March 3, 2025 • 54 mins
We tackle the significance of names, exploring how they shape identities and relationships. Dive into personal stories, political updates, and our plan for a weekly live show that fosters listener engagement.
• Reflecting on the importance of names and nicknames
• Announcement of the new live podcast series every Friday
• Local weather updates relevant to listeners
• A light discussion on recent political news
• Sharing personal anecdotes about the name “Popeye”
• Philosophical questions surrounding the meaning of names
• Discussing the name of Jesus and translations throughout history
• Encouraging community involvement and listener feedback
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Bruce (00:04):
Well, hello everyone, it's that time again.
Sunny (00:09):
What time is it Bruce?
Bruce (00:12):
It's time for the new episode of the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
All right, we got it in syncthat time.
And yes, it is.
It's time for the Ugly QuackingDuck Podcast.
Welcome aboard everyone.
If you're a new listener,please stick around.
If you're one of our old andfaithful ones, I hope you're not
(00:35):
too old, but if you are, you'relike me and you're just going
to enjoy life, right?
Sunny (00:41):
Um, I don't know, probably not.
Oh, whatever, whatever, oh,whatever.
Bruce (00:54):
Sunny say hi, all right, this is sunny and I'm with the
ugly quacking duck, and this isbruce and I'm with the ugly
quacking duck and we're herethis weekend for another episode
, and this one's going to beshort, I promise you.
I've only got a couple newsclips I want to talk about.
I want to talk about myone-on-one new thing I'm going
to do.
It may be long.
(01:15):
I've got a couple other thingsyou can't never tell about me.
Sunny (01:19):
Oh, that's for sure, we can't never tell about you at
all.
Yep, that's for sure, we can'tnever tell about you at all.
Bruce (01:27):
Yep, that's right.
So anyway, I hope everybody hada great week.
This is Sunday afternoon.
We also recorded a live show.
It was a test run.
Plans are that we're going todo that live show every Friday?
Plans are that we're going todo that live show every Friday.
(01:48):
So if you subscribe to thewebpage, you'll get an email
showing that we're live, and ifyou have a Podbean app that's
(02:11):
P-O-D-B-E-A-N Podbean app onyour phone and I think it will
alert you when we go live.
If you're trying to follow us,I may have to put some kind of
little pod or episode orsomething on there for it to
save, so you'll be able to findus, but anyway you can.
If you don't get alerted, wewill be on there probably on
(02:33):
friday afternoons, but hangaround.
It'll take us a couple weeks tofigure out exactly what we're
doing and then we will gosomewhere else and do it again.
Sunny (02:44):
Oh, good grief, It'll take you months before you even
figure it out, and then you'llbe going the wrong way.
Bruce (02:52):
Yeah, you're probably right, but anyway, that's the
game plan.
Guys, we're going to do thatand the plan is we're going to
do a local live show, talk aboutthe weather for a few minutes.
It's going to be a short live,probably 15 minutes.
Then we'll do the earthquakereport, the seven-day report we
normally do on our recordedpodcast, and then when we do our
(03:17):
regular podcast, which willeither be Friday afternoon or
Sunday, we will have thatrecording of the live show
embedded in that podcast, soyou'll get to report that way.
Anyway, the hope is that wewill be able to get some live
(03:38):
audience followers here locally.
Or, if you're not locally doingit, you could still enjoy it.
You get to hear my beautifulvoice.
Sunny (03:50):
Oh my no, no, no, no.
Bruce (03:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sunny (03:56):
Oh, no, no, no no.
Bruce (03:59):
All right, but anyway you get to hear Sonny and I live If
you follow us.
You can do that.
And then hopefully later onwe'll get some sponsors, some
businesses around our location.
We're going to do it forsouthern illinois I just hit my
desk, what do you think aboutthat?
(04:19):
And then we're going to go fromthere.
Anyway, this is in the earlystages.
I just pre-tested the live.
We we've done a live show acouple times before, but I never
invited anybody, never sent anyinvitations out, because
basically we was just trying itout and that's probably been a
year or two ago.
(04:40):
So podbean offers it and I cando it with a free account, where
buzzsprout, my main host, doesnot offer live.
So that's why you're going tohave to go to podbean, do the
app and look us up there so youcan uh, find us and listen.
But again, subscribe to theuglyquackingduckcom website and
(05:08):
then I'm going to send out anemail right before I start and
it'll probably be on Fridayafternoon.
So if you're free, you can hearus live.
If you're not, I'm sorry.
If you're working, that happensto most of us.
Anyhoo, what do you think,sonny?
How's your week been?
Sunny (05:28):
Oh, it's been crazy.
It's been warm, really warm.
All the snow's gone.
I've had to play in the mud andthe pool and, oh boy, it's been
fun.
Bruce (05:41):
Yeah, the snow is all gone and the mud is.
Oh boy, we've got lots of mud.
We've had sun the last few daysand wind.
You know, march has rolled in.
Well, by the way, happy marcheverybody.
Uh, we are on the second, Ibelieve.
Let me look, I don't want tolie to you, but I could have
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swore it said the 2nd, yeah,march the 2nd.
On Sunday afternoon we are hereand we will just, it's a little
bit colder, cooler I should saynot cold, but cooler today than
it has been.
It is right now, come on, 43degrees here in southern
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Illinois.
Our local hometown is 43degrees.
Sunny (06:32):
That's why you're wearing a coat.
You're too cold, you big baby.
Bruce (06:37):
Hey, sonny.
Yeah, that's probably right.
Anyhow, that's what's going onwith us, and I hope everybody's
had a good weekend.
It's almost over.
That's such a bummer, and Ihope you've had a good week last
week.
We're starting a new week today.
I hope this week is well on itsway to being a great week, yay.
Sunny (07:01):
Yay, I hope it's great too.
Bruce (07:05):
Yep, okay, so that's what's going on with us and I
don't know when I'm going toplay that recording for the live
, but I may have a little bit ofa story to talk to you about.
I'm going to go on and look upmy news things and we'll be
right back in a bleep.
All right, sonny, are you readyfor a little bit of news in the
(07:29):
news corner?
Sunny (07:32):
oh, good grief, you still call it that well, yep,
nobody's told me any other names.
Bruce (07:38):
I'm waiting for our contributors and followers and
listeners to say hey, I got anidea, maybe we can use it, but
nobody said anything.
You got one sunny well, no okay,so news corner it will stay.
We'll wait to the next timearound.
(08:00):
Maybe somebody'll give ussomething.
So for the first bit of news,I'm going to go a little bit
political, maybe a little bit,but hey, just recently President
Donald Trump has ordered theTreasury Department to stop
minting pennies.
Yeah, you heard me right.
(08:21):
You may have already heard this, this, but I thought that was
an interesting story.
I didn't even know he had the.
I know he has the um power towrite um a lot of things and
control a lot of things, becauseit's set up that way,
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especially things as um has beenstarted by previous presidents.
But I don't know about thetreasury um if you can just
order it without the congress'sconsent.
So we'll see where this goes.
But apparently each penny hasbeen costing $3.69 to produce.
(09:06):
Now, did you hear that Onepenny, which is supposed to be
worth one cent, is worth $3.69to produce it?
You're talking about inflation.
Sunny (09:24):
What does that mean?
That means we're spending moremoney to make them than we're
using them for.
Bruce (09:33):
Yep.
Apparently they made 3.2billion pennies in 2024.
Now that's a physical year,2024.
Guess how much that cost thetaxpayers 3.2 billion.
(09:53):
Well, that would be what you'dthink, because you'd think a
penny worth a penny is going tobe 3.2 billion, if it made 3.2
billion of them.
But no, it actually cost us,the taxpayers, $85.3 million.
Wow.
Sunny (10:18):
That's a lot more, isn't it?
Bruce (10:21):
Yep, that's a lot more, and that they didn't add the uh,
the actual penny value intothat.
So if you took 3.2 billion outof the 85 million, uh, wow,
(10:41):
anyway, there you go.
So he said nope we're going toquit minting them, so we'll see
what happens.
Sunny (10:54):
Does that mean all the pennies are?
Bruce (10:54):
going to disappear.
I really don't know what'sgoing to happen.
Sunny (10:57):
To be honest, We'll have to wait and see.
Okay, we'll wait and see if youhave any comments out there.
Let us know what you guys think.
Bruce (11:10):
Oh yeah, If you got any comments and you want them read
online, we can do it.
Sunny (11:16):
Oh, we can do it for sure .
It's the Ugly Cracking Duck.
We can do it.
Bruce (11:24):
Alright, way to advertise .
I appreciate that and I guesswe're still recording, because I
had hit a button and, yeah, itlooks like we're still recording
.
So, yay, okay, how about onemore bit of news?
Sunny (11:41):
Okay, one more bit of news.
I'll let you go there.
We've only been recording forabout 11 minutes, so that'd be
good, yeah, I think so.
