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
Material Girl by Madonna: Deep Thoughts About Pink Cocktail Dresses, Authenticity, and Why Financially Independent Women Are Terrifying
51 minutes Posted Apr 14, 2026 at 9:00 am.
Cold Open And Pop Culture Thesis
Why Material Girl Still Sticks
Plot Recap Gifts And The Pickup
Lyrics Show Feminism Shifting
Irony Deficiency And Baby Literalism
Marilyn Monroe Homage And Commodification
Autonomy And Control In The 1980s
Poverty As Authenticity And Manipulation
Women Creators Mary Lambert And Madonna
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Experience has made me rich / And now they're after me On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily and Tracie discuss Madonna's 1985 music video Material Girl in front of a live studio audience. As a six-year-old child, Emily did not recognize how Madonna's video was intentionally in conversation with Marilyn Monroe's performance of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend from 30 years prior. Both women are si...