June 12, 2025 • 40 mins
Shauna shares her upcoming cosplay plans, while Olivia shares her musical revenge against a petty neighbor, and they both wonder if the podcast is becoming a little too murder-y (or is it just murder-y enough?) Then it's time to preview the films that will be keeping them both indoors during the heat (or fog) this summer. Olivia's looking forward to the film that may just revive the romcom, while Shauna has her eyes on some high-profile superhero reboots, and both plan to take in at least one of the summer's inevitable sequels.
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♪ Wntertain me, entertain me right now ♪
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Hey, you found us.
We are the pop culture junkies.
I am Shauna.
And I'm Olivia.
I miss you so much, dude.
I miss you too.
How's life been?
Life's been good, yeah.
By the time this episode airs,
we will be done with Phoenix Fan Fusion,
which the Pop Culture Junkies are not doing this year,
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unfortunately, because one of them had to go and move
but hey, I was gonna come back.
That wasn't even the reason.
That's true.
I know.
I know.
God, we should have done it just this weekend.
Yes.
Even though I'm only going for one day,
but I've been working on my cosplay.
Ooh, yeah, what are you gonna be?
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So because this is airing afterwards,
I can say it because everybody's already
seen the pics that like them.
I am going as a gender bent papa emeritus
the third from the band goes.
Not the second, the third.
It's gonna be, yeah, it's third, Turso for sure.
(laughing)
That's exciting.
I'm excited to see it.
(01:10):
So what are you wearing with it?
So I have--
So I have--
Yes, my whole face is painted in like the Corp A.
And then I'm painting my chest and like,
cleavage white to match the face.
And I'm gonna repurpose my L byro dress.
And I wore a couple of years ago for fan fusion.
But I have a Pope hat.
And I have those like long hanging things
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that folks have up their sleeves.
All the Catholics listening are like,
"Oh my God, girl."
You know the long hanging oak things.
I was raised Catholic and I don't know the name of it.
So like I'm a cradle Catholic,
I think is what they're called,
but not like a real Catholic.
And I don't know the name of them.
So--
Great.
Dramatic sleeve.
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It's like dramatic sleeves basically.
They got a cloak.
It's the Conti Catholic sleeves, of course.
That's exactly what it's called.
The Conti Catholic sleeves.
CCS.
[LAUGHTER]
So if my family was already not speaking to me
after they see these pictures, they're really not--
It's very true.
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We can't share that one to Facebook.
Debbie, you know.
Oh, I'm sharing.
I don't go.
Yeah.
She said, "I do it for the likes, not for the love of my family."
No.
I do it for the memes and the clown and the memes.
The memes, the memes.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me--
What did they have for a gift?
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What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
They gave me a gift.
Yeah.
I do need to hear the story of the man telling you,
your hot for a gauze.
And please--
Oh, my god.
And then somebody on threads didn't believe me.
He found some like, die-ass bar where people just getting up there and playing jam band,
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dad rock.
And this guy came up and was like, you're really hot for a gauze, girl.
And it's just like, that is--
What does that even mean?
What does that even mean?
Are you trying to compliment?
And he's like, yeah, I just, you know, I've never really been into that kind of girl.
And I'm really--
You're hot for a gauze, girl.
And you just try to be right here.
I'm going to start this for the appearance.
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Yeah.
And like, first of all, I'm married.
Second of all, that's not how complex it is for--
If you're trying to start about--
Just like that, just sort of--
--negging thing from like the mid 2000s, if you're doing that wrong, too.
Yeah.
He's like, I just heard about nagging.
I was tested out.
What did he look like?
Was he wearing a pair of cowboy boots?
Like, I need every detail about this man.
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Oh, no.
He was not wearing cowboy boots.
Actually, he was a handsome black band.
So--
Well--
You know, if he wouldn't--
OK, if I wasn't married, he wouldn't have
led with a bad line.
Maybe I would have shouted with him.
I wonder how to shout.
I wonder how to shout with a bad look.
He was a bad looking.
He was a bad looking.
[LAUGHTER]
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Like, yeah, everything else is, you know--
--fighting against you.
E-below it, but E-bel it.
Well, that is a true--
What have you been doing?
I know.
I've been artsing crafting and getting poorly hit on.
What are you doing?
Yeah, since we last recorded, I have
been public speaking for an insane amount of time
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about taxes.
Not great, not fun.
Much more fun to talk public speak about, you know,
silly goofy things like pop culture.
I fell asleep for a second there, I'm sorry.
Yeah, same.
Same.
I just was up there, you know.
Now it's my soul memory.
So I, you know, just--
if you don't know, I speak for a living.
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And I do a lot of educational content for taxes.
Never would I have ever thought.
But we're here, and it's paying the bills.
Paying the very expensive San Francisco bills.
And then I have been in a public beef with my neighbor.
So that's really about it.
Oh my god, I am so here.
(05:09):
OK, everyone.
So Olivia has this neighbor who--
look, it's not loud.
She doesn't party.
She just exists.
And this lady, you would think that you're
like throwing ragers every week and--
At this point, I'm going to, because if you're going to literally
start something over being loud, like I'll show you loud.
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You know, she had the city, like a city worker come
and look at my backyard on Friday.
Don't you guys share?
Yeah, we share a backyard.
Yeah, she's insane.
And so the city called my landlord.
My landlord was like, this is insane.
Like, she's crazy.
So yeah, yesterday I came home and whipped out the speaker
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that I hadn't been using because I was trying to be a nice neighbor.
And I, on full blast, played "Fuck You" by Liliana
in every single song that I could think of that had the word "Fuck You"
in it.
Yeah.
Yeah, "Fuck Last."
So we've entered the pediatra of me living here.
Yes.
I just want to gaslight this lady.
(06:11):
I want you to sign her up for just spam mailers.
I don't know.
Somehow, we need to just send every organization in the world
papers to her.
Just like, I don't know.
If there's states that she doesn't live in,
you should place him ghost.
Just play "Year Zero" by ghost to just break her the fuck out.
Because it just says, "Ale-Sate, no over and over."
(06:33):
That's actually not a bad idea.
If killing a mucinus didn't work, maybe killing with ghost.
I love it.
Yeah, other than that, I've just--
I've just been hanging out.
The weather here is amazing.
It's my first San Francisco summer, as you guys are all aware.
And yeah, I've just been walking around.
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The flowers are so pretty.
They're blooming.
It's perfect.
Love it.
I've been going on three mile walks every day.
Oh my god.
I wish I was there with you.
And I'm going to try to come visit "Sari Babe," not "You Baby,"
"Andry Babe."
Yeah.
Well, he doesn't listen.
So we're fine.
You won't know.
We could be planning his death on this, any other way around.
(07:17):
We could be planning his murder, and he would have no idea.
Or signing him up for text, you never know.
The dude.
He's like, "You have a good podcast?"
Yeah, great, babe.
Yeah, yeah.
He made some really good points.
There's a lot of pop culture.
So I guess we will talk some pop culture.
You what?
(07:38):
All pop culture.
All pop culture, no murder.
No murder.
with it. We've talked about murder a lot in this show but it's always, it's always, I don't know.
Culture murder or fake murder, fiction, that's the word I'm looking for.
Sometimes we talk true crime quite often. Oh, you're back, you're back.
(07:58):
Okay. It's a murder cast. It's murder.
Just kidding. Okay. We are going to talk about pop culture after this quick break.
We are going to give you the movies that we are most excited to see this summer.
So it's hot as Valk and Arizona in the summer and kind of chilly in San Francisco.
(08:23):
So Olivia and I both have reasons to see as many summer movies as possible.
So let's talk about what we are looking forward to.
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(08:46):
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So this summer superheroes and sequels are expected to rule the box office.
(09:06):
And we are going to break down three each for you.
Given you six movies that we think you should see this summer with your money.
Olivia, do you want to go first?
So when I think of movies that I'm most excited for this summer,
there are quite a few on my list.
But I think this one will already be out by the time this episode release.
(09:29):
But you know that I had to do a super horny hot romantic comedy with our main man, Pedro Pascal.