Bruce (11:51):
That'd be good.
All right, let me pull it up.
All right, sonny, have you everheard of the comment?
Oh, my gosh, omg.
Uh.
No, all right well.
Sunny (12:03):
OMG, Uh no.
Bruce (12:04):
All right.
Well, I said, oh my gosh,there's actually another phrase
word at the end they use.
But I'm not going to use that.
But where do you think thatcome from?
Sunny (12:15):
What OMG?
Probably social media, no media.
Bruce (12:21):
No, the oh my gosh phrase , which is actually used
differently than I used it, butyou can use the right word if
you want.
Sunny (12:41):
I don't want to, but it was originally used back in 1917
.
Bruce (12:44):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that's the right way touse it, but it was used,
apparently, in a lever Lever.
Sunny (12:53):
Hello Lever.
Bruce (12:54):
Yeah, it was used in a ledger.
Oh, good grief.
Sunny (12:59):
Are you going to be able to talk?
Come on, let it go, buddy.
Bruce (13:08):
All right, here we go again.
It was used in a letter tochurchill in 1917, supposedly,
and it was uh, used apparentlyto quote that there was a new
order of knighthood in thetappery or in the tapestry, or
however you say.
That um coming on, basically,and they, he said at the end of
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it, omg.
But he said, oh my blank.
And um, it went to the admiralchurchill or admiral somewhere
anyway.
That's when it was first used,1917.
Never did catch on with theBritish or the British Churchill
(13:54):
or anybody else, but apparentlysometime later it caught on
here in the US.
Sunny (14:02):
Oh, we're good at catching on all the junk.
Bruce (14:05):
Boy, you said that right, but don't say it again.
Sunny (14:09):
All right, I will.
We're good at catching all thejunk.
Bruce (14:16):
Okay Well, that wasn't quite the same, but we'll call
it even and we'll move on, okay.
Okay Well, speaking of oh mygee or oh my gosh or oh my blank
, which I don't like to use thatword in vain, and I still do
occasionally and I'm sorry, butanyway, I got a little story to
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tell you guys and that will leadme into that word, that name.
When I was a young man, veryyoung child, I discovered that
my physical dad, my earthly dad,had a nickname.
You know, I always called himDad or Pa or whatever mood that
(15:03):
I was in, because, you know,when I got to be a teenager, I
kind of changed what I calledhim.
I remember him looking at mereal funny when I did it, but I
really meant it in a sincere,loving way, and I think he
realized that.
So he just kind of tilted hishead, looked at me and then
walked on, but that's not partof the story.
(15:25):
Um, when my dad was a young manum, probably in his teens, maybe
a little bit younger he workedin the lumber and he uh ended up
building up some pretty goodarms.
Uh had some really big forearms.
(15:45):
Now he wasn't a tall man, buthe's pretty stout and uh, one
day come along and there, Iguess there's some young boys
out there while he was workingin the wood in the lumber, um,
teasing him, and I think therewere some girls present.
(16:07):
That's probably what startedthe whole thing.
You know they want to show offfor the girls.
You know how that goes, guys,you remember those days.
Some of you still do it.
But anyway, if, uh, if you'reyoung and doing that, maybe you
understand the story.
But anyway, they startedpicking on my dad and uh, I
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guess this went on for a longtime before he got fed up and
when he got he didn't tell mewhat they was doing to pick on
him or if they was actuallypicking on him.
But he grabbed the biggest boythere, grabbed him by the arms
and the hips and, with his armsbent, he picked him up in the
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air and then set him on the backof the wagon that they were
using to haul the wood and fromthat point on, them boys left
him alone and I can honestly sayI understand.
But from that point on he got anew nickname and it was.
(17:21):
Brute.
Oh no, but that's pretty closebecause it's the same cartoon.
Sunny (17:31):
You didn't know that, did you?
No, I don't even know who Bruteis.
Bruce (17:34):
Well, that wasn't his full name or his correct name.
I think it was Brutus.
But anyway, they startedcalling him Popeye and he grew
up with that nickname andeverybody that knew him
personally knew him as Popeye.
(17:54):
When he got to being an adult,most of the people that knew him
from around mill shows where hewas born knew him as Popeye.
When he got married he wasstill called Popeye.
When he worked at the companieshe worked for that was his name
.
They knew him by his nicknamename, um, they knew him by his
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nickname, popeye.
Um, a lot of them knew him bypopeye and his last name.
He was a preacher.
So a lot of times he was calledpreacher man, but they also
knew him as popeye, popeye thepreacher.
Um, what was funny about thatnickname is that, uh, the Popeye
cartoon, which was a comic bookstory at the beginning, I
believe, if I remember correct.
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But he liked to eat spinach andmy dad hated spinach.
He did not like it at all.
So I think that's why thenickname actually stuck, because
there was a kind of acomparison there that stuck with
him because of the cartoon.
And as he got older, like Isaid, everybody knew him in fact
(19:05):
when, uh, robin williams donethat popeye movie.
My brother come over to thehouse that's when he was still
alive and he come over and saidyou got to go watch that movie.
He said it looks just like dad.
Now dad had been gone forseveral years but I wouldn't
watch the movie.
Sure enough, it looked a lotlike him because somehow he had
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puffed his face out, robinwilliams I mean I don't know if
they did it with makeup orexercise or what and he carried
a pipe, bit down on that pipeand it made his jaws look.
And I'm telling you he lookedjust like my dad and I think I
hit my microphone cable.
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Even the arms, the forearms.
If you'll go watch that oldmovie of Robin Williams playing
Popeye, he had big forearms andthat looked a lot like my dad.
But the story goes thateverybody called him Popeye.
That knew him and that was hisnickname.
I knew him as Dad and his legalname was Blah Blah and his
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legal name was blah blah andwhen he went and signed legal
papers he signed it by the namethat his parents gave him and by
the name that the state hasgave him.
That was on his birthcertificate and so that was his
name that he was went by then,but he, whether he's Popeye, my
dad or preacher man or his legalname, that guy was the same
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person, no matter how you knewhim.
A lot of times people are alittle bit different, but he was
the same person, no matter howyou knew him by and who you
talked to.
And now, when he was younger,he was a little bit different,
but one day he found God andturned his life around and from
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that point on which I was bornafterwards, everybody knew him
to be the same man.
Now the whole point of thisstory is I've been contemplating
for a long time what is thereal name of jesus, what is the
name of god?
Because there's many, manytimes in the bible where it
talks about, if you call upon myname, if you ask the father in
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my name, and, uh, it wasn't realclear, but I do know that the
name jesus come from like 1600,1617, when they translated the
um aramaic, aramaic, and thatwas from the hebrew.
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So there was a difference intranslation already, and then
they translated it into OldEnglish, I think, or Greek, and
then Old English, but anyway,and the J wasn't even present
back then.
It was I-E-S-O-U-S or U-S-O-Sor something.
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It was a little bit longer name.
It was pronounced different.
The Z sound didn't come tolater, the J sound didn't come
to later and it was alltranslated from a translation
that was translated from anothertranslation.
So I always wondered what thetrue name was and I had fought
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with that for years trying tofigure it out.
My wife has been on a hunttrying to get the right name
because it's just bugged both ofus you know, especially when it
says if two or more aregathered in my name and if they
call upon my name name and itreally makes you wonder if we're
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doing the right thing.
And there's been so many groupsout there with newer
translations that translationback to the hebrew and um, which
you know.
If you go back there and startcalling that name out and
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there's most likely not going tobe very many people that knows
that name because, especiallyhere in America, we've all grew
up with the name of Jesus as theChrist, the Savior, the
Anointed One, so it reallybothered me what to handle that
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with.
And then one day I was thinkingabout my dad and other things
about him.
But then it dawned on me thatwhat we used to call him.
I called him Dad.
On me that what we used to callhim, I called him dad, and what
everybody else called him waspopeye or you know.
Very, very few people evercalled him by his first given
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name, unless they didn't knowhim real good, a lot of people
from the churches called him youknow that, or preacher man, but
they still was thinking aboutthat same person.
Now they may have called himthat because of the title, but
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they were still thinking aboutthe same person.
And I run across these versesI've heard before.
Now this is in a Geneva version, I believe it is, and they
didn't translate Jesus with a J,they were before that.
They had it in I-E-S-U-S.
So I think it's I-E.
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I don't know how to evenpronounce that, but that's how
it says it.
But I've been replacing thatwith Yahuwah.
Uh, is that right?
I think that's right, but just.
But I'm going to read it asjesus, because that's all we've
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come to know all of us.
Even if you're not a follower,you've heard that name.
You know what I'm talking about.
You know the person I'm talkingabout, even if you don't know
any other name.
So I'm going to say that nameis his nickname because
everybody knows him by that name.
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So now, when jesus came into thecoast of Sicily, philippi, he
asked his disciples saying whomdo you, who do men say that I,
the Son of man am?
