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Good morning, pal. Good morning, pal. Good morning,

1:16

pal. Good morning, pal. Good morning,

1:18

pal. Good morning, pal. Good morning, pal.

1:20

Good morning, pal. Good

1:52

morning, pal. It's not me! Uh-huh.

1:54

But every time I test it, the bananas break, and who wants to

1:56

eat a broken banana? Well, I do. I love bananas. I love that

1:59

they come with their own little... packaging. And Roz, did

2:01

you know that you could carve a secret code

2:03

in a banana peel for someone to find later?

2:05

Oh, did you know that your head makes a good banana

2:07

peel holder? Oh, look, Mindy, we're

2:09

finally in our neighborhood. Almost home.

2:12

Wait, what's that blocking the

2:14

entrance to our neighborhood? Is

2:17

that... a gate? Hey,

2:19

let's

2:22

get closer to make sure the gate's a gate.

2:25

Okay, let's put on a dress around this time.

2:28

Hey, why would someone put

2:30

a cane in our neighborhood?

2:32

Does this mean that we're rich?

2:34

Are we so leopardies? No, it

2:36

means that one of our neighbors

2:38

is up to something. One of

2:40

our neighbors? But who could it

2:42

be? Who

2:45

goes there? Ah! What in

2:47

the? Dennis? I'm not Dennis.

2:50

I'm the guardian of the

2:52

gate. Uh...

2:55

Are you in the doorbell, Dennis?

2:58

Dennis, what's going on here? Please

3:00

state your business. Why do you

3:02

wish to enter this community? Okay,

3:04

well, first of all, our friends are

3:07

in there, and my pigeon is in there

3:09

too, and... And it's

3:11

full of my happiest memories, like that one

3:13

time that we painted eyeballs on cow butts.

3:15

Remember that, Guy Roz? And

3:18

we live here, and now Dennis,

3:20

please let us in so we

3:22

can get to our homes. Now,

3:25

first you have to ring the doorbell.

3:28

What? The doorbell? Yes,

3:30

the doorbell! The thing my voice is coming out of. Ah! What

3:33

are those camera doorbells? Dennis,

3:37

why would you put a doorbell on

3:39

our neighborhood? I put

3:41

a doorbell and a gate, Guy

3:43

Roz, because as president of the

3:45

Neighborhood Snooping Association, it is my

3:48

duty to know everything that's going

3:50

on, including all who enter here.

3:53

We have a neighborhood snooping association? Oh

3:55

yeah, you didn't know that, Guy Roz? Dennis

3:58

is the president, and I'm the treasure. That's

4:00

right! The NSA! Where

4:02

your business is our business! I

4:05

came up with the tagline. Ugh!

4:08

Okay, let's just ring the doorbell

4:10

so Dennis opens up the gate.

4:12

Fine. Here we go. Ringing

4:15

the doorbell. Ding dong,

4:17

the whip's so sad. Whips so

4:19

rich, the whip's get rich! What

4:22

in the... Okay, Dennis.

4:24

We rang the doorbell. You can open

4:26

the gate now and let us in.

4:29

No! Dennis! Dennis!

4:32

Now, I need you to give me

4:34

a compliment. What? A

4:36

compliment, guy! Just one! He needs

4:38

a compliment, Guy Roz. It's how

4:41

he's powered. Uh, you wanna handle

4:43

this one? A compliment? Sure.

4:45

Um... You

4:48

always smell a little like

4:50

fish? It was! Oh,

4:53

Guy! Stop! You don't

4:56

really mean that. No, really,

4:58

I do. Like anchovies? No,

5:01

it's more of a

5:03

sardine smell. Sardines? Haha!

5:06

You're making me blush. I

5:08

am so confused. Okay, okay, now

5:10

can you please open the gate

5:13

and let us in now? No.

5:16

Ugh! Dennis, I rang the doorbell.

5:18

I complimented you on smelling like

5:20

a fish. If you don't get

5:23

out of that doorbell and open

5:25

the gate right this minute... Wait

5:28

a minute, Guy Roz. What?

5:30

I just realized something.

5:32

Man, what's that? Fish?

5:36

Doorbell? Uh...

5:38

Fish, doorbell. Now that was

5:40

my name back in high

5:42

school. Grandma G-Force! And

5:44

me, her sidekick, Old Tommy Five

5:47

Fingers. Huh? Old Tommy Five Fingers

5:49

was my name back in high

5:51

school. Well, who put a gate

5:54

in the middle of the road?

5:56

I wanna get home to my dapper

5:59

house. You did, Granny

6:01

G. Hi, Doorbell. I

6:03

wanna hear from something with a

6:06

mouse. Yeah! What? It's me,

6:08

Dennis! I have a mouse!

6:10

That's weird. Mindy, can we get back

6:12

to your fish, Doorbell, aha moment?

6:15

Oh, right. So where was

6:17

I? Well, uh... Forgot where

6:19

you were, huh? Well, let's

6:21

all reveal the tape, shall we?

6:24

Reveal the tape? Yeah! I've been

6:26

recording this entire conversation for security

6:28

and training purposes. Oh, all

6:31

right. You suck

6:33

it in, rewind, rewind, rewind... And

6:36

play. Dennis, I raised

6:39

a Doorbell. I complimented you on

6:41

smelling like a fish. If you

6:43

don't get out of that Doorbell

6:45

and open the gate right this

6:47

minute... Oh! Wait a

6:49

minute, Guy Roz. What? I

6:51

just realized something. Man, what's

6:53

that? Fish... Doorbell.

6:57

Uh... Fish... Doorbell. Now

6:59

that one... Suck.

7:03

Fish... Doorbell! Uh-huh.

7:05

What's a fish Doorbell? It is just

7:08

like the story that I read about

7:10

this amazing invention to

7:12

solve a problem of fish migration in

7:14

the Netherlands. And to buy the

7:16

Doorbell? And where are

7:19

the fish? Well, yeah. Sort of.

7:21

Go on, Mindy. Yeah! Go on,

7:23

Mindy. Tell us the tale of

7:25

the fish Doorbell. Well, if I

7:27

tell you the tale of the fish

7:29

Doorbell, Dennis, will you open up the

7:31

gate and let us in? Hmm.

7:34

Maybe. Is it a good story?

7:37

Oh, it's a fascinating story.

7:39

How's mine? Oh,

7:41

there's gonna be fish in the

7:43

story. Oh, yeah. There are lots

7:45

of fish in the story. And

7:47

lots of Doorbells. Can we just

7:50

let Mindy tell the story, please?

7:52

So Doorbell Dennis here will finally

7:54

open the gate? I really

7:56

need to get home. I have things

7:58

to do. Okay, go

8:00

on man they tell the

8:03

story. I'm listening. Okay everyone, have

8:05

a seat on the ground. Why?

8:07

Hello. Even me? Uh,

8:10

no Dennis, you're a doorbell. Alright. Alright

8:13

everyone, story time. Whoo!

8:16

Yay! Haha, story time. Our

8:18

story begins in the Dutch city of

8:20

Utrecht in the Netherlands. The fourth largest

8:22

city in the Netherlands, no one holds

8:24

any abundance locked in place. And

8:29

just to be clear, locks

8:32

and canals are kind of

8:34

like giant water elevators that

8:36

help boats go up and

8:38

down hills and rivers and

8:40

waterways. That's right, a

8:43

lock in a canal works kind of

8:45

like a giant bathtub with stories that

8:47

fill up with drained waters and

8:49

left a doorbell depending on the

8:52

direction of the hill they're looking

8:54

for. Whoo! Alright,

8:56

alright. Haha, story time. We

8:59

are talking to the time

9:13

of coming. Why? Because

9:15

once we make it upstream to

9:17

more shallow waters, we'll be able

9:19

to meet up with the other

9:21

fish, just like us. Well, why

9:23

should I care? Gee fish,

9:25

don't you know nothing. If we make it

9:27

to the other fish, that means we can

9:29

spawn and make more fish. Oh. And

9:33

then we can take over

9:35

the world with our army

9:37

of fishes. Uh,

9:39

yeah, sure. Ooh.

9:41

So the fish kept swimming. Swish,

9:44

swish, swish, swish, swish, swish,

9:46

swish, swish, swish. Well,

9:49

like swimming, I want to walk. But

9:51

once the fish got to a lock,

9:53

you know, one of the bathtub doors

9:55

blocking them from moving forward in the

9:57

canal, they had a key. Now

10:02

what? I'm corporate. World Wide

10:04

Web. Put those. This

10:07

blog. Order

10:12

to try to. And

10:16

reproduce earnest once. Many.

10:23

Be a better when I. First.

10:33

Came along. And

10:37

said it's. Interested

10:40

zest for. You

10:43

seen any. Of

10:51

you can be and. What?

10:56

Mr. Brooklyn Nets a

10:58

lot of manager guardian and the

11:00

biggest selling him about his sermons.

11:03

a. Every friend.

11:05

In a maintaining. A

11:10

minute to begin. With

11:12

a. Lot. Of

11:14

watching the fish are moving.

11:16

District stars enough. Time. To

11:24

play a lot manager said

11:26

to open up the lot

11:28

supper know went there was.

11:32

A lot. Of Fish

11:34

and and wire. When

11:36

you search. for year

11:38

old man. He.

11:45

Said it. Had.

11:49

Many what's my idea? Was

11:51

a simple. One in order for the

11:54

line manager to know when there were

11:56

a business He. swims

12:00

Bish doorbell. Bish

12:02

doorbell. That was

12:05

my nickname in high school.

