The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
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The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
From A Tin Can In 69 To A Delay Till 2027
We kick off this episode of the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast with a recent 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California. While the earth shook and concerns rumbled, we're grateful there were no injuries. This unexpected geological event sets the stage for a broader conversation about how we consume news today, as many are turning away from traditional sources in favor of the immediacy of social media and online platforms.
Political intrigue takes center stage as we touch on President Biden's surprising decision to pardon Hunter Biden, offering a lighthearted take on the often unpredictable nature of politics. We then shift gears to explore an international incident involving the alleged sabotage of underwater communication lines by a Chinese commercial ship. Amidst these serious global happenings, there's room for laughter as we recount the unexpected spotting of our podcast sticker in Mountain Home, Arkansas, sparking a humorous chat about stickers and distribution strategies.
As the weather shifts in Southern Illinois, prompting a blend of anticipation and reluctance for the colder days ahead, we chat about technological advancements promising to change our lives. An AI model touts more accurate weather forecasts, and in a lighter note, an 11-foot-high iced latte sets a new world record. Wrapping up with warm farewells and gratitude, we leave you with a hearty "73," embracing our listeners with the best regards.
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Do you know what time it is?
Sunny:What time is it?
Bruce:Well, it's time for the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast with a new episode. That was downright good, I have to say. I think we sunk, sank. We got it together. How about that?
Sunny:Well, I like that. We did get it together too. Yes, we did. What are we doing on the air? Why are we recording a new episode?
Bruce:Well, sunny, I'll tell you why. I know we do one every couple weeks, or we started doing them every couple weeks, but there's a couple things that happened, uh this week that I wanted to get uh or I should say last week, because we're recording on sunday and this is a new week starting, but I didn't want to wait two weeks to talk about it. So the first thing happened that made me decide to go ahead and do a podcast episode was California had a 7.0 earthquake. Yeah, you heard me right. It was actually in the ocean, off the coast. They had a tsunami warning and everything. They ended up canceling the warning. I'm not sure there was anybody hurt. I didn't hear anything. But that's getting too close to home, man.
Sunny:Well, I'd say it is. That's kind of scary. Surely you didn't want to talk about an earthquake. I mean we could have waited on that.
Bruce:No, I wanted to also. I don't talk politically most of the time on the podcast, but I wanted to bring up one political thing. You know you can't say never, and I don't think I said never, but anywho, for you listeners that just found us or that are faithfully coming back, this is episode 94. We're glad to have you, and this is Bruce of the Ugly.
Sunny:Quacking Duck podcast.
Bruce:And I'm Sunny and you've already heard our introduction and I think we did a good job.
Sunny:I think we did too Sunny Good to have you aboard this morning or actually, it's afternoon now. Well, it's good to be aboard. I enjoy this a lot, and you do too.
Bruce:Oh yeah, I enjoy having you and all the companies and visitors and all those that come aboard, and I'd like to have more. I'd like to keep going.
Sunny:Well, I would too. I'd like to do this forever and ever, and ever.
Bruce:You think podcasting will be around forever and ever and ever.
Sunny:Well, I hope so, but you know how governments are. They'll get tired of hearing free speech and they'll start making laws and you'll have to get certificates and license and blah, blah, blah.
Bruce:Oh my gosh, you're starting to sound like me now.
Sunny:Well, I have been around you for a few years, so you know.
Bruce:Yeah, you have, and I've rubbed off on you. Is that what you're saying? Well, sort of well, anyway, yeah, um, I'd like to see it go on and on and on. Um, this is one of the more free uh, what programs out there. It's not going to stay that way long, probably because there's going to be lots of changes, but until then, we're going to keep podcasting.
Sunny:Oh yeah, Isn't that Buzzsprout's theme?
Bruce:Yeah, I think it is. It's what Start podcasting, keep podcasting. I think Don't quote me on that, but yeah, I think it is. It's what uh, start podcasting, keep podcasting.
Bruce:I think don't quote me on that, but yeah, I think it is all right, so we started and we're gonna keep yep, we're gonna keep rolling rolling, rolling, rolling no, I don't think that's how that song goes, but anyhow, again, we want to welcome all of our listeners and if you're new to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast, welcome aboard. If you're one of our all-time listeners and favorite listeners and helpers, we're glad to have you back. Man, we really are, and we just want to keep on keeping on there. You go, that's it. I plead the Fifth Amendment.
