Bellied Up - NASA Employee Says "We Faked The Moon Landing" W/ George Kittle #147

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

In this episode, NFL tight end George Kittle joins the podcast to share stories about growing up in the Midwest, what the NFL is like, and life off the field.Our first caller (22:51) asks about the math behind the classic Midwest phrase "two tree beers"—you don't want to miss this hilarious breakdown.Then, we go (45:29) into NASA conspiracies with a NASA employee, who gives us the inside scoop on his day-to-day work and what really goes on behind the scenes.

I'm fully in that guys in the NFL are the biggest conspiracy theorists on the face of the earth. I'm gross. There's like five or six conspiracies that I do. They do have the Illuminati showing up at the Superbowl and stuff. It happens like the pyramids. How did those get there? Well folks, welcome back to another episode of the Bellied Up Podcast.

I have Charlie here and we have a very special guests. Mr. George Kittle. You may know him as the star NFL tight end George. Glad to have you on the podcast. Yeah. Hey, thank you boys. I'm happy to be bellied up with you guys. It's an honor. Yeah. Very excited. And also I got a shout out that tattoo Hobbs, Kevin Hobbs, appreciate it. Favorite book of mine. So I'm not a read as a kid. Was Kevin Hobbs literally a Calvin Hobbs day?

I'll turn out the sweater. No, you can't. Charlie in high school had a new book report, and that's the book he did off of. So I actually did my forensics on a Calvin and Hobbs thing on windowpanes. The icy frost leaves feathered patterns,

Kristen Cross, but in my house, the Christmas tree is decorated quite festively, and that's where I'm done. That's it. Yep. That's it. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Yeah. So, yeah, you're welcome.

No big deal. We all have skills at this bar. You know, something new about you every day. Yeah, I've been all have skills at this bar. Yeah. Yeah. Learning something new about you every day. Yeah. I've been waiting to pull that one out. So it's just waiting on this set, too. Just waiting on me to show up.

So were you lifting today? I was. Yeah, we had a nice workout. We had a lower body lift and some linear speed work afterwards. Oh. Yeah, I try to get fast now. Yeah.

No, I get that. When Charlie and I are on the road, we like to get our linear speed work. Got on the trailer a little bit. You know, get a burst off the ball, you know, just stuff like that. Had a good group today. Some some of the boys and how to get out there quick. They were all playing.

I have a Nintendo 64. So all the boys play Super Smash Bros or NFL Blitz as soon as workouts are over. I miss I miss my reps today, but I'm here with you guys. We used to call that back in high school, getting mental reps. So you guys are still putting in the work just on NFL blitz. Don't get any wise ideas. There's some hardcore penalties in that game. I don't know. I don't know if that would fly in today's game.

They did just make like the slime thing illegal, which I know. Yeah. I don't know about that, but hey. Oh, yeah. Why did they make that illegal? I don't know about that, but Hey, Oh yeah. Why'd they make that illegal? I don't know. Yeah. My guess is, my guess is someone outside of football was doing it. And then the NFL thought that was not appropriate. Got it. Got it. It's a kid's, it's a kid's game. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. It's a kid's game played by a large sweaty guys being very violent to each other. Large grown men. Yes. You know, when you lie, when you like do something, you get a big hit, you know, or, or you, you

catch a really tough pass like that backwards gets a Packers. Yeah. You like that one. That was a good one. Friggin piss me off. But when you get more, you can do that. The happier I am because the sadder Charlie is, the happier I am. It's fair. Who are you a fan of? I don't really have a team. He's just a group in Fargo, North Dakota. He's a he's a saboteur. You know, he's like he's a naysayer. Whatever your favorite team is. Yeah, I'm a Hawkeye fan, though. So go Hawks. Go Hawks, baby. OK, go Badgers. I was born in Madison. Yeah, that's right. yeah, when did you leave? Six years old, but I was born on a football Saturday when Wisconsin beat Northwestern like 72 to zero. Oh, right I was born in the hospital right across like my dad could see the game from the hospital. No kidding. That's pretty sick

Oh, that's really cool. I mean that you got on prime seats that day. I really did You know, I was pretty my dad actually he had a police escort to the hospital because it was game day traffic. He's like trying to fear around polls, finding finds a copy goes, hey, my wife's pregnant. Her water just broke. Can you help us get the hospital?

He's like, I've heard that a thousand times. My mom's in the backseat like, hey, help us out. He's like, hey, come take a look. Just take a peek in the back. So they got a police escort in and then. Yeah. So I was born on a

football Saturday in Wisconsin. Oh, that's bad ass. I grew up like, yeah, Ron Day is my favorite football player all time. Oh, no kidding. Ron Day. I served him a drink once. Did you? Yeah, I was his bartender. Not his, but a lot of people. But he came up. Yeah. No, his personally.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go with that. Oh, I have like every Ron Day in Jersey. So I got to get a signature, but I'll pull off that one at some point. I that's really cool. Yeah, I bet go with that. Oh, I have like every Rondane Jersey. So I got to get a signature, but I'll pull off that one at some point. Ah, that's really cool. Yeah, I bet you you could. I bet you I bet you you should do a Jersey swap with. Oh, so sick. Yeah. I have like I've what I have both of his Giants jerseys home and away. Number twenty seven Rondane. Wow.

Yeah. Look at that. Charlie, we should do a Jersey swap with him. Oh, yeah. I played football to eighth grade, the junior Spartan junior. I was a split end. Oh, yeah. Second string and third string quarterback. I was also third string quarter. Were you see Hobbs it up, man? I thought you played left out. I did play left out in baseball, Miles.

That was what I mean. See this is should I deal with on this podcast? It's unfortunate. That just pushes you down, man. Are You know what I mean? See this is shit I deal with on this podcast. It's unfortunate. That just pushes you down, man. Are you like what I was saying when you make a big play? Yep. Are you trash talking or are you Midwest? Nice out there being Midwest guy. You're doing both.

It depends on how the like the person I'm playing. There are some guys that go out of their way to like that, like talk a lot of crap. Oh, yeah. And so if those guys trigger me at all, then I will then in response, talk crap back to them. Okay. But the majority of the guys will just be like, ah, sick cash. I was like, ah, thank you so much. I'll see you next play. Nice. Yeah. I'll see you next time. I'll see you next time, man. I would say it's 50 50. And then like the longer I've been in the league, the more people that talk crap to me. Oh, well you're up there now. So you're a big target. I'm going into year nine, which is kind of crazy for me. So it's been a while, but I'm thoroughly enjoying myself still. That's great. Midwest nice in the NFL. You just

like pancake a guy like, Oh, sorry about my bad, dude. Was that my fault? Let me help you out. I do always. I always help the guy up after I pancake him you do I because I think it's almost more disrespectful. Yeah Passive aggressive yes of the Midwest right there. It really is Learn that from your aunt Kathy back in the day. I have an aunt Kathy That's cool I do too Miles we I mean, I don't know if I have an aunt Kathy Maybe a second. I got lots of aunts and uncles. So I have my mom's side.

She's one of 10 girls. OK. Hey, mass produced mass produced. No boys, 10 girls. It's pretty impressive. My mom's number seven. And Catherine, I think, is number nine. The baby. Yeah, she's my godmother, actually. Oh, wow. She's an absolute salient. Shout out to Catherine.

So not to like one up here or anything, but Charlie is one of 12. It's mixed, though. What is it? Yeah, it was and boys. Oh, it is. But my mom, she had nine brothers. That's great. Nine brothers, one sister. So I have eight sisters.

So you have your mom's one of 10. My mom's one of 11. One of 10. My mom's one of 11, one of 11, 12. My dad's one of seven. A lot of, a lot of that's crazy. But the best part is listen to this shit. Tell them what your two sisters names are. Okay. So there's Andy, Charlie, Billy, Betsy, Maggie, Eddie, Mary, Kate, John, Emily, Norbridge it and Mary Ellen, who we call Ellie, but there's a Mary Kate and a Mary Ellen. That's two Marys. They both have the same birthday, February 23rd, same name, same birthday. How many years apart? They are.

