Woolly mammoth

Yeah, it's a lot of fun for me.

I rarely can I talk about ferrets, woolly mammoths, dinosaurs, and, uh-

[laughs]

... human gene editing all in one conversation.

They literally just said they

figured out how to clone a woolly mammoth, so they're going

to make one.

They saw that movie and they were like...

And then we'll have to make the carnivore.

And then...

Yeah, that's why they showed it with Woolly Mammoth.

They understood no dinosaurs.

What is it, a dinosaur?

[laughs] Nope, a woolly mammoth.

And imagine being a human thousands of years ago trying to hunt that giant furry beast with nothing but a wooden stick with a sharp rock tied to the end of it.

You're joking.

But the ultimate hunting challenge came during the Ice Age.

Imagine freezing winds, deep snow, and some of the scariest animals to ever walk the earth.

Like the woolly mammoth we talked about earlier.

Yes.

And as we were looking at all of the AI versions that they created, I thought this actually made me look a lot like Nate Schmidt.

So I wanted to give you guys an opinion whether or not it's a good Wooly Mammoth hat or if it makes me look a little too much like...

in the EA Sports 2027 game.

And then last but not least, you guys can see that I'm a big collector of jerseys.

Woolly has longer legs and is slightly lighter.

Let's go, Woolly Mammoth.

Show us your

sprints.

It's like he really knows his bit.

This one's called Wooly Mammoth.

This one.

I wouldn't, don't underestimate as well the hype guy who like

It's definitely not.

Oh, okay.

Wooly mammoth and a mastodon.

What's the difference? Yeah.

But it feels very much like, oh, this is a dinosaur first, but it's like a really emotionally intelligent dinosaur at a certain point.

so i don't know it just works it's like an odd couple thing that works really well they're just like trying to survive in prehistoric times so far from what i understand it goes into more like it's more of like a fantasy world as it goes on but the third episode i thought was really impactful because the whole first maybe you know eight ten minutes of this like half hour episode it follows this woolly mammoth that's really old woolly mammoth who like falls behind the rest of the pack and then he just kind of wanders around and it's like oh yeah i feel really bad for this woolly mammoth and then the main characters attack it and kill it and so it's just like this aversion of like who you're following in it and it's like oh i feel really bad for this holy mammoth i i don't know what's gonna happen i hope nothing bad happens and then it's like our main characters happen to it yeah and like you see the caveman guy like being sad about killing it because he's still there's a whole thing with him like it it's really it's all non-verbal so far on the show uh nobody's speaking between the caveman the dinosaur yeah There's this thing, like, there's a flashback with him and his kid, like, when they killed, like, a deer, and, like, he has, like, a kind of, like, a sign of respect for

anything he kills and stuff.

So I'm like,

oh, I just, like, I don't know, all this stuff, like, it's right up my alley, all of these things.

And then they use the woolly mammoth fur to, like, you know, keep surviving in this pretty historic time.

But then the woolly mammoth pack goes in, like, on a, like, a quest of vengeance to go fight them.

That's fun.

Because scientists are actively using CRISPR technology right now to try and resurrect extinct animals.

We are talking about bringing back the Tasmanian tiger or even the woolly mammoth.

By splicing ancient DNA recovered from permafrost into the genomes of their closest living relatives, like the Asian elephant.

I got to say, doing ecological de-extinction is exactly like a Hollywood studio deciding to do a modern reboot of a beloved old classic movie from 80 years ago.

But once you release it into the modern blockbuster ecosystem, you realize the audience has changed, the market has changed, and it might just bomb or disrupt the whole slate.

Yeah.

If you put a woolly mammoth back into the wild, the modern ecosystem has had 10,000 years to adapt to its absence.

You can't just drop it back in and expect nature to accommodate it without total chaos.

sure and then mini mice um and what they are now right thank you it was so adorable And then, of course, there was not too terribly long ago, they came up with the Wooly Mouse Project, which is absolutely insane.

So the goal is it serves as a stepping stone towards a company's ultimate goal of de-extincting the Wooly Mammoth by 2028.

So they made some edits to multiple mouse genes to produce a golden wavy coat and curly whiskers, mimicking cold adapted prehistoric traits rather than increasing the animal's physical size.

So they started messing around with it.