Dear Andy & Ari: P5 teams on the chopping block; Quinn Ewers' choice & ranking chain restaurant appetizers
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Ari combine their mailbags and answer your questions! Which Power 5 teams could be booted from their conferences based on television ratings? Andy and Ari list the merits and shortcomings of each team on the brink of ousting. How big is the revenue gap between college football and basketball, and why such a shocking chasm? Ari, The Athletic's recruiting and Ohio State sage, reacts to Quinn Ewers, the top QB prospect out of Texas, contemplating leaving high school early to join OSU because of Texas' "stupid" NIL rule. Lastly, the guys rank chain restaurant appetizers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.8 | It is Monday. Best day of the week, not because we all have to start work again, |
| 0:15.7 | but because Ari Wasserman is here, we have delving into Ari's beautiful mind about many different topics. We've got |
| 0:24.4 | some realignment topics. We got some recruiting stuff. We got some NIL stuff because this is going to be |
| 0:28.5 | a dear Andy and Ari episode. We're going to answer your questions to us. But also there will be a |
| 0:34.6 | random ranking at the end. We've left those out lately because there's been so much news to digest. But now we're going to talk about something we can digest. The random ranking will be best chain restaurant appetizers. And Ari, I know you're excited about that one. Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you something, Andy, because I don't think I ever said this back to you. But Monday's the best day of the week. You're kind of promo now. You're like, let me tell you something, |
| 0:55.4 | mean, Gene. I, it is the best day of the week for me, too. I truly enjoy being on this podcast. And I am thankful that you continue to let me be on it. And I think part of the reason why is because we're going to rank, uh, what is it |
| 0:51.6 | appetizers at chain restaurants |
| 0:53.5 | I don't know that there's anybody |
| 0:54.9 | and the reason why is because we're going to rank, what is it, appetizers at chain restaurants. |
| 1:13.1 | I don't know that there's anybody more qualified than me. |
| 1:16.6 | Let me tell you. |
| 1:17.1 | Well, and here's the best part, because I think this is only the two of us can make this rule for this ranking. |
| 1:24.1 | We can't rank the bread, like cheddar bay biscuits are out because we've already ranked free |
| 1:28.6 | restaurant bread we've already done that i've had a lot of road trips in big 10 cities to know |
| 1:36.0 | my fair share of you know i've been to chilies in al tuna pennsylvania so i've eaten my way |
| 1:41.1 | through this country and you know there's a lot of stuff there. |
| 1:48.8 | Who among us hasn't been to the Chili's that Mike Ditka built in Altoona, Pennsylvania? |
| 1:49.8 | Come on. |
| 1:54.5 | There's been a lot of road trips that have allowed the experience and some pounds that came with it. |
| 1:56.4 | But, you know, this is the fun of it. |
| 1:57.6 | It's all about the experience. |
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