Pop Culture Junkie®

49:02

Best and Worst: Pop Culture Parents

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/09/18

Olivia coaches Shauna on how to score the coveted Lady Gaga tickets for the lowest possible price and the two relive Shauna's recent visit to the City by the Bay. Then it's time for some inappropriate dead parent jokes as the Junkies list their choices for the best and worst moms and dads in movies and TV. Some of their choices are controversial - are parents who allow their kids to torture each other for fun bad, even if they really love their kids? What if you're a supportive mother figure who

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5:50

PCJ Pop #11

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/09/09

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia wants you to binge both seasons of Tell Me Lies on Hulu so you are caught up for the S3 premiere, and Shauna recommends you watch Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday from 2003, and to catch the long-awaited sequel that’s out now.You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here:

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49:45

PCJ Book Club: Romantasy Recommendations

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/09/04

After a brief diversion into talking about the upcoming Wedding of the Century, the Junkies convene the Pop Culture Junkie Book Club for a discussion of the book genre reshaping the publishing business: Romantasy. This genre blends Romance and Fantasy and certainly isn't new; the Twilight series came out in the 90s and the genre reaches back even further than that. But it is undeniably hot now: Romantasy titles account for nearly half of total fiction sales. Olivia and Shauna discuss some of the

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4:51

PCJ Pop #10

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/08/26

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna loved the animated movie K-Pop Demon Hunters on Netflix and its incredible soundtrack, and Olivia recommends the gross but engrossing Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Poop Cruise as well as all the Trainwreck documentaries in the series. We have all new Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare!Click

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51:58

Fetishized: A Conversation with Kaila Yu

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/08/21

Shauna interviews author Kaila Yu, whose fascinating and deeply personal debut memoir Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty was published on August 19th. Kaila, who is also a singer, travel and culture writer and model, discusses everything that led her to writing the book: the terrible lessons of The Little Mermaid (both versions), life as an import model, and experiencing society's stereotypes of Asian women, pervasive in everything from classic Hollywood films to rap

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63:41

Mr. Fantastic: A Converation with Alex Hyde-White

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/08/14

The Junkies welcome Alex Hyde-White for a super-powered conversation. Alex, who goes by the nickname Punch, and was the first person to play a live-action Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in the never-released but widely-viewed movie The Fantastic Four, completed in 1994. Shauna and Olivia ask Alex about his career, which includes appearances in iconic films like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Pretty Woman, Catch Me if You Can and Nope, and television series like Newhart, Murder She Wrote, Babylon

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6:23

PCJ Pop #9

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/08/12

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia backs Death of a Unicorn, the weird A24 fantasy-comedy starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega and Shauna recommends the book Lights Out by Navessa Allen, a dark romantic comedy that she found sexy and scary. We have all new Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare!Click

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42:14

Romantic Mayhem in the Movies

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/08/07

Shauna reveals her deep but temporary jealousy of Olivia, because of her amazing experience seeing Lady Gaga in concert, but is soon over it. Then the Junkies get right to the topic: that specific genre of mainstream movies where at least one member of a married couple desperately want to kill someone - maybe even their spouse. Thinking all the way back to the 1980s to movies like The Shining and War of the Roses, to The Roses, the upcoming remake of that film starring Olivia Colman and Benedict

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5:12

PCJ Pop #8

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/07/29

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna recommends the movie Perfect Sense with Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, and special guest Producer Jeff raves about the Apple TV+ series The Studio starring Seth Rogan, Ike Barinholtz and a plethora of Hollywood stars in guest roles.We have all new Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare!Click

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24:39

PCJ Classic - Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/07/24

In this classic episode, the Junkies talk about the lighthearted family comedy/snuff film their producers made them watch: Roar, also called "The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made." While Shauna and Olivia weren't impressed with the whisper-thin plot and so-so acting (even though it stars Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith), they couldn't help but be awed by the choices made by producer Noel Marshall and his family, and not in a good way. Between 70-120 members of the cast and crew were mauled, maimed,

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5:37

PCJ Pop #7

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/07/15

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna recommends the Star Wars series Andor because of and despite its parallels to today’s political climate, and Olivia wants you to head over to Netflix to pop the chilling Cold Case: The Tylenol

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47:16

Baby, What's Going On with Justin Bieber?

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/07/10

This week Shauna and Olivia dish some celebrity goss and figure out their weekend plans - they are true multi-taskers! Then it's on to the main topic - What's happening with Justin Bieber? The singer, who became mega-famous at a very early age, recently posted a candid message to Instagram that said "Don't you think if I could have fixed myself I would have already?" The Junkies take a look back at the rocky road that Bieber has traveled since becoming a viral sensation in 2009. From his celebrity

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5:04

PCJ Pop #6

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/07/01

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia’s pick is the Netflix true weather doc The Twister: Caught in the Storm and Shauna vouches for Ballerina: From the World of John Wick.You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos We have all new Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here:

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37:13

Bring on the Fireworks: Independence Day (1996)

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/06/26

Olivia and Shauna discuss their summer plans: Olivia's seeing as much live music as possible, and Shauna's just trying to beat the punishing Phoenix heat...at an emo/anime dance party? The Junkies then discuss how to celebrate our nation's birthday in these...challenging times, and they decide there's no better way than to watch Independence Day from 1996. Why not flash back to the time when we all felt good about our country, and also about Will Smith? The Junkies get nostalgic about their first

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6:18

PCJ Pop #5

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/06/17

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna is all about Dexter: Original Sin as she awaits the next entry in the Dexter-verse, and Olivia recommends the AI-gone-wrong thriller Companion.

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40:46

Superheroes and Sequels: A Summer Movie Preview

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/06/12

Shauna shares her upcoming cosplay plans, while Olivia shares her musical revenge against a petty neighbor, and they both wonder if the podcast is becoming a little too murder-y (or is it just murder-y enough?) Then it's time to preview the films that will be keeping them both indoors during the heat (or fog) this summer. Olivia's looking forward to the film that may just revive the romcom, while Shauna has her eyes on some high-profile superhero reboots, and both plan to take in at least one of the

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6:15

PCJ Pop #4

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/06/03

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia wants you to watch Overcompensating on Prime starring TikTok-er Benito Skinner so she gets a second season, and Shauna has only good things to say about the books Bonfire and Retreat, by Krysten Ritter (yes, THAT Krysten Ritter.)

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42:17

Return of the Athletic Zombies: 28 Years Later

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/05/29

The Junkies compare vacations: Shauna stayed in a hostel and didn’t get murdered (yay!) and Olivia enjoyed the Big Little Lies vibes at an oyster farm north of San Francisco. Then it’s time to talk zombies: specifically the scary-fast ones featured in the 28 Days Later movie series. They both can’t wait for the premiere of the third movie, 28 Years Later, and go back to relive the events leading up to it. (Warning, spoilers for 23- and 18-year-old movies within.) Shauna loves a good end of the world

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4:17

PCJ Pop #3

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/05/20

This week, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna recs Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Olivia pushes everyone to see Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.

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34:29

The Problem(s) with Katy Perry

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/05/15

This week, Shauna and Olivia are finally face to face and back in the studio after Olivia temporarily cures her Seasonal Affect Disorder with a trip to the sunny desert from gloomy San Francisco. After a brief celebration, the Junkies turn to one of today's most serious problems: Katy Perry. Once a teenage dream, now a middle-aged nightmare, Katy only seems to make headlines for ill-advised and tone-deaf actions. Shauna and Olivia remember Katy's golden years when she was a "Firework" dancing with

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