Green Light with Chris Long - We Took NFL Players to the Top of Kilimanjaro | Chris Recaps Conquering Kili

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Chris details his trip to Africa and his successful climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In 2026, the Chris Long Foundation celebrated 10 years of the Conquering Kili climb. The program's goal is to empower current and former athletes, military combat veterans, and clean water advocates to unite for collective impact and better communities by climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and raising funds to build sustainable water wells. Former NFLers like Jason Kelce, Steven Jackson, Rob Ninkovich and more have joined countless former service men and woman and clean water advocates in attempting to summit Kili. On this year's trip, Chris and Nate Boyer were joined by former NFLer Alejandro Villanueva and nine other climbers. Chris and Cowboy Reid recount the climb including the daunting summit night where Alejandro nearly tapped out. By helping us provide reliable access to clean water, you give another person the chance to stay safe, be healthy, and thrive. By sharing what you have, you make the world a better place. If possible, donate here: https://waterboys.org/?form=waterboys (00:00) - Intro (01:30) - History of Conquering Kili (12:00) - Mount Kilimanjaro Recap Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline presented by Zone Nicotine and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open: ‪[phone]‬ Head to https://nicokick.com/zone and use code GL20 for 20% off at checkout. Check out Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are waiting to sub it. It's the hardest part of the climb. 16,000 feet. Hard to be comfortable here. Get over the rim and everybody's hugging each other. And then they panned out and he goes, there was a lot of deceit in getting me up this mountain. I don't want Alejandro Villan wave, but it'd be mad at me.

So I'm thinking to myself, like, if he doesn't make it, he's gonna kill me. We set off walking at 1 a.m. By 3 a.m., there is snow falling sideways, dude. I have icicle whiskers. I tell the guys when the sun comes up, we're good. So, Cowboy, we did some traveling. Kili Manjaro, Hakuna Matata.

Dude, I, seriously, you know the sound machines that people put on to fall asleep, Nolan? Yes, I use one. Honestly, like, coming off that trip, if I could program, into my sound machine, tent zippers, people speaking Swahili, and what would, like, like Reed snoring a little bit, like I'd be fucking, I'd be out like a light, dude, Reed was my tent mate. We summited Killy. The background is, you know, I talk about this ad nauseum, but, you know, it's really important to kind of set the backdrop.

Like I started Water Boys a long time ago. It's a, it's an initiative where, where we deliver clean water to communities that need it. Domestically, internationally, you know, we do a lot of domestic projects and schools and, you know, in Appalachia and all that stuff. And, you know, single, single family wells and that sort of thing. But we also do large solar powered wells in East Africa and Tanzania. And that, honestly, the background story is in 2012. Okay, I was, Jeff Fisher changed my life.

He changed my life in a lot of ways. He, he breathed a lot of excitement back into football for me. He, he schematically put me in the right place, playing left end. Let me hit it and get it. Like, he breathed a lot of life into my career.

He also unintentionally changed my life as I knew it because he, if it's not for Jeff Fisher, I don't start water boys. I remember when he showed up, up he invited me up to his office he's kind of still unpacking his shit i'm looking at like some of the pictures that he unpacked and he was he was it was a picture of him and maybe teddy bruskey on a snow cap mountain and they're they're climbing and i'm like well you know fish what are you doing like

is this everest and he's like no it's kill him in jarro it's incredible i went up with the wound of warriors and you know it was an amazing experience really fucking hard but like you know are you into that stuff and I'm like yeah dude I trek I hike like all the time like you know I'm I'm I live right on the on the blue ridge and you know on the app trail like you know so I'm shenandoah national park the whole thing and he's like well you should really do it sometime and I was like how about this off season and he's like oh fuck like I wish I'd written something into the contract about you doing some stupid shit like that but he couldn't like stop me and he had kind of oversold it so I spent the year recruiting you know different guys on my D-line to try to go with me

and nobody wanted to go with me so James Hall who um was a really important guy in my life like he was he was um when I got drafted James Hall was the left end and he was a hell of a football player like over 50 career sacks you know played most of his his football life in Detroit you know So he was pretty he was pretty What would the word be? Miserable? And then he found St. Louis

somehow as his first free agent. I've been locked away in Detroit my whole life. I think I'll go play for the Rams circa 2010 or whatever there, 2008. Like things were not good. He got there in 2007. Yeah. James was a surly motherfucker dude.

