WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:45.799 Oh bed of that air, no bed of Hello, and 2 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:50.560 welcome to the show. This is the Cult of Conspiracy 3 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:54.359 and my name is Jonathan, I'm Jacob and Jacob we're 4 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:58.479 going to be talking about something very off the wall today, sir. 5 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.439 Aren't we We are. We're gonna take a little blast 6 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:02.200 of the past here. 7 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.000 And before I even begin, I do want to apologize 8 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.840 about my scratchy voice, still recovering from a weekend of 9 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:10.920 screaming into Bautry. So just bury with me on the 10 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.200 scratchy voice and all the things. So while I was 11 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:16.519 out and about, going back and forth between Philly and 12 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:18.840 d C. And on the drive home, you know, we 13 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.560 were kind of chit chatting about toys from the past 14 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.280 and some of the ones that are very remnant of 15 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:28.319 our nineties childhood and all these things. Beanie babies came up, 16 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:31.920 and you know, there was a whole connection between them 17 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.159 and the death of Princess Diana. They even had like 18 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.560 a special run beanie baby in honor of her. 19 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.920 That was a whole thing. But you know that wasn't 20 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.400 the craziest thing. You remember the Ferbie. 21 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.560 Do you know, Jonathan, Oh yeah, dude, Ferbi's were awesome. 22 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:50.239 What was it like ninety nine, two thousand, somewhere in there. 23 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.000 Yeah, well, they originally came out in ninety eight. 24 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.840 They didn't really take off till ninety nine, and then 25 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.920 by the early two thousands they were the hottest toy. 26 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.079 That's what kids were losing their shit over in the 27 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:03.120 early or late nineties. 28 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:04.159 Early two thousands. 29 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.120 Always reminded me of a gremlin, those fucking things. 30 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:10.680 Yes, yes, agreed. And I didn't know that they were 31 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.759 so popular that they were even mentioned within President Bill 32 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:16.680 Clinton's impeachment hearings. 33 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:19.280 Why did they get a nod during that time? It 34 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:22.319 doesn't fucking matter. The nineties were a wild wasteland when 35 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.840 it comes to toys and capitalism and consumerism and all 36 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:28.560 the ads in your face at all time. We're actually 37 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:30.560 gonna be watching some of the old Ferbie commercials. Now, 38 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.719 it's gonna take you back. But yeah, just wild things, right. 39 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:37.680 But nostalgia with the nineties, dude, it really is. I mean, 40 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.199 in the nineties anyway, for us. 41 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:40.840 It's nostalgia. 42 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:42.840 But even if you talk to our parents' generation, who 43 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.960 were adults raising children in the nineties, they have their 44 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.639 own form of nostalgia when it comes to the nineties. 45 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.199 They remember, It's like we were as weird as that sounds. 46 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.560 We were living in the same era but in different 47 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.159 vanaged points. But there were certain keynotes that still resonate 48 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:01.039 regardless of what generation you found yoursel if you were 49 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:04.319 alive during the nineties, which I think is cool. But 50 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.639 then as we were talking about the Ferby, I realized, yeah, 51 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.039 I've heard a thing or two about them though, right 52 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.199 the fact that like some people thought they were sentient, 53 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.879 some people thought this was the first introduction into AI 54 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:18.560 because they were able to respond to you and learn 55 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.680 from you, and at the time, no toy was able 56 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.280 to learn based off of sound or anything like that. 57 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.800 When you first got the toy, you would start to 58 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:28.039 hear it speak. 59 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:30.719 In like a baby talk for lack of better words, 60 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:32.800 little sounds and little things that didn't make sense, like 61 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.360 a Pokemon. But after so long, it would start answering 62 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.199 you in English and it would start responding to you 63 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:43.479 in English, which means that it could learn. And that 64 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:46.479 also means that it had a microphone that were in 65 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:48.800 a recording device that was able to listen to you, 66 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.400 take in what you were saying, and then give you 67 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:55.639 something back, which is why the NSA, the Pentagon, the 68 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:59.759 Navy Yard, multiple government buildings actually let out a lass 69 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.479 saying that those devices were not allowed on those grounds. Yeah, 70 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.199 the Ferby was banned from the Pentagon and the NSA building. 71 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:07.599 Were these things made in China? 72 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:14.280 No dot, Yeah, kinda kind of, but they were made 73 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.439 from Hasbro, which is an American toy company. 74 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:17.920 But we're gonna get into all of it. We're gonna 75 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.680 get into all of it, good cult members today on 76 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:23.519 the cult conspiracy. We are going to be taking a 77 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.879 dive into the Ferbies. Where did they come from, how 78 00:04:26.920 --> 00:04:29.759 did they get so popular, what was all the craze about? 79 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.959 And then how and why did they end up going 80 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.160 on the blacklist for multiple government buildings. Was there any 81 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:37.240 kernel of truth to it? Was it all a hoax? 82 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.240 Did the government just not understand what they were talking about? 83 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.279 Which that kind of lines up to a lot of 84 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:44.519 other things too, But also the fact that the Ferbies 85 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:46.560 were able to respond to you in your own language 86 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.240 when they couldn't in the beginning, a lot of things, 87 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:51.680 a lot of questions. Today, we're gonna be peeling back 88 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.480 the layers on that little fur ball, which, for the record, 89 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.680 is actually why it's called Ferby because it was called 90 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.920 a fur ball while it was in the working phases 91 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.000 of its name, and they just condense that down. 92 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:02.360 To be Ferby. 93 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:03.000 Makes sense. 94 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.120 An interesting little tidbit. But yeah, we're going to be 95 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.240 getting into all of it today. 96 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.279 I got some clips, I got some commercials, I got 97 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.040 some newscasts, I got some articles. 98 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:11.160 We're going to be talking about it all. 99 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:12.720 And if you would like to see what we're talking 100 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.720 about today rather than just hear about it, Jonathan, where 101 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:15.000 can they. 102 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:18.560 Go Patreon dot com slash Cult of Conspiracy podcast. That 103 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.000 link is down the show notes below. If if you 104 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:22.959 want to be able to get the shows days in advance, 105 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:24.560 you want to be able to see all of the 106 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.000 video content. 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Maybe 129 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.160 you just want to jot it down in the message 130 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.399 board because you don't want your voice heard. That's totally fine. 131 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:35.839 Everybody has a little semblance of camera shyedness. 132 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:36.560 I mean it all. 133 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.040 It started even with us. I mean, I felt very 134 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.920 weird even saying my name over the mic. I was like, dude, 135 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:43.680 saying my name feels weird. 136 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:44.399 You ever felt that? 137 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.600 For the longest time, I hated the sound of my 138 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:49.160 own voice on the mic. It took me a while 139 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:49.920 to get used to it. 140 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:52.839 Yeah, yeah, because we try not to be self centered. 141 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.519 There's a little bit of a pulling back of that. 142 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.360 But either way, look, if you enjoy these shows, we 143 00:06:58.399 --> 00:06:59.959 appreciate all the help that we can get. 144 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.560 We do this full time, and uh, we appreciate you 145 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.079 and love you indeed. So now let's start off with 146 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:10.079 a little blast in the past. Let's talk some commercials. 147 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.959 This was on your television back when that was still 148 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.040 a thing people watched rather than all the apps on 149 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.360 your rokup or fire sticks. 150 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.319 Right, so now let's go back we're talking. 151 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.439 Nineteen ninety eight, and let's watch some of these Ferbie commercials. 152 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:25.120 And this actually is a cool video. We're not gonna 153 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:26.079 watch the entire thing. 154 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.480 We're gonna stop somewhere around like eight twenty twelve, something 155 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:32.199 like that, because the Ferbies took on some new iterations 156 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:36.079 in the twenty teens that, to be honest with you, 157 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.120 they never really caught the same lightning in a jar 158 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.160 factor that they did from the late nineties early two thousands. 159 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.319 I will even give you into the late two thousands, 160 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:46.439 but it's nice. 161 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.040 It just reminds me of Pokemon, Like as soon as 162 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.319 they started making seventh, eighth, ninth, generation of all these 163 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:52.920 new Pokemon. 164 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:54.040 I don't know who the fuck they are. 165 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.560 I know the the original ones and maybe even the 166 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:00.439 second generation some of those, But you start, what is 167 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:02.839 there like fucking twenty thousand different Pokemon? Now I can't 168 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:03.839 keep up with all that shit. 169 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:07.000 I can't remember that dog, I just can't. But yes, 170 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.600 to that point, the nineties were a wild time the 171 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.560 toy industry. 172 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.879 Plus the amount of technology that was readily available right now. 173 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.000 I don't just mean computer systems. I mean the fact 174 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:24.000 that the Tamagatchi was a thing. Yeah, right again. And 175 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.839 that's also that was the inspiration behind the Ferbie. So 176 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.040 the two creators, and we're gonna learn more about them later, 177 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:32.840 they went to a big toy convention. One of them 178 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:34.600 was a navy veteran, the other one had a little 179 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.799 bit of an engineering background. They didn't even really have 180 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.320 any gumption to become toy manufacturers or creators or any 181 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:41.600 of that. 182 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:45.120 They they were idea guys, you know, which is cool. 183 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:49.559 They go to a toy convention and they saw the Tamagatchi, 184 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:53.320 which later the Giga pet, which was the American knockoff version, 185 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:55.279 which wasn't as good but was like a third the cost. 186 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:57.559 But neither here nor there. They saw the Tamagatchi and 187 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:02.159 they thought this was the greatest toy to ever be invented. Ever, 188 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.200 keep in mind, the beanie Baby was hot at that time. 189 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.720 So you had the beanie Baby, which was basically just 190 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:10.519 like a bean bag plush toy, which is really cute 191 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:12.679 and really soft in all the things, which we could 192 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:16.039 do a whole episode about the manufactured drawl for that one. 193 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.480 Come to find out, everybody thought this one beanie Baby 194 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.720 was so rare. They believed that because it was manufactured, 195 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.039 like the story of how rare they were or manufactured. 196 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.320 Although the store you might have might only have one 197 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:29.120 of these little teddy bears, the store once stayed over's 198 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.679 got forty thousand of them. Meanwhile they're telling you that 199 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:34.480 this butterfly they've only got one of. Meanwhile the store 200 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.440 you're in has forty thousand. It was manufactured supplying to man, 201 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.759 which we'll get to that another time with time Warner 202 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.519 beside the point. So when it came to these creators, 203 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:47.480 they saw the Tamagotchi massively successful, and it's a pet 204 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:49.600 that you never have to we have to either constantly 205 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.039 care for it or it will die. Meanwhile, you have 206 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.000 the beanie baby that you could pet, but it does it. 207 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:56.879 It's not interactive. They were like, wait a minute, what if? 208 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.000 What if we combined these two things. 209 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.360 An interactive toy that you have to play with in 210 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.840 order to make it work, plus soft and lovable that 211 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:11.080 you want to snuggle up with. Therefore, the birth of 212 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.679 the ferbie, it was incredible. 213 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:14.919 Let's get weird, dude. 214 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:17.720 And I will say, like even like my daughter, you know, 215 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.840 she's a little too old for it now, but whenever 216 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:24.399 she was more youthful, she was like crazy about the 217 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:25.919 You ever seen those baby alives? 218 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:27.840 Oh yeah, like you. 219 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:29.879 Have to change their diapers and feed them and stuff 220 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.279 like that. I feel like a lot of those kind 221 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.879 of toys really stem from the Tamagatchi and the furbie 222 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.000 and you know, taking care and interacting with you know 223 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:40.279 what I mean, like with your toy. 224 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:41.200 Yeah. 225 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.000 I think there's a lot to be said for that, honestly, 226 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:46.000 And because parents loved it, because it was a pet 227 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.279 that you didn't have to actually clean up after, or 228 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.799 actually spend money on to feed, or bring it to 229 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.000 the vet or any of these things. They were thinking Oh, 230 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:55.799 it's gonna teach my kid responsibility. It's gonna do this, 231 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:58.200 and there's no skin off my nose. It's a one 232 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:01.279 time payment of ten dollars, twenty dollars, thirty, whatever the 233 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.720 case was, and like, that's all I gotta do, and 234 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.039 it will keep these kids entertained for hours and maybe 235 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:07.279 teach them responsibility. 236 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:11.120 Oh, sign me up. The Ferbie was seen as almost that, 237 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:14.080 so they saw it as an inherent good thing. But 238 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.159 the Ferbie, the more you interacted with it, the more 239 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:21.120 things it would learn. And for the late nineties that 240 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:23.600 was unheard of. There was no toy that was going 241 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.120 to be learning based off of how much you interacted 242 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.960 with it. It came with I think it was like twelve 243 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:31.200 different language models that it had in it. And it 244 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.360 started off all speaking this language called Furbish, which was 245 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.080 kind of the goo goo gaga sounds that it would make, 246 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:42.080 and it was whatever. But the more you interacted with it, it 247 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:49.480 had a combination of English, Japanese, French, German, Swedish, Italian, 248 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:52.279 Mandarin I'm trying to remember. 249 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.360 It was like a whole lot of languages, and the 250 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.799 more you talk to it, the more it would pick 251 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.399 up on whatever language you were speaking to it, and 252 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.120 it would start responding to you in your language. 253 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:03.720 Imagine that was bilingual. 254 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:06.360 You know, you got a little a little Portuguese, a 255 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:07.759 little English going on in there. 256 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.399 Oh yeah, oh yeah. So that's the thing. Was it 257 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.320 actually learning from us? And if that's the case, could 258 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:18.840 this be the first reference to a at home AI model? 259 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:21.480 And is that possibly the reason why the NSA and 260 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.559 the Pentagon in the Navy Yard and all these government 261 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:25.519 buildings banned it from their property. 262 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:28.919 We're gonna talk about it all. So let's go back 263 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.519 and watch get a nostalgic with us good cult members, 264 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:34.759 and remember what the Furby was when it first came out. 265 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:37.120 These are commercials from nineteen ninety eight. 266 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:50.799 What's Ferby? The first Geeka peg? He teaches to say 267 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.799 her name, Play games. 268 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:55.440 I Love You. 269 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.919 You, par and Game Mine. 270 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:10.320 I should also mention it was very crazy how the 271 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.919 Ferbies could interact with each other. You remember seeing that 272 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:16.000 if you got two Ferbies facing each other, they would 273 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.759 start speaking Furbish to each other. That little thing on 274 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.080 their forehead was actually like an infrared layer that would 275 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.720 pick up on each other and they would start communicating, 276 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.200 which some would say, yeah, that was just it was 277 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.159 like a mode that was just the thing to make 278 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.519 you think, Wow, it's so cool, and that's all it was. 279 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:36.039 Some would say that was it giving the information that 280 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.960 it had acquired from your house to that ferby. That 281 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.840 Ferby was giving it the information it acquire from your house. Basically, 282 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:44.519 think of all the Alexises meeting up and sharing all 283 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:47.639 the info about what they learned in your kitchen, like 284 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.600 almost like bluetooth kind of like but for the principle 285 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:53.200 of spying. 286 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:55.200 Who knows makes sense. 287 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:58.120 Those things are fucking creepy, though, dude, I never wanted 288 00:13:58.120 --> 00:13:58.879 one of those things. 289 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.000 Oh dude, I say, I never owned one, but a 290 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:04.279 lot of my neighbors did. A lot of my homies did. 291 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:06.799 One of my cousins did. And it was so annoying 292 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:09.559 because it would just randomly start singing and talking and 293 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:11.639 ship in the middle of the night. The only way 294 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:13.440 to make it shut up was either a rip the 295 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.200 batteries out of it or b throw like a beanie 296 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:19.039 over the entire thing, or throw a pillow over it. 297 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.399 Because it could pick up on motion, it could pick 298 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:23.879 up on sound, it could pick up on light. So 299 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:26.039 the only way to make it really go to sleep 300 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:27.919 for good. Was just to take the batteries out. And 301 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.080 then there's also reports of these things working even after 302 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.480 the batteries were out of them, so. 303 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:35.519 Of course there is. Yeah, it makes sense. 304 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:38.320 All right, Let's keep watching these commercials. Some of them 305 00:14:38.320 --> 00:15:22.480 get wild. 306 00:14:41.240 --> 00:15:11.080 And can you just imagine waking up in the middle 307 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:12.919 of the night and that thing is like crawling towards 308 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.360 you see. 309 00:15:14.519 --> 00:15:17.200 So it didn't walk, thankfully, but it would rock back 310 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:19.039 and forth and shit, and it would dance his little 311 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:20.120 ears of move and all of that. 312 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.879 But again, the more you play with it, the more 313 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:23.519 it does. 314 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:24.720 That was the whole big thing. 315 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:26.360 The more you talk to it, the more you play 316 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:28.559 with it, the more it learns, and the more interactive 317 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:28.960 it was. 318 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.279 It was marketed as not just a toy. It was 319 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.759 marketed as a friend, as a pet that you didn't 320 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.919 have to actually feed, that would never die. That all 321 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:39.399 it was. 322 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:43.480 It was seen as just this marvel of technology meets 323 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.120 entertainment and meets children's market. 324 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.559 It was wild times, brother. So that was ninety eight 325 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.200 when it first came out. Now, let's watch some of 326 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.120 these commercials from nineteen ninety nine about the. 327 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.840 Ferby Let's play Ruby says. 328 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.919 Plays with you each other took on. 329 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:08.559 Ferby each sold separately. 330 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:10.080 Battery's not included. 331 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:12.879 Ak At Coco. 332 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.120 That very speaks Furbish and. 333 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.159 English too, so there was a Furbish to English dictionary, 334 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:20.600 and you would have to learn what some of these 335 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:21.440 phrases were. 336 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:22.200 Now. 337 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.039 For instance, there was one phrase that was do o 338 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.879 lo ot or something like that, and it was taken 339 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:34.200 basically as an amalgamation of Mandarin and Hebrew and Italian 340 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:34.559 and all of. 341 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:38.399 These things, basically meaning big light up, which is what 342 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:40.399 it would say whenever the sun would come up. 343 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.720 Dude, how about like the Ferbie rate there got the 344 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.759 little laser or the little monitoring device Rate on his 345 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.360 third eye. Yep, it's like, well, it's it's literally the 346 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.759 all seeing eye exactly. 