The Overthinkers

A place where you can have fun thinking deeply about all the big and beautiful questions of life complete with cutaways. Hosts Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson explore subjects of art, faith, philosophy, culture, and more with some of today’s leading and most influential minds and figures. So put your thinking caps and your laughing socks on and come on in!

Episodes

Oct 4, 2020

50 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson interview Luke Barnett, Vincent Masciale, and Tanner Thompson about their new satire of Christian Films "Faith Based", and ask whether the reason for Christian comedies don't do well is that Christians can't laugh at themselves. 

Sep 26, 2020

49 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson welcome returning guest Nathan Sherrer to discuss what's uniquely great about animation as an art form and why we still love watching them as adults.

Sep 20, 2020

47 min

People on the internet like to say "Get Woke, Go Broke". But is it true? Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson discuss this controversial internet meme and what it gets right and where it falls short.

Sep 13, 2020

1hr 8 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson discuss with film critic and YouTube personality Kevin McCreary what the film critic adds the world. Do they help audiences and filmmakers? Or are they just bitter they can't make their own movie?

Sep 6, 2020

38 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson are joined by returning guest Nathan Sherrer to discuss why so many people believe we're living in a simulation.

Aug 29, 2020

57 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson talk with Trevor Tyson of the "Trevor Talks" podcast about depictions of mental health and mental illness in pop culture and what storytellers can do better.

Aug 23, 2020

46 min

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson discuss the current popularity and controversial nature of superheroes and why they think that superheroes are important for our world.

Aug 16, 2020

1hr

Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson are joined by professor and film critic Alissa Wilkinson to discuss postmodernism in society and in art and the common ways people who talk about it misunderstand it.

Who is Art For?

Aug 9, 2020

Aug 9, 2020

36 min

Co-hosts Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson ask the question who is art primarily for: the artist who makes it, the audience who appreciates it, or someone else?

Aug 2, 2020

1hr 2 min

Co-hosts Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson invite very special guest, Dallas Jenkins, to discuss why it's so hard to make a good film about Jesus and how Dallas tried to solve those problems, as well as the problem of making good faith-based films in general, with his TV series "The Chosen".

The Show

A home for the creative intellectual who wants to have fun thinking deeply. Through interviews with influential and interesting guests; The Overthinkers ask the big and beautiful life-questions about faith, philosophy, art, culture, and humanity. Come and join the often deep and always hilarious conversation. 

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