Live-Action SebasTrend 2/27: Little Mermaid, 4-Day Work Week, Dilbert, Damien Lillard, TikTok Live

live action Lion King was good. Yeah, agreed. I thought it was bad because the animal actors are not emoting in these dang things, and it's such a weird concept to me because it's like you're basically almost watching like a live stream of some animals at the zoo, but like Beyonce's their voice, yeah, and their lips are moving and it's uncomfortable, right, But I mean it definitely. It's one of the top ten highest grossing movies of all times.

So I think it was like a thing that a lot of people went and saw, assuming a lot of people were like, there's something missing here, but not enough that Disney would have gotten that message because it again made all the money. They made so much money, They made so many more live action movies, right, so they're still coming fast and furious. So this Little Mermaid one, we had the question what will they do with the animals?

Like in the last trailer that dropped about a couple of weeks ago, we saw the pufferfish friend whose name I am drawing a blank Flounder. I think flounder is not a puffer fish. I think flounder is one of the other fish friends. But we see her, and we see Ariel interacting with a pufferfish, and the pufferfish just has like the cold dead eyes of a fish, you know, like fish just don't have the most expressive Oh it

is flounders of the pufferfish. I'm I'm a fool, but just like I don't know, they didn't read like, oh, there's going to be a motion behind those eyes that we can all get behind. The real question was around Sebastian. So many questions with Sebastian, so many questions with Sebastian crabs are just not animals that I think in any photorealistic sense, you ever get a vibe other than this is a alien species that wants to devour me um.

They're so creepy looking like real crabs. If it's not like mister crabs Crabby Patty Ospoin film, mister crabs, I I they're like the spiders of the sea that give me the like the hebgbs, you know. Yeah, so we're getting a we're getting a correction from super producer Victor coming in saying that flounder So this is what flounder of my brain was this yellow and blue fish, which I think that's right. He's like a striped yellow and blue little guy. Um, he is neither flounder or is

he pufferfish? I don't believe. Yeah, so I think there's a pufferfish character or moment in the animated film, but I can't be trusted because I haven't seen it a long time. But anyways, the crab looks pretty much like a crab in this. And again this is not from a trailer. This is from the box of a puzzle that appears to be pulling characters from how they look

in the film. So we don't have like official like a cell from the film, but we do have like them at least representing Sebastian in what looks like a Just to be further correct that Jack Sebastian is a lobster, not not technically a crab. This is a debate that Brian, you're getting false information. Sebastian is a crab, I think technically, But then a lot of people have claimed because of the way he was designed in the original movie, yeah, he looks like a lobster. But also I just pulled

up this image. I forgot how jarring that Sebastian looks in the original I'm like, this is a terrifying Yeah, got human teeth, he dun got little eyes like I would argue that SpongeBob did a better job. Yes, for sure. For sure SpongeBob did a better job. And if they made a live action SpongeBob movie where all the characters were what they looked like in an aquarium, it probably would not have worked very well. No. Yeah, so you can go look up the image yourself. It just looks

looks like a crab. It does, and that is going to be I have seen nature documentaries that are photographed so beautifully and like up close that you do kind of read emotions on the animals, like in a way that these films seem to. I don't know if the technical challenge of just like getting their lips to move is so so daunting that don't even They're like, yeah, well whatever, you'll make good with the fact that we

just made a crab speak. Issue has always been with the new animation, or at least with the Lion King specifically. It's like they didn't make their faces really emote. It was just making their mouths move, so it was like watching like like live animals, and then they're just like kind of talking over the movement of these animals and

they're not emoting in their faces. Which it's like, what is the point of doing all the CGI if you aren't going to make the faces emote, because we could have just done some like old school nineties, you know, animal movies, because I remember, I feel like in the nineties there were so many live action animal movies and you just like dubbed over their voices, like you didn't

make their mouths moves. Yeah, you just had live action dogs and just dubbed over their mouths, and that was better in my opinion, than trying to animate these very realistic CGI animals and then not having them emote, or you got to take a lesson from Narnia. I feel like a lion and Narnia. He really he had that, he had feelings. Yeah, he had feelings. Yeah. So I

don't know what's happened to performances these days. Maybe they're just like in the same way that acting has become more naturalistic over time, Like in the forties it was like this is how you act, and this is how you talked, you see, and now people mumble and just talked away them and their friends actually talk like maybe they're trying to do that with animals. They're like, actually, we've hung out with some lions and this is actually more this is closer to But anyways, yeah, that's a

