The Wizard of iPhone Speaks (20-22)

Closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Be Still My Soul. “You can't learn anything from a podcast,”  says Bill O'Reilly! Yes, you can, you just have to find the right host, but the podcast genre is so broad that the listener has to be selective! The most popular with audiences are those interview shows like Joe Rogan. His interviews are what I call “long form,” or greater than 45 minutes.  Unlike Larry King, Joe Rogan knows enough to let his guest be the star of the show. PS The only time I ever watched Larry King was when his guest was Judge Judy, she was terrific.My take is the opposite. I limit my interviews to a maximum of 45 minutes. Leave your listeners “wanting more”.  That's what next week is for. Of course, like everything else on the internet, we have blurred the distinction between audio/MP/3 and video/MP/4.  The audience doesn't care, but producers must. Video is much harder to edit for clarity; some professionals like Grammar Girl are able to find articulate and knowledgeable guests, which makes all the difference.Many of my interviews are with people just like you and me, and we make little stumbles and glitches with an occasional malapropism. I didn't mean to make a podcast tutorial, but there it is anyway.

Closing music by Blair string quartet recorded live by iPhone at Harpeth Church in 20-23Here's the problem — there's no upper case function on a Morse key, it's strictly binary (dots and dashes). Everyone knows that Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb, but he made his fortune in the world of telegraphy.  His seminal invention is still in use today, and if you watch Fox News business or Bloomberg, it's that scroll on the bottom of the screen, a stock ticker. Edison invented that before his lightbulb.By this time, the new world and the old had been linked by the Atlantic Cable (18-58). It was not a single wire, but a bundle of insulated wires, bound in gutta-purcha a forerunner of what we would call plastic. It connected London, in England to New York City, in the US. Messages were transmitted by electric current by Morse code (dots and dashes). 

Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church.Jessie Owen personally ruined Hitler's Olympics by winning three gold medals. 100 Yard Dash, 200 Yard, and anchor man of the 4 by 400 Relay. At the time unheard of in track and field events.If you would like to read the whole story for yourself, you can find Nazi Games or Berlin Games, look for them on Amazon. I donated my copies to a church library. Meanwhile, Olympic Americans, who shouldn't have been there, were also winning gold. Read The Boys In The Boat.Next time on the Podcast Word Doctor, I'll explain to my colleague Grammar Girl, the origin of the term “full stop”/UK — There is no upper case on a Morse key.

Music courtesy of Dr. Ming Wang, recorded live at Steinway Piano Gallery in 2026, used with permission. We begin with a shopping note you might like to have.I'm a subscriber to Consumer Reports, and this month, March/April is the automotive annual and I found this advice on P/39 Brighten up the headlights and a product recommended by Sylvania Headlight restoration kit / $28/USI visit a local bank weekly, it's in a strip mall near my home, and I pass an Auto Zone, so I trotted in there with my copy of Consumer Reports — I had circled the magazine text. Yes, they had the product, but other brands for less than $28, including one Turtle Wax for $19.99, now I know Sylvania might know more about lights, but Turtle Wax knows car finishes.Volia, I get to the counter and discover an additional store discount of 20%, because I had joined before the advent of “club” shopping. PS You won't find this deal at Costco either. 

Closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, Lord Guide Me, used with permission.  Fast forward to our problems in Minnesota, particularly Minneapolis, and it's self designation as a “Sanctuary City…” That is also unconstitutional on its face, as my legal friends would say. No governor, mayor, or other authority may grant access to the United States; that's a federal issue.If the local authorities (meaning police) are not assisting other federal authorities in doing their duty, that state could be considered to be in Rebellion against the United States of America.The last time we went through this many brave men, on both sides, paid with their lives. Let's hope that cooler heads will prevail, and that Governor what's his name will finally come to his senses.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church used with permission. However, I rarely listen to her podcast because I can read it online faster. Did you know that if you are an Apple user and work in Pages (Apple's word processing program). Seri will tell you how long it takes to read something or speak the content. For most of us, reading is 3X faster. In the big book of podcasting that I never got around to writing — It pays to read your script aloud — this avoids all those nasty little glitches & stumbles that come with our speech.

