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Overthinking It Podcast

Overthinking It

Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.

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  • Monday · length unknown

    Episode 946: Are There Not Sunsets in Hackensack?

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather don Mets caps and set out for the Valley of the Soul — settling, in the end, for a Rhode Island beach a h…

  • August 17 · length unknown

    Episode 945: It’s a STEM Book AND a Leaf Book

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather have each read the same few dozen books aloud every night for years, to the point where each…

  • August 10 · length unknown

    Episode 944: Working Class Person Who Is Working

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Irish actor and musician Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle crash outside Dublin on July 29th, which probably should have resulted in a…

  • August 3 · length unknown

    Episode 943: Get Me Ortega!

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather convene to dig into two Disney franchises most adults have never watched a frame of:…

  • July 27 · length unknown

    Episode 942: The Moment the Gary Oldman Hits [REPOST]

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Edit: Reposted due to some technical nonsense. Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink the critically acclaimed spy…

  • July 20 · length unknown

    Episode 941: Laser-cut Crazy Eyes

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Jordan Stokes and Pete Fenzel mourn the loss of Sam Neill, and celebrate his exceptional skill and technique in imbuing the impossible with…

  • July 13 · length unknown

    Episode 940: It’s Like Tenet, But It Works

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Hey, old friends. Who’s like Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather? Damn few. The crew overthink Merrily We Roll Along, and Mark o…

  • July 6 · length unknown

    Episode 939: Big Willy Style and Little Willy Style

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Mark Lee somehow made it through middle school, high school, and college without ever reading or seeing Death of a Salesman, Arthur…

  • June 29 · length unknown

    Episode 938: Living in the Problem

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Matt Belinkie, Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather broke the One Wish Willow and it paid off, as a slate of fresh horror comedy has…

  • June 22 · length unknown

    Episode 937: What’s Your Favorite Emotion?

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel greets Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather with a rare “triple bang” Mike Breen impression and a report that, fifty-three years lat…

  • June 8 · length unknown

    Episode 935: It’s Blastin’ Time

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Matt, Pete, and Mark donned their discursive beskar armor and swore an oath to never take off their podcasting helmets before going to the…

  • June 1 · length unknown

    Episode 934: Medium, Medium, Medium, Can’t You See?

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather follow their discussion of Zizek’s theories of cinema and desire to a definitive practice of cinema …

  • May 25 · length unknown

    Episode 933: Sudafed is a Powerful Drug

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes (for his sins, an academic), and Matthew Wrather overthink The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, a film essay w…

  • May 18 · length unknown

    Episode 932: I Have a Relationship… with a TREE

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather emerge from the toxic jungle to save humanity from its warmongering ways through incredible acts of…

  • May 11 · length unknown

    Episode 931: Everything We Do… Little Squeeze of Lemon

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! “Let them cook,” they said. So we did, and we watched. Matt Wrather and Peter Fenzel welcome the third season of “24 in 24,” a serialized on…

  • April 20 · length unknown

    Episode 928: Karaoke at the End of the World

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather woke up from a coma and started recording this podcast, not knowing who they were or how they got…

  • April 13 · length unknown

    Episode 927: Probabilistic Tax Documents

    Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month! There are two kinds of people: those that follow the outline and those that depart a the earliest opportunity. Peter Fenzel and Matt…

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