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The O-W-W-W-W-W-W-R-E. Welcome to Stars Matter, the recruiting podcast from The Athletic.

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, we've got a guest, the busiest man at the athletic this week.

Max Olson, monitoring the transfer portal as we speak, literally. How you doing, Max? I'm all right. I'm all right. We've made it this far in the week. We made it to Wednesday. Didn't know if we would, but we did. Are you like the, good to see your beautiful faces? The number one guest on everybody's show this week, not just podcasts. Like, you're going on on radio shows.

I mean, I am doing James Corden show tonight.

That is, that is true.

Well, it's good to see your perfect face, Max.

And we had a portal conversation earlier in the week on Andy Staples show.

But it's running back.

Same combo.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's a pretty big, pretty big week.

But let's just try to get more philosophical with it, I think, more so than just like actual people.

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