Episode
Episode 291 | Coffee Stirrers of the Sea
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- The Burt Selleck Podcast
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- Jun 15, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3691
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Summary
Alex thinks he’s spotted a lynx on the ride home, but the gang decides it was probably just a skinny fox— which somehow turns into ranking the “most cat-like dog” and “most dog-like cat.” From there they wander into lion dating problems, pack tactics, and whether you could actually out-run a bobcat on an average Tuesday. Halfway through, John drops the fact that certain whales have an honest-to-goodness bone in their junk—something sailors once used as coffee stirrers. Cue fifteen minutes of narwhal cafés, sub implosions, and why nobody should make a deep-sea vessel out of carbon fiber. Things wrap with summer show plugs, and John wondering if a lanyard chain for his glasses counts as “two chains, one cup.” It’s exactly the kind of loose, late-night hang where animal trivia meets trench-war jokes and somehow makes sense.