We Are Going To The Store

We lose a full recording, hit record again, and turn the do-over into a reminder to step away from the daily noise and look for something good. We share a strange floating store art piece in Toronto, track World Cup news and streaming crackdowns, and end with weather, earthquakes, space weather, and a NASA rescue plan that raises eyebrows. 
• the second-time recording mishap and why we laugh through it 
• a fully stocked floating convenience store sculpture in Toronto’s harbor and how it’s built to float 
• World Cup knockout rounds and the emotions of sudden elimination 
• a short “tone” moment to pause and think about something pleasant 
• the DOJ seizure of nearly 400 illegal World Cup streaming sites and what feels odd about the story 
• quick weather readings across the US and around the world including air quality and UV index 
• seven-day earthquake rundown and a reminder to pray for affected places 
• solar flare and CME talk with a possible July 4 aurora window 
• NASA’s $30 million plan to boost a doomed space telescope back to a safer orbit 

Transcript

Welcome Back After The Lost Recording

Capella 0:00

We are going to the store. 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 0:26

Alright, to the flock.

Sunny 0:28

It's time for the Ugly Cracking Duck Podcast. I'm Sunny.

Bruce 0:35

And I'm Bruce. Welcome aboard. You are listening to the latest episode, episode 150. We are recording it on Janu uh January. Hello. July the 2nd.

Sunny 0:51

Hey Bruce, it is July, you know.

Bruce 0:55

I know, I corrected it.

Sunny 0:57

Alright. I was just saying he.

Bruce 1:00

Alright. Yeah. It's July the 2nd, and we are recording this episode again.

Sunny 1:06

Yeah. Everybody, we had to do it all over because Bruce messed up.

Bruce 1:13

Yeah, I did. I oh boy. I did. I hit the uh wrong button on we was using the beta version and hit the wrong button. And when I came back to it, guess what? Everything that I recorded, 40 minutes of episode gone.

Sunny 1:34

Yeah, you can say that again. Gone. Everything. It was bad. It was a bummer. But we just gave it up. It was time to quit. Start again today.

Bruce 1:47

Yes, we started again today. So to the flock, I'm glad you're here and you're getting to hear this now, whatever day it is. So that's because we succeeded.

Sunny 2:02

Oh boy. Didn't that make you feel better, Bruce? Yeah, I did.

Bruce 2:11

Thanks, honey.

Sunny 2:12

You're welcome. I thought I'd throw that in.

Bruce 2:14

Well, I'm glad you did.

A Floating Corner Store In Toronto

Bruce 2:20

It's very probable that uh folks are wanting to know what you were talking about on that opening statement.

Sunny 2:29

Oh, yeah, Bruce. Well, tell them about the story that you read, and I think you got it pulled up right now.

Bruce 2:39

I do, and I will tell everybody about it. Uh it's a pretty interesting story. It comes to us uh from uh Katie Cohen Cohen. Uh it was written on June the nineteenth of this year, and she I believe it's she is talking about a fully stocked corner store is now floating in Toronto's harbor. And the article goes on, it's got pictures, and I'm gonna put uh one of the pictures on the chapter marker on this episode. So if you've got you know the ability to look at our chapters and the pictures, you'll be able to see it. Um the article is in creativeboom.com and it's in the news section. You should be able to just do a s search for it and pull it up, and I recommend that you go and look at the article, read it, look at the pictures, because it's talking about this store, floating store that they created and put together and uh put it out to uh into the bay, and it's a really neat article, and the store is really neat, and it is fully stocked. Uh, it shows cereal boxes and all kinds of neat stuff. It has uh different flags from different countries inside of it. It's got toilet paper, um it's got crates, and it's got an ice chest on the on it, and it has, let me get back up to the top picture. It has a trash can on the outside, posters on the outside, an open sign, a big banner sign on the very top that says global convenience open seven days a week. It is got an ATM sign in it, it's got flowers on the front of it, fruit. Now the article talks about how they had to lighten the load of everything because they wanted it to float. So how they made, you know, a lot of that stuff out of foam and stuff like that instead of the real material. And they even have a fire hydrant on it. They've got solar-powered lights, and they say it looks really good lit up at night. And the reason I'm bringing this article to your attention is I think it's cool. Yeah. They did a good job of putting it together, and it's floating right now out there in the harbor on Lake Ontario. And the first sentence of the article says there is a convenience store floating on Lake Ontario right now, and it's fully stocked. And like I said, you can get the pictures to go along with that article, but it's very good.

Sunny 5:53

Hey, Bruce, who put that thing together? I bet we all want to know.

Bruce 5:59

All right, well, Sunny, you're alright. We all want to know, and I looked that up. In the article, it says made by Toronto artist Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean with Design Studio Puncture. The partnership of, and then it's got Richard Mayara, Maraja, I'm not sure I pronounced that right, and Spencer. Spencer Carthart. Oh boy.

Sunny 6:33

Yeah, you're gonna be beat for that bad pronunciation.

Bruce 6:38

Yeah, forgive me, people, but you know what? You go read the article and you can get the exact wording, and you don't have to rely on me. Now this sculpture was put in the bay right as the city's preparing to host the matches for the FIFA World Cup. Um, so I haven't heard anybody mention it. I haven't seen it on um any social media, so I don't know. Maybe the people just are not looking, haven't seen it.

Sunny 7:12

Maybe they don't care about artwork, Bruce. You know, there are a lot of people that just don't care.

Bruce 7:19

Well, maybe they don't, but I like it. I think it's great, and I hope you all will check it out. And this story's been brought to you by the ugly quacking down Duck Duck Duck Duck.

Sunny 7:33

Don't forget, the story was brought to us by Creative Boom. And Bruce, you just butchered up our own name.

Bruce 7:42

Oh, nobody caught it. Probably. Maybe. Oh, I don't know.

World Cup Knockout Round High Stakes

Bruce 7:51

We just mentioned the uh World Cup 2026, and I'll talk a little bit about that. Uh, this last week we have entered into what they call the knockout round, and what that is is where the uh teams that have kind of argued for specific slots come back and fight against different teams. Now these tournaments, uh, this section of them uh actually see one player advancing and one, I said player, but team and the other team going home. So the uh games are a lot tougher. Uh they have a lot more heated play because it's for nothing or all. Um so yeah. What was that for, uh Sunny?

Sunny 8:48

Well, it could have been for two reasons. One, you brought up soccer again, and two, because people have to go home, and that's a big boo.

Bruce 8:59

All right, well, I'll let you go with that. I I noticed that you're playing with the buttons again. You like doing that, don't you?

Sunny 9:06

I do. I like having control.

Bruce 9:10

Okay, well, don't get too used to your control. But uh yeah, uh there was some really, really sad players on the teams that lost by one one point. Um, and there's a couple games that I watched where they had to go into um and I forget what it's called, where they they all go against the goalkeeper. Uh they have six players uh shooting, and uh there's a couple games that went into that overtime, and that really makes them sad when they get there and they've just got one goal and it it makes it or don't make it. So there you go. That's enough of that, and I'm sticking to it.

Sunny 10:00

He's always sticking to something. It may not be good, but he's sticking to it.

A Quick Tone For Better Thoughts

Bruce 10:09

Well, I don't know if anybody remembers last episode. If you hadn't listened to it, I'll remind you on this episode, but we have a tone. And when you hear this tone, reflect back on what you're doing at that moment. Um kind of reflect on life and if you're in a problem moment, look at something good. Um if you haven't good in your life, reflect on that and uh enjoy it for the moment. That tone is to get us for a moment to think about something pleasant, something cheerful, something that makes you feel good, uh, whether it be your loved one, your children, uh uh your job promotion, you know, the breeze. If you can get out in nature um during this episode, then that'd be great, but m you you don't know when it's gonna come. But just for a minute. Have a pleasant thought.

Sunny 11:39

I don't think that was quite a minute, Bruce, but that was a good gesture. Um, having a moment of peace and quiet in your life, probably nobody did it. They probably s soon as that happened, they started talking or thinking about what they're doing, you know.

Bruce 12:01

I do know, and if you were driving, that's kinda hard to do. So, you know, there you go. But we're just trying to get everybody a chance, an opportunity to do it um at the same moment in the same time that they're listening to this. Whatever whenever and whatever time they're listening.

Sunny 12:22

Well, I think it's a great job, but anyhow, hi everybody.

Bruce 12:28

You already did that.

Sunny 12:30

I know, but it's fun.

Bruce 12:32

All right, I'll let you go with that. That's fun. Um, yeah.

Sunny 12:39

You know, Bruce, you're all the time trying to come up with some new fangled thing to do.

Bruce 12:48

Well, I don't know about a new fangled thing, but I do have um from time to time, not very often, a new idea, you know, to try to get out there to stimulate people and get them thinking about something besides the constant junk in the news and the constant worry and the constant work, work, work, work, go home and sleep, work, work, work, go home and sleep, work. I mean, you know, it's kind of drudgery, so if I can bring something different in from time to time, that's what I want to do. So there you go. I'm guilty.

Sunny 13:31

Alright. I didn't mean to say that you was guilty of anything.

Bruce 13:35

Yeah, you did. You're picking on me.

Sunny 13:38

All right, maybe I did.

Bruce 13:40

Alright. That that's fair, that's fair.

DOJ Shuts Down Illegal Match Streams

Bruce 13:44

Well, speaking of being guilty, let's talk about soccer.

Sunny 13:51

No, not again.

Bruce 13:55

Uh this is a little bit different though. You know, everybody wants everybody that likes soccer, I'll I'll put it that way. Everybody that likes soccer wants to watch the game live if they can. And I've tried to watch several of the games because I enjoy soccer. Um we won't get into that. But anyway, um there has been a lot of live games broadcasted, but there's only been a few companies legally able to broadcast. And when I'm talking about broadcasting, when I'm actually talking about live streaming on the internet, uh the rest of the people that's doing that are not legally doing it. Uh, so they are uh cheating people out of their money. And I'm not sure how that's possible because the people are actually getting live. But anyhow, the DOG D.O.G. dog. The DOJ shut down nearly 400 sites that was hosting illegal World Cup live streams. Yep, that's what they're saying anyway. 400. I didn't see any of them, but I I really didn't look. But you could find it if you had uh Peacock or Fox. Um and Fox it was called Fox One, I believe. But anyhow, the whole point is our Justice Department has butted in, I mean, got involved. So the U.S. government is cracking down on illegal streams of the World Cup matches. Yep, that's right, folks. They seized nearly 400 websites involved in the unauthorized streaming of VIFA World Cup matches in violation of the U.S. copyright law. So there you go. Uh the countries that they were coming out of were P Peru, Bulgaria. Additionally, they also found some disruptions in Crocea. Cro Yeah, Crocea. Crocea. How come I can't say that right? Romania, Poland, and Colombia. Now, if I was trying to say Crocea without reading it, I wouldn't have that problem. But anyway, there you go, folks. That's news of the day, and this news actually came out on the 29th. Um, I'm just now getting it out. But I thought that was interesting. Our lovely US legal system has shut down nearly 400 sites. There you go. Way to go, guys.

Sunny 16:57

Now, Bruce, you almost sound like you're making fun of them.

Bruce 17:03

No, I'm not making fun of anybody. I just thought it was strange.

Sunny 17:09

Uh how? Because they're shutting down illegal sites?

Bruce 17:14

Yeah, because they're shutting down illegal sites that went against our law and none of them were in our country. Just kinda odd. I don't know what's going on there, but I think we're only getting half of the information as usual.

Sunny 17:30

Oh, so you weren't making fun of them. You was making fun of the news article because it wasn't telling the truth.

Bruce 17:41

Well, I wouldn't say it wasn't telling the truth. It just seems like there's more to the story, ain't there always? Okay.

Sunny 17:50

I understand.

