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Pop Culture Junkie®

Pop Culture Junkie

Pop Culture Junkie® has your weekly entertainment fix! The Pop Culture Junkies review and preview the best of what"s happening now and what"s coming up in movies, music, TV and more. Tune in every week to hear the best in what you love most: pop culture.

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44:26

PCJ Classic - Stranger Things Happen with Grant Goodman

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/11/27

To celebrate Stranger Things premiering the first episode of its final season this week, we are replaying this very special edition of Pop Culture Junkie featuring Shauna, along with Junkies emeriti Alex and Hayley the Brave and special guest Grant Goodman, who appeared in Season 4. We hope you enjoy this look back at that season before you binge the new episodes.__________________________________________This week The Junkies welcome an incredibly special guest; Grant Goodman, aka 'Freak' from

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4:51

PCJ Pop #16

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/11/18

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Though Halloween is over, it’s always the right time to enjoy a good horror flick. Shauna recommends you watch the demonically good The Omen from 1976, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, and Olivia counters with the goofy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which stars Benjamin Walker, Anthony Mackie and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be

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38:08

Jason Forever: Looking at the Friday the 13th Series

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/11/13

The Friday the 13th movie series is one of the top slasher movie franchises of the 1980s and beyond, so this week the Junkies take a look at Jason Voorhees, the unkillable movie monster with the staggeringly high body count who has been to camp, to hell, to outer space and has battled Freddy Krueger. The Junkies look at all 12 (not 13?) movies in the series so far, compare Jason to the other unstoppable slashers who made it big in the 1980s, Halloween's Michael Myers and Nightmare on Elm Street's

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4:52

PCJ Pop #15

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/11/04

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia encourages you to binge The Girlfriend, a spicy drama starring Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke airing on Prime, and Shauna strongly recommends the television equivalent of a warm hug, The Great British Baking Show which is now streaming on Netflix.We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click

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47:43

Tilly Norwood and Other AI Nightmares —with Alaina...

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/10/30

Olivia and Shauna devote their last Spooky Season episode to the modern horror that is Generative AI, the inescapable technology that is not only replacing working writers and artists, but also must steal their work in order to do so. Recently, an AI "actress" going by the name Tilly Norwood stirred up a lot of controversy in Hollywood, so for this episode, the Junkies are joined by Alaina Lightfoot, an actor, writer, director, and producer based in Los Angeles who has appeared in commercials, web

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5:04

PCJ Pop #14

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/10/21

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week’s Pop is all about zombies. Shauna promotes the wildly enjoyable CW series iZombie featuring Rose McIver and Rahul Kohli, and Olivia thinks you will enjoy the 2014 movie Cooties, which stars Elijah Wood, Alison Pill We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Cllick

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50:10

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 101

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/10/16

This week's episode covers a topic the Junkies rarely talk about: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kidding! But in this in-depth look at the iconic television drama, Shauna and Olivia take a deep dive into the background, lore, and future of the show that brought them together as friends long ago, during the plague years. The Junkies take you through the basics, like who plays what character, how the show developed from the movie of the same name written by Joss Whedon, and how the show broke new ground in

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5:45

PCJ Pop #13

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/10/07

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, recent events have Olivia thinking about The Leftovers with Justin Theroux and Liv Tyler on HBO, and Shauna promotes the witty and wonderful Warm Bodies, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer and available to stream on Amazon Prime. You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos We have

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45:31

The Cryptid Prophecies: Pop Culture's Legendary...

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/10/02

An upcoming trip to Appalachia has Olivia thinking about creatures of myth and legend, so she and Shauna explore the spooky, scary and sometimes silly world of cryptids, and how they are represented in pop culture. After defining what a cryptid is and isn't (sorry, Slenderman fans, your guy isn't one), the Junkies discuss their favorite cryptids, discuss the movies and TV shows they appear in, and figure out which ones they could and could not take in a one-on-one fight. If they ever come up against

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6:42

PCJ Pop #12

Pop Culture Junkie® ·

2025/09/23

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna warns that you will cry when you watch Tom Hanks’ award-winning performance in Castaway from 2000, and Olivia revisits the year 2006 with the fun revenge romp John Tucker Must Die featuring Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti and Sophia Bush. You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click

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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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