Sunny:Hey, hey, hey hey, hey. That sounds like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
Bruce:Oh my gosh, that brings back old memories. How did you know that I'm around? Well, you're around, all right, but I don't know about being around. But anyhow, yeah, you got that right. Boy, that brings back old time memories. Anyway, let's still right. Boy, that brings back old-time memories. Anyway, let's don't talk about stuff like that. They'll think we're old or I'm old anyway.
Sunny:You are old what the heck. You're very old, you're ancient, and I don't know what else.
Bruce:Well, I'm glad you stopped there, man. You're starting to make me feel bad, and you know that's not good for us old-timers.
Sunny:Ha ha, you did admit it.
Bruce:I didn't admit nothing. I just thought it would sound good for the project.
Sunny:Okay, well, anyhow, bruce, how you been this week?
Bruce:Well, sonny, I've been working. I went to the eye doctor, got a good exam and I got to go back six months. He keeps me coming in every six months since my little episode with that left eye, but anyhow I got a good. What do they call it good physical? I'm not sure what they call it when eye doctors look at your eye, but anyhow, six months I get to go back and find out if I'm still doing it good.
Sunny:Okay, so that's good news. Is that what you're saying?
Bruce:Yep, good news. And the rest of the week I just worked, work, work, work, work. Um. Anyhow, we're uh off today. So between trying to get stuff done around the house, running around doing stuff, and then getting back here and trying to do some podcasting, which you know, I'd like to get everything out of the way so I can sit down and podcast and concentrate on what I'm trying to say instead of what I want to get done, and that doesn't work real good sometimes, but here we are.
Sunny:Yeah, here we are. I'm glad we're here. I've had a pretty good week. I've been busy. It's been warm the last couple days, so everybody's been running around. Hey, did you know, bruce? You had a tree fall down.
Bruce:I did, sonny, I did. It was a tree that I had two of my different wire antennas attached to. It was like an anchoring, anchoring point. I don't know if I said that correctly or not.
Sunny:Well, it sounded like you said an anchoring report.
Bruce:Oh, it didn't either, but anyway, oh man. Anyway, yes, I noticed it fell down. I went out there and detached the ropes and the insulators off of it because it snapped my wire. I had one array that had 160, 20, 80, and 40 on it and the 80 wire was attached to that tree, snapped it. And then, um, I've got a vertical with a 20 and a 40 wire attached to it and the vertical is a 17 meter and it snapped a 40 meter wire. I went ahead and rolled that one up and I couldn't roll up the array wire because it's hanging 60 foot in the air, so I just tied it around a post and I haven't checked the SWR on that antenna May not be able to use it. And the other one's the one that got hooked to my new sid array or receiver, and I did notice that the receive signal had went down on the lower end and I don't know if that was just because, um, the noise had quit coming in or if that antenna was down. So I'll just have to watch it and see what happens.
Bruce:I'm still getting the two signals that I monitor for the SID, which is Sudden Ionic Spheric Disturbance. So they're still up. I'm getting those. So I'm not worried about that antenna really right now. Anyhow, for all you that's probably bored by now. I had a tree go down. It was hollow in the center, like many of our trees over here. I don't know what's causing that, but I've got a bunch of them. They're coming down, they've been coming down and it just hurts when you see that old tree go down.
Sunny:Yeah, yeah, especially for the birds and the squirrels and the raccoons. They use that for a nest and not no more.
Bruce:Yeah, you got that right. There's been a lot of squirrels running up down that tree just here recently, so they're going to be very upset. I don't know, man, it's going to be hard to grow that big a tree in my new new big tree in my lifetime, so we'll have to see what happens. But anyway, yes, I noticed it in my lifetime, so we'll have to see what happens. But anyway, yes, I noticed it. I went out and tried to remove anything that had occurred on my antennas. And there we are.
Sunny:What are you going to do about antennas?
Bruce:Well, if my array no longer works, I'm not going to climb that 65-foot tower. I'm pretty well done with that. So I'll have to come up with a new type of antenna. I don't know what it'll be Kind of a bummer.
Sunny:Well, maybe it'll go ahead and work. Let's be positive.
Bruce:There you go, Sonny. That's a good idea. Let's be positive. We will be positive. We're going to think it's going to go ahead and work, even though it shouldn't. That wire's wrapped around that post and it's probably grounded out, but we'll check it and see.
Sunny:There you go Onward with the show. What episode did you say this?
Bruce:is 94. We're into 94 on season 5. And, like I said, last time we changed the account so it just reflects how many podcasts we've got recorded and stored on Buzzsprout.
Sunny:Oh yeah, that'sout. Oh yeah, that's right. Okay, I forgot you'd said that.
Bruce:Now don't be forgetting stuff, because you're starting to really sound like me.
Sunny:Ah, boney, so are we going to get into your political talk.
Bruce:Yeah, we might as well. We might as well get into that and get out of that. Maybe do a short podcast if you don't talk too much.
Sunny:Don't be blaming me.
Bruce:Why not, Anyway? Yeah, we had a political occurrence. There you go. That's a good word for it.
Sunny:Oh yeah, occurrence I see.
Bruce:Yeah, occurrence that happened this week and everybody knows our president and his name is Biden and he has a son named Hunter Biden and apparently Hunter Biden had been doing some illegal things for the last several years I'm talking 10, 15. And they got to investigating him and I think they was getting ready to rule on the investigations. I don't know if he'd been to trial. I don't know what was going on. I don't pay attention to that stuff because it's just a show. I mean, we are in a movie theater and we're watching the show, but anyhow, what do you mean?
Sunny:we're watching a show. Explain yourself, dude.
Bruce:I don't think I will.
Sunny:Oh, come on.
Bruce:Nope, I don't want to get into that, but uh, if, uh, if you know, you know is what they always say, but I I'm not going to use that phrase, but I guess I just did yeah, you did all right. Well, they say that we are watching a show. A and all this stuff is just actors and they're just trying to fool the public and I don't know about any of that. But onward with our show, our episode. Quintin interrupted me.
Sunny:Wait, did you just tell me Quintin interrupted you? Yeah, okay, so I thought that's why you brought me on to be part of the show and interrupt you.
Bruce:Um, yeah, maybe Okay. So what are you saying?
Sunny:I'm saying hi, sonny, I see you over there. Hi, bruce, I see you over there. Um, I still don't understand that's because you're a duck, hey, hey, maybe I'm an alien?
Bruce:Yeah, maybe you are. You do live on the water some of the time and apparently they have discovered now I won't get into that, this episode, but that the ocean's full of aliens.
Sunny:Oh really, they're just now saying that, huh, they've known it forever.
Bruce:Yeah, anybody that works on the ocean or lives on the ocean can tell you the same thing. But again, I'm not sure they're actually aliens. They like to throw that word around and that description of things and creatures and beings that they don't understand, that are not exactly human like they are.
Sunny:Um, it's just a catch-all oh okay, yeah, onward with the story he was on a while ago.
Bruce:Okay, anyway, hunter Biden, he was getting ready to get nailed and I guess because our new president is coming in and appointing some new cabinet members and some of them are going to be hotheads, if I can use that word, and they're kind of scaring some of the people that's in charge and been doing things. And anyway, to make a long story short, our President Biden said that he would not pardon his son. Multiple times. He said that, his press secretary said that multiple times and then the other day he pardoned Hunter Biden. And I'm not going to debate whether it was right or wrong or whether you know he's protecting his son or not protecting his son, whether he should have done it. I'm just going to stay that, after him saying all that he's not going to, no, he's not, he has no plans, and then he did it. It's kind of funny if you find humor in stuff like that, which I do.
Sunny:Oh well, you find humor in stuff like that which I do. Oh well, you find humor in weird stuff.
Bruce:I do, I really do. But I know there's lots and lots and lots of Americans out there that find humor in that stuff too. And I don't mean humor like you laugh at some joke. I'm talking maybe about what. What do they call that Satire when it's? I'll have to look that up. But anyway, yeah, I find that kind of funny, interesting, bizarre. How's that sound?
Sunny:Bizarre, sounds weird. What's that popping noise I keep hearing?
Bruce:uh, I've noticed that too and I hope our audience has not heard that. But I think that is the um. I'm not sure. I think it's the mic. When I hit the buttons kind of tap my finger here. Let me try it, is that it?
Sunny:Yeah, that's it Okay. Yeah, it's a quick tapping.
Bruce:Well, I'm sorry. I've got my pen over here that I use to adjust things and I'm tapping it on the table as I talk, and I think that's what's doing it.
Sunny:Well, stop tapping, good grief.
Bruce:Uh no.
Sunny:Oh, what do you mean? No, well, okay, no.
Bruce:Well, thanks for oh boy. Thanks for clearing that up for me, and I'm going along with me.
Sunny:Well, might as well. I can't get any truth out of you.
Bruce:What's that have to do with truth?
Sunny:I don't know. I just said that.
Bruce:You really are acting like me today.
