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. Oct 29

    Feminist Rage Anthems

    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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    Feminist Rage Anthems
  2. Oct 15

    Going 'Behind the Mirror' with 'The Swan'

    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: junkies@popculturejunkie.com  Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad   Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad   • Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez

    Going 'Behind the Mirror' with 'The Swan'
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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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