Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together
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What is the opening premise of the “Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together” story?
This is Believe. One network, every topic, everywhere. Okay, our friends. So we are reading about food. Delicious foods. And today we're gonna eat a little silly. Ready for some silly? I am. Today's story is called Crab Cake. And though crab cake is a type of food, right? It's a little sort of cake that's made out of crab. It's a savory food. Um I don't think that this story is entirely just about Crab cakes. We'll read it as and we can discuss as we go. But today's story called Crab Cake was written by Andrea Zurumi. And it has a subtitle, which is called Turning the Tide. together. Turning the tide.
How do the hosts introduce the underwater world and its colorful inhabitants?
I wonder why. Let's find out. Are you ready? Today's story is read by Mommy and Philip. Philip. And mommy. And we're we're about to we're about to go under the sea. You ready? Yep. Let's do it. Under the sea. Where sunlight touches sand, lies a place that's home to many incredible creatures. Clownfish hides in the stinging anemone. Mantay gets cleaned, sea turtle holds her breath, tangs swim in schools, scallop does loop de loops, and crabs. Bakes cakes. And in the picture we can see cr there there's a crab and he's got a beautiful three layered cake. It looks lovely.
Literally an actual crab.
An actual crab, yeah.
Why does a massive trash heap appear and how do the sea creatures react?
Sea horse pretends to be seaweed. Spiny lobster looks for a new home, parrot fish crunches coral and poops sand. Dolphin blows bubble rings. Toadfish sings, pufferfish puffs up, octopus hides in a coconut. Moray eel pops out of her cave and crabs. Bakes cakes. And now we can see, oh, what a ton of tiny little pedophores he's got here. Itty bitty little cakes that are just bite size as he drops a line of them. They look very fancy though, don't they? Like you would see them at like maybe a high tee. Snapper eats and eats and eats and eats my At the bottom of this page we can see a mommy crab and a baby crab. Well, where did you leave it? says the Mommy.
Right.
Yeah, there's another crab here. And the baby crab just shrugs. I
don't know. Leaves what?
I I don't know.
What prompts the crab to start baking a cake amidst the ocean debris?
It looks like we've walked into a conversation here.
I get it because I think Would you leave the cup? And then he's like, I don't know because
the
dude ate it all.
Possibly. the venomous lionfish does whatever she pleases and everybody else just stays out of her way. And Crab Bakes. Okay.
Oh what a precious looking cake.
He is offering to a sh giant
He's offering
a line of fish. Yeah. Well, do you remember that famous saying that there's always a bigger fish? In this case we certainly see it. One big fish is chomping on a little big fish, which is chomping on a smaller fish, which is chomping on another small fish, and so on.
And then there's the smallest fish who is distracted by um Crabs cake.
Yeah. So life goes on under the sea until one night there's a big splash.
How do the other fish respond to the crab’s cake and what does it symbolize?
And we can see this big boat going along and it has a lot of junk in it. Wouldn't you say? That looks like trash to me. Does it look like trash to you? Yeah. In th in fact it's such a giant trash heap that as it sinks to the bottom, all of the other sea life creatures look at it with their jaws dropped. Parrot fish freezes. Shark freezes. Snapper freezes. Pufferfish freezes. Clownfish freezes. Spiny lobster freezes. Seahorse freezes. Octopus freezes. Sea turtle freezes. Dolphin freezes. Freezes. Manta ray freezes. Even lionfish freezes. And now that's saying something because lionfish usually does whatever it wants.
In what ways do the sea creatures work together to clean up the trash?
And crab peeks out at Luckily for him a bowl has fallen on top of him, so he can immediately set right to work with it, can't he? Flips it over and Crab bakes a cake. Very resourceful. And the other fish start talking.
W what's going on? Did crab just Bake a cake? HOU For how long? I don't know. But Crab did. Crab baked a cake. Hey, can I have some?
says this fish. So Crab is offering up some cake and the fish is burping as he eats it all and all the other animals May I?
Of course
says the crab. Can I have the part with the shell? Of course.
What message do the characters leave on the dock about junk and community action?
And everybody Finally everybody comes together and And they're they're eating the cake and they're talking to each other about what we're going to do next. There's a lot of dialogue.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the “Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together” story?
0:01–0:55
2
How do the hosts introduce the underwater world and its colorful inhabitants?
0:55–1:59
3
Why does a massive trash heap appear and how do the sea creatures react?
1:59–3:04
4
What prompts the crab to start baking a cake amidst the ocean debris?
3:04–4:08
5
How do the other fish respond to the crab’s cake and what does it symbolize?
4:08–4:56
6
In what ways do the sea creatures work together to clean up the trash?
4:56–5:50
7
What message do the characters leave on the dock about junk and community action?
5:50–6:59
8
How does the episode wrap up and invite listeners to join future stories?
6:59–8:04