Really? $32.5 Million! WOW!

  We kick things off by teasing each other about the upcoming holiday season, reminiscing about last year's achievements, and sharing how the recent sunny weather lifted our spirits. Our playful banter sets the stage for an entertaining episode.

We shake things up with our "7 Day News Corner," where we compare recent earthquake data with past reports to spot any interesting patterns. Sonny takes a shot at guessing the number of current earthquakes, leading us to ponder a slight decrease in overall numbers but an uptick in higher magnitude quakes. We also entertain the "drone effect" conspiracy theory and debate its potential impact on future laws, all while navigating the technical challenges of our podcast setup with the help of our trusty MixCaster.

In the midst of all this, we tell the tale of two men going to court and the mystery of a famous tree being cut down. We marvel at the staggering $32.5 million price for Dorothy's ruby slippers, and muse over the rising costs of YouTube TV. As the episode winds down, we share our excitement about the upcoming podcast release schedule and extend our heartfelt gratitude to our listeners. Until next time, stay safe and keep quacking! 

Chapters

• 0:03 Podcast Banter on Weather and Updates
• 6:52 Earthquake Reports and News Updates
• 20:42 The Drone Effect and Podcast Banter
• 35:37 Interesting News Updates and Banter
• 48:42 Podcast Release and Farewell

Transcript

Bruce: 0:03

Hello, hello and hello everyone. Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast, and I'm Bruce.

Sonny: 0:12

And I'm Sonny.

Bruce: 0:15

We're glad to have you aboard. You ready, sonny? Let's do it together. Let's just say hello, are you ready?

Sonny: 0:23

I am.

Bruce: 0:29

All right, we're going to say this one, two, three, hello everyone. Yeah, that was good, all right. I like when we sync up and do a good welcome to for everybody, and here we are again, and and it's been a week and I thought we'd go ahead and do another podcast. Now we're getting close to the Christmas time and New Year's time, so I may start making them short to give me more time to do other stuff, making them short to give me more time to do other stuff. And I know last year and the year before I put together, uh, the shorts that I'd used on social media, put them all together and I used that for my christmas, new year's eve, in between their podcast. So I'll probably do that again and I think everybody's doing that. They call it different names, but I got one from Spotify showing my podcast for the last year and I got one from Buzzsprout showing my podcast for the last year.

Sonny: 1:43

Wow, that's pretty cool. That means you've done something for the last year. Wow, that's pretty cool. That means you've done something for the last year. You are a big shot.

Bruce: 1:52

Well, let's not go that far. I've actually done a podcast for the last few years, but I don't consider that very big. But anyhow, what was I saying?

Sonny: 2:08

You were saying how great it is to have me aboard again.

Bruce: 2:13

Oh, I was, wasn't I? Alright, Sonny, it's been good to have you aboard Now shut up.

Sonny: 2:18

Hey stop.

Bruce: 2:23

Oh, okay, that was a little bit uncalled for.

Sonny: 2:26

A little bit. Wow, how do you say things like that? Oh well, I knew you was just kidding.

Bruce: 2:35

Yep, I was. I just wanted to throw you off for a minute or a second or something like that.

Sonny: 2:42

Well, it didn't work. I expect that nonsense from you every day.

Bruce: 2:50

All right, well, that's good, we're on board then.

Sonny: 2:54

What are you drinking over there, Bruce?

Bruce: 2:58

I am drinking a seven-brew hot cocoa. I just got back from town and I wanted to pick one of those up on the way home so I could concentrate on my podcast, or I should say our podcast.

Sonny: 3:15

Oh, thank you very much. I think that's a first.

Bruce: 3:20

Well, I gave you credit. I got your picture. Well, it's not really your picture. It was the one that we did of the skeleton duck on the podcast for the co-host. I need to take a new picture of you and put it on there, don't I?

Sonny: 3:40

Oh yeah, that would be great. That way people can see how beautiful I am.

Bruce: 3:48

Oh, a little big-headed, are you?