Like still is. For a whole year, like, wouldn't give me the call, wouldn't talk to me like and I respect it because like I had no business cutting into his snaps or taking his position it was just the way the NFL works like you get drafted high like they're going to play you and they don't care who it is behind you and and he was better than me I was a rookie and I wouldn't have liked me much either and probably took a whole year for him to start talking to me and really start to start liking your boy which I thought was a major win but James hall

I bothered him and bothered him and bothered him and bothered him and I said bro let's go dude like let's let's take this trip you know and so j hall and i set out to go climb kilimanjaro together um he's got no climbing experience we had a fantastic time it takes a week to get up the top we are we are just wiped when we get off the mountain we go down to a bar and we're drinking kilimanjaro beer which is really good beer it only takes like one or two when you get off that mountain and we are shit faced Okay. And in walks Joe Buck into the bar as well as a guy named Doug Pitt, who never introduces himself this way, but, you know, Brad Pitt's his brother, right? And I guess Doug is the goodwill

ambassador at Tanzania. And, you know, he's taking Joe Buck over on a water trip, like basically, like go see some well sites and working in clean water. And, you know, after we get over the like, how the fuck did you find me here? Like, you're from St. Louis, Joe. Like, I know Joe, because he worked with my dad and the whole thing. After we got over that whole, like, we found each other halfway around the world. He tells me why he's there. And at the time, I gave it a little bit of thought.

And he was like, you want to come on a water project tomorrow? And I was like, you know, our flight leaves in the morning. Like, I'm sorry, we just can't do it. Like, cutting a little bit close. I get back to Virginia. And I had such an awesome time there that I kind of was, like I want to give back. You know, how could I do that?

And, you know, talking to Joe Buck a little bit more about what they were doing, talking to Doug about what they were doing. There seemed to be a niche that we could occupy in the sports world where, you know, provision of clean water to me is real simple. Like, you know where your money's going, you know, X amount of dollars provides X amount of people with the gifts of clean water. They're kids dying over there from waterborne illness. Kids are getting diarrhea and dying, you know, in Tanzania.

And in my American brain, that just, just doesn't seem fucking right. And, uh, and it seems pretty simple. Like, I'm going to go around and, and solicit funds from people in the NFL, you know, for, for wells. And it, you know, it took a minute to catch, catch on. But as we stand now, like 10 years later, 12 years later, like, I think we've, uh, we've provided 600,000 people with, with clean water. And, you know, we've got a number of projects in the United States, a number of projects in Tanzania. And this year was our 10th anniversary of what we call Conquering Killey, which is a deal where we bring veterans and NFL players up the mountain.

Because I've always worked with veterans, right? And it's a little messy when you're like, what is your mission? You know, clean water education, veterans, like, you got to pick one fucking thing. That's what it was always explained to me. but this is my one chance to like involve the veteran population in the United States in an initiative that that works towards the provision of clean water so like Nate Boyer if you know who Nate Boyer is green beret served multiple tours comes home 30 years old sides he wants to join the uh the the Texas football team is basically like a movie he's like the real life um Uncle Rico you know he He's like, that's my dog. But come on, like 30 years old, like walking on a football team.

That's pretty fucking sick, dude. I could snap that ball over the mountains. Yeah, kind of creepy at the bar, Nate. You know, but it worked out. And he had a great time. And he ended up in Seahawks camp. And, you know, he played football. He played in the NFL.

He was a snapper. And got to run the flag out of the tunnel and everything. And just super inspiring. But I'll never forget. This is actually the night that in 2014, team we were camping in Oxnard against the Cowboys. And this is actually the day that we beat the living shit of the Cowboys in a fight out on the field. Like it was awesome.

