Ep. 001: Jem and the Holograms, Leeroy Jenkins, AOL, Hugh Jackman
Trends Like These
Travis McElroy
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the very first episode! A lot of nostalgia running rampant in this one! This week, the trailer for the live action remake of the hit 80's cartoon Jem and the Holograms hit the net. Let's just say, people were not really that impressed. In other news, Leeroy Jenkins celebrated 10 years of viral video-hood. And according to a recent investigation, a surprising number of Americans still pay for AOL! All that and an in-depth discussion about Hugh Jackman and his portrayal of Wolverine. We're bringing the heat for our first ep! Be sure to share with your friends!
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| 0:00.0 | This week retiring wolverines, 10 year old memes, and truly outrageous teens. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Brent Black, I'm Travis McElroy, and I'm Leroy |
| 0:11.0 | with trends like these. Hello Brent. Travis. We're doing a podcast. I know this is crazy isn't it? It feels like so long coming. Yeah, some people actually have noted on our |
| 0:36.5 | Facebook page that this could all be an elaborate joke by us. And it is, it is. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah. The end. There's no such thing as trends like these. I can't believe you all fell for it. Suckers. |
| 0:47.0 | Morons. So what do we do on this show, Travis? Well, Brent, we take internet news, whatever's trending from stuff like |
| 0:55.0 | Facebook and Twitter and all of that rigmarole and we talk about it you know we |
| 1:01.2 | Omegal we really hash it out no we don't do omegal brent we don't talk |
| 1:06.2 | about omeagal surely I'm not the only person that checks omegal |
| 1:09.4 | trends daily I think I think you're the only person that remembers that Amagal exists. |
| 1:14.0 | I think Amagal is like that distant like, ah child, let me tell you about a time when |
| 1:20.4 | weenos rule the internet. Basically like at the end of the movie of the internet |
| 1:25.0 | instead of like Yoda and obiwan there's the ghosts of friendster the ghost of |
| 1:29.9 | Omegal just looking on lovingly. But anyway, so we talk about internet stuff. I do a lot of |
| 1:36.6 | podcast, I do some other shows. Brant, you do a lot of YouTube stuff. And more or less, we spend |
| 1:42.1 | a lot of our time, you you know dicking around the internet pretty much that's actually what it says on my business card it is a risk of the job the thing is most people with normal jobs they get on the internet as a as a way to get away from that job |
| 1:55.0 | but if you're already on the internet it's so hard not to click on all the stuff that's |
| 1:59.8 | trying to waste your time all day. |
| 2:02.6 | And so instead we decided to take all that stuff |
| 2:05.0 | and turn it into a new job. |
| 2:06.6 | And so that's what this is. |
| 2:08.9 | Pretty much. |
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