12:08

Really? The Bish doorbell would be an underwater

12:10

web camera that could be monitored or watched

12:12

24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

12:17

Behold! A web come

12:19

around! The ultimate

12:21

underwater moving goodbye!

12:25

Now somebody put this down in the river. I don't want to

12:27

get all wet. But there was

12:29

a problem. Oh no! I thought

12:31

of another problem! And it's uh...um...

12:36

What's my problem, Mindy? The problem was

12:38

that there was no way for one

12:40

person to monitor the camera all on

12:42

their own. People have to sleep. Oh

12:45

yeah, that's a problem. And that's when you

12:47

had another idea.

12:49

Okay, everyone calls down.

12:52

I've got another idea! The idea

12:55

would be to attach a doorbell

12:57

system to the web cam and then

12:59

invite members of the public, you know,

13:01

regular people like you and me, from

13:04

all over the world to watch

13:06

this web cam looking for fish to

13:08

appear at the lock or the underwater

13:10

gate in the

13:13

ultimate group project. Hooray!

13:16

I'm a genius! We're ready to help

13:18

us! Help! Help! We're at

13:21

the gate! Please! Please! Please! Hold

13:24

your seahorses! We're hooking up

13:27

a doorbell! Bring it

13:29

to the west! Because...um...then

13:31

we can... uh...Mindy, what happens

13:35

when we've got the doorbell? When

13:37

the fish arrive in the lock,

13:39

someone watching it on the web cam

13:41

would ring the doorbell to let the

13:43

lock manager know that it was time

13:45

to open it. Ahh! You

13:49

think anyone's going to want to do that?

13:51

At first, Mr. Van Hooklem wasn't sure

13:53

if anyone would bite on to this idea.

13:56

Wake up, lock manager! The

13:58

doorbell's ringing! In

14:01

the shock and surprise, in

14:03

the first three seasons in

14:05

March of 2020, the fish doorbell

14:07

was run more than 100,000 times by people

14:09

from all over the world. Oh

14:18

yeah! Wow! I can't believe

14:20

it! My plans worked! I

14:23

really am a genius! And

14:25

now I can just kick back

14:27

and relax while everyone else brings

14:30

the fish doorbell and helps all

14:32

the fish migrate. Not only did

14:34

the prevention solve the problem of

14:36

fish migration for this area, but the

14:38

web camera feature helped to show what

14:40

kinds of fish were swimming in these

14:42

canals. And that's helping people in

14:44

charge make them better and safer places for

14:46

the fish. Ahaha! Go on!

14:49

And let's not forget, but it

14:51

also allowed people from all over

14:53

the world to take part. And

14:55

when you're a human, it can

14:57

feel pretty good to work together

14:59

to help solve a problem. So

15:05

Mindy, what's next for the fish doorbell? Oh,

15:08

great question, Dennis. So after three

15:10

spring seasons, people are still monitoring

15:13

and ringing this fish doorbell. There's

15:16

a plan now to have it

15:18

automated so that any time fish

15:20

appear at the lock, the doorbell

15:22

will automatically open. Yeah! Automation! Well,

15:25

that's it, I guess. Everybody out of

15:27

their job. Well, it doesn't look like

15:30

people are going to get bored with

15:32

the fish doorbell anytime soon, so for

15:34

now we could just consider this automation

15:36

sort of a backup option. So

15:40

Dennis, speaking of doorbells,

15:42

any chance you'd be willing to finally

15:44

open up a gate to our neighborhood

15:47

here so we can get to our

15:49

homes? Hmmm... Now...

15:52

Aaaah! Dennis! First you

15:54

have to say the magic works. Is

15:57

it please? No...

16:00

Is it abracadabra doodle

16:02

do? No.

16:05

Oh, I know. It's tabernacle. Huh?

16:08

Is it open this

16:10

gate, why are you gonna

16:12

be sorry? Hooray!

16:15

That's it! Yay! Lately,

16:18

good job G-Force, you did it.

16:20

I'm the best at this. Great.

16:22

Now, open the gate. Now,

16:27

why? Boy, you are getting

16:30

on my last nerve. Because you've taken

16:32

too long. Now you have to ring

16:34

the doorbell again. Ahhh! Kai-Roz,

16:37

would you like to do the honors? It

16:39

would be my pleasure, Mindy.

16:42

And here we... Doorbell!

16:46

Get the doorbell!

16:49

Oh! Wow. Hee hee!

16:52

Okay, welcome to the

16:54

neighborhood. Hooray!

17:00

Time just goes to show, when

17:02

you give a person a fish, you

17:04

can feed them for a day. But

17:07

when you give them a fish

17:09

doorbell, you can solve a big

17:11

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17:14

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world, in the world, in the world, in the

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world, in the world. Wow in the world.

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Wow in the world was made by Tinkercast

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and set to you by Wunder.