Welcome to In The News for May 15, 2026.

I am Brett Burney.

I'm from appsinlaw.com.

And this is Jeff Richardson from iPhone JD. Hey, Brett.

Good morning,

Jeff.

Happy five years.

Happy anniversary.

You texted me last night to say we have been doing this podcast for five years.

And it's like,

I looked at your text message and was thinking,

what?

Like,

you're not serious. I can't,

That can't be right.

But it is.

Congratulations,

my friend.

I think we were just, we were just noting.

It feels like maybe I would have guessed maybe two years, two and a half years, something like that.

But I take that as a positive because I still enjoy doing this every Friday.

Yeah, time flies.

And thanks to you, you know, just over five years ago,

reaching out to me and suggesting that we start doing this.

And I'm like, oh, I can't, you know, can't imagine finding the time to do that.

And here we are five years later.

It's been great fun.

It's interesting looking back at that very first episode.

You know, the format was basically the same.

um you know in terms of the topics the very first thing that we tell you know look at us i have

different glasses and stuff i know we look very first topic we talked about was air tags which is

funny because the air tags were brand new at the time like they had just come out um i forget when

apple announced them but they first showed up in stores or if you pre-ordered them you could get

them on april 30th and so here we are two weeks later talking about some of the initial people

that were like testing air tags and how durable are they i think we talked you know maybe somebody

ran it through a through a washing machine i remember all those sorts of things yeah so that

was like our big topic was what is and i and i and i know only because i looked for about two seconds

that our uh video from the podcast from five years ago and you were asking me about it because you

said oh i don't have one yet but you do jeff i right you you bought your first air pod by now

your air um air oh yeah many what several i probably have like 12 at this point exactly

Exactly.

But they were that they were brand new.

So that was an interesting topic that we talked

about five years ago.

The second topic, and I think this is funny,

was the Exhibits Pad app

from Lit Software,

which is funny because we have been talking about Lit Software apps,

you know, for so many years.

And Exhibits Pad, by the way, this is probably the least used of one,

because this is the one where if you're a trial attorney,

instead of giving three ring binders

to your jurors with all the evidence in it or something like that,

you would give each of the

jurors an iPad and it has this app on it so that they can look at digital evidence and stuff like

that.

I'm not a trial attorney. I'm an appellate attorney. So this is not something that I've tried

in real life,

but I do hear stories about people using it every once in a while.

And it's definitely

a really cool idea.

Believe me, I'm working on an appeal right now and trying to get together

all of the exhibits because I wasn't there for the trial and it's sort of a pain. I'm like,

I wish that this was all in a clean digital form.

If this trial attorney that I'm doing the appeal

before had used Exhibus pad, it would be so much easier for me to be working on this brief.

And then the last big topic that we talked about was an accessibility feature,

which is

using an iPhone.

If you turn on settings,

if you pointed your iPhone at the world around you, it could tell

you what it is seeing.

For example,

this is a door or this is a whatever,

which was particularly useful for people of

limited vision,

right?

But what is interesting to me is that same underlying technology of looking at the world

around you and describing it,

you know,

this continues,

especially in this world of AI,

this continues to be something that people are talking about today.

And I don't, I haven't talked

about it on my,

on my website because it's just a rumor,

but I'll tell you that I'm sure you've

seen it. One of the rumors in the world is that a future version of AirPods will have a little bit

longer stem.

And at the end of the stem on it,

it will have a camera so that it can see the world

around you.

And the rumor is that it would not be taking pictures of the world around you. It's not

like you're going to say, hey,

say, you know, say cheese,

but by having a low fidelity image of the

world around you,

the AirPod could see things and could give you,

you know, an example would be if

you're walking around downtown in an area with bad GPS because of all the tall buildings,

but

the Maps app is smart enough that it knows what buildings look like and it can see where you are

and give you very precise directions of, you know, turn left, turn right.

But to use that right now,

you have to be holding up your iPhone,

which is a little obnoxious as you're walking around.

if you had AirPods that could see the world around you,

they could just talk in your ears,

you know, give you incredibly precise directions of take a left right here. No, no, not here.

Okay,

here.

Or maybe other things like, you know, we always talk about futuristic world where their

AirPod could whisper in your ear,

hey,

that is John.

Remember,

you know, you know, John,

because your daughters used to play soccer together 16 years, you know, all those sorts of things.

And so,

and again, some people can get creeped out by cameras in the world around them. Of course,

Nowadays,

we live in a world where people...

So anyway, the point is that, you know, here we are five years later,

and this is still

a hot topic,

the ability of an iPhone and other Apple devices to look at the world around

you.

So anyway, five years later,

you know, the more things change, the more they stay the

same.

It was just sort of interesting.

And the last thing I'll mention is, although the podcast came out five years ago,

if there

is anyone listening to this that heard that podcast at the time it came out,

well,

bravo

to you on being a sleuth,

because we actually recorded,

I want to say three episodes.

before you and I figured out, you know what?

That's right,

we did.

I think this will work.

And so it was actually at the end of May in 2021

that I finally posted about it

and you posted about it as well.

And so I seriously doubt that anybody,

people may have gone back

and listened to that first episode,

but at the time, I seriously doubt

that five years ago,

yesterday,

anybody except for you and I

was actually listening to the podcast.

But anyway,

so it's nice to,

here we are five years later

and I look forward to the next five.

What version of iOS do you think we were running then?

Would that have been 14,

five years ago?

I don't remember.

That's a good question.

You'd have to look that up.

Interesting.

Well, I'm only asking because you started off, you're in the news post today talking about iOS 26.5 that just got released.

Now,

that's a little bit of a misnomer because,

you know, last year we had iOS 18,

right?

And that's when everybody jumped up to 26.

But I think five years ago, we would have been running iOS 14.

And it's just amazing to see how far things have come,

of course, everything getting added.

Now, iOS 26 was a huge change with Liquid Glass.

And we've had now these point updates to where I think I finished upgrading my, I think it did my Apple Watch last night to the latest version of iOS or watchOS.

But everything is now 26.5.

And one of the big things that came out in this was encrypted RCS messaging,

which I like this other article really that you link to from Wesley Hilliard because he kind of expressed my frustration.

It's like, wait a minute,

RCS,

we have SMS and MMS and messages and iMessages and RCS.

There's so much to keep track of in here.

But really, this helps, I think,

mostly with any time that for those of us that typically have an iPhone that we are texting with our friends that have green bubbles instead of the blue bubble.

So you can see that's why I have my lovely little background here today,

right?

You can see the green and blue bubbles behind me.

But I thought this was important,

although I feel like it's not that big of a deal from like a user perspective.

