550: Getting Back Into The White Lotus Position

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The White Lotus is finally back, and so is novelist and Variety columnist Dan D'Addario to talk about a new locale for familiar hateful-richies storylines. We also talked about who we think gets killed, the most and least successful guest storylines, David Lynch, and what happens when a pandemic lark breaks big for premium cable, before going Around The Dial with Cobra Kai, Yellowjackets, and Lorne Michaels. Dan couldn't help but wonder if his And Just Like That... Canon pitch would succeed; Queens won and Ray Romano lost (guess everybody DIDN'T love him back in the day); and a familiar Game Time had us flipping through the PICI-to-English dictionary. Before you pass out at the dinner table, have a listen!

GUESTS
👤 Daniel D’Addario

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🪷 The White Lotus
Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai
Around The Dial: 🌃 Lorne (A BOOK!)
Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets
The Canon: 💅 And Just Like That S02.E03: Chapter Three
Winner & Loser: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Jamaica Bay, NY
Winner & Loser: 👨🏻 Ray Romano
Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 📺 Netflix + Apple
Game Time: 🗣️ Lost In Translation 2025

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
📕 All things Dan D'addario
🏆 Read Dan D'Addario's forthcoming novel, The Talent, available at Bookshop!
📺 Variety's 100 Best TV Performances of the 21st century
✍🏻 The New Yorker's recent Mike White profile
🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked
🦅 Tara's Jacob Bertrand interview
📚 True-crime reading recs at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: HBO

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0:00.0	I pray that your time here brings you good memories and good results.
0:06.2	Thank you.
0:08.0	I pray for that too.
0:14.6	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 550 for the week of February 17, 2025.
0:26.5	I am Career FootWisher David T. Cole, and I'm here with chattering monkey mind,
0:32.3	Serity Bunting. Concentrate on the breath.
0:35.5	Capequa Sugar Baby, Tara Ariano.
0:37.8	We.
0:38.5	And brother with ambiguous motives, Dan Dadario.
0:42.7	Looking diesel, bro.
0:49.0	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
0:53.3	Joining us, he is a feature writer at Variety and the author of the upcoming novel The Talent.
0:58.4	You have heard him with us before.
1:00.1	It's Daniel.
1:01.3	Welcome back, Dan.
1:03.1	Daniel.
1:04.4	Thanks for having me, guys.
1:05.6	I'm really excited to discuss the White Lotus.
1:07.9	We are, in fact, here to discuss the White Lotus, about which we can say we've
1:11.8	visited locations of this resort chain in Maui and Tower Mena. Now we're spending a season in Thailand.
1:18.4	This location has a special focus on wellness, which some of the guests we meet need more than
1:23.0	others. There are too many new guests to mention up top, but we will say returning from season one is Belinda, Natasha Rothwell, at the resort to take a special three-month spa course.
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