347 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.440 And then you could look inside of that and see 348 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:56.480 the little infrared. 349 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:59.240 Some might said it was a camera, some said it 350 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.639 was a you know, motion detector. Some said it was 351 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.799 a like a photo photo. I basically could tell if 352 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:08.119 the room had the lights turned on or something like that. 353 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:11.400 There's sources to say all of these things and so 354 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.559 much more. But later, as a matter of fact, I 355 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:15.640 have a video where these people are breaking apart a 356 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.799 Ferbi and you get to see the internals to see 357 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.559 what it actually has on the inside. 358 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:22.160 But it's very cool, which is interesting too because even 359 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.799 whenever its eyes are closed, they can still see, you 360 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.160 know what I'm saying, Like, there is no putt in 361 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:27.920 that thing to sleep. 362 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.160 That third eyes always all the way open. 363 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.680 There was no off switch. There was no off switch 364 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:34.480 to these ferbies. 365 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:36.599 So to your point, yes, just because the eyes are 366 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.200 closed and it hasn't had any interaction in a couple 367 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:42.519 of years, as soon as the lights would come on 368 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:44.599 in front of it, it would open its eyes. Ferby, 369 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:46.960 you like, do the whole thing. There's actually a report 370 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:50.119 which we're gonna get into later. This one chick claims 371 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.519 that a Ferbie almost killed her boyfriend. 372 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:53.559 How did this happen? 373 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:57.200 You might ask this one time shot of ferbicide, if 374 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:57.640 you will. 375 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.559 Basically, this Ferbi was. 376 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:03.920 Left in a storage shed, mini warehouse, whatever the case was. 377 00:18:04.319 --> 00:18:06.400 Homeboy goes in and starts getting through some of his 378 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.119 old boxes stuff, puts it in his car whatever. He's 379 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.160 on the drive home and the Ferbie behind him starts 380 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.839 loudly screaming and like making noises, which again he hadn't 381 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.640 seen this thing in years, well because it was an 382 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.200 original Ferbi and there's no off switch. If there's enough 383 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:23.680 juice in the batteries, as soon as that things seeds 384 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:24.799 light or motion, it. 385 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.240 Will kick back on. And it scared the shit out 386 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:29.160 of him so bad he almost ran off the road 387 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:31.759 and hit a tree. He didn't. He survived, But yeah, 388 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:35.799 that's a case anyway. Wild things. But yeah, the Furbish 389 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:39.680 to English dictionary that you had there, there's also websites 390 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:44.000 dedicated to this day of Furbish to whatever language translations. 391 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.160 It's pretty hilarious. Fandoms go hard, you. 392 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:48.799 Know, they do, they do. 393 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.119 Yeah, And the fact that like people still know what 394 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.720 a Furby is because I think they're still making them, aren't. 395 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.920 They They are, I should get the caveat. These things 396 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:02.200 are weird. It's called the long Ferby. Think of a 397 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.440 body pillow that's like the size of your thigh that 398 00:19:05.480 --> 00:19:07.680 has a Ferby face on it. But the rest of 399 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.680 it is just they keep trying to make it weirder 400 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:13.400 and weirder. They also came out with the Ferbi minies, 401 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:18.000 the Ferbie Babies Shelby, which is like a little crab 402 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.200 like Ferby. They kept trying to do more iterations to 403 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.759 keep it alive. They have never been able to get 404 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:27.240 the fandom that they had in the late nineties and 405 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:30.200 early two thousands. By about the mid to late two thousands, 406 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:31.200 the craze have been over. 407 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:32.480 It was done. 408 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:36.279 But they still sold like ninety million Furbies within the 409 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:40.279 first two years of them existing in America. Keep in mind, 410 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.559 there's only three hundred and sixty million Americans at this time, 411 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:46.200 so pretty much a third of all Americans bought one 412 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:46.839 of these bitches. 413 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.839 I imagine there were collections going on for sure, just 414 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.240 like the Beanie babies and whatnot. 415 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:52.920 Oh yes, oh yes. 416 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:54.599 And as a matter of fact, some people got very 417 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.279 creative with what they did with those Ferbies after the fact. 418 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.440 One guy even made a organ out of like a 419 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:01.039 pipe organ. 420 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:02.839 We're gonna watch him play that in a bit. 421 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.599 But anyway, dude here, I don't know if you heard, 422 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.440 and this has nothing to do with the Ferby. Did 423 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:09.599 you hear that the penny has been discontinued? 424 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:12.000 Just talked about that on the Cage and Night. Dude, 425 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.720 So Philadelphia, where I just was. We even passed by 426 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:16.920 the Philadelphia Mint. I didn't We didn't try to go 427 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.559 inside or anything. 428 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:18.240 We were on the road. 429 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.319 And you know that I'm a penny collector, and like, 430 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:23.559 I love this entire thing. 431 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:25.599 The pe on a. 432 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:28.559 Penny or on any of your coinage means Philadelphia. There's 433 00:20:28.599 --> 00:20:31.440 three main mints in the United States, Philadelphia, Denver, and 434 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:35.799 San Francisco. And now they are doing away with the 435 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.279 penny because a it costs like ten times the amount 436 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:42.960 to make, and b they're just doing away with that 437 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.279 small unit of currency, which, to be fair, the Euro 438 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.640 has done that for years and years. There's no such 439 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:51.039 thing as a Euro percentage coin. That is, at the 440 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.480 one everything is to the nickel and the dime. Even 441 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.079 their taxes are like rounded up or down to the 442 00:20:56.160 --> 00:20:59.440 nickel or the dime. So now pennies are going by 443 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:02.160 the wayside the United States, which on one hand, as 444 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.640 a collector of pennies, my most valuable is the steel 445 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.680 penny from San Francisco from nineteen forty three because during 446 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:11.160 the World War Two they stopped making pennies with copper. 447 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:13.640 They made with steel for one year, but neither here 448 00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:16.599 nor there. I do love the collection in the history 449 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:18.559 behind it, So on one hand, I'm very sad. 450 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:21.920 Right. On the other hand, my collection's value is about 451 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:24.240 to fuck in skyrocket, So it's a bittersweet. 452 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:28.559 And the thing is is that you know you're still 453 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:30.000 going to be able to use them, they're just not 454 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.039 making them anymore. So I think they said that there's 455 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.640 somewhere around like four hundred and fifty billion pennies out 456 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:38.839 in circulation or something like that right now. And to 457 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.720 be honest, most people just throw away pennies nowadays, you know, 458 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:46.960 like because they're so literally valueless. But so the penny, 459 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.440 it wasn't ten times as much, it was three. It 460 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:54.160 cost three point seven cents to make a penny, and 461 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:56.880 it came up out it make any damn sense, especially 462 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:01.000 with inflation, even the dollar is I would imagine not 463 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:02.640 that far away, you know what I'm saying. 464 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.880 The nickel, look at what the overhead is to make 465 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:07.480 a nickel. There was one of them that was like 466 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.000 ten times the amount. Meanwhile, the dime is like like 467 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:13.680 six cents to make a dime. So they're actually making 468 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.480 money while making money. But the nickel and the penny 469 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:19.000 were like, oh it was it was costing too much. 470 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:21.359 The nickel costs fourteen cents. 471 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:24.680 To make excuse me, Yeah, am here three times the 472 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.960 amount that's definitely coming up then, yeah, I mean maybe, 473 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:33.519 or they'll just start using cheaper materials or remodeling what 474 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:36.000 the nickel is because it's a thicker coin, right, so 475 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.160 if you were to make that smaller in diameter and 476 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:41.640 less thick, if you would need less materials it, you know, 477 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:42.519 we'll see how you go. 478 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:44.799 Just bring back the fifty cent piece, make that a 479 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:46.160 more common thing. 480 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.160 I agree, I agree, but I mean even still, how 481 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:51.599 many people are carrying around loose change these days? 482 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:52.519 Everything's digital? 483 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:54.680 Yeah? A good point. 484 00:22:54.359 --> 00:22:58.559 Anyway, all right, so back to the Ferby. Let's continue 485 00:22:58.759 --> 00:22:59.920 may take come. 486 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:05.400 Crazy Ferby each sold separately. 487 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:06.480 Battery's not included. 488 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.720 Again, Oh this was cool. This is when they came 489 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.480 out with their gizmo from uh from Grimlins uh model 490 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:17.640 of the Ferbie because a lot of people thought it 491 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.720 was a Grimlins thing. It was never even intended to 492 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:21.400 look like that. 493 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:23.920 So then they realized, look, why don't we just lean 494 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:28.160 into this and make a run of gizmo Ferbi's And 495 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:30.759 this was the commercial to promote that product. 496 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:31.440 Check this out? 497 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:33.319 What is this? 498 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:40.400 So that's my Ferbie talking to. 499 00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:44.920 Grandpa? 500 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:45.400 Thank you? 501 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:46.599 He's a wise guy. 502 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.119 But remember, I know, I know, he's bright light. 503 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:52.000 Never feed him after midnight. 504 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:54.880 Gizmo, that'll be your best friend. 505 00:23:55.799 --> 00:24:02.599 Grimlins Interactive gizmo Ferbi sold separately, batteries not included. Interactive gizmo. 506 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:05.000 That's actually a cool idea. 507 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.279 Oh, I think it's a great marketing idea. If nothing else, 508 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:10.720 lean into it. They're already saying that it looks like 509 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:14.680 a Grimlin, So why not make a little little little 510 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:17.200 merger happen and make some more doll hairs out of it. 511 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:19.200 I'm down literal doll hairs. 512 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:33.920 Yeah right, anyway, let's keep going. Bro, Look at the 513 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:36.480 computer monitor on that office desk. 514 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:40.240 That thing is massive. The nineties were just wild, dude. 515 00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:43.039 In those computers were the ship I believe. Isn't that 516 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:47.200 the the old Mac? The old Max were made that way? 517 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.400 Yeah? The Mac and that's an old Yeah. I went 518 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:52.200 to Mac back then. 519 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:54.839 It was a Macintosh. Yeah yeah, yeah. 520 00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.359 You've ever seen the Zoolander. That's the one where he 521 00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:59.640 like the files are in the computer. It was this 522 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:03.079 ma massive screen he like threw down to break it apart. 523 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:05.599 Uh no, actually I've never seen Zoolander. 524 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:08.559 Oh fuck, I don't even know what we're doing here. Bro, 525 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:11.880 it's a ridiculous movie. But like that's the point. But yeah, 526 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.559 it's just look at all the colors, the people, what 527 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:17.920 they're wearing and ship. The nineties were just they were 528 00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:18.359 an era. 529 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:21.799 It's it's those computers always reminded me of the Game 530 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:23.759 Boy color, because you know the Game Boy color. Some 531 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:26.160 of them would be like that see through kind of plastic. 532 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.960 Yeah, dude, yes, indeed, all right, let's keep going. 533 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:44.799 Plus stuff the office a quiet slumber party more because 534 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.039 each one talks to another one. All new Ferbies each 535 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:49.839 sold separately. Batteries not included. 536 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.799 That's that bullshit. Whenever the batteries aren't included, I'm like, dude, 537 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:54.680 just throw in. 538 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:59.200 Some dollar batn't you can't take the money from the 539 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:02.599 battery manufacturers, dude. Dura Cel even had a whole commercial 540 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:04.359 with Ferbies next to it talk about how they keep 541 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:06.640 going and going makes sense. 542 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:09.720 Yeah, probably Energizer too, with the Energizer bunny. That that 543 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:10.960 would actually make more sense. 544 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:13.279 Yeah, I don't know what that was about. The Dura 545 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:15.720 Cell commercial. It was like a cartoon bunny. It wasn't 546 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.200 the Energizer bunny, but that was also back when they 547 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:19.920 had their own ad wars going on. 548 00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:21.960 But anyway, all right. 549 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:24.599 So now we're skipping ahead to two thousand to watch 550 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:25.799 some of these Ferby commercials. 551 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:26.640 Check this shit out. 552 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:27.960 Is it? 553 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:28.559 Is it a boy? 554 00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:40.440 Congratulations baby, Serby baby whoop. They're more talking it good 555 00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:45.400 farm mark me love, more surprising, I got more unpredictable, 556 00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:47.880 more amazing. 557 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:52.839 Nasty, blind line, long line, next amazing generation is born 558 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:54.119 new Ferby babies. 559 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.000 You never know what they'll say. You still, secondly, that 560 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:56.680 is not what gooded. 561 00:26:57.519 --> 00:27:00.960 So you could see here that the the traverse of time. 562 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.400 And also some of these commercials were so fucking cheddar 563 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:08.559 cheesy it's actually kind of impressive in its own weird way. 564 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:12.200 But yeah, yeah, so that was when the Ferby Babies 565 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:13.640 came out in the year two thousand. 566 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:14.519 Yeah. 567 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:17.480 I was looking up because I was like, all right, 568 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:20.720 I have an idea about where, like what channel these 569 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:25.039 commercials were airing on normally the network, Yeah, normally, you know, 570 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:28.799 you would have Disney. Disney only usually played their own shit, right, 571 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:30.559 like their own commercials and stuff. 572 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:32.559 I remember when they first played it was like a 573 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:35.880 Caprice Son commercial that was on Disney, but it was 574 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.359 like super Disney esque and it said brought to you 575 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:40.440 by Caprice at the very end, and they moved on, 576 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:43.200 but to your yeah, one hundred percent Disney only on 577 00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:45.680 the play commercials that promoted. 578 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.000 Disney shit on the Disney channel. That was it. 579 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:49.880 I mean, look, if you can make your money that way, 580 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.839 then go right ahead, you know. But yeah, I looked 581 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:53.079 it up. 582 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.759 Ferbie commercials originally aired on channels like Nickelodeon and in 583 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:01.240 specific regions, they were also shown on local channels such 584 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.319 as y TV and in Canadia in Canadia in Canada 585 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:09.519 and various channels in the UK, Australia and Spain. So 586 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.119 it says the Ferbie commercials in particular were likely broadcast 587 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:14.960 in these regions around two thousand and six. 588 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:16.880 There we go, two thousand and six. 589 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:20.279 So talking about that, here's some commercials from two thousand 590 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:20.720 and five. 591 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:34.880 Hey, hey, yeah, shoot me day tell me joke, not heyvy, 592 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:37.319 what sun me? 593 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:39.880 No miss with new Ferbie. 594 00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:44.319 No, you never know what's gonna happen. You just gotta. 595 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:49.039 Say why I love you. 596 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.160 Fer me He sold separately. Batteries not included. You can 597 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:52.079 find more fun at haf dot com. That's compared first. 598 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:55.319 So you can see also they stop being so damn creepy. 599 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:57.440 They smaller, They made the eyes a little smaller. 600 00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:59.839 They made the eyes a little smaller. The mallets weren't 601 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:01.559 like beaks. They were a rubber and they kind of 602 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:03.519 give a little grin or a little frown either way. 603 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:06.480 They had a little bit more expressive faces at this time, 604 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:08.799 and they got a little different on the sizes. The 605 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:12.240 ears were at a different pitch. They started to kind 606 00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.640 of shift it a bit to better suit the market. 607 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.440 And again you could clearly see a difference between the 608 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:20.559 two thousand and five Furbies and the nineteen ninety eight Ferbies, 609 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:23.759 but still owned by the same company, Tiger down here, 610 00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:26.200 which was bought out by Hasbro. 611 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:30.119 Sod Whenever you're watching these, does it like make you 612 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.359 feel like you're a kid again, and looking at it 613 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:34.319 through those that lens. 614 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.720 You get the nostalgia vibe? You absolutely do. Yes. Indeed, 615 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.400 let's keep going. Okay, now we're jumping to twenty twelve, 616 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:42.240 which is. 617 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:44.519 Where introducing Ferby from. 618 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:47.279 This is where it starts to get a little wild, 619 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:49.759 And this is where I think, really and truly they 620 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.440 were going out of their way to try to bring 621 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:54.640 in as much of that lightning in a bottle as 622 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:58.119 they could from the original Ferby twenty twelve, they now 623 00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.759 had an app that you could use to interact with 624 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:04.319 your Ferbi. It had digital eyes and the whole thing. 625 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.920 But again, this is where they really started to taper off. 626 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:09.799 I honestly don't even know any human being that bought these. 627 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:12.200 I'm sure they sold, I don't know any of them. 628 00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:15.119 But this is this is pretty much where it falls off. 629 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:15.880 Let's check it out. 630 00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:18.240 It has bro Ferby has a mind of its own, 631 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:20.559 and you shape its personality by the way you play. 632 00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:22.279 There are lots of things that you can do with 633 00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.839 your Ferby. Ferby's reactions are unpredictable, so you'll never know 634 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:28.960 how it will behave when you tickle it, pet it, 635 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:36.920 oh tilt, tie hold, pull its tail, turn it upside down, 636 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:43.440 or shake it. Ferby loves to dance. It recognizes music 637 00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:45.960 and will begin to dance along and reacts when you 638 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:46.559 speak to it. 639 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.519 Hi Ferby ok te. 640 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:52.839 You can feed Ferby either with your finger or with 641 00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:55.920 the Ferby app, available for free download at the App Store. 642 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:03.000 Haha. 643 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:10.039 Use the free Ferby app to translate Furbish to English. 644 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:11.559 Like you funny. 645 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.839 To learn more, go online to find the Furbish Dictionary 646 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:18.039 at Ferby dot com and remember each of the things 647 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:26.799 that you do with Ferby shape its personality me change. 648 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.440 So you know what's interesting is that that it almost 649 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.200 sounds like a little minion And I was just living 650 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.039 up like when the first Despicable of Me came out 651 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:39.160 twenty ten, so right before this, I will almost wonder 652 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:41.359 if there was a little bit of connection there. 653 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.279 If nothing else, the people that revitalized the Ferbie or 654 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.480 at least attempted to, I could see them trying to 655 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:50.400 take their notes from the Despicable Me movies, because the 656 00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:53.319 meanings made that movie what it was. Honestly, without the meanings, 657 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.000 that movie pretty much sucks. Like take the minions out 658 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:59.640 of it, take all their little antics away and want 659 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:05.400 to be genius, adopts three girls. Nothing weird or suspicious 660 00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:09.319 about that, Uh, to try to use them to sell 661 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:12.039 cookies to get out a bad guy who stole from him. 662 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:16.119 And then in the end he keeps the girls like 663 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.599 without the minions, that's really fucked. 