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🗓️ 28 August 2023
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Every big moment starts with a big dream. But what happens when that big dream turns out to be an even bigger failure?
Each week on Wondery's new podcast The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians to chronicle some of the biggest failures and blunders in pop culture history. Each episode will have you thinking to yourself, why in the world did this get made?!
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Karen and Georgia from My Favorite Murder, and we're here to tell you about |
0:03.9 | a new podcast called The Big Flop. Now, we want you to picture Steve Jobs tinkering with a computer |
0:09.3 | in his garage. Beyonce practicing dance moves in her childhood bedroom. Every big moment starts with |
0:15.0 | a big dream, but what happens when that big dream turns out to be an even bigger failure. |
0:19.6 | Each week on The Big Flop, host Misha Brown is joined by different comedians to chronicle some of |
0:24.5 | the biggest failures and blunders in pop culture history. Each episode will have you thinking |
0:29.7 | to yourself why in the world did this get made? From box office flocks like cats, the movie, |
0:35.5 | to action park, New Jersey's infamous theme park, that was a backdrop to wild rides, countless |
0:40.7 | injuries, and many lawsuits. Or Quibi, the short form video platform with an even shorter lifespan. |
0:46.8 | It was a recipe for disaster from the start and its creator Jeffrey Katzenberg even got the idea |
0:51.6 | from the DaVinci code. It's a story of a spectacular failure with a lot of surprises along the way. |
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1:06.4 | Join Wendry Plus in The Wendry app or on Apple Podcasts today. |
1:18.8 | It's October 2020, an actor Thomas Lennon is sitting but naked on a bucket. He's filming a scene |
1:26.6 | for his new movie Reno 9-1-1. It's a wonderful heist. Here's Lennon on AV Club. |
1:32.5 | I had my pants completely down and I was pretending to poop in a bucket. |
1:36.8 | Do you all remember Reno 9-1-1? It was that instant classic when it premiered on Comedy Central in 2003 |
1:42.7 | and now 17 years later they're shooting the revival for a brand new streaming platform called Quibi. |
1:50.2 | Quibi claims it's a brand new way to watch TV in movies, Hollywood quality content in 10 minutes |
1:56.4 | or less, only available on your phone. The idea came from some of the biggest names in Hollywood |
2:02.5 | and Silicon Valley. The app seemed to have everything going for it. But right in the middle of a take, |
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