579: Putting Out The Paper

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Will Leitch, sportswriter and newspaper journalist, is back to talk about The Office-verse sitcom The Paper -- and whether you should bother with the season that just dropped in its entirety on Peacock. Has the world moved on from the TV mockumentary? Does this show understand what it is to love reporting? And does any of that matter if the show's not quite funny enough? Later, we went Around The Dial with Only Murders In The Building's fifth season, 30 Rock's YouTube channel, and Love Con Revenge before Will tried to find room in the Canon budget for Dept. Q's premiere episode. Going Dutch won, Selena Gomez lost, and we found out who skips the closing credits in Game Time. Take a break from lining that birdcage and have a listen!

GUESTS
👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS
Announcement: 🥴 Drunk Dave Cometh
Lead Topic: 📰 The Paper
Around The Dial: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building
Around The Dial: 🪨 30 Rock
Around The Dial: 🖤 Love Con Revenge
The Canon: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dept. Q S01.E01: Episode 1
Winner & Loser: 🪖 Going Dutch
Winner & Loser: 🍪 Selena Gomez
Game Time: 🎶 Outré Outros

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
📚 Keep up with all things Will Leitch
🧻 Tara's review of The Paper at Cracked
🏢 Tara's Only Murders S05 review
🪨 30 Rock's YouTube channel
👠 Step On Me Giganta
🖤 Sarah's review of Love Con Revenge at Best Evidence
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our discussion of Dept. Q in EHG 565
🏝 The Lonely Island And Seth Meyers Podcast "Listener Q&A Episode 5"
📷 Photo: Aaron Epstein / Peacock

Transcript

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0:00.0	What? Do you see what I'm saying?
0:03.0	You just, I want to find them. I want to find them and grab them and just explain to them how funny it is.
0:13.8	The whole scenario, how amusing it is to me.
0:29.2	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 579 for the week of September 8th, 2025.
0:40.7	I am weird but good photographer David T. Cole, and I'm with Garbage Cuffete Nonsense, Sarah D. Bunting.
0:42.9	Your mom's a one simple trick.
0:46.5	Sales God at softychicago.com, Tara Arellano.
0:49.0	I'm like if bottle service was a person.
0:52.1	And Guy just here to ask you some questions about fish.
0:52.9	Will Leach.
0:56.0	Bewildered bemused stare to camera.
1:01.2	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week.
1:05.2	We will introduce our guest in just a second, but first we want to tell you a little sight business because we hit that campaign goal.
1:12.9	Woo!
1:13.7	Confetti cannon!
1:16.7	New Patreon perks are unlocked.
1:20.1	Stephanie Early Green is going to deliver us her first commentary for the episode of Extra Extra Hot Great that is dropping this Friday, September 12th.
1:28.6	Carrie Race will have her first one around a month after that.
1:31.7	The two of them will continue to alternate through the year with their commentaries.
1:35.7	We will have to get the drunk Dave episode on the books once Austin HQ is probably on the other side of our thrilling sewer renovation.
1:42.9	Don't be jealous.
1:44.0	You want a little preview?
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