Lily's Back With Mouse Ears and A New Phone

Bruce, Sunny, and returning co-host Lily discuss the latest earthquake data and Lily's recent Disney World adventure, highlighting concerning patterns in seismic activity.

• Weekly earthquake report shows 2,418 total earthquakes with eight major (6.0+) events
• Russia experienced a cluster of high-magnitude earthquakes including a rare 7.4
• Historical comparison suggests possible seven-year earthquake cycles, potentially making 2026 high-risk
• Lily shares highlights from her Disney World trip, including Blizzard Beach, Disney Springs, and Magic Kingdom
• The ocean at Daytona Beach was surprisingly cold despite expectations
• Lily recounts losing her iPhone in Tennessee, getting it back undamaged, then dropping it in a pool days later
• Discussion of the Grand Canyon wildfires and controversy over "controlled burn" strategies
• Reflection on worldwide natural disasters and the importance of helping affected communities

If you'd like to view our earthquake tracking forms and resources, visit theuglyquackingduck.com and go to the support page. Contact us at TheUglyQuackingDuck@gmail.com.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:06

Hello everyone. This is Bruce and you have reached the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Speaker 2 0:14

And this is Sunny, of the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Speaker 3 0:20

And this is Lily of the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Speaker 1 0:24

Hey, lily. It's good to have you aboard, man. It's been a long time and we are coming to you. Everyone from where.

Speaker 3 0:33

Our Midwest hideout.

Speaker 1 0:35

Yes, ma'am, we are. We're in our studio in the Midwest southern Illinois. My voice keeps cracking for some reason you're not used to this kind of broadcasting anymore. We how long has it been?

Speaker 3 0:52

a couple months, it's like a year yeah yeah, she's a bum, I'm a bum, apparently to Sonny.

Speaker 1 1:04

Yeah, well, it's good to have you on board. You have tuned in. If this is your first time, this is episode 114, I think? No, wait a minute, let me check that. All right, let me rephrase that we are on episode 115 of the Ugly Quacking Duck duck, the worst podcast in the known universe.

Speaker 3 1:27

Welcome aboard, everyone the worst podcast is an understatement yeah, you can say that again. I'm here and it's the worst, worst but when I'm here it's the best, best.

Speaker 1 1:44

Well, we'll accept that, but glad to have you aboard again. We are very thankful. She called me this morning and asked me what I was doing after work. Well, I was already off, so we decided to go get her and put together a podcast. Now, this one is a little bit too soon. We have just did one on the 17th and we wasn't planning on doing another one. But since she called, why not? We'll do a quick report and then we'll go on and talk to her for a little bit. It'll be a good time.

Speaker 3 2:27

Got a lot of ketchup on here.

Speaker 2 2:31

There we go.

Speaker 3 2:37

Oh, how I miss that laugh.

Weekly Earthquake Report Begins

Speaker 1 2:39

Yeah, it's been kind of nice, hasn't it, not being here, but we'll go over the quickly. But we'll go over them quickly. We'll go over the earthquake report. I've already jotted the numbers down and I'm going to have Lily write them down for us while I read them. That way we won't have to wait on them. And really I was going to do a short report and maybe write it up and put it on the web page, but since she texted me, we'll just do the whole thing. But why it's important is because of some of the earthquakes that got hit.

Speaker 3 3:19

Yes, it makes me kind of sad how many earthquakes? Because I actually read an article out that there's more earthquakes than there has been in a whole month.

Speaker 1 3:28

Yeah, there's been quite a few. We'll go over that. You want to go over that right now? Let's go over that right now.

Speaker 3 3:34

Let's go over it.

Speaker 1 3:36

I keep hitting my mic. I don't think it's going to work out. I think I'm going to have to move it.

Speaker 3 3:41

Yeah, move it up.

Speaker 1 3:45

Move it up a little bit. Move it up a little bit.

Speaker 5 3:48

We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 3:53

All right, guys, quit yelling.

Speaker 3 3:59

Go take a bath. How about that? Go take one. Nope, I think I'm going to go take one.

Speaker 2 4:05

Nope, I think I'm going to stay in Agrabah. Eww, eww, eww.

Speaker 3 4:14

Sonny, you're going to take one at some point. You were jumping in muddy puddles when I arrived here.

Speaker 1 4:19

Yeah, he likes doing that.

Speaker 2 4:21

Yeah.

Speaker 3 4:25

Like Peppa Pig.

Speaker 1 4:26

It's supposed to be really hot this week, but today it's not too bad. It's about 82.

Speaker 3 4:32

last time I looked it's very humid, though it rained all morning. Right it rained all morning.

Speaker 1 4:37

Yeah, it definitely did. All right, let's get back to the report. Oh shabam, if you've not heard the Ug, look the ugly quacking duck podcast before, again, this is episode 115, and what we do is we read the last seven day earthquake report. We're reading it for this year, for 2019, and for 2018. So that's why we're not guessing much anymore. But anyway, we'll just quickly go over that. If you want to go back and go to our webpage, theuglyquackingduckcom, go to the support page, go down to the bottom. You can actually print off this paperwork. Yes, that she's getting ready to use.

Speaker 3 5:30

It actually has all four. It's a seven-day report, but it has four of them, and the last one is 30 days.

Speaker 1 5:38

Which we don't do that until the end of the month.

Speaker 3 5:40

Yeah, we don't do them until the end of the month.

Speaker 1 5:42

Which is coming really quick.

Speaker 3 5:43

Really quick the month. We don't do them until the end of the month, which is coming really quick, really quick, and it has the all magnitudes and all the magnitudes and it has the 6.0 and over and the location of those six points and over there you go, so I'm going to read them off to you. To start out here we go free, you don't have to pay for it.

Speaker 1 6:03

All you have to do is use paper to print it, or you can download it on your computer and fill it in.

Speaker 3 6:10

Actually, I think my people might prefer that.

Speaker 1 6:13

Yep.

Speaker 3 6:13

Prefer that.

Speaker 1 6:14

You can download it, yes, for free. You can change it if you want For free, all right. So we're going to start off. I put this together this morning before I went and got her, so it's changed a little bit, but we're going to go ahead and use the numbers that we had before. So, starting for 72125, which is today Yep, the all magnitude number is 2418 2418.

Speaker 3 6:44

That's a lot.

Speaker 1 6:45

Yeah, 18, 2418. And the percentage is. You see that little percentage sign? Yep, it's 24.2, 24 and I get that for taking the 24 18 into the 10,000 count of earthquakes. That's how I do that. Now the 2.5 and over is 563, which is a lot bigger 563?. Yep, that's quite a bit, and the average is 23.3, and I get that by taking the 563 into the 2418.

Speaker 5 7:25

Bro is smart.

Speaker 1 7:26

And then the 4.5 and over earthquakes amounts to 190. Okay, which is 7.9%.

Speaker 3 7:36

Do I put that at the bottom?

Speaker 1 7:40

Yeah, right below it.

Speaker 3 7:46

Does the 2.5 plus magnitude have the same thing?

Speaker 1 7:49

Yeah.

Speaker 3 7:50

I didn't get that one 23.3. 23.

Speaker 1 7:53

I may not have read it.

Speaker 3 7:56

You might have and I just didn't catch it.

Russia's Earthquake Cluster Analysis

Speaker 1 7:58

That's all right. Sometimes, and then there's quite a few earthquakes, all right. And then there's quite a few earthquakes, all right. Now, the 6.0 and over is the only ones we write down, because that's the really main problem ones. And there were several, there's actually eight, eight.

Speaker 3 8:18

That's more than usual.

Speaker 1 8:21

A lot more than usual. Now, some of them showed up last week on our report because, like I said, we just did this on the 17th. But we're going to go over it and I'm going to do them in order as they show up on the report, so the newest ones are first.

Speaker 5 8:40

Okay.

Speaker 1 8:40

So, excuse me, the first one was at Sandpoint, alaska. Okay, it was a 6.2.

Speaker 5 8:49

6.2, Sandpoint.

Speaker 1 8:54

Yeah, and it was Sandpoint Alaska.

Speaker 3 8:59

I'm just talking to the mic. When I write these things down, I always do that on my bed.

Speaker 1 9:02

That's no problem. And then the next one was 6.0. 6.0. Into the mic. When I write these things down, I always do that. My bad, that's no problem. And then the next one was 6.0 6.0 and it was in russia russia and then the next one was 6.6 6.0 also in russia. Russia, actually, it's not actually in Russia, it's on the coast of Russia, on the edge.

Speaker 3 9:29

I'll put on the coast of Russia.

Speaker 1 9:31

That's alright, it's right on the edge, just like at Sandpoint, alaska was right on the edge of Alaska. These two earthquakes if you looked on a map you would see that they're really close together. Russia and alaska, that, um very edge points, are really close together. Um just a little bit of ocean and land between them and that's where they're hitting that's like what I think mostly happens in between the ocean and then land. Yeah, most common.

Speaker 5 10:12

Then the next one's, another 6.6.

Speaker 1 10:13

Dang, and it's also in Russia.

Speaker 3 10:15

Wow, Russia's getting all of it.

Speaker 1 10:17

Yeah, and then the next one was a 7.4 in Russia.

Speaker 3 10:24

That's like the first I've ever seen a 7.4, like doing the whole podcast.

Speaker 1 10:35

It's a big one. And then before they had the 7.4, they had another 6.6 in Russia. So if you look at the timeline, what happened?

Speaker 3 10:53

they had a 6.6, a 7.4 and then they had a 6.6, 6.6, 6.0 aftershocks. If you guys like, if you look on this paper, like I tweeted the podcast, all you're going to see is sand point, alaska russia, coastal russia, russia, russia, russia, because this is all Russia.

Speaker 1 11:06

Yeah, russia I mean, excuse me, sandpoint had some other earthquakes after their 7.3.

Speaker 3 11:17

They had a 7.3? Yep, I thought it was a 6.2.

Speaker 1 11:20

No, that's next 7.3, alaska, and they had some like that 6.2 at the beginning and they had some fives.

Speaker 3 11:31

Some fives.

Speaker 1 11:31

Yeah, that's why you don't see them listed. And the last one, number eight, is a 6.2 in Panama.

Speaker 3 11:41

I don't know how to spell that.

Speaker 1 11:43

P-A-N.

Speaker 3 11:44

P-A-N.

Speaker 1 11:45

P-A-N, a-m-a.

Speaker 3 11:48

A-M-A.

Speaker 1 11:49

Hey, yay.

Speaker 3 11:50

Panama City Beach, Florida.

Speaker 1 11:52

No, I'm just kidding. No, this is Panama, the actual country, panama. Oh, and then let's go to. I want to move that mic a little bit. I hope that didn't hurt anybody. Let's go to the year 2019. So that'll be your next column down.

Speaker 5 12:12

This one.

Speaker 3 12:16

Yeah, so what do?

Speaker 1 12:17

I do as a date 7-21-2019.

Speaker 3 12:21

We're going back in the day, we're teleporting.

Speaker 1 12:24

Yep, we're going backwards.

Speaker 3 12:27

So 7-21.

Speaker 1 12:28

2019. 2019. And the reason we are doing that is because of the seven-day break. I think it's going to be a six-day or six-year also.

Speaker 5 12:39

Oh, all right.

Speaker 1 12:40

But I've been going back for the last few weeks.

Speaker 3 12:44

I forgot to ask you did the all-magnitude get a percentage?

Speaker 1 12:48

Yes.

Speaker 3 12:49

Was it the one that was?

Speaker 1 12:50

24.2.

Speaker 3 12:52

Okay, because I thought it went at the bottom. But I was like, no, that's probably the one.

Speaker 1 12:55

Oh, that reminds me there should be a percentage at the bottom of your sixes. It's to the left of it.

Speaker 3 13:06

I don't see them.

Speaker 1 13:09

Look down the 6.0 column.

Speaker 5 13:11

Okay.

Speaker 1 13:12

And then look, left just a little bit all the way down.

Speaker 3 13:17

Oh yeah, I see that one.

Speaker 1 13:18

All right, that's a 4.2.

Speaker 5 13:21

4.2. There you go, all 4.2.

Speaker 1 13:25

There you go, alrighty. Okay, let's go to 7-21-2019. We skipped backwards a few years.

Speaker 3 13:34

I remember this year.

Speaker 1 13:35

Time jumped.

Speaker 3 13:37

It's the best year I've ever had Best summer.

Speaker 1 13:39

All right. So the all magnitude is 8,183. And that's not even the largest we've had for that year.

Speaker 3 13:51

So 8,000. I forgot the number. I'm so shocked 8,183. 83. Yeah, what's that percentage?

Speaker 1 14:01

81.8. 81.8. Wow, just to give you a reference point. Guess what last week's all numbers was? Okay On 7-17-2019.

Speaker 3 14:15

Well if we're guessing, and it's 2-4-1-18. 2-4-1-8. I said that so wrong. 2019. 2019? In 2019? Guess what it was I thought you meant wrong 2019.

Speaker 1 14:23

2019?, in 2019? Guess what it was.

Speaker 3 14:27

I thought you meant last week, like in this year.

Speaker 1 14:30

The last seven days of last 19. However, you want to say that 6,000. No, you're way off 7,000.

Speaker 3 14:44

No.

Speaker 1 14:44

You're way off. 7,000. No, you're way off 2,000.

Speaker 3 14:48

No 3,000. No 4,000.

Speaker 1 14:51

No, you ready for me to give it to you 5,000. No.

Speaker 3 14:56

One.

Speaker 1 14:56

No 10,000?

Speaker 3 15:00

No, yeah, just give it to me 11,724. Yeah, oh, Sonny, you're being quite over there.

Speaker 1 15:13

See what I did. I went back and looked up some earthquake reports from different years and when I stumbled on 2019, I went oh my gosh, these numbers are high.

Speaker 3 15:26

That was right before the COVID year, so I'm kind of shocked, but I'm not that shocked.

Speaker 1 15:31

Yeah, well, 2018, which is seven years back from this year.

Speaker 3 15:37

That's what it means as mirror, I'm pretty sure, Matt.

Comparing Historical Earthquake Data

Speaker 1 15:39

They're not as bad, but they're high. Not as bad, but they're high. So if we take the seven day and make it a seven year, that means next year will probably be pretty high. Yeah probably so. We'll have to watch and pay attention, but anyhow, all right. So back to the 2019-7-21. Back to the 2019-7-21, the 2.5 and over numbers are 759. 759. Yeah.

Speaker 3 16:19

And they're 9.3%, 9.3. Yeah, that's actually so shocking.

Speaker 1 16:25

Yeah, isn't it? It's weird how that.

Speaker 3 16:27

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:28

You always hear that earthquakes are getting worse, but when I went back and look at that year, it's not quite as worse.

Speaker 3 16:41

That door just moved, that door I'm leaving All right, that door just moved that I'm leaving all right.

Speaker 1 16:54

Well, the 4.5 now and over is 206.

Speaker 3 16:55

That seems common. Yeah, more common 206. What's the percentage?

Speaker 1 16:58

2.5 percent 2.5%. And then of the 206, there was three that was six and over. Okay, the first one's a 6.3, and it's in Papua New Guinea 6.3 in Papua New Guinea. New Guinea.

Speaker 3 17:19

New Guinea. Can you spell it out for me?

Speaker 1 17:20

No, okay.

Speaker 5 17:33

It's Papa P-a-p-a, p-a-p-a, and then new n-e-w and then guineas g-u-i-n-e-a I feel like we've spelt that before.

Speaker 1 17:43

I feel like that we've done that either like two months ago, because it pops up a lot, get it, papa, papa, all right. The next one was a 7.2 in Indonesia 7.2.

Speaker 5 17:59

Yep Indonesia.

Speaker 1 18:00

Yep, yep.

Speaker 5 18:01

In Indonesia.

Speaker 3 18:06

Yep, now I spelled my best spelling that because we actually did a spelling bee on that. So I'm trying to work on it because we're doing it again this year.

