Who Pays When AI Eats The Grid

We start with laughs and a quick mic experiment, then get serious with storm warnings and a weather check from Illinois to Australia to Phoenix. From robot tennis to rising power bills, we connect everyday life to the fast-growing demands of AI and data centers, then close with an earthquake report and a prayer.
• our “secret studio” setup and switching between microphones
• Midwest severe weather risk and why we watch the warnings closely
• weather snapshots from Mount Vernon, Spokane, Australia Plains, and Phoenix
• humidity, air quality, and sinus struggles tied to seasonal conditions
• humanoid robot tennis and what fast AI decision-making looks like
• a brief tribute to Chuck Norris
• electric bills, summer rates, and concerns about smart meters
• data centers, AI workloads, and what they could mean for grid demand
• JLL projections and why the infrastructure buildout may change costs
• seven-day earthquake totals and major 6.0+ events

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Welcome To The Ugly Duck

Sunny 0:00

Did you see that tennis game?

Capella 0:04

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.

Bruce 0:29

Okay, you are listening to the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast, and I am Bruce.

Sunny 0:37

And I am Sunny.

Bruce 0:39

And we are very happy to have you aboard on this episode, which is episode 142. We would like to say stay with us till the end.

Sunny 0:50

Yeah, that's very important. You tuned in. You found us for whatever reason. Uh, if you're back, thank you. Keep coming back. But if this is your first time, well we want to make sure you stick with us.

Bruce 1:08

So again, I'm Bruce.

Sunny 1:10

And I'm Sunny.

Bruce 1:12

Yep, and we are the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast team, and we try to do this pretty well on a weekly basis if it's all possible. With my schedule, we never know.

Sunny 1:26

Yeah, your schedule stinks.

Bruce 1:30

Well, thanks for putting that out there, uh Sunny. I I wasn't sure, you know. It just feels like that sometimes, but now that you said it, it's official.

Sunny 1:43

You bet I say it and it's real.

Bruce 1:48

Well, yeah. You know, uh what we say actually becomes real. Um, that's why there's so many words in the English language, like I'm tired, I'm wore out, that's actually dangerous for you to use because it does do something supernatural to your world or your universe.

Sunny 2:17

Yep. Speaking it can make it happen. There you go, folks. You've learned it here on the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. Yay!

Bruce 2:30

Well, I'm not sure I would say you learned it here because most people already know that, they just don't practice it, but we, you know, can restate it here. But anyhow, welcome aboard, folks. It is March the 26, 2026. How do you like them numbers? March will be 326-26. That's pretty cool. We are doing this on a Thursday. We tried to do it on a Friday, but my work schedule is gonna make me go in all day tomorrow, so I'm not gonna be able to do it tomorrow. Um, and that means our seven-day report. We'll go ahead and do it uh this day, but it's gonna throw it off a day, so uh I don't know what we're gonna do about that.

Sunny 3:23

Well, you're gonna have it off a day, duh.

Bruce 3:28

Yeah, that's true too. Uh I'll probably uh do the numbers and put it in my book like I always do, but we're just gonna be off a day. That's right. So if we go back seven days, it's gonna overlap the last seven-day report by a day, but that's all

Mic Experiments And Studio Talk

Bruce 3:45

right. And just so everybody that's listening to this episode that if you've listened to the last several episodes, we had switched over to an SM 58 um sometime, I don't remember when, and it was working really good for us. Um, but I had another SM58 gave to us, and we're on that right now. We're on that other one. It uh is a little bit different than my other one. It has an on and off switch on it, and I think maybe it's picking up the highs a little bit more than my other one does. Uh, but I thought I would record part of the episode using this other one and see if you can tell any difference and see if it worked out good. And then I may switch. I like switching mics every now and then. I may switch over to a different one that latter part of the episode, and uh after I finish that episode I may tell you what it is.

Sunny 4:51

Oh, you're playing games with the listeners.

Bruce 4:56

Yes, I'm wanting to see if anybody could tell any difference, but there you go. Different difference.

Sunny 5:05

Well, that one's got a good sound when you get close.

Bruce 5:09

Yeah, it does. Um but uh I don't know. It still picks up more highs.

