The Fire Horse

Start with a smile and stay for the substance—we pair the spark of the Fire Horse year with a hands-on guide to listening smarter, supporting freely, and joining a community that talks back. We kick off with the Chinese zodiac, comparing traits for Tiger, Rat, Snake, and Dragon and unpacking what cultural archetypes offer beyond fortune-cookie fate. The result is a grounded take on identity and timing, with a dash of humor and a nod to global celebrations.

From there, we get practical. We walk through how podcast 2.0 apps make following easier, auto-downloads safer for commutes, and feedback faster with built-in messaging and boosts. You’ll hear exactly where to find our episodes, how to send a quick text or voice note, and simple ways to support through Buy Me a Tea, PayPal, sats on Lightning, or Cash App. Our site ties it together with early posts, photos, and a SpeakPipe button that turns a hello into something we can share on-air.

We also deliver a crisp seven-day earthquake report: totals across magnitudes, a trio of 6.0+ events including a 7.1 near Malaysia, and context along the seismically active arcs. Then we look up—sunspots are rebounding, a recent CME points to a likely G1 geomagnetic storm, and radio conditions are shifting in ways hams and skywatchers will notice. On the spacefront, Artemis slips again, but there’s a bright human touch: NASA now lets astronauts bring smartphones to the station, promising more personal photos and video from orbit.

If you value open shows without paywalls, this one’s for you. Follow on your favorite player, try a podcast 2.0 app for extra features, share the episode with a friend, and send us a message or boost to shape what we explore next. Your voice fuels the flock—subscribe, leave a review, and tell us your zodiac sign and why it fits.

Transcript

Welcome

Bruce 0:00

What year is it anyway?

Capella 0:03

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 0:25

Hello again, everyone from the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, and welcome aboard. I'm glad you're part of our show today. And we are on episode 138.

Sunny 0:39

Yay, 138. We're rockin' and rollin'. And I am Sunny, and I want to welcome everybody aboard the show. Yay!

Bruce 0:53

Welcome. All right, Sunny, and I am Bruce, in case you don't know, and we are the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, as I've already stated. And welcome aboard. Again, this is episode 138 titled The Fire Horse. And we are broadcasting and recording at the same time in our studio in the Midwest, Southern Illinois. So welcome everybody from Illinois. Welcome everybody from the world. Yes, and from everybody from the unknown universe. Glad to have you all here.

Sunny 1:36

Oh yeah. I think we forgot the United States. So hello everybody from the United States.

Bruce 1:45

All right, there we go. I think we covered every bit of it and some. So, Bruce, what have you been up to lately? Well, not much. That same old stuff. Just trying to get life, you know, by in life. Going to work sometimes and staying home sometimes. But the weather's been really crummy, so I haven't been doing a lot. It's been cold again.

Sunny 2:13

Yeah, it has.

Bruce 2:14

It's been yeah, it has. But it is better now. It is actually hitting uh today it was uh right up below sixty. Um it's dropped down to fifty-three now because the sun's gone down, so it's you know, not really great, but it's not very bad.

Sunny 2:40

Hey, it's end of February and we're hitting fifty-eight. That's really good.

Bruce 2:47

Well, yeah, but it's could be bad because we're gonna ba pay for that in a couple different ways. Either the temperature's gonna drop really low again, or spring's gonna come early and we're gonna have a bunch of storms.

Why “The Fire Horse” Year Matters

Sunny 3:03

Look at you, you negative nanny.

Bruce 3:08

Yeah, I shouldn't do that. Hey, it's gonna be great. This is gonna be a good year, the weather's gonna be good, nobody's gonna have any problems, and we are gonna fly straight.

Sunny 3:19

Well, I don't know if you're gonna fly straight, but I am.

Bruce 3:23

All right, smart aleck.

Sunny 3:26

Well, I could be, but I won't be.

Bruce 3:29

All right, well, we'll leave that right where that was at.

Sunny 3:33

So tell me again what you named this episode.

