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Welcome to the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast. I'm Olivia here with my fellow Junkies.
Nicole and Shauna.
So I am so excited to talk to you guys. It is truly my favorite season. We are in Halloween,
spooky time. What are your plans for Halloween ladies? Just get drunk with you.
Always a good plan. Yeah, let's see here. So on Friday night, I'm going to be Friddy
Krueger, but like sexy.
Freddy Krueger. I'm going to say does anybody think that Friday Krueger just as is sexy?
I don't know. I'm sure some people's like fantasy. That's true. What's that rule that if it's
on the internet, there's porn of it or like if it exists, there's porn of it. So somebody else
is in the Friday Krueger, but I'm going to be sexy. Friday Krueger. And then night two me and a group
of girls are going to do Rocky Horror Picture Show. And I'm going to be Rocky, but like gender bent.
So probably just like a shiny gold bathing suit in a blonde wig and I don't know. No pants.
I love that. But are you going to make a double appearance of the blonde wig that we've seen on
your Instagram? I think it will be. I think it's going to be that blonde wig. But that one's really
sweaty too. So I'm sure by the end of the night, I'll just be like fuck this.
Burn that thing. Yeah. Where it gets like a smell to it. Oh, I got to be sure it smells right now.
Also last time I wore it, I had COVID and I didn't know it. So it's probably just like full of just
sweat and disease. Delicious, delicious. Maybe watch a TikTok or two of like washing your wig.
I saw the fuck out of that food. Yeah. And then just on Hockshaw Halloween, probably just go
trick-or-treating with my sister, Lawn nephew. Do you actually fun family stuff? What about you guys?
It's always great when you actually have like a little kid and you're either like your family or
your friend group because it's so much more fun when there's a baby. Right. Like watching his
joy trick-or-treating last year was so amazing. And then we walked around the neighborhood and people
went all out in this neighborhood in Arizona. Like we got to walk through these little haunted houses.
Like people turned their whole garage into like a haunted like middle medieval. I don't know. It was just
sick. Was it in Scottsdale? It was in Gilbert. But it was just some, I'm sure Scottsdale has amazing ones too.
And then one house the lady was handing out like little liquor bottles for the adults. And this
was Christmas from laws very pregnant now. But last year we definitely got a little lip.
It was walking your son around. We had like our wine and our Halloween tumblers. It's like I feel
like such like a wine ant. And my god, you want to hold my hand and we'll go ask this how for candy
to be hard. So like sitting my shard in a classy. I love that time. Look what are you going to be?
That's so classy. You know I don't know yet. Should we workshop it together?
Well. The thing is, last time I recorded, I was single. Oh! Oh!
Oh! Okay, this nurse. T-time! Tee! That sea is getting filled. I am so sorry dear listeners. That's right.
Nicole is off the market. No more feet picks on the Patreon. Okay. I mean we can still do it. He's
so for it, honestly. He's so feminist. Yeah. Whatever brings in the cash, you know.
It's like, yeah, I like this guy. Our dual income household. So we're trying to think of like,
we're some little honeymoon phase. So we're trying to think of a couple's things. So we had like a
few ideas. So cute. Because he doesn't live in Arizona. So I'm going to come out to him.
He lives in Colorado. So I'm going to come out here to Colorado. So you need like something warm
ish? Yeah. Is it going to be called? Yes. Yes. I love that. So we're trying to think of something.
We've had a few ideas. We had like curious George. So he was going to be like the person in,
I don't watch curious George. I have no idea. But he was going to be the man in the yellow ad. I don't
know if he has a name. Yeah. And then I was going to be the monkey or we were going to do Woody and
Jesse from Toy Story. Oh, that piece. Or Lola and Bugs money. Is that it? Oh, that's a good one.
Whatever that was. I think that you should be fancy. And he should be a red solo cut.
Oh, that's a good one. That's funny. What are his interests? What is he, what does he like?
I'm like interviewing you. Listen, they're in the punny moon phase. He likes me. He likes me and might be.
I mean, I'm currently recording in his room right now. Oh, shit. What are you? He likes football. Okay.
I like the city chiefs. Oh, go try to go suggest. Yeah. This is lives at chiefs fans now for some reason.
Could be Travis and Taylor. Yeah, I think that would be so. That'd be so cute. That would be so. No, you should know. No, I'm not.
Sorry, people. I'm not a Taylor stan. One day we will win. We will win the swifty fight one day.
She got me to the dark side. She brought me over.
