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by Sister podcasters raised by 80s and 90s movies: Tracie Guy-Decker, lover of animation, Muppets, comedy, and feminism & Emily Guy Birken, storytelling nerd, mental health advocate, and pop culture aficionado
80s and 90s movies and early 2000s tv may be called stupid shit by some, but you know it matters. So do we. We're Tracie and Emily, sister podcasters who love well-crafted fiction and one another. In this comedy podcast, we look at the classic movies of our Gen X childhood and adolescence, analyzing film tropes to uncover the cultural commentary on romance, money, religion, mental health, and more. From Twilight to Ghostbusters, Harry Potter to the Muppets, comedy to drama to horror, we use feminism, our super smart brains, and each other to uncover the lessons lurking behind the nostalgia of pop culture. Come overthink with us as we delve into our deep thoughts about stupid shit.
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- 5 days ago53 min
Monsters, Inc: Deep Thoughts About Post-9/11 Mental Health, Furry Animation, and Tidy Storytelling
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Now put that thing back where it came from or so help me… Tracie revisits the classic Pixar animation Monsters, Inc in today’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit. This family film, which was released just after 9/11, offers the deeply reassuring message that laughter is much stronger than fear, and Tracie argues that our country’s collective mental health needed that pop culture lesson in late 2001. But in addi...
- 1 weeks ago58 min
Sex and the City: Deep Thoughts About Feminism, Female Friendship, and Funky Spunk
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “I love you, but I love me more.” This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily shares her complicated love of the television show Sex and the City. When the HBO original comedy first aired in 1998, it was a breath of fresh feminism in pop culture. The show featured a quartet of fabulous single women in New York who had created a found family through their deep and abiding friendship with each other. Although Sar...
- 2 weeks ago1h 0m
My Big Fat Greek Wedding: Deep Thoughts About Culture, Comedy, and How Women Use Their Agency When the Man Is Head of the Household
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you will become. In this episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits the surprise hit of 2002: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This comedy broke many of the tropes that can make romcoms hard to watch, from the Hollywood gorgeous leading lady who is clumsy to show she's just a normal woman to the heroine enjoying a glow-up in response to her new roma...
- 3 weeks ago1h 5m
Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Deep Thoughts About Storm Troopers, Strong Women, and Unfinished Storytelling
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, flyboy!” On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily tackles the foundational pop culture text of every Gen X childhood: the 1977 film Star Wars IV: A New Hope. By following the storytelling rubric offered by Joseph Campbell's monomyth (a.k.a., The Hero's Journey), George Lucas created a film that changed the industry. (If only he knew when to leav...
- Aug 18, 20261h 4m
The Breakfast Club: Deep Thoughts About Toxic Romance, Taking Teens Seriously, and John Hughes’ Insistence on Crotch Shots (Reprise 23)
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Don’t you…forget about me…Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t! In this reprise of episode 23, Tracie takes another look at the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. This classic Gen X teen movie passes the Bechdel test and explicitly names the prude-or-slut trap of female sexuality. It also treats Claire and Allison like prizes for the boys in the film and assures the audience that we’re not so different from each other–by featuring...
- Aug 11, 20261h 12m
Jurassic Park: Deep Thoughts About Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, Bodily Autonomy, and When the Movie is Better (Reprise Ep 44)
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Hold on to your butts. On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her analysis of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, a pop culture phenomenon that offers a surprising level of feminism. Emily describes the social thrill of being the target audience for a summer blockbuster (she was 14 when it came out) and her discomfort with how Michael Crichton's original book portrayed the only two female characters as an annoying ch...
- Aug 4, 202650 min
Disney’s Beauty & The Beast: Deep Thoughts About Classism, Stockholm Syndrome, and Yoga-Pants Feminism (Reprise Ep 6)
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Tale as old as time? It’s old, alright. True as it can be? Hmm, about that... Beauty and the Beast is an old and not-so-necessary model for romantic love. Hiding in the remarkable Howard Ashman score to this 1991 film is a not-like-other-girls feminism and a reified classism that isolates poor Belle and gives her no choice but to fall for her captor. The sisters grapple with the conditioning from this movie (and so ma...
- Jul 28, 202654 min
Michael Jackson’s Thriller: Deep Thoughts about Undead Backup Singers, a Dead Pop Star and the “Death of the Author” (Reprise Ep 29)
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. It smells like the funk of 40,000 years in here! In today’s episode, Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the iconic and groundbreaking 1983 music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. From the way the mini film subverts expectations to the meaning behind the horror tropes it relies on to how to contextualize Jackson’s immense talent with the troubled and abusive life he led, the Guy girls explore what it means that a novel...
About Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
80s and 90s movies and early 2000s tv may be called stupid shit by some, but you know it matters. So do we. We're Tracie and Emily, sister podcasters who love well-crafted fiction and one another. In this comedy podcast, we look at the classic movies of our Gen X childhood and adolescence, analyzing film tropes to uncover the cultural commentary on romance, money, religion, mental health, and more. From Twilight to Ghostbusters, Harry Potter to the Muppets, comedy to drama to horror, we use feminism, our super smart brains, and each other to uncover the lessons lurking behind the nostalgia of pop culture. Come overthink with us as we delve into our deep thoughts about stupid shit.
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