Are Days Longer?

A flooded Hawaii, a string of 6.0+ earthquakes, and a headline claiming Earth’s days are getting longer might sound like three unrelated stories, but to us they all point to the same question: how do you stay grounded when the world feels noisy and unstable?

We start where we always do, with a little humor from our hidden Southern Illinois studio and some straight talk about what we do and why. We also clear the air on AI in podcasting. We’ll use AI for practical tasks like an automated transcript and the occasional voice intro, but we’re not handing over the heart of the show to a tool. The goal is still human: perspective, a reason to smile, and something useful to carry into your week.

Then we dig into a weather report that spans Hawaii’s flooding concerns and quick comparisons across Spokane, Phoenix, and Australia, including humidity, air quality, and why your exact location can make “the temperature” feel totally different. From there, we talk earthquakes with weekly stats, recent big events, and the one takeaway we keep repeating: you can’t predict everything, but you can prepare without living in fear. We also react to the viral-style science framing around Earth’s rotation slowing by milliseconds per century, and we end on a surprisingly fun note with USPS lowrider stamps that celebrate classic custom car culture.

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Transcript

Welcome To The Ugly Duck

Bruce 0:00

Wow. This day has been long.

Capella 0:05

Welcome to the ugly quacking duck. We like to joke that we're the worst podcast in the unknown universe, but we're pretty sure that's just our charm. We're here to offer a different perspective on the things you see every day, moving away from the usual noise to bring a little more light, perspective, and an uplifting spirit into your routine. Life is plenty heavy as it is, so we're just here to help you find a reason to smile. Thanks for stopping by.

Sunny 0:29

Hello everybody. This is Sunny, and you're listening to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast.

Bruce 0:40

All right, with the intro there, Sunny. This is Bruce, and we really appreciate everybody tuning in. If you're back, that's great. We appreciate you coming back and you supporting this podcast. Now, if you've just tuned in, found us for whatever reason, we thank you, and we hope you stick around and do it for a long time.

Sunny 1:08

That's right. We want you to come back and come back and come back.

Bruce 1:15

Yay. Yep, that's right. We want you to keep coming back. And we'd like it if you try to let us know you're out there, you know, give us a little bit of feedback or whatever. But there's more for that later. Again, you're listening to the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast, and we are recording in our unknown studio, hidden away in Southern Illinois.

Sunny 1:42

Yeah, we're so hidden, Bruce. We're right next to the highway, and people go by and honk. We're hidden.

Bruce 1:51

Yeah. Well, it sounds good for the podcast, even though it may not be factual, um, because we are not we're inside, so we're kind of hidden. We're not out there in the public eye, so it's kind of true, but maybe not a factual thing if you look at it in certain ways. There you go. What do you think?

Sunny 2:14

I think you just skirted around ice.

Bruce 2:19

No, we don't have any ice in his neighborhood that I know of.

Sunny 2:24

Uh yeah. Hmm.

Bruce 2:27

Well, you're the one that used that uh proverbial word that uh means so many different things nowadays, and it's not cold outside. In fact, it is 76 degrees right now, and we're recording on the 22nd, which is a Sunday of March. Yep. 22nd of March. This month is about gone.

Sunny 2:53

You can say that again. Boy, this month is zipped by zoo.

Bruce 3:00

Yeah, I've got a car thing, but I'm not gonna play it.

Sunny 3:05

Oh, see, now if I was running it like I did last week, we'd have all kinds of sound effects.

Bruce 3:14

Well, would you like that job back? I think you did a good job. Okay, let me switch the board around so you can do it, and hang on just a second. All right, there you go. I told you I'd hit the button. Yes, you did, and I guess you did. Well, and that car passing was loud, and it sounds just like they normally do when they go by, unless they got a loud muffler and a horn honking, which that happens a lot too.

Sunny 3:54

Well, I just want the listeners to know that I'm in control and it's gonna be perfect.

