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.
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.
PFT is already looking for ways to keep this momentum going through the summer dry spell.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
On the Cool Throne, Big Cat is all-in on Jameis Winston’s bizarre offseason training montage, which features everything except an actual football.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
