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Two best friends throw it back to the pop culture--and personal experiences--that shaped them growing up in South Brooklyn in the 80s and 90s.
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Dec 18, 2020
Dec 18, 2020
31 min
Christmas is for everyone, especially in the dumpster fire year that was 2020. But plans can be challenging in The Time of the Rona. Will Mia’s brain allow her to free-pee into a diaper on the long car ride to her parents’ in Atlanta? Either way, she’ll have plenty of boy band holiday jams to keep her company. Oh, and Alvin and the Chipmunks definitely qualify as a boyband. And Simon is the JC Chasez.
Check out the Pop Junction Holiday Jams playlist here: https://spoti.fi/37wmrad
Dec 11, 2020
Dec 11, 2020
46 min
If you want to know what it looked like growing up in Brooklyn in the early 90s, look no further than Ghostwriter. (Minus the incredibly slow penmanship). In what's probably our most punchy ep to date, Mia & Caitlin discuss if this early 90s Blue's Clues for pre-teens holds up, how the Gaby actress swap was a travesty and a crime against Brooklyn, and how Mia is still triggered by the Slime Monster.
Nov 27, 2020
Nov 27, 2020
45 min
A joyful celebration of the work of late actor Jonathan Brandis, the religious experience that was getting the latest teen magazine issue at the deli, and how Tiger Beat, Bop, & Big Bopper provided an intravenous hit of boy heartthrob centerfolds. And the debut of our new segment, My Dog is an Asshole.
Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020
40 min
We make a pivot (PIV-AAAT) inspired by an iconic election meme, and we talk Sister Act 2. Join us for an unexpectedly deep conversation about Black motherhood onscreen and why Rita Louise Watson is #gayorigins--and how even at age eleven Caitlin loved a jiggly back on a dude.
The meme in question: https://twitter.com/i/status/1325291413517463553
Nov 13, 2020
Nov 13, 2020
54 min
You can tell Mia's going through some shit if she's curled in the fetal position with her #1 comfort watch: Dawson's Creek Season 3. Cue Paula Cole. Cue Dawson being the worst. And cue Caitlin reliving the physical fights--and almost fights--she got into at the ripe old age of 11. We even bleep out names to protect the innocent.
Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020
44 min
The 1989 Halloween classic Teen Witch may be the cinematic embodiment of the adolescent female gaze. Or maybe just what happened when Lisa Frank threw up on some celluloid.
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020
47 min
Have you accepted Janet Jackson into your life as your lord and savior? We did in 1998. The first installment of Pop Junction, the pod where two Xennial besties BS about the pop culture that shaped us—and give y’all a taste of what it was like growing up in South Brooklyn in the 80s & 90s.