Opening music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- closing Down by The Riverside, played on a Spiro/Steinway Piano, recorded live by iPhone at the Apple Store in Green Hills (2014), used with permission. Here's your digital tip of the day:One of the most powerful features of your iPhone is Contacts, but saving texting links is “not supported”; at least there's no field for it, but like every other feature of any Apple device. There is a workaround, and here it is,First, create a Contact using “company,” ie NES —  Hit edit, and add the text number in FIRST name — Complete the listing with the message 6 3 7 7 9 7  O U TVolia, now the number and message show up in boldface. Of course, you still have to type in the number, but now you have a prompt and can switch between screens. (As long as you remembered to keep your phone charged). You don't have to struggle through NES messages to report an outage.

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. In every war movie (and M*A*S*H) medics carry no weapon of any description. That goes for nurses & doctors, too. Medics wear distinctive helmets with a red cross. Hoping the enemy won't fire on them. They don't even carry extra ammunition.  They are in the business of saving lives, not taking them. In Tennessee, we even have a law prohibiting carrying a weapon "for the purposes of being armed..." & concealed carry is allowed. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing music: Dr. Ming Wang plays "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" on a two-string Chinese violin, recorded live by iPhone at Steinway Piano Studio, used with permission. Kroger and Publix don't want you to use cash; they prefer their payment app. At my local Publix, they “verify” every $20 bill.FYI/Before our money said: “In God We Trust”. Franklin's notes said: “'tis Death to Counterfeit”. 

Opening and closing music from Chasing Tuba Christmas from Paris, Tennessee, used with permission. Finally — If all else fails, Treat Yourself to a Mulligan (think do over). Lunar New Year is February 16, 2026.  In our calendar, that's FAT TUESDAY. Join me later this week for Chasing Tuba Christmas 20-25 from Nashville, Tennessee, celebrating 50 years of Tuba Christmas in Nashville, Tennessee, directed by G.R. Davis.

Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Next on our literary excursion of the field of autonomous beings, we look at Blade Runner (1982) (replicants), and the cowardly computer HAL from 2001 (A Space Odyssey - 1968)I wish to acknowledge Jerome George for the LinkedIn post of January 3, 2026. "Asimov introduced his famous Three Laws of Robotics in the 1942 short story 'Runaround,' creating what would become the ethical cornerstone of robotics discourse for decades."

Come, The Fount of Every Blessing, courtesy of Banjo HangOut, used with permission.  Bugle call “To the Colors” courtesy of USAF Band It's a simple matter of sovereignty, no matter what Governor Walz might think, ICE has an absolute right to apprehend so-called migrants in Minnesota or Memphis, Tennessee! And that individual who attempts to interfere does so at their peril. We keep using the term “migrants,” but that's another misnomer. The word migrant implies a return to their own country, and those flooding our southern border have no such intention. 

This is the final appearance of music from Tuba Christmas (20-25), recorded live via iPhone at Bowling Green, KY -- used with permission. Issac Asimoff was a science fiction writer. not a scientist or philosopher!.I wish to acknowledge Jerome George for the LinkedIn post of January 3, 2026. Since it's copyrighted material, I will read only the highlighted prose from the yellow sheets. 

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Bowling Green, Ky, used with permission. Shame On You, WSJ/weekend editionHere's the offending phrase:Chief Executive Officer MikeLindell has faced legal and fi-financial troubles for spreadingfalse claims the 2020 presi-dential election was stolenfrom Trump because of wide-spread fraud.WSJ/Weekend edition p/A9 Mike Lindel has done more for the state of Minnesota than Tim Walz — He gave jobs to Americans.Tim Walz let so-called migrants steal our wealth and fund Helzbola. “Thank God and Greyhound he's gone!”

