Juggling School Starts

Join us as Lily returns to the show after an exciting birthday celebration and a brief bout with an illness. We dive into the sweltering summer weather, tackle the serious topic of drink preferences, and enjoy some cat-caused interruptions that add a splash of spontaneity to our recording.

Shifting gears to the serious and sometimes nerve-wracking topic of earthquakes, we discuss recent seismic activities and the looming threat of mega earthquakes in Japan. Curious about what could cause such natural phenomena? We break it all down and even delve into the fears surrounding potential earthquakes in southern Illinois and South Missouri. Plus, our tips on staying calm and collected during these jittery moments might just offer the comfort you need. And for the younger listeners, we've got some encouraging words about settling into new classrooms and making new friends—because starting a new school year doesn't have to be daunting!

Wrapping things up on a high note, we celebrate our latest podcasting equipment upgrade, which has taken our humble setup to professional levels. From Radio Shack mic mixers to Tascam MixCast podcasting mixers, we share the hiccups and triumphs of this journey. And because we can’t resist adding a bit of fun, we discuss our plans for recording quirky sound effects—think squeaky plastic wrap for Halloween! Plus, meet our new pal Preppy Princess, who adds an extra layer of charm to this already packed episode. Tune in and enjoy the ride with us!

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

Hello world.

Speaker 2 0:05

Hi everyone, and hi to the people that are in it.

Speaker 1 0:09

We are the.

Speaker 3 0:12

Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.

Speaker 1 0:16

Alright, everyone. That sounded good. I think it was in sync. We are doing good. This is episode 24 of the Ugly Cracking Duck, and we just wanted to say good morning to you. It's Saturday morning, august 17th. That's when we sat down to record.

Speaker 2 0:40

Yeah, I don't know when it'll be posted, probably like a day after. Yeah, it'll probably be Sunday night, or so so August 18th it'll be posted probably.

Speaker 1 0:48

Don't make no promises though.

Speaker 3 0:51

Yeah, don't make no promises, Lily.

Speaker 2 0:54

Well, sorry.

Speaker 1 0:57

Well, Lily, glad to have you aboard.

Speaker 3 1:01

Thank you?

Speaker 1 1:01

Yes, it's nice. I'm glad to be back. I have somebody to guess against.

Speaker 3 1:04

I'm glad to be back I'm glad to be back yeah, it's a her after birthday episode.

Speaker 1 1:16

Yeah my after birthday episode you were 11 on your birthday and then I got sick three days after. And then you had to go to school.

Speaker 2 1:26

Yep.

Speaker 1 1:27

So you want to talk about school here in a little bit.

Speaker 2 1:30

Not really, but sure I'm down Chicken.

Speaker 3 1:35

You're the one that said duck, no, I'm not, I'm an alien.

Speaker 1 1:41

Better get your story straight, guys.

Speaker 2 1:56

I don't have to You're're, you're no, no, no, yes, what do we? What?

Speaker 1 1:57

do we know? I don't know. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. That's the thing anyway. Uh, the weather has turned up hot very it. It's more humid than anything.

Speaker 2 2:04

It always seems like at the end of August into September, it just the heat picks up a lot.

Speaker 1 2:11

Very true.

Speaker 2 2:12

It's also mid-August, right now too, though Mid-summer too, you know.

Speaker 1 2:19

Yeah, I can tell we turned the air conditioner off. My voice is starting to go rough.

Speaker 3 2:26

Why did you turn the air conditioner off? My voice is starting to go rough.

Speaker 2 2:28

Why did you turn the air conditioner off? Because when it's on, there's like static in between our words and at the end of our words, so we don't want that to happen on a podcast. Honey, Correct?

Speaker 1 2:38

We're running the noise suppression and it works well for background noise until you talk, and then it lets it in with your voice. So the best thing to do is have a studio that's quiet, so this is the best we can muster yeah well, we're doing a good job, so I hope everybody appreciates you know what we're doing.

Speaker 2 3:04

We have our bread, we have our other piece of bread, we have our peanut butter and our jelly and we just smush it together.

Speaker 1 3:11

I'm not sure, what that means, but okay.

Speaker 2 3:14

You know, we're just smushing everything together.

Speaker 1 3:16

Oh.

Speaker 2 3:16

Yeah.

Speaker 1 3:17

So that growl at our very beginning was Lily and the pop was Pop's.

Speaker 2 3:27

I mean Bruce or Pop's, whatever it is, Bruce's soda can.

Speaker 1 3:30

Yep, that was my Canada Ginger Ale. I almost said Canada Dry with you, yeah that's what I usually drink, if I drink Ginger Ale.

Speaker 2 3:39

But this is the generic program model, the big K one. I usually don't drink. I usually drink root beer every time we do a podcast.

Speaker 1 3:50

She opened hers up before we started recording. My bad, so you didn't get to hear it, because I was hoping we could do both cans at the same time.

Speaker 3 3:58

Yeah, Way to go sports court.

Speaker 2 4:03

I was thirsty. I didn't drink anything since last night. Way to go sports court. I was thirsty.