But I don't know. Yeah, we're still in the works of what we're trying to do. I know it's getting late,
but there can be barbeque. You could be barbeque. I know that was an option to. But I feel like, yeah, exactly. Everyone's going to be barbe. Yeah. You should be
Mitch and Alan. It's the permanent one. I'm just the pregnant one. Alan's Michael Sarah is just like, I'm
just Alan. I don't know. Oh, yes. They're in a lavender marriage. Oh, I got it. But then if you're
Mitch, you have to be like nine months pregnant. And if you guys go and have alcoholic beverages, the bartender
scheme, like, ma'am, I don't want to like tell you what to do with your body, but maybe don't. Yeah.
Well, you know, like a glass of wine is okay when you're pregnant. I've heard that towards the end,
you can have like one. No, no, you can. A glass of wine is okay. Like you're in there, not like
aggressively, but like one here and there's not bad. I feel like I like every five years,
when I check in on like the rules for mothers, the goal force keeps moving. I don't know. Yeah.
In the 70s, it's like, one cigarette a day won't kill you. Yeah, literally. You can take a shot
of barbeque and it's good for that lungs. It's good for that. You can't have deli meat, but you can
have a glass of wine. Yeah. Right. What is this prison? I love that. All right. What do you take for
Halloween? I am going to be in a joint costume with you Friday night. So we're being iconic,
like serial killers. So the plan is, yeah, but sletti, you know, a modern take. So I'm right now
planning to be ghost face. And you know, that might come into to conversation later. The only thing
that I didn't really think through is wearing a mask for the entire night. And while mask
figures can be quite sletti and quite, quite hot, I don't know if I'm literally
embodied them, the hot mask figure. So we might workshop it. There's two problems with you wearing
a mask all night. One, oh three, there's three problems. One, you're too pretty to hide that face all
night. Thank you. That's your money maker. We can't hide that. Two, it's, we live in Phoenix,
Arizona and you will literally be too hot. And three, if we go out on Halloween and you're wearing
a mask, you will not be able to make out with anybody if the feeling or situation was too arise.
Yeah, I doubt that, but, you know, it's a night of it. We're just heated it on yourself. And never say never.
Yeah. The other option I was thinking is jigsaw, because also iconic horror or the babbiduke,
because that is quite friggin scary. So let me babbiduke. Well, I will be able to look at you all night.
I know. I know. But it's like kind of a slay. That's right. Well, it's gonna be amazing. I'm just
gonna be cracking up all night. A bloody babbiduke. Yeah. So, so we're workshopping it. And then for night
two, the Saturday night, I really want to be Dr. Evil. So, what not I'm wearing a mask the other night,
I plan to wear a bold cap. So I think the, the likelihood of getting made out with is going
lower and lower each cost. But if somebody's really into that, okay, I just had a brilliant like,
light bulb moment. So night two, and I'm in that rocky horror costume that I'm kind of like,
I don't know if I'm gonna scare that first thing for too long. And if I want to make sure
I could meet up with you. And if you're Dr. Evil, I'll be Gold member.
Ooh, that's good because it works for both. Yes. Bung in a blitz. Like, but a pancake.
Shhh. Bung in a bung. Yeah. Yeah. Bung in a pancake.
Yeah. Somebody please come and be fat bastard. Like sexy fat bastard.
I think that's really hard to do. I think you would have to wear a mask. I think that's problematic
in the year of our 2020. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree. But it would be cute. It's like not
wearing the fat suit where you have like the little kil't. And you know, I'm workshopping it in my head.
But I really want to be. I really want to be Dr. Evil. I've wanted to be it for like the last three
years, but I can never find a last minute bold cap. I'm like, is everyone stealing my thunder
and wearing a bold cap? I don't know. Okay. We're going to find you a bulk cap this week. Like, there has to be
like spirit. Yeah. Just. Yeah. I haven't. I can order it. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
I want us all all three of us should try on bold caps someday just because I want to know what we all look
like. All. Yeah. I like that. I'll share mine. If I am, you know, next hang we can we can all put on
my bald cap. Ew. Why does that sound like not? You want to slip onto my bold cap? Again. I bet you
there's some type of porn about that. Yeah. If it's on the inner. There's porn of it. I'm putting it on the
Patreon. All three of us putting on Olivia's bold cap and then peeling it off of ourselves and then
putting it. I just slipped on Nicole. No, you guys can't see right now. Sean is literally literally
like acting putting it on like she's coming out of a birthing canal. I'm like, I'm like trying to
put a condom over my own head. I love that. It's so gross. So stay tuned for pictures of Dr. Evil and
his bald cap adventures. This is what happens if we go too long without recording. Is the
Davis get to get there? It just gets so staked. It's like the uh what is it? I don't know if you guys did
this and when you were in elementary school but flat Stanley where he would travel like across the
globe. It's like traveling. Traveling. You bald cap. This is traveling. The traveling bald cap.
I'll take it on trips with me. Yes. Yeah. On your job that we won't mention what it is. Please
just wear it one day. But don't tell me. It's okay. It's like social so people can find my social
flight attend. Wear it on a plane. Please. Oh my god. Oh my god. Don't be wearing it actually.
