Celebrating 100 Episodes: Cosmic Wonders, Whale Songs, and Midwest Storms

Ever wondered how a brand-new microphone can jazz up a podcast experience? Well, Sonny just brought one to our setup, and we're celebrating our 100th episode with crisper sound and lively chatter. Our conversation kicks off against a backdrop of Midwest weather woes, where we shout out Ryan Hall, a YouTube streamer keeping folks informed during these turbulent times.

Curious about the universe's quirks? We’re taking you on a cosmic joyride with fast radio bursts that even the CHIME telescope in British Columbia found mind-boggling. It’s a tale of elliptical galaxies and astronomical surprises, sprinkled with our signature blend of humor and insight. And guess what? Lily joins the fun, sharing her sparkling achievements, adding charm and wit to our galactic gossip.

From whale songs to undersea earthquakes, our chats cover the vast and varied. Zipf's Law meets the deep blue, and Santorini's seismic stirrings bring a serious note to our banter. But we wrap up with laughter and gratitude, reminiscing about old TV shows, podcast quirks, and appreciating you, our fantastic listeners. Here's to 100 episodes of fun, facts, and friendship, with many more to come!

Transcript

Podcasters Discuss Microphones and Recent Storms

Bruce 0:00

Hey, hey, I'm Bruce, Look out, we're at it again.

Sonny 0:05

I'm Sonny and I'm on a new mic and I'm always at it.

Bruce 0:21

All right, sonny, we are here again on the weekend after a big snowstorm and we are going. What are we doing? We're going for the money.

Sonny 0:36

I don't know what you mean going for the money I was always doing a podcast. You lied to me.

Bruce 0:44

No, I didn't lie to you. We are doing a podcast. It's just a jargon. I just said something that you wasn't familiar with, but we are shooting a podcast, taping a podcast, recording a podcast. However you want to look at it.

Sonny 1:02

Welcome aboard, sonny Well thank you, bruce, and thank you for the new microphone. Wow, it's pretty cool. I like it a lot. Thank you.

Bruce 1:15

All right, you seem a little bit loud. I may have to turn you down some. Let me check the output here. Let me turn you down one more and we'll see what that one does.

Sonny 1:29

All right, all right, there you go. I thought you turned me off for a minute, but hey guys, this is Sonny and I'm on my new microphone. I hope I sound good. It looks cool, but hey, who knows, bruce done it. No telling what's going to happen now.

Bruce 1:54

Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence, geesh.

Sonny 1:58

Well you're welcome geesh.

Bruce 2:03

That wasn't the way I did it, but anyway, welcome aboard everyone. This is the ugly quacking duck podcast, episode 100.

Bruce 2:12

Yay yeah, yay, yay all right, yep, it's 100. Um, it's been a long time coming and we are all on new mics and I just thought I'd try the other mic out on Sonny and see how it picked him up, see how it worked. I've been using this pod mic for quite a while and I finally got it tuned up and I like it there. For a while I was really leery of it, but now it seems to be working good.

Sonny 2:51

Well, you're just saying it's working good because you like how you sound and nobody's told you otherwise. So I guess that's good, isn't it Maybe? So I guess that's good, isn't it? Maybe hey guys out there that's listening being part of our podcast, tell Bruce how he really sounds and tell me how great I am. Listen to my voice, yay.

Bruce 3:20

All right, don't get too confident in yourself. But yeah, you do sound better. I think you got a little bit more highs, but the other mic wouldn't pick up them highs very well and it kind of distorted you hard to kind of hard to pick out what you're saying. Sometimes, Sonny, don't get mad at me, but this one seems clear. I think we're going to like this mic well, or that mic, I should say.

Sonny 3:51

Okay, well, I like it Again. It looks cool and I feel cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm so cool.

Bruce 4:03

Okay, well, okay, I don't know what to say to that. You got caught me by surprise, but again, welcome everyone. We are here on this sunday afternoon. It is what, uh, february 16th 2025, we are recording. Hopefully we'll get this one out. We started recording two weeks ago when we were supposed to. It was a Friday morning actually and I did capture a little bit of recording with Lily, so I'll pull that recording in and play it so you guys can hear Lily. But I was planning on finishing the recording that Sunday, like I usually do, and, lo and behold, didn't get it done. So the following week I didn't get it done, and this week I'm running kind of late. There's a lot of things been happening. Speaking of happening, we weren running kind of late. There's a lot of things been happening.

Sonny 5:08

Speaking of happening. We weren't speaking of happening, but it's happening.

Midwest Storms

Bruce 5:14

Yeah, it's happening. All right, there's been a lot of storms come through the Midwest the last 24 hours. Ryan Hall, the guy we listened to on YouTube. He was doing a 12-hour shift. I don't know if you want to call it broadcasting that's my old history coming back but he was streaming a YouTube video for 12 hours talking about the tornadoes and stuff, the flooding and the snow.