But I think it's good that now this means that even those messages that you're communicating with folks that have an Android between an iPhone,

those messages are now encrypted.

I feel like we just keep ratcheting up the improvements between the different Apple and Android communications now, which is a good thing.

It's a great thing.

Sure. Privacy is very important to Apple.

And iMessage messages have been encrypted from the start,

which means the regular text messages, the SMS that we all started using a long time ago,

those are just plain text.

And so there's not a privacy.

And if somebody was trying to intercept them one way or the other,

they could do so.

But from the beginning,

iMessages has always been transcripted from end to end.

So it's encrypted when it leaves your iPhone and it's then decrypted when it gets to the person's iPhone.

So that gives you an added level of privacy.

But whenever you would communicate with your Android friends,

you lost that.

And originally, those communications were just using the SMS standard.

More recently,

Google has adopted the RCS standard,

which gives a lot, some of the features that we've had in iMessage for a while.

You know, everything from, you know,

the ability to see that somebody else is typing,

you know, those little dots that you see.

Oh, you know, I'm going to sit here and watch for a second because I'm about to get a response.

And the ability to do like a little thumbs up emoji or something on the corner of a message.

You know, a bunch of other sort of modern features on RCS.

The thing is,

when you're communicating with somebody that has a green bubble,

you don't know what standard they are on.

You don't know if they're using regular SMS,

if they're using RCS,

if they're using the updated version of RCS that supports the encrypted protocol.

And so that's why Wesley Hillier points out this article that you have to sort of look closely.

There is an indication on the screen that will tell you,

but you can't just assume all of my green bubble communications are now encrypted.

And I also pointed this out in the beginning of my post today.

And maybe this is just a me problem.

I don't know if this is a widespread problem or this is just a Jeff problem.

But I noticed that I was using my iPad to send a text message to somebody that I know, one of my cousins that uses Android.

And the messages didn't go through.

I didn't even know at the time.

I went back to send him a follow-up message.

Like, why didn't you respond to me?

And then I saw,

you know how sometimes you can see under a little message said, you know, caution.

This message did not go through.

It's got like a little yellow caution triangle.

And I'm like, well, that's weird.

And I tried to send it again. It didn't work.

And, you know, as you know, when you use an iPad to send an SMS text message or an RCS text message,

my iPad is not a cellular iPad. So it's actually sending the text message to my iPhone.

And then my iPhone, which is on the cellular network,

it actually sends the message that works so seamlessly behind the scenes that I don't even think about it. I just I just think, well, of course, I can text from my iPad.

But for whatever reason,

once I updated to the newest 0.5 update this week,

it wasn't working.

So I just sent the message to my iPhone and that worked perfectly fine.

Who knows?

And maybe I'd have to restart my iPad.

I haven't figured that out yet.

And hopefully this problem will go away.

But my point is just that there's always growing pains for this.

But I am glad to see we still don't have full parity between Android people and iPhone people

and messages and, you know, things like groups and stuff like that.

And certainly some of the

latest features,

but at least we're starting to get some of the same features getting closer,

which I like.

Yeah. In fact, because,

um,

I have a story later on,

stay tuned,

uh,

texting with my

sister, which I've been doing for a lot for the last week.

She has an Android,

my wife and I have

an iPhone.

And so I've been texting separately, you know, directly with my sister from iPhone to

Android, but also I have a group with my wife and my sister and myself.

And so we've been doing a

lot of texting over this past week story to come in a little bit here.

And sure enough,

I have been

able to see when she when my sister starts typing a message,

Jeff,

like I didn't have that before.

And I was able to do a thumbs up in a heart emoji, you know, on the little corner. Yeah,

for those messages.

Now,

I'm not exactly sure how that shows up with my sister all the time,

Because sometimes I know that I've sent like a thumbs up on a message and it comes through as a separate message,

you know, to the end.

I think that's the old days, though.

Now, I think it's different.

I think it's like us now.

OK.

OK.

And that's what I'm saying.

Like, I am thrilled to see that this gap is getting,

you know, smaller and smaller.

I mean, the fact that I could see when my sister is typing it, that's really helpful when you don't have that.

It kind of stinks.

You don't know how much you really miss it because it's good that I know that my sister is actually typing something and getting ready,

you know, to reply as opposed to like, when is she going to read this?

When is it going to know?

I think even it has like a now,

I can see when she actually reads a message,

right?

Which I can do if it's iPhone to iPhone.

I can see if my wife actually reads a message,

even if it's delivered.

And I just like the fact that it continues to get a smaller gap there.

And I hope it continues to do that.

And if it's additional encryption,

that's to me icing on the cake.

Yeah.

Good stuff on that.

I guess we should also mention another change in 26.5.

There's very few of them,

but one of them is the Maps app that if you use the Maps app on your iPhone and when you go to search for something,

so like I open up my Maps app right now and then I tap in the search field.

Right under the search field,

you know, I see also my first thing I see is here's some recent places you've been to, which is useful,

that this is not new.

That like if I want to go back to that restaurant that I searched for.

Right.

But then underneath it, there's something called suggested places.

And so right now, for example,

I see it happens to be suggesting two places that are right near my office.

I'm going to hold up my little phone to the screen.

So you can see, for example, it's suggesting a restaurant called Luke, which happens to be located right next door to my office.

Now, I think that these suggested places are just they're just based on position, you know, random.

But I mentioned all of this because the current version of Maps is set up to have ads in the future.

And I have no doubt that in the future,

one of these suggested places will be, let's just say the restaurant next door to my office called Luke actually pays Apple money for advertising.

I suspect my guess is they're going to pay to show up in there.

And this happens in Google too.

You do a search in Google and the first thing you see at the top of the screen are not your search results but some ads.

Sponsored results.

And sometimes that's a pain in the butt because sometimes people like you may search for company X and company Y will run an ad that shows up at the top.

And you might even click on company Y by mistake thinking it is company X and it's actually not.

This is actually a problem with hotels.

Yeah, you go to book at a hotel and the thing that comes up at the top is an imitation site that,

you know,

that wants to charge you even more to book at the hotel.

It's a total pain.

I know that there are some people that use web browsers like DuckDuckGo or Kaji, something that they pay for just to avoid all that nonsense.

So anyway, I'm not thrilled about ads coming to Maps.

My hope is that if Apple has to – I don't see why Apple has to do it.

They have enough money, but whatever.

I'm not going to tell them how to make money.

But I hope that at least it's going to be finer and not too obnoxious.

I just upgraded my phone yesterday to 26.5,

and you know I don't normally use Apple Maps.

I'm more on the Google Maps side.

Use Google Maps, yeah.

So sure enough, as you were talking, I just opened my Apple Maps,

and look what the first thing says.

