The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
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The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
Back To Our Focus
Celebrate with us as we reach our 30th milestone in the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, filled with humor, technical hiccups, and the camaraderie that makes us who we are. We’ll take you on a journey through the sunny Midwest, reflecting on our roots while tackling the curious challenge of blending music into our episodes without stepping into legal quicksand.
What if podcasts could begin with the ring of a mechanical bell instead of the usual intro? Our musings take a playful turn as we dance around the more serious topics, leaving politics behind to embrace the fun and quirky moments, like our fond memories of co-host Lily's unique brand of nonsense. We sprinkle in updates on fascinating weather patterns and offer a light-hearted pause that celebrates the value-for-value model supported by wonderful listeners like you.
Gear up for a whirlwind of technological wonders, from XPeng's futuristic flying car to Amazon's smart glasses for delivery drivers. We ponder the future while keeping an eye on safety advancements in battery technology and sharing some global earthquake insights. Whether it’s a massive Stargate replica in Ohio or innovative podcasts like David Duchovny’s "Fail Better," we’ve got a week’s worth of fascinating tales that promise to entertain and engage. Join us for a celebration of the unusual, the uplifting, and the just plain fun!
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It's time what time is it. It's time for the.
Sunny:Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
Bruce:And a brand new episode. All right, that was a pretty good intro, wasn't it? Hey, this is Bruce from the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.
Sunny:And I am Sunny with the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. And I am Sonny with the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. Hello everybody.
Bruce:Hello Sunny. I'm glad to have you aboard today with me on this new episode.
Sunny:Well, thank you, I'm glad to be here and you still have your mic a little bit hot.
Bruce:Okay, well, let me crank it down just a bit. Okay, Hang on just a second. All right, there we are. We cranked it down just a hair. I think it sounds better. What do you think?
Sunny:Yeah, I think you sound better. You was giving me a little bit too much air noise.
Bruce:Oh well, okay, Well, we'll see what this does. We'll let the listeners, our faithful listeners, tell us what they think. But yeah, I jacked it up a little bit hotter, see what I can do with that. But I turneded it up a little bit hotter, see what I could do with that. But I turned it back down a little bit. So it's a little bit hotter than normal, but a little bit less than it was when we came on board. But anyway, everyone, we're glad to have you aboard on our. What is this? 30th episode Woo-woo.
Sunny:Oh boy, 30. What's that mean? Do we get a special prize?
Bruce:No, I don't think. Do you want a special prize?
Sunny:Uh yeah, I want a special something.
Bruce:Well.
Sunny:I'll have to try to figure special something. Well, there you go. It should always be for me. Oh, touchy-touchy.
Bruce:No, I just don't want to get started with that kind of stuff. I want to do a good show.
Sunny:Oh well, what's a good show to you?
Bruce:Well, it's funny that you happen to say that, because I wanted to go back and revisit our focus. In fact, I think I'm going to call the episode Back to Our Focus. What do you think about that?
Sunny:I think you're a little bit goofy, but hey, I'll roll with it.
Bruce:Well, it's mighty nice of you to roll with it.
Sunny:Well, isn't that what I'm here for?
Bruce:I'm not sure what you're here for, but hey, I'm glad you're here because I need the company and since Lily's not here because she's back in school all the time isn't that funny how that works. It helps to have you here to, you know, voice your opinion, even though I don't always agree with it, but we're here today. It's Friday, the 15th of November. We're in the Midwest and Southern Illinois, to be exact, and it's beautiful outside. The leaves are turning quite a bit. It's been rainy and gray and nasty for several days, but today it is sunny. We got quite a bit of mud and rain puddles in the yard, but today's a lot better day. Yay, there's always a better day, hopefully, and it's right now, 2.42 as I'm recording this. So if you're a subscriber to the webpage, you'll get this here tonight probably, but otherwise you'll be getting it probably Sunday nights, when I normally put the episode out yes that's exactly what I'm saying, and according to the weather app on my phone, it is 57 degrees outside.
Bruce:I would tell you what it here is here at the house, but my uh sensor for the temperature in the studio has went out, so all I got now on that readout is the internal in-the-house temperature in the studio actually, and it's 71 in here today. Woo-woo, woo-woo.
Sunny:It is nice, but it's almost too hot. I think I'll go out, run in the mud, puddle and come back in. You want to put my mic on again?
Bruce:No, if you go out and get muddy, you're not coming back in the studio.
Sunny:Oh, you're such a party pooper.
Bruce:Yep, that's me. My name is Party Pooper, but anyhow, it's a nice day 57 degrees. I would get up and go in there and see what the temperature shows on the other sensor, but nope, I'm just going to stay here and do the podcast. What do you think?
Sunny:oh, you're being lazy now.
Bruce:You're such a bum oh, I'm the biggest bum of all yeah, you got that right.
Sunny:Yeah, sure you are. Ha ha ha. You ought to sing a song about being the biggest bum of all.
