It is Really Dancing

Ever tried to set up a recording studio in a 38-degree Southern Illinois winter? Picture us slipping and sliding around the house while perfecting our setup, laughing at every misstep. As we near our milestone 100th episode, we can't help but express our gratitude to our loyal listeners and those just tuning in, even as we humorously question if climate change is behind the bizarre cold snap sweeping through Florida and Texas. This episode is all about warmth and camaraderie, despite the chilly winds.

Join us in a heartfelt tribute as we bid adieu to our beloved colleague Sophia, who's off on a new adventure. We reflect on her departure with the age-old saying, "the grass is always greener on the other side," hoping she finds joy in her new role. Meanwhile, we relish introducing our podcast to the uninitiated and sharing their delightful reactions. Amidst the laughter and farewells, we sprinkle in some light-hearted news updates, from quirky earthquake reports to the curious study of bird brains.

Prepare for a journey through the unexpected! From dissecting the impressive capabilities of bird brains to the latest in lunar exploration with the Blue Ghost lander, we promise a mix of wonder and amusement. Imagine an agile Chinese robot dog busting a move, or a massive ice wall threatening penguin habitats — it's all here. Toss in a charming history of White House pets and a closing earthquake report, and you have an episode that dances between science, space, and a touch of whimsy.

Chapters

• 0:00 Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast Episode 99
• 7:01 Farewell to a Co-Worker
• 12:23 Blue Ghost Lunar Lander News
• 28:29 Galaxy Mapping & Ice Wall Threat
• 37:26 Robotic Dance
• 40:41 White House Pets
• 45:42 Earthquake Report

Transcript

Bruce: 0:00

what's happening. Hello everyone, and welcome to the ugly quacking duck podcast. All right, I think we got that one pretty well in sync not quite as good as we've done before, but it will work. And again, hello. Thank you for coming back. All our great fans and followers. Welcome to the best podcast ever.

Sonny: 0:34

Oh boy, the best podcast. That's the first time you've ever said that.

Bruce: 0:42

Well, I'm allowed. Well, I don't know about that, but anyway, hello'm allowed. Yeah, I'm glad you said that, and welcome back, sonny, I'm glad you're with me today. Yes, it is, and I think we're doing a good job today. It's only about the what? The hundredth time we've tried to do this.

Sonny: 1:12

At least you couldn't get the mics right, you couldn't get the words right.

Bruce: 1:17

I don't think you get anything right today. Yeah, I have those days where it just doesn't work out.

Sonny: 1:27

Well, it's working now, so don't give up.

Bruce: 1:31

Oh yeah, definitely not. Well, how are you doing, Sonny?

Sonny: 1:36

Well, I'm doing pretty good. The sunshine is out and it's a great day 38 degrees here in Mount Vernon, illinois.

Bruce: 1:46

Well, we're not really in Mount Vernon, that's the closest town we've got.

Sonny: 1:51

Yeah, you're right. Well, we're in southern Illinois, how's that?

Bruce: 1:56

All right, that's good and we are close to Mount Vernon, but it's 38. And 38 degrees warmed up quite a bit today. 38, and 38 degrees Warmed up quite a bit today. Yesterday was warmer. I think it's going to get warm up in the 40s next week and boy, oh boy, are we going to enjoy that?

Sonny: 2:17

Yeah, it's supposed to rain. I'm going to enjoy that.

Bruce: 2:21

Well, you know what. We're going to warm up, everybody's going to get used to that warm air and then it's going to drop down and get really cold again and then we're going to be going brrrr instead of just staying cold and getting used to it and on, and on, and on hey.

Bruce: 2:41

I seen you trying to walk on that slick ice. Oh my gosh, that was slick. It's all on the north side of the house where the sun's not hitting, so the ice is not getting a whole lot of warmth from just what's in the air, so it's getting wet on top and, oh boy, it's slick. Now the rest of the yard's pretty well gone on ice because the sun hit it, but not that northern part Right there by the what's the northeast, to be exact, right there by the corner of the garage, the corner driveway.

Sonny: 3:18

And oh, boy, it's slick. Can you say that one more time, Boy, it's slick, all right, hush up. No, I'm here to talk, just like you.

Bruce: 3:30

All right, you are true. Okay, I don't think we'll run another full hour today. We might, who knows? But this is the 99th episode. Woo-woo, one more and we get 100. I don't know if we get any prizes, but anyway, for you guys that stayed with us all this time, thank you.

Sonny: 3:50

Yeah, thank you. And for those that come and not been here before, I don't know how you found us, but come back, you stay.

