Weather Reports, Earthquakes, and the Wisdom of a Morphed Frog

Bruce and Sunny (who has mysteriously morphed from a duck to a frog) cover local weather conditions, earthquake updates, and fascinating science facts while sharing personal insights and spiritual reflections.

• Current weather in Southern Illinois: 80 degrees with concerning winds (25-35 mph) compared to Phoenix's similar temperature but lower humidity
• Earthquake activity has increased from 1,942 to 2,099 with a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Burma causing at least 150 fatalities
• Scientific explanation of why honey never spoils - bees reduce water content to 17% through wing-flapping, preventing bacterial growth
• Breakthrough in plastic recycling technology using inexpensive catalysts to break down plastic to its foundational elements
• Exploration of biblical passages from Matthew 23 addressing hypocrisy and the importance of humility in leadership

Email us at theuglyquackingduck@gmail.com if you need prayers or positive thinking sent your way. Visit our website to subscribe for updates and early access to episodes.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Live Show
• 4:48 Technical Difficulties & Last Week's Outage
• 13:30 Local Weather Report & Comparison
• 31:32 Earthquake Updates & World Impacts
• 44:07 Allergies
• 49:15 Honey
• 55:24 Plastic
• 57:47 Towels
• 1:07:30 Bible Verses
• 1:11:25 Final Thoughts

Transcript

Bruce: 0:09

Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast live show.

Sunny: 0:15

All right Live show we are. I'm glad to be here, hi, bruce.

Bruce: 0:23

All right. Well, hi, Sonny, and I'm glad to have you aboard. I'm not sure what shape you're going to be today if anybody hasn't listened to our last what podcast? The one before I don't remember which one, but sunny kind of blew us away and so far he's stayed morph in this shape. But who knows, we never know about him.

Sunny: 0:50

Nope, you don't know about me and I don't know about you and I don't know about them. So here we are.

Bruce: 0:59

Okay, okay, I hope everybody's getting this. I've got a show that we are recording and that um mike's working and it looks like we are live. I don't know laptop I got set to go and it still says starting soon. So I don't know. Let me run over there and hit it and see if it comes up alive. I don't know, we'll see. Hang on. Okay, I flipped it. It's rolling out the red carpet on my laptop. This is just a test to see if it comes back up. But nope, starting soon. Well, that laptop's got the xp on it and that's why I quit using it, because it was running outdated for most of the new software. So if my guess would be true, then we probably have an outdated laptop and it's not going to. Let me even use it to see if the audience thing works. Boo, boo, boo.

Sunny: 2:26

Oh my goodness, are you all right, bruce?

Bruce: 2:30

Well, not really. Never have been, probably never will be, but hey, that's just life.

Sunny: 2:37

Well, I can agree with that. You never have been, probably never will be, but anyhow it's still good to be here. You know I'm enjoying it and I enjoyed it last time, but what happened to the last Friday last week? You want to tell the audience.

Bruce: 3:02

Oh yeah, oh yeah. Well, we was planning on having a live show last friday and, uh, I got up, got everything plugged in, ready to go and my internet wasn't working and I thought, well, I'll go reset everything, just in case it was internal. So I went and reset the router, reset the modem from our internet service provider, let all that come back up, and it was the network internally was working. So I knew everything was working in here and and I never could get any internet past the network to the outside world. So I thought uh-oh. And then everybody got up that morning and I started finding out that it went down the night before here, locally, I think. There was a lot of people out and it stayed out that day until about 3 30 in the afternoon. So, needless to say, by that time I didn't want to try to do a show that was live. So I just waited till sunday that afternoon and recorded my show, which is kind of a bummer because you know I had my heart set on doing a live.

Bruce: 4:32

Getting that started right now, the live's kind of, you know, just winging it, because I don't have that many uh people wanting to be an audience. I do have some listeners on the recorded part of the podcast, which I will take this portion, take the recording of this live show and add it to the rest of my podcast and that will be what everybody normally hears. But I'm hoping to build up a live audience that will interact with me and we'll hopefully be able to get some live participation from businesses and people here locally. So there you go. That's why we're having a live show, just for the participation factor of it. I have talked to a couple of people about coming on board as guests. We've just got to fine-tune it when we're going to do it, how we're going to do it. So Riverside has a very good opportunity to do that with call-ins or they can use their computer, and it seemed to work pretty good. So that is the plan. And speaking of riverside, let me do a riverside intro, powered by riverside wow, that was loud.

Sunny: 6:15

It sounded good too yes, it did.

Bruce: 6:19

Um, I've tried a few of those out, but, uh, the nice thing about them, they have these buttons you can push. So I wanted to give them a little bit of an intro, because we are on their uh website, we are using their application and we are hoping to continue to do so. So I gave them a little bit of free advertising because I'm on their free account. What do you think about that?

Sunny: 6:48

Well, you like things free, don't you?

Bruce: 6:52

I do.

Sunny: 6:54

Yeah, so does most Americans.

Bruce: 6:59

Very true, very true. Anyhow, my laptop never did come up, so that's why I left it and stopped using it and I'll use my main computer, which seems to work pretty good. I just hoped that I could look over there and see that the audience portion of the program was working and I could see the little details and stuff, like when I kicked up my show. Um, it would actually show up on the screen so any audience would be able to see it and I would know that it was working. But I just have to believe it is. I haven't seen any audience come in. I don't know. That's the way it goes.

