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Joel McHale, Dungeons And Dragons Part 2, And The Match

Tuesday, May 26, 202018 takes

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Lets have the most epic summer ever. The Match 2 was awesome on Sunday featuring Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, and Peyton Manning ( - ). NFL Rule Changes ( - ). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Rats and a discussion about Outer Banks ( - ). Joel McHale joins the show to talk about his career, Football at Washington, Community, doing the White House correspondents dinner and his new podcast ( - ). We resume our Dungeons and Dragons campaign with our Dungeon master Timm Woods and you won't believe what the boys got into this time.

Joel McHale on Community, The Match 2, and Dungeons & Dragons Part 2

Summer is officially here, even if it feels like we’re living through an endless Tuesday. Big Cat, PFT, and Hank kicked things off by recapping the pure electricity of The Match 2. Seeing Tom Brady struggle through eight holes of absolute shankery before holing out from the fairway was the most relatable golf ever televised. It turns out watching icons look like weekend hackers is actually the secret sauce for sports television.

Void
May 26, 2020
#24363
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Watching amateur golfers is better than watching professional golfers

People love amateur stuff. Whether it's pornography or it's golfers, it's almost better watching people who aren't professionals do it.

Subjective preference for entertainment value.

PFT is already looking for ways to keep this momentum going through the summer dry spell.

Push
May 26, 2020
#9910
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Match should be held every other week with different celebrity pairings

They should take what they did with the match, too, the rematch of Tiger and Phil and Tom and Peyton and just do it every other week with a different celebrity pairing.

While it didn't become bi-weekly, 'The Match' did become a recurring franchise for several years.

The guys also touched on the proposed NFL rule changes, specifically the 4th and 15 onside kick replacement. While some worry about the logistics, Big Cat thinks the league just needs to lean into the technology side to make it bulletproof.

Loss
May 26, 2020
#9912
Big CatBig Cat

The NFL should call their new officiating system 'Sky Judge 10,000' to prevent anyone from disagreeing with it

The thing with the Sky Judge is that all they have to do is officially call it Sky Judge or even Sky Judge 10,000, and no one will ever disagree with it. It doesn't even have to be anything new. It could be the exact same system and just say there's a Sky Judge. SJ10K.

The NFL eventually implemented a 'booth umpire' or expedited review system, though not with this branding.

Hot Seat/Cool Throne

Hank put Roy Williams on the Hot Seat after Ty Lawson’s Instagram tirade, claiming the North Carolina legend is a "weirdo."

Void
HankHank

Roy Williams is suspect and only the second-best coach in the ACC

Roy Williams. Ty Lawson called him out. I mean, everyone knows Roy is a little bit suspect. It's not surprising. Second best coach in the ACC.

Subjective ranking, though Coach K was widely considered the #1 at the time.

Big Cat’s Hot Seat is his own age, mostly because he’s spent the weekend watching Outer Banks and realizing he doesn't speak the same language as the youth anymore.

Win
Big CatBig Cat

Outer Banks is essentially 'The OC' meets 'National Treasure'

What the fuck is Outer Banks, man, Hank? I started watching it. It's like how is this show? It's the OC meets National Treasure. How is this show popular?

The show follows teenagers (The OC vibes) searching for buried treasure (National Treasure vibes).

Meanwhile, PFT has been doing some self-reflection on his quarantine drinking habits. He’s noticed a distinct difference between the efficiency of a bar versus the danger of a couch.

Win
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You get drunker drinking at home than you do at a bar with the same amount of drinks

I think you get drunker in your living room drinking alone or with friends than you do in a bar with the same amount of drinks. Like, I can have six beers in my living room, and I'll puke on myself, pee myself, and go to sleep. If I have six beers in a bar, it's like, okay, my night is one-tenth of the way done.

Environmental tolerance is a real psychological phenomenon where users feel effects differently in familiar vs unfamiliar settings.

On the Cool Throne, Big Cat is all-in on Jameis Winston’s bizarre offseason training montage, which features everything except an actual football.

Win
Big CatBig Cat

Jameis Winston's unorthodox off-season training (baseball, boxing) will work because playing actual football is what's bad for him

Jameis Winston. He is practicing football by practicing baseball. And I feel like that's going to work. He's just in that phase of his career where he's going to just do everything that's not football to get better at football because playing football is bad for him. I think this is going to work for him.

Winston had a very successful 2021 season with the Saints before getting injured (14 TDs, 3 INTs), suggesting the 'less is more' approach worked.

Joel McHale

Joel McHale joined the show to talk about his new podcast, *The Darkest Timeline*, and his time as a walk-on tight end for the Washington Huskies. While he didn't get much playing time behind NFL talents like Ernie Conwell, he did have a front-row seat to the best view in college sports.

Void
May 26, 2020
#24361
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

University of Washington's Husky Stadium is the most picturesque stadium in college football

If anybody's been to the University of Washington, you can pull a boat up to the stadium. I think it's the most picturesque stadium in all of college football.

Subjective opinion, though widely shared among college football fans.

