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Speaker 2: Yew While American rolemakers arguing about what's happening at land borders,
Speaker 2: Americans on the internet are at woolf about what's happening
Speaker 2: under the sea.
Speaker 3: The new trailer for the live action remake of The
Speaker 3: Little Mermaid already has more than one hundred million views.
Speaker 4: While it's got a lot of fans, it is also
Speaker 4: being attacked by some Internet trolls.
Speaker 5: The actress Hollie Bailey stars as Ariel in Disney's new
Speaker 5: live action film, and she looks at nothing like the
Speaker 5: animated Little Mermaid with red hair from the original nineteen
Speaker 5: eighty nine classic. The trailer has received more than one
Speaker 5: point five million dislikes on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Then there are the ugly racist tweets. The Little Mermaid
Speaker 1: is white, not black, Rainy people, we're doing this again.
Speaker 2: Huh, she looks nothing like they're nothing like.
Speaker 1: They both have the tail. Huh they both have she
Speaker 1: looks nothing like her? How do I even know that
Speaker 1: she's not my maid?
Speaker 2: Once again, a bunch of Internet racists so upset that
Speaker 2: a fictional character is being played by a black person,
Speaker 2: And honestly, I don't know what the big deal is.
Speaker 1: You guys realize that Nemo was black.
Speaker 2: Too, right, Yeah, that whole movie was about a fish
Speaker 2: who can't find his dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ah, calm down, calm down.
Speaker 2: I can say that because my dad left and he's white.
Speaker 2: So who's racist now? He was so ridiculous. First of all,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid is black, all right. Everyone whose name
Speaker 1: starts with little is black. Lil Wayne, little NASAs, Little Kim.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if you heard that there was a woman named
Speaker 2: Little Mermaid, you just assume that she's on the track
Speaker 2: with Cardi B. You know, with my wet ass flippers.
Speaker 2: So look, so look, stop being ridiculous. It's imaginary.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I hope the scandal doesn't overshadow the rest of the movie.
Speaker 2: The Little Mermaid is a beautiful story about a young
Speaker 2: woman changing her core identity to please a man.
Speaker 1: Let's not about that, people.
Speaker 2: Well, look, if we had more time, we could talk
Speaker 2: about how Disney already created a black Mermaid thirty years
Speaker 2: ago and nobody cared, or how there's still plenty of
Speaker 2: white princesses for little girls whose dream it is to
Speaker 2: be in a monarchy. And let's not forget you can
Speaker 2: still watch the original Little Mermaid. It's not like if
Speaker 2: you try to turn it around, Micky's gonna jump out
Speaker 2: of the screen and be like, yeah, racist, But we
Speaker 2: don't have time for that. You know, every time one
Speaker 2: of these like Internet outraged things happens about which character
Speaker 2: is being played by whom and people get angry. I
Speaker 2: would get it if people had good faith arguments, but
Speaker 2: you can tell that people are just using these moments
Speaker 2: to disguise a discriminatory idea and like and like, you know,
Speaker 2: a racism that they hold something.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it's your thing. You know.
Speaker 2: People are gonna act like, oh, no, the Little Mermaid,
Speaker 2: I'm here because I'm a Little Mermaid purist and come
Speaker 2: up with all these bullshit answers.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, you know, you look at the history
Speaker 1: of the Little Mermaid.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the history of the Little you mean the
Speaker 2: imagination of the Little Mermaid. Yeah, I mean if you
Speaker 2: look at it, yeah, if you if you were a fan,
Speaker 2: you would have known that Disney had long created black mermaids,
Speaker 2: like they did this, they spin off all their movies.
Speaker 2: They've had tons of them. They had like a black Mormaid.
Speaker 2: She did signed language used to be a cartoon when
Speaker 2: we were kids. People don't care about it. They're like,
Speaker 2: it's never it's never happened. It's it's just look, here's
Speaker 2: the thing. It's not about racists, just about realism.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. What.
Speaker 2: And then it's ironic that they try and use representation
Speaker 2: as the argument the other way around, you know, so
Speaker 2: they will say it's not about representation, shouldn't who cares
Speaker 2: who plays the role? Oh, that matters if the best
Speaker 2: person gets the job. And it's like have you heard
Speaker 2: Hanney Baby sing? Have you heard her sing?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm say? The best person? Like,
Speaker 1: who do you think they got for?
Speaker 2: You think Disney is just out there in the street
Speaker 2: like you come, let's go.
Speaker 1: You think they play games like that. It is the
Speaker 1: best person for the job.
Speaker 2: You're angry about who the best person was, That's what
Speaker 2: you're angry about.
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, but the but the Little Mermaids.
Speaker 1: She means so much. And I don't deny that. I
Speaker 1: don't deny that.
Speaker 2: It must have been amazing for any red haired little
Speaker 2: girl to see The Little Mermaid. It must have been amazing.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful experience. But the movie's still there you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's not gone.
Speaker 2: You can't not watch it. It hasn't been burned. It
Speaker 2: is still there. You can still watch it, and you
Speaker 2: can enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I do all the time. It's not going anywhere. It's like,
Speaker 1: you get so angry.
