The idea of spiritual possession is a concept that has crossed through multiple generations and multiple cultures. But it's not just humans that can become possessed. In multiple cultures and through multiple generations, the idea of inanimate objects becoming possessed is also a legend story, a topic spoken about. And today, here on Mystery Monday, we are going to be talking about the world's most haunted doll. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. As always, I would really, really, really love to thank all of my producers and my patrons here on Esoteric Atlanta. You guys mean the world to me, especially since my absence has been compromised. You guys are really truly what has kept this channel going. And I love each and every one of you. And I thank you so humbly for your support. If you would like to join our Patreon community, there is a link down in the description box below. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce. And today on Mystery Monday, we're going to be talking about Robert the doll. Now I have to admit that I have known about Robert the doll for a very long time. I didn't start being a weirdo looking at all these weird stories right when the Great Awakening a Great Awakening happened. I've been a weirdo for most of my life. But I've avoided this topic because, frankly, Robert the doll terrifies me in a very respectful way. Robert, if you're listening, very respectful way, I fear you. But the other night, I noticed that I believe it's on Amazon Prime. They have a whole series about Robert the doll. And it kind of got me thinking watching it because I kind of had this epiphany that maybe we do need to discuss these things here in this Great Awakening, these things that maybe we don't fully understand. And it was one picture in particular of Robert the doll. And this was a picture that one of the victims of Robert had shown on the series, which is a picture of Robert's aura. Now, many of you probably know this, but for those who don't know this, the only things that can give off an aura are things that have a living consciousness inside of them, right? So human beings, plants, animals, but inanimate objects like toys, chairs, furniture, houses, don't give off auras because they don't have a consciousness inside of them. But Robert the doll, being an inanimate object, did, according to this picture, have an aura inside of it, meaning that there is a consciousness attached to it.  I don't need to see Robert the doll to believe the stories about Robert the doll or Annabelle or any of these other toys that seem to be possessed. But this picture, okay, so this picture made me think we need to look at this further because when we start to understand the magic of light and the magic of consciousness, we start to understand our enemy better. And from my belief, there are lots of items out there that perhaps hold attachments to spirits, maybe not on purpose, but in a lot of cases, maybe on purpose to cause terror, fear, whatever is needed to create that lush to feed the demons. And so that's why I feel like it's important to discuss this topic. And yes, later on, I will be going over this with Stephanie as well. We'll see if the terror cards have to say it, say about this story. But for today, we're just going to move forward, just talking about this mystery, because I want to hear what you guys think too, and what theories you have, because when we do read with Stephanie, I want to present your theories on Robert the doll as well. Or if you have any, you know, famous haunted toys from your culture, let me know down in the comment section too, we can cover that with Stephanie too. Alright, so let's talk about Robert the doll. So the whole story happened or started or still happening in Key West, Florida. Now Key West is the southernmost point of the United States. In 1823, Key West became a part of America before then it had been owned by the Spanish. Now something I found in my research that I thought was super interesting is that any of these port towns across the world are notoriously some of the most haunted towns. Key West being one of them at Charleston, South Carolina, where my family is from being another one of them. And I'm sure all over the world, if you think about these port towns, there's probably stories of hauntings. Why is this? We know in port towns, port towns at one point were like our airports. People came and went. So much energy. You think about the idea of traveling. Some people are traveling with excitement. Some people traveling with grief. All the energy coming and going. All these stories. And of course, we hear stories about murders happening in port towns where there's drownings, where there's scuffles between countries. And so we're already looking at a very, very, very spirited targeted city before we even have Robert the Doll enter the picture. Now the Otto family was a family living in Key West. Now interestingly enough, the Otto family is kind of known and vocal or being a very prominent wealthy family in Key West. But some of the people I studied said, no, it's not necessarily true. They were upper middle class. The Otto Thomas Otto, the father was a doctor as was his father. But back in those days, doctors did not make the amount of money according to my research that doctors do today. And a lot of this was a lot of doctors would work on trade, you know, like somebody would get sick and so they would make a pie and bring it to the doctor's house. A lot of doctors work out of their houses.  So doctors themselves weren't super wealthy because they would again make a lot of their payments from bartering systems. My dad is a veterinarian and he bartered with the local mechanic. And so I would drive my car whenever when I was 16, I was driving whenever I needed like an oil change or something done to my car. I would just take my car over to this local mechanic and he would just do it for me and I never paid for it because my dad and him bartered. So my dad would take care of his animals and then he would take care of our cars. My dad and the mechanic have been friends since childhood. So that's like the only person he bartered with. And I didn't know how much oil change costs until after college when I was living in Los Angeles because I had never had to pay for anything like that. So, you know, even my dad did that with one person, everybody else paid, but I can understand that, right? Especially when there maybe weren't huge taxes coming from the federal government on businesses, you know, life was just different back then. But Otto, the Otto family, Thomas Otto, where he did make his money was in pharmaceuticals, which again, I thought was really interesting. And we can maybe get Stephanie to not look at Thomas Otto's per se, but just kind of what this meant for doctors back in the late 1800s, early 1900s, because the doctors themselves owned the pharmacies. They owned them. And so that's where they made a lot of their money was selling these medications. There were no like pharmaceutical companies. It was the doctors themselves. And Thomas Otto apparently owned two pharmacies and Key West. Now the house that the autos lived in is now called the Artist House. This is openly out in Key West. You can take a tour. A lot of the tours, the ghost tours go by the Artist House. And this house was built anywhere between 1890 and 1898. But we do know that the Otto family did move into the house in 1898. Now in Germany at this time, which was known as Prussia, there was a company called the Steiff Company. Now the Otto family, obviously Otto is a German name. They were of English and German descent. I don't know if the Otto family had literal relatives living in Prussia at that time, Germany today, or if it was just their descent. But we do know that around 1904, one of the family members traveled back to Germany or Prussia as it was called then. Some accounts say it was the mother.  