Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Tracie Guy-Decker & Emily Guy Birken
117 episodes
1 day ago
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
Independence Day: Deep Thoughts About American Exceptionalism, Sci Fi Disaster Movies, and Jeff Goldblum in a Flight Suit
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
50 minutes
4 months ago
Independence Day: Deep Thoughts About American Exceptionalism, Sci Fi Disaster Movies, and Jeff Goldblum in a Flight Suit
Send us a text Welcome to Earth. The 1996 Roland Emmerich-helmed film Independence Day was one of the touchstone movies for Emily's generation, so her flabber was absolutely gasted to learn Tracie had never seen it until a few years ago. Just in time for the 4th of July, Emily walks Tracie through what made this movie such a monumental hit in the U.S. and abroad, despite its jingoistic American exceptionalism and skin-deep application of science fiction storytelling tropes. Both in 1996...
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We're releasing this episode (108) four days early in honor of Halloween! There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. In December 1996, teenaged Emily learned to love horror movies when she saw Wes Craven's Scream in the theater. Twice. Unlike most pop culture specifically created for her demographic, Scream offered feminism, cultural commentary, badass women as protagonist...
