¶ Natural Disasters and Family Updates
What did you just do ? You found us Awesome . Welcome to the Ugly Quacking Duck .
Podcast . It's amazing that you found us . So on with the show .
Well , hello everyone out there in the world .
Hello people in the Midwest , hello Southern .
Illinois . Yep it in the Midwest . Hello Southern .
Illinois . Yep , it's good morning .
Good afternoon , good evening .
Wherever you are , wherever you're at there , you are , yep this is . Ugly Quacking Duck Podcast , and this is episode 28, . Believe it or not , oh , wow , yeah , 28 .
And I've been with you a lot .
Yay , yes , you have . Hello Sonny , hello Lily , hello Cool having you aboard . Yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , very cool , all right , now that we have the introductions .
I'm bruce and I'm li and I'm Sonny .
Yep .
And I'm Fred .
Hi Fred .
I'm Fred oh .
Well , whatever , I don't know who I am half the time .
Oh Okay .
So before we get started with anything wild and crazy , Get crazy , get crazy , get loud . I'd like to take time out to say hello and a shout out to the North Carolinas and Tennessee . They just had that horrible Hurricane Helena go through .
Helene .
However you pronounce it , but anyway , they've suffered a lot of loss of life and property Horrible .
Very .
And from what I'm hearing excuse me , by the way , from what I'm hearing they're not getting a lot of help from our government , but that's not surprising . But the citizens are stepping up and I'm proud of that . I want to say our prayers are with you and positive thoughts are going out to you guys and I hope you're making it all right .
All right , and then let's turn our sights to Florida . They just went through one .
Not one , but two .
Yeah , you're right . Yep two , Helene and milton . Yep , and milton was thought to be a big one that's going to crash some really big time .
But it was a medium kind of one . Yeah , it kind of went down .
Uh , it started out and build up to a five out in the gulf , but time it hit landfall , they were saying it was a three or maybe even a high two .
I think I heard a three yeah it could have been a lot worse , but they'd already been hit by one , had damage and then had to get hit by two , another one , which probably caused a little bit more damage and wait , there's another one coming up into the gulf .
Yep , I forget what . What its ?
name is . I think it's like hurricane lion , I don't know I was gonna look it up .
yeah , I don't know , I was going to look it up .
Yeah , I don't know , didn't do my homework , sorry , folks . I didn't do mine either .
And you know , believe it or not , my throat was doing really good or my voice really good , until we come in here and sit down .
Yeah .
And as soon as I did , oh boy .
It was crazy .
Who are you calling crazy ? You oh , huh . Well , you're a bum .
I know that . Anyway , guess what .
Oh Lily .
Chicken butt .
I got a text from your mom . Guess what she called me .
A bum .
A bum . Yeah , can you believe , called me .
A bum , a bum , yeah . Can you believe that ?
Yeah , yeah , okay .
A bum , I told you .
Yeah , you told me .
If you were in the Midwest out here where we are you would have saw the Northern Lights .
Yes , indeed , and go ahead and talk about that subject .
Yeah , it was wild . It was really pretty too .
It was awesome .
Yeah , you couldn't really see it outside , but you could see it a little bit outside . But when you got your phone out and took pictures you could really see it like . So the northern lights were like pretty cool . What was your perspective ?
I thought they were awesome yeah and uh , thanks to a solar flare that was uh threatening our power system because it was so big and so fast coming . I don't think I heard of any damage . Um , there may have been some , uh wait , there was radio .
Wait , there was a solar power solar flare .
Yeah , that's what caused that . Uh , yeah , and that's why we got to see it all the way down southern Illinois .
Oh yeah , because usually it's like not even here , like usually , it's like in like Antarctica or other places .
But Antarctica is the most place where they have it like every single day . But they said it was going to be seen all the way down to Arkansas . I actually heard one report that said all the way down to Arkansas . I actually heard one report that said all the way down to Texas , so I don't know . Maybe I don't know , Excuse me .