Bruce 4:03

Okay, well, I really appreciate that uh enthusiasm, and I just hope the listeners do too. So, again, welcome aboard. We really appreciate all of our listeners that come on, uh, become part of our flock and keep coming back.

Sunny 4:26

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is our switching sound, whoosh, which sounds very similar to that car sound earlier, but different.

Bruce 4:40

Well, I'm glad you had to explain that. I guess it was alright. But yeah, we use a very similar sound to our car sound. Not saying that's where it comes from, but you know, with editing you can do anything.

How We Use AI

Sunny 4:57

That's true. Uh you can and if you got AI, which we don't use AI, but you can do almost everything.

Bruce 5:07

Well, now, let's don't lead the public to a wrong conclusion. We do use AI. Uh, I've used it a couple times. I've asked it questions for the show and recorded the answers. And I've also used uh Capella, which is a voice of Gemini, and used it to do the introduction and the outing or the exit on this uh podcast. So we've been doing that for quite a while, but we're not using AI to do any really um valuable things on the show except for those two things. And I do it to build my transcript. Um Buzz Sprout, my hosting page has an AI, and we use that to do our transcript, because I don't want to pay somebody to do it when it does a pretty good job, and it does automatically, so I I just wait a few minutes and I get a transcript, which is very handy for many people. So there you go. We do use AI, but we don't use it to take our place, we use it to help us.

Sunny 6:26

All right. Thank you, Bruce, for bowing it, boring everybody to death.

Weather Around The World

Bruce 6:34

All right. Well, since we've already mentioned the weather, let's jump right into the weather around the continent and around the world. We're gonna start off right now with Ahua, Ohoa, Oha, Hawaii. Um, they're in trouble, buddy. They are in trouble. They're having rain, rain, rain, rain. And it's blowing in from directions it's not normally coming in from, and so they're flooding. Um's actually got uh flooding that they're saying is more uh flooding than it's been in 20 years. So they're having worse flooding there, and a little bit more to come. They're thinking uh Monday evening, maybe Tuesday, that it's gonna start drying up. Uh the winds are gonna quit and come in with a drier spell. Let's hope so. Let's pray for them. I wanted to bring your attention to Hawaii and the islands over there and the people over there. They need our prayers.

Sunny 7:43

All right, I want to do us. Here in Southern Illinois, we are very close to Mount Vernon, Illinois. And right now, it's 77 degrees at 11.45 a.m. There you go, Bruce. Turn it over to you.

Bruce 8:03

All right. We are pretty warm today. It got really warm yesterday. Uh, it got really close to 90. Um, we was in Mount Vernon uh doing some running around, and Shannon's Jeep actually showed 93, was it? 91? I don't remember. It was in the 90s. Now on my phone um app it showed uh 88 or something like that. So there's a slight difference. Uh it's according to where the thermostat is. Now we was on a blacktop parking lot in town, and in town's usually quite a bit hotter than it is like out in the country and stuff. So we have a different temperature out here uh than they will, like on top of the bank, they have a thermostat or a thermometer, and a lot of the apps use that, and it shows a lot different, especially in winter. Uh so you just never really know what it is. I tell people to do go by what their location says, not by what somebody else's location is, because it's in a different spot. It may be higher altitude, maybe lower, it may be out where uh like there's one at the airport, and that's going to be warmer most of the time because the sun's gonna be you know able to hit a bigger area and warm up a bigger area, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Let's move over to Spokane, Washington. Yes, that's where I've had a request to tune in. So right now it is sunny there. By the way, it's sunny in Illinois, too. It's beautiful. The last few days has been beautiful, but um Spokane has 39 degrees. Can you believe that? We're at 77 and they're at 39. Now, part of the winter they were warmer than we were here because we was going through that weird uh winter weather and that weird snowfall and stuff, and they didn't have snow like we did, and they were warmer. Go go figure. But now it's turned back around. They're 39 degrees. They have a wind chill, or not a wind chill, hello, wind coming from the south at four miles an hour. The air quality is only at 13, so that's really good. Uh the barometric pressures at 30.37. And uh what else do you need to know? Humidity, 53 percent. I guess since Sunny didn't give you uh all of the Mount Vernon uh weather or the southern Illinois, we will update a little bit more. We have 10 miles an hour winds coming from the south-southwest. Air quality is at 68, which is moderate. I'm telling you, allergies are already starting to kick in. We had people mowing around us, and yeah, it's fun. Now the barometric pressure's dropping 29.70, and it's dropping. And then the humidity here is 51, which is really good. There you go. Like that.

