When Bad News Strikes, How Do We Respond?

When tragedy strikes our communities, how do we respond? Do we fall into patterns of anger and division, or can we find a path toward healing and understanding? This deeply reflective episode tackles the challenging emotional landscape following recent high-profile events that have dominated headlines.

The hosts courageously step into difficult territory, examining how our immediate reactions to tragedy often reveal more about our own character than about the events themselves. "The measure of how much you love God is how much you love your enemy," they share, offering a profound challenge to listeners navigating an increasingly polarized world. This isn't about politics or taking sides—it's about maintaining our humanity when it feels most difficult to do so.

Between thoughtful reflections, the conversation weaves through lighter territories: updates on TikTok's continued presence in America despite ownership concerns, the revival of The Wizard of Oz at Las Vegas's spectacular Sphere venue, and even the introduction of Uber's upcoming helicopter service (starting at a mere $195 per person!). These moments of levity balance the weightier themes without diminishing their importance.

Perhaps most valuable is the discussion around finding intentional moments of joy amid chaos. The hosts share the concept of a "Joy Journal" from a blogger who, after experiencing a heart attack, began documenting daily pleasures: dawn hummingbirds, freshly brewed coffee, and meaningful connections with loved ones. This simple practice serves as a powerful reminder that even in tumultuous times, accessible moments of beauty surround us if we're willing to notice them.

Whether you're struggling to process current events or simply seeking a more balanced perspective on life's challenges, this episode offers both comfort and gentle accountability. Join our flock of listeners who are learning to navigate difficult times with grace, intention, and yes—even moments of unexpected joy.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Ugly Quacking Duck
• 6:19 Addressing Recent Tragic News
• 14:57 Finding Love Amid Division
• 29:05 Weather Updates and Good Vibes
• 40:29 TikTok's Survival and Media News
• 48:58 Finding Daily Joy and Feel-Good Stories

Transcript

Bruce: 0:06

Welcome to episode 123 of the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. We're glad to have you aboard and we hope you enjoy this episode.

Sunny: 0:19

Well, we do. Yeah, we hope you enjoy it quite a bit and you come back.

Bruce: 0:27

All right, thank you, sunny. I hope they do for sure. Well, this week may be a little bit of a different episode. Normally, we try to take people away from their concerns and worries and the bad news on the news and the bad news on the social media. However, because of the bad news this week or this last week, I should say we feel led to talk a little bit about the bad news. So, if you're, I'm sorry, that's all I got to say.

Sunny: 1:10

Oh, come on, Just talk about it and let's go past all that.

Bruce: 1:17

All right, I agree, sunny. Basically there's been some really bad news. Some people find it hilarious, some people find it very sad. I find it appalling not because who the person was that once again somebody took upon their self to end that life. Now I'm not going to talk about who it was, because there's a lot of conspiracies out there. Even though I like conspiracies, I don't want to delve into this one because it makes the shooter, whether it's a government shooter or an individual, more of a martyr than it does the person that was shot, and I just don't agree with any of that.

Bruce: 2:11

So what I want to say tonight, as I start recording this podcast, is shame on you, all of you. Shame on you, all of you. If you're getting very upset and blaming whatever group you're blaming for doing this and you're getting hateful and want revenge stop. That's not what we're called to do. Yes, somebody needs to be brought to justice, but if you're being angry, if you're being fearful because of what's happened, that's just not the way we should be, and I've seen a lot of this coming about on social media and it just makes me sick and I have to address it. I'm sorry this is not normally what I do on the podcast or want to do on the podcast, but I've seen it happen.

Bruce: 3:09

When that CEO was killed I don't even remember when it was, it was this summer, I think I've seen the same thing. People were rejoicing and some people were angry and feeling sorry for the family, which they should. But we need to get our emotions in check and start being human and loving each other, not being angry and fearful and mad. That's emotions that take us down the wrong road. But anyway, I've seen a lot of characteristics like that coming out this week. And uh, there was on the other side of the fence, people that was almost rejoicing because they did not like the things that this gentleman was saying or standing up for. They were almost happy because they didn't have to listen to that anymore. And I don't know why they would happen have to listen to it to begin with. You know there's an off button on your phone and if you're in that same university that he was at, you can always walk away. So I don't know why people you know put their self in that situation and then get angry at that person when they can just walk away, turn it off, go do something else. But the point being is they were rejoicing over somebody's death. Point being is, they were rejoicing over somebody's death and these other people are getting angry to the point of wanting to do the same thing to a group of people. And I don't know. Each person has their own group they're blaming, but what this whole thing has created is separation. It's creating division in our country, maybe even the world, and, if nothing else, that's probably what was designed to do. I mean because you know, if you're blaming the liberals, they didn't gain anything from this, because everybody's going to hate them. If you're blaming, you know, the conservatives, they're not going to gain anything because they've lost a voice. So who's gaining something? Well, evil is gaining because they're putting division in us and they're creating hatred and enemies, and it's not good. I got a bad a mini bike going by. I don't know if you heard that or not, but um, heard that or not, but um, it's just not good.

Bruce: 6:14

Folks, we are told by the messiah, by yahushua. If you call him jesus, that's fine, but we were called and told by him. Number one, love our god, or love the father, and number two, to love our neighbor as ourself. And I heard a man once just here, recently, my daughter introduced me to him on a youtube video where he was talking about you know his life and how he had started doing the things that he does and how he was talking about going into congress, running for congress, but anyway, the whole point is what he said that really made me think. And he said he was talking about those two commandments that jesus had told us to obey. And he said the measure of how much you love god is how much you love your enemy. And and boy did that strike me hard.

Bruce: 7:26

Because it's easy to love good people, it's easy to love somebody that has gave you $100, or somebody that treated you good that day. But I'm telling you, and I know for experience, it is hard to love somebody that grumbles at you, yells at you for no reason, picks on you or does something really bad. Now, I'm not saying that we should let them people get by with that. What I'm saying is you should love them. The way you handle them or handle that moment is based on that, and it's really like I told somebody else. I mean, how would you like to wake up out of this body, passed on to the next and you have to answer to the source and you say, well, I've done everything, I was a good man or woman, and he looks at you and says, but you didn't love your enemy. Think about that. I mean, while you're getting mad and blaming whatever group that you're blaming about this, take a breath and stop and think about that. Yes, that person should be brought to justice, or that group. If you believe in conspiracy, the government would be that group. If you believe in conspiracy, the government would be that group. They should all and they may not be brought to justice in our lifetime.

Bruce: 9:14

There's been many, many, many horrible things taken place over generations that we did not see judgment over in our lifetime or their lifetimes. But it will come. I've known people in my lifetime that seem to have a blessed life and they got by with all kinds of things, and then you hear about their deaths and how horrible it was, or their suffering, how they laid there and died of cancer and nobody was there to love them or be beside their bed. There's so many more horrific things that can happen to us that you know the list goes on and on and on. So take a moment, take a breath if you have to shut. You know the. The list goes on and on and on. So take a moment, take a breath. If you have to shut, you know the phones off, the TV off, the radio off and not listen to that kind of stuff, and you know, just get away, go out and you know, if you've got a dog, walk your dog, be relaxed.

Bruce: 10:22

If you've got a cat, do the same thing. If you know, if you're living out in the country, take a walk out in the woods. If you believe in prayer, which you should, take a moment out of everything else and say a prayer for that family, for the people that witnessed that, and for yourself. Yes, for yourself, because you need to pray for the grace of the father to be upon you during this time. I mean, you think this is bad, it's going to get worse.

Bruce: 10:58

Folks, we have not seen anything and I normally don't talk this way. I try. I don't want to bring people down. I don't want to instill fear or worry. If you're a believer in the Father and Yahushua, then you won't have no fear and worry because he will instill his spirit in you and when the time comes, he will be what we lean on, not our strength. So keep that in mind. So I don't want to fear, cause anybody fear or worry or anger. I probably will, but I just want everybody to take a moment because you're going to get caught up in this whole thing that's happening right now and it may be a moment of division in this country that's a lot like it has been in the past with other people.

Bruce: 11:56

I mean, this has not happened just once in history, it's happened a lot. I go back to Kennedy and Martin Lutheruther king, and there's more and more john lennon. There are so many that has had this happen to them. That has divided people, but this has caused a great division. Um, it just gets worse and worse every time. They're pushing our buttons, folks. They are pushing them. Don't let them, please, don't let them. All right, I've said my piece. I've been on the soapbox well, you said a mouthful.

