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? What's actually going on with Aaron Taylor Johnson's career? Justin Timberlake's bulge flop …

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…

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 floppi…

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…

Hi Flop Tarts, Happy Halloween! In this week's spooktacular, we give you some of our creepiest flops yet, including: How We're Flopping - Cassandra's Husband Ben loses the Timothee Chalamet Look-Alike Contest Quick Flops - Lilly Allen Feet Pics, David Harbour Supports - Stevie Nicks Shading Katy Perry - Helen Mirren Mourns Kurt Cobain - Armie Hamme…

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Cynthia Erivo's instagram rant from this week which we are dissecting and analyzing this week! In addition to the Wicked Movie's press tour, we're talking about all the flops you need to know this week, including: Chicken Shop Date Culture Lea Michele still not beating the illiterate allegations …

Hi Flop Tarts, We're coming out with a full flop-a-thon this week, starting with Travis Kelce announcing ON [HIS] POD that Taylor Swift has introduced him to Indian Food, and not stopping until we get all the way into why college students kind of can't finish a whole book these days. And if you're so young and you CAN read? DM us we are PROUD of yo…

Hi Flop Tarts, We're so back this week! Did you miss us? Today we go deep on Joker: Folie a Deux and all the reasons why you should avoid it at all costs (btw SPOILERS) and what makes it a full-blown flop. Other topics we cover INCLUDE: Kamala on Call Her Daddy, Cheryl Hines on her marriage to RFK Jr, Maggie Smith's post-mortem doppelganger, Al Pac…

Happy Friday, Flop Tarts! We are coming to you with all the flops you need to be aware of this week, as per usual! This week, we try to understand what's going on over on team Janet Jackson in the wake of her recent comments on Kamala Harris. Also, is Moo Deng the pygmy hippo the new Chappell Roan? Oh and by the way, they're trying to do Fyre Festi…

Hi Flop Tarts, This week we're digging into the meaning of dance, the length of books, Justin Timberlake's guilty plea, floppy turmoil at beloved Pixar studios, and the floppy little details of Nicole Kidman's post Big Little Lies television career. A flop-filled festival just for you! xoxo Justin, Cassandra, & David Show Notes Quick Flops Justin T…

Hi Floptarts, We're so back on main this week with all the hot juicy flops you've been craving. Didn't think Katy Perry could flop any further? It's Never Really Over. Did you want more podcasts from people who don't need a platform? Pod can't save all of America. Reminder that we officially launched our Patreon last week! Please consider joining u…

WE HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, FLOP STARS!! Though there is no new main feed episode out this week, we are excited to announce that we have officially launched our Patreon! This will be an extension of the Flop Soup universe where we're bringing you gorgeous beautiful bonus flops and thoughts! It's the same Flop Soup vibes that you know and love but we'…

Hi Flops, We are back back back again with another gorgeous episode containing all the flops you need to know about this week! Quick Flops: Kyrsten Sinema is entering instagram giveaways during the DNC (twitter link, may expire) Katy Perry is doing it for the MALE GAYS (get it) at Evita in WeHo Francis Ford Floppola up to no good (again) promoting …

HEY FLOPTARTS we're back with another episode full of everything that was flopping alongside you this week! In this week's episode, we get "demure" for the last time before we all put that word to REST. We also explore Spanx founder Sara Blakely's follow-up to her iconic body-oppressing garment, SNEEX! Also, would JLo and Ben Affleck survive on a d…

Hi Flop Tarts! We are so back with an action packed hour and ten minute episode full to the brim with flops. We're talking everything from the MTV VMAs being rescheduled to 9/11 to Tom Daley's floppy pivot into knitting. Plus: we saw TRAP & we WON'T be seeing It Ends With Us after unpacking all this messy casting drama. The flop starts here. xoxo, …

Hi Floptarts, Have you been watching the Olympics? Did we enjoy France's beautiful gender reveal along the Seine? Should we invite Bella Hadid? The real star (or flop star) was -- and we hate to say it -- Lady Gaga :( But don't worry, compared to some of the other flops we have for you this week Mother Monster doesn't flop that hard: JD Vance can't…

Cassandra and Justin are flopsplaying (cosplaying as a flop) this week as CNN hosts covering the official end of the Biden campaign for the presidency, and the rise of KAMALA'S BRAT ERA (apparently???). Of course there are many other things flopping about the world this week, including (but not limited to), the phone that's also a vape and a fitnes…

Hi Flop Tarts, Our beloved Justin is out of town for work this week (*gasp*) so Producer David steps in with Cassandra to cover one of the floppiest weeks in our nation's history: New York City can't stop paying McKinsey to tell them trash cans were a good invention, we can't stop listening to an AI country song about DUIs, and Katy Perry can't sto…

Hi Bratstars, Thank GOODNESS pride month is over and Cassandra is sooooo back. While she is the best ally, we have missed her so. Divas are back UP. Some topics we guide you through this week: mixed weight relationships, Gwyneth Paltrow's Hampton home getting a surprise guest, Kamala discourse, Kevin Costner shenanigans, and oh so much more. TTYS H…

This week, Flop Soup's Queening Out series continues for pride month as Justin investigates the flops of the week with beloved friend of the pod Jesse Tabit. On our docket this week, of course, is our flop king of the moment Justin Timberlake and his run-in with "Gen Z Cop." There's also a bunch of music related flops this week, like Katy Perry beg…

As Cassandra continues her European honeymoon excursion, Justin is joined by flop-enthusiast Thom Hilton (writer & director of the currently touring short film "Matinee Baby") to discuss and unpack what's currently flopping in culture this week. On the flop docket: Everyone is on steroids! The 2024 Tony's happened to us CHIPOTLE BOYS are taking ove…

Hi Divas, It's officially pride month, so you know what that means: kicking Cassandra off the pod and bringing producer David on to dunk on pride flops. This week: Target not being gay enough, Caitlyn Jenner having too many gay rights, intersectionality snafus, cringey pride campaigns of yesteryear, and the current state of ERG (Employee Resource G…

HI FLOPS! This week Justin is joined by beloved friend of the pod Kyle Frattini to cohost and react to the new trailer for the WICKED MOVIE, which we have to admit... might actually be real! More on that later! Also included in this week's soup: Things get science fiction-coded as Avril Lavigne denies the switched-with-a-clone-named-Melissa allegat…

Hi FlopTarts, Did you miss us?! We missed you. Thanks for being patient with us as we all navigate Corporate Jobs USA while producing a podcast. This week we've got some hot hot topics for y'all: Dua Lipa, Idea of You, Eurovision, MTV awards, and -- of course -- veneers. So much trying to achieve greatness, so little hitting of ~le mark~. xoxo, Cas…

Restaurant reservation culture is flopping this week in a big way! Of course, so are plenty of other things. This week, we also unpack why Cassandra is the only girl in the world who doesn't love Challengers and why Billie Eilish is disgusted by whales. Plus: Trump's likely VP pick Kristi Noem is killing puppies (???) and Ellen Degeneres is still m…

Hi Flop Tarts! We're flopping this week because we are the one millionth podcast to utter the phrase "tortured podcasters department" and Taylor Swift is flopping because this new album is mid as hell. That's right: we're discussing the Tortured Poets Department. We're also talking about a lot of other singers who are girl, what it takes to be a su…

Hi Flop Tarts, We're back to our regularly scheduled programming this week! Cassandra & Justin are flopping, society is flopping, and celebrity chef David Chang is flopping. We discuss the recent Momofuku chili crisp controversy wherein David Change's company sent cease-and-desists to a bunch of chili crisp companies in an effort to protect his cop…

Hellllllo Flop Tarts, This week is Cassandra's birthday week (Happy Birthday!) so Producer David stepped in for her to cover all things queer pop star. Today's main focus, aside from eclipse chatter, is the attempted rebrand of Jojo Siwa. From child star to. non-child non-star, Jojo has made quite the progression in the past few days with her relea…

~you're downloading and listening to this episode~ *in hypnosis voice* This week the Flop Stars are taking a trip to Euphoria High to learn about the new mess brewing behind the scenes in the Sam Levinson Televised Universe. Then, we process, digest, react, and respond to the latest deranged personal essay taking the internet by storm, "The Case fo…

Flop Soup coming in HOT this week covering the "disappearance" of Kate Middleton, Prince William's Mistress, said mistress's Gay Husband, and more (ALLEGEDLY!). Plus: It's St. Patrick's Day, you little leprechaun divas, so we watched IRISH WISH! And we did not understand what was going on with those accents <3 And, of course, a gorgeous oeuvre of q…

Hi Floptarts, Did you miss us? We missed you too. This week, we're back with a heaping serving of flops. From a Young Sheldon Sequel Series to JVN educating us on the entire Middle Ages to car rights in Los Angeles...so much was promised to us as a society, so little was delivered. Show Notes: How we're flopping this week: Cassandra - my block is f…

Hey Flop Tarts! Hope this podcast finds you well! We just wanted to double click into JLo's music video and provide y'all with some updates: it was a nothing burger stacked on some more -- you guessed it -- nothing. But don't worry, that nothingness is buttressed by our other hot flopic this week, covering the Bon Appetit Receipts column in which a…

This week we're talking about February's Month of Flops at the Cinema: Lisa Frankenstein, the Bob Marley biopic, but most importantly: Madame Web herself and the year's first true box office bomb Argylle. Plus, we go in ON that NYC woman who wrote a Cut column about how she got scammed into putting $50,000 into a shoebox and handing it over to a st…

This week we're doing SPORTS (sorta kinda)! We're talking about Taylor Swift's Super Bowl, about Usher's halftime show, and most importantly: the Nickelodeon Super Bowl simulcast. Plus: how about those ads? What is Temu? And is Kim Petras's "Slut Pop" really more like "Slut Flop"? Quick Flops: Hailey Beiber debuts chocolate syrup hair Bill Ackman c…

Team Flop Soup return to the red carpet this week to uncover the flops of music's biggest night - the Grammys! Though we manage to discuss many other happenings (like the "music catastrophe" tribute, having AI on the red carpet, and SZA's Mastercard commercial), can you really talk about music without ranting about Taylor Swift these days? The answ…

This week, the internet delivered a heaping serving of flops. Gays doing colonization work to build a New Fire Island, J.Lo (Jennifer Lopez) achieving her dreams of being in love and finding a therapist in Fat Joe, and Marina Abramovic performing the ultimate act of capitalism: starting a beauty line. Perplexed? Us too. Tune in to learn all the jui…

This week on Flop Soup, we're talking about celebrity privacy being in its flop era (on instagram, at awards shows, in songs), and the floppy, kinda fake Gen Z age panic (as reported by the floppy NY Post). Plus: more flops ranging from Madame Web's Ocean Spray costume reveal to a tiny trash crisis in Philadelphia. Show Notes: Quick Flops: Madame W…

On this week's Flop Soup, we're talking about the water bottle sensation herself: Stanley Cups. Who is she? Where did she come from? And most importantly: which pop star does she remind us of? Plus: the Golden Globes were covered in flop sweat, thanks to underwhelming and mostly un-funny host Jo Koy. Tune in to hear Justin & Cassandra discuss these…

Flop Soup is a podcast about pop culture and flop culture. Every week on Flop Soup, your hosts Justin Crosby & Cassandra Kyriazis talk about what's flopping in culture - entertainment, politics, even our own lives. We lay it all out and decide once and for all: what's a flop and what's not. It's kind of like The Daily if The Daily was weekly and al…

Our final episode of the year!!!! What a journey it's been. Thankfully, things KEEP flopping so we are here this week to discuss! And, don't worry dear Flop Tarts, we'll keep the Flop Soup coming in 2024. This week, the gays were flopping all over the headlines. Our two hottest flop topics include the Senate Sex Tape that's been lighting up gay gro…

As always, MUCH to discuss this week. For our quick flops, we have people throwing things at singers again, Russian propaganda on Cameo, and sooo much more. Then, for our hot flopics, we take a field trip to the ruins of Gag City to report on what exactly happened here, and what it means for Pink Friday 2. After, we journey into Selena Gomez’s fier…

On this week's Flop Soup we do a recap of everything that is and has been (former, iconic) Congressman George Santos, we parse whether or not Taylor Swift's publicist Tree Paine speaking out against celebrity gossip Instagram Deux Moi means Deux Moi is flopping or dominating the culture right now, and most importantly: we dive into the hellish merc…

Hello FlopTarts, we're back this week with another week of inevitable, inimitable flops! Show Notes: Quick Flops: Beyonce "Alien Superstar" Cocktail that looks bad Jimmy Kimmel Hosting Oscars Again UGH Susan Sarandon's Son says "no more of my mom's boobs" Swifties wrongly predict Reputation TV announcement Bradley Cooper Hangover 4 Emerald Fennel "…

On this week's soup du jour, we're getting into it with lovely and talented cool girl Justine Dorsey of the band After to investigate the recent rumblings of a Stomp and Holler genre revival (a la Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers, you know the deal). We take on the concept of "Noah Kahan" and confront what could possibly be causing everyone to lose th…

Flop Soup has a holiday season treat for YOU! This week, we took to the phone lines to answer calls from our listeners and wow - they delivered! In this flop-provoking episode you'll find in-depth discussions on: the state of thrift shop culture, Wicked 20th Anniversary Photoshoot culture, Real Housewives podcast culture, pumpkin culture, and soooo…

This week on Flop Soup we're talking about Eminem's dive into the culinary arts, Selena Gomez's embattled history with "social media breaks," what the deal REALLY is with Awkwafina these days, and the new trend celebs are going crazy for: $2500 full-body "scans" supposedly able to detect "500 cancers and diseases." Plus: Marvel's Flop Era is immine…

This episode covers the week's most sought after flop: Justin Timberlake as depicted in Britney Spears' memoir WOMAN IN ME. We say "oh no oh no" to JT's "fo shizz fo shizz" and "now that's MISOGYNY" to Justin lying to the world about his relationship with Britney. Plus: Are SAG-AFTRA's strict these-Halloween-costumes-are-scabbing rules too strict? …

This week we're back in your ears to examine what IS actually going on with television. Now that the Peak TV Era is over... is this the pit? Also... JADA PINK SMITH REVEALS! And she just keeps revealing. How is she truly flopping this week? Tune in to find out. As always, many extra flops are covered, from Latto and Christina Aguilera's sponsored f…

Happy spooky season, Flop Tarts! And what's spookier than knowing that teens largely prefer LinkedIn over all other social media platforms? Perhaps it's having to ask a CVS employee to grant you access to locked up bars of Irish Spring soap (WHO is shoplifting this item?). Or perhaps it's the fact that the Los Angeles Police Department would rather…

How does one woman go from being the top pop star on the charts to having an elder abuse prevention bill named after her? This week, Cassandra and Justin are on the case. They're also getting critical with airline rewards programs - a new and perplexing angle to capitalism's flop trajectory. Quick Flops Student Loans Reactivated - Flop! Bedbugs In …