Langston Kerman
Appearances
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You know what sucks about it?
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Sucks about woolly mammoths too is, is they also are not bigger than elephants. No, no. I thought this whole time that woolly mammoths were like these giant beasts that we would never be able to see again. And they're like smaller than the average African elephant.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
And I think it's important for us to say that scientists can be both legitimate and liars.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yes. We often, I think, conflate it somehow where scientists are like these moral beings that exist above us all. And no, they can be liars and also really smart and capable people.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You know, it might have helped him. I might have helped him.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Right. You got to focus, big man.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
If that's the approach you're taking, you're missing the mark quite a bit. Yeah, yeah. Mammoths can't be our first start at fixing the problem for sure.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's crazy.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
This is like when a bunch of celebrities open up an ice cream store and you're like, why do y'all know each other?
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
What is this relationship that somehow fostered naturally between you?
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It really feels like a fourth grader was like, I got it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Okay, okay. We'll get sued. That's fine.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
So far, it's the thing I've related to him most on. I get that. Yeah, I get it. That I connect to. Saying you reinvented wolves is a different conversation.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It's almost never come up in our conversations, at least.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, it was such rare technology to access at that age that I bet if you really were able to invest the time and energy, you advanced the chess piece so far for yourself.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
They always talk about how like Bill Gates started Microsoft in his garage, but it's like, oh, you had an entire garage that you could work in? You had a nice garage? Yeah. Most people have to store things and park cars in there. You were just like, no, the garage is a workspace.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Oh, nice. This is a beautiful segue.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I thought it was going to be Rocket Man shit, and it's not that at all.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Turns out some of us think they're a better hang than we anticipated. Yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I think spotting a grift is real profitable, real fast.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
And I think if we're going back, that really speaks to both the passionate learner and the grifter. Right. Working in sort of synchronicity.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
The man contains two wolves. Yeah. One dyer, one pretty much a regular wolf.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I was about to say, I bet having rich parents and a nice little parachute probably helped him figure that out.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, they can refuse a mortgage because you've published this and now they're like, oh, we think you're going to have diabetes and diabetes means you won't be able to pay 30 years worth of mortgage. So, nah.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I really get nervous whenever the language starts dehumanizing human experiences. Right. There has to be some attachment to what it means to be a person for this to remain healthy, normal, applicable in a way that isn't just you scamming us into something much more scary, evil. Yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's also just not a good thing to sort of, I guess, have is what people know about you. That like, yeah, if you show up, he'll give you a job.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We should work with him.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, but I bet he gets eaten. He sounds like he got eaten.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I also get really nervous when the science includes both car technology and cancer elimination. That feels like, wait a minute, you got to focus, big dog. Both of those things can't be true from your single discovery.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I prefer to keep the one I have. I know it sucks, but I'll keep it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Oh, yeah. His are low and they're strong. I really respect it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
So all of those books, there's like six of those books that are right and then 70 billion others that are like just mid, like really shit books.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, Netflix isn't going to exist when this is actually a thing.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It seems like you want to download some information from people that maybe they didn't want to give you. That's some nasty work there, Dr. George.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Jeffrey Epstein.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I was tempted to hang up the Zoom right away. I understand. It was so inflammatory that I said, I can't be a part of this.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Well, well, well. Surprise Epstein. The Babadook emerges.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's really cool. That's like a really exciting plot twist that you don't see coming. I love this.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That wolf has charm.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You can tell that wolf knows how the business works. That's not a wolf that you gotta, like, put a caretaker on.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That wolf does its own stunts, I hear you.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Superior humans, that's a trigger word for me.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
But that speaks to his multitude. He's a busy man, right? He could either be a money man or he could be an academic man, but one of them introduced me.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We were all there with Jeffrey.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
He made enough money to buy an island. You can't do that with only sex pests. Some people had to be on some version of an up and up.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Whoa. Cool. It is pretty impressive to find out that Jeffrey Epstein is somehow more of a piece of shit than I thought. I was like, nah, he's just a monster. I don't think he's like a super monster. Right.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
No, yeah, you don't have to be like, I would have liked to talk to him about it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That actually sounds awesome. I just, no, I didn't talk to him.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, Jeffrey Epstein's like, you know, I want to start a baby ranch. He's like, huh? He's like, oh, nothing, nothing.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Never mind. Never mind. I thought you'd be cool about it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Sober. Sober.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We're going to talk business as soon as I get out.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
And now he's picking who introduced him. Previously, he didn't know who introduced him. Turns out it was Harvard the whole time.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
There's a pretty extensive collection of dire wolf bones in the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Oh, right. Yeah. And boy, was I disappointed when I saw how little those bones were.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
They win. They win the murder game. You did it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
He was like, nah, Jeffrey's awesome to me and I'm going to keep hanging.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Man, I walked in there and I said, I'm going to see the biggest wolf that ever was. And those wolves look like schnauzers. They're tiny little dogs as far as I'm concerned. Yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's a real R. Kelly, when we say teenage, how are we talking?
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It, I guess the people.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I think he's like, I'm not going to answer for myself, but you, the single body of people that exist around me should have had the conversation with Jeffrey Epstein.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
yeah no there is this um this this again it's just this this want to like cutify themselves out of like the human experience yeah it's like oh i'm just a nerdy little cutie boy i i didn't even notice that bad things were happening like you're oh you're a grown man who's trying to manipulate genes this isn't you're not a sweetheart at all
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Favorite color is coral. Coral. I love coral.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, I think for years I used to say blue to protect myself from my own insecurities. But then at some point I had to be honest and say, nah, my favorite color is nuanced and slightly effeminate, I guess.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I can get past this.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Oh, you can listen to my podcast. It's called My Mama Told Me. I do it with my friend David Borey, who is also an alumnus of this gorgeous podcast. And we talk about conspiracy theories, specifically Black conspiracy theories. And it's really fun and silly. And we do not nearly as effective research as you do, Robert.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I will say there was that era on what is now X, but formerly Twitter, where they were just making up lists of the people who were on the flight logs. And it was always a funny list. It never failed. No matter who wrote it, the right, the left, the sickos, the imagineers, they were always funny lists of people.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
There were a few people on some of those flight logs where I was like, I don't think they knew what they got on the plane for.
Behind the Bastards
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He knows how to make a book cool, and he knows how to make a hat cool. He's got cool hats, cool books, and scarves.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Somebody said, get on the PJ. And you're like, yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We got to get back to what we were, which was normal and peaceful.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Someone asked me the other day if I would get on that Trump plane, the one that Qatar gave him. It's like, for the story alone, I kind of think I have to.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, I just got to ride this wave and deal with the fallout later.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You were staying home. You wouldn't touch it.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That was dark. They said they'll do better. They said they'll do better.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
What a missed opportunity. There were dire wolves with names. There were a lot of Starks. They could have just gone down the Stark lineage. They didn't have to go to Khaleesi.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
But it's a bummer, folks. You should do that season as one of the bastards, frankly.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, you're really trying to weave a story here. And that's a nice dog. That seems like a really polite, sweet dog.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's cool to make that much money and be like, I'm going to buy a lighthouse.
Behind the Bastards
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I'm not sleeping where normal people sleep anymore. I've got a different thing going on.
Behind the Bastards
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Where everybody was fine at the end. Where everyone was happy. Nothing bad happened.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
He's got sunglasses on.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's actually not his forte. He's actually, he doesn't even speak with that accent. He's pretending.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
If you want to flirt with the dinosaurs, then yeah, get Jeff.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I will say, before you even go, one of the only taboos that exists in film and television is murdering dogs. Yes. And I'm getting so scared before we even start. I know nothing.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You want them dinosaurs horny as hell, get Jeff. But otherwise, you got to.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah. This is... Okay. To your point, this is just PR. This is truly... This is just PR.
Behind the Bastards
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And they didn't let those other 35 people hold that dog, and that's pretty fucked up. No, no, just George.
Behind the Bastards
Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
That's gotta be a tough thing to figure out for yourself, though, that you got a little bit of that in there.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, you can kind of see it, and then that bums you out, where you're like, ah.
Behind the Bastards
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You're just trying to make it so that the baby comes out exactly the way you planned and with no other stuff.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, with blue eyes and no need for braces.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
But yeah, there's a I learned about this recently, but there's somebody who's making something called the chicken a source.
Behind the Bastards
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Where they are essentially claiming that they're like re they've rediscovered or re given us dinosaurs again via this chicken a sort. But it's just a fucked up chicken. Yeah. That like looks like it's got like some dinosaur qualities.
Behind the Bastards
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And they're also not particularly bright. None of this feels like a great combination.
