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 13: Crossing Sections off the Map
Wrather, Lee, and Fenzel overthink peak oil and peak rock, the meaning of hip-hop, the ringtone bubble, politics, pornography, and artistic protectionism and offer a new feature, OTI picks, while Wra…
Episode 12: Raya Yarbrough
Wrather discusses music and the music industry with LA-based singer/songwriter Raya Yarbrough.
Raya’s sites: www.rayayarbrough.com | www.myspace.com/rayayarbroug…
Episode 11: SPECIAL: Olympics!
Matthew Belinkie, Ryan Sheely, and Matthew Wrather overthink the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Episode 10: The Dark Knight
Wrather, Fenzel, Sheely and Stokes overthink The Dark Knight.
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Episode 9: Indy Movies
Wrather is joined by Belinkie, Fenzel, Shechner, and Stokes to rate Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on a 5-whip scale. (Spoiler alert: The mov…
Episode 8: Iron Man
Wrather, Stokes, Sheely, and Fenzel overthink summer blockbuster Iron Man.
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Episode 7: Summer 2008 Movie Preview, Part 1
Wrather, Stokes, Sheely, and Fenzel preview summer movie releases through June in the latest episode of the OTI Podcast. Yes, some of them have been released alr…
Episode 6: Do The Hunch
Wrather interviews and hazes new blog author David Shechner, asking him the five questions that will sequence his pop culture DNA. (This was recorded before Shan…
Episode 5: Nasty, Brutish and Short
Amid a large number of semi-relevant digressions, Matthew Belinkie, Ryan Sheely, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather discuss the trainwreck phenomenon of Britney …
Bonus Episode: Interview with Bear McCreary
In this bonus episode of the Overthinking It Podcast, Jordan Stokes interviews Bear McCreary, composer of the Battlestar Galactica and Terminator: Sarah Connor C…
Episode 4: Pubic Servant
Belinkie, Wrather, and Fenzel analyze presidential and gubernatorial sex scandals throughout American history, touching on Eliot Spitzer and “Kristen” (Ashley Al…
Episode 3: How to Survive a Terminator Attack
Episode 3 of the Overthinking It podcast takes its cues from Terminator Week on the blog, and features conversations highlighting:
- The Terminator Franchise: Its…
Episode 2: Oscar the Slouch
Part 2 of Podcast Episode 2 features a discussion of the 2008 Academy Awards between Pete Fenzel, Ryan Sheely, Matt Wrather, and—for reasons passing understandin…
Episode 1: Salute Your Shorts
The Matts (Belinkie and Wrather) discuss the live action films nominated for Oscars®.
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