And this movie is the material list.
So it has Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal.
Oh, just hot straight out the stuff.
Don't even read any other information.
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But it's a romantic comedy set in New York City.
And it focuses on Dakota Johnson's character. She is a matchmaker.
And so she's kind of like this cynical woman who is just focused on finding love for other people.
But love seems to be complicated for her until she meets Pedro Pascal.
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And then also at the time, like Pedro Pascal supposed to be like this really rich,
hot man. Of course, it's Pedro.
So yes, and then she also at the same time reconnects with her flawed ex, John, who is Chris Evans on the same exact night.
And so she's kind of like going through second chance romance and hot,
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millionaire romance all together.
And it just seems amazing.
I don't know if you've seen any of like the press tour.
Yes.
And it's pretty as hell.
And Pedro wants to fill whole.
Yes.
It looks so good.
Literally they did this photo shoot and they like released a video of them doing it.
And I've never wanted to be Dakota Johnson more.
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I mean, aside from the nepot baby part of her life as well,
but I don't think I've ever wanted to be Dakota Johnson.
Yeah.
Well, I'd like to be as rich as Dakota Johnson.
That's fair.
That's fair.
It's so good.
And how is she going to choose between them?
Like this needs to be a why choose romance, honestly.
She just they like is there.
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How do you choose?
Yeah, that'd be really funny if it just ended up being a polyamory.
Oh my god.
I would actually love that so much.
It would really like subvert the genre quite a bit if they went for it.
But no, it looks really, really good.
And I am so here for rom coms to come back.
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I think in the 2010s, we really started to move away from them.
Like, I need this, like this time periods, how to lose a guy in 10 days.
I need like a good, see all good, rom com.
I think we really over corrected.
And everybody says that like I wanted to come back and everyone said with anyone
(12:08):
about you, like rom coms were so back, but I didn't really think anyone,
but you was that great.
And you know, like I said, I went to high school with Glenn Powell.
He has his place, but didn't love it.
Didn't love it.
Everyone says a great chemistry.
I don't agree.
I have that it's that good.
Like, I don't know.
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No one that I talked to said that it was that amazing.
But yeah, it wasn't.
It was good to look at their both.
Yeah, we're so starved from a rom com perspective that we're like, oh, we're so back.
No, I need a good one.
I agree. Palm Springs was like the last good rom com that I really liked with
piston, miliati and Andy Sandberg.
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I don't know if I've seen that.
Oh my god, it's so good.
You watch it.
It's basically groundhog say, but romantic.
It's really cute.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know, I don't know if I put my full faith in Dakota Johnson being the one to take us
to the rom com.
Renato said it's, but I know.
You know, we can hope we can hope take his home, girly.
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You did not take home for 50 shades of gray, but we'll give you another chance.
We'll forget about Madam Webb.
I'll all be forgiven if you give us a free sum with a scale and Captain America.
Always forgiven.
It's by yeah.
Yeah.
Well, wouldn't it be the Mandalorian and Captain America?
Actually, it would be Mr. Fantastic, which is a pro big set segway because the movie
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that I am most excited about is the Fantastic Four first steps.
It comes out on July 25th and it stars Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic.
Vanessa Kirby, a su storm, Joseph Quinn as the human torch.
We all know him, of course, as Eddie from stranger things.
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And a ebon Moss back rack has been grim a K a cousin from the bear.
I am Wig in that movie.
A Trojus.
Oh, and Fantastic Four.
It's bad.
It's really bad.
The blonde is the derivative for it.
I am so excited for this movie.
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So the Fantastic Four, this will be the Oh gosh, fourth, fourth, fourth,
yeah, like 1700s.
Yeah.
So they went up like the 60s or 70s or something.
And then the ones with Jessica Alba.
Thank you.
Jessica Alba back in the early 2000s.
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And then there was a horrible one that came out in 2015 with Michael B.
Jordan was so bad.
And none of those were in the MCU though, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Though we did see Chris Evans, Johnny Torch or human torch.
I was like, isn't Chris Evans in the Jessica Alba one?
Yes.
Chris Evans plays the human torch.
And he briefly shows up in Deadpool versus Wolverine because it's different
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multiverse and gets his skin ripped off.
So that was the end of that.
Now, geez.
I'll cheat by the bus.
But this is technically the MCU's first whack at the Fantastic Four.
It takes place in another universe.
Of course, like a lot of MCU go these two.
(15:29):
And it will be what is called the first family of the MCU.
So they, if you don't know anything about the Fantastic Four, they are a group of
astronauts go up to space.
Some galactic helmet book shit happens.
If they come back and they are super powered.
So Mr. Fantastic.
(15:49):
My first family.
What does that mean?
Because it's like the presidential first family.
I don't know.
It's their kind of known as saying the same words again.
Yeah.
How do I describe this?
They are really the only
family intact family in the MCU.
Like a husband, a wife.
It is set in the Kennedy era.
(16:10):
So it does have that kind of 60s presidential vibes going on.
Yeah.
There are husband and wife and a brother.
So they're all related to each other.
Yeah.
You don't really see that a lot.
Yeah.
The thing literally it's called the thing.
So you don't see that.
Super hero knowledge.
You got the rock thing, you know, you accidentally got it correct.
(16:32):
You know, when it's right, it's right.
When it's right, it's right.
I mean, it's definitely their names are pretty on the nose.
Like Sue Storm is Vanessa Kirby, the invisible woman.
Guess what her power is?
She should go invisible.
Human torch can turn into a torch.
Mr. Fantastic can stretch his limbs really far.
(16:55):
And then the thing is just very strong and turntable rock.
Yeah.
What was Jessica Alba in it hot?
I know that.
She was very hot and she was Sue Storm, the invisible woman.
Okay.
Yes.
You know, not someone who needs to be invisible.
That is like peak hot Jessica Alba.
And she's so pretty in that movie.
(17:16):
And in Sinciti, not to get distracted.
But oh, yeah.
No, she's gorgeous.
In Sinciti.
I do think Vanessa Kirby is going to do a good job.
And I hope that her and Pedro have some good chemistry for Sue Storm and
Reed Richards because we don't have a lot of married upholz in the MCU, right?
Where they're actually like a family first before super heroes.
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And I guess that's why they call them the first family.
They're family first.
Married.
Just.
Then.
Disco.
Stan.
Disco.
Then.
So that should be wonderful.
Well, hopefully that is better than all of them.
I mean, the only thing I remember from Fantastic Four is that Jessica Alba was
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really hot and it.
And that was about it.
So it was not good.
It was not a good movie.
And you said the 2008 one was bad.
But I do think that Pedro can make anything good.
So.
I think I think it has a really good cast.
Julia Garner is going to play the silver server, which I'm in for.
Did you ever watch O's art?
(18:20):
Yes.
Oh, shit about.
I don't know.
So she's about.
Yeah, she's the silver server.
So she's bad.
Oh, yeah.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it should be good.
I'm very excited.
I think that's my top interest this summer.
What's your next?
Maybe they're excited for.
So childhood me is heading into a summer to watch this movie.
(18:44):
And adult me is heading into a summer to watch this movie.
And it is a freaky or Friday.
It is the long-awaited sequel from the 2003 freaky Friday,
where we have Jamie Lee Curtis and the one and only Lindsey Lohan.
Yeah, I'm so excited.
I'm speaking of the Lohanisans.
Did you see that she denied getting a facelift?
(19:06):
Yeah, come on.
Yeah.
Her denying a facelift.
Like, girl, we have eyes.
I love eyes.
I was like, I just did an allergy test.
And I cut out all of my allergens.
I'm like, did it suck your face back?
Like what do you mean?
I didn't know allergies did that to you.
Crazy to deny that.
(19:28):
And she looks incredible.
So just admit it.
Admit it, girl.
Yeah, what's that?
But what time?
It's a girl you were out of the spotlight for like 10 years.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
You had all the time in the world, but between the Christmas movie stealing
that Middle Eastern child, no one was looking at you.
Do you remember when she did that on an Instagram live?