Bruce:Well, I would try, but I don't want to bore our listeners to death and scare everybody away.
Sunny:Well, okay, so back to what you was talking about, back to your focus, or our focus, somebody's focus?
Bruce:All right. Well, as I'm sitting here drinking my hibiscus tea and trying to relax, it's come to me that that's exactly what we started the podcast for is to give me the opportunity to shout out to everybody and hopefully to get a group of people that would listen to our podcast. You know, I always wanted to do a radio show and play a little music, do a little talk, play a lot more music, do a little talk and, uh, the podcast kind of fits that. But it's kind of hard to play music because you've got to go hunt up music that's free to play and it's hard enough for me to get time to put together a podcast, so I don't do much music.
Bruce:Now there is more and more music where there's artists that are starting to adapt and accept the value-for-value type of pay, which is a V for V, which I really believe in that and I accept that. But that's why I don't put no extra stuff in behind a free paywall plus. I ain't got time to do that, but I probably won't ever do that. I will, uh, rely on the value. If I got any value, if anybody finds anything great listening to me, then they can reward me with help, ideas, financial rewards. I mean any of that works, but that's the way a lot of the artists now are doing and they have a way that they can accept payment for their music, which I think is going to help the podcast and the other people that want to do that establish a relationship with them independent artists, so we may have more music come out. It may take a little bit longer, but I think it's going to happen.
Sunny:Oh well, yay.
Bruce:Say that again, yay. Say that again, yay. All right, yeah, that's either here or there, though, but that's not even on the point I was trying to make. I got sidetracked. The point I was trying to make is that I started out with a podcast just to have fun, and the goal was to talk about things and joke around and goof off so that people would kind of forget their problems. You know, because you turn on the TV and you see not news that you want to see. I mean, it's kind of garbage news where they're making everybody feel miserable and you're dreading life, you're hating life actually, and you turn on any kind of radio and you hear that kind of stuff.
Bruce:A lot of the podcasts are doing that now and it's become popular. They're talking about, you know, murders and all kinds of stuff, and people are so addicted to that stuff. And you go on TikTok and it's the same way. They're talking about conspiracies. Now, I really like conspiracies, don't get me wrong.
Bruce:But you have to take a break from all that stuff, because what happens is it affects the way you think and you start thinking negatively and believe it or not if the whole world thinks negative and gets depressed and scared and grouchy or whatever the side effect is, then the whole world's going to turn that way. There's no any way else it's going to go. But if we break from that every now and then clear our mind I mean that's why people do poetry. I mean there's so many things to do and definitely a belief in a higher power, the creator, is definitely a way out of that. But anyway, I do a podcast so I can have fun. It's kind of like a hobby, and so I can give everybody an opportunity to think about something else. You know, maybe a joke, maybe our nonsense.
Sunny:Who you calling nonsense? I'm not nonsense, I'm not nonsense, I'm perfect sense.
Bruce:Okay, perfect sense. Do you know what that means?
Sunny:No, it just sounds good.
Bruce:Yeah, it does sound good. Okay, we have Sonny on board today and he's perfect sense. So tune in next week and we'll have Sonny on board with perfect sense.
Sunny:Oh boy, you just had to rub my nose in it, didn't you?
Bruce:Oh, I did for sure. But anyhow, the point being is, we carry on like that and there's a lot of people who don't want to take part in that, and that's all right, go on. But if you do like a little bit of a break and a little bit of silliness, then stick with us. That's what we do. We're here, we may tune in to a little bit of news, like for earthquakes and stuff like that and uh, just to bring up your awareness.
Bruce:You know storms, but we're going to try to stay away from most politics and most, uh, national garbage, because they're just building up fear between countries and between peoples and, whether you believe it or not, we're all built the same. We all bleed, we're all gonna die, we all have kids and we have cares and worries. So we need to concentrate on that and just have a little bit more fun, because this life is short and you take the fun away, all you've got is slavery, hatred, non-mercy. So enough of that. It's been too serious for the last five minutes and I don't want to have that anymore.
Sunny:Oh boy, I don't either, let's have fun, All right.
Bruce:Well, I think we could have fun, but I don't know, so anyway, that's what the podcast is more about just goofing off and I like to goof off Because I'm the biggest bum of all.
Sunny:You got that right. We're going to call Bruce Bum or Bum Bruce, hmm.
Bruce:Ha, ha ha. Hmm, I like that.
Sunny:Do you now? I actually did something you like.
Bruce:Yeah, but don't rub it in. I don't want everybody to know it.
Sunny:We're on a podcast. You're recording. Everybody's going to know it.
Bruce:Good point, hang on. I'm going to take a sip of my hibiscus tea with honey. Mmm, and that noise was me slamming my teacup down on the table with a microphone in it. It rung.
Sunny:It did it rung. It did it rung. A hard one. Yeah, you know what we need, bruce, seriously.
Bruce:Uh no.
