Basement Floods and Rising Numbers: What Mother Nature Is Telling Us

Bruce and Sunny deliver real-time updates on severe storms sweeping across the Midwest while tracking global earthquake trends that signal unusual seismic activity patterns.

• Severe weather affecting multiple states with tornado activity in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Kentucky
• Ryan Hall You All YouTube channel recommended for live storm tracking with professional meteorologists
• Weekly earthquake count up to 2,201 from 2,105 the previous week
• Major earthquakes reported: 6.9 at Reykjanes Ridge, 6.3 at Pacific Antarctic Ridge, and 7.0 in Tonga
• Utah becomes first state to ban fluoride addition to public water supplies
• Plans to feature local church leaders and organizations in future podcast episodes
• Request for listeners to share podcast, subscribe via website, and provide feedback

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Chapters

• 0:00 Podcast Introduction & Weather Update
• 6:16 Storm Tracking & Ryan Hall You All
• 10:39 Earthquake Report Worldwide
• 19:19 Sunny & Bruce
• 20:39 Weather Aftermath & Kentucky Tornado
• 23:05 Utah's Ban on Water Fluoridation
• 25:46 Personal Updates & Workplace News
• 33:45 Podcast Support & Future Plans

Transcript

Bruce: 0:06

this is bruce with the ugly quacking duck podcast and we are live. Hopefully we are live. Last time we tried it didn't work out too good. I don't know if it's the weather or um, I'm not sure what it was but we are doing it again and hopefully the sound is going to work and the storm is going to. Let us do that, hopefully, and we have Sonny with us. Say hello, sonny.

Sunny: 0:39

Hello everyone, Glad to be here. I'm glad to have everybody here with us.

Bruce: 0:46

I think everybody be here. I'm glad to have everybody here with us. I think everybody's here. Well, I'm not sure. The storm's been pretty bad, so we're not going to keep everybody on this live tonight.

Bruce: 0:59

It's Friday, april the 4th 2025, and we're just trying to wrap up a chance to do live, and we're trying to do it more often so we can start building up an audience. Probably next time we try to do it, we're going to broadcast it or attempt to do it on Facebook, if it lets us, and we'll see what happens there. And once we get an audience build up with our the Ugly Quacking Duck page, we're going to shift it over to that. But anyhow, we're using Podbean tonight. Last time we used it it didn't work out too well, but I've also got my mixer recording. So the live's going to be recorded for either way and we'll be able to use it on our regular podcast when we finish it up. But tonight we're just going to talk a little bit about the weather, about the earthquakes, about local Mount Vernon stuff, and then hopefully we'll get back to our recorded podcast. So if you're listening to it later, that's what you're going to hear.

Bruce: 2:12

But as far as the weather, whoo, this week's been rough, I'm telling you. We had storms for the last what? Three days? Not real bad tornadoes around here. We have to praise the lord yahuwah for that, the king of kings and the creator uh. However, there are some parts of the country's been having tornadoes. I know missouri has had uh, several arkansas has had some and tonight texas is having, um, well, at least they're having tornado warnings. I don't think we've got any here locally right now, but it's been raining cats and dogs and a few alligators today and I bet the frogs are alive you bet they are.

Sunny: 3:17

I'm going swimming all right.

Bruce: 3:22

Well, excuse me, I'm sorry about that. Let me pause this or mute this. This weather's definitely bringing up some uh bad, bad pollen and junk and uh, oh, it's a lousy day. It rained so hard my my basement's dripping water. I'm sump pump's running like crazy. The roads were flooded when I went to town earlier. Well, not really the roads, but the ditches was from all the rain, and I'm hearing this supposed to continue until sunday here, locally, here in southern illinois, midwest, uh, mount vernon, illinois, to be exact.

Sunny: 4:11

So there you go yeah, my burn is getting some rain, but we're not getting any tornadoes.

Bruce: 4:19

Yay, yay, wow, wow yeah, but there's been some uh down south, I guess in texas. I just heard that a bottling company hershey bottling plant uh just got hit again for the second time in what 10 years, or something to that effect. So there you go, it's all over the country. It's weird how these storms one each day or night, are coming up the same, almost the same exact path. Kind of bad, but anyhow, if you want to be on top of this instead of waiting for your local channels to tell you what's going on, tune in on YouTube.

Bruce: 5:14

Look up Ryan Hall you all, that's right, ryan Hall, you all, ryan U Hall or Ryan Hall, you all and he does a live YouTube transmission broadcast, however you want to put that, when there's bad storms. He does it in the winter and the summer, spring and fall. He's on there right now live. He has several storm chasers that work with him uh, two or three meteorologists that work with him, and they keep him up to date what's going on, and he has live maps. He has. He actually has an ai that he built to help him out. So go check him out. So go check him out. As long as you're getting internet and good signal, he should give you a lot to watch. It's quite interesting what he covers.

Sunny: 6:18

Yeah, we've been watching around here night and day. It's been pretty entertaining for all of us.

Bruce: 6:30

Yes, it has. It has been pretty entertaining. So the weather here locally is 57 degrees according to my outside temperature gauge, 57 according to my phone and the live personalized weather report is showing at 56 degrees. So it's close, whether you want to believe it or not. 99% humidity here in Mount Vernon because it's raining, eight mile an hour wind that's a good thing. Air quality is 22,. It's pretty good. And you compare that to Phoenix Arizona, it's 70 degrees and sunny Not thunderstorms but but sunny 19 degrees humidity, eight degrees wind, so it's about the same. Air quality is 38, so it's a a little bit uh, higher, probably because all the dust.

Bruce: 7:44

But anyway, the radar is up and yeah, you can see quite a bit of storming on the radar and I got zoomed in from Mount Vernon and it looks like north of us towards Sandova Centralia, towards Sandova Centralia. Ken Mundy has got red on the radar. We are green, which is a good sign. It looks like southwest of us is more is coming up down there by Farmington and St Genevieve, redbud. Yep, it's down there quite a bit and it's all over the United States, but I'm just pointing out here locally what's going on. But that's your weather update for the Mount Vernon area of southern Illinois, the Midwest of the United States, and it is 627 tonight on 4425. And I haven't even looked up the earthquake report. I am going to do that now.

Sunny: 9:00

Boy. You're a slacker there, bruce. You are just really slacking. You don't have the earthquake report up. How am I supposed to guess?

Bruce: 9:12

Well, I don't know, to be honest. I guess we're just going to have to pull it up. I didn't even write it down. Let's see, today is 4-4-25. And I got to get my mic adjusted. It's not doing real well or I'm not doing real well. I feel like I'm having to yell. Hope you're all hearing me. I hope the recording comes out well and you guys all enjoy the podcast. I don't have many guys all enjoy the podcast. I don't have many people listening on the live. I'm going to try to get it more at a certain time every weekend and that way an audience can start building up. Right now we've just got one online Woo-woo Again. I am recording this so we can get more later on.

Sunny: 10:11

Yeah, well, there's two of us online. What are you talking about, bruce?

Bruce: 10:19

Well, yeah, you're right, there's two of us, but we are on the same connection, so it only counts as one. So there you go, and let's see. Let me go to my earthquake page and see if I can't get this pulled up here. Okay, okay, that will be under news if I look right. So I'm getting it pulled up. We're going to look at the seven day report for everything and, sonny, you want to guess real quick?

Sunny: 11:04

well, of course I do. What was it last week?

Bruce: 11:10

Okay, last week it was where did I write it down? At 2105. 2,105, all magnitudes.

Sunny: 11:29

All right. Oh, five, two thousand, one hundred, five, all magnitudes, all right. Well, I'm gonna guess it went to two thousand, somewhere around two thousand.

Bruce: 11:37

All right, good guess. So you're saying it went down a little bit from 2105 to 2000. And actually it backdated when I looked it up right before the report and it went to 2099. So somewhere in the 2000s is what you're saying. And this week it's actually wait 220, 2201. It's went up, went up to 2201, which is a good thing, because usually if there's more earthquakes let this soak in if there's more earthquakes, usually it's because we have higher or lower numbers and the high numbers are no, yeah, there's higher, lower numbers and the low numbers overrank the big numbers and the big numbers went down.

Bruce: 12:40

Normally. That's what I've been seeing here lately. It's not stuck to that way and we're going to look at this. We're going to click on the seven-day all-magnet no, seven-day 2.5s, and they were last week week, 42 of them and this week the 2.5 and over are 297. There we go. So it's up, it's up um all magnitudes and the 2.5 and over are up, which is a good sign because it's trying to relieve that tension. Is what I believe. I may be wrong, but let's go to the 4.5 and see.

Sunny: 13:40

Well, you may be figuring it right this week, but it's not always that way.