We beat the shit of it. It was like a brave heart fight, dude. I saw a guy who will go unname get knocked out like three times in the same fight, like Dallas Cowboys player. We were running. I was running like aimlessly, like just looking for people to close line. Had no beef with anybody. We were just like it was killer be killed out there, dude. You know, there was a fight.

on the fence where like old LA Rams fans were like getting involved in the fight. There were cops on the field. It was crazy. But anyways, we wrap that thing up. We get on the bus. Jeff Fisher, we're worried he might be a little mad at us because like he doesn't mind fighting, but this was a little much. And we get back to the hotel in the ballroom. He's got like eight coolers of beer. And he's like, you guys kick their fucking ass. So we're drinking beer. We're day off as tomorrow. We just beat up the Dallas Cowboys. We're like, we're basically a man. America's team. And I retreat to my room at night and I'm watching SportsCenter as I do. And they got this special on a guy named Nate Boyer. And they talk about, you know, he's a

fucking war hero. And he spent time in, in Africa. And at this point, like, I am doing water boys. And, you know, he's played in the NFL and they told his whole story. And I was like so inspired by the guy. I fucking cold called him. I got his number from somebody. I just cold called him. Like, hey, how you doing? You know, like, you? You know, like, Can we be friends? And me and Nate were on the phone for like three hours. You know, like I'm telephobic. But we were on the phone for like three hours.

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raised a lot of money for Wells, that sort of thing. I've met some of the greatest people. Seriously, I've got like a bunch of amazing group texts from these trips. This was our 10th anniversary climb. And one of the privileges of the thing was I got to, we needed somebody to take some footage. And by footage, I mean take a bunch of live photos. And so that, that man was Cowboy Reed. Cowboy had the GoPro up there, capture somebody.

All the shit I posted, all the beautiful pictures that like I posted on Instagram. I can't take credit for those. That was all Cowboy Reed. But he was my tent mate. And we were 12 for 12. We had 12 people up there. We'd never been 12 for 12 on summits, 12 for 12 on summits, 19,341 foot mountain, highest walkable mountain in the world.

But I think it's a bit of a misnomer because it's the hardest walk you ever take. I mean, like, Alejandro Villanueva was our one NFL player this year. Pittsburgh Steelers, long time starting left tackle. And six foot nine, personality is even bigger, dude. he tells me it's the hardest thing he's ever done so that's an army ranger right there it's not easy and if you've climbed it it's it really isn't the altitude's a motherfucker but re-crushed it man what'd you think dog way harder than i thought it was going to be i'd been up to 17000 feet before and that difference from 17 to 193 is astronomical like that that climb the the summit night

push, you couldn't breathe worth a lick, or at least I couldn't. You know, we're doing the zombie walk, you know, body to body, and you're just begging for a break. But everybody killed it. It was, it was an amazing time. Thank you again for including me. When I think it was lunchtime or dinner before the summit, I thought, Mike, you know, kind of Mike, one of the other climbers, you know, jinxed us when he said, we're going 12 for 12. Everybody's doing it. And we all immediately passed around the wooden tea chest so we could all knock on wood and make sure that we were covered. I'm glad we did that. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it saved our butts. But incredible experience the dudes. I mean, it was a great group of dudes, a great group in, you know, as a whole. It was incredible to see

the first two days we got to see two well sites that your foundation is built. And it's in, it was incredible to see the communities that impacted, the work that is being done. and the joy that it brought to the people in those areas in Tanzania. I mean, we got, we walked into these schools where these wells were and we're getting sung to. There's kids running around with our names on signs and so excited to see us. So it was really cool, the impact that, that you've started and we've been able to, we were a part of. Well, it was cool because one of the schools, we were trying to teach them football.

And we spent like 10 minutes trying to like, you know, I took the defense and it was just like, hey over defense dude you know we're playing a man outside like we're not going to get fancy one of the vets trip was trying to i don't know if he was trying to install like paul johnson's fucking offense over there but it took him like 10 minutes and when they finally were like yeah we're ready they lined up there's like 40 kids watching there's obviously 22 kids out here ball snaps rugby just immediately rugby immediate rugby immediate rugby You know, there's just no point and try to it.

So immediate rugby except for two kids on the far side, one wide receiver and one defensive back who just stared at each other. They didn't move, they just stared at each other. That's right. And they just-