But act like nothing's happening. I will be like, hey guys. There's this girl who isn't allowed to
have pink hair at her work. So instead she wears like these absurdist wigs. They're like the old
parliamentary like English wigs. But they're in naturally existing colors. So she's like,
yeah, this counts. Yeah, but it's it's great fun. George Washington wigs. Wait, I have to mention
one thing because we out of Nicole as working as a flight attendant. And it reminds me of the last
Pete Davidson recently hosted SNL. And you did this sketch and it's about, oh fuck what was the guy's name?
The guy who pooped on the Delta flight. Have you heard about this Nicole? Oh my gosh. Yes.
That is not the airline I work for by the way. What's inside of you? Yes. Tell us about that.
Yes. What do you want to know? I don't know what you want. I don't work for it in the early year.
Yeah, true. But like what is like the protocol here? Like so if somebody, did you guys train for this?
I mean, yeah, it's a emergency landing. It's like you're up in the air and that happens. It's an
emergency landing. But I think you was boarding because it was down the aisle. So it would be an
emergency basically because it's a it's feces. So it's bio. You don't know what's exactly. Yeah,
so you have to clean it up and everybody has to get off and you would have to change aircrops. Oh my god.
Because that plane would have to like go out of service for a little bit and you would have to
clean it up and it would have to be like deep cleaned and everything like that. Oh, this poor guy.
You don't know what we have to go through training. Oh my god. He's walking down the aisle and he
gets diarrhea. And there's like videos and pictures of down the aisle like just. Oh yeah. The
driplets. The driplets. The driplets. Well, uh, you know, thank a Delta worker, I guess. Any
fighter. Delta workers today. Thank your local Delta worker. Thank you for your service.
You know, no, no, kind of battles they've seen today. You never know. You know, you really don't
honestly. I love it. But I love my new job. But it's the things you see. Yeah. This reminds me.
I love my job. We need to have like a flight themed episode. So like we can all watch airplay
or something. And then we'll talk about movies that take place on an airplane. Yeah. Oh, that's a good
one. Do you guys remember the mile high club the movie? I love Nicole's like, I don't want to go to work
anymore. Yeah. I'd be like, uh, no, the mile high club movie where, oh god, Snoop dogs in it. It's
like from the 2000s. Yes. Oh my god. Okay. That that movie would be worth a rewatch. It's so absurdist
and ridiculous. And it wouldn't scare Nicole to go to work every day. We do have a whole
episode dedicated to snakes on a plane. So shut up. Everybody wants to listen to that episode. I can't
I know. You know, Louise also really good. Oh my gosh. I can't think of it. But I thought it's not
called Captain, but it's one of Tom Hanks and he has to win in the Hudson. Oh, yeah. Captain Soli.
Yeah. Soli. Yes. Yeah. That is actually really good. And it makes me hopeful that if that ever
does happen to me, there's hope that I will survive. Yeah. And again, we are trained for those types of
situations. And I know exactly what to do, but still it's scary. That makes me feel better
uping on a plane. Nicole because I get a little nervous and I fly and I always like, I don't care
what time it is. I have a flight next week at like six in the morning. I'm gonna have a glass of
wine. Like, you're safe. You want to plane then you are in a car. Just saying. I know. And I always
tell myself, my husband told me so now it sticks with me. If the flight attendants aren't freaking out,
then I shouldn't. If there's a moment I try to never leave out, then that means I can lease my
shit. Yeah. But not you're good. You're good. Yeah. Love it. Well, pooping all, you know, we're gonna
take a quick break and we'll be back. If you can't tell by the day you're listening to this or our
recent discussion, this is going to be our Halloween episode for the pop culture junkies. Spooky.
If you can't tell, we're all big hands of hands of whole four.
No, that was perfect. Perfect. No notes. We are all fans of horror. Horror. Horror.
Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror.
Love. Horror. And so we really wanted to talk about the final girl phenomenon. So the final
girl is a character archetype in horror films mainly in slasher's. But she's been known as like the
last woman alive to confront the antagonist who's often frequently male and most of the time
emerges as victorious. Hence the final girl. Whenever I was doing research for this, I was really
interested to find that the term final girl really didn't come around until 1992. It's from the book
Men, Women and Chain Saws, Gender in the Modern Horror film by Carol J. Clover. And she really
could have first looked at this significance of the final girl in slasher film. So even if you've
never read the book, you've probably seen a lot of these characteristics in the 90s and 2000s horror
movies we saw. So if you guys had to put your finger on it, what would you say? The
characteristics of a final girl are in your mind. So when I think of the final girl, I guess
I'm shocked that it only came out in 1992 because I think of movies before that that had final
girls. But it makes sense that it wasn't like coined as a trope, I guess, until then. Yes.
