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In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday.  Shauna is popping the 2016 book My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The tongue-in-cheek story set in the Satanic Panic era of the 1980s tells the tale of a lifelong friendship put to the test when one of the BFFs gets demonically possessed.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

Shauna debriefs Olivia (and us) on the details of her European Vacation, and Olivia reveals a surprise visit of her own. Then the Junkies take a deep dive into the Hulu documentary called The Swan: Behind the Mirror, which looks at the 2004 reality show The Swan. The show had a jaw-dropping premise: take "ugly ducklings" - women who are unsatisfied with their appearance - and put them through 3 months of makeovers, including plastic surgeries, dental work, dieting, exercise, therapy and sessions with a "life coach" to make them the beautiful women they always wanted to be. The documentary features some of the contestants, producers and one of the show's two smarmy surgeons who tell us how they really felt before, during and after becoming Swans. The Swan was truly car-crash TV, and Shauna and Olivia look at the surprising (and unsurprising) revelations from the documentary and ask were any lessons learned? And could another show like this be made today?  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia continues to manifest a wedding and so watched the 2001 film The Wedding Planner, starring a luminous Jennifer Lopez and the most handsome iteration of Matthew McConaughey, in a twisted tale in which you find yourself rooting for the cheaters. You can find it on Netflix.

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna recommends 1988’s Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the film debut of Elvira, the Horror Hostess extraordinaire, a character created by actor/comedienne Cassandra Peterson. It’s available to stream on Amazon Prime. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

After a little travel talk (someone's going to Europe!), Olivia and Shauna get ready for Spooky Season by talking about the marriage of their two favorite cinematic genres: comedy and horror. They go back to early comedy horror blends like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and other films that poke fun at horror films and their conventions, like Young Frankenstein, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the Scary Movie series, and Shaun of the Dead - to name but a few. The Junkies discuss why they (and we) love these kinds of films so much, and break down the different types of horror comedies, and tell us about their own favorite films showcasing the lighter side of horror.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

n PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia rewatched one the underrated rom-com Made of Honor, starring Patrick Dempsey as the maid of honor to his best friend (and love interest, naturally) played by Michelle Monaghan. It’s now available on Amazon Prime.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is still powering through the Marvel Cinematic Universe and this week is popping Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from 2021. Starring Simu Liu and the always funny Awkwafina, Shang-Chi was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and can be seen on Disney+. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

We lost some important cultural icons recently: Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem and the subject of this episode. Shauna and Olivia remember the one and only Tim Curry in an episode that covers his long career as an actor on the stage and on the big and small screens, and his distinguished voice acting career. Then the Junkies look at four of Curry's best roles: Dr. Frank-N-Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show, Wadsworth the Butler in Clue, Pennywise the Clown in the TV miniseries version of It, and as the Concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia recently enjoyed the combined hotness of Jessica Alba and the late Paul Walker in Into the Blue from 2005. Directed by John Stockwell, the film follows divers who get more than treasure when they find a sunken plane loaded with coke. The film is available on Amazon Prime. We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna is gearing up for Avengers: Doomsday by watching all the Marvel content she’ll need to consume to know what’s going on in that movie, so she’s popping the Bryan Singer-directed X-Men (2000) and X2 from 2003. Both films feature Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen (amongst others) and can be seen on Disney+.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

Olivia and Shauna get together in the Pop Culture Junkie studio to talk the good, the bad and the ugliest of Halloween costumes (looking at you, clowns) before getting to the main discussion: aging in Hollywood. There's long been a double standard when it comes to older actors, where men get stay visible in powerful and romantic roles, while women are relegated to playing mom to an actor five years their junior. And while things have changed to a certain degree, there's still a lot of discourse whether actresses of a certain age should get cosmetic procedures to look younger than their true age, or whether they should let nature take its course, which could render them invisible in Tinsel Town. The Junkies discuss the pros and cons of both and ask if there's any way for older actresses to remain hot prospects on the silver screen.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. The end of August means Spooky Season is upon us, so Olivia recommends the terrifying and poignant Netflix limited series The Haunting of Hill House from 2018. Based on the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, the series was written and directed by Mike Flanagan and starred Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino and a cast of Mike Flanagan players. This episode includes AI-generated content.

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna binged the first season of the anime series Marriagetoxin, based on the manga by Joumyako, about an assassin who enlists the help of a matchmaker when he needs to find a wife for business purposes. It’s available on CrunchyRoll.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads: @pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez  This episode includes AI-generated content.

Shauna and Olivia are joined by producer, essayist, and screenwriter Daniel de Boulay for this episode. Daniel has worked as an Acquisitions Executive at Sony Pictures for several years and is an alum of the Academy Awards Gold program. He is also an accomplished music producer and composer and is currently working on an essay about James Bond for the website The Splice. Daniel tells the Junkies about the film acquisitions process, what he's working on currently, and how open mic night at comedy clubs is its own kind of therapy. He talks about how he became an essayist and discusses his essay on James Bond (both what his editor will and won't allow him to write about.) How has the character of James Bond evolved from the pages of Ian Fleming's novels to the portrayal by actors like Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig, and what will the character be like in the future as a product of Amazon?  Visit Daniel de Boulay's website, danieldeboulay.com and find him on Threads: @deboulay.mxf.  You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728 Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W Website: www.popculturejunkie.com Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie Threads:@pop.culturejunkie Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia recommends the raunchy 2015 comedy Trainwreck, starring Amy Schumer as the title character and Bill Hader as the one man who could really love her. Judd Apatow directed from Schumer’s script, and Brie Larson, Colin Quinn and LeBron James also appear. It’s streaming on Netflix.  We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts  Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pop-culture-junkie/id1536737728  Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/7k2pUxzNDBXNCHzFM7EL8W  Website: www.popculturejunkie.com  Facebook: PopCultureJunkiePodcast  Instagram: @pop.culturejunkie  Threads:@pop.culturejunkie   Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social  Email: [email protected]  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez