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Grailz: Lost in the Metaverse

By: Jared Gutstadt, Zach Selwyn
Narrated by: Jude Angelini, full cast
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 It’s 2040, and up-and-coming teenage gamer Rolex is on the cusp of winning the Timekill World Championship when she’s mysteriously time bumped to another dimension—the treacherous underbelly of the metaverse known as The Mist. Now she’s trapped in a strange new digital world, far away from her ailing mother who is in dire need of life-saving surgery. Racing against the clock, her only hope of buying passage back to the real world is to team up with a ragtag bunch of digital misfits to hunt down a grip of top dollar Grailz—rare collectible NFTs (non-fungible tokens) buried deep within the digital rubbish of history. But does this scrappy squad of outliers and castoffs have what it takes to game the system, or will nefarious forces from the sinister side of the metaverse stop them in their digital tracks? Grailz: Lost in the Metaverse is a hilarious musical adventure, loaded with hip hop bangers and deeply immersive soundscapes that bring a new dimension to the listening experience. Starring Juju (Judith Wessendorf) as Rolex, Metta Sandiford-Artest as Metta, Trinidad James as Stackboy, and Simon Rex as Dash—aka Bored Ape #4344, the first ever scripted role for a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT.©2023 Audio Up, Inc. (P)2023 Audible Originals LLC Action & Adventure
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  • Trailer

    Trailer
    Mar 14 2024
    It’s 2040, and up-and-coming teenage gamer Rolex is on the cusp of winning the Timekill World Championship when she’s mysteriously time bumped to another dimension—the treacherous underbelly of the metaverse known as The Mist. Now she’s trapped in a strange new digital world, far away from her ailing mother who is in dire need of life-saving surgery. Racing against the clock, her only hope of buying passage back to the real world is to team up with a ragtag bunch of digital misfits to hunt down a grip of top dollar Grailz—rare collectible NFTs (non-fungible tokens) buried deep within the digital rubbish of history. But does this scrappy squad of outliers and castoffs have what it takes to game the system, or will nefarious forces from the sinister side of the metaverse stop them in their digital tracks? Grailz: Lost in the Metaverse is a hilarious musical adventure, loaded with hip hop bangers and deeply immersive soundscapes that bring a new dimension to the listening experience. Starring Juju (Judith Wessendorf) as Rolex, Metta Sandiford-Artest as Metta, Trinidad James as Stackboy, and Simon Rex as Dash—aka Bored Ape #4344, the first ever scripted role for a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT.
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  • Episode 1

    Episode 1
    Mar 14 2024
    The year is 2040. A competitive Real World gamer named Rolex is time-bumped down to a virtual purgatory of the Metaverse. She is lost, confused, and desperate to get back to the real world, where her mother requires life saving surgery. Meanwhile, The Mist is populated with worthless NFTs, avatars, and cast-off digital characters from the NFT boom of the early 2020s. After meeting up with a Bored Ape Yacht Club member named Dash (Simon Rex), a former NBA highlight in the form of Metta World Peace, and a rising rapper named Stackboy (Trinidad James), she begins her journey to return to the real world with her newfound friends.
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  • Episode 2

    Episode 2
    Mar 14 2024
    To boost his popularity, the corrupt Mayor of The Mist, Mayor Reed, announces a scavenger hunt for residents of The Mist to win valuable Grailz. Our crew decides to bond together and try to win. However, now they are facing competitors, challenges, and an ulterior motive from Reed and his re-election campaign.
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    22 mins
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Jared Gutstadt
Zach Selwyn

