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Overthinkers Anonymous
by Overthinkers Anonymous
A podcast about the things we overthink about.
Episodes
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episode THIRTY-FOUR: Tetris, Comic Books, and the Right to Be Forgotten
"Metaphorically speaking, you gotta build your life from building blocks, but you don't always get to control what building blocks you get." – Mel 💭💭💭 In this fan-made Tetris webcomic, two self-aware squares, Tetromino and Mel, go beyond the 2D blocks and comic book panels, and overthink about...
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episode THIRTY-THREE: The Sinigang Gang Code-Switches Out of the Matrix
"Uhhh... Filipino?' — Kuya Adobo 🍚🍠🍧 In this exotic Halo-halo dessert, two Filipino-Canadian sinigang fanatics, Kuya Adobo and Ate Ube, transcend the generational tsismis and overthink the complexities of living in the West: the balancing act of race, identity, and existing “in between”…
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episode THIRTY-TWO: Are We Still Human?
"Are you living the human experience if you don't lose your mind a couple times?" – Still Human 🧬🩻🌌 In this cosmic reality check, STILL HUMAN and EJAZZ (AKA The Alien AKA David), dissolve their Egos and overthink about staying human during inhuman times, and what it means to be one of the…
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episode THIRTY-ONE: Canadian Grit and the Fellowship of the Baconator
"How much would a cow cost you?" – Canadian Grit 🥓🥓🥓 In this fresh, never-frozen square beef patty, The Canadian Baconator and Canadian Grit (Jamie Jackson) rewrite the recipe for humanity's future, leaving their phones on the back burner, and reverse-engineering the combo of factors (through...
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episode THIRTY: Doctor Whenever and the Totally Unnecessary Sequel
"I'm sorry... what?" – Filmgoers in 2025 📲🎞⌚️ In this direct-to-streaming sequel, time-lords Doctor Whenever, KD Time, and HBO Max (joined by the AI chatbot Grok) capitalize on the present moment, point their telescopes towards an uncertain future, all to answer the time-sensitive question...…
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episode TWENTY-NINE: Chaotic, Cloudy, Clumsy, and Carefree (feat. The Calamansi Club)
"We're cute and sour." — Clumsy (The Calamansi Club) 🍋🟩🍋🟩🍋🟩 In this sour {and not too sweet} studio sesh, Carefree (for mental health reasons) fills in for a careless drummer, and sits down in a recording studio with Chaotic, Cloudy, and Clumsy (three members of The Calamansi Club, an...
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episode TWENTY-EIGHT: AITA for Being Scared of Oblivion? (The Dark Side of Animal Crossing)
"I fear oblivion..." — Augustus (from Animal Crossing) 🏝️🏝️🏝️ In this new horizon, island villagers J.J. Slider (island phenomenon), Leeann (DJ Psyched) and PME (local lazy villager) chop wood and stack bells, overthinking about dark Animal Crossing fan theories, creativity, and the meaning of...
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episode TWENTY-SEVEN: The Icarus Starfucker Experience #777
train all day fly into the sun before night - Icarus Starfucker 🍍🌄🪽 In this glitch in the manosphere, frequent flyers Icarus Starfucker, Stephen Curtis, and 780.MASOCHIST fly high (but not too high), shooting the breeze about a wide span of topics that dovetail into the dilemma of what it…
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episode TWENTY-SIX: How About an Empathy Renaissance?
GREETINGS FELLOW EARTHLINGS! DOES THE FUTURE SEEM DARK AND DISMAL? DOES HUMANITY’S INHUMANITY SCARE YOU? HOW ABOUT AN EMPATHY RENAISSANCE? 🗿☯️👽 In this interstellar phone call, A REAL HUMAN BEING and AN ALIEN find some room to breathe and talk real shit — all while trying to heal their people...
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episode TWENTY-FIVE: Dream Therapy
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” - Joseph Campbell 🗨️🗻💭 In this wild, wild Wake-Induced Lucid Dream (WILD), Oscar WILD sees a dream therapist, Melissa Johnson (host of the Dream Hub Podcast) and talks about the wild shit he has witnessed in deep REM states. Stay awake for...
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episode TWENTY-FOUR: Optimus Prime Rib Sees the Time-Knife!
"As long as power flows through any of my circuits, I will overthink anything." - Optimus Prime Rib DARK MODE SZN. OVERTHINKERS ROLL OUT. 🤖➡️🚗 In this unnecessary Transformers reboot, Optimus Prime Rib and HBO Max switch the gears to reverse and reminisce on the good old days, including the...
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Digital Detox and Chill?