Bruce 5:54

I mean, it was a major disaster in a lot of places, apparently Missouri, tennessee, mississippi, I'm not sure, arkansas maybe a little bit, but Mississippi especially got flooding last night. Last I heard there was a count of three that had lost their lives and maybe more now, but it's not very good. I like him to watch because he gives you information about all over the country, not just his area, but this time it actually hit his location where he was transmitting out or there I go again, transmitting, but not streaming, from his hometown, I believe. So, yeah, get a chance to tune him in. It's Ryan Hall, you all, I think that's what it is. I don't remember real well, but he does a lot of supporting those that's been in disaster.

Sonny 7:10

So if you want to do some donating to help out, go check him out on YouTube.

Bruce 7:15

Well, you're starting to sound like an advertisement for him. Well, I'm not. I'm just. I like him and I just wanted to give him a shout out, so maybe other people can find him and find out information.

Sonny 7:29

Okay, if you say so, I will believe you, but I don't believe you well, thanks, that's what I give for getting you a new microphone right no, that's what you get for blowing in smoke.

Bruce 7:48

All right, I don't think you quite got those words right, but anyhow, that's what's been going on around here the last 24 hours. We've got a bunch of rain in southern Illinois. We did not get the flooding that Mississippi and Tennessee got. We want to thank the Lord for that, but we want to be in prayer for those that did get it. So remember that as we go on with the podcast.

News Subject

Sonny 8:17

All right, that sounds pretty cool. What are we going to talk about?

Bruce 8:23

Well, our normal news stuff. I picked a few headlines out about two weeks ago Talking about behind Wow, and I thought we'd talk a little bit about those.

Sonny 8:37

All right, I like when you bring out your goofiness.

Bruce 8:41

Yeah, me too. There's enough weirdness in the world. If I bring mine out, it ain't going to add anything to it. Plus, it may subtract from all the horror and destruction that the world is evolved into.

100th Episode

Sonny 8:57

Yeah, you got that right. So this is the 100th episode, which means that we're going to celebrate.

Bruce 9:08

Well, I don't know. We'll have to see what happens. When I upload this one, they'll give me some kind of little certificate. I'll probably put that online with the episode.

Bruce 9:22

Okay, that sounds like we need something to show yes, we do, and our hosting company, buzzsprout, does a fine job of that. When you hit certain points, they'll send you a little whether it's a certificate or a award or something, and you can download it, you can print it out. You can also post it on your social media accounts, which is pretty nice. I like being able to do all that stuff. It just shows you when you're getting to a certain level or when you've been in it way too long and you're starting to get burned out. You know one of those things.

Sonny 10:06

Are you starting to burn out?

Bruce 10:09

No, I'm starting to get frustrated, though, because I prepare and I build up and I want to, you know, do good things, and then, after a week, I'm not able to do it. I'm having to hold back because'm not able to do it. I'm having to hold back because I'm wanting to do it every two weeks. Then, when two weeks come around, I feel like I'm out of practice, and it takes so long to get episodes rolling starting, and that's when the frustration kicks in.

Sonny 10:45

Oh and since it's been three weeks, wow, you're a bum.

Bruce 10:51

Oh, I knew that was coming. I tell you, I've got you taught very well.

Sonny 10:57

Oh, you think so.

Bruce 11:00

Sure, I do.

Sonny 11:02

All right, whatever turns your boat and floats your rock.

Bruce 11:09

Again, I don't think you got that wording quite right, but we'll go with it.

Sonny 11:14

Well, you're a mighty fine gentleman.

Bruce 11:21

Well, let's go ahead and go on with the first news story for the News Corner on this episode, and we're going to title this one uh, FRB. Anybody know what that means?

Sonny 11:38

I do, I do.

Bruce 11:40

All right, what does it mean there, Sonny?

Sonny 11:44

It means Funny radio bunnies.

Bruce 11:48

Funny radio bunnies. Well, not quite, but you're close. I appreciate that answer.

Sonny 11:56

Well, thank you, Bruce. You're a nice guy, no matter what everybody tells you.

Bruce 12:03

Oh, thank you, but it's actually fast radio bursts and up to here recently, astronomers had thought they understood what a fast radio burst was and where it came from, and all that good stuff. But a recent one they received actually made them question what they thought they knew. Uh, uh, uh, uh. No, this is true. Really a fast radio burst is something they pick up with their electronic equipment and their radio telescopes. So apparently chime that's C-H-I-M-E in capital letters, chime telescopes that's in British Columbia, I think detected the unusual fast radio burst dubbed FRB-20240209A. Now we're just hearing about this and it was detected in February of 2024. A little late, guys.

Sonny 13:13

Yeah, they're bad as we are A little late, but anyhow, tell us what you're telling us, don't bore us.

Bruce 13:23

All right. Well, okay, Let me get my mic situated. I'm trying to get comfortable here and this mic adjustment is not working for me today. Anyhow, they detected this thing. They detected this thing and it made them question what was going on with these fast radio bursts. So, anyhow, what they discovered was this CHIME telescope, and that is a Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment. Well, that's a mouthful. I think that's the reason they ended up making it chime, but it had spotted. They turned it to where this thing come from and apparently they discovered that it was a distant outskirts of a long, dead elliptical galaxy. All right, so that apparently that galaxy was not supposed to contain anything that would produce such an outburst. I said outburst.

Sonny 14:41

What's that mean? You've lost me back in time.

Bruce 14:46

Well, um, I think that's the point. They got all these big names and words and then, when they come up with something, they just confuse everybody to death. But I, uh was able to get a hold of this noise that they recorded and I'm going to play it for you right now. Are you ready?

Sonny 15:08

I'm ready Go for it.

Bruce 15:12

All right, everyone, are you ready for this? Here it goes. This is the clip I got. I bet you thought you was going to get to hear something fun.

Sonny 15:26

Oh my gosh, what was that?

Bruce 15:31

Oh well, I didn't really get a recording of it, that was just a sound effect that I clipped.

Sonny 15:40

You're a booger.

Bruce 15:42

I know, but it was fun. But really they did come up with a sound effect chime, that Canadian hydrogen intensity mapping experiment. That telescope actually pointed over to the spot and they did discover a burned out galaxy that should not have produced any kind of radio burst. And again, I don't know how they know any of this, but that's what they claim. So there you go, that's the news for the day. Let's go on.

Sonny 16:29

I'm not sure I like your jokes about news, are they?

Bruce 16:35

really funny? I don't know.

Sonny 16:39

Are they funny? I'm not sure.

Bruce 16:42

Well, I'm not sure either, but again they're just. Yeah, I like having fun.

Sonny 16:51

Well, I'm not sure you're having fun, but okay, let's go for more fun.

Bruce 16:56

All right, sounds like a plan to me. Well, we'll just leave that story behind and we'll go to our next one. And, sonny, this one's for you.

Sonny 17:10

Really you did one for me Cool, yep.

Bruce 17:12

This is about a little tiny mammal. It's actually a native of Sierra Nevada, of sierra nevada, or a small stretch of the property there in sierra nevada, and it's called the mountain little shrew and it's only are you ready for this? Nine to ten inches, or nine inches, sorry, that makes it way big. Nine to ten centimeters in length and weighs about three to maybe two to three grams. That's a little bitty fella.

Sonny 17:55

Oh, are you calling me a little bitty fella?

Bruce 17:59

No, I'm just thinking this is a cute little animal just like you.

Sonny 18:05

Oh, you're so sweet.

Bruce 18:08

Oh, you say that now, Sonny.

Sonny 18:11

Yeah, I do. I say that now.

Bruce 18:14

All right. Well, anyway, you'll have to look at the picture if you're watching this or watching hello. If you are listening to this podcast on a podcast player 2.0 some version of that uh, you should get the picture along with the chapter. If you're not, you can also catch it on our ugly quackinduckcom website. Yay, so there you go. That's that story for us A little bit of Mother Nature rolled up into a wildlife story.

Bruce 18:58

Which was the interesting part about this is not that it's a small mammal or not, the fact that Sierra Nevada is that it's a small mammal or not, the fact that it sierra nevada is where it's found, but it's the fact that it's hardly ever been captured on video or pictures. And the uh, there was some us or us hello, uc, berkeley students that caught it, and a photographer wildlife photographer Vishal oh my Lord, I'm not going to pronounce that last name, but they got the picture. If you want to check it out, go to berkeleyedu. And they got a new story about it. Just look it up. It's called California's Most Elusive Mammal Photographed for the First Time. And boy am I tongue-tied. Today Must be the snow.

Sonny 20:03

Oh, it must be that you're always tongue-tied.

Bruce 20:06

Oh, that's not true.

Sonny 20:09

Oh, yes, it is.

Bruce 20:11

All right, maybe I am, but anyway, go check that out. It's a cute little mammal. Check it out on our website. Check it out on Podcasting 2.0 app. Just go check it out.

Sonny 20:24

Okay, okay, we'll go check it out, okay, okay.

Bruce 20:27

We'll go check it out.

Sonny 20:30

Okay, bye.

Bruce 20:37

And for our next story that I pulled out of the internet and brought to everybody's attention is Whale Song. Attention is Whale Song. Yeah, Whale Song.

Sonny 20:50

Whale Song Really.

Bruce 20:54

Yes, sir, that's right, Whale Song. There was some scientists or researchers that have hunted for some evidence of a pattern that they have thought would be present in all human languages. They call it three-time. Let's see, I don't remember the exact name of it. Zips, zips, law were a pattern. The most frequent uh syllable word in the language is happens three times, and then uh, so on, so forth. The twice frequent is the most second time used and then the third is I never did understand that quite well, but I think what they're saying. There's a pattern where the most common used word happened, you know, every so often, and then the second most common would be the next one down, and the third is the next one down. So if they caught those patterns they would assume those were the most common words. So they looked for other species using the same kind of pattern and, lo and behold, they think they have found it in whale song, of all things. But it's been a long time held by many people that the whale was a very common mammal to all of us, very intelligent, so we won't say any more about that. But I picked this one out because it's a good read If you can get past all the big words and the big names and stuff, but they also included a whale song, so I got a clip of that and I'm going to play that for you guys, hopefully.