Bruce 3:37

This episode is called The Fire Horse, and that was named uh along with the beginning of sentence or question or phrase that I used to start the show.

Sunny 3:53

Oh, I remember you said, okay, what year is it anyway? So what year is it anyway?

Bruce 4:04

Oh, that was a little bit of good emphasis on that uh question. Uh yeah, that's what I said, and basically what I was getting at is on February the 17th, uh they ushered in the new year, and this is from the Chinese zodiac, and they started this celebration, they kicked it off on February 17th with the new moon, and they're gonna have 15 days of festivities, and then they're gonna end it with the lantern festival, and I guess they get uh around 9.5 billion trips for that 40-day travel rush around that holiday, so it's a big deal in China, and it would be neat to see. I uh wish I could find it somewhere on TV. I probably could if I looked at if I had that kind of uh program running, but yeah. The the horse year is a seventh annual animal, seventh animal in the 12-year zodiac cycle, and it symbolizes ready for this energy, independence, and ambition.

Sunny 5:25

All right, Bruce, you gotta tell me I'm curious now. What is your zodiac sign or your year? Um, a donkey?

Bruce 5:41

Yeah, I forgot to remove him buttons from your power.

Sunny 5:46

Yeah, isn't it a bummer when you realize that I've got the power?

Bruce 5:53

Well, it's not that bad. You don't overdo it ever.

Sunny 6:00

I hear a little bit of sarcasm in your voice.

Bruce 6:04

Uh, can you see it on my face?

Sunny 6:06

Oh yeah, you got your eyebrows scrunched up looking at me.

Exploring Chinese Zodiac Traits

Bruce 6:12

There you go. But hey, it's all in fun and games. And it just so happens, Sunny, I looked that up. They have a link on that article I read that has the uh calculator, and I'll include it link in my chapter titles. But I looked it up according to my birthdate and year, and I'm a tiger. And I'll no, don't don't know laughing I know people can't believe that, but I'm gonna read what they say that I am as a tiger. The tiger personality is fiercely independent, confident, and bold. Tigers are cr charismatic, enthusiastic by nature, although these big cats are usually not gregarious and always seem to possess an endless infection infectious energy that keep others engaged, especially as leaders at work. Wow, I'm not gonna read any more. I bet if I uh went and picked some other ones out and read them, they'll have very similar qualities and traits. There'll probably be one or two traits that show up more or less. But uh yeah. They write those horoscopes to to fit big spances of people. Anyhow, that is mine. I'm a tiger, but the tiger doesn't show up again for uh several years. The tiger shows up again in 2034, I do believe. And they are calling it a wood tiger that year. Interesting. There you go. Chinese zodiac, um just two of the animals, but they have many more. You want me to read them? Yeah, let's do that. Alright, the first one on the list is a rat. Oh boy, I'm I don't even know if I want to read that one. Then the ox, then the tiger, then a rabbit, a dragon, a snake, the horse. That's what year we're in right now, the goat, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig.

Sunny 8:42

Oh, Bruce, go back and read the rat. I know everybody wants to hear what that one is.

Bruce 8:49

Well, the that's easier said than done. Um I would have to know a date. Um I don't know if there's a place where I could look that up. I'll have to see if I can hang on. I'll see if I can find it. All right, I found it. It wasn't as hard as I thought. Okay, the year of the rat. The rat is the first in the 12 year cycle of the Chinese zodiac. The years of the rat include 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, and 2032. Those born in these years are believed to be full of vitality and spirituality, highly intelligent, vigilant, meticulous in thinking, and remarkably adaptable in various situations.

Sunny 9:48

Wow, that's not what I was thinking at all, Bruce. Wow.

Bruce 9:54

I know, right? Uh that was not what I would have lent for that, but uh again, we're talking about the Chinese symbolism, not what Americans think of uh uh of them animals and why they picked that. So wow, yeah, that's pretty cool. And it has some similar uh discussions like my sign did, however, it's really not like it at all. So I'm impressed. I may have to go look up another one because that one's impressed me.

