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- 0:00♪ Entertain me, entertain me right now ♪
- 0:04Hello and welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
- 0:07My name is Shauna and I'm here with my bestie.
- 0:10Olivia.
- 0:12Hi.
- 0:13Babies.
- 0:14How are you?
- 0:15Are you okay? How are you?
- 0:17You know, another day checking along.
- 0:19Another day checking along.
- 0:21You know, we were doing really bad at the beginning of the year.
- 0:25We were looking up.
- 0:26Now we're doing really bad again.
- 0:28You know, we're somewhere with you.
- 0:30It's only going to go up.
- 0:32It's only up from here.
- 0:34Everything's going to be fine.
- 0:36Have you been watching the World Cup?
- 0:38By the time this air is, I think the World Cup will be like over.
- 0:42But we're going to pretend like we're all still in it together.
- 0:47The USA got their asses handed to them by Belgium last night.
- 0:51It was really bad.
- 0:54Did you watch?
- 0:55I didn't even watch.
- 0:56I have been going with a friend in San Francisco to watch games.
- 1:02She was like, do you want to go?
- 1:04And I was like, I am down bad from the 4th of July celebration.
- 1:08That if I go, I cannot.
- 1:11I was like, I need to go to sleep early.
- 1:13Stayed up till midnight thinking about the woes of life.
- 1:17And I was like, man, I should have just gone to the room.
- 1:20Oh my god.
- 1:21I loved the drunk dial of you and your friend that you sent me.
- 1:25And the 4th of July.
- 1:27Oh my god.
- 1:28Well, because she was like, answer me.
- 1:30She was messaging you on Instagram and then she was trying to call you.
- 1:33I've never got a phone call on Instagram before.
- 1:36Like, I was like, I need to get a notification.
- 1:38She's going to think that like, I'm dead or something.
- 1:41I was like, I actually need to call Shana from my actual phone this time.
- 1:46So she's not like, what's wrong with Olivia?
- 1:48But yeah, we were on one at that point.
- 1:52It had been a few hours.
- 1:54We did the busiest of 4th of July.
- 1:57We had caviar, oysters, lobster.
- 2:00And it was simply lovely.
- 2:02And then drank a lot of champagne on a ripoff.
- 2:05As if that's the way the founding fathers would have wanted it.
- 2:10They would have loved it.
- 2:12They would have loved it.
- 2:13And it was simply lovely days.
- 2:16They actually probably would have hated it because it involved like women having fun
- 2:22and being spontaneous and loud and crazy.
- 2:25So they would have been like these women are being...
- 2:28Wait, no, what's all, what's all time you like these old British accents at that point, huh?
- 2:33Because they just gotten here.
- 2:35We're like, these ladies are having too much fun.
- 2:39Let's burn them at the stake.
- 2:41Something like that.
- 2:42God bless America.
- 2:43Yeah.
- 2:44Being burnt at the stake.
- 2:47God, take, she's just taking home.
- 2:50Take me to the stake boys.
- 2:52I'm ready.
- 2:53Ready for it.
- 2:54Ready to feel the heat.
- 2:55I am not ready to feel the heat.
- 2:57I've been canvassing and it was 112 today and I was outdoor knocking.
- 3:03And people offer me water, which is very nice, but I try not to take water from strangers.
- 3:09Unless it's like a really sweet old lady like offer me water once.
- 3:13And she was like, oh, you got it.
- 3:14And I was like, yeah, absolutely.
- 3:16I'll take that for me.
- 3:17I can see the water bottle.
- 3:20That was strong.
- 3:22I would definitely keep the sealed water bottle trick going on that.
- 3:25But yeah, I am going to be there for like 24 hours and a week.
- 3:29And I'm not excited about it.
- 3:31But I get to go to Hawaii.
- 3:33So I'm like, okay.
- 3:34Oh, my God.
- 3:35I'm so jealous, dude.
- 3:37You deserve a Hawaii trip, though.
- 3:39Like if anybody deserves to go to Hawaii this year, it's you for sure.
- 3:43Free trip to Hawaii.
- 3:44Thank you.
- 3:45So there are parts of working for a tech company for each of the Hawaii trip.
- 3:51You know, they're a little bit.
- 3:53I love it.
- 3:54I love it.
