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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Ladies with Question.
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Hi, Holly.
Hi, Lise.
We've got a few things on tap, and I'm just going to outline them real quick here.
Interesting AI, I guess they would be hardware.
Then quick info about the Home Alone house.
We got some information on that.
Oh, yes.
A little bit of news.
Okay.
A baby name trend that personally I'm finding disturbing, and also a little bit something
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about the Oscars that Holly has that I don't know anything about.
But let's dive right in.
Okay.
Okay.
This hardware on display or being either sold or in development and coming soon.
Oh, God.
It's creepy.
Okay, this is from the Wired Magazine website, which of course would probably cover something
like this.
It's an AIA wearable, and it listens to absolutely everything all the time.
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On your body?
You wear this.
It's a yellow wristband thing.
Oh, okay.
And it looks kind of like, well, it just looks like maybe you're wearing a medical bracelet,
but not metal, but it's yellow.
Or like the bracelets that say cancer awareness.
Stuff like that.
Okay.
Got it.
Titer.
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And it's got to pick up on lots of things.
Well, it's got to pick on conversations and whatever is going on.
So whatever the person is saying, and whatever conversations are going on around that person,
wherever they are, it picks up on everything.
It listens to everything all the time.
Why?
Why would we want that?
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Is it reporting back to Big Brother?
Probably.
Okay.
So, it's got to pick up on conversations, then it curates to-do lists based upon these
conversations for you.
Like, oh, this was being talked about.
So here's your to-do list, and then it summarizes whatever the wearer's chats are, or the chats
that are picked up around that person wearing.
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Oh, it summarizes the conversations that you had with friends or at the grocery store,
anywhere.
Anywhere.
Okay.
So, let's figure out what is the benefit to make your to-do list.
I don't know.
Maybe you want it just a second.
Puppy Dog right here wants it in my lap.
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We got Doggy Day.
Two dogs in the house.
Double Dog Day.
Yeah.
Okay, just a second.
Let me just grab this.
They're being really good.
They're not barking.
They are.
They're being really good, but this one wants in my lap, and it's tiny enough to where I
can handle it.
I'm taking a photo of this cutie pie.
Oh, no, I look so gross.
Oh, stop at least.
Take a picture of her.
Or him.
Okay.
Hi.
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You look so cute.
Okay.
I think we need to post that for sure.
Well, I'll take a look at it for us.
It's a cute picture.
I just don't know what to make up on.
Anyway, not that that would help at this point, but it's called the Pioneer Wearable.
It's from a company called BBEAI.
The actual hardware is $50, but then you have to buy a subscription.
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Of course.
Yeah.
So, I guess to answer your question before, why?
I guess if you want to be James Bondian or something and wear that, or you just want
to spy on your conversations and people don't know what the Yellow Wristband is and they're
not asking.
Well, you could be a coffee shop and you could be wearing it and sitting on it very close
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to somebody and you want to hear what they're saying and recording them like, and they don't
know it.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
So, it's very, yeah.
James Bondish.
Got it.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
So, it's the same thing.
It's from a company called, I don't know how you pronounce it, but it's just OMI.
So, Ami, Omi, I don't know, or OMI.
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You wear it around your neck or you stick it to your forehead near your temple.
And there's an EEG inside.
Electroencephalogram.
Okay.
Which I thought that's for your heart.
I was thinking EKG.
Well, oh, that's a cardiogram.
What is an EEG?
Electroencephalogram.
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I don't know what an EEG.
Well, you know what?
In real time, I'm going to look up with that.
Well, these wristbands monitor heart.
Will they monitor health things too on your body?
Well, not these.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
They're purely for like spying tactics-ish.
Pretty much.
For a better word, I don't know.
Okay.
EEG, electroencephalograms, I had that.
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Oh my God.
You're so smart.
Not at all, but I didn't know what it was for and I should have because it says a painless
test that measures electrical activity in the brain.
Electroence detects electrical signals produced by the brain cells.
Okay.
This is too like somebody's going to be controlling us from afar and getting into our brain.
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I could just see it go this rabbit hole where it's going.
It's probably already happening.
Yeah.
I mean, when you wear it on your neck, you stick to your forehead near your temple.
The company says if you even, you want to get beyond creepy.
Yeah.
If you even think about talking to it, it will understand your request.
Okay.
What?
Whoa.
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But then what will it do?
It's not like, oh, can you go get me a cup of coffee?
No.
The brace.
No, it's not like the robots that understand those kinds of things now.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, an EEG picks up your brain activity according to what I just read there real quick
on Google.
Yeah.
And then you just maybe it's able to read your mind to a degree or at least maybe your
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emotions or the fact that you want to, I don't know.
I didn't go into great detail.
It almost sounds like a science experiment on us that somebody's doing.
That's right.
Like, oh, by these are great.
And they'll sell it through some pop culture.
Everybody's doing it.
TikTok will probably sell millions of them.
And we don't even know.
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And then five years later, uh-oh.
And then your brain activity is also being sold as data.
Oh, think about that.
Am I taking a leap here?
No, that makes sense.
I know it's so.
Oh, my God.
This AI thing is just out of control.
Yep.
Okay.
Then coming soon.
You sound like we're selling these things.
Well, this one is in the market.
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These two are apparently on the market.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
And coming soon, something it's called the friend pendant.
Yes.
Oh, no.
Is this the one you were talking about?
No, no, no, no.
It's a pendant.
Okay.
So what does this friend pendant do?
It's always listening, always working.
I didn't want to go into too much detail on all this.
And really it was only about a paragraph on each one.
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Just sort of describing.
It was from a reporter from Wired Magazine talking about this is what's on the new front.
I don't know what the application is for, for these, because it's not just reminding
you about stuff.
I mean, make your own damn to-do list.
Write down a note or, you know, just commit it to your memory.
Use your brain.
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Yes.
I don't.
We don't want AI thinking for us.
Well, it's almost like it's creating reliance on another thing for you to not have to think
about.
Exactly.
And when you said friend, that's the name of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That implies that this is your friend.
Maybe it will regurgitate what you did during the day and help you through your thoughts
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or try to give you some positive feedback.
It's creepy.
That's what it sounds like, doesn't it?
It does.
I know.
It's like, you know, it's like, I'm in a friend with me and everybody's like, what?
It's like when little kids carry a baby doll around.
It's like our security blanket now is this friend AI necklace.
It seems like there's a world apart between a child carrying like a stuffed animal and
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a doll.
Exactly.
And this, doesn't it?
Right.
Okay.
We need to have a little moment of levity here or not maybe a levity, but just something
different, something real.
The Home Alone House in Winnetka, Illinois, you know, and I've driven by it.
I mean, one of the first things I did when I moved back here in 1989 from California was
I was like, I said to my husband, we got to go see them Home Alone House.
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Right.
You know, please.
And so we went.
I couldn't find it.
Oh, 671 Lincoln.
Well, thank you very much.
I'm in Winnetka at least once or twice a week.
Yeah.
671.
Oh, good.
I have to say the, it photographs bigger.
Yeah, bigger, much more imposing.
I think.
Well, I have to say that because the church that I drive by all the time, the one where
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they were tiny.
Yeah.
And I go, wow, they made that church look huge when he was running up the stairs and
into the church.
Yeah.
That's the church.
The one where they also had the, um, the crash scene.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
I remember the same thing.
I was like, well, I got to find the church.
Yeah.
I know.
Every time I'm in Winnetka, I get a tiny flashback.
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Yeah.
When I pass the church or the park.
The magic of photography.
I know.
Cinematography, I guess I shouldn't say.
But anyway, so, um, in May, 2011, it sold for 2.4 million.
Excuse me.
It was on the market for 2.4 million.
It only sold for one and a half million.
Wow.
Yeah.
And then it got sold today.
Yeah.
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Five and a half million.
That's what I thought.
Oh, you heard.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I did.
I'm like, wow, that was a great investment.
Uh, yeah.
And there's a full-size basketball court in the basement.
Oh, that probably added a lot to it.
Right.
My third item.
Okay.
Baby name trends.
Oh, I'm dying.
Dying, dying, dying.
Okay.
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This, I look up dog name trends.
I'm, you know, that'll catch my eye.
But this one caught my eye largely because it was so dog on disturbing.
Okay.
How's this?
The baby name trend currently is Namier, newborn, your child.
After weapons and guns.
Like brand names of guns and weapons.
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And here's just a sample.
Remington Colt.
Okay.
This is Ruger.
I thought it was a Luger.
I thought Luger was the name of the gun.
But anyway, Winchester, Blade, Cannon, Arson.
What the hell?
Oh, dear God.
Cutter, Dagger, Mace.
What's this about?
Mace.
They're all just-
And then the child is going to learn it could influence a destructive behavior.
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That's kind of the thing.
When they're growing up because they might be teased or Wesson.
I'm surprised Wesson is in the band.
Oh, it probably is.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm sure that was on there.
I just had a very visceral reaction to that.
Just thinking that it could maybe influence their behavior or something or teased for
sure.
Yeah.
With all the gun violence going on today and to even-
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Any violence.
Raise this to the next level and embrace it.
Yeah.
The poor baby.
Well, I just-
They don't know.
Yeah.
And I was trying to think of the why.
Why?
Why are they doing this?