See, he called himself the Sonof man and they, they said some
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say John the Baptist, if youdon't know who that is, that's
for another day, another story.
And some Elijah or Elias,that's an old prophet, and
others Jeremiah or one of theprophets.
So in other words, there'smultiple names.
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They were calling Jesus and hesaid unto them but whom say you
that I am?
Then Simon Peter answered andsaid said thou art that christ?
Or another translation wouldsay thou art the anointed one,
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the son of the living god.
See, his name was not revealedto any of us.
At that point jesus realizedother people called him by other
names, other titles.
But they knew who he was.
He was a man that would healpeople, forgive them of sins and
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come across the church leaders.
And, uh, there was a lot goingon with him.
But he wanted to know who hispersonal disciples called him
and they said you are theanointed one, the son of the
living God.
Now a lot of people believe thatthe word God has been
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retranslated and changed.
Some believe on purpose, and ifthat's so, that's fine.
We can call him by another name.
But when I say God, most peopleknow that's the Heavenly Father
that has created everything.
If you don't know that oraccepted that, then you need to
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do something different with yourlife.
But then Jesus answered andsaid to him Blessed art thou,
simon, the son of Jonas, forflesh and blood has not revealed
it unto of reminds me again Isay that in a live version, but
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of school when we'd start a newclass and a new subject.
A lot of times it was a 101, itwas the basic.
Let's get down to thenitty-gritty and start talking
about that.
So when I started episode 101,I started thinking well, you
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know, I think I'm going to do alittle bit more in the bible, a
little bit more for christ, theanointed one, and for the father
, and I may lose some followers,may gain some more, I don't
know, but I'm doing this for ahobby and for enjoyment and
(29:03):
hopefully to help people out.
So if I, this is the last ofsome of you, bye, I'm sorry to
lose you, but if you stickaround, hey, that's great.
We love you All right.
So the reason I brought thatstory up is my dad was known by
several different things.
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I personally knew him as dad,pops or father, and he was a
loving man that took care of me,right.
So I'm not going to say thatnames does not matter, because
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they do, but the man or thebeing, the creator that you know
, you know there's the key thatyou know.
You know there's the key.
If you know him, when you callupon that name, he will hear you
.
Now, he's not some idol thatwe've carved out of rock, stone
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or concrete, wrote on paper ormade a painting of.
He's not the name's not awitch's spell to be cast.
No, it's a person to know, aliving, breathing, understanding
, energy of life, creator of all.
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So if we get wrapped up intrying to figure out the exact
name, we're not looking for theright thing.
We're looking for the exactname and not the person that
we're calling upon.
And again, I'm not going to saya name doesn't matter, but
what's more important is who wecall upon.
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Who are we saying?
Just like he asked hisdisciples, whom do you say I am?
Is he king of your life,creator of your life, or is he
some speck of dirt that you justsay blankety, blankety, blank
to every day?
There's my thoughts on it.
Sunny (31:23):
I appreciate you listening well, that was deep,
really deep.
I think I'll have to wow yeahwell, I appreciate that.
Bruce (31:36):
And now we are going to go into the live the recording
of the live show, to give you anidea of what we're doing and
there, at the end there we'llcome back and say bye, but I'm
going to play that and thenwe'll give you a little bit more
of a bye and then we'll comeback next, next week, hopefully
(32:00):
that's the game plan.
I think we're going to starttrying to do it weekly.
Uh, maybe we can make itshorter, more uh, precise, by
doing all this, because when westarted doing it every two weeks
, it got where I was forgettinghow the equipment was set up and
I was studying, I was gettingtoo much stuff to study and the
(32:23):
time just, it just didn't workout.
So we're going to keep it, tryto keep it weekly, I think, as
long as time will permit, andwe'll see what happens.
And so, if you're not signed up, I'll go over this after the
live.
Let's go to the live.
All right, that didn't turn outas good as I thought.
(32:48):
This is Bruce from the UglyQuacking Duck and you are
getting the live broadcast ofthe Ugly Quacking Duck and we're
trying this out today.
Oh, wait, a minute.
Sunny (33:01):
Yeah, wait a minute.
This is Sonny from the UglyQuacking Duck.
You about forgot me, Bruce.
Bruce (33:08):
No, I didn't, but I was trying to get on with the live
broadcast.
So, anyway, or live show, let'scall it a live show.
Um, I'm still trying to doradio, and this ain't radio
close to it though oh, you'realways trying to do radio.
Sunny (33:27):
Where's your music?
Bruce (33:29):
well, you know, that's one of the reasons I got tied up
into podcasting, because it wasvery similar to having a show,
radio show and I was hoping oneday I get to play some music.
But that's for another day allright.
Sunny (33:46):
Yeah, we're cutting this short, right that's right.
Bruce (33:49):
Okay, this is our first live broadcast.
Well, no, I shouldn't say that.
When we first started, we triedit out uh, just tried to test
it and then we recorded it whilewe was doing it and then we
played that on our podcast.
And that's what we're going todo today.
We are testing out our liveshow.
(34:10):
Uh, we're going to try to dothis every week.
We'll set the date.
That way everybody can find us,and if you have a Podbean app
you should be once we start youshould be able to type it in and
find our live broadcast.
So, with that said, we're goingto tell you what it's about.
(34:32):
We're just right now.
Plans are to do it once a weekand then we're going to
basically do a local show andwe're going to talk about the
weather here in southernillinois and then we're going to
go from there and do theearthquake report.
Sunny (34:53):
So it won't be very long of a show uh, the earthquake
report, so it won't be very longof a show.
Bruce (35:01):
You say that every time we do a podcast.
You know that verse well,that's true.
But, uh, we're going to try tokeep it short.
We're going to record this aswe go and, hopefully, as we go
(35:42):
through the months, the weeks,days, months, years, however
long it takes.
Maybe we can get them involved,get some more people involved.
We'll just have to see how itgoes.
But this, uh, this test is goingto be recorded and put on with
our 101 episode, episode 101,and that episode just kind of
reminds me of school when he'sgoing to start you out on some
kind of subject.
You always went to the 101class or the very beginning, and
(36:07):
, even though we've been at thisfor a while, we got over the
hump and we hit over 100episodes.
This is 101 and we're going todo a little bit of a change.
We're going to start doing thelive on to the episode and we're
all going to also going tochange a little bit of the
(36:27):
subject matter we do now,because we're doing it live and
we're recording it, we won't beable to do any edits yeah, you
know what that means.
Sunny (36:40):
That means, if you screw up, we can't fix it yep, that's
right.
Bruce (36:47):
If I mess up, we can't fix it and that's going to be a
rough one, um, so I'll try notto mess up a whole lot.
But you know, live alwaysmesses up and I'm not listening
to the audio as it goes out.
Actually, I'm listening to itas it goes out of my mixer, but
(37:08):
I'm not listening to it on theend of the live part because
there's delay and it.
It just doesn't sound right onmy end.
So I'm just just playing it,hoping it works, and we'll go
from there.
But stay tuned.
I'm going to give you a datethat I'm going to try to do this
each.
It's probably going to beFriday, friday afternoon, maybe
(37:29):
Friday morning, I don't know.
But we'll work on it and see,because Fridays I usually try to
do a little bit of work towardsthe podcast and then Sundays I
try to record it.
So we'll see how that works out.
But we're going to run rightinto the weather for the day.
Sunny (37:49):
All right, this is going to be local weather, right?
Okay, so what's it going to be,bruce?
Bruce (38:00):
Well, actually it's.
What is it today?
Are you ready for this?
Here in southern Illinois it's70 degrees.
That's right, we are onFebruary, the 28th Friday I
forgot to mention that, but itis 70 degrees, it's sunny, the
humidity is 30%, the winds 17miles an hour and it's air
(38:26):
conditioning.
The air condition not airconditioning, but the air
condition is 35.
So that's good, but to give youa comparison, what are you
going to compare it to?
I'm going to compare it tophoenix, arizona phoenix,
(38:49):
arizona, isn't that hot oh yeah,so we'll see what the weather
compares to on most days.
Right now in Phoenix, comparedto our 70, it's 80 degrees.
They have a humidity of 12%,where we had 30.
And the wind is blowing a wholenine miles an hour.
(39:13):
At least they're still gettingwind Again, we got 17.
And their air quality?
I said condition a while ago,but their air quality is 38.
So it's still good, looks goodthere.
I wouldn't mind visitingArizona.
Maybe that'll happen one ofthese days.
Sunny (39:34):
All right, you'll be stuck here forever.
Bruce (39:39):
Well, probably so, but but that's where it goes.
So um what'd you think?
of the weather reports so far.
Now I can get a little bit moredetailed, like later on.
Maybe you give you the nextdays, uh, what the next day's
weather is supposed to be.
In fact, let me do this.
It's booting up folks, don't goaway.
