♪Entertain me, entaertain me right now ♪
- This is the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
I'm Olivia here with Shauna.
And as we record this episode,
you are probably coming back from your Thanksgiving plans.
I hope you aren't still bloated
from all of the turkey and gravy and mashed potatoes
that you've been shooting for days.
(laughing)
I mean, generally that's just you.
- I'm saying that is nothing to do with Thanksgiving,
though, that's just my pal.
That's just you in general.
That actually brings up a really good topic.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?
- Stuffing or dressing, I don't know.
People call it different things
based on where they're from, I think.
- And I think it's stuffing.
- I mean, I like to be stuffed and undressed.
- I think it's stuffing if you put it inside of the turkey.
And I think it's dressing if you have it on the side.
- So it's stuffing if it's out.
So my mom just hung cultured.
I can be un-cultured.
- I mean, probably.
- Mine's definitely mashed potatoes and the turkey gravy.
But my mother is southern
and makes the best gravy in the world.
So I think it's probably real mashed potatoes.
- Right, like that your mom mashes.
- I make them. - I make them.
- I make them because I want real mashed potatoes.
My mom's like, I just made you a turkey and gravy
and all this other stuff.
- That's fair.
- And also mashing you potatoes.
So I'm a little elitist of it.
But my brother and I have taken over
the making of the turkey now.
And so she can't really make that complaint anymore
but we do keep her own gravy duty
because she is the best.
- She makes the gravy. - She makes the best
more always be the best.
Oh yeah.
Any kind of gravy?
- I love gravy, dude.
It's just so commuting gravy.
(laughing)
My husband's none of that that make good food.
- I like that part of Thanksgiving.
I like their food.
- I'll bring up the dish.
- So I don't know.
- So other than the stuffing and the gravy bath,
what have you been obsessed with?
- That's it.
I've just been taking gravy baths.
(laughing)
- It's good for the skin, you know?
- It's not a real bath.
It's just soaking in gravy.
It is thinking about my life choices.
- What have I been obsessed with?
Oh, we started the penguin on HBO Max.
It's that Colin Farrell stars in it
with Christina Miliotti.
- Yeah. - And it's a spin off
from the Batman with Batonsen.
- It's really good.
- Have you seen Batman?
- I've been debating starting it.
- I saw that one, yeah.
- Yeah, and it's so good.
And so I was a little unsure about it too.
I wasn't sure if the penguin needed his own show.
Three episodes in and it's really good.
And Christina Miliotti is incredible in it.
I just really like her as an actress.
And it doesn't look like Colin Farrell at all.
It still blows my mind that that's him
under all that makeup.
'Cause he's so hot and hot as well.
- He's a not attractive.
So yeah, I've been watching that some anime.
We started the Dune prophecy show last night,
but only got halfway through the episode before us.
Like I gotta hit the hay.
So it wasn't really like drawing me in yet,
but I'll give it, you know, maybe the two episode rules
and see how I feel about it.
And...
- Palipa was trying to get me to watch that with him.
And I was like, I've never seen any of the Dune movies.
- So you're not gonna know where that is.
- You're not gonna know where that is.
- Fuck is going on.
- Yeah.
- For these people, why do we care?
Oh my God.
I mean, I like the new ones with Timothy Shalame.
And Andrew and I watched the 1980s Dune,
which is so cheesy and over the top.
And it just feels like an acid trip.
And I think it's worth a view.
But Timothy Shalame likes and Dio ones are pretty good.
So if Andrew fucking loves Dune,
so that's why he wanted to start it.
- If I'm like finished the book or is he reading?
- He reads it even slower than you.
- Say he's a slower reader than me.
Listen, and to be fair,
my New Year's resolution last year was to read three books
in one year, which is so easy.
I sent them our very low for myself.
- For what?
- I read nine.
Thank you very much.
- Okay.
- You probably read like 25.
- I did, I read nine.
- I do.
- But I don't think I believe you there, but.
- I did, okay.
- I read all of the Avatar books.
And what I mean is that five.
- Yeah.
- And then I read fourth wing.
- Okay.
- And then I'm almost done with Iron Flame.
I'll finish that within the week.
- Okay.
- So that'll be 67.
- 67.
And then I read that sexy Persephone and Hades book
that you, yes.
- Yes.
- Because of that.
- Yes.
- Sexy.
- So what does that eight?
- Eight.
- And then I read, I finished the Elvira autobiography.
Yours, Croulee.
- And I finished what's in a generation,
the Buffy behind the scenes book.
- Oh my gosh, look at you.
That's 10.
- Look at you.
- She knows how to read.
- I read baby.
- I know.