What is neat about that is we actually got to go out . We loaded up in the car last night which is a 10 , 10 , 24 , 2024 when we headed out to a site that has very low light pollution and we got out there and parked the car and got out and took our phones and took some incredible pictures . It was awesome , guys . I mean really I enjoyed it .
Yeah , I got some good ones too .
Yep , you did , and if anybody's interested in seeing some of those , we will post them on our website . I've already got a post on there oh yeah , yep , I put them on first thing this morning before we started recording and that post went out to all my subscribers so they automatically knew that it was there . But it was there they look really cool .
Yeah .
Especially my wife's phone and daughter and now my phone . It's easily blurred so they didn't come out as good , but you could still see the colors . That's what was neat seeing all the colors . Yeah , it was beautiful , I enjoyed it . We got out there about 8.40 , I think , and then we left about 9.30 . So I guess we was out there about an hour .
Yeah .
And you could see it on the horizon when we first got out there , and then it started growing and the streaks of color went all the way up to about 11 o'clock position , if you was holding your hand up like a clock yeah and then they slowly started decreasing once again , and then we decided to load up and go home .
We felt like we'd actually accomplished something , mainly because in the past we'd loaded up and went running and we never could find them anywhere .
Never . I mean not never , but yeah , it was awesome .
Well , I didn't get to go again , thank you .
Well , you know , we can't just take you running around , especially at night , you'll get lost .
Oh , that's not true .
Well , just in case , we're not going to do that .
All right . You're a bum .
Sunny stayed home with me , yeah .
I was not home alone .
I don't think anybody would trust you being home alone .
Thanks , All right , yeah , we won't even get into that . So , lily , how's school been Good ? And she's stretching , so hang on a minute .
Good , it's going good . I got glasses .
Yep . Got brand new ones Black rim glasses .
They look good on you . They're actually like cheetah print , kind of oh they are yeah , yeah , yeah , nice . They do look like black rim though .
So school's been going good , yeah , awesome .
Well , I'm glad you're getting some fun in . I have to stay here all day long .
Well , you didn't want to go to preschool , so duck preschool . That sounds terrible , is fun , you get nap time and you get like a lot of play time he does that all day long .
What do you mean ? He don't have to go anywhere he needs to learn , you know hey , won't you try opening that studio door ? Maybe that'll get some air circulating . Maybe that'll help me .
Okay , hold on yeah maybe that'll help you .
Grouchy . What do you mean Grouchy ?
Well , you sound like you are .
Well , no , no , I think we're good . Thank you , we'll see what happens .
Yeah .
Have you heard about Wyoming ? No , supposedly , or apparently . However , you want to say that Wyoming has 73,000 acres burning . Yeah , I heard about that on some social media , so I haven't confirmed that .
Let me look it up real quick .
That's what they're saying 73,000 acres burning 73 ? Been burning for quite a while 73,000 ?
Yes , 73 .
Been burning for quite a while 73,000 ?
Yes , wyoming , it's like the first thing that pops up is Wyoming fires .
Yeah , what do they say about it ?
Someone commented on this article . These fires are acting like a teenage boy . Why is that no ?
idea , okay . Well then , it's true , there's a big fire in Wyoming . They showed a picture of the antelope , I think it was running through the fire , because they were scared don't know what to do , but that's a lot of acreage being burnt .
This was two days ago .
Yeah , I bet Wyoming's full of smoke .
It is .
Yeah , that's terrible .
Yeah , that's terrible . Yeah , that's terrible . Think about all those animals not being able to get out of there .
Yeah , I heard that it was a wildlife estate reserve or something , but anyway . And then on the other side of the wildlife , california is having a bunch of earthquakes , from what I've heard , yes , I did hear that Micro earthquakes .
I heard that yesterday they had 53 . Really 53 . Like they were up Wow . Someone said that there was like 10 in the morning , like it was crazy , and then they said that there was more today .
Yeah , there's not been a whole lot , has there .
There's been 20 today . From right now I just looked , there's 20 . There's one going on right now . I have it pulled up on my phone . It has caused 10 homes to fall down .
Oh , then it's been heavy enough that there's damage .
And don't know if it's true , but one death . Wow , that's sad Because it got crushed by something .