(19:53):
She went live with this woman and tried to steal her kids saying like she was
trafficking the child, but it was just like Middle Eastern woman like walking
down the street with her son.
It's actually pretty crazy.
That is a hard left turn from talking about.
Okay, it's that hard.
If you've never seen it, Google like Lindsay Lohan tries to steal child,
(20:17):
it is absolutely insane.
Okay.
And is that hell of a drug?
Kid, what year was this?
It was, it wasn't not that long ago.
I was within the last like five years, I think.
Oh my God.
And it was when she was like living in Dubai for a while.
I don't know if it was actually in steals and try, like,
I don't know if it happened to Dubai, but that was when Lindsay was in her,
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like, I'm a Dubai woman.
Like, doing things out there.
So very, very interesting.
But, you know, squirrel, sorry, hard left turn.
But yeah, I was very upset that she denied her faceless because like we all have eyes.
Yeah.
But within this little hand of sauce, let's hope it's better than the Netflix Christmas
movie because if it's really, really bad, I'm going to be quite sad, but I have to see
(21:04):
it. It's like a train wreck.
Yeah.
You can't look away from, you know, but I am hoping for the best freaky.
Chad Michael Murge is in it.
Yeah.
But he also got a weird facelift.
So he does it for me.
I don't know.
No, he doesn't do it for me.
I like to know that I was younger, but again, blonde men.
(21:24):
That's true.
I know don't trust a blonde man, but I don't know.
He does it for me.
It does.
But yeah, I'm excited for that one too.
Yeah.
The story of Freaky Friday picks up 10 years after the original body swap.
And Anna, who is Lindsay Lohan, is now a mom herself and has a daughter and a soon to be
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stepdaughter.
And so it's a little bit of like, you'll see when you're older, that age old, like, you know,
you hate me now, but you're going to be me in 10 years or whatever.
Yeah.
And so I think it'll be really, really good.
I mean, we have the main heavy hitters.
They actually got everyone back from the original one, like all of her band mates and things
(22:09):
like that.
All of the band make their back on that's cool.
Yeah.
I am excited to see if they're going to do music for it.
I'm sure they will.
Any chance for Lindsay to try to sing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll see.
It did the voice hold up.
I mean, I don't know if it was that great when we were going through it.
I'm just shitting on Lindsay Lohan right now.
(22:30):
So excited for this movie.
God, she sucks.
Her old lady ad that just came out.
I almost bought the set she was wearing.
No, because it was really.
But then she looks amazing.
She looks incredible.
Yeah.
So yeah, I'm excited for that too.
The next movie that I am very excited about is Superman James guns Superman comes out on July 11.
(22:53):
And I know is it time for another Superman movie?
Did we just have one in Rick Pabble was great?
Those movies were great.
Don't you say that about my man?
I know he was a wonderful Superman, but I think that Zack Snyder's DC universe.
(23:14):
It was time for it to come to an end.
And I'm excited to see what James gun does with it from all the trailers.
It looks a lot more bright and colorful, which you would expect from like a Superman movie where
Zack Snyder's were all kind of like brim lighting kind of dark and moody.
This one has a lot more of like the primary colors scape going on.
(23:35):
And it just seems more hopeful, which is kind of what I would want from a Superman.
Who Superman?
It is a guy named David or in sweat.
I honestly haven't seen him in anything else that I can think of.
Oh, wait, no, he was in Pearl and Twisters.
And he is 31 years old.
He looks great in the uniform.
Are you looking at the picture of him?
(23:55):
Yeah.
Racial.
And I had an add a picture of a yeah, like an add a picture.
I saw her eyes go on the screen.
Right.
Okay.
He's he's good.
It's it's still not Henry Cavill.
No one is Henry Cavill.
Henry Cavill is an alien himself who descended from the sky is a potted.
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Do you ever like think about Henry Cavill and be like, what is actually wrong with him?
Yes, I do.
Like something wrong with him.
And like physically like, do you are you missing a toe?
Do you have a really tiny member?
I feel like he had like you cannot be that level.
There has to be a flaw.
(24:37):
Like I always think of bedazzled in.
Yeah, where he's like, I want to be an NBA star.
I want to have this.
I want to have everything.
Yeah, there's always a really tiny penis.
He always makes me think about.
Have we ever seen Henry Cavill's butt cheeks on film in the Witcher?
Oh, you're right.
He gets out of the tub in the Witcher and he's gotten great ass to.
(24:59):
God damn it.
It's great.
Everything.
There's no flaws.
Maybe he's a really bad person because that's important to guys.
But I feel like that's not true either.
Not if you're that hot.
I don't know.
You could be a little evil if you're that hot like you're allowed to be a little bit evil.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to go through the rest of this cast real fast because it's Jack Rachel
(25:20):
bras the hand plays the lowest lane and she's wonderful.
We love her.
I am excited for that.
I think she'll do a good job.
Yes.
Nicholas Holt plays Lex Luthor and I have the biggest treasure.
I love him.
He's been in a lot of things too.
Just like Pedro lately.
They're really going because he has been in a lot of things.
It's he plays Beast in Marvel and X-Men.
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But does that version exist in the MCU yet?
I don't know.
I'm going to have to think on this a little bit.
Nathan Billy and plays the Green Lantern.
Isabella Merced plays Hawk Girl right now.
She is starring in the last of us and Millie Alcock from House of the Dragon is going
to play Kara Zore L. A. K. A. Super girl and I'm very excited for this.
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All right.
Olivia, what is one final movie that you were looking forward to this summer?
So oldie bit of goodie.
I guess an oldie series that is sometimes just like a warm blanket.
And when I say it's warm blanket, everyone's going to be like, this bit just psycho.
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What do you mean you should go to a mental hospital?
It is the conjuring last rights.
No, I totally agree.
I think you're psycho for liking a warm blanket because I like a cold.
Oh, it depends.
I mean, if I'm in Arizona, I want to cold blanket in a place that is in Arizona.
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I like a warm blanket, you know, let's talk more about blankets.
This is what the people really want.
So the conjuring last rights is the ninth and reportedly final installment in the conjuring universe.
They've set this like 17 times though.
And so the map isn't mapping on nine and 17, but you get the point.
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So it is set in 1986, which is five years after the events of the devil made me do it.
The film follows Ed and Lorraine as they always do as they consider retiring
from paranormal activities and investigations.
And their plans are interrupted when they're approached by the smurled smurled.
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They're a Pennsylvania couple experiencing violent hauntings, demonic attacks in their homes.
So kind of the same, you know, antics that we've seen in the other conjuring movies.
And it's really kind of them grappling with like, can they keep doing it?
And so it has Vera Farmaga, Patrick Wilson.
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We have Mia Tomlinson as Judy Warren, who is Ed and Lorraine's daughter.
So if it is the last one, I mean, I don't know how they're going to keep getting Vera and Patrick back for this franchise.
I mean, it's probably making them quite a bit of money.
But I just love the conjuring.
I think the original conjuring conjuring one and conjuring two are so freaking good.
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I agree. They're so good and so scary.
Like they're made.
Yeah.
Even if you add in the none, I think the none was really scary as well.
Oh, the none is so scary.
The movies are just so good.
And ultimately, like it is a little bit, I mean, it's the ninth one.
You know, we're going to get it.
But I think that Ed and Lorraine Warren, as themselves, are very interesting characters.
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I mean, I guess it's a good question for you because there's a big controversy over
if they were like faking things, right?
Yeah.
Do you believe them?
You know, I was listening to a like those podcasts pretty recently, like a haunting
paranormal thing.
And I don't remember what case it was, but they made a pretty strong case that they were like faking it.
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And it was for money.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I maybe they brought people comfort.
You know, people who are going through things and they make it feel like that placebo effect.
Or maybe they were some of the times, sure, they did something and then other times they kind of
in that's the word.
I'm like, embellished a little bit.
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Yeah.
I can see.
So I don't know how to feel about that.
But I do think they are very interesting people.
Like the fact that they really exist.
They don't look anything like Vera and Patrick will say what glue up for sure.
