April 22, 2025 • 8 mins
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.
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(00:00):
(upbeat music)
(00:02):
- Well, Olivia, I haven't seen you in person
in like two months and that's unacceptable.
- I know.
- So I need some updates about like what you're reading,
what you're watching, what you're, what you're doing.
I mean, I know you're, I follow you on good reads.
(00:23):
I know you're on book number like 75 or some stupid shit.
(laughing)
- Actually, that's a really good point.
What book am I on now?
I think I, so last year I had set a goal of 36
and I did not hit it, so I lowered it to 30,
but I am gonna surpass that in like a week
(00:44):
from now on. - That's insane.
- Honestly, I am, let's see what book number am I on.
Again, I live alone, I just moved to New City,
so I also don't have a partner out here.
So I very much just like have time to listen and read books.
- I love it.
(01:04):
- In fact, last night.
I like picked up this like stupid little book
from Target, I was like, oh, that's gonna be like an easy one.
It's like a hockey romance or whatever.
I was like, oh, look at this before I go to bed
and I laid down last night at 8 p.m.
to go to sleep and I did-
- I'm almost done with it.
(01:25):
I did not go to bed until 12, 30 last night
because I couldn't put it down.
So again, I am very much like a hyper-fixation person,
but I am on book 25.
- Jesus Christ, dude.
- Okay, let's read 25 books into the first week of April.
So we are,
the book that I was reading though was really good,
(01:49):
was a spiral.
I also have been on a really big Abbey Yemenis kick.
A book that just came out,
it was her next book kind of,
she doesn't do series,
but she does all in the same universe.
And so I read just for the summer
and then say you'll remember me,
(02:12):
just came out like a week ago.
- So some romantic.
- Yes, I've been on a contemporary romance kick.
I actually, after on X Storm and finishing that,
I read Quicksilver right after that.
And then I was like, okay, it's getting to predictable.
I need to like go into- - Yeah.
(02:33):
Break it up a little bit.
- Yeah, and I love romance, you know,
we've got to believe in love still.
- Yeah, of course.
(laughing)
- As a single person.
So I was like, okay, I'm gonna go into contemporary romance.
And I've been on a giant Emily Henry kick,
Ashley Poston, Abby and Liz.
- You and Jessica were talking about the other day.
- Emily and Jerry.
(02:53):
- Okay, I thought that was it.
- Yes, and Emily Henry is a great vacation read person.
- Yeah.
- She has quite a few books and great pick up,
like great one book reads.
She just sold her first book to,
or one of her first books to Netflix.
(03:14):
- Oh, she, oh.
- And I think it comes out in a few months.
It's called Beatread.
It's really, really good.
- Beatread. - Beatread.
- Yeah, Beatread.
It has that guy who plays Coriolena Snow
in song Birds and Snakes,
which I still haven't read or seen.
- Oh my god, I didn't read that immediately
after "Sunday's on the Reaping."
So, I'm so close.
(03:35):
- I'm so close to being Dima sunrise on the Reaping.
So, what we're gonna talk about that in a future episode.
- Yes, I just counted.
I have read, let me see here this year so far.
I finished one, two, three, four, five, six books.
So, look at you go.
- Look at that.
- And I'm gonna be on seven soon.
So, not bad, not bad, Trinidad.
(03:56):
Besides that, I'm just watching all the usual stuff.
Andrew and I watch next level chef, solo leveling.
I just watched a movie called Akira from 1988,
which is one of the most famous anime movies of all time.
And I can't believe I've never seen it.
(04:17):
It's like, I know I've seen the artwork
and definitely like gifts of it more.
And it's like this cyberpunk action film.
It reminds me a lot of stranger things,
like kids with telekinetic powers and stuff.
So, I definitely think that might be where they got
some like stranger things and flowance from.
(04:39):
So, gonna pop that.
It was, it had that like violent quality
that only like 80s and 90s cartoons can have.
Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- Where it's just the hits hit harder
and you just, there was like body horror at one point
and we were very engaged.
- So, like that.
- I've been reading a lot, but sometimes, you know,
(05:00):
a girl has to go back to her roots and masturbate.
- And listen, yes, totally, totally.
Not to this though.
So, Netflix dropped a true crime documentary
called Gone Girls, The Long Island Serial Killer,
which it's a three episode series.
(05:22):
I don't know how familiar you are
with The Long Island Serial Killer, just in general.
He was, you know, uncought for like 15 years.
I think that it's so interesting
because there are, you know, active serial killers
existing right now, right?
But the way that, yeah, right.
(05:45):
But we don't really talk about them,
like in the same way that you would think about, you know,
like a Ted Bundy and how much it was covered back then.
And a lot of the time it is kind of,
police don't want to stir up like a fear of like comedy
and things like that.
And so they try to like downplay it
and not connect these things.
But The Long Island Serial Killer, for like,
(06:06):
as long as I can remember, was one of those, like,
infamous serial killers in our time
where nobody knew what it was.
So he, I think it started in the early 2000s
and he was just caught like two years ago.
Oh shit.
I'm gonna have to watch this.
- And true.
- It's really good.
(06:27):
He, it was ignored for so long
because he was going after sex workers.
- I hate it.
- Within like, me and video.
- Yeah.
- Which to decide, yeah.
- Yeah, and they were discovered kind of
in a fluent area.
And then it wasn't until, you know,
a non-sex worker was murdered that they did it.
- Pretty like blonde hair.
- But they started to take, yeah, right, exactly.
(06:49):
And so it's really, really good.
It goes over, it goes over kind of how,
'cause some of these women got away.
Some of these sex workers got away as well.
And so that was like the start of the authorities about it.
Yeah, oh that's fascinating.
- Yeah, they do these interviews.
So that was really, really good.
I would definitely pump that if you are a true crime fan.
(07:11):
- It's kind of mad.
- Yeah, I might get it all over.
- I've also been, I've also been on a big,
if you have HBO Max, people investigate,
has like individual episodes on like one case.
And you know, not a big people magazine reader,
but their true crime stuff is actually pretty good.
(07:32):
- Interesting.
And I do have HBO Max.
I just haven't perused it in a minute.
I need to get back on showtime
so I can finally watch yellow jackets.
And the decks are pretty cool.
We need to start at the same time
so we can talk about it.
- Yeah, you also need to watch white load ass.
- I know, I've gotten every spoiler for white load ass
(07:53):
because there's so many memes and I just look it up
'cause I wanted to know, do those two brothers ever do it?
Like I just would Google it.
Like, I know.
I was like, I don't want to spoil it,
but spoilers for white load ass in three, two, one.
Handy.
- Yes, my hand. - Handy.
- Handy. - Hands in a brother handy,
always great for cinema.
(08:14):
- I mean, for cinema, yeah, I guess that's true.
- Yeah, yeah, real HBO special.
- Incessed.
- Oh God, no.
- So, yeah, well, good to catch up.
I hope I see you soon.
- Yes, miss you.
- Thank you, love you.
- Now you do me.
[Music]
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music)
(00:02):
- Well, Olivia, I haven't seen you in person
in like two months and that's unacceptable.
- I know.
- So I need some updates about like what you're reading,
what you're watching, what you're, what you're doing.
I mean, I know you're, I follow you on good reads.
(00:23):
I know you're on book number like 75 or some stupid shit.
(laughing)
- Actually, that's a really good point.
What book am I on now?
I think I, so last year I had set a goal of 36
and I did not hit it, so I lowered it to 30,
but I am gonna surpass that in like a week
(00:44):
from now on. - That's insane.
- Honestly, I am, let's see what book number am I on.
Again, I live alone, I just moved to New City,
so I also don't have a partner out here.
So I very much just like have time to listen and read books.
- I love it.
(01:04):
- In fact, last night.
I like picked up this like stupid little book
from Target, I was like, oh, that's gonna be like an easy one.
It's like a hockey romance or whatever.
I was like, oh, look at this before I go to bed
and I laid down last night at 8 p.m.
to go to sleep and I did-
- I'm almost done with it.
(01:25):
I did not go to bed until 12, 30 last night
because I couldn't put it down.
So again, I am very much like a hyper-fixation person,
but I am on book 25.
- Jesus Christ, dude.
- Okay, let's read 25 books into the first week of April.
So we are,
the book that I was reading though was really good,
(01:49):
was a spiral.
I also have been on a really big Abbey Yemenis kick.
A book that just came out,
it was her next book kind of,
she doesn't do series,
but she does all in the same universe.
And so I read just for the summer
and then say you'll remember me,
(02:12):
just came out like a week ago.
- So some romantic.
- Yes, I've been on a contemporary romance kick.
I actually, after on X Storm and finishing that,
I read Quicksilver right after that.
And then I was like, okay, it's getting to predictable.
I need to like go into- - Yeah.
(02:33):
Break it up a little bit.
- Yeah, and I love romance, you know,
we've got to believe in love still.
- Yeah, of course.
(laughing)
- As a single person.
So I was like, okay, I'm gonna go into contemporary romance.
And I've been on a giant Emily Henry kick,
Ashley Poston, Abby and Liz.
- You and Jessica were talking about the other day.
- Emily and Jerry.
(02:53):
- Okay, I thought that was it.
- Yes, and Emily Henry is a great vacation read person.
