Barbie: The Girl, the Myth, & the Weird

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Hello, bizarre story dolls.
If you're listening right now,

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strange, the absurd, the
unknown, and all things bizarre.

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A FI am Teresa.
I mean Alicia, your host for

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today's episode.
So as always, we ask that you

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keep an open mind, keep a
skeptical ear, but keep on

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listening to those facts as we
take you on our newest journey.

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Barbie, the Girl, The Myth, the
Weird.

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Hiya, Bobby.
Hiya, Ken.

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We could not resist that.
Not resist you.

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Are adorable too.
Thank you.

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I think we're both really
adorable.

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I I was trying to channel today
Teresa, which Teresa was like my

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like the go to Barbie because
she had brown hair like me.

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So that's what I'm doing and
kind of like the totally hair

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Barbie.
That's where my makeup has come

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from.
So if you're not, if you're only

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listening, it'll be worth it.
To actually watch, we are all

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decked out.
Kevin looks like Ken.

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I'm a I'm a There's a lot of
kins, too.

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Like there's the clean shaven
can and then there's the Gay

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kin.
We'll talk about 5:00.

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O'clock shadow can?
Yes, that's.

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That's what?
Blond hair, brown little 5:00,

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o'clock shadow.
With your little polo and

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sweater, always hide.
Sweater around the shoulders,

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Yeah, well, and typically we
have our headphones on.

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And I was talking to to Kevin
before, I mean Ken before the

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podcast and I said, gosh, I just
don't think Barbie's going to

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fuck up her hair and have a
headset on like like they may

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just like have as as an
accessory like here's my

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accessory, my headset.
But it is very strange for me to

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be.
It's like that is like you're

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like DJ Ken, He has one up to
his ear.

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We created a new Ken doll.
So as you know, the Barbie movie

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is upon us, right?
Are you going to go and watch

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it, Kevin?
Oh yeah, yeah.

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No, I think it's going to be
spectacular.

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Oh, it's going to be so good.
Yeah, like, I cannot wait.

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I cannot wait.
I am gonna get some friends

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together.
We're gonna all go to the same

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showing all dress.
Like, I'm probably gonna wear

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this wig not too dissimilar to
what I'm going to.

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Well, yeah, you be.
You look amazed, like you are a

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legit Barb.
Thank you.

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It looks, it looks not nearly as
dark as it is and normal light,

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yeah.
But yeah, I'm.

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I love, I love it.
So I'm thinking go there.

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Do the whole thing.
Make an entire night of it with

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a bunch of friends.
Yes.

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And yeah, just.
I think go out, go Barbie's

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going out, yes.
Oh my God, you guys have so many

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people that are looking at you.
Oh awesome.

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Yeah, and like the most
ridiculous fucking shoes, you

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know?
Yeah, gold.

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Like or whatever.
Studded bright.

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Anyway, I am stoked.
Yeah, me too.

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And I was absolutely a Barbie
girl growing up.

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My favorite ones were like the
mermaid Barbies.

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And I know we kind of talked
about that before on a mermaid

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episode.
I would actually arrange them

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like perfectly on my shelf.
You know, make sure all of them

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had their accessories, their
hair brushes, which, oh, that

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would have been perfect If I had
like a Barbie hairbrush bag,

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Like, that would be so cute.
Anyway, yeah, I.

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Wear that from Amazon before you
go.

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Oh yeah, I I need to stop
spending money on Amazon.

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But whatever.
Next time, Next time.

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It's important.
It's the Barbie movie.

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So I, like, did not want them to
get too messy.

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I was always careful.
I had the High Barbie, High

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Stepper Horse, like the horse
actually moved Barbie.

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You know, Jeep Barbie, camping
set, You name it, I had it.

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I loved it.
Our girl Barbie actually comes

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from humble beginnings.
Did you know that?

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No, I don't know.
I don't know where she came

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from.
No, let's say I don't know.

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I don't know.
Well, to find out, we are doing

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our podcast here in Denver, Co
Yes, the lady who created Barbie

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the could they start call her
the cofounder, but she really,

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she was the one who started
everything.

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Ruth Handler is from Denver, Co
She was born in Denver.

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She went to East High, which is
really fun.

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She was the president of Mattel
and really helped create the

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Barbie we know and love today.
Oh wait, so did she how did she

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become the president?
Like was she?

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Did she didn't found found a
Mattel?

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Like, did they find, like, she
create the doll and then became

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president or she was created,
like she was the cofounder of

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Mattel?
Wow.

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Yeah.
Yeah, she was the cofounder.

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It was her and her husband.
And ultimately, like, you know,

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she, they were, her husband had
like a hobby.

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He was a hobbyist, you know,
building furniture, trying to

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make things.
And they got into plastics like

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Lucite, which was one of the
first versions of plastic and

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plexiglass and they were making
furniture out of it.

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So her and her husband were
making this, this furniture she

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looked and or she saw her
husband doing this.

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She's like, hey, this plastic
stuff, this is new.

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There's there's some money to be
made here.

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She's really the businesswoman
behind everything.

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So she said that he's really the
brains behind the design and she

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was the salesperson who created
Mattel.

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So they created Mattel and they
actually combined her husband's

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first name and then their
partner, Matt, so Elliott and

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then Matt Matson.
And you know, they had a dry

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spell with, you know, doing the
furniture and stuff.

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And after World War Two, they
started to try something new.

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What happens when when your
business starts to dry up?

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Well, you're trying to do
anything to try to grasp that

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business, you know, some kind of
business, find something to make

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some money.
So she said, I think that, you

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know, plastic toy furniture is
going to be, you know, what we

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should start doing.
So they started doing that.

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They started getting gaining
success.

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And.
And not doll furniture, but

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like, toy kids like toy
furniture.

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Toy furniture, yeah.
Because, you know, plastics were

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so new, they didn't have plastic
furniture.

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Like things were made out of
wood or made out of metal.

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Yeah, right.
Like it was.

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If you think about seeing like
old kids toys, it's always like,

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you know these pieces of metal
like those metal like.

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Yes, like heavy duty shit, Like
not cheap.

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Or you had dolls that were made
out of like, you had paper dolls

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or you had these like dolls that
you would make like porcelain

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dolls, stuff like that.
Or fabric dolls.

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But they're like, we need to
move in a different direction.

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This like we're finding a lot of
success with this children's

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market.
How can we find more success?

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We we can pivot now once again.
Bruth is like the business lady.

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She's like, oh, we need to have
more options.

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So there's a lot of lore
surrounding the actual creation

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of the Barbie doll.
One of the stories is that

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they're on a European trip, and
Ruth sees a doll in Europe that

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looks like a woman that was
actually created based off of a

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sex doll, like a sex doll.
And she's like, huh, Like it's

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very different from the typical
Barbie dolls that, you know,

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that I've that we've seen or
typical dolls.

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Not Barbie dolls.
That's how crazy it is.

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I am so like I think of dolls
and dolls and Barbies are

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synonymous for me.
That's insane.

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But they had just like these you
know, dolls that didn't, that

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looked you know kind.
You have the fabric dolls.

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Then you have this plastic doll
that was modeled off of a sex

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doll.
Really or like and that was

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different.
She's like, I've not seen like.

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Anatomy.
Like but boobs.

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It had.
But had boobs.

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Yeah, and you could get
accessories and stuff.

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Uh huh.
Do you remember paper dolls?

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Yeah, sure.
So you had like these paper

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dolls and?
Then you would just like change

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the fabric to change the outfit.
You would just like fold the

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little tabs over yes it and just
like they were like flat, they

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were flat.
There are two-dimensional paper,

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paper, and so you could do like,
shoes, you could do dresses,

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pants, whatever.
But yeah, they they were only

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two-dimensional.
You couldn't change them.

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But that was really kind of
something that was fun for girls

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to be able to quickly change out
there.

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There was a hole in the market.
She's seeing that there's like a

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hole in the market.
So she also says, I want

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something more 3D, more what
little girls want to be.

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Yeah, right.
Yes.

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So once again, we're not
entirely sure what created the

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the real story of Barbie and
Barbie's origins, but it's

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somewhere, probably within the
plastic doll and the paper doll

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idea.
Whether it happened in Europe,

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who knows?
And so you said this is after

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World War?
Two.

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So I'm bad with geography and
history.

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Is it 40 like timeline?
Yeah.

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So Barbie, the OG Barbie
premiered at the American Toy

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Fair in New York City on March
9th, 1959.

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So you so she was getting you
think she was kind of getting

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ready for this in the early 50s
like this was so maybe if.

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She's finding the doll.
Yeah, so, so she was, they were,

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you know, building those toys,
those or those plastic like

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furniture for kids, finding a
lot of success.

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They go on a vacation or
something happens and they build

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up.
Have a prototype of Barbie in

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1959, Release it and it goes
wild, Girls Go Crazy, and Mattel

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sells over 350,000 dolls within
the first year of business.

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First year.
They're like jackpot.

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And you know what else helped?
Ruth is this amazing

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businesswoman.
She says, OK, where can we?

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We need to start advertising to
kids.

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How?
What are kids watching in the

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50s?
You know, there's a lot of

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things.
Mickey Mouse Club.

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Mickey Mouse Club But how do you
duty is a good idea how do you

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duty.
I think I feel like how do more

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boys but also I feel like they
had their own items that you can

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buy.
Yeah brand already of course

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Mickey Mouse had Mickey Mouse
stuff but like she's like let me

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use the Mickey Mouse club to to
advertise.

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So it was Barbie was actually
the 1st item that was

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successfully advertised to
children and it was through the

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Mickey Mouse Club.
So you have Barbie and Mickey

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not in bed together but in the
same house they're sharing

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dinner.
So this, you know, they they

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they're seeing success.
Well, Barbie needs to have

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friends, right?
Right.

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So who do you think comes first?
So I'm trying to decide do I

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think it's another Barbie or a?
I think it's Ken.

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It is Ken.
OK, Ken needs a boy, a

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boyfriend, and they actually
name him after the hand.

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Barbie needs a boyfriend, but
yeah, yeah.

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Excuse me, what did I say?
Ken needs a boyfriend.

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Well, Ken just probably do, but
not at that point.

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People were not cool with that,
you know?

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They're fucking squares now.
Now you're like, yes, of course.

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Right, because they've they're
like, OK, we're gonna create

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this Barbie.
Now girls can give over cool

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clothes, accessories.
This is like miniature play

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versions of real people.
So of course the natural

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progression would be she needs a
boyfriend.

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She needs a boyfriend, yes.
And we have our kid Ken, and

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we're just going to name him
after.

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We're going to name him after
it, so.

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Their son.
Their name?

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Ken was named Ken.
They named Ken after their son.

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Wait, sorry.
Let me go back.

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How did they get the name
Barbie?

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Do you know it's a, well, Barbie
has a whole back story, which we

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will, yeah.
OK.

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Do you think they OK, OK, we'll
talk about.

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That OK.
Yeah.

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Yeah, so wait a second.
Oh my God, I'm so stupid.

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Barbara was Ruth's daughter,
Barbie.

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Barbara was Ruth's.
OK?

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Barbie, they had another kid.
So they have a girl and a boy.

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And Barbara, Why not Ken?
But also boyfriend, girlfriend.

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It's whatever.
It's all right.

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I mean, of course you.
Knew it was kids.

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No, no, that's true.
So they there have been tons of

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characters that have come into
Barbie's world, right?

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Like we have Ken, we have
Skipper, we have other other

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characters.
Well, I'm going to tell you a

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little bit more about.
It's a whole world.

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It's an entire world.
We're going to walk into

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Barbie's world.
She has a full name too, and a

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full back story, so her full
name is Barbara Millicent

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Roberts.
Millicent.

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OK, so I would say she was born
March 9th, 1959, but that's not

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the case, right?
But I'm sure Barbie's birthday

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is that date.
But so she, Barbie had her first

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friend in 1963.
That was Midge.

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So Midge had like, you know, red
hair.

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OK, 1964 is when Skipper came
around.

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OK.
And then.

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Ken's friend?
Or is that like Barbie's friend?

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Bar Barbie's friends?
Really.

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I mean friends.
Yeah, I guess it would be Ken's

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friends too.
Because they're.

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Yeah, cuz they're boyfriend,
girlfriend, yeah, yeah.

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Boyfriend, girlfriend, yeah.
Yeah.

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I'm so excited for the movie.
There's, Can I just say this?

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Yeah, I'm just gonna say there's
a scene with.

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Wait, you've seen previews?
Of course I have.

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They have.
Oh, really?

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Yes, I think I've.
Seen like 1.

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Yeah.
So the preview, it was Ryan

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Gosling.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So he's like, he said So Barbie,
I thought I should stay over

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tonight and she's like, Oh yeah,
of course, you know, what are we

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going to do?
And he's like, or he's like,

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she's like why?
He said, well because we're

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boyfriend, girlfriend and she's
like, yeah, OK, he's like, she's

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like what are we going to do?
And he's like, I don't know

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which which would make.
Sense they can do because they

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have nothing.
They have nothing.

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But then also, it's like as you
as a kid, you didn't really.

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That's not was nothing.
It was just like you held hands,

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although I did some fucked up
things.

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Oh, I'm sure, like like we would
like they'd get kidnapped

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because we watched.
This is gonna reveal a whole

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lot.
Do you have a little white van?

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Oh my God, I totally forgot this
until this.

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Well, no.
So we would get toilet paper or

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like, tissues and like, put like
masks over the men's faces.

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Or like, it would be like other
Barbie who was next door and she

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was like, jealous.
Like that's awful.

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Like a soap opera.
Because I watched, we watched

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soap operas.
When we were young, I used to

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watch Days of Our lives.
So what would I do?

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I would pull stories out of what
I saw.

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So one of the the storylines in
the soap opera was Marlena.

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If you guys, if you know, you
know, OK, Marlena in Days of Our

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Lives was possessed by a demon.
What did I do?

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My, my Barbie for sure was
possessed by a demon, and she

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was tied.
She was tied up because she was

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hurting herself, like tied up
to, like, the bed.

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Now that I know that I'm like,
that's crazy.

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I know it was never because she
was tied up, because there was

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any kind of, like, sexual thing.
It was always.

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To keep her under control.
What does that say?

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Because she was crazy Barbie.
It's crazy Barbie.

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That is insane.
Another insane thing about

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Barbie?
There were no real dolls of

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color until 19. 80 So that was
the first time that there was

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like a black Barbie doll.
And ultimately, you know,

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there's a shit load of criticism
about Barbie.

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You know, she is incredibly
materialistic.

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So she has like all these cars
and clothes and houses and you

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know, accessories and you know.
Yeah, perfect body, perfect

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clothes.
Perfect face.

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Perfect hair.
Yes.

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Yeah.
And like, there was actually

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some researchers in Finland in
1994 who were like, OK, let's

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break down Barbie.
If she existed as a real person,

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OK?
And they're like, if she was a

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real woman, she would not have
enough body fat to even

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menstruate.
And so they, Mattel, heard this,

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and they're like, oh, OK, maybe
we should be, maybe we shouldn't

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have had this Barbie that was,
like, based off of a risque,

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like, sex doll or like, risque
doll.

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That was what she was built on.
They're thinking they shouldn't

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have.
Yeah, like, maybe we should

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rethink this because these girls
are seeing this doll and it's so

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off in human proportions.
OK, right.

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OK, so Mattel's like, OK, we're
going to change Barbie's Barbie,

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Barbie's body mold.
So they she was given smaller

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boobs, a wider waist, slimmer
hips, and now they have multiple

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different types of Barbies.
So they have like a petite, a

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tall, a curvy and I guess like
from from that you know people

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have opinions.
Do you have any opinions about

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the changing of the I do?
Can you're You're rolling your

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eyes a little bit.
I don't, OK?

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For me, it's just a it's a damn
doll.

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Yeah.
It can be in.