My favorite part of that video that you guys share from that was the offense is still in the huddle, D-line locked and loaded in their stance. They were in their stance or straight three minutes. Yeah, dude. Like I put them in their stances. And, you know,

obviously tripping the OC was taken forever so it was like Peyton Manning was calling checks up there when Peyton Manning used to be up there and like making checks like he'd get lined up with 30 seconds on the play clock and he'd snap it with three seconds like these kids had their arms had to be fucking cooked I tried to tell them to relax a little bit but you know baby steps you know this was installed day so um we had it we it was awesome man we took the um for people that want to like look online Shira route, S-H-I-R-A, and I've done a couple different routes. This was really cool. Like, we probably start off at like 11-8, was our first camp. So the risk on this route is like it's rapid acclimatization. So guys get sick off the bat. Like guys don't feel great right

away. But we spent like three days at 13 and then one night at 16 at Kosovo camp. Now the thing about once you get to 16, you know, like Alejandro Villanueva was very upset with, he wasn't quite Jason Kelsey level infamously where Jason got mad at me and was like, you didn't tell me how fucking hard this was going to be. But, you know, when you get up there, he's like, dude, I thought it was coming to Africa. I was going to pet zebras and there'd be palm trees and shit. Like, like it is snowing up here. He said, I thought I was going to be petting lions and zebras the entire way up. I thought this was going to be a walk. No, and no, and we end up up there.

And, you know, Summit night is like, it's day five or whatever, and dudes are tired. It was raining the whole week, which is uncharacteristic. Like, you know, you just can never get dry. Your stuff's always wet. You got to hang in your tent. Like, for somebody like you read who, like, who spends a lot of time tracking and intense,

like, you know all the tricks of the tray. But for some people who don't sleep outside a lot, it can be very uncomfortable. And then you get up to 16,000 feet. And it is freezing, bro. it had to be like 15, 20 degrees up there. And, you know, they tell you, you get up there, we climb from like 13 to 16 in one day. So you're pretty, you're, you're tired.

And they tell you, hey, we're going to get some dinner. You're going to lay down. And at one in the morning, we're going to leave for a summit. So good luck sleeping. But after dinner, you're supposed to go to sleep until fucking one in the morning. And the night before, I thought our tents were going to fly off the side of the mountain. It was so windy. It was unbelievable.

Like we hadn't slept all week. You're trying to steal a little sleep before the summit. It's snowing outside. You know, and all of a sudden, we wake up at one in the morning. And, you know, we've been in a cloud that's providing snow. So it's a snow cloud and hearing lightning, thunder, thunder and snow. It's thunder snow up there. And we're like, man, I fucking hope it clears up for the summit.

We wake up at one in the morning. It's dead still outside. it's beautiful it's almost hot you know and of course you got four or five layers on right but like it's almost hot and you're looking up you see the stars you can kind of see the the outline of the mountain um and we're like man we we fucking we got lucky right we set off walking at 1 a.m by 3 a.m. there is snow falling sideways dude i have icicle whiskers dude like the people that serve Lake Superior or whatever the motherfuckers. Yeah, yeah.

I got icicle whiskers, dude. It is biting cold. And, you know, it's a five, six hour hike in the dark. And it's a mind fuck because you try to look at like some of the lights to see like people's headlamps to see when are they going to disappear over the rim. Yeah, yeah. Because that's going to tell you how close you are to the top because you really have no idea. And, you know, the visibility was shit.

It was kind of, we were kind of like, it was a little. little crowded it was um like a bit there were lots of groups going on a lot of europeans europeans don't like lines yeah okay they don't like cues they have a they have a word for it but they don't know how to you know um so just to give just to give more context on alexandro and his preparation he had he came to africa with uh waiters fly fishing waiters his old army jacket uh two trash bags that he put around his socks in his boots that were not waterproof. His boots were not waterproof.

So he could make sure his feet stayed warm. And then he put a trash bag around his Cabela's backpack so it would stay dry. His Cabela's bag that he got from like some partner event. And then he had a foinal. And that's what he wore on the mountain. The guy, the war hero, the Army Ranger was the least prepared guy in the group. I thought he was going to be like a Boy Scout. He said he called mate like two hours before his flight to pack.

He was like, hey, do I need this? Do I need that? What do I need? Dude, I felt so much better about myself. I was like, this high achieving motherfucker can't pack either. You know, like, but there was a point in the climb where Al was like, are we taking a break soon? And then like three seconds later, he goes, I think I need to sit down. Three seconds later, he sat down and he goes, I think I'm going to faint.