Yeah.
I think that the Hollywood glue up.
I mean, I think where them being frauds really really came into like American culture was with
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Amni Bill.
They were kind of like brought in there and and seen as fakes and stuff like that.
Yeah.
I mean, I think even if they didn't tell the truth and they were faking things like they really
brought like ghost hunting and paranormal into the zeitgeist and pop culture and things like that.
I think it's very timely that Annabelle just escaped the doll.
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Did you hear about that?
Yeah.
Like the real life doll.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Looking up because Patrick Wilson and Ghost released a song together.
Oh, look at you.
Yeah.
Look at you.
And it's from like the red room or something.
Oh, that's insidious.
I would eat Patrick Wilson's in both of those franchises.
There's an eight.
Found you in the city.
But I get them mixed up in my head all the time.
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Also amazing.
Why is he in both of them?
Because Patrick Wilson is in like every horror movie.
He has a good like dad goes crazy or like older man in a horror movie.
Or in a hard candy guy gets his balls.
Amard.
Yes.
Really great movie.
Also a great movie.
But yes, I did see that Annabelle was just stolen or escaped.
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Yeah.
So she escaped and they found her in New Orleans, which is like the sketchiest place to have.
Yeah.
And the most haunted place.
That's like she just went to where she felt comfortable.
Yeah, I don't like it.
I think that the Annabelle doll and what it really looks like is like extra disturbing.
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I've never seen what it actually looks like.
If I look at a picture of it, well, like, be haunted.
No.
It's a doll.
I feel like she's going to like come out of the screen.
Annabelle real doll.
Yeah.
It's a yeah.
She's a raggedy and yeah, raggedy and yeah, it's literally so she's like, so be possessed.
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The movie Annabelle so sketch so scary.
My grandma had a raggedy and growing up and I love the.
Well, maybe it was Annabelle.
Maybe any.
This raggedy and it's kind of tall though.
The Annabelle one.
That's that's too tall.
That's the problem.
She's tall.
But like they're a little demon.
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Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know if it's legs were shorter.
She could chill.
Yeah.
Listen, a good old fashioned raggedy and an Andy doll have little stubble eggs.
That thing's like six feet tall.
I don't trust it.
Okay.
Who would you rather fight?
Like who's who's the less scary of these two dolls?
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Okay.
Okay.
Shucky or Annabelle?
I think I could get along with Annabelle.
No.
You know, I think I could get along with Shucky in the new Shucky movie.
He's got like a trans kid or in the Chucky show and he's like kind of chilling.
Do you become friends with him?
You only get out of your back, right?
I don't know.
Probably not.
I also, I would agree.
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But for a very different reason, I would like, I think that Chucky is just a murderer in
a doll body.
And then Annabelle is a fucking demon.
Oh, that's fair.
That's probably the more important reason than I.
I think he's a chiller.
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Chucky would like a guy.
Who could I smell good joy with?
Chucky would say you're hot for a golf girl.
And he only likes a golf girl, you know, Jennifer.
That's true.
But then you'd have to contend with Jennifer Tilly.
Pride of Chucky.
Do Jennifer Tilly can step on me all she wants.
That's fine.
Kill me.
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Speaking of Jennifer Tilly, you're not a real housewife person.
But she is on the real housewives of Beverly Hills.
It's a really.
Yeah, it's great.
She's so funny with all of those women.
They're all like, my, my, my, my, my, and she's like, I'm super rich.
I have Simson's money.
Like I'm just here to party.
Not the Simson's money.
I love that.
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She made a joke like, Oh, honey, you think Chucky's paying for this jewelry?
No.
I love us self-aware queen.
Let's.
All of this discussion also leads.
Perfectly into the last movie that I'm excited about for summer.
Well, not the last one.
I'm excited for a lot of these.
But the last one I'm going to talk about Megan 2.0.
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Another murderous doll robot thing.
So two years after the events of Megan, Megan went rogue and embarked on a murderous
rampage, the creator, Jim has become an advocate for government oversight of AI.
Unbeknownst to her, a defense contractor has created a military, great weapon known as
Amelia, the ultimate infiltration spy.
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However, as Amelia's self-awareness increases, it becomes less interested in taking orders.
In order to stop Amelia, Jim decides to resurrect Megan, making her faster, stronger and more
lethal.
The trailer for this movie looks fucking absurd.
Yeah, it looks absurd.
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It's like it turned Megan.
The first one was kind of a horror movie.
This one looks like just an action movie.
It looks like I can see that.
Unnecessary and over the top and stupid.
And I am so excited for it.
Yeah, it's like really leaning into how ridiculous it is.
Yes, you know what?
AI doll versus AI doll.
(35:20):
Exactly.
I am so excited for it.
I think it's going to be very self-aware from the trailer.
Megan says she's going to pick somebody in the vagina or something.
Hold on to your vagina.
Like it's just it's so stupid.
And they compensate for the actress who plays her getting older by when they remake Megan.
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She's like, make me a little taller.
Like, okay, perfect.
So Megan is going to star Alice and Williams as Jim again, the creator of Megan and then.
It also brings back Jenna Davis as the voice of Megan and then Amy Donald as the dancer who played in
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just like the body work for Megan.
And then of course they have all the teaching special effects on top of her.
Make her look like a doll.
But all of the dance, the crazy dance moves in the hallway.
That was all this little girl named Amy Donald.
Yeah, that'll be it.
That'll be a good, let's silly goofy one.
But it's like aware of itself.
And yeah, it really goes for it.
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The honorary mention, New Jurassic Park movie, one and only reason Jonathan Bailey in those slutty little glasses.
Yeah, the slutty is little glasses.
God, he just so handsome.
Literally.
So we have Pedro.
We have Superman.
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Can't remember his name.
And we have David.
Jonathan.
What?
Doesn't matter.
Jonathan Bailey in those slutty little glasses.
It's going to be so good.
A summer for the girls and the gaze, baby.
Yes.
Yes.
It does feel there's a lot of superhero movies.
So I don't know if those are for the girls on the case.
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I'm a girl and a gay and they're like them.
Yeah.
Oh, happy Pride Month, everybody by the way.
Very happy Pride month.
I am so excited.
You know what you should do instead of coming forward Labor Day.
You should just come for us up Pride.
I know that's like this month though.
I am literally going out of town like every week of this month.
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It's okay.
So you hate me.
I love you so much.
So you hate gay people.
Okay.
So what you're saying is you hate the gaze.
You hate me and you hate gay people.
Okay.
Phoenix Pride is until October because it's 145 degrees outside.
So we just got our fries in October.
So you should come to Phoenix for Phoenix Pride.
(37:53):
I mean, maybe, but like no one's talking about Phoenix Pride as it's like a good thing.
As San Francisco Pride is like amazing and you're worthy.
Next year.
Next summer, let's make it a plan.
I've heard this.
I've heard this before.
I literally asked you to play.
This is your first summer there.
No, no, no, because on your birthday, I said everyone should come to San Francisco for Pride.
(38:18):
And we all said, yes, we're going to do it.
Oh my God.
And then you made like seven other plans.
If it makes you funny, better two of those trips with my in laws.
It doesn't.
And I love them.
But I can't like saying no to that.
I mean, you could.
That's true.
Yeah.
Look, family.
Olivia needs me for pride.
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I mean, I have my priority straight.
That's true.
That's true.
Well, next summer, write it down in the meantime.
We are going to be watching all of these amazing summer movies, but I think it is about time or us to wrap this up.
Olivia, where can the people find you?
You can find me.
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You see my door behind me slowly opening that just creeps me out so hard looking in the camera.
Annabelle!
Annabelle!
You weren't afraid of me enough.
I'm ready.
She's like in Chuckie's like you said we could be friends bitch.
It was my cat everybody.
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So entertain me, entertain me right now.
[Music]
♪ Wntertain me, entertain me right now ♪
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Hey, you found us.
We are the pop culture junkies.
I am Shauna.
And I'm Olivia.
I miss you so much, dude.
I miss you too.
How's life been?
