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Hello and welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie podcast.
My name is Shauna and I'm here with my bestie.
Olivia.
Hi.
Babies.
How are you?
Are you okay? How are you?
You know, another day checking along.
Another day checking along.
You know, we were doing really bad at the beginning of the year.
We were looking up.
Now we're doing really bad again.
You know, we're somewhere with you.
It's only going to go up.
It's only up from here.
Everything's going to be fine.
Have you been watching the World Cup?
By the time this air is, I think the World Cup will be like over.
But we're going to pretend like we're all still in it together.
The USA got their asses handed to them by Belgium last night.
It was really bad.
Did you watch?
I didn't even watch.
I have been going with a friend in San Francisco to watch games.
She was like, do you want to go?
And I was like, I am down bad from the 4th of July celebration.
That if I go, I cannot.
I was like, I need to go to sleep early.
Stayed up till midnight thinking about the woes of life.
And I was like, man, I should have just gone to the room.
Oh my god.
I loved the drunk dial of you and your friend that you sent me.
And the 4th of July.
Oh my god.
Well, because she was like, answer me.
She was messaging you on Instagram and then she was trying to call you.
I've never got a phone call on Instagram before.
Like, I was like, I need to get a notification.
She's going to think that like, I'm dead or something.
I was like, I actually need to call Shana from my actual phone this time.
So she's not like, what's wrong with Olivia?
But yeah, we were on one at that point.
It had been a few hours.
We did the busiest of 4th of July.
We had caviar, oysters, lobster.
And it was simply lovely.
And then drank a lot of champagne on a ripoff.
As if that's the way the founding fathers would have wanted it.
They would have loved it.
And it was simply lovely days.
They actually probably would have hated it because it involved like women having fun
and being spontaneous and loud and crazy.
So they would have been like these women are being...
Wait, no, what's all, what's all time you like these old British accents at that point, huh?
Because they just gotten here.
We're like, these ladies are having too much fun.
Let's burn them at the stake.
Something like that.
God bless America.
Yeah.
Being burnt at the stake.
God, take, she's just taking home.
Take me to the stake boys.
I'm ready.
Ready for it.
Ready to feel the heat.
I am not ready to feel the heat.
I've been canvassing and it was 112 today and I was outdoor knocking.
And people offer me water, which is very nice, but I try not to take water from strangers.
Unless it's like a really sweet old lady like offer me water once.
And she was like, oh, you got it.
And I was like, yeah, absolutely.
I'll take that for me.
I can see the water bottle.
That was strong.
I would definitely keep the sealed water bottle trick going on that.
But yeah, I am going to be there for like 24 hours and a week.
And I'm not excited about it.
But I get to go to Hawaii.
So I'm like, okay.
Oh, my God.
I'm so jealous, dude.
You deserve a Hawaii trip, though.
Like if anybody deserves to go to Hawaii this year, it's you for sure.
Free trip to Hawaii.
Thank you.
So there are parts of working for a tech company for each of the Hawaii trip.
You know, they're a little bit.
I love it.
I need you before we get into the topic of this episode, which is going to be a light little fun one, guys.
Yay.
No more trauma episodes for this week anyway.
Yeah, for this week.
I need to know how you feel about the wedding of the century.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
She has opinions.
We should just do this as the topic.
But yeah, right.
You know, we're scrapped in the rest of it.
Okay.
So I am very, very happy for my close personal friend, Taylor Swift, who has written some of
the most devastating breakup songs of all time, which I am currently revisiting and reliving.
The woman who wrote the prophecy got married last weekend.
Her favorite holiday is the 4th of July.
And so, you know, I really do.
I love those, yeah, Miss Americana and the heartbreak prints.
Really, I'm very happy for her.
I think that getting married at MSG makes a lot of sense just from like a privacy and protection point of view.
Like for Jack Antonov's wedding, she was simply a guest and it got quite unsafe.
I think it was on Long Island where people like absolutely swarmed the sweating celebration.
And it was really kind of scary, honestly.
It was calm down, it was waltz.
And so, I think that was like a year or two ago.
So I do think that like quite scared her.
And I think that MSG is, you know, a smart way to keep things secret protected.
You know, it has a security infrastructure and things like that.
The things that have been leaked are a little, a little chuggy, I would say.
We're bringing back a 2020 word.
But at the end of the day, like Taylor Swift is a cheesy woman.
Travis Kelsey for sure.
He's like a cool guy.
Oh, he's a cheesy bomb.
Yeah, the car raffle was like, okay, what are we doing here?
And then my favorite part about it was Adam Samler, officiating.
Yeah, what the fuck is that?
What's the connection there?
I know that Travis Kelsey is a chemo in Happy Gov.
Is that the only kid I actually have here?
No, I did not, I did not, you know, have Adam Samler's daughters are big Swifties.
And then he went to the Ares Shore, but they're not like a known friendship.
Yeah.
Okay, actually, I do have more to say.
I know why was Blake lively not invited?
Okay, so I don't actually know what is crazier though.
Is Carly Claus was invited?
Yeah, if you remember our Kailer episode where I go into, I think Taylor Swift is a bisexual.
