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Overthinking It Podcast

Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn’t deserve.

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Episode 804: It Gets Really Religious and There’s Camels Nov 27, 2023

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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 turns out) about their history, and then turn to the religious aspects of the spectacle (famously featuring live animals).

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The Rockettes (Wikipedia)
Body Wars (Wikipedia)
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” (Wikipedia)

Episode 804: It Gets Really Religious and There’s Camels originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 803: It Is Kind Of Amazing. It Is Also Crap. Nov 20, 2023

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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 crew.

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Suno AI

Episode 803: It Is Kind Of Amazing. It Is Also Crap. originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 802: Can we Self-Illustrate? Nov 13, 2023

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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 The Spot.

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New Historicism (Wikipedia)
Bricolage (Wikpedia)

Episode 802: Can we Self-Illustrate? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 801: Everybody Hates Chris Nov 06, 2023

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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 Rock lays out at the beginning and cashes out over the course of the bizarre second act and culminating routine addressing “The Slap.”

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Episode 801: Everybody Hates Chris originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 800: A Lot of Beautiful Ideas Oct 30, 2023

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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.

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Join the Overthinking It Discord
The Overthinkers’ Favorite Projects
- Ben Adams: “This podcast is ruined.”
- Matthew Belinkie: ’ Merica Madness
- Peter Fenzel: 24 TV Recaps
- Mark Lee: “The Grease 2 – Terminator 2 Connection”
- Richard Rosenbaum: Final Fantasy VI Book Club
- Jordan Stokes: “That time I was paid to write for the site.”
- Matthew Wrather: The Greek Chorus of Steel Girders in our Man of Steel podcast.
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
God of Cookery
“Remembering Yolanda Vega’s time on Eyewitness News” on YouTube
Best Video Film & Cultural Center

Episode 800: A Lot of Beautiful Ideas originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 799: That’s Not Me, But Should That Be Me? Oct 23, 2023

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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 from the perspective of 15-year veterans of the show.

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“Stay” (Jackson Browne)

Episode 799: That’s Not Me, But Should That Be Me? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 798: Everyone is a Turtle Oct 16, 2023

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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 most turtle properties, and how that dynamic plays out in the final battle and final scene. Cowabunga, dude!

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Episode 798: Everyone is a Turtle originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 797: “Do You Even Care about Going to College, Sabine?” Oct 09, 2023

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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 character as unique. They discuss the role of “lore”—you really a Ph.D. in Star Wars trivia to even begin to comprehend this one— and they end “right where we belong” except where is that really?

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Episode 797: “Do You Even Care about Going to College, Sabine?” originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 796: Benedict Cumberbatch Makes It Rain Oct 02, 2023

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather narrate their interior monologues as they overthink The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Wes Anderson’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl short story, crossed with intrusive thoughts about Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie.

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Episode 796: Benedict Cumberbatch Makes It Rain originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Episode 795: We Will Be Victorious Sep 25, 2023

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather have a weekend to themselves, and overthink the experience of solitude, which they call “unoccupied mind-space,” and how they do (and should) fill it—with productivity, with media, with bagpipes.

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Episode 795: We Will Be Victorious originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

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