Sunny:Well, that's really scary. Sorry folks, I don't mean to be scaring you like that. Two of Bruce isn't too much.
Bruce:Hey, why do you say that?
Sunny:What do you mean? Why do I say that? Anybody listening would agree with me?
Bruce:Okay, anyway, that's what I want to talk about, about the political scene. Like I said, I usually don't talk about the political scene. I try to change the subject to what we do in a podcast so that people have something different to think about, and usually it's pretty boring, but that's worth noting. We won't get in any kind of judgment about it or why, or why not it should have happened or shouldn't have. We just want to bring everybody's alertness up and I'm sure everybody's heard that by now. I can't think of anybody that wouldn't have. If you're following anybody on social media or if you're listening to any kind of news which I think the news is kind of losing popularity, any kind of news which I think the news is kind of losing popularity, um, I get most of mine from, uh, social media very little, but I get some from social media. And then I've got a couple sites I visit but very little tv news or radio news. Do I get anything from anymore? Just can't trust them news. Do I get anything?
Sunny:from anymore. Just can't trust them, and you know that's true. Oh yeah, no, that's true for sure. What are we gonna do now? Good grease, that was a bum bummer, boring bummer yeah, it was kind of a bummer.
Bruce:Anyhow, ashow, as I'm looking outside, it's very windy the last couple days. It's supposed to rain. Tonight they're saying it'll start about 6 or 7 in the evening. So southern Illinois is going to get some rain and then I don't know what it's supposed to do Probably get cold again. And it just warmed up, but it's been miserably cold for the last few days beginning of the week. And then what is this? Friday and Saturday it warmed up, which was nice, but I don't think it's going to last. You know we are in December and the 21st is the salt of salt, however you say that, and that means it's going to be the shortest day of the year and it's going to be cold probably, and then we've got January to go through Brr. I hate to even think about it.
Sunny:What do you mean, brr? What's January?
Bruce:Well, that's usually January. February is usually cold months, we're getting into the dead of winter and things are getting cold, cold, cold. But yeah, you probably don't understand much, do you, being who you are?
Sunny:yeah, I understand some things, but not the way you guys track it.
Bruce:You're kind of weird about that well, maybe so, but anyhow, what do you say we do um seven-day earthquake report?
Sunny:All right, I like guessing, let's do that.
Bruce:All right, let me get it. Hold on just a second.
Sunny:Hey, what are you doing over on my board? Oh, I'm just annoying you with that time thing, like you always do me.
Bruce:All right, well, you got me. Anyhow, I've got the report and thanks for trying to hurry me along.
Sunny:That's pretty bad, but hey, it worked, worked oh it worked for you.
Bruce:Okay, don't get cocky that's a rooster okay, on with the report. So last week, seven days ago, on 11-27, right before Thanksgiving, we had a total of 1,915 earthquakes. So tell me what you think Sonny the count's going to be for this week.
Sunny:All right, I think I can do this. Oh wait a minute, don't you push that button you did You're such a turkey?
Bruce:I know, wasn't that fun.
Sunny:Not really, but okay, I think I can guess. And haven't they been going up?
Bruce:Well, I mean, yeah, I think they've been going up, haven't they? Let me look. Well, back in, I'm still looking. Don't give up on me, everybody. On 11-8, they was 15-55. On 11-15, they were 15-60. And then on 11-27, they were 19-15.
Sunny:So what do you think? Well, I think they're going to go back down.
Bruce:Surely they're going to go back down, all right, well, wait a minute. I need to find the button.
Sunny:Boo, what was that for?
Bruce:Because you totally missed the boat. Man, you was way off.
Sunny:No way. Okay, tell me the truth how much.
Bruce:I'm not going to add it up, but last week they were at 1915, and this week we have a total of 2,465.
Sunny:Oh my gosh, that's a lot more.
Bruce:There you go. I probably would have guessed, just like you, but we have more total earthquakes than we did last time and that's really. It looks like it's gonna be really off for everything. Because you know, usually I say when they go up in total earthquakes, then the smaller earthquakes are higher but the big earthquakes are lower. Well, it's not like that this time. So we'll see what happens next week. But this week the total of 2.5 earthquakes we had 244 last week so that's anything that was 2.5 and over was 244 and what was this week and I'm glad you asked, because this week we had 468 oh my gosh, that was higher Weird.
Bruce:Yeah, very weird. Normally they're not higher. We just have a bunch of like one points and stuff 1.8, and twos no 2.5. It usually is lower is what's weird. And then last week we had on the 4.5 and above 82 of those. This week we have 4.5 and over 93.
Sunny:Wow, so you're saying everything went up.
Bruce:Yep, I'm saying everything went up, which is not usual.
Bruce:So that blows my whole philosophy theory, whatever you want to say. Like I said, we'll watch it next week and see what happens, because the last couple times we did this, it was seven days. We went back. This it was, uh, every it was seven days, we went back, but we was reporting them two weeks in, in intervals of two weeks, so and maybe we got the the timing wrong. We'll have to watch it and see, compare it to the last two weeks anyway.
Bruce:Um, and there was also normally when they go up like that, we have less anything over six, six point and zero, you know, anything over that. We have less of them, and then when the count overall counts down, we have more of all those that we just said. But it's not that way this time. But we had a 6.1, which just occurred today in Corral I think that's how you say it Islands, which is east of Alaska, west of Asia, west of asia, so it's, it's right in there, in that line that goes um, from alaska over, there's some kind of uh, I don't know if it's a a line of earthquakes around that line, and then a 6.3 in Adak, a-d-a-k. I don't know how you pronounce that. Any listeners, you can send me a recording of it, that way I'll know how to pronounce it. But, adak, maybe Alaska, which is on that line, 6.3. And you know what's weird about that? It's east enough of Alaska. I don't even know how they count out Alaska, but it's out in the ocean, kind of who knows.
Bruce:And then we had a 7.0, and anybody heard the news they've heard about this one in Cape Mendocino, california. It's the California earthquake. So it's in the Cape, out in the ocean, off the coast, but it was a 7.0. So anyway, that is the earthquake scene for the last seven days. It's really ramping up everybody. The last seven days. It's really ramping up everybody. And I don't know if I said this at the beginning, but there was like five more smaller earthquakes, two points. One point I don't remember the exact numbers, but they was under 2.5 in the New Madrid fault line area and that stretches all the way down to Mississippi. So we had like four here a while back and I reported on them on my episode, and we just had five more in between this period. I don't remember if they was at the end of my last seven days or the beginning of this last this seven days. But they were right in hitting the general in-between physicianity all right, thanks for the I Boy, you're getting tongue-tied.
Sunny:Take a breath and say it good.
Bruce:All right, thanks for the. I think I'll take a drink is what I'll do. I got me some. That was good.
Sunny:What was that? You was going to say yeah, I was. And I thought, well, it was good. What was?
Bruce:that you was going to say, yeah, I was, and I thought, well, it was ginger. Ale I was going to say the brand. I thought I better not, I'm not going to say any brands, anyway, yeah, so it looks like the earthquakes has picked up, which is not a good thing. We'll watch them, see what's going on, see if they go back down.
Sunny:Yeah, it's a shame that you're doing it after the fact. If you could do it before they hit, you'd be a millionaire.
Bruce:Probably not. You know what would happen if I could do that? What They'd kill me.
Sunny:Oh, they would not.
Bruce:Oh yeah, they wouldn't want nobody predicting earthquakes. Anyway, let's do the. What do we want to do?
Sunny:I don't know. What do you want to do?
Bruce:Oh, I thought we'd do the seven-day corner, put the news in there.
Sunny:Oh no, Seven-day corner. Haven't you come up with a better name yet?
Bruce:Nope, I haven't worked on it at all. Well, how come? Because I like using seven-day corner.
Sunny:Well, I don't like the way that name is. It just makes me sound like, or it makes it sound like you're in a corner and you're fighting your way out.
Bruce:Oh, it does not Does to. Does not Does to. Well, whether it is or not, nobody none of my listeners emailed me or left a text message telling me they had a different idea. You haven't come up with a different idea, so what's it going to be called? Seven Day Corner?
Sunny:Yeah.
Bruce:Yeah, if you want to change something, come up with some better ideas, don't gripe about it.
Sunny:Hey, I'm just doing it the American way. Isn't that the way everybody else in America does it?
Bruce:Well, I don't know about everybody, but anyway. Wow, that was a Anyway. Yeah, let's talk about a little bit of the news. Wow, that was Anyway. Um, yeah, let's talk about a little bit of the uh, the news. I do have one thing kind of fun to talk about.
Sunny:Oh, what's that? You go jumping in the mud puddle.
Bruce:No.
Sunny:Well, you should, it's fun.
Bruce:Alright. Well, I'll take your word for it, but I'm not going to do it.
Sunny:Oh, you're such a bummer.
Bruce:I know, but anyway. Hey, I got a picture from my sister from Arkansas.
Sunny:Yeah.
Bruce:And she sent me a picture of a post at 7 brew in Mountain Home, arkansas hey, you need to stop that, okay, anyway, she sent me a picture on my phone of the post.
Bruce:They got two posts in between the lanes there in Seven Brew and Mountain Home and they stuck stickers on it. And we was down there last May for my mom's birthday on it. And we was down there last may for my mom's birthday and, um, we went through seven brew and I noticed the sticker. So I asked the young lady if I could give her one of my stickers, if she would put it on there. She said sure, and I gave it to her but we left. You know, we got our order and left and I didn't see if she'd done it.
Bruce:But my sister sent me that picture and, lo and behold, the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast sticker was on there from May. And my sister says you know, that thing looks brand new. And it does. It looks brand new, but that post is right at the edge of their building, so the rooftop of their lanes hangs over it and I'm sure it's not getting a whole lot of weather. Plus, it's not been winter yet, so that ought to tell the story. But I'll go down there next year, hopefully, and give them another one. But isn't that cool. The Ugly Quacking Duck podcast is at the Seven Brew in Mountain Home.
Sunny:Yay, yeah, are we supposed to be happy about that?
Bruce:Well, I'm kind of happy about it because you know that's another whole audience that gets to see my sticker. Speaking of stickers, if you're listening to the show and you want a sticker from us, email us with your address home address, not email address and we will ship you out a sticker. How's that? We've not offered that in quite a while, but there you go. I want a sticker where you gonna put it on your forehead. Well, that's no, no.
Sunny:Okay, so what if I flew around the neighborhood and stuck it to somebody's mailbox?
Bruce:Well, that's illegal.
Sunny:Really why.
Bruce:I don't know, it's just illegal. You can't be sticking stuff on mailboxes, because that's a mailbox property.
Sunny:Oh, you made that up.
Bruce:No, it's actually the post office property. Even though you buy it and they stick mail in it, that means it becomes federal government, so you're not supposed to be sticking anything on it, really.
Sunny:Yeah, I think you made that up, just so I won't fly around.
Bruce:Well, if you want to stick stickers, why don't you just take them in your beak, fly around and you see somebody walking, fly down there and give it to them. They'll see that. And they'll fly down there and give it to them. They'll see that and they'll probably take it and stick it somewhere.
Sunny:Okay, we'll do that.
Bruce:All right, yeah, we'll see how that works out. Anyway, I was kind of proud of that, having a sticker. Like I said, I didn't know if they'd stuck that on there after we left, but apparently they did, so hey, cool. I don't know if they've ever listened to the podcast, but as much as I talk about 7Brew, you know you'd think they might listen to it and they'd say, hey, we listened to it. But you know they're probably too busy working.
Sunny:Oh yeah, too busy. That sounds like your excuse.
Bruce:Yeah, I'm not one of those people that can work and come home and go back to work somewhere else. I just I give them 100% at work and then when I get home I'm out of percent.
Sunny:Oh yeah, okay, that don't make sense to me, but okay.
Bruce:Anyhow, let's get on with the show.
Sunny:I thought we were.
Bruce:Yeah, okay, we are. I got a couple more things to go over that I wrote down from what I'd read in the news and then, uh, we'll say goodbye to everybody. So hang in there just a little bit longer and we'll tell you some interesting stories. And beginning with have you listened to the reported chinese commercial ship that was involved in cutting underwater communication lines in the Baltic Sea? Anybody heard about that? I haven't. Well, now you have, if you haven't heard about it before. They reported a Chinese vessel drug their anchor 100 miles in the Baltic Sea and they cut two lines. Now, why they were doing that, that's a big question. I'm not going to get into that, but NATO apparently has surrounded that ship and I haven't heard any more. But NATO apparently has surrounded that ship and I haven't heard any more.
Bruce:But what that did, was it? Let me turn the page, get the information right it cut two lines, one which was connected between Lithuania and Sweden and the second was between Finland and Germany. Now that whole idea is pretty interesting. And you get caught up in the fact that they're blaming the Chinese ship and nobody knows if they actually did it. I don't know how they're going to prove it and what they're going to do about it if they do, and they're trying to ask that ship captain if he was doing it through information given to him by the Russian command, or you know. Anyway, they're trying to blame this and that. But that's not the interesting part.