Oh, it's just an ad.

It's an alert that ads are coming, yeah.

It says that maps may show local ads based on your approximate location,

current search terms, or view of the map while you search.

For your privacy,

advertising information is not linked to your Apple account.

Now,

I think that you can go,

you know,

and part of that should be tied to some of those settings that you can do in your settings,

in your privacy settings,

because it says about Apple advertising and privacy.

So maybe that would change.

But,

yeah, I'm not thrilled about this,

honestly.

But, you know, at the same time, you're used to it, though, because, like,

I just opened up the Google Maps app,

and I just typed coffee in the search bar.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, in Google Maps.

And the very first thing I see, it says sponsor.

I know.

It's obviously some coffee place.

that's actually not that close to me that is that paid for the ad um and then the next one that i

see is a coffee shop that actually happens to be across the street from me and that one's not an ad

so you know i guess it's not terribly i'm not just again we go back to i think of the old pages the

old days with the yellow pages um younger listeners will not remember what the yellow pages are but

you know it used to be if you're looking for a plumber the plumber that would pay for the full

page ad and the yellow pages or the half page ad i would think to myself well that's somebody who

you know, it's a little bit more established.

They have a big ad.

I'm going to take a look at that.

And I actually could find it helpful.

So,

you know, again,

I'm not totally against ads.

I

understand people have ads. You know,

if I don't currently have a business, I guess I do have a

business and have ads. We certainly have a marketing department at my law firm.

So look,

I understand this is life. We all want to do this. And there can be value to getting yourself in front

of everybody else.

I just hope it's not too obnoxious.

We shall sing.

Again,

I think,

I expect it with Google.

So yes,

I mean, that's been true for Google searches,

right?

You go Google searches.

I always scroll down for the first two or three

because I know that they're sponsored.

So I expect that in Google Maps.

It's always been there.

I guess I'm just,

I'm not happy,

but I know it's inevitable that it's going to come to Apple Maps

and I get it.

Hopefully it'll just be a little bit more bearable

in Apple Maps than others.

Okay, anything else real quick?

This is an article,

9 to 5 Mac from Ryan Christophe.

Bug fixtures, security fixtures,

you know, that's the pride luminance wallpaper.

We talked about that last week.

App store supports new in app subscription model.

Interesting.

Okay.

So we'll see.

Remind me.

You know, it used to be that you could for many apps, you could either pay for it monthly

or yearly.

And if you pay for annual,

it would be a discount.

The change is they now give an app the option to allow you can get the annual price,

but

pay for it monthly.

So you only pay,

you know,

five bucks a month for 12 months,

but you take, but because you

commit to be the full 12 months, you take advantage of the annual price.

So if an app developer chooses to do that, they can.

Reminders, updates,

snoozing feature.

That looks interesting.

What that is,

is,

you know, if you snooze a reminder,

you could say,

it used to be before

this week,

you could, you know,

choose to snooze it and it would say, remind me,

you

know,

this afternoon.

Now it will actually tell you not just this afternoon,

but it'll specifically say three

o'clock.

So it's a little bit more precise on if you snooze it when you would find out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Very good.

All right.

Well, that's all that Ryan covers on there.

And I feel like there's just, like you said, some bug fixes and other things in there.

But interesting stuff.

And typically when Apple updates the iOS,

several apps will have to update as well.

In fact, one of the things I do after I update my iOS,

I go to my app store and say,

update all the apps, right?

And there's usually,

you know, for me, there's like 60, 70,

80 sometimes because everybody's updating things.

Here is an update on carrot weather.

now not because this is actually 26.5 came out but something that carrot weather is adding this is a

story from david sparks yeah we actually talked about this before i just i think we did on the

podcast or maybe i did on the website i just uh linked to it to have his thoughts on it the issue

is this that um one of the features there's a couple new uh weather apps in fact there was another one

that i reviewed recently and i forget the name of it that have added the feature of instead of having

a single weather source,

you know,

AccuWeather or,

you know, the Weather Channel or the Apple

Weather,

you know,

you can have an app that in the same screen, it shows you multiple weather

forecasts and sort of averages them.

And so the way that Carrot Weather does it, it's nice.

If you

want to know, like, what's the weather going to be tomorrow,

you can choose this feature and it

will sort of show you a range where David's got a picture of it in his website here,

where you can

sort of see, you know, it's a, it's going to be right around here,

but you know,

there's an upper

and a lower.

So you can say, you know, I think it's going to be 75 degrees tomorrow, but some

people are saying 77 and some people are saying 72.

And the idea is that if the multiple models

are all very close,

you can feel more confident about the forecast.

And if there's a lot of

variation,

then you're not,

I use this a couple of weeks ago when we had the jazz festival,

jazz fest here in new Orleans,

you know,

I was trying to figure out if we were going to go.

And one of them,

I thought it was going to rain.

And so I used the CaratWeather app and I said, show me precipitation,

but use it with the multiple model forecast.

And then I could see some forecasts are saying 2% chance of rain.

Some were saying 40% chance of rain, which is a big difference.

So at least, and unfortunately,

because there was such a difference,

I didn't know.

It turned out actually it did not rain that much.

So it turned out the ones on the lower side were correct.

But it's a good way to get,

you know,

hopefully a little bit more,

maybe not accuracy, but at least a little bit more of a sense of how, how widely off,

you know, again, our weather forecasts are always sort of, sometimes they feel like a little bit of a crapshoot, but at least you have a little bit better sense of it.

So I like this feature.

Carrot Weather has it.

And there's, there's other apps that.

Weather Up?

Is this the one you're thinking of?

No, the weather,

I'm going to find it right now.

It's a, it's a new app.

It's called Acme Weather.

Oh, Acme Weather.

I don't know if I did a formal review on it,

but Acme Weather,

this is Acme Weather.

It's got a very nice interface on it.

And one of the things it has is this the same sort of feature where you sort of see like a little,

you know, this is what the average is of a bunch of more.

Yeah, I see.

OK,

the top and no.

So that's Acme Weather.

Jeff, I just searched for weather on your on iPhone JD.

You've reviewed a number of weather apps.

I have to tell you,

you've got weather up,

Eve weather,

weather on the way,

weather strip,

dark sky.

May it rest in peace.

Eve degree,

carrot weather,

forecast bar.

Oh, my goodness.

I live in a tropical climate in New Orleans where,

you know, sometimes weather is a big

deal.

We have hurricanes and we certainly have a lot of rain.

So weather is important for those for those people who live in, you know,

Southern California

where the weather never changes.

Well,

you know,

keep it to yourself.

Don't rub it.

Yeah.

Go and buy a coin.