Sunny 5:16

Well, I don't know why it's the same kind of mic.

Bruce 5:20

Yeah. Uh I think they've got a switch in there and it's means it's probably a different model and probably made at a different time. So it's probably like firearms and cars. They they're manufactured the same way but by the same line, but there's always a slight difference in them. And you can always tell if you get it out and use it very much. So we are broadcasting. Um, no, we're not broadcasting today. We're just recording. So we are recording from our secret studio.

Sunny 6:00

Oh, now we got a secret studio.

Bruce 6:03

Well, it sounds good, doesn't it?

Sunny 6:05

Yeah, yeah, it sounds good, but um everybody in the family knows where our studio is. Not really secret.

Bruce 6:15

Well, don't spoil the illusion. I'm having fun here, okay?

Sunny 6:21

Oh, sorry, Bruce.

Bruce 6:23

All right, Sunny, that's okay. But uh we are recording in our secret studio in southern Illinois. Yay. Wait, yay! There you go. Thank you, Sunny. Yeah, we are recording, and we are recording live because we're live, but it's a recording. So welcome if you're from Southern Illinois, one of our neighbors, and if you're in the world or in the universe, welcome. We're glad to have everybody aboard.

Sunny 7:01

Boy, that sounded good, exciting, and I almost believed it.

Bruce 7:08

Well, you ought to believe it. Aren't you excited?

Sunny 7:11

Yeah, yeah, I am, but you know, how can people see that excitement?

Bruce 7:18

Well, they can't. It's called audio. You gotta show 'em by presenting it in some kind of descriptive and emotional way. Because we don't have audio and video, we just have audio.

Sunny 7:36

Okay. Yeah, I knew that. I was just testing you.

Bruce 7:41

Well, quit testing me.

Sunny 7:44

No, that's part of the fun.

Bruce 7:47

All right. So, what are you talking about on your did you see that tennis game? We don't watch tennis.

Sunny 7:57

Well, I thought we was doing the weather first. Didn't you have that wrote down?

Bruce 8:04

Uh no, I didn't have that wrote down. I had the intro and then what you was talking about about the uh tennis game.

Sunny 8:14

Well, I want to do the weather first.

Bruce 8:17

All right. I don't mind. That's why we're doing the recording. We can just do it however we want to.

Sunny 8:23

Okay. I want to do the weather.

Severe Storm Risk In The Midwest

Bruce 8:26

All right, we're doing the weather, folks. All right, we are going to do the weather, as I just stated.

Sunny 8:35

Yay, and if you notice there's a lot more noise periodically, that's because Bruce has the windows open.

Bruce 8:44

Yep, I've got the windows open to my studio. It is right now 78 degrees here. It's going to be a warm day, and that brings us to the warnings.

Sunny 8:58

Yeah, you better do that, Bruce, right off the bat.

Bruce 9:02

All right, if you are in the Midwest, right along with us, uh, Kansas City, St. Louis, Louisville, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, we are in a danger area for today and tomorrow. They're saying we could have severe uh thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail. So find your uh weather radio, turn it on, or listen to your your weather guy. I like to listen to uh Ryan Hall Y'all on uh YouTube uh when I can. But anyhow, they're saying S afternoon today on the 26th, so it'll be over by the time most of you hear this episode. But we're gonna start getting some thunderstorms. Yeah, that means I'm not gonna have to mow this afternoon.

Sunny 10:04

Oh, you'll do anything to get out of mowing.

Bruce 10:07

Well, more than likely, yeah, I do. Um, but yeah, I ha I have mowing to do this afternoon. And if it's not storming, then I'll go mow. Um It's probably not gonna take me but uh uh maybe an hour to mow. Uh I've I've got some great big tree limbs down. I'm waiting for a chainsaw to get here um so I can cut it up. I picked up most of the limbs off of those um yesterday. I've got a few more odds and ends to walk and pick up, but overall I think I mow, but them two big limbs I I'll just have to mow around till I get a saw.

Sunny 10:57

Okay. So thanks for explaining that. Now what's the weather?