And then he falls over. It's been black. And dudes are struggling. And basically he goes like, like, you know, full full jc pose no angel with his art just like over yeah and and and we move the drill on him like you got to move the drill you got to keep so we're like buy out like you got it buddy but in in our heads we're all like oh ow's fucked and he's gonna be so mad because he's been bitching the whole time about he he he told me i don't know if i would like this but it was like you're basically

running an epstein thing here where you invite people somewhere far away and put them in compromising positions he goes there's a lot of deceit involved in getting me up this mountain you know there's a video of us when we when we're some we get over the rim and everybody's hugging each other and then they panned out and he goes there was a lot of deceit in getting me up this mountain you know like so i'm thinking to myself like if he doesn't make it he's going to kill me like legitimately he might he might you know like he's he's a bad man dude you know he might i don't want alhandro villain away but it'd be mad at me he said he's gonna sue you him and calce you're getting in in a class action lawsuit when we're coming down the

mountain you guys call it's what he said we called jason we called jason so so anyways sun comes up i tell the guys when the fucking sun comes up we're good you know you're not going to be there yet at the summit yet you hike from one in the morning till 830 in the morning you know and then you turn around to come down, which takes another three, four hours to get to base camp. So it's like a 10, 11, 12-hour hike. And, you know, you're so wiped when you get to the top that all you want to do is get down. We got our picture. You know, we had one guy who had a lung infection. We actually had to helicopter him off the mountain. He turned out to be okay. We got to watch a helicopter land. And that was kind of sick. Everybody likes a helicopter. Not everybody likes being in a helicopter,

but everybody likes helicopter um but when we got back to base camp which 16,000 feet you don't want to hang out there all day like usually we get to base camp and like run down the mountain because every step you take as you go down like you feel better like the head pressure relieves you feel like you can breathe again like it's in this it's hard to describe until you've done it and we get down to 16,000 feet and it starts dumping snow again lightning snow like bad dude we're stuck up there and i feel like shit dude we are all like dying up there bro we had to wait like another four hours um late getting off the mountain but um just awesome and the in the walk out was beautiful you go through the rainforest so like you know after days up there above the tree line you're

just it's so dry you know even with the rain you're just so dried out like you're so you're so cooked you know get down there get some humidity see some trees and then we're we're we get down to the gate and uh usually like they have some champagne bottles and some beers like you know for the group and all of a sudden it's 80 degrees again you feel good like you're at like 7000 feet but you feel great i don't usually partake because i'm like man i'm so fucking tired but something about this this group i got shit face dude i got fucking we all got shit face at the bottom dude like absolutely obliterated man

dudes were facing champagne facing these big kilimanjaro beers i was pissing like like orange gatorade and i was getting hammered it was like we took us we stopped

in the safari truck like 20 minutes out of the gate to like grab some stuff at this gas station I was in fucking hell dude I mean, I was hammered and felt terrible. You were in the, you were in the, so it was, it's basically like a, like a Chevy Tahoe, like a big, you know, suburban kind of truck lifted.

And you were in the seat, you know, next to the door. So you get out as we're all exiting. You put one foot on the ground, but your other foot still in the, in the truck. And instead of like sliding it out easily, it's up on the seat. And it's like you were looking at yourself. like how did I get it? I was stuck, dude. And I was just like,

yo, what are you doing? And you just looked at me and smiled and then rolled your leg off in the most like most, the toughest way you could possibly get out of the car. I couldn't move. My legs wouldn't work, bro. It's just like, and when you get down,

you know, if any of you out there have ever been so tired you like can't fall asleep, it's that. You know, like where you're so tired, it's uncomfortable. It feels like what I assume it feels like to die. You know, where you're like, man, I really want to go sleep, but I'm not sure about this one. Like, that's how you feel when you get down, bro. I mean, you're just cooked. And honestly, it's the most jet lagged I've ever been after one of these. Today's the first day I feel good.

I felt like I've had mononucleosis, man. Honestly, which is familiar feelings. I had it in college. I feel like I had it again. I can kiss Reed, you know? So I don't know what's going on in that tent. This jet lag is terrible, bro. But you were an A plus 10, bro. You were an A plus 10. Dude, you were two until the last night when I woke up at like 11.30. You said it was 1133, I think.

1113. 1113. And I woke up to Chris on all fours in the middle. We had two cots. He was in the middle of two cots going, whoa, it's going on. And I woke up and I'm like, oh, you good? And you were like, what happened?

