599: Recasting The Hunger Games Characters
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we recast the characters of the young adult dystopian franchise, The Hunger Games. Join us as we step into the casting director’s chair to reimagine Panem’s most iconic characters with the best pop culture replacements from the 90s and 2000s. May the casting odds be ever in your favor!
Relevant links:
- Full show notes at knoxandjamie.com/599
- Get our new Hunger Games bundle at knoxandjamie.com/shop
- The Books | The Movies
- Katniss: Mulan | Natalie Portman
- Gale: Morris Chestnut | Gary from Teen Mom S1
- Peeta: Jonathan Taylor Thomas | Shia LaBeouf /Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Finnick: Jordan Catalano | Josh Hartnett
Red Lights: Mother Nature | iHeartRadio Podcast Awards
Green Lights:
- Jamie: book - Crowns of Nyaxia Series: Book 1 & Book 2 by Carissa Broadbent
- Knox: movie - How to Blow Up A Pipeline
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| 0:00.0 | But I think Christopher Walken could have been an interesting choice. |
| 0:03.5 | Okay. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm just like, I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:08.1 | And I wish I could do it, Chris Walken, like, your fighters. |
| 0:12.2 | The Mikey Jay. |
| 0:13.8 | It's annoying. |
| 0:18.0 | That's not good. |
| 0:19.4 | That was good. |
| 0:28.5 | Yeah. It's not going to be. It sounds good. Hello and welcome to episode number 599 of the podcast. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm on your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:35.4 | The podcast is a show dedicated to delightful idiocy, and we're committed to educating |
| 0:39.1 | you on the things entertained, but do not matter. |
| 0:41.9 | To find out more about these revisionist proceeds, check us out at knoxonjami.com. |
| 0:46.3 | You can also find us on Instagram, Blue Sky, and Facebook at the podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | Thanks for joining us this week, as we are going to be recasting the Hunger Games franchise. |
| 0:55.6 | But before we do that, you guys, this week, the brand new Suzanne Collins Hunger Games prequel book released called Sunrise on the Reefing. |
| 1:03.2 | And that takes us through Haymich's run in the second quarterquil. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, in celebration, Knox and I have camped out all dark and cold winter with the original 400 games movies. |
| 1:15.1 | We deep dive the highs and lows in Panem or Panem. |
| 1:19.2 | We discussed that. |
| 1:20.1 | How do you pronounce it? |
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