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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Episode 562: If Winter is Coming, Can Spring Be Far Behind?
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the changing of the season from winter to blockbuster, with the “Avengers” and “Game of Thrones” finales immanent.
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Episode 283: Poetry in Banal Things
On the TFT Podcast we listen to and discuss Pavement’s penultimate album, 1997’s “Brighten the Corners.”
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Episode 456: Fighter Pilot, Space Commander, Mass- Murdering Plumber
On the Overthinking It Podcast we ask who has designed our wasted time, and how and why they’ve done it.
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Episode 425: Lord Commander Stryker of Lord of the Hobbits
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we dive deep into the Kit Harrington Infiniti commercial, William Blake’s “The Tyger,” and what it means to be “like a rock.”
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Episode 191: To Pimp a Butterfly: It’s Not the Album of the Year, It’s the Record of the Year
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly,” naming it not the Album of the Year, but rather the Record of the Year.
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The U.S. Constitution is a Poem
The Constitution of the United States was ratified 228 years ago today. How did we celebrate? By translating it into iambic pentameter, of course!
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