Sonny: 3:52

No, I'm just telling the truth.

Bruce: 3:56

All right. Well, yeah, we need to do that. I don't know when. Today would have been a great day. It was sunny outside. We could have went out, took that picture and got you on the podcast on Buzzsprout's webpage. For us, that would have been great.

Sonny: 4:14

Well, why didn't you?

Bruce: 4:16

Because I just now thought of it.

Sonny: 4:19

Oh boy. Well, I would like that. Let's do it sometime.

Bruce: 4:24

Okay, we need to put that in my little book the things we need to do and we need to work on that. That would be great. I would love that. I need to update your picture. Probably need to update mine. It's kind of old too. It was when I was using that condenser mic from Rode, which is still a good mic, but I've switched over.

Sonny: 4:53

I've got a different microphone and I need to take a picture of it.

Bruce: 4:57

Yeah, take a picture of your messed-up studio. Oh no, we won't do that, but you know we won't do that. So, sonny, how's your week been?

Sonny: 5:08

Well, it's been good. A little rainy this week, cold a few days, which I didn't mind, but you sure griped about it?

Bruce: 5:24

Yeah, I guess I did. I don't like the cold weather and I don't like the gloomy rain during cold. It just really kind of puts me in a very blah mood. This sunshine today has been great. I got out and did a little bit and it just made me feel a whole lot better. I hate to see the sun set today well, you're gonna have to do it soon.

Bruce: 5:50

Fuck up, buddy oh my, that's bad. I guess I will, but I agree with you, it's been a little bit cold, but it warmed up the last couple days and today is fantastic. Um, let me give you exact temperature. Uh, real quick, it was around 55 when I was in town. Uh, 56 now. What do you think about? That's cool.

Sonny: 6:20

Actually, that's, warm. Okay, you're right, that's warm so anyhow, onward with the show, onward with the show. I like repeating what you say. I can tell A lot. So, bruce, what do you have?

Bruce: 6:53

on the agenda for today. Well, I don't have a whole lot to go over. I wanted to bring up the earthquake report for the last seven days and then I want to compare it to our two weeks ago to see if the pattern shows up that we've been noticing because we's doing every two weeks there for a while, or if that pattern is just gone but we don't have any more big earthquakes. So I just want to. I just want to do that and I got got a few news shorts for our news corner. Seven Day News Corner.

Sonny: 7:36

I'm not sure you got that name correct and I definitely don't think I like it.

Bruce: 7:46

Okay, correct and definitely don't think I like it. Okay, well, again, you come up with a better name, or if our listeners call in or text in, email us with a better name, we may just go with that, but until then it's going to be called the 7 Day News Corner. There we go.

Sonny: 8:12

I don't think that's the same, but whatever.

Bruce: 8:16

Just as long as we know what we're doing. Well, I can say that we probably never know what we're doing.

Sonny: 8:24

And you would probably be right.

Bruce: 8:29

Anyhow, yeah, there's a little bit of news out there that we want to talk about. There's a lot of news out there, all kinds of stuff going on, but we don't want to govern on that stuff. We just want to pick some of the highlights, the stuff that I fancy, and just go on from there.

Sonny: 8:47

All right, we can do that. Let's do that and keep it short. We don't want to bore our people to death.

Bruce: 8:58

Well, why not? Maybe they have some housework they want to do today or this week and we give them something to listen to while they're cleaning. We don't have to be the most highlighted exciting podcast out there. We just need to hit a niche for our people that want to do a little bit of listening while they do a lot of work.

Sonny: 9:22

Okay, I think that works or sounds right work.

Bruce: 9:24

Okay, I think that works or sounds right anyway, how about let's do the earthquake report, the seven day report, right now, because I'm kind of curious to see what it looks like and I haven't rolled it up yet, and then we'll go on to something else. Alright, that'd be fun, because I can guess I like, looks like, and I haven't wrote it up yet and then we'll go on to something else.

Sonny: 9:45

All right, that'd be fun because I can guess. I like guessing.

