If you were wondering what it’s like watching Gary Busey talk to inanimate objects for 15 straight minutes, Amazon’s newest YouTube video has all your answers.
Busey was already introduced as the unofficial spokesperson for Amazon’s new $99 Fire TV set-top box in a short one-minute video clip earlier this month, but now the actor stars in a weird-but-funny 15-minute, 30-second spot that features nothing but Busey talking to random things in a living room.
Throughout the video, Amazon lets you click on different hyperlinked objects — from a surfboard to a guitar — and hear Busey go off on bizarre tangents about said objects.
“There’s a power of talking to things that you don’t think talk back to you, because they do hear you,” Busey says. “They live in a different world than you do, but they hear you and when you know they hear you, you feel better about yourself in talking to things that aren’t talking back, because then you’re giving life to everyone and everything that’s there in the room with you.”
The video also shows Busey talking to another non-living thing: The voice-enabled Fire TV remote, which allows users to search for TV shows and movies. Busey uses the remote to search for content like “Gingerdead Man,” or “Point Break,” or more simply, “action movies.”
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Currently, the voice search feature — which we came away impressed with in our initial Fire TV review — only scours Amazon’s own content on Prime Instant Video and Vevo TV, the music video app. This summer, however, when you search for something by speaking into the Fire TV remote, you’ll see results from the Netflix, Hulu Plus, Crackle and Showtime Anytime apps.
So, if you’ve got 15 minutes to spare and are a big Gary Busey fan, enjoy:
