Ep. 711: So Are Dire Wolves Back From The Dead Or Not?
The MeatEater Podcast
MeatEater
4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Steven Rinella talks with Matt James, Brody Henderson, Spencer Neuharth, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.
Topics discussed: The ascendancy of Dr. Steve, PhD.; are dire wolves back?; cracked robin eggs; our book Catch A Crayfish, Count the Stars is out now in paperback; alligators killing people; skull morphology; similarities between grey wolves and dire wolves; how similar a carrot is to a human; cloning DNA; Colossal's dire wolf care manual; how a household somewhere has the dire wolves' dog momma surrogate; the ghost portion; genetic rescue efforts; transgenics and taxonomy; spurring conversation about the biodiversity crisis; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Steve Rinella here. |
| 0:05.5 | The American West with Dan Flores is a new podcast production on the Meat Eater Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.4 | It's hosted by author and historian Dan Flores, who happens to be mine and our own Dr. |
| 0:19.5 | Randall's former professor. |
| 0:22.5 | By focusing on deep time, wild animals, native peoples in the West's unique environments, |
| 0:30.4 | Flores will challenge your understanding of the American West, |
| 0:34.3 | and he will help to explain why it is the way it is today. |
| 0:39.2 | I count Dan Flores as a friend. |
| 0:41.4 | We do not agree on everything, but he has had a massive impact on my understanding of American |
| 0:49.4 | history. |
| 0:50.6 | And I invite you to get challenged by him in the same way that I have. |
| 0:57.5 | Catch the premiere of the American West with Dan Flores on Tuesday, May 6th on the Meat Eater podcast network. |
| 1:05.9 | Subscribe to the American West with Dan Flores on Apple, Spotify, IHeart, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:13.7 | Listen to Dan, and it will stretch your brain all out. |
| 1:18.0 | And I mean that in a very good way. |
| 1:35.5 | This is the meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwearless. |
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