Bruce 11:02

Okay, I'm sorry about that, folks. It is, like I said, 78 degrees today. Very nice. Um nice and sunny right now. The storm clouds have not rolled in. And we are looking at Mount Vernon. Let me give you the the exact information. So it's sunny right now. They're saying it's 81 degrees, and it feels like it's 82. Uh the wind is 19 miles an hour from the south southwest. Air quality is 74, so it's really not very good. And uh they just changed it. That's not good. Yeah, I hate it when they change it because everything moves. But uh, it is right now humidity at 52 percent, and that's what it stands for here in Mount Vernon.

Weather Check Around The World

Sunny 12:00

All right, I want to do the next one. I want to do Spokane.

Bruce 12:04

All right, Sunny. I'm gonna turn it over to you and you do Spokane, Washington.

Sunny 12:10

All right, Bruce. Spokane, that's where your favorite person calls in from.

Bruce 12:17

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I don't know if she's my fame favorite. That's what she always says. But yes. Spokane, Washington. Tell us what it is.

Sunny 12:28

Well, right now it's sunny. 38 degrees.

Bruce 12:34

Yeah, that is not too fun.

Sunny 12:38

Yeah, it isn't. They have wind at 10 miles an hour coming from the south-southwest. Air quality is 27, which is really good. Uh the barometric pressures at 30.49 and rising. And their humidity is 53%.

Bruce 13:04

All right, thank you, Sunny. You did well on that. And I forgot to read off the barometer, but the barometer is falling here, 29.84 and falling. So let's go to Australia. We like to read Australia. This is from Australia Plains, South Australia. And it is 48 degrees and partly cloudy over there today. But it is nighttime. Don't forget that. Uh we have daylight, they have nighttime. 48 degrees. The winds at 7 miles an hour south southwest. Air quality is 17, which is good. The barometric pressure is steady at 30.25, and the humidity's at 74%.

Sunny 13:56

Wow, that's pretty calm. They have a nice night over there, don't they?

Bruce 14:02

Yeah, they they seem to be having a nice night. Let's go to Phoenix, Arizona. That's one of the places I really like to compare to southern Illinois, mostly because of the humidity. But right now it is eighty-five degrees. Yep, eighty-five degrees and sunny. The winds at seven miles an hour east southeast. The air quality is forty five, which is good. Pressure is rising at twenty-nine point eighty eight. And the humidity, are you ready for this? Fifteen percent. Dry as a bone. Ha ha What do you think about that, Sunny?

Sunny 14:46

I think we ought to move out there and check out that nice dry air. See how long you like it.

Bruce 14:54

Well, I don't know, I bet I could breathe better if we did that.

Sunny 14:58

Yeah. Southern Illinois kind of hard on the sinuses between the humidity and all the pollen and allergenics that's roaming the air.

Bruce 15:11

Yeah, it's it's rough. I tell you, I've probably said this before, but I took a motorcycle trip down to Alabama to meet be with my sister one time, several years back. And I went through the hills of Tennessee, and you know, there was a spot in there that I went through and my sinuses and nose cleared up so much so I noticed it. Because you know, I'd been stopped up all my life, and we went through that spot and it just cleared up, and I felt so much different. And I thought, wow, that must be the way it's like if you don't have all the allergies running around, the malogenics, and all that garbage. And on the way back, it did the same thing. Um, it really cleared up until I got out of that area, and then you know, it just starts stopping up until it was normal again, if you can call being stopped up normal.

Sunny 16:16

Oh, Bruce, there is no normal to anything about you.

Bruce 16:24

Well, thank you for that vote of confidence. Yay. You are very welcome. Okay.

A Robot Plays Tennis

Bruce 16:36

All right, are you gonna tell us about that tennis game?

Sunny 16:40

I sure am, and you know, you watched that game.

Bruce 16:46

Uh the only tennis I watched, oh wait a minute. Now I know what you're talking about.

Sunny 16:52

Yeah, there you go. I watched the same video. Bruce and I watched a video of a robot playing tennis. Yeah, that's right. You heard me right. A robot playing tennis.

