Overthinking It Podcast

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  • Episode 287: There Only Had to Be One Scarface

    Ben Adams, Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather tackle The Wolf of Wall Street, the moral responsibility of movies, and the Greatest Dogecoin Heist of 2013.

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    • Ben Adams
    • Matthew Belinkie
    • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
    • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
    • Further Reading
      • Riddick’s Space Dog
      • Doge on Wikipedia
      • Doge (meme) on Wikipedia
      • The 40 Most Awkward Dogs of 2013
      • QWOP
      • An Open Letter To The Makers of The Wolf of Wall Street, and the Wolf Himself
      • Episode 287: There Only Had to Be One Scarface 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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      • Ho-Ho-Hoverthinking It Podcast Supplement: Benedict Cumberbatch before He Went Crazy And Started A Cult

        Ben Adams, Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather take a break from the current movie season to look back at the top grossing films of 2003, 1993, 1983… and 1913.

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        • Ben Adams
        • Matthew Belinkie
        • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
        • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
        • Ho-Ho-Hoverthinking It Podcast Supplement: Benedict Cumberbatch before He Went Crazy And Started A Cult 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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        • Episode 286: American Hustle: He Doesn’t Sell Real Estate. He Sells Fake Estate.

          Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather tackle American Hustle, directed by David O. Russell and starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, and Jennifer Lawrence.

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          • Matthew Belinkie
          • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
          • Jordan Stokes
          • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
          • Episode 286: American Hustle: He Doesn’t Sell Real Estate. He Sells Fake Estate. 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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          • Episode 285: The Hobbit: You’re The Man Now, Smaug

            Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in an extra-long episode to fit with an extra-long movie.

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            Your Panel
            • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
            • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
            • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
            • Further Reading
              • Peter O’Toole in The Tudors on YouTube
              • “Making It Out” on The Overthinking It Podcast
              • The Hobbit 2 is Bad Fan Fiction by Christopher Orr on The Atlantic
              • Your Highness on IMDb
              • The Geek Hierarchy [PDF] from the Brunching Shuttlecocks
              • Episode 285: The Hobbit: You’re The Man Now, Smaug 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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              • Episode 284: Forging Correctness in the Iron Crucible of Condescension

                Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink two related musical works: The Sound Of Music live telecast and Rebecca Black’s “Saturday.”

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                Your Panel
                • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
                • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                • Further Reading
                  • Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (excerpts) by Wallace Stevens
                  • Saturday by Rebecca Black on YouTube
                  • Rebecca Black’s Wikipedia Page details her conflict with Patrice Wilson
                  • NBC’s The Sound of Music Live! on Hulu
                  • Alternative Titles
                    • Days of the Week Are Reasons for Celebration
                    • I Usually say Correlation Does Not Equal Causation, But in This Case I’ll Make an Exception
                    • De-Mileying
                    • Sound Off in The Comments If You Think Matt’s a Winner
                    • It Is True of The Supreme Fiction That It Must Change
                    • The “We” in Friday is Construted to Include the Listener
                    • Structure vs. Agency and Rebecca Black
                    • Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Solo Cups, Can’t Lose
                    • Speaking of A Lot Of White People Singing
                    • Took My Key Into The Side of Their Panzer Division Riding Through The Alps
                    • Being On the Boat
                    • Before He Cheats… Out.
                    • Episode 284: Forging Correctness in the Iron Crucible of Condescension 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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                    • Episode 283: God Just Got A Ten Second Car

                      Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather, along with special guest Hannah Foell, the world’s foremost expert on The Fast and Furious franchise overthink the passing of Paul Walker, car culture, and why transportation safety statistics have no effect on our behavior.

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                      Your Panel
                      • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                      • Hannah Foell: @hannanimal
                      • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
                      • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                      • Further Reading
                        • The Librarian (franchise) on Wikipedia
                        • The Horse Whisperer on IMDb
                        • BASEketball on IMDb
                        • The Zookeeper (2011) on IMDb
                        • Harriet The Spy (novel) on Wikipedia
                        • Paul Walker on Wikipedia
                        • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
                        • juno.com
                        • Fast & Furious: The Complete Collection and Fast & Furious 6 (Steelbook)
                        • I drink my Thanksgiving a quarter mile at a time. RT @fenzelian: @hannanimal Thanksgiving drink ain't no ten-second race.