- 3:55I need you before we get into the topic of this episode, which is going to be a light little fun one, guys.
- 4:01Yay.
- 4:02No more trauma episodes for this week anyway.
- 4:04Yeah, for this week.
- 4:05I need to know how you feel about the wedding of the century.
- 4:09Yeah.
- 4:12Oh, my God.
- 4:13She has opinions.
- 4:14We should just do this as the topic.
- 4:16But yeah, right.
- 4:17You know, we're scrapped in the rest of it.
- 4:19Okay.
- 4:20So I am very, very happy for my close personal friend, Taylor Swift, who has written some of
- 4:28the most devastating breakup songs of all time, which I am currently revisiting and reliving.
- 4:33The woman who wrote the prophecy got married last weekend.
- 4:37Her favorite holiday is the 4th of July.
- 4:41And so, you know, I really do.
- 4:43I love those, yeah, Miss Americana and the heartbreak prints.
- 4:47Really, I'm very happy for her.
- 4:49I think that getting married at MSG makes a lot of sense just from like a privacy and protection point of view.
- 4:56Like for Jack Antonov's wedding, she was simply a guest and it got quite unsafe.
- 5:03I think it was on Long Island where people like absolutely swarmed the sweating celebration.
- 5:09And it was really kind of scary, honestly.
- 5:11It was calm down, it was waltz.
- 5:13And so, I think that was like a year or two ago.
- 5:15So I do think that like quite scared her.
- 5:18And I think that MSG is, you know, a smart way to keep things secret protected.
- 5:24You know, it has a security infrastructure and things like that.
- 5:28The things that have been leaked are a little, a little chuggy, I would say.
- 5:34We're bringing back a 2020 word.
- 5:37But at the end of the day, like Taylor Swift is a cheesy woman.
- 5:41Travis Kelsey for sure.
- 5:43He's like a cool guy.
- 5:45Oh, he's a cheesy bomb.
- 5:47Yeah, the car raffle was like, okay, what are we doing here?
- 5:50And then my favorite part about it was Adam Samler, officiating.
- 5:54Yeah, what the fuck is that?
- 5:56What's the connection there?
- 5:57I know that Travis Kelsey is a chemo in Happy Gov.
- 6:01Is that the only kid I actually have here?
- 6:04No, I did not, I did not, you know, have Adam Samler's daughters are big Swifties.
- 6:10And then he went to the Ares Shore, but they're not like a known friendship.
- 6:18Yeah.
- 6:19Okay, actually, I do have more to say.
- 6:21I know why was Blake lively not invited?
- 6:24Okay, so I don't actually know what is crazier though.
- 6:29Is Carly Claus was invited?
- 6:32Yeah, if you remember our Kailer episode where I go into, I think Taylor Swift is a bisexual.
- 6:40And she was kissing Carly Claus, rumored songs about Carly Claus are golden.
- 6:45And her daylight and golden imagery is all around Carly Claus.
- 6:50And she wore gold dress to the wedding.
- 6:53So Carly is just messy boots, messy boots.
- 6:57Diana A. Grant showed a worn red if she had been invited.
- 7:00Let's invite our ex to the wedding.
- 7:03To invite all of our female exes to the wedding.
- 7:06And then to have Carly Claus there and not Blake lively is quite interesting.
- 7:11Taylor Swift is the odd mother to her children.
- 7:14Yeah, and like Blake Lylee's kids have like lines and Taylor Swift songs, right?
- 7:20Like they have their little gorgeous child voices.
- 7:24Yeah, Betty.
- 7:26Yeah, like a lot of August, they're based off of Blake Lylee's children.
- 7:31So yeah, I mean, maybe it's the Justin Bell Doni situation, maybe Taylor Bell.
- 7:37I think something from that.
- 7:39Something around there.
- 7:40Yeah, we were waiting to see she wasn't very far away.
- 7:43She was like doing something with her kids, but not a good moment for Blake Lylee there.
- 7:48Really ignited back up the Bell Doni stuff.
- 7:50So that's what I hate about that.
- 7:52No, I'm just, I really just want to see her dress.
- 7:57I mean, people are like, I can't tell if what's come out is like, A.I.
- 8:02Leaked photos.
- 8:03So we'll see.
- 8:04The dress was apparently Christian Dior.
- 8:07And so I just want to see it.
- 8:09I just want to see it.
- 8:10But I don't want to see it.
- 8:11So I know some photos kind of came out from the Daily Mail,
- 8:16but we didn't really see like the altar or anything.
- 8:20But we'll see.
- 8:21We'll see what Travis got us a little football pause on.
- 8:24And I heard that they shut down like half of like a lot of very important streets in New York.
- 8:31Anybody listening from New York is going to be shaking their heads at me.
- 8:34But yeah, I don't know what these are called.
- 8:35Very important streets in New York City and Manhattan.
- 8:38Big old streets.
- 8:39Yeah, some big old streets were shut down.
- 8:42Yeah, I mean, to be honest, like I blame the Swifties for that one.
- 8:48Because people were camped outside like all weekend at the rehearsal dinner,
- 8:53hoping to get a glimpse of somebody leaving or something.
- 8:57Yeah, of her.
- 8:58And yeah, so you know, just like be normal, stay at home, wait for the pictures like I am.
- 9:04And trust me, I'm a big old Swiftie.
- 9:06So she is.
- 9:07She is.
- 9:08But I am quite happy for her.
- 9:11And yeah, I am.
- 9:13And you know, again, if the woman who wrote the prophecy is getting married and she's happy,
- 9:17there's hope for us all for this.
- 9:19Yes, girl, you are going to find your Travis Kelsey.
- 9:22Yeah, we'll see.
- 9:23We'll see.
- 9:24Maybe.
- 9:25We'll say no, he's out there.
- 9:27Or maybe he's not.
- 9:28Maybe you'll get your car like cloths.
- 9:30Yeah.
- 9:31I was flirting with girls all weekend.
- 9:33I was like, oh, that.
- 9:35I have to live my life.
- 9:36If somebody asked me, like, would you live here like flirting with boys while you were there visiting her?
- 9:41And I was like, oh, you didn't want a man near her.
- 9:43When we were visiting her, we were hanging out with like the Gays.
- 9:48That's the only man that she was by.
- 9:50The Gays I did make like four new gay best friends over the weekend.
- 9:55And like, truly, like, there's no better compliment going through breakup of a gay man being like,
- 10:02you are so hot.
- 10:03I'm obsessed with you.
- 10:04Yeah.
- 10:05I am.
- 10:06Because it's like, you're not saying that because you want to sleep with me.
- 10:08You just actually think I'm hot.
- 10:10You're saying that.
- 10:11And you know, if you weren't hot, they wouldn't say they would like just not say anything to you.
- 10:15Or they would like, I don't know, they wouldn't talk to you.
- 10:17They'd be like, screw him.
- 10:19Yeah.
- 10:20Well, I have no transition.
- 10:22We're just going to talk about movies in this episode.
- 10:24It's going to be a load of fun.
- 10:25Yeah.
- 10:26We are going to talk about things to look forward to.
- 10:29Yes.
- 10:30There you go.
- 10:31Speaking of great things coming a liviest way and all of our ways this year, let's talk movies.
- 10:38So far in 2026, a big superhero movie like Supergirl has tanked, but some quirky indie projects
- 10:45like back rooms and obsession, which was so freaking good.
- 10:49Our mega hits.
- 10:50So who knows what's going to happen for the rest of the year.
- 10:53We are going to take a look at some of the films coming up that we are looking forward to.
- 10:59The end of July here, you know, when this episode comes out, these will probably be already in theaters.
- 11:05The Odyssey.
- 11:06I am super looking forward to it.
- 11:07I hope it's good.
- 11:08I mean, it's going to be good.
- 11:11It's going to be good.
- 11:12It's a no-no film.
- 11:13It's going to be great.
- 11:14Yeah.
- 11:15Evil Dead Burn is coming out and what I'm really most excited for is Spider-Man Brand New Day,
- 11:21because I am a big Marvel fan, so that's going to round out the end of July.
- 11:27I know.
- 11:28I love that.
- 11:29I love that.
- 11:30I love that Tom and Zander and two movies together.
- 11:32I'm right after getting married.
- 11:33It's thinking of happy couples.
- 11:34That's right.
- 11:37I totally forgot.
- 11:38Didn't even realize that they were both in the Odyssey.
