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April 3, 2025 15 mins
Martha Quinn, Christie & Karena Design Their Dream Robots—And Things Get Wild! If you could design the ultimate helper, what would it do? #podcast
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the on air Mike goes off, the talk Talk begins.
It's Talk Talk with Martha Quinn.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Mister Roboto. Mister mister Robato, I.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Think you just made up some words there that.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Was like no, I was so enjoying that. It was
like a total riff Onny Sticks classic, mister Roboto. I
was really enjoying that. I was like watching a movie,
anxiously waiting for the plot to unfold.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I think it was the part of the movie where
the train was about to careene into the mountain.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Welcome to Talk Talk with Martha Quinn. This is the
podcast that unites the Martha Quinn Show team Martha and
Kree of Alaska's and the Morning Drive with Christy Live crew,
Christy and Kareem of Alaska's What episode is this?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
And thirty seven is it? So?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I was listening to my favorite show, Morning Drive with
Christy Live, and I heard Christy talking about Suzanne Summer's husband,
the late Suzanne Summers.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
May she rest in peace.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Suzanne Summer's husband doing something very interesting, Christy, why don't
you recap what Suzanne Summer's husband has been up to
in regards to keeping his wife's memory alive?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, he's doing more than trying to keep her memory alive.
He has created a robot that is programmed with the
memories and the voice of the late great Suzanne Summers,
and so she has conversations based on all of the
information that they've fed her from her memories and different
clips and whatnot. So it's pulling all this stuff about her,

(01:43):
and it looks like a younger version of her. And
then he wants to take it one step further and
actually try and get a John Ritter AI robot made.
And there's this company called I think it's real Botics,
and they create these AI human looking robots, these humanoids.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
And their philosophy is you can actually have these robots
be your friends because they will do things, Like I
was reading up on them. They have these robots now,
the one the company you were talking about. Is it
Real Robotics, Christy, is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm not sure. I think it's real. I'm not sure. Yeah,
something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And they're they've made them so their eyes track you.
You can lock eyes with them and their eyes will
track with you. They have object recognitions, so if like
you're eating, facial and object recognition, so if you're eating
an apple, Karina of Alaskaz. The robot will say, hello, Karina,
are you enjoying that apple? And then you can respond.

(02:46):
So it's pretty interesting the robot, I mean it was.
It was. I don't think they perfected what the robot
looks like yet. Definitely it was a little bit like
a blow up doll, A little tiny bit. Yeah, but
obviously they're on that track. So I was wondering, Christy

(03:08):
and Karina, if you could have a robot in your house,
what would you have it help you do? Karina Alaskaz
cook every single day.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I know that you can buy pre made foods nowadays
and pre made meals, but I think if this robot
can cook for me every single day, some fresh meals,
that would just I don't know, I think that would
just completely change my life because sometimes I just don't
want to cook anything and I'd be like, I'll just
drink some water.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm lazy.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
But I'm sure most people wish they had a personal
chef in the house and that can be expensive. So
I would want my robot to just cook for me
and my family, Like it's like a chef, but it's.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
A robot that's exactly what I would have it to
cook every single day.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, and wash.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Your dishes, because Christy doesn't wash dishes, by the way,
So that's why that's why I said that you, Martha.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh okay, take take me inside this a little bit,
Christy regarding your dishes, because I don't think I've ever
noticed that particularly is just an issue on normally in
your house.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh yeah, pay on paper plates, red solo cups, or
throw a dish away. It'll sit there and fit there
and sit there and sit there in the sink. And
I have a dishwasher now, so sometimes I'll be like, Okay,
if I have company getting ready to come over, then
I'll be like, okay, let me throw in the dishwasher.
But otherwise I just try and use like paper plastic.

