“Sports music” plays at an unsettling volume as the graphic introduction to a HOT TAKE show lights up the screen. There are explosions, fire, various mascots, several different kinds of balls, a bicycle, boxing gloves, skis, racquets, and weights. All of these items fly at the screen as if you’re in a spaceship traveling through an asteroid belt created by the destruction of planet Dicks Sporting Goods at the hands of the Death Star.
The presentation ends with a squeak fart as the graphic fades to show the emerging face of TAKE JOURNO guy. His suit is shiny, his hair is clean, he hasn’t shaved in three days and appears to be on the back end of an evening filled with adderall, vodka, and a failed attempt at sex.