Are CFB games too long, journalism tips & expanded playoff's future w/ intern Michael Crystal
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari welcome you to 'Focus Group Friday' where the duo evaluates the feedback and reaction from a guest about a range of topics. The guys invite Michael Crystal, one of the Great Stewart Mandel's interns at Northwestern University, onto the podcast to discuss podcasts; why we, as spectators of sports, are so enamored by the industry; balancing one's love for sports with being a journalist; the NCAA Rules Committee and the length of college football games; the future of the CFP, and Random Ranking Outback Steakhouse's new menu items.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It's Friday. We're going to do a new segment called Focus Group Friday because we have an actual college freshman here with us. |
| 0:18.2 | Michael Crystal is joining me and Ari Wasserman today because he is part of an externship |
| 0:23.3 | program at Northwestern that allows him to follow the great Stuart Lance Mandel around professionally |
| 0:30.1 | for a little while. And Stewart had a couple Northwestern students who were doing this program. |
| 0:37.7 | Stewart had a really boring meeting and Michael's cool. |
| 0:40.7 | So Michael wanted to come here and hang with me and Ari while the other dude went to the |
| 0:45.5 | boring meeting. |
| 0:46.4 | He may be coming back after the boring meeting. |
| 0:49.0 | Michael, how you doing? |
| 0:50.3 | Good. |
| 0:50.9 | I think the way you put in the email was a soul killing meeting with Stewart. So I'm happy to be here and not over there. |
| 0:57.8 | Now, not with Stewart. Stuart's awesome, of course. But listen, let's be honest, he's a suit now. So he has to meet with other suits. And when you get more than three suits together in the same Zoom window, your soul does slowly die. |
| 1:14.6 | Andy, do you want to be a suit? |
| 1:16.3 | No. |
| 1:16.9 | God, no. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm working and wearing a Natter-day's T-shirt. |
| 1:21.6 | Like, I never, ever want to be a suit. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm wearing a hoodie in gym shorts right now, which is my 100% uniform. I'm amazed you're wearing pants. It's so funny. Honestly, if you want more information, I'll let you know what's going on down there. But, uh, no, please don't. Um, Tommy. Ari, 100% says he's wearing the holster from stance and not a competitor's briefs stance baby but stance stance |
| 1:46.0 | the holster the holster holster that stance puts out it is it is a pair of boxer shorts there is a |
| 1:53.4 | it's a pouch i don't know how it's to describe it but the way they sew it everything stays exactly |
| 2:00.1 | where it needs to be it is amazing i did to try that because i the way they sew it, everything stays exactly where it needs to be. |
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