May The Flop Be With You: The Star Wars Hotel with Jessi Cruickshank and Moshe Kasher | 60

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a park executive named Bob Chapek set out on a mission to create an immersive experience that Star Wars fans would never forget. The luxury Disney hotel would feature a two-day role playing adventure, fun foods, funner games, and unique memories they would cherish forever. But the exorbitant cost, embarrassing technical glitches, and a little thing called Covid, sent The Galactic Starcruiser spiraling into a black hole. In the end the dream was lost, and fans were left to wonder, wtf was up with that blue shrimp?

Moshe Kasher (The Endless Honeymoon) and Jessi Cruickshank (Phone a Friend) join Misha to compare their limited edition lightsabers and take a journey to The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad free.
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0:18.4	You're sitting down to your first dinner on a vacation that you and your friends have waited for years to go on.
0:27.1	Hmm.
0:28.1	Blue shrimp?
0:30.0	Odd, but sure.
0:32.5	Blue dumplings filled with bantha beef?
0:35.7	That doesn't sound appetizing, but worth a shot.
0:39.6	And after a long day of running around the Star Wars Hotel, or should I say, Star Wars
0:46.3	Galactic Star Cruiser, you need the calories.
0:50.8	The itinerary has been punishing, unforgiving, dense.
0:56.0	Maybe it's this pact for the hordes of kiddos running around with boundless energy,
1:00.4	but for grown-up Star Wars nerds like you, it's brutal.
1:05.2	But hey, this little excursion cost you a couple of grand,
1:09.4	and you're going to have the immersive experience
1:11.9	you paid for, starting with the alien cabaret everyone's been talking about. One problem,
1:19.9	you don't know what's happening. There's an app on a loner phone that has more info, but you can't
1:25.4	get it to work, and you can't flag down any customer
1:28.5	support. Everyone who works here seems to be fully into their character role. Wait, why are you
1:36.7	being told to leave the dining room and go into the atrium? What's going on? Oh, it's a staged
1:43.0	fight? Over what? it's a staged fight.
1:45.5	Over what?
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