Ever had something you love dismissed because itโs โjustโ pop culture? What others might deem stupid shit, you know matters. You know itโs 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.
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I'm a boy looking to change the world, sit back and listen as I speak my mind.
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Blithering Thoughts about T-shirt Ideas, Novel First Sentences, and Etcetera Moments
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Join me for a non sequitur playful moment where I attempt to inspire creativity by talking about ideas for T-shirts and possible first sentences for your personal writing projects. This is a just some guy production brought to you by the Hopefulhumanist Cafe. Cover art photo by https://www.instagram.com/jacktthunter/
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Deep Thoughts about Superman: The Movie
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Itโs a bird! Itโs a plane! Itโs an unreasonable hatred for Hackensack, New Jersey! This week, Tracie brings her Deep Thoughts about the 1978 film Superman: The Movie. From the way this film helped legitimize comic books and superheroes as a valid art form to the huge influence Christopher Reeveโs Superman still has on our culture, this pillar of thโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The Shining
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REDRUM! REDRUM! On this weekโs episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily breaks down the horror masterpiece, The Shining. The sisters walk through the ways in which Shelley Duvallโs portrayal of Wendy Torrance is an unexpected feminist icon, how Kubrick created an intentionally incoherent film while abusing his actors (except for 6-year-old Danny Lloyd), andโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The Electric Company
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HEY YOU GUY(Girl)S! On this weekโs Deep Thoughts, Tracie revisits a classic of GenX childhood: The Electric Company. This childrenโs sketch comedy program with an all-star cast (Morgan Freeman! Rita Moreno! Bill Cosby?) showcased the wonderful ways that informal education can be intentional, subversive, funny, and validating. While not everything fโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Veronica Mars with Joanna Church
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โThis face right here is my over the moon face.โ This week, Tracie and Emily welcome Joanna Church to share her Deep Thoughts about the television show Veronica Mars. Between trying to recap the telenovela-sounding plot to Tracie (coma babies! children switched at birth! a school bus that drives off a cliff and explodes!), Joanna explains how this โฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Trading Places
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Looking good, Tracie! Feeling good, Emily! On this weekโs Deep Thoughts, Emily analyzes Trading Places, the film that taught her what a short sale is, how a bookie works, and that she is most definitely a money nerd. While the film offers a pointed critique of capitalism and racism, it undercuts its own message with the truly weird train/costume paโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Michael Jackson's Thriller
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It smells like the funk of 40,000 years in here! In todayโs episode,Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the iconic and groundbreaking 1983 music video for Michael Jacksonโs Thriller. From the way the mini film subverts expectations to the meaning behind the horror tropes it relies on to how to contextualize Jacksonโs immense talent with the troubโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The Fifth Element
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It mu5t be foundโฆit being a realistic portrayal of women For this episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily dives into the valiant, vulnerable, and very very sexist portrayal of โperfectionโ in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element. Milla Jovovichโs Leeloo is the poster child for the trope of Born Sexy Yesterday, wherein a childlike but fully adult womaโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Journalism in Pop Culture with Jon Shorr
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Good night and good luck and you stay classy, San Diego! On this weekโs episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome media studies professor (retired) Jon Shorr to talk about how pop culture has conditioned us to think about journalism, reporters, and โthe news.โ From Lois Lane to Woodward and Bernstein to Mary Tyler Moore, we discuss the wayโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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We are the sisters who say Ni! Bring usโฆa shrubbery. On todayโs episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily dig into a source of both sistersโ understanding of what is funny, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After 49 years, this film remains super funny, because it subverts our expectations. With minimal plot, despite the purported quest for the titโฆ
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Deep Thoughts About Back to the Future TEASER
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Great Scott!! A time traveling oedipal complex masquerading as family entertainment? This special patrons-only bonus episode of Deep Thoughts takes a closer look at the film that ensured the DeLoreanโs ongoing cultural relevance: Back to the Future. From the erasure of Black culture and ambition to some truly weird sexual politics (Marty was gonna โฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Reality Bites
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Ooh, my little pretty oneโฆwho was really going to be somebody by age 23 On todayโs episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t, Tracie revisits the film of Generation X: Reality Bites. Despite passing the Bechdel test with flying colors, the story of documentary filmmaker Lelaina (played by Winona Ryder) not only seems to present the audience with aโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Letโs do the time warp agaaaaaain! (Except with ongoing enthusiastic consent this time, mkay?) This week, Emily and Tracie talk aboutthe beloved 1975 film Rocky Horror Picture Show. From its influence on culture, fashion, music, and film to its catchy AF songs, thereโs a lot to love in this genre-bending gender-bending mashup of B horror/sci fi, muโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The Breakfast Club
