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
The Full Monty: Deep Thoughts About Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Using Comedy to Make a Political Point
55 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Personal Context And Dad Memories
Masculinity Unpacked Through Stripping
Unemployment And The Productivity Trap
1997 Context Class And Humor
Male Body Image And Impotence
Father Son Conflict And Tenderness
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. No-one said anything to me about the full monty! For this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to the 1997 British comedy The Full Monty. The film is a meditation on masculinity from multiple angles, including economic, sexual, psychological, physical, parental, and societal, as well as a treatise on the political aftermath of Thatcherism that left an entire generation of British men without jobs...