Behind the Bastards
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Oh, I really didn't even like give them a shit. They don't give a fuck. Holy shit. Oh, man. Chicken run really sold me a different story about that.
Behind the Bastards
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There's that jellyfish that can regenerate or turn itself back into a child. But that's not proving it. That's just that species.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, you're still going to die when you die. You just won't die from that. Right.
Behind the Bastards
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It's really funny when people sort of like sink into these types of sciences because like you want your dog to live longer. Just stop making it fuck its cousin. You know what I mean?
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Stop breeding them till they're like sick the second they come out and let them be whatever random mutt that they all are kind of supposed to be.
Behind the Bastards
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I'm not brave enough to have ever challenged you on it.
Behind the Bastards
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I just think it's always a bad sign when somebody has to outsource ethics, right? right i mean like someone for the ethics you need somebody else to handle ethics because that's just not how you think is yeah you're gonna do some vile shit
Behind the Bastards
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I say Neanderthal, but I'm a dum-dum, so I'm glad.
Behind the Bastards
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That's none of my business.
Behind the Bastards
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I'm just here to make as many homunculi as possible. I don't decide where they go.
Behind the Bastards
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That's why I fuck with Scott Pelley. He really, end of the day, he really breaks it all down in a very succinct, clear way. He's like, that man that I just spoke to is a psychopath. And you should know that.
Behind the Bastards
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You call us what? They said Ooga Booga, so yeah.
Behind the Bastards
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I really was hoping this wasn't going to lead to you knowing who the test subjects were. Ha ha ha!
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, George, you're fucked up, man. You're doing something fucked up.
Behind the Bastards
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God damn. They're just saying stuff plainly. Holy shit. Holy fuck. That's crazy.
Behind the Bastards
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There's no way they mean that about the cleaning staff.
Behind the Bastards
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Like they're only talking about very specific employees at this company.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, 100%. They're going to have a sixth finger. Right. The slope is so slippery for what they'll decide is acceptable and not acceptable.
Behind the Bastards
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And who, frankly, are the scientists in charge of making those decisions?
Behind the Bastards
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We know for a fact it's a real I'll bring back dire wolves ass person.
Behind the Bastards
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Oh, man. And he's like, no, don't don't cure their disease. I want to figure out how to test more. I need more diseases to play with.
Behind the Bastards
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Planet. Planet scale. Yeah, that's nuts.
Behind the Bastards
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You plus me eugenics equals us genics. No.
Behind the Bastards
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They can meet. They can hang out.
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They might be like, hey, you got that too? I'm good. Let's make other choices. Yeah. They have the ability to figure this out for themselves.
Behind the Bastards
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I'll go so far as to say that look how little they invested in the actual images.
Behind the Bastards
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They're like, just give us your DNA. If you're going to fall for this, we're not spending a dime on advertising.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, and you're not being even transparent about, to your point, about what is being considered a deformity, a not typical thing inside of a person.
Behind the Bastards
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I'm doing great. I'm excited to hear more. This feels weird to say out loud, but I'm excited to hear more about Jeffrey Epstein and everything he's been up to with our boy George Church.
Behind the Bastards
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Also, I want you to know what color that skin is when we flip it around.
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Yeah, he really sped past it in a way that it's more about the elimination of the diseases and not the curation of another species. Like, truly saying, like... This is important.
Behind the Bastards
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He's so tough to look at.
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Given how bad he wants perfect people.
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Like you would think that he should not get to say what a perfect person is. And yet here we are.
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No, not all of these apps are created equal. I don't even know that they have the staff that can manage your genome properly, much less. Right, yeah.
Behind the Bastards
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I'm sure part of his funding says that he's not allowed to say that. We want to be able to use this in a different kind of way, and that's how we can justify giving you all this money. Also, the elimination of diseases is such a silly...
Behind the Bastards
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concept because you also might make new ones it's not like we know for sure that like there's not there's no new possibilities in these perfectly synchronized genomes yes yeah thank you for being the ian malcolm of these episodes and like reminding us all of chaos theory if you want you can drop a little bit of water down your hand maybe unbutton the top two buttons of your shit like really go for it here
Behind the Bastards
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If we're listing facts, yeah.
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Yeah. Not everyone wants kids. Not everyone, frankly, wants kids the way you want them. It really is putting a lot of your decision making on random people.
Behind the Bastards
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That's really smart to go that route because I'm so ignorant. I just presumed that he was going at like young singles in the city. It's like, no, you need nasty conservative sort of like principles that have already been established.