Sunny 11:22

I want to do Australia. Can I do Australia, Bruce?

Bruce 11:26

Well, you know you can. Go ahead, shoot.

Sunny 11:29

All right, uh, we're gonna do Australia now. Right now it's clear. It's nighttime over there, and it's 64 degrees. They got a wind straight from the south at five miles an hour. Their air quality is 20 good, and the barometric pressure is 30.10 and dropping, and they have a humidity of 67%.

Bruce 12:01

All right, yeah, that's pretty cool, man. We may have to add another somewhere like China or Japan on our list and start doing that because that'll give us another direction to go. If you folks out there want to hear a specific country and a city in that country, let me know. We are that last report from Australia is at Australia Plains, uh, where we're getting that from. So there you go. That's pretty nice. One more to go. Let's do Phoenix, Arizona, which is the one I like to pick. Um it's a good comparison. Right now they are partly cloudy, believe it or not. Uh 85 degrees. So they're not much warmer than we are. Their wind is east to southeast, five miles an hour. Air quality is 39, which is good. Their barometric pressure is going up 29.81. And the humidity is 13%. Boy, it's dry out there in the desert. Yeah, uh-huh.

Sunny 13:07

That's why you like picking Arizona, isn't it, Bruce?

When Retirees Change Small Towns

Bruce 13:11

Yeah, I get uh a difference, see, when I pick Arizona. Um usually it's quite a bit of difference, uh, especially in the winter. But uh the humidity just kills me. It's so dry. Used to, when I was younger, people would retire out there because of their allergies and stuff. I don't know if that's so true now. Uh people it people are funny. They'll move out from the big city and come down to the countryside and they'll bring their city style with them. So next thing you know, they want a good example. I'll tell you a good example of this. My mom lives in Arkansas, and the town she moved to um when I was young. We um would go down and see her after I got married and bring the grandkids and stuff, and it did not have a lot of paved roads uh around it. Now the the town did. And it was a fairly big town, it was a little bit bigger than Mount Vernon. And it would have stores open all through the week, not real late, and Sundays they would close. Now I'm talking a long time ago, so uh it's changed everywhere. Um but people just was slower paced on Sunday. So most of them stayed home or, you know, went fishing or whatever people did to relax. And then these retirees found out it was very uh affordable. You didn't need as much money to move down there, buy property, build a house, and retire. So they started moving in. They started coming from the big cities, from the big factories and from uh the armed forces, and they was bringing their mentality from the city. So instead of ha keeping the towns around that area like they liked it to begin with, and keep it readily available for inexpensive living, they wanted to bring their big city living to the countryside because I guess they didn't know how to relax. So next thing you know, the stores were open twenty-four hours a day. The cities was packed with people, and uh life' changed pretty quick. Uh and it was kind of depressing because when I go down there and visit, uh it was uh a different world, I'll just say that. And I'm not sure that change did the locals any good. Now the people that was moving down there to it liked it because they brought their type of living down there. But what's funny is people seem to gripe after, you know, five or six, ten years of moving that's just not the same. And I think, well, you did that. You brought that lifestyle, you like the way, you know, it was quiet, calm, relaxing. You go out and go fishing or camping or whatever. You like that retirement style, but you brought your nervous, busy lifestyle with you and tried to change that place. And that happens all over the country. I see it all the time, and I'll get off my soapbox.

Sunny 16:48

Yeah, you better. You're gonna make everybody mad. What if the people are listening?

