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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be an even bigger failure?
Each week on Wondery’s new podcast The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians to chronicle some of the biggest failures and blunders in pop culture history. Each episode will have you thinking to yourself, why in the world did this get made?!
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Ben and it's Ronnie and we're from watcher crap ends and we want to share a new podcast that we think you'll really love called the big flop |
0:08.7 | All right now |
0:09.5 | I want you to picture Steve Jobs tinkering with the computer in his garage |
0:13.3 | Beyonce practicing dance moves in her childhood bedroom Bethany Frankl trying her first skinny margarita |
0:21.1 | Every big moment starts with a big dream |
0:23.5 | But what happens when that big dream turns out to be an even bigger failure each week on the big flop |
0:29.4 | Host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians to chronicle some of the biggest failures and blunders and pop culture history each episode |
0:37.0 | We'll have you thinking to yourself. Why in the world did this get made from box office flops like cats the movie to action park |
0:43.4 | New Jersey's infamous theme park that was the backdrop to countless injuries many lawsuits and rides so wild |
0:49.1 | It became known as class action park or a quibi that short-form video platform with an even shorter lifespan |
0:55.8 | It was a recipe for disaster from the start and it's creator Jeffrey Katzenberg even got the idea from the |
1:02.6 | Vinci code it's a story of spectacular failure with loss of surprises along the way |
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1:26.8 | It's October 2020 an actor Thomas Lenin is sitting but naked on a bucket |
1:34.0 | He's filming a scene for his new movie Reno 9-1-1. It's a wonderful heist |
1:38.8 | Here's Lenin on a v club. I had my pants completely down and I was pretending to poop in a bucket |
1:45.2 | Do you all remember Reno 9-1-1? It was that instant classic when it premiered on Comedy Central in 2003 and now |
1:52.4 | 17 years later, they're shooting the revival for a brand new streaming platform called quibi |
1:58.7 | Quibi claims it's a brand new way to watch TV in movies Hollywood quality content in 10 minutes or less |
2:05.8 | Only available on your phone the idea came from some of the biggest names in Hollywood and Silicon Valley |
2:12.5 | The app seemed to have everything going for it |
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