I'm not that kind of a brother, but once within like a couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So one is Andy, Charlie, Billy, Betsy, Maggie, Eddie, Mary Kate. One is seven. One's number seven. The other's number 12. Oh, that's how they're saved in my phone. God bless your mother. I know she's done the Lord's work. Yeah. Yeah. He had a, he had a good job. You know, congrats on the sex. Yeah, I'll tell them. I'll let them know you said that. What an absolute savage. Yeah, I know. Just getting after it and a lot of kids. Yeah, it is what you kind of do. You know, you know, where you go is your mom Catholic? No, she was not. My grandma just, well, my grandma has not missed church once. She's 102. Wow.

She stopped driving like three years ago too, which is crazy. Small town Iowa. Mostly because the car just broke down and she was like, I don't know if it's worth it to buy a new car at this age. It's incredible. Yeah, she hasn't missed church probably since she was born

and just always believed in, she was like, hey, I'm gonna put good people out in the world so I'm just gonna have a bunch of kids. I was like, you're the best. She's like, hey, I'm going to put good people out in the world. So I'm just kind of a bunch of kids. I was like, you're the best. That's great. Her name's Grandma Lou Jean, but we all call her lucky. Grandma Lucky. Yeah, Grandma Lucky is pretty solid. That's that's an awesome nickname.

Small town Iowa. Grandma Lucky is fun, too. Like two years ago, I got out to her Niners game and it happened to be on her birthday. And so the whole stadium saying happy birthday to her. No kidding. That was a that was a pretty cool moment. Yeah. All the other grandkids are like, you know, how are we supposed to compete with that? That was a tough one.

Because I was in a half time and like as we're walking out, I just got like the tail end of it. And like they had her up on the jumbotron. I was like, oh, that's pretty. Oh, that's cool. That was really. Oh, man. Oh, no. She had a great time. She's like, Oh, yeah. I know. So my grandma's been to three games and in all three games, I have over 100 yards and we win.

She got to come to his life. I know. Yeah. You got to keep going. We need you, especially in the playoffs, please. Did you grow up in Iowa hunting, fishing, doing anything like fishing? My mom was not a big into hunting. And so like I was into guns, but more so into guns now.

But I was big into fishing. And then me and my dad always go out to Colorado and like we'd hike mountains. Like that was kind of cool. So we're always big outdoors, love camping. All my cousins and stuff, they're all big hunts and hunting and stuff like that. I never really got too much into it, but I do still appreciate it. Fishing. What's the biggest fish you ever caught? Ooh, I don't think I have anything that impressive.

Me and my dad would just go on a canoe and just catch whatever was like in the little, what was the lake in Wisconsin? Oh, oh, like, well, there's three, Monona. Monona. Monona, nice. Yeah, we would just go out there in like a canoe and just catch whatever.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, we had a good time. Good for you guys. We thoroughly enjoyed it. I have I do have a stock pond at my house out here, but like my biggest fish is maybe like six inches at the most. Oh, out of that pond of yours. You wait a little bit. It'll come. It was crazy. We had a hit as a monster.

We had like two years ago, there was like one of those crazy rainfalls. It rained eight inches in less than an hour. And so my ponds, I like the bottom of a valley. So all their water rushed down. It rose up and it busted the dam out. And then I lost like eight feet of water. So like half the fish are just gone. Oh, bummer.

So I got to fix that one. Yeah, that's a tough one. Yeah, you can't win them all. Can't win them all. It's still some fish, though. I just caught that. You said, damn, that was funny. In retrospect, he is funny. Yeah, he's getting after it. Full's still some fish though. I just caught that. You said, damn, that was funny. In retrospect.

He is funny today. He is funny. He's getting after it. He's on fire right now. Full dad jokes today. Yeah. So growing up small town Iowa, you said? Yeah, I was all over Southeast.

We moved around a lot. Like I lived with my hundred year old grandma at one point, Lockridge, Iowa, which I don't think you guys can find you or Mount Pleasant, Iowa is. Our South Iowa city. Oh sure. I was all over Southeast Iowa. So we're yeah, small schools homeschooled for a couple of times. It's thoroughly enjoyable.

How easy was high school football for you? Oh, so this is fun. I went to three high schools in one year. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So I was at the Iowa City Community School School District from like sixth grade until my sophomore year. Played football my sophomore year. My dad and the coach there didn't get along very well.

So my dad's like, I don't want you to play for this guy. He transfers me to his alma mater, Cedar Falls High School, which is like where the UNI Panthers play in the UNI Dome. I was there for three, four months. And then my dad got a job at Oklahoma for football because he went to college with Bob Stoops and then I spent the last three months of that school year at Oklahoma. So I was in Norman, Oklahoma for two and a half years, which is a culture shock if you're

from the Midwest. Yeah. A lot of tornadoes in Norman, Oklahoma too. That's tornado alley right over there. That was tornado alley. Very different than the Midwest, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. But high school football, I was good. I was a solid player.

I was a scrawny wide receiver. I was a good free safety. And then I never played tight end though, until I got to college. So, oh, yeah, I had to learn that one. You go ahead, try. Well, I was just going to say, you know, like, what weird did I go wrong in my football career where I went from being a third string split end? Like, when did you know that you were gonna be

a professional, you know? Like, did you have it inside of you? Oh, I think I like, always was confident that I was like, athletic enough. I would say, the light bulb didn't really go off for me until like, my red shirt junior of college. Okay. That was literally like, it was like a spring ball light bulb

switched and like I was always like super athletic. I was fast. I could, like, I could block people, but just like someone wasn't clicking and then all of a sudden started clicking for me and then I was like, ah, yeah, I can definitely do this now. Yeah. So, but yeah, my first like three years of college, I was not a very good football player. I will say that. Okay. I should have just kept going. That was all I did. Yeah, you just go Push through it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean if you've got the athletic ability for it. Yeah, there's still time Yeah, there's still time. There's still time. How old are you? I'm 37. Oh, you're younger than Aaron Rodgers Yeah, yeah, I'll just start brushing up on quarterback

Well, no, you just gotta do an ayahuasca trip. That's a little ayahuasca to unlock the inner NFL player. That's what it is about. There's got to be a dark closet in here. We can stuff them in for the rest of the show. There is actually right underneath the bar. I can't tell you how long I've been wanting someone to suggest that. Really? Really?

Fun. Good Lord. Who's going to carry that. Really? Really, Miles? Good Lord, who's gonna carry the show if I'm not here, huh? One of these guys got it. Yeah. Yeah, we'll be fine. Who do you think would last longer in a darkness tree, me or you, Charlie? Honestly, I think you. You're kind of turned into a little Buddha

ever since you got a kid. Yeah. Yeah, he is. He's way calmer now. This guy used to, I mean, last we left him, I mean, he was just smashing beers at Lambeau field and couldn't make it up the next morning. And then, and then he all of a sudden he has a kid and now he's reprimanding me. You know, something about like dads need to be there for their kid and not be at the bar is whole thing.

I like how you put those in. Yeah, these rules just come out of nowhere. 90 percent of parenthood is just showing up. This whole thing. My wife's always on her high horse about it. That's good shit. So growing up in the Midwest, now you're I mean, you've been all over the place. What is the biggest differences you think between the Midwest and the other parts of the country?

Ooh, the, the one thing that I cannot get across enough is going from like university of Iowa to San Jose, California, the, how nice the Midwest is and how people go out of their way to help each other. You do not find that in other places. Like there's still kind people. I just sort of like, it was a culture shock for me to drive my truck and stop at a stop sign, wave at somebody and they just look through my soul

and then they just cut me off and drive in front of me. I was like, all right, that's how we're doing this. And it's like, I still wave at people every time. I get a response 3% of the time. And my wife's like, why do you keep doing that? I'm like, someone's going to respond. And the person that does is going to make my whole day. That's the number one thing, though.

