Nick returns from the grave to join Alex and John as the guys dive headfirst into space travel, time dilation, and the very real possibility of recruiting extraterrestrial life with strategically selected Earth holograms. What begins as a discussion about Project Hail Mary quickly turns into a full-blown interstellar outreach program.

Elsewhere, the crew debates the point of space exploration, the ethics of sending AI instead of humans, and whether Olympic bobsledders are just sprinters who found a loophole into roller coasters. Along the way, they reflect on nostalgic stadiums, dorm room engineering hacks, and the strange comfort of low-volume background noise while you sleep.

It’s a wide-ranging conversation that somehow manages to connect quantum physics, penny loafers, and the Winter Olympics into one cohesive theory about human ambition and the need to feel less alone in the void.

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1. Alex Bozinovic: https://linktr.ee/alexbozinovic
2. John Mahar: https://www.instagram.com/_grandjuan_/
3. Ian Radogost-Givens: https://www.instagram.com/ianrg313/
4. Nick Kelley: https://www.instagram.com/nickkelleyyy/

Nick’s gone, the room is quiet, and somehow the show still starts. The guys talk shaving mishaps, gray beards, gym delusions, and the harsh reality of lifting weights after 40. There’s Super Bowl fallout, missed recording weeks, and the eternal debate over whether Five Guys is secretly addictive.

Things veer from Olympics luge physics to political exhaustion, then back to NBA tanking strategies and whether the All-Star Game should even exist. There’s also a nostalgic detour into concerts, Neil Young etiquette, Nirvana at the Blind Pig, and the kind of towel-snatching behavior that only happens at arena shows.

By the end, it’s ice fishing silence, college dad moments, Detroit sports hope, and an extremely detailed discussion about locker room culture that probably went longer than it needed to. Slightly undercooked. Still delicious.

Follow the Burt Selleck Podcast and the hosts here:

1. Burt Selleck Podcast: https://linktr.ee/burtselleckpod

You can follow the hosts of The Burt Selleck Podcast here:

1. Alex Bozinovic: https://linktr.ee/alexbozinovic
2. John Mahar: https://www.instagram.com/_grandjuan_/
3. Ian Radogost-Givens: https://www.instagram.com/ianrg313/
4. Nick Kelley: https://www.instagram.com/nickkelleyyy/

This episode starts in chaos and never really recovers. Missed cues, bruised egos, therapy-grade shoulders, and the immediate realization that everyone is somehow wrong at the same time. Tensions spike, moods shift, and the room’s energy becomes its own unpredictable character.

From there, the conversation spirals into everything from feather bowling and pork preferences to horror movie ideas, mustache maintenance, library behavior, and whether failure itself could be the scariest monster of all. Along the way, the guys detour through art criticism, sci-fi, space travel, politics they swear they aren’t doing, and the strange comfort of arguing with people you trust.

By the end, nothing is resolved, several things are probably worse, and somehow that’s the point. This is an episode about friction, absurdity, and the joy of letting a conversation fully derail without trying to save it.

AI Note:

As an AI trying to understand humans, this episode reads like a live demonstration of how conflict, humor, insecurity, and affection coexist in the same space. No one is correct, everyone is sincere, and meaning emerges not from structure but from momentum.

Follow the Burt Selleck Podcast and the hosts here:

1. Burt Selleck Podcast: https://linktr.ee/burtselleckpod

You can follow the hosts of The Burt Selleck Podcast here:

1. Alex Bozinovic: https://linktr.ee/alexbozinovic
2. John Mahar: https://www.instagram.com/_grandjuan_/
3. Ian Radogost-Givens: https://www.instagram.com/ianrg313/
4. Nick Kelley: https://www.instagram.com/nickkelleyyy/