- For Spongebob.
- She is literate.
I'm so proud of you, Farah.
- She can.
- Thank you.
I went from that knowing how to read
to ruling a kingdom in one novel.
- Yes.
- So, yes.
- I'm fine.
(laughs)
- Well, speaking of ruling a kingdom,
I have been obsessed with the show.
It's called Lady Jane.
Have you heard of it?
It's on Amazon Prime.
- I just read Cheryl's comment.
You should make that joke, 'cause it's funny.
(laughs)
- Wait, what is that segment?
- It's in the chat.
You should get a personal pan pizza coupon.
Are you too young for that reference, Olivia?
- Maybe.
- Okay, I'll make the joke then.
(laughs)
- I should get a coupon for a personal pan pizza
with all of those books that I read.
- I'm going to.
- Yeah, and go to the Scholastic Book Fair.
- Oh, I love the Scholastic Book Fair.
- I do too, I miss it.
I miss it quite a bit.
- Oh my God, quite a bit.
- I got a great book about Hanson back in the day.
- Okay, I still had it.
- Yeah, there are so many things.
I gifted you a Lady Gaga magazine.
- You do?
- Yeah.
- If anybody is watching on video, they can see
- Yeah, the sexy, sexy- - I found the exospect one.
- They're both from the same year, I think it was 2012.
- It's 2010. - 2010, even earlier.
- There's so many things everywhere. - January 20th, I was single.
- Oh, really? - Really a different era.
And it's a bit squirrel.
So, I've been watching Lady Jane, which is very fantasy book like,
but it's basically if Lady Jane didn't get her head cut off.
And so, it's an anachronistic history.
It's so good.
What's it on? I've never been heard of that.
It's Amazon Prime.
I think that they canceled the second season,
which I'm really upset about.
But it's right up the alley of sassy little history story
told like a modern genre.
It's got a little bit of enemies to lovers.
- It's your sexiness? - Yes, very much so.
And I've just been in a little bit of a funk.
And I was like, I need this so to like rap me in a bit of a hug.
And so, it's been great.
I've been trying to catch up on my reading goals.
So, to circle back on the reading, my reading goal was 36 books this year.
And I was finished. - Yours was 36 and mine was three.
- Yeah, right. We were really on opposite ends of the spectrum.
But both on the spectrum for sure.
- Yeah. - Sorry to be here.
I was on like 16 books.
And then I just totally dropped off.
It's like by ADHD obsession.
I've talked about it on here before.
- Yeah. - Really into books.
And then I'll get really into podcasts.
Then I'll get really into watching shows.
And so, I feel like this show is kind of the perfect in between
wanting to read a fantasy book and then also watch a show.
And so, it's just been a little warm hug, you know?
- I'm not to get that world in.
I liked Olive Bridgerton and I powered through that really quickly.
Kind of talking about like the period piece with the romance and stuff.
I didn't watch the one with the queen, which I heard was really good.
The one that's just focused on her.
- Oh, Queen Josephine. - Oh, my God.
I know I should do that for my next girl in show.
- Oh, God. - Yeah.
That's a good one. - They don't get that world.
- That's a good show when Andrew's gone.
- Yeah. - God, I love that one so much.
I watched it literally in like one day.
- Oh my God.
Okay, I'll have to start that too.
- Yeah.
- And you mentioned podcasts and I realized I started listening to a new podcast.
- What podcast?
- So, it is called The Dark Paranormal.
And it is hosted by this British guy whose name I don't know.
So there it is.
Great.
What a pop.
I don't know his name.
He's a great podcast.
- Don't need names.
(laughs)
- Kevin Eustis.
Kevin Eustis.
- That's great.
- And he doesn't deserve his name yet.
- He said they have to earn their names after a couple dates, okay?
We give them the nicknames in Delvin.
- Yes.
- And Olivia is finally like, by the way, his name's Bob.
And I'm like, "Bob, here's this moment."
- Yeah, it must stash guy for years.
- My names are much better than their actual names.
They're much more creative.
- They're really creative.
They're descriptive.
The male names just aren't particularly inventive.
Unless I was dating some young children.
And then they're too inventive.
- Oh God, what are their names are?
- Braille and crystalline.
- Ash Rider.
- Rider literally.
(laughs)
- And then you're like, "Oh."
- Yeah, you're like, "Let's dial it back."
- He could be glasses guy.
He could be glasses guy,
so you guys get married, okay?
- Yes, yeah.
Once I have a ring on that finger,
then we'll start calling you by your real name.
- Olivia, what's his actual name?
Actually, I don't know.
- I don't know.
Ringless.
Ringless, that's his name.
