573: Is Hitmakers Out Of Tune?

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Critic and podcaster Mark Blankenship returns to The Blankenship Chair to discuss Hitmakers, a reality show about songwriters that needs less contrived drama and more process -- but did appeal to a couple of our panelists as eye candy. Should you give it a try, or wait until one of its pop creations comes on in an elevator? We went Around The Dial with Happy Gilmore 2, Million Dollar Secret, The Challenge 41, and The Gilded Age spoilers before tapping our toes to a Canon pitch for Buffy's musical episode. A nepo Beatty won, Resident Alien lost, and Non-Regulation Game Time struck a chord with another round of Tube Tunes. We don't want to call it "fire," but it IS an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS
👤 Mark Blankenship

TOPICS
Announcement: ❤️‍🔥 EHG Club Update
Lead Topic: 🤩 Hitmakers
Around The Dial: 🏒 Happy Gilmore 2
Around The Dial: 🤑 Million Dollar Secret
Around The Dial: 🏂 The Challenge
Around The Dial: 🐎 The Gilded Age
The Canon: 👩🏻‍🎤 Buffy The Vampire Slayer S06.E07: Once More With Feeling
Winner & Loser: 🪓 Ella Beatty
Winner & Loser: 👽 Resident Alien
Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XVI

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
💿 Mark Blankenship's Lost Songs Project
⛳️ The one Happy Gilmore 2 joke that made Tara laugh
👍 Tara's appreciation of Christopher McDonald
😳 A ranking of all the HG2 non-sports cameos
🔪 The latest true-crime reviews at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Netflix

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0:00.0	So we all have limited time to write a song, and at the end of the day, we have to play the song that we wrote for each other at the listening party.
0:08.0	You know, listening parties can be stressful because there's nothing worse than hitting play on a whack song in front of your peers.
0:15.0	One, two, three, four, black, yeah.
0:17.0	Ha ha ha. This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 573 for the week of July 28, 2025.
0:36.5	I am Caribbean Recording Studio presented by Monster Energy, David T. Cole, and I'm here with Grammy-nominated Uber driver, Serity Bunding.
0:45.2	Buckle up.
0:46.3	Hook, Captain Tarreiano.
0:48.0	Arr!
0:48.8	And bland backing track, Mark Blankenship.
0:52.0	I'm playing in the drugstore.
0:59.2	Yeah. track Mark Blikenship. I'm playing in the drugstore. Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
1:02.6	We'll bring our guest in in just a moment.
1:04.8	But first, we try not to barrage you with these reminders, but since it is the end of the
1:08.7	month, we would love for you to join us on Patreon
1:11.2	to get so much more stuff, add free Wednesday episodes, access to our Discord server, first crack at
1:18.0	special events like listener game times, and a big second episode that is always brand new every Friday.
1:25.4	This week we'll be talking about Chief of War, one of the shows Dave was into last
1:29.0	month in our summer TV preview. We'll also be talking about, I think you should leave for the
1:33.1	tiny sketch canon and lots more. And we are still teetering on the precipice of unlocking that next
1:39.0	tier in our ongoing membership campaign, which would add regular commentaries from Stephanie
1:43.5	Early Green and
1:44.3	Carrie Race to that Friday episode. It would also unlock a one-off drunk Dave
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