Bruce:The interesting part was the fact that this article states the interesting part was the fact that this article states that two cables is part of an underground communication network that carries you ready for this. Catch this word 95% of the world's internet, or international internet traffic 95 percent makes you think that all the internet is covered through this wire and that they process 10T which I don't know if that's terabyte or 10 trillion in financial transactions through them two wires. So what they're saying is it's pretty important. Now I don't know if that number has been boosted up to make it look worse for the people that cut it or the fact that that's true.
Bruce:And my big thought process was if they're using that for 95 percent, what's wrong with our satellites? Don't we have satellites that's supposed to be carrying that load? Isn't that what we're told? And now all of a sudden they're saying 95% of that traffic is in the wire under the water. Now there's a lot of conspiracies that suggest that we don't really have satellites up there that will do all that. They use a telephone system network which is cellular, and they use the underground and underwater wires. I don't know. I have no proof of either, but I think that statement makes it very questionable you're always questioning things I don't know.
Bruce:I don't know about you well, that's all right, I don't know about me either, but uh, all right, let's go on. You ready? All right, let's go on.
Sunny:You ready? I'm always ready Before I fall asleep. Give me some more news.
Bruce:All right, again, this is just news that I find interesting or draws my attention to it. There's a lot more out there. There's a lot of political stuff going on, there's a lot of disease information. I don't know if you guys have heard this I didn't write it down but apparently they're interested in this new bird flu that's attacking our milk and they are going to do I guess they have some kind of new legislation that's going to allow them to go in and test the milk of farmers before it's processed and goes to market and they're going to test it for bird flu because they're worried it may transmit and go into the humans, and never has the humans ever got bird flu. But there's a chance they might. So they want to test for it and I don't think they've ever found a milk with bird flu in it, uh, in america. Now I'm not saying in some poor farm somewhere else. They haven't. But the point being is, now they have the right to go in and test and I'm telling you what's going to happen there, folks, and this is a little bit of conspiracy, but that gives the government the right to go in and test these poor farmers' milk and nobody's going to be able to tell what they found. But they're going to tell you what they found and then they're going to go in and destroy that milk. Farmer's going to lose money. You're going to lose the ability to buy milk. All you're going to get is their synthetic garbage milk. That's not going to be good for you and you think I'm lying or making this up? You just wait. But anyhow, that's some extra news that I didn't write down. That I thought was very interesting.
Bruce:But did you guys hear about the latte that was made in 11 foot high cup? That's right, ice latte. It was put in 11 foot high cup. It broke a world record. Nick I don't even know if I want to try to pronounce the last name Diagovanni and Duncan made this happen. It was a Duncan cup and again, it broke the world record. So after they broke the record and I guess they recorded it then they took the um latte out of the 11 foot cup and put it into serving size cups and served it to 300 employees there at duncan. What do you think about that? At least I guess they got it free. Surely they wouldn't have charged them, would they? I?
Sunny:don't know. You're telling the story.
Bruce:You tell us. Well, I don't know, the article didn't say All right, wait a minute, I forgot to do something.
Sunny:Let me find it. Hey, you kind of remembered to do that.
Bruce:Yeah, I did. I should have wrote that down Start news report with a news alert button and then I would have done it, but I didn't. I'm you know, I'm just kind of winging this as I plan it.
Sunny:What do you mean? You're winging it as you plan it. I don't sound like you plan anything.
Bruce:Well, I kind of write stuff down and kind of give my self thought about what direction I want to go in. I just I'm doing it for about an hour a day during my week and it's kind of sporadic thoughts, so it's kind of hard to put together. And then when I get at the end of the week and I just want to do a podcast, I don't want to sit down and try to put all of it together in an orderly fashion. So, yeah, it kind of gets messed up. But anyway, hey, did you know that there's a breakthrough AI? What's AI? Breakthrough artificial intelligence model that is going to predict the weather, or has predicted the weather, apparently, and supposedly it will be more accurate than the programs they use now.
Sunny:Does that mean anything.
Bruce:Not really. It means people watching TV is going to get more accurate news and weather. Not really. It means people watching TV is going to get more accurate news and weather or I shouldn't say news weather from this AI model. So you know what that means.
Sunny:No, what's that mean, bruce?
Bruce:It means we're going to have more AI in our life. We've got AI doing this and doing that and, I have to admit, buzzsprout incorporated an AI to help me come up with my transcript. There you go. I had to think about it and some other things, but I mainly use it to do my transcript, so I don't have to go in and type it up and I don't have to pay somebody else to do it, which I ended up paying them to do it anyway. So I don't know, but it's kind of nice to get a transcript put together for the show and that way you can follow along if you want.
Bruce:I use Podcast Guru. I don't hardly ever talk about the programs or the apps that I use, but I do. I've got two or three I use, but my main one that I actually subscribe to for the pro version is Podcast Guru, and if you like your podcast app, then fine, but if you don't and you're looking for another one, check that one out. It's pretty fine. It allows me to have the chapters of a podcast. I can go in and look them up. I can have of a podcast. I can go in and look them up. I can have the transcript playing at the same time I'm listening, or I can have it pop up on the screen in single or double file so it kind of reads out while the podcast is playing. So every now and then, like at lunch or something, I can go out and eat and I can show the podcast is playing. So every now and then, like at lunch or something, I can go out and eat and I can watch the podcast. Most of the time I'm doing something, so I don't want to, you know, view the screen, so I'll have the pot, my phone in my pocket or something and I'll be listening to it. But it's a pretty neat app and they have had the ability in the past to do value for value. If you sign up your stuff in there and you have a I forget what it's called. I'm not working very good today, but anyway it's going to change. Apparently some things have went down the pike and they're changing things and new laws and stuff, so we're going to have to wait it out and see what happens. But let's don't give up on that.
Bruce:Speaking of value value I have a website, theuglyquackingduckcom. Go to it, check it out. You can email me through there or you can leave me a message. You can also record a message. There's a on the comment contact page tells you all that stuff. If you want, there's also a donate buy me a coffee button. There are two separate buttons, so we do it through PayPal buy me a coffee, or we do value for value. But again, that's going to change here because of some of the laws, so we just hang on to that. Anyway, I just want to take a moment to tell you the program and if you want to support us, we mainly want you to go out and tell people about us, share the podcast. If there's a certain episode that you really like, tell people to go watch it. Or to watch it, hello, go listen to it. I got up way too early, I can tell way too early, and I went to bed way too late.
Sunny:But anyhow, enough complaining well, I'll tell you you need to stop it. Get the hang of everything.
Bruce:Well, yeah.
Sunny:Okay, let's go on.
Bruce:All right, I just wanted to say that much for the thing. Our email address is theuglyquackingduck at gmailcom. You can email us direct and also, if you're using a podcast app to listen to us, under the description or actually it's right before the description it says send us a text, click on that, it'll bring up another page and you can send us a text. Now, if you're on a computer and it's according to what internet browser you're using, but some of them may not have the ability to do that. But if you're on the phone, it works, great. But send us a text and we will read it and we'll shout you out on the next episode. So there you go. One last little report. You ready for this?
Bruce:Nasa has delayed the returning of humans to the moon from 2026 to probably the middle of 2027. What happened? Really, they had to delay it again. Well, according to the report, they had a flawed heat shield. Remember them? Heat shields that seemed to not work right? Or fly off of the ships when they're landing, anyway, yep. So off of the ships when they're landing, anyway, yep. So somehow they're still having problems with this ship that they're building. But 1969, we went up there, landed in a tin can and then flew back to earth in another tin can. So so you just figure that one out. That's all I'm saying.
Sunny:Well, I hope that's all you're saying.
Bruce:You're going to get in trouble. Nope, not at all. I'm on a podcast and I can pretty well say what I want, and nobody will believe me. Anyway, They'll all think I'm full of you-know-what.
Sunny:What are you full of Hot air?
Bruce:You said it. I didn't, but that's not true. Anyhow, what do you say? We say goodbye to our followers and our listeners and our friends.
Sunny:All right, I think that'd be a good idea and give them a chance to break.
Bruce:Yep, I've been on this for about an hour and I didn't realize it's been that long. So I apologize to everybody, but I hope I kept you company and gave you something else to think about and wallow around about, besides your misery.
Sunny:Okay, if you say so.
Bruce:Okay, I say so, but we want to thank you for everybody for being on here, being with us, and we want to see you come back. Tell a friend again. If you feel like donating financially, you can go on our website or you can go on our link on our podcast page and there's a link there you can fill out. But anyhow, stay good, stay safe and we will see you on the radio next week, hopefully. This is Bruce.
Sunny:This is Sonny.
Bruce:Yep, and you ready, sonny.
Sunny:I'm ready.
Bruce:All right, we're going to do it now. What are we going to do? Oh, we're going to say bye, you ready.
Sunny:I just said I'm ready.
Bruce:Okay, here we go, bye, all right. Here we go, bye, all right. That sounded good. Thank you, folks. Have a good day. 73. And may the Father's blessings go with you.