About the Writer and Creator

Jared Gutstadt, the CEO and Founder of Audio Up, is a visionary in the music and audio entertainment sectors. With a focus on premium content, Audio Up, under Gutstadt's leadership, produces groundbreaking scripted podcasts, innovative musicals, and unfiltered interview programs. Notable achievements include Bear and a Banjo and the award-winning Beyond 28 podcast in collaboration with the NBA's Golden State Warriors. Jared excels in revamping intellectual properties such as Playboy's Interview Series and Stephen King's Strawberry Spring. Audio Up's chart success includes Mea Culpa and Make It Up As We Go, with early streaming triumphs like Machine Gun Kelly's "Love Race".
Jared pioneered the first live podcast/concert hybrid with Prom in Hell Live, sponsored by Red Bull. Expanding into health and wellness, he co-created the #1 Audible podcast, Maejor Frequency. With substantial capital from influential investors and a strategic partnership with Sirius XM, Jared is expanding Audio Up's reach across platforms. He is also spearheading a next-generation concept for the literary world and launching Audio Chateau Records. Before founding Audio Up, Jared revolutionized the commercial music industry as President and CCO of Jingle Punks. As a music producer and songwriter, he earned recognition as a two-time Emmy nominee, three-time Cannes Lions winner, and key player in ASCAP's TV composition landscape. Jared's role as Chief Collaborator-in-Residence at NYU Tisch reflects his commitment to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Additionally, Audio Up Publishing, a joint venture with Universal Music Publishing Group, has recently succeeded with notable tracks from breakout star Jelly Roll and Lil Wayne's Tha Fix Before Tha VI.

About the Director and Co-writer

Zach Selwyn is an actor/host/writer and musician who plays "Kevin", Koh’s young manager in Finding Pierre. With notable roles in TV, he has contributed to Netflix's Brainchild and Peacock's Frogger. During his tenure as VP of Creative at Audio Up Media, he launched five #1 scripted podcasts. Zach recently starred in the "Trailer Park Boys" movie, also writing five songs for its soundtrack. His on-camera presence includes hosting the History Channel's America’s Secret Slang and being a regular on G4’s Attack of the Show and NFL Network’s Good Morning Football. Zach has hosted and acted in over 75 programs, spanning networks like TruTV, AMC, NBC, Comedy Central, Discovery, and CMT. Noteworthy credits also include The Mindy Project, Battleship, and ESPN's Around the Horn. As an accomplished musician, his country-rock band, Zachariah and the Lobos Riders, has collaborated with artists like Fergie and Tom Morello, releasing six records. Additionally, Zach has completed two comedy crime-fiction novels slated for release through Rogue Matter.

Sincerely Juju
Simon Rex
Metta Sandiford-Artest
Trinidad James

About the Performer

Kailyn De Los Rios, Sincerely Juju across multiple social media platforms, is a streamer, entrepreneur, YouTuber, and social media influencer. Her hobbies include self-teaching herself anything, whether it be piano or how to build a PC. She plays Call of Duty mostly ranked. She is currently working on releasing bikinis, gaming mousepads, a clothing brand, and more. She mostly loves creating, whether it be a product or content.

About the Performer

Simon Rex can most recently be seen opposite Talia Ryder and Jacob Elordi in The Sweet East for the directorial debut of Sean Price Williams. Rex received critical acclaim and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his Cannes-Bowing performance in Sean Baker's Red Rocket for A24.
Up next, Rex can be seen in Zoe Kravitz's directorial debut Pussy Island for MGM opposite Channing Tatum, as well as in the independent feature Operation Taco Gary's where he stars opposite Dustin Milligan. He will also star opposite Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, and Halsey in Americana from Bron Studios, and in FilmNation's Down Low opposite Zachary Quinto and Lukas Gage—both of which premiered at SXSW last year.
Rex will next shoot The Leader opposite Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga, a true crime drama about the religious cult behind a 1997 mass suicide, as well as Nic Pizzolatto's Easy Waltz opposite Vince Vaughn and Al Pacino.
Past recent credits include Mack and Rita opposite Diane Keaton, and Hulu's My Dead Dad. On the TV side, Rex can recently be seen opposite Pete Davidson in Bupkis on Peacock.

