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PCJ Pop #6 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  Hello, and this is your PCJ pop.
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  I'm Shauna, and this is Olivia.
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  Olivia, what do you recommend this week?
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  - Okay, so there is this Netflix documentary
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  and it really freaked me out.
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  So I don't know if I've ever told you
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  that when I was younger, I lived in tornado alley.
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  And I was so afraid of the movie "Twister."
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  Another movie, my dad let me watch.
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  - Entirely too young.
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  And I lived in Texas and I lived in Chicago.
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  And there are hella hurricanes in there.
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  Or hurricanes.
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  - Tornados.
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  - Hella, hella tornadoes.
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  - Yeah, also scary.
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  - So there is this Netflix documentary
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  called "The Twister: Caught in the Storm."
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  And it is about, I mean, it is a pretty crazy tornado.
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  So it is an EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri in 2011.
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  And because it's in 2011,
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  there is like a crazy amount of footage
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  that is captured within this.
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  So there are, I wanna say like five different perspectives
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  of this tiny little town in Missouri
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  that gets hit by this massive tornado.
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  And an EF5 tornado is like quite big.
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  It killed 158 people.
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  - That's insane.
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  - Yeah.
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  And so it hit quickly.
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  It damaged 8,000 homes.
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  And it's the story of it.
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  And it's like people like holding onto each other,
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  holding onto like the foundation of a building,
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  like trying not to fly away.
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  - Yeah.
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  - Who did get sucked into the tornado?
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  - And they show all of this?
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  - You don't see like the footage of him being in there,
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  but he does like an interview after it.
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  - It's crazy.
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  - He survives.
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  - Oh my God, I need to watch this.
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  Okay.
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  Yep.
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  So it is really good.
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  It's on Netflix and it's the "Twister Caught in the Storm."
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  Very much pop.
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  - That sounds incredible.
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  And I definitely need to give that a try.
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  I recently watched "Twisters" like the sequel
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  to "Twister Movie."
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  - Yeah, that's all right.
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  That's okay.
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  I like the original better.
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  - I feel like it's so much better.
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  - Yeah.
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  Always.
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  My pop is gonna be a movie that came out
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  in the beginning of June.
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  I think it's still in theaters.
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  So it's probably gonna be on streaming very soon here.
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  It is called "Balerina."
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  It is marketed also as from the world of John Wick,
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  "Balerina."
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  So I, yes, it was so good.
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  So I love the John Wick movies.
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  It took me a while to finally watch them
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  because spoiler, the dog dies.
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  (laughs)
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  And for so long I was like,
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  I can't watch it, I can't watch it.
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  The dog dies and Andrew kept being like,
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  no, I promise they're really good movies.
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  And then the trajectory of the first one
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  is this man wants to get revenge for his dog dying.
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  So in John Wick is really good at world building
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  this whole world of assassins.
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  So in "Ballerina,"
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  Ana de Armas plays Eve,
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  who is a Ballerina turned assassin
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  who takes on an army of killers while she's seeking revenge
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  against those who are responsible
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  for the death of her father.
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  It was incredible.
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  It sets up from the beginning like she is a petite woman.
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  So she, it's said,
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  you might not be as strong as some of these men
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  who you come up with again.
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  It's like, honestly, but you're gonna have to be creative
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  and figure out ways to kill them anyways.
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  And girlfriend gets creative
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  and she is just so badass
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  and does a lot of her own stunts.
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  And you know, it's a lot of the gunplay
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  that we come to love from the John Wick movies.
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  And this isn't a spoiler because it's in the trailer,
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  but Kiana Reeves does make an appearance
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  in the movie as John Wick with his same, yeah.
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  Hello, like just Kiana Reeves acting skills,
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  which we all've grown to love.
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  And he's great in it, but doesn't take away any
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  of the spotlight from On a Day Armist.
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  Like she totally carries this film.
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  And I would absolutely pop it
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  if you are a fan of the John Wick franchise.
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  If you're not, I'd say still give it a whirl.
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  There might be a few things in there
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  that you're like, what is that?
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  Why are they there?
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  But I still think it's an incredible action flick
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  whether you are a John Wick fan or not.
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  So I'm gonna go ahead and pop that.
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  So we are gonna recommend that you all check out
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  The Twister: Caught in the Storm on Netflix and Ballerina,
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  which is probably now still in theaters soon to be streaming.
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  And that is your PCJ Pop.
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