NIL fact or fiction, guarantees & talent acquisition + what else did Ari miss while getting married?
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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Andy and MR. Ari Wasserman are reunited! Ari discusses his wedding and seeing, what he thought to be, Bryce Young at his ceremony. What did Ari miss while he was tying the knot? The pair parse through...unsubstantiated tweets about certain NIL targets. Plus, the guys hit on what Ari missed while he was away, including Isaiah Wong, potential NIL markets, guarantees, talent acquisition, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.1 | We are poolside in Scottsdale, Arizona, hometown of this guy. |
| 0:17.5 | Ari Wasserman, who's somebody's husband now. |
| 0:20.6 | I know. As of this week, Ari, how do you feel |
| 0:23.8 | different? I feel like the world's best con artist. You probably are. Let's be honest. If you all have |
| 0:29.4 | seen his Instagram, like you see pictures of the wedding day, this is tremendous work by you, |
| 0:36.6 | are. Yes, thank you. I appreciate it um i don't know if i feel |
| 0:40.6 | like a bad person for saying this but as that was the best day of my life and there was a lot of |
| 0:45.2 | planning involved and it was something i'll never forget i'm also very happy it's over so like i |
| 0:50.0 | have a relief about me now where i can you know be on this podcast with you without getting a text for my significant other and my wife. I guess I can call her now. That's exactly right. Ascing to call the lighting person or to figure out what the open bar situation. There's so much planning involved. And most of which, whenever I made a move, I was wrong and we had to redo it anyway. Exactly. it's a nice little, nice little feeling to be able to go on to life and kind of enjoy just being normal again. |
| 1:17.1 | When I got married many, many years ago before the iPhones existed and before, well, I don't even know if digital cameras existed, |
| 1:23.1 | because we still have the negatives from our wedding photographer. |
| 1:26.3 | But I do remember saying at one point, like, if everything I do is going to be wrong, |
| 1:32.1 | do I need to do anything. |
| 1:33.8 | I think every- |
| 1:34.5 | That was a mistake. |
| 1:35.5 | I think every future groom has that same comment. |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.8 | So you weren't unique in that. |
| 1:40.0 | And I did my best to be a team player and to, you know, be supportive and do everything that I could to make it feel like it was easier on her. But in the grand scheme of things, when I, like, looked around the wedding and had that moment of like, wow, how did this all come together? It really hit me that I did, I did in between nothing and nothing when it was all set and done. But she did an amazing job. |
| 2:01.3 | She did. |
| 2:01.6 | Based on the photos I saw. |
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