Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 incredible progressive look at gendered work. There were only 6 (as in, one less than seven) self-reported stay...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 masterpiece gave Tracie and Emily a role model in Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver to be smart, toug...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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' s storytelling is woke or problematic, and we suggest the answer is ‘yes.' While the campy depict...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “I’ll have what she’s having.” On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, the Guy sisters revisit the iconic 1989 romcom When Harry Met Sally . Even though Meg Ryan’s Sally Albright offers a badass portrayal of a happy spinster who makes no apologies for wanting what she wants, a young Emily instead internalized the idea that being...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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) adaptation of the Dickens morality tale is so beloved: not only does Michael Caine act his face off with...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 pop culture staple about a billionaire’s young son “purchasing” a Black man to be his toy for the week has some pretty...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. The Goonies never say die! One of the most quintessential Gen X movies, 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 talked like we did. They cursed and talked over one another and were cruel and sweet and they went on fab...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 so beloved for a quarter century. Judge accurately reflects–and lampoons–a lot about what it feels like...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Those aren’t two pillows… Just in time for Thanksgiving, Emily finally watches one of the most beloved buddy comedy movies of the 1980s: Planes, Trains & Automobiles this week. After intentionally skipping this film when it was first released (because it appeared to feature gross-out and cringe humor), Emily is surprised and d...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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-era disaster films. The conedy still delivers solid belly laughs, but not everything is as funny four de...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 blockbuster that merged sci-fi and comedy, MiB actually asks the audience to rethink what they know about...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Shouldn't you be holding the crucifix? It is the prop for martyrs! The 1996 film The Birdcage offered a revolutionary portrayal of gay romance in a mainstream movie. Not only do we see a stable, loving, long-term relationship between Robin Williams’ Armand and Nathan Lane’s Albert, but the film is a funny and joyous celebrati...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 see what unintentional lessons the 1993 Hallow-Christmas classic taught us. The film serves as a fascinat...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 hidden until the third act (which only happened because the mechanical shark broke down), features the mos...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 were captivated by the unparalleled animation, the show-stopping musical numbers, and the unexpected sight of th...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 comedy is aesthetically gorgeous, unapologetically bizarre, and legitimately funny–but the character of Beetlejuice relies on sexual predation to indicate his awfulness and Mi...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. The 1982 sci fi classic, Blade Runner , was a favorite of the Guy girls’ father. Mainstream media critics can’t ruminate about how a loved one’s relationship with a piece of problematic pop culture affects the way we view it. Luckily, we aren’t mainstream media. In th...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I crap bigger’n you! The 1991 comedy 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, they had no idea this gentle comedy-Western would offer a nuanced look at the meaning of masculinity, male frie...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 film they once watched with him about a man’s relationship with his late father? With Field of Dreams , the 1989 magical realism baseball fantasy film starring Kevin Costner, Tracie brings some deep...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 film Nightmare on Elm Street, the burned and be-knived Freddy cast a long shadow over pop culture, meaning...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 sci fi novels to the 1984 David Lynch film adaptation to the recent Denis Villeneuve movies. The conversation ranges from the intricate and well-th...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 guffaws come with unfortunate sides of fat-phobia, misogyny, and bio-essential transphobia that is t...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. 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 1986 pop culture touchstone, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off –and unfortunately the results are not as charming as Matthew Broderick’s smile. Not only does the comedy storytelling...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Only try to realize the truth: There is no spoon. When Emily brings her deep thoughts about the Wachowski Sisters’ 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Matrix , the Guy sisters are unable to contain the conversation about the film to under an hour. This sci fi film, possibly the most popular, successful, and influential piece of art cr...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! This week on Deep Thoughts , Tracie brings nostalgia, comedy, and the unfortunate realization that you really can’t go home again with her analysis of The Ren & Stimpy Show . While creator and tortured animation genius John K brought back the artistry and commitment to craft when his angry Chihuahua and...