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PCJ Pop #9 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  (upbeat music)
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  Welcome to a new episode of Pop Culture Junkie Pops,
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  where we tell you what you should be reading,
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  listening to, watching, unless you want to suck
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  and not do it.
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  So, I love you.
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  But you should, because we're telling you
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  these things are good.
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  So, you know, and Olivia, what are you up to?
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  (laughing)
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  Yeah.
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  So, this week, I'm gonna pop a movie
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  that I talked about at the start of this year
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  that I was quite excited for.
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  Finally got around to seeing "Death of Unicorn".
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  Sean, have you seen it yet?
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  I have not because the rights made to those reviews
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  were kind of iffy.
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  Okay, I say you should watch it.
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  And here's the thing, if you watch the trailer
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  and go in knowing that is an A24 film,
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  you will get exactly what you expect out of that trailer.
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  It is a really, really great commentary on the rich,
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  on Big Pharma, on all of these things that,
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  the elite is the capitalism,
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  and it's just a commentary on that.
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  Now, of course, it's a bad shit crazy,
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  because it also is about killing a unicorn
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  and finding a unicorn.
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  So it kind of has this commentary on society,
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  but then it's also silly goofy good time,
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  as well you have Paul Rudd, you have Jenna Ortega.
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  I mean, that's enough right there.
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  It's a convince me to watch it, honestly.
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  I love both of them.
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  Yes, and it's good.
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  It's silly, it's goofy.
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  I watch it after a difficult day,
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  and I had a simply lovely time
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  and got all the giggles that I wanted.
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  So screw Rotten Tomatoes, I say pop it and watch it.
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  You know what?
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  I don't always trust Rotten Tomatoes.
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  I agree with that.
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  Like just because, you know, based,
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  I don't know, critics don't get something,
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  doesn't mean you're not gonna like it.
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  So I'm gonna give it a whirl.
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  I don't agree with you.
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  For you, a lot of the time.
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  This is fair.
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  I am going to pop a book this week,
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  and this is actually one that you have read as well,
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  Olivia.
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  I am going to pop a book called Light Out by Navessa Allen.
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  So, book is filthy y'all.
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  This is a muddy book.
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  It has an entire page in the beginning of trigger warnings
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  about knife play, anal play, stalking, murder.
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  I don't know if you need it.
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  It's much more like.
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  Oh, no, it would take me too long to list them all.
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  But basically this woman has, who's a nurse,
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  gets her kicks off kind of following a guy online
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  who posts shirtless videos wearing like a horror mask,
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  like a scary mask, but you can see his body
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  and it's just like, thirst traps.
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  Social comment little things on his pictures
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  and videos about how hot he is
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  and the things that she wishes they could do to each other.
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  But what happens when she really gets the chaff to do those?
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  Does she really want to live out these twisted fantasies
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  with a masked man or is she too chicken
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  or is he too crazy and pushes her to the edge?
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  Find out in this book that critics call
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  disgusting and delightful.
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  I also think this book is hilarious.
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  I laughed out loud a lot
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  because both characters understand
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  that what they're doing is absurd
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  and they say it out loud a lot.
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  Like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm doing this.
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  They're like, it's funny.
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  It's, there's a mystery in it.
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  It's sexy.
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  There's a little bit of intrigue and murder.
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  So if that is your kind of stick
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  and you don't mind some dark stalker rom-com action,
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  then I'm gonna pop the lights out.
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  - Yeah, it is quite crazy.
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  - Oh, did you like it?
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  - Yes, yeah, it's good.
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  It's silly goofy.
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  It does feel like a published fan fiction.
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  - Yeah.
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  - For like, it's very, it was very like a time capsule.
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  We are doing a book club, our friend group.
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  And we were like, should we do lights out too?
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  And I was like, I don't wanna do the sequel to it
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  as like and have like a discussion on it.
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  - Yeah, it's a big club.
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  But I might be able to be brought back in to the universe
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  at some point.
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  It's not about the same two characters, the second book.
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  But yeah, it's definitely like a very popular book talk book.
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  And yeah, it's fun.
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  It's a good little quick read and it's goofy,
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  but it is at certain points.
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  You're like, "Hit, go on.
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  What am I reading?"
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  - Yeah, you feel a little like disgusting for reading it,
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  but then you start laughing and then you realize,
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  you know what, there's horrors in the world
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  I need a little goofy sometimes.
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  - I would say if we ever make you culture pearls,
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  do not read it.
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  - That is true.
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  - Don't read it.
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  If pop culture junkies too much for you,
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  if you couldn't get through the Shrek fan fiction episode
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  with us, do not read that book.
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  But if that was your thing, then this book's for you.
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  - Also, on that note, we've been trying to convince
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  our producers to let us do another episode.
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  So if you liked that, leave us a five star review saying,
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  I want more fan fiction episodes and we're there.
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  We gotta show them that the people want our land sauce.
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  - The people want our land sauce.
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  - Olivia, can everybody watch Death of a Unicorn?
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  - Death of a Unicorn is available on Prime Video.
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  It is for purchase right now,
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  but I think it's like four bucks per rental,
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  but it's really good and I say,
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  do it.
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  - And you can find lights out really at any bookstore.
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  You can find it on Amazon if you really want to
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  or you could also listen to it.
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  There is an audio book version.
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  So those are gonna be our pops
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  and we will see you next week for more pop culture.
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