Pop Culture Junkie®

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.

  1. Womansploitation: Violence Against Women as Entertainment – Live at Phoenix Fan Fusion

    1d ago

    Womansploitation: Violence Against Women as Entertainment – Live at Phoenix Fan Fusion

    Live from Phoenix Fan Fusion, Olivia and Shauna head a panel to discuss a serious topic with their characteristic dark humor and feminist sass. Womansploitation - using violence against women as entertainment - is found in movies, in television shows, in books, in true crime documentaries and podcasts. Obviously, there is money to be made in victimizing women for the enjoyment of an audience. The Junkies look at the history of this sub-genre, discuss some examples and go into why it’s so popular and the effects this has on society. With the help of the audience and research, they ask and answer questions like 'when does depicting violence against women become critique — and when does it become consumption?' and 'is the violence in the story a “narrative necessity” or exploitation?' Olivia and Shauna give examples of movies, TV shows and directors (maybe some of your favorites!) that have been challenged for their use of violence against girls and women. From 'fridging' to final girls to the perfect true crime victim, the Junkies cover the many, many ways women are exploited for entertainment.  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/id1536737728Spotify: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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad  Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    59 min
  2. PCJ Pop #34

    3d ago ·  Bonus

    PCJ Pop #34

    In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday.  Olivia recommends the riveting Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, a new book that offers a science-fictional look at today’s tradwife movement by time-traveling a tradwife-influencer poser back in time to 1855, forcing her to do without modern conveniences. Find it at your local library or independent bookstore, or stream on Spotify with a subscription. 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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad  Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    3 min
  3. PCJ Pop #33

    Jun 16 ·  Bonus

    PCJ Pop #33

    In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday.  Shauna has finally taken Olivia’s advice and read the Crescent City book series from A Court of Thorns and Roses author Sarah J. Maas. You can find the first three books - House of Earth and Blood, House of Sky and Breath, and House of Flame and Shadow - at your local library or independent bookstore, or stream on Spotify with a subscription.  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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad  Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    4 min
  4. A.I., Robots and Revolution

    Jun 11

    A.I., Robots and Revolution

    Shauna and Olivia are in the studio together live and in person, so naturally this episode revolves around artificial life forms. Robots and Artificial Intelligence are hot topics right now, as so-called AI actresses threaten to take over Hollywood, large language models steal our creative endeavors, and humans are demonstrably losing brain power because we need AI programs to compose simple emails for us. Looking back almost 100 years ago at Metropolis to the 1980s' Terminator-style killer robots through today's "good for her" sex-bot revenge movies, the Junkies look at the pop culture robots that want to help us, kill us, sleep with us, or all three. They discuss how well fictional movies have predicted our current reality, and discuss future worst-case scenarios and how we can come together to avoid them.  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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad  Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    1h 3m
  5. PCJ Pop #32

    Jun 9 ·  Bonus

    PCJ Pop #32

    In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia recently watched I, Robot, the 2004 film starring Will Smith as a “technophobic” cop investigating robot crime in the far-flung future of 2034, and found it to be a great film for anyone concerned about the dark side of AI here in the present. You can find it on Hulu or rent it on Prime Video.  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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    4 min
  6. PCJ Pop #31

    Jun 2 ·  Bonus

    PCJ Pop #31

    In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Shauna went all the way back to 1997 to watch the anime series Berserk. Based on a long-running manga, Berserk the anime series only had a single season, but that one season was hyperviolent and completely addictive. (And also very triggering, as the hero, a swordsman named Guts, goes through hell over the course of the series.) You can watch it on Crunchyroll.  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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    4 min
  7. Movie Exchange #2: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    May 28

    Movie Exchange #2: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Shauna and Olivia want to share their favorite movies with each other, and you! This time Olivia shares one of her favorite movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry from a screenplay he wrote with Charlie Kaufman and Pierre Bismuth, Eternal Sunshine asks and answers the question 'If you could totally erase an ex-lover from your memory, would you?' Jim Carrey plays mild-mannered Joel Barish, who meets and falls for free-spirited Clementine Kruczynski, whose hair changes to match her moods. They fall in love then fall out again, and after their break-up, Joel discovers Clementine has quite literally forgotten he exists. The movie follows Joel as he undertakes to wipe his own memories of their relationship. The Junkies ask themselves (and you) if there are any memories they'd pay to erase, and if not, why not? Note: there are spoilers in this episode, so do watch the film before listening.  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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com    Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    47 min
  8. PCJ Pop #30

    May 26 ·  Bonus

    PCJ Pop #30

    In PCJ Pops, the Pop Culture Junkies share their recommendations on what to experience in pop culture, today and yesterday. Olivia is completely obsessed with the series Peaky Blinders. Set in 1919 Birmingham, England, Peaky Blinders stars Cillian Murphy (a man who can really rock a flat cap) as the boss of a gang of street criminals and all six seasons (and a movie) are available on Netflix. 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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad  Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad  Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    3 min
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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.

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    Pop Culture Junkie
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
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