- I got, I, years ago this guy asked me on a date,
and we were like friends through the bartending scene,
and his name was Waffles.
And I didn't know his name.
And he had a tattoo of Waffles.
- Like his bar name?
- Yeah, he will use like a bouncer at the club next door,
whatever, and he had a tattoo of Waffles in his ass shake.
So everyone just called him Waffles,
and he liked showing everyone his,
and then he ended up asking me on a date.
And I was like, "Okay, yeah."
And then later that night, I was like,
"I don't know this man's name.
"He's going to date with a man named Waffles."
- What was his real name?
- I have no idea we never went on the date.
- Oh, you didn't go.
You didn't go.
- No.
- It didn't happen.
- There's this guy at this coffee shop.
I won't say the name in the coffee shop,
but I was like, "Oh, he's really cute."
And then they were like, "His name is Chewy."
And I was like, "I can't be attracted to a man named Chewy."
- Maybe that's his actual name, like Ceeche.
- No, it's not.
- It's not.
But he only wants to be called Chewy.
- It's like dubbing racist, Olivia, that could be his name.
- No, he's white.
He's white.
- Oh, well, that case.
- He's very white.
- Does he chew like tobacco?
'Cause that's disgusting too.
- Sorry, I asked him.
- I asked the owner of the establishment
because we were friends, what his real name was.
And I forgot it already, but he was like,
"You need to text me all of this afterwards."
- Yeah, well, it's hard to guess.
- What coffee shop it is.
And I think I know which guy you're talking about,
'cause he is really cute, but that's his name.
- Yes, yes.
- Yeah, but yeah, it's hard.
- If you have a dumb nickname,
like immediate points deducted, I don't know.
- I would have gotten, Waffles was very charming too.
I just, the timing wasn't right, and I didn't know his name.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- Just to leave with the guy in the whole time.
- You could have answered the answer.
- Waffles, oh god.
- Mrs. Waffles.
- I missed this Waffles.
He is no last name.
(laughing)
- Mrs. Waffles.
- You should have taken Waffles
to be your lovely buttered Waffle.
(laughing)
- I'm just saying,
- So, you missed two.
- Mrs. Waffle.
- Waffle.
We could have served Waffles at the wedding.
I wonder what that guy's doing now.
I'm gonna look him up on Facebook
and see if he's taking his type of Waffles.
- No.
- Just type of Waffles.
That was the same look Facebook too.
(laughing)
- Bro, you're listening.
I hope you're doing great.
- Waffles, you're a real one.
You've been sticking around for all these years.
We're sorry we're judging you.
- So hard.
(laughing)
- Let's take a break and eat some Waffles.
(dramatic music)
- For a lot of us to holiday season means traveling
to be with the family or traveling to get away
from your family depending on your family dynamics.
No judgments here, whether you go by plane,
train or automobiles.
Road trips can be a lot of fun
or they can be a disaster, maybe a little bit of both.
And that's why probably so many movies take place on the road.
Really, I love a road trip movie.
We've talked extensively about how we think
that Crossroads is one of the best road trip movies
in Waffles.
- Thanks, thank you about it.
And I think it's definitely my favorite one.
- Yes, it's so good.
It has so many different things that make it iconic.
And I was trying to think of, you know,
really what makes a great road trip movie
and really breaking it down,
I think it's like, you know, a strong journey framework.
So they're going through some kind of purpose,
clear destination, they're discovering themselves
within it, they have memorable characters,
they have conflict and growth throughout the road trip
and a lot of beautiful scenery.
I think road trip movies often have this theme of freedom,
adventure, most of the time there's a really good soundtrack
because whenever you're taking a road trip,
you are at listening to music.
- You gotta have a soundtrack.
- Yeah.
- I personally am like a book or a podcast girl,
but whenever I'm going on a long car ride,
but I'm just boring and obsessed with reading
as you can't tell.
- We need to find a good podcast thing
because you and I are gonna be going on a road trip
in a couple months.
- We're gonna have to prep ourselves.
- Yes, and so Ashana and I to prepare for the long journey
that we're going to be taking together to San Francisco,
we wanted to talk about what makes a good road trip movie
and I think there's a lot of different types
of road trip movies, right?
And really there's some unpredictable ones,
there's some great ones that we've seen throughout time.
Like I think even the Odyssey we saw in Greek history
is a road trip in a sense.
And so it's been around for an-
- I love the Odyssey in English class.
That's one of my favorite.
- Yeah, right.
- And so there's so many different types
of story tellings and hero changes,
girls improvements over the course of the story.
And of course, you know, in modern popular culture,
there's some of these iconic road trip movies
that are just traveling movies that really shows a growth
of like an individual, whether it be into the wild.
