324: The Right Stuff May Not Have...Well, You Know

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Disney+ and NatGeo decided to remake beloved '80s Mercury-astronauts epic (and earlier Tom Wolfe book) The Right Stuff as a series...and Adam Moussa decided to talk about it with us, a choice he may regret, because the four of us struggled to care. We struggled even to tell various astronauts apart, even, when we weren't wondering why this needed to be made, whether we should recommend For All Mankind instead, and where various actors would be in the Twink Taxonomy. Then we splashed down into Around The Dial with stops at Connecting, The Good Wife, Dark Side Of The Ring, and Rise Of Empires: Ottoman, we ordered some bangers and Smash with a Canon presentation on RuPaul's Drag Race UK. AppleTV+ won, Max Ehrich was a giant loser, and we were absolutely horrified by the wordplay in Game Time. Strap in to the vomit comet: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Moussa

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👨‍🚀 The Right Stuff

Around The Dial: 😷 Connecting

Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 👨‍🎤 Dark Side Of The Ring

Around The Dial: 📜 Rise Of Empires: Ottoman

The Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race UK S01.E05: Girl Groups

Winner & Loser: 👍 AppleTV+

Winner & Loser: 👎 Under The Dome Max Ehrich

Game Time: 🧠 Terrorvision

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 324 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Moussa on Twitter

👨‍🚀 The Right Stuff movie on the Quaid In Full podcast

🚀 Tara's review of The Right Stuff at Primetimer

🍽 Adam at Eater

🌎 Eater's Guide To The World on Hulu

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, maybe I do have the right.
0:03.8	What's that stuff?
0:09.0	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 324 for the week of October 12th to 2020.
0:28.6	I am astronaut agent David T. Cole, and I'm here with historically accurate dye job, Sarah D. Vunting.
0:30.9	That's major, Claire, all to you?
0:33.7	Wardrobe Maverick Tar Arelliano.
0:36.1	Hell no, I'm not wearing a yellow shirt dress.
0:38.9	And first man to orbit the internet, Adam Musa.
0:41.7	Ready for my mission into the sun.
0:53.2	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us for the first time from Eater.com. It is Adam Musa. Hello, Adam.
0:56.1	Hello. Thank you for having me.
0:56.8	Yay!
0:59.2	So very, very happy to have you.
1:10.4	We are here to talk about the new mini-series adaptation of the right stuff on Disney Plus, although it's under the National Geographic banner, as they do sometimes at Disney Plus.
1:14.3	The series premise, I mean, do I need to get into it?
1:18.0	Space stuff, the Mercury 7.
1:21.5	It's the National Geographic stuff, certainly the equivalent of like one of those high school movies where the girl takes off her glasses except as putting on the glasses.
1:25.8	Yes, exactly.
1:28.2	Exactly. So you know that it's based on the glasses. Yes, exactly. Exactly.
1:29.8	So, you know, it's based on the Tom Wolfe book.
1:32.7	It was already a movie.
1:34.6	They're putting together the space program.
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