Yeah. But the final girl is definitely not the for a lack of a better term quote slut in the movie.
Because a lot of these movies. Yeah, exactly. So it's like the Virgin Horde dichotomy and a lot of
culture, right? So you see that one girl who's, she when she goes to the cabin, she wants to sneak off
with Billy and make out and have sex in the woods. She's gonna die. Then there's the final girl.
And she she'd rather be reading a book. She's a little like mouseier, you know, she's a probably
at Virgin and she's going to be the final girl. So it's really that yeah, the Virgin Horde kind of,
and you know, it reminds me of like Jennifer's body. I remember in the movie, they need to like
sacrifice a Virgin. And then all they could find was Jennifer. And she definitely was it. So there's
been like a lot of play on that. But I feel like the the final girl always has some kind of
virginity about her. Yeah, like and I'm not like the other girls. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that it's interesting. There's like this virginal sweet like untouched, but
that a lot of the time they're like witnessing horror of like trauma. There's a better word here.
And like, you know, they've seen some shit. So they're like, oh, they're both virgins who are perfect
and untouched, but they've also seen some stuff. So you should feel bad for them. I think that's
something that you've already kind of seen like in-screen with her mother being dead and
all that. So yeah, I think that's that's a big one. I think one instance in my mind is in Halloween
where Laurie's walking home when they before she babysits and she's like, oh my god, I forgot my,
I forgot what book, science books, social studies book, whatever. And then the other girls are like,
oh my god, I forget my science book, my math book, this book every day, blah, blah, blah. Like, what's
the big deal? And it's like, there always the bookworm, the teacher's pet kind of person. They're always a good,
goodie person in the movie that always wants to be the perfect one in school and stuff like that.
Yeah. Yeah, they're like the rule follower. Like they're like respect authority. Yeah.
I think that's always such an interesting one. And then I do think it's interesting that she's always,
I mean, she's smart and she's resourceful. So in the beginning, she might seem super vulnerable
and screaming and running. But by the end, most final girls have some powerful final line right
before they shoot the bad guy or like sent him to his demise. Just like, I won't be fucked with that
final line. So it's like you can kind of see she's vulnerable in the beginning, kind of finds her
resourcefulness through the film. Well, everyone else certainly doesn't. She's surrounded by dumbasses,
pot heads and slacks. And then she, it's kind of like they all have that like iconic like
outro line, like they have in like CSI where it's like, you know, like he didn't know he was going to
get stabbed in the back. And it's always like some punchy one. Yeah, like something like that.
But yeah, they always have that like, you know, stereotypical zinger, right? And you know,
I think after a certain point, it became like people were looking for that where it's like,
oh, that's what people remember. So it got a little overplayed. Yeah. But yeah, it's been,
it's really interesting to see how it's kind of evolved over time. Exactly.
We'll kind of go through some iconic, you know, tropes over the years in the history of the final
girl. But yeah, I think she's always, you know, really had this virtual morality complex in the
beginning. And now like you mentioned with like a Jennifer's body, it's kind of like playing on
that and being like, well, why does that really matter? Exactly. I feel like in the beginning,
and a lot of these horror movies were directed by men. And you know, this is what society, you know,
expects of a woman is to be that virtual resourceful person. And it was kind of, if you are that girl
who sneaks into the woods to have sex, the guys are going to like that. But at the same point, you
probably deserve what the killer got you. You know, we never felt, you never feel that bad for the
girl who gets stabbed in the woods while she's having sex. Or you're not supposed to feel as bad
for her, you know, if you see her boobs, she's dead. Exactly. And she always has her top gets ripped
off. And they make fun of that, you know, in scary movie where she's running and her bra falls off.
And she's in the sprinklers and he stabs her in the breast and plants like it's I like how over
the years like that final girl has become more of like a feminist icon of where she can kick ass
and still have sex and still be herself. And yeah, you know what, she's smart enough to outlive
everybody. And that final girl trope has changed a little bit in that sometimes it's not a girl who's
the final girl. And a lot of these like I looked up lists of famous final girls and I found Daniel
Kuluya's character from get out. Right. And it's like a famous fucking final girl. Yeah. Which also
so hurts the trope of the black person dies first. And you know, yeah, unfortunately. Yeah. But yeah,
I feel like the final girl has evolved over time to be not so fit into those regimens of the male
gaze and what is this expected of women. Yeah, I really liked the hunt. Like I think it was a good
like example of in 2020. The main woman in it her name is Betty Giplin in real life. But she really
is imperfect. But you just know that she's like going to mess with people up. Yeah. And I think
she was complicated enough to where you were able to see that and you like her not being perfect
was actually like what made her live. So I think it's been really cool to see that celebration of
like gender or race and and all those things. Yeah. Absolutely. Love it. So I was really curious. Like
when did the final girl trope really begin? And so like early horror movies like Universal's
monster films or Hitchcock's Thriller's didn't strictly conform to the final girl. I think they were
a little too, you know, 1950s housewife to imagine that. But that's my personal opinion then. But they
did kind of set this groundwork for the survival theme where we really start to see the tropes
lilyfie is in the 1970s and 1980s with just slasher films in general. And so it's not necessarily the first
I'm to ever do it. But Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out in 1974 and it was a really early example of
that coming through with the woman living. Of course there's so many remakes with it. The
just could be all one is the one that I grew up on. But you see that I've never seen. Yeah. I've never
seen them. They're on my list like every October. Andrew and I have a list of horror movies that were
like, okay, we've never seen this and that's embarrassing. So I think Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I grew up in
Travis County, Texas, which is where Texas Chainsaw Massacre happens. I didn't realize that.
