The Duck Chronicles: Weather, Earthquakes, and Star Wars

Welcome to Episode 107 of The Ugly Quacking Duck, where we proudly embrace our status as "the worst podcast in the known universe"—because once you're the worst, you can only get better!

This Star Wars Day special brings you Bruce and Sunny's unique perspective on everything from local weather patterns to global seismic activity. We kick off with our signature weather comparison between rainy Southern Illinois and sunny Phoenix, Arizona—a stark contrast that highlights how differently Mother Nature behaves across the continent. While we're dealing with 46°F temperatures and 94% humidity, Phoenix enjoys a comfortable 69°F with just 32% humidity. These weather segments connect us with listeners across different regions and provide a grounding element to our free-flowing conversation.

Our earthquake report reveals some concerning trends in global seismic activity. With 1,774 earthquakes recorded worldwide in the past week alone, including four measuring above 6.0 magnitude and a massive 7.4 quake near South America, we're seeing patterns that suggest when overall earthquake counts decrease, higher-magnitude events tend to increase. This observation could potentially lead to better prediction methods, though we're still far from that reality.

The News Corner segment dives into several fascinating stories you might have missed: scientists bringing back dire wolves through DNA manipulation, Sicily's ancient "white gold" tree sap being compared to biblical manna, Monty Python and the Holy Grail celebrating its 50th anniversary, and devastating sandstorms in Iraq that hospitalized thousands. These stories remind us that beyond our daily concerns, the world continues to surprise us with both scientific breakthroughs and ongoing challenges.

We close with a heartfelt reminder about the importance of community in these divisive times. As Bruce says, "Every one of us bleeds. We need to stick together and pull each other up together, not push one person down to get up."

Have you experienced any interesting weather phenomena in your area lately? Share your thoughts with us and remember—May the Fourth be with you, always!

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Star Wars Day Intro
• 8:20 Weather Report: Southern Illinois vs Phoenix
• 22:30 Earthquake Report and Recent Activity
• 45:30 News Corner: Dire Wolves Return
• 50:40 White Gold: Sicily's Ancient Superfood
• 54:40 Monty Python's 50th Anniversary
• 57:50 Middle East Sandstorms
• 1:02:13 V4V
• 1:07:07 Final Thoughts

Transcript

Bruce: 0:07

hello, hello, hello everyone, and we're glad you made it with us. This is the ugly quacking duck.

Bruce: 0:15

I am bruce and I am sunny and we're glad to have everybody listening to us today. If you are catching us on the live instagram, we're glad to have everybody listening to us today. If you are catching us on the live Instagram, we're glad to have you aboard. I know it's a Sunday, so I'm going to keep it. Hopefully, keep it within less than an hour. That way, anybody's getting ready for church. We don't want to put any binds on them. We want them to be able to go and enjoy the service to the Lord. So, with that said, it is May the 4th. Do you know what that means?

Sunny: 0:54

Hey, Bruce, your mic cut out.

Bruce: 0:58

I know, but I got it back, so we're good. It's doing some flippy things again, but it's May the 4th. That means may the 4th be with you. It is Star Wars Day One day I like to just play, so I've got the podcast going live on Instagram, kind of hoping everybody we can enjoy that. I think you're silly.

Sunny: 1:24

Bruce.

Bruce: 1:25

Well, glad to hear that At least I'm getting through to you.

Sunny: 1:29

Oh, good grief, you are weird, yes.

Bruce: 1:35

So we got up and we worked last night. We woke up early this morning. We're trying to scramble around and get the live going and we're hoping it'sramble around, get the live going and we're hoping it's showing up out there. Folks, um, I don't have lily here with me to uh check it on her instagram account, so all I can see is what I got going out. Hang on, I'm going to hit the uh little speaker and see if I can hear it. Folks, um, I don't have Lily here with me to. Alright, that's working. Yay, a little bit of instant replay there. We are glad to have everybody here today. Again, this is the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast coming to you from our Southern Illinois studio just outside of Mount Vernon. Yay, that's Mount Vernon. Yay, that's Mount Vernon, illinois in case you didn't know.

Sunny: 2:31

Oh yeah, they need to know that we're so big in Mount Vernon.

Bruce: 2:36

Well, I try to keep it local. That way people will know. One day maybe I can get some more local people involved, some news from local stuff, and who knows what happens after that. There you go, that's where we're going, but anyway, it's May the 4th, it's Star Wars Day and my plans are to watch a couple of the Star Wars movies today and goof off a little bit, and the weather is definitely cooperating for that. It's probably not cooperating for anything else today. Uh, it's kind of cool outside and it's kind of nasty and rainy has been all week. Every day this week it rained a little bit may not been too much, but it rained a little bit and most of the country's been that way. I know oklahoma, texas, louisiana, missouri, tennessee and uh what? Oh, I'm not even sure about the east coast, but I know that storm front headed that way and I was at work and I didn't get to see what happened, but it's been all over the united states.

Bruce: 3:49

So, with that said, we got up this morning. We was excited about going and doing a live and using that live for our eventually uh podcast that we will put out on our hosting page, buzzsprout. Yay, buzzsprout. It will probably come out Monday morning and if you are familiar with our webpage, it is theuglyquackandduckcom. If you went on there and subscribed, you'll get an email when this podcast comes up on the uh live. No, let me backtrack. When we put it on our website, you'll get a live email saying you can go listen to it ahead of time.

Bruce: 4:42

Uh, because I'm running late. This weekend it's Sunday instead of Fridayiday didn't get it done friday, so that means it'll probably only be a little bit early. It'll come out on sunday on the web page and monday on the hosting page. So there you go, I but anyway, I woke up this morning ready to go, got out of bed and my nose was stopped up as usual. All this range bringing in that stuff and my allergies are really giving me fits. So bear with me. My voice may not be fine to listen to, but I hope you enjoy the show anyway. Right? So what are we doing today? I have no idea. I keep it that way oh man, you really do.

Sunny: 5:32

Um, I see a bunch of notes on your tablet though. Well, maybe you know your notebook. I've seen you jotting down stuff, so you can't lie to everybody.

Bruce: 5:44

You did something yeah, yeah, well, I did something. I wrote down the ugly quacking duck podcast. There you go and you are listening to the worst podcast in the known universe. That's going to be our tagline from there, from now on everybody, once you're the worst, you can't get any worse. Haha, you just got to get better, right. So we are the worst podcast in the known universe and we're glad of it. There you go, yay, okay, and I am recording on my uh mixer this time, so I haven't messed that up, and we are going live on the instagram.

Bruce: 6:31

So what we normally do on a live, to keep it short and sweet, is we do a little bit of weather and we compare it to where anybody got an answer for that. Anybody remember phoenix, arizona, out there? Yep, we picked that one just because it's kind of desert. It's usually kind of warm and very dry. Big comparison to southern illinois, because southern illinois is usually rainy, almost all the time cloudy, and when it does warm up we have sunshine. What do we get? Humidity. It's hard to breathe there's so much humidity. So we usually go from winter to a week of nice, beautiful weather, weather in the spring, and that's our springtime. And then we get summer. We don't usually have beautiful spring weather, and the fall has been a lot like that too, although this last fall was kind of nice. We got a little bit more beautiful weather and warm. Anyhow, that's what's going on on this end of it. Anyhow, that's what's going on on this end of it, and if you're expecting a video of me and Sonny on the live, that's not what we do. We do audio only. But in order for you guys to enjoy the video portion of it, we do a few pictures along the way and I shoot some cameras out the window. However, today today we have it. I had to stop and cough. We have it shot out the window, but the window is shut. So the screen is in the way. The screen is in the way, the window's in the way. It's not a very beautiful sight at all. It's yucky. Let me switch over to it and I will show you what I'm talking about here. There we go. It's coming up just a second. There's a little bit of delay. We we like that, but you can see the screen's really messing up. Plus, I got the light on in here so I can see what I'm doing, and that really hurts the picture, and I turned the light off and I can't tell any difference, so I'll turn it back on. Light off and I can't tell any difference, so I'll turn it back on. But uh, that is the. That is the most lousy picture of the outside I think I've seen in a long time. It looks like a mosaic somebody's painted onto some kind of acrylic paint and, uh, it's even a smeared. Look, but you're what you're actually seeing focused in is the screen. Anyhow, that's what we do. Let's switch it over to our weather app and I'll see if I can't figure out how to get that back up here, up here, and there we go. We've got the weather app coming up now and, um, what that will do is give you an opportunity to see what we're talking about. So we're going to go into the weather here locally and uh won't spend much time on it because everybody knows here locally what it is. But anybody listening to us in other areas or other countries get a little bit of weather from southern Illinois, the Midwest of the United States. It is 47 degrees right now, according to this thing, and I usually check it with my local and I mean local local to see what it shows, because it's always a degree or so different and I have to find my little temperature app here. But according to this weather app app, which is coming from the weather channel, it is 47 degrees, but here locally I have 46 degrees. So I don't know where their temperature is coming from, but we'll go by mine. It's 46 here on the outskirts of Mount Vernon, so yay, and the humidity or rainfall is 100 percent. So there you go. That's what it's saying, but it's really not. I think they're forecasting today 48% rainfall by 9 o'clock, so in about 40 minutes we're going to see 48%.

Sunny: 11:31

Woo-woo.

Bruce: 11:34

I think they're silly, definitely silly. Anyhow, sonny, you got anything to say?

Sunny: 11:44

Well, I do, it's about time, bruce. You got anything to say. Well, I do, it's about time, bruce. You asked me Gosh.

Bruce: 11:49

Well, I didn't want you to talk too much.

Sunny: 11:51

Oh, I see how you are. You're a slacker.

Bruce: 11:56

You're a bum Slacker, bum All right?

Sunny: 12:01

Well, we'll give you this for sure. I wanted to say hello everybody. I am Sonny and I'm glad to have everybody aboard. Our podcast episode you didn't say Bruce, it's 107. We are episode 107 today and if you're listening to this after we recorded it, you're going to miss us talking about May the 4th.

Bruce: 12:34

No, they're not. They're going to hear the recording, they're just not going to hear it on May the 4th.

Sunny: 12:41

Oh, hmm, yeah, you're right, forgive me, bruce, I'm so sorry no, you're not, you're just giving me a hard time yeah, for sure, but anyway, I want to thank everybody for being here on the live and everybody that's listening to us listening to us later. It's great to be able to be part of this podcast. I thank you, bruce, for inviting me on a long time ago and I hope you're still enjoying me being here. That's all, bye now.

Bruce: 13:26

Don't tell people bye, because they'll think they need to hang up now or shut it off or go away. We are not saying bye, oh you're right, alright, hi everybody. Oh man, you need to calm down a little bit.

Sunny: 13:45

Oh yeah, that need to calm down a little bit. Oh yeah, that's like the cat calling me something else black. You just call me to calm down because you're not calm.

Bruce: 14:01

Boy, you messed that all up so bad. But okay, I kind of know what you're talking about and, anyhow, 46 degrees according to my local temperature and it's according to the weather app I've got it's 47 degrees. Humidity is 94% and we are getting wind at three miles an hour. Air quality is 29, which is good, Good.

Sunny: 14:34

You know, bruce, I can do that, it's good.

Bruce: 14:40

You sound like a car trying to start hey.

Sunny: 14:45

That's not fair.

Bruce: 14:52

And I'm not sure what that means. But good, all right, we're at air quality 29. Things are looking pretty good, and what I like to do for our weather section is just talk a little bit about it, which we did, and then compare it to phoenix arizona. So right now in phoenix arizona it's 69 degrees, yeah, out there in the desert and it's partly cloudy, and they're having a humidity of 32. Oh boy, I wonder what it'd be like to try to breathe out there where there's not a bunch of humidity hanging in your lungs. Uh, the wind blowing six miles an hour and the air quality is 35, which kind of surprises me. It's a little bit higher than we are. It's still good, probably because it's a little bit more dusty out there, because they don't have much rain. Okay, they're saying they got an air quality alert coming up until 9 pm their time Not central time, but their time and we'll go back a little bit to the Sunday, the fourth day of May, and we'll read a little bit about the weather here in the Mount Vernon area Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain, duh.

Bruce: 16:28

Yeah, been raining all morning, not real hard, but, yeah, pavement's wet. That's why I got the window closed because the rain has been so lousy and we are having wet, they're having dry. Anyway, sunrise was at 5.55 am today and sunset will be at 7.50 pm and moonrise comes at 12.20 pm. And moonrise comes at 12 20 pm and moon set will be at 2 13 am. We have a uv index of zero, probably because it's cloudy, hard to get any sunshine through all those clouds. You think that's a intentional? I'm not saying anything, just saying all right, in phoenix, arizona, today again is 78 degrees. What 78? No, it wasn't on the other page, it was let's go back, that's messed up. 69 degrees. Wow, that's weird. So we'll go by the front page.

Bruce: 17:49

I didn't notice that that thing's. Oh, that's what the high is supposed to be, I guess. Yep, it shows me the high. I misread it. Duh, it's supposed to be partly cloudy, with afternoon showers or thunderstorms. Wow, in Phoenix, arizona, high of 78 degrees. Winds, southwest at 10 miles to 20 miles an hour, chance of rain 40%. Wow, interesting. Sunrise in Phoenix was at 536 am Excuse me, I had to cough and sunset will be at 7 13 pm. Anybody out in phoenix, arizona, let us know? All right, and moonrise will be at 12 07 pm and moonset will be at 135 am and the only difference is because they are farther west. And there you have it, the weather from the Ugly Cracking Duck Podcast Studio, and I hope you guys enjoyed that nonsense.

Sunny: 19:08

Oh boy nonsense, you are something else. Bruce you know what, what I don't know. I just said you know what?

Bruce: 19:21

When you say you know what, that usually leads to somebody answering you know, like you're getting ready to tell me something. So I go what? And you go, blah, blah, blah, blah, tell me some fantastic wild story.

Sunny: 19:37

I don't want to.

Bruce: 19:42

Okay, forgive us folks, it's early in the morning and somebody's being weird.

Sunny: 19:49

Yeah, stop it, Bruce. They don't need to hear your weirdness.

Bruce: 19:54

Okay, okay, on with the show. All right, that is the weather report, as we said, and we're going to shoot what Over to what.

Sunny: 20:08

The earthquake report.