Bruce 17:09

That's right, Sunny. I did also watch that video. I've remembered what you talked about about as soon as uh I said it, uh, thought about it. Anyway, he's talking about a video we watched. Uh, it is found on interestingengineering.com, and you really need to go see that in order to get what we're talking about. But they've pictured a humano humanoid robot playing tennis, and basically what they're saying is humanoid robot returns tennis shots with 96% accuracy in simulation tests. That's on their a web page, and that is the title of the article. Go look it up and watch it, but it actually has a page with a video, and you can click on the video and watch it play, and it uh it does some really fancy feat work, but it returns the ball ninety-six percent of the time, which is pretty cool.

Sunny 18:25

Yeah, kinda scary too, isn't it, Bruce? Now they got robots that can move around like that.

Bruce 18:32

Yeah, well, yep, it's because of the new algorithm that they designed, not really because of the robot itself, but because of the algorithm, it is able to switch around and make in almost instant decisions. It takes a few seconds or tenths of a second, but that's what made the difference.

A Tribute To Chuck Norris

Bruce 19:01

All right, if you would allow me um a moment, I'd like to pay my respects for uh uh uh actor and a hero in my life, uh Chuck Norris. He passed away and left this world at 86 on March the 19th, 2026. So if I may, I'd like to play the church bells for him. He has accomplished in his life many things, martial arts, being an actor, uh, being a um motivator, and I just wanna his life stood out, and I really appreciate that, and I just wanted to call that to everybody's attention. Most people, like I said, should know him, should remember him. And there you go. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Why Mic Choice Changes Everything

Bruce 20:11

I don't think I mentioned it, but I changed microphones again. I'm going to a different microphone. It's one I originally bought for the podcasting, and um I really enjoyed it, but because of its dynamics, which it's not a dynamic mic, it's a condenser mic, so it picks up a lot of noise, and I, you know, run it during the summer, and I got the windows open a lot of times, and you can hear everything that goes by. So if you're hearing more than normal, that could be the reason. Uh my other mic picks it up quite a bit too, but I'm able to kind of tune it out with a gate and everything. This one may not do that, but if you notice it, I'm sorry, and I'm not going to tell you till the end of the episode what we're using, but we are using a condenser, I'll tell you that much.

Sunny 21:13

Well, I have to say it doesn't sound bad. It actually sounds pretty good. Why did you quit using it?

Bruce 21:22

Well, uh um just because I wanted to try a different one, and I'd started out with a dynamic mic, went to a um condenser mic that I'd bought off a gentleman at work, and it worked really well, but it was heavy, really heavy. So I found this one. Everybody was talking about it, it was on sale, so I bought it. It seems to work really good. I had good luck with it, but they they all told me you don't want to run a condenser mic unless you have a soundproof room. Because it'll pick everything up. Well, I don't have a soundproof room, so I eventually started looking again for some dynamic microphones, and that's when I come up with uh a couple of them than the SM 58's one I ended up with because it matched my voice quality better than any other mic I found. This one does a pretty good job, but it helps if my mixer was tuned right, and I got it tuned for that SM 58, so it seems to be good for all the other mics too.

Rising Power Bills And Smart Meters

Bruce 22:46

I bet most people last summer and this winter has noticed that their electric bill has gone up, especially if you're located here in southern Illinois, and Amoron is your main supply of electricity.

Sunny 23:04

Oh yeah. There's been a lot of complaints. Lots.

Bruce 23:10

Yes, there has been, and it's not gonna end. Amoron has uh been given the right through our state uh system, our government, to continue to raise prices, and that's gonna affect us all. They're gonna switch over to summertime uh charging, and it's a little bit higher to make what they're gonna do is make more money off the air conditioners, and that's gonna start here real quick. So get ready for the power bills to go up. And a lot of people are claiming that the smart meters that they have installed all over the country are actually not measuring the power correctly, and that the power companies have the ability to change the way it reads so it can go up or down in price without even going up or down in usage. So let me repeat that. Many people are saying that the power company can change the programming on them smart meters so that it will charge you more for the same amount of power. It will actually look like it's using more power, and they'll just claim, hey, it's working. In fact, I called last year to check it, and they got on the computer and read what my meter was saying. And they said, Yep, it's working normal. That didn't tell me if my meter was doing right. It just told me that they were seeing what the meter was reading. So they was measuring the output of that meter, which is supposed to be measuring how much I use, but they were measuring all that by the same measurement in their computer because they was receiving the same signal. And as far as I know, there's not any system available to us public to measure that and make sure that it's measuring in it's on the right course, you know. Supposedly if you go to the gas pumps, they've got testing done on that, and they've got a sticker that says it's in qualifications, in measurement, and it's right. Now there's a lot of argument about that, but we don't have that in this world, so the electrical companies can just pull anything they want. Not saying they're doing that, but I'm saying they could be. We wouldn't know, we wouldn't have a leg to stand on if we did. So it's been said that uh they're able to do that, and it's also been said that the programming of smart meters does not actually measure your usage like the old ones used to. It actually just uh measures a sample and then artificially figures what the usage will be over a time frame, and it does it every so often. So they're just calculating what you're gonna use. So if they calculate at the minute you're using high usage, and then then they average that for the rest of the day, the month, the week, however they do it, then you're gonna have high usage when maybe you don't. Maybe you only use it a lot at that one moment that they calculated. Uh anyway, I've got a lot of misgivings about their whole system. I don't like their um smart meters, they make noise, and when I'm trying to radio, it makes too much noise. Um, it's just not a good system. I don't trust it either.

