01:40:56 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Tyler
[01:40:56] S0: No. There's that house we saw in Alaska that was, like Yeah. One of one. I think that was on, like, five acres or something. John Lautner. But it was, like, 600 k or something. [01:41:06] S1: But this is a this is a very cool story. So, Richard Streichen lived in Alaska his whole life. The 68 year old retired commercial real estate developer was born in Fairbanks, spent time along the Bering Sea in an Eskimo village. But when it was time to settle down, he built a family compound. He chose Palmer, a small city about 40 miles from Anchorage. Surrounded by glaciers, the landscape attracted him with its grandeur. His 147 acre property has views of the glaciers, mountain ranges, and northern lights. I climbed a tree, and I saw the view potential, and that's where I decided I was gonna build, he said. Now he's looking to downsize. Streichen has listed, has decided to list the compound for 12,500,000, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale in Alaska according to Troy Dannofay Ranches. Streichen began to assemble his compound just outside the city limits in the nineties on the property, which he calls the ultimate ultimate Alaska. He built a ranch style single story main bedroom, main house with three bedrooms, a garage, a two bedroom apartment above it, and a helipad for his wife. He built vegetable gardens and an orchard. The couple I thought [01:42:13] S2: you were [01:42:13] S0: saying he built the helipad [01:42:14] S1: for your wife. I was like, [01:42:15] S0: that's amazing.
01:42:15 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[01:42:15] S0: that's amazing. [01:42:16] S1: That would be good. They have 13 grandchildren that live nearby. Let's give it for that. During the winter solstice, Palmer receives only about five hours of sunlight a day. Stricken and his family spends this time skiing, visiting local winter festivals, attending the grandchildren's indoor sporting events. When spring arrives, they shift to snowmobiling on the glaciers, prepping the orchard and gardens for the growing season, and enjoying outdoor community events. They are selling because he has built a lakefront home about an hour away, and his... And he and his wife plan to spend most of their time there. So if you're in the market for a 147 acre Alaska compound, head over 200 and acres. [01:43:01] S0: Palmer Lucky. [01:43:02] S1: Oh, [01:43:02] S0: Ben Lam. Just set up a dog operation out there. [01:43:08] S1: Why not there? [01:43:08] S0: Ben Lam and Palmer have a warhound. Yeah. Very true. A company coming out of stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Let's pull up this video [01:43:20] S1: Of them talking about it [01:43:21] S0: back in 2023.
01:43:22 · Ben Lamm
[01:43:22] S8: I'm not talking about biological weapons. I'm talking about using biology as a tool to solve a lot of military problems because we have new advanced bioengineering capabilities. So muscles that go in machines are gonna be a really big deal. For example, building self power scavenging robots that can live off of grass out in a field. Imagine if you could have radio relays that roam the planes and just eat grass, and that's how they power themselves. And they're very low signature. They can hide. They can hibernate. There's actually a lot of interesting biology derived systems where you can take that stuff in, have bacteria in a little bioreactor that puts out methane gas, which you then run a fuel cell with. It's really, really cool stuff. And then, of course, the other big one is, you you guys are probably familiar with some of the companies out there doing de extinction work of species. And I think there's a lot of species in the history of our planet where if we go back to the future, they're gonna have have excellent military applications. You think that German shepherds, they weigh a 150 pounds are really good canine units. Well, what about dire wolves? I wonder if you have 600 pound canine units carrying a 150 pounds of armor. You're talking about something that weighs all up eight times more with a 100 times more bullet resistance. They're extinct now, but they don't have to continue to be. That sounds crazy, but I don't know if you guys know this, that the US military actually already has a lot of animals working in it. You have a lot of dogs working in the military. You have a lot of dolphins and seals that are working in the US Navy. And of course, we'd customize them a bit too, you know, give them some better endurance, give them the ability to breathe at high altitudes, things they didn't have when they were on the Arctic Tundra. Imagine if you could have all of these survival characteristics of Arctic wolves, but with the obedience and trust and loving characteristics of domesticated animals. Of course, you can breed things like this over long periods of time with different levels of success. But what if you could really get it to be like every canine unit we have in the northern latitudes, they have the characteristics of the strongest arctic wolf that ever walked the earth and also they love to cuddle and do exactly what I say.
