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- Hello, and this is your Pop Culture Junkie Pop.

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I'm Shauna.

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- And this is Olivia.

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- And Olivia, what do you recommend

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to our listeners this week?

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- So I am recommending a show

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that I have not been able to stop thinking about

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since I watched it.

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It came out about a month ago, it's amazing.

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It's called Overcompensating.

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It's on Prime.

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And it is by Benito Skinner.

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It's written and created by him.

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And if that name sounds familiar,

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it is because he is Benny Drama

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on TikTok, Instagram, everywhere.

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And he's always done like little skits.

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He's really famous for his Kim Kardashian,

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Courtney Kardashian impressions.

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He's like a very attractive gay man.

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So is he the one who they have the cups and they know?

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- That's a different one.

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He is in the show though.

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So Benito Skinner is Benny Drama online,

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but he's kind of moved out of just being

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like a TikTok or Instagram person

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and of course he has a show now.

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But he's really kind of like queued into

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the kind of like celebrities.

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He's like, he's really good friends with Charlie X.

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He's actually an executive producer for the show.

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But he does a podcast with Mary Beth Barone as well.

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And this is so funny.

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So it is a college show.

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It's kind of like a goofy euphoria like.

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- Oh, funny.

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- But it's like funny.

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It's like a...

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- It's a four-year-old.

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- It's funny.

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- No, yeah.

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Like it's not like such a heavy...

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- Yeah. - Kind of like that vibe, like party kids.

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And it's set in college.

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So we're not watching high school trauma.

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But it's honestly so amazing.

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So overcompensating is about this football player

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from Idaho figuring out if he's gay and going to college.

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And it's so incredibly funny.

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I bingeed it all in one day.

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I was laughing so hard.

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It's also a time capsule.

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So if you were in college from the years of like 2011 to 2016,

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you are gonna have so many niche references.

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It is so iconic.

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What they were doing, the outfits, the costumes.

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I loved it.

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- That sounds great.

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That was your college years.

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- Yeah.

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- That was, Sean, it was the workforce.

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- Yep, you know.

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- And just a baby.

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- It get baby.

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- Well, it's a sound thing.

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- It's a baby.

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- Yeah, highly recommend.

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- And one more time, what's it called

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and where could people watch it?

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- It's called overcompensating.

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You can watch it on Prime.

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And please do because I really want them to pick it up

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for a season two.

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And Prime will cancel the show.

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- Real fast. - They really will.

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- They really will.

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- I typically pop two books by the same author

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because I read them so quickly.

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The author is Christian Ritter.

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Yes, that Christian Ritter, known as Jessica Jones

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in the MCU and also for her character on it.

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Right.

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Amongst other things to trust the B.

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at apartment 23.

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I adore her.

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She wrote her first book called "Bonfire,"

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about November 2017.

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And it's about a woman who travels back to her hometown

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after trying to leave her a popular high school past

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behind her, but then she becomes a lawyer

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and has to investigate some things that are going down.

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This book was a slow burn, but so good, so juicy, so well written.

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I did a combination of reading the paperback

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and listening to it on book on tape.

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Her second book, which I actually read first,

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is called "Retreat."

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That one just came out recently in 2025.

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This one was incredible.

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So this is about a beautiful con artist who kind of

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gets herself weaved in to an art dealing culture

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where she takes over an identity of a woman she believes

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to be dead and wants to just go on a relaxing vacation

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while also--

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As conwoman somebody.

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Yes, as conwoman I want to do.

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Did you finish this one yet, Olivia?

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No, I need to get the physical book because I will say

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I'm an avid audiobook listener and she does the

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audiobook narration and I think she has a phenomenal voice,

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but every character, even the men, I picture as

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Kristen Ritter, either dressed up as that person or in drag.

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And it wasn't working for me.

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I think she would do a really great narration

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for like one character.

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So it's taking me out of it, but I do think that I'd

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get as a physical book.

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I'm halfway through it.

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So I'm close, but it's going to give her two purchases there.

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I definitely do recommend getting the paper back copy of it.

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It is a twist ending.

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It's so entertaining.

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And I really want her to write more novels.

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It kind of got me into this thing that I've

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been right now with kind of four slash mystery, murder

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mystery.

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That's the kick that I'm on right now with my books.

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And it is all thanks to Kristen Ritter.

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So I am definitely going to pop both Bonfire and Retreat,

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where you can find wherever books are sold.

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And you can listen to them.

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Or book tape.

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Right.

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Listen to your book on tape.

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Right.

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Listen to you unspotted.

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My book on tape.

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I love pop books, I'm taking.

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So that is going to be your PCJ Pop for this week.

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Make sure to check out Overcompensating and also

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Retreat and Bonfire.

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