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September 26, 2022Episode 743: I Thought They Looked Snazzy on the Outside!
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Peter Fenzel (returning!), Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather puzzle out the complicated and paradoxical state of fancy men’s wear and its relationship to work and to class.
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Suit from Wikipedia
Episode 743: I Thought They Looked Snazzy on the Outside! 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)]
1 hr 1 min
September 19, 2022Episode 742: Girlboss! I Wanna be a Girlboss!
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Matthew Belinkie and Matthew Wrather look beyond the stupid controversy over the casting of Ariel in Disney’s live action remake of The Little Mermaid, and uncover a more profound controversy about what these movies are even for.
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Further Reading
List of Disney live-action adaptations and remakes of Disney animated films
Episode 742: Girlboss! I Wanna be a Girlboss! 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)]
1 hr 6 min
September 12, 2022Episode 741: The Mona Lisa But Better
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Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes overthink the rise to prominence of art generated by a machine learning model from human prompts. Is this the end of western civilization or just another tool that people will use? What happens to perfomers’ right to their own likeness? And to what dystopian future could this trend lead us?
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Further Reading
“AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans” from Ars Technica
“Taking a selfie during the Battle of Omaha Beach, 1944” from r/StableDiffusion
“Will AI Replace Human Musicians | Q+A” from Adam Neely on YouTube
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935) by Walter Benjamin
“Meet Loab, the AI Demon Now Haunting the Internet” from No Film School
“The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs” from Overthinking It
Episode 741: The Mona Lisa But Better 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)]
1 hr 5 min
September 05, 2022 Episode 740: Hulkness and Gender
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Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes SMASH the fourth wall and turn green to overthink the MCU’s newest entry, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
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Episode 740: Hulkness and Gender 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)]
54 min
August 29, 2022Episode 739: Relaxation is Linear. Crankiness is Fractal.
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather think about how the phenomenon of summer has changed since since we were younger, or not enduring a Championship Season.
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Further Reading
“Suns Out, Puns Out” on the Overthinking It Store
Previous Podcast Episodes
Episode 527: You Want This, So We Will Give You This
Episode 373: We Didn’t Make That Myth into A Real Thing
“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
“The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota” by “Weird Al” Yankovic
Robert Moses vs. Jane Jacobs
“What We’ve Learned from NKS Chapter 1: The Foundations of a New Kind of Science” is YouTube

Episode 739: Relaxation is Linear. Crankiness is Fractal. 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)]
1 hr 5 min
August 22, 2022Episode 738: So Much Work Went into This, but Why?
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Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes overthink music from kids’ TV shows that our small children have forced us to listen to over and over again. All are irresistibly catchy; some are surprisingly complex; a select few force us to confront the uncomfortable truths in our lives.
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Candidates for Song of the Summer 2022
PAW Patrol: Theme Song
Sing: I’m Still Standing
Spidey and His Amazing Friends: Theme Song
The Thomas the Tank Engine Theme is Unironically Really Good
Big World! Big Adventures! Theme Song
Transformers: Theme Song
Cocomelon article from the New York Times
Peg + Cat: Follow the Bouncing Ball
Blaze and the Monster Machines: Pickle Family
Polka Wikipedia article
Octonauts: Creature Report
Episode 738: So Much Work Went into This, but Why? 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)]
1 hr 7 min
August 15, 2022 Episode 737: You Want It to be One Prey, but It’s the Other Prey
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes overthink Prey, which is way better than a Predator prequel featuring Native Americans in the 1700s has any right to be.
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Episode 737: You Want It to be One Prey, but It’s the Other Prey 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)]
1 hr 20 min
August 08, 2022Episode 736: I Need Discourse for my Bunghole
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the first episode of the new season of Beavis and Butt-Head. We reminisce about what the duo meant to us in the 90s, and talk over what exactly makes this show funny and unique.
Content Advisory: We are unable to refrain from doing the voices.
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Further Reading
“Mike Judge’s Secret Art of Satire” (The New Yorker)
Anagnorisis (Wikipedia)
Cale Dodds, “I Like Where This is Going” (YouTube)
Episode 736: I Need Discourse for my Bunghole 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)]
1 hr
August 01, 2022 Episode 735: You Have to Understand Me. I’m Lloyd. I’m the Worst.
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Netflix’x The Gray Man, a perplexing AI-generated remix of spy movie tropes concocted in such a fashion that it has signifiers and signifieds but somehow now signification.
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Episode 735: You Have to Understand Me. I’m Lloyd. I’m the Worst. 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)]
1 hr 8 min
July 25, 2022 Episode 734: We Want You to Feel Listened To
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather use the recent allegations of racism at Sesame Place as a jumping off point to overthink the phenomenon of centralization of authority and disempowerment of workers at the front line. What is the result when we have real interactions with fake stakes about things that are important?
Also, can you find my UPS package?
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Episode 734: We Want You to Feel Listened To 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)]
1 hr 13 min