Natural Pesticides, Earthquake Patterns, and America's Independence Day

Bruce and Sunny discuss earthquake patterns and natural pesticide alternatives while celebrating July 4th weekend from their Midwest studio.

• Seven-day earthquake report shows surprising results with 2018-2019 having much higher earthquake activity than 2025
• Updated PDF tracking sheet now available on the website's support page with improved organization and percentage tracking
• European pesticide ban aims to reduce chemicals by 50% by 2030, creating opportunities for natural alternatives
• Curious pattern emerging that suggests a possible seven-year earthquake cycle that might peak again in 2026-2027
• Bruce tracking unusual signals on SID receiver that will be reported in future episodes
• Severe flooding in Texas and Mexico has caused loss of life and property

Please keep those affected by the Texas and Mexico flooding in your thoughts and prayers. If you've subscribed to our webpage but aren't receiving announcements, please email us at theuglyquackingduck@gmail.com.

Chapters

• 0:05 Welcome to the Worst Podcast Ever
• 5:34 Update on the PDF file for tracking 7day report
• 9:22 Natural Pesticide Solutions in Europe
• 12:56 Value4Value
• 14:50 Seven-Day Earthquake Report
• 22:29 Comparing Earthquake Data: 2018-2025
• 32:28 Curious Pattern: Seven-Year Earthquake Cycle?
• 34:44 Closing Thoughts
• 37:53 One last thought, pray for the Texas Flood

Transcript

Bruce: 0:05

Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. You have found the worst podcast in the known universe. Whatever dimension you are listening to us from, just know you are welcome to stick around.

Sunny: 0:24

We are grateful. Yes, we are. We're grateful that you found us. You've arrived and we hope you stick here for the whole episode.

Bruce: 0:37

That was well done there, Sunny. Hello everyone, I'm Bruce from the Ugly Quacking Duck.

Sunny: 0:43

And I'm Sunny from the Ugly Quacking Duck. Hello everyone. I'm Bruce from the Ugly Quacking Duck and I'm Sonny from the Ugly Quacking Duck Hello everyone.

Bruce: 0:49

I'm glad to see you're still dramatic today.

Sunny: 0:53

Well, Bruce, all I got to say is I'm excited we're doing another episode, and that really excites me. I enjoy this.

Bruce: 1:04

Well, I'm glad, sunny, I am really gladites me I enjoy this. Well, I'm glad, sunny, I am really glad. Actually we are doing a new episode. We're on episode 113, believe it or not.

Sunny: 1:17

Well, I believe it. How come we're doing an episode? I didn't think we was going to do one.

Bruce: 1:25

Well, it is July, the 4th weekend. We are recording this at Sunday afternoon in our Midwest studio and we just thought we'd take time out to do kind of a quick episode. Hopefully Take time out to do kind of a quick episode, hopefully Just kind of cover, you know, some basic seven-day earthquake report, a little bit of quick weather, and let everybody know that we appreciate our Fourth of July celebration and the freedom that we do have. There's some argumentative ways to look at it. We won't do that today, but I hope everybody had a safe New Year's. Hello, wow.

Sunny: 2:19

Boy, you're off the beat. What's happening there, bruce? Are you melting down? Look out, that's smoke rolling out of your ears.

Bruce: 2:30

Ah, oh my gosh, you are being dramatic. Forgive us, everybody that's listening. We are just trying to say thank you for everything and for what freedoms we do have left, and hopefully we'll be able to gain more of them back. But this is a July 4th weekend. We hope everybody had a good celebration and safe, and usually there's a lot of barbecue hanging around on the fourth weekend. So there you go. That's why we're here. We're going to talk a little bit about earthquakes.

Bruce: 3:12

The weather today is cooler. It's only 87 degrees, so it's a cold front man. However, the humidity is really bad. It's about 64 degrees. Right here, where we're at, we do have a little bit of wind. It's 12 miles an hour. Air quality is about 61, so that's kind of moderate. But we always like to compare ourselves to phoenix, arizona. Um, it's 109 over there. 109 degrees today. Woo, they got sunny. Their humidity is only 13%. That's why we like to compare it to them, because they have a little bit different weather and it's 11-mile-an-hour winds close to ours. Their air quality is 34, so they're a little bit better than we are. What do you think about that, sunny?

