The Overthinkers tackle creativity, analysis, straw men, and the poet Ranier Maria Rilke.
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Episode 132: Written by Writers
Ensign Pete Fenzel Jump-Kicks the Alien: The Overthinkers tackle the creative process and the responsibilities of discourse.
Episode 127: Silly Meaning Bad
The Overthinkers tackle the Spider Man musical and homoeroticism.
Episode 120: Magical Realist Jackass-scape
The Overthinkers Tackle the 20th anniversary of IMDb, Jackass 3D, high-culture fart jokes, and mortification of the flesh.
Art Imitating Art
Overthinking Treme: I Feel Like Funkin’ It Up!
Episode 21: After School Commons
Sheely, Stokes, and Wrather begin TFT summer school by examining the UK TV series Skins.
Episode 10: The End of Hipstery
The TFT podcast returns with more insight into Gossip Girl. Ryan Sheely and Matthew Wrather comfort you with visions of a transnational elite.
Through the Player’s Eyes
I was reading an essay called “Art and Answerability” by Mikhail Bakhtin the other day, where he makes the claim that one of the most important differences between novels and dreams is that in novels, we see the main character…
Episode 42: What Art Ain’t
The overthinkers take on Crank 2, the meaning of pretentious, and the nature of art (topics more closely related than you might imagine).