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

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

Di: 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
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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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  • Looney Tunes: Deep Thoughts About Comedy, Animation, and Breaking the Fourth Wall

    Looney Tunes: Deep Thoughts About Comedy, Animation, and Breaking the Fourth Wall
    Oct 13 2026
    Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. My, I’ll bet you monsters lead innnnteresting lives.In this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits some of her favorite classic hand-drawn animation from Looney Tunes, including the cartoon shorts “Duck Amuck,” “What’s Opera, Doc,” “Hair-Raising Hare,” “Transylvania 6-500,” and “One Froggy Evening.” While the technical skill behind everything from the animation to the musical score to the comedy still holds up 80 years after Chuck Jones started creating these beloved toons, some of the cultural commentary has aged pretty poorly–including the fact that there are very few women in most of the classic episodes and the assumption that men cannot control their lust.But both sisters appreciate how these cartoon shorts, which were considered disposable entertainment to run before a feature film, have become their own pop culture phenomenon, in part because Chuck Jones took the animation, the writing, and the music seriously–but not himself. You shoulda taken a left turn at Albuquerque. Which means you have time to listen to this episode while you’re getting back on track.Mentioned in this episode:The Fold by Peter ClinesAdam Conover: Coyote vs. Acme proves the CEOs don’t know sh*tEvery Frame A PaintingHair-Raising Hare (1946)Duck Amuck (1953)One Froggy Evening (1955)What’s Opera Doc (1957)Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)Bonus:High Note (1960) the cartoon where the musical notes are little characters.TagsDeep thoughts about stupid shit, pop culture, animation, comedy, women, film, cultural commentary, feminism, storytelling, analyzing film tropes, gen x childhood, gen x nostalgia, film analysis, Chuck Jones, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Mel Blanc, nostalgia This episode was edited by Joan Peconcillo at Voice Work Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus content, live zooms with Tracie & Emily, discounts on merch, and early access to Deep Thou​​ghts by visiting us on Patreon or find us on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/guygirlsDon't miss out on updates and event invitations from Tracie & Emily! Join the Guy Girls VIP List at guygirlsmedia.com/keepintouchWe are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!
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    49 min
  • Lost with Seth Nesin: Deep Thoughts About Smoke Monsters, Unsatisfying Endings, and the Ethics of Storytelling

    Lost with Seth Nesin: Deep Thoughts About Smoke Monsters, Unsatisfying Endings, and the Ethics of Storytelling
    Oct 6 2026

    Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response.

    Four, Eight, Fifteen, Sixteen, Twenty-Three, Forty-Two

    Today on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie and Emily welcome Seth Nesin to talk about the ethics of storytelling in the TV show Lost–and why you may be entitled to pop culture compensation for its completely unsatisfactory ending.

    Seth explains why revisiting this early 2000s sci-fi / mystery / drama hybrid television series doesn’t inspire nostalgia, because saying it was a “good show with a bad ending” feels no different than calling Sawyer’s romance con “a good relationship with a bad ending.” Tracie suggests that the psychology of the particular viewer may affect just how frustrated they feel by unsatisfying storytelling.

    The Guy sisters and Seth also talk about what artists owe to their audience, especially when the storytelling seems to promise something that the artist simply can’t deliver.

    It’s NOT PENNY’S PODCAST! You should listen anyway.

    Mentioned in this episode;

    Encyclopedia Brown with Adam Gwon: Deep Thoughts About Potatoes, Problem Plays, and Pop Culture Expectations for Detective Stories

    Tags: Deep thoughts about stupid shit, storytelling, pop culture, nostalgia, millennial nostalgia, psychology, mental health, sci fi, cultural commentary, television series, TV, LOST, damon lindelof, matthew fox, dharma initiative, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, comedy podcast, evangeline lilly, harold perrineau

    This episode was edited by Joan Peconcillo at Voice Work

    Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

    Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus content, live zooms with Tracie & Emily, discounts on merch, and early access to Deep Thou​​ghts by visiting us on Patreon or find us on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/guygirls

    Don't miss out on updates and event invitations from Tracie & Emily! Join the Guy Girls VIP List at guygirlsmedia.com/keepintouch

    We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.

    We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find.

    We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com

    We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!
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    57 min
  • Look Who’s Talking: Deep Thoughts About Talking Babies, Compulsory Heteronormativity, and Why Pregnant Women Are Public Property

    Look Who’s Talking: Deep Thoughts About Talking Babies, Compulsory Heteronormativity, and Why Pregnant Women Are Public Property
    Sep 29 2026
    Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “Why don't you try squeezing something the size of a watermelon out of an opening the size of a lemon and see how hot YOU look?”On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily revisits the only 1980s romcom that starts with talking sperm, Look Who’s Talking. This 1989 film, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, reflects many of the frustrating realities women face during pregnancy and early motherhood, including the ways pregnant women are treated like public property and how mothers are shamed no matter what they do. The comedy lets us laugh along with this cultural commentary, but it also perpetuates some regressive and anti-feminist views. The film wants us to believe Kirstie Alley’s Mollie and baby Mikey (voiced by Bruce Willis) need John Travolta’s James, despite the man’s questionable parenting choices and the inappropriate sexual comments he consistently makes to the baby. Like many 80s and 90s movies, Look Who’s Talking wants us to accept that women would be happier if they just relaxed.But even if this film doesn’t quite live up Emily’s Gen X nostalgia, the baby/ies is/are super cute, Bruce Willis’s voiceover acting is pretty funny, and there is always some feminism to be found in the 5% of films written and directed by women.We won’t tell you how to breathe or what to do with your ears. However you want to listen to this episode is entirely up to you!Mentioned in this episode:The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerling’s Secret Daughter ‘Look Who’s Talking’ Director Amy Heckerling Spills 7 Tidbits, 25 Years Later – Kirstie’s Crush, Travolta’s MovesHow Amy Heckerling tricked male execs into making ‘Look Who’s Talking’#52FilmsByWomen: Look Who's Talking (1989)Women's Pictures - Amy Heckerling's Look Who's TalkingTags: Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, women, feminism, romcom, comedy, film, 80s and 90s movies, gen x nostalgia, cultural commentary, classic movies, romance, analyzing film tropes, gen x childhood, film analysis, pop culture, movies, storytelling, Amy Heckerling, Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, Bruce WillisOur theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus content, live zooms with Tracie & Emily, discounts on merch, and early access to Deep Thou​​ghts by visiting us on Patreon or find us on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/guygirlsDon't miss out on updates and event invitations from Tracie & Emily! Join the Guy Girls VIP List at guygirlsmedia.com/keepintouchWe are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!
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    55 min
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