I think when I was growing up, a bunch of people
who were graduating college said,
I wanna go have, or graduating high school said,
I wanna go have my into the wild moment
where I run away for a year and I do this thing
or whatever it is, but-
- Find myself.
- I find myself, yes.
And you know, there's all these different examples,
you know, I think of movies like Dumb and Dumber
where they really are going on this long,
arduous road trip together.
- Oh God.
- But it's just filled with silly giffy moods.
- When I was first thinking about road trip movies,
I was like, I really don't know if I like this genre.
Like I think of some really cheesy ones that I've seen
and it just kind of seems overdone.
But then you start looking at lists of road trip movies
and I was surprised at how many of these I really enjoyed.
So we talk about crossroads, greatest road trip
me of all time.
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,
probably number two for me.
- Oh my gosh, the road trip is literally just to White Castle
and it is so good.
(laughing)
- I love White Castle.
- It's so bad.
Have you ever had White Castle?
- So we used to get, you can buy like frozen White Castle
and then make them in the microwave.
But I, and those are delicious,
but I've never actually been to a White Castle.
We should go while you're still in Arizona
because there's what in Scottsdale that I've never been to.
- Babe, you really missed the opportunity
for when I was still eating gluten
and you know, smoking weed.
Because I used to,
- Oh man.
- Okay, but I think you should do this with someone else.
- Come.
- Get really baked, get a crave case.
So they give you 20 sliders,
like 10 French fries.
- Are the fries good?
- I never had the fries.
- It depends on the time of day.
I would say get extra crispy if you go there.
- But they're crinkle cut.
- I don't know how I feel about the crinkle cut.
- They're crinkle cut.
But really, the sliders are so good,
but get a crave case, get a smokyloon dube.
It is so good.
- You know me, smoke and dube is.
- Yeah, you gotta do it for the experience
of the white castle, everything.
- I'll get high for you Olivia.
- Yes, but if white castle is listening,
they, if they ever make a gluten free one,
I'm gonna gain a hundred pounds.
- I got sponsored us.
- I love white castle so much.
So I've talked about this before,
but I would go to Chicago every summer.
And up until a couple of years ago,
they only had white castles in the Midwest.
- Yeah, they were the zone at one just open here,
not too long ago.
And one of the reasons I haven't been is because the lines
always like around the building.
And it's like, oh, fuck it.
I'm just gonna go to In and Out,
like at this point, not in time.
- Yeah, In and Out is better quality,
but white castle has a special place in my heart.
And so my entire family,
other than my dad hates white castle,
my Chicago family.
- He's maybe like God of Us.
- Yeah, they're like, God are you really gonna make me take you
here?
And I was like, yes, I need you to sign that.
- I'm so high and hungry, God damn.
- So as a stoner and or a former stoner now,
and someone who absolutely loves white castle,
I think that is one of the greatest movies.
I also think that Neopatra Care is a straight man.
So good.
- Yeah, it's playing himself as just this overtly sexual
over the top version of Neopatra Care is.
- But you watched?
- Yeah, we watched Harold and Kumar go to Guantanamo Bay
with my dad.
He thought that was the funniest.
This was years ago, obviously.
- Okay.
- My lord, my father.
You were like, he liked that.
Yeah, he thought it was fucking hilarious
because it is fucking hilarious.
- So it's quite funny.
- A great road trip movie.
So yeah, there's a good number of them.
Zombie land is a road trip movie.
That's incredible.
That is a great movie.
- I've realized, so I'm quite odd
when it comes to me going on a vacation
or just traveling in general,
I almost always want to watch final destination.
Before I take that type of road trip.
- You're insane.
Why would you want to?
- I don't know, I'm a glutton for punishment.
Like I was gonna go on a road trip
and I watched final destination too.
Stupid, I was about to get on a plane,
watch final destination one.
- Is that my two?
- You know where the logs come through the cars.
- Yes, and cars.
- And so I actually really do love a horror movie road trip.
I think one of a very underrated one
that I would say is a death proof by 202 now.
I recently watched that for the first time.
I know, isn't that?
- It just escaped my radar.
- It's filmed in Austin.
It's filmed in Austin.
And I watched it when I lived in Austin
and I watched it with my brother
and we got in his niece on the ultimate.
After we watched it, he was driving me around.
We're like, we're so cool.
We were driving in the same places.
But if you've never heard of death proof,
it is Quinterantino Classic
and it's a Drainstunt man.
His name's Mike.
He uses his death proof stunt car
to murder unsuspecting women
and a fearless group of women
and counter Mike on the road.
