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Hello, welcome to this week's PCJ Pop.

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My name is Shauna and I'm Olivia.

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And this week I'm going to talk about a movie that came out in 2025 that I wanted to see

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when it was in theaters and just never got around to it.

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I've been waiting for it to come out into streaming for free, but it's just not.

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And so one day I said, screw it.

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I have disposable income.

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I'll pay the $3.99 rate of this.

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Yeah, whatever.

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I'm going to watch this.

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And it's called the Long Walk.

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OK.

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So the Long Walk is based off of a Stephen King novel.

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I want to say it's one of Stephen King's first novels that he wrote and he wrote it under

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a pseudonym.

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So it wasn't like under Stephen King.

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So a little fun fact there.

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But this movie was absolutely just heart-wrenching.

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It's a dystopian thriller directed by Francis Lawrence based on King's novel.

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It kind of reminded me of the Hunger Games.

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It's a deadly annual contest in a dystopian United States where young men join this competition

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to walk continuously for as long as they possibly can.

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It is led by the sergeant or the major, I think they call him, who is played by Mark Hamill,

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who we know is Luke Skywalker, who is amazing in this.

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But it follows this core group of like teenage boys out of the group of 50 whose goal is to

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walk for as long as they can continuously.

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They have to maintain three miles an hour or above.

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And if they fall below it, then they're executed.

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Yeah.

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And if you are the last person standing at the end of this, you win riches and a wish for

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your family.

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So again, very like Hunger Games, you know, teen death competition winner takes all.

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But it's definitely a more adult than Hunger Games.

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It's very gory.

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You know, it's rated R.

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I cried in this movie at just like the relationships that are formed and you know, just the people

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who you see like what they're fighting for and just, you know, this dystopian landscape.

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I love an end of the world dystopian movie.

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So I was totally sold.

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But I am going to definitely pop this stellar cast very emotional.

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You can watch the long walk on Amazon Prime.

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So I'm going to street up.

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I wanted to watch this on out of my millions subscriptions.

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I am going to pop the long walk on Amazon Prime and that'll do it for this week's PCJ Pop.

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