When Root Beer Is The Only Answer: A Sunday in Southern Illinois

Bruce and Sunny explore earthquake data spanning six years and make a surprising discovery that challenges common assumptions about increasing seismic activity. They introduce a new downloadable tracking tool for listeners who want to follow along with their research.

• New Harry Potter TV series cast has been announced with filming to begin this summer
• SpaceX's ninth Starship test flight ended in failure, crashing into the Indian Ocean after experiencing technical difficulties 
• Japan's private lunar landing mission lost contact and was deemed unsuccessful, adding to recent moon mission failures
• 47 volcanoes are currently on the "continuing eruption" list worldwide, including major activity in Italy, Russia, Philippines, and Japan
• Earthquake data comparison shows higher seismic activity in 2019 than in 2025, contradicting the narrative that earthquakes are increasing
• New website features include a downloadable earthquake tracking sheet and a "Podcasts We Love" section

Don't let the news cycle bring you down. Take a breath, look around, and smile because we are loved and it could always be worse. Email us at theuglyquackingduck@gmail.com or visit our website at theuglyquackingduck.com.

Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction
• 5:20 Weather Report: Southern Illinois vs Phoenix
• 16:25 Harry Potter TV Series Cast Announcement
• 19:36 Space News: Starship Test Flight
• 21:21 Moon Mission
• 23:03 Volcano Activity Report
• 29:45 Earthquake Comparison: 2025 vs 2019
• 47:29 New Website Features and Sign-off
• 52:16 73's

Transcript

Bruce: 0:05

It's time.

Sunny: 0:08

What time is it?

Bruce: 0:11

It's time for a brand new episode of the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. Yay, I like it better when we do it manually.

Sunny: 0:23

Well, I don't know about that, but every time you pushed up my button it did something weird and it was popping and cracking. So it's better, since we've done it manually.

Bruce: 0:37

Yep, it is definitely better manually, and I don't know why your mic is so loud today. It's louder than it was the last time. I didn't do nothing. I didn't either, but anyway, welcome aboard folks. This is episode 110 of the ugly quacking duck podcast, and you're listening to the worst podcast in the known universe aren't you getting tired of saying that? Nope, that's kind of fun all right.

Sunny: 1:09

Well, I'll go along with you for now oh, don't threaten me all right.

Bruce: 1:18

Well, it's uh sunday june the 8th and we're recording on this. Sunday morning it's sun shining. We got the windows open, the fans are turned off so we won't have any noise, but you can hear the trucks and the cars and the motorcycles go by every now and then. But it's a beautiful day, folks. Uh, it's only 72 in here in the studio 72, is that warm, cold, or what?

Bruce: 1:55

um, it's what, whatever we make it to be, we want to welcome family and friends aboard the show. Um, if you um listen to this and have any comments or additive things you want to put in there, email us. We're putting this out right off the bat, man. Email us at the ugly quacking duck at gmailcom. Hear that loud boy? They're loud when they go by. Or go to our website, theuglyquackingduckcom.

Bruce: 2:34

Go to the front page and you can go all the way down. You hit subscribe type in your email and just click on the subscribe button and it will click on the subscribe button and it will subscribe you to that web page and then every time we do a post or a new episode, it will pop up on an email that you can just go click on it. That way you don't have to search for our stuff. But if you want to read a little bit more about our podcast and what we're doing, you can go to the different pages and, uh, we've got a new couple new additives we're going to tell you about as we go along. But there you go.

Bruce: 3:12

Um, that's what we're talking about today and we are coming to you from our studio in the midwest southern illinois, that's, outskirts of Mount Vernon, illinois. So we want to shout out to Mount Vernon and the surrounding areas, to our friends and family. We want to shout out to Southern Illinois we're, you know, in the same boat, all you guys are in and we've got the same governor and we don't need to need to say anymore just pray for us folks in them, other states, because you don't know what it's like apparently ain't that bad, or we'd have done all moved well, that could be said, could be said, could be true.