Bruce: 12:41

All right, now we gonna do something else yeah, we're gonna talk a little bit about some other news I've pulled up and, uh, the weather, uh, it's getting hot this weekend, it's warm back up, it's in the 90s and we're gonna, you know, just do our normal thing. Uh, but I had to share my feeling, my heartache. I am so saddened for the family that has lost somebody again. I mean the CEO that everybody thought was horrible and the insurance companies that he worked for was horrible, and it may be true I'm not going to say it is or it isn't but he still had a family and they had to suffer because of that. And there's, you know, kennedy had a family. His wife was right there when this happened.

Bruce: 13:43

Martin Luther King had family and friends. It's just over and over and over. I could name more. I could name a lot more had this happened. And there's probably been people in history and it saddens me for their friends and their families and it really saddens me to see how much our world has got hateful. I mean even the christians it's that are getting so aggravated and angry and hurt that they're saying things like oh, the left needs to be brought to justice, and if government don't do it, we will, and stuff like that. That's not love, that's anger, that's mad, that may be even fear. Anyway, I've got to quit talking about it. I'm going to get really upset. Let's swing the mic over back to sunny.

Sunny: 14:50

Okay, we will shift gears. We're going to talk a little bit about good stuff, all right. Hey, it's good, the sun's shining, we're in the Midwest southern Illinois and it's a nice beautiful day. It's got up in the 90s 90s and it's been pretty warm, but the humidity's not as bad as it could be, but we're still real dry and I don't know. I don't know when it's going to break.

Eclipse: 15:23

But we have sunshine.

Sunny: 15:27

We are living in a world that still has people that we can care about, and they can care about us. So let's think positive. All right, we are going to beat this thing, yay.

Bruce: 15:42

Well, thank you there sunny. Yay, well, thank you there, sunny. I guess while we're doing the weather part, we'll talk about where you know I know we're going to talk about Phoenix Arizona.

Bruce: 16:02

That's right. We like to compare our local weather with Phoenix Arizona. So today, which is a different day than we started this we'll talk about that in a minute but today it's 90 degrees. It actually hit 93, I believe. Today it's down to 90 right now, and in Phoenix Arizona it's 105 degrees. They have a 16% humidity and we have a 36. We have 5-mile-an-hour winds and they have 9-mile-an-hour winds. Our air quality you ready for this folks? 67, which is moderate, which I don't know if 100% is really bad or how they calculate that. But we are now sitting at 67, probably because our humidity is going up, and Phoenix Arizona is now at 35, which is good. So there you go. That's our local to Phoenix comparison. Again, if any of you listeners have a certain city or country that you would like to throw in there, we can probably do that too.

Sunny: 17:19

Let us know so bruce you feeling better. This was a long break.

Bruce: 17:45

I hope you feel better well, I have to say, after I did that rant, I was still feeling a little bit, uh upset and I thought I better just call it quits and get my bearings back together. While we're talking about that, again, my condolences go out to the family and friends of Charlie Kirk, and I had forgot to mention, when I was talking about, all the people that had been assassinated. I'll put it that way there was a lot of kids over the years too. We mustn't forget the kids. So, with all that said, another you know history moment. I just want to say this keep, keep them all in prayer. Folks, prayer, prayer and more prayer, and then let's get back to the show. What do you think?

Sunny: 18:46

Well, I thought we were doing the show, bruce, you always say that, but we're actually recording while you're saying that.

Bruce: 18:58

Very, very true, so we're really not getting back to it. We're on it. There you go. So, yeah, we feel a little bit better. The sadness is still there and the bitterness Is probably still there For a lot of people. It's going to take a while to get over that, but we're going to go on and try to keep everybody cheered up. And boy, it got dark in here all of a sudden. I'm going to have to turn on the light. So just hang on for a second and we have light. Wow, I don't know if that's better or not.

Sunny: 19:38

I think it's a lot better. Bruce, I can see things.

