Episodes

  • PCJ Pop #3

    PCJ Pop #3
    May 20 2025
    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 Sith and Olivia pushes everyone to see Speak No Evil with James McAvoy.
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    4 mins
  • The Problem(s) with Katy Perry

    The Problem(s) with Katy Perry
    May 15 2025
    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 sunny desert from gloomy San Francisco. After a brief celebration, the Junkies turn to one of today's most serious problems: Katy Perry. Once a teenage dream, now a middle-aged nightmare, Katy only seems to make headlines for ill-advised and tone-deaf actions. Shauna and Olivia remember Katy's golden years when she was a "Firework" dancing with Left Shark and break down how that led to insincere feminism, being weird in space and getting trolled by Wendy's.

    You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos

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    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
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    Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social
    Email: junkies@popculturejunkie.com

    Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad
    Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad

    Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez
    Olivia on TikTok: @livyolife420
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    34 mins
  • PCJ Pop #2

    PCJ Pop #2
    May 6 2025
    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 Cobra Kai finale and Olivia describes everyone’s shock at The Last of Us, season 2, episode 2.
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    7 mins
  • PCJ Book Club: 'Sunrise on the Reaping' by Suzanne Collins

    PCJ Book Club: 'Sunrise on the Reaping' by Suzanne Collins
    May 1 2025
    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 Reaping is the story of young Haymitch Abernathy. The Junkies look at the book's origins, the philosophers who inspired the author, and how its themes of resistance, individual agency, controlling the narrative, and the use of propaganda inform the author's message. There will be some spoilers in the second segment of the show, if you haven't read the book. Olivia and Shauna also discuss who is rumored to star in the movie based on the book - and who should be cast instead.Follow Shauna Trinidad and Olivia Rodi on GoodReads and find out what else they are reading now!

    You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos

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    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
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    Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social
    Email: junkies@popculturejunkie.com

    Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad
    Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad

    Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez
    Olivia on TikTok: @livyolife420
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    55 mins
  • PCJ Pop #1

    PCJ Pop #1
    Apr 22 2025
    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 her 2024 binge read with Spiral by Bal Khabra (among others!) and anime fan Shauna finally watches the 1988 film Akira.

    Watch the full video version up to one week early on Patreon: patreon.com/PopCultureJunkiePodcast
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    9 mins
  • Cats, Canines, Killer Whales and Other Pop Culture Creatures

    Cats, Canines, Killer Whales and Other Pop Culture Creatures
    Apr 17 2025
    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, animal characters in the media are often the most lovable and memorable. Shauna and Olivia discuss what makes a great on-screen critter. Cats, dogs or other? Animated or animatronic? Talking or mute? They list their favorites, including Garfield, who happens to both Junkies' spirit animal, and the pets they definitely wouldn't cuddle with, ever. The discussion then moves to famous real-life pets, and scandals like Lady Gaga's purloined pooches and the Kardashians' disappearing doggos. Ruh-roh!

    You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here:
    https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos

    We have all new 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
    Olivia on TikTok: @livyolife420
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    44 mins
  • Living in the Simulation

    Living in the Simulation
    Apr 3 2025
    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 vices. They delve into the game lore, highlighting the oddball characters that appear in every version of the game, and discuss the various ways they make the game their own. The Junkies also talk about the Sims movie being produced by Margot Robbie, and answer the important question: does playing the Sims make us akin to the Old Testament God, or are we all in a simulation with a supreme being programming our actions for their own amusement somewhere? Or is it both?

    You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos

    We have all new 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.culturejunkies
    Threads: @pop.culturejunkies
    Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social
    Email: junkies@popculturejunkie.com

    Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad
    Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad

    Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez
    Olivia on TikTok: @livyolife420
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    55 mins
  • Looking at 'V' with Michael E. Cullen II

    Looking at 'V' with Michael E. Cullen II
    Mar 20 2025
    Shauna and Olivia welcome special guest Michael E. Cullen, award-winning filmmaker and host of the All2ReelToopodcast. Michael has directed films like the horror comedy Pi Day Die Day (available on Tubi!), the Christmas horror film Shelved, and co-hosts the podcast All 2 Reel Too, a look at the "wild and wacky realm of pop culture". Michael joins the Junkies to talk about the 1983 NBC miniseries V, about a large-scale invasion of seemingly friendly, seemingly humanoid aliens. Michael and the Junkies talk about the series' prescient parallels to the current political situation. Find it on Plex to follow along! Then Michael, Shauna and Olivia discuss their common love of Marvel and documentaries about scammers and other lowlifes.

    Find Michael E. Cullen's work and more information at his website, Cullen Park Productions.
    http://www.cullenpark.com/

    Find the All2ReelToo podcast at https://all2reeltoo.com/

    You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos

    We have all new 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.culturejunkies
    Threads: @pop.culturejunkies
    Bluesky: @pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social
    Email: junkies@popculturejunkie.com

    Shauna on Instagram: @shaunatrinidad
    Shauna on Threads: @shaunatrinidad

    Olivia on Instagram: @livimariez
    Olivia on TikTok: @livyolife420
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    48 mins
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