Sunny:Tell me we need a bell. We start the podcast with a bell Bing.
Bruce:Yeah, I kind of like that idea A mechanical bell, not an electronic synthesized bell, but a mechanical bell that goes bing and you can hear it vibrate. That's a good idea.
Sunny:Well, I told you, I'm smart and I come up with good ideas.
Bruce:Well, let's don't exaggerate now.
Sunny:Uh, what's exaggerating about that? I'll tell you what.
Bruce:Okay, tell me what.
Bruce:I did, I'll tell you what Okay, well, anyway, I miss Lily. What okay, well, anyway, I miss lily. Lily really throws in a little extra nonsense every now and then and it's kind of fun, but anyhow, it's been hard to get her on and I'm gonna quit whining and go back to the podcast. This episode is brought to you by Um us. Yeah, brought to you by us, because we have no sponsors. We don't do sponsors right now, we just do value for value. So what that means is all this equipment that I run and time that I take is paid for by any value you guys see in the show and you present to me, okay, and I present the show back to you. So there you go. That was the advertisement for the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.
Sunny:Oh, boy, you like doing that, don't you?
Bruce:Well, I'm kind of, it's kind of funny. Anyhow, today, episode 30. Let me get my paper, let's see what are we going to do. Let's talk a little bit about the weather that happened last. When was it? Last Friday? Yeah, last Friday, which was November the 8th and the 9th, 2024. Let's get precise 2024.
Sunny:2024.
Bruce:Thank you for that. But anyway, in the Rockies, colorado and northeastern New Mexico they had a winter storm, buddy. They got some snow. Did anybody see that on TikTok and on YouTube where they got that snow? It looked rough. I wonder if that was their first snow this year. I don't know. I didn't catch that, but I did catch the big snow and trucks getting off the road and stuff. Yeah, that's what we've got coming, guys. It's been a actually pretty rainy here, probably because of that snowstorm moving over towards the east and turning into rain and rain and more rain, and that's what we had last week Yuck, and there's also a hurricane in the Gulf once again. But it kind of what they said spun out, turned into a tropical storm, went up towards the coast and then turned around and left. Yay, I like that. I like it when they do that.
Sunny:You like it when they do what?
Bruce:I like it when they disappear. It's no good when they get stronger and then they hit the coast.
Sunny:Oh, I see what you mean. Like Helena, I think that's what they called it.
Bruce:Yeah, exactly like that and so many others. But you know, now that you mention that, I'd like to bring back our prayer list and if you don't believe in praying, believe in positive thoughts. Take a moment out, close your eyes and think positively if you're not going to pray. But we want to pray for these people again the ones in hawaii that nobody even mentions anymore, and the ones in north carolina, and the ones in florida, and there's so many more, and there's been a uh south america has been hit, and then there's earthquakes, and so pray for and be positive.
Sunny:Okay, this is the ugly quacking duck podcast, and I'm out, just kidding well, you're out of there, all right way out of there, but we're still broadcasting or recording, or whatever you call it.
Bruce:Yeah, whatever you call it, we're still doing it, and I've got a little bit of tea left, so hey, we're doing good. Wait a minute Time to take a sip.
Sunny:You know you could not be so loud and obnoxious.
Bruce:Yeah, I could be Interesting point, but hey, speaking of loud and obnoxious and I don't know why, that reminded me, reminded of me. But uh, if you guys ever seen x files, then there is um and you liked it and you was interested in it. I run across a podcast by david de confini do. I can't pronounce it, never could pronounce his name very well, but he has a podcast. Let me look it up. It is called fail f-a-i-l.
Bruce:Fail better, and he uh interviews um people uh mostly popular people and uh they, they talk about their failures basically, and he's come to understand that you fail more than you succeed and we need to learn to deal with failure in order to succeed. And it was interesting listening to him talk. But what caught my eye and my ear is on another show they were talking about him interviewing gillian anderson, which on the x. So I immediately went and subscribed to that podcast and then when that episode come out, I was able to listen to it and I enjoyed it. So I'm going to give a shout out anybody who likes the X-Files or like the X-Files or however you want to say that, look up that Fail better and then subscribe and you can listen to all those episodes there have been several. Episode 24 is the one with Gillian Anderson. So there you go, a little bit of information for you today to take home, and and.
Bruce:And.
Sunny:Okay, I'm not playing this game, but that sounds pretty cool. When did you listen to that? I didn't get to hear it.
Bruce:Well, I listened to it in the car going to work on lunch break and in my car, or actually my truck, and then on the way home and I finished it off on the way home, I think, and, like I said, it was pretty good. I enjoyed it. I could have enjoyed more. He has a paywall that you can subscribe to and get more information and a longer podcast, but I didn't want to do that. I don't know how much that was. So anyway, there's that.
Sunny:Oh, there's that. Oh, there's that. Yeah, I'm going to pay to get more. Isn't that the American way?