In fact, if you collect coins and you're a Mac user,

you may have been interested to

get your hands on the Steve Jobs commemorative $1 coin.

Although if you weren't ready to buy it

within the first 37 seconds that it was on sale, you would have missed out.

I don't know how quickly

it sold out, but it was quick.

I mean,

this is cool.

This is actually from the US Mint,

right?

They put a $1 commemorative coin and they've been doing this for several, I think, business leaders

and others.

This is part of a series that they've been doing,

but man, having a Steve Jobs $1 coin

That would have been cool. Although I think it cost $61 to actually purchase it.

That was a whole bunch of them. Yeah. I want to say that they cost about $2, $2.50 each.

And they do this all the time with commemorative coins. They are legal tender.

So if you have one, you could spend it as a dollar.

Although since you paid more than a dollar for it, I'm not sure why you would.

It's a series of innovators and different states can nominate either a person as an innovator or I think one state nominated the – was it the Wang supercomputer or something like that?

But it's something sort of innovative.

And when California had its turn to have a coin,

California decided to honor Steve Jobs.

And so that's the one that came out.

And I have to admit, even though it was a little silly,

it looked interesting to me.

And I actually was going to buy one as a present for somebody in my family who listens to this podcast.

So I won't tell him who it is, although if he hears this, he'll guess it.

And I was going to buy one.

And so you could buy them either in a set of 25 or a set of 100.

And so I was going to buy a set of 25.

And I literally had a conference call.

Yeah, a set of 25 would cost me 61 bucks.

I figured it'd be a birthday present or something like that.

And so I was going to spend 61 bucks for 25.

And of course, ask him if he would give one of them back to me.

But I had a conference call.

So I finished with my client and I went to go buy it.

And they had just gone on sale like 20 minutes earlier.

Sold up.

Too late.

Yeah, I think they lasted about 10 minutes.

So I don't know if it's a one and done or if they're going to ever print more.

but there was clearly demand for this.

And now that they're sold out,

you know that they're going to be showing up

at some point on eBay for,

you know, 10 times the cost.

So yeah,

I'll see.

I guess they did the best job they could do here.

I don't know.

It does look like a younger Steve Jobs

sitting in the Apple orchard.

He does with a little,

I guess it's too much hair.

I saw this, this is an article you link to

from Ed Hardy, a Cult of Mac,

that the managing editor of Cult of Mac said

that it kind of makes Steve Jobs look like a young Ellen DeGeneres.

I don't know about that.

I don't know if I see that either.

I mean, I guess if you look at it closely, I zoom in a little bit,

I can kind of see it.

And he's got,

obviously,

a turtleneck on.

It's not black.

Of course.

I guess they can't do the color on the $1 commemorative coin.

But, man, I would like to have one of those.

If it came on eBay for a reasonable price,

I think I'd probably pull the trigger on that.

That would be cool to have.

I like that.

nice little uh device you link to from and uh david snow my former editor from uh legal publications

in the years gone back but now he writes for calls i forgot about that yeah i'm thrilled that he does

he's talking about the 12 south power clip and i looked at this at first i'm like well that just

looks like a big zipper pull but no it's an emergency charger that i'm really considering

getting right now yeah this seems like something that my daughter should have as she's getting

ready to go to college,

you know, so that her iPhone doesn't, uh,

doesn't, you know, die

because it always seems to be running out of power.

It's just a super tiny little thing that you can clip onto something.

Hence the name, the power clip.

And it's got what a 20,000,

a milliamp,

which is enough to,

uh,

I'm sorry, 20,000,

20,000,

20,000.

So it's not going to recharge your iPhone,

but it'll definitely be the boost that you

need.

If you know, it's about to run out of power.

And one of the nice things it's got a built-in is it has two of them actually built-in little

USB-C cord.

So you don't need to have a separate cable.

Everything you need right there,

you can pull it out.

You can plug it into your iPhone,

plug it into your AirPods,

too, if you want to recharge them and get like a little bit of a charge.

So I thought it was $29.

12 South makes a lot of products we've talked about before.

You know, they make the thing that if you're on an airplane,

what is it called?

Something fly,

and you stick it into the airplane.

The Airfly.

And so that you can have Bluetooth on it.

And they make some other good devices.

So I trust 12 South as a company.

And this looks like a cute little device.

so um i can tell any 29 bucks it hey might make a good uh stocking stuff for later on this year for

you know i recently got the uh the plug bug from 12 south because i've been looking at it oh that's

right they do that one too but it's like the power adapter that it's got four usbc you know uh power

plugs in there or ports and it has built in find my so it's just cool like i've talked about it but

yeah 12 south is always uh i'm always thrilled to uh uh get any of but this looks so cute like you

said what do they say they say it's about the size of a container of dental floss i like that

just a little bit bigger maybe than like an airpods um yeah uh container i like that a lot

very cool satellites let's talk satellites i always loved when you link to stories about how

potentially our phones are using more uh satellite bandwidth or i would say more access to satellite

communications right today with iphones we can text message if you're off the grid and you don't

have access to cellular or wi-fi you and i have done that i think it was maybe about a year ago or

so that my son and i went um camping in the smoky mountains we were literally in a place where i did

not have cellular but uh but i was able to text you via the satellite and it was very cool i had

to hold it up quickly you could like follow the satellite as it goes across the sky and for years

now I've been predicting this is the way we're going to go, right? I'm tired of the cell towers

and all this kind of stuff.

Now,

I don't want a bunch of space garbage floating around the sky,

but I think using satellites is just the way to go.

And I'm ready for voice calls already.

You can

already use it for some, right, for emergency voice calls,

but I'm ready just to kind of go full

satellite if possible.

I know we may still be a little bit of a ways from that, but I'm ready for

that.

Yeah.

This announcement was a press release.

I mean, it's interesting because it's a joint press

release from AT&T,

Verizon,

and T-Mobile. So all of the big U.S. carriers.

And they must realize

that the one thing that they can't provide is communication services when you're off the grid.

And so they have teamed up to say that they're going to work with satellites.

Now, what I don't

know is what this means for iPhone users,

or for that matter, for Android users that have this

already,

because they did not describe the particular features they're going to offer.

and it might be the exact same thing we already have

that you just described,

the ability to send a text message.

And when I say text message,

as you may remember,

it was only a text text message.

You could not have sent me a picture or a video

from the Smoky Mountains,

but you could just send me a text to say,

you know, blah, blah, blah.

Or you could actually give me your location.

If I wanted to track you or if you were lost,

you could say,

hey,

I have no idea.

Can you come find me?

You know, you could send me your location

that would tell me where you are.

So those are very useful things.

And of course, emergency services,

if you have to call 911.

I don't know if this joint cooperation between the carriers is going to offer more than that.

But you have to admit, and the article that you're showing mentions this,

it's not very often that AT&T and T-Mobile and Verizon will get together and do something jointly.

So there is some significance to that.

We will see what this all means.

Details pending,

but I think it's good.

And, you know, and this also reminds me of the story a few months ago that we talked about that there was the company that was right here north of New Orleans that used to do all the satellite services for Apple.

And then Amazon recently purchased that company.

But they reiterated that they're going to continue the relationship with Apple going forward.

So we'll see.

You know, I'm glad you clarified this story here that it's the cell carriers and not Apple.

Like Apple is not involved in this joint venture,

right?

This is AT&T,

T-Mobile,

and Verizon.

And I feel like notably absent is, of course, both Apple and Google.

I feel like both of them maybe should have been part of this because similar to that story we're talking about from Wesley Hilliard earlier about the different platforms or parameters that are floating around with messaging,

right?

MMS and SMS and RCS.

It's like there's so many different standards.

I don't want this to be a different standard than the one that we're already using with some of the iPhone,

right?

it's like i want apple and google to kind of lead this charge because i frankly i just trust them a

little bit better a little bit more than i do the cell carriers to to make some of the better

decisions but i'll give them the benefit of the doubt maybe that they all come up with something

but they call this the d2d joint venture i think it's what it called they even have a press release

and everything but i don't know i i i don't you know like to your point the three of these at&t

mobile verizon getting together i don't know if i got a ton of faith that something's actually

going to come out of this we'll just have to see how how that comes uh how that comes around

we have talked about ted lasso quite a bit and we all know it's a fictional soccer team and it's a

beautiful fictional soccer team but what if those soccer players were really soccer players i was

so happy to see this story that you linked to today football is life what is his actual name

I just call him football is life.

Well,

Christo Fernandez.

That's his actual name.

I forget what it was.

Oh,

Danny.

Danny Rojas.

Danny Rojas.

Yeah.

That's the actor's name or that's the character name in Ted Lasso.

We all love football is life.

I love him.

I just just the energy that he brings to the pitch.

And now we can do it in real life.

Ted Lasso actor who played Danny Rojas is now a professional soccer player.

And he's on the team on El Paso.

It's the El Paso Locomotive FC team that Cristo Fernandez has now been signed on as a forward on the team.

That's so beautiful.

Yeah.

Apparently, he played soccer.

I mean,

obviously,

to hire an actor on the Ted Lasso show to play a soccer player,

it has to be someone that I could actually play soccer and in shape because obviously they're going to be filmed and stuff like that.

Doing it doesn't mean that they're necessarily professional level.

But and he said that he did play in high school in Mexico before he before he had an injury.

So but you have to imagine that the El Paso team is doing this,

you know, for publicity as much as anything else.

But why not?

Yeah. I mean, heck,

if I lived in El Paso,

El Paso and I knew,

you know, that I could go watch, you know,

Danny Rojas play for real, so to speak.

I would definitely go to a game.

So I think it's great. Hopefully he has fun. We'll see how good he is.

I don't know when the soccer season starts,

but I just think this is nothing but it.

And, you know,

you got to love it because the character in the show has such a positive outlook always.

Right. He's always smiling.

And from the interviews that I've seen of the actor who plays him,

I do think that some of that carries over.

He's got a little bit of that personality.

And so it's just joyful.

So this is I just I think this is great.

And so hopefully it'll be some great publicity for the team.

And, you know,

I can't wait till he gets his first goal and everything else.

It's going to be fun.

Good for him.

Good for him.

I hope that El Paso doubles down on this.

I mean,

they've got to run him out,

and he's got to be yelling,

football is life,

and, you know, they'll put it on the big screen and everything.

I mean, just go for it.

You know, as long as he's good.

Yeah, don't you think at some point, Brett,

some of his co-actors that he's friends with are going to, like,

show up for a game and watch him?

And then wouldn't that be great?

So,

yeah.

That's fantastic.

Thank you.

That just made me smile.

I love that.

Go watch Cristio Fernandez as the real-life Danny Rojas.

I love it.

in the know all right so i've got a where you at story for in the know today jeff i will i will tell

you this past week we uh my wife and i had to go from ohio to texas to visit my mom on a quasi um

a kind of an emergency trip we needed to go down quickly because we needed to help clean out her

house and we needed to move things around some furniture and there was just some things happening

she's fine and she's and she's uh healthy enough to get around and everything but we needed to go

down and help out my sister who's also down there in in texas so we did that over the weekend cleaned

out a bunch of stuff uh moved some of the furniture around and we came back to ohio this past monday

so everything was working out great my sister was going over there making sure that everything was

set up.

And I was, I was happy Wednesday night.

We are,

my wife and I are,

are going to bed.

And I think it was about 11 o'clock Eastern time.

I got this funny sound on my Apple watch.

And I got this message on my Apple watch, a sound that I have not heard, right? It wasn't my typical,

you know,

alert notification or, Hey, you have a you,

you, you have a text message.

In fact,

At 10 p.m.

Eastern time,

I have my devices going to sleep mode,

which basically means that, you know, they're all awake, but I allow no notifications to come through unless it's something from my family or something that's important or emergency.

So Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock,

I'm pretty much almost asleep all the way.

And I get this message and it's normally I would just kind of maybe,

you know, ignore it other than the fact like, wait a minute,

it's late.

I am kind of half asleep.

This could be important.

I glanced at my watch and it looked like to me that it was a text message from my mother.

But I opened my eyes a little bit more and realized,

no,

it was fall detection notification from my mother.

Well, obviously at that point, you know, you just snap right out of it or at least like, oh,

what,

what,

wait, wait,

what is this?

What in the world happened?

Well,

I had purchased for my mother probably about a year ago,

maybe a year and a half ago,

a Apple Watch Series 9 because at the time,

you know, she's 84 years old this year.

So I knew I wanted to have some kind of a notification thing.

You know,

obviously she had an iPhone already,

and it was just great because I could maybe track her if she was out somewhere

and I needed to know where she was located.

She shares her location with me.

But I wanted an Apple Watch as well because I knew there was always the possibility

that she could fall.

You know, she was a little wobbly.

She's had a couple of knee surgeries on there.

So I knew that I wanted to be able to track this.

Well, I'm thrilled to tell you,

I'm not happy that my mom fell,

but I'm thrilled to tell

you that the Apple Watch that she had in the iPhone,

Jeff,

worked exactly like it was supposed

to.

So literally within about a minute or maybe two minutes after she truly fell,

I get this

notification on my watch.

Now, my wife and I both have Apple Watches and iPhones.

