Ever had something you love dismissed because it’s “just” pop culture? What others might deem stupid shit, you know matters. You know it’s worth talking and thinking about. So do we. We're Tracie and Emily, two sisters who think a lot about a lot of things. From Twilight to Ghostbusters, Harry Potter to the Muppets, and wherever pop culture takes us, come overthink with us as we delve into our deep thoughts about stupid shit.
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We talk about deep Thoughts, stories, tv shows, books, and movies.
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Anything and everything!
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In this podiobook: Short-form Humor from the mind of Michael R. Mennenga. Editorial on daily life and the human condition.
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These are some of my deep thoughts, social experiments, observations, ideas, life questions, and general philosophies I'm practicing to explore Human Consciousness and my own Self-Awareness. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/selfaware/support
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I had to make a podcast for a school project! It was pretty fun, I hope you can learn somthing! :)
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Great ideas from students at Edgewood High School (Ellettsville, IN).
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Forbes thought leader and #1 Amazon bestselling author, Ivan Illan, Founder & Chief Investment Officer at AWAIM®, shares deep thoughts on capital markets and economics. Unscripted and potent ideas are discussed on timely economic and capital markets issues. Financial advisors and retail investors may find the most enjoyment from these musings. For more info or to submit questions/topics for consideration, visit www.alignewealth.com Investment advisory services offered through Aligne Wealth A ...
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This is were I go to talk about what I talk about what is going on in my head.
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Daily deep thoughts, serendipitous discoveries, shallow jokes, story time, travel tips, music, and make pretend.
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Not quiet "Inside the Actors Studio" but almost as funny! Deep Thoughts features Canadian actor/comedian Conner Christmas as he goes deep into the lives of Canada's best talent. The best way to keep in touch with Canada's best talent!
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Greetings and welcome to the Deep Thoughts podcast, where we (Owen, Edie, Ben, and various friends) try and talk about whatever topic we think of. New episodes every Saturday! Usually. If you like our voices and want to see us actually do stuff, check out our YouTube, TheMuffinTop! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMa_bBPg3eJ00a4o6RuXgcA
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Deep Thoughts: Science and Social Justice. Is an interview podcast where we take a deep dive into the struggles, triumphs and personal stories of minorities in the sciences, arts and public service. The goal of these interviews is to have candid, first person conversations about the role of race, gender, and socioeconomic status in politics, the sciences and beyond. Follow the podcast in Instagram! @Deep_Thoughts_PodcastViews=Own
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Join RyanKubo and Pixel_pusher101 every week as they talk about big picture Twitch news such as recent drama, changes to Twitch , and opinions on all the news!
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We’re excited you’re here! Deep Thoughts w/The Dixons is hosted by entrepreneurs Nina Pal Dixon and Brian Dixon. On this show, you’ll find entertainment, education, inspiration, motivation, personal stories, self development, higher consciousness thinking and more! The conversations are a mix of health and wellness, business advice, relationship insight, life hacks and much more all to help you become the best version of yourself! Our simple goal is to help spread more understanding & love t ...
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sorry haven't made a podcast in a while working on the new one stay on track to hear it. i hope you've been liking them all our 2 members wont be back soon. but hopefully will be back soon that's all i got Nikola also known as Nik.
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Featuring Cigar Thoughts, a Seahawks podcast, and Deep Balls, an NFL picks podcast.
