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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 455: Don’t Woke The Beast Mar 20, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Rachel, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather overthink the remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and ask all the important questions: Is it woke? Why a remake? When is it set, and what does our knowledge of French political history add to the plot? And are the songs any good?

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Further Reading

Beauty and the Beast: the original French version
“False Equivalence” from ShortPacked!
Baroque and Rococo design
Early Modern France
“The Real Beauty and the Beast”

Episode 455: Don’t Woke The Beast 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 454: SNAFU Mar 13, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather rush into the bedroom to gather up the discursive children interrupting the important analysis of the BCC Korea Expert’s video. In the end, only one thing is clear: If you imbue the graven image with some sort of philosophical quality or some sort of normative quality, you’ve probably done something false.

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https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio1/videos/10156026851374968/

“Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children” by Ben Thompson
Mariah Carey on New Year’s Eve (YouTube)
“Luciano Pavarotti recounts some ‘Embarassing Moments On Stage’” (YouTube)
The Existence of God on Wikipedia

Episode 454: SNAFU 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 453: It’s Called Logan because That’s Wolverine’s Name Mar 06, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather head from Mexico to the promised land of Canada as they discuss Logan: Its excellent acting and filmmaking, its status as an “X-Men Movie,” its artistic project on both a personal and a political level.

Spoilers for Logan. You should see the movie first.

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Episode 453: It’s Called Logan because That’s Wolverine’s Name 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 452: The Good Wine the First Time or the Good Wine the Second Time Feb 27, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather pick their jaws up off the floor and discuss the botched announcement of Moonlight’s Oscar win over La La Land and analyze the 89th Academy Awards as a television show, a live event, and a reflection on cinema.

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Episode 452: The Good Wine the First Time or the Good Wine the Second Time 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 451: You Can Never Tell Anyone That I Told You It Was Good Feb 20, 2017

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather wonder why anyone would(n’t) like Alfred, Lord Tennyson, examine the difference and the distance between the public and the private self, offer detailed exegesis of Yu-Gi-Oh! and the Team Four Star parodies of Dragonball Z, and suggest there is a difference between watching the same thing and watching it together.

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Further Reading

“In Memoriam A. H. H.”; exceprt
I Am Not Your Negro
Yu-Gi-Oh!
“Millennium Highway”, a solid GeoCities page
Team Four Star
Cell from DBZ
Kenshirō from Fist of the North Star
Warhammer 40k
If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device

Episode 451: You Can Never Tell Anyone That I Told You It Was Good 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 450: No Batman is an Island Feb 13, 2017

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Rachel, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather consider whether The LEGO Batman Movie is in fact the best Batman movie of all time.

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Further Reading

The LEGO Batman Movie
Batman on Wikipedia
Recapitulation Theory (“ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
La La Land

Episode 450: No Batman is an Island 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 449: This Commercial Knows Which Side It’s On Feb 06, 2017

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Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather talk Super Bowl LI commercials and halftime show, breaking down two distinct sets of marketing messages. They can’t both be right… can they?

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The exit polls.
Then the first Florida returns.
This all feels very familiar.

— Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) February 6, 2017

Episode 449: This Commercial Knows Which Side It’s On 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 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff” Jan 30, 2017
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss Hidden Figures, the meaning of a “protagonist,” who exactly has the right stuff, and the relationship between social progress and individual excellence, as well as immigrants in our own families, Irish vs. Polish potato farmers, and our favorite fictional immigrants (beyond Superman), most of them vampires.

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Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian

Mark Lee: @goestotwelve

Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

Further Reading

Bavaria

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Fictional Immigrants to the United States

Dracula

Hidden Figures on Wikipedia and IMDb

The Right Stuff

“NASA Celebrates Katherine Johnson with Building Named in Her Honor”

Episode 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff” 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)]

Hidden Figures Movie Poster — Episode 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff” Jan 30, 2017
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss Hidden Figures, the meaning of a “protagonist,” who exactly has the right stuff, and the relationship between social progress and individual excellence, as well as immigrants in our own families, Irish vs. Polish potato farmers, and our favorite fictional immigrants (beyond Superman), most of them vampires.

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Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian

Mark Lee: @goestotwelve

Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

Further Reading

Bavaria

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Fictional Immigrants to the United States

Dracula

Hidden Figures on Wikipedia and IMDb

The Right Stuff

“NASA Celebrates Katherine Johnson with Building Named in Her Honor”

Episode 448: Hidden Figures: The People Who Weren’t In “The Right Stuff” 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 447: xXx: The World Will Catch Sick Air Jan 23, 2017

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather hop on the skateboard for a trip back into the Xander Zone with xXx: The Return of Xander Cage.

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Episode 447: xXx: The World Will Catch Sick Air 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 446: They Look Like Clocks and Candles but They Can Actually Sing and Dance Jan 16, 2017

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather consider what it means to live with purpose, and end up talking mostly about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

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Further Reading

Caddyshack
“Belle” on YouTube
“Purpose” in the Online Etymology Dictionary
The Chronicles of Prydain on Wikipedia
The Chronicles of Prydain on Amazon
Dean Martin, “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You” on YouTube

Episode 446: They Look Like Clocks and Candles but They Can Actually Sing and Dance 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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