The Overthinkers tackle the TV and music businesses: Community, Taylor Swift, Ke$ha, and Adam Smith.
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Episode 179: The Expendable Babysitters Club
The Overthinkers tackle Starship Troopers, babysitting, and digital publishing.
Episode 48: The Futility Condition
Sheely and Wrather consider the latest episode of Gossip Girl and take all the robots apart.
The Odds are Never in Your Favor: Pareto Efficiency in The Hunger Games
Keeping people poor makes them easier to control. Controlling people makes it easier to keep them poor.
Episode 175: It’s a pirate ship. It should be watertight.
The Overthinkers tackle Tower Heist.
The Biggest Mistake in the History of NASA
“The biggest mistake in the history of NASA” happened this week when NASA debunked Apollo 18.
Overthunk: Let’s Play Anarcho-Syndicalist Collective!
The Labor Market Economics of “Zookeeper”
The Invisible Paw: Altruistic Libertarianism in Animal Crossing
Episode 156: Carsploitation
The Overthinkers tackle Pixar’s Cars 2, the meaning of exploitation, Magic: The Gathering, and listener feedback.