The Wizard of iPhone Speaks

Music for this podcast from Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission.  I don't care that Maxine Waters cashes her check -- I want to know where this proxy voting thing came from? I thought a quorum call had to be answered in PERSON.. We don't need voting reform -- We need legislators who obey the law, and perform their duty. After the 2010 flood, 90% of businesses that lost data failed to...

Violin music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church  “Import Auto Maintenance  Nashville, Tennessee, wants to see you, No, actually they recommend bringing in your vehicle for a pre-season check-up before 'the winter driving season’ begins in earnest. Yes, it’s true that most of the maintenance performed by your dad, has been taken over by the ‘computer’, however visually checking your fluids and...

Opening music courtesy of Stevens Valley -- closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Churc In the dim, dark days of the past, we practiced preventive maintenance of our mechanical devices. Since the early nineties, we have relegated that kind of thing to the onboard computer; that’s a problem. The computer in your automobile tells you that something has failed; it can’t predict a part...

Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, (Come the fount...with variations ) & opening Be Still My Soul -- used with permission. Recorded live by iPhone.  MouseCalls of Bellevue (37221) has been my provider of computer service and repair since the days of my Mac II/Plus (1985), before the world ever heard of Google. VIP Silver is intended for seasoned citizens...

Opening music courtesy of Bluegrass quartet of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, recorded live by iPhone, used with permission.  In the dim dark days of the past, we practiced preventive maintenance of our mechanical devices. Since the early nineties, we have relegated that kind of thing to the onboard computer; that’s a problem. The computer in your automobile tells you that something has failed, it...

Opening and closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, recorded live by iPhone on Sunday, June 6, 2026, used with permission. Mike Rowe gets it wrong! In a recent radio commercial, he calls our country a “democratic” republic, and that just Ain’t so! The United States of America is a Constitutional Republic; the last democratic republic was Rome, a place that originated “vox populi,” a...

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, recorded live via iPhone, used with permission. Consider this headline from Maria Bartoloma “Energy Prices Are Rising” FBN Sunday 06/07/20-26. Hack Number One of the five hacks of AI 🤖 “Create a dramatic crisis Headline That Doesn’t deliver.” Here’s the good news 📰. You can fight the good fight. It starts with changing your behavior.  Begin by...

Closing music courtesy of Banjo HangOut (Here I raise my Ebineezer), used with permission.  As regular listeners know, I love the printed word so much that I paid a premium price to receive a “hard” copy of Newsweek Magazine. This week’s issue, May 29, (20-26) has two automotive stories: “The world’s greatest auto disrupters 20-26” P/26 and on P/46 “Sustainability Mercedes Benz”.  My local Mercede...

Closing banjo music courtesy of BanjoHangOut -- Hello Dolly,  Next Time  In our Republic, voting is not about numbers, which "count", it's eligibility that matters. 

Closing music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. (used with permission.)

Closing Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- Here I  Raise My Ebenezer used with permission Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops. Import Auto Maintenance creates a...

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special at importautomaintenance dot com; local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops. Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services. If your car is under factory warranty, you need this recor...

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops. Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services. If your car is under factory warranty, you...

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops. Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services. If your car is under factory warranty, you...

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the pit,  quick-change shop. Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services. If your car is under factory warranty,...

Yes, it’s true you can get a $99 oil change just anywhere. Visit Import Auto Maintenance for their $60/Winter Special importautomaintenance dot com for this special — local shuttle service is available. They are more than the usual kid in the quick-change shops. Import Auto Maintenance creates a vehicle service report, including any recommended services. If your car is under factory warranty, you...

This podcast series is sponsored by your friends at Import Auto Maintenance. They would like to see you. Actually, they want to see your favorite ride to give it that once-over lightly.  You know to change your oil and inspect those all-important belts and hoses.  No computer can do preventive maintenance; a computer fault is a failure. Seri might be too late. Visit ImportAuto.com for a $20 first...

Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut Alabama Jubilee,, used with permission.  In September (17 87), during the ratification of the Constitution,  Delaware’s lone delegate voted “No” 🗳️ to seal the doom of that “racist” document!  A “new” republic assembly elected to govern as a Senate ( in the fashion of the Roman Republic) meets at noo...

Closing music by Blair string quartet recorded live by iPhone at Harpeth Church in 20-23 Here’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 busine...

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 churc...

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 res toration kit / $28/US I visit a local ba...

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 ever...

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 ev...

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”. Fra...

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...