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November 02, 2020 Episode 644: It’s About On Par with Hamlet… Bad Hamlet
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather share memorable Sean Connery-related moments, and then (finally!) Pete gets his wish as they all watch Highlander. There can only be one.
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Episode 644: It’s About On Par with Hamlet… Bad Hamlet 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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October 26, 2020Episode 643: Broadly Speaking, Bouffon Clowning
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Is it funny? Yes. Is it fair? Probably. Does it speak to the times? Mmmmmmmmmaybe. We’ll never look at America’s Mayor the same way again, that’s for sure.
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Further Reading
Bouffon clown (if you like it, check out Philippe Gaulier)
Schopenhauer’s “The Art of Being Right”
Episode 643: Broadly Speaking, Bouffon Clowning 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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October 19, 2020Episode 642: One Photon of Daylight
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Were we too hard on the world last week? OK, we’re back for the Kudos-cast, where Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the small—even trivial—things giving them delight in these unprecedented™ times.
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Our Picks
A Shoehorn
Guy’s Grocery Games Season 25
Staedtler Norica HB2 pencils or Pentel Rolling Writer Pens
Technology Junk Drawer
Wingspan Board Game
Only Connect
Further Reading
People who list meeting times as "PST" during daylight saving time are history's greatest monsters.
— Matthew Wrather (@mwrather) October 15, 2020

Episode 642: One Photon of Daylight 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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October 12, 2020Episode 641: Joel Embiid’s Mountain Dew Process, Otherwise Known as Science
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather address the most important topics of 2020: Incorrect use of timezones, Internet shows that don’t publish on time, and other minor irritations.
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Further Reading
Game Highlights: 2020 NBA Championship Game 6, The Lakers “at” The Heat
Daylight Saving Time on Wikipedia
“#116 Trust The Process” from Reply All
“How one woman’s yard sign became a rallying cry for allies”
Episode 641: Joel Embiid’s Mountain Dew Process, Otherwise Known as Science 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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October 05, 2020Episode 640: We’re Talking about Practice
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather team up to overthink Ted Lasso, a new comedy on Apple TV+ starring Jason Sudeikis about an American football coach who starts coaching Premier League soccer in London. They discuss the show’s structure, its real-life inspiration, the way it sidesteps politics (or doesn’t), and what it has to say about masculinity in a time where discourses of gender are undergoing critical re-evaluation.
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Further Reading
“We’re talking about practice.” (context)
John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success
The Beautiful and Damned (Amazon)
A Wrinkle in Time (Amazon)
Bird by Bird (Amazon)
Episode 640: We’re Talking about Practice 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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September 28, 2020Episode 639: A Series of Pellets and Shocks
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During the quarantine, Mark Lee has been building a gaming PC and using it to play the hell out of Jedi: Fallen Order. On the podcast, he joins Peter Fenzel and video game neophyte Matt Wrather to overthink whether the game is even fun or not, and why he is playing the hell out of it even when it isn’t.
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Further Reading
git gud
Episode 639: A Series of Pellets and Shocks 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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September 21, 2020Episode 638: Alas, Porziņģis, I Knew Him Well
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On the night of the Emmy awards, Pete Fenzel schools Matt Wrather on the twists and turns of the plot of the best prestige show on television: the 2020 NBA Playoffs.
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Dramatis Personae
Rudy Gobert
Kevin Durant
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Kristaps Porziņģis
Luka Dončić
Boban Marjanović
Kawhi Leonard
Steve Nash
Jimmy Butler
LeBron James
Further Reading
Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Achilles
Episode 638: Alas, Porziņģis, I Knew Him Well 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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September 14, 2020Episode 637: Perhaps We Can Carve Out an Exception
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather don their Yoga Pants and undertake their annual pilgrimage to Starbucks for Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Just kidding, we don’t do any of that. But we do talk about what the pumpkin spices are, and carve into and excavate the seeds from the essence of pumpkin-ness — a fruit (!) phenomenon which is in equal parts comforting and confounding.
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Further Reading
“The Pandemic Is No Match for the Pumpkin Spice Latte” from Eater
“Yes, pumpkin spice season is creeping earlier every year — and this chart proves it” from MarketWatch
Cucurbita on Wikipedia
likeasmore.tumblr.com
Episode 637: Perhaps We Can Carve Out an Exception 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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September 07, 2020Episode 636: Corn and Eels
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Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather are too many chefs in the kitchen, overthinking—but not overcooking!—how they learned to cook, what it even means to “know how” to cook, and how cooking has changed in isolation.
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Further Reading
Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat
Ratio: The Simple Codes behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Rhulman
The Joy of Cooking
Alton Brown on Amazon
Cook’s Illustrated
Townsends and Professed Cookery
Episode 636: Corn and Eels 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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August 31, 2020 Episode 635: Who Is Wyld Stallyns?
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather conclude their journey through space and history, to the past and the future, to heaven and hell, and finally arrive back at San Dimas to overthink Bill & Ted Face the Music. What they say about the music can also be said about history: It had some good parts.
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Episode 635: Who Is Wyld Stallyns? 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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