Bruce:Oh, it is so much, so, yeah, anyway, I would recommend that to you guys and, if you like it worth paying for the extra, do it Because, like I said, there's not very many things that you can enjoy in this world and he's not it doesn't sound like he's, you know, contributing to the negative functions of the world.
Sunny:Functions of the world he's actually talking about some of the failures of him and these other guests have went through and it's good, that's all say all right, yay, thanks for that. Uh promo. I bet you're not getting paid for that, are you?
Bruce:no, not at all, but anyway, I did because I like to show. I do most of this stuff because I like to show, you know yeah, is that why you do the sweet water junk stuff recommendations?
Sunny:whatever you call that, You're not going to call it advertising because, you don't get paid.
Bruce:That's right. I don't get paid. No, I do it because they've treated me well and I've got some really good equipment from them. In fact, this is the pod mic from them and I like the way it sounds. I finally got it tuned in. I've got it on a new mic arm and it works really well. The arm was kind of stiff when I first unboxed it. Well, the arm was kind of stiff when I first unboxed it and I had to loosen the screws to get it to be able to move. It was really really stiff, but it works really good. I like it.
Bruce:And then the other mics that I've got. Let me turn it on. Hang on just a second, all right, and this is the other microphone I've got um on my desk. I don't run it very much, but hello, everybody, I'll go back to my podcast pod mic. All right, there we are. We're back to the pod mic.
Bruce:And then lily has a new microphone that we got from them quite a while back into the summer I think she uses, and that's a nice mic it's. It's not very expensive, it's like 70 bucks but it has a USB also with it and the XLR. So I've got the USB hooked up to my computer so I can do videos when I do them. You know, know rumble and stuff. I haven't done any in quite a while, but that's nice. I like that mic. She sounds really good in that mic.
Bruce:So I again I think we've talked about this too much. I think I bring it up every episode, but I'm happy to have some decent equipment. It's nice that old equipment. It worked. It worked well. I used to use it when I was doing the episodes in the garage. But it took a lot of work to do that. And now with the and that was with a radio shack mixing board and I didn't have any equalizers I had to do all that post and it was quite a lot of work. And then I got the Tascam MixCast 4 and these extra microphones and it made a big difference. But anyway, I'm gonna shut up now.
Sunny:Well, it's a bad time. Wow, you're talking about going on, and on, and on and on.
Bruce:Yeah, what about it?
Sunny:Well, I don't know. Why are you picking on me?
Bruce:Okay, I didn't know I was, but anyhow, that's the microphone. All started from the Sweetwater thing and so I recommend them because they've dealt with me really well. I was able to send the microphone back and get a replacement after I realized it was doing something weird and I don't. I really don't know if it's a mic or what, but this one don't do that. So must have been the mic. But uh, they took care of me, no questions asked, and, um, they always send candy in with the shipments. They're very well shipped and boxed and wrapped. So, anyway, have you guys all out there got tired of hearing me talk about Sweetwater?
Sunny:I think they have. Why don't you go on to something else?
Bruce:Okay, what are we going to go on to?
Sunny:Um, what are we going to go on to Wow?
Bruce:I know, I really know.
Sunny:What do you know?
Bruce:Well, I know that it's time for a joke of the day.
Sunny:Oh boy.
Bruce:And guess what? Before we start the joke of the day.
Sunny:Oh, guess what? Let me see French fries.
Bruce:French fries. How did you come up with that? I'm not sure how you did that, but you heard what I was going to say. That's weird. Stop that.
Sunny:Oh, it bothers you, huh, getting the word in there when you're trying to talk. Yeah.
Bruce:Okay, well, anyway, what I was going to say is I found the boo button. Actually, I found the sound, recorded it on the boo button. So listen to this. Are you ready? Boo?
Sunny:Oh my gosh, you got a boo button back.
Bruce:Yep, I did Boo button. Back. Here we go again. Boo, Boo. I like the laugh button too. That's why we should feel all the time. But anyway, I just wanted to drive everybody crazy. I don't know what happened to that thing. We had it on there originally and the other day, when I was getting ready to hit it, it was gone and I thought what the heck happened. Now I do remember getting several of them erased back early spring I think it was this year and I had to go in and put some new ones in. So I'm thinking that's when it happened, but I don't. I can't believe that this whole summer and fall I didn't notice it was gone. I don't know what I hit when I wanted to say boo, but it wasn't that one. But I may have mentioned it in the past and forgot.
Sunny:Oh yeah, you forget easy.
Bruce:What'd you say? I forgot.
Sunny:Touche.
Bruce:Yeah, okay, enough of that, let's go for a joke of the day. Are you ready?
Sunny:Yeah, let me read it okay.
Bruce:Okay, I'll let you read it. Here goes, sonny.
Sunny:Yeah, here comes Sonny. What do you mean? Uh, you better turn the page. I don't see it. Okay, I see it's at the bottom of the page. No wonder you hid it from me, so I wouldn't see it. But anyway, here we go, fellas and ladies and everybody in between, for the joke of the day. Where did people hang out during medieval times?
Bruce:Where did people hang out during medieval times? Hmm, interesting Pubs. They hung out in pubs.
Sunny:That's not even funny. What was you thinking?
Bruce:I don't know. You tell me the answer. Where did people hang out during medieval times?
Sunny:Well, at nightclubs, of course, that's night N-I-G-H-T. See, get it, uh-huh, get it.
Bruce:All right, and that wasn't a bad joke at all. No, that's one of those dad jokes that everybody thinks is dumb.
Sunny:I like them.
Bruce:Yeah, you would hey you told it. You wrote it down.
Sunny:Well, yeah, you got me there, yeah, so you wrote it down, I read it and you call it funny.
Bruce:Well, there you go. See, I told you, I knew what I was talking about.
Sunny:Oh my gosh.
Bruce:I don't know how the listeners stick around. I do because they're doing housework and other things while they're listening to us.
Sunny:Well, they better be.
Bruce:Gosh, I think they'll go nuts if they're doing anything else.
Sunny:Well, they probably have to be nuts to listen to us, because we're nuts.
Bruce:Um, okay, yeah, Okay, anyhow. Last sip of tea. Hang on just a second. All right, you know what? I'm going to try something different on this episode and we'll see how it's accepted. But we're going to do, you know how we always do, the earthquake. Seven-day report.
Sunny:Yeah, I like guessing when we do that.
Bruce:All right. Well, we do a seven-day report for the earthquake, so I thought let's do a seven-day corner and what we're going to do with that.
Sunny:A corner, really A corner, seven-day corner. Can you get any more goofy?
Bruce:Uh, yeah, I can get more goofy, but I won't.
Sunny:Why did you call it Seven Day Corner?
Bruce:Well, I don't know, to be honest, but anyway, we're going to call it Seven Day Corner until maybe one of our listeners comes up with a better idea. But what I want to do is take the last seven days and just report on some activity, and you know I'm not picking politics or desperate or downer type news. I wanted to pick some information that stuck out in my mind and stuff that I'm, you know, interested in. So I went through news for the last seven days and picked out some highlights, and you know I'm going to report on those for the seven-day corner.
Sunny:Okay, Well, that kind of fits, but surely you can come up with a better name.
Bruce:Well, maybe you ought to come up with a better name instead of griping about mine.
Sunny:Oh no, that's your job, Mine's just to complain about you.
Bruce:And you do that so well.
Sunny:I know I've learned from the best. Bruce is my master guys, when do you think I get it?
Bruce:All right, don't tell everything. You know Anyhow. So which do you want? You want to do the seven-day news pop-ups? Call it that. No, I don't know. We'll have to work on that. You want to do that first, or do you want to do the earthquake report?
Sunny:I don't know. Let's do the seven-day pop-up news report corner.
Bruce:Okay, and then we'll leave the earthquakes last, because that's what we normally do, so we'll just leave them last. How does that sound?
Sunny:I think that's what I said. Listen, I'm going to get even with you.
Bruce:How are you going to do that?
Sunny:Don't ask because you don't want me to tell you. On the recording.
Bruce:I think I know you better. Not, I'll be throwing you out the door, I think.
Sunny:I know you better not I'll be throwing you out the door. Oh, I'll wait till the end of the recording.
Bruce:All right, enough of that, let's go on. I've just wrote down a few things to hit, so the last seven days, things that popped up interesting to me. I've got the notes. Let's just start out. Have you heard? Have you heard what? Go ahead, say it.
Sunny:I don't want to say it. Oh, come on, All right.
Bruce:Have you heard what? All right, thank you, sonny. Have you heard that Amazon is working on smart glasses for their drivers?
Sunny:Wait a minute. Smart glasses Is that meant to get ABC 3429 right every time and then the drivers just listen to them? Three, four, two, nine right Every time, and then the drivers just listen to them.
Bruce:Well, sort of. Anyway, let me explain it. Okay, amazon's working on smart glasses for their drivers delivery drivers. They want to give them turn-by-turn directions to help shave off time for the delivery. All right, okay. So just picture this the drivers they get in the van or the truck, whichever they've got, and they slip on these glasses they're probably tinted because they're going to be driving in the sun a lot and they flip them on and they give them directions to the first drop-off and they go zooming down the road, turning there and turning there, all by the directions of the glasses, which sounds really cool. They know exactly where to go because it's got GVS in it, and I'm just dreaming this up and then a little boy or girl or doggy or kitty runs in front of them, but they don't see it or him or her, because they're looking at the directions in the glasses. And then it's like splat.
Sunny:Oh, that's morbid, Very morbid.
Bruce:Oh yeah, it is. But wow, are they really going to stick glasses on people and have them concentrate on where they're going with the glasses so they can't pay attention to where they're driving? Come on really.
Sunny:Well, they're not going to be looking at the directions all the time, surely?