Data Centers AI And Grid Strain

Bruce 27:24

But with all that said, uh, why I bring that up is we are getting more and more data centers. Um want more built, they are building some, and that's all for storage, for AI implement, and whatever else they decide to use that for, but it's all for computers. Um they're wanting to build computer systems or calling them data centers to run AI to store information, and all that uh AI that you're using, you know, to make paintings, pictures, and music, that's what they're gonna put in them buildings, supposedly. And that's what takes a whole bunch of power. They're actually claiming right now that uh the forecast is 36% higher than in April's estimate. Other experts warn that the AI bubble or speculative data center proposals could be fueling excessive load growth projections. In other words, we could reach a very high gigawatt potential with what we've got now, let alone what they're planning on building, and it's gonna put so much strain on the power companies that they're not gonna be able to handle it. They can't pay for it. That's why they're charging more money to us as the individual, because they need us to foot the bill so they don't have to. That's what's going on, folks. And I'm I'm here to tell you it's not gonna get any better unless somebody puts a foot down and says, no more of this. We need to regulate it. Uh don't know what the reasoning is why we need so much of that to do what? I mean, really, think about it. All of a sudden they're wanting all this AI power, all this storage power, when for centuries all we had was libraries. And now, anyway, I'm not trying to be an old fart and don't like that kind of stuff because I like using AI and computers, but we can do something different, surely. Um, in fact, a lot of these AIs can be run on a good home-based computer. Now it has to be a good one, but it will run. I'm sorry, had to uh get take a little bit of a swing sideways there away from the mic. I don't know if it picked it up or not, but my cat jumped up on my uh lap and I couldn't see anything. So basically what I'm saying is um they predicted uh by 2030, 2035, um, that they would be using or needing a hundred gigawatts of power. That's what the demand would be, but now they've changed it to 106 gigawatts, which that's just a number. It doesn't make a bit of sense. But then again, if you look at New York City, uh they are predicting that they're gonna need 31,000 they've used 31,471 megawatts of power in their summer peak. So they've got a uh surplus of 40,983 megawatts, not gig, but megawatts. So what they're talking about could run numerous cities and they're gonna use it for data centers. Take a moment, think about that, think about that cost to you. So right now we're already footing the bill because the higher power is paying for that. It's not because powers went up. Hello, they haven't they haven't introduced hardly any extra equipment into the system. That's why everybody's worrying. So we don't have new systems, we don't have new um hardware, but they're raising the price. Nothing's changed. What has changed is they're wanting to pay for all that demand and they don't want to do it, so they want us to do it. Understand what's going on now? Anyway, I better shut up before I make somebody mad, but that's what's going on, folks. We are gonna see more raising of prices because the demand is going up and they don't want to foot the bill. And guess what? It the demand is not us. They might may be telling you that, so you'll cut back. Oh, cut back. Well, they need more power. All that uh power that you see being generated, the extra stuff is going to those data centers. We got a lot of solar farms around the neck of this neck of woods. None of that is going to local suppliers. They are going out. Yeah. Now, if you got one of your own on your house and stuff, you may be seeing that. But I'm talking about the farms. Anyway, I'm gonna shut up before I get everybody mad.

