Whom Do You Say I Am?

We tackle the significance of names, exploring how they shape identities and relationships. Dive into personal stories, political updates, and our plan for a weekly live show that fosters listener engagement. 

• Reflecting on the importance of names and nicknames 
• Announcement of the new live podcast series every Friday 
• Local weather updates relevant to listeners 
• A light discussion on recent political news 
• Sharing personal anecdotes about the name “Popeye” 
• Philosophical questions surrounding the meaning of names 
• Discussing the name of Jesus and translations throughout history 
• Encouraging community involvement and listener feedback 

Chapters

• 1:30 Discussion of Live Show
• 8:04 Pennies
• 11:54 "OMG"
• 14:37 The Significance of Names
• 31:36 Live Show
• 47:44 Closing Comments

Transcript

Bruce: 0:04

Well, hello everyone, it's that time again.

Sunny: 0:09

What time is it Bruce?

Bruce: 0:12

It's time for the new episode of the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. All right, we got it in sync that time. And yes, it is. It's time for the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. Welcome aboard everyone. If you're a new listener, please stick around. If you're one of our old and faithful ones, I hope you're not too old, but if you are, you're like me and you're just going to enjoy life, right?

Sunny: 0:41

Um, I don't know, probably not. Oh, whatever, whatever, oh, whatever.

Bruce: 0:54

Sunny say hi, all right, this is sunny and I'm with the ugly quacking duck, and this is bruce and I'm with the ugly quacking duck and we're here this weekend for another episode, and this one's going to be short, I promise you. I've only got a couple news clips I want to talk about. I want to talk about my one-on-one new thing I'm going to do. It may be long. I've got a couple other things you can't never tell about me.

Sunny: 1:19

Oh, that's for sure, we can't never tell about you at all. Yep, that's for sure, we can't never tell about you at all.

Bruce: 1:27

Yep, that's right. So anyway, I hope everybody had a great week. This is Sunday afternoon. We also recorded a live show. It was a test run. Plans are that we're going to do that live show every Friday? Plans are that we're going to do that live show every Friday. So if you subscribe to the webpage, you'll get an email showing that we're live, and if you have a Podbean app that's P-O-D-B-E-A-N Podbean app on your phone and I think it will alert you when we go live. If you're trying to follow us, I may have to put some kind of little pod or episode or something on there for it to save, so you'll be able to find us, but anyway you can. If you don't get alerted, we will be on there probably on friday afternoons, but hang around. It'll take us a couple weeks to figure out exactly what we're doing and then we will go somewhere else and do it again.

Sunny: 2:44

Oh, good grief, It'll take you months before you even figure it out, and then you'll be going the wrong way.

Bruce: 2:52

Yeah, you're probably right, but anyway, that's the game plan. Guys, we're going to do that and the plan is we're going to do a local live show, talk about the weather for a few minutes. It's going to be a short live, probably 15 minutes. Then we'll do the earthquake report, the seven-day report we normally do on our recorded podcast, and then when we do our regular podcast, which will either be Friday afternoon or Sunday, we will have that recording of the live show embedded in that podcast, so you'll get to report that way. Anyway, the hope is that we will be able to get some live audience followers here locally. Or, if you're not locally doing it, you could still enjoy it. You get to hear my beautiful voice.

Sunny: 3:50

Oh my no, no, no, no.

Bruce: 3:53

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sunny: 3:56

Oh, no, no, no no.

Bruce: 3:59

All right, but anyway you get to hear Sonny and I live If you follow us. You can do that. And then hopefully later on we'll get some sponsors, some businesses around our location. We're going to do it for southern illinois I just hit my desk, what do you think about that? And then we're going to go from there. Anyway, this is in the early stages.

Bruce: 4:26

I just pre-tested the live. We we've done a live show a couple times before, but I never invited anybody, never sent any invitations out, because basically we was just trying it out and that's probably been a year or two ago. So podbean offers it and I can do it with a free account, where buzzsprout, my main host, does not offer live. So that's why you're going to have to go to podbean, do the app and look us up there so you can uh, find us and listen. But again, subscribe to the uglyquackingduckcom website and then I'm going to send out an email right before I start and it'll probably be on Friday afternoon. So if you're free, you can hear us live. If you're not, I'm sorry. If you're working, that happens to most of us. Anyhoo, what do you think, sonny? How's your week been?

Sunny: 5:28

Oh, it's been crazy. It's been warm, really warm. All the snow's gone. I've had to play in the mud and the pool and, oh boy, it's been fun.

Bruce: 5:41

Yeah, the snow is all gone and the mud is. Oh boy, we've got lots of mud. We've had sun the last few days and wind. You know, march has rolled in. Well, by the way, happy march everybody. Uh, we are on the second, I believe. Let me look, I don't want to lie to you, but I could have swore it said the 2nd, yeah, march the 2nd. On Sunday afternoon we are here and we will just, it's a little bit colder, cooler I should say not cold, but cooler today than it has been. It is right now, come on, 43 degrees here in southern Illinois. Our local hometown is 43 degrees.

Sunny: 6:32

That's why you're wearing a coat. You're too cold, you big baby.

Bruce: 6:37

Hey, sonny. Yeah, that's probably right. Anyhow, that's what's going on with us, and I hope everybody's had a good weekend. It's almost over. That's such a bummer, and I hope you've had a good week last week. We're starting a new week today. I hope this week is well on its way to being a great week, yay.

Sunny: 7:01

Yay, I hope it's great too.

Bruce: 7:05

Yep, okay, so that's what's going on with us and I don't know when I'm going to play that recording for the live, but I may have a little bit of a story to talk to you about. I'm going to go on and look up my news things and we'll be right back in a bleep. All right, sonny, are you ready for a little bit of news in the news corner?

Sunny: 7:32

oh, good grief, you still call it that well, yep, nobody's told me any other names.

Bruce: 7:38

I'm waiting for our contributors and followers and listeners to say hey, I got an idea, maybe we can use it, but nobody said anything.

Bruce: 7:49

You got one sunny well, no okay, so news corner it will stay. We'll wait to the next time around. Maybe somebody'll give us something. So for the first bit of news, I'm going to go a little bit political, maybe a little bit, but hey, just recently President Donald Trump has ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies. Yeah, you heard me right. You may have already heard this, this, but I thought that was an interesting story. I didn't even know he had the. I know he has the um power to write um a lot of things and control a lot of things, because it's set up that way, especially things as um has been started by previous presidents. But I don't know about the treasury um if you can just order it without the congress's consent. So we'll see where this goes. But apparently each penny has been costing $3.69 to produce. Now, did you hear that One penny, which is supposed to be worth one cent, is worth $3.69 to produce it? You're talking about inflation.

Sunny: 9:24

What does that mean? That means we're spending more money to make them than we're using them for.

Bruce: 9:33

Yep. Apparently they made 3.2 billion pennies in 2024. Now that's a physical year, 2024. Guess how much that cost the taxpayers 3.2 billion. Well, that would be what you'd think, because you'd think a penny worth a penny is going to be 3.2 billion, if it made 3.2 billion of them. But no, it actually cost us, the taxpayers, $85.3 million. Wow.

Sunny: 10:18

That's a lot more, isn't it?

Bruce: 10:21

Yep, that's a lot more, and that they didn't add the uh, the actual penny value into that. So if you took 3.2 billion out of the 85 million, uh, wow, anyway, there you go. So he said nope we're going to quit minting them, so we'll see what happens.

Sunny: 10:54

Does that mean all the pennies are?

Bruce: 10:54

going to disappear. I really don't know what's going to happen.

Sunny: 10:57

To be honest, We'll have to wait and see. Okay, we'll wait and see if you have any comments out there. Let us know what you guys think.

Bruce: 11:10

Oh yeah, If you got any comments and you want them read online, we can do it.

Sunny: 11:16

Oh, we can do it for sure. It's the Ugly Cracking Duck. We can do it.

Bruce: 11:24

Alright, way to advertise. I appreciate that and I guess we're still recording, because I had hit a button and, yeah, it looks like we're still recording. So, yay, okay, how about one more bit of news?

