Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-06-03
Books mentioned on Part One: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church & The De-Extinction Grift
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones is a sprawling epic fantasy novel by George R.
Discussed“something they largely acrewed via Game of Thrones because direwolves were around the same size as the largest modern wolves.”
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Regenesis
Regenesis by George M.
Discussed“the book Regenesis was about to hit shelves and suddenly there's all these articles about how he stored 70 billion copies into like a a dot of DNA no longer than like a [ __ ] period on a piece of paper that you know was able to store so many copies like isn't that amazing right”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Jurassic Park
“and this is all the work of a of an actual like science like bioscience startup called Colossal Biosciences, which is just by name a company that could not sound more like it belonged than a Michael Brighton novel if they just called it engine, right?”
Passing Jurassic Park
“The article goes on to summarize the book that he co-wrote with Ed Regis, who it's weird to me that his co-author's name is Ed Regis because Ed Regis is also a character in the book Jurassic Park.”