My sister,

who's in town,

the same town as my mom is, she has an Android device.

But I had set up the three of us as emergency contacts for my mother.

And my sister got a text message because,

of course, she has an Android device,

right?

She cannot get the typical emergency contact that would have come to an Apple Watch.

She doesn't even have an Apple Watch.

So sure enough, I wake up a little bit.

And here is actually a screenshot that I received on my iPhone.

You can see this is from mom and it says hard fall SOS.

So immediately now within like two minutes after the actual fall happened,

they detected the fall.

It sent me a notification and it says in my text message feed here,

I called emergency services.

This is, this is the iPhone talking, not my mom.

It says hard fall SOS.

I called the emergency services from this approximate location after Apple

watch detected a hard fall.

You are receiving this message because I have listed you as an emergency contact.

Now,

immediately, I try to call my mom.

She doesn't pick up.

Now,

thankfully, my sister had already she had called my sister,

but she hung up on my

sister because the emergency services called my mom immediately on her Apple Watch.

Now, I don't know if she had her phone with her or not.

Typically, she leaves it at her chair.

She had actually because we had moved furniture around, she was reaching down to turn on her

tv or move her tv or something because it had all been moved around and that's when she fell and she

actually did have a hard fall it was it was she had an actual hard fall in fact she had a huge

lump on her forehead she ended up breaking her nose she has bruising on her knee now thankfully

everything's okay because ultimately my sister uh did come back to the you know almost immediately

went to the house and i was on the phone with my sister within about three or four minutes after

this happened and my sister ended up taking her to the hospital and she got a ct scan and everything

Everything was fine.

But,

you know, we didn't know.

Well,

like I said, emergency services called my mom.

So my mom was talking to emergency services.

They told her the paramedics were already on the way.

Now,

you know,

in my mind, I'm like, oh, are they going to bust the door down?

You know,

what's going to happen?

Well,

thankfully,

my mom was conscious.

And so she got up.

And I think it was maybe seven to eight minutes after this hard fall that she let the paramedics in.

so there was like four people there four paramedics had come in and they were checking on my mom by

the time that my sister got there they were just ended up leaving because they hit they did all the

check all of her vitals were fine in fact one of them actually called me one of the paramedics

called me because i was listed as an emergency contact on her phone so they called me to let me

know that everything was fine all the vitals and everything were perfectly fine so by the time that

my sister got there they you know she was able to look at her the paramedics were like okay

we were going to take her to the hospital,

but she refused.

My mom didn't want to go to the hospital.

She just got a cat and she just wasn't at her right mind,

I don't think, at that point. She was

probably going on adrenaline.

So my sister ended up taking her. In fact, I didn't show the next

screenshot of this,

but further down on my text message thread from my mom,

it shows that her

approximate,

I think it says, approximate location has changed.

So it didn't keep telling me that

there was a hard fall,

but it would tell me now and I could see and I can follow her that it would

continue to update me that my mom's location had changed. And sure enough,

it's because my sister

was taking her to the hospital.

Can I just ask about that? Because normally,

normally,

of course,

you would not get notifications about your mom's location changing.

But it's only I imagine that,

you know, whenever you get this hard fall SOS,

I'm guessing that for some period of time afterwards,

you will continue to get automatic updates. Your mom's not sending these,

you know,

on her own.

So I don't know what that period of time is,

but you know, I've certainly heard about

this feature. We've read about it. We've read all these new stories, but I,

you're the first person

I know that's used it.

I know about similar ones. I know that my, my, my wife's mother,

um,

you know,

before she was in a nursing home, she used to have one of these alert services that was like a band.

Exactly.

One of those things.

And it was the same idea. It wasn't an iPhone.

So I know that these

things do work,

but,

but this is a real world example of it,

you know, and again, thank goodness

Because can you imagine an earlier years ago,

the same thing happens.

Nobody knows about it for her.

It fortunately,

your mom's OK.

But not to be afraid of horribles, but like what if nobody had known and she's living by herself?

That that could be bad.

Believe me,

Jeff,

we have gone through that nightmare scenario.

I'm even thrilled.

Like my sister is about 20 minutes away.

I'm about a three hour plane flight away from my mom.

But the fact that it called the paramedics immediately,

because otherwise it would take a while for my sister to get there.

I mean,

if my mom was unconscious for crying out loud, she hit her head.

She broke her nose for crying out loud.

It's like,

I don't know if we could get there in enough time.

And the fact that it was doing exactly what it was supposed to be doing, my mom was was.

In fact, I think my mom told me she she told the 911 dispatcher.

She's like,

hey, don't hang up on me.

I want you to stay with me until the paramedics arrive.

And she did.

But,

you know, and that was just comforting for my mom that somebody was talking to her as it went through.

And the fact that I received the notifications and you're right, you know, if the paramedics had been there and they needed to take her to the hospital immediately,

right, without even asking,

like if she was unconscious,

I would be able to follow that location and track the location.

Even if she didn't have her iPhone,

because they may.

I don't know if she grabbed her iPhone,

but she had her an Apple watch on.

Right.

Anyway, incredible story.

And,

you know, as much as I'm obviously extremely happy that my mom is okay,

it was just cool to actually see the technology work in the exact way that it was supposed to work.

Now,

that said, I've done a very good job of training my mom to,

A, make sure she wears her Apple Watch for exactly this reason.

I talked about this,

you know,

to the nth degree when I first introduced it to her,

and she was convinced.

B,

that she has to charge the Apple Watch every day.

And I've got one of those three-in-one little setups that she has right next to the chair where she sleeps on.

So every morning she takes her Apple Watch off while she has breakfast and she charges it up right there.

So I did a good job of training her to do that because otherwise,

you know, what if that was the one day that she didn't wear it or didn't charge it up?

And that's always going to be a challenge on that.

But then the third thing is I made sure that we set all of these emergency contacts up early.

And I'm just appealing to everybody listening out there.

If you've got somebody in this position, or frankly, even for yourself,

please make sure that you set up those emergency contacts,

that you set up how the Apple Watch can detect a hard fall.

Because at the very least,

what could happen is that if it detects a hard fall and you're a healthy person and, you know, maybe you just were doing some jumping jacks or something,

they'll come on the phone and you can just say, no, this is a false alarm.

Like,

that's the worst that could happen,

right?

It's just that basically you would say,

no,

nothing's,

everything's fine.

You don't need it.

But just set this up, please,

so that it's available to you when you need it.

Because it's those times when you don't set it up or you've been procrastinating to do it that you're going to regret that you didn't have it set up earlier.

So I guess you really have two tips today,

Brett.

One is to give your loved ones an Apple Watch that has call detection,

which all the modern ones do.