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Bowling Green, KY -- used with permission."NAPA, Calif.-When PeterAllen spots a Kirkland Signature Malbec from Argentina onthe shelves, he holds up the bottle and grins:A resident of wine country, Allen can sip hard-to-find vintages at any of the 400-plus local wineries. He comes to Costco. "To know this only cost $7?" WSJ 12/28/20- PA/1 - below the foldText Scanned by iPhone -- reproduced as scanned.Trust me, fans, the print edition is Australia, not Argentina, but it's all good; they both have Pacific coasts and are in the southern hemisphere. You also need to be aware that the current rate of change is that one Australian dollar is worth .67 US. 

Tuba Christmas live from Bowling Green, Kentucky, music recorded via iPhone & My interview with the empressiro of Tuba Christmas, Bowling Green Chris Schmidt

Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Harriman, Tennessee, recorded live by iPhone. In this program, my list of the worst ideas

Music of Tuba Christmas S//xxiii #5 for 20-25 - from the Princess Theatre a resurrected movie venue from the thirties and forties. As a youngster, I went to Saturday matinees at a theater like this in Bridgeport, Connecticut -- I recognized the architecture. Tuba music recorded live via iPhone and reproduced with permission. 

My interview with Carmen Sanders (The only Dive of Tuba Christmas) & G.R. Davis, my longest-running Tuba Christmas Guest. 

Opening and closing music from Chasing Tuba Christmas from Paris, Tennessee, used with permission. Finally — If all else fails, Treat Yourself to a Mulligan (think do over). Lunar New Year is February 16, 2026.  In our calendar, that's FAT TUESDAY. Join me later this week for Chasing Tuba Christmas 20-25 from Nashville, Tennessee, celebrating 50 years of Tuba Christmas in Nashville, Tennessee, directed by G.R. Davis.

Be sure to donate to the Holiday Channel on WQXR, 197 Varrick St, New York, New York -- be sure to write Chasing Tuba Christmas in the subject line. -- Next Time Chasing Tuba Christmas from Nashville, Tennessee -- Celebrating 50 years of Tuba Christmas -- Tuba music recorded live via iPhone, used with permission. 

The biggest two-for in free show business -- Tuba Christmas & the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble -- At Tuba Christmas, the audience is free, and the players have paid for the privilege of entertaining you. Featuring the poet laureate of Gallatin, with The Road Sound of Christmas. 

Tuba music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Knoxville, Tennessee, used with permission.. Why consider high-tech solutions for a low-tech problem, or the perils of using poorly generated AI images? If this were a real thermal photo, that dog

Music recorded live by iPhone -- used with permission next in this series from Gallatin, Tennessee -- The Round Sound of Tuba Christmas by the poet laureate of Tuba Christmas. 

Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- Great is Thy Faithfulness, used with permission. All mechanical vehicles need maintenance for the moving parts other than motive power, such as transmission,  tires, suspension, brakes, cooling systems, etc. It's also true that electric motors tend to be extremely reliable and may deliver adequate power, but please remember every EV requires four hours or more of charging time. Yes, I can hear the cries now — there is a “quick charge” option, but it costs the user four times as much and has to be built into the charging station. “Overcharging” is the source of fires, just ask the City of Nashville about the library garage fire.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Champagne is also known jokingly as bubbly, and indeed, there's a local restaurant known as “Mere Bulles” or Mother Bubbly, if my French has not failed me completely.  The complaints about champagne “bubbles up my nose" are mainly from the use of coups, which have a greater “delivery area," and/or raising the glass too quickly after the last pour.See James Burke Connections 1978 episode 8 Eat, Drink and Be Merry “Feeding these large armies became a problem for Napoleon, which caused the innovation of bottled food. The bottled food was first put in champagne bottles…”

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church.Since the late 90s, there have been a number of French producers who have acquired or opened California wineries, and produce a very fine “sparkling” pinot noir, champagne in every sense except name.If you want advice on domestic champagne — I'm still your guy.Next podcast in this series: The science of bubbles explained. Join me then, won't you? It's a Wizard of iPhone Speaks Special.

