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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 534: BOOM!!! Sep 24, 2018

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Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather consider a classic: John McTiernan’s 1990 classic of espionage and suspense, The Hunt for Red October, starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery.

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Further Reading

The Hunt for Red October: Wikipedia, IMDb, Novel, Film
Tom Clancy
State Anthem of the Soviet Union
Competence Porn on TV Tropes
Barthes’s Effect of Reality (we called it the “reality function”)

Episode 534: BOOM!!! 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 533: It’ll Make Sense When We Start Playing Sep 17, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather sublimate their murderous urges into moving small tokens over a paper board printed with a hyperreal candy heckscape.

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Further Reading

Overthinking It Podcast Episode 13: Crossing Sections Off the Map
Board Games on Wikipedia
Settlers of Catan
Ticket to Ride
Pandemic
Sorry!
Parcheesi
Cribbage

Episode 533: It’ll Make Sense When We Start Playing 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 532: The Dragon Bookmark Sep 10, 2018

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather pull the tassle out of the dragon bookmark in their discussion of solitude, being alone in repose, the English Romantic poets and their hiking practices, the desire not to rag on technology, one-handed phone use, naps, meditation (again), and what effect the attention economy and mental environment has on us.

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Further Reading

The Lake District
The Dragonbone Chair on Amazon
Dragon Beaded Bookmark
Acceptance and Resilience
Corn Whiskey: “The time when Americans drank all day long” from the BBC; “The History Of American Alcohol Consumption, Charted” from Digg; “A Nation of Sots” from The New Republic
“Solitude and Leadership”

Episode 532: The Dragon Bookmark 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 531: You Are Not Worse Than You Are Sep 03, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather spend Labor Day doing some work on themselves: Considering what it means to improve your skills, your virtues, or your character at work, at the piano, and in relationships.

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Further Reading

Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High on Amazon
Street Parking: garage workouts
Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises
Charles-Louis Hanon on Wikipedia
Eudaimonia on Wikipedia

Episode 531: You Are Not Worse Than You Are 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 530: The First Sharknado was Much More Serious Aug 27, 2018

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On the Overthinking It Podcast, we watched Sharknado—all six of them—so you didn’t have to. Matt Belinkie, Pete Fenzel, and Mark Lee discuss the surprising Greek tragedy of its overarching storyline, the meaning of those insane celebrity cameos, and different dimensions of badness in entertainment.

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Episode 530: The First Sharknado was Much More Serious 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 529: Speaking on Behalf of All Asians Aug 20, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather travel first class to a Singapore where minute ethnic differences are rigorously observed, but class-consciousness only ranges from the obscenely wealthy to the incomprehensibly wealthy. Food, game theory, and the lived experience of the Asian diaspora.

Spoiler alert for Crazy Rich Asians, but it doesn’t matter—listen even if you haven’t seen the movie.

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Further Reading

“The symbolism of Crazy Rich Asians’ pivotal mahjong scene, explained” on Vox
Game Theory on Open Yale Courses
Prisoner’s Dilemma on Wikipedia
“Yellow” by Coldplay on Genius

Episode 529: Speaking on Behalf of All Asians 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 528: You’re Only Making People Illegal Aug 13, 2018

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Peter Fenzel is Sylvester Stallone to Matthew Wrather’s Wesley Snipes in this analysis of the classic 90s action movie Demolition Man. We talk about order, fascism, race, crime, and the best artisanal rat burger in San Angeles.

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Episode 528: You’re Only Making People Illegal 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 527: You Want This, So We Will Give You This Aug 06, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather do what people do over the summer—they buy Billy Joel tickets in advance.

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Episode 527: You Want This, So We Will Give You This 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 526: Mission Impossible: Hell and High Helicopter Jul 30, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather ask the manifest ethical question of Mission Impossible: Fallout, which is not the actual point of the movie. They delve into the actual point: Kinesis, tactility, and losing face.

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Episode 526: Mission Impossible: Hell and High Helicopter 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 525: She’s a Real GLOW-Getter Jul 23, 2018

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are invaded by Ryan Sheely and TFT Punk Correspondent Rachel D to introduce their intellectual wrestler personas and discuss the gorgeous ladies of wrestling and the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

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Episode 525: She’s a Real GLOW-Getter 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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