Bruce: 4:04

But when you're owning a home, have a job, the wife has a job you can't just pick it all up and go somewhere else. I guess you could, I don't know, that's neither here nor there. Well, that's where we're at right now and that's where we're transmitting from. The broadcast is being recorded here as of now.

Sunny: 4:30

As of now.

Bruce: 4:33

Well, yeah, there you go, so we're thankful for everybody that's come over and found our podcast, or you search for it and got it. However, you come about, listen to us at this time. Thank you, we really appreciate it, and if you're in southern Illinois, you know what kind of weather we've been having. It's been kind of weird one day it'd be hot and sunny and the next day it'd be rainy and cloudy, and most of the days last week were cloudy. Uh, there was some rain off and on, and then, when the weekend got here, of course it rained. Friday it rained. Saturday it rained. Uh, today is supposed to be a better day, though, and it looks like it. We're going to have sunshine, and the grass has probably grown two foot already. With this sun and warm rain, oh yeah, have to get the lawnmower out. Yay, looking forward to that.

Sunny: 5:44

Oh, just hire you a couple of goats.

Bruce: 5:48

Yep, a couple of goats it is. Get out there, boys, get that grass cut, don't you wish?

Sunny: 5:58

it was that easy.

Bruce: 6:00

I do, I do for sure.

Sunny: 6:04

Boy. This has been a really weird episode to get started recording, hasn't it, bruce?

Bruce: 6:12

It has Very weird. This is like the fourth time we've tried to start this episode.

Sunny: 6:22

Yep, we did it uh friday evening and then again saturday morning yep, and then uh, two or three times this morning.

Bruce: 6:37

Um, the friday and saturday we had, uh, I had mic problems. It was really bizarre. I couldn't get my mic to work at all. You know, I was having trouble the last couple episodes but didn't pay a bit of attention. Apparently my mic cable, for whatever weird reason. You know I don't move the mic cable much, I move the arm slightly when we get ready to record, so there's a little bit of flexing going on, but boy, not much, and that darn mic cord just quit. I mean it just I turned it on, uh, friday night and it didn't work and I messed with it. Messed with it, I had a couple other things going on. So I just went back to it Saturday morning and finally, right before I got ready to just give it up, I decided to change the mic cord.

Bruce: 7:37

I don't know why. I didn't do that the first time and sure enough the mic cord went bad. So the mic just peaked right up. That may have been the reason I was losing volume sometimes. You know, I'd have to kind of readjust. I don't know if you guys heard all that, but I'd lose a little bit of power and I'd readjust. Couldn't figure out why, but I guess that mic cord had been bad all along and I'm going to have to order some good ones anyway. And then this morning we got ready to go and I kept hitting that one uh new episode button that I've got a previous recording of and it, uh it kept popping and cracking. It wouldn't record or play. Right, what a morning, but that's the way it goes when we're starting to record.

Sunny: 8:34

I wonder if everybody has that kind of trouble.

Bruce: 8:38

Yeah, I'm sure they do when you're dealing with humans. This is not AI. We are full-blooded, breathing life. There you go.

Sunny: 8:52

Okay, I was getting ready to say if you call me a human one more time, I'm leaving.

Bruce: 8:58

Oh, you are not. Don't be so, darn touchy.

Sunny: 9:02

I can, if I want.

Bruce: 9:13

All right, well, I don't think so, darn touchy, I can't. If I want, all right, well, I don't think you want, but anyhow, um, yeah, folks, it's been an interesting uh weekend trying to get this thing recorded. But I think everybody probably has problems off and on. I mean, there's times when you sit down and our planning goes smooth I mean, what we want to talk about goes smooth and, um, me being too able to articulate everything I'm wanting to say goes smooth and then I wake up in the mornings and I realize that was a dream and life is just not that way. It just doesn't go smooth for me at all. I have to work on it and I plan what I want to say and then I can't get it out and I, yeah, that's life. I hope you enjoy that kind of hillbilly stuff, because that's the way our podcasts are and we're not going to be able to change that.

Sunny: 10:07

Yeah, we can. We can hire AI to run the bot or run the podcast, run something.

