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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather have been watching a lot of shows where an expert comes in to “fix” a “failing” “business.” The fun ones are with restaurants and bars. They overthink the genre and its features, wondering about why these experts are so attractive when at the moment expertise is generally denigrated in the public sphere, and about what these shows tell us about agency, psychology, political economy, and calculus.

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Episode 671: All the Chairs are Very Heavy 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)]