Bruce: 7:55

Anyhow, we're going to do the plan is just to do a quick live and we're going to do a little local weather, compare it to weather out in, let's see where was we going to do a little local weather, compare it to weather out and let's see where was we going to do it at. I think I had it out in phoenix, arizona. Yay, I figured that'd be a good comparison in the colder weather and the warmer weather, and that's the the city that we're going to use to compare all the time. When we come on to the local weather. Then we're going to talk about the earthquakes. And, man, there's been some uptick on the earthquakes and I don't have any local stories to tell you, except for that outage. It was a little over. What was that? A day of no internet and uh, well, you want to bet we don't get any break on our bills you're always wanting a break you got that right.

Bruce: 9:02

Always wanting a break. I mean somebody's got your their foot on your neck all your life. A little bit of a break would help yeah, it would all right.

Bruce: 9:16

Let's go on with the weather before you bore everybody to death all right, but one thing I would like to bring out, um, if I may. Last show, which was two weeks ago, I believe, if I counted right, we had a donation and I brought it to everybody's attention that was listening to the show. Um, however, I forgot to do one thing. When people donate, unless they specifically tell me they don't want this done, I gotta find a shortcut here. So bear with me.

Bruce: 9:57

I do one simple little thing, uh, to kind of give them our little blessing from the ugly quacking duck, and I'm having trouble finding them where I put it. It's one of those buttons you know you hide and then you got to find it. Well, yeah, and even though you may say well, it's just a dollar, but you know every dollar counts and in this business, when you're paying out, you know, for the hosting and the website and the equipment, a dollar can make a big difference. And I do appreciate not just the the money aspect of it, but the mindset to want to help. So you know, I really wish a appreciate mckenzie that was her name giving me, uh, the donation or the support I'm going to call it support, because that's what it was. She decided to support our podcast and give us that I'm telling you what? I can't find it. Where did I put it? Where did I put it? Um, you know, being live, I can't hardly uh pause it till I find it, because I gotta keep talking.

Sunny: 11:34

What do you think about that, sunny? All right, well, I think you better find it before everybody gives up on you. Yeah, uh-huh, I'll tell you where it is, but then you wouldn't like me, no more.

Bruce: 11:49

Oh, I think you're silly, let me go look for it.

Sunny: 11:53

All right, I'm going to let you look for it and I'm going to talk to everybody. All right, guys, we are operating out of our studio, which is inside the house. We got all the windows open because it's about 80 degrees today and the wind is blowing pretty hard now. It was calm earlier. The clouds are moving in and we got several clouds rolling in and it looks rough. But, uh, if you hear rushing noise besides the highway noise, if you hear some rushing noise, that's not air rushing through bruce's ears, that's actually the wind blowing through the windows and at times, wow, it's pretty strong. But that's what's going on. As he's looking for this button back to you, bruce oh my, oh my to you Bruce.

Bruce: 13:05

Oh my, oh my. I like how you just oh, back to you, bruce. Didn't even give me a chance to recuperate and I'm still looking for that button. But I've got to find it. And if I don't find it during the live show, I will find it and I will record it and it will be on the podcast. But there is one little thing I definitely want to do each time somebody sends in a note or anything like that, I want to include this for them, so they'll know that we recognize them. So for Mackenzie and for her donation and support of the podcast, here you go.

Sunny: 13:56

You've been goosed by the ugly quacking duck.

Bruce: 14:01

Oh right, that was pre-recorded by sunny.

Sunny: 14:06

yeah it was, and I enjoyed that too. It was fun, but you didn't have the volume up very loud, so it didn't work up there and I can just click on it there.

Bruce: 14:32

Uh, in fact I did my latin beat beat, latin beat that sometimes I like to end the show with and uh, I put it up there and and that way I can just click on it up there, I won't have to hunt it all the time. So I may do that for a couple of these other ones. They've already got an applause one, they have a laughing one, a drum joke, so they've got quite a few of the ones I've got on there already. So they've got quite a few of the ones I've got on there already. I don't know if they've got a boo, but I've got that recorded and I've also got the church bell. Anyhow, let's go back to the weather. Okay, I hope somebody's listening to this. If not, again, you will catch it on the pre-recorded podcast when you hear it. So, taking notice, you know how you can find out if we're doing a live. Go to our website, the ugly quackingcom front page, the home page. Scroll down. There's a place where you can put your email and click on subscribe. Do that and anytime I send out a post you'll get an email message and you can look at the post, listen to the post, and when we do the podcast. I always put it on the webpage, usually at least a day early. That means the day before my hosting page puts the show out, so you'll get it early.

Bruce: 16:21

Um, we don't charge anybody anything for this show. We do it. We believe in the v for v, the value for value. You get any kind of value out of the show. If it, you know, tickles your fancy, gives you a little bit of hope, changes your mindset long enough that you can get out of your misery, um, for a few hours, anything like that, any kind of value. Then we ask you to return the value. Somehow you can go to our support page and see what we're talking about there. I've got a quote from another person that talks all about that and says it a lot better than I do, but anyhow, yeah, anyhow, I thought you were going to do the weather man.

Sunny: 17:10

Come on, dude, what's up with that?

Bruce: 17:15

Wow, when did you turn into the 60s generation duck? Oh wait a minute, you're a frog now.

Sunny: 17:22

Yeah, get it right, Bruce. I'm a frog this time around. I might be something different next time.

