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Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Ever had something you love dismissed because it’s “just” pop culture? What others might deem stupid shit, you know matters. You know it’s worth talking and thinking about. So do we. We're Tracie and Emily, two sisters who think a lot about a lot of things. From Twilight to Ghostbusters, Harry Potter to the Muppets, and wherever pop culture takes us, come overthink with us as we delve into our deep thoughts about stupid shit.
Episodes
77 episodes
Deep Thoughts about Mr. Mom
The next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads.One of the rare childhood films that the Guy Girls remember watching with both their mom and their dad, the 1983 John Hughes film Mr. Mom was in some ways an incr...
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Episode 69
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Deep Thoughts about Alien
I admire its purity. A survivor…unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.After many references in previous episodes, on this week’s show, the Guy Girls finally tackle the iconic 1979 film Alien. Ridley Scott’s ...
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Episode 68
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Deep Thoughts about Big Trouble in Little China
We’re reasonable Guy(girl)s, but we’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things!The 1986 film Big Trouble In Little China elicits some deep thoughts from Tracie in this week’s episode. The interwebs ask whether BTILC
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Episode 67
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Deep Thoughts About When Harry Met Sally
“I’ll have what she’s having.”On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, the Guy sisters revisit the iconic 1989 rom/com When Harry Met Sally. Even though Meg Ryan’s Sally Albright offers a badass portrayal of a happy spinster who...
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Episode 66
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Deep Thoughts about The Muppet Christmas Carol with Erika Plank Hagan
Light the lamp, not the rat!Just in time for Christmas, the Guy Girls welcome Emily’s dear friend Erika Plank Hagan to the show to discuss The Muppet Christmas Carol. There’s a reason this musical (and surprisingly faithful) ada...
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Episode 65
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Deep Thoughts About The Toy
That's U.S., not you ass!The Guy girls remember the 1982 Richard Pryor film The Toy with a great deal of fondness, in part because it was on heavy rotation in the Guy household through their childhood. But a film about a billion...
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Episode 64
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Deep Thoughts about The Goonies
The Goonies never say die!One of the most quintessential Gen X films, The Goonies, makes for some significant mind furniture: good, bad, and kid-shaped. Richard Donner’s beloved 1985 film gave Gen X kids on-screen peers who talk...
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Episode 63
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Deep Thoughts about Office Space TEASER
It’s not that I’m lazy. I just don’t care.In this special, patron-exclusive bonus episode, Tracie brings her deep thoughts about Mike Judge’s 1999 film, Office Space. There’s a reason this film about bullshit work has remained s...
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Deep Thoughts about Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Those aren’t two pillows…Just in time for Thanksgiving, Emily finally watches one of the most beloved buddy comedies of the 1980s: Planes, Trains & Automobiles this week. After intentionally skipping this film when it was fi...
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Episode 62
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Deep Thoughts about Airplane!
We picked the wrong week to give up horse tranquilizers…The Guy Girls have fond memories of the 1980 comedy Airplane!–specifically, they remember their dad helplessly snort-laughing at this three-gags-a-minute parody of 1970s-er...
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Episode 61
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1:11:22
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Deep Thoughts about Men in Black
You know what the difference is between you and me? I make podcasting look gooooood.This week, Emily dives into the remarkably subversive 1997 film Men in Black. Despite looking like nothing more than an entertaining summer blo...
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Episode 60
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1:09:19
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Deep Thoughts about The Birdcage
Shouldn't you be holding the crucifix? It is the prop for martyrs!The 1996 film The Birdcage offered a revolutionary portrayal of gay love in a mainstream movie. Not only do we see a stable, loving, long-term relationsh...
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Episode 59
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1:09:15
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Deep Thoughts about The Nightmare Before Christmas
What's this? What's this? There's overthinking everywhere!This week’s episode of Deep Thoughts takes a closer look at Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was actually directed by Henry Selick) to...
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Episode 58
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Deep Thoughts about Jaws
We’re gonna need a bigger podcast…Join the Guy Girls this week as Emily geeks out about the most tightly-written and well-crafted summer blockbuster ever made: Jaws. This film taught us the importance of keeping the monster hidd...
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Episode 57
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1:23:09
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Deep Thoughts about The Little Mermaid
Bright young women, sick of swimming, ready to podcast!In 1989, 13-year-old Tracie and 10-year-old Emily got to witness the Disney renaissance in real time when they saw The Little Mermaid in the theater. The Guy girls ...
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Episode 56
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Deep Thoughts about Beetlejuice
I myself am strange and unusual.On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her thoughts about the ghost with the most: Beetlejuice. The Tim Burton film is aesthetically gorgeous, unapologetically bizarre...
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Episode 55
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Deep Thoughts about Blade Runner
All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want.The 1982 science fiction classic, Blade Runner, was a favorite of the Guy girls’ father. Mainstream media critics can’t ruminate about how a loved one’s relation...
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Episode 54
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Deep Thoughts about City Slickers
I crap bigger’n you!The 1991 film City Slickers holds a special place in the Guy sisters’ hearts because of how much their dad loved it. When Tracie and Emily took him to see this film in the theater for Father’s Day, t...
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Episode 53
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1:21:02
Deep Thoughts about Field of Dreams
If you build it, he will come. What better vehicle for the Guy girls to meditate on their relationship with their late father than a movie they once watched with him about a man’s relationship with his late father? With
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Episode 52
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Deep Thoughts about Nightmare on Elm Street
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…Today’s episode of Deep Thoughts gives Emily a chance to finally exorcise the boogeyman of every 80’s childhood: Freddy Krueger. Though neither Emily nor Tracie ever saw the influential 1984 fil...
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Episode 51
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Deep Thoughts about Dune with Jake Cohen
Fear is the mind-killer…On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome their cousin Jake Cohen to talk all things Dune, from Frank Herbert’s influential series of novels to the 1984 David Lynch adapta...
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Episode 50
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Deep Thoughts About Shrek TEASER
Podcasts are like onions…they’ve got layers. In this patron-exclusive bonus episode, Emily takes a look back at Shrek, the charming ogre who entertained her young son. Though the movie is still laugh-out-loud funny at times, those g...
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Deep Thoughts about Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and listen to a podcast once in a while, you might just miss it.This week, Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the iconic 1986 teen movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off–and unfortunately the...
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Episode 49
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