The Overthinking It Podcast
Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 914
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2025
Episode 895: Ultra-Realistic Settlers of Catan
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Pete Fenzel and Mark Lee tackle two very different topics in this week’s episode. First up is something hot off the presses: Taylor Swift an…
Episode 894: An Extraordinarily Desirable Street
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden. They tr…
Episode 893: You Come at the Elk, You Best Not Miss
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On this beastly, grizzly, hawkish two-hander, off-duty dads Jordan Stokes and Pete Fenzel ride the tiger of discourse through zoologically- …
Episode 892: Ready Billionaire One
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather overthink the nihilisitc satire “Mountainhead,” a film about the hollowness at the …
Episode 891: What Should I Do at the Slayer Concert?
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On the occasion of Ozzy Osbourne’s passing, the Overthinking It podcast piled into a van airbrushed with flaming skulls to discuss the genre…
Episode 890: The Tentacle Invasion of Daffy Duck
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee and Matt Wrather overthink the feature-length Looney Tunes cartoon, “The Day the Earth Blew Up.” They reflect the app…
Episode 889: Finish the Handoff
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On the Overthinking It Podcast, Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather slide into the diner’s corner booth and face a yawning abyss that’s haunted…
Episode 888: Twenty Five American Dollar Burger
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On the auspicious occasion of the 888th episode of the Overthinking It Podcast, Pete, Mark, and Matt Wrather tackle numerology, luck, curses…
Episode 887: Traffic on the Ones
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Jordan Stokes, Matthew Wrather and Pete Fenzel overthink “Only Murders in the Building” (spoiler-free), the latest entry in the beloved “Ste…
Episode 886: It’s Called Port Wine, Mozart, You Don’t Want Anything to Do With This!
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Mark Lee FINALLY convinced some other Overthinkers (Pete Fenzel and Jordan Stokes) to watch Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Now they’ve star…
Episode 885: Get Away from That Radical Rock
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather try to avert their eyes from a barrage of upsetting video endemic to our present, algorithmicall…
Episode 884: We Should All Learn to Tooch
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Matt Wrather, Mark Lee, and Pete Fenzel leave Indiana Jones behind to follow the dotted line across across the map of Italy and the history …
Episode 883: In Latin, Cocomelon Starts with an I
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It’s Matt Wrather’s first Father’s Day, which means it’s finally time to tackle Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on the podcast. We’ve tal…
Episode 882: Doctor Smirnoff Ice
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It’s Gemini season, and Mark Lee, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather (and their dopplegangers), overthink the concept of twins and doubles in…
Episode 881: You’re Not Used to Subtle Nods in Star Wars Shows
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Ben Adams, Pete Fenzel, and Mark Lee steal a TIE Fighter, huff some rhydo, and sacrifice everything they hold dear to bring you this podcast…
Episode 880: Run Like the Wind, Horse
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It’s that time of year, some years, when Pete Fenzel convinces Matt Wrather to join a storied 2-hander about the stories emerging from the N…
Episode 879: Lo and Behold, This Pot Rack I Have Wrought
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather celebrate Handi-Cast ’25, overthinking the concept of handiness and and the related but distinc…
Episode 878: Your Cootie Level Is Off the Charts
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Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather overthink Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith on the occasion of its 20th anniversary theat…
Episode 877: I Have Lots of File Cards on Coyotes
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Mark Lee, Matt Wrather, and Pete Fenzel, having been friends for a very long time, have no qualms with sharing deep, complex, personal, nich…
Episode 876: A Hand Extended Through the Veil
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink rebirth in popular culture, discussing the digital resurrection of cultural icons like…