564: Getting In The Big Top With Pee-wee As Himself

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Matt Wolf (The Stroll) got unprecedented access to Paul Reubens, generally better known as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman; Will Hines joins us to talk about what resulted from their 40 hours of interviews. Around The Dial takes us through Big Mouth's eighth and final season; The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox, and Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals. Sean makes his pitch for the "Long, Long Time" episode of The Last Of Us to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really knows the score. Put on your reddest bow tie and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Will Hines

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🚲 Pee-wee As Himself
Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth
Around The Dial: ⚾️ The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox
Around The Dial: 🏀 Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals
The Canon: 🍄 The Last Of Us S01.E03: Long, Long Time
Winner & Loser: 📣 Taran Killam
Winner & Loser: 🤬 Charles Barkley
Game Time: 🎶 Stay Tuned

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
📸 Will Hines on Instagram
🫦 Tara's review of Big Mouth S08 at Cracked
🗣️ Tara's interview with Big Mouth co-creators Jennifer Flackett, Andrew Goldberg, and Mark Levin, at Cracked
🪲 The Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About The Beatles podcast
👤 Will Hines's website
🔎 Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Dennis Keeley/HBO

Transcript

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0:00.0	Rolling. Oh, sorry, I got a game time thing. Tar, can you take off your headphones just for one
0:04.5	second? All right, it's not about game time. So here's a deal. The secret show of the day la Peewee's
0:09.8	playhouse is Peewee as himself. So as soon as Tara says, Peewee as himself, you have to go crazy.
0:14.8	You like the show. Okay. My father would sometimes say to me, that's right, Paul, everyone must be wrong but you. And this is what I
0:23.4	would say back sometimes as a young person. That's right, mom. That's right. So I think to a very
0:32.5	large degree it is true. I think really, if you don't agree with me, then you're wrong. No, I don't really think that.
0:42.1	All right, maybe I do think that a little bit. No, I know. I'm kidding. Or am I? I don't know if I'm
0:49.8	kidding. I know. But you don't.
1:07.8	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 564 for the week of May 26, 2025.
1:18.3	I am Predator Vision Mermaid, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Dating Game Disruptor, Sarah D. Bunting.
1:20.8	My name's Bachelor number three. What's yours?
1:24.3	A little tiny Paul Giamati, Tara Ariano.
1:27.8	And luckiest boy in the world, Will Hines.
1:30.6	Wait, so I'm not allowed to direct this?
1:38.5	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, joining us.
1:40.4	He is an actor and a podcaster.
1:42.3	You've heard with us many times before.
1:43.5	It's Will Heinz. Welcome back, Will.
1:45.9	Greetings, everybody.
1:47.1	Greetings.
1:47.7	I'm coming in low energy today because I'm Hollywood.
1:50.3	I'm Hollywood chill.
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