Speaker 3 4:08

I didn't drink anything since last night.

Speaker 2 4:10

Oh, you, just you ain't drunk anything?

Speaker 3 4:11

huh, nothing Since last night. Come on, you expect me to believe that I haven't.

Speaker 2 4:20

The last thing I drank was water, and that was at 11 o'clock at night when I got home.

Speaker 3 4:24

Oh, I don't know, do you guys believe that?

Speaker 2 4:32

Come on, Lily.

Speaker 1 4:34

You're the one that stayed up until 3 am last night.

Speaker 2 4:36

I hear something knocking at the door, that's probably a cat.

Speaker 1 4:39

Yeah, yeah, they hear us talking. Yeah, they're wanting in. So you started school? Yep, sure did. And it's a new school, it's junior high, yep.

Speaker 2 4:59

How is it Very different, I would say it's very different. It's going to get me a few days to get used to it.

Speaker 1 5:05

Well, you know, that's why I like having you on, because you can talk to the younger generation. Yeah, they just think I'm old.

Speaker 3 5:15

You are old, All right.

Speaker 2 5:17

Sonny, sonny, don't start, don't start. It's too early for this.

Speaker 1 5:21

No, it's never too early for us to argue, because that's the fun part.

Speaker 3 5:26

Yeah, it is. What are you talking about, Lily? Sorry.

Speaker 2 5:33

I know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 5:35

Yeah, well it is. I don't think you do. It's not real early, but it's a little bit before I go to work on a Saturday. And let's look up the weather. Why not? 78 degrees Feels like 83. Holy smokes.

Speaker 2 5:54

At the high of 88.

Speaker 1 5:57

Yeah, we're looking at some hot weather.

Speaker 2 6:01

Yeah, no, oh Did your phone just start playing music.

Speaker 1 6:15

It did, and I don't know why, but it started playing music. That was weird. Anyway, this is episode 24. For a reminder, we'd like to welcome all of our listeners back. If we have any new listeners we should have, we're glad to have. You excuse me, and I got to look up our fan mail see if we got any fan mail from last week's um, give me a second and I will look that up and I'm sure it's going to be a negative.

Speaker 2 6:47

I can talk to you all while he's doing it.

Speaker 1 6:48

Why won't you talk?

Speaker 2 6:50

So sixth grade is a thing that you have to be really prepared for. So if any of you guys are in fifth grade right now and you're about to go to sixth grade next year, upcoming year, whatever, or you're about to go to sixth grade next year, upcoming year, whatever or you're going into sixth grade soon, because some people's first day of school is different days, um yeah, some of them are starting this week, yeah this week, and then some are starting in september well, actually this week starts tomorrow some people start in july.

Speaker 1 7:23

Not me, man, that'd be too early.

Speaker 2 7:27

Yeah, I would never.

Speaker 1 7:29

That'd be tough. Anyway, we did not have any fan mail. What's the matter with you guys? That's a good way to give us your input and I hope I hear from the gentleman I don't know who it was actually that was a mistake that sent me the text. Yeah, you didn't hear the text last week, did you no? Well, let me reread it.

Speaker 2 7:56

I was sick last week.

Speaker 1 7:58

And you didn't listen to the show, did you? Nope, I'm a bum. This person was from Belleville, yeah, and he said or she said it, I don't know which, what I don't they. They said good to hear, you, can't wait to hear your new mic. Oh, that's when I was talking about getting an exchange. No, volume level a little low for this episode. That's the one me and you did last time. Yeah, it was a little low, yeah.

Speaker 2 8:34

So that's, pretty good.

Speaker 1 8:35

Yeah, that's the kind of fan mail we really need People to tell us what's going on on their end.

Speaker 2 8:40

That's pretty nice.

Speaker 1 8:41

Yeah, I agree. Well, we're on the new mics. The pod mic came in and I said that last week on the blast episode. We got her hooked up and we've got it synced in and I think it works pretty good and we've got Sunny's mic fixed.

Speaker 3 9:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 9:06

Yeah, you do, actually, I fixed it.

Speaker 1 9:11

Well, whatever it's fixed and it's working really good.

Speaker 2 9:15

I'm kidding, pops helped me fix it.

Speaker 1 9:17

And it's all good now.

Speaker 2 9:21

I can't do wires, that's the thing. So he had to do the wires, yeah Well. But I did the the little b do wires, that's the thing. So he had to do the wires, yeah Well. But I did the little arm, the little arm. I get that A little mic on the little arm.

Speaker 3 9:33

And we're ready to go now.

Speaker 2 9:35

We're all ready.

Speaker 3 9:36

Yeah, we're all ready. We're all ready. Okay, my, my, my, my. I don't know if we want him to have a mic or not.

Speaker 2 9:55

now wait a minute, I need a mic. Uh, you don't technically need a mic, you just want a mic. There you go, somebody's sticking up for me.

Speaker 1 10:01

yay, just won a mic. There you go. Somebody's sticking up for me, yay.

Speaker 2 10:07

Listen, lily, I have earthquakes to do in a minute so I don't want to listen.

Speaker 1 10:15

Earthquakes, alright. That means me and me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

Speaker 3 10:23

You and.

Speaker 1 10:23

Sunny. Sunny will be guessing.

Speaker 2 10:26

Oops, I just knocked over your pill bottle. Way to go, and I'm going to leave it. I'm kidding, there we go. Yeah, our desk situation is very tight in this studio and I have Halloween bracelets. I'm going to put my Halloween bracelets on.

Speaker 1 10:43

Yeah, I finally figured out a way to have an extra desk over here, but it's kind of crowded.

Speaker 2 10:50

Everything's crowded.

Speaker 1 10:51

Yeah, but we're working it, working it, working it.

Speaker 2 10:54

Excuse me, I'm probably going to burp like 10 times during this podcast.

Speaker 1 11:00

Well, I hope you say excuse me, every time you don't freak our listeners out, time you don't freak our listeners out. We have some good listeners here that if they would contribute some information, we could call them helpers, producers, we could do something. But anyhow, I'm glad to have you, lily. Me too, we missed you.

Speaker 2 11:22

I'm glad to have myself Thank you.

Speaker 3 11:24

We did miss you a lot.

Speaker 1 11:28

Yeah, we did.

Speaker 2 11:29

Thank you, I miss myself Very funny.

Speaker 1 11:35

Yeah, very funny. So did you finish talking about your school? I understand that in junior high you switch classes by a bell.

Speaker 2 11:47

Yeah, it's really bad so sorry if I freaked you guys out, you not?

Speaker 1 11:53

only switch teachers, but you have to get up move classrooms.

Speaker 2 11:58

I have to get up, go to my locker, pick up the books that are needed for that class and walk to that class and the thing is that class block one, all the blocks that I have, are 70 minutes, that's an hour and 10 minutes.

Speaker 1 12:13

And how long do you have to get from one class to the other?

Speaker 2 12:18

Five minutes.

Speaker 1 12:20

That's not. How far away are they? There's less. Are they real far? One classroom across, one classroom across so it's like I know in high school they used to be.

Speaker 2 12:32

They're like spread it out and everywhere.

Speaker 1 12:34

Yeah, one end of the building to the other, so you got to get fast.

Speaker 2 12:39

Yeah, and then we have to go outside. We walk ourselves to PE, we walk ourselves to PE, we walk ourselves to lunch. There's no teacher that's walking us anywhere. We walk ourselves to lunch in PE, you know what that means.

Speaker 3 12:53

That's how grown up we are.

Speaker 1 12:54

Yeah, I was getting ready to say. You know what that means You're growing up. Yeah, Welcome to growing up.

Speaker 2 13:00

Yeah, you're getting old, sonny, it's not funny. You're getting old, you're Meow.

Speaker 1 13:12

You know what he does to cats, right.

Speaker 3 13:15

I chase him, yeah, around and around and around.

Speaker 2 13:19

Sonny, I have a question. Yeah, Last night I was watching the camera and I saw something Two little little, two tiny things just sprint around the kitchen. Was that you and Winifred? I think he was imagining that. No, because I think it was you. Yeah, I think he was imagining. No, I think that was imagining that. No, because I think it was you. Yeah, I think he was imagining. No, I think that was you and Winnie.

Speaker 3 13:47

No, he was imagining it, I don't sprint.

Speaker 2 13:51

All right, I'm just going to get to earthquakes already, because Okay, all right, he's never going to admit to anything. So, so, Got to get my hands warm, so Okay, so get my hands warm.

Speaker 3 14:05

So Okay, so I'm gonna win.

Speaker 1 14:09

No, you're not, I'm gonna win, we're gonna guess and we're gonna win. Excuse me, Okay so. No, what yeah?

Speaker 2 14:18

Okay, so last week I have to burp again. Hold on, okay, sorry. Last week, which was August 10th, Last week, which was August 10th, you guys had for the. So this is for all the. All mag, okay, magnitude, whatever.

Speaker 3 14:41

Okay.

Speaker 2 14:44

Was 2,206.

Speaker 1 14:49

Okay.

Speaker 2 14:50

That's all I'm telling you. 2,206? Yeah, and then the 2.5 was 300. Tell us them after.

Speaker 1 15:00

We guess it was 2,000. 206.

Speaker 2 15:04

206.

Speaker 1 15:05

206. 2206.

Speaker 3 15:07

2206, yeah, I got that first time. What's the matter with you, old man? Okay, uh-uh-uh.

Speaker 2 15:15

Watch a little. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. You guess first no, you guess first. Sonny, you're probably the youngest here, so you're going to go ahead and guess first. No, you're a bummer. Youngest always goes first.

Speaker 3 15:31

Okay, I think it's going to go down this week. Okay, I'm guessing 2050.

Speaker 2 15:47

Wow, 2050. Now that was a big jump.

Speaker 1 15:52

Yes, it was All right, but I agree I think it's going to go down, hang on. I should have took an allergy pill, should have, but okay, so I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 16:09

Are you muted or unmuted?