About the Performer

Born Ronald William Artest Jr. on November 13, 1979, in Queensbridge, New York, Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace in September 2011 in an effort to encourage dialogue over physical violence and promote good will toward all. He is the father of four children.
Founder of Artest Management Group and co-CEO of XvsXSports, Metta looks to build his management company piece by piece.
World Peace played professional basketball for 19 years. In his career he played for six NBA teams. He won the NBA World Championship with the LA Lakers in June 2010, and received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award—the NBA’s highest citizenship and community service honor—in April 2011. He was selected to the 2005-2006 NBA All-Defensive Team, was voted by the media as 2003-2004 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and was the only man with 271 steals in his first two seasons in the NBA, breaking Michael Jordan’s record.
His autobiography, No Malice: My Life in Basketball, was released in May 2018 with Triumph Publishing, and a documentary on his life in basketball, Ron Artest: The Quiet Storm, was released on Showtime in May 2019.
World Peace is currently pursuing many entrepreneurial projects, including the XvsXsports project, which launched to the general public in October 2020. He is also known as a prominent mental health advocate, pop culture personality, and media favorite. He raffled off his 2010 NBA World Championship Ring with the proceeds going to his nonprofit, Xcel University (now known as Artest University). The online ring raffle raised more than $650,000. Funds were donated to nonprofits that provide mental health therapists and mental health services to their communities, and used to provide scholarships to underprivileged youth in the New York City area.
World Peace regularly speaks with audiences across the globe about mental health, entrepreneurship, teamwork, and overcoming adversity. Recent audiences have included royal families, dignitaries in Dubai and Bahrain, AT&T, Coleman, FalconX at Meta, NFT Outeredge, Web3, and the LA Sports Innovation Summit at SoFi Stadium.

About the Performer

True creativity can’t be contained in one lane. That said, Trinidad James simultaneously traffics in multiple lanes at the highest speed possible. You might recognize him as a multiplatinum chart-busting rapper (and, of course, he is). However, he continues to make his mark as a songwriter and studio collaborator with a growing discography highlighted by hits for Flo Milli, Queen Naija, and many more. Plus, he distinguishes himself as a proven entrepreneur, fashion magnate, and philanthropist. He owns and runs both the design and apparel brand Hommewrk and sock company DadSocks. Recognizing his quiet yet tireless efforts to support and uplift the community, Los Angeles nonprofit Love My Neighbor Foundation notably honored him with a 2022 Humanitarian Award.
Now, all of these facets converge in his artistry with the forthcoming release of Don’t Be S.A.F.E. 2 and much more to come in 2024 and beyond.
"The shoes, the clothes, the socks, and the songwriting pushed me back to my Trinidad James business—which is the music," he exclaims. "I’m looking at it from a different perspective. I’m more business-oriented. I see the potential of bringing in my brand to the music. I’m your #1 hustler and most improved artist."
Born in Trinidad and based in Atlanta, he emerged as a phenomenon during 2012. His seminal breakout album, Don’t Be S.A.F.E., housed the platinum smash "All Gold Everything." Bruno Mars notably interpolated its chorus—"Don’t believe me, just watch"—for the diamond-selling Grammy Award-winning "Uptown Funk" with Mark Ronson. His catalog expanded with the triple-platinum remix of A$AP Ferg’s "Work" (feat. A$AP Rocky, French Montana, and ScHoolboy Q) and August Alsina’s platinum "I Love This Shit" (feat. Trinidad James). He maintained unprecedented momentum with projects such as 10 PC Mild (2013), No One Is Safe (2016), The Wake Up 2 (2017), Father Figga (2017), Daddy Issues (2018), and Black Filter (2020). Beyond plugs from Complex and others, RNGLDR applauded the latter as "a masterful, necessary album that will forever be sourced as grounds for new sounds and merging lanes into a truly unique, irreplicable result." Along the way, he notably collaborated with Travis Scott, Young Thug, Gucci Mane, Lil Dicky, Jaden, and more.

All stars
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I didn’t expect to like this one as much as I did. It’s probably not to everyone’s taste, but then again, is there anything that truly is these days? Loved the style, flavor and swag here and can’t wait to hear more.

Can’t wait for Season 2

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While some of the voice performers were not great and the story line is too close to Ready Player One, I really enjoyed it!! If you don’t listen to this with some HD headphones, you’ll be missing out and all the cool sound effects will just be noise! I listened to most of it through my car stereo until the last 2 episodes. Now I am thinking of starting over with my AirPods to get the full effect!

The sound effects and overall soundtrack

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This was such a great listen from beginning to end!! Funny, engaging, great narration and great voice acting 10/10

Wow

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The story was pretty good and I really enjoyed the voice actors and music/sound effects. The big moments, like a major conflict resolution or big reveal from the “villain,” those just felt a little clunky. Maybe it was the dialogue, not sure. I found myself feeling a little underwhelmed in the bigger moments. But I’m sticking around for season 2 and enjoyed it overall!

Fun, but Clunky

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