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It can be whatever, because it's
not real.

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It's like, it's that's true.
And so why does it have to be

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representative of every little
possible thing?

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Like, OK, it's fine that you do
that.

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I mean that.
There's absolutely nothing wrong

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with that.
But but for them to go, oh, if

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Barbie were real, she couldn't
menstruate.

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And they're like, shit, we got
to fix that.

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What?
It's a doll like this.

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Of course it's unrealistic.
It's a, it's a it's a fantasy

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doll, right.
You know what I'm saying?

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So yeah, I get a little
irritated with that, that kind

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of stuff.
I like I said, I don't think

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it's any problem, but if you can
see make a doll that's

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representative of of a person or
something, if that's what they

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want then.
Sure.

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More power to you.
Yeah.

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Go.
Go for it.

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Great, great, great.
But I just.

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I think it's silly that when you
said this, silly when they're

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like, oh, she was real, she
couldn't menst straight.

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Well, of course not.
If it's, it's a doll and it's.

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It's not supposed, not supposed
to be the perfect representation

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of a normal human being.
Hopefully we're teaching our

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children that, like, that's the
key, like your parents are.

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Like, yeah, you.
Like, is Barbie a little vapid?

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Yeah, but what make believe it's
nothing to strive for?

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It is a fucking fake odd shaped
plastic doll.

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Yeah, it's an odd shaped plastic
doll.

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When I was playing Barbies and
she was kidnapping people, did

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she have outfit changes?
Yes, she did.

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She couldn't.
She couldn't wear the same

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outfit twice, right?
You know, like, right.

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Of course she had to.
In captivity, it gets, you know.

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Wrinkled quickly you have.
To yes, yes, at one.

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She couldn't be recognized,
dude.

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Wow.
Does it?

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Does it?
Yeah.

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Does it?
Does it.

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Is it surprising that now we're
on the bizarre?

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Yeah, right.
One so fucking weirdo.

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Always a weirdo.
So I was telling you a little

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bit more about, like, Barbie's
like, full back story.

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OK, so there were actually a
series of novels that were

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published by Random House in the
1960s and I told you her full

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name.
Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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Her parents names.
Are George and Margaret Roberts?

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And they're from a fictional
town in Wisconsin called

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Willows.
So she's from Willows,

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Wisconsin.
Have we ever met George?

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I don't think that we've ever
seen Barbie's parents.

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I could be please tell me if I'm
wrong but I I I don't believe we

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have ever met them.
She.

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Let's see here she also sorry,
what did you say her mom's name

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was?
It's.

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Georgia.
Georgia.

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It was Margaret.
Margaret.

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Yep.
And so she Ken also has a full

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name.
Well, actually two names, cuz I

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guess it's all that's all Ken
needs.

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So it's Kenneth Carson, Okay?
So he had appeared in 1961, and

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in February of 2004, Barbie and
Ken split up.

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That's what I mean when I sound
upset.

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Here we wait.
We have to redo it too.

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Okay, Hold on, let me okay.
I think.

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Oh yeah, here we go.
Okay.

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So as of 19.
Oh wait, hold on, what did I

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say?
Oh yeah, in February of 2004.

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Mattel announced that Barbie and
Ken split up, but in federally,

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officially, officially.
So they're just friends play in

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the fields.
Why did they do that?

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I just create a story and.
Probably, but also at during the

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time consciousness.
Can you blame Barbie?

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She had a.
Another male Sir Australian

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surfer came while Ker and Ken
were broken up.

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So she played that field, saw
experience, new things, did the

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things.
How interesting.

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She breaks up with Ken and then
meets an Australian surfer.

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I mean if there is one thing
that you would want to do.

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You'd want to meet an Australian
server.

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Like, I can't, I can't play
Barbie at all.

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Girl, get your get your thing.
Yeah, get your bag.

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Anyway, was he hotter than Ken?
I think he was pretty hot

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probably.
There's there have been so many

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iterations of Ken that like it
depends on which one.

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Yeah, right, right.
So in 2000.

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OK, so in 2006.
Wait, was he hotter than me?

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That's what.
Man, that's what I meant to say.

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Was he hotter than me?
What's his name?

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Gosh, I don't know what the
Australian one was called.

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We'll call him Bobby.
What's an Australian name?

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Bobby.
That was English.

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Nevermind.
Keep going.

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Crikey, Crikey.
Steve Arwin.

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Yeah, There you.
Go So in 2006, they were.

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Mattel was hoping that Barbie
and Ken would back together.

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Rekindle a relationship.
Meet halfway.

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Still dating Steve?
She was.

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She was seeing Steve.
Steve was.

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Steve was there, You know, she
was having a great time.

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Ken's like, what can I do to win
Barbie over?

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And he's like, I have to, I have
to have a makeover.

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Mattel gave him a makeover in
2006, hoping that this would be

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enough.
For the girl who has Everything

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Right didn't work.
So in 2011, Mattel launched a

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campaign for Ken to win Barbie's
affections back.

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Right.
OK.

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Barbie's living that single
life.

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She does not need any man
tethered to her Girls got a

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house in Malibu, She's got cars.
She has.

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She has a pool boy named Steve
who you know.

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Great.
He knows how to.

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He knows how to time, you know,
I don't know where I'm going.

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I know where I'm going with it,
but I'm going to stop shorts.

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So in in February, February
14th, Valentine's Day 2011, Ken

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and Barbie get back together.
They rekindle their

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relationship, which is great.
And and how is this announced?

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How does Mattel announce this
reunion?

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So like a big marketing
campaign?

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It must be a marketing campaign
that they just go through and

454
00:26:39,740 --> 00:26:42,820
they're like, right, Guess what?
You want a new Barbie, right?

455
00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:44,820
Barbie and Ken are back
together.

456
00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:46,220
The new Barb, The.
The.

457
00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:47,700
The.
Yeah, exactly.

458
00:26:47,780 --> 00:26:51,660
The happy couple Barbie, yeah.
Right.

459
00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:54,180
OK, So we talked about like
Barbie has a bigger family.

460
00:26:55,140 --> 00:26:58,620
She has three younger sisters,
Skipper, Stacy and Chelsea.

461
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:04,780
Chelsea was actually named Kelly
until 2011, but then she changed

462
00:27:04,780 --> 00:27:06,460
her name.
She didn't really like, you

463
00:27:06,460 --> 00:27:11,140
know, Kelsey or Kelly.
Who would Chelsea's better?

464
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:13,740
And then, sorry, Kelly.
Sorry about that.

465
00:27:14,940 --> 00:27:19,300
And then there are a couple of
retired members of Barbie's

466
00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:22,980
family.
She has Todd, which was Stacy's

467
00:27:22,980 --> 00:27:27,000
twin brother.
Stacy's twin brother, Todd Todd.

468
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,920
Yes, retired.
How?

469
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:36,960
He retired to Mongolia and is no
longer, so we don't even keep in

470
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,240
touch with Todd anymore.
He just.

471
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,480
Todd just kind of thought he's
like.

472
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:46,960
I need to go and find myself and
finding myself does not have

473
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,680
anything to do with my parents
or Wisconsin.

474
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,280
I'm going to Mongolia.
Yeah, I need to find myself, mom

475
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,080
and dad, so.
Then Chrissy was the baby

476
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,560
sister.
She had Francie, a cousin, and

477
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,840
she has multiple friends.
Hispanic Teresa.

478
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:11,330
My girl Midge.
An African American Christie

479
00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:14,010
Christie doll.
And then Steven is Christie's

480
00:28:14,010 --> 00:28:18,210
boyfriend.
So, oh, this was his name.

481
00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:21,890
His name was Blaine.
Blaine is the Australian surfer.

482
00:28:23,010 --> 00:28:27,010
So Barbie and Blaine.
I mean, I'm sorry, but what

483
00:28:27,010 --> 00:28:29,210
sounds better, Barbie and Blaine
or Barbie and Ken?

484
00:28:30,090 --> 00:28:33,490
Barbie and Ken.
Remains to be seen.