Sunny: 11:41

Okay, one more bit of news. I'll let you go there. We've only been recording for about 11 minutes, so that'd be good, yeah, I think so.

Bruce: 11:51

That'd be good. All right, let me pull it up. All right, sonny, have you ever heard of the comment? Oh, my gosh, omg. Uh. No, all right well.

Sunny: 12:03

OMG, Uh no.

Bruce: 12:04

All right. Well, I said, oh my gosh, there's actually another phrase word at the end they use. But I'm not going to use that. But where do you think that come from?

Sunny: 12:15

What OMG? Probably social media, no media.

Bruce: 12:21

No, the oh my gosh phrase, which is actually used differently than I used it, but you can use the right word if you want.

Sunny: 12:41

I don't want to, but it was originally used back in 1917.

Bruce: 12:44

Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's the right way to use it, but it was used, apparently, in a lever Lever.

Sunny: 12:53

Hello Lever.

Bruce: 12:54

Yeah, it was used in a ledger. Oh, good grief.

Sunny: 12:59

Are you going to be able to talk? Come on, let it go, buddy.

Bruce: 13:08

All right, here we go again. It was used in a letter to churchill in 1917, supposedly, and it was uh, used apparently to quote that there was a new order of knighthood in the tappery or in the tapestry, or however you say. That um coming on, basically, and they, he said at the end of it, omg. But he said, oh my blank. And um, it went to the admiral churchill or admiral somewhere anyway. That's when it was first used, 1917. Never did catch on with the British or the British Churchill or anybody else, but apparently sometime later it caught on here in the US.

Sunny: 14:02

Oh, we're good at catching on all the junk.

Bruce: 14:05

Boy, you said that right, but don't say it again.

Sunny: 14:09

All right, I will. We're good at catching all the junk.

Bruce: 14:16

Okay Well, that wasn't quite the same, but we'll call it even and we'll move on, okay. Okay Well, speaking of oh my gee or oh my gosh or oh my blank, which I don't like to use that word in vain, and I still do occasionally and I'm sorry, but anyway, I got a little story to tell you guys and that will lead me into that word, that name. When I was a young man, very young child, I discovered that my physical dad, my earthly dad, had a nickname. You know, I always called him Dad or Pa or whatever mood that I was in, because, you know, when I got to be a teenager, I kind of changed what I called him. I remember him looking at me real funny when I did it, but I really meant it in a sincere, loving way, and I think he realized that. So he just kind of tilted his head, looked at me and then walked on, but that's not part of the story.

Bruce: 15:25

Um, when my dad was a young man um, probably in his teens, maybe a little bit younger he worked in the lumber and he uh ended up building up some pretty good arms. Uh had some really big forearms. Now he wasn't a tall man, but he's pretty stout and uh, one day come along and there, I guess there's some young boys out there while he was working in the wood in the lumber, um, teasing him, and I think there were some girls present. That's probably what started the whole thing. You know they want to show off for the girls. You know how that goes, guys, you remember those days. Some of you still do it.

Bruce: 16:19

But anyway, if, uh, if you're young and doing that, maybe you understand the story. But anyway, they started picking on my dad and uh, I guess this went on for a long time before he got fed up and when he got he didn't tell me what they was doing to pick on him or if they was actually picking on him. But he grabbed the biggest boy there, grabbed him by the arms and the hips and, with his arms bent, he picked him up in the air and then set him on the back of the wagon that they were using to haul the wood and from that point on, them boys left him alone and I can honestly say I understand. But from that point on he got a new nickname and it was.

Bruce: 17:21

Brute. Oh no, but that's pretty close because it's the same cartoon.

Sunny: 17:31

You didn't know that, did you? No, I don't even know who Brute is.

Bruce: 17:34

Well, that wasn't his full name or his correct name. I think it was Brutus. But anyway, they started calling him Popeye and he grew up with that nickname and everybody that knew him personally knew him as Popeye. When he got to being an adult, most of the people that knew him from around mill shows where he was born knew him as Popeye. When he got married he was still called Popeye. When he worked at the companies he worked for that was his name. They knew him by his nickname name, um, they knew him by his nickname, popeye. Um, a lot of them knew him by popeye and his last name. He was a preacher. So a lot of times he was called preacher man, but they also knew him as popeye, popeye the preacher.

