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Episode 162: Your credit card chip is not a transmitter -- it's gold for contact efficiency
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Piano music courtsy of Jeff Burnham music director of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, we appreciate his kind permission to reproduce his music. Any metal box will defeat RFID signals -- it's called a Faraday Cage -- see Nicola Tesla -- You don;'t need no stinkin' box -- "Badges, badges, we don't gpt no staking badges..." Treasure of Serria Madre...…
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Episode 162: Nashville Transportation Feng Shwi -- Wizard of iPhone Special Series ii #21
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Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- closing banjo William Tell Overature courtesy of Banjo HangOut I pasted my headline "Big News from WeGo" (42%) into a headline analyzer and this was thier suggestion -- "Unvieling WeGo's Exciting New Launch Don't Miss Out" (84%) PS I'm still not clear as to what ridership may have to do…
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Episode 20: The phrase “Give’em Hell Harry”, was born much earlier..
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Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. That $1000 dolllar Nike, has 25c worth of material and $10 labor, by a Chinaman, and you size 10 1/2 foot won't go into a size 12 shoe... (see today's avatar) Here/s the way David McCullough tells the story in Truman…. “HST, daughter Margret boarded the Ferdinand Magellan at…
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Episode 19: Your Morning Java Jolt is three things, beans, water and time! Those are the ingredients How you bring them together is that’s the receipt
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Wizard Of iPhone Speaks Special Series ii # 19 07 - 09 - (20-24 Video Courtesy of Nashville Fender Wars Drivers behaving badly. Alton Brown of Good Ears Fame recommends hot water just off the boil! That’s your Kuregs’ Dirty Little Secret A measure of coffee meets the right amount of hot (not boiling) water slowly! FYI/its called a “pour over device…
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Episode 161: Vice President Camilla Harris Needs a Chill Pill Along With a Fact Check
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Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church (a new rendition of an old favorite -- well played) Since the time of Joe Biden’s tenure on the Senate, every Supremean nominee has affirmed “I will not interfere with a woman’s ‘right’ to choose….” Except of course Judge Bork! He would not answer that question citing Judicial impartiality. He wasn't co…
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Episode 16: Wizard Of iPhone Speaks (Special S/ii # 17 05 - 27 - (20-24)
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Music courtesy of Nashville Pipes & Drums, used with permission Opening Highland Cathedral -- Closing Amazing Grace & Scotland The Brave recorded live at the 20-24 event via iPhone
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Episode 9: Hack Number One of The Five Hacks of Writing AI "Create a dramatic Crisis Headline That Doesn't Deliver
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Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. “Reconstruction, civil rights, the myth of the Lost Cause….” WSJ 02-25-2024 PC8 A quote from The World Will Never See The Like I demure this comment “The Lost Cause” had not been invented yet! It was Woodrow Wilson commenting on the Birth of A Nation a film “It's like writing history with lightning….” …
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Episode 9: Sit back & relax while I tell the story of the Maltese Dunce
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Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut. Join me on Monday when my guest will be Adam Buzeard of Project Andrew.
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Episode 2: AI invades news writing remember Wuhan Virus is Racist
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Piano Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Late breaking News 06 - 02 - (20-23) A Chinese spokesman admits that the Covid-19 virus “escaped from their lab”. I guess that puts the lid on the coffin “Wuhan Virus is racist.” In a startlingly surprising announcement wind advocates claim to be able to recycle turbine blades There's not a bit o…
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Episode 22: There’s bad advice everywhere & if you take your tech advice from News channel four/Nashville - they don’t know beans about iPhone security
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Opening piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- closing Banjo HangOut The Very Thought of You, used with permission. I once made a crack that with more than 2/B phones sold no one would steal an iPhone. What the thieves are now after is your “life”. Locking you out of your Apple ID to charge stuff thru Apple/Pay — it’s your identity …
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Episode 18: Labels don't "lie" Copywriters Do
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Opening piano music courtesy of Steinway & Sons - closing courtesy of Banjo HangOut, William Tell Overture -- I omitted one thing from my tome on fuel savings & here it is now. We are moving in the warmer months of the year and it pays to shop for fuel earlier in the day when it’s coolest. Gasoline in its liquid state expands & contracts, it’s stor…
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Episode 1: Are PodCast Tags Important? No, They’re Vital!
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If you prepare a detailed script for your podcast, do yourself a favor; include a text box at the end of each episode with possible tags to use for that episode as a reminder. Tag Lines are Awesome if The're Awesome/headline by Steve Woodruff with misspelling Overall: 65 • Engagement: 58 • Impression: 50 • View Analysis Tag Lines are Awesome if The…
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Episode 115: Everything I know about writing podcasts, I learned from Steve Woodruff, PodCamp 2014
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This is The PodCast Doctor Video series iii — this video is sponsored by MouseCalls of Bellevue (37-221) — the guys who beat the tech in the truck.. He didn’t mean to do it, of course, he was delivering a presentation of: The Communication Strategies involved in “Branding”, and I happened to be in the room. I am indebted to Steve for making a great…
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Episode 115: Take Your Podcast to the next level build anticipation Tease future content — an “un-case” study
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Apple to use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025 April 13 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Thursday it would use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025 as a part of its efforts to make all its products carbon neutral by the end of the decade. THANK YOU Reuters News Service What's taking so long /ed note Bad advice is everywhere — Hea…
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Episode 115: Twitter Get's It Wrong Again, Tennessee
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To begin I’d like to share the results of a so-called Twitter poll on NewsChannel/17 — Nashville’s (own) CodeRed weather dunces. According to their results, the state of Tennessee looks bad as a result of the recent expulsion of two members. It’s a crock of sh… As we found out in 20-20 Twitter is a sewer (Thank You, Rush Limbaugh). It’s not represe…
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Episode 115: Unfortunately for US 21st century politics are motivated by revenge more than any other motive
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Music opening piano courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian -- closing courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian -- A History Lesson from Kim Kommando "Happy Wednesday! What were you doing on this day in 1971? If you were Ray Thomlinson, you sent the first email ever from one computer to another using ARPANET (precursor to the internet). Thank you, Ray!" Thanks f…
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Episode 115: “There are lies and then there are Damn’d lies and then there are statistics….” Mark Twain
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Piano music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church -- Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut - Alabamey Bound. I picked the March issue of Harper’s Magazine while I was scouring my local Publix store for Hot Cross Buns, a Damn’d Yankee Easter Delicacy. I was attracted by the headline Publishing On Trial, as a potential author I’m interested in anyt…
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Episode 115: Michigan Governor Confirms The Idea “we are being led by Dopes”
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Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Closing Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Alabamy Bound Michigan Governor Confirms The Idea “we are being led by Dopes”. Yes, we have lost control of The Language or plain English under assault by a political dimwit! Back in the dim dark days of the past, we would say lightweight …
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Episode 115: Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon — (03-07-2023) This headline is about 25 days too early.
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Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Alabama Jubilee The silly season gets an early start! Doesn’t Moon Pollution Count? A Florida company plans to have Moon based cloud server — It’s a dumb idea. Yes, I know we have wireless charging for our devices, but no one has tried to send electricity to the Moon since Nicola Tesla. Bernie Sanders, senat…
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Episode 115: WakeUp Nashville a 6 Month Wait for any Metro Spending info is a John Cooper stonewall tactic
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Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church recorded live by iPhone. Join my Zoom — Eventbrite on March 09 - 2023 —` at 5 PM Take The First Step Join The Podcast of The Month Club Thu, March 9, 2023, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST — Online via Zoom — register thru Eventbrite US Commerce Secretary goes to Ukraine to organize a country-wide bake sale to fi…
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Episode 8: Joe Biden didn’t go to East Palestine (OH) because someone told him, it was a suburb of Jerusalem.
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Opening Paino music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian, "Here I Rise My Ebenezer" -- Btianjo music courtesy of. Banjo HangOut "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee". Memo to NewsFiveNashville — give each homeless person a check for $1400 & a one-way bus fare to NYC We have $55/M to spend. With 2.2 Billion iPhones sold (as of 2018), Wikipedia estimates they …
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Episode 115: It’s a toss-up whether we will drown in a sea of plastic straws or L/ion batteries.
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Banjo Music. courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Civil War Medley -- Batteries are stone age technology & they certainly do not represent “clean energy”, depending on their electrodes, they may be hazardous waste. FYI/for a brief period in the nineties EverReady claimed to recycle dry-cell batteries. It didn’t last too long because only the metal cases we…
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Episode 7: An addition to the Great Beauties of the 20th century Claudette Colbert — She was Cleopatra before Elizabeth Taylor was born
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Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas, Nashville, Tennessee used with permission Jingle Bells (20-22) Carol of the bells (20-17) recorded live via iPhone. Last night I watched Parish, a movie set in the tobacco country of the Connecticut River Valley released in 1961. A drama starting, Claudette Colbert. I may have to revise my list of great beauties of…
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Episode 6: For Contentious the campaign 2016 had nothing on 1948
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Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas 2022 Nashville, Tennessee, used with permission. After I wrote this I discovered HST rode the Ferdinand Magellan back to Independence, Mo. “On Friday Morning September 17, the campaign began in earnest — and bestowed upon its protagonist a nickname.‘Good luck — and mow’ed down’ Alban Barkley advise Truman as the Fer…
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Episode 2: Southwest Airlines Melt Down or It’s not nice to monkey with Mother Nature, especially in domestic aviation
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Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Nashville, Tennessee 2022, used with permission. Breaking News — A Family survives after Tesla drives off Cliff — today on News Four (01-03) Nashville - Another headline which doesn’t deliver. No one rode that Tesla off the cliff to destruction! In addition to my review of the performance of the West Point band, I w…
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Episode 6: Why You Should Beware Homophones -- We used to call them homonyms now they’re Homophones
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Music from Tuba Christmas, Nashville, Tennessee (20-22) used with permission. Of course, you may fight some homonyms in notes by engaging emojis ie sea (ocean) when you meant see (vision). Speaking of emojis why is it we have flags of many nations & no flags of our 46 states & five commonwealths? There’s trouble ahead for the global warming crowd I…
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Episode 115: A Huge Asteroid passes Earth - Headline Newsweek magazine
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Another headline that doesn’t deliver. Newsweek writers don’t know beans about asteroids. Creating sensational headlines used to be the province of your neighborhood checkout lane think Super Market Tabloid. We continue with music from Nashville Tuba. Christmas 20-22 recorded live by iPhone, used with permission.…
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Episode 115: The Word Doctor Presents Writing & Speaking "the kings English" S/I #2 12 - 12 (20-22
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Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Knoxville, Tennessee (opening) & Tuba Christmas Chattanooga (2017) used with permission ---- The revelations coming out of the new Twitter management may shape the future for words like plutocrat — ballot harvesting (see mail fraud) malfeasance, voting fraud & finally hologram (see Joe Biden) My advice from last wee…
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Episode 115: The English Language Word/Doctor is committed to speaking & writing the King’s English. “He done it good.”
