March 6, 2026 • 11 mins
iPhones saved the lives of 2 people this week. Can yours to do this?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, I'm not the biggest fan of technology, so
I need these kinds of stories to remind me and
all of us. We need these stories that technology is
a good thing. It can be so so good. So
an extension to like a morning pick me up here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
There's more good than bad to it, for sure. It's
just the bad sticks out, and when it stops working,
it really sticks out. There's a whole lot more good
to it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, just there's so much potential, you know bad. It's
like with not just AI, but I mean tech.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A lot of this stuff is created for good, I know,
to help us. Yeah, and then that element somebody finds
a way to manipulate it bad. Well.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Remember remember tech is more than social media. That's what
AI and the focus that winds up being the discussion.
But what cranks your car up and makes it safer
to drive today is technology. You know, what is able
to do scans and to tech things early and has
for years is technology. Yeah, and uh, you know in
Sam's favorite you know self check out at the grocery store,
(01:04):
you know. But the but so that's why I say
there's more good to technology than bad because we tend
there's so much AI discussion today. Everybody tends to immediately
gravitate to AI, and that's not technology.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It just feels weird to us.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I don't even know if I have a favorite
tech you said, you know his self checkout.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
But I will say this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This is the second story this week where someone's device
phone saved their life. And I'm I'm love with these stories.
It's this Ohio teenager who her truck crashed into a tree.
She plunged down into a river, and her Apple Watch
automatically the crash detection. We've known about that that's happened
(01:45):
a lot. We have a friend whose sister got into
a bad car accident. Everybody in the family started getting
crash detection text anyway that the Apple Watch called nine
to one one and so dispatchers were called out to
save her. Meanwhile, her truck went fifteen feet down a
ravine into the river. She was upside down in her
(02:08):
vehicle with water coming in. She's nineteen years old. Her
name is Andy.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
She tried to.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Remain calm while everything it was dark, it was cold,
and her truck was filling up with water.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
She did. She was swallowing some water.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
She was able to breathe through a four inch gap
in the vehicle's floorboard. I'm taking you there seriously until
the dispatcher. There was a dispatcher that stayed on the
line with her. I guess because it I guess she
was able to talk anyway. They were wearing cold water
suits when they broke her driver window to reach her,
and they cut her seat belt off of her and
(02:48):
pulled her out of the vehicle. And she's alive because
of that, and she only suffered some minor injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Otherwise would anyone have even known that had happened?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
No, they might not have. And this is the double
edged sword of privacy. And look, I respect that there
are people that have privacy concerns. There's some people that
they don't want smart speakers in their home. They don't
want to turn any of the things on their phones
that you know, could potentially violate privacy. But as I've
learned just and Android's got the same things too. But
just moving back into the iPhone world, I've learned so much.
(03:19):
Because my Apple Watch can be submerged to twenty feet
something like that, but it will absolutely detect you know,
it detects things with heart rate, It can send warnings.
I mean it, there's so many different health things now
you have to agree to a lot of the privacy
settings for it to you know, to communicate those things.
It's called a smart watch. I mean, it tracks my heartbeat,
(03:40):
it knows it tells me what I need to get
up after, you know, standing sitting for an hour. And
my Galaxy watch would do a lot of those same things,
track my steps. It's little bitty things that you don't
you know, think about, but the safety alerts are just huge.
There's so many angles that you can go with that
that these smart watches you know, can do. And I
(04:01):
think that I'm one of those where I have said
it before, I've already had my social Security number out
on the dark web. Not so much worried about any
privacy anymore whatsoever. I'll agree to all of it now
because it makes me think about Jodie when the girls
were younger. You remember that the first time we put
Life three sixty on our oldest daughter Taylor's.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Phone, she was so aggravated.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh man, she was like this, Dad, this is creepy.
This And I explained at that time. I said, look,
it's on me and mom's phone too, and understand we're
not asking you to do anything we're not doing ourselves.
And just Taylor, I'm Type one diabetic. Hopefully for my
entire life that there will never be an issue, but
there absolutely been times when people had unexpected lows. They
got into accidents, they disappeared, they couldn't communicate or whatever.
(04:46):
And you know, if that happens to me, you'll at
least be able to find me or the last location
for my phone. So there's a benefit to it.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, she's I think she's over it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Your Apple Watch send information off like your beaten all
that or can you opt out of that or does
it not even offer that option?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It offers all of it. If you want to track it,
it'll track as much as you want. I mean, it's
it's surprising to behind depth that it will do. And
it's not just Apple Watch again, but anybody that's used
I Fit an Apple Watch for years. This is not
new technology either runners exercise or right exactly. It just
keeps getting better and more robust. The reason you have
to agree to the privacy is because it's going to
(05:27):
the cloud to process it so it can send the
information back to you or calculations, or share it with
your iPhone or share it with your laptop or you know,
or with other people that you share with you know.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, there was another one this week too. I
maybe you guys remember it. We touched on it briefly.
