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PCJ Pop #8 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Welcome to this edition of "Pop Culture Junkie Pop."
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  Today I am joined by my producer, Jeff.
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  Hi, Jeff.
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  - Hi, Shauna.
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  - I wish you were Olivia, but I guess you will do.
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  - I wish I was Olivia too.
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  - Don't we all?
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  I am gonna talk about a movie that I watched recently
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  that I'd never heard of and it was a clip came up
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  on Instagram Reels and kind of enticed me.
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  So I am really into disaster and end of the world movies
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  and this one is called "Perfect Sense."
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  It came out in 2012.
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  It stars Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
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  So he's a chef.
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  She's an epidemiologist, not a very good one,
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  but that's neither here nor there.
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  (laughs)
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  And a disease is taking over the world
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  where humankind is losing their senses one by one.
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  So I won't spoil it even though it came out in 2012,
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  but it's not an exactly happy movie,
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  but it's very romantic and introspective.
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  So in the beginning, you are overcome with this bout
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  of just hysterical crying and grief
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  and then you lose your sense of smell.
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  And it just wipes out everyone's sense of smell.
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  It's set in England, but we kind of assume
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  that it's worldwide because it kind of shows
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  different cultures and different people
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  dealing with this.
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  And at first, everyone's like, "Oh, sence of smell's lost,
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  I could deal with that kind of sucks,"
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  but whatever.
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  The second one that comes down for them
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  is their sense of taste.
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  First character is a chef, so that kind of sucks for him.
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  And then slowly but surely each sense
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  is kind of ripped away from humanity
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  and it's like, "What do we still have a left
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  if we are losing the sense of smell and taste
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  and hearing what is still left?
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  How do we still connect with people?"
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  And it's these two people falling in love
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  in the midst of this disaster.
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  And it was sexy and scary and depressing.
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  And I really liked it.
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  So I'm gonna pop this strange movie called Perfect Sense.
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  I ended up paying $3.99 for it on Amazon Prime.
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  I'm not sure if there's somewhere you can stream it for free.
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  I kind of got impatient with searching on my television,
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  but it's definitely on Prime,
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  so I'm gonna go ahead and Pop that.
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  And Jeff, it is on to you.
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  What would you like to Pop for us this week?
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  - Well, my favorite genre of movies is movies about movies
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  and there's a television series about movies
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  called The Studio on Apple TV+
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  and it stars Seth Rogan and he's producer
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  and he directed all the episode with Evan Goldberg, his partner.
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  And it's got a great supporting cast.
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  It's got Catherine O'Hara, Ike Barinholtz,
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  Katherine Hahn.
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  - Oh, this is a sick cast!
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  - And Bryan Cranston appears.
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  And it's about a guy because Seth Rogan plays Matt Romick.
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  And he gets promoted to the head of the studio
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  or the working head of the studio.
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  I don't think he's the head, but he's up there.
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  And he may not be ready for this
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  because he considers himself an artist
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  which art is really done in Hollywood anymore.
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  It's a business.
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  And so let's look at that from that perspective,
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  of trying to do art when the goal is actually make money.
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  - Yeah.
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  - But it's also the funniest show I think I've ever seen.
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  It's really dark sometimes.
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  It gets really awkward sometimes.
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  Do you know what a winner is in film?
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  Like a one shot, like a hallway scene
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  where the camera follows somebody down, right?
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  - And it goes on for a long time.
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  They do a whole episode.
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  That's a winner.
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  The episode's called the winner
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  and they're shooting a winner in this episode.
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  - Oh, that's amazing.
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  - And it's just incredible to watch.
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  And you get exhausted just waiting for them to cut away
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  and they never do.
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  - I have heard of this show.
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  And I definitely think it's kind of gone under the radar,
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  but as it's gone on longer, more and more people
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  are kind of like talking about it and discovering it.
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  And I love Seth Rogen.
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  I think he is absolutely hilarious.
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  I will never be a hater of his unless he does something terrible.
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  Please don't do anything terrible.
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  Seth Rogen, I want to keep thinking you're funny.
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  (laughing)
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  - Well, it was just nominated for a whole bunch of awards.
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  - Awesome.
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  And where did you say it's streaming again?
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  - It's on Apple Plus.
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  - Apple Plus.
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  The one streaming platform I don't have, of course.
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  I think I'm gonna have to do it.
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  I'm gonna have to just--
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  - How do you watch Ted Lasso?
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  - I don't.
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  I know, Haley, the Brave is listening.
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  I promise I'm gonna watch Ted Lasso eventually.
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  I need to get that one final streaming service.
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  Awesome.
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  So our pops this week are perfect cents,
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  and you can watch that on Amazon Prime.
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  And the studio that you can watch on Apple TV.
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  And that will do it for this week's Pop.
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