Ranking Big Ten's jobs & chain restaurants with a $50 gift card + life advice from Ari
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In another rank-filled edition of The Andy Staples Show and Friends, Andy and Ari order the Big Ten's jobs based on a 5-year projection. Sure, number one is obvious (rhymes with Toehio Fate), but what about the guys' second-best job in the conference, and why is it Wisconsin (3:45)? Will Penn or Michigan round out the top-3 (9:00)? Is Lansing an attractive enough location to put Michigan State in the top-5 (16:00)? Which school would win a national title if Nick Saban or Dabo Swinney coached there (22:30)? Who should be ranked 7th; Minnesota or Rutgers (29:30)? OK, let's talk about Nebraska (39:30). Plus, our bottom three (47:45). Andy tasks Ari with ranking Chili's, Applebee's, P.F. Chang's, Outback Steakhouse, and Olive Garden while also considering he has a $50 gift certificate (53:15). Lastly, we further explore the inner workings of Ari's mind as he dispenses life advice, gambling style (1:03:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It's a Monday. That means Ari Washtram is here. That means we're |
| 0:14.5 | ranking stuff. And we decided to do a little serious because we ranked the jobs of the ACC |
| 0:19.4 | last week based on a reader |
| 0:21.6 | question and people loved it and they said can you do the other lease and we said sure why not so this |
| 0:28.4 | week we'll be ranking the jobs of the big 10 and then i have a ranking dilemma for ari the last week |
| 0:35.0 | we actually ranked actual jobs |
| 0:37.5 | and found out that Ari would rather inspect sewers |
| 0:41.4 | than be a veterinarian. |
| 0:43.0 | But this is going to be a little different. |
| 0:46.0 | We're going to be a little more in Ari's wheelhouse, |
| 0:47.8 | but we're going to throw them a little tiny curveball |
| 0:50.1 | that I think should change everything. |
| 0:52.0 | But first, Ari, we got to start with the Big Ten rankings. |
| 0:56.9 | Ari, this is the conference you're the most familiar with. You covered Ohio State for a long time. |
| 1:01.4 | So I am leaning on you for this one. I tried to do mine. And I got to tell you, this is, this gets hard, quick. |
| 1:10.5 | It does. It does. And, you you know because i think that in the big |
| 1:14.7 | 10 you can you can make a lot of um geography discussions and then that would move what would |
| 1:21.3 | seem like lower tier jobs into higher tier jobs and in schools that are usually bigger or known |
| 1:27.4 | for being you know know, powerhouses, |
| 1:29.3 | at least in the old days, who have terrible geography now, it's just like a pretty crazy |
| 1:33.6 | dynamic on how to do this. So the way I did it, and I don't know if you did it, but it did it the |
| 1:38.4 | same way we did with the ACC, where it's starting now and into the next five years. |
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