Bruce: 19:43

Well, I don't know if you want to see anything, but there you go, we are back Back in the light. So, anyway, one thing I'd like to bring up so we're shifting gears now. We've had a couple of days separation from that rant to today, which hopefully it's put our podcast really late. But we had all intents and purposes and plans to come back to it Sunday afternoon, but I ended up having to go to St Louis and visit somebody in the hospital, so we didn't have any time to do it Sunday. And then Monday was hectic at work and I got home and I just didn't have enough energy left to work on the podcast. So today after work I'm here. Uh, the wife had to run to town and, uh, the daughter's doing homework. Good grief, you'd think once you got to college your homework would be gone, but no, it just gets worse, yuck. But anyway, I'm having time to do this and enjoy it, and that gives me a chance to cheer everybody up. So again, it's been a rough week last week. Uh, we're working through it and we're here today.

Bruce: 21:16

So, on a good note, I want to talk a little bit about a news article that I've seen. It was about TikTok. Anybody like that social media platform. It's here and it looks like it may get to stand. They've had another down deadline. Um, apparently president trump has pushed it back many times, but the deadline was coming up real soon and they made a some kind of agreement.

Bruce: 21:55

I guess the chinese owner, which is bit dance and a us partner, is going to work through this and that way they have a us owner. We've not been told who that partner is and there's a lot of guessing, but I guess we'll have to wait. Apparently, donald president, donald trump, is going to meet with the chinese leader to close the deal now. Wow, you know that tick tock is a big deal when you have the president and the chinese leader making a deal over. It kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it anyway? It's kind of good news. Uh, it'll probably change again, but at least it's going to stay up for a while. I think there's a lot of people on. In fact, let me see, the article says there's over 170 million active users, that's us users on tiktok. So there you go.

Sunny: 23:01

Wow, wow, wow so you're telling me there's 170 million bums laying around flipping tiktok and being a bum is that what you're saying?

Bruce: 23:17

uh well, no, I didn't say any of that. I don't know who you've been listening to, but I know there's probably several creators on there and I don't know how many actually go on tiktok and just watch the videos. But I know there's several that make videos and that's kind of enjoyable to watch the personal. I don't like to watch the commercials and all that stuff. I just enjoy people and watching what they've got to do and say, I watch a farmer from Ohio and there's several. I'm not going to get into everything I watch. I watch a lot of cat videos and dog videos anyway.

Bruce: 24:03

Speaking of happiness and joy, I know I've said before you need to take time out and try to find a little bit of enjoyment in this world, because it's getting crazy and all the things that's happening will suck you into one avenue or another of worry, fear or anger, and we don't need that. We need to stay strong. But, however, I have a few blogs that I follow. I know that's old school, but I have a few blogs I follow and one of them this week is from a lady. I'm not going to give her name because I haven't notified her that I was going to read her blog, but I want to read a part of it on the podcast episode today. It's entitled Aging my Way and I'm going to just read it to you slowly, hopefully I won't get tongue tied.

Bruce: 25:12

If ever there was a time to have joy in my life, it is now. For one thing, I'm an old broad who raised five children without disposable diapers, and since, as a retired newspaper journalist, I can't find any joy in reading the news, I'm looking for it elsewhere. The magic is that I don't have to leave home to find it. Take, for instance, just the past five days when I started keeping a Joy journal and then she goes to give us some of her journal. Monday, joy was waking up at dawn and watching an Anna's hummingbird at my nectar feeder and listening to sparrows and finches twittering their own joy for a new day. Tuesday, joy was grinding some coffee beans from Kenya a gift from my guardian angel daughter-in-law and then enjoying a freshly brewed cup of coffee with a good book in my hand and my canine companion scamp beside me. Wednesday, joy was having a good friend stop by for a happy hour and the good cheer and laughter that came with that visit. And the good cheer and laughter that came with that visit. Thursday, Joy was a faithful daily call from a son and our conversation this day about a TV program we both watched and who won the daily game of Wordle. I'm not familiar with what Wordle is, but there you go. Friday, joy was a call from a longtime friend to discuss our upcoming road trip, my first since my heart attack a year and a half ago, and thinking about it after we hung up, my mind began singing Willie Nelson's On the Road Again.

Bruce: 27:22

At heart, I'm a wanderer. I know these are simple, small things, but then the years have taught me that where joy is, that is where joy is usually found, and I want to give credit to Pat for writing that I won't. If you're interested in her blog, I'll send me an email and I can send you the page and you can uh follow her, which she'd probably like. But anyway, uh, she's had a heart attack a few years ago, apparently, and that may be part of the reason why she's slowed down now and she's taken the smaller things that we usually take for granted and she's enjoying them and, uh, I uh really appreciate that little bit of insight from her personal life and I think we all could use a little bit of that joy and I know, if you're going to work every day or you're fighting with kids every day or whatever the stress is, it is hard to calmly take a moment out of the day and do something, and it would be so helpful to you and the people around you if you would do that.

