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The LOOPcast

BONUS: Jimmy Akin Tackles Dire Wolves, AI End-Time Scenarios, and Mysterious World Origin Story

The LOOPcast

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Genetic engineering, AI might destroy the world, and Jimmy Akin Mysterious World origin story. Happy Easter! Enjoy! This podcast is brought to you, in part, by the University of Dallas! In a world where people can often feel alone or like nothing really matters, the University of Dallas is different. Learn more about Brian Burch’s alma mater, the University of Dallas, and join Brian’s fellow alumni who are praying for him during his ongoing nomination process by clicking here: https...

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0:00.0

So Jimmy, I mean, I'm a fan of Jimmy Aiken, the Jimmy Aiken Mysterious World.

0:05.3

I actually had a fan of the Loopcaste, you have to have Jimmy Aiken to come on and talk about the dire wolves.

0:11.4

Did this come on your radar, even for your own show?

0:14.9

And are you familiar with bringing species back from the brink, back from extinction?

0:20.1

Oh, yeah.

0:20.8

It definitely came up on my radar.

0:24.0

I may well discuss it on Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, which is a podcast I do that looks at mysterious subjects, including cryptids.

0:32.3

I've talked about de-extinctin animals before.

0:35.4

I did an episode a while back on the thylacine, or the, it's also known as the Tasmanian

0:40.6

tiger and the Tasmanian wolf.

0:42.6

It's a kind of marsupial that's an equivalent.

0:46.4

It fills a similar ecological niche to a wolf.

0:49.7

And it also has stripes, which is why it's called the Tasmanian tiger.

0:53.6

And it's believed by mainstream science that it went extinct in the early 20th century, in the first half of the 20th century.

1:01.6

But there keep being these reports that they're still out there.

1:05.4

And I think that it definitely is likely to have survived its reported extinction, whether it's still out there

1:15.4

is more debatable.

1:16.6

It may have gone extinct since then.

1:19.2

But even if it has, we're going to have it back because they're going to de-extinct it.

1:26.3

Got it.

1:26.8

So colossal biosciences, their whole marketing pitch is, hey, we're going to bring it back because they're going to de-extinct it. Got it. So Colossal Biosciences, their whole

1:29.3

marketing pitch is, hey, we're going to bring back the woolly mammoth by 2028. They created the

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