It's probably a dad that's a tough guy that thinks it's really cool and he's a big gun
guy somewhere.
Yeah, that could be.
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And-
Or the war with a mom.
I mean, the only thing I came up with was this whole emasculine energy.
You could exude masculine energy.
That's the only thing that popped in my head.
I thought maybe that's it.
Any way.
Oh, where did you find that?
BabyNames.com.
Oh, wait here.
I believe some parents are drawn to weapon names for their sons because they feel threatened
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by recent cultural shifts toward broader acceptance of gender identities and expressions outside
the traditional gender binary.
Oh my God.
I guess that's it.
They overreacted.
They're kids born a boy and this kid is staying a boy.
Yeah.
That's-
That's too much.
It's an overreaction.
Exactly.
So it's oboreta.
That was another one.
That was that?
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A neighborhood TV show?
It was.
Yeah.
But it was B-A-R-E-T-T-A.
This is a boreta.
They have here B-E-R.
Okay, it's from Nameberry's analysis of the re- oh God.
Okay, now we're getting into the reddest and bluest baby names.
Okay, we're done with this story.
Well, I didn't think it was going to work this way.
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Funny that you say that just because those names sound so much worse than Apple, Northwest,
and we were all like-
Chicago, Chai.
Right.
And we're like, whoa, those are weird, but they're not intrusive or they're just unusual.
Yeah.
They're unusual.
They're just a little more unique for something a little more unique.
And Moses.
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Oh, well, it's okay.
A lot of biblical names are everywhere.
They are.
Oh, you're thinking of her son's name.
Right.
Gwyneth Paltrow's son's name, right?
Apple and Moses.
Right.
I didn't think about that.
I thought, I mean, James and John and all those names are biblical names if you want
to, you know.
I've been seeing a resurgence in old-fashioned names.
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Oh, really?
Like what do you-
I think a lot of ours just named their child Josephine.
Oh, that is an old-fashioned name.
There was another one recently.
I like that name, though.
But I think it was named after her grandmother.
So that was really cute.
Like Josie, you could call her Josie.
And that's what they're calling her.
Yeah.
It's a cute name.
So, yeah, there's a resurgence.
Somebody asked me, what are all the old-fashioned names?
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So I started thinking, my grandmother's name's Marion.
I mean, when was the last time you heard a gal's name or-
Not a new baby's name.
Yeah.
I hope they don't bring back Mildred.
Oh, Millie.
They can call her Millie.
Oh, Millie.
That would be cute.
But you still have a name Mildred on your-
Mildred.
That just sounds like the nasty neighbor next door that's super grumpy.
It doesn't-
It sounds like, yeah, Mildred.
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Hazel.
Well, Hazel's kind of popular.
Actually, Hazel, I always think of that TV show from the 15th to 16th season.
Hazel.
Oh, my gosh, Hazel.
That was so funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dorothy.
Everything is so cyclical.
It is.
It comes around, goes around, heard it, been there.
Okay.
So, what else we got?
Well, I just want to briefly make a statement.
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Okay.
Oh, no.
Red dye number three.
Okay.
It's good that it's going to be taken out.
I don't think until 2027, unfortunately.
What?
Yeah, it was something like that.
Because they got to get it out of the machines.
Well, they have to reformulate everything.
They just give them lead time.
They give them lead time because they've made so much candy.
They're like, well, what are we going to do with all this candy?
We've made like five years worth.
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Not just candy.
I mean, it's in a lot of different foods.
To make it look healthier or more vibrant.
Yes.
Yeah.
Fake.
Yeah.
Fake foods.
The food, there's a cereal.
What is that one?
Puffs.
Something, not cocoa puffs.
Maybe it's cocoa.
Well, not cocoa puffs.
The one, the formulation that we make for Canada, I think it's, oh, it's Kellogg.
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It's a Kellogg.
And I'm not trying to slander Kellogg.
I love, I buy your stuff, but is different up in Canada because they do not allow that.
Yeah.
They have beets to dye their red stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Beets juice.
Well, if anything, it had nutrition, although by the time you break it down, but they keep
our formula the same because it's probably cheaper to make because it's synthetic.
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People are addicted.
And yeah.
And also they were saying, well, no, the Americans want the more vibrant colors.
What is that?
It's called fruit puffs.
Maybe that's it.
Fruit loops.
Fruit loops.
Well, maybe it's fruit loops.
Fruit loops that is really brightly colored cereal.
I did like the colors because they had blue.
They had, it was one of the fruit loops.
Very bright.
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Yeah.
And I remember thinking, oh, that's fun.
I mean, my mom never bought it for me, but when I got in college, I'm like, I'm going
to buy fruit loops and destroy my body and health.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's right.
I'm in charge now.
God.
I was raised on grape nuts.