Speaker 1 18:14

Well, good luck on that. Yeah, thank you. And then the last one's a 6.6, and it's at Cable Beach, Australia.

Speaker 3 18:25

You can just write Australia down, if you want, I put Aussie, aussie, okay. But I can put Australia if you want me to.

Speaker 1 18:33

That's all right. It's true, I'm getting a slight echo with that new mic.

Speaker 3 18:41

It kind of sounds neat. Actually, do I need to switch it, or is it good? I like it. Is it good?

Speaker 1 18:44

Okay, that made me worried for a minute if I hadn't told people that they wouldn't have known I just switched your mic we're doing it.

Speaker 3 18:52

You can probably hear the difference maybe it sounds good.

Speaker 1 18:57

It does sound good. That's the one I used to use when we was in the garage, remember it is yeah, for real yeah oh it looks.

Speaker 3 19:09

It looks brand new.

Speaker 1 19:12

Sorry, that's all right, my throat okay, and the last year will be 7 21 2018, 2018.

Speaker 5 19:22

721.

Speaker 1 19:23

2018.

Speaker 3 19:25

2018. It's crazy to think that I was six, five, I don't remember Probably like around six or five in that year, quite a while back. And I'm about to be 12 in a month.

Speaker 1 19:38

This is our seven-year stretch, from that year to 18 to this year, 2025. So if they follow suit, like I said, our seven day report seems to kind of flow that way. If they follow the seven year plan, I'm gonna call it a plan 2019. Seven years from that will be 2026. So 2026 could be a very difficult year.

Speaker 3 20:12

It's probably going to be the most stressful year.

Speaker 1 20:15

Bobby just left.

Speaker 3 20:17

Oh.

Speaker 1 20:17

She snuck out the door. She said peace.

Speaker 3 20:19

And then there goes Winnie Yep, all right, and then there goes Winnie Yep.

Speaker 1 20:24

All right, so the total of all for 2018 is 7,787.

Speaker 3 20:35

My brain is shattered. This is too much math. There's too much numbers on my summer break. So seven, what?

Speaker 1 20:42

700. No 7,787.

Speaker 3 20:48

87. So it would be 7,807?.

Speaker 1 20:53

No 7,787.

Speaker 3 20:56

Oh, 7,787.

Speaker 1 20:58

7,787.

Speaker 3 21:01

7,787.

Speaker 1 21:03

Exactly All right, and that percentage would be87. Exactly All right, and that percentage would be 77.9.

Speaker 5 21:09

77.9.

Speaker 1 21:14

And then the 2.5 and over would be 1920. 1920. 1920.

Speaker 3 21:20

1920.

Speaker 1 21:23

And their percentage is 24.7.

Speaker 5 21:27

24.7.

Speaker 1 21:30

And then the 4.5 and over is 122. 122.

Speaker 3 21:36

122. My 2s look like a Zs.

Speaker 1 21:41

And it's a 1.6. 1.6.

Speaker 5 21:44

1.6., 1.6., 1.6., okay, 1.

Speaker 3 21:51

Okay, sorry.

Speaker 1 21:52

And then there's 4., 6.0 and overs.

Speaker 5 21:57

Alright.

Speaker 1 21:59

The first one is guess where? Papua New Guinea.

Speaker 3 22:06

I was going to say, say that you didn't even give me time. You said guess, and I yeah, so do you remember how?

Speaker 1 22:12

to spell that. Yes 6.0 Papua N-E-W-G-U-I-N-E-A.

Speaker 5 22:16

Yay.

Speaker 1 22:27

The next one's a 6.0, also 6.0. And it's in the Solomon Islands, which is very close to Papua New Guinea.

Speaker 3 22:37

So do you want me to put?

Speaker 1 22:40

Solomon Islands. Yes, put Solomon Islands, please. How do you spell?

Speaker 3 22:44

the Solomon Islands Earth to Lily Islands. Please, how do you spell?

Speaker 1 22:46

Solomon Islands. Earth to Lily. Earth to Lily. Do you copy?

Speaker 3 22:50

No.

Speaker 1 22:52

We want Solomon Islands. That's spelled S-O-L-O-M-O-N.

Speaker 3 23:05

Oh pardon.

Speaker 1 23:10

S-O-L-O-M-O-N Solomon. Islands, Islands yes, you like my microphone, like this.

Speaker 3 23:20

Scares me, but yes, it sounds nice, scares you.

Speaker 1 23:22

Wait till Halloween, we can have a lot of fun oh that was loud.

Speaker 3 23:26

I'm so sorry. Yeah we're going to have a bunch of fun during Halloween.

Speaker 1 23:33

And then the next one was a 6.0, and they're in Kilima, yeaman, yeaman, and that's spelled K-I-l-m-i-a, k-i-l-m-i-a, and it's actually that's the town or the city yeeman, y-e-m-e-n y-e-m-e-n y-e-n-m-m-m is in mary y-e-m-e-n new.

Speaker 3 24:15

There's a new in front of that new okay, that, that's a no spell one for me, okay, last one.

Speaker 1 24:23

Last one's, another 6.0 in the exact same place.

Speaker 5 24:29

Okay.

Speaker 3 24:35

It's just pure silence. I don't like it.

Speaker 5 24:37

Okay, we're done it is.

Speaker 1 24:39

And that's a 3.3% on that one 3.3%, okay, one 3.3%.

Speaker 3 24:47

Okay, we're actually done now.

Lily's Disney World Adventure

Speaker 1 24:48

We're actually done now and that means we're going to go into a little bit of discussion. Wait a minute, okay. Well, thank you for writing that earthquake report down. Well, thank you for writing that earthquake report down. If you tuned in and listened to that and you found it a little bit boring dealing with the numbers, I'm sorry, but I like to give that report out every time I do a podcast, kind of keep us abreast of what's going on. However, now the fun begins, we get to talk to Lily. However, now the fun begins, we get to talk to Lily, and I know for a fact she recently went down to Disney World and Right, disney World or Disneyland, which is it?

Speaker 3 25:38

Disneyland is in California. We went to Disney World in Florida, Orlando.

Speaker 1 25:42

All right, I always get those two mixed up.

Speaker 3 25:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 25:51

Yeah, people do it. I don't I know everything.

Speaker 3 25:59

Okay, then what's two plus two?

Speaker 1 26:03

I'm not telling.

Speaker 3 26:07

Okay, okay, not very smart, but yeah, disney World.

Speaker 1 26:13

Disney World Awesome, so tell us about it. How long was the trip?

Speaker 3 26:19

Well, do you want me to count Disney? Or when we went to Daytona, I picked up at Daytona, or just the Disney days, just tell us about the trip. Like the whole trip yeah.

Speaker 1 26:30

The Disney trip? Yeah, just tell us about the trip.

Speaker 3 26:32

We left on the 29th and we left town the 29th and then we left Florida the 5th.

Speaker 1 26:43

Oh, so you got down there, and when did you get down? There, the 30th 30th, so it took you a whole day.

Speaker 3 26:50

It took us 14, 13, 13 hours.

Speaker 5 26:57

I don't remember for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 3 27:00

We went through the most prettiest states cities Nashville, atlanta and it was at nighttime too, so it was really, really pretty.

Speaker 1 27:09

Cool, that sounds cool.

Speaker 3 27:11

For some reason, Atlanta is really busy at like three o'clock in the morning. For some reason.

Speaker 1 27:16

People getting off work.

Speaker 3 27:18

Party time in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 27:20

Who knows?

Speaker 3 27:21

Yeah, we got to Daytona around 9, I think 9 or 10. Time changed, so it was like 8, 9 here.

Speaker 1 27:34

Oh yeah, I forgot. They're an hour ahead, aren't they? Yeah, they're an hour ahead. Ouch.

Speaker 3 27:41

So we couldn't check in yet. So we went to the beach and I was not feeling well during that one. I was still kind of car lagged, you know, like jet lag, I mean like you're jet lagged from the plane.

Speaker 1 27:53

Well, you spent all day in the car, yeah like you're like jet, like from the plane.

Speaker 3 27:57

Well, you spent all day in the car, so, yeah, yeah, and I was off and on sleeping, because it's kind of hard to sleep in a car, but when we left I was feeling better, so, disney so how much time did you get to spend in disneyland? Disney world disney world. Excuse me everybody um, we went to all the different. We went to the water park Blizzard Beach on our first time, when we first got there. We went to Blizzard Beach because it was actually a free check-in our first day.

Speaker 5 28:28

Wow.

Speaker 3 28:29

After that we went to Disney Springs and we went to Magic Kingdom. We didn't make it to Animal Kingdom, sadly, because they close at like 4. So there's always a next time, which we'll probably be going again, that's a lot of territory to cover. It's a lot of stuff to cover, yeah yeah, so we mainly just visited the most famous spots. I got to meet a lot of princesses and a lot of characters.

Speaker 1 28:58

I've seen the video your mom sent us of you dancing and her dancing with. Now, where was that?

Speaker 3 29:05

Dancing. I have to remember dancing, dancing, dancing.

Speaker 1 29:10

You was inside dancing with a whole bunch of other people and princesses.

Speaker 3 29:15

Oh, the little dance party? Yeah, they were. Yeah, it was like a. It was musical chairs but there was no chairs. It was like a circle. It's like a musical circle. There was like a dance, so like you would have to like dance once the people are moving.

Speaker 1 29:28

Did you have?

Speaker 3 29:28

fun yeah, that was fun Good.

Speaker 1 29:30

Yeah, cool.

Speaker 3 29:33

We did some small rides because my stomach can't handle roller coasters, so we did a few fun small rides.

Speaker 1 29:44

Would you be mad if I told you I forgot to hit record? No, no.

Speaker 3 29:51

I just spent the whole time talking. You're just going to pull that little trick on me.

Speaker 1 29:56

No, I didn't. It time talking. You're going to pull that little trick on me. No, I didn't. It's recording Okay.

Speaker 3 30:01

Yeah, but it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 30:05

Well, good, I'm glad you got to have a little bit of fun. You got to see the ocean.

Speaker 3 30:13

I got to see the ocean and get in the ocean, have some seashells yeah.

Speaker 1 30:18

Now we went down and seen the ocean years ago, when you was really small and you did not like it.

Speaker 3 30:24

I've never liked the ocean. I've always hated the ocean for some reason. I think it was just like the sharks and like the jellyfish.

Speaker 1 30:30

But you got in it this time, right, I did.

Speaker 3 30:33

I got in the waves too.

Speaker 1 30:35

Cool.

Speaker 3 30:36

Yeah, we saw sharks too.

Speaker 1 30:39

I bet there's a lot of them.

Speaker 3 30:41

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:42

Seems like there's more of them.

Speaker 3 30:44

We were like at the beginning of the Pacific Ocean. So a lot of sharks, yeah, a lot of sharks.

Speaker 5 30:56

A lot of sharks.

Speaker 1 30:58

Did see any um stingrays or anything like that uh, no, not that I know of I know every time I've been down we got to see the stingrays.

Speaker 3 31:09

We don't really go that deep in there, though we don't really go that deep in the ocean, I don't. I don't really go that deep in the ocean. I don't go that deep in the ocean. I stay like.

Speaker 1 31:18

Right on the edge, huh.

Speaker 3 31:19

No, Like this is the sand. That's how far I'll go.

Speaker 1 31:27

And for people that can't see her hands.

Speaker 3 31:30

It's like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven feet from shore, if you're being technical.

Speaker 1 31:39

And it doesn't drop off very quick. You have to go out quite a ways before the water starts dropping off.

Speaker 3 31:45

I wouldn't be like, not like like when the waves start, I wouldn't be like in the middle of it, because it's just nice to like, go and feel the nice cold water. The water was so cold, it rained, that's one so cold.

Speaker 1 31:56

It rained. That's one thing I got surprised about Every time I've been to any of the oceans, except for the one place in the Gulf. I went and the water was actually warm.

Speaker 1 32:09

But, everywhere else we went swimming, and when I went to California, I went surfing actually, and I couldn't last very long because I wasn't dressed for it. We went swimming and when I went to California, I went surfing, actually, mm-hmm, and I couldn't last very long because I wasn't dressed for it. It was cold and I was shocked because I feared the ocean would be nice and warm.

Speaker 5 32:26

Yeah.

Speaker 1 32:26

And then, when I was younger, we went to West Virginia and we went swimming and it was freaking cold.

Speaker 3 32:34

Yeah, yeah, went swimming and it was freaking cold. Yeah, um, yeah, I was. I was expecting it to be like semi, semi cold, semi warm but no, it was freezing. Yeah, that's that ocean and then it rained all night oh midday. Yeah, definitely recommend not going to the Ocean Street after you get out of the car Rest for a minute.

Speaker 1 33:02

Take a break, I don't like.

Speaker 3 33:04

If you ever go to Daytona Beach, do not stay at the one that has that's yellow and it's small, horrible beds. Water all over the fridge, big bathroom, but horrible beds, not a comfortable, comfortable bed do not sleep there, do not stay.

Speaker 1 33:21

They have a lot of turnover people coming and going all the time.

Speaker 3 33:26

The disney one was actually fairly fancy. They had a disney alexa in there when we walked in. The tv had her name on it.

Speaker 1 33:33

yeah, you sent me a picture, a picture. That was cool, that was cool.

Speaker 3 33:36

I had my own card. I got Simba from Lion King because I'm like a child, but yeah, it was a lot of fun, definitely.

Speaker 1 33:46

So you've got memories that should last you for a long time.

Speaker 3 33:51

But there's a story behind it that no one knows.

Speaker 1 33:54

What's that?

Speaker 3 33:55

I had no phone.

Speaker 1 34:00

Oh yeah, Tell us about that. You was on your way down.

Speaker 3 34:05

It was a nice 7 pm evening. Someone's going down. We had to potty. We turned to the nearest gas station. I take my phone into the bathroom, we do our business, we wash our hands. I walk out with the bathroom. I walk out.

Speaker 1 34:24

Walk out with the bathroom.

The Lost iPhone Saga

Speaker 3 34:26

I walk out of the bathroom with the phone in my hand. If I can remember correctly, I might have, I might have put it on top of the car, I might have left it on top of the car, but I left it in the bathroom. Well, about five minutes away from the gas station, where is my phone? No idea. We stop again, lily, looking for my iPhone. No sign of it. So we go on after tears and sleep. We arrive in Daytona and we check and find my iPhone. It's on the interstate of Tennessee we call the Tennessee police.

Speaker 3 35:14

They go out and they will give us a call back when they find it. They found my case. I put the alert thing that you can do For my iPhone and they found my phone no damages Great, I spent a whole vacation without it, got it back After the vacation and loved it. I loved having it back. It felt so nice you're attached to it three days later not even like maybe four I drop it in the pool and you had it at the pool at my own pool lesson learned.

Speaker 1 35:51

What do you do with a phone when you get near water?

Speaker 3 35:55

You drop it. So I have a new phone now. So for all you guys that want to take your phone to the pool, keep it at least six feet away from the pool. Do not take your phone to the pool, not even with a pouch. Yeah, so that's my story of how I had to get a new phone.

Speaker 5 36:10

Yeah, what an interesting story.

Speaker 3 36:15

Yeah, that's a story, yeah.

Speaker 1 36:17

That's a shame.

Speaker 3 36:19

Yeah, but I was due for kind of an upgrade anyway.

Speaker 2 36:24

So oh, you did it on purpose so you'd get an upgrade, did you? I know how that works.

Speaker 3 36:34

And you sleep extra so you can hop out of bath time. Yeah, I see how you are honey yeah, I know how you are too.

Speaker 2 36:46

I see through the blinds I'm not a window.

Speaker 1 36:51

Thank you though anyway, that was well who was that eddie, eddie getting on the chair yeah, the chair spans when they jump on it, so but I was wanting to get you over here and talk about that, but we never had the chance. So luckily you called or texted.

Speaker 3 37:13

Luckily I reached out you reached out. I reached out.

Speaker 1 37:17

And we got to do it.

Speaker 3 37:19

We got to do it.

Speaker 1 37:20

Yeah, and that mic you're working on sounds pretty good. I don't know, maybe we ought to just stick with the older ones. Seem to work yeah, I love just so how long is it before you start school? Well, if we're being technical, august 13th august the 13th, which is only about two and a half weeks away.

Speaker 3 37:46

Do we count today? Do we count today?

Speaker 5 37:49

Or no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 22 days. Wow, it's almost a month. I didn't realize it. If you don't count today, if you do, it will be 23 days.

Speaker 1 38:02

Yeah Well, it's almost a month. I didn't realize it. If you don't, count today.

Speaker 3 38:06

If you do, it will be 23 days.

Speaker 1 38:08

Yeah Well, it's almost four months, it just sounds a lot closer. Yeah it's on a Wednesday. Yeah, in the middle of the week. Give you something to look forward to? I don't know about that. Well, I'm not going to keep you on here or our audience. Do you have anything you'd like to say to anybody?

Speaker 3 38:33

If you're in Texas and you listen to us, my heart goes out to you. California, anywhere that's having trouble right now.

Speaker 2 38:41

Yeah.

Speaker 3 38:42

We just God bless all of you.

Speaker 1 38:45

I guess the Grand Canyon had a bunch of fire. Uh like 55 000 worth of I never heard of that before.

Speaker 3 38:52

Are you for real?

Speaker 1 38:54

I am for real it um. Let's see. I think I've got it stored on here. Let me see I would have to look that up, because I have not uh firefighters in arizona are battling a pair of fast-moving wildfires in and near grand canyon I see they've burned more than 55 000 acres of land.

Speaker 3 39:17

Yeah, if y'all guys have tiktok to search up grand canyon fires and it'll, I don't this is an old story.

Grand Canyon Fires Discussion

Speaker 1 39:23

I don't know if I got to put it out or not, but yeah, it's not very good 55 000 acres. It's kind of interesting how that uh I don't know if you've heard anything about the uh stuff that they've been finding there over the years and it's been coming out I have a voice recording right here if you want me to play it.

Speaker 3 39:47

If not, that's okay.

Speaker 1 39:49

Is it audio music?

Speaker 3 39:51

It's just audio. Audio, I think. Hold on, not the computer.

Speaker 1 39:59

All right, while she's talking about checking that out, apparently they've found over the years lots of different artifacts and okay, yeah, no music, just audio okay, and but now it's starting to come out over all those years and all of a sudden they're having this huge fire.

Speaker 3 40:27

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:28

Kind of strange.

Speaker 3 40:29

And we don't get answers until after it's all done. After it's all gone, they just say this caused this. Yeah, tell us before, tell us during it, tell us what we want to know, you know.

Speaker 1 40:42

It began July the 9th about 35 miles north of Dragon Bravo Fire. Yeah, that's the White Saga Fire, and the Bravo Fire started before that. It looks like a mess. Anyway, what do you want to play?

Speaker 3 41:01

I can. How long is it? Let me see it's a 50-second song.

Speaker 1 41:07

Okay, shoot for it. We don't know what we're gonna get, but we're gonna leave it up to I haven't heard the whole thing, so if it's not true, I'm very sorry.

Speaker 4 41:18

We'll find out arizona officials say a wildfire at the Grand Canyon's north rim continues to burn and the state's Governor, katie Hobbs, is calling for an investigation as to how the blaze was handled as she meets with federal officials next week. The fire began July 4th as a result of a lightning strike, but the National Park Service allowed it to burn as part of a confine and contain strategy that the Park Service has used for decades to clear dense vegetation. The governor spoke with reporters after touring the fire by helicopter.

Speaker 4 41:53

It's so devastating as a lifelong Arizonan.

Speaker 6 41:56

It just is a reminder of the shared stewardship we have of this land and this iconic treasure of the Grand Canyon.

Speaker 4 42:03

The fire has charred more than 18 square miles of land as of Saturday. Of the Grand Canyon, the fire has charred more than 18 square miles of land as of Saturday.

Speaker 1 42:09

All right. Well, there you go, folks.

Speaker 3 42:13

When the woman was talking. It's not very good quality because you're by the fire.

Speaker 1 42:16

It wasn't that bad, though your phone actually does a pretty good job. I could have got it better if I plugged it in, but that's all right.

Speaker 3 42:23

I was kind of shocked because you said it started july 9th 19th.

Speaker 1 42:27

No, that's the second.

Speaker 3 42:27

There's two different fires fires, yeah, in the grand canyon burning I was kind of shocked when they said that they let it burn. Yeah, it's like. Well, why like they should? Have we not learned our lesson by all these things?

Speaker 1 42:46

No, we're humans. We don't learn the lessons. We just repeat history over and over and over.

Speaker 3 42:55

And it's been. It probably took a long time trying to build that or trying to make it, and people visit it multiple times and you just let it burn. After everything that people you've worked on creating it for so long the world has trained to is trying to make cool landscapes.

Speaker 1 43:19

Don't try to make sense out of something illogical, because you can't. They're just. That's the problem with all this new stuff we try to make logical sense out of illogical stuff and it just don't work. It leaves us all going what, what yeah don't do that but anyway, I appreciate you talking about all the floods. They're happening all over the country, but not only that all over the world.

Speaker 5 43:53

Yeah.

Speaker 1 43:53

It's really sickening. There's been fires all over the world too.

Speaker 5 43:58

Yeah.

Speaker 1 43:59

Devastation. Anyhow, we won't keep everybody. I'm glad you came here and got on the podcast. I'm sorry we took too much of the podcast trying to give us that report. It's kind of necessary but unnecessary, so I don't know how to keep handling it.

Speaker 3 44:24

Yeah, but what I was trying to make sense there is this there's really no way to make sense of it.

Speaker 1 44:33

It does not.

Speaker 3 44:33

Just watching a beautiful place that God built burn.

Speaker 1 44:38

Yep.

Speaker 3 44:38

Just letting it burn makes no sense.

Speaker 1 44:41

Well, they use that. If it's a controlled small area, they do that to burn off all the brush and stuff yeah but they apparently didn't have it under control to do anything with yeah all right, we're gonna leave it with you guys. Thank you for tuning in to the ugly quacking duck.

Speaker 5 45:06

Thank you for tuning in to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast.

Speaker 1 45:08

Yes, it's been great and I'm glad to have Lily aboard. I hope we can get her on here more often. If she gets her phone microphone fixed or gets another one so we can do it on the phone, we may be able to do it more often yes, she don't have to stay on the phone.

Speaker 1 45:28

We may be able to do it more often. Yes, and she don't have to stay on the whole time. She can just jump on, tell us something and jump off, so she could do a hit and run on the podcast. Yes, yes. And I also want to mention I think she's going to go out for volleyball this year.

Speaker 5 45:45

Yes.

Speaker 1 45:47

So that would be interesting to follow. Sonny, you got anything you want to say.

Speaker 2 45:54

Yes.

Speaker 5 45:58

Sonny.

Speaker 2 46:01

Yes.

Speaker 3 46:03

Can you hold on for a minute? I have to tell the people something.

Speaker 1 46:09

Tell us something, tell us something.

Speaker 3 46:12

Okay, if you live near the Illinois state, you, technically speaking, I guess, from news it just says news and they're verified for some reason. News it just says news and they're verified for some reason um. You are in a high risk of flooding through august and october yeah, um, we don't really get flooded that much like the only bad flood I think I've seen was like a few years back did you see the pictures from flora yesterday? I think I did, they flooded.

Speaker 1 46:46

Yeah, they flooded yeah, it's been all around us, but we've been blessed and not had to deal with that.

Speaker 3 46:54

But that doesn't mean we don't need to be praying for these other people yeah, just because be grateful that we are not in the situation, but also pray for the people that are in the situation.

Final Thoughts and Closing

Speaker 1 47:05

Very well said. Yep, yes, and sometime I'll take a little bit of time We'll talk about the end of the times.

Speaker 3 47:12

Like how I would put this you can be grateful, but just remember what, just keep in mind what other people are going through.

Speaker 1 47:20

Yes, so if you are well off, then you need to reach a handout to help the ones, not If you are well off then you need to reach a handout to help the ones not, and if there's a donation, you can give a dollar, whatever any kind of money.

Speaker 3 47:38

Sorry about that folks. Any kind of money just people will be respectful of $1 because it will help them out. $1 does a lot for people that's going through that stuff. So if you don't want to donate, that's fine. Nothing's going to happen to you, that's fine.

Speaker 1 47:51

She's not talking about donating to us. She's talking about donating to people that need help.

Speaker 3 47:56

Donating for people that need help. If you don't donate, nothing bad is going to happen to you. It's just if you don't feel like donating, that's fine we all have if you want to save your money for something different. That's okay, because I can't donate anything because I'm broke, but I would love to donate to those places well, you can donate your time.

Speaker 1 48:15

Maybe we ought to start doing a little extra podcast for victims well, thank you for having me very, you are very, very, very glad.

Speaker 3 48:26

I reached out.

Speaker 2 48:29

It was good. I enjoyed not doing anything but listening. Thank you everybody. You know I'm shocked that you didn't really talk through this whole podcast.

Speaker 3 48:48

Well, it was hard but I made it.

Speaker 1 48:51

But if you're going, to go visit our email. I'm going to try to remember this.

Speaker 3 48:54

Yeah, it's been a while since you did it. The Ugly Quacking Duck at gmailcom.

Speaker 1 48:58

That's correct. I remembered it. And our website is Theuglyquackingduckcom. There you go, yep. Go to our website and subscribe.

Speaker 3 49:09

that way, if we do any newsletters, you'll get the newsletter as soon as it is posted and if you remember that our website used to be very, very long at the beginning, you're well known for that. Yeah, I don't even know why we did it that long because it was a free one.

Speaker 1 49:27

Oh yeah, I'm paying for this one, buddy.

Speaker 3 49:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1 49:30

Yeah.

Speaker 3 49:30

Anyway, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 49:32

You're welcome. Thanks for coming. We'll have to do it again.

Speaker 3 49:37

I'm free until.

Speaker 1 49:37

August. You have to start making little notes of things you'd like to talk about.

Speaker 5 49:40

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 49:54

That's what we try to put the earthquake report on after work.

Speaker 3 49:57

No, I'm off today. Good podcast and here we are.

Speaker 1 50:01

Yep, yeah, yeah, okay, so been 50 minutes, let's kill it now.

Speaker 3 50:07

Kill it now.

Speaker 1 50:08

All right, everybody, you want to say all all. Everybody want to say bye. Yeah, okay, let's all say bye. Here we go. One, two Bye.