Oh man .
Yeah .
Not good at all , and that's why we like to report the earthquakes , because it brings everybody's knowledge and don't mind my typing in the background . I'm just looking at the hurricane all right , the attitude , the information , level up so that they know there's .
You know , it doesn't take just storms , but other things are happening in this world taking lives and damaging property . Florida before that , uh earthquake , uh , milton hit , they were actually getting um tornadoes .
I was eating dinner at lunchtime at work in my truck and I was listening to ryan hall on youtube and uh , what are you looking so weird about the computer ? Just shut off . Hall on YouTube . And uh , what are you looking so weird about ?
The computer just shut off .
Oh well , you wasn't looking at it anyway . Maybe it got scared and shut off because you wasn't paying attention .
I was looking at how many deaths there were .
Yeah , that's our other monitor . She's talking about it , just shut off . Well , oh , I know why I shut off well , let's pause this for a minute , folks , we'll be right back . All right , we're back and I fixed the monitor what it is .
We got an extra monitor that um I can see yeah , she can see while I'm running my laptop and I had it plugged up and it's a monitor-computer combo and it runs on battery part of the time , but I forgot to plug the AC into it to keep it charged and we got an hour's worth out of it before it died . But that's what's going on .
We had to reset it , put a power supply on it , so we're back up and running Running .
Interesting .
Now repeat what you said to me while we paused .
There were , I think , altogether from North Carolina and South Carolina there were 227 deaths for now .
For now what they've discovered . Yes , that's way too many folks , Way too many .
And then a man lost 11 family members , so he lost all his family that was with him in North Carolina .
Yeah , that's terrible .
I mean , that is terrible , Like I said we need to keep our prayers on those people , on their loss of family friends . Yeah , this says that Florida will take about six months for it to get fixed . And they said North Carolina and South Carolina are unlimited time .
Yeah , I've heard that they're not going to fix a lot of those cities , they're just going to bulldoze them in .
This says that it might take over three years to fix North Carolina and South Carolina .
Not good . So , what I was saying . I don't know if I finished , but Florida , when Milton was coming in , I was eating dinner , which was about 11.30 am , and I was listening on my phone to Ryan Hall .
Y'all .
Y'all . Yeah , he's a weatherman on YouTube .
He does , uh , he does live streams .
Yep , when there's a storm , he does live streams . Anyway , he was doing a live stream and I was catching up what was going on with Milton .
And then when I came to come here to stay the night because my mom had to work , he was on and we were watching it while I was eating my dinner , which was around I would say 7 or 8 pm when I was there and I ate my McDonald's and Sonny was sitting on the other couch and we were all watching Ryan Hall y'all .
Yeah , it's pretty interesting . He does a good job . He has people working for him .
And Sonny was running around .
My mom .
All right , we'll pause for a minute and let her talk to her mom .
Okay , sorry about that All right .
Well , you know , what I was trying to get at was there was like , while I was watching , eight tornadoes . Now this was in front of the hurricane . What a lot of people don't realize . Apparently there is , or tornadoes created in front of hurricanes from the hurricane . Yeah , from the hurricane now behind it you don't get that , but you get .
Uh , on the south side of it , apparently , you get a lot of wind and water , but anyway , I have earthquakes and jokes , so we should probably do that right now there was eight tornadoes and there was a town I can't remember the name of the town that had three tornado warnings at the same time , three different ones . So that was was interesting to see .
But okay , it looks like Lily's going to have to be going home here pretty soon , so let's have a earthquake report .
Welcome to Lily's earthquake report .
¶ Earthquake Guessing Game
Yay , okay , for anybody that's not listened to us in the past , what ?
we do is ? I go on this website and it has earthquakes .
I get to guess too .
I get to guess I get to guess , and so does Brooke .
That's Bruce to you . Thank you , brooke . Anyway , I got Sonny broke of saying Brooke , so don't start him in again . Good grief , brooke .
I hear Brooke , brooke . You know one of the reasons Bruce did not like to be called Brooke why ? Because he couldn't use his little AI to type up a transcript because it spelled Brooke wrong .