Sunny 33:28

Yeah, you better shut up. You're saying a lot of stuff that doesn't even make sense to most people.

Bruce 33:36

All right, so everybody don't think I'm totally nuts. Let me go back to JLL.com and I'll give you a little bit of sense. How's that, Sunny?

Sunny 33:46

All right, I'm along with you. Let's do it.

The Big Money Behind AI Buildouts

Bruce 33:49

All right, JLL.com has a website and they have a article on that website, 2026 Global Data Center Outlook. And they've got some stuff, but the key highlights is all I'm gonna read to you. Nearly 100 gigawatts of new data centers will be added between 2026 and 2030. There goes in the motorcycle. I bet you heard that. Doubling the global capacity. The global data center sector will likely expand at a fourteen percent G C A G R through twenty thirty, which will require energy energy innovations to alleviate grid can't talk grid constraints. Hyperscalers will remain a key driven of sector growth, executing a dual strategy of leasing and self building. By twenty thirty, AI could represent half of all the workloads with interfering uh interference becoming the primary driver. AI only represented about a quarter of all data center workloads in twenty twenty five, with training driving most of the demand. However, a significant shift is anticipated in twenty twenty seven when interference workloads, interference workloads could overtake training as the dominant AI requirement. The sector is experiencing an infrastructure investment supercycle requiring up to three trillion by twenty thirty. Roughly a hundred gigawatts of new capacity is anticipated to come online by 2020, 26, and 2030, equating to 1.2 trillion in real estate asset value creation. Tenants will likely spend an additional 1 to 2 trillion to fit out their space with IT equipment. So they're pushing us to this AI stuff. So somebody down in the world actually believes they're going to make money off of this eventually. So all them free AI stuff that you're doing, you're maybe you're only paying $20 a month to do it. That's just to get you hooked. They're not making money off of that, but they will eventually charge you for it. So get ready to pay to play. That's what I'm trying to say. And not only is it going to cost more in electricity than you're going to pay for, it's also going to cost water to cool the system, natural resources, and a lot of property. You're talking football fields long to build these things, not just a small building, but you're talking city-sized buildings. Think about it. If you don't believe me, go back and look it up. Get some more information. Don't believe what everything they're trying to tell you, because they're giving you a bunch of baloney to believe in, so you'll get hyped up on this while they're taking advantage of you. I'm telling you. Anyway, I'm really gonna shut up now before I get in trouble.

Sunny 37:40

It's too late, buddy. Too late.

Bruce 37:44

Alright, it probably is. But anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I guess we'll switch over to what, Sunny?

Seven Day Earthquake Report

Bruce 37:57

Earthquake report. Yes, sir. The earthquake report. Way to go. And as I said earlier on this episode that uh we're recording a day early, so the seven days is gonna be overlapping the last seven days by one day. Yes, I can count, but we're still gonna do that because I gotta work tomorrow. So if we look at the seven-day report as of today, and I'm doing this recording finishing up at the end of or the afternoon, so we have a total of twenty two fourteen earthquake all magnitude, which that gives us a twenty-two point fourteen percent, and then for the two point five we had four hundred and seventeen, which gave us an eighteen point eighty three percent, and um for the four point five we had a hundred and seventeen, which gave us a five point twenty-eight percent, which was kind of close to what it was last week. Um, it's still a little bit high in the middle on the four seventeen, but again, we got excuse me, uh some of the I've got one day worth of earthquakes rolling over into this week. So um I'm gonna give you those numbers and then next tomorrow I'm gonna go back and recalculate, and if it's a big difference, I'll let you know next week. But right now, the 6.0 and above earthquakes, we had seven of them. All right. So we'll start at the the beginning, which was you know the latter part of the seven days, or the beginning of the seven days. We had a six point six in Shetland Islands, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, a six point six in the mid-Atlantic Ridge area, and then we had a six point two in Tonga, and then we had a six point two in Samoa, then another six point three in Tonga, which built up to a seven point five in Tonga, and then we had a six point five in Yamata, Japan. I hope I pronounced that right. So total of seven, which gave us a five point nine eight percent total uh for that, and that's a high amount. Um we usually don't have that high of a percentage. Five point nine eight percent. And I think a couple of those will come off, at least one of them will come off uh after tomorrow, so I'll check it again. But again, I I do these uh earthquake reports and they're after the fact, so we don't get anything beforehand, which I wish I could, but as of right now I do not have that capability. Just have to wait and see if something comes up later on. But that's the earthquake report.