Bruce 16:54

Well, um I'm telling you, that's okay. Uh it's okay if they want to do that, but they shouldn't turn around and gripe because they've lost the feeling that they first moved in there for. That's on them. I didn't do it. I didn't move down there and do that. But anyhow, that's the way I see it. This is the ugly quacking duck podcast.

Sunny 17:22

All right. We are upsetting people today.

Bruce 17:26

Well, we're not doing it on purpose. I mean, that's just a fact. Uh they did bring some good things. I mean, you could get uh uh gas. Uh gas stations very seldom was open on a Sunday. I know I went down there one time and I had uh car trouble, and I had to wait till Monday to get stuff done. And you know, that was kind of a drawback. But again, it made me it forced me to relax. Now my job didn't like it because I called him and said, well, it's gonna be a couple days before I get home. And that was that kind of put them out, you know. But it it forced me to calm down and relax, you know, between the anger. But uh there was some good to come out of that because they did, like I said, uh bring stores open more. Um we see that everywhere. I mean, here locally, there was a less stores open, and there's more now. There you go. You got good or bad. Just take it one way or the other. But don't gripe about things that you force to change.

Sunny 18:43

All right, since Bruce has been aggravating people today, we're gonna switch gears and go into the earthquake report at the beginning of the episode. That way, maybe we will have a few people left to hear it before he makes everybody mad.

Bruce 19:02

Well, I uh I'm not sure that's oh well, I'll leave it alone. Thank you, Sunny. We're going into the earthquake report. And as we begin our earthquake report uh for this week, I want to go back to last last episode. Did I mention what episode we're in? I did not. We are in episode 141, and we uh want to go back to 140 and for a minute and give you an update, a fix, a correction, however you want to put that. But you know, I am human, we make mistakes. So last week on our earthquake report, we reported that there was two earthquakes of six point oh or more. And I went back and looked over the report again, um, and I'm glad I did. I don't know why I did, but there was an extra earthquake, it was a six point oh, and it was in Tonga. So that brought the six point zero and over total up to three instead of two. So originally I reported two earthquakes, which gave us a one point eight two percent, but now there was a it come up to two point seven percent or two point seven two percent, which is three earthquakes, and last week was uh three thirteen, and we went back seven days. So this week it is I'm gonna go back to the twentieth and go back seven days because that's when I normally do my seven-day report. So on the twentieth, but uh this is going back seven days from the twentieth, we had a total of twenty-five ninety-five, two thousand five hundred and ninety-five all-magnitude earthquakes, which is up. And if we go back all the way to the twenty third of January, uh that's it's up all those weeks. So it's been a long time since it went up, which gave us twenty-five point ninety five percent. And if we go to the two point five and over earthquakes, we had four hundred and sixty-eight. That is up, and that's where our uh numbers went up at at the two point five level, which is normally in the past that would go up um on those numbers, and then the following seven days we would have more six point oh earthquakes. So we're gonna see if that happens or what because it's been pretty steady the last two months. And we're gonna see if that happens. So uh we had an 18.03% with the 468 earthquakes, and then the 4.5 and over earthquakes. We only had 108, which is a little bit down, yay, which come to a 4.16% number. And of those 108, we had three six point oh earthquakes. We had starting at the beginning, we had a six point three in Chile, and then a six point six in uh South Shetland Islands, and then uh in Venutia, we had a six point one just here recently. And we're gonna have to take a break and uh get something to clear my throat. All right, maybe that'll last a little while. And uh since we did the earthquake report seven days and we went on the 20th and went back seven days, there has been some new occurrences just here recently, and I'm gonna talk about those real quick. Uh Tonga had a 6.2 earthquake. If we use the United States as a centralized point on the map, then Tonga's on uh one side down there by South America. The other one side, uh more over towards Asia, we have a 6.2 in Somalia that just occurred, and then there's a 6.3 that occurred in Somalia also. So we've had three in the last few days already. So, like I said, we'll have to wait till the end of next week. Keep your eyes open though, be prepared. That's the main thing. I give these earthquake reports and they're after the fact, which really bothers me. But as far as I know, nobody's figured out a way to exact pre-earthquake report and prepare you. So next Friday I will do another seven-day report after all these earthquakes, and like I said today, the numbers are up on the 2.5 earthquakes, which brings the all magnitude earthquake up, and when that happens, usually the next week, the next seven-day report, we have more 6.0 earthquakes or larger ones. Um, sometimes we don't have more, but we have some big ones, and they get up in the sevens and stuff. Whatever the scenario is, what I'm saying is be prepared, watch out. Uh, you don't want to run around scared, but prayer would help be helpful. Have supplies readily available uh that you can use if something like that would happen. Um maybe it won't be right direct hit, but maybe it would affect you with power or fuel or food. So just be prepared, okay?

