In my experience iPhones (12 and 14 specifically, are the ones I have had) are plenty durable that you can use them without a case.

I do and only have some slight scratches in the screen. Nothing noticeable during normal usage.

It’s mp3 quality through an old tiny battery driven DAC…

I’m pretty sure that using the term “Semite” in any other context than the modern interpretation of “antisemitic”, meaining prejudice against Jews, stopped being a thing roughly around the same time that we stopped treating the bible as an authority on the classification of human races. Same with Hamites and Japhetites.

According to an unsourced claim on Wikipedia, “repetition is the essential comedic device”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedic_device