A pair of old timey fossil hunters had a rootin’ tootin’ rivalry that spilled from academic journals into the American Wild West - where fossils were dynamited and employees turned double agent. Learn about the two-fisted origins of American paleontology.
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# The Bone Wars
Josh and Chuck dive into one of science's most cutthroat rivalries—the bitter feud between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh that shaped the entire field of paleontology. Starting as friends who met in Germany during the Civil War, these two ambitious fossil hunters eventually became ruthless competitors who sabotaged each other's work, raced to name new species, and nearly bankrupted themselves trying to outdo one another in the American West. It's a wild story of scientific ambition, personal rivalry, and the surprisingly dirty underbelly of fossil hunting in the 1870s.
"On the podcast, Hey Dude, the 90s called, David Lasher and Christine Taylor, stars of the cult classic show, Hey Dude. — Referenced as a cult classic TV show from the 1980s-90s in the podcast advertisement at the beginning and end of the transcript."
Jurassic Park
1993
2h 7m
★ 8.0
"I think there's a certain movie that really, really got kids into dinosaurs. The Lost World. No, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. — Josh mistakenly suggests Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the movie that got kids interested in dinosaurs, when discussing Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park."
— Chuck
The Current War
2018
PG-13
1h 48m
★ 6.7
"Have you seen the trailer about the current wars? No, who plays who? — Josh mentions seeing a trailer for The Current War, comparing it to the Tesla-Edison rivalry similar to the Cope-Marsh paleontology rivalry."
— Josh
The Flintstones
1960
★ 7.4
"I blame the Simpsons or the Flintstones because of the bronosaurus burger thing. — Josh references The Flintstones' bronto burger as a possible cultural source for popularizing the Brachiosaurus name."
— Josh
"I blame the Simpsons or the Flintstones because of the bronosaurus burger thing. — Josh mentions The Simpsons as a possible cultural source for the popularization of the name 'Brachiosaurus' over the scientifically correct 'Apatosaurus.'"
— Josh
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