Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
Tracie Guy-Decker & Emily Guy Birken
117 episodes
3 days 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...
Weird Science: Deep Thoughts on Pygmalion, Women's Agency, and Why 1980s Movies Thought Computers Were Magic
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast
54 minutes
3 months ago
Weird Science: Deep Thoughts on Pygmalion, Women's Agency, and Why 1980s Movies Thought Computers Were Magic
Send us a text So, what would you little maniacs like to do first? This week, Tracie takes a deep dive into Weird Science: yet another of the John Hughes movies that helped to define Gen X pop culture. This 1985 teen comedy is a modern retelling of Pygmalion, the Greek myth that finds a sculptor falling in love with his artwork that comes to life. Except in this version, Anthony Michael Hall's Gary and Ilan Mitchell-Smith's Wyatt create Lisa (played by Kelly LeBrock) via Memotech MTX 512 micr...
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...
