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 875: The Popluck
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Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather are all middle-aged dads and painfully out of step with modern pop music. In an attempt to “get with…
Episode 874: Here’s the Thing about Thing
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Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Pete Fenzel map the branches of the Addams Family Tree. We start at the beginning with Charles Addams’s single-…
Episode 873: No-Eye Deer
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Matt Wrather and Pete Fenzel embrace their changing lives and discuss the groaners that have come to define one of the most common and commo…
Episode 872: A Clergy Without a Congregation
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Matt Wrather and Pete Fenzel sequester themselves for another storied two-hander as they consider Conclave, a pope-ular and mer-curial film …
Episode 871: We Will Fight Them in the Menageries
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Pete Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather use the recent Oscar-winning movie The Brutalist as a jumping-off point to talk about the profound e…
Episode 870: The Slopes of Mount Hackman
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Mark Lee and Pete Fenzel take up a solemn two-hander to commemorate film legend Gene Hackman in the wake of his tragic passing. Mark and Pet…
Episode 869: It Was Hard to Experience It as Funny
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Matthew Wrather faces hostile interlocutors Peter Fenzel and Matt Belinkie, who want to know why he’s so crazy about the so-called “comedian…
Episode 868: Don’t Call Me Daughter
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The gang takes this show all the way to Broadway, with Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matt Wrather celebrating Audra McDonald’s …
Episode 867: You’re Not Supposed to Be Here
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather (temporarily regaining the throne as the host of the program!) undertake the annual traditio…
Episode 866: A Great Sodium Vapor Process Movie
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Some of the most fascinating movies are the big hits that somehow faded from our collective memories. Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark L…
Episode 865: Yo Momma IV
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Matt Belinkie, and Pete Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather rummage through the sci-fi spare parts that comprise Section 31, the Emperor Philippa Ge…
Episode 864: A World of Bugs with a Thin Layer of Grass
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Matt Belinkie (Good Matt), Matt Wrather (Evil Matt), Mark Lee (Good and Evil Mark at the Same Time), and Pete Fenzel (Fenzel, Walk With Me) …
Episode 863: World Wildlife Federation
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Fenzel and Belinkie are lapsed wrestling fans, at least partially because we no longer have cable. But with Monday Night RAW moving to Netfl…
Episode 862: Your Bias Isn’t Going to Defeat My Bias
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Clint Eastwood has been one of America’s most iconic actors and directors for several generations now, and he’s kept busy well into his 90s.…
Episode 861: How Did Freddie Krueger and Luke Skywalker Become Friends?
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For years, Jimmy Carter was seen as a symbol of humiliating failure. (Back in 1993, The Simpsons did a joke where the town couldn’t afford a…
Episode 860: Babysitters 40k
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Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather celebrate the last podcast of the year with the themes that made 2024 what it was…
Episode 859: There’s a Right Christmas and a Wrong Christmas
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Mark Lee, Matt Wrather, Peter Fenzel, and Matt Belinkie, Hannukah preparations notwithstanding, triangulate and ascertain the True Reason fo…
Episode 858: We Want To See the Gladiators. It’s a Movie Called Gladiator.
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Hot on the heels of our discussion about Sequel Culture, Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee and Pete Fenzel re-enter the arena to discuss Gladiator 2. …
Episode 857: Does Gollum Have to Do Gollum Things?
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Matt Belinkie, Mark Lee, and Pete Fenzel do something boldly original and never to be repeated: talk about pop culture trend pieces written …
Episode 856: Warehousing People
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Pete Fenzel and Matt Wrather hold a storied two-hander on Ted Danson’s new Netflix retirement home spy sitcom, A Man on the Inside, which ri…