Bruce 23:03

Are you ready? Just one moment? All right, I'm gonna warn you if you're um no-transcript, all right, it ended while I was trying to take a drink, boy, it caught me. But anyway, if you want a translation, that's easy. I'll tell you what that whale was saying. He was saying hey, charlie, did you see that fisherman over there on the left, the one in the big ugly boat? Yeah, look at that pot belly. How funny is that? Ha, ha.

Sonny 24:43

Oh, you're not, mate, oh no, you're not believing that stuff. Guys, don't believe that he's full of hot air.

Hi Lily

Bruce 24:51

Well, sometimes I breathe in and then I breathe back out, but nevertheless that's what that whale was saying. Okay, that's what that whale was saying, okay alright, we have some good news for our 100th episode. This is 100, I already said that, but we have Lily here. She's blessed us to come over and give us a little bit of her voice. I'm back Before school. We won't get too much out of her because I'm going to finish the recording after I take her to school. But hello and good morning Lily.

Lily 25:36

Goo, goo gaga. Hi Lily, is there a hundredth episode today?

Bruce 25:43

It it is, isn't that? Cool 100, and that's really cool good thing I'm here for that it is. We wouldn't want to you to miss that, because that's kind of a what a great thing, a marking point we finally made it to 100.

Sonny 26:05

Yeah, 100, 100, 100. Good song there.

Lily 26:15

Good song there.

Bruce 26:16

Okay, Sonny Wow.

Lily 26:19

That was an interesting song.

Bruce 26:21

It was. So my head stopped up this morning and it's early in the morning. We got to go to school here in a little bit.

Lily 26:30

And I got a sore throat.

Bruce 26:31

so yeah, it's going to be fun, so maybe when I finish this recording up next week we can see what happens. But anyway, Lily, how's life been treating you? Lovely lovely lovely how's school going? Great great okay awesome you forget how to podcast. No, been a while.

Lily 27:00

Yeah.

Bruce 27:01

A long while. Maybe since, like October, yeah, this is almost February, this is January. What?

Lily 27:11

2025.

Bruce 27:13

Yeah, but it's the 31st, the last day of January day of January. Yeah.

Lily 27:24

Yeah it's been a while. Yeah, she's been a bum.

Sonny 27:30

It's crazy how time flies, sunny. I don't know about that, I just sat around all day and probably ate food. Oh yeah, taste the cats. It's a fun life. Good for you. Yeah, he don't, it's a fun life.

Lily 27:43

Good for you.

Bruce 27:44

Yeah, he don't do a whole lot around here, cause problems.

Lily 27:48

We gotta make money. Go to school, have brains.

Bruce 27:53

You gotta make money. How you gonna do that?

Lily 27:55

I said we. I said you gotta make money and I have to go to school.

Bruce 28:01

Oh yeah.

Lily 28:02

Yeah.

Bruce 28:07

I see, says the blind man, as he's walking with a lame man talking with a deaf man. Okay, nobody gets that.

Lily 28:20

I do, it's funny.

Sonny 28:30

Sure, I think he's silly, I know he's silly yeah, silly bird, silly bird.

Bruce 28:32

Yeah, well, I would call you bird brain. But uh, that's not. I guess that's not a bad thing anymore, the way that study said last week when we did it. Okay, but anyhow, you has have news.

Lily 28:47

You said oh yeah, I have two important things okay, lay it on us well, I'm excited, but, um, I forgot what I was going to say well, I did too.

Bruce 29:05

Oh, wait a minute, I never do yeah, you did what you were going to say. No, you never told me. I got all star of the month oh yeah, wait a minute, cool Lily's all starstar.

Lily 29:22

Yay, yeah, it's cool, that's so cool.

Sonny 29:26

Yay, yay, yay. Play again there, Bruce. Good job, Bruce. I can count on you to push a button.

Bruce 29:41

Well, I don't know about that, but Sonny, I just remembered something.

Sonny 29:45

What.

Lily 29:49

Remember when we used to call him Brooke.

Sonny 29:50

Yeah, I haven't done that in a long time. I guess I could Hi, brooke.

Bruce 29:59

Oh gosh.

Sonny 30:03

I like that actually, but I've tried to be nice most of last year. Sounds like a chicken.

Bruce 30:19

Okay, Lily and Brooke. Oh my gosh. Okay, Lily and Sunny.

Lily 30:31

No, I got too carried away. I have one more thing.

Bruce 30:37

Okay, I think you both got too carried away. Lay it on me. What's the second thing?

Lily 30:41

Okay, I think you both got too carried away. Lay it on me. What's the second thing? Well, some of my people here might watch wrestling. I don't know. I wish, I like if I, I wish, I wish, I wish if we had like. No, we do. I don't know what I'm saying.

Bruce 31:03

I have no idea what you're saying. What are you trying to say Like?

Lily 31:11

I wish that when our listeners like watch this, like it like responds to what I say, so it's like we do watch wrestling or whatever. It's probably going to happen in the future, you know.