Bruce: 13:48

No, it's not. It's not always that way. It kind of throws you off a little bit. But this week, on the 4.5, well, let's just tell you what last week was. Last week was 87 earthquakes over 4.5. This week there was 116. So they're up also to 116. Wow, that's why our numbers were higher, which, uh, we only talk about the 6.0 and over. So if everything stays the way it normally does, we won't have a lot of the 6.0 and over earthquakes.

Bruce: 14:38

There is a 6.9. I'm just reading it off the page um, and it is I can't even pronounce it wreckage jones ridge, r-e-y-k-j-a-n-e-s ridge, not sure where that's at, but uh, wow Ridge. Not sure where that's at, but Wow, okay. So we'll scroll on down and I'm gonna write this down. And as we scroll down, there's a 6.3 at the Atlantic. No, wait a minute, I misread it. It's the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. That's new. I haven't seen that one before. We're getting some earthquakes in, uh, strange places, I think. Let me write this one down, this I can't even talk the pacific antarctica ridge, and I've got it wrote down. That was a 6.3, and that happened on 4-1,. So we're going back seven days to get this count and we're going on and scrolling down. I usually have these wrote down uh, we have a 6.2 in tonga, 6.2 in tonga. Now I do know for a fact that tonga had a big one and uh, there it is. That was an after effect at 6.2, but tonga actually had a 7.0 on March the 30th 7.0. Now that's a big one. That is a big one. And if you want to know where Tonga is, it's out on the southwest of the United States, out in the ocean, or the south, or the northeast, or, yeah, northeast of Australia, so kind of that area. But yeah, they had a 7.0.

Bruce: 17:17

And the Antarctica had what was? Was it a 6.3? And that's in that. Let's see, kind of in that area, more, more south. But makes you wonder what's going on, doesn't it all right, let me finish scrolling see if there's any more. Nope, that's it. So the higher ups that we had was a lot. We had one, two, three, four over six, which everything was high.

Bruce: 17:56

So my theory don't hold water, so ignore me. I uh theory don't hold water, so ignore me. But pay attention to the uh earthquakes, because they are telling us something's going on. We're getting all this rain. Okay, yeah, that, uh, I'm not sure how to pronounce that. I wish I could. Ray Cajuns, james Ridge, which is interesting. It's also in the ocean. It's on the east side of us. It's on the east side of us In between. Looks like it's almost exactly in the middle in between us and Europe out in the ocean. So there you go. Weird, but that was a 6.9. So that's two major earthquakes. That was in the sea, not the same sea, but in the water. So not looking good for the home team, I say. But that's the weather report from Southern Illinois and that's the earthquake report from Southern Illinois. Thank you for tuning in to the Ugly Quacking Duck live podcast. You're hearing Bruce.

Sunny: 19:23

And you're hearing Sonny. We bless you all and we thank you for being here.

Bruce: 19:30

Yes, sir, we thank you very much for being with us and we appreciate you tuning in, and if you just caught us on the recorded podcast later, that's great, don't worry about it, just tell your friends and hopefully you'll be able to, uh, hear us again. So until next time, we're going to say adios and tune you to the recorded podcast. See you everybody. Well, all right, I hope everybody enjoyed that live show and I hope you come back. This is Bruce again.

Sunny: 20:19

And this is Sonny. We're glad to have you aboard.

Bruce: 20:26

Yes, we are Welcome to the Oily Quacking Duck podcast. We're finishing up a little bit more so you guys can have a little bit more of a show. But we wanted to add to the weather when we were recording this Friday night that they were showing a twister that went through Kentucky. So Kentucky was also hit. Tennessee, texas, missouri. I think there was some tornadoes spotted in southern illinois I'm not sure of any damage but uh, we watched what was it a couple nights ago on. Uh, that ryan hall you all youtube video that live he did. I think it was the first night of the storms because that was the most strangest night, but there was a. They caught a live twister going through I believe it was Tennessee and you could see the. It was getting dark so you could see the transformer poles and the stuff like that getting hit and there was bright explosions and I'm not sure exactly what town that was and I apologize, but there's been a lot of problems.

