
Speaker 2:They don't forget, like you do.
Bruce:Well, that's, true. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 2:We said that already.
Bruce:I know, but I wanted to welcome. What if somebody tuned in halfway across the recording and they didn't realize they'd missed the introduction and everything?
Speaker 2:Oh, they're probably pretty happy then. Ha ha, ha ha.
Bruce:Well, that could be.
Bruce:Anyhow, back to Carla. She is going strong and we enjoy that and I hope you guys will find her. Um, she has a subscription program that may help her out. So that's on tiktok, but I don't know if she's got any. I forgot to ask any other programs available for her to help make money. But, like the rest of us, she's trying to do her music while she works and raises her family. So you know how tough that is, guys and gals. So we wish her the best and we thank her once again for letting us play that song on our podcast, and we may try to do another one later on, but we're not going to guarantee it. But she's a fantastic singer and I like listening to her.
Bruce:But anyhow, there's a few more out there like that, that, uh, I like I may contact them see if I can't play one of their songs on the podcast because I enjoy music and there is a value for value music program out there with wave lake and uh, a few other producers. I guess you can say they're not really producers but they're a lot of the musicians and the talent is getting away from, uh, the regular musical what do they call that uh machine? Because it's just eating up artists like crazy and they're really not making that much money. The producers and stuff are, but they're not and they are.
Bruce:There are a few that hit it big, made money and that's what everybody you know wants to be and they want to shoot for it, same way as podcasts and everything else. But for the average joe that's just wanting their music played and people to like them and make a little extra money, that don't work real good for them. So they are now trying to value for value system which, um, I'm hoping it works out good for them, because if it works out good for them I may be able to incorporate their music because they're a value for value and we can play some music that's not sold up, shut off by the big machine. Anyway, this almost sounded like a gripe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does, but I hope it works out for them. That's a good deal.
Bruce:Yeah, I think it is, but anyhow, we mentioned it, right.
Speaker 2:Right, you mentioned it and I heard you so cool.
Bruce:Yeah, we like it. And I guess, while we're mentioning stuff, I'll go ahead and mention Sweetwater again, and this is not an advertisement for them per se, because they didn't pay me. They didn't ask me to do this, but they have had to deal with me again. I got online and ordered me a new microphone arm for my desk because Lily needed a new one. Long story, but I had made one out of my magnifying lamp oh good grief, 10, 15 years ago. Oh good grief, 10, 15 years ago. And I had made it out of that arm for that magnifier and I had cut a big piece of pvc and put rubber bands on it and that's what I used for my microphone holder for my ham radio for years. And when I started podcasting, I just brought it in here and put it on desk. And lily was using that with her new mic and, uh, I had bought one for my mic this summer to hold it up. And, uh, that arm that she was using, uh, one of the spring snaps had broke off. Well, it was breaking off. It wasn't completely broke off, but I just took it apart and threw it away and ordered a new one. So I got on sweetwater. I thought I'll order a decent one but not too expensive. And so that's what I did.
Bruce:And while I was on there I I found a microphone another microphone, just like one of the cheaper ones I run. It's kind of the extra step up from that one, but I ordered that because it was on sale for $13.93. Now, of course it was out of stock because they'd sold so many. Of course it was out of stock because they'd sold so many. And then I also seen my shock mount that I ordered for her mic and it was on sale for $19.99. So I ordered one of those and it was out of stock but I had them send the arm out. So I'm using my new arm and she's using the other new arm that I bought this summer. So she's got some all new equipment and I've got some all new equipment.
Bruce:That was what we was talking about earlier. And um, the mic and the other shock mount is due to hit. They called me um yesterday and they shipped it out, so it's due to hit. They called me yesterday and they shipped it out, so it's due to come in, probably the beginning of the week. That's usually when it hits. So shout out to the people of Sweetwater and Muir, I hope you're listening Shout out to you. He called me as soon as he got that order and he said he placed it. He called me as soon as the back order come in, said he was shipping it. I mean, that's pretty good business, guys.
Speaker 2:I'd say so. That's a lot of talking to you, man. I don't know if I could stand that talking to you all the time.
Bruce:What the heck? What are you doing right now?
Speaker 2:I'm gouging, you, poking you, making fun of you that's not talking to you.
Bruce:All right, wait a minute. I got to pause this thing. I got to laugh, okay Okay. They didn't notice how hard I laughed at that.
Speaker 2:You're making fun of me, ain't you? I'm going to go cry.
Bruce:Boo, hoo, hoo. Go ahead, I'll let you cry, all right.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell my mommy.
Bruce:You go tell your mommy. Unless she's a big fat alien that's going to come with me, I'm not too worried about it.
Speaker 2:Well, she may be.
Bruce:All right, let's get back to serious Sweetwater. Thank you very much for taking care of me, for getting my orders here quick, um, and I really I do appreciate it and that's why I'm mentioning it on my podcast, not because you pay me to, but because you show really good workmanship and handling and packaging. Yeah, it reminds me that me that the packaging for that arm was in a box, of course, but that box was placed in another box with a bunch of bubble wrap around it, and guess what else was in there? Go ahead, guess.
Speaker 2:I know what was in there. Well, don't tell. I know what was in there.
Bruce:Well, don't tell.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to tell.
Bruce:Well, go ahead and tell, because they can't answer you.
Speaker 2:All right, I'll tell you what was in. I'll tell you what was in there Candy, a package of candy.
Bruce:Yep, that's right. Lo and behold, once again, I opened it up and there's a bunch of pieces of candy in there, a couple big pieces of bubble gum. I'm telling you I don't have that. That's almost like christmas you get your present, you know that you've been wishing for, and and you get some candy to go along with it.
Speaker 4:It's just fun.
Bruce:Makes you want to go do it again, even though you don't want to spend the money. But anyway, thanks, guys.
Speaker 2:Thanks guys, I want to do it too, Thanks.
Bruce:All right. Well, we've accomplished what we wanted to do. We thanked them. We thanked them. We thanked Carla Davis.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was waiting for somebody to yell it out but then I realized there's nobody in the studio but me and Sonny. Well, there may be, we just don't see them because they're invisible.
Bruce:Oh, it is getting close to Halloween.
Speaker 2:We got ghosts in here, don't? We Could have. Are you scared yet?
Bruce:I'm petrified.
Speaker 2:Can't you hear my voice?
Bruce:No, Well, maybe I'm not.
Speaker 2:We'll have to think about that. Don't think too hard.
Bruce:I'll start smelling smoke. Hey, the sun's come out. I see clouds and dark blue and uh, towards the northeast. But uh, towards the west the sun has come out a little bit, so that means the clouds are breaking. It is 4 50 central time on a friday evening and we'll just have to wait and see if we get more rain or what happens. But uh, the temperature dropped down a little bit so I had to shut the windows. Plus, every time a car went by while me and lily was recording, you could hear it. Um, that's the bad thing about being next highway, but it felt good to have the windows open and everything, but I shut them, so we're not picking up that car noise. Near as bad. I don't think. I haven't heard it. Anyway, haven't paid attention. All right, after a slight break in the recording, which ended up being almost a full week, we are back. It's Bruce.
Speaker 2:And it's Sonny.
Bruce:And we are recording a little bit different and I don't know if I mentioned that last time we got together, but I'm taking my Tascam and I'm recording into it. Hopefully I got everything set right and I'm using a pod mic and I've got my other new mic in here. I'm using part of the time too. We'll see if you can tell any difference, but I'm going to record into it so it makes it a lot simpler to watch and everything adjust and then I'm going to take it into my laptop and do the post editing in audacity and hopefully I'll be able to come out with a good sound.
Speaker 2:Let me know what you think. Well, I think it sounds good right now, but we're on the headphones so who knows, after you get done playing with it, uh yeah. We'll see what happens. Won we? Yeah, we will, and uh, we'll see what they think, all our fine listeners yeah, we do.
Bruce:We will see. But uh, in the meantime, we're going to finish up this and it's halloween day while we're finishing this up, so that means it's the 31st of October and tomorrow is November the 1st. Believe it or not, this year is flying by so quick. And then Tuesday is going to be election time. So look out, world. There's no telling what's going to happen, but we're going to see, we're going to live through it and we're going to tell the world. Right.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, how else are we going to do it?
Bruce:Good idea. I don't know. All right, I'm still kind of getting used to the mic and trying to adjust the height and everything. So there's a lot of movement on this end. It's been a fight to get that pod mic set up. So I like the sound.
Bruce:The first one I bought, uh, it shorted out. Every time I would lower the, the amplification to a point where I liked my voice in it. It would crack and then or pop or however you say it, and then there'd be a hum come into it. It wasn't bad, but it was slight enough to bug me and I'd turn it way up so I'd get a lot of background noise, but the pop, it would pop again. The hum would go away. So I don't know what was going on.
Bruce:I sent it back, got this one in and it worked really good. Except I could never could get it adjusted. So my voice was sounding decent in the mic in my recording. So I gave up two or three times and then over the last few months I put it back in line, try it, take it back out. So finally I really got into the equalizer settings and adjusted it and I think it sounds good. So let me know what you think, but it's still a trial. So anyway, I think it sounds a lot more clear than my other microphones. Let me switch over and see what you think. All right, um, there is my other microphone and I don't know whatever you think. There you go. This is my new, other new mic, and uh, I don't know if I quite got it set right yet, but there you go. It seems to pick up quite a bit of my nasal noise and stuff. So I think you're a little bit silly on that.
Bruce:But, all right, I like my mic. It sounds good, as always. You're right, your mic sounds good and anyhow, on with the show. This is episode number 29, I do believe, if I haven't lost track, and Lily's not here. She's still at school, so I don't think we're going to be able to include her into the end of this show.
Bruce:But what we want to do is we want to go over the earthquake reports and any other news that pops up that we need to talk about. Speaking of that, we need to be in prayer for Spain. Apparently, they now have had a flood over there. I'm not sure what town it was, but, um, apparently they got more rain in the in an hour than they have had in what a week, a month. I don't know what it was, I can't remember, but it flooded the streets bad. So keep those people in that name in prayer. If you don't believe in praying, then just keep them in hopeful thought, positive thoughts out to those people. If you're wanting to think negative about anything, get off and go away.
Bruce:Uh, that we don't need that damage. Anyhow, that's latest we have heard. Uh, we just had a really good, steady rain that come in last night and uh, it stayed here until what? Uh, nine, maybe nine o'clock this morning uh, that's central time. We are in southern Illinois, yes, and it gave us a nice rain and it was calm. We had a little bit of thunder and lightning, but it was sounded like it was very high up so we didn't have it hitting anything. I don't think I haven't heard any reports, but it was nice. We needed it. The grass was so dry you walked on, it crunched. I hadn't mowed it in a couple weeks, I think, maybe longer. Um, I was waiting and see if it rained and if we got another frost and I was just going to cut it and let it go. It's seeded up a little bit, which is good for the fall. Get that seed up and let it grow and fall. Falling seed in the fall. There you go, you get that.
Speaker 2:Oh my, my, you're full of non-jokes. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Bruce:Yeah, oh my my, you're full of non-jokes. Yeah, anyway, the plan is for the remainder of the show to give the earthquake report, and I'll look over the news when I do that to see if there's anything new, and then I will go on with a couple shout-outs. I have and I've got a story that I wrote for Halloween. It's not quite a Halloween story, but if you listen to it it's kind of a twisted concept on something else that we have all known all our lives. And then, for the kicks of it, I went online and found a place that would do an AI podcast. So I uploaded this story and let them talk about it. So I uploaded this story and let them talk about it, and I may record that and play it back so you can hear. It actually turned out pretty good.
Bruce:I was shocked, but I don't want to take away from my podcast, but I wanted to, you know, incorporate it maybe and to help it. So I'll have to decide as we go and as I read the story, I may look again to see if I could find an AI that will read this story, cause I write them and I don't do very good at reading them. I don't know why, and I heard from Adam and I don't. I'm not sure he wants me to use his name, but oops, um, although he is writing some science fiction stories, and um, if he gets one done, he said he's about to, but I don't think he's going to get it done for halloween. Uh, I told him we'd read it on the air, on our show, on the podcast, I guess I should say on the recording, because we're no longer on air, even though I'd like to have a small radio station that just took care of the neighborhood, you know. Anyway, that's another fantasy. Let's get on with the show All right, let's get on.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute. All right, let's get on, wait a minute. I'm going to do it too. Let's get on with the show.
Bruce:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, okay, oh, boy, I think I'm going to have to turn that mic up a little bit.
Speaker 2:All right, you turned it up, didn't you? Yep can hear it. It's popping. That's kind of weird. I don't know what to think about that I don't either.
Bruce:Um, I'll have to work on it. I got a microphone um cover. Maybe that's what's doing it. Hang. Hang on. All right, I adjusted Sonny's microphone cover.
Speaker 2:Okay, and I'm here so what do you? Think Is it doing all right? Hello, testing.
Bruce:I think it's doing all right. We'll have to wait to see what the listeners think, but let's go on with the earthquake report and see what happens.
Speaker 2:Does that mean I get to guess and see what I can come up with?
Bruce:Yes, it does, and since Lily's not here, you will be the only guessing individual, unless we got some people that that like calling get recorded on the show, but since they don't know, we're going to ask for call-ins. That's not going to happen. Oh, you need somebody that can listen to the recording.
Speaker 2:Go back in time and then call us right there you go, traveler, traveler, time traveler.
Bruce:And we know there's some that support that theory and there's some people that purportedly are time travelers. So if you're listening to this later on, then you need to be calling back right now, back to the past, and we will record your answer and you'll definitely be a winner because you heard this later. That makes sense. It is halloween, you know. Maybe we can make it happen. So here we go. Oh right, I think I want to take a drink of water. Yep, that was my drink of water, wasn't that exciting?
Bruce:you're so weird oh, I know, I know I am. I enjoy it too. Gotta be a little bit different, a little bit weird and a little bit strange to um enjoy this life. Well, if you say so, I say so, okay, on with the earthquake report for the last seven days. All right, here we go. I'm going to guess, yes, you are. You're going to guess. Let me see if I can find the uh beach here. Um, ready, you are going to report on the uh total earthquakes we had for the last seven days.
Speaker 2:That don't work. Well, it didn't work at all.
Bruce:All right. Well, it was more for the listeners than for you anyway, so tell us one more time what's the total earthquakes for the last seven days?
Speaker 2:All right, that's enough, good grief. What was the report the last time we did this?
Bruce:All right, that's good, I'll give you that. Okay, the last time we did this, we had 1,839 magnitude or all magnitude earthquakes. So how many do we have this last seven days?
Speaker 2:Well, 1839, huh, I'm going to say 1900. Make it even 1900.
Bruce:All right, sonny, you said 1-9-0-0, and the answer for the last seven days has been 1,814. So they actually went down the total did, which is good. Yay, they went down, mainly in the total, oh.
Speaker 2:I was. I blowed that man Boo.
Bruce:Yeah, boo. You know, I think I once had a boo on here and I don't see it, so I'm going to have to hunt that up. I think I said that once before and I forgot yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, you did say it once before and you have forgot so you get plus for two. I don't know what two mistakes being brought out, no, something like that okay, we're on a roll today, aren't we guys?
Bruce:That's the knowledge and wisdom of Sonny. Let's go on with the earthquake report. What we usually do on this report is we just look back on the report from the USGS. We go back seven days, we add the total up and then look at uh 2.5 and over. So 2.5 and over, this is the next number we look at. Last time we did it we had 216 uh. This time we had 255. And then we look at the 4.5 and over earthquakes. Last time we had 80 and this time we had 80. So it looks like we just uh.
Bruce:I'm not sure. I guess it was the ones that was below 2.5 that dropped um. So I don't know. Usually the ones below 2.5 increases and then the next week, um, we have a big increase in the ones above it. But we'll see how that works out. So we only had two 6.0 and above. That I'm going to talk about. I don't talk about all the other ones because there's so many of them and they are important because even if it's a minor earthquake, they can cause major problems, damage to the foundations, and if they're major they can cause major buildings destructions, lives lost. So but we're just talking. There was two 6.0. One just happened here recently. It was west of Bandon, oregon, which would put it out in the Pacific Ocean, so it was next to the coast, apparently. And then Papua New Guinea had another 6.0. Them guys on them islands are just having earthquake after earthquake after earthquake.
Speaker 2:Boy, they've been busy over there, but anyhow that was a good report. I'm sorry I messed up and didn't win.
Bruce:Yeah, and you know what else happened or didn't happen.