That's true . If I have to pay to get that transcript printed up , I don't want it printed up wrong and I really don't want to go through and edit it all the time , but anyway . So what we do is a seven day report . We go back seven days to see , I go back seven days .
Yeah , to see how many earthquakes there's been , and we do them in three categories All 2.5 and over , and then 4.5 and over .
And the one that tells us all , which is the US one .
And then we compare them to the last episode , which has been quite a while .
And we see who gets it right .
Yeah , we see who gets the closest guess . It kind of makes a little bit of joy and fun out of bad news , because earthquakes , tornadoes , hurricanes are bad news .
Really bad .
We hear people suffering , losing life , losing property . So if we can make it a little bit less , what heartbreaking we will . Yeah , All right , I'll shut up and let Lily go take over .
Well , hello . Okay , so last week's earthquakes , which was 9-29-24 , we had that's more than a week ago , anyway , yeah a week ago . That's anyway , yeah , yeah . So we had 1839 um earthquakes in all , and then we had 216 for 2.5 and then 80 for 4.5 2.5 and then 80 for 4.5 . So , sunny and Bruce , I'll take it . What was the number again for this ?
I mean for last week .
Yes , which one total 1839 , so 1839 .
Eight hundred and thirty-nine so one thousand eight hundred Eight hundred and thirty-nine .
One thousand eight hundred .
Thirty-nine .
Eighteen , thirty-nine , all right , all right , I'll let you go first , sonny .
No , I don't want to you go first .
How about I pick who goes first ?
All right .
Sonny go first . All right , I think you said 1839 , so I'm going to guess 1925 .
That number sounds familiar . I think he's guessed that in the past .
He probably has .
He's probably stuck on that number . Maybe that's why he's winning all the time . All right , I agree with him . It probably went up .
What was your answer , Sonny 1925 . She said something like that in August . I just saw , oh okay . It was 1919 . So , 1929 , you said Sonny 1925 . Oh , sonny 1925 . Oh 25 , 25 , 1925 , 25 . I got it now , sonny . Thank you very much .
Okay , he sounds like a teenager , doesn't he ? Maybe he is . We never did figure out how old he was . Anyway , I will beat him and say 1935 . 1-9-3-5 . So there you go .
That's cheating . You shouldn't guess so close .
Oh , that's the way to win .
Okay , I don't know who's closer to this one . So , brooke I mean Bruce you can do the math .
Okay .
The number in total is 2019 .
2019? .
So 2019 .
No , yeah , okay yeah .
Yeah .
Okay , well , I got it . Then I finally beat Sunny .
Boo Boo .
That's not fair . Actually , for my lack of notice , you beat Sunny last time I was on here .
Really .
Yeah , did I really , you really did .
Two in a row , that's not bad . Not bad at all , okay Well , yeah , so it was night 20 . What 2-0 , what ?
2019 .
2019 . Is your soda getting watered down now that you're getting to the ? Bottom oh it's gone , yeah , sorry . Yeah , I can hear hear you sucking on that straw yeah , large , I mean not a larger medium yeah , that's what I got root beer , yay , right , so what was it ? 2.5 .
Yep 2.5 .
No , what was it ? 2.5 numbers .
Yeah , I know . Anyway , I just heard someone crack something , something break out , I don't know that was a ghost what ?
Yeah , that was a ghost .
No , it was Ed pooping .
Hey , that's your mom . Oh , there's a cat in the toilet .
Oh , do you guys hear that ? Anyway , this , that's my arm of my chair .
I'm not farting so okay , you know what ?
I'm not editing that out at all okay , so so for the 2.5 , we have 300 .
That's up too .
So it did go up .
Yeah .
The last one was 216 and it's 300 this week .
All right , what's the 4.5 ?
82 . Last week's was 80 . So it went up two times .
¶ Dare to Dance Alone
So it was two earthquakes .
Two earthquakes , two earthquakes , so any 6.0s or higher .
No .
That's a good thing .
That's surprising ? Yeah , because last week we had one which was 6.3 , which was the 29th of September .
