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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
89 episodes
Galaxy Quest: Deep Thoughts About Fandom, Tropes, and Science Fiction Storytelling
By Grabthar’s hammer, you shall be avenged!The 1999 film Galaxy Quest was almost tailor made for the Guy sisters and their dad–all lifelong Trekkers. The sci-fi satire pokes gentle fun at Star Trek, lightly skewering ev...
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Episode 81
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Deep Thoughts About Destiny, Work, and How to Engage with History
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.In 1989, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure introduced Emily to a baby-faced Keanu Reeves–and to the idea that two easy-going dopes could change the world by encouraging us all to be ex...
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Episode 80
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Lilo & Stitch: Deep Thoughts About Animation, Found Family, and...American Imperialism
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.In addition to dazzling her with its old-school hand-drawn animation and delighting her with its sweet and funny story, the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch
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Episode 79
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In & Out: Deep Thoughts About Toxic Masculinity, Barbra Streisand, and Coming Out in the 1990s
Does anybody here know how many times I had to watch Funny Lady?The 1997 film In & Out, directed by Frank Oz (yes, the one who voices Miss Piggy) and starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, and Tom Selleck, has mostly be...
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Episode 78
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Deep Thoughts About Ladyhawke
I talk to God all the time, and no offense, but He never mentioned you.On this week’s episode, Tracie traces some of her earliest ideas about romance to the 1985 Richard Donner film Ladyhawke. Although both contemporary and retr...
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Episode 77
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Deep Thoughts About the Mummy
What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?The 1999 Brendan Fraser film The Mummy has an extraordinarily beautiful cast, a delightfully bonkers plot, and a whole heap of unexamined colonialism, racism, and othering. Emily...
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Episode 76
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Deep Thoughts About SpongeBob Squarepants
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?When SpongeBob SquarePants debuted in 1999, 23-year-old Tracie was not the intended audience for everyone’s favorite absorbent and yellow and porous hero–but she was charmed and entertained...
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Episode 75
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Deep Thoughts About Silence of the Lambs
I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner.On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily revisits what is arguably the most influential film of our lifetime: The Silence of the Lambs. Althou...
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Episode 74
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Deep Thoughts About Dead Again
It's the karmic credit plan: buy now, pay forever.Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the 1991 Kenneth Branagh film Dead Again on this week’s episode. Branagh brought intelligence, style, and some pretension to this noir homag...
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Episode 73
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Deep Thoughts about Chasing Amy
Your mother’s a tracer!Emily was very confused by the 1997 film Chasing Amy when she was an undiagnosed neurodivergent 18-year-old–in part because she was (and still is) crap at reading subtext and in part because the film accid...
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Episode 72
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Deep Thoughts about Big
Okay…but I get to be on top!Tracie loved revisiting the 1988 Penny Marshall-helmed film Big this week. Tom Hanks’ performance of a 12-year-old boy wearing a grown man’s body is laugh-out-loud funny, and the film asks some profou...
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Episode 71
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Deep Thoughts about Groundhog Day
Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy!This week, the 1993 film Groundhog Day is the vehicle for Emily to talk about the three most taboo subjects: religion, politics, and money. Not only is Bill Murray’s Phil Connors a fav...
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Episode 70
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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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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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