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The Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast
Duck Tales: When Radio Waves Go Haywire
Bruce and Sunny celebrate Mother's Day while diving into weather forecasts, earthquake trends, and mysterious atmospheric signal patterns detected by a SID receiver.
• Weather comparison between Southern Illinois (56°F, 71% humidity) and Phoenix, Arizona (61°F, 17% humidity)
• Full moon expected tonight with moonrise at 7:22 pm
• Earthquake report shows 1,923 total earthquakes this week, up from 1,774 last week
• Only one major earthquake (6.0 magnitude) in the Southern East Pacific Rise
• Discussion of pattern where increased small earthquakes may prevent larger seismic events
• Bruce's SID receiver showing unusual straight-line patterns followed by dramatic signal jumps before storms
• Frequencies between 7.8-140 Hz showing abnormally high readings
• Speculation about natural atmospheric changes versus potential technological influences
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Speaker 1:You are listening to the ugly quacking duck podcast yep, and I am sunny and we're glad you're aboard yes, sir, we are glad to have you aboard.
Speaker 2:This is episode 108 of the worst podcast in the known universe.
Speaker 1:Oh, you're still using that tagline.
Speaker 2:Yep, still using it? Yeah, I think it's a pretty good tagline, so I'm going to hang on to it for a while until I get bored of it, and then we'll change it to something else. But again, welcome aboard. You're listening to the Ugly Quackin' Duck podcast. This is Sunday morning. We're doing this real early because it's Mother's Day and we want to get it out so people can enjoy Mother's Day and they'll know that we have said hello and welcome to Mother's Day and I hope everybody enjoys it.
Speaker 1:Wow, what's so big deal about Mother's Day?
Speaker 2:Well, it's the day we celebrate mothers.
Speaker 1:Well, in my opinion, you ought to give them something for putting up with you guys and gals. That's a lot of torment for mothers.
Speaker 2:Well, that's exactly what Mother's Day is about, Sonny. We're supposed to give our mothers gifts, flowers, love, a card, something to show our appreciation for what they went through to raise us.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh well, that's a good deal.
Speaker 2:There you go. Now you're getting in the spirit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, let's go, mothers Yay.
Speaker 2:All right, all right, that's the way you ought to feel about your mom. So Mother's Day is here. We just want to celebrate it. We're going to keep this really short. I hope we're not going to talk a whole lot.
Speaker 1:Oh, you always talk a whole lot.
Speaker 2:I have to interrupt you to get you to stop.
Speaker 2:Uh, okay, we're moving on. We're going to do the weather now. Uh, we're not. We're not transmitting broadcasting this live today. We're going to stick with you know, know, the recorded portion, so I can get it out and get it up on the podcast hosting page and I'm going to also put it on our website. There's not going to be any delay, I'm just going to hit live for both of them, or that's what we call. When we put it on the hosting page and hit the button, it goes uh out. So with that, all baloney, said sonny, you doing all right this week yes, sir, I want to give a little bit of the weather report.
Speaker 1:it nice. We had like two and a half days worth of sunshine. Saturday was beautiful. Today looks to be another beautiful day. We were celebrating the warm weather, although last week there was a couple rainy days and it looked kind of blah, but it came out to be a beautiful week.
Speaker 2:Well, that's pretty good. Yes, it did. I enjoyed it very much. I'm going to get a sip of tea. Hang on, folks, there we go, yep Tea. What kind of tea you got there burrs I've got my um uh roasted dandelion tea and ginger and uh turmeric all mixed together drinking hard now yes, I am.
Speaker 2:I am drinking hard. Okay, we're going to jump into the weather, and he gave the local report for the last seven days. I haven't looked what they're predicting next week. We'll have to do that. All right, are you ready for this, folks? Next week, starting on Monday the 12th, they're predicting a percentage, 55% to be exact, saying mostly cloudy with thunderstorms, boo, boo.
Speaker 1:We don't need no more rain, we need some fun, although I like running around out in the weeds and catching bugs. But okay, next story.
Speaker 2:Okay, next story Tuesday. They're predicting what? 88% mostly cloudy with thunderstorms. Oh, 88%, moraine Yuck. Wednesday partly sunny. Thursday, mostlyuck. Wednesday partly sunny. Thursday mostly cloudy. Friday mostly cloudy. And then Saturday, sunny. Now this is an outlook for the next seven days, but it'll probably change quite a bit. It always does. There's one group of people that can predict something or do something and say something and it'd be totally wrong, and everybody goes back and watches them again. Kind of funny that way, almost like politicians, did I say that.
