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I am fascinated by this man's rise all the way to college game day. I'm wondering how Chris Felico went from ESPN researcher to on the set of college game day every Saturday. Felica, how the f*** did this happen? Don't ask me as much as you are.
I can just remember me. I started on the show the same year as Kirk did. So I remember just being there and then just being around Kirk and Fowler and those guys noticed the passion and the energy and excitement and how like riled up I would get. They would say like certain things and meetings that they know would piss me off and get me going.
And I just get really, started talking really fast and I rate the Italian hands moving and they're like we've got to get this on TV at some point. And then finally like I think it was like 2012 maybe when we really started like coming to me for some pics or some input and then give up credit to Lee Fitting for finally deciding you know what we're going full bore with this one. Started doing pics on the show and it's worked out pretty well. But those guys still have the hot button talk when it comes to the playoffs and the whole two lost teams and teams that shouldn't get in.
They don't have to press my buttons and get me going pretty good. But yeah, it is absolutely amazing to think that 1996 I'm sitting here and just kind of putting game notes together and just kind of making sure they're all happy to know how having a podcast on with you on a game to every game. It's crazy how it's taken off. But I wouldn't I wouldn't change it for the world.
It's awesome man. Were you in the ESPN research department at the same time, Hembo was you know, Hembo? I know Hembo very well. Hembo is my guy.
It's the answer and I'm laughing that he parlayed his time in the research department. Well, you parlayed your time in the research department to being on college game day every Saturday. He parlayed his time in the research department to a lifelong partner with Greenie. You won for like a minus nine thousand.
It's like a John is there service game. You ever want to rush by the way with like some live betting. Check out the price of a Johnny isn't there service game during a slam. It's wild.
But yeah, I feel kind of good about that. You know, I kind of was a little bit of a trailblazer in that sense. My department was I think in going back to Dalbiz as well who also parlayed her appearance with Greenie on the bigger and better things. Like it showed that our department wasn't just a bunch of like numbers people who were just sitting there typing up notes and banging on numbers that we had personality we had knowledge and we had like things that would work well and play well.
I feel good that I kind of blazed a little trail from the research department how we show up got it started with something. I think I got to put the baton from him and then we push it even further. Stantic say say on the microphone what you just said in my head because the still gots it strong in this one. You are right.
That's exactly what I said. I mean, you're telling everybody how much of a trailblazer you were. The still gots it strong in you. I'm impressed.
So you're telling me to in match bet on Isner is like there's fun there because my ride and I love it. I like I told Dan forever if you're playing isner, especially the US Open or Wimbledon on the grass or the hard courts, you better be prepared to play for five days because is there will play all week if he has it. It's crazy. There will be like live in game betting like when he has a service game, you'll have to lay like thousands of dollars to like win $100 on his service game.
Just like you happen to do that once and you happen to double fault or a little long with the forehand is like 15. Your heart starts beating a little bit when you got like four times to one to one hundred or something like that. It's a little scary at times. We were interested here.
By the way, Chris will link in the bear joining us here on sleep on the podcast with Stanford Steve and the bear on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. This Saturday night, I'm Eastern ESPN live from Fort Worth in advance of number 11 Oregon at number 16 Auburn. So let's get right to it. Like the bear.
How did that happen? Nick name because I maintain it's the greatest gambling. Jimmy the Greek was number one until you came along. I have to credit course of he gets all credit for the game.
It goes back to actually the Miami, Ohio State National Championship team. We were staying out in Arizona and Kirk and I were having brunch, lunch, whatever. And anyone who's seen Kirk and myself get after it is just food kind of all over the place and there's appetizers and something in the middle for both of us to share. So we're sitting there probably T-shirt, Jim shorts kind of just getting out of bed and Lee likes to go for his morning walk just to go outside and get a little exercise.
So he comes stirring and back in and the restaurant's like off the lobby a little bit. So he comes over and stirs over in this loud. Yo, Kirk, Chris, Felica, how you doing? Probably drawing attention to himself.
He doesn't care. Oh, I'm here. Here I am. Come say hi.
He comes over and then he like looks at the table and then he looks at me and he looks at Kirk and he's just like this. Right on his face and shaking his head and he looks at me again and he just goes, Felica, look at you Chris Felica. You're just like a big bear. All you do is eat, sleep and shit and do it all over again.
And from then ever since, I'm a bear. Life changing though. Life changing. It is.