Well , that's good news , because they wasn't as bad but there have been many , many more , and what it normally does is it goes back down .
Yeah , it does go .
And then we have some bigger ones at the six-point level .
So we didn't have anything go down this week , we had everything go up this week .
Yep , that's a good thing . I like it . No . I don't like it . No , because it all went up yeah .
I think what you like is that you just got it right .
Yeah , I am very happy .
I'm happy . I'm happy , you're a bum .
Bum , bum , bum , bum .
You're just jealous .
Yes , I am .
Well , you , you're just jealous . Yes , I am well you had your opportunity . I mean you did good , okay , what a full month okay , guys , okay , all right well we're not gonna get hey , you dropped your phone , wow .
So I've got a surprise for our listeners . By the way , thank you for tuning in to the ugly quacking duck podcast podcast if you're new listener , I hope you stick around and come back . If you're a previous listener and you're back , thank you , we appreciate everybody and we hope you share us with your friends now , that's how we grow pops .
Yeah , this joke relates to your incident last night oh well , hang on , I'm .
I'm welcoming our listeners .
Sorry .
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By the way , lily , yeah , just so the audience know , I'll tell you again . I went back . I got rid of the pod mic . Yeah , I went back to my old old , reliable . Yeah , that's what we're on now . So I've got a rope from it so .
Mike and I've got just a cheap II regular dynamic mic that I'm using and Lily still has her new dynamic Mike , what is that thing about ? Two months old , three months months old ? I got it in what July ? I ?
lost my joke .
She likes it . It sounds good . She sounds good on it .
It picks up pretty good . I got my joke .
But on the laptop I had trouble with that new update Audacity . Yes , I had trouble with that new update Audacity and I just deleted it and installed the older version that I've used for years . My laptop was not meaty enough powerful enough to run the newest update . It kept locking up and jumping . It was poopy . Yeah , it was not good .
Like my , it was poopy . Yeah , it was not good .
Like my arm is poopy . So we're back to basics and we like it . It sounds good .
Not my actual arm , it's the arm from my microphone .
Yeah , it's wore out . It keeps dropping . I'm going to have to order a new one . Get her fixed up . You're picking that up , I know ? Okay , I'm going to have to order a new one .
Get her fixed up . You're picking that up . I know I have my joke .
Can I say it now ? Yes , lily has her joke .
Wait a minute . This one relates to hey , that was cool . It's a joke that I found that it would relate to your incident that you had last night .
All right , you're going to tell the world about my incident .
What happened was he was trying to get a cat and there's this step that's taller than the other steps and he didn't put his foot up like good enough and he fell and he hit his knee , his elbow and his toe , and now his toe is sore Anyway .
It hurts , guys , but that's all right .
What's the best way to get to the hospital after breaking your toe ?
I don't know , sonny .
I don't know .
A tow truck . I don't know .
A tow truck . Hey , I get that one . Ha , ha , ha ha .
I got that one too , Thank you , you're welcome . I hope our listeners enjoyed that joke . That was a better one than some of them .
I know Some of these don't even make sense .
Yeah , they don't . They're kind of , but that's better one than some of them . I know Some of these don't even make sense .
Yeah , they don't , they're kind of , but that's why they're called dad jokes .
Yeah , and I bet they came from you .
But no , but I'm sure there was some dads that did it . It was fun , funny .
Anyway , is it time to wrap up ? No , oh , we got . Uh . I want to tell them about uh . There's a lady on tiktok that sings and plays music and I've been listening to her and I contacted her a few weeks ago and I said I'd like to use your music on my podcast and uh , would that be okay ? And she said yeah , so I am , I'm going to use that .
Now I found out she's in north carolina , or anyway , that's what the tiktok location says , which worried me . I wouldn't . I haven't heard back from her as of yet to see if she's okay .
It's very concerning because we don't know what's happened to her . But she did post a video five hours ago .
Well , that's what TikTok said . I don't know if I believe them or not , but anyway , I want to dedicate this song to her and the rest of the North Carolinas and I want you listeners to enjoy it . I'm just going to play the audio straight from her , tiktok , so you're not going to be able to see the video , but I hope you enjoy it .
I'm trying to find out if she's got any place that you can donate to or if she knows anything about value for value , so we can get her some revenue coming in from her music , because it's awesome .
And her voice is wonderful . She's really good .
You may not like this style of music , but don't shut this off because of that . Listen to her voice and her heart . That's why it caught me . So her name is . Her name is Carla Davis and her TikTok's Carla Davis Music . So I'm going to mute our mics and let her play .
Beautiful .
Thank you for watching . Beautiful . Thank you for watching . I wrote this song with Georgia Middleman and Gary Burr to just phenomenal songwriters in Nashville , and my babies are sleeping and this is a special song to me . It's called Dare to Dance Alone . Thank you for watching .
Who cares if there's no one to hold you ? No imitations on the telephone . You still hear the music , don't you Dance alone ? Who cares if life don't turn out like you planned it ? You still feel the rhythm in your bones . And the truth is you don't need Someone else to lead Dance alone . And when you make your move , take that leap of faith .
You see how easily your steps fall into place . At first it might seem Kind of scary when you do , but just know that we're all out there dancing too . So maybe while you're spinning in the darkness You'll stumble on a style that's all your own . And wouldn't it be sweet To sweep your own self off your feet Day to day . It's alone .
And when you make your move , take that leap of faith . You see how easily your steps fall into place . At first it might seem kind of scary when you do , but just know that we are all out there dancing too . Who cares if there's no one to hold you ? No invitations on the telephone . The invitation's on the telephone . You still hear the music , don't you ?
Did it ?
dance alone , did it dance alone , thank you for watching .
All right , thank you . I want to give thanks to Carla .
I guess I'm back just in time .
You got back just in time . Carla Davis for taking time out in her life to go to the garage when her babies are asleep and create this beautiful music . She does a good job . We hope her and her family is safe . We just pray for all of them .
Some background noise there .
Yep . I bet you can't guess what that was .
My drink , yep Anyway .
I bet you can't guess what that was my drink . Yep , that was her drink .
That was her straw .
My straw .
That was the last straw . Okay , nobody laughed , so I guess I didn't get a good one out there .
Oh , the last oh .
Oh , oh , yeah , yeah . All right , all right . A couple more notes of interesting information . I just found out it was snowing in South Africa . What I actually seen . A video of it . How weird is that .
Very , I'm going to use the bathroom real quick so you can go ahead and keep talking , but I'm going to use the bathroom .
All right , snowing in South Africa and in the Sahara Desert there's been flooding , yep . So I think we're seeing some biblical stuff happen and there's no telling what's coming next . And no , don't get on the computer , all right , sorry about that . Uh , extra distraction . Uh , we got this big old tomcat weighs a ton .
He just jumped up on my laptop keyboard uh stopped the program . The computer went to go into shutdown mode , luckily , um , I got a stopped before we lost everything . Yeah , boy , could have been bad man . We've been recording for 44 minutes and we could have lost it all .
But I shoot him off , got him out of the studio and got everything turned back on just in the nick of time . So there you go .
¶ Global Crisis and Faith in Creator
All right , everybody , I appreciate you tuning in .
So do I .
I hope you enjoyed the music and the news .
We didn't get to tease around or anything very much today because there was so much news to cover and we normally don't even talk about the news , but this was a little bit different , man , there's a lot of people suffering for this , and not only do we have the hurricanes and the tornadoes and the fires , but there's a war all over the middle east hurricane
russia , iraq and israel yeah ukraine yeah , it's . It's horrible . The world's kind of went nuts and there ain't no listen my hip talk . There ain't no human that's going to be able to fix it . The only thing that's going to be able to fix it is our trust in the Father and the Creator . So keep that in mind and we will say goodbye to everybody .
Oh yeah , goodbye everybody . Oh yeah , Goodbye everybody . Thank you , thank you .
Alright 73 . And may may Yahuwah bless everyone .
And God bless .
Bye , bye , bye .
Thanks again .