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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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Back back back again with another episode of flops from the week <3 

Tune in for:

• How they're trying to keep kids off their damn phones
• Movie Marketing with treadmills and Janelle Monae
• Vatican pop concert with Teddy Swims and, of course, another B+ from John Legend + a drone display that made us go "why is that low key slaying?"
• Lady Gaga making music for people who watch TV on the phone
• FLOP TREND WATCH: Dark showers OR AUFGUSS/Competitive Sauna

HOT FLOPIC: THE EMMYS!!!

• So Nate Bargatze didn't really tell any jokes
• Stop trying to make Charlie Hunnam happen
• Lorne Michaels retire bitch
• The Bear was shut out and the actors bailed
• Some lovely underdogs won, only to be overshadowed by Nate's whole host thing

Local Flops

CA - Christina Aguilera x Grindr

PHL - And what IS anxiety-free improv? 

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Hi Flops,

New episode NEW FLOPS! This week we're talking about:

• that Donald Trump/Epstein letter
• Fourth Harmony's newest merch drop
• what it means that Laverne Cox will be in a Jonas Brothers movie
• Wuthering Heights x Charli XCX
• Are single straight men worse than ever? 

HOT FLOPIC: what happened on the Doritos stage at the VMAs, which aired on CBS sort of via Paramount Plus Premium we think!

• The VMAs
• What are they now?

Local Flops

LA - Justin x Jonas Brothers

PHL - Phillies Karen getting doxed too much

Xoxo,

Justin, Cassandra, and David

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Produced by David Lai.

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Hi Floptarts,

Finally back to weekly episodes! 

Flops this week include: 

Quick Flops

• P!nk contracting e. coli on vacation
• Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun dating
• Burning Man Orgy Dome Destroyed, Baby Born, Man Murdered
• Jonas Brothers' Washed Tour
• Crumbl CEO being "outed" 
  • by a guy from "Finding Prince Charming"
  • and also "A Twink and a Redhead"
• Wizard of OZ produced by Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton

Floposcope

• Bradley Cooper's directorial debut with "Is This Thing On"?

Hot Flopic: The Internet thinking Trump died this week

Trump Viral Death Hoax Labor Day Weekend Explained

• And what is the Pentagon Pizza Index? Which fueled the conspiracy theory
• And did the Pentagon Pizza Index predict an attack on Iran? 

Local Flops

LA - West Hollywood Patreon-esque Start Up that is worse

PHL - Basically SEPTA cuts were implemented for three weeks and are now being restored (thank GOD but why did they need to get cut in the FIRST PLACE) and this whole thing has been SO FLOPPY

Thanks for flopping with us,

Justin, Cassandra & Producer David

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We're back for another week of flopcore and, in case you're wondering, YES we DID record this analysis of The Life of a Showgirl announcement HOURS before Taylor got engaged but we ARE catching up on culture and YOU will live! More on all the rest of that later...

Quick flops discussed:

• Fight Song (Rachel's Version)
• The Power of "Yet"
• Snoop Dogg is scared to talk to his grandson about lesbians
• Betty Who vs. Lesbianism
• Cracker Barrel ~rebranded~ (and then UN-rebranded since recording this episode)
• Kumail Nanjiani doesn't know what to do with his life post-Eternals flop

Hot Flopic: The Life of a Showgirl Announced on a Podcast

• Here is the New Heights podcast link
• And here is a Vulture recap for those of you who will never watch it
• Matt Rogers Lover tracklist

Local Flops

• LA - Dueling Trader Joeses
• PHL - JD Vance protest mural

Support the show

To join our Patreon for bonus content & to support the show MONETARILY!!!, visit https://www.patreon.com/FlopSoup

Co-hosted by Cassandra Kyriazis and Justin Crosby.
Produced by David Lai.

If you're loving the pod, rate and review us everywhere podcasts can possibly be rated and reviewed <3 please :)