Bruce: 20:11

Yes, sir, we're going to shoot over to the Earthquake Report and we're going to show everybody what the earthquakes are doing for the last seven days. So if you are catching this, I'm going to shift it to so you get a little bit of video. But I'm going to make sure yep, all right, it shows up. I want to make sure it shows up. What I'm doing is switching over my video effects, trying to make sure I switch over to Instagram. I can see it, but I have to turn on one of my logos. That way I don't do this really well. Let me show you what it does. I'll just show you what it does. I'll wait for it to pop up. So right now you're seeing the earthquake reporting system and now it's shifted over where I've got the instagram up and it just shows a double image of the instagram thing. So I'll switch back to the. Yeah, there it goes. So if you're watching on instagram, you get to see why I put that uh, why I put that scene up with the uh logo, because it will stop all that from happening when I switch over and look at instagram, make sure I got the picture right. So there you go. That's what I was doing. If you're listening to me, you're going oh boy, what's he even talking about? But anyway, I don't like to do live video of me and the room in here. I, when I used to do it on twitch, I had a green screen set up which I'll probably do again sometime and I would shoot the green screen and I'd show me playing the game in the game. But, um, I don't know. I'll work on that. I've been thinking about going back to youtube and doing the audio only, like I'm doing now, with a few pictures, picture slides and stuff, and if I do that, we'll probably tell you guys so you can switch over to YouTube. That is the plan.

Bruce: 22:50

So right now we are on the earthquake screen. I'm going to switch it back so you guys can see what we're talking about. And the earthquakes has been wild. I'm telling you what now, right now, they have for the seven days. We do a seven day report and what that is. We key it up and we go back and look at the seven days, previous seven days. We get a full count of all magnitudes and then we do a 2.5 count, that this is the magnitude earthquakes, this is what they equal to in the 4.5 and above and then we call out anything above 6.0. That's happened in the last seven days and let you know it's been very active for the past two weeks and I'm going to jot down this information. Try to do it while I'm talking. It's kind of hard, but I'm going to jot it down so I can remember what I had on the screen.

Bruce: 24:07

We went back last week. We didn't want to do a podcast, we wanted to kind of give it a break, do it every two weeks there for a while. We wanted to kind of give it a break, do it every two weeks there for a while. We was doing it every week and it was just really wearing us out. So we're back to every two weeks and we hopefully we'll be able to do it that way. But I may do a live weather and earthquake report quickly on the off week. So, like this week, I'm doing a full podcast episode. Next week I may just do the live, only not publish it on my podcast hosting page and then just to give you an update of what's going on in our earthquake and the weather. I think they all correlate to what's going on in this weird life we have.

Bruce: 24:58

But I went back on 4-27, which was a week from today, I believe, and we did our report. So I'm going to tell you the last time what it was, you the last, last time what it was. So if I look at all the earthquakes for that last seven day report, it was 1925 earthquakes, so it was down a little bit from 418, because 418 was 2,281. Excuse me, sorry about that, but what I've noticed not every time, but what I've noticed most of the time is the number of earthquakes. If they're more, all of them are more. Then the larger ones are less, which is a good thing. But if the full count, the all count, is lower than the larger magnitude earthquakes, the count is higher, not always, but most of the the time, which is not a good thing. So anyway, um, last time we backed it up seven days and it was 274, which the time before there was 276. So that week was different. It went all the way up on all counts and then the 4.5 and over was 78. And the week before that it was 95. So somehow it was totally the opposite than what I had been seeing.

Bruce: 27:03

So my theory has not been holding out real well, but I wrote down the 6.0 earthquakes and they were anything above 6.0 earthquakes, and they were anything above 6.0. I write it down because usually there's nota lot on the list and they're the ones that does the most damage and take lives. If they're in a populated area when they hit, a lot of them are out in the ocean or on non-populated areas of the countries, which is harder and harder to find, but they don't hurt a lot of people. But on 4-27, that prior week, that seven-day period, we had a 6.3 in Ecuador. It happened on 425. We had a 6.2 in turkey. That was pretty rough, man, that went uh, it had a lot of buildings destroyed and people lost lives.

Bruce: 28:06

I forgot to go back and look up the, the full count, but it was not good. It happened on 4-23. And then in the Philippines we also had a 6.2, and it was on the 22nd of April. So there you go, that's what we had. And, like I said, the prior week was on 418. The numbers were higher, but it only had two 6.0 or above earthquakes and one of them was a 6.6 and one of them was a 6.5, which was what normally happens when I have higher counts. So this week we have a total of 1 million. No, no, I'm just teasing everybody. Lord, I hope we don't have 1 million of anything like that, but our total count for the last seven days was 1774.

Bruce: 29:15

Now, normally I make this a guessing game and I have people guess and come in and tell me what's happening and what they think. And I'm not going to do that this time. We don't have enough people doing it, so we're just going to just read it to you and let you know what's happening. We figured that'd be better instead of making people guess and stuff. Plus, I don't have any in the live right now.

Bruce: 29:45

I I set this up to go live just in case anybody was paying attention, but I didn't expect anybody to come in there because I just sent the message out prior, about 15 minutes prior. So I don't give anybody enough notice. Plus, I'm not normally doing it on a Sunday morning, so that didn't give anybody any opportunity to know where I was at. So there, I snuck one in on you, but we did that just because we wanted to go ahead and go live, make sure we got the practice and the opportunity and we would be able to record it live. When we record live it's a little bit different because I I don't have to um, I don't have the opportunity I should say it that way to pause the recording, go do something different, come back and turn it back on with the live. It's just full strength live and I can't do anything about it.

Sunny: 30:56

Yeah, you're telling people you mess up, you're just there, you can't change it and you don't normally edit after you record the live, so you just post the same old thing.

