309: Holding Up Our Lighters for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 116 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell play enthusiastic but perhaps slightly self-deluded aspiring Icelandic pop stars in Netflix's new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, so who better than Eurovision devotee Mark Blankenship to join us to talk about it? Around The Dial takes us to Search Party, Hot Mess House, Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels, Unsolved Mysteries, and Outcry. Dave Lost Wages uses his Extra Credit to have us add a family member to a stale TV family. Mark presents the Dinosaurs series finale, "Changing Nature," for induction to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a Game Time that really Sporcles. Climb into your aerial harness and join us!
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🏆 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga
Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party
Around The Dial: 🏚 Hot Mess House
Around The Dial: 🌴 Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels
Around The Dial: 🕵️♂️ Unsolved Mysteries
Around The Dial: 🏈 Outcry
Extra Credit: 🤑 Welcome Cousin Oliver
The Canon: 🦎 Dinosaurs
Winner & Loser: 👍 Last Chance U Colin Kaepernick
Winner & Loser: 👎 Council Of Dads
Game Time: 🧠 Nobody Knows You
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 309 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma"
🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix"
🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test
💍 Stephanie Green's story "Fourteen Meals" in The New Ohio Review
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We know they're awful, but they're our awful. |
| 0:03.6 | I say change the channel and let's take our medicine! |
| 0:07.2 | Yeah! |
| 0:11.6 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 309 for the week of June 29th, 2020. |
| 0:25.4 | I am Helpful Elf, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Maritime Explosion, Sarah D. Bunting. |
| 0:31.7 | The elves went too far. |
| 0:34.1 | Stuffed Unitar Tariano. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, yeah, Bing Bong. |
| 0:38.7 | And motorized Viking costume, Mark Blankenship. |
| 0:42.5 | My shoulder pads are on fire. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome to Extra Hot Great. |
| 0:51.1 | That sound you heard up top just now was, of course, the sound of a butt |
| 0:55.3 | returning to the Blankenship chair. It is Mark Blankenship. Hello, Mark. Well, both my butt and I are |
| 1:03.0 | thrilled to be here today. One of us is more thrilled than the other. Probably a less |
| 1:09.0 | insulting way to put it, but I knew you wouldn't take it amiss. |
| 1:13.1 | We are here to talk about Eurovision Song Contest, Colon, the story of Fire Saga. |
| 1:19.1 | And of course, who better to have on to talk about it than Mark, the person we know, I think, |
| 1:25.8 | that is the biggest Eurovision expert. |
| 1:28.7 | He even gave us homework of several performances to watch in preparation for the movie, which |
| 1:33.7 | we will include in the show notes, the four most essential previous real Eurovision performances |
| 1:38.4 | that we needed to check out first. |
| 1:40.2 | But the movie, the Netflix original, stars Will Ferrell as Lars and Rachel McAdams as |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.