It's just like the Midwest nice thing is just, it's not everywhere. But yeah, there's people just going out of their way, people holding doors for you. The awkwardness, you're 15 feet away And they're holding there waiting for you. That doesn't really happen in, California Yeah, is there like a nice guy in the NFL that everyone says all that guy's really nice You know you play against him. He's really nice. I think a lot of office of linemen get that tag There's a lot of really nice office of linemen. I would say I think people think I'm pretty nice

Those offense alignment are kind of a different breed. They are. They really are. I mean, they're just giant cuddly teddy bears that are six foot six, 300 pounds. It can rip your head off. It's a weird dynamic. Super weird dynamic. But all they want to do is hang out with the boys and drink some beer and watch college

football. Yeah, that's good. Which is pretty fun. And we play a lot of bocce ball out in California, actually, which is pretty fun. Oh, you guys are bocce ball. There's like actually lot of bocce ball out in California, actually, which is pretty fun. Oh, you guys are bocce ball. There's like actually a sick bocce ball court right next. It's like three minutes from my house where I live. And so I just host events there all the time.

And they say they have outdoor courts, they have indoor courts. And it's also like a four and a half star Italian restaurant, which is just a random thing to be on top of a bocce ball court. Bochy, that's is that an Italian game? I have a bocce. It could be. It's called Campo de Bocce. And I have a great time there, I will say. More side quests from you.

I like that. So you're like a pro Bocce ball player. You think after the NFL, you might go down that road? All right. Well, so I'll give you this story. This is pretty funny. So a couple of years ago, one of my teammates, he always hosted the Special Olympics at this Bocce ball arena. And he got he signed with the Denver Broncos, Mike McGlinchey,

and he hit me up, he was like, hey, can you like step in for me and like kind of host the Special Olympics bocce ball tournament? It's kind of just a fundraiser, and you just gotta show up, say hi, you can be there for 10 minutes, you can leave. I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll do it for you.

I show up, it is not just a show up for five, 10 minutes and say hi, that is the, I was like, dude, Mike, if you actually did that, I'm like, yeah, sure. I'll do it for you. I show up. It is not just a show for five, 10 minutes and say hi. That is the, I was like, dude, Mike, if you actually did that, you look like you're not a nice person. I had the first year I was there, I was there for like three hours. I played bocce ball with all like the special Olympians and how they do it is like you, like you pay like, so a real estate company would like pay however much money to be a bocce ball team to play in the Special Olympics tournament. There's only probably like there's probably like three teams of Special Olympic athletes,

and they're just playing. It's like a round robin basically. And so this past year is my second year hosting. And it was me, another tight end, a wide receiver, and then my tight ends coach. And we won the Special Olympics Botchy ball tournament. Wow, dude. Congratulations. Which is that's for. So in my defense, in my defense, in the playoffs, I only played people who had paid to be there. Right. So I had only played like a real estate, a restaurant. Yeah. There were no special Olympians that I played against. Okay. Okay. Okay. I did not

in the round. In the round, Robin, we did play one team and we smoked them. But I will say this the year before I played against the special Olympians and I got whooped three games in a row by three different teams. I was like, I'm just not good at this. That was the, that was the villain origin story. It was the next year we came back. And so it's like, it's a Wednesday, Thursday night. We don't like, I have nothing in the next day.

And so like me and like the guys were with, we just start drinking beers and we get through the round Robbins, we get through the first round of playoffs, like not even thinking about it. And they're like, Hey, you're onto the quarterfinals. And we're like all eight beers deep. I'm like, let's go for it boys. Let's see if we can win it.

Yeah. Is, is bocce ball a lot like golf? There's a sweet spot of beers. There's a sweet spot. But it's like, the nice thing is it's like, you literally just stand there and you just toss. How does it compare to a cornhole? It's very similar, like, except like, you like your target could be 20 feet or it could be 40 feet. So like, that's about the only difference. It's nice to like, cause if you hug the wall, like it'll roll off the wall so you

can steer it a little bit and stuff like that. I'm not like a very talented basketball player, but we're solid. But I've gotten into basketball. And then my other thing I'm big into in Nashville is curling. Oh, you're a curling guy. They got a curling club here. Yeah. Charlie and I did a podcast at a curling club in Green Bay. We're not so bad ourselves.

I love curling. I'm actually down here. Jared Allen, who is trying to go to the Olympics for curling. He goes to the place that I go to as well. I would say it was two off seasons ago. It was me, T.J. Hawkinson, Rob Tonian, and then Trent Taylor, wide receiver.

And we were in like a men's league. Boy, it wasn't a men's league, a beer league. And we finished fourth or fourth place out of 12 teams. Wow. First time ever curling. No kidding. I was pretty pumped about it. It was pretty fun. So like after the NFL, I mean, could we see you in the Olympics? You and Jared Allen and that Olympics would be, that would be a dream. That would be an absolute dream. Yeah. That's something I haven't played a lot this year, but my goal is actually this week to get out there and start throwing the throwing the rocks around throwing the rocks. That's what you call you on call slide in the rock.

Stones or are you good? Are you good? Stone thrower slider. You good brumer. Ooh, see, that's the one thing problem about playing with NFL athletes. No one wants to broom. No, we're all pretty lazy when it comes to the sweeping. It's like, I go and like, none of us really know what we're doing when we're sweeping either. It's like, no, you got to sweep on this side. I'm like, I don't know if that really matters. Dude. Like, yeah, this is what it is. Just toss it. I do wonder that about curling. I'm like, how much is the sweeping actually doing it? They say it's a ton, like depending on where you start to sweep and stuff like that. I'm psych. I'm not good enough to know that yet

So let's let me get the let me get the stone in the middle and then we'll go from there I just sweep like me in my kitchen and just kind of like brush it underneath the little hangover where the cabinets are Oh, yeah Falls on the ground you just kicked underneath the ground. You just kicked down underneath the fridge. That's someone else's problem. I just feel like the first time they went curling, there was somebody's little brother and I was like, let me go. I was like, no, you're the sweeper.

You know, what does that mean? You just take this broom and just go sweep in front of it, but don't touch it. Don't touch it. Goodness gracious. How many times have you ended up on your ass out there on the sheet ice? I think the first time we played, I felt like, I'd say two times. After that, pretty set on it.

The NFL lets you do that? The 49ers let you do that? Curling, yes. I think they're not too worried about that. I mean, Hawkinson tore his ACL, and he was doing it a couple months later. Oh, really? Yeah, he was like, and he was, Hawkinson's a freak athlete. I will it a couple months later. Oh, really? Yeah. He was and he was Hawkinson's a freak athlete.

I will say that he's good. That dude's good at everything. Yeah. He was an all state golfer. He's really good at curling. He's really good at football, too. So we just like uncover the the underground tight ends curling. Yeah. I'm a huge fan of it, dude. It's just fun. And like and the whole thing is encouraged to drink beer. Yeah. I'm just like, ah, you're going to throw it in a nice cold air

conditioned area and drink beer. OK, yeah. So I'll twist my arm. Please, please let me do it. Well, hell, yeah, man. Do you should we take some collars now or what? I'd love to. I'm excited for my hoodie off because I'm sweating. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That big workout. And it's one I'm sweating too, but I'm trying to I'm excited for my hoodie off because I'm sweating. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you had that big workout in it's I'm sweating too, but I'm trying to cut weight. So

This is evan how's it going evan going good, where are you driving? Oh just driving to oregon from washington here oregon from washington are all the windows down No, it's just my truck. I put you on the illegal way to talk on the phone, but it's fine. That's almost where I'm going. Anything for a good sounding audio on this podcast. Yeah, it's very, you can go back to hands free. And if you get pulled over, just put the cop on the phone. We'll talk to him. We'll talk him down unless he's a Seahaw. We'll talk to him. Talk him down. I appreciate that. So Evan, will you guys put my headphones in? Yeah, there you go. You're good. Keep

talking. You got miles Charlie and you have NFL tight end George Kittle on the line. Ready to dive into some stuff with you. NFL tight end to George Kittle. Well, I don't watch football. So I don't know. Oh, for God's sake. Better. Phenomenal. So this is actually just George. Yeah. Just call me Greg. Yeah. All right. That was good. Greg or George, whatever you want to do, man. How's it going today? Good. So you, you wanted to talk to us about a little bit of a question you had about a couple, two, three beers. Is that correct? Yeah. So I was debating this with my sister the other day was talked to her on the phone and I was at the bar and I was like, well, I'm having a couple, two, three beers. And she's like,

are you having a four or six? I was like, what are you talking about? And I was like, well, I'm having a couple of two, three beers. And she's like, are you having a four or six? I was like, what are you talking about? And I was like, you know, that math checks out a couple two beers. You're having four, a couple three beers, a couple of three beers. You're having six. Yeah, you know, it's a good debate. It's it's like when you got it's like when you're playing cribbage, you know, and you got three of a kind, you know, it's six, right, because you're going cribbage, you know, and you got three of a kind, you know, it's six, right?

