Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: live action Sebasti trend from the Little Mermaid Live action remake.
Speaker 1: I'm jack that superproducer Becca Rama. Hello, Happy Monday, unto
Speaker 1: you as well. So people think they have gotten the
Speaker 1: first glimpse of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid. This is
Speaker 1: a danger we saw coming a mile away. This comes
Speaker 1: from a perspective of somebody who did not think the
Speaker 1: live action Lion King was good. Yeah, agreed. I thought
Speaker 1: it was bad because the animal actors are not emoting
Speaker 1: in these dang things, and it's such a weird concept
Speaker 1: to me because it's like you're basically almost watching like
Speaker 1: a live stream of some animals at the zoo, but
Speaker 1: like Beyonce's their voice, yeah, and their lips are moving
Speaker 1: and it's uncomfortable, right, But I mean it definitely. It's
Speaker 1: one of the top ten highest grossing movies of all times.
Speaker 1: So I think it was like a thing that a
Speaker 1: lot of people went and saw, assuming a lot of
Speaker 1: people were like, there's something missing here, but not enough
Speaker 1: that Disney would have gotten that message because it again
Speaker 1: made all the money. They made so much money, They
Speaker 1: made so many more live action movies, right, so they're
Speaker 1: still coming fast and furious. So this Little Mermaid one,
Speaker 1: we had the question what will they do with the animals?
Speaker 1: Like in the last trailer that dropped about a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, we saw the pufferfish friend whose name
Speaker 1: I am drawing a blank Flounder. I think flounder is
Speaker 1: not a puffer fish. I think flounder is one of
Speaker 1: the other fish friends. But we see her, and we
Speaker 1: see Ariel interacting with a pufferfish, and the pufferfish just
Speaker 1: has like the cold dead eyes of a fish, you know,
Speaker 1: like fish just don't have the most expressive Oh it
Speaker 1: is flounders of the pufferfish. I'm I'm a fool, but
Speaker 1: just like I don't know, they didn't read like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a motion behind those eyes that
Speaker 1: we can all get behind. The real question was around Sebastian.
Speaker 1: So many questions with Sebastian, so many questions with Sebastian
Speaker 1: crabs are just not animals that I think in any
Speaker 1: photorealistic sense, you ever get a vibe other than this
Speaker 1: is a alien species that wants to devour me um.
Speaker 1: They're so creepy looking like real crabs. If it's not
Speaker 1: like mister crabs Crabby Patty Ospoin film, mister crabs, I
Speaker 1: I they're like the spiders of the sea that give
Speaker 1: me the like the hebgbs, you know. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: getting a we're getting a correction from super producer Victor
Speaker 1: coming in saying that flounder So this is what flounder
Speaker 1: of my brain was this yellow and blue fish, which
Speaker 1: I think that's right. He's like a striped yellow and
Speaker 1: blue little guy. Um, he is neither flounder or is
Speaker 1: he pufferfish? I don't believe. Yeah, so I think there's
Speaker 1: a pufferfish character or moment in the animated film, but
Speaker 1: I can't be trusted because I haven't seen it a
Speaker 1: long time. But anyways, the crab looks pretty much like
Speaker 1: a crab in this. And again this is not from
Speaker 1: a trailer. This is from the box of a puzzle
Speaker 1: that appears to be pulling characters from how they look
Speaker 1: in the film. So we don't have like official like
Speaker 1: a cell from the film, but we do have like
Speaker 1: them at least representing Sebastian in what looks like a
Speaker 1: Just to be further correct that Jack Sebastian is a lobster,
Speaker 1: not not technically a crab. This is a debate that Brian,
Speaker 1: you're getting false information. Sebastian is a crab, I think technically,
Speaker 1: But then a lot of people have claimed because of
Speaker 1: the way he was designed in the original movie, yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like a lobster. But also I just pulled
Speaker 1: up this image. I forgot how jarring that Sebastian looks
Speaker 1: in the original I'm like, this is a terrifying Yeah,
Speaker 1: got human teeth, he dun got little eyes like I
Speaker 1: would argue that SpongeBob did a better job. Yes, for sure.
Speaker 1: For sure SpongeBob did a better job. And if they
Speaker 1: made a live action SpongeBob movie where all the characters
Speaker 1: were what they looked like in an aquarium, it probably
Speaker 1: would not have worked very well. No. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can go look up the image yourself. It just looks
Speaker 1: looks like a crab. It does, and that is going
Speaker 1: to be I have seen nature documentaries that are photographed
Speaker 1: so beautifully and like up close that you do kind
Speaker 1: of read emotions on the animals, like in a way
Speaker 1: that these films seem to. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: technical challenge of just like getting their lips to move
Speaker 1: is so so daunting that don't even They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well whatever, you'll make good with the fact that we
Speaker 1: just made a crab speak. Issue has always been with
Speaker 1: the new animation, or at least with the Lion King specifically.
