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PCJ Pop #4 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  - Hello, and this is your Pop Culture Junkie Pop.
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  I'm Shauna.
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  - And this is Olivia.
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  - And Olivia, what do you recommend
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  to our listeners this week?
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  - So I am recommending a show
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  that I have not been able to stop thinking about
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  since I watched it.
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  It came out about a month ago, it's amazing.
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  It's called Overcompensating.
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  It's on Prime.
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  And it is by Benito Skinner.
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  It's written and created by him.
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  And if that name sounds familiar,
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  it is because he is Benny Drama
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  on TikTok, Instagram, everywhere.
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  And he's always done like little skits.
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  He's really famous for his Kim Kardashian,
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  Courtney Kardashian impressions.
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  He's like a very attractive gay man.
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  So is he the one who they have the cups and they know?
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  - That's a different one.
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  He is in the show though.
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  So Benito Skinner is Benny Drama online,
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  but he's kind of moved out of just being
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  like a TikTok or Instagram person
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  and of course he has a show now.
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  But he's really kind of like queued into
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  the kind of like celebrities.
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  He's like, he's really good friends with Charlie X.
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  He's actually an executive producer for the show.
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  But he does a podcast with Mary Beth Barone as well.
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  And this is so funny.
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  So it is a college show.
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  It's kind of like a goofy euphoria like.
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  - Oh, funny.
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  - But it's like funny.
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  It's like a...
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  - It's a four-year-old.
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  - It's funny.
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  - No, yeah.
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  Like it's not like such a heavy...
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  - Yeah. - Kind of like that vibe, like party kids.
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  And it's set in college.
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  So we're not watching high school trauma.
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  But it's honestly so amazing.
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  So overcompensating is about this football player
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  from Idaho figuring out if he's gay and going to college.
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  And it's so incredibly funny.
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  I bingeed it all in one day.
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  I was laughing so hard.
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  It's also a time capsule.
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  So if you were in college from the years of like 2011 to 2016,
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  you are gonna have so many niche references.
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  It is so iconic.
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  What they were doing, the outfits, the costumes.
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  I loved it.
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  - That sounds great.
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  That was your college years.
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  - Yeah.
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  - That was, Sean, it was the workforce.
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  - Yep, you know.
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  - And just a baby.
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  - It get baby.
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  - Well, it's a sound thing.
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  - It's a baby.
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  - Yeah, highly recommend.
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  - And one more time, what's it called
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  and where could people watch it?
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  - It's called overcompensating.
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  You can watch it on Prime.
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  And please do because I really want them to pick it up
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  for a season two.
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  And Prime will cancel the show.
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  - Real fast. - They really will.
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  - They really will.
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  - I typically pop two books by the same author
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  because I read them so quickly.
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  The author is Christian Ritter.
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  Yes, that Christian Ritter, known as Jessica Jones
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  in the MCU and also for her character on it.
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  Right.
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  Amongst other things to trust the B.
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  at apartment 23.
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  I adore her.
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  She wrote her first book called "Bonfire,"
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  about November 2017.
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  And it's about a woman who travels back to her hometown
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  after trying to leave her a popular high school past
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  behind her, but then she becomes a lawyer
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  and has to investigate some things that are going down.
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  This book was a slow burn, but so good, so juicy, so well written.
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  I did a combination of reading the paperback
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  and listening to it on book on tape.
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  (laughing)
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  Her second book, which I actually read first,
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  is called "Retreat."
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  That one just came out recently in 2025.
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  This one was incredible.
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  So this is about a beautiful con artist who kind of
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  gets herself weaved in to an art dealing culture
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  where she takes over an identity of a woman she believes
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  to be dead and wants to just go on a relaxing vacation
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  while also--
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  As conwoman somebody.
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  Yes, as conwoman I want to do.
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  Did you finish this one yet, Olivia?
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  No, I need to get the physical book because I will say
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  I'm an avid audiobook listener and she does the
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  audiobook narration and I think she has a phenomenal voice,
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  but every character, even the men, I picture as
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  Kristen Ritter, either dressed up as that person or in drag.
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  And it wasn't working for me.
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  I think she would do a really great narration
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  for like one character.
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  So it's taking me out of it, but I do think that I'd
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  get as a physical book.
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  I'm halfway through it.
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  So I'm close, but it's going to give her two purchases there.
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  I definitely do recommend getting the paper back copy of it.
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  It is a twist ending.
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  It's so entertaining.
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  And I really want her to write more novels.
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  It kind of got me into this thing that I've
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  been right now with kind of four slash mystery, murder
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  mystery.
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  That's the kick that I'm on right now with my books.
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  And it is all thanks to Kristen Ritter.
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  So I am definitely going to pop both Bonfire and Retreat,
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  where you can find wherever books are sold.
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  And you can listen to them.
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  Or book tape.
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  Right.
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  Listen to your book on tape.
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  Right.
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  Listen to you unspotted.
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  My book on tape.
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  I love pop books, I'm taking.
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  So that is going to be your PCJ Pop for this week.
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  Make sure to check out Overcompensating and also
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  Retreat and Bonfire.
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