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Behind the Bastards

Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift

03 Jun 2025

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Robert walks Langston Kerman through the story of Dr. George Church, a very real scientist who co founded the company making bullshit claims of "de extincting" dire wolves. (2 Part Series) Sources: George Church, Colossal W*nker – For Better Science Can Gene Therapy Slow Ageing in Dogs? - Gowing Life Never-ageing Anti-aging to cure COVID-19 – For Better Science The original sins of Leonard Guarente – For Better Science Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA - The New York Times Biologist George Church apologizes for contacts with Jeffreyticl Epstein Genetics Company Wants To Bring Iconic Tasmanian Tiger Back From Extinction - Newsweek Gene editing company hopes to bring dodo ‘back to life’ | Extinct wildlife | The Guardian Jeffrey Epstein-Funded Geneticist Is Building a Dating App That Only a Eugenicist Could Love George Church Explains How DNA Will Be Construction Material of the Future - DER SPIEGEL Geneticist George Church gets funding for lab-grown woolly mammoths Wooly Mammoth De-extinction Scientist Reveals Plan To Create 'Arctic Elephant' - Newsweek Bringing back dinosaurs or making new ones? – DW – 06/10/2015 ‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be’ — Harvard Gazette CRISPR gene editing on human embryos may be dangerous Here are some actual facts about George Church’s DNA dating company | MIT Technology Review Scientist on the Loose: George Church Strays Into Eugenics—Again | Center for Genetics and Society So...What do we think of Colossal Biosciences? : r/pleistocene The "de-extinction" of the woolly mammoth, a "Colossal" hoax? - Genomic chronicles | Medicine/Science Hiltzik: New frontiers in pseudoscientific baloney - Los Angeles Times Colossal Liar Wolves – For Better Science Meet The Disruptors: How Ben Lamm & Hypergiant Are Shaking Up the Space and AI Industries | by Jason Hartman | Authority Magazine | Medium Millionaire Ben Lamm Warns Against Entrepreneurship - Great Entrepreneurs The Serial Entrepreneur Turned Billionaire: Ben Lamm’s Tech and Science Revolution | Where Business News Meets Thought Leadership How 39-year-old Ben Lamm has started five companies Meet Ben Lamm: The World's First De-extinction Billionaire - Forbes India Oral history interview with George M. Church - Science History Institute Digital Collections Dr. George Church, Founding Father of Genomics | News | W.I. The Church Of George Church The World Has a Data Storage Problem. Is DNA the Answer? - proto.life DNA: The Future of Data Storage?. DNA, with its amazing storage… | by Nithil Krishnaraj | TechTalkers | Medium See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Call zone media.

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Oh, wow. Sophie, I don't know. I don't know if we can put that on the air. I mean, that's actionable threats against a sitting. Wow. I mean, just Sophie, that's it's just dangerous to be saying stuff like that in this day and age. I know. Let's distract the audience and the federal agents listening in by bringing on our guest today who definitely doesn't say stuff like that. Langston Kerman.

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Langston, do you condemn Sophie's statements, assuming they ever get out in unedited form?

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35.402 - 43.668 Langston Kerman

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.

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50.652 - 50.632 Courtney Armstrong

100%.

50.712 - 54.094 Langston Kerman

We got to get back to what we were, which was normal and peaceful.

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Which was normal and good. Everyone knows things used to be good in this country for everybody, right? That's the thing we all know. We were chilling for a long time. We were so cool.

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Yeah. Yeah. Things were so great. And I think what will get us back to that is talking about puppies, right? Everybody loves a good puppy, right? I like puppies. Puppies are wonderful. And there's been some really cool new puppy news. I am really nervous.

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What is he talking about? Oh, God, we're going to talk about puppy mills. No, don't worry. This is a fun one, everybody. We're going to have a good time this week. Like, it is a guy I think is a piece of shit, but it's going to be fun.

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