Yeah. So I forever was so fucking scared of this movie. I loved it though. I just watched it from the
time I was in like seventh grade. I used to watch it every year with my friend and like we still do it.
Like we'll be hanging out near Halloween where like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But it is really good.
Technically like the real murders happened in I think Wisconsin or Michigan, but it's less sexy.
Wisconsin's Chainsaw Massacre. No. Yeah. Texas. There was like a copycat in Texas, but you know,
that was that was a really interesting one of a real-ish story kind of adapted. And of course
that was imitating real life. So that trope kind of came out of a true story so to speak.
And then the next one, which I think a lot of people think of when they the final girl would be
Laurie Strode from Halloween. So Jamie Lee Curtis's character, she's kind of credit is like the first and
most iconic of the final girls. She's resourceful. She fights off and unseemingly unstoppable Michael Myers.
I haven't seen the most recent movies, but I think she's still alive right Nicole. Yep.
Yep. Yeah. The very last one. I won't spoil it if you want to watch it, but obviously she's still alive
in the last one. But yeah, the one before. But yeah, she's been through a lot. She has. She's a queen.
I love Jamie Lee Curtis. She's such an iconic screen queen. And I loved her in screen queens.
Oh, she's so good. Didn't last very long, but she's so good.
Like when I was Ryan Murphy thing season one was amazing and then subsequent seasons like no.
So the next one, which is ironic that I haven't seen it because my birthday sometimes falls on
this day, which is Friday the 13th, which it did this year. Love that. And I didn't do anything spooky
because I was working, which I was sad, but that's okay. Working can be spooky sometimes. That's real. But
that's okay. I had fun on my birthday at work. So Alice Hardy in who was played by Adrian King in
Friday the 13th in 1980. She fights off the killer Pamela Borjes in the inaugural entry of the series.
And then we have Nancy Thompson played by Heather Langan Camp in a nightmare on Elm Street in 1984.
And Nancy stands out by Canferney Freddie Krueger in both Dreams and Reality.
I loved nightmare on Elm Street. Like I think it's just one of the creepiest stories like to think like
you can die in a dream. Yeah, like that's not something any of us could possibly
not do. So if it's like, I don't know. I saw the original one and I know they've redone it since
that a number of times, but I'm just thinking like, do you just chug coffee and energy drinks? You just
do a ton of cocaine. Yeah, a lot of vitamins. You have to sleep eventually. Yeah, well, and it's
and I was watching this thing, you know, it was like the original cases behind nightmare on Elm Street
and like where the inspiration comes from. So it is based on a true story. And I want to say it was within
gosh, I can't remember the exact place. I feel like it was like Vienta and Meese children or
Filipino children who were kind of stuck in like a war torn area at the time. And they were
rescuing these children, these orphans from the area and then, you know, bringing them to the
United States. And this boy at the time was saying that he was so afraid to go to sleep and he couldn't
go to sleep and they were going to get him and they were going to get him. And he died in his sleep
of like a heart attack at like 13 years old. And so like this, this didn't just happen to like one
child that happened to numerous and like to the point where they were like starting to report on it.
It's like the crazy thing is happening. Yeah. And so he started to write about it. Like what's Craven
wrote it into a story. The Craziness part about that is like if you stay awake for three plus days,
like you go into psychosis as well. Yeah, he's hallucinating for sure. So at that point like,
yeah, you're gonna like maybe imagine the things that you're gonna imagine it if it's not there.
Yeah, exactly. And then, you know, really where we start to see the final girl turn on its head is with
the iconic Sydney Prescott in scream. And so, you know, she is joined among people like she is
survived with other people. So she's not the last girl standing, but she really does start to call
it out. Of course, scream is known for its meta horror, but really within the 90s is where we saw
that start to shift. Yeah, exactly. And I'm thinking of Jennifer Love Hewitt's character and I know
what you did last summer. And I know we just recently watched that live, but I don't remember anyone else
survived with her, honestly, which she the only person who survived. No, Freddie Prince Jr. survives too.
You're right. So there's a final girl and a final boy. So a little twist on that too.
Good. I love that. In the 2000s, we get films like your next in cabin in the woods, which I am obsessed
with. I love cabin in the woods. And we were talking about this today as a final girl movie, which,
you know, it kind of is spoilers for a wonderful movie, cabin in the woods. She does live to the very end,
like the main girl that we're following. Then the entire planet is destroyed.
Is she a final girl because we all kind of die? And you know what? It's funny. Like, I love her and
she made a choice and it was between murdering that one guy and kind of murdering the entire world.
Yeah. And you know, I think she made the wrong choice there. I would have killed that guy.
But you know, they just kind of sit out there at the end and like I like share a joint in the world.
And I was like, no, this is sick. I love this movie. So flips it on a tat again.
I love that. I love that. That's amazing. Yeah. I think, you know, it's their movies that are really
starting to subvert it like we said, like they're final boys in it. And we're really starting to
kind of see this meta commentary or changing of the monsters of the villains moving away from
slashes. But I think that will always kind of have this and this trope within horror because it is
that symbol of like surviving trauma and you know, having agency and the ability to live within the
the deepest darkest of horrors. But what I really want to know from you guys is what horror universe
would you be a final girl in and why do you think that you would survive? Oh man. This one was hard
because I went through a big list and I was like, I would die. I would totally die. I would
fucking die. Like Freddie Kruber. Oh, I'm dead. I'm not. Yeah. So much. Like straight to death.
Straight to bed. I'm gonna get my home to Mimi's anytime. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I'm
have asleep right now. I'm sleepy talking right now. Somebody is weak and burning me right now
through this podcast. What I think I would survive in is mid-summer. So the main character Danny
played by Florence Pue goes to Sweden, Ruele Sweden with her boyfriend who's a total fucking ass.
And in the end, major spoilers for mid-summer because I know this one only came out four years ago or so.
If you guys haven't seen it, it's incredible. It's one of those horror movies. It takes place in the
middle of the day, which is always very unnerving. You expect shit and horror movies to go down
nighttime. This one is sunny the entire time. She finds her boyfriend cheating on her. She gets
crowned the May Queen dances around. She becomes clean of this celebration. She gets to choose if she
wants a villager to die or if she wants her boyfriend to die. She chooses a boyfriend.
And they got a bear, poor bear, by the way, that bear didn't do anything.
What her boyfriend into a bear suit in the light of my fire. All of his asshole friends also
die, which I'm here for. And I think I could survive this because her boyfriend in that movie
just reminds me of my ex so bad. Danny in this movie is going through the biggest trauma of her
life. In the beginning of the movie, both of her parents and her sister die. Her sister does
like a murder suicide. Her whole family is dead. She's going through some murders. She's
yeah. And her boyfriend is like, just, I'm sorry, you're sad. I'm just about good over it.
Which is totally what my ex did when I was going through trauma similar to that. And we went on
a vacation in the whole time. He's like, well, I heard you having more fun. And I should have burned
that man alive in a bear suit. Oh, man. I agree. When you started to say mid-summer, I was like,
is she really going to say, I would survive because my mom's already dead.
Then you went there a little more delicately than me. But, yes, I have #deadmomclub with Danny
from this movie. I also have a huge, a huge boyfriend. Maybe that's another final girl they all
are moms are dead. All your parents are dead. Yeah, they are dead. That's the trauma.
So yeah, and also the reason I would survive in mid-summer is I'm a wonderful dancer. She gets
around like a mate queen because she dances in a circle longer than all the other bitches.
Tell me to do that. See me in the club.
Bottleful above, mama. Do you have a good sense of like equal liberty? I'm not because like that.
That's that's what gets you in the dancing. You know, they get a little dizzy.
I think I could do it. I think I could do like a good I got my double pure wet down or at least I did
when I was 16. I have a stretch in a couple years. Let me stretch. Get me back with my abusive ex
and take some drama mean. We're good. He's in a bear suit on the mate queen. We're done.
Yeah, okay. I like that. I like that. I like it. I always, okay, so my brother had never seen
mid-summer, but my cousin had a wedding that looked exactly like mid-summer. And I, later,
I was like looking around and I was like, dude, we're getting mid-summer right now.
I, my brother, come home from this wedding and I make him watch it and he just like looks over at me
and he was like, dude, we did get mid-summer. And I was like, do we need to check like any of the
pictures and see if there was like some pink wine that my cousin was drinking?
Yeah, dude, everyone's standing in a circle and go, "Huh?"
