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welcome to the conky ride home for friday December 3rd, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today. Why the FBI

thought that the inventor of Tickle Me Elmo might have been the Unabomber, a new potential

method for freeze-drying vaccines, and it's Kompest-knocked this weekend. Here is everything

you need to know about the sinister anti-Santa. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

I don't know if it's because I don't have kids or because identifying broad single item trends is exceedingly

difficult in our oversaturated online marketing landscape, but I feel like we haven't had a

hottest toy of the year for the past few holiday seasons. Like, you know, there will sometimes be

something for older kids and grownups like those not actually hoverboards,

but it's been a while since there's been a must-have toy that parents go all jingle all the way over.

Ironically, the year that that fantastic Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad film came out, 1996,

the hottest toy was not Turbo Man or any kind of action figure. It was the

Tickle Me Elmo. If you were alive in 1996, you can probably still hear it. That high-pitched

mechanical laugh emanating from a vibrating plush toy that just never seems to end. The man responsible for the horror and joy of the

Tickle Me Elmo is Mark Williams. And this week, Mel Magazine's Brian Van Hooker got the full story from

Williams about how, at the same time that he was finishing work on the Tiggle Me Elmo, the FBI was on his trail as a suspect

in another much more egregious crime, being behind the Unabomber attacks. Yes, the inventor of the

Tiggle Me Elmo was a top Unabomber suspect. While he is completely innocent, when he shares details about his background and work, you can

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