really good point. Like Homeward Bound and all those. I guess it was because they were dogs, and dogs have like faces that were specifically evolved to pull it human heart strings. That again, this is why like Lion King feels like missed opportunity. You could have worked with the faces of these beautiful animals. Crabs. I'm I'm like, you have paint yourself into a corner a corner. Yeah, you are going to be a hold puppet. This is going

to be a tough one to pull up. Anyways, we're going to release a three hour cut of this training episode where we talk about nothing but this, but we should move on. Dozens of British employers are sticking to a four day work week, and in fact so the number is of sixty one British companies that participated in a pilot program testing out four day work week, fifty six said they would continue. Both employers and employees reported benefits. This is being reported in NBC News, New York Times,

in Wall Street Journal. I mean, I remember when this topic was really starting to bubble during the pandemic, when there was a lot of revolution with the work from home movement and people being like, well do we just take this a step further and do a four day work week? And I remember that's when they started testing in European countries the four day work week, and that a lot of countries were seeing if this is beneficial.

I feel like when I worked at other agencies during the pandemic pre my time in podcasting, I had a French clients that they were doing this and they seemed very happy. Yeah, it feels I mean, European jobs seem to have always been like a little bit more flexible and less like rising grind motherfucker than American work culture.

But it does feel like even even in American cultures, like I feel like people are ready for this, and if companies are and the media is, this could be a nice win for human beings around the world, not just in Europe absolutely, but I think, like you mentioned off, Mike Jack, the note to be made is also that companies, hopefully in their greediness of capitalism, they aren't cutting people's pay, because I don't think that is the inherent benefit here

is like oh, well, yeah, we're only paying you for four days now, because I think like as a basis, salary is kind of a sham and really evolve in a lot of ways because you are selling your yearly time to you know, this job at a salaried yearly

rate no matter how many hours you work. And it reminds me a lot of like almost teaching, where people think, oh, educators, you know, they get three months off like how wonderful, But they only get paid for the nine months they work in the year, Like, they don't get paid those

three months. Like they can choose their pay periods depending on the state in the you know, school system, if they want to get paid out bi weekly or however monthly that they do their paychecks but spread out their salary throughout the whole year so that they do get paychecks during the summer or even when they're not working, or they have to do the math to like save up during the year during those three months that they're

not working. So it is I hope that that is not what happens if America starts looking at the fire work week, right, they're like, and this is a great way to save and get shareholder value, which seems to be like the bottom line. And yeah, I guess that was just a little suspicious that it was like the New York Times and Wall Street we're both being like, hey, look at this, without it ultimately coming out as hey, look at this. This is a great way to save

on your bottom line corporate inter So we'll see. But all in like, the idea as I've always heard it discussed, is that you do a four day work week without cutting people's pay. And I'm hoping that everyone, Yeah, exactly. Dilbert appears to be finally dead, like it was. It's amazing that it came to this to finally get his

comic strip canceled. But he literally called black people a hate group in a racist YouTube rand and has been dropped by several major newspapers, also his distributor, and, according to Adams, also his literary agent. Which but he's just a great example of like why cancel culture isn't real, Like if you look at what this piece of shit had to do to finally get his strip canceled. Yeah, years, so many chances. Yeah. He had recently tweeted about how

he seriously considered murdering his stepson. Oh my god, the Highland shooting and every fentinel overdosed death among the younger teaching us the same lesson, and we refused to learn it. When a young male, let's say fourteen to nineteen, is a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting family two options. Watch people die or kill your own son. Those are your only options. I chose number one and watched my stepson die. I was relieved. He took no

one else with him. So it was like a wild sentence, Yes, a wild sentence, A wild way to put that instead of being like, hmm, let's maybe look at the systems as to why fentnel is even being distributed in our country. Yes, just a has been saying racist shit forever. Like back in twenty eleven, he defended a Republican mean portraying President Barack Obama's parents as monkeys, then created a fake account

to defend himself and was immediately caught. It's just like, yeah, how many how many chances I guess, you know, um, yeah, we'll see how long he stays actually canceled. But all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And we're back. And I always like to highlight athletic feats that you know, Becca, I know you were kind of up on your chumping so ready to talk about this.

