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The CultCast covers each week’s best Apple stories, tech news, and accessories—but more importantly—we do it with pizzaz. Why listen to another dreary tech program? Tune in to the CultCast each week for a healthy dose of Apple and tech news, jokes gone wrong, and unending tangents.
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THIS WEEK:
• 🤖 MORE new awesome iOS 27 features you'll actually use.
• 📱 Apple’s folding iPhone Ultra may be delayed to 2027 over hinge problems.
• 💻 Why MacBook Ultra is GREAT NEWS for Pro users.
• 📺 tvOS 27 adds a super useful new feature.
• 🚪 A new Silo season 3 teaser reveals a major change.
• 💸 Plex users are furious over a massive lifetime price increase.
• 📺 My Sony TV...
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THIS WEEK: WWDC is almost here, and NEW leaks are painting us our best picture yet of iOS 27: a totally redesigned AI-powered Siri, a customizable pro-style Camera app, ads invading Apple Maps, and even reports that Apple may turn to Intel to help manufacture future chips.
Plus, how much is my 100K Apple investment worth now?! All is revealed!
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THIS WEEK: The worldwide RAM shortage is finally hitting Apple, and you won’t like where this is going!
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This week:
- Vision Pro just went from future to flop 🥽
- Apple’s giant iPad Ultra dream could be folding fast 📉
- MagSafe might not be as permanent we thought 🧲
- Good luck getting your hands on Mac Mini or Studio⚡
- Rising memory prices will make your next Mac cost more 💸
- The “Liquid Glass” iPhone is LOOKING pretty awesome 📱
- MacBook Ultra could be Apple’s next big flex - here’s what to ex...
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This week: our beautiful Tim Cook Era comes to a conclusion. We look back at his past 15 years, and see why everyone's excited about Apple under John Ternus.
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This week: Apple’s $600 MacBook Neo is absolutely breaking expectations—and maybe Apple’s own plans—as demand explodes and supply starts running thin.
Plus, macOS just got a HUGE new feature you’ve probably never noticed, And Apple’s satellite tech is about to go next-level, with faster speeds, new capabilities, and features that could completely change how your iPhone works when you’re off the grid.
Also: a surprise...
This week: iPhones are officially in SPACE! 🚀… but it almost didn’t happen. We break down the wild story of how the iPhone barely made it onto a NASA mission and the insane approval process behind it.
Plus: Apple’s cooking up something just as shocking—a folding “iPhone Ultra” that WILL cost over $2,000.
Plus plus: Apple’s long-term iPhone strategy and the strange struggles of the iPhone Air. From Cupertino… to the ...
This week: We’re heading back to the Moon (with iPhones in tow!), Tim Cook might actually become Tim Cook™, and iOS 27 could finally fix autocorrect once and for all.
Plus: Apple randomly drops the price of the XDR display, a must-know iPhone video trick you’ll actually use, and the unbelievable story of Apple employee #8, the man who never left.
And to wrap it up — ERF relives his surreal Stand By Me live experience...
This week:
- 💀 Apple just killed the Mac Pro—and it’s $700 wheels too!
- 🧠 WWDC 26 is official—Apple is about to unveil their AI master plans
- 🔊 We’re about to get new all new HomePods, yes, including the big ones
- 💸 Apple is throwing HUGE money at talent to stop them from leaving for OpenAI
- 📱 Let’s go through all the cool new features in iOS 26.4!
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This week: The MacBook Neo has a surprise no one’s talking about, the Studio Display XDR is seriously testing my willpower, and I break down what’s actually new (and not) with AirPods Max 2!
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This week: The MacBook Neo is here — but Apple’s next wave of devices will be even more surprising...
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This week: Apple had a huge week. New M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros just landed with massive performance gains and surprising efficiency improvements.
Apple also introduced the Mac Neo — a $500 Mac that Steve Jobs once said Apple could never build — plus a new Studio Display XDR that might quietly be the most exciting announcement of the bunch. In this episode, I break down everything Apple announced, what’s actual...
This week: Apple’s about to hit the big red LAUNCH button: March 4 brings an “Apple Experience” happening in New York, London, and Shanghai, and we'll likely see days of product drops and press releases.
Plus: we’re diving into the coming “cheap MacBook” with questionable compromises, then fast-forwarding to the truly unhinged future: a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro with a Dynamic Island, and an iPhone 18 Pro th...
This week:
- Why your next iPhone could run on satellites
- What's the future for Vision Pro?
- Vision Pro gets a LONG awaited app
- Apple is prepping multiple foldable iPhones
- And Jony Ive debuts one of his most beautiful designs since iPhone
I’m joined by listener-turned-guest Major Dr. Zach Hicks, an Air Force physician living in Japan, to talk how Apple’s translation tech is making daily life in Tokyo not just possible, but actually kind of magical. We dive into using AirPods for real-time translation, navigating Japan without speaking the language, and why this stuff feels like a genuine sci-fi breakthrough. Along the way, we wander into raising kids...
With reseller stock drying up, new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros appear to be RIGHT around the corner! We’ve also got more intel on Apple’s first OLED MacBook Pro (with a full redesign!). Plus: major new features landing in iOS 26.3 and 26.4, what Apple’s second-largest acquisition reveals about Siri’s future, autonomous AI agents are coming to Xcode, and a disappointing new rumor about the next Studio Display…
This week:
- A deep dive into Apple’s new Creator Studio and whether it’s actually a good value for creative professionals
- Everything you need to know about AirTag 2!
- Not one but TWO new MacBook Pros are likely coming this year.
- A rundown of 20+ Apple products expected to launch this year, from Macs and iPads to totally new stuff.
- Google’s new $7.99 AI Plus plan and what it says about the rapidly heating AI arms race
- Rev...
This week on the pod, Apple’s future starts to come into focus — and it’s getting very interesting. John Ternus quietly steps into a major design role as Apple’s long-term CEO chessboard shifts, while a new report says Craig Federighi taking the reins on Apple’s evolving AI strategy.
We also dig into the biggest Siri shake-up in years: a full-on chatbot experience coming in iOS 27. Plus: five all-new Apple products a...
I found him in a box in downtown Scottsdale! It's the return of my old friend and former co-host, the beautiful Buster Heine.
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THIS WEEK
- iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features.
- Apple's new Creator Studio - will Final Cut Pro on Mac will keep getting new features without paying a subscription?
- A new Studio or Pro XDR Display is RIGHT around the corner.
- And, it's official! Google Gemini will overhaul Siri - what can we expect?
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