And then the second one is to make sure that your loved ones and yourself have the updated emergency contact information.

And I would just as a reminder where that's located,

I have my iPhone in front of me.

I have opened up the health app.

And in the health app at the very top right,

there's a little picture of me. It's my avatar.

If I tap on that and, you know,

Jeffrey Richardson, it's got a bunch of things and the first one's health details,

but the second one's called medical ID.

And if I tap on medical ID,

you have the option. Do you want to show it when you're locked? I have that turned on.

Do you want to share it during an emergency call?

Absolutely.

And then you have the information that you want to have, which can be things like the medications that you take, because that could be important if like the paramedics come to help you.

But then it also has the emergency contract or emergency contacts.

And I can see that for me,

I've got my wife and my two kids and it even has who they are. This is your spouse. This is your son. This is your daughter.

Here's their cell phone numbers.

And every single paramedic in the country, if not the world knows or emergency person,

they all know that you can pick up someone's iPhone and you can from the lock screen,

get this information.

And so that's how in your unfortunate,

I guess it's a happy ending for what could have been a sad ending.

They knew even without your sister telling them,

because what happened if your sister had been out of town,

too,

that,

you know,

Brett is the son.

I can call him. Here's his number.

And so that's great.

So anyway, that is a great tip.

And I mean, it's a harrowing story that was really fascinating to hear about how that worked for you.

But but thank goodness it had a happy ending.

And I mean, for one thing,

hopefully your mom now knows it's really important to have that Apple Watch charged every night and we'll help keep her or every morning whenever she charges it.

Yeah.

And the last thing on the Apple Watch,

I had purchased my mom a Series 9 and I got it off of Amazon.

I think it may have been refurbished or it was, you know, I don't know if it was brand new.

But I'm just saying you can go back a couple of generations,

but I can see here's another story.

I'll link in the show notes here.

The Apple,

there's only a few,

you know, an Apple Watch is with fall detection.

Most all of the current modern day Apple watches will have it.

But don't go back.

Like if you have a series five or seven or so, I mean,

frankly, you're way out of date

anyway.

But those I don't believe have the fault detection.

So don't go too far back.

Because again, to me,

this is just,

you know, for my mom, to your point, you were saying

earlier,

we I looked at some of those medical device alert,

you know, alert devices and

looked into some of that.

And I just I didn't feel like it was going to give the most comprehensive plus we're all

on iphones and i can track her locations and everything now and the apple watch at least for

us was the better way to go so you can get it you know apple watches from a variety of different

places i wouldn't probably go back much further than the series nine now they say the apple watch

or just you can get the se too which is yeah yeah exactly 250 yeah so and also i don't remember if

you said this specifically but you uh you referenced it early in our podcast today

your sister uses android but emergency contacts it will send that text not only to this is not an

message feature.

So not only did you get the text message,

but your sister did too on Android and

that totally is fine.

So, um,

it could, it could, you know, as long as the emergency contacts own

a cell phone of some kind,

they can get the alerts,

which is good. That's right. So that's,

that's great. Great stuff.

Okay. Well,

my tip of the week is far less urgent and important,

but I will no family members falling for you.

Okay. Well, that's good. Exactly.

But,

um,

having said that though, I will say when my father was alive, we did give him an Apple watch and I

was an essay just for that very reason because you know people are older they fall i mean goodness

knows it could happen to any of us like i sometimes trip i'm clumsy too um but my tip of the week has

to do with this is not a brand new feature but it's one i've been using a lot recently and the

issue is transcriptions of podcast transcripts of podcast back in early 2024 so over two years ago

now apple added to the apple podcast app the ability to uh transcribe podcasts and so um pretty

much any podcast.

It's not every, every single one, but just about all of them on Apple podcasts

have transcripts, even if the people that make the podcast don't do a transcript.

And just last month,

we talked about this a couple of weeks ago,

the podcast app that I love and use all the time

called Overcast.

It also added the feature as well.

And,

and so what it means is like,

if you want to listen to, I know anyone listening to this,

obviously someone who listens to podcasts,

and I'm sure this is not the only podcast you listen to,

but sometimes I want to get something

from a podcast and I don't want to actually take the time to listen to it.

I just want to skim the

words to look for something.

And I'll give you a good example.

Today,

the 500th,

you know,

the five year anniversary,

I was not going to go back and re and re-listen to our episode number

one,

but I did open up the Overcast app and downloaded the podcast.

And it said, do you

want me to create a transcription?

I clicked the button that said, yes, it took about five seconds.

And then I was able to scroll through the transcript to very quickly see, for example,

Oh, we were talking about this and that and the other thing.

And so and then the other day,

there was something that, you know, we have an AI tool that we

use at my law firm called Harvey and the founders of the company are being interviewed on contact

podcasts all the time.

One of my partners said, oh, this is a good podcast about the founder.

And so I wanted to I wanted to get the information,

but I didn't want to take an hour to listen

to podcast.

So what I did is I opened it up in the Overcast app.

I could have also used the Apple podcast app and I got the transcript.

And I, within 30 seconds,

I was able to skim through the transcript of the podcast.

And there was one or two things that were interesting there about upcoming features.

And so, and if I wanted to actually listen to it, I can just tap and I can listen to it

at that point.

So my point is,

this is a useful,

again, the podcast that you know and love, you're going

to listen to them or watch them on YouTube or whatever.

But from an information standpoint,

I love that we now live in a world where if you just

want to quickly grab some information from a podcast.

You know,

if the podcast has show notes,

as ours do,

sometimes that information will be in the show notes,

but there are times when you just

need to see what was actually said,

or you want to skim that.

And so this is my thumbs up for using

the transcript feature of your podcast app.

I only know of two podcasts app that support this,

Apple podcast and Overcast, but there may be others that support it as well.

But again,

even if you don't,

you know,

before last month,

if I wanted to get a transcript,

even though I don't

use the Apple podcast app,

I would just, I mean, I do have it on my phone and I would just look at

the, you know, just download the podcast and I'm curious about it and look at the transcript.

So,

you know, you don't have to be a regular user of Apple podcasts to take advantage of this feature.

I don't care what you use as your podcast app.

Maybe you're a YouTube person. That's fine too.

But when you want to do,

to search the transcript,

then you can go back and do it.

And, you know,

YouTube has transcripts,

but I don't think that YouTube,

you know, for all the YouTube videos,

I don't think that they have a way that they have,

you know, you can read, like,

look at the whole

transcript. It just,

it just shows the captions while somebody's talking.

Some of them will give

you the ability,

but whatever it is,

the point is,

you know, use the Apple podcast app, or if you use

Overcast, use that,

and you can use this feature.

