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Speaker 1: And Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: What ended up on the cutting room floor today.

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Speaker 1: Manda, let's talk about earring magic can a can do?

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Speaker 2: Do you remember earing magic can? No? I don't well.

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Speaker 2: Earing a lot of the.

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Speaker 1: Old cans and Barbies have come into parlance again because

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Speaker 1: of the Barbie movie.

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Speaker 2: I remember the parlance can.

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Speaker 1: They are featured in the Barbie movie. There's gift giving can.

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Speaker 1: There's you know, Pashworthy can, There's grow his own beard can.

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Speaker 2: There's all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: But earring magic can has become the stuff of legend

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Speaker 1: for decades. Mattel have kind of distanced themselves from what

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Speaker 1: many people saw as it obviously gay Ken doll.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk you through what he was. When you look

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Speaker 2: at Kenny, he's pretty gay, isn't he.

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Speaker 1: How do you make a doll that isn't How do

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Speaker 1: you make a doll that doesn't look like that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess well.

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Speaker 1: Earing Magic Can came about as an accessory to earring

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Speaker 1: magic Barbie in nineteen ninety three. But Barbie's Barbie, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure looked great with her. She had like a charm

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Speaker 1: around her neck. What Ken was wearing was a lavender

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Speaker 1: mesh shirt, a purple pleathar vest, baggy jeans, black loafers,

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Speaker 1: and on a chain around his neck a ring that's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be a charm that can go on your

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Speaker 1: own bracelet. But for many people in the gay community,

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Speaker 1: it looked like a sexual.

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Speaker 2: Aid, a sexual ad. What do you mean, Oh, you

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Speaker 2: know exactly what?

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Speaker 1: No, I don't a ring that can be used in

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Speaker 1: a sexual act for a man?

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Speaker 2: Where do you put it around your neck on a charm? Brenda?

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Speaker 2: What pleasure would that give anyone? Wouldn't you just put

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Speaker 2: it on your dick? So earring Magic Ken.

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Speaker 1: When he was in the movie he was in the

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Speaker 1: movie The Barbie Movie, but he just had a Barbie necklace.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have the big ring.

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Speaker 1: Right, So Mattel has distanced some of themselves from Ken.

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Speaker 2: Have a look at the picture.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Dolph Lunggren in a gay filmy up

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Speaker 1: the gay on Dolph?

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Speaker 2: Is that a movie title? Up for gay on dop.

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Speaker 1: So what's interesting is that apparently Mattel did a survey

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Speaker 1: in the early nineties or the nineteen nineties. They thought

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Speaker 1: they did a survey to discover that men that girls

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Speaker 1: didn't think can look cool enough. So someone had the

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Speaker 1: bright idea of researching coolness by sending people to the raves,

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Speaker 1: which at the time was mostly gay men. So these

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Speaker 1: people went home from the raves and said, here's what

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Speaker 1: men are wearing. Yep, and wow, that's what now Ken

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Speaker 1: is wearing. So they've discontinued the doll. The company won't

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Speaker 1: comment on the queer coded aspects of Ken's costume, and

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Speaker 1: when asked point blank, Mattel have denied it, saying, no,

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Speaker 1: it's a necklace around his neck. It holds charms he

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Speaker 1: can share with Barbie. Come on, they've said, this is

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Speaker 1: a doll design for little girls. Something like that would

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Speaker 1: be entirely inappropriate. So this sold game buses. It's the

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Speaker 1: highest rating, highest selling Ken ever because gay men bought it.

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Speaker 1: It ran off the shelves because it became a hilarious

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Speaker 1: thing for them to own.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got a meet. He looks like the seventh

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Speaker 2: member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was discontinued by the end of nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety three, along with the rest of the Earring Magic collection.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a collector's item. I'm assuming. I

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Speaker 1: don't know whether Ken's ever still in the box. It'd

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Speaker 1: be worth a lot of money if he.

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Speaker 2: Was, if he got in there. Okay, kids, that's it

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Speaker 2: for today. To come back tomorrow FROMLAWA Jones and on.

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Speaker 2: Then it's cut room flow. Yeah yeah yeah