485
00:28:36,190 --> 00:28:37,510
Barbie.
Barbie playing your options.

486
00:28:37,510 --> 00:28:38,390
Barbie.
I'm playing BB.

487
00:28:38,990 --> 00:28:41,190
B.
Keep your options open, girl.

488
00:28:42,230 --> 00:28:50,030
So she's also had over 440 pets.
So cats, Dogs, a horse like High

489
00:28:50,030 --> 00:28:52,430
Stepper.
Oh yeah, Panda.

490
00:28:52,590 --> 00:28:54,910
She also had a lion cub, a
zebra.

491
00:28:55,270 --> 00:28:57,630
She's owned all the vehicles.
Wait a minute.

492
00:28:58,030 --> 00:29:03,550
Just a minute.
OK, you're telling me that

493
00:29:03,790 --> 00:29:12,200
Barbie had exotic animals?
Can you say Tiger King

494
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,560
crossover, right?
Exactly.

495
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,000
And how did she get them?
I want to know how she got

496
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,400
exotic animals.
Of course she can get anything

497
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,240
she wants.
She's Barbie.

498
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,520
She is.
Barbie Yeah, But was it?

499
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,240
Was it through ethical means?
This is a good question.

500
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,760
We need answers.
I'm gonna have to call my girl

501
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,000
Barbie up and see.
Excuse me?

502
00:29:36,390 --> 00:29:38,270
Hello Barbie, You're right.
Exactly.

503
00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:40,430
We need a plastic pink phone.
Barbie.

504
00:29:40,550 --> 00:29:49,510
Hi, Barbie.
So Barbie, yeah, she had a ton

505
00:29:49,510 --> 00:29:52,470
of She also had a bunch of cars,
as we know.

506
00:29:52,710 --> 00:29:54,070
Yes, Right.
Yes.

507
00:29:54,070 --> 00:29:59,080
So she had a pink bug, right?
Corvettes.

508
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:00,640
Convertibles.
Yes.

509
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,600
Trailers.
Jeeps.

510
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,680
Crowd.
Owner of the Jeep with the blue

511
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:12,080
tires she also own is a pilot.
She has a her pilot's license

512
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,200
and she can operate commercial
airliners as well as being a

513
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,240
flight attendant.
So could you imagine?

514
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,560
Well-rounded, She's incredibly
well-rounded, she.

515
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,000
Really, ultimately, the reason
that they started doing this was

516
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,880
they wanted to show children
that Barbie could be any,

517
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,600
anything.
She could be anything that she

518
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,850
wanted to be.
So a tiger king A.

519
00:30:38,050 --> 00:30:41,490
Tiger King or Queen?
Or or a flight attendant?

520
00:30:41,610 --> 00:30:45,690
Or a teacher?
She also was an astronaut and a

521
00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:49,330
doctor and even NASCAR Barbie.
Which is Oh yeah.

522
00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:53,970
That was the first thing I think
of when you say NASCAR Barbie is

523
00:30:54,210 --> 00:30:56,930
Ru Paul's Drag Race outfit.
Oh my gosh.

524
00:30:56,930 --> 00:30:59,010
Yes, with the red and the white
stripe, yes.

525
00:30:59,930 --> 00:31:03,970
Oh my God.
So, you know, as far as Barbie

526
00:31:03,970 --> 00:31:07,170
goes, she's really done it all.
I wanted to talk about some

527
00:31:07,890 --> 00:31:11,090
messed up Barbies in the history
of Barbie.

528
00:31:11,090 --> 00:31:12,890
Are they like legitimate
Barbies?

529
00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:15,210
Yes, yes, yes.
They're actual Barbies.

530
00:31:15,330 --> 00:31:19,450
Wow, that were made OK.
Do you recall any that are kind

531
00:31:19,450 --> 00:31:22,770
of strange?
I no, I don't.

532
00:31:22,770 --> 00:31:26,890
I do.
I feel like I remember

533
00:31:27,810 --> 00:31:31,810
discussions or something
happening about someone

534
00:31:31,810 --> 00:31:34,690
complain, not complaining, but
yeah, talking about a messed up

535
00:31:34,690 --> 00:31:38,930
Barbie and I, but I can't think
of what they are, OK?

536
00:31:39,130 --> 00:31:41,130
OK, this is a good one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this would be

537
00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:41,690
good.
This would be.

538
00:31:42,290 --> 00:31:45,010
Good Elvis and Priscilla
Presley.

539
00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:49,410
They did an Elvis and Priscilla
Presley Barbie for Let's see.

540
00:31:49,410 --> 00:31:53,570
I think it was like the one of
their wedding at anniversaries.

541
00:31:54,650 --> 00:32:00,540
This was in 2008.
And Graceland was like, yeah,

542
00:32:00,540 --> 00:32:01,540
we're down.
That's great.

543
00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,500
OK.
Do you know why this was so

544
00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:10,780
controversial?
Was it does have to do with

545
00:32:10,780 --> 00:32:14,180
their appearance?
No, Oh.

546
00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:17,780
So they looked great, Graceland
said.

547
00:32:17,780 --> 00:32:21,180
Yep, we're good.
It was because.

548
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,200
Do you know how old?
And this is like one that this

549
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,240
is a topic I want to talk about,
but Elvis started dating

550
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,960
Priscilla when she was like 14,
right?

551
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:39,760
Yeah and she so when they first
started dating was 14 I believe

552
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:43,120
when they got married she was
not much older like 16 or

553
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,440
something.
So and he also like during their

554
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,840
marriage he would give her like
drugs all the time.

555
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,270
It was like.
But of course he was doing

556
00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:54,150
drugs.
I'm not saying either one's

557
00:32:54,150 --> 00:32:58,470
right, but they had a fucked up
marriage that only lasted 6

558
00:32:58,470 --> 00:33:01,950
years.
So Barbie, you know Mattel

559
00:33:01,950 --> 00:33:06,230
company like doing this Barbie
commemorating their marriage is

560
00:33:06,230 --> 00:33:09,750
really bizarre when you look at
the structure of their

561
00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:14,270
relationship in general, like he
was incredibly controlling, was

562
00:33:14,270 --> 00:33:17,870
really into young, young girls.
And yeah, it was just kind of

563
00:33:17,870 --> 00:33:19,150
crazy.
So that's an that's.

564
00:33:19,150 --> 00:33:22,590
So that takes me back to what I
was talking about before.

565
00:33:22,590 --> 00:33:25,950
Like, I would have put that
together in my mind.

566
00:33:25,950 --> 00:33:27,630
Like, I would have been, oh,
it's Elvis and Priscilla.

567
00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:28,870
We all know who.
Elvis and Priscilla.

568
00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:32,150
Yeah.
Yeah, famous celebrity couple.

569
00:33:32,270 --> 00:33:37,150
He dressed in like some
bedazzled shits, perfect doll

570
00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:39,870
outfits.
Like that's where my mind goes

571
00:33:39,870 --> 00:33:43,990
Priscilla was beautiful with her
winged eyelined eyes and her big

572
00:33:43,990 --> 00:33:46,030
beehive hair.
I mean, like this is all like,

573
00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:51,140
yeah, that's where my mind goes.
But people really go into like

574
00:33:51,140 --> 00:33:56,060
the again, like the
unmenstratable Barbie people go

575
00:33:56,100 --> 00:34:00,140
into oh, she got married when
she was 14 and they they kind of

576
00:34:00,140 --> 00:34:03,660
get offended.
I mean, I understand I love the

577
00:34:03,660 --> 00:34:09,260
fashion of Priscilla and Elvis,
but at the same time, like I do

578
00:34:09,260 --> 00:34:13,540
understand the the.
The thought process of, like, he

579
00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:16,620
was potentially abusive, like
drugging her when she was like

580
00:34:16,620 --> 00:34:19,620
16 years old, you know, like
while they're in her, while

581
00:34:19,620 --> 00:34:22,219
they're married, Yeah, he had a
child bride.

582
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:26,940
Like, I do understand the claims
glamorizing people who really

583
00:34:26,940 --> 00:34:31,020
don't morally, who are just.
Not super crop great.