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Deep Thoughts about Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Send us a text Those aren’t two pillows… Just in time for Thanksgiving, Emily finally watches one of the most beloved buddy comedies of the 1980s: Planes, Trains & Automobiles this week. After intentionally skipping this film when it was first released (because it appeared to feature gross-out and cringe humor), Emily is surprised and delighted to …
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Send us a text We picked the wrong week to give up horse tranquilizers… The Guy Girls have fond memories of the 1980 comedy Airplane!–specifically, they remember their dad helplessly snort-laughing at this three-gags-a-minute parody of 1970s-era disaster films. The movie still delivers solid belly laughs, but not everything is as funny four decades…
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Deep Thoughts about Men in Black
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Send us a text You know what the difference is between you and me? I make podcasting look gooooood. This week, Emily dives into the remarkably subversive 1997 film Men in Black. Despite looking like nothing more than an entertaining summer blockbuster that merged sci-fi and comedy, MiB actually asks the audience to rethink what they know about immi…
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Deep Thoughts about The Birdcage
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Send us a text Shouldn't you be holding the crucifix? It is the prop for martyrs! The 1996 film The Birdcage offered a revolutionary portrayal of gay love in a mainstream movie. Not only do we see a stable, loving, long-term relationship between Robin Williams’ Armand and Nathan Lane’s Albert, but the film is a funny and joyous celebration of being…
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Deep Thoughts about The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Send us a text What's this? What's this? There's overthinking everywhere! This week’s episode of Deep Thoughts takes a closer look at Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was actually directed by Henry Selick) to see what unintentional lessons the 1993 Hallow-Christmas classic taught us. The film serves as a fascinating metaphor for t…
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Send us a text We’re gonna need a bigger podcast… Join the Guy Girls this week as Emily geeks out about the most tightly-written and well-crafted summer blockbuster ever made: Jaws. This film taught us the importance of keeping the monster hidden until the third act (which only happened because the mechanical shark broke down), features the most ch…
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CA Senator Josh Newman & Ivan Illan on The Conversation w/ Bruce Cook (Radio Replay)
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Founder & CIO at AWAIM, Ivan Illan, joins California Senator Josh Newman on The Conversation with Bruce Cook discussing the condition of California's and the U.S. economy including jobs, deficits, and education. (Original Air Date: October 13, 2024 at 6PM PT on AM830 KLAA) For more information, please visit: https://www.alignewealth.com/ Copyright …
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Deep Thoughts about The Little Mermaid
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Send us a text Bright young women, sick of swimming, ready to podcast! In 1989, 13-year-old Tracie and 10-year-old Emily got to witness the Disney renaissance in real time when they saw The Little Mermaid in the theater. The Guy girls were captivated by the unparalleled animation, the show-stopping musical numbers, and the unexpected sight of their…
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Send us a text I myself am strange and unusual. On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her thoughts about the ghost with the most: Beetlejuice. The Tim Burton film is aesthetically gorgeous, unapologetically bizarre, and legitimately funny–but the character of Beetlejuice relies on sexual predation to indicate his awfulness and Michael K…
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This Mad Chronicle is on vacay for right now...
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This Podcast may have come to a temporary stand-still, but the journey doesn’t stop here! This podcast will continue down the road but not for the foreseeable future. Bigger and better projects are on the horizon, and you can find them all at http://www.themadmorgan.com Stay tuned for new adventures, stories, and ideas as we continue pushing the en…
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Deep Thoughts about Blade Runner
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Send us a text All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. The 1982 science fiction classic, Blade Runner, was a favorite of the Guy girls’ father. Mainstream media critics can’t ruminate about how a loved one’s relationship with a piece of problematic pop culture affects the way we view it. Luckily, we aren’t mainstream media. In th…
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Deep Thoughts about City Slickers
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Send us a text I crap bigger’n you! The 1991 film City Slickers holds a special place in the Guy sisters’ hearts because of how much their dad loved it. When Tracie and Emily took him to see this film in the theater for Father’s Day, they had no idea this gentle comedy-Western would offer a nuanced look at the meaning of masculinity, male friendshi…
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Deep Thoughts about Field of Dreams