Sunny: 4:09

I think we need to find some places cold and use that as a comparison too well there you go.

Bruce: 4:18

That's a good idea. I might have to look that up, but anybody lives in the midwest knows exactly what I'm talking about. That humidity makes you feel like you're in the oven, even though it's cooler didn't you say you had an announcement, bruce?

Bruce: 4:36

I sure did. Sunny. Thanks for telling me that, um, reminding me yes, for all our listeners. If you have subscribed to our web page but you're not receiving any announcements, any of our posts or anything, email me and let me know, because I think we have a little glitch. The older subscribers I don't think they're having any problems. I think they're still receiving our newsletter and our posts and all that. But it seems like anybody newly subscribed and I went and subscribed using one of my other emails and I've noticed that problem the posts are not going out to the new subscribers.

Bruce: 5:22

I did a little work and tried to update it and I'll see if that works, but I did, as of this recording, send out a new post letting everybody know that we uploaded a new pdf file for our seven day report tracking. So if you've printed the old one, if you want to upgrade to the new one, just go on the webpage theuglyquackenduckcom, go to the support page, which is called here. Hang on, I'll go read it directly to you. It's called Support Our Podcast. If you'll click on that, it's on the top of the page or on the left side column there is some menus. But if you click on that and scroll down to the very bottom, there is a PDF file. You can just click on the print which is on the top right corner and it will print a page out. You can also download it, which is the left of that printer.

Bruce: 6:28

But the update shows it's a little bit easier to organize on that update because I got more lines drawn and white areas you don't have to write in. But I also included a percentage line so we can write down the percents. It's only got three dates, so we do three dates and then it's got a 30-day date which we're going to do at the end of the month. So you won't be using that page, that line, probably most of the time, unless you want to fill it in with something else. But on the episode at the end of the month we're going to use that one. That's why it's on there.

Bruce: 7:09

Hopefully that'll make it easier for you to follow me when I do it and we'll have a visual of what's going on. Now I started a charting program with OpenOffice. We'll see how that turns out, because I don't know how that's going to look, because it's not going to have the chart's not going to have numbers on it, it's just going to have the percentage which you'll have to. You know, I don't know, we'll see what that works out to, but I'm working on that also.

Sunny: 7:41

Well, that's cool, bruce, that is really cool. Well, I'm glad I got your approval.

Bruce: 7:50

Sunny, that means a lot Sure, it does.

Sunny: 7:54

Well, I could say it does. Oh, you could say a lot of things, true?

Bruce: 8:05

Hey, bruce, I noticed you changed my phone on the mic. It's now purple. Yes, it is.

Sunny: 8:10

I hope you like it. Well, I do. I'm glad you changed it. Oh you didn't like the black one that looks just like my black one. No, I like the purple one that doesn't look like your black one.

Bruce: 8:24

All right, well good, one that doesn't look like your black one all right, well good. And if anybody's listening and wondering what we're talking about, the foam wind guards on the microphones we had. Both of them had black or both of them are mod uh pod mic microphones and I had an extra uh foam cover for one of them and it was purple, so I switched the other one out and now he's got a purple one.

Sunny: 8:52

Yeah.

Bruce: 8:53

Yeah, Okay, All right, I got a quick news short for you before we go into the seven-day earthquake report, and then we're just going to cut it off. I'm not going to do too much this weekend. Hopefully, when you hear this during the week, you'll have a little bit of time to listen to it and appreciate it. But anyhow, I want to read a little bit about the pesticide ban in Europe. They have started a ban in Europe and they're aiming it to reduce chemicals by up to 50% by 2030. This article is talking not just about the ban but how this global shift towards natural solutions is creating a billion-dollar global market, and Med-X is one of the leading developers in this. So I, you know, was curious and I looked them up and I looked up their website and they actually actually have a video and we're going to play that video for you and it's not a commercial for them, it's for you to appreciate what they're saying. So if they do what they're saying, I look forward to seeing some of their work. So here you go.