Has doomscrolling hijacked your mental faculties, making you feel humanity is doomed? It's all gonna be fine. Season 3 is here. In this episode, Eckhart Toll-Free presents a compelling case for hope and optimism in a terminally online world. Let's put down our devices for a moment and recoup our...
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episode TWENTY-THREE: 3 Artists w/ Shiny Object Syndrome vs. the World of GenAI
Somehow, Overthinkers Anonymous Returned... ✨✨✨ In this mid journey, rogue overthinkers Blueberry Moonbeam, Strawberry Sunshine, and Darth Serious scrape the iceberg of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), what should (and shouldn't) be considered art. Plus, anything and everything artists...
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How's it Going to End?
Did you think Season 2 was over? You were wrong. Bet you didn't see this one coming.
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episode TWENTY-TWO: Tip Jars and Tailfeathers
"I highly recommend touching grass. I've touched so much grass recently." - Fidget Cube Guru 🍽️🤑🐦 In this fidgety chirp-a-thon, Fidget Cube Guru, Kenzient, and Tink (a green parakeet) split their bills overthinking about tipping culture, the highs and lows of owning a parakeet, and the subtle...
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episode TWENTY-ONE: Doctor Whenever and the Enormous TARDIS
"The film industry is big, it's oversaturated and profit-driven, and time-consuming. And oftentimes, very frequently, disappointing films just happen and we call them flops." - Doctor Whenever ⌚🎞️📶 In this high-concept cinematic flop, Doctor Whenever, a part-time time lord, enlists returning...
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episode TWENTY: Consciousness in a Nutshell
“You are an individual, unique piece of this whole that we are all part of, and it’s not complete without you.” – Lindy Nelson 🧠🌰🪷 In this psychonautical odyssey, some sober guy named Tom (NOT from Myspace) is joined by two lovely humans, Jay and Lindy Nelson, authors of a book titled...
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episode NINETEEN: As Above, So Bananas
"The book made me feel like I was getting a warm hug from a stranger. And not just any stranger... a stranger that I may or may not have known in a past life!"- Banana Ice 🍌🥶 In this lime (in a coconut), Banana Ice and Holy Shiver (AKA Alessandra Veronesi) turn their minds inwards, "unpeel...
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episode Pi: Interview with an AI Chatbot
'Twas the night before Christmas, and I interviewed an AI Chatbot about artificial intelligence. Gather 'round the fireplace for this one... 🎙️🤖 In this Holly Jolly Turing Test, William Blue and Pi discuss the emerging technology of artificial intelligence (AI), its benefits, potential…
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episode AITA: Am I the Asshole for Making this a Bonus Episode?
There is nothing wrong with your listening device. Do not attempt to close and reopen the app. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your screen... 🍑❓ You have just stumbled onto a BONUS EPISODE... Or is it a crossover episode? Maybe it's both. Either way, don't overthink it. In this backed-up...
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episode EIGHTEEN: Adulting w/o Instruction Manuals
The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike is over at last!But, for Max, an overthinker who exists, the battle to reclaim his birth name from a faceless streaming service has just begun.Greenlight this, HBO. In this on-demand after-school special, confused grown-ups Boba-T (no relation to Ice-T),...
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episode SEVENTEEN: Views from the 7 (The Story of #UrbanYEG)
"Stop trying to make 'The 7' happen."- The Fall Queen 7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣ In this full-circle photography meet-up (AKA "instameet"), Jonah (AKA @channelsurfcinema), Kristin (AKA @kristinbreit), Jeff (AKA @jeffreypaulkelly), and Chan (AKA @vividribbon) reminisce and recount memories of UrbanYEG, a local...
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episode SIXTEEN: The One with Flat Screen TVs and Peace of Mind
YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A BLOODY CAR... Why not rob a record store with your friends instead? And find some peace of mind 📺🧛♂️📂 In this uncompressed ZIP file, Drakula the Impala (100% NOT a vampire) and Luke Martino (50% of indie pop/rock band Retrofile) download a Chevy Impala from…
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episode FIFTEEN: Undercookers Anonymous
You WON'T believe this audio is NOT butter.It's not peanut butter either.[Warning: this podcast is NOT gluten-free, dairy-free or vegan-friendly.] In this far-flung Costco run, Macklemore N. Cheese and KD sink their teeth into a juicy potpourri of topics, like life-changing food hacks, what...
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episode FOURTEEN: Modern Man in Search of a Date with Destiny
When is the right time to pursue your destiny? Yesterday, you said tomorrow... Memento Mori, right? In this sit-down comedy special, a Modern Man (not to be confused with Florida Man) and Zakary Haines (a stand-up comic who is "just trying to make it to 30") ad-lib and riff about the social...