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Send us a text If you build it, he will come. What better vehicle for the Guy girls to meditate on their relationship with their late father than a movie they once watched with him about a man’s relationship with his late father? With Field of Dreams, the 1989 magical realism baseball film starring Kevin Costner, Tracie brings some deep thoughts ab…
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Same Economic Outcomes Decades Apart: 1970s & 2020s
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In preparing for my September 2024 Forbes article, I stumbled upon a shocking set of nearly identical, devastating economic statistics regarding the U.S. economy. Graphs and data referenced in this episode comparing the periods of 1975 to 1980 versus 2019 to 2024 can be found at: https://www.alignewealth.com/blog/research-highlights-09-04-2024 For …
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Deep Thoughts about Nightmare on Elm Street
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Send us a text One, two, Freddy’s coming for you… Today’s episode of Deep Thoughts gives Emily a chance to finally exorcise the boogeyman of every 80’s childhood: Freddy Krueger. Though neither Emily nor Tracie ever saw the influential 1984 film Nightmare on Elm Street, the burned and be-knived Freddy cast a long shadow over the culture, meaning th…
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Deep Thoughts about Dune with Jake Cohen
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Send us a text Fear is the mind-killer… On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome their cousin Jake Cohen to talk all things Dune, from Frank Herbert’s influential series of novels to the 1984 David Lynch adaptation to the recent Denis Villeneuve films. The conversation ranges from the intricate and well-thought out worldbui…
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Send us a text Podcasts are like onions…they’ve got layers. In this patron-exclusive bonus episode, Emily takes a look back at Shrek, the charming ogre who entertained her young son. Though the movie is still laugh-out-loud funny at times, those guffaws come with unfortunate sides of fat-phobia, misogyny, and bio-essential transphobia that is truly…
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Deep Thoughts about Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Send us a text Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and listen to a podcast once in a while, you might just miss it. This week, Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the iconic 1986 teen movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off–and unfortunately the results are not as charming as Matthew Broderick’s smile. Not only is Jeannie unfairly made out to be a v…
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Are Stocks Cheap Yet? Refer To The Cyclically Adjusted Earnings Yield For Perspective
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As discussed in detail last summer (see Research Highlights and Forbes article), comparing the Earnings Yield on stocks (using the S&P 500 Cyclically Adjusted Earnings Yield [CAEY]) to the Risk-Free Yields on U.S. Treasury Bonds can have an elucidating effect on an investor's favor towards equities or away from them. Recall that Earnings Yield is e…
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Send us a text Only try to realize the truth: There is no spoon. When Emily brings her deep thoughts about the Wachowski Sisters’ 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Matrix, the Guy sisters are unable to contain the conversation to under an hour. (We’re not exactly known for our brevity.) This movie, possibly the most popular, successful, and influenti…
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Deep Thoughts about The Ren & Stimpy Show
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Send us a text Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! This week on Deep Thoughts, Tracie brings nostalgia, laughter, and the unfortunate realization that you really can’t go home again with her analysis of The Ren & Stimpy Show. While creator and tortured animation genius John K brought back the artistry and commitment to craft when his angry Chihuahua and sweetl…
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Deep Thoughts about Revenge of the Nerds
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Send us a text NERDS!!! On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her analysis (and horrified shuddering) about the oddly influential 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Though the filmmakers thought they were writing the “gentle and funny underdog story” that Gene Siskel characterized the movie as, Nerds treats women as less-than-human trophie…
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Deep Thoughts about Dead Poets Society
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Send us a text O Captain! My Captain! Join us as Tracie brings her deep thoughts to the 1989 film Dead Poets Society on today’s episode. Though this beloved film was supposed to be a defense of the humanities (and remember, both Guy Girls were English majors at private liberal arts colleges), this rewatch made it clear the film thinks poetry is sim…
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Deep Thoughts about Jurassic Park
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Send us a text Hold on to your butts! On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily shares her analysis of the 1993 film Jurassic Park. She describes the thrill of being the target audience for a summer blockbuster (she was 14 when it came out) and her discomfort with how the book portrayed the only two female characters as an annoying child and a…
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High Yield or Small Caps, Which Market Is Assessing Forward-Looking Risk Better?
