This PSA opens on a father having what appears to be a safe-sex talk with his teenager, though we only see the parent on screen. The middle-aged dad is explaining the importance of safe sex amidst the setting of a typical teen’s bedroom. Clearly the father is a bit uncomfortable with the topic but he perseveres.
The camera then reveals that he’s not talking to a teenager but rather to the family dog. Alas, his talk hasn’t done much good as the canine is tirelessly humping his master’s leg.
A super reads, “Spay and neuter your pets. It’s the only form of birth control they understand.”
An end tag carries the U.S. Humane Society logo.
“The Talk” was directed by Dave Laden of Uber Content, Hollywood, for agency Erwin-Penland, Greenville, S.C.
The Erwin-Penland creative team consisted of executive creative director Andy Mendelsohn, group creative director Joe Gillman, senior art directors Jason Smith and Jason Locke, and copywriter Karen Walker.
Preston Lee and Phyllis Koenig executive produced for Uber Content. The DP was Doug Chamberlain.
Editor was Avi Oron of Bikini Edit, New York.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More