Speaker 1: It's like they didn't make their faces really emote. It
Speaker 1: was just making their mouths move, so it was like
Speaker 1: watching like like live animals, and then they're just like
Speaker 1: kind of talking over the movement of these animals and
Speaker 1: they're not emoting in their faces. Which it's like, what
Speaker 1: is the point of doing all the CGI if you
Speaker 1: aren't going to make the faces emote, because we could
Speaker 1: have just done some like old school nineties, you know,
Speaker 1: animal movies, because I remember, I feel like in the
Speaker 1: nineties there were so many live action animal movies and
Speaker 1: you just like dubbed over their voices, like you didn't
Speaker 1: make their mouths moves. Yeah, you just had live action
Speaker 1: dogs and just dubbed over their mouths, and that was
Speaker 1: better in my opinion, than trying to animate these very
Speaker 1: realistic CGI animals and then not having them emote, or
Speaker 1: you got to take a lesson from Narnia. I feel
Speaker 1: like a lion and Narnia. He really he had that,
Speaker 1: he had feelings. Yeah, he had feelings. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's happened to performances these days. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: just like in the same way that acting has become
Speaker 1: more naturalistic over time, Like in the forties it was
Speaker 1: like this is how you act, and this is how
Speaker 1: you talked, you see, and now people mumble and just
Speaker 1: talked away them and their friends actually talk like maybe
Speaker 1: they're trying to do that with animals. They're like, actually,
Speaker 1: we've hung out with some lions and this is actually
Speaker 1: more this is closer to But anyways, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: really good point. Like Homeward Bound and all those. I
Speaker 1: guess it was because they were dogs, and dogs have
Speaker 1: like faces that were specifically evolved to pull it human
Speaker 1: heart strings. That again, this is why like Lion King
Speaker 1: feels like missed opportunity. You could have worked with the
Speaker 1: faces of these beautiful animals. Crabs. I'm I'm like, you
Speaker 1: have paint yourself into a corner a corner. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: are going to be a hold puppet. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a tough one to pull up. Anyways, we're
Speaker 1: going to release a three hour cut of this training
Speaker 1: episode where we talk about nothing but this, but we
Speaker 1: should move on. Dozens of British employers are sticking to
Speaker 1: a four day work week, and in fact so the
Speaker 1: number is of sixty one British companies that participated in
Speaker 1: a pilot program testing out four day work week, fifty
Speaker 1: six said they would continue. Both employers and employees reported benefits.
Speaker 1: This is being reported in NBC News, New York Times,
Speaker 1: in Wall Street Journal. I mean, I remember when this
Speaker 1: topic was really starting to bubble during the pandemic, when
Speaker 1: there was a lot of revolution with the work from
Speaker 1: home movement and people being like, well do we just
Speaker 1: take this a step further and do a four day
Speaker 1: work week? And I remember that's when they started testing
Speaker 1: in European countries the four day work week, and that
Speaker 1: a lot of countries were seeing if this is beneficial.
Speaker 1: I feel like when I worked at other agencies during
Speaker 1: the pandemic pre my time in podcasting, I had a
Speaker 1: French clients that they were doing this and they seemed
Speaker 1: very happy. Yeah, it feels I mean, European jobs seem
Speaker 1: to have always been like a little bit more flexible
Speaker 1: and less like rising grind motherfucker than American work culture.
