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
What Dreams May Come: Deep Thoughts About the Cosmology of a Painted Afterlife, Misogynistic Romance Tropes, and 90s Era Casual Racism
48 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2026 at 10:00 am.
A Personal Heaven Explained
Welcome To Deep Thoughts
Why This Film Still Haunts Us
Plot Walkthrough And Afterlife Rules
Children, Identity, And Reveals
Rescue Mission And The Nature Of Hell
Misogyny In The Book vs Film
Soulmates, Agency, And Pressure
Race, Representation, And Forms
Art As Cosmology And Meaning
Mental Health, Suffering, And Boundaries
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh ? The thoughts are deeper (and potentially more upsetting, so mind the CWs) than usual on this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, where Emily shares her film analysis of the 1998 cult classic What Dreams May Come. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson (who had some truly fucked up views of women, romance, and gender dynamics), director Vincent Ward and l...