Bruce: 4:02

Yeah, that's for sure, and we don't know how you found us. Either it's a miracle or you're just unlucky, I don't know which it is Alright, you can tell that to your neighbors, but I don't know if anybody else is going to believe it is going to believe it.

Sonny: 4:23

Well, that's probably true, but how you doing, Bruce?

Bruce: 4:28

How's work? Well, I'm doing pretty good. This month has been doctor's appointments, so you know I had to get up with ketchup, I think, on all my doctor's appointments. I had a couple on the end of December, but I think I'm caught up until what? May and June what's corner you talk to. If you talk to one doctor, he's worried. If you talk to another doctor, I'm better, and if you talk to my wife, I'm still silly.

Sonny: 5:03

Well, I'll go for that. You're definitely still silly and a little weird.

Bruce: 5:09

Now you're talking like all my co-workers A little weird.

Sonny: 5:13

Well, that's true, you are.

Bruce: 5:17

Well, like I say to everybody else um no, I don't say it, never mind. Okay, we'll just ignore you said that you can cut it later. No, I'll probably leave it in there, but anyway, I was going to say, yeah, I'm a little weird and I tell everybody that. But I don't tell everybody that. I just let them find out for their self.

Sonny: 5:41

Ha ha, Alright, well, I've been doing good also.

Bruce: 5:47

The cold has been really rough but I got a warm garage to hide in and your studio, so I'm doing good.

Sonny: 6:12

Yep, it's been very cold here, and not just here, but like Florida, Texas, there's two more states I can't think of right now that's got snow that normally does not, which is kind of weird. Yeah, they're going to blame that on climate change aren't they?

Bruce: 6:20

Yep, I think it's cyclical, which means that you know, it was like that years ago and it's coming back around, and just most people don't know it because they've not been around that long. So they'll tell them anything, they'll believe it.

Sonny: 6:37

Yeah, there you go. Tell them anything, they'll believe it. Let's tell them we're rich.

Bruce: 6:43

Why would you want to do that?

Sonny: 6:45

I don't know. You said they'll believe anything and's tell them we're rich. Why would you want to do that? I don't know. You said they'll believe anything, and that's pretty hard to believe.

Bruce: 6:51

Yeah, it is very hard to believe, but anyhow, you're doing good, I'm doing good, most of my co-workers are doing good. Speaking of co-workers, I want to say goodbye to Sophia. She probably won't ever hear this podcast. If she does, I'm saying bye to you. She's put in her two weeks notice.

Sonny: 7:20

She's got five more days to go and she's out of there, Out of there.

Bruce: 7:25

Does that mean she's going to be going to another job?

Sonny: 7:29

Yep, sonny, that's exactly what that means, all right.

Bruce: 7:31

Well, good for her. That's right. It's a good thing when people better their self and find something. Hopefully it's better. You know, sometimes grass is greener on the other side.

Sonny: 7:45

What's that mean? Grass is side. What's that mean Grass is green. What's that mean?

Bruce: 7:50

Oh, Sonny, I don't want to explain it to you.

Sonny: 7:54

Now, come on, you got to.

Bruce: 7:57

It's just a saying that most people, when they look at something different, they think it's going to be better, until they get there and find out it's not, because it's. You know. They didn't see all ifs and ands, so people say that grass is always greener on the other side. And then you get over and you find out it's the same old thing.

Sonny: 8:24

Oh well, I hope she doesn't do that. I hope she has a good time.

Bruce: 8:30

Me too, me too. So hi to everybody at Rural King. I've got a couple new listeners, believe it or not. I say goodnight to everybody on the radio when I leave work from the ugly quacking duck.

Sonny: 8:49

Yeah, that sounds like fun.

Bruce: 8:52

Yeah, but that's not what I was talking about. I say goodbye to them on the radio every night when I leave, or every afternoon, or however I do it, and I identify the ugly quacking duck because of my podcast. And you know what? I've still got people saying you've got a podcast, really. So I've got two more people up there. I always ask them do you know Sonny? Have you heard Sonny? What do you think of Sonny?

Sonny: 9:21

Yeah, and they say, yes, I know him, I like him and he's great right.

Bruce: 9:27

No, they say I don't know who that is, what? Yeah, because they haven't listened to the podcast. And they go uh, I don't know what that is, I don't know who that is, and you wouldn't believe how many people don't know that we have a podcast.

Sonny: 9:47

Oh my gosh, when are they living In the dark ages?

Bruce: 9:54

No, I mean podcasts are not that popular for a lot of people around here, and when they do listen to them, it's you know, not us.