Sunny 10:27

Oh, I think we should while we're on it, you know. That's what the podcast is for, doing stuff like that.

Bruce 10:34

You are right. Yep. We like to do abnormal s abnormal stuff, so let's do that. Let's pick another one.

Sunny 10:42

Oh, I want to pick the snake. That's a pretty cool one.

Bruce 10:47

All right, the snake it is. All right, the snake is the sixth in the twelve year cycle of the Chinese zodiac sign. The years of the snake include nineteen seventeen, nineteen twenty nine, nineteen forty one, nineteen fifty three, nineteen sixty five, nineteen seventy seven, nineteen eighty nine, two thousand one, twenty thirteen, twenty twenty five, and twenty thirty seven. People born in these years are considered rational, calm, thoughtful, and loyal to the loved ones. Wow. That's unlike the other two I read. That's kind of cool.

Sunny 11:35

I'm liking these signs. This is awesome. And there's twelve of 'em. Do we dare do all twelve?

Bruce 11:43

Probably not. It would take way too much time. Um be able to I need to start doing this live again and ha get people to participate and they could tell me what they want to do and what they want to hear. That'd be fun.

Sunny 11:58

Oh yeah, we haven't done a live in what, a year or two? We need to do that. We need to find up a good place to host the live that we can have conversations and chats, and then we can just take that recording and put it on the podcast.

Bruce 12:19

Yeah, it's easier said than done. That's why I quit doing it, because I had to run three different programs to run a live. That way I could have a live chat at the same time, and I did all that, and I had two participants the whole time I was doing the live shows. Yeah, I know. I was just starting out, and uh it was kind of disappointing because, you know, trying to keep all that together, if I could have found a better, faster, easier way, I would have kept it up and built up a better uh community, but that's another story, and I'm sticking to it.

Sunny 13:01

Let's do one more, Bruce. Just one more.

Bruce 13:04

All right, I'll agree to that. One more. Let's see. I get to pick this one. Let's do the dragon. Dragons are cool.

Sunny 13:12

And I'm gonna say it's gonna be nothing like neither one of us think it will be.

Bruce 13:18

Yep, I agree with you. It's not gonna be. All right, the dragon. The year of the dragon is called uh Lug Long L O O N G. I don't know how to pronounce that, but that's what they also call it. It is the fifth in the twelve year cycle of the Chinese zodiac sign. The years of the dragon include nineteen sixteen, nineteen twenty-eight, nineteen forty, nineteen fifty-two, nineteen sixty-four, nineteen seventy-six, nineteen eighty eight, two thousand, twenty twelve, twenty twenty four. Them are pretty good years. Um I remember some of those and some things that happened. Them are pretty good years. Now I was not born on those years. That's why I'm not a dragon.

Sunny 14:14

Yeah, it's obvious you're not a dragon.

Bruce 14:17

Chinese dragon is de facto an emerge imaginary animal. I wish I could talk. Also the only fictitious creature in the twelve zodiac animals, which is composed of nine animals, including the body of a snake, the horns of a deer, the head of an ox, the mouth of a crocodile, the claws of an eagle, and the scales of a fish. The dragon enjoys a very high reputation in Chinese culture, and it represents an auspicious and imperial power since ancient times. Chinese people regard themselves as the descendants of the Chinese dragon and emperors entitled themselves exclusively as the dragon. It is a token of authority, dignity, honor, success, luck, and capacity. And I'm not sure it's really an imaginary animal. Um there are history uh books that talk about the dragon, and you know they may have called dinosaurs dragons or dragons dinosaurs. Uh you could go either way, but to say it's an imaginary animal is to say that we know everything about our history. We do not. And if you guys are excuse me, interested in any more of that Chinese zodiac signs, then just go on your nearest search engine, type in Chinese zodiac signs, and you'll find several pages dedicated to those. I happen to find a Chi travel Chin China uh let me get this back to in order. A travel China Guide page that has them listed. So that is pretty cool.

Sunny 16:30

I really enjoyed that, Bruce. That was fun.

How To Listen And Support

Bruce 16:34

Yes, it was. It was very fun. I enjoyed it too, and I hope every one of our listeners enjoyed that. Speaking of listeners.

Sunny 16:43

Yeah.

Bruce 16:44

Well, I've been talking a lot about our podcast. When I go out and stop somewhere, I'll say, hey, look this up. So they'll look up our web page and our podcast. And I I'm hoping that we get some new listeners that way. Um, so in other words, I've been pushing it quite a bit.

Sunny 17:06

Well, good for you. We need to do that.

Bruce 17:09

I agree. We need to do that. So, with that said, what I'd like to do now is take a moment and kind of describe where and what to do uh while you're listening to the podcast. Well, first of all, um you need to be listening to our podcasts. Every episode. Hopefully, some of them will hit you home and some of them may not, but just fast forward through those if you'd like. But to listen to our podcast, you're already doing that, but you may not have settled into a specific way. So let's help you with that. I use Podcast Guru, that is an app on my phone where I can listen to it while I work, while I'm driving, whatever, and it don't have video, so you don't have to worry about it taken away from what you're looking at. We are found on Apple and Spotify, uh, many other apps, so just look for us in your favorite player and start playing us. Follow us, subscribe, however, that app works, do it.

Sunny 18:30

Bruce, how come you're going through all this? It's kind of simple, isn't it?

Bruce 18:35

Well, it is for us because we've been doing it for quite a while, but you know, somebody that's new to the podcast scene, uh, they may have just found our podcast, but they don't know exactly how they want to listen to it. It's kind of new to them. That's the people we're talking to.

Sunny 18:53

Oh, okay, that makes more sense.

Bruce 18:56

Well, I'm glad I can make more sense for you there, Sunny.

Sunny 18:59

Well, thanks, Bruce. I'm glad you can.

Website, Comments, And Sats

Bruce 19:02

All right, back to listening to the podcast. So um, whatever app you're using, wherever you're listening to it, uh, you need to listen to it on an app that does 2.0 podcasting because it has a certain pluses or advantages to that app. And I'm going to talk about podcast guru, because that's the one I use. I have very many podcasts that I listen to, and I'm I left a list on my details. So back to podcast guru, that's the one I use. So if you go to it and you do a search and type in my name, the ugly quacking duck, it will pull it up. You hit support or follow um whatever podcasting app you're using. It has different words, but you want to subscribe to it. Most of them will also give you the chance. If you go to the settings, you can click on automatic download, and you can automatically download um whatever podcast you want when it comes out with a new episode. So it's already there. I like doing that. That way I can drive and not have to worry about a connection. So when I'm home and I'm on wireless, it downloads all the new episodes that come in, which usually it checks at night, and then the next morning I have the new podcast. So that's kind of cool. So then if you uh click on the duck, there's a big picture, it's a banner that I have on my podcast. Every one of them's got one. Um, it brings up my page, and then if you click on one of the episodes that's listed, it will give you details about that episode. And then in there, there's a click here, text us and get a shout-out next episode. That is in a highlighted lined uh sentence. If you click on that, then you can send us a text. That's one of the reasons you need to use a newer uh version app because they have that ability. A lot of the old ones do not. And Apple does. If you like Apple, it'll have that listing too. There's very many ways to listen to our podcast. You can actually go to our uh home uh uh listing, which is on our hosting page, which is Buzz Sprout, and there's a shortcut to get to that, and it lists all our podcast episodes, and it also has that link on it. Uh you can also, this is another way to do it, go to the ugly quacking duck.com. There is several pages on that, and we'll go over that real quick. But you come up to the home page and it talks about our podcast. Uh we have pictures and occasionally we change them out, not very often, but we do. And if you'll look at the top or the left side of the home page, it lists the pages. So you can go, we do a post an early episode. Uh that's where we post stuff that's happening. We don't very do very many posts, but we had a picture, a video of snow coming down this winter. And odds and ends like that. I got a picture of ghost or cat that we lost, and we kind of stuck it up there. There's also a poem by Pastor Martin Numola uh about communism. Uh you need to read that. It's about the Holocaust. But uh there's uh several different things, but what we do mainly with this posting section is we will post a new episode. We try to do it at least a few hours earlier than when it comes live on our hosting page. That way you can uh actually read what the episode is about, and then you can also listen to it. It's kind of neat. There's also a podcast episode page you can click on which lists all the episodes, and you can just click on the player and play it. Now, this does not give you the advantage to text us on this uh link. You have to be on a player, a 2.0 app that plays them. So if you want to do that, you have to go look for it. But this gives you a list of all our episodes there. And the main reason we have this web page is to l link our community together so we can have comments, uh, email us, and we'll give you that here in a minute. But if you go to the comment page, you can type out a comment on on there and hit submit, and it should come up to us. But what the best part of this comment page is there is a recording. I use speakpipe, and you can click on that, start recording, and if you have a microphone, if you're on your phone or if you're on a computer with a microphone, it will allow you to record a short burst message. So you can say, hi, this is blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever you want to say. And I can actually play that back on the next episode. Now, if you don't want that to happen, you better tell me. Better leave that in the message. And while you're on our website, I advise everybody to go check it out. There is a page that says support our podcast, and it talks about value for value, what that's about, and then it gives you very a very um good amount of able places that you can support us. Um, you can do it by clicking here to buy me a T. There's a PayPal you can click there. You can also send us SATS. Uh if you're not familiar with that, then don't worry about it. But if you are, I've got it set for the uh row of ducks 2222. So it comes out to it's according to what the uh Bitcoin's running at the time, but anywhere from $1.40 or up to $247. It's it's not very expensive. If you've got some Bitcoin, that's a good way to show your support. And then below that, you can send cash with the cash app. Um, that's how you can support us financially, but we would like you to support us by telling us you're out there, by following us, by giving us comments, by sharing. If you share the podcast with other people, that is a big help. So there's a lot of ways you can be part of the family. Think about it, okay? All right, one other thing I'd like to cover. If you go back to your app, uh, like I said, I use Podcast Guru. There's a lot of apps out there. Make sure you get one that's a 2.0. Uh they uh have a lot more abilities. And one of them is the support button. It's just like the one on my web page, but it's on uh if you're on the podcast page or the podcast link on one of those apps, there is a lightning bolt. And if you click on the lightning bolt, it will bring up the option to be able to put sats on my episode and put a comment with it, which is a really good plus. But now you have to have a node or a wallet with some sats in it to be able to do that, and you have to have it listed on your app your app. So do all that to do it. If you don't want to do that, then you can go to our webpage. We made it easy so you can do cash, PayPal, buy me a tea. That's a really neat program. So check all that out. It's all available to you, and we want you to be part of us, part of the show, and support us.

Sunny 28:13

Well, Bruce, I don't know what to think about that. That's a lot of talking.

Bruce 28:21

Well, I hope I didn't bore everybody to death, but hopefully the new listeners that I am bringing in will catch this episode and catch some of that information. Um, we definitely value our listeners. We want their feedback, we want them to tell us what's going on and share with us, and we would like them to support us too. But if you don't want to do any of that, but you still want to listen, that'd be great. Follow us. Hit subscribe, follow whatever your app does, and be part of the show.

Earthquake Trends This Week

Sunny 29:05

All right, so Bruce decided to stop the recording last night and start it back up this morning. Well, actually, about this afternoon. That way we could do the earthquake report seven day and be right on time.

Bruce 29:27

That's correct, Sunny, and thank you for telling everybody what we were doing. Yeah, we uh basically stopped and postponed the earthquake report until the next day, which now we're recording on Friday the 27th, which is a seven days from the last report. So we are ready and on time. So without further ado, I'm gonna give you the earthquake report for the last seven days, starting on the 20th up to today, the 27th. So we had a total of 2,068 earthquakes. That's all magnitudes, which gave us a 20.68%. Then we had 428, 2.5 and over earthquakes, which was a little bit higher than what they'd been, not too much, because we were running around last week 386, the week before 432. So it's right in the same ballpark. So we had 20, 428, which gives us 20.70 percent, and then the seven-day 4.5 and over magnitude earthquakes run 106 altogether, which gave us a 5.13 percent, which is about what we've been averaging. It's been lower the last few months, which is a good sign, I hope. Although, let's cover the 6.0 and above earthquakes, because that's the ones I list.

Sunny 31:15

Yeah, that's the one that's worse. They're more dangerous than everyone uh all the others, right, Bruce?

Bruce 31:22

That's true. I mean, earthquakes are dangerous, period, even if they're small, if they keep happening, but the larger ones, 6.0 and uh above, are really dangerous, and we had three of those this last week. We had a 6.0 in the Fiji Islands, and then we had a 7.1 in Malaysia. It happened on 222, and it that was a big one. I don't know if anybody heard about that. That's been a few days ago, but it it was a big one, and then we had a six point one in Alaska, and it was on the tip of that little peninsula points over towards Russia. Uh that whole line there has earthquakes a lot, and then it it kind of curves around and down towards the south, and that's where Malaysia got hit. So it's uh earthquake alley is what we could call it.

Sunny 32:28

I'm not sure that's what they call that, but that's a good name, Bruce.

Sunspots, Flares, And Radio

Artemis Delays And Moon Plans

Bruce 32:32

Well, thank you. I just never mind. All right, to give everybody a little bit of solar activity reports. We had been running with zero, yes, that's true, zero sunspots, but we are starting to build back up today. We have 43 sunspots, which if you're not sure what that is, go look it up. I'm not gonna take time out to explain it today because I'm shalling on down. But we had 43 today, which is um starting to increase, which gives us more chances of flares and magnetic waves hitting the earth when they erupt. We had a C3 and a C6 flare last couple days, which is um getting up there, but they're still minor. But we did have a magnetic filament erupt on February the 25th, which sent a CME towards the Earth, and they are predicting on the 28th, give or take a little bit of hours, that we are going to get a geometric G magnetic storm from it. Probably a G1, which is not a high one, but it may make the awares look pretty and more bountiful. So there you go for the sun activity. And for people that's wondering, the sunspot numbers come back up on the 25th. Um no, 26th, I'm sorry. The numbers were 25 on the 26th. So the last two days they have started perking back up. Uh so people that are thinking maybe we're in the minimum of this sun season. No, I don't think so. And right now the solar winds at 433, geometric storms are quiet, the solar flux is at 130, and the KP index is at 4. So things are looking pretty good from the sun. However, radio conditions are not going to be that great because of that, but we do have a noise floor, they're saying, uh, S1 and S2. So that's a good thing. Uh hope it uh hangs out there so we can do a little bit of communications. And while we're talking about space, let's talk a little bit about Artemise Artemis Artemisi, Artemis, Artemis! There we go. I'll get it out. When I try to read it, I read it wrong. But anyway, that thing was supposed to take off and go to the moon, I do believe, uh, back in January, wasn't it? I don't remember. I'll have to look that up, but don't quote me on that. But the reason I'm bringing it up once again, it's been delayed several times, and they delayed it again. They're having trouble with the rocker rocket upper stage. So I think it was fuel leaking the last time, and I don't remember what the time before was, but they've been having problems. So this great big huge rocket that's supposed to take um everybody up to the moon again, was supposed to take off. I swear it was end of January, um, has been postponed again, and they're talking about taking it all the way up till April. Yeah. April.

Sunny 36:22

Wow. Are they even gonna shoot that thing off or are they just pulling everybody's leg?