Life's been good, yeah.
By the time this episode airs,
we will be done with Phoenix Fan Fusion,
which the Pop Culture Junkies are not doing this year,
(00:25):
unfortunately, because one of them had to go and move
but hey, I was gonna come back.
That wasn't even the reason.
That's true.
I know.
I know.
God, we should have done it just this weekend.
Yes.
Even though I'm only going for one day,
but I've been working on my cosplay.
Ooh, yeah, what are you gonna be?
(00:49):
So because this is airing afterwards,
I can say it because everybody's already
seen the pics that like them.
I am going as a gender bent papa emeritus
the third from the band goes.
Not the second, the third.
It's gonna be, yeah, it's third, Turso for sure.
(laughing)
That's exciting.
I'm excited to see it.
(01:10):
So what are you wearing with it?
So I have--
So I have--
Yes, my whole face is painted in like the Corp A.
And then I'm painting my chest and like,
cleavage white to match the face.
And I'm gonna repurpose my L byro dress.
And I wore a couple of years ago for fan fusion.
But I have a Pope hat.
And I have those like long hanging things
(01:32):
that folks have up their sleeves.
All the Catholics listening are like,
"Oh my God, girl."
You know the long hanging oak things.
I was raised Catholic and I don't know the name of it.
So like I'm a cradle Catholic,
I think is what they're called,
but not like a real Catholic.
And I don't know the name of them.
So--
Great.
Dramatic sleeve.
(01:53):
It's like dramatic sleeves basically.
They got a cloak.
It's the Conti Catholic sleeves, of course.
That's exactly what it's called.
The Conti Catholic sleeves.
CCS.
[LAUGHTER]
So if my family was already not speaking to me
after they see these pictures, they're really not--
It's very true.
(02:13):
We can't share that one to Facebook.
Debbie, you know.
Oh, I'm sharing.
I don't go.
Yeah.
She said, "I do it for the likes, not for the love of my family."
No.
I do it for the memes and the clown and the memes.
The memes, the memes.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me--
What did they have for a gift?
(02:33):
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
What did they have for a gift?
They gave me a gift.
They gave me a gift.
Yeah.
I do need to hear the story of the man telling you,
your hot for a gauze.
And please--
Oh, my god.
And then somebody on threads didn't believe me.
He found some like, die-ass bar where people just getting up there and playing jam band,
(02:59):
dad rock.
And this guy came up and was like, you're really hot for a gauze, girl.
And it's just like, that is--
What does that even mean?
What does that even mean?
Are you trying to compliment?
And he's like, yeah, I just, you know, I've never really been into that kind of girl.
And I'm really--
You're hot for a gauze, girl.
And you just try to be right here.
I'm going to start this for the appearance.
(03:20):
Yeah.
And like, first of all, I'm married.
Second of all, that's not how complex it is for--
If you're trying to start about--
Just like that, just sort of--
--negging thing from like the mid 2000s, if you're doing that wrong, too.
Yeah.
He's like, I just heard about nagging.
I was tested out.
What did he look like?
Was he wearing a pair of cowboy boots?
Like, I need every detail about this man.
(03:43):
Oh, no.
He was not wearing cowboy boots.
Actually, he was a handsome black band.
So--
Well--
You know, if he wouldn't--
OK, if I wasn't married, he wouldn't have
led with a bad line.
Maybe I would have shouted with him.
I wonder how to shout.
I wonder how to shout with a bad look.
He was a bad looking.
He was a bad looking.
[LAUGHTER]
(04:03):
Like, yeah, everything else is, you know--
--fighting against you.
E-below it, but E-bel it.
Well, that is a true--
What have you been doing?
I know.
I've been artsing crafting and getting poorly hit on.
What are you doing?
Yeah, since we last recorded, I have
been public speaking for an insane amount of time
(04:25):
about taxes.
Not great, not fun.
Much more fun to talk public speak about, you know,
silly goofy things like pop culture.
I fell asleep for a second there, I'm sorry.
Yeah, same.
Same.
I just was up there, you know.
Now it's my soul memory.
So I, you know, just--
if you don't know, I speak for a living.
(04:48):
And I do a lot of educational content for taxes.
Never would I have ever thought.
But we're here, and it's paying the bills.
Paying the very expensive San Francisco bills.
And then I have been in a public beef with my neighbor.
So that's really about it.
Oh my god, I am so here.
(05:09):
OK, everyone.
So Olivia has this neighbor who--
look, it's not loud.
She doesn't party.
She just exists.
And this lady, you would think that you're
like throwing ragers every week and--
At this point, I'm going to, because if you're going to literally
start something over being loud, like I'll show you loud.
(05:30):
You know, she had the city, like a city worker come
and look at my backyard on Friday.
Don't you guys share?
Yeah, we share a backyard.
Yeah, she's insane.
And so the city called my landlord.
My landlord was like, this is insane.
Like, she's crazy.
So yeah, yesterday I came home and whipped out the speaker
(05:51):
that I hadn't been using because I was trying to be a nice neighbor.
And I, on full blast, played "Fuck You" by Liliana
in every single song that I could think of that had the word "Fuck You"
in it.
Yeah.
Yeah, "Fuck Last."
So we've entered the pediatra of me living here.
Yes.
I just want to gaslight this lady.
(06:11):
I want you to sign her up for just spam mailers.
I don't know.
Somehow, we need to just send every organization in the world
papers to her.
Just like, I don't know.
If there's states that she doesn't live in,
you should place him ghost.
Just play "Year Zero" by ghost to just break her the fuck out.
Because it just says, "Ale-Sate, no over and over."
(06:33):
That's actually not a bad idea.
If killing a mucinus didn't work, maybe killing with ghost.
I love it.
Yeah, other than that, I've just--
I've just been hanging out.
The weather here is amazing.
It's my first San Francisco summer, as you guys are all aware.
And yeah, I've just been walking around.
(06:55):
The flowers are so pretty.
They're blooming.
It's perfect.
Love it.
I've been going on three mile walks every day.
Oh my god.
I wish I was there with you.
And I'm going to try to come visit "Sari Babe," not "You Baby,"
"Andry Babe."
Yeah.
Well, he doesn't listen.
So we're fine.
You won't know.
We could be planning his death on this, any other way around.
(07:17):
We could be planning his murder, and he would have no idea.
Or signing him up for text, you never know.
The dude.
He's like, "You have a good podcast?"
Yeah, great, babe.
Yeah, yeah.
He made some really good points.
There's a lot of pop culture.
So I guess we will talk some pop culture.
You what?
(07:38):
All pop culture.
All pop culture, no murder.
No murder.
with it. We've talked about murder a lot in this show but it's always, it's always, I don't know.
Culture murder or fake murder, fiction, that's the word I'm looking for.
Sometimes we talk true crime quite often. Oh, you're back, you're back.
(07:58):
Okay. It's a murder cast. It's murder.
Just kidding. Okay. We are going to talk about pop culture after this quick break.
We are going to give you the movies that we are most excited to see this summer.
So it's hot as Valk and Arizona in the summer and kind of chilly in San Francisco.
(08:23):
So Olivia and I both have reasons to see as many summer movies as possible.
So let's talk about what we are looking forward to.
But first, let's talk Patreon, want a shout out full access to our new ECJ pops.
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So this summer superheroes and sequels are expected to rule the box office.
(09:06):
And we are going to break down three each for you.
Given you six movies that we think you should see this summer with your money.
Olivia, do you want to go first?
So when I think of movies that I'm most excited for this summer,
there are quite a few on my list.
But I think this one will already be out by the time this episode release.
(09:29):
But you know that I had to do a super horny hot romantic comedy with our main man, Pedro Pascal.
And this movie is the material list.
So it has Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal.
Oh, just hot straight out the stuff.
Don't even read any other information.
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But it's a romantic comedy set in New York City.
And it focuses on Dakota Johnson's character. She is a matchmaker.
And so she's kind of like this cynical woman who is just focused on finding love for other people.
But love seems to be complicated for her until she meets Pedro Pascal.