584
00:34:31,139 --> 00:34:32,219
Yeah.
Yeah.

585
00:34:32,219 --> 00:34:34,980
And and saying like, oh look at
this great marriage.

586
00:34:34,980 --> 00:34:40,360
Like, cuz it wasn't just like.
Elvis and Priscilla.

587
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,199
It was Elvis and Priscilla on
their wedding, so it was really

588
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:48,159
celebrating the marriage itself
and that union, when in reality,

589
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,440
those were pretty dark years for
her.

590
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,679
Yeah.
OK, Yeah, so I get.

591
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,280
It I get both.
I get both sides.

592
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,200
I at the same time you know they
have other Barbies which of

593
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,360
course they would have a Barbie
that would be like.

594
00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:07,220
Tan Barbie, like super Tan
Barbie.

595
00:35:07,220 --> 00:35:11,420
They had one called Sun Gold
Malibu Barbie.

596
00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:16,300
So she was like brown, brown,
brown and she had like gold

597
00:35:16,340 --> 00:35:20,060
outfit and they had a skipper
Sun Gold Barbie.

598
00:35:21,860 --> 00:35:27,260
But they're like, OK, cool,
she's super tan Melanoma.

599
00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:30,460
So they pulled the the Barbie.
They pulled the Barbie it was

600
00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:33,580
they released in 1983.
And then?

601
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:37,720
And then they quickly took it
off the market because people

602
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:39,920
were were weird about it.
That one.

603
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,400
I'm like, of course you'd have a
tan Barbie.

604
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:45,120
It's kind of silly, but it was
very controversial in Barbie's

605
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,040
time.
OK, I know I'm.

606
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,880
Struggling.
It's a bit much.

607
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,280
Another struggle bus is like
wash and watch Barbie.

608
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,710
So she had a dishwasher.
And like, it was like a kitchen

609
00:35:56,710 --> 00:35:59,630
with a dishwasher and a chair.
And like she had like all of her

610
00:35:59,630 --> 00:36:03,070
little like a KitchenAid and
stuff, so you could put all the

611
00:36:03,390 --> 00:36:06,430
utensils inside of the
dishwasher and like, have it

612
00:36:06,430 --> 00:36:09,510
wash the dishes.
And people like, uh, shouldn't,

613
00:36:09,510 --> 00:36:11,630
shouldn't these girls like, who
are playing with Barbie,

614
00:36:11,630 --> 00:36:13,950
shouldn't they want to do a
little bit more than just wash

615
00:36:13,950 --> 00:36:15,230
dishes?
And I'm like, fuck that.

616
00:36:15,430 --> 00:36:18,150
We loved that as kids.
Like now I'm getting irritated.

617
00:36:18,150 --> 00:36:22,390
Yes, OK.
Tell me because like you're it's

618
00:36:22,390 --> 00:36:27,800
a it's part of a world.
Like maybe I really even want a

619
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,080
bathroom in a shower.
Yeah, maybe I would want yeah, a

620
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:36,040
kitchen with a dishwasher or I
don't freaking know, like it's a

621
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,960
world.
Like, it's as a kid, like you're

622
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,640
getting to be an adult and wash
dishes in a.

623
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,320
Dishwasher.
And you know what I mean.

624
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,280
Yeah, it's it's interacting with
the world around Jill and

625
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,760
figuring, yeah, gosh darn it,
OK.

626
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,710
So they.
Back in the day, one of the OG

627
00:36:53,710 --> 00:36:57,910
like accessory bits that you
could get was this like

628
00:36:57,910 --> 00:37:03,750
sleepover, like Barbie accessory
pack and it had like a robe and

629
00:37:04,590 --> 00:37:09,390
little like slippers and Pj's
and like a, you know, mirror.

630
00:37:09,870 --> 00:37:17,670
It also had a book that said how
to lose weight and it had a

631
00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:20,770
scale.
And the scale was permanently It

632
00:37:20,770 --> 00:37:22,810
was a pink of of course
everything's pink, yeah.

633
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:26,770
And the scale was like,
permanently affixed to 110

634
00:37:26,770 --> 00:37:35,770
pounds.
Oh yeah, yeah.

635
00:37:35,770 --> 00:37:37,530
I don't know that that's
appropriate.

636
00:37:37,610 --> 00:37:40,450
No for a child.
No.

637
00:37:40,450 --> 00:37:44,650
How to lose weight book and then
like yeah.

638
00:37:44,970 --> 00:37:47,840
It being 110 pounds.
Yeah.

639
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,120
Now I think we're getting.
Yeah, now we're getting into the

640
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,720
not so cool zone.
Like, yeah, like, I get about

641
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,040
trying to mimic life, but like,
you wouldn't have a murderer,

642
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,800
Barbie, or you wouldn't have a
Yeah, although you made.

643
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,120
I did.
Kidnapped by I was a murderer.

644
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:07,120
Barbie.
Oh, we killed people all the

645
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,400
time.
Yeah.

646
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,840
But I mean, exactly not.
Yeah, you wouldn't have anorexic

647
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,760
Barbie or alemic Barbie.
Yeah, that would be.

648
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,160
That's terrible.
And that's.

649
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,880
Basically, and that's really
what that was.

650
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,000
Yeah, that's exactly what it
was.

651
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,040
That's not good.
Yeah, no.

652
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,480
So it so people uproared on that
one.

653
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,400
Yeah, yeah.
Which I mean, I, I don't know at

654
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,440
the time if they were super,
like, upset about it, but then

655
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,800
later they're like on the spot.
Yeah.

656
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,120
It's the culture, yeah.
Yeah, totally.

657
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,680
They Barbie.
Also, I told you she had all

658
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,720
these pets.
They had a dog that would poop.

659
00:38:41,930 --> 00:38:45,290
And Barbie could, like, pick up
the poop in a poop bag.

660
00:38:46,130 --> 00:38:49,250
Like little there's like a
little, the little thing that

661
00:38:49,250 --> 00:38:52,930
you pick up the poop with like a
little clip and and the dog.

662
00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:55,210
Like, you could push the tail
and like poop would come out of

663
00:38:55,210 --> 00:38:58,890
it, which I think is hilarious
is hilarious, but.

664
00:38:59,090 --> 00:39:00,930
People are like, this is a
little weird.

665
00:39:01,650 --> 00:39:03,650
It's like, yeah, of course it's
weird, but what?

666
00:39:03,650 --> 00:39:07,050
Kids have animals, sure.
And they're having to pick up

667
00:39:07,050 --> 00:39:08,290
poop.
Yeah, exactly.

668
00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:09,850
Be responsible.
They're reacting.

669
00:39:09,890 --> 00:39:11,810
Pet Dogs poop.
Yes, yeah.

670
00:39:11,930 --> 00:39:15,410
Yeah, there was OK.
There was another one.

671
00:39:16,490 --> 00:39:18,170
Really great idea.
OK.

672
00:39:18,410 --> 00:39:20,850
It was called Share A Smile,
Becky.

673
00:39:21,050 --> 00:39:27,530
Share a smile, Becky.
So this was Becky was one of.

674
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,160
Barbie's friends, a shortly
lived friend and you'll find out

675
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,880
why.
So the idea is like, you know,

676
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,800
she had a friendship necklace
that, you know, you, Becky could

677
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,960
wear and you'd share it with
Barbie.

678
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,520
And she was in a wheelchair, so
she didn't have, she wasn't

679
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,400
able.
She was like a, what is it?

680
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,640
Paraplegic.
Yeah, Barbie.

681
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:56,020
And her wheelchair was, you
know, had a pink seat and like,

682
00:39:56,140 --> 00:39:59,900
you know, purple metal on it.
Super cute.

683
00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:07,180
But it didn't fit in any of the
Barbie like the dream houses so

684
00:40:07,180 --> 00:40:08,940
you.
So.

685
00:40:10,660 --> 00:40:13,700
Like she couldn't.
Like if you were playing with

686
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:17,880
her in Barbie's house, like.
Her wheelchair could not get

687
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,080
through any of the doors, which
is hilarious accessible.

