Tyra Banks: America’s Next Top Businesswoman? with Scam Goddess and Aida Rodriguez | 75
The Big Flop
Wondery
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In the modeling world, Tyra Banks was untouchable—breaking barriers, creating catchphrases, and teaching a generation how to 'smize.' But when she tried to parlay that success into a business empire, things got messier than a Cover Girl photoshoot. From forcing Top Model contestants to promote her tone-deaf projects to selling $225 VIP tickets to a glorified Instagram museum, the queen of fierce learned that some dreams are better left on the vision board.
Laci Mosely (Scam Goddess) and Aida Rodriguez (Legitimate Kid) join Misha to give the side-eye to Tyra Banks’s side hustles.
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| 0:12.0 | It's like having a front row seat to the world's biggest train wrecks. |
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| 0:26.1 | You know that friend who's always pitching you a terrible idea for a new business? |
| 0:35.9 | Well, today on the big flop, we're talking about an absolute |
| 0:39.0 | queen who sometimes turns her side hustle dreams into total nightmares. And it brings me no pleasure |
| 0:47.5 | to tell you it's none other than Tyra frickin' banks. We're talking ice cream, book series, |
| 0:58.0 | even a theme park. But make it fashion. Our first guest is a supermodel and super business woman, and she does it all while being a mom. |
| 1:06.0 | I know what the public wants, whether it's ice cream or a TV show or hosting. Tyra Banks' new model theme park immersive experience called Model Land. |
| 1:16.6 | This was one of the weirdest things I've ever experienced. |
| 1:19.6 | Tyra Banks' MLM makeup line and how it massively failed. |
| 1:26.6 | We are on a sinking ship. |
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