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PCJ Pop #27 · Pop Culture Junkie®

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  Welcome to your PCJ pop, my name is Shauna,
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  and I'm Olivia.
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  In this week, I wanna talk about a 2024 Netflix documentary
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  that I just watched that has been stuck in my mind
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  for weeks now since I've seen it.
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  It's called "Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy."
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  So good.
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  Oh my God, okay, so it's a documentary directed by Nic Stacey
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  that exposes the marketing tactics used by major brands
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  to encourage constant consumerism,
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  exploring the hidden strategies that keep people buying
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  and the environmental impact.
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  This movie, oh my God, so it talks about what brands do
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  that make you wanna endlessly scroll
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  and just click "Buy Now," add to cart, add to cart, right?
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  And it's used to like we had to go to the mall
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  if we wanted to buy a new pair of jeans.
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  Now we can go to Amazon or she and spend, you know,
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  10 bucks and get a pair, Amazon, you can get it,
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  you know, in a couple hours, she and you can get it
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  super cheap and super low quality.
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  And what this has done to just our spending habits
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  are obsession with consumption and consumerism
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  and what it's done to the environment.
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  So so many of the things that we just click by
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  and like all this fast fashion is made of microplastics
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  and things that are just gonna end up in landfills
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  or fall apart after a few washes.
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  And it is, I mean, you've been teasing me for years
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  for shopping at Shea and Olivia,
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  it calling me a ecotarrist, like I am done.
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  I am fucking done with Shea and I cleared out
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  all of the plastic Tupperware that was falling apart
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  in my kitchen and I'm just trying so hard now
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  to be so much more like conscious of what I buy.
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  And like do I need this?
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  Do I really need this?
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  And if I do, do I need to make the delivery driver
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  drive to my house to drop this off?
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  Or can I get in my car and like, you know,
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  - Car and go buy it.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And go buy it and like spend, you know, small business
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  and support local and support the local economy.
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  Oh my God, this movie was just mind blowing.
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  - That's so funny.
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  You said the ecotarrist thing because I feel like
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  I started saying that to you after I watched that
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  when it first came out.
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  (laughing)
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  That's so funny.
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  I just didn't get it.
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  I wasn't ready yet, Olivia.
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  - I know, I should have told you,
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  I should have popped it when it came out.
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  - I wasn't ready yet.
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  - No, it is really good.
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  I am, as you guys know, I recommend a lot of documentaries.
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  I also think it's a really well shot.
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  - Yeah.
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  - And I really like the way that they present it
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  and animate it and do all of that.
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  I think it's really quite interesting.
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  - It's very well produced and like colorful
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  and they have like kind of like the fake marketing.
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  Like here's step one to get people addicted.
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  And like it's just, it's a very fun watch too.
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  But very mind opening, I will definitely pop it.
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  So go ahead and stream by now the shopping conspiracy
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  on Netflix.
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  And that'll do it for this week's PCJ Pop.
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