Last Penny Sale & Earthquake Summary

We track seven‑day earthquake patterns through late fall, compare them with past years, and pause on Japan and Alaska’s big shocks. Then we unpack the “last penny” story, store rounding, and how value‑for‑value keeps this show free.

• value‑for‑value model, why we avoid paywalls
• recording month cadence and how we frame seven‑day stats
• late‑season rise in total quakes and alternating big‑vs‑small pattern
• notable clusters in Japan and Alaska with 6.0+ events
• limits of pattern reading and why prediction is risky
• listener feedback request on keeping weekly quake summaries
• the final penny minting, auction results, and rounding at stores
• what billions of pennies in circulation could mean next

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Value‑For‑Value Ethos
• 1:45 Recording Month vs Calendar Month
• 3:15 Weather Check In Illinois And Phoenix
• 7:10 Studio Noise And Ham Radio Gear
• 9:10 Why Earthquake Reports Paused
• 12:40 Seven‑Day Quake Stats And Method
• 18:10 Year‑Over‑Year Patterns And Anomalies
• 30:15 Big Quakes In Japan And Alaska
• 33:10 Seasons, Cycles, And Caution
• 34:17 Control
• 35:59 Listener Feedback Request
• 36:55 News Break: The Last US Penny
• 42:19 Wrap‑Up, Thanks, And Holiday Plans
• 44:00 Value‑For‑Value Support Options
• 44:44 Until Next Time

Transcript

Capella: 0:01

Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, the worst podcast in the unknown universe. Or at least that's what some people say. We prefer to think of ourselves as charmingly rough around the edges. We're passionate about podcasting and the value-for-value model, where creators and listeners connect directly. We believe in keeping our content free and open to everyone, because who needs another paywall, right?

Bruce: 0:26

Well howdy, and welcome aboard to the ugly quacking duck podcast. I'm Bruce.

Sunny: 0:35

And I'm Sunny. Glad to have you all aboard. Join us for the next few minutes, 40 minutes, so who knows?

Bruce: 0:46

Yeah. Join us, stay with us, and if you're coming back for multiple times, thank you. And I appreciate all of you for being here and listening.

Sunny: 0:58

Yeah, we like it when you show up and listen.

Bruce: 1:03

Yeah, we do. That's important. For those of you that are in southern Illinois, it's a beautiful day today. It's uh right now, Wednesday afternoon. I'm doing a little bit of recording before I head off to work. And we promise you we would try to do a summary of the earthquakes we've had in the last month. So I'm going to do that today. This is our last episode of a recording month. Now, our recording month is slightly different than the calendar month. We actually record up until the 18th, and then it flips over to a moon noon month, and our numbers start all over. So we try to break everything up into that month instead of a calendar month.

Sunny: 1:53

Oh, you just confuse the heck out of everybody. What difference does that make?

Bruce: 2:01

Well, it doesn't most of the time for the listeners, but it means my content usually falls in between the 18th and the 18th of each month, not from the first to the 30th. So if I'm talking monthly, uh most of the time on my content, that's what I'm doing. I'm recording, setting up for my recording month, not for the calendar month. That's the only difference. Anything else you're gonna see? I use the calendar month to come back to like on my earthquakes. Anything else we do? Does that make more sense there sunny?

Sunny: 2:43

Yeah, a little bit more. I'm glad you explained that. Gee, whiz. We don't want to make everybody confused and lose them the first two minutes.

Bruce: 2:55

Well, it's only been a minute and well, it's been about three minutes. But yeah, you're right. I don't want to lose anybody that quick. Okay.

Sunny: 3:05

Yeah.

Bruce: 3:12

Okay, there we go. We got it made now. Well, while we're talking about how beautiful it is, let me describe what it's like here in southern Illinois. Uh Southern Illinois. Now, I just talked to somebody that's in Spokane, Washington. Well, I'm having trouble saying that for some reason. But Spokane, Washington today has uh, she said, very high winds, sometimes up to 70 mile an hour gusk, if you can believe that. And their temperature is right now 41 degrees. So they're not having very good weather. But like us, are you ready for the weather? Here we go.

