Citizen Kane
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The greatest film ever made... that nearly never saw the light of day. Learn how Orson Welles and RKO fought off a megalomaniacal millionaire, lethal gossip columnists and a backstabbing co-writer in bringing Citizen Kane to life.
*CORRECTIONS:
*Chris refers to Kane as an orphan - this is technically wrong as Kane's mother voluntarily placed Kane under the guardianship of Walter Parks Thatcher when he was a young boy.
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| 0:00.0 | Chris, I gotta tell you, the movie that you selected for us to watch this week, listen, |
| 0:23.5 | it's great, it's fine, but it has nothing on the real housewives of Salt Lake City. |
| 0:29.2 | I just watched the pilot, it's made me happier than I've felt in months, if any of you listeners |
| 0:35.7 | out there need a little pick me up, watch real housewives of Salt Lake City and watch |
| 0:40.1 | a woman talk about how she had all of her odor glands removed, and that's why she has |
| 0:45.1 | a phobia of hospitals to a woman whose aunt just got a double leg amputation, it's the |
| 0:51.3 | best thing I've ever seen. |
| 0:52.6 | Anyway, let's talk about Citizen Kane, that's why we're here. |
| 0:56.3 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of What Went Wrong, Lizzie, that just sounds awful. |
| 1:05.2 | No, I'm not kidding, it's genuinely amazing, it's like the best reality television I've |
| 1:09.0 | ever seen, you're wrong if you don't like it, and if you say it's stupid, I hate you. |
| 1:14.2 | So today we're talking about the greatest film of all time, Citizen Kane, not the Citizen |
| 1:19.0 | Kane of reality TV, but before we get into Citizen Kane, we need to discuss a very big |
| 1:25.4 | development, a little housekeeping, and that is, audience, we have received our first scathing |
| 1:33.2 | one-star review, Apple Podcasts, one star from BunnyCub on November 3rd, 2020, he or she |
| 1:44.1 | writes, this podcast is being wrecked by the condescending pseudo-intellectualism of |
| 1:48.0 | the host, who are substituting rank identity politics for actual thought and research, the |
| 1:52.3 | idea that no one would ever read Bonfire of the Vanities because it is 700 pages is |
| 1:56.4 | a pretty sad statement when it comes to American intellectual culture. |
| 1:59.5 | A film podcast where only one person out of four talking knows anything about Brian |
| 2:03.2 | DiPolma, you're out of your depth, well, you know, we're sorry that we have let you |
| 2:08.7 | down, BunnyCub, we appreciate you listening to the podcast, and we have one request, please |
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