01:45:13 · Ben Lamm, John Coogan, Jordi Hays
I'm really excited about engineered biologics for defense applications. [01:45:16] S1: That's crazy. I I was always thinking that, it would go the other direction. Instead of trying to scale up the friendly dog, you would try and make the fierce giant bear friendly, and you would genetically engineer a domesticated bear and basically speed that up because wool... Dogs came from wolves. Over generations, they became friendlier. It feels like you could speed that up, but Palmer and Ben Lamb clearly know better than I do. [01:45:39] S0: Why stop at seals and dolphins? Why not great... Friendly great white sharks? [01:45:45] S1: Great white sharks with [01:45:46] S0: laden Man's names best and friend in the seas. [01:45:50] S1: That's right. [01:45:51] S0: Well, like, you take the golden retriever [01:45:53] S1: They become the best friend. [01:45:54] S0: Personality trait but keep all of the [01:45:58] S1: attack. Killer whales are pretty smart too. [01:46:00] S0: Megalodon. Megalodon mode. The friendly neighborhood Megalodon. [01:46:05] S1: Megalodon would be very intimidating. [01:46:07] S0: Alex says, Friendly Jaws incoming. [01:46:09] S1: Friendly Jaws. Well, we'll have to keep an eye on it. It's an interesting business. It seems like it's Ben Lamb who's been working on de extinction of mammoths at Colossal Biosciences. Maybe new company from him, Palmer Luckey sort of advising, Andoril providing some, like, body armor and some development, but not particularly I don't think it's, like, strictly an Andoril product. I don't know if you know more about this deal.
01:46:09 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[01:46:09] S1: Friendly Jaws. Well, we'll have to keep an eye on it. It's an interesting business. It seems like it's Ben Lamb who's been working on de extinction of mammoths at Colossal Biosciences. Maybe new company from him, Palmer Luckey sort of advising, Andoril providing some, like, body armor and some development, but not particularly I don't think it's, like, strictly an Andoril product. I don't know if you know more about this deal. [01:46:39] S0: Well, Sam over on X says, God, give me the confidence of a VC investing $200,000,000 at 1.2 in a $50,000,000 market. So they talk about police and military combined is $50,000,000 a year of breeder revenue. And of course, the VC pushback here, I'm gonna steal man. [01:47:01] S1: Man. [01:47:01] S0: Is that if you can make you know, super versions of all these different animals, the end market would obviously be Gross. Much, much more massive. So... And it's just... It's literally the coolest thing ever. [01:47:18] S1: I agree. It it it is. And it's the type of thing that you you wanna be... You probably wanna see funded with equity dollars that can be experimental and high risk, high reward, like put the risk capital to work on things that are, you know, science experiments with longer time horizons and [01:47:35] S0: Yeah. You're telling me if we can put millions of friendly megalodons into every ocean, that's not gonna be a $10,000,000,000 a year annual market. This is how we replace all of our navy. Friendly laser megalodons. [01:47:49] S1: Laser equipped megalodons. Maybe.
01:47:49 · John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Steven Schwartz
[01:47:49] S1: Laser equipped megalodons. Maybe. [01:47:51] S0: That would never have any adverse impact on any, you know, global system too. [01:47:57] S1: Noah, has any company just come out and said we're doing Jurassic Park? Like, we're just bringing back the T Rex, and I think it's gonna go [01:48:04] S0: kinda what Ben Lam [01:48:05] S1: No. He hasn't said. He's bringing [01:48:07] S0: back dinosaurs. Is he is he anti? [01:48:09] S1: Well, so from a scientific perspective, there's a very good reason why going after dinosaurs is way harder than going after... [01:48:16] S0: Dan is looking for a retail option for a 600 pound dog. So I'm sorry, Sam. The market for for... It's a good point. [01:48:26] S1: Retail? Yeah. Retail option. [01:48:28] S0: The the the the end market for friendly 10,000 pound dogs. I mean, look at Cliff Clifford with Make Red Dog is like one [01:48:37] S9: of the... [01:48:37] S0: We're making... We're rebuilding Clifford. I mean, that's that's a... No. It's a perfect VC bet because it's like you... What you're trying to do is basically... [01:48:48] S1: How many people are really in the market for Clifford? It's gotta be [01:48:52] S0: so Billions of children. [01:48:53] S1: Billions of children. Who can afford? It's gotta be... That's a 6 figure dog. Easy. If not a 7 figure dog. [01:49:00] S0: Plus, you're expecting... [01:49:02] S1: Feeding a feeding a 10,000 pound dog. [01:49:05] S0: Yeah. I I expect the costs to drop as quickly as as AI is token cost