Bruce: 31:13

Pretty much. There's been a couple times. There's been a long pause in my life, so I get rid of that, but that's about all I do. So anyway, to keep this short, we have several earthquakes. Like I said, the full count was 1773 for the last seven days and we just looked it up this morning, about two minutes ago. So there you go. So the 2.5 and over count magnitude totals was 337. 337, that's uh let's see what was the last week 274.

Bruce: 32:07

So it looks like this one's going to do what I normally see it's going to be lower for the all count, but the other numbers are going to go up. So the 2.5 was 337 for the last seven days and the 4.5 was are you ready? It was 138. The 4.5, writing this down 138. The 4.5, brightness down 138. And last week it was 78. So again, what I normally see is happening this week we have a lower all count, which means when we have a higher all all count, the 2.5 and under has more, and then the other numbers are lower. That's what we usually see. And then when the lower, when the all count for this last seven days I hope you're following me because I'm not explaining it real well, but the all count is lower for the last seven days. That means the 2.5 lower counts are lower, but the other counts go up. That's why the there's a difference. It's really weird how that works, but that's why it works. So our 2.5 was all the way up to 337 this week, but it's only 274 the last seven days. No, the, which would have been two weeks ago. And the 4.5 was 138, which back on 4, 4-27, I went back seven days from there it was only 78. So now we're going to look up. I should have wrote this down earlier so I could read it to you very well. I usually pre-write this down so when I get on my recording I can just record everything that's happening as I have read it off. But now I'm going through and looking them up.

Bruce: 34:20

But we have a 6.0 earthquake that happened on 5 3 in indonesia. So that's the first one. Indonesia gets hit quite a bit, a lot, a lot. So we see the first 6.0 and above. Like I said, that's the only ones I bring out for the 6.0 and above, and that one happened on 5-3. And then we are going to scroll on down and look at these and there's a 6.5 and there's a 6.5 in Argentina. 6.5, now, that's a major earthquake 6.5 in Argentina, and that one happened on 5-2.

Bruce: 35:30

So, as I tell everybody, anytime we see these earthquakes, we need to keep in prayer these people and these lands that are having these. May the Father show mercy on these people. If you don't believe in prayer, don't believe in God, then send your positive thoughts, because I do believe there's a lot of power in thinking, talking, acting positive. So, anyway, do that, do that for me, if nothing else. And then we're going to go on. We had that 6.5.

Bruce: 36:09

Oh man, okay, we got a 7.4 on this stretch, and that one was the 2025 Drake Passage. Now, I haven't seen that one before, but if I'm looking at the map right, it's on the very southern tip of South America. That's a weird name for that, but the Drake Passage had a 7.4 earthquake and that happened on 5-2. On 5-2. What we're seeing is the earthquake counts have been high for a long time. Consistently, they are increasing quite a bit, and the number of big ones are getting bigger or getting higher on the count. So that's why we do this. We bring it out Now that Drake Passage that I was talking about.

Bruce: 37:24

It has had many earthquakes in that area, in that area. I'm looking right now to see if I can get a good count. But yeah, wow, that's all. Basically, at the end of Argentina it looks like 7.4. All right, there was a 6.8 earthquake in the McGuire Island region. I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that m-a-c-q-u-a-r-i-e mcquire island 6.8.

Bruce: 38:23

What we are seeing is several big earthquakes which, again, that's been the pattern that I've noticed in the past. We'll have a lower count of all the earthquakes, but what that means is the higher earthquakes, like the six and over increases, which is not good. It's just, it's weird how it does that. It just it's weird how it does that. Now, if I could figure out how to way to predict and there's been several people believe they have come up with a way to do it, but as of yet I have not really seen them be real accurate but if we could come up with a good way to predict that there's going to be, you know, maybe not even where just that there was going to happen, it would be very interesting and maybe helpful. But I haven't done it yet. Oh, I didn't count that.

Bruce: 39:30

That earthquake happened on 4-29. So we're going back quite a ways, almost to the end of our seven days and I'm scrolling through right now and I'm just looking for any more, and that's the end of our list. So this seven-day count, we had one, had one, two, three, four earthquakes over six, and the week, the on 4 27. I went back seven days on that date. We had three and on 418, which had a real high, all count, all magnitudes, we only had two over six. Now, they were pretty good ones, but we only had two. So the theory's kind of holding true still.

Sunny: 40:31

You know, if you get that theory figured out, we get famous, don't we?

Bruce: 40:38

no, we're not doing it to be famous. Uh, if we could figure something out, maybe we could help people well, good luck well, thanks, sonny. I don't even know if you was being a smart aleck or for you was really wishing me good luck. But you know, some don't believe in good luck. They believe in the power of God. So there you go.

Sunny: 41:01

Well, you got me.

Bruce: 41:02

That's true.

Bruce: 41:04

All right. Well, this is Sonny, and I don't want to keep people on the live and listen to me, so I'm going to tell you guys, see you later. I'll finish this podcast up and we will get it posted on our webpage so you can hear it. And then, uh, I should say this episode, not the podcast. We don't want to finish that podcast, we want to keep it going, keep podcasting, as but Buzzsprout says.