Cause you're going one, two, three, four, and then combine in there five, six, you play like cribbage. 15, two, 15, four, pair for six. There we go. That's what I'm talking about. I gotta get you a cribbage board. Exactly. I was just playing that night. Exactly.

Where are you? I think the best response to that is you tell your wife you're having a couple, two, three beers, and she thinks you're only having two. Yeah. Or three beers. Yeah. She was like, I thought you only had a couple two. We're not lying to our wives. We're just explaining it in terms that she might not understand. It becomes a choose your own adventure. Yes. You know, so if you have a couple, you're saying you're doing the first part. If you have a couple, two, you're doing four. If you have, so you didn't lie the whole time. No, there's no line. She just, she just didn't take that class in school.

Yeah. It's just the beautiful. Now, the other question is, is this actually a math equation? I don't know if you guys, how well you know math, but is there a parentheses in there somewhere? Is the two, three on the inside of the parentheses, and then the other 2 is on the outside. So 2 plus 3 is 5. 5 times 2. Are we talking 10 beers at this point? This is a My Dear Aunt Shelley joke right now.

Right? Yeah. Now we're talking. Now we are talking. Well, I have no idea. I mean, it's way too well. I have no idea Yeah, yeah, that's okay your language arts is getting you through this with your gal here But yeah that could that should solve if you say a couple two three beers that could be anywhere from two to sixteen

I think you, and there's exactly yeah, there's a way to figure that out. Yeah. She's like, I thought you said you were only, I thought you said you were only having a couple of beers. You're like, honey, you forgot about the parentheses. Yeah. Yeah. The couple tree. Let me show you how it works. Go to a whiteboard. I said a couple, two, three. So a couple parentheses to I said a couple, two, three. So a couple, parentheses, two. Parentheses.

Parentheses, three, sideways, three times two, that's three times two is six, two times six is 12. And that is what we- The math is actually crazy in that. It does kind of work, right? Holy cow. We can make, depending on where you put parentheses,

you can make those beers be any number you want. We could get like the Silicon Valley guys on this. Yeah. And that is what you call guy math. You've heard of girl math. This is guy math. Girl math is scary. This is guy math, 100%.

George, OK. Hold on, Evan. George said that girl math is scary. It seems like you have some trauma there. I was at a wedding yesterday for one of my teammates who's here in Nashville and a group of there's like, I think there's five or six of my teammates were in town and the girls are talking about girl math and they're like, yeah, like once you have cash in her wallet, it's already out of the bank account. So it doesn't even count anymore. And they said

girl math and like four girls are mad. Go. That's how it works. I said, Oh no, dear. I'm taking your debit cards. Absolutely not. See that one scary with my wife because she's a hairstylist. So she gets paid cash all the time. Oh no. Oh yeah. Okay. Well hold on. No, don't tell her. Don't let her listen to that. Hold on. So you married a hairstylist. Is she going the category of crazy hairstylist or is she in the minority of normal hairstylists? She's in the minority of normal hairstylists. She has a lot of gossip that's wrong in her direction, but she takes it down to earth pretty well. Okay. All right. Does she work with some crazy hairstylists?

Yeah, she does. Well, she used to at this old place. There was a lot of like crazy at this new place. It's, it's mainly the older gals there. There's nobody that are that's super young at the place she is now. So they're all pretty down to earth. Do you ever, do you ever go in like, do you use your wife to cut your? Or do you ever go in there and sit around for a while? Yeah, payment's a little different for me, but yeah. I go in there for hair. Whoa. What do you mean by that? You have a mustache?

All right, you're. This is awesome. This took another turn. I love it. Yeah. So is the hair salon, like, is that still like like the place to hear like local drama and is to find information from the hair stylists Yes, especially in this town. If you don't see it on our Facebook

Local group. It's usually on me back in the hair stylist What's the talk of the town right now? Who cheated on who? Give us, give us some tea, please. Well, we got, we got, I mean, not really much who cheated on who there's, there's some drama in there, but I won't go into that. The main talk of the town is we got a bridge that's the access off that has been falling apart for the last 10 years. And so they'll come out and put a bandaid on it.

And then two weeks later, it's falling apart. And everybody talks about that bridge that's in disrepair. That just happened in my town. I live in small town, you know, right outside of Nashville, Tennessee. And we had a bridge that we literally, I bought my property and a month later,

they closed the bridge because it was one of those bandaid things. They kept doing it. It took them two and a month later they closed the bridge because it was one of those band-aid things they kept doing it It took them two and a half years to fix it It is now fixed and it's a beautiful glorious bridge But because of the two and a half years that was out my drive to Nashville So it takes me about 25 minutes to get downtown. It was now 50 Yeah, holy smoke. I mean at that point you might as well just get another car put it on the other side I mean, at that point, you might as well just get another car, put it on the other side and park it and then a little boat to go across.

That was that I should have done that. Yeah. I should have found you guys sooner. How deep is that river? You should have driven right through it. I could do it. It was very rocky is what I would say. Get a side by side.

That's good traction. I do have a I do have a Kawasaki. There we go. Me too. Wow. I don't. Geez. Kawasaki and golf carts. Really? All over my property.

Hit it fast enough you don't feel it. Are we talking about bridges still? Well, anything I guess if you hit it fast enough you really don't feel it. You hit it fast enough you don't feel nothing anymore. That's on my wife's drive. Watch out for that speed bump. She's like what speed bump? She's going 40 over it. You just go right over it. Some of those speed bumps are scary to, you know, they're back to the drama at the

hair cells. I don't know if I've talked about this on this podcast before, but the gal that will cut my hair also cuts my mom and a lot of the other family members. So I actually viewed this as an opportunity to start changing the behavior of my family. So I don't know if the words get into them yet, but I'll intentionally say something about some of my family, knowing that she's going to gossip to them. That's great. To then try and change their behavior. This is inception.

Yeah. Yeah. That is, that is wildly. them. That's great. To then try and change their behavior. This is inception. Yeah. Yeah, that is that is a good idea. Yeah. Haircut lady. My mom, I tell you what, she wants me on holidays to show up at like 8 a.m. And I don't want to I would rather show up at noon. And it's just the worst knowing that she's going to talk to my mom and maybe do a passive aggressively.

That's like, like, you know, I think honestly, like the mornings, if people are well rested, it just makes for a much better Christmas. Like that. Yeah. You know, if you tip the hairstylist enough, maybe she would steer that for you. Oh, that's pretty good. We could, of course, also just be direct. No, no. Yeah, that's right. I didn't even I didn't even believe the words as they were coming out of my mouth. That was so dumb. No, we don't do that. The

tricky part is with, with you guys, if you're, if you're talking to a third party, which is a hairstylist, you can do that. But my wife does the hair of my mom and family and everybody else, so there's no third party. It's just all the same talking points as everything else. How would your wife feel if you got a haircut from a different hairstylist? Ooh. Ooh, well, I got my haircut before our wedding in 2020 and she hated it, so, yeah.

About that. That's we went to the fancy place where you can get whiskey, get a face massage and everything else. I kind of what kind of haircut do you have? Like is it a, is it just like a bus? No, it was a glorious mullet before the wedding and then I cut the mullet off to be professional for the wedding. And I think that's what upset. Oh, so she liked the mullet. She loved the mullet. Is the mullet back? And then I just had her. No. Well, actually I grew back and then I had my wife cut it pretty far off. It's still kind of a mullet. It's just a little, little tiny guy now, but we got a kid coming on the, uh, 16th is our date. Congrats on the socks. I figured, I figured, yes, that is that's from the payment for the haircut.

