Episode 339: Serial: Are You Allowed to be Entertained?
The Overthinkers tackle the ethics of storytelling in “Serial” and “Into The Woods.”
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Episode 139: You Can Always NOT Make A Christmas Album
Matt and Ryan listen to and discuss three Christmas Albums: Mark Kozelek’s “Mark Kozelek sings Christmas Carols,” Los Campesinos!’s “A Los Campesinos! Christmas,” and “A Very Very Decent Christmas” from Mad Decent.
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Episode 338: The Hobbit (Under Circumstances of Extreme Metal-itude)
Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink the end of “The Colbert Report” and “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies,” which is metal as hell.
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Episode 138: Unironic Discotheque
Matt and Ryan listen to and discuss Charli XCX’s “Sucker.”
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Episode 337: A Great Flowering of Empathy and Fellow-Feeling
The Overthinkers tackle the Sony hack and the ethics of sharing private information online.
Episode 137: Everyone Knows The Indie Rules
Matt and Ryan discuss Sun Kil Moon’s “Benji” and The War On Drugs’s “Lost in the Dream.”
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Episode 336: Black Mirror – The Pig Effing Trolley Problem
The Overthinkers tackle Black Mirror, now available to US viewers on Netflix.
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Episode 136: Everything that Follows is the Ballet
Matt and Ryan listen to and discuss “Run the Jewels 2” from hip-hop duo Run the Jewels.
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Episode 335: Why Would The Millennium Falcon Blow Up the White House?
The Overthinkers tackle the Star Wars Episode VII Teaser Trailer and Band Aid 30’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2014).”
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Episode 135: District 13 is Not All About That Bass
Ryan and Matt listen to and discuss the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,” curated by Lorde.
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