Bruce: 10:15

Yeah, they'll run it right into the ground and leave us.

Sunny: 10:22

AI has its purpose, but not doing my podcast.

Bruce: 10:29

Okay, I guess we know how you feel about that.

Sunny: 10:30

that's all I got to say about that well, I think, bruce, you ought to tell everybody about the local weather compared to Phoenix Arizona, you know.

Bruce: 10:47

I think I will. I like doing that. Everybody knows what our southern Illinois weather is because I just told you and if you're living here you've experienced it and pretty well everybody in the Midwest, all the way down to Texas and up to what ohio, have been experiencing the same kind of weird weather. But let's talk real short. I always like comparing us to phoenix, arizona, because that's kind of a off the beaten path and, um, it should be a little bit different type weather. So we're having 72 degrees today, right now. Um, it's fair, that's what they're saying. Uh, the humidity is at 72 percent, the wind is at three miles an hour and the air quality is 95. Wow, I'm not sure why it's so high. That's kind of weird. And if we flip the page over to Phoenix, arizona, it's 85 degrees there and sunny. And I don't mean it's, I do mean it's sunny. Never mind, and I don't mean it's, I do mean it's sunny.

Sunny: 12:06

Never mind. Oh, you couldn't think nothing funny to say about me, so you kind of blew that one. Ha ha.

Bruce: 12:18

Yeah, you got egg on your face now, buddy, all right, well, if you say so, but it is 18% humidity in arizona, phoenix, where we have 72. You can tell it's dry our climate there now. We did get a lot of rain, so we got a lot of water in the ground and on the grass, which is going to bring up the humidity and it's going to bring up the heat. We're going to have nasty weather. It's june, though, guys, summer's right around the corner, and yeah, they got six mile per hour wind. Uh, the air quality is 35 compared to our 95. So, whoa, that's, that's bizarre.

Bruce: 13:08

They are predicting they're going to have 107 degree weather or temperature today. Yeah, 80 degrees tonight. 107, wow, I'm not sure that's even nice. We are predicting to have 82 degrees today and a high of 62 tonight. All right, uv index here is 9 out of 11.

Bruce: 13:41

Sunrise was at 5 31 amm and sunset is at 8.18 pm. We are in waxing gibbous moon phase. The moonrise will be at 6.16 pm and it will set at 3.24 am. Wow, how wild is that? Let's see what it says about Phoenix. Now, what was I going to look for? Oh, they're saying today around. Oh, that's the 15th. They're saying the 15th Sunday, the 15th is going to be 110 degrees.

Bruce: 14:36

Jeez, that's why we're not in Phoenix, isn't it? People say you know it's a different temperature there. People say you know it's a different temperature there. It's not that hot, humid like we have. When you're looking at 107 degrees. I don't think there is a cooler, it's just hot. Anyhow, we're right now at 72 degrees. It's a fair day, it's beautiful. Um, I've got the fan barely turned on to give me a little fresh air in here while I'm recording and we got cars going up and down the strip like crazy. This highway is really bad about that, so if you're hearing that noise, I apologize. We do not have a soundproof studio. We got a makeshift studio. We just have to deal with it. So I hope you don't mind either, there you go.

Bruce: 15:47

So in on and going ahead.

Sunny: 15:51

What was that?

Bruce: 15:54

I don't know, I just made it up as we went. You can tell, I know for sure that there's some Harry Potter fans that listen to the show, to the podcast, and I'm sure they've already heard the news, but I'm going to re-emphasize it. They are coming out with a TV series, a Harry Potter TV series, with a tv series, a harry potter tv series, and they have chosen the main cast, which is the young people that's going to play harry potter, hermione and ron, and they've got their names listed and they actually have a picture on the web and I've downloaded that picture, I'm going to put it on the podcast and I may put it on our web page too, so you can see. If you're too lazy to go, look for it.

Sunny: 17:07

That was cruel.

Bruce: 17:10

Oh, that was a good dig.

Sunny: 17:12

All right.

Bruce: 17:13

Whatever you think.

