De-Extinction Nightmare Part 2: Colossal Lies (E369)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In part two of this two part episode, Jack continues their look into the dubious practice of “de-extinction” this time as it is pushed in the 21st century by Colossal BioSciences. Created in 2019 by Ben Lamm and George Church, Colossal aims at making extinction, as well as the endangered species list, a thing of the past using CRISPR technology. Claiming to have revived the Dire Wolf and Red Wolf, the company actually has been more successful in massive PR campaigns and paying off critics than reversing species death. But who benefits when people believe that the ecosystem can be preserved through test tubes rather than policy aimed at protecting endangered animals? You guessed it: wealthy sociopaths who see traditional conservation efforts as a barrier to total planetary domination. Gimmie Truth by Brad Abrahams https://bradabrahams.net/independent/gimme-truth-be7s6 Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Check out our new podcast series network Cursed Media! Spectral Voyager Season 2 is releasing now! Binge the entirety of Truly Tradly Deeply by Annie Kelly and Megan Kelly as well as Science in Transition by Liv Agar and Spencer Barrows: cursedmedia.net Produced by Liv Agar & Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you've found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.6	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 369,
0:40.7	Deextinction Nightmare Part 2, colossal lies. As always, we are your host, Julianfield,
0:47.6	Liv Egar, Jack LaRoche, and Travis View. In 2024, Donald Trump found himself talking about California's water policy. That he was
0:58.5	discussing water policy wasn't that surprising. As climate change worsens and data centers grow,
1:04.6	the state has found its water table increasingly taxed. It wasn't even shocking that Donald Trump
1:09.8	interrupted himself during a particularly vitrolic
1:13.2	tirade against Biden's admittedly ailing health to complain about a far more insidious foe.
1:19.2	What was surprising was that the enemy in question was, in his words, a tiny, tiny fish.
1:26.7	You know water? I had a deal for water to come down from the north. They have so much water.
1:31.8	They don't do it because they're trying to protect a tiny, tiny little fish that hasn't made it.
1:36.8	He's a small fish. I don't know. Why would you protect small fish? They're lame.
1:41.0	No longer hot.
1:42.8	The tiny little fish is the critically endangered Delta
1:47.0	smelt, found only in the northeastern part of San Francisco Bay. These fish are indeed tiny,
1:53.1	just two to three inches long, and only live about a year in the wild. This was also not
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