Sunny 25:40

And we are not trying to scare anybody. Don't think that. Bruce, you didn't say that.

Bruce 25:48

Uh very true. I did not say that. But no, we're not trying to scare anybody. We're just giving them some information. And uh the earthquakes and the floods and stuff, the weather is things we need to watch and pray for those people. Um one of these days it may be us, or it maybe it is right now. That's what I'm saying. We just don't know. All right, and before we start our uh news stories, and we're probably not gonna do very many today. We're gonna keep this a little bit uh short, but I'd like to do another correction.

Sunny 26:28

What? Another correction.

Bruce 26:37

And I can tell that Sunny likes pushing those buttons. Okay, yeah, we had another correction last week, and this was really dumb. I'm sorry, folks. Um, there's times when I'm reading those, you know, I've read those articles, but when I go back and reread them, my mind just glitches out. So I was talking about last week about that imaginary snowball fight, which is a good story. It was a feel-good story, right? But when I read the location, my mind got tripped up, and my my mouth did not work uh like it should have, or one was it just messed up. And I don't even remember what I called it. Um, but the actual city was Boulder Colorado. And I I went back and listened to the podcast and I heard what I don't even remember what it was now, but it was not Boulder, it was it was something else. So I apologize to the folks out in Boulder and any of our listeners that was uh thrown off by my weird translation of American English.

Sunny 27:52

Yeah, you better you better say sorry.

Bruce 27:59

I did. Yeah, I did. That was a it was kind of comical. I mean, I laughed when I seen if you can't laugh at yourself, then you're in big trouble. But uh I I felt I needed to I needed to say I'm sorry to the guys out there and gals and our listeners and our flock because that was kind of a big, big mistake.

Sunny 28:23

Well, thank you, Bruce, for doing that. Now, uh, let's get on with my question. You said, wow, this day has been long. What was you talking about? Because it's not that long. We'd already already just started our episode recording and it was in the morning.

Bruce 28:46

You are right. It is true. No, I was talking about a story I had read, and the article actually stated the earth's days are getting longer at unprecedent president here. I go again. I'm reading, I can't say it. Unprecedented rate not seen in 3.6 million years. And here's why. So it's in uh IFL science dot com if you want to look it up. But yeah, Earth days are getting longer, guys. We're in trouble. No wonder we're all tired. I thought they were shorter.

Sunny 29:31

I did too. I thought they were a lot shorter.

Bruce 29:35

Well, apparently we was all wrong as usual. Yeah, the days are getting longer. That means, you know, I can go and cook something on the grill, eat it, and go back to work and still work eight hours if it's getting longer. What do you think about that, Sunny? I think you're nuts. Yeah, and I think everybody else probably does too, because that is nuts. But, you know, the earth's getting uh days getting longer, and it's not been longer like that for 3.6 million years. Now we were all around 3.6 million years ago, right? We all had stopwatches and we watched the earth and and located the day's length, put it in a uh some kind of la ledger, logbook, something, so we'd all know, you know, we've been around for a long time, so we knew that. Yep, that's right.

Sunny 30:43

I really sense that you're making fun of this article.

