Introducing: The Big Flop
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K 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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| 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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