Ari ranks ACC's jobs & best, dirtiest professions in the nation
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
There's no better ranking than an 'Ari Ranking', so that's exactly what Andy, and the aforementioned Ari, are doing. Courtesy reader Tom: Assume all the ACC coaches retire all at once, rank the job openings based on a five-year projection (2:15). So, Clemson's pretty good. Why don't we place them first until we sort out the rest of the rankings? Which Florida school holds an advantage over the other (7:15)? Who's fourth best (14:00)? Why does Ari believe NC State is below Virginia Tech? Andy and Ari deliberate Louisville's position (22:30) before looking at Boston College (27:30), Georgia Tech (31:30), and the rest of the field (34:45). Andy then lists the best and dirtiest professions in the country and asks Ari to rank them (40:00). Why would you want to be an orthodontist (aside from the money)? We don't want our fingers chomped off! What's more boring and stressful than a data scientist? Ari will let you know. Is being a horse inseminator better than being a sewer inspector (50:00)?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.3 | We have a new concept for you today. |
| 0:14.7 | Because every time I talk to Ari Wasserman, we end up ranking the jobs in some college |
| 0:19.7 | football conference in some way or another. |
| 0:22.6 | The conversation always heads that way anyway. |
| 0:24.8 | So I figured, let's just do a whole episode where Ari ranks jobs. |
| 0:29.5 | And we can thank reader Tom. |
| 0:32.0 | Tom's one of the readers of The Athletic. |
| 0:33.7 | He sent me a question to my mailbag last week that will kind of get us kicked off and we'll be ranking some football jobs. |
| 0:41.1 | But I thought, Ari is really good at ranking jobs. |
| 0:44.6 | It seems to be something that his mind just sort of goes to. |
| 0:48.9 | And so I want to rank some other kinds of jobs. |
| 0:52.4 | I want Ari to rank different professions because, listen, we need to know, I know we have |
| 0:58.8 | some college students and high school students who listen to this podcast. |
| 1:02.2 | You know, they may want to decide what direction they want to take their life in, you know, |
| 1:06.7 | what they want to study based on what R.E Ari thinks. Plus, it's just a wonderful window |
| 1:11.5 | into Ari's twisted mind, which is what we're really doing this for. So Ari, you know, |
| 1:17.7 | I'm doing this in honor of Jacob Luft, who's a guy I used to work with at Sports Illustrated, |
| 1:23.3 | and I also worked with him at the college newspaper at Florida. And I have no idea what the context of this statement was, and I've never even asked him. |
| 1:31.3 | But he just walked into the office one day when we were in college. |
| 1:33.9 | He walked into the sports office. |
| 1:35.0 | And he said, even the greatest job in the world, male porn star must feel like work some days. |
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