Chatterduck

0:00Hey, I'm Josh Spiegel, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the Newsroom. If you enjoy journalism that drifts into mild panic, wild overthinking, and a guaranteed nervous breakdown, Lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's news like you've never heard before. The only newsroom with a panic button. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and gasp and horror as the show spirals completely out of control. It's not just news, it's emotionally unstable. Lunatic in the newsroom. Listen today. Shining into the warm, barn, chatter duck would wake up, stretch his little wings and say,

1:03can you guess? Quack, quack, quack. And when it was time for his yummy breakfast out on the pretty green grass, what do you think he said? You got it. Quack, quack, quack. And when he went for a happy little swim in the cool splashy pond with his friends, a little frog and a butterfly, he would say, quack, quack, quack. But oh my, maybe, just maybe there was a little too much quack and going on. What do you think happens when somebody talks all the time? Well, he quacks so much that he even quacked in his sleep. And the other ducks, well, they started to feel a bit grumpy. They needed some quiet time, you know? So they push poor chatter duck right out of their cozy little house. Oh, dear. Oh, poor little chatter duck. Now he was all alone in the big, dark night. Look, you can see a little tear rolling right down his cheek. He felt so sad and so lonely sitting on that stump with just the sparkly stars in a little owl for company. But you know what? When the sun came up the next day, he started quacking all over again.

2:06And by now, the other ducks were tired of his noise. The cat and the dog were tired of his noise. Yep, it seemed like all the animals on the whole farm were getting very, very tired of his noise. But do you know who wasn't tired of it? Chatter duck. He was still so happy and he just loved saying his favorite thing to the big gentle cows. Quack, quack, quack. So all the tired animals got together. Shh, they had a little meeting. And they came up with a very, very noisy idea. And all at once, the whole farm got very loud. Are you ready? The cows said, move. The horses said, nay, the cat said, meow. And the dog said, bark, bark. And everybody else joined right in. The pigs went squeal. The turkey went, gubble, gubble. The geese hissed. And even the farmer and his wife came out and shouted, boo! Wow, what a huge noise they all made. It was so loud that everyone from the town came running up to the farm to see what

3:07in the world was going on. But after all that big, big noise came a quiet little quack. You see, Chatter duck was finally learning to listen. All that noise all at once was just too much for our little Chatter duck. It was actually a bit scary for him. He ran away and hid his little head inside a big log, just to make everything quiet again. After that very noisy day, Chatter duck realized he didn't like loud noises all the time. He learned that being quiet can be really, really nice too. And so, he never, ever said quack, quack, quack again. Well, almost never. When he had something that was really important to talk about, like seeing his bowl of yummy food, he just said, quack. So Chatter duck learned that sometimes it's good to be quiet, and sometimes it's good to talk, especially when you have something important to say. What do you think is worth talking about? That's a nice thing to think about, isn't it? Goodbye, little friends.

4:09Hey, I'm Josh Speagle, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the newsroom. If you enjoy journalism that drifts into mild panic, wild overthinking, and a guaranteed nervous breakdown, Lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's news like you've never heard before. The only newsroom with a panic button. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and gasp and horror as the show spirals completely out of control. It's not just news, it's emotionally unstable. Lunatic in the newsroom. Listen today.