What was that? These things, so, sometimes your boy will wake up in a panic like somebody's attacking me. And I can't explain why I've had it looked at. It's not sleep apnea. I don't know what it is. Like legitimately, I've stayed at a hotel before and woke up in the hallway. Like, like, there's some threat, dude.

Yeah. I don't know if it's, you know, football thing or, you know, whatever. But I felt a little scene because usually it's either. me and my wife who knows I have these things, right? And she's like, you're all right, babe, you're all right, good. I'm never sleeping over with a dude. And, you know, for Cowboy to see me on all four is like, threat, threat. Choking out your backpack.

I felt like I was like embarrassed. Like the whole camp like might have woke up to me being like, what are you doing? That's what I was saying. So yeah, I was good until that point. Yeah, for sure. And right before the celebration, too, we probably did the second most strenuous thing. The whole time we were walking, like all those first six days, it was poli, poli, which means very slowly. You walk slowly.

Conserve energy, take it easy. That's right. For the last like 30 minutes of the hike, the hike out, the final day, you me, Nate Boyer, Tripp, Kevin, and Alejandro all ran. there was like about a mile left i think it was like it was 1115 we asked our guide how long are you know and he was like 45 more minutes about um you know we got a little more than a mile and it started it's we could tell it was about to rain so we all just took off and we're running like in huge boots and we got our backpacks and you and al have your shirts off running down well i'm gonna tell you why because the lightning was coming dude and y'all were like you know y'all

everybody thinks it's funny that I don't like lightning lightning strikes survivor here okay but I heard some lightning coming and I just took off running and before you know it I got five people behind me running and we ran probably the last two miles and I don't know it feels I don't know what it feels like to do like blood doping but I think like that's what it feels like because when you've been up at altitude that long like it's easy to run dude if I felt like Lance arm strong too it was it felt so good and it made those beers go down that much quicker and it made that cigarette that I had at the gate. It was some sort of East African sig,

East African dart. I mean, it made that dart feel incredible, man. We celebrated, we lived it up. And then, of course, we took off, I don't know what time it was, like 9.45 at night. And we're on the runway and, you know, and we're looking at timelines and we're like, I think we're about to go to war.

Yeah. And so we land in Dara Salam, which is like in, you know, a city in Tanzania. It's a coastal city. It's a huge city. And the pilots like, hey, so we're investigating something on the tarmac that may be part of our plane. We'll get right back to you. And we're like, what the fuck? That doesn't sound good.

20 minutes later, he gets on thing. And he goes, so yeah, yeah, that was our wheel. Um, so our wheel fell off. We're going to go ahead and replace that hopefully. And so for a split second here, I'm thinking like, I'm not going to be able to get home. Like, honestly, customs, no, luckily we took off. I've never seen customs so fast. Like half the flights that were coming in weren't coming in anymore.

So we just made it. We just made it. Like absolutely perfectly timed exit. You take creatine, Nate? I do now. Yeah. You know who doesn't take creatine? Who's that?

Rob Ninkovich, you can tell. The way I threw him around in San Francisco. Hey, Minco. You impressed me. You got a nice quick move. My back still feels it. Having to wrestle with that motherfucker. He always wants to wrestle, but he doesn't know I take create creatine.

So it doesn't just help you stay strong. I really have always had trouble keeping weight on. Like, even when I played, I used to go weigh in with like two and a half pound plates. But now I don't have. have to do that. I just take create gummies and I've increased dosage like to the seven to 10 grams a day range. I'm not a doctor, but it's one of the most studied supplements of all time. And it's not just good for muscle retention for performance in the gym. You know, your boy's 40 now. So I really need my creatine. It's also good for cognition. I really will take it sometimes in the

afternoon and feel a lot better. You know, that last night before I went out on like fumes. I popped a couple create gummies. I felt nice and strong in the club. I felt wide awake. I felt like cognitively. I could have done anything I needed to do. I thought I could have solved a fucking Rubik's Cube. Joe Tuny walks up.

He's like, hey, can you do this? Yeah, I took my gummies today. So anyways, it's a good habit. I feel great when I'm on it. And these are tasty gummies. Healthy brain, cognitive effects as I get older, very important, muscle maintenance. keeping this physique.

You know what I'm saying? And... Zeke looks great, Chris. Your physique looks phenomenal. Thanks. You too. Thank you. Thank you.

No problem.