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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 445: The NCIS: LA of My Mind Jan 09, 2017

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Episode 445: The NCIS: LA of My Mind 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 444: Prairie and Her Home Companions Jan 02, 2017

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Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather watch and discuss The O A, examining its storytelling, its critique of contemporary society, whether the mystical elements add up, the shocking twist at the ending, and the deep relationship between OA and OZ.

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Episode 444: Prairie and Her Home Companions 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 443: I Knew That Galaxy when it was Long Ago and Far Away Dec 26, 2016

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Ben Adams, Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather continue to overthink Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. They turn their attention to extra-narrative concerns, focusing on the consequential initial shots in Star Wars films, problems of interstellar distance and communication, Rogue One‘s commentary on our own world, and how well fans are actually served by fan service.

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Episode 443: I Knew That Galaxy when it was Long Ago and Far Away 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 442: Success Has Many Darth Vaders; Failure is an Orphan Dec 19, 2016

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The rogue squadron of Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather assemble to overthink Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We wonder who exactly the one rogue of the title is, learn about the instability of both the Rebel Alliance and the Imperial Bureaucracy, and wonder what has changed and what has stayed the same in the Force, in family drama, and in the ethical character of the Star Wars universe.

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Episode 442: Success Has Many Darth Vaders; Failure is an Orphan 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 441: James Marsden is Suffering for All of Our Sins Dec 12, 2016

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Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, John Perich, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink thought experiments in consciousness, the moral dimension of killing philosophical zombies, what makes murder bad, and whether consciousness is an algorithm, a mystical journey…or a fire.

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Westworld: IMDb and Wikipedia
Thought experiments
- Cartesian theater
- Chinese room
Romeo and Juliet II.6

Episode 441: James Marsden is Suffering for All of Our Sins 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 440: The Moana-Myth Dec 05, 2016

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss heroism, story structure, culture, and gender in the latest animated film from the Walt Disney Company, Moana.

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Moana on Wikipedia
Harvey Cedars, NJ
Redneck Riviera on Urban Dictionary
Santa Monica Bay
Balto (film), Balto (dog)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, first essay, sections 13
The Monomyth (a.k.ka The Hero’s Journey)
“The Hero’s Journey” on Overthinking It

Episode 440: The Moana-Myth 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)]

xmas-2014-articleimg — Episode 439: Arrival Both Goes Big and Goes Home Nov 28, 2016
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Peter Fenzel, Amanda Jordá Avisati, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather join to discuss Arrival, focusing on the problems of causality, narrative stakes, message, language, and thought the film raises. In addition, we suggest further “bad” titles to carry the torch of Bad Santa 2.

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Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian

Amanda Jordá Avisati: @amandajorda

Mark Lee: @goestoTwelve

Matthew Wrather: @mwrather

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Drawing Restraint 9

Under the Skin

Episode 439: Arrival Both Goes Big and Goes Home 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 438: The Flapper is a Goblin and She’s Singin’ Jazz Nov 21, 2016

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, and a whole host of CGI creatures meant to remind us that the magic lives within us all.

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“#1 MC in Hollywood: Shia LaBeouf Freestyles 5 Fingers of Death with Oswin Benjamin” on YouTube
“Rap Genius Can’t Explain Rakim’s Genius Rapping” on Overthinking It
The Rescuers Down Under
Deathly Hallows (objects) on Wikipedia
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them on Amazon

Episode 438: The Flapper is a Goblin and She’s Singin’ Jazz 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 437: Don’t Pretend You Were Never Playing with Power Nov 14, 2016

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On the Overthinking It Podcast, Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather lose track of the metaphor, with many many different tenors and vehicles. Especially the vehicles Xander Cage drives off a bridge.

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Episode 437: Don’t Pretend You Were Never Playing with Power 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 436: You’re Hacking The Universe… With Your Mind Code! Nov 07, 2016

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather reveal their favorite invisible weapons, discuss the controversial presence of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, and dig into Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, wondering about its structure, its humor, and its ultimate meaning.

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“The Marvel Cinematic Universe – Director list”
“Language is fossil poetry.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Online Etymology Dictionary
“One must imagine Sysyphus happy.” from Camus’ “The Myth of Sysyphus”

Episode 436: You’re Hacking The Universe… With Your Mind Code! 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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