581: Giving You The Lowdown On The Lowdown

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, After Shows

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has reunited with his S03 guest star Ethan Hawke for The Lowdown, a shaggy Tulsa neo-noir. Should you put it high on your list of priorities? We discuss. (Spoiler: yes.) Around The Dial takes us to Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian, The Great Pottery Throw Down, and Lynley. Tara pitches the Regular Show episode "Sleep Cycle" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we finish up with a Game Time on various TV actors' personal and professional histories. Give yourself some rudimentary first aid and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Patrick Monahan

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 📚 The Lowdown
Around The Dial: 🤣 Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian
Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down
Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♀️ Lynley
The Canon: 🦝 Regular Show S07.E11: Sleep Cycle
Winner & Loser: 🫆 Pete Earley and Gerald Shur
Winner & Loser: 🧑‍🦯 Love Is Blind
Game Time: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🦋 Patrick Monahan on Bluesky
🥃 Tara's review of The Lowdown at Cracked
📰 “Why ‘Rez Dogs’ creator Sterlin Harjo made a love letter to Tulsa and its contradictions” at the Los Angeles Times
🤣 Tara's review of Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian at Cracked
👀 Alan Sepinwall's newsletter, What's Alan Watching?
⏳ The What A Time To Be Alive podcast
🏦 The Extra Hot Great Mutual Aid Vault
🛂 PBS Passport
📷 Photo: Shane Brown / FX

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'll give you a thousand dollars for those shades this had in a brief makeup tutorial.
0:12.7	Okay.
0:19.0	This is the Extra Hawk Rate Podcast, episode 581 for the week of September 22nd, 2025.
0:31.1	I am piece of shit, David T. Cole, and I'm here with poorly groomed bookstore owner, Sarah DeBunting.
0:37.2	I'm not a murderer. I've been murdered.
0:39.4	Drunk widow, Tara Arellano.
0:41.2	He was a good man.
0:42.6	And doesn't read the calendar and never will.
0:45.7	Patrick Monaghan.
0:46.6	40 minutes is good.
0:53.6	Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week joining us.
0:58.0	He is a podcast host.
0:59.4	You've heard him with us before.
1:00.8	It's Patrick Monaghan.
1:01.7	Welcome about Patrick.
1:02.4	Hello.
1:03.4	Patrick.
1:05.1	Hello.
1:07.2	We're delighted to have you to talk about the lowdown in which Lee Raybon, Ethan Hawk, is a rare book stealer and journalist in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1:16.9	As we meet him, he has just published a huge expose of the powerful Washberg family, including Donald, Kyle McLaughlin, a businessman running for governor.
1:26.3	But since that piece coincided with the
1:27.9	apparent suicide of Dale, Tim Blake Nelson, Donald's brother, a lot of people have their eyes on Lee.
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