And three things to know. I'm marveled at this story too.
This skier who was buried in an avalanche for about
four hours.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That sounds awful.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He lost consciousness.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, he was located after his wife noticed that on
the through the Find my iPhone app that he wasn't moving.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
That's what's so funny about these apps. You're right, we
have Life three sixty.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And sometimes when when ironically Taylor will be charged, we're
waiting for you, like we're waiting for Murphy to go
out to dinner or something like that.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Sam? And then so Taylor will pick it up and go, hmmm,
he's not far, but he's walking.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did he go to the store.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You can see walking, you can see driving, you can
see standing still, which is good, especially when we're waiting
for him to take us to dinner. But anyway, back
to this man. His name is Michael Harris. He wasn't
moving anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
She saw that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Her intuition was like, this isn't right, and she's correct.
If he was supposed to be skiing, he should have
been moving, and he wasn't moving for a long time.
She alerted Ski patrol, used his device data and they
found him to and dug him out. He was trapped
upright in what he described as a snowhole. He was
not able to move or reach his iPhone or his
(07:02):
Apple Watch at all. That's how tightly snow can pack you.
An avalanche is so scary, scary thought. Sometimes I've heard
and read accounts where people or it's been determined that
if you are caught an avalanche and you die.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He's lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was alive hypothermia right so well, he's recovering from
hypothermia right now. Anyway, he could hear and feel his
phone vibrating when she was trying to reach him, so anyway, she.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Contacted ski patrol. They drove to the area.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Using that data, they were able to locate him and
they dug him out of several feet of snow. At first,
in the first couple of days, he wasn't even able
to move. He suffered hypothermia, a broken bone, and some
other injuries, but he is recovering. The people at the
hospital have referred to him as miracle avalanche man.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Because without a lot of times people don't survive that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And then the the find my iPhone thing is what
in his wife's intuition say, the.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Location services all that kind of stuff. Well, you know,
so I was just looking up here and Sam, you know,
just so you know, it doesn't you don't have to
have a watch, although the watch, I guess will make
some of these things work better for you. But the
health tracker inside of iPhone, and I'm guessing this is
everybody that's got one hypertension ECG, So I guess electro
cardiogram you can your watch can do that. Your EarPods
(08:28):
can test your hearing, blood pressure log.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's important for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Of the log are kind of scan back to Okay,
just went down to summary. But anyway, I was looking
for the rest of this, any the things that you
can set up health checklist. Yeah, here we go, sleep
apnean notifications, medical ID crash detection, fault detection, walking steadiness notifications,
high heart rate, low heart rate, cardio, irregular rhythm, blood,
(08:58):
oxygen noise note of its what's that one? Goes off
for me every now and then on my watch if
something's too loud around that's supposed to be bad for years.
And then if you have a FIB history, you can
add that too, so it can it can track all
of those things, which is so it's so impressive. Yeah,
and you know, I mean I don't. There may be
(09:18):
premium features that cost more money, but most of this
basic stuff is just it's baked in. Everybody now that
has one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Other of these stories baked in.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know what, You never know in those cases by default,
some of those things may have been turned on and
they didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Right, Yeah, how many things are turned on? Have you
ever dug into all that? It's just like too much
afferentation whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yes, yes, location, Yes, absolutely share.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, so it's just wanted to point those out because
you know, I know I've seen anti.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Tech, but that's some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, some crazy good stuff from this week from our time.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you Sam, do you do any of the location
sharing stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Parker and I share location through iPhone nice. Everybody else
in my family, all the other kids are on Life's
three sixty. I don't know what Parker's hang up is
with Life three sixty. Well, but I think it's he
wants to just share with me, so he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Want his twin to know where he is or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Parker, you know, well, I mean you just don't ask
you go, Okay, as long as I can find you good.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, and isn't find my phone? That's free though in
Life three sixty is a subscription.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, well, yeah, I got the free Life three sixty.
But apparently there is something on texting where you can
leave your phone your location on texting. Okay, that's what
Parker chooses over Life three sixty. I personally don't care
because as long as I can see him, I'm good
with it. Sure, Like you said, his sister can't see him.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But and what about your mom? Do you track her
in any way?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So I don't? Yeah? Yeah, probably right that probably? I
wonder if I can.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Get which she likes, would she agree to it?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Oh, she wouldn't mind it. It's just walking her through
the process. Well you find that, Yeah, I don't have
the three sixty on my phone, and then two weeks
later it wouldn't work again.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I didn't do anything, missed any part of the show.