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Donโt youโฆforget about misogynyโฆDonโt Donโt Donโt Donโt! On todayโs episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie takes another look at the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. Though 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 bโฆ
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AS IF! This week on Deep Thoughts, Emily re-examines her favorite movie from high school: Clueless. Not only did this film kickstart Emilyโs Paul Rudd appreciation, but it also provided her with some lovely examples of teen girl friendship, healthy father/daughter relationship dynamics, and how to apologize. But itโs not all sunshine in this adaptaโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
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That [imperialist, whip-wielding archeologist] belongs in a museum! On todayโs Deep Thoughts, Tracie takes on a pillar of her and Emilyโs childhood: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The sisters talk about whatโs great (the soundtrack, the cinematography, Marion Ravenwoodโs badassery), whatโs not so great (the imperialism, the toxic maโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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Come with me and youโll be in a world of pure imaginationโฆand capitalism This week, Emily shares her deep thoughts about the 1971 classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. She loves Gene Wilderโs funny and menacing portrayal of Wonka that still manages an undercurrent of sweetness, and the cinematography is a masterclass in how to make unโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern TEASER
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It takes a special person to impress a dragon. In this bonus episode, Tracie shares deep thoughts about the science fiction and fantasy novel series the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. From her early exhilaration of discovering fantasy novels with female protagonists to her current discomfort upon realizing the essentialist nature of dragonโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Slay it with me: other girls are awesome! For this weekโs episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome Kate Moody, aka The Money Librarian, to share her analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Kate introduces Emily (a Buffy virgin) to the world of vampires, Hellmouths, and why all librarians love Giles. With Kateโs analysis, the sisters put Bufโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about So I Married an Axe Murderer
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Itโs like Sputnik! Spherical, but quite pointy at parts! On this weekโs episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t, Tracie unpacks the good, the bad, the poorly aged, and the likely-to-make-a-vegan-queasy about the underrated 1993 comedy So I Married an Axe Murderer. The sisters discuss how important changes in gender politics and expression over tโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about A Christmas Story
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Youโll shoot your eye out! On this very special holiday episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily and Tracie take a deeper look at the 1983 classic, A Christmas Story. The sisters discuss what is relatable in the sweet, funny tale of 9-year-old Ralphieโs quest for the coveted Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot range model air rifle, but they also talk about โฆ
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You remind me of the babeโฆthe babe with the powerโฆ Join us this week as Emily shares her deep thoughts about the 1986 film Labyrinth. She and Tracie talk about the myriad and surprising sexual metaphors throughout the movie, how the film may not pass the Bechdel test, but still offers a feminist response to dealing with an abuser, and why David Bowโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Battlestar Galactica
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Epic space battles + philosophy and ethics + human drama + Cylons = KICKASS TELEVISION On this weekโs episode, Tracie shares her Deep Thoughts about the 2004-2009 reboot of Battlestar Galactica. She tells Emily how she got sucked into the show and resurfaced weeks later, a la Portlandia, how the story undercut its own feminist bona fides by resortiโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The NeverEnding Story
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The Nothing, depressed horses, and dead momsโThe Neverending Story! (Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohโฆ) For this weekโs episode, Emily shares her deep thoughts with Tracie about the 1984 film The Neverending Story, a childhood favorite with seriously dark undertones. She talks about how the original story was written as an anti-authoritarian fairy tale by a โฆ
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Crime solving devilโit makes sense! Donโt overthink itโฆ This weekโs episode was supposed to be recorded at LuciCon in sunny Schaumberg, IL, but Covid put a damper on our plans. (Sad trombone sound). Instead, Tracie and Emily talk all things Lucifer together, from how Emily discovered the show because of her appreciation for Tom Ellisโsโฆacting, to hโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Fraggle Rock
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The Trash Heap has spoken! NYEAH! This week, Tracie takes a deep dive into Fraggle Rock, the 1980s childrenโs TV show that Jim Henson hoped would bring about the end to war (really!). The Fraggles, Doozers, Gorgs, and Silly Creatures of Outer Space (not to mention an anthropomorphic pile of trash) taught children how to resolve conflicts with peoplโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Anime with Lynette Davis
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From Dragon Ball Z to Sailor Moon, Studio Ghibli to Death Note, anime is a major hole in Emily and Tracieโs pop culture knowledge. So they were delighted to welcome writer, spiritual director, mental health peer advocate, and self-professed Blerd (Black nerd) Lynette Davis on the show to share her experience of being an anime fan since childhood. Tโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The Monster at the End of This Book