Bruce:Oh no, they probably won't. But they're going to be right in front of their eyes. They're not going to be able to stare away from them towards the road like you do with a GPS. You know, gps also has sound effects. That tells you turn right. Oh, you turned the wrong.
Sunny:You're going to have to make a U-turn, okay.
Bruce:Yeah, anyway, amazon's working on that, so hey, that's great, let's see what happens. And anybody like Stargate? Remember the show Stargate. They had the original movie. Then they come out with several different series and I'm not going to try to quote them all and I didn't write them down. I know I'm bad.
Sunny:Yeah, you are, you're bad.
Bruce:Anyhow, anyhow, stargate, that was a nice show. I still watch it today. But anyway, there is in Ohio I blew that in Ohio a 50,000 pound Stargate built out of concrete with an included dial home device 50,000 pounds.
Sunny:How did they come up with that?
Bruce:Well, I think it was kind of an estimate, but they figured how much concrete they used and it come up to very equivalent to 50,000 pounds. That's heavy and it come up to very equivalent to 50,000 pounds.
Sunny:That's heavy, yeah, that's heavy, heavy.
Bruce:Anyway, it was a family. Phil Ventura built it with his sons. It's on private land so don't think about going out and looking at it. But he and his sons enjoyed watching Stargate the movie and the series and when they got older and was moving out and going to college and stuff, he wanted to keep, I guess, the romance of the show and the fun that he had with the boys alive for at least one more summer. So he got the idea and he got together with the boys and they built a very expensive statue of the Stargate and it does everything but work. It looks just like it apparently. I did see a picture of it and if anybody's been looking on the Internet they've probably seen it too.
Sunny:Okay, but it doesn't work right.
Bruce:No, not that I know. Well, maybe it does, and he's just not telling anybody because he wants to go by himself.
Sunny:Where does he go?
Bruce:To other star systems, other universes. Haven't you watched that show?
Sunny:That's a dumb question. What do you think, Bruce?
Bruce:Okay, yeah, you probably haven't. Anyway, we'll have to sit down and watch it sometime. Yeah, you probably haven't. Anyway, we'll have to sit down and watch it sometime. But yeah, that seemed like a very expensive but fun family outing for the summer. I don't think the boys are home anymore. They've all got their own lives. But he still goes out. He said in the article he goes out and drinks coffee next to the Stargate.
Sunny:Pretty romantic sounding to me, Kind of weird man. Sounds like something you'd do.
Bruce:Uh, no, I wouldn't do anything like that.
Sunny:Okay, right, yeah, uh-huh.
Bruce:Mainly because I don't have enough money to put a 50,000 pound Stargate out in the backyard. What are you talking about? People talking about me?
Sunny:Yeah, they'd be talking all right, they'd be sending you off somewhere. People talking about me yeah, they'd be talking. All right, they'd be sending you off somewhere.
Bruce:Oh, no, all right, I lost my page. See, I got notes.
Sunny:You got notes. I think you got nuts. You're brain dead, Crazy. What else can I say? Oh insane.
Bruce:All right. Well, thanks for appreciating my logic and my craziness and all that other stuff. Anyhow, did you hear about my Little Pony?
Sunny:I didn't know you had a pony.
Bruce:Not my pony, but it's a toy called my Pony.
Sunny:Oh no, I didn't hear about it.
Bruce:All right, the toy can't talk. Today, the toy, my Little Pony, has been included, hello, inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. How cool is that they got a Toy Hall of Fame. I didn't know that.
Sunny:I didn't either, so what else is in there? Oh, you would ask, I don't know that. I didn't either, so what else?
Bruce:is in there. Oh, you would ask. I don't know. I was going to look it up and I actually forgot.
Sunny:Oh, you don't forget anything, remember.
Bruce:Uh touche, okay, anyway, that's pretty cool, my Little Pony. Okay, anyway, that's pretty cool, my Little Pony. And I don't know what happens after it gets inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, but it did, yay.
Sunny:Yay, all right, go on.
Bruce:All right, you know what OpenAI is right.
Sunny:Uh, that's supposedly artificial intelligence.
Bruce:Very good, sonny. Yeah, and there's a company called OpenAI. I think it's run by Microscope, microscope, microscope and the cat just crawled up, crawled up on my hang on wow, timmy yeah, it was Timmy. He jumped up on the mixer board and hit the sound buttons and I think he hit a couple of them at the same time. It kind of startled me because I wasn't watching that. I was watching out the window while I talked and boom, there it was, and wow.
Sunny:Well, you needed a wake-up call. You were starting to get boring.
Bruce:Oh, whatever You're picking on me again.
Sunny:Yep, I am picking on you and it's so much fun.
Bruce:All right, well bah.
Sunny:Well, bah yourself.
Bruce:All right, let's just go on with the seven-day corner stuff. What do you think?
Sunny:I don't like that name stuff.
Bruce:What do you think? Well, tough until somebody comes up with a better one.
Sunny:That's what we're calling it. Seven-day corner. Okay, well, okay, let's go.
Bruce:all right, we better get this thing down and ready to go, because we're going to go into it. I don't want to go over an hour. We're getting close Anyhow. Chinese EV maker XP XPing sorry, they debuted. However, you say that a $280,000 flying car. Wow, here they come, the flying cars. I bet we won't get any for a while.
Sunny:I don't need a flying car.
Bruce:Yeah, we're not all like you though, but anyhow, 2,000. Oh my, a two thousand two, two, oh my, get your stuff together all right, we'll try that again.
Bruce:A two hundred and eighty thousand dollar flying car and it's actually part of a combo. It has a ground base unit called. Are you ready for this? It's called Mothership Really Mothership and the other half is the module. The air module is what it's called, and it is basically the flying car. How cool is that? I've seen some pictures of it. It looked pretty neat. Leave it up to the Chinese to get something up ahead of us.
Sunny:Oh, you think we don't have flying cars? Ha, yeah, okay.
Bruce:Alright, maybe you're right. Maybe a lot of those bright UFOs are actually people flying around, but anyway, that's what they did. So that's the end of my list. I hope everybody liked those lists. Oh no, it ain't. I got one more. Are you ready? Oh, one more, let's go. Yay, yeah, why did you say that?
Sunny:because we're done when you get that one more out of here, Okay.
Bruce:So anyway, researchers have developed a new algorithm you ready for this? That will tell them when a lithium ion battery is about to fail. You know what happens when they fail, right, yeah, things yeah, that's right. Things catch on fire, and I don't know if that recorded or not. I don't know what happened. My lights quit working. Yeah, it means that things catch on fire when they fail. They burn as they burn bad like a torch. They burn, bad like a torch. Anyway, they have figured out a way to listen to the device and they can tell with that algorithm if it's about to fail. So that may be helpful in the fact that you're going to get a chance to get rid of it. What are you going to do? Throw it out in the garbage? No, or, if it's a car, run, but it's not going to stop it from happening. That's what they need to come up with a way to stop the battery from catching on fire.
Sunny:Yeah, it's called preventive, I like that idea. Yeah, it's called preventive, I like that idea.
Bruce:Yeah, me too. Let's prevent that stuff from happening. But anyway, they got an algorithm now. So there you go. That is our seven-day corner. All we need to do is do the earthquake report and we're done, and we're almost done, period.
Bruce:All right, you know what I should have done at the beginning of our seven-day corner? I should have done this. Yep, I totally forgot. I had that button. I have it programmed for another podcast portion that I used to do and I've not been able to do it. I may start using that, but anyhow, before we do the earthquake thing, there is a new tropical storm down there by Honduras.
Bruce:It's going to be well, I don't know if it's a tropical storm. They're saying it's going to be this weekend and then it's going to jump over and end up in the Gulf with all the other hurricanes positions, and nobody knows what it's going to do from there. Most people think it's going to fizzle out, but some people think it's going to get larger, maybe a four category and then go into Florida. So keep your eyes on it. But let's don't worry about it, let's stay positive, right, okay? And then towards next week, we're supposed to get some rain here in the Midwest and then sometimes, toward the end of the month, they're saying we're supposed to have below average temperatures temperatures, and I don't think they're talking about average. You know what we've had, you know warm, but what normally is. So that may be pretty cool if that's what happens, and I don't mean cool while I mean cold, while anyway on with the show. I have my report here, son, here sunny, would you like to guess I would, I would, I would all right, I'll let you guess.
Bruce:Hang on here for a minute. All right, we did the last um seven days ago, um on-8-24, but we didn't do that on our podcast, we actually did it on TikTok. We did a short on TikTok. I'm going to have to work on that this weekend too, but so I'll give you the numbers so everybody knows what's going on. All magnitudes on the 8th was 1,555, which had went down from the time before. The 2.5 and over was 272, which had went up since the last one, and the 4.5 and over was 94, and it had went up. And what we have normally seen happen that weekend, that when the magnitude, all magnitudes, go down, 2.5 and the 4.5 go up, but usually we have less 6.0 and over, we have more, you know, like the fives and the fours, and that's what happened that weekend. Um, there's several small earthquakes in the Midwest, around the mid-Durad I can't say it, I'm tongue-tied the New Madrid Fault. Sorry about that, folks.
Sunny:You're not able to talk, you need to go get some drink, you know, like whiskey or something like that.
Bruce:You know I don't drink.
Sunny:I know, but you know, it just sounded good for the podcast.
Bruce:No, it didn't sound good for the podcast. I don't drink.
Sunny:Oh, you drunk tea. That means you drank something.
Bruce:All right, I'm not going to argue with you. We got to go over earthquake reports. Are you ready?
Sunny:Yes, I'm ready.
