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Pop Culture Junkie®
Pop Culture Junkie® has your weekly entertainment fix! The Pop Culture Junkies review and preview the best of what's happening now and what's coming up in movies, music, TV and more. Tune in every week to hear the best in what you love most: pop culture.
Episodes
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #14
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week’s Pop is all about…
Pop Culture Junkie®Buffy the Vampire Slayer 101
This week's episode covers a topic the Junkies rarely talk about: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kidding! But in this in-depth look at the iconic television drama…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #13
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, recent events have…
Pop Culture Junkie®The Cryptid Prophecies: Pop Culture's Legendary Creatures
An upcoming trip to Appalachia has Olivia thinking about creatures of myth and legend, so she and Shauna explore the spooky, scary and sometimes silly world of…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #12
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna warns that you…
Pop Culture Junkie®Best and Worst: Pop Culture Parents
Olivia coaches Shauna on how to score the coveted Lady Gaga tickets for the lowest possible price and the two relive Shauna's recent visit to the City by the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #11
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia wants you to…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Book Club: Romantasy Recommendations
After a brief diversion into talking about the upcoming Wedding of the Century, the Junkies convene the Pop Culture Junkie Book Club for a discussion of the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #10
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna loved the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Fetishized: A Conversation with Kaila Yu
Shauna interviews author Kaila Yu, whose fascinating and deeply personal debut memoir Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty was…
Pop Culture Junkie®Mr. Fantastic: A Converation with Alex Hyde-White
The Junkies welcome Alex Hyde-White for a super-powered conversation. Alex, who goes by the nickname Punch, and was the first person to play a live-action Reed…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #9
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia backs Death of a…
Pop Culture Junkie®Romantic Mayhem in the Movies
Shauna reveals her deep but temporary jealousy of Olivia, because of her amazing experience seeing Lady Gaga in concert, but is soon over it. Then the Junkies…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #8
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna recommends the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Classic - Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
In this classic episode, the Junkies talk about the lighthearted family comedy/snuff film their producers made them watch: Roar, also called "The Most…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #7
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna recommends the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Baby, What's Going On with Justin Bieber?
This week Shauna and Olivia dish some celebrity goss and figure out their weekend plans - they are true multi-taskers! Then it's on to the main topic - What's…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #6
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia’s pick is the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Bring on the Fireworks: Independence Day (1996)
Olivia and Shauna discuss their summer plans: Olivia's seeing as much live music as possible, and Shauna's just trying to beat the punishing Phoenix heat...at…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #5
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna is all about…
Pop Culture Junkie®Superheroes and Sequels: A Summer Movie Preview
Shauna shares her upcoming cosplay plans, while Olivia shares her musical revenge against a petty neighbor, and they both wonder if the podcast is becoming a…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #4
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Olivia wants you to…
Pop Culture Junkie®Return of the Athletic Zombies: 28 Years Later
The Junkies compare vacations: Shauna stayed in a hostel and didn’t get murdered (yay!) and Olivia enjoyed the Big Little Lies vibes at an oyster farm north of…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #3
This week, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna recs Star Wars: Revenge of the…
Pop Culture Junkie®The Problem(s) with Katy Perry
This week, Shauna and Olivia are finally face to face and back in the studio after Olivia temporarily cures her Seasonal Affect Disorder with a trip to the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #2
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. This week, Shauna breaks down the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Book Club: 'Sunrise on the Reaping' by Suzanne Collins
Olivia and Shauna take a deep dive into Suzanne Collins' new book Sunrise on the Reaping. Set before the events of her Hunger Games trilogy, Sunrise on the…
Pop Culture Junkie®PCJ Pop #1
In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. In this episode, Olivia continues…
Pop Culture Junkie®Cats, Canines, Killer Whales and Other Pop Culture Creatures
This week, the Junkies talk about the best pets in pop culture: the goodest boys, the bestest girls, the finest...fish? Whether furry, feathery or finned…
Pop Culture Junkie®Living in the Simulation
Olivia and Shauna get pixelated this week with a look at The Sims, the long running game that allows - even encourages - murder and other virtual, victimless…
Pop Culture Junkie®Looking at 'V' with Michael E. Cullen II
Shauna and Olivia welcome special guest Michael E. Cullen, award-winning filmmaker and host of the All2ReelToopodcast. Michael has directed films like the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Celebrity Besties
Pulling an Uno Reverse from their last episode about celebrity feuds, Olivia and Shauna take on celebrity best buds, looking at famous people who genuinely…
Pop Culture Junkie®Got Beef?
Celebrities are not like us: when they bicker amongst themselves, it's all over the news, and maybe even the Super Bowl half-time show. Shauna and Olivia break…
Pop Culture Junkie®Mayhem and Unicorns: Looking Ahead at 2025
Olivia and Shauna are working on their long-distance relationship, but they're always together in spirit, especially when it comes to talking about pop…
Pop Culture Junkie®A Wicked Holiday Romance
Olivia and Shauna find themselves on the Naughty List (again) this holiday season, so this episode is all about those holiday romance movies - the kind where…
Pop Culture Junkie®Road Trippin'
This week, Olivia and Shauna give their book reports - how many books they've read this year above and beyond their goal, and not to brag, but we know two…
Pop Culture Junkie®Our Favorite 'F' Word
The Junkies gather together to mourn some hopes, but also to celebrate an important victory. And while the future looks uncertain, Shauna and Olivia vow that…
Pop Culture Junkie®Psychological Political Thriller
Olivia recently spent some time in San Francisco, giving her time to think about her proximity to the Zodiac Killer's turf (and to binge watch both Princess…
Pop Culture Junkie®The Descent Into Horror
Olivia is back from the Big Apple, where she took a tour through Jimmy Fallon's "Tonightmares" - a haunted house based on the late night host's own personal…
Pop Culture Junkie®Tripping Through Uncanny Valley
Shauna details her busy week getting interviewed by the national press (and the advocacy work that got their attention, and Olivia describes her slightly less…
Pop Culture Junkie®Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Don't say it three times! Shauna details her recent encounter with a celebrity. Who was it? You'll have to listen to find out, but he's super cool, has…
Pop Culture Junkie®What a Twist!
Olivia and Shauna start talking about bangs – the kind that you choose deliberately, not trauma bangs, and then…plot twist! No, that’s this week’s show topic…
Pop Culture Junkie®Keeping Up with Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Olivia and Shauna face an inconvenient truth: no family gets more airtime on Pop Culture Junkie than the Kardashians. And that’s odd, especially since Shauna…
Pop Culture Junkie®Soundtrack to a Recession
Shauna is obsessed with getting through this journey we call life, and what better way to do that than with a little bit of pop culture? She has controversial…
Pop Culture Junkie®Passionate Hate Watching
Olivia complains about how Shauna "Elle Woodsed" her at her recent pool party, but Shauna tells her that her costume was perfection, even if she was the only…
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San Diego Comic Con 2024
Shauna and Olivia try to come to grips with the most jaw-dropping announcement from last week's San Diego Comic Con event: Robert Downey Jr. is returning to…
Pop Culture Junkie®Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made
Shauna fills Olivia in on what she's been doing lately - as if they both didn't just spend the week on a girls trip in Mexico. Shauna tells us how she was…
Pop Culture Junkie®Anime 101
Olivia is deep in her obsession with all things Game of Thrones, going down rabbit holes about the lore and boning up on her knowledge for a GoT trivia night!…
Pop Culture Junkie®Choosing 'The Bear'
Shauna is almost done watching season three of Bridgerton and its weirdly-paced main romance, but is more excited about The Fourth Wing, a new book by author…
Pop Culture Junkie®The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time
Shauna and Olivia have been busy lately: Shauna had a sober (*wink*) housewarming party and Olivia took a trip to San Francisco where she drank Martinis in the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Bloody, Sexy and Jawdropping: 'House of the Dragon' Returns
It is seriously hot outside now, so the Junkies are indulging in all their streaming obsessions now. For Shauna, that means The Boys, which returned with a…
Pop Culture Junkie®Nicole's Last At Bat: Pop Culture Sports Movies
Nicole has decided to fly off into the great blue yonder, so this is her farewell episode (for now, we hope!) The two OG Junkies (Nicole and Shauna) reminisce…
Pop Culture Junkie®LGBTQ+ Representation Then and Now: Celebrating Pride Month
Olivia has been globe-trotting (nation-trotting?) nearly as much as Nicole these days, but she has had time to binge season 3 of Regency-era sex-sation…
Pop Culture Junkie®Comfort Viewing: What We Watch to Feel Better
The Junkies discuss what they are looking forward to as summer approaches. Shauna is looking forward to having two functional feet again, and also some of her…
Pop Culture Junkie®Pop Conspiracy Junkies 2: Live at Phoenix Fan Fusion
The Junkies return to Phoenix Fan Fusion, this time to record a live episode that takes them back to that most controversial – and fun – topic of conspiracy…
Pop Culture Junkie®Brad Perry Wants a Stalker!
The Junkies welcome back friend-of-the-pod and honorary Junkie Brad Perry to the show, and though it has been two years since Brad was last on the show, it…
Pop Culture Junkie®Vacation Movies All I Ever Wanted
Nicole or, as Shauna and Olivia dub her, Australian Barbie, has finally returned from the other side of the world and has such stories to tell. Spoiler alert…
Pop Culture Junkie®Television Spinoffs: The Ones That Worked and the Ones That Didn't with Hayley the Brave
Junkie Emeritus Hayley the Brave joins Olivia and Shauna for a reunion episode and though Hayley and Olivia have only just met, they instantly bond over the…
Pop Culture Junkie®Separating the Art from the Artist
Shauna wants to add LARPing to her nerd repertoire - hey, is that what Nicole is out doing now? Probably not. Olivia is still in her Taylor era - not…
Pop Culture Junkie®50 Shades of Shrek
Shauna and Olivia are still running the show without Nicole, who went on a fabulous vacay but forgot to invite the other Junkies! Still, there's plenty to do…