Bruce 17:52

Yeah, sure you do, but anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Weather Snapshots From Around The Globe

Bruce 18:00

Well, as most of yans know, it's warm outside. Downright hot.

Sunny 18:10

Yeah, I think we know that. Anybody that's been near the window knows that.

Bruce 18:17

Yep, so we are gonna go over the weather here quickly. Uh, we just wanna kinda see what everybody in the world's weather's like. So, real quickly, we're at my house, 99, according to our thermometer. Yep, 99. Now, uh the good weather channel has Mount Vernon at 94 degrees, which is down the road a little bit. So I guess that's possible that five degree difference, but I don't know. Our temperature is always different from everybody else's here, and I'm not sure why. Wintertime or summertime, it's always different.

Sunny 19:02

Well, that's because Bruce, you're different.

Bruce 19:06

Is that what it is? Just because I'm different, the weather's different.

Sunny 19:11

Yeah, you're way different.

Bruce 19:15

All right. Well, thanks for that vote of confidence. So the weather in Mount Vernon is right now 94 degrees. Uh, the uh wind is coming out of the south-southwest at 5 miles an hour. Humidity is 53 percent, and the UV index is 9, so that's that's pretty high. The air quality is 59, which is moderate. It's not real great. That's probably the humidity causing that. The pressure is 30.05 and dropping. Visibility is 10 miles an hour, or 10 miles 10 miles, not 10 miles an hour. We can see for 10 miles. There you go.

Sunny 20:04

All right, Bruce. If you will pull up the Australian plane, I'm gonna do that. Okay, thank you. In Australia right now, it's a really, really nice hot weather day. And I am being sarcastic. It is 47 degrees there, and it is right now the wind is at 15 miles an hour out of the west. It is 86% humidity, which is really high. And of course, because it's nighttime there, the UV index is zero, air quality is twenty four, the pressure is thirty point zero seven and rising, visibility is 10 miles, and that's the weather from the ugly cracking duck podcast, and I am sunny.

Bruce 21:05

All right, Sunny, that's a good report. Um, Spokane, Washington is what we're doing right now, and it's 72 degrees there, which is nice. Winds out of the south-southwest at 5 miles an hour, humidity is 34%, which is kind of uh UV index is uh high at 8, air quality is 22, which is really good. The pressure is 29.91, which is falling, and then the visibility is 10 miles.

Sunny 21:41

All right, Bruce, if you will pull up uh Phoenix, Arizona for me. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. It's 98 degrees there, and that's really cooler than us. That's strange. Okay, it's 98 degrees. The wind's out of the south. At six miles an hour, humidity's six percent, which is kind of low, but it is a desert. UV index is 11. That's really, really high. Air quality is 30. Barometric pressure is 29.81 and falling. And visibility is 10 miles.

Bruce 22:23

Alright, thank you, Sunny. And I am going to do uh Beijing. Beijing is at 77 degrees right now. Their wind is coming out of the north-northeast at 2 miles an hour. Humidity is 86%. They're very high. UV index is zero, of course. Air quality, are you ready for this, folks? 203. Very unhealthy. Very. And the pressure uh is at 29.68 and falling. Visibility is six miles. And I wonder why. Probably because of the what uh the air quality.

Sunny 23:11

Alright, Bruce, if you pull up uh Moscow, I'm gonna do Russia. So Moscow right now is at 74 degrees. The winds out of the southwest at 7 miles an hour. Their humidity is at 69%, which is kind of high. UV index is zero, of course. Air quality is 59, and the pressure there is 29.80 and falling. Their visibility is six miles, and that's kind of weird. I wonder why. Their humidity is really high, so maybe that's why.

Bruce 23:50

That is interesting, Sunny. I wonder why their visibility was low like that. Anyhow, uh Tokyo's the next one on the list, and it's 71 degrees there. Everybody's in the 70s except for us in the United States. Well, even Spokane was 70s. Alright, anyway, it is 71 there. The wind is coming out of the north-northeast at 4 miles an hour. Their humidity is 87%, uh, air quality is 44, pressure is 29.82 and rising, and their visibility is nine miles. And did I say that is Tokyo? I think I did.

Sunny 24:36

All right, Bruce, if you will pull up Paris for me.

Bruce 24:40

I pulled that up the other day, and it usually keeps it, but it didn't keep Paris, but it's up now.

Sunny 24:48

All right, thank you, Bruce. Paris, right now, they were going through a heat wave, but not any longer. It's 72 degrees over there right now, and the wind is 10 miles an hour out of the north-northwest. Humidity is 56%, UV index is zero, of course. Air quality is 23, pressure uh is going up at 30.25, and visibility is nine miles.

Bruce 25:20

Well, you know why it may not have saved them because I didn't hit my as my favorite. So there you go. Uh it's technical error by the operator. So let's, while we're doing it, let's do England because they were having the heat wave also. Uh last week it was like 100 degrees over there. So London, England today is 71 degrees, and their wind is coming out of the north at 8 miles an hour. Their humidity is 39%. UV index is zero. Of course it is, because it's nighttime, and the air quality is 31, which is good. Uh barometric pressure is 30.28 and rising, and the visibility is 10 miles. So there you go. There's around the world temperatures and uh UV air quality and humidity all wrapped up and brought to you by the ugly quaggy duck.

Earthquakes Plus Solar Storm Outlook

Bruce 26:25

Alright, folks, let's talk a little bit about the earthquakes. Um give the seven-day report. Now, like I said previously, I've uh instead of grouping up one weekly number um report, I'm still gonna kind of do that, but uh I'm actually recording a daily report of the earthquakes, and uh also I'm trying to keep track of the solar information, the flares and stuff like that. We did have an X1 flare back on the 30th, so it's heading this way. The uh CME is gonna be hitting us. Actually, I think there's let me read that real quick from spaceweather.com. He says 4th of July Aurora's predicted. Multiple CMEs are headed for Earth, including one launched by the June 30th X Flare. A series of direct glancing blows beginning on July 30th could spark G two to G three class geometric storms over the fourth of July holiday weekend. Sorry about the way my voice sounds. I've shut the door to my stove studio so I get some quiet and it's really affecting my voice. Probably my allergies is what it is. But he goes on and says Aurora visibility will be uh midig mitigated by one, a bright moon, two, short nights in the northern hemisphere, and three the Russell McFarran effect, and I'm not sure which that is. I could look it up, but I'm not going to, which suppresses Saltus Auroras. Nevertheless, there could be a light show, especially in northern tier US states. The best time to look is during the dark hours around midnight. CME impact oh never mind that. He has if you want to go to spaceweather.com, he has a CMN CME impact alert uh text that you can sign up for. Um and this paper or page is written by Dr. Tony Phillips. Um he's had 30 years of forecasting experience. So there you go. I'm not getting my information from any Tom Dick or Harry. I've actually got a page that uh I feel he's qualified to predict the wet the weather from the solar disc.

Sunny 29:18

Wow, Bruce, are you gonna survive?

Bruce 29:23

I don't know. Um we'll see.

Sunny 29:26

Well, we've only got a few more minutes, so hang in there, buddy.

Bruce 29:31

I will. Thank you for that. So what they're saying on the Fourth of July may be interesting uh for more than one reason, but I won't get into none of that for now. But anyhow, let's talk about the earthquakes. Looks like our seven-day report, uh, we did that yesterday when we were trying to do our uh actual recording, and the podcast did not make it. Um but anyhow, when we did that, uh we had an overlap, and I'm gonna go ahead with that report. If you listen to the report from last week, we had three earthquakes that happened in the evening after I recorded my last report. And so what happened is I gave the seven-day report, and I recorded about 3 30, 4 o'clock, which is 3 08 now. And uh, hang on a second.

Sunny 30:34

I think you better take a break, Bruce, before you lose your voice. So we'll be back, folks.

Bruce 30:39

The report for last week had three earthquakes, and then they overlapped from this week. So all together, the seven-day report that we have for this week was eight six and over earthquakes, and that's a pretty good amount. Uh that's a very big amount and I'll go over those real quick with you. We had a seven point five in Venezuela last week, a seven point two in Venezuela last week, and then a six point nine in Japan last week. And then rolling over we had a s one a six point five on the twenty sixth, and it was in the Philippines, we had a six point one in Afghanistan on the twenty-seventh, and then we had another uh six point oh in Mexico on the thirtieth of June, and then on the first of July, which was yesterday, we had two. We had a six point oh in uh NOTA, Japan. I hope I pronounced that right. Maybe Noda. And then another six point oh, and it was in Mexico uh El Progreso, and both of those that was in Mexico on the 30th and the first. Um and they've had the part of the games of the World Cup in Mexico, and they've had earthquakes too. Now they were quite a distance apart, but they still had earthquakes down there.

Sunny 32:36

Well, Bruce, you sound a little bit better. Maybe not a lot, but a little bit better. A little bit better.

Bruce 32:46

I'm not sure that was a vote of confidence or um a slap on the back or just a chance for you to do a little singing.

Sunny 32:54

Maybe a little bit of both. You'll never know.

Bruce 32:59

All right. Uh anyway, folks, that was the basic rundown of the earthquake report. We're not doing it as drastic as we were in the past. Uh, but we hope we get something out of it too. Again, pray for those places that have had people with earthquakes and deaths and destruction. Venezuela is having a lot of trials right now, so keep your positive thoughts or your prayers going towards those people, okay?

Sunny 33:34

Alright, yes, we will.

Bruce 33:38

And I forgot to mention that as of today, right now, and it's 3.54 as we're still recording this episode, we have not had any 6.0 earthquakes. So, yay! But we've had some pretty big ones up to a six, so who knows uh what it will bring.

Sunny 34:01

Well,

NASA Tries To Save A Falling Telescope

Sunny 34:02

for our last news article, Bruce got a daring story about what NASA's trying to do to save a Dune space telescope.

Bruce 34:15

Well, thank you for that introduction, uh Sunny. I'm not sure that it w was necessary, but thank you anyway. Yeah, um NASA has a satellite telescope that is orbiting the Earth and supposedly, and it's coming down. Uh they said it's coming down fast, a lot faster than they thought it would. And they've been running for the last year trying to find ways to save it. This observatory was launched in 2004, and uh they've used it quite heavily to search into the cosmos and seek information, and they're not wanting it to come down. They're not wanting it to burn up in our atmosphere, so they are trying a very brave rescue. They have uh gave a quite a sum of a contract to a company called Catalyst Space, an aerospace company based in Flagstaff, Arizona. And the contract they won or was awarded, I don't know how they got it, but it was awarded thirty million dollars to build the ship that's going to fly up there, attach a rocket or a booster or somewhat, or maybe it was going to be the booster. I didn't finish reading the article. The thirty million dollars threw me off. But uh they're gonna attach this uh booster to the falling spacecraft, and it's gonna push it up into the better orbiting or orbit and keep it from falling and burning up in the atmosphere. And that's their story, and they're probably sticking to it. It's an eight hundred and eighty-pound, five-foot-tall link spacecraft with a custom robotic capture mechanism that will attach to a feature on the satellite's main structure. There you go, folks. So NASA has found another way to spend thirty million dollars. Plus, wait, let's not forget that they've got to put it, you know, the spacecraft up on some kind of launching pad, and then they have to have manpower and fuel to get it up. So I don't know if they're gonna use a rocket launch or if they're gonna use a plane launch, because looking at it, it looks like a rocket that could be launched from a a jet or something, but who knows? Um, and like I said, I uh after the $30 million contract, I kind of got a little frustrated and I quit reading. So if you want to find out more information, USA Today has it on their webpage, and that's where I found it. And let me scroll to the top of it and read it. Inside NASA's Daring Race to Save a Doomed Space Telescope. So you can look that up. It was uh June 28th when it was uh printed, and uh they updated it on July the second, which is the day I'm reading it. So there you go. Uh excuse me.

Sunny 37:56

You're just gonna say excuse me and leave that, aren't you?

Bruce 37:59

Uh yeah.

Sunny 38:01

Alright.

Support The Show And Stay In Touch

Bruce 38:09

Hey, hey, hey, we've come to the end of our program, our recording, and if you're hearing this, you know what that means, folks?

Sunny 38:18

It means they're hearing it, duh Bruce.

Bruce 38:21

No, it means that we actually got the recording recorded for the second time, and we have been able to do the audio adjustments and get it uploaded to our hosting page without any more hiccups. Well, any more major hiccups. That's a plus. Yay!

Sunny 38:45

Yeah, yeah, it is a plus. I know where you're going with that now. Yes, we want to thank you all for coming aboard and putting up with us, and the fact that you heard us means we succeeded.

Bruce 39:01

Yep. It only took us two days to do a 40-minute episode. So, what do you think about that, Sunny?

Sunny 39:08

I think we did a good job. Yay, yay, yay. Yes, praise the father.

Bruce 39:14

Yes, praise the father, and let's go ahead and go with Capella.

Capella 39:19

There are many ways you can show your support for the Ugly Quacking Duck podcast. First, simply keep it 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. Equipment, hosting, 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.

Bruce 39:57

I really do enjoy the way that um AI voice um and it took uh quite a bit of um tinkering to get everything in there that I wanted, but I I spent an afternoon and I did the uh introduction and I did the outcome, and I've got another introduction that I play sometimes, but it kind of overlaps this value for value ending. So but that's the only AI I use to help me with the episode. Now, when I do post it on my hosting page, uh they have AI that uh helps do dedicate, not dedicate, but um acknowledge where the the chapters should be and the chapter titles and stuff, and I have to go in and make sure they're in the right spot and adjust the chapter titles and stuff, but it cuts down on my labor time, and um it helps me to write a blog post, which I use, and that's um why I'm saying that is because um everybody's using AI, and I use it a little bit for that purposes there. I've kind of had fun with it a few times on the podcast where I've asked um Capella, that's the voice I use for that AI, um, questions, and they went out and searched for answers. And I don't get into anything real serious with it because uh if you knew the way AI worked, you would know that it's not telling you any information that it can't say, okay, and formulate an answer is that's what it should be, not what that is. So if you asked it what the color blue is, it wouldn't be able to tell you what the color blue is. It'd just be able to tell you what uh answer is most commonly used. And I don't know if that makes any sense, but it's not really an AI. Sunny, you want to tell them where to go to check out our webpage?

Sunny 42:15

Okay, Bruce, go to the uglyquacking duck dot com and you'll find a webpage there that's got information about us, and it's pretty neat. Check it out.

Bruce 42:28

All right, thank you about that. And we've got an email at the uglyquackingduck at gmail.com, and that will get an email to us. We also have just on our description of our podcast, any version two, Apple does it, Spotify does it, it's a link in our description. You click on that, you can leave us a text. It says, send a fan mail. So go in there, send a fan mail. So if we ask any questions, you can answer it and tell us your opinion. There you go. Again, we want to thank you for tuning in and listening to our talking. We hope you enjoyed some part of it, any part of it. And hey, it's a 4th of July weekend, so we are celebrating 250 years in this country, and um that is kind of great and kind of spooky. There you go. So, folks, with that said, go out and enjoy the 4th of July. This episode will be coming out uh Friday evening. Uh, so it'll be out before the fourth. Uh we hope that uh you get to listen to it sometime during the weekend. Uh, don't interrupt your fourth plan, though. Good grief, don't do that. Be careful, because I think the heat's supposed to stick with us and everything's supposed to be bad. So, Sunny, anything you want to say?

Sunny 44:02

I just want to say thank you, everybody, and Bruce, thanks for having me aboard.

Bruce 44:06

All right, folks. This is the ugly quacking duck, and we're signing off.

Sunny 44:11

All right, bye.