688
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,000
Inaccessible.
That's that.

689
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:29,000
People are like, oh, you mean
inaccessible Barbie, Which is

690
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,160
funny.
Of course, they didn't think

691
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,000
about that, right?
Like, they're not like, oh, this

692
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,560
needs to fit in there.
But that was pulled pretty

693
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:35,880
quick.
I believe that.

694
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,480
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They also had like a Barbie that

695
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,000
would like you could tattoo her.
So and she had like, I think I

696
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,720
remember and does it like could
you wash it off or disappear?

697
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,040
Yeah, it was like temporary
tattoos.

698
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,040
You could tattoo on her, you
could tattoo on yourself.

699
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,560
But it was like, it was called
Totally styling tattoos.

700
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,040
And there was one tattoo that
was like a tramp stamp, but it

701
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,920
had like like a heart.
And it said Ken's name inside

702
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,080
the heart on the tramp stamp.
It's hilarious.

703
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,680
You'll see.
You'll see it in the show notes.

704
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,640
But people are like HM.
Now that there's anything wrong

705
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,040
with like, tattoos, but like,
that's a little fucking weird.

706
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,040
That's a little bizarre.
They had kissing Barbie, which

707
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,240
was a little weird so you could
like, you know, put.

708
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,490
I think it was like if.
She had like a cold, like

709
00:41:26,490 --> 00:41:28,890
temperature change.
She'd have lipstick.

710
00:41:28,890 --> 00:41:31,450
Or like you could take the
lipstick off, or whatever It was

711
00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:34,010
called Totally kissing Barbie,
the doll who kisses.

712
00:41:34,410 --> 00:41:37,170
And so you were these dolls the
same regular size, Cuz those

713
00:41:37,170 --> 00:41:39,530
lips are teeny teeny teeny tiny
tiny tiny.

714
00:41:39,730 --> 00:41:41,130
They were, yeah.
They're teeny tiny.

715
00:41:41,170 --> 00:41:43,530
So these were they.
These were all the same size

716
00:41:43,530 --> 00:41:45,050
Barbies like the original.
They're not.

717
00:41:45,050 --> 00:41:46,930
Weren't like bigger or anything,
right?

718
00:41:46,930 --> 00:41:48,690
Well, it was the same size.
Barbie.

719
00:41:48,690 --> 00:41:50,770
Yeah, OK.
She had a button on her back

720
00:41:50,810 --> 00:41:53,530
that if you push on on her back,
she would lurch forward like she

721
00:41:53,530 --> 00:41:59,250
was kissing.
Saying like gotcha, but also it

722
00:41:59,250 --> 00:42:01,450
had lipstick with it.
So you could put lipstick on her

723
00:42:01,690 --> 00:42:03,890
okay and she would kiss okay.
Yeah, Ken.

724
00:42:03,890 --> 00:42:05,850
All right, well, that's.
But it was a little weird.

725
00:42:05,850 --> 00:42:09,450
That's all they did.
They also had a fucking Oreo

726
00:42:09,450 --> 00:42:12,450
Barbie.
Oreo Barbie.

727
00:42:12,570 --> 00:42:20,810
Why would this be offensive?
Well, it could be misconstrued I

728
00:42:20,810 --> 00:42:27,460
think as skin tone.
Yes, it was a black Barbie.

729
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:32,020
Oreo Barbie was a black Barbie.
Why was it called Oreo Barbie?

730
00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:34,580
Cuz they like partnered with
Oreo?

731
00:42:34,580 --> 00:42:36,100
Like the company?
Oh.

732
00:42:36,140 --> 00:42:38,780
Nabisco was they who thought
that through.

733
00:42:39,060 --> 00:42:41,300
They did.
They clearly did not think it

734
00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:44,180
through at all, at all.
They did not think it through.

735
00:42:44,860 --> 00:42:47,180
And so like, see, I was thinking
when you said Oreo Barbie, I was

736
00:42:47,180 --> 00:42:52,070
thinking oh it was like a white
person and a black person dating

737
00:42:52,070 --> 00:42:57,590
or something.
It could be derogative.

738
00:42:52,510 --> 00:42:55,950
You know how they called 3
threesome, right?

739
00:42:57,630 --> 00:43:00,590
That's exactly right.
And if if somebody had pitched

740
00:43:00,590 --> 00:43:06,310
that to me instantly, I mean, I
would have instantly said no,

741
00:43:07,270 --> 00:43:09,590
no.
We can do Teddy Graham Barbie

742
00:43:09,630 --> 00:43:14,430
Okay or like or like a circus
animal Cookie Barbie.

743
00:43:14,470 --> 00:43:18,510
Let's not do Oreo Barbie, Okay.
And let's not make her black

744
00:43:18,510 --> 00:43:21,180
like this is weird.
Super weird.

745
00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:22,980
We're just trying to be
inclusive.

746
00:43:23,460 --> 00:43:24,300
No?
Do it.

747
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:25,420
Right.
Do it right.

748
00:43:25,660 --> 00:43:26,460
Do better.
Yeah.

749
00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:31,300
So it was like, bad, bad, bad,
bad.

750
00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:34,300
And they had no idea they were
so like, out of touch.

751
00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:37,340
That Oreo is a drop of term, so
out of touch.

752
00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:41,020
So nobody wanted an Oreo?
An Oreo Barbie?

753
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:43,220
Of course not.
But I wonder how much they are

754
00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:46,340
on eBay now, because they're
probably weren't a ton that were

755
00:43:46,340 --> 00:43:48,780
actually sold and they, like,
had recalled a bunch of them.

756
00:43:49,410 --> 00:43:52,650
So if people actually have the
Oreo Barbie, I'm sure she's

757
00:43:52,650 --> 00:43:56,050
worth a bunch.
Well, yeah, be a rare, a rare

758
00:43:56,050 --> 00:44:03,050
thing.
Another Barbie that we had was,

759
00:44:03,650 --> 00:44:05,330
OK, let me see.
I was trying to find this one.

760
00:44:06,370 --> 00:44:10,690
OK they had like romance novel.
Like there was like a romance

761
00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:13,810
novel Barbie, so like the
Raider.

762
00:44:14,050 --> 00:44:17,450
So it was.
The story was let me see.

763
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,120
Let me just read.
Yeah, go ahead.

764
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,880
Let me read to you.
So it was like one of those

765
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,640
Specialty Barbies.
OK, I knew you'd understand.

766
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,760
What the Raider and I have goes
beyond more mere passion.

767
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,360
It's a meeting of the minds.
Oh, Alex, I wish I could forget

768
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,600
him.
Would you kiss me again?

769
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,840
Try to make me forget.
So that's the excerpt of Jude

770
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:45,840
Deveraux's super cheesy romance
novel that came out in 1987

771
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,910
called The Raider.
And that is on the box of this

772
00:44:49,910 --> 00:44:54,790
2003 Special Collectors edition
Barbie and she has the Raider

773
00:44:54,790 --> 00:44:58,510
and he has like this like dark
black hair and like of course

774
00:44:58,510 --> 00:45:04,350
the open like white shirt and
and like with the longer lapels

775
00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:07,910
and kind of puffy sleeves.
And then she has the the

776
00:45:07,910 --> 00:45:11,110
beautiful like dress with like
puffy sleeves off the side.

777
00:45:11,110 --> 00:45:15,190
And I mean it's like so
ridiculous and people like

778
00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:16,590
should we really be doing this?
But.

779
00:45:16,990 --> 00:45:19,630
Honestly, I think it's hilarious
in camp and I'm all for it.

780
00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:23,870
So they look like a cover of.
A romance novel.

781
00:45:23,870 --> 00:45:26,910
A cheesy romance novel.
Yes, exactly.

782
00:45:29,350 --> 00:45:33,870
OK, this is a pretty weird one,
but I can only imagine being on

783
00:45:33,870 --> 00:45:37,230
the the floor, like, where
they're trying to talk about.