Sunny: 3:55

I want to guess the weather is awesome.

Bruce: 4:01

Yes, it is. It is awesome. Right now it's 55 degrees as I'm recording. So this time of the recording, 55, sunny, beautiful. I've been walking around outside, the wind's not blowing real hard. It's really a nice day, guys. I feel good. I probably shouldn't be in here recording, but since it's the 17th, this is the end of my recording month. I want to get this out before all my numbers reset.

Sunny: 4:31

Okay. I like it because you come in to record, because I can come in and record with you.

Bruce: 4:39

Yep, you're right. We can do it together.

Sunny: 4:42

Of course. I feel like I'm your bud.

Bruce: 4:46

Well, I've never thought of it anyway, but I guess you could be called my recording bud.

Sunny: 4:55

Is that like an earbud?

Bruce: 4:58

Ooh, boy, I don't know. I think we'll leave that alone. But it's beautiful, and we always compare our weather to Phoenix, Arizona. So right now in Phoenix, it's 76 degrees, and this is all in Fahrenheit. The winds are light and variable, so they got clear skies, sunny, just like we do. They're quite a bit warmer than us, you know, 55, 76. What is that? About 21 degrees warmer. Boo. Okay. I just had to do that.

Sunny: 5:34

Oh yeah, you do that really well.

Bruce: 5:41

Okay. Suck up.

Sunny: 5:44

Hey, that wasn't fair and it m may be true.

Bruce: 5:49

Well, with all that said, it is beautiful today. Um they're talking about maybe another day of this. Maybe. Uh let me look real quick. I was thinking, yeah, tomorrow, Thursday, we're supposed to get thunderstorms. So the clouds will probably start rolling in late this afternoon. And then Friday is supposed to drop down, be a lot colder after that storm rolls through. And then it's supposed to come right back up to in the 50s, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and uh looks like all week, so I hope they got that right. That would be great, wouldn't it?

Sunny: 6:32

Oh, yeah, that would be awesome. And I just heard that big truck go by.

Bruce: 6:37

Yeah, and I got the window shut. I shut them. I had them open, folks. I was enjoying this warm, cool breeze coming in, giving us some refreshing air into the studio. But I learned my lesson a while back, so I shut the window when I started recording. And even then, when trucks, you know, loud big trucks go by, they me, they they rumble. And I pick that up real well. Uh I'm sorry I don't have a full uh what do you call that? Soundproof studio. It's just a room I turned in and put my ham equipment and my recording equipment in there. So when I'm not recording, I'll have my ham equipment running. Speaking of that, I um hooked up a new microphone, one of the ones I'd bought for recording on here. I hooked up the uh Q2U, I think's the name of it, the Samsung. Or Samsung, I don't know how you pronounce that. Hooked that up to the my 7300, and it really works good. It is a nice sounding rig now. It always was. But I've been looking at the new 7300, which is pretty well the same radio that I've got, but it's got a few additives, and one of the things I really was intrigued by is it has a receive antenna connection on the back. The other 7300 just has one antenna jack. So with that, I'll be able to hook up a receive antenna and knock out some of the noise and have my good transmit antenna um ready to go full power. So uh I may have to look into that.

Sunny: 8:32

Oh yeah. Radio talk, and here we go, Bruce. You're all there.

Bruce: 8:38

Yeah, well, I'll leave it alone for now because most of our listeners either don't have a clue what I'm talking about or don't care.

Sunny: 8:47

Well, that's no way to put it. They just don't care.

Bruce: 8:52

Didn't I just say that? Alright, so what are we gonna talk about? Earthquakes. I'm gonna bring everybody up to speed. I'm not gonna keep us on the recording very long, hopefully. Maybe. Who knows?

Sunny: 9:09

With you talking, Bruce, there's no telling what's gonna be. Maybe an hour long before we're all over.

Bruce: 9:17

Well, that's true, and I've been trying to keep it down to about 45 minutes each recording. That's a good time, you know, 30 minutes a little bit short to get all the stuff out that I'm trying to do, and it's a little bit l you know, not too long. If you go an hour, that's almost, you know, unless you got a really good topic that interests a lot of people, it's kinda long.

