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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather turn from their usual grandiose topics to the mundane and domestic: how to cook a pot of rice. In the process, they learn valuable lessons about life, about each other, and about cereal grains.


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Episode 719: Straining for Sublimity

Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve.