THE BUNNY CHRONICLES - a History of Hugh Hefner & the Empire He Built - Playboy Magazine

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HOSTED by ECHO JOHNSON Miss January '93 & CORINNA HARNEY-PMOY '92The show takes a DEEP DIVE into the fascinating history of PLAYBOY with LASER FOCUS on Hugh Hefner. A collective of dynamic conversations with those that had the privilege and honor of working with HUGH HEFNER & the magazine. An homage to the incredible MAN behind it all, as told from the ones that were an intricate part of the iconic company PLAYBOY. The magazine was launched in 1953 and held strong for 60 years until HEF's passing in 2017 . The massive impact the publication had on our world is undeniable. Playboy Magazine in and of itself was responsible for revolutionary social & cultural changes. The magazine consistently produced cutting edge journalistic material & the cherry on top were the Centerfolds known as Playboy Playmates. Guests ranging from Butlers & Security @ the Mansion to PLAYBOY STAFF Photographers, Editors, Writers, Bunnies, Celebrities and of course the Playmates! SUBSCRIBE NOW-Don't miss a beat! Echo & Corinna

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  • ArwenRose11691
    Nope
    I love listening to Playboy podcasts, but these girls drive me nuts. I don’t know if I missed something but I’m listening from the beginning and they are speaking about guests that haven’t been on and I don’t even see episodes for. Did they have a previous podcast? The girls not only talk over eachother but the guests. What I don’t like is that they bash others. Everyone has a different story and just because it’s not yours doesn’t mean it’s wrong. People change and are different behind closed doors.
  • herrera9797
    Let’s all be honest
    I love how these men are still having women hate on other women. Not sure why ALL of these women aren’t honest with themselves and lookup the definition of “Playboy”. You take off your clothes, you can do that. Hef used ALL of you for him and his buddies pleasure. Nothing more. They weren’t your friends. Giving you free food and a place to swim did want mean he cared. It means he wanted something from you. You were all used, accept it. Your low self esteem’s are showing. As a side note, please use different denture glue. Sucking on your dentures while trying to speak sounds gross over headphones. Do this before you decide it’s ok to talk about how someone used to look. I’m sure you USED to sound great also but def not now. Cool. Thanks.
  • Jess.ketter
    So annoying
    Cannot stand how carina and echo talk over literally EVERYONE. it’s so rude and so disrespectful, some of these people have amazing stories but you can’t hear anything because they’re CONSTANTLY being spoken over.
  • eddieG9999
    Wish the hosts would let the guests talk
    They have amazing guests but the hosts interrupt and just gush over Hef. It’s unfortunate they don’t shut up and let the guests tell their stories. We get it, the hosts love Hefner but we don’t need to hear about it in the middle of a guest’s sentences.
  • Cierra1013
    Could be good
    This would be such a great podcast if they didnt talk horrible about people sharing experiences about playboy that MANY women have had over the years and i’m sorry but it’s not all good things sometimes, just because YOU didn’t experience things, does NOT mean others havent.
  • Joji12!
    Actually painful to listen to.
    The hosts yell the entire podcast and I can’t hear to the guests over their screaming. They seem so disrespectful towards their guests. They won’t let them finish a single sentence without cutting them off.
  • michiganchrissy
    very interesting
    I love listening to Echo Johnson. She is a great host!!. I really enjoy all the stories and I like to get the different sides of what we are hearing so much of these days which seems to only be the negative. thank you for a very interesting podcast! I would be interested if you could do an episode maybe with a guest of Barbie Benton, who I know has always been a huge supporter of Hef! And I would also like to know your true feelings about Sondra Theodore, and what she said in the documentary. Thank you for a great podcast.
  • Jane audas
    Better
    Better than the woke podcast Holly Madison has. This is my opinion after listening objectively to both
  • plackplanther
    Love it
    For the people coming at these ladies for speaking highly of Playboy.. EVERY woman who became a part of this knew exactly what it was about. They voluntarily wanted to be there for the lifestyle, and everything that came with being in that magazine!! If a man is asking you to participate in group sex on your first night out with him, you KNOW what that life entails. These women out here still making money off this man’s BRAND claiming to be a victim, while dragging him through the mud are pathetic! Get a real job ladies! Nobody would know your name if it wasn’t for Playboy regardless of how smart and talented you are. His brand made you FAMOUS. Period.
  • AmCinCin
    Tell your truth
    I enjoy listening to stories about Playboy. I don’t like women minimizing others experiences. Your truth belongs to you only… others truth belongs to them. Stop minimizing others experiences. No one is biting the hand…they do give credit to him but that doesn’t diminish what they went through. You only know your experience and weren’t behind closed doors of others relationships with him.
  • IT Admin 360
    Talking over each other is chaotic and painful
    Painful to listen to. Girls Next Level is the BEST
  • Hungryyy1
    Ick
    Podcast “Host” is right. These women and some of the guests are infected hosts to the systematic parasite that is the “Playboy Family”. These hosts and sometimes even the guests will try and grab at every chance they get to try to discredit victims of various types of abuse. They literally talk over each other and sometimes sound under the influence. Ick.
  • MoisiT
    STOP talking over each other!!!
    The content, interviews and stories are so intriguing BUT the host can’t shut up! They interrupt constantly and often don’t they their guests finish the thought!!! Annoying!
  • AlexStoc
    Ehh
    First time listening ! I’m a fan of GIRLS NEXT LEVEL. And the Holly diss coming from an old lady was forced . Holly is amazing < 3
  • NQAHR
    They need to open their minds
    I get that they had a wonderful Hef experience. That’s great. However, they discredit anyone who says differently. They cannot speak about another persons experience. This podcast is more lighthearted and has great stories from back in the day.They just also need to say “ Hey, we know he was not perfect but these are our positive stories”
  • Phoebe LM
    Biased
    I listened but did not enjoy. This podcast and YouTube looks straight out of 1990 with crazy word art in the videos, a transition every 10 seconds, and no structure to the talking. They contradict themselves constantly. I don’t relate or agree with the hosts on most topics. They need to seriously take some communication classes, maybe Bridget can give them some pointers. 😃 They have no interview skills, they talk over people, they attempt to lead the guest to agree with their narrative and they clearly are not open to opinions that differ from their own.
  • ElleScott
    Extremely biased and negative
    Vile and hateful
  • celtic cutie
    Redundant
    I’ve been listening to both this (& hollys) podcast as I grew up loving the playboy brand. I do appreciate this podcast as I have learned things I didn’t know and it’s refreshing to hear a different perspective. I understand the viewpoint of ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’ and I do agree that hef is an icon that shouldn’t be ‘canceled’ however, I find it a bit tired that this podcast is always coming to his defense about everything little thing & painting him as a perfect human being. It seems inauthentic. Hef was human and made mistakes, and none of you actually DATED him. Dating someone and having them be a father figure/mentor are completely different. No matter what, you cannot speak about the innerworkings of someone’s relationship and what happens behind closed doors. I don’t agree with “the secrets of playboy” and wish others would let Hef rest in peace… but martyring him is weird as he very well could have been controlling in a private relationship. Holly is the one who has to sleep at night with what she’s said, and it’s her experience from a private relationship... seems like a battle you’re not going to win.
  • Amanda e 67
    Impossible to listen to
    The production of the episodes is so low budget that you can’t understand what is being said half the time- the hosts speak over each other and the recording quality is poor. This is definitely a Pro Hef point of view, which doesn’t impact my rating. However, instead of reviewing facts and having an unbiased discussion, the hosts just write off any viewpoint they don’t share as crazy lies.
  • Unbiased listener 80
    Mean girls
    It’s sad to see a women be so nasty and negative about other women. There is so much trash talking the only way to describe it is you gave a podcast to the mean girls that never got over high school. I thought there was so quality at times but it’s ruined by their inner need to be toxic, it’s like they can not control it. If they used this platform to talk about Hefner in a positive light instead of tearing down the people who said things they did not agree with that it would be a more relevant.
  • Poogey Watson
    It's just not a good podcast
    How many episodes can someone dedicate to trying to convince us Playboy was anything other than a geriatric frat house? The way these people talk it's like this nudie magazine was curing cancer... The production is bad, and the content is just so one note. "Hef was a good man and Playboy is a great brand!" We get it. We don't agree, and we don't care! Move on. The brand, the man, and that awful misogynist culture is dead.
  • Ari Melejiani
    OBSESSED WITH HATING HOLLY MADISON
    They alwaaaaays end with them disagreeing with Holly’s experiences about Hugh Hefner. We get it. I seriously doubt someone who’s way more successful than these Playmates from a million years ago who no one even knows, cares about your opinion about her.
  • I just want the colors
    Fun and surprising informative!
    I like the hosts, they are fun but what keeps me coming back is all I’m finding out about the inner workings of Playboy.
  • jaqualine28$
    ❤️
    I’m loving your podcast it’s so good don’t let the haters bring y’all down your doing amazing and all the guest you’ve been having are really good ones !! I’m glad you girls are using your voice and making light that hef was a good person you need to get on Isabella at James and Zoe and Tina Jordan the women from the early 2000s
  • mitchelle cooper
    I love this podcast!
    I just listened to the latest episode and I love hearing the honest opinion from those involved with playboy! I hope all the episodes will be on YouTube. And Especially towards the end when Hef’s wife was mentioned I said wow! A lot of juicy details! Pretty Sad and wrong that Hef’s contact with his friends was cut.
  • GymDoll4335
    Awful
    A quick follow due to the subject matter and a quick unfollow after they talked over each other and exposed their incredibly hypocritical thoughts. Also, adult tip: threatening to punch your cohost is childish and disgusting. Grow up.
  • cayman's treasures
    Good Content but Poor Editing
    I like the content and the perspective that the podcast brings. It’s really interesting hearing all these stories from all different people who worked with the company. However, the editing is kind of terrible. Also, I don’t love the victim bashing. I think it’s important to understand that everyone has different experiences and perspectives.
  • sevyyyyyyn
    Disgusting
    Never heard a stupider and more disgusting take
  • MellyMarie402
    Nope.
    Hugh Hefner was a misogynist rapist who abused women. The fact some women are “revering” him a “great” man is disgusting and traitorous to all women and his victims especially. Gross.
  • Jess9452
    Don’t have guests if you’re going to speak over them.
    I love the subject matter, for better or worse. But these ladies are annoying and disrespectful. If you have a guest on your show, shut up when they are speaking. You love the sound of your own voice so much, you are missing what your guests want to share with you. You asked them to be on, it’s just simple respect.
  • Tallyn30
    Shrug.
    I love all things Playboy (good, bad, and inbetween) and was excited to listen and hear some great stories. I thought this would be fun, instead it’s just angry— and weirdly more Jesus than I expected.
  • Fosterm0
    Good podcast
    It’s pretty pathetic the amount of “one” stars this podcast is getting just because it is pro Hef. People will believe made up stories that are fabricated but that isn’t going to take away from the good that Hef did in his life time. Much respect to those who are willing to speak out against cancel culture.
  • CaitElaine
    Obnoxious
    Talk over each other and tell into the micro phone. Try to sell that everyone has lied about Hef when the majority of those stories happened years and years before these girls even knew him. Those people knew him far longer than these two. No wonder it stopped being recorded
  • HTML5_cat
    Disappointing
    Wow, this is a hot mess. Horribly done as a podcast and logistically a disaster. But tearing people down and disputing their experiences? How do you all know what those people experienced, were you in the rooms and having the conversations? Shameful.
  • Macaela89
    Wow!
    I was looking for a new fictional podcast series and this hit the G spot. Fantastic job! Very entertaining 😉
  • Aksileseorb
    Gross
    Definitely not the voice for women who where emotionally and sexually abused and manipulated by powerful men. Disgusts me.
  • Italiansummers050116
    Tasteless
    I was hoping to hear a different perspective of playboy and Hef. They offer interesting stories but the way they attack others for speaking against playboy truly disgusting. They seem quite bitter and angry. There’s a way to talk positively about Hef without tearing other people down but they can’t seem to figure that out.
  • Namenickistaken
    Terrible
    They talk over each other. Like 4+ people talking at a time. You can understand what they are saying. When you can hear, the guests are better at speaking than the hosts. Terrible. I couldn’t get through episode 1.
  • LewisK323
    Horrible audio
    I was hoping to hear another side to the story about Playboy and High Hefner but the poor audio and sound quality makes it unbearable to listen to. People talking over one another, it sounds like they are underwater in some parts….do better if you want people to hear your side of the story.
  • imtifflish
    Really wanted to like this
    I lasted about 5 minutes. The guests are talking about something interesting and are interrupted. Questions asked go unanswered. I was looking for a different point of view after watching Secrets of Playboy, but this podcast is impossible to hear/follow any of what they’re talking about.
  • bloodcollector
    Gave me a headache
    I stumbled across this podcast and was generally curious to listen. These ladies talk over the guests so much that you can’t keep up with what they are saying. It was so annoying that I only lasted for about 10 minutes. 10 minutes too long!
  • PeteSFBay
    One side to the story but a mess to follow
    Overall interesting, however, very hard to follow as every seems to want their word in all at the same time. Every story has multiple sides and these people can’t seem to understand that others have had a different experience. Playboy was a corporation made up of many people so not everyone is going to be treated the same. One word of advice ladies please hire a professional editor as this sounds like a 9th grade news program. No clear story line just a bunch of people yelling out stories.
  • Francy2112
    Trash
    Poorly produced and poorly researched. They sit in trash other people who have negative opinions who were way closer to heff it doesn’t make sense. And they don’t even get the facts of the other peoples claims right.
  • H from the mountains
    Ignorant
    To suggest that other journalists are biased and have an ‘agenda’ and then somehow hold yourselves exempt from that..? It’s ignorant. And to entirely discount the validity of women’s experiences of abuse, power and assault in the ‘entertainment’ industry is beyond ignorant. These are systems of the abuse of power that are held up by people such as yourselves. Your podcast and journalistic approach portrays ignorance and naïveté.
  • Lizziejean7219
    Love the ladies
    I was so excited to find out that Corinna and Echo were hosting a show. However, PLEASE STOP talking over each other and the guests, it is so annoying and hard to keep up with. I will keep listening but please re-listen and learn from how you host and execute your show to make it better.
  • MadMelvina
    Gross 🤢
    If I could rate 0 stars I would. The cult-like worship of HH is really gross. And discrediting the victims of his abuse and manipulation is SUPER gross. Also, ditto what other reviews are saying, this is just really poorly done.
  • Johnsag49
    Cultlike Hefner worshipping
    I believe women
  • gina19921116
    Secrets Of Playboy is the Truth
    can't believe you're still defending after everything that was said.. really disappointing and will no longer be listening .. women who don't support women!!!!
  • Nataliestarrrrr
    I enjoy listening
    I always wondered what it was like to be a playmate. Glad to hear their opinions and experiences.
  • chillummonk
    The hosts need to work on their content and presentation
    The subject is good but the finished podcast is not good. The hosts speak over each other. Lots of rambling and confusion. If you wish to address the A&E series Secrets of Playboy, you failed.
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