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October 26, 2026Episode 168 min
Episode 16: The Ramsey Christmas Cash Giveaway is Back FYI/it's $10,000 this year
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Cabaret -- used with permission. Memo to AccuWeather Since El Niño is a weather pattern that occurs off the Pacific coast of California. Any threat to Hawaii is unlikely because our weather patterns are normally flow from west to east. FYI/Hawaii is 2000 miles southwest of California. It’s not part of the contiguous 48 states. I wanted to include a screenshot with the post, but it’s no longer available.
October 24, 2026Episode 159 min
Episode 15: Another in a series of Constitutional Minutes -- Our Wiskey Rebellion
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Alabama Jubilee. A federal license is required to produce distilled spirits in America. For each bottle produced (and sold), distillers pay a tax (although a revenue stamp is no longer required). The levy is on bottles produced for sale, not barrels. It was our republic’s first taxation issue. The government needed money to fund itself; the Third Continental Congress taxed distilled spirits. George Washington threatened to lead an Army into Pennsylvania to put down the “Whiskey Rebellion” of (17-99). He did it to keep the United States United. If it has slipped your mind, the revolution began with taxation without representation. It was the Third Continental Congress that decided to tax distilled spirits. Next time on Wizard of iPhone Speaks ICE's war on Rideshare
October 19, 2026Episode 1410 min
Episode 14: Using AI “judicially” may mean a judge can rise to the level of his own incompetence.
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing: The Army Medley, courtesy of Robert W. McEkewen & The American Military Band. My review of Grammar Girl 101 Misused Words (for show notes) I’m not clear where I first became a follower of Grammar Girl (Migon Forgarty in real life). My best recollection was via Twitter. Over the past six years, we have been connected on LinkedIn. We are both podcasting, except that she produces an MP/4 (video) and my world is MP/3 (audio), but that aside, we are, in a manner of speaking, colleagues. I say it’s a fun book because she’s blind sided by our French cousins on page 4: “Adieu vs Ado” — yes, Virginia, modern English is loaded with French words. It’s especially ironic because some years ago the French had a hissy fit over all the “Englishisms” in their language, i.e., Le drug store, Then it’s “byte versus bite”, which is not a Misused Word at all. “Byte” is a technical term and has nothing at all to do with digestion. On pages 68 & 69, she debates the misuse of our prefix “IN” meaning N O T. You guessed it: flammable vs valuable. I picked up a copy of her latest book — it’s a fun little piece and, in my opinion, if you intend to be a serious writer, especially of nonfiction, you need this book on your bookshelf, right next to your dictionary of choice.
October 16, 2026Episode 149 min
Episode 14: Memo to the WSJ: The United States of America does not recognize “dual citizenship”. Let’s end this dual citizenship nonsense — It doesn’t exist
Opening & closing piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church Let’s end this dual citizenship nonsense — It doesn’t exist “In Greece, his dual citizenship complicates efforts by authorities to extradite him.” WSJ weekend edition page A/5 That’s why he fled to Greece. Here’s the reason why, FYI, as a naturalized American, he made the following oath before a Federal judge.
October 12, 2026Episode 1313 min
Episode 13: Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, The War of Currents & The Chicago Exposition of 1892 & Elvis Presly
Opening piano music, courtesy of Stevens Valley Church, Finlandia -- Closing music recorded live by iPhone (20-14), courtesy of Steinway Piano Galleries. Gershwin plays Gershwin, played by Sprio -- the automated piano & The Entertainer. Scott Joplin. Charting Pacific Ocean Temperature & labeling it El Niño “intensification” is not scientific Weather is a technical subject; creating weather content using Siri is navigating a slippery slope. Blaming Pacific cyclones (that's what Western Pacific hurricanes are called) is not just silly; it's illogical.
October 7, 2026Episode 139 min
Episode 13: Today's Avatar Freddie's New Folly -- recycle and repurpose are not synonymous
Closing Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut, Wreck of the old 97 & Happy Days are here again Medley, used with permission. Memo to Humana — why would I want to use your pharmacy when you are “dropping” my doctor from your plan? My medical care is not about your profit; it’s about my well-being! This is the final program in my five-part series about America's favorite morning beverage.
October 2, 2026Episode 128 min
Episode 12: Siri strikes again the protocoll was okay, it was the technicians that failed
Closing Banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Blue Skies used with permission. Join me next week for Trash Your Kureg -- Mother Earth will thank you. Here’s another little bit of weather nonsense — “California is already taking steps now to protect communities from a potentially historic El Niño because we know how serious these weather extremes driven by climate change can be,” California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot said in the statement. Published by AccuWeather Sept 22 (20-26) This online post was accompanied by a chart of Pacific Ocean temperatures. Since El Niño is always a warm onshore flow, it can’t intensify because it’s always warm. The uniqueness of El Niño is being an "onshore" flow(close to the coast) when the norm is an offshore flow
September 24, 2026Episode 39 min
Episode 3: Everybody has got their hand out, and it stinks
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Closing banjo music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee..." used with permission. Waffle House plays it smart Since the start of the so-called penny crisis, Casa Waffle has even-numbered pricing and engaged tax-included pricing. Only to-go orders trigger a decimal dilemma: WH charges 10% on to-go orders. So if you visit your favorite breakfast place and use your debit card 💳. Tip the server with cash and save your host 02.5%. They earned it! On a personal note — I visited my dentist's office this morning and noticed they charge 03.5% “convenience fee.” I used my American Express Card (Dave Ramsey hates that part).
September 23, 2026Episode 311 min
Episode 3: Siri/AI going rogue is another 21st-century myth! “She” only knows what has been loaded into her memory.
Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church; closing Alabama Jubilee courtesy of BanjoHangOut -- It's a matter of technical rule one -- "If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong & at the worst possible moment..." Somehow I had been signed out, and the files were not loading. I apologize for the screw-up. Next time, the third in our series The freshness clock goes into overdrive when the beans are roasted, not when they are ground…
September 14, 2026Episode 119 min
Episode 11: In this podcast, we will begin a five-part series about America’s favorite morning beverage.
Closing music courtesy of Stevens Valley Church. When I was growing up, the preferred method of brewing coffee at home was by the percolator. More losing Control of the language — Is Clay & Buck radio the new source of misinformation? Perhaps when you consider a caller’s statement 09 - 14 - (20-26) Here’s what he said: “I’m an analyst, and I used AI to write my latest post, and I did it in record time.” Here’s the problem: computers (including Siri) don’t analyze anything — that’s a human function. What computers do is “sort data” so the user can analyze it. Don’t believe me… Try it for yourself; a sort of data is what you will get. Your laptop is a binary device, just like your smartphone, and it only recognizes up and down or right and left, over and under, but fails when comparing something quantitative, like good or bad.
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