Episode 793: That’s What the Bread is For
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we wonder if there’s any truth to Bernie Taupin’s diss of Billy Joel.
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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 774: This’ll be the Day That I Die… I Just Ate a Brownie.
On the Overthinking It, we tackle the song “American Pie,” and why a world leader would sing it at karaoke.
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Episode 755: All The Christmases Roll Down toward the Two-Tongued Sea
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Dylan Thomas’s classic, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
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Episode 753: Vast Wings of Identity, Blending in Their Unity
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the intended and off-label uses of new GPT-3 language models.
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Episode 733: Divine Secrets of the Qui Gon Sisterhood [REPOST: Correct Audio]
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the first season of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” starring Ewan McGregor, streaming on Disney+.
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Episode 657: How We Climbed, or Were Clumb
On the Overthinking It Podcast, the conclusion of our close reading of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb.”
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Episode 656: “Us” is Also the Country that the Poem is About
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we offer a close-reading of the first half of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb.”
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Episode 611: The Tricameron
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we hunker down outside the city and amuse ourselves with LL Cool J, Robert Frost, and Thin Mints.
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Episode 593: Strong Sad Trogdor Fenzel
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle names and the process and responsibility of naming things.
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