Bruce: 21:54

So we need to keep these storms in our prayers and pray that the Father will cancel them out. I truly believe that they're not natural, but they are effects of some men's doings and I believe that we need to pray that he will cancel those out before people get hurt, or just cancel out the destruction. We need to pray for the people that was in these lines of storms and earthquakes because there were several and keep those prayers coming Again. If you don't believe in prayer, those prayers coming again. If you don't believe in prayer, then I ask you to keep positive thoughts going towards these people in these storms and don't let our negativity affect people, and they do. The words we speak, the thoughts we have, will affect not only our lives but other people's lives. So please, for me, do that.

Bruce: 23:06

And um, I don't have too much on the news uh front tonight. I um do know that there was one state I read this, I didn't say the article but there was one state. I read this. I didn't say the article, but there was one state that has passed legislation to stop the fluoride being added to the water. And many of you that don't know may be thinking well, that's good for you, that's good for your teeth. Well, I'm not going to argue that point. But the fluoride you're thinking of, that the dentist gives you, is not the same fluoride that they've been pumping in our water for years. It's actually hazardous waste, but that's another story. I'm not going to get into it, but Utah is the first state that has acknowledged that and that has banned any government officials or any public officials from adding that to their water. Hopefully some other states will take knowledge or take notice of this and will enact something similar.

Sunny: 24:26

Well, you'd think people, especially our government, people would go wait a minute. If that's harming people, let's stop it. But they don't.

Bruce: 24:39

Now, if truth be known, most of the time when stuff like that happens, it's because people are getting kicked back from these companies to dump their waste somewhere, and this has been a tried and true act to get rid of this waste from, I think, aluminum companies that produce aluminum, but I'm not sure. Don't quote me on that that. But it is a byproduct. Like I said, it's not the same aluminum or same fluoride that you get when you go to a dentist, get treatment. Besides that, he always makes you spit it out and rinse your mouth out. You don't swallow it. So even if it was the same thing, you wouldn't swallow that, just like you shouldn't be swallowing it in your water. But anyway, that's enough of that. They'll be knocking me for being a conspiracist or something, and we've had a really crazy week this week at my work.

Sunny: 25:46

Really what happened?

Bruce: 25:49

Well, I want to shout out to Jessica. I told her to listen to this podcast, this episode, and I was going to shout her out. So, jessica hi, and I was going to shout her out. So Jessica hi, and we're shouting her out because she actually put in her two weeks notice and she is gone. She left. She's got a couple of young kids, one of hers and, I think, one of her niece Don't quote me on that, but if I'm wrong, jessica, you'll have to let me know but she's going to take care of them young kids and, uh, do a little bit of work from home. So we wish her the best.

Bruce: 26:33

I'm trying to shout out people that you know, and sophia left to go to another job and I shouted out her when that happened and I run into her today. She's also working at Kroger's and I run into her and said hi to her. So we want to acknowledge her on. Give her a shout out on the podcast. Kind of cool, running into people. Wait a minute, do I have a? Uh, a shout out thing? Let me look. Uh, you know, one of the great things I like about being able to record this and save it for later not being live, what you can edit your bloopers.

Bruce: 27:24

What you can edit your bloopers. No, I don't edit it a lot, it just wastes too much time.

Sunny: 27:32

I try to level out the audio, and that's about all I do, oh well then, what?

Bruce: 27:37

Well, I enjoy being able to pause it while I search for something on the mixer, and then I can hit play. See, so I save a little bit of dead air time for you guys out there oh well, that's cool.

Sunny: 27:53

By the way, bruce, you know what? Uh what oh you smart aleck. No, it's raining, outside.

Bruce: 28:09

Okay, yes, it is Boy. It looks like. I'm looking at the map that Ryan Hall just had up and it looked like Perryville and Farmington was in red. Now, I don't know if they had a tornado watch going on or what, but I'm telling you everybody, if you haven't looked him up on YouTube and hit, subscribe or follow whatever it is on there, you should, because he's great, he works really well with people and he, he, he's just good. Watch him for a little bit and then tell me what you think. But anyhow, yeah, okay, here we go.

Bruce: 28:55

This is for sophia and jessica using goose by the ugly, quacking duck, cool, okay. And we had a little bit more excitement at work. We had, uh, some police officers show up like two or three nights in a row or days both. Um, we're not going to talk about too much what they did, but for the gentleman that got arrested and is now in jail, our prayers go up with you for you. We hope that this is going to help you to know that you should not have been doing I think you already knew that should not have been doing what he's doing and that somehow you will find it in your heart to ask for forgiveness before you hurt any more people. I'm not going to give any names or anything, but may the Father be forgiving and that's all I want to say about that.