Bruce: 18:30

Um, what was funny about that nickname is that, uh, the Popeye cartoon, which was a comic book story at the beginning, I believe, if I remember correct. But he liked to eat spinach and my dad hated spinach. He did not like it at all. So I think that's why the nickname actually stuck, because there was a kind of a comparison there that stuck with him because of the cartoon. And as he got older, like I said, everybody knew him in fact when, uh, robin williams done that popeye movie. My brother come over to the house that's when he was still alive and he come over and said you got to go watch that movie. He said it looks just like dad. Now dad had been gone for several years but I wouldn't watch the movie. Sure enough, it looked a lot like him because somehow he had puffed his face out, robin williams I mean I don't know if they did it with makeup or exercise or what and he carried a pipe, bit down on that pipe and it made his jaws look. And I'm telling you he looked just like my dad and I think I hit my microphone cable. Even the arms, the forearms. If you'll go watch that old movie of Robin Williams playing Popeye, he had big forearms and that looked a lot like my dad.

Bruce: 20:04

But the story goes that everybody called him Popeye. That knew him and that was his nickname. I knew him as Dad and his legal name was Blah Blah and his legal name was blah blah and when he went and signed legal papers he signed it by the name that his parents gave him and by the name that the state has gave him. That was on his birth certificate and so that was his name that he was went by then, but he, whether he's Popeye, my dad or preacher man or his legal name, that guy was the same person, no matter how you knew him. A lot of times people are a little bit different, but he was the same person, no matter how you knew him by and who you talked to. And now, when he was younger, he was a little bit different, but one day he found God and turned his life around and from that point on which I was born afterwards, everybody knew him to be the same man.

Bruce: 21:19

Now the whole point of this story is I've been contemplating for a long time what is the real name of jesus, what is the name of god? Because there's many, many times in the bible where it talks about, if you call upon my name, if you ask the father in my name, and, uh, it wasn't real clear, but I do know that the name jesus come from like 1600, 1617, when they translated the um aramaic, aramaic, and that was from the hebrew. So there was a difference in translation already, and then they translated it into Old English, I think, or Greek, and then Old English, but anyway, and the J wasn't even present back then. It was I-E-S-O-U-S or U-S-O-S or something. It was a little bit longer name. It was pronounced different. The Z sound didn't come to later, the J sound didn't come to later and it was all translated from a translation that was translated from another translation.

Bruce: 22:32

So I always wondered what the true name was and I had fought with that for years trying to figure it out. My wife has been on a hunt trying to get the right name because it's just bugged both of us you know, especially when it says if two or more are gathered in my name and if they call upon my name name and it really makes you wonder if we're doing the right thing. And there's been so many groups out there with newer translations that translation back to the hebrew and um, which you know. If you go back there and start calling that name out and there's most likely not going to be very many people that knows that name because, especially here in America, we've all grew up with the name of Jesus as the Christ, the Savior, the Anointed One, so it really bothered me what to handle that with. And then one day I was thinking about my dad and other things about him. But then it dawned on me that what we used to call him. I called him Dad. On me that what we used to call him, I called him dad, and what everybody else called him was popeye or you know. Very, very few people ever called him by his first given name, unless they didn't know him real good, a lot of people from the churches called him you know that, or preacher man, but they still was thinking about that same person. Now they may have called him that because of the title, but they were still thinking about the same person.

Bruce: 24:31

And I run across these verses I've heard before. Now this is in a Geneva version, I believe it is, and they didn't translate Jesus with a J, they were before that. They had it in I-E-S-U-S. So I think it's I-E. I don't know how to even pronounce that, but that's how it says it. But I've been replacing that with Yahuwah. Uh, is that right? I think that's right, but just. But I'm going to read it as jesus, because that's all we've come to know all of us. Even if you're not a follower, you've heard that name. You know what I'm talking about. You know the person I'm talking about, even if you don't know any other name. So I'm going to say that name is his nickname because everybody knows him by that name.

Bruce: 25:34

So now, when jesus came into the coast of Sicily, philippi, he asked his disciples saying whom do you, who do men say that I, the Son of man am? See, he called himself the Son of man and they, they said some say John the Baptist, if you don't know who that is, that's for another day, another story. And some Elijah or Elias, that's an old prophet, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. So in other words, there's multiple names. They were calling Jesus and he said unto them but whom say you that I am? Then Simon Peter answered and said said thou art that christ? Or another translation would say thou art the anointed one, the son of the living god. See, his name was not revealed to any of us. At that point jesus realized other people called him by other names, other titles. But they knew who he was. He was a man that would heal people, forgive them of sins and come across the church leaders. And, uh, there was a lot going on with him. But he wanted to know who his personal disciples called him and they said you are the anointed one, the son of the living God.

Bruce: 27:25

Now a lot of people believe that the word God has been retranslated and changed. Some believe on purpose, and if that's so, that's fine. We can call him by another name. But when I say God, most people know that's the Heavenly Father that has created everything. If you don't know that or accepted that, then you need to do something different with your life. But then Jesus answered and said to him Blessed art thou, simon, the son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto of reminds me again I say that in a live version, but of school when we'd start a new class and a new subject.

Bruce: 28:28

A lot of times it was a 101, it was the basic. Let's get down to the nitty-gritty and start talking about that. So when I started episode 101, I started thinking well, you know, I think I'm going to do a little bit more in the bible, a little bit more for christ, the anointed one, and for the father, and I may lose some followers, may gain some more, I don't know, but I'm doing this for a hobby and for enjoyment and hopefully to help people out. So if I, this is the last of some of you, bye, I'm sorry to lose you, but if you stick around, hey, that's great. We love you All right. So the reason I brought that story up is my dad was known by several different things. I personally knew him as dad, pops or father, and he was a loving man that took care of me, right.

Bruce: 29:43

So I'm not going to say that names does not matter, because they do, but the man or the being, the creator that you know, you know there's the key that you know. You know there's the key. If you know him, when you call upon that name, he will hear you. Now, he's not some idol that we've carved out of rock, stone or concrete, wrote on paper or made a painting of. He's not the name's not a witch's spell to be cast.

Bruce: 30:26

No, it's a person to know, a living, breathing, understanding, energy of life, creator of all. So if we get wrapped up in trying to figure out the exact name, we're not looking for the right thing. We're looking for the exact name and not the person that we're calling upon. And again, I'm not going to say a name doesn't matter, but what's more important is who we call upon. Who are we saying? Just like he asked his disciples, whom do you say I am? Is he king of your life, creator of your life, or is he some speck of dirt that you just say blankety, blankety, blank to every day? There's my thoughts on it.

Sunny: 31:23

I appreciate you listening well, that was deep, really deep. I think I'll have to wow yeah well, I appreciate that.

Bruce: 31:36

And now we are going to go into the live the recording of the live show, to give you an idea of what we're doing and there, at the end there we'll come back and say bye, but I'm going to play that and then we'll give you a little bit more of a bye and then we'll come back next, next week, hopefully that's the game plan. I think we're going to start trying to do it weekly. Uh, maybe we can make it shorter, more uh, precise, by doing all this, because when we started doing it every two weeks, it got where I was forgetting how the equipment was set up and I was studying, I was getting too much stuff to study and the time just, it just didn't work out. So we're going to keep it, try to keep it weekly, I think, as long as time will permit, and we'll see what happens. And so, if you're not signed up, I'll go over this after the live.

Bruce: 32:38

Let's go to the live. All right, that didn't turn out as good as I thought. This is Bruce from the Ugly Quacking Duck and you are getting the live broadcast of the Ugly Quacking Duck and we're trying this out today. Oh, wait, a minute.

Sunny: 33:01

Yeah, wait a minute. This is Sonny from the Ugly Quacking Duck. You about forgot me, Bruce.

Bruce: 33:08

No, I didn't, but I was trying to get on with the live broadcast. So, anyway, or live show, let's call it a live show. Um, I'm still trying to do radio, and this ain't radio close to it though oh, you're always trying to do radio.

Sunny: 33:27

Where's your music?

Bruce: 33:29

well, you know, that's one of the reasons I got tied up into podcasting, because it was very similar to having a show, radio show and I was hoping one day I get to play some music. But that's for another day all right.

Sunny: 33:46

Yeah, we're cutting this short, right that's right.

Bruce: 33:49

Okay, this is our first live broadcast. Well, no, I shouldn't say that. When we first started, we tried it out uh, just tried to test it and then we recorded it while we was doing it and then we played that on our podcast. And that's what we're going to do today. We are testing out our live show. Uh, we're going to try to do this every week. We'll set the date. That way everybody can find us, and if you have a Podbean app you should be once we start you should be able to type it in and find our live broadcast. So, with that said, we're going to tell you what it's about. We're just right now. Plans are to do it once a week and then we're going to basically do a local show and we're going to talk about the weather here in southern illinois and then we're going to go from there and do the earthquake report.

Sunny: 34:53

So it won't be very long of a show uh, the earthquake report, so it won't be very long of a show.

Bruce: 35:01

You say that every time we do a podcast. You know that verse well, that's true. But, uh, we're going to try to keep it short. We're going to record this as we go and, hopefully, as we go through the months, the weeks, days, months, years, however long it takes. Maybe we can get them involved, get some more people involved. We'll just have to see how it goes.

Bruce: 35:46

But this, uh, this test is going to be recorded and put on with our 101 episode, episode 101, and that episode just kind of reminds me of school when he's going to start you out on some kind of subject. You always went to the 101 class or the very beginning, and, even though we've been at this for a while, we got over the hump and we hit over 100 episodes. This is 101 and we're going to do a little bit of a change. We're going to start doing the live on to the episode and we're all going to also going to change a little bit of the subject matter we do now, because we're doing it live and we're recording it, we won't be able to do any edits yeah, you know what that means.

Sunny: 36:40

That means, if you screw up, we can't fix it yep, that's right.

Bruce: 36:47

If I mess up, we can't fix it and that's going to be a rough one, um, so I'll try not to mess up a whole lot. But you know, live always messes up and I'm not listening to the audio as it goes out. Actually, I'm listening to it as it goes out of my mixer, but I'm not listening to it on the end of the live part because there's delay and it. It just doesn't sound right on my end. So I'm just just playing it, hoping it works, and we'll go from there. But stay tuned. I'm going to give you a date that I'm going to try to do this each. It's probably going to be Friday, friday afternoon, maybe Friday morning, I don't know. But we'll work on it and see, because Fridays I usually try to do a little bit of work towards the podcast and then Sundays I try to record it. So we'll see how that works out. But we're going to run right into the weather for the day.

Sunny: 37:49

All right, this is going to be local weather, right? Okay, so what's it going to be, bruce?

Bruce: 38:00

Well, actually it's. What is it today? Are you ready for this? Here in southern Illinois it's 70 degrees. That's right, we are on February, the 28th Friday I forgot to mention that, but it is 70 degrees, it's sunny, the humidity is 30%, the winds 17 miles an hour and it's air conditioning. The air condition not air conditioning, but the air condition is 35. So that's good, but to give you a comparison, what are you going to compare it to? I'm going to compare it to phoenix, arizona phoenix, arizona, isn't that hot oh yeah, so we'll see what the weather compares to on most days.

Bruce: 38:58

Right now in Phoenix, compared to our 70, it's 80 degrees. They have a humidity of 12%, where we had 30. And the wind is blowing a whole nine miles an hour. At least they're still getting wind Again, we got 17. And their air quality? I said condition a while ago, but their air quality is 38. So it's still good, looks good there. I wouldn't mind visiting Arizona. Maybe that'll happen one of these days.

Sunny: 39:34

All right, you'll be stuck here forever.

Bruce: 39:39

Well, probably so, but but that's where it goes. So um what'd you think?

Bruce: 39:44

of the weather reports so far. Now I can get a little bit more detailed, like later on. Maybe you give you the next days, uh, what the next day's weather is supposed to be. In fact, let me do this. It's booting up folks, don't go away. Okay, we have a waxing crescent tonight. For the moon, the moonrise will rise at 6.54 amm. It's going to be daylight before it comes up. Uh, the uv index is zero of 11. I'm not sure what that means, but it looks like the forecast is going to have rain in it Tuesday, wednesday, somewhere thereabouts, and they'll probably change it before we get there. But that's what they're saying right now, and it looks like the highs are in the 40s and 50s all the way up until next week, next Monday, and I'm not talking this Monday, I'm talking the Monday after it. So a week from this coming Mondayay they're saying 68 degrees. I like that. All right, we'll get out of this, and then we're going to do the earthquake report. So let's go to the earthquake report, shall we, sonny?

Sunny: 41:16

All right, I get to guess.

Bruce: 41:18

Yes, you do.

Sunny: 41:20

All right, I want to guess, so tell me what it was last time we reported it. I don't remember.

Bruce: 41:28

Well, that's a fair question. Last time we reported the earthquakes which was on 2-8, no 2 2, 16 should be about two weeks ago. It was a total of 1952, which I say was a good year. And did it go up or down? Sunny give, give us a report on that.

Sunny: 41:57

All right, aren't you going to give me the count, dan?

Bruce: 42:01

Well, I would, but no, because I'm going to have to find it and I don't want to take long to do it. We'll do more pauses the next time we do a live, but this time we're just going to do it this way.

Sunny: 42:16

All right, I guess that's fair. Uh, so, uh, the count was 1952, so I'm going to say it went up and I'm going to say 23, what 23? 25, 2.25. 2,325.

Bruce: 42:38

All right, sonny, you're getting back into it. I know there, for a while when Lily and I was doing it, you was guessing it almost on the nose. Well, you did Almost on the nose one time and then for about a month or two you was guessing it so close it was scary. But it's kind of fell off. It's not doing the normal pattern that it used to. So anyway, seven-day all magnitude 2527. So you guessed 2325. So you was close, 2527, which means just went up. And the 2.5 and over earthquakes for the last 70 days was 310. Last time we now have 286. So this is following the, the way it usually does. We have more earthquakes but the higher ups go down. So the 4.5 and overs was 125 last seven days, or the seven days the last reported seven days I did this time around the 4.5 and over were 100. Okay, so that looks good. So, as I said in the past on on my reporting, I just report six and over earthquakes to designate where they were. So last time around we had a 6.0 earthquake in ethiopia and the rest of them, which was there's 124 of them, were 4.5 and over but did not cross the six point threshold. This time around there was a 4.5. There was a hundred of them, but only two of them crossed over the six point something threshold. One of them was a 2.5, which isa good thing. Hopefully they're releasing some of that tension. We won't have any big ones. But there you go. That's the weather locally for today and that's the earthquake report seven days back up until today.

Bruce: 45:21

I hope you enjoyed this live show. I hope you come back for it the next time we do it. Email me. Once we get this started and you guys start listening to me, you'll have to start emailing me and tell me what you think. But again, we're going to start it. Once it starts, I start transmitting broadcasting, streaming, however you want to put it this live show. It will put up a flag and you'll be able to type in the Ugly Quacking Duck show and it should pull me up. If you've got a Podbean app, it should pull me right up and you should be able to listen to the live show. I think you might be able to react to me and chat with me. I'm not sure and that may take me some getting used to, also because my laptop's a little ways away, so I may have to get away from the mic and type and we'll have to see how that goes. If it works well, I may have to get a bigger desk, but that's later on down the road.

Sunny: 46:35

All right, well, thank you for letting me come on the live.

Bruce: 46:40

You are welcome. I wasn't sure if I could get all our mics plugged in and working, but I was able to get the mixer plugged in, so we'll see how this works out when we play it back. But if all works, this live test is going to be recorded. I'm going to download it and add it to the episode 101, so if you're listening to it after I've played it and you're, it's recorded. Now you know what to look forward to. So, once again, we give everybody thanks and we hope to catch you live and I hope you come and listen to our podcast and you share it with people. All right, guys. Thank you very much, and that's my noise for the live show. So 73, and we'll let you go. This is Bruce and this is Sonny.

