Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
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
126 episodes
1 week ago
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. The truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks. Not compared to how people matter. Tracie goes back in time to her semester in London in 1997 by revisiting the British film Brassed Off. This “emphatically empathetic” piece of 1990s pop culture crystallized the importance of collective bargaining, worker solidarity and mutual aid for a not-quite 21-year-old Tracie. With today’s eyes, ...
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. The truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks. Not compared to how people matter. Tracie goes back in time to her semester in London in 1997 by revisiting the British film Brassed Off. This “emphatically empathetic” piece of 1990s pop culture crystallized the importance of collective bargaining, worker solidarity and mutual aid for a not-quite 21-year-old Tracie. With today’s eyes, ...
A Fish Called Wanda: Deep Thoughts About Comedy, Cultural Commentary, and Cartoonish Con Artists
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
55 minutes
2 months ago
A Fish Called Wanda: Deep Thoughts About Comedy, Cultural Commentary, and Cartoonish Con Artists
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. You're the vulgarian, you fuck! Tracie expected to enjoy revisiting the classic comedy A Fish Called Wanda, but she forgot just how much of this film's humor was derived from cringe comedy (John Cleese speaking Russian in his underwear when a large family stumbles upon him) and punching down (the dubious "comedy" of making fun of Michael Palin's stutter), both of which made the film painful to rewatch. Wanda has some truly ...
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 truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks. Not compared to how people matter. Tracie goes back in time to her semester in London in 1997 by revisiting the British film Brassed Off. This “emphatically empathetic” piece of 1990s pop culture crystallized the importance of collective bargaining, worker solidarity and mutual aid for a not-quite 21-year-old Tracie. With today’s eyes, ...
