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Music Welcome to Stars Matter, a recruiting podcast from The Athletic.

I'm Mitch Light, joined by Ari Wasserman.

Ari, how are you doing today?

You got a throwback episode, huh?

Yes, Thor, we were just talking. Last few weeks, it seems like even though we're in that kind of in that between the two signing periods, you think there's like a lot going on. We've spent a lot of time talking NIL theory. All that stuff's fine. It's part of the recruiting world. But today, I think kind of a throwback episode, we're going to the roots of Stars Matter. We're just, we're talking teams. We're talking recruits. I think it's going to, I'm excited. I think it's going to be a good show. Yeah, yeah. A lot of research, too, that I did all exclusively by myself. So I'm happy to, you know, boost to show up with my hard work and carry it on my back. Thanks, Mitch.

Yes. And anybody has listened to us one time in the past two years, they know that you were not being truthful there.

But you bring a lot to the show. It's not necessarily research or data. It's a person.

Yeah, it's personal. Yeah, gamer yeah it's personally yeah yeah you just

you don't need to go to practice you're like this NBA player you hurt you don't practice during

the week or football player you don't practice during the week you show up on game day and perform

yes but uh you know considering all the writing that we're doing every day it's kind of hard

not to be up to date with a lot of stuff

right exactly your your show prep is your is my life yeah yeah uh but yeah no let's uh let's

dive into it i know that we have like 27 topics and we're gonna this is an hour long show so

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