Speaker 2: But what about the little girls with red hair who
Speaker 2: want what see themselves in what a Disney cartoon?
Speaker 1: Like? Like, are you being serious? Right now? You have
Speaker 1: the princess in Brave she was red hair, remember her? Right?
Speaker 2: You have you have Anna from from Frozen, right, you
Speaker 2: have the little kid from up like pulls off the
Speaker 2: helmets and like the head of the things. The cutest
Speaker 2: thing that I remember that red hair. There's tons, tons
Speaker 2: of other characters. There are more red haired Disney like stars,
Speaker 2: like women who are stars in the in the.
Speaker 1: Franchise than black women.
Speaker 2: But now you're gonna make it seem like it's and
Speaker 2: it's not like one should be against the other.
Speaker 1: There's no need. You have the little momaid. It's fun.
Speaker 1: Now you've got heavy Day paying the real version of it.
Speaker 1: That's that's fun. Don't make it about realism though. It's
Speaker 1: because it's under the sea.
Speaker 2: There's a crab, there's a crab that is gonna talk
Speaker 2: and you're worried about this element.
Speaker 1: People are like, well, I just think it should be
Speaker 1: it's all the things.
Speaker 2: And then and then I love when people go, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: So if you don't care, then how would you feel
Speaker 2: if the black.
Speaker 1: Panther was played by a white guy.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, the difference here is the black panther
Speaker 2: blackness is central to the character's identity.
Speaker 1: Like literally, literally, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like literally, that is the whole point of the thing.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you're gonna bring a white guy,
Speaker 1: who's gonna be like VIBRANI, I'm bringing him. I want
Speaker 1: to see that guy. Bring just the fun. Just bring
Speaker 1: that guy just for the fun of it.
Speaker 2: Let's see what happens. There are many people who haven't
Speaker 2: seen themselves on screen. You're gonna get angry. You're gonna
Speaker 2: get angry because now somebody who's in a wheelchairs playing
Speaker 2: this role. You're gonna be get angry because somebody who's
Speaker 2: black is now.
Speaker 1: Playing that role.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be it's the original stool. There there are
Speaker 2: many parts that are still out there. It's not like
Speaker 2: there is nothing left. It's not like there's one movie
Speaker 2: in the world and there's one story and there's the
Speaker 2: only way you can tell it. There are many calmed
Speaker 2: down or at the very least, the very least should
Speaker 2: get them to meet with Usherland and she'd take their
Speaker 2: voices away.
Speaker 1: Until somebody kisses you. Yeah, don't come back.
Speaker 2: Ready, thinkle are so angry then to go touch gross.
Speaker 1: Now, well, let's move on.
Speaker 4: To another compass black woman, Cleopatra, And don't tell me
Speaker 4: she wasn't black. I'm already hearing enough of that from Egypt.
Speaker 6: Well, the folks in Egypt are accusing Netflix of misrepresenting
Speaker 6: history and Netflix's new docu saries called Queen Cleopatra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the country is actually criticizing the decision to cast
Speaker 3: a black woman to play the title role in series
Speaker 3: re enactments. Netflix says the casting decision was intended to
Speaker 3: acknowledge the centuries long conversation about the rulers' race and
Speaker 3: the multicultural history of Egypt, but officials in Cairo are
Speaker 3: calling it a blatant historical fallacy, claiming that Cleopatra was
Speaker 3: fair skinned and of Greek descent.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, Egypt is concerned about historical accuracy I didn't
Speaker 4: hear you complaining to what all the Mummy movies came out.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about.
Speaker 4: We got mummies coming back from the dead, chasing Brendan
Speaker 4: Fraser and y'all don't have a problem. And then a
Speaker 4: black woman plays called Cleopatra, and all of a sudden
Speaker 4: it's like, ohhh, that didn't happen.
Speaker 7: That didn't happen.
Speaker 4: No, the Mummy that was real. This all like what
Speaker 4: the Egyptians so afraid of. You think Cleopatra is gonna
Speaker 4: turn your history into a blaxploitation film. You think she's
Speaker 4: gonna be cruising down the Nile in a Cadillac yelling
Speaker 4: Freeze Jove Turkeys, this is my pyramid now. So okay,
Speaker 4: you can have Cleopatra, But then we get Jesus. I
Speaker 4: mean it's only fair. We all know Jesus was black
Speaker 4: because he was found guilty in court and he did
Speaker 4: nothing wrong. And since we're talking about representation, let's talk
Speaker 4: about what mermaids really look like. And I'm not talking
Speaker 4: about Miss Haley. No, there's a new controversy about a
Speaker 4: statue that some people say is too damn sexy.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at that thing.
Speaker 4: You got Mermaid the stallion over here. This is the
Speaker 4: first statue every time you walk up in places. Body
Speaker 4: yady yady, yadyaddy, yady yady yady not Look. If you
Speaker 4: want to give me a mermaid with some big old titties,
Speaker 4: that's fine with me. But where it gets confusing is
Speaker 4: that ass. Come on, we all know fish don't have
Speaker 4: an ass. It almost feel like the sculptor figured out
Speaker 4: too late that he couldn't do legs. He messed them
Speaker 4: up so bad he had to just pivot into a
Speaker 4: mermaid on the fly. And that's just not any ass.