Bruce:All right, so that was 11-8-24. So today's the 15th. Give me the seven-day numbers. Are they higher, lower and what are they? Are you ready? Let's do it.
Sunny:All right, that doesn't work, but okay, I think they went back up, so I don't know what they were two weeks ago or three, or whenever. We did that last one before the other one, but I'm going to guess 1750.
Bruce:All right, a good guess. I'm thinking they went up, so it actually went up.
Sunny:It went up five, believe it or not, no way. Five whole earthquakes.
Bruce:Yep, it went up five. It was 1555 on the 8th and today at four o'clock it was 1560. And I'm going to write that down four o'clock, that way we have a record. When I wrote this down, um, I actually stopped the uh recording, went and got it fresh off the internet. But yeah, we's at 1560 and the 2.5 and over was 272. Now remember the full magnitudes. All of them went up. It may not just went up only 5, but it went up. But the 2.5 and over went down. It was 272, and now it's 249. The 4.5 was 94. Now that one went down a number that was kind of weird, but it was 4.5 is 93. This time One number down.
Bruce:But lo and behold, we had two over 6.0 earthquakes. Now that's getting pretty dangerous. Anything could be dangerous, like I said before. That's why we report these. But we had a 6.6 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. That island gets hit all the time and then we had a 6.8 in. Now, forgive me, I'm going to pronounce this wrong more than likely. But Bartolome Masua, Cuba and I know I murdered that name, but it's in Cuba 6.8. But it's in Cuba, 6.8. Now we had a bunch of 5.8s and 5.9s, but if they're under 6.0, I don't report them because it's too much, but anyhow, that's our earthquake report for the day. I hope everybody enjoyed that.
Sunny:Why are you doing that?
Bruce:Because I like it.
Sunny:Okay, but I don't think people like hearing you do that.
Bruce:Well, how do you know You're not a people?
Sunny:Oh, you're so mean.
Bruce:Touche Got you back for all the other things you do to me.
Sunny:All right, let's call it even.
Bruce:Well, since it's the end of the show, yeah, let's call it even.
Sunny:All right, we'll be good buddies after the show, but next week, no, wait a minute. We do it every two weeks. Yeah, next time we do the show, look out, buddy.
Bruce:Okay, that's fair.
Sunny:I know it is. I talk fair every day.
Bruce:All right, I hope you enjoyed the show, Sonny.
Sunny:I did. This is a fun episode. I actually liked this one quite a bit. The only thing that was missing was Lily.
Bruce:Yep, you got that right. It was a fun episode. We covered a little bit more stuff than we normally do, which gave us a variety, and we didn't have Lily Bummer, but otherwise it went really good and I think we've spent enough time. I think we're over an hour. I can actually go in and cut some of our pauses and maybe get it back to under an hour. Maybe I don't know. Anyway, let's say bye to everybody.
Sunny:Alright, I'm ready for it. Are we going to do it together?
Bruce:Yeah, let's do it together. Let me say my spiel here. Yeah, let's do it together. Let me say my spiel here Everybody, if you enjoy the show, go to theuglyquackingduckcom and subscribe to the webpage or to the newsletter and that way you can get an update. Every time we do an update and the new episodes come out, we do a preview on that webpage and you'll get that right to your email and you can listen to it and everything. It's cool and sometimes I try to get it out, like on a Friday night, and then I put the regular one out on Saturday on my podcast home. So there you go, get a little bit of a shortcut just by subscribing. You can email us there on that page and you can also support us. There's a couple links there that you can buy us a coffee or you can support us through PayPal. Either way would be very handy and helpful.
Sunny:Oh yeah, It'll help us continue to show you our stupidity. You'll be paying for stupidity.
Bruce:Well, you don't have to put it that way.
Sunny:Well, it's right, isn't it?
Bruce:No, we're not stupid.
Sunny:Speak for yourself. No, wait a minute. I didn't say that.
Bruce:There you go. Anyway, you can email us at theuglycrackingduck. No, anyway, you can email us at theuglyquackingduck at gmailcom. If you want to just send us an email. You can also click on our link in the details of our podcast and send us a text and we will shout you out the next episode. There you go.
Sunny:That's all of our spiel. Oh, thank goodness, man, you was boring me to death.
Bruce:All right, I got the picture. Everybody else in the audience has got the picture. The listeners have got the picture. Everybody else in the audience has got the picture. The listeners have got the picture. Our supporters have got the picture Are you trying to kill the show?
Sunny:No, I'm just having fun like you do.
Bruce:All right. Well, I'm glad you're having fun, so let's say bye to everybody. Okay, we want to thank you folks for being with us and taking part of this episode, and we hope you come back. Tell a friend that's the best way we can grow and, if you get a chance, rate us on your podcast app that you listen to us on. Give us a rating, and I hope it's a good one. So until next time. 73,. May the Father's blessing go with you and we will see you soon. So, ready, ready, sonny. Bye everybody. That was pretty good sync sink. I like that one.