Sunny 41:31

Wow, that's not a good one.

Bruce 41:34

No, that's uh a lot of prayers we need to go up for for these areas that got hit. Now a lot of them's out in the oceans. Um so the Pacific holds a lot of that. Um and then there's a lot in uh a few over there in uh the Atlantic. But anyhow, so I don't know what I'm saying is I don't know how much damage occurred uh to those islands and to the people on them. Uh I don't get that news. I wish I did. But we're asking you to pray no matter what is happening, and pray for um the people in the central Midwest that's gonna get hit by these storms. And hopefully, when you hear the news of these storms later on after you hear this or before you've heard this, maybe you heard the news, it's not been as bad as they're predicting. That's what we hope for, that's what we

Thanks For Listening And Where To Find Us

Bruce 42:37

pray for. So, with that said, we're gonna say good afternoon and good evening, good morning, wherever you listen to it from. Um, we hope you enjoyed the episode, and we hope you come back. And to let you know, I am using uh condenser LCT 240 Pro. Uh I originally bought that specifically to use on the podcast, but as you can tell, you probably heard some of the vehicles going by. It picks up really well, and I don't have a soundproof studio, I've just got a computer room that I've got my studio in, and we do um the episode recording there. So it could be a little bit noisy.

Sunny 43:30

Oh, it's not bad, Bruce. We're not reading the book, we're just telling the stories.

Bruce 43:36

Very true. That's why I don't worry about too bad. If I uh maybe if I get rich I will build a studio room with soundproofing and windows so I can watch things happen. But I don't like being that secluded. I like life.

Sunny 43:55

There you go. Good way to say that. Can I say bye to everybody?

Bruce 44:00

Yes, let's say bye to everybody.

Sunny 44:03

Alright, this is the Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast. I am Sunny, and I want to tell you we really appreciate everybody coming, listening to us, and listening to the whole episode. If you're listening to it six months out, a year, two years, we don't care. We just like the fact that you're listening.

Bruce 44:30

Very good said, Sunny. I hadn't actually said that, I don't think, before. That's good. Yeah. Cause a lot of the times we record this. Ooh, I hit my mic. We record this, and you know, we just assume people's gonna listen to it the next day or whenever it goes live. Um, but that's not gonna happen. In theory, sounds good, but in truth, people may listen to it two or three days out, a week out, a month out, a year out, uh, whenever they pick it up. So you said very good words there. I appreciate that.

Sunny 45:09

Well, I'm a good guy.

Bruce 45:12

Well, you may be good, but you're not a guy. Shh. Don't tell nobody. All right, I won't break the news and break anybody's hearts.

Sunny 45:22

Well, I don't think that's gonna happen.

Bruce 45:25

Probably not. Probably not at all. But anyway, we really appreciate everybody being part of the show, um, coming live on our uh flock and listening to this episode. And uh again, we're just gonna point you to the ugly quacking duck.com. Go there and it talks a little bit about us. Uh the episode usually uh comes live there a day or two earlier, and then uh it comes live on the hosting site, and you can download it there too. But go there, you see where we have things set up for support and everything. That's our main contact right now. Uh uh it tells our email and everything on that contact page. So there you go. Do it, man. Go for it.

Sunny 46:23

There

Bye

Sunny 46:24

you go, go for it. I like how you said that.

Bruce 46:27

Well, thank you. We're gonna let you guys go. We do appreciate it. This is the ugly quacking duck, and until next time, 73, and may the god Father's love go with you everywhere. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye. Father, may you bless those that will listen to this episode and may it do somebody good, may they enjoy it, may they find may it find listeners that are like us. And we also pray for all those that's in this earthquake zones that have experienced earthquakes. We actu actually ask you to intervene. Show them your love, show them your blessings, go with them. We thank you for everything you've done. We believe in you, and you believe in us, and that is much appreciated. Thank you very much, Father. It is so always.