And I'd be falling in love. I wasn't there for that part, but who knows? I wasn't in the
the bridal party. Then we could have had the bride's party.
The bridal party, absolutely, but what about you guys?
It took me minutes to think about this as well. I feel like I'm like a horror queen,
but then I'm like, I haven't really seen many horror movies.
You're like, "I like what I like. I like my university."
Yeah, I get there too.
So out of the ones that I've watched, I'm like, I feel like I could survive Halloween.
I feel like I could survive Michael.
Yeah.
And I say that.
Yeah, it's exactly. My guy is slow.
She's open, or she's a check star.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh, but I feel like I kind of have some hilarities to Laurie.
Okay.
I would be the one that would be like, "Oh my gosh, I forgot my book."
I wasn't like a nerd.
But I would be like freaking out if I missed a homework assignment because I, again,
wasn't a nerd, but I cared about my grades.
Kind of good.
Nerd.
Yeah, so I just...
Yeah.
You could call me a nerd, it's okay.
I didn't babysit though growing up, but we could throw that in there.
That's fine.
I did it was all.
I was like, I was a goody goody.
I was like, "That's a good thing."
Yeah.
Didn't do anything.
Didn't go out, didn't party, didn't do anything.
It's just a household I grew up and I was too scared to do anything.
Yeah.
That's where we're not married.
But yeah, I grew up in Illinois too, so I mean, that's that.
I wasn't in...
Where was yet hadn't field?
I think it was at Illinois.
Yeah.
So I grew up in Illinois, so that's a similarity.
But yeah, my man's is so low.
Yeah, I'm like, Nicole's got feats.
Listen, Nicole, be going up and down that aisle of the airplane, pushing that hard.
I would.
She got feats.
I would.
And too, I'm like, out of all of these murderers or scary people,
I don't get why you just don't take a knife or something or...
trigger warning gun.
I said, you would ever shot him in the head.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
Well...
But I don't know, I don't really remember the last movie very much.
It's show him this man.
I thought I remember when I did last week.
But oh my gosh.
Like, yeah, shoot him in the head or just like the head him.
Like, come on.
What are we doing people?
Like, that's what I would do.
Because again, my man's is so low.
I feel like he has to have like, zone the roles, you know?
Like...
I wasn't gonna say that, but he dies in the last one,
but I wasn't gonna spoil it.
But why did they do that shit 40 years ago?
They should have shot him in the head.
Listen, I am not team shoot people in the head.
Generally, as in general...
Unless he tries to kill me then.
Self-defense queen.
That's a good chance.
Thank you.
As in general, there's one thing you need to know about
Shana Tridad, it's that I don't condone.
Usually shooting mid in the head.
Unless they really deserve it.
I accept you just said you would kill that,
that mofo and a bear suit.
Like, you know, I think she is.
She's a man in the head is different than
paralyze him alive.
The use of X and just...
She was in him as a sacrifice to...
And just burning him alive in a bear suit.
Okay, let's go do now.
Let's go to know we have a discussion.
Team or bear suit burn.
Yeah, bear suit burn.
The bear to end is a...
Self-defense.
Yeah, I like it.
I like it.
I think that you would survive.
What would be your weapon?
Obviously, we just talked about that one, but...
Airmanal.
Playing cards.
Your mouth?
Yeah, my words.
Girl, what that mouth is to rise, Nicole?
What that mouth's to?
Fucking kill you.
No.
My weapon of choice would be...
As graphic as it is, probably a gun.
I mean, that's like...
Yeah.
The worst that I can do.
I mean...
Yeah.
It's worked for 200 years.
Let's try it.
Let's gonna say there's a reason it fucking kills so many people.
It goes like fucking...
He has a knife in it.
Or like...
A knife, like...
It takes like...
I brought this somewhere.
I forgot like the actual wording of this,
but like if you're six feet away from someone with a knife,
that's like the closest or something that I could take for it to kill you.
Yeah, they could just like grab it from you.
The distance.
Yeah.
Don't bring a knife to a gun.
So like...
Yeah.
Anchorman?
Yeah.
You know what I just thought?
Well, you were trying to think of your weapon and you said your mouth
before we get to lose.
There's another great...
Circulate back to Nicole's mouth.
Circulate back to that.
There's another great final girl maybe.
I came out in 2007 called teeth.
Have you guys seen this thing?
Yes.
Nicole.
So...
Am I...
And I watched this video.
I can't have a watch match.
Listen.
Please watch this.
Feminist baby.
So when I first started dating Andrew, we watched this together and I don't think we had sex for like...
I'm like a month after.
Yeah.
So it's this girl...
Basically a very quick plot.
She is a teenage spoke person for a Christian abstinence group.
Preaches abstinence and gets a purity ring.
All that stuff.
She loses her virginity for the first time.
Or I think she maybe it's through sexual assault.