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Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Earlier this year during weekend weather programming on FNB the mouth of the Hudson River was identified as “Hudson’s Bay” (in the crawl). FYI/in TV terms that’s the name for information that scrolls across the bottom of your screen (not to be confused with closed captioning). This same sort of thing …
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Episode 115: The recent election shenanigans in Arizona would be funny if they weren’t so tragic A clear example of terminal dumb.
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Banjo Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut -- Waiting For The. Robert E. Lee I enjoy talk radio & if I’m not listening to my current podcast I’m tuned to WTNN/FM Thursday morning's first guest was an economist & he had a problem. His task was to explain CryptoCurrency. Problema/Sp He didn’t understand it himself he tried to explain BitCoin. He should ha…
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Episode 115: More election news AZ a state which for 2020 reported results that evening in 2022 takes 10 days to count results & no mass mail-in votes
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Opening courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, The election is over and the pundits are scurrying for cover to explain the red wave which wasn’t! It’s been a mystery to me just what motivates Senatorial concerns. I can’t picture Fedderman as a Senator he looks more like a thug. On the other hand, Chuck Schumer (NY) may look like a Senator but he…
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Episode 115: The science of Bubbles Explained
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Music courtesy of Banjo HangOut Civil War medley Another member of my circle has come down with Covid, and we are in year three of a pandemic with the most virulent virus known to us, it must be virulent because we are entering “the flu season” of year four. I guess our initial reaction was too effective in postponing the so-called herd immunity — …
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Episode 111: In this podcast, we continue my three-part series on Champagne
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Opening piano music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church -- Jazzy Jerico Closing courtesy of. Steinway & Sons Sprio plays The Entertainer recorded by iPhone December 2014 at Green Hills Mall used with permission. We conclude our series about America’s favorite celebratory beverage, on our alternate channel GeekOfTheWeek and talk about the scien…
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Episode 111: Part one of a three part series America's favorite celebratory beverage Champagne
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Open piano music courtesy of Tucker Biddlecomb recorded 10-30-2022 via iPhone Closing Banjo music courtesy of BanjoHangOut The Entertainer Next time We’ll lead off with November Silliness — The baseball season used to conclude with the “October Classic” -- Memo to Speaker Pelosi — Hubby hasn’t been behaving: “Harvey you’re a bright guy & God willin…
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Episode 115: Making Winston Smith Proud (Think ministry of truth 1984) The CDC Attempts a re-write of our recent history
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Music courtesy of Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term "Orwellian" as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including "Big Brother", "doublethink", "Thought Police", "thoughtcrime", "Newspeak", and "2…
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Episode 122: Podcast BootCamp -- Managing Your Editorial Schedule -- "Write what you say before you hit record" - Podcast essential number 4
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Every PodCast Is Three ”C’s” Concept -- Your idea / elevator speech It’s your podcast! Create -- A podcast is a VOIP - MP3 Connect -- MP-3 files can go anywhere In the blogosphere There’s confusion about MP-4 / Video & MP-3/audio -- Videos are difficult to edit & may lack “music” Your Media Is Not Your Message Telling Your Story Well Is Your Messag…
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Episode 122: Learn These 10 Simple Hacks to make your next interview podcast great listening
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This is a continuation of my series The Five Podcast essentials Interview shows are popular with audiences & may seem easy to produce which leads to podcast essential number four: Any interview may create more content than you may need! The best podcast interviews are edited to capture that premium content In the companion video, I will highlight t…
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Episode 122: Order The China Clipper Mystery
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A brief mention in the saving electricity department, during this period of high usage — look at your electric dishwasher controls and toggle off “extended heat dry” if you see that on the control panel. Especially if you have followed my advice and run your dishwasher off-peak hours. Order The China Clipper Mystery The manuscript is now complete a…
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Episode 114: Try these Ten Hacks to make your next interview podcast great
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PodCast Doctor Productions is seeking clients To celebrate 2022 we propose to produce a weekly podcast at the introductory rate of $49.00/episode for a ninety-day “trial” rate. Episodes are to be 18 1/2 minutes or less. The file format shall be MP-3 and shared through a cloud service (DropBox recommended) 24/36 hours before the production date. Pod…
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