In episode 94 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss everything debt, from student loans and bank bailouts to the importance of honoring one’s intellectual forebears. Your hosts explore how debt has structured social, family, and religious bonds across history, from Vedic India, to Plato’s Athens, and how the notion of being “indebted” to one’s cultural past conditions the experience of immigrants in America today.

Guest C. Thi Nguyen discusses his views on video games, drinking games, and the obsession with “gamifying” our society through Twitter likes and retweets. Ellie and David bring in various philosophers’ views of games.

Drawing on Stoicism and Nietzsche, Ellie and David debate the merit of New Year’s Resolutions. Only 8% of people keep the resolutions they set – so why do we continue to make resolutions?