Some people say it was the grandfather, so Thomas Otto's father, who had gone back to Germany or Prussia at the time. Now the Steiff Company was a company that created the first teddy bear. The first teddy bear created in 1902. Well, 1904 is when one of the Otto family members was there and the autos bought a doll from the Steiff Company. Now some accounts say that this was just a regular doll, but the doll was pretty life-like in its form. And so many people believe that this doll might have actually been a mannequin of sorts back in the day, or like children's clothing. I'm not 100 percent sure. And they might have, they might speculate it's a mannequin again because the doll is pretty tall. It's kind of like a, the size of like a four or five-year-old child. But regardless, the doll was purchased from the Steiff Company and was brought back to Key West to give to Gene Otto, Thomas Otto's son, for his fourth birthday. Now I do want to point out this never occurred to me studying this story, but in my research, a lot of people asked about why a little boy was given a doll. Again, this never really occurred to me, but according to what I found because of this question that people have asked, I don't think there's really anything to it. There's no like conspiracy there. They weren't trying to make Gene a girl. There's nothing like that. Back in the early 1900s, it was very, very common for boys to also play with dolls. That was common. It was also very common for boys to have tea parties back in that time too. And it's interesting. I've said this before, I mean, I have a nephew. I know when boys are little, sometimes boys will play with dolls. And that's not saying anything about what they're going to be in the future. But I think when we're young, especially when we're that young, where we haven't been corrupted by the thoughts or the control of the world, little boys also have a paternal side as well. Boys also have a very nurturing side as well.  Now again, when hormones start to come into play, I know girls will continue a lot of ways with that maternal instinct playing with dolls, whereas boys will then go more into like GI Joes and expressing their alphaness, which is fine. But I just really want to express that that wasn't abnormal to give a boy a doll at this time in our history that was considered a very normal present. So anyway, now it is said that when the doll first came to the auto house in 1904 for little Jean Otto's birthday, he was wearing like a clown suit. And then eventually, Jean Otto would give the doll one of his old clothes, a sailor suit that he had. And that's the outfit we still see Robert into this day. Now Jean Otto's full name was Eugene Robert Otto. Some accounts say that before Robert the doll came to live with the Otto family, Jean went by Robert. But a lot of accounts say no, he only went by Jean. But the interesting thing is that Jean actually named Robert the doll after himself. Now, I've been thinking a lot about this and I was thinking about this after I watched the series about this idea of giving of a name. Now I know in the Jewish culture, I have a friend who married a Jewish man. And when they started having children, she expressed frustration because she wanted to name her children after family members. But in the Jewish culture, that's not allowed. If a family member is still alive, it's not allowed to name a child after that family member apparently it's seen as like a bad omen. But in the Anglican culture, where my friend was born into the culture I'm a part of, we do this all the time. My dad is Edgar Lee Watson Jr. My grandfather was Edgar Lee Watson Sr. And my grandfather went by Ed and my dad goes by Lee, the middle name Lee. If I had been born a boy, I would have been Edgar Lee Watson the third. We have that a lot here in the south. I went to school with boys who were like the fourth and the fifth of their generation, lots of trips. I know the third generation, they call them trip, you know, lots, lots of nicknames and stuff like that. And even for me, I've expressed this before family names in the south, especially are super important. When my mother was pregnant with me, if I was going to be a girl, my mother wanted to name me Laura after a character from the movie Dr. Javago. And my grandmother put her foot down and said absolutely not that I was going to have a family name. Bryce, my name Bryce is my mother's maiden name and that was my grandmother's idea. Now from what I understand when I was born, my parents lived in South Carolina, my name was supposed to be Elizabeth Bryce Watson. But a lot of the women my mother knew were also pregnant with girls and they were all naming their babies Elizabeth. So my mom switched the names and they meet Bryce Elizabeth Watson. Elizabeth is also a big family name. My sister, her name is Mary Rebecca. That's the name of my great grandmother on my father's side, my paternal great grandmother. She has a family name as well. And so with an Anglican culture, you'll have families with a bunch of the same names. There's a ton of kids like generations from the Bryce's who carry Bryce's their first name on my mom's side of the family. I have a cousin named Strom. That's my grandmother's maiden name. So this idea of giving a name to someone or something you love is not uncommon in Anglican communities. And a lot of the people were saying was Gene giving a part of his soul to the doll when he gave him his name. I don't know, but part of me says probably not because that was just something that was very, very, very common and still is very common in the South, especially with Anglican families. Now again, I do bring this up because there is a theory that Gene did give a part of himself to Robert the Doll. However, I don't think that this theory comes from the name specifically or the clothes. But I'd love to hear your opinion down in the comment section below. Do you come from a culture where that's kind of a no-no or taboo to give someone a name of someone living? What do you think about that? So pretty soon after Gene's birthday, Gene got very oddly attached to Robert the Doll. Robert the Doll very quickly became Gene's best friend. Now at the end of this episode, I'm going to show you one of my dolls that I had when I was a kid that I brought everywhere with me. But this doll of mine never had any supernatural powers. Whereas the stories associated with Robert the Doll do seem like Robert the Doll had a bit of a possession over Gene, if that makes sense. Things would start to happen in the house. Things would break. And whenever Gene would get blamed for it as the child, Gene would very famously say, I didn't do it. Robert did it. Now we're going to talk about this a little bit more at the end because this could be the creating of a poltergeist, which is one of the theories that I have. But again, we'll hold that off for the end. The parents, of course, became a little bit frustrated because it seemed to them that Robert was a kid. He was playing and things happened. Bases break. And he was just not taking accountability for what he did. Instead, he was blaming it on this toy. But over time, weirder things started to happen. The parents would walk by Gene's bedroom and they would hear Gene like playing with his toys and having a conversation with Robert. But then they would hear another voice in the room talking back to Gene. They would open the door to see if Gene had a friend and there would be no one in the room but Gene and his toys. And whenever they asked Gene who he was talking to, he would say, Robert, I'm talking to Robert. Then one night something very peculiar happened where Gene was sleeping and all of the furniture in his room got pushed over. It was very loud. Something that perhaps a young child would not be strong enough to do.  And so all of our furniture were like antique furniture is old. You look at furniture from that time, they were heavy, like heavy pieces of furniture. And so even for me at 39 years old being relatively strong, I don't know if I could push over an armoire or a secretary. This takes a lot of strength. I mean, even when you move with that furniture, it takes two or three minutes to be able to lift it up. Yeah.  When they came in, apparently Robert was standing on the end of the bed staring at Gene. There were also stories of Robert being able to walk and move himself around the house. They even say that his face would change with expressions.  And so Robert was packed away. Gene ended up going off to New York and Paris to study art. He didn't end up becoming an artist. And while in Paris, he met Annette, the woman who would end up becoming his wife. Now Annette's name, they called her Ann and they married on May 3rd, 1930. Now, apparently Annette did come from a pretty well to do family. And for a while they were able to maintain their lives in New York, Chicago, other places where Gene was able to fulfill his dreams of being an artist. They never had children. But then once Gene's parents passed away, Gene did move Ann or Annette back to their family home in Key West. Once they got back into their family home in Key West, Gene rediscovered his childhood toy of Robert the doll. Apparently Ann immediately started feeling weird about the situation. It was like all of a sudden Gene was addicted to this doll again. Gene even gave this doll Robert his own room. And there are legends and stories that on the second story floor of the artist's house where the autos lived, Gene and Ann now, the second generation of autos, children, school children would walk by and see Robert the doll staring down at them from the window. Now, there are reports that Otto was possibly a little bit abusive towards Ann. I'm bringing this up because we are going to look at Gene Otto a little bit closer at the end of this to talk about the idea of an upholter guys. But from what I understand, he was never physically abusive towards Ann.  One person said that when Ann was now responsible as the woman for the cleaning of the house and Gene would go around and take pictures of tables to show her exactly where certain objects needed to be situated. And so when she would clean, she would put them exact back exactly where they were supposed to be. This is a form of OCD, which is a form of an anxiety disorder. Again, we're going to get back to that in the back part of with some speculation at the back part of this episode. Apparently Gene would also do things like with Ann like whenever he had an art show, he would make her wait outside of the venue for like 10 minutes so that when he first walked into the venue, all attention was on him and not on Ann.  It's harder to it's easy when someone's physically abusive to you to say that's bad. But with the mental and emotional abuse, there's a lot of gaslighting. And so I think that in a lot of ways, that's a harder situation to be in. But it is known that Ann did not like Robert the doll.  He was Gene's best friend. Of course, he couldn't make any real friends. Gene ended up passing away in 1974. Now when he passed away, he left all of his belongings and his money to his sister and left the house only the house to his wife, Ann. And so he kind of left his wife in a very hard position. Like she didn't have any way of making money. Now she couldn't sell his work. She couldn't sell the antiques. She just had the house. And so Ann ended up selling the house to make some money to live off of. But that time was only like $50,000. And then she passed away two years later. Well, Robert the doll came with the house. And the next family to own this house also had experiences with Robert the doll. In fact, they would have Robert the doll in their possession for the next 20 years. In 1994, Robert the doll was donated to the East Martello Museum, where Robert the doll has lived ever since. Now this does not mean that Robert the doll's supernatural abilities have ended. In fact, if you go and visit East Martello Museum and visit Robert the doll, you're going to see a board behind Robert with a ton of letters, apology letters from modern day victims of Robert. It seems that when you go and visit Robert the doll, there are four main rules that you're supposed to abide by. The first one being that you greet Robert.  The second rule is that you maintain respect for Robert, be polite. The third rule is if you want to take a picture of Robert or a video, you ask his permission. And the third rule is when you leave, you have to say goodbye to Robert. If you look at some of these letters at the back of the wall, you see where the person did not acknowledge the rules and after ended up having a whole string of bad luck, almost like a curse, divorces, broken bones, car accidents, bankruptcy, just one after the other to the point where they felt the need to send Robert an apology letter to make the trauma stop. The curses stop. So how is Robert the doll possessed? Let's go through some of these theories. Again, yes, I believe that there are spirits attached to this doll because I believe in that stuff and because the aura picture that someone took shows that there is actually consciousness attached to Robert. The first theory is that he came from the side company already with spirits attached that the moment he came into the house, he was already able to put a possession over Robert. I do kind of believe this because according to the accounts of the story, Robert immediately was hooked on this doll or sorry, Jean was immediately hooked on Robert the doll. The second theory has to do with one of the family's maids. This maid or nanny housekeeper for the autos, her name was Emmeline Abbott. And of course, she loved the auto children. But there is a rumor that her daughter was the result of an affair between Thomas Otto and Emmeline Abbott. The daughter ended up passing away. And many people speculate that one of the spirits associated with Robert is the spirit of the child, the daughter that allegedly, allegedly was the child of Thomas and Emmeline. Some people even say that after Emmeline lost her child, she used black magic to curse the doll so that it would cause the family grievance. I don't believe this because in all accounts I found Emmeline really, really loved the auto children. And I don't think that she would have done anything to hurt those children. And even though parents do grieve, we do crazy things when we grieve. I do think there's understanding with people that sometimes people just die. And there's nothing to be done about it. Sickness takes over and people lose their lives. And even though it's very, very sad to lose a child and the child might have attached the doll, I don't think the nanny had anything to do with it. I'm also not 100% sold that that daughter was the product of an affair. There was nothing in the research to even garner any speculation that there wasn't inappropriate relationship between the nanny and Thomas. It just didn't seem like that was the case. And I think that if that had happened, this was the early 1900s, women had more rights at that time. I think if that had happened, the mother probably would have not been very happy about that. I think you would have seen more attention between the family and the nanny. So I don't actually believe that that child was Thomas' child. I don't know who her father was. And I don't believe that Emmeline cursed the doll after her child died. I think that's where maybe sometimes legend and folklore take on a life of its own and start to exaggerate an already pretty eccentric story. The third possibility again has to do with Gene himself, Gene giving a part of his soul to Robert by giving Robert his own name and his own clothing. Now, again, as I said earlier, I don't think the name and the clothing have anything to do with it. But I do understand what poltergeist are. Poltergeist are spirits that are created by us. So if we have a lot of energy, if we have a lot of projected energy, we can actually take that energy and create a being. We see this a lot with teenage girls, especially because teenage girls are so hormonal, they actually can create a poltergeist. They're not ghosts because they weren't souls and spirits that were once inhabited in the body. They are fragments of us that create an entity and a life force of its own, if that makes sense. And so maybe just maybe part of the supernatural properties of Robert have to do with a poltergeist that Gene himself created. We know that Gene was very eccentric.  I mean, a lot of artists are eccentric, but being eccentric also doesn't mean that you're bad or you're creating. Let me rephrase this. I think that there was something going on with Gene. Whether we can diagnose that today as a mental disability, schizophrenia, I don't know. Maybe Gene himself had abilities that he didn't know how to control. Who knows? Gene is not alive anymore to tell us about this. They had no children. So this is just pure speculation. Now, as Gene starts to grow up, if there was any type of stress in the home, like maybe he had one of his parents for a narcissist, I don't know. Let's just say it this way. Sometimes when a child has a narcissistic parent, when they get in trouble for something, a child will do anything to distract from them being in trouble because they know the rap that's going to follow is probably going to be greater than a parent who isn't narcissistic. Again, this is just pure speculation. And so what we see happening is Gene starts to blame things on Robert the doll. And a lot of people said, oh, it's because he doesn't want to take accountability. Well, if he had a narcissistic parent and he was going through narcissistic abuse from a parent, then I can understand that. It's different from another child, but his parents could have been very mentally healthy and it could have been just Gene being a child and trying to blame on everything on Robert. So once again, he doesn't have to take accountability. We do see later on in life with Anne with the mental abuse coming from Gene. So this tells me that there was something going on with Gene that wasn't healthy. Of course, there are a lot of toxic people, unhealthy people out there that don't go around creating poltergeist. But if there was by chance some narcissistic abuse happening with the parents towards the children, there was no physical only narcissistic, then that comes into mental abuse and the mental abuse again, as I said, can be worse. And we know sometimes with children, especially children who have grown up in a narcissistic home, they either grow up to mimic their parents and become narcissistic themselves or they become scapegoats and they have to really learn how to grow a backbone.  