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August 22, 2016Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather remember their favorite moments of the 2016 Olympics in Rio, wonder what Jon Snow is doing in an Infinity commercial, deliver a solid undergraduate poetry survey lecture on meter and prosody, and delve in to the sexy-dangerous capital-R Romanticism of William Blake’s The Tyger.
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Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
Claressa Shields
At Rio Olympics, the National Anthem Sounds … Sad?
Simone Biles’ Vault
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (text)
Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits 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 15, 2016Episode 424: Stranger Things: The Horror Is at Home
Rachel D, Birthday Boy Peter Fenzel, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather are joined by guest Sam Reich to overthink Srangter Things, discussing the show’s nature as a period piece, its unexpected non-relation to Lost and Twin Peaks, its surprising gay subtext, and what we expect in season 2.
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Our Guest
Sam Reich heads up College Humor Video and is the executive producer of Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV.
samreich.com
@samreich on Twitter
@samreich on Instagram
Your Panel
Rachel D
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Ryan Sheely: @ryanmsheely
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 424: Stranger Things: The Horror Is at Home 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 08, 2016Episode 423: Wherever You Harley, There You Quinn
Peter Fenzel, Ryan Sheely, Matthew Wrather, and special guest Eric Frieden actually got together in person to go to a movie theater and see Suicide Squad. Then they ate an enormous BBQ dinner and sat down to podcast about the film, its relation to the comic books, the frenetic nonsense of its plot, the highs and low points of the characterization of Deadshot, the Joker, Amanda Waller, and Harley Quinn (and, not for nothing, big fans of Captain Boomerang over here), and what it has to say about the present moment in filmmaking and in society.
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Eric Frieden
Ryan Sheely: @ryanmsheely
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 423: Wherever You Harley, There You Quinn 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 01, 2016Episode 422: The Right Wrong Answer
Matthew Belinkie, Rachel D, Peter Fenzel, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather met this weekend for the annual lakeside retreat of the Overthinkers, and spend most of it taking trivia quizzes online. We discuss our favorite questions of the weekend, why we’re drawn to trivia, the scenarios in which you take trivia quizzes and their social, professional, and gender dynamics, and what kind of knowledge trivia represents.
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Matthew Belinkie
Rachel D
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Ryan Sheely: @ryanmsheely
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
Sporcle
Episode 422: The Right Wrong Answer 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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July 25, 2016Episode 421: This Is Why We Star Trek
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather are joined by former podcast guest Benjamin Krinsky to discuss Star Trek Beyond, a movie we liked a lot more than we were expecting to.
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Benjamin Krinsky
Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
The Duras Family
Chaos on the Bridge on Netflix
Fade In (PDF)
“Odds are we’re living in a simulation, says Elon Musk”
Episode 421: This Is Why We Star Trek 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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July 18, 2016Episode 420: Ghostbusters: Lean In to the Proton Pack
Rachel D, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather start a scrappy small business to self-actualize and provide mutual support while, by the way, busting the ghosts of the patriarchy as they overthink the 2016 Ghostbusters remake.
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Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
Ghostbusters (2016) on IMDb
Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
Episode 420: Ghostbusters: Lean In to the Proton Pack 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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July 11, 2016Episode 419: Pokemon: The War of All against All
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink the various celebratory and dystopian discourses (drink) around Pokemon Go, touching briefly on whether their pets have had a secret life.
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Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
Mark, Ryan and Harper (the dog!) recording this week's episode of the Overthinking It Podcast #OverthinkingIt #StarWars #cutedogsofinstagram #liferightnow
A photo posted by Overthinking It (@overthinkingitdotcom) on Dec 20, 2015 at 9:55pm PST
Chinchilla, Hermit Crabs, Maltese, Cockatiel
The Black Cauldron (novel)
Pokemon on Overthinking It
Pokemon Theme Song on YouTube
“No, A Man Didn’t Cause a Major Car Accident While Playing Pokémon Go”
Pokemon Go-enabled Armed Robberies
Episode 419: Pokemon: The War of All against All 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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July 04, 2016Episode 418: Independence Day: Spoilers for Nonsense
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather consider American Independence day in pop culture before training their plasma weapons on Independence Day Resurgence, which has none of the charm, thrill, or scientific rigor of its predecessor.
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Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
1776 the musical
John Williams conducts the Born on the Fourth of July Theme
The Shot Hear ’Round the World: Lyrics, Video
New World Symphony, 4th Movement by Dvorak
Episode 418: Independence Day: Spoilers for Nonsense 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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June 27, 2016Episode 417: Brentrance, or Brintrusion
Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather look forward with great anticipation to the coming of Independence Day: Resurgence, and move on to consider what cosmopolitan Britishness has meant in the popular culture, focusing mostly on James Bond and Action Man, and the disjunction between outsiders’ and insiders’ view of a national identity.
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Further Reading
Books on Acting: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (David Mamet) and A Practical Handbook for the Actor (Bruder, Cohn, Olnek, Pollack, Previtio, and Zigler)
Bill Pullman
Action Man
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
“Let The River Run”
Episode 417: Brentrance, or Brintrusion 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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June 20, 2016Episode 416: Animating the Octopus
Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather discuss Epic Showdowns, from the NBA finals to Game of Thrones‘s Battle of the Bastards to Brexit to Bewitched vs. I Dream of Jeannie, and discuss cultural appropriation, Pixar’s Finding Dory, the fallibility of memory, aging, why people think funereal birthday cards are funny, and the idea of a November Rain-ian construct.
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Further Reading
Bewitched (1964 TV Show), and 2005 Film
I Dream of Jeannie
The Bewitched Statute in Salem, MA
The UK’s EU referendum: All you need to know from the BBC
Update: As we were recording, John Oliver was broadcasting this:
Episode 416: Animating the Octopus 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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