603: A Little More Conversation About Paradise
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Paradise is back for a whole new season of [major spoiler redacted]. After we made guest Alyson Lewis cram 11 episodes in a week, is she mad at us, or delighted to welcome her favorite new show into her life? Listen to find out. Around The Dial takes us through Reality Check: America's Next Top Model, Tales Of The Unexpected, and The Rockford Files. Tara pitches Northern Exposure's S02 premiere, "Goodbye To All That," for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a Non-Regulation Game Time about matching titles to shows. Saddle up your ride and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Alyson Lewis
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🏝️ Paradise
Around The Dial: 💃 Reality Check: America's Next Top Model
Around The Dial: ⁉️ Tales Of The Unexpected
Around The Dial: 🕵🏻♂️ The Rockford Files
The Canon: 🫎 Northern Exposure S02.E01: Goodbye To All That
Winner & Loser: 🥖 The Hunt
Winner & Loser: 🌽 Caleb Flynn
Game Time: 3️⃣ Three-Title Problem
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🏒 The Overdue podcast episode on the Heated Rivalry book
😵💫 Alyson's newsletter, Yes I Was High
👋 "Goodbye To All That" by Joan Didion, from Slouching Towards Bethlehem
📷 Photo: Ser Baffo / Disney
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | They call me Link. |
| 0:03.9 | We'll do intros later. |
| 0:09.2 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 603 for the week of February 23rd, 2006. |
| 0:22.7 | I am the once in future |
| 0:24.5 | terrible state of Arkansas, David T. Cole. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm here with Elvis impersonator Tara Ariano. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm all shook up. |
| 0:31.8 | And cherry jello hater. |
| 0:33.6 | Allison Lewis. |
| 0:34.6 | Lime really is superior. |
| 0:37.0 | True. True. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week, as you will have surmised from the intro, Sarah is Della. |
| 0:52.2 | We are still wishing her the best, but we have a wonderful guest this week. |
| 0:55.5 | She is a newsletterer. |
| 0:57.3 | She is my former cracked colleague. |
| 0:59.6 | You've heard her with us before. |
| 1:01.1 | It's Allison Lewis. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome back. |
| 1:03.9 | Hi. |
| 1:04.5 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:05.8 | We're here to talk about Paradise Season 2, |
| 1:08.7 | which we can't do without kind of spoiling Paradise Season 1, |
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