Bruce: 9:52

I know you do. That's why I let you do it, and I hope our listeners will guess right along with you and think of what they believe is happening with the earthquakes. And then you know, when we read the totals off they'll have a better idea. So let's pause this for a second and let me go do the report. Hang on everyone. Okie, dokie, smoky. I took a short break. Hang on, let me move my box. There we go. I hope it didn't make any noise. Yeah, we took a short break and got the report together and now we're going to play the game. We are going to ask Sonny to guess. Sonny to guess. So, to set it up, on 12-8, which was seven days ago, I think, or pretty close, we had 2,465 all magnitude earthquakes, 2,465. So, sonny, what do you think happened to them today? And take a guess at that number.

Sonny: 11:15

All right, I can do that. All right, let me think oh, stop it.

Bruce: 11:28

No, that was fun.

Sonny: 11:30

No, no, no no.

Bruce: 11:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but anyway, what was your guess? Okay, okay.

Sonny: 11:36

But anyway, what was your guess? Okay, okay, 2465 last time. So I'm going to think it went down, because that's usually what it does. So let's say 2250. Is that a pretty good guess?

Bruce: 12:03

Yep, that's a good guess, and you know I haven't been writing down your guesses like Lily did so we could tell how close you were. You know from month to month or from guess to guess. I know there for a while you was really close, in fact that one week you actually got the answer within a few, like 20 or 30 or something like that Unbelievable. But so you said 2250, it went down and the answer is yeah, yeah. It did go down Yay.

Sonny: 12:45

Okay, how close was I.

Bruce: 12:48

Well, it went down, sonny, but not much. It was 2465, and this just a few minutes ago ago. It counted up to 2453, so that, what is that 12 off?

Bruce: 13:09

I don't think that's very much difference yeah, well, my formula was based on them earthquakes going up and down and up and down, and for the last couple weeks it's actually stayed up there pretty high, which is not a good thing. And back several weeks ago, when we did the last podcast on 11-27, the count was 1950. So it went up and then it went back down a little bit, but it never did go back down to 1915. So I don't know, my formula did not work that last two times. Well, I'll take that back. It did go down. I always said it would go up and then go back down and then the other numbers would go. If it went down, the other numbers would go up. So let's look look at them and see what happened.

Bruce: 14:16

Last week, 2465 was all magnitudes and the 2.5 and over was 468. This week it went down 2453, but the 2.5 and over went up to 526. That's usually what it does. I don't know why, but it usually does that. Now the 4.5 was at 93 last week and the 4.5 and over magnitude earthquakes this week was at 104. Earthquakes this week was at 104. So even if it wasn't very much, the 4.5 and over earthquakes went up also. So that is actually what I have been noticing that the all-magnitude earthquakes go down. All magnitude earthquakes go down, but the 2.5 and over or the 4.5 and over go up, which is kind of weird how that happens. And then, if it stays in regular form next week, the earthquakes will go back up on all magnitude, but the bigger ones will go down. So what it means is you get a lot more smaller earthquakes during that time.

Sonny: 15:54

Don't know what that means, but that's what I've been seeing most of the time. Oh, so you're seeing a pattern? What?

Bruce: 15:59

you're saying that's correct. I stand corrected. You're sitting down.

Sonny: 16:10

Okay, I sit corrected. Um. Okay, there you go. You got the window open, don't you?

Bruce: 16:20

I do. It's a beautiful day outside and I got some fresh air coming in the window. Open, don't you? I do? It's a beautiful day outside and I got some fresh air coming in the window, so, yes, you can hear the cars go by. I think I'm picking them up in my headset anyway.

Sonny: 16:30

Well, I thought I heard it in mine too, so there, but if you guys out there are hearing that, please don't get upset at Bruce. He wanted fresh air, so he turned the heater down and opened up all the windows.

Bruce: 16:48

I don't mind, but I think it's gonna get cold here in a little while you're right, it will get cold here about the time that the sun goes to setting. The temperature usually drops pretty fast. But until then I'm going to leave the windows open. We're going to get fresh air and then, once that stops or I should say the sun goes and that stops I will have to shut the windows and turn the heat back on. But blah, blah, blah.

Bruce: 17:23

Speaking of blah, blah, blah, have any of our listeners been hearing about the drones over New Jersey? And now I think they've been spotted in New York and there's a big to-do about it. Supposedly nobody knows where they're from and I don't know why they can't shoot them down. But now they can't shoot them down. I don't know if their guns are that bad or they're just afraid to, but that's what they're saying. They can't shoot them down, and some of them are as big as buses or two-car garages. Now I don't know who's measuring them. I did see a video of one over in New York, I think it was, and I had heard from another guy on a podcast that if they were as big as buses, that you would hear them go over, because it would take a lot of lift and the motors would have to be big to get that lift, and I agree. But the one I heard supposedly that was over New York State, not New York City, supposedly that was over New York State, not New York City it sounded like a type of helicopter it was flying over and you could hear the propellers, the motor. It was quite loud actually, it was kind of a buzzing sound, a lot like you would expect from a drone. So I don't know what's going on, but it's quite interesting, especially with a new update on some of the legislation that's going through Congress right now and they're wanting a broader spectrum for the FBI and, I think, local authorities to be able to govern drones and basically take it out of the hands of the FAA.

Bruce: 19:31

Right now, in order to fly a drone commercially, you have to go to an faa test site, take a test. It's not a real hard one. I mean, there's some learning and memorization. I know I took one and, uh, you have to pass that test and get a, basically a license to fly a drone. If you're doing it for a hobby and you're not going to be commercially taking pictures and selling them or anything like that. All you have to do is register the drone and I think there's a fee for that, but I don't remember what it was. But if I was going to guess on anything about all these drone things, I think it's going to be to help them pass some more bills to govern the drones.

Bruce: 20:26

And you know, they're using this to scare the Americans. And I'm not sure why you're scared of drones. They haven't done anything. Go out and shoot them if that's a problem. I didn't say that, but I did not say that. But anyhow, I look for something to come out of this, out of the woodwork here shortly. Plus, you never know, maybe they're going to get ready to fake a UFO landing or something, and this is just the precursor to that. We'll have to wait and see.

Sonny: 21:05

Oh, you mean more conspiracies, I see.

Bruce: 21:12

Yes, more conspiracies. I mean we're talking about drones that are probably from the cia or, um, the black government, and I don't mean that in any way other than, uh, the government agencies that soak up our taxpayer money. But there's something going on there and it's not what we think, it's not what we're seeing. There's something hidden behind all that garbage, so pay attention when they start changing laws and stuff like that.

Sonny: 21:51

Oh boy, you just have to look at everything. Deep, dark, don't you?

Bruce: 21:58

No, not really. But I do think there's something more to be concerned about besides a bunch of drones flying over. We'll have to wait and see, and you never know A lot of the stuff that people are hearing on social media and the videos. They really don't tell you where they're from. I mean, they may say New Jersey, but you have no proof of that. I mean, it's just as bad as the news media getting out there and saying things that's not true, just because they're wanting to persuade you to a certain point of view. But anyway, that's what's going on. Pay attention, we're going to see it for long. I don't think it's going to just quit and drift off into no memory lane, like they do a lot of things.

Sonny: 22:50

Well, we'll see. I'm interested in seeing what happens. That'll be good. So what are we going to call this?

Bruce: 23:00

I think we ought to call it the drone effect.

Sonny: 23:04

Okay, the drone effect. That's pretty good. I like that.

Bruce: 23:09

Yeah, I do too. I like the drone effect because it's going to. The drones are going to bring some kind of effect that's going to have repercussions later on down the road, and that's what we need to look for.

Sonny: 23:22

Yeah, you're probably right, uh-oh.

Bruce: 23:29

Yeah, uh-oh, how'd you know.

Sonny: 23:32

I seen how far back you tipped that cup.

Bruce: 23:37

Oh, okay, yeah, that's a dead giveaway that my cup's about empty. I'm almost out of hot cocoa, oh no.

Sonny: 23:46

Oh no, you may have to stop talking.

Bruce: 23:51

You would like that.

Sonny: 23:53

No, not really. That means our podcast is over and I like doing these podcasts.

Bruce: 24:00

Yeah, I do too. It's fun even if nobody listens to us and we do have some listeners, because they have downloads and stuff, but we don't have any very many listeners that will give us their thoughts and opinions and reviews, and that's one thing that will make us feel like we're getting out. There is if you have a response to our comments, or one thing I haven't heard, sonny, guess what that is.

Sonny: 24:32

Um shut up.

Bruce: 24:35

No A good answer? No, no, I have not heard. Uh, it's been a few podcasts back, uh, three or four, I think. Now that I quit using my laptop with my mixer board, I did that when I got the mixer, I just went straight into plugging it into my laptop, like I used to do the mics and use an Audacity to record. I used a mixer board to do all the sound effects and the mic adjustments, but I went about three or four podcasts ago and took the laptop completely out of the circuit and now I just record straight to the MixCaster.

Bruce: 25:28

I use it for, you know, the adjustments and stuff and the recording. I like the laptop because the audacity has a bigger graph and you can see what's going on easier, um, but, and if I paused it, I could go back and play the last few seconds of the pause and it would remind me of what I was saying and where I was. At this one I can pause it, but I can't go back and if I stop it it just stops the whole recording and you have to title it and then, if you start recording again, it starts a new one. So I have to splice them together, which that's really the only annoyance I have found, I like, after I've used this quite a bit, I like it better, but I think it's helped me develop the sound better. I was able to get my pod mic and the other mic tuned better, which gave me, I think, a better sound for my voice. I think a better sound for my voice and it allows me to concentrate on one view instead of watching this view and the laptop and trying to change my focus all the time. So I like it better, I think. And then afterwards I just take the card out of it, put it in my desktop instead of my laptop and I transfer that file over to audacity on that desktop and it's kind of easier to edge doing that.

Bruce: 27:12

So I don't know, but anyway, the whole point of this was I still have not heard from anybody out there to tell me what they think of the sound and how it changed. Um, it probably have to be one of my listeners that's listened to me doing it for the last uh year, because I think I've had just a mix caster for a year. Um, I think I got it last fall or um, almost winter time. I think I got it back in october, november don't quote me on that? I can't remember, but anyhow, it's uh been good for me and I think I'm gaining ground every time I use it, learning how to use it. I should say so if you're still listening out there.

Sonny: 28:02

Yeah, if you're still listening out there, tell him how bad he sounds.

Bruce: 28:12

No, that's not what I want.

Sonny: 28:14

Oh yeah, it is, that's what I, what I want. Tell him. Tell him how bad he sounds and I sound great. I need to be the regular host.

Bruce: 28:26

He can be my co-host all right, so you're wanting to take over the show.

Sonny: 28:33

Yeah, why?

Bruce: 28:34

not Okay, well, we'll see what happens, but anyway, yeah, if you're still listening, have been listening or just new. Either way, send us an email, send us a text on Buzzsprout. You can do that through any podcast listening app that you have. It's underneath our definition or our description. Tell us what you think. We haven't heard from anybody.

Sonny: 29:09

And you know what that means, sonny, no, what does?

Bruce: 29:13

that mean.

Sonny: 29:19

That means you haven't got to goose anybody. Oh, you are right, we need to do that just for the fun of it.

Bruce: 29:23

Yeah, we do. We haven't done that in a long, long time. Let me see if I can find my. There it is. This is my nice gift that Shannon got me and she paid a lot of money for this thing and I use it for my podcast. It's actually made for hunters, but hey, here we go. You ready for this, Sunny? Yeah, I'm ready for that. All right, here we go.

Sonny: 29:59

Ha ha.

Bruce: 30:02

You've been goosed, all right. Yeah, now see, folks, if you send us a message or email us, we will shout out to you, read the email or the text or whatever, and will send you a goose. So look forward to that. Yeah, and also on our web page, if you'll go to it, you can leave us comments and you can also click on the button under the comment page I think that's what it's called and you can send us a recording. You can actually record your voice and it will save it and send it to us and then we can put that on our podcast so you can be part of our podcast.

Sonny: 30:46

Oh boy, Part of our podcast. I can make fun of them.

Bruce: 30:52

Well, I don't know if that would be nice to our listeners.

Sonny: 30:56

Why not? I'm not nice to you. Why should I be nice to anybody?

Bruce: 31:02

Okay, well, now that you mention it, I don't know if I can answer that.

Sonny: 31:09

Well, of course you can't, because I'm right Always.

Bruce: 31:15

Alright, if you say so.

Sonny: 31:28

I will try to believe that you remembered Cool, all right.

Bruce: 31:39

I did remember this time. So that means we are going into the seven-day. No, let's don't call it seven-day, let's just call it news corner. Everybody knows it's going to be seven days. The earthquakes are called seven-day because that's how long we go back on the report, but this one is just news. Um, I may look it up, you know, every day, um to add up some things. But anyhow, let's don't bore you to death with that oh yeah, let's bore him to death.

Sonny: 32:13

So I can hear him snoring. I don't think you're going death. So I can hear him snoring.

Bruce: 32:16

I don't think you're going to be able to hear him snoring. You know what? We need to go live for a while. We may work on that this coming year. That may be our goals that we set forward in the new year that we can start a live broadcast of the podcast and after we do it a few times or for a while, maybe we can get people to call in. And if we get popular enough we may not, but then we can use that we can record that live and put it on our regular podcast. But I had an account with Podbean and they had a live option. So I may go back and see if I still got that and we may try to do that. What do you think about that, sonny? You want to go live?

Sonny: 33:08

That may be fun. That way, every time I yell at you, everybody will hear it.

Bruce: 33:16

Well, I still have the mute button I can hit while you're yelling.

Sonny: 33:21

Yeah, but if you're live, that means they're going to hear the silence for five minutes while I'm yelling.

Bruce: 33:31

That's true, but you know you really don't yell at me, you just give me a hard time.

Sonny: 33:37

Yeah, but it sounds better if I tell her why I'm yelling at you Okay.

Bruce: 33:43

So anyway, let's go back to the news corner. Some of the news headlines that I've seen caught my eye, or my ear, or my head. There was two men in.

Sonny: 34:02

Britain that went up for trial. Guess what?

Bruce: 34:03

for a robbery you'd think, but no, they actually went to trial for cutting down a famous tree got cut down and they went to trial yep, it was a tree that had been uh up for 150 years, or that's what they're claiming anyway, and, uh, it was next to a 73-mile-long wall and that wall was built in 122 CE that's what they call it now, instead of before BC, before Christ, they call it CE. I'm not sure why or when they changed that, but anyway it was built by the Roman emperor, uh, hadron, I think's his name, and anyway that tree was planted by the um property owner back 150 years ago and I didn't write his name down. I should have. I apologize, but apparently that tree in Britain had been used as the site of many proposals, marriage proposals for a film that was made in 1991. What was the name of it? It was named Robin Hood, prince of Th of thieves.

Bruce: 35:37

I don't know if anybody's seen that I did but the whole point of that is that was a famous tree and if you'd like to see what it looked like, it was by the wall, nestled in between two big hills, and it was actually pretty beautiful. I got a picture of it with the Aurora behind it and I'll put it on my web page so you can get an idea of it. And I've also got a picture of the cut-down tree with the police tape surrounding it. That happened last year, in September of 2023. And they really didn't have an idea why it got cut down, or if they did, they didn't put it in the article, but I'll put the pictures up. You can go take a look at it on our website, which is theuglyquackingduckcom, and it's pretty neat looking at it.

Bruce: 36:47

Let me get this paper rolled over here. I just can't imagine you know somebody going out there and cutting the tree down. I wonder if they was angry at it. Maybe they were married and they got divorced and they blamed the tree. I don't know. I really don't understand people. Uh-oh, that really is getting empty. Did you see that big gulp?

Sonny: 37:16

Yeah, I think everybody heard it too.

Bruce: 37:20

All right. Well, it is good hot cocoa, I have to say. Did you know? Scientists have now revealed a chemistry in a tick, a tick saliva, I should say in a tick. A tick saliva, I should say, enabling them to form a cement cone around their bite. Now let me re-say that Scientists have discovered on a tick you know a tick that gets on dogs and animals and on us, carries a Rocky Mountain spotted fever here in the States. Well, they have discovered a chemical, some kind of chemistry, in the tick's saliva that helps them create a cementing cone around their bite.

Bruce: 38:15

Ever wonder why you never could get them? Ticks out, there you go. It's almost like they dig down in your skin. Well, maybe they didn't dig down that far, maybe that cone swells up around them and you can't get them out. A lot of times you'll end up pulling the legs or the head off trying to get them out and they say that's a no-no, because you don't want to spread any infection, especially Rocky Mountain fever or Lyme disease. So you're supposed to, you know, be careful with that Anyhow. I thought that was interesting. They discovered that now, and wait till you hear this bit of news.

Sonny: 39:04

Oh boy, what do you got now there, Brucey Boy.

Bruce: 39:09

Oh, that's the first time you've ever called me Brucey Boy. That's kind of funny.

Sonny: 39:16

I kind of like that. I think I'll start calling you Brucey Boy.

Bruce: 39:21

It almost makes me feel young again.

Sonny: 39:24

Oh no, we're not doing that, I'll just call you. I don't know that. I'll just call you. I don't know why. I'll wait for later.

Bruce: 39:33

All right, well, thank you, but yeah, the next bit of tidbit information is the Ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. Guess how much they sold for? Yes, just go ahead, guess, I'll take a minute. Let you folks think about it. I mean, if my wife goes out and spends $120 on my shoes or her shoes, I about have a heart attack each time, and when I tell you how much they spent on these, you're not going to believe it. They bought these or they sold these. I don't know who bought them for $32.5 million for them. Ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz $32.5. Oh my gosh.

Sonny: 40:29

That's crazy. Who would do that?

Bruce: 40:32

Well, I don't know, but somebody did and they probably smiled the whole time. Yeah, somebody with way too much money. They could have gave several families I mean several families some of that $32.5 million and they would have been well off for the rest of their life. But hey, I'm not going to talk about that To each his own. But really $32.5 million for a pair of shoes Out of a movie, wow.

Sonny: 41:09

Wow, is right, holy smoke.

Bruce: 41:15

Yeah, anyway, I thought that was interesting. I needed to bring that up. You know, I think my wife bought me a pair of boots here a while back for $120, and I bought a pair of boots at Rural King last year for $135 or something like that. And then I got home and put on a different pair of socks the next day and discovered that I'd bought them too small. The socks I put on was, you know, a lot thicker than normal, because I bought them for winter and after I wore them to work for a day I realized that they were a little bit too small for them. Socks, bummer, that's the way my life goes, anyway.

Sonny: 41:58

Yeah, you got that kind of luck for sure.

Bruce: 42:02

Yeah, I do. Anyway, $32.5 million. Speaking of money, I heard that YouTube TV is going up another $10. Another $10. Anybody out there got a prescription to YouTube. What was it? $72? Now it's going to be $82 or something like that, and I think it's a must. Now you do get a lot of extras with that tv prescription and they probably got really good video on there. I do not have a prescription to that, but hey, another ten dollars, it just adds up. $10 over here, $10 over there. Yeah, get you another podcast man, get you a good podcast 2.0 player and listen to some good podcasts.

Bruce: 42:58

There are so many podcasts out there. If you like science fiction, there's science fiction shows. That's what I like. If you like true crime, there's a lot of true crime podcasts. If you like a video podcast, there's a whole bunch of them. Spotify's now doing them, youtube's doing them. You got Joe Rogan out there. I mean, everybody likes him, right? Do a podcast, don't worry about spending all that money.

Bruce: 43:28

Anyway, now, I found this bit of information kind of intriguing because I've watched this show. It's a YouTube show called Hot Ones. Anybody ever watch that? Anybody like it? We've watched it a few times. We like it. We've watched it a few times. We like it, my daughter likes watching it for some of the stars that's been on there. But basically, if you haven't watched it, it is a show with a host that interviews a star. It's a different one each time. While they eat some hot wings I'm not sure they're all wings, but they have different degrees of hot sauce on them. So every time the next one they eat it's going to be a little bit hotter and a little bit hotter and they get really, really, really hot. And it's very interesting to see, as the progression grows, how good or how not so good, they can concentrate on the questions and answers and how they react to the heat that's coming off them. Hot wings, but hot.

Bruce: 44:44

That was a show, or is a show? Pretty famous show, and basically BuzzFeed was not Buzzsprout, that's my hosting podcast company, but BuzzFeed actually sold that show off. They actually sold the studio, which is what was the actually sold the studio, which is um, what was the name of the studio? I gotta roll down here, hang on. Uh, first we feast studio, which is, uh, the makers of hot ones, but are you ready for the price? That's the whole reason I brought this up. They sold that studio and show. I just wanted to pause while that vehicle went by. I'm gonna shut the windows and start and get dark, but they sold that for $82.5 million. Are you ready? $82.5 million?

Bruce: 45:53

Apparently, a handful of investors privately run investors, except for Soros. Soros Investment Company was part of the investors, but the guy that is a host on the show, I hear is one of the investors that bought it, and the founder of Hot Ones is also an investor, and there's a couple other investors that basically they're going out privately instead of publicly on Buzz Sprouts or BuzzFeed, sorry. So it'd be interesting to see if they keep the show as good as it has been or what happens. We'll have to see. But if you're interested in a list of investors, you can go to Variety. If you're interested in a list of investors, you can go to Variety. It's got a listing of it's got a whole article about it. That's where I found it, so go over and check it out if you're interested.

Sonny: 47:05

All right, sunny. What do you think of our news corner? Oh that wasn't too bad.

Bruce: 47:12

That one actually had some interesting articles. Well, thank you, you're coming around.

Sonny: 47:16

I think I've got your brain washed? Um, nope, I don't think so, but anyhow, we're going to say bye now, aren't we?

Bruce: 47:25

Yep, we are. We've been on here for 47 minutes Too long again. But we're going to say good evening to everybody. We're going to say I hope you're all preparing for Christmas. It is right around the corner.

Bruce: 47:45

I hope, if you're buying at Christmas, that you've got it bought and you don't have to stress in the last couple weeks like some of us. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you get time off to enjoy it, and we will have again another podcast or two between now and New Year's Day. So I think one of them is going to be the collage of all our short audio clips of each show, like we did last year and the year before. So if you look forward to that kind of thing, we'll have it on there and we'll probably do a quick earthquake report in there too, somewhere. I think we've got what? Two more weeks to go before Christmas. So, anyhow, have a good week.

Bruce: 48:42

It's Sunday afternoon and this is going to go up tonight and I'll probably have the. It's going to be on the website tonight, www. Theuglyquackingduckcom, and it will probably go up to Monday afternoon. It will hit Buzzsprout and they will put it out. So if you're part of our subscription people on our website, you'll get to hear it early, and if you're not, you'll have to wait till Monday. So, anyway, we want to wish you guys all a good day.

Sonny: 49:22

And, yes, we want to say goodbye at the same time.

Bruce: 49:27

Yes, we do. Let's do that right now. You ready?

Sonny: 49:30

I am ready, here we go.

Bruce: 49:33

Goodbye, All right, 73, and may the Father's blessings go with you everybody and be safe Bye.