Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Tracie Guy-Decker, lover of animation, Muppets, religious allusion, fantasy, and feminism & Emily Guy Birken, storytelling nerd, finance writer, mental health advocate, and pop culture aficionado
120 episodes
3 days ago
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Well, that was absurd, let's eat dead bird! Just in time for Thanksgiving, Tracie brings her deep thoughts about the 1995 "romantic" comedy Home for the Holidays. Although the dysfunctional dynamics of the Larson family makes for realistic and funny storytelling, the romance between Holly Hunter's Claudia and Dylan McDermott's Leo seems to imply that women are just lacking a handsome man's tongue down their throat, no matter...
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Well, that was absurd, let's eat dead bird! Just in time for Thanksgiving, Tracie brings her deep thoughts about the 1995 "romantic" comedy Home for the Holidays. Although the dysfunctional dynamics of the Larson family makes for realistic and funny storytelling, the romance between Holly Hunter's Claudia and Dylan McDermott's Leo seems to imply that women are just lacking a handsome man's tongue down their throat, no matter...
The Truman Show: Deep Thoughts About Narcissism, Product Placement, and Parasocial Pop Culture
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
51 minutes
2 months ago
The Truman Show: Deep Thoughts About Narcissism, Product Placement, and Parasocial Pop Culture
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. And if I don't see you: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night! Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show, based on a screenplay by Andrew Niccol and starring Jim Carrey, was praised for its pop culture prescience because it came out just before the explosion of reality television. But as Emily argues on this episode, that cultural commentary misses the point. Reality TV may be the storytelling backdrop of The Truman Show...
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Well, that was absurd, let's eat dead bird! Just in time for Thanksgiving, Tracie brings her deep thoughts about the 1995 "romantic" comedy Home for the Holidays. Although the dysfunctional dynamics of the Larson family makes for realistic and funny storytelling, the romance between Holly Hunter's Claudia and Dylan McDermott's Leo seems to imply that women are just lacking a handsome man's tongue down their throat, no matter...