I feel like I can get to know this is going.
Yeah.
She gets assaulted and she is teeth.
Her vagina has teeth in her.
And...
Okay, not where I thought it was going.
Yeah.
And her vagina, anyone who assaults her like if the dick is there against her will,
her vagina bites it off.
Yeah.
And then...
And then it's...
What a weapon a dog.
And then a dog eats it.
It is.
That's probably...
That's a good weapon.
Yeah, don't watch this around your boyfriend, but it is such a fun movie.
Watch it around him just so he knows what's up.
So he just knows what's up.
Um, no, it is one of the funniest movies to watch with a man now.
You know, beware the consequences like Sean has said, but it is one of the funniest
squirming moments for men.
And I think it's great fun to turn it on in front of them.
If you were a assaulted woman, you deserve to get your dick bit off and spin out in front of a person.
Yeah.
And burn to a bear suit.
And burn to a bear suit and Sean the head.
Yeah.
Yeah, don't hurt any of us apparently.
Or please don't use this as evidence.
We are joking.
Hi, Nicole's new boyfriend.
Hi.
I love this.
What are you surviving and why is it the movie teeth?
No, it was a good one.
Teeth was a good one.
Um, I was really ultimately...
I think I would survive in a few of them, but they're kind of the more absurd of the
universe is.
So I was really between two, Sean of the dead.
I have a good record collection.
I could just toss those.
I got a re-offering bar.
You know, I've got all of those boxes checked.
I could totally do that.
We're just heading back to the casual pint for a good pint.
Yes, yeah.
There are a lot of windows in there.
So unfortunately, you know, that might not work out.
But I ultimately landed on
screen and there is no replacement for Sydney Prescott.
But if there's one thing about Ghostface is that Mofo
is going to be clumsy.
He's gonna fall.
He's gonna do a little trippy and you know what?
I think that I could get away.
Well, I think that I could get away in time.
At least put enough obstacles in its place.
I also love horror movies if you can't tell.
So I do think that I would at least make it to the second one.
You know, I would be more of like the it's Steve.
I would get in there.
I could see you lasting a while in like the apocalypse too.
I could see that.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
So you're saying my apocalypse car was best?
I'm not saying that.
You'd be the only survivor.
Yeah.
You're like it.
I like it.
Yeah, there we go.
There we go.
And you know, if you're a shot of the dead,
then I'm his zombie best friend that you keep changing up.
In the garage.
Yeah, I think so.
Because I'm absolutely being a zombie.
Like a shot of yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, good job.
Yeah.
Yeah, so you know, really I think it would be good fun.
I also love a creative lock on a door.
So I think that you know, I would I would survive.
I love that.
I see survival instincts in each of us.
We're resourceful.
We're sassy.
Because you are our sexuality and our mouths.
Our mouths and our vagina dintada seconds.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, the other thing in the screen one is like color ID exists now.
And like I could just block your number.
And like, you know, you know, that's a big one.
I love it.
Well, one thing that I wanted to say before we wrap up this
horror Halloween episode is have you guys seen Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
I haven't.
But you told me spoiler.
Now I don't know if I want to watch it.
It was literally in the first one minute of the movie.
So what's it on?
It's on peacock.
So definitely worth a watch.
I also saw it's funny.
It's terrible.
It's a terrible movie.
But it's worth the watch.
Another one, the other two that I'm going to watch before this spooky season ends
is the slothening.
I think I watched the slothening.
Okay, you can come over and watch it.
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's on Hulu or Prime.
I can't remember.
But the other one that I am dying to watch is the Velasa pastor.
Oh my god, yes, please.
Please, can we do that for my Christian trauma?
Yes, yes.
Yes, so the Velasa pastor is this guy like can turn into a Velasa raptor.
And he's like fighting Satan.
Yeah, and he's like fighting Satan.
So yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
Yeah, what have we watched so far?
We watched Totally Killer, which had a lot of plot holes and you had to kind of,
I don't know.
It did make a lot of sense.
Just texted me about that and was like, you should watch it.
It was enjoyable.
I enjoyed myself.
You have just his spedus belief a lot, but it was it was a good time.
He texted me and said, I think you would enjoy this.
I think you would enjoy it too.
Then he's saying that I'm stupid.
I told you, you would like this.
It's so really dumb.
I would though, as I finished the episode saying,
hey, I'm going to watch you should watch Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Well, lots of faster.
So expect to be.
Okay, so I'm going to go now so I can make dinner and watch his
caring movie by myself.
Yeah, because my house has been so.
Yeah, well, I watched you guys the entire time.
Yeah, well, that about wraps up this episode of Pop Culture Junkie.
But before we take that final long look at the camera and say something cheeky,
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You can find me on Instagram and Tik Tok @nicole_eldridge. I love that.
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