Sunny: 30:03

Oh, that sounds like a movie what does the?

Bruce: 30:06

uh? Oh, I know what you mean. That's all I got to say about that. It does. I didn't realize. I said that pretty cool, all right, well, we don't have too much more news. Um, I don't know how long this been going about 30 minutes. Hey, that's perfect. We don't have to go for an hour. I like that. You got anything you want to say, sonny.

Sunny: 30:30

Yeah, if you guys like this podcast we hope you do will you show us that you like it? You can contribute to the show. Bruce will tell you how.

Bruce: 30:47

Well, thank you, sonny, that was kind of cool. And yes, if you like the podcast, any of the episodes that you've heard. First of all, we want you to come back for more. We also want you to share this podcast with other people. We want to grow, we want to have more people, and we want to grow not just with um people, but we want to grow in experience and ability.

Bruce: 31:20

So what that means is for you guys to send in what you think of the show, what you'd like to hear, what you, you know, don't want to hear, and we may pay attention to it. But you know you can give us a heads up of what you're thinking and what it's doing for you. You can send us a text on almost any 2.0 podcasting app. Go to our website, theuglyquackingduckcom. Go to the homepage, scroll down towards the bottom and type in your email, hit subscribe and then every time we post something, you'll get it in your email box and that's a great way to keep up with what's going on. And boy, it's lightning outside. I've seen a lot of lightning. Some of it's kind of close, close, so I probably need to shut down here in a second. But anyhow, we believe in value, for value.

Bruce: 32:28

What that means to you and me is we're going to try to keep everything free on our podcast so you can enjoy it, share it, and so the only way we're going to be able to continue to do this and afford the web page and the hosting company and our equipment is not for charging everybody behind a firewall, but for you to see value in it and support our cause. Donate to us. We're hoping you'll do that. It seems like my voice is trying to give away tonight, probably because the rain's blowing something in that I'm not very able to handle.

Bruce: 33:17

Bunch of pollen and stuff, probably. But anyhow, hey, man, we're wanting you to support us. You can do that either by emailing us, you know, sharing the link, sharing the web, the web page, anything you can do to support us, even if you don't do it financially, we can always use artwork, ideas, help, whatever you can do for us. We want to do and share this podcast with people and have their ideas and supports come back to us, their comments, everything. Anyhow, that's all I got to say for now.

Sunny: 34:04

Oh yeah, you promise. Hey, Bruce, don't forget to mention what you're working on on the side to get on here.

Bruce: 34:15

Oh man, I almost forgot. Yeah, we're hoping that we're going to be able to do on the live, but maybe not just on the recorded podcast. But we're wanting to take a local church or a local church person every, either every couple of weeks, once a month, every week. I don't know how that timing is going to work out, but we're going to highlight somebody or some church or organization and we're going to talk a little bit to that person or to that group and put it on our podcast. That's what we're hoping on. We've got one lady we're talking to. She's actually works with me at work, but she also does something for, uh, yahuwah, yahuwah, gosh, can you talk the father? And I'm gonna let her, in her own words, tell you about that.

Bruce: 35:18

Uh, when we finally get to sit down and record that, um, I talked to her a little bit last night and, uh, the plan is to get together with her, get contact information so we can work out how to do it, and, um, then, uh, a time, and we're going to do that. Just, probably about 15 minutes is all we're going to do. But that's the plan, guys. We're finally seeing some headway. We're going to designate and highlight all this for the Father, yahuwah the Father, and if you don't like that wording, then you'll have to just deal with it if you want to listen to me. But, uh, we thank you all for being here and we thank you in the name of yeshua that we have this podcast and we have this audience and, uh, we hope we can do something great for it with it, for yahuwah. So to bid you farewell, uh, we're about 36 minutes into it and we don't want to keep anybody any longer.

Bruce: 36:33

We want to say good evening, be safe out there, and we're going to try to get this out, maybe tomorrow on our website and then maybe tomorrow night we'll get it on the hosting page and get it out. So if you're listening to it, you can do it that way. So, anyway, have a good night, folks, be safe. We're going to say bye. Sonny, you ready to say bye?

Sunny: 37:01

I am, we're going to do it. Sonny, you ready to say bye, I am. We're going to do it together.

Bruce: 37:07

Yes, we are. Let's do it together. Are you ready? One, two, three, bye, 73, everybody, god bless.