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Andrew Overbye

Andrew Overbye

Andrew Overbye is a Chicago-based educator and standardized test prep tutor who hosts The Authorized Novelizations Podcast, which explores the rise and fall of film novelizations.

Aug 28, 2026

6:39
Okay.
6:40
But I can recognize, you know, looking at this movie that, like, the, the impulses of the Howard Ratner character are so, so real.
6:50
It's so evident that that is where he gets all of the juice from life, right? Like, he, like...
6:56
Well, we all do it.
6:57
We all choose sort of, like, what it is that we're, like, after.
7:01
Uh, and he experiences, like, true happiness from these, these sort of, like, chance winnings.
7:07
Um, and I think...

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22:11
How, how do you feel like the film portrays this? Is it, does it, does it ring true to you? I mean, I imagine there is something electric about being around addicts and also frustrating and, you know, d- does Howard embody those two dimensions for you?

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