From Dire Wolves to Pit Bulls. The Animal Kingdom can be a Scary Place.

From Dire Wolves to Pit Bulls. The Animal Kingdom can be a Scary Place.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm sure that's not the turkey he was talking about.
But alas, this is why they want to be called
turkey now, right and spell it weird and different?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Just lean into it.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
No, No, they've leaned into it long enough. I don't
don't name countries after birds.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's who named it after a bird? Did the country
come first of the bird? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I think there's it's a it's a rough estimation of
a translation about what they call their country that we
called their country. Oh, and that's why they are just like,
why don't you just say what we say when we
refer to ourselves?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Kind of thing? You know? Sure?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
And I don't hate that right anyway? So I was
looking at some things here a stock market closed.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Huh, closed up shop for today?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Yeah, what does it look like?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
What's the damage the Dow Jones last told it was
about down one and a half percent, finish off at
negative point nine to one. So it's under one percent
that it lost today as a whole. Yeah, so it
came back a little bit, just about three hundred and
fifty points all told, under thirty eight thousand. Now we're
thirty seven nine to sixty five.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Okay, I mean, that's that's not nearly as bad as
I think people were fearing when the day started today.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah s and P five hundred. If that's where most
of your holdings are, you're feeling like it was, you know,
just about split even there, it's it's negative point two
three percent really, so just a minus a quarter of
a percent, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
The conspiracy theories are absolutely running wild in my brain
right now, are they they are?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do you need the X file file? Steam?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Hold it until but that that out? No, finish it
up and then I'll call for the X file.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay. The Nasdaq was up about fifteen and a half points,
so it finished up. It's green on my screen. No
it's not the NASDAK, Yes it is. No, it's not.
It is two it is. I need a refreshed by screen.
No it is. Wow. Yeah, it finished zero point one percent,
just to scoch. Wow. And the Russell two K was
down minus one percent, but nobody cares about the Russell

(01:54):
two k.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
NASDAK finished up. Yeah, uh what okay, hit the number
or hit the music.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Somebody in the government absolutely leaked that that Donald Trump
was potentially going to be considering dropping the tariffs for
ninety days. At nine to twenty this morning, our time,
there was a report that was shared by Reuter's and CNBC,

(02:26):
at least that's where I saw it. It was also
re shared by people like unusual whales. Do you follow
them on Twitter?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So he doesn't post about unusual whales?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, unusual whales is like news, but it's followed by
a lot of people. It's a two point two million
people follow it.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
In Yeah, a.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Lot of these things ended up a lot of the
big stocks ended up green. And I think the big
spike that we saw in at the nine twenty nine
thirty range when that report was coming out and then
the NBC and Reuters both shared it, that spike saved
this for being an ugly, ugly Monday. Doesn't that make

(03:07):
you feel like, okay, so who said that? Because it's
not even close to true, But it definitely changed how
the day went on Wall Street. And even when it
tanked a little bit after that when people realized that
that's not true, it didn't tank far enough to like
actually end up down any were close to where it
was at the start of the day.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
But what if you were waiting until tomorrow to jump
in you might be disappointed. I would be disappointed.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
The time to buy was at nine point fifteen this morning,
and now you want to hold out, all right, I'm
not again, I'm not a financial advisor by any means,
but that's what I would have done in hindsight. We're
gonna talk about hindsight. I'm going to show you a
map of the holdings of all of the S and
P five hundred and Unusual Whales has this and this
is what it looked like today.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I was expecting a narwall, but okay, unusual.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Whales nar walls, not a whale. It's not not a
whale anyway.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Look at it.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
What does it look like? And it's very red and
the whole thing is red. Right, There's like a couple
of specs of green in there, but it's all the
different pieces of the S and P. Five hundred right
six hours later on clothes. This is what it looks like.
Now what it looked like. It's a mix of red, dark,
gray and green in the six hours time span.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Why what happened?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
The answer is somebody leaked Donald Trump was considering a
ninety day pause on these tariffs. Pause for the cause,
and guess what ended up happening. That was a lie.
Ten minutes later things readjusted, but things ended up up
By the end of the day, I'm flabbergastid this is
some forty chest by.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Whoever that is.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Somebody needs to forensically go and find whoever leaked that information.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe we can just zoom in on the image. No,
that's not how this works. Oh that's how they do
it and see it. Sigh.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It is strange. Okay, okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna
dip around to some other things. We'll talk more about
this in the four o'clock hour. Sean Callahan's gonna join
us at bottom of this hour. He's gonna be talking
college basketball, Crown, some other happenings within Nebraska Athletics worthy
of that conversation. I'm sure I want to know. I
sent you a link to a video. It's an eighteen

