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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 564: A Brace of Coneys Apr 22, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather haven’t forgotten the reason for the season: Bunnies. We enjoy a discussion of the many powerful symbolic resonances of the fecund rabbit, the tricky hare, and the cute bunny. And we sate our hunger on a brace of coneys.

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Further Reading

The Runaway Bunny — Wikipedia
Hare on Wikipedia
“Bunny” in the Online Etymology Dictionary
Bean Bunny
Playboy Bunny
Watership Down — Wikipedia
“I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers”: Henry IV Part II, 5.5
“There’s only one way to eat a brace of coneys.”
Bunnicula
Rabbit Sounds

Episode 564: A Brace of Coneys 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 563: The Demon in You, The Demon in Me Apr 15, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather use the occasion of the new Hellboy to discuss the only Hellboy that matters—the one from 2014 directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Ron Perlman. They find different ways to discuss the triangle between nature, nurture, and choice,and they realize that all Smashing Pumpkins songs are actually

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Rosary
Relic
“Disarm” by The Smashing Pumpkins

Episode 563: The Demon in You, The Demon in 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 562: If Winter is Coming, Can Spring Be Far Behind? Apr 08, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather mark the arrival of blockbuster season and reflect on linear and cyclical time, the various ways of organizing a sequence of poems, and why we tell the same stories over and over.

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Episode 562: If Winter is Coming, Can Spring Be Far Behind? 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 561: A Captain Marvel Solution to a Roots Problem Apr 01, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and special guest Shiyan dive deep into Jordan Peele’s latest horror masterpiece, Us, including the story’s overall allegorical significance, the Stephen Spielberg version of this movie, and the Call the Police / F— the Police dichotomy of American life.

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"Rabbits… they have the brain like a sociopath." @JordanPeele explains how nature's cuddly creatures are the most terrifying animals around. #UsMovie pic.twitter.com/94FYwPRjvF

— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) March 21, 2019

Episode 561: A Captain Marvel Solution to a Roots Problem 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 560: You Escape Suffering by Getting Rid of Your Attachment to Jamba Juice Mar 25, 2019

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Rachel D, Amanda Jorda Avisati, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather gotta get up, gotta get out, gotta do this podcast on Netflix’s Russian Doll starring Natasha Lyonne. They discuss the characters and themes of the story—self knowledge, trauma, relationships, gentrification, spirituality, past and present, —and the unique look and feel that made the series an instant hit with critics and audiences.

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Bad Bunny, Siempre
Sneaks, Highway Hipnosos
Bohemianism
“The Key to ‘Russian Doll’ Might Be Tompkins Square Park” (nytimes)
Jason Zinoman’s theory on Twitter
TFT Podcast 182: Eat Harp Love
Matryoshka dolls
EMDR
Video: Losar Cham (Lama Dance) at Namdroling Monastery

Episode 560: You Escape Suffering by Getting Rid of Your Attachment to Jamba Juice 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 559: HAMBRUG Mar 18, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather usually write checks their ’cast can’t cash, when they promise over and over that they will get to listener feedback one of these days. In this episode they pay down the debt, tackling listener feedback from the past two months of the Overthinking It Podcast.

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Episode 559: HAMBRUG 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 558: Some are Born Kree… Mar 11, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tie on their flannels and head back into the early 90s for Captain Marvel. We discuss the film’s unique feminism, why fair doesn’t mean fair for everyone, and how Captain Marvel is really a French and a German move at the same time.

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Tailhook Scandal

Episode 558: Some are Born Kree… 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 557: Pizzeria Quattro Mar 04, 2019

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather start with an inappropriate recommendation from Netflix and head down the rabbit hole of algorithmic recommendations, machine learning models, behavior tracking, agency, and volition. Remember: Nobody is going to take care of your brain but you.

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Further Reading

Bayesian statistics
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Episode 557: Pizzeria Quattro 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 556: Well, I Saw “The Blind Side” and I Liked It Feb 25, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather report live from the red carpet about why they’re not headed into the Kodak Theater for the Oscars. They talk about the Western Canon, problems falling asleep, and why Oscar season is different in different parts of the country, and they read some listener comments.

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Oscar Winners
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom

Episode 556: Well, I Saw “The Blind Side” and I Liked It 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 555: Deus Ex Washing Machina Feb 18, 2019

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather disassemble and re-assemble the tiny plastic bricks of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, mostly highlighting the mismatch between text and meta-text, the highly inappropriate parental discipline on display, and the frankly bizarre relationship between siblings.

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Surprised by Sin by Stanley Fish
Hermeneutics
Erik Erikson and his developmental stages

Episode 555: Deus Ex Washing Machina 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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