Speaker 1 16:11

I'm unmuted.

Speaker 2 16:12

Okay, good, because I thought there are fingers on the thing and I I don't know.

Speaker 1 16:20

Anyway, have you got that out now? Yeah, are you sure? Yeah, want to do that again. No, but you can't okay, go ahead go uh, okay, I'm gonna guess it's lower, but it's gonna be. Uh, let's just do 2200, even. No, let's do 20. Yeah, let's do 2200, even no, let's do 20. Yeah, let's do 2200 even so.

Speaker 3 16:49

So that was cheap and I thought Nope, that was playing smart.

Speaker 2 16:56

Okay, so, sunny, your answer was 2050? Yes, and yours was 22,000.

Speaker 1 17:10

Or 2,200 even 2,200?. Yeah, even Yep.

Speaker 2 17:22

That's my chair, I swear that's my chair. I swear that's my chair. I can literally do it again, like, literally, that's my chair.

Speaker 1 17:31

That's that arm coming down. That's that arm coming down? Yeah, wow, I thought maybe we had a ghost in here.

Speaker 2 17:38

Or probably some people thought I was farting.

Speaker 1 17:41

I hope not. We got the doors closed? I hope not.

Speaker 2 17:45

I sure hope not. We got the doors closed.

Speaker 1 17:55

I hope not, Okay yeah, oh, okay.

Speaker 2 17:56

So Are you going to tell us Hold your horses?

Speaker 3 18:01

So I don't have a horse.

Speaker 2 18:04

I don't know who's closer at this point. I don't know who's closer at this point. I don't know who's lower at this point. I'm just gonna tell you the number and maybe you can help me out here okay the all, the all mag was 200 oh my god. 2087. Huh, the this week's was 200 oh my god, I'm getting angry at myself. Okay, it's 2,800, oh my god 2,800. No 20 87 20 2,087 2087.

Speaker 1 18:45

20. 2087.

Speaker 2 18:48

Yes, 2087.

Speaker 1 18:51

You're kidding me. You're kidding me, no.

Speaker 2 18:54

It literally says that 2087. And I can check it again. Yeah, oh, it went down.

Speaker 1 19:02

Well, what is it now?

Speaker 2 19:04

2084.

Speaker 1 19:07

Good grief 2084.

Speaker 3 19:11

Yeah, you know what that means, guys, what I won.

Speaker 2 19:17

Sonny won. Sonny won last week too. Yeah, sonny wins a lot and the week before last week.

Speaker 1 19:24

But he guessed 2050. He's only 34 below that. I mean, he's really close, sonny, how'd you do that?

Speaker 3 19:37

I'm smart.

Speaker 2 19:40

Well, I don't know about that, but I almost dropped my notebook. No, I thought you was dropping that, but I almost dropped my notebook.

Speaker 1 19:46

No, I thought you was dropping the soda and I thought, oh no, there goes everything. No, no, well, sunny congratulations. 2050 is a whole lot closer than I was.

Speaker 3 19:59

I know.

Speaker 1 20:03

All right, don't get an attitude. Okay, tell us the rest of them.

Speaker 3 20:13

It's not funny, it's kind of funny. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 20:17

Okay.

Speaker 2 20:20

I almost spit out my drink.

Speaker 1 20:22

Wow. It's funny Okay all right, tell us the rest. The audience wants to know, I want to know. Start off with sorry, I'm my point five my friend was telling me some crazy news.

Speaker 2 20:42

My bad 2.5.

Speaker 1 20:43

My friend was telling me some crazy news my bad 2.5.

Speaker 2 20:46

Yeah, so this week or last week?

Speaker 1 20:48

Last week. Okay, so the 2.5 you asked for. Yep.

Speaker 2 20:52

Last August 10th 2.5 was 306.

Speaker 1 21:01

And what are they this week? This week's are 257 all right, go on to 4.5 was 77. This week's 4.5 was 73.

Speaker 2 21:32

It went down a little bit, a little bit yeah. Did we have any Last week? We did have. We had a 6.5 last week in Russia.

Speaker 1 21:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:42

And then last week we had a 7.1 last week in Sea Russia, yeah, and then last we were still on last week, we had a 7.1 last week in Sea Japan.

Speaker 1 21:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:48

And then this week we only had a 6.1, which was in Holon City, taiwan.

Speaker 1 21:55

In Taiwan. That's over close to Japan. Yeah, interesting, but we didn't have any seven points, nope.

Speaker 2 22:11

Has I remember like an eight point something? Yeah, but them get bad, I know.

Speaker 1 22:13

I hope that I don't see any of those on this page. You, there wasn't no news on that page that we use, but japan issued a mega earthquake warning after they had that 7.1.

Speaker 2 22:28

Oh really.

Speaker 1 22:28

Yep, which a mega is usually 8 point and higher. So everybody was worried about that, but I think that ends today. Yeah, now the gentleman I listened to from St Louis.