Speaker 2:No, what or didn't happen no?
Bruce:What Our time traveler that was supposed to go and listen to this podcast when we get it uploaded and come back and call us. Come back in time for Halloween did not do it. Boo, but I guess he has a little bit longer before he has to call because we're not done yet. But anyhow, you know what we need now.
Speaker 2:A break.
Bruce:No, you've had enough breaks today and all week. It took us a whole week to get this thing done.
Speaker 2:Well, you're the problem, not me.
Bruce:Yeah, okay, week to get this thing done. Well, you're the problem, not me. Yeah, okay. Well, I promised a young lady that we was going to finish this thing this week, so I want to do that and I'm going to try to upload it tonight and get everybody an opportunity to listen to our halloween show, our Halloween show, and I hope it turns out good, because I've not done this recording from this setup like this yet, or in a while.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it will have faith in yourself.
Bruce:Well, thanks, I'll try. Well, I think we ought to have a little joke for the day. We like them. Dad jokes right. What makes you say that. Me makes me say that. Anyway, joke of the day. What did the buffalo say to her son the first day of school?
Speaker 2:What did the buffalo say to her son the first day of school? Um, what did the buffalo say to her son the first day of school?
Bruce:Um, I don't know. Well, of course you don't she said bye son. I don't get it. Let us soak in for a minute. What's another name for you ready? Another name for buffalo um, I don't know well, it is bison b-i-s-o-n, so she said bison, oh, oh, oh, son, hee, hee hee, hee, oh, oh, oh. Now you need a boo button, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do. Boo hoo, I need a crying button. That's what I need.
Bruce:Ha, ha, ha, uh, I put you to tears.
Speaker 2:You put me to something. You put me to something, maybe put me to sleep.
Bruce:All right, well, I thought it was good. Anyway, that's our Halloween joke for the day, and uh, I think now what we'll do is I'm going to try to read that story to you. I'm not sure I can. I always uh get tongue-tied when I try to read that story to you. I'm not sure I can. I always uh get tongue tied when I try to read well, untie your tongue now and then, we'll go from there all right, sounds like a plan. Hang on for a minute all right audience and listeners.
Bruce:Uh, we want to thank you for tuning in again and we normally try to write some kind of scary story for Halloween or read a ghost story or something. However, I wasn't able to do that this year, but I did have something kind of in mind that I was going to do later on, but I just adapted it for now and, uh, like I said, when I get done I'm going to play the podcast that I went and what you do is you upload your text, which I uploaded, my story and then they talk about it like they're on a podcast and it's AI. So I'm going to add that to the end of the show. And before I begin this story, I want to take a moment out to say a shout-out to the ladies and gentlemen at the Seven Brew in Mount Vernon, illinois. Gentleman, at the Seven Brew in Mount Vernon, illinois, I told them I was going to do that because they treat me so good when I go in there and I enjoy conversation and they talk to me and we talk a lot, and there's one young lady that we've talked about the weather, which is, you know, kind of normal, but we don't talk about normal things about the weather, which is, you know, kind of normal. But we don't talk about normal things, about the weather, and we've talked about the hurricanes and the destruction and we just have a good time. So I hope I bring joy to their lives when they're having to walk around and in the heat or the rain or the snow like it's going to do this winter and deal with customers, because if anybody's had to deal with customers in their life, sometimes it's not very pleasant, so may I bring them joy, just like they bring me joy when they talk to me and bring me my drinks. So thank you, guys and gals, for being so nice, for bringing me my drinks and having a good time with me. So from the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast, I'd like to say thank you, and we're going to give you a shout out and we're going to give you a shout-out and we're going to goose you. So hang on there.
Bruce:And you know something I just noticed when I'm using this box to record, which I haven't done very much but if I've got the record on pause and I hit one of my sound effect buttons, it doesn't play. My pause button pauses everything, which I don't like that. And when I record into my laptop, using audacity, I can hit the buttons and you know, everything plays. But uh, so I'm gonna. I'm going to have to practice with this a little bit more so I can get to hang out, but anyway, I paused this so I could find that button and I found that button. So for the, the folks at Seven Brew in Mount Vernon, illinois, you've been goosed by the ugly quacking duck. All right, there you go. You've been goosed by the ugly quacking duck, and I appreciate your enthusiasm when I go in there. So on with the show.
Speaker 2:I agree On with the show oh.
Bruce:I think we're ready to start the story now.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's about time, good grief.
Bruce:Yep, okay, let's start. Let us start before the beginning. Before there was anything, there was the Creator. Before there was anything, there was the Creator. Nothing was before the Creator and nothing was made that was not made by the Creator. It is difficult to say where the Creator came from, because everything was after the Creator. The Creator came to the realization that other life would be awesome. So, to advance that thought, the Creator started Life with a capital L. This life was not bound to any dimension nor to any structure. It was able to move around and enjoy traveling through the great. The great spelled with a capital G the great. Think about it. This life was given a great gift of life creation. Life was given a great gift of life creation. That life it created would not be that much different from the life it enjoyed.
Bruce:This life advanced to a spot in the great and started its creation of life. It took many, many tries before it came up with one that seemed to work. Beings that could take shape and exist in a third world formed. There was many kinds of them. They would travel throughout the great. It was a beautiful, beautiful thing. However, life decided that in order for life creation to continue and grow. There had to be a thing known as a good and a thing known as not good, known as not good. In order to show this, a being must be created that could have all this within it. It was decided that this avenue was a good way to go. So, as a being was created, it was just, was much like life and the beings who could exist in a 3D world. But for this being to exist, there must be a place to put them, a place that would hold them and not let them or the results of the experiment get out. It could not affect life itself.