Bruce: 17:16

Okay, whatever I think goes. I just noticed my mic volume was tilted down a little bit. I hit it back up, so anyway, yeah, I thought that was interesting for the Harry Potter fans. They're going to come up with that TV series. I forget when it was going to come out. They're going to start filming this summer and I think it's going to debut sometime next year. So we'll have to hold them to that, you know. But that's a game plan that come out on May, the 27th, that headline, and I've been saving it.

Sunny: 18:08

You've been hoping that there's some Harry Potter fans that listen to your podcast I actually know that there are a few they. They may not respond, but yeah, anyhow hey, bruce, I see that you've already drunk your tea this morning. Now, now you've got a glass of something dark. What is that?

Bruce: 18:37

Well, I'm glad you asked. I am switched over to a glass of cold brew beer.

Sunny: 18:45

Oh, brew beer.

Bruce: 18:48

Yep, I went out in the garage and got that a while ago. I needed something. You know, I usually drink a lot of water, but for some reason I just felt the need to have a little bit of something besides my tea and water, so I went and got me a root beer root beer, yep, root beer. Yeah, there we go hey, root beer, yep, root beer. Yeah, there we go. Hey, have you heard.

Bruce: 19:18

I've heard a lot. Yeah, I bet you have. On May the 28th, spacex carried out the ninth test flight of its Starship Yep, and we all know who's got SpaceX. So if you guys are all offended that I brought his company up, I'm sorry but it's part of the space news. He launched another Starship that's that big space vehicle that they're going to use to get a mission to the moon. But it carried out another test flight and it was not very good one. Now, the not very good one was my words.

Bruce: 20:00

Uh, it was the third test flight of the starship. That, uh, didn't complete the entire flight, um, but apparently elon musk was pretty happy with the different places it went through, or different values or the checkpoints for the flight. So I don't know what his picture of success for those flights are and what I perceive, but apparently after launching it had a fuel tank leak and a few other issues and it it did, they lost contact with it and it did an uncontrolled spin right into the indian ocean and I think the game plan is for this thing to take some astronauts up to the moon, back in or back hello in 2027. So some would say back to the moon, moon, moon, moon, moon, moon in 2027. And then the others would say, oh, we're going there finally, to the moon, moon, moon, moon. I'll let you decide which side of the fence you're on. And while we are listing failed missions to the moon, they're starting to stack up quite a bit.

Bruce: 21:26

Uh, japan had a private, had a private lander, private company that took off and they touched down or was supposed to touch down Friday, which was what the 5th and apparently they lost contact with their lander and after not being able to regain contact, they described the mission, mission, said they concluded it. Um, so it probably crashed. I think it's kind of strange how there's been so many missions to the moon, supposedly that they've lost contact or crashed there, and yet we got there back in what? 69? On the first attempt, we are so good, wow, anyhow, japan didn't make it. I think that what was their company's name? It was um, ispace, yep, ispace, I think, is what it was called.

Sunny: 22:52

What a weird name.

Bruce: 22:57

That must have been at the end of the news portion. You got that right. We just switched over. I wanted to talk a little bit about volcanoes. We're having a lot of volcanoes show up in the news and I don't know if anybody's following those.

Bruce: 23:26

But you know, I did a little bit of research to kind of give a report and igs volcanic uh reporting site, and did a little research and what I've got? Um, they've got a list and most, most of these excuse me, most of the volcanoes on this list are considered continued active and they've been that way for a long time. So I thought, well, I'll just scroll through a few of them. Well, I just got a text from work. I'm going to have to go in and cover somebody's shift, so I'm probably going to have to cut this short. But anyway, I'm on that page and I got to look into the list and I figured I would just cover a few of them on the list. The etna volcano in italy, um has been erupting, I think every year, but it started a new eruption around June the 2nd and it reached its highest level by 0250. I'm not sure exactly if that's local time or what time they're using there, because it doesn't say greenwich time, if I was going to guess, but anyway. The next one's in russia. And again, this is continued volcanic eruption list. This one's been erupting since well, during 23 through 29th of May. The biggest explosion was at 1945, on May the 28th. It would produce ash plums that rose 6.5 or 21,300 feet in the air Wow. And the next one is tail T-A-A-L in the Philippines and it was active May the 3rd through June, so several days, but during May the 27th and June the 3rd, that time period in between, there it was the most tremors and stuff, most tremors and stuff. And then there's the next one was A-H-Y-A or I C-Mount, c-mount. It has continued erupting during the 24th through the 30th of May period.