Behind the Bastards
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There's a reason there's that small of a sample size, and it's because they're doing something pretty fucked up.
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That's always where it gets icky is like the plan is never to put it in people for the greater good. It's put it in people because you have funding to do that.
Behind the Bastards
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Yeah, that's what that word is for. It literally was like.
Behind the Bastards
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I drink blood with them every once in a while. It's not.
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You're not being chill.
Behind the Bastards
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You remember when they were claiming that vapes were like killing people, that everybody was dropping dead from vaping?
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Yeah, now all of a sudden this technology is not going to make you drop dead. It's going to make you live forever. Yeah, it's just weird.
Behind the Bastards
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You got those naughty cartridges. We're going to put really top shit cartridges in there.
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The good stuff, right?
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
He looks like he's turning into a wise old tree. Yes, yes.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I'm going to need you to bone a few people in here so that I can make money. Yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Right. pimp me once shame on you yeah what if like he'd he'd been the guy who blew the whistle on aubrey de gray or whatever but like he didn't you know i don't know i don't know i don't know multiple sex traffickers right i mean right right yeah i think after a while it starts to feel like that's a thing you're into
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I didn't know they were coming back. I thought maybe they were going for good.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, now we're getting to what you really want here, George.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It crossed my mind.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Something tells me you're not as concerned with these wolves and these Neanderthals as you're pretending.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
The people who work there saying we're not doing any work is really awesome.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah. And also so we can skip past the fact that you're not actually helping the existing elephants. You're just trying to create a new species that'll mirror the old one.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
All of you guys got the Rachel. Ain't that nice?
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You all got the Rachel.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
If you think you know what elephant's problem is now, you are going to be so surprised by the problems we're about to introduce.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
And also, is you just saying, all right, we'll just make an elephant synthetically is fucking nuts.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It's illegal to murder because you're living in the past, my man. I'm thinking about the future.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
The most serious scientists. I mostly can think of scientists who should not be there.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
A person deeply connected to both science and dodo birds. Of course, you need Paris Hilton.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
They're like, we can't even draw a Dodo, much less make one.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
These aren't just wolves you're going to keep and take care of. You're going to leverage these wolves.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It's really awesome if you think about it. It's such a long game for being able to not pay taxes everywhere else.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Arguably the most famous dire wolf in Game of Thrones was white.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We'll just make that one that.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We remain mammoth-less.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
There hasn't been a single mammoth. And I guess, yeah, your other point is kind of moot.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I can't argue with that.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Yeah, that's the problem. It's just really hard to go back to flying coach. You know what I mean? Whatever his lifestyle is, he's not going to sacrifice it for the greater good of tigers and dodo birds or whoever they're trying to protect.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I love it. I love it. This show is always a lot of fun and really sad. Yeah.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I feel great. It's been a long one. I'm sorry. No, this is great. I'm happy that we got to do it. And frankly, I'm devastated to know that there's a new man to be afraid of out there.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Really scared of him and also don't care to look at him. But here we are.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Oh, yeah. Listen to my podcast. It's called My Mama Told Me. I host it with my friend David Borey. It's about black conspiracy theories. Watch everybody's live on Netflix with John Mulaney. I was a writer and performer on that show. And you can watch my special. It's called Bad Poetry. It's also on Netflix. And I'm really proud of it. And that's it.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
but he's also not taking genuine polls he's just talking to jeffrey epstein the average human probably doesn't give a shit about this right i didn't know that bringing back a neanderthal was possible and frankly never was interested in it was not on my list of concerns yes
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
No, you should chill out.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
Fine, man. If we're just going to pretend, fine.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
I think you're trying to make some big old slaves and that's something you should maybe just say out loud instead of pretending like it has some other value.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
They don't have to live with me.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
He knows more than we do on this podcast, for sure.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
We literally have an economic system where you see what raising people without their families does. And he's like, yeah, I bet these ones will figure it out.
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
You ever seen those videos where they'll put a tiger in with a pig, like a baby tiger, and then the baby tiger starts acting like the pig a little bit?
Behind the Bastards
Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
It's like, well, yeah, that's because that's more influential than it being just raw tiger by itself.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 32: Just the 32 of Us
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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 32: Just the 32 of Us
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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Rewind with Karen & Georgia - Episode 32: Just the 32 of Us
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