784
00:45:37,510 --> 00:45:39,430
OK, what kind of new Barbie
we're going to come up with?

785
00:45:39,990 --> 00:45:41,990
What is?
What does every girl, like, go

786
00:45:41,990 --> 00:45:43,430
through?
Like, what are some things that,

787
00:45:43,430 --> 00:45:46,430
like, girls want to see?
Oh.

788
00:45:47,010 --> 00:45:51,170
A skipper that looks just like
me, that grows up just like me.

789
00:45:52,090 --> 00:45:57,770
So on the packaging it says cute
little girl and then she can

790
00:45:57,770 --> 00:46:04,010
morph into tall, curvy teenager.
So wait a minute.

791
00:46:04,090 --> 00:46:06,090
Yes, puberty.
This is like they're talking

792
00:46:06,090 --> 00:46:07,770
about going through puberty.
Yes.

793
00:46:08,330 --> 00:46:10,410
Yeah.
So they have, Skipper.

794
00:46:11,450 --> 00:46:13,770
They wanted to do growing up
Skipper.

795
00:46:14,750 --> 00:46:21,430
And in 1975, when she was first
introduced in 1964, you know,

796
00:46:21,430 --> 00:46:25,150
they wanted to make her look
slightly different.

797
00:46:25,710 --> 00:46:29,350
She had, you know, bang stuff
like that different from Barbie,

798
00:46:29,470 --> 00:46:32,070
right.
But this book or this one came

799
00:46:32,070 --> 00:46:38,910
out in 1965 or 1975 and what you
what you could do is you would

800
00:46:38,950 --> 00:46:44,470
twist Skipper's arm.
And her torso would stretch and

801
00:46:44,470 --> 00:46:48,310
cause her stretch up an inch and
cause her to be taller, and then

802
00:46:48,310 --> 00:46:53,230
her chest would fill out so she
she would she'd gain boobs and

803
00:46:53,230 --> 00:46:55,310
then grow taller.
Oh my God.

804
00:46:56,950 --> 00:47:00,310
And you could reverse it too, so
you could be like, oh, today

805
00:47:00,310 --> 00:47:01,750
she's puberty.
Nope.

806
00:47:01,750 --> 00:47:05,550
Tomorrow she's a kid again, so
you could go back and forward in

807
00:47:05,550 --> 00:47:09,830
time.
That can't be a common bar item.

808
00:47:10,860 --> 00:47:12,300
Have you seen?
It before, I haven't.

809
00:47:12,580 --> 00:47:14,540
I've heard of it, but I've never
seen one.

810
00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:18,220
This was back in the 70s when it
had come out, so I wonder if

811
00:47:18,260 --> 00:47:22,620
it's if it's really like around
a lot like now.

812
00:47:22,780 --> 00:47:26,860
I'm sure it's worth a lot.
I remember this Barbie.

813
00:47:27,180 --> 00:47:33,940
They've done another Barbie like
multiple times with being like

814
00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:37,650
them being pregnant.
So like Barbie expecting OK,

815
00:47:37,810 --> 00:47:41,090
like the first iteration, you'll
see it in their show notes, it

816
00:47:41,090 --> 00:47:44,330
has like a baby upside down.
And Barbie's stomach, like

817
00:47:44,330 --> 00:47:47,850
there's like a hole in Barbie's
stomach so you can see the baby.

818
00:47:47,850 --> 00:47:49,890
So you can see the baby and pull
it out.

819
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:54,140
And then there's another one
that's Midge and Baby.

820
00:47:54,140 --> 00:47:57,820
So you have Barbie and then you
have Midge and Baby, where Midge

821
00:47:57,820 --> 00:48:01,420
is like expecting and she has
like a specific outfit that like

822
00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:03,420
looks like a Mumu or something
like that on.

823
00:48:05,060 --> 00:48:11,100
But yeah, it was.
It was released in 2003 that

824
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:14,820
they had pregnant versions of
Midge and Barbie.

825
00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:19,970
So they had, you know, hollow
centers and they were stuffed

826
00:48:19,970 --> 00:48:23,370
with a magnetic belly.
You can remove them, the belly,

827
00:48:24,050 --> 00:48:26,650
remove the actual belly.
And then, Oh yeah, of course,

828
00:48:26,930 --> 00:48:30,330
her belly's super flat.
When when she's done.

829
00:48:30,970 --> 00:48:34,010
Yeah, exactly.
So, you know, those are a few.

830
00:48:34,010 --> 00:48:39,690
You had hinted at one Barbie and
it was actually Ken doll.

831
00:48:39,850 --> 00:48:41,290
There are a couple of weird Ken
dolls.

832
00:48:41,290 --> 00:48:44,770
One of them being there was a
total like shaving Ken.

833
00:48:45,220 --> 00:48:47,500
And I remember my friend had
this one and I thought this Ken

834
00:48:47,500 --> 00:48:50,460
was like the hottest.
And he had like fake hair, like,

835
00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:52,100
actual like hair coming out.
Yeah.

836
00:48:52,540 --> 00:48:56,300
And then he had a goatee and you
could shave his face with like

837
00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,940
using warm water or something
and it would make it go away,

838
00:48:58,940 --> 00:49:00,940
yes, but then would grow but
come back, Yes.

839
00:49:01,180 --> 00:49:02,740
Yes.
Yes, you could.

840
00:49:02,860 --> 00:49:04,300
Yes, you could do that.
So that was one.

841
00:49:04,660 --> 00:49:06,820
Yeah.
And then the other one was, like

842
00:49:06,820 --> 00:49:08,620
you said, gay Ken.
Yeah.

843
00:49:08,820 --> 00:49:11,580
So in the 90s they released
another Ken doll.

844
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,720
And they're like, how can we get
like we need to sell more Ken

845
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:18,320
dolls.
How can we make Ken cool to to

846
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:22,600
have girls want to try to to buy
Ken, Ken dolls?

847
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,200
Because Barbies, we don't have a
problem with Ken.

848
00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:27,720
We need to don't really
necessarily want the Kens.

849
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,360
Yeah, you have one Ken or two
Kens and like, really, do you

850
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,360
need anymore?
I mean, Barbie says no.

851
00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:37,140
But so.
So you would have, They're

852
00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:39,500
trying to, like, talk about, OK,
what can we do to make Ken more

853
00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:41,860
interesting?
Let's give him highlights.

854
00:49:42,180 --> 00:49:44,020
OK, so we have Ken with
highlights.

855
00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:46,260
OK What else can we do that'll
make him cute?

856
00:49:46,660 --> 00:49:48,660
Well, let's have him be, like,
super fashionable.

857
00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:50,380
OK, what's fashionable right
now?

858
00:49:50,620 --> 00:49:52,420
Like a mesh shirt.
Let's do, like, a mesh

859
00:49:52,420 --> 00:49:56,020
fluorescent shirt.
Put on a mesh fluorescent shirt.

860
00:49:56,420 --> 00:49:59,460
Let's give him an ear piercing.
So they give him an ear

861
00:49:59,460 --> 00:50:01,820
piercing.
Ken comes out.

862
00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:06,900
And it doesn't do super well
like, but it does do super well

863
00:50:07,220 --> 00:50:10,220
among one group of people.
I wonder.

864
00:50:10,380 --> 00:50:12,740
Which one would you think I'm
going to have to guess is

865
00:50:12,740 --> 00:50:17,660
probably the gay boys.
They're like a gay Ken.

866
00:50:17,660 --> 00:50:20,540
We're done.
So, like, so they were buying

867
00:50:20,540 --> 00:50:21,780
them.
They're like, this is gay Ken.

868
00:50:21,780 --> 00:50:25,060
And like, word got out, they're
like, this is gay Ken.

869
00:50:25,300 --> 00:50:26,940
And so Mattel's like, Oh my
gosh, we didn't.

870
00:50:27,350 --> 00:50:30,710
No, we didn't mean these are the
same creators of the Oreo

871
00:50:30,710 --> 00:50:32,310
Barbie.
Exactly.

