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
A League of Their Own: Deep Thoughts About Bittersweet Feminism, the Threat of Girl Athletes, and What's Wrong With Dottie and Kit's Rivalry
54 minutes Posted Mar 24, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Cold Open Overperforming Femininity
Pop Culture Is Still Culture
Lines We Remember And Why
Why Revisit It Now
Feminism With A Melancholy Undercurrent
Plot Postcards And Key Scenes
The Ending And The Erasure
Modern Echoes In Women's Sports
Girls Versus Ballplayers Binary
Proving Strength Performing Femininity
Marla And The Double Standard
Sister Rivalry That Feels Flattened
What We Loved Plus Takeaways
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. There's no crying in baseball! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t, Tracie returns to the 1992 Penny Marshall comedy A League of Their Own. Both Guy sisters loved the unabashed feminism and women-centered storytelling of this film when it debuted, and much of movie holds up to their Gen X nostalgia. Marshall lets the audience see how being part of a team creates a sense of belonging and self-worth, how women must ex...