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So.. Dire Wolves Are Back?

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0:00 [Music] Welcome back to a very fun, no context, but this is our last episode of the day. Episode of the Careful Boys. Wow. Different energy, different emotion. You know what I mean? Delirious time. Yeah. Hey, you know they brought direwolves back. I heard it's fake news, bro. It is not fake news. I heard it was like slightly a dire wolf. I heard from a wolf and they just like thought that was what side are you on right now? You can't even get excited. I want it to be cool. Of course I want it to be cool. Hear the first direwolf howl in over 10,000 years. But in my head I'm like, how are they just going to do I just don't buy it, dude. Was that a real howl? Did you hear the how? But what they did is they got direwolf DNA and then they basically grew it in a gray

0:52 roof. Yeah. So they had like genomes from a 13,000y old tooth that they got. And then they also from a museum had like a 72,000y old skull that they had to like ask permission to like drill into in order to extract a certain amount of like genome DNA information. And then if they have like a certain amount like like 10x or something the amount of genome information they can like connect the dots and put enough DNA differences together that like so what they do it's almost like uh it's like IVF in a wolf. Uh it's but you al also have to add like a game of like deduction where like you look at the DNA of like all wolves today and then you look at like the DNA and what stands out here and then you're like okay what are the different things that stand out and how do we add that together to complete a DNA strand for like what this thing supposedly is and then still yes IVF it

1:42 and get it born with a surrogate out of like a a greywolf. But the idea though is still that like if they uh breed these creatures, we're we're going to be able to study them because they put them on these like 2,000 acre like preserved lots and it's going to escape like Jurassic Park for real. They're not meant to. And the pictures that we've been seeing are those the actual ones? Yes, there's three of them. Two of them were boys that were born first uh in like September something called Romulus and Remis. And then the third one was born 6 weeks ago, a girl named named Kesi. So they have them. they're not going to let them into the wild. Uh, and they plan on breeding more of them so that they can like have kind of like a social pack and start seeing like what they why. But like the physical uh differences from like today's wolves are already like pretty crazy. Aren't dire wolves like way bigger?

2:33 So they're already so at 6 months they're already like 85 lbs and they're like 5'5 in length and they're meant to go they're meant to grow for the first 14 or 15 months. That's me right now. So yeah. So they get bigger and then two they're all white-haired. Uh so like they've found out now that like direwolves like just I guess naturally are all born whitehaired and the idea they're made for the snow natural selection for the snow, right? And then three like they have manes actually. So like these wolves they the the older ones now they look pretty crazy cuz they have much more not like mane like lime but like a lot of hair almost like horseish like down the back beauty and the beast kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they just have like different features in that sense and they can pet them. No way. Well, the ones that are like obviously, you know, raising them, so to speak. They they have a relationship in a Cuz I'm like, what if they get big and

3:23 then they bite you? Oh ████ That's a big concern. They might They're They're apparently now at the point where they're like starting to exhibit hunting like tendencies. So like slowly because right now they're still being fed like bison and elk and random different things like that in whatever may be What would they do? Would they bring them out into the wild to hunt or they throw like a live buddy in? It's a 2,000 acre like preserve or something like that. So like Yeah. There isn't already a natural ecosystem. They're going to see like what starts. Wait till they jump the fence, dude. Jurassic Park. I've seen this movie before, right, dude? And then ████ a German Shepherd. And then now you have ████ 20 more of these ████ That German Shepherd's going to be howling. Well, cuz that's how wild boores happen. I

4:13 don't understand. That escape. I don't understand why the the like the clapback against this is them saying that like no, they didn't make direwolves. They made a regular wolf with direwolf looking traits. Yeah. So, it's just a wolf that resembles a direwolf, but in it's a hybrid animal. Yeah. It's biracial. Yeah. I I can see the idea of it not being like 100% pure in a sense, but like I guess it totally depends on how the science actually works. Like for example, if you uh grab enough genome and DNA data to construct molecularly, like the actual DNA of said creature, then even if it's like put into like a surrogate of a similar species, like it's still got the DNA of like that creature, right? This is off topic, but

5:03 I heard bones hold memory. That's why they're in the catacombs. Yeah. That's why it's like the Vatican sits on the catacombs apparently. They got memories. Yeah. Well, that is that is kind of like as as crazy as it is. I mean, if like you extract DNA from these bones and then once you breed this thing in a scientific lab in some way, they exhibit behavior of that creature. Mhm. So that bone remember that it used to lick its own nuts to clean itself. Yeah, it honestly does kind of maybe the equivalent like if Chinese people were gone and wait I'm sorry more Chinese people and then they were like we're going to bring them back and then they do that same thing but there's just a white guy comes up you IV back home. It's like no that's

5:55 just a guy like Ha. Yeah, this just a guy with a Yeah, he's got a cheeky eyes. You know, I feel like Chinese people, if they were gone, all you have to do is pull out a dollar and a Chinese dollar. They just say, "Come back to money." $1 money. Chinese hands. Chinese hands. Maybe it's something like that where it just has like a treat that resembles it. Oh, and then like he's just being normal, but people are like, "Look, he's being Chinese." When he's eating bok choy, he's just going about his life. He's just crashing cars for fun. He's merging lanes without looking. Ford Alhamra.

6:46 So, apparently right now they're also working on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the dodo. ████ that fool. He owe me money. The Tasmanian tiger and the direwolf is already Tasmanian tiger. Is that the one with big old teeth? That's saber. You know what's too is like cuz Dodo got extinct cuz they ate the ████ out of him. What if we bring them back and people are like I just want to know, man. I want to know what the Spaniards ate. Don't let Popey hear about it. What the hell? You already know for sure if they're bringing back dodos, we're going to eat them. What if it's bomb? But the reason why they killed the dodo was um the reason why they they they killed the dodo is because they weren't afraid. So they'll just come up to you and then you could just club them real quick and then

7:36 eat it. That's why they called do dumb ass bird. The doy. But what do you think the mentality on bringing like the woolly mammoth back? Woolly mammoth is cool. They brought they created something called the woolly mouse. Don't you have to like make the habitat for it though, right? Cuz a woolly mammoth is going to need a lot of place to be. Yeah. 2,000, you know, square feet. Put that ████ in San Diego. Why? Yeah. By the food there already. They were they were in Norcal. Could it live in Antarctica, you think? No, they were they were in NorCal. They were in That's California. That's where they found them. Oh, really? Oh, put them up there. But they're like significantly bigger than our elephant. It was a lot colder back then, wasn't it? Yeah. So, they got they maybe got to go to northern the world froze over. They had like a regular Yeah, they had a regular

8:28 habitat. They were like walking around. I've seen pictures where they had like dirt and ████ and trolls. I think it's Paleolithic area. Yeah, it was Asian coming out. I know. Sorry. The later it gets, the more Asian it gets. Is Snuffalophagus a mammoth or is he just a normal Is he a normal elephant? I think he's two guys. Snuffus. Yeah, I heard that. That's a a lot of like humans. They they ate the ████ out of the mammoth and then they died. The people died or the No, the people like they just over over ate them. Yeah. Wow. Damn. We've been over consuming since day one. Say they brought back two and the scientist if there's enough. What if the scientist went to you and was like, "You want to eat one of these? Let it

9:19 breed until there's an abundance and then I'll have dodo fried chicken." You You try everything once. Not dog. No, not dog. Dodo, but I'm like with the woolly mammoth, we don't even really eat elephants right now. No, they're too smart. They just leave them alone. Stomp you out. Yeah. What if the woolly mammoth is like super genius and it can talk? What if he's like a lemur as a friend? It's just ice age. Memory. Oh my god. It's first ████ song. I can smile at the old days. Yo, what if that's when they're like listen to it howl and it just sings memories? That's one song. If it like has a crazy elephant cry and then all the elephants

10:09 like come and bow to it. Oh. Oh. And then it's Planet of the Elephants. That would be crazy. That would be really cool. Yo, that would be ████ And then they get guns and they just subdue. They get CCW. They're following paper. I mean, they could probably pull a trigger with their ████ nose. That thing's crazy legit, man. I think elephants But it's only in falsetto. It's just a breed of monkey with human DNA so the monkey can talk. You are a pervert. Neanderthal is What is wrong with you, man? You just want to ████ a monkey, don't you? Damn, what a statement. That's literally a Neanderthal. I knew this about you, Ken, all along. I knew all you want to do is ████ a monkey, man. What's wrong with you? Is there any evidence that they

10:59 could like, you know, when you look at dinosaur bones or whatever? Like is it possible that they could have just straight up talked dinosaurs? Yeah. No, I don't think so. No, Mark doesn't know ████ You could see where you could determine to be fair. That was how they talked. They could say anything they want. They choose to go Well, they they did talk to each other, but where they sound is Can you tell like based on the structure or whatever that they have like dolphins? Dolphins talk to each other. Yeah. Yeah. Whales. Oh, they communicate. They communicate. Whales can sing to each other from like miles away. I feel like my dog talks back to me when I tell him to do something. What does he say? He go He starts barking back at me. Really? I'm like, "What's your problem?" And he'll look at me. He'll protest and he'll bark back at me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have a bone in his mouth and he'll start barking at me like I believe

11:49 that. I I met a Spanish dog and he didn't understand English. Yeah. For real. Yeah. You talk to the dog in Spanish only. He look at you like, "What the f███?" Yeah. Yeah. Dang. They're smarter than you think. They just don't talk like us. You understand? English is not the main language. Non-verbal communication. Mandarin is the number one language. Have you tried talking to animals in Mandarin? Sh. Oh, like pandas if they only speak Chinese. Yeah, cuz they're from China. Mhm. Dang. Imagine the whole time they could talk weren't speaking Mandarin. Oh, I speak Cantonese. Will he never come back? Hello, human. Yeah, I know, right? He tells you, "Oh, long time no see. You brought me back. I thought no can do."

12:39 Let's say you can bring back any extinct animal, but you have to extinct an existing one. Oh, and it has to be a mainstream animal. You can't be getting rid of it. All right. Name the mainstream animals, right? Like a dot, bro. That's what I want to hear. Like the ones they show in the kids alphabet for each letter. That's extinct. No, you got to extinct one to bring one back. Bring back the saber-tooth tiger. I think those ████ are tight. But they could hurt you. And then extinct the Wolverine. Alex, that was so real. But they could hurt you. Alex, why would you want a badass that could hurt you? Does it have to be like equal in mass or anything or just anything? It has to be It just has to be mainstream. Okay. Mosquitoes. Just That's all I was going to say. That's good. That's good. anything. I don't even need to bring anything back. I'll just extinct them. That's good. Let them go inside. Good. Good. Good. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But then they find out the saber-tooth tiger

13:29 can sting you. That's crazy. Yeah. But they're like that's natural selection cuz they're so they're so cute and majestic. But animals like that used to kill us. Yeah. Actually, yeah. Kill you is better than sing you. Okay. I I would have a pet pterodactyl. I would do that. That means ain't nobody's going to be safe with like dogs and stuff. ████ that. Did you just get that little the little vest that dogs wear where there's a lot of birds where they have a bunch of spikes on their back? Oh yeah. So they can't get dive bombed. That's crazy. What? That's a thief. That's a thing. Well Well, they have spikes on their back and then birds will come and try to grab them and they'll get they'll get like stuck with the thing and they So basically like dog porcupines. Exactly. Yo, this lady caught a hawk with her bare hands and started reprimanding it for eating her like dog. This in New York? No. I felt like it. Listen to me, son. Would

14:21 you throw your son? You can't be eating my ████ My mama once said, "Cut a huck with bare hands." Is this a proverb? It is Russia. Madison Square Men. I'm actually I think a way to cure the homeless problem is we bring back a Neanderthal and then we go, "Okay, you ████ This is a real ████ homeless guy. Everybody needs to get home. Step your game up. So it just makes homeless people go, "I better get home then." Yeah, you better get home before this guy comes ████ You know what? I You know what I found out? Um Neanderthalss are are smarter than humans. You know, I don't think so. That's what they found out. My 20 My 23 in me told me I have one I'm one of 1%.

15:11 Yikes. Okay. That's why my underbite is so strong, Tatty. So watch your mouth, dude. Strong. Oh, let me see you again. That's good. Yeah. Sometimes I'll catch myself on the couch. I'm just like this. You're like, you start transforming. Relaxation position is that when you like like let let it all go. Ready? 3 2 1. It's like when I zone out like this. Zone out. Yeah, I can see. That's the underbite. Do you also walk around like this? That's not funny. That's not ████ funny. That's not ████ funny. Walked. No. E. How did they walk? You got a fat ass though. Dang. Got a donkey, dude. They were bigger and stronger than uh humans, but they were like smarter, too. They were smarter, but I don't think we're they were smarter. Did we beat them because they were goodnatured? No, because uh humans knew how to cooperate or like and and use language. But then

16:01 Neanderthal, they were like they don't think that they were as developed. So, they didn't coordinate as good in the same way. You think they were smarter indep individually? So, one-on-one they were smarter, higher IQ, they were like stronger, their muscle mass was bigger, everything. But five on five, we win. Yeah. So, we're like ants against a scorpion, you know. I see. They were bigger. They're a little stronger. They're bigger, but their Yeah. I don't know how they found out, but their IQ, they said their ba brains were bigger and they had better IQ. They were bigger. Their skulls were bigger. Doesn't mean their brain was bigger. I think they had better tools or something, too. Beat me to it. those crevices. It's probably shallow shallow crevices. Yeah, it depends. I got to check that source cuz it could have been very eurocentric. That's what it's giving.

16:51 I would Isn't there another one of like Desi Roven or something? Dennis Oven. Dennisovven. There's hella, dude. There's a lot of them. Uh, I would bring back the giant sloth. Those are cool. Have you heard of the giant regular sloth? What are Yeah. What's the difference between those guys? Massive, dude. It's like even smaller. I almost like 7 ft tall or some ████ They're huge. They found them in the same era of um the mammoth. Okay, this is scary as ████ What's that? Why is there a little African there? That's ████ up. Scale. Giant sloth. That's an Indian in the cupboard. That's crazy. That's a giant sloth. Yeah, apparent I googled giant sloth. But don't Wouldn't they just move hella slow, too? I don't know. It doesn't look slow in the picture. It doesn't look slow at all here. mother. Yeah. Let me try to find a different picture. Can you imagine

17:42 during that time being a stone age human and you're like they these guys coexisted like giant sloth mammoths and then they were hunting them. So that that means like you and 20 homies. Yeah. It's like that. What the ████ dude? They have they had like giant um standing bears too. Have you seen? Yeah. From like the same family as the What the hell that dude? What does he eat? But you have you heard the conspiracy that we were giants at some point too. All those Attack on Titan that one. Yeah. Yeah. Hello. That's what Attack on Titan's about. No. Oh, no. That's crazy. That's so nice that you were interested. But if everyone was giant at the same time, then is it really giant then? Everyone wasn't giant. Cuz if everyone's just 8 feet tall and the sloths are also 10 feet tall, then it's like, is it really that big? Have

18:33 you heard the theory that people lived for like hundreds of years back in the Bible times? Yeah. Like you know Methuselah was like 600. Methusela is like 700 something. I know. But then did you hear the theory of how is it the ancient alien theory where they're it's like a thing where they some people I don't know who who what group thinks this but they told us that it was like because the flood that happened in the Bible was there was a layer of water in the atmosphere that was really thick. So people weren't as exposed to the sun aging them as hard. So they would just live longer. And then after the flood when that layer came down as the flood then people started dying because of the sun. Whoa. So we age we age faster because we have direct sunlight. I guess that's the theory. UV rays. Huh. But that's what they say. Sunblock melanoma.

19:25 Some people analyze the creation part of the Bible and they take it they take it literally that like God put water in the ████ sky and that like originally the sky had like a big ass bubble of water. Wow. I don't know. Now that I believe I heard that the aliens that created us, we had like the best freshest genetics in the beginning and then they're like, "Man, these ████ are living too long." So then they did the flood to reset it and then so like the future generations maximum maximum age is like 100 or whatever. Yeah. And then it went down to like you made it to 24 and it was like, "Oh, it was a good life." If we live to like 600, does that mean we get social security until we're 600? A long time. I know. You retire at 64? Question. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Imagine you

20:15 go to Denny's and you only get a discount if you're 500. The crazy thing is like you're only 300. Nah, dude. The crazy thing is imagining that people in the Bible lived for 700 years. Yet there was hardly any innovation during that time. Like when you look at how people were living. Well, it's the same people. Well, yeah. Well, I mean, you have 700 years. Damn, that's a long time. You still figure out the shepherd for 700 years is crazy. Peaceful life. That means you ████ been shephering the ████ sheep's grand great great great great grandson. Yeah, you've seen several generations. Maybe the sheep are like 700 years, too. 300 sheep. You've been ████ for 700 years. That means you had a lot of kids. Yeah, that's true. Do you think that they just got the math wrong? been pregnant for like 300 years. Cuz why does or maybe they populated that long? Do you think maybe

21:05 it's just their calculation is different? They just like moved the decimal point over in the Bible. Yeah. Like do you really think Methusela lived to be 700 whatever? Maybe. Holy damn. Or maybe the Earth spun faster or some ████ I I'm on the side of I don't think it's consist. So like one year is actually like Happy birthday. Maybe one year one year is only an hour or a month. Spin slower, right? or I don't know whatever the math is, but like one year is actually a month. Oh ████ Well, I mean the Earth does that's scientifically proven. It's not consistently spinning at the same rate. That's why we have that leap year. They have to move like the the date and the hours cuz they're not all the same. Orbit faster. That's what you mean. Got it. Yeah. Faster or slower, whatever. Whatever it is where like they're like, "Oh ████ the sun's like ████ Yeah. The sun's going like this." We're like, "Damn, dude. I'm 33 years old now."

21:56 You're just watching yourself get older. Like, dude, I I just went through puberty, but I think I'm 200, you know? Does do does Buddhism lore have anybody that lived to be like ████ hundreds of years old? No, theirs is normal. Like our normal like now normal like Sedartha is like 30 years old. Oh, really? Like Yeah. Like this is like regular age. Yeah. But but when he walks, flowers like grow from his feet after he becomes enlightened. All right. So after he gets his X-Men superpowers, he gets to play with those superpowers. But before then, he's That's normal. Has anybody gotten them after him? The Master him? Master him? Oh, I was like the Master him. A new word. I've never heard of that dinosaur, actually. I've never heard of

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