872
00:50:32,310 --> 00:50:34,950
I was just gonna say these
people, some are just absolutely

873
00:50:34,950 --> 00:50:36,550
clueless.
They're so clueless.

874
00:50:37,070 --> 00:50:38,990
They're so clueless.
Actual health.

875
00:50:39,070 --> 00:50:42,270
So this they repackage it with
like rainbows and stuff or no?

876
00:50:42,670 --> 00:50:45,630
No, they like they they stopped
with that version of Ken.

877
00:50:45,630 --> 00:50:50,230
They did so because I it was
still like kind of you know

878
00:50:50,230 --> 00:50:53,590
during that well, yeah.
And like the egg AIDS epidemic

879
00:50:53,590 --> 00:50:57,580
was going on, so you know.
That was not something they

880
00:50:57,580 --> 00:50:59,420
wanted to associate their brands
with.

881
00:50:59,980 --> 00:51:05,460
But you can still find that Ken
and that Ken fetches a pretty

882
00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:09,180
penny, pretty penny.
But he has like great

883
00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:14,860
highlighted hair, like his, like
his fashions on on the mesh

884
00:51:14,860 --> 00:51:18,340
shirt and the earring.
And the earring and the like.

885
00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:22,020
All of them together.
It's just it's great on the

886
00:51:22,020 --> 00:51:24,220
nose.
So Barbie's had a pretty like,

887
00:51:24,220 --> 00:51:27,700
long and illustrious life.
My God, you know what's

888
00:51:27,700 --> 00:51:31,300
brilliant about this whole thing
and like I said it earlier, is

889
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:37,900
that sky is the limit because
the world, it's a world.

890
00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:47,480
And they could, you know, I
don't know, Cool Shark Barbie,

891
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:48,960
You know what I'm saying?
Like it could be.

892
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,760
Yes, anything.
Darts Barbie, Tennis Barbie.

893
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,280
I'm sure they've already done
that Peanut butter and Jelly

894
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,640
Barbie.
But just don't make her brown

895
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,760
and red or something because
that's like really weird.

896
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,120
Like you could really, the sky
is the limit.

897
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,280
You could do anything.
They had have computer

898
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,440
programmer Barbie like that's a
Barbie.

899
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,520
As times changing.
Barbie's consistently changing,

900
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:13,760
right.
So.

901
00:52:14,420 --> 00:52:21,340
The sky really is the limit, and
I like just researching Barbie

902
00:52:21,340 --> 00:52:25,620
in general, like I knew how
prolific Barbie was, but I'm

903
00:52:25,620 --> 00:52:30,230
learning more and more how much.
Everyone has had some kind of

904
00:52:30,230 --> 00:52:33,390
story with Barbie and has
special moments with it.

905
00:52:33,470 --> 00:52:37,790
Like, for instance, Dave, he
used to cut his sister's Barbie

906
00:52:37,790 --> 00:52:40,830
hands off, like just because he
was an asshole, right?

907
00:52:41,510 --> 00:52:45,270
I'm sure there are so many,
like, men who tortured their,

908
00:52:45,270 --> 00:52:50,030
you know, their sisters or, you
know, siblings with their

909
00:52:50,030 --> 00:52:53,670
Barbies, tore the head off.
And then like, anytime you try

910
00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:56,350
putting the head back on, it's
like her head was like this and

911
00:52:56,350 --> 00:52:58,670
you're like.
This is like not a good Barbie

912
00:52:58,670 --> 00:53:00,230
to play with.
That sucks.

913
00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:02,110
I remember crying because of
that.

914
00:53:02,350 --> 00:53:06,510
But like, you know, we all have
these like, you know, very

915
00:53:06,510 --> 00:53:10,350
personal stories with Barbie and
you can say what you want to say

916
00:53:10,350 --> 00:53:13,190
about like, you know, the
dimensions of her body and like

917
00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:15,390
how this is an issue and
problematic.

918
00:53:16,510 --> 00:53:21,790
Barbie has shown girls that they
can be and do anything and I

919
00:53:21,790 --> 00:53:23,310
think that that's great.
I don't.

920
00:53:23,310 --> 00:53:26,710
I think that we should focus on
that rather than focusing on

921
00:53:26,710 --> 00:53:29,110
what, Barbie?
Barbies outward appearances.

922
00:53:29,510 --> 00:53:32,870
Let some things just be for
vanity's sake.

923
00:53:32,870 --> 00:53:36,310
Yeah, I used to love just
changing my Barbie doll and like

924
00:53:36,310 --> 00:53:40,110
having her go to, you know a
restaurant in a different outfit

925
00:53:40,110 --> 00:53:42,790
and like seeing how to match
things.

926
00:53:42,790 --> 00:53:45,230
Like it can just be that and
right.

927
00:53:45,750 --> 00:53:49,550
Like dress up and fun.
It doesn't need to be like.

928
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:53,520
This ultimate, you know,
experience where everything's

929
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:58,680
morally, like, perfect, you can
just be vapid and shallow and

930
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,480
fun, right?
And that's what Barbies for.

931
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,720
And then make believe and just,
yeah, fantasy of.

932
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:07,920
It playing out, you know, match
reality, yeah, does not have to

933
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,760
match reality.
You can play out an exorcism

934
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,280
with your Barbies.
You can kid.

935
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,520
Clearly they can be kidnapped
and tied up so they don't hurt

936
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,720
themselves.
You can steal things from your

937
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:19,080
Barbie Friends.
Exactly.

938
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,040
Steal their man like in Oh my
God, Like a Soap opera.

939
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,000
Please tell me what that says
about me.

940
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,120
Wow, that you're creative.
Thank you.

941
00:54:30,190 --> 00:54:33,030
I thought it said that there was
something really, really wrong

942
00:54:33,030 --> 00:54:34,990
with me.
If you guys have have had that

943
00:54:34,990 --> 00:54:37,550
experience or done some messed
up things with Barbie, let us

944
00:54:37,550 --> 00:54:39,510
know.
Go on to the bizarre AF I

945
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:42,110
would.com here Store Barbie.
Story.

946
00:54:42,230 --> 00:54:45,750
Leave a message and tell us.
I want to hear.

947
00:54:45,750 --> 00:54:49,310
I would love to just like,
listen, like have another Barbie

948
00:54:49,310 --> 00:54:52,500
like.
You know, sneak and listen to

949
00:54:52,580 --> 00:54:54,540
what people used to do with
their Barbies.

950
00:54:54,580 --> 00:54:56,180
Yeah.
Yes, please tell me I'm not

951
00:54:56,180 --> 00:54:58,340
alone.
There is no way, girl.

952
00:54:58,780 --> 00:55:01,180
I promise you, there's no way.
Good.

953
00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:03,100
But thank you for today's
episode.

954
00:55:03,100 --> 00:55:05,660
Yeah, it was a super fun, fun,
fun episode.

955
00:55:06,060 --> 00:55:07,780
Yeah.
So you guys, don't forget to

956
00:55:07,780 --> 00:55:10,260
visit us at our website,
thebizarreaf.com.

957
00:55:10,260 --> 00:55:14,860
And you can watch us on Spotify,
watch us on YouTube, and listen

958
00:55:14,860 --> 00:55:16,660
to us on to us on all the
platforms.

959
00:55:16,660 --> 00:55:18,820
Yeah, rate, Rate.
Wherever you're listening.

960
00:55:18,940 --> 00:55:22,940
Yeah, thumbs up and as many
stars as you want to.

961
00:55:23,300 --> 00:55:30,340
Also, we're on all social media.
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962
00:55:30,340 --> 00:55:33,660
name it, it's the Bizarre F
That's right, do some fun little

963
00:55:33,660 --> 00:55:35,420
things on TikTok every once in a
while.

964
00:55:35,420 --> 00:55:37,100
So yeah, check us out and read
us.

965
00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:39,860
Alrighty, Ken.
Thanks, Barbie.

966
00:55:39,860 --> 00:55:41,380
Thanks, Ken.
See ya.

967
00:55:41,660 --> 00:55:42,780
See ya.
Bye.