There it is. Oh, that's what he made. All circle. So we got a small one coming on the 16th, so I figured 10 it on court so I let it grow up for the next year Yeah, and then I'll have a glorious mullet again. No good for you good for you right when I your child's making memories Exactly cuz as we all know the mulletet ages well every time it's back in fashion. It does. It does. My, the unfortunate part is my ID picture looks like I'm a porn star from the seventies. Why is that unfortunate? That sounds kind of awesome. That's a power move. When the cop pulls you over for illegally talking on the phone, you whip that bad boy

out. He's going to be like, Oh, sorry. I saw you. I didn't do it. A beer, sir. For your drive home. Yes. Yes. Indeed. Indeed. So where are you guys talking from today? We're in Nashville. We're out. I like Nashville. 32 bridge. Yeah, we like it too. We're at Luke Brian's bar right on Broadway. Just hanging out, you know, looking at the people walking down at the street. A lot of bachelor parties out there. A lot of bachelorette parties. Even for a Monday morning this morning, I saw.

Bachelorette. It was packed when I pulled up. It was crazy. It's like it's Monday afternoon and people are just getting after it. I love it. So they say about Nashville, the city that never sleeps. So they do. They say that I like Nashville. A lot. We went there about a year ago. Yeah. Good place. What did you guys do? Yeah.

Just drank a lot. Good for you. Listen to some country concerts. What was your favorite bar? You did all that. Unfortunately, my wife's a big Morgan Wallen fan and we didn't get to go to the Morgan wall in place because it wasn't open yet, but they were all pretty good. I think we kept going back. There's can't remember what kid rock kid rock. That's like the three story one.

Oh yeah. The big honky tonk. Yeah. Big ass. It's right across the street from us. Yeah. We're right. We're right across from it.

That's a solid one. There you go. We went to all the bars down there. The hardest part was we were trying to find a line dancing bar. We had to go way out of town to find one. There is one, actually. I can't remember the name of it, but I got in there when I came down here on spring break when I was 19 years old and I somehow had a fake idea that they let me in with.

Oh, wow. I was line dancing. That's pretty fun. Did you have facial hair then or no? No, I was. I looked like a fake ID that they let me in with. Oh wow. I was line dancing, that was pretty fun. Did you have facial hair then or no? No, I looked like a baby. Baby face. Yeah, I had a buzz cut with no facial hair. A lot different than the full ginger beard and long hair. Yeah, well there you go kids,

if you're looking for a place to test out your fake, come on down to Nashville. And that's a George Kittle certified tip. I wouldn't try Broadway. They're very strict. Thank goodness I'm 31. Yeah, I tried Midtown. My unfortunate part, when I turned 21, none of my friends were 21. So I was the beer depot for everybody. That's actually how I met my wife. Did you upcharge on that or did people like give you 20 bucks to buy a 24 pack and it was like $22 and you got, you're out $2 every time.

Has that happened to me a lot? No, I just made everybody buy my beer. That's smart. Here's the Venmo. Venmo me 50 bucks, whatever it was and my beer would be in there. So I drank for free. How old are you? It was a good payment method.

I am 30. Oh great. 94 baby. What's up? 93. Yep. 94. Thanks. Go dude. 87. What's up? Nerd. Back when mullets were still in fashion. Where's my Walker? You shut the fuck up. That's great. Yeah, I hope your ass gets pulled over for talking on the phone. What road are you on? We're going to go on the

car. I'm parked now. I'm where I need to be. So we're good. You're at the hair salon. Are you parked by a lake? Maybe? No, I wish you parked out by a lake. You can fish in, you guys like fishing. Yeah. I'm not parked down by the lake. I've done that a couple of times though. Just on work, stop for lunch break at some scenic place and be like, why do I want to go back to work? Don't really want to go back to work. Where do you work? They just not go back to work. I'm a manager at a construction company. I manage all of our GPS. That's very easy to believe. Two tree beers math tough. That math that we just experienced easy. That's one plus one simple. Yep. Yep. Exactly. Exactly. A lot of window time for

you today. Lots of window time. You guys go ice fishing all the time. Yeah. I've never experienced ice fishing, but I went fishing the weekend before last Springers springer salmon. Yeah in the Columbia. Yeah Nobody caught a fish on the river that whole day. Damn. That's a tough one Were you five fishing beer to catch a buzz? You didn't off a boat. No beer You did it wrong beer. So like what do you guys do? Real quick in football that I didn't catch any fish in football. So like what do you guys do? Real quick in football. Why didn't catch any fish in football?

That's like you know your offense puts up zero points in your defense gives up 30 you go in the next day and you're like hey how do we get better guys? There's some simple things like you don't turn the ball over you just bring beer. Yeah simple simple math. Just bring beer. Just bring beer. The fish will come. I've never gone fishing without a case of beer again. Just maybe pour a little beer in the water next time they'll fish will come right up. It's like chum You see that you didn't even need to check the tape. We we we already knew what we saw. Yeah, that's good scouting

That's great I've been skunked every time up up river in the Columbia But every time I go out to the mouth of the Columbia, I usually be pretty good. Well, get back to the mouth. We're exactly in the mouth. He's like doing an almost the ocean. Get that brackish water. Yeah. Brackish water. We went down to Tillamook head, which is 20 miles south of the mouth of Columbia. And we caught 50 bottom fish in like 15 minutes. No kidding. And then came back up on our crab, pulled our crab pots up full of crab and went on in, we were out fishing for four hours.

And you got your limited crabs and that's good. We had to dump two pots out. Wow. Good for you guys. We nailed it that day. Yeah. You got man with the crabs. It's what we like to hear. Man with the crabs. How do you guys fare with all them crazy storms you got over there?

It was it was wild, man. We had a Saturday night with 80 mile an hour winds and then just thunderstorms all the way through. You know, I live up on a bluff though. So like I'm pretty safe except for the lightning strikes, I would say. Yeah. But yeah, a lot of flooding. All the bridges were kind of underwater in my area. And, uh, but, uh, it was very interesting. My sister, actually, she has a cabin and it's like probably a hundred yards off of the South Harpeth River and the river flooded. And so, like I said, it's about 100 yards away.

In the morning, it was 10 feet off of her back. Oh, man. Crazy. Wow. And thankfully, she lives like right on top of a little hill. So I just got up to the hill and got about halfway up. She's like wood steps that go down halfway up the steps. But now it has since lowered. Oh, that's good it was kind of wild to see that don't cool the fish from your window, but Yeah, get yourself a nice displaced

Fishing in your basement which wouldn't be yeah. No, you don't want that But we don't want to talk about those storms anymore. All that is water under the bridge There it is There it is. There it is. Oh, holy smokes. We've got a picture. That's my sister. Wow. The river's supposed to be by those trees. Oh, my God. It was crazy. That's insane.

More small town Pacific Northwest drama. We were supposed to get some. Holy get some tornadoes and some thunder lightning. Two weeks ago. Yeah. And everybody was storming the stores by all the toilet paper. Like COVID was starting again. Oh, really? We got three strikes of lightning and rain.

So now we don't get anything exciting. Nothing. Nothing at all. Well, maybe next time you'll get a doomsday style storm. Yeah, we'll send that your way. I'm kind style storm. Yeah. We'll send that your way. I'm kind of excited. Yeah. We'll send that your way. You can have it please. Well, we, well, we appreciate you calling in, man. This is great. And thanks for pulling over for us. And what do you do? We get back to work, just sit in the car with the AC on and scroll

on Facebook. What? Yeah. I got to go down south further to look at a dozer and then look at it. It goes to Facebook. That will look who drives up. Yep. The dozers here. Well, that was another good day. That looks great. Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking at right now. It is a dozer. So it's exactly what it is. Yeah. So you can tell it's a dozer. So it's exactly what it is. Yeah, you can tell it's a dozer by the way that it is. So we should grease that thing. Honestly, his work right there. All right. You boys have a good day. You too. We'll see. You know, a guy calls up for a simple question. Got him on the horn for

15 minutes. Classic. Very classic. He was a nice guy very nice, dude We we covered a like a wide variety of topics We really did got to keep up on this podcast Holy cow you stick on something for too long. You're gonna get left behind Yeah hairdresser drama fishing construction just the tip of the iceberg with that fella Wow I kind of want to get his wife on the call now. I know. That's what we always should get the other side of the story. Like that's like a whole nother podcast.

It is. The other side of the story. The other side of the bar. The other side of the bar. And we're just bartenders taking calls. But like we're miked up and we actually have to bartend. Yeah. And it's just the worst podcasting.

Oh my goodness. That's funny though. I mean, that's not a bad idea. You ever heard of the word relentless? Yes or no. It's a yes or no question. Yeah, I've heard of it. Do you know how to spell relentless? Yeah, it's relent. And then less. No, no, no, Charlie. It's N I C O L E T. That's a spell relentless. And that's what you get when you hire Nikolai law. Oh, now I get what you're doing. If you're fighting an insurance company, you're going to get a relentless lawyer to constantly be fighting for your side. Yeah. When you give a call to old Nikolai and he looks cool with the sun goggles on. You know? Yeah. He's relentless, but also he's kind of chill about it. You know, kind of chill, big, whatever.

I'm just going to be like relentless on insurance companies today. It's like not a biggie. Chill with us so he can be relentless with them. I like a lawyer who works hard and plays hard, you know, was relentless in the courtroom and chill in the at the bar. Yeah, he's relentless with the insurance and then at the bar, he's less relenting. Yeah, we figured it. Yeah, we found it.

So guys, if you want to go full relentless mode on an insurance company and you want a guy who's going to fight for you tooth and nail. Give Nicolay a law call hand and screw. Give him a call. Yeah. Give him a call. We did it. We finally got together. Chad, is this Chad? This is Chad. Your favorite. Rocking city. Man, a mystery. So for those that don't know, we've been trying to get ahold of Chad for about three months now. He's, he's a big time to us a couple times, but here we are, Chad, you got miles, Charlie and NFL tight end George Kittle on the line. Chad did up with you today. Hi, Chad. No way. George Kittle. What's up brother? How you doing?

Man, I'm phenomenal, man. Just want to talk to a rocket scientist. No, no, absolutely not. That's way above my pay grade guys. What do you do? No, we're going not. That's way above my pay grade guys. What do you do? No, we're going to sell that to everybody. Okay, well let's sell it then. All right, cool. Yeah, I'm a rocket scientist, baby. Let's go. Chad, what do you actually do at NASA? I'm a CNC machinist.

What's that mean? I make the parts that build the rocket. That's still pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty cool. Like what parts do you like? It got me late a few times. Oh. So right now, yeah, right? So I'm on the Artemis project right now. What does that mean? So the original moon missions was called the Apollo mission. Yeah. And Artemis is the twin of Apollo because NASA names all their stuff after Greek gods for some reason.

So we're going back to the moon. Nice. What are we going to do there? Well, some people would say, some people would say that this would be the first time we land on them. Oh, here it goes. And look at his ears here. I've talked to a few guys in the NFL and I'm fully in that guys in the NFL are the biggest

conspiracy theorists on the face of the earth. I'm gross. There's like five or six conspiracies that I do. They do have the Illuminati showing up at the Super Bowl and stuff. I'm wrong. It happens. Like the pyramids, how did those get there? No one's moving those stones.

You watch YouTube shorts like I do? There's like three conspiracy theorists on TikTok that I'm obsessed with, and I just can't get enough. Which are? The conspiracies are the guys who talk about it. Oh, they're guys. OK, so he knows a guy. There's just three people I follow them, and me and my wife,

before we go to bed sometimes, we just watch like six conspiracies. I'm like, oh no. Another one. Another one. Actually, I just saw a fun thing on TikTok. Our friend group has conspiracy theory night, and there's like 15 people show up,

and they all bring a conspiracy with a PowerPoint, and they explain it to all of their friends. That's awesome. I was like, that's a great idea. I want to do that. My friends, they might take it too far, some of those, but I'd have a good time. Turns into arguing with each other. Yeah. 100%.

I personally don't believe all the conspiracy theories, but I mean, some of them. What's your top one? OK, so I firmly believe we did not land on the moon in 69. I wow. And you work at NASA. Oh, we got it, dude. We got the scoop. A NASA employee does not believe we landed on the moon in 69. It's incredible. So think about it. I think we did land on the moon,

but I think we faked it because we wanted the Russians to back off. They were like, oh, America beat us. We don't have to rush it now. And then these guys were like, yeah, you stupid commies. And you know, we beat them to it. That's good. That's a good thought process.

I don't hate that at all. And I'll just chime in here and say that as a guy who's been to Fargo, North Dakota in January, I. They could have filmed it. They could have filmed it right there. Craters, just nothing. Yeah. Yeah. You just do it right there at night. I could see a pull green screen behind.

So what are you building to go to the moon now? Oh, so right now I'm working on a part that it's so they're having a lot of trouble with the air coming off the boosters hitting the main rocket is causing the main rocket to basically vibrate the astronauts to death. So I'm building some fins that's going to channel the air in a different direction to where our astronauts can get up there and get back down safely without, you know, I mean, some of the women may like it, but you know, the guy, you know, they're, I, I have never been more confident in our ability to land on the moon than this moment right now. Oh, yeah. Chad, Chad, do

you like today? Do you build it and like, do you design it and you come up with how to design it or do people like give you the plans and you just build it? Oh, they give me the plans. That's. I'm just curious. No, it's starting to become clear and clear that you don't work at SpaceX. Oh, God, I would never work at SpaceX. What's the beef between NASA and SpaceX? Well, SpaceX doesn't pay their employees jack squat, man. Hmm.

Sounds about right. the space eggs doesn't pay their employees jack squat man. Hmm sounds about right. And they work like everybody who started with space eggs. Nobody works there anymore. Not one single employee that started with space eggs works there. Well, Chad, you better watch your mouth because before you know it, your job's going to get hacked away by the guy from space. Actually, be careful now.

Well, I got much for Elon. I think he's doing a great job, but I mean, I think he knows how to make money. I'll give him that much. Yeah. Yeah. What's the Tesla stock price at right now. I have no idea. Very topical joke. Are you talking about the burnt ones or the good to go one? I don't know. But let's talk about let's talk about this moon situation. So what are you guys going to do when you get on the moon? What's the mission? Well, I personally think that so we're trying to get to Mars. That's that's the ultimate mission, right? Let're trying to get to Mars. That's, that's the ultimate mission, right? Let's, let's get to Mars. Let's make our species an interplanetary species, right?

Well, it's a hell of a lot to launch a rocket from the moon than it is. Yeah, that is true. Oh wait, he's cutting out. Hold on, hold on. To the moon where we can start. You cut out, you're saying that it's a lot easier to launch a rocket from the moon than it is from earth. Yes. It's a lot easier to, I mean, yeah, to get to Mars, it would be a lot more cost efficient to launch a rocket

from the moon, you know, uh, then it would be from earth. Um, plus you can land the rocket back on the moon easier as well. You know, less gravity, no atmosphere to worry about. Yeah. So moon is kind of like, that's like your, your hub. Yeah. Your, your layover spot, you know, like your old hair. It's a space doc. Yeah. Space doc. Hopefully it's more efficient than O'Hare. Yeah. Space doc. Yeah. Space doc. Hopefully it's more efficient than O'Hare. Yeah. You guys believe the lines at the moon today? It was ridiculous. I sat on the crater for five hours. Ridiculous. A lot of Starbucks was crazy. And it like actually is star. I use my Starbucks to pay for Starbucks arm and a leg Are you guys is NASA racing against SpaceX to get to the moon and then to Mars No, it's kind of all partnered up now. Oh, okay

Yeah, cuz like NASA was getting a lot of heat, you know Actually getting getting close to funny. They were getting close to actually kind of shutting the doors. And then this guy had a brilliant idea. He's like, why don't we bring in private companies to invest in space and we'll partner up with them. And that way we keep the doors open and we can achieve our dreams even faster. Do you work with Jeff Bezos to too on ways of blue or whatever?