Speaker 3: 10:24

We're surrounded right now by all types of poisons, all types of chemicals, and we've seen a lot of cancer and other issues in our family of employees and it's been pretty severe over the years. And there had to be another way and we focused on this and then, during that development, recognized something about essential oils that nobody else has discovered From the essential oil world that works just as good as chemicals that you would find from the big chemical companies and there is no harm at all with these products. You know, sometimes nature needs a little science. And now we've got one of the fastest growing products in all of professional pest control, and now the consumers are catching on, with hundreds, now thousands, of operators using our products all over the country and now moving into other places around the world. It's a very unique and interesting position we have here. Join us in creating a greener and healthier future for all. Invest in Med-X and let's do this together.

Bruce: 11:36

All right, that was Med-X, that's spelled M-E-D-X, and that was not a commercial, paid or otherwise. It was a commercial they have on their website. But I'm not advertising for them. I just thought that was an interesting bit of information that that gentleman gives. Now they're wanting you to invest in their company and if they do as they said they're going to do, that sounds like a really good way. But you know you hear a lot of good words when they're wanting to sell you a product. But is that product going to be that good? Let's hope it is, because, man, that would change the world. Because pesticides are horrible for living things, are horrible for living things Whether they're spraying it on your plants or on your bugs or on you. It is not healthy for you at all. It causes cancer and all kinds of things. And yeah, you can tell I don't really like pesticides. Anyhow, we'll go back to the show and leave you alone on that, but we really do hope they do well.

Sunny: 13:07

All right, Bruce, there we go. We are on board. Now we're going to talk about earthquakes, right?

Bruce: 13:16

You are so right, sonny. We are going to talk about earthquakes, so if you haven't printed that paper, you don't have it in your hand. Print it off. Pause this, go, print it. Go to theuglyquackandacking duckcom and go to our support page. Once you print it off and you have a chance, go back and read the value for value listing that we have on that page. Take a moment to support us, and whether you do it by emailing us and telling us what you think of the show and giving us ideas, or if you support us financially or support us by sharing the show, anything is helpful. We definitely would like to hear from you, though, because it lets us know people are out there, they're wanting to spend time with us and they want to participate, and that's really what we hope for. We are doing this for fun of it, but the fun costs money, so if you want to financially support us there's three different ways on there you can do that. We'd really appreciate it, but for now we are are going to the part where we're going to talk about the earthquakes.

Bruce: 14:33

We do a report. We try to do it every two weeks. We write it down every week so we can report on it when we do an episode and what we report. If you haven't heard this before this is your first time we do a seven-day report. What that means is we look up the earthquakes on their website and we back it up seven days and we give that report of how many earthquakes there are in different magnitude earthquakes and that's what we're going to do now. Different magnitude earthquakes and that's what we're going to do now. So if you've got that paper on you, all right.

Bruce: 15:13

What I forgot to tell you is, if you have not printed more than one off, do two, because we're going to go back and add a couple dates on the last one. I looked those up too, and what I've done and this is a change we were looking up 2019, let me look. I forgot now 1999. So what we was doing, we was doing this year's date. Whenever I looked it up, we went back to 1999 and 2019. However, I got to researching and it looks like 2018 and 2019 were bigger numbers, so I'm going to start looking those up, because the other ones just fell apart. Basically, I wouldn't call it normal, but they were lower. So I'm going to give you the numbers for last week's seven-day report, and I already gave you 2019, but just in case you missed it and you wasn't on that episode, let me give you all over again.

Bruce: 16:36

All right, so get your paper and on the top date where it says earthquake seven-day report and it says date write 6-29-2018, and then move over to all magnitudes. That total is 7,894. There you go. That's what I'm talking about. If you've been following us, that number is huge. Go over to 2.5. That's the next level they do and it's 2,459. That number is comparative to most of the other year's total, but this is 2.5. And then the 4.5 magnitude write down 128. And then over at the 6.0 and over. That column is where we write down anything that's 6 and over magnitude, because they show the most damage, and then we write down the location beside that. So on this report, there was no hear me out no zero, just zero on the 6.0 and over. Just zero on the 6.0 and over.

