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April 06, 2020Episode 614: What Is a Tiger? What Does That Even Mean?
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather have strong feelings Netflix newest smash hit, Tiger King—and they’re not just about Carole Baskin.
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San Diego Zoo and Safari Park
Episode 614: What Is a Tiger? What Does That Even Mean? 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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March 30, 2020Episode 613: Charles, We’re Going to Lose Our Accreditation
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which is not actually an X-Men movie at all.
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Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1992
Episode 613: Charles, We’re Going to Lose Our Accreditation 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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March 23, 2020 Episode 612: Who Just Joined?
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather conduct an important business meeting via videoconference, with an agenda set by OTI members.
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Episode 612: Who Just Joined? 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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March 16, 2020Episode 611: The Tricameron
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather take inspiration from Boccaccio’s Decameron and, during scary times, try to delight each other with topics unrelated to current events.
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LL Cool J’s Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle: A Full-Circle Guide to Developing Your Mind, Body, and Soul
Robert Frost: “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Spring Pools
=These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods—
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.
—Robert Frost
Episode 611: The Tricameron 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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March 09, 2020 Episode 610: This Space Where I Was Free
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather take a trip downstairs into the basement, discussing the personal and cultural meanings of this space that is both outside and inside of the house, and offer alternate explanations of the phenomenon of the “man cave.”
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Episode 610: This Space Where I Was Free 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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March 02, 2020Episode 609: You Might Call It… Sonic
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather reminisce about their snobbery toward the Sega Genesis, but somehow Belinkie found his way to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
Spoilers.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
The New Mutants movie
Sophie Turner is not Maisie Williams
what’s something you can say during sex but also when you manage a brand twitter account?
— Netflix US (@netflix) December 5, 2019
Episode 609: You Might Call It… Sonic 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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February 24, 2020Episode 608: Started from the Bottom Rack and Now We’re Here
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather give a close reading to a fundamental but often overlooked text of Santanachote, entitled “How to Load a Dishwasher: Doing it right helps your dishes come out squeaky clean every time,” and consider the implications for ethics, metaphysics, and ontology.
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“How to Load a Dishwasher: Doing it right helps your dishes come out squeaky clean every time” by Perry Santanachote from Consumer Reports
Episode 608: Started from the Bottom Rack and Now We’re Here 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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February 17, 2020Episode 607: The Banging Scheme
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather discuss the Houston Astros’ sign stealing scandal, the role of cheating in sports, rewards, punishments, and incentives, and why you’re safe to light up anywhere you visit in Italy.
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Houston Astros sign stealing scandal
Pete Rose
Episode 607: The Banging Scheme 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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February 10, 2020Episode 606: Not the Mama
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather embark on one of their storied two-handers, overthinking the role reference and quotations play in our lives, jumping off from the phenomenon of films that are more quoted than actually seen and not stopping until they have arrived at a close reading of all of ABC’s “TGIF” programming block.
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TGIF (TV Programming Block)
Dinosaurs (TV Series)
The Raingutter Regatta
YMCA Parent/Child Programs
Episode 606: Not the Mama 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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February 03, 2020 Episode 605: Thank Me for Solving the Problem That I Caused
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the perverse passive-aggression of the commercials of Super Bowl LIV, and thrust a snickers into the yawning maw of discourse to put everything back to normal.
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Episode 605: Thank Me for Solving the Problem That I Caused 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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