Tacos, pickle juice shots & Texas A&M football with Barstool Sports' Kayce Smith
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Andy welcomes Barstool Sports personality, co-host of the "Unnecessary Roughness" podcast and Texas A&M alumna, Kayce Smith, to today's show! Tacos, pickle juice shots and college football, what more could you want from a college town? The duo discuss what College Station has to offer before chatting about the Aggies, Jimbo Fisher and season expectations. Why hasn't A&M been able to close the gap between itself and Alabama? Andy and Kayce gab over how jumpin' Jacksonville will be this weekend with the Florida-Georgia game. Will Clemson survive Notre Dame without Trevor Lawrence? The two talk bets recently made with Ari Wasserman and Barstool Sports' Brandon Walker. If the Wolverines fall to Indiana, will anything happen in the Michigan-Harbaugh marriage? Plus, Wisconsin-Purdue is cancelled, and the Big Ten's handling of the virus versus the SEC.
Rundown:
(:30) Tacos & pick shots & college football, oh, my!
(5:15) Aggies expectations & the immovable 'Bama gap
(15:00) Florida-Georgia
(16:30) Clemson-Notre Dame & bets
(25:15) Michigan-Indiana, Wisconsin & more
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples Show Wednesday edition. We got a special guest. So Nicole Auerbach got her own show, and she's pretty cool and maybe a little too cool for us now. We'll see if I get invited to go on that show, the power hour. |
| 0:23.6 | But that means that we've got a rotating cast of special guests from all over the college sports world. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm very excited today to talk to somebody I've known for a long time. |
| 0:34.3 | Casey Smith from Barstool Sports. |
| 0:36.2 | Casey, we met when you were working for Tex-Ags down in college station. |
| 0:40.9 | You are an Aggie, and I figured I had to have you on because this is a very existential |
| 0:49.3 | crisis time for Aggies right now because you got stomp by Alabama, but 9-1 looks like a real possibility. |
| 0:57.9 | It's crazy. |
| 0:58.6 | I mean, Andy, first of all, like when you and I met, we bonded immediately over Fuego Tacos. |
| 1:03.0 | That's like my first memory of talking to you. |
| 1:05.3 | I just like, and I'll always hold that very special to my heart because anybody that can |
| 1:09.1 | appreciate good tacos in College Station, you're my type of people. At 3 a.m. Oh, yeah. I mean, people ask me all the time, like, where should I go in college station? I haven't lived there in years, but I will always say Fuego first and foremost always. You can go at any time and it's delicious. Well, I see, I think there should be a federal law that anytime you have a state |
| 1:28.1 | university with over 10,000 students, there should be a Fuego across the street. So for those |
| 1:33.8 | who don't know, Fuego is a 24-7, 365 taco place that has every manner of taco you could |
| 1:42.1 | want. The Dr. Pepper Cowboy with the brisket is one of my favorites. |
| 1:46.3 | They used to have like a lot of those rotisserie chicken as well if you wanted to go a little |
| 1:50.3 | healthier, but you shouldn't. |
| 1:52.2 | And it's just amazing because college students should have access to tacos at 4 a.m. |
| 2:00.8 | whenever they want. And I just feel like if I ever ran for president, that is the largest, widest plank of my platform. We're saying this, as we're recording on election day, we have no idea who won. If you're listening to this, I don't know if you know who won. We're not going to worry about that. This is your escape. We're talking football. |
| 2:18.1 | Yeah, we're talking football and tacos. And I love that. I mean, if you do run for president on the Fuego ballot, I'm totally in because my favorite thing about Fuego is not only can you eat it 24 hours a day, it's equally as good when you're sober. And I feel like a lot of those 24-hour college places. It's really good after the bars, but then you try to eat it at like noon and it |
| 2:17.8 | stinks, not fuego. It is... And I feel like a lot of those 24-hour college places, it's really good after the bars. |
| 2:34.4 | But then you try to eat it at like noon and it stinks, not fuego. |
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