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Jun 2025
1h 25m

Part Two: Dire Wolves, Dr. George Church...

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Robert explores Dr. Church's weird history with eugenics adjacent projects, like the world's creepiest dating app, and how Colossal Biosciences was created and immediately used by the Trump administration as an excuse to attack the Endangered Species Act.

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