Ep. 314: Peter Larson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Peter Larson, an American paleontologist, fossil collector, and president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that excavates, prepares, and sells fossils. He led the team that excavated "Sue", the largest and most complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex found to date, and has published numerous scientific and popular works on dinosaur paleontology.
The topic is paleontology.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Luck's role in finding dinosaurs
- Larson's personal anecdotes about finding "Sue"
- Whether Larson knew at the time that he was finding a piece of "land" in a legal sense
- The scientific data that Larson was able to glean before the government took the bones
- Telling a male dinosaur from a female dinosaur
- What makes Larson a T-Rex entrepreneur
- T-Rex as a predator or scavenger
- The legal case surrounding "Sue"
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I love doing this podcast, primarily because I feel like I can ask anyone. |
| 0:39.6 | I do have the confidence to feel like I can ask anyone. |
| 0:42.4 | Now, they might not always say yes, but I've had a pretty good success rate. |
| 0:49.9 | One of the coolest pieces of feedback that I've received in doing this podcast is from the author, Jack Schweger, of Market Wizard's fame. |
| 0:59.2 | And Jack told me he really appreciated that I would go out and do the different interviews. |
| 1:05.5 | And he noted an interview that I did with Jack Horner. |
| 1:09.9 | Jack is a paleontologist, very well known for being |
| 1:13.0 | the technical director of the Jurassic Park films. And most likely, if not altogether true, |
| 1:21.5 | the inspiration for Spielberg for the main character in the Jurassic Park films. |
| 1:27.5 | My guest today is also a paleontologist. |
| 1:30.8 | His name is Peter Larson, American paleontologist, fossil collector, president of the Black |
| 1:35.9 | Hills Institute of Geological Research. |
| 1:39.4 | He excavates, prepares, sells fossils. |
| 1:42.5 | Very interestingly, he led the team that uncovered Sue, which is in the |
| 1:48.3 | Field Museum in Chicago. Museum in Chicago. Great story that was made a documentary in 2014 called |
| 1:58.3 | Dinosaur 13, worth checking out. |
| 2:03.0 | Now you might say, what's the personal connection, Mike? |
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