(40:04):
Okay, we have a waxing crescenttonight.
For the moon, the moonrise willrise at 6.54 amm.
It's going to be daylightbefore it comes up.
Uh, the uv index is zero of 11.
(40:26):
I'm not sure what that means,but it looks like the forecast
is going to have rain in itTuesday, wednesday, somewhere
thereabouts, and they'llprobably change it before we get
there.
But that's what they're sayingright now, and it looks like the
highs are in the 40s and 50sall the way up until next week,
(40:51):
next Monday, and I'm not talkingthis Monday, I'm talking the
Monday after it.
So a week from this comingMondayay they're saying 68
degrees.
I like that.
All right, we'll get out ofthis, and then we're going to do
the earthquake report.
So let's go to the earthquakereport, shall we, sonny?
Sunny (41:16):
All right, I get to guess .
Bruce (41:18):
Yes, you do.
Sunny (41:20):
All right, I want to guess, so tell me what it was
last time we reported it.
I don't remember.
Bruce (41:28):
Well, that's a fair question.
Last time we reported theearthquakes which was on 2-8, no
2 2, 16 should be about twoweeks ago.
It was a total of 1952, which Isay was a good year.
And did it go up or down?
(41:51):
Sunny give, give us a report onthat.
Sunny (41:57):
All right, aren't you going to give me the count, dan?
Bruce (42:01):
Well, I would, but no, because I'm going to have to
find it and I don't want to takelong to do it.
We'll do more pauses the nexttime we do a live, but this time
we're just going to do it thisway.
Sunny (42:16):
All right, I guess that's fair.
Uh, so, uh, the count was 1952,so I'm going to say it went up
and I'm going to say 23, what 23?
25, 2.25.
2,325.
Bruce (42:38):
All right, sonny, you're getting back into it.
I know there, for a while whenLily and I was doing it, you was
guessing it almost on the nose.
Well, you did Almost on thenose one time and then for about
a month or two you was guessingit so close it was scary.
But it's kind of fell off.
It's not doing the normalpattern that it used to.
(43:02):
So anyway, seven-day allmagnitude 2527.
So you guessed 2325.
So you was close, 2527, whichmeans just went up.
And the 2.5 and overearthquakes for the last 70 days
was 310.
(43:23):
Last time we now have 286.
So this is following the, theway it usually does.
We have more earthquakes butthe higher ups go down.
So the 4.5 and overs was 125last seven days, or the seven
(43:47):
days the last reported sevendays I did this time around the
4.5 and over were 100.
Okay, so that looks good.
So, as I said in the past on onmy reporting, I just report six
(44:07):
and over earthquakes todesignate where they were.
So last time around we had a6.0 earthquake in ethiopia and
the rest of them, which wasthere's 124 of them, were 4.5
and over but did not cross thesix point threshold.
(44:29):
This time around there was a4.5.
There was a hundred of them,but only two of them crossed
over the six point somethingthreshold.
One of them was a 2.5, whichisa good thing.
(45:05):
Hopefully they're releasingsome of that tension.
We won't have any big ones.
But there you go.
That's the weather locally fortoday and that's the earthquake
report seven days back up untiltoday.
I hope you enjoyed this liveshow.
I hope you come back for it thenext time we do it.
(45:27):
Email me.
Once we get this started andyou guys start listening to me,
you'll have to start emailing meand tell me what you think.
But again, we're going to startit.
Once it starts, I starttransmitting broadcasting,
streaming, however you want toput it this live show.
(45:49):
It will put up a flag andyou'll be able to type in the
Ugly Quacking Duck show and itshould pull me up.
If you've got a Podbean app, itshould pull me right up and you
should be able to listen to thelive show.
I think you might be able toreact to me and chat with me.
(46:10):
I'm not sure and that may takeme some getting used to, also
because my laptop's a littleways away, so I may have to get
away from the mic and type andwe'll have to see how that goes.
If it works well, I may have toget a bigger desk, but that's
later on down the road.
Sunny (46:35):
All right, well, thank you for letting me come on the
live.
Bruce (46:40):
You are welcome.
I wasn't sure if I could getall our mics plugged in and
working, but I was able to getthe mixer plugged in, so we'll
see how this works out when weplay it back.
But if all works, this livetest is going to be recorded.
I'm going to download it andadd it to the episode 101, so if
(47:05):
you're listening to it afterI've played it and you're, it's
recorded.
Now you know what to lookforward to.
So, once again, we giveeverybody thanks and we hope to
catch you live and I hope youcome and listen to our podcast
and you share it with people.
All right, guys.
Thank you very much, and that'smy noise for the live show.
(47:33):
So 73, and we'll let you go.
This is Bruce and this is Sonny.
Sunny (47:43):
Bye.
You know that was fun makingthat live.
I hope we start getting somepeople to tune in and chat with
us while we was live.
That would be cool.
Bruce (48:00):
Yep, I agree with you, sonny, that would be awesome.
That's the hopes.
We're hoping, like I said, toget some local people, some
local businesses, some support.
Maybe we can get some localannouncements going.
If that starts out, we may haveto do it every every other day
(48:21):
or we'll see how it goes, butright now the plan is do it once
a week, probably on friday,just to announce the weather and
anything we know that'shappening, any local events or
anything like that, and then dothe earthquake thing, just like
we did.
If you want to know when we'regetting to do ready to do a
(48:44):
little bit, ready to do it youneed to go to the ugly quacking,
duck calm.
Go on the home page, go down tothe bottom.
It says subscribe.
Type in your email address andclick subscribe and what will
happen is you'll automaticallygo on our mailing list.
(49:05):
So every time we have a newepisode, I usually try to get it
out at least an hour before wepublish it on our Buzzsprout
hosting page, so maybe even 24hours.
That's what we try to do 24hours, but I don't want to
promise that.
So what that means is it'll popup in your email and say we got
(49:28):
a new thing and you can go readabout it.
And then you can click on thelink and it'll take you to my
webpage new episode page andthen you can listen to that
episode early, but it alsoanytime I make a post about
(49:48):
anything that's happening, it'llgo on there and email it to you
and then you can read the postand what I'm going to do when I
start the live.
If I got plans to do it, I'llprobably email it out through
the subscription a little bitearly I don't know, maybe six
hours early and then when I getready to go live, I'll do a post
(50:10):
and send it out.
So it'll pop up, let you knowI'm getting ready to go and then
again, it's going to be onPodbean and you should be able
to look up my name and live.
I'm probably going to just callit a live or the Ugly Quacking
Duck live show or show or livethe Ugly Quacking Duck,
(50:35):
something like that.
But anyway, so you'll be ableto find it when you look it up.
You'll have to have the Podbeanapp in order to do that, so if
you're on a phone, you can justdownload it off your app store
or Play Store, or however youget your apps according to which
(51:00):
phone you're on iPhone orAndroid but do that and then you
can also look up other things.
If this grows and I get moreresponses back from it and it
looks like it's going to getbetter, we'll look up a better
(51:22):
way of doing it so you can trackus and everything.
But until then, this is the waywe're going to do it, so stick
with us.
We appreciate everybody comingaboard and joining us again.
This is episode 101.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, do thatagain.
Joining us Again.
This is episode 101.
Woo-woo, woo-woo, do that again.
Woo-woo, alright, you soundlike a train.
(51:45):
Oh, thanks, alright, so we'regoing to say goodnight to
everybody.
It's now Sunday evening time.
We got all this put togetherand recorded.
I'm going to have to post it,hopefully tonight, and send it
(52:06):
out Monday.
Like I said, it'll probablylive on our webpage if I get
time to do it.
Thank you for being aboard andbeing part of the show.
If you want to be a contributorto the show, we ask you to share
the show with somebody, atleast one person.
That's the best way for us tospread the word to grow, and if
(52:29):
you want to help contribute more, you can financially give to us
.
We've got a donation page onour website or if you're looking
at us on Podcast App Player,you should be able to click on
(52:50):
there where it says Donate andyou can contribute financially.
If you contribute to us, we'llannounce it.
If you send us a note or a textor email, we'll announce it.
But just help us out.
And if you want to just give usideas about stuff and we'd love
(53:12):
that so, even if it's bad,we'll try to share them.
That's all we ask, folks, andwe are here for you and I hope
you enjoy it.
Look at our, even if you don'tdonate to us.
Look at our for value for valuepage on our donation page and
(53:33):
think about contributing, butread what that value for value
is.
That person actually put it inbetter words than I could, so I
just copied it so we couldexplain that better.
Sunny (53:51):
Anyhow, say you got anything else you want to say?
No, I'm in good shape, Ienjoyed the day and I really
enjoyed doing the live.
Thank you for having me, thankyou for being here with me, and
this is Sonny and I'm saying 73and bye.
Bruce (54:08):
All right, sonny, you're picking up my ham words.
I like that.
