UHF with Justin Kramm: Deep Thoughts About Authenticity, High Production Value, and Comedy for Short Attention Spans

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition… Tracie and Emily welcome a special guest on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit: Marian Berman, a.k.a. Mom, to talk about the 1980 film 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton (of blessed memory). For Marian, this delightful comedy showed her young daughters multiple ways of being a feminist woman claiming her own power–which is why...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. My, I’ll bet you monsters lead innnnteresting lives. In this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits some of her favorite classic hand-drawn animation from Looney Tunes, including the cartoon shorts “Duck Amuck,” “What’s Opera, Doc,” “Hair-Raising Hare,” “Transylvania 6-500,” and “One Froggy Evening.” While the technical skill behind everything from the animation to the musical score to the c...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Four, Eight, Fifteen, Sixteen, Twenty-Three, Forty-Two Today on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie and Emily welcome Seth Nesin to talk about the ethics of storytelling in the TV show Lost–and why you may be entitled to pop culture compensation for its completely unsatisfactory ending. Seth explains why revisiting this early 2000s sci-fi / mystery / drama hybrid television series doesn’t inspire nostalgia, because...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “Why don't you try squeezing something the size of a watermelon out of an opening the size of a lemon and see how hot YOU look?” On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily revisits the only 1980s romcom that starts with talking sperm, Look Who’s Talking. This 1989 film, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, reflects many of the frustrating realities women face during pregnancy and early motherhood, in...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Now put that thing back where it came from or so help me… Tracie revisits the classic Pixar animation Monsters, Inc in today’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit. This family film, which was released just after 9/11, offers the deeply reassuring message that laughter is much stronger than fear, and Tracie argues that our country’s collective mental health needed that pop culture lesson in late 2001. But in addi...