And it's, it's,

it's really, really nice. I'll also

mention to you, by the way, for our particular podcast,

if you happen to want to look at something

from the past on us.

If you go to our website inthenewspodcast.com for every episode,

you have a little tab for at least all the recent episodes.

You have a tab that you've set up,

Brett, where you actually put a transcript in there that I think that you create using the

Whisper app.

Whisper is a very well-known AI technology.

There's a bunch of apps that use

Whisper technology.

I think it's spelled like Whisper without the vowels or something like that.

But it's not 100% accurate,

but it is 99% accurate.

It's more than good enough for you to be able to skim through the transcript and check it out.

Well, that's what I was going to ask.

So even if,

like I said, most podcasts that I know today will do something similar to what I'm doing for our podcast is that I will take our audio and I will send it through Whisper.

And it does an excellent job of going and creating the text version of that.

Like it transcribes all of that.

In fact, I make one or two slight changes in it,

and then I upload that through our podcast producing platform.

But if people don't do that necessarily,

then you're saying Overcast and Apple Podcasts will do it automatically for them, right?

So even for those podcasts that don't supply a transcript,

you can still get it transcribed because I think – in fact, I was just looking at my Apple Podcasts here.

And at the bottom, it says automatically transcribed,

which tells me that they this is the transcription from Apple podcast.

Like they put it in themselves.

It wasn't something that was supplied.

Maybe it was. I don't know. I just wonder.

It seems to me that whether or not the podcast even supplies the transcript,

it's still going to be transcribed because of Overcast and Apple podcast.

Yeah, that's an important that is.

Yes,

that's accurate.

And in fact, it's it's actually worth talking about that for just a few seconds.

um let's just say you don't do this but if you took the time to take that whisper podcast transcript

and if you edited it so that you actually added in who was speaking because right now it doesn't say

who's speaking right but you could manually take the time to say this was brett this was jeff and

that would be a very nice podcast transcript but you don't do that but even if you had done that

both apple podcasts and overcast don't use the transcript that you create they create their own

And my understanding is the reason for this is there's not really a set standard that's widely adopted.

We may in the future be in a time where they're just part of the RSS tag that's used for the metadata for podcasts has transcripts in such a universal format that then we may get into a world where clients like Apple Podcasts and Overcast will start to use the quote unquote official transcript if you opt for that.

But we don't live in that world right now.

And I think that's fine.

But I guess it also means that if for some reason there's something wrong with the automatic overcast transcript, and again, they're excellent, so I can't imagine why there would be.

You could always just get a second opinion by looking at the transcript on Apple Podcasts because it's independent.

Or if it's a podcast that offers a transcript feature like us, you can do it.

So there are many sources,

but they're all in that 99 point something percent range.

They're certainly close enough.

They do make mistakes.

Don't get me wrong.

I read transcripts all the time of podcasts.

Yeah,

right.

And it's something that's obvious to me that this was a mistake,

but that's fine because it doesn't need to be,

you know, word for word,

character for character accurate.

I just need to get a sense of what they're talking about that I could skim through.

And it's also nice for a search too, like where in the podcast did they talk about XYZ?

You could do in the apps,

you could do a find.

And then once you find that word,

you could tap on that sentence and it will play the audio from what they're talking about.

And so that way you can jump right to that point of the podcast,

which is also useful because although our podcast has chapter markers,

because you take the time to do that.

Thank you for taking the time to do that.

Some podcasts do not, which is annoying because I like chapter markers.

And if you want to jump to the part of a podcast that talks about X, Y, Z,

this is a way you can do it.

So all sorts of useful things,

you know,

podcast transcripts, pick themself.

Interesting.

Just real quick.

I went into Overcast and I pulled up a podcast that I know just got released yesterday.

was i was reading and on the screen when i flip on overcast it says this episode has not been

transcribed yet and then they have a transcribe button right there so it so let me talk about that

so yeah what the what overcast is doing yeah marco armand who is the guy that makes the overcast app

certain very popular podcasts he does the transcripts automatically and puts them on his

website but there's so many podcasts in the world he can't do that for all of them um he's not doing

our podcast yet, by the way.

And so even though I think we're a very popular podcast,

but not quite

enough on Marco's radar screen.

And so,

but for any podcast that he has not already created the

transcript and is hosting on its server,

that's not a problem because you just tap that button.

And what's actually fascinating to me,

it uses,

this is done on device,

on your actual iPhone.

It is using,

you know, whether it's Whisper or some other AI technology to listen to the audio,

create the transcript,

and it's actually pretty fast.

I mean, you see it happening in real time

as you're talking to me right now.

Yes,

it's going right now.

And there you go.

You can see it's almost done.

And then when it's done,

you will have not only all the words,

but they will be synced up to the audio

and then you'll be good to go.

So, I mean, you can really do it.

And this is what I've done too.

I mean, it doesn't take very long.

I just have it do the analysis and do it.

And I think it's sort of cool that it does it on device.

It shows you how powerful your little bitty iPhone is

with its modern processors that it can even do something.

I mean, gosh, a few years ago, Brett,

being able to produce transcripts,

I mean, this would require a lot of oomph.

And now it's happening on the device in your pocket.

It's sort of cool.

Let's go,

okay, so quickly, and then we'll stop.

Let's go full circle.

We talked about ExhibitsPad at the very beginning.

One of the first places that I saw this transcription on device

is TranscriptPad from its software

because they have a text transcript

that we get as lawyers from a deposition or so.

And then you have a video recording of that deposition.

And on device,

on the iPad,

you could upload both the text file and the video file,

and it would sync those two together at the same time.

And that just blew me away when TranscriptPad put that in.

I mean, that's been around for a couple of years.

I know you did review it.

Maybe it's been three or four years since they put that in.

But that was one of the first times that I saw this transcription,

which, again, to your point,

I've done transcription for many, many years in the context of legal technology,

and it used to take enormous resources from a computer,

from the time that it took.

Like the processors just would grind through that.

And the fact that it was happening on an iPad just blew me away.

And so this doesn't surprise me.

Yeah, this isn't surprising, but it's just amazing.

I would have an audio of something that I needed transcribed.

And I remember I would actually give it to like a paralegal or a secretary in my firm and they would listen to it and they would play,

pause,

play, pause.

And I've actually done this before because my client needed a transcript and this would require,

you know, who knows how many hours of human time.

And now it's happening within seconds on your iPhone.

It's cool stuff.

Yeah, that's great.

Okay,

man,

fun,

fun.

Five years.

Unbelievable,

Jeff.

Let's go for another five.

I mean,

I continue to have so much fun talking about all this.

so in that vein we'll talk with you next week thanks brett bye everybody