Sunny (54:14):
Well, you taught me well.
Bruce (54:16):
All right, Well, along with Sonny.
I am grateful for everybodythat came and listened and stuck
with the whole show.
That's awesome.
Come back next week.
We love you all.
We'll see you again.
This is Bruce from the UglyQuackin' Duck, Duck 73.
(54:36):
From the ugly quacking duck 73.
Well, hello everyone, it's that time again.
Sunny (00:09):
What time is it Bruce?
Bruce (00:12):
It's time for the new episode of the Ugly Quacking
Duck Podcast.
All right, we got it in syncthat time.
And yes, it is.
It's time for the Ugly QuackingDuck Podcast.
Welcome aboard everyone.
If you're a new listener,please stick around.
If you're one of our old andfaithful ones, I hope you're not
(00:35):
too old, but if you are, you'relike me and you're just going
to enjoy life, right?
Sunny (00:41):
Um, I don't know, probably not.
Oh, whatever, whatever, oh,whatever.
Bruce (00:54):
Sunny say hi, all right, this is sunny and I'm with the
ugly quacking duck, and this isbruce and I'm with the ugly
quacking duck and we're herethis weekend for another episode
, and this one's going to beshort, I promise you.
I've only got a couple newsclips I want to talk about.
I want to talk about myone-on-one new thing I'm going
to do.
It may be long.
(01:15):
I've got a couple other thingsyou can't never tell about me.
Sunny (01:19):
Oh, that's for sure, we can't never tell about you at
all.
Yep, that's for sure, we can'tnever tell about you at all.
Bruce (01:27):
Yep, that's right.
So anyway, I hope everybody hada great week.
This is Sunday afternoon.
We also recorded a live show.
It was a test run.
Plans are that we're going todo that live show every Friday?
Plans are that we're going todo that live show every Friday.
(01:48):
So if you subscribe to thewebpage, you'll get an email
showing that we're live, and ifyou have a Podbean app that's
(02:11):
P-O-D-B-E-A-N Podbean app onyour phone and I think it will
alert you when we go live.
If you're trying to follow us,I may have to put some kind of
little pod or episode orsomething on there for it to
save, so you'll be able to findus, but anyway you can.
If you don't get alerted, wewill be on there probably on
(02:33):
friday afternoons, but hangaround.
It'll take us a couple weeks tofigure out exactly what we're
doing and then we will gosomewhere else and do it again.
Sunny (02:44):
Oh, good grief, It'll take you months before you even
figure it out, and then you'llbe going the wrong way.
Bruce (02:52):
Yeah, you're probably right, but anyway, that's the
game plan.
Guys, we're going to do thatand the plan is we're going to
do a local live show, talk aboutthe weather for a few minutes.
It's going to be a short live,probably 15 minutes.
Then we'll do the earthquakereport, the seven-day report we
normally do on our recordedpodcast, and then when we do our
(03:17):
regular podcast, which willeither be Friday afternoon or
Sunday, we will have thatrecording of the live show
embedded in that podcast, soyou'll get to report that way.
Anyway, the hope is that wewill be able to get some live
(03:38):
audience followers here locally.
Or, if you're not locally doingit, you could still enjoy it.
You get to hear my beautifulvoice.
Sunny (03:50):
Oh my no, no, no, no.
Bruce (03:53):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sunny (03:56):
Oh, no, no, no no.
Bruce (03:59):
All right, but anyway you get to hear Sonny and I live If
you follow us.
You can do that.
And then hopefully later onwe'll get some sponsors, some
businesses around our location.
We're going to do it forsouthern illinois I just hit my
desk, what do you think aboutthat?
(04:19):
And then we're going to go fromthere.
Anyway, this is in the earlystages.
I just pre-tested the live.
We we've done a live show acouple times before, but I never
invited anybody, never sent anyinvitations out, because
basically we was just trying itout and that's probably been a
year or two ago.
(04:40):
So podbean offers it and I cando it with a free account, where
buzzsprout, my main host, doesnot offer live.
So that's why you're going tohave to go to podbean, do the
app and look us up there so youcan uh, find us and listen.
But again, subscribe to theuglyquackingduckcom website and
(05:08):
then I'm going to send out anemail right before I start and
it'll probably be on Fridayafternoon.
So if you're free, you can hearus live.
If you're not, I'm sorry.
If you're working, that happensto most of us.
Anyhoo, what do you think,sonny?
How's your week been?
Sunny (05:28):
Oh, it's been crazy.
It's been warm, really warm.
All the snow's gone.
I've had to play in the mud andthe pool and, oh boy, it's been
fun.
Bruce (05:41):
Yeah, the snow is all gone and the mud is.
Oh boy, we've got lots of mud.
We've had sun the last few daysand wind.
You know, march has rolled in.
Well, by the way, happy marcheverybody.
Uh, we are on the second, Ibelieve.
Let me look, I don't want tolie to you, but I could have
(06:02):
swore it said the 2nd, yeah,march the 2nd.
On Sunday afternoon we are hereand we will just, it's a little
bit colder, cooler I should saynot cold, but cooler today than
it has been.
It is right now, come on, 43degrees here in southern
(06:25):
Illinois.
Our local hometown is 43degrees.
Sunny (06:32):
That's why you're wearing a coat.
You're too cold, you big baby.
Bruce (06:37):
Hey, sonny.
Yeah, that's probably right.
Anyhow, that's what's going onwith us, and I hope everybody's
had a good weekend.
It's almost over.
That's such a bummer, and Ihope you've had a good week last
week.
We're starting a new week today.
I hope this week is well on itsway to being a great week, yay.
Sunny (07:01):
Yay, I hope it's great too.
Bruce (07:05):
Yep, okay, so that's what's going on with us and I
don't know when I'm going toplay that recording for the live
, but I may have a little bit ofa story to talk to you about.
I'm going to go on and look upmy news things and we'll be
right back in a bleep.
All right, sonny, are you readyfor a little bit of news in the
(07:29):
news corner?
Sunny (07:32):
oh, good grief, you still call it that well, yep,
nobody's told me any other names.
Bruce (07:38):
I'm waiting for our contributors and followers and
listeners to say hey, I got anidea, maybe we can use it, but
nobody said anything.
You got one sunny well, no okay,so news corner it will stay.
We'll wait to the next timearound.
(08:00):
Maybe somebody'll give ussomething.
So for the first bit of news,I'm going to go a little bit
political, maybe a little bit,but hey, just recently President
Donald Trump has ordered theTreasury Department to stop
minting pennies.
Yeah, you heard me right.
(08:21):
You may have already heard this, this, but I thought that was
an interesting story.
I didn't even know he had the.
I know he has the um power towrite um a lot of things and
control a lot of things, becauseit's set up that way,
(08:43):
especially things as um has beenstarted by previous presidents.
But I don't know about thetreasury um if you can just
order it without the congress'sconsent.
So we'll see where this goes.
But apparently each penny hasbeen costing $3.69 to produce.
(09:06):
Now, did you hear that Onepenny, which is supposed to be
worth one cent, is worth $3.69to produce it?
You're talking about inflation.
Sunny (09:24):
What does that mean?
That means we're spending moremoney to make them than we're
using them for.
Bruce (09:33):
Yep.
Apparently they made 3.2billion pennies in 2024.
Now that's a physical year,2024.
Guess how much that cost thetaxpayers 3.2 billion.
(09:53):
Well, that would be what you'dthink, because you'd think a
penny worth a penny is going tobe 3.2 billion, if it made 3.2
billion of them.
But no, it actually cost us,the taxpayers, $85.3 million.
Wow.
Sunny (10:18):
That's a lot more, isn't it?
Bruce (10:21):
Yep, that's a lot more, and that they didn't add the uh,
the actual penny value intothat.
So if you took 3.2 billion outof the 85 million, uh, wow,
(10:41):
anyway, there you go.
So he said nope we're going toquit minting them, so we'll see
what happens.
Sunny (10:54):
Does that mean all the pennies are?
Bruce (10:54):
going to disappear.
I really don't know what'sgoing to happen.
Sunny (10:57):
To be honest, We'll have to wait and see.
Okay, we'll wait and see if youhave any comments out there.
Let us know what you guys think.
Bruce (11:10):
Oh yeah, If you got any comments and you want them read
online, we can do it.
Sunny (11:16):
Oh, we can do it for sure .
It's the Ugly Cracking Duck.
We can do it.
Bruce (11:24):
Alright, way to advertise .
I appreciate that and I guesswe're still recording, because I
had hit a button and, yeah, itlooks like we're still recording
.
So, yay, okay, how about onemore bit of news?
Sunny (11:41):
Okay, one more bit of news.
I'll let you go there.
We've only been recording forabout 11 minutes, so that'd be
good, yeah, I think so.
Bruce (11:51):
That'd be good.
All right, let me pull it up.
All right, sonny, have you everheard of the comment?
Oh, my gosh, omg.
Uh.
No, all right well.
Sunny (12:03):
OMG, Uh no.
Bruce (12:04):
All right.
Well, I said, oh my gosh,there's actually another phrase
word at the end they use.
But I'm not going to use that.
But where do you think thatcome from?
Sunny (12:15):
What OMG?
Probably social media, no media.
Bruce (12:21):
No, the oh my gosh phrase , which is actually used
differently than I used it, butyou can use the right word if
you want.
Sunny (12:41):
I don't want to, but it was originally used back in 1917
.
Bruce (12:44):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that's the right way touse it, but it was used,
apparently, in a lever Lever.
Sunny (12:53):
Hello Lever.
Bruce (12:54):
Yeah, it was used in a ledger.
Oh, good grief.
Sunny (12:59):
Are you going to be able to talk?
Come on, let it go, buddy.
Bruce (13:08):
All right, here we go again.
It was used in a letter tochurchill in 1917, supposedly,
and it was uh, used apparentlyto quote that there was a new
order of knighthood in thetappery or in the tapestry, or
however you say.
That um coming on, basically,and they, he said at the end of
(13:31):
it, omg.
But he said, oh my blank.
And um, it went to the admiralchurchill or admiral somewhere
anyway.
That's when it was first used,1917.
Never did catch on with theBritish or the British Churchill
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or anybody else, but apparentlysometime later it caught on
here in the US.
Sunny (14:02):
Oh, we're good at catching on all the junk.
Bruce (14:05):
Boy, you said that right, but don't say it again.
Sunny (14:09):
All right, I will.
We're good at catching all thejunk.
Bruce (14:16):
Okay Well, that wasn't quite the same, but we'll call
it even and we'll move on, okay.
Okay Well, speaking of oh mygee or oh my gosh or oh my blank
, which I don't like to use thatword in vain, and I still do
occasionally and I'm sorry, butanyway, I got a little story to
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tell you guys and that will leadme into that word, that name.
When I was a young man, veryyoung child, I discovered that
my physical dad, my earthly dad,had a nickname.
You know, I always called himDad or Pa or whatever mood that
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I was in, because, you know,when I got to be a teenager, I
kind of changed what I calledhim.
I remember him looking at mereal funny when I did it, but I
really meant it in a sincere,loving way, and I think he
realized that.
So he just kind of tilted hishead, looked at me and then
walked on, but that's not partof the story.
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Um, when my dad was a young manum, probably in his teens, maybe
a little bit younger he workedin the lumber and he uh ended up
building up some pretty goodarms.
Uh had some really big forearms.
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Now he wasn't a tall man, buthe's pretty stout and uh, one
day come along and there, Iguess there's some young boys
out there while he was workingin the wood in the lumber, um,
teasing him, and I think therewere some girls present.
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That's probably what startedthe whole thing.
You know they want to show offfor the girls.
You know how that goes, guys,you remember those days.
Some of you still do it.
But anyway, if, uh, if you'reyoung and doing that, maybe you
understand the story.
But anyway, they startedpicking on my dad and uh, I
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guess this went on for a longtime before he got fed up and
when he got he didn't tell mewhat they was doing to pick on
him or if they was actuallypicking on him.
But he grabbed the biggest boythere, grabbed him by the arms
and the hips and, with his armsbent, he picked him up in the
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air and then set him on the backof the wagon that they were
using to haul the wood and fromthat point on, them boys left
him alone and I can honestly sayI understand.
But from that point on he got anew nickname and it was.
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Brute.
Oh no, but that's pretty closebecause it's the same cartoon.
Sunny (17:31):
You didn't know that, did you?
No, I don't even know who Bruteis.
Bruce (17:34):
Well, that wasn't his full name or his correct name.
I think it was Brutus.
But anyway, they startedcalling him Popeye and he grew
up with that nickname andeverybody that knew him
personally knew him as Popeye.
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When he got to being an adult,most of the people that knew him
from around mill shows where hewas born knew him as Popeye.
When he got married he wasstill called Popeye.
When he worked at the companieshe worked for that was his name
.
They knew him by his nicknamename, um, they knew him by his
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nickname, popeye.
Um, a lot of them knew him bypopeye and his last name.
He was a preacher.
So a lot of times he was calledpreacher man, but they also
knew him as popeye, popeye thepreacher.
Um, what was funny about thatnickname is that, uh, the Popeye
cartoon, which was a comic bookstory at the beginning, I
believe, if I remember correct.
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But he liked to eat spinach andmy dad hated spinach.
He did not like it at all.
So I think that's why thenickname actually stuck, because
there was a kind of acomparison there that stuck with
him because of the cartoon.
And as he got older, like Isaid, everybody knew him in fact
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when, uh, robin williams donethat popeye movie.
My brother come over to thehouse that's when he was still
alive and he come over and saidyou got to go watch that movie.
He said it looks just like dad.
Now dad had been gone forseveral years but I wouldn't
watch the movie.
Sure enough, it looked a lotlike him because somehow he had
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puffed his face out, robinwilliams I mean I don't know if
they did it with makeup orexercise or what and he carried
a pipe, bit down on that pipeand it made his jaws look.
And I'm telling you he lookedjust like my dad and I think I
hit my microphone cable.
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Even the arms, the forearms.
If you'll go watch that oldmovie of Robin Williams playing
Popeye, he had big forearms andthat looked a lot like my dad.
But the story goes thateverybody called him Popeye.
That knew him and that was hisnickname.
I knew him as Dad and his legalname was Blah Blah and his
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legal name was blah blah andwhen he went and signed legal
papers he signed it by the namethat his parents gave him and by
the name that the state hasgave him.
That was on his birthcertificate and so that was his
name that he was went by then,but he, whether he's Popeye, my
dad or preacher man or his legalname, that guy was the same
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person, no matter how you knewhim.
A lot of times people are alittle bit different, but he was
the same person, no matter howyou knew him by and who you
talked to.
And now, when he was younger,he was a little bit different,
but one day he found God andturned his life around and from
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that point on which I was bornafterwards, everybody knew him
to be the same man.
Now the whole point of thisstory is I've been contemplating
for a long time what is thereal name of jesus, what is the
name of god?
Because there's many, manytimes in the bible where it
talks about, if you call upon myname, if you ask the father in
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my name, and, uh, it wasn't realclear, but I do know that the
name jesus come from like 1600,1617, when they translated the
um aramaic, aramaic, and thatwas from the hebrew.
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So there was a difference intranslation already, and then
they translated it into OldEnglish, I think, or Greek, and
then Old English, but anyway,and the J wasn't even present
back then.
It was I-E-S-O-U-S or U-S-O-Sor something.
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It was a little bit longer name.
It was pronounced different.
The Z sound didn't come tolater, the J sound didn't come
to later and it was alltranslated from a translation
that was translated from anothertranslation.
So I always wondered what thetrue name was and I had fought
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with that for years trying tofigure it out.
My wife has been on a hunttrying to get the right name
because it's just bugged both ofus you know, especially when it
says if two or more aregathered in my name and if they
call upon my name name and itreally makes you wonder if we're
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doing the right thing.
And there's been so many groupsout there with newer
translations that translationback to the hebrew and um, which
you know.
If you go back there and startcalling that name out and
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there's most likely not going tobe very many people that knows
that name because, especiallyhere in America, we've all grew
up with the name of Jesus as theChrist, the Savior, the
Anointed One, so it reallybothered me what to handle that
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with.
And then one day I was thinkingabout my dad and other things
about him.
But then it dawned on me thatwhat we used to call him.
I called him Dad.
On me that what we used to callhim, I called him dad, and what
everybody else called him waspopeye or you know.
Very, very few people evercalled him by his first given
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name, unless they didn't knowhim real good, a lot of people
from the churches called him youknow that, or preacher man, but
they still was thinking aboutthat same person.
Now they may have called himthat because of the title, but
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they were still thinking aboutthe same person.
And I run across these versesI've heard before.
Now this is in a Geneva version, I believe it is, and they
didn't translate Jesus with a J,they were before that.
They had it in I-E-S-U-S.
So I think it's I-E.
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I don't know how to evenpronounce that, but that's how
it says it.
But I've been replacing thatwith Yahuwah.
Uh, is that right?
I think that's right, but just.
But I'm going to read it asjesus, because that's all we've
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come to know all of us.
Even if you're not a follower,you've heard that name.
You know what I'm talking about.
You know the person I'm talkingabout, even if you don't know
any other name.
So I'm going to say that nameis his nickname because
everybody knows him by that name.
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So now, when jesus came into thecoast of Sicily, philippi, he
asked his disciples saying whomdo you, who do men say that I,
the Son of man am?
See, he called himself the Sonof man and they, they said some
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say John the Baptist, if youdon't know who that is, that's
for another day, another story.
And some Elijah or Elias,that's an old prophet, and
others Jeremiah or one of theprophets.
So in other words, there'smultiple names.
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They were calling Jesus and hesaid unto them but whom say you
that I am?
Then Simon Peter answered andsaid said thou art that christ?
Or another translation wouldsay thou art the anointed one,
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the son of the living god.
See, his name was not revealedto any of us.
At that point jesus realizedother people called him by other
names, other titles.
But they knew who he was.
He was a man that would healpeople, forgive them of sins and
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come across the church leaders.
And, uh, there was a lot goingon with him.
But he wanted to know who hispersonal disciples called him
and they said you are theanointed one, the son of the
living God.
Now a lot of people believe thatthe word God has been
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retranslated and changed.
Some believe on purpose, and ifthat's so, that's fine.
We can call him by another name.
But when I say God, most peopleknow that's the Heavenly Father
that has created everything.
If you don't know that oraccepted that, then you need to
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do something different with yourlife.
But then Jesus answered andsaid to him Blessed art thou,
simon, the son of Jonas, forflesh and blood has not revealed
it unto of reminds me again Isay that in a live version, but
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of school when we'd start a newclass and a new subject.
A lot of times it was a 101, itwas the basic.
Let's get down to thenitty-gritty and start talking
about that.
So when I started episode 101,I started thinking well, you
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know, I think I'm going to do alittle bit more in the bible, a
little bit more for christ, theanointed one, and for the father
, and I may lose some followers,may gain some more, I don't
know, but I'm doing this for ahobby and for enjoyment and
(29:03):
hopefully to help people out.
So if I, this is the last ofsome of you, bye, I'm sorry to
lose you, but if you stickaround, hey, that's great.
We love you All right.
So the reason I brought thatstory up is my dad was known by
several different things.
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I personally knew him as dad,pops or father, and he was a
loving man that took care of me,right.
So I'm not going to say thatnames does not matter, because
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they do, but the man or thebeing, the creator that you know
, you know there's the key thatyou know.
You know there's the key.
If you know him, when you callupon that name, he will hear you
.
Now, he's not some idol thatwe've carved out of rock, stone
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or concrete, wrote on paper ormade a painting of.
He's not the name's not awitch's spell to be cast.
No, it's a person to know, aliving, breathing, understanding
, energy of life, creator of all.
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So if we get wrapped up intrying to figure out the exact
name, we're not looking for theright thing.
We're looking for the exactname and not the person that
we're calling upon.
And again, I'm not going to saya name doesn't matter, but
what's more important is who wecall upon.
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Who are we saying?
Just like he asked hisdisciples, whom do you say I am?
Is he king of your life,creator of your life, or is he
some speck of dirt that you justsay blankety, blankety, blank
to every day?
There's my thoughts on it.
Sunny (31:23):
I appreciate you listening well, that was deep,
really deep.
I think I'll have to wow yeahwell, I appreciate that.
Bruce (31:36):
And now we are going to go into the live the recording
of the live show, to give you anidea of what we're doing and
there, at the end there we'llcome back and say bye, but I'm
going to play that and thenwe'll give you a little bit more
of a bye and then we'll comeback next, next week, hopefully
(32:00):
that's the game plan.
I think we're going to starttrying to do it weekly.
Uh, maybe we can make itshorter, more uh, precise, by
doing all this, because when westarted doing it every two weeks
, it got where I was forgettinghow the equipment was set up and
I was studying, I was gettingtoo much stuff to study and the
(32:23):
time just, it just didn't workout.
So we're going to keep it, tryto keep it weekly, I think, as
long as time will permit, andwe'll see what happens.
And so, if you're not signed up, I'll go over this after the
live.
Let's go to the live.
All right, that didn't turn outas good as I thought.
(32:48):
This is Bruce from the UglyQuacking Duck and you are
getting the live broadcast ofthe Ugly Quacking Duck and we're
trying this out today.
Oh, wait, a minute.
Sunny (33:01):
Yeah, wait a minute.
This is Sonny from the UglyQuacking Duck.
You about forgot me, Bruce.
Bruce (33:08):
No, I didn't, but I was trying to get on with the live
broadcast.
So, anyway, or live show, let'scall it a live show.
Um, I'm still trying to doradio, and this ain't radio
close to it though oh, you'realways trying to do radio.
Sunny (33:27):
Where's your music?
Bruce (33:29):
well, you know, that's one of the reasons I got tied up
into podcasting, because it wasvery similar to having a show,
radio show and I was hoping oneday I get to play some music.
But that's for another day allright.
Sunny (33:46):
Yeah, we're cutting this short, right that's right.
Bruce (33:49):
Okay, this is our first live broadcast.
Well, no, I shouldn't say that.
When we first started, we triedit out uh, just tried to test
it and then we recorded it whilewe was doing it and then we
played that on our podcast.
And that's what we're going todo today.
We are testing out our liveshow.
(34:10):
Uh, we're going to try to dothis every week.
We'll set the date.
That way everybody can find us,and if you have a Podbean app
you should be once we start youshould be able to type it in and
find our live broadcast.
So, with that said, we're goingto tell you what it's about.
(34:32):
We're just right now.
Plans are to do it once a weekand then we're going to
basically do a local show andwe're going to talk about the
weather here in southernillinois and then we're going to
go from there and do theearthquake report.
Sunny (34:53):
So it won't be very long of a show uh, the earthquake
report, so it won't be very longof a show.
Bruce (35:01):
You say that every time we do a podcast.
You know that verse well,that's true.
But, uh, we're going to try tokeep it short.
We're going to record this aswe go and, hopefully, as we go
(35:42):
through the months, the weeks,days, months, years, however
long it takes.
Maybe we can get them involved,get some more people involved.
We'll just have to see how itgoes.
But this, uh, this test is goingto be recorded and put on with
our 101 episode, episode 101,and that episode just kind of
reminds me of school when he'sgoing to start you out on some
kind of subject.
You always went to the 101class or the very beginning, and
(36:07):
, even though we've been at thisfor a while, we got over the
hump and we hit over 100episodes.
This is 101 and we're going todo a little bit of a change.
We're going to start doing thelive on to the episode and we're
all going to also going tochange a little bit of the
(36:27):
subject matter we do now,because we're doing it live and
we're recording it, we won't beable to do any edits yeah, you
know what that means.
Sunny (36:40):
That means, if you screw up, we can't fix it yep, that's
right.
Bruce (36:47):
If I mess up, we can't fix it and that's going to be a
rough one, um, so I'll try notto mess up a whole lot.
But you know, live alwaysmesses up and I'm not listening
to the audio as it goes out.
Actually, I'm listening to itas it goes out of my mixer, but
(37:08):
I'm not listening to it on theend of the live part because
there's delay and it.
It just doesn't sound right onmy end.
So I'm just just playing it,hoping it works, and we'll go
from there.
But stay tuned.
I'm going to give you a datethat I'm going to try to do this
each.
It's probably going to beFriday, friday afternoon, maybe
(37:29):
Friday morning, I don't know.
But we'll work on it and see,because Fridays I usually try to
do a little bit of work towardsthe podcast and then Sundays I
try to record it.
So we'll see how that works out.
But we're going to run rightinto the weather for the day.
Sunny (37:49):
All right, this is going to be local weather, right?
Okay, so what's it going to be,bruce?
Bruce (38:00):
Well, actually it's.
What is it today?
Are you ready for this?
Here in southern Illinois it's70 degrees.
That's right, we are onFebruary, the 28th Friday I
forgot to mention that, but itis 70 degrees, it's sunny, the
humidity is 30%, the winds 17miles an hour and it's air
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conditioning.
The air condition not airconditioning, but the air
condition is 35.
So that's good, but to give youa comparison, what are you
going to compare it to?
I'm going to compare it tophoenix, arizona phoenix,
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arizona, isn't that hot oh yeah,so we'll see what the weather
compares to on most days.
Right now in Phoenix, comparedto our 70, it's 80 degrees.
They have a humidity of 12%,where we had 30.
And the wind is blowing a wholenine miles an hour.
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At least they're still gettingwind Again, we got 17.
And their air quality?
I said condition a while ago,but their air quality is 38.
So it's still good, looks goodthere.
I wouldn't mind visitingArizona.
Maybe that'll happen one ofthese days.
Sunny (39:34):
All right, you'll be stuck here forever.
Bruce (39:39):
Well, probably so, but but that's where it goes.
So um what'd you think?
of the weather reports so far.
Now I can get a little bit moredetailed, like later on.
Maybe you give you the nextdays, uh, what the next day's
weather is supposed to be.
In fact, let me do this.
It's booting up folks, don't goaway.
(40:04):
Okay, we have a waxing crescenttonight.
For the moon, the moonrise willrise at 6.54 amm.
It's going to be daylightbefore it comes up.
Uh, the uv index is zero of 11.