Bruce: 26:29

And then there was another one in Japan, a-i-r-a, a-r-i, r-a. And then there was another one in Japan, aira. It's been reported active through May the 26th through May the 28th. It was spewing out sulfur dioxide emissions. It was spewing out sulfur dioxide emissions extremely high, averaging 3,500 tons per day, so that one's really spitting out a lot. And then the next one was AMBAE, a-m-b-a-e, I'm not even sure where that's at. It's V-A-N-U-A-T-U, vanatu, and it's been hitting since May the 28th through June the 3rd.

Bruce: 27:23

This is the latest report. It goes through June the 3rd, so that's why you're only hearing June the 3rd. And there's several more on the list and I'm not going to go over all of them, but there's a lot of volcanoes erupting, vibrating, spewing stuff out. They've got 47 on their continuing eruption list 47. Their continuing eruption list 47. So that tells me there's been a lot more activity than the news has been showing us and I guess it's regularly reporting this. Um, it's nothing new to them, which you know. I've been hearing all these new reports like, oh, we haven't seen an earthquake, volcanic eruption in so long. But then you read these reports it's like, oh, this happens every year, or whatever it is the report. But there you go. A little bit of history, go look it up, see what you think. Just look up volcanic eruptions and you'll get a page you can go to. It's got the list and everything. It's pretty wild.

Sunny: 28:42

So you're spoiling all the reports, aren't you? Way to go? Yeah, way to go, huh.

Bruce: 28:55

Well, I don't know about spoiling the reports. If you're talking about the news media, the news makes their money off of making news important and exciting so that people will tune in in, and if they can scare you or shock you out of your senses for a half a second, so they'll sell advertising and sell you what they're trying to sell you whether it's advertising or a conscious mind about something that they want you to pay attention to then they've succeeded. So take that with a grain of salt. A lot of this stuff that is being churned up is being churned up on purpose to get us all offbeat, worried, scared, so they can manipulate and control us more. Well, I'm going to have to get this episode shut down earlier than I thought, so I'm going to go right into the earthquake report. I've been excited about reporting what I've got, what I found out, and it's a little bit different than I thought it would be. What I did is we'll start right off the bat.

Bruce: 30:20

Go to our website, the ugly quacking duckcom, and when you get there, go to the top portion. They're either on the side of the page it shows pages and it's got a list of all the pages or at the top it's got that same list. But if you'll go to the support our podcast, click on that page and scroll all the way down. Now it's very good reading. It talks about what we believe in our support and how we want to carry our pages and our episodes out. So read that. But if you scroll on down past that, it gives you several choices of how you can support us financially.

Bruce: 31:08

And then at the bottom part of the page, we just added a seven-day report PDF so you can click on that. It'll show it to you. You can click on it. There's a download button at the bottom. There's a little download arrow at the top of it. You can click on one of those and download it and save it, or you can just hit the printer and print it um into your local printer.

Bruce: 31:40

However you want to do it, but get a copy of it. We made it up so you can follow along every time we do a seven day report and you can write it down. We figured if you wrote it down it would give you a better picture of what we're talking about and it would give you a record that you could follow along with us. So we advise you to do it. Have fun with it, let us know what you think. But not only are we going to give you a seven-day report, like we've been doing, but we decided to go back and look up some history of earthquakes and we uh thought, well, where are we going to go do?

Bruce: 32:28

that at um the first. When we first did it, we went back a year to see there wasn't a whole lot of difference and we thought well. So we thought, hey, we'll go back to 2019. That was before COVID and that was before the stress and we'll see if it made any difference in the earthquakes. Now we could have picked any year.