I'm serious Chris because you know Hank Goldberg, you went to school that year. Absolutely. Right. And you probably spent a couple of afternoon at the Gulf Street Park with Hank.
I actually have. I may actually have some point in my tenure down as a student system in Miami, SID department when I was walking over to Beverly Hills Cafe in South Miami, the climate. Got a gold sheet of reports of reporter who's paper free for Hank or Sonny Hirsch that might or might not have happened. So yeah, I'm quite familiar with the South Florida legends.
So going back to that dinner where Corso calls you the bear. Is that it? Right then and everyone starts calling you the bear? It would be that Kurt shared the story and then yes, everyone laughing hysterically and that's it.
People got out and within the show, it still really hadn't fully taken off. And then when we started putting me on TV, so that's when it really like came back. It's very good to tell me like big or big and like the offensive line of the show, but bear has a much more personable type of area. The area is the old center, the old offensive line of the show and college game.
They really didn't have a, have a ring to it. So you bear definitely was the I think right then and there that moment in Tempe, Pride of Miami getting screwed in the national championship game. That's where it all started. I mean, you, you, of course, so everything.
I do because I'm telling you like Hank, hold me Stu Gods one time of the year. Now, this is when the Sopranos was the biggest show in America in the name of Tony's vote was Stu Gods and I made a mistake on the, I think I told him Reggie Wayne was coming on as a guest and that being said. I forget exactly what it was. But I've never said look up the words to God said why he said because that's your nickname moving forward.
And at the time, like, listen, I fought it with everything I had now it turned out. But, but I fought it and hang, I remember hang telling me Chris, this name is going to serve you well. You will thank me one day. Don't fight it just embrace it.
And he was right. It's so funny you say that because I was always concerned about being viewed as that. Like I talked about Law Island, Accent, animated, fired up, talking really fast and you're going to make an idiot of yourself and it's not gonna work. And like, fitting in Kirk or what we're just like, dude, just go with it.
Trust us. We're not gonna make you look like a fool. It's gonna be great and goddamn it. They were right.
Yeah. Yeah, well, when she wants me, when my attention is mandatory, yes. If I want you, like, physically or just need something. No, I'm not talking physically.
Like, if I needed to take out the garbage or run to the store or go clean the litter box, and go, go. That's your attention. Because like with my mom or my wife, when they really want something and eat something, John becomes Jonathan. And so what you're telling me is when your wife really needs your attention, she straight away from Chris and just says, bear.
She has to go from Chris to Chris. She gets those bears. That's great. Chris Felica, AKA the bear, is with us here.
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So listen, you're great. Everyone loves you. Everyone loves when they throw it to you on college. Game day, your information is fantastic, both on the podcast and on Twitter.
But Stan's gonna feel like you need some sound to accompany the whole shtick. Not that it's a shtick, but just you, okay? And like to me, it makes no point whatsoever to be called the bear unless there are bear sounds at a company, what it is that you do. Stan's gonna, what do you have for him here?
Because Stan's like, you agree, right? They should throw it out to the bear and after he makes his pick, there should be a bear sound afterwards, right? Yeah, bear, we're trying to increase your brand here. It's all about brand awareness and branding.
For the hashtag for the brand. Right. Because listen, if I was like, let's say I did this for a living and I was still got to the snake after every pick, I would, I would be like a slithering sound, right? Of course.
And bear, one more thing here. If Stu Gats was you and his name was the bear, he'd be picking kale or Baylor or some nickname that has the bears everywhere. Chicago bears every week. Chicago bears every week.
Yeah. When it makes me, you know, I would have to get a little, you know, a good little like growling bear. Oh, we got options. I'm not going to get this one with college game day.
Okay. You talk to the guys, all right? Because I'm telling you, you're the most popular thing on the show. You might not think you are, but I'm telling you you are.
Okay. I'm not, I'm not leecorced. I want to hear it. Maybe I'm too.
You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right.
You're right. Leecorced. By the way, I love how you guys treat course. So it's like, it's like, you guys are so gentle and caring with him, especially Kirk, and it's just a beautiful thing to see.
Really. You guys, like the love you guys have for him just comes through the television. By the way, it's the best show on TV. And we go to the show and show.
You guys have figured it out. I mean, what you see is what you get. I mean, there's no bullshit. It's like, we love the sport.
We love busting each other's chops and everybody's there working long hours. Everybody cares. It's just yeah, there's a lot of travel and it's a long season, but we absolutely love it. Yeah, the course is the best man.
