17 episodes
Here's Where it Went Wrong Andrew Nadeau, Wen Powers, Blue Wire
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5.0 • 116 Ratings
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"Here's Where It Went Wrong", a new podcast from Bluewire, features comedians Andrew Nadeau, Wen Powers, and the greatest comics they know! Each week they’ll sit down with a hilarious guest to cover one of their favorite subjects in pop-culture, history, and sports, but only discuss the worst parts of it! Together, they'll dissect the worst of the best, to try to figure out Where It Went Wrong.
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Thanksgiving: When Genocide Eventually Led To The Dallas Cowboys (w/ Nash Flynn)
Andrew and Wen are joined by writer, performer and comedian Nash Flynn (Buzzfeed, Huffpost, Cabin Fever Comedy) to discuss the first Thanksgiving! We dive in to the history of how Henry VIII, Puritans, Death Ways, and a leaky boat led to one of your favorite meals of the year. Plus Wen gets very mad at the Dallas Cowboys for some reason.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: When the Robots Were Anatomically Correct (with Maggie Smith)
Andrew and Wen are joined by writer, performer and comedian Maggie Smith (Second City, The News*, The Quest We Can Do, The Onion) to discuss Pirates of the Caribbean! Starting with its incredible Disneyland origins and the first movie, to where it went so horribly wrong with anatomically correct robots, nobody googling pirate history, and basically everything about the fifth movie!
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Trains: When A Rail Road Company Pretended To Be French
Andrew and Wen are joined by Randall Otis for a post election, pre results anxiety fest about trains! Together they trace the history of the Trans-Continental Railroad, through the beginning as just a horse on a track to where it went wrong with one of the biggest fraud cases in early American History. Join them for a hilarious conversation about the incredible history of trains, fake french banks, and a reminder that things have always been incredibly stupid.
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Ice Skating: When They Stopped Jumping Hats and Started Swinging Pipes (with Ashley Ray)
Andrew and Wen are joined by writer and comedian Ashley Ray to talk about ice skating! They trace the entire history, from the first bone skates to figure skating's debut in the Olympics, to finally a scandal that shocked the sports world, and then a movie that got it all wrong!
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Freddy Krueger: When Children Cheered For Their Murderer (with Chris Calogero)
Wen and Andrew sit down with the very funny Chris Calogero to talk about how Freddy Kruger went from terrifying boogeyman to America's weird stand-up comedian murderer.
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Magic: When They Started Setting Smart Women on Fire (with Paula Skaggs)
Andrew and Wen are joined by Paula Skaggs for a special Halloween episode! Together they trace the history of magic, through the ancient world up through where it went very wrong, in the Witch Trials and Purges. Join them for a hilarious conversation about the incredible history of magic, witches, and the INSANE origins of magic tropes still around today!
Customer Reviews
Clever and thorough.
A nice summary of things I felt but could never quite put my finger on. Well researched.
Awesome!
Great podcast. Funny hosts and a super fun premise - with fantastic guests.
So Fun!
“People love episode three, that’s where they all come aboard! They heard ‘maritime chronometer’ and they just...let’s do it!”
Yep! At least, that’s what happened to me! I saw the ad for the Titanic episode, and I was hooked. Loved it!
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