426: I'll Make My Own Star Wars With Hookers And Blackjack

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

The Star Wars universe has expanded yet again, and Never Not Funny's Matt Belknap joins us for the first time to talk about Andor, a Rogue One prequel of sorts that's much more meditative and "adult" than you'd expect from the franchise. Dave quizzes us on our favorite character from the new show, plus we talk about world-building, the first real swear word in Lucasfilm IP, whether we'd buy Andortoys, and backstory gaps that don't need filling. We went Around The Dial with 9-1-1, Never Have I Ever, the Law & Order crossover event, and JJ Walker's 3 AM job, then wondered Will Dave Hate This? about a David Zucker Nordic-noir spoof. Tara hoped she wouldn't drop the ball on a fifth-season Friends Nonac pitch, we crowned our Winner and Loser of the Week, and Game Time took us to a galaxy far, far away (that still shows current TV). It's not a cat: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Matt Belknap

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚀 Andor

Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1

Around The Dial: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever

Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order Triple Crossover

Around The Dial: 💵 Wee Hours Benefit Helpline Ad

Will Dave Hate This?: 👮🏻 NoPoFo

The Nonac: ⚽️ Friends S05.E21: The One With The Ball

Winner & Loser: 👍 True Detective

Winner & Loser: 👎 Cobra Kai

Game Time: 🤩 Captain Needa's Oops! All Star Wars

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 426 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🫑 Matt Belknap on Never Not Funny

🐦 Never Not Funny on Twitter

🎙 Tara interviews Johnny Knoxville at VanityFair.com

🌴 Again With Them at the Again With This Patreon

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📚 Save 10% on new books at Exhibit B. Books

🐍 Cobra Kai, boiled down to its tropes by @NetflixIsAJoke

📷 Photo: Disney+

Transcript

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0:00.0	I was hoping for a more relaxed conversation, but you're right, we don't have time.
0:10.4	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 426 for the week of September 26, 2022.
0:20.3	I am Boolean operator David T. Cole, and I'm here with gossipy trash compactor Sarah
0:26.4	Debunting. Thank you, Simone. Overly serious bell ringer Tara Ariano. Time to blow their minds.
0:33.1	And outer rim droid therapist Matt Belknap. I don't think you can be too,
0:38.1	Emo.
0:40.8	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
0:43.6	Joining us for the first time, he is a producer and co-host on the very long
0:47.7	running podcast, Never Not Funny.
0:49.4	It's my mother.
0:50.4	Welcome, welcome.
0:51.9	Good.
0:53.0	I'm thrilled to have you here to talk about Andor.
0:57.2	And for those who don't know, if you watch the feature film Rogue One in 2016 and wondered what happened in the life of Cassie and Andor before he was rebelling against the Empire, Wonder No More, in Disney Plus's new series, we pick back up with the titular Andor, Diego Luna, years before the events of the movie and learn about his life as an orphan in a tribe of kids on an abandoned mining planet, his current search for his sister, and his impressive gifts as a black market and beguffen dealer.
1:22.6	The show comes from Tony Gilroy, who before he wrote the Rogue One screenplay, also wrote the first three born movies
1:27.5	and wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated feature, Michael Clayton.
1:31.8	The first three episodes have dropped.
1:33.5	That's all we've seen as we are recording this by the time you hear us.
1:36.8	The fourth will be up on Disney Plus.
1:38.8	Let's do the Chen check-in.
1:40.9	Matt, should our listeners watch and or?
1:43.7	Yes.
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