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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather talk tools, arriving at a theory that the tool is an instrument which excludes cases where it should not be used. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Reading “Tool” (Online Etymology Dictionary) “Tool” (Wikipedia) Episode 821: Tools are Not T…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather try to clean up. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Episode 820: Your Desk is a Palimpsest originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (i…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Dune: Part 2, which, marvelous to tell, they all managed to see in the theaters. They discuss the film’s aesthetics, its intellectual history as an artifact of 1960s America (complete with a focus on getting high), and its themes relatin…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the introductory episodes of Shogun, FX’s new, multi-lingual adaption of James Clavell’s 1975 novel. They discuss they book’s prominent place as a totem of adulthood on their fathers’ night-stands, the Downton Abbey moment (appropriate f…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather examine the niche internet phenomenon of a game-show host being sampled and turned into dance music. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Reading “‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene” …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather watch Super Bowl LVIII, or should we say, Super Bowl T.A.Y.L.O.R., and discuss the intimate, detail-oriented halftime show and the commercials. They unveil a narrative of a being that is a non-being, and the dislocations of finding a world differe…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Ben Adams joins Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather as they overthink the unfolding story about Warner Bros.’s decision not to release Coyote Vs. Acme, how it has been narrativized online, and how it is in some ways the perfect encapsulation of what makes the Coyote/Roadrunner stori…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (Part One), the interminably named latest entry in the M:I franchise, now available on streaming. They discuss the metaphor of dead reckoning and how it applies to the characters in the film, and lame…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather are lead by an article in USA Today to overthink the phenomenon of “Boot Camps” for men seeking to “reclaim their masculinity.” They wonder what that might mean and why someone might want to do it, and try to situate such experiences in the continuum of retr…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather come to bury Pitchfork, not to praise it. They overthink the role of magazines in their lives, and the ways in which the medium has, and hasn’t, managed to translate to a new media landscape. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Rea…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Pete Fenzel and Mark Lee overthink Bluey, the Australian kids’ show that squeezes every minute of its six-minute episodes for high-end emotional relationship coaching. They dissect how the show runs parallel narratives for both children and adults, its vast gap in raison dêtre with Paw Patr…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink an article about “the bit.” They discuss what constitutes a “bit,” and why it’s probably a bad idea to make it the basis of your whole social presentation. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Reading “Want a New You in the New Year?…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tie a bow on 2023 by revisiting a couple of movies and TV shows they haven’t been able to devote a full podcast to. For Mark, it’s the Barbenheimer phenomenon, a marketing miracle whose like we shall not soon see again; for Pete, the Korean realit…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are joined by Jordan Stokes to overthink Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s impressionistic biopic of Leonard Bernstein and his complicated life, career, and marriage. They discuss the proper pronunciation of Bernstein, the man’s idiosyncratic place in cla…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather partake in our Christmas tradition of overthinking a literary work. This year it’s O. Henry’s short story The Gift of the Magi. The story is great fun (as long as you don’t get the version published by the U.S. State Department), and they discuss …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather explore the legacy of Norman Lear (1922–2023) by considering the episode “Two’s A Crowd” from Season 8 of All in the Family and “The Big Move,” the 2-part Season 4 opener of Good Times. They discuss the stylistic, (sit)comic, and thematic aspects …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel has seen Elmo Saves Christmas and overthinks it along with Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather. It turns out that Elmo unleashes a festive hellscape which wreaks havoc on his friends, on the Easter Buny, and on time itself. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Reading “…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, which Mark has recently seeen, and Pete and Matt have scene in the past. They discuss the strangeness of the Rockettes as a “precision dance troupe” speculate (wildly inaccurately, as it t…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Matthew Belinkie joins Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather to discuss advances in AI-generated music. They overthink recent developments in the field, and Belinkie plays DJ, spinning a couple samples of famous songs he’s tried to recreate with AI. But then he has a surprise for the …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, focusing on the exuberant visual style(s) and its relation to the material conditions of each universe, the question of Canon and whether Miguel is a good guy or a villain, and what even is up with Th…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather dig into a storied two-hander, overthinking Chris Rock’s Netflix special Selective Outrage. They are both relieved that it isn’t just the same tired “anti-woke” nonsense, and is a tightly constructed hour: They break down the 4-part structure which Chris Roc…
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Ben Adams, Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather celebrate 800 episodes—and 15 unbroken years—of the Overthinking It Podcast by considering what they have learned in 2008. Download (MP3) Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Further Reading Join the Overthinking It Discord The Overthinkers’ Favorite …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Mark Lee is back from his Disney Cruise, and Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather join him to talk about it. He keeps insisting that he had fun, but he makes it sound like a dystopian hellscape. Also, they preview the upcoming 800th episode of the podcast by answering some listener questions fr…
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather overthink Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, discussing who is the awesomest turtle, the film’s unique visual style and how it fits into the Turtles’ trans-media history, the dynamic of belonging which governs …
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Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Ahsoka, created by Dave Filoni starring Rosario Dawson, which honestly they find to be kind of a perplexing experience. They talk about the dominant acting style in the series, and the problems it presents for presenting Ahsoka’s charact…
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