Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Once
Speaker 1: Upon a trend In shall trend?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: That one courtesy of Miles and I just needing to
Speaker 1: come up with a trending title.
Speaker 2: Hey, come on, let make it sound a little more
Speaker 2: mystical than that, you know, I mean.
Speaker 1: From our writer's room.
Speaker 3: We read from this deep from the scrolls we've been
Speaker 3: writing on for hundreds of years now to find the
Speaker 3: perfect short show title.
Speaker 1: We found these scrolls buried underground and they were written
Speaker 1: in our handwriting.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Wow, that would be kind.
Speaker 1: Of like a Michael Crichton movie premise. Okay, like a
Speaker 1: bad one. I'm not saying it's like good. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's drastics. Car, He's got he's got some misses
Speaker 1: out there. Why am I on trial here? My name's Jack.
Speaker 1: That is Miles, And these are some of the things
Speaker 1: that are a trending. Donald Trump is he seems very
Speaker 1: low energy, these yays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so low energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got we got some clips of him speaking
Speaker 1: where he like we talk on tomorrow's episode, Like we
Speaker 1: play a couple of clips that like made me so sleepy,
Speaker 1: I fell asleep on tomorrow's episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're very I mean, he just like doesn't I mean,
Speaker 3: I think we talked about last time. How you know,
Speaker 3: former age are like this dude's like phoning it in,
Speaker 3: Like we're like we've seen him like give up. And
Speaker 3: this is kind of what it looks and sounds like
Speaker 3: for Trump, the old give ups. But yeah, the energy's
Speaker 3: very low. Even when he is trying to be racist
Speaker 3: or misogynist, it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: That used to be the thing that brought it out
Speaker 1: of him, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I just here, they just give you an idea.
Speaker 3: This is him ranting in Detroit while like no one's
Speaker 3: talking again because he has such high energy.
Speaker 4: He ignored the police of the mayor and the police
Speaker 4: chief to deploy the National Guard and Minneapolis. And you're
Speaker 4: not highly trained soldiers, you're nineteen year olds who cook.
Speaker 4: That's what he said.
Speaker 2: Teen year olds who cook. That's a pretty famous man cook.
Speaker 2: I don't even know, dude.
Speaker 1: So people were like, when a National Guard cook, let
Speaker 1: him cook, Let them cook.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the energy again historic lows for him, and
Speaker 3: that could always change. But anyway, but according to the
Speaker 3: insiders that mar A Lago, Trump is big, sad and
Speaker 3: the only thing that sort of brings the vibes up
Speaker 3: in the building for him and his inner circle of
Speaker 3: donors is when they see themselves on TV and themselves,
Speaker 3: I mean Trump on TV. So the campaign recently spent
Speaker 3: about fifty thousand dollars to run these fifteen second spots
Speaker 3: on the Big News Network, specifically in Palm Beach County
Speaker 3: where mar A Lago is. Yeah that way, well, baby
Speaker 3: fart can see his rotting corpse face on the TV
Speaker 3: and get excited about it. And apparently this wasn't the
Speaker 3: first time this happened. In twenty twenty, in the lead
Speaker 3: up to the twenty twenty election, his funkies did like
Speaker 3: a four hundred thousand dollars add buy in DC or
Speaker 3: something like that DC.
Speaker 2: Because he was sad about his poll numb verse. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, his campaign is like claiming they're doing
Speaker 1: it to keep donors happy. But of course that wouldn't
Speaker 1: have made sense in twenty twenty when they did it
Speaker 1: like all around.
Speaker 2: The White House. Right. Well.
Speaker 3: I think the other thing though, too, is like it
Speaker 3: that ad By does fuck all for him, like campaign wise,
Speaker 3: like I get Palm Beach County is a Blue County,
Speaker 3: but you are in the state Aflorida.
Speaker 2: So this is purely for mister Herdi.
Speaker 1: Like there's a thing in Los Angeles that it has
Speaker 1: like the greatest billboard economy in the United States because
Speaker 1: they buy billboards for movies and various projects that they
Speaker 1: know the movie star is going to be driving by,
Speaker 1: so that the movie star sees themselves up there, is
Speaker 1: impressed by it and is like, damn, my agents and
Speaker 1: the studio are doing their job, you know. So yeah, right,
Speaker 1: the billboard game in Law Angeles is wild, like some
Speaker 1: beautiful like crazy designs well done by them.
Speaker 3: That's always wild too, is when it's award season and
Speaker 3: they're like for your consideration and you're like, bro, like
Speaker 3: one percent of the of the pot, not even one
Speaker 3: percent of the population has any sway.
Speaker 2: Over, like for whose consideration?
Speaker 1: For an audience of one the person on the billboard
Speaker 1: and these are ads for the you know, the person
Speaker 1: in the political ad. I.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There there's this other story about how his campaign rallies
Speaker 1: might be harming him. Like they were talking about this
Speaker 1: campaign rally in Pennsylvania where they like interviewed a bunch
Speaker 1: of the people in the crowd and they were just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, like, he just seems seems off.
Speaker 1: Like here's this one quote. I voted for him in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen and had a Trump flag in the front yard.
Speaker 1: I voted for him again in twenty twenty, but didn't
Speaker 1: put the flag in that time. I've been thinking of
Speaker 1: voting for him again because Biden's been so bad for
Speaker 1: the economy and Kamala won't be any better. But after
Speaker 1: listening to that, I'm actually afraid of Trump being president again.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was talking about half the time.
Speaker 1: Perhaps he was always like that, but he seems worse,
Speaker 1: more unstable. I feel like that combined with the surrounding
Speaker 1: him with ads of himself. Oh yeah, I'm sorrying to
Speaker 1: think that like the best. We don't have a political
Speaker 1: analogy for him, but I do feel like he is
Speaker 1: giving Elvis like or you know, celebrity who becomes so
Speaker 1: famous and insulated that and isolated from reality that they
Speaker 1: just like start to like he's just up there repeating
Speaker 1: himself like fat Elvis at the end of his career,
Speaker 1: you know, like just like kind of grunting through it,
Speaker 1: just going through the motions. Can't differentiate like a good
Speaker 1: performance from a bad performance just is like sort of
Speaker 1: feeding off of the crowds adulation and like kind of
Speaker 1: holy uh, you know, adoration of him, like you know,
Speaker 1: which that that's not going anywhere because he's feeling such
Speaker 1: a weird need for these people, and so he just
Speaker 1: like goes up there and like basks in that but
Speaker 1: and doesn't realize that, like he's just giving the very
Speaker 1: least at this point.
Speaker 3: Right, And I mean, but at least Elvis gave us
Speaker 3: that one final show where he like killed it with
Speaker 3: unchained melody, you know, right where you're like dying.
Speaker 2: He's dying, you know what I mean, And he's leaving
Speaker 2: it all out there.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe I guess sadly, maybe Trump's version of
Speaker 3: unchained melody is just unchained election fuckery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's but I think that I mean,
Speaker 1: the long speeches that are rambling and like everyone's like,
Speaker 1: what is that like falling asleep? It happens to dictators also,
Speaker 1: Like you hear that shit about dictators all the time,
Speaker 1: but like Trump really like and you can tell that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, super famous person whose fame is driving them
Speaker 1: a little bit crazy. One of the hallmarks of that
Speaker 1: is that they stay hold up in a home that
Speaker 1: they've built that has a name. I'll Graceland or Neverland
Speaker 1: with Michael Jackson Prince, you know, Prince's best case scenario.
Speaker 1: He kept it together for a long time and like
Speaker 1: kept making good and.
Speaker 3: It was like a vibe to get in there rather
Speaker 3: than like, yeah, everybody been there, bro right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Like that's kind of what I'm starting to
Speaker 1: feel like is the energy. And we have seen like
Speaker 1: you said, like this this might not be permanent. We've
Speaker 1: seen him like EBB and flow as his adderall usage,
Speaker 1: you know what, kind of yeah.
Speaker 3: But what's kind of different, right, is like we're so
Speaker 3: used to being like you never know how the like
Speaker 3: suddenly a thing comes out in the news and now
Speaker 3: the wind is back in his sails. But this feels
Speaker 3: like so different than the other times, Like I'm I
Speaker 3: don't know really what to compare it to, like in
Speaker 3: past things where it's truly yeah, yeah, it just feels
Speaker 3: like it's like withering in this way that's different than
Speaker 3: like less popular or controversial, Like it feels like the
Speaker 3: life force of like his campaign or Visa VI him,
Speaker 3: Like I know the supporters are still dedicated, but through him.
