Turtle Conservancy
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Search complete. 3 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Turtle Conservancy".
Sep 16, 2026
Dax ShepardHOST
Yeah.
Dax ShepardHOST
Okay, so you start first, I guess, the turtle- The Turtle Conservancy.
Dax ShepardHOST
Shameless plug.
Monica PadmanHOST
[laughs] Yeah.
Dax ShepardHOST
There'll be things that you would not expect.
Dax ShepardHOST
But at the end
Eric GoodeGUEST
endWe successfully breed at the Turtle Conservancy the rarest tortoise in the world that's never been bred before in the Western world ever, in any zoo.
Eric GoodeGUEST
And it was auspicious that when we f- basically finished Monsters of God, we got our first hatchling of what's called a plowshare tortoise, which is a tortoise that's functionally extinct in the wild in Madagascar.
speaker_1NARRATOR
them.
speaker_1NARRATOR
That perspective also fuels the turtle conservancy, where he's donated more than $30 million and helped breed and reintroduce threatened tortoises.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The ending really got me.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Talking about addiction and the shared language of recovery, Good says he's lived a life chasing dopamine, and Dax connects that to the risks of documentary work.