Bruce 30:49

I I don't know why you're saying that. I mean the Earth Earth's days are getting longer. That they've stated it. Scientists have proven it, right? Well, okay, I'll quit uh going crazy and I will read the top paragraph of this story. Earth's spin is slowing down and our days are getting ever so slightly longer. While the planet's rotation often speeds up and slows down over time, new research suggests the current increase in day length is unprecedented in at least three point six million years of history. Now I want you to catch the most important part of that ever so slightly longer. Yeah, I was making out that it was getting really long and all that stuff. So they're saying most of this is due to human-driven climate change, and it's warming up the planet and melting its ice sheets. Now, whether that's true or not, I really can't tell. But I do know this article is more about our human-driven climate change, blaming that, blaming our humans for that, when I really think that it is a cycle that we are seeing, and we cannot affect the cycle as much as people. I think we're changing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we're not, but I think it's a cycle, and we're gonna go through another cycle, and it's not gonna be fun, and it's gonna be dangerous, but I don't think humans can do much for it. I mean, we can affect the way we make it through or don't make it through, but it's gonna happen no matter what. Anyway, yeah, that's what they're saying, and the spin is changing because of that mass change on the earth, and it's creating a slower spin, which makes our days longer, and it is making the days really long.

Sunny 33:20

Now stop at Bruce. Uh you're making fun of things. They're scientists very smart.

USPS Lowrider Stamps Spotlight

Bruce 33:29

Okay, that's generalizing and there's no proof that scientists all of them are smart. Uh that's just a misconception. They've got a paid for education. There are some smart ones, but some of 'em are so stubborn that when you are given proof that their theory is maybe a little bit off, they get aggravated and they shun that other scientists so their evidence don't ever come out. But anyway, that's a here or there, that's a different. But the length of days are in milliseconds. It's changing um in milliseconds. And they like that change or liken that change to an ice skater. That when they spin, if they've got their arms extended, it slows their spin down. And when they put their arms closer to their body, they speed up. So there you go. That's what's happening. Somebody on this earth has got their arms out and we've slowed down. And let me give you the exact of what they're saying. The team concluded that the Earth's day is currently lengthening at about one point thirty three milliseconds per ready for it? Per century. Primarily do the sea level rise from melting ice, redistributing mass, and a slowing Earth's rotation. One point three three milliseconds per century. There you go, folks. We are going so slow. And yeah, I'll make a little bit of fun of that article. I read that and I thought, mmm, so you're saying that we went back one point, what was it? Let me get this right. We went back one point no three point six million years, and we've got evidence that we are slower now than we were then. Okay. And we're talking milliseconds. Milliseconds. All right, there you go. Take it as you want, but this is the ugly quacking duck podcast, and we like to make fun of things like that. Yeah, not people, but that. I just uh read that article and um or read that article, and it just really felt like a hit piece to the humans, and that they were going after more evidence that proves that the heat the we're going through a climate change because of humans. They're wanting to put humans on a hit list and a kill list and a control list. That's why all these articles are coming out saying that it's the humans' fault. And that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Well, to lighten up the load a little bit and give us something a little bit different to think about instead of the earth slowing down. Um that's our mail service, folks. I always have a hard time saying that. But they are giving us new stamps that come out on March the 13th. Um they are celebrating the Lowrider classic cars. Yes, sir, that is right. Which is pretty cool. I've got uh pictures of the stamps up. Um they released a lowrider stamp on Friday, March the thirteenth. They are typically vintage cars customized with smaller wheels, special hydraulic suspensions, colorful paint work, and intricate detail. If you want to read the article, it's on news.usps.com. You can probably do a search and find it. But it's called These Stamps Take a Little Trip, Take a Little Trip. And I think it's cool that they are making those cars more famous by putting them on stamps, and I think people ought to go out and buy some of those. I know there's still people collecting stamps, so there you go. That's pretty cool.

Sunny 38:26

Well, Bruce, they do look cool. I like the way that looks. That one uh what is that car? You got the list. Read it off so people know.