You have no idea I actually brought the story. Yeah, Damian Lillard put up seventy one points, the second time somebody has put up seventy one this season in a single game. Correct, in a single game, he put up seventy one. We've been talking on Matt Boosts about how just like out of his mind, this man has been just locked in. He is one of the most fun

because he's six feet toss. He's like, you know, much smaller than most of the players on an NBA basketball court, but just like an amazing shooter from anywhere on the court, like as long as you're over half court, Like he's just taken range to a new level, like kind kind of like Steph Curry, but when he's locked in, it's really incredible. And so we've been talking like his last ten games had been just an incredible run of scoring, and he topped it off by putting up seventy one

last night. Yes, so a lot of fun. Great to see that. Also, I'm getting excited about the Lakers despite myself, because they've constructed an interesting team around Lebron and Anthony Davis. So I don't know, more to come, Yeah, more to come on that. So let's talk about TikTok Live, Yes, which is not a thing that I was aware existed.

I mean TikTok Live. I think there's always been a question on how creators make money on TikTok And you know, there's the way that most people would think, which is sponsored content, right becoming you know, a brand representative, brand ambassador. But there's also TikTok Live, which is I think something people don't normally think about, which is this gamified thing.

I think it's different than Instagram Live. I've never gone live on either platform, but I think The idea on TikTok Live versus an Instagram live is that people can like send you donations, and it kind of is gamified content in the sense that some people will create these scenarios where they're like, oh my god, if you send me this much money, then I'm going to do this thing.

And it is a weird place of TikTok Internet, like the more you page is an algorithm of your thoughts and anything you ever said out loud, terrifying in that sense that it is watching you. But TikTok Live is a button that you accidentally hit, maybe when you're trying to switch back to your for you page from your following, and then all of a sudden you're in this dark

web of like weird ass shit. And The Insider covered a one of the reporters the headline of this article from the writers Karen Press Reynolds, I spent all night on TikTok Live and discovered a waste lane of clickbait scams and other oddities. It got stranger and darker by the hour. He spent basically a whole evening just like

I think ten minutes per live. He would scroll through and just like how dark and weird it got and as someone who's also just accidentally clicked TikTok Live, weird shit happens, like it's a weird fucking place, just like slip down a hole and you're like in this weird underground that you didn't intend just by like accidentally clicking on a thing, because they've designed it so that it's the extra confusing because because their shareholders want to see

them be like this is the thing about like before before we get into the details of like TikTok Live. I just think it's so interesting that every tech company wants to be everything to everyone like they want to. So TikTok is good at a specific thing, they're like, okay, but Twitch is good at this other thing, so we have to try to be Twitch. Amazon is like we're good at shipping things to people, but movie studios are good at this other thing, so we're going to be

movie studio. And it's I don't know, it hasn't really worked out that well when they just get into a thing that they have no experience or internal culture at doing and are like, yeah, this this is our new thing. Yeah. And I feel like, especially in a place like TikTok. It is so questionable and like unregulated in a lot of ways, or it's like we don't know who's doing

the moderating and the regulating. So when you techpically hear a creator when you're on your for you pacing they're going to go on live, it is it feels more like the Instagram version of a live where it's like they're talking to their audience and that. But when you just randomly fall in the live tab, it is not that it is not your creator that you like going

on live to give you gossip. It is like scammers, like scamming you into giving them money for you know, whatever they're selling, Like they're selling like kitchy shit, Like I don't know what is that QVC vibe it also has like a skinner box vibe where it's like like because what one of the ones you were describing is like people sleeping and then if somebody tips them, it makes a loud noise it like wakes them up. So you're just like getting to like disturb someone through through

the Internet. I guess. Yeah. This quote from the article that I really thought was crazy. When I ended the experiment in the morning, it felt like coming up for air after being submerged in a sea of cultural sewage. I was subjected to the lowest hanging fruit of content from a parent scams who fantastical role plays to clickbait titles. When I discovered some gems in the depths of the night, it was mostly alarming and a little thrilling to be

peering into the unearthed digital world. TikTok live really is a wasteland of weirdness. Wow. And there's just a bunch of images in this article, like different types of lives, like one being like that sleeping scam. It's just a weird place. I encourage you to venture just to see how. I'm very interested. So the first time I've actually wanted to go on all right, well, that's terrifying. What a resounding endorsement from that reviewer, Becca. Such a pleasure of

having you. Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff. You can find me and follow me at Beck's ramos on all platforms, and you find me at mill Mundo's Books in Bushwick every other weekend. Yeah, yeah, do it. That's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow by