The Overthinking It Podcast

The Overthinkers (well, some of them) gather in New York’s East Village. Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Ryan Sheely (live), and Peter Fenzel an…

Matthew Wrather hosts a panel with Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and David Shechner to wrap up Back To The Future week on OverthinkingIt.com with the science of time travel…

Mark Lee hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Ryan Sheely, and Jordan Stokes to Overthink:

• Rock Band, Karaoke, and what to do when the N-Word comes up in the lyrics of a hip-hop song at karaoke
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Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and David Schechner to Overthink:

• Our New Theme Song
• New Year’s Resolutions
• Reality Television
• Quantu…

Matthew Wrather leads a panel consisting of Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and eventually Matthew Belinkie to overthink:

• Listener Feedback
• One Man’s Pun (see Venn Diagram)
• The Tenets of National Socialism
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Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Ryan Sheely, and special guest Rachel Dougnac, to overthink:

• Mike from LA, his exact latitude and longitude
• Hipsterism Eats Itself
• Ear…

Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, David Shechner, and special guest “Al” to wrap up Karate Kid Week, including:

• A final word on the racial message of …

Matthew Wrather hosts a panel with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Ryan Sheely, considering:

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Overthinking It (the state of the blog)
• The Craptacular state of Popula…

Matt Wrather hosts a panel including Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, and David Shechner to overthink:

• (James Bond voice) “Monsanto. We Meet Again.”
• Pump Action Loader? I just met ‘er!
• The Farkization of…

In a special supplement to the Overthinking It Podcast, Matthew Wrather, Matthew Belinkie, and Peter Fenzel consider the last episode of The Shield.

WARNING: Contains spoilers.

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Matthew Wrather hosts a panel including Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Josh McNeil and Jordan Stokes to overthink the role and appeal of stories like Twilight and to relate this latest take on the vampire s…

In a special supplement to the Overthinking It Podcast, Matthew Wrather, Matthew Belinkie, and Peter Fenzel consider the next to last episode of The Shield.

WARNING: Contains spoilers.

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A special two-part episode. In part one, Matthew Wrather, Matthew Belinkie, Mark Lee, and new regular Josh McNeil (who ditches us halfway through) overthink:

• The Simpsons‘s longevity
• The coming revo…

In a special supplement to the Overthinking It Podcast, Matthew Belinkie, Matthew Wrather, and Peter Fenze…

Matthew Wrather, Mark Lee, and Matthew Belinkie are joined by less frequent podcasters David Shechner and Peter Fenzel and (again!) by guest Josh McNeil to overthink:

• What it means to be a blog
• What…

Matthew Wrather and Mark Lee welcome political operative Josh McNeil to Overthink:

• Viral Video and the Election
• SNL: Funny or Not Funny
• 100% of Statistics are Made Up
• The City of Las Vegas
• Favorite …

Matthew Wrather is joined by Matthew Belinkie and Mark Lee to overthink:

• What constitutes a hotline
• Why nobody cares about Synecdoche, New York
• Our status as high priests of popular culture and the …

Apparently, the MP3 of this podcast somehow got corrupted in transit to our server. Apologies. Here is the full Episode 16, reposted for the benefit of automated podcatchers like iTunes. Speaking of …

• Seeing Movies Alone (and being a dick)
• Mocking the Afflicted
• Tyler Perry, Entrepreneur
• The Nature of Spoilers
• The South Park Indy Rape Episode

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Wrather hosts a panel including Belinkie, Fenzel, Lee, and Stokes, overthinking:

• The ontological status of the Chihuahua, and its place in the cultural landscape of Beverly Hills
• The Constitution, B…