Bruce:A body or a mass was created. It was brought together out of the great. It separated the great. There was a dome put above the mass, sealing it off or sealing off the mass from the great. It would keep all inside. It was given day and night. It was given two bodies that would go around the mass, giving much light to govern the day and a lesser light to govern night. There would be stationary bodies put in place around the dome. The beings created to exist also in 3D would watch over them and report back to life. These would be seen as lights that twinkled in the dome. Light and darkness was formed, plants and animals came to be.
Bruce:Then a being called man was created. He was very much like the beings that could exist in 3D. He was very much like the beings that could exist in 3D. However, this man being could not go from the 3D to other dimensions. He could not leave this mass world he was created for. He could not visit the great, he was not smart and he didn't know good or bad. He was a mere mammal, became a great slave to the beings that could exist in 3D. They used this man-being to cultivate the mass under the dome. The creatures that could exist in 3D used the man-beings to establish a beautiful garden on this place that they visited often when they were wanting to change to a 3D world. They called it Eden.
Bruce:Now, one day, something terrible but very great happened. The creator and life touched the man being and it became more than a mere mammal. It began to think and make things with its hands. It was a glorious wonder. All the creation took notice. Man being and the being that could exist in 3D were changed. That day, there was a great divide in the beings that could exist in 3D. Half of them became jealous, envious and wanted the power of life itself. They wanted to destroy the creation of man being. They swore to their slaves no, they swore to their selves that they would ruin creation and all of life. They made a plan how they would control the growth of development of the man-being. So they went to war with the other half of the beings who could exist in 3D.
Bruce:They took over the Eden and began ruling over the man-beings. They spun lies to mislead them about their history, about their true nature and destiny and their hope. They even went as far as to reset the population of the man, being over and over again manipulating the outcome more each time. The plan was to make the man-being so suffer that it would bring life and the Creator to Eden so that in some way, the beings could exist in 3D, would be able to trap life itself in 3D, would be able to trap life itself. Now the good half of the beings that could exist in 3D continued to war against their brothers. They fought with all their spirit to end this misuse of the gift of life. All the while, man-being suffered and generations and generations and generations toiled under the lies and misuse of bad things that could exist in 3D. Now I think I've misread that, under the lies and misuse of the bad beings that could exist in 3D, this suffering fed the bad beings that could exist in 3D, energizing them with a bad energy. The Creator was not asleep, though A plan had been set in motion even in the beginning. The Creator was not asleep, though A plan had been set in motion even in the beginning. The Creator and life created a son in the flesh of the man-being, and yet he was like his creator and life itself. He was born to the mere man being family, and in him was the answer of all things. He called his creator and life itself Father and he walked on the mass under the dome so all would know that they had been lied to. The bad beings that could exist in 3D was angry and they instructed their man-being servants to destroy the son of the creator and life. They rejoiced afterwards because they believed the story was done. They had forgotten the truth about the creator and life. All right, and that was my applause for the end of the story. So you'll know that it has ended and I hope you enjoyed that.
Bruce:I really do terrible at reading aloud. For a very long period of time, I start messing up the words and the lines and so I kind of backtrack to fix it. And so I kind of backtracked to fix it. But um, I'm going to end this podcast with um, the other podcast that I went online. It was, uh, let's see what, what is the name of that?
Bruce:I forgot notebook lm is the website and I went on there and I plugged in this um story that I had written and I let it create a podcast that discussed the story. So it's kind of like a book review kind of thing, but they kind of do it. The AI does it in a podcast format with two people talking and they get over-descriptive sometimes with their excitement, but that's pretty well how you can always tell that you're listening to ai or even reading it, because my uh transcripts a lot of times, um, when it describes the story of the podcast that you know each week that we do, or each time, they'll get very descriptive like that and I'll try to edit all that out and just make it normal, you know, because that's the way we try to talk anyway. But anyway, I'm going to end with that and that way you guys know what it kind of sounded like from another perspective.
Speaker 3:All right, let's jump right in, shall we? Today, we are diving deep into BeforeTheBeginningtxt.
Speaker 4:Ooh, this one is wild.
Speaker 3:It is, it really is, and you know, it lays out this absolutely mind-blowing cosmology, yeah, a creation myth that I mean. It kind of blends some of the familiar elements that we see with some really unexpected twists, you know.
Speaker 4:It's like ancient creation stories.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:With like a sci-fi twist.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly Like someone took those ancient creation stories threw in like a dash of sci-fi and just hit blend, you know.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So our mission today is to unpack this bizarre creation story and see what kind of insights we can unearth. And right off the bat, we're hit with this idea of a creator existing before anything else.
Speaker 4:It's a big one. It's a big one right out the gate.
Speaker 3:Right, I mean, doesn't that just make your head spin a little bit?
Speaker 4:It really challenges how we think about time and existence. You know, Like if the creator predates everything. Where did the creator come from? Right, it's a question that kind of stretches the limits of, you know, our understanding.
Speaker 3:I know. And then things get even wilder because the creator's like hey, you know, I want some company.
Bruce:Right.
Speaker 3:So the creator creates this being called simply life interesting and this life isn't bound by the usual rules of existence okay dimensions, structure, forget about it right life has this like total freedom to travel through something called the great the great, the great yeah so interesting and and it's never really, you know, defined, is it right?
Speaker 4:what? What do you think the great represents?