                          — Hannah Foell (@hannanimal) November 28, 2013

                          Episode 283: God Just Got A Ten Second Car 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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                        • Episode 282: I Volunteer as Hungry

                          Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink The Hunger Games: Catching Fire starring Jennifer Lawrence.

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                          Your Panel
                          • Matthew Belinkie
                          • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                          • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
                          • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                          • Episode 282: I Volunteer as Hungry 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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                          • Episode 281: White House Down: This Is Specifically about the Tank Top Of The Protagonist

                            Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather overthink White House Down.

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                            Your Panel
                            • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                            • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
                            • Jordan Stokes
                            • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                            • Further Reading
                              • The Bourse at Independence Mall
                              • Bourse defined in Merriam-Webster Online
                              • DeSoto Caverns on Wikipedia
                              • Jaws 3-D on IMDb
                              • Burning Man
                              • White House Down on IMDb
                              • Alternative Titles
                                • The Enemy’s White House Is Down
                                • I Want All That is Wicked in The World to be Coalesced into A Face That I Can Punch
                                • Man Vs. Complicated White House
                                • The Rogues Gallery of Terrorists Exists on A Continuum of Like-Us-ness
                                • Dreamboat Stripper Dudes and/or G.I. Joes
                                • The Evolution of the A-Shirt
                                • A Terry Gilliam Solution to a Roland Emmerich Problem
                                • James Woods is Waiting for My Page
                                • Episode 281: White House Down: This Is Specifically about the Tank Top Of The Protagonist 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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                                • Episode 280: Thor: It’s Not NOT Like Ghostbusters 2

                                  Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather overthink Thor: The Dark World and interview Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.

                                  [audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/mwrather/otip280.mp3]

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                                  Your Panel
                                  • Matthew Belinkie
                                  • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                                  • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                                  • Alternative Titles
                                    • Thor: The Picante World
                                    • Pantaloons or Sausages
                                    • In Thor 2, Stuff is Going to Come up Through the Portal
                                    • The Only Thing Worth Writing About is Thor in Conflict with Himself
                                    • Thor Treats Objects like Women, Man
                                    • The Solution to Beat Them is to Hit Them Very Hard
                                    • That’s Not a Hammer. This Is A Hammer.
                                    • No Thor for Oil
                                    • In the Dark World, Pillage Must Be Countered By a Different Kind of Pillage
                                    • Google Asgard Paul
                                    • I’m Long on Robocop Dollars
                                    • Dead or Alive, You’re Paying with Me
                                    • That’s What Barry Goldwater would say if he were a RoboCop
                                    • I’ll Show You Fear in A Handful of Elf Spaceships
                                    • I Thought Those Were Load-Bearing Columns
                                    • Party on Thor! Party on Thor!
                                    • Episode 280: Thor: It’s Not NOT Like Ghostbusters 2 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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                                    • Episode 279: Ender’s Game: I Can’t Open My Mouth without Condemning It, And Yet I Like It

                                      Ben Adams, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes overthink the film adaptation of Ender’s Game.

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                                      Your Panel
                                      • Ben Adams
                                      • Peter Fenzel: @fenzelian
                                      • Mark Lee: @goestotwelve
                                      • Jordan Stokes
                                      • Matthew Wrather: @mwrather
                                      • Further Reading
                                        • In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
                                        • Ender’s Game on Amazon
                                        • Alternative Titles
                                          • An Animal House Solution to an Ender’s Game Problem
                                          • The Answer is 40% a Bunch of Cowards
                                          • You Must Be The Genocide You Want to See in The World
                                          • Ender is like Mr. Holland Times 1,000,000
                                          • Graf Tries to Send a FAX… And Can’t.
                                          • You Gotta Show Off The Cool Lake, You Gotta Show Off the Product-Placed Audi"
                                          • Equal Opportunity Genociding
                                          • No Irish Need Apply to The Fleet
                                          • Episode 279: Ender’s Game: I Can’t Open My Mouth without Condemning It, And Yet I Like It 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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