Speaker 1:You said that, for sure, boo.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, boo-hoo you All right. Well, boo-hoo, you, all right. So, looking into the weather then, on my little dashboard we have 56 degrees and fair here in Mount Vernon, 71% humidity and the wind's blowing 5 miles an hour and the air quality is 46, which is pretty good. Now, if we turn it over to Phoenix, arizona, which is where I like to kind of compare, it is 17% humidity. Boy, they're dry. They got 8 miles an hour wind and 50 air quality, which is still good.
Speaker 2:Wow, now they say 56 degrees here and I looked it up and we have 54 where I'm at. So there's still a couple degrees difference. So take it as you wish, but it's right around the 55 mark. How's that sound? And today they're predicting it gets up to 80 degrees. The wind's going to be east, northeast, 9 miles an hour, some clouds this morning, and this is for our local area in Mount Vernon, southern Illinois. Yes, it will give way to generally sunny skies. This afternoon we're hoping we get a high of 80 degrees. That would be nice, but that's what they're saying. So we'll have to wait and see. Sunrise was at 547 am and sunset will be at 756 am and sunset will be at 7 56 am. No, uh, 7, 56 pm. Wow, uh. Uv index will be 9 of 11, so it's starting to get high out there on the uv.
Speaker 2:Let's switch over to showy arizona. Yeah, phoenix, they're predicting it's 61 degrees as a high today. Wow, that's a huge difference. But they're supposed to get rain, cloudy this evening, with showers after midnight and, uh, low 61 degrees. Wow, 61 degrees. Wow, winds, east, northeast, at six miles an hour. So we got a little bit more wind pressure in this location here. Moon rise what about moon? Moon rises at 7 22 pm and moon set will be at 4 54 a am in the morning. And guess what, guys? It's a full moon tonight. Yep, full moon. And thank you for tuning in to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. That is our local weather compared to Phoenix Arizona. I hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 1:Oh boy, Are we going to start calling you Weatherman Bruce?
Speaker 2:Uh, maybe.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:Oh, there you go. That's our switching over to the earthquake report. Yay, what was that it sounded like a rubber band. Rubber band man. You remember that song.
Speaker 1:Of course I don't, Duh. How do you think I am old man?
Speaker 2:All right, well, anyway, that was kind of a funky song back when I was younger. Rubber band man, look it up.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I might, but I'm not that old.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, we'll give you that. Let's switch over to the earthquake report. For the last seven days and it's been busy, it really has. Let me see if I can get it switched over here.
Speaker 1:Won't you tell them what the earthquake report is? Bruce, we got new listeners.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, that's a good idea. I think I will. Our earthquake report we do is we look at the last seven days and compare it to the last report we did, which hopefully was seven days ago, but sometimes we do every two weeks so it gets kind of hard to follow. But the report today is based on the last seven days of activity on earthquakes and we go by the magnitudes activity on earthquakes and we go by the magnitudes. We break it down to all magnitudes, all the 2.5 and over, and then all the 4.5 and over, and then, if there's any 6.0 and above, we read them out separately because them are the dangerous ones. When they start getting close to six and seven, we have damage. A lot of times we have people lose lives and we want to report on those, those cities. So you can pray for them. Or, if you don't believe in prayer, just send them positive thoughts, because then people's going to need help. All right, that's what it's about.
Speaker 1:Well, that's not too bad. You did a good job for an old man.
Speaker 2:Well, you better watch it. I'll be shutting you outside forever.
Speaker 1:No, you won't. You like me too much.
Speaker 2:You wish.
Speaker 1:I know you wish, I know.
Speaker 2:All right, before you bore everybody to death with all your whining, let's go on to the seven-day report, shall we?
Speaker 1:All right, you talk me into it, bruce.
Speaker 2:Okay, looking at the last report, we had 1,774 total, which sounds really low, but that's what we had. Let's go on to the next section. All right, switching over to the earthquake report. I just hesitated there for a minute because my sound wasn't working right again, but we got it.
Speaker 1:You better watch that thing. I think it's going to go crazy and attack you.
Speaker 2:No, it's not. It sounded good, all right, yeah, back into sci-fi, are we?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you got me watching that stuff. You're such a bum.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm glad you're watching that stuff now. Yay Gives you something better to do than gripe at me.
Speaker 1:No, I'll still gripe at you.