Get it all on the Murphy, Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know, I'm not the biggest fan of technology, so
I need these kinds of stories to remind me and
all of us. We need these stories that technology is
a good thing. It can be so so good. So
an extension to like a morning pick me up here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
There's more good than bad to it, for sure. It's
just the bad sticks out, and when it stops working,
it really sticks out. There's a whole lot more good
to it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, just there's so much potential, you know bad. It's
like with not just AI, but I mean tech.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
A lot of this stuff is created for good, I know,
to help us. Yeah, and then that element somebody finds
a way to manipulate it bad. Well.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Remember remember tech is more than social media. That's what
AI and the focus that winds up being the discussion.
But what cranks your car up and makes it safer
to drive today is technology. You know, what is able
to do scans and to tech things early and has
for years is technology. Yeah, and uh, you know in
Sam's favorite you know self check out at the grocery store,
(01:04):
you know. But the but so that's why I say
there's more good to technology than bad because we tend
there's so much AI discussion today. Everybody tends to immediately
gravitate to AI, and that's not technology.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It just feels weird to us.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But I don't even know if I have a favorite
tech you said, you know his self checkout.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
But I will say this.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
This is the second story this week where someone's device
phone saved their life. And I'm I'm love with these stories.
It's this Ohio teenager who her truck crashed into a tree.
She plunged down into a river, and her Apple Watch
automatically the crash detection. We've known about that that's happened
(01:45):
a lot. We have a friend whose sister got into
a bad car accident. Everybody in the family started getting
crash detection text anyway that the Apple Watch called nine
to one one and so dispatchers were called out to
save her. Meanwhile, her truck went fifteen feet down a
ravine into the river. She was upside down in her
(02:08):
vehicle with water coming in. She's nineteen years old. Her
name is Andy.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
She tried to.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Remain calm while everything it was dark, it was cold,
and her truck was filling up with water.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
She did. She was swallowing some water.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
She was able to breathe through a four inch gap
in the vehicle's floorboard. I'm taking you there seriously until
the dispatcher. There was a dispatcher that stayed on the
line with her. I guess because it I guess she
was able to talk anyway. They were wearing cold water
suits when they broke her driver window to reach her,
and they cut her seat belt off of her and
(02:48):
pulled her out of the vehicle. And she's alive because
of that, and she only suffered some minor injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Otherwise would anyone have even known that had happened?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
No, they might not have. And this is the double
edged sword of privacy. And look, I respect that there
are people that have privacy concerns. There's some people that
they don't want smart speakers in their home. They don't
want to turn any of the things on their phones
that you know, could potentially violate privacy. But as I've
learned just and Android's got the same things too. But
just moving back into the iPhone world, I've learned so much.
(03:19):
Because my Apple Watch can be submerged to twenty feet
something like that, but it will absolutely detect you know,
it detects things with heart rate, It can send warnings.
I mean it, there's so many different health things now
you have to agree to a lot of the privacy
settings for it to you know, to communicate those things.
It's called a smart watch. I mean, it tracks my heartbeat,
(03:40):
it knows it tells me what I need to get
up after, you know, standing sitting for an hour. And
my Galaxy watch would do a lot of those same things,
track my steps. It's little bitty things that you don't
you know, think about, but the safety alerts are just huge.
There's so many angles that you can go with that
that these smart watches you know, can do. And I
(04:01):
think that I'm one of those where I have said
it before, I've already had my social Security number out
on the dark web. Not so much worried about any
privacy anymore whatsoever. I'll agree to all of it now
because it makes me think about Jodie when the girls
were younger. You remember that the first time we put
Life three sixty on our oldest daughter Taylor's.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Phone, she was so aggravated.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh man, she was like this, Dad, this is creepy.
This And I explained at that time. I said, look,
it's on me and mom's phone too, and understand we're
not asking you to do anything we're not doing ourselves.
And just Taylor, I'm Type one diabetic. Hopefully for my
entire life that there will never be an issue, but
there absolutely been times when people had unexpected lows. They
got into accidents, they disappeared, they couldn't communicate or whatever.
(04:46):
And you know, if that happens to me, you'll at
least be able to find me or the last location
for my phone. So there's a benefit to it.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, she's I think she's over it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Your Apple Watch send information off like your beaten all
that or can you opt out of that or does
it not even offer that option?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It offers all of it. If you want to track it,
it'll track as much as you want. I mean, it's
it's surprising to behind depth that it will do. And
it's not just Apple Watch again, but anybody that's used
I Fit an Apple Watch for years. This is not
new technology either runners exercise or right exactly. It just
keeps getting better and more robust. The reason you have
to agree to the privacy is because it's going to
(05:27):
the cloud to process it so it can send the
information back to you or calculations, or share it with
your iPhone or share it with your laptop or you know,
or with other people that you share with you know.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, yeah, there was another one this week too. I
maybe you guys remember it. We touched on it briefly.