Bruce 38:38

Alright, I can do that. Here we go. The stamps showcase five classic models. A blue nineteen fifty eight Chevrolet Impala called eight figures, an orange nineteen sixty four Chevrolet Impala named the Golden Rose, a green nineteen eighty seven Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme dubbed Pocket Pump there I go again Pocket Change and a blue nineteen forty six Chevrolet Fleet Line called Let the Good Times Row So Como So and a red nineteen sixty three Chevrolet Impala named L Ray. And I don't know if anybody noticed, but them are all Chevy or GM vehicles. But they got nice paint jobs, they look really, really good. Yeah, they look good. Go look it up. If you're not gonna go by the stamps, go look up the article and look up the pictures, and I will have the picture on my chapter page, which gives you when if you're playing it on a 2.0 podcast player, you'll be able to see them pop up as the episode plays.

Sunny 40:01

That is neat. I looked at the page, it is cool.

Bruce 40:08

Well, everybody, that time went by quick. Gave us uh very little time left to say our other things we want to say, so we may just say our idiosis. But we want to tell everybody to go to our webpage, the uglyquackenduck.com, and you can find out more information on us, and you can find out ways to support us, and you can listen to our podcast there. But if you've got a player, an app, go listen to them there because you can do more on that. But our webpage just kind of keeps you up to date.

Thank You and Good Byes

Sunny 40:49

Well, that was a quick episode. I don't know what happened, but it blew by. I think you're right, Bruce. I don't think the Earth is slowing down and time's getting longer. I think it's going faster.

Bruce 41:04

Well, if you go by how it feels and not any scientific evidence, then it feels like it's going quick. And it's not just because we've got older, and I'm not even gonna talk about how old you are, but it's because of I think the commotion that everybody's in. There's always something going on, and even the young people are seeing that or feeling that. So, you know, people are on their phones are constantly looking up stuff, there's no uh breathtaking, no everybody just in a hurry, and you're going from one um moment or one experience to the next, one uh project to the next. It's just constant upheaval. And yeah, it's really making everybody feel like time is going by quick. Uh but is it? I mean, we've recorded about forty-three and a half minutes worth of episode right now, and we do usually do that. We usually do about 45 if we can. We've went over but uh that's what we uh shoot for. That's our objective, 45 minutes a week and talk about a few newscasts and stuff. But anyhow, that's what we've done, and it's is it the same, or is our data different? But I don't know. But it's been good, guys. I really enjoyed it. I hope you've all been enjoying this episode.

Sunny 42:50

Hey, I enjoyed it, and I want to say thank you, everybody.

Bruce 42:56

Yes, we want to say thank you, and again, go to the uglyquacking duck.com webpage, and we've got information on there. Just look at each each page. Uh, we're gonna not gonna do the value for value ending today. Uh we don't want to do that. So we want everybody to have a good weekend, what's left of it. You're gonna hear this probably on Monday or Tuesday. Hope you have a good week. Tune in next time until we do it again. This is the ugly quacky duck, and I'm Bruce.

Sunny 43:30

And I'm Sunny. See you everybody.

Bruce 43:34

Until next time, Seventy three, may the Father's love be with everybody. Small prayer at the end of it. Um, I'm not even going to put it on the titles or anything. I just want uh to pray for the episode and pray for the people. Our Father, we thank you for what you've done. We thank you for the ability to do the podcast. We thank you for the ability to do this episode, and we pray for it specifically, that it will be blessed by your will, and that it will go out and find people that are like-minded and that will enjoy it and find hope in it and a little bit of humor because that's what it's good for, and that you will bless it to seek those people and that they will come back. And I pray for uh the people that we mentioned in the earthquakes and uh in Hawaii and on uh any of the other episodes that you will remember them, that they will know that your will is good, that your love is good, and that you are not here to judge. You did not ever judge them when you were here, but you came to give us an example that we can live by and live a more fulfilled life despite the way the world is. Go with me now. Go with the people when they hear this, bless them, walk with them, show them your love. We thank you for that. It is so.