Bruce: 32:54

The one thing I was concerned about about going back and doing that was I didn't know how well the network was put together. If we go back too many years. You know they have an earthquake reporting network of size whatever the gadgets are called that pick up the earthquakes and then they are turned, the received information is turned into the network, and so on and so forth. But I didn't know, if we went back too many years, if that network would fall apart so the earthquakes wouldn't show up as much, not because we wasn't having them, but because the network wasn't as good. So I I didn't do that. I went back 2019 and what I did I picked this like today is june the 8th, 2025. So I did that report and then I went back to June 8th, 2019, and went back seven days from there. So we'd have the exact time frame, but it would be six years before. So that's what we did. So if you got that paper printed off, pause this, go back and print it off and then you can write it down as I report it. But now, because I haven't been on for two weeks, I went on June the 1st and went ahead and wrote them down. So I'd have a seven-day report then and I'd have a seven-day report seven days later. So we're going to go back to June the 1st, 2025. So if you want to write that down, print it out and I'll tell you how it works.

Bruce: 34:54

As you're looking at it. On the left side, that's where you put the date. You put the date of when we're doing the report, and then to the right of that date, there is a column that says all magnitudes and there's two spaces there in case you mess up. And then there's a 2.5 and over magnitudes and there's two spaces there in case you mess up, and then there's a 2.5 and over magnitudes. You write the total down there and then the 4.5 is there. Then on over to the right, there's a 6.0 and over. That's the 6.0 and over magnitudes. That's the magnitudes that I actually record, because they're the main ones, they're the most disastrous. And then I have a location so you can write down kind of where they're at, just a little bit of a history. And then if you want to write down that date, like today, and then below that what I did, I did it so you can do four different recordings. So 6, 8, 19 would go in the date, the second line of dates, and then you just follow the same procedure through that. So let's begin, and then you just follow the same procedure through that. So let's begin. I'm going to read out today, so this is going to take all four of the first page. We're going to start on 6-1. That's going to be on your first days.

Bruce: 36:49

Back from 6-1, the total was 1961 total earthquakes. So write that down. And if you want to write the 2.5 and over down, it's 279 and then the 4.5 was 105. So we had one, two, three, four, five, six and over earthquakes. We had um. In the Carnatic Islands. We had three major earthquakes. We had a 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2. 6.0 and then a 6.2 in the sea outside of Africa, the southwest portion of Africa, so let me go over them again. K-e-r-m-a-d-i-c islands we had a 6.0, a 6.1, and a 6.2. And then in Japan, we had a 6.0. And then in the southwest of Africa, which is out in the sea, we had a 6.2. And that was just this month.

Bruce: 38:19

Now, back in 2019, write that down in your next line of date 6.1, 2019. This really freaked me out. I didn't realize this was going to happen, because I thought the earthquakes were getting worse. Right, we was getting more of them. Now I went back and looked on June, the 1st 2019. We had a total earthquakes 3,111. So the totals were up. The 2.5 and over was 313. They were up, and the 4.5 and over was 135. It was up. All those were up. And the 6 and over we had four of them.

Bruce: 39:19

Are you ready for this? We had a 6.0 in Tonga, which them islands get hammered all the time. 6.1 in the Philippines, a 6.6 in El Salvador, a 6.6 in El Salvador. Now, if you're writing this down and I go too fast, you can always, when I tell you what the earthquake was and where it was at, just hit pause, write it down and hit start again, or you can back it up a little bit. You have control of this podcast, how fast you listen to it, how slow. So then we had a 6.6 in el salvador. Now are you ready for this? Back on june, the 1st 2019, there was an 8.0. That's right, you heard me right 8.0 earthquake in peru. Does anybody remember that? I didn't even remember that. That was wild to see that.

Sunny: 40:26

Uh, back in 2019 so you're telling me, bruce, that they were worse?