Speaker 3: It feels like watching like a like an orange creamsickle
Speaker 3: melt in the sun or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Access Hollywood tape was a real
Speaker 1: low point and it was closer to the election than
Speaker 1: we currently are. I feel like so sure.
Speaker 3: But then like even then, right, that was one of
Speaker 3: those things where people who were like wanting him to
Speaker 3: lose or like, oh, he's not going to come back
Speaker 3: from this. Yeah, this is It's different than like can
Speaker 3: he weather a controversy? Like because we're that phase of
Speaker 3: normalizing all of his ship so now it's sort of
Speaker 3: like it's more like is.
Speaker 2: This motherfucker for real?
Speaker 3: Like like that's kind of like even now what his
Speaker 3: supported are saying, like I don't even where am I?
Speaker 2: What is this again? It was weird?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels weird. It feels like the energy is
Speaker 1: off and you do hate to see.
Speaker 2: It to happen to a nicer guy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back and talk about Martin Screlly and his
Speaker 1: Wu Tang album. Uh what what is the legend of
Speaker 1: shell In but whatever?
Speaker 2: Whatever? That once upon a trend in shop on a.
Speaker 1: Trend in sholl trend. Of course, we'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and Martin Screlly back in the news.
Speaker 1: He's most famous for, you know, price gouging, uh, hiking
Speaker 1: the prices of like life saving medication to a degree
Speaker 1: that was like cartoonist, like one hundred xing it in.
Speaker 2: Some cases is one of the worst ones, yes.
Speaker 1: And then becoming famous and becoming extremely rich from doing that.
Speaker 1: With all that money, he bought the one of a
Speaker 1: kind Wu Tang album Once Upon a Time in shell
Speaker 1: And at auction for two million dollars in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: on the condition that it quote not be released publicly
Speaker 1: and treated like a piece of contemporary art. He this
Speaker 1: is going to surprise.
Speaker 2: A lot of people.
Speaker 1: Did not do that.
Speaker 2: Ah fuck.
Speaker 1: After he was forced to hand the album over to
Speaker 1: the US government, which is just weird. The US government
Speaker 1: was like, give us the Wu Tang album.
Speaker 3: Well, it's like a securities fraud. So yeah, they're there
Speaker 3: to take your shit. But it is funny to be
Speaker 3: like knock.
Speaker 2: Knock Streli, we're here for the Wu Tang album. Like, oh,
Speaker 2: the album.
Speaker 1: So it eventually made its way to a crypto currency
Speaker 1: collective who bought the album for four point seventy five
Speaker 1: million dollars, so it is going up in price. It's
Speaker 1: doing what there is a end co planned for it
Speaker 1: to do. And the crypto guys then sued Screlly because
Speaker 1: after he got out of prison, he held a Wu
Speaker 1: Tang official listening party on social media, bragging that he
Speaker 1: had made copies and hidden them in safes all around
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: Which is that's that's that's called bullshit.
Speaker 1: It made it so if you kill me, copies of
Speaker 1: the album will be played live in Times Square.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, exactly.
Speaker 3: You don't want fucking I got a dead hand trigger
Speaker 3: or whatever that thing. What is it called dead hand
Speaker 3: system type thing? He's like, what a dead on trigger?
Speaker 2: Like it?
Speaker 3: It will fucking stream everywhere. Bro, you probably have it.
Speaker 3: You have a burned copy on a hard drive.
Speaker 2: That's her.
Speaker 3: You know, whatever you have, you ripped it on a
Speaker 3: hard drive and then yeah, maybe you could have put
Speaker 3: it on dropbox and therefore it is around the world.
Speaker 2: But trying to act like some bad guy.
Speaker 3: It's like, and it's in five different safes around the globe, you.
Speaker 2: Will not be able to find. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He also streamed part of the album to celebrate Trump's
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election win, and there's still clips online of
Speaker 1: him previously streaming a piece of the album to sell
Speaker 1: it at that time. So a judge has ruled against him,
Speaker 1: which judges seem to like to do. Rule against Martin Screley,
Speaker 1: it's like one of their passions, one of their hobbies.
Speaker 1: They've ordered him to hand over all of his copies
Speaker 1: of the album by August thirtieth. He's also prohibited from possessing, using, disseminating,
Speaker 1: or selling any interests in the album, including its data
Speaker 1: end files. So fuck Martin Shcreley. It turns out.
Speaker 3: Ah Man again could have happened to a nicer guy.
Speaker 2: What if that album is good?
Speaker 1: Like, what if the album's like, yeah, it's basically on
Speaker 1: par with Cuban Links, like it's.
Speaker 3: I mean, you have to be on par with like
Speaker 3: honestly at least, I mean, I mean, there's only really
Speaker 3: a for talking a bonus like the good Wu Tang albums,
Speaker 3: like the first two, the first two yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah yeah is it that I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, if it was like a bunch of stuff
Speaker 3: like lost cuts that weren't on thirty six Chambers or
Speaker 3: like Wu Tang forever there could be something good, But.
Speaker 1: So is it still the crypto currency collective? Who is
Speaker 1: the owners? Because that's so that's I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: it makes sense because crypto the whole idea is like
Speaker 1: creating a one of a kind digital uh, you know, money,
Speaker 1: And exactly this is one of a kind album. It's
Speaker 1: about creating and I am an expert on this. It's
Speaker 1: about creating a digital one of a kind of money.
Speaker 3: I'm holding five bitcoins in my hand right now and
Speaker 3: they're heavy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you feel that weight. Rotten Tomato has added
Speaker 1: a verified hot bed, so they're changing up their website
Speaker 1: and instead of just offering certified fresh for movies that
Speaker 1: are overwhelmingly praised by critics, there will now be a
Speaker 1: certified hot badge for movies that get a positive reaction
Speaker 1: from US normies, from the losers, the swill, you know.
Speaker 3: So to be verified hot, how do you get Rotten
Speaker 3: Tomatoes verified?
Speaker 2: How do you get Twitter verified?
Speaker 3: You got just to be like to basically be like, no,
Speaker 3: this motherfucker saw it, rather than like people review bombing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so Rotten Tomatoes And this is what I'm
Speaker 1: why I'm always saying consolidation is good and always just deregulation.
Speaker 1: So Rotten Tomatoes is own making. They're owned by Fandango.
Speaker 1: So what they can do is they can ensure that
Speaker 1: the only people who can vote for a movie have
Speaker 1: a Fandango ticket to that movie. And therefore you're only
Speaker 1: getting the finest, most proof positive viewers of a film,
Speaker 1: so you can't. It guards against review bombing, not really,
Speaker 1: it just guards against it makes people pay fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: to review bomb but as we know, super fans.
Speaker 3: But then wouldn't theyre Oh wait, so, but there would
Speaker 3: have to be like just regular hot or bad, right,
Speaker 3: and those are people you can't verify if they actually
Speaker 3: seen it. And then there's verified hot because you know,
Speaker 3: like these people have I think.
Speaker 1: Float on a movie at Rotten Tomatoes. These days, you
Speaker 1: need to have like bought a Fandango ticket. I could
Speaker 1: be right.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, so like they're just guiding everyone to Fandango. Basically, yeay,
Speaker 3: you want to leave a review, you want to leave
Speaker 3: a racist, shitty review, you better buy a ticket.
Speaker 2: From Fandango to do it.
Speaker 3: Star wars aren't women way, Hey, folks, let him cook.
Speaker 3: He bought it from Fandango.
Speaker 1: They you need ninety percent, and so movies like It
Speaker 1: Ends with Us and fly Me to the Moon, which
Speaker 1: were not adored by critics are now verified hot and ah.
Speaker 1: If only this had happened earlier, maybe people would have
Speaker 1: gone to see fly Me to the Moon, a movie.
Speaker 2: I heard it was bad.
Speaker 1: It's the It is the most baffling like movie premise
Speaker 1: for me since the Buzz Late Year movie where they're like,
Speaker 1: what don't you want to know the origin of the
Speaker 1: toy of the guy who based on toys?
Speaker 3: This one is like, hey, man, are you a lunar
Speaker 3: landing conspiracy theorist?