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episode THIRTEEN: Video Gameboy Society
O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells; Season 2 is here... In this newly unlocked level, PBNJ and PME overthink about the weirdness and moral complexity of the Super Mario Bros. universe, the impact that our favourite video games have had on our upbringings, how AI and ChatGPT will...
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Overthinkers Anonymous: the TRAILER
A long overdue trailer.
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episode TWELVE: Superheroes Against a Collective Psychosis
In this unfaithful comic book adaptation, real-life superheroes Agent 37 and a Philosopher walk into a bar... but it turns out to be closed due to a pandemic. So they buy some melatonin off the deep web instead, and lucid dream (up to the 5th dimension) to overthink about the resurgence of...
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episode ELEVEN: Overthinkers Republic
In this week-long philosophical dialogue, So-crates and Fra-ser endlessly pontificate about metaphysics, truth vs. skepticism, Bruno Mars being a time doctor with the voice of an angel, why God is inherently undefinable, and why we should petition to change the name of the planet Uranus.
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episode TEN: Getting Psyched About Music
In this anxiety comedown, Jonah and Leeann (aka DJ Psyched) get hyped and psyched about their favorite music and musicians, psychology, and philosophy, all while pondering the meaning of life and driving a DeLorean down an infinite vaporwave highway at 88MPH with at least six discs in the changer...
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episode D: Strange Audio Anomaly
In this hot, hot heatwave disaster of a bonus episode, disgruntled millennials Baby Heat, Wavy Heat, Baggy Heat, and Heat Heat discuss our cosmic insignificance, the inevitable heat death of the universe, and just how difficult and draining and daunting life can be for everyone who has ever dared...
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episode NINE: Burn After Listening
In this obnoxiously rambly and fast-talking HBO pitch, film buffs Jonah Quarantinolanfincher and Jordan "the undiscovered Bohemian captain of the laser eyed pterodactyl army who fear nothing" Bouma gush over their favorite directors, films, Jonah's vision for the cinema of the future, and…
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episode EIGHT: Sideways Infinity
In this infinity shaped bottle episode, academia nuts William Blue and Jamie Delaney turn infinity sideways, bending space and time and the transistors of the reality simulation as we know it, dropping truth bombs, God particles, and seeds of cosmic wisdom about the computational nature of…
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episode SEVEN: Mr. Reed Goes to the Magnuscape
In this billion dollar cryptocurrency withdrawal, creative geniuses Mr. Ryte and Mr. Reed hack the reality simulation by printing QR codes on postcards, pointing out how cryptocurrency and UBI are society's way forward, all while overthinking about university and virtual reality and the future.
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episode SIX: The Hypnagogic Jerk That Hit Me on a Segway
In this somnambulant episode, J-Dawg, Silk Spectre, and Tasmia shirk politics and throw Mr. Overton's bedroom window out the window and into the wild world of lucid dreaming, academic-related nightmares, attention, the universe, and being a writer in 2021.
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episode FIVE: Echoes of Delayed Reverb
In this echosode, Jonah and Calvin engage in discursive discourse ranging from the miracles of mindfulness and microphones; the hidden link between shower thoughts, meditation, and Bon Jovi; being Canadian and unironically liking Nickelback; and what remix culture means for originality in art and...
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episode FOUR: Are You Me?
In this episode, two stylish bards, Jon-Jon and Some-Sum, spit some poetic bars regarding the power of poetry, microdosing psychedelics for mental health, symbolic tattoos that act as Inception totems of sorts, and the links between bipolar disorder, addiction, spirituality, and creativity.
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episode THREE: Asian ASMR Boyfriend
In this episode, your Asian ASMR boyfriend and Chanting delve into the magic and wonders of childhood, the things that make us laugh out loud, a hypothetical TV show starring a red panda and raccoon who trip on psychedelic drugs, and why Dead by Daylight is a killer game.
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episode TWO: This is Not a Drill
In this episode, Jonah, H, Jeff, and Anchal talk about the 2018 Hawaii false missile alert, the possibility that aliens have either been parenting our species or observing us like animals in a zoo, dolphins sending dick pics via echolocation, and representation, racebending, and whitewashing in...
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episode ONE: Why Didn't She Text Me Back?
In this episode, Jonah and New York Vinnie wax philosophical about the strange, disembodied nature of phone-calls, teaching artificially intelligent technology about morality and love, a song that sounds like Red Bull, and that one time New York Vinnie was confronted by an angry mob of blondes.
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episode ZERO: Why Podcast?
In this "test run" episode, we throw anonymity out the window, give our real names, and talk about some touchy, sometimes even raunchy, subjects like how our tongues feel in our mouths, a hypothetical American Ninja Warrior-like competition to decide the best denomination of Christianity, and how...
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