Sunny: 47:43

Bye. You know that was fun making that live. I hope we start getting some people to tune in and chat with us while we was live. That would be cool.

Bruce: 48:00

Yep, I agree with you, sonny, that would be awesome. That's the hopes. We're hoping, like I said, to get some local people, some local businesses, some support. Maybe we can get some local announcements going. If that starts out, we may have to do it every every other day or we'll see how it goes, but right now the plan is do it once a week, probably on friday, just to announce the weather and anything we know that's happening, any local events or anything like that, and then do the earthquake thing, just like we did.

Bruce: 48:41

If you want to know when we're getting to do ready to do a little bit, ready to do it you need to go to the ugly quacking, duck calm. Go on the home page, go down to the bottom. It says subscribe. Type in your email address and click subscribe and what will happen is you'll automatically go on our mailing list. So every time we have a new episode, I usually try to get it out at least an hour before we publish it on our Buzzsprout hosting page, so maybe even 24 hours. That's what we try to do 24 hours, but I don't want to promise that. So what that means is it'll pop up in your email and say we got a new thing and you can go read about it. And then you can click on the link and it'll take you to my webpage new episode page and then you can listen to that episode early, but it also anytime I make a post about anything that's happening, it'll go on there and email it to you and then you can read the post and what I'm going to do when I start the live. If I got plans to do it, I'll probably email it out through the subscription a little bit early I don't know, maybe six hours early and then when I get ready to go live, I'll do a post and send it out. So it'll pop up, let you know I'm getting ready to go and then again, it's going to be on Podbean and you should be able to look up my name and live. I'm probably going to just call it a live or the Ugly Quacking Duck live show or show or live the Ugly Quacking Duck, something like that. But anyway, so you'll be able to find it when you look it up. You'll have to have the Podbean app in order to do that, so if you're on a phone, you can just download it off your app store or Play Store, or however you get your apps according to which phone you're on iPhone or Android but do that and then you can also look up other things. If this grows and I get more responses back from it and it looks like it's going to get better, we'll look up a better way of doing it so you can track us and everything. But until then, this is the way we're going to do it, so stick with us.

Bruce: 51:29

We appreciate everybody coming aboard and joining us again. This is episode 101. Woo, woo, woo, woo, do that again. Joining us Again. This is episode 101. Woo-woo, woo-woo, do that again. Woo-woo, alright, you sound like a train. Oh, thanks, alright, so we're going to say goodnight to everybody. It's now Sunday evening time. We got all this put together and recorded. I'm going to have to post it, hopefully tonight, and send it out Monday. Like I said, it'll probably live on our webpage if I get time to do it. Thank you for being aboard and being part of the show.

Bruce: 52:17

If you want to be a contributor to the show, we ask you to share the show with somebody, at least one person.

Bruce: 52:24

That's the best way for us to spread the word to grow, and if you want to help contribute more, you can financially give to us. We've got a donation page on our website or if you're looking at us on Podcast App Player, you should be able to click on there where it says Donate and you can contribute financially. If you contribute to us, we'll announce it. If you send us a note or a text or email, we'll announce it. But just help us out. And if you want to just give us ideas about stuff and we'd love that so, even if it's bad, we'll try to share them. That's all we ask, folks, and we are here for you and I hope you enjoy it. Look at our, even if you don't donate to us. Look at our for value for value page on our donation page and think about contributing, but read what that value for value is. That person actually put it in better words than I could, so I just copied it so we could explain that better.

Sunny: 53:51

Anyhow, say you got anything else you want to say? No, I'm in good shape, I enjoyed the day and I really enjoyed doing the live. Thank you for having me, thank you for being here with me, and this is Sonny and I'm saying 73 and bye.

Bruce: 54:08

All right, sonny, you're picking up my ham words. I like that.

Sunny: 54:14

Well, you taught me well.

Bruce: 54:16

All right, Well, along with Sonny. I am grateful for everybody that came and listened and stuck with the whole show. That's awesome. Come back next week. We love you all. We'll see you again. This is Bruce from the Ugly Quackin' Duck, Duck 73. From the ugly quacking duck 73.