Speaker 2: And Wana rom com. Yeah, it's like what like that?
Speaker 2: That's ben diagram is really shrinking your audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's confusing, but yeah, I mean there's obviously the
Speaker 1: concerns about review bombing, because even with the Fandango provision,
Speaker 1: toxic fans still review bomb movies and TV shows. Recently,
Speaker 1: the Star Wars show The Acolyte was attacked by racist
Speaker 1: fans because Star Wars is just always in the midst
Speaker 1: of like the equivalent of a religious war.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and the problem is too, like they're shitting out
Speaker 3: so much like as a beloved Star Wars fan. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're just shitting out way too much content, like to
Speaker 3: the point and at the quality is just like, bro, fine,
Speaker 3: tell me about the fucking Jedi that was made of
Speaker 3: boloney that I didn't.
Speaker 2: Hear about before? Do they have a whole show? Great? Great,
Speaker 2: great Greek.
Speaker 1: They've also tanked the ratings for a two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight horror movie called Acolytes. So apparently you don't need
Speaker 1: all every movie doesn't need a Fandango purchase.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this horror film, you're like, well, the Black Jedi
Speaker 3: wasn't for beievably Like what wait?
Speaker 2: What this is a horror film? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like in my use of Rotten Tomatoes, usually I
Speaker 1: go to Metacritic. I think it's a superior site, but
Speaker 1: I generally ignore the audience reviews. Sure do you do
Speaker 1: you give it any credence?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I talk about this a lot, and I think we
Speaker 3: have very similar strategies. I need to hear it from motherfuckers,
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, like because I you know, sure, there's
Speaker 3: I can see something that's doing really well, but it's
Speaker 3: even if something is like universally beloved, I still need
Speaker 3: someone who I know has seen it, unless it's a
Speaker 3: movie I'm just gonna go see regardless. I need somebody
Speaker 3: I know to like co sign that. That's I use
Speaker 3: word of mouth, like from my personal connections more than anything.
Speaker 2: So it's like that.
Speaker 3: It's in the same thing with like yelp to like
Speaker 3: review sites like that, Like reviews are just a weird phenomenon,
Speaker 3: like the Internet reviews that are just so hard to
Speaker 3: pass through and know it's like, look, are you do
Speaker 3: you hate your life and you ended up at this
Speaker 3: dry cleaner on a specific day, or you know, are
Speaker 3: you a shitty husband and your birthday dinner for your
Speaker 3: partner went awry and you're taking it out on the
Speaker 3: restaurant because you had.
Speaker 2: The lack of thinking, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 2: there's so many times when.
Speaker 3: You read very forceful bad reviews and things like that,
Speaker 3: or even positive ones or they're just kind of doing
Speaker 3: somebody favor and like, yeah, yeah, man, I'll throw a
Speaker 3: positive review out there.
Speaker 1: It would be amazing, Like just putting it into that context.
Speaker 1: If Yelp contained eighty reviews from people whose full time
Speaker 1: job it was was to review like local businesses, like
Speaker 1: that would be incredible that would be like one of
Speaker 1: the great resources that humanity had created, like that. We
Speaker 1: just got good, like high quality reviews. We have that
Speaker 1: for movies, and they're trying to turn it into yelp.
Speaker 1: Is like sort of my thinking, Like we have a
Speaker 1: wealth of information and like writing and thinking being done
Speaker 1: about movies and TV shows and we're not We're not
Speaker 1: respecting it. We're just we're like, yeah, but what does
Speaker 1: what do people think about it? People are wrong. People
Speaker 1: are wrong a lot of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out, all right.
Speaker 1: Those are some of the things that are trending on
Speaker 1: this Tuesday, August twenty seventh. Shout out to my parents,
Speaker 1: who's forty eighth anniversary it is today, So shout out
Speaker 1: to y'all.
Speaker 2: Damn how they do them? What's their secret? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of I don't walks on
Speaker 2: the beach. They don't know how. They don't know how.
Speaker 2: They take a lot of walks on the beach and ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, they spend time. They spend so much time together.
Speaker 1: It's a it's that's beautiful. They are a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: All right. Those are some of the things that are trending.
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 yourself, gets a vaccine, don't hear nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow
Speaker 1: at anniversary