History of Barbie
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🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Did you know Barbie’s original design was based on a 1952 German comic-strip featuring a sassy high-class escort called Bild Lilli? It took Ruth Handler, the co-creator of Barbie, years to convince her male colleagues that Barbie would be a hit. She has come a long way since then. She’s an astronaut, a doctor, a teacher, has ran for president multiple times, and owns over 40 pets. Unfortunately, Mattel has made many missteps over the years trying to modernize Barbie, as well as Ruth getting in trouble for financial fraud.
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| 0:00.0 | And here he goes, original. |
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| 0:29.7 | are podcast about interesting things we looked up on the web. I'm Ali Siegel and I'm Melissa Stettin. |
| 0:36.7 | That's great. Thank you. Great intro. Yeah, I told you, I mixed it up a little bit. |
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| 0:58.5 | and Amber. Oh, that sounds like Steven Tyler and Amber heard. And Amber heard who I actually |
| 1:06.2 | read the other day. She moved to like Madrid or something. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, |
| 1:12.8 | I was like, Amber heard. Yeah, Amber heard says she's fluent in Spanish as she's moved to Madrid. |
| 1:21.0 | And I was like, yeah, you should that makes all makes sense to me. We're a pro Amber podcast. |
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| 1:52.0 | All right. I'm so excited for today's episode. We all know we're so excited. The Barbie movie |
| 1:57.6 | is coming out soon. Yes. It looks so good. Yes. So I thought I would do an episode on the history |
| 2:04.9 | of Barbie. The reason I thought of this episode actually is because yesterday I was in Target with |
| 2:10.4 | my boyfriend and they have like not to brag, but they have a whole Barbie clothing section. |
| 2:19.8 | And they had like the cutest little set. It was Terry cloth pink shorts and a Terry cloth pink |
| 2:28.0 | shirt like polo shirt. And it said Barbie on the shorts and the shirt in the in the cute pink |
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