664 00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:21.920 Yeah, it actually is, now that you say that, I 665 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:22.839 never put that together. 666 00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.119 I don't like to be the one to point these 667 00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:28.559 things out. But honestly, without the Minions, the Despicable Me 668 00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:32.599 franchise is pretty much dog shit. But that's why they 669 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.079 lean more heavily into it and release the Minions movies 670 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.559 and stuff after. But to your point, you could definitely 671 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.960 see with the twenty twelve Ferbi how they might have 672 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:41.759 taken some notes from the. 673 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.279 Minions and the success of Despicable. 674 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:44.400 Me for sure. 675 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.799 Influence for sure. Yeah. 676 00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.079 So now let's go into the brief history of the 677 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.599 Ferbie And as a matter of fact, we got the 678 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:56.799 news was reporting on Ferbi's back in this timeframe. There's 679 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.480 actually two different news clips. One of them is from 680 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.519 when they first released and the other one is from 681 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:03.839 when they got banned from government buildings and some of 682 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.160 the suspicious behaviors surrounding that. Let's watch this together. 683 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.039 Christmas shopping came early to Tyson's Corner today. Long lines 684 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:15.319 of people waited in line to snap up the latest 685 00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.720 raging toys, the adorable Ferbie. 686 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:18.400 Box. 687 00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:22.880 Five's David Burnett reports the little furbies literally spoke for themselves. 688 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:28.960 Ferbies made their Tysons Corner debut at ten am and 689 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.880 when the doors opened, the lines were already long. 690 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:34.880 It'll make a great Christmas present come December when all 691 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:36.079 my kid wants one. 692 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.359 I've got it hidden. 693 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.160 That's why they came early. 694 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.000 I've been here two hours. 695 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:43.279 Is it worth the wait? 696 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:45.880 Not for me, but I think it will be for them. 697 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.079 I think they're gonna be hard to find. I got 698 00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:49.240 the grain on the brown eyes. 699 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:51.839 How come my little boy has brown eyes? 700 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.279 And hopefully he'll like this? What's a furbee? Anyway? 701 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:57.160 If they talk, they winter after. 702 00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:58.400 You can play with them. 703 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:03.680 The kids can play with them, my niece. 704 00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:04.000 And my nephew. 705 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:04.960 No, she's fibbing. 706 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:06.200 She's get it for herself. 707 00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:10.320 Ferby has a vocabulary of two hundred words, initially speaking 708 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:15.679 its own Furbish language, but eventually learning English and playing games. 709 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.360 This is a four stage development. 710 00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:21.679 The first stage is you get to know your your Ferby, 711 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:23.559 and he gets to know you when you learn how 712 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:25.719 to play games. But it won't die. 713 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:26.559 It won't die. 714 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:27.360 It will not die. 715 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.000 Whether it has channel five. 716 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:34.639 Ye, it just hosted like the batteries on low. Just 717 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:36.840 change the batteries. But it didn't have a dog. 718 00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:41.840 You see again? 719 00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.280 Did you hear that? Which means. 720 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:51.159 You've got a cold? 721 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:51.519 Not? 722 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.320 Everyone, though, is buying you didn't buy one. 723 00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:58.519 No, I wouldn't stand in that line for anything in 724 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:04.320 the world, or for a talking doll. Yeah no, But 725 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:06.920 even she had to admit that her six year old 726 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.519 may soon be demanding a Ferbie, which she knows will 727 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:11.679 bring her back to the. 728 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:14.960 Store and she'll say, how ben running Now. 729 00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:18.039 Just the kind of nudge toy makers are hoping for. 730 00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:21.440 From Tyson's corner. David Burnett, Fox. 731 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.760 Five News, I'm about to say how silly until I 732 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:25.800 saw the darn thing. 733 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:27.360 Talk when I think of that. 734 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.559 Yeah, marketing, So how much will it cost to make 735 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.920 this holiday at Ferby one? Ferby retails at twenty nine 736 00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:35.760 ninety nine. 737 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:37.360 All right, you can get your hands on one. 738 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:38.760 That's the thing chill in the air. 739 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:40.960 I guess that's why we're talking about holiday gifts already. 740 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.800 And all right, so now we're going to skip over 741 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:48.159 to this article to learn more about this, uh well, 742 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.519 the controversy surrounding the Ferbs. 743 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.159 Basically the la boo boos of nineteen ninety eight. 744 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:56.760 Uh yeah, that's a way of looking at it. Switching 745 00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:59.719 tonight over the We're gonna read that one a second. Yeah, Basically, 746 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.360 they the litle booboos of their day and age. 747 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:03.559 But I think the Boo Boos are more closely connected 748 00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:06.719 to the beanie babies, right, because the Boo Boos aren't 749 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.360 as interactive in all of these things the furbies. 750 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:11.719 You heard what he was saying. It learns from you. 751 00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:14.239 It starts speaking its own language, but the more you 752 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.079 play with it, it learns your language, and we'll start 753 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:18.280 responding in English. 754 00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:18.760 Bro. 755 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:21.960 In ninety eight and ninety nine, nobody had some shit 756 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.519 like that on on the shelves for children to play with. 757 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:26.000 That was wild, dude. 758 00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:29.079 Toy makers were the shit in the eighties and nineties, 759 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:31.639 you know, And you think about like even the the 760 00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:35.480 Burger King versus McDonald's Happy Meal toy like war that 761 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.719 that that they had going on. We used to go 762 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.960 back and forth and they were just getting bigger and 763 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.199 bigger and bigger and more awesome, and we were like, 764 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:46.159 you know, it brought you to almost become addicted to 765 00:36:46.559 --> 00:36:50.559 the disgusting, fucking horrible food for your health because maybe 766 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:53.119 you wanted to collect and you know, and then the 767 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:55.400 whole monopoly thing popped off, and I think they're stood 768 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:58.559 on the monopoly thing now. But yeah, it's it's pretty 769 00:36:58.559 --> 00:36:59.800 interesting these little gimmicks. 770 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.039 To that point. 771 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:03.880 Ferby was at one point released in Happy meals, and 772 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:05.800 so you had people that were going for the rare 773 00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:08.559 collectible ones, which again, who said that they were rare, 774 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.960 Who said that they were collectible, doesn't matter. They heard 775 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.800 about it on some internet forum somewhere, right, So you 776 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:16.400 had people that were going in and buying twelve Happy 777 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.039 meals just to get the toy out and basically dumping 778 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.119 the food on the floor because they didn't even care 779 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:21.440 about that. 780 00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:23.079 McDonald's had a strict policy. 781 00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.719 You cannot buy just the toy, you have to buy 782 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:28.280 the entire happy meal. So these people were doing everything 783 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.760 they could to collect every single Ferbi that McDonald's had offered, 784 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.280 which we're gonna see a picture of one of those 785 00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:37.079 McDonald's Ferby's in a minute. They are nowhere near what 786 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:39.440 an actual Ferby was, but it didn't matter. 787 00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:41.559 The collection must be complete kind of thing. 788 00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:44.480 Yeah, it's kind of like just reminds me of Veruka 789 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:48.159 and her dad from Wonka, right, yes, like not eating 790 00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:51.079 the chocolate, just like getting all these workers to try 791 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.360 and find the golden ticket exactly. 792 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.119 Actually one hundred percent with you on this, So all right, 793 00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:59.800 let's read in on the brief of this article that 794 00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:00.760 into the thick of it. 795 00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:04.599 The Ferbi, launched in nineteen ninety eight, became a global sensation, 796 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.800 selling over forty million units in its first three years 797 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:11.400 and sparking a collector craze. The toy faced national security 798 00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:15.039 concerns in ninety nine, with rumors that it could record conversations, 799 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:18.000 leading to a temporary ban by the NSA, which was 800 00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:19.000 later debunked. 801 00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:22.159 And you maybe it was, Maybe it wasn't. 802 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.440 We're gonna talk more about it. 803 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.840 After waning in popularity, the Ferbie was revived by Hasbro 804 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.920 in various iterations, including the twenty twenty three version, with 805 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.639 new features like voice activated modes, lights, and customizable personalities. 806 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.400 So for many Americans, especially millennials, the Ferbie needs little introduction. 807 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:42.079 It is considered one of the most popular and maybe 808 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:44.239 one of the strangest toys in history and was first 809 00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:48.559 successful and was the first successful attempt to produce and 810 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:53.119 sell a domestically aimed robot. The hybrid owl bat creature 811 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:56.840 could talk, sing, dance, and seemingly learn a language from 812 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:57.360 its owners. 813 00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:59.920 Yeah, it was kind of a combination as a con 814 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:03.320 set design of a mixture of an owl and a 815 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:08.159 chinchilla essentially, and it was again it is a robot 816 00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:11.159 by definition, and it was the first time that they 817 00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:16.840 ever successfully sold single use robots to the masses. 818 00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.440 And it was targeted at children specifically. I think that's 819 00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:21.719 very interesting. 820 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.000 Dude, an owl with a third eye built into it, 821 00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:25.119 and just nobody caught on to. 822 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.639 That, And that third eye is what gave it all 823 00:39:27.719 --> 00:39:29.840 of the credence. It needed to be aware of its 824 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:31.679 surroundings to know if you just walked in the room 825 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:31.960 or not. 826 00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:35.320 Yeah, you're making that owl wise, you know. 827 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:35.960 Uh. 828 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.920 According to Hasbro, Dave Hampton, Richard Levy, and Caleb Chung 829 00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:43.880 spent around two years creating and designing the first designs 830 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:47.320 and prototypes of the toy. Hampton had decided to make 831 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.840 a ball of fur anthropomorphic, and the name Ferby came 832 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:53.760 from his son, who pointed out that the toy did 833 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.440 in fact look like a ball of fur, with realistic 834 00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:00.159 ear wiggles, iconic expressive eyes, and even it's own own 835 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:02.960 language called Furbish. Ferby was more than just a toy. 836 00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:05.400 It was a personality meant to make you believe that 837 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.039 it was alive. Hasbro explained the Furbish language was inspired 838 00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:12.360 by a combination of language cobbled together by Hampton after 839 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.440 he picked up bits and pieces of Japanese, Thai, Chinese, 840 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.360 and Hebrew during his time in the US Navy. Hebrew interesting, Yeah, 841 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:23.440 Oddly enough, Hebrew got its own little iteration within the Furbish. 842 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:25.079 Can't Sam shocked? 843 00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:29.000 So when was the Ferby first launched during a time 844 00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:32.280 of major digital disruption? The nineteen ninety eight Ferby, known 845 00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.280 as the Classic Ferby, was the first generation of Ferby released. 846 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.400 It continued to be sold for four more years. When 847 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.920 Ferby was released, it instantly became a phenomenon, with over 848 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.679 forty million units sold globally in the first three years. 849 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:48.159 Parents waited in long hour lines or hour long lines 850 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:51.119 to buy the furry friend, and the toy sparked a 851 00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:55.079 collector craze that drove auction prices above retail prices. Following 852 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.360 its launch in ninety eight, Ferby has taken the world 853 00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:01.199 by storm, impacting every corner of the culture zeitgeist, from 854 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.000 music to television and film, Hasbro said. Over the years, 855 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.639 we've seen Ferby pop up in various forms, whether it's 856 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:13.360 The Simpsons, the Simpsons garage blamed out in uncut gems 857 00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:17.400 and even in villainous Ferby Crew in the Mitchells Versus 858 00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:22.039 the Machines, but Ferby became infamous not just for its popularity, 859 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.840 but also for its mischievous nature. Lacking an off switch, 860 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:29.119 the only way to silence it was by removing its batteries, 861 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.360 meaning children would endure hearing its cries in the middle 862 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:32.840 of the night. 863 00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.960 This is very true. This is very true, dude. 864 00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:36.639 And that's the thing. 865 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.039 It was so cute, so cuddly. It became overly annoying 866 00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:42.400 when that bitch wouldn't shut up when you're trying to sleep, 867 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:44.480 and like it just picked up on some motion. 868 00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:47.000 It could have been you turning in your bed. It's 869 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:48.719 all of a sudden gonna wake up and start trying 870 00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.639 to sing and shit. Yeah, yeah, anyway, thanks. 871 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.719 Despite its widespread popularity, the Ferby became a national security 872 00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.559 concern in ninety nine when the US National Security Agency, 873 00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:04.199 or the NSA, feared that the toy could record sensitive conversations. 874 00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.760 As a result, the Ferby was banned from locations like 875 00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:10.280 the NSA headquarters in Fort Made, Maryland, and the US 876 00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:15.440 Navy's Norfolk Naval shipyard in Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia. 877 00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:17.599 Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. 878 00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.679 The espionage rumors were quickly debunked. But it wasn't until 879 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:25.719 Tiger Electronics, the toys manufacturer, took action that the NSA 880 00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:29.599 lifted the band. It's probably the biggest misconception Ferby has 881 00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:33.239 seen over time. Christa McKay said, who's the general manager 882 00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:36.519 and VP of Global brands, Fashion and Preschool at Ferby 883 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:41.840 Maker's Hasbro. Damn, that's a long title. In reality, Ferby 884 00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:45.119 does not have the technology to record what people are saying? 885 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.639 So then how does it learn to start speaking to 886 00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:52.800 you in your native language? If it already has the 887 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.320 capability of doing all these things, how's it no to 888 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:58.199 pick up? Oh, this person speaking German to me, so 889 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.239 I'm going to go from Furbish to German. Meanwhile, in America, 890 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:03.840 this one goes from Furbish to English. And it's not 891 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:06.679 like this one was, you know, geared more towards America, 892 00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:09.079 and that's why it got sent there. They basically made 893 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:12.719 a one stop shop run of everything. Yeah, the labeling 894 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:14.760 might have been in a different language, but that didn't 895 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:17.119 mean that the programming was in a different language. 896 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:22.360 Yeah, there's clearly some kind of built in memory there. Yeah, see, like. 897 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:24.400 There has to be some kind of memory. Now is 898 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:27.079 it recording and collecting and sending somewhere? 899 00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:29.639 Who knows? But at least the memory for sure. 900 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:31.639 I mean, if it's picking up, if it knows your 901 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.199 language and it remembers it, that's memory, you know. 902 00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:36.960 And it's also crazy that the Ferbi's, even after you 903 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.400 got it to speak only English, if you would put 904 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:41.480 it in front of another Ferby, they would immediately start 905 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:45.039 chatting back and forth in Furbish again, which led more 906 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:48.800 people to believe that perhaps these toys were actually collecting 907 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:51.800 data and information from you in whatever way and for 908 00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:54.519 whatever purpose, and that then once they would meet face 909 00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:56.199 to face, it was like they were, like you said earlier, 910 00:43:56.239 --> 00:43:58.079 like bluetooth sending things to each other. 911 00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.360 Who knows? 912 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:00.639 Almost makes who wonder? 913 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:03.760 Like what happens if you're sitting in front, like you're 914 00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:05.880 a little kid, you're eight or nine years old, You're 915 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.719 watching Nickelodeon one day and you have your Furby sitting 916 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:11.440 in your lap, right, and then a Ferbie commercial comes on. 917 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:15.360 Is that Ferby going to recognize that other ferby speaking 918 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:18.199 Furbish on the TV and how does that you know, 919 00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:21.760 information kind of you know, settle out. 920 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:23.800 I agree, But then even think about it this way. 921 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:25.480 Let's say that you're, you know, you're playing with your 922 00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:27.760 furbiy in the living room, you're doing anything. Your parents 923 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:31.440 are watching Fox News or whatever. Meanwhile, you're homeboy at 924 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:33.840 school who's got a Ferby. He's sitting in liver, his 925 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:36.000 parents are watching CNN. As soon as they get together, 926 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:41.480 they're communicating about what kind of political uh feelings. 927 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:42.800 This house might have versus this house? 928 00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.199 Could that possibly be a reason for the Ferby's data 929 00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:47.400 collection here? 930 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:49.719 There's all kinds of hypotheticals. 931 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:51.280 On this, and then you got like one Ferby that's 932 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.719 a communist and one Ferby that just wants to wear 933 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:55.519 a red hat everywhere, and it's like, what. 934 00:44:55.400 --> 00:44:56.800 The fuck is going on here? 935 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:57.599 Right? 936 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:02.599 So it's as the Ferbey returns. The Ferby's popularity began 937 00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:04.760 to wane in two thousand and one, leading to its 938 00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:08.280 production halt in two However, since its debut, the toy 939 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:12.119 has seen numerous editions and special versions featuring sensors like 940 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:16.760 a tickle and tilt sensor, infrared port light sensor, realistic 941 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:20.000 eyes and tails or manes In two thousand and five, 942 00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:24.639 Hasbro acquired Tiger Electronics, gaining ownership of Ferby and its 943 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.800 other toys, and in twenty twenty three, Hasbro launched the 944 00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:31.599 latest model, which marked a significant departure from previous versions. 945 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:36.400 It says a new generation of kids can discover their 946 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:39.880 own curious little creature in kindred spirits. That's sure to 947 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.599 be their next BFF, they said in twenty twenty three. 948 00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:47.119 With a history of disrupting pop culture and the toy aisle, 949 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:51.199 Ferby remains reminds kids that they can be. That they 950 00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:56.639 can be hilarious, wacky, perfectly imperfect selves because that is 951 00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:59.599 what that is what makes them in the world a 952 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.119 more special. The latest robotic creature features five voice activated modes, 953 00:46:04.119 --> 00:46:08.559 more than six hundred responses, lights, and ten unique songs. 954 00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:10.679 Over the past few years, we've done a lot of 955 00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:13.639 research to understand what kids would want to see in 956 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.920 a new Ferbi. Through this research, kids told us that 957 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.039 it was important for Furbi to be their ultimate best friend, 958 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.920 a furry companion to do all the things that a 959 00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:29.239 BFF would do, like dance to music, share fortunes, meditate, interesting, 960 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.480 mimic each other in silly voices and even put on 961 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:35.119 a light show. And that's exactly what we created. 962 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:39.880 So now let's go back and watch the other newscast 963 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.840 that one. The first one was again whenever it's first launched, 964 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:46.360 and it was wildly successful right out the gate. Now, 965 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.719 just two years after the release, they had this issue. 966 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.679 A hottest toy of this past holiday season. 967 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:56.119 We're talking about Ferbie. It's a source of concern for 968 00:46:56.280 --> 00:47:00.000 believe it or not, national security experts. FOCKS five's out 969 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:03.880 Fineberg went deep background to get the story. 