Music For Sale: Why Artists Sell Their Catalogs
After Olivia and Shauna share some Bridgerton (and cat) updates, they look at the trend of artists selling their music catalogs. Music ownership rights have been in the news a
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Sex, Gossip and All Things ‘Bridgerton’
Acting as Lady Whistledown and… another Lady Whistledown, the Junkies transport us to the bodice-ripping world of the Netflix drama Bridgerton, a racially diverse, sexually charged romantic series set in
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Tyra Banks Gets an ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Reality Check
Like so many millennials, Shauna and Olivia binged the reality competition show America’s Next Top Model at an impressionable age, taking in some decidedly mixed messages along with the makeover
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What Happened to Nicki Minaj?
Shauna and Olivia are back from an extended holiday (and mental) break and they are ready to dish. In this episode, the Junkies look at Nicki Minaj and trace her
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Jason Forever: Looking at the Friday the 13th Series
The Friday the 13th movie series is one of the top slasher movie franchises of the 1980s and beyond, so this week the Junkies take a look at Jason Voorhees,
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Tilly Norwood and Other AI Nightmares —with Alaina Lightfoot
Olivia and Shauna devote their last Spooky Season episode to the modern horror that is Generative AI, the inescapable technology that is not only replacing working writers and artists, but
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 101
This week’s episode covers a topic the Junkies rarely talk about: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kidding! But in this in-depth look at the iconic television drama, Shauna and Olivia take
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The Cryptid Prophecies: Pop Culture’s Legendary Creatures
An upcoming trip to Appalachia has Olivia thinking about creatures of myth and legend, so she and Shauna explore the spooky, scary and sometimes silly world of cryptids, and how
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Best and Worst: Pop Culture Parents
Olivia coaches Shauna on how to score the coveted Lady Gaga tickets for the lowest possible price and the two relive Shauna’s recent visit to the City by the Bay.
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PCJ Book Club: Romantasy Recommendations
After a brief diversion into talking about the upcoming Wedding of the Century, the Junkies convene the Pop Culture Junkie Book Club for a discussion of the book genre reshaping
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- Bond... James Bond with Daniel de Boulay August 20, 2026Shauna 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 […]