Sunny: 9:44

Oh, it's very long because you're long-winded and nobody wants to hear that for an hour.

Bruce: 9:52

Oh, well, boo. Well, now we're gonna talk a little bit about the earthquakes. Now I'm I haven't been mentioning it too much on my recordings. I've still been keeping track of it, watching it, but most people, I mean, I haven't got any response from anybody about anything. And I've been, you know, I was putting the reports on the website, and I was uh every recording updating everybody for a weekly summary, and I wasn't getting any response. No, yes, I like it, no negative, I don't like it. It was just dead air, man. It was like it was like this, you ready? And that's you know about what it was like when I'd tune in all my stuff, check my emails, listen to my recordings. So I elected not to do that much anymore. It took a lot of time out of my recording, and which I could do other things with, and without the response coming back, it felt like it was a waste of time. Now, if you're out there listening to this and you like a little bit of earthquake news each week, let me know. I don't mind doing it. In fact, I enjoy it, and I just need somebody to let me know. And I guess I'm pulling on somebody's tree trunk and it's not moving because I am not getting any responses and I'm getting downloads. I know people are out there, but they're just not wanting to comment, be partakers of the podcast. I don't know what's going on. But anyway, if you feel led to email me, send me a voice mail message, you can do that on my contact page, comment page on the website, the oldquacking duck.com. Send me a text. You can do that if you got a player that plays the 2.0 stuff because my host, BuzzSprout, actually puts a link there in the description of my episode. Just click on it, send me a text, and I'll read it off on the next episode. It's pretty simple. Email, voice recording, text. Three easy ways to do it, however you want to do it. But do it. All right, a little bit of rain there to make you feel better because it's so beautiful outside, and I don't want people to get used to that.

Sunny: 12:47

Just do it.

Bruce: 12:51

Oh boy. Can't go without this. Thank you, Sunny. That was uh uh appropriate.

Sunny: 13:04

I know. I'm such a good guy.

Bruce: 13:07

Oh, now you're calling yourself a guy.

Sunny: 13:10

It was just a phrase, Bruce. Don't quite, don't try at all to corner me, okay? I won't put up with it. I will start screaming.

Bruce: 13:25

Oh my goodness. Drama King for sure.

Sunny: 13:31

Hey, I did a good job. I was proud of that. That was good acting.

Bruce: 13:36

Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, you're getting better for sure.

Sunny: 13:41

No, I've always been good. I'm just letting you in on it, see.

Bruce: 13:46

Oh, is that what it is?

Sunny: 13:48

Oh yeah.

Bruce: 13:51

Okay, well, let's get back to it, okay? Earthquakes. We haven't been reporting on it, but I've been keeping track. So going back and looking at the numbers for like the middle of November, which we figured that'd be about the 14th. That was when uh I did my seven-day report in the paper, not on the uh podcast. Uh, we went back and started looking at them. And what I started noticing was um there was a little bit of increase on the overall earthquakes, which what what we do, we figure out all the earthquakes. There's a way to do that on the earthquake reporting site. Then we figure out the 2.5 and the 4.5, and then anything six and above, we write that down. And I figure out the percentage of overall all earthquakes for that seven-day period against a ten thousand amount. So I just made that up. I could have made a hundred thousand, but ten thousand, every now and then we get over ten thousand. Not very often, it's not happening much at all, but every now and then we do. So I use that as a number. So if we hit over that, we get over a hundred percent. Anything under is, you know, under. So uh what I noticed was for from the middle of November to now, it's well, m actually the twelfth was the last uh reporting on here. But it looks like the overall amounts has slightly increased. Not a lot, but slightly, because we was averaging about twenty percent, anywhere, you know, twenty-twenty-one percent for the overall magnitudes for the last few months, and then starting in November, it looks like it increased up to twenty-two percent, and twenty-five percent, twenty-four percent, twenty back down to twenty-one percent. That was for in November, and then in December it went up and it hit twenty-one, twenty-seven percent. So it's increased at the end of the year, which surprises me. So basically what I'm saying is the total amount of earthquakes for that seven-day period was like on the fourteenth, it was twenty-two thirty-one. So we started on the four fourteenth and went backwards seven days, or actually w the day the the formula starts seven days prior to the fourteenth and goes all the way up to the fourteenth. In those seven-day period, there was two thousand two hundred and thirty-one earthquakes, which if you take that to against a ten thousand top and it figure it in, get your formula, your percentage, it actually increased to twenty-two point three percent, which is not much of an increase. But each week was a little bit of an increase. Like the next week was twenty-five point three percent, and then the next one was twenty-four point six. So for some weird reason, towards the end of the month, it started increasing. Now I don't know if that's a phenomenon that happens every year, because I haven't been doing this every year. I've I've just now started keeping track. I think it was in July when I started doing that. I'd go back and look. But just now seeing this increase. And on the 14th, there was a slight increase of the seven-day. Let me go back figure explain this. I went back seven years back twenty eighteen and I do the same thing and then I thought, wait a minute, the numbers is kind of weird. I went back twenty nineteen, I went back several years around the eighteenth to see how the numbers did, and they was lousy as far as earthquake numbers. And then I noticed 2019 actually had a little bit more activity than 2018. And I thought, well, that's weird, because I've got to know some most seven-day reports that I did, the numbers would increase, and then you would have a higher amount of 2.5 earthquakes, but a lower amount of four point five, which includes the six oh and over earthquakes. Then you'd have a lower two point five, but a higher four point five, so it's about every other seven days. And it kind of kinda falls at not very tightly, it's kind of loosely, so I I'm not hit exactly what we need to be looking at. But what I discovered was seven years it seems to do the same thing. But twenty nineteen is not seven years back, it's six, right? And what it I thought, well, wait a minute, if it's got a little bit higher numbers maybe next year, which is twenty twenty six. Is going to have more activity, which is not a good thing.

Sunny: 20:06

You can say that again. You're going to have everybody scared what you're doing.

Bruce: 20:12

No, I just thought it was kind of weird. I'm not saying that I know anything. I'm just saying, you know, when you're looking at numbers that already happened, it's pretty easy to pick out some kind of weird pattern and make, you know, kind of uh estimate. Uh doesn't mean it's going to happen, and who knows? If I could figure something out and tell you when the earthquake's going to be or what size it's going to be, that would be cool. But all this information is previous. It's already happened. It's kind of like, oh yeah, like watching a storm go by and then getting on the radio and go, hey, we just had a storm three hours ago. It's kind of over with then, right?

Sunny: 20:55

Very, very, very true.

Bruce: 20:59

Well, thank you for that.

Sunny: 21:02

You are so welcome.

Bruce: 21:07

Do you want to tell them what we did last night?

Sunny: 21:11

Yeah, that was cool. All right. Share. All right. Bruce and the family sat down and finished watching Stranger Things. They had started episode one of season five about whenever it came out, that first night, which is what, a month ago? I don't know, man. I don't remember. But, you know, they uh well go ahead and tell them, Bruce, you do better.

Bruce: 21:43

Well, I don't know about that, but what we did was we watched that first episode when it came out originally of season five, and I went, What? I don't understand. Where'd that come from? What happened? Where I felt like I had missed the show before because it had been so long since they'd done the last episode that I had forgot almost every bit of it. So we went back and re-watched season one all the way to through season four, which took us a while. And then once we did that, we re-watched season five, episode one, and then the rest of them. And it made so much better sense, and it was actually enjoyable. I picked up on a lot of stuff that I had not previously noticed, um, kind of hints of what was going to happen or what's going on, and um I wasn't disappointed then when I got to season five, and I'm hoping the rest of season five will be just as good. I think this is the last season for this show, and uh I have a lot of questions, and I hope they're not like all the other shows that you um you get 90% of your questions answered, but there's always a few that they don't seem to bring them together for a good answer. They just kind of leave it out there hanging, and I hope they have a good ending because I've only seen over the years a couple shows that actually come to fulfillment at the end, and it actually felt good. It actually, you know, left you with a good story, a good hero, and it, you know, it didn't take it away. These shows nowadays they they build you up, they build this hero up, and then they kill everybody off. Or they end it in such a way that it just leaves a terrible taste in your mouth. And I hate it when they do that.

Sunny: 23:53

Yeah, you do. I've heard you gripe.

Bruce: 23:57

All right, that's enough of that. So back to the earthquake report. So the numbers from 2019 are a little bit higher. Now I'm talking overall numbers, are a little bit higher, but also I noticed that the the 6.0 and above numbers, they they had seemed like a little bit more 6.0 earthquakes each seven-day report. Now it wasn't every one of them, but it was a lot of them. Like um, I'll give you an example. In September the 7th for 25, there was one 6.0 earthquake. Now I'm talking magnitude, 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Alaska, and that was it. On 2019, same date, 9.7, there was one 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Fiji. But on 917 or 9.7, 2018, which is six years back. Did I get that backwards? Yeah, I got that backwards. I'm sorry. Alright, I got that backwards, but there was three in the following year. And I move on up to um November. And we'll go back to the 14th. November had the 14th, three 6.0 magnitude earthquakes for 1114-25. 18, 1114, 18 had three six point oh earthquakes, and then 1114-2019, which is six years back, had four, which is not a big difference, but it just seems almost like there's a pattern. If you go to 21, 1121, 25, we only had none, no 6.0 and over. And that doesn't mean there wasn't earthquakes. There was uh 25,000, 2534 earthquakes, which average, or not average, the percentage is twenty-five point three, which is higher than you know, normal. And that's goes back to that real weird uh instance where we got more earthquakes but less six point oh. Now 1121 18, 2018, which is seven years back, we had one, two, three, four, four six point oh earthquakes. And the numbers were starting to increase for overall earthquakes, which we had at 28.3. And then on 1121, 2019, we had one, two, three, four, five. We had five, one more, which is no big deal, it's just one, right? But if that one happens to be huge, like a seven point one in Indonesia, which it was, then that's not good because it's going to be crashing a lot of things, hurting people, killing people. And if this is uh a seven-day period, like it's a seven-day period, then we may see some bad things happening in twenty twenty-six. Don't know. But I'll give you another example. If you go to 1128, we had two 6.0 earthquakes in 25. In 2018, there was one. But in 2019, there was one, two, three, four. So strange. So we'll have to see what happens now. In uh 12 December the 5th, 2025, we had 06.0 earthquakes again, and the totals went back down to 21.6 percent for total uh um all earthquake magnitudes, which is about where they normally are running, 20, 24 or 20, 21 percent somewhere, 22, but right in that area. Although in December the 5th, 2018, there was a huge increase. We ended up doing 6,268 earthquakes all magnitude back in 2018, which gave us a 62.7 percent. I don't know what happened that day or that week in 2018, but there was a huge increase, and they had one, two, three, four, five, six point and above uh earthquakes for that period of time in 2018. And one of them was a 7.1 in Alaska, which is not good, and there's a 7.5 in New Calonia and a 6.6 in New Caldenia. So there's some huge earthquakes in that time period. So we're not exactly now if you you're figuring seven years to the date, it's not falling that way. But if you turn around and look at twelve twelve twenty-five, which is the following seven days, again, twelve five only had zero six point zero earthquakes, and then we move up seven more days, twelve twelve, and do that count, and we have one, two, three, four, four six point oh and above earthquakes, one of them being a seven point six in Japan. So on twelve twelve that week, that seven-day week, you count back seven days, we had a seven point six in Japan, a six point six in Japan, and a six point seven in Japan. And then we also had a seven point oh in Hubbard Glacier earthquake, and I have no idea what that means, why they named it that, but that's upper by Alaska, um, that area that keeps getting hammered all the time. Which I find that's really strange, really, really strange. And I don't know what's going on there. I really don't. So, with that said, I want to go back to the 11, 14, 25, um, seven-week report. Japan got hammered back then too. They had a 6.8, a 6.4, and a 6.0 uh in that order. The 6.0 was the first one that got hammered, and then the 6.4 and the 6.0. So the aftershocks they were slowly decreasing. And if I went and hunted that up, I would say they had some smaller activity ones right before that 6.8 happened. Same way with 1212, that seven-day report. Again, Japan had 7.6, a 6.6, and a 6.7 in that order. Um, so they had aftershocks after they had that 7.6. So we need to pray for them. Need to pray for uh all that earthquake. I don't know if you heard that. Uh that was seven days, almost seven days ago. Friday will be the seventh day, and I'll be writing down another seven-day report this Friday. Um well, not this Friday. I'll be going to work, I'll have to look it up later. I just wanted to give you them numbers, and I thought that was weird how December the 5th, uh, seven years ago, had some kind of weird influx in numbers, and I don't know what that means, but there there was a big jump in percentages. And every now and then we have that, and it looks like the week after this week, or not this week, this last seven-day week, it increased in 2025. So maybe it was just slower to react this seven-year period. Who knows? We'll just have to keep this up and we'll get back with you during the process and we'll see what next year brings. Now, I don't think the years start um where we do calendar years, because I think it goes with the moon uh and the moon stages and the seasons. So we're getting ready to enter into December 21st, which is the beginning of winter. And uh once we get out of that and get into springtime, I think we're gonna see the new year starting out. So um that's where we're gonna be. Um that's gonna make changes too, and I think that's why maybe why we're seeing these changes now, is because we're entering into that winter time in the this last part of this year. We don't know.

Sunny: 34:16

You said that twice now. You don't know. Why are you talking about it? You know, in some countries, they're wanting to make you get some kind of certificate or proof that you are qualified to talk about it.

Bruce: 34:33

Yeah. Don't get me started on that because that is just control waiting to happen. I know a lot of people think, well, that's good. That way you don't have all that people out there talking about stuff they shouldn't be talking about. But uh, aren't we allowed to talk? That's why God gave us our voices. Now, maybe we shouldn't be saying some of the things we say, but I don't think it should be controlled by the government what we say. And yeah, if you're gonna produce a doctor type podcast or radio show or anything like that where you're gonna pretend like you're a doctor, you need to have them qualifications. But if I'm just gonna mention it and tell you I don't know, I don't think I need to have them qualifications. I think that's just control, folks. Control. Control.

Sunny: 35:29

All right. I just wanted to bring that up because I wanted to get you excited.

Bruce: 35:36

Yeah, get me on my soapbox, and I'm sure our listeners would love that.

Sunny: 35:42

Oh yeah. They like it. They like it when I talk, Bruce.

Bruce: 35:47

Okay. Okay, well, if you say so, I'm not gonna agree or disagree because I don't want to. Well, we're gonna call it quits on the earthquake report. So if you enjoyed that, let me know. And if you don't want to ever hear it again, let me know. But if somebody lets me know, that's the way it'll go. And if nobody lets me know go. If nobody lets me know, then I'll just do it again later on. There you go. What do you think about that?

Sunny: 36:22

I don't even know what you just said.

Bruce: 36:25

That means my listeners don't either.

Sunny: 36:28

You're right. Nobody knows. But nobody knows.

Bruce: 36:35

Okay, Sunny, don't sing to me.

Sunny: 36:38

Oh, why not? You love my singing.

Bruce: 36:42

Nope, I don't, honestly. I don't like my singing either. Well, you know I can't not do a recording, so anytime I do it, I like to kick in one, at least one, news article that I found on the internet and share it with you. Sometimes I like to go in depth and talk about it and you know, poo-poo it, but you know, I'm not gonna do that m all the time.

Sunny: 37:19

Oh no, you're not gonna do it 99.9% all the time.

Bruce: 37:28

I'm not sure what you just said, but yeah, okay. For you guys out there listening, like I said, I like to give a little bit of a news report. So today I'm gonna talk a little bit about the penny. Really? Everybody knows the penny, right? You know that they they're quitting production of the penny because it costs so much to make it. So this is the last year for the pennies being made. In fact, they just minted the last bunch, and that's that what news article I want to talk about. Yep. The last bunch has been minted, and uh let me get that news article up and I'll just tell you about it. It's found on is found on ABC News page, and it's called a pretty penny. Last US cents sales for 16.7 million. You heard me right. They minted the last penny, and the grouping of them, they sold off, and they added it all up, and it was sixteen point seven million. Good grief. Um I'll have pictures on my uh if you watch the or listen to the podcast on a 2.0 player, you'll see chapters. Click on the chapters, and you can see um it'll take you to this section, but you don't even have to click on it. They'll bring up a picture and I'll have that penny on there. But it's uh omega circulating penny, um, which is the penny, and it's got a little omega thing underneath the Liberty. But they sold them, let me see if I can find it down here. I read it just a while ago, how much they sold. Each trio of coin coins sold for an average of rarely lot value of over seventy-two thousand dollars, and the final set, number two hundred thirty-two, sold for eight hundred thousand, as it includes the very last circulating penny from Philadelphia and Denver, and the final gold omega penny. So they quit minting pennies because it was too expensive, but they made the last one of gold. Good grief, guys. Really? And then they m sold them for s this world's crazy. Speaking of that though, have you not noticed already people are quitting businesses, I say, or stopping any penny intake. They're not wanting to take your pennies, they're not wanting to um give your pennies back when they they're rounding everything off. Yeah, they really are. I know the business I work at, there's a sign in the window. We are rounding, and then they give the formula. You know, it's so much they round down, so much they round up. So what ends up happening is you may lose a couple pennies in the business, and there's not much you can do about it unless you just refuse. But people are gonna quit keeping pennies. Now that brought me to the conclusion of what's going on, because you know they've been minting pennies every year for years, since 1793, I believe. And yeah, the penny was first minted in 1793. There you go. They've been minting them every year since then. And there is estimated, ready? Here you go. Estimated 250 or 300, no. 250 to 300 billion pennies in circulation. But they're gonna quit using them. I think people are jumping to the gun. So what's gonna happen? People are gonna see the stores are no longer gonna take them, so they're gonna start hoarding them and hope they get worth more and more money, and they may, I don't know, but it's gonna take a while. But it's getting crazy, guys. 250 to 300 billion pennies still left in circulation, and they're gonna stop taking them. What do you think about that? Yeah. Anyhow, this is Bruce. And I'm Suddy. And we are gonna end this episode. We are happy that you come here, and I hope you stuck it out with us, and if you did, let me know. I want to hear something from you guys, alright? Be a participant in our podcast. I can't say it any better than that. That's what I want.

Sunny: 42:43

Yeah. He said it. Sticking to it, buddy.

Bruce: 42:49

Yeah. Sorry about the podcast episode this time around. I ha got tongue-tied a lot and I've lost my place a lot, but it's because I'm hurrying, trying to get it recorded before I head to work, so I can get it uploaded to my hosting page and get it set before the 18th. I may not even have time to go back and edit it. It's I'm running really low on time, but that's that's what's happening. Usually I have my notes and I have time to pause it and take time, you know, and catch my breath and stuff and not be hurried. And this I I shouldn't have tried to do it, but I was running out of time. And I wanted to do the you know, the report for the earthquakes before the uh recording month ended. So I got that done. And I'm gonna say goodbye. We're gonna leave it with you. We're gonna say bye right after we get done saying our value for value with uh Capella. So here we go.

Capella: 44:05

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Bruce: 44:43

All right. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you for listening to us, and thank you for participating. We hope you come back, and we hope you have a good Christmas. Christmas is right around the corner, and uh, I don't know what how we're gonna handle Christmas and New Year's. Um we'll give you something, but I don't know if it's gonna be a very long recording. Haven't decided where we're gonna be and what we're gonna do and what work's gonna do. So we'll just leave you hanging for now. But 73 guys, may the Father's blessings and love be with you always. Bye.

Sunny: 45:23

Bye, everybody. This is Sunny 73, and I love you. Bye.