And she was kissing Carly Claus, rumored songs about Carly Claus are golden.
And her daylight and golden imagery is all around Carly Claus.
And she wore gold dress to the wedding.
So Carly is just messy boots, messy boots.
Diana A. Grant showed a worn red if she had been invited.
Let's invite our ex to the wedding.
To invite all of our female exes to the wedding.
And then to have Carly Claus there and not Blake lively is quite interesting.
Taylor Swift is the odd mother to her children.
Yeah, and like Blake Lylee's kids have like lines and Taylor Swift songs, right?
Like they have their little gorgeous child voices.
Yeah, Betty.
Yeah, like a lot of August, they're based off of Blake Lylee's children.
So yeah, I mean, maybe it's the Justin Bell Doni situation, maybe Taylor Bell.
I think something from that.
Something around there.
Yeah, we were waiting to see she wasn't very far away.
She was like doing something with her kids, but not a good moment for Blake Lylee there.
Really ignited back up the Bell Doni stuff.
So that's what I hate about that.
No, I'm just, I really just want to see her dress.
I mean, people are like, I can't tell if what's come out is like, A.I.
Leaked photos.
So we'll see.
The dress was apparently Christian Dior.
And so I just want to see it.
I just want to see it.
But I don't want to see it.
So I know some photos kind of came out from the Daily Mail,
but we didn't really see like the altar or anything.
But we'll see.
We'll see what Travis got us a little football pause on.
And I heard that they shut down like half of like a lot of very important streets in New York.
Anybody listening from New York is going to be shaking their heads at me.
But yeah, I don't know what these are called.
Very important streets in New York City and Manhattan.
Big old streets.
Yeah, some big old streets were shut down.
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, like I blame the Swifties for that one.
Because people were camped outside like all weekend at the rehearsal dinner,
hoping to get a glimpse of somebody leaving or something.
Yeah, of her.
And yeah, so you know, just like be normal, stay at home, wait for the pictures like I am.
And trust me, I'm a big old Swiftie.
So she is.
She is.
But I am quite happy for her.
And yeah, I am.
And you know, again, if the woman who wrote the prophecy is getting married and she's happy,
there's hope for us all for this.
Yes, girl, you are going to find your Travis Kelsey.
Yeah, we'll see.
We'll see.
Maybe.
We'll say no, he's out there.
Or maybe he's not.
Maybe you'll get your car like cloths.
Yeah.
I was flirting with girls all weekend.
I was like, oh, that.
I have to live my life.
If somebody asked me, like, would you live here like flirting with boys while you were there visiting her?
And I was like, oh, you didn't want a man near her.
When we were visiting her, we were hanging out with like the Gays.
That's the only man that she was by.
The Gays I did make like four new gay best friends over the weekend.
And like, truly, like, there's no better compliment going through breakup of a gay man being like,
you are so hot.
I'm obsessed with you.
Yeah.
I am.
Because it's like, you're not saying that because you want to sleep with me.
You just actually think I'm hot.
You're saying that.
And you know, if you weren't hot, they wouldn't say they would like just not say anything to you.
Or they would like, I don't know, they wouldn't talk to you.
They'd be like, screw him.
Yeah.
Well, I have no transition.
We're just going to talk about movies in this episode.
It's going to be a load of fun.
Yeah.
We are going to talk about things to look forward to.
Yes.
There you go.
Speaking of great things coming a liviest way and all of our ways this year, let's talk movies.
So far in 2026, a big superhero movie like Supergirl has tanked, but some quirky indie projects
like back rooms and obsession, which was so freaking good.
Our mega hits.
So who knows what's going to happen for the rest of the year.
We are going to take a look at some of the films coming up that we are looking forward to.
The end of July here, you know, when this episode comes out, these will probably be already in theaters.
The Odyssey.
I am super looking forward to it.
I hope it's good.
I mean, it's going to be good.
It's going to be good.
It's a no-no film.
It's going to be great.
Yeah.
Evil Dead Burn is coming out and what I'm really most excited for is Spider-Man Brand New Day,
because I am a big Marvel fan, so that's going to round out the end of July.
I know.
I love that.
I love that Tom and Zander and two movies together.
I'm right after getting married.
It's thinking of happy couples.
That's right.
I totally forgot.
Didn't even realize that they were both in the Odyssey.
That's so funny.
Yeah.
This Zander is having quite the year.
Oh my God.
She's in so many freaking movies.
Her Odyssey looks have been amazing.
That like white, like structured corset situation was insane.
Oh my God.
Good.
Jessa.
So we're going to start with August.
I don't know why I got so high up there.
I know it's very August.
So in August, a cool movie that's coming out is called The End of Oak Street.
Have you seen the previews for this one already?
It's with Anne Hathaway and Iwin McGregor.
And it's a sci-fi mystery kind of thriller where it looks like dinosaurs kind of like come
into the world that they're in now.
It kind of just shows.
You and McGregor and Anne Hathaway like running through their neighborhood trying to like escape dinosaurs.
Yeah, it is produced by JJ Abrams.
So we're going to expect a lot of lens players.
But yeah, I think that one looks kind of cool.
