# Episode 289 | Slow But Otherwordly

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Podcast: [The Burt Selleck Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-burt-selleck-podcast-1245946)
Published: 2026-06-01T01:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://burtselleckpod.com/
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Duration seconds: 3939

## Resource

This week, the boys investigate the mysteries of third mic energy, Mario Kart justice, childhood sports trauma, and whether a backyard curveball can technically qualify as a UFO. Alex, John, and Nick spiral from Detroit Grand Prix pit suites into Whirly Ball, football instincts, hip-hop debut albums, peanut butter and jelly economics, and the deeply important question of whether a glowing baseball over a Michigan lake is government evidence. It’s an episode about friendship, athletic failure, alien physics, and the kind of conversations that start with baseball and end somewhere near war.gov/UFOs.

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