Quibi Bites the Dust with Connor Ratliff & Matt Bellassai | 1

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Remember Quibi? The app with short videos you could only watch on your phone? No?! That's because it only lasted SIX months before shutting down. On the first episode of The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes) and Matt Bellassai (Diss & Tell) to spin the tale of the little video platform that couldn't. Come for the rapid rise, stay for the even more rapid fall.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.0	It's October 2020, an actor Thomas Lennon is sitting butt naked on a bucket.
0:25.2	He's filming a scene for his new movie Reno 9-1-1.
0:28.3	It's a wonderful heist.
0:30.0	Here's Lennon on A.V. Club.
0:32.1	I had my pants completely down, and I was pretending to poop in a bucket.
0:36.3	Do you all remember Reno 911? It was that instant
0:38.9	classic when it premiered on Comedy Central in 2003. And now, 17 years later, they're shooting
0:45.0	the revival for a brand new streaming platform called Quibi. Quibi claims it's a brand new way to
0:51.8	watch TV and movies. Hollywood quality content in 10 minutes or less.
0:56.8	Only available on your phone.
0:59.1	The idea came from some of the biggest names in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
1:03.7	The app seemed to have everything going for it.
1:06.6	But right in the middle of a take,
1:09.0	Thomas Lennon starts to notice whispers among the crew.
1:12.8	Everyone suddenly...
1:14.5	Uncomfortable.
1:16.7	And it doesn't seem to have anything to do with his butt.
1:20.3	When we finally cut, everybody's like, hey, Quiggies doesn't exist anymore.
1:25.8	I was like, oh, that was weird.
1:28.3	Because all the thing, the pooping on the bucket was definitely, this was for Quibi, so.
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