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I met Andy through a friend, actually.
A mutual friend.
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Actually, two people
that we both knew
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suggested that me and Andy
get in contact with one another
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because we'd both
done similar projects.
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One of the jobs that I had was
at this games company called Maxis
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that makes SimCity.
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One of the games they were making
at the time was SimCopter.
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I was in charge of the little people
that run around in the game.
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And I made them
wearing nothing but swim trunks.
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They'd all be boys, and they'd
be running around kissing each other.
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So all the people who ordered
this very popular video game
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suddenly were treated
to a completely different spectacle.
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So he got a lot
of press attention for it,
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and it was seen as a kind of-
an activist kind of statement
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about video games and the sort
of macho nature of them.
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It all involves
the unexpected appearance
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of some gay, kissing muscle men
every Friday the 13th.
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He's becoming a celebrity of sorts
in the computer world...
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especially the gay computer world.
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And then I had done a project
using Barbie dolls,
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where we switched the voice boxes
of Barbie dolls and G.I. Joes.
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Troops Attack that Cobra jet
with heavy firepower!
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And that ended up in G.I. Joes that
said things like, "I love to shop with you,"
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and Barbie dolls that said things like,
"Dead men tell no lies."
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And we got them back
on store shelves
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all over the country in what we called
our "Shop Giving Program."
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We're like Santa Claus,
only less radical,
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because Santa Claus
breaks into people's houses. We don't.
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So that when kids
got them at Christmas,
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they were surprised to find their doll
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saying something other
than what they expected.
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And the kids thought it was hilarious.
They loved having these crazy dolls.
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We sent out press releases,
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so it was in the news on Christmas Day
and for the week following.
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It just went through every kind
of media channel imaginable.
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- The B.L. O...
- The Mission of the B.L. O...
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The Barbie Liberation Organization-
the B.L. O...
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It was real funny 'cause it looks
like. "Come on, fight me. Fight me!"