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  • 509: Raising The Dead Boy Detectives

    509: Raising The Dead Boy Detectives
    May 1 2024
    Dr. Dan Cassino is back to discuss Netflix's Sandman spinoff (of sorts), Dead Boy Detectives, a ghosty witchy horny procedural. We talked about its Gaiman (and Buffy) DNA, if it's better at being scary or horny, and which tools from the historical "magic on TV" kit it uses best. Later, we went Around The Dial with Hacks, This Old House, and Baby Reindeer before turning our attention to the UN-dead for a The Walking Dead Canon submission. Jason Ritter won, Peacock lost, and Game Time took us on a Roman holiday of sorts. No need to open a portal, just hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

    GUESTS

    👤 Dan Cassino

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 💀 Dead Boy Detectives

    Around The Dial: 😆 Hacks

    Around The Dial: 🏚️ This Old House

    Around The Dial: 🦌 Baby Reindeer

    The Canon: 🧟‍♂️ The Walking Dead S10.E19: One More

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Ritter

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacock

    Game Time: ⛪️ Traditional Latin Mash

    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    🤵🏻‍♂️ Dan Cassino on New Jersey Now

    🦤 "Let's Disagree About Hacks" on Vulture

    😆 Tara's Hacks S03 review for Cracked

    ✍🏻 Tara's round-up with Baby Reindeer and The Contestant

    🦌 Sarah's Baby Reindeer review at Best Evidence

    📷 Photo: Ed Araquel / Netflix
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 508: Fastening Our Seatbelts For Conan O'Brien Must Go

    508: Fastening Our Seatbelts For Conan O'Brien Must Go
    Apr 24 2024
    As a TV host, Conan O'Brien has moved on from a nightly interview and variety show on TBS to a comedy travel show on Max; as the whole season drops, Will Hines joins us to discuss how well it fits into the genre, and what it was like doing sketches during Conan's run of Late Night. Around The Dial takes us through Dinner With The Parents, X-Men '97, and The Jinx II. Kari pitches the "Heat Stroke" episode of Taskmaster NZ for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to an extraordinarily resourceful Game Time. No passport needed to listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Will Hines

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🗺️ Conan O'Brien Must Go

    Around The Dial: 🍽️ Dinner With The Parents

    Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ X-Men '97

    Around The Dial: 🪦 The Jinx

    The Canon: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand S02.E02: Heat Stroke

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Oz

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Tom Sandoval

    Game Time: 🧰 MacGyver With Quotes

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 508 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    🕰️ Will Hines on TikTok

    📸 Will on Instagram

    🌎 Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked.com

    🍽️ Tara's review of Dinner With The Parents at Cracked.com

    👙 Tara's review of Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen at Cracked.com

    🎼 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon

    🫚 Ginger Crunch recipe at CarolinesCooking.com

    📷 Photo: Conaco / Max
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 507: Inventing Reasons To Watch Franklin

    507: Inventing Reasons To Watch Franklin
    Apr 17 2024
    It's yet another expensive-looking and ambitious limited series from Apple TV+ -- this time, Franklin, starring Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas as the flatulence-forward inventor of electricity. Is this limited series focused on the wrong thing? Is Franklin as a colonial weirdo better in smaller doses? And why isn't there more farting? Later, we went Around The Dial with Loot's second season, Top Chef's Wisconsin season, and Carol & The End of the World, and then we took cover for an incoming Canon pitch about the Justified S01 finale. Cold Case won, Billy Joel fans lost, and Tara ran the numbers with us in a non-regulation Game Time. Pin a scale-model tall ship to your head and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

    GUESTS

    👤 Krystal Farmer

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🪁 Franklin

    Around The Dial: 👑 Loot

    Around The Dial: 🤯 Carol & The End of the World

    Around The Dial: 🔪 Top Chef

    The Canon: 🤠 S01.E13: Bulletville

    Winner & Loser: 🥶 Cold Case

    Winner & Loser: 🎹 Billy Joel

    Game Time: 💯 Keeping Everything 100

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 507 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    🪙 Krystal Farmer's podcast, Two Cents Plus Tax

    🤫 Anne Hathaway quieting a crowd in Italy

    👑 Tara's Loot S02 review at Cracked

    📚 The "as seen on TV" sale at Exhibit B. Books

    📷 Photo: Apple

    CLUB-ONLY NOTES

    🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To

    💬 Get On Our Community Discord
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 506: Telling The Truth About Ripley

    506: Telling The Truth About Ripley
    Apr 11 2024
    Tom Ripley, a Talented character we already saw on screen in his namesake movie in 1999, is back, now in a limited series on Netflix; Dan Rogge joins us to discuss how this version compares to Anthony Minghella's film, what we thought of its use of black and white, and how it works to age up the character so he can be played by Andrew Scott. Around The Dial takes us through Monsters At Work S02, Only Murders In The Building S03, and Space Show (aka For All Mankind). Britt pitches the Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV therapists: how does that make you feel? Row out into the middle of the open sea and listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Dan Rogge

    TOPICS

    Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update

    Lead Topic: ⛵️ Ripley

    Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work

    Around The Dial: 🏙️ Only Murders In The Building

    Around The Dial: 🚀 For All Mankind

    The Canon: 🌛 Moonlighting S02.E04: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

    Winner & Loser: 👍 The NCIS franchise

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Homophobic 9-1-1 viewers

    Game Time: 🧠 TV Head Shrinkers (Brought To You By BetterHelp)

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 506 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    ⛱️ All Summer In A Day (1982) on YouTube

    📹 Michael Penn's “Try” video on YouTube

    🧌 Tara's essay on Monsters At Work S02 at Cracked

    🔗 Dan Rogge on LinkedIn

    🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon

    📷 Photo: Philippe Antonello / Netflix

    CLUB-ONLY NOTES

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • 505: Should You Let Parish Take The Wheel?

    505: Should You Let Parish Take The Wheel?
    Apr 3 2024
    AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish, features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anything with 2010s crime-show cliches? Who has notes on car-chase credibility? And on a scale of one to ten plastic babies, how "Nawlins" is the show? Later, we're going Around The Dial with Taskmaster's seventeenth season, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, and how to rewatch Boardwalk Empire; and finding out whether Tara's Canon pitch for This Fool is worth one MEEELLION dollars. RHONY won, Tori Spelling lost, and we obeyed a VERY strict speed limit for Game Time -- so buckle your seatbelt for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

    GUESTS

    👤 Omar Gallaga

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🚗 Parish

    Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster

    Around The Dial: 😬 Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show

    Around The Dial: 🍾 Boardwalk Empire

    The Canon: 🕺 This Fool S01.E05: Sandy Says

    Winner & Loser: 👍 The Real Housewives Of New York City

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling

    Game Time: 🐢 Slowly At First II

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 505 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    💻 Omar Gallaga at CNET

    🎞️ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe

    💌 Tara's interview with Alex and Greg of Taskmaster at Cracked.com

    🪄 Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show

    ⚾️ Ottawa University's Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference

    🔎 Best Evidence

    📷 Photo: AMC

    CLUB-ONLY NOTES

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • 504: Punching Up At Road House

    504: Punching Up At Road House
    Mar 27 2024
    Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memories of the original. Around The Dial takes us through Girls5eva, Lost, Homicide: New York, and Chicken Nugget. Taylor makes the case for inducting Andor's "One Way Out" into the Canon; then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a game about who's at whose throat. No throats are ripped out in the course of this episode, so feel free to listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Taylor Cole

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 👊 Road House

    Around The Dial: 🎙️ Girls5Eva

    Around The Dial: 🗺️ Lost

    Around The Dial: 🗽 Homicide: New York

    Around The Dial: 🟠 Chicken Nugget

    The Canon: ➡️ Andor S01.E10: One Way Out

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Cypress Hill

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green

    Game Time: 😡 Nemeses

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 504 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    🐦 Taylor S. Cole on Twitter

    💾 "Original 'Road House' Writer Sues Amazon, Alleges Streamer Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices" at Variety.com

    🎬 "The New 'Road House' Shows the Perils of Adapting Ridiculous 80s Movies" at DecodingEverything.com

    ✍🏻 Tara's interview with Girls5eva creator Meredith Scardino at Cracked

    🍹 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked

    🏙️ The Docket on Homicide: New York

    📷 Photo: Laura Radford / Prime Video
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • 503: Extra Credit Bonanza

    503: Extra Credit Bonanza
    Mar 20 2024
    Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very special episode, we're addressing not one, not two, but NINE Extra Credit submissions with answers as considered as they are ridiculous. Cha-ching!

    TOPICS

    Extra Credit: 🎣 Hook Line And Sinker

    Extra Credit: 😮‍💨 Creative Compromise

    Extra Credit: 🏺 Historical Absurdity

    Extra Credit: 🫥 Insert Yourselves

    Extra Credit: 🗺️ Keoghan's Heroes

    Extra Credit: 🔪 New Benedict Arnolds

    Extra Credit: ✍🏻 Initial Similarities

    Extra Credit: 👵🏻 Everything Old Is Old Again

    Extra Credit: 🟤 Great TV Bezoars

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 503 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    🚬 NewsRadio: "Smoking" clip on YouTube
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    45 mins
  • 502: Getting Rough With The Gentlemen

    502: Getting Rough With The Gentlemen
    Mar 13 2024
    Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control, The Curse, and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order episode "Trophy" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we play BALL (sometimes; sometimes not) with a sportsy Non-Regulation Game Time. Get to your club, pour some 18-year-old scotch, and join us!

    GUESTS

    👤 Will Leitch

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🎩 The Gentlemen

    Around The Dial: 🦝 Animal Control

    Around The Dial: 😈 The Curse

    Around The Dial: 🎤 As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial

    Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun

    The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order S06.E12: Trophy

    Winner & Loser: 👍 James Wolk

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Gary Goldsmith

    Game Time: 🙋🏼‍♀️ The World Series Of 19 Questions

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 502 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

    🦋 Will Leitch on Bluesky

    🥇 Will and Tim Grierson's Guy Ritchie movie ranking, at Vulture

    🤣 Tara at Cracked.com

    📚 Will's books at HarperCollins

    🕺 The Will Leitch Experience

    🎤 Sarah's review of As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial at Best Evidence

    🔫 Best Evidence, where Sarah's interview with Manhunt author James L. Swanson will run later this week

    📷 Photo: Kevin Baker / Netflix
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    1 hr and 14 mins