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In this month's episode, Ivan Illan, Founder & CIO at AWAIM®, explores the dichotomy of two segments of the capital markets - U.S. high yield bonds and U.S. small cap stocks. Both of these segments are predominantly charaterized by below investment grade credit ratings and typically demonstrate high price correlations. However, the past few years h…
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Deep Thoughts about The Last Unicorn
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Send us a text Magic! Do as you will! Tracie brings her deep thoughts about the 1982 animated film The Last Unicorn, a lesser-known but beloved part of the traumatizing 80s movie canon. With gorgeous animation–the studio went on to become Studio Ghibli–this film tells an odd story about how mortality allows us to feel regret and reminds us there ar…
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Deep Thoughts about Four Weddings and a Funeral
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Send us a text In the words of David Cassidy, in fact, while he was still with The Partridge Family, I think I love you… Join us this week as Tracie and Emily revisit the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral that they first saw in the theater together. Not only did this film launch Guy girls’ long-standing fixation on Hugh Grant, the floppy-haired…
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Deep Thoughts about King Kong with William Patrick Day
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Send us a text Was it beauty that killed the beast? Or was it capitalism…aided by airplanes? On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome Oberlin Professor Pat Day to talk about the ape, the myth, the movie legend: King Kong. Prof. Day walks us through how the original filmmakers in 1933 used new technology (A musical score! Cl…
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The past few days have been hard on A.I. stocks, which until now have been driven higher and higher by the widespread A.I. euphoria. In this episode, I discuss a recent Working Paper (published May 2024) from the National Bureau of Economic Research that shares a more modest projection on the impact of A.I. in total factor productivity over the nex…
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Deep Thoughts about Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Send us a text We’re not bad…we’re just drawn that way! In this episode, Emily brings her deep thoughts about a marvel of innovation and animation: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? This 1988 film, a self-conscious mashup of three different animation studios’ styles and the film-noir of the Chinatown films, is a unique vehicle for a conversation about the w…
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Deep Thoughts about Dirty Dancing (Patron Exclusive) TEASER
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Send us a text Now I had the time of my life…revisiting this classic! In today’s special patrons-only bonus episode, Tracie dives deep into the unexpected hit film Dirty Dancing. Join the sisters as they unpack Eleanor Bergstein’s very intentional and subversive storytelling that made abortion integral to the plot (which surprised the heck out of c…
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Deep Thoughts About Event Horizon with Scott Kenemore
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Send us a text Hell is only a word… This week on Deep Thoughts, the sisters welcome best-selling horror novelist (and Emily’s fellow Kenyon alum) Scott Kenemore to discuss the 1997 cult classic Event Horizon starring Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne. The wide-ranging discussion moves from the meaning of cosmic horror to the importance of intent whe…
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Deep Thoughts about the Addams Family
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Send us a text They’re subversive and they’re kooky, whimsical, sweet and spooky…The Addams Family! snap, snap On today’s Deep Thoughts, Emily overthinks The Addams Family–specifically the 1990s era films starring Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as Gomez and Morticia. The sisters examine how The Addams Family uses horror tropes and subversions to hu…
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Deep Thoughts about the Spice Girls
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Send us a text I really really really wanna zig-a-zig-AH! On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily delve into the global phenomenon of the Spice Girls. Tracie explains how she saw the inevitability of Spicy world domination while living in London in 1997 and decided to embrace the manufactured pop group’s grrl power, despite feelin…
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Deep Thoughts about Pee-Wee's Playhouse with Mallory Henson
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Send us a text That’s so funny I forgot to laugh! On this week’s episode, Emily and Tracie welcome Mallory Henson to talk about her reverence for the TV show Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Mallory introduces the sisters to the path Paul Reubens took to develop the character of Pee-wee Herman and how the show recreated the joyful chaos of a child’s mind while…
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Implications For Protracted Yield Curve Inversion
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For roughly two years, the U.S. economy has been undermined by a challenging dynamic - a yield curve inversion. Not to be ignored, when short-term interest rates are much higher that long-term interest rates, investor and lender behavior modulates accordingly. If this dynamic persists too long, unintended consequences become manifest across marketp…
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Deep Thoughts about Wayne's World
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Send us a text Party Time! Excellent! [Extended guitar solo] On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily revisits the most important cultural touchstone of the late 20th century: Wayne’s World. In addition to introducing an entire generation to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, this film presented a surprisingly complex characterization of Tia Carrere’…
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Deep Thoughts about Superman: The Movie
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Send us a text It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an unreasonable hatred for Hackensack, New Jersey! This week, Tracie brings her Deep Thoughts about the 1978 film Superman: The Movie. From the way this film helped legitimize comic books and superheroes as a valid art form to the huge influence Christopher Reeve’s Superman still has on our culture, th…
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Send us a text REDRUM! REDRUM! On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily breaks down the horror masterpiece, The Shining. The sisters walk through the ways in which Shelley Duvall’s portrayal of Wendy Torrance is an unexpected feminist icon, how Kubrick created an intentionally incoherent film while abusing his actors (except for 6-year-old Da…
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S2 Ep. 1: Airing Out All of Our Trauma
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Hi! It's been a while. A while back me and my friend Edie decided to revive this podcast and recorded this, only for it to sit gathering dust for 7 months. Oops! While the podcast may not be fully returning as planned, I felt like this should still be aired because why not, right? And in the off chance that this DOES end up reviving this series... …
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Deep Thoughts about The Electric Company
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Send us a text HEY YOU GUY(Girl)S! On this week’s Deep Thoughts, Tracie revisits a classic of GenX childhood: The Electric Company. This children’s sketch comedy program with an all-star cast (Morgan Freeman! Rita Moreno! Bill Cosby?) showcased the wonderful ways that informal education can be intentional, subversive, funny, and validating. While n…
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Buffett Indicator As Applied to Specific Sectors
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The Buffett Indicator (or Ratio) is a simple formula often referenced by famed investor Warren Buffett. It's simply, Total U.S. Stock Market Capitalization / U.S. GDP. The idea is basically higher ratios infer overvalued markets, while lower ratios may indicate stocks are broadly undervalued. Currently, this ratio stands at 186%. However, what if y…
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Deep Thoughts about Veronica Mars with Joanna Church
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Send us a text “This face right here is my over the moon face.” This week, Tracie and Emily welcome Joanna Church to share her Deep Thoughts about the television show Veronica Mars. Between trying to recap the telenovela-sounding plot to Tracie (coma babies! children switched at birth! a school bus that drives off a cliff and explodes!), Joanna exp…
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Deep Thoughts about Trading Places
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Send us a text Looking good, Tracie! Feeling good, Emily! On this week’s Deep Thoughts, Emily analyzes Trading Places, the film that taught her what a short sale is, how a bookie works, and that she is most definitely a money nerd. While the film offers a pointed critique of capitalism and racism, it undercuts its own message with the truly weird t…
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Deep Thoughts about Michael Jackson's Thriller
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Send us a text It smells like the funk of 40,000 years in here! In today’s episode,Tracie shares her deep thoughts about the iconic and groundbreaking 1983 music video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. From the way the mini film subverts expectations to the meaning behind the horror tropes it relies on to how to contextualize Jackson’s immense talent…
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Credit Card Delinquency & Debt Jumps Higher
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Ivan Illan, Founder & Chief Investment Officer at AWAIM® shares a conversational-style review of a recent research highlight published on the firm's website discussing U.S. credit card delinquency and other correlated metrics such as household savings, debt levels, and interest rate on credit cards. This discussion focuses on the confluence of thes…
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Deep Thoughts about The Fifth Element
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Send us a text It mu5t be found…it being a realistic portrayal of women For this episode of Deep Thoughts, Emily dives into the valiant, vulnerable, and very very sexist portrayal of “perfection” in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element. Milla Jovovich’s Leeloo is the poster child for the trope of Born Sexy Yesterday, wherein a childlike but f…
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Deep Thoughts about Journalism in Pop Culture with Jon Shorr
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Send us a text Good night and good luck and you stay classy, San Diego! On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily welcome media studies professor (retired) Jon Shorr to talk about how pop culture has conditioned us to think about journalism, reporters, and “the news.” From Lois Lane to Woodward and Bernstein to Mary Tyler Moore, we …
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Deep Thoughts about Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Send us a text We are the sisters who say Ni! Bring us…a shrubbery. On today’s episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie and Emily dig into a source of both sisters’ understanding of what is funny, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. After 49 years, this film remains super funny, because it subverts our expectations. With minimal plot, despite the purported qu…
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Deep Thoughts About Back to the Future TEASER
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Send us a text Great Scott!! A time traveling oedipal complex masquerading as family entertainment? This special patrons-only bonus episode of Deep Thoughts takes a closer look at the film that ensured the DeLorean’s ongoing cultural relevance: Back to the Future. From the erasure of Black culture and ambition to some truly weird sexual politics (M…
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