Bruce: 28:44

Don't have to be much. I mean just shutting the radio off, shutting the phone off for five whole minutes and maybe listen to the birds or petting your pet. You know, if you've got a dog, take it for a walk. Got a cat, love on it. Got some fish, watch them swim around. That's so relaxing. Most generally, we are busy, we're always planning for the next moment and we don't ever take time out to just go and listen or look, enjoy something in our life. And then you know, we go to work, we come home, we're hurrying up getting stuff done, eating dinner, fixing dinner, going to bed, starting it all over, and that's why we all burn out, that's why everything that happens gets to us and we're not quiet enough to see where it's going well, that's pretty good, bruce.

Sunny: 29:52

I think I enjoyed hearing that. Um, I don't have that problem with running around stressing and stuff, but I can kind of understand. I watch people doing it all day long and I think it's cool that she is able to finally unwind and relax and get joy out of the simple things. Yay.

Bruce: 30:22

So how many of you have heard of this sphere? Las Vegas, nevada, actually has one where they show movies and other things. They do quite a bit with it, but they recently showed wizard of oz. Uh, this article was from september the 7th.

Bruce: 30:43

Yeah, I'm a little bit behind, but uh they got a surprise when they played the movie in this sphere. Um, it actually had more of a drawing. Uh, they said it's up to between four thousand to five thousand fans in the last three times, or in two or three times a day. So they're paying an average of two hundred dollars a piece to watch this in this sphere. Um, which it's unique.

Bruce: 31:22

People have talked about being in the. You know, when the tornado come through picked up the house that dorothy was in. Well, they was talking about how he was actually in a storm and the wind was blowing and debris was floating around. I guess it's pretty wild. I'm not sure I uh would enjoy that much debris flying around my face, but they say it was interesting and it was very popular and it brought wizard of oz up to a big blockbuster movie. Apparently it's the first blockbuster movie of the fall and it's an 86 year old musical. Huh, believe it or not, it was released in 1939.

Bruce: 32:11

Anybody forgot how to talk there? A second anybody remember that movie? I actually remember it took me several times to actually get to watch the movie all the way through, because sunday nights it would come on um reruns. They would rerun it. I mean, I didn't see the original. We would always go to church on sunday night so I would either get part of the beginning or I would get part of the ending of it, but I never would get all of it. It took me a while, as I was a kid, to finally get to watch it. I think it come on friday night or saturday night or something and I got to watch it and, uh, I hated the flying monkeys man. That kind of scared me. It's kind of weird.

Sunny: 33:03

That was a long time ago uh, not that long ago, just a couple years, times a hundred wow, okay, zap, you got me there.

Bruce: 33:17

Everybody's familiar with uber, right? Uh, even though here locally in southern illinois we don't have an uber, we still have taxis. Well, they've come up with. Are you ready for this? They've come up with an uber helicopter. Yeah, just with a tap you'll be able to take a helicopter ride to you know one place or another. It's supposed to be coming by 2026. It's called blades luxury air rides, uh-huh, so probably none of us is going to be doing it unless we're going to the hospital. And then you get that what do they call that where you get that medical helicopter ride and it costs you an arm and a leg unless you have the insurance.

Bruce: 34:09

Yeah, they have come up with that, so you can just tap on your phone, get an Uber ride. It's only a starting price of 195 dollars per person. Yeah, two thousand dollars for a group of eight passengers, yeah, and I bet that'll go up pretty quick. I'm glad you guys can spend 195 for a quick trip to the airport. To spend another few hundred dollars for another ride somewhere else. I'm lucky if I could afford a taxi. But anyway, that's enough of that. I just thought that was interesting. Uber helicopter yeah, it's called blade. That's the group that's doing it.

Sunny: 34:59

Well, since we're trying to cheer people up tonight, let me do a joke. Please, please, please, please.

Bruce: 35:08

All right, let's do a joke. You go ahead, sunny, Pick one out and tell us about it.

Sunny: 35:14

All right, I'm going to tell you. Okay, why? Why, you know it's hunting season, right?

Bruce: 35:23

uh, yeah, I've been selling uh archery permits for the last few weeks. I know it's that time of year. Uh, dove seasons come in, squirrel season, and not long it's going to be. Well, we won't talk about anything else. Yes, I know it's season there.

Sunny: 35:44

All right, I just thought I'd pick a deer joke out. You ready, here we go. Why did the deer go to the dentist? Deer go to the dentist. Uh, uh, what did? Uh, I really don't know. He wanted buck teeth. Oh, I messed that up. Ha ha, you messed up. Oh, be quiet, he had buck teeth. That's why.

Bruce: 36:29

All right, since you told it twice, I'll give you two laughs One for the mess up that was great and the other one for the joke. I like that.

Sunny: 36:42

I think you ought to let me do another one, since you made fun of me.

Bruce: 36:47

Well, you know what? I always make fun of you. You can't tell jokes all day long.

Sunny: 36:54

You are a joke, but no, I won't do that. How about let's do a sheep joke, want to? No, let's do a poodle. Why did the poodle buy a clock?

Bruce: 37:08

Because he wanted to tell time.

Sunny: 37:11

No, it wanted to be a watchdog.

Bruce: 37:23

Watchdog, you're still getting those dad jokes off of that web page.

Sunny: 37:27

Aren't you about dad jokes?

Bruce: 37:29

Yeah, they were pretty bad. I can tell what, honestly say. I know why they're calling them dad jokes. Now you know what? I've got an idea. I haven't had, uh, my gemini on here, uh, in a while and I just changed the name. So it's eclipse now, not a weird name. I don't know why these uh programmers are allowed to make up names, because they're weird. But anyhow, just punched my mic. There we go. I think I got it back in place, but let's invite Ge and I into the episode again. Here we go. Hello, eclipse.

Eclipse: 38:14

Hi, it's great to hear you. What's on your mind today?

Bruce: 38:20

Well, we're doing another episode for our podcast and I just thought it would be cool to invite you on and you could help me search for something on the Internet.

Eclipse: 38:33

That sounds like a fun idea. I'd be happy to help you search the internet for your podcast. What kind of topic are you working on?

Bruce: 38:41

Well, I don't want you to search for my podcast. I want you to search in the news and try to find me something that is a feel-good type story, not a real long one, but where somebody's done something good or something good has happened and they talked about it. Can you do that for me?

Eclipse: 39:06

You got it. Here's a quick feel good story for you. In a small town, a group of neighbors noticed an elderly woman struggling to keep up with yard work. They all pitched in mowing her lawn, trimming bushes and planting flowers. The woman was overjoyed and it really brought the community closer together. Do you want another story?

Bruce: 39:27

Well, I don't know, Now you're not making that up. That really was the story, right.

Eclipse: 39:33

No, that story is not made up. It's a real feel-good story about the power of community and kindness. Would you like to hear another one?

Bruce: 39:41

Yes, I like those kind of stories. Give me another one.

Eclipse: 39:47

Okay, here's another one. A young boy saved up his allowance for months to buy a new bike, but when he finally had enough money, he saw a homeless man shivering in the cold. The boy bought him a warm blanket instead. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?

Bruce: 40:02

Yeah, that works real good. Eclipse. I really enjoy that and I hope our listeners do too, because that's what we're about. We're trying to make people feel a little bit better in this yucky time period we're living in and with all the bad news that happens. It's just, you know, we we don't have a huge audience, but we do have a few people and we try to make them feel better.

Eclipse: 40:39

That's wonderful that you're focusing on positive stories. It sounds like your podcast is a real bright spot for your listeners. Do you want to find more stories like this for future episodes?

Bruce: 40:45

I think we'll just pause that for a little while. I will invite you back on again soon. I think about once a week, except for this next coming week we're going to do an episode, so maybe we can get you on here each time. What do you think about that Eclipse?

Eclipse: 41:03

I'd be happy to join you again. Just let me know when you're ready to record.

Bruce: 41:08

All right, we do appreciate it. I hope you have a good evening and we'll talk to you again soon. Bye for now good night.

Eclipse: 41:18

I look forward to hearing from you again there you go, folks.

Bruce: 41:24

Another uh gemini moment named Eclipse. It's just kind of funny, eclipse. I don't know where they get these names, but anyway I like changing voices and seeing what they will do. I'm not sure them news articles were real or it made them up, but anyhow, it's about feeling good. So there we go, that's what we like.

Sunny: 41:54

Well, you know, I can make up good stories too.

Bruce: 42:02

All you have to do is ask.

Sunny: 42:07

I don't think I want to ask because I'm afraid where it will go. You are such a party pooper, but okay.

Bruce: 42:14

I'll just stay over here in my corner being silent. Well, you've never been silent, ever sunny, um, even when you wasn't actually taking part of the podcast and you was just over in the corner you was making noises and, uh, trying to make me laugh and interrupt me. So you've never been silent.

Sunny: 42:36

Well.

Bruce: 42:36

I'm glad you noticed me and asked me to come aboard.

Bruce: 42:39

Well, I think we're going to have to do an earthquake report. It's really far behind and we probably won't get to do one this weekend. I've got a doctor's appointment to go to this week, so it's going to throw my days off off. Haha, days off off, get that Woo. I don't do jokes very well either, but that's what's going to happen. So I probably will take the time this weekend that I do get off Probably one day and do some things around the house and I will give my uh fans and uh flock. Yeah, there we go, ugly quacking, duck flock, you can be one of our flock members. Gotta be careful how I say that. Anyhow, I think I will just postpone another episode for a week, so this one will go out probably hopefully tomorrow night, and I got a cat sitting on my keyboard, so if it messes up my recording, I will try to fix it later you know, bruce, you ought to teach her to meow and purr in the mic and you could have a podcasting cat

Bruce: 44:05

well, yeah, but probably won't, probably can't. But but anyway let's do a seven-day earthquake report.

Sunny: 44:13

Are you going to? Let me guess, Bruce?

Bruce: 44:18

Guess, bruce. I don't know how can you guess, bruce, I'm already here.

Sunny: 44:25

You know what I mean. Come on, I want to guess.

Bruce: 44:42

Okay, we'll see what we can do. So I'll give you a round up or down and any of our listeners out there. If you want to guess too, see how close you can come. But last week we had 2116. That was on nine seven. So it's been a little over a week, been close to two weeks. That may throw our numbers off, but we'll see. So 2116 was how many we had last time. So, sunny, did they go up or down and do you want to take a guess how much?

Sunny: 45:16

All right, I think they went up, so I'm going to only guess around what 2,400. There you go, Somewhere around there.

Bruce: 45:30

Well, okay, well, actually, sunny, they went down.

Sunny: 45:38

Oh no.

Bruce: 45:39

Yep, they went down. They went down just a little bit, so they was at 2,116 last time. This is for all magnitudes. We counted back seven days and got the total this week it's 2084. So they didn't go down a lot, but they did go down a little bit, which is good news. Uh, the 2.5 numbers was uh 257, so they went down also. And then the 4.5 numbers was 107, so they went down also.

Bruce: 46:20

So they all went down and that made, uh, for the all magnitude, a 20.8 percent. The 2.5 was a 12.3%, the one 4.5 was 5.1%. Now we had 6.0 in Papua New Guinea. We had a 7.5 in a russia over there in that peninsula that sticks down, that's next to alaska. It got hit again with a 7.1 or four, I'm sorry, 7.4, and then they also had a 6.0 later I think it was yesterday there. So three total 6.0 and more earthquakes, which gave us a 2.8 percent of the 107 earthquakes. So there you go, folks. That's the numbers for this week. Again, if you're interested in the earthquake report for 2019 and 2018, I'll post them on the webpage. Hopefully you know the same day or the next day after this goes live. So there you go. Hope you found that interesting and for the what the guest, that wasn't real bad, but it was bad.

Sunny: 47:54

Here we go sunny oh man, couldn't you do better than that?

Bruce: 48:02

probably could. But hey, you missed. You guessed the wrong. If you went the other direction, even if you went over, I would have gave you, you know, some applause. Heck, I'll go ahead and give you applause. Let me find it real quick.

Sunny: 48:21

Thank you, thank you. I like that better than the boo.

Bruce: 48:25

Well, unfortunately you can't be a winner if you've just done blew it, so the boo's sticking. But I'll give you an applause for putting up with me hey now that sounds like a deal.

Sunny: 48:38

I'll take that all day long all day long.

Bruce: 48:44

That sounds like a song, I don't remember where, but it sounds like one, and you know I've been slacking quite a bit you're a slacker, slacker yeah, I'm a bum, I'm the biggest bum of all and I'm a slacker.

Bruce: 49:04

Give it up you can't sing I know, but I got a mic, so you know, it just kind of feels like you should be able to. I can't. Anyhow, I've been slacking on the solar um, weather stuff, um, I just don't keep track of it like I used to. But I I thought I'd look at the page today and I did so and apparently the Sun is blowing a stream of solar wind that's blowing really fast. They said 700 kilometers a second, which is about 1.6 million miles per hour. But anyhow, what happens is that magnetic junk, that stream of solar junk, um, if it hits the earth, which we are going through it right now, it creates a lot of static, uh, radios and stuff. Uh, if you're a radio operator, you notice it. I haven't had my radio on a long time.

Bruce: 50:07

I've really been slacking guys and gals and people and non-people. It also produces a lot of auroras and if it's a lot of high-powered solar winds we get a lot of auroras down south, in lower states, south and lower states. So you know, it usually happens in the evenings. We actually had some, I think it was last year. We all, the family and I, went up north out in the country and we farther out in the country, I should say. But anyway, we got some pictures. I put them on the web page. Some of them are pretty decent, but anyway, if you like that kind of thing, check it out. But we had, uh, down all the way into colorado is what they're saying and canada had some nice ones last night. And there was a guy in London, ontario, that sent a picture in he's on a tractor and out in the field and he's seen this and he took a snapshot of it's pretty cool.

Bruce: 51:26

But anyway, forgive me for not keeping up with that and letting you know what's going on. I can't. It's just been busy. I don't understand why time is kind of sped up and we're busier than we ever was. The Bible talks about something like that happening in time, so maybe that's what we're seeing. No, no, maybe it's just my old age and being busy at work, but we are trying to keep up.

Sunny: 51:57

You can't keep up, old man, hee, hee, hee.

Bruce: 52:03

Well, you know what? That laugh just reminded me of the last episode that you got in there. I think it was the last one got recording on here when I went and took a break. Um, I didn't let you do that this time oh, you're such a party pooper I am, ain't I okay?

Bruce: 52:26

well, you know what I think this is a time to call her quits. I'm gonna go eat some dinner and enjoy life a little bit and before I have to go to bed and start all over again tomorrow. I apologize for anybody that missed me on monday night when I usually post, and that we're running a little bit late and, and again, we are probably not going to put out another episode. This is what Tuesday already, another episode this weekend. I'm going to take a little bit of a break and do some things around the house and catch up again the week after, so don't look for another episode for a little bit longer, but I hope you enjoyed this one. I thank you and I appreciate everyone coming out catching us listening to us.

Sunny: 53:20

I hope you stayed the whole episode so you could hear this part oh, they probably fell asleep and just woke up and going what, what'd I miss?

Bruce: 53:34

oh, you got a good way of looking at everything. It's not very, it's not really that good, but okay for our listeners. We appreciate it and I like, I really like that. I called you the flock the ugly quacking ducks flock. I called you the flock the Ugly Quacking Ducks flock. You have to tell me if you like it or not, but anyhow, you're a part of our community. If you come here more than once, if you come here once, come back again and you'll be part of the community. And if you want to be a super fan in the community, then help us. Uh, send us emails, uh, help us with artwork and plans and projects and financially, we would really appreciate any financial anything that you can help us with. We really would appreciate it. But you can help us with, we really would appreciate it. But that's our value for value speech and we do thank a lot of our listeners and we hope you come back again. Above all, tell somebody else about us and pray for us. We really need both. Until next time.

Sunny: 54:49

Until next time, let's do it together, bruce.

Bruce: 54:53

All right, we're going to do it together. Everybody, thank you for being here. This is the Ugly Quickened Duck, and I'm Bruce and I'm.

Sunny: 55:02

sunny.

Bruce: 55:05

Yeah, you thought we'd forgot that, didn't you? But nope, saved it for last. Have a good rest of the week, guys and gals. People, non-people, plants, pets whoever's listening have a good day, good week, and try to take a little time out for yourself. See you later.

Sunny: 55:25

Bye.

Bruce: 55:29

Okay, bye. I shut him off too quick, didn't I? Oops, may the Father's love be with everybody. 73.