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PCJ Pop #24 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Hello, and this is your PCJ Pop.
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  I'm Olivia here with Shauna.
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  And this is what I'm Popping this week.
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  The Dynasty: The Murdochs on Netflix.
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  I recently just repurchased Netflix.
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  I was one of the holdouts for Netflix adding
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  in household streaming.
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  I literally didn't have it for like a year.
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  - Oh my God, I do.
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  - I was only watching Netflix.
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  Whenever I was going to people's houses,
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  I was like, ooh, this just came out.
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  - I can't.
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  - With I couldn't do it.
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  - With Bridgerton, I was like, okay, I'm hopping in there.
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  If you've listened to any of these Pops,
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  like I love a documentary.
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  And the Murdoch family is an Australian family
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  responsible for the collapse of the United States democracy.
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  Very, very interesting.
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  Rupert Murdoch is the creator of Fox News.
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  And it is about their family.
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  Their family is the inspiration for succession.
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  And it's really quite interesting.
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  The dynamics of this family, the documentary actually talks
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  about how involved this family was in like,
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  oh my God, this succession plotline just happened.
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  This is gonna happen to us and it really does play out
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  quite like that.
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  So it is very, very interesting.
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  If you liked succession, it was quite an interesting
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  peak behind the curtain.
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  - Is it a TV show or a movie?
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  - It's a four part documentary.
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  Very, very good.
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  All into kind of Rupert Murdoch's climb
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  into Australian media, British media,
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  and then ultimately coming across the pond
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  and to the United States, how he grew that
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  and then ultimately became a fricking menace to his family.
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  - Interesting.
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  I'm gonna check it out.
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  - Yeah, I would highly recommend.
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  And the, yeah, this week I am Popping Dynasty:
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  The Murdochs on Netflix.
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  And that's it for this PCJ Pop.
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