And three things to know. I'm marveled at this story too.
This skier who was buried in an avalanche for about
four hours.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That sounds awful.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He lost consciousness.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, he was located after his wife noticed that on
the through the Find my iPhone app that he wasn't moving.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
That's what's so funny about these apps. You're right, we
have Life three sixty.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
And sometimes when when ironically Taylor will be charged, we're
waiting for you, like we're waiting for Murphy to go
out to dinner or something like that.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Sam? And then so Taylor will pick it up and go, hmmm,
he's not far, but he's walking.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Did he go to the store.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You can see walking, you can see driving, you can
see standing still, which is good, especially when we're waiting
for him to take us to dinner. But anyway, back
to this man. His name is Michael Harris. He wasn't
moving anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
She saw that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Her intuition was like, this isn't right, and she's correct.
If he was supposed to be skiing, he should have
been moving, and he wasn't moving for a long time.
She alerted Ski patrol, used his device data and they
found him to and dug him out. He was trapped
upright in what he described as a snowhole. He was
not able to move or reach his iPhone or his
(07:02):
Apple Watch at all. That's how tightly snow can pack you.
An avalanche is so scary, scary thought. Sometimes I've heard
and read accounts where people or it's been determined that
if you are caught an avalanche and you die.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He's lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He was alive hypothermia right so well, he's recovering from
hypothermia right now. Anyway, he could hear and feel his
phone vibrating when she was trying to reach him, so anyway, she.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Contacted ski patrol. They drove to the area.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Using that data, they were able to locate him and
they dug him out of several feet of snow. At first,
in the first couple of days, he wasn't even able
to move. He suffered hypothermia, a broken bone, and some
other injuries, but he is recovering. The people at the
hospital have referred to him as miracle avalanche man.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Because without a lot of times people don't survive that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And then the the find my iPhone thing is what
in his wife's intuition say, the.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Location services all that kind of stuff. Well, you know,
so I was just looking up here and Sam, you know,
just so you know, it doesn't you don't have to
have a watch, although the watch, I guess will make
some of these things work better for you. But the
health tracker inside of iPhone, and I'm guessing this is
everybody that's got one hypertension ECG, So I guess electro
cardiogram you can your watch can do that. Your EarPods
(08:28):
can test your hearing, blood pressure log.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's important for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Of the log are kind of scan back to Okay,
just went down to summary. But anyway, I was looking
for the rest of this, any the things that you
can set up health checklist. Yeah, here we go, sleep
apnean notifications, medical ID crash detection, fault detection, walking steadiness notifications,
high heart rate, low heart rate, cardio, irregular rhythm, blood,
(08:58):
oxygen noise note of its what's that one? Goes off
for me every now and then on my watch if
something's too loud around that's supposed to be bad for years.
And then if you have a FIB history, you can
add that too, so it can it can track all
of those things, which is so it's so impressive. Yeah,
and you know, I mean I don't. There may be
(09:18):
premium features that cost more money, but most of this
basic stuff is just it's baked in. Everybody now that
has one.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Other of these stories baked in.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know what, You never know in those cases by default,
some of those things may have been turned on and
they didn't even know.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Right, Yeah, how many things are turned on? Have you
ever dug into all that? It's just like too much
afferentation whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yes, yes, location, Yes, absolutely share.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, so it's just wanted to point those out because
you know, I know I've seen anti.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Tech, but that's some good stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, some crazy good stuff from this week from our time.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you Sam, do you do any of the location
sharing stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Parker and I share location through iPhone nice. Everybody else
in my family, all the other kids are on Life's
three sixty. I don't know what Parker's hang up is
with Life three sixty. Well, but I think it's he
wants to just share with me, so he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Want his twin to know where he is or whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Parker, you know, well, I mean you just don't ask
you go, Okay, as long as I can find you good.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, and isn't find my phone? That's free though in
Life three sixty is a subscription.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, well, yeah, I got the free Life three sixty.
But apparently there is something on texting where you can
leave your phone your location on texting. Okay, that's what
Parker chooses over Life three sixty. I personally don't care
because as long as I can see him, I'm good
with it. Sure, Like you said, his sister can't see him.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But and what about your mom? Do you track her
in any way?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So I don't? Yeah? Yeah, probably right that probably? I
wonder if I can.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Get which she likes, would she agree to it?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Oh, she wouldn't mind it. It's just walking her through
the process. Well you find that, Yeah, I don't have
the three sixty on my phone, and then two weeks
later it wouldn't work again.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I didn't do anything, missed any part of the show.
Get it all on the Murphy, Salmon Jody podcast.
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