And they are kind of like a adrenaline junkies.
I think of the dissent ladies.
And they go after him.
It's amazing.
It's such a good Tarantino movie.
- Yeah, and one of the ladies is a stunt performer
in real life.
So she's doing her own stunts in the movie, right?
Where she's like hanging off the hood of the car.
- Yes, yes.
It is, it is just so good.
It's such a good Tarantino movie.
- So we bell.
- That's there.
- Yeah.
And I think, you know, it's not,
I don't think there's any feet in that one for Tarantino.
Maybe there.
- Oh, okay.
And see you know, wow.
- So when her feet are up on the gas.
- Yeah, so, okay.
Rosario Dawson at one point is,
they're at a truck stopper,
a gas station to get snacks and stuff.
And she's sleeping and her feet are out the window.
And the main bag guy comes up
and like tickles her feet or like touches her feet.
And she like wakes up.
And I only know this because I watched it like two months ago.
- Okay, if you don't know why we're referencing
"Feedin'" Quentin Tarantino,
he has a foot fetish and he puts all these things.
- Yes he does.
He always puts feet into his movie.
- Yeah.
- I also think another really, really good kind of niche
road trip movie is natural born killers, which I absolutely
love that movie.
- Yeah.
- What?
- Oh my god.
It has "Woody Hero's Sillant" in it.
The couple Mikey and Mallory Knox.
And they go on a killing spree across the American Southwest.
- And it is.
- One of the most iconic movies.
It's got a really cool style similar like Tarantino,
but it's not done by Tarantino.
But it is like one of those,
just like really, really great cinematography.
- I'm gonna choose that from our movie night next time
that I need to choose a movie.
- It's just good.
- Yes, it's amazing.
It's so good.
It came out in 1994, but I absolutely love it.
- I have a funny one.
Be this and butt head do America.
- I feel like I have seen it when I was younger,
but like I can't, I could tell you a single thing about it.
- See this is when our age difference just comes
a little bit there.
- So in 1996, Beethas and Butthead do America.
It stars.
It's meh.
It stars Demy Moore.
Oh, I know, it doesn't star them.
They are in it.
Demy Moore briefs Willis,
Robert Stack,
Chloris Alliechman,
Star and Supporting Rolls.
The two teen slackers travel the US
and unknowingly become a fugitive.
So it's,
they travel with Motley crew roadies.
They camp out.
They try to lose their virginity at some point, I think.
They try to seduce Chelsea Clinton.
It's great stuff.
- Who could blame them, you know?
- It's a bit of a very 90s.
So I absolutely worth a rewatch.
Did you ever watch Beethas and Butthead
or was it like before your time?
- I watched it with my brother.
- Okay.
- Quite a bit,
'cause he's born in the 90s.
I was born in 1993.
So I know the culture seemed like older ones,
but if you tried to get me to recap that plot,
I would, like, gun to my head, I would die.
- Yeah, you should absolutely give it a watch.
And the soundtrack is great as well.
There's this Red Hot Chili Peppers song
that every time I hear that,
I think of Beethas and Butthead.
So,
- I have that in a world.
- 1996.
What year were you born?
- 1993.
- Oh, thank God.
Okay, you were alive.
- You were a baby.
- I was a little bit.
- She's a little bit,
but not watching Beethas and Butthead as a little bit.
But yeah, a great road trip movie there.
- Yeah, a more modern one.
We're the Millers, I think, is one of the funniest.
I love We're the Millers.
I think it's very much.
- There is funny parts.
Yeah, I do remember thinking a lot of it was funny.
- Boner garage, no regards.
So many things.
- Oh, I was like, there's a movie called Boner garage.
- No, I've been like, there's so many iconic lines
from it.
I mean, Jennifer Aniston is playing a really sassy stripper.
- That's true.
- We have Emma Roberts as like a Radoway sassy.
Emma Roberts is playing herself if she were poor.
- I always play herself.
- Yeah, but not a nebo baby.
And then we have the iconic, wait, you guys are getting paid?
- I do.
- So many just like, you guys are getting paid for this?
- You guys are getting paid for this?
I think it's such a funny one.
Jason Tadekis obviously is in it, you know,
a little bit wild ex-hunt spend.
That's the only thing he's known for.
- Yeah, that's it.
He hasn't done anything since.
- Not that.
- Oh my God, that fucking soccer show
that everyone was obsessed with.
- Ted Lasco.
- There it is. - I know.
- I know.
- I mean, I'm just--
- I think I just subject him to that
because I want to be the one that sleeps with Olivia Wilde
and not him or slept with Olivia Wilde, you know,
him and Harry Styles too.
