Overthinking It Podcast

By Overthinking ItComedy TV & Film Society & Culture Education Arts

Overthinking It Podcast episodes

August 24, 2020Episode 634: Article 1: Be Excellent to Each Other
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Pete “Peter” Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather, Esq. squeeze into the phone booth to overthink Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a film with a surprisingly subtle theory of history and its effect on self-actualizing, and to consider the implications of the political philosophy, “Be excellent to each other; party, on dudes!”
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Temporal paradox on Wikipedia
Billboard Year-End Singles of 1989
Episode 634: Article 1: Be Excellent to Each Other 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)]
0 min
August 17, 2020Episode 633: No One’s Going to Understand What This Crab is Saying!
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather watch Howard, a documentary about brilliant lyricist Howard Ashman’s life and career, and discuss his work with composer Alan Menken, from Little Shop of Horrors to the perhaps unequaled trifecta of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Howard Ashman on Wikipedia
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Episode 633: No One’s Going to Understand What This Crab is Saying! 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)]
0 min
August 10, 2020Episode 632: Ooh, a Treat!
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the phenomenon of sending and receiving mail in order to pay respect to the United States Postal Service.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
The Boy with The Letter from The Postman (1997)
Photo Credit: @TheJewishDream
Episode 632: Ooh, a Treat! 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)]
0 min
August 03, 2020Episode 631: Would That We All Could Be Rad Indeed
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the re-release (remastered in 4k!) of the 1986 BMX movie Rad. It’s a struggle to sum up this film in a single word.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Rad: Amazon, iTunes Store, Google Play Store
BMX and BMX Bikes
Homosociality
Episode 631: Would That We All Could Be Rad Indeed 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)]
0 min
July 27, 2020Episode 630: The Call and Response of Problem and Solution
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink tests, assessments, assignments, quizzes, games, sports, and instruments musical and cognitive. The implications are sinister in proportion to the stakes.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
“Meet the blind piano player who’s so good, scientists are studying him”
Number Munchers
Episode 630: The Call and Response of Problem and Solution 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)]
0 min
July 20, 2020Episode 629: Everybody Dance Now
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather wanna dance with somebody. They wanna feel the heat with somebody. Yeah, they wanna dance with somebody. With somebody who loves them.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Mark 6:14
Further Viewing
Episode 629: Everybody Dance Now 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)]
0 min
July 13, 2020Episode 628: An Extraordinarily Rich Meal
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the film of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Deloping or “throwing away your shot”
“‘Hamilton’ Would Last 4 To 6 Hours If It Were Sung At The Pace Of Other Broadway Shows” from Five Thirty Eight
Episode 628: An Extraordinarily Rich Meal 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)]
0 min
July 06, 2020Episode 627: Sex Panther Matthew Crawley’s Dacha
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather meet in Edinburgh to overthink Will Ferrell’s Eurovision mock-u-homage, Eurovision Song Contest: The Ballad of Fire Saga. We are devotees of Eurovision and very sorry that the pandemic has forced its cancellation, and this movie, whatever its drawbacks, does a number of things that kiiiiinda fill the gap. For now.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
“The (Fake) Songs of Summer : A compendium of the infectious tunes in Will Ferrell’s Eurovision Song Contest” (Vulture)
“Cher’s ‘Believe’ Now Faintly Audible Everywhere In America” (The Onion)
Also, please enjoy this video in which the Eurovision Song Contest parodies itself better than this movie does:
Episode 627: Sex Panther Matthew Crawley’s Dacha 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)]
0 min
June 29, 2020 Episode 626: You’ll Get Your Chance. You’ll All Get Your Chance.
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather rewind twenty-four years to watch Independence Day, thinking about how time and current circumstances have changed or deepened our feelings about the movie.
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
The 10 Best Things About America I Learned from Independence Day
Episode 626: You’ll Get Your Chance. You’ll All Get Your Chance. 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)]
0 min
June 22, 2020Episode 625: His Life Got Flipped, Turned Right-Side-Up
Support Overthinking It by becoming a member for $5/month!
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather join to mark Fathers’ Day by looking at some song where fatherhood plays a roll — fathers good, bad, and (mostly) indifferent populate songs from every genre from the last several decades and try to heed the promise (or warning): “You know I’m gonna be like you, dad. You know I’m gonna be like you.”
Download (MP3)
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Further Reading
Harry Chapin
The Temptations
Everclear
Will Smith
Madonna
Barbra Streisand
Stevie Wonder
Episode 625: His Life Got Flipped, Turned Right-Side-Up 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)]
0 min