But I think in Robert speculating in Gene's case, I think we're seeing a pattern here. And I think his angst was so great dealing with whatever he was dealing with in his home that he created a poltergeist that attached to Robert the doll that kept Gene in his possession. Now, again, as I said, maybe there was already a spirit attached to the doll coming into America and then Gene's experience just made it even bigger, a bigger experience with this doll. I hope that makes sense. Now, it's interesting in this show on Amazon Prime, they did have a psychic meeting come in, talk to the doll and read the house. And she basically said, it's all of the above that there are multiple spirits attached to Robert the doll, which I can't believe. And so moving forward when we come into this great awakening, how many inanimate objects are we going to have to cleanse? Are we going to have to release attachments to? Now, I will show you because I promised you I would and if I don't know if you could put pictures in the comment section. But if you can't, I would love to see pictures of your childhood toy and best friend. This was my doll. It's still my doll hip. Yes, her name is hip HIP. I named her that when I was like four years old. And you can tell I've got like tape around her head here because her head's about to fall off, her arms are coming loose. And this outfit she's wearing was one of my very 80s, isn't it? I was born in 1983. It's a very 80s onesie of a baby, but that's one of my old outfits that I wore as a baby. And I put it on hip, the doll. Now, this doll went with me everywhere when I was a little girl. She was literally before I even started going to school and making friends of my own. She was my best friend. This was hip. And even I think at one point you can see on her eye, her eyelids, I colored her eyelids. There's water stains on her body. I think I tried to bathe her a couple of times and her arms and legs and had her plastic, but her body is cotton. Now, when my mom's moved quite a few houses since I was a child, and she's not in the childhood house that we grew up in, thank God because that house was super haunted. But when my mom's not much of a hoarder. And so there's not many of our childhood toys that my mother has held on to, but hip was one of them. And I actually, the last time my mother moved, I removed two toys of mine as a kid that I now keep in my closet. One is hip and one is a teddy bear I had as a child. Now, with that being said, even though I really don't ever want anything to happen to hip because I loved her so much as a child, I can't, it's kind of like the velvetine rabbit, you know. He loved the rabbit so much it became real. This doll has such a special place in my heart, but I as a 39 year old woman, I don't play with hip. Hip stays, this doll stays packed up in my closet.  And if I ever do have a child one day, I'll let my child have a little girl or little boy, I'll let them play with hip. I'll totally let them play with hip. But this doll has never done anything. It's never moved around without me moving it. It's never changed its facial expressions. It's never caused any type of disastrous events in my house growing up. This doll is just the epitome of my childhood love, my childhood holding on to her. Whenever I was nervous as a kid in my anxiety, I would hold on to hip. And so this was just basically again, like the velvetine rabbit, just this, she was real to me. Hip was real to me and only me. And a lot of us again, like the velvetine rabbit have these toys that were real to us, but not to anybody else. To my parents, this was just my doll. But to me, this was my hip. This was my, my baby doll, right? And so there's a difference. There's a difference between a toy like hip and Robert the doll. With Robert the doll, multiple people were having very nasty experiences with whatever entity was attached to Robert the doll. With hip and most of your toys, there are no experiences, no experiences to share. There was no paranormal phenomenon around them, only the love of a child. And so with that being said, I absolutely want to hear your opinions down in the comment section below. Maybe I just showed you, maybe you had a toy that was like Robert the doll.  I will tell you. So when I was a kid too, I had a Teddy Ropskin and I'm actually really upset that my parents got rid of Teddy Ropskin because I could probably make some money selling Teddy Ropskin now on eBay. But I remember that teddy bear was kind of freaky, like its mouth moved. And my stepdad's nephew, who was my age, when my parents got married, my stepdad's nephew was talking about how his Teddy Ropskin would like bite his, cut his fingers stuck in the Teddy Ropskin's mouth. For those who don't know what Teddy Ropskin was, he was a teddy bear, you put a cassette tape in its butt basically and it talked and spoke to you. So that was kind of creepy. There are speculations that Chucky, the story of Chucky was based off of Robert the doll. That's not true though. Chucky was, according to the person who created the horror stories around Chucky, Chucky was based off of my kid's sister and my kid brother, I think they were called. I had a kid's sister. I had one of those kid's sisters. But Chucky was based off of those toys, not Robert the doll. All right, you guys, I hope you're having a start to a really wonderful Monday. Stephanie and I will be up on Aquarius Rising Africa this morning at 10 o'clock. I have now been releasing Monday, Wednesday, 8am because we go on Aquarius Rising at 10 o'clock. We are going to be talking about Black Eyed Children on Aquarius Rising Africa as well as some of the orphanages in Connecticut that are interesting. They are connected. We'll talk about that on Aquarius Rising Africa. We were supposed to be on there last week, but Stephanie was a little bit under the weather, so we're doing it this week instead. All right, you guys, have a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Monday. I cannot wait to hear your theories, your thoughts, your opinions down in the comment section below. Also, again, yes, please tell me if there are toys from your country or your area like Annabelle.  All right, let me know. I can't wait to hear. And once again, we will be pulling cards with Stephanie soon. That's why I wanted to put this out first because I also want to hear your theories so we can interact some of your theories and your ideas with Stephanie's card reading so we can get to the bottom of possessed toys. All right, guys, be nice, be calm, continue to do your own research, continue to stand in your sovereignty, and I will talk to you later. Bye, guys.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest being. The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific war. Here, as another public service, is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tokyo, target of the Pacific. But for the disaster of 1923, the city of Tokyo might be a better target for our bombers today. In less than one minute, the face and the character of Tokyo were changed. In that minute, the old Tokyo was destroyed. And from that minute, the new Tokyo of concrete and steel rose. Three minutes before 12 noon on September 1st, 1923, Tokyo was the typical sprawling Oriental city. Have you ever seen streets so crooked? No where. That is except in the mo-market of the Paris. These streets must have followed cow pads. They don't have cows in Japan. They don't. At least I've never seen any. I say, look, look at the gin rickshaws. The streets full of them. Let's speak our motorman out there. He's trying to get the rickshaws off the track. Look, he's not having much luck. So don't seem to bother him much. No, he's probably fighting a rickshaw traffic all day. There he goes. He's getting broke. Those street cars are like cracker boxes. They're so small and yet they're crowded to the guilt. Hey, what does that smell? What smell? There's a hundred of them. It must be the general smell of the city. Everything. The people cooking food, smoke, the canal. You know, the thing that's interesting to me is the low buildings. Look, look at those over there with that roof. Well, you have to remember Tokyo is really a city of villages grown together. Well, what do you know? An automobile. A Chevy. A touring car with a fabric top and side curtain. That's the only thing here that looks like home. Look, he's having the same trouble as that motorman. Trying to get through the rickshaw traffic. They don't pay any attention to him. That driver looks as if he's afraid of that car. Yeah, he's got a stranglehold on the wheel. Can't see how a guy could get through these narrow streets filled with rickshaws no matter how he held that wheel. Oh, they're getting out of his way. Yes, but look what he's got ahead of him. The whole crooked street is just as crowded as it is here. Nothing like Main Street back home, is it? No, this is a fire trap if ever I saw one. Oh, come on, let's get along and have a look. Before September 1st, 1923, Tokyo had been burned down so many times that its great fires came to be known as the Flower of Yedo. Yedo was the original name of the city. The narrow crooked streets at three minutes before 12 noon on this fateful day were throng with busy people. You mean the theatergoers sit on the floor? Yes, you'll see the spaces on the floor are positioned by those high footboards. Oh, they sit with their feet under them, men. Well, yes, they are quite comfortable. Say, what are those people doing over there? Cooking right here in the theater? They are making tea. They bring their equipment along with them? Yes, they eat and drink as they watch the performance. Great idea.  We also have theaters like yours. Oh, with regular seats? Well, the seats can be adjusted so that the people can sit on them the same way they sit on the floor, with their feet under them.  Along the Ginza, the main shopping district, the shops were entirely open to the street, no doors and no windows. You see, wooden shutters are set up at night to close off the store from the street. The most luxurious hotel in the city was the Imperial Hotel. This hotel was designed by an American, Frank Lloyd Wright. Yeah, that looks something like America. Very strange hotel, fantastic. In what way? It floats on mud. What? Very fantastic, but very modern, very modern. The Imperial Hotel was modern, but most of the city around it was almost medieval. The narrow, crooked streets twisted between wooden, inflammable structures. And rising impressively above all this was the Imperial Palace. Is there really a moat of water around the palace? Oh, yes. It is two miles long. And outside of this is another moat. Two of them, eh? The whole structure is encroached in that great wall you see there. Not much chance of anyone getting in there, is there? You know, the unusual thing about this is that the palace here is right in the heart of Tokyo. Yes. No, no. Put your camera down. Taking pictures here is forbidden. All I want to do is get a picture of the wall and the palace rising above it. It is not permitted. No. Let us go on. There are other sites to see. The people of Tokyo, the Emperor, his ministers, the politicians, the military men, clerks, hawkers, rickshaw men. All were going about their routine tasks at 3 minutes to 12 noon. One minute later the disaster struck. The wooden portions had gone up like tinder. Tokyo lay in a deadly calm. Workers quietly dug in the wreckage. The cries of the dying and mutilated were gone. The city lay in ruin. One of the few buildings still standing was the Imperial Hotel. Around it were miles of desolation. But soon the Japanese were busy planning the new city. Here is the information, gentlemen. This was a Japanese scientist. Our research reveals that this area, the site of the city of Tokyo, suffers a serious earthquake about every 70 years. Oh, let me see. Our last bed earthquake was 1855. Yes, that is 68 years ago. And between times there has been lesser earthquakes. And more important is the fact that our research shows that for centuries Tokyo has had a bad earthquake every 100 years. This can mean only one thing. We cannot rebuild Tokyo as it was. We must lay out a new city. That was the decision. The old Tokyo was gone. A new Tokyo, a modern city, would be raised up in its place. It would be as modern as any city in Europe or America. While thousands upon thousands of workers cleared away the debris, the architects of the new Tokyo were busy with their planning. The creation of the new city was placed in the hands of an official reconstruction board. How wide must these streets be? They must be wide enough so that flames cannot reap across them. Would you say that flames could reap, shall we say, 75 feet? Normally they could not. I should say that 75 feet wide should be a minimum for our trunk lines. Yes, that is the minimum. And these trunk lines here, these main ones, these will be how wide? They will be 140 feet wide. Oh, good. Before the earthquake, our streets occupied only 12% of the area of the city. Under this new plan, they will occupy about a third. The trunk lines were arranged to cross at right angles. The blocks were laid out to be oblong. The lots also oblong. The lesser streets connecting with the trunk lines were laid out to be from 38 to 74 feet wide. Here, you see, this is how these streets are laid out. Who is? Like a great chess board, exactly. There will be ample space in these streets for traffic. And at the same time, should fire break out in any one block or in any one section, it could be isolated there and brought under control before it spread to other sections. We must never have another great fire. The engineers went to Tokyo to consult with the Japanese. There they saw an entire city, one of the largest cities in the world, being laid out and built. Parks? Oh, yes. We will have many of them. Yes, I see here. You're planning three large parks. That's wise. Yes, three large ones and 52 small ones. You see them here, under here, and here. Excellent. These are canals here. Oh, yes. We have many canals. And for that, Tokyo is called the Venice of the Far East. Are you planning new bridges over all of them? Although most of them. We will build a 400 fireproof bridge so that if fire should come again, our people will not be trapped. The streets cleared, work was started on the building of the new city. Problems were to mount upon problems. More than 300,000 building lots had to be readjusted. And my lot is not the same shape now as it was before. And besides, I now have less rent. Yes. Your lot is now rectangular in shape. All the lots are. And as for your having less rent, that is also true. But you have the advantage of having a better street and better planning around you. And that will make your property worth even more than before. You see, all of us must do our part for a better Tokyo. The cost of the project was to be at least one billion yen, possibly more. And as complications developed, the indication was that it would certainly cost more. Thousands of workers toiled in the streets. You see, while we are digging up the streets, we are leaving space for the telephone and the power line.  Oh yes, we must. How many of your old water mains and sewers could you use? Not very many. They were in the wrong places in our new layout. Many of them would be under new buildings or would go in the wrong direction. So you had to relocate both systems almost entirely? Not entirely. For neither Tokyo nor Yokohama had a complete sewer system before this. Well, when this underground work is done, you'll have some of the finest and widest streets in the world. We are planning high-speed streetcars for them. Transportation is an important matter in Tokyo. You're not concerned about handling your transportation with streets this wide, are you? No. There is a little chance of congestion.  What the Japanese engineer meant was that no building can be taller than the Imperial Palace, which is eight stories high. This means that there cannot be a concentration of people in Tokyo comparable to the concentration of people in the business districts of the skyscraper cities of America. Also, it means that there are no very tall buildings to be shaken down in another earthquake. Tokyo reverberated with the sounds of buildings, of men and machines at work. This is the Maranuchi building they are constructing here. It will be Japan's largest office building. And as you'll see, it will be as modern as any building of yours in the United States. This is the Naya Mbashi, the financial district. It is Tokyo's Wall Street, and it will have all the facilities of your Wall Street in New York. This is the new Ginza, the shopping district. It will be fireproof under foreign style, and it will cost 1,800,000 yen. You see, we are putting in rich colored sidewalks to make it one of the most attractive shopping districts in the world. But behind the plans for the building of this modern commercial city were other plans. These were the plans of the Japanese military. If the streets were laid out so that flames could not leap across them, and so that traffic over them could not be handled with the greatest speed, they were also laid out with other things in mind. While Tokyo still lay in ruins in 1923, and before the plans had been worked out to recreate the city, the Japanese were thinking of defense against enemy bombings. Obamas can be more destructive to Tokyo than earthquakes on the file. This was General Uyahara. It is not conceivable that any enemy could attack Tokyo by establishing an air base within the Japanese Empire. It is possible that Tokyo could be bombed either by planes from ships built to carry airplanes or by long-range Obamas. This was General Uyahara speaking in 1923. Such enemy bombing of Tokyo could make this earthquake and fire by comparison seem unimportant. Do you think General Uyahara and such Obamas could overcome our interceptor squadrons of aircraft? You have only to look back to the World War. Both Paris and London were bombed by the Germans, and this is what we must expect in the case of a war. You will propose some manner of installations to withstand these bombings? I demand the construction of underground compartments, permanent installations. General Uyahara thought in terms of steel and concrete, of strong buildings, of bomb-proof dugouts. His influence was to go far, how far few westerners were to know. Steel and concrete went into many buildings to make them fire-proof. This city will pay you, as one who is constructing a building, 50% of the difference between the cost of a fire-proof building and a structure that is not. Do I understand the city will pay half of the cost of making my building a fire-proof structure? Yes, 50% of the cost above that of an ordinary building. We will accept. We will make our building a fire-proof structure. The sections of fire-proof structures were built. In these sections, only fire-proof structures could be put out. Where steel and concrete were too expensive, other materials were used. And out of the wreckage rose a city that would not easily be destroyed by earthquake, or fire, or bombing. In 1930, the reconstruction was completed. In celebration, all Tokyo turned out. Two million visitors from the countryside came in for the festival. The spacious streets were decked with gay, red-and-white fronting, and hung with colorful lanterns. Most of these people seem to be as amazed as I am. Well, for most of them, it's their first trip to Tokyo. But it's mine, too. But you've seen buildings something like these in Chicago and New York, yes. And I never expected to see them in Japan. No, I suppose not.  Just seven years since the earthquake. Or there's something for you to write about over there. That old man over there is a farmer. Probably his first trip to the city. Oh, yes.  He can't believe it. You see, he's coming with his old-fashioned Japanese clothes. And look at that old woman. She must be 90. They all take an interest in the new city. Remarkable. In another part of the city, 60,000 dignitaries, all dressed in frock coats and holding silk hats in their hands, stood in silence before their emperor. One of the ministers climbed a long flight of steps to the platform on which the emperor stood. He bowed from the waist, once, twice, three times. Then he stepped back, and bowed once more, and then back down the long flight of steps. Then the emperor read an acknowledgement of the recreation of his city of Tokyo. When he finished, a signal was given, and with one voice, the 60,000 dignitaries responded. One day! One day! And women and children swarmed over the new city, marbling at all they saw. They swarmed through the Ginza. When the celebration was over, Tokyo settled down. And in the 30s, world travelers came to be familiar with its streets and shops. Well, so this is the Ginza, isn't it? Yes, this is it.  Hey, hey, look at that. Well, what is that seller riding that bicycle, an acrobat? No, there are so many bicycles in Tokyo that nearly everyone is a pretty good rider. He's riding without hands. Riding through that crowd of people. Look at that seller. Riding right through that traffic, carrying a stack of dishes on a tray. Well, come on, let's get along. Hey, there doesn't seem to be anything but tea shops and beer shops down in this section. That's one of the characteristic things about Tokyo. It is probably more restaurants and places to eat and drink than any place in the world. They make me think of the cafes of Paris. And they're a great deal of life. And they're always crowded. They're really part of the spirit of Tokyo these shops. And without them, well, it just wouldn't be Tokyo. Tokyo changed little during the invasion of Manchuria. But after Japan went to war with China in 1937, then Tokyo began to change. From that time on, the drain of the war began to fail. There was less food. The armies in the field had to be fed. And the war against China supported. The structures of steel and concrete stood out against the sky, symbols of strength. And the people who built them drew their belts tighter and became more grim. This is incredible. Isn't there any money to clean up these slums? Japan is at war. I've never seen anything like this. People living in such crowded and non-sanitary conditions. Yes, and the great danger is that disease could get a start here and see through all Tokyo. How can they have these beautiful cherry festivals here? At the same time, have these terrible slums. Tokyo is a city of contrasts. Many Japanese wear Western business clothes during the day. The same kind of coats and hats and ties you wear. Work in modern Western offices. But at night, they go home. They go off their Western clothes and put on flowing Japanese clothes. And live there about the same as Japanese lived a couple of centuries ago. As the war touched the lives of the individual, it touched Tokyo's famous shops. Where once had been pleasant tea shops and restaurants, now were closed doors and blank windows. But behind those closed doors and in thousands of homes was activity of another kind. Oh, these pieces are ready. Take them next door. Yes, yes. Bring up those parts for the next assembly. In effect, what you've got here is a modern assembly line. We have had it a long time. One unit in each place. I see. You do one operation right here in your own place. And the next operation is done next door. That is right. We save space. Oh, save time too. You don't have to go to work. But having part of a factory in your home. Well, isn't that a little inconvenient? Everyone works. The children as well. Each has a part to perform. And out of these home factories come intricate pieces to be assembled with other pieces. Which assemblies are put together with other assemblies. The home factories hum long hours and out of them for years have come first. The products to be sold in other lands. And in recent years, the parts of Japan's war machine. And when the war with the United Nations came, Tokyo's big industries were roaring with activity. And in the piles of American experts were detailed accounts of these industries. Now, look at this map. You see, Japan's factories are located in these three industrial areas. Here in the Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto area. Over here, around Nagoya. And here, around Tokyo and Yokohama. See? Now, here in the Tokyo Yokohama area. This right here is the Tokyo Arsenal. Do you have the details on that? Yes, sir. In the last several years, special machinery has been built for this arsenal. Our information is that the output of small arms is to be increased. And that a new machine gun is being developed here. And here is the Tokyo Rayon Company. Oh yes, that plant has had a great expansion program on it. Probably doing important work there. And here, here is the big shipbuilding plant at Kawasaki near Tokyo. See it? And these points here, here, here. These are airplane plants. Without this camouflage by now. Tokyo's industries are pretty well scattered. But we know their locations. And that is what is important. By the time of the Do Little Raid, many Japanese leaders spoke of Tokyo as being impregnable for bombing. They pointed to their steel and concrete buildings, their wide streets, and to the subways, which, as in London, could be used for air raid shelters. The bombers took them by surprise. No one is permitted here. How much damage was done by the bomb? What bomb? The bombs that were dropped by the American planes. What American planes? The planes that came over. The ones I saw. You saw no planes. Now go. No one is permitted here. Go. I know I saw planes. I saw the explosions. Do Little Bombers spread across the skies, deliver their eggs and spread away. Fire bombs fell with the explosives, yet so effectively did the sensors clamp down that almost nothing was said about it. You saw the American bombers too, did you not? Yes, I saw them. And I heard the siren. Everyone did. But how much damage was done? No one seems to know. You saw as much as I did, where the bombs exploded.  There were many fire bombs. Why was there not something in the newspaper about it? You know as well as I. They have been telling us for years that we could not be bombed. They have told us that the American air force was nothing. Look at this in the newspaper. It is about the American friars. The ones who bombed us? You must not keep on insisting that we were bombed. What does it say about the American friars? It says that they have been captured in China. Then I did see them. They were here. It would be best if you did not talk too much or ask too many questions. No one but the high officials knew the extent of the damage. The Japanese who actually saw the planes, those who saw where the bombs fell, and those who were intimately concerned with the effects of the bombings, learned not to talk about it. In an amazingly short time it was no longer mentioned. The effect of the bombing was to steal the people to what lies ahead, so the Japanese high command knows that Tokyo is as close to being impregnable to bombs as any city in the world. We have long been experimenting with steel and stone construction. We know what we can expect of it. The steel and stone have gone into Tokyo. The enemy will learn the resistance of our cities. But there are other aspects that are equally important to the United Nations, and these the United Nations know well. Tokyo is a nerve center of the Japanese war effort. One of these days the Allies will be marching down the Ginza. The Allied troops will be having their pictures taken in front of them while an Uchi building in the Nihonbashi. Because of its construction and its defenses, Tokyo is perhaps capable of taking a tremendous pasting, and it is the site of the Imperial Palace. But it is not necessarily the most important target in the Pacific. Its industries are scattered. Conceivably, the war in the Pacific could go on after Tokyo falls. The war against Japan could be resolved far from the modern steel and concrete of the Ginza. You have been listening to the Pacific story presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the crosscurrents of life in the Pacific Basin. For a reprint of this Pacific story program, send 10 cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. It is written and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Palusso. Your narrator, Gaine Whitman. This program came to you from Hollywood. 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It's a lot of things in our neighborhood that can turn you left or right and you just have to be committed to stand on the right path because it so easily can steer you wrong. Ice Cube has been pretty active on social media lately, taking to Instagram and Twitter to stand up against matters like police brutality and racism with all the chaos going on right now. Although the rapper has always been online, he's usually showing off his sense of humor. If you've been wondering where Ice Cube spends most of his time these days, well when he's at home that is, we've got you covered. Apparently his two California mansions won an Encino and won a Marina Del Rey. O'Shea Jackson, who we all know as Ice Cube, is a rapper, actor and filmmaker. His lyrics on NWA's 1988 album Straight Out of Compton led to the outbreak of gangster rap and his solo albums in the early 90s rank high in political rap. Of course alongside EZ and Dr. Dre and the rap group NWA, he found fame and for that, Ice Cube is considered a rap pioneer. Considering their early music, which Ice wrote most of the lyrics no less, was one of the first to push boundaries, it's no surprise that his public voice is still super outspoken. Street knowledge is a term to me. It means letting the streets know what the government, politics, police, whatever authority figures are doing up to exposing them and also letting, if the politicians are listening, letting them know what the streets think and how things are going and hopefully there's some understanding that can be made in all this. The versatile rapper would then shape himself into a movie star with boys in the hood and Friday and even went on to direct some. Of course you all know the rest of Ice Cube's resume like his roles in comedy and producing Straight Out of Compton so I think we can agree he's kept busy over the years. Of course the rap legend who's 50 at the time of this recording has amassed quite the fortune. Ice Cube's estimated net worth stands at about $160 million so of course he's living a life of luxury. Hey guys it's Karin and today we're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. Some of you guys have requested this one and I think it was time we definitely did one on Ice Cube because he's an OG and his home is pretty nice. We'll look at where the rapper lives including his gorgeous mansion in Marina Del Rey and more. If you like these videos make sure you subscribe during that bell to be notified when we post so you can always be up to date. We've also done house tours in the likes of Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre and we'll link to some at the end. Follow me on instagram to chat and as usual let me know who's house tour is next in those comments down below. Now let's get into this video. First off we know that Ice Cube has owned a long time family home with his wife Kimberly Woodruff which they bought back in June 1996. This house they've managed to keep notoriously private at least the interior that is. It wasn't always like that though. Pre-internet and social media days this mansion didn't in fact get broken in two. It was back in 1997 and apparently the couple hadn't even fully moved in yet but MTV reported that two gunmen broke into an Encino California home owned by rapper Ice Cube early Thursday and lifted electronics gear and a van. I guess after that incident Ice Cube didn't want anyone knowing what his home was like. Anyways what we do know about their long time family mansion is that it's located in Encino and they purchased the valley home for just over 2.3 million but these days it will be valued closer to 5 million. It's nestled between several other mansions and set far off the street with a long and winding driveway. From the aerial view we can see the largest state has a main house as well as a detached guest house on the property. We also know that Ice Cube's Encino mansion spans 7,880 square feet and has seven beds and seven baths. Also on his property there's a large pool and spa, a grassy lawns, a ton of patio space and a full-size basketball court. So we know that Encino home is where Ice Cube has spent most of his time and it doesn't look like the family's thinking of unloading that property anytime soon. More recently though in 2016 it was reported that the rapper bought a new mega mansion on a canal from the action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, best known for Bloodsport and Street Fighter. Ice Cube's beautiful mansion is located in Marina Del Rey, a small beachside community in Los Angeles. It's close to Venice Beach and the port here is North America's largest man-made harbor home to 5,000 boats or more. The modern home was built in 2011 right on the banks of the Grand Canal which is definitely one of its selling points right in the Ritzian exclusive silver string community. It's at the rapper back 7.25 million giving Van Damme a nice profit considering he only spent 6 million. Ice Cube said when he bought the place that it was just a host parties saying, you know this right here is for the homies. Everybody can come over and hang out. You know, enjoy the whole house. I'm not sure if that's still the case now but it was supposed to be a little getaway home. I guess leaving the Encino house for the fans. Despite wanting a second mansion to have his buddies over, he said he loves living with his family. That's cool being famous. It's cool doing movies and records and all. Living out your dreams but if I had to do it alone, it wouldn't, you know, I don't think you'd see the man that you see right here right now. So to have their support in this journey, it just makes me better and it's my finest accomplishment. But let's see what this Marina Del Rey mansion looks like. Inside Ice Cube's mansion spans 7,574 square feet of living space with six beds and 11 baths. It's referred to as a trophy property and it's a modern style home with important materials throughout. It's not in a super secluded spot like Ice Cube's main family home. It's right on the water and even offers views to the ocean. A glass enclosed staircase and an elevator connect the three story home and there are 13 rooms in total. The main living areas in the rapper's waterfront home have a signature indoor outdoor California vibe since they merge into a huge deck terrace that overlooks the harbor. There's a professional grade chef's kitchen with a breakfast bar, a formal dining room with space to entertain, as well as a roomy home office with built-ins. Not to mention a cozy and more formal living room with fireplace and second family room with full bar. Other features of Ice Cube's Marina Del Rey mansion include a full home movie theater at gym and even a poor concrete and glass wine cellar. There are six fireplaces total in the mansion including one in the master suite and even one in one of the spacious bathrooms beside the tub. Most of the six ensuite bedrooms are located upstairs and Ice Cube's master suite here is obviously the biggest with an attached spa like bath and walk-in. Pocket doors off each level of the home open to terraces overlooking the canal. One of the decks we can see in the listing photos comes equipped with space to lounge, a built-in TV, as well as a fireplace. If you don't wanna go to the beach area and prefer no sand, you can head up to the rapper's rooftop deck with swimming pool. Of course you'll also get even better views from here, a 360 of Marina Del Rey including the city and the ocean. So clearly we've seen more of this Marina Del Rey mansion than Ice Cube's longtime and Sino home but we know he still owns both of these properties. Before I wrap this video, let's take a look at something else Ice Cube has on his property, his car collection. The rapper has said about his outlook on cars that, a lot of people will spend more on their car than they would on their house. It starts with sneakers, then maybe bikes and then cars.  But he also explained that he likes to look of a car more than the other features. He isn't one of those people who goes in and changes things like the exhaust. He just buys them how he wants them. And it seems that Ice Cube likes his cars to be fast and luxurious. In his collection he has a Rolls Royce Ghost and he says there's nothing like the feeling one of those gives you. He has a couple of Bentley's including an Arnaj and a flying Sperm Auto for his wife. A Porsche Panamera and a Cadillac Escalade for when he needs something bigger. Ice also has one of the newer Corvette Stingrays which he really likes. I'm not sure if he has more top the line cars in his collection but it's clear they're all a far cry from his first car which was a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle. So now we've taken a look at where the legendary rapper Ice Cube calls home like you guys requested, so what did you think? I know we couldn't see much of his main Encino mansion but it looks pretty nice from the photos and looking at the property. Not to mention his waterfront Marina Del Rey house is both modern and classy at the same time. I think my favorite part is the rooftop pool because that would feel like a total vacation. Be sure to let me know what you guys think about Ice Cube's place down in the comments as well as what other celebrity houses you'd like to see. Follow me over on Instagram if you wanna chat and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


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That is Neutron means 67 of 99 bet you weren't expecting to see a Neutron means auto today for the Chargers And I have that on my bingo card And 34 of 99 Bailey's happy rookie jumbo playbook Jersey Jersey For the Patriots. You can also recap you that's happy All right, let's do a quick recap here. We've got jerseys. We had Vila Jones Kenneth Walker. I'm Ari Cooper Hey, Jaylen silver Lodge and more down and dirty Is that on the card right there? Is that on the Looks like it's on the sleeves that little mark All right, let's take it on top of her. Oh, yeah He checked really quick. We're gonna job. I'll just have Jake check on that real quick That is Randall Cunningham Eric as a condom Marty Cooper Tyree kill Michael Pittman DJ more Matt Corral and Romeo Dom's It's not a cry. So that was on either the sleeve in the top loader for the jets. So sorry about that. 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So I thought we'd go live. I haven't gone into the financials. I'm at the beach, clearly. So I just saw the headline and everyone in the group chat and telegram is talking about it. So now people are saying that there's losses, 323 million losses, 226 million sales. I'm hearing 94 million revenue. So I don't know exactly what the numbers are. I haven't gone in detail yet, but I heard the title and the title looked big and we're just chilling at the beach and I thought we'd go live and talk about it. So if you guys have an opinion, let us know right now while we're live at the beach. We're at Kitzelano Beach right here in Vancouver. Beautiful British Columbia. We've got the beautiful views. We've got volleyball in the background. We've got some basketball here. Look at the basketball courts. We've got people having barbecues. People sitting on the beach. Yeah, it's nice out here today. At the end of the day, Canobie Growth is the biggest and the best and the baddest can of his company in the world. And they're spending money because they can afford to, right? They spent, yo Jared, they spent 343 million loss. 343 million loss, 226 million in revenue. What do you think? Does that loss scare you? Is it scary? 343 million loss, not a half a billion, a third of a billion. But they have eight billion dollars in the bank. Eight billion dollars in assets. So I don't know, for a company that has eight billion in assets, a company that has eight billion in assets, what's 300 million that they're spending to grow to be the largest cannabis company in the world? They're trying to be a multi-billion dollar company. So what's 300 million when you're trying to be a billion dollar company? Like Facebook is worth 400 million. 400 billion. Facebook is worth 400 billion. So in order to make 400 billion, you've got to probably spend a few hundred million all along the way, right? If they want to be the next Facebook, if they want to be the next Amazon, then they're going to have to spend like it. This is what I'm hearing. I'm hearing that they're reporting 226 million in revenue. I'm hearing losses in the neighborhood of 300 million, so I don't know. I'm at the beach. I'm just telling you guys what I've heard has been reported. I don't know what has been reported. I haven't gone into it yet. I just heard that it's 226 million in sales. If it's 226 million in sales, they are dwarfing everybody else in the industry. They are the industry. It's like, there it is, annual sales of 226 million. So if their annual sales is 226 million, then that's still bigger than anybody else for the year. 26 million for the year. So were the quarterly sales 94 million? We're at the beach. So I'm just, I'm just trying to report what I've heard guys. Please share what you guys know. I don't have anything in front of me. Please let me know. Is it 226 million for the year? Okay, so 226 million for the year, 94 million for the quarter. I know they reported 83 million last quarter. So if they reported 94 million for this quarter, that is still enormous growth. 226 million for the year is enormous. I saw the headline. I think we're going to see a lot of momentum tomorrow in the markets. I hope the markets are very explosive tomorrow. Can we see green tomorrow? It's a green day today. It's been green all week. We've been green all week. So we go five for five this week. I say we go five for five this week. I say we go five for five. I say we go five for five. I say we have a green day tomorrow. This is Rich from Mississippi Live. Bringing you the news, reporting that canopy growth has reportedly reported 226 million for the year, 94 million in the quarter. Record breaking numbers. Nobody's ever done 94 million for the quarter. 226 million for the year. But canopy growth is number one and they have once again broken the record for the most revenue ever in a quarter, 94 million, 226 million for the year. And we just reported from Kitsilato Beach. Hangin' home. Make way some basketball later. Volleyball. Jared wants to do some chin-ups. Achieved annual net revenue growth of 191% to 226 million. Generated 140.5 million of gross revenue from new cannabis recreational sales. Yo, thank you for sharing, man. Keep dropping you guys' knowledge. Is Raj with me? 78 million in global medical sales. Huge annual numbers. Huge annual numbers. All right, guys. This is Rich from Mississippi Live reporting from Kitsilato Beach with Jared. What do you say, bro? Take a look at the website, richdvlive.com, get analysis, share structures, filing information. If you type in a stock and then you go on top of that stock, there's 12 different tabs that have specific information on that stock. 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