- Yeah.
- She has quite a few books and great pick up,
like great one book reads.
She just sold her first book to,
or one of her first books to Netflix.
(03:14):
- Oh, she, oh.
- And I think it comes out in a few months.
It's called Beatread.
It's really, really good.
- Beatread. - Beatread.
- Yeah, Beatread.
It has that guy who plays Coriolena Snow
in song Birds and Snakes,
which I still haven't read or seen.
- Oh my god, I didn't read that immediately
after "Sunday's on the Reaping."
So, I'm so close.
(03:35):
- I'm so close to being Dima sunrise on the Reaping.
So, what we're gonna talk about that in a future episode.
- Yes, I just counted.
I have read, let me see here this year so far.
I finished one, two, three, four, five, six books.
So, look at you go.
- Look at that.
- And I'm gonna be on seven soon.
So, not bad, not bad, Trinidad.
(03:56):
Besides that, I'm just watching all the usual stuff.
Andrew and I watch next level chef, solo leveling.
I just watched a movie called Akira from 1988,
which is one of the most famous anime movies of all time.
And I can't believe I've never seen it.
(04:17):
It's like, I know I've seen the artwork
and definitely like gifts of it more.
And it's like this cyberpunk action film.
It reminds me a lot of stranger things,
like kids with telekinetic powers and stuff.
So, I definitely think that might be where they got
some like stranger things and flowance from.
(04:39):
So, gonna pop that.
It was, it had that like violent quality
that only like 80s and 90s cartoons can have.
Do you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
- Where it's just the hits hit harder
and you just, there was like body horror at one point
and we were very engaged.
- So, like that.
- I've been reading a lot, but sometimes, you know,
(05:00):
a girl has to go back to her roots and masturbate.
- And listen, yes, totally, totally.
Not to this though.
So, Netflix dropped a true crime documentary
called Gone Girls, The Long Island Serial Killer,
which it's a three episode series.
(05:22):
I don't know how familiar you are
with The Long Island Serial Killer, just in general.
He was, you know, uncought for like 15 years.
I think that it's so interesting
because there are, you know, active serial killers
existing right now, right?
But the way that, yeah, right.
(05:45):
But we don't really talk about them,
like in the same way that you would think about, you know,
like a Ted Bundy and how much it was covered back then.
And a lot of the time it is kind of,
police don't want to stir up like a fear of like comedy
and things like that.
And so they try to like downplay it
and not connect these things.
But The Long Island Serial Killer, for like,
(06:06):
as long as I can remember, was one of those, like,
infamous serial killers in our time
where nobody knew what it was.
So he, I think it started in the early 2000s
and he was just caught like two years ago.
Oh shit.
I'm gonna have to watch this.
- And true.
- It's really good.
(06:27):
He, it was ignored for so long
because he was going after sex workers.
- I hate it.
- Within like, me and video.
- Yeah.
- Which to decide, yeah.
- Yeah, and they were discovered kind of
in a fluent area.
And then it wasn't until, you know,
a non-sex worker was murdered that they did it.
- Pretty like blonde hair.
- But they started to take, yeah, right, exactly.
(06:49):
And so it's really, really good.
It goes over, it goes over kind of how,
'cause some of these women got away.
Some of these sex workers got away as well.
And so that was like the start of the authorities about it.
Yeah, oh that's fascinating.
- Yeah, they do these interviews.
So that was really, really good.
I would definitely pump that if you are a true crime fan.
(07:11):
- It's kind of mad.
- Yeah, I might get it all over.
- I've also been, I've also been on a big,
if you have HBO Max, people investigate,
has like individual episodes on like one case.
And you know, not a big people magazine reader,
but their true crime stuff is actually pretty good.
(07:32):
- Interesting.
And I do have HBO Max.
I just haven't perused it in a minute.
I need to get back on showtime
so I can finally watch yellow jackets.
And the decks are pretty cool.
We need to start at the same time
so we can talk about it.
- Yeah, you also need to watch white load ass.
- I know, I've gotten every spoiler for white load ass
(07:53):
because there's so many memes and I just look it up
'cause I wanted to know, do those two brothers ever do it?
Like I just would Google it.
Like, I know.
I was like, I don't want to spoil it,
but spoilers for white load ass in three, two, one.
Handy.
- Yes, my hand. - Handy.
- Handy. - Hands in a brother handy,
always great for cinema.
(08:14):
- I mean, for cinema, yeah, I guess that's true.
- Yeah, yeah, real HBO special.
- Incessed.
- Oh God, no.
- So, yeah, well, good to catch up.
I hope I see you soon.
- Yes, miss you.
- Thank you, love you.
- Now you do me.
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(upbeat music)
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