Sonny: 10:06

Well, it's their mistake. They need to be listening to us, because we're here.

Bruce: 10:13

Oh, we are here and we have the number one podcast, right.

Sonny: 10:21

Well, I don't want to say no, we don't, and get kicked off the podcast, but I don't want to lie to them.

Bruce: 10:31

Well, if they haven't heard very many podcasts, then we're the number one until they find a better one.

Sonny: 10:38

Oh, I see where you're going with that. So yeah, we're the number one was that?

Bruce: 10:45

So, yeah, we're the number one. Yep, now you got it. So we're the number one until they find another one, which that might be the next one they listen to, but we're still number one.

Sonny: 10:54

Okay, I understand, and I'll go with it for now.

Bruce: 10:59

Alright. So anyway, again, welcome aboard Any new listeners out there that have found us and come aboard. We hope you enjoy it, we hope you stay and for the ones that's been here all along or come aboard and stayed, thank you, and we hope that we can give you something enjoyable to listen to. We're going to go with some more news today, some more earthquake reports and maybe some more silliness.

Sonny: 11:38

Oh yeah, speak for yourself. I'm not silly. No, you're just a bum.

Bruce: 11:41

Yeah you are too. You're a big bum. Yep, I'm the biggest bum of all. And guess what? Bird brain.

Sonny: 11:47

Bird brain. Yes, I am, unless you think I'm an alien brain.

Bruce: 11:53

Well, I am the biggest bum of all and I don't know if you're a bird brain, alien brain or exactly what you are, but you are sunny.

Sonny: 12:03

There you go. I am sunny that means I'm bright as the sun.

Bruce: 12:09

Well, I don't know about that, but you do bring joy into my life and I hope everybody that hears you gets some joy too, or at least a little bit of humor out of you.

Sonny: 12:21

I do too, I do too.

Bruce: 12:23

But anyway, speaking of bird brain, that takes us to the next or the first news thing we've got out there for everybody, so shall we go to it? Well, wait a minute. I told everybody what episode this is, but I don't think I told them what time I'm recording this. This is weekend, the last weekend of january, weekend, uh, of the 25th and the 26th, so if you're listening to us, that's when we recorded the show. It'll probably go out on monday, which is what, the 27th. Yeah, I think so. So there you go. We got the time, uh, set in the weather. Like I said, it's 38 today, sunny, and there you go. That takes care of that, and let's get on with the show and go to the news corner. Here we go, all right, speaking of bird brains, sonny, there was a story, a study done, and I read the story online. It's on physics org, or P-H-Y-S org they shortened it, p-h-y-s-o-r-g they shortened it, and it's about the largest study done on bird brains.

Sonny: 13:52

Oh my gosh bird brains. That scares me. Where'd they get the birds?

Bruce: 14:02

Well, I don't know and I'm not going to try to guess that, but I thought it was kind of funny that they wanted to study bird brains. You know we got diseases and all kinds of stuff going on, but they're studying bird brains you find that weird, don't you? Just a little bit, but anyway it's a pretty good article and they're finding out. I guess that the little phrase that everybody uses. I don't know if anybody's been called a bird brain before, but they call you that to be negative. I'm sorry, Sonny.

Sonny: 14:39

Yeah, I hear you, but that's all right. I won't say nothing to nobody that you're a bum anyway.

Bruce: 14:50

Oh no.

Sonny: 14:52

You just spilled your tea, didn't you?

Bruce: 14:55

No, I think I almost did, but I don't think I did. It was close.

Sonny: 15:02

Yeah, that is tea in that, isn't it? What are you drinking? It is close. Yeah, that is tea in that, isn't it? What are you drinking?

Bruce: 15:07

It is tea. I've got dandelion tea today. I'm watching the hibiscus I kind of cut down on that for a little bit and I'm drinking the dandelion roasted dandelion.

Sonny: 15:25

Boy, you're just a strange cat.

Bruce: 15:28

No, I've got cats, but I'm not a cat, but I am strange.

Sonny: 15:33

Oh boy, Okay On with your story. I want to know what you're talking about.

Bruce: 15:43

Well, they're saying that the study proves that bird brain is a misnomer. Basically, the brains of a bird are almost the full size of the skull. It's not a pea size like everybody thought, and they've published a letter on it. So if you want to read about the bird brain, go to physorg and there's a news link there and it's on the news link so you can do a search for it. It's called the Largest Study of Its Kind Proves Bird Brain is a misnomer. So check it out. I thought that was kind of interesting but kind of weird too, poking around in a bird brain you say that really weird you noticed, huh, okay, you noticed, huh, okay.