Speaker 2:Well, that's probably true too. Anyway, we're back to the earthquake report, and last week I think it was on May the 4th be with you, you know, star Wars Day it was a total of 1,774 earthquakes, which was low, but we had a bunch of 6.0 and over. So this week, you want to guess, sonny?
Speaker 1:You bet I do, you bet I do, and I think it's going to go up. Let's see. I think it's going to be 1850 or somewhere around 1800. How's that sound?
Speaker 2:Well, that sounds good. Let's see what it says.
Speaker 1:You know what? This will be a good test of your theory, because it went real low last week and we had a bunch of 6.0 and above earthquakes. Didn't we have some 7s?
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, we did. We had let me look, we had a 6.0, a 6.5, a 7.4, and a 6.8 last week, but the overall earthquakes went down. So there you go, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Okay, sunny guessed 1850 or somewhere around 1800. Okay, that's a pretty good guess. And yes, it did go up, believe it or not, but it wasn't 1800. It went all the way up to 1923. 1,923 earthquakes, that's a lot of earthquakes, folks. That is a lot.
Speaker 1:I'd say so. Wow, it's been doing that a lot lately. Earthquakes, folks, that is a lot. I'd say so, wow, it's been doing that a lot lately, hasn't it?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's went up. I need to go back in my book and look to see what the highest point was, but on 4-11, it went up to 21-50. And then on 4-18, it went to 21,. No 2281. So we're getting a lot of earthquakes. That's all I got to say. Folks, it's dangerous times.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, it is dangerous times. I agree with you, bruce, but uh, I still was close.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess when you can say that you was a thousand off, but, excuse me, you was still low, that's better than being over. Anyhow, let's go on. It was 1923, which I just told you. A month ago it was 2150. So it's lower than that.
Speaker 2:But last week we reported that we had 2.5 and over 337. This week we had 310, so it went down a little bit on the 2.5, but the overall was up. So what that usually means is we had a lot of smaller earthquakes, the ones that were in between the 2.5 and the zero count of magnitude, the little bitty ones. They were more, and that usually indicates you know that you're going to release some tension, you won't have any big ones. But what we have seen is the next week or the week after it increases on or it decreases on overall amount of earthquakes, but the large earthquakes, the big magnitude earthquakes, increases. So as long as we're getting little ones, we have a bigger total and the less big ones, but when the total goes down, it seems like the bigger ones increase. If that all made sense, I hope it did. So that's your theory and you're sticking to it.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure it's a theory. It's just that that's what we have noticed and seen over and over again. It doesn't happen every time, but it's a lot, all right. The 4.5 and over was 101. So see, they're starting to go down into higher magnitude, even though our total count was over. So there you go, count it, take it, bag it, there you go.
Speaker 2:We only had one 6.0 and above, and it was a 6.0, and it was in the southeastern or southern east Pacific rise and that's out there in the ocean. And if you look on the map, it is a little ways out, is a little ways out, well, quite a ways out actually, from, uh, the southern part of africa. And it was the only 6.0 we had, although I want to 5.8, 5.3s, 5.6s, uh, all over the world. I'll give you an example we had uh and uh right on the edge of the asian. We had a 5.3. And then we had several over in South America, all the way down this coast, this western coast of South America, five-point earthquakes 5.3 in Chile, 5.1 in Peru. They're just scattered here and there. We had in Mexico a 5.8.
Speaker 2:Now, I normally don't read these off, but this is pretty, pretty interesting and I reported that earthquake. Let me repeat that that 6.0 southern east pacific rise was, uh, on the coast of africa. That was wrong. I don't know why I said that it was on the coast of south america, way out in the ocean. It wasn't. It wasn't nowhere near the coast.
Speaker 2:But if you look down the coast of south america and then towards the west out into the ocean, then you'll see what they call the south, the southern east pacific rise, and why it's named that way. I have no idea, but that's a fault down there and it gets hammered all the time and there was, uh, they dropped off. Now, uh, at the end of the last seven days last week there was a whole bunch around Tennessee and minor earthquakes, small fractures. So they haven't continued, which is probably a good thing. We'll just have to wait and see. But that's the earthquake report for this week and that was the weather report in southern illinois. Yay, hope you guys enjoyed that. I do have one other thing to well, actually two other things to report before we go bye-bye bye-bye.
Speaker 1:We're not doing that. You should have said that. And everybody's going to shut their radio off or their podcast and they won't hear us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my mistake, I used the word buy, I shouldn't have. But anyway, stick with me just for a couple more minutes. Hang on just a second here. Let me pull it up. All right, as I pull it up, I'll talk about a little bit about it, what I've done in the past. I had a SID receiver in my old work back room and when I got laid off I cleaned all my equipment up and brought it home and I hooked it up. Finally, out in my garage Now a SID receiver is a sudden ionic spherics disturbance recorder and I think I said that right.
Speaker 2:But anyway, it monitors. Basically it monitors radio signals around the earth and then it, when a sun flare hits them, signals will jump up and drop down real quick. It's a sudden thing. You can see the hook when it happens and then you know there's been a flare. But what I started noticing when I turned it on a long time ago, it watched other things.
Speaker 2:So I have been watching signals and uh it, uh last week or so, not just last week, but the week before that, so two weeks ago, and I think before that it the lines are very jagged. I mean it. It shows a line across the graph, but they are jagged. They're not a straight flat line. They're up and down, up and down a little bitty jags and uh, what I noticed is two weeks ago that it was solid. They were just solid straight lines like nothing was happening, and I have never seen it do that. It was getting signal because the the lines were going and I could see on my other part of the graph that they were peaking at certain points and that's the radio signal. But what was strange is it was just solid, a shoe human residence and she said that her residence, that she was saying, was solid and it wasn't doing nothing. It was weird and that's what I was seeing on this graph.
Speaker 2:Anyhow it after that big thunderstorm we had, uh, uh, I think it was the beginning of this week, it might have been the end of last week, but the graphs started going back to their normal jaggedness. But I noticed they go really high and almost off the graph right before a storm. And it's been happening here a lot lately. And if you're conspiracist, you some people believe that we have a harp or other kind of signal generators that will heat up the atmosphere and create storms in certain areas. They even say they have a portable one, that taken it's on a big ship that they can move around in the ocean. And whether all that is true or science fiction, I'm not going to say.
Speaker 1:Science fiction Yay.
Speaker 2:But I do know that I have been noticing that there's a big burst of energy on the graph and it happens down in the lower frequencies around the Schumann resonance starts at 7.83, and I think there's another one at 14 hertz and 20 hertz. But right around that area 7.8, all the way up to probably 140 hertz the signal is graphically heated up and larger and right now it's doing it. I'll try to do a a snap of this screen and put it on the chapter. We're talking about this on my podcast. So hopefully if you're listening to this, you can see that at this time Now when I'm doing a live, I would have showed everybody that, but we're not going to do a live, but anyway, I wanted to bring it to everybody's attention.
Speaker 2:The graph is jagged because it's picking up radio signals and they fluctuate, which you should. So why it was straight before, I have no idea, because I've never seen a signal stay level the whole time unless there wasn't any atmospheric noise to get interfere with that signal. But right now all my signals are jumping up and down like they normally do. But they just increased. They went way up past negative 50. I start my graph off at negative 90 and it goes up to negative 50, and that's usually. They run about anywhere between negative 60 and negative 75, maybe 80, and that's common, but they peaked out way past negative 50 this morning and they're way high and they're all all jostled up the same level. They're different frequencies at different points, but they're all about the same level, which is uncommon. I don't know what's going on, but something's interfering with my signal and between, like I said, 7.8 and about 140, now it's jumped up to 340 hertz in between them areas. It's sky high, it's really high, it's ridiculously high. So I don't know what's going on. It's definitely not a flare, because it don't react that way when a flare hits. Uh. Well, yeah, it could have, could have been a flare. I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 2:But anyway, we're going to sign with everybody so they can go out and enjoy their mother's day. And if you're hearing this after mother's day, I hope you all had a good, great day, enjoyed yourself. And if your mothers have passed and you don't get a chance to enjoy it with them anymore, maybe you can give somebody else a good day, helping them out a little bit. But I hope somehow you enjoy the weekend. So may the father's uh, blessings and gifts go with everybody today and hope you all have a great, wonderful, wonderful day. Sonny, say bye.
Speaker 1:I will and I want to thank everybody. Hey, don't forget value for value, bruce.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Okay, just one quick one. We believe in value for value, so if you get anything out of this show, we hope that you would give us value back, and that could be in financial help or just letting us know you're out there. Send us a text, send us an email. Go to our website the ugly quacking duckcom and you can subscribe to us on the homepage. Go down to the bottom. Type in your email, hit subscribe.
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