Bruce 31:29

Okay, let me get this straight. I heard wrestling pop up in the listeners, so you're talking about wrestling. You like to watch wrestling. Is that what you're saying?

Lily 31:37

Yeah, I like to watch the scripted the WWE.

Bruce 31:45

Okay, now that makes more sense. Sense. And you're hoping what the listeners will come in and say I listen to it too. Well, that's a good idea.

Lily 31:53

You guys hear that I better do it. Better do it anyway.

Bruce 31:59

So I'm not gonna be here this weekend well, I'm not going to be here this weekend.

Lily 32:05

Well, I'm not going to be here this weekend.

Bruce 32:07

Well, I'm not going to be in town.

Lily 32:08

Oh, okay, that makes sense.

Sonny 32:11

I'm going to be four hours away. Well, brooke is never here. He's just kind of physically here, no mentality at all.

Lily 32:21

Well, I'm going to the Royal Rumble tomorrow.

Bruce 32:23

The who, what, when?

Lily 32:26

I can look it up. Hold on, it's the Royal Rumble.

Bruce 32:28

The Royal Rumble. Mm-hmm, that must be a wrestling thing.

Lily 32:34

It is.

Bruce 32:35

Oh, okay, I have it right here we are the Royal Rumble. I remember the announcer used to do that, yeah years ago.

Lily 32:49

They can't say it anymore. I don't think why, because the person that used to say it like died or something oh well, I could take his place.

Bruce 32:58

The royal Royal Rumble Probably not, never mind.

Lily 33:03

It was like are you ready to rumble, or something. Yeah.

Bruce 33:06

Yeah, yep, yep, are you ready to rumble?

Lily 33:11

Ready to rumble?

Bruce 33:13

Hey, hey, hey look at me there, Kenzie Lily.

Lily 33:21

Little peace sign.

Bruce 33:23

All right, we got it For our chapters. We've got a picture of Lily.

Lily 33:28

Yes, you have a picture of me. Oh boy, he's chapter happy, now Chapter happy.

Bruce 33:37

Well, chapter happy, happy.

Lily 33:42

It's basically just a. Thing.

Bruce 33:48

A. Thing.

Lily 33:49

Where 30 men that wrestle there, excuse me, when 30 men and 30 women, they all have to go in the ring and whoever throws them out of the ring wins. So like if you pick them up and throw them, they're out.

Bruce 34:11

So is it 30 men at the same time? No, okay, two and two, and two and two. No, until you get rid of them.

Lily 34:21

One after one after one. So they go by counts, they go like one, two, three until 30. Yeah, and there's one person that wins over a rumble.

Bruce 34:31

Yeah, so you got two people going into a ring. One ends up coming out, no, no. Well, how do you fight with one person?

Lily 34:40

You have 30 people in the same ring as you.

Bruce 34:44

Okay. So someone's either 30, there's one person, so you do have 30 people in there at the same time. Yes, okay.

Lily 34:51

And whoever throws like. If a singular person picks them up and throws them out the ring, they're out.

Bruce 34:58

Okay.

Lily 34:59

So it's like if you touch the floor then you're out.

Bruce 35:02

It's like fighting a gang.

Lily 35:06

I guess so.

Bruce 35:08

Okay.

Lily 35:09

I don't know, it's men and women. And then there's a ladder match the same day.

Bruce 35:17

Where is this going to be at?

Lily 35:19

Indianapolis.

Bruce 35:20

Indiana, indianapolis.

Lily 35:22

Indiana, indianapolis.

Bruce 35:23

Indiana.

Lily 35:24

I guess so.

Bruce 35:25

Okay, all right. Well, that sounds interesting. I think I've never heard of that, but it sounds like a brawl is what it sounds like.

Lily 35:36

It's like five hours long.

Bruce 35:37

Yeah.

Lily 35:39

It takes like an hour for one to finish it.

Bruce 35:45

I'll have to look this up on YouTube because I've never heard of this Interesting.

Lily 35:51

If you want to watch it tomorrow, it's on Peacock at 5 o'clock.

Bruce 35:55

I got to go to work I think I may get home.

Sonny 36:01

Around 10. He does every well. I think he come in at 9.30 one day. It's late, he's slow, it's a bummer when he works the second shift.

Bruce 36:18

Thank you for that explanation, Sonny.

Lily 36:22

Thanks for the life-changing information.

Bruce 36:26

I was going to answer.

Sonny 36:28

Oh, you didn't look like you could do it. You're kind of looking rough Rough rough, wow Rough rough boy.

Bruce 36:47

It's fun to have you three or you two. Have you two back together again.

Lily 36:54

I feel like I'm losing my mind now I couldn't tell if he was saying rough like you look rough, or if he was like saying like a dog barking like a rough.

Sonny 37:07

You know, Like he looked rough.

Bruce 37:20

Oh, good grief.

Lily 37:21

I think he has like a lisp, you know.