Speaker 3:it's one of the coolest parts of uh this text right yeah the great could be like a literal space, a higher dimension, a state of being, maybe even like a metaphorical landscape, like representing, you know, pure potential, okay, and it's it's like so open to interpretation that it just makes it, yeah, all the more fascinating. I love that, okay. So we've got a creator, we've got life, who's given this, you know, incredible power to create. And what does life do?
Speaker 4:what does life do? Starts experimenting right, exactly like like any good creator yeah life starts trying out all these different forms right playing around with the possibilities and eventually life creates these beings right okay that could exist in like a three-dimensional world. Right, right and get this. They could also roam around the great.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 4:Doesn't it sound idyllic.
Speaker 3:They've got total freedom to explore whatever the great is Right. I'm already a little jealous of these beings, I know.
Speaker 4:But then it takes a turn. Okay, life realizes that for creation to truly thrive and reach its full potential, Okay. It needs a little something more.
Speaker 3:Something more, yeah A little bit of conflict. Yeah.
Speaker 4:A dash of tension.
Speaker 3:Okay, in other words, it needs, like, the concept of good and not good, right?
Speaker 4:Precisely Okay. And to embody that duality, life creates a new being.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:But here's the catch this being needs a contained environment, and and that's where we get the mass world hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3:So are we? Are we talking about our world now? Oh, is the. Is the mass world the same as the universe that we live in?
Speaker 4:that's where this creation myth starts to feel really relevant to like our own experience.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:This mass world. It's separated from the great by a dome.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's got like celestial bodies for light.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:And it's overseen by these three dimensional beings. It's starting to sound a lot like a universe we might know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, things are getting really interesting now, right, so we've got this mass world. Things are getting really interesting now, right, so we've got this mass world. It's separated from the great right. And it's being kind of watched over by these advanced beings.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:But where do humans fit into all of this?
Speaker 4:Well, that's where man enters the picture. Yeah, he's created in a form similar to the other three-dimensional beings.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But with one major difference.
Speaker 3:He's confined to the mass world.
Speaker 4:He can't he doesn't get to explore? No, exploring the great the great.
Speaker 3:So why? Why is man stuck in the mass world?
Speaker 4:yeah, what's his purpose so initially, man, he exists in a state of like blissful ignorance. He's unaware of you know. Good yeah, just kind of vibing in this new world.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And the, the three-dimensional beings they're. They're using him for cultivation, okay. They even create a garden, even, you know, for their own purposes, okay. But then things get really interesting. The creator and life decide, decide to get personally involved.
Speaker 3:Okay, this is where I think the story takes a huge turn. Yeah, what happens when the creator and life interact with man?
Speaker 4:They touch him and that single touch grants man, like higher consciousness, and these incredible creative abilities, like instant awakening.
Speaker 2:Whoa.
Speaker 4:He goes from this like simple being Right To something so much more complex, much more capable you can't just upgrade a being like that and expect everything to stay the same you're absolutely right right and this act has some major consequences. Okay, it creates this rift among those three-dimensional beings, okay, that have been overseeing the mass world wait.
Speaker 3:So there's like conflict amongst these advanced beings. Now, yeah, what? What caused it?
Speaker 4:jealousy envy some of them, they see the potential in man right the power that he's been given okay and they want it for themselves they want it. They want to take it from him yeah, they become consumed by this desire, you know, to control, to manipulate and ultimately, to destroy creation whoa.
Speaker 3:So now we've got a cosmic power struggle brewing. This is where the creation myth gets dark, right it definitely takes a darker turn.
Speaker 4:okay, this group of like envious beings? Yeah, they wage war on war on the other three-dimensional being, and when the dust settles, they seize control of Eden. But they don't stop there. They turn their attention to man.
Speaker 3:So what do they do to man? How do they exert their control?
Speaker 4:They start spinning these lies. Lies they twist the truth about creation, distort man's history and his purpose. They want to keep him ignorant.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:To control him through fear and deception.
Speaker 3:Wow, talk about a hostile takeover. But why? Why go through all this trouble? What's their end goal here?
Speaker 4:Their goal is to cause so much suffering in the mass world that it draws life and the creator back to Eden.
Speaker 3:Back to Eden.
Speaker 4:They believe they can actually capture life itself.
Speaker 3:Capture life. Wow, that's pretty audacious. It's like this creation myth is like exploring the very nature of good and evil, the struggle for power, the manipulation of truth. It's heavy stuff.
Speaker 4:It is and it doesn't shy away from those darker aspects of existence yeah, yeah, but even amidst all this cosmic conflict. Yeah, there's this glimmer of hope okay, what's that? The creator and life have a plan okay they're gonna send a son a son, okay.
Speaker 3:So who is this son? What makes him so special?
Speaker 4:well, this son is born in the flesh of man. Okay so he's one of us essentially. Okay, but here's the key he possesses the essence of the creator and life. Okay, it's like they infused him with their very being.
Speaker 3:So he's kind of like a hybrid, then part human, part divine.
Speaker 4:Exactly.
Speaker 3:I mean I'm seeing where this is going. He's a symbol of hope, a way to combat the darkness. That's, you know, kind of taken hold.
Speaker 4:Precisely, he's a beacon of light. You know, a direct challenge to the dominion of those envious beings.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 4:But it's not through brute force. Ok, it's something much more subtle.
Speaker 3:OK.
Speaker 4:And potentially more powerful.
Speaker 3:His mission is to expose the lies to reveal the truth about creation and man's true place in it. That's interesting. He's not a warrior, he's like a truth teller. Why is that approach so significant?
Speaker 4:It strikes at the very heart of the envious being's power. They thrive on ignorance, on twisting the truth to maintain control.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:The sun's very existence.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:His message of truth. It undermines their entire system. Wow, he represents a very different kind of power, one based on knowledge and understanding.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm starting to see how this all connects. Then you know the envious beings they manipulate through lies, through deception. The sun counters with truth and enlightenment. It's like a battle for man's mind and soul.
