442: Making Mushroom For The Last Of Us

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Chernobyl's Craig Mazin has teamed with Neil Druckman, creator of the video game The Last Of Us, to adapt said game as a post-apocalyptic drama series; Omar Gallaga is here to discuss the series premiere! Around The Dial takes us through MILF Manor (a real show, not a 30 Rock gag); Alice In Borderland, a whole pile of Nordic crime dramas, and the British true crime period piece Stonehouse. Omar pitches South Side's S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building, for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that stays too long at the party. Put your car battery somewhere safe and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Omar Gallaga

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧟‍♂️ The Last Of Us

Around The Dial: 👩 MILF Manor

Around The Dial: 🎩 Alice In Borderland

Around The Dial: ❄️ Nordic Noirs

Around The Dial: 💷 Stonehouse

The Canon: 💨 South Side S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building

Winner & Loser: 👍 Morgan Freeman

Winner & Loser: 👎 Chelsea Handler

Game Time: 👋 The Last Of Them

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 442 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

🧟‍♂️ Omar's The Last Of Us premiere review at BookAndFilmGlobe.com

🌹 Tara's spring 2023 TV preview at GQ.com

📷 Photo: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Transcript

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0:00.0	Don't fall asleep.
0:03.5	Of course I want.
0:04.5	It's too riveting.
0:11.7	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 442 for the week of January 16th,
0:19.9	2020. 442 for the week of January 16th, 2000, 23.
0:25.0	I am all-mushrum pizza man, David T. Cole,
0:29.5	and I'm here with Dog Whooprudeau try to warn you, Tarayoriano.
0:33.3	And drug-dealing text patriot Omar Gallagga.
0:37.8	Could I interest y'all in some oxy?
0:43.3	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
0:51.7	Before we get into this topic, we wanted to just have a brief note. Sarah
0:55.6	is not with us. She had some life stuff come up. She will be back in a couple of weeks and we will
1:00.5	let you know what's going to be happening in the interim, in around the dial. But for now,
1:05.2	let us introduce our wonderful guest. He is a writer and journalist. You have heard with us many
1:09.1	times. It's Omar Gaia.
1:11.4	Omar. Oh, my. Hey, y'all. Hello from Texas. Welcome back. Yeah. Very, very on point.
1:18.7	Not far away. Yes. For this topic, which is HBO's The Last of Us. We open on a 1968 TV panel
1:26.5	featuring two different experts on pandemics. One's pretty sure the next one will be viral. The other's more worried about one that might originate in fungi. A virus can make a human ill. Fungi can change our brains. And as for the scoffing that fungi couldn't survive in human hosts because our resting temperatures do high. Well, what if climate change caused fungi to evolve? Cut to 2003. Guess what?
1:47.8	We see the first night of absolute chaos as our very own Austin falls to a fungal-borne disease.
1:53.5	As Joel, Pedro Pascal, and his daughter, Sarah, Biko Parker, are trying to get the hell out of town with his brother, Tommy, Gabriel Luna.
2:00.4	They run into a soldier who fatally shoots Sarah, and then we jumped 20 years after that.
2:05.4	The disease now identified as cordyceps is still rampant.
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