Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
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
Dick Tracy: Deep Thoughts About the Comic Strip Villains, Overusing Montages, and What We Accepted As "Romance" in 80s and 90s Movies
53 minutes Posted Jan 20, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Cold Open And Proposal Memory
Show Premise And Pop Culture Value
Setting Up Dick Tracy Rewatch
First Memories And Corrections
Why This Film Now
Visual Style And Limited Palette
Music, Sondheim, And Elfman
Caricature, Sexuality, And Masculinity
Copaganda And 2025 Lens
Personal “Tracy” And “The Kid” Anecdote
Wikipedia Plot Read-Through
Morality Scenes And The Kid
Breathless Mahoney And Chemistry
Commitment Phobia And The Ring Toss
Source Material Versus Heart
Prosthetics, Villains, And Design Oscars
Beatty As Lead And Direction Choices
Gender Caricatures And Toxic Tropes
Rules For Others, Not For Him
Montage Overload And Cutting Madonna
Best Idea Wins Versus Auteur Ego
Success, Hype, And Forgettability
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. "I know how you feel. You don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me. I get a lot of that." On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie revisits the 1990 film Dick Tracy, the big budget Oscar winner that pop culture forgot. Director and star Warren Beatty wanted to recreate the comic strip detective as a live action hero, complete with all the weird villains that populate the funny papers, as well as the romance Tracy e...