Episode 787: What Marks the Spot?!
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “The X-ness of X,” wondering what it means now that Twitter is called that.
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Episode 778: Press F to Gouge Your Eyes Out
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle video-game related slang: why it exists, how it’s special, and why we think consistent definitions can be so elusive.
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Episode 775: This is the Most Sacred Part of a Kanye West Song
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle what “cringe” means today and what is cringe.
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Episode 598: We Managed to Answer Three Questions
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we answer questions from listeners.
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Episode 538: The Dead Author of Your Own Fiction
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok,” less than one month after its twenty-seventh anniversary. (Just go with it.)
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Episode 282: Panatlanticism
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss Wyclef Jean’s 1997 solo debut, “The Carnival.”
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Episode 439: Arrival Both Goes Big and Goes Home
On the Overthinking It Podcast we tackle Arrival, the mindbending sci-fi mystery film starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
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“Movies” vs. “Films” in Oscar Speeches, 2005-2014
Is it useful or constructive to have a shorthand way of distinguishing between popular cinema versus arthouse cinema?
She, Her, Hers
Who is Spike Jonze’s “Her” really about?
When Your PC isn’t PC
Video games, “political correctness,” and hegemonic discourse.