Overthinking It Podcast

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and John Perich to overthink designed environments including Las Vegas, Dubai, and World of Warcraft, and close with some consideration of the theology of pop music.

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Episode 134: A Redbox in Your House 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel and Mark Lee to overthink second-tier awards in light of the Golden Globes and the Miss America pageant. What, exactly, is the virtue being celebrated when we give awards, and at what point does the institution surrounding that virtue become an end in itself?

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Episode 133: You Have Knives on Your Shoes 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes to overthink metaphors for the creative process, conversation stoppers, and the responsibilities of discourse in light of recent events imprecisely described as tragic.

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Episode 132: Written by Writers 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, John Perich and Jordan Stokes to ring in the new year.

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Update: The book that Perich based his basketball observations on was Stumbling on Wins, an accessible text that applies the same statistical analysis made famous by “Moneyball” to other sports – football, basketball and hockey in particular. Clicking that link will take you to the rather cheap Kindle version (and give us a little affiliate cred if you buy, ahem), though there’s also a hardback.

Episode 131: Went to Elementary School and is Partially Deaf 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel and Jordan stokes to overthink storms in popular culture, ornithologcal reproduction (duck penis), second- and third-class levers, Oscar-bait movies as event pictures, and why New Moon is better than any classic movie you can name.

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Episode 130: Vampire Casablanca 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Mark Lee, John Perich, and Jordan Stokes to overthink (which is to say, rip on) Tron Legacy, Jews, women, and Fenzel. Spoilers for Tron: Legacy. Not that it matters.

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Episode 129: Patrimony of the Dude 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Natalie Baseman, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes to overthink Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan”, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Topics include trashiness, love pitching his mansion in the place of excrement, and why “The Deer Hunter” hung out so long on Wrather’s Netflix queue.

Spoilers for Black Swan.

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Episode 128: I’m a dancer, not a swan! 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Mark Lee and Peter Fenzel to overthink Bon Jovi scholarship, the ultra-segmented hyper-reality of Christmas Trees, the Spider Man musical, the theatrical vs. the cinematic, and contemporary homoeroticism and why it’s not all about sex.

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Episode 127: Silly Meaning Bad 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts (until his Internet connection fails) with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Jordan Stokes to commemorate Leslie Nielsen and to reflect on his career and the changing face of comedy, and then to pitch one another rom com plots.

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Episode 126: They’ll Get Past 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)]

Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel and Mark Lee, promising to overthink Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and getting around to it eventually. Digressions into the nature of magic, determinism in plot (again), and Civilization (the game).

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Episode 125: The Midi-chlorian Fallacy 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)]