(05:09):
second long video. An announcement has been made. Play play it.
Can you figure out what this is? What are you
hearing here? Matt? I know you know the answer, but

(05:30):
what would you guess that is?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well? I don't want to say, do I have to say? Yeah?
I wasn't feeling well this morning. I don't feel like
I don't I feel like it's weird we play that
on air. Honestly, what I didn't realize you were recording me.
Can I just at least, oh, come on before? Can
we at least get that out there before I say?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, no, come on, okay a enough clown and around, Yeah,
come on that. The real story is even crazier than
anything you could have done to make that noise.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It sounds like something that I could do. I'm gonna
I'm gonna ask. I don't think so. I spend the
rest to ay mastering that the headline was dire wolf.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
You know what dire wolf is? I guess I have
to do some googling. Romulus and Remus are their names.
They are genetically modified gray wolves created in October of
last year. They were born in October and have celebrated
six months of life, and that announcement was only today
that we're hearing more and more about what this is.

(06:26):
But Romulus and Remis and then a female wolf that
they were able to get born by late January named Khalisi.
Colossal Biosciences did this and are replicating the phenotype of
the dire wolf an extinct wolf that last was on
Earth ten thousand years ago. Those look like real wolves,

(06:47):
aren't they? Doesn't it. I'm not a wolf expert, but
I believe it. They look like little baby wolves. They
look like animals, right, Like they look real. This is
not like some sort of cloned thing. They are real wolves.
I didn't see a third ear. No.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
No.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
They analyzed ancient DNA samples from two sources, a thirteen
thousand year old tooth discovered in Ohio and a seventy
two thousand year old earbone found in Idaho, and they
said that rather than inserting ancient DNA into modern animals,
they identified approximately twenty genetic modifications across fourteen different genes

(07:23):
that make the gray wolf that you see today in
North America and how it was different than what the
dire wolf was back then. So those are like genetic adjustments.
So essentially they found surrogate gray wolf mothers and yeah, yeah,
these babies are und extinct. The dire wolf now officially

(07:43):
de extinct.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
What's it going to do?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
I don't know. This is the first step though in
Jurassic Park. So that's all I'm saying. And you know what,
doctor Ian Malcolm Malcolm has to say in that movie
because he just can't figure it out. He's like, you
were too concerned with whether or not you could, and
he really did think is to whether or not you should.
I hope Romulus, Remus, and Calisi have great lives. I

(08:07):
hope they are able to live and be happy and
be able to hunt whatever these things hunt. We're going
to make something that was extinct for ten thousand years,
and we're going to put it into a space in
an ecosystem that has less space for it to wander.
Let's meat for it to try to eat more active,
you know, competition at the top of the food chain,

(08:28):
and we're just gonna be okay with all this.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
What's the structural difference is is this a much larger
wolf than the regular.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Wolf, larger body size, wider head, a white coat, not
a gray coat like the gray wolf. And those are
a few of the different genes in the traits. They're
like twenty traits that dire wolves. They found to be
a little bit different than the gray wolf. And they
have found a way through DNA from fossils they found
to modify gray wolf essentially, Dan and who Fear are

(09:02):
these three babies who are now de extinctifying if you
will like the dire wolf, So yeah, don't. I don't
know if this is a good idea, but I still
hope that Romulus, Riemas, and Kalisi have great lives. I'm
just not sure what the plan is. I'm sure, I'm
not sure what the plan is. Oh, by the way,
the surrogate mothers were domestic dogs, not gray wolves. It

(09:24):
was domestic dogs that were very healthy and big enough
to have bigger babies.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Then, you know, because the.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Gray wolf baby's going to be smaller than a dire
wolf baby. So it was larger domestic dogs. There you go,
unreal anyway, three nineteen got a dog story at Omaha forty.
This one's not a good one, but it's something that
I had my attention yesterday on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Emery Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
If this is Jurassic Park on your way.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I feel bad for the penguins that are gonna get eaten.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
The will not live in the Arctic or Antarctic.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Where will they live?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
They a dire wolf is they are native Northeast China.
But I'm sure because they found a bunch of fossis
in North America. I'm sure that's where they think it
in the savannah of South America, So I don't know.
It could be all over the place for all we know.
Look up dire wolf. There's a long, long, long article

(10:25):
about it. But no longer extinct. No longer extinct. Ten
thousand years later, we've brought them up. We've recreated them. Dogs.
Dangerous canines. Dire wolves, gray wolves pretty dangerous as well.
What's the most dangerous canine you can think of?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Pitbull?

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Almost scanner yesterday I said a color with large This
was on sixtieth.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
And wool roof.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
This Woolworth, Woolworth Man. It's not an easy one to
say Woolworth. This is not far from where I live.
Callers said several large dogs were attacking and killed another dog.
Fire department was in Root for a male with lacerations
to the fame and an eye injury. This was yesterday afternoon.
They wanted to dispatch a second squad in the Umade Society.

(11:06):
The injured party was away from the animals NHS needed
to be and they had four pit bulls in the
backyard and at least two more inside the house. How
many pit bulls? Is that six would be six? I
don't know what happened, but man, you can really guess
what the conversation is in the replies.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Here are pit bulls a safe dog to have?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Yeah, and there are people saying, oh, this is the
owner's fault.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Is it now?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
First of all six pit bulls in the same residence,
like is this person? And I don't have answers, so
don't look to me for answers. But under what circumstances
that a good idea? I mean, heck, I'm not here
to tell people how to live their life, but to
have that many aggressive dogs, like dogs that can get aggressive,
in the same house at the same time. And my
theory would be that these dogs maybe there was like

(11:53):
a little fight between them that escalated, because you know
how that's how it goes. When you're you're around other dogs,
big dogs, the barking and everything, everybody gets a little
bit more excited and everybody wants to jump in.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I've seen that happen at dog.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Parks before, where three or four dogs jump into something
that had nothing to do with them, because everybody gets
a little more excitable when a couple of dogs are
going after each other because they're protecting a water bowl
or something. I saw two Great danes going at it once.
It's crazy, But you know what, these are animals we
want to answerpromorphize like their whole being and their emotions
and how they do things. It's just it's not how

(12:27):
it works. They act on instinct. And I'm guessing one
dog didn't make it out of that fight. And then
the guy, who I can only assume would have been
the owner, I can't. I don't know all of the answers.
All I know is that you're trying to break this up.
You're trying to get these dogs away from each other.
But it's a dangerous thing to do with these large dogs, right,
I understand the whole the dogs are not like the

(12:49):
dogs are the victims here too, And I understand that sentiment.
And I'm not here to advocate for dogs to be
eliminated or put down or banned from people being able
to have them. But do you hear other briss having
this issue, Like when's the last time you heard a
pack of greyhounds having this issue? Not to put greyhounds
on a pedestal, but those are large dogs that you
never hear stuff like this happening.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
You might ever once in a while, but it's far
less common.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Maybe an isolated institute with one greyhound in one specific situation, sure, right,
but how often? I don't know. And what's the answer.
I lived in my hometown. Has my hometown right down
the street from where I was living at the time.
I didn't know what had happened at the time, but
there was a toddler that was killed by a pit bull.
Toddler was like one or two, crawled into an enclosure

(13:35):
with a pit bull.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Pit bull just thinks it's a toy. Basically, that is
owner error.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
And you don't you feel so bad that you don't
want to like, you don't want to be mad at
the people, but it's their fault. This all happened right
like you weren't watching the toddler and you have a
pit bull on the property, and the pit bull is
so like active to want to do something like this.
I don't know, but this is just yet another example.
And this happened again. I don't have answers, but you
can see all these people and one of the comments

(14:01):
says pit bull owners say they're the sweetest dogs, but
pit bull owners. Every time pitbulls attack somebody, Oh the
owners are bad. You know, I could dig up statistics
about this. We're going to find that pit bulls have
more of these incidences than any other dog breed. Absolutely,
So what we have to be realistic with ourselves here.
People have dogs that shouldn't have dogs across the board

(14:21):
one hundred and ten percent of the time.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think maybe we need to start talking about maybe
pit bulls. You have to pass some sort of like
exam or something that kind of tests what you're willing
to do for your dog, because if you just do
not care about your dog, or you're not willing to
like put the work in, or you want to have
like six of the same dog on your property, which
I'm not even sure as legal because usually city ordinances

(14:45):
you'll cap you at three or four dogs, depending on
the city.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
The whole situation seems like a powder.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Keg exactly, And this is just a ticking time bomb
of something like this. But I just want to know
why we're so defensive to try to keep these dogs
easily adoptable to people who obviously are not able to
handle them properly. This should not be something that happens.
These are domesticated dogs, and it's always pitbulls.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Why. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Anyway, we might circle back to this when we get
back later in the show. I got some stats that
I'm digging up right now on what these dogs are doing,
what dog breeds are doing in like human attacks and whatnot.