Oh yeah.
Me too.
Yeah.
Which is healthy, but I'm like, why am I the only kid eating grape nuts when everybody
else has these fruit loops and lucky charms?
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Well, grape nuts are really highly processed actually.
Are they?
Yeah.
I mean, I remember I was reading about that when I was thinking, oh, I'll just start eating
more cereal.
Rice Krispies, actually Cheerios.
And I wish I had, I can't attribute this to anything, but I would, Cheerios is one of
the better ones.
Right.
I remember that.
We never had Cheerios though.
And they actually do taste good.
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Yeah.
I don't know, but those are supposed to be not as bad.
Interesting.
Yeah.
So anyway, I don't know how we got there, but I'm mourning candy corn.
Red dye number three.
I know you hate it, but I hate candy corn.
I love it.
Oh my gosh.
I do.
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I can't even, I can't, I can't even think about it now because when it comes around and
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I see that first fresh bag in September at Walgreens or Jewel or wherever I go and I
always grab it and go, oh, they're fresh.
I'm going to be looking at it with a John.
Well, yeah.
I mean, it's right, you know, right?
I know.
Because they, it's like ushers in fall and I always go, oh, first sign of autumn.
Well, now I'm going to look at it with a John to style and second guess and go, oh,
I have to wait till 2027.
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Oh, anyway, so that's it.
Now what is this about the Oscars?
Okay, I have an idea.
Okay.
Obviously the fires have affected so much that has been going on in California and there's
been some chit chat on pop culture outlets that they, they haven't announced the Oscar
nomination chat.
They're holding off.
Well, this is my idea for the Oscars.
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Yeah.
I think it's a good idea.
So Spielberg, I hope you're listening because you could pull this off.
Is he producing?
I don't know.
He produced last year, didn't he?
I thought so.
So I just thought, well, let's have a fundraiser, man the phones.
Nobody's getting dressed up, screw that and do a fundraiser with all the actors and actresses
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that have been nominated.
And then we will still announce winners throughout the night, but it will be a casual downplayed
affair that will be a fundraiser and for the victims of the fires.
Holly, this is a most excellent idea.
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I just, it came to me.
I'm like, wait a minute, I've got it.
And so the actors don't feel that they're left out because they're not getting the self-congratulatory
by all their peers in their, not getting their flowers, their gowns and their one person
per suburban that's driving up and the money that's spent on the whole production and kind
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of the average person sees as fluff and circumstance that they'll never get to do.
And I just, that's my idea.
I'll tell you something.
That is just, it's really a great idea.
Well, thank you.
It really is.
I know in two weeks there's going to be a fundraiser, two days of musical entertainment.
And I didn't hear all the only name that I remember that I heard.
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I only heard two names was Billie Eilish was one and then whoever, but there are enough
performers to do a fundraiser that they have to do it over two days.
But that's just one thing.
This is great.
And I know it sucks that a lot of people aren't going to get their gowns shown and that's
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sad.
That is sad.
And other monies won't be spent.
But my God, this is a once in a half a century fire or more.
I mean, come on.
It's affected so many people and that I'm starting to hear all the trickle down of other things
that I never thought of it was affecting.
And it's just, it's devastating.
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So, well, I know two people who have been affected by it.
One of my friends lost her home.
She had a second, you know, home in Malibu.
Second home.
Right.
Yeah.
And another person I know, his sister and his, her husband had a home in Pacific Palisades.
So when I was thinking about it, I thought, okay, the people that really deserve the Oscars,
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they don't want to be like forgotten about.
No, and they shouldn't be.
They will still get their acolytes in a more casual manner.
Yeah.
Well, and just think about it.
They're all going to be affected by it.
Right.
Oh, and all the jobs from the industries.
I mean, there's just so much.
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Yeah.
So anyways, it's a great idea.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Oh, well, let's hope next time we talk, next time we, next time we meet, the fires are
out.
They're still burning.
I would have thought by now, we're recording this on, what is it, Thursday night?
Thursday, so it's been a week and two days.
What is this, like the 16th or something?
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Yeah.
It's been a week and two days and the fires are still freaking going and those winds have
not let up.
I just want to see something good happen out there.
You know, and I mean, there are a lot of places I want to see something good happen.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I agree.
This is top of mind right now because it's just, it never, I never dreamed it would turn
into something this huge and destructive.
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So I don't know.
I don't have anything else today, do you?
No.
I just want to see the firefighters and all the volunteers and everybody that's doing
everything they can to help all the people put out the fires and just help California.
Yeah.
And all the people and all of the animals.
Oh, absolutely.
Okay.
Okay.
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On that note, we say goodbye and we'll see you next time.
Bye-bye.
Thanks, Harvey.
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