Pop Culture Junkie®

Shauna has the Back-in-America Blues and has found the cure is watching one horror or thriller film per day, and she and Olivia go down memory lane remembering the best and worst flicks from inconsistent filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Both Junkies agree that the real horror show these days is called "the news," including the Cornell 7 case, which then leads to this episode's topic: Feminist Rage Anthems. Women have always had reason to protest, and sometimes they even sang about it, in songs dating back to the suffragist movement of the 1910s and '20s, to the civil rights protest songs of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, and beyond. Olivia and Shauna cover all the eras, genres, songs, and singers...from Helen Reddy singing "I Am Woman" to country music rebels like The Chicks, to the Riot Grrls of the 1990s, and wrap up with the female icons of today like Beyoncé, Halsey, and Kesha. This episode does briefly deal with sexual assault and lynchings, so please be advised that some of the discussion may be triggering. The Junkies honor the women who lend their voices and their words in order to demand change and "R.E.S.P.E.C.T." 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.

In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia binged every episode of Sterling Point on Prime. It’s a darling coming-of-age story of twins Annie and Connor (Ella Rubin and Keen Ruffalo) who are bequeathed and entire Canadian island by their mysterious grandfather. 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 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.