Bruce: 16:49

Okay, sonny, are you ready for this? Oh yeah, I'm always ready for it. No, you're not, but anyway, new news. How do you like it? New news? Now, all these, I'm getting our online articles and some of them are believable and some of them are not, but anyway, cnet has, uh, put together an article on its web page, so if you want to check it out, go to cnetcom, but it's called the Blue Ghost. Yep, what is the Blue Ghost, you ask?

Sonny: 17:32

I didn't ask that.

Bruce: 17:34

Well, if you did ask, the Blue Ghost is a lunar lander and it's now headed to the moon. Believe it or not, they're going to the moon.

Sonny: 17:44

I think everybody's going to the moon. Believe it or not, they're going to the moon. I think everybody's going to the moon.

Bruce: 17:50

Yep. Well, they gotta get us looking at the moon and other stuff so we won't notice what the heck they're doing here on Earth. And they're gonna be pulling some more stuff, so you watch out.

Sonny: 18:02

Oh, conspiracy, huh. You don't believe. We went to the moon to begin with.

Bruce: 18:09

Well, I have my doubts. I'll put it that way.

Sonny: 18:13

Oh, you're one of those.

Bruce: 18:16

Oh yeah, Look up all the information on it, Tell me what you think. But anyway, for our listeners, yep, it's headed to the moon they're talking about March 2nd is the target landing. We'll see if it makes it March 7th. That's really soon.

Sonny: 18:37

How soon is it?

Bruce: 18:40

Oh no, that's an old trick to throw in a joke, and I wasn't ready for that.

Sonny: 18:46

That's an old trick to throw in a joke, and I wasn't ready for that. Oh, you mean, I set you up for a joke and you wasn't ready. No.

Bruce: 18:58

I wasn't man, I was not ready. Oh, my feelings are hurt and all the listeners just turned off the podcast and went somewhere else. Well, that's your fault. You're the one who led me up to that and then left me hanging.

Sonny: 19:12

No, I led you up and you left me hanging.

Bruce: 19:17

All right, well, next time prepare me so I can look up a joke about the moon or lunar landing.

Sonny: 19:25

All right, I'll do better. All right, folks, I apologize that Bruce is a lonely, lonely new some, ooh, new some. Anyway, I'll leave that alone.

Bruce: 19:41

Yeah, you really had it today, but no, I forgot to even prepare any jokes. I'm going to have to go back and do that.

Sonny: 19:51

Do that. You can't even talk. I got you stuttering man. I've got you upset, frustrated and nervous.

Bruce: 20:03

Whatever?

Sonny: 20:05

Oh, that's your best comeback.

Bruce: 20:08

Really got you all right, let's go back to the story, if there is a story anyway. They, that's nasa's blue ghost is what they called it. It's a lunar lander and they've done testing and conducted more mission simulations, ready for that, simulations Anyway. And now it's ready to go. I can't find anywhere where they launched the darn thing, but it's up in the air and ready to go. Who knows? But anyway, that's on CNET, c-n-e-t dot com Under their science listing. Look it up. The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander is now headed to the moon. Here's what to know. Yeah, anyway, there you go. What do you got to say about that, sonny?

Sonny: 21:14

I think I said it.

Bruce: 21:16

Yeah, I think you said it. All right, we'll move on. So it's kind of interesting that NASA labeled their launcher Blue Ghost. And if anybody's been following all the fires, hawaii had a bunch of burned up property houses, stuff like that and they showed pictures of all the roofs of the houses that was not burnt and guess what? They were blue. And then same thing in california. They just had some bad fires burned up, a whole bunch of property, loss of life, and then they showed some houses right there smack dab in the middle that were blue, didn't get burned up. Blue trash cans. Uh, there was a blue uh van, what was it? 60s, 68 or something like that left there in the middle of it because the people had to abandon, because they had to leave. I don't understand that logic, but guess what? It was blue too. So this was all on mainstream news. So why I keep saying so, I don't know.

Bruce: 22:43

Yeah, I don't either, but quit it it all right, we'll see if I can do better. However, what I'm trying to say is, blue seems to be coming out a lot and I don't know if that is a message for somebody else or they're trying to hint to all of us. I don't know what's going on, but now we have the Blue Ghost Lunar Lander and Jeff Bezos has the Blue Origin, which was successfully launched. It's a new Glenn rocket. I think I mentioned that last podcast that they were testing the rockets out and they finally launched it. They tested the rockets. Now they've launched it. So another blue and it went up and it reached orbit. So, boy, if you can believe all that stuff's happening and they're all blue, I don't know. Sounds conspiracy to orbit. So, boy, if you can believe all that stuff's happening and they're all blue, I don't know. Sounds conspiracy to me. So I don't know if it makes any difference, if it's coincidence or there's something behind all the blue, but it's weird.

Sonny: 24:04

Yeah, it's weird and you're weird for catching it, but I have to wonder yeah, that's the main thing.

Bruce: 24:12

You have to wonder, uh, if you notice it and what you're noticing, you know, kind of strange, but it's, um, it's really, really. That's all I got to say. And my cat's attacking something behind me. I'm going to have to go find out what it is before he tears down some wires. All right, I got one more, just one more news story for you for this week, and this one I find very interesting. Well, maybe not one more. Um, I've got a story for europe, if anybody's listening, uh, there was some listeners, uh, for a year. They know this news story, but I wanted to announce it because you know, I usually try to keep track of storms and stuff. Uh, this is on from the 24th. Uh, I'll have to try to pronounce this right.

Bruce: 25:12

Storm a1, I think that's how they pronounced it. A1 unleashed a record winds 14 mile an hour winds across the UK Friday and it caused widespread disruption of power. Like 725,000 homes was reported lost power. That's a lot, they said. The speed of the wind broke records it was 113, but now this one did 114. The record was in 1945. See, cycle, people don't catch that, but the bad storm that did the wind of 113 miles an hour was in 1945. So now it's cycling back around and we're having all these storms, and this one was 114 miles an hour, which was one mile an hour more. But you wait, they're going to start talking about this being so much more horrible, worse than they've ever had in record, and blah, blah, blah, brainwashing. You guys. Did I say that?

Sonny: 26:41

Yes, you did. You're going to get in trouble. I'm leaving.

Bruce: 27:14

I'm running Bye, thank you. All right, you didn't really leave, but I had to add all those sound effects to make it sound like you. I didn't have anybody running sound effects, so that would have been great.

Sonny: 27:31

You're silly, but yeah, I should have run.

Bruce: 27:34

No, you don't have nothing to worry about. I'll be the one they come and haul off. They'll probably shoot me or something, you know, run over me or something. But anyway, let's go on to the next story. All right, anybody know what the Gaia? I think it's Gaia. Anybody know what the Gaia Space Observatory is, or ever heard of it or anything? I have to honestly state I did not, but I found a news article about it so I wanted to bring it to your attention. It ended on January 15th this year.

Bruce: 28:26

Apparently, my mic is way off. I don't know what's going on with that thing. Hang on just a second, all right, I think I got it back into sync, but it moved and I couldn't get to it. Really weird sink but it moved and I couldn't get to it. Really weird. But apparently this space observatory that's been flying around for the last decade, since 2013,. It ran out of propellant, so it's dead or dying, so its mission is ending. I haven't seen any pictures that come back from it. That don't mean there wasn't any, because I haven't been able to keep up on that stuff for quite a while, but I just think it's weird. We got all that stuff out there. You hear about it when it launches. You hear about it when it launches, you hear about it when it stops. You don't see a whole lot of information other than that. I mean, we do get some pictures back from that telescope. They got up there supposedly, but you know how that goes.

Sonny: 29:36

No, I don't know how that goes or what you're trying to say.

Bruce: 29:42

Okay, so what are you trying to say?

Sonny: 29:46

That you're full of.

Bruce: 29:51

I don't know what. However, you did that. I don't know how that is and what that is.

Sonny: 29:58

Sure you don't, but but anyway our listeners do write in.

Bruce: 30:04

Tell him he's full of baloney uh, yeah, write in, tell me what you think, uh, if you agree with me or not. But anyway, the gaia mission ended on january 15th because they feared it would run out of propellant at that time and I don't know how long the battery is supposed to last afterwards. But it's mission was basically to fly around the Milky Way and create a novel 3D dimensional galaxy map. So there you go, they're mapping the galaxy like it was small enough to map. So there you go, they're mapping the galaxy. Woo, like it was small enough to map. But there you go, woo.

Bruce: 30:50

Alright, everybody knows we just celebrated Martin Luther King Jr's Day. They call it MLK for short, or MLK Jr anyway. Quite a man, a good man, almosta great man, except he was deceased by some enemies. But he had one speech that we all remember and that happened in 1963. I have a dream, and I'm not saying that to make fun of him. He's a great man in my eyes. I think of him and the words he spoke and the battle he fought, and he did a lot for humankind.