Bruce: 17:49

Now you go back to all magnitudes and if you look that square underneath 7,894, which you just wrote, is blank. You don't put nothing there. The next one over, and we're looking to the right of the percent sign. The next one over is 31.2 percent. That's how many 2.5 magnitude earthquakes of the 7894 there was, and it was 31.2 percent. Next column because there was 0, 6, and over. If you go all the way down that column until you get to the bottom and look to the left, there's the percent sign, so write 0% there and there you have it. That's 6-29-2018. Go down on your date column one more date and you're going to write 6, 29, 19 and that's what that's the next year.

Bruce: 18:56

That's a year I started writing down to begin with because what I noticed is the all magnitudes were higher somewhat, but the six and over totals were more, and so we go over to the 2980 for all magnitudes, go over one column and the 2.5 and over magnitudes were 562. Drop down one box and it's 18.9% for that number, then the 4.5 in magnitudes. The next column over is 200. And drop down one box and it's 6.7% of the 2,980. That 200 was 6.7%. Now the 6 and over. We had 1, 2, three, four, five, six of those Write down 6.2.

Bruce: 19:57

That's the first one and it was in Panama. So you write down Panama location and if you need to pause this while you write it down, so I won't leave you do that. And the next one now the next one's a 6.3, and it's in the Chromatic Islands. You can look this up later on because the last one I gave the locations better, I'm just zipping through these. And the next one is another 6.3 and it was in russia and that was the tip edge of russia on the east side, next to alaska. And then 6.4 is the next one. It's in the maug islands and I hope I say, say that right M-A-U-G Islands. And then the next one down is a 6.4, and it was also in Russia, the same location as the other one. And then the next one is a 7.3. Yeah, you heard me right, 7.3. It's in the Banda Sea. So that gave.

Bruce: 21:09

If we wanted to figure the percentage of the total magnitudes, it only gave a 0.20%. But them numbers actually come out of the 204.5 magnitude earthquake. So I took it and figured that percentage. So it come out at 3% of that 200. All right. And then the next one was 6-29-2025.

Bruce: 21:38

If you look at the all magnitude that week, it was 2,584. 2584. Of the 2.5 magnitudes was 422, which is 16.3% of the 2584. And then over to the right of that is a 4.5 magnitude. There's 136 of those and that was 5.3% of the total 2584. And we had four 6.0 and over earthquakes, the first one being a 6.1, and it was in the Philippines, the next one being a 6.2, mid-atlantic Ridge that's out there on the islands and then a 6.2 again in the Philippines, and then a 6.6 in the Scotia Islands no, Scotia Sea, I'm sorry. So I took that 4, and first of all, I divided it into the 25.84 to get a 0.15 percent, and then I took it by the 136, which is really where they come from. So, out of those 136 4.5 magnitude earthquakes, there was 6.04 of them, which totaled a 2.9 percent of the 136. So there you go. That brought you up to speed on that uh, last week's earthquakes, and now I did this this week.

Bruce: 23:22

We're going to do the same thing, so hopefully you followed along. How to fill that out? We're going to start on 7-6-2018. 2018. Now, ready for this big number. The all magnitude numbers was 7,676.

Bruce: 23:46

Then the 2.5 magnitudes. The column to the right of that is 2,194. Notice that those numbers are well, you haven't seen all of them that I have seen, but most of the years are around that 2,000, mark, 3,000, some of them. Very few years show up as high as this one and as high as the other one. Strange, very strange. And the percentage on the 2.5 is 28.6%. Move over to the next right column 8.6%. Move over to the next right column 129 is a 4.5 and over magnitude earthquakes 129. And the percentage is 1.7% of the total.

Bruce: 24:44

Now, they had that year, that week, which is 7-6, we back it up seven days. So that week in 2018, they had one 6-and-over earthquake, which was a total 6.1, and it was in Russia. I'm not even going to try to pronounce that town, it's O-Z-E-R-N-O-V-S-K-I-Y. You can try to figure out how to pronounce that, I'm not good at language, but that was in Russia. So that total, if you do it over the whole earthquake total, it's only 0.01% earthquake total, it's only 0.01 percent. But if you do it over the 129 4.5 magnitudes, it's a 0.78 percent. Almost a total of one percent because there's one earthquake, right? Okay, all right, next line.