Bruce 36:29

I think they're pulling everybody's legs. Yeah. They're telling everybody what they're gonna do, getting everybody hyped up. Hey, we're going back to the mood, and it's not happening. We'll see though. We'll wait and see. And one last bit of news that I want to cover that has transpired uh a few days ago. Well, actually several days ago.

Sunny 37:00

Oh, you're late on the news.

Bruce 37:03

Well, I don't pick news because it's uh just happened. I pick news because it's relevant or it's interesting, or I can make fun of it.

Sunny 37:15

Oh, you like making fun of it.

Bruce 37:18

Oh, yeah, I do. But anyway, back to the news. NASA sent up a new crew to meet with the uh space station. Uh they launched on February the 13th, and they arrived on guess what? Valentine's Day, February the 14th, and everything was safe and sound, so four new crew members got to go to the space station.

Sunny 37:50

Oh, you like that, huh?

Space Station Crew And Smartphones

Bruce 37:52

Well, I thought it was pretty neat, but you know what is really neat? What's that, Bruce? They got to take their personal phones with them.

Sunny 38:01

Really? They get to call home.

Bruce 38:03

No, they don't get to call home. That's the first thing I thought. Now, what's gonna happen when they get up there? Because there are no satellites that can reach up there. Uh, they have no uh towers, uh so no links to the cell connection. What are they gonna do?

Sunny 38:23

I know. They're gonna call home.

Bruce 38:26

No. Nope. What they're gonna do is use those phones for um pictures and videos, so personal connection to what they're doing. This is the first time ever that they've been allowed to take their own cameras, and that's what them phones are gonna be. Personal video cameras, um, snap their pictures, and they're gonna be able to, if they want to, they'll be able to send them back through NASA's connection. They'll have to download it on the space station and then send it home. Or I guess they when they get home, they'll have it on their phone. How cool will that be? They'll get to bring home evidence that they were there. What do you think about that, Sunny?

Sunny 39:19

Wow. I think they're doing that for uh evidence. Yeah. They can prove they were up there.

Bruce 39:28

Well, whatever. I think it's cool that they're gonna have pictures on their smartphone. Yeah, I wonder what's gonna happen when they get home and they start shipping them out to their neighbors and their friends, and that might be kind of an interesting development. But here's the release. Uh this is what we need to know. NASA astronauts can now bring their smartphones into space. The new policy will allow space crews to capture more personalized images while on missions. The first crew to take their phones outside of Earth's orbit launched on Friday, February the thirteenth. What was that for, Sunny?

Sunny 40:18

Just because I could, you know, it's Valentine's Day when they made it, and that was the heartbeat, so there you go.

Bruce 40:27

Alright. I guess I'm gonna have to take them controls away from you.

Sunny 40:31

No. No, no, no, no, no.

Bruce 40:34

Alright, well, that fits into our podcast, so I think you're helping us out. We'll just keep doing it. Let's turn it over to Capella.

Support The Flock And Farewell

Capella 40:44

There are many ways you can show your support for the Uggy Quacking Duck podcast. First, simply keep us in your thoughts and prayers, and maybe send good vibes too. Second, spread the word. Tell your friends about us, even the ones with questionable taste in podcasts. Third, share your talents. If you have skills in technology, art, or anything else that could help us, we'd love to hear from you. And finally, consider supporting us financially. And posting and website costs add up, and any contribution is greatly appreciated. We promise not to spend it all on rubber duckies, unless you want us to. Thank you for your support.

Sunny 41:22

Yeah, what she said was become part of the flock.

Bruce 41:26

So true. Become part of the flock, man. We want you to be here with us. Thank you for being part of this episode, listening. We hope you come back. And if this isn't your first time around, we're sorry we bored you with some of that detail, but we had to get it out there. We'll try not to do it, but every other time. All right, guys. Have a good day, have a good week. Uh, we'll catch you on the next round. Until next time, God bless you. May the Father's love go with you always. 73.

Sunny 42:05

Yeah, I want to thank everybody for being part of the show. Being here. It was good. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you again. Until next time. Baba do you