970 00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:15.360 Cute, perhaps lovable, maybe, but a spy. The National Security 971 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.199 Agency recently ememoed employees that furvise were off limits on 972 00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:23.199 the NSA's Fort Meade, Maryland campus. The country's top intelligence 973 00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:26.519 group got spooked that top secret wards or sounds might 974 00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:29.760 be mimicked by this talkative memory chip muppet with a 975 00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:35.159 two hundred word vocabulary. Oh, government secrecy expert Steve Aftergood. 976 00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:38.039 Their job is to be on the lookout for possible 977 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:41.119 threats to national security, so they're doing their job as 978 00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:42.079 silly as it seems. 979 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:48.559 On this occasion, the NSA issued this release. The NSA 980 00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:52.280 prohibits use of any non agency owned photographic, video and 981 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:57.159 audio recording equipment in agency workspaces. This includes any items 982 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:01.679 with built in recording features. Well, we did some sleuthing 983 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:04.440 of our own, and we. 984 00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:05.719 Talked to Ferby's boss. 985 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:10.360 Tiger Electronics senior VP for marketing tells Fox five quote, 986 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:13.519 Ferby doesn't record, everything's already. 987 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:15.480 In there calling. 988 00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:18.800 Do you see any threat in that? 989 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.360 It could be a threat to people's bucket book. 990 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.719 The NSA's former general counsel, Stuart Baker agreed, But. 991 00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:30.960 I've consulted with a number of experts on this, several 992 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:32.760 nine year old girls who tell me they can't make 993 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:33.440 him record. 994 00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:41.119 And on that count, Baker says he may on behalf 995 00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:44.320 of Ferby file a request for NSA clearance. 996 00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:50.480 There may be another isn't to ban him. 997 00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.880 However, live it. 998 00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.800 From secret location somewhere I'll find Berg fuck five news. 999 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:06.760 Well, I can tell it like al can I tell 1000 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:07.000 you what? 1001 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:09.360 Well, No, we're tonight on just how many Furbies have 1002 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:12.519 infested the NSSA or what the penalty is for having 1003 00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:13.920 a Furbee at Fort Meade. 1004 00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:14.639 It's impting. 1005 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:18.880 So again, it's interesting to see how the government agency 1006 00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:24.000 at the time from an American made toy, right, Tiger Electronics, 1007 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.800 although yeah, it might sound crazy, had its American headquarters 1008 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:31.760 and it was later acquired by another American toy company, 1009 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:34.320 has Bro. Now we know they're using Chinese sweat labor shops, 1010 00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:35.800 we know that, but they. 1011 00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:37.119 Were at least American branded. 1012 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:41.760 That being said, they couldn't tell how these devices worked, 1013 00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:43.079 what made them tick. 1014 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:46.400 Were they recording video or audio? What the situation was. 1015 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.679 All we knew was what we heard from the original 1016 00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.880 news cast that said that these things were learning, They 1017 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.760 were listening to you. They developed personalities based off of 1018 00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:56.119 how you. 1019 00:49:56.079 --> 00:49:58.079 Interacted with them. The more you spoke to them, the 1020 00:49:58.079 --> 00:49:58.760 more they learned. 1021 00:49:59.159 --> 00:50:02.599 So right off the rip, they're either the company, the 1022 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:05.880 manufacturers either saying yeah, they're learning or no, they're not 1023 00:50:05.960 --> 00:50:08.880 learning anything. It took one year's time for them to 1024 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:10.159 go back on that and kind of make up a 1025 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:10.960 whole other story. 1026 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:13.039 I find this interesting, you know, and I feel like 1027 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:17.119 the you know, especially back in those days, what was 1028 00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:20.719 it the uh shit, what was that little recording device 1029 00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:22.760 that Macaulay Culkin had in home alone? 1030 00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.639 Oh uh not the walkman. 1031 00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:28.559 I wanted to say walkman, but that's not what it was. 1032 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:30.280 I used to something man. 1033 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:38.920 Let me see uh, recording the device by I'm Alone. 1034 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:41.599 Okay, because because that came in clutch for him on 1035 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:43.400 more than a few occasions. 1036 00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:51.199 Yeah, yeah, shit, talk boy, that's what it was. Talk boy. Yeah, 1037 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:53.960 we were saying Walkman. Yeah. Yeah. They were really original 1038 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.400 with these names back then, the talk Boy. 1039 00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:56.920 And I love that fucking thing. 1040 00:50:56.920 --> 00:50:58.960 Whenever I got it for Christmas one year, I was like, 1041 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.960 it was like a new PlayStation. Like that's how awesome 1042 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:03.800 it was to me whenever I first got it. And 1043 00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:05.800 then you get it and you're like, oh, this actually 1044 00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:07.360 isn't as cool as I thought it was gonna be, 1045 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:07.920 you know. 1046 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:11.800 Because it's just a voice recorder. That's all it is, 1047 00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:12.320 you know. 1048 00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:16.840 But that being said, it makes me wonder if and 1049 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:19.119 I'm sure somebody has done it, because even if you 1050 00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.599 think about those those big mouth billy basses that you know, 1051 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.440 the take Me Too, the Roof or like those things, 1052 00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:30.440 you can like work on those to sing and dance 1053 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:33.199 to new songs and shit like that, right, And so 1054 00:51:33.239 --> 00:51:36.000 it makes me wonder if you can rewire a Ferbie 1055 00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:39.719 to be like a little surveillance animal or record something, 1056 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:42.280 and and you would just say, oh, it's just a 1057 00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:45.440 Ferbie it's not doing that. Meanwhile, it's recording your entire conversation. 1058 00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:48.599 I'm very glad that you brought it to that level. Again, 1059 00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:53.119 we got a dude who literally built an entire organ 1060 00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:55.440 out of them from just a little bit of some 1061 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:56.840 rewirre wild and want to say a little bit. 1062 00:51:56.960 --> 00:51:59.880 You're going to see the internals of his piano in it. 1063 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.000 It's insane the amount of work old boy put into it. 1064 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:03.639 But we're gonna get to that in a bit. But 1065 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:06.079 uh yeah, you absolutely could take this to make some 1066 00:52:06.199 --> 00:52:08.440 very slight modifications and it could be a spy device. 1067 00:52:08.519 --> 00:52:10.760 But there are those that still to this day believe 1068 00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:14.000 that it was always a spy device, whether we knew 1069 00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:16.440 it or not. But now we're gonna go to the 1070 00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:19.760 CBS article titled the Toy Man, and this is from 1071 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.559 October twenty third of two thousand and two. This is 1072 00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:27.440 talking about Richard Levy, the Hasbro representative that bought that 1073 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.440 later on bought Tiger and made the Ferbi what we 1074 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:31.039 know today. 1075 00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:32.599 So let's get into it here. 1076 00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:35.760 Richard Levy's house may look like any other on a 1077 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.599 quiet street, but looks can be deceiving lurking inside hidden 1078 00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:42.880 from the outside view are hundreds of creatures waiting to play. 1079 00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.320 The toy creatures are Ferby's. You may be wondering why 1080 00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:49.199 a grown man has a wall full of fuzzy toys. Well, 1081 00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:52.280 Levy is the face behind Ferby. He helped develop the 1082 00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.599 creature and his friends. More than forty three million were 1083 00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:58.639 sold in fifty two countries. But there's more to Levy's 1084 00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:01.400 career than the Ferby phenomena. Is a direct quote from 1085 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:03.920 Levy said one day, I'm working on a doll. The 1086 00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:07.079 next day I'm working on a game Family Reunion or 1087 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:10.000 Root sixty six. The next day I'm working on a 1088 00:53:10.039 --> 00:53:13.360 new type of phaser, said Levy. The inventor tinkered with 1089 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:16.840 toys for decades and has a special workshot to prove it. 1090 00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:20.159 He calls it his never never Land. The fifty two 1091 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:24.320 year old has invented, developed, designed, and licensed hundreds of ideas. 1092 00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:27.039 It took the concept, he says. I took the concept 1093 00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:29.679 from popular Dunk and Yo Yo and made it into 1094 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:33.039 a key chain, said Levy. Toy companies get thousands of 1095 00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:36.400 ideas every year, but most rely on a small crop 1096 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:39.840 of inventors like Levy. The hot Licks guitar was one 1097 00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:42.519 of his greatest hits. But for every toy that sells, 1098 00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.880 there are dozens that don't. Levey has a cabinet filled 1099 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:49.000 with products that have never gone anywhere. He said, rejection 1100 00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.239 doesn't hurt his confidence. To me, it's all about the hunt. 1101 00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:55.280 I love the challenge, said Levy. It's all about the game. 1102 00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:58.000 It's all about the fun of doing it. It's not 1103 00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:00.280 about the money you make or anything else. I have 1104 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:02.280 a hard time believing that. But neither here nor there. 1105 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:06.000 Levy had always owned toys. His first was a little truck. 1106 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:09.280 He will never ever ever retire. He has the passion 1107 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:12.039 and the love of it in his dreams. Cheryl Levy, 1108 00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:14.519 his wife, said, Dude, I love toy. 1109 00:54:14.519 --> 00:54:18.519 That goot licks guitar. I never seen one of those before, dude. 1110 00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:21.639 It's like it's like garage band. But yeah, in the 1111 00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:25.079 nineteen eighty nine version, Yeah, and you wouldn't plug it 1112 00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:25.679 up to your TV. 1113 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:28.599 It was basically like a toy guitar that you would 1114 00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:30.480 push a button and then strum it and then boom. 1115 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:32.519 It sounds like you're just riffing, you know. 1116 00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:32.880 Yeah. 1117 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:35.400 Well, I guess it would be more right to say 1118 00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:37.239 guitar hero because Guitar Hero. 1119 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:40.440 Dude, it missed me on the the people. 1120 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.840 That say Garage Band was better than Guitar Hero, I'm like, 1121 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:45.679 get the fuck out of here. It was not even close. 1122 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:48.440 Guitar Hero was the better one. What's your thoughts on that. 1123 00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:51.760 I think that you wouldn't have had Garage Band without 1124 00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:52.440 Guitar Hero. 1125 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:54.800 Honestly. I do like how Garage Band gave you the 1126 00:54:54.880 --> 00:54:55.480 drum option. 1127 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.760 You had the singer that had to like keep their 1128 00:54:57.840 --> 00:54:59.840 voice in a certain pitch, and it made it fun 1129 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:02.239 for more than one person, And I get down with that, right, 1130 00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:07.920 But honestly, Guitar Hero was the pinnacle of all of 1131 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:09.519 it from me or if nothing else, it opened the 1132 00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:10.639 flood gates for sure. 1133 00:55:10.840 --> 00:55:11.760 Oh yeah, dude. 1134 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:14.000 I remember staying up until like five in the morning 1135 00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:17.000 just trying to beat those levels. Especially Guitar Hero three 1136 00:55:17.079 --> 00:55:18.760 was probably the best one of all time. 1137 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:23.880 Like, dude, it's hard to even find those those remotes 1138 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:25.920 for it any more. Guitar Hero remote. Yeah, you can 1139 00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:27.480 go on eBay and you can find them and stuff. 1140 00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:29.199 But every time that I've had a friend of mine 1141 00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:31.599 buy one, it's always like beat to shit. 1142 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:34.800 The little pedal, the wah wah on it. 1143 00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:36.639 You have to beat the shit out of it though, 1144 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:41.119 you know, especially on like the hardest modes, and oh yeah, 1145 00:55:41.159 --> 00:55:44.119 I mean if you weren't autistic with it, you weren't 1146 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:45.320 beating those levels. 1147 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:49.679 Expert level on beasting the harlet from Avenge Sevenfold or 1148 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:55.440 expert on one from Metallica, Like you had to like 1149 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:57.639 spash your whole hand out and you couldn't just like 1150 00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:00.639 lightly tap it at a certain point. Like, yeah, those 1151 00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:02.440 things just got the shit beat out of them, which 1152 00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:05.159 I get, but also yeah, it's very very hard to 1153 00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:07.199 find any of those. They're still workable these days. 1154 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:08.480 Yeah, I agree. 1155 00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:11.480 I mean, Guitar Hero, those were some of the best 1156 00:56:11.519 --> 00:56:13.880 times ever. That was the song I was thinking of 1157 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:15.840 Fire and Flames dragon Force. 1158 00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:20.280 Oh my God, which a bit of a misnomer. The 1159 00:56:20.360 --> 00:56:23.119 dude's not even playing it like that, like he's finger 1160 00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:26.280 tapping and which, don't me wrong. I'm not like knocking 1161 00:56:26.599 --> 00:56:29.760 the abilities of the guy who does the song, but 1162 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:32.880 basically they overlaid like two different guitars on top of 1163 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:35.119 each other to make Dragon Force what it is through 1164 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:37.519 the fire and flames. Then they cut to making down 1165 00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:39.320 a video game, and these kids are like there's no 1166 00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:40.760 fucking way this guy is playing this. 1167 00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:44.360 He's a genius. He's the next level mastery of a guitar. 1168 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:47.400 Then you watch the YouTube videos and you're like, oh, it's. 1169 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:48.039 Not even like that. 1170 00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:50.360 Yeah, yeah, well they had to make the level harder, 1171 00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:50.840 you know. 1172 00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:52.360 It was. 1173 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:53.320 That was crazy. 1174 00:56:53.599 --> 00:56:55.159 And also I still get down to that song to 1175 00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:57.280 this day because it's like, that's impressive. 1176 00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:00.159 Yeah it is. Yeah, it is such a banger. 1177 00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:03.079 All right, So moving on, It says the love of 1178 00:57:03.119 --> 00:57:05.159 toys is rubbed off on his family. Cheryl runs the 1179 00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:07.880 financial side of the business, and their daughter Betty briefly 1180 00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:10.880 followed in her father's footsteps. There's no age limit when 1181 00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:14.079 it comes to fun. Even Washington power elite appreciate a 1182 00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:17.239 good time. Levy received a letter from the Secretary of 1183 00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:21.199 Defense Donald Rumsfeld quote I sent him a copy of 1184 00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:21.599 my game. 1185 00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.679 Spirit of America recalled Levy, what a great guy. 1186 00:57:24.760 --> 00:57:27.440 He sent me back a wonderful letter with a personal 1187 00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:30.000 check because he couldn't accept the gift, but he wanted 1188 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:33.440 to keep the game and a special patriotic Ferby landed 1189 00:57:33.480 --> 00:57:37.119 on a former president's desk. The letter reads, thank you 1190 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:39.440 for my wonderful Ferby now I can finally see what 1191 00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:40.440 all the fuss is about. 1192 00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:43.360 It's a lot of fun. Sincerely, Bill Clinton. 1193 00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.440 I'm surprised that old Rumsfeld didn't lose that letter. 1194 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:50.840 You know, he lost how many trillions of dollars or something, 1195 00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:52.519 but somehow didn't lose that video game. 1196 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:53.199 Interesting. 1197 00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:58.159 Yeah, but yeah, so and again, whenever Bill Clinton's impeachment 1198 00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:00.480 hearing was going on after he got Dome the Oval 1199 00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:05.119 office from old Monica, apparently the Ferbie on his desk, 1200 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.199 that super patriotic special edition that was sent to him. 1201 00:58:08.440 --> 00:58:12.239 They even brought that up, And I'm curious, was that 1202 00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:16.760 Ferbie recording on the day when Monica hit her knees Listen. 1203 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:19.639 I don't know this for a fact, but it's very possible. 1204 00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:25.960 Yeah, that'd be an interesting plot twist. Imagine there's actual 1205 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:26.679 footage of that. 1206 00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:29.199 Oh god, that would be terrifying. 1207 00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:31.280 I in no way, shape or form do I want 1208 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:33.800 to watch old billiam Clinton getting domed that. 1209 00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:34.800 That sounds nasty. 1210 00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:37.039 On the other hand, I'm not shocked. 1211 00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:39.519 I mean, I know that Bill Clinton was, you know, 1212 00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:41.960 in tight with Jeffrey Epstein, wearing a blue dress and 1213 00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:44.320 red high heels and all that fun jazz, But like, 1214 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:48.920 you don't blame them for getting with Monica Lewinsky because 1215 00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:51.519 who would ever want to fuck Hillary Clinton? 1216 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:54.519 He did at least one time. Their daughter, Chelsea is 1217 00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:55.880 a spitting image of both of them. 1218 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:59.519 It's crazy but satanic spawn. 1219 00:58:59.639 --> 00:58:59.800 Bro. 1220 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:01.760 Yeah, she's a butt baby. 1221 00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:04.440 That's what that looks like, all grown up, straight out 1222 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:07.880 the butt. But I mean, even looking back, dude, Monica 1223 00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:10.280 wasn't exactly a well, at least in my opinion, she 1224 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:12.639 wasn't like a dining piece by any means. But I 1225 00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.079 guess anything's better than ol' Killary, I get it. 1226 00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:18.920 Yeah, yeah, it was, especially if Hillary's like coming into 1227 00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:22.079 the bedroom, like all wearing a frazzle drip mask and. 1228 00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.280 Shit, You're like, get the fuck out of here, Hillary, 1229 00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:25.360 what are you doing, dude? 1230 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:29.679 Smelling like fucking blood and death. No, I'm getting all that, 1231 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.960 But I mean at the same time, Bill had a 1232 00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:34.199 lot of blood on his hands too, So at that 1233 00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:36.719 point they just kind of had a satanic blood. 1234 00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:38.880 Packed if you will. I mean they were at Brohemian 1235 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:41.760 Grove too, you know, they were at well they were 1236 00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:44.039 Hillary was a I. 1237 00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:47.199 Keep on saying Brohemian, but it's both. No, Hillary went 1238 00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:51.079 remember the Satanic Wizard told us that Hillary out there 1239 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:52.559 and he had to like he was asking Bill if 1240 00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:54.599 he could escort her out because it's an all boys club. 1241 00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. Damn Bohemian Grove, dude, 1242 00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:01.159 And that's kind of fallen. There's a new one, and 1243 01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:03.400 we do need to do an episode on it. Bohemian 1244 01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:05.599 and Grove used to be like the spot where real 1245 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:08.280 change would get made and stuff, but now the lid's 1246 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:10.360 been blown off of it. They yeah, they still have 1247 01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:12.800 their little annual meetings, but it is not like it 1248 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.679 used to be. It's more like the I guess the 1249 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:18.039 entry level. It used to be like Skull and Bones 1250 01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:22.320 was the entry level to Bohemian. Now Skull and Bones 1251 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:24.800 is the entry level to the entry level. 1252 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:28.320 To the real thing, right, right, yeah, they got I'm 1253 01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:30.760 sure there's a bunch of different crazy meetups and some 1254 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:34.159 you know, off plot sector of the Woods that nobody 1255 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:34.880 knows exists. 1256 01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:38.880 But anyway, let's gip ahead here a little bit. 1257 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:41.960 Actually, you know, that's it for this one, just to 1258 01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:44.880 kind of give a background to one of the toy creators, right, 1259 01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:47.599 he just was a toy designer himself. He has no 1260 01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.960 background in UH any kind of espionage or anything. But 1261 01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:54.000 he did team up with the other two UH inventors 1262 01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:57.400 and made the ferby what it became so on screen 1263 01:00:57.440 --> 01:00:57.840 right now. 1264 01:00:57.760 --> 01:00:58.760 You see this. 1265 01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:01.960 This is a Ferbie that was released in a McDonald's 1266 01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.960 toy from two thousand that looks completely different than the 1267 01:01:05.960 --> 01:01:08.239 furbies you would buy off the shelves. But people were 1268 01:01:08.280 --> 01:01:12.079 losing their collective shit and buying like twenty different Happy 1269 01:01:12.079 --> 01:01:14.360 Meals to make sure that they got all twelve of 1270 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:16.440 these or six or whatever the run was that was 1271 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:17.519 released for McDonald's. 1272 01:01:17.519 --> 01:01:19.719 For the collector of it, Oh, it was mind blowing. 1273 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:23.840 People always flocked to get, you know, to collect all 1274 01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:26.280 of the McDonald's Happy Meals, Like, dude, it was back 1275 01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:28.079 in what was it like back in the eighties, dude, 1276 01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:31.480 they used to give like Star Wars like glass cups, 1277 01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:36.519 memorabilia and like really like actually somewhat valuable shit, you know. 1278 01:01:37.840 --> 01:01:40.519 And then you know, and people saw that that stuff 1279 01:01:40.559 --> 01:01:42.320 was going for a lot of money to turn it 1280 01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:46.400 into a collector's item, And yeah, I mean, I get it. 1281 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:48.679 It's fun to collect shit, though, you know what I mean, 1282 01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:50.880 Like it is a fun hobby if you're trying to 1283 01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:52.719 collect everything. Like there was a point in my life 1284 01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:54.480 where I was trying to collect all the Pokemon cards 1285 01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:57.440 and then I gave all of mine away for a 1286 01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:00.880 uh I think it was a Tipman five hundred paint 1287 01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:02.639 now with some of. 1288 01:02:02.639 --> 01:02:05.880 Those Pokemon cards and unopened packs are selling for now, dude. 1289 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:09.719 I had literally so you know those uh, those those 1290 01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:12.320 pages that you would keep and you'd put like, uh, 1291 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:14.480 you'd put them into your binder, right. 1292 01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:16.119 Yeah, the car collection binders. 1293 01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:18.480 Yeah, you can put nine cards on a page, right. 1294 01:02:18.840 --> 01:02:21.960 I had an entire page of first edition charge Yards 1295 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:25.760 bro an entire page of them, yeah, And I was 1296 01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:28.199 just like, ah, they're just stupid little cards because you know, 1297 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:30.199 Yu gi oh was coming out and it was like 1298 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:32.039 I felt like it was getting watered down and nobody 1299 01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:34.360 was gonna fuck with it anymore. And I traded away 1300 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:35.320 for a paintball gun. 1301 01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:37.519 I thought I was getting a steal because that paintball 1302 01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:40.840 gun was the shit, right, And now if I'd held 1303 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:43.440 onto that, I well, I'd probably still be doing what 1304 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:47.320 I'm doing now anyway, you know, right, yeah, maybe the 1305 01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:50.039 guy who was tipping the pizza guy with bitcoin back 1306 01:02:50.039 --> 01:02:52.679 in the day and now You're just like no that yeah, 1307 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:56.440 same vibe. Yeah. So all right, now I got the 1308 01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:57.639 Wikipedia page pulled up. 1309 01:02:57.679 --> 01:02:59.360 It's gonna give us a little more in depth on 1310 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:01.639 the Ferbie in the background to it all. 1311 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:02.920 Let's dive in, shall we. 1312 01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:07.320 Ferbey is an American electronic robotic toy created by Tiger Electronics, 1313 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:12.119 a subsidiary of Hasbro. Originally released in October of ninety eight, 1314 01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:14.840 it resembles a sugar glider like creature and went through 1315 01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:17.199 a period of being a must have toy following its 1316 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:20.079 holiday season launch. More than forty million Ferbies were sold 1317 01:03:20.119 --> 01:03:22.400 during the three years of its original production, with one 1318 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.480 point eight million sold in ninety eight and fourteen million 1319 01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:28.719 sold in ninety nine. Its speaking capabilities were translated in 1320 01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:32.199 fourteen languages. Ferbies were the first successful attempt to produce 1321 01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:35.639 and sell a domestically aimed robot. A newly purchased Ferbe 1322 01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:38.480 or a Ferbe that has been reset, starts out speaking 1323 01:03:38.719 --> 01:03:42.079 entirely Furbish, the unique language that all Ferbies speak, but 1324 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.079 it is programmed to start speaking English words and phrases 1325 01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:49.119 in place of Furbish over time. This process is intended 1326 01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:52.880 to resemble the process of learning English for four years. 1327 01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:56.599 After the toy's end of production, Hasbro introduced an updated 1328 01:03:56.639 --> 01:03:59.880 Ferby in two thousand and five called the Emototronic Ferby. 1329 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.320 This updated Ferby has voice recognition and more complex facial movements, 1330 01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:07.000 and was sold until two thousand and seven. Ferby with 1331 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:10.119 black and white LCD eyes and a mobile app was 1332 01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.320 released for the holiday season in twenty twelve. Another updated 1333 01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:17.599 Ferby with color LCD eyes, known as Ferby Connect, was 1334 01:04:17.639 --> 01:04:20.679 released in twenty sixteen. The last generation was released in 1335 01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:23.840 twenty twenty three. Yes, indeed, now let's go into a 1336 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:27.159 little bit of this initial creation. I gave some overview 1337 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:28.719 to it. This will actually do a better job of 1338 01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:31.719 explaining it. Dave Hampton and Caleb Chunk spent nine months 1339 01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:35.840 creating the Ferby, in addition to nine months spent designing 1340 01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:39.719 the toy. After two attempts at licensing the concept, they 1341 01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:43.679 invited fellow toy and game adventured Richard C. Levy to 1342 01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:47.280 join their efforts to sell Ferby. Levy brought Ferby to 1343 01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:52.199 Tiger Electronics, and Tigers Roger Schiffman bought the rights to it. 1344 01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:56.719 Ferby's first public appearance was at the nineteen ninety eight 1345 01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.480 American International Toy Fair held in New York City. Product 1346 01:05:00.599 --> 01:05:05.280 officially launched on October second, nineteen ninety eight, Ferbies originally 1347 01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:09.159 retailed for about thirty five US dollars, and upon release 1348 01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:13.119 they sold very well. Catapulting demand during the ninety eight 1349 01:05:13.239 --> 01:05:16.800 Christmas period drove the resale price over one hundred dollars 1350 01:05:17.079 --> 01:05:20.119 and sometimes as high as several hundred dollars. Ferbies were 1351 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:23.760 sold for over three hundred dollars in newspapers and in auctions. 1352 01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:28.239 Nicknames were given to the different esthetic varieties, and sellers 1353 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:32.719 assigned rarity values to them. The significant aftermarket demand and 1354 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:36.360 price for the toy resulted in cases of fraud in 1355 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:40.159 which customers paid for Ferbies that were never delivered. As 1356 01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.280 supplies dwindled and when retail supplies ran out, buyers turned 1357 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:47.119 to the Internet, where Ferbies could be purchased for two, three, 1358 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:51.920 or more multiples of their retail price. During one twelve 1359 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:56.239 month period, a total of twenty seven million Ferbies were sold. 1360 01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:03.320 That is actually insane. In a year, twenty seven million 1361 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:07.280 were sold. Like that's that's mind blowing numbers as far 1362 01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:09.679 as like business is concerned. And even if those are 1363 01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:13.360 all retail thirty five dollars a pop. Brother, they made off. 1364 01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:15.880 Like fucking bandits off of these little bitches, which I mean, 1365 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:18.719 that was the idea and I get that, but again, 1366 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:21.519 they for everybody who's thinking that the whole uh, like 1367 01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:24.119 you're seeing on TikTok and on Instagram and on YouTube 1368 01:06:24.159 --> 01:06:27.679 these unboxing videos and how like the resale and these things, 1369 01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:30.440 and that's such a greedy way to do things, brother, 1370 01:06:30.599 --> 01:06:33.199 let's not get twisted. That's been the way for quite 1371 01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:34.639 some time. As soon as something. 1372 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:37.000 Is exclusive and you know there's only so many of them, 1373 01:06:37.280 --> 01:06:39.559 you're gonna have people that are gonna make it a 1374 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:41.559 buyer's market and they're gonna go and buy a bunch 1375 01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:42.960 of them as soon as they drop at the store 1376 01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:44.880 so that they could resell them later and make money. 1377 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.960 That's been the way of human economy for quite some time. 1378 01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:49.199 Yeah. 1379 01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:52.360 Unfortunately, they uh, they stated at the blackjack table a 1380 01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:55.679 little too long, and you know, I'm sure they lost 1381 01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:57.599 a lot of money by creating a bunch of new 1382 01:06:57.639 --> 01:07:00.719 ones and shutting down because nobody was buying them and everything. 1383 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:03.079 So yeah, that's just what happened. 1384 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.320 But so now let's talk about this is when it 1385 01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:09.079 was real hot and heavy. As far as the NSA 1386 01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:11.880 getting involved, it was in the first generation of ferbis. 1387 01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:14.599 So now let's get into that first generation learn a 1388 01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:16.480 little bit more about the types and things. 1389 01:07:16.960 --> 01:07:21.239 The main reason for their popularity was because of apparent intelligence, 1390 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:24.559 as reflected in their ability to develop language skills. Ferbies 1391 01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:28.039 can communicate with one another via an infrared port located 1392 01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:29.079 between their eyes. 1393 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:31.079 With that third eye all the way open. 1394 01:07:31.639 --> 01:07:36.480 Ferbi starts speaking out entirely or starts speaking for entirely Furbish, 1395 01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:40.639 a language with short words, simple syllables, and various other sounds. 1396 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:43.440 They are programmed, however, to speak less and less Furbish 1397 01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:45.840 and more and more English as they quote unquote grow 1398 01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:52.840 according to the variant it knew nine languages, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Greek, 1399 01:07:52.880 --> 01:07:57.119 and Portuguese. There was a common misconception that they repeated 1400 01:07:57.159 --> 01:08:00.960 words that were said around them. This belief most likely 1401 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:03.119 stemmed from the fact that it is possible to have 1402 01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:07.639 the ferby say certain pre programmed words or phrases more 1403 01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:11.480 often by petting it whenever it's said these words. As 1404 01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:14.719 a result of this myth, several intelligence agencies banned them 1405 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:18.159 from their offices. A simple electronic motor and a system 1406 01:08:18.199 --> 01:08:21.680 of cams and gears close close the verb, the Ferby's 1407 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:24.840 eyes and mouth raise its ears and lifted off the 1408 01:08:24.840 --> 01:08:28.439 ground in a faux display of mobility. The Originals are 1409 01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:32.960 popular with many hackers as they can be dissected and 1410 01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:36.560 made to do interesting things. In particular, their advanced audio 1411 01:08:36.680 --> 01:08:40.760 capabilities and various sensory interfaces make them popular with circuit 1412 01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:44.359 bending community. Interesting like I thought. 1413 01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:44.640 Yep. 1414 01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:49.520 McDonald's happy meal toy Ferbie Shelby was released in two 1415 01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:50.560 thousand in the UK. 1416 01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:52.159 There are eight. 1417 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:55.479 There are eight to collect in total, four classic look 1418 01:08:55.560 --> 01:08:58.479 and for clams. These toys can sing to each other 1419 01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:00.479 via a sensor in feet. 1420 01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:04.760 All right, now, with all that being said, here they're 1421 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.199 talking about how when they start they're speaking Furbish and 1422 01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:11.039 it doesn't just go to English. Depending on how you 1423 01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:13.199 spoke to them, it could answer you in any of 1424 01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:14.640 these nine languages, dude. 1425 01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:17.319 So basically Greek being one of them. 1426 01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.239 If it got opened by a kid speaking Greek, give 1427 01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:22.680 it a little bit of time and it will start 1428 01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:23.560 answering in Greek. 1429 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:27.000 If it's not recording, how does it know to do that. 1430 01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:31.600 Yeah, yeah, that's that's bullshit. 1431 01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:34.279 And now there's some that say that this might have 1432 01:09:34.359 --> 01:09:38.159 been the first introduction to a home AI type of 1433 01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:44.239 robot situation, but the creators have stated multiple multiple times 1434 01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:47.359 that there was no AI integrated into the Ferbi. There 1435 01:09:47.399 --> 01:09:48.960 was no microphone into the Ferby. 1436 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:49.640 There. 1437 01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:53.479 It wasn't actually interacting with you. It doesn't repeat things 1438 01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.439 that you say to it, even though there's tons of 1439 01:09:56.520 --> 01:09:59.119 cases of people that are saying that it absolutely would 1440 01:09:59.159 --> 01:10:02.000 start repeating words and phrases that you would say to it, 1441 01:10:02.439 --> 01:10:05.560 Like all right, late nineties, do you remember a phrase saying, oh, bro, 1442 01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:06.359 that's the bomb? 1443 01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:08.079 Oh yeah, everybody said that. 1444 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:12.840 Okay, there's cases of Ferbi's answering with saying that that's 1445 01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:15.439 not a phrase that was actually programmed into it, So 1446 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:17.119 where did it pick that up from? 1447 01:10:17.520 --> 01:10:18.399 Now, With that being. 1448 01:10:18.239 --> 01:10:20.239 Said, there was also some cases where it sounded like 1449 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:25.319 the Ferbies were saying some foul things to customers and whatnot. 1450 01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:28.399 One of them in particular, is where they thought that 1451 01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:29.760 the Ferby was saying fuck me. 1452 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:32.079 In reality, it was saying hug me. 1453 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:38.159 But because of the kind of weird speakers to it, 1454 01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:41.640 and it wasn't the crispus of sound. I absolutely could 1455 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:44.680 understand why that would sound like that, but you could 1456 01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:46.680 go back and look, no, no, it was saying hug me. 1457 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:51.479 But of course during the Satanic panic that was going on, especially, 1458 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:54.039 you got these little grimlin looking toys, and now it's 1459 01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:55.520 saying fuck me to my children. 1460 01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:57.000 No, I ain't having that up my house. 1461 01:10:57.279 --> 01:10:59.199 You could see where it would go sideways with that. 1462 01:10:59.199 --> 01:11:01.800 That was the next say tannic toy after like dungeons 1463 01:11:01.800 --> 01:11:02.720 and dragons and shit. 1464 01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:04.720 Exactly exactly. 1465 01:11:04.840 --> 01:11:08.760 So moving on fur babies, in ninety nine, the Ferbie 1466 01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:12.840 Baby's line was introduced. Ferbie Babies are smaller than the original, 1467 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:16.159 having higher voices and cannot dance, but they switched to 1468 01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:19.800 speaking English more quickly. They also have an extended vocabulary 1469 01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:23.119 and different Easter eggs quote unquote and games quote unquote 1470 01:11:23.119 --> 01:11:26.520 built into them. Ferbie Babies come in twenty four different colors, 1471 01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:30.239 all having white eyelashes and one of six different eye colors. 1472 01:11:31.079 --> 01:11:33.920 Then they later went on too like Ferbie Friends. Novel 1473 01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:38.520 furbies were also released, including interactive Ferbie Style gizmo. We 1474 01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:41.279 watched the commercial for that one from the Grimlins movie. 1475 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:45.039 A Ferbie Style interactive Yoda based off the Star Wars character, 1476 01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:48.479 a Ferbie style interactive ET from the movie of the 1477 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:51.279 same name, Everybody Knows Et Phone Home, and which is 1478 01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:53.640 also crazy that movie came out in the eighties, didn't it. 1479 01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:58.239 Yeah, yeah, I was like eighty seven. Let me, I 1480 01:11:58.279 --> 01:11:58.640 don't know. 1481 01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:03.399 Meanwhile, well, these friendly Ferbie types were being released in 1482 01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:06.319 the late nineties, like ninety nine and two thousand, so 1483 01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:08.800 I also find that interesting that ET was able to 1484 01:12:08.840 --> 01:12:09.960 traverse time like this. 1485 01:12:10.119 --> 01:12:13.920 Actually ET came out in eighty two, eighty two, damn. 1486 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:15.960 So yeah, because I mean, Drew Barrymore was. 1487 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:20.720 A child exactly, so the Ferby friends, and they were 1488 01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:23.720 making their money off of as granted, Yoda. Star Wars 1489 01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:26.920 introduced Yoda way back in the day. But my point 1490 01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:29.000 is though they were seeing and even Grimlins that was 1491 01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:32.640 an eighties movie, but Ferby was still able to capitalize 1492 01:12:32.680 --> 01:12:35.920 off of that fandom into the late nineties and early 1493 01:12:35.960 --> 01:12:39.680 two thousands, which I also think is pretty incredible. But anyway, yeah, 1494 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.199 so I'm looking up when Gremlins came out in eighty four. Yeah, 1495 01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:43.880 eighty four. 1496 01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:48.800 It's crazy that they were still riding the wave off 1497 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:51.800 of those fandoms into the late nineties when those came 1498 01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:53.720 out in the early eighties, that's impressive. 1499 01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:56.720 Yeah, I mean it's pop culture. Pop culture survives beyond, 1500 01:12:56.880 --> 01:12:58.319 you know, just the year that it's released. 1501 01:12:58.920 --> 01:13:01.760 But pop culture is also different these days, right, like 1502 01:13:01.800 --> 01:13:04.640 the whole six seven thing that's not gonna be a 1503 01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:06.920 thing two years from now, but right now it's like 1504 01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:09.079 the shit and even now it's starting to weigh in popularity. 1505 01:13:09.159 --> 01:13:11.680 Yeah, but you think about it like pop culture was. 1506 01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:14.640 If you think about like the whole six seven shit 1507 01:13:14.880 --> 01:13:16.920 or whatever the fuck the kids are saying nowadays, and 1508 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:19.159 whatever is going to be next, that is stuff that's 1509 01:13:19.159 --> 01:13:22.000 created on TikTok. You know, it's not even something that 1510 01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:26.880 necessarily everybody's going to see. Everybody saw et everybody saw 1511 01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:29.760 Star Wars, everybody saw Gremlin. So it was in like 1512 01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:33.199 the collective conscious you could say, right, agree and and 1513 01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:36.880 so maybe that's why pop culture these things almost represented 1514 01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:39.680 like fucking little archetypes, you know what I'm saying. Like, 1515 01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:41.640 if you thought of a Yoda, you looked at that 1516 01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:43.760 fucking thing, you knew what it was gonna say, you 1517 01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:45.319 knew how it thought, you knew it was like this 1518 01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:49.439 wise little baby wizard looking fucking thing, And yeah, it's 1519 01:13:49.479 --> 01:13:51.439 weird as far as the whole six to seven thing, 1520 01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:56.319 that's just it's stupid pop culture. It's not classic pop culture, agreed. 1521 01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:58.600 But all I was trying to say is that pop. 1522 01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:02.960 Culture goes way quicker these days because of social media. 1523 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:05.399 In ninety nine and two thousand and two thousand and one, 1524 01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:08.960 there was no social media, right. Think about these movies 1525 01:14:09.000 --> 01:14:13.520 we just talked about et Grimlins, Star Wars. How we 1526 01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:16.640 could even take it to Adam Sandler's movies, The Fucking 1527 01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:20.399 Happy Gilmore, The water Boy. These things stayed in the 1528 01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:23.840 cultural zeitgeist to pop culture for at the very bare 1529 01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.199 minimum a decade most of the time even longer than that. 1530 01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:30.840 These days, whatever's like hot two years ago. If I 1531 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:32.840 was to bring something up, you'd be like, oh, yeah, man, 1532 01:14:32.840 --> 01:14:36.079 I forgot about those, But you ain't forgot about water Boy. 1533 01:14:36.520 --> 01:14:37.239 Right right. 1534 01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:41.000 And here's another example, dude, My daughter started saying, get 1535 01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:44.000 a load of this guy, and I was like, where 1536 01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:46.760 the fuck are you getting this? And I was like, 1537 01:14:47.199 --> 01:14:49.760 I know that that was in movies for sure, right, 1538 01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:52.239 But where was it first talked about? Like where did 1539 01:14:52.239 --> 01:14:55.079 it become sort of like this pop culture that turned 1540 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:57.520 it into this meme of the Internet. It was fucking 1541 01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:02.760 Wayne's World, really, dude, ninety two Wayne's World. I'm like, 1542 01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:06.000 why are kids now referencing a nineteen ninety two movie 1543 01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:06.319 like that? 1544 01:15:06.439 --> 01:15:09.000 Is just crazy? Makes no sense. 1545 01:15:09.319 --> 01:15:12.840 But to them on the Internet, because of a TikTok 1546 01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:16.960 probably or something on the socials, it is now revitalized 1547 01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:19.239 and retooled and reformat it and now it's cool again. 1548 01:15:19.359 --> 01:15:21.680 It's it's wild how that works. But that's my point. 1549 01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:25.119 Pop culture back in these days it ran longer than 1550 01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:26.640 it does now. It's crazy. 1551 01:15:26.840 --> 01:15:29.800 But anyway, and even now, did you know that, I 1552 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:35.279 believe it was back in eighty six, eight eighty seven 1553 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:37.800 something like that. Did you know that the CIA was 1554 01:15:37.880 --> 01:15:42.560 working on this essentially a mind control tool. It was 1555 01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:45.479 called memeic me medic magic. 1556 01:15:46.159 --> 01:15:50.600 Yeah, we talked about that. Memes are a CIA constructed thing. 1557 01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:56.239 Crazy, dude, Like, before people even had the Internet, they 1558 01:15:56.319 --> 01:16:00.720 already had concepted. The idea of Internet memes just goes 1559 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:03.199 to show how far in the future they're living. 1560 01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:05.079 That's a very good point. 1561 01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:08.600 Meme culture didn't become a thing realistically until the mid 1562 01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:12.560 two thousands, right. Meanwhile, the CI already had that knew 1563 01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:14.359 what to do, knew how to post and do all 1564 01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:15.159 these things. 1565 01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:18.600 In the eighties. Let that one marinate as long as needed, brother, 1566 01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:21.880 crazy dude, Yeah, anyway. 1567 01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:24.159 I mean it's a design for triggers, you know what 1568 01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:26.359 I mean if you really think about it, like you 1569 01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:30.119 see a Peppy the Frog, you're instantly assuming maga or 1570 01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:33.840 something like that, right, And it's like it's crazy, just 1571 01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:37.279 how the they just know what buttons to push in 1572 01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:39.479 the average person's subconscious mind. 1573 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:42.800 Bro, think about this Bad Luck Brian was already thought 1574 01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:44.920 about before Bad Luck Brian was ever born. 1575 01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:49.199 Yeah, dude, how about Kyle with the Monster. 1576 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:51.760 Can they already knew that they were going to do 1577 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:54.800 that before the Monster Enter Drink Drink Company became a thing? 1578 01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:59.640 Yeah? Or what's his name from? Oh shit, what is 1579 01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:01.520 it called? Lord of the Rings? 1580 01:17:01.720 --> 01:17:04.239 One does not simply you know, like that one was 1581 01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:05.840 going around like crazy too, you know. 1582 01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:08.680 And the c I already had that thing planned in 1583 01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:10.319 the eighties. It's wild. 1584 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:13.159 It is crazy, dude, fucking bot Farms. 1585 01:17:13.960 --> 01:17:15.720 We actually you know what, Yeah, I'm gona writ that 1586 01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:20.000 bitch down. We're gonna do a CIA meme episode here soon. 1587 01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:21.399 That's absolutely going on. 1588 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:26.000 To the page. Yeah, thats happen, so now moving on. 1589 01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:29.000 They also have sensors that can sense loud sounds, can 1590 01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:32.399 sense being upside down. They say things like shiver me 1591 01:17:32.439 --> 01:17:35.199 timbers and walk the plank when left upside down for 1592 01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:38.159 an extended period of time, and they laugh when they 1593 01:17:38.159 --> 01:17:43.760 are tickled quote unquote. They're Antennas or Tenny's as they 1594 01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:46.399 like to call them. They also purr when they're petted. 1595 01:17:46.720 --> 01:17:50.319 They can be fed by sticking your finger in their mouth. Similarly, 1596 01:17:50.479 --> 01:17:53.880 Shelby's do not have their own name. Unlike the classic furbies, 1597 01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:56.920 Shelby's are also capable of knowing if it's talking to 1598 01:17:56.960 --> 01:18:00.960 a Ferby or another Shelby, saying phrases such as where's Ferby, 1599 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:05.039 though they cannot differentiate between a Ferby and a Ferby baby, 1600 01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:08.239 they just assume it's a Ferby. In addition to English, 1601 01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:12.560 Shelby's also know some Furbish words and also had their 1602 01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:17.000 own unique language called shelbish It's. They just kind of 1603 01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:19.079 brought it in and kept changing it, taking in it 1604 01:18:19.159 --> 01:18:20.119 as popular as they could. 1605 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:23.520 As far as that tickle feature, there's another toy that 1606 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.319 is very well known for being tickled and speaking to you. 1607 01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:29.079 You know, the tickle Me Elmo led to actual riots, 1608 01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:32.199 like people got actually injured in mals trying to buy 1609 01:18:32.199 --> 01:18:32.920 the tickle me Elbow. 1610 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:33.680 Will you remember that? 1611 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:37.039 Which came out in ninety six, So it pres the uh, 1612 01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:38.279 the Ferby. 1613 01:18:38.920 --> 01:18:40.640 They kept trying to make it more and more of 1614 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:44.560 a revamp to do what they could. Now continuing on here, 1615 01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:50.840 there's the second generation, the emmotatronic Ferbie Babies, the emotatronic 1616 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:55.600 Funky Ferbies. Then there was a third generation Ferby party Rockers, 1617 01:18:55.720 --> 01:19:01.399 Ferby Booms Furblings, Ferby Boom Crystals, Ferby Boom Crystal Furblings 1618 01:19:01.720 --> 01:19:04.840 for Baca. In twenty fifteen they made a Chewbacca styled 1619 01:19:04.840 --> 01:19:08.760 Ferbi you know. Then the fourth generation. Now they have 1620 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:11.239 their fifth generation that is still able to be born today. 1621 01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:14.399 Now as far as the technology is concerned, the original 1622 01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:17.359 Ferbi source code was written in assembly language for the 1623 01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:21.640 six five zero two microprocessor. The first Ferbi model was 1624 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:25.800 based around that style. Sun Plus SPC eight one a 1625 01:19:26.239 --> 01:19:31.560 micro microme microcontroller excuse me, got my eyes which had 1626 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:36.560 an eighty KiB of RAM Jesus and one hundred and 1627 01:19:36.600 --> 01:19:40.000 twenty eight bytes of RAM so it had storage and memory, 1628 01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:43.239 which they said doesn't have a memory and it's not 1629 01:19:43.319 --> 01:19:46.680 taking notes, but all right. Its core differed from its 1630 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:49.239 original sixty five OHO two in the lack of the 1631 01:19:49.439 --> 01:19:53.520 Y index register the TSP five OCO four chip from 1632 01:19:53.560 --> 01:19:58.279 Texas Instruments implementing its linear predictive coding codec. It was 1633 01:19:58.439 --> 01:20:04.279 used for voice synthesis predictive coding CODEC. I find that 1634 01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:07.079 also interesting that it had that, which is interesting. 1635 01:20:07.199 --> 01:20:13.800 It mentioned eighty KiB of ram, so that rom so 1636 01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:17.720 ram is the amount of processing power, right, and the 1637 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:22.920 ROM would be the memory I think, right, Okay, so, yeah, 1638 01:20:22.600 --> 01:20:25.800 the the memory on it which KiB I never heard 1639 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:29.600 that one before, but KiB stands for kibbi bytes, which 1640 01:20:29.640 --> 01:20:33.640 is so eighty kibbi bytes is equal to approximately eighty 1641 01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:39.199 one point nine kilobytes or point zero seven to eight 1642 01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:40.720 megabytes or mbs. 1643 01:20:41.560 --> 01:20:41.760 Okay. 1644 01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:43.600 They didn't have a lot of storage. 1645 01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:47.239 The tiniest amount of storage. It's like fucking atari storage. 1646 01:20:48.119 --> 01:20:49.239 Gotcha, gotcha. 1647 01:20:49.479 --> 01:20:53.000 But still it had storage, had some, Yeah, it had some, 1648 01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:55.359 which I think all of that is what led to 1649 01:20:55.359 --> 01:20:57.239 the security concerns. 1650 01:20:57.319 --> 01:20:59.760 So on January thirteenth. 1651 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:03.840 Of nineteen nine, it was reported the National Security Agency 1652 01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:06.840 the NSSA, the people behind the Patriot Act, which released 1653 01:21:06.920 --> 01:21:09.000 two years after this. I might add to know one 1654 01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:12.880 of the United States banned Ferby's from entering NSA's property 1655 01:21:12.960 --> 01:21:15.079 due to concerns that they may be used to record 1656 01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:19.399 and repeat classified information, advising those that see any NSA 1657 01:21:19.479 --> 01:21:23.479 property to quote contact their staff security officer for guidance. 1658 01:21:24.119 --> 01:21:24.600 Quote. 1659 01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:27.119 It was thought within the NSA that Ferby's had an 1660 01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:31.239 artificial intelligence chip that could quote unquote learn from things. 1661 01:21:31.279 --> 01:21:33.840 The user said, well, it's crazy that they would think 1662 01:21:33.880 --> 01:21:36.800 that whenever they were marketed as a self learning robot 1663 01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.880 for children, So okay, you know literally was on the commercial. 1664 01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:42.520 It's crazy. 1665 01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:46.920 The NSA theorized that if employees discussed confidential information around 1666 01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:49.880 the toys, that information could later be repeated at a 1667 01:21:49.960 --> 01:21:52.920 later date. Roger Schiffman, who we talked about earlier, the 1668 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:56.279 owner of Tigerger Electronics, said that the ferby has absolutely 1669 01:21:56.319 --> 01:21:59.359 no ability to do any recording whatsoever, and that he 1670 01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:02.279 would have gladly told the NSA this if he was 1671 01:22:02.359 --> 01:22:06.119 asked by anyone from the spy agency. Additionally, Dave Hampton 1672 01:22:06.399 --> 01:22:10.119 demonstrated that Ferbiy's microphone could not record any sound at all, 1673 01:22:10.439 --> 01:22:13.039 and it could only hear a single monotonous beep. If 1674 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:17.039 a loud sound is produced around Ferby, then no words 1675 01:22:17.239 --> 01:22:20.199 or waveforms can be made out at all. The band 1676 01:22:20.239 --> 01:22:23.720 was eventually withdrawn in twenty seventeen. It has been confirmed 1677 01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:26.800 that the Ferby Connect can be connected through a Bluetooth 1678 01:22:27.159 --> 01:22:31.079 and with the special application upload and play any custom 1679 01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:35.439 audio file by anyone and has no password required. But okay, 1680 01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:39.520 two of the three original guys came out and said, dude, 1681 01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:40.479 it has a microphone. 1682 01:22:40.600 --> 01:22:42.359 Yes, yes, it has storage. 1683 01:22:42.479 --> 01:22:46.279 It's not recording, it's not listening, and somehow it's not learning, 1684 01:22:46.439 --> 01:22:49.600 even though they marketed it as a learning thing, which 1685 01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:51.039 that in and of itself is. 1686 01:22:51.039 --> 01:22:51.840 Pretty crazy to me. 1687 01:22:51.880 --> 01:22:56.159 But I could understand the need for security concerns whenever 1688 01:22:56.239 --> 01:22:58.439 there's this new fandangle technology. 1689 01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:00.840 It's just not making no sense. Nobody. It has no 1690 01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:01.600 off switch. 1691 01:23:02.039 --> 01:23:03.720 The only thing that to make it turn off is 1692 01:23:03.720 --> 01:23:06.720 that the batteries run dead or you basically rip the 1693 01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:09.520 guts out of it. We know that it can pick 1694 01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:13.239 up on the photo light sensor right it will tell 1695 01:23:13.279 --> 01:23:14.840 you when the sun rises or when you first turn 1696 01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:17.279 the light on again. There was that one phrase that 1697 01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:20.399 basically when you looked at the Furbish to English translator 1698 01:23:20.439 --> 01:23:24.279 said big light up, which essentially means, oh, the sun's up, 1699 01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:25.960 and it would wake up and start doing it a 1700 01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:28.720 little morning routine of dancing and singing and talking whatever else. 1701 01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:31.880 So I could understand their need for some concern on this, 1702 01:23:32.720 --> 01:23:35.000 But was it baseless? 1703 01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:38.399 Right as all these designers and producers came out and 1704 01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:40.680 said they can't do any of these things, even though 1705 01:23:40.680 --> 01:23:41.640 that's exactly how they. 1706 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:44.079 Marketed it, what was the real backstore for this? 1707 01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:46.439 Right? There had to be something. There had to be 1708 01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:47.600 a kernel of truth to this. 1709 01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:50.800 It makes me think like it and whatever you think 1710 01:23:50.800 --> 01:23:54.840 about this, if you believe that there can be talking dolls, 1711 01:23:54.920 --> 01:23:59.439 and you know, the these inanimate objects almost brought to life, 1712 01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:01.560 that's kind of where I go with it, Like, is 1713 01:24:01.600 --> 01:24:05.359 it possible that maybe somebody would get a little crazy 1714 01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:08.079 with these things and enchant them or something? You know, 1715 01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:10.920 if that's a thing, you know, if that is a thing, 1716 01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:14.960 I mean, could you enchant an inanimate object to start 1717 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:15.760 saying words? 1718 01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:17.520 I don't know, maybe that's a step too far. 1719 01:24:18.159 --> 01:24:19.760 But this thing was already geared to talk. 1720 01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:22.000 So all you're doing is basically just making it say 1721 01:24:22.079 --> 01:24:25.159 things that allegedly it was never meant to say. I 1722 01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:26.880 don't see that as a crazy hypothetical. 1723 01:24:27.399 --> 01:24:29.560 Yeah, I mean, hey, Enchance, it is one of my 1724 01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:32.399 favorite movies. So shout out there, you go, all right? 1725 01:24:32.399 --> 01:24:36.479 This next article is from The Independent. Adorable Cuddly Evil. 1726 01:24:36.920 --> 01:24:40.359 How did the furby take over the world? Let's learn 1727 01:24:40.359 --> 01:24:43.439 about it together, brother. So in nineteen ninety nine, the 1728 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:47.159 US National Security Agency became aware of impeding or of 1729 01:24:47.199 --> 01:24:51.800 impending security threat, one involving potential espionage and perhaps on 1730 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:55.600 an international scale. Officials had caught wind of a walking 1731 01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:58.479 talking device that they feared could learn and record any 1732 01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:01.439 secrets uttered within close proct simity to it. The device 1733 01:25:01.520 --> 01:25:05.039 was so fluffy and innocent looking that it could infiltrate 1734 01:25:05.079 --> 01:25:09.720 even the most secure of locations. Terrifyingly, it had already 1735 01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:13.199 invaded homes across America and must have with designs on 1736 01:25:13.319 --> 01:25:17.800 world domination, which is interesting because you know, the Austin 1737 01:25:17.840 --> 01:25:21.479 powers and shit was coming out right around these times. Indeed, 1738 01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.359 so they started to ban it from its from its 1739 01:25:25.359 --> 01:25:28.520 first or first from its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, 1740 01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:31.640 as well as from the US Navy's Norfolk Naval Shipyard 1741 01:25:31.680 --> 01:25:34.960 in Portsmouth, Virginia. According to some reports, they even banned 1742 01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:38.239 it from the Pentagon. And this terrifyingly clever device that 1743 01:25:38.359 --> 01:25:41.680 spooked the highest levels of intelligence in the or is 1744 01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:45.800 this the that spooked the highest levels of intelligence in 1745 01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:48.760 the US government none other than the Ferby. 1746 01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:51.560 Indeed, that little furry bastard. 1747 01:25:52.319 --> 01:25:54.840 Christa McKay, Vice President, I'm not going to go across 1748 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:57.800 that again, laughs off the whole saga, she says. The 1749 01:25:57.960 --> 01:26:01.119 rumor that the toy was capable of espiona was quickly debunked, 1750 01:26:01.159 --> 01:26:04.239 but it was only after a concerted effort by Tiger Electronics, 1751 01:26:04.359 --> 01:26:07.319 the toy's original manufacturers, that the agency lifted the band. 1752 01:26:07.640 --> 01:26:10.960 It is probably the biggest misconception Ferby has seen over time. 1753 01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:13.720 In reality, Ferby does not have the technology to record 1754 01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:17.279 what people are saying. For millennials, the Ferbie needs little introduction. 1755 01:26:17.560 --> 01:26:21.079 For everyone else, well, it's the strangest toy in modern history, 1756 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:25.920 a hybrid owl, owl, hamster bat creature that can sing, talk, dance, 1757 01:26:25.960 --> 01:26:28.760 and even learn language from its owners. When Ferby was 1758 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.239 first released in ninety eight, it quickly became a phenomenon. 1759 01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:34.359 Children adored its interactivity and parents liked that it was 1760 01:26:34.399 --> 01:26:36.760 basically a pet, but one that didn't produce a mess, 1761 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:40.359 And it didn't and didn't, if we're being honest, need 1762 01:26:40.359 --> 01:26:41.720 a ton of attention to keep alive. 1763 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:43.520 If you had a Ferby, you were cool. 1764 01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:48.800 Indeed, further down the line, Ferbie gained notoriety for being 1765 01:26:48.960 --> 01:26:51.479 a bit of a menace. First of all, it had 1766 01:26:51.479 --> 01:26:53.800 no off switch. The only way to deactivate it was 1767 01:26:54.319 --> 01:26:57.199 by taking out its batteries. Even then, some people swear 1768 01:26:57.239 --> 01:27:00.119 that the Ferbie would continue to speak and sing gibberish 1769 01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:04.439 gibberish despite having nothing to power it. London based writer 1770 01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:09.079 and researcher Marianna Michael recalls being a child of eight 1771 01:27:09.199 --> 01:27:12.560 or nine and being spoken and being woken by a 1772 01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:17.800 garbled electronic voice singing a song and repeating, I'm hungry, Chomp, chomp. 1773 01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:21.000 The voice was emanating from the Ferbie that she owned 1774 01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:23.359 at the time, whose batteries were dying. When the toy 1775 01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:26.920 finally ended it's tirade, Michael says she picked it up 1776 01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:28.680 and ran to her parents' room to wake them up 1777 01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:32.479 and tell them of her terror. My parents still take 1778 01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:37.119 the uh the pisto. Yeah, okay, I'm thirty she says, 1779 01:27:37.199 --> 01:27:40.920 joking that she was traumatized by Ferbie. Yeah, I could 1780 01:27:40.960 --> 01:27:45.439 believe Kaylee could Forty, a travel editor based in Washington, 1781 01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:48.560 d C. Says her Ferbie randomly started screaming in the 1782 01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:51.119 middle of the night, causing her whole household to wake 1783 01:27:51.199 --> 01:27:54.079 up and descend into chaos. Her father removed the batteries 1784 01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:56.760 and threw the toy in the back garden, but he 1785 01:27:56.840 --> 01:27:59.199 claims to this day that it wouldn't shut up and 1786 01:27:59.439 --> 01:28:00.560 must have been possessed. 1787 01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:03.279 Dude, see what I'm saying. 1788 01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:05.960 Yeah, either A was possessed or B. 1789 01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:09.560 Is it possible it had a external power source or 1790 01:28:09.600 --> 01:28:12.439 another battery pack that nobody knew about because you're living 1791 01:28:12.479 --> 01:28:15.600 in Washington, DC, and perhaps it was trying to aspire 1792 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:16.680 listen in who. 1793 01:28:16.520 --> 01:28:19.680 Knows, like old girl with the Roku TV. You know, yeup, 1794 01:28:19.920 --> 01:28:22.039 could have been some crazy shit like that. Maybe it 1795 01:28:22.199 --> 01:28:24.880 is possessed, otherworldly or maybe somebody has a remote to it. 1796 01:28:25.000 --> 01:28:28.640 The world may never know. Indeed, others give weight to 1797 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:29.600 this theory. 1798 01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:33.199 Ferby has been said to go dormant, sometimes for years, 1799 01:28:33.239 --> 01:28:36.880 before suddenly in quotes waking up at the most unexpected 1800 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:40.159 of times. Jacqueline dole, A thirty three year old from 1801 01:28:40.239 --> 01:28:43.640 Maine says that she discovered her childhood ferby languishing in 1802 01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.439 a storage unit and couldn't bear to throw it away. 1803 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:48.279 She left it in the back seat of her car 1804 01:28:48.399 --> 01:28:52.479 in peaceful slumber. Then horror occurred when my partner went 1805 01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:56.039 to drive to work at four am. The ferby woke 1806 01:28:56.119 --> 01:28:59.039 up after twenty years and started to talk to him, 1807 01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:01.039 jumped out of his seat. 1808 01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:06.319 Imagine that, bro, Keep in mind, twenty years you haven't 1809 01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:09.680 seen this thing. But apparently because it was this is 1810 01:29:09.720 --> 01:29:11.439 the old school, and there was no off switch, so 1811 01:29:11.479 --> 01:29:14.560 if it laid dormant, the batteries wouldn't continue to just 1812 01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:17.159 leak out juice, they would just kind of chill there. 1813 01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:20.000 So apparently, after twenty years, these double A batteries, it 1814 01:29:20.039 --> 01:29:22.319 required four of them, had enough juice in them to 1815 01:29:22.359 --> 01:29:24.640 make this thing light up and start talking again. As 1816 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:26.720 soon as it's all motion or any kind of interaction. 1817 01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:28.239 That would scare the fuck out. 1818 01:29:28.119 --> 01:29:29.000 Of me too. I get it. 1819 01:29:29.279 --> 01:29:30.439 I mean it does make sense. 1820 01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:34.079 There's no motion, you know, uh going on for it 1821 01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:36.479 to be able to censor anything, nobody talking or anything. 1822 01:29:36.520 --> 01:29:39.239 If it's in storage and in a dark probably in 1823 01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:41.600 a box. You know, you go into a storage unit. 1824 01:29:41.640 --> 01:29:43.640 Most of the time I've ever gone into a storage unit, 1825 01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.000 I'm the only one in there, you know what I mean. 1826 01:29:46.079 --> 01:29:48.640 And so it's yeah, I could see how it could 1827 01:29:48.680 --> 01:29:50.359 be retaining its battery by. 1828 01:29:50.239 --> 01:29:51.000 Not even using it. 1829 01:29:51.119 --> 01:29:52.680 You would think that it would die over the course 1830 01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:56.279 of twenty years though. Don't batteries expire, you would think. 1831 01:29:56.920 --> 01:29:59.359 But I guess this is a really good run of batteries. 1832 01:29:59.439 --> 01:30:03.239 And apparently this Ferby just refused to die. Fucking Energizer 1833 01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:05.560 should have used that as a gimmick, dude, as a 1834 01:30:05.560 --> 01:30:06.760 promotional dude, I. 1835 01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:09.279 Magine that that would be a fucking ad and a 1836 01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:10.119 half right there. 1837 01:30:10.279 --> 01:30:12.199 But anyway, if it was Energizer, who knows? 1838 01:30:12.439 --> 01:30:12.560 Uh? 1839 01:30:12.920 --> 01:30:15.399 So, it says the creators behind Furby never thought their 1840 01:30:15.439 --> 01:30:18.279 amusing little robot would be the stuff of nightmares, but 1841 01:30:18.319 --> 01:30:20.479 they did have an inkling that it would become a hit. 1842 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:23.439 Dave Hampton, Caleb Chung, and Richard Leevy brought it to 1843 01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:27.760 life after being inspired by another nineties toy craze, the Tamagachi. 1844 01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:30.840 This was a small virtual pet simulation game released by 1845 01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:34.560 Japanese toy maker Bandi. The Grace, the keychains of children 1846 01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:37.800 all over the world. It proved that children of the 1847 01:30:37.840 --> 01:30:41.119 era loved nothing more than a mechanical robot pet. But 1848 01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:43.560 Hampton and Chung were also convinced that they could add 1849 01:30:43.560 --> 01:30:48.319 elements absent from the plastic and decidedly uncuddly Tomagachi, namely 1850 01:30:48.399 --> 01:30:52.239 fur and feelings. Plus, unlike the Tamagachi, which required constant 1851 01:30:52.239 --> 01:30:54.239 care to keep it alive, the Ferby didn't need to 1852 01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:57.000 be fed or cleaned up. This is a very good 1853 01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:01.680 point since Hampton, Chung, and Levy, who was brought onto 1854 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:05.039 the team after the initial design stage, sold the Ferbiy 1855 01:31:05.279 --> 01:31:09.119 license to at Tiger Electronics, a subsidiary of Hasburro. There 1856 01:31:09.119 --> 01:31:11.880 have been six generations of the chatty companion. More than 1857 01:31:11.920 --> 01:31:14.079 forty million Ferby's were sold in the first three years 1858 01:31:14.079 --> 01:31:18.920 of production. By the mid noughties, its popularity be naughties. 1859 01:31:20.199 --> 01:31:22.119 I don't know, what is that supposed to be? The 1860 01:31:22.279 --> 01:31:24.039 mid the two thousands. 1861 01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:26.319 I guess maybe I don't know. 1862 01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:29.760 Its popularity began to decline sharply as other pet toys 1863 01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:32.640 hit the market and children's attention was pulled elsewhere. 1864 01:31:33.439 --> 01:31:36.399 Indeed, and they tried, like I said, to keep it going, 1865 01:31:36.479 --> 01:31:39.960 but it never had its its same fandom and craze 1866 01:31:39.960 --> 01:31:41.680 like it did when it first released. 1867 01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:44.680 Chung also thought that the toy became a bit two 1868 01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:48.000 end quotes alive, which in turn drove its market away. 1869 01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:51.760 He told director Gregory Green in a twenty fourteen YouTube interview, 1870 01:31:52.039 --> 01:31:55.920 saying Ferby was a big hit because because it on 1871 01:31:56.039 --> 01:31:58.479 purpose was made to let you believe it was alive. 1872 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:03.399 All electronic toys up to then were squeeze my hand, 1873 01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:06.880 I'll count to ten, a very self centered toy. And 1874 01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:09.439 so it became. It became human in a way that 1875 01:32:09.479 --> 01:32:12.199 other products hadn't been. It became human and present, and 1876 01:32:12.239 --> 01:32:14.640 people thought that it was scaried and scary and weird 1877 01:32:14.680 --> 01:32:18.119 and freaky because it encroaches on being human. 1878 01:32:19.479 --> 01:32:20.439 Which is kind of weird. 1879 01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:22.800 Cut to today, when people are trying to get AI 1880 01:32:22.920 --> 01:32:25.039 to be as human like as possible, and they're designing 1881 01:32:25.119 --> 01:32:27.119 robots to be as human like as possible. 1882 01:32:27.439 --> 01:32:29.319 These people were ahead of their time with this little 1883 01:32:29.319 --> 01:32:30.079 fur ball dog. 1884 01:32:30.399 --> 01:32:30.800 They were. 1885 01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:34.520 Despite the sharp decline and interests since its launch, each 1886 01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:37.640 iteration of Ferby has had more high tech features than 1887 01:32:37.640 --> 01:32:40.199 the last novelty Ferbi's have been released, such as the 1888 01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:43.840 Ferbie style gizmo from the nineteen eighty four horror film Gremlins. 1889 01:32:44.439 --> 01:32:47.479 Others have been given lsed eyes with a wide range 1890 01:32:47.479 --> 01:32:51.720 of motions to make them more expressive. Some iterations have 1891 01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:54.960 been given a simpler on off button, but each generation 1892 01:32:55.319 --> 01:33:00.000 has only had marginal differences in appearance compared to its predecessors. 1893 01:32:59.800 --> 01:33:03.039 That is until now. Hasbro has just launched this latest 1894 01:33:03.119 --> 01:33:05.680 version on Friday. It's first and ten years and it 1895 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:09.840 looks drastically different. Gone the site are the signature buggy 1896 01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:12.720 eyes that protrude from the Ferby's face, and their place 1897 01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:16.760 are anime style peepers with irises so large that it 1898 01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:19.399 looks like it looks like a cat about to pounce. 1899 01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:23.920 This iteration has also swapped Ferby's classic soft bat like 1900 01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:28.000 ears for transparent, plastic ones with hearts at their center. 1901 01:33:28.840 --> 01:33:31.680 It is shorter and rounder and can and can put 1902 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:34.720 on its own light show via the heart shaped gem 1903 01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:38.520 on its forehead, Perhaps much to the chagrin of parents elsewhere, 1904 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:41.920 Hasbro has also gotten rid of the on off button 1905 01:33:42.039 --> 01:33:44.319 again in a nod to its original incarnation. 1906 01:33:44.920 --> 01:33:45.960 Why would you get rid of that? 1907 01:33:46.840 --> 01:33:49.000 As a nod to the original, But even still that 1908 01:33:49.560 --> 01:33:51.560 was one of the only benefits of the second gym. 1909 01:33:51.720 --> 01:33:52.560 That was a fault. 1910 01:33:52.680 --> 01:33:53.760 It wasn't even a good thing. 1911 01:33:54.680 --> 01:34:00.000 Yeah, and it says the glow up makes Ferby almost unrecognized. 1912 01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:04.680 In a word, it has been yassified to the n degree. 1913 01:34:05.560 --> 01:34:08.560 You've yossified yos queen. 1914 01:34:09.199 --> 01:34:09.520 Yeah. 1915 01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:13.279 So anyway, these are the sparkly looks from the twenty 1916 01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:15.359 twenty three Ferbies and we don't have to. 1917 01:34:15.359 --> 01:34:15.920 Really read more. 1918 01:34:15.960 --> 01:34:17.319 I did just want to read that some of those 1919 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:19.479 experiences of people that are saying that even after the 1920 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:22.439 batteries are out, it was still working, which kind of 1921 01:34:22.520 --> 01:34:27.199 leads more credence to the whole you know thing about 1922 01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:29.319 it being a little more sentient than what it originally 1923 01:34:29.359 --> 01:34:29.720 led on. 1924 01:34:30.520 --> 01:34:33.159 This next article is actually from a website called the 1925 01:34:33.199 --> 01:34:39.000 Fubi Toy Shop, which is basically an entire furbie website, 1926 01:34:39.399 --> 01:34:43.039 not for shopping. It's literally just for backstories and it's 1927 01:34:43.039 --> 01:34:47.399 like a blog for ferbies. So let's talk more about 1928 01:34:47.399 --> 01:34:47.760 this here. 1929 01:34:47.800 --> 01:34:49.239 We talked a little bit about the NSA and the 1930 01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:51.319 Pentagon making them illegal on site. 1931 01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:52.359 Back in ninety nine. 1932 01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:56.760 These interactive plate things sparked unexpected controversy. Officials worried their 1933 01:34:56.800 --> 01:35:00.199 abilities to record and repeat phrases might risk sensitive information. 1934 01:35:00.560 --> 01:35:03.319 It's a fascinating twist for a product designed purely for fun. 1935 01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:08.279 This article explores why such fears emerged, how policies shifted, 1936 01:35:08.359 --> 01:35:11.560 and why collectors still adore these electronic pets today. Whether 1937 01:35:11.560 --> 01:35:15.159 you're nostalgic or just curious, there's planning to discover. So again, 1938 01:35:15.840 --> 01:35:18.399 some of the key takeaways here Ferby's face restrictions in 1939 01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:22.680 ninety nine due to its recording capabilities, concerned concerns centered 1940 01:35:22.680 --> 01:35:27.399 around potential data collection risks. The band highlights unique intersections 1941 01:35:27.399 --> 01:35:30.800 between playthings and privacy. Modern collector value these toys for 1942 01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:33.439 their historical significance, and again, there's a little thing the 1943 01:35:33.479 --> 01:35:37.520 end to learn more so the fascinating history of Ferby toys. 1944 01:35:37.960 --> 01:35:40.239 Few play things have left such a lasting impression as 1945 01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:43.600 the Ferby Again. Launched ninety eight by Tiger Electronics. Invented 1946 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:46.920 by Roger Shift, this interactive toy quickly became a global sensation. 