- 11:41That's so funny.
- 11:42Yeah.
- 11:43This Zander is having quite the year.
- 11:44Oh my God.
- 11:45She's in so many freaking movies.
- 11:46Her Odyssey looks have been amazing.
- 11:49That like white, like structured corset situation was insane.
- 11:55Oh my God.
- 11:56Good.
- 11:57Good.
- 11:58Jessa.
- 11:59So we're going to start with August.
- 12:00I don't know why I got so high up there.
- 12:02I know it's very August.
- 12:04So in August, a cool movie that's coming out is called The End of Oak Street.
- 12:09Have you seen the previews for this one already?
- 12:11It's with Anne Hathaway and Iwin McGregor.
- 12:14And it's a sci-fi mystery kind of thriller where it looks like dinosaurs kind of like come
- 12:23into the world that they're in now.
- 12:25It kind of just shows.
- 12:27You and McGregor and Anne Hathaway like running through their neighborhood trying to like escape dinosaurs.
- 12:35Yeah, it is produced by JJ Abrams.
- 12:37So we're going to expect a lot of lens players.
- 12:39But yeah, I think that one looks kind of cool.
- 12:41Maybe we'll have a smoke monster.
- 12:43You never know.
- 12:44I'll never know.
- 12:45A smoke monster.
- 12:46I hope so.
- 12:47You didn't see lost.
- 12:48I did.
- 12:49But I remember a smoke monster.
- 12:51Yeah.
- 12:52I know this is smoke monster.
- 12:53It was like, uh oh.
- 12:54Totally.
- 12:56Yeah, there's going to be a smoke monster in there.
- 12:58There is going to be somehow another insidious movie.
- 13:02Literally come to go out as well.
- 13:04I literally thought like seven years ago they said that we were done with the insidious series.
- 13:10But this one is out of the further.
- 13:13And so basically this one is going to be a trio of stalkers, infiltrate a quiet suburb and force a new family into the astral planet.
- 13:23Where they uncover a terrifying truth.
- 13:25The further is bleeding into the real world.
- 13:29So, you know, one thing about me is I'm going to watch an insidious movie.
- 13:33Oh, yeah.
- 13:34Probably not going to head to a theater for it.
- 13:36But I will rent that baby for sure.
- 13:39I will absolutely watch it.
- 13:41I cannot differentiate each insidious movie in my head.
- 13:45Like what happens in which one?
- 13:47It's all just a big blob of scary.
- 13:51But I'm okay with that blob.
- 13:53And I want more of it.
- 13:55I'm ready to accept the blob into my body.
- 13:57Some of the best horror movies.
- 14:00I think it's just such a good concept.
- 14:02Like the jump scares in it.
- 14:04I'll think about it forever.
- 14:06It's just truly such a good one.
- 14:09And yeah, I really, really love it.
- 14:12I'm going to re-watch them.
- 14:14I'm going to give it a whirl.
- 14:15It's been too long.
- 14:16I think I need to parse that blob out a little bit.
- 14:20T's out the blob.
- 14:21We also have a long awaited sequel, practical magic 2,
- 14:27which I'm so excited for.
- 14:31I'm excited for that too.
- 14:34Oh my gosh.
- 14:35I know.
- 14:36I hope it's good.
- 14:37I feel like it better be.
- 14:38Or I'm going to riot in the theater.
- 14:40I do want to definitely.
- 14:42I think that would be such a fun like midnight showering.
- 14:45Bring some margaritas with you into the theater.
- 14:49And do what I can do with it.
- 14:51Yeah, come to the same Francisco.
- 14:54All right, I'm doing it.
- 14:55I'll be there right now.
- 14:56Do it.
- 14:57I'm on my way.
- 14:58I'm on my way.
- 14:59The movie doesn't come out for two months, but I'm on my way.
- 15:01I'm on my way.
- 15:03Okay.
- 15:04I do have another one in September that I am, like, incredibly excited about as well.
- 15:09It is the love hypothesis.
- 15:12So it is a alley hazel wood book that is being adapted.
- 15:18It has a Lily Reinhardt in it and Tom Bateman who you all, oh gosh, what is he in?
- 15:24I cannot remember right now.
- 15:26The name sounds familiar, but I can't think of them.
- 15:28But Lily Reinhardt is really ill.
- 15:31Yeah, so good.
- 15:33And I think she's going to be such a good like romcom sleeper.
- 15:37I don't think she's been in a romcom.
- 15:39She did kind of like a little like horror movie thriller stint after Riverdale.
- 15:44But I think she was just like so good.
- 15:46This book is so cute.
- 15:48If you've never read it, it's a little fake dating.
- 15:51It's a scenario and it's at Stanford.
- 15:55And so it'll be a little love San Francisco Bay area.
- 16:00So it was a really cute little book.
- 16:03It was one of alley hazel wood's first books.
- 16:05And you may recognize alley hazel wood from us talking about nodding.
- 16:10Yeah.
- 16:11Wait, that's her.
- 16:12Oh my god.
- 16:13Do they not in this book?
- 16:16There is no nodding in this book.
- 16:18God damn.
- 16:19This is a real I'm out.
- 16:21You know, they may throw it in.
- 16:22They may throw it in, you know, it's a fan favorite.
- 16:24I'm so glad he was a really cute book.
- 16:26Allie Hazelwood started as a just regular romance writer, really in her career.
- 16:31A movie that I am excited for in September.
- 16:34I really liked the first iteration of this fall one.
- 16:39And now fall two is coming out.
- 16:41I really like movies where people are like stuck in one place and have to survive.
- 16:45I don't know.
- 16:46Like if somebody's buried alive for the entire movie or on top of a cell phone tower or stuck on in a shipping container in the ocean.
- 16:56I'll sign me up.
- 16:57Those are my movies.
- 16:58So fall two is the sequel to the 2022 movie fall.
- 17:04And it stars Harriet Slater and our Sematamus who get trapped on a narrow plank in Thailand's Mount Kwan.
- 17:12So this is definitely a movie about like two people who climb up really, really high and then get stuck up there and regret it and have to survive.
- 17:19Right, Ro.
- 17:20Things that I would never do also I would never.
- 17:23I would never find going up there.
- 17:25I'm not going up there.
- 17:26We're a skydive.
- 17:27But so I've actually talked about this before where in my younger years I very much wanted to now that my you know front a lobe fully formed.
- 17:36Hell no absolutely not.
- 17:38Maybe you know if I need to feel something again, maybe maybe.
- 17:42Oh, I would maybe want to hit 40 already consider.
- 17:45God, please don't.
- 17:46Let's do something fun instead like just go party instead.
- 17:51Yeah, yeah, we'll just binge drink instead.
- 17:53But October, you know, our spooky our favorite season of all has some absolute going to be is that I'm super excited about the first that I want to talk about is the social
- 18:07recommended.
- 18:22And Jeremy strong playing Mark Zuckerberg and it is a bad.
- 18:37I'm so excited.
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- 23:42I'm so excited.
- 23:52And we are back at the pop culture junkie podcast talking about movies that we are looking forward to or movies that are coming out for the rest of 2026.
- 24:01We are starting up here in November with the movies that we are most looking forward to.
- 24:07The middle of the movie that I'm most excited for is the Hunger Games Sunrise on the reaping.
- 24:14Oh my god.
- 24:29I'm so excited.
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- 33:31I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 33:41I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 33:51I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 33:55I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 33:57I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
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- 35:15I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 35:17I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
- 35:19Movie is so underrated.
- 35:21It's so funny.
- 35:23Yeah, it's great.
- 35:25Should have been a pop.
- 35:27I agree.
- 35:29Right that down.
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- 35:33Right that down.
- 35:35Right that down.
- 35:37So I think that's a wrap on this episode of pop culture junkie talking about our movies that we are most looking forward to.
- 35:37Let us know what you guys are most looking forward to or what you think is going to be great.
- 35:43What's going to suck?
- 35:45What's going to be a big flop like Supergirl.
- 35:47And what's going to win big award season next year.
- 35:49So until next time Olivia, where can our listeners find you on social media?
- 35:53You can find me on Instagram @livymariez
- 35:59L-I-V-I-M-A-R-I-E-Z.
- 36:01You can find me Shauna Trinidad on Instagram and Threads @shaunatrinidad
- 36:07S-H-A-U-N-A-T-R-I-N-I-D-A-D.
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