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Hi Flop Tarts,

On this week's episode, we go long on the Super Bowl and her many pre and half time shows, plus: Ed Sheeran in India, Gracie Abrams in Cosmo, Die With A Smile on the streaming charts, board shorts in purgatory, gays in the log cabin, and all the trailers and ads we hated during the Oscars of football.

GO BIRDS!

xoxo Justin, Cassandra, and David

Show Notes

Quick Flops

• Shutting Down Sheeran
• Blake Lively & Her Dragons
• Gracie in Cosmo
• Coworker Music: Die With a Smile
• Board Shorts Brutality
• MAGA Gays

Trailer Trash (all the movie trailers at the Super Bowl)

• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• Rihanna IS Smurfette
• F1 - Brad Pitt Formula One Movie

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Gorge

Hot Flops

NYT Ranking of Super Bowl Ads

Did Travis Kelce go to Turkey?

Local Flops

LA - No link but a millennial weed store is haunting Justin "Pass Joints not Judgment"
PHL - SS United States continues to remain in Philadelphia

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Produced by David Lai.

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Hi Flop tarts,

Despite the Grammys doing the thing (entertaining us), we dug deep to unearth the flops hidden in the cracks. 

Other featured topics include: 

• Blue Man Group ending their 34 year run on Broadway
• Skinny Jeans *allegedly* being *back* (they never left, babe)
• DeepSeek overview
  • Created, reportedly, with a fraction of the resources, DeepSeek sent a jolt through the stock market
• The Weekend's new movie "Hurry Up Tomorrow"
• Joe Biden signing with CAA
• Dylan Obrien's "Twinless" movie 
• ...and more!

Show Notes

Quick Flops (see above for links)

Hot Flopic: The Grammys

Trevor Noah as a whole

Kanye/Bianca Censori spooky, are now getting divorced

Doechii wins best rap album (not a flop, just great)

What is Benson Boone? (Max Read Substack link, great essay!)

Local Flops

PHL - The Taylor Swift angle on the Super Bowl

CA - Trump's "Hollywood" Ambassadors

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Back in Flop Soup HQ for another episode! Justin returns to join Cassandra in unpacking another gorgeous docket of flops, including:

• Jewel performing at the Make America Health Again Ball?
• Too many movies about Monkeys
• A potential cast for the Britney Spears biopic
• Dora Jar vs. a Change.org petition
• FBI:CIA ??
• Corporations rolling back their DEI programs
• and more!

Show Notes

Quick Flops
Carrie Underwood fell off a porch
The Original Beef of Chicagoland
Jewel apologizes to fans for performing at Trump's Inauguration
Bill Gates regrets getting divorced
Slamming the door shut on Dora Jar, btw Dora Jar's music is here if you want to check her out because of how brutal this is
Too much monkey-ing around
Britney Spears Biopic Rumors
FBI: WTF

Is Corporate DEI Flopping?
Trump ends all federal DEI programs
Many companies announce they are also ending DEI (not something they need to do per Trump's mandate), to which we say: why don't you tell me more about how effective your DEI programs actually were??
Trump's executive order ending DEI at the federal level explained - incl. how it threatens companies, non-profits, those not directly under the federal umbrella (you may get paywalled by this but if you save it on Pocket, you can read it!)

Local Flops
LA - Lil' Kim Prays for Monsoon, it kinda works
PHL - Cherelle Parker spells EAGLES wrong

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Produced by David Lai.

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Hi Flop Tarts,

Hope your new years are off to a great start :) This week, Producer David joins us to chat through the rise of sad beige mom aesthetic, the fall of Carrie Underwood, how David confused Dungeons and Dragons with a Cop Movie, and the ultimate flop: Zuckerberg declaring a war against wokeness and deeming feminine energy in the workplace OVER. Nothing more homoerotic than changing your entire company's DNA to impress another man (that man? Donald Trump).

See you in the chat xx
Cassandra, (not) Justin, & David

Show Notes

Quick Flops
Sad Beige Mom Aesthetic
Better Man Flops @ the Box Office
Den of Thieves 2 Wikipedia Page
Carrie Underwood set to perform at Trump's inauguration

Zuck Flops

• Fact-checking has too much bias
• Prohibited speech no longer prohibited
• Priscilla says: keep fighting
• Zuck removes tampons from men's room
• Zuck wants more MASCULINE ENERGY

Local Flops
SF - Former Mayor London Breed fails to use pandas as political pawns
PHL - Sauna Pop Up in FDR Park

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Hi Divas,

We're just not feeling this one, and by this one we mean: the year 2025. She started off floppy this week and we have all the gory details. Come for our flop apology to Blake Lively (but NOT her hair product), and stay for our detailed takedown of that weird graphic thing they did to point out nominees in the crowd at the Golden Globes. Plus: if alcohol is killing us, but we need parties now more than ever, what's a gorgeous flop tart to do?

See you in the chat ;)
xoxo
Flop Soup

Show Notes
Quick Flops
Flopapology:

• Blake Lively sues Justin Baldoni for being awful
• Justin Baldoni sues New York Times for libel

Alcohol "is bad" for us
Meghan Markle's Many Attempts
Americans need to PARTY MORE
Tim Cook donates to Trump Inaugural campaign, so do all tech guys
Club Chalamet Year End Message
Mr. Beast Busts, has terrible reviews

Hot Flopic
Golden Globes recap

Local Flops
LA man trapped in a WAYMO
SEPTA premieres new transit line names

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Produced by David Lai.

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HAPPY FLOPIDAYS!!!

This week we're coming to you with a special holiday episode featuring our beautiful recurring Ins & Outs list for 2025, as well as the inaugural FLOPPY AWARDS (or the Floppys for short), where we go through and hand out awards to the most memorable flops of the year.

Thanks for listening this year, sweet flop tarts!! See you in 2025 <3

Show Notes
Skibidi Toilet New Yorker Explainer

Blake Lively sues Justin Baldoni
Blake Lively Smear Campaign
What Justin Baldoni is accused of

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Broadway Debut

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This week we unpack sequel culture, because there were just too many damn sequels announced this week. We also reflect on all the sequels that just came out this year and the list? Will horrify you.

Also discussed:

• Did Barbara Streisand shade Gracie Abrams?
• More drone drama
• Justin Timberlake's bulge flop
• Who can lawyer up and with who?
• What's actually going on with Aaron Taylor Johnson's career?
• Frontier Airlines flop spiral
• And more!! <3 

Hot Flopic
Top Box Office 2024
Wicked: For Good announced
Barbie Sequel
Sonic the Hedgehog...3?

Local Flops
LA - Drone sightings now in LA - allegedly
PHL - Congressman fakes Spotify Wrapped to seem more Springsteen-friendly

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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.

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Hi Queens,

Did you miss us? We're SO back this week after a long hiatus. Check out Flop Soup's Patreon if you want extra content to help with your withdrawal.

This week, we bring you a backlog of flops, including:
-The Assassin
-Gwen Stefani putting the CHRIST back in Christian TradWife
- Duct Tape Banana selling for 6.2 million dollars
- Hawk Tuah girl launching crypto
- Forward Health failure (tragically this is very paywalled, try this Pocket hack)
- Jacob Elordi beard
- Spotify Wrapped underwhelming us all (tragically also paywalled, try this Pocket hack)
LA - Wicked theater tix are sooo expensive
PHL - Drones flying over New Jersey AND Pennsylvania also

Also -- we are delivering you all a GIFT guide for this holiday season!! If you've ever wondered how to make capitalism suck less, support these flops & the people in your lives who deserve them <3

Flop Soup Gift Guide Links
Sphere T-Shirt on Etsy
Yes I Vape/Return My Library Books on Time T-Shirt
Babyratu Tix
Pasta Water Candle

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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 :)

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Hi Flop Tarts,

This week on Flop Soup, we're asking: was Charli XCX good on SNL? Is big purse my friend? And is Domingo an icon?

Plus: Spirit Airlines asks "can I borrow $20?", we declare we're NOT a piss podcast, and we can't help but wonder: how many celebrity look-alike competitions is TOO many celebrity look-alike competitions?

Let's get flopping,
Justin & Cassandra & David

Show Notes
Spirit files for bankruptcy but still flies (?)
No Homo LaMelo
The Rock confirms he pees in Voss Waterbottles onset
Company offers "Escape Reality" Cruise post-Trump election
Paul v. Tyson (I guess we're covering this!) (love is blind reunion failure), Howard Stern Comments

Hot Flopic: Look-Alike Competitions
The Celebrity Look-Alike Competition Boom (The Atlantic)
Why are they everywhere? (NPR)
All the winners (Vulture)

Local Flops
LA - Sabrina Carpenter Arrests D-O-M-I-N-G-O
PHL - When will the SS United States Leave Philadelphia? Billy Penn coverage, NBC Coverage

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.

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Hi Flop Tarts,

We are so back (after being so over) with a new episode this week. We're talking about it all: the joys of democracy, the pitfalls of democracy, who you should wish a happy Veteran's day, and so much more.

Plus: should you be allowed to pee in the pit? Are the actors on Outer Banks being #unprofesh? And WHAT will the Wicked marketing team do next?

Tune in to find out!

Xoxo,
Justin, Cassandra, & David

Show Notes

Quick Flops
Pop Crave: Three Tweets!

• What is Butt Magazine?
• Who is Gert Jonkers?

Pee Pee Pee @ Sabrina Carpenter Concert
Outer Banks Cast Drama: NYPost, update from People Magazine
Moo Deng Predicts the 2024 US Presidential Election :/
Wicked Marketing Team Goes Hanky Panky Mode
Solo Lady Gaga Can't Get That #1

Hot Flopic: Where can Nicole Scherzinger get that hat?
Who is Nicole Scherzinger?
What is Sunset Boulevard the Musical?

Why is Russell Brand a Christian Influencer now?
5 women accusing Russell Brand of sexual assault

Nicole-as-Norma for Halloween

Local Flops
LA - Actual hitmen meeting at in-n-out burger
PHL - Wildfire started by "dragon's breath" ammunition, other coverage

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 :)