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Overthinking It
Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Josh McNeil and Jordan Stokes to overthink cold war pop culture in light of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There is a characteristically unaccountable digression about the repatriation of antiquities to Egypt...
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Welcome to the start of the Christmas shopping season, Overthinkers...
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather alienate and confound the listenership taking their calls, mocking them, and discussing the sociological implications of Gossip Girl and Glee. Make sure you subscribe in iTunes or via RSS. There will be no spoiler warnings and there will be many naughty words...
You're GODDAMNED RIGHT I ordered the Code Red, and it was delicious! Galloway (Demi Moore): This past February you received a cautionary memo from the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, warning that the practice of enlisted men disciplining their own wasn’t to be condoned by officers. ...
In “Wrestling with Wild Things, Part 1“, I promised to go through the 2009 movies that made me cry and break down why I broke down. But I first spent some quality time with the most recent of the bunch, Where the Wild Things Are, parsing what it’s about and how it works. I’m ...
The “Family Guy” Windows 7 promo episode has undergone a strange journey. Fi...
Mr. Suatz is the Most Interesting Man in the World. We know this because a beer commercial tells us so. Mr. Suatz tells us as much, himself. After we watch his exploits in the Dos Equis commercials below, we can also form our own opinion as to whether or not he is worthy of his moniker...
Overthinking It The latest Overthinking It Podcast starts with Halloween and gets scarier... with Steven Seagal movies.
Matthew Wrather hosts with Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Josh McNeil, and John Perich to overthink Halloween including costumes, haunted houses, and the titles of Steven Seagal movies. Tell us what you think! Leave a comment, use the contact form, email us or call 20-EAT-LOG-01—that’s (203) 285-6401. Do...
Overthinking It In the latest podcast, Wrather and Sheely consider the public policy implications of gossip girl.
Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather consider the sociological implications of Gossip Girl and Glee, with reference to the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rosseau, and Bentham, the uses of terror, and the interplay of structural institutions and individual agency. Also The Wire...
It’s that time of year again: time for the ladies to dress up in revealing costumes ranging from slutty cat to slutty nurse to slutty police officer to slutty devil and the dudes (except for a few outliers) to make a halfhearted attempt to be, um, Alvin or something. (Red t-shirt. Yellow A. ...
In 2008 and 2009, the zombies have taken over. From the multiplex to the classics of 10th grade literature, the shambling undead hordes have gnawed their way into America’s hearts and skulls since they first appeared in 1968. ...
Karl Marx: Even hairier than the Wolfman. Coincidence... OR IS IT!? [I want to thank Professor David Graeber, whose anthropological dissection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and accompanying lectures) very much forms the basis of this post.] Let’s begin with two observations. ...