1947 01:35:47.000 --> 01:35:51.039 Its unique blend of technology and charm captured hearts worldwide. 1948 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:53.800 So we already talked about how it got to Tiger Electronics. 1949 01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:57.039 By two thousand, over forty million Ferbies have been sold, 1950 01:35:57.159 --> 01:35:59.680 making it one of the most successful toys of its time. 1951 01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:03.479 Translated into twenty four languages, it bridged cultural gaps and 1952 01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:06.840 brought joy to millions. One of the most intriguing features 1953 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:11.520 was its quote unquote learning algorithm. Ferbi's could mimic their 1954 01:36:11.520 --> 01:36:14.920 owner's speech patterns, creating a sense of connection. This audio 1955 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:18.560 capability made them feel almost alive, bending technology with empathy. 1956 01:36:19.079 --> 01:36:22.000 So we talked about why they capture the hearts worldwide. 1957 01:36:22.039 --> 01:36:23.079 It wasn't just the look. 1958 01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:24.600 It was the fact that they were a pet that 1959 01:36:24.600 --> 01:36:26.640 you didn't have to really maintain or keep up, just 1960 01:36:26.640 --> 01:36:31.439 don't get out. So now, playthings rarely attract attention from 1961 01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:35.239 intelligence agencies, but these did. By ninety nine, just one 1962 01:36:35.319 --> 01:36:39.399 year after their launched, Ferbi's faced restrictions in sensitive government spaces. 1963 01:36:39.680 --> 01:36:43.960 The reason their charming features sparked unexpected security debates. 1964 01:36:44.199 --> 01:36:45.479 Let's talk about the NSA. 1965 01:36:45.520 --> 01:36:50.439 Officials worried about two key capabilities, microphones and adaptive learning 1966 01:36:50.640 --> 01:36:54.439 quote unquote. Though designed to mimic speech, some feared these 1967 01:36:54.439 --> 01:36:59.000 functions could accidentally capture un or classified information. At the 1968 01:36:59.039 --> 01:37:03.600 CIA's Langley offices, ferbies were outright prohibited. So we have 1969 01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.000 the NSA building, the CIA building the Pentagon, the Norfolk 1970 01:37:08.039 --> 01:37:10.960 Virginia Naval Yard, which is where they do a lot 1971 01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:15.079 of experimental things for watercraft and weapons. And I've even 1972 01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:20.159 heard reports of the FBI building a couple of news 1973 01:37:20.239 --> 01:37:22.359 agencies based out of DC. There was a lot of 1974 01:37:22.359 --> 01:37:24.920 places in and around these high profile buildings where they 1975 01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:26.880 were just like, no way, you're not bringing that on site. 1976 01:37:27.000 --> 01:37:31.840 So anyway, rumors swirled about whether these toys recorded conversations. 1977 01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:36.000 In reality, their technology was far simpler. Ferbies responded to 1978 01:37:36.039 --> 01:37:39.079 sounds but couldn't store or transmit data. Still, the band 1979 01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:43.159 highlighted growing unease about interactive devices. So the year that 1980 01:37:43.199 --> 01:37:46.199 the band was enacted, ninety nine marked a pivotal moment 1981 01:37:46.399 --> 01:37:50.760 as smart toys entered homes, agencies grapple with potential risks. 1982 01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:55.239 These foreshadowed modern debates around Alexa and Ruma devices. Back then, 1983 01:37:55.319 --> 01:37:58.640 though ferbies were the first two face such scrutiny. 1984 01:37:59.039 --> 01:38:00.680 In ninety nine, restris took. 1985 01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:04.439 Effect in the NSA and CIA facilities, so no evidence 1986 01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:08.920 suggested that ferbies actually compromise security, but they still put 1987 01:38:08.960 --> 01:38:11.920 the ban in place. As of that moment. Why did 1988 01:38:11.960 --> 01:38:16.479 the NSA ban the ferbies? Intelligence agencies rarely raise eyebrows 1989 01:38:16.560 --> 01:38:18.840 over children to play things, Yet ferbi'es did just that. 1990 01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:22.880 The combination of Cold War air caution and emerging interactive 1991 01:38:22.920 --> 01:38:26.760 tech created perfect conditions for concern. Will explore how harmless 1992 01:38:26.760 --> 01:38:32.680 features sparked disproportionate reactions. Post Cold War era paranoia influenced 1993 01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:37.279 how agencies viewed new interactive devices. Ferbies contained basic sensors 1994 01:38:37.279 --> 01:38:41.199 and voice recognition chips, but some staff misinterpreted these as 1995 01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:46.000 recording tools. Their randomized, furbished language pattern heightened suspicion around 1996 01:38:46.039 --> 01:38:51.199 the coded transmissions. So and a declassified memo stated, and 1997 01:38:51.239 --> 01:38:54.439 we heard it from the thing earlier. Unauthorized data transmission 1998 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:58.039 risks cannot be ruled out with these audio capable devices 1999 01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:01.199 in secure areas to talk about furs, Just so we're clear. 2000 01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:05.239 Though ferbies couldn't store or transmit data, their ability to 2001 01:39:05.359 --> 01:39:09.960 mimic speech created confusion these This mirrored contemporary debates about 2002 01:39:09.960 --> 01:39:12.520 whether talking dolls could violate privacy laws. 2003 01:39:12.920 --> 01:39:15.239 So let's talk about the NSA's reasoning for this. 2004 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:19.840 The agency's response reflected broader anxieties about smart devices at 2005 01:39:19.840 --> 01:39:25.319 facilities handling classified information. Even theoretical risks demanded action. Three 2006 01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:30.319 key factors drove their decision recording misconceptions, basic microphones were 2007 01:39:30.319 --> 01:39:37.119 mistaken for surveillance tools, behavioral unpredictability, random vocalizations seemed like 2008 01:39:37.239 --> 01:39:43.399 intentional signaling, and three lack of technical transparency. Toy makers 2009 01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:46.880 didn't anticipate security reviews, so it's not like they released 2010 01:39:46.920 --> 01:39:49.159 the blueprints to these three letter agencies as a way 2011 01:39:49.199 --> 01:39:51.560 to tell them to calm down. They literally didn't think 2012 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:53.920 they had to get clearance or approval when they developed 2013 01:39:53.920 --> 01:39:56.239 this toy that's only going to be marketed to children. 2014 01:39:56.800 --> 01:39:58.880 But next thing they know, they're getting damn near a 2015 01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:02.039 cease and desist from three letter agencies talking about their 2016 01:40:02.079 --> 01:40:04.319 new spy tech. They're like, brother, hold on, hold on, 2017 01:40:05.399 --> 01:40:07.039 we were not even talking about the same thing here, 2018 01:40:07.439 --> 01:40:11.800 but same time today we understand the disconnect, as our 2019 01:40:11.840 --> 01:40:16.880 Ferbie Ban analysis shows. The episode reveals how quickly innovative 2020 01:40:17.239 --> 01:40:21.960 innovation can outpace policy. What seemed like overreaction then now 2021 01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:25.880 appears precedent in our smart era or smart device era. 2022 01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:29.800 So the impact of the Ferbie ban when intelligence agencies 2023 01:40:29.840 --> 01:40:33.439 took action against children's toys, it created ripples across the world. 2024 01:40:33.600 --> 01:40:37.520 In ninety nine, the restrictions transformed Ferbies from playthings into 2025 01:40:37.560 --> 01:40:43.479 cultural artifacts overnight. The unsuspected turn of events shaped perceptions 2026 01:40:43.680 --> 01:40:46.720 for years to come. We already talked about media coverage 2027 01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:50.600 from this headlines exploited when news broke about the restrictions, 2028 01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:54.119 The New York Times reported Toys r US pulls Ferbies 2029 01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:59.520 from Pentagon area stores, capturing public imagination. Suddenly, these electronic 2030 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:03.079 pecks game symbols of a larger debate about privacy. They 2031 01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:06.199 were having this conversation in ninety nine. Cut to two 2032 01:41:06.239 --> 01:41:06.920 years later. 2033 01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:08.239 When the Patriot Act gets invoked. 2034 01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:11.279 But you know, I guess everybody forgot about the craze 2035 01:41:11.279 --> 01:41:14.039 from the Ferby at that point or something, even though 2036 01:41:14.079 --> 01:41:17.880 they were still being sold. But anyway, so let's see 2037 01:41:17.880 --> 01:41:22.319 how the band shaped Ferby's legacy. The restrictions inadvertently boosted 2038 01:41:22.319 --> 01:41:25.319 the toy's mystique. What began as a holiday gift became 2039 01:41:25.439 --> 01:41:29.439 a talking point about emerging tech today. This episode remains 2040 01:41:29.520 --> 01:41:33.239 one of the most fascinating stories in toy history. Collectors 2041 01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:36.199 now prize early models for their connection to this moment. 2042 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:37.960 First edition nineteen ninety eight. 2043 01:41:37.960 --> 01:41:41.000 Ferby's Command at least a three hundred dollars or more 2044 01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:44.880 price at auction, the band cemented their status as pop 2045 01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:48.960 culture icons, rather than diminishing their appeal. So again, this 2046 01:41:49.039 --> 01:41:53.439 era foreshadowed modern debates about smart devices insecure spaces. Current 2047 01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:58.880 NSA policies reflect lessons learned from the unusual case. They 2048 01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:02.600 talk about where to go for more on early Ferbie capabilities. 2049 01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:05.479 So they talk about the nineteen ninety eight models and 2050 01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:09.039 what made them so special? So hidden beneath their fuzzy 2051 01:42:09.079 --> 01:42:14.399 exteriors lie surprising capabilities that delight millions. These electronic companions 2052 01:42:14.399 --> 01:42:17.279 packed more personality that meets the eye. Let's explore it 2053 01:42:17.319 --> 01:42:20.359 made them special and why collectors still seek them out today. 2054 01:42:20.560 --> 01:42:23.840 Now that's obviously not an original Ferbie, that's AI image, 2055 01:42:23.880 --> 01:42:26.880 but still so. Some of the unique features. Early models 2056 01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:31.439 responded to touch, light and sound with remarkable sensitivity. Petting 2057 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:35.600 specific parts triggered hidden easter eggs like secret songs when 2058 01:42:35.640 --> 01:42:39.159 stroked between the ears. Their voice modulation could convey twelve 2059 01:42:39.239 --> 01:42:43.600 distinct emotions through pitch changes. The twenty twelve revival introduced 2060 01:42:43.600 --> 01:42:47.680 Bluetooth connectivity and app integration. This allowed owners to feed 2061 01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:51.880 their Ferbees digitally. Modern versions expanded their ability to learn phrases, 2062 01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:56.560 creating even deeper interactions. So for collectors on this rare 2063 01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:00.359 additions like the McDonald's two thousand Happy Meal versions now 2064 01:43:00.439 --> 01:43:03.760 fetch one hundred and fifty dollars or more if they're unopened. 2065 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:07.239 The twenty thirteen Ferby Boom remains popular for its colorful 2066 01:43:07.239 --> 01:43:11.279 eggs and growth features. Serious collectors hunt for mint condition 2067 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:17.199 Tiger Electronics boxes the holy grail of Ferby memorabilia. So 2068 01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:20.119 we already talked about a lot of these things as 2069 01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:23.000 far as the Ferby's, and they're shifting in time and 2070 01:43:23.039 --> 01:43:26.600 their new iterations. But I could understand at least a 2071 01:43:26.640 --> 01:43:29.760 little bit why these three letter agencies who do not 2072 01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:32.640 know how to look at things for the cultural thing 2073 01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:35.439 that they are, the pop culture icons. All they see 2074 01:43:35.520 --> 01:43:38.960 is a device that is self learning, is obviously listening 2075 01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:42.520 to you can possibly even take pictures of your surroundings. 2076 01:43:42.520 --> 01:43:44.039 Why not they could tell when the lights are. 2077 01:43:43.880 --> 01:43:44.359 On or off. 2078 01:43:44.439 --> 01:43:46.119 How do we know there's not a hidden camera inside 2079 01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:48.399 of these things? So they of course took it to 2080 01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:54.279 a level that it was the paranoia realistically, Yeah. 2081 01:43:54.079 --> 01:43:58.079 Yeah, they and I guess rightfully so, because you never know, 2082 01:43:58.399 --> 01:44:00.199 like I don't know if I would be issuing a 2083 01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:04.640 statement I feel like before I made myself look like 2084 01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:07.960 an idiot, I would probably just go buy a Ferbie 2085 01:44:07.960 --> 01:44:09.479 and give it to one of my tech guys and 2086 01:44:09.520 --> 01:44:11.239 be like, hey, can this thing listen to us? I 2087 01:44:11.279 --> 01:44:12.680 don't know why you had to make a whole big 2088 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:16.119 deal about it, but ultimately, could that have been just 2089 01:44:16.399 --> 01:44:20.079 some kind of ploy because they wanted people to buy Ferbies? 2090 01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:24.560 I don't know if Hasbro would have gotten in with 2091 01:44:24.600 --> 01:44:27.279 those three letter agencies and told them, Hey, Bro, I 2092 01:44:27.319 --> 01:44:28.520 need you to release this memo. 2093 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:30.920 It's gonna go wild and it's gonna boost sales through 2094 01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:33.399 the roof. That would have been a great marketing ploy. 2095 01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:36.199 I don't know if that's what happened. I can find 2096 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:39.319 no evidence to suggest that that's what took place. However, 2097 01:44:40.439 --> 01:44:43.079 I could envision a world looking at things in my 2098 01:44:43.119 --> 01:44:45.279 third oulet of the Way Open and Conspiratorily, of course, 2099 01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:48.039 I could envision a world where Hasbro, who is a 2100 01:44:48.079 --> 01:44:51.399 major toy manufacturer, they have tons of money. I could 2101 01:44:51.399 --> 01:44:54.159 see them slipping some money to some top dogs and 2102 01:44:54.239 --> 01:44:57.479 some three letter agencies to let out a memo and 2103 01:44:57.600 --> 01:44:59.199 just kind of let the chips fall where they may. 2104 01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:03.000 On that for sure, Well, how about this sir hasbro 2105 01:45:03.199 --> 01:45:07.880 engages in lobbying and public policy discussions which are overseen 2106 01:45:07.920 --> 01:45:11.880 by its Legal and Communications department. So I mean that's 2107 01:45:11.920 --> 01:45:14.640 a little something at least they're lobbying in the government, 2108 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:18.680 and maybe they kind of used it as a I 2109 01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:21.079 don't know, like an OJ trial kind of thing, you know, 2110 01:45:21.239 --> 01:45:22.479 like a toy version of it. 2111 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:26.079 I don't see why not, honestly, I mean to say 2112 01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:29.560 that the American Toy Lobbyist Group, which gonna be honest, 2113 01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:31.760 I didn't know that was a thing. I'm not surprised 2114 01:45:31.800 --> 01:45:33.800 that it's a thing, but just never really thought about 2115 01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:36.920 it before. What's to say that one of these lobbyists, 2116 01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:38.880 while they're over there in DC and they're lobbying with 2117 01:45:38.920 --> 01:45:40.600 these big government agencies. 2118 01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:42.079 Didn't just go knock on the CIA's door. 2119 01:45:42.600 --> 01:45:44.960 Hey, I need you to pass the word to the Pentagon, 2120 01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:47.399 pass the word to the Navy Yard, pass the word 2121 01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:50.520 to the FBI. I'm just gonna let them know that 2122 01:45:51.279 --> 01:45:55.279 these things might be a subject of interest and leave 2123 01:45:55.319 --> 01:45:57.880 a very open ended don't say for sure that it's dangerous, 2124 01:45:58.239 --> 01:46:00.239 just kind of let a NEMO go out saying that 2125 01:46:00.239 --> 01:46:02.640 they're not allowed on site. That will just kind of 2126 01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:05.239 drive more attention to it. Here's a little check for you. Here, 2127 01:46:05.239 --> 01:46:07.279 here's a little money coming into the holiday season. Go 2128 01:46:07.319 --> 01:46:09.960 buy your wife something nice. I could see that absolutely 2129 01:46:09.960 --> 01:46:10.439 being a thing. 2130 01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:10.640 Bro. 2131 01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:14.239 Oh dude, they have a whole open secrets profile on 2132 01:46:14.359 --> 01:46:15.439 lobbying for Hasbro. 2133 01:46:16.920 --> 01:46:18.199 Really holy shit. 2134 01:46:18.319 --> 01:46:21.720 Yeah, it says Hasbro lobbies the US government to advocate 2135 01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:25.800 for policies that benefit their business, focusing on issues like trade, 2136 01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:30.279 consumer safety, and budget appropriations. Their lobbying efforts help influence 2137 01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:34.399 legislation that impacts their operations and industry. My question is, 2138 01:46:34.720 --> 01:46:36.920 do you really have to go to the government for that? 2139 01:46:37.079 --> 01:46:40.439 But check this out, just just for twenty twenty five alone, 2140 01:46:40.479 --> 01:46:43.359 We're not even through this year yet Hasbro has already 2141 01:46:43.399 --> 01:46:46.880 lobbied for three hundred thousand dollars. 2142 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:49.640 Whoa, that's pretty interesting. 2143 01:46:49.720 --> 01:46:49.840 Here. 2144 01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:51.239 I'm gonna show the screen so you can see it, 2145 01:46:51.279 --> 01:46:52.039 but please do. 2146 01:46:52.159 --> 01:46:54.199 Yeah, if we're following the money, if we're trying to 2147 01:46:54.199 --> 01:46:56.399 figure out what's really going on, you know, may as 2148 01:46:56.439 --> 01:46:59.079 well check it out. But yeah, it just says the 2149 01:46:59.119 --> 01:47:04.479 industry is missile miscellaneous manufacturing and distributing. And you can 2150 01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:07.159 kind of see you know where, like every year, dude, 2151 01:47:07.199 --> 01:47:10.640 every year they're lobbying hundreds of thousands of dollars Hasbro 2152 01:47:10.760 --> 01:47:16.680 is to the US government. Wow, their biggest year was 2153 01:47:18.079 --> 01:47:22.840 twenty seventeen. Yeah, five hundred thousand dollars was the most 2154 01:47:22.880 --> 01:47:26.640 that they lobbied in the fourth quarter was one hundred 2155 01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:29.520 and thirty grand. That was twenty seventeen. Man, I wish 2156 01:47:29.560 --> 01:47:31.840 it went back to like ninety eight. But even two 2157 01:47:31.840 --> 01:47:34.159 thousand and seven it was only one hundred k. But 2158 01:47:34.199 --> 01:47:38.239 even still, like the fact that there's lobbyists for Hasbro. 2159 01:47:38.319 --> 01:47:39.439 Who would have thought. 2160 01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:41.159 That is insane? 2161 01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:45.720 Yeah, I honestly never thought about the Big Toy as 2162 01:47:45.800 --> 01:47:49.760 far as the conspiratorial lobbying conversation goes. 2163 01:47:49.800 --> 01:47:51.359 But I mean, why the fuck not? 2164 01:47:51.680 --> 01:47:55.159 Oh, there's issues with trade. There is two specific issues 2165 01:47:55.199 --> 01:47:57.960 with trade, which you know, which is another reason why 2166 01:47:57.960 --> 01:48:00.319 they lobbied, but also health issues. 2167 01:48:01.039 --> 01:48:05.399 Small choking small pieces that can make kids choke. Seeing 2168 01:48:05.399 --> 01:48:07.039 as how they're made in China, I could see if 2169 01:48:07.079 --> 01:48:11.880 the materials used are possibly dangerous. Okay, fair, especially again 2170 01:48:11.920 --> 01:48:14.439 because so many of the things are made overseas trade. 2171 01:48:14.479 --> 01:48:16.000 I could see that being two issues that they have 2172 01:48:16.079 --> 01:48:21.199 to lobby for clients. Lobbying for health issues twenty twenty five. Yeah, 2173 01:48:21.279 --> 01:48:26.439 so this was two and eighty five clients that were lobbying. 2174 01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:29.640 Is that the amount of people that complained about health 2175 01:48:29.680 --> 01:48:31.920 issues or is that the number of people that lobbied. 2176 01:48:32.520 --> 01:48:33.960 I think that might be the number of people that 2177 01:48:34.000 --> 01:48:34.760 received checks. 2178 01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:39.800 Yeah, number of reports listing issue area. So yeah, almost 2179 01:48:39.800 --> 01:48:44.680 ten thousand reports of health related issues with Hasbro alone. 2180 01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:48.640 So ten almost ten thousand reports of like something's wrong here, 2181 01:48:49.119 --> 01:48:51.640 and almost twenty five hundred payouts. 2182 01:48:51.680 --> 01:48:55.439 Oh, I'm sorry. This is not Hasbro alone, This is everybody's. 2183 01:48:55.600 --> 01:48:58.840 It is the annual number of clients lobbying on health issues. 2184 01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:01.640 So it's not just how it's And if you look 2185 01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:05.039 look at all of them, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of 2186 01:49:05.079 --> 01:49:09.359 America has the highest number of reports, shocker, and then 2187 01:49:09.479 --> 01:49:13.199 below them Johnson and Johnson unit United Health America's health 2188 01:49:13.199 --> 01:49:14.039 insurance plans. 2189 01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:17.119 Where else I saw. 2190 01:49:18.079 --> 01:49:24.039 Merk, Pfizer, Mark, Pfizer, Blue Cross, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, 2191 01:49:24.560 --> 01:49:30.720 DaVita Pharmaceutical Care Management Association two and forty one records 2192 01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:34.520 of this. And so these are the lobbyists, right like 2193 01:49:34.640 --> 01:49:37.800 the in the lobbyists that are trying to get in 2194 01:49:37.800 --> 01:49:40.279 into the Oh, I want to see what the fucking 2195 01:49:40.399 --> 01:49:46.880 bills were though, bills labeled by Hasbro or lobby by Hasbro, 2196 01:49:47.039 --> 01:49:48.640 And ooh, let's talk about this. 2197 01:49:49.119 --> 01:49:52.239 Yeah, it doesn't really get into the nitty gritty. It 2198 01:49:52.319 --> 01:49:55.239 says figures on this page of calculations by open Data 2199 01:49:55.399 --> 01:49:57.840 or by Open Secrets based on data from the Senate 2200 01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:00.680 Office of Public Records. Data for the most recent year 2201 01:50:00.800 --> 01:50:03.159 was downloaded on October twenty third, But you can't click 2202 01:50:03.239 --> 01:50:03.840 it or anything. 2203 01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:06.079 So yeah, it doesn't say. 2204 01:50:06.239 --> 01:50:07.439 There's nothing to scroll down on. 2205 01:50:08.359 --> 01:50:13.520 No. O, well, shit report images. Dude, I love this 2206 01:50:13.640 --> 01:50:15.199 Open Secrets fucking website. 2207 01:50:15.640 --> 01:50:15.800 SA. 2208 01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:17.079 Yeah. 2209 01:50:17.079 --> 01:50:22.399 Look, the lobbying firm is called Duberstein Group, So let's 2210 01:50:23.279 --> 01:50:28.880 let's look up who Duberstein If that doesn't sound Jewish. 2211 01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:28.399 Right right right? 2212 01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:34.399 Duberstein stein Stein, Yeah. 2213 01:50:32.840 --> 01:50:34.279 The Duberstein Group. 2214 01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:39.479 Keith Duberstein is transitioned from the White House to lobbyist. 2215 01:50:39.640 --> 01:50:42.479 Isn't that funny how that always works? Always you make 2216 01:50:42.560 --> 01:50:43.720 more money in the private sector. 2217 01:50:43.720 --> 01:50:43.960 Dog. 2218 01:50:44.680 --> 01:50:48.159 Yeah, he was an American lobbyist who served as US 2219 01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:51.720 President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from eighty 2220 01:50:51.760 --> 01:50:52.600 eight to eighty nine. 2221 01:50:53.279 --> 01:50:57.479 And now this guy's lobbying for Hasbro. Of course. Duberstein 2222 01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:00.960 was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn of Jewel. 2223 01:51:02.199 --> 01:51:06.279 Faub, a teacher Aaron Duberstein, who was a fundraiser for 2224 01:51:06.319 --> 01:51:07.520 the Boy Scouts of America. 2225 01:51:07.600 --> 01:51:09.359 All that's not a good look. 2226 01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:11.960 Not at all, man. This guy's just eight up with 2227 01:51:12.000 --> 01:51:12.640 it any. 2228 01:51:12.920 --> 01:51:17.560 But yeah, this is the guy that lobbies for hasbro Yep. 2229 01:51:17.640 --> 01:51:20.039 Duberstein transitioned from the White House to lobbyists. He was 2230 01:51:20.039 --> 01:51:23.560 successful and his insight and advice was sought by leaders 2231 01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:28.079 of both parties. Duberstein founded the Duberstein Group, Incorporated in 2232 01:51:28.159 --> 01:51:31.760 eighty seven. It was a consulting services company providing corporate 2233 01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:35.720 consulting and government relation services. Among its clients are Amazon, 2234 01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:40.399 BP and MLB. Duberstein was hired by Russian authorities via 2235 01:51:40.439 --> 01:51:47.119 Goldman Sachs to lobby against Magnitsky Bill, as known as 2236 01:51:47.640 --> 01:51:52.039 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act SO, a bill 2237 01:51:52.039 --> 01:51:55.680 in the US Congress to end quotes impose sanctions on 2238 01:51:55.760 --> 01:51:59.239 persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei 2239 01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:02.720 Magnet and for other gross violations of human rights in 2240 01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:08.319 the Russian Federation. Dude toys, and this is the guy 2241 01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:12.960 that is lobbying for Hasbro Toy Company. Yeah, yeah, so 2242 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:15.840 we got Wow, we got Commies, we got Jews. 2243 01:52:15.960 --> 01:52:17.760 I mean, it's just crazy up in the ear. 2244 01:52:17.920 --> 01:52:20.640 We got Ferbies. We're all over the place in this bitch. 2245 01:52:20.720 --> 01:52:23.279 And then we want to talk about surveillance. You know 2246 01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:24.720 what I'm saying. It just makes sense. 2247 01:52:25.319 --> 01:52:28.039 Do you see the connections of why certain people still 2248 01:52:28.039 --> 01:52:30.279 to this day believe that the ferbies actually were. 2249 01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:33.600 Being used in this fashion? I mean proofs in the pudding, 2250 01:52:33.640 --> 01:52:34.000 dud dude. 2251 01:52:34.000 --> 01:52:38.319 It even says Duberstein showed discretion and did not discuss 2252 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:41.680 his work, leading to in quotes an era of mystery 2253 01:52:41.720 --> 01:52:43.880 about him and what he did for his clients. 2254 01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:50.119 The White House chief of staff under Reagan. Yeah, holy shit, 2255 01:52:50.279 --> 01:52:51.079 that's crazy. 2256 01:52:52.359 --> 01:52:56.600 Jesus, this is a weird plot twist. So weird. 2257 01:52:56.760 --> 01:52:59.520 Oh, he was actually on the board of directors for 2258 01:52:59.680 --> 01:53:01.600 bo Conico Phillips. 2259 01:53:02.760 --> 01:53:04.439 What are some other ones that we might know? 2260 01:53:04.520 --> 01:53:09.159 He was a flimming company, Saint Paul Company's Inc. 2261 01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:12.520 Board of directors for Fannie May. Holy shit, this guy's 2262 01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:13.319 all over the place. 2263 01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:17.840 Wow, American Abroad media dude. 2264 01:53:17.960 --> 01:53:22.159 Duberstein was a backslapping Brooklyn native was one of the 2265 01:53:22.159 --> 01:53:27.319 most connected Washington people, a quote unquote permanent Washington fixture. 2266 01:53:27.720 --> 01:53:31.680 He was a regular at Washington parties and network talk shows. 2267 01:53:32.039 --> 01:53:34.000 What the fuck do we find ourselves into? 2268 01:53:34.119 --> 01:53:34.520 Right here? 2269 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:39.119 And all of this connected to the Ferbie dog my god, 2270 01:53:39.680 --> 01:53:43.159 says Duberstein noted that as a Brooklyn Knight, he always 2271 01:53:43.239 --> 01:53:44.399 enjoyed working with people. 2272 01:53:44.520 --> 01:53:49.680 As a quote unquote cultivator of the press, he was 2273 01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:53.159 generally discreet, refusing to be quoted by name, even for 2274 01:53:53.319 --> 01:53:58.880 articles about himself. Holy shit, man, talk about literally flying 2275 01:53:58.960 --> 01:54:02.239 under the radar. That's crazy, huh. 2276 01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:04.720 I mean, that's crazy as fuck to know that this 2277 01:54:05.079 --> 01:54:07.600 first of all, didn't know there was an American toy 2278 01:54:07.640 --> 01:54:12.279 lobbying conglomerate, didn't know that Hasbro had that, and didn't 2279 01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:14.800 know that this guy was the lobbyist who was paying 2280 01:54:14.880 --> 01:54:18.239 people in DC hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and 2281 01:54:18.279 --> 01:54:22.520 you could track that on Open Secrets to lobby for 2282 01:54:22.600 --> 01:54:23.520 the toy companies. 2283 01:54:24.159 --> 01:54:24.840 That's wild. 2284 01:54:25.319 --> 01:54:29.960 I mean, was was lobbying for the Russians? Dude, You're 2285 01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:30.960 talking about infiltration. 2286 01:54:31.119 --> 01:54:31.760 That's crazy. 2287 01:54:32.920 --> 01:54:36.920 And again all tying back to the Ferbie perhaps they 2288 01:54:36.960 --> 01:54:39.399 were being used in some way, shape or form for 2289 01:54:39.479 --> 01:54:45.600 maybe some sort of intelligence gathering, data collecting, spy network chicanery. 2290 01:54:45.640 --> 01:54:46.199 We don't know. 2291 01:54:46.880 --> 01:54:49.840 There's he very well could have been like some kind 2292 01:54:49.880 --> 01:54:53.079 of Soviet spy at this point for all we know. 2293 01:54:53.960 --> 01:54:56.359 And if he was a Soviet spy and he was 2294 01:54:56.399 --> 01:54:59.279 Reagan's chief of staff, that's not a good look at all, 2295 01:54:59.279 --> 01:55:01.880 because Reagan, it was very much against the comedies. 2296 01:55:01.960 --> 01:55:03.000 That was like his whole shtick. 