Tonya Harding: On Thin Ice with Shannon Fiedler and Liza Treyger | 45

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Figure skating rivals Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan were set to face off at the 1994 Olympics... but Tonya decided to try and eliminate the competition a little early. When a botched attempt to “kneecap” Kerrigan before the Olympics led back to Tonya and her inner circle of inept criminals, Harding was thrust into a media frenzy that spiraled into a triple axel of chaos.

Liza Treyger (That's Messed Up, Survival of the Thickest) and Shannon Fiedler (Just Like Other Girls) join Misha to give their knee jerk reaction to Tonya's desperate attempt to win the gold.

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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.
0:14.8	On Super Bowl Sunday 1994,
0:22.8	Kathy Peterson heads over to her restaurant,
0:25.6	the dockside saloon just outside Portland.
0:29.2	The place is closed, but Kathy's there early to tidy up.
0:34.5	As she goes into the back, Kathy realizes again that some no good kids have thrown
0:41.6	their trash into her dumpster. There's got to be at least 10 full trash bags in there. Maybe
0:49.6	Kathy should let it go. But she just can't.
0:55.6	She rolls up her sleeves and starts investigating.
0:59.2	If she can figure out who the trash actually belongs to, she'll tell them what's what.
1:05.6	But what the heck is this?
1:08.2	A check made out to Tanya Harding?
1:10.7	That's the famous skater. Harding's
1:13.5	husband's address? Notes about some skating arena in Cape Cod? What is all this stuff?
1:21.3	Wait, the Nancy Kerrigan attack has been all over the news. Is this somehow related?
1:28.6	Is this the proof that Harding was actually involved in the assault?
1:34.0	Kathy can't be digging around in the trash all day,
1:37.4	but she saves the debris and heads to a Super Bowl party
1:41.9	to watch the Cowboys destroy the bills.
1:46.2	Of course, she tells everyone there what she's found,
1:49.9	and of course they've been following the crazy story, too.
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