And we always say, like, he's like the one part of the show that's just totally irreplaceable. Like I'm irreplaceable. Kirk's irreplaceable. Reese is irreplaceable.
David des. We're all irreplaceable. He's the one part that surely is irreplaceable. But Reese is irreplaceable, but his hair is not.
No. You accept it for your placing with Chris Fowler's. It's a good point. Fowler looks great by the way.
We'll get to that in a second. All right, Stantix. So let's give him his first option for a bear sound to a company as big. OK, so bear, you'd be like, all right, I like to kill golden bears plus three.
What do we think? That's pretty good. All right, let's give him a second option. I like to go out of a more like, I'll count under six wins this year.
That sounds like I got a little angry behind the wheel of a car or something as well. Let's try that one again. Give us another pick, bear. Go ahead.
This year in the big 12, I think the Baylor Bears will play Oklahoma for the conference time. That's going to be tough to be. It works, right? I mean, I think it works.
Let's be honest. It does work. It works a lot better than the bear necessities like you and playing. Yeah, it's talking to you.
I want to pick it's a big black bear with a salmon hanging out of his mouth. But he's got one more option. Salmon. Give us a pick.
With which group is to get quarterback, I cannot see the Chicago Bears making the Super Bowl. Ooh, I like that one. See, that's good because that's my day. I like to reach down deep.
It's got like a good like sub-brow to it, which is kind of how I am. I can go like, I can go like, type it deep and give a good like snort every now and then. Ooh, three has me peaked. How do you imagine this conversation would go?
If you were to sit down in his office, he's a very busy man, and you wanted to present this the leaf fitting. How do you imagine this conversation would go? He'd probably sit there and look at me and listen to the sounds and give them the typical leaf fitting. Like, look, leaf fitting has the best laugh ever.
It's just a picture of the sound coming out of his mouth, like his eyes and just banging his hand on the table. I don't have to do that this week when I see him. I want you to do it. And then report back to us to tell us how it went.
I think every time a leak is done speaking, you need to play a bear sound. Or actually, I might just be able to circumvent everybody in the truck and just maybe like the easy button, instead of like the easy button on my desk, except the bear sound button and just get it really close and just, oh, when I slap the magnet on the board, maybe the back of the magnet it has, they're their ways to do this. Well, let's get it done. I mean, you are doing a lot for my career development.
I have done your trailblazer, and we love helping trailblazers out. And I'm serious, we love your Long Island guy, with the University of Miami, and you're great. And so we're just looking at, listen, we're just looking at, yeah, that's all. Nothing you need to help her or your asshole.
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There, when you're at that little setup, you have on the stage there, like paint a picture for us. What is the stuff that you have there that we don't see? Like what's going on there? Not a hell of a lie.
I mean, I got the box there with the headset and the volume control. I got my monitor, which has a show. I can talk to the guys on the set. I can talk to the people in the truck.
I got my laptop up, which has whatever the hell I want on their lines, newspapers, stats. I got my books there. I don't have, every now and then you might sneak a look at like the Saturday Saratoga card might be or Belmont card might be printed out right to my right there. And the pile of paper is mixed in.
Garbage pail right underneath there to do this with the sweat rag to keep calum myself off and throw it out. No AC, no fan, no nothing like that. No salmon, no honey. No salmon, no honey.
Occasionally, we'll have a little cup of, like we'll have some scrambled eggs for breakfast back in the office area. I'll make a couple of scrambled eggs, put a piece of foil on it, maybe like mid-show can still semi-warm and be able to get a little mid-show snap. Because I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, you'll laugh, but we get out to that set like 8.30 and we know we're there until like 12.15 at least, but we're 12.30. It's a long time.
You need a couple of comfort breaks in between there as well. But you can kind of need that little like 10.30, like a little pick me up. I need a little protein boost right here. When's the first time you place the bat?
The first time I imagine you coming out of the womb and placing bats. I can remember betting those stupid, one of those football cards that used to get a local auto shop and go pick up a card and you bet like five bucks to try and hit like a five team or to win like 100 bucks or whatever the hell it was. I can remember playing those like well into my younger days. I mean, I don't even think I was like 10 before I was playing those things with my dad.
Like the yellow card sports report, when news information only, I mean, we grew up obviously on Long Island and we had a little quarter worst track right by our house called Soft Meadows. We'd go there, I can remember betting on going to Belmont and I wasn't old enough to go to the window and do it. But I have my dad bet on Kecidor, I see the yellow and the Belmont stakes. Actually, you'll love this.
I remember in high school, we had to do like a current events type project. And I remember just talking about like Pete Rose and gambling and incorporated those football cards and how they work. So yeah, to say sports, what he's doing is it's been a part of my life would be fairly accurate. So, Felica, you knew at an early age you wanted to do this.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's like great. But your dad was a gambler, right?
So like he kind of introduced you to it. Yeah. My dad, my dad, my dad had his uncle, his godfather, he used to write for like the daily racing form or one of those races. It's not exist anymore.
I think we grew up around all this crap. I think it's for the Jets since 1978. So I was going to Jets games since I was six. And of course, you have the cards folded up in your pocket and like, you have to rely on the screen.
No, no cell phone. No, not the internet to be able to find out the score. So you're like watching the scoreboard out there. Like, not even like sometimes paying attention to what's going on in the game.
Or you're waiting until it's a change of possession. And you look on the score and you're like, Barkowski touchdown pass. Falcon seven, Saints zero. And you're like, yes, I got the Falcons plus four.
I don't know why it's big me left. Listen, you are great at picking games. I am terrible at picking games. So I've heard.
So I do a segment called Stiggy Gods. I just, when I did, I think two seasons ago, I think it's unprecedented, but maybe since you've been gambling since you were four years old, perhaps you've run like this. Take a listen. What if I told you that the pursuit of perfection isn't always a good thing?
That over 14 on your gambling picks isn't just possible, but will likely have real life consequences? That my picks are for entertainment purposes only. That I gave you a sly wink and air quotes when I said that thing about my picks being for entertainment purposes only. That I've run into some pretty rough people you don't want to owe money to.
That I've just taken out a third mortgage. That my daughters are going to have to make new friends in public school. That I know way too much about the University of Hawaii football team because I'm always out late, chasing. That my wife is probably leaving me and taking the kids.
That if someone you never met before starts asking you questions about where I've been, tell them you haven't seen me in a while and immediately text me so I can get on the next flight to El Salvador. That I know it's been a rough couple of weeks, but I've got a great feeling about the Titans plus six and a half on Sunday. ESPN film presents a 30 for 30 about one man's fight to keep both his kneecaps. Felica, oh for 14 to start the NFL season, that's never happened to you.
No, no, no, no. I had a run last year where I went one and two with an O and three with a one and two on the board that we got a little bit. You know what the underrated like get that game was? Like the great old big Monday games where you either used to have like Chris Aaron and Park in Fresno State playing like a midnight game, or you had like Jason Taylor gaming, Stautermeyer, or you'd be sitting there like, all right, welcome to the Thunderdome on the cameras of UC Santa Barbara.
I'm Joel Myers, the yauchos, take on a revive. Big West, perfect. Yeah, but those are also the games where you question every life decision you've ever made. I need to.
I'm down eight 50. It's Monday night tomorrow. I want you to see Santa Barbara. Give me the ante.
It's plus three and a half. What's the best percentage of pitch you've ever gotten corrected a football season? 16 and 17, I went, I hit over 60% on the board, which I mean, it's all I know it's only three picks a week, but it's like, you know what? If I'm picking three games a week and I think one year, I think I was 30 and 19 and the following year was like 29, 19 and one.
It was just over 60%. So I mean, I'll take that. So I mean, last year, I think I went down to like 57, but the funny thing is that people always want like, well, what do you like? What do you like?
And I'll say like one or two or three games and what else? Well, why do you think I'm only giving you one or two or three games? The more games you pick, the more likely you are that you're you're interested in success and go like regress down to the means. I don't play like the things like Saturday people.
What do you like? What do you like? I'm like, I think Florida will win, but it should be close. I mean, no result would really surprise me.
And that's kind of how that game went. Right. You could have made an argument that Miami could have won the game or Florida could have won by two touchdowns. So it's like, yeah, just because the game's on doesn't mean necessarily to play it.
Yeah, it's a very good point. How often do you get recognized in public pretty often? Yeah, pretty, pretty often. It's my my wife actually like last night.
She starts keeping track of some of the places that are one hour friends who works at the SBA where the CCO is a Joyce hearing where I get recognized. And I think the craziest place I've been recognized is at the airport at Kruger National Park in South Africa. It was hysterical. There were only two other people in the terminal.
And my wife and I are sitting there and like they're across. And I got like the corner in my eye. I can see them like kind of like figuring things out and talking like who's going to like get up the nerve to say it. And finally, like someone says, bear.
And I'm like, yeah, how are you? And why is it going to be like an SC fan and a Villanova fan? And they live in LA and watch the show every week. So I love it.
I mean, I don't recognize now. I just love talking to talking to all the people because I think that's part of it. And I think that's why I relate with people. But I'm just a freaking normal dude.
I love sports. I like to make a bet. I like to make fun of myself. I like to eat.
I like to travel. I like music. And I'm just kind of like approachable. Listen, we're two peas in the pod that way.
What really helped me become more likable. I will tell you this is sitting next to Levittorn every day. That's something I have that you know. And it's very, very powerful.
But you went to school in Levittorn, right? Can't actually graduate like a year before I got there. But I got to just know Dan and deal with Dan through. We're being a student assistant in the athletic department there on the SID.
And I can just remember clipping these articles every day and getting news for a dollar in my hands and just being under direct orders. Like don't tell Dan anything. Make sure you clip everything that he says because we want to know exactly what he's saying. We're not sure if we can trust him.
Don't leave Malone over there. I don't know if Linda and Larry and John and Tommy and everybody in there kind of run the same. They just always have like half an eye on Levittorn. Make sure he's that snooping around for something that he shouldn't be.
A lot of pail grant story. What was you saying? He's still figuring it out. I've been talking about him.
I've been talking about him. Listen, we say that it's him. But also he's Ken Rodriguez. But we just do it to him.
Well, they tend to. I'm with you. I mean, I like him very much. I don't know where he got that from.
But he said that to me, actually. I like Dan a lot. I can't speak for my superiors. But a little 18-year-old long island boy with me.
I was started. I'm like, wow, that's the guy who's story I'm reading. He was here in my shoes. He just graduated.
Now he's recovering this team for the Herald. I love that. He's great. He really is.
He's ribbing his side. He's awesome. And just to see where he came from and just dealing with him back then and what he's a fault into. It's pretty awesome.
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And number 16, Auburn also check out the podcast, and the end of the bear on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. We'll get you out here in a couple of minutes. Why is it Stanford Steve and the bear? Because I think you were infinitely more famous than Stanford Steve.
It should be the bear in Stanford Steve. Let's change that. That's a good question. I didn't have any editorial saying that, but I'm going to unfortunately I think t-shirts are being made and artwork was made that has it that way.
So I'm going to have to see if we can maybe make that change that. Yeah, that's a good question. What? Why did that work?
Like bear or phalika comes before Steve or Stanford? How did that happen? Listen, we're here trying to help you and build your brand, but I'm confused here because I would just kick in Stanford Steve all the time. It would just be called the bear.
Or maybe they would think like it's BJ McKay and his best like BJ in the bear. It's like you want to copy that? Yeah, but I'm trying to get you to ditch Stanford Steve. Stancic, with me?
No, no, I can't do that. I can't do that. I can't do that. You got a sound effect now.
What is Stanford Steve? I'll say that sound effect alone would knock down Stanford tree there. We're going to listen, we have an idea here. Stancic helped me out here.
Here's what I'm thinking. You versus me, we'll call it the bear against the snake. Okay? So you.
That was bad. I was trying to give you a little hint. I was trying to get a little hint. I turned out a little dry and I wasn't able to really get the snake out of it.
You don't have to have do your own sound effects. You have this one. I don't have the button. That's true.
Yes, you need the button. I'll take it. It's going to be hard with a snake sound. That's right.
We got to maybe think Snake, Whiskin. Like, I was like, maybe to say something. I was saying, because that movie... You have no idea what I'm talking about when I say Snake, I have no idea.
But I got a sound effect. Let's listen to it together. I like that. I was wrong.
Okay. I was wrong. Apology accepted. Everything I just said about Snake, a company is the snake.
So bear. Bear, you're familiar with Snake, of course. Thank you. Although I would say watching that movie will set you back like 10 years in terms of intelligence, okay?
Brod your fries are just gonna escape from New York. Holy shit. It's too bad to be. Alright, so here's what we're thinking, alright?
So the bear versus the snake, okay? Season long competition. If I win, then I get to sit alongside you on college game day and co-host the podcast for a week. Now listen, I'm not gonna say a single word on college game.
I'm just gonna sit next to you, which would be a funny visual device, okay? And maybe I'll bring the bear sound thing. I'll bring it to you. Like I'll hit it whenever you make a bet, okay?
And so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna fade all of Stanford Steve's picks, okay? If he picks Oregon this weekend, then I'll take Auburn. And if I win, that's what I get to do. I sit with you on the set of college game day and I'll say word and I co-host the podcast with you one week.
And if you win, okay, which I suspect you will, you get to appear on the, you could co-host the goddamn thing on the WebitsArt show with me promoting anything you want for the next year. And that's what I'm thinking. I'll promote whatever the hell you want me to promote for a year. Plus you get to sit and co-host the show with me or Dan and feel free to do it when Dan is in.
That way I get a day off, which I'll find with. I'm actually standing up starting to think I want to lose this bet. I'm gonna say, you're gonna lose. I know I'm gonna lose.
And so that's what we're thinking. It's we're thinking I'll take opposite of Stanford Steve. If I win, then I sit with you on college game day, don't say a word and I co-host the podcast. If you win, you get to co-host the WebitsArt show and I'll promote anything you want for the next year.
How about that? That's pretty good. Because you know you're gonna win, right? I don't know about that.
I'm doing it for a down year. Do you have a better way of doing this? Because I feel like that's just not full of Stanford Steve. Do you need to run a big league fitting?
I mean, I might have to run like a whole like sitting next to me part on game day. But I think we can make that. We can probably make that work. I think we can make that work.
Alright, I think we can. I want to ask you an honest question because the only way I can ask this is just go. Just ask, just ask, just ask, just ask, just ask. Because I've talked to Scott Van Pelt about working.
And we've had serious conversations that Scott thinks it's a good idea. So there's green and so do others. Okay. And if I were on like, you know, the Masters coverage and you threw it out to the gallery and there's the guy to the fans.
And I love golf that. And so Scott Van Pelt said to God, I'm being dead serious. I think it's a very good idea. I think golf could use a little bit of Stigat.
It's like you'd be fun. It'd be fun. It'd be fun. It'd be fun.
It'd be really another sport, right? It could. And so I'm on college game. Marty Smith, Jonathan Wiley, all the guys, Renaldi has told me like they go out there.
They see Stu Gotz lines all the time, right? We do. And so I'm just thinking like me out with the fans out, you know, on the college game, they said, but I'm out with the fans. You guys just throw it out to me and get a pulse with the fans and I'm hanging out and partying with them.
We're doing shots at like 9 a.m. in the morning. Like I'm thinking there's a spot for me in college. I think there is.
I think there is. I think there is. I think there is. And you know what?
Maybe we might not be able to break that out of the gust of national next April. But maybe maybe maybe many Harding Park, San Francisco, PGA. Yes. That can work out there.
Right. Typical me going straight. Like, say, I think typical. I'm going straight to a gust of like, there are no stops in the road.
So you think that there is actually like, like a good idea out there with me in college game? The college kids love me for some reason. Why wouldn't they? I don't know.
I'm a 45 year old college kid. I'd be like, yeah, I'd say. I'm a 47 year old college kid. Yes.
Just a freaking number, man. Yes, it is. All right. Well, listen, this is great.
I mean, Lee, it's a great idea. Thank you. Thank you. Run and by Lee when you talk about the fairs.
Fitting. Listen, I got two great ideas from Stu Gotz. What is this? The other is what's going to be on college game.
I love this. All right. Real quickly, we'll get you out of here. Reese Herbie or Des with Chris Felica, aka the bear, greatest nickname in the history sport.
Who spends the most on their suits? Des. Stancy. I thought it was Herbie, for sure.
It was either Herbie or Des. Like, I mean, Pollock, I know we're not trying to go off the board here, but I feel like Pollock's probably in that conversation. Pollock will go to Marshall to get something off the rack. Wow.
Wow. That's that's that's amazing. That's a revelation there. I knew it wasn't Reese because Reese could show up at a t-shirt and shorts and still be the best guy to say.
It's just a lie. It does slightly over Kirk. Okay. That's right.
That's that's that's knows how to bring it. All right. Reese Herbie or Des, who's the most likely to call for help if they get a flat tire? Kirk.
Wow. I figured. Wow. That's that's a shocker.
You want to be one you want to Kirk once called me. This is probably about 15 years ago or it's like he called me like on the phone like asking for help on how to like set up a computer printer. That's like a lot of time. Yeah.
So great. All right. Reese Herbie, Des, who's the most likely to scream on a roller coaster? Des.
Herbie's probably pretty cool on the roller coaster. And yeah. Herbie would give like that like silent like scream like his mouth would open up but nothing would come out. Reese would be smiling and Des would have they would be noise coming at a desk as well.
All right. Who's the most likely to forget their credit card at a restaurant? Reese Herbie or Des? Herbie.
Wow. You surprised by that? I mean the former quarterback wants to be taken care of. Although the former quarterback you feel like should be buying more often.
Yeah. That's the thing he usually does. So just by pure math of the whole thing like he'll take it out and then maybe try to put it back in the pocket. It doesn't go back in, lands on the floor or the table.
But I think just the pure like mathematics of it will make him the favorite there. All right. This is a big one. Reese Herbie or Des?
Who is most likely to forget their credit card at a restaurant? You just asked that one. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. That's my bad because someone was texting me about my course. Thank you.
I'm happy to your car. I got a flat tire on the way. I got a flat tire on the way. Don't go Kirk.
Though my apologies on that. It's the anti-gleeve that in there. Who is the most likely to tell you about a book they just read? Reese.
Now the lock. That was a lock. Lock essentially right there. In fact, we should be gambling on the shoe and I stand.
Lot of talk here so far. Say the glutskash you and I before you. Who is most likely to cry in a movie? OK, I am going to go cry at a movie.
I'm not going off the board here. I think it's Des. That's me. I think it's Des.
Say it's just for the sake of being different. I'm going Herbie. Herbie by far. Wow.
We reached as well. But Kirk can even if we talked about common all these some of those pieces getting very emotional. And now Kirk for sure. Like that's minus a thousand.
That's a lock. OK, Reese Herbie or Des who was most likely to do karaoke. Stan Tic your answer. Wow.
Des got me. Des I'm going to say Reese. I'm going to go Reese here. I might go Reese as well.
Are you slight edge over Des? Like a do you do karaoke? I do not. OK, but I'm a try.
I like every now and I'll catch myself singing in the car. Just got to belting out like lyrics or singing on a plane or down by whatever you're saying. Whatever whatever is playing on my iPod. Like I just like I just like going along with it.
What do I have going the other day that I was that I was getting into? It was something probably that wasn't written in like last five or ten years. I assure you that. So Billy Joel.
It could have been Billy Joel. It was something a little more energetic than that. I don't know. I'm not even tool actually.
Well, I thought it was gonna be Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam was within that mix as well. But then I'll go from like tool to Pearl Jam and have like a public enemy. So I'm like why am I a pod system.
That'll be. Reese Herbie Des who thinks they are the best looking dancing should be in easy. Well, no, this is the top one because you know Herbie. Actually all three of them.
I mean who thinks they are the best. It goes without saying that. Everyone knows that. That's looking.
Well, hold on. Forget that. Stay there. Don't say it goes without saying that he says the best hair.
Right. Everyone knows that that goes. Yeah, in our game. OK, so who thinks they are the best looking?
This is not who is the best looking who thinks they are the best looking. OK, you all know it's Reese. But that's my thing. He's better.
Yeah, I think it's does. That's the biggest ego because he's you know, Super Bowl MVP has been trophy. I'm going to go to do it. I'm going to go to do it.
Yeah, I think it was back to like the soup thing as well. I think I would lean like Kirk is like very self-deprecating as well. Like he'll I don't think he thinks of himself in that. Not that I think that does too, but but I think like the personality of does like gives that appearance off a little bit more.
If I had does his resume, I'd be thinking the same exact way he does. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, resue. Anybody else like when I was in trophy, I'm going to be on this like long area code. All right, check them out there.
This was fantastic. If I check them out again, at Chris Felica on Twitter, F-A-L-L-I-C-A. Also check them out this weekend. College Game Day is going to be live from Fort Worth in advance of number 11 Oregon, number 16, Albern, and check out his podcast, and have received in the bear on Apple Podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.
Dude, incredible, amazing. I look forward to sitting next to you on the Central College Game Day and co-hosting podcast video in a couple of months, okay? That's what I'm talking about. Subot it.
I mean, it was fantastic. He was so amenable. I'm amenable. Well, I'm amenable.
The gods, the bear, the state, the bear. Squawks, swawks, swawks, swawks. I'm tired. Subot it.
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