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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 484: Beating Your Blade Runners into Plowshare Runners Oct 09, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather wonder about the visual style, the biblical allegory, and the social commentary of Dennis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, starring Ryan Gosling. We also hear listener messages for the 9th anniversary podcast!

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Further Reading

IMDb: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049
Wikipedia: Blade Runner, Versions of Blade Runner
Epistle to the Galatians: Wikipedia, Text

Episode 484: Beating Your Blade Runners into Plowshare Runners 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)]

President Nixon's Cabinet in 1974 — Episode 483: Drive the Continent Like You Stole It Oct 02, 2017
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Tom Cruise’s latest movie, American Made.

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Further Reading

No Facial Hair.

American Made

Sarah Wright (1983–) plays Tom Cruise’s wife

What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in American Made from Slate

’Merica Madness on Overthinking It

Nancy Reagan

Episode 483: Drive the Continent Like You Stole 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 482: You Mispronounced Masterpiece Sep 25, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather listen to and discuss Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which is either an incoherent mess or a profoundly insightful work of art. Or maybe both.

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Further Reading

Kingsman Graphic Novel
Kingsman: The Secret Service (the first film
Faust

Episode 482: You Mispronounced Masterpiece 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 481: Hyrule… My Own Head… Hyrule… My Own Head… Sep 18, 2017

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather have a wide-ranging discussion on the cheery subject of pain and aging. Pete has had dental surgery, Matt is meditating to accept the inevitable march of time, and neither of them believes that you are the self you think you are.

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Further Reading

Philoctetes
Vipassanā meditation
Ego Splitting (the good kind)
“Ulysses” by Tennyson
“Circles” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Episode 481: Hyrule… My Own Head… Hyrule… My Own Head… 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 480: Jason is Not Trying to Scare You Sep 11, 2017

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Matthew Belinkie and Matthew Wrather haven’t been on the podcast one-on-one in a minute, and they have a lot to catch up on. The meta-theme of the podcast, winding through children’s books, TV Commercials, and the adult pursuit of Waldo, is what it means to be a child and what it means to be an adult, which makes it appropriate that the topic this week is the surprise smash-hit film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It.

One thing being an adult means is supporting Overthinking It. If you’re not a member, please help us out: Join now!

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Further Reading

Leap Year
Amy Adams vs. Rachel McAdams
don’t let the pigeon drive the bus
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
“Cat People” By Louis Menand
Where’s Waldo
It by Stephen King
It background information: Box Office Mojo, Novel and Film
Final girl theory
Cruel Intentions and Dangerous Liasons

Episode 480: Jason is Not Trying to Scare You 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 479: What is Musical Chairs but a Game of Thrones Sep 04, 2017

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Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink Game of Thrones Season 7: What happened and why both on and behind the camera.

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Further Reading

“Game of Thrones Unlocked: Season 7” on Overthinking It
“Game of Thrones and the Aesthetics of Fascism” by Jordan Stokes
“Chekov and why Arya, Dany, Bran, and Sam Are Safe For Now” by Ben Adams

Episode 479: What is Musical Chairs but a Game of Thrones 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 478: Not Killing Anyone O’Clock Aug 28, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tackle the spackle—the smaller, less momentous pop culture consumption we do between franchise tentpoles and multi-platform marketing events.

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Further Reading

Episode 478: Not Killing Anyone O’Clock 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 477: Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight Aug 21, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather in the shadows to overthink Bonnie Tyler’s hit song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” for no particular reason.

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Further Reading

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Lyrics, Wikipedia

Episode 477: Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight 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 476: And I Was There, And I Was There, And I Was There… Aug 14, 2017

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather embark on the yellow brick road of analysis, and are unconvinced by the stock economic and political reading of The Wizard of Oz.

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Further Reading

Episode 476: And I Was There, And I Was There, And I Was There… 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 475: What If They Built a Dark Tower and Nobody Came? Aug 07, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather are joined by special guest Zack Johnson of Asymmetric, whose new game, West of Loathing, is a comic single-player RPG set in the Old West. Appropriately enough, the panel examines another travesty of the Old West, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, which stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. The movie is not good, but the conversation is!

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West of Loathing

Please support our friends at Asymmetric as they release their awesome new Old West-themed game, West of Loathing.

Further Reading

The Dark Tower (film): IMDb, Wikipedia
The Dark Tower Novels on Wikipedia
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” Wikipeida; the poem [pdf]
“Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy playable for free online” form Engadget
Bureaucracy from Infocom and Douglas Adams
Zapcon Arcade and Pinball Convention
Radio Free Midworld podcast

Episode 475: What If They Built a Dark Tower and Nobody Came? 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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