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The Best One Yet

Introducing: The Big Flop

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

Pop Culture, Business, Tech, Finance, News, Business News

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Wing was supposed to be a model for feminist social clubs, built on activism, inclusion, and self-care. But instead, The Wing became a glaring example of toxic girlboss culture and workplace discrimination. On each episode of Wondery’s podcast The Big Flop, comedians join host Misha Brown to chronicle one of the biggest pop-culture fails of all time and try to answer the age-old question: who thought THIS was a good idea?

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yeti's Nick and Jack here and as you all know business news is never short on drama and

0:04.5

Wonderies podcast the big flop has episodes about some of the biggest business failures

0:09.7

in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, entrepreneur Audrey Gellman seemed poised to lead a revolution.

0:16.4

Her glossy co-working enclave, The Wing, was supposed to be a model for feminist social clubs built on activism, inclusion, and self-care.

0:25.2

But instead, the wing became a glaring example of toxic girl-boss culture and workplace discrimination.

0:31.4

So in each episode of Wundries podcast, The Big Flop, comedians join Meisha Brown to chronicle

0:36.4

one of the biggest pop culture fails of all time and try to answer the age old question,

0:41.5

who thought this was a good idea?

0:43.9

Besties, you're about to hear a preview of the Big Flop.

0:47.1

While you're listening, follow the Big Flop on the Wundery

0:49.5

app or wherever you get your podcasts. On the fifth floor of a building in Manhattan's trendy Soho district,

1:07.0

Audrey Gelman, a former PR strategist and under 30 Bigwig holds court with like-minded female power players in her

1:16.8

10,000 square foot clubhouse. Dubbed the wing, Audrey's expansive hideaway is a lush gathering space, neatly decorated with

1:27.6

brassy surfaces, scholarly tones arranged by color, and pink couches that are, for a lack of a better adjective,

1:35.8

labial.

1:37.8

It's a feminist utopia.

1:40.5

Women are reading and typing everywhere,

1:43.5

and they're sipping drinks, served by nervous, but smiling baristas.

1:49.0

If you watch the barista's eyes,

1:52.0

you'll see they're all looking right up at the ceiling where water droplets are starting

1:57.1

to gather, threatening to fall on the boss.

2:01.6

Employees nervously check their watches.

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