Speaker 1: But it does feel like even even in American cultures,
Speaker 1: like I feel like people are ready for this, and
Speaker 1: if companies are and the media is, this could be
Speaker 1: a nice win for human beings around the world, not
Speaker 1: just in Europe absolutely, but I think, like you mentioned off,
Speaker 1: Mike Jack, the note to be made is also that companies,
Speaker 1: hopefully in their greediness of capitalism, they aren't cutting people's pay,
Speaker 1: because I don't think that is the inherent benefit here
Speaker 1: is like oh, well, yeah, we're only paying you for
Speaker 1: four days now, because I think like as a basis,
Speaker 1: salary is kind of a sham and really evolve in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways because you are selling your yearly
Speaker 1: time to you know, this job at a salaried yearly
Speaker 1: rate no matter how many hours you work. And it
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of like almost teaching, where people think, oh, educators,
Speaker 1: you know, they get three months off like how wonderful,
Speaker 1: But they only get paid for the nine months they
Speaker 1: work in the year, Like, they don't get paid those
Speaker 1: three months. Like they can choose their pay periods depending
Speaker 1: on the state in the you know, school system, if
Speaker 1: they want to get paid out bi weekly or however
Speaker 1: monthly that they do their paychecks but spread out their
Speaker 1: salary throughout the whole year so that they do get
Speaker 1: paychecks during the summer or even when they're not working,
Speaker 1: or they have to do the math to like save
Speaker 1: up during the year during those three months that they're
Speaker 1: not working. So it is I hope that that is
Speaker 1: not what happens if America starts looking at the fire
Speaker 1: work week, right, they're like, and this is a great
Speaker 1: way to save and get shareholder value, which seems to
Speaker 1: be like the bottom line. And yeah, I guess that
Speaker 1: was just a little suspicious that it was like the
Speaker 1: New York Times and Wall Street we're both being like, hey,
Speaker 1: look at this, without it ultimately coming out as hey,
Speaker 1: look at this. This is a great way to save
Speaker 1: on your bottom line corporate inter So we'll see. But
Speaker 1: all in like, the idea as I've always heard it discussed,
Speaker 1: is that you do a four day work week without
Speaker 1: cutting people's pay. And I'm hoping that everyone, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Dilbert appears to be finally dead, like it was. It's
Speaker 1: amazing that it came to this to finally get his
Speaker 1: comic strip canceled. But he literally called black people a
Speaker 1: hate group in a racist YouTube rand and has been
Speaker 1: dropped by several major newspapers, also his distributor, and, according
Speaker 1: to Adams, also his literary agent. Which but he's just
Speaker 1: a great example of like why cancel culture isn't real,
Speaker 1: Like if you look at what this piece of shit
Speaker 1: had to do to finally get his strip canceled. Yeah, years,
Speaker 1: so many chances. Yeah. He had recently tweeted about how
Speaker 1: he seriously considered murdering his stepson. Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: Highland shooting and every fentinel overdosed death among the younger
Speaker 1: teaching us the same lesson, and we refused to learn it.
Speaker 1: When a young male, let's say fourteen to nineteen, is
Speaker 1: a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting
Speaker 1: family two options. Watch people die or kill your own son.
Speaker 1: Those are your only options. I chose number one and
Speaker 1: watched my stepson die. I was relieved. He took no
Speaker 1: one else with him. So it was like a wild sentence, Yes,
Speaker 1: a wild sentence, A wild way to put that instead
Speaker 1: of being like, hmm, let's maybe look at the systems
Speaker 1: as to why fentnel is even being distributed in our country. Yes,
Speaker 1: just a has been saying racist shit forever. Like back
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, he defended a Republican mean portraying President
Speaker 1: Barack Obama's parents as monkeys, then created a fake account
Speaker 1: to defend himself and was immediately caught. It's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how many how many chances I guess, you know, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see how long he stays actually canceled. But all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And
Speaker 1: we're back. And I always like to highlight athletic feats
Speaker 1: that you know, Becca, I know you were kind of
Speaker 1: up on your chumping so ready to talk about this.
Speaker 1: You have no idea I actually brought the story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard put up seventy one points, the second time
Speaker 1: somebody has put up seventy one this season in a
Speaker 1: single game. Correct, in a single game, he put up
Speaker 1: seventy one. We've been talking on Matt Boosts about how
Speaker 1: just like out of his mind, this man has been
Speaker 1: just locked in. He is one of the most fun
Speaker 1: because he's six feet toss. He's like, you know, much
Speaker 1: smaller than most of the players on an NBA basketball court,
Speaker 1: but just like an amazing shooter from anywhere on the court,
Speaker 1: like as long as you're over half court, Like he's
Speaker 1: just taken range to a new level, like kind kind
Speaker 1: of like Steph Curry, but when he's locked in, it's
Speaker 1: really incredible. And so we've been talking like his last
Speaker 1: ten games had been just an incredible run of scoring,
Speaker 1: and he topped it off by putting up seventy one
Speaker 1: last night. Yes, so a lot of fun. Great to
Speaker 1: see that. Also, I'm getting excited about the Lakers despite myself,
Speaker 1: because they've constructed an interesting team around Lebron and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, more to come, Yeah, more to
Speaker 1: come on that. So let's talk about TikTok Live, Yes,
Speaker 1: which is not a thing that I was aware existed.
Speaker 1: I mean TikTok Live. I think there's always been a
Speaker 1: question on how creators make money on TikTok And you know,
Speaker 1: there's the way that most people would think, which is
Speaker 1: sponsored content, right becoming you know, a brand representative, brand ambassador.
