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PCJ Pop #12 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Hello, this is your PCJ Pop, I'm Olivia.
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  - And I'm Shauna.
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  - And Shauna, what are you recommending
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  to our listeners this time?
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  - So I have mentioned before in the podcast
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  that I am a big fan of disaster movies
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  and movies where people are stranded alone
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  and in dire situations and have to survive.
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  So I realized it had been a long time
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  since I watched Castaway from the year 2000.
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  And I snapped Olivia while I was watching it
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  because I cried.
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  (laughing)
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  How could you not?
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  Oh my gosh, I forgot how heart-wrenching this movie was.
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  Cast Away came out in the year 2000.
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  It is a survival drama film directed and produced
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  by Robert Zamekis and it is written by William Boyle's
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  Junior, it stars Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt.
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  Tom Hanks is a FedEx troubleshooter
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  who is traveling, that's literally like what his title is.
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  I don't know what a FedEx troubleshooter.
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  - I think he's such an engineer.
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  - It's a FedEx troubleshooter in Wikipedia.
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  - Wow.
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  - Yeah, that's the very official trouble.
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  - Oh, I got from the beginning as works at FedEx,
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  he's really into his job.
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  He has to fly somewhere.
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  And he gives Helen Hunt a little package
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  that we kind of assinuate as a ring before he leaves
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  and says, "We'll open it together
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  when I get back for Christmas."
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  No, his plane crashes and he spins.
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  - Okay, don't spoil the whole movie.
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  - Oh my God, this movie came out 25 years ago
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  in the name of a castaway.
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  - But you're popping it.
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  - You're recommending people watch it.
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  - So the name of the movie is Castaway,
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  he becomes a Castaway.
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  I guess I did need to mention the ring thing.
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  Anyway, very sad movie, very gut-wrenching movie.
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  He becomes a Castaway.
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  - There's a volleyball.
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  - There's a volleyball.
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  - There's a drink.
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  - He eats a lot of coconuts.
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  Olivia, what is your problem?
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  - John, I forgot what these episodes are.
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  Just like, let me tell you the whole plot of the movie.
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  - I got really into it.
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  - This movie's amazing and I wanna watch it again
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  even though it made me cry.
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  - Also, I love how you were like,
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  I forgot how devastating this movie is.
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  A movie about someone being stranded on an island
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  for a long period of time.
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  Yeah, I think that's gonna be very difficult
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  on a human being.
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  - It's so well done though.
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  And I didn't know it was gonna hit me
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  because I remember watching it years ago.
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  And I thought it was sad, but I didn't cry.
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  Maybe it's just 'cause I'm closer to my imminent demise.
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  Now and things make me cry, but it made me sad.
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  - That is a movie.
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  - But it's very well acted movie.
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  Tom Hanks is insane in it.
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  He loses a ton of weight for this role.
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  And I definitely suggest,
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  oh, he was nominated for Best Actor in a leading role
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  in the Academy Awards.
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  He won the Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
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  So definitely gonna suggest you all give that another try.
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  If you haven't watched it in a while.
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  - Yeah, castaways, like a movie where
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  there are other people in it,
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  but very limited amount of time.
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  And it is just a really, really good piece of acting.
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  And that, it's kind of like 127 hours
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  where there's like one person in it.
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  And they really have to carry the emotional gravitas
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  of everything and really-
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  - That's one of my favorite genres in movie
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  is person stranded alone for the majority of the movie
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  and needs to survive or thrive
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  or make it out of some dire situation.
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  - I love that.
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  - Yeah, I love it.
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  Well, mine is also an old movie,
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  but I don't know if it's as dire straits.
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  John and I actually watched this when she was here
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  and it was a good old-fashioned group and a gag.
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  We watched John Tucker must die.
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  And this movie is absolutely like a crazy,
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  crazy movie.
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  Let me see, when did this thing come out?
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  - It should never be made nowadays.
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  It's very offensive in some parts,
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  but it's a product at the time it was made.
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  - Yeah, so John Tucker must die.
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  It came out in 2006.
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  It is absolutely a time capsule of that time period,
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  but it is based on this hot jock
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  on the basketball team who is a player.
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  And he has multiple girlfriends that he is lying to
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  and they all discover that they were dating the same guy
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  at the time and they convince the new girl
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  to help them get revenge on him and break his heart.
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  It's such a time capsule into the high school tropes
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  of the 2000s, the fashion, the, you know, just absolute,
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  like she's a slut.
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  - Yeah, the slut shaming is out of control in this movie.
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  But it stars Jesse Metcalf who at this time,
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  such a total babe.
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  - It's so hot.
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  - So hot in "Dusts for Housewives 2."
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  - He has a shanti aerial kebble.
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  It has Britney Snow.
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  So Fia Bush, somehow they try to make Britney Snow ugly
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  in this, which is a crazy take.
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  And then also Penn Badgley.
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  This is one of his early ones and then Jenny McCarthy.
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  Like you are not missing.
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  If you watch this, just know it's a silly goofy time
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  and we don't not support torturing a man.
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  - I don't not support torturing a man
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  and I don't not support telling everybody
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  that it's her face.
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  (laughing)
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  - I don't support the drugging part of it.
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  When they do that, they put, it is like estrogen, but.
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  - They definitely drug him and it's not cool
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  to spread rumors about people's sexual status
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  but in 2006, it was a funny goofy time.
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  - Yeah, it was a great time.
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  And you get to see Jessie Matt Kaff in his absolute crime.
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  So Fia Bush looks amazing in any time.
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  - Yeah, everybody's adorable in this movie.
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  - Yeah, absolutely.
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  Okay, so for this week, we recommend that you watch Castaway.
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  Where'd you watch it?
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  - I watched it on Prime.
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  - Perfect.
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  So we recommend that you watch Cast Away
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  on Amazon Prime and then check out
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  John Tucker must die on Hulu.
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  And that's it for your PCJ Pop.
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