Maybe we'll have a smoke monster.
You never know.
I'll never know.
A smoke monster.
I hope so.
You didn't see lost.
I did.
But I remember a smoke monster.
Yeah.
I know this is smoke monster.
It was like, uh oh.
Totally.
Yeah, there's going to be a smoke monster in there.
There is going to be somehow another insidious movie.
Literally come to go out as well.
I literally thought like seven years ago they said that we were done with the insidious series.
But this one is out of the further.
And so basically this one is going to be a trio of stalkers, infiltrate a quiet suburb and force a new family into the astral planet.
Where they uncover a terrifying truth.
The further is bleeding into the real world.
So, you know, one thing about me is I'm going to watch an insidious movie.
Oh, yeah.
Probably not going to head to a theater for it.
But I will rent that baby for sure.
I will absolutely watch it.
I cannot differentiate each insidious movie in my head.
Like what happens in which one?
It's all just a big blob of scary.
But I'm okay with that blob.
And I want more of it.
I'm ready to accept the blob into my body.
Some of the best horror movies.
I think it's just such a good concept.
Like the jump scares in it.
I'll think about it forever.
It's just truly such a good one.
And yeah, I really, really love it.
I'm going to re-watch them.
I'm going to give it a whirl.
It's been too long.
I think I need to parse that blob out a little bit.
T's out the blob.
We also have a long awaited sequel, practical magic 2,
which I'm so excited for.
I'm excited for that too.
Oh my gosh.
I know.
I hope it's good.
I feel like it better be.
Or I'm going to riot in the theater.
I do want to definitely.
I think that would be such a fun like midnight showering.
Bring some margaritas with you into the theater.
And do what I can do with it.
Yeah, come to the same Francisco.
All right, I'm doing it.
I'll be there right now.
Do it.
I'm on my way.
The movie doesn't come out for two months, but I'm on my way.
I'm on my way.
Okay.
I do have another one in September that I am, like, incredibly excited about as well.
It is the love hypothesis.
So it is a alley hazel wood book that is being adapted.
It has a Lily Reinhardt in it and Tom Bateman who you all, oh gosh, what is he in?
I cannot remember right now.
The name sounds familiar, but I can't think of them.
But Lily Reinhardt is really ill.
Yeah, so good.
And I think she's going to be such a good like romcom sleeper.
I don't think she's been in a romcom.
She did kind of like a little like horror movie thriller stint after Riverdale.
But I think she was just like so good.
This book is so cute.
If you've never read it, it's a little fake dating.
It's a scenario and it's at Stanford.
And so it'll be a little love San Francisco Bay area.
So it was a really cute little book.
It was one of alley hazel wood's first books.
And you may recognize alley hazel wood from us talking about nodding.
Yeah.
Wait, that's her.
Oh my god.
Do they not in this book?
There is no nodding in this book.
God damn.
This is a real I'm out.
You know, they may throw it in.
They may throw it in, you know, it's a fan favorite.
I'm so glad he was a really cute book.
Allie Hazelwood started as a just regular romance writer, really in her career.
A movie that I am excited for in September.
I really liked the first iteration of this fall one.
And now fall two is coming out.
I really like movies where people are like stuck in one place and have to survive.
I don't know.
Like if somebody's buried alive for the entire movie or on top of a cell phone tower or stuck on in a shipping container in the ocean.
I'll sign me up.
Those are my movies.
So fall two is the sequel to the 2022 movie fall.
And it stars Harriet Slater and our Sematamus who get trapped on a narrow plank in Thailand's Mount Kwan.
So this is definitely a movie about like two people who climb up really, really high and then get stuck up there and regret it and have to survive.
Right, Ro.
Things that I would never do also I would never.
I would never find going up there.
I'm not going up there.
We're a skydive.
But so I've actually talked about this before where in my younger years I very much wanted to now that my you know front a lobe fully formed.
Hell no absolutely not.
Maybe you know if I need to feel something again, maybe maybe.
Oh, I would maybe want to hit 40 already consider.
God, please don't.
Let's do something fun instead like just go party instead.
Yeah, yeah, we'll just binge drink instead.
But October, you know, our spooky our favorite season of all has some absolute going to be is that I'm super excited about the first that I want to talk about is the social
recommended.
And Jeremy strong playing Mark Zuckerberg and it is a bad.
I'm so excited.
So I'm so excited.
I'm so excited.
And we are back at the pop culture junkie podcast talking about movies that we are looking forward to or movies that are coming out for the rest of 2026.
We are starting up here in November with the movies that we are most looking forward to.
The middle of the movie that I'm most excited for is the Hunger Games Sunrise on the reaping.
Oh my god.
I'm so excited.
I think I don't know where I'm going to be.
Movie is so underrated.
It's so funny.
Yeah, it's great.
Should have been a pop.
I agree.
Right that down.
So I think that's a wrap on this episode of pop culture junkie talking about our movies that we are most looking forward to.
Let us know what you guys are most looking forward to or what you think is going to be great.
What's going to suck?
What's going to be a big flop like Supergirl.
And what's going to win big award season next year.
So until next time Olivia, where can our listeners find you on social media?
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