Speaker 2 22:45

Oh, what's their podcast name? Or something like that.

Speaker 1 22:48

He's a YouTuber.

Speaker 2 22:49

Yeah, what's his name?

Speaker 1 22:50

Dutch Sant, I watch him. Do you yeah, are you sure?

Speaker 2 22:54

I think so. I think I. I watch only one of his videos. I don't remember what it was like, named, but I think it was like about something.

Speaker 1 23:12

He talks about earthquakes. Yeah, it was an. I wanted to know about earthquakes, so I one of his videos that um, japan may have to extend their warning out a few more days. He's expecting something to hit over which we hope. Not hope he's wrong, he hopes he's wrong but I like listening to him.

Speaker 2 23:27

He brings out a lot of good points, of things that's going on that you won't normally expect yeah, like the episode I watched yesterday ever since I started doing the earthquakes, I've never seen a seven point or eight point, something whatever. So well, let's hope we-point or an eight-point something whatever.

Speaker 1 23:45

Well, let's hope we don't have an eight-point.

Speaker 2 23:47

I've only seen the six-point and the five-points and four obviously.

Speaker 1 23:54

They're predicting one for southern Illinois, when South Missouri, that's supposed to be a great big one, when Nobody knows, but they're predicting one soon. Are we going to be okay?

Speaker 2 24:11

Well, it's according to how big it is and where it hits. I don't want to die.

Speaker 1 24:14

I don't want to die. There was a big one, I don't remember what year it was.

Speaker 2 24:18

Can we die?

Speaker 1 24:19

20s. I think that made the Mississippi River run backwards.

Speaker 2 24:26

How did they do that?

Speaker 1 24:28

Just the way the earth shakes.

Speaker 2 24:30

So will we still be alive.

Speaker 1 24:32

Well, it's according to where it hits.

Speaker 2 24:34

So I could die at the age of 11?.

Speaker 1 24:36

If you're in the middle of a building that falls. I guess you could.

Speaker 2 24:41

Can I die in a brick house? It's all about where it hits when it hits, I'm going to die now. That scares me now.

Speaker 1 24:51

Well, don't be scared. Say a prayer to the creator that you need help and protection.

Speaker 2 24:59

Well.

Speaker 1 25:03

And don't think about it.

Speaker 2 25:06

Excuse me.

Speaker 3 25:07

Excuse me, excuse me, you're so rude, rude, rude, rude.

Speaker 2 25:15

I said, excuse me, that's the best I can do.

Speaker 1 25:20

Yeah, quit drinking that rude beer.

Speaker 2 25:22

No, it's good. So Are you seeing new?

Speaker 1 25:34

people. Are you meeting new people?

Speaker 3 25:36

no, it's just the same, the same people your classes got your classes are all the same with the same kids yeah, well, I have some.

Speaker 2 25:44

I only have one kid that I had in my class last year.

Speaker 1 25:48

Well, that's not the same then.

Speaker 2 25:49

Well, it's kind of close to the same.

Speaker 1 25:54

No, it's not. How many kids do you have in your class?

Speaker 2 26:19

Okay, okay, 18, I think 18, and you got one kid. That's the same.

Speaker 1 26:21

Yeah, so that's not nowhere near back way back in the day according to there was a 9.3.

Speaker 3 26:24

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 26:25

That's scary, Sunny. I agree that's nowhere near the same. That'd be one out of 17. So have you met any new people?

Speaker 2 26:37

Oh, my bad, a 9.5, not a 9.3. Anyway, what?

Speaker 1 26:42

Have you met any new people? Have you met any of them? Yeah, Said hi.

Speaker 2 26:47

Yeah, yeah, cool. No, yeah, sure Maybe.

Speaker 3 26:53

Maybe yeah.

Speaker 1 26:55

So you got anything to say to any of the other kids out there. That's starting school right now.

Speaker 2 27:05

Don't be scared You're going to have fun on your first day of school and then you're going to hate it the third or the second, because that's what I that happened to me. I hated it. But if you started on the 14th like I did, you only have 177 more days to go.

Speaker 1 27:22

Oh way to be good7 more days to go oh way to be good to them. I know what did I tell you about you not liking school right now.

Speaker 2 27:34

I gotta go Snapchat Because I forgot. Oh, oh, shake all the jitters out to make you get the yuck out, or whatever.

Speaker 1 27:44

I said find something good that you can do on the side to give you something else to think about.

Speaker 2 27:55

The only thing I saved in our chat was that picture of Ghost. That's the only thing I saved.

Speaker 1 28:00

That way you won't be always on the negative, thinking about it, concentrating on it.

Speaker 2 28:08

Yeah, I mean you got to concentrate on school, but you don't want to like.

Speaker 1 28:14

Yeah, but you need something other than school, some kind of hobby, and it's got to be something good. You can't, you know, be doing doing junky stuff like watching TV all day. Yeah, that's not going to help you. Find something good to motivate you to look forward to.

Speaker 2 28:34

The thing is, the only time I watch TV is just after school or when I eat my dinner.