(10:13):
And then also at the time, like Pedro Pascal supposed to be like this really rich,
hot man. Of course, it's Pedro.
So yes, and then she also at the same time reconnects with her flawed ex, John, who is Chris Evans on the same exact night.
And so she's kind of like going through second chance romance and hot,
(10:37):
millionaire romance all together.
And it just seems amazing.
I don't know if you've seen any of like the press tour.
Yes.
And it's pretty as hell.
And Pedro wants to fill whole.
Yes.
It looks so good.
Literally they did this photo shoot and they like released a video of them doing it.
And I've never wanted to be Dakota Johnson more.
(11:00):
I mean, aside from the nepot baby part of her life as well,
but I don't think I've ever wanted to be Dakota Johnson.
Yeah.
Well, I'd like to be as rich as Dakota Johnson.
That's fair.
That's fair.
It's so good.
And how is she going to choose between them?
Like this needs to be a why choose romance, honestly.
She just they like is there.
(11:21):
How do you choose?
Yeah, that'd be really funny if it just ended up being a polyamory.
Oh my god.
I would actually love that so much.
It would really like subvert the genre quite a bit if they went for it.
But no, it looks really, really good.
And I am so here for rom coms to come back.
(11:43):
I think in the 2010s, we really started to move away from them.
Like, I need this, like this time periods, how to lose a guy in 10 days.
I need like a good, see all good, rom com.
I think we really over corrected.
And everybody says that like I wanted to come back and everyone said with anyone
(12:08):
about you, like rom coms were so back, but I didn't really think anyone,
but you was that great.
And you know, like I said, I went to high school with Glenn Powell.
He has his place, but didn't love it.
Didn't love it.
Everyone says a great chemistry.
I don't agree.
I have that it's that good.
Like, I don't know.
(12:29):
No one that I talked to said that it was that amazing.
But yeah, it wasn't.
It was good to look at their both.
Yeah, we're so starved from a rom com perspective that we're like, oh, we're so back.
No, I need a good one.
I agree. Palm Springs was like the last good rom com that I really liked with
piston, miliati and Andy Sandberg.
(12:51):
I don't know if I've seen that.
Oh my god, it's so good.
You watch it.
It's basically groundhog say, but romantic.
It's really cute.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you know, I don't know if I put my full faith in Dakota Johnson being the one to take us
to the rom com.
Renato said it's, but I know.
You know, we can hope we can hope take his home, girly.
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You did not take home for 50 shades of gray, but we'll give you another chance.
We'll forget about Madam Webb.
I'll all be forgiven if you give us a free sum with a scale and Captain America.
Always forgiven.
It's by yeah.
Yeah.
Well, wouldn't it be the Mandalorian and Captain America?
Actually, it would be Mr. Fantastic, which is a pro big set segway because the movie
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that I am most excited about is the Fantastic Four first steps.
It comes out on July 25th and it stars Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic.
Vanessa Kirby, a su storm, Joseph Quinn as the human torch.
We all know him, of course, as Eddie from stranger things.
(13:59):
And a ebon Moss back rack has been grim a K a cousin from the bear.
I am Wig in that movie.
A Trojus.
Oh, and Fantastic Four.
It's bad.
It's really bad.
The blonde is the derivative for it.
I am so excited for this movie.
(14:21):
So the Fantastic Four, this will be the Oh gosh, fourth, fourth, fourth,
yeah, like 1700s.
Yeah.
So they went up like the 60s or 70s or something.
And then the ones with Jessica Alba.
Thank you.
Jessica Alba back in the early 2000s.
(14:43):
And then there was a horrible one that came out in 2015 with Michael B.
Jordan was so bad.
And none of those were in the MCU though, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Though we did see Chris Evans, Johnny Torch or human torch.
I was like, isn't Chris Evans in the Jessica Alba one?
Yes.
Chris Evans plays the human torch.
And he briefly shows up in Deadpool versus Wolverine because it's different
(15:09):
multiverse and gets his skin ripped off.
So that was the end of that.
Now, geez.
I'll cheat by the bus.
But this is technically the MCU's first whack at the Fantastic Four.
It takes place in another universe.
Of course, like a lot of MCU go these two.
(15:29):
And it will be what is called the first family of the MCU.
So they, if you don't know anything about the Fantastic Four, they are a group of
astronauts go up to space.
Some galactic helmet book shit happens.
If they come back and they are super powered.
So Mr. Fantastic.
(15:49):
My first family.
What does that mean?
Because it's like the presidential first family.
I don't know.
It's their kind of known as saying the same words again.
Yeah.
How do I describe this?
They are really the only
family intact family in the MCU.
Like a husband, a wife.
It is set in the Kennedy era.
(16:10):
So it does have that kind of 60s presidential vibes going on.
Yeah.
There are husband and wife and a brother.
So they're all related to each other.
Yeah.
You don't really see that a lot.
Yeah.
The thing literally it's called the thing.
So you don't see that.
Super hero knowledge.
You got the rock thing, you know, you accidentally got it correct.
(16:32):
You know, when it's right, it's right.
When it's right, it's right.
I mean, it's definitely their names are pretty on the nose.
Like Sue Storm is Vanessa Kirby, the invisible woman.
Guess what her power is?
She should go invisible.
Human torch can turn into a torch.
Mr. Fantastic can stretch his limbs really far.
(16:55):
And then the thing is just very strong and turntable rock.
Yeah.
What was Jessica Alba in it hot?
I know that.
She was very hot and she was Sue Storm, the invisible woman.
Okay.
Yes.
You know, not someone who needs to be invisible.
That is like peak hot Jessica Alba.
And she's so pretty in that movie.
(17:16):
And in Sinciti, not to get distracted.
But oh, yeah.
No, she's gorgeous.
In Sinciti.
I do think Vanessa Kirby is going to do a good job.
And I hope that her and Pedro have some good chemistry for Sue Storm and
Reed Richards because we don't have a lot of married upholz in the MCU, right?
Where they're actually like a family first before super heroes.
(17:39):
And I guess that's why they call them the first family.
They're family first.
Married.
Just.
Then.
Disco.
Stan.
Disco.
Then.
So that should be wonderful.
Well, hopefully that is better than all of them.
I mean, the only thing I remember from Fantastic Four is that Jessica Alba was
(17:59):
really hot and it.
And that was about it.
So it was not good.
It was not a good movie.
And you said the 2008 one was bad.
But I do think that Pedro can make anything good.
So.
I think I think it has a really good cast.
Julia Garner is going to play the silver server, which I'm in for.
Did you ever watch O's art?
(18:20):
Yes.
Oh, shit about.
I don't know.
So she's about.
Yeah, she's the silver server.
So she's bad.
Oh, yeah.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it should be good.
I'm very excited.
I think that's my top interest this summer.
What's your next?
Maybe they're excited for.
So childhood me is heading into a summer to watch this movie.
(18:44):
And adult me is heading into a summer to watch this movie.
And it is a freaky or Friday.
It is the long-awaited sequel from the 2003 freaky Friday,
where we have Jamie Lee Curtis and the one and only Lindsey Lohan.
Yeah, I'm so excited.
I'm speaking of the Lohanisans.
Did you see that she denied getting a facelift?
(19:06):
Yeah, come on.
Yeah.
Her denying a facelift.
Like, girl, we have eyes.
I love eyes.
I was like, I just did an allergy test.
And I cut out all of my allergens.
I'm like, did it suck your face back?
Like what do you mean?
I didn't know allergies did that to you.
Crazy to deny that.
(19:28):
And she looks incredible.
So just admit it.
Admit it, girl.
Yeah, what's that?
But what time?
It's a girl you were out of the spotlight for like 10 years.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
You had all the time in the world, but between the Christmas movie stealing
that Middle Eastern child, no one was looking at you.
Do you remember when she did that on an Instagram live?
(19:53):
She went live with this woman and tried to steal her kids saying like she was
trafficking the child, but it was just like Middle Eastern woman like walking
down the street with her son.
It's actually pretty crazy.
That is a hard left turn from talking about.