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- used with permission. Come, The Fount of Every Blessing.Data Centers are neither electricity nor water hogs. Seri gets it wrong again. We'll examine this headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer As data center water demand surges, rivals American Water and Aqua are mergingJoseph N. DiStefano 2 hours ago

Opening and closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. My interview with cricket bowlers on Forest Hills Methodist lawn, Sunday, October 5thA word about today's avatar — I spent a little quality time with my weekend edition of WSJ, and in the book review, I found this title, Gotham At War© 2025 by Mike Wallace (presumably of CBS News fame). In the review of this 900-page tome, I can find no mention of the most famous photo of WWII in NYC, the capsized Normande'. She wasn't just a beautiful ship; she was the pride of France. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, recorded via iPhone.Oliver Stone doesn't know Jack about history, American or recent history (JFK) either…Certainly, Christopher might have been better off with a one-and-done. After his first voyage, his only reward was the title Admiral of the Ocean Sea. It's not well known that he returned from his last voyage in chains. So much for Ollie's assertion that CC plundered those peaceful savages he encountered. The Columbian series was a pictorial history of the 1492 event, and if you are interested, locate a copy of Pictorial Treasury of US Stamps, 1974©.Content Matters this week will include an interview I made last weekend with cricket bowlers on the lawn of Forest Hills Methodist Church. 

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. The Ramsey Christmas Cash Giveaway is back — enter daily from each digital device to maximize your chances of being a winner. You can even opt to receive a daily reminder to enterIf you are going to brew at home, remember this. According to Alton Brown, ground coffee is a volatile product, and you are best served by buying smaller containers more often to ensure maximum freshness.The freshness clock goes into overdrive when the beans are roasted, not ground… Do yourself a favor and buy an airtight canister and buy those vacuum-sealed 8-ounce bricks.

Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Maple Leaf Rag -- Scott Joplin used with permission. Seri Strikes Again -- Geographic ignorance on display. Yes, it's true, fans, TCM has finally corrected the reference to a "poor" Quaker family  (Friendly Persuasion) when in fact they are quite well off. However, they have moved the action from Pennsylvania to Indiana for no apparent reason.PS TCM has a similar problem with Giant -- to be broadcast this weekend. Look for Maryland to be moved to New England. 

Closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church used with permission. Data Centers don't just spring up overnight, like mushrooms in your front yard.Your electric dishwasher uses more current than any data center. The reason it has a heating element is to ensure sanitizing of the load. The hotter the water, the faster it dries.It's a variation on the electric “vampire” theme of yesteryear… You know those always-on devices, like your home fax, incandescent light bulbs, clothes dryer, phone dock (remove the battery first), TV, and microwave clock. The common denominator for reducing electric usage is HEAT. You can defeat those “vampires” by using a power strip and turning those devices off when leaving for extended periods. 

God Bless America, recorded live by iPhone at Steinway Piano Studio.Now we know the reason President Trump didn't take questions at his post-summit meeting in Alaska—this week, he admitted that Vadimer had "let me down!"  Let's face it, fans, there are never any winners in a civil war; our own experience ought to tell us that.It must be contagious, a federal prosecutor in Newuva York is resigning rather than prosecute a fellow felon.Yes, Jerry, even if you have been a Congressman and now serve as a Senator, you may not claim your DC residence as your primary residence!  Even Senators are required to live in the state they serve. You don't get a pass for “prior service” even if you may be committed to a single term. FYI/It's mortgage fraud to claim to have more than one primary residence, and it's especially egregious if you're the Attorney General of that state. 

Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission..Another in my series of Constitutional minutes. If there are any Natzis in America, you'll find them on the neofascist left. You know those guys who celebrated “Damning America”!Supporting WOKE “theology” is playing the ultimate “blame card”

Opening music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Closing music courtesy of the choir of Bellevue Presbyterian, recorded live via iPhone. So, let me tell you more about the cruiser (not battleship) Indianapolis than you probably think you need to know!In the Navy of WWII, Cruisers were known as the “greyhounds” of the sea. They were built for speed and not as heavily armored or armed as a battleship.  Heavy Cruisers were named for major cities and state capitals.  Battleships were named for states. Light or (AA/Cruisers) were named for minor cities or towns. One ☝️ of their tasks was to screen or protect the carrier force. At the time, our aircraft carriers were among the fastest vessels

Piano music courtesy of Steinway Piano Gallery,  recorded live via iPhone -- used with permission. Down By The Riverside Join me on Monday for my interview with the director of Middle Tennessee Council on Aging.-Next time on Wizard of iPhone Speaks, we'll explain to those who want to know what makes 17 special -- “You can't be too young or too thin”

Closing music courtesy of Bellevue Blue Grass Trio, recorded live by iPhone, used with permission.This podcast series is sponsored by your friends at Import Auto Maintenance, and we'll hear from them next. (Just for your information, no matter how many times I type that line, Seri wants the last word to be “week”.)Last week, there was a great article about Musk's boring company being in trouble in Bloomberg, but I couldn't read it because Bloomberg wanted a subscription, only $29 per month…Here's the new number one digital fact of life——If I signed up for every place on the internet, Two things would happen — Developers would get rich, and I'd be broke… Join me later this week. Why does your website not sparkle?

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Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, recorded live by iPhone, Sunday 08 - 24 - 20-25Memo to Clay and Buck, erosion is a constant effect, neither east nor west — that the Appalachian mountains might have been higher is not a given, but they certainly can claim to be older, which is more important. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church used with permission. This podcast is part tutorial and part a Constitution Minute, remarks on our electoral process. There is only one federal election -- it's called Presidential  -- every four years. The confusion is caused by a 2021 decision of the Supreme Court to “regulate” federal elections! That's bogus; there's only one federal election. Congressional elections are state matters.  A voter in Wyoming does not vote for a Senator from Connecticut. Although in 2020, voters from NYC voted in Tennessee. (All those Amazon Gurus who flooded our roads)  While it's not illegal to be licensed to drive in two states, it is illegal to vote in both states.  I also support his call

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian (used with permission) --Submersed ©2025  a reviewTwo facts leap off the page of this tome!First, the writer must not be fluent in English. The title should not be present tense, unless the writer is writing in the news style of our major networks! "of an old-school English don. He is known for rebuking postmodernism and the politicized "presentism" of much recent history writing."John H. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program, Hillsdale College, writing in WSJ weekend edition (08-23-20-25)P/C7Just about every network news (reader) speaks in the present tense to add immediacy to each “story,” and it's a crock. There may be somewhat cogent descriptions of Soviet nuclear sub disasters, but the US gets a pass. It's written just like that old tag line from early network news, “hopscotting around the world for news”!Reading this book is tedious, and certainly, the telling of Danish fables is, in my opinion data overload. 

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission..Clay and Buck (iHeart radio©) today 08/21/20-25 there have been no murders in the District of Columbia for the past week, meaning zero people died on the streets of DC, for the first time in this century, and that's a fact, Jack!Join me on Monday when I explain to a California pastor that ICE doesn't abduct anyone — they are doing the job that we taxpayers are paying for. (That is the 48% of us who pay taxes).Since sanctuary cities are unconstitutional -- wouldn't any such city be in "rebellion" against the United States?

The silly season is an arcane newspaper term for the “Dog Days” of August ….Back in the dim, dark days of long ago, when newspapers mattered, before the days of Roswell aliens and the Bermuda Triangle. Editors would threaten to send out a reporter to bite a dog, because the news cycle was slow….Claiming to be restoring “our democracy” (I am surprised they didn't use the word “cherished democracy”), it's further proof we are being led by dopes.The Constitution of the United States is all about the primacy of the states of our union & your personal liberty. 