Speaker 3 28:39

Yeah, that's what these guys do they're always watching TV and eating dinner Blah.

Speaker 1 28:48

Hey, we got to have something to do while we sit down Also. Sonny, we don't want to talk to each other.

Speaker 2 28:54

Sonny, I see you sneaking in the living room and watching TV, because you're the one that sits on my lap half the time.

Speaker 1 29:01

Or he'll sit on that bush outside the living room window and look inside.

Speaker 3 29:06

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:08

I do not, sonny.

Speaker 1 29:10

You do.

Speaker 2 29:11

I've seen you outside.

Speaker 1 29:14

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:14

And that's why I laughed the other day when you got in trouble for being outside too long because it was dark and you were supposed to come in. Got in trouble trouble for being outside too long because it was dark and you were supposed to come in got trouble.

Speaker 1 29:34

Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 29:36

Oh, she does know what she's talking about, because I'm the one I get you trouble.

Speaker 2 29:40

Oh oh, she told on herself yeah, you're such a rat. Well, I actually told on Sonny because he was out past. He's supposed to be in by 10. So it was like 10, 15 or something and everyone was looking for him, worried, and I said Sonny's outside and I got him in trouble.

Speaker 1 30:00

Well, okay, I'm actually the one that told him to come back inside.

Speaker 2 30:02

He didn't get in trouble. Well, okay, I'm actually the one that told him to come back inside. He didn't get in trouble.

Speaker 3 30:08

No, they just made me come in.

Speaker 2 30:10

That's not trouble, because anything can happen any time of the day, Sonny. Well, that's true, and we want you to be safe too.

Speaker 1 30:21

Yep, okay, well, well, how about a joke?

Speaker 3 30:27

I have it right there all right, let's have a joke. I want to laugh a little bit all right okay.

Speaker 2 30:41

Okay, are you guys ready?

Speaker 1 30:43

No, but do it anyway.

Speaker 2 30:46

Okay, Okay, so ready. When's the best time to call your dentist?

Speaker 1 30:58

Uh what.

Speaker 2 30:59

When's the best time to call your dentist?

Speaker 3 31:04

Uh, I don't call a dentist. I don't have dentist teeth. I mean. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 31:10

You don't have dentist teeth. Oh boy, that's the best joke of the day.

Speaker 3 31:19

Hey, don't laugh at me.

Speaker 1 31:23

I think that was good.

Speaker 2 31:28

You know what?

Speaker 1 31:29

Hey, I got my headphones plugged all the way in. Now I can really hear you.

Speaker 2 31:35

That sounded like a burp. That was not a burp, but it might have been.

Speaker 1 31:38

You like making noises, don't you Excuse me though?

Speaker 2 31:40

If it was a burp, excuse me. Anyway, the answer is Forgive us folks. The answer is tooth hurty.

Speaker 1 31:53

I don't get that one. Okay, read it again.

Speaker 2 31:55

So you know, tooth hurty right, Tooth hurty tooth hurty. Tooth hurting yeah, no, tooth hurty yeah, 2, 30, 2, 30. Tooth hurting yeah, no, tooth hurting yeah, yeah, now I get it. So when's the best time? This is a website, I don't. I didn't understand that first, and then I had to, like, read it a few times to actually understand yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 32:18

Yeah, when your tooth is hurting, it's too dirty.

Speaker 2 32:23

Yeah, oh, that's not very funny. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 3 32:27

That was dumb. Where you go Lily.

Speaker 1 32:34

Well, it's kind of a trick on words and I think it's how you say the words.

Speaker 2 32:39

It was nice having me. Goodbye, I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 32:42

Okay. Well, let's have an applause for that one. Now you can take a bow there, Lily, for your joke. We gave you the applause. You know, that's one thing I like about this mixing board that I got. I've got sound effects and she's literally going to take a bow. There she goes. I did it, oh boy.

Speaker 2 33:16

It feels weird because I'm pretty sure I got taller like over my birthday. You are grown quite a bit I am taller, I'm like a muscle and just to think when we first started. This was in the garage with a small little air conditioner and then you was a heater behind us eight. We had one little table one old some my gold microphone from a long time ago.

Speaker 1 33:43

Yeah.

Speaker 2 33:44

I remember that thing.

Podcast Equipment Upgrade and Sound Effects

Speaker 1 33:45

That was my favorite microphone in the whole world I have a new favorite Until we got that one, and it works really good yeah.

Speaker 2 33:51

And we've stepped up our game. We have our own little small studio.

Speaker 1 33:55

Yeah, we was using a Radio Shack mic mixer and a laptop.

Speaker 2 34:01

Yep. And now we have and a laptop, yep, and now we have.

Speaker 1 34:05

A mixer board, yep, a MixCast which is made by Tashcam Mixer, which is a podcasting mixer.

Speaker 2 34:12

And Sweetwater microphones.

Speaker 1 34:15

Yep.

Speaker 2 34:16

Upgraded.

Speaker 1 34:18

Now I do have the Rode NT11 I think it's called the original one condenser mic that I use a lot and I'm using a podcast from Rode. And then we have a Samsung I think's the name of it Q, something mic that you're using over there.

Speaker 2 34:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:46

So, yeah, we've come a long ways and we're feeding it all into the same laptop with Audacity on it, and I updated Audacity a couple weeks ago, which was a challenge to get it all set back up.

Speaker 2 35:03

I'm going to make my chair fart again. Oh, it didn't do it again.

Speaker 1 35:09

Sorry. The other day at work I was wrapping up a pallet of stuff and I was taking plastic and wrapping it. I was going around and around and going squeaking. I was going around and around and I was going squeaking.

Speaker 2 35:25

NeNe would have punched that plastic.

Speaker 1 35:27

And I thought you know I ought to record this on my phone, bring it home and put it on my soundboard.

Speaker 2 35:33

Did you do it? Did you do it no?

Speaker 1 35:35

I'm going to have to redo that sometime.

Speaker 2 35:37

Oh man.

Speaker 1 35:39

I need somebody to stand there with a phone and record it, but that would be a great sound for Halloween.

Speaker 2 35:48

We're going to have to do that.

Speaker 1 35:56

I can record it. I've actually downloaded a special program or app, I should say, on my phone for doing that kind of recording. That way I can record stuff, I can come and put it on my Mixcaster and put a button to it, so when I hit the button you can hear it. But anyhow, what else you got to say for us?

Speaker 2 36:22

I am Peppa Pig.

Speaker 1 36:29

Okay, anything else. Any friends you want to say hi to? Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 36:38

I have a new friend.

Speaker 1 36:39

All right, give us a shout out.

Speaker 2 36:41

We call her Preppy Princess. Why is that? Because she's preppy.

Speaker 1 36:43

Okay, I have a new friend. All right, give us a shout out.

Speaker 2 36:44

We call her Preppy Princess.

Speaker 1 36:45

Why is that? Because she's preppy Okay.

Speaker 2 36:47

But her actual name is Adriana.

Speaker 3 36:51

Well, you're kind of mean to her, aren't you? No, calling her preppy.

Speaker 2 37:01

Do you guys know what the new preppy means? I don't guess I do. What's the new preppy? Do you guys know what?

Speaker 1 37:03

the new preppy means. I don't guess, I do. What's the new preppy mean?

Speaker 2 37:07

Bright colors.

Speaker 1 37:09

Expensive.

Speaker 2 37:11

The viral makeup these days you know, like the elf drunk elephant, the recipe, everything like that.

Speaker 1 37:18

Oh, didn't know that.

Speaker 2 37:21

But she's actually pretty nice, she's pretty cool and she calls we actually have a group called the gangling. Okay, it's sixth grade girls, it's just sixth grade okay it's just sixth grade.

Speaker 1 37:36

That's all I'm gonna say all right, yeah, so you're having a little bit of fun at school yeah, so okay, good hi, adriana, hi hi hi. What was her name now?

Speaker 2 37:48

adriana, adriana, hi shout out and I'm gonna give my daily shout out to azmira, my best friend hi and my mama mama, mama hayley, you need to come back on yep, you sure?

Speaker 1 38:03

do and sweet water yeah, definitely hi sweet water.

Speaker 2 38:08

Thanks for your uh support no sponsor, we're just giving shout out.

Speaker 1 38:12

Yeah, we don't do sponsors shout out to them, shout out.

Speaker 2 38:16

Thank you for your support yeah, and thank you for your great microphones yep and the candies that come in the box. That's the best the root beer candy, the hard candy that they gave you. I love that. I want some more of that.

Speaker 1 38:31

Well, we'll have to order something else. We need a microphone arm to replace that one that's about wore out. We'll have to order that from them.

Speaker 2 38:42

Yeah, I'm just here for the candy. No offense, Sweetwater, but I'm here for the candy. She likes the candy and yes, I do share the candy with Sunny. Yeah, not supposed to, but he can't eat really full candy so I have to split it with him so he gets a little bit of it.

Speaker 3 39:04

Because he can't.

Speaker 2 39:05

Sometimes it's too hard for him. Like the little taffy You're just so kind you give him candy. No, sometimes I want to punch his little face, but I don't. An earthquake just happened, it just told me.

Speaker 1 39:22

You know how big it was.

Speaker 2 39:25

It went up like three numbers.

Speaker 1 39:28

So it was more than one, yeah.

Speaker 2 39:31

It was three. Let me check the thing. The thing Didn't change. Well, I left the earthquake website because I'm not gonna sit on there the whole time. Okay, well, we've been doing this for an hour no no, how long 40 minutes almost an hour yeah, almost an hour we've just been talking about nothing. We've just been sitting here talking.

Speaker 1 40:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2 40:05

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:06

Yeah, I keep saying that we need to.

Speaker 2 40:08

Like actually have a concept here, yeah, a concept, but we don't.

Speaker 1 40:12

And talk about it, Do some research. But you know it's Saturday morning, we're goofing off and I wanted to get you on here to talk about your school.