Bruce 37:28

That's his S's. Well, maybe I need to adjust his mic, but not today. Anyway, I'm glad to have you here. Good to have you on the recording, I hope all our listeners are glad to have you here. Good to have you on the recording.

Lily 37:44

I'm glad to have me here, I hope all our listeners are glad to hear you again. Yay, I'm glad to hear me.

Bruce 37:51

Yay, how do you like that stand? Do you like that?

Lily 37:54

It's better than my one. That was like eat or eat or.

Bruce 37:59

Yeah, you mean the one that was wore out and it wasn't set up. Yeah, that mic's heavy. Though that you're using it's not a regular dynamite.

Lily 38:12

It's a heavy dude. At least the cats can't knock it over.

Bruce 38:15

Well, they push it sideways constantly.

Lily 38:19

Oh well, because that's just like the mic, you know.

Bruce 38:21

Yeah, yeah, they drive me crazy. I think that's why I'm stopped up.

Sonny 38:29

You're just full of it. That's why you're stopped up.

Lily 38:36

That could be, one of them, but there is a sickness going around also.

Bruce 38:40

A sickness.

Lily 38:42

There's a lot of sicknesses going around, are you saying?

Bruce 38:43

I'm sick, could be You're sick, I know I'm sick.

Lily 38:49

Rock on, dude, rock on.

Bruce 38:52

All right. Well, let's cut this out. I'm going to have to go do my hair so we can get you ready for school. Yeah, I know you hate that word, but I do appreciate you coming by and give us a quick. I'll blend this with my regular podcast. This is going to be our 100th episode, or it is our 100th episode? Yay, I'm glad to have you aboard.

Lily 39:19

I'm glad to have me back.

Bruce 39:21

Yes, you need to do it more often. I will. Okay, I'm glad to have you aboard. I'm glad to have me back. Yes, you need to do it more often I will.

Lily 39:25

Okay, I'm officially back. I'm officially back.

Sonny 39:28

I see she's officially back.

Lily 39:31

I'm officially back.

Sonny 39:34

I enjoyed having you, Lily. It's a great way to pick on Brick.

Bruce 39:41

I wish you hadn't reminded him.

Sonny 39:44

Well, there's no reminding me, I was just being nice, but I can be mean, Brooke.

Lily 39:50

Every time I have a mic and headphones in front of me, I always think of your little nickname.

Bruce 39:55

Yeah, I wonder if the automatic transcript writer that I use will put. Brooke will put down how it will spell it.

Lily 40:06

It's probably B-R-O-K.

Bruce 40:09

It's bad on spelling. I used to go in and fix Sonny's name because I always spelled it like Sonny S-U-N-N-Y. You know, because he was sunshiny, always made everybody feel better about being here.

Lily 40:23

I thought it was like that.

Bruce 40:25

It is yes, but the automatic transcript. Writer.

Lily 40:30

The S-O-N-N-Y. Yeah, every time. Yeah, and.

Bruce 40:34

I got tired of changing it, so I just went to Sonny S-O-N-N-Y. Sorry, sonny.

Sonny 40:42

But don't make me any difference, I'm still Sonny.

Lily 40:47

It still sounds the same, so he can be S-U-N-N-Y or S-O-N-N-Y Sonny.

Bruce 40:56

Yeah. So if any of our listeners noticed the transcript and how it used to be one way and now it's the other, that's what happened. I got tired of fighting that automatic thing. It's supposed to learn, right.

Lily 41:09

Yeah, is it AI?

Bruce 41:11

Yeah, some. I don't think they're really artificial intelligent. You have to teach them.

Lily 41:19

Artificial, not intelligent.

Bruce 41:21

Yeah well, it's not artificial. It's just a computer program learning what we think or what the internet thinks, and then you know that's what changes. But that's not artificial.

Lily 41:36

There's a cat out here. The cat wants to join the podcast. Yeah, I hear him.

Bruce 41:39

Yeah, that hear him. Yep, that sounds like Winnie actually.

Lily 41:45

It does, alright.

Bruce 41:48

I'll be back in just a minute, but we're going to say goodbye to Lily. Thank you again, Lily.

Lily 41:55

Thanks for having me. I feel great to be back.

Sonny 41:59

Thank you, Lily, for being here and helping me pick on Brooke.

Lily 42:04

We'll see you later. Feels nice to be back, Brooke and Sonny.

Bruce 42:09

Yeah, I'm gonna hear Brooke all the time now. Yeah, alright, we'll be back in a little bit Yep, bye, bye, bye, bye.

Sonny Complains

Bruce 42:26

All right, I hope you enjoyed hearing Lily there. Us talking with Lily. It was good to have her over here that morning. It was good to have her back on the mic. We didn't have it set up quite well because we was in a hurry. We had to do it before we left to go take her to school and it was hard to get back to it. We was wanting to get an update from that wrestling match that she went to. Uh, we didn't make it, so hopefully we'll get her back in here maybe next friday and we'll do a special, just a few minutes long uh, to get an update from that and see how the rest of her uh, few weeks have went since we had her on here this time. So tune in again. Maybe we'll have her aboard.

Sonny 43:19

Well, I hope so, lily's a lot more fun than you are.

Bruce 43:24

Oh, get out of here.

Sonny 43:26

I can't. You got me chained in the fence row and all I can do is flutter.

Bruce 43:34

Now, don't be telling stories. Our listeners are going to believe you.

Sonny 43:39

Oh, okay, I won't tell how mean Bruce is to me.

Bruce 43:45

Oh, you're full baloney. You run around in here, take baths in here, you chase my cats and you got a new microphone. So what are you griping about?

Sonny 43:55

I didn't say I was griping, I'm just trying to get you in trouble.

Bruce 44:01

All right. Well, let's move on, shall we?

Santorini Island Quakes

Bruce 44:03

All right, I want to move on All right, cool, all right on, all right, cool, all right for our last story, I think our last story, let me check that out. Yep, this is our last story, news story anyway, and then we're going to switch over to the earthquakes and then say a good evening to everybody. But right now we're going to talk about the Santorini earthquakes, and I think I said that right, and I haven't heard any more about these. But I'm sure there's been some more, but there was 200. Now, this was as of let me check it out what date? Okay, as of February the 3rd. So this story is quite a ways back, but it caught my attention because it was about earthquakes and it gives me an opening to go into our earthquake report.

Bruce 45:01

But as of February the 3rd, the emergency crews were deployed on the Santorini Islands by Greece because there was a swarm of earthquakes that were happening on them islands. They had over 200 earthquakes. They were undersea earthquakes, which was recorded in the area. Now, most of them was not over, I see, 4.5, the highest, I believe, but that's the earthquake was every 10 or 20 minutes and they had people worried. Now, as of now, I haven't heard if there's anything happened more than that. But when we look up the earthquake report we'll be able to tell if anything major has happened, but I know they've had more since then. That's the bad thing about me taking so long to get back a recording, because the news I get it's not really outdated, because it happened and it was scary and they was evacuating that area. Um, that is a very uh popular area for for a lot of uh visitors and stuff like that. Tours have a lot of tours, have a lot of visitors and stuff like that. Tours have a lot of tours, have a lot of tours. That didn't sound right.

Sonny 46:36

Of course not. You're doing it, Gosh. You ought to let me read the news.

Bruce 46:42

Well, no, I've got to have something to do.

Sonny 46:46

Well, you can push buttons.

Bruce 46:49

Oh, thank you, sunny. Well, anyway, that island is uh near a lot of other ones, it's near, uh, greece and uh, it's very popular for the sightseers and for tours, and that got all stopped during this weekend. So, um, or that time period not this weekend, this is the 16th quite a ways back. Anyway, like I said, it runs a little bit of fear, um, and I don't know how hard it affected tourism during that time, but I'm sure that it affected some bit because they had cruise ships. I'm sure that it affected some bit because they had cruise ships scheduled coming in and flights and ferries. I think it had. Let me look this up real quick they have three million visitors annually to this place. So there you go, wow. So that's why everybody was worried and scared and wondering if something drastic was going to happen.

Sonny 47:57

Oh boy, We'll need to find out if something did happen? Yeah, I don't know.

7Day Earthquake Report

Bruce 48:03

Yeah, I don't know either, Sonny. I don't remember hearing anything else on the news. But again, I've been busy and we're going to go right into the earthquake report and that will tell the tale if there's any major earthquakes on that. All right, sunny, are you ready to guess?

Sonny 48:26

I am, I am, I am, I am.

Bruce 48:30

All right and for everybody out there, that's lasted this long through the podcast. We're going to do the report and what we do is we look back seven days and see if there's any major earthquakes and what the status of the earthquakes are like a 4.5, lower ones, higher ones and we're giving a report of the last seven days compared to the last time we reported. So that's what we're going to do and sonny's going to guess if we're over and above.

Sonny 49:07

Okay, you're going to tell me.

Bruce 49:12

Before you even start. Yes, I'm going to tell you the last weeks. Well, actually it was about three weeks ago. We are really behind and I apologize to everybody that follows us, all our new listeners. You won't notice it, but we'll do better. We just got really busy and we just had to take a break and do that stuff instead of what we was normally doing. But we'll try to do better. But this last report comes from January, the 26th, and the number was 169 for all the earthquakes. Sonny, did it go up or down?

Sonny 50:00

You know that don't work.

Bruce 50:05

All right, now time's up. Tell us what you think. 1679 was the last count for the seven days last time we reported. What's the total, all magnitudes?

Sonny 50:21

All right, I think it's going to go up. It went up or went down, so it's got to go back up. I hate saying that, because that means we've got more earthquakes. However, it's going up.

Bruce 50:37

All right, Sonny, you are right. Did you tell me how many?

Sonny 50:41

1850. It was at 1679, so 1850.

Bruce 50:48

All right, 1850 is the number that Sonny gave us and it is 1953, 1953. Total earthquakes for the last 7 days Wow, it went up quite a bit and that was quite a big number. And for the 2.5 earthquakes and above. Let me write this down. All right, I've got it wrote down. And, sonny, do you want to read them off now that I've got it wrote down?

