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

Tuesday, May 26, 202015 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.

Recap

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Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9909
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.
Push
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9910
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.
Void
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It is more entertaining to watch amateurs play golf than professionals

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

This is a subjective matter of entertainment value.
Loss
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9912
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.
Void
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9926
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.

Interview

Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9923
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.
Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9918
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
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9919
Joel McHaleJoel McHale

Almost any outdoor sport will be able to 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, they can test all those players before they go in.

The NFL and most major college conferences did indeed start their seasons in September 2020.
Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9921
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.
Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020
#PMT-2020-0526-9925
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.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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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.
Void
Take Slip·May 26, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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HankHank

Roy Williams is 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 in the era of Coach K vs Roy Williams.
Open
Take Slip·May 26, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
#PMT-2020-0526-9915
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
Take Slip·May 26, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
#PMT-2020-0526-9916
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).
Win
Take Slip·May 26, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
#PMT-2020-0526-9917
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.