Speaker 4: That mermaid is working with certified cakes.
Speaker 1: You heard.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm talking full bakeries all right. Even sir
Speaker 4: mix a lot is like, you know what, this is too.
Speaker 1: Far from me. Anyway.
Speaker 4: If you want to see more of the young ladies,
Speaker 4: you can check out her account on onlyfins.
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime Video has announced that its new Lord of
Speaker 2: the Rings prequel series is its most watched program ever,
Speaker 2: with more than twenty five million viewers checking out the
Speaker 2: show on its first day. Yeah, but it turns out
Speaker 2: some of those people might be hate watching.
Speaker 6: Amazon is suspending reviews of its new Lord of the
Speaker 6: Rings series on Rotten Tomatoes. It says the seventy two
Speaker 6: hour hold is to make sure the reviews for Rings
Speaker 6: of Power are legit and prevent internet sholls from bringing
Speaker 6: down their score.
Speaker 8: Amazon says reviews are being dragged down by fans who
Speaker 8: are upset about the show's diverse cast, which includes black
Speaker 8: actors playing elves and dwarves. These viewers say it's unrealistic
Speaker 8: for Tolkien's creatures to be non white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. This is a tough one.
Speaker 1: This is a tough one.
Speaker 2: I mean, on the one hand, everyone wants diversity in
Speaker 2: the shows that we create.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, gotta.
Speaker 2: Admit it's a bit unrealistic to say that there were
Speaker 2: black people in this white guys imagination, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, I can get on board with a show
Speaker 2: or a world where magical creatures cast spells and fight
Speaker 2: underad armies for control of a piece of jewelry that
Speaker 2: can turn them into gods.
Speaker 1: But if those creatures have a tan, it's just not
Speaker 1: believable anymore. It really is. No first, this is so hypocritical.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get mad about seeing a black dwarf in
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings, but you're fine with seeing a
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart movie, be consistent.
Speaker 1: He's so tiny. Also, by the way, I don't understand
Speaker 1: why people are this angry. It's not like all the
Speaker 1: characters turned black.
Speaker 2: All right, there's one black dwarf, a couple of black elves.
Speaker 1: It's not like the NBA. Calm down, people like, ah,
Speaker 1: there's black ones. Yes, you know.
Speaker 2: It's the same way people were losing their shit because
Speaker 2: of the one black guy in House of Dragons.
Speaker 1: You know, people losing them. Well, it only takes one
Speaker 1: to lower the property values. You know, the House of
Speaker 1: Dragon used to be work foreigner at the now. I
Speaker 1: don't know anymore. And I know what people are saying.
Speaker 2: People are saying that the books are supposed to be
Speaker 2: based on medieval Europe, so having black characters isn't realistic.
Speaker 1: But guys, nobody's watching Lord of the Rings for realism.
Speaker 2: Okay, they're watching it because they didn't have sex in
Speaker 2: high school.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason there's not realistic.
Speaker 2: I won't say this though, I will say this, apart
Speaker 2: from the racism thing, I kind of agree. I don't
Speaker 2: think it makes sense to have black characters in Lord
Speaker 2: of the Rings. Yeah, I said that the whole series
Speaker 2: is about seeing danger and then running towards it. That's
Speaker 2: some white people shit. And the reason the reason there
Speaker 2: were no black people in Middle Earth is because they
Speaker 2: saw the Giant Eye talking out of a volcano and
Speaker 2: they were like, oh, hell, no, we are moving.
Speaker 1: To Africa because this ship here. No, nope, we do
Speaker 1: not need to be here. We're going to Africa. We're
Speaker 1: totally saying. All right, that's it for the headlines.
Speaker 2: But before we go to a break, it's time to
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Speaker 7: Else server that girl.
Speaker 1: Are you guys right, you guys very far social media?
Speaker 1: You guys want to hear some social media?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys are ready to lose a few IQ boys.
Speaker 1: Let's go away, all right.
Speaker 9: First up, what's training is a lot of rings or
Speaker 9: as I like to call it, Game of Thrones without
Speaker 9: the incest. I mean, look, I know it's supposed to
Speaker 9: be woke and he woke on this show, you know,
Speaker 9: elf diversity, start mortal hate or whatever, but look, can
Speaker 9: we just give this one to white people?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 9: Let's diversify the real place first, and then we can't
Speaker 9: worry about the white fantasy places later.
Speaker 1: Okay. That being said, where the are the Asians? Okay,
Speaker 1: because middle of.
Speaker 9: Nania, the West Wing, no Asians, no Asians. The closest
Speaker 9: thing we have to Asians in American fantasy is Spark
Speaker 9: in Star Trek.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, he's Asian. I know he's white, but he's Asian. Okay.
Speaker 1: He's super smart. He dresses like an emperor.
Speaker 9: He's got a bowl haircut, and he knows the pressure
Speaker 9: points in the neck right, Live, long, and prosper. He
Speaker 9: even talks like Confucius. Okay, I just want to see
Speaker 9: some Asian elves.
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