Sonny 51:24

Yeah, I'd love to Thank you, Bruce.

Bruce 51:31

All right, no problem, here's the paper and go for it.

Sonny 51:35

All right, kind of hard to hold it, but here we go. The 2.5 and bigger earthquakes was 263 this seven day period. It was 310, wow, and we're going to jump to the 6.0, because that's uh, there's always a whole bunch of 4.5s all the way up to 5.9. And it's hard to read all those. So what Bruce likes to do is do the 6.0 and above only, because usually there's not very many Hopefully there's not very many, and this week it was one in Ethiopia and surprisingly there was one the last time we read this report. So maybe there's been less major earthquakes and a lot more minor, so that there would be less major ones, right, bruce?

Sonny Rolling Rolling

Bruce 53:18

right, you are boy. You said that quite well. I'm proud of you. Uh, yeah, if we have minor ones, hopefully that's the belief that they're relieving the earth of stress. So we have a less major ones. And when we have major ones, everybody knows that, uh, it could be ugly. It is ugly, not could be, it will be, um. So anyway, that's a report for this last seven days. Hopefully you got something out of it. If you you didn't, I'm sorry if you was bored, but hey, that's the way me and Sonny roll.

Sonny 53:56

Oh boy, we rolling, rolling, rolling Raw hide. I'm not sure what that was, but okay.

Bruce 54:09

Oh, it's just an old show that used to be on TV years ago and I liked watching it as old cowboys.

Sonny 54:17

Okay, tell your age some more.

Bruce 54:20

Not doing it, not doing it at all, but anyway, we want to thank everybody for coming out.

Sonny 54:27

Yay, nobody come out. There's nobody here but me and you. Bruce, what's the matter with you?

Bruce 54:36

I'm not being literally meaning coming out, Sonny. Do I have to explain everything?

Sonny 54:47

Yes, you gotta remember I'm not been around podcasting, but for a few years I've not been around anywhere, but for a few years, duh uh, where'd you learn that, duh?

Podcast Farewell & Appreciation Gesture

Bruce 55:05

you, of course. All. All right, I got that. Yeah, everybody. Thank you folks for coming and listening to our Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. We're glad to have you aboard. If you've been here before and you liked it and you come back, gosh, what's the matter with you guys?

Sonny 55:26

Yeah, what's the matter with everybody Go? Listen to somebody that's ignorant like Bruce. Wait a minute, that didn't come out right.

Bruce 55:35

Well, thanks for your vote of confidence once again, sonny, and no, that didn't come out right, but anyhow, thank you again for sticking around with us and listening to our silliness and to our silliness. We just kind of let this 100th episode be, as is. 101 starts the next time around, and we may try to do a little bit more different things. Until then, we're glad to have you aboard for the new listeners. Gosh, I hope we didn't bore you too bad.

Sonny 56:11

I didn't bore him, bruce, you did.

Bruce 56:14

Okay, I hope I didn't bore you too bad. Come back and if you'd like to share us with your friends, do that, because that's the best way for us to grow. Share it with one person and have them share it. Just have them look it up on any of the podcast places that they listen to their normal podcast. If they're not a listener to any podcast, kick them in the butt. Get them listening. Yeah, it's important.

Sonny 56:45

Why.

Bruce 56:47

Because we need listeners.

Sonny 56:50

Oh okay, listen everybody. Yay, because we need listeners, oh okay listen everybody.

Bruce 56:56

Yay, oh, I don't think that's a way to do it, but anyway. Uh, we want to point everybody to our ugly quacking duckcom website. Go there, you learn a little bit more about us. We try to go there, you learn a little bit more about us. We try to post a little bit every time we do an episode. We've also created a donation page which, if you click on our link on the description of a podcast player about our episode or about our podcast, it will take you to that page. Or you can just click on donation page on a website, but it gives you a list of ways you can donate if you feel like you need to help us along financially.

Bruce 57:41

But, above all, please tell somebody else about and come back. Yeah, come back. There you go. We want to hear from you every week or every two weeks. However, we do this podcast. Two weeks is not working out. We may have to go back to every week, I don't know. Let us hear about it, email us or send us a text. Click on a podcasting 2.0 player and it's got a place that says Apple even does it. Spotify, I think, does it. If we're still on Spotify, we may not. After playing a little bit of music. They don't like any music unless it's their music. Anyhow, go find us, tell your friends about us. We love you all. We hope you do well the next coming couple weeks and, uh, anything else, sunny nope, I like the way you did that.

Sonny 58:40

We'll see you guys soon.

Bruce 58:42

Thank you for being part of the show yeah, thank you for enjoying our hobby with us. We love doing it, we're having fun and I hope you keep coming back. So this is Bruce and this is Sonny.

Sonny 58:56

We're going to do it together, right? Bruce?

Bruce 58:59

Yep, we're going to do it together. Let's do it together. Ready, one, two, three. Bye everyone 73, and God bless.