580: Is It Time To Hit Snooze On The Morning Show?

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Morning Show is back to bring us its version of 2024. Can any of us possibly be ready to go back there? Maybe not, but we don't have the strength to resist gorging on The Morning Show's baloney, either. Morning Show-ologist Christina Tucker returns to talk about it. Around The Dial clicks through Futurama S13, Rivals, and Celebrity Weakest Link, then takes a trip to the cinema for Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Margaret pitches The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air episode "The Big Four-Oh" -- yes, the one where Aunt Viv slays a dance audition in a clip you've probably watched at least once if not 20 times -- for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close on a Game Time everyone should swipe right on. Get yourself the strongest coffee commercially available and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Christina Tucker

TOPICS
Lead Topic: ☀️ The Morning Show
Around The Dial: 🚀 Futurama
Around The Dial: 💷 Rivals
Around The Dial: 🔗 The Weakest Link
Around The Dial: 🏰 Downton Abbey
The Canon: 💃 The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air S02.E07: The Big Four-Oh
Winner & Loser: 👨🏻‍⚖️ Presumed Innocent
Winner & Loser: 👊 The guy who sucker-punched James McAvoy in Toronto
Game Time: 👩🏻‍🦳 Silver Vixens

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Christina Tucker on Bluesky
🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S13
🤦🏻‍♂️ Tara's essay on aka Charlie Sheen
📰 Christina's newsletter, Chaos! It's The New Cocaine!
💿 The hip-hop episode of Celebrity Weakest Link on YouTube
👑 1999: The Podcast on The Thomas Crown Affair, guest-starring Sarah
📷 Photo: Apple

Transcript

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0:00.0	All hands on deck. How soon can we get going?
0:03.8	Okay. We need to hit the ground running. Warjoge tests, photo shoots, and exclusive with variety, make it big.
0:09.8	UBN's brightest star back in orbit.
0:17.4	This is the ExtraHawk Great Podcast, episode 580 for the week of September 15, 2025.
0:29.1	I am Fuck Cluster, David T. Cole, and I'm here with True Crime Obsessive with Wi-Fi, Sarah Debunting.
0:36.1	Hey.
0:36.8	Losome L.A. phony Tara Ariano.
0:39.3	Let's do lunch.
0:40.2	And Chinatown creator for the post-truth era Christina Tucker.
0:45.2	I need Julia.
0:51.0	He better mean Julia Fox.
0:53.3	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week. Joining us, she is a writer and podcaster you've heard with us many times. It's Christina Tucker. Welcome back, Christina. Yeah, you know it's September. You're like, ooh, what's happening in the air? Are leaves turning? Is somewhere Christina watching the morning show?
1:13.6	And yes, yes, my friends, I am.
1:15.5	That's right.
1:16.4	I don't know if we would have covered the morning show if Christina could not join us for
1:20.5	this, but she's here.
1:22.0	So let's get into it.
1:23.4	It's April 2024 on the show.
1:25.4	And things at the post merge UBN are tense.
1:29.8	Stella, Greta Lee, now CEO, is going hard after AI initiatives like translating Alex,
1:35.3	Jennifer Anderson, into dozens of languages as part of their Olympics coverage,
1:39.5	which everyone is hoping is going to be a ratings winner.
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