Speaker 4:Exactly. But how do you think those power-hungry beings react to the sun's arrival?
Speaker 3:Oh, I can't imagine they're thrilled. I mean, they've got to see him as a threat.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:A walking talking challenge to their authority.
Speaker 4:Euthanel on the head. They fear his power. Yeah, challenge to their authority, youth and ill on the head. They fear his power. Yeah, the connection he has to the creator in life. But more than that, yeah, they fear the truth he represents. Okay, they try everything to silence him, discredit him, even destroy him.
Speaker 3:And knowing how easily they've you know manipulated man already, I'm guessing they use their influence to turn people against the sun.
Speaker 4:Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:They twist the narrative.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:They paint the sun as a danger, a heretic.
Bruce:Right.
Speaker 4:They manipulate man into rejecting his message of truth and hope.
Speaker 3:It's a classic story, isn't it, of how fear and power can corrupt even the best intentions. So what happens? Do the envious beings win?
Speaker 4:Do they manage to silence the sun and maintain their control. The text suggests that they've become so consumed by their own ambition, by their desperate grasp on power, that they've forgotten where they came from. They've forgotten the creator and life, the source of their own existence.
Speaker 3:That's a pretty profound insight. It's like they've become so blinded by power that they've lost their connection to something greater than themselves. It almost makes their victory seem like a defeat.
Speaker 4:Exactly, and I think this is one of the key takeaways from this whole creation myth.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:Even in the face of darkness and deception you know, truth has a way of enduring. It might be suppressed, distorted, but it never truly disappears.
Speaker 3:That's. I mean, that's reassuring in a way. It gives me hope that even when things seem bleak, there's always the possibility for truth to resurface, to reassert itself.
Speaker 4:Precisely, and I think that's a message that really resonates with us today. Yeah, we live in a world where truth is often contested, manipulated, even suppressed Totally. But this creation myth? It reminds us that truth has a power of its own, a resilience that can't be easily extinguished.
Speaker 3:So we've explored this creation myth, with all its twists and turns, its highs and lows. Yeah, but what does it all mean for us? Right, you know the readers of this text. What are we supposed to take away from this strange and compelling story?
Speaker 4:That's the million dollar question, isn't it? I think this creation myth challenges us to think about some really fundamental questions. Okay. About questions, okay, about existence, yeah, good and evil, the struggle for power, the enduring nature of hope.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:It's not just a fantastical story.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:It's a reflection on the human condition.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:On the choices we make.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And the consequences that follow it definitely makes you think about free will consequences that follow. It definitely makes you think about free will. We see these envious beings choosing darkness, choosing to manipulate, to control, but then we also see the sun choosing a different path, choosing truth, choosing to enlighten. It makes you wonder are we all capable of both darkness and light?
Speaker 4:That's a question that's been pondered by philosophers and theologians for centuries. Right yeah, do we have a fundamental choice to make between good and evil, or are we simply products of our circumstances, puppets on the strings of?
Speaker 2:fate.
Speaker 4:This creation myth. It doesn't provide any easy answers but, it certainly raises these important questions.
Speaker 3:It also makes you think about the cyclical nature of history. You see these patterns of creation, rebellion and potential redemption playing out in this myth. Do you think this reflects something about the human experience? Are we destined to repeat these cycles of conflict and resolution?
Speaker 4:It's fascinating, isn't it? Throughout history, you see empires rise and fall, ideologies clash, generations grapple with the same fundamental questions about meaning, purpose, and this creation myth seems to tap into something universal about the human experience, about our capacity for both greatness and destruction, for enlightenment and ignorance.
Speaker 3:And then there's the question of the sun's ultimate fate. The text suggests a temporary victory for the envious beings. But what about the long game? What does this mean for the future of creation? Does the sun's message ultimately prevail?
Speaker 4:That's a question that's left open to interpretation Right. Some might see it as a pessimistic ending, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:The functions of darkness seemingly triumphing over truth and light.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:But I think there's another way to read it. Okay, even though the sun is silenced, his message has been planted.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:The seeds of truth have been sown.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:And they have the potential to take root and grow.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Even in the most unfavorable conditions.
Speaker 3:That's a more hopeful interpretation. It suggests that even in the face of setbacks, there's always the possibility for renewal, for transformation. There's always the possibility for renewal, for transformation. The cycle might continue, but perhaps each iteration brings us closer to a more enlightened state of being.
Speaker 4:It's almost like the creation myth is inviting us to participate in the ongoing struggle between darkness and light, between ignorance and knowledge. It's not a passive story, it's a call to action. A call to action, a challenge to choose truth, to choose enlightenment, to contribute to the ongoing evolution of creation.
Speaker 3:That's a powerful message and one that feels particularly relevant in our current world.
Bruce:We're facing so many challenges.
Speaker 3:Political polarization, environmental degradation, social unrest. This creation myth reminds us that we have a role to play in shaping the future, in choosing the path we want to create Exactly.
Speaker 4:It's not just about understanding the story. It's about applying its lessons to our own lives. It's about recognizing the patterns, the challenges, the opportunities that we face and, most importantly, it's about making conscious choices that align with truth, with compassion and with that desire to create a better world.
Speaker 3:So, as we wrap up our deep dive into BeforeTheBeginningtxt, I'm curious to hear your thoughts. What resonated with you the most? What questions are still swirling around in your mind?
Speaker 4:For me, it's the concept of duality that keeps coming back, the idea that good and not good are so intertwined that they're both necessary for creation to thrive. It's a challenging concept to grapple with, but it feels essential to understanding the complexities of our world, and it makes me wonder where do we see this duality playing out in our own lives? How do we navigate the tensions between darkness and light, between ignorance and knowledge, between destruction and creation?
Speaker 3:Those are great questions, and they lead us to another big one. Where do we see free will operating within this story? Do we have the power to choose our path, even within the constraints of this cosmic drama, or are we simply pawns in a game being played by forces beyond our control?
Speaker 4:it really makes you think, doesn't it? It does because if, if even those like quote-unquote bad 3d beings right are part of the creator's, you know grand plan, does that mean free will is just an illusion right or or is there some way to to reconcile their rebellion?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:With this idea of a benevolent creator.
Speaker 3:It's almost like the text is inviting us to question our assumptions about good and evil, About the very nature of creation, If even the bad guys right are part of the plan.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:What does that say about this? Like supposed order of things, right. What does that say about this? Like supposed order of things.
Speaker 4:Right. Is it possible that what we perceive as like evil is actually a necessary counterpoint to good, you know, a force that, while destructive in some ways, ultimately contributes to the growth and evolution of creation as a whole?
Speaker 3:It's a perspective that really challenges our, like conventional ways of thinking. It does, that's what I love about this creation myth.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It doesn't offer easy answers, right. It throws these profound questions at us and leaves us to wrestle with them, you know, to come to our own conclusions.
Speaker 4:And that wrestling.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That grappling with these big ideas. Yeah, that's where the value is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah that grappling with these big ideas. Yeah, that's where the value is. Yeah it pushes us to think critically to, to question our assumptions and and to engage with the text on a on a deeper level.
Speaker 4:It's not about just passively absorbing information.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:It's about actively engaging with it. Yeah, debating it, arguing with it Right, that's what makes a deep dive truly rewarding.
Speaker 3:Exactly, and this particular creation myth, with its blend of, you know, the familiar, yeah, and the utterly bizarre, it's like a playground for the mind.
Speaker 4:I love that.
Speaker 3:Right. It sparks our curiosity. It challenges our preconceived notions.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it leaves us wanting more. Totally Speaking of wanting more, one figure in this myth that I keep coming back to is the sun.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 3:We talked about his mission, his silencing, but what about his legacy? What does his presence, his message, you know, offer?
Speaker 4:a path to redemption for man, even after he's been manipulated and misled right does it hint at a future where truth ultimately prevails?
Speaker 3:and and even if the envious beings achieve this, you know, temporary victory, like the text suggests? Yeah, does. Does the sun's existence plant a seed of doubt? A glimmer of awareness that can never be fully extinguished.
Speaker 4:It's like this spark of hope.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:A reminder that you know, even in the darkest of times, the potential for knowledge, for truth. It's still there. Yeah, it's a powerful message. Yeah, it continues to resonate. It it's a powerful message, yeah, it continues to resonate. It does With readers across generations.
Speaker 3:So we've explored creation, rebellion, the battle for truth and this enduring power of hope.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But the most important question, the one I always like to leave our listeners with, is what resonates most with you, right? What questions has this creation myth sparked in your mind?
Speaker 4:Because ultimately, this deep dive isn't about finding definitive answers, it's about igniting that sense of wonder and curiosity About encouraging you to engage with these big ideas and to come to your own conclusions.
Speaker 3:What does the great evoke for you? How do you interpret the significance of the sun sacrifice? Does this creation myth, challenge or reinforce your own beliefs about the nature of existence?
Speaker 4:These are questions worth pondering, you know worth discussing worth exploring further.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Because this is just the beginning of your journey into the world of before the beginning. Dot txt. That's right. There are like layers upon layers of meaning to uncover, yeah, connections to make, insights to be gained.
Speaker 3:So keep thinking, keep questioning and keep diving deep, yes, and who knows, you might just uncover some profound truths.
Bruce:Right.
Speaker 3:About yourself, about the world around you and about the very forces that shape our existence. Thanks for joining us on this deep dive into BeforeTheBeginningtxt.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Until next time, keep those minds buzzing.
Bruce:I want to thank everybody for tuning in, sharing the holiday with us. It is Halloween for tuning in, sharing the holiday with us. It is Halloween. We're going to go out with the family and cook some hot dogs and enjoy this cooler weather, and as long as they don't rain again on us so far, it's quit.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll like the rain if it comes down, yay.
Bruce:Yeah, you would for sure probably like the rain if it comes down. Yay, yeah, you would for sure probably like the rain. But anyway, we're going to say good evening to everybody when you get this podcast uploaded and you get a chance to listen to it. I hope you enjoy the intent and enjoy the show. Text us the show, um, text us you can. There's a. If you use a podcast app. There's a apple does it too, I believe.
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Speaker 2:Anyway, this is Bruce.
Bruce:And this is Sunny and we have been happy to have you aboard and we're going to end the show and say 73 and God bless and hope you come back. Make sure you tell a friend about us if you like the show and say 73 and god bless and uh, hope you come back. Make sure you tell a friend about us if you like the show. That's the best way for us to grow. Um, if you feel like helping us, we can definitely enjoy your help. So there's a couple ways you can do that. One is you can help us create new content. Uh, you can help us create pictures to put on the the broadcast on our web page. You can help us, uh, just critique the show. Um, don't be too nasty if you can help it. The show, don't be too nasty if you can help it. There's a value for value and that's part of the value.
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Speaker 2:You ready, bruce?
Bruce:I am ready ok, let's go bye, alright, 73.
Speaker 2:God bless.