Bruce: 25:42

Now, next date line is 7.6 2019. This is the year we started out with. Now I had to look this up twice because I could not believe the total For this week. Now, this is just one week. The total magnitudes was 9,944. Yeah, 9,944. The 2.5 magnitudes was 2050, 2050. Which is 20.6% of all magnitude. Now see the magnitude total percent goes down if the all magnitude goes up, so it's going to kind of fluctuate. It's going to be hard to see when I put it on that chart if I just include the percentages, unless you've got this paper to you know. Kind of check what the numbers are actually doing, not just the percentage.

Bruce: 26:48

The next column over 4.5 192 total earthquakes, and that was 1.9 percent of the all of them and on this date we had six, four, we had four 6.0 and over earthquakes we had a 6.0, and I'm not even sure what this town is, but it was in L-U-G-A-N-V-I-L-L-E and it was in V-A-N-T-U-A-T-U. Wow, I didn't have time to look it up and try to figure out how to pronounce it, but if you want to write that down and figure it out. And then we had a 6.2, and it was west-northwest of Port McNeil, canada, and then the next one down is a 6.4. It was in Ridge crest, california, and then wait for it there was a 7.1, which was in ridge crest, california. So that's the reason I picked 2019 to go back and look at the numbers.

Bruce: 27:59

When I first picked a year and I looked at these numbers, it come up like that on one of the other weeks that I did and I was blowed away because, you know, everybody always says the earthquakes are getting worse, they're getting worse. So I went back a few years to see you know what the total was, expecting it to be really low and expecting the 6.0 earthquakes to be really low, and I'd say, yeah, yeah, they're getting a lot worse, yeah. But I hit this year 2019, and I got them numbers and I went wait a minute, that's not right, what's going on here? So I went back that's only six years from this year. Uh, if you know my seven year, seven day theory, I figured the seven year theory would be the same. So I went back and it was only six years and I thought, well, let me go back seven years.

Bruce: 29:01

So I went, went back seven years and so far, most of the all-magnitude numbers are higher on 2018, which is seven years prior to this year, but the 6.0 are lower. Which kind of makes sense, because if it's seven years, what my thought was, which kind of makes sense? Because if it's seven years, what my thought was seven days you have a high magnitude total for all magnitudes for one week and then the next week it goes down lower, but the big earthquakes raise. Like you know, they're building up. You get a bunch of of little ones and then you have a bunch of big ones. Well, I thought maybe that's what's going on now.

Bruce: 29:51

So we're in the seven year period, which it seems to be a little bit strange. It's just strange. I don't know what's going on. We're gonna have to do more weeks and see how it looks, but anyway, um, we had four of those 6.0 and over on 2019. So if you take all of them and break them into the total 9944, that's only 0.04 percent. But, like I said, that number the 9,944 is higher. So we got four 6.0 earthquakes, which is kind of routine for 2019. I'm not going to say normal, it's just what we see a lot. So it it would be a higher percentage, except for that number is high, the all-magnitude number, so it brings it down. Now, if I take it over the 192 4.5 magnitude earthquakes and break it into that, you're looking at 2.1%. So that number is higher there if you go that route.

Bruce: 31:06

Now let's go down to this year this week. The seven-day report for this year this week is 1,950 all-magnitude earthquakes. Earthquakes 2.5 magnitudes are 302, which is pretty common for what we're having right now in this year, but it's really low compared to the 2019 and the 2018. And the 4.5, wait a minute 2.5% is 15.5%. It's high because that all magnitude number is low and the 2.5, you know, kind of high. And then the 4.5 magnitude is 119, which is 6.1%, which, again, 1950 is kind of a low number. So it brings that percentage up. Now, however, the 6.0 and over earthquakes out of that, 119 is zero. Last week we had 06.0 earthquakes.

Sunny: 32:24

Are you sure about that, Bruce? That sounds low.

