Feeding America charity drive: 24-hour fast; chain restaurant rankings & recruiting innovation
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In a special edition of The Andy Staples Show, Andy and Ari host a charity drive in support of Feeding America! To raise awareness, the guys fasted for 24 hours and in their last remaining hour recorded this show. The pair of hungry podcasters kibbitz about burping kids, recruiting careers Ari has his eyes set on, and, of course, food.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show special edition. |
| 0:12.6 | We're streaming live on many, many platforms. |
| 0:15.6 | Ari Wasserman, we have been fasting for 23 hours. |
| 0:19.4 | Well, full disclosure, Ari, I've been going for 22 hours and 45 minutes. |
| 0:24.7 | I was drinking some tea that had Splenda in it after I ate for the last time yesterday, and I didn't finish until about 120 Eastern Time. |
| 0:33.7 | So, 120 Eastern Time is my 24-hour mark. Where are you at in your fast? So I don't know if |
| 0:43.0 | this is cheating, but I did it. And you tell me if it's cheating. I had a diet coat. We have to |
| 0:47.2 | fire you? Zero calories. Oh, I don't know. Carbonation. What is this? I've been handed an apple. |
| 0:57.1 | Enjoy. |
| 0:58.2 | My kids have decided they're going to just present me with food for this entire time. |
| 1:02.9 | Is diet cold cheating? |
| 1:05.4 | I think you're fine. |
| 1:06.5 | We were going to do no artificial sweeteners, but that's fine. |
| 1:09.7 | You're good. |
| 1:11.8 | I had some, you know, we said water black coffee, but you're not sweeteners, but that's fine. You're good. I had some, |
| 1:15.5 | you know, we said water black coffee, but you're not a coffee guy. So that's, that's, that's yeah. Yeah, I figured that like, I don't know if Diet Coke made it actually worse, but I figured |
| 1:22.0 | I could trade that off for a cup of coffee. And it was like at like one o'clock yesterday anyway, |
| 1:26.7 | so it's been almost 24 hours. So I have a really big headache. And it was like at like one o'clock yesterday anyway. So it's been almost 24 hours. |
| 1:28.6 | So I have a really big headache and I'm super fatigued. And like it's not the worst thing in the |
| 1:35.5 | world, but I think that the side effects of not putting food in your body are worse than the hunger, |
| 1:40.7 | at least for me. So I just ran three miles. I had to host a series XM show this morning, |
| 1:47.6 | so that kept me busy. And then afterward, I had an hour in between. And I was just like, |
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