How (not) to flop

Can we talk about this documentary? 'Cause Michelle, a week ago on Dumb Stuff Friday, you recommended the Raygun documentary on Netflix.

Well, I said I wanted, like, a book club-esque chat with people about it.

I was actually, 'cause I was really keen to watch it.

I was quite surprised by how many people were in our DMs asking us to talk about this documentary before you'd even recommended it.

Yeah, and then once I recommended it, but said I wanted a book club, a lot of people were like, "Hello."

Just do it.

Do it.

Do it.

And also, we have thoughts, and then we were talking in our production meeting this week, and we were like, "What do you do if you flop?" And then we came up with some great examples of other people who have flopped but all, like, weirdly come out on top at the end of the Olympics.

Anyway, I'm super excited.

I was also super excited to see the documentary name.

Whoever came up with Raygun: Breaking Badly-

Nice

... deserves an award.

Yeah.

Now, here's the thing: If you're listening to this and you're thinking, "Raygun, that sounds really familiar, but I can't quite remember what happened," let us quickly take you back.

Let's rehash it.

Break dancing, or breaking as it's also referred to, made a historic Olympics debut at Paris 2024.

Snoop Dogg opened the event.

It was the first time, and it's actually not coming back for LA 2028.

Has it been ditched?

Yeah.

Is that common?

Well, I think what happens is when a, a host n- a nation gets the Olympics, they do have some sort of ability to try on new sports.

Yeah.