Bruce: 41:33

But while I'm on my life, I want to say hello to my fellow people at uh, real king. Um, thank you for uh putting up with me and being part of my life, and uh also that we want to give a shout out to the people at seven brew, which I get to see, maybe too often. Um and uh. Well, we're going to say goodbye for now for the live, but I'm going to keep recording uh for everybody else and we're going to finish this episode out. It'll probably come out on monday, so if you're listening to it on monday any time thereafter, I hope you got a chance to watch some Star Wars this weekend. See you guys later. All right, we are back folks. I hope you enjoyed that live section. If you didn't, I'm sorry, but we are recording this. Uh, still, um, if you didn't hear our live, then you're not seeing any difference in the recording, but the fact that we said we're um, yeah, all right.

Sunny: 42:52

Well, let's go on. We don't want to bore him too bad, bruce, or maybe we do. Hey, maybe we ought to bore him some more. We are the worst podcast in the known universe yep, you are right.

Bruce: 43:11

Okay, let's bore them a little bit more. Let's talk oh, excuse me, uh talk a little bit about our news corner. That's what we uh pull out some news from the internet and we talk a little bit about it. Nothing big, nothing major. We try to pull everybody's thought process away from all the hobgoblin, that stuff that's going on with the news and the political scene and the uh swaying of people's opinion by most of the news media. That's not what we're here about. We want to sway you a little bit, but it's more about the conspiracy. End of it.

Sunny: 43:52

Okay, yeah you better state that right we are that's not what I said it's what I said you are sure acting a little bit strange today.

Bruce: 44:14

Did you get up too early? Yep, all right, well, okay.

Sunny: 44:27

We'll call it too early Sonny. Well, I am early up and I am Sonny, so I guess that fits Bruce. What have you got there? Is that your? It is, it's your star wars coffee cap it is.

Bruce: 44:42

Yep, I had tea in it earlier and I went ahead and got me a one cup of coffee to get the caffeine. I drink one cup a day maybe, yeah, most days one cup a day. Maybe, yeah, most days one cup. But they say the caffeine actually opens up your arteries and I hope it does help me with that. But yeah, we're at the news corner part of the episode. That's where we talk about some of the news that I pulled up. So the first one on the list Repeat that, if you could.

Bruce: 45:23

Nope, I don't think I can. But we are going to talk now about the dire wolves. Now, if anybody's been paying any attention to what's going on in social media and the news, we have now three dire wolf cubs and they went extinct. Let me look this article up and I can just read it for you yourself. I think it's funny how that the article is brought to you by the hollywood. Get that hollywood post. But it's the people that are the hollywood reporter. I'm sorry. So take that as you will, if it even means anything, but the dire wolves was brought back to extinct from extension extinction. Oh, I can't talk. Maybe I need more coffee. It doesn't help that my nose is all stopped up today. Usually, uh, you know, I have to take allergy pills this time of year and, uh, I took one before I went to bed and usually when I wake up I'm better, but, boy, not this morning. I think that rain has blown something in, or the storm, rain, storm. I should say, not the actual rain, but anyway. But anyway, what we was talking about is dire wolves. That was a type of wolf Game of Thrones. That show actually brought them out or talked about them, but they've been gone in extinction since prehistoric times, but they have been brought back by dna. They were extracted two fossils and 20 edits of genetic code of the gray wolf, and that's the species that was closest living relative, according to researchers. So they have brought back these gray wolves, they colored them white, like the dire wolf, and they are. What did they do? They got three males no, two males and a female. So there we go.

Bruce: 47:52

We're experimenting with animals now. Have been for quite a while, though if you remember the sheep uh, I can't remember that sheep's name. I should have looked it up, but they've been doing this for years, uh, messing with this stuff. But uh, if you, um, remember what it says in the bible, if anybody believes in that stuff anymore but it says that it will be like unto the days of noah. So you read into that whatever you want, but in noah's day, supposedly, they were doing the same thing with animals and humans messing with the DNA. There you go. That's the first article of the day. The next article will be what Article, I don't know. I've covered up my ability to look. There we go, got it back now. Boy, I'm telling you I'm running a tight show today. It's just all over the place.

Sunny: 49:10

Hey Bruce, maybe you got up too early. Maybe you ought to go back to bed.

Bruce: 49:14

No, Maybe you ought to get this episode recorded, like I wanted to do and you can help me. And then we're going to go watch some Star Wars movies.

Sunny: 49:28

Okay, if you insist. Gosh, you're making it so hard on me.

Bruce: 49:37

Boy, you're sounding a lot like me now.

Sunny: 49:41

You was a good teacher.

Bruce: 49:46

I know a lot of people will disagree with you, Sonny, on that one.

Sunny: 49:51

Well, they can just disagree all they want, but I have to live with you.

Bruce: 49:57

True, true that, okay, next news article we're going to talk about the white gold. Yeah, white gold, and this is a pretty. This article caught my eye. It was. Let me see if I can find the page. I'm having trouble getting my browser to do what it should do. All right, it messed up. Why did it mess up? Something's not right here. Try one more time trying to pull up this article so I can actually talk sensible about it.

Bruce: 50:47

But this white gold they're talking about is they're comparing it to the manna of the bible. There we go, we got it up finally. It's from the bbc, uh, but they're calling it the return of sicily's ancient white gold and they're comparing it to the manna of the bible times. Now, I'm not sure if it's the same stuff or they're just making it seem the same. But the man, if you remember the story, is what, um, god sent the Israelites when they wandered in the wilderness. They would get up in the mornings, collect the manna, and they wouldn't say be able to save it for that, just that one day. And they would have to do it all over, except for the day before the sabbath or the holy day. Um, that day it would last longer for some weird reason, uh, but anyway, this uh manna is what they're calling it.

Bruce: 51:55

The white gold from Sicily is supposedly going to be a superfood, but it comes from trees. It's the liquid out of the trees, the sap, basically Not calling you a sap, but a sap coming from the trees, and they have used it in food for centuries. But in the past 80 days they've not been able to do it. And they say in the past 80 days because of urbanization and industrialization. It led to it nearly vanishing. So for the past 30 years, this Gerald Lardy made his mission to put this biblical superfood back on our tables. And again they're referencing the manna out of the Bible and I'm still not positive. That's the same stuff, or if it's just a way of them getting more um lines of news.

Bruce: 53:08

But they have a picture on here of this manna coming out of the tree and I will post this up on my website and probably on the episodes chapters. If you have a 2.0 podcast player you'll be able to see it, but it's a pretty interesting article. It's found on BBC. The title of the article is the Return of Sicily's Ancient White Gold. So if you're interested in anything like that, go back and check it out. I find it pretty cool. But the picture I've got has a man holding a piece of that dripping sap in his hand and it's showing the tree it's dripping from and everything. It's pretty cool, but they make it into food. They put it in bread and stuff.

Bruce: 54:08

So check it out, man, it's pretty cool. I wouldn't lie to you.

Sunny: 54:19

I wouldn't lie to you.

Bruce: 54:23

No, but you sure can wind a big tail Okay.

Sunny: 54:27

When have you known me to do that?

Bruce: 54:31

When have you not? Okay, I'm not going to argue with you because I'll lose. Oh boy, would I ever On was the next show? No, on was the next news clip we're going to talk about guess what, guess what, or who, I should say, guess what movie turned on April the 9th? I should have done a podcast a couple weeks ago with it, but I didn't. On April the 9th, what movie turned 50 years old? And this is a particular good subject for me, because my wife and quite a few Americans like this show. Um, but it's not an American movie, believe it or not. This also I found on the BBC. If you go to bbccom, you'll find these show or hello, these uh news articles.

Sunny: 55:35

All right, nobody suspended in.

Bruce: 55:40

What is that word? I have no idea what you're talking about, but nobody's curious. Is that what you're saying?

Sunny: 55:50

No, nobody's hanging on your words, waiting for your answer.

Bruce: 55:56

Oh well, how do you know that? Are you talking to everybody? I just know. All right, well, I don't believe you, sonny, I think you're just giving me a hard time. But anyway, the movie that just turned 50 on April the 9th was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Do you guys remember that? Have you ever seen that? It's really I'm going to have to say it a kind of a stupid movie, but the one it's an old dry comedy type movie by the British and it turned 50, and the one scene that I remember and hearing the the phrase bring your dead out, and it was just kind of. You just had to watch the movie and if you haven't go watch it, I'm telling you will enjoy it. Maybe, maybe not. Anyhow, mighty Python and the Holy Grail turned 50 on April the 9th. What do you know about that? Pretty cool, huh, okay.

Sunny: 57:15

So on with the show. All right, bruce. What's on the news next?

Bruce: 57:22

Well, I got one last news article I want to talk about and then I'll let everybody in peace go. I hope they get to church and do what they need to do today and I hope somebody's watched Star Wars today and we're going to. And while you're listening to this, later on, I hope you have a good week and a good day. But anyway, this article is. I found it in the Middle East Monitor. I found it in the Middle East Monitor and I just happened to lock onto it by accident, or I would not have caught this article at all. But because I'm always talking about the weather here in the United States, specifically in southern Illinois, the Midwest, I like to bring this article up because they have a different kind of storm. They had a sandstorm in Iraq and this article says it hospitalized over 3,700 people and we deal with tornadoes and stuff, but we don't have to deal with sandstorms and they have them all the time. They say no deaths were reported in the sandstorm, which is a plus 1,747 people admitted to the hospital.

Bruce: 58:59

I'm sorry my nose stopped up and I can't hardly talk, but in Baghdad since Monday. So this article was on the 15th of April. Yeah, 15th of April, and that was, let me see, I'll look back for you guys so you can uh know what I'm talking about. 15th of april was on tuesday, so the article was written on tuesday and monday was the storm, apparently. But I caught that, caught my eye. I mean, I'm you know, you see sandstorms every now and then in movies. Uh, if you're up to people that comes from the middle east and you talk to them a lot, you've probably been confronted with the sandstorms, but most of us here in the United States we don't have to deal with that. I mean, maybe somebody out in the desert might see some and they may know what that's all about. But in the middle of the United States all we have is rain and floods and tornadoes and it's very uncommon for us to even think about, uh, any of that.