 Why Does The US Want to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The MoonHeadline digital edition 08/08/20-25Answer to prank This Week Magazine!Our nuclear generating plants are giant tea kettles; they produce steam to drive electric generators. No combustion of any kind can be supported on the moon. Of course, on the moon, lead shielding would not be required, but water & oxygen would be, and the moon has no atmosphere. A “packaged” nuclear reactor would come with these instructions: “Some assembly required”.The question remains is not how, but why would anyone think such a thing might be possible? Or even desirable for that matter. It must be one of those recurring chestnuts associated with the Dog Days of August.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Why Does The US Want to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon? They don't, but they do want to, Pranki, This Week Magazine -- The question remains is not how, but why would anyone think such a thing might be possible? Or even desirable for that matter. It must be one of those recurring chestnuts associated with the Dog Days of August.

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. The party in power statewide has always exercised its right to draw Congressional districts as they see fit. It's part of the reason that George Washington warned us against “political parties”.The word of the day heard on Clay & Buck is 'gerrymander,' and I imagine that a visit to the nearest dictionary will produce a surprise.  It's - G - not - J -., and it's a fine old political custom originating in that famously “liberal” bastion of Massachusetts.My Webster's (New Collegiate edition, ©1981, p/475 tells me the word originated during the term of Governor Gerry. (19th century). The  Boston “Brahmans” wanted to consolidate their power statewide against those upstart Irish, flooding the state.

Closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, recorded by iPhone 07 - 13 - (20-25), used with permission. A deep construction pit is required to build and house the construction and erection of a Tunnel Boring Device. You can't just build the machine and point it toward the ground. The necessary pit will be wide and deep as a result.As a matter of transportation need, I wonder when our city is going to get serious and address the transportation needs of all those waiters, bartenders, dishwashers, and musicians that make your night on the town possible.That parking lot that the state has designated will be "destroyed" as part of the process. Erection of a boring device may take 18 or more months. 

Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing music: Dr Ming Wang plays a Chinese two-string violin with piano accompaniment. A Mighty Fortress is My God, recorded at Steinway Piano Studio, by iPhone, used with permission.So-called “Migrants” have assumed that if my child is born in America, I should be allowed to enter too..Here's the dilemma the open border crowd is trying to extend to “minors” and spouses, as well.That's clearly an abuse of the system of law, just like a marriage of convenience in the case of Congressman Omhar. We married her brother to gain entry into the United States. Which is not only against our law, it's against Sharia law as well.

Dr. Ming Wang plays the two-string Chinese violin, recorded by iPhone, at the Steinway Piano Studio, used with permission. A token of my appreciation is winging its way to a “clone” of the Grammar Girl for the recent podcast, her content number 1088 “What AI means for writers and editors with Daniel Heuman”The first discovery you make in listening to the podcast is that Danial is not an editor at all -- he's a software developer, by his own admission.Yes, this is an adventure in Losing Control of the language, since he's also a Brit, one could ask:“Who's Language?” Editors started to become an endangered species with the advent of Pagination.

Closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission.I was privileged to see a copy of The Constitution of the United States. Wikipedia tells me that The Freedom Train visited Bridgeport, Connecticut, on October 3, 1949, and I was honored to have a visit by a neighboring family.I remember it was on a siding near that area of our city known as Black Rock. The gleaming white locomotives and coaches were parked on an industrial siding, which was accessible by foot and car, unlike the freight yard near my home.I don't remember much about the incident except to say the crowd was large but extremely orderly and quick-moving. The “traffic” was one-way; we boarded one car and exited at the far end of the second car.Viewers were ushered onto the train by marines in green uniforms; it was a warm evening. We were directed through two air-conditioned cars, which contained copies of The Mayflower Compact, a display of Henry at Agincourt (signing of the Magna Carta), and finally, a copy of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.