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It's THAT time of year, dear flop tarts, stars, and tinas! 

We present: Flop Soup's grand retrospective for 2025, the 2025 Floppy Awards! The awards where we determine who really WAS the floppiest of them all. 

We also reveal a few midnight hour flops that revealed themselves in the final weeks of 2025 (we're looking at YOU, Academy Awards on YouTube in 2029). 

And finally, we present our ins & outs for 2026 (and yes, in and out lists are so OUT but this podcast is about being floppy so we're NOT gonna stop doing them!).

Thank you for listening all year long and we can't wait for Flop Soup Season 4 aka the year 2026!

xoxo

Justin, Cassandra, & David

Other Show Notes:

Astronomer HR lady in the New York Times

Xtina Christmas Album Holiday Special Situation

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HEY DOLLS JUSTIN'S BACK!! 

And HERE are the flops we're talking about:

• Checking in on Ella McCay's historic flop 
• Netflix buys Warner Bros and also what does that mean
• George Clooney doesn't wanna KISS GIRLS anymore
• Men getting stuck in places
• Why Are Gay Guys Posting That: Spotlight on Heated Rivalry & Jordan Firstman
• Dictionary Spotlight on the Word: SLOP for 2025
• Kalshi betting crash outs over Time Person of the Year, which is "the architects of AI" ... ok

Plus Local Flops:

• Man discovered in trunk of Waymo
• Penn Alumni continue to embarrass themselves

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Justin is on a work trip so the illustrious first EVER Flop Soup guest SAM STOAKES is so back and chatting with Cassandra about this week's floppiest flops:

How We're Flopping

Sam - Grinch Meal influencer

Cassandra - entranced by the Modern Love couple getting fake divorced

Flop Correct: Rachel Lynn Matthew is NOT dating Orlando Bloom, instead has a production company with Camila Mendes? Okay!

Quick Flops

• HBO flops their streaming release of Mad Men
• NYC miscounts their mayors - Zohran is 112 NOT 111
• Matt Rogers & Fraser Olender are dating ... Fraser Olender subsequently suffers EVALI
• Watch out for SCROMITING, a new weed side effect
• Pluribus ad on a fridge MAYBE scared a woman named Carol, ads on fridges generally speaking - no link for the Reddit rumor because it is a rumor!
• THE PANTONE COLOR OF THE YEAR IS WHAT? + a list of every color
• Golden Globe nomination highlights

Hot Flopic: IS ELLA MCCAY FLOPPING?

• What is Ella McCay?
• Trailer here
• How are the reviews so far?
• What is the #EllaMcCayChallenge?

Local Flops

Sam - Miracle on 13th St

Cassandra - SS United States finally in Alabama

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Happy Black Friday!!! Stay inside and spend time with your loved ones (aka US!! via this gorgeous new episode <3) 

Flops featured INCLUDE:

• Is J. Crew ruining masculinity with their new pink sweater?
  • Who is Juanita Broaddrick?
• Charli XCX's NEXT ERA is... substack?
• Trumpdate! (That's a Trump Update - specifically his meeting with Zohran Mamdani, Bubba Trump Epstein blow job rumors, and "Quiet Piggy")
  • Mark Duplass "quiet piggy" moment (Twitter link, might break)
• From Substack to Myspace: The Ryan Lizza x Olivia Nuzzi drama
  • Olivia Nuzzi's memoir American Canto excerpt in Vanity Fair
  • Ryan Lizza's "Substack Part 1" on his publication Telos
  • RFK Jr. x Felching
  • Also I (Cassandra) screenshotted an entire google doc that has now been deleted which contains Substack Part 2 so I can't source it but I promise what we said is accurate, excerpts here
  • Olivia Nuzzi's single "Jailbait"
  • Mark Sanford wikipedia page
• WICKED: FOR GOOD
  • Sex Cardigan flop
  • Screen time tallies
  • Michelle Yeoh MM is WW
  • Jon M. Chu is straight

No local flops this week but we'll so back next week!! Happy flopsgiving!

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HAPPY FRIDAY FLOPTINAS! Justin returns to the pod this week and alongside Cassandra the girls are unpacking the following flops of the week:

• All's Fair starring Kim Kardashian and every good actress, plus Hulu's best scripted debut blah blah blah
• New Gap ad with a random following iconic Katseye x Milkshake collab
• Oval Office Ozempic press conference collapse
• Katy Perry makes another attempt with Bandaids, someone dressed up as her then posed with Orlando Bloom, and her manager is feuding with Wendy's we guess
• Skincare for babies by Shay Mitchell
• Sydney Sweeney continues her flop trajectory with a bad GQ interview and a worse premiere for her movie Christy, plus now Ruby Rose is saying Sweeney ruined the movie

Plus: Local Flops

• LA - Why won't Netflix House choose LA???
• PHL - people getting their phones stolen at concerts & then findmy is pinging in CHINA!

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Local Philadelphian & Flop Tart Tyler Burgese joins the pod as guest this week (because Justin is on a work trip) to discuss a BEVY of flops, including:

• George Santos has been PARDONED
• Why the app KALSHI is "hiring" tarot card readers and wizards, plus how they've legalized sports gambling in all 50 states
• Regretting You joining the 2025 Black Hole Flop Hall of Fame
• Benny Drama & Terrence O'Connor's Break Up
• And what is an AWS Outage? Plus: the big one in Virginia
• Jia Tolentino breaking her "previously rigid personal sponcon ban" for AirBnB
• Lily Allen releases album West End Girl EVISCERATING David Harbour & their tumultuous open marriage ahead of Stranger Things premiere
  • and they listed their brownstone!
  • Woman who died in his apartment
• What TYLER thinks is flopping and he just had to say something!
• Anti-Vax reaches pet owners
• And what does it mean if Gordon Ramsay's food platform BITE invests in BJ Novak's chain restaurant homage pop up CHAIN while seeking further investment from AI microdrama producer HOLYWATER? 
• And then we yap about gay guy Halloween costumes

And if you want to hear MORE about gay Halloween costumes, there's a 20 minute bonus segment on Patreon about it!

Local Flops

• PHL 1 - DOWN with car culture!
• PHL 2 - Philly has inserted itself into the 6-7 meme trend, which btw just became Dictionary.com's word of the year

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Hi flopsicles and tarts and tinas!

BACK AGAIN! With sooooo many flops this week, including:

• SOMBR gets dragged by 25-year-old WITCH
• Snoop Dogg attempts to win back the GAYS
• Akon is going COUNTRY, and here's what's up with Akon City
• What's going on with Euphoria Season 3 again?
• BALDS ONLY movie screenings
• ROBBERY at the LOUVRE! Le Heist? Tres chic, mon dieu!
• LEGGINGS are out in favor of BIG WORKOUT PANT
• Fancams as movie trailers

PLUS Local Flops

• LA - WHY ARE WE ONLY SOARING ACROSS AMERICA NOW?
• PHL - Why did the Philly film festival screen a TV show??

Ta ta for now!

Justin, David, and Cassandra

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We're so back again and this week there are SO many flops:

• FLOP SOUP EXPLAINER: And what does it mean for Role Model to "bring out X celebrity as Sally" ??
• Who is King Kylie and is it just Kylie Jenner with a wig?
• Apple TV minus plus
• Dancing With the Stars culture, why is it everywhere?
• Flop Couple (Flople?) updates including Ben & Jen, Katy & Justin, and two gay guys we JUST found out about
• Pink Pony Club opens in AUSTRALIA (pejorative) [don't worry after declaring it's only for gay men and then getting yelled at for appropriating lesbian culture for their exclusive club, they changed the NAME, not the "gay guys only" policy]
• Hot Ice Cream by Tyra Banks in AUSTRALIA (ok!)
• MOVIE flops galore - we're looking at you Tron: Ares, the Smashing Machine, and KISS OF THE SPIDER-WOMAN

PLUS Local Flops:

• LA - Brunch restaurant GREAT WHITE accused of racially segregating its customers - especially Asian ones (personal accounts from David & Cassandra who went one time)
• PHL - WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE VERY FLOPPY PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART REBRAND

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Hi Flop Tarts & Tinas,

We are SO back this week with a fabulous set of flops that is gonna bring the dang house down:

• Gen Z Divorce hit piece
• The AI Slop & Flop Fest Continues with "Sora 2"
• WE APOLOGIZE TO QUIBI
• Ridley Scott Flops Back Into His Own Filmography
• The Golden POD Nominees are HERE
  • Travis Kelce snubbed
• An Ethically Gorgeous Quiz about the RIYADH COMEDY FESTIVAL
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban DIVORCE and WE PICK A SIDE

Hot Flopic

• It's Life of a Showgirl, SORRY
• Taylor/Charli Feud
• Travis Kelce's penis
• DO NOT GO SEE THE TAYLOR SWIFT MOVIE

Local Flops

CA - Baggu robs BART

PHL - Why did Elfreth's Alley throw an event COMMEMORATING the hitchbot? DOWN WITH THE CLANKERS

Yours in flopitude,

Cassandra, Justin, and David

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Hi precious flop tarts!

We're SO glad to see you didn't get raptured this week and instead get to enjoy a steaming hot bowl of delicious flops prepared JUST for you!

This week we're talking about:

• Jeremy Allen White's new role in the Star Wars universe (tweet link, may break), actual news here
• Lola Young getting the keys to Elton John's house
• The White House hosting a UFC cage match on the South Lawn! Okay!
• Arc'teryx lowkey blowing up the Himalayas and then "apologizing"
• Noah Centineo's botched attempt to protest Disney
• Deepfakes of Jen Aniston and Miley Cyrus are penetrating the male loneliness epidemic
• Did you hear about the hottest new rapture rumor?

Hot Flopics

• New football horror movie "HIM" flops with critics
• Plus: Box Office Flops
  • Why did the Downton Abbey threequel bring in 2x as much money as "The Big Bold Beautiful Journey"?

Local Flops

LA - Coachella passes for mid-line up are already sold out, started at $799 for GA

PHL - Noah Wyle finally caught on camera saying something mean about Philadelphia (but he really tried not to) [tweet link, might break]

xoxo,

Justin, David & Cassandra

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