Okay, it's that hard.
If you've never seen it, Google like Lindsay Lohan tries to steal child,
(20:17):
it is absolutely insane.
Okay.
And is that hell of a drug?
Kid, what year was this?
It was, it wasn't not that long ago.
I was within the last like five years, I think.
Oh my God.
And it was when she was like living in Dubai for a while.
I don't know if it was actually in steals and try, like,
I don't know if it happened to Dubai, but that was when Lindsay was in her,
(20:40):
like, I'm a Dubai woman.
Like, doing things out there.
So very, very interesting.
But, you know, squirrel, sorry, hard left turn.
But yeah, I was very upset that she denied her faceless because like we all have eyes.
Yeah.
But within this little hand of sauce, let's hope it's better than the Netflix Christmas
movie because if it's really, really bad, I'm going to be quite sad, but I have to see
(21:04):
it. It's like a train wreck.
Yeah.
You can't look away from, you know, but I am hoping for the best freaky.
Chad Michael Murge is in it.
Yeah.
But he also got a weird facelift.
So he does it for me.
I don't know.
No, he doesn't do it for me.
I like to know that I was younger, but again, blonde men.
(21:24):
That's true.
I know don't trust a blonde man, but I don't know.
He does it for me.
It does.
But yeah, I'm excited for that one too.
Yeah.
The story of Freaky Friday picks up 10 years after the original body swap.
And Anna, who is Lindsay Lohan, is now a mom herself and has a daughter and a soon to be
(21:46):
stepdaughter.
And so it's a little bit of like, you'll see when you're older, that age old, like, you know,
you hate me now, but you're going to be me in 10 years or whatever.
Yeah.
And so I think it'll be really, really good.
I mean, we have the main heavy hitters.
They actually got everyone back from the original one, like all of her band mates and things
(22:09):
like that.
All of the band make their back on that's cool.
Yeah.
I am excited to see if they're going to do music for it.
I'm sure they will.
Any chance for Lindsay to try to sing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll see.
It did the voice hold up.
I mean, I don't know if it was that great when we were going through it.
I'm just shitting on Lindsay Lohan right now.
(22:30):
So excited for this movie.
God, she sucks.
Her old lady ad that just came out.
I almost bought the set she was wearing.
No, because it was really.
But then she looks amazing.
She looks incredible.
Yeah.
So yeah, I'm excited for that too.
The next movie that I am very excited about is Superman James guns Superman comes out on July 11.
(22:53):
And I know is it time for another Superman movie?
Did we just have one in Rick Pabble was great?
Those movies were great.
Don't you say that about my man?
I know he was a wonderful Superman, but I think that Zack Snyder's DC universe.
(23:14):
It was time for it to come to an end.
And I'm excited to see what James gun does with it from all the trailers.
It looks a lot more bright and colorful, which you would expect from like a Superman movie where
Zack Snyder's were all kind of like brim lighting kind of dark and moody.
This one has a lot more of like the primary colors scape going on.
(23:35):
And it just seems more hopeful, which is kind of what I would want from a Superman.
Who Superman?
It is a guy named David or in sweat.
I honestly haven't seen him in anything else that I can think of.
Oh, wait, no, he was in Pearl and Twisters.
And he is 31 years old.
He looks great in the uniform.
Are you looking at the picture of him?
(23:55):
Yeah.
Racial.
And I had an add a picture of a yeah, like an add a picture.
I saw her eyes go on the screen.
Right.
Okay.
He's he's good.
It's it's still not Henry Cavill.
No one is Henry Cavill.
Henry Cavill is an alien himself who descended from the sky is a potted.
(24:16):
Do you ever like think about Henry Cavill and be like, what is actually wrong with him?
Yes, I do.
Like something wrong with him.
And like physically like, do you are you missing a toe?
Do you have a really tiny member?
I feel like he had like you cannot be that level.
There has to be a flaw.
(24:37):
Like I always think of bedazzled in.
Yeah, where he's like, I want to be an NBA star.
I want to have this.
I want to have everything.
Yeah, there's always a really tiny penis.
He always makes me think about.
Have we ever seen Henry Cavill's butt cheeks on film in the Witcher?
Oh, you're right.
He gets out of the tub in the Witcher and he's gotten great ass to.
(24:59):
God damn it.
It's great.
Everything.
There's no flaws.
Maybe he's a really bad person because that's important to guys.
But I feel like that's not true either.
Not if you're that hot.
I don't know.
You could be a little evil if you're that hot like you're allowed to be a little bit evil.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to go through the rest of this cast real fast because it's Jack Rachel
(25:20):
bras the hand plays the lowest lane and she's wonderful.
We love her.
I am excited for that.
I think she'll do a good job.
Yes.
Nicholas Holt plays Lex Luthor and I have the biggest treasure.
I love him.
He's been in a lot of things too.
Just like Pedro lately.
They're really going because he has been in a lot of things.
It's he plays Beast in Marvel and X-Men.
(25:44):
But does that version exist in the MCU yet?
I don't know.
I'm going to have to think on this a little bit.
Nathan Billy and plays the Green Lantern.
Isabella Merced plays Hawk Girl right now.
She is starring in the last of us and Millie Alcock from House of the Dragon is going
to play Kara Zore L. A. K. A. Super girl and I'm very excited for this.
(26:04):
All right.
Olivia, what is one final movie that you were looking forward to this summer?
So oldie bit of goodie.
I guess an oldie series that is sometimes just like a warm blanket.
And when I say it's warm blanket, everyone's going to be like, this bit just psycho.
(26:26):
What do you mean you should go to a mental hospital?
It is the conjuring last rights.
No, I totally agree.
I think you're psycho for liking a warm blanket because I like a cold.
Oh, it depends.
I mean, if I'm in Arizona, I want to cold blanket in a place that is in Arizona.
(26:47):
I like a warm blanket, you know, let's talk more about blankets.
This is what the people really want.
So the conjuring last rights is the ninth and reportedly final installment in the conjuring universe.
They've set this like 17 times though.
And so the map isn't mapping on nine and 17, but you get the point.
(27:09):
So it is set in 1986, which is five years after the events of the devil made me do it.
The film follows Ed and Lorraine as they always do as they consider retiring
from paranormal activities and investigations.
And their plans are interrupted when they're approached by the smurled smurled.
(27:32):
They're a Pennsylvania couple experiencing violent hauntings, demonic attacks in their homes.
So kind of the same, you know, antics that we've seen in the other conjuring movies.
And it's really kind of them grappling with like, can they keep doing it?
And so it has Vera Farmaga, Patrick Wilson.
(27:55):
We have Mia Tomlinson as Judy Warren, who is Ed and Lorraine's daughter.
So if it is the last one, I mean, I don't know how they're going to keep getting Vera and Patrick back for this franchise.
I mean, it's probably making them quite a bit of money.
But I just love the conjuring.
I think the original conjuring conjuring one and conjuring two are so freaking good.
(28:19):
I agree. They're so good and so scary.
Like they're made.
Yeah.
Even if you add in the none, I think the none was really scary as well.
Oh, the none is so scary.
The movies are just so good.
And ultimately, like it is a little bit, I mean, it's the ninth one.
You know, we're going to get it.
But I think that Ed and Lorraine Warren, as themselves, are very interesting characters.
(28:44):
I mean, I guess it's a good question for you because there's a big controversy over
if they were like faking things, right?
Yeah.
Do you believe them?
You know, I was listening to a like those podcasts pretty recently, like a haunting
paranormal thing.
And I don't remember what case it was, but they made a pretty strong case that they were like faking it.
(29:10):
And it was for money.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I maybe they brought people comfort.
You know, people who are going through things and they make it feel like that placebo effect.
Or maybe they were some of the times, sure, they did something and then other times they kind of
in that's the word.
I'm like, embellished a little bit.
(29:32):
Yeah.
I can see.
So I don't know how to feel about that.
But I do think they are very interesting people.
Like the fact that they really exist.
They don't look anything like Vera and Patrick will say what glue up for sure.
Yeah.
I think that the Hollywood glue up.
I mean, I think where them being frauds really really came into like American culture was with
(29:53):
Amni Bill.
They were kind of like brought in there and and seen as fakes and stuff like that.
Yeah.
I mean, I think even if they didn't tell the truth and they were faking things like they really
brought like ghost hunting and paranormal into the zeitgeist and pop culture and things like that.
I think it's very timely that Annabelle just escaped the doll.
(30:17):
Did you hear about that?
Yeah.
Like the real life doll.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Looking up because Patrick Wilson and Ghost released a song together.
Oh, look at you.
Yeah.
Look at you.
And it's from like the red room or something.
Oh, that's insidious.
I would eat Patrick Wilson's in both of those franchises.
There's an eight.
Found you in the city.
But I get them mixed up in my head all the time.
(30:41):
Also amazing.
Why is he in both of them?
Because Patrick Wilson is in like every horror movie.
He has a good like dad goes crazy or like older man in a horror movie.
Or in a hard candy guy gets his balls.
Amard.
Yes.
Really great movie.
Also a great movie.
But yes, I did see that Annabelle was just stolen or escaped.
(31:02):
Yeah.
So she escaped and they found her in New Orleans, which is like the sketchiest place to have.
Yeah.
And the most haunted place.
That's like she just went to where she felt comfortable.
Yeah, I don't like it.
I think that the Annabelle doll and what it really looks like is like extra disturbing.
(31:23):
I've never seen what it actually looks like.
If I look at a picture of it, well, like, be haunted.
No.
It's a doll.
I feel like she's going to like come out of the screen.
Annabelle real doll.
Yeah.
It's a yeah.
She's a raggedy and yeah, raggedy and yeah, it's literally so she's like, so be possessed.
(31:45):
The movie Annabelle so sketch so scary.
My grandma had a raggedy and growing up and I love the.
Well, maybe it was Annabelle.
Maybe any.
This raggedy and it's kind of tall though.
The Annabelle one.
That's that's too tall.
That's the problem.
She's tall.
But like they're a little demon.
(32:07):
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know if it's legs were shorter.
She could chill.
Yeah.
Listen, a good old fashioned raggedy and an Andy doll have little stubble eggs.
That thing's like six feet tall.
I don't trust it.
Okay.
Who would you rather fight?
Like who's who's the less scary of these two dolls?
(32:28):
Okay.
Okay.
Shucky or Annabelle?
I think I could get along with Annabelle.
No.
You know, I think I could get along with Shucky in the new Shucky movie.
He's got like a trans kid or in the Chucky show and he's like kind of chilling.
Do you become friends with him?
You only get out of your back, right?
I don't know.
Probably not.
I also, I would agree.
(32:50):
But for a very different reason, I would like, I think that Chucky is just a murderer in
a doll body.
And then Annabelle is a fucking demon.
Oh, that's fair.
That's probably the more important reason than I.
I think he's a chiller.
(33:10):
Chucky would like a guy.
Who could I smell good joy with?
Chucky would say you're hot for a golf girl.
And he only likes a golf girl, you know, Jennifer.
That's true.
But then you'd have to contend with Jennifer Tilly.
Pride of Chucky.
Do Jennifer Tilly can step on me all she wants.
That's fine.
Kill me.
(33:31):
Speaking of Jennifer Tilly, you're not a real housewife person.
But she is on the real housewives of Beverly Hills.
It's a really.
Yeah, it's great.
She's so funny with all of those women.
They're all like, my, my, my, my, my, and she's like, I'm super rich.
I have Simson's money.
Like I'm just here to party.
Not the Simson's money.
I love that.
(33:52):
She made a joke like, Oh, honey, you think Chucky's paying for this jewelry?
No.
I love us self-aware queen.
Let's.
All of this discussion also leads.
Perfectly into the last movie that I'm excited about for summer.
Well, not the last one.
I'm excited for a lot of these.
But the last one I'm going to talk about Megan 2.0.
(34:14):
Another murderous doll robot thing.
So two years after the events of Megan, Megan went rogue and embarked on a murderous
rampage, the creator, Jim has become an advocate for government oversight of AI.
Unbeknownst to her, a defense contractor has created a military, great weapon known as
Amelia, the ultimate infiltration spy.
(34:37):
However, as Amelia's self-awareness increases, it becomes less interested in taking orders.
In order to stop Amelia, Jim decides to resurrect Megan, making her faster, stronger and more
lethal.
The trailer for this movie looks fucking absurd.
Yeah, it looks absurd.
(34:58):
It's like it turned Megan.
The first one was kind of a horror movie.
This one looks like just an action movie.
It looks like I can see that.
Unnecessary and over the top and stupid.
And I am so excited for it.
Yeah, it's like really leaning into how ridiculous it is.
Yes, you know what?
AI doll versus AI doll.
(35:20):
Exactly.
I am so excited for it.
I think it's going to be very self-aware from the trailer.
Megan says she's going to pick somebody in the vagina or something.
Hold on to your vagina.
Like it's just it's so stupid.
And they compensate for the actress who plays her getting older by when they remake Megan.
(35:41):
She's like, make me a little taller.
Like, okay, perfect.
So Megan is going to star Alice and Williams as Jim again, the creator of Megan and then.
It also brings back Jenna Davis as the voice of Megan and then Amy Donald as the dancer who played in
(36:04):
just like the body work for Megan.
And then of course they have all the teaching special effects on top of her.
Make her look like a doll.
But all of the dance, the crazy dance moves in the hallway.
That was all this little girl named Amy Donald.
Yeah, that'll be it.
That'll be a good, let's silly goofy one.
But it's like aware of itself.
And yeah, it really goes for it.
(36:25):
The honorary mention, New Jurassic Park movie, one and only reason Jonathan Bailey in those slutty little glasses.
Yeah, the slutty is little glasses.
God, he just so handsome.
Literally.
So we have Pedro.
We have Superman.
(36:45):
Can't remember his name.
And we have David.
Jonathan.
What?
Doesn't matter.
Jonathan Bailey in those slutty little glasses.
It's going to be so good.
A summer for the girls and the gaze, baby.
Yes.
Yes.
It does feel there's a lot of superhero movies.
So I don't know if those are for the girls on the case.
(37:07):
I'm a girl and a gay and they're like them.
Yeah.
Oh, happy Pride Month, everybody by the way.
Very happy Pride month.
I am so excited.
You know what you should do instead of coming forward Labor Day.
You should just come for us up Pride.
I know that's like this month though.
I am literally going out of town like every week of this month.
(37:31):
It's okay.
So you hate me.
I love you so much.
So you hate gay people.
Okay.
So what you're saying is you hate the gaze.
You hate me and you hate gay people.
Okay.
Phoenix Pride is until October because it's 145 degrees outside.
So we just got our fries in October.
So you should come to Phoenix for Phoenix Pride.
(37:53):
I mean, maybe, but like no one's talking about Phoenix Pride as it's like a good thing.
As San Francisco Pride is like amazing and you're worthy.
Next year.
Next summer, let's make it a plan.
I've heard this.
I've heard this before.
I literally asked you to play.
This is your first summer there.
No, no, no, because on your birthday, I said everyone should come to San Francisco for Pride.
(38:18):
And we all said, yes, we're going to do it.
Oh my God.
And then you made like seven other plans.
If it makes you funny, better two of those trips with my in laws.
It doesn't.
And I love them.
But I can't like saying no to that.
I mean, you could.
That's true.
Yeah.
Look, family.
Olivia needs me for pride.
(38:39):
I mean, I have my priority straight.
That's true.
That's true.
Well, next summer, write it down in the meantime.
We are going to be watching all of these amazing summer movies, but I think it is about time or us to wrap this up.
Olivia, where can the people find you?
You can find me.
(39:00):
Olivia on Instagram @livimariez
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You see my door behind me slowly opening that just creeps me out so hard looking in the camera.
Annabelle!
Annabelle!
You weren't afraid of me enough.
I'm ready.
She's like in Chuckie's like you said we could be friends bitch.
It was my cat everybody.
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