521: Whiling Away Dark Times With The Decameron

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

The Decameron has come to Netflix in the form of a limited series from Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan. How has the centuries-old material change in the adaptation? Kathryn VanArendonk returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to Futurama's latest season, My Lady Jane, and Shōgun. Kathryn makes the case for inducting the Bluey episode "Camping" into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's "sticks of TNT"! Put down the onion you're using to dissipate pestilence miasma and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Kathryn VanArendonk

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐀 The Decameron

Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama

Around The Dial: 🏰 My Lady Jane

Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun

The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E43: Camping

Winner & Loser: 👍 General Hospital

Winner & Loser: 👎 Billy Ray Cyrus

Game Time: 🧠 CatchphraseGPT

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NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

🦤 Kathryn at Vulture

🐁 Kathryn's review of The Decameron at Vulture

🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S12 at Cracked

⏳ Tara's review of AppleTV+'s Time Bandits at Cracked

🤬 "SHOGUN - Swearing Compilation" on YouTube

🚔 The Docket

🏥 "Emma Samms Returns to 'General Hospital' as Holly" on Variety

📷 Photo: Giulia Parmigiani / Netflix

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0:00.0	Will there be any serious thinkers there, or will they all be simple?
0:09.0	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 521 for the week of July 29, 2024.
0:27.2	I am some guy, David T. Cole, and I'm here with underpopulated banquet, Sarah DeBunting.
0:28.3	More wine?
0:32.0	Legitimate viscontessa, Tara Arellano.
0:34.0	Totally legitimate. Do not look into it.
0:37.3	And repentant, well hostage, Catherine Van Aeron-Dong.
0:38.2	Help, help.
0:39.4	I'm being repressed.
0:48.1	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us.
0:50.1	She is a writer and a critic at Vulture.
0:52.3	You've heard her with us many times before.
0:53.7	It's Catherine Van Aeronneon. Catherine, welcome back.
0:54.7	Catherine.
0:56.2	Wow, thanks, guys.
0:58.1	So happy to be here.
0:59.7	We're thrilled to have you back to talk about the DeCamron, in which it's 1348 and Italy
1:05.5	is being ravaged by the bubonic plague.
1:07.9	While the cities are choked with corpses, those with the means to leave
1:10.9	are leaving, like all our characters here, who've been invited to visit Visconti Leonardo out
1:16.7	in the country at Villasanta. Those guests include noble newlyweds, Naefili and Panfilo. Also,
1:24.2	Pompanea Leonardo's betrothed and her handmaid Misia, Tindaro, the sickly heir to his uncle's
	...

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