Bruce: 1:00:23

And I seen the article and I thought wait a minute. You know, this is important to these people. They are suffering just like we do during bad storms, and this needs to be talked about. So, um, they're in the middle east, they need your prayers, they deal with this all the time. Apparently it's, uh, this is one of the more bad storms that they've had. Let's see, the article says the highest number of cases in the past in baghdad was,014. So this was what triple Wow. Anyway, that's our articles. I hope you guys remember these people and pray for them or send them positive thoughts. This has been almost what two weeks, three weeks, two weeks ago, and uh, it doesn't mean that you know, they don't don't still need your help and prayer and positive thoughts. But that is the news corner of Episode 107.

Sunny: 1:01:36

And you're still calling it News Corner Wow.

Bruce: 1:01:41

Yeah, you still haven't come up with a better name, have you?

Sunny: 1:01:44

Well, no, but that's not my job.

Bruce: 1:01:48

Well, I'm going to call it News Corner until somebody gives me a better title and I say, oh yeah, I like that. Still waiting? Okay, all right. Well, with that said, we're just going to talk a little bit about our value for value. That's what we do, believe it or not. We don't hide behind a paywall or have you do anything like that to hear our show. We want our show out there free, but we do, from time to time, ask you for your help, uh, contributions, or you know wisdom, um, just telling us you're out there listening, anything like that will boost our morale. We really can use prayer for us. Our show, anything like that would help. That's what value for value is. If you hear the show and you get a laugh, you get a conviction or anything, you need to show us that value that you got out of it one way or the other. We're not asking for everybody to contribute money. We're just asking for you to acknowledge we're here. Contribute financially if you feel led, or just help with artwork or ideas, anything like that, but pray for us for sure, as anything like that, but pray for us for sure.

Bruce: 1:03:40

That's what we try to keep everybody entertained and not thinking about the world because the world has got crazy. I don't know about anybody else If they've been paying attention to the news, most of it leads you to hate one or two different people and think they're totally crazy and they're out to corrupt the whole wide world. And then maybe another couple news article or news places does the other thing and it's just like they. Everybody's trying to bid you between one or two different peoples, trying to get you to hate each other and not notice what's really going on. And what's really going on is the rich are getting richer and the poor is getting poor and we're being segregated. But and I'm not talking about the doctor who's trying to work his um schooling off and he may drive a fancy car, but he's no way near rich. He's a poor fool like the rest of us, being used by the society.

Bruce: 1:04:58

I would say no, I'm talking about the ultimate rich that gets in their limo, gets drove to the airport and gets in their private jet of 50 different choices and goes somewhere that has no idea what their servants and their drivers and their pilots are going through because they're so much out of touch. And I'm not going to say too much more. I just want you to know that, through all that whirlwind of garbage that we're having to put up with, I just like to stick out and say, hey, try to relax for a minute, get all that out of your mind and enjoy what we have now, before we not have it anymore, if that makes sense, and pray for each other, be nice to each other, because every one of us bleed. Every one of us is going through it. We need to stick together and pull each other up together, not push one person down to get up. It didn't work that way, guys at all, but anyway. That said, we believe in value for value.

Bruce: 1:06:14

So if you get anything out of our episodes, let us know. All right, so we're here. We try to do it every other week and, uh, every now and then we do every week. But go to theuglyquackingduckcom. Subscribe to our web page. There you can find a little bit more information. We post every now and then you can. Also, once you're subscribed, you can get our episode early before we put it on our hosting page and they put it out, because usually it's a day or two earlier, according to when we get the episode recorded. We try to do a live section on Fridays when I'm off this week. We didn't get that done. That's why we recorded on Sunday. Anyhow, thank you for being here, for being part of the show, for listening to all this mumble jumble. I hope everybody has a great week. Once they hear this, they have a better week.

Sunny: 1:07:24

Hopefully that it brings up some kind of joy for you yeah, I hope y'all have a great day, a great week and a great month. This is May and it's the beginning of May, the first part of the week.

Bruce: 1:07:40

Oh, you're right, I should have said that, yeah, it's a new month. Everybody, we ought to enjoy it as much as we can. Now around here, it's going to start getting warm and probably humid. After all, this rain goes through. After all this rain goes through. So, yeah, back to mowing the grass and the summer-type opportunities and jobs and deals.

Sunny: 1:08:03

Yeah, don't go so downer. You need to go back to bed.

Bruce: 1:08:09

No, I'm going to go watch a movie.

Sunny: 1:08:13

All right, whatever, Bye everybody.

Bruce: 1:08:16

Wow, that was quick, All right, whatever. Bye everybody. Oh wow, that was quick, All right, everybody 73,. May the Father's blessings be with you and we're going to bid you farewell. I hope everybody enjoyed it.