No, no, I don't, I don't work with them, but we have blue origin is here in Huntsville as well. Um, and they've got a test center out here on the base where I'm at now. So I get to see a lot of those guys. It's pretty cool, man. Yeah. I get to do some cool ass shit for sure That's awesome. It's some cool ass shit until something goes wrong as when they get up there and you're like, oh shit

And that's where we get all was it the deflectors that I was working on I was a little hungover that one day at work Do you know anything about what was the story a couple of weeks ago about the astronauts that are trying to get back to earth? We got him back. Yeah. Oh yeah. Wasn't there a conspiracy about them getting back though?

It was like I had a kid. Oh, that's that's just like the tea brother. Someone said that the astronauts had already made it back because you can see the flight log a helicopter launched from like that NASA Station flew out in the middle of the ocean Dropped off the astronauts so then people thought that they came from I don't know man My my thing is why why does why does everybody have access to these flight trackers that they can see every single flight at all?

Time that's true. That's a good point. The people that track Taylor Swift's jet everywhere they go or the Kardashians jet everywhere they go. Like, why is that just public information all the time? Well, I think pilots... It would be weird if you could just track someone's car. Wouldn't it be? But I mean, pilots have like an app. If you're a pilot, you have an app that shows where all the planes are. So there's a lot of rich people with planes. There's a lot of rich people with planes.

Yeah, so if you have that. And there's also a lot of flying clubs for not rich people who partner up with people to get a plane. Are you sure? So that even opens it up even more. Oh yeah, yeah. I'm learning a lot.

People are just, and soon we got flying cars coming. Seen that. That's true. That is true. Hey, George Jetson was born last year, yeah. Yeah. People are just and suddenly got flying cars coming. Seen that that that's true. That is George Jackson was born last year. So, you know, if you go up the timeline, you know, so did you see? Did you see the flying car, the flying Ubers that are going to be in China? I just saw a tick talk about this. They have they've been green lit so they can literally start this year. And it is like a two seater with four propellers on each

propeller on each corner and like they'll be ready to use like it's passed all the laws and They've been green lit and it'll be flying people starting in China like sometime this summer Wow They passed all the laws. I wonder how they like it that in China. It's fine. Yeah Checks out you're good to go. I don't they did that in China. It's fine. Yeah. You know what? Checks out. You're good to go. I don't know if I would ever get one of those things. It's just a drone, basically, at that point.

It's a human drone. Yeah, there's no driver. It's just a drone. You type in where you go, and it drops you off. I'm like, that's terrifying. Yeah. Have you ever flown a drone? I do have a drone.

Have you ever hit a tree with it? I've clipped a tree. Yeah. See, that's what I don't think I'm going to get. I recovered. Did you? I recovered. It's wow. It's still safe. You know, the fun thing about the drone, the fun thing about drones is there's a setting on it just on your phone. I mean, just turn off the max height. I wouldn't say that I've ever done that. I have not done it, but if you're in,

and you hit Larry says notification, this is illegal. Do not do this. And I would never do that. But I thought it's Larry says notification. This is illegal. Do not do this. And I would never do that. But I thought it's a fun feature. That's insane that you can just do that. Like people are worried about all these different ways. Like we think about all the time we spent going through TSA, taking our shoes off, you know, getting is spreading them and whatnot. And then meanwhile, there's George is like, I haven't taken my shoes off in TSA Charlie. You're living in 1990. My TSA pre-check did expire.

My wife didn't tell me. Oh, no. So we got our, we got our TSA pre-check together and that expired. Uh, it was like two years, like January, like 2023. I'm in the middle of the playoffs and my wife renews hers. She renews hers and she goes, like later the next day, she goes, oh, did you renew your TSA pre-check? I was like, no, was I supposed to?

She was like, yeah, it expires today. And I was like, oh no. I was like, what did you do? She was like, oh, I did it a couple of weeks ago. And I'm like, you didn't want to tell me that you were renewing your TSA pre-check? And so then it wouldn't let me renew it. And I went at a whole off season and year without doing it. And my wife would be like, Oh, you have fun going through security while I do

TSA pre-check. She wouldn't even sit with you. Rolls reversed if I had it and she didn't, I feel like I would be going through normal security the whole time. So no, I did this last year. I finally got it redone. So I downed my TSA pre-check back, but that was a inconvenience. Wow. I thought about putting just in my bio, having an airplane next to my name and then just put it putting pre with a green check. Just so everyone knows where I stand. That's kind of sick. Actually, you should do that. You should do that. You start a whole club. Oh, that'd be funny. You do it first. How about not you first? Get the podcast to do it. So where are you guys drinking out today? We're out. Luke's 32

bridge in Nashville. Just waiting for you to come on by for me. I'm sober, but I'll come. I'll come. I'll come say hey. Yeah, come on. Say hi. Come on down. We're just a loop. Brines sober because no matter where I look, I can't get tippy cow down here, guys. Oh, so you got sober because you can't find tippy cow. Why is it? You know, it's worth it. I believe that smart guy.

Well, you know, we're just glad that you're sober working on those rockets now. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, me too. I'm pretty sure the Mastodontes are as well. Is that why all those vibrations were there? Because when you were doing it, you were just shaking a little. It makes sense. I mean, you put two and two together. It does. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Yeah. Well, glad we got that fixed up real good. Yeah. But one thing we do need to fix when you think of guys, when you think of the Apollo mission, when you think of like NASA and launching rockets and stuff, what city comes to mind? Houston. Okay. And what's the other city? What do they launch the rocket from? Or to summer in Florida? The fucking rockets here. Nobody knows how far Alabama exists. No one knows what nobody knows that Huntsville, Alabama is even like, like where we built everything that goes to the moon. Yeah. You're saying you guys, you guys do all the work and then Houston takes all the credit. Houston, we have a problem. That is true though. You can't have it. You can't

have it both ways though. You can't get the glory and then take none of the blame when something goes wrong. Houston took that from you guys. Yeah. Nobody's saying Huntsville. We have a problem. Yeah. So Chad's basically, he's an office of lineman. Oh no, my boss says it all the time. That's he's an office of lineman. He doesn't get any of the credit.

That's right. Yeah. Huntsville is the offensive lineman of the rocket industry right now. That's great. Yeah. And Warner Braun Braun is our quarterback. We straight up stole that Nazi. We straight up stole that Nazi. Ron Ron is our quarterback.

I just stole that nasty. We just stole that nasty. Well, listen, listen, is there any other conspiracies that we should be aware of as it pertains to NASA and the moon before we let you go? Yeah, what about them aliens, bro? Oh, yeah. Do they exist? They're here. Absolutely. Yes. Who's the alien there? Who's the alien?

Well, you got one of them in the White House right now. Let's dive deeper into that. What do you? Yeah. I mean, if you had to think of like, you know, an alien and if an alien rose to power, who would you, you know, I mean, who were you gonna think it is? I mean, I've seen men in black, so I know how this works. You know, I mean whoever you think it is. I mean, I've seen men in black so I know how this works, you know He okay. Yeah, that's a very accurate movie by the way. It's like it's crazy how accurate they got that. I know It's over being sarcastic. I don't think he is I think this is dead serious right now Oh man, no Yeah, definitely. I would love to cause we will have a base on the moon within the next 20, 30 years. Um, I mean, that's, that's my dream, man. I want to be

the first machinist in space. That's, I love it. That's a sick dream. Hey, we got a bookmark. This Chad ends up on the moon. We are here for you're going to belly up on the moon. Yeah. Yeah. I love a in-person interview. Yeah. On the moon. I said dreams of playing football. You have dreams of going to the moon. That's kind of sick. I mean, yeah, that's damn it. That is a big dream. We just got remembered to dream for the moon space league some year. That actually is a great idea. All the guys, when they get old they get old on the moon, you're lighter so your joints don't hurt as much. You can play longer. You could join the Space League in, 20 years. We got something here guys. And then the Lambo leap, it can be the one giant leap for-

The mankind leap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. There's some in there and then stands. It's just aliens, you know, two stories. All right, we got to cut to commercial break as we wait for him to come down from the league now. Yeah, you've been special, man. This has been really fun. Yeah.

Yeah. Hey, Kim, next time you make it to the Superbowl, send some tickets down here. Maybe like a preseason game. Those are cheaper. Work on it. Yeah, the Super Bowl tickets are going to Houston. Huntsville getting preseason. I'll get you a pass to the next year's senior bowl. Thank you, man. That's in my bill. I mean, it's just down the road from me. That's easy.

Well, Chad, we're glad that we were finally able to get you on the phone. Keep doing good work or I don't know if you're doing good work, but I hope you are. It's great talking to you, man. Good talking to you all too, guys. We got for days ahead of the folks for me. Sounds good. Yeah. Aim for the moon, Chad, if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars. You miss. You're just going to spiral into the emptiness of space forever. And tell you something. Here's the ball. Yeah. More space. Chad's like, Houston, we got a fucking problem again.

I'm spinning through space. This is not good. Oh, shit. Have a good one, man. Watch out for space junk. Wow. I'm glad we finally got Chad on the. Not a dud. No, no. He gave us more than than we even envisioned. You know, we got aliens.

We got the moon landing is. Is he going to get trouble for any of that? Probably, man. I hope his name's not actually great for this podcast. If NASA like cease and desist this for us, I'm talking about all their plans. I love it. Thank you, Chad. I learned a lot.

I mean, he was talking about how the rocket wasn't right because it was vibrating too much, you know. I don't know if that's public knowledge, but now it is. Now it is. We got it. We got this just turned to investigative journalism podcast just like that. Dude, it was that easy. You never know. You never do. No. I also like how he was like, Kittle. What he said, that's your cup of tea or something like that. I love it. The problem with a doomsday shelter,

especially for a guy like you, a guy like us, you know, we're nice guys. Right. So doomsday is coming. It's like, oh, no, after you. Yeah. I insist. No. Have yourself some sardines. We got plenty. And then it's going to end with the door being shut and me being outside with a bow and arrow trying to kill the robots. You know, that's how it's going to go.

The nice thing about that is I've had the conversation with my wife and she is. Well, she's from Dubuque, Iowa. She's is Midwest Nice. She has a much shorter fuse for people. And so she would gladly I'd be like, hey, we need one that has a little bit of size for it because my sister lives a couple of minutes away. Her parents live a couple of minutes away. And we should have space.

And she was like, why? All we need is you and me down there. I'm like, we should have space. And she was like, why? All we need is you and me down there. I'm like, you don't think if something happens, like our family's out, she was like, that's their problem. I was like, oh my God. She is made for the apocalypse, man. She's made for it.

You gotta remember, that's the in-laws. Oh, that's her parents. So I was like, oh my gosh, okay. Yeah, you're left. We know that you love them. I love them. They're my favorite. Actually, my father-in-law is he's my property manager at my house. Oh, nice. We have, I've 81 acres and I'm only, I'm in Nashville six months out of the

year. And so it's like, it's hard to have 80 acres that are unwatched. Correct. Yeah. So, uh, my workout facility that I built, uh, is an old horse barn and there's like a three bedroom apartment attached to it, two bedroom apartment. And he just lives up there. That's great. That's great. I love it.

I got him a Bobcat. No. That dude just drives everywhere making paths, digging stuff. He loves it. He's having a great time. I have him build the bomb shelter, you know? Dude, he built like half my football field. I had the, we had a, my field was on a hill.

And so I had to dig a 11 feet down into this hill to make it flat. And he probably dug six feet of it until he hit limestone. But like he, Larry, he probably put in like a couple hundred hours. Every guy's dream is just digging a hole. I told these guys, I wanted to do a YouTube page called miles moves dirt And it would just be me like in a skid steer just moving there No plan just taking a pile of dirt and moving it over here. I'd be it. I think there's you'd have a lot of viewers

If you did it really good, you know, like those people watch you like power driveway or something. The guys who cut lawns. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That dude's a savage. I want to hear it. You're a big S B mowing. I want so many of those. It's just like the sound of it. It's just like soothing. I would say, yeah. And it's great that he puts it in two times. Yeah. It's so nice. He just flies through it for me. It keeps you interacted. You're like, okay, all right, onto the next thing. Yeah. Ono the next thing. Onto the next thing. Okay. Yeah. Get those trees. Those are pissing me off too. And there's sometimes he cuts down a tree. I'm like, you could have kept that one.

That one's looking kind of nice. I just, does he do all that in like Wichita, Kansas? That is like, so it's like, you think you'd run out of grown lawns. How many lawns are there that need his help? He starts planting them, you know, once he gets it You start throwing the weed and the weed feed out there. I respect that. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta think ahead with he's a hustler He's doing the rotation. It's like crop, you know crop fields I'm saying gotta let it rest a couple years before you get back after it, you know, dude, he's incredible

Yeah, so many lawns Right here. I don't know. Oh you got it. Thanks. Don know, he's incredible. Yeah. So many lawns. I'm right here. I don't know. Oh, you got it. Thanks. Don't always. See, that's a nice thing. That's what a friend does. See, Miles saw it too the whole time. I couldn't see it.

I was on my side. So like if someone has something in their teeth, you would say something to them, right? So I'm at I'm at a pro bowl a couple of years ago. And that's a brag. I'm a brag. Just to set the stage. And we have a practice.

And these practices are very low key. It's kind of a fan interaction thing. And afterwards, there's like a line of media, like 50 yards. And so you do like 20 interviews. And they're very bang bang. You're just very quick in and out. And I get to about halfway through, probably like 15 people in.

And there's a woman who's doing the interview. And so she's had, she's talked to at least 20 people, right? And I look at her and she has a huge piece of spinach on her front teeth. I think the whole tooth is. Oh no. And I looked at her and I was like, Hey, I just want you to know before we start,

you have a, you have spit like you have green, your lettuce and your tooth. And she was like, what? I showed her a photo, like just selfie there. And she was like, oh my God. Like I've had, I ate lunch 30 minutes ago. And I look at her cameraman, I'm like, bro, yeah, say something. He was like, I don't want to throw her off.

I'm like, you can't use any of those interviews. I mean, what do you mean? Just walk around looking like Lloyd Christmas. Yeah, I felt so bad for I was like, I know about the 15 players that walk through and didn't say a word to her. Oh, my God. Like, come on. Well, see, that's the move right there. That's a PSA for folks out there. Always let people know that they got some in their teeth. You'd rather be mildly embarrassed for like two seconds than go back and not be able to use 30 minutes of interviews. Yeah. And if

you're the guy with some in your teeth, you're never saying, why would you tell me that? No, no. Same with the fly down thing. Oh yeah. It's a 10 second embarrassment thing, but then you're like, thank you. Yeah. Thanks man. Not to worry about it again until I go to the bathroom again. You're going to remind me again. I have some pants these days too. The fly is coming down automatically. Yeah. They got, that are my memories really going. I got some early onset or the change in the way pants. They're changing it. The zippers, man, lower quality. Yeah, that's what it is. They're still

made zippers like they used to. They don't, you know, and that can get you into a lot of trouble will fly down in the wrong context. That's not a good one. No, that's a tough one. Yeah. Well, well, George, we appreciate you coming on the podcast. Yeah, man. This is great. Super fun. I had a fantastic time, boys. That was really enjoyable. Yeah. Drink beer and talk about conspiracy theories. Yeah, we got it. We got it tough. Yeah. It's tough life.

We live here. About to go home, call my wife and be like, oh, just has a long day at work. The bar was a little warm. Yeah. Sweating. It was the bar was a little warm. Yeah. I was sweating. Well, man, we appreciate it as always. Thanks for coming on, guys. Thanks for listening to another bellied up episode. Make sure you tip your bartender and we'll see the next one.

So the next one, the moon, you're going to be on the next one. Think about it. You guys are in Nashville. I'm always here. Nice. Let's go. Nice. Awesome. Oh, hey there. Hi, how you doing? Oh, yeah. Well, well, well, well. Well, I suppose. Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah, no.