Bruce: 17:32

Yeah, I called you a morpher before.

Sunny: 17:37

I know you did and I don't know if I like that.

Bruce: 17:42

Well, I'll tell you, I thought about calling you one of those creatures. The American people before us, the real American people, actually had a name for that kind of being, but I won't mention that right now. We'll do it later.

Sunny: 18:08

Oh, you're trying to say I'm one of those, are you?

Bruce: 18:12

Nope, I'm not saying anything. I'm going to talk about the weather.

Sunny: 18:16

Oh you better not saying anything. I'm going to talk about the weather. Oh you better Look out, I know where you sleep.

Bruce: 18:23

Yeah, and you better quit picking on them cats.

Sunny: 18:28

Oh them poor cats. I know there's been a couple of them really sick. They're in the hospital.

Bruce: 18:35

Yeah, they are Prayers out to our two they're in the hospital. Yeah, they are Prayers out to our two cats that are in the hospital. Believe it or not, they have animal hospitals, boy. They're expensive too. Anyhow, weather, we're going to the weather. Let's go to the weather. Ready, ready. I don't know why I did that.

Sunny: 18:57

I don't know why you did it either, but anyhow, back to the weather.

Bruce: 19:01

All right, back to the weather. All right, the local forecast for Midwest United States, southern Illinois, mount Vernon to be exact. Are you ready? Here we go. I'm going to click on details and we're going to see what comes up. It says for Friday, the 28th, it's 80 degrees here in the Midwest, southern Illinois, partly cloudy and windy. Yeah, it is, I'm telling you. It's windy, high, around 80 degrees fahrenheit wind, south, southwest, at 25 to 35 miles an hour. See, told you it was windy, higher wind gusts possible.

Bruce: 19:49

Now, when this starts doing that, I worry because limbs start breaking, roof starts ripping. I mean, there's a lot of things that could go wrong. Um, but humidity right now today is 39, because it's not raining yet. Sunrise was at 6 46 am. Uh, sunset will be at 7 15 pm. These are all daylight savings time, central time times, if that makes sense. Um, and then they're predicting for saturday and sunday rain, rain all day. Saturday, sunday, scattered thunderstorms, and then monday is supposed to just be cloudy. 66 degrees is what they're predicting for Saturday and 71 degrees Sunday. And let's turn the page Ready, here we go. Well, that didn't do very good there. There you go.

Sunny: 20:59

You turned that page about 10 times bruce.

Bruce: 21:02

Well, I had to get it where I could hear it, you know, on my headset, so everybody out there and could hear it also. Anyway, back to the drawing board. Right, and let's do our comparison. You know, right now, believe it or not, in phoenix arizona, on this friday it is, and I just messed it up, okay. Okay, see if I can get that back, because I just messed it up and phoenix arizona just disappeared.

Bruce: 21:43

There is a phoenix, okay, they're saying, uh, today it is 82 degrees there, so they're a little bit warmer than we are. They also have winds, west-southwest, at 10 to 15 miles an hour, so it's a little bit warmer, not much, and a little bit less wind. It is 17 degrees humidity. It is 17 degrees humidity. Sunrise was at 620 am and sunset will be at 646 pm. Wow, a little bit different.

Bruce: 22:25

Now, saturday, they're supposed to be partly cloudy and 82 degrees, and Sunday, 83 degrees and full sunshine, and then Monday, 84 and partly cloudy. So they're going to be quite a bit warmer. Friday night, just in case you're curious, they're supposed to have 60 degree weather, some clouds and wind back to 10 to 15 miles an hour. Wow, they have a UV index of 8 out of 11. So that's quite a bit, and let's go back to our detailed forecast. Let me see what the UV we have. 6 of 11.

Bruce: 23:19

So that's because we've got so many clouds, clouds, and tonight it's supposed to be 61 degrees. We're supposed to be one degree warmer than they are, but our humidity is supposed to be like 58 percent. Whoo, all right, the moon is supposed to be rising at 6 19 am and it's supposed to be a new moon. There you go. That's the uh, mount vernon, southern illinois midwest weather. So anybody that enjoyed that will have to tell somebody else about it. And that is, or it is, friday, the 28th of march 2025. If you're listening this live, you already knew that, but if you're hitting the recording of the live show, then you don't know what time it was recorded. So I gave you that. There you go.

Sunny: 24:14

Ain't that fun oh, so much fun. What's next, bruce?

Bruce: 24:23

well, I'm glad you asked, because now it's an earthquake report and you know what I forgot to do what did? You forget to do I forgot to hit my record button on my mixer so therefore I'm having to rely totally on Riverside to capture this part of the show so I can download it and get it on the podcast. So let's hope nothing messed up.

Sunny: 24:54

Oh, knowing you're like it did yeah, I had that.

Bruce: 24:59

Uh, I had a real good live show from, uh uh, pod bean the first time I used it. Next time I went in there, used it, uh, it had some sort of echo and vibration into the microphone. Um, I think it was my laptop that was causing that, because I was still using it at time, but I didn't hit record on my mixer again, forgot to, and so I didn't have a show, a live show, to even add to my regular podcast, which was a bummer. Uh, because that, you know, was about 15 minutes worth of show and I'm looking I don't know how long, oh, 26 minutes. So we're gonna have to cut it short or we're gonna have to show the podcast a little bit longer. Whatever, let's talk about earthquakes. You want to? There was a huge earthquake. I told you there was an uptick in the earthquakes and there was. Let me give you a report. Sonny, you want to guess? You want to guess what the numbers are?

Sunny: 26:13

You bet I do. I like doing that, but you're going to have to tell me what it was last week.

Bruce: 26:21

Okay, well, it wasn't last week, it was two weeks ago when we gave the report Let me get my paper out and it was on 3-14. We had a total of 1,-42. So, woo man, we had quite a bit then, but they went down from the time before. So what did they do today, sonny, let's go for it. Tell us what they did.

Sunny: 26:56

All right, now you're not going to upset me or make me nervous, that doesn't bother me, I'm used to your weirdness. But okay, I'm going to guess. You said it went down last time and it did. So I'm going to say this time around it's went back up. So how much did it go back? I'm going to get. It was somewhere in the 2000s. The last time we did it, before the 14th, so I'm going to guess it's right around 2000 again. Is that close?

Bruce: 27:45

Well, yes, I don't know how you do that.

Sunny: 27:50

Because I'm smart, duh.

Bruce: 27:56

Okay, and Sonny tells us like it is well sunny, it did go up and uh, it was. Uh, actually, when I wrote this down uh, you ready for this? It was 2105, all the earthquakes. But since then I just looked it back up and it's went down from there to 2099. So darn it if you wasn't right again. You know, I've been noticing that we've been having to round them off because it's hard to get exactly what they are. So you guessed in the 2000s and you guessed it. Now, if you would have guessed 2100, you would have been right for the number that I just looked up earlier. For the number that I just looked up earlier. However, for some reason it went down. So that tells me that the last seven-day numbers, some of them, had dropped off since the last time I looked at it. So we're going to give you almost on the dot point again. You've done that so many times. It's kind of scary. So let me see if I can.

Sunny: 29:35

Here we go, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, it was nice.

Bruce: 29:43

Thank you.

Sunny: 29:48

Oh, you're so full of it. I know I learned that from you, big boy. Don't be big boying me.

Bruce: 30:01

Well, I will, if I want but anyway, thank you, bruce, that was fun. Yeah, you kind of always like guessing, but, um, lily and I'd went back on the numbers that you'd guessed. I haven't been writing them down here lately, but you hit pretty darn close many times. Like for a month straight there you was almost on the nose, which is eerie. I don't know how you do that.

Sunny: 30:30

Well, if I told you I'd have to kill you.

Bruce: 30:37

Oh, no, no, no, no. Anyhow, hey guys, that's our live show today. We gave you weather, we gave you earthquakes. Now I'm going to give you something sad to go with that. So, on the earthquake, 2.5 and over for the last seven days was 42. So they had went down and the 4.5 and over was 87 altogether and they'd went down Well, actually they'd went up two and they'd went down Well, actually they'd went up two. So the full numbers went up from 1942 to 2099. The 2.5 and over went down from 265 to 42, and the 4.5 was at 85 last time. They were at 87 this time.

Bruce: 31:43

So the bad part I said there was an uptick in the earthquakes, and there was. We had several six and over earthquake numbers, and that's the ones I always break out and read. So in um, mid-atlanta, um, the ridge I wrote this down, can't read it uh, mid-atlantic ridge, there we go, the-atlantic Ridge had a 6.1, and then they had a 6.6, which is probably the opposite direction, and above that, 6.7. In Riverton, new Zealand, and then in Mand mandela, burmer, which is over, uh, by, in hong kong, by bangkok, and south, what would that be? Southeast china area, that area over there had a six, a 7.7 earthquake early this morning and the last report I seen they had 150 found that had lost their life and 730 people were injured. And that was the last count. There's probably more since then that's been uncovered and found, but that was in. At least 10 people were found in Bangkok that had passed. So another bad earthquake I mean anytime you get over six, you're looking at the very destructive things happening and injuries and loss of life, and this was a 7.7.

Bruce: 33:46

So we ask you to uh send prayers for and to those people and uh any, uh any family members that have lost loved ones. We just ask you to include them in your evening prayers, morning prayers, however you pray and if you're not a praying person you really don't believe in that we ask for positive thoughts to go over there and help those people. The ones in mid the mid-atlantic bridge probably didn't do much damage, although you have to wonder what's going on underneath the surface of the ocean. The sea create these earthquakes, but that's for another matter. Anyway, we're going to leave that bad thought for you guys. That's listening live and if you're picking this up on the podcast recording later on.

Bruce: 34:51

More to come, but thank you for tuning in as a guest. More to come, but thank you for tuning in as a guest. Again, support our page, support our podcast, help us to keep going, show us that you care, and you don't have to do it with financing. You can do it with interactions with us. Interacting with us Sorry about that With artwork, opinions, ideas. Um, there's so much that can, you can do to help us, but anyway, for now, this is our live show.

Sunny: 35:27

This is the ugly quacking duck hey, I'm sunny of the ugly quacking duck and I am bruce of the Ugly Quackin'.

Bruce: 35:34

Duck and I am Bruce of the Ugly Quackin' Duck and we're going to say goodbye to everybody out there. And don't, if you're listening to this recording of our podcast, don't shut it down, because there's more to come. 73, y'all Bye. Well, everybody, we thank you for, uh, catching the live. If you didn't catch a live, you just caught it on the recording, so that's good too yes, it is, they get to hear my voice, yay.

Sunny: 36:20

Yeah, I think you like doing that, don't you, sonny? Oh, yeah, I like it a lot, but I really enjoy just hearing you talk and hearing some of the guests come back to you. Oh, wait a minute, that was just you echoing.

Bruce: 36:36

Oh thanks, sonny. Yeah Well, anyway, we do enjoy the podcast, the hobby, the opportunity. We would really like to have a few more people come back to us and be part of the show, but that'll get there sometime soon, one of these days maybe. If not, well, I guess we'll just keep podcasting, because that's what we do.

Sunny: 37:06

Yeah, until you run out of money. Then what are you going to do?

Bruce: 37:11

I guess I will not edit it any longer. I'll just record it, put it up on the host. That should cut enough corners that we can keep doing it. But not going to do that until I have to.

Sunny: 37:26

Okay, well, I'm going to stick with you as long as I can, because I like it and I enjoy it and it's fun. All that and all more.

Bruce: 37:43

Wow, I'm not sure how to take any of that, but, sonny, I enjoy having you aboard. You keep it from being monotonous and you keep me on my toes, and sometimes you almost make sense.

Sunny: 37:57

Well, I'm proud of that. Yes, I am. So what are we doing?

Bruce: 38:04

Well, we're putting the final touches on our podcast. We had the live. We talked about the weather, which is getting darker and windier by the minute and by nightfall we'll probably have a little bit of rain or before, but we'll have to wait and see. But it's Friday afternoon late and we are finishing up and we gave our earthquake report and that's 7.7 earthquake. That's 7.7 earthquake. That's tremendous. And they had a video online of uh bangkok where a building uh it was a they was doing construction on it and had a crane on top of it and that whole building came down. If you get a chance to watch that video, you'll have to, because it's pretty scary. People were running and it was a dust cloud. It looked a lot like the 9-11 scene in a smaller scale, but that thing come tumbling down and it was bad.

Sunny: 39:14

Bad, bad, I, bad, bad, bad. I got to see it and, uh, you could hear people talking, but they wasn't translated in your language, bruce my language. Uh, you mean english yeah, that's what I said okay, well, all right. So yeah, we're just putting the finishing touches on this and welcoming me welcome while bruce is trying to say he's welcoming everyone and want to say hi to everyone. That's picking up on the podcast and we hope you come back again well said, sonny.

Bruce: 40:04

I'm glad you got that out when I couldn't.

Bruce: 40:08

I'm here for you, bruce yeah, we should have a lot more podcast listeners. Uh, even though we didn't have any of them on live, I gave a short notice this afternoon, but I've been putting out a lot of stickers for my podcast at work and I've been talking it up and I'm hoping that a lot of people at least take a few minutes to listen to our podcast and they enjoy it and they come aboard and they spend more time with us. That's the help, the plan, oh yeah.

Sunny: 40:47

Oh yeah, that's a good plan, Bruce. Now all you need to do is talk about something fun.

Bruce: 40:55

Well, you know me and I know you, and that's probably not going to happen.

Sunny: 41:02

You're so boring.

Bruce: 41:04

Thank you, I appreciate that. That is Sonny everyone. He's got an opinion.

Sunny: 41:11

I do, I do.

Bruce: 41:16

All right. I think you kind of lost your marbles when you morphed, because you are totally acting different who said it was an act all right, well, you got me there, but um, you know what I mean. Uh, no, I don't all right, well, whatever.

Sunny: 41:33

Um, yeah, there should be a lot of people. You know what I mean. No, doubt.

Bruce: 41:36

All right, well, whatever, yeah, there should be a lot of people that pick those up at work, customers and coworkers alike and hopefully they'll put their stickers somewhere where they'll get other people asking about it. And there you go. I've got a couple of stories I'm going to talk about today. Uh, not very long, I don't want to bore everybody to death, but, uh, let me see if I can pull them up and we'll hang on just a minute. We'll get them all right.

Bruce: 42:14

I'd like to apologize to listeners out there if they're hearing the rumble go by. I've got the windows open. It's a nice day today and I'm not going to shut them. I'm enjoying the wind coming through the studio. So every now and then you hear that roar, and then a lot of times you will hear the cars going by and trucks, because we live on an older highway and it has a lot of traffic. So if you're hearing that, just bear with me, because I'm just wanting you to kind of ignore it while we talk, because it's um kind of noisy, but it's nice to have that air rush yeah, I think you like recording the podcast instead of doing the live, because you can pause it and take a drink and nobody knows.

Sunny: 43:16

And besides that, what was you drinking on the live? That was a weird bottle.

Bruce: 43:25

Oh, you noticed that, did you? Yes, I did. Well, it was tonic water, believe it or not. A lot of people use that to pour in their alcohol, but it has good effects if you drink it separate by itself, and it has a chemical in it. That's good for things, but anyway, I was drinking that. I try to drink one or two of those a week.

Sunny: 43:56

Oh, you're a weirdo.

Bruce: 43:59

Well, thank you, I appreciate that and yeah, anyhow, all right. Well, the first story that I wanted to highlight is one that affects me and many, many, many, many other people in this world, and especially this time of year it's really highlighted by a lot of people and that is allergies by a lot of people. And that is allergies. And this story comes from you, from the AAFA. The AAFA, which, what that is, is the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, aafaorg. Visit it, it sometime, check it out, but they have an article here on at the allergy capitals of america. So in the us they did some statistics, polls and all kinds of things and it goes through there about what they checked and anywhere from trees and grass and weed pollen all the way up to pollen, count, climate changes and urban areas and all that stuff, and they come up with 10 of the most. What do they call it? Most, not awesome, worst, I guess you could say cities for allergies, and I'm going to read you those. Guess what the top one is.

Sunny: 45:45

Is it southern Illinois, right where we're at?

Bruce: 45:53

No, that'd be a good guess, but no, I um, I guess the top 10. It starts out number one would be the the worst one, wouldn't it, or would that? I don't know how they did this, but the top one on number one, which what I would think would be the worst one, is Wichita, kansas. Wow, and they probably down here give what that criteria was to make it to number one. But I'm not going to. I should have read these the other way, but I'm not going to worry about that.

Bruce: 46:33

Number two New Orleans, louisiana. I think Wichita was probably because of the dust and all the stuff around them. I would say a lot of farmland there. New Orleans, I don't know why it was. I guess because of the trees, trees. They got a lot of trees, a lot of water. Oklahoma city is the next one. Oklahoma, tulsa, oklahoma uh, more dry, dirt land, probably a farmland, I mean uh, mem, tennessee, little Rock, arkansas, raleigh, north Carolina. Number eight Richmond, virginia. Number nine Greenville, south Carolina. And number 10 on the list, greensboro, north Carolina. So if you're in one of those cities you can probably quote that.

Bruce: 47:33

This is bad allergy area, especially this time of year, and I was shocked that nowhere in this list. Southern Illinois hit Illinois hit. We have a lot of farmland around here and a lot of ragweed A lot It'll grow out in the ditches during the summer and a lot of pollen. Hard to believe that it wasn't on the list, but apparently it's worse in other areas, which I'm glad I'm not in those areas. I don't know how I can do a 30-minute live or 26 minutes or whatever it was, and my voice stay all right and then I start doing the recording and it starts giving me problems. But, like I said, I got the window open, so the wind's probably blew something in because the storm's almost here and I'm probably reacting to it.

Sunny: 48:39

You're just reacting for sure. Ah, ah, ah.

Bruce: 48:47

All right, Sonny, knock it off.

Sunny: 48:51

No.

Bruce: 48:55

Yeah, I knew you was going to say that. All right, that was our first story and we're going to move on before he has a conniption fit in front of me and on the radio or the audio. Now I found this article actually quite interesting because it talks about guess what? Honey, yeah, and I love honey. I drink it in my, you know, if it's tea or whatever I drink, I like to put honey in there, I like to put it on my bread. Pretty well, anything I fix, I like to have honey with it.

Bruce: 49:38

But anyway, this article talks about why nectar can be. Or let me get back to it, honey doesn't go bad and they say that it lasts forever. Yep, really it does. They say. That's what they say. That's the title of the article. The article's actually found in Food Wine, our Food Wine website. It's called foodandwinecom and I found it there and I thought, wow, this is kind of interesting.

Bruce: 50:33

But anyway, they talk about why honey never spoils and it is explained by that. The nectar can be up to 70 percent water and then it's evaporated to produce the consistency that the honey were familiar with, and this is done by the bees and I did not know they went through all this trouble to make honey. But apparently they do this by fanning the honeycomb with their wings and it helps encourage rapid evaporation from of the water. And with the compound added to it, then the flapping continually, they reduce the water content. Are you ready for this? 17%. And the article goes on and talks about how that's not an easy feat. But with that kind of water that's much lower than that of a bacteria or a fungi. So they lower the water amount in that honey and apparently that makes the honey not spoil along with its other compounds, which is kind of cool.

Bruce: 52:00

I knew honey didn't go bad. Now it will. I forget what they call it, but it will get into kind of like a hardened state and all you have to do is heat it back up and it'll be fine. I like to. I get it in jars a lot of times. I'll take a spoon and scrape it off the side and put it in my tea and as soon as it hits the tea it just melts. But I like doing that. So that's a little tip of the day for somebody out there.

Sunny: 52:37

Go to foodandwinecom and check it out. Wow, I think I've learned something about you you like honey.

Bruce: 52:46

Yeah, you got that right. I like honey Since I've got home from the hospital. What was that now? Three, four years ago? No, it was longer than that 2019,. What is this? 2025. So that would make it six years ago. Wow, five and a half really, because it won't be until November to be exactly six.

Bruce: 53:13

But anyway, since I've been home, I totally cut out my sugar because they said it wasn't good for me and I didn't want to deal with any more of that kind of stuff. So I got rid of it and I've been eating honey ever since. I liked honey before, but it was so much easier to deal with sugar and get it and buy it, put it away, so I just kept using sugar, but not anymore. I very, very seldom ever put any sugar on it or in anything. Um, I just don't want to take that risk now. I know there's a lot of sugar in stuff we eat. Already they put tons of it in. So you got to watch out. I try to stay away from that. And I like chocolate. I have to admit I like, like chocolate.

Sunny: 54:06

He likes chocolate.

Bruce: 54:11

You ought to see him eat chocolate. Well, I try to only eat like one chunk, one piece. Like them Hershey Kisses. I like to just take one of those a day for a snack. Or there's some other little candy bars. I'll just eat one. But every now and then I get in that fixed habit I don't know why that I have to have more and for three or four days I'll be eating a bunch, and then it just makes me almost sick afterwards. So I don't know what compels me to to do that, but I have to do it uh, you're silly, nuts and crazy, a little bit of moody there too thank you once again.

Bruce: 55:00

Sonny speaks out. Yay, you've been doing that a lot more lately, son.

Sunny: 55:06

Sonny, I know I am speaking out, isn't that why you got me on here?

Bruce: 55:13

Well, we'll just go with that, okay.

Sunny: 55:17

All right, we'll just go with that for sure.

Bruce: 55:24

Okay, all right, next story. This is interesting and let me see if I can pull it up on my computer. But this is about plastic. Everybody knows how plastic has become a huge problem, and getting rid of it's what really has become a problem. Well, apparently the scientists have found a way to break down plastic. They use inexpensive catalysts and air and they break it down. And they break it down to its basic property, and I forget what it's called oh, it's a great big, long word, that's why I forgot it. But basically it's the foundation of all plastics and it breaks it down that safely, cheaply, and then they can use it to remake more plastics. So it's a win-win. Now I don't know when they're going to start building factories to get rid of our plastic, which I hope soon but it's a safer, cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable way to recycle plastic, and that's what this article is saying.

Bruce: 56:48

This article is on northwesternedu. It's a Northwestern College literature. If you want to see it, go look it up. Northwesternedu, it's newsnorthwesternedu, and it talks about plastic recycling, which is cool. I like the idea. We like it's simple. Um, it should we, it should revolutionize plastic so we can use it, get rid of it. Then all we have to do is figure out how to get all the junk plastic out of our bodies. That's another story for All right, the last but not least article that I picked out. This one I've been hanging on to for quite a while, but it's about something that we all use, hopefully, and that you've probably used at least once today, and it's about how often we ought to clean it. So anybody want to take a guess what it is my hair, I bet.

Bruce: 58:08

it's about how often we ought to clean it, so anybody want to take a guess what it is my hair, I bet it's about my hair. Sonny, you don't have any hair.

Sunny: 58:18

Not yet.

Bruce: 58:20

You're going to be a weird-looking animal if you grow hair on that skin.

Sunny: 58:27

Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet, buddy.

Bruce: 58:31

All right. Well, if anybody don't know, sonny turned into a frog from a duck the other day, morphed right in front of our eyes. It was kind of spooky and weird and fun at the same time.

Sunny: 58:47

Thank you, I'm glad. The same time, thank you, I'm glad I could do that for you.

Bruce: 58:52

But now he's a frog, big green lump of something that sits around with headphones on his ears and a microphone in his hand, and that's all he does all day long. Every now and then he gribbits at us, but now he's talking about growing hair.

Sunny: 59:16

Oh, I'm talking about a lot of stuff, but we'll let that go for later.

Bruce: 59:21

I think you should have done this on Halloween, because that would have been a neat trick.

Sunny: 59:27

Oh, it would have been too spooky. Then you would all scream and run away like a little baby you think, yeah, okay, well, anyway, what we're talking about?

Bruce: 59:43

sunny and all my audience out there were talking about towels, towels, that's right. I ran across this article quite a while back and I just put it in a little corner and saved it because I thought that's kind of weird. But they were talking about why you probably aren't washing your towels often enough. And they went through and talked about how microbes build up on the towel and they talk about how long should you wait before throwing them into the laundry. And that was one of the lines on the article and I thought, well, that's interesting, tell me. So I went through the whole article and they talked about how that many of us will pop them in and wash them once a week. Some found a third of them did it once a month and a few, according to the UK, admit they only do it once a year. Yeah, once a year, but it doesn't say how many times they used that towel before doing that. They just said they did it, you know, once a week or once a month. That's washing them. And, uh, they go ahead and go through the article talking about how our bodies are covered with microbes and when we dry off. A lot of times they will transfer to the towel. Now I'm not sure if that's possible. If we've washed with soap, maybe soap's not killing them, I don't know. But if you do this and leave the towel in the same room as the lavatory for you guys that don't know that's the stool, don't know that's the stool, that, um, disgusting enough, when you flush you're likely giving them towels more bacteria from your toilet. Wow, yeah. And over time they uh, they say that your towel can become dull and actually change colors from all this, even after you wash it, you'll notice a difference.

Bruce: 1:01:55

So I went through that whole article, which I find quite interesting, hoping that they would tell me when you should wash your towel. But guess what they never did? Yep, they pondered the question, posed it to everybody that read the article, but they didn't actually come up with a answer. What they did say in the article was clearly, the longer we used house and the longer they stay damp, for the more hospitable the environment for microbes they become, increasing the chance of harmful microbes growing on them. And that was the scientists comment that had studied this and posed this question. But now I've it's been a while since I've read that article and maybe I missed, overlooked. Let me scroll down through here real quick. But they talk about how to scan and and. No, I don't think they ever did actually come up with. You know the way they talk.

Bruce: 1:03:23

You'd think you'd want to wash it right after using it, which I don't believe. You'd think you'd want to wash it right after using it, which I don't believe. That would be very good for your budget and your water bill and all that stuff. But they said one study in India actually showed 20% of people who responded were washing their towels as often as twice a week. Now you see that or hear that 20% of those that responded. So that means 80% were doing something else. But they told you about the 20%. So I don't know what they were trying to accomplish in this article. Maybe they're just wanting to make everybody nervous about their towels. So you know, we got enough hypochondriacs in this world. Maybe they want to make a few more and make money off of them. I do agree that towels can become very dirty, but I don't think they're making you sick unless you are doing weird things on them towels.

Bruce: 1:04:27

But, anyhow, that's the last article for the day.

Sunny: 1:04:31

Oh my gosh, Wow, yuck, is that often enough.

Bruce: 1:04:42

Often enough for what.

Sunny: 1:04:44

I don't know. We're just talking about how often Was you even paying attention? No, I was daydreaming, sorry.

Bruce: 1:04:55

Okay. Well, I hope folks out there in our listening land has not fell asleep, but we're going to bid you guys farewell. This is the Ugly Quacking Duck. I'm Bruce.

Sunny: 1:05:09

And I'm Sunny. I'm Bruce and I'm Sonny. I'm glad to be here and I'm glad everyone was here and listened to our podcast.

Bruce: 1:05:18

Yep, and I would like to welcome and say thank you to all the new listeners. Hopefully there was a bunch of them from all all the uh stickers we passed out and all the talking that we've done up on the podcast, about the podcast, over the last couple weeks. So we're really trying to push it. Hopefully, folks, I'm gonna get a couple guests, guests online. We're going to start talking a little bit more to people. I'm hoping the live show we can do a quick interview and highlight a pastor or a church in our local area and maybe a business as as it grows and I'm not talking about the podcast, I'm talking about the live show. It's kind of a separate but added entity, but hopefully it will grow and I'll get more excitement level from the people locally and we can get some more live there. So, anyhow, everybody have a great weekend. It's Friday now by the time you hear this. It'll probably be Sunday or Monday, but in that case, have a good week, yeah.

Sunny: 1:06:40

Enjoy your life. In other words, yeah.

Bruce: 1:06:43

And speaking of that, I've got one quick. Well, it's not one, but a few Bible verses I have saved up. I wanted to read, I wanted to let you guys have this to say bye. So instead of playing the music I usually do, we're going to end the show, the podcast, with this Bible verse and I've saved it up and it's in Matthew 23, if you want to look it up later. But hopefully you'll get something good out of it and I want you to pay attention. This may have been written in the time Yeshua walked this earth and I don't know history very well, so I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but I really believe these verses were talking futuristic. And what's going on now? So here we go. Then he's All right, sorry about that. Um, then you somebody's not want me to talk today, but anyway, then you shoot yeshua. Who, yahushua? There we go, I got it out, thank you.

Bruce: 1:08:07

Father Spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying the scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses' seat. All things. Therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep, but do not after their works. For they say and do not. Okay, you guys got that. He's telling them people now the pharisees and scribes were the church leaders and he said they're telling you things, you need to do those things and keep those things, but don't do their works. All right, I'm gonna read a little bit more. But bind burdens this is what they do, but do not after their works. For they say and do not, but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear and lay them on the shoulders of men but will not move them with their finger. In other words, they won't lift a finger to do what they are thrown upon the people to do. Have we not seen that before? And all their works they do to be seen of men we see this all through life for they make broad their I can't say that I'm having a hard time anyway and enlarge their borders of their garments and the love of chief places in feasts and first seats in the synagogues. They love those spaces. In other words, they love the prime thing, the big thing, the things that makes them feel good while the rest of us sit and are not allowed, and salutations in the marketplaces and to be called of men.

Bruce: 1:10:20

Now they're still talking about what they like to do. They like salutations or being highlighted in the marketplaces and to be called of men Rabbi, rabbi, but you be not. You called Rabbi, for one is your instructor, and all you are brethren. And call not anyone your father upon the earth, for one is your father, he who is in the heavens. Now I really wondered if he wasn't talking about a certain religious group that we have today, seeing it back then, futuristic. Anyway, neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the anointed one. But the greatest of you shall be your servant, and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Bruce: 1:11:23

And I'm going to stop there. I probably lost all my listeners. Maybe I'll gain some more back, but I wanted to leave you with those verses because, as I read them the other day, it so well spoke of what I've been witnessing in the news and on the news and in many churches not all of them, but many churches and I thought it would be very important that I read that and you all had time to think about that. But anyway, we are going to say bye now.

Sunny: 1:12:05

All right, you promised that a while ago, but I agree with you.

Bruce: 1:12:10

Well, thank you, sonny, that was awful kind of you I know I'm a kind duck.

Sunny: 1:12:16

No, wait a minute, frog.

Bruce: 1:12:20

You're just pretty well not remembering what you are.

Sunny: 1:12:24

That's because what you see is not who I am. That's deep, yeah, okay for another time. This is bruce.

Bruce: 1:12:39

This is sonny we're gonna bid you farewell 73. May the father's blessings go with you. If you want any prayers, if you need prayers, want prayers or just positive thinking to go your way, email us at theuglyquackingduck no, at theuglyquackingduck at gmailcom. Leave us a message on our podcast. Go to our webpage. Leave a message on our podcast. Go to our webpage. Leave a message there. There's all kinds of ways you can get a hold of us. Just pick one and do it. All right, take care of yourself. We'll get back with you. If you do, and if you don't mind us calling you out when you do that, we'll announce your name, or not even your name. If you don't want just that. You've needed something or said something or gave us something. We'll share it with everybody else. That's what we're here for. So enjoy yourself. Look up for the father. Keep your heart right. The world's getting rough and it's going to get tougher, guys, but we are going to go through, all right. See you later. Are you ready, sonny? We're going to say bye together.

Sunny: 1:14:02

I'm ready.

Bruce: 1:14:02

All right, one, two, three, bye.