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March 19, 2012 Episode 194: You Don’t Know My Momentum
Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, John Perich, and David Shechner to overthink their favorite fictional streets, truth and fiction, and Mike Daisey’s monlogue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
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Further Reading
A transcript of Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
This American Life Retracts “The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” by Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey distinguishes between journalism and theater and delivers a preface to his monologue
21 Dog Years: A Cube Dweller’s Tale by Mike Daisey
Putting the “I” in Story by Matthew Baldwin
Logical Positivism on Wikipedia
Reality and Hyperreality, from the University of Chicago School of Media Theory
Rumble in the Jungle on IMDb
Margin Call on Rotten Tomatoes
“Electric Avenue,” by Eddie Grant
“Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen, performed live, 1976
Episode 194: You Don’t Know My Momentum 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 12, 2012 Episode 193: InuYasha-ish
Matthew Wrather and Peter Fenzel tackle issues of representation and expression with reference to PayPal, Antwone Fisher, Battleship, and leaked nude photos of celebrities.
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Episode 193: InuYasha-ish 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 05, 2012 Episode 192: It Could Be Kabuki
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and David Shechner overthink NBC’s slightly less than smash-hit Smash, touching on issues of representation, musical production, psychoanalysis, avant garde performance art, kabuki theater, and Juggalos.
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References
Green Hosting from A2 Hosting
Episode 192: It Could Be Kabuki 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 27, 2012 Episode 191: Life Is Getting Less Special
Matthew Wrather, Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and David Shechner overthink the proud tradition of Hollywood’s decline and the 84th Academy Awards.
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Episode 191: Life Is Getting Less Special 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 20, 2012 Episode 190: 18 Hours of Angels Singing and Craziness
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, and John Perich explore the diagetic phantasmagoric cosmology of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.
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Further Reading
John Guillory, Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History
Manicheeism on Wikipedia
Existentialism on Wikipedia
Schopenhauer on Wikipedia
Study Guide to Goethe’s Faust, parts 1 and 2
Allegory vs. Symbolism, by Dr. Tim Shonk of Eastern Illinois University
“Nicholas Cage Losing His Sh*t,” by Harry Hanraham (warning: foul language)
Episode 190: 18 Hours of Angels Singing and Craziness 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 13, 2012 Episode 189: The Rut Not Taken
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and David Shechner join forces to overthink vows in popular culture, the virtuosity, dignity, and sad passage of Whitney Houston, individual vs. social motivations for schadenfreude, and Magic: The Gathering.
:01 A word from our sponsor.
:40 “The Vow” and Bland Brigade.
2:45 Question of the Week.
10:25 Magic: The Gathering, Semiotics of sports shows.
29:30 Whitney Huston.
45:40 Promethean celebrity narrative.
54:00 Magic and Louis C.K.’s theory of value.
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Further Reading
The Vow on Rotten Tomatoes
Channing Tatum on Wikipedia
Magic: The Gathering
Whitney Houston on Wikipedia
Good Hair on Amazon and on IMDb
Us Magazine
Rock Hudson
Charles Limb: Your Brain on Improv
Full Coverage of Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Dark Ascension
Episode 189: The Rut Not Taken 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 06, 2012 Episode 188: No Drop Trou for Bizarro
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, David Shechner and Jordan Stokes overthink Super Bowl ads, the transformation in contemporary marketing, the year of the dog, hashtag, & worker, and pooping on the field.
0:00–6:59 Question of the Week.
7:00–20:00 Marketing strategy; dogs, robot factories, and The Avengers.
24:00–27:59 Puppy Bowl’s Socratic purity.
28:00–34:00 Half time show.
34:01–41:59 Epic poetry of Ahmad Bradshaw.
42:00–56:59 David Beckham’s underwear and thresholds of potential rejection.
57:00–1:09:00 Old Navy ad deconstruction.
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Further Reading
Micro Bio-Spin® Columns with Bio-Gel® P-30
Polar Soda’s Conflict with Coke
Watch 2012 Super Bowl Commercials
Puppy Bowl VIII
“Anxiety relievable by purchase,” from David Foster Wallace, and other quotes about advertising on GoodReads
Bizarro, on the Superman Wiki
“Bizarro,” from Sealab 2021
Episode 188: No Drop Trou for Bizarro 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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January 30, 2012 Episode 187: The Sam Awards
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and John Perich overthink Man on a Ledge, heists, hustlers, and the hermeneutic circle. And then take a long flight over the Pacific and watch movies on a plane.
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Further Reading
Introduction to Literary Theory, Professor Paul H. Fry, Open Yale Courses, iTunes U
The Hermeneutic Circle
An Anarchist FAQ
The ‘Do Rap Rap’ Improv Comedy Game, with Les McGeeHee: Part 1 (How to Play), Part 2 (Example)
Episode 187: The Sam Awards 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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January 23, 2012 Episode 186: Wrong Enough to be Human
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, Jordan Stokes and John Perich overthink Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire and Neil Young’s hatred of contemporary music technology.
0:00–18:53 Question of the week: What’s your favorite Kate Beckinsale movie?
18:54–39:10 Haywire
39:11–58:17 Neil Young and music technology
58:18–1:00:43 Closing
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Further Reading
Kate Beckinsale
Steven Soderbergh
Neil Young Angered By “Sound Of Music Today”
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Nike Air Force Ones
Tips for Saving Oil, from DotcomTuscon
The Power Squat
Episode 186: Wrong Enough to be Human 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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January 16, 2012 Episode 185: Decorative Arts
Matthew Wrather, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee overthink public infrastructure, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, and the intersection of entertainment and technology.
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Further Reading
Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt
Sliders, Sliders, Sliders
Golden Globe Winners 2012: Full List
Duck Tales, “Too Much of a Gold Thing,” part 1 (TV) vs. Duck Tales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Part 1 (MOVIE)
City Water Tunnel No. 3, New York, NY, from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (PDF)
Friends of the Los Angeles River
The Delta Terminal, formerly the Pan Am Terminal at JFK (also this), but oops.
Decorative Arts at the Met
Episode 185: Decorative Arts 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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