292: Playing Games With Dispatches From Elsewhere
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind, The Outsider, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, A French Village, and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 📬 Dispatches From Elsewhere
Around The Dial: 🙈 Love Is Blind
Around The Dial: 🍃 The Outsider
Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant
Around The Dial: 🇫🇷 A French Village
Around The Dial: 🌍 TV in East Africa
I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Transparent Computer Screens
The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E10: Nobody Is Ever Missing
Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek
Winner & Loser: 👎 Disgracios
Game Time: 🧠 They Get Around
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 292 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🧐 Culturally Relevant with David Chen
🎈 Tara on Party Of Five at Primetimer
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I should like to confess now that I lied to you once and only once join my introduction. |
| 0:08.5 | I can assure you, however, that I remain a reliable narrator. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 292 for the week of March 2nd, 2020. |
| 0:30.1 | I am Bad Pie Options, David T. Cole, and I'm here with vaguely threatening introductory video, Sarah DeBunting. |
| 0:38.0 | Not if you agree. |
| 0:40.0 | Conspiracy theorist Tara Arellano. |
| 0:42.6 | This is a government operation. |
| 0:44.4 | And walking alternate reality game, Dave Chen. |
| 0:48.6 | I suggest we skip introductions. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to Extra Hot Great, joining us for the very first time, my co-host on The Sweet Smell of Succession podcast, David Chen. Hello, David. |
| 1:05.4 | Hello, Dave. |
| 1:07.2 | Yay! |
| 1:08.3 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:10.8 | We are here to talk about AMC's newest show dispatches from elsewhere. |
| 1:17.3 | This is a hard one to summarize. |
| 1:18.9 | I'm going to do my best. |
| 1:21.5 | Jason Siegel, who also created the show, stars as Peter. |
| 1:25.5 | He works at a Spotify type of company in Philadelphia. He is |
| 1:29.6 | lonely and bored. His life is very routine. One night he happens to be out. He sees someone |
| 1:35.6 | putting up a wanted poster for what seems to be himself, the person who's putting up the poster. |
| 1:41.1 | He pulls a tab. He calls a number. He gets drawn into a very strange, |
| 1:47.2 | essentially what Dave described as like a text adventure game playing out in real life on the streets |
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