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April 04, 2016Episode 405: A Compliment that Felt Like a Wound
Once the podcast is done, Matt Wrather puts a post in the CMS about what the group of him, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee discussed on the podcast.
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Further Reading
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Episode 405: A Compliment that Felt Like a Wound 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 28, 2016Episode 404: Lex Luthor Presents Mary Shelley’s Blackwater
Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder’s and starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill. It’s Warner Bros.’s opening salvo in the DC Cinematic universe, sure to grind joylessly forward in a dutiful blue-tinged miasma of confused storytelling, half-drawn characters, and contradictory philosophizing. Our take is not as bad as some of what you’ve heard out there.
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Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 404: Lex Luthor Presents Mary Shelley’s Blackwater 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 21, 2016Episode 403: I Will Block And Unfriend
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather gather to overthink the social implications of the verdict against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, the role of aggregation vs. curation in news publishing, the omnipresence of surveillance technology in our lives, how the culture metabolizes its own circumstances to narrativize social change, the B+ student’s version of Rawls’s veil of ignorance, and the increasingly permeable barrier between public and private.
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Further Reading
“Hulk Hogan Awarded $115 Million in Privacy Suit Against Gawker”
4channic Discourse on the Overthinking It Podcast
“The Digital Dirt” from The New Yorker
The Ring of Gyges on Wikipedia
Veil of Ignorance
Episode 403: I Will Block And Unfriend 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 14, 2016Episode 402: The Product and Its Effect on the Floor or on Your Butt
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather overthink the phenomenon of the modern movie trailer by looking at recent examples for “Captain America: Civil War” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” We also share a little derision—or is it admiration?—for the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice awards.
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Further Reading
2016 Kids Choice Awards
Episode 402: The Product and Its Effect on the Floor or on Your Butt 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 07, 2016Episode 401: Stop Shaming the Bunny
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather are joined by guest Arjun Gupta to overthink Zootopia, Disney’s new animated film about animal racism.
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Our Guest
Our guest Arjun Gupta calls himself a “Storyteller and a Service Member.” As an actor, he currently appears on the SyFy show Magicians, and you may have seen him on How to Get Away with Murder and Nurse Jackie. His own podcast, American Desis, which Arjun hosts alongside comedian Akaash Singh, is geared to discovering what it means to be a South Asian in this country today.
@ArjunGuptaBK
Arjun Gupta on IMDb
American Desis Podcast
Ammunition Theatre Company
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Further Reading
The Panchatantra
Episode 401: Stop Shaming the Bunny 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 29, 2016Episode 400: Part of the Problem is That You Didn’t Invite Vin Diesel
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather overthink the 88th Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock.
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Further Reading
List of Oscar Winners
Chris Rock’s Opening Monolgoue
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Our Podcast on Mad Max Fury Road
That Stacey Dash moment might be the first time an #Oscars telecast has aired a #BlackTwitter inside joke.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 29, 2016
Them people in the Oscar Audience didn't know what that Stacey Dash shit was about. Chris did that for Twitter.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) February 29, 2016
Episode 400: Part of the Problem is That You Didn’t Invite Vin Diesel 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 22, 2016Episode 399: Selena Gomez Gets Pedantic
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matthew Wrather overthink the books they actually might have liked reading in High School, and preview the eight nominees for Best Picture in the 2016 Oscars. We are not sure that a policy of compulsory reverence is the best way to get people to actually revere art.
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Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Further Reading
Candide
The Diary of a Young Girl
Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and A Christmas Carol
Affiliate Links: Candide, Anne Frank, Charles Dickens
Oscar Nominations: The Complete List from The Hollywood Reporter

Episode 399: Selena Gomez Gets Pedantic 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 15, 2016Episode 398: Deadpool: Superhero Joint Custody
Peter Fenzel, Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the new Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds.
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Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
Episode 398: Deadpool: Superhero Joint Custody 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 08, 2016Episode 397: Hardcore Normal
Rachel D, Peter Fenzel, Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather overthink the ads and halftime performances of Super Bowl L.
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Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
Ryan Sheely: @goestotwelve
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Further Reading
Episode 397: Hardcore Normal 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 01, 2016Episode 396: Tell Me More, Tell Me More
Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Idris Elba’s future roles, the cultural problems Grease Live will have to surmount, the balance of good and bad things in Louis C.K.’s new show Horace and Pete, and launch the Nicholas Sparks challenge to promote Overthinking It Memberships.
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Further Reading
Grease Live
SAG Awards: Diversity Reigns in a Rebuke to #OscarsSoWhite
Horace and Pete
Episode 396: Tell Me More, Tell Me More 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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