Bruce: 31:45

Anyhow, that holiday that you just celebrated, if you even thought about it, did not come around until. Let's see. When was it? Let me look this up because I forgot 1983, which is about 20 years after king's birth, death or his speech. I mean sorry, um, it was signed into a bill by.

Bruce: 32:15

Wait a minute, who was it minute? Who was it? Ronald reagan, of course, president ronald reagan signed it into a bill in 1983 and then it would be 17 more years. Now you get that 17 more years until all 50 states recognized it. Think about that. It was 17 years later that the states, all the states, recognized how he or what he did and that he was a great man and that he died for his beliefs and that he died for his beliefs. I believe Arizona was the last state to enact that into their law. So if you're listening to this and you have any concerns about our human condition, put that in your pipe and smoke it for a minute and realize how long it took before we all recognized that man. That's all I got to say about that.

Sonny: 33:28

Well, I bet that was a. Oh my, I had never heard you say. That's all I got to say about that.

Bruce: 33:37

Well, that's because I took that off of a movie.

Sonny: 33:41

Okay, I'll have off of a movie. Okay, I'll have to watch that movie.

Bruce: 33:46

Yeah, we'll have to watch that movie. It's pretty good. We'll watch it sometime.

Sonny: 33:51

Okay, I'm holding you to that.

Bruce: 33:54

All right, let's go on with the next story I've got. Believe it or not, there is a wall of ice and there's a picture on the story, if you want to look it up. And the reason I brought this one up is because it is heading for a penguin habitat where they stay and raise their young. Um, habitat where they stay and raise their young. It's heading right for it and it's actually a pretty big size a piece of ice. They show a picture of it. They show a picture of the island, a map of the island and the ice where it's at and where it's heading. Now they're not guaranteeing it's going to hit that island, but if you're interested in that it's on apnewscom Go and check it out.

Bruce: 34:53

It's a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island, believe it or not, and it's heading toward a penguin-packed island off Antarctica. That's the name of the title, or name. That's the title of the article, if you go to AP News and look it up. But it shows a picture of the giant ice wall that's adrift, heading towards the island. The island's called South Sea Island and they have a map of it along with the picture on the article. But I found it interesting how they actually showed the ice, showed the map. You know that it was out there, towards it was south. What would that be? Southeast, no, southwest, quite a ways on the map from that island.

Bruce: 35:57

But they're saying, with the currents of the ocean and everything that it could get, that word could hit that island and smash into it, but they're not saying what it could do if it does. But they're also saying that the currents could take it all the way around it and it totally misses. So there you go, they. They raised that flag, look out, and we don't even know really what it's going to do. But I like the article anyway, so go look it up. Ap News. Don't take my word for it, alright. How many of you out there likes dogs?

Sonny: 36:34

I'm not sure I do. I like to chase cats, but I don't know about dogs.

Bruce: 36:41

Well, there are a lot of dogs for pets. And the next two articles I've got to talk about quickly because I've got to do the report for the earthquakes, and then I've got to say goodbye because I've got to edit this thing and get it out there and I'm running out of time. The sun's going down, it's probably getting cold and anyway, hello everybody. Anyhow, did I do the? Let me do it anyway. There you go. I don't know if I did that already or not. I'm losing track of all my thinking and talking. But the next two articles this one is about a Chinese robot dog yep, chinese robot dog. It's on interestingengineeringcom. You got to go, I'm telling you, you got to go watch this video that this guy's put on there. I can't pronounce his name so I'm not going to try. I don't want to ruin it, but he's got this article he put together about this Chinese robot dog and there's a picture of it on there, with it on two wheels on the side, so it looks like.

Bruce: 38:11

I'll tell you what it looks like. It don't look like a robot you normally think of. It looks like a coffee table, a small coffee table with legs and wheels. It's just odd looking. But if you'll go watch the movie or the video that they've got on there.

Bruce: 38:35

This thing is awesome, I'm telling you. It dances. It dances on two legs. It dances on one leg. It spins around, it jumps, rolls over, doesn't roll over and hit its back, it rolls over and jumps on its other legs. It jumps over a snowboard. You can watch this on YouTube too. They've got the video on YouTube. But I'm telling you what it's cool. This thing is really really cool and I'll tell you after you see that you're going to have a different outlook on what robots can do. And then it's got another one there where it does something on the uh, off road. It just, it's just cool. I I, you know I'm into technology and this thing. Yeah, anyway, go to it Again. It's on interesting, let me say this again interestingengineeringcom and the title of the news article is Watch China's Robot Dog Unleashes Insane Dance Moves on Snow Streams and Mountains. If you can't remember that, just go to Interesting Engineering and look up Chinese Robot Dog and it was on the front page. But it's a cool article. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

Sonny: 40:27

Can you say cool, cool, cool, one more time.

