Memento

WHAT WENT WRONG

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Flop, Film, Film History, Blockbuster, Acting, Disaster, History, Tv & Film, Movie, Directing, Hollywood

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In 2000, Christopher Nolan had to believe in a world outside his own mind... even though no one seemed interested in what his imagination had wrought. Join Chris & Lizzie as they ring in the New Year with a dive into the early aughts' seminal neo-noir cult classic, Memento, and sleuth out how Nolan's breakout film was nearly forgotten. Plus, how Stephen Tobolowsky's penis snagged him the role of Sammy Jankis, the Hollywood hunk who almost took on the role of Leonard Shelby, and why Joey Pants owes Carrie-Anne Moss a lawn chair or two.

*CORRECTIONS: Editor extraordinaire Dody Dorn's name is pronounced "DOE-dee", not "Dotty" as Chris mispronounces it throughout this episode. Our apologies to Dody!

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0:00.0	Schrappenna.
0:07.0	And action.
0:11.0	Kahn Kahn! Hello and welcome back to what went wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one,
0:38.9	let alone a mind-melting, genre-bending, breakthrough film on the fallibility of memory. I am one of
0:45.8	your host, Lizzie Bassett, here as always, with my co-host, Chris, and Chris, I can't remember.
0:51.9	What do you have for us today? Welcome to 2026. I totally forgot
0:57.4	everything that happened in 2025. Maybe I just blacked it out. Maybe I lie to myself to be happy.
1:05.0	Who doesn't? Object permanence does the world exist when I close my eyes? It does because as I open them,
1:11.7	Lizzie is still here. Lizzie, how are you doing this morning? And tell me, what are we talking
1:19.7	about today? I've already forgotten. I'm doing great. And honestly, the most disturbing part about
1:24.5	watching Memento, which is what we were talking about today, is that I feel like I am actually living in Memento at this point with the amount of things that I forget.
1:32.7	David and I just moved from Seattle back to Los Angeles, and we, last night, we just keep losing
1:41.8	stuff and we can't find it. and we're both walking around the house
1:45.5	being like I just had it I just had it in my hand and I just I don't know what's going on
1:51.1	from minutes to minute so I am I'm just like just like Lenny Chris how about you what
1:57.9	brain fog's very real and I do think it was accelerated by the pandemic.
2:02.6	But one thing I will say, if anyone's interested, if you can, and this is very hard to do,
2:08.6	forego using your phone for an extended period of time, I swear your memory improves.
2:14.6	I'm sure you're right.
2:15.6	Your recall improves, and it's like a little bleach bath for your brain to get all the phone
2:22.5	toxins out of it.
2:24.1	So I highly recommend it.
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