Friday Recap: The Dobbs Dimension, Jeopardy Tournament Lore and Dr. Phil's Weird Experiment

This week's Friday recap focuses a lot on Joshua Dobbs, Jeopardy and a lot of cooking videos

It’s impossible to avoid Joshua Dobbs talk this week, so I didn’t. I embraced it. A lot of my pieces focus on him. I didn’t spend much time inside the sports world in my off-time, so my recaps don’t have much to do with sports.

Video and podcasts are hopefully demarcated as such. Items behind a paywall marked with ($).

My Work this Week:

• Podcast: My latest episode of Norse Code interviews John Sigler of Saints Wire

• My post-game piece on Vikings-Falcons on the Dobbs Effect

• And my more in-depth piece exploring the insanity of Dobbs’ performance ($)

• For my month of Chargers coverage, I did a Q&A with a Lions writer about the Lions.

• Also I wrote about that boring Chargers-Jets game.

• Podcast/Video: Is Josh Dobbs the Hero we Need?

• Podcast/Video: What can the Vikings do against the Saints?

Work I Liked This Week (Sports)

• Draw Play Dave has an accurate and scientific Chaos Meter for NFL teams.

• I mentioned last week that my friend started a Substack devoted to Jeopardy and I felt the need to link it again because her piece on Tournament of Champions qualifiers who never got to play is astounding. Yes, Jeopardy is sports.

Work I Liked This Week (Non-Sports)

• Video: Games journalism is in a weird place. After Gamurs fired the Escapist’s Editor in Chief, a ton of their employees quit on the spot. Here’s more on that.

• Video: I’ve enjoyed Tasting History for quite some time and it’s really cool that he got the chance to remake the video that put his channel on the map — making Roman garum.

• Video: Tom Scott goes over the research on linguistic determinism, the idea that the language you speak changes how you think.

• Video: Big Joel goes over a crazy Dr. Phil experiment from the early 2000s where Dr. Phil put a bunch of bigots in a house with the kind of people that they hate.

• Israel’s Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, recently coined a racist phrase that has been used throughout Israel since then to enforce its policies.

• Video: Ethan Chlebowski goes into the science of good-tasting steak — it’s much, much more than temperature.

• Video: Why are U.S. Elections So Long?

• The Defector points out that These Debates Don’t Matter in reference to the GOP Primary

• Video: On the weird porn accountability of the Speaker of the House and his son.

• Ed Zitron on the Anti-Workforce on the culture war surrounding the culture of the workforce and how we talk about productivity and “work from home” in the context of the modern work environment.

• “Learn to Code” is coming back in a new round of media layoffs.

• Trump is sort of right — the system is rigged. But it’s rigged in his favor.