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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Back by popular demand, Joanna Robinson welcomes Mallory Rubin onto the pod to discuss Episode 5 of Canadian hockey romance ‘Heated Rivalry.’ (00:00) Intro(5:30) Mal’s 'Heated Rivalry' journey(30:10) Rose’s introduction and her use in the plot(36:52) Mal’s take as a sports super-fan(53:00) The All-Star Game(56:00) Ilya’s phone call to home(1:03:00) Hopes and predictions for the finale Email us! prestigetv@spotify.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Prestige TV Podcast and so much more! Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory RubinProducer: Devon BaroldiAdditional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.7	Shopify.com.ukau.ukeslify. Hello, welcome back to the Press D.
0:50.3	I'm Joida Robinson and joining me today by overwhelmingly popular
0:55.1	demand. It is the queen of horny TV herself, Mallory Rubin. Malia, how are you doing?
1:01.4	Joanna, it's the thrill, honor, and privilege of my life to be here with you to talk about this
1:05.5	television show. Thank you. I have the joy of asking you in person when I was in L.A. last week, if you would do this.
1:13.1	And you were just sort of like, yes, yes, where, when, yes. You were just so excited to talk about heated rivalry. And here we are today. It's heated rivalry episode five. And we'll be back again for the finale to cover episode six. So that is your spoiler warning. If you have not watched up through episode five of this show, what are you doing? Seriously? It has been hyped. I saw it majorly hyped before I watched it. And I watched it a little early. So I was just like, oh, dear Lord, what is going to happen in this episode? And we will talk about all of that.
1:45.1	Before we do that, just some quick programming reminders,
1:48.9	Rob and I will be back on Friday for Pluribus,
1:51.3	the penultimate episode of Pluribus,
1:52.6	and then back again next week.
1:54.3	So you'll have a heated rivalry episode next week,
1:56.4	and then also a Pluribus finale episode.
1:59.9	In that Pluribus finale episode, Rob and I are doing just
2:02.7	like a little mini like end of your mailbag thing. So PrestigeTV at Spotify.com, you have any like larger
2:08.0	year-end questions for us. We're just tucking that in at the end of the pluribus finale podcast.
2:12.5	So those are some Christmas week treats for you coming from the Prestige TV.
2:18.2	Can I send an email?
2:19.1	Here's what it's going to say.
2:20.5	Why haven't you started Landman Season 2 yet?
2:23.8	Will I ever watch Landman Season 2 is the real question?
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