Bruce: 40:39

back then. I'm not sure. Saying they were worse back then is right. That's just one day, or one seven day period, um, compared to one seven day period this year. So what we're going to do, we're going to do that for the next few weeks, next few months maybe, and see what it comes up to, and then I may pick out of the blue, go back and pick another year and do three different ones. We'll just have to see how this goes. But I did not anticipate the numbers being higher three years or what is that? Six years ago. I didn't anticipate that. I really figured they would be lower. So I'm a little bit shocked. But again, that's just one seven-day period compared to one seven-day period. We'll have to do this more and see what happens.

Sunny: 41:46

That is strange, strange, strange.

Bruce: 41:49

Yeah, you said that. But yeah, I agree with you. It's not what I anticipated, but let's move on. Let's move on to this week. We're going to do 6-8-25. So I looked this up this morning before I started recording. Hopefully it didn't change very much, very much. But we have on 6, 8, 25 this year. All of them was 2086. So all the earthquakes for the last seven days, from today back to 6 11 was 2086. Write that down, folks. And the 2.5 in over earthquakes was 353. And the 4.5 in over earthquakes was 84. Yeah, and then, uh, we had three six and over earthquake magnitudes. We had a 6.2 in the Antarctica Ridge and that's way out in the ocean, a 6.3 in Columbia and a 6.4 in Chile and a 6.4 in Chile, and then we go back to 6-18-2019. So six years ago Isn't that right? Yeah, are you ready for this? We had a total of seven day the all magnitudes, 3,754. So this year it was 2,086. Six years ago it was 3,754 earthquakes. The 2.5 was 444. This year was 353. So they had increased or decreased. This year 4.5 and over is 119 and here this year they was 84. So again, they all those numbers are higher.

Bruce: 44:12

I'm just, I'm shocked. I really I did not anticipate that Now the 6.0 went over earthquakes. There was only two. One was in Tonga. Again, tonga seems to get hit a lot, it was a 6.0. And then there was a 6.4 in the Japan region region, I'm not, I didn't look it up and see exactly where that was at, but um, so over near japan somewhere. Well, I hope you guys find that fascinating. So I was anticipating seeing more and more earthquakes and I'm just it makes me think that I don't know. I don't know what to think. I'm going to continue to do that for the next few episodes and we'll see what the totals are and if it changes much. But again, that's why we got that ability for you to go print that paper off and write it down so you guys can see the numbers yourself. Now the one thing I was concerned about is that it's been accused and here's some more conspiracy that there's accusations that the USGS, who does the earthquakes, don't record the information properly. They kind of downturn the numbers sometimes.

Bruce: 45:49

I don't know if any of that's true, but all we've got to go on is what they are giving us. So that's what we're reporting on and again, we are shocked at what we found out so far. And if there's any interest, I may go back. What 1999? Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999. 1999? Yeah, that'd be a good one 1999. So, if you're interested, that'd give us a little bit more reporting and we could figure out what's going on from there.

Sunny: 46:27

You're going to make our whole podcast about earthquakes if you do this.

Bruce: 46:33

Well, that's not true, but I did have a lot more I wanted to talk about, but I'm gonna have to shut up because I'm gonna go get ready for work. I gotta go in. I got that text and yeah. So I figured that would happen. I really did. They're gonna be paying me some overtime, yeah. So, once again, the new page is up there and if you want to, if you didn't catch it you go to support our podcast link, either on the left side of the page or on the top, where it lists the pages. Click on that, read that information that's on this page and then scroll down to the very bottom.

Bruce: 47:22

I've got a file that pops up. You have the choice of printing it off or downloading it. I advise you to download it to your computer. You're working off of a phone. That might be hard to do, but download it to your computer. You're working off of a phone that might be hard to do, but download it to your computer so you can print it off anytime, as many copies as you want, and follow along with the episode.

Bruce: 47:47

Write that information down. Then you can get you the old-fashioned school binder if you want to punch holes in the paper and put it in that binder. If you don't get those loose paper um folders I don't know what they call them you open it up. It's got a little sleeve in there. You can put them in, but you can save those. Put the date on top of it if you want, or the month or however you want to do it, but it gives you a tool and we're going to find out where this goes. Yep, and one other new thing I've got on the uh web page website. Back to it. If you go to our same thing, go to the website and go to the pages part and go to our podcast, our podcast. That that's the page that you can actually go and listen to our podcast. You can just scroll down the list and click on the one you want to listen to and then hit play.

Sunny: 49:07

Below that podcast block is pictures of me and Sonny. Oh yeah, that's such a bad picture, bad picture of me or you Me.

Bruce: 49:15

Okay, well, we can fix that next time you morph.

Sunny: 49:22

We'll get you another picture up there. Oh yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to.

Bruce: 49:30

You keep saying that, but I'm waiting.

Sunny: 49:34

Well, I'll do it when you're least expecting.

Bruce: 49:36

All right. And the next picture was Lily. We turned her into a cartoon sort of, so that well, anyway, she's too young to be having too much pictures on here. But anyway, that's not what I was wanting to talk about having too much pictures on here, but anyway, that's not what I was wanting to talk about. On that page we did a link. Um says click below to see the podcast. We love um and what that does. We just added that's right below the pictures. You click on it and it takes you to our hosting page, our buzzsprout.

Bruce: 50:15

I'm going to give him a shout-out, Hello, buzzsprout. They're the ones that host our podcast and they give us a lot of little things that we can do, and one of the things we can do is what is called Pod Row. But it's the podcasts that we love, the ones that we like to listen to, and you can check them out. You can actually click on them and go to them and check them out, which is cool. So there's a whole list that pops up and at the top of this page that pops up it talks about it's got a whole list of episodes. It shows the contributors, the people that work on the podcast, and then it's got an about page that talks about us and then the podcast we love. So it gives you a little bit of information and we want to thank Pod and Buzzsprout for hosting our web page or hello, not a web page buzzsprout for hosting our podcast and giving us these little tweaks here and there.

Bruce: 51:28

We like that. So go check that out. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I hope you enjoy it. It gives you something more to do and more to learn and, uh, every now and then we may change the podcast that we love. These are the ones we're listening to at this time. But there you go. That's the two new changes we have to our website. We are hosted by uh, I can't remember the name of the hosting page that hosts our web site, but, um, anyhow, that's what's going on. That's our new information for now. Sunny got anything you'd like to say yes.

Sunny: 52:18

I want to thank you for letting me be part of this episode and part of the podcast. We have a lot of fun.

Bruce: 52:28

We do. I appreciate that, Sunny. I hope you come back again.

Sunny: 52:37

I'm going to I really am. Guys, I hope you all come back. I hope you enjoyed it. You enjoy coming here again and again, and again, okay.

Bruce: 52:53

Yes, we thank you all for being there, families and friends. We welcome you back the next time we're going to have to sign off. Sorry, we cut it short. Well, it's not real short, but anyhow, go out and enjoy your Sunday. If you're listening to this, later on in the week, try to enjoy the week.

Bruce: 53:15

I know there's a lot of things going on in the news and a lot of political stuff, and I was going to talk a little bit about some of that, but I guess I won't today. But don't let it get you down. That's really what they're wanting. They're wanting to bring you down. If you're down and depressed and scared and upset, you have no extra motivation. You're just going to make it muddle through, and that's what they want.

Bruce: 53:47

They don't want you to be able to enjoy life and think about it and have hope, because then you may want to outdo their business, their, their lies, their cheats, and they don't want that. They don't want you thank it for yourself. They want you worried, upset, so all you can think about is going to work, coming home, getting over that, maybe having some kind of party just to get relief. That's what they want. Stop it, take a breath, look around, smile because we are loved and believe it. Okay, it may be bad, but it could be worse, and I know that's easy for me to say, isn't it? But there's a lot of people out there that's got worse going on and if they look around they know somebody that's got worse. I mean it just continues. Enjoy the week. We're going to say bye before we get too much into it.

Sunny: 54:52

Yeah, before you're born to death, bruce. Heh, heh, heh, heh, 73, everybody. Yeah, before you're born to death, bruce 73.

Bruce: 55:00

Everybody, this is the ugly quacking duck podcast and we are saying bye wait a minute.

Sunny: 55:07

I want to say bye too okay, here we go.

Bruce: 55:11

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