(04:38):
I hate dishes. I've hated them since I was a kid.
But if I had to pick between dishes or cooking,
my robot would be cooking and then cleaning up its mess.
But yeah, that's I think that would be the number
one answer for most people because nobody likes to like
cook or meal prep. What about you, Martha Quinn, what
would you have a robot do?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Okay, I have a duo purpose. I guess I would
say it's a toss up for me number one. If
I would have it, If I could only choose one, oo,
would I choose cooking or cleaning? I think I would
pick cleaning. I am more likely to cook than I

(05:17):
am to clean. Boy, I would love a robot to
do all of my you know, dusting, you know how
like would the time change? The sun came into your
house at a slightly different angle and all of a sudden,
you're ala because you aren't used to seeing the sun
come in the window like that at that period of time,

(05:39):
And all of a sudden, I was like, wow, everything
is dusty. And you look at one thing, you go, oh,
the top of my TV is so dusty, and you
take a rag and you wipe it off.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
But then it.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Occurs to you every other horizontal surface in that room
is just as dusty. You just can't see it. And
that's when I just turn on my heel and I
walk away. I can't handle this. So yeah, I would
definitely go with cleaning for sure, but I would like

(06:12):
some cooking too. To be honest, Karina, what would you
have your robot look like? Well?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
As this is actually what I was going to mention
to you, guys. I watched this TV show on Apple.
It's called Sunny and basically it's with Rashida Jones, daughter
of Quincy Jones. But she moves to Japan for her husband.
Her husband dies. I mean, that's that's the beginning. It's
not like any surprise. She gets this domesticated robot and

(06:39):
she's really friendly and a cute robot, but it does
everything for her, And I would want a robot like that,
Like it feels your emotions, It feels everything that you're feeling.
Is like, oh, do you want me to go get
you this? And it's a really good concept. And when
you look at this this robot, it's very very I
would say, cute, big head, rolls around like a like

(07:02):
a regular robot. It doesn't walk like those. So you
want it on wheels, You want it on wheels. You
want it short tall, No, it's short. You want it
metal or like rubbery plastic.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Kind of like a plastic. Is it like R too
D two?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, but I would say a little bit bigger than
R too D two. But then it has emotions in
its face. And then this show Sonny is like, Wow,
this would be really cool if the United States have
robots like this, Like everybody gets this domesticated robots coming
that can feel everything that you're feeling and just kind

(07:37):
of read your mind.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
It's coming sooner than you think.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
And and then her facial expression like it'll be sad
or it'll be happy. I don't know how to really,
that's Sonny right there. I'm showing you guys.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
The looks like the micheline Man with a an led
mark Martha. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
So she's got like giant eyes and she can like
fry with you.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
It's an l deface basically on the Michelin Man that
rolls around.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
So it would be my robot would look like this,
but she would have facial expressions and she Sonny goes
to bed with you.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
And what are digital? You don't want like a real
life looking robot?

Speaker 3 (08:13):
No, I don't want to realize. No, I think that
would creep me out. What about you, Christy.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
I'm going for digital, not R two D two because
I don't want it metal, but I think something that
looks to me.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
You don't want it metal.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't want it to look like you know, like
I don't want to look like a droid that's like
hovering over me while I'm sleeping.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Just something, what do you what material would it be
made of? Maybe rubber, fluffy pillows.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh, I like that, fluffy pillows, rubber, And then I
feel like I could you know, body slam in the
event and decided to get crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
You're gonna say, Chrissy was gonna say, you know something
I can cuddle with that?

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Know? What about you, Martha Quinn?

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I would definitely I'm with you. I do not want
it to look like a real person in any way.
I don't know what I want my food being cooked
by a robot that looked like a German shepherd. I mean,
if the world is our oyster, you know, maybe you
could do that. Or I guess I just always assume

(09:13):
that the robots are going to look like those Optimist robots.
So that's just kind of what I assume it will
look like. But really it doesn't have to. It could
look like a German shepherd. Maybe I want like a
Boston dog cooking my meals and cleaning up.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Can you imagine like a robot, you know, as tall
as a human, but then has like a dog faith.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
But I think you love like that so that would
be perfect for you, that would you know, maybe not
real for so that way, it's not like following in
your food, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Shedding in your food.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But you know, the lobbying.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Thing about this is, I do feel like if you're
an elder early person and maybe in an assisted care facility,
like you hear about these elderly people who are in
facilities and maybe their families live far away and they
aren't able to come by every day, and you know,

(10:16):
there's a lot of loneliness in that situation, and I
wonder if these robots will come into play to really
emotionally help these people. They already have, yeah, tell me more,
tell me more.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
They already have these like robotic things to kind of
bounce things off of and keep you company. They have
the robotic pets. They have the robots that go into
the homes and do exactly this, and so it's happening that's.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Going to nursing homes.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, they have like those robot dogs. Yeah, robot dogs
that keep a lot of people. They give a lot
of people comfort, especially in senior homes or seniors that
live in their house.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
But yeah, they have these.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Kind support robots dog I guess that's a good thing
because then they don't have to take them out. They
to take them to the rest, you know, to the vet.
I wonder, how do I feel about that? I wonder
if you get the same kind of emotion, emotional if
you get the same kind of emotional connection.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think they do. Dog they do because you're it's
like a friend and they get to know you. So
it's not like it's a random Hi, how are you doing.
It's not like that because even when you talk to
chat GPT, most people don't really talk to it. They
just type in. They just type in information. But if
you talk to it, it'll have a real conversation with you,

(11:41):
and that's how you're kind of supposed to engage. Don't
think of it like an object, think of it as
a being of some sort, an assistant. So it's already happening.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, but I definitely wouldn't want one of those synthetic
looking human like robots or assuan so creepy.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, we're super duper and.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Some special stop it.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I felt at first, I felt kind of bad for
Susanne Somers's widow, Like I thought, oh, you know, that's sad,
that's really sad. And then he's like, like you said, Christy,
he wants to come out with the John Ritter, but
he also wants to try to use it for bringing
back some sort of Three's Company show.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
And I'm like, that just seems a little off to me.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I don't know she would want to do it, and
she would probably endorse it if she was here.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Then why did she do it when she was here?

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I think she probably did. That's why they have all
of this material, Mary, all of these conversations.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Well, first of all this, I don't think he can
do a John ridd Ai thing without getting permission. You know,
there are so many people that he'd have to get
permission from. But he could do certainly. You know she
used to do that podcast. Maybe she could do a podcast.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh boy.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I don't know, man, this is a slippery slope, but
I don't know where it's it's going. I think you're right, Christy.
I think toothpaste is way out of the tube on
this farther than perhaps we realize. And I swear this
whole thing like in twenty twenty, when it seemed like,
oh my god, we can do zoom calls like that

(13:22):
was we weren't talking about AI yet. We were talking
about zoom calls, virtual working from home virtually that was
the big thing. And then I could swear it was
like two years ago. AI started to creep up. And
then I'd like, goto so fast and here we are, like,
oh my god, robots. You know, robot talks. It's crazy

(13:42):
how fast it's been going.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
It is, and it's just like I said, gonna get
even faster. It's gonna get faster.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
I think it'd be really cool to have a robot.
Oh man, just cook for me.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
It's gonna happen sooner than you think it really is.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, thank you for checking out Talk Talk with Martha
Quinn talking about robots. What would you have your robot
help you with? Fascinating And I did get this topic
by listening to Morning Drive with Christy Live that you
can hear on our iHeartRadio app also on Classic Hits
one of three point seven as well as The Mark

(14:19):
Quinn Show. And that pretty much wraps up episode number
two hundred and thirty seven. I will just leave you
with woof, woof, as we were saying, woff, you have
a dog robot, and your dog robot just starts eating
all the food.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know, maybe your dog can translate what your real
dog is saying.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh my god, that would be amazing, that'd be amazing.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I'm sure a lot of people would like, you know,
a robot to be able to translate their pets language.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
So why because mine only speaks Spanish? Is that what
you're saying?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, exactly was not really a dog, So it doesn't
even count. Carrier my dog.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
If you looked into his brain, it would be like
toy toy, Oh toy, when you're gonna throw, when you're
gonna throw, toy toy toy, when you're gonna throw, when
you're gonna throw, like you could look at him at
eight o'clock at night, and if you look at him
too much, like go get his toy and bring it
over like you're taking me out. Toy toy toy. That's

(15:24):
the default, all right, then?

Speaker 1 (15:27):
What ur?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Lady's always the pleasure, always.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Always, Thank you both, Thank you for listening to you.
We appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Until episode number two hundred and thirty eight. I'm Martha Quinn,
I'm Christy, I'm carrying of Alaska's miss you. I'll red
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