- We did talk about you being in a lesbian relationship
with another woman named Olivia in the last episode.
So it's perfect.
- Yeah, yeah, perfect.
- I think it's been a mental service.
- I have been manifesting that since the OC
and, you know, really, I think it just needs to happen.
- Oh, she was great in the OC and a lesbian icon.
- Yes, yeah.
We love, oh, I would say more by.
Oh, she was a good guy by icon.
- Yeah, they don't want to admit it too, right?
- Yeah, they didn't want to go full lesbian
because it was Fox, you know,
and they ultimately just wanted to, you know, keep it going.
- Buffy went full lesbian,
but that's a little lesbian or bisexuality, a racer there.
- Yes, that's true.
- That's true. - That's true.
- And then one of my favorite episodes
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is when they go on a road trip.
Very short, you know, episode.
They are trying to flee from glory
in the third to last episode of season five
and Buffy rents a Winnebago.
- Okay. - High jinks and soo.
- Yeah, and they thought it was a good episode.
- Yeah, that is a really good episode.
- I didn't think of this movie as a road trip movie,
but it ultimately is.
And I am going to end this recording and go watch it
because I heard a TikTok sound of this audio.
And I was like, I need Kate Hudson to wrap me in a warm hug
and the movie almost famous is one of the most iconic movies ever.
It is technically a road trip
because they're trying with a band.
So if you've never heard of it,
it comes out in the 2000s,
but it's a coming of age film that set in the early 1970s
and it follows a teenage journalist, William Miller.
He's reporting for "Rillowing Stones"
and he meets these, the set of groupies,
which is with Kate Hudson.
And she is based on really one of the most iconic
groupies of all time who had really kind of toured around
with all of these different bands.
It's a made up band for this called Stillwater,
but it is just one of my gosh,
I love that movie so much.
The styling in it is still so iconic.
The quotes and I've seen the whole thing from beginning to end.
I've just seen like clips of it.
If you guys could see the look of the horse in my face,
what do you mean?
What do you mean?
I will watch almost famous.
What do you mean?
I will watch almost famous from beginning to end
if you watch Beavis and Butthead do America from beginning to end.
And I think that's a fair trade.
'Cause they're both adorable and delightful.
Once you see almost famous,
you will not agree that it's a fair trade,
but I will make that trade.
Because almost famous is such an amazing movie.
I can't believe it.
You saying Beavis and Butthead do America is the no one?
Yeah, no, but almost famous is like one of the most classic,
amazing movies ever.
And it made me fall in love with Kate Hudson.
And it's been on the radar.
It's been on the list.
And for a really long time,
I was a part of the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee.
And you know, Kate Hudson is our icon
and representative of that.
And she just looks so good.
You're not anymore now.
You're like, you're like, you're like, I'm just fat.
No, I'm just fat.
No, you just, hefty tits.
I mean, these came out of nowhere.
I have to do everything, but tits too.
Yeah, yeah, I will take it.
Another movie that I didn't think of as a road trip movie,
but in hindsight, it is, is Logan.
So this is a superhero movie from 2017,
starring Hugh Jackman as kind of based on like the old man,
Logan comic books.
So he goes on a road trip with Laura, who is X 23.
And spoiler alert dies in the end.
But that's okay, because in Wolverine and Deadpool,
we see another Wolverine.
He resurrects.
Yeah, true.
Well, his grave is desecrated by Deadpool.
And that movie horrifically, the first 10 minutes.
It's so offensive, incredible and wonderful.
But yes, we do get a different variant of Wolverine.
But yes, Logan is a good road trip movie
that I would highly suggest.
I mean, anybody who likes X-Men and Wolverine
and Marvel and comic books in general,
but really if you don't, I still think that they're incredible.
Yeah, I liked that one.
And I am the person who would fit into that category.
I spend a lot of time talking about this already
on the podcast, so I won't spend too much time on it.
But road trip and Euro trip have to be made
into iconic mentions on their percent.
100%.
Is Euro trip a road trip movie?
Do they spend a lot of time in a car?
Road trip, they spend a road trip.
Oh, Euro trip, they're flying.
But yeah, so--
I think that counts.
Yeah, that counts.
Yeah, yeah.
But Euro trip is based on road trip.
And I always still say it like Boston, Boston, Texas.
Like they're just some of those iconic little lions
that you always have from--
It's not a dozen known from your road trip, right?
Yeah.
Got to do this.
Yes.
No, that'd be on M-mead.
Yeah.
We cannot mention road trip movies without--
we'll give them just a little mention.
National Ampune's vacation, European vacation, Christmas--
I guess Christmas vacation, they don't really
go on a road trip, do they?
