SIO481: Ok What Was the Deal With the Direwolves
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Was that whole thing legitimate? Was it BS? Or something in between? Dr. Eric Jaffe is the perfect expert to give us the objective facts on this and help us understand everything going on!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 481. I'm Thomas Smith. |
| 0:17.7 | And today I'm excited to learn about dire wolves. You might have heard the news, |
| 0:23.4 | the buzz is about, I don't know, a month ago, that dire wolves are back. I didn't know they |
| 0:28.2 | ever existed. I thought they were fake. Just pretend. What other animals that I thought were pretend |
| 0:34.3 | are extinct? Unicorns, Pegasies, Pegasize, koala bears, you know, what else? |
| 0:39.8 | What else is actually real and nobody knows it? So what's the deal with this quote unquote |
| 0:44.7 | de-extincted animal as the scientists responsible for a claim? Is that real? Is it a hoax? |
| 0:51.1 | Is it somewhere in between? You might have seen mixed things. Well, I've got an expert in Dr. Eric Jaffe to break it down for us. He's the perfect expert for this. And I love this one because I don't know what to think. I imagine many of you might not know what to think. And by the time this is all done, we're going to know exactly what to think about this claim of the de-extincted dire wolf? Is it complete BS? |
| 1:11.2 | Is it awesome and real? |
| 1:12.8 | Or precisely where in between? |
| 1:15.3 | And what other implications does this have? |
| 1:17.9 | If true, what other things might be de-extincted? |
| 1:20.9 | How could this technology be used? |
| 1:23.2 | So all those questions and more. |
| 1:25.3 | So excited. |
| 1:25.9 | Such a great sciencey episode. |
| 1:27.5 | So we'll take our usual break and please support the show. |
| 1:30.3 | Patreon.com slash serious pod. |
| 1:31.8 | You can skip the ads. |
| 1:32.7 | You can make sure the show continues. |
| 1:34.5 | And you can get that warm, fuzzy feeling. |
| 1:36.5 | All right. |
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