Big Cat didn't let the nostalgia trip go without mentioning his personal grievance with the way those games are actually broadcast to the degenerates at home.

Win
May 26, 2020
#9921
Big CatBig Cat

The camera angles for Washington Huskies football and basketball games are the weirdest in sports

The camera angles, both for football and basketball, are the weirdest camera angles ever. The basketball camera angle when you're watching a Washington Huskies game is insane. I don't understand how – I'm a degenerate gambler, so these are the weird things that I notice.

This is a frequent complaint among sports fans regarding Alaska Airlines Arena's low camera platform.

As the guy who hosted *The Soup* for over a decade, Joel has a PhD in the garbage we watch on television. He broke down the reality behind the cameras, specifically why we were all so obsessed with the *Tiger King* phenomenon during the early days of the pandemic.

Win
May 26, 2020
#9925
Big CatBig Cat

People love reality television because it allows them to feel superior to the 'shitty people' on screen

That's why we love reality television, because we get to watch it and say, oh, well, at least we're not them. At least we're not drunk fighting in the Hamptons every summer. Or at least we don't own these tigers and kill our husband. We judge ourselves like we could be shitty people, but we're not that.

This aligns with psychological theories of entertainment and schadenfreude.

He also gave some behind-the-scenes insight into the world of the Kardashians and the Real Housewives, confirming what many of us suspected about the "spontaneous" drama.

Win
May 26, 2020
#9923
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

Shows like 'The Kardashians' and 'Real Housewives' are heavily scripted and planned out

All the housewives shows and even the Kardashians who actually are really nice people. But that stuff's all scripted out and it's all planned. There's not like where they're, no one goes, well, let's go to Nobu for lunch. Oh, my gosh. There's my arch enemy.

It is widely acknowledged by producers and former cast members that these shows utilize 'soft scripting' and manufactured scenarios.

Dungeons & Dragons Part 2

The episode concluded with the highly anticipated return of Dungeon Master Timm Woods. The quest in Greenest hit a fever pitch as Norm the Barbarian (Big Cat), Wayne the Bard (PFT), Ehrlich the Warlock (Hank), and Berserker Billy (Billy Football) faced off against the Cult of the Dragon.

Between PFT "respecting" an acolyte into submission and Billy finally landing a Guiding Bolt from his warhammer, the guys proved that sitting around a table with some dice is the ultimate form of entertainment.

Void
May 26, 2020
#9926
Big CatBig Cat

Your imagination is better than any video game console

Turns out your imagination is way better than any video game console. We should definitely do a just hour-long Dungeons and Dragons episode.

Subjective opinion on entertainment mediums.

The session ended on a massive cliffhanger with a blue dragon descending on the castle courtyard to investigate a pile of illusory "dragon soup" prepared by PFT.

We’re officially in some shit, and we’ll have to wait two weeks to see if Berserker Billy survives the encounter.

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More Takes

Void
May 26, 2020
#9909
Big CatBig Cat

People in their mid-20s are losing a prime year of their life due to the pandemic

If you're in your mid twenties, you're just giving away a year of your prime. It's like Sean Payton getting suspended for a year with the Saints. Like, you have just given away a year that you'll never get back.

The sentiment of a 'lost year' during 2020-2021 is a widely held subjective feeling.
Open
HankHank

A golf match featuring OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods would be the highest-rated television show of all time

Tiger Woods and OJ Simpson as a team? Who is not watching that? I do believe that that would be the highest-rated television show of all time.

This match will never happen, but the logic regarding the spectacle is sound.
Win
May 26, 2020
#9918
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

We will likely have a COVID-19 vaccine available by January 2021

If in a very, very perfect world we could have something by January to actually take that we could get. But now that there are so many billions and billions of dollars and every single lab on the planet is trying to do something, this is when the human race does things extraordinary.

The FDA issued the first emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 11, 2020.
Win
May 26, 2020
#24360
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

NFL and NCAA football will return on schedule in September 2020

When I hear September, I just hear football. That just translates directly into football for me. So as first reported by Joel McHale, the NFL and NCAA season will happen on schedule.

The NFL season did start on time (Sept 10), and major college football also proceeded, though with significant modifications and some conference delays.
Win
May 26, 2020
#9919
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

Almost any outdoor sport will return to play by September 2020

I pretty guarantee almost any outdoor sport is probably going to be able to be played, I bet. Yes. And by September, if there should be more uniform and easier ways to test quickly should be.

By September 2020, the NFL, MLB, and MLS (all outdoor) were playing, confirming his prediction.
Win
May 26, 2020
#24362
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

Carole Baskin and her husband were definitely 'tricked' by the Tiger King filmmakers

With Carol... she put out a 10-minute video defending themselves. And in the video, he goes, we were tricked. We were told it was going to be this thing about tigers and this. And then they went down this path that we didn't know what they were doing. Absolutely, they were tricked. I could not agree with them more.

The filmmakers admitted to focusing on the feud, and Carole Baskin's public reaction confirms she felt misled about the documentary's focus.

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