2297 01:55:04.199 --> 01:55:06.640 Dude, what the fuck man? 2298 01:55:06.760 --> 01:55:09.960 It's like it goes to show that like the surface 2299 01:55:10.079 --> 01:55:12.960 level conspiracies people can laugh at, right, like oh what 2300 01:55:13.159 --> 01:55:14.479 Ferbie's are spying on you? 2301 01:55:14.720 --> 01:55:16.319 And then you're like, wait a second. 2302 01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:19.079 So this connects to that, connects to that, and it 2303 01:55:19.119 --> 01:55:22.840 starts to paint a like a more intricate picture to 2304 01:55:22.880 --> 01:55:25.600 where you're like, Okay, I think I get it. 2305 01:55:25.640 --> 01:55:28.600 Actually, you know, like I understand why there may have 2306 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:29.640 been concerns. 2307 01:55:30.039 --> 01:55:32.800 And tie this in with your boy Dave Hampton, right, 2308 01:55:32.920 --> 01:55:35.079 one of the original creators, not the third guy that 2309 01:55:35.079 --> 01:55:38.239 they brought in later, one of the original concept designers. 2310 01:55:38.319 --> 01:55:40.279 Him and mister Chung, who American. 2311 01:55:40.439 --> 01:55:43.279 He's American, but yeah, Chung is also very indicative of 2312 01:55:43.319 --> 01:55:46.840 all the conversation we're having here. So the dude went 2313 01:55:46.960 --> 01:55:50.640 off the rails and fell off the grid after his 2314 01:55:51.119 --> 01:55:54.399 instant success with Ferbi. By two thousand and one, Dude 2315 01:55:54.399 --> 01:55:57.720 he was living off grid in Nevada somewhere, and no 2316 01:55:57.760 --> 01:56:00.319 one heard from him since he only came out of 2317 01:56:00.399 --> 01:56:03.439 hiding in twenty fourteen for an interview like one of 2318 01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:06.119 the only ones he ever gave. And when I say hiding, 2319 01:56:06.239 --> 01:56:08.119 I do in fact mean that he and his family 2320 01:56:08.159 --> 01:56:12.319 live off grid by his own emission, specifically so that 2321 01:56:12.399 --> 01:56:15.720 people would stop bothering him about releasing more ferbies. 2322 01:56:17.000 --> 01:56:18.760 I imagine how that could make you crazy? 2323 01:56:19.840 --> 01:56:24.920 Could you imagine being such a successful toy creator that 2324 01:56:25.079 --> 01:56:27.279 you have to take you and your family off grid 2325 01:56:27.600 --> 01:56:30.960 and live out there down by the river to get 2326 01:56:31.000 --> 01:56:33.760 away from the hype, dude, or get it? 2327 01:56:33.960 --> 01:56:37.880 Do it to get away from certain accusations. 2328 01:56:37.760 --> 01:56:41.840 Probably accusations probably a little lobbyist, maybe somebody you know, 2329 01:56:42.199 --> 01:56:46.039 kind of saying, look, we understand that you could have 2330 01:56:46.159 --> 01:56:51.159 possibly been involved in undercover fucking spy surveillance type of shit. 2331 01:56:51.680 --> 01:56:54.119 You know what, instead of just accusing you of it, 2332 01:56:54.159 --> 01:56:56.680 maybe maybe we want you to work for us. 2333 01:56:56.720 --> 01:56:56.960 Now. 2334 01:56:57.159 --> 01:56:59.560 Can you create a new toy, a new ferbie, you know, 2335 01:56:59.600 --> 01:57:02.920 it's all already in the public zeitgeist that these things were, 2336 01:57:03.199 --> 01:57:06.560 you know, mistakenly labeled as surveillance items. 2337 01:57:06.880 --> 01:57:08.840 Maybe we take that and run with it. 2338 01:57:09.079 --> 01:57:12.760 Let's actually create a spy Ferby and maybe it turns 2339 01:57:12.760 --> 01:57:14.880 into like an Alexa Ferbiy or some shit. You can 2340 01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:17.399 imagine people knocking at his door saying that. Or maybe 2341 01:57:17.439 --> 01:57:21.279 it's just I don't know, like people who look back 2342 01:57:21.359 --> 01:57:25.520 upon the the Ferby fondly, I have a. 2343 01:57:25.439 --> 01:57:28.920 Hard time believing that he got so instantly successful and 2344 01:57:29.000 --> 01:57:33.880 made so many millions of dollars almost instantaneously that he decided, yeah, 2345 01:57:33.880 --> 01:57:34.960 this is a bit too much for me. 2346 01:57:35.159 --> 01:57:36.800 I'm gonna go live in the woods somewhere. 2347 01:57:37.960 --> 01:57:40.279 And I can't speak with authority on that one, but 2348 01:57:40.279 --> 01:57:42.600 it sounds really crazy to me that you wouldn't want 2349 01:57:42.600 --> 01:57:45.359 to snowball that success. Maybe take that lightning in a 2350 01:57:45.359 --> 01:57:48.159 bottle and see if you could replicate it or remodel 2351 01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:50.199 it in some way, shape or form. Because again, once 2352 01:57:50.279 --> 01:57:54.119 Hasbro bought the rights from Tiger, he was gone, like 2353 01:57:54.159 --> 01:57:57.039 he's getting a royalties, he's getting percentages off of it, 2354 01:57:57.119 --> 01:58:00.239 for sure, but he had no hand in any of 2355 01:58:00.279 --> 01:58:02.239 the design features. From that point onward. 2356 01:58:02.960 --> 01:58:06.119 So it's also very crazy to me that he not 2357 01:58:06.359 --> 01:58:09.000 just went off and lived a normal life somewhere. He 2358 01:58:09.079 --> 01:58:12.840 went into hiding in the woods. Dog like you're going 2359 01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:15.800 off grid so that nobody can find you because you 2360 01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:17.840 were so successful at a toy one time. 2361 01:58:19.199 --> 01:58:21.439 That doesn't exactly check out to me. It doesn't pass 2362 01:58:21.479 --> 01:58:22.840 the sniff test. 2363 01:58:23.159 --> 01:58:26.560 No, it don't. Yeah, I'm looking at like stock prices 2364 01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:31.319 and shit. But yeah, back in December of ninety nine, 2365 01:58:32.079 --> 01:58:39.920 it had a high of eleven dollars a share, Tom Hasbro, Yeah, 2366 01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:44.720 Hasbro did, and its current price right now is actually 2367 01:58:44.800 --> 01:58:47.159 higher than it ever was. But of course there's reverse 2368 01:58:47.159 --> 01:58:49.640 stock splits that can really pump that up. But I 2369 01:58:49.640 --> 01:58:52.199 think it's current price now is sixty two bucks a share, 2370 01:58:52.359 --> 01:58:53.560 so still pretty damn good. 2371 01:58:53.760 --> 01:58:56.000 Look at what a Coca Cola is at ninety nine. 2372 01:58:56.000 --> 01:58:56.479 Just to give a. 2373 01:58:56.399 --> 01:59:00.920 Comparison, he said, Hasbro was at eleven a share. Yep, Okay, 2374 01:59:01.039 --> 01:59:05.039 all right, now again, Coca Cola is wild, wildly more 2375 01:59:05.079 --> 01:59:08.079 successful than Hasbro, and we understand that, but you got 2376 01:59:08.119 --> 01:59:10.760 to compare something against it, right, Like whenever people are 2377 01:59:10.760 --> 01:59:13.439 like I bought my first house for twenty five thousand dollars, Like, okay, 2378 01:59:13.439 --> 01:59:14.720 but what did a gallon of gas cost? 2379 01:59:14.760 --> 01:59:14.800 You? 2380 01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:16.399 Like, give me something to compared against. 2381 01:59:16.560 --> 01:59:19.800 So the closing price for Coca Cola between nineteen ninety 2382 01:59:19.840 --> 01:59:23.079 and nineteen ninety nine was fourteen twenty seven, so they 2383 01:59:23.079 --> 01:59:23.640 were up there. 2384 01:59:24.439 --> 01:59:26.159 Hasbro was doing very well then. 2385 01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:29.520 Yeah, and the latest price for coke now is sixty seven, 2386 01:59:29.640 --> 01:59:31.079 So like literally what and what? 2387 01:59:32.279 --> 01:59:32.720 Wow? 2388 01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:36.760 That's that's pretty incredible that Hasbro had as good of 2389 01:59:36.800 --> 01:59:38.199 returns as Coke. 2390 01:59:38.920 --> 01:59:39.960 That that's mind blowing. 2391 01:59:40.920 --> 01:59:42.399 Yeah, yeah, it's pretty crazy. 2392 01:59:42.439 --> 01:59:44.720 And especially you think about like how much it probably 2393 01:59:44.720 --> 01:59:47.920 cost them to make this shit overseas, you know, like they're. 2394 01:59:47.800 --> 01:59:49.399 Selling them for twenty nine ninety nine. 2395 01:59:49.439 --> 01:59:51.920 Whenever they first came out, it probably cost them two 2396 01:59:52.039 --> 01:59:53.720 or three bucks to make, you know. 2397 01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:57.159 Oh yeah, and so yeah, I mean I imagine the 2398 01:59:57.439 --> 01:59:59.680 the ROI was quite nice. 2399 02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:00.560 Very true. 2400 02:00:00.600 --> 02:00:03.880 Now let's go into some of the other possible modifications 2401 02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:07.880 on the Ferbies. Like I mentioned this homeboy here his 2402 02:00:07.960 --> 02:00:13.000 YouTube channels. Look, mom, no computer. He actually built an organ. 2403 02:00:13.800 --> 02:00:16.520 I'm not saying pipe organ because there's no pipes. There's 2404 02:00:16.560 --> 02:00:20.520 only Ferbies organ. And he actually got them to make music, 2405 02:00:20.960 --> 02:00:23.920 if nothing else. It's gonna be slightly annoying and slightly entertaining. 2406 02:00:24.359 --> 02:00:26.760 Let's watch this together, good cult members, y'all tell me 2407 02:00:26.760 --> 02:00:29.199 what y'all think. As far as if this guy was able. 2408 02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:30.960 To make this happen with a little bit of some 2409 02:00:31.039 --> 02:00:33.800 time and some wiring and some modifications, what else could 2410 02:00:33.840 --> 02:00:34.960 the Ferbies have been used for? 2411 02:00:35.000 --> 02:00:37.680 If there was a nefarious actor in the mix? Check 2412 02:00:37.720 --> 02:00:41.199 it out? A forgan you will? What a foregan? If 2413 02:00:41.239 --> 02:00:44.600 you will? A foregin? Yes, a foregan new. 2414 02:00:44.720 --> 02:00:48.159 Finally, after trowling through eBay and rummaging fruit cherry shops 2415 02:00:48.239 --> 02:00:49.880 up and down the land, and a heck of a 2416 02:00:49.880 --> 02:00:53.119 lot of soldiering, I present to you the Ferbie organ. 2417 02:00:55.720 --> 02:00:59.279 And here we have forty four free range, homegrown little 2418 02:00:59.319 --> 02:01:03.159 Ferbi dars that have been extensively modified using the fully 2419 02:01:03.199 --> 02:01:08.319 patent void formant Verbi fusion synthesis brain modification surgery procedure, 2420 02:01:09.640 --> 02:01:12.319 along with a beautiful oak finish that wouldn't look out 2421 02:01:12.319 --> 02:01:15.000 of place in your grandma's living room. These furbies are 2422 02:01:15.000 --> 02:01:18.439 able to sing, chat, and play in a dreamlike state. 2423 02:01:18.680 --> 02:01:21.399 Hooked up into the mainframe in the back of the machine. 2424 02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:24.119 They are heavily sedated. I don't even think they know 2425 02:01:24.159 --> 02:01:26.640 they're here. It's kind of like the Matrix, but without 2426 02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:29.920 the bad sunglasses. So without further ado, let's flick the 2427 02:01:29.920 --> 02:01:31.439 collective awakening switch. 2428 02:01:44.359 --> 02:01:46.800 So I've tried to waken up them, I've gone. 2429 02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:47.239 Back to sleep. 2430 02:01:50.279 --> 02:01:51.880 I'm gonna turn that down slightly for that. 2431 02:01:53.319 --> 02:01:55.520 You also have the ability to stop them in their 2432 02:01:55.560 --> 02:01:58.039 tracks by pressing the loop and freeze switch. 2433 02:02:07.279 --> 02:02:08.720 It's weird, isn't it. Feature. 2434 02:02:08.760 --> 02:02:11.479 The Ferbies are able to also generate a four months 2435 02:02:11.600 --> 02:02:18.319 vowel notes, and you're able to change the vowel. It's 2436 02:02:18.399 --> 02:02:20.439 rather hard to notice, but when you hit the notes, 2437 02:02:20.560 --> 02:02:23.279 the Ferbie also speaks. But they're going a bit crazy 2438 02:02:23.359 --> 02:02:25.119 right now. I think they're a bit excited to be 2439 02:02:25.159 --> 02:02:27.399 on camera. So now it's time to play a song. 2440 02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:30.119 I've just got to get out my Ferby composer out 2441 02:02:30.119 --> 02:02:30.920 of its backpack. 2442 02:02:32.079 --> 02:03:48.079 Ah. 2443 02:03:48.079 --> 02:03:49.119 The thing is worth mentioning. 2444 02:03:49.159 --> 02:03:51.000 He just showed some of the furbies that were completely 2445 02:03:51.000 --> 02:03:53.279 dissected that he did for this. We're gonna watch another 2446 02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:54.960 video next that the people actually taking them. 2447 02:03:54.800 --> 02:03:57.640 Apart, which is pretty wild. But yeah, let's let's. 2448 02:03:57.439 --> 02:04:39.680 Continue with this uh musical number. Wild Ship Dude. 2449 02:04:39.800 --> 02:04:44.640 As Aristotle once said, there is no great genius without 2450 02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:52.159 a touch of madness, and that spells that guy right there. Yeah, 2451 02:04:52.159 --> 02:04:55.239 a little bit, a little bit. I had a couple 2452 02:04:55.279 --> 02:04:56.319 more articles pulled up. 2453 02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:59.000 We already talked about when the National Security Agency outright 2454 02:04:59.079 --> 02:05:03.319 band Ferbies. This is a quick little two page thing 2455 02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:05.840 talking about the actual memos that were released. But I 2456 02:05:05.880 --> 02:05:09.119 think we pretty much covered that to the degree. So 2457 02:05:09.239 --> 02:05:12.920 now what is inside of Ferbie? Let's talk about this. 2458 02:05:13.000 --> 02:05:14.840 These two engineer types are actually going to break it 2459 02:05:14.840 --> 02:05:18.039 apart to show the insides. And you know, with all 2460 02:05:18.119 --> 02:05:21.319 the conversation about could they listen, were they recording us? 2461 02:05:21.720 --> 02:05:24.800 Were they interacting and actually learning English and all these things, 2462 02:05:25.199 --> 02:05:26.640 let's learn about it more together. 2463 02:05:28.960 --> 02:05:31.600 Hello there, welcome to Live Lab for another dissection video. 2464 02:05:31.760 --> 02:05:34.119 We've got something a little bit different for you today. 2465 02:05:34.199 --> 02:05:36.039 We're going to be dissecting one of our favorite toys 2466 02:05:36.079 --> 02:05:37.319 in the nineties, Ferbies. 2467 02:05:37.560 --> 02:05:39.880 We're going to start trying to take the skin off, 2468 02:05:39.880 --> 02:05:41.199 the outside skin fur. 2469 02:05:41.840 --> 02:05:44.079 It's a bit of plastic that's so believably real. 2470 02:05:44.239 --> 02:05:46.720 So I'm cutting around the base of the Ferby here. 2471 02:05:46.800 --> 02:05:48.640 I'm just going to slice up his middle now, just 2472 02:05:48.640 --> 02:05:50.239 to see if I can get a look at what's 2473 02:05:50.279 --> 02:05:53.000 going on. We're being held on by his face, so 2474 02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:55.479 I'm thinking his face plate might come off, which'd be interesting. 2475 02:05:55.680 --> 02:05:56.600 What can we see down there? 2476 02:05:57.680 --> 02:06:00.279 So here that looks like where are you tom? 2477 02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:00.439 So? 2478 02:06:00.439 --> 02:06:03.640 That's his sense cool and round on the back. We'll 2479 02:06:03.640 --> 02:06:05.359 get a better look at these once we've got his 2480 02:06:05.439 --> 02:06:08.479 skin properly off. But that's where you can stroke his back. 2481 02:06:08.720 --> 02:06:11.279 The faces is on the way off, you can reveal 2482 02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:16.439 the nightmarish creature within some eyeballs becoming exposed. 2483 02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:20.079 So I've gone for a different approach, just cutting round face. 2484 02:06:22.479 --> 02:06:27.920 It's pretty horrifying, and I'm going to see if I 2485 02:06:27.920 --> 02:06:30.439 can delicately expose his ears. I'd quite like to keep 2486 02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:32.840 the ears intact if I can. We've kind of skinned 2487 02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:35.159 them now, so I think stage two is probably to 2488 02:06:35.159 --> 02:06:36.760 get inside this plastic bit. 2489 02:06:37.159 --> 02:06:39.760 So I think I've done enough screwing or enough pulling 2490 02:06:40.600 --> 02:06:46.239 that we can start to get one of the sides away. Yeah, 2491 02:06:47.840 --> 02:06:48.640 look at that. 2492 02:06:49.119 --> 02:06:50.720 I'm not gonna bother with that last screw. 2493 02:06:51.239 --> 02:06:51.399 Oh. 2494 02:06:53.119 --> 02:06:56.760 I have a theory about these these cogs and gears 2495 02:06:56.760 --> 02:06:58.960 in the back there. If we can force those to move, 2496 02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:00.680 we might actually see some movement in the face of 2497 02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:03.039 the Ferby, which I think would be quite nice. We 2498 02:07:03.039 --> 02:07:05.439 can say we've got a little contact soon. So it's 2499 02:07:05.479 --> 02:07:07.800 just two bits of metal that when they come into 2500 02:07:07.800 --> 02:07:10.159 contact with each other, when you press down make a connection. 2501 02:07:10.359 --> 02:07:11.600 It's just like acting like a switch. 2502 02:07:11.800 --> 02:07:12.840 Found the final screw. 2503 02:07:17.199 --> 02:07:20.600 I want to get this top section with all the 2504 02:07:20.640 --> 02:07:25.159 mechanical workings away from the electrical circuit board, get a 2505 02:07:25.159 --> 02:07:27.199 better look at the brain there. 2506 02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:28.359 It is Ferby brain. 2507 02:07:28.720 --> 02:07:32.800 So we've got lots of resistors and capacitors at these 2508 02:07:32.800 --> 02:07:36.640 ones here, and then these long bits and that bit there. 2509 02:07:36.800 --> 02:07:38.840 Those are kind of some of the cleverer bits. Those 2510 02:07:38.840 --> 02:07:40.960 are the chips, and they're gonna have lots of connections 2511 02:07:41.000 --> 02:07:43.319 in them to kind of do the logic of the circuit. 2512 02:07:43.800 --> 02:07:47.600 So when Ferby's mouth is pressed, move is up and down. 2513 02:07:47.720 --> 02:07:49.039 That's where that is happening. 2514 02:07:49.279 --> 02:07:54.640 Just found a little motor. So either side of that coil. 2515 02:07:54.479 --> 02:07:58.880 Are two magnets. When an alternating current is passed through 2516 02:07:58.880 --> 02:08:01.319 that coil, that's going to make this thing's been round. 2517 02:08:01.560 --> 02:08:05.520 So that's how the Ferbi is translating electrical signals into 2518 02:08:05.600 --> 02:08:07.680 movement of these gears underneath. 2519 02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:11.199 I'm wondering if we feed that some power directly. Oh, 2520 02:08:11.319 --> 02:08:13.119 might we be able to get it to go? Let's 2521 02:08:13.159 --> 02:08:13.439 do it. 2522 02:08:13.640 --> 02:08:18.359 Beth's being slightly blase about connecting batteries to unknown things, 2523 02:08:18.520 --> 02:08:20.039 and that's because he's a fairly low voltage. 2524 02:08:20.079 --> 02:08:22.159 If this was a main's appliance, we would not be 2525 02:08:22.199 --> 02:08:22.520 doing this. 2526 02:08:25.800 --> 02:08:37.119 Oh my god, Yeah, it's alive, brilliant. So we were 2527 02:08:37.199 --> 02:08:40.079 right that one motor is driving all of the gears 2528 02:08:40.119 --> 02:08:42.840 in this little gearbox. All we needed was to find 2529 02:08:43.199 --> 02:08:45.119 the positive and negative and hook it up to a 2530 02:08:45.119 --> 02:08:50.399 bit of a powerful battery that is magnificently creepy. Magnificently creepy. 2531 02:08:51.439 --> 02:08:53.399 The back looks particularly incredible. 2532 02:08:53.720 --> 02:08:56.000 That little black that is for the mouth. That's the 2533 02:08:56.039 --> 02:09:00.720 mouth going in time. This one's doing the ears up 2534 02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:04.239 and down. That little black one there. 2535 02:09:04.039 --> 02:09:07.239 He's doing the eyes open shut, open shut, all off, 2536 02:09:07.279 --> 02:09:08.039 one movement. 2537 02:09:08.359 --> 02:09:10.359 What we want to do now is see what a 2538 02:09:10.479 --> 02:09:15.439 live Ferby looks like without its skin, without its outer casings, 2539 02:09:15.720 --> 02:09:18.439 but still working. We want to see all those gears 2540 02:09:18.439 --> 02:09:20.720 turning while it's alive. 2541 02:09:22.800 --> 02:09:23.560 Talking to you. 2542 02:09:24.840 --> 02:09:31.359 Okay, The inside is really amazing, Like I'd never thought 2543 02:09:31.399 --> 02:09:33.319 about what was going on in there, and now. 2544 02:09:33.279 --> 02:09:35.359 We've seen it. It kind of makes sense. 2545 02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:39.520 The Ferby's got lots of different sensors on the outside, 2546 02:09:40.079 --> 02:09:42.920 and we can see how they're connected to the circuit board. 2547 02:09:43.479 --> 02:09:45.319 When the sensors are pressed. 2548 02:09:45.039 --> 02:09:48.399 Or hear something when the light's covered, send a signal 2549 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:49.199 to the circuit board. 2550 02:09:49.399 --> 02:09:51.119 Circuit board processes. 2551 02:09:50.640 --> 02:09:53.359 That sends a signal back out to the motives, which 2552 02:09:53.399 --> 02:09:54.279 makes the Ferby movement. 2553 02:09:55.039 --> 02:09:56.600 And it's got a whole range of things just with 2554 02:09:56.880 --> 02:10:00.560 one really simple, a very very clever. So if you've 2555 02:10:00.560 --> 02:10:02.439 got any old toys at home which just sitting up 2556 02:10:02.439 --> 02:10:05.159 in the accid collecting dust, get them downstairs and see 2557 02:10:05.159 --> 02:10:06.000 what's inside them. 2558 02:10:07.119 --> 02:10:07.560 All right. 2559 02:10:07.600 --> 02:10:09.439 So, now, like I said, that's kind of a breakdown 2560 02:10:09.439 --> 02:10:12.399 of the inner workings, the mechanical features and all of 2561 02:10:12.439 --> 02:10:13.439 these things that would be. 2562 02:10:14.079 --> 02:10:16.399 That would be so cool to just go in there 2563 02:10:16.520 --> 02:10:19.239 and you know, mess with some of the words that 2564 02:10:19.319 --> 02:10:21.600 it can say. You know, maybe give it to somebody 2565 02:10:21.680 --> 02:10:23.960 as like a little nostalgic present. They think that they're 2566 02:10:23.960 --> 02:10:26.760 getting a little Ferby. Meanwhile, that thing just walks up 2567 02:10:26.760 --> 02:10:27.680 to you and says. 2568 02:10:27.880 --> 02:10:33.520 Fuck you, Jacob, or drop the base in it and 2569 02:10:33.560 --> 02:10:38.279 be like, oh, have that bitch wake you up in 2570 02:10:38.319 --> 02:10:39.920 the middle of the night, like yo, that would fuck. 2571 02:10:39.760 --> 02:10:40.680 People up, dude. 2572 02:10:40.760 --> 02:10:43.479 I would just have like a little timer that comes 2573 02:10:43.520 --> 02:10:46.479 on at three point thirty in the morning, just like well. 2574 02:10:46.479 --> 02:10:49.199 Like if it's already got the photos cell, it's very 2575 02:10:49.199 --> 02:10:50.920 easy to rig up a timer to where once the 2576 02:10:51.000 --> 02:10:54.000 light's gone, there's like an eight hour timer that starts 2577 02:10:54.119 --> 02:10:56.239 and have that bitch at two in the morning starts 2578 02:10:56.319 --> 02:10:57.880 screaming in one of these tones. 2579 02:10:57.920 --> 02:10:58.680 That's awesome. 2580 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:01.439 I was thinking I was more Witching Hour, That's why 2581 02:11:01.439 --> 02:11:04.359 I said that. But okay, I mean creepy. Either way, 2582 02:11:04.399 --> 02:11:06.319 it'd be a fun little prank to do on somebody. 2583 02:11:06.960 --> 02:11:09.840 So let's kind of recap on this episode and some 2584 02:11:09.880 --> 02:11:12.680 of the wild things we discussed, and also I actually mentioned 2585 02:11:12.680 --> 02:11:16.000 this one too. There was also some controversy surrounding the Ferbies, 2586 02:11:16.279 --> 02:11:20.039 saying that they were actually using human or animal hair 2587 02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:23.640 as their fur. The Hasbro company had to come out 2588 02:11:23.680 --> 02:11:26.640 and say, no, it's all acrylic, like they dissolved fake fur, 2589 02:11:27.279 --> 02:11:29.159 just like all the other fake fur items you would 2590 02:11:29.159 --> 02:11:30.960 buy from a stuffed animal. 2591 02:11:30.680 --> 02:11:32.760 Which is the cheaper way to go about it anyway. 2592 02:11:33.239 --> 02:11:37.399 Indeed, indeed, now as far as how the machine was 2593 02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:40.319 able to go from speaking Furbish to speaking your language. 2594 02:11:41.119 --> 02:11:44.399 Here's the thing. It was pretty programmed, and it was 2595 02:11:44.520 --> 02:11:46.560 correct that the more you played with it, the more 2596 02:11:46.680 --> 02:11:50.439 it unlocked new things, new easter eggs, if you will, so, 2597 02:11:50.760 --> 02:11:52.199 let me just throw this out. 2598 02:11:52.600 --> 02:11:55.439 You had it to where if you were to like 2599 02:11:55.479 --> 02:11:58.079 say good morning to it or hello, like fifty times, 2600 02:11:58.640 --> 02:12:01.840 it would answer you in Furbish fifty times. On the 2601 02:12:01.880 --> 02:12:05.720 fifty first time it would answer you Hello, and it was. 2602 02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:07.960 Like, no way, it's changing, it's learning. 2603 02:12:08.000 --> 02:12:08.359 It's all this. 2604 02:12:08.880 --> 02:12:12.000 Basically, the program was set to a certain number a 2605 02:12:12.000 --> 02:12:14.199 certain not a timer, but a certain number of times 2606 02:12:14.199 --> 02:12:16.159 when a phrase would be uttered, and then it would 2607 02:12:16.199 --> 02:12:19.920 swap from Furbish to your language and answer you. It 2608 02:12:19.960 --> 02:12:22.520 gave the appearance that it was self learning, but in 2609 02:12:22.560 --> 02:12:25.560 reality it was pre programmed for that. And I'm throwing 2610 02:12:25.560 --> 02:12:28.279 out fifty arbitrarily. I have no idea what number for 2611 02:12:28.319 --> 02:12:31.119 each of these phrases it was. It's still crazy to 2612 02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:33.720 me that it knew if you were speaking English to 2613 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:36.760 it to start changing from Furbish to English, or from 2614 02:12:37.159 --> 02:12:40.680 Furbish to Greek, or to Portuguese or to Japanese or whatever. 2615 02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:44.560 That is pretty insane in and of itself, which again 2616 02:12:44.720 --> 02:12:48.199 I could understand why to the three letter agencies and 2617 02:12:48.239 --> 02:12:50.560 powers that be of the nineties they would take that 2618 02:12:50.600 --> 02:12:53.319 to be Okay, this thing is artificial intelligence and an 2619 02:12:53.359 --> 02:12:56.439 actual robot, by the company's admission, and they're letting it 2620 02:12:56.520 --> 02:12:59.000 go to all these kids' homes. We're not letting that 2621 02:12:59.000 --> 02:13:01.479 shit in our office. But again, if they just would 2622 02:13:01.479 --> 02:13:03.720 have reached out, they probably would have got a better answer. 2623 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:06.960 But instead they went in and banned it outright. 2624 02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:12.199 So the Ferbie, the toy that was the craze of 2625 02:13:12.279 --> 02:13:15.680 the world for a good few years there banned by 2626 02:13:15.760 --> 02:13:20.239 multiple three letter agencies, lobbied for by Reagan's former chief 2627 02:13:20.239 --> 02:13:20.840 of staff. 2628 02:13:21.720 --> 02:13:23.479 No, as of this moment, I don't believe that it 2629 02:13:23.520 --> 02:13:25.880 was actually being used as a spy device, but I 2630 02:13:25.880 --> 02:13:30.039 could absolutely understand why so many agencies believe that it was. 2631 02:13:30.680 --> 02:13:33.319 And again, with all those mechanics on the inside, unless 2632 02:13:33.359 --> 02:13:35.239 you knew what you were looking at, how would you 2633 02:13:35.359 --> 02:13:38.319 know if that wasn't being used as a recording device 2634 02:13:38.600 --> 02:13:41.199 or as a memory storage bank, or if there wasn't 2635 02:13:41.199 --> 02:13:43.880 a computer or a camera that was hidden behind the 2636 02:13:43.880 --> 02:13:47.439 eyeballs or behind the little infrared forehead thing. I absolutely 2637 02:13:47.479 --> 02:13:49.600 could understand why there was such a need for concern. 2638 02:13:50.119 --> 02:13:53.399 But to my knowledge, this is the only toy that 2639 02:13:53.439 --> 02:13:57.560 has ever been banned from multiple secure locations in this nation. 2640 02:13:57.680 --> 02:14:02.079 Brother shocking, actually, you know, And it makes you just 2641 02:14:02.119 --> 02:14:04.560 want to look a little bit deeper into a lot 2642 02:14:04.600 --> 02:14:06.279 of the fads and a lot of the toys and 2643 02:14:06.319 --> 02:14:08.560 stuff like that, especially in the day and age where 2644 02:14:08.640 --> 02:14:12.359 microchip might dude, a microchip can be the size of 2645 02:14:12.399 --> 02:14:15.520 a skin follicle now, like they are so damn small. 2646 02:14:15.560 --> 02:14:18.119 They have microbots and all that other shit. I mean, 2647 02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:21.079 it's it wouldn't surprise me, especially in the day and 2648 02:14:21.119 --> 02:14:24.319 age where everybody has Wi Fi, everybody has a cellular 2649 02:14:24.359 --> 02:14:28.359 connection to where it's perfect for GATA collection, And I 2650 02:14:28.399 --> 02:14:30.640 don't know. I mean, of course, nowadays, I don't even 2651 02:14:30.680 --> 02:14:32.680 think you would have to go to those lengths because 2652 02:14:32.720 --> 02:14:36.000 people are just totally fine having Alexas in their house 2653 02:14:36.039 --> 02:14:38.920 and Siri on their phone in their pocket all the 2654 02:14:38.920 --> 02:14:40.720 time anyway, So I don't even know if you'd even 2655 02:14:40.760 --> 02:14:43.079 even need to go to those extents, to be honest 2656 02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:46.319 with you, And so maybe there's just not really a 2657 02:14:46.359 --> 02:14:49.439 need for it. But back then in ninety nine, whenever 2658 02:14:49.479 --> 02:14:52.239 it was a little bit more primitive, at least to us, 2659 02:14:52.319 --> 02:14:55.479 you know, the average folk. I could see why there 2660 02:14:55.520 --> 02:14:56.560 would have been concerns. 2661 02:14:56.880 --> 02:14:58.760 I mean, keep in mind, in ninety nine, the flip 2662 02:14:58.880 --> 02:15:02.720 phone was seen as the fucking pinnacle of the technology 2663 02:15:02.720 --> 02:15:03.039 you'd have. 2664 02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:06.399 In your pocket. People were still using beepers, The Nokia 2665 02:15:06.439 --> 02:15:09.800 brick was still widely being used by a vast majority 2666 02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:11.800 of the public. You had to pull the antenna out 2667 02:15:11.840 --> 02:15:14.479 of your cellular to be able to do like you 2668 02:15:14.479 --> 02:15:15.159 see what I'm saying. 2669 02:15:15.159 --> 02:15:18.199 It was a different era. The next tell phone walkie talkies. 2670 02:15:18.399 --> 02:15:19.760 Those things were like, oh shit. 2671 02:15:20.279 --> 02:15:23.159 Those didn't even come out until like the mid two thousands. 2672 02:15:23.199 --> 02:15:26.239 Dude, was it that No, it was like early two thousands. 2673 02:15:26.239 --> 02:15:28.560 I want to say, the only time I remember seeing 2674 02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:31.720 it was probably around three oh four. And I mean 2675 02:15:31.800 --> 02:15:34.279 maybe by that point they had kind of gone down 2676 02:15:34.359 --> 02:15:37.600 as far as popularity goes. But yeah, the next tell 2677 02:15:38.159 --> 02:15:39.840 cell phone walkie talkies. 2678 02:15:39.880 --> 02:15:41.840 Why wouldn't you just use the cell phone and call 2679 02:15:41.920 --> 02:15:44.520 the guy, well, because you don't want to use your minutes. 2680 02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:48.319 It was It's crazy the amount of things that we 2681 02:15:48.439 --> 02:15:50.479 took at that day and age is like, well, obviously, 2682 02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:53.000 and now we look back like bro, Why what the fuck. 2683 02:15:52.840 --> 02:15:54.359 Dude, I knew it came out a lot earlier. My 2684 02:15:54.399 --> 02:15:55.800 dad used to have one of those. 2685 02:15:55.800 --> 02:15:58.439 It was a work phone, and the next TAEL launched 2686 02:15:58.479 --> 02:16:01.920 it's pushed to talk service marketed as Direct Connect in 2687 02:16:02.079 --> 02:16:03.319 nineteen ninety six. 2688 02:16:04.640 --> 02:16:07.680 No, the walkie talkie cell phone Combo wasn't in ninety six. 2689 02:16:07.760 --> 02:16:08.359 There's no way. 2690 02:16:08.439 --> 02:16:10.199 It says which allowed users. 2691 02:16:10.680 --> 02:16:12.800 This is from how stuff works, but it says which 2692 02:16:12.800 --> 02:16:15.960 allowed users to communicate using a walkie talkie feature on 2693 02:16:16.000 --> 02:16:19.319 their phones. This service became widely popular, however, in the 2694 02:16:19.399 --> 02:16:21.560 late nineties and early two thousands. 2695 02:16:21.960 --> 02:16:24.439 Okay, damn, but it started in ninety six. 2696 02:16:25.119 --> 02:16:26.920 That's fucking crazy. 2697 02:16:27.039 --> 02:16:29.399 Yeah, you'd get the little chirp and somebody's trying to, 2698 02:16:29.520 --> 02:16:32.000 you know, send you a little walkie talkie message. 2699 02:16:32.079 --> 02:16:33.000 God hear that. 2700 02:16:33.159 --> 02:16:35.639 You get the little on your belt, But it was 2701 02:16:35.680 --> 02:16:39.760 your pager. 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