Peter Fenzel goes Maple Sugaring, and he, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather are led to consider trees as a discursive object. Are trees beings? Are trees a being? Are there poems as lovely as them?

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Episode 507: Geometry 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather like Mmes. Whatsit, Who, and Which to overthink Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time.

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Episode 506: The Huey Lewisean Power of Love 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather partake in a garden of earthly delights and a lurid spectacle of flesh. One is the new film Red Sparrow starring Jennifer Lawrence, the other is the Cadillac CT6 Luxury Sedan.

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Episode 505: A Buddhist Excellence of Sex Spying 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are inspired by Fergie to overthink “The Star-Spangled Banner,” with reference (and sometimes reverence) to Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, and Jimi Hendrix.

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Episode 504: American Major Chords 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)]

Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather are joined by the actual people they saw Black Panther with: In LA, Matt and Josh, and in Boston, Shiyan. They overthink the film’s aesthetic, its politics, the benefits and drawbacks to the Wakandan system of government, and why Killmonger’s plan was actually so elaborate. Oh, and Pete talks about the cars.

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Episode 503: The Killmonger Doctrine 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Matthew Wrather, and Mark Lee return to the roots of a podcast by discussing a movie (and a movie franchise) none of them has seen, in this case Fifty Shades Freed. It seems only natural to pair it with a discussion of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Rutabaga!

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Episode 502: The Thought, the Word, and the Deed 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss Super Bowl LII’s commercials and halftime show in the context of the fractured marketplace for attention, the relationship between disadvantage and apotheosis, the development of a semiotically sophisticated commercial audience who needs to be flattered, and what it means to do a medley.

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Episode 501: Our Ad is for Non-Chumps 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather celebrate 500 episodes (Plus special supplements! Plus questions of the week!) of the Overthinking It Podcast with a look at their favorite titles, their favorite shows and themes, and how their lives have changed over the last 9+ years of podcasting.

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Episode 500: That’s What I Call Podracing 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tug at the Phantom Thread and hope the latest movie written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day Lewis, doesn’t unravel.

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Episode 499: A Human Centipede of Pygmalions 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)]

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather hit go on the machine that makes the podcast and the ink starts to spill as they discuss The Post, a first amendment fable for our time, or rather for a time we might wish we lived in but don’t.

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Episode 498: Get Off My Paper 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)]