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Hello, everybodeee! Thereโs no monster at the end of this bonus episodeโjust a lot of overthinking about a beloved childrenโs book. Listen as Emily and Tracie take a deep dive into the charming and oddly subversive 1973 classic The Monster at the End of this Book, starring lovable, furry old Grover. Emily explains how Grover taught her that every rโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about The X-Files
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The truth (about casual sexism and gendered violence) is out there! In todayโs episode, Emily grapples with the troubling implications of her first fandom. She shares with Tracie how writing, directorial, and payment decisions on the The X-Files did Gillian Anderson and Dana Scully dirty, why her head-canon is that Mulder and Scully had sex in the โฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Disney's Robin Hood
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Odelaly and Criminitly! The 1973 animated Robin Hood (with the foxes) is as familiar as matzo-ball soup, but whatโs lurking in the comfort? From treatment of gender (not only a lack of representation but also the performance of gender) to the surprisingly (or maybe not-so-suprisingly?) anti-anti-authoritarian message to the quietly queer-coded villโฆ
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Itโs Wadsworth in the lounge with the red herring! The 1985 film Clue was a flop when it came out. There were three endings, no clear murderer, and everyone thought making a film based on a board game was just crass. In this episode, Emily explains how a box-office bomb became a beloved cult favorite, and how this deeply silly little movie subvertsโฆ
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Suffering Sappho! Wonder Womanโs role in our culture is far more complex than Tracieโs childhood love for Lynda Carter (and Wonder Woman underoos) prepared her for. In this more-meta-than-usual episode, Tracie dives into the history of the worldโs most famous Amazonian Nazi-fighter. From Wonder Womanโs comic book originsโshe sprang fully formed froโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Gender in Pop Culture: Tools for Feminist Analysis (BONUS)
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The Bechdel Test. Mary Sue. Born Sexy Yesterday. When thinking deep thoughts about media, patterns emerge. Patterns and litmus tests and tropes. It can be useful to have some shared language to allow us to get deeper, quicker (intellectually speaking). In this bonus episode, we define and provide examples of some useful tools that help us to undersโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Disney's Beauty & the Beast
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Tale as old as time? Itโs 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 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. Emily and Traciโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Harry Potter with Dr. Julian Wamble
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CW: Abstract discussion of rape. What if being a muggle actually isnโt a bad thing? J.K. Rowlingโs wizarding world of the Harry Potter franchise changed the way we think and talk. But was it for the better? Professor Julian Wamble joins Tracie and Emily for a fascinating deep dive into the ways the Harry Potter universe and characters are reflectioโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Ghostbusters
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We tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something we loved from our childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Ghostbusters! Tracie brings a beloved โcomfort foodโ movie to the analyzing table, and the sisters dig in. From the banality of the anti-heroism of Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) to the regressive treatment of the bโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about the Princess Bride
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The Princess Bride does not mean what you think it means? INCONCEIVABLE! In todayโs episode, Emily has some deep thoughts about the most quotable fairy tale ever written: The Princess Bride. Emily shares her theory that the film is both neurodivergent-friendly and a masterclass in brilliant storytellingโeven though it miserably fails the Bechdel Teโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about Muppets from Space
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It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights! It's time to talk about Muppets From Space tonight! In todayโs episode, Tracie thinks deeply about the underrated 1999 gem, Muppets From Space, which sees Gonzo finally meeting his alien brethren and learning why he loves getting shot out of cannon. While the themes of found family, loyaltโฆ
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Deep Thoughts about the Twilight Saga
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Vampires and werewolves and regressive gender norms, oh my! In this first episode, Emily shares her deep thoughts about the Twilight saga, from concerns about what the series might be teaching teenage girls about their own agency in romance to the fact that society feels justified in denigrating the series precisely because teenage girls like it. Mโฆ
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Teaser: Our Favorite Pop Culture Shapes Our World
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Have you ever been told something you love is โjustโ a tv show (or movie, or comic, etc)? But you know it matters, even if others dismiss it as โstupid.โ You know itโs worth talking and thinking about. So do we. Join us, Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, as we embark on a journey of dissecting โtrivialโ things that have an uncanny power to inโฆ
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Bar talk ๐บ๐ธ
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Metro Las Vegas lol shit happened ride home
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Love Mateo real talk
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Love me ๐ I
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Your going to love โค๏ธ it
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He said put it in my butt loo
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Man the fuck up
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@Texas Pete
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Fuck it !
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Pog marine
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Boom ๐
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Teabags drunking thoughts ๐คช
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