(40:26):
I'm not sure what that means,but it looks like the forecast
is going to have rain in itTuesday, wednesday, somewhere
thereabouts, and they'llprobably change it before we get
there.
But that's what they're sayingright now, and it looks like the
highs are in the 40s and 50sall the way up until next week,
(40:51):
next Monday, and I'm not talkingthis Monday, I'm talking the
Monday after it.
So a week from this comingMondayay they're saying 68
degrees.
I like that.
All right, we'll get out ofthis, and then we're going to do
the earthquake report.
So let's go to the earthquakereport, shall we, sonny?
Sunny (41:16):
All right, I get to guess .
Bruce (41:18):
Yes, you do.
Sunny (41:20):
All right, I want to guess, so tell me what it was
last time we reported it.
I don't remember.
Bruce (41:28):
Well, that's a fair question.
Last time we reported theearthquakes which was on 2-8, no
2 2, 16 should be about twoweeks ago.
It was a total of 1952, which Isay was a good year.
And did it go up or down?
(41:51):
Sunny give, give us a report onthat.
Sunny (41:57):
All right, aren't you going to give me the count, dan?
Bruce (42:01):
Well, I would, but no, because I'm going to have to
find it and I don't want to takelong to do it.
We'll do more pauses the nexttime we do a live, but this time
we're just going to do it thisway.
Sunny (42:16):
All right, I guess that's fair.
Uh, so, uh, the count was 1952,so I'm going to say it went up
and I'm going to say 23, what 23?
25, 2.25.
2,325.
Bruce (42:38):
All right, sonny, you're getting back into it.
I know there, for a while whenLily and I was doing it, you was
guessing it almost on the nose.
Well, you did Almost on thenose one time and then for about
a month or two you was guessingit so close it was scary.
But it's kind of fell off.
It's not doing the normalpattern that it used to.
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So anyway, seven-day allmagnitude 2527.
So you guessed 2325.
So you was close, 2527, whichmeans just went up.
And the 2.5 and overearthquakes for the last 70 days
was 310.
(43:23):
Last time we now have 286.
So this is following the, theway it usually does.
We have more earthquakes butthe higher ups go down.
So the 4.5 and overs was 125last seven days, or the seven
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days the last reported sevendays I did this time around the
4.5 and over were 100.
Okay, so that looks good.
So, as I said in the past on onmy reporting, I just report six
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and over earthquakes todesignate where they were.
So last time around we had a6.0 earthquake in ethiopia and
the rest of them, which wasthere's 124 of them, were 4.5
and over but did not cross thesix point threshold.
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This time around there was a4.5.
There was a hundred of them,but only two of them crossed
over the six point somethingthreshold.
One of them was a 2.5, whichisa good thing.
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Hopefully they're releasingsome of that tension.
We won't have any big ones.
But there you go.
That's the weather locally fortoday and that's the earthquake
report seven days back up untiltoday.
I hope you enjoyed this liveshow.
I hope you come back for it thenext time we do it.
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Email me.
Once we get this started andyou guys start listening to me,
you'll have to start emailing meand tell me what you think.
But again, we're going to startit.
Once it starts, I starttransmitting broadcasting,
streaming, however you want toput it this live show.
(45:49):
It will put up a flag andyou'll be able to type in the
Ugly Quacking Duck show and itshould pull me up.
If you've got a Podbean app, itshould pull me right up and you
should be able to listen to thelive show.
I think you might be able toreact to me and chat with me.
(46:10):
I'm not sure and that may takeme some getting used to, also
because my laptop's a littleways away, so I may have to get
away from the mic and type andwe'll have to see how that goes.
If it works well, I may have toget a bigger desk, but that's
later on down the road.
Sunny (46:35):
All right, well, thank you for letting me come on the
live.
Bruce (46:40):
You are welcome.
I wasn't sure if I could getall our mics plugged in and
working, but I was able to getthe mixer plugged in, so we'll
see how this works out when weplay it back.
But if all works, this livetest is going to be recorded.
I'm going to download it andadd it to the episode 101, so if
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you're listening to it afterI've played it and you're, it's
recorded.
Now you know what to lookforward to.
So, once again, we giveeverybody thanks and we hope to
catch you live and I hope youcome and listen to our podcast
and you share it with people.
All right, guys.
Thank you very much, and that'smy noise for the live show.
(47:33):
So 73, and we'll let you go.
This is Bruce and this is Sonny.
Sunny (47:43):
Bye.
You know that was fun makingthat live.
I hope we start getting somepeople to tune in and chat with
us while we was live.
That would be cool.
Bruce (48:00):
Yep, I agree with you, sonny, that would be awesome.
That's the hopes.
We're hoping, like I said, toget some local people, some
local businesses, some support.
Maybe we can get some localannouncements going.
If that starts out, we may haveto do it every every other day
(48:21):
or we'll see how it goes, butright now the plan is do it once
a week, probably on friday,just to announce the weather and
anything we know that'shappening, any local events or
anything like that, and then dothe earthquake thing, just like
we did.
If you want to know when we'regetting to do ready to do a
(48:44):
little bit, ready to do it youneed to go to the ugly quacking,
duck calm.
Go on the home page, go down tothe bottom.
It says subscribe.
Type in your email address andclick subscribe and what will
happen is you'll automaticallygo on our mailing list.
(49:05):
So every time we have a newepisode, I usually try to get it
out at least an hour before wepublish it on our Buzzsprout
hosting page, so maybe even 24hours.
That's what we try to do 24hours, but I don't want to
promise that.
So what that means is it'll popup in your email and say we got
(49:28):
a new thing and you can go readabout it.
And then you can click on thelink and it'll take you to my
webpage new episode page andthen you can listen to that
episode early, but it alsoanytime I make a post about
(49:48):
anything that's happening, it'llgo on there and email it to you
and then you can read the postand what I'm going to do when I
start the live.
If I got plans to do it, I'llprobably email it out through
the subscription a little bitearly I don't know, maybe six
hours early and then when I getready to go live, I'll do a post
(50:10):
and send it out.
So it'll pop up, let you knowI'm getting ready to go and then
again, it's going to be onPodbean and you should be able
to look up my name and live.
I'm probably going to just callit a live or the Ugly Quacking
Duck live show or show or livethe Ugly Quacking Duck,
(50:35):
something like that.
But anyway, so you'll be ableto find it when you look it up.
You'll have to have the Podbeanapp in order to do that, so if
you're on a phone, you can justdownload it off your app store
or Play Store, or however youget your apps according to which
(51:00):
phone you're on iPhone orAndroid but do that and then you
can also look up other things.
If this grows and I get moreresponses back from it and it
looks like it's going to getbetter, we'll look up a better
(51:22):
way of doing it so you can trackus and everything.
But until then, this is the waywe're going to do it, so stick
with us.
We appreciate everybody comingaboard and joining us again.
This is episode 101.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, do thatagain.
Joining us Again.
This is episode 101.
Woo-woo, woo-woo, do that again.
Woo-woo, alright, you soundlike a train.
(51:45):
Oh, thanks, alright, so we'regoing to say goodnight to
everybody.
It's now Sunday evening time.
We got all this put togetherand recorded.
I'm going to have to post it,hopefully tonight, and send it
(52:06):
out Monday.
Like I said, it'll probablylive on our webpage if I get
time to do it.
Thank you for being aboard andbeing part of the show.
If you want to be a contributorto the show, we ask you to share
the show with somebody, atleast one person.
That's the best way for us tospread the word to grow, and if
(52:29):
you want to help contribute more, you can financially give to us
.
We've got a donation page onour website or if you're looking
at us on Podcast App Player,you should be able to click on
(52:50):
there where it says Donate andyou can contribute financially.
If you contribute to us, we'llannounce it.
If you send us a note or a textor email, we'll announce it.
But just help us out.
And if you want to just give usideas about stuff and we'd love
(53:12):
that so, even if it's bad,we'll try to share them.
That's all we ask, folks, andwe are here for you and I hope
you enjoy it.
Look at our, even if you don'tdonate to us.
Look at our for value for valuepage on our donation page and
(53:33):
think about contributing, butread what that value for value
is.
That person actually put it inbetter words than I could, so I
just copied it so we couldexplain that better.
Sunny (53:51):
Anyhow, say you got anything else you want to say?
No, I'm in good shape, Ienjoyed the day and I really
enjoyed doing the live.
Thank you for having me, thankyou for being here with me, and
this is Sonny and I'm saying 73and bye.
Bruce (54:08):
All right, sonny, you're picking up my ham words.
I like that.
Sunny (54:14):
Well, you taught me well.
Bruce (54:16):
All right, Well, along with Sonny.
I am grateful for everybodythat came and listened and stuck
with the whole show.
That's awesome.
Come back next week.
We love you all.
We'll see you again.
This is Bruce from the UglyQuackin' Duck, Duck 73.
(54:36):
From the ugly quacking duck 73.
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