Bruce: 32:29

Yeah, I double-checked it. I thought that's not right. But yeah, we had zero, which is strange, but they had zero the week before in 2018. So I don't know if we're seeing a pattern or not. We're going to have to track that. But what I've noticed seems to be holding out on these seven days. It's six or seven years, according to these two years. It's almost like something happened in the universe in 2018 or 2019. Well, it would have been 2018 to bump up these earthquakes for the next two years, or maybe it was at the end of 2017. I don't know. We may have to check that number out as we get farther into the year, but something weird's going on. I don't know what to think them numbers are really high and it seems like there's a lot of 7.1 or 7 earthquakes during that 2019 period too, and I'm I'm shocked. I really am. I did not expect to see the numbers high like that on those years. I feared we were building up and building up, but if the seven-day thing actually moves into a yearly thing seven years then we're looking at 2026 and 2027 being huge earthquake years. But you know, I don't know if that's going to work out that way or not. It's kind of weird. Anyway, that's the seven-day report.

Bruce: 34:16

I hope you downloaded the new report spreadsheet so you could write them down with me. I'm going to continue to do that. I hope you're not too bored. Let me know what you guys think. That's the plan. We're going to continue this for a while until I get bored of and go on to something else and, uh, move to a different uh tracking thing.

Bruce: 34:44

We're still tracking the sid receiver and I'm telling you what. We've got a signal. I don't know what that is. I've got a minute or two. Yeah, I'm gonna have to click it here really quick. So, um, we'll talk about that a little bit next week, but I'm I'm picking up some weird signals on it. I'm going to track it and see if it continues and next week I'll give you a report on that. And I'm still watching the flares. We're still getting a lot of solar weather that's hitting and buffeting the Earth's atmosphere and that's causing a lot of problems, but we're still monitoring that too. We're just not reporting on it because I don't want to take up, you know, three hours of your time.

Bruce: 35:32

But if anything, anybody wants to hear more of anything or less of anything, you're going to have to email me so I'll know what's going on. So email me at the ugly quacking duck at gmailcom. Go to our web page, the ugly quacking duckcom. You can find a place that you can subscribe. Go to the home page. Go all the way down. At the bottom there's a place to put an email in, hit subscribe. Uh, let me know if you subscribed by email. No, let me rephrase that Subscribe and then send me an email. Tell me you did, in case I'm not getting those, because I'm going to have to do more work because my newsletter subscription thing seems to be glitchy. I don't know what's going on. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and hopefully that fixed it, but if it did not get a hold of the company, um, we'll go from there. But anyway, guys, I thank you for checking in today on our episode, this episode 113.

Bruce: 36:37

I'm bruce I'm sunny and we appreciate you being part of this show. We hope you enjoyed some of it, all of it, most of it, but I hope you enjoyed the july 4th weekend and we were gonna be here next week, as all things work out well. Anything you want to say, sonny?

Sunny: 37:03

Nope, you pretty well said it. I thank everybody for being here. Bruce, thank you for letting me be part of this. You are great. Well, I'm not going to go that far, but thank you.

Bruce: 37:16

Okay, I'm glad you didn't carry that too much farther.

Sunny: 37:21

Well, I don't want people to think I'm blowing smoke.

Bruce: 37:25

Oh, nobody's going to think that, sonny, they know it. Yeah, you're probably right. All right, guys, we're going to say goodnight, goodbye 73 to everybody. May the Father's blessing be with you. And Sonny, you want to do it together? Yes, sir, all right, here we go.

Sunny: 37:47

Bye everybody.

Bruce: 37:54

One minute there, folks. I'm sorry I jumped back in here and I hope you haven't shut the episode off, but one thing that occurred to me earlier when I was recording then I forgot to put it in, so I'm dubbing this in at the end. But there was very heavy rainfall in texas and it swelled up the river the ones going into new, into mexico and there was a whole lot of flooding in texas and mexico. Uh, very disastrous. People lost their life, people are missing, homes are gone.

Bruce: 38:34

It's very bad and I just want to take a moment to ask you once again for your prayers for those people, not just in the States, but in Mexico and anywhere else, that's been affected by this storm. Pray for their families, their material possessions, homes and such. We ask you to pray for, uh, if you don't believe in praying, we ask you to be positive thanking, and we believe in positive thanking man. I'm telling you it works wonder. So do either one of those for those people that have had problems during this storm, and we just wanted to take a moment out to say that, because we forgot and we feel bad, and may the Father's blessing be with you for helping them out. Thank you, have a good week.