No.
Their family goes to Van.
Exactly.
Uncle Eddie goes on a RV trip.
He goes on his road trip.
Which last year for Christmas, we did for White Elephant.
We did dress like your favorite Christmas character.
And I dressed as Uncle Eddie.
And all of my friends were dressed up super cute.
The who or Camarindia is from the holiday.
And I'm over here just like Uncle Eddie.
Just ooh, yeah.
So that's who I am.
All I want to be is Uncle Eddie.
For the rest of the year, I don't want to be perceived.
I haven't washed this in a couple days.
It's just--
She's talking about her hair if you're not watching every two.
My hair-- anybody listen, he says I'm washed
what?
I'm a couple learning.
Oh, God.
I washed that.
I washed that every day.
Yeah.
But there are just so many different ways to do it.
Now there are-- I also think of like--
I obviously mentioned final destination for horror movies
that take place on the road.
I also think another iconic road trip horror movie,
if you are crazy like me and want to watch one of those,
is Vacancy, which they--
Oh, God, what's this name?
It sounds familiar.
I'm sure I saw it at some point.
So it is Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale,
and they stop at like a little motel
because they have their car breaks down,
and they have to stay.
And it's like the boy are watching them in the hotel.
OK.
I think you've seen it.
Yeah.
I think you've seen it.
There might be the hitcher, too, which I guess we could throw
in there as a retro horror movie.
They pick up that hitchhike ruin.
Is it murdering the boyfriend?
Oh my God, that movie still gives me the creeps.
He like strengthens him up between the two trucks
and then like rips him in half.
Yep.
We will not be picking up any hitchhikers on our way.
Absolutely not.
Just go.
Oh my God.
So no, it's the boyfriend that he kills
because I remember watching it with my boyfriend
and being very sad.
And I was like, no one better kill you.
In hindsight.
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I little off topic from Road Trip movies,
but we are going on a road trip soon.
I need to know what is your favorite road trip snack?
Huh.
Are you like one of these people who's
going to be like, here's some apple slices
in baby carrots, Shawna.
And I'm going to be like, oh.
No, I am a trash panda all the way to real.
Yeah.
I must say.
I must say, I love a slim gym.
Ooh, snap into a slim gym.
Slim gym, a porcrine, which is--
we're going to have some beautiful breath in this car.
Oh, yeah.
Also need--
Oh, yeah.
I also need--
I was thinking--
Oh, I was thinking--
I was thinking burps and breaths, but I am riding in a car
with you for 13 hours.
Yeah, we'll be two.
So gassy.
Yeah, I will be two.
I'm not sure.
And then I also need some sort of sour snack.
So most of the time I go to is the sour patch watermelons.
But I also like a good cheese stick.
And then to balance it out of all of that processed food,
I do like those little carrot and ranch packs.
Just so I feel like, OK, I have contributed to my body
in some sense.
Because I got you--
And mostly the carrots serve as a vehicle
to get the ranch into your mouth.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
And I would say a flaming hot chino lemon.
Oh, fuck yeah.
Oh, we're going to have so many flaming hot chitos.
Lemon.
Our beagles--
Lemon.
Muffery.
Lemon.
Our beagles.
They're all gluten free.
Beagles.
Yeah, baby.
Oh, yes, baby.
That is my--
Oh, the witch nails.
The witch nails, baby.
That is my favorite road trip snack.
I'd be eating the bug out of some beagles, yes.
Yeah.
And then you stuff some dip in the beagle.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my god.
Have you never been dipped?
Do you?
No.
I've a perfect--
Like fill the little cone with dip.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Maybe we should be--
It's a perfect smoking weed.
Yeah.
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Exactly.
This word innovation comes from.
What do you mean?
I mean.
What do you mean?
Yeah, it's like the perfect vehicle,
because then it's just stuffed filled with the dip.
And then--
Dude, like I just--
I just--
That frito is bean dip that comes in the little cans.
Oh, nice.
We could get that with the fritos or get like the beagles
and put the beag dip inside of the beagles.
Yeah, then we're really going to have gassy shall we?
Just giving you a bean dip and beagles, man.
Oh god.
Just pull over and let me have fart breaks every like hour.
Yeah.
I mean, first thing called rolling the window down.
Still.
I can let me just do like a hot girl walk around the car.
Just going to rub my tummy a little bit.
Get all the teeth out.
And let that--
I was, you don't--
Shit, your pants.
I will forgive.
I will forgive farts, you know?
I have never shit my pants on a road trip.
Really?
On a road trip?
Oh, I--
It's not a thing.
Oh my god, really?
I was just really surprised that you have never
shit your pants.
I don't think I-- I mean, like a baby, like--
As a sentient adult.
I have not shit my pants.
When were you sentient?
When are we considering sentient?
32.
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It's amazing.
OK.
Yeah.
OK.
Now, these are going to be good snacks.
And then you said you're a podcast road trip person.
So we'll find some good podcasts.
Well, I think I think I'm a mix of really good music.
Like, I love a 1970s playlist to kick me off, where, you know,
maybe we'll even make a road trip playlist for you guys
and share it when we do go on our inevitable trip all the way
up to sent-ins and rights to go.
And if anybody has any good snack combinations
that they want to give us that we can try out,
because that would be fun while we're on the road trip.
We make a little series of our snack combinations.
So we don't have any--
We don't have any--
They're going to suggest disgusting shit, though.
I'll love you, Cany, if it's not gluten-free.
Yes.
I'll speak gluten-free.
But yeah, she's home all due anything for our--
I'll do for our future subscribers.
Yeah, there you go.
So if you're part of the Patreon, let us know when it will
try your insane snack combos.
And we'll try to figure out a gluten-free version
if it doesn't exist.
If you aren't suffering the pliant of a gluten-free--
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And I really got to talk--
I didn't talk about the podcast that I was listening to too
deeply.
So it is Kevin Eustis, the dark paranormal.
And he has people right in, just these horrifying stories
that have happened to them.
You need to write in, because you've told
me an incredible ghost story that happened to you
a long time ago.
So I'm going to send you this podcast,
and you write to the email address.
We need to talk about ghost.com, I think, is the website.
And he's got this great British accent.
And I have been listening to it in the car,
like driving home at night from the bar and just out loud going--
Nope.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah, that's funny.
Maybe I'll have to tell it here first.
And then we'll see if we can get it picked up too.
But yeah, it's pretty creepy.
Yeah.
We'll listen to a couple episodes of that,
because I think it's worth a good listen.
Yes.
And listeners, we would love to hear what your favorite road
trip activity is, whether it's music, books, podcasts.
One of the things that I used to do is
there is this podcast called Conspiracy Theories.
I think a Spotify podcast, basically what they do
is they take the official story of whatever the theory is.
They break down that full story of the official story.
And then the second episode is every conspiracy theory
around the official story.
And then they rate the actual likelihood
based on everything and all that stuff.
And so I've driven to Southern California so many times.
And my friends and I go through two to three podcasts
or two to three topics.
And it's just so fun.
Well, that's the advantage of listening to.
Yeah, that sounds really cool.
Yeah.
Well, to find an advance, find a good way to be like,
OK, we're going to listen to this one on the way.
Yes.
Yes, exactly.
So we'd love to hear your different ones.
And so for this episode, it's time for us to pack up
and head out of here.
But before we go, let's tell our travel companions
how to find us on social media.
You can find me, Shauna Trinidad on Instagram and Threads
@shaunatrinidad
S-H-A-U-N-A-T-R-I-N-I-D-A-D.
I made a blue sky as well, but I haven't--
so everyone's leaving X as they should.
And either going to Threads or Blue Sky.
And I'm kind of enjoying Threads, but I made a blue sky
account.
We also have one for Pop Culture Junkie:
pop-culture-junkie.bsky.social
It's a terrible handle.
But give us a follow on there if you're
on the blue sky bandwagon.
Every time I think of it, blue sky,
I think of the cold documentary or anpo.
Oh god, maybe we should be--
It's cold.
No, it's just-- it's called "Peace of Blue Sky,"
which is about cults.
Yeah, I like cults sell you a piece of blue sky,
but I never ask.
We should listen to cult podcasts.
I love cult stuff.
Oh, that's a good one too.
Yeah, OK.
We're just planning a trip actively while you guys listen.
But we are open to your suggestions.
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Our producers might disagree with you.
Up to one, we grew up.
We talked about this episode was pooping and farting.
Yeah, yeah, they're going to love it.
We're just disgusting.
The fans will love it.
They'll love it.
You get the people what they really want, you know?
The content.
Farts.
Give the people the farts.
Yeah.
We're journalists.
Nothing but farts.
What was it?
Oh, I still love you the other day for some snacks.
I was under house and we were watching Hunger Games in bed.
And I said, she's like, do we need anything else?
And I was like, yes, some snacks.
Some snacks.
And she walks in her bottle of snops.
And she can't sit to me.
And I just like, thank you.
She like, didn't you ask me for snops?
And I said, snacks, snacks.
You know, honest mistake.
I did have the shops.
I tried the shops.
Oh, of course she did.
Of course she did.
Squirrel!
And of course.
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