Speaker 2 40:23

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:24

Think you're going to make it.

Speaker 2 40:26

Yeah, I'm probably going to make it.

Speaker 3 40:27

Good you better make it or I'll beat you up, I'll chase you around the yard.

Speaker 2 40:34

Yeah, Sonny, you're lucky because you have 177 days that you don't have to go to school, but I do.

Speaker 1 40:43

Actually I think he's got 365 days. That's a year.

Speaker 2 40:50

He's excited when I'm going to have to rig up some leaves this fall so he can jump in the piles of leaves.

Speaker 1 40:59

Yeah.

Speaker 2 41:00

And just get dirty, where I have to bathe him everything. I bathe you 365 days a week, I mean a year.

Speaker 3 41:07

So not quite.

Speaker 2 41:11

You're not here that much well, I still do your hygiene, yeah yeah, well, thank you for helping out, lily.

Speaker 1 41:18

Thank you for being on the broadcast today broadcast. Yep, this is a broadcast now yeah, we're pretending it's a radio show, which is a broadcast well, if we want it to be pretend that it's the radio show, where's the camera? That's a camera show tv show.

Speaker 2 41:36

This is radio some radio shows actually like have a camera well, we got, but we don't have them on. I'm waving at it.

Speaker 1 41:48

I don't want to show people my ugly mug. Don't smile at me, okay.

Speaker 2 41:59

Because it's funny.

Speaker 1 42:01

I appreciate everybody that's come aboard. You can find us at.

Speaker 3 42:11

I'm sorry. Yeah, come on, that was your cue.

Speaker 2 42:15

I was looking up about the earthquake that's coming soon, sorry.

Speaker 1 42:18

Oh boy.

Speaker 2 42:19

You got me terrified now, so email or website both, both okay, so share it with the gmail email. Whatever you call it is, is the ugly quacking duck at gmailcom yes, thank you for that. I can say that one more time, a little bit slower.

Speaker 1 42:46

TheUglyQuackingDuckcom. Okay, yes, folks, you can email us there. You can also go to our website, theuglyquackingduckcom.

Speaker 2 42:54

TheUglyQuackingDuckcom.

Speaker 1 42:57

Leave us a comment there.

Speaker 2 43:00

If you want to watch Fringe, I'm just letting you know the upcoming episodes. It becomes the high school musical, Literally.

Speaker 1 43:12

They do like every.

Speaker 2 43:13

Literally Walter, which is old guy.

Speaker 1 43:16

Yeah, we've been re-watching Fringe. I like it, and they do like everybody else does when they have a lot of episodes Once we get done with the podcast.

Speaker 2 43:26

I'm running straight in there and I'm taking Sunny with me and we're going to watch Fringe.

Speaker 1 43:31

Yeah, and they had an episode where I think the writers get tired and they just do something silly, they're like us, they're just like be free. Yeah, do whatever you want. Yeah, so they did a kind of a.

Speaker 2 43:47

Like a free episode.

Speaker 1 43:48

Yeah, where they did a musical, it was good.

Speaker 2 43:53

It was good. Yeah, they're pretty good singers. Like I didn't expect any of those singing voices to come out of them, that was really good.

Speaker 1 44:00

Yeah, okay, singing voices to come out of them. That was really good, yeah, okay, so go to our webpage if you want to leave a comment. You can also subscribe to the webpage, and if you do that, we try to get our episodes out to you through your email a day early Email.

Speaker 2 44:21

I had my imaginary microphone right over here. I reached over here to speak and it wasn't even over there.

Speaker 1 44:27

Way to go.

Speaker 2 44:31

My brain is turned off.

Speaker 1 44:32

Well, turn it back on.

Speaker 2 44:35

It's never turned on, that's the thing.

Speaker 3 44:40

Say that again, lily. I want to hear it. Come on, we'll mark it on the calendar okay.

Speaker 1 44:53

So, folks, we want to say thank you for coming along being part of this silly episode definitely me and.

Speaker 2 45:01

I slingshotted a birthday hat.

Speaker 1 45:03

She's having fun. So what can we say? And one last if you go to look our, wherever you listen to our podcast.

Speaker 2 45:20

Oh, my knee itches. You should have taken an allergy pill.

Speaker 1 45:26

I should have. Anyway, wherever you listen to our podcast, if you look up our description, it'll say leave us a fan email or not email text and we'll shout out to you in the next episode. So do that. It works really well. Buzzsprout put that on there and we really like it. We just need more people to use it. We want to say bye to everybody and thank you for coming around.

Speaker 2 45:59

We want to say good day sorry what we want to say good morning, good afternoon, good night and good day wherever you are, it's been a while since we've done that, yeah, it has.

Speaker 1 46:14

It brings back so much memories I was trying to get your attention so we could do that. I was daydreaming or something like that, yeah you was.

Speaker 2 46:20

I was zoned out, all right, bye guys.

Speaker 1 46:27

Bye everyone.

Speaker 2 46:29

Bye, shoo 73, and may the Father's blessings be with you. Amen.