Speaker 1: But there's also TikTok Live, which is I think something
Speaker 1: people don't normally think about, which is this gamified thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's different than Instagram Live. I've never gone
Speaker 1: live on either platform, but I think The idea on
Speaker 1: TikTok Live versus an Instagram live is that people can
Speaker 1: like send you donations, and it kind of is gamified
Speaker 1: content in the sense that some people will create these
Speaker 1: scenarios where they're like, oh my god, if you send
Speaker 1: me this much money, then I'm going to do this thing.
Speaker 1: And it is a weird place of TikTok Internet, like
Speaker 1: the more you page is an algorithm of your thoughts
Speaker 1: and anything you ever said out loud, terrifying in that
Speaker 1: sense that it is watching you. But TikTok Live is
Speaker 1: a button that you accidentally hit, maybe when you're trying
Speaker 1: to switch back to your for you page from your following,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're in this dark
Speaker 1: web of like weird ass shit. And The Insider covered
Speaker 1: a one of the reporters the headline of this article
Speaker 1: from the writers Karen Press Reynolds, I spent all night
Speaker 1: on TikTok Live and discovered a waste lane of clickbait
Speaker 1: scams and other oddities. It got stranger and darker by
Speaker 1: the hour. He spent basically a whole evening just like
Speaker 1: I think ten minutes per live. He would scroll through
Speaker 1: and just like how dark and weird it got and
Speaker 1: as someone who's also just accidentally clicked TikTok Live, weird
Speaker 1: shit happens, like it's a weird fucking place, just like
Speaker 1: slip down a hole and you're like in this weird
Speaker 1: underground that you didn't intend just by like accidentally clicking
Speaker 1: on a thing, because they've designed it so that it's
Speaker 1: the extra confusing because because their shareholders want to see
Speaker 1: them be like this is the thing about like before
Speaker 1: before we get into the details of like TikTok Live.
Speaker 1: I just think it's so interesting that every tech company
Speaker 1: wants to be everything to everyone like they want to.
Speaker 1: So TikTok is good at a specific thing, they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but Twitch is good at this other thing, so we
Speaker 1: have to try to be Twitch. Amazon is like we're
Speaker 1: good at shipping things to people, but movie studios are
Speaker 1: good at this other thing, so we're going to be
Speaker 1: movie studio. And it's I don't know, it hasn't really
Speaker 1: worked out that well when they just get into a
Speaker 1: thing that they have no experience or internal culture at
Speaker 1: doing and are like, yeah, this this is our new thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, especially in a place like TikTok.
Speaker 1: It is so questionable and like unregulated in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, or it's like we don't know who's doing
Speaker 1: the moderating and the regulating. So when you techpically hear
Speaker 1: a creator when you're on your for you pacing they're
Speaker 1: going to go on live, it is it feels more
Speaker 1: like the Instagram version of a live where it's like
Speaker 1: they're talking to their audience and that. But when you
Speaker 1: just randomly fall in the live tab, it is not
Speaker 1: that it is not your creator that you like going
Speaker 1: on live to give you gossip. It is like scammers,
Speaker 1: like scamming you into giving them money for you know,
Speaker 1: whatever they're selling, Like they're selling like kitchy shit, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know what is that QVC vibe it also
Speaker 1: has like a skinner box vibe where it's like like
Speaker 1: because what one of the ones you were describing is
Speaker 1: like people sleeping and then if somebody tips them, it
Speaker 1: makes a loud noise it like wakes them up. So
Speaker 1: you're just like getting to like disturb someone through through
Speaker 1: the Internet. I guess. Yeah. This quote from the article
Speaker 1: that I really thought was crazy. When I ended the
Speaker 1: experiment in the morning, it felt like coming up for
Speaker 1: air after being submerged in a sea of cultural sewage.
Speaker 1: I was subjected to the lowest hanging fruit of content
Speaker 1: from a parent scams who fantastical role plays to clickbait titles.
Speaker 1: When I discovered some gems in the depths of the night,
Speaker 1: it was mostly alarming and a little thrilling to be
Speaker 1: peering into the unearthed digital world. TikTok live really is
Speaker 1: a wasteland of weirdness. Wow. And there's just a bunch
Speaker 1: of images in this article, like different types of lives,
Speaker 1: like one being like that sleeping scam. It's just a
Speaker 1: weird place. I encourage you to venture just to see how.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested. So the first time I've actually wanted
Speaker 1: to go on all right, well, that's terrifying. What a
Speaker 1: resounding endorsement from that reviewer, Becca. Such a pleasure of
Speaker 1: having you. Where can people find you? Follow you all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. You can find me and follow me
Speaker 1: at Beck's ramos on all platforms, and you find me
Speaker 1: at mill Mundo's Books in Bushwick every other weekend. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: do it. That's gonna do it for us this afternoon.
Speaker 1: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 1: the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow by