Flop topics served to you weekly. Hosted by Cassandra Kyriazis (Philadelphia) and Justin Crosby (Los Angeles). Produced by David Lai (San Francisco).
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 fo...
HEY DOLLS JUSTIN'S BACK!!
And HERE are the flops we're talking about:
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
Happy Black Friday!!! Stay inside and spend time with your loved ones (aka US!! via this gorgeous new episode <3)
Flops featured INCLUDE:
HAPPY FRIDAY FLOPTINAS! Justin returns to the pod this week and alongside Cassandra the girls are unpacking the following flops of the week:
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:
Hi flopsicles and tarts and tinas!
BACK AGAIN! With sooooo many flops this week, including:
We're so back again and this week there are SO many flops:
Hi Flop Tarts & Tinas,
We are SO back this week with a fabulous set of flops that is gonna bring the dang house down:
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:
Back back back again with another episode of flops from the week <3
Tune in for:
Hi Flops,
New episode NEW FLOPS! This week we're talking about:
HOT FLOPIC: what happened on the Doritos stage at the VMAs, which aired on CBS sort of via Paramount Plus Premium we think!
Hi Floptarts,
Finally back to weekly episodes!
Flops this week include:
Quick Flops
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:
Hi Flop Tarts,
Floppy Floppington called and BOY did he deliver!
This week we're talking about:
Plus:
We're so so deeply back again this week!! Tune in and hear what's flopping this week, diva! Including (but not limited to):
Hi Flop Tarts,
Summer might be in full swing but the flops never stop and honey the heat is making EVERYTHING floppier!
This week, we're dissecting these hot summer flops:
Hi Flop Tarts,
We're serving you mid-July floppiness this week with a peek into whatever's going on with Jojo Siwa's disturbing cover of Bette Davis Eyes and tbh all the other covers we're aware of.
Who do you think should cover Bette Davis Eyes? Call us at 516-HOT-FLOP, mwah!
Catch you on the flop line,
Justin, Cassandra, and David
Show Notes
Quick Flops
Hi Flop Tarts!!
We're so back from vacation this week and ready to chat about all the flopstorms that have descended in our absence! Strap in because you're in for a bumpy ride to Venice, the movie theater, HBO Max, Love Island, and the DAMN zoo!
xoxo,
Justin, Cassandra, & David
Show Notes
Quick Flops
This week, Flop Correspondent Justin is joined by wonderful friend of the pod, Chief Correspondent at Variety and author of the new novel "The Talent" - Dan D'Addario! Together they're flopvestigating the following:
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