Bruce: 40:32

I can, but I'm not going to One more article, alright. This last article for you guys is um called. No, wait a minute, it's on a white house, historyorg. So if you want to check it out, go to whitehousehistoryorg and you can uh look it up. I'll tell you the title here in a minute a minute. But you notice how, when they want to make our politicians Hang on just a minute, Where'd you go?

Bruce: 41:09

Oh, I had to jump up and get me a glass or my water bottle. My throat was getting kind of funny. I think I shouldn't have drunk that tea. It kind of dried my throat out. But anyhow, you notice, I was going to say how they do. When they want you to find the politicians more family-oriented, more human, I guess you could say They'll throw in their animal loving or something to make them softer looking.

Bruce: 41:45

So this article is a history lesson about all the families that took up residence at the White House, how they brought their pets in. But the article is mostly about the dogs that they brought with them. And it's a pretty good article. I suggest you go read it. I thought it was done really well. The name of it is Top Dogs at the White House. Oh boy, I can't talk, but again, it's on the whitehousehistoryorg Top Dogs at the White House. And not only is it an article about the dogs and they mention in the article other pets that some of the presidents brought with them but the pictures that they've got and there's several. They start with the Roosevelts and they go all the way down. To hang on, I'll get all the way down to the article. They go all the way to the Biden family, of course, but they show the dogs that he had with him. But it's very interesting. It's very nice to see the pets that these presidents and family brought with them and how they loved up to them and how that the american people took to them more because of the pets that they had.

Bruce: 43:27

And, uh, there's one picture I really liked. There's. I liked all of them, I'll be honest with you. But there's one on here that I'm going to put on my website. So if you go to theuglyquackingduckcom and look up my post and new episodes page, I always put you know the post about the new episode on that and I'm going to include this picture with it.

Bruce: 44:00

But it is more of a painting than a picture, I believe, but it's got first lady grace coolidge and rob roy, which is their dog, and apparently rob roy caught more eyes than uh. Apparently, rob Roy caught more eyes than Lady Grace did. So that was interesting, but I'm going to put that on there so you kind of get an idea of what I'm talking about. But to see the whole thing and to understand the whole story you need to go read that. Don't just take my word for it, because it's an interesting article and that's the end of our articles. I had a few more picked out, but I don't want to bore you to death. I'm going to do the earthquake report for the last seven days and then we're going to say bye to everybody. I hope you enjoyed the news.

Sonny: 44:58

I can't believe you're still calling that a news corner and blah, blah, blah blah.

Bruce: 45:08

Oh, a little bored, are you A?

Sonny: 45:11

little Yuck.

Bruce: 45:14

Oh boy, now I don't think it's that bad. I picked articles that I liked and I thought maybe the people that are like me would like them.

Sonny: 45:26

Well, I don't know about all that, but I thought they were kind of weird, silly and all that.

Bruce: 45:35

Well, you would, wouldn't you? Well, let's go on to the earthquake report. Okay, that thing's making some weird noises. Yeah, I noticed that. I don't know what's going on. It's going through the whoosh and then it starts again and it goes right at the end. Weird, yeah, I guess I'll have to try to fix that, if I can figure out what's doing it.

Sonny: 46:06

Yeah, you need to do something, because it's kind of weird.

Bruce: 46:09

Well, it fits right in, so I may just leave it.

Sonny: 46:14

There you go. I never thought about that. We're both a little weird.

Bruce: 46:19

Oh, you finally admit it.

Sonny: 46:21

Yeah, I guess I do. Okay, give me the report.

Bruce: 46:26

Well, do you want to guess?

Sonny: 46:28

Well, last week you wouldn't let me. We had to hurry up and get it done.

Bruce: 46:33

Well, let's guess. Okay, that sounds good. I'll give you the two weeks ago report, which is more than seven days ago, but I'll give you that report and then you guess.

Sonny: 46:47

All right, did you write down what I guessed before?

Bruce: 46:52

No, I need to.

Sonny: 46:55

All right, let's just do this.

Bruce: 46:59

All right, here we go, sonny, I want to read it to you. Let me get my paper, my book, okay, this was just done a couple minutes ago. So as of 1-10-25, we had 1,753 all-magnitude earthquakes, according to the report that I got. They could be lying to me, we'll see but 1753, 1753, sunny, where are we at now?

Sonny: 47:35

okay, let me see. It went down last time, so I'm guessing it'll go back up. So 1753. I'm gonna guess it went up about 20. So 1773.

Bruce: 47:56

All right, that's a good guess. You really tried hard, but you were wrong. It went down.

Sonny: 48:04

Oh no, really. Well, wait a minute, that's good news for everybody. But I was wrong, boo-hoo.

Bruce: 48:13

And it just so happens, I still have that button Boo.

Sonny: 48:21

Oh, you're so bad.

Bruce: 48:23

Yeah, well, it fits, doesn't it?

Sonny: 48:27

Yeah, all right, I'll accept that I was off.

Bruce: 48:32

Yes, you was, but hey, it works All right for the rest of it. The 2.5 and above earthquakes All right for the rest of it. The 2.5 and above earthquakes was 295 on the 10th and today there were 263. So it's down also. And then the 4.5 and over was at 117. And today there are 102. So the whole thing went down.

Sonny: 49:05

So that blows my theory. Oh well, at least you're still reporting them.

Bruce: 49:09

Yep, and the 6.0 and over. That's the only ones I report when they get that high is? There's only one of them and it's in taiwan. Uh, you ching maybe is how you pronounce that. I'm not sure, but it's in taiwan. It had a 6.0 and that's the only one I've got that high. The rest of them were five, sevens and fours and so forth and so on.

Sonny: 49:40

Well, between the fires, the earthquakes, the cold, there were several people died because of the cold. It's been rough.

Bruce: 49:53

Yep. So I report these things and I always ask you to remember to put these people and their families in your prayer. If you don't believe in prayer, then you should believe at least in sending positive thoughts towards these people that are suffering. They're dealing with these things. You may be having a good life right now and you may not. You may be having health problems or something like that in your life tragedy also. But it does good for your soul. If you take care and pray for others or send them positive thoughts, it will help you. So I'm asking you to do that. That's one thing I try to get accomplished with this show that and bring you something else to think about, besides the really bad news that you're hearing and all the TikTok, garbage and stuff like that. And, by the way, it's back. They say it's back in a different manner, but I don't know. But I'm glad you're here. I appreciate you being here.

Bruce: 51:01

If you want to leave us a comment, you can do so on your app. If you have a podcasting 2.0 app, it'll have a spot under the show or the podcast details. You can click on that and just uh, leave us a text and we'll read it off on the next show, you don't have to leave your name. Um, you can be anonymous. But if you want to leave your name, you can. But if you don't want it read, then probably don't leave it. There. You go, but tell us what you think. Tell us if you like the news or at least the way we present it.

Bruce: 51:39

Um, if you like the show, you want to hear anything else, anything different? If you want to go to our webpage, like I said, I'll have a picture of that lady Coolidge which was the first lady, by the way, and the dog and some more comments, a post of our show. Go to that, the ugly quacking duckcom. You can go to our comment page and leave a comment. Uh, you can also leave. Uh, if you find any value in this show, you can leave us a value of some. We have paypal. We have a value for value with a bitcoin and paypal. But, above all, if you like the show, share it with somebody, tell them about it. That's the best way for us to grow. Anything you want to sayny.

Sonny: 52:40

I want to say thank you for coming, everybody sticking with us, and we love podcasting, but we love you guys more.

Bruce: 52:51

Wow, that was good, sonny, didn't know you had that in you. But yeah, he's right, we love podcasting. We enjoy it, it's fun. We started this as a hobby. We're still doing it, but we really enjoy feedback from you guys, knowing that we're reaching you, hopefully helping you to do better, to enjoy this world and the silliness in it. And I just moved my mic cord, that's what that noise was.

Bruce: 53:22

But we're going to say goodbye on this Sunday night and we hope next week comes and presents you with some goodness instead of bad. We hope the Father's blessings come and go with you and this year is going to be good. We pray. We pray for all of you. We love you. We hope to hear from you and we hope you'll be back in two weeks with us, because that's where we're going to be. Uh, we'll try to do another show. We're going to do a short 30 minutes and we've almost made it for another hour. Sorry, uh, but it'll give you something to listen to while you're driving to work or at work or whatever you're doing. Just keep this in mind. This is Bruce from the Ugly Quacking Duck.